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The City of Atlantic’s Personnel and Finance Committee is beginning a search for a new City Attorney. The Committee met Wednesday evening at City Hall, to review the contract of current City Attorney Dave Wiederstein, and their options for a future City Attorney. Committee Chair Kathy Somers said while Wiederstein has not formally given a 30-day notice of intent to resign, he did mention to her that he “Really does not want to be the City Attorney past December 31st,” but he added that he would be “Willing to make an extension of that for one-month, for reasons he also gave in a letter to Somers.
From left to right: Interim City Administrator John Lund; Mayor Dave Jones: Councilpersons Jimerson, Somers & Halder. (Ric Hanson/photo)
Wiederstein is running for Cass County Attorney in the November General Election. He also serves as attorney for the City of Audubon. Somers said he provided the committee with a list of qualifications in a letter that they should look for in a new City Attorney, including having someone who is local, experienced in municipal law and real estate. Wiederstein said the attorney should be “Responsive,” also. Meaning a higher priority should be given to City matters over the attorney’s other clients.
The Committee, comprised of Somers, Councilmen Dana Halder and Chris Jimerson, along with Mayor Dave Jones, made it clear they want whomever is selected to attend at least 90-percent of the Council meetings.
The Committee decided to send letters of Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) to law firms located within Atlantic, informing them of the opening, and allowing them until November 21st to submit a sealed bid. The Committee will open the bids at a meeting in early December and present them before the Council during their meeting on December 3rd, along with a recommendation.
Police in Red Oak say two juveniles were arrested late Wednesday afternoon on theft and harassment charges. Authorities say a 13-year-old male juvenile was arrested for 2nd degree harassment and 5th degree theft. He was detained at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center. A13-year-old male was also arrested for 5th degree theft.
KENNETH BEYMER, 82, of Atlantic, died Wed., Oct. 22nd, as the result of an automobile accident. A Mass of Christian Burial service for KENNETH BEYMER will be held 10-am Monday, Oct. 27th, at the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Atlantic. Hockenberry Family Care Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2-until 4-pm Sun., Oct. 26th, with the family present. A prayer service will be held at the funeral home, beginning at 2-pm Sunday.
Burial will be at the SS Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery in Atlantic.
Kenneth Beymer is survived by his children: Therese, Connie, Mary, Ron and Mike
15 Grandchildren and 26 Great-grandchildren
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The governing board for Iowa’s three public universities will discuss a plan that would raise tuition and fees by 1.75 percent next year. The Iowa Board of Regents will meet at the University of Iowa on Thursday for the second of a two-day meeting. Regents are expected to consider the tuition plan, but not vote on it until December.
It would raise the cost of tuition and mandatory fees for undergraduates from Iowa to $8,220 at the University of Iowa, $7,851 at Iowa State and $7,933 at the University of Northern Iowa. The proposal comes after the board has frozen tuition rates for the prior two years, for the first time since the 1970s.
The increase would cover the expected cost of inflation and generate $14.5 million in new revenues.
The Montgomery County Family YMCA in Red Oak received a $10,000 grant in October from the Montgomery County Community Foundation. According to the Daily NonPareil, the funds will be used to purchase plastic lockers for the women’s locker room, which will be installed in July 2015.
The lockers will be maintenance free, which will lower some costs at the nearly 14-year-old structure.
Officials with the Iowa West Foundation, Wednesday, announced changes are being made in the foundation’s grant making policies and procedures, marking only the third time in 20 years the foundation has made major changes in its grant-making policies and procedures. President and CEO Pete Tulipana has announced that beginning in 2015, the foundation will award grants three times a year, a change from the current policy of awarding grants quarterly.
The Daily NonPareil says Tulipana emphasized that currently the reduction in the number of grant cycles will not impact the amount the foundation provides to grantees, which annually amounts to approximately $20 million. He says the change will allow their staff extra time to do the work necessary and provide an overlap between grant periods.
The outreach resulted in the development of four primary focus areas for the foundation, including “place making” – supporting efforts that make the region a desirable place for families to live and work; economic development; education; and “healthy families” – in general, programs that strengthen families, foster essential life skills and address critical human and social service needs while helping individuals reach their full potential.
Kathleen Rapp, vice president of grants and initiatives for the foundation, summarized other changes, which include:
• Programmatic and general operations grants being limited to a total of six years in any eight-year period of time.
• An allowance for greater review of information, beginning in 2015, the letter of inquiry period will be reduced from four weeks to two weeks, and the grant application period will be increased from two weeks to four weeks.
• Organizations may submit applications a maximum of two grant cycles per calendar year.
• In-kind support may be used to leverage funding but it is limited to 15 percent of the program or project costs rather than 25 percent.
Additional information on changes in the foundation’s grant making policies and procedures can be found on the Iowa West Foundation website at www.iowawestfoundation.org. In addition, foundation officials have scheduled a number of informal question-and-answer sessions to discuss the new policies and procedures.
They include: Friday, Nov. 7, at Iowa School for the Deaf at 8:30 a.m.; Wednesday, Nov. 12, at the Walnut Fire Station at 2 p.m.; Thursday, Dec. 4, at the Carson Community Center at 10 a.m.; and Friday, Dec. 5, at Iowa School for the Deaf at 8:30 a.m. Other dates and times are being worked out for Council Bluffs meetings.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Billy Butler hit a tiebreaking single, Salvador Perez and Omar Infante drove in two runs each with big hits in a five-run sixth inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 7-2 Wednesday night to even the World Series at one game apiece.
A night after the Giants opened with a 7-1 victory for their seventh straight Series win, Gregor Blanco led off the game with a home run against hard-throwing rookie Yordano Ventura. Brandon Belt tied the score 2-all with an RBI double in the fourth.
Butler’s single off Jean Machi drove in his second run of the night and put the Royals ahead 3-2. Perez lined a two-run double to the left-center wall for a three-run lead, and Infante homered into the left-field bullpen off Hunter Strickland.
Game 3 is Friday night in San Francisco.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs insisted Wednesday that Jamaal Charles has passed a battery of tests and does not show signs of a concussion, one day after the star running back said he exhibited symptoms in last weekend’s win over San Diego.
Charles took a blow from Brandon Flowers when he dove into the endzone Sunday. Charles popped up and trotted off the field, and trainers met him on the sideline. He remained in the game. On Tuesday, Charles told ESPN Radio that he saw “light bulbs” a few plays later, and that he tried to avoid going through the league’s concussion protocol.
After the Chiefs learned of the interview, they put Charles through a battery of tests. The team said he passed all of them.
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