PROCEEDINGS OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2025
At 9:00 a.m., Chairperson Richard Young called to order in regular session a meeting of the Washington County Board of Supervisors which took place at Orchard Hill. Items on the agenda included the following: Pledge of Allegiance, approval of agenda, public comment related to agenda items, Approval of Certificate of Appointments for Deputy Sheriffs’ & Civil Process Servers, Personnel change requests for Ambulance Services, Secondary Road Use request for Tractorcade 2025 tractor parade, Washington County Secondary Roads Department 2025 Iowa DOT Budget Amendment, Department Head comment, adjourn.
Supervisors Marcus Fedler, Bob Yoder, and Stan Stoops were also present. Jack Seward was absent.
Other individuals in attendance included Kalen McCain with the SE Iowa Union, County Engineer Jacob Thorius, County Ambulance Director Jordan Wright, Chief Deputy Sheriff Shawn Ellingson, Board of Supervisors Administrative Assistant Amber Williams, and County Elections Administrator, Angela Langstraat. Various other individuals listened and/or watched remotely via Zoom.
Yoder led the individuals assembled in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
All motions were passed unanimously unless noted otherwise.
No motion was made to approve the Agenda.
There was no public comment.
On motion by Fedler, seconded by Yoder, the Board voted to approve, and authorize the Chairperson to sign, the appointment of the following individuals to the position of Civil Process Server: Jill Duwa, Victor Rico, and Darren J. Dennler. Each individual’s term ends December 31, 2028. Ellingson shared that these individuals needed to be sworn in after January.
On motion by Fedler, seconded by Stoops, the Board voted to approve, and authorize the Chairperson to sign, the appointment of the following individual to the position of Deputy Sheriff: Tyler Ross Kleese. This individual’s term ends December 31, 2028.
On motion by Stoops, seconded by Yoder, the Board voted to acknowledge, and authorize the Chairperson to sign a personnel change request for Hogan Miller. Hogan will be going from a Level 2 to a Level 3 paramedic and includes a pay increase at the rate of $32.30 hourly, from $29.52 hourly, effective May 20, 2025.
On motion by Fedler, seconded by Yoder, the Board voted to acknowledge, and authorize the Chairperson to sign a personnel change request for Kurtis Olson. Kurtis will be going from a Level 2 to a Level 3 EMT and includes a pay increase at the rate of $26.98 hourly, from $25.94 hourly, effective May 27, 2025.
On motion by Stoops, seconded by Fedler, the Board voted to acknowledge, and authorize the Chairperson to sign a personnel change request for Ian Gannon. Ian will be going from a Level 4 to a Level 5 paramedic and includes a pay increase at the rate of $38.11 hourly, from $33.78 hourly, effective June 10, 2025.
On motion by Fedler, seconded by Yoder, the Board voted to approve the Secondary Road Use Request for Tractorcade 2025 tractor parade. The tractor parade will be coming through Washington County on June 9th for one day and then will be leaving. Insurance is on file and ready. The Police Department still has some intersections to work on but will be simple for the County.
On motion by Yoder, seconded by Fedler, the Board voted to approve the Washington County Secondary Roads Department 2025 Iowa DOT Budget Amendment. This is amended paperwork due to some clean up and is necessary so that the formatting matches what we recently did in the amended budget.
At 9:12 a.m. on motion by Stoops, seconded by Fedler, the Board voted to adjourn.
ATTEST:s/ Angela M. Langstraat, Washington County Elections Administrator
Published in The News, Thursday, June 5, 2025 L-110
