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The featured 1947 Dodge was on loan to Iowa Big project participants Emily, Brenna, Kiah and team leader Jackie from Jeff Bell for use as “selfi e photo booth” station during this year’s Christmas in the Park event pictured top. Pictured bottom from left to right are Jeff Bell, Gene Bell and Jim Stanaway standing in front of a 1947 Dodge pickup now owned by Jeff, fi xed by Gene and driven by Jim in this year’s Swamp Fox Parade in Marion. Jim’s father bought this classic new.

-one north of town and one southeast of town. He then moved the north building to 29th Street and 9th Avenue and placed it on a new foun-dation. He tore the other one down and used it to remodel the 9th Avenue structure.

The truck was originally dark blue with black fend-ers before Jim, then in high school, had it painted red at Stuber’s Body Shop in 1958.

Before attending college at Iowa State, Jim sold the truck to Kenny Dye for use as a push-truck at the Dye Auto Service business. “We would push cars back in the day; bumpers were chrome then,” Gene explained.

Charlie and his son Kenny Dye owned the truck for 25 or 30 years. When Kenny passed away, his wife Lois had an auction and Kenny’s cousin Bev in Central City bought it and used it around their acreage for a few years before parking it.

Jeff Bell bought it from them fi ve years ago and plans to keep the truck’s rus-tic red patina as a nostalgic reminder of days gone by.

Before the Swamp Fox Parade, Gene borrowed the original Dye Auto Service side boards for the truck.

One came from Lois and one from Bev. “They slide in... It really brings back memo-ries,” Gene said.

Gene fi rst met Kenny Dye when he began working at the Dye Auto business as an apprentice mechanic. He said the ’47 Dodge truck driven in the Swamp Fox Parade originally had a fl at head 6 cylinder engine with 3 speed standard transmis-sion but was later replaced with a big six 54 Chrysler (last year they had a fl at head 6) Gene had given Kenny. “It pretty much fi t in there,” he said.

During the time of the Swamp Fox Festival, Gene and Jim also attended their 60th Marion High School class reunion and golf tour-nament with another class-mate, John Nieland of Mar-ion.

At the reunion, attendees spent time on Friday night at Allen Platner’s (a fellow graduate) farm and on Satur-day night, they met at the Hi-awatha Community Center. Gene said 1958 Marion HS graduates came from Cali-fornia and Texas. “We had a great time,” Gene said.

About Bell’s Automo-tive Services business, Gene said he started it in Febru-ary of 1965 at its current location. The shop has been

expanded since then and he and his wife lived in a small home located out front for 13 years that has since been torn down.

Gene continues working at his one-man automotive shop on all types of auto me-chanic work. Throughout his 53 years in business, he has worked on vehicles ranging from a 1938 Chrysler Coupe to a BMW.

Gene is currently work-ing to restore the 1957 GMC truck with a V8 motor and 4 speed automatic transmis-sion, he purchased for $125 and drove for 46 years haul-ing cars. He began fi xing it up a couple of years ago and will begin using it again on the streets of Marion to pull cars, once he replaces a few part and new bumpers. “It runs down the road just like a new one,” he said.

Gene’s educational back-ground includes attending Iowa State University in Electrical Engineering and working at Collins Radio for a couple of years in drafting. Gene said he could not sit at a desk all his life, so he be-gan learning about automo-tive repair. Sometimes he would work in garages for free just to learn about cars, he said.

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and reconvened at 1:30 p.m. to review proposed FY20 budgets for the Attorney and the Board of Supervisors. Also present: Steve Tucker, Finance Dir., and Dawn Jindrich, Budget Dir.

Attorney – proposed appropriation is under the Board’s guidelines by $388.

Jerry Vander Sanden, County Atty., and Gayle Keiser, Offi ce Mgr., presented their budget summary. They presented two Offers: Adobe Pro software and Dragon Professional System.

Motion by Rogers, seconded by Houser to approve FY20 County At-torney appropriation in the amt. of $4,591,433 and revenues in the amt. of $107,159.

Board of Supervisors – proposed ap-propriation is $3,280 under the Board’s guidelines due to the change from fi ve to three Supervisors.

Darrin Gage, Dir. of Policy Admin., presented the budget summary. He presented fi ve Offers: 2020 Census Complete Count Committee, Public Service Center Board Room A/V improvements, Implicit Bias Training, Internship Program and spark*5.

Joi Alexander, Communications Dir., presented an Offer for Site Improve–Website Analytics and Insight Tool.

Motion by Rogers, seconded by Walker to approve FY20 Board of Supervisor’s appropriations in the amt. of $1,118,659.

Discussion: Supervisor Houser stated that it was campaigned that by reducing two Board of Supervisor’s members

there would be a savings of around $400,000. The FY20 budget shows that they are saving $3,280 by eliminating two positions and he does not think the budget shows the true impact. He feels that it needs to be entered into the record to show that there really is not any savings by reducing two elected offi cial positions on the Board of Supervisors because it was absorbed into the budget by increasing staff in their offi ce.

Steve Tucker explained the differ-ences in the budget with the elimination of two Supervisors and the addition of two other staff members.

VOTE: All aye.Adjournment at 2:34 p.m.Respectfully submitted,JOEL D. MILLER, Linn County AuditorBy: Amanda Hoy, Executive AssistantApproved by:JOHN HARRIS, ChairpersonBoard of SupervisorsPublished in the Marion Times on

December 27, 2018.

LINN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CEDAR RAPIDS, LINN COUNTY, IOWA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2018 9:00 A.M.(These are the minutes in their en-

tirety. Archived minutes can be found at www.linncounty.org).

The Board met in session at the Linn County Jean Oxley Public Service Cen-ter. Present: Chairperson Harris, Vice Chairperson Houser, Supervisors Rog-ers, Oleson and Walker. Board members voting “AYE” unless otherwise noted.

Chairperson Harris called the meet-ing to order.

The Board heard updates from the following Elected Offi cials:

Brian Gardner, Sheriff – gave a hiring update for deputies, cooks and nurses.

Supervisor Rogers asked about pag-ers vs. cell phones and if it is redundant and Gardner responded that cell phone technology has not caught up to pagers and until technology has been enhanced they need both.

Joan McCalmant, Recorder – 2019 hunting and fishing licenses being sold; new system from DNR for issuing licenses; new credit card processing machines; booth at the bridal fair on January 13th.

Sharon Gonzalez, Treasurer, and Sara Bearrows, Deputy Treasurer – pre-sented FY18 offi ce totals and quarterly cash and investments report.

Joel Miller, Auditor – valuation report to be completed as early as tomorrow.

Discussion continued regarding why the report will be done so soon this year compared to previous years.

Miller continued: legislative priorities; space needs for upcoming elections; ISAC policy regarding competitor ven-dors; disposition of cremation permit fees; closure on sample ballots.

Supervisor Oleson left the meeting at this time.

Board members shared their thoughts on the sample ballot issue and ideas for the future.

Adjournment at 10:16 a.m.Respectfully submitted,JOEL D. MILLER, Linn County AuditorBy: Amanda Hoy, Executive AssistantApproved by:JOHN HARRIS, ChairpersonBoard of SupervisorsPublished in the Marion Times on

December 27, 2018.

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