T-R PHOTO BY ROBERT MAHARRY Marshall County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jarret Heil, right, and Vice Chair Steve Salasek, left, were reappointed to their respective posts during the board’s 2024 organizational meeting on Tuesday morning at the courthouse.

The Marshall County Board of Supervisors met briefly on Tuesday morning to handle some beginning of 2024 business, voting to reappoint Jarret Heil as the chairman and Steve Salasek as the vice chair for the second straight year.

After unanimously approving those two designations, the board then moved through a number of formalities on the consent agenda, including designating supervisors for various committees and boards. Salasek will serve on the following boards in 2024: Emergency Management Agency — LEM, Marshall County Communications Commission, Marshall County Joint E911 Service Board, Radio Governance Board, Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA), Area Agency on Aging, WIOA Iowa Workforce CEO Board, Safety Committee Representative and WIOA Regional Workforce Investment Board. Supervisor Carol Hibbs will serve as the Department Head Meeting representative, Board of Health, Marshalltown Cluster Decategorization Child Welfare Service Plan, Chamber Board, Marshalltown Economic Development (MED), Region VI Planning Commission, the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Commission and Courthouse Security, while Heil will serve on the Marshall County Landfill Commission, the 28E board for Central Iowa Community Services, the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, the Second Judicial District Department of Correctional Services and Marshall County Early Childhood.

Taveis Stevens was also reappointed as the weed commissioner, sanitarian and zoning administrator for a term ending on Dec. 31, 2024, and the Times-Republican and the Mid-Iowa Enterprise were designated the official newspapers of the county.

The board then adopted a construction evaluation resolution for confinement feeding operations, authorized County Engineer Paul Geilenfeldt and fellow secondary roads employees Mark Hentges, Lisa Reeder and Jill Tompkins to issue and sign special permits for the movement of vehicles of excessive size and weight, authorized Geilenfeldt to execute the requirements of Section 306.41 of Iowa code regarding blanket road closures, authorized Geilenfeldt to execute the completion of work and final acceptance and farm to market, federal and state aid construction projects in the county, authorized the County Highway Department to erect embargo signs such as load restrictions on roads and approved the Title VI non-discrimination agreement and the Marshall County discrimination disclaimer.

During the public forum period, County Auditor/Recorder Nan Benson reported that budget meetings started yesterday, and the schedule is posted on the public bulletin board. Anyone who would like a schedule is encouraged to contact either Benson’s office or the supervisors. The meetings are held in the meeting room at the northwest corner of the third floor of the courthouse.

“Giddy up for budget time,” Heil said.

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