The Muscatine County Board of Supervisors met Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, and approved routine business including a utility permit for an underground electrical service, a $8,350.10 change order for the Community Services Building and the approval of recent meeting minutes.

The board voted—by voice on multiple routine motions—to approve the agenda, a utility permit submitted by Eastern Iowa Light and Power of Wilton to replace an existing underground electric service beneath 150th Street at 2779, change order number 3 for the Community Services Building totaling $8,350.10 for additional blocking and masonry repairs, and the Nov. 12 regular and amended October meeting minutes. Each motion was moved and seconded on the record and passed by the board; votes were conducted as voice votes and no roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript.

Why it matters: the utility permit enables a private utility to replace an in-place underground service that crosses a county road; the change order funds corrective masonry work at a county facility to ensure code-compliant steps and railings when replaced.

Staff updates and project status
County staff reported several project updates. A box culvert project on 180th Street in the Pleasant Prairie area is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Nov. 19, with temporary road closures for removal work. Stewart Road mainline paving is largely complete for the season up to the trailer park driveways; contractors will finish shoulders, some driveways and intersections before winter, with plans to reopen access until spring.

Work at Deep Lakes park has progressed: staff said conduit repairs were located, all electrical pedestals have been installed and wired to individual campsites, and crews expect to energize the well this week to begin water testing and Department of Natural Resources permitting before winterization of the shower house.

Other business
Correspondent Scott raised a resident complaint about noise from work on North Mulberry. Board members also reported local meetings they attended, including a We Lead quarterly meeting in West Liberty and a report that the Quad Cities will host the National Waterways Conference in August 2026, an event organized by ports groups. A county employee announced a public canvass meeting for second-tier election results scheduled at 9 a.m. the following day and reported that a state-ordered recount in Moscow Township at the Wilton polling location conducted Nov. 13 produced what staff described as 'perfect results.'

There were no public comments and the board adjourned.

Quotes drawn from the meeting transcript include: 'We're adjourned, folks. Thank y'all,' attributed to the meeting presiding officer.