The Cedar Rapids Charter Review Commission voted Thursday to recommend changes that would broaden ethics language for the city’s top officials and also keep the door open for ranked choice voting in the future.
Local leaders ‘disappointed’ the project did not make RAISE Grant funding list
Residents will have a chance to meet the candidates at Marion City Hall from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
If approved, the project would begin operating by the end of 2024
Tax incentives estimated at a $3 million value will support Altorfer’s creation of a 150,000 square-foot office, sales and service facility at 8400 Sixth St. SW that will serve as the company’s new headquarters.
Kim Downs has been in Hiawatha post since 2013
“That's the best we could do as a council,” Mayor O’Donnell says after the school board declined the city’s offers to negotiate to keep the two additional school resource officers or to meet to discuss the program.
Nicole Andrew and her kids moved back into their home just 2 weeks ago after it was destroyed in the 2020 derecho. She’s among a number of property owners whose efforts to swiftly fix homes for various reasons stalled in the 2 years after the disaster.
About half the roughly $100 million in aid to local governments sought by Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, Robins and Linn County in the aftermath of the 2020 derecho has been received so far from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
About $800,000 remains for qualifying residents of single-family homes and mobile homes that sustained damage in the August 2020 derecho. As funds dwindle likely by the end of the year, officials urged anyone who may be in need to apply with urgency.
The Central Plaza at City Square Park in the heart of Uptown Marion has been in the works since the city’s visioning process was done in 2018.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission voted last Thursday to suspend Amel Ali as chair. Ali remains on the commission and the Iowa City Council will discuss her potential removal at its next meeting. Another commissioner resigned for health and personal reasons.
The 20-year-old playground closed Monday. It will be replaced with a new playground that was designed with input from residents after more than 550 comments were submitted about the city’s initial design. The new playground is expected to be complete in six to eight weeks.
The portion of Fifth Street from 12th Avenue through the 20th Avenue intersection will be enhanced with new pavement, sidewalks and landscaping
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