The Mills County Board Of Supervisors has formally approved a plan by the City Of Council Bluffs to annex property in northern Mills County.
The three-member board gave its blessing to the plan by unanimously passing a resolution at its regular meeting last Tuesday, April 22.
The City of Council Bluffs’ desire to annex land in Mills County surfaced more than a year ago during discussions concerning economic development along Interstate 29. In January 2025, Mark Norman, director of the Mills County Economic Development Foundation (MCEDF), told county supervisors the annexation would be required for the City of Council Bluffs to provide utility services for two projects being proposed along Interstate 29 in northwest Mills County. One of those projects is the $325 million Cattlemen’s Heritage beef processing facility proposed on a 132-acre site northwest of the I-29 – Highway 370 interchange. The other project is east of I-29 and south of the Mills – Pottawattamie County line…