Articles Tagged: Linn County

Seventeen area nonprofits have been selected to receive a combined $100,000 in funding for community and economic development projects across Linn County.

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.

Also, Fairfax will host an open house for city administrator finalists

The free admission days supported by the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation.

Morgan Creek Park ranger joined the department in October 1981

Also in this week’s Government Notes, Cedar Rapids is supporting a new initiative to address homelessness.

In Iowa, where Trump’s executive order pushing for forcible hospitalization over supportive housing could have significant implications, one homeless services provider says “Nothing in the order does anything that is proven to end homelessness. And in fact, it does the opposite.”