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4 INSIDER NOTEBOOK - The ethics of visiting Cuba - Don’t expect a Stowe apology - How East 14th St. became a Grand View asset - A focus on convertible parking ramps - News you might have missed
6 JERRY ANDERSONTake a closer look at the new dean of Drake Law School.
9 COVER STORY: TOWER UPThe pre-planning for proposed high-rises in downtown Des Moines can cause some sleepless nights.
15 REGIONALISM ON THE RISE?Debate over DART, Water Works, airport fuels new debate.
37 WE’RE CAUGHT IN A WHIRLPOOL
The Elbert Files: By Dave Elbert
38 BEFORE YOU HIT SEND Marketing: By Drew McLellan
WHO’S IN THIS ISSUE?A list of local people and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned.
FOCUS: BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION
28 THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Budget cuts, diversity highlight discussion on higher education.
33 ON THE MOVEJob changes, hires and promotions
36 CALENDAR PICKSYour first look at upcoming events
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The INSIDeR notebookBits and bites of the finer side of Iowa business
In case you missed it...A brief look back at members-only news from the past week on BusinessRecord.com
Midland Building sold to Chicago hotel groupThe developers of Chicago’s elysian hotel, a luxury property in the city’s Gold Coast, have bought the 104-year-old Midland Building in downtown Des Moines for $2.6 million. bit.ly/2lkBhFc
VIDEO: Five things to know about the future of higher educationA panel of education leaders discussed “The Future of higher education” at the Business Record’s Power Breakfast on Feb. 22 at the embassy Club in Downtown Des Moines. bit.ly/2lkBmJg
Bill Kusy’s foray into multifamily development is growing legsBill Kusy sold his commercial mortgage business about 18 months ago to focus on development and investments. his first project in Ankeny has taken off in a big way. bit.ly/2m96xM7
Telligen launches collaborative co-working site for nonprofitsTelligen Community Initiative executive Director Matt McGarvey announced that nonprofit health organizations have a new collaborative co-working space available at the Iowa Center for higher education in Des Moines. bit.ly/2mH7zvl
Is it unethical to visit Cuba?BY PERRY BEEMAN
As some of you know, I recently spent a week in Cuba on a person-to-person type of trip. This was my first trip. I skipped the jazz clubs of havana — something that is high on my bucket list — because I wanted my first experience to be more about learning about
how Cubans live, what they are like, and to soak up the culture.
I just found an article from MarketWatch ― on.mktw.net/2kHmBkB ― that wonders aloud if it is unethical for us to be tourists in Cuba, because at least in the near term, our presence will strain food and resources and may contribute more to haves than to have-nots. I’ll let you read and ponder that one, and whether President Donald Trump will reverse the move toward making it easier to visit — and maybe even do business with — Cuba. here is an article ― bit.ly/2mBrEE5 ― about local support for lifting the trade embargo. I imagine a fair number of you have now visited the island. So you know that the classic cars are everywhere. The government tells people that’s because the Cubans love those cars. The Cubans tell you it’s because cars can cost $20,000 dollars U.S. (about the same in Cuban pesos), and are often handed down from generation to generation. There is a fear that if your car breaks down for good, the government might not let you get another one, and the U.S. trade embargo doesn’t help. houses often cost about the same, $20,000 or so, and I had people tell me some workers make $12 a month. I wasn’t sure whether to believe that because even in Rwanda — one of the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, I met people who made $1 to $2 a day. Cubans pay no income tax, get groceries (though not as many as they would like) from the government and get free medical exams and prescriptions. I flew into Varadero on American on a half-empty plane and spent most of the week in Matanzas. I discovered that the government still requires that most churches and restaurants be in Cubans’ homes. Churches have no signs at all. Many restaurants have only small ones.
The people were extremely friendly. Many talked candidly about family situations, and alcoholism apparently is common. The living quarters I saw were better than I expected — a few had washers, old microwave ovens and decent kitchen appliances — but were modest. I was told if you want a fancier house, you need to be in the Cuban military. Though Cuba is a communist country and officially atheist, you will see some signs of religion in what appears to be a growing church scene, though not nearly what you see in heavily Catholic Mexico, for example. Much of the area I saw was very similar to other Latin American stops, with concrete buildings of varying paint coverage, and people relaxing in the town squares. Because the internet is highly limited by the Cuban government, you tend to see big crowds around any Wi-Fi hot spot. Those of you who know me would probably ask this question, so I’ll volunteer an answer. Yes, I took a trumpet on the trip. Yes, I played it. A little spontaneous “Basin Street Blues” in the town square never hurts, and I appreciated the applause from the other side of the block. And the photo op with the classic car. I enjoyed teaching a few kids how to play a note or two. I’m still dreaming of jamming in the havana bars. Next trip. I spent a day shopping in Varadero, the main coastal tourist area, and visiting the blissfully uncrowded and undeveloped beach just off the shopping district. The shopping was wonderfully low key, with friendly shopkeepers and a manageable crowd. I wondered if the cruise ships will completely change the place. The rum was cheap. The cigars varied in price, but the most expensive (excluding the top of the line, hand-rolled Cohibas) were about what you would spend at a West Des Moines cigar shop for something from, say, Nicaragua. I didn’t spend much time wondering if my visit was somehow skewing things down there. I suspect the influx of American tourists, if it is allowed to continue, will bring a higher quality of living to many in Cuba, if Castro allows it. But the recent article is food for thought for any of us who have felt guilty vacationing in a spot where the locals struggle economically and otherwise.
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Stowe: No apology comingBY PERRY BEEMAN I swung out to Urbandale City hall on Monday (Feb. 20) for a joint meeting among council members and the water utility board. Normally, this might be less than riveting, but we’re having a bit of a metro dust-up over whether Bill Stowe and his regime at Des Moines Water Works should run things around here — as far as producing water goes — or if suburbs such as West Des Moines, Waukee and Urbandale should build their own plants. Some scholars say a regional plant would save money; some in the suburbs worry about losing control of their finances, growth and water taps. A Keota-based state lawmaker who is closely aligned with farm groups filed a bill that would force the water utilities in the Des Moines area to merge into a regional utility over a two-year period. This has further hurt feelings already frayed by the fight over Water Works’ federal lawsuit against drainage districts over nitrate pollution. This is intense, detailed stuff and could numb the brain of lesser men and women. But Urbandale City Councilman Mike Carver — bless him — ended a long noon-hour session at Urbandale by suggesting, barely containing a laugh, that maybe the Urbandale water chief should “just ask Bill Stowe to apologize” for filing the lawsuit and that would fix everything. We’re here to help, so I called Stowe and asked him about the apology. he laughed heartily. he then said, “I have been apologizing for dirty water for too long. My apology is to the ratepayers — hence the lawsuit.” There’s your sorry, Mike. Sort of.
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How East 14th became a Grand View asset BY JOE GARDYASZ My colleague Perry Beeman and I were chatting with Grand View University President Kent Henning after the Power Breakfast event “The Future of Higher Education” on Feb. 22. As we talked
about how the Grand View campus has been beautifully updated with new buildings over the past several years,
Henning noted how developer Richard Hurd — a Grand View board member who knows a thing or two about real estate — had changed his viewpoint about busy East 14th Street bisecting the campus being a liability. “You’re looking at it all wrong,” Henning recalled being
told by Hurd. “Fourteenth Street is your biggest asset.” Today, as people pass by the gateway sign, student walkway
and modern buildings, we’d say that Grand View is arguably East Fourteenth’s biggest asset.
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Convertible parking rampsBY KENT DARR
In recent weeks, the Business Record has conducted roundtable discussions centered on commercial real estate. We plan to pull tidbits from those conversations for use in our print and electronic publications, particularly CREW Weekly. Edited transcripts of those conversations will appear later this spring in our Annual Real Estate Magazine, and the entire videotaped discussions will be available for viewing on our website. During a discussion about development projects and land uses, RDG Planning & Design principal Davis Sanders brought up flat-plate parking ramps. He might have caught a couple of us with rather thin commercial real estate credentials (I’m thinking of myself and Business Record Publisher Chris Conetzkey) a little off guard. Parking is on flat decks, with access provided by ramps on the inside or outside of the parking garage. Makes perfect sense, Sanders said, especially at a time when some of us — Conetzkey’s generation in particular — are reconsidering the value of vehicles in their lives, to build parking ramps that can be converted to other commercial uses, such as apartments or offices or retail spaces, he said. There is a big demand for parking today that might not exist several years from now. Fewer vehicles would mean fewer expensive parking stalls. At an estimated cost of $35,000 a stall, you can understand a desire to build as few as possible. One example is in place in downtown Des Moines, where original plans called for first-floor retail at the parking garage at Third and Court avenues. Those plans didn’t play out because the federal government needed parking spaces and was fixated on having those spaces on the first floor. City of Des Moines Economic Development Director Erin Olson-Douglas said it is conceivable that the city ramp at Ninth and Locust streets could be be converted to another use. Eric Burmeister, executive director of the Polk County Housing Trust Fund, is another advocate of the flat-plate design. He said the ramps can be modified for apartments.
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A CLOSER LOOK: A local leader you should know
Closer Look suggestion?Do you know a leader who’s new or of growing interest in Des Moines’ business community? Send an email to the editor with the name, position and reason you think your nominee should be interviewed by our reporters. Send suggestions to [email protected]
Jerry Anderson has been a professor at Drake Law School since 1991. In that time, he has been visible on a range of envi-ronmental and other issues. He’s had plenty to say about the pol-lution of Iowa’s waterways, though he has had to refocus since he became dean of the school in July. Now, Anderson is concentrating on helping area businesses, diversifying the student body and serving students who need to know a bit about the law but don’t want or need a law degree. We stopped in to see how Anderson is settling in.
How are you wired? I would say that being a law professor for 25 years doesn’t necessarily prepare you for administrative duties. A law pro-fessor’s life is pretty solitary, whereas being dean, you really can’t get anything done without the help of other people. It’s much more collaborative, which I enjoy. I am finding that it’s a way to stretch myself in a different direction. It forces you to engage with people in ways that maybe I wasn’t as a professor.
What are your priorities? I have two priorities. One is to grow the school in terms of programming. The second goal is to increase our external resources. The main new program I wanted to highlight is our new program in compliance and risk management, which in-cludes a Master of Jurisprudence degree. Every major insti-tution or company has a compliance department now that deals with the complex regulations that they have to deal with. This is one of the few programs in the country that will train people to work in those compliance departments. These are people who have undergraduate degrees and this is a 24-credit program so you can get it done either in one year full time or two years part time. We’re anticipating that it will be primarily people who are working. It’s geared to evening or online offerings. It starts in fall. Wells Fargo told us they have thousands of people who do compliance work, so it’s primarily going to be, we think, financial services, insurance, health care, manufacturing,
pharmaceuticals, biochemical, higher education. They have to institute systems for compliance. So we are working in conjunction with the College of Business and Public Admin-istration on the program. We think they need to know the le-gal requirements but they also need to know from the busi-ness standpoint how to implement a system that will make sure they are checking the boxes right.
What was the evolution of that program? We met with a group of local businesses to get their in-put on what they thought would make a valuable program for their employees. We had Principal and Wells Fargo and Pioneer and the major employers in town to ask them what needs they had that weren’t being met.
What is your philosophy when it comes to teaching the law today? One of my thoughts is that legal education is constantly evolving. We have been thinking of legal education as just a J.D. degree and you are going to get out and be a lawyer. But we know that many people who aren’t lawyers need to know something about the law. We want to think more broadly about what legal education is to include people who may not become lawyers.
Does Drake Law do specific work with startups? We are hoping to get a grant. We have a transactional clinic right now. Since the 1970s, we’ve been a leader in clini-cal education. Most of that has been focused on litigation and criminal defense, that kind of thing. More recently, we’ve added a transactional clinic so we can help nonprof-its or startup businesses with their needs. They will advise them on what kind of corporate entity they need to estab-lish and help them draft the articles of incorporation. We help them protect their trademarks. It’s really good training for students who don’t want to be in the courtroom. The law students help people who can’t afford lawyers, under the su-pervision of a professor. We have an elder law clinic where they help with wills or Social Security.
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EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, University of Kansas; law degree, Stanford University
FAMILY: Wife, Susan; two children
ACTIVITIES: Hiking. Hopes to traverse a 100-mile trail in England. He hiked part of the Lake Superior trail last year.
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JERRY ANDERSONDean, Drake Lake School, Richard M. and Anita Calkins Distinguished Professor of LawBY PERRY BEEMAN
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What is the grant app? We have a grant application in that will help us evolve the transactional clinic into an entrepreneurial clinic that will help startup businesses and focus on economic development.
What else would you like to accomplish? The other thing we are focusing more on is international students. I am going to China in March to hopefully final-ize an agreement with our partner institution, Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, that would send us a group of students every year to study at Drake. We will be reaching out to other international areas as well to do similar agreements to help with the diversifica-tion of our enrollment. Anything we can do to broaden our students’ cultural diversity is important. Cultural compe-tence is something that employers want to see. Iowa struggles with diversity both in the business com-munity and at educational institutions. We have had to make special efforts to obtain a diverse class. We have a new program now that will offer internships to diverse students that come to Drake Law School. It’s a leadership program. Long term, one of my goals is to increase the visibility of Drake nationwide. Everyone in Iowa knows that we pro-duce great lawyers, but sometimes in other geographic ar-eas the message isn’t as clear. My plan includes sending our professors out to speak at conferences, having more con-ferences here that will attract nationwide attention, and better marketing. n
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TO INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT
BECOME LAWYERS.Jerry Anderson, dean, Drake Law School
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The Blackbird will stand in tight quarters among tall buildings.
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If Ryan Doyle could make a tower appear on the downtown Des Moines skyline in the blink of an eye, he would do it. Some dreams do come true. Little doubt that Justin Mandelbaum would do the same for a tower project that he has planned. Both are key players in the proposed developments of the first high-rise residential structures built downtown since the Plaza condominiums in the mid-1980s. The last tall building to grace the skyline was the EMC Insurance Cos. headquarters that was completed in 1997 on Walnut Street. Doyle oversees design and pre-construction for Blackbird Invest-ments, the team that plans to build The Blackbird, a 33-story, 336-unit luxury residential building planned for the former Younkers department store site at Seventh and Walnut streets. Justin Mandelbaum and his father, John, plan to build The Fifth, a three-phase project that will feature a 32-story residential tower with 200 luxury apartments and a 50-room hotel, a 564-space parking ramp and a two-story movie theater at Fifth Avenue and Walnut Street.
