Letter to the Editor

We received a certified letter from the Allamakee County Engineer on behalf of our Allamakee County Supervisors Feb. 24 inviting us to a board meeting. Seventeen days after the impression was given in the newspaper th at we had already received something from them.

In the meeting one supervisor kept saying Allamakee Co County paid for our road easement. We kept saying they paid us for the loss of that land for farming. In going back and forth and recalling a phone call from or Allamakee County Engineer, we told the Allamakee Engineer Allamakee Co County didn’t own our easement and he keeps saying Allamakee did. His road easement gives Allamakee the right to our easement. We said it was signed in 1975. Our Allamakee Co County engineer’s reply was “That right in 1975 (Allamakee) did not buy road easements.” One supervisor asked the engineer, “Is that the truth (what she is saying),” And his remark was pretty much “yes”.

So for the last seven months our Allamakee Engineer and attorney knew Allamakee did not own our road easement and instead of sitting down and talking to us he avoided us.

So if anyone had a disagreement about their road easement with Allamakee County, maybe now our Allamakee County Supervisors should be asking our Allamakee County engineer and attorney for the law or rules and find the date when Allamakee County started buying road easements instead of taking someone else’s word. Maybe they should be asking for the rule we have been asking for for the last seven months.

We guess everyone now knows why we never received from Allamakee County a signed rule that they owned our road easement, because they did not own and could never produce a rule given them the right. We recorded the meeting.

Dean and Sherry Bechtel