TOLEDO – The most significant item on the Tama County Supervisors' agenda last Monday, July 24 was once again the Tama Co. Board of Health. At 10 a.m., the supervisors held a public hearing on a proposed decrease in the appropriation of the Board of Health budget. This is an ongoing ...

DES MOINES – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director Matt Russell, today announced that 46 Iowa Counties are now authorized for emergency haying or grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for fiscal year 2023.The 26 counties ...

TOLEDO – The Monday, July 17 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting was over in a shot, lasting a whole five minutes total. The public comment section started the meeting – lasting its usual thirty minutes – with very few citizens deciding to utilize the time. The main bit of ...

TOLEDO – State Auditor Rob Sand is just like us. On his most recent visit to Tama County, he stopped by the courthouse lawn in Toledo with his dog – an adorable two-year-old, female bernedoodle named Pow; his lovely mother Leslie Sand – a retired Keystone AEA physical therapist who ...

TOLEDO – Public comment policy was once again on the agenda during the Tama Co. Board of Supervisors July 10 meeting. The policy was previously revised back on June 5 to cut ‘open topic’ time down to 15 minutes while also leaving an additional 15 minutes devoted to agenda-specific ...

TOLEDO – On June 14, Tama County launched a brand new county website. The website project, funded entirely with federal grant dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act, was taken on to improve communications and provide online access to more county services. No county tax dollars were used ...

TOLEDO – The July 3 Tama County Supervisors meeting started off with homeowner Ashley Steven speaking during the first public comment section. Steven is one of the homeowners that was set to receive reimbursement from the county after it came to light that former sanitarian Todd Apfel ...

TOLEDO – On Monday, June 26, the Tama County Board of Supervisors joined a scheduled Board of Health meeting to discuss an ongoing dispute. At the Board of Health’s meeting held in March, two separate payments were approved, totaling nearly $13,000. These payments were for two homeowners ...

TOLEDO – Some new changes were approved to the employee manual at the Tama County Supervisors meeting on Monday, June 26. Also approved were annual end-of-year fund transfers for Tama County Conservation, the Secondary Roads Department, and the Tama County Maintenance Department. The 2024 ...

TOLEDO – The June 19 Tama County Supervisors meeting was filled with differing opinions. The Board of Supervisors approved, by majority, the hiring of attorneys Joseph Gamble and Kayla Sproul due to issues involving the Board of Health. Following the publication of an article in the ...