Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting
The Board of Supervisors approved a special alcohol license and discussed the process for selling the old VA building, leaning towards sealed bids and setting a timeline for public notice and offers. No formal action was taken on the sale, pending further legal clarification.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Board of Supervisors
- Meeting Type
- Board Of Supervisors
- Location
- Mills County, IA
- Meeting Date
- August 28, 2026
Transcript
113 sections
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Très bien, mes amis. 11h, c'est Zorro. Commençons notre réunion par le serment d'allégeance au drapeau des États-Unis d'Amérique et à la République qu'ils représentent. Une nation sous l'égide de Dieu, indivisible, avec la liberté et la justice pour tous. In the order of the day, the only thing that has been removed are the supplier accounts for a technical question, I would say.
Yes, we are still working on the implementation. I ask for approval of the order of the day.
I propose to approve the order of the day. Do you want to exclude the supplier accounts? Mozyon pressed to approve the order of the day, with the exception of the supplier accounts that will not be dealt with today for technical reasons. All those who are short. And you have an alcohol license. It's for the Minola, which was once the Minola Steakhouse.
It's the community center. It's a five-day special license. It would take effect from September 17 for the Cota Corporation, under the name of Communal Center in Indiana.
I propose to approve the special sales license in the details of 5-day C-class alcohol for the Cota Corporation, under the name of Communal Center in Minola, on September 17, 2026. Je laisse la place et j'appuie.
Cette motion.
Pour approuver une licence spéciale de vente au détail d'alcool de classe C de 5 jours pour la Cota Corporation faisant affaire sous le nom de centre communautaire au 404 Main Street, Minola, Iowa à Ponte du 17 septembre. Pour 5 jours en 2026. Tous ceux qui sont pour. Commentaire.
J'ai un commentaire concernant les 25 000 dollars votés pour... Le développement du GRC s'ils sont dans... Nous avons fait pour le GRC.
Le développement économique.
Le développement économique mardi dernier. Vous avez voté 25 000 dollars pour leur donner. Pourquoi ferions-nous cela avec l'argent du comté s'ils sont dans les limites de la ville ?
They are not within the limits of the city, and it was just for the development there.
Now, are they within the limits of the city or not?
The GRC campus is within the limits of the city, but the economic development technically has no role for the GRC campus. It's the role of the GRC. That's it. And technically, they are two different things. even though there are a lot of people who are identical to the Glory Development Corporation and to the economic development planners. It wasn't just for that. It was for the economic development of the Mills County. The entire Mills County. Not just for one.
It's not just for them. You only have access to that for me.
Thank you. The next point at the time of the day is the treatment. And we will discuss a possible formal action concerning the sale of the old building of the VA.
I have therefore joined the resolution to launch things. Who is the first public audience? But I also have a note that speaks of a calendar to get answers to certain questions before being able to start the process. Je me suis dit qu'on pourrait prendre un peu de temps. On va passer en revue quelques points pour voir ce que vous voulez faire. Et ensuite, on pourra avancer la machine. Mais il faut en savoir un peu plus avant de pouvoir finaliser la résolution elle-même. Alors, j'ai réalisé que l'adresse... Je ne sais pas pourquoi. Je m'assure qu'ils ont bien pris les informations de Deshane. Et j'ai fait mon propre calendrier. to be sure that everything is done in the right order.
So I have to do it twice.
So the first thing to do is to vote for the resolution to give 20 days of notice to the public audience. You make the public audience, then you either organize the auction.
On n'a pas besoin de décider si on va mettre ça en appel d'offres ou en vente aux enchères.
Si vous deux.
Nous devons le faire.
Tout cela doit être, c'est pourquoi nous devons obtenir des réponses à toutes ces questions avant d'aller de l'avant avec la première résolution, car c'est elle qui va tomber à résolution, car c'est elle qui va tomber à résolution. Donc, Desson avait prévu ça comme une vente aux enchères publiques. Je suis presque sûre, cependant, qu'on pourrait aussi faire comme un appel d'offres sous cliquet.
We have already made some sales at the auction, sorry. I'm not the best police officer, but I directed the last one.
You think that's what I did, don't you? Well, I think this one must be a real one. I think we need to use a real police officer for this.
If we do that, then it will cost us our... Free in percentage. We wouldn't need to go through someone if we had an offer. Correct.
But you still have to pay certain fees, the work on the title and that kind of thing. And we could have to hire someone else. I don't know. We should be able to do everything all the time, but there are other elements that would still cost money. We get paid. But you won't have any more money if you do the auction.
