The Iowa Department of Ag announced this week a pilot project that will provide $3 million to encourage farmers and landowners in the watersheds upstream from the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids metro areas to add perennial buffers to fields along streams.
Linn, Johnson county voters have until Oct. 20 to submit their requests ahead of city and school elections this November.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors has unanimously advanced a proposal to add nuclear energy generation to the county’s zoning code.
Linn County Public Health will hold an adaptive sports clinic this weekend under the banner of athletics for all. It will introduce attendees to adaptive sports, or those that are modified or specifically designed for participants with various physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities.
Seventeen area nonprofits have been selected to receive a combined $100,000 in funding for community and economic development projects across Linn County.
Also in this week’s Government Notes roundup, the Central City school district is pursuing a $7 million bond referendum.
Materials to help local government officials implement a new state law that requires training on Iowa’s open meetings and records laws are on the way from the state board that oversees the laws.
Public input on the matter will be accepted at the board’s next three meetings.
Also in this week’s Government Notes, Marion officials will discuss a proposed aquatics center project this week.
Nearly one million of the trees felled in the 2020 derecho were in Linn County alone, and the damage left rural and urban communities alike with gaping holes in their tree canopies. Five years later, The Gazette is revisiting what’s been done to fill the gaps.
Five years after the 2020 derecho’s hurricane-force winds extensively damaged homes throughout the area, construction continues in Cedar Rapids and surrounding communities to replenish the housing stock that was damaged or entirely lost in the disaster.
Of the more than $40 million in contracts awarded for the Cedar Crossing Casino & Entertainment Center so far, 96 percent have gone to Iowa companies.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to approve an $850,000 settlement with the mother of a woman who died in the Linn County Jail in 2022.
Linn County officials this week approved funding for three studies to learn more about current water quality conditions.
The penalty relates to wells dug at Cedar Rapids data center construction site.
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