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County appoints committee to help with comprehensive plan

By Greg Bebermeyer

04/21/2023

Brown County Courthouse

(KNZA)--The Brown County Commission has appointed seven members to an advisory committee to help with the development of a comprehensive plan for the county.

At their April 10 meeting, the Commission voted to appoint Griff Howard and Wyatt Kerl from District 1; Rex Lockwood and Bill Sechler from District 2; Ben Swinger and Cliff Heiniger from District 3 and Bill Vonderschmidt for the at-large position.

The Commission last October hired planning consultant Dick Horton to develop a comprehensive plan for the county. Horton recommended the Commission form an advisory committee to help in the process.

The commission began discussing the need for a comprehensive plan last year as a way to guide decisions on how to regulate the development of large-scale wind energy projects in the county.

In other business at their April 10 meeting, the Commission voted 2-1 to authorize County Clerk Dawn Boyles to pay the Hiawatha Baseball and Softball Club $49,911 and the Horton Industrial Development Committee $49,869 from the county general fund.

Commissioner Bill Pollock cast the dissenting vote.

The two groups had previously requested ARPA funding from the county to help with their ball field projects.

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