Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

Good evening. We'll come to order. It's 5.30 p.m. today. It's Thursday, October 8, 2026. This is a formal meeting of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors. Roll call, please.

All right. We have all five supervisors this evening. Therefore, quorum next to chair would seek unanimous consent to approve the agenda as presented. Seeing no objection, it's so ordered. Item C is business from the public. C1, acknowledge correspondence from the public. No correspondence this week. Item C2 is public comment. Is there anyone with public comment this evening? Any public comment? Any public comment? Seeing none, we'll move on to the consent agenda. The chair would seek a motion to approve the consent agenda items, including payment of claims totaling $1,158,448.75 and under ite

Motion carries 5-0. The consent agenda items are approved. That brings us to Item E, Proclamation. We have one proclamation this evening for Indigenous Peoples Day, October 12, 2026. Whereas indigenous peoples have endured historical and ongoing injustices, including displacement, assimilation policies, and loss of land and culture, yet continue to contribute to the strength, diversity, and richness of our community, state, and nation. And whereas indigenous people through tribal governments have preserved their identity, culture, and heritage, which sustained them long before the arrival of E

Motion carries 5-0. The proclamation is adopted. Is there anyone from the public who would like to address this proclamation? Supervisors, any comments? That brings us to item F, formal meeting business. Item F1 this evening is consider resolution designating the Metropolitan Planning Organization of Johnson County, MPOJC, 2026 traffic counts as the official counts for Sandy Beach Road Northeast. and directing county staff to utilize the updated counts for determining conformance with policies and standards, including but not limited to the road performance standards. Good evening, Joe.

It's been moved by Fix-Morais, second by Remington to adopt the resolution. Discussion? Roll call.

Motion carries 5-0. The resolution is adopted. Item F2 this evening is to hold a public hearing on Zoning Application REZ 26-7 of Luke Mayhew requesting rezoning on 3.17 acres from A Agricultural to R Residential to R3 Residential. The property is addressed as 1275 Yellow Pine Avenue NE in the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 12, Township 81, North Range 5, west of the 5th Principal Meridian in Cedar Township, Johnson County, Iowa. I will open the public hearing and request a stand for the board.

Thank you. Supervisors, anything for Jess? This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on behalf of this application? This is a public hearing. Is there anyone here who wishes to address this application? Is there anyone who wishes to address this application? Is there anyone who wishes to address this application? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and entertain a motion.

Move we waive three readings of the proposed ordinance associated with zoning application REZ 2607. Second.

Moved by Remington, second by Sullivan. Discussion? Roll call.

Aye. Motion carries 5-0. The rules are waived.

I move we adopt the proposed ordinance associated with zoning application REZ 2607 of Luke Mayhew. First and second considerations.

Second. Moved by Remington, second by Sullivan for first and second reading of the proposed ordinance. Any discussion? Roll call.

Motion carries 5-0. The ordinance is received favorable readings on first and second reading. Item F5 this evening is to hold a public hearing on zoning application PZC-25-28747 of Mark Slabaugh requesting preliminary and final plat approval of Frytown Trailers Subdivision. The property is addressed as 2119 500th Street SW in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 13 Township 78 North, Range 8 West of the 5th Principal Meridian in Washington Township, Johnson County, Iowa. I will open the public hearing and ask for staff report.

Thank you. Supervisors, anything for Joe? Very good. This is public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on behalf of this application?

Do you have any questions for me? Evening, Scott. Supervisors, anything for Scott?

I'm imagining, Scott, that this is going to necessitate the moving of those trailers that are in what's now going to be right-of-way that's dedicated.

I was there today. They're not yet. They're not, okay. Unless they did it after noon. Noon, okay. I think they did. I went by there at 1230. Good answer.

You're welcome. Thank you, Scott. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone from the public who wishes to address this application? Is there anyone from the public who wishes to address this application? Is there anyone here who wishes to address this application? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing. Item F6 is to consider resolution associated with subdivision application PZC-25-28747 of Mark Slabaugh approving the preliminary and final plat and subdividers agreement of Frytown Trailer Subdivision, Johnson County, Iowa. Move approval. Moved by Sullivan, second by Green-Douglas. Discussion? Roll call, please.

