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Solon Dynamite presents Dance Spectacular Friday, Feb. 13

SOLON– Solon Dynamite, the varsity dance team, presents its annual Spectacular 2015 performance Friday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Solon High School gymnasium. It will be a night to celebrate dance and the team’s success-ful season. Admission is $5. Solon activity passes will be accepted. Bring a non-perishable food item for the Solon Food Panty and receive a free glow stick. Show shirts, concessions, jewelry and merchandise from E’s Florals will be offered for sale.

HS band can drive Feb. 14SOLON– The Solon High School band will be conducting

a can drive at the high school on Saturday, Feb. 14, from 8 a.m. until noon. For more information or to arrange for pick up, call 319-310-7031.

Single Seniors Info Group to meet for the fi rst time Feb. 18 at library

SOLON– The Solon Public Library and the Solon Senior Advocates are joining together to create a Single Seniors Info Group. The aim of the group will be to share informa-tion about a variety of subjects that are particular to seniors living alone.

Personal fi nances, household issues, socialization, nutri-tion, mobility, relocating and downsizing are a few topics that may be discussed. Seniors with suggestions to help others who are experiencing particular issues are encouraged to participate.

The fi rst meeting will be held at 9 a.m. in the library community room on Wednesday, Feb. 18, with coffee and sweets. Future meeting times can be determined by the interest generated by this proposal.

Many seniors have indicated interest in participating. If you are a senior interested in sharing your knowledge or just looking for support, please contact us at 319-624-2710 or 319-624-2768 or join us on Feb. 18.

By Doug LindnerSolon EconomistSOLON– The newest member of the

Solon City Council sees himself as an average Joe.

At a Wednesday, Feb. 4, meeting, council members voted to appoint Dale Snipes to the seat vacated by Ron Herdliska, who resigned the post Jan. 1.

Snipes, 57, will serve out the remain-ing year of Herdliska’s term, but has already indicated he will seek election in November.

With the decision, the council is back to its full complement of fi ve members.

In the last 12 months, four of the six elected city positions have been vacated and filled by appointment, beginning with previous Mayor Cami Rasmussen’s decision to seek the job of city administrator last spring. Council member Steve Stange ascended to the mayor’s post by appointment in May, and Steve Duncan was subsequently tapped to fi ll Stange’s void.

Both Stange and Duncan stood for election in November 2014 and re-tained their seats.

Later in November, however, coun-cil member Brad Kunkel announced he would step down from his position effective Dec. 1. Mark Prentice was

appointed Jan. 7 to fi ll the vacancy created by Kunkel, who moved outside the city limits.

Herdliska’s departure was an-nounced the same night Prentice was sworn in.

Snipes, along with Kristina Bevans, had applied for the council seat opened by Kunkel, and both were subsequently considered when Herdliska left.

“It was a diffi cult decision,” said council member Mark Krall, who made the motion to appoint Snipes. “I’m glad we had a lot of people that were

Back to five members

Appointment: Continued on page A7

Dale Snipes takes the oath of offi ce just prior to being seated Feb. 4 as Solon’s newest city council member. Snipes was appointed to fi ll the term vacated by Ron Herdliska effective Jan. 1, which runs through the end of the year. Snipes has indicated he will stand for election in November. (photo by Doug Lindner)

Council apponts Dale Snipes to replace Ron HerdliskaSolon United Methodist Men hosting soup supper Feb. 13

SOLON– The Solon United Methodist Men will be host-ing their annual soup supper Friday, Feb. 13, from 5-7 p.m. at the Solon United Methodist Church. Ticket prices are $7 for adults and $4 for kids under the age of 12, and includes oyster, chili, and chicken noodle soup, hot dogs and dessert.

Solon American Legion all-you-can-eat breakfast Feb. 15.

SOLON– The Solon American Legion will be serving an all-you-can-eat breakfast, including pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, juice, coffee and milk from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 15. Costs are adults $8, children ages 6-12 $4 and children 5 and under are free. All proceeds go toward paying for expenses at the Veteran’s Memorial at the Legion ball park. For more information, call Cliff Bohling or Jamie Hromi at the Solon Legion, 319-624-2277, after 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

By Doug LindnerSolon EconomistSOLON– A proposed

zoning ordinance to allow for narrower lot widths and smaller setbacks for single family residences is going nowhere anytime soon.

During their meeting on Feb. 4, Solon City Council members declined to take action on a draft ordinance which would create an R1(B) zoning district.

“I rather feel rushed in making a decision right now,” council member Mark Krall said. “I’m not ready to change things, I guess.”

Krall said he preferred to wait until an update of the city’s comprehensive plan has been completed before reconsidering the zoning change. The city expects to

undertake an update later this year.

The reluctance to accept the new zoning district stemmed from concerns over reductions in the side yard setbacks, something lo-cal developer Cory Hodapp indicated would help reduce home prices without sacri-fi cing too much in square footage.

The draft ordinance was originally presented and tabled at a Jan. 21 meeting. The proposal came out of a joint meeting Nov. 25 between the council, the city’s Planning and Zoning (P&Z) commission and de-velopers of Old Mill Creek Part 3, and was presented as

RIP for R1(B)?City council declines to act on proposed zoning ordinance

Zoning: Continued on page A7

By Jen MooreSolon EconomistSOLON– One of Heather Snipes’s favorite things to do

is to get on her Harley Davidson motorcycle and just drive.Her trips often lead her down quiet country roads, where

she takes in the scenic farmlands and landscapes. It was during one of these rides when she fi rst became entranced by the beauty and intricacy of the quilt paintings hanging on area barns.

“When you see those old barns out there with those beau-tiful designs on the sides of them, I thought, ‘you know, I could do that,’” Snipes said.

Snipes has had an artistic side for as long as she could remember, and that love of all things creative manifested

A piece of the countryHeather Snipes of Solon stands in front of a few of her painted barn quilts. (photo by Jen Moore)

Heather Snipes turns her love of art into a successful side business

itself into multiple ventures throughout the years. She painted decorative rocks and wooden blocks for both herself and Solon community members. Later she began looking for something new to satisfy her creative side and decided painting barn quilts would be her next endeavor.

Snipes began making them just for herself and her family last fall, and as she painted and designed, she documented her work through photos on Facebook. Soon after, she began to receive requests from community members interested in getting their own personalized quilts.

With the holiday season things took off for Snipes; many people came to her looking for thoughtful presents for hard-to-buy-for loved ones and Snipes found herself working long hours to make deadlines.

“I was lucky that I did all my shopping early,” she joked.

Barn quilts: Continued on page A8

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Annual Soup SupperAdults: $7.00 Children under 12: $4.00

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The Paw ProjectJoin us on Thursday, Feb. 26, in the library’s meeting

room for a viewing of the documentary “The Paw Project,” at 6:30 p.m. This fi lm has been described as a David and Goliath story of one veterinarian’s battle to protect her patients (tigers, lions and even house cats) from big corpora-tions, with their big corporate money, that will shamelessly do anything to animals to increase their bottom line. She starts a grassroots movement that is fueled by passion, but appears to be losing the battle. Then, unexpectedly, she realizes that the corporations accidentally left her a giant loophole. In a scramble to take advantage of this unforeseen gift, she leads the crusade passing legislation protecting animals from de-clawing in seven cities in just six weeks. Local veterinarian Jenifer Doll will be attending the event to answer questions about this controversial topic.

Solon petsBring in pictures of your family with your pets during

the month of February. We will be posting pictures of local families and their pets on a bulletin board, near our window display, to celebrate “Love your Pets Day” on Feb. 20.

Tax formsDue to recent government budget cuts, the type and

number of tax forms sent out to libraries has been reduced. The library has received a limited number of Forms 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ. The library also has one copy of Pub-lication 17 to be used in the library.

All forms and publications are available online. Although we cannot assist you in determining which forms you need, we can assist you in fi nding the forms online and assist you in printing them out. Our regular printing fee of 10 cents per page for black and white print will apply.

Monthly drawing winnerEvery month the Friends of the Library sponsors a draw-

ing for a $10 prize. To participate in the drawing, all you have to do is to read a book checked out from the Solon Library (or listen to one) then enter your name to win the prize. A name is picked at the end of each month. January’s winner was Deb Zenisek.

Blind Date with a BookThe library is featuring a “Blind Date with a Book”

program during the month of February. These “blind date” books are wrapped and on display. Take your “blind date” home to read and enjoy (or don’t enjoy… not every blind date is a home run). When you fi nish and return the book, fi ll out a form to enter the drawing. The featured prize is a $25 gift certifi cate to Big Grove Brewery. The winner will be drawn Friday, Feb. 28.

