“We had to pause for about a year until we understood the pandemic enough to feel comfortable entering homes,” said Mark Hunt, Bettendorf’s Community Development Director.
It s unclear what will happen next for the representation of Davenport s 7th Ward residents after the council voted to remove Derek Cornette from office Thursday night.
Of Iowa’s 940 cities, about 200 have city managers or administrators. In many cases, these managers are the highest-paid, or among the highest-paid, city employees. But what do they do and how do they run a city? Here’s a look at a day in the life of several Iowa city managers and how they balance everything from disaster response to patching potholes.
Cedar Falls Mayor Rob Green recommends the city make his job a part-time position in an editorial for The Courier, a change he has pushed for in the past.
Iowa judges recently have sided with open government advocates trying to gain access to public records and attend public meetings — with the latest ruling requiring the state to pay