Gazette Daily News Podcast, August 23

Tuesday could start a bit foggy for you early commuters, but the sun will win out in the end. According to the National Weather Service there will be patchy fog in the Cedar Rapids area before 7 a.m. Otherwise it will be mostly sunny, with a high near 83 degrees. On Tuesday night it will be mostly clear, with a low of around 61 degrees. The wind will remain calm all day.

There was supposed to be a vote on Linn County solar power on Monday. But they forgot you can’t spell meeting without dotting an I and crossing a T.

The first of three Linn County Board of Supervisors meetings that was supposed to provide a public forum on a proposed solar project was canceled before it could start on Monday. County officials said an oversight on the legal notice publication about the meeting necessitated the cancellation. No new meeting date has been announced.

The error? Not getting the correct language in the county paper of record, which is The Gazette. Public meeting law requires advance notice be given so the public has a chance to attend the meeting. Supervisor Ben Rogers said they were informed that the proper notice had not been given 10 minutes before the meeting began.

The supervisors were set to vote on developer NextEra’s Duane Arnold Solar projects near Palo. The official vote would’ve been the first of three votes needed to rezone the area from agricultural to agricultural with a solar overlay, allowing for the project to be built.

The Linn County Attorney’s office has completed its investigation of an officer-involved shooting that injured a Cedar Rapids man last month.

Two Cedar Rapids Police Officers — Officer Blair Klostermann and Officer Matt Jenatscheck — shot at 23-year-old Brandon Nelson, of Cedar Rapids, after he pointed a gun at the officers and shot at them during a traffic stop in the 2200 block of Glass Road NE in Cedar Rapids. The incident happened at about 4 a.m. on July 30.

Nelson fired a shotgun once. Klostermann shot four times and Jenatscheck shot eight times, according to the attorney’s office’s official memorandum about the investigation.

Nelson sustained three gunshot wounds but survived his injuries. He still is in the hospital, according to Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks.

According to a police account of the incident, Nelson was stopped by police after driving recklessly that morning. He later admitted to investigators that he had been drinking the night of the incident.

Charges against Nelson are being considered and the investigation is continuing, according to Maybanks.

Marion announced Monday that a Kansas fire department administrator will be the city’s new fire chief.

Starting next month, Tom Fagan, 42, will oversee the city’s department of 38 career firefighters and 10 paid, on-call firefighters.

Fagan, who has 22 years of experience, is division chief of administration for the Lawrence-Douglas (Kan.) County Fire Medical Department. He has been serving as interim fire chief for his current department, which is in a community of 97,000 residents.