Babygarten Babygarten is a program designed to nurture the bond

between caregiver and child, increase eye-hand coordination and develop body awareness. This rhythmic program will enrich your child’s life from the very beginning and provide an excellent foundation for the future. Our next session of Babygarten will run March 6 through April 10 on Fridays

at 9:30 a.m. Each session will feature music, board books and toys for children birth to 24 months. Registration for this program is now open.

Oscar contestThe Friends of the Solon Library are sponsoring their 5th

annual Predict the Oscars Contest for the 87th annual Acad-emy Awards. Entry forms will be available at the library. One entry per person and all participants must be 16 years or older by Feb. 20. The winner of the contest will receive a prize package worth over $50. For more information contact the library at 319-624-2678.

Dates to rememberStorytime: Every Tuesday morning at 10:30 a.m. for chil-

dren ages 2 through 5. Join us for stories, songs and a craft.Early-Out Feb. 12: Craft. Valentine’s Day cards and

crowns. This program will run from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m.Early-Out Feb. 19 Movie: “Boxtrolls” rated PG, 96

minutes. This program will run from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m.Early-Out Feb. 26: LEGO. This program will run from

1:45 to 2:45 p.m.Early-Out March 5 Movie: “Alexander and the Terri-

ble, No Good, Very Bad Day” rated PG, 81 minutes. This program will run from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m.

Friends of the Library Used Book Sale: March 7. Sale hours will be 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Booster Club’s 2nd annual celebration of athletics Feb. 27

SOLON– The Solon Athletic Booster Club will host its Second Annual Celebration of Solon Athletics on Friday, Feb. 27, at the AvaCentre in Solon with entertainment starting at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m.

Everyone is welcome for dinner and a night of enter-tainment with proceeds benefi tting Solon High School and Middle School athletics. The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with pre-dinner music, the coaches presenting the state of each program and a keynote address by Marshall Koehn, University of Iowa football player and 2011 Solon graduate.

Tickets are $25, which include a meal of pork loin or crispy ranch chicken, potatoes, vegetable, salad and dessert. A cash bar will be available for refreshments. New to this year’s event is a silent auction of gift baskets and handmade blankets. Reserve your spot now, limited seating is avail-able. Tickets may be purchased at the Solon High School offi ce during school hours, at any home sporting event or mail payment and return address to: Solon Athletic Booster Club, Attn. Tracy Stotler, 1729 Lake Front Dr. NE, Solon, Iowa 52333.

Senior Advocates seeking nominations for Senior of the Year

SOLON– May has been declared the month to honor seniors and the Solon Senior Advocates are seeking nom-inations for the 2015 Solon Senior of the Year. Send in your written nomination for the person you feel best fi ts the criteria of this award.

Qualifi cations for Solon Senior of the Year must be someone who has given of themselves in service to the community through volunteerism, enhancing the well-be-ing of others or someone always ready to assist or provide help when needed. The nominee should live in Solon or the immediate area and be over 60 years of age.

Past recipients of this award were Jack Neuzil (2006), Wayne Croy (2007), Milt Hunt (2008), Pat Ikan (2009), Ma-rie Kroul (2010), Bev Noska and Elaine Reynolds (2011), Anna McAtee (2012), Jean and Bob Stinocher (2013) and Fred Bark and Rita Brannaman (2014).

Please send your nominations for Solon Senior of the Year to Sandy Hanson, P.O. Box 99, Solon by May 4 or call 319-624-2710.

Spotlight Spaghetti Dinner and Musical Showcase March 9

SOLON– Mark your calendars for Monday, March 9, for the annual Solon Spotlight Spaghetti Dinner and Musical Showcase. The dinner will be held in the Solon High School commons. The menu includes: spaghetti, salad, bread, drink and dessert. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for children 10 and under and student performers. Serving times are from 4:45 until 7 p.m. Diners will enjoy performances by the middle school and high school jazz bands and the high school jazz choirs.

Starting at 6:45 p.m., the middle school show choirs will perform in the high school gym, followed by a progressive showcase of musical talent from fi fth grade choirs and bands, continuing up to the high school choirs and band.

Enjoy an evening of good food and great music. All proceeds from the dinner will benefi t K-12 performing arts programs at Solon schools.

3NORTH LIBERTY LEADER • SOLON ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2015 SECTION AOUR THOUGHTS

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it was washed. The washing machine lived on the back porch and the wet clothes were taken out to the backyard clotheslines to dry. When dry, the clothes were carried back into the kitchen and dumped on the table for the sorting out of things to be dampened for ironing the next day, for the folding of underwear, and the rolling of socks into pairs.

The next day, the ironing board would be set up in the kitchen and Mother would spend a good deal of the day ironing our school dresses, Dad’s work clothes, sheets and pillow cases until we got home from school and took over the task while she started supper.

Homework was most often spread out on the kitchen table after the supper dishes had been washed and put away. Dad was often called on to explain a new algebra problem or to help us look up something in the encyclopedia. If there was no schoolwork, we might play cards or a board game at the table while Mother made popcorn, or in summer, maybe root beer fl oats before we went to bed.

On weekends, especially when the weather kept us indoors, we whiled away boring afternoons with one of Mother’s many craft projects. She always seemed to have a new idea for something to keep us busy. Where she got those ideas, I never really knew, but they were often messy and diffi cult enough to keep us engaged for long periods of time. I remember making plaster of Paris wall plaques with pictures cut from magazines or catalogs. One winter, we learned to make crepe paper roses, and then extended the idea to trying to make our own versions of iris, daffodils, and other recognizable fl ower shapes.

One of my favorite memories is of sharing Dad’s usual bedtime snack, saltine crackers and a glass of ice cold milk, while we played cribbage or gin rummy– at the kitchen table, of course.

Kitchens, as our grandmothers knew them, have virtually disappeared from houses under 50 years old. For 12 years, we lived in a nice old house in Iowa City’s Goosetown, a house that was similar to the house I grew up in. Both had been built in the early years of the 20th century and featured kitchens that were defi nitely separate from the rest of the house.

The Iowa City kitchen had once had a swinging door connecting it to the dining room. It also had an attached pantry with cupboards that reached to the ceiling, and a work counter with more cabinets below. There were no cupboards in the kitchen, only a small closet. An enclosed porch (once known as a summer kitchen) led to the back yard, another door opened onto the basement stairs, and one wall featured two windows at a height that invited a work table or small dinette set for eating in the kitchen when it was too inconvenient to carry dishes and food back and forth to the dining room.

It was a good-sized room, probably 12 by 16 feet, but with all those doors and windows there was little wall space for cabinets or built-ins of any kind. A large sink in a metal cabinet with under-counter drawers stood against one wall between the pantry and back porch. The stove was opposite on the wall between the closet and basement doors. The only place a refrigerator would fi t was in the corner between the closet and the dining room door. Preparing a meal in that kitchen was the equivalent of a 50-mile hike.

The house I grew up in had a similar kitchen, except without so many doors. It was about the same size, but instead of a swinging door to the dining room, it led to a tiny room with a window and four doorways. Two of the doors opened to the basement stairs and the front hall. The other doorways led to the kitchen and dining room and had, apparently, never had doors as such. This kitchen, also, had two large windows looking out to the lawn and Mother’s fl ower gardens, and we ate most of our meals at a large Formica table set in front of the windows.

When we had company or a holiday meal, we ate in the dining room. There was a ceiling-high built-in cupboard on one wall of the kitchen and this was backed by a similar one in the dining room. A large pass-through made it possible to shuttle food and dishes between the two rooms. Mother had been a little more fortunate than I was, as the working part of her kitchen was concentrated at the end of the room opposite the windows. It was almost, but not quite, like to-day’s popular family room-kitchen arrangement but lacking a TV set and comfortable chairs. And it was the center of most of our daily activities.

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During the next fi ve days we managed rides of 28, 60, 57, 42 and 76 as we made our way to the east coast of the island and north toward slightly warmer weather. Along the way, we passed about two million grazing sheep in bucolic settings, climbed out of the costal plain and up 300 meters and fl ew back down to yet another vista of gorgeous pristine shoreline and stopped for Sabra to take a photo more times than I care to enumerate. We also stopped for glasses of wine, ice cream treats, snags (sausages) and cheese platters at charming little wine and dairy farms. I also sampled my fi rst raw oysters harvested fresh from the Great Oyster Bay and a t e t h e m a u natural like the locals . When in Rome. They were surpris-ingly firm, not slimy at all like expected, and salty.

Disaster al-most struck a couple times. After one of our little rest stops, I left my wallet sitting on the table, but an alert and conscientious waiter jumped in his car and tracked us down to return it. My chain broke going up one of the hills but the repair kit had a chain tool and spare link and somehow I mustered the skill to repair it. Sabra’s bike tipped and the handle bar hit her just so on the foot to cause a nasty hematoma but a passing cyclist, the only one we’d seen in three days, happened to be on hand to offer electrical tape to provide compression.

