Articles Tagged: Linn County

Linn County Supervisors will discuss and vote on allocating $11 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding next week.

The Linn County Mental Health Access Center will be open for walk-ins on weekends, beginning this Saturday.

B.J. Dvorak, who has been the agency’s plans and exercises officer since 2019, will start April 9. He succeeds Steve O’Konek, who is retiring after leading the agency for four years.

As Linn County residents recover from the pandemic, it is important to reflect on emotional health. Join community members by posting hopeful messages on the Wall of Gratitude, on display today through April 19 at Coe College. More Walls of Gratitude are planned in coming weeks.

Republican wants to expand mental health services and recreational opportunities in county

Jessica Wiskus, who has also been organizing against the Navigator CO2 Ventures carbon pipeline after learning her property was in the corridor, is running as a Democratic in Senate 42. The district covers rural Linn County, wrapping around the Cedar Rapids metro area, and eastern Benton County.

The Housing Fund for Linn County Board of Directors has announced they are making up to $160,000 available to for-profit or nonprofit developers and businesses, and governmental entities for housing initiatives that benefit households with income below 80 percent of the area median income.

With a phone connection from a traveling Supervisor Stacey Walker that gave out before the final vote was taken, the next Linn County budget was approved Wednesday after one of the only two supervisors participating in that vote agreed to switch from dissent to support.

This week is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Iowa, and that includes a statewide tornado drill at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Linn County won’t activate its sirens for this drill.

IUB’s partial procedural schedule sets deadlines of April 7 for any parties seeking intervention and April 14 for responses to any filed comment, objection or request to intervene.

Leveraging the onetime influx of federal funding through the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, here’s how Iowa communities are giving key priorities a boost to promote long-term growth as the nation shakes off the fiscal toll of COVID-19.

The Cedar Rapids resident announced his run this week

NextEra, owner of the now-retired Duane Arnold nuclear power plant, donated 144 Whelen outdoor sirens and four control stations — together worth more than $1 million.

New data from the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance shows that Cedar Rapids is starting to shed its reputation as a “chain restaurant city” as it becomes a state leader in independent restaurant trends.

All three Linn County supervisors said the biggest issue of having only three board members is they can’t talk about policy outside of supervisor meetings without violating Iowa’s open meeting law.