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(Glenwood) -- With its region attorney's presumption inactive successful flux, Mills County is getting assistance from a neighboring region connected ineligible matters.

At its regular gathering Tuesday morning, the Mills County Board of Supervisors authorized the Pottawattamie County Attorney's Office to assistance Mills County, which has been without a region lawyer since Naeda Elliott's resignation earlier this month. Speaking connected KMA's "Morning Line" programme Wednesday morning, Supervisor Richard Crouch says Assistant County Attorney Paul Ryan has covered the bureau successful the region attorney's absence. But, assistance is necessary.

"We person immoderate different issues that we request to beryllium covered," said Crouch. "He (Ryan) has truthful galore lawsuit loads. He said, 'I can't get this done.' I had made arrangements and talked with Matt Wilber successful Pott. County. He needed a missive of proposal from our lawyer down here. We got that. Everybody looked astatine it, and signed disconnected connected it. So, present we person assistance from Pott. County coming from Mills County arsenic we request it."

Crouch says the statement with Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber includes outgo for milage betwixt the 2 counties.

"We're precise pleased," helium said. "Pott. County has been precise bully to us. They person travel down and helped america earlier erstwhile we've been successful betwixt region lawyers, and things. So, we're precise pleased that Matt Wilber of the Pottawattamie County Attorney's Office has stepped up and said, 'we'll travel down and assistance you out.'"

Meanwhile, the region continues to hunt for a caller region attorney. Despite her resignation, Elliott was the apical votegetter for the region attorney's presumption successful the November 8th wide elections. Crouch says applications stay connected the county's website, and much treatment connected the presumption is expected astatine aboriginal supervisor's meetings until its filled.

"We'll enactment successful connected astir apt each week and sermon it," said Crouch. "If we person caller applicants, oregon erstwhile we'll conscionable propulsion the trigger, and accidental 'enough's enough,' we're going to interrogation and spell from there."

You tin perceive the afloat interrogation with Richard Crouch with the webstory astatine kmaland.com, arsenic good arsenic connected our "Morning Line" page.