Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, August 11, 2026Official site

The Board of Supervisors approved several resolutions, including the sale of the Old Madison County Conservation Building and a contract for Cost Advisory Services. Discussions covered the ongoing renovation of the elderly services building, the camera server installation, and concerns about meeting frequency and duration.

About this meeting

Government Body
Board of Supervisors
Meeting Type
Board Of Supervisors
Location
Madison County, IA
Meeting Date
August 11, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

32 sections

3:36 – 3:50•Diane Fitch

It is. It is. I mean, yes, there's nobody in the waiting room. And they can't get in.

9:08•Diane Fitch

How many of those low-traffic interbridges could we put culverts under?

10:54•Diane Fitch

Okay. Let's see, we'll press it out of the way.

20:06•Diane Fitch

You did this, you know, three years ago.

27:56•Diane Fitch

You are now the only one out. All right, does anyone else wish to speak?

29:37•Diane Fitch

I went out there today... Are you just replacing the old furnace and the ductwork everywhere?

29:57 – 30:13•Diane Fitch

Why wouldn't you have the wall insulated well before you put the ductwork up to prevent so much cold? And then you've got a door that somebody's hit, and it's not closing all the way, the big door. So Chip is looking into that.

30:29 – 30:43•Diane Fitch

Well, the depth work is... I would have walls, and I would have had all that insulation, and I think before we put up ductwork.

31:02 – 31:21•Diane Fitch

Yeah. But, yeah, I understand that. I just thought... Because it's worse if things freeze. I understand that, but I think I would have... Is the ductwork going to be in the way when it hangs down there? If you do any wall replacements and insulation in there? No, we won't be able to insulate it. Okay.

34:35•Diane Fitch

We need to clean that building now. It's got so much stuff in there that's not usable.

36:04•Diane Fitch

I was surprised to find some of those foot warmers, those aren't going to be any good. And those gloves have six fingers. I doubt anybody needs gloves with six fingers.

38:01•Diane Fitch

Mitch bringing stuff to the courthouse, is that what I heard? No, Thaddeus. Thaddeus.

39:54 – 42:11•Diane Fitch

I attended North Middle River Watershed. They're going to be holding, I don't remember what date it is, I posted it up here, but you can go on a tour of the watersheds. It would be really good, I think. I attended Seapod. I helped with the tour of kids from Japan. A bunch of kids from Japan came and Luckily, there was a judge in there, and she let them come in. And their question was really cute. They wanted to know how much laws we had. So she showed them all the laws. All the laws. I attended Hinterland. We really need to work on ordinances. Hinterland is huge. There were, I don't know, 40,0

45:32•Diane Fitch

This is your claim, but how do they bid without ever being viewed by all of these companies?

54:20•Diane Fitch

We need a sign next to the building. That's all wrong because none of those are there anymore.

54:43•Diane Fitch

I did that sign. When I was first here, I did all the graphics. Oh, you did?

54:55•Diane Fitch

If you tell me the name and everything, I can do that.

57:43•Diane Fitch

Well, you could run it. There's that internal drainage.

1:03:07 – 1:03:28•Diane Fitch

I asked him if he wanted all of those in the basement. He didn't take them. Were there locking cabinets? Yes. They're pretty big steel cabinets. Did we have keys for them? Yeah, I don't know. Where did they go? Cabinets. I took two. Yeah, but you're using them, right? I think everybody took them.

1:04:24•Diane Fitch

Did you post it in the papers and everybody has an opportunity?

1:07:27 – 1:07:44•Diane Fitch

Okay, that sounds good. With all the new growth and everything, it might be cheaper to move it out to public health. What? Well, the new roof on the ambulance building, all this stuff, would it be cheaper to just move them out to public health?

1:08:55•Diane Fitch

And it has to go for the appraised price, correct? Correct. It's listed. It's 500,000.

1:10:00 – 1:10:15•Diane Fitch

And we'll need to get a quote for that. And I have that, and I'll release that when they come, because I don't want to tell people where they want cameras. No, it's not. And it's changed a lot since I sent it to you two. Everybody's done some thinking and...

1:15:05 – 1:15:22•Diane Fitch

Just, but you're going, so what you're going to do is make a resolution go to the sheriff or the attorney and ask for permission you don't have to make sure and my only follow-up question which i didn't i'm not clear at the answer but will that be disclosed um to

1:16:11•Diane Fitch

But if it's an event or an issue, it's going to be going through law enforcement. Not necessarily. Oh, okay. That's all right.

1:18:58•Diane Fitch

So we already discussed the auction at the building. We already discussed that. Audit RFP. Slides. Don't forget slides. Johnson Controls, oh.

1:19:45•Diane Fitch

We didn't ask for more money, so let's move on.

1:25:36•Diane Fitch

And I can tell you, every single worker does not want access to the campus. They want to go to the attorney and the sheriff.

1:26:18•Diane Fitch

Just make them walk through and make the plan. Just walk through and make the plan.

1:31:54 – 1:32:14•Diane Fitch

It's not just for you. Okay, so what do we want? Do we want to go to a meeting every week? Or do we, what do we want? I think we should because this is a great meeting. Yeah, but you need to go. We should be wrapping up right now. No, but we used to have less than an hour meetings. Well. We did. And they get longer and longer.

1:35:54 – 1:36:12•Diane Fitch

I spoke to Ryan today. They're working on this, and they've kind of taken over. But he did say he talked to them, and they were meeting. Yeah. He has two people that are very, very skilled on his boards. This is their backgrounds, and they're moving forward. Good.

1:36:48•Diane Fitch

Okay, because there's the time constraint they were supposed to deliver and there was the product they were supposed to deliver. Okay.

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