Jasper County is holding a special election on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 to issue general obligation bonds or general obligation capital loan notes not to exceed $3,600,000. Because of Jasper County’s low debt this bond can be passed without raising the debt service levy past the current rate and still be debt free in 6 years.
The purpose of this bond issue is to conduct a remodel and addition to the building that the County acquired last year at 315 W 3rd St. N. The project, if passed by the citizens of Jasper County, will consolidate the Annex Building and rented building that currently houses the Board of Health, Community Development and Environmental Health.
Once the project is completed the new building, The Jasper County Administrative Building, will house County Treasurer, DMV, Community Development, Environmental Health, CICS (MH/DS), Veteran Affairs, Human Resources, Public Health, Jasper County Economic Development, Genealogy, DHS, DCS and JCS. There will also be a large conference room and the building will have a backup generator enabling this conference room to be used as a charging station for medical devices in the case of a widespread outage event such as the derecho that hit Jasper County this past August.
This new administrative building will be more energy efficient, consolidate current county buildings lowering maintenance costs and get rid of the Annex building and its looming millions of capital projects. Most importantly Jasper County will be able to pass this bond issue WITHOUT raising the debt service levy and the County will still be debt free in 6 years.