Also along the way, we met some incredibly friendly and generous people, including one couple who insisted that we accompany them on a 60-minute drive so didn’t miss a view of Wineglass Bay.

The only down side to trip was the roads were a bit narrow and the vehicular traffi c a little too rushed (perhaps they were racing to get to or from MONA) to recommend the bike trip to unseasoned riders.

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Becoming the healthiest state in the country isn’t just about eating nutritious foods and making time for exercise. Iowans also deserve access to affordable health insurance and good healthcare providers – doctors, nurses and others – in our local communities.

Unfortunately, Iowa lags behind much of the nation in healthcare workforce recruitment. In particular, Iowa struggles compared to the rest of the nation to attract mental health professionals. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Iowa is ranked 44th in the nation for mental health workforce availability.

Of particular note, Iowa ranks 46th for the number of psychiatrists per capita and 47th for the number of psychol-ogists per capita.

The Senate Human Resources Committee recently heard a presentation from the Iowa Department of Public Health

to better understand existing healthcare workforce train-ing and recruitment programs. NAMI and the IowaCare Givers also presented ideas on ways to improve current programs. Recommendations ranged from making programs at the Department of Public Health more efficient and effective, to establishing more residency programs for doctors after they complete their medical training.

Iowa recently redesigned its local mental health and disabil-ity services system and now we must take the necessary steps to train and attract high-quality health care providers who can offer services to Iowans in every corner of the state.

The Governor’s proposal to close the Mental Health Institutes in Clarinda and Mount Pleasant makes the need even more urgent.

Improving access to quality healthcare

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By Lori LindnerI learn a lot doing this job.Most recently, I have learned more than I ever wanted

to know about the way sanitary sewers are designed. But then again, everybody already knows the proverbial crap always fl ows downhill.

That’s what some saw happening with the lawsuit fi led against the City of North Liberty and its plan to exercise eminent domain to access private property for a planned sewer project.

Of the basic tenets of Iowa’s eminent domain law, the most important and consistent across all states that allow it is this: it has to be for the public good.

Some states restrict the law even further, disallowing the “public good” to be defi ned by economic development. That principle was challenged in Iowa in 2006, when the Iowa legislature passed House File 2351 by votes of 89-5 in the House, and 43-6 in the Senate. That bill reformed the use of eminent domain by prohibiting local governments from taking homes and small businesses for the purpose of economic development. Governor Tom Vilsack vetoed that legislation, and the Iowa Legislature convened in a special summer session to override the veto.

That premise– that governments cannot take land by eminent domain to benefi t private enterprise with some qualifi cations for blighted or slum conditions– stands today.

Fast forward to last Thursday, when witnesses in the case of Gary Weinmen vs. the City of North Liberty testifi ed about the sewer line the city needs to run through Weinman’s property in order to serve Iowa City Community School District’s new Liberty High School. The district hopes to have it open by 2017.

Undisputed is the fact that the district needs another high school. Equally evident is that North Liberty offi cials have the very best intent to assist the district in making that happen, and that the location near North Liberty came out on top in countless committee discussions, public input sessions, facility studies, enrollment and development data analyses and years of consistent effort to identify the best place for that school to be.

But after hearing new testimony in the case last week, I left with more questions than conviction that the proposed sewer project was in its best location, or that it was solely for the public good.

Fox Engineering was hired in 2010 to do a comprehensive study of North Liberty’s current sewer and water systems and their capacities to serve future populations. The eastern edge of North Liberty was identifi ed as a growth area, and Fox’s conclusion was that the wastewater treatment plant would need a signifi cant expansion, while the water plant needs an entirely new facility. When the school district an-nounced its plan to build Liberty High on North Liberty’s eastern edge, the city moved quickly to annex the area into its city limits and tasked Fox Engineering in 2013 to fi gure out how to get municipal utilities there under the district’s proposed timeline.

Fox’s engineers located two possible routes; one would avoid Weinman’s property, but that route would require the 30-inch sewer pipe to be buried so deep it would be $1.5 million more expensive and was deemed impractical for future maintenance. The other is the proposed route that crosses 13 private properties, including Weinman’s. Twelve property owners signed easement agreements, but Weinman is holding out in order to preserve a prairie he agreed to reestablish as part of an Iowa Department of Natural Re-sources project 30 years ago, land that is also home to two protected animal species.

All those facts are well-established and largely inarguable, no matter which side of eminent domain you favor.

But last week, civil engineer Randy Krutzfi eld from Hart Frederick Engineering was asked by Weinman’s legal coun-sel to objectively evaluate whether there was an alternate route to serve the school, and he offered one. His suggestion was to go straight east from the wastewater plant and travel a more direct path to the school site– a shorter, cheaper path, according to his perfunctory calculations.

Krutzfi eld acknowledged his evaluation was preliminary; he was not hired to do a complete and thorough engineering study of the route. City witnesses argued that the engineer’s proposal, admittedly completed in just eight hours, would not function for the task at hand.

Why?Because, said Fox Engineering’s John Gade, the task

was to design a sewer that would serve the entire drainage basin, 1,300 acres in size. Further, Gade said Krutzfi eld’s route would only accommodate a small sewer, maybe eight inches in diameter. Gade conceded it might effectively serve the school, but only the school. Fox was asked to design a much larger, gravity fl ow system. Documents prepared by his fi rm in October stated that the pipe would be upsized to 30 inches in order to accommodate fl ows from Coralville.

North Liberty has made no secret of its plan to let Coralville hook up to this sewer line, eliminating the ne-cessity for a second sewer installation as Coralville accom-modates an elementary school to be built across from the high school. City Administrator Ryan Heiar, on the stand last week, also said this sharing arrangement– the details of which have not yet been discussed in North Liberty council meetings or formalized in writing– will save Coralville money as it develops the adjacent Scanlon Farm area.

What wasn’t asked was how much of the 1,300-acre basin this large sewer will serve each city. According to North Liberty’s city planner, about 80 percent of it lies in North Liberty’s designated growth and annexation area laid out in the 2011 agreement between the two communities. The rest will be in Coralville’s city limits.

So, in light of all I’ve learned, my questions still remain: is the purpose of this sewer project to get the new high school up and running, or is it a convenient justifi cation to accommodate private development that will in no small way benefi t Coralville? If the latter is more true, should the taxpayers of North Liberty alone front the $5.8 million cost of this utilities project? And most critically, if the heart of our eminent domain law lies snugly in the bosom of public good, is the public convinced that the school district and its children are the sole intended benefi ciaries, as the law requires?

Judge Chris Bruns of the Sixth Judicial District Court of Iowa ruled Tuesday that Weinman’s legal counsel didn’t prove otherwise, and the city can proceed with its condem-nation hearing.

And as a result, Weinman likely will see 30 years of his effort to establish and protect a native Iowa prairie overtaken by that most invasive of species; progress.

It rolls downhill

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Jay PhillipsJay M. Phillips, 49, Iowa City, died suddenly Sunday, Feb.

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Funeral & Cremation Service in Iowa City with Rev. Diane Townsley offi ciating. Burial with military honors followed at Oak Hill Cemetery in Coralville. Visitation was held

Wednesday, Feb. 4, at the fu-neral home.

Jay was born Jan. 5, 1966, in Iowa City, the son of Robert and Donna Mae (Thompson) Phil-lips. He was a 1984 graduate of West Branch High School and received an associate degree from Kirkwood Community College. Jay served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Con-stellation. On Sept. 4, 1993, Jay was united in marriage to Christine Myers at the Oxford

United Methodist Church.Jay was employed as an electrical technician at the VA

Medical Center and prior to that employed at CEC in Coralville for 18 years.

Jay was a member of the Coralville American Legion. He had a great sense of humor, liked to golf, ride his motorcy-cle, ride his bicycle, read and do household projects. Most important to Jay was his love for Christine, their children and his family.

