Articles Tagged: Linn County Board of Supervisors

Republican wants to expand mental health services and recreational opportunities in county

With a phone connection from a traveling Supervisor Stacey Walker that gave out before the final vote was taken, the next Linn County budget was approved Wednesday after one of the only two supervisors participating in that vote agreed to switch from dissent to support.

All three Linn County supervisors said the biggest issue of having only three board members is they can’t talk about policy outside of supervisor meetings without violating Iowa’s open meeting law.

In the first year since the opening of the Linn County Mental Health Access Center, over 70 percent of its patients said in discharge surveys they would not have sought services if not for the new mental health crisis center.

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.