Marion Considers TIF for Hunters Ridge Housing Plan
Marion weighs using tax increment financing to back up to 700000 in infrastructure for Hunters Ridge a residential project planned with about 100 homes already built and up to 300 more possible. The move would enable bridge recovery water main improvements and road paving with TIF funds tied to new property tax growth.
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Cindy Hadish
Marion
Iowa
Hunters Ridge
Fairfax
Robins
Robert Josten
Des Moines
Winslow Road
Indian Creek
Winslow
Bob Verhille
Verhille
Josten
Hearing recessed in Whittlesey firing case
Cedar Falls The hearing for Mike Whittlesey, fired principal of Union Elementary La Porte City, was recessed indefinitely to allow a judge to study about 1000 pages of transcript from a similar 198? Kansas case.
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Cedar Falls
Mike Whittlesey
Union Elementary
la Porte City
Kansas
Whittlesey seeks job back in Cedar Falls hearing
Administrative Law Judge Larry Bartlett recesses start of fifth day of testimony. Whittlesey, 37, was fired by the Union school board June 19 after discovery he had been fired in 1992 by a Topeka district for alleged inappropriate contact with two sixth grade girls. The Kansas incident remains outside the hearing scope. Bartlett will review the transcript, estimating completion by month end.
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Larry Bartlett
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Cedar Falls
Union School Board
Ron Crooks
Topeka
Kan
Bartlett
Kansas
University of Iowa
Craig Ament
Waterloo
School Board
Beth Hansen
Central City Seeks Main Street Iowa Status Among Four Apps
Central City joins State Center Story City and East Village of Downtown Des Moines in four applications for Main Street Iowa funding. A 14 member advisory panel will decide admissions with options to admit all four. Each town must pledge at least three years of support and present Oct. 13 in Des Moines.
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Children and Families of
Iowa
Des Moines
Azette
Central City
Iowa Department of Economic Development
Jane Seaton
Main Street
Seaton
State Center
Story City
Iowa Department of Development
C.J. Niles
Educator urges students to consider teaching careers in Iowa
Reg Weaver vice president of the National Education Association spoke to about 100 Jefferson High School students in Cedar Rapids urging a teaching career despite low pay and respect. Iowa faces a teacher shortage with 17 percent leaving after one year, and 7 percent eligible to retire this year plus 14.5 percent in five years.
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Janet Borheim
Cedar Rapids
Reg Weaver
Weaver
National Education Association
Jefferson High School
Harvey
Ill
Teachers Union
Iowa State Education Association
Iowa
Jolene Franken
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