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two children, Elizabeth and Sean; his mother, Donna Phil-lips (Donovan Wright) of West Branch; his mother-in-law, Charlotte Myers of Oxford; sisters-in-laws, Connie (Jim) McCurdy and Charlene (John) Maher, both of Iowa City; his aunt, Sheila (Kevin) Parrett and numerous extended family members.He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Phillips and father-in-law, Guy Myers. In lieu of fl owers, the Jay Phillips’ Children’s Educational Fund has been estab-lished at the University of Iowa Community Credit Union. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.lensingfuneral.com

Linda SmithLinda Marie Goss Smith, 66, died on Dec. 8, 2014, in

Fort Myers, Fla.She was born on July 15, 1948, in Iowa City. Linda was

a 1966 Regina High School graduate. She married Cecil Warren Smith on June 15, 1968, in Iowa City at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church. Linda received her BBA in 1984 and MBA in 1986 from the University of Iowa. She held positions at the Norand Corporation of Cedar Rapids, the University of Iowa Foundation and as a Realtor in southwest Florida. Linda is survived by her husband; daughters, Samantha Schutt of Solon and Amanda Cooper of Winston-Salem; four grand-children; her mother, Imelda Goss of Coralville; her sister, Jan Schutt of Spirit Lake, Jan’s two sons and her brother Tom Goss of North Liberty, Tom’s son and granddaughters. Linda’s father, Dick Goss Sr. and brother Dick Goss, Jr. preceded her in death. A Celebration of Linda’s life will be held on Palm Sunday, March 29, at the Kirkwood Room at Governor’s Ridge located at 515 Kirkwood Ave. in Iowa City from 2-5 p.m. In lieu of fl owers, donations in Linda’s honor can be made to: Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, 1101 14th Street N.W., Suite 850, Washington, DC 20005.

Visitation for Travis was Sunday, Feb. 8, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton. Travis’ funeral was Monday, Feb. 9, at the funeral home. Burial and graveside services followed at Tipton Masonic Cemetery. A luncheon in Travis’ honor took place at the Tipton VFW immediately after burial. Travis was born Aug. 19, 1981, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, the son of William F. Wallace III and Margaret S. Thomas. Travis grew up and was educat-ed in Tipton. He was a plant utility worker for Whirlpool Corporation in Amana. Travis was a proud member of Drinkers Club of America. Outside of spending time with his family, friends and children, some of his favorite things were Jacksonville Jaguar football games, Iowa Hawkeye football games and St. Louis Cardinals playoff games. He certainly liked to eat morel mushrooms more than he liked to hunt for them. Travis was a very sociable person who could fi nd somebody to party with in any and every situation in any and every town he was in. If given the opportunity he could have won awards for Guitar Hero and was notorious for adjusting all the settings on everybody’s system so the game could keep up with his high level of playing. Travis is survived by his parents, Margaret Thomas of Tipton and Billy (Candy) Wallace of Tipton; daughters, Mya and Isabelle; sons, Isiak, Blake and Hayden; brothers, Damen (Amanda) Wallace of Oxford and Ben (Brooke) Hanks of North Liberty; niece, Alyissa; nephew, Kain and girlfriend, Jessica Simms. He was preceded in death by his brother, Tyler Wallace and grandparents, Wilma and Vernon Thom-as and William Wallace Sr. In lieu of fl owers, a memorial has been established in Travis’ honor. Online condolences, memories, photos and videos of Travis may be shared at www.fry funeralhome.com.

Bradford YoderA graveside service for Bradford C Yoder, 65, of North

Liberty, was held Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, at the Sharon Hill Cemetery in Kalona. Visitation was held Friday, Feb. 6, at the Peterseim Funeral Home in Kalona. Brad Yoder died Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Bradford C Yoder was born Aug. 27, 1949, in Kalona, the son of Weldon “Red” and Pauline (Moomey) Yoder. He graduated from Mid Prairie High School and served in the United States Navy. Brad held a variety of jobs, including working for the Iowa Department of Trans-portation for 25 years. On April 17, 1982, he was united in marriage to Janice Delozier in Coralville. Brad enjoyed cooking, watching sports (especially Tony Stewart), mush-room hunting, going to garage sales, fi shing and gardening.

Survivors include a sons, Kirk (Jennifer) Fagen and Case of Keota; one daughter Cassie (Nate) Sadewasser and chil-dren Celia, Michael, and Tahlia of Coralville; a son Raleigh Yoder of Iowa City and one sister, Diana (Dean) Schreiber of North Liberty. Preceding Brad in death were his parents, his wife Janice and one brother, Tony Yoder. A general memorial fund has been established.

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“People say it is part of our heritage. They are just a big, beautiful bird,” lists Department of Natural Resources(DNR) wildlife techni-cian Dave Hoffman.

He has been monitoring, managing and shuttling trumpeter swans around Iowa for much of that reintroduction.

He recalls comments from a grandmother watching a release, who wished out loud, “I worry about my kids; my grandkids, moving off to a better state to live. Having trumpeter swans in the state improves our environment…our quality of life. My kids and grandkids might stick around.”

When fi rst released in the 1990s, the goal was 15 nesting pairs in Iowa. Last summer, there were 46 nesting pairs, down from 51 pairs in 2011, due to drought and other year

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That role is expanding to southern Iowa.“Swans really don’t pioneer their nesting

further south, so we plan to release about 20 cygnets in southern Iowa in the next year or two, so we can get some swans nesting in the southern half of the state,” announced Hoff-man. “Currently, there’s only one pair nesting in the southern half. Hopefully we will get swans started in that historical range, as well.”

Through the winter, you can get up close (well, reasonably close) at several locations. With snowfall varying from a few inches to almost a foot over the past weekend, it now becomes a test to see how many are pushed south, by lack of food.

At Beemer’s Pond, southwest of Webster City, four swans which cannot fl y are kept year round. There, protective fencing and aerator-open water attract free fl ying swans, also. There have been up to 250 this winter.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2015SECTION A JOHNSON COUNTY

CORALVILLE– Changes to the tax code happen every year.

But this year, federal health insurance mandates could have a signifi cant impact on your household or business.

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act will require every taxpayer in the United States to report whether they and their dependents had health care insurance last year.

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Kuhl, Phillips and Jans was established in 1986, and is located at 2121 9th St. in Coralville, a block north of the strip and just to the east of McGregor’s Home Furnishings.

Jesse Jans and partner John Phillips have 34 years of experience between them, and their additional staff bring even more knowledge and expertise to the table. Eric Otte is another of the fi rm’s CPAs, and tax accountants Stephanie Nelson and Kevin Hasler joined the staff last year.

“As professional accountants, we have the competency you need,” said Phillips. “We are a licensed CPA fi rm, so we are required to maintain our level of education with 40 hours a year of training.”

It helps ensure that one of the most crucial records a client will sign each year is done right, Jans said.

“Your tax return is one of the most import-ant fi nancial documents you will construct the entire year. How do you want it prepared?” he asked. “You want it so that if you take it the bank to get a loan or apply for a mortgage, it’s accurate.”

The tax and accounting specialists at Kuhl, Phillips and Jans are willing to get to know you and the details of your particular fi nan-cial situation, to create a relationship that cultivates trust.

“That is important to me, because then clients are not scared to answer me hon-estly about what might have happened to them fi nancially during the year. That’s key to preparing an accurate return,” said Jans.

With the new federal health insurance man-date in place, this is a good year to have a good relationship with your preparer.

“This is the really big one this year,” said Jans.

From a compliance standpoint, certifi ed tax preparers are required to ask their clients whether they had health insurance, who paid for it, how many months they were covered, was it purchased through the exchange and whether a health care credit was issued.

Depending on the answers to those ques-tions, there could be a lot more questions.

It’s a lot to absorb for the common citizen.If you were without health insurance for

more than three months, you’ll likely have to pay an income-based penalty which will be assessed with your tax return, Jans said.

If you own a business, the new require-ments means you can’t reimburse your employees for their individual policies, he said. It has to be a group plan. And if you think your business is exempt because you have less than 50 employees, think again. The penalty for non-compliance its expected to be severe, Jans said.

The U.S. Department of Labor and IRS have issued various memos and opinions regarding their interpretation of the new law, he said. “We’ve spent the last year trying to fi gure it out.”

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From a compliance standpoint, the CPA fi rm now has to “police” whether or not an individual or a business is required to have or provide health insurance, and if they do not, we have to charge them a penalty.

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While online tax preparation has become more commonplace, Jans warns that they aren’t always as reliable as the commercials claim.

“A lot of times, you see on television the online tax preparation sites that say their calculations are guaranteed, said Jans. “That doesn’t mean it’s right; it has no bear-ing on the accuracy of the return.”

It really only means the software calcula-tions are guaranteed; that the addition, mul-tiplication and subtraction for the numbers a person plugs into the software is correct.

“What if you didn’t answer the questions correctly? What if they didn’t ask the right questions?” Jans posed. “And with the tax code changing all the time, it’s really import-ant to ask the right questions.”

Though Jans warns about the potential drawbacks to fi ling returns with online soft-ware, it doesn’t mean that Kuhl, Phillips

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“I think we care about our clients and go that extra mile,” said Phillips. “I’ve heard some clients say that at some of the bigger fi rms, they may not ever see or talk to their preparers. Here, people will always have a chance to meet with us if they care to.”

