In the last of three meetings of the week, the Ames City Council concluded its budget meetings with presentations from city staff about their departments’ budgets, including transit, community development and general government/internal services Thursday. The council will hear from the public Tuesday and vote on the proposed budget. Transit Ames Transit Director Barbara Neal.
The Ames City Council evaluated current planning and zoning ordinances and discussed what it would like to be more flexible with zoning standards. There have been several cases where exceptions to the ordinances needed to be made in special circumstances but not for a city-wide policy change. “We’re seeing about an 80% rate of the.
First Interstate Bank closed Wednesday afternoon so its employees could volunteer. One of the projects was the new Habitat homes being built in west Ames.
Michigan State Police reported on Thursday that 31-year-old Joseph P. Blasdell is facing 15 charges after the incident in the Baker Subdivision around 10 p.m. on Nov. 5.