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DETAIL WORK: ARE RESIDENTIAL TOWERS MORE COMPLICATED TO BUILD THAN OFFICE TOWERS? Blackbird Investments picked Beal Derkenne Construction as the general contractor for a 33-story luxury high-rise because of the Des Moines-based company’s experience building towers in the Southwest and in Iowa City. To say that co-founder Andy Beal takes a look beyond the surface of such projects is an understatement. For example, is it more complicated to build a residential tower as opposed to a commercial high-rise? Beal is too polite to say, “Well, of course it is, dummy.” He took a few minutes away from overseeing construction of the Rise mixed-use building in Iowa City to send the Business Record an email that explains the differences. “I would note that there is usually a level of coordination that happens in a residential tower well beyond the office tower. “As an example, as most towers are post tensioned in nature, there is typically a desire to coordinate as much utility rough-in into each deck prior to it being poured. “This element alone in a residential tower is significantly more intense, especially when an urban, concrete ceiling feel is the finished product, and the expectation is to see no exposed conduit, but just a light hanging down with a minimalist view. “Sounds easy, but it requires a large team to get it right, integrating the structural elements with the mechanical elements and making it work with the architectural intent. “Couple this with having to do it floor after floor and coordinate months in advance any clashes that may happen from the unit above or below, and all of this is before we even set foot on site, and create micro-schedules down to the hour of subcontractor installation on the active decks being constructed prior to pouring the deck. “Gone are the days of primary layout with tape measures and a ‘close enough is good enough’ approach. Everything now is digital, 3D, GPS, and requires extensive planning and coordination to get it done right. “With office construction, a lot of the time raised floors are introduced to offer tenant flexibility down the road, which usually means less integrated coordination up front with stub-ins to designated locations on a floor print only. “Unless office tenants are selected well ahead of time, office buildings are typically shelled out for tenant improvement conversion when tenants are assigned, as opposed to residential construction where you are fitting out the building concurrently.”
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Demolition of the parking ramp that will be replaced by The Fifth should begin midsummer. The deep hole in the ground that will be filled up by The Blackbird is almost, but not quite — more on that later — ready to accept the 150-caissons that will make up part of the building’s foundation. A lot is happening before construction begins on either building. Doyle estimates that several hundred hours have been spent poring over the details of vehicle and pedestrian routes, crane placement and con-struction, the delivery of materials. How, for example, do you deliver more than 4,000 square feet of wood decking to the 31st floor of The Blackbird after the cranes are gone, as they will be by the time the decking arrives? How do you maintain public safety and keep traffic jams and pedes-trian bottlenecks to a minimum? We all have big dreams for downtown development, but we’re not shy about grumbling over walking a couple of extra blocks on a hot and windy summer day when sidewalks are closed. “An unfortunate part of progress is the inconvenience,” Doyle said. “In the end, everybody just wants it done.” Isn’t it the truth. Doyle has been spending a lot of time meeting with a range of city planners — engineers, traffic and building specialists, eco-nomic development coordinators, to name a few — as well as the construc-tion company that will build the tower and corporate neighbors near the intersection of Seventh and Walnut streets, to make sure the process runs like clockwork. We’re talking about a tight space with other tall buildings nearby, namely the 19-story EMC building and 25-story Hub Tower. Traffic has to flow in and out of parking garages that are in the neighborhood. Blackbird already has a shared-space experience on Walnut Street, where Weitz Co. is finishing work on the Wilkins Building rehabilitation
on the west side of the Younkers site and Neumann Bros. Inc. is oversee-ing construction of a four-story addition to the EMC building. When work starts on The Blackbird, just a concrete pumping station alone will take up a big part of Walnut, Doyle said. Bob Andersen, a senior project manager with Weitz, said that it’s during the early “what-if” stage of a big project when future problems are avoided. Andersen is overseeing a big project of his own with the construction of the convention center hotel at Fifth Avenue and Park Street. Weitz was the general contractor on two 25-story structures on Walnut — the Fi-nancial Center in 1973 and Hub Tower in 1986 — but most of its high-rise construction occurs in Denver and Las Vegas. Weitz is the general contractor for the Mandelbaum project. Though that project is in the “very preliminary” stages, a lot of issues down the road can be avoided by close communication now. One issue at the convention center site, Andersen said, has been to make sure there is unobstructed traffic flow on the northbound lanes of Fifth. “The city wants to make sure everybody has a direct route to the hospital,” he said. The delivery of materials can cause traffic woes for walkers and drivers when schedules aren’t met. Most materials are delivered on an as-needed basis, Andersen said, because downtown sites rarely provide enough space to maintain an inventory. “You just really have to work with your suppliers to make sure that they deliver what you want when you want it,” Andersen said. Though the exact footprint for The Fifth hasn’t been determined, An-dersen said planning is helped by the fact that the Mandelbaums envi-sion a three-phase project that begins with a parking ramp that will be
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located in the middle of the project, with the high-rise to the north front-ing Walnut and the movie theater to the south facing Court Avenue. Andersen said the parking garage should help establish the overall footprint of the site. Nonetheless, there will have to be accommodations for foot and vehicle traffic from “curb to curb to curb” along the con-struction site. Matt Van Loon is a senior project manager for Ryan Cos. US Inc., and he is overseeing the construction of the Krause Gateway Center along Grand Avenue between 14th and 15th streets. Though that structure is relatively low-profile, the project does occupy a full city block and has presented its own issues so far as construction staging is concerned. Interesting to note that the tower crane jutting above the steelwork was erected by multiple cranes, Van Loon said. Staging for a construction project generally begins as soon as a site is identified, he said. Van Loon provided a four-color map of the Krause Gateway Center site that shows foot and vehicular traffic patterns, loca-tions where streets might be closed on temporary basis, and access points for construction traffic. “We communicate that plan with subcontractors, suppliers and the city. It’s all about getting a good plan,” he said. Meetings with various city departments begin early in the process. A plan that is mapped out “makes those conversations easier,” Van Loon said. “Sometimes you just have to work with the city and different depart-ments to shut down traffic.” On the other hand, such challenges are part of what makes working downtown “enjoyable,” he said. “It’s unique working downtown, but it’s a lot of fun,” Van Loon said. Erin Olson-Douglas, director of the city of Des Moines Economic Devel-opment Department, said the general goal of preplanning is to maintain a pedestrian walkway along all streets that are open to vehicular traffic. As a guide, the city produces an 11-page document that spells out its expectations for creating obstructions during building construction and includes acceptable forms of sidewalk protection as well as the design and placement of signs for pedestrian detours and crosswalk closings. For Doyle, it is important to know how all of the logistical issues fit together before the first spade of dirt is turned for The Blackbird. “The more you scratch, the more you find and the more there is to work out, but it gives you a good idea of why it takes so long to develop one of these buildings,” he said. “All of this is nothing about the building itself. Once you get the what, then you have to come up with the how.” Coming up with the how has caused more than a few sleepless nights, he said. An immediate area of concern is finding the foundation of the Younk-ers Building. Original construction documents show that it exists, but two rounds of ultrasonic testing have not revealed the location of what should be truck-sized slabs of limestone.
But the site constraints are the big issue. “I really do lose sleep over the site constraints,” Doyle said. “But it’s noth-ing they haven’t done before.” The “they” in this case is Beal Derkenne Con-struction, a relatively young Des Moines-based construction firm that is building the Rise 15-story mixed-use project in Iowa City. The company has several tall buildings under its belt as the result of work in the Southwest. Doyle points out that construction will require the use of multiple lanes on both Seventh and Walnut streets. In addition, where do you stick a tower crane on a tight location? Doyle said the Blackbird tower will rise from a two-story podium. The thought is to stick the crane on a corner of that podium, which will serve as a two-year home for construction trailers for various subcontractors and will host 200 construction workers at any given time. It is hoped that construction can start in July and be finished in 2019. Beal Derkenne will work out all of the construction scheduling. These days, all of the building modeling is digital. That means every-thing from light fixtures to duct working will be found in a large com-puter file, with original construction documents adding up to 600 pages, compared with about 30 pages for the Wilkins Building, Doyle said, and another 1,500 pages of specifications and notes. “We experience these buildings before they are built,” he said. Blackbird and the Mandelbaums already have made statements in downtown Des Moines. Blackbird has rehabbed both the Wilkins Build-ing on the Younker site and the Clemens Building a few blocks to the west. Their offices are located in a former manufacturing building on the south side of the East Village, and they are undertaking a historic rehab of Fort Des Moines. John Mandelbaum and partner Doug Wells developed the federal courthouse annex, a project that was awarded based on design. Justin Mandelbaum is developing Mainframe Studios, which will provide afford-able workspace for artists and nonprofit organizations. So why build a tower? “Des Moines has gotten to a point in its growth and its downtown revitalization, that this is the next stage for development. We need the density, we need the type of living, we need the style of living. We’re at the point in Des Moines where developers can start changing the skyline,” Doyle said. n
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Regionalism on the rise?
Greater des moines’ long love affair with regional initiatives is being tested as some push three key organizations to change the structure of their boards. Area leaders say all is well, and in fact the debate over changes is just one more sign that that central iowa government leaders have matured in their regional thinking.
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Steve Zumbach, the local attorney and co-founder of Bravo Greater Des Moines, has been involved in many regional ef-forts, some of them great successes and some failures. To him, the current debates come because local leaders took care of the easier parts of regional cooperation earlier. Now, they are tackling tougher questions, like how to make an already successful regional airport morph into an entity that has true regional representa-tion on its board. Ditto at the Des Moines Water Works. And how can the commu-nity — which has struggled since 1973 to fully support mass transit and mobility programs — change DART in a way that gives suburbs full representation? “We did the easier projects first,” Zumbach said of forming the Greater Des Moines Partnership (see sidebar on page 20), the cultural giant Bravo, the biotech initiative Cultivation Corridor and the Capital Crossroads planning ef-fort, for example. “And they weren’t easy when we did them.” Those efforts came after Zumbach and others fell on their political face at-tempting to push through the kind of fully shared government that Mayor Richard Lugar and others had installed in India-napolis. “We tried and failed. It never got off the ground,” Zumbach recalled. But the local communities looked to share services in smaller ways, with cooperation on po-lice and fire coverage, for example. “Sometimes it’s better to take little steps instead of big steps,” Zumbach said. This was a couple of decades ago. As downtown enjoyed one of its biggest booms before the current one, business
giants Steve Chapman, Bill Knapp, David Hurd and Suku Radia, mayors Tom Urban, Dick Olson and Gene Meyer, and many others pushed for the Des Moines Vision Plan and the creation of the Partnership. “How did we get all those communities together to say, ‘We’ll stand down and we’ll put our money in a community ini-tiative’?” Zumbach asked. “That seemed pretty daunting at the time, and it was.” Zumbach noted that the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau, Bravo, the United Way of Central Iowa, and Capital Crossroads show the power of regional thinking that is still strong today. The questions over the futures of Des Moines Water Works, DART and the air-port are tougher regional debates, partly because of the expense and the assets involved, Zumbach said. “Those are much harder,” he said. “They are very capital-intensive. It takes a lot of money to have a great airport, to have a great water sys-tem and to have a great mass transit sys-tem. But they touch every corner of the community. “We are at a critical point right now,” Zumbach said. “Water (quality and quanti-ty) needs to be addressed. Having a strong regional airport in Central Iowa needs to be addressed. Having a long-term mass transit strategy for Central Iowa needs to be addressed.” DART, the Des Moines Area Re-gional Transit Authority, has set up a task force of area leaders to consider whether DART’s commission could use a different arrangement, perhaps one that adds representation even farther out into the suburbs.
The Des Moines Airport Authority Board is made up entirely of Des Moines residents appointed by the mayor — even though the authority operates as an inde-pendent agency. Some have questioned whether the board should have members from areas outside Des Moines. And then there’s Des Moines Water Works, where the board is appointed just like the airport’s — by the mayor of Des Moines — but the suburbs that consume the majority of the water from the utility have said they deserve seats at the leadership table. Water Works chief Bill Stowe has said if they want a chair, they need to buy part of the plant because it is an expensive asset that Des Moines residents own. Never a dull moment. The idea of re-gionalism is as holy at the Greater Des Moines Partnership as CEO Jay Byers’ famed “secret sauce” speech about why Greater Des Moines rocks. There’s even talk of bringing back a council of governments. But these discus-sions always are colored by local politics, and they aren’t easy. Hensley said the DART debate actu-ally shows how much the community has grown. When the new agency formed in 2006, the commission thought the cur-rent governance structure would last 20 to 25 years. But a decade or so in, there is need to change it to keep up with the growth in Des Moines’ suburbs, Hensley said. “The blessing is we have grown past where we thought it would be. “The area has changed so dramati-cally. The governance model no longer fits the community we have today,” said
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Hensley, a key player in many Greater Des Moines issues over the years. Polk County Supervisor Angela Con-nolly said the area remains firmly commit-ted to regionalism. It is simply maturing, and growing. “We are having growing pains, that’s what it is,” said Connolly, a key player at DART and on mental health and hunger issues, and one of the architects of the Iowa Events Center development. “It used to be 70 percent of the water con-sumption was in Des Moines; now 60 percent is outside of Des Moines.” That raises governance issues. Both Hensley and Connolly said the debates at the airport, DART and Des Moines Water Works come as the move to-ward more regionalism strengthens. Steve Chapman, who was central to the creation of the Partnership, said the regional efforts in Greater Des Moines are “much stronger than they used to be. It used to be you would look at the mix for where it went. Now we look at the region.” The airport has come up with a “great plan” for an overhaul that will make an even more important engine for regional growth, Chapman said. “Our airport has come a long way.” Chapman lobbied for de-cades to get Southwest Airlines to do busi-ness here, something that now is in place. He’s hoping for more growth. “What a great addition to the economy it would be to have a new terminal of the quality that is being discussed,” Chapman said. “That will generate more air service.” The convention hotel, now under con-struction, will be a big help to the market, too, he added. “We will become more of a regional player, Chapman said. The makeup of the airport authority board is less of an issue than the approach its members take, Chapman said. Ed Han-sell, the board chairman and a longtime
mover on air service issues, and his col-leagues have done good work, he added. “I am less concerned about the re-gional nature of the airport board than I am the makeup of it,” Chapman said. “We need leadership to challenge us to become more regional,” which the current board has, he added. Chapman said for all the occasional de-bates on suburban representation and oth-er issues, the regional approach Greater Des Moines takes to issue “is much stron-ger than it used to be. “The question used to be which city would get a project. Did it go in West Des Moines? Did it go in downtown Des Moines? Did it go in Urbandale?” Chap-man said. “There was like a death grip on opportunities; there was almost a mistrust at one time.” Now, with Des Moines and its suburbs all relatively well off, Chapman said, the question is more if Greater Des Moines can get a project that might otherwise go to Nashville or Kansas City or Minneapolis or Grand Rapids. Chapman said that’s because Greater Des Moines leaders have decided to look at the health of the whole area.“People at that big table are looking at the region,” he said. “We really want to see this biotech corridor continue to become something much beyond what it is today. We have to continue to invest and ensure that we are doing the right things to drive that. We need to work more with Iowa State (Uni-versity) and Ames to continue to make that happen.” Byers said some of the debates are a natural progression. At the airport, the new terminal proj-ect could mean area counties and cities are asked to pony up. “If you have a funding model where cities outside of Des Moines or several counties are helping pay for it, the governments will have to be part of
that discussion,” Byers said. It’s too early to say how that discussion affects the struc-ture of the board, he added. In the case of the water debate, expenses for ratepayers are hanging in the balance, and Water Works officials and their coun-terparts are debating what is most efficient. Byers said the question of Water Works’ board makeup could come down to what the level of buy-in by the suburbs is. Or there could be discussion of sharing the cost of new assets or rebuilding what is there. “Who should pay for what?” Byers asked. “Obviously right now there has been some disagreement whether it’s Wa-ter Works or some of the suburbs as far as who should be responsible for what. Again, the ultimate goal is to try to make it more regional. Those are just some tough issues that are going have to con-tinue to be negotiated.” State lawmakers have even proposed legislation to force the issue. Byers agreed with Zumbach that these regional issues can be difficult. “With all sorts of negotiations and regionalism, it isn’t easy. Regionalism is hard. Both sides have to give to come up with results. There’s budgets. There’s governance. There’s mission. If you look at the history of all these groups. Metro Waste (Authority), Bravo, CVB or (the Partnership), it takes a lot of work to work together. You have to build trust and you have to build common mission. And it has to be in a way that both sides see it as a win.” Still, Byers sees a lot of work to share services in the future — without merging whole governments. “I think you are going to continue to see this region working closer together,” he said. “Regions are defined not by po-litical boundaries. Regions are defined by organizational boundaries. Regions are de-fined by economies. Regions are defined by
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where people live, by where people work, by where people shop. Where people enjoy recreation. Where people enjoy arts and culture. It’s community patterns. That’s how regions are defined.” “The Partnership represents eight counties, but that isn’t a full region, either. Because you really have to be in the Capi-tal Crossroads area, which is a 50-mile ra-dius,” Byers said. Byers said the future is likely to see more shared services than completely merged governments. “A lot of the mergers with cities and coun-
ties happened 10, 15, 20 years ago, and that was definitely a trend,” Byers said. “Really what I have seen across the country in the past decade has really moved away from the full mergers of government to the fo-cusing on services. I think that is what you have seen here, too. “What are those services that make sense for governments to work together on? That is the work you have seen in Cap-ital Crossroads,” Byers added. “There have been really nice wins in the last five years. I think that will be the trend in the short term. The consolidation of governments
might come back into vogue, but I don’t see that in the short term.” “The more services you identify to work together as a region, really the need for overall consolidation is reduced,” Byers said. “Are you saving resources and charg-ing lower rates by working together? Are you creating better services because you are maximizing those assets in a more ef-fective and efficient way?” Those are some of the questions area leaders will face in coming months. n
The birTh of The ParTnershiPThe delicate negotiations that formed the Greater Des Moines
Partnership and mothballed other groups is a case study in the growth of Greater Des Moines regionalism.