And not just between January and April. The fi rm works year-round to provide ser-vices such as accounting, bookkeeping, payroll services, tax consultation, Quick-Books set up and support, small business consultations and estate planning.

“Our philosophy is to learn about and make our clients successful. We work to understand their businesses and them as individuals, so we can do what it takes, with-in the tax laws, to help them be successful.”

It’s a personal touch that both Jans and Phillips believe set their fi rm apart from the crowd.

“We strive to make sure all emails and voice messages are responded to by the end of every day. I think people can see that difference,” said Jans. “If we don’t give them a reason to come back, clients can go anywhere and get numbers added. I tell our staff that we have to serve a purpose in the client’s life.”

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interested in the position.”Snipes was approved on a 3-0 vote, and

was seated at the council table after being sworn in by Mayor Stange.

“I was really pleased with the willingness for new people to step up without having to seek people out,” said Stange, who commended Bevans for her preparation and encouraged her to consider running for offi ce in November.

Snipes has been a resident of Solon since 2006.

Born in St. Louis, but raised in downtown Detroit, he spent most of his life in Missouri and Arkansas before coming to Iowa in 2004. A former coffee company salesman, he began a career in over-the-road trucking in the late 1980s and is currently employed by United Natural Foods in Iowa City.

Snipes has three children from his fi rst marriage, but his wife passed away in 1997, and he met his current wife Heather, a na-tive of Solon, while working for Heartland Express. They married in 2004, bringing three more stepchildren into Snipes’ family.

A self-described “political geek,” Snipes said he has followed the actions of the city government through newspaper articles and meeting minutes, but only when his job situation changed did he have time to

consider getting involved.“I just didn’t have the schedule to dedicate

the time that it needs,” he said. Like Prentice, Snipes comes to the council

with no previous experience on boards and commissions, and admitted there will be a bit of a learning curve.

“The thing I’d really like to see is contin-ued growth for Solon, whether it be com-mercial or residential,” he said. “As long as it’s done in a moderate way– as long as we have the facilities, the capabilities of taking that growth on and matching city services with the growth.”

He also indicated support for improving the infrastructure in the older portions of the town.

“I really enjoy this community a lot,” Snipes said. “It’s a very welcoming com-munity.” Solon has a great location between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, good roads, good schools and a middle-of-the-road pace, he said.

“People are just regular folks,” he said of the town’s residents. “They get up, they go to work in the morning and I like being part of that.

“That’s kind of where I’m at, just an average Joe getting up and going to work,” he concluded.

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a possible alternative. The proposed zoning would have provid-

ed minimum lot widths of 60 feet compared to the existing R1 zoning district, which requires at least 70 feet. It would also have reduced the minimum area for lots to 7,200 square feet and would allow for side setbacks of seven feet. The R1 district requires at least 8,000 square feet for each lot with side setbacks of 10 feet for one-story structures.

At the Jan. 21 meeting, Hodapp had suggested council members look at devel-opments in other communities utilizing modifi ed setbacks, and at the Feb. 4 meeting, council member Casey Grover reported he had taken the advice.

“It’s not as close as I was envisioning,” Grover said, of one of Hodapp’s residential developments near Cedar Rapids’ College Community School District. Grover said most featured two-stall garages, and expand-ing on that would make the homes too close.

Grover asked whether the city had the ability to limit the number of lots which could be designated as R(1)B, but City Administrator Cami Rasmussen indicated she didn’t know.

Both council member Steve Duncan and Krall were opposed to reducing the setbacks.

“As a council, what do we want our de-velopments to look like?” Duncan asked. “This just doesn’t feel like I want it to look.”

Krall said he likes what he sees in existing developments, and expressed uncertainty about how utilizing the proposed zoning would impact other subdivisions.

But Hodapp maintained that the reduced setbacks would be virtually unnoticeable.

“If you’re standing on the curb looking at the house there’s no way you can tell three feet,” Hodapp said. “Where it’s going to make the impact is on a single family house when you build it.” Relaxed setbacks would allow for a little wider door, and maybe a

couple of extra feet in a bedroom, he said.He indicated without some higher-den-

sity lots, the project would likely not move forward. And if the R1(B) zoning was not available, he said, the only option for increasing the density of the development would be duplexes.

Mayor Steve Stange told Hodapp he doubted whether the city would grant zoning for duplexes in the development.

Arguing in favor of the zoning was Mi-chelle Bennett, a real estate agent whose home is adjacent to the proposed housing project.

Bennett said young families with a house budget of $225,000-$250,000 have no op-tions in Solon. “I can’t fi nd them a house,” she said. “There’s nothing here.”

Lots in Solon are more expensive because the land is more expensive, she said, and the city has wider setbacks than most cities.

“Every day, I’m going to look over these houses,” she said. “Every day out of my bed-room window I’m going to see the houses that are back there.”

The only reason she would support the new phase of Old Mill, she said, would be to make affordable single-family homes available in the community.

“This town has become a town where it’s almost elitist,” she said. “You can’t buy a property for under $300,000 in this town.”

There are families driving their kids to Solon schools every day from Iowa City and North Liberty who would like to live here but can’t afford it, she added.

Bennet also recommended council mem-bers take a look at developments in area communities featuring smaller setbacks and smaller homes, and suggested such housing would fi t in well with the character of Old Mill Creek.

“You’re not trying to put this next to Windmill (Estates),” she said. “You’re try-ing to put this next to a modest subdivision.”

AMES– Austin Holub, an Iowa State University stu-dent, was one of 450 persons attending the 2014 Iowa County Engineers Associ-ation Annual Meeting held at Iowa State University on Dec. 9 to 11, 2014. The con-ference provided the county engineers and their staff members with continuing education in technical areas. It also provided the associ-ation with the opportunity to honor its own members for their achievements over the past year and provide scholarships to students at Iowa State University, Uni-versity of Iowa, Des Moines Area Community College and Hawkeye Community

COLLEGE NOTESHolub awarded scholarship from Iowa County Engineers

College who are interested in the fi eld of county engi-neering.

Austin Holub was award-ed a scholarship from the Iowa County Engineers As-sociation at the conference.

The Iowa County En-gineers Association was founded to perpetuate and preserve the offi ce and wel-fare of county engineers. Their purpose is to afford a medium to facilitate an exchange of ideas among county engineers so that sound, progressive and con-scientious principles and practices are exercised in the construction and main-tenance of Iowa’s secondary roads.

Austin Holub.

Horton named to Bradley University Dean’s List

PEORIA, Ill. – Sarah J Horton of Solon was named to the Dean’s List for the Fall semester at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. To be eligible for the Dean’s List a student must achieve a minimum 3.5 grade point average for the semester on a 4.0 scale.

Cole on UW-Madison fall dean’s list for fall

MADISON– The University of Wiscon-sin-Madison has recognized McKenna Cole of Solon as being named to the College of Letters and Science Dean’s List for the fall semester of the 2014-2015 academic year. Students who achieve at a high level aca-

demically are recognized by the dean at the close of each semester. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, students must complete a minimum of 12 graded degree credits in that semester. Each university school or college sets its own GPA requirements for students to be eligible to receive the distinction.

Silberstein named to University of Dubuque list

DUBUQUE– The University of Dubuque congratulates Kathryn Silberstein of Solon on being appointed to the Fall Se-mester 2014 Academic Dean’s List. To be named to the dean’s list, a student must earn a grade point average (GPA) of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale for that semester.

Kaufmann hosts Swisher constituentsRep. Bobby Kaufmann (R-Wilton) hosted constituents Michael Woltman and Karen Woltman of Swisher at the Capitol recently. They toured the Capitol and met with Rep. Kaufmann in the House chamber. (contributed photo)

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and coming up with her own designs, but she especially enjoys when people come to her with a clear idea of what they want in their heads. Her main focus is ensuring that customers get exactly what they want and that they are happy with the fi nished project.

Jennifer Meehan was one of those who approached Snipes, last winter, with a quilt idea to give to her parents, Patti and Rich, for Christmas.

“She came to me and said ‘I need some-thing with their last name, Hawkeyes, and Irish details,” Snipes recalled.

Patti Meehan was thrilled when she opened up the present and, almost immedi-ately, called Snipes to thank her.

“It was perfect,” Meehan said. “Just a great gift idea. She did an amazing job and it’s just very special to us.”

Snipes’ studio has now taken over what was once an area for her two daughters, who are both in college. But now, it’s hard to see past the large table with current proj-ects, various fi nished works and her large collection of art supplies.

The small, somewhat chaotic room has turned into Snipes’ own little sanctuary where she is able to take time for herself and simply relax.

When she paints she likes to listen to the radio or scripture passages while her English Bulldog, Meaty, sleeps next to her feet.

“It’s therapy for me,” Snipes said. “I’m just concentrating, listening, and relaxing.”

Barn quilts are known for their geometric designs, symmetry and bold colors. Creating one is a long and arduous process; a four-by-four-foot painting often takes Snipes over 40 hours of work. Her current project, which is almost double that, will probably take several months. Snipes puts in these hours along with taking care of her family and her day job as an account manager in

the trucking industry.“It’s something that doesn’t take away

from family time,” Snipes said. “I do it on my downtime.”

She begins by creating a grid on a piece of scratch paper, on which she will sketch whatever design she plans on painting. Once she has a basic idea of what the quilt will look like, she then transfers that design onto a piece of wood, the size of which will vary depending on how big her quilt will be.

Sketching out the grid is a painstaking process that has to be 100 percent accurate; even a quarter of an inch can throw the entire painting off.

Her eraser and ruler have become her best friends because of that.

“That’s why I started out just doing them for myself,” Snipes said. “When I started doing them, I really made some mistakes with that.”

The fun part comes when Snipes fi nally begins to paint. She does each color individ-ually, rotating the quilt until she is back to where she began so she can move onto the next color. The whole time, she is referring to her sketchpad, which shows her exactly which squares need to be painted.

And when your quilt has over 500 of them, that sketchpad turns into a lifesaver.

“This [paper] is what keeps me sane,” Snipes said.

Snipes sometimes becomes so engrossed with painting each section that it’s hard for her to visualize the fi nished product until she takes a photo of it.

“You don’t see it when you’re hunched over painting,” Snipes said. “Then you step back and realize how amazing it looks.”

Snipes’s barn quilts range in cost from approximately $100 to $200, depending on the size of the quilt. Those interested in having one made can contact Snipes at 319-360-6130.

Barn quilts (Continued from page A1)

Heather Snipes fi nishes designing her current project, a four-by-eight foot quilt for her church, ”Something.” (photo by Jen Moore)

Sunday dinner guests of Ellen Jones were Carolyn McAuliffe of Long Beach, Calif., Jed and Allison Schnoor, Emily and Abbie of Cedar Rapids, and Becky Showalter.

Fred and Becky Showalter entertained with a supper Monday evening for James and Carolyn McAuliffe of Long Beach, Ca-lif., Keith and Sharon Kadlec of Hiawatha, and Ellen Jones. The occasion was to cele-brated Carolyn’s 60th birthday.

Donald Kohout and a group of friends attended the University of Iowa versus Northwestern University basketball game at Evanston, Ill. Iowa won the game 102-99 and made a record number of three-point fi eld goals. Pictured is Don-ald Kohout and former Hawkeye Jamie Printy Brandt.(contributed photo)

ELY NEWS by Lenna See

Ely Legion hosting Valentine’s Day dinner and dance Feb. 14

ELY– The Ely American Legion is sponsoring a dinner and dance on Saturday evening, Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, at the Ely Legion hall. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. with music to follow by the Blue Scratch Band. For more information and res-ervations, call Marvin Peters at 848-4764.

Airman First Class Colton Dall completes Air Force Basic Training

SAN ANTONIO, TX – U.S. Air National Guard Airman First Class Colton D. Dall, of Solon, graduated from basic military train-ing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland located in San Antonio, Texas.

The Airman Dall completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fi tness, and basic war-fare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Dall is the son of Ann M. and Dan D. Dall of Solon, and is a 2013 graduate of Solon High School.

MILITARY NOTES

SOLON– Rachel Proffi tt of Solon will present a senior recital Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Solon United Methodist Church, accompanied by Julia West. The recital begins at 1 p.m.

Proffi tt will also be performing Tuesday, Feb. 24, on the University of Northern Iowa UNI) campus in Cedar Falls in a combined recital with a fellow musician from UNI.

Proffi tt to present senior recital Sunday, Feb. 15, at Solon Methodist

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10 Spartans advance to district meetGnida collects 150th career win, Linderbaum suffers fi rst loss

DAVENPORT– Ten So-lon wrestlers will advance to the district tournament Feb. 14 with a chance to advance to the state tournament.

The varsity Spartan wres-tlers fi nished second to No. 2 Davenport Assumption at the 2A Sectional 13 meet Saturday, Feb. 7, and will host the district tournament Saturday, Feb. 14, beginning at noon.

The top two wrestlers from each sectional tourna-ment advance to districts, and the top two wrestlers from each district qualify for the state tournament Feb. 19-21 at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

At the sectional tourna-ment hosted by Assumption, Solon crowned four champi-ons and six runners-up. Lou-is Gnida (126 pounds), Cole Fritz (138), Kade Steuhm (145) and Graeson Dall (152) all won their first place matches, while Chris-tian Haight (106) Ben Carr (120), Trevor Nelson (160), Nick Bailey (195), Tanner Wymer (220) and Logan Linderbaum (285) wrestled into second place.

Linderbaum suffered his

fi rst loss of the season, mov-ing to a mark of 42-1 at heavyweight, while Gnida beat two highly-ranked op-ponents, collecting his 150th career win along the way.

“Louis is really wrestling well right now,” said Solon head coach T. J. Bevans. “He took down two top-six opponents, which was one of the toughest sectional weight classes in the state.”

Win No. 150 came when Gnida defeated No. 6 Kirk Mommsen of Assumption in the semifi nal with a 3-1 decision. According to Bev-ans, Gnida has a chance to eclipse the school record of 156 held by J.J. Hanus.

Gnida then took an 8-4 decision over No. 2 Brice Everson of Camanche in the fi nal. Everson defeated Gni-da 2-0 in overtime earlier in the year, Bevans said.

Linderbaum lost an 8-3 decision to Gabriel Rangel of Assumption in the fi rst place match.

“Logan got hit in a head-lock very early and gave up five points,” Bevans said. “Whenever you have a quality opponent like the Assumption kid it’s hard

Solon’s louis Gnida captured his 150th career win Saturday, Feb. 7, during a sectional wrestling meet at Davenport Assumption. Gnida won fi rst place at the meet, one of 10 Solon wrestlers to advance to the district meet to be hosted by Solon Saturday, Feb. 14. (photo by Mary Hadenfeldt)

Tough scheduleMustang free throws overwhelm Solon; Western Dubuque continues dominance

to recover. Logan handled himself very well. I told him it’s better now than in the state tournament.”

Linderbaum pinned Ethan Sharp of Camanche in 1:50

to win the second place match, and had previously won by fall in 1:17 over Andy Lopez of West Liberty in the semifi nal round.

Of the 10 first-place

matches involving Solon wrestlers, Assumption op-ponents appeared in six of them, with only Steuhm coming out on top.

Steuhm took a 6-0 de-

cision over Assumption’s Nicholas Johnson in the 145-pound fi nal after a tech-

Wrestling: Continued on page B8

Emma Moss applies defesive pressure against the Mount Vernon offense during Solon’s 65-52 loss to the Mustangs Feb. 3. (photo by Jeff Hess)

SOLON– The home cookin’ didn’t turn out so well.

The Lady Spartan varsity girls basketball team has lost fi ve of its last six games coming down the back half of the season, including back-to-back home losses against Mount Vernon and No. 2 (4A) Western Dubuque.

Solon hosted Mount Vernon Feb. 3, and despite trailing by only three points heading into the fourth quarter, the Mustang lead expanded in the fi nal frame and the Mustangs won by a 65-52 total.

The Lady Spartans hung with the Mustangs for most of the game. Mount Vernon held a 30-27 lead at the half but out-scored Solon 22-12 in the fourth quarter.

The Mustangs shot slightly better from the fi eld, but made the most of 21 free throw attempts, cashing in 18 times at the line. Solon attempted only seven free throws and made four.

“The Mount Vernon game was frustrating because the foul differ-ential really hurt us in the second half,” Solon head coach Tony Nicol said. “Mt. Vernon was being rewarded for aggressively attack-ing the basket and we were not. Tough to understand sometimes, but that is how it goes in high school basketball.”

Senior Ali Herdliska led Solon in scoring with 13 points, while junior Hannah Bluder chipped in nine and junior Nichole Oberthien added eight. Bluder and senior Shelby Gunnells each had a game-high eight rebounds.

Dakota Doyle and Madi Shafer added six points apiece on 3-4 shooting, and Doyle also had fi ve rebounds, three on the offensive glass.

Oberthien had three assists and

Lady Spartans: Continued on page B2

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Friday, Feb. 13: Breaded chicken patty on WG bun, shredded Romaine, toma-to slice, baby carrots and broccoli with dip, pears and milk.

Monday, Feb. 16: No School.

Tuesday, Feb. 17: WG Lasagna roll up, WG dinner roll with butter (HS), Ro-maine, and spinach salad, baby carrots with dip, fresh orange wedges and milk.

