City contends issue moot in Gazette suit
The city and Tom Kelly Sr. contend the Linn District Court suit is moot after the Cedar Rapids Building Department ad hoc committee dissolved. The Gazette and reporter Ann Schrader seek to determine if the committee was a public agency and whether it properly closed meetings under open records law. The case, filed Nov 1, raises whether the committee was within the statute and seeks an injunction against further closed sessions.
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Linn District Court
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids Building Department
Tom Kelly Sr
Gazette
Ann Schrader
Floyd Bergen
Ed Winter
Marion City Council approves overhead lines and staff permits change
Marion City Council approved an ordinance allowing overhead electrical and telephone lines in industrial zones with councilman Eddie Begley voting no. They also second-read a rule change to empower staff to approve routine permits and payments, and added an amendment removing partial contractor payments and some Iowa DOT permits from staff approval. A 7 p.m. Water Board trustees meeting is set for Monday in City Hall.
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Fairfax
Soukup
Thut
IDOT
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
Hiawatha
Robbins Road
Highway 150
Emmons
Second Streets
Ray Bertelli
Boyson Road
Chaffee Drive
Extra time for Marion dog licenses to avoid penalty
Marion residents gain an extra month to buy dog licenses before a 25 cent penalty. The City Council delayed the penalty until March 1 due to workload and bad weather. Licenses cost 1 dollar for male and spayed dogs and 3 dollars for unspayed females.
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Marion
Contract talks with Cedar Rapids firemen stall after rejection
Cedar Rapids Fire Department negotiators and city officials remain in session with a federal mediator at IE Tower after Local 11 members voted down a tentative contract. The session began at 11 a.m. and marks the first city history rejection of a tentative deal by rank and file. Local 11 comprises about 140 firefighters.
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Cedar Rapids
Snakes Drive Woman to Divorce in St Ives
Sylvana Mellor 30 filed for divorce after her husband Barry kept a menagerie of snakes including four pythons a boa constrictor two garter snakes and planned a snake pit in the spare room. The story notes a Great Dane a buzzard and a Himalayan bear as earlier coping factors.
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ST. Ives
England
Sylvana Mellor
Barry
Sylvana
Hiawatha Council Reviews Cable Ordinance Provisions
Hiawatha City Council discussed a proposed cable ordinance barring unauthorized hookups to the cable system. The section would make such offenses a misdemeanor and the council planned to confer with the city attorney before any action at the Jan. 17 meeting. Also reviewed were budget requests from two city departments including a Fire Department increase to 19,905 citing inflation and equipment costs.
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Hiawatha
Hiawatha Fire Department
Don Mohler
Fairfax maintains 40 hour patrols with Linn County sheriffs
The Fairfax City Council voted to keep 40 hours of patrol per week under contract with the Linn County Sheriffs Department for another year at a higher rate. Beginning July 1, the county will charge Fairfax five dollars per hour, totaling about ten thousand four hundred dollars annually.
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Linn County Sheriffs Department
Darold Smith
Sheriffs Department
Fairfax Council
Smith
Fairfax
Linn
Virginia Soukup
Sheriff's Department
Soukup
City Hall to add second exit amid fire code review
Cedar Rapids officials plan a new stairway at City Hall to provide a second exit after a fire code review. The project, estimated at $80,000, would use federal revenue sharing funds pending City Council approval.
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Cedar Rapids
Lora Summerwill
The
Gazette Today
Linn County
Robert Johnson
City Hall
Johnson
Summerwill
Bill Baker
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