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The Atlantic Municipal Utilities’ Board of Trustees Monday evening approved published electric and water rate increases amounting to a 10-percent increase in water rates and a 7.5-percent increase in electric rates to make up for wholesale increases in the cost to obtain electricity and other related expenses. AMU’s residential customers will see an average $6.60 monthly increase for their combined electric and water bill. Commercial (Business) users of AMU’s electric and water service will see their average bill increase by about $24.45 per month. The new rates become effective with the February 1st, 2013 billing.
During a public hearing prior to the Boards’ vote, there were no spoken objections from the public with regard to the proposed rate increase. There was one letter written by two Atlantic citizens regarding the City’s Christmas lights being on overnight, past the time when most downtown businesses are closed. In the letter, Eleanor and Leslie Becker questioned why AMU doesn’t try to save the taxpayers money by turning the lights off when the business district is closed.
AMU General Manager Steve Tjepkes explained the way the lights are wired makes it difficult to shut them off. He said the Christmas lights are wired into the street lights, which are on a photo-electric cell. When conditions are dark enough, the street lights, and anything tied into them, such as the Christmas lights, will turn on together. Tjepkes said he wasn’t aware of that until he received the Beckers’ letter and looked into it.
Tjepkes estimates the Christmas lights are on about 50-days during the season, for about 14-hours per day. He says based on the cost of energy, the cost to provide electricity for the LED lights is about $500 per year. Tjepkes noted the new Christmas lights are more energy efficient than the old lights. He acknowledged that AMU could work to switch the lights to separate circuits from the street lights, which would save at best “A couple of hundred dollars per year,” but Board Chair Larry Turner pointed out the cost to switch those circuits would “Be very expensive.”
TODAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 50S. WEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH.
TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WIND NEAR 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
WEDNESDAY...PARTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGH IN THE MID 50S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. NOT AS COOL. LOW AROUND 40. SOUTH WIND 15 TO 20 MPH.
THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.
THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN THROUGH MIDNIGHT. COLDER. LOW AROUND 30.
FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH IN THE MID 40S. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S.
Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A record number of Iowans cast their vote this year in the presidential election. More than 1.5 million people in Iowa voted in the 2012 election for president and vice president. That includes another record for early or absentee voting, which brought in more than 688,000 votes.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has ordered a Des Moines teen convicted in his friend’s October shooting death to first go to a residential treatment facility for counseling. Sixteen-year-old Dontavius Sharkey then must undergo a 30-day evaluation to determine where he heads next. He will stay in the juvenile system until he’s 18 and be sentenced in adult court in 2014.
WEST UNION, Iowa (AP) — A former school district administrator in Iowa has avoided prison time for a theft scheme. Ex-Starmont district business manager Vicki Vanter has been ordered to serve up to five years of probation. She was arrested after an audit alleged she wasted $229,000 paying off personal expenses and improperly inflating her salary and benefits.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa City landlord accused of spying on his tenants is scheduled to go on trial in February. Elwyn Miller faces nearly a dozen counts of invasion of property. He’s accused of spying on several nude female tenants in their bathrooms or bedrooms.
No classes will be held today (Tuesday) in the Adair-Casey Community School District. School officials say instead, the staff and classmates of Austin Vais are being given the chance to say goodbye to the 12-year old, who died following a single-vehicle rollover accident last Thursday afternoon, east of Exira. Funeral services for Vais will be held at 1-p.m., in the Adair-Casey High School. Austin began attending the Adair-Casey Elementary School at the beginning of the school year.
Counselors were brought in Friday to talk with the students about their classmates’ death on Friday. The boy was not wearing a seat belt when he lost control of the 2003 Ford F-150 on a gravel road. Vais was ejected as it rolled over after sliding sidways. Sheriff’s officials have said it appears the boy had taken the truck for a drive while his father was away from home.
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Clarinda Police arrested two individuals early Sunday morning for possession of alcohol under the legal age. Chief Keith Brothers says at around 3-a.m., officers arrested 18-year old’s Jordan Nicole Landess, of Clarinda and Scharely Dawn Reynolds, of Stanton. Landess and Reynolds were ticketed and cited to appear in Page County Magistrate Court at a later date. Their arrests occurred in a business parking lot located at 318 East Washington Street in Clarinda.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs returned to work Monday at their practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium, trying to find a sense of normalcy. It was difficult to do. The locker that once belonged to Jovan Belcher, the linebacker who killed his girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself Saturday, still had all his belongings hanging in it. Coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli had to walk past the place in the parking lot where Belcher killed himself. Teammates gathered in meetings and to watch film and couldn’t help but notice the empty seat. Crennel said that “time heals all wounds,” and the Chiefs are hopeful the healing has begun.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A record number of Iowans cast their vote this year in the presidential election. The Quad-City Times reported Monday that more than 1.5 million people in Iowa voted in the 2012 election for president and vice president. That includes another record for early or absentee voting, which brought in more than 688,000 votes. The data shows more people voted on Election Day for Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s ticket, but President Barack Obama had an early voting edge over the former Massachusetts governor.
Fayette County had the highest turnout in the state with more than 84 percent of registered voters casting a ballot. Fremont County had the lowest with just over 61 percent.
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