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It would just be one home, and it would be a nice, four-bedroom home, Bartles said.
HCBS waiver homes allow people with disabilities to receive services while integrating into their communities.
Hope Haven is eyeing a combination zero-percent interest and forgivable loan through the Iowa Finance Authority s Revolving Loan Fund to pay for construction of the home, but it must have control over the worksite before it can apply. Let s say build a house and that house is a $300,000, and we do what we say we re going to do which we always do half of the value of that house becomes the equivalent of a grant after five years, Bartles explained. It s a forgivable loan, so that really helps us on capital. And then part of the remainder, let s say 17%, is zero-percent interest for 10 years, and that helps us as well.
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Next year s spring break became a point of contention for Burlington School Board members Monday ahead of their approval of the district s 2021-22 school calendar.
The calendar, which was approved by a 6-1 vote, sets next year s spring break for April 12-18, two week later than this year s spring break, which ran from March 31 to April 2.
Board president Joel Sieren, who last year advocated for a weeklong spring break, argued that it should be scheduled for earlier in the year. I just remember this year, in talking anecdotally with staff, with students, they were very burned out, couldn t wait for spring break, and on this calendar, spring break would be a week later than it was this year, Sieren said, adding that he felt a late spring break would make the remainder of the year difficult for seniors to concentrate as they would return with only four-and-a-half weeks left before their last day.
Whem did communication between BLC and F&M end?
During a subsequent phone call with Charles Walsh, councilman Matt Rinker, who was not authorized to represent in the city on the call and instead was speaking on his own behalf, and school board president Joel Sieren, Brown and BLC Vice President Merquiche Lewis learned the bank already had created the scholarships and that they were earmarked for minority students, not specifically Black students. A phone call between the Black Leadership Council, F&M, a member of the Burlington City Council and the Burlington School Board took place Jan. 19, 2021, Charles Walsh read from a statement he had prepared for the work session. At this time, the Black Leadership Council asked for $125,000 to be paid to the Black Leadership Council. If this amount wasn t feasible, then $95,000 would be adequate. This is when communication between F&M and the Black Leadership Council began to end.
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