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City of Anita:
City Council (elect 3 to a 4-year term each) –
Ben Daughenbaugh 58*
Incumbent Mark Harris 25
John Knutson 68*
Write-in Tim Wheelock 42*
City of Atlantic:
Mayor (4-year term):
Incumbent David R. Jones. 521
Write-In 143
City Council At Large (4-year term, elect 1):
Gerald A. Brink (appointed) 645
Write-In 18
City Council 2nd Ward (4-year term, elect 1):
Incumbent Kathy Somers 76
City Council 5th Ward (4-year term):
Incumbent Richard D. “Dick” Casady 176
Write-In 3
Parks & Recreation Board (6-year term beginning 11/2017), elect 2:
John Krogman 635
Incumbent Jolene Smith 569
Write-In 16
Public Measure G asked if the City should increase the current Hotel-Motel Tax from 4% to 7%, effective January 1st, 2018. The 4% tax is already used for Atlantic Parks and Rec Department purposes. The additional 3% revenue would be used for the Schildberg Recreation Area, walking paths and trails inside the City of Atlantic. YES 359 NO 420*
City of Cumberland:
Mayor (2-year term):
Incumbent Nancy Virginia Coughlin 36
City Council (elect 3 to a 4-year term each):
Incumbent Gary Cooper 23 (Tie to be broken by the Board of Supervisors)
Darrin Hardisty 23 ” ”
Incumbent Michael Martin 26*
Mike Hill 29*
In Cumberland, Public Measure C asks voters if the City should amend sections of the City Code of Ordinances by changing the number of Cumberland Library Board members from seven to five who are appointed by the City Council. (50% of the votes are required for passage).
YES 34 NO 3
City of Griswold:
Mayor (4-year term):
Brad Rhine 91
Write-In 12
City Council (elect 2 to a 4-year term):
Julianne M. Adams 82*
Carol Preston 85*
Write-In: Thomas Moore 21
City of Lewis:
City Council (elect 2 to 4-year terms):
Ryan Archibald (appointed) 81*
Don Cohrs 38*
Leroy Easter 7
Chad Frieze 32
Bryan Olson-Everett 9
Rick Sanny 24
City Council (Vacancy term, 4-years, elect 1):
Ryan Lockwood (appointed) 86*
Natalie Olson-Everett 16
In Lewis, voters will decide if an annual levy at a rate not to exceed 27-cents per $1,000 assessed property valuation will be used to provide monies for public library services (Public Measure B) and, if the City should change how its Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) revenue is used. (Public Measure E). 50% approval is required for both measures)
YES 42 NO 51
City of Marne:
Mayor (2-year term):
Incumbent Randall I. Baxter 33
City Council (*2-year terms, elect 5): 6 candidates –
Vergil Anderson 21
Incumbent Lori Holste 37*
Mark Opbroek 35*
Wayne Priester 38*
Incumbent Angela Redler 32*
Jericho Schmitt 25*
Public Measure E asks if the Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) be used 100% for “Any lawful purpose”? YES 22 NO 12
Public Measure D asks voters of the community if the term of the Mayor and Council Members be changed from 2-years to 4-years. (50% approval needed for passage)
YES 19 NO 16
City of Massena:
Mayor (2-year term):
Write-In: Phil Przchodzin 54*
City Council (4-year term, elect 2):
Incumbent Jackson Bissell 68*
Bobby McKnight 32
Incumbent Douglas Venteicher 65*
Public Measure F asks citizens for permission to change the use of the City’s LOST revenue. (50% approval required for the measure to pass).
YES 42 NO 45
City of Wiota:
Mayor (2-year term):
Incumbent Ford Lillard 17
City Council (4-year term, elect 3):
Incumbent Jeff Lillard 15
Two Write-In candidates to be elected
City of Audubon – City Council (elect 3) 18% turnout
Brad Hemmingsen 206*
Jason Hocker 155*
Nick Weihs 165*
Doug Jensen (Write-In) 133
PUBLIC MEASURE A (change LOST from 100% streets to “any lawful purpose”) NO 185* YES 80
City of Brayton
Mayor:
(I) Cally Christensen 22*
Neil C. Poldberg 13
City Council (elect 2)
Greg Gust 30
David L. Hansen 31
PUBLIC MEASURE A (Annual levy not to exceed $1.50/$1,000 assessed valuation for additional police protection services)
City of Exira
Mayor – Mike Huegerich 69
City Council (elect 2)
Dwight Jessen 54
Courtney Peppers 60
City Council – TVA (term expires 12/31/19) – Elect 1
Clark M. Borkowski 32
Melissa Paulsen 56*
Mark Paulsen (Write-In) 28
City of Gray:
Mayor –
William Cramer 4
Bryan Olson (Write-In) 7*
City Council (elect 3):
(I) Joan Cramer 4
Roy John Bolick 6
Jared Olson 8
City Council (TVA – term ends 12/31/19)
Samuel Wendl 10
City of Avoca – City Council (elect 3)
William Dea 164*
Derek Knop 121*
Steven Kern 92
David McCain 100*
City of Neola
Mayor:
Dawn Marie Goodsell 153*
Lon Ring 65
City of Oakland – City Council (elect 3)
Pat Newberg 73*
Doug Reed 62
Debbie Rollins 104*
Joseph Wede 92*
City of Treynor – City Council (elect 3)
Joe Fisher 75
David Waymire 67
Write-In 3
City of Underwood – City Council (elect 2)
Zeferina S. Aguilar 24
Jim Pingel 28*
Julius W. Tiarks 57*
Gary J. Wahle 24
City of Walnut – City Council (elect 3)
Linda Booth 55*
Kim Canada 48
Jason Erickson 30
Michael Gettler 78*
Dennis Hullinger 76*
Dan Shirley 33
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Three men have pleaded guilty to using stolen identities and debit card numbers in a buying spree across Iowa.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 26-year-old Dunieski Santana Moreno and 21-year-old Liliany de Armas Mena pleaded guilty last week in Cedar Rapids’ federal court to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Thirty-six-year-old Pedro Alvarez Rodriguez pleaded guilty to the same charges on Sept. 21. All three are Cuban citizens, but had lived in the U.S.
