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In a budget outlined from July to December, the pay makes up less than a third of the request — $103,500 of the proposed $337,500 overall six-month budget.
Some residents’ opposition to a proposed resource center and emergency shelter in Wellington Heights swayed the City Planning Commission against recommending rezoning of the vacant property at 1500 Second Ave. SE for future city use.
Cedar Rapids is considering acquiring a vacant building to turn it into a Community Resource Center with a shelter component, but residents fear the facility would destabilize the neighborhood and the city would not provide proper supportive services.
Instead of a sound foreign policy decision, the Iowa Republican branded Biden’s decision as a “clear, callous political message calculated for a front page or primetime talking point on the 20 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.”
Democratic lawmakers question the cost, ‘use of state resources’
Officials have voted to declare two Iowa counties as Second Amendment sanctuaries where any laws hindering gun rights cannot be enforced, joining similar efforts across the country and coming even as Iowa has significantly loosened firearms regulations.
This project would bring nearly 200 housing units, plus some commercial space, to the city at the former Terex property.
The Cedar Rapids City Council on Tuesday approved placing the measure to extend the local-option sales tax on the Nov. 2 ballot to continue funding its Paving for Progress street-repair program.
Advocacy groups are uniting to urge the Cedar Rapids City Council to use its share of federal American Rescue Plan funding to benefit the public good, in particular by developing more affordable housing.
A federal judge agreed on Tuesday to free an Iowa man from jail more than six months after his videotaped confrontation of a police officer inside the U.S. Capitol became one of the most menacing images of the Jan. 6 riots.
After serving as the city’s first economic development manager in 2013, Almoayyed has started a new role with Kirkwood Community College as the vice president of Continuing Education and Training Services.
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