DeWitt County Zoning Administrator Angie Sarver is not being replaced and County officials say it was a simple break down in communication.

Thursday night at the DeWitt County Board Meeting, Board Chair David Newberg removed from the agenda an item, that officials say should not have been on the agenda and was resolved earlier in the week, to have Angie Sarver removed and replaced for the issue of the Tradewind Energy Alta Farms II wind project. 

Land Use Committee Chair Terry Ferguson called it "a lack of communication". County leaders say Tradewind officials were not happy with the pace of which the process was moving forward. Ferguson explains now that the application has been passed on to the Regional Planning Commission, they do not act in conjunction with the zoning administrator and will review the application in November.

Ferguson emphasizes Sarver is not part of either the RPC or Zoning Board of Appeals, he called her a facilitator of their work.

Last month, the Land Use Committee pushed through the application by Tradewind Energy to the RPC despite concerns over the completeness of the application by Sarver. 

Also Thursday night at the DeWitt County Board meeting....

>>The Board put on file a budget with a .04-percent rate increase for the DeWitt County ambulance service. 

>>The County approved Lars Dunn and Kevin Hammer as independent public defenders starting December 1. 

>>The Board tabled putting the sale of recreational marijuana in unincorporated areas of DeWitt County.