LaVon Eblen visits with Janine Knop and Jackie McGregor about a book they co-authored.
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(Des Moines) – Auditor of State Rob Sand today (Tuesday) released an agreed-upon procedures report on the City of Walnut, Iowa, for the period July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. The agreed-upon procedures engagement was performed pursuant to the Code of Iowa. Sand reported eight findings related to the receipt and disbursement of taxpayer funds. They are found on pages 7 through 9 of the report.
The findings address issues such as a lack of segregation of duties, the lack of a depository resolution, utility bill forgiveness in violation of Chapter 388.6 of the Code of Iowa, and disbursements exceeding budgeted amounts. Sand provided the City with recommendations to address each of the findings.
Seven of the eight findings discussed above are repeated from the prior year. The City Council has a fiduciary responsibility to provide oversight of the City’s operations and financial transactions. Oversight is typically defined as the “watchful and responsible care” a governing body exercises in its fiduciary capacity.
A copy of the agreed-upon procedures report is available for review on the Auditor of State’s web site at https://auditor.iowa.gov/audit-reports.
The Iowa Department of Public Health’s Coronavirus dashboard, on Tuesday (4/20) said there after two deaths with no additional deaths reported, five were added since 10-a.m. Monday, bringing the pandemic death toll to 5,886. Long-Term Care facility deaths account for 2,303 of the total number of deaths across the state.
There were 555 additional positive test results for COVID-19 returned from the labs, for a total of 389,903. There is now just one Long-Term Care facility outbreak to report, down from two the past week. And, there are 18 positive cases among residents and staff at those two facilities, down from 23 previously.
More than two-million (2,066,971) COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Iowa, and 886,340 individuals have completed the vaccine series.
Health officials say COVID-related hospitalizations statewide are on the rise, but there is a decline in our area. Statewide, hospitalization rose from 205 Monday to 215, Tuesday. 53 COVID patients in an ICU (2 more than yesterday). The IDPH says 34 people with COVID symptoms were admitted to a hospital across the state (an increase of 7 from Monday), and 19 patients remain on a ventilator. RMCC Region 4 hospitals (those in western/southwest Iowa) show: There are 22 hospitalized with COVID; 10 COVID patients are in an ICU; one person was admitted with symptoms of COVID, and there remain four COVID patients on a ventilator.
The 14-day positivity rate in Iowa is down a pinch, to 4.5%, while the seven-day positivity rate still stands at 4.4%.
In the KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases by County; The # of new cases since yesterday {+} if any; and the total number of deaths in each county to date:
Cass, 1,429 cases; {+0}; 54 deaths
Adair, 968; {+4}; 32
Adams, 341 {+3}; 4
Audubon, 513 {+2}; 9
Guthrie, 1,261 {+1}; 29
Harrison County, 1,896; {+0}; 73
Madison County, 1,682; {+3; 19
Mills County, 1,753; {+0}; 20
Montgomery, 1,084 {+1}; 37
Pottawattamie County, 11,845; {+15}; 162
Shelby County, 1,348 {+4}; 37
Union County, 1,314; {+0}; 32
The Creston Police Department reports two men were arrested on separate charges, Monday. Officials say 33-year-old Clay Brammer, of Afton, was arrested on a Union County warrant for Failure to Appear on an original charge of Domestic Abuse Assault/2nd offense. Brammer was being held without bond in the Union County Jail, while awaiting a bond hearing.
And, 38-year-old Hoby Gatson, of Creston, was arrested Monday for Violation of a Protection Order. He was also being held in the Union County Jail, pending a bond hearing.
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(Radio Iowa) – The third finalist in the search for a new University of Iowa president visited campus and held a public forum Monday. Wendy Hensel is currently the chief academic officer at Georgia State University — but says he has a Big Ten background — having graduated from Michigan State. She started her career in law, and took a job teaching law that she thought would be short-term until she decided what she wanted to do. “And it was not long before I realized that I had found my professional passion for the rest of my life. I love students. I love the mission of higher education,” Hensel says.
She says that would continue to be her focus at the U-I. “Students should be at the center of literally everything that we do. They’re the reason that we are here and their success is instrumental to our success,” according to Hensel. “I believe strongly, as I think all of you do too based on what I’ve heard today, that it is a moral imperative that anybody that we admit as sufficiently talented to be at this university — that we commit to get them through to graduation.” Hensel was asked about what appears to be a divide between the campus and the rest of the state on issues such as free speech.
“We can come back to a respectful position in which everybody is on the team. Right now it feels very much like it is us and them. It’s the polar opposite. There’s very little in the middle, and I would pledge as president to commit to developing that relationship on a serious basis, ongoing and in advance of these serious disputes,” Hensel says. She was also asked about how she would deal with the Legislature and some of the bills targeting the universities. Handel says the first thing is not to stand up and say “No” to everything, but to find the issues where you can softly debate and talk about them. “If you take away tenure for example. That would be one that we’re never going to agree that it is acceptable to do that. That’s just fundamental to higher education, it allows the research enterprise to take on questions that otherwise would not be politically palatable,” she says. “Certainly in this environment it’s not hard to see how that might happen. most of it we can discuss as friends with data and common goals in mind”
Hensel will spend today (Tuesday) on campus meeting with more groups. The fourth and final candidate for the president’s job will be announced and visit campus later this week. The next president is expected to be hired on April 30th.
Today: Partly cloudy. High 45. N @ 10-15. **Freeze Warning until 9-a.m.**
Tonight: P/Cldy to Cloudy w/a chance of flurries, late. Low 29. N @ 5.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy to Cldy w/a chance of flurries in the morning. High 47. N @ 10. **Freeze Warning from 12-a.m. until 9-a.m.**
Thursday: P/Cldy. High 58.
Friday: Mo. Cldy w/light rain. High 58.
Monday’s High in Atantic was 41. Our Low was 29. We received a dusting of snow, Monday, and just a trace of precipitation. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 70 and the Low was 30. The Record High was 90 in 1902, and the Record Low was 18, in 1956.