The Cass County Board of Supervisors had a light agenda for their meeting Wednesday morning. The Board approved the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Urban Renewal Report. Auditor Dale Sunderman said local governments are required to complete and submit an annual report showing all TIF activity within each of their urban renewal areas during the preceding fiscal year.

Cass County had one active area: the Amaizing Energy Urban Renewal Area. $303,000 of the original $520,000 bond was outstanding 07/01/2013; $26,000 of bond was paid by TIF funds in FY14 to leave bond balance of $277,000. In addition, interest expense of $9,473.80 was paid.
TIF revenues for FY14 were $29,359.65. Ending TIF fund balance was $12,038. The Board approved the Urban Renewal Report as presented.

They also set the number of deputies in the Recorder’s Office at one. In the June 2014 Primary, Mary Ward won the Republican nomination for Cass County Recorder. Joyce Jensen had earlier announced she would not be running for re-election. No one is running against Ward in the November General election, therefore it’s assumed that she will officially take over the office on November 14th.

Former Deputy Recorder Linn Headlee retired from office last Friday. Recorder Joyce Jensen reported that Mary Ward is now the chief deputy and certified a base salary of 80% of recorder’s salary. The motion was made by Wedemeyer and seconded by Schelling, to set the number of deputies in the recorder’s office at one and to certify an annual base salary of $42,604.80/year for chief deputy county recorder Mary Ward.

Jensen said Ward has a stack of more than 100 applications to weed through in selecting the person who will become her deputy. The interviewing process is expected to begin next week.