Motion carries 5-0. The resolution is adopted. Thank you, Scott. Item F7 this evening, and the Chair will just flag that this was a late ad, so we have not had an opportunity to discuss this at a work session, but it is timely. Item F7 is to consider delegating to the Planning, Development, and Sustainability Director The authority to approve a corrective action plan for proposed natural gas pipeline in Johnson County, Iowa. Iowa Utilities Commission docket number P-0877. Good evening, Josh.

Can I just ask a quick question? Yeah. Sorry. So when they have that report, who's conveying to them that they can waive it? Is it Mid-Am who's going to be mailing that out, and then it's going to be kind of in that document, like you can waive this and let us know, or are they going door-to-door?

I just wanted to be clear. No, we're just making sure. There wasn't anything on the staff.

Chair would entertain a motion. Move by Fix-Morais, second by Green-Douglas. I will at least see your mic. Discussion? I would just note, I know that you said this is dovetailing off of V's query. This has not been without some expenditure of staff time. So thank you, Josh. Thank you, Lynn. And thank you, Paul, the county engineer. Roll call, please.

I just want to note, Josh, to handle this, but I do want to note that the attachment links for this item are not working. So we'll need to make sure that those get Yeah. Yeah. I'm just looking. Let's make sure that was noted so I could, yeah. Yeah. No, yeah, I know it sits down in the bottom, but just, yeah.

Aye. Motion carries 5-0. The grant to delegation is approved. Item F8, consider drafting a letter regarding copper landline retirement determination of telephonic landline service.

Moved by Remington, second by Green-Douglas. Discussion? Roll call.

Motion carries 5-0. We'll get that letter dispatched with haste. Item F9 is to consider resolution for a fiscal year 2027 interfund transfer from the general basic fund to the Conservation Trust Fund. Second. Moved by Green Douglas, second by Sullivan. Discussion? Roll call, please.

Aye. Motion carries 5-0. The resolution is adopted. Item G, Supervisor Reports. Supervisor Fix-Marais?

Yeah, it's been an exceedingly busy week. The East Central Iowa Workforce Development Board, we are hiring an executive director, so I've been on like the committee doing the interviews and the review process for the candidates we have one kind of selected but now we've kicked it to the general board from the executive board so hopefully there'll be an acceptance in the next couple weeks so that'll be great because we also just had our board president resign so we're gonna have to meet again soon to figure that one out but So things are moving around for East Central Iowa Workforce Development

Yes. Similarly, the Heritage Area Agency on Aging is still trying to figure out what their regionalization is going to look like. They have recently discovered that Agencies that are not lead entities for their region will be losing each about $270,000 in funding per year to the lead entity. So they are still working on navigating that as well. Had liaison meetings with public health and ambulance. My youngest and I attended the Wings and Wild Things Festival at Kent Park over the weekend, which are... conservation team is greatly involved in, thankfully, because I ended up in not the same par

Thank you. Cheers report this evening. This afternoon, I learned that we are going to be conducting our first public execution in 90 years by a firing squad. of a paralyzed, he was the army major who shot up the base in the late aughts, and it's going to be live streamed. Why? By the Department of Defense. No.

And our president is also trying to incite a racial program against Somalians, people of Somali descent in Minnesota. That concludes the chair's report. Supervisor Sullivan.

Three liaison meetings, Fiona at Ambulance, Lindsay at HR, Clayton and the ME office, and I believe you've gotten reports from all of them. We had a meeting with Terry Whitson to help us talk through some things. Three IT interviews. A couple other things I wanted to mention. I had the opportunity to attend the Ruby Bridges talk at ANTR the other night. It was really quite good, and I thought the thing that was most interesting was how much time she... She really didn't spend any time at all on her later life. It was all about the very moments that were captured in the famous photographs and p

Thank you, Supervisors. We've reached the conclusion of our agenda. Is there anything else for the good of the order this evening? Seeing none, the next meeting of the is at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, October 14th, when we will set for a general business work session. Until such time, we should stand adjourned.