Letter to the Standard's Editor

To the Editor:

We received a certified letter from the Allamakee County Engineer on behalf of our Allamakee Supervisors Feb. 24 inviting us to a board meeting 17 days after the impression was given in the newspaper we had already received something from them.

In the meeting one supervisor kept saying Allamakee paid us 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 with our Allamakee Engineer, we told the Allamakee Engineer Allamakee County didn’t own our Easement and he kept saying Allamakee did. His Road Easement gives Allamakee the right to our Easement.

We said it was signed in 1975. Our Allamakee 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 they avoided us.

So, if anyone has 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 Easement, 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 it and could never produce a rule giving them the right. We recorded the meeting.

Dean and Sherry Bechtel, Waukon