Humboldt Independent (Newspaper) - September 30, 1999, Humboldt, Iowa Hie Official newspaper of Humboldt County Humboldt Iowa September 750 Dl wants silt measured Before starts mak repa the Resources DNR is lit levels be measured at Lake Nokomis in sent the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors a letter dated 22 to acknowledge receipt of plans arid specifications for reha of the gates oh the Rutland In the letter the DNR asked for the time schedule on the project which is November award bid to a con tractor November start date for the v The DNR levels behind the Rutland Dam lowered with this action initiated by October The water the level of the gate sill and must remain lowered until the gates have been rein inspected by the and until the DNR issues authorization to close the gates and allow the impound ment to The letter from Dave Allen of the DNR notes there may be concerns about sediment transportation through the Rutland Dam from residents or users of the Lake Nokomis He recommends prior to water level the existing silt level be determined for Lake v survey could then be used as a baseline to determine the if of silt deposited in Lake Nokomis Allen vAs the the county voted president of GCB school board Susan Wallace of Bradgate was elected president of the Gilmore City Bradgate Board of Education last week at its regular Wallace was elected after new mem bers Deb Lanus district 4 and Sherene Vote district 2 were administered the oath of Both won elections on In board member Rich Winkey was elected Wallace was also appointed to repre sent the district in voting at the del In other the board approved its ongoing cooperative agreement with Iowa Central Community The board also approved ing the basketball and tennis The board also agreed to work with the student senate in working to repair and upgrade the west end of the school Installation of a picnic table and landscaping are among the projects Middle School Principal Ron Bollmeyer reported the open house recently held was well Bollmeyer said the date of the middle school holiday concert has been moved to The elementary concert has been changed to James reported the district will see a drop in based on preliminary fig No numbers were The board also reviewed dates for upcoming meetings across The board also revised policy progress tale declared a bus as surplus The district will advertise its approved a continuing contract for special education services with the Fort Dodge Community School Dis canvassed the school election re moved the October meeting date from the 18th to the A board staff dinner will be held prior to the plans to remove silt from above the Rutland At their meeting the Hum boldt County Board of Supervisors Chairman Romaine Lee said several local contractors have expressed in terest in the repair project at the Rutland The countys engineering firm estimated the total cost at 1 The board agreed to contact area engineering firms concerning the a survey of Lake In other the board a public hearing for the midpoint of the with an expansion project over a year In August of Chantland Company grant in the of tp assist in ex panding the south The expansion was to create at least 40 new Of the was budgeted for administrative purposes with the county utilizing MIDAS for Thus has been The company has already created 30 of the projected 40 new fulltime No one was present for the public hearing and the board approved the No action was taken on a request from the Humboldt County Conserva tion Board that they be compensated for every meeting they Research done by the Iowa State Association of Counties ISAC and the Humboldt County Attorney showed Iowa law allows Conserva tion Board members to be compen sated for expenses incurred during the performance of their but that they shall serve without compensa The issue of security at the Hum boldt County Courthouse was dis cussed again by the The board approved hiring Modern Sound of Fort Dodge at a cost of to improve and expand the cur rent security Board members noted the bid was substantially lower See page 2 Train derails Workers from Union Pacific Railroad try to restore this intersection in Livermore back to normal after nine train cars derailed in the early morning hours of Union Pacific officials couldnt pinpoint the actual cause of the Workers had to lay down a new base and rail just east of the New dress code at hospital Harvest time Harvest is now in full swing in Humboldt With a setting sun serving as a Joel Rutz operates a John Deere combine in a field southwest of Livermore last The casual look is out at Humboldt Memorial On Monday the hospitals Board of Trustees approved a new dress code policy which goes into ef with a grace period until tije end of the Employees will now be required to wear uniforms or surgical scrubs while Exceptions are the maintenance and materials depart ments which will be able to wear jeans due to the nature of the It is also now mandatory that em ployees of the hospital wear their name badges at all Assistant hospital administrator Pam Ray said dress code policies had been gathered from other hospitals to help put the new one The trend over the past few years has been more Wed like to have a more professional look Ray In other Dick Rhiner of Trin ity Regional Health Systems reported David Ruzicka has signed a con tract to join the Trimark group in Hum Ruzicka is in his third year of presently in His is a He will begin his medical practice in Hum boldt in July or August of next Hospital Administrator Monte discussed a benchmarking re port recently completed at the hospi A staffing matrix is being based on historic patient to give the hospital better consistency in Concerning each job open ing will be Were not looking at staff reduc But as revenues get we need to review each position and ask if it can be absorbed or the work done by said with the number of phy serving the Humboldt County area the volume of patients at the hospital could also be expected to leading to more review of staff Cross training will be required within the nursing There may also be increased training within the ogy We need to continue to look at our operation and look for ways we can provide better The hospital is also looking into becoming a Critical Access An initial study showed the Critical Access Hospital designation could mean an increase in revenues of five to seven In other the board approved a per day increase in semiprivate room rates in the Long Term Care unit of the The rate will go from to said the new rates are still below what other facilities in the area and will assist the hospital in remaining competitive for paying cer nursing The board approved a telem etry software upgrade which is sary for the central station to be Year 2000 said they are working with the Home Care and phar macy departments to make sure their equipment is also Y2K The month of August financial re port showed the hospital with a loss of for the the hospital shows a loss of Physician privileges were approved for five doctors for the emergency one for one reap pointment for internal medicine and and two changes to courtesy privileges for sur The board went into closed session to discuss the administrators evalua tion No action was taken after the closed LuVerne board sets hearing for 13 The LuVerne school board set as the date to hold a public hearing as they consider renewal of its sharing agreement with neighboring At their 20 meeting held last the LuVerne Board of Educa tion set the hearing for in the LuVerne The hearing will con sider a threeyear sharing agreement with as well as implementing the 20002001 school LuVerne and will meet in a quarterly joint meeting on 13 at 7 in The LuVerne board will hold its monthly meeting at 8 that In other action last board member David recently was voted president with Marlene Coleman elected dent of the The board agreed to continue meet ing on the second Thursday of each Coleman was appointed to serve on the Kossuth County Confer ence Board and was ap pointed to serve on the Humboldt County Conference In the board approved horizontal salary lane changes for Peg Cutshall The learned the districts attempts to hire a vacancy bus driver have not been The board also reviewed bids for the purchase of a new school Area dealers will provide more information this Al who serves as dent and said preliminary reports indicate the districts enroll ment is down at 114 The board also heard a report on the baseball diamond where a grass infield was laid down at the baseball Construction also has taken place to create a little league field just north of the baseball field on the west edge of The little league field is located on land owned by Kossuth which the district will Sod from the little league field was used to help lay the infield turf at the high school baseball The board also reviewed the 14 election results and approved monthly financial Homecoming The Humboldt High School Home coming Parade will start at on The 28 entry parade will line at and will start Post then go west one block to 8th Street south one block to Sumner then east on Sumner until 4th where it will go north two block to 2nd Avenue and then west to Taft School were the parade will V
