Budget items on tap before adjournment
Iowa lawmakers near the end of a contentious session finalize taxes and network expansions while five appropriations bills for about one fourth of next year’s 3.8 billion budget remain. Disputes over road use tax funding, community college and regents spending, pay hikes for officials, and environmental programs persist as leaders seek a Wednesday adjournment. A juvenile justice bill and school safety measures also surface as lingering issues.
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Rod Boshart
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
General Assembly
Lil Uwlal Lally Supe
Regents
House
Brent Siegrist
Council Bluffs
Siegrist
Senate
Wally Horn
Cedar Rapids
Riverfest art fair winds down amid rain threat
Bruce Elgin, a University of Iowa student, works on pottery at the Riverfest art fair outside the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City on Saturday. The outdoor fair continued despite forecasts of rain as Riverfest drew to a close.
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Bruce Elgin
University of Iowa
Iowa Memorial Union
Iowa City
Story
Cedar Rapids reform effort earns mixed city response
The Cedar Rapids City Council faces mixed reviews from residents over its response to 52 recommendations in The Gazette study. A survey of 338 adults shows 42 percent satisfied with actions cutting 10.4 million dollars, 25 percent dissatisfied, and 34 percent neutral. Most express familiarity with the report, titled A Blueprint for Change, and favor the direction, while noting the pace is slow and only a few jobs were cut.
City reports progress on 52 Efficiency and Reform recommendations
A status report details each of the 52 recommendations by the city’s Efficiency and Reform Committee. It notes savings from actions tied to Efficiency and Reform, plus additional cuts from organizational changes. The city was already saving about 4.5 million dollars before the committee’s formation, with further savings anticipated.
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Efficiency and Reform Committee
Cedar Rapids Reform Efforts Divided Viewpoint Emerges
Gazette reporting on Cedar Rapids city government efficiency drive shows Mayor Larry Serbousek touting progress since the 1993 reform committee's start while Chairman Kyle Skogman notes only about half of the $10.4 million savings may be realized and calls results disappointing yet acknowledges numerous positives.
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Larry Serbousek
Efficiency and Reform Committee
Kyle Skogman
Bombing probe hones search as victims return home
Federal investigators pressed leads in Oklahoma City after the bombing. The death toll rose to 124 with over 60 missing while searchers pried through debris in the Murrah Building pit. An ATM video may show a second getaway car with Arizona plates, not McVeigh's noted plate.
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Dallas Morning News
Associated Press
Oklahoma City
FBI
Federal
Alfred P. Murrah
ATM
Arizona
Timothy McVeigh
McVeigh
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