(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Board of Supervisors in Adair County, Friday, are expecting to receive FY 2024 Budget requests from five County Department heads:

• Sheriff Jeff Vandewater will present his request at 9-a.m., and discuss Office Cleaning.
• Adair County Attorney Melissa Larson is scheduled to present her request for funding, at 9:30-a.m.
• Conservation Director Dominic Johnson will make his FY 24 Budget request at 9:50-a.m., Friday,
• and at 10:20-a.m., the Supervisors will hear from Mindy Norwood, with the DHS, and County Auditor Mandy Berg, with regard to their respective FY 24 Budget requests.

The Board will take the requests under consideration, but no action will be taken at this time on any of the requests.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – Police in Glenwood report the arrest on Wednesday, of 50-year-old Allen Emert, from Glenwood. Emert was taken into custody for OWI/1st offense and Possession of a Controlled Substance. His cash or surety bond was set at $2,000.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Board of Directors of the Atlantic Community School District will meet 4:45-p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, for the purpose of sharing Collective Bargaining Proposals with the District’s Non-Certified Staff Collective Bargaining Unit. The meeting takes place in the District’s Central Office (1406 SW 7th Street) inside the Achievement Center. The meeting is open to the public.

During the session, the Atlantic Employee Association, representing the Non-Certified Staff, will present its initial contract proposal between the Association and the Board of Education, for the 2023-24 school year. That will be followed by the Atlantic Board of Education presenting its initial contract proposal between the Employee Association and the Board of Education.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s largest school district plans to resume classes today (Thursday) after a cybersecurity attack on Monday forced the cancelling of school for 33-thousand students. Des Moines Public Schools Interim superintendent Matt Smith says the district is in the restoration-and-recovery phase and it’s still not known if students’ or families’ personal data was leaked.  “That’s what all of our diagnostics checks will actually let us know,” Smith says, “and so once we get those forensics back, we’ll have a lot more of a confident idea of anything that has or has not happened.” Smith says the district-wide computer system that was evidently hacked significantly impacts a wide range of student services.

“It impacts our routing system to make sure that we are picking up students at the right spot at the right time, that we know who’s on our bus and who’s not,” Smith says. “It impacts our food and nutrition system to make sure that we are supplying the meals necessary for all of our students.” Cedar Rapids schools were hit by a cyberattack last year and the state’s second-largest district paid an undisclosed sum in ransom after losing a week of summer school.

(reporting by Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio)