The Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton Community School District’s “Super Board” of Education will meet Monday evening at the High School, in Elk Horn. On their agenda for the 7-p.m. session, is discussion, and action on approving a Resolution for a vote on the Revenue Purpose Statement (RPS) for the New District.

The RPS will allow the districts to authorize the expenditure of revenues from the State of Iowa to secure an advanced vision for the education fund received by the Exira-Elk Horn Kimballton Community School District. The RPS specifies how the One-cent Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) can be used, including, but not limited to: Property Tax relief; New buildings or additions to current facilities; the lease or purchase of buildings or equipment, and more.

If the measure fails to win voter approval on Feb. 4^th, it will not terminate or restrict authority previously granted by the voters to expend receipts from the “secure an advanced vision for education,” fund. If it’s approved, it will remain in effect until replaced or amended by the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton School District.

In other business, the Super Board will appoint Board members for negotiations, act on other, administrative matters, and Early Retirement Acceptance from Previous Districts (Exira and EHK).

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drivers are more likely to be stopped by the Iowa State Patrol in one of five counties that are home to busy stretches of Interstate 80. The Des Moines Register analyzed five years of reports to determine the Patrol’s interdiction team writes the most tickets in Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Cass, Iowa and Dallas counties.

The records show that more than 17,000 tickets or warnings were issued in those counties from 2008 to 2012. About 22,000 tickets and warnings were issued by the team in that time. The busiest location for traffic stops in Iowa was near mile marker 5 on I-80 not far from the Nebraska border. The specially trained troopers issued 785 tickets and warnings there.

Authorities are investigating a shooting incident that took place this (Sunday) morning, near Council Bluffs. According to Omaha television station KETV, a shot was fired at an Iowa State Patrol Trooper at around 7-a.m., in the Lake Manawa area south of Council Bluffs.

Investigators have not specified if the trooper was hit, but say one person was taken away in an ambulance.  The Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation responded to the area of Twin Cities Drive and Highway 275 and continues to investigate.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Legalizing medical marijuana will again be debated in the upcoming legislative session, though Iowa lawmakers have so far been loath to embrace a policy that is finding acceptance elsewhere.  Democratic Sen. Joe Bolkcom, of Iowa City, says he will pursue legislation seeking to legalize medical marijuana in 2014. Bolkcom acknowledges similar efforts have failed over the past decade, even as some nearby states have embraced medical marijuana. He calls Iowa a “cautious state.”

A total of 20 states, as well as the District of Columbia, have legalized medical marijuana, which advocates say eases the symptoms of illnesses like cancer, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Bolkcom says he will offer bills reclassifying marijuana as a drug with medical benefits and creating a medical marijuana program modeled on New Mexico’s system.