(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Board of Supervisors, this (Wednesday) morning, met during a regular weekly session, and approved various administrative matters, including the receipt of two Manure Management Plans (MMP’s) from Prestige Farms and another producer. The Board heard from Adair County Weed Commissioner Nathan Jensen, with regard to the publishing Commissioner’s Official Notice about noxious weed control. The Board approved publishing of the notice as written.

Adair County Engineer Nick Kauffman presented his report, which included Right-Of-Way contracts for Board Chair Matt Wedemeyer to sign with regard to the N5 Richland Road bridge project. He also reported on Secondary Roads Dept. maintenance and activities, that includes the last deliveries of road salt. He said also the Orient and Nichols concrete box culvert projects are done, with just some back-filling to take place. The Orient road should be open later this week.

Kauffman said he has 14 bridges to inspect in the County next month. Kauffman also submitted a budget amendment in the amount of $310,000, for several reasons, including the increasing costs of road rock, mechanical issues with various pieces of county equipment that needed to be repaired, and an increase in other expenditures.

The Board’s final order of business was a Public Hearing on vacating a portion of 140th Street in Adair County, located about 3.5-miles south/southwest of Stuart and about a mile west of the Stuart Road (P-28). Kauffman explained to a concerned couple who lived in the area, where exactly the vacated portion was located.

The couple, Bev and John Johnson, wanted to make sure the primary access to their driveway wasn’t being obstructed. Since they come in off of Sheldon Avenue further to the west, they had no issue with the plan to vacate, which was approved by the Adair County Board of Supervisors.