Wednesday, Feb. 18: WG Cheese quesadilla, shredded Romaine, diced tomatoes, sour cream, refried beans, pepper strips, bananas and milk.

Thursday, Feb. 19: WG Chicken drumsticks, sea-soned rice, WG breadstick (HS only), baby carrots and cucumbers with dip, apples and milk.

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Friday, Feb. 13: Breaded fish fillet, fried potatoes, coleslaw, pineapple cake. NO CARDS.

Monday, Feb. 16: Garlic pork loin, boiled potatoes, green and gold bens, cherry cobbler.

Tuesday, Feb. 17: Salad with SW dressing, Carnita Enchilada, Baja blend, fruit crisp. BINGO.

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Sat. Soup for SeniorsFeb. 14: Chicken NoodleFeb. 21: Surprise

THURSDAY, FEB. 12 Early Out, 1:45 PM 7th Boys Basketball v. CPU, 4:15 PM 8th Boys Basketball @ CPU, 4:15 PMFRIDAY, FEB. 13 5th & 6th Lock-In, 3:30 PM 7th & 8th Grade Dance, 7 PM Solon Dynamite Dance Spectacular @ Solon HS Gym, 7 PMSATURDAY, FEB. 14 WaMac Individual Speech Contest @ Western Dubuque Spotlight can drive, 9 AM V Wrestling, District Meet @ Solon, 12 PM V Girls Basketball, regional quarterfi nal v. Benton Com-munity @ SolonMONDAY, FEB. 16 Professional Development No School 9th Boys Basketball @ Mt. Pleasant, 4:30 PM School board work session, 5 PM FS-V Boys Basketball @ Mt. Pleasant, 6 PMTUESDAY, FEB. 17 6th-8th Instrumental Solo & Ensemble Festival @ MS, 4 PM Solon Athletic Booster Club Meeting @ HS Media Cen-ter, 7 PMWEDNESDAY, FEB. 18 V Wrestling, State Dual Meet @ Wells Fargo, Des Moines V Girls Basketball, Regional Semifi nal @ Wellman, 7 PMTHURSDAY, FEB. 19 V Wrestling, State Meet @ Wells Fargo, Des Moines Early Out, 1:45 PM 7th Boys Basketball v. Williamsburg, 4:15 PM 8th Boys Basketball @ Williamsburg, 4:15 PM 9th Boys Basketball v. Williamsburg, 4:30 PM FS-V Boys Basketball v. Williamsburg, 6 PM

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Dollars for Scholars “Bringing in the Green” Carnival March 1

SOLON– Juniors, seniors and parents are invited to volunteer for the Solon Dollars for Scholars “Bringing in the Green” Carnival on Sunday, March 1, at the Lakeview Elementary School large gym. Everyone is encouraged to attend to help make the carnival a success this year. All money raised from the carnival will fund scholarships for the Solon graduating class of 2015. Sign-up sheets for volunteers are in the high school offi ce or contact Pat Zim-merman at 319-430-2105 for more information.

Kindergarten Round-Up March 26SOLON– Kindergarten Round-Up for the Solon Com-

munity School District will be held on Thursday, March 26. There will be two sessions to choose from. The fi rst session will be 2-3:25 p.m. and the second will be 4-5:25 p.m. Sign up for Kindergarten Round-Up will be done online beginning Thursday, Feb. 12, through Thursday, March 12.

Children must turn 5 by Sept. 15 to be eligible to enroll in kindergarten and you will need to show your child’s birth certifi cate at the Kindergarten Round-Up.

Please go to our website www.solon.k12.ia.us beginning Thursday, Feb. 12, and follow these instructions: click on the “Lakeview” link at the top of the District Home Page; click on the “Information” tab and click on “Kindergarten Round-Up;” keeping in mind you will not get an automatic reply back once you leave your information on this site.

You will receive an email with further instructions on March 12. Please check your email.

On-line registrations are due March 12. If you have any questions, please contact Becky Lighty at 319-624-3401 x1290.

Lady Spartans (Continued from page B1)

fi ve rebounds.“Nichole has been a real

difference maker this year because she has become a scoring threat and has also become our go-to defensive person along with Josie Durr, when we are in man defense,” Nicol said.

The Lady Spartans shot 40 percent from the fi eld, 33 percent from the 3-point arc and 57 percent from the free throw line.

The Mustangs were led by Allison Platte with 20 points, including 7-8 from the line.

T h e L a d y S p a r t a n s honored their seniors Fri-

day night, Feb. 6, but the second-ranked Western Dubuque Bobcats crashed the party, handing a 61-31 loss to Solon.

“Western Dubuque may be the best defensive team in 4A and is defi nitely the best defensive team in the WaMaC,” Nicol said. “I thought our girls gave great effort, but just could not get over the hump against one of the best teams in the state, regardless of class.”

The Bobcats jumped out to a 27-7 halftime lead, powered by a double-double of 25 points and 14 rebounds from Western Dubuque’s

Rose Simon-Ressler. West-ern Dubuque out-rebounded Solon 40-19 and shot 56 percent from the fi eld.

The Lady Spartans were led in scoring by sophomore Josie Durr with 10 points and Ali Herdliska with eight points.

Solon’s girls were sched-uled to close out the regular

season Feb. 10 at Dyersville Beckman. The postseason begins Saturday, Feb. 14, at home hosting Benton Community at 7 p.m. in the opening round of the Class 3A Region 5 tournament. The Lady Spartans defeated Benton in the third game of the season, 53-50, at Van Horne.

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Shooting Stars 6th grade champsThe Solon Shooting Stars sixth grade girls basketball team were the champions of the Tipton Mistletoe Mad-ness Basketball Tournament on Dec. 7, 2014. They defeated North Cedar, 20-17, in the championship game. Top Row: Coaches Chris Langenberg, Dave Schrock, Eric Bombei and Gary Stinocher. Middle Row: Payton Hassl, Lauren Schrock, Kennedy Bombei, Stella Mesch, Ashley Stinocher and Sydney Langenberg. Front Row: Grace Chapman, Sara Ruzicka, Katlyn Jeter, Sydney Rissman and Sarah Heick. (contributed photo)

The Solon Shooting Stars fourth grade girls basket-ball team were the champions of the Tipton Mistletoe Madness Basketball Tournament on Dec. 7, 2014. They defeated the Iowa City Thunder, 17-15, in the champion-ship game. Back row: Coach Chris Langenberg, Delaney Bombei, Alex Paisley, Claire LaDage, Izzy Paisley, So-phie Hoeper and Coach Josh Lyons. Front row: Georgia Havlicek, Eleanor Gnida, Mikayla Langenberg, Chloe Bolin and Kerrigan Lyons. (contributed photo)

Shooting Stars 4th grade champs

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Solon “Optimism Should Be a Priority” essays due Feb. 13

SOLON– The Optimist Club of Solon is pleased to again sponsor its annual essay contest that will run until Feb. 13. The contest is open to students under the age of 19 who have not yet graduated from high school. The theme for this 700-800 word essay contest is “Optimism Should Be a Priority.” The winner of the local contest will have his or her essay sent on to enter further competition with the ultimate winner receiving a $2,500 college scholarship. English teacher Ivy Nielsen is coordinating the contest for the Optimist Club of Solon. She can be contacted for entry forms and more information at Solon High School at 319-624-3401, ext. 1138.

Solon head coach Tony Nicol addresses his team during a time-out Feb. 3 in a game against Mount Vernon. (photo by Jeff Hess)

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By Don LundSports WriterI knew this was going to happen by I’m

still amazed by it.Do you realize that my hometown of

Moville, (population of less than 1,400 and 15 miles east of Sioux City) signed as many football recruits as Des Moines (population more than 206,000)?

When Landon and Levi Paulsen came on board as Iowa Hawkeyes last week, it was a great day for the Woodbury Central Wildcats and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Moville, the home of the Wildcats, con-solidated with Climbing Hill (population of around 130) in 1962.

I graduated from Woodbury Central (WC) in 1972 and in the fall of 1971 the Wildcats were 9-0 and ranked second in the state.

That was the year before the football playoffs started.

I met Landon and Levi in 2005. That was the year my book “No Hands, No Feet, No Problem?” came out.

The twins were in the third grade and I spoke to their class.

When the future Hawkeyes were in eighth grade, they came to a Hawkeye wrestling meet and I showed them around Carv-er-Hawkeye Arena.

Little did I know they would grow to be 6-6, 275 pounds and two of the top recruits in the state.

I had my annual talk with defensive line coach Reese Morgan last Wednesday after signing day.

“They actually came to an Iowa camp when they were freshmen,” said coach Morgan about Landon and Levi.

