Courthouse News & Announcements

Courthouse News - December 3, 2004

UNION COUNTY RECORDER - Paula White, 641-782-1725.

As of October 1, you will need to supply length, width, capacity and hull I.D. number before we can register/renew your boat. Boats in Iowa renew in April 2005 and owners will need to supply this information if it isn’t on your registration.

Landowner and paid Deer and Turkey tags are on sale. Please stop by the office for further information.

ATV/SNOWMOBILE registrations expire December 31, 2004. Please stop by to renew unless you use if strictly for farm use. If you buy an Atv/Snowmobile, the registration must be current.

UNION COUNTY AUDITOR-Sandy Hysell 782-1701.

The Auditor’s Office is preparing for the end of the year and starting valuations.

The County Offices will be closed on December 23, 2004 and December 24, 2004 to observe the Christmas Holiday and January 3, 2005 to observe New Year’s Eve.

As of July 1, 2004 General Relief recipients need to go to Matura for assistance, since the county no longer has a full-time General Relief Coordinator. Iowa City papers will be taken care of in the Auditor’s Office.

UNION COUNTY TREASURER-Linda Marley 782-1710.
Drivers License (hours 8:30-4:00)

The new Motor Vehicle software will go live on January 3rd, 2005. Our office will be closed on December 8th and 9th to attend hands on computer training for the new software. The office will also be closed on December 31st as the DOT will have the motor vehicle and Drivers License computer servers shutdown in order to do the conversion of the 4.5 million motor vehicle records from the state of Iowa into the system. Along with all the other accounting items that we use. Please jot down these dates so you don’t come into or call our office to find us not there. If you were planning to do business on the last day of December, remember that using the mail and getting a postmark of December or using the website of www.iowatreasurers.org before midnight on the 31st will also avoid penalty.

The entire staff would like to ask for your patience at the counter after the first of the year. We know it’s going to take a few weeks before we feel totally comfortable with the new software.

We have two new part-time employees starting in our office this month. Denny Abel will be our new Drivers Examiner. He will be giving the behind the wheel drive tests for drivers license. Diana Carlson is the other new employee. She will be working mostly with driver’s license doing the issuance and backup drives. The office has been working with one less employee since Fran retired and I took office in January 2003 because of the budget situation. Being able to hire someone to do drives and someone else to help in the office 3 days a week will be a great help to us.

UNION COUNTY ASSESSOR-Gene Haner 782-1735.

All Union County residents who have purchased a home and moved should stop in and sign a New Homestead and Military Exemption, if eligible.

If you have made any building changes, please notify this office.

Family Farm Credit is now a one-time sign up and can be signed at any time for qualifying ground.

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