Well, we wouldn't spend that much money if we did the auction ourselves. But I must have... On 300 euros, it's about 24,000 euros. 7% interest. 200 euros.
Wait, no, I'm sorry.
The Iowa law does not require a commissioner to take over a property owned by the county for public sale of real estate.
I'm sorry. It only requires that the sale be carried out in accordance with mandatory notification procedures. However, calling a commissioner to take over a professional property can stimulate competition and the price of the sale, especially for goods of great misfortune.
They will no longer advertise.
I'm sorry. I misread this part.
La plupart d'entre eux prennent 7 à 10%. 7% de courant. Les enchères. Le commissaire-priseur prenne moins. En général. Les agents immobiliers sont à 7% de plus. Le commissaire-priseur dépend de la vente. J'en ai vu à presque 1%. On a vu des élevés.
Les agents immobiliers sont à 10%.
C'est vraiment un processus plus propre. C'est plus propre.
But you can set your minimum, you can set a minimum price. So you can say, if we don't get this amount, then we won't accept.
So you can start the process again.
You can also send another offer.
I have no problem with that.
What do you think, MC?
I find that the call for an offer to be bought, it removes a lot of pressure and you know, You put 7%, you know. I realize that if you go through a auction company or something like that at 7%, what does it cover? It can become expensive, we can lose a large part of our margin. You know what we're looking at? Je serai en faveur de... ...détermination.
Ouais, c'est le prochain sur ma liste. Faut regarder le... ...memorandum.
On discute de tout ça ? D'abord avant de prendre mesure formelle, ou doit-on appuyer la motion puis discuter ?
Non, je ne pense pas qu'on ait besoin.
C'est écrit discussion puis mesure formelle possible, donc on peut en discuter. Et ensuite ? Donc on note pour les offres cachetées, pour l'instant...
Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait ? C'est genre... 140, quoi.
Vous ne refaites pas cet obstacle. 50, 0 000 euros de marge. Qu'est-ce que vous en dites ? Je ne pense pas qu'on devrait aller en dessous de ça. 250 pour une mise à prix... Mise à priseur. I think a president would make an excellent commissioner. I don't need one.
I don't need one to do hidden jobs.
I'm going to go. I'm going to read.
You don't need to do the number 4. You want... We will need an accountant. So you will decide, Jean. What would be required for...
Judicial sales. Where would you do the check on that day?
I don't think we would do that for this time. But there's also a deposit. Do you want that?
Well, all you would have to say is, okay, you want 10% of the deposit.
Do you want 15%? In fact, like 1,005.
I made 500. Mitch or Kate put 500 last time. Or a banker. Bankers would probably be like, if I came to buy a house and put a compromise in front of you, how much should I pay?
As a buyer, not as a lender.
Yeah, you can get a 100% financing if you use the USDA or you can... Okay. ...finance until May, you pay an insurance fee. You make a classic fee, you can finance 95%... It's for the financing side, we're just looking for a warranty deposit. With a deposit... Oh, I don't know, I mean, usually on a purchase contract, it's generally 5% in... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tout est négociable à chaque fois. Les agents immobiliers négocient sans cesse avec... Ça me bat. Ils ne le font pas ?
Ouais, ils l'incluraient dans leur chèque, inclus avec leur... Combien de temps vous leur donnez, quoi ?
We don't have, we don't have much. Except to put together all the paperwork.
But it would take a little time to try to fix that.
60 days?
To be ready to conclude? The date of the possession?
I want to review these points with the lawyer of the county before. Because I'm not sure of our legal responsibility. So do that. And then? Number seven, you should decide if you want to allow future buyers to take a look at the property before October.
That's why I just have to find... We had the auction at Henderson. A lot of people have announced to buy the property because they couldn't visit it first. I would say that if we can find how to open all this, we will try. We will see what they can do. Je vais me renseigner là-dessus aussi. Vous savez, on pourrait... L'un de nous pourrait passer là-bas aussi pour gérer ça. Dire qu'ils seront là-bas de 8h à midi. Le... Certain jour.
Regardez. Peut-être le matin d'un jour et l'après-midi des autres.
Et je serai prêt à donner un coup de main pendant une heure ou deux. Je n'ai jamais organisé de visite libre. Cookies. They work. Cookies? I prefer pancakes. I think so. 30 days leaves us enough time for the advertising of the date of sale.
Well, the closing date would be this.
