The Webster County Board of Supervisors approved a request from the State of Iowa Tuesday to remodel the east side of the Department of Human Services building.

Iowa Workforce Development moved into the DHS building at 330 First Ave. N. earlier this year, taking on the space that the Child Support Recovery staff once used. According to Supervisor Bob Thode, Workforce Development needs additional office space and requested to remodel their area of the building.

“This will be a good project and will be helpful to Workforce,” said Thode. “This is being done at no cost to the county at this point.”

The supervisors approved a contract with PCI to replace a small bridge on the Gowrie city limits with a box culvert in the spring. According to Webster County Engineer Jamie Johll, state funding will pay for 98 percent of the project.

A settlement of $302,069 was approved with MidAmerican Energy for restoration of the roads within the Lundgren Windfarm project area. According to Johll, this settlement was to restore the roads back to the condition that they were before the turbine repowering project. According to Johll, the county secondary roads department was able to do the roadwork which MidAmerican then agreed to pay the cost of.

The supervisors also heard from the Iowa Central Community College agriculture students. Instructor Terry Coleman and his farm operations and management class gave a presentation to the supervisors detailing their fertilizer trials, soil sampling, and fungicide trials. The students also explained their outcomes from planting 107 acres of corn in three varieties in the south field of the county farm and 103 acres of two different soybean varieties in the north field.

The supervisors also approved the Teamsters 238 Union Contract between the Webster County deputies and the county providing a 2-percent wage increase to all salary steps within the FY2026 contract.