November 3, 2026 Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Part 1

Dallas County, Iowa Board of Supervisors regular meeting, November 3, 2026. The board received capital-project updates and considered several Turner Construction payments and contract adjustments. At the EMS station, site utilities and soil stabilization were complete and foundation work was beginning; the board discussed holding a symbolic groundbreaking on November 17 at 1 p.m. Turner’s pay application No. 4 for $160,267.72 was recommended for approval, though the vote is not captured in the transcript. For the courthouse project, the board approved pay application No. 19 for $277,173.67. For the Secondary Roads addition and garage, officials presented pay application No. 24 for a partial retainage release (the amount is garbled in the transcript) and a proposed deductive change order reducing the contract by $19,239; the transcript does not clearly capture the votes. The board also approved Turner’s pay application No. 20 for the Evidence Storage and Firing Range project, but the amount is garbled in the transcript.

The board approved an EMA space-needs request to convert an upstairs room into a shared teleconferencing room using a project-specific grant; equipment will include televisions and a videoconferencing bar, with the work done in-house. Officials also reported two recommended opioid-settlement applications for fire/rescue/EMS equipment, including AEDs and a LUCAS system, but no approval vote is captured. Other actions included approval of the consent agenda, payroll change notices, and an Operation Green Light for Veterans proclamation.