Good monering, welcome to Rule Committee meeting of march 10, 2016. Im katy tang and to the right is malia cohen and the right is eric mar. We would like to thank sf gov tv [inaudible] herb and [inaudible] josh alexander. Any announcements . Please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices [inaudible] submit today the clerk. Items will appear on the march 22, march [inaudible] thank you very much. Will you please call item one, hearing appoint one mb tern to childcare planning and advisory council. There is one seat. Thank you, if we can have mrs. Candice wong. Good morning, my name is candice wong. Im currently the applying for reappointment to districtly advisory council. I have experience on [inaudible] business side and [inaudible] working at the low Income Investment fund of california director Child Development program. I have been there for 10 years so continue to serve the city in the capacity of Early Childhood education and proud the work we have done over the last 2 dec
Protesters say theyre not planning on going away anytime soon. And that they plan to keep the pressure on harreld and the board of regents to resign. To think that somebody can come in on a short term basis and undermine our efforts is flawed, we can continue to keep the pressure on. Harreld says he has no plans to resign. He is leaving town tomorrow for washington dc for a university event. But he says hell be back here thursday and working. In iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Meteorologist joe winters joins us now. Joe, temperatures getting close to 80 in november is almost unheard of. What a spectacular run of early november weather three days in a row with highs near or above 70 for this time of the year is a rarity. Tonight some fog develops in the western part of the state and will have to be watched to see if any makes its way into eastern iowa. The next big change comes thursday as a cold front arrives bringing showers and seasonable temperatures for the end of the w
Winds s 1020 alo 72 dbq 70 iow 72tomorrow night partly cloudy low 5157 winds sw 510 alo 57 dbq 55 iow 56 Monticello Police say an anonymous tip texting system helped them learn about a potential school threat. But they say it also revealed a downside to the procedure. The Monticello School district says Police Received a text message indicating a student might bring a gun to the high school yesterday. As a precaution, police were at the school, and students were not allowed in hallways during classes. Parents, if they wanted to, could take their kids out of school for the day. Early yesterday morning, Monticello Police chief britt smith got a message on his phone. It was a notification that someone had sent an anonymous tip about the gun threat to the jones county text to tell system. Once the tipster sends the text, officers can respond asking for more information. But the tipster can end all communication at any time, by simply typing stop. With this program granting that anonymity w
At any time, by simply typing stop. With this program granting that anonymity we arent able to clarify. We arent able to update people. Its just an unknown until we are able to get someone to admit that and say i submitted it. Without that kind of admission, police cant do much more to investigate the school threat. We have this sort of anxiety with parents that just because this day is over doesnt mean that theres not going to have some anxiety when sending the kids back to school tomorrow. Monticello, anamosa, the jones county sheriff and jones county safe and Healthy Youth coalition split the two thousand dollar annual subscription cost for the texting program. So far, chief smith says thats money well spent. Most generally is drug use. And people are around people using drugs in a situation where they dont feel comfortable. Its very easy for them to discretely pick up the phone and send a message, because who doesnt do that . Its the ups and downs that come with advances wiedemann
Today is election day, and across eastern iowa voters will choose City Council Members and make other local decisions. One choice for voters. Is if the Cedar Rapids Public Library see additional funds. The library wants voters to approve a levy of 27 cents for one thousand dollars of the assessed taxable valuation of a home. That would cost the owner of a cedar rapids home valued at 150 thousand dollars an extra 23 dollars a year. This levy would raise an estimated onepointsix Million Dollars each year for the library. Board members say if they dont get the funding, the library could close one day a week. Also on the ballot in cedar rapids are those vying for the atlarge and district candidates for city council. Voting officials in Johnson County will be extra watchful during todays city elections. They want to make sure poll watchers are following state law. Johnson county auditor Travis Weipert says hes heard some candidates in University Heights and iowa city will have poll watchers