Tucker to head county board

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, January 5, 2000

It has been a long time since Mower County Commissioner District No.

Wednesday, January 05, 2000

It has been a long time since Mower County Commissioner District No. 2 has seen its representative handle the county board chairman duties.

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Herb Hanson of rural Grand Meadow was the last Second District county commissioner to hold the chairman’s seat. Hanson died last summer.

The man that defeated Hanson in his bid for re-election, Ray Tucker of Dexter, assumed the chairman duties at Tuesday’s first county board meeting of the new year.

Saying he looks forward to representing the Second District and the county board in its entirety in 2000, Tucker was elected to the position by unanimous ballot Tuesday.

David Hillier, Third District county commissioner, also was elected to the vice chairman’s position by unanimous ballot.

By policy, the county board rotates the chairman’s position among the five members each year. Next year, Hillier will move up to the chairman’s role.

Tucker, a tiling contractor, represents the Second District, which is the largest among the five district represented by county board members. It includes the communities of Adams, Dexter, Elkton, Grand Meadow, Leroy, Racine, Sargeant and Taopi as well as 12 townships all in the eastern two-thirds of Mower County.

Among the key committee appointments were Len Miller, Fourth District county commissioner, to the SEMCAC advisory board. The Fourth District county commissioner joins Tom Neilon, Mower County Correctional Services officer, on the board.

Richard P. Cummings, First District, and Miller, will serve on the finance committee.

Miller and Hillier will serve on the personnel committee and Hillier and Cummings will serve on the buildings and grounds committee.

Miller takes over the Mower County Planning Commission chairman duties from Hillier, also part of the county board’s policy of rotating the commission chairman’s position among county board members.

For the Fourth District county commissioner, it marks a return to the position he held in 1995, when the MOPRO chicken egg-laying controversy originated with a conditional use permit application to the county planning commission.

Tucker and Cummings will serve on the Extension committee and Gary Nemitz, Fifth District county commissioner, and Miller will serve on the court system committee.