| City Council (7/27/10) Awards to post-flood volunteers, public art (re)authorized, residency requirements for Section 8 housing, Events Center design by OPN and and update on progress thus far, and other business | Citizens Action Party (7/25/10) A new political party emerges from among Cedar Rapidians who were flooded in 2008. Michael Richards is their nominee for Governor of Iowa. After a running mate is secured, petitions to gather the 1,500 signatures needed by the mid-August deadline in order to appear on the November election ballot will be circulated. | Northwest Neighborhood Association (6/24/10) monthly meeting with an updates on revision of by-laws and summer recreation programs. | Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (7/17/10) The statewide convention of this activist group of some 3000+ members featured keynote speaker Chris Hayes of the Nation magazine and demonstrations at the Culver's residence at Terrace Hill in Des Moines and Terry Branstad's campaign headquarters in Urbandale. ICCI was recently featured on the last of PBS's Bill Moyers' program. | City Council (7/13/10) Proposed changes to the city's housing code draw extended public comment. Last ditch efforts to save the plinth of the Sinclair smokestack crumble. And these are only parts of a very long meeting. |
| Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization (7/15/10) Adoption of the Connections 2040 plan for investment of federal transportation funds, and discuss extending the development of trails in Linn County. | Wellington Heights Neighborhood Assn (7/14/10) gets briefed on the proposed Medical Mall by Mike Sundall, CEO, Physicians Clinic of Iowa. The Q&A gets a bit testy. | Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis (7/14/10) Is this what Third Street SE from the Events Center to New Bohemia might come to look like? | Cedar Rapids City Council & Linn County Supervisors meet together to explore possibilities of jointly funded public projects and other matters of common interest. | Council Watch(6/25/10) for June; a monthly feature of Coffee Talk: Corridor Conversations with host Art Staed. This month's guests: Kay Halloran, Michael Richards and Linda Seger. |
| The Grant Wood Window (7/4/10) is dedicated at an event on the Second Avenue Bridge in front of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. | Local Option Sales Tax Oversight Committee decided they did not agree with the City Council's use of LOST funds to compensate for loses of personal property during the flood of 2008. | Procurement Committee of the Cedar Rapids City Council (6/29/10) Discussions of purchases of police vehicles and the City's purchasing authorization procedure. | Cedar Valley Montesorri School reopens in the Ground Transportation Center. | Lime Creek Watershed Council (6/27/10) meets at Lime Creek Park near Brandon to get an update on work by students in the chemistry program at Coe College in monitoring the water on Lime Creek to measure efforts to reduce contaminants. |
| Cedar Rapids City Council (6/22/10) The last meeting of June features hiring a new City Manager, controversy over the Mayor's approach to appointments to Boards and Commissions, adopting new housing regulations and conceding that the Sinclair smokestack must come down. | Army Corps of Engineers (6/23/10) hosts an open house to provide information about their plan for flood protection for Cedar | Ethics Board (6/21/10) Apparent completion of efforts to produce educational materials to brief boards, commission and elected officials defining "conflicts of interest" with examples drawn from cases heard thus far. Following the meeting, chairperson Judy Whetstine was interviewed to provide clarification of the Board's educational work. | Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission (6/16/10) Reviews its finances, a housing ordinance in preparation for presentation to and adoption by the City Council, and reports from committees and the Director. A quorum was not present. | The Main Street Board (5/11/10) listens and questions as Alliant Energy's representatives try to make their case for planting a substation in the heart of the Oak Hill and New Bohemia neighborhoods. A previous meeting (11/6/09) seven months ago covered many of the same issues. Support of Alliant's efforts to place the substation near the Cherry Building by City staff was evident during and following this meeting. |
| Cedar River Watershed Coalition Second Meeeting (4/30/10) features presentations and reports by several groups involved in flood protection…Explorations (2/5/10) by leaders from along the Cedar River of what can be done this year…Rob Hogg, Iowa State Senator, District #19, Cedar Rapids,(1/4/10) convened a meeting of flood experts and others seeking information and insight to aid him in addressing issues of the 2008 flood during this legislative session. |
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| U of I Iowa Flood Center (2/25/10) Director Dr. Witold Krajewski and hydrolic engineer Dr. Larry Weber give a progress report on developing flood-predictive models/mapping for the Cedar River to a gathering at the Center for Energy and Environmental Education at UNI. | A Time to Listen (3/11/10)Presentations by the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Weather Service—and the City's Public Works Department regarding flood-threat readiness A Time to Listen (1/14/10) A listening meeting hosted by Ron Corbett, Cedar Rapids' Mayor-elect. The first listening session, 12/3/09 plus post-event interviews with some who attended. |
A Watershed Year—Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008(4/10/10) A discussion based on the book by that title recently published by the University of Iowa Press, involving the book's' editor, Cornelia F. Mutel, Iowa Flood Center Director Witold Krajewski, Iowa State Senator Rob Hogg and Chair of the Linn County Board of Supervisors Linda Langston. The discussion, including at Q&A period, was held at the Bridge Library at Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids. |