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The BirTh of The ParTnershiP: A cAse study in regionAlism the history of the greater des moines Partnership goes back to 1998. Steve Chapman was vice chairman of the greater des moines chamber of commerce. lynn Horak was chairman. As the year ended, chapman was preparing to take over as chairman. this is his account of how the Partnership formed. A couple of circumstances made chapman’s transition to pow-er more challenging than usual. First, chamber President and ceo michael reagen resigned. second, the chamber system, at least in the view of some key players who had written big checks to support the chamber, was dysfunctional. “i called lynn the first week of december and said, ‘lynn, what are you going to do about a search and replacement for michael reagen?’ ” chapman recalled. “lynn says, ‘steve, i’m not sure i’m going to do anything, because you take over Jan. 1. this is going to be on your watch.’ ” chapman said that vacancy brought into focus some key struc-tural problems. “At that time, the way the chamber worked was every year they brought in a new chair,” chapman said. “that chair had an agenda, and that usually took on the form of a project of some type. All of the goals were fairly short-term. so basically the staff had to adjust every 12 months to an incoming chair that had a project in mind that they thought would move des moines along. “it wasn’t really working. great chairs, great people doing ev-erything possible to really move des moines. But we just weren’t, from an economic development standpoint, getting it done. “i knew that Bill Knapp at the time was forming an organiza-tion called choose des moines communities. His goal was just to take over economic development for central iowa through choose des moines communities, because he was very disappointed in the results that were being driven by the chamber. “so i’m coming in as the new head and i know this is going on. i know in my heart that if Bill starts choose des moines commu-nities and pulls all economic development efforts to choose des moines, then we’re stuck. Because in any effective chamber, eco-nomic development should be its primary driver. to take that out would lessen the chamber to being nothing more than an organiza-tion that managed events. “so i called mr. Knapp and i said, ‘mr. Knapp, i’m coming in as the new chair of the chamber and obviously we are going to find new leadership, but we also are going to make some changes. i’m not in a position to articulate those at this point, but i’d like you to stand down on choose des moines communities and give us a
chance to demonstrate to you what we are going to do to improve economic development within central iowa. And he kind of said, ‘steve, i don’t think so.’ ” chapman asked Knapp to meet again after the holidays. He agreed. you might say that was the beginning of the creation of the greater des moines Partnership. “so i sat down with my vice chairs that were coming in and were going to be my vice chairs — suku radia, John Forsythe, Bar-bara Henry, chuck Johnson (who sent a representative) and teresa Wahlert,” chapman recalled. “i indicated to them we were going to be in the new year with no leadership, and i did not want to go on a national search. i just didn’t think we had time. We had to get a plan in place and move quickly. so my intent was to develop the plan and target leadership and make a hire. i wanted their support on that. i got the support of three of the members. one thought it was a disservice not to go on a national search, because we could bring someone great in. the challenge with that was we would bring someone in, and they would not be of our culture. We had an organization that really needed to redefine itself. And it’s going to take this person at least a year or a year and a half to get up to speed. We didn’t have time. “i said, ‘i have the votes i need and how ’bout i go do what we need to do, and if it doesn’t work out, you can hold me accountable.’ ” chapman was assured he would be held accountable. undaunted, he proceeded. “i had figured out exactly who i wanted to hire,” chapman ex-plained. “so on new year’s eve morning, 1998, i met steve Zum-bach at 7 a.m. for breakfast. i told him that we needed to move quickly to re-energize what was the chamber, to change its focus and to get people more aligned to an economic development focus. to target industries and the things that truly would diversify our community and strengthen employment opportunities. steve said, ‘i totally agree.’ “i said, ‘steve, the only thing we lack to make this thing happen is the leadership. if we get the right leader in place, it’s going to happen.’ He said, ‘Who do you have in mind?’ i said, ‘steve, i want you to leave Belin and take this job.’ (laughs.) “He looked at me and said, ‘Are you nuts?’ He said, ‘steve, i’ve worked so hard to get where i am today, and now you are asking me to quit?’ i said, steve, you were great as a chair of the chamber. you understand it. you know how to raise money. you know how to get the right people in the room. i need you to step up and take this position, because we
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have to do what’s right for this community. And he goes, ‘Steve, I’m serious, I can’t.’ “So he said, ‘Tell me what you’re thinking.’ I said I just wanted to take the entire chamber organization structure and start with a clean sheet of paper and entirely put this thing back together where even the different areas focus on a core that supports economic de-velopment. I said, ‘The other thing, Steve, is I want to do something else fairly bold, and that is, I want to go out and kind of take out the other organizations, so that we don’t have a chamber. So that we don’t have the Des Moines Development Corp., we don’t have a Choose Des Moines Communities. The same companies are writ-ing checks to all these organizations. They are all talking about the same thing in different rooms around this community, and nobody is getting it done. We have to make the checks come together so that the check is bigger and going to one organization that knows how to get it done. And he goes, ‘How in the world are we going to get that?’ I said, ‘Again, Steve, it gets back to leadership.’ “When you think about that, who in Iowa is better than us?” he asked Zumbach. “He said, ‘Well, I would have to tell you at this point in time, Cedar Rapids. They really have it together.’ ” Zumbach said Mike Blouin was leading the Cedar Rapids orga-nization. Chapman decided to recruit Blouin. First, they needed to create an organization. “Zumbach and I sat there for two or three hours,” Chapman said. “We had paper. We had organizations crushed together. We talked about the individual leaders that led all those organizations and how we were going to convince them to be willing to merge their board into a new organization, and to come together so that there was a new life in this community. So we came up with the term ‘the Partnership.’ “We set a plan. We would kind of ‘divide and earn.’ We would earn the respect and the opportunity to move forward.” They met with leaders. They got Suku Radia involved. They met with Des Moines Development. “That wasn’t easy, because that or-ganization was the money machine, and they could do what they wanted. I was ready when Bill Knapp came back from vacation.” “My biggest concern was there was so much lack of direction that I was afraid we were going to lose some great staff members. I had a meeting with the entire chamber staff. I indicated to them the things that we were working on and the things we were going to do. We asked them to continue to believe in the organization and the difference they can make in this community. I told them, ‘We’re going to change this so you are not waiting next year for new ideas. We are going to put it in motion so it’s like a business. We are go-ing to have five-year plans. We are going to move growth where it needs to be.’ “So I contacted Michael Blouin, and I guess I put on my mar-keting hat and I was selling an organization that didn’t even exist except on paper. I shared with Michael that he would have the op-portunity to lead something that truly would be transformational to this community. And (I told him) that we believed that he had the leadership skills we need. We met for several hours and I was even more convinced. I knew this individual could do something within this community that we just hadn’t achieved at that point. “So, in the meantime, we are moving forward and trying to get the support of the other organizations to merge into a newly created entity. The biggest challenge was going to be Des Moines Development. So Mr. Knapp came back, and I set up a dinner. I had all of the major contributors of time and money who had made a difference in this community at this dinner, There were 15 or 20 people, (Business Publications Corp. Chairman) Connie Wimer being one of them. We were in a private room upstairs at the Des Moines Club.
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“So, during dinner I rolled this whole concept out. What we wanted to do. The merging of the organizations. The creation of a new organization called the Greater Des Moines Partnership. The focus. How we are going to get it done. Then we got to leadership. I brought up Michael Blouin. Bill Knapp was sitting there. He knew who he was. Through it all, we are presenting how this would take place, and the timeline, the whole deal, and the question came out — what makes you think you can hire Michael Blouin. I said, well, that’s the next part of this presentation. “I said, in a minute I am going to bring Michael Blouin in. He’s going to present to all of you. We have done considerable work in the last three weeks. Michael is going to walk through timelines, how it is going to happen, and you are going to have the opportunity to ask him anything you want to ask him. My intentions are to hire him.” Chapman told the group that Blouin would present, then go back to Cedar Rapids. “Then I am going to ask for your support to move this forward.” “I brought Michael Blouin in, and I’m telling you he was out-standing. You could see people talking between themselves. He had questions. He talked about what he saw from afar, versus what we were talking about doing and how that could work. Long story short, he did a great job, and I asked if there were any more ques-
tions. And I said one more time please don’t let him walk out and then later have a question that is important. Ask it now. “Everybody was fine. I shook his hand and told him I would call him the next day. “I walked back in, and there was great conversation, positive, and people were having the conversations we hoped to hear. And then I heard something that just put me over the top. Mr. Knapp said, ‘I think the stars aligned tonight.’ ” Chapman figured the deal was done. Almost, but not quite. “I thought we were home,” Chapman said. “So the next day, we had a meeting of Des Moines Development Corp. I’m in that meet-ing. I had called Michael Blouin and offered him the job, and I put a compensation plan together and I had everything sent to him. I said Michael, please, will you let me know as soon as you can. He said he’d let me know by 1 p.m. “Well, I’m in the meeting and Gov. Ray was there. And I told the group that the offer had been made. And Gov. Ray says, ‘What if Michael Blouin doesn’t take it?’ I said, governor, we’re going to get this done. I had told (vice chair) Teresa Wahlert that if my cellphone buzzed I would have to leave. My phone buzzed at 12:45.” It was Bl-ouin: “Steve. I’m excited. I accept the offer. I look forward to working with you and putting this together.”
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Chapman thanked Blouin. “So I come back in the room, and there was a motion while I was gone, that what if we change this so Des Moines Development Corp. is on top and we put this new orga-nization underneath it. So it’s a whole new company. I walked in the room and I thought, where did that come from? I walked back in the room and I was about to say no, and Bill Knapp said: ‘No. The way this has been structured I believe is the right way. We’re still going to have investor committees. We’re still going to have people who are going to make significant investments have their voices heard. But this is the right way to go about this.’ “So then we went for votes,” Chapman said. Everybody said yes. So we were done, more or less. Then Gov. Ray said, ‘Steve, again, I’m going to ask, what if Michael Blouin doesn’t accept the offer?’ “I said, governor, when I walked out of this room a moment ago, it was Michael Blouin and he just accepted. And the governor look at me and said, ‘You aren’t serious.’ I said, ‘Yes, sir, I am. He said, ‘So now I have to ask the question, what were you going to say when you came back in the room if he had said no?’ I said, governor, I am not even going to try to answer that because my mind wasn’t there. “Start to finish, it was three months.” The new entity now pushes economic development while also working on related issues of housing, water and soil quality, mo-
bility, tax structures, governance, higher education, externships, internships, mentoring and other issues. And it started with Chap-man and Zumbach musing at that first meeting. That was the beginning of the Partnership, incorporated in 1999. “The thing I take a great deal of personal pride in — as I hope every-one in this community does — is that the Partnership has been an economic development engine,” Chapman said. “They have raised tremendous amounts of money from their investors, because they have been able to demonstrate a return on investment. It isn’t like the old days, when we hoped. “They can track the expansions and growth in the culture and arts that drive the quality of life. I couldn’t be more proud of what the Partnership has become.” n
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United Way of Central Iowa Women’s Leadership Connection (WLC) members believe that a child’s path to success in school and life begins at birth. Since 2002, WLC members have contributed dollars, influence and time to improve the network of quality early care and learning in central Iowa. In the 2016 United Way campaign, more than $1.8 million was raised to invest in proven strategies to ensure children enter kindergarten ready to learn and succeed.
