As the East Central Mental Health Region prepares to vote soon on Linn and Johnson County access center budgets, Director Erin Foster hopes the region sees value in “paying to be prepared and paying to have access available.”
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The Linn County Food Systems Council last week awarded $132,300 in micro-grants to 12 local organizations through its Food Access, Resiliency, and Equity Grant program. Also, Linn-Mar is searching for its next superintendent.
A quilt made of cloth masks is the centerpiece of the Red Thread Project, commemorating the third anniversary of COVID’s arrival in Linn County.
The path to funding a new Linn County resiliency coordinator role still is unclear after the supervisors settled on $1.74 million in spending reductions in the 2024 fiscal year.
With a sharp rise in sexually transmitted infections, the Sexual Health Alliance of Linn and Johnson Counties is brainstorming ways to reduce 10-year highs.
The mental health access centers in Linn and Johnson counties would be funded below their requests under a proposed budget for fiscal 2024. County officials and providers warned this would result in reduced services, if not closure of the facilities.
An influx of $38 million in federal funding will fuel investment in the construction of 290 new single- and multifamily housing units in Linn County — mostly Cedar Rapids — to aid in recovery from the 2020 derecho.
Nonprofit Feed Iowa First may halt operations on the slice of land it subleases on Linn County’s Dows Farm “agri-community” development for use by underserved farmers, as the county isn’t planning to replace a potentially failing well that fuels farm operations.
In light of a state error leaving local governments in the lurch and down millions in expected revenue as they set their budgets for the 2024 fiscal year, Linn County supervisors are exploring where to trim the budget.
Democrats will hold their 2023 odd-year party caucuses across Linn County from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 11.
Also, Iowa City school board approves land purchase agreement that will expand the footprint of Iowa City High School.
The Linn County League of Women Voters will host a speaker Saturday morning to discuss property taxes in the state.
Work on a 640-acre solar farm near Coggon may soon be underway after a Linn County District Court judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Board of Supervisors by a family who lives near the planned project.
In a bid to recruit and retain qualified workers to Linn County while grappling with record-high inflation, the county compensation board suggested bumping salaries 12 percent for the county sheriff and attorney, and 10 percent for others.
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