Harvey County Finance Director Dan Bronson told the Board of Harvey County Commissioners on Tuesday that he was looking at making major revisions to the county’s travel policy due to an increase in the number of violations in recent weeks. Bronson said the violations came from employees surpassing the limit for meals. He said more employees had been traveling for training since the COVID-19 pandemic was subsiding. About 10 violations were red-flagged in the past week by County Clerk Rick Piepho. Bronson said the violations were an efficiency issue. When an employee spends $30 on a meal, he said someone had to track down that employee for $5.
Source: Harvey County Now

The future of recycling in Newton is unknown, but expect it to be an item of debate in the coming months. The use of the program has decreased. And, recycling tipping fees that the city will have to pay are expected to increase. “I don’t know where we’re going to land with it, but we will have to have a discussion on recycling in 2022 and if we’re going to continue,” Newton City Engineer Suzanne Loomis said. At the start of 2020, the city moved to an optional recycling program, thanks to Waste Connections penalizing cities if they didn’t have a cleaner recycling stream in its negotiated contract with the county. The city had residents sign up for the program in hopes there would be fewer violations.
Source: Harvey County Now