Bill Faircloth.

Well, I went to the Thursday, May 29, 2025 Board of Supervisors meeting. Tried to point out that the money they say the risk pool gave them doesn’t come from taxpayer money. Wrong. Tama County pays dues of over $700,000 a year to the risk pool. Trying to point this out I was told by Supervisor Curt Hilmer it is time for me to just accept what they are doing and just sit down and shut up. True Curt coming out!

They all have it in their minds that they were elected to keep getting more lawsuits to stop wind energy. Just had a new one filed Friday, May 30, 2025, against them. I asked them if TCAT (Tama County Against Turbines) would pay for any losses when it gets into the millions and Hilmer pointed out to the crowd and said, ‘You will.’ Merry Christmas, taxpayers. They don’t care what they cost us! Just a heads up the farmers in TCAT have a problem with subsidies for businesses but they are fine with getting them themselves, kind of hypocritical in my book.

Now that Tama County won’t have an Economic Development person because of the supervisors [they drove her out ], it will be interesting to see what happens in our communities for growth. Their thought is rural taxpayers shouldn’t have to help pay for growth in the communities; I feel they are wrong. They haven’t figured out that having businesses in the communities is a good thing for the rural people.

On an ending note, I am not a disgruntled supervisor like Chairman Mark Doland thinks I am, I just feel the people of the County need to hear what is going on. I am glad I am not serving with any of these Board members.

Bill Faircloth is a rural Toledo resident and former Tama County Supervisor (2021-2024). Prior to public service, he spent nearly four decades working for Fisher Controls in Marshalltown before retiring in 2012; he then worked part-time for Tama County for eight years.