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Eldridge council members committed $473,000 in patching projects this year to fix streets, including some that took a beating as detour routes.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/18/23
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Eldridge council members Monday awarded assistant city administrator Jeff Martens a 16 percent raise recognizing his performance and expansion of duties in his first six months.
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7/19/23
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The next Eldridge police applicants may live within 30 miles of Eldridge after council members removed a city requirement they live within Scott County.
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7/19/23
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The council will allow homebuilders in the new Ivy Acres subdivision to add basements with underground sump pump discharge connections to a buried stormwater main.
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7/19/23
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Event organizers – not the city of Eldridge – would be responsible for verifying licensing and insurance obligations for alcohol venders at public events, including the Moonlight Chase, Sheridan Meadows concerts and other North Scott Chamber of Commerce events.
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7/19/23
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The council approved the second of three readings amending sidewalk ordinances to allow the council to waive requirements in industrially zoned areas. On Monday, the council added a requirement that property owners alert the county recorder if a waiver is approved.
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7/19/23
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Princeton has an engineering firm willing to take on trail design, but still faces council concerns about the town’s ability to afford anything more than a design.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/19/23
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Wyatt Heyvaert resigned his new Princeton city manager position a week after a council investigation into concerns he had missed scheduled work hours and damaged a squad car.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/19/23
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Changes to development and traffic ordinances will be coming before the council next month.
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7/19/23
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Eldridge will convene a public, committee of the whole meeting to discuss the Scott County Library’s renewed lease of the city-owned headquarters at 200 North Sixth Ave., Eldridge.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/19/23
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Iowa tax credits worth $135,000 will be added to Eldridge’s $3.5 million tax break incentives to draw RILCO industrial lubricant plant from Rock Island to the old Bawden press building, 400 S. 14th Ave., Eldridge.
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7/26/23
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Scott County supervisors allocated $100,000 of federal pandemic relief to the Visit Quad Cities tourism agency, to help cover expenses and bidding fees that bring new events to the region.
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7/26/23
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Supervisors bought 80 heavy-duty Panasonic Toughbook laptops and extra memory for sheriff’s squads and conservation officer vehicles for $315,945.60.
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7/26/23
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Princeton residents will find out terms of former police chief Wyatt Heyvaert’s resignation only after he has approved it.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/26/23
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Scott County will forego carbon pipeline regulation for now after learning about a new federal court ruling, meeting with Wolf Carbon Solutions staff, and hearing support from an ADM executive and a national pipefitters union leader.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/26/23
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Presidential contender Mike Pence will visit Scott County Republican Lincoln Club members at a private event, noon, Aug. 10, for those who have purchased memberships to the county party’s Lincoln Club.
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8/1/23
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has finalized long-awaited reforms to how power generation projects get connected to the electric grid, a major step in smoothing the path for thousands of renewable power projects currently waiting to plug in.
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Robert Zullo, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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8/1/23
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FORT PIERRE, S.D.— The economic benefits of a proposed carbon capture pipeline came under scrutiny last week during the second day of a permit hearing before South Dakota state regulators at the Casey Tibbs Rodeo Center.
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Joshua Haiar, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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8/1/23
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Let the petition-passing begin.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/1/23
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Iowa judges recently have sided with open government advocates trying to gain access to public records and attend public meetings — with the latest ruling requiring the state to pay $135,000 in legal fees for three media organizations denied records by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
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Erin Jordan of the Cedar Rapids Gazette
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8/8/23
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