Muscatine County Board of Supervisors Packet Summary — 2026-08-31
Meeting: Board of Supervisors Meeting
Scheduled time: 9:00 a.m.
The Muscatine County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider approximately $731,761.05 in county claims, utility permits, minutes from the August 24 meeting, and the proposed 2027 Muscatine County Holiday Schedule. The agenda also provides time for correspondence, committee reports, employee information, and public comment.
Key Items on the Agenda
$731,761.05 in County Claims
The Board is scheduled to consider accepting claims dated August 31, 2026 totaling $731,761.05. The packet identifies the accompanying payables as pending approval and states that they were in an open packet and had not yet posted to the General Ledger.
The largest fund-level amounts in the claims report include:
- General Basic: $274,681.23
- Secondary Road: $256,944.65
- Capital Projects: $170,091.81
- MUSCOM: $12,284.11
- Jail Commissary Fund: $9,712.06
- Drainage Districts: $3,645.64
- Historic Preservation Commission: $1,556.80
- Emergency Management: $1,159.07
Together with the packet's other listed funds, these expenditures total $731,761.05.
Significant Expenditures Within the Claims
Several individual expenditures and departmental totals account for substantial portions of the proposed claims.
- Secondary Roads: The Engineer department totals $256,944.65. Among the expenses are $45,364.00 for crack filling and four entries associated with LFM-(FR-6)--7X-70 voucher 23, totaling $101,108.78 across granular, PCC, erosion-control and traffic-control accounts.
- Jail: Claims total $172,030.47, including $110,810.00 for on-site medical services for September 2026, $6,198.55 for on-site mental services for September 2026, and a $15,097.02 service agreement covering July 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027.
- Capital/building work: The claims include $151,562.50 for Engineer/Zoning building remodel work through July 31, 2026 and $17,317.61 in final retainage for Community Services building repairs.
- Information Services: The department total is $54,459.22, including $37,323.30 for 30 replacement PCs and $14,488.88 for switch and access-point maintenance/license renewal.
- General Services: The packet includes jail HVAC heat-pump repairs totaling $12,462.99 in listed labor and parts charges.
County Engineer Items
County Engineer Bryan Horesowsky is scheduled to present various utility permits for possible Board approval. The agenda does not provide additional details about the individual permits in the packet text.
August 24 Meeting Minutes
The Board is scheduled to consider approving the minutes of its August 24, 2026 regular meeting. Those minutes document several actions already completed at that earlier meeting; they are included in this packet as the record proposed for approval.
Among the prior actions documented in the August 24 minutes:
- The Board approved plans, specifications, form of contract and estimated cost for Muscatine County Community Services Building Repairs Project Phase 2 after a public hearing. The architect's bidding opinion of probable cost was $307,270.00. The resolution called for sealed bids by September 10, 2026, with bids to be publicly announced at the September 14 Board meeting.
- The Board approved assigning Tax Sale Certificate #CH250001 for Parcel #0825276025 to the City of Muscatine for $10, subject to conditions described in the resolution. The minutes state that $9,579 in taxes, interest, costs and special assessments were owing on the parcel.
- The Board awarded the FM-C070(78)--55-70 project to Metro Pavers, Inc. for $1,980,629.64. The project covers PCC pavement grading and replacement on 230th Street G28 from the Louisa County line to Iowa 70.
- The Board approved a utility permit for Eastern Iowa REC involving new electric service for the Secondary Roads shop near Letts.
These are documented August 24 actions, not proposed August 31 decisions.
Proposed 2027 County Holiday Schedule
The Administration Office is scheduled to seek approval of the 2027 Muscatine County Holiday Schedule. The draft designates eight specific holidays and provides three personal days.
The proposed designated holidays are:
- Friday, January 1 — New Year's Day
- Monday, May 31 — Memorial Day
- Monday, July 5 — Independence Day
- Monday, September 6 — Labor Day
- Thursday, November 11 — Veterans' Day
- Thursday, November 25 — Thanksgiving
- Friday, November 26 — Day after Thanksgiving
- Friday, December 24 — Christmas Eve
The packet explains that county employees receive 11 paid holidays each calendar year. The Board annually selects the observed holidays—typically eight, nine or ten—with the remaining days designated as personal days. It also notes that the 2028 schedule will treat Friday, December 31, 2027 as the New Year's Day holiday.
Public Participation and Other Business
The agenda includes correspondence and committee reports, followed by an opportunity to receive information from County employees. It also includes a separate period to receive comments from the public before adjournment.
What to Watch at the Meeting
The largest scheduled financial action is consideration of the $731,761.05 claims package, with substantial expenditures tied to secondary roads, jail operations and medical services, capital building work, and information technology. The Board is also scheduled to decide whether to approve the proposed 2027 holiday calendar and whatever utility permits are presented by the County Engineer.
The packet does not document outcomes for these August 31 agenda items; they are presented for consideration at the meeting.
Official public-body source used for this packet: Muscatine County Board of Supervisors
Official Meeting Source URL: https://www.muscatinecountyiowa.gov/files/meetings/2026-08-31_packet_board_of_supervisors_89743.pdf
Public body's meeting/document listing page: https://www.muscatinecountyiowa.gov/supervisors/meetings_minutes/
Provider: neapolitan-board
Provider Meeting ID: neapolitan-board-document-89743
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