Steady growth in the sales tax has allowed the county to direct $500,000 a year of its regular state-aid highway funds toward paying for the new Highway Department building.
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Insurance cost for Perham incinerator complex shoots up this year
That hard-to-obtain insurance comes at a steep price to member counties, about $530,000 a year -- up from $76,000 last year.
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Prairie Lakes employee Scott Monson looks into one of the two clean-burning incinerators at the Perham plant. (Submitted photo)
The waste-to-energy incinerator in Perham is insured for 2021, but that insurance comes at a steep price, about $530,000 a year -- up from $76,000 last year.
And that means county commissioners from Otter Tail, Becker, Wadena and other countries will keep looking for less expensive insurance options.
Becker, Otter Tail, Wadena, Clay and Todd counties own the Prairie Lakes Municipal Solid Waste Authority, and operate it through a joint powers agreement.