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Jefferson County Board of Supervisors member Lee Dimmitt Monday brought a consideration to extend a 28E Agreement with Southeast Iowa Case Management for 90 days.?An extension of 90 days gives counties a chance to decide what they want to do based on District 5?s meeting,? said Dimmitt.In May, the governor signed new legislation that shifts control over Medicaid-funded mental health services from counties to ...

John Scott Cline, the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors? pick for county engineer, formally accepted a contract of employment in person at today?s board meeting.Current county engineer Tom Goff will stay on the job until the end of the fiscal year, June 30; Cline?s contract begins July 1 for three years, the maximum term allowed, with a beginning annual salary of $81,000. He actually will work with Goff ...

Participants can register up to race time, and as of this morning, 56 people have registered for Fairfield Park and Recreation Department?s Loopy Trail Run.?It?s a unique run. It?s more than half a marathon,? said Steve Pedrick, new co-chairman with Ryan Meyers of the Jefferson County Trails Council.Pedrick plans to run the 16-mile course (the Fairfield Loop Trail that circles Fairfield) that begins at 9 a.m. ...

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors approved a change in the 28E agreement with 10-15 Transit first, because Lee County is leaving the group June 30, and second, wording about negligence was changed to willful acts.?Since this service began in 1992, the original agreement has put each individual county in charge of providing public transportation,? said supervisor Lee Dimmitt in a committee report to the board ...

Commencement speaker Candy Crowley told graduates ages 20 to 66, she wants their dreams to come true, but she also asked the Maharishi University Management Class of 2012 to watch for the ?un-dreams.?Crowley, CNN?s award-winning political correspondent and anchor of ?State of the Union,? flew into Fairfield Friday, getting a brief glimpse of the community and campus?I?m looking forward to the trip,? she said by ...

Eldon plans Memorial Day service Monday ELDON ? The city of Eldon will hold its annual Memorial Day service starting between 9:45 and 10 a.m. Monday in the Rock Island City Park.The speaker will be Staff Sgt. Michael Carroll from the United States Marine Corps recruiting office in Ottumwa.Special music will be performed by the Cardinal High School band under the direction of band teacher Luke Miller.The ...

The Fairfield school board set a closed meeting for 7 p.m. June 14 to give superintendent Art Sathoff his annual evaluation.Monday, Sathoff presented handouts to each board member from the Iowa School Board Association and the state?s association of school superintendents that provide guidelines and descriptions of superintendent evaluations.?You will follow the same six standards to evaluate me that I use to ...

The Fairfield Community School District Board of Directors Monday unanimously approved a first-time, two-year master contract for teachers agreed upon by Fairfield Community Education Association and the district negotiating team.It provides an overall wages and benefits package of a 3 percent increase for school year 2012-13, a cost of $249,102; and a 3.04 percent increase in 2013-14.The state average this ...

The Fairfield school board surprised some administrators Monday by not approving a list of individual coach and sponsor contracts for 2012-13.Presented for approval by activities director Jeff Courtright, the list has 73 names, 109 positions and 109 salary amounts. The list includes sports coaches, some who are district teachers and some who are not, department chairs, drama and speech coaches, yearbook and ...

Jefferson County supervisor chairman Stephen Burgmeier brought out two issues in the county employee?s handbook Monday.?It says employees can carry-over up to 120 hours of compensatory time. That?s a lot of time; that?s three weeks,? he said. ?I think it should be less.?He also wanted clarification about time-sheet policies.A number of employees and department heads attended Monday?s supervisor?s meeting for ...