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Incumbent Marshall County Supervisor Vice Chairman Dave Thompson, a Republican, wants the voters of Marshall County to reelect him for a third term. He said he has been able to meet the rigorous demands of the job, since first being elected in 2010.

“You’re basically the business manager of the county. The biggest job is the budget. Also, everything not governed by the other county officials falls under (the domain) of the supervisors, so it’s a massive job,” he said. “In an average day, you might take care of somebody with a road issue out in a corner of the county, work with the county engineer and buildings and grounds department and work on mental health. It’s a long list.”

The candidate, who owns Thompson True Value Hardware, said if reelected he would have the opportunity to see the Great Mountain Wastewater Treatment Facility project to completion.

“We’ll be getting a CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) and work with the USDA. I would say construction on that will begin probably late next spring or summer. That is economic development on a homeowners level, and that is even more important since the tornado. All three supervisors truly believe it’s going to open Green Mountain up for some development and wind up being a suburb of Marshalltown. It’s on a hard surface road, there’s plenty of land for expansion. It’s a wonderful, small community with a good school system. It’s got all the makings of a real diamond in the rough.”

The $15.5 million Marshall County Courthouse restoration effort is one of the supervisors’ main projects going forward.

“Marshalltown and Marshall County have changed since the tornado,” Thompson said. “We’ll all come back better and stronger, but it’s going to be a bumpy ride. We are in debt freedom and we saved approximately $900,000 ahead. If we combine that with what the insurance company is doing, we should be able to remodel the Annex Building, put in an elevator and utilize all three stories of that building. When we get that done, we’ll be able to house other agencies in the courthouse, which will save the taxpayers $100,000 in rent year after year, having those all under one roof.”

Thompson said the supervisors’ accomplishments are proof that government can run efficiently.

“We work extremely well together – it is too bad the state and feds can’t work together as well as the county does,” he said. “Now is the time for experienced and proven leadership.”