Cedar Rapids budget to drop by eight million in 1979-80
The city plans an $8,339,513 expenditure reduction for the 1979-80 budget, lowering total spending to $78,566,731 as major projects like the sewage treatment plant Five Seasons Center and Parkade near completion. General fund sees $12.73 per thousand tax levy with a 5.38 percent rise.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert McMahan
Five Seasons Center
Parkade
General Fund
McMahan
Lion
Richard Phillips
Phillips
Cedar Rapids Target store foundation set for Williams Blvd
City Council expected to approve a resolution to begin foundation work for a new Target on Williams Boulevard SW across from Westdale Mall. Final plat not finished. concrete could pour next Monday if approved. Store slated as Cedar Rapids second Target, about 100000 square feet, cost 1.2 million, opening planned late fall.
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Cedar Rapids
Target
Williams Boulevard
Westdale Mall
Cedar Rapids considers triangular redesign of Williams Edgewood Wilson
The City Council holds a public hearing on the Williams Boulevard Edgewood Road and Wilson Avenue SW intersection near Westdale Mall. The plan, a triangular redesign with widened Williams Boulevard, includes left turn lanes and signals. Total project cost is 1,305,022 with 978,750 FAUS aid and 274,176 mall contribution. bids set for February 27 if approved.
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Cedar Rapids
Williams Boulevard
Highway 149
Edgewood Road
Wilson Avenue
Westdale Mall
Edgewood
Wilson
Williams
Jon Janda
City Public Services
Federal Aid To Urban Systems
FAUS
Janda
Iowa
Registration this week for off campus courses
Kirkwood Community College offers spring off campus degree courses with telephone registration available today through Friday. Toll free 1 800 332 7922 covers Cedar Rapids Marion area and sites in Monticello Vinton Iowa City Waterloo and Williamsburg. On campus Linn Hall registration 398 5638. Tuition 14.35 per credit hour.
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Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Kirkwood
Monticello
Vinton
Iowa City
Washa
Williamsburg
Cedar Rapids- Marion
Linn Hall
IDOT approves transportation center plans in Cedar Rapids
IDOT Commission approves 60000 state funds and seeks 140000 federal dollars to plan regional transit centers in Cedar Rapids and three other Iowa cities. Cedar Rapids center would sit downtown between First Second streets and Fourth Fifth avenues with a total project cost around Nine point seven million for Cedar Rapids and fifty three million overall. Local funding from Des Moines Sioux City Davenport and Cedar Rapids adds 30000. Construction hinges on federal approval over the coming months.
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Ames
Iowa Department of Transportation Commission
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Des Moines
Sioux City
Davenport
IDOT
Pothole patching and snow delays hit Cedar Rapids streets
City officials describe patching plans using cold asphalt patch as temporary fixes while snow melt increases pothole visibility. Public Works Director Wayne Murdock says crews focus on moving snow to basins and clearing intersections. Budget overspend on snow removal raises concern for spring street repairs. legislators debate repealing the 1 cent gas tax hike set for July.
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Cedar Rapids
Wayne Murdock
City Public Works
Murdock
Richard Phillips
Phillips
Rock Island cuts losses as bankruptcy drags on
The Rock Island Railroad trustee said 1978 losses fell to 14 million, 6 million less than 1977, with plans to meet creditors on a potential reorganization. Judge McGarr will rule March 17 on extending time for a plan, as the line weighs track abandonment and federal loan influences amid a long bankruptcy.
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Rock Island Railroad
William Gibbons
Frank McGarr
Rock Island
McGarr
Gibbons
Iowa
Quad Cities
Iowa City
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
Interstate Commerce Commission
U.S. Transportation
Brock Adams
Adams
Midwest
Cedar Rapids closes C Street SW for sewer work
The Cedar Rapids Traffic Engineering Department says C Street SW will close at the Prairie Creek bridge beginning Wednesday for sewer work. No detour will be marked and the closure is expected to last about two weeks with reopening planned at the end of period.
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C Street
Prairie Creek Bridge
Cedar Rapids
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Linn County
Entringer
Second Avenue
Barbara Juett
North Towne Lane
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Roosevelt Royale Hotel
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Saunders
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Transportation Center
New York
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R-Muscatine
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Kansas City
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Carlton Press
Fifth Avenue
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Goodzyear
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American Express
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2Nd Ave
Iwestside
Gary Barmore
Williams Blvd
Marion
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