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Budget cuts, diversity highlight discussion on higher education
HR & Education
In an ideal world, Iowa’s higher education institutions would be amply funded, work to-gether as a coordinated statewide system to collaborate seamlessly with each other and the business community, and consistently provide standout, soft-skilled graduates who are being trained in the high-need areas that employers desire. To a great extent, Iowa’s public universities and private and community colleges are effec-tively responding to the business community’s needs, as evidenced by many partnerships launched in the past few years. At the same time, the state’s colleges and universities face challenges on multiple fronts — from contend-ing with continuing annual state budget cuts to the long-term threat of how to address a shrinking population of high school graduates in the state to recruit in the coming decades. Five key leaders from both public and pri-vate institutions in Iowa fielded questions dur-ing the Business Record’s Feb. 22 Power Break-fast event on “The Future of Higher Education.” The event featured:
PersPectives on state budget cuts We heard firsthand from leaders of the public institutions about the impact the latest round of state budget cuts — including $8 mil-lion each to the University of Iowa and Iowa State, and $3 million to the community colleges — have had. (More have since been announced). Des Moines Area Community College has felt the cumulative effect of less funding for the past several years in not being able to fill vacant full-time instructor positions and not being able to staff sufficient numbers of academic ad-visers and career navigators, Linduska said. “When you cut higher education, in my opinion, you’re really shortchanging individu-als’ opportunity to grow and become members of the community,” she said. “It’s not just the undergraduates; it’s the person who needs to go back to college and can’t afford to do it because of high tuition rates.” Leath observed that Iowa State’s student pop-ulation has grown from less than 29,000 when he began five years ago to more than 37,000 students expected this fall, and that the institution has grown by 40 percent in the past decade. “We can make adjustments in a given year; we don’t want to whine and complain like we’re not cognizant of (economic) downturns,” he said. “But when these cuts become permanent adjustments to your budget, that’s when they become problematic. … We’re challenged to edu-cate the kids of Iowa, and we don’t want to sac-rifice quality. We’re in a tough spot. We need to reinforce this idea of higher education as a pub-lic good. It will pay dividends in the long term.”
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Bruce harreld, president, university of iowa
steve leath, president, iowa state university
Marty Martin, president, drake university
Kent henning, president, grand view university
Kim linduska, executive vice president for academic affairs, dMAcc
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Harreld quoted statistics that indicate the percentage of total state funding for higher education, which reached a high point of 12.5 percent of the state budget in 1992, has shrunk to where it’s now 6.4 percent of the state budget, which is slightly less than the level it was in 1962. “We focus on the $8 million (budget cut) this year, but I think strategically over a long period of time in Iowa, we have been focused on a lot of other issues in society,” he said. “The question then becomes almost, ‘What’s left for higher education?’ ” “What I’ve been trying to get my institution to understand is that strategically, long-term, we are going into a private world,” Harreld said. “We need to find what our new sources of reve-nue are; we need to be really buff about how we use the money we have; we need to make sure our overhead costs are exceedingly low. I think we’re all quite good at that, given the last few decades of cuts.” In his first 18 months as UI president, Har-reld said he has seen little evidence of a coordi-nated long-term funding strategy between the universities, the regents and the Legislature. He pointed to Michigan as a state that’s getting it right and making funding much more pre-dictable for its universities. “It would be really useful if we were all on the same strategy, but we’re not,” he said.
“We’re turning some dials up, some down, and it becomes a donnybrook at times trying to fig-ure it out. I think if we said strategically that we’re going to continue dis-investing in the public research universities, we could probably figure out how to manage it for the long term, if it was predictable.”
Collaboration, Corporate sponsorships Collaboration, both among the universi-ties and with the business community, was another theme of the discussion. Having legis-lators consider all of the state’s institutions as part of Iowa’s overall higher education system would be a good starting point, both Martin and Henning said. “I have consistently in my 18 years here encouraged our state legislators to view us as part of an ecosystem of higher education and to treat us as parts of a whole,” Henning said. Martin said the Iowa Tuition Grant program has been provided a good tool for giving students access to both public and private institutions of their choice, and has also fostered healthy compe-tition among the colleges to attract students. From DMACC’s perspective, “We have great relationships with each of these institutions sitting here at the table.” Linduska said. “Thou-
sands of students transfer to these institutions each year. We have application partnership pro-grams with each of them where students can apply to the university and community college at the same time and provided they meet aca-demic requirements can move on seamlessly.” The panelists also discussed the balanc-ing act universities face in receiving corporate funding for research. Harreld said he thinks Iowa’s current cli-mate for corporate-sponsored research is “dif-ficult,” because state-funded research insti-tutions have the tendency to want to make research results publicly available faster than sponsoring corporations may want to release it. “So where is the line of that, and where do we balance that? I think it’s eminently doable; other states are doing that,” he said. “I think in general we are going to need to be doing more and more corporate work, which will get us into the issue of influence and how much of that should be protected by the funder, but I think we know how to manage that.” On the private university side, Drake’s ex-perience with corporate partners “has been incredibly positive,” Martin said. An example is the data analytics program it launched in fall 2015 with the support of several Des Moines-based corporate partners. In just 18 months, the program has attracted 103 students as majors.
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Here’s an interesting point from eacH panelist tHat i took away from tHe discussion:
Leath — on balance of in-state, out-of-state students
“from a purely business perspective, both u of i and isu are advantaged in having a large portion of out-of-state and international students, because they pay full freight. i lose thousands of dollars on every iowa kid who comes through the door, based on our low tuition cost, and that’s frankly a huge problem for us. we have not gotten the investment from the state that we really need to grow the university tremendously with iowa kids.
henning — let’s put our Heads togetHer
companies are seeking soft skills, in addition to technical skills, at an unprecedented level. “what i see in business today is you are developing your own assessments to see if graduates are ready to be hired. to do that, you’re really creating rubrics. why don’t we sit down and compare these rubrics and see where some of the gaps are?”
Linduska — a successful training partnersHip
one of dmaac’s biggest challenges is finding people who can be trained in highly skilled fields. one success story has been a partnership dmacc launched with 10 information technology companies last year, which has since expanded to 25 companies. that consortium, which began with classes in Java, is now in its third class and has expanded into training for agile development and c++ computer language, as well as training in cybersecurity.
Martin — fewer HigH scHool graduates aHead
between 2013 and 2030, iowa is projected to have 93,000 fewer high school graduates. at the same time, the number of white students will decrease by 12 percent while nonwhite graduates will increase by 13 percent, martin said. “so if we’re going to remain institutions of access, we’re going to have to figure this out. we’ve got to find a way to finance higher education other than simply relying upon tuition in order for this state to move forward.”
harreLd — excellence must be tHe key word
“we’re at capacity; we can’t run the risk of dramatically ramping up our student body size because i’m not all sure where the money is going to come from. at the end of the day, the key word for our strategic plan is excellence; whatever we do needs to be excellent, and we need to be accessible.”
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“When I’m out and about talking with busi-ness and government leaders, they’re saying, ‘I’ll take every one of those graduates you can put out,’ ” Martin said. “So there was a need expressed by the private sector and a response by Drake.”
Diversity challenges The panelists also addressed a question about what steps universities are taking to recruit and retain immigrant students. Each of the administrators pointed to programs in place that are addressing growth in interna-tional and multicultural students. Linduska ventured that in terms of multi-cultural campuses, DMACC’s Urban Campus is the most diverse in the state, with about 45 percent of its students coming from dif-ferent cultures. “We have credit programs specifically for those immigrants who want to start small businesses,” she said. “We serve that popula-tion on a very large scale, and it’s integral to who we are.” Leath said that ISU is “the most diverse we’ve ever been,” with 8 percent of its student body international students and another 15 percent multicultural students. “In reality, one
of the best ways we can open our students’ eyes to multiculturalism is to have a multicultural campus, which we do,” he said. If there’s one consistent complaint that Leath gets from business leaders, it’s ‘We wish more of your students were bilingual,’ he said. “So we push those programs as far as study abroad and other partnerships.” Both Harreld and Martin noted how Presi-dent Donald Trump’s travel ban on seven Mus-lim countries — which for now is stayed by the courts — has created tremendous anxiety among students from those countries. At the University of Iowa, 87 students, mostly gradu-ate students and a number of them practicing physicians, were affected. “It’s incredible the disruption it’s created,” Harreld said. “Many of them will actually stay longer now because if they leave, they can’t come back.” n
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Congressman David young, Bruce harreld tom Cunningham, heidi levine
terry lillis, Bob lane, Jay Simmons
anne kremer, Drake university Mike Willard, Marco
Marty Martin president Drake university
Bruce Harreld president university of iowa
Steven leatH president iowa State university
Kent Henning president Grand View university
KiM linduSKa executive Vice president for academic affairs DMaCC
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on the move: Promotions, changes, appointments
Nikki WagnerHubbell Realty Co.Promoted to accounting manager, constructionnikki.wager@ hubbellrealty.com
Michael LownUniversity of Iowa Tippie College of BusinessPromoted to Des Moines director, Professional MBA [email protected]
Deb NortonBTC Capital ManagementPromoted to managing director, senior client administration [email protected]
Corey MorrisonOn With LifePromoted to chief strategy and program development [email protected]
Nick FosterWright Service Corp.Promoted to subsidiary controllernfoster@ wrightservicecorp.com
Pat StilwillOn With LifePromoted to executive director of programs and [email protected]
Liz MathersWright Service Corp.Hired as senior [email protected]
Jon BrookerIowa Public TelevisionHired as facilities maintenance [email protected]
Colleen LaddHubbell Construction ServicesHired as senior project managercolleen.ladd@ hubbellrealty.com
Kevin RiversIowa Public TelevisionHired as production [email protected]
Hazim ZaghloulMercy Pediatric Subspecialty ClinicHired as pediatric [email protected]
Mindy AustSubstance ArchitecturePromoted to [email protected]
John TrotterPhillips Stafford Insurance GroupHired as independent [email protected]
Amy SpikeAIA IowaPromoted to marketing and programming [email protected]
Solomon RosenbaumRoth & Co. PCHired as senior tax [email protected]
Emily PhippsPerformance MarketingHired as art [email protected]
Mike HironsHubbell Realty Co.Promoted to senior accounting managermike.hirons@ hubbellrealty.com
Mike SchlosserHubbell Realty Co.Promoted to senior accounting [email protected]
Caleb PetersonLWBJHired as audit [email protected]
Maggie RamoldLWBJHired as audit [email protected]
Rudy KoesterCity of WaukeeHired as assistant public works director ― [email protected]
Michelle DekkerIowa Medical SocietyHired as manager, events and [email protected]
Bruce Rastetter announced he will not seek another term on the Iowa Board of Regents and will allow his term to expire on April 30.
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on the move: Promotions, changes, appointments
Teresa JensenBankers TrustHired as mortgage loan originator [email protected]
Amy SmithUniversity of Iowa Community Credit UnionHired as mortgage loan officer [email protected]
Scott LangenbergUniversity of Iowa Community Credit UnionHired as mortgage loan officer [email protected]
Jessica GalvezHubbell Apartment LivingPromoted to senior property [email protected]
Jon BendixenHubbell Apartment LivingPromoted to senior property [email protected]
Anna NaleanCommunity Foundation of Greater Des MoinesPromoted to director of nonprofit [email protected]
Jill SteverHubbell Apartment LivingPromoted to senior property [email protected]
Sean WarnerHubbell Construction ServicesHired as assistant [email protected]
Taylor DeVaughnWestside Auto ProsHired as customer service [email protected]
Natalie LynchUnited Way of Central IowaHired as OpportUNITY project [email protected]
Heather WorthingtonAmerican Equity Investment Life Insurance Co.
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Chris GalloBerganKDVHired as sales and use tax [email protected]
Jason Edge-LordHoliday Inn & Suites Des Moines NorthwestHired as sales [email protected]
Sara BonneyCommunity Foundation of Greater Des MoinesPromoted to vice president of marketing and [email protected]
Jared BauerWestside Auto ProsHired as [email protected]
Major EnnenGraham ConstructionHired as project [email protected]
Jody TimminsMercy Medical Center-Des MoinesPromoted to market director, pediatric service [email protected]
Kristen ErnspergerMercy Medical Center-Des MoinesPromoted to director, mother/baby unitkernsperger@ mercydesmoines.org
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nate boultonHedberg & Boulton, P.C.
Alex broderickHubbell Realty Company
Jesse bunneyCBRE/Hubbell Commercial
Angela CarnahanNationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
Azure ChristensenHCI Care Services & Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa
ryan CraneCommunity Foundation of Greater Des Moines
Joe deJongBankers Trust Co.
trina flackDes Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau
ben GarrettKnapp Properties, Inc.
marina GrabchuckBelin McCormick, P.C.
laVerne GreenfieldGreater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity
stephanie JutilaGreater Des Moines Botanical Garden
Karen KarrBrownWinick
Jenna KnoxPlanned Parenthood of the Heartland
michael KrantzAdventureland Resort
Kylee KrizmanicMeredith Corp.
John lederHolmes Murphy & Associates
Joshua mandelbaumEnvironmental Law and Policy Center
skylar mayberry-mayesNationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
dylan mullenixDes Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
eldwin nicholsPrincipal Financial Group, Inc.
Jill niswanderEMBARC
brianne sanchezDes Moines University
philip sandagerPrincipal Financial Group, Inc.
William scalesWhitfield & Eddy Law
Courtney shawStrategic America
beth sheltonGirl Scouts of Greater Iowa
Kelly sparksSocialize Events
Christine sullivanKum & Go LC
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Big Data, Big BrotherHost: Iowa Provost’s Office of Outreach & Engagement
About: The “free” web is powered by a multibillion-dollar online advertising industry. Advertisers track users across the web to show them targeted advertisements. Professor Zubair Shafiq will discuss the scope of online tracking, including its implications on user privacy and government surveillance.
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activate Your Business with reboot iowaHost: Iowa Center for Economic Success
About: A workshop led by Elizabeth “E.B.” Updegraff of Epic Windustries will be teaching participants how to leverage their online presence to promote their businesses.
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Wake Up West SideHost: Des Moines West Side Chamber of Commerce
About: Come enjoy a Wake Up West Side event on your way to work. We’ve watched for several months the remodeling of Pigott on Ingersoll Avenue and now we get to see it.
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Where: 8 to 9 a.m.
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CFa LuncheonHost: CFA Society Iowa
About: Farron Blanc of RGAx will present: “Eight Trends That Will Impact the Insurance Industry.” CFA Society Iowa members and non-members are welcome to attend.
