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Contentious supervisors OK budget
Chickasaw County board votes 3-2 to approve 2021-22 tax levy
By:
Bob Fenske
Twenty-eight days elapsed between budget hearings held by the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors, but not much else changed Monday.
The levy rate stayed the same, the total expenditures stayed the same and unanimity couldn’t be found, but thanks to a 3-2 vote, the county now officially has its 2021-22 budget and tax levy in place.
Like they did in late February when they set the “maximum levy,” the supervisors split on the budget and levy, with Rick Holthaus, Jason Byrne and Matt Kuhn voting for the budget while Jacob Hackman and Tim Zoll opposed it.
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And the Chickasaw Board of Supervisors has a new chairman.
At the first supervisors meeting of the year, it was apparently time for now-former chairman Jacob Hackman to relinquish his position – a post he previously held for the last three years.
Rick Holthaus was nominated during the meeting and after a 3-2 vote, was elected as the new board chairman. Holthaus was a supervisor for eight years having held two full terms from 2009 to 2017. Upon receiving the nod to be chairman, he was quoted by the New Hampton Tribune as to saying:
“I shall not, will not be a dictator. If I have to, I will be a moderator… but what I’m really hoping is that I can be a facilitator.”
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Home / News / Supervisors pull county out of Ambulance Council
Supervisors pull county out of Ambulance Council Mon, 12/14/2020 - 1:32pm Bob Fenske
Chickasaw County will leave intergovernmental body on June 30, 2021
By:
Bob Fenske
The Chickasaw County Ambulance Council will have one less member midway through next year, thanks to a split vote by the Board of Supervisors on Monday.
Board members voted 3-2 to terminate its membership in the council that was formed in 1989 and to give the required 180 days notice after a relatively long discussion that grew contentious at times.
Board Chairman Jacob Hackman was joined by Tim Zoll and David Tilkes while Supervisors Jason Byrne and Steve Geerts, who serves as the chair of the Ambulance Council, voted against the motion.