AmeriCorps NCCC Campus Shutdown Impacts Iowa Center Work
The North Central Region campus at the former Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School in Vinton has been shut down. AmeriCorps volunteers were sent home on administrative leave, leaving two weeks of Cedar Rapids Indian Creek Nature Center projects unfinished and requiring staff and volunteers to finish the land restoration work.
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AmeriCorps Nccc
North Central Region
Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School
Vinton
AmeriCorps’ National
NCCC
John Myers
Indian Creek Nature Center
Cedar Rapids
AmeriCorps
Nature Center
Myers
DOGE
United States
Braille and Sight Saving
Bud Maynard
Associated Press
Maynard
Iowa court fee misdirection eyed for simplification plan
A 2023 National Center for State Courts report, ordered by the Iowa Judicial Branch, found misdirected court fees totaling about 23 million across 2020 2021 and noted no fraud. Officials plan a bill to simplify the fee framework next session while lawmakers demand timely disclosure and assurances none of the funds were misused.
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National Center For State Courts
Iowa Judicial Branch
Judicial Branch
Iowa
Bob Gast
Oversight Committee
House Oversight Committee
Charley Thomson
Charles City
Republican Committee
National Center
West Des Moines
Zircus
Taylor Collins
Mediapolis
Gast
Steven Holt
R-Denison
Holt
Thomson
County boards set to vote on redistricting commission
Johnson County supervisors plan to appoint a three person redistricting commission by May 15 after publishing the district map by January 1. The panel will include eligible voters, with appointments influenced by the Democratic Party recommendations and each supervisor proposing two names for May 7 and May 8 meetings.
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Johnson County
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Rod Sullivan
Jon Green
Board of Supervisors
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Ashley Coffin
Green Iowa AmeriCorps
Coffin
AmeriCorps Vista
Olivia Cohen
the Gazette
Report For America
Olivia.cohen
Thegazette
Olivia Dove
Gina Errico
AmeriCorps Trees Forever
Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center
AmeriCorps’ Damak Archie
Aniak
Alaska
Turkey Creek
Solon
Jim Slosiarek
Erin. Murphy
Commission
Julie Persons
Green
Fixmer-Craiz
Sullivan
Mandi Remington
Lisa Green-Douglass
Megan.woolard
Thegazette.com
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