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Where: Des Moines Embassy Club
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DAVE ELBERT• Business Record columnist• Email: [email protected]• Phone: (515) 988-3787© 2017 Business Record
THE ELBERT FILES
The hyperbole and hypocrisy surrounding changes Republicans made to Iowa’s public-employee bargaining law a couple of weeks ago were some-thing to behold. Given the lack of public input and the speed with which the legislation was written and passed, I doubt anyone, including the law’s authors, can accurately predict how this will play out. Ink from the souvenir pens Gov. Terry Branstad used in a rare private ceremony to sign the 42-page bill was barely dry before the new law was challenged in court in what could be a long and confusing case. During my 40-plus years as a reporter, I recall no other significant issue that was passed by Iowa lawmakers in such a vitriolic atmosphere with such one-sided support. When Republicans were challenged about their tactics, they said Democrats had used similar measures in the past. Indeed, in 2008 when Democrats controlled the Legislature, they acceler-ated passage of an expansion of public employee union bargaining rights while then-Gov. Chet Culver, also a Democrat, was on spring break. Culver’s fellow party members hoped he would quickly sign the bill when he returned. But he didn’t. He thought long and hard and ultimately vetoed it, saying the bill went too far. That angered other Democrats and probably contributed to Culver’s defeat by Branstad in 2010. Then, during Culver’s final days as governor, he did something no one saw coming. He unilaterally approved pay raises that amounted to a double-digit percentage increase for some state employees over the next two years, thereby igniting the political fire that has now effectively gutted Iowa’s pub-lic employee bargaining law. Branstad and others were rightfully upset about what Culver did, and they tried unsuccessfully in court to block the pay raises. When that failed, Republi-cans began planning their own changes to Iowa’s collective bargaining laws. After making significant gains in last fall’s election, during which there was no significant talk of collective bargaining reform, Republican lawmak-ers quickly wrote and passed their bill last month. How successful they are in the long run won’t be known until the lawsuits play out. In the meantime, I’ll suggest that Iowa Republicans learned nothing from congressional han-dling of health care reform. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was highly partisan legislation that was passed by one party with zero bipartisan sup-port, as was Iowa’s new collective bargaining law. When the ACA was passed, everyone knew it contained flaws and that without changes it would do little or nothing to lessen spiraling health care costs. Congressional Democrats said they would fix the flaws with future legisla-tion. But the original law, and the unilateral way it was passed, angered Repub-licans, who refused to cooperate. That’s basically what’s happened in the Iowa Legislature now. Republicans rammed through collective bargaining changes, just like Democrats did with the ACA. The outcome will be a similar stalemate. I say that because the collective bargaining bill was far from perfect. To make it work in an effective way will require cooperation and understand-ing — neither of which exist today. In fact, the bill’s most innovative aspect — health insurance reform — was never adequately explained or developed. Gretchen Tegeler of the Taxpayers Association of Central Iowa, among oth-ers, believes there are significant savings for both the state and individual em-ployees, if all public employees at state and local levels, including schoolteach-ers, are placed in a single health insurance pool. From where I sit, that was a significant part of the motivation for the law the governor signed on Feb. 17. But nowhere does the new law explain how or when that will happen. Nor has anyone explained how state government plans to implement such a significant change. n
We’re caught in a whirlpool
Iowa Republicans learned nothing from congressional handling of health care reform.
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DREW McLELLAN• Top Dog at McLellan Marketing Group• Blog: www.drewsmarketingminute.com• Email: [email protected]© 2017 Drew McLellan
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The company’s website extends the experience. It’s a smart example of how to go all in on a brand. Check it out with this week’s QR Code.
As consumers, it’s easy to argue that email is a time suck of epic proportions and it’s hard to imagine that anyone needs one more in their inbox. But as marketers we need to view email through a different lens. When done right (and of course, that’s the optimum phrase), email can be one of the most effective marketing tools available. Sadly, most don’t do it well or within any best practices, and that spells disaster. Market-ing types and business owners flock to email be-cause it’s cheap and easy to generate. Somehow that has come to also mean that you shouldn’t invest a lot of time on your campaigns. Most email is boring and self-serving. No wonder it doesn’t generate interest, leads or sales. But a well-crafted email is not only a work of art, but a sales machine. Econsultancy recently said that one surveyed group of com-panies credited email marketing with 23 per-cent of their sales. That makes doing it well worth the time and effort. Recently I received a brilliantly written email after I had ordered some shampoo and conditioner for beards. Here’s how it opened: “Through fiery deserts, raging seas, and other obvious mail truck routes, your Beard Shampoo and Conditioner Set should have ar-rived by now. Hopefully, you’re now using my
marvelous invention to coax your beard into something so magnificent it would make even Michelangelo feel inspired. “As a gentleman, I wish to go over some Fre-quently Asked Questions (FAQs) with you, so as to better inform you of the glory of the product you now possess as well as to guide you on your journey toward your best facial fur yet.” The email then goes on to answer four questions, weaving in language like “This varies from man to man. Like snowflakes but hairier, no two beards are alike in this world.” I can only imagine what kinds of responses (and sales) are generated from this email. The creators of this email did so many things right. Let’s dissect a few. Know your audience: Because of the prod-uct, it’s a safe bet that they are writing to a man and probably within a certain age range. The product’s pricing and packaging suggest this is a bit of a splurge for the buyer and that they’re serious about their beard. Leverage your brand’s personality: This email could have communicated the exact same information in a far less interesting way. But this brand has a sense of who they are and how they want to be perceived. The language is effusive, but scattered among the pearly prose are quite a few important facts like the product
does not contain sodium laurel sulfate, which apparently strips nutrients from hair follicles and fibers. Be useful: The email is actually packed with good information. I probably would have never read the email if it had a boring opening para-graph, but I would have missed several helpful tips on using the product. Those tips furthered my connection to the brand. Tell me what to do next: In this case, I had clearly just bought the product. So they’re not driving for another sale. Instead, the call to ac-tion was asking me to review the product on Amazon. Naturally, they made it easy by includ-ing a link. But they weren’t perfect. One mistake they made was to sign the email from the company, rather than an individual. They had the per-fect opportunity to create a human persona or spokesperson. Throughout the email the author refers to himself as “I” so he should have been the one to sign it, closing the loop and beginning to create a relationship with the buyers. n
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POLK COUNTY PUBLICATION BILL LIST TO BE PAID 2-21-2017
VENDOR AMOUNT REASON: CAPITAL OUTLAYS BALL TEAM LLC $189,716.90 1CASSIDY TECHNOLOGIES $2,856.00 1GOV CONNECTION, INC. $3,617.38 1HP INC $5,180.40 1MAGNETIC PRODUCTS & SERVICES $1,393.60 1SCI COMMUNICATIONS INC $2,030.00 1REASON: HUMAN SERVS PROV CHGS 138 PARTNERSHIP $451.00 1701 HARTFORD LLC $525.00 1A TEAM HOME IMPROVEMENTS LLC $8,757.20 2ACADIAN/INGERSOLL LLC $253.00 1ACH PROPERTIES LLC $440.00 1ADAIR, MONICA R. $1,535.50 1ADAMS, BARBARA $1,085.57 1
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ALAMO PROPERTIES $430.00 1ALAS, MARIA $122.99 1ALEJANDRE, AURORA $380.82 1ALEXANDER, TAMIKA $553.97 1ALL CITY SERVICES $992.50 2AMAN, MELINDA $325.71 1AMMANN, LAURA $276.82 1AMODEO, SHELLEY L. $815.41 1ANAWIM HOUSING $1,949.00 3ANAYA, JESSICA $844.35 1ANDERSON, BETH $315.97 1ANDERSON, DEB $400.00 1APARTMENTS BY ELLINGSON LLC $676.50 2APEX INSULATION AND
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Polk County notiCesCOUNTY NAME: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING -- BUDGET ESTIMATE CO NO:POLK Fiscal Year July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018 77The County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing on the proposed Fiscal Year County budget as follows:Meeting Date: Meeting Time: Meeting Location:
03/14/2017 9:30 amAt the public hearing any resident or taxpayer may present objections to, or arguments in favor of, any part of the proposed budget. This notice representsa summary of the supporting detail of revenues and expenditures on file with the County Auditor. A copy of the supporting detail will be furnished uponrequest. Average annual percentage changes between "Actual" and "Budget" amounts for "Taxes Levied on Property", "Other County Taxes/TIF Tax Revenues", and for each of the ten "Expenditure Classes" must be published. Expenditure classes proposing "Budget" amounts,but having no"Actual" amounts, are designated "NEW".County Web Site (if available): County Telephone Number:
Iowa Department of Management Budget Re-Est Actual AVGForm 630 (Publish) 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 AnnualREVENUES & OTHER FINANCING SOURCES % CHG Taxes Levied on Property* 1 162,436,919 156,347,407 147,131,853 5.07% Less: Uncollected Delinquent Taxes - Levy Year 2 667,031 643,547 214,648 Less: Credits to Taxpayers 3 7,660,061 7,002,405 6,395,403 Net Current Property Taxes 4 154,109,827 148,701,455 140,521,802 Delinquent Property Tax Revenue 5 2,400 800 147,088 Penalties, Interest & Costs on Taxes 6 1,130,000 1,157,000 1,218,357 Other County Taxes/TIF Tax Revenues 7 5,588,944 5,854,489 5,738,423 -1.31% Intergovernmental 8 44,642,678 51,629,672 49,208,912 Licenses & Permits 9 1,115,130 973,800 1,275,103 Charges for Service 10 14,566,083 13,553,530 13,781,100 Use of Money & Property 11 3,740,756 3,184,445 5,367,226 Miscellaneous 12 2,661,920 2,547,700 3,194,306 Subtotal Revenues 13 227,557,738 227,602,891 220,452,317Other Financing Sources: General Long-Term Debt Proceeds 14 27,565,000 100,000 0 Operating Transfers In 15 27,868,186 36,311,078 23,753,588 Proceeds of Fixed Asset Sales 16 121,500 419,000 123,980 Total Revenues & Other Sources 17 283,112,424 264,432,969 244,329,885EXPENDITURES & OTHER FINANCING USESOperating: Public Safety and Legal Services 18 76,357,453 74,588,040 70,121,781 4.35% Physical Health and Social Services 19 38,855,690 38,207,022 34,762,750 5.72% Mental Health, ID & DD 20 21,215,257 23,153,225 26,249,674 -10.10% County Environment and Education 21 13,949,198 13,400,475 14,223,848 -0.97% Roads & Transportation 22 10,991,728 11,244,207 10,060,591 4.53% Government Services to Residents 23 8,059,531 8,148,804 7,474,894 3.84% Administration 24 33,882,657 33,661,720 32,181,469 2.61% Nonprogram Current 25 0 0 0 Debt Service 26 18,721,138 19,306,455 22,505,696 -8.79% Capital Projects 27 44,697,078 48,388,080 31,626,047 18.88% Subtotal Expenditures 28 266,729,730 270,098,028 249,206,750Other Financing Uses: Operating Transfers Out 29 20,084,486 28,232,501 15,539,004 Refunded Debt/Payments to Escrow 30 0 0 0 Total Expenditures & Other Uses 31 286,814,216 298,330,529 264,745,754Excess of Revenues & Other Sourcesover (under) Expenditures & Other Uses 32 (3,701,792) (33,897,560) (20,415,869)Beginning Fund Balance - July 1, 33 100,257,790 134,155,350 154,571,219Increase (Decrease) in Reserves (GAAP Budgeting) 34 0 0 0 Fund Balance - Nonspendable 35 0 0 0 Fund Balance - Restricted 36 31,585,795 41,648,353 68,984,968 Fund Balance - Committed 37 15,513,344 14,843,385 14,319,616 Fund Balance - Assigned 38 0 0 0 Fund Balance - Unassigned 39 49,456,859 43,766,052 50,850,766Total Ending Fund Balance - June 30, 40 96,555,998 100,257,790 134,155,350Proposed property taxation by type: Proposed tax rates per $1,000 taxable valuation:Countywide Levies*: 153,506,829 Urban Areas: 7.30880Rural Only Levies*: 8,096,417 Rural Areas: 11.86039Special District Levies*: 833,673 Any special district tax rates not included.TIF Tax Revenues: 0Utility Replacmnt. Excise Tax: 4,320,744 Date: 03/14/2017
