(Spirit Lake)– The Dickinson County Board of Supervisors today (Tues.) voted unanimously in favor of the county joining a national opioid lawsuit. Supervisor Kim Wermersen was among those who recently viewed a webinar put on by state officials regarding the suit and explained how any settlement would be distributed…
Wermersen and assistant county attorney Steve Goodlow added they don’t see any downside to the county getting involved, adding that there is an issue with opioid addiction in Dickinson county.
In other business, the supervisors tabled action on bids to strengthen four bridges in the county and to construct a pedestrian bridge over the Little Sioux River at Horseshoe Bend County Park southwest of Milford. Funding for the latter project is coming through the county Conservation Board. All of the bids were tabled however for at least a week when the total packages came in well over the engineer’s estimate. They want to give the Conservation Board an opportunity to review them. With the pedestrian bridge taken out, County Engineer Dan Eckert reported the four other projects were much closer to the estimates. He added they’ll see if it would be possible to separate the pedestrian bridge and proceed instead with just the four strengthening projects.
The supervisors also voted unanimously to retain Beck Engineering to oversee a second liquified carbon dioxide pipeline being proposed for Dickinson county. That’s the same firm they hired for the first proposed pipeline, saying they feel continuity is important.
The supervisors also today (Tues.) canvassed results of this past Tuesday’s city and school elections.
