Atlantic Mayor Dave Jones will have the honor, this (Wednesday) evening, of swearing-in a new Police Officer.

The event takes place just after 5:30-p.m., during the Atlantic City Council meeting, and is with regard to Jeremy Seufert. He joined the Atlantic Police Force after the Department was down one officer due to a member having joined the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, and Chief Dave Erickson began to look for a person to fill the spot. Seufert grew up in Atlantic. He’s a veteran of the armed forces and has a wife, Melissa. The couple has three kids, and live in Atlantic.

In other business, the Council will receive a presentation from a local auditing firm, with regard to the FY 2017 City of Atlantic Audit, which is conducted annually. City Administrator John Lund says “The results were good. Money is where it is supposed to be, ongoing practices shall continue as they always have to sustain the City as an organization and remain financially solvent.”

The Council will also act on an Order to close 6th Street, from Chestnut Street, west to the east side of the alley between Chestnut and Poplar, every Thursday evening from 4-until 7, for “Produce in the Park,” that begins May 31st and concludes Sept. 27th. The Council is also expected to act on passing a Resolution that approves the contracts and bonds with Carly Construction, for the 2018 Street Improvement Project.

They’ll also act on passing a Resolution “Approving [a] Bond Purchase Agreement, Providing for the Issuance of General Obligation Corporate Purpose Bonds, Series 2018 and Providing for the Levy of Taxes to Pay the Same.” Action is needed on the matter as the City proceeds to borrow $2.68-million from the open market, with the promise to repay it over 20-years, through property taxes. And, the Atlantic City Council will hold the second reading of an ordinance that would essentially remove the north/south stop signs at 6th and Sunnyside Lane, in an effort to improve traffic flow, and considering the amount of traffic expected to be generated by the ethanol plant currently under construction.

Red Oak Police and officials with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office report three people have been arrested. At around 2:19-a.m. today (Wednesday), 27-year old Kirstin Lynn Wilwerding, of Red Oak, was arrested by Sheriff’s Deputies assisted by Red Oak Police. She was taken into custody for Violation of a No Contact Order. Wilwerding was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 cash only bond.

At around 9:20-p.m. Tuesday, Red Oak Police, assisted by Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies, arrested 59-year old Rodney Lynn Vanderhoof, of Red Oak, for Public Intoxication. Vanderhoof was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.

And, at around 4-p.m. Tuesday, Red Oak Police arrested 56-year old Tony Joe Christensen, of Red Oak, after citizens reported he fell down twice in front of kids playing in a park. Christensen was located in the vicinity of 3rd and Joy Streets. He was taken into custody for Public Intoxication, with a preliminary breath test result of .222 (nearly 3 times over the legal limit).

The State Board of Regents office has released the proposed tuition rates for next year. The board will discuss proposed tuition increases of three-point-eight percent for the University of Iowa and Iowa State University and a two-point-eight percent increase at the University of Northern Iowa at their meeting next week in Council Bluffs.

Those increases will meet the promise of the board president who they would keep tuition rates for Iowa residents under four percent in the next academic year. The schools had talked this summer about tuition increases as high as seven percent after state funding was cut, and the board delayed setting rates two times as it waited to find out how much money they would get from the state.

The final vote on tuition rates would come in June.

(Radio Iowa)

Unofficial results from the Pottawattamie County Auditor’s Office show a Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) referendum in Treynor, was defeated Tuesday by 134 NO votes (54%) compared to 114 votes in favor. The measure needed a simple majority in order to pass.

If it had been approved, the 10-year levy of 67 cents per thousand dollars valuation (or an increase of 34-cents per $1,000) would have been used to address a number of building needs in the district, including school safety, transportation and technology purchases. The revenues from the PPEL would have generated between $140,000-to-$160,000, and would have allowed Treynor to avoid using the district’s general fund to pay for projects.

The district currently operates with a five-year board-approved PPEL of 33 cents per thousand.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:45 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa House has approved an expansive immigration enforcement bill that would withhold state funding from local governments that don’t comply with immigration laws. The Republican-controlled chamber voted 55-45 Tuesday for the legislation. The measure heads to the GOP-controlled Senate, which already passed the bill but must OK final changes. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, who highlighted the bill to raise money for her gubernatorial campaign, is expected to sign it.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state court judge will rule soon on the fate of former Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett’s campaign for governor. Corbett asked a Polk County judge Tuesday to allow signatures crossed out in his ballot petition to be counted after a state elections panel refused to consider them. An attorney representing the panel said “rules are rules” and that drawing a bold line through a signature clearly indicates it shouldn’t be counted.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines man has been charged with training roosters to cockfight more than a month after police and animal rescue workers seized scores of chickens from his property. Officials say 50-year-old Jose Barrios was booked Monday evening in the Polk County Jail. He’s charged with being a trainer for an animal contest, a felony. More than 100 roosters and hens were taken from Barrios’ home on March 8.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A jury has found a Des Moines man guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of another man last year in the city’s River Bend neighborhood. The Des Moines Register reports that 19-year-old Miguel Lorenzo-Baltazar was found guilty Monday of the July 28 death of 23-year-old Jeffrey Mercado, of Des Moines.