Explanation of any significant items in the budget:
Polk County Admin Bldg, 111 Court Ave, Room 120, Des Moines, Iowa 50309
www.polkcountyiowa.gov 515-286-3000
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HARRIS, KAMRIE $398.66 1HARRIS, STACEY $1,307.06 1HARRISON, STEPHANY $734.09 1HARRYMAN, MELANIE $656.20 1HARVEY, MARANDA $664.04 1HAVLIK, DANA $236.67 1HEDGECOCK, ALICIA $502.01 1HENDERSON, ANGELA $210.53 1HENDERSON-HIGHLAND PARK
FUNERAL SVC LLC $775.00 1HERITAGE MECHANICAL COMPANY $1,750.00 1HETHERSHAW, CHARLES $550.00 1HICKORY GROVE APTS LLP $453.33 1HILL, DINESHA $917.49 1HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES $1,446.15 1HODGES, RUBY A. $560.41 1HODGSON, EILEEN M. $156.72 1HOLMES, KAREN A. $360.71 1HOWARD, NICOLE $848.67 1HUISMAN, REBECCA $588.01 1HUISMAN, SUNSHINE $132.70 1HY-VEE FOOD STORE #01138 $1,518.78 1JEFFERSON PARTNERS L.P. $89.00 1JEFFREY, IRENE $1,205.15 1JIMENEZ, JESSICA $1,147.30 1JMC REALTY LLC $300.00 1JOHNSON ,TRAVIS $600.00 1JOHNSON, BRANDI $531.44 1JOHNSON, GARNET L. $241.38 1JOHNSON, LATASHA $817.45 1KADING PROPERTIES LLC $685.00 1KALVIK, LORI L $431.27 1KENKEL, KAY M. $270.85 1KENNEDY, MEGAN $1,559.57 1KERN, MARGARET $427.57 1KERRIE, DIAZ $253.66 1KINCAID, CHRISTY $217.49 1KINDA, AZZA $325.27 1KINNEY, KENIELLE $372.79 1KISSELL-ERICKSON, TINA $200.26 1KLAPPROTH, AMY $749.06 1KOEPPLIN, ELIZABETH $241.20 1LA MAY, SHARON $11.49 1LA RUE-DAVIS, DAWN $578.39 1LAKE, STEPHANIE $231.27 1LAMOREE, SARA $557.87 1LANDERS, BRIDGET E $1,387.47 1LAPPE, ESKALEINA $284.02 1LARA, VILMA $653.27 1LARICK, AMY $346.24 1LATTING, STEPHANIE $205.67 1LEANOS, MARCELA $379.36 1LEANOS, NORMA $757.13 1LEES, NATHAN $1,100.00 1LEFF, SCOTT $628.00 1LEIBOW, LAVONNE $690.11 1LEMON, JENNIFER $809.56 1LEWIS, GINA $622.21 1LIMING, JOAN $172.83 1LINDSAY, AMANDA $583.77 1LUCKETT, TANYA $551.78 1LUSH, GEOVANA $2,665.04 1LYNCH, SHERRY S $195.86 1LYNN CROSSING APT $430.00 1MARINER, JANAE $101.03 1MARKS, JENNIFER $599.00 1MARQUEZ, ALBA $584.51 1MARQUEZ, IMELDA $27.00 1MARTINEZ, MARIA $714.53 1MARTONE, BETH $1,164.23 1MAUK, KRISTINA $1,016.78 1MAY, TERRY $451.00 1MC BROOM, MARY KAY $142.27 1MC CLISH, MIKE $533.00 1MC NICHOLS, LEANNE $264.22 1MCL PROPERTIES HOUSING COOP $266.50 1MEEKS, JOLENE $676.78 1MELARA, MARIA $821.81 1MELBOURNE APARTMENTS III LLLP $570.00 1MERICAL, KAREN (FOOD SUBSIDY ONLY) $543.61 1MIDAMERICAN ENERGY (GA’S ONLY) $572.00 1MILLER, BRITTNEY $876.62 1MILLER, JENNIFER $667.32 1MILLER, PAUL $451.00 1MIRON-CORTEZ, ASHLEY $336.20 1MONROE, SUELLEN $579.56 1MOORE, LISA $1,379.61 1MR FREEZE HTG & A/C $3,895.00 2MUELLER, KRISTA $570.37 1MUHAMMAD SHABAZZ-ALLAH, JOCELYN $139.20 1MUMINOVIC, VESNA $174.18 1MURRAY, LARRAINE $561.16 1NEGRON-BENCON, YOLANDA $1,229.46 1NEWTON-WEBER, VASHARA $119.65 1NFM BUILDER SALES $1,141.00 2NOBLE, DEBRA L $246.19 1NUVISION HOSPITALITY
MANAGEMENT INC $221.73 1OAKLAND 1600 LLC $955.00 2OAKVIEW TERRACE LP $835.00 2ORTIZ, GRISEL $220.22 1OWENS, JENNIFER N $879.10 1
PARSONS, LORI (FOOD SUBSIDY) $354.90 1PATINO, MARIA $1,122.32 1PATRICK, CHERYL A $444.73 1PATRIOT HOLDINGS LLC $533.00 2PATTERSON, MARY $598.85 1PENICK, AMY $391.50 1PEREZ, MARIA $215.86 1PERRY, LEESA $1,235.58 1PITTMAN, BRENDA $666.62 1POGYO, ANGELES $107.26 1POGYO, ROSA $450.26 1POHLMAN, LISA $390.82 1POLK COUNTY TREASURER (PV’S) $4,641.00 1POPENHAGEN, SAMANTHA $1,046.96 1PRAIRIE VILLAGE ALTOONA COOP $189.00 1PRATHER, LATOSHA $1,632.36 1QUINN, KARAN $1,468.99 1RADIO CITY MOBILE HOME PARK $415.00 1RAHIC-SKOPLJAKO, ELVIDA $348.29 1RAMAEKER, YVONNE $296.11 1RAMIREZ, JESSICA $235.85 1RAYL, DAWN $383.63 1REBIK, CHAUNCY $486.04 1REYNOLDS, PAULA M. $582.25 1RICHEY, JENNIFER $993.13 1RIVAS DE PENA, GLORIA $219.22 1ROBERTS, JUDY $179.43 1ROBINSON, HATTIE D. $753.21 1ROBINSON, PEGGY $756.04 1RODRIGUES, MARIANNE $387.58 1RODRIGUEZ, DORIS $835.77 1RODRIGUEZ, ISABEL $978.84 1RODRIGUEZ-MARTINEZ, JUANA $171.04 1ROOSE, JASON $225.00 1RUGE, JACKIE $299.33 1RUSSELL, RHASHIDA J $325.29 1S & D ENTERPRISES, L.L.C. $100.00 1SABA, ALLISON $201.92 1SALDANA, MARIA $453.61 1SANDERS, MARY $463.64 1SAPP, AMANDA $1,018.97 1SCHWARZ, CHRISTINE $262.61 1SCOTT, KIM $212.78 1SCOTT, STACY J. $647.27 1SEA BASS INVESTMENT LC $617.00 1SENECAUT, MELISSA A $385.12 1SHERIDAN, DANIELLE $919.40 1SHIPLEY, SANDY L. $313.21 1SHOOTMAN, JUANITA $568.03 1SHORT, ROBERT $375.00 1SILBERHORN, HEATHER $70.59 1SIMMONS, JENNIFER $164.64 1SINCLAIR-HALEY, ANGELA $350.69 1SMITH, CRYSTAL $792.65 1SMITH, TANYA R. $231.81 1SOUTHBROOK GREEN APTS LP $744.00 2SOUTHRIDGE ESTATES $342.50 1SOWDER, NELA I. $315.57 1SPRUCE POINT APTS LC $734.00 1ST. VINCENT DE PAUL $800.00 4STALKUP, J LYNNE $287.67 1STANTON, ELIZABETH $121.61 1STEGALL, IVY $64.93 1STOCKBRIDGE LP $430.00 1STOKES, SARAH $555.24 1STONER, TABATHA $637.09 1STRAHORN, KAY $201.06 1SUBDON, MALISA L. $678.05 1SUNBURST APARTMENT LTD $451.00 1SUTTON HILL RESIDENTIAL COOP $314.00 1TAHER, INC. $38,653.10 3TALBERT, DEBORAH S $1,033.07 1TAYLOR, JAMIE $2,225.55 1THOMPSON, TAMEKA $884.47 1TIBBLES, KATIE $224.88 1TRACEY, JAMICHA $357.44 1TRANS IOWA, L.C. $736.20 1TRIMBLE, KIMBERLY $560.07 1TRM PROPERTY LLC $430.00 1TULLER, JESSICA $332.44 1TUVELA LLC $420.00 1UNIVERSITY TERRACE COOP $430.00 1VALDEZ, VANESA $837.23 1VENBURY TRAIL APARTMENTS LP $225.50 1VILLAGE GREEN COOP $1,310.00 3VOGT ENTERPRISE LLC $430.00 1WAGNER, RHONDA $1,082.78 1WALLS, JANICE $1,196.36 1WARREN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES $406.39 1WARREN, DEANNA L. $729.29 1WARREN, RYAN $430.00 1WEIFENBACH, JEANNE N. $566.20 1WELLS FARGO $451.00 1WELLS, KESIA $375.29 1WELLS, SHANNON $287.05 1WESLEY AT HOME $29,212.13 1WEST COAST LAND INVESTMENTS LLC $355.00 1WESTCHESTER SQUARE APTS $451.00 1WIESE-UGLUM, SHANNON $129.68 1WILLIAMS, STACY R. $241.72 1WILLIAMSON, PENNY $469.48 1WILLOW BEND I LP $1,091.00 2
WISECUP, MICHELLE L $224.58 1WITH, SHAWN $470.14 1WOODLAND RESERVE APARTMENTS LC $500.00 1WOODS, KIMBERLY $280.83 1WOXELL, HEATHER $347.48 1WRIGHT, SHEENA $1,398.27 1YAUK-FINKEN, KATIE $261.21 1YOUNG, VERA $1,005.52 1YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES
& SHELTER $48,422.70 1ZENTENO, VIRGINIA $641.85 1ZUNIGA, BEATRIZ $556.15 1REASON: LICENSES AND PERMITS WYCKOFF INDUSTRIES $91.00 1REASON: MENTAL HEALTH SVCS BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER $97,118.18 1COMMUNITY OPTIONS $131,187.10 2COMMUNITY SUPPORT ADVOCATES $298,129.07 10DES MOINES CHILD & ADOLESCENT $14,683.28 3EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA $257,125.34 6EYERLY-BALL COMMUNITY MENTAL $127,832.74 6LINK ASSOCIATES $135,433.32 4OPTIMAE LIFE SERVICES $74,521.71 3POLK COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES $35,135.55 3RESCARE, INC. $365.55 1STRAWHACKER & ASSOCIATES LLC $274,037.52 7VITA HEALTH SVCS RCF $1,890.00 2REASON: OTH SVCS & CHGS ALLIANT ENERGY $95.96 1ALTOONA HERALD-MITCHELLVILLE
INDEX $1,966.13 12AMERICAN PROFICIENCY INSTITUTE $113.33 1ARAMARK UNIFORM SERVICES, INC. $58.68 1AT&T $244.68 1AUTOMATIC DOOR GROUP INC $169.40 1B.M.S PEST SERVICES $1,265.50 1BESSMAN, CARL W $173.66 1BLANCHARD, BRENT $1,727.14 1BLR $1,295.00 1BOEKELMAN, KATRINA $72.00 1BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS $355.32 1C. H. MCGUINESS CO., INC. $112.50 1CAPITAL CITY EQUIPMENT CO., INC. $262.50 1CARPENTER, SHANE $42.79 1CENTURY LINK $24,729.38 9CITY OF DES MOINES $250.00 1CONFERENCE TECHNOLOGIES, INC $250.00 1CONSUMERS ENERGY $647.79 1COPPOLA, ANA M. $48.15 1DANIELSON FORGE LLC $300.00 1DES MOINES REGISTER $894.35 3DES MOINES WATER WORKS $4,147.63 9DIRKS, JODI TRIMBLE (FEC) $12.57 1DRAKE, NATASHA $4,795.00 1ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING CO. $7.95 1EMBARC $13,720.31 1EVANS, CHRISTY (FEC) $125.73 1FAREWAY GROCERY STORE #137 $17.51 1FEDEX $31.28 1FIRE & SAFETY 101 $550.00 1FORBES, MELISA D. $16.29 1G & K SERVICES $203.40 3G-MAC DOOR & HARDWARE CO $8,415.00 1GARDINO, KSENIA V. $20.05 1GATSO USA INC $16,416.00 1GENERAL FIRE & SAFETY EQUIP. $1,606.00 4GENERAL PARTS LLC $886.15 2GERK, RUTH M $25.68 1GRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. $11.79 1HARRISON & DIETZ-KILEN $378.00 1HAWKEYE TRUCK EQUIPMENT $150.00 1HOFFMAN, JAMES P $101,500.00 1HOLLIDAY, JEFFREY A. (SHERIFF’S OFFICE) $21.09 1HUBBARTT, JASON L $135.89 1HY-VEE FOOD STORE #01136 $18.95 1HY-VEE FOOD STORE #01138 $17,185.47 2HY-VEE FOOD STORE #01895 $73.99 1HY-VEE FOOD STORE #1022 $140.45 1HY-VEE FOOD STORE #01142 $77.93 1HYGIENIC LABORATORY, ACCTS REC $32.77 1IMPACT7G, INC. $125.00 1IN THE BAG $953.98 5INFOMAX OFFICE SYSTEMS INC. $226.50 1IOWA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK $6,104.25 1IOWA EVENTS CENTER $130.00 1IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY $12,730.00 2J.F. AHERN CO INC $515.00 2JACOB, KATHRYN $115.89 1JASPER CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC $27,793.42 1JENNIFER MEYER LAW PC $174.00 1JOHN BOYT INDUSTRIAL SEWING $30.00 1JOHN E FILIPPI, DDS, PC $600.00 1KOCH BROTHERS $280.16 2KSKIMBALL $323.35 1LAPPE, KRISTY $273.00 1LITTLE, STEVE (SHERIFF) $15.06 1LIVE 2 B HEALTHY $1,500.00 1MANNO, MICHAEL J. $1,386.00 3MARSHALL COUNTY SHERIFF $3,100.00 1MCDONALD, LISA M $16.74 1MENNEN, NICHOLAS $63.67 1MIDAMERICAN ENERGY $13,288.40 5
MIDWEST AMBUCARE $895.00 18MIDWEST OFFICE TECHNOLOGY, INC $3,078.25 4MINUTE MENU SYSTEMS LLC $936.50 1MORANO, LORNA $116.10 1MORGAN, CANDY $50.00 1NELSON, ANTHONY R $95.00 1NEOPOST INC $558.00 2NOBLE $150.00 1OPN ARCHITECTS INC $84,140.48 4PAGE, JACK D. $58.90 1PARKS, JOHN R $6.05 1PATTERSON, PAMELA $56.18 1PTS OF AMERICA, LLC $1,785.00 2PURCELL PRINTING INC $507.17 1RADISH (THE) $626.00 1RANES LAW FIRM $1,530.00 1REINHARDT, JOHN (FEC) $258.64 2RIVERS, KERRI (C&F-FEC) $263.94 1RMC CONSULTING & ADVISORY GROUP $622.00 1SAVING OUR AVIAN RESOURCES $450.00 1SAYLOR TOWNSHIP FIRE STATION $15.00 1SCHAEFER, MAUREEN $61.78 2SCHNEIDER GRAPHICS, INC $56.99 1SCIONE, RAY ANN $22.01 1SECRETARY OF STATE $60.00 2SHRED-IT USA, LLC $34.00 1SIDWELL COMPANY $5,394.00 1STONE, JEREMY (SHERIFF’S OFFICE) $48.21 1TED’S BODY SHOP $5,062.56 1TENNANT SALES & SERVICE CO $180.35 1THE NEWBERRY GROUP INC $100.00 1THOMSON REUTERS-WEST $769.55 2TRANS IOWA, L.C. $1,992.60 1TRILIX MARKETING GROUP INC $2,793.75 2TRUCK EQUIPMENT, INC. $677.83 1UNITED PARCEL SERVICE $191.01 1UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE $685.00 1VAN METER INDUSTRIAL INC $1,195.77 1VAN WALL EQUIPMENT, INC. $6,081.51 1WIMACTEL INC $220.00 2WINDSTREAM $2,891.36 1YEGGY, KELLY $624.42 9REASON: PERSONAL SERVICES CASSADY, VALERIE A. $720.70 1CHRISTOPHER SPALDING & $1,303.49 1DUDA, BRET T. $790.89 1FOSTER, JEFFREY G. $999.72 1HARBAN JR, CHRIS E. $816.86 1HODGES, SAM (PUB WORKS) $737.78 1KNIGHT, MARTIN A. $789.74 1LOZANO, BRENT (SHERIFF) $793.78 1MITCHELL INTERNATIONAL, INC $53.50 1MONTHEI, RYAN A. $672.06 1NEMMERS, PATSY $618.53 1PIKE, BOBBIE J. $770.31 1SHIELDS, LUCAS S. $800.64 1SORENSEN, DENNIS (PUBLIC WORKS) $1,076.01 1TIBBEN, JIMMY J. M. $825.51 1REASON: SUPPLIES AIRGAS USA LLC $256.51 1ALTORFER INC $267.10 1AMERICAN MARKING, INC. $31.67 1AMERICAN MARKING, INC. (PO) $36.36 1ANDERSON ERICKSON DAIRY CO $34,455.37 2B.M.S PEST SERVICES $20.00 1BECTON DICKINSON $4,644.08 1BITUMINOUS MATERIALS & SUPPLY LP $2,537.67 2BOB BARKER COMPANY INC $2,163.16 3BOB’S TOOLS, INC $320.92 3BOMGAARS SUPPLY INC $113.70 4BREWER WHOLESALE MEATS INC. $5,326.65 2CAPITAL SANITARY SUPPLY CO.INC $6,642.80 5CASSIDY TECHNOLOGIES $417.00 3CINTAS CORPORATION $188.57 2CITY SUPPLY CORP $196.49 2COMMERCIAL BAG & SUPPLY CO. INC. $17.40 2CONTROL INSTALLATIONS IA INC. $382.85 1COPY SYSTEMS, INC $1,473.00 1DATASPEC, INC $1,794.00 1DERBY INDUSTRIES $250.00 1DIAMOND VOGEL PAINT $159.74 1DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION $115.00 1ECHO ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO $667.59 4ECOLAB $810.36 2EXCEL/PAY-LESS OFFICE
