By Sam Parsons

The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors held a regular meeting yesterday morning and approved a 28E Joint Public Service Agreement between Mahaska County and the City of Oskaloosa for the Southeast Connector Project. Supervisor Chuck Webb said that there were some minor changes to the agreement recently, and all parties involved signed off on them.

Webb said that the Osky city council had already formally approved the agreement on their end, and that the agreement was also green-lighted by the city attorney and city manager. The agreement was approved by the board unanimously.

The board also discussed police protection services with the city of Keomah Village. The city agreed to pay $5,928 for police protection for the upcoming fiscal year instead of the originally-proposed $14,990. The revision came after a lengthy discussion at the board’s previous regular meeting in which Keomah Village councilmember Mark DeJong approached the board with numbers that he said showed that charging nearly $15,000 would have been disproportionate relative to what other small cities in the county were paying. The board approved the revised number on a 2-1 vote, with board member Chuck Webb being the lone dissenting vote.

The next regular meeting for the Mahaska County board of supervisors is scheduled for April 21.