The Hancock County Board of Supervisors Meeting for September 28, 2026

The Hancock County Board of Supervisors will meet on Monday beginning at 8am. You can join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
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The proposed agenda is as follows:

Convene as Board of Supervisors
8:00 a.m. Pledge of Allegiance
Approve tentative agenda
Review/approve minutes
8:05 a.m. Consider signing proclamation for National 4-H Week
Recess as Board of Trustees

Convene as Drainage Trustees
8:15 a.m. Approve tentative agenda
Review/approve minutes
*Public forum for drainage
Consider drainage work orders
Update on drainage work orders/drainage projects

Consider drainage invoices, consider certification of costs of private tile application for Jason
Gardner in DD #97
8:30 a.m. Videoconference with Brian Yung, Johnson, Mulholland, Cochrane, Cochrane, Yung & Engler,
and Tyler Conley, Bolton & Menk, re: discuss DD # 5 Lateral 150 project and possibly consider
allocation of project costs
Adjournment as Drainage Trustees

Reconvene as Board of Supervisors
9:00 a.m. Chris LaMont, IT & Michelle Eisenman, County Auditor, re: discuss and possibly consider quote for sound equipment and podium for Board of Supervisors meeting room, discuss and possibly
consider quote for desk for Board of Supervisors meeting room, discuss and possibly consider
contract of sale with Clear Lake Independent Telephone Company for telephone services
Discuss and possibly consider video recording of Hancock County Board of Supervisors’
meetings
9:15 a.m. Open and possibly consider sealed bids for rent of Secondary Road owned farm ground in
Crystal, Garfield, Liberty, and Orthel Townships
9:30 a.m. Jeremy Purvis, County Engineer, re: County Engineer’s update on Secondary Roads

9:35 a.m. Matt Swanson, Maintenance, re: updates on maintenance
9:45 a.m. John Robbins, NIACOG, re: discuss zoning and related topics
10:05 a.m. Discuss and possibly consider action for amendment of Zoning Ordinance No. 3 to comport with
Iowa Code Chapter 335 to update the procedural language, requirements, and review processes
for submitting a petition to rezone a parcel of land, consider setting Public Hearing Date and
consider setting dates for first/second/third readings of the proposed amended ordinance
10:30 a.m. Andy Buffington, Communications/Zoning/EMA/E911 Director, re: discuss EMA position
10:45 a.m. Discuss and possibly consider 4 separate Resolutions for Six-Month Moratorium for Data
Centers, Solar Farms, Battery Storage, and Crypto Mines to allow time to study the public health
effects/concerns and draft an ordinance taking those effects/concerns into consideration
Adjournment as Board of Supervisors

**Public comments during Public Forum only**
*=Public comments allowed during agenda item