PRODUCTS (PO) $7,508.74 25FAREWAY GROCERY STORES INC #900 $133.02 1FARM & CITY SUPPLY $54.67 1FIELD PAPER COMPANY $5,700.00 4FIRESTONE COMPLETE AUTO CARE $549.56 1FIRST CHOICE DISTRIBUTING $1,535.40 4FORESTRY SUPPLIERS, INC. $1,407.08 1FRITO LAY, INC $145.65 1GEMPLER’S INC $330.00 1GRAINGER $578.56 4GRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. $369.28 1GRIEME, KENDALL $46.26 1HY-VEE FOOD STORE #01895 $13.49 1INDOFF INC $1,840.00 1INTERSTATE BATTERY SYSTEM $116.95 1IOWA DES MOINES SUPPLY INC. $261.88 3KECK OIL, INC. $16,936.66 3
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Polk County notiCesKIESLER POLICE SUPPLY INC $400.60 1KOCH BROTHERS $380.97 1LOFFREDO FRESH PRODUCE CO INC $944.63 2MARTIN BROTHERS DIST. CO., INC $10,086.53 2MARTIN MARIETTA $2,037.09 1MCDONALD SUPPLY CO. INC. $15.20 1MCKEE FOODS CORPORATION $562.80 3MCKESSON GENERAL MEDICAL CORP. $2,594.52 8MENARDS-ALTOONA $140.87 5MENARDS-ANKENY $3,989.58 7MENARDS-DES MOINES $1,222.38 7MHC KENWORTH-DES MOINES $152.40 1MID-STATE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY $18.57 1MIDWEST UNDERGROUND SUPPLY LLC $148.42 1MILLER HARDWARE, INC. $31.63 4MOEHL MILLWORK INC $2,160.14 1MOORE MEDICAL CORP $42.06 1NAPA AUTO PARTS $369.12 3NETWORKS, INC. $537.60 1NORTHERN TOOL & EQUIPMENT CO $71.96 1OFFICE SYSTEMS DIVISION, INC. $26.31 1PAN-O-GOLD BAKING CO ST CLOUD $7,620.25 2PETERSEN-KEYS, PATRICE M. $24.27 1PLUMB SUPPLY $757.90 7PPG ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES INC $14.24 1QUAIL HOLLOW FARM $880.00 1ROCK RIDGE RANCH LLC $1,338.00 1SCOTT-MARRIN INC $31.00 1SECURITY LOCKSMITHS $71.20 2SINK PAPER COMPANY $6,160.32 3STAPLES CREDIT PLAN $571.68 5STRAUSS SECURITY SOLUTIONS $21.00 1STREICHER’S POLICE EQUIPMENT $288.00 2SUPPLYWORKS $3,597.80 2TRANSIT WORKS $355.50 1US FOODS $2,502.35 3VAN METER INDUSTRIAL INC $723.05 2VERMEER SALES & SERVICE $971.00 1WAYNE DENNIS SUPPLY CO. $199.25 4WELLS, CHYRON $16.82 1ZIEGLER INC $294.87 2
IOWA EVENTS CENTER REASON: OTHER SERVICES & CHARGES AMERIPRIDE LINEN $5,533.65 BREWER WHOLESALE MEATS $7,895.40 ATLANTIC COCA COLA $3,312.19 GATEWAY MARKET $47.32 GENERAL PARTS $9,138.29 GLOBAL SPECTRUM $1,999.51 GRAZIANOS $167.55 HOBBY LOBBY $249.32 HY-VEE $827.29 LARUE COFFEE $1,319.78 LOFFREDO $14,970.18 OLD DUTCH $503.10 PALMER GROUP $11,902.50 ROTELLA’S $1,261.50 STARBUCKS $509.99 US FOODS $86,626.01 VALLEY WEST UNIFORMS $694.72 VOSS DISTRIBUTING $216.60 DOLL DISTRIBUTING $754.25 DOLL DISTRIBUTING $904.25 GLAZER’S $1,149.00 DOLL DISTRIBUTING $1,777.45 JOHNSON BROTHERS $1,378.80 JOHNNY HOLLYWOOD
ENTERTAINMENT $4,279.82 ADVANCE SERVICES, INC. $23,102.85 AMERIPRIDE SERVICES, INC. $3,276.56 AUTOMATIC DOOR GROUP, INC. $189.20 BAKER MECHANICAL, INC. $1,850.00 BELLA FLORA EVENT DESIGN, LLC $472.41 BONNIE’S BARRICADES $227.60 CARBONHOUSE $500.00 CINTAS CORPORATION #762 $54.35 CONTROLLED ACCESS MIDWEST, LLC $303.95 CONTEMPORARY SERVICES CORP $24,884.64 CSS INC. $1,185.50 GREATER DES MOINES CVB $625.00 DH PACE DOOR SERVICES GROUP $440.60 DES MOINES WATER WORKS $11,164.95 ECOLAB PEST ELIM DIV $539.56 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & EQUIP $1,344.90 FEDEX $39.76 FORKLIFTS OF DES MOINES $175.00 GARRATT-CALLAHAN CO. $1,816.67 GENERAL FIRE & SAFETY $1,411.00 GREENRU, LLC $613.89 H-H INCORPORATED OF IOWA $54.96 STEVE HAAG $95.00 HERC-U-LIFT $2,628.03 HOUK & ASSOCIATES, INC. $867.80 HY-VEE INC. $54.35 KONE, INC. $826.66 JESSICA VAN SLOTEN $94.10 MAJESTIC LIMOUSINE SERVICE $1,000.00 MARCO, INC. $1,799.33 MARKEY’S AUDIO VISUAL, INC. $37,963.58 MEDIACOM $2,905.95 MIDAMERICAN ENERGY CO $31,188.29 NATIONWIDE OFFICE CARE LLC $19,324.75
PCM PC MALL $856.37 HAROLD PETERSON $99.00 PETTY CASH-IA EVENTS CENTER $189.00 QCI $832.34 JAKE REICHLING $401.33 RIST & ASSOCIATES, INC. $470.00 SAFEHOLD SPECIAL RISK, INC. $7,796.25 ANDY SCHMIDT $176.94 SMITH’S SEWER SERVICE INC. $977.50 SPECK USA $7,555.00 SUPERIOR CLEANING INC. $660.00 TENNANT SALES AND SERVICE CO $1,365.10 TVEYES INC. $2,450.00 UNIVERSAL PRINTING SERVICES $415.28 UNITED REFRIGERATION INC. $228.66 THE WALDINGER CORPORATION $250.00 WASTE MANAGEMENT OF IOWA $2,773.18 SPECTRA TICKETING $2,000.00 PRINCIPAL PARK $300.00 REASON: PERSONAL SERVICES OVATIONS $212,679.24 SPECTRA VENUE MANAGEMENT $123,894.75 REASON: SUPPLIES GUY BROWN $1,211.04 ACKELSON SHEET METAL, INC $225.00 ADVENTURE LIGHTING $251.16 CAPITAL SANITARY SUPPLY CO. $411.80 CED, Inc. $4,026.32 CITY SUPPLY CORP. $421.92 CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER CO. $51.50 DRAPES 4 SHOW, INC. $706.12 FASTENAL COMPANY $260.04 FERRELLGAS $1,724.42 GRAINGER $782.16 INFOMAX OFFICE SYSTEMS, INC. $3,717.58 LEXJET LLC $307.00 MATHESON TRI-GAS, INC. $32.58 MENARDS-DES MOINES $343.12 MSC INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CO $301.01 PLUMBMASTER, INC. $446.48 SINK PAPER & PACKAGING $2,935.44 SOUTHLAND PRINTING CO, INC. $3,229.84 STANDARD BEARINGS $44.52 STAPLES BUSINESS ADVANTAGE $539.86 STRAUSS SECURITY SOLUTIONS $544.19
POLK COUNTY EMPLOYEE INSURANCETO BE PAID 2-21-2017
REASON: OTHER SERVICES & CHARGESWELLMARK $303,258.28 PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL $4,156.90
MANUAL CHECKS REASON: CONDEMNATION AWARD MARYANN ROBERTS $12,000.00
OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONPROCEEDINGS OF THE POLK COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORSThe Polk County Board of Supervisors met
in regular session Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Steve Van Oort, Robert Brownell, Tom Hockensmith, Angela Connolly, John F. Mauro.
LET THE RECORD SHOW Supervisor Hockensmith is out of the County and his physi-cal presence was impossible. He will be par-ticipating in the meeting by telephone, which is allowed per Iowa Code Chapter 21.8 and his votes will be recorded.
Moved by Brownell, Seconded by Van Oort to dispense with the reading of the February 7, 2017 minutes and they stand approved as print-ed. The February 8, 2017 discussion meeting minutes were approved. The January budget hearing minutes were also approved.
VOTE YEA: Van Oort, Brownell, Hockensmith, Connolly, Mauro.
The Bills as certified by the County Auditor were allowed or disallowed on each according to the certified list, claim numbers 201702140001 – 201702140870.
VOTE YEA: Van Oort, Brownell, Hockensmith, Connolly, Mauro.
PETITIONS: Petitions to suspend taxes and special assessments for the following:
D. Bullington, 1965 WalkerR. Cheek, 2940 Kinsey AveS. Peppmeier, 3833-53rd StL. Propes, 1118-17th StVOTE YEA: Van Oort, Brownell, Hockensmith,
Connolly, Mauro.RESOLUTIONS: Resolution suspending
taxes and special assessments and authoriz-ing Chairperson to sign the Application and Affidavit for Redemption of Parcel for 3720 SE 10th Street (S. Figeroa).
Resolution approving agreement with B & G Construction to address lead hazard repairs at 825 SW 62nd St (M. Rodriguez).
Resolution approving agreement with B & G Construction to address lead hazard repairs at 1224 – 10th Street (E. Thipyothin).
Resolution approving agreement with Fexsteve Limited to address lead hazard repairs at 309 – 6th Street NW, Mitchellville (C. Murrow).
Resolution approving agreement with Precision Builders to address lead hazard repairs at 1238 E. 13th Street (Yaw).
Resolution approving release of mortgage on 1171 – 13th Street (J. Cochran).
Resolution approving agreement with M2K Marketing Group for marketing and promotion assistance for the Lead Safe Housing Program.
Resolution approving agreement with Iowa Department of Public Health for Integrated HIV and Viral Hepatitis Counseling, Testing and Referral Services.
Resolution approving 28E agreement for Mutual Assistance.
Resolution proclaiming support of collective bargaining and local governmental control.
VOTE YEA: Hockensmith, Connolly, Mauro.VOTE NAY: Van Oort, Brownell.REFERRED TO PUBLIC WKS & CO ATTORNEY:
Notice of meeting from the City of Altoona regarding 2017A Urban Renewal Plan Amendment.
Notice of meeting from the City of Ankeny regarding proposed amendment to the 1989 Ankeny Economic Development Urban Renewal Plan.
APPOINTMENTS: Moved by Brownell, Seconded by Connolly that the follow-ing Resolution be adopted: BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the individuals named on this Memorandum be approved for personnel action:
Melanie Ackerman, Lab Supr, Health, $63,508 beginning Feb 27, 2017
Pamela Appleby, Office Spec on-call, Sheriff, $17.83 beginning Feb 15, 2017
Anne McKibben, Multi Svc Clk on-call, Recorder, $18.65 beginning Feb 15, 2017
Hayden Robinson, Deten Officer, Sheriff, $39,610 beginning Feb 18, 2017
VOTE YEA: Van Oort, Brownell, Hockensmith, Connolly, Mauro.
LET THE RECORD SHOW all resolutions, including Public Hearings, were approved unanimously, unless otherwise noted.
Moved by Brownell, Seconded by Connolly to adjourn until February 21, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.
OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONPROCEEDINGS OF THE POLK COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORSThe Polk County Board of Supervisors met as
a Canvassing Board on Tuesday, February 14, 2017, at 9:45 a.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Steve Van Oort, Robert Brownell, Angela Connolly, John F. Mauro.
We, the undersigned members of the Board of Supervisors and Ex-Officio County Board of Canvassers for Polk County, Iowa, do hereby certify the following to be a true and correct abstract of the votes cast in this county at the Special School Election held on the 7th day of February, 2017, as shown by the tally lists returned from the election precincts in the North Polk Community School District.
NORTH POLK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION PUBLIC MEASURE LETTER A
Shall the Board of Directors of the North Polk Community School District in the Counties of Polk, Boone and Story, State of Iowa, be autho-rized to contract indebtedness and issue General Obligation Bonds in an amount not to exceed $5,200,000 to provide funds to build, construct, furnish and equip additions to the Middle School and West Elementary building; to remodel, renovate, improve, furnish and equip portions of the Middle School and the West Elementary buildings and improve the sites?
FOR THE MEASURE, THERE WERE 1,006 VotesAGAINST THE MEASURE, THERE WERE 139 VotesTOTAL 1,145 VotesWE THEREFORE DECLARE: THE MEASURE
WAS APPROVED. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, we have here-
unto set our hands and caused to be affixed the seal of this county by the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. Done at Des Moines, the County Seat of Polk County, this 14th day of February, 2017.
John F. Mauro, ChairpersonRobert BrownellAngela ConnollySteve Van OortMembers of the Board of Supervisors andEx-Officio County Board of CanvassersATTEST: Jamie Fitzgerald Polk County Auditor and Clerk to the Board
of Supervisors
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING––––––
The Polk County Board of Supervisors will hold a Public Hearing on the 7th of March, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 120 of the Polk County Administration Building, 111 Court Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa, to consider a proposal to convey real estate with the local address of a vacant property located at 623 SE 6th St, Des Moines, Iowa and described as:
N 1/2 LOT 5 BLK 54 TOWN OF DE MOINETo Joseph Romeo for a total of $500.00. For addi-tional information, contact Polk County Public Works, Real Estate Division at (515)286-3705.Published in the Business Record on March 3, 2017.
NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE———
Cert No. 2011-3047———
TO:Person in possession of real estate described belowTO: ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP INC.MortgageeYOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 27th day of June 2011, the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit:
S 1/2 VAC ALLEY N & ADJ W 108.2F & E 29.4F LOT 6 & ALL LOT 6 BLK 80 TOWN OF DE MOINEDist: 40 Parcel: 01670-001-000
now included in and forming a part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold by the County Treasurer of Polk County, Iowa for the then delinquent and unpaid taxes against the said real estate for the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 to Polk County, Iowa; that a Certificate of Purchase was duly issued to Polk County, Iowa, by the County Treasurer of Polk County, Iowa, and that the right of Redemption will expire and a deed for the said real estate will be made unless Redemption from said sale is made within ninety days from the completed service of this Notice.Dated this 13th day of February, 2017.
Mary Maloney, TreasurerPolk County, IowaBen Lacey, Assistant DirectorPolk County Treasurer
Published in the Business Record on March 3, 2017.
NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE———
Cert No. 2011-3048———
TO:Person in possession of real estate described belowTO: ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP INC.MortgageeYOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 27th day of June 2011, the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit:
LOTS 7 & 8 N OF A LN BEG 27.6F N OF SW COR LT 7 THN SELY TO A PT 1F S OF NE COR LT 8 BLK 80 TOWN OF DE MOINEDist: 40 Parcel: 01671
now included in and forming a part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold by the County Treasurer of Polk County, Iowa for the then delinquent and unpaid taxes against the said real estate for the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 to Polk County, Iowa; that a Certificate of Purchase was duly issued to Polk County, Iowa, by the County Treasurer of Polk County, Iowa, and that the right of Redemption will expire and a deed for the said real estate will be made unless Redemption from said sale is made within ninety days from the completed service of this Notice.Dated this 13th day of February, 2017.
Mary Maloney, TreasurerPolk County, IowaBen Lacey, Assistant DirectorPolk County Treasurer
Published in the Business Record on March 3, 2017.
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PUBLIC NOTICESPUBLIC NOTICES
DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS –––––––
The deadline for public notices is 3 p.m. Wednesday, 7 business days prior to publication date. TO ENSURE ACCURACY, NO PUBLIC NOTICES WILL BE ACCEPTED BY FAX OR TELEPHONE.We must be notified of any changes to or can-cellations of previously submitted notices no later than noon Thursday prior to publication.Notices should be typed (including all signa-tures, preferably double-spaced) and accompa-nied by a cover letter stating any publication requirements (such as the number of times the notice is to be published and whether it must be published by a certain date), whom to bill, and a phone number at which you can be reached should any question arise.When submitting by mail, send all public notices to: Business Record Attn: Danielle Miller The Depot at Fourth 100 Fourth St. Des Moines, Iowa 50309 (515) 288-3338 ext. 217By e-mail, send public notices to:[email protected] should be sent either in a Microsoft Word or Excel document, Text, or PDF.Please direct all inquiries concerning billing and affidavits of publication to Becky Hotchkiss at (515) 288-3338 ext. 436.
NOTICE OF PROOF OF WILL WITHOUT ADMINISTRATION
———The Iowa District Court
Polk County———
Case No. ESPRO70892———
In the matter of the Estate of,Edwin J. Hartlein, Deceased.To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Edwin J. Hartlein, Deceased, who died on or about May 30, 2016:You are hereby notified that on December 14, 2016, the last will and testament of Edwin J. Hartlein, deceased, bearing date of November 8, 1993, was admitted to probate in the above named court and there will be no present administration of the estate. Any action to set aside the will must be brought in the district court of the county within the later to occur of four months from the date of the second publica-tion of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice to all heirs of the decedent and devisees under the will whose identities are reasonably ascertainable, or thereafter be forever barred.Dated this 14th day of December, 2016.
Bankers TrustProponent
Wayne I. Wilson, #AT0008636Attorney for estateWilson, Deege, Despotovich, Riemenschneider, & Rittgers, PLC4200 University Avenue, Suite 424West Des Moines, Iowa 50266Date of second publication: March 3, 2017.
TRUST NOTICE———
IN THE MATTER OF THE TRUST:EDWIN J. HARTLEIN REVOCABLE LIVING TRUSTTo all persons regarding Edwin J. Hartlein, deceased, who died on or about May 30, 2016. You are hereby notified that Bankers Trust is the trustee of the Edwin J. Hartlein Revocable Living Trust, dated November 8, 1993. Any action to contest the validity of the trust must be brought in the District Court of Polk County, Iowa, within the later to occur of four (4) months from the date of second publication of this notice or thirty (30) days from the date of mailing this notice to all heirs of the decedent settlor and the spouse of the decedent settlor whose identities are reason-ably ascertainable. Any suit not filed within this period shall be forever barred.Notice is further given that any person or entity possessing a claim against the trust must mail proof of the claim to the trustee at the address listed below via certified mail, return receipt requested, by the later to occur of four (4) months from the second publication of this notice or thirty (30) days from the date of mail-ing this notice if required or the claim shall be forever barred unless paid or otherwise satisfied.Dated this 14th day of December, 2016.
EDWIN J. HARTLEIN REVOCABLE LIVING TRUSTBankers Trust
453 - 7th Street, P.O. Box 897Des Moines, IA 50309
Wayne I. Wilson, #AT0008636Attorney for TrusteeWilson, Deege, Despotovich, Riemenschneider, & Rittgers, PLC4200 University Avenue, Suite 424West Des Moines, Iowa 50266Date of second publication: March 3, 2017.
NOTICE OF PROOF OF WILL WITHOUT ADMINISTRATION
———The Iowa District Court
Polk County———
Case No. ESPRO70855———
In the matter of the Estate of,Robert J. Prince, Deceased.To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Robert J. Prince, Deceased, who died on or about October 7, 2016:You are hereby notified that on December 6, 2016, the last will and testament of Robert J. Prince, deceased, bearing date of March 8, 2013, was admitted to probate in the above named court and there will be no present administration of the estate. Any action to set aside the will must be brought in the district court of the county within the later to occur of four months from the date of the second publica-tion of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice to all heirs of the decedent and devisees under the will whose identities are reasonably ascertainable, or thereafter be forever barred.Dated this 6th day of December, 2016.
Krystal D. PrinceProponent
Wayne I. Wilson, #AT0008636Attorney for estate4200 University Avenue, Suite 424West Des Moines, Iowa 50266Date of second publication: March 3, 2017.
TRUST NOTICE———
IN THE MATTER OF THE TRUST:ROBERT J. PRINCE 2013 REVOCABLE TRUSTTo all persons regarding Robert J. Prince, deceased, who died on or about October 7, 2016. You are hereby notified that Krystal D. Prince is the trustee of the Robert J. Prince 2013 Revocable Trust, dated on March 8, 2013. Any action to contest the validity of the trust must be brought in the District Court of Polk County, Iowa, within the later to occur of four (4) months from the date of second publication of this notice or thirty (30) days from the date of mailing this notice to all heirs of the decedent settlor and the spouse of the decedent settlor whose identities are reasonably ascertainable. Any suit not filed within this period shall be forever barred.Notice is further given that any person or entity possessing a claim against the trust must mail proof of the claim to the trustee at the address listed below via certified mail, return receipt requested, by the later to occur of four (4) months from the second publication of this notice or thirty (30) days from the date of mail-ing this notice if required or the claim shall be forever barred unless paid or otherwise satisfied.Dated this 8th day of February, 2017.
ROBERT J. PRINCE 2013 REVOCABLE TRUSTKrystal D. Prince606 E. 6th StreetDes Moines, IA 50309
Wayne I. Wilson, #AT0008636Attorney for TrusteeWilson, Deege, Despotovich, Riemenschneider, & Rittgers, PLC4200 University Avenue, Suite 424West Des Moines, Iowa 50266Date of second publication: March 3, 2017.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENTOF ADMINISTRATOR
AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS———
The Iowa District CourtPolk County
———Case No. ESPRO71003
———In The Estate OfDanny Harold Williams, Deceased.To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Danny Harold Williams, Deceased, who died on or about January 4, 2017:You are hereby notified that on the 12th day of
January, 2017, the undersigned was appointed administrator of the estate.Notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditors hav-ing claims against the estate shall file them with the clerk of the above named district court, as provided by law, duly authenticated, for allow-ance, and unless so filed by the later to occur of four months from the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of the mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed or paid) a claim is thereafter forever barred.Dated this 10th day of February, 2017.
Dustin H. NobleAttorney for the Estate1009 Main StreetAdel, IA 50003
Dustin H. Noble, AT0012758Attorney for the EstateHopkins & Huebner, P.C.1009 Main StreetAdel, Iowa 50003Date of second publication: March 3, 2017.
NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR,
AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS———
The Iowa District CourtPolk County
———Probate No. ESPRO71130
———In the matter of the Estate ofOlive M. Umbaugh, Deceased.To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Olive M. Umbaugh, Deceased, who died on or about February 3, 2017:You are hereby notified that on the 8th day of February, 2017, the last will and testament of Olive M. Umbaugh, deceased, bearing date of the 22nd day of September, 2004, was admitted to probate in the above named court and that Glen R. Umbaugh was appointed executor of the estate. Any action to set aside the will must be brought in the district court of said county within the later to occur of four months from the date of the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice to all heirs of the decedent and devisees under the will whose identities are reasonably ascertainable, or thereafter be forever barred.Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditors hav-ing claims against the estate shall file them with the clerk of the above named district court, as provided by law, duly authenticated, for allow-ance, and unless so filed by the later to occur of four months from the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed or paid) a claim is thereafter forever barred.Dated this 8th day of February, 2017.
Glen R. UmbaughExecutor of estatePO Box 73Alleman, IA 50007
David A. HoytAttorney for executorHoyt Law Firm, P.C.101 N Grimmell Rd, PO Box 350Jefferson, IA 50129Date of second publication: March 3, 2017.
NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR,
AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS———
The Iowa District CourtPolk County
———Case No. ESPRO71162
———In the matter of the Estate ofMarian L. Lyman, Deceased.To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Marian L. Lyman, Deceased, who died on or about January 3, 2017:You are hereby notified that on February 15, 2017, the last will and testament of Marian L. Lyman, deceased, bearing date of April 16, 2009, was admitted to probate in the above named court and that Kimberly S. Kuney was appointed executor of the estate. Any action to set aside the will must be brought in the district court of said county within the later to occur of four months from the date of the second publica-tion of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice to all heirs of the decedent and devisees under the will whose identities
are reasonably ascertainable, or thereafter be forever barred.Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditors hav-ing claims against the estate shall file them with the clerk of the above named district court, as provided by law, duly authenticated, for allow-ance, and unless so filed by the later to occur of four months from the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed or paid) a claim is thereafter forever barred.Dated this 15th day of February, 2017.
Kimberly S. KuneyExecutor of Estate5630 Highland Ct.West Des Moines, IA 50266
Wayne I. Wilson, #AT0008636Attorney for Executor4200 University Avenue, Suite 424West Des Moines, Iowa 50266Date of second publication: March 10, 2017.
NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL, OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR,
AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS———
The Iowa District CourtPolk County
———Probate No. ESPRO23435
———In the matter of the Estate ofRuth M. Bathel, Deceased.To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Ruth M. Bathel, Deceased, who died on or about July 1, 2015:You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of April, 2016, the last will and testament of Ruth M. Bathel, deceased, bearing date of the 4th day of May, 1998, was admitted to probate in the above named court and that Judith M. Ingram was appointed executor of the estate. Any action to set aside the will must be brought in the district court of said county within the later to occur of four months from the date of the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice to all heirs of the decedent and devisees under the will whose identities are reasonably ascertainable, or thereafter be forever barred.Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned, and creditors hav-ing claims against the estate shall file them with the clerk of the above named district court, as provided by law, duly authenticated, for allow-ance, and unless so filed by the later to occur of four months from the second publication of this notice or one month from the date of mailing of this notice (unless otherwise allowed or paid) a claim is thereafter forever barred.Dated this 14th day of April, 2016.
Judith M. IngramExecutor of EstateP.O. Box 8634Tucson, AZ 85738
Frederick B. Anderson, ICIS PIN No: AT0000467Attorney for ExecutorHudson, Mallaney, Shindler & Anderson, P.C.5015 Grand Ridge Dr., Ste. 100West Des Moines, IA 50265Date of second publication: March 10, 2017.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING––––––
Notice is hereby given that a regular meeting of the Merchants Bonding Company (Mutual) will be held at the principal place of business of said corporation, 6700 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines, Iowa, April 29, 2017 starting at 10:00 A.M., for the purpose of transacting the regular business of the corporation.
Larry Taylor, PresidentMerchants Bonding Company (Mutual)William W. Warner Jr., SecretaryMerchants Bonding Company (Mutual)
Date of third publication: March 17, 2017.
PUBLIC NOTICE OF STORM WATER DISCHARGE———
The City of Des Moines, or its Contractor for the following work, plans to submit a Notice of Intent to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to be covered under the NPDES General Permit No. 2 “Storm Water Discharge Associated with Industrial Activity for Construction Activities.” The storm water discharge will be from the construction of the George Flagg Parkway Resurfacing from Park Avenue to S.W. 30th Street, Activity ID 06-2016-004 located in NE/SW
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1/4 Sec. 18, T78N, R24W, Polk County. Storm water will be discharged from 1 point source and will be discharged to the following stream: Raccoon River.Comments may be submitted to the Storm Water Discharge Coordinator, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division, Henry A. Wallace Building, 502 E. 9th Street, Des Moines, IA 50319-0034. The public may review the Notice of Intent from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the
above address after it has been received by the department.Published in the Business Record on March 3, 2017.
PUBLIC NOTICE OF STORM WATER DISCHARGE———
The City of Des Moines plans to submit a Notice of Intent to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to be covered under the NPDES General Permit No. 2 “Storm Water
Discharge Associated with Industrial Activity for Construction Activities.” The storm water discharge will be from the construction of the E. 2nd St. Reconstruction from E. Grand Ave. to E. Locust St., Activity ID 06-2017-003 located in NE 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC 4, T78N, R24W, Polk County. Storm water will be discharged from 1 point source and will be discharged to the following stream: Des Moines River.Comments may be submitted to the Storm Water Discharge Coordinator, Iowa Department
of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division, Henry A. Wallace Building, 502 E. 9th Street, Des Moines, IA 50319-0034. The public may review the Notice of Intent from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the above address after it has been received by the department.Published in the Business Record on March 3, 2017.
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