(Spirit Lake)– The Dickinson county board of supervisors Tuesday set January 17th as the date for a public hearing on a construction permit for an animal confinement operation to be located in section 11 of Westport Township. Duane Drost, a farmer from Osceola county, filed the permit. There’s already one confinement building on the site. The new facility would increase the number of animal units to 1,600, meaning it has to go through the state’s permit process. The supervisors set January 16th as the deadline for submitting written comments to the County Auditor’s Office.
In other business, the supervisors approved an additional 21,800-dollars in changeorders for the courthouse project…bringing the grand total of changeorders so far to 298,458-dollars…or roughly 44 percent of what was budgeted for changes.
The supervisors also approved the hiring of Ed Lock as a sheriff’s deputy; and they tabled proposed wage adjustments for jailers and dispatchers in the Sheriff’s Office to next week’s meeting. Mardi Allen said she wants to go over the proposed increases with a union representative. Sheriff Greg Baloun requested the supervisors address the matter at last week’s meeting, saying low wages was making it difficult for him to hire jailers and dispatchers.
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