Two potential road agreements showed up in the county board information packet for Oct. 18, one of which was confusing at best and intentionally misleading at worst.
Becker County commissioners on Tuesday agreed to spend a little over $235,000 to digitize those big books a project that will finish a decades-long, off-and-on digitization effort in the Becker County Recorder’s Office.
The forum for Becker County Board and sheriff candidates was hosted by the Detroit Lakes Area League of Women Voters and held at the packed public meeting room at the police department.
The only saving grace for the budget process this year is that the Human Services Department “found $300,000 in savings,” said Commissioner Ben Grimsley. “That’s the only thing that keeps the budget from being completely atrocious.”
“I don’t think we want to be the next animal livestock hub in the United States,” Commissioner Barry Nelson said at a county board meeting Tuesday. “Our ordinances are kind of behind. At our next meeting I’d like us to look at a moratorium on CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations).”