(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Board of Supervisors will meet 9-a.m. Monday, Jan. 2nd, in-person and via telephone conference call. On their agenda is the election of a Board Chair and Vice-Chair person, along with approving Deputy/Assistant Clerk appointments from Recorder, Treasurer and Attorney. There will also be a Public Hearing at 9:15-a.m., with regard to a FY23 Budget Amendment, followed by action on a Resolution to approve the amendment, and action on an Appropriations Resolution.

Here is their full agenda:

9:00 a.m.

• Oath of Office
• Elect Chairman and Vice Chairman
• Organizational Resolution
• Approve Deputy/Assistant/Clerk Appointments from Recorder, Treasurer, and Attorney
• Approve resolution authorizing chairperson to sign documents
• Travel Policy Resolution
• Set holiday closing dates for county offices
• Master Matrix Resolution
• FY23 Audit Services
• Designate official newspapers
• Claims
• Taxable Mileage
• Appointments of Supervisors to area boards/commissions and alternates:

Adair County Safety Committee; Adair County Tourism; Adair County Wellness; Alcohol and Drug Abuse (Zion); Broadband Study, Greater Des Moines Partnership; ATURA (Regional ISTEA); ATURA (Regional ISTEA) alternate; Crossroads Mental Health; DHS Advisory Board-Des Moines Service Area (2 members); De-Cat Governing Board for Creston Cluster; DNR Contact Person; E911 Adair County Board; E911 Seven County Board/Alternate; Emergency Management, Local Comm; Empowerment; Enterprise Zone Commission; Fifth Judicial District Corrections; Fifth Judicial District, Alternate; Hungry Canyons Alliance; Innovative Industries; Integrated Roadside Management; Jensen-Butler Foundation; JTPA-LEO/Workforce Investment Act; Landfill Board & Alternates; Loess Hills Development & Conservation; MATURA; Midwest Partnership; Middle River/North River Watershed; RC and D Committee; REAP; SICOG; Southern Hills CPC 28E Board; Southern Hills CPC 28E Board Alternate; Southern Iowa Trolley Board

• Appoint ADA Coordinator
• Approve Condemnation Board
• Appoint Conservation Board Member
• Appoint Board of Health Member
• Appoint Medical Examiner and Deputy Medical Examiners
• Appoint Civil Service Members
• Appoint RC&D Committee Member
• Appointment of Weed Commissioner

9:15 a.m. Public Hearing – FY23 Budget Amendment

Resolution to Approve Budget Amendment

Appropriations Resolution

Nick Kauffman, County Engineer

• Empowerment of County Engineer
• Designation of County Engineer to Authorize Utility, Telecommunication Permits
• Compensation for Fence
• Title VI Non-Discrimination Policy
• Authorizing Personnel to Issue Permits
• Report Maintenance and Activities

The conference phone will still be used for those who cannot attend in person and can be accessed by using the following dial in information:

Dial in Number: (605) 313-6157           Access Code: 526272#

(Cumberland, Iowa) – Officials with the P.R.I.D.E (Progressive Rural Iowa Development Enterprise) economic & community development organization, have invited area government officials and the public, to a “Pre-session Legislative Forum,” featuring Senator Tom Shipley and Representative Tom Moore. The event takes place Tuesday, January 3rd, from 6:30-until 8-p.m., at the Cumberland Fire Station.

You can listen to what our area Legislators have to say in advance of the January 9th session, and present your topic(s) for discussion.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Lottery plans to move to some more modern methods of payment for prizes in the new year. Lottery spokesperson, Mary Neubauer, says paper checks had been the standard. “It just became obvious pretty quickly that a check, which is the primary form of payment that you will receive, especially if you come to an Iowa Lottery office today, a check just isn’t used as much today, as it once was, ” Neubauer says. She says a working group in the organization studied the options and what Lottery customers want.

“People are looking for options that have, first of all, greater speed, and second of all, more convenience,” she says. Neubauer says cash payments won’t go away, but they do plan to start using prepaid debit cards that allow retailers or Lottery offices to load the prize money onto the card. “So if you go into a store, certainly cash would continue to be an option. But for example, if it’s a store, and it’s late at night, and the store doesn’t have a lot of cash on hand, a lot of times right now that store isn’t able to pay your prize,” Neubauer says. Neubauer says retailers could pay prizes from 20 up to 600 dollars on the cards — while lottery offices could use the prepaid debit cards for prizes from 20 up to five-thousand dollars. They hope to start a pilot project with the debit cards in six months.

The other change would allow prizes that have to be redeemed at Iowa Lottery offices to be made through what’s called an A-C-H payment that goes directly into a person’s bank account. “So the person wouldn’t get a hardcopy check, they wouldn’t have to cash it, they wouldn’t have to, you know, drive somewhere, or do that electronically, the payment would just be made directly into their account,” Neubauer says. “It’s going to take a little bit more time to put that in place, we’re looking at that probably somewhere in the second half of calendar year 2023, or at the end of fiscal year 2023.”

The A-C-H prize payments could go up to five million dollars. Neubauer says they are only making a couple of changes because they have to be very careful about the security surrounding the prize money. “There are so many forms of payment available in the marketplace today, especially when it comes to you know, consumers just paying each other money or sending money to each other. But we have to make sure that the security procedures in place and that whatever payment option we would be looking at that it has staying power,” she says. Neubauer says the large jackpots from lotto games would still be paid out by wire transfer, as that is the safest method.

(Elliott, Iowa) – A traffic stop at around 2:08-a.m. today (Saturday), in Montgomery County, resulted in the arrest of a woman on a warrant. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the traffic stop was conducted at 5th and Elm Streets, in Elliott. Upon further investigation, Deputies arrested 24-year-old Ashley Nicole Fitzwater, on a Page County Class-D Felony warrant for Possession of Contraband in a Correctional Facility.