Articles Tagged: Linn County Board of Supervisors

The Democrat announced Tuesday he is seeking a fifth term on the Linn County Board of Supervisors.

Former longtime Linn County Supervisor James Houser is running for supervisor again.

NextEra, which will build the project at the decommissioned Duane Arnold nuclear facility and plans to sell it to Alliant Energy to own and operate, submitted the plans to Linn County for the two solar energy sites in Palo.

Kirsten Running-Marquardt, the Democratic State Representative for District 69, announced on Friday that she would be running for the District 1 seat on the Linn County Board of Supervisors.

The Linn County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to adopt the new district maps, prepared by the nonpartisan state Legislative Services Agency.

The motion failed with Supervisors Stacey Walker and Ben Rogers voting against it, and with Supervisor Louie Zumbach voting for it.

Proposed six-month study of utility-scale projects would not affect Coggon Solar plan, which was approved last month.

Here’s what we know about the Coggon Solar project in Linn County, approved by Linn County supervisors on Monday and expected to break ground in March.

Supervisors Ben Rogers and Stacey Walker voted for the project, while Louie Zumbach voted against it. The approval means that about 750 acres will be rezoned from agricultural to agricultural with a renewable energy overlay that expires after 35 years.

The Linn County supervisors meet for a third consideration on Tuesday night with a fourth likely to follow

A utility-grade solar installation west of Coggon will proceed to the second of three consideration after the Linn County Board of Supervisors disregarded an advisory panel’s recommendation that they deny it.

Denying the request for a delay from the developer of a utility-scale solar project west of Coggon, the Linn County Board of Supervisors voted Friday to go ahead with holding more community meetings of the controversial project.

Applications are being accepted now for the committee, which will complete an annual greenhouse gas inventory for the county.

The program helps people, organizations recover from August 2020 derecho.

Linn County supervisors on Wednesday decided to wait for a recount of Nov. 2 ballots