Cedar Rapids to Test Shared Duties Instead of Public Services Director
Wayne Murdock proposes a six month experiment to split the director of public services duties among city engineers Dick Ransom George Milligan and Mel Meyer. If successful the city could save about 30000 yearly and avoid filling the post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Hogan
Cedar Rapids
Wayne Murdock
Public Improvements
Murdock
Jon Janda
Dick Ransom
George Milligan
Mel Meyer
Cedar Rapids Public Library project moves forward after grant
A new Cedar Rapids Public Library could be finished in about three years as architect Herb Stone resumes plans after a January bond defeat. A $6.8 million Hall Foundation grant funds construction, contingent on $1 million in public donations, with city site costs around $1.1 million.
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Cedar Rapids Public Library
Herb Stone
Brown Healy Bock
Stone
Library Board of Trustees
Hall Foundation
Cedar Rapids Library Foundation
City of
Cedar Rapids
Second Street
Fifth Avenue SE
Library Foundation
Jerry Elsen
Library Board
Library Fund
Robert Adams
Marylin
Robert H. Rohlf
Minneapolis
Mortar Board Elects 18 New Cornell Members in Mount Vernon
The Cornell College Mortar Board chapter elected 18 new members from next year’s senior class for scholastic leadership and service. Eastern Iowans James Lawrence of Mount Vernon and Shelley Wagener of Fayette are among the new members. The board discussed library renovations costing about 55000 and handicap access upgrades, with Sam Wallace joining as a new member and Charles Cebuhar resigning to lead the Cedar Rapids Library Foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Mortar Board
Eugene Shea
Sam Wallace
St. Luke’s Hospital
Wallace
Charles Cebuhar
Metropolitan
Grassroots session seeks truck limits on Third Street SW
Cedar Rapids residents meet with councilmen Wayne Murdock Floyd Bergen and Traffic Engineer Mel Meyer in Pisha’s back yard to reduce truck traffic. A proposed plan lowers the Third Street SW speed limit from 30 to 25 mph and reroutes tankers bound for Penick & Ford.
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Steve Pisha
Third Street
Cedar Rapids
Wayne Murdock
Floyd Bergen
Mel Meyer
Pisha
Third St
Meyer
Joe Martinek
Mel
Penick & Ford
Wilson's
Iowa Steel
Cargill
33Rd Avenue
Sixth Street
16Th Avenue
Bergen
Murdock
First Avenue
First Street
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the Gazette
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Mino
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E. Washington
Iowa City
Iowa
Vigelia
Johnson Ave. NW
Hoover School
Foreman & Clark
Third Avenue
S.E
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