In Monday’s Appanoose County Board of Supervisors meeting, a resolution was passed that authorizes County Engineer Gary Bishop to purchase rock as needed outside the county.

The county has been unable to get rock from its usual sources and Bishop said he may need the ability to obtain it elsewhere. Under the old resolution, the department was not permitted to purchase rock outside Iowa.

A tax sale on property resulted in Frank Ball of Mystic buying six lots in Mystic for a total of $258 and Jamie Lewellen bought one lot in Centerville for $103.

Four temporary summer employees were hired in the Secondary Roads Department, Rebecca Williams, Rick May, Richard Clark and John Rock. They will receive wages of $10 per hour which will come through FEMA money. Their last day will be Aug. 31. The four will be cleaning up branches and grinding them.

A bridge replacement on 195th, over Walnut Creek, will also be partly paid from FEMA funds, 75 percent of the cost.

The supervisors signed a 28E agreement with Putnam County to work on a road which is halfway inside Missouri, 614th Street - now a Level B road. A man who has a dairy farm on the road paid to have the road upgraded.