Broeker Answers Oaks’ Intimation that He’s Dishonest

Des Moines County Supervisor Tom Broeker took aim at local resident Dale Oaks this week.

Oaks has appeared at a number of County Board meetings lately, complaining that the local fence ordinance… which he helped to write…is not being fairly enforced. In a current case, Craig Upton is in talks with some of his neighbors about the fence issue, but Oaks implied that Broeker must have intervened on Upton’s behalf because they used to be neighbors. Broeker says that’s nonsense.

There’s a Zoning Commission meeting on the evening of the 18th…at 5:30…at the Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission headquarters on North Gear Avenue in West Burlington, at which there’ll be a public hearing on the final plat for Upton’s Hickory Crest Estates subdivision.

Before he left the courthouse the other day, Oaks said the local fence ordinance should be scrapped.