Dakota Ave/Pearl Street (W-55), north of Wayland (Hwy 78) is now open to traffic. Construction will continue with paving operation. Flaggers and Pilot cars will be used. Expect delays and use caution. Questions can be answered at 319 385-0762.

Henry County Jail

In the interest of keeping Henry County residents informed, the Henry County Sheriff’s office has requested KILJ post the daily jail count. During the jail referendum campaign it was publicized that the jail would be able to house additional inmates from surrounding counties and this would generate revenue for Henry County.

Date:   ____6-30-2022_____

  20   Henry County Inmates

 54_    Out of County Contract Inmates              

 74 Total

AGENDA

June 30, 2022

Approve Agenda

Approve Minutes

Approve Claims

9:00 Sarah Berndt, CDS Monthly Update

Approve Fellowship Cup Agreement for Food Assistance

9:30 Jeff Shipley to meet the BOS

9:50 Discuss and set Mileage Rate Reimbursement for 7/1/22

10:00 Resolution for Interfund Transfers

Other County Business as time allows

Supervisors Sub-Committee Updates

On June 29th at approximately 10:51 a.m., the Henry County Sheriff’s Office took a report of a rollover car accident in the 1500-grid of Racine Avenue. An investigation determined that Cole Milks, 16, was Southbound when his tire dropped off the shoulder. Cole was unable to gain control of the vehicle and rolled it in the ditch. The vehicle appears to be totaled, no injuries were reported.

On Sunday, June 26 at approximately 9:59pm, the Henry County Sheriff’s Office received reports of a motor vehicle accident in the 1300 Grid of Salem Road with unknown injuries. Deputies responded to the scene and located a single vehicle in the ditch facing north. The driver of the vehicle, Levi Scott Vaughn Wolfe of Batavia, Iowa, had swerved to avoid a collision with an animal in the roadway and over corrected thus losing control of the vehicle. Upon further investigation, it appeared that the vehicle was traveling east bound and spun across the center of the road and into the ditch on the north side of the road. The vehicle went through a fence and continued through the ditch area before colliding with a tree. Levi was uninjured and declined medical attention on scene. The vehicle sustained disabling damage and was removed from the scene later that night.

Mount Pleasant Police were part of the pursuit that took place on Hwy 218 Tuesday morning. Police say a call came in just after 11 am reporting a truck southbound but not staying in the correct lane. The truck’s yellow hazard lights were also illuminated.  A police officer attempted to make contact with the driver, identified as Jesse Yount of Florissant, Missouri.  However, Yount continued south on 218 at speeds of up to 100 miles an hour.  At one point the chase led officers onto West Washington Street and then south on Grand Avenue before the driver returned to 218. Yount continued south into Lee County where law enforcement agencies were alerted that Yount was still headed south but in the northbound lanes of 218. At one point the vehicle crossed thru the median and back into the southbound lanes. Stop sticks were deployed in an effort to stop the vehicle. Yount lost control of the truck causing it to flip several times. Yount got out of the truck and ran south before being apprehended. Yount was transported to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries. He is charged with reckless driving and eluding, improper or erratic lane changing and failure to yield to emergency vehicles.

Andi Scott and Elsie Lange of Mount Pleasant recently participated in the Youth Tour of Washington, D.C., sponsored by Access Energy Cooperative. They spent June 19-24 in Washington, D.C., with 33 other student leaders from Iowa.

Each year in June, this weeklong leadership development program provides high school students opportunities to learn first-hand about government, the electric cooperative business model, and today’s pressing issues in the energy industry. Students met their elected representatives in the U.S. House and Senate, toured historic sites, and ran their very own snack cooperative.

Andi and Elsie were chosen from applicants representing the entire 10-county service area of the cooperative to represent Access Energy Cooperative for the 2022 Youth Tour. In the fall, Andi will be a senior at Mount Pleasant Community High School. She is the daughter of Nathan and Danielle Scott. She participates in basketball, show choir, competition cheer, Chamber Ambassadors, church events and volunteers at Midwest Old Threshers. During the summer she works at the Mt. Pleasant Aquatic Center and mows lawns.

Elsie Lange, daughter of Nathan and Kelly Lange, will be a junior at Mount Pleasant Community High School. She participates in basketball, cross county, track, marching band, student council, Silver Cord, and helps tutor middle school students. Elsie is active in the Chamber Ambassadors program, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Club, Youth of Christ events, and is the leader of the Youthify Movement in Mount Pleasant. When she is not volunteering, she works at Jane Anne Boutique and babysits for several families.

During Youth Tour the IAEC was able to arrange for Iowa students to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during their visit to Arlington National Cemetery. Elsie Lange was among the students chosen to represent Iowa in this ceremony.

The Electric Cooperative Youth Tour has been a joint effort of locally-owned electric cooperatives, such as Access Energy Cooperative, their statewide trade associations, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) for nearly 60 years.