A five-year construction plan laid out for the Marion County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning calls for fourteen road projects and nineteen new bridges; but while the board has approved the project, its chairman remains wary of what could happen in the intervening years.

Board Chairman Mark Raymie tells KNIA/KRLS News any number of factors involving sources of funding are bound to cause changes to the overall plan; so the county will have to constantly monitor its progress, and adapt as needed.

“As part of the five-year plan, you have to develop a five-year budget to go with that. And we have to know what our contingencies are in a plan that is reliant, in addition to county money, but also state and federal funding,” Raymie says.

“And not knowing what those dollars with any degree of certainty over the next five years, we have to make sure that we have, to the extent possible, a plan in place to address all of the road issues that we know will come over the next five years.”

The county has also settled on May 1st as the date when its meal program for senior citizens will be switched over from primarily congregate sites to primarily home deliveries.

Hy-Vee in Pella is set to handle food preparation and packing, while the Knoxville store is still considering it.

And some of the remaining county-owned cooking equipment still in the basement of Knoxville City Hall in the Senior Center may be transferred over to the Sheriff’s Office; County Auditor Jake Grandia is suggesting the county donate the remainder to the Senior Center rather then sell it for a dollar.

The Senior Center will eventually be doing its own meal preparation, as will the current meal site in Pleasantville.