30 days after the date of sale. 30 days. Yes, but it says date of sale.
I know. It's because it's supposed to.
When are we looking? Oh yes.
So, we're just going to look at the date for the... So that's where it gets a little complicated. So you have to fix the public audience. Publish life for two weeks. The second publication must take place at least four days before.
Not less than four days or not more than 20 days before the public audience.
Then you will have the public audience. Just, I think, just keep the public audience to see if there are And so at any time after this public audience, you can somehow have that. I think it was said about three weeks between the public audience and the sale, just to give people some time. You could apply this same type of calendar, the three weeks, or you could do one month or the other. Because we probably wouldn't be able to do much before the public audience, after the sale. And then you would set your date at that time. But it's good to have it to be able to start working back on our objectives. So if you were doing... Oh la la!
Well, let's say we get it. On the 22nd, we have two of them.
We put it in the newspaper these days, which... I don't know. I don't know. We can try. Let's go with this instead.
It's still a week away.
So we put it in the newspaper for these days. We could probably do this day and these days if we can get the newspaper. But you still have to respect the 40-day period for your public opinion. You probably have to keep your... Public audience. Peut-être le 29. Au plus tard le 6. Et ensuite, vous pourriez accepter les offres jusqu'au 27. Ou en réalité, vous les accepteriez jusqu'au 26, à genre 16h30.
J'ai dit le 29 septembre, n'est-ce pas ? Possible. Et puis, le 26 octobre, nous recevrions les offres plus tard que 16h30. Or do you want to set it at 4 o'clock here?
We would do it. Yes, let's do it at 4 o'clock. To be sure. Accept the offers.
Do you, as long as we are clear, on the delivery date too?
I do. The offers at the meeting, the 27th on 10th. We will set this time? We will do it at the time of the meeting. And we don't think we need an absurdity for that, but I will check. But once you have opened all these offers and that you have accepted one, we will have to adopt a resolution approving this sale and authorizing the signing of the documents.
I would like to submit a scenario. What if we have two hours in advance?
Well, they will not be exactly identical. I mean, maybe a hundred. But that's where I think you could make a counteroffer.
Well, simply note that in your agreement, there is an offer
And you could do it like this. Let's say one of the offers is in a species, the other with financing. Or one offers $1,000 and the other $5,000. You could use some of these other variants.
It's an auction. It covers all aspects quite well.
Donc je vais, je pense, recontacter Sean aujourd'hui ou lundi où je parlerai à Dawn de nos questions de clarification.
Nous allons faire une inspection.
Ah oui. Nous laisserons les gens visiter.
Ah, juste d'accord. Nous n'allons pas le faire inspecter.
Ce sera vendu en l'état. D'accord.
Donc nous irons là-bas pour régler ça.
Nous devons déterminer quel est le nage. I don't know if they would then.
I don't know if they put them on their map. Because I asked for a zoning map at 1. This one by Elon? Because...
Yes, it's a pair. Yes.
Je n'aurais pas dû dire ça. Nous pouvons voir contacter Lucas et Thompson.
Donc, c'est un travail parfait. Donc, c'est comme une excuse. Je ne pense pas vraiment avoir besoin. Je voulais juste rassembler ces éléments pour voir.
Si nous pouvons prendre une mesure formelle à ce sujet. ou vont prendre une mesure formelle un mardi. C'est très bien.
Je n'ai pas parlé. Sinon, ce sera pour la semaine prochaine. Donc, je vais juste passer.
Vouloir m'assurer que nous tenons délai.
Je découvre.
What do you see? The closure forms the lawyer of the counter. We have sold a field where is now the cooperative on the 250th. Le parc de stockage. Le dernier, je crois. Celui sur Airois Avenue aussi, n'est-ce pas ? Où est-ce qu'il a été libéré immédiatement ? Là-bas. Et nous avons vendu. Et là-bas. On pensait avoir trois sous-missionnaires au départ. On a fini avec deux. Et la coopérative est restée en retrait. Pour finalement dire, eh bien, voici ce qu'on va faire. Bourse. Et deux autres vont. End of discussion only. We do not need to act today.
I just need these points to be clarified to be able to advance things. I will establish a better calendar and I will speak to Deshaan.
Very good.
So we move on to the next question.
Does anyone else have something to raise? Let's start with...
Maintenant nous en sommes à l'heure de la clôture.
Je propose une motion à 11h43. Appuyez.
Motion faite.
Appuyez pour lever la séance à 11h23. Tous ceux qui sont pour, très bien.
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