Community gathered at four Directions Community center in sioux city on monday. The issue at the forefront. Concerns about public intoxication amongst the native American Community, as the two entities came together to discuss both problems and solutions, im going to simply say that i believe that those in the public and private trusts who wororon recovery need to nnect with our native community. I do not think theyre doing the job that they would wish to do says frank lamere, director four directions center. Frustrations were even expressed by Law Enforcement. The Woodbury County sheriff says that we got punishment down, we need to work on rehabilitation, Detox Centers instead of 30 days of jail time. But those kinds of changes cannot be made without state legislature. I get somewhat frustration. Im the sheriff and chief young is the chief, we are Law Enforcement but the ones that make legislative change should be at some of these meetings and when you dont see them it becomes a sourc
Homelessness. Exceptionally busy. And, local body shops experience a mad rush. On preholiday repairs. Jenna good evening and thank you for joining us tonig im jenna rehnstrom, tim is school board took a big step today to finalize plans for a new building to replace one of the oldest schools in the city. Bryant elementary. Abc9s lukas voss was at the meeting and brings us more. Lukas thanks jenna, we are indeed closer to the approval of a 3 Million Dollar plan to replace bryant elemantary school. Approximately 1 point two million of those funds would be reimbursable by the city. Now. This has been a plan thats been in the works for quite a while. Mind you the school was built in 1889. Over 2 decades ago. The School District mainly struggling with location. There was simply no land to built on and officials didnt want to buy out residents. In end the Community Came together to buy 8 homes and make space available, officials are excited and also realize the responsibility. Big investment.
Naturally shrink because we can be much more effective, much more Cost Effective in how we move people and product and naturally it actually takes less s sstem, overall long term. He says people naturally stop using certan pieces of the system. Which means likely they are already not being maintained and likely will shift away over time. Over time longtime linn county engineer steve gannon has seen that happen firsthand. 1 39 47 roads like leigh rd, weve vacated if you look now its nearly impossible to find any signs of some of the roads that no longer exist like leigh road. Linn county crews face this from timetotime as they work on the 1,157 miles of roads in the couny. As theres less and less use, it over grows. So, at some point, typicaay its the ppperty owner thats adjacent it becomes a nuisance for people. They are not really used for very much. They overgrow in trees. People then ask to have something done about it, either to fix it up or to get rid of the road. We have done tha
Chchch of america have written letter asking governor branstad to change his stance on refugees. They say its our duty as iowans and christians to welcome people who are experiencing terrorism in theirown country. The letter rds in part we arar not naive about possible new threats of terrorism, but denying refuge to thousands of desperate people is not who we are as christians, nor will ituarantee cur security. It goes on to say iowans haveea long history of settling refugees, including those from syria. And not allowing any refugees into iowa is only feeding the problem. Meteorologist joe winters joins us from dubuque this evening. Thats where the Salvation Army is holding their red kettle campaign. Joe, today we saw some of the snow melting, are we in for more of a warm up . Melting snow cover through the day is leaving behind plenty of low level moisture. The reason we care about this tonight is that it will lead to patchy fog. We have perfect conditions with a light wind and a clea
Winds se 515 alo 39 dbq 38 iow 43tonight mostly cloudy low 3137 winds se 1015 alo 32 dbq 30 iow 33tomorrow chance ofshowers fog high 4248 nds s 1015 alo 44 dbq w 47tomorrow night ars of izzleefog low 3945 winds s 1015 alo 39 dbq 40iow 44 anks kaj. Iowa has too many roads for future needs. That assessment comes from department of transportation director paul trombinin. Trombino says the current Transportation System will shrink. Travel is changing over time and so will the number of roads, bridges and rails. Trombino doesnt believe iowa can afford to road miles and 25thousand bridges. He says iowans are shifting towards the use of high priority traveling out of the state with their products. Transportation leaders arent rebuilding roads that arent used any more. For example, when interstate380 came through, 1 53 00 my belief is i dont thinnanybody wants us to rebuild the system that was built in 1950 because people dont utilize the system as much as 1950, they want a 21st century or 202