Prosecutors say the men admitted stealing account information earlier this year from at least 35 accounts using “skimming” devices. The stolen information was then encoded onto counterfeit magnetic strip cards, which were used at stores across Iowa.
Each faces up to nearly 10 years in prison when they’re sentenced at a later date.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa agency is delaying plans to add a third company back into the state’s privatized Medicaid program. Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven says the agency will hire another company to offer Medicaid coverage in 2019. The agency originally said such a company would start next July.
Foxhoven says the agency will begin its search for a company soon, but the 2019 delay ensures adequate time. Foxhoven provided the information Tuesday to a health care council. It comes one week after AmeriHealth Caritas announced it will drop Medicaid coverage in Iowa at the end of the month after failed contract negotiations with the state. Two other private insurance companies, Amerigroup and UnitedHealthcare, will continue Medicaid coverage.
Foxhoven says UnitedHealthcare will take over coverage beginning Dec. 1 from AmeriHealth for about 215,000 patients. They also can transfer to Amerigroup.
MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a western Iowa county supervisor has died in a grain bin accident. Harrison County Sheriff Pat Sears says 63-year-old Russ Kurth, of Logan, died in the bizarre Tuesday morning accident outside a grain bin just north of Missouri Valley.
Sears say Kurth and another person were checking out a door from which corn was leaking on the new bin that had been recently filled. Officials say the door burst open as Kurth and the other man approached, burying Kurth in corn. The other man was able to escape.
Officials say Kurth was pulled from the corn more than an hour after the accident was reported. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Kurth was elected to the Harrison County Board of Supervisors in 2014.
The Red Oak Police Department reports no injuries after a two-vehicle collision in Red Oak on Tuesday morning. At 7:27am Officers responded to the accident at the intersection of North 5th Street and East Corning Street in Red Oak. After investigation it was determined that a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by 54-year-old Allen McCray Wilson of Red Oak was traveling westbound on East Corning Street when his vehicle was struck broadside by a 2013 Hyundai Elantra driven by 22-year-old Lee Orey Morrison of Emerson. Morrison failed to stop at the stop sign and was issued a citation for that along with a citation for No Insurance Accident Related. The Jeep sustained an estimated $2,000 damage and the Hyundai had an estimated $3,000 damage. Both drivers were wearing their seat belts and no injuries were reported.
The City of Massena’s Council Meeting is postponed to November 20th, 2017 at 7:00 P.M.
Officials say the state’s annual 157-million dollar investment in a teacher improvement program is paying dividends in teacher retention and job satisfaction, but student test scores are not yet rising. Ryan Wise, director of the Iowa Department of Education, says more than nine-thousand Iowa teachers are getting bonuses to serve as mentors or “coaches” to other teachers in their school district.
“Student achievement has been largely unchanged to this point,” Wise says. Wise says most educators see improvement in the professional environment in their school building and there are some gains in student test scores in individual school districts. “We think we’ve put in place all of the building blocks to increase student achievement, so teachers are collaborating more. They have higher quality professional learning. All of those things that lead to increases in improvement start with improvement in instruction and you ask teachers in almost every school in Iowa, they’re seeing those improvements in instruction that we know, over time, will lead to increases in (student) achievement.”
The state-funded teacher improvement program was phased in over three years. The 2016-2017 school year was the first time all 333 Iowa school districts were involved. Governor Kim Reynolds says during the last school year, there was a three percent gain in the number of students in kindergarten through third grade who met or surpassed reading proficiency goals.
“But, of course, like anything else, there is more work to do,” Reynolds says, “and our administration will continue to look for ways to ensure that teacher leadership and compensation is even more effective.” Reynolds has a daughter who teaches and she’s serving as a teacher coach this school year.
At the end of LAST school year, 85 percent of Iowa school districts said the program had helped retain teachers and attract new ones to their districts. Half of districts met their student achievement goals, according to the Iowa Department of Education. The American Institutes for Research found student scores on statewide assessment tests “remained largely unchanged” during the past three years.
(Radio Iowa)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former Omaha child care provider accused of abusing a 4-year-old girl in her care has pleaded no contest. Television station WOWT reports that 59-year-old Lynn Rowe entered the plea Tuesday to the child abuse charge in Douglas County District Court. She faces up to three years in prison when she’s sentenced in January.
Police say the girl’s parents reported April 3 that Rowe had abused their daughter while the girl was at Rowe’s day care. Officials say the report was made after a worker at the day care recorded Rowe hitting the girl.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services shut down Lynn’s Learning Center shortly after Rowe’s arrest in April in Missouri Valley, Iowa.