“We thought they were in the wrong camp. There was a freshman-sophomore camp and junior-senior camp. We told them next year, if you guys come, you have to be with the older guys ‘cause they were so much bigger.”

Both Landon and Levi were four-year lettermen in football at WC.

Landon played offensive guard and defen-sive tackle while Levi was offensive tackle and defensive end.

“They are physically developed but they are raw,” said Morgan. “Great kids, multi-sport athletes and they are involved in band and chorus.”

The Wildcats reached the playoffs their freshmen, sophomore and senior seasons.

The ‘Cats fi nished 10-2 last season and were beaten out by eventual state champion Logan-Magnolia.

“The fi rst thing I think about the Paulsen twins is just they’re high energy,” said Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz. “They’ve got a lot of enthusiasm and energy. It’s a neat family and we just have good feelings about them.”

The twins are also excellent wrestlers as Landon fi nished second in the state last year at heavyweight.

I’ve seen them lift weights and I think they will really enjoy working with Chris Doyle, the Hawkeye strength coach.

Iowa signed fi ve other offensive lineman including Jake Newborg (6-3, 280) from Inwood and Brett Waechter (6-5, 275) from

Levi and Landan Paulsen sign their letters of intent to play football at the University of Iowa. (contributed photo)

Hawkeyes sign 21

Hartley.The Hawks beat out Ohio State and Al-

abama for James Daniels (6-4, 290) from Warren, Ohio.

Reportedly, the last time Iowa got a player from Ohio that the Buckeyes wanted was Cal Jones in 1952.

Cal was one of the greatest linemen the Hawkeyes have ever had as he won the Outland Trophy as the nation’s best lineman in 1955. He also had his number, 62, retired.

The only other Hawkeye to have a number retired is Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick, number 24.

Daniels is already on campus along with of-fensive lineman Brett Waechter (6-5, 275) and defensive end Brady Reiff (6-4, 235).

Daniels has been work-ing out and coach Morgan likes his athletic ability.

“He’s a very good athlete,” said Morgan. “He can bend well, he can move well and change direction. I think he’s going to be a great player.”

Nate Vejvoda (6-5, 215) from Homer, Ill., is the only tight end the Hawks signed.

Nate was fi rst-team all-conference and caught 44 passes for 638 yards and eight touchdowns as a senior.

“Nate has a tremendous upside,” said coach Morgan. “He’s been playing football and basketball for the last four years. Once he just devotes his time to one sport, gets in the weight room, he’s going to do a great job.”

Iowa signed three wide receivers that have good size and speed.

Adrian Falconer (6-1, 180), Emmanuel Ogwo (6-0, 170) and Jerminic Smith (6-1, 180) will catch passes for the Hawkeyes.

“Adrian might be the gem of the group,” said Morgan. “He’s pretty good.”

The Hawks picked up running back Eric Graham (5-9, 195) at the last minute when another running back fl ipped to Michigan.

“His tape was really good and everybody

really liked him,” said coach Morgan about Eric. “Good personality and good kid.”

Both of the quarterbacks Iowa signed grew up in Iowa and dreamed of playing for the Hawkeyes. That’s always good to hear.

Ryan Boyle (6-2, 215) led Des Moines Dowling to back-to-back state champion-ships his junior and senior seasons.

Ryan was Gatorade Player of the Year as a junior and senior.

He passed for 1,934 yards, 18 touchdowns and only one interception as a senior. He also rushed for 1,123 yards and scored 19 touchdowns.

Drew Cook (6-5, 220) helped Iowa City Regina to four straight championships and a 56-game winning streak.

Drew completed 65 percent of his passes his senior year while throwing for 2,504 yards, 31 touchdowns and three intercep-tions. He also ran for 706 yards with 16 touchdowns and caught three touchdown passes.

“Great leaders, great athletes and high-quality guys,” said Morgan.

On the defensive side of the ball, Iowa signed four defensive linemen, four line-backers and one defensive back.

Three of the defensive linemen are listed as defensive ends; Brady Reiff, Anthony Nelson (6-7, 230) and Michael Slater (6-2, 265).

Brady’s brother, Riley Reiff, was a three-year starter at tackle for Iowa and a fi rst-round draft pick by the Detroit Lions in 2012.

Brady was a two-time state champ in wrestling.

“He’s a tough kid,” said Morgan. “He’s not as big as Riley, but a little faster.”

Anthony’s dad Jeff, was a defensive line-man for the Hawks from 1989-92.

“Anthony has a big upside,” said Morgan. “He’s only played football for two-and-a-half years because he was hurt and was focused on basketball. He’s going to be a diamond in the rough.”

Garret Jansen (6-2, 255) could play de-fensive tackle or defensive end.

“He’s got a great motor and maybe a little bit of Matt Kroul in him,” said coach Morgan.

The linebacker recruits are led by Jack

Hockday (6-1, 215). He’s an all-around athlete who played quarterback, defensive back and linebacker in high school.

“Jack was a great high school athlete who could play outside or inside linebacker,” said Morgan.

Justin Jinning (6-2, 210) and Angelo Gar-butt (6-2, 210) were both named all-district in the talent-rich state of Texas.

Nick Wilson (6-2, 206) played at Des Moines Dowling. Nick played safety, wide receiver and quarterback in high school and is a great hitter.

Any one of those four linebackers could play next fall on special teams.

Michael Ojemudia (6-2, 190) out of Michigan is the lone defensive back recruit. Michael played linebacker and tight end in high school where he was named to the All County Dream Team as senior.

“He’s a physical guy and Phil (Parker) really likes him,” said coach Morgan.

Iowa took four defensive backs last year.The Hawks also have seven walk-ons, in-

cluding Jacob Giese (6-3, 270), a defensive lineman from West Branch.

There are some of the Hawkeye fans that are disappointed Iowa didn’t land more four-star recruits (James Daniels is the only one listed with four stars).

Analysts broke down the 48 players that started the Super Bowl on Feb. 1 a couple of weeks ago. Of the 48 players, there were no fi ve-star recruits, only eight four-stars, and the rest were three- and two-star athletes, according to the rankings when they came out of high school.

Brandon Schreff and Carl Davis were three stars coming out of high school.

Brandon won the Outland Trophy for best lineman, was first-team consensus All-American and is projected to get drafted high in the fi rst round.

Carl was first-team All-Big Ten and should go in the top three rounds of the NFL draft.

Four stars are fun, but the don’t always mean a lot, especially at Iowa, which has good coaches that help develop players.

Nine in-state players should be a good base for this class.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2015SECTION B JOHNSON COUNTY

PUBLIC NOTICE: JOHNSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORSPUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to Section 349.18 of the Code of Iowa, the following is an alphabetical listing of all Johnson County employees, both full-time and part-time, and their earnings for calendar year 2014.Abbott, Mary J .....................250.95Abdagic, Amy E ................7,601.48Ackerson, Kent L .................264.60Adams, Pamela K ..............1,104.08Adams, Robert L ....................36.75Adams, Th omas M ..............698.78Adolph, Brian T ..............87,641.28Aguilar, Michael R ..........34,169.11Ahlberg, Jan L ......................506.10Aikin, Elouise J ....................636.83Aikin, Richard L ..................708.23Alam, Dawn M ...............56,700.87Albertus, Karen L ................261.45Albrecht, Lois A ................5,993.79Alfaro, Betty L ......................495.08Alfaro, Luis F ........................621.08Algreen, Sydney M .........17,996.94Allison, Fern .........................551.25Allison, Robert D .................551.25Amlong, James L ..................235.73Anderson, Bruce T ..............210.33Anderson, Mark G..........34,703.00Anderson, Robert D .......43,652.17Anderson, Shirley A ............484.05Andrews, Cyrus J ..............6,272.29Andrews, Jason N ...........12,088.36Angell, Donna M .................256.73Anglin, Th omas J .................273.53Arbaje, Sarah A .................2,090.55Armile, Michael S ...........12,265.66Armstrong, Robert ................65.00Arndt, Karl W .................46,216.23Arsate, Ruben G ................3,899.79Artley, Kristen L..............96,289.65Aschenbrenner, D ...........77,751.91Asner, Avigdor G ..............3,342.96Bailey, Lorraine J...............4,645.78Bailey, Marla A .....................113.40Bailey, Marvin L ...................498.76Baker, Ruth E........................622.26Baldridge, Dennis ........ 101,075.13Ballandby, Richard ..............399.00Balmer, Mary L ....................234.15Banwart, Allison M .............237.46Barker, Shirley R .............74,525.83Barnes, Doris L ....................632.10Bartels, Edward J.............94,588.44Bartlett, Seth D ...............56,421.51Barton, Jessica A .............45,027.61Bashir, Mohamed M .........7,179.32Beardsley, Douglas ...... 116,003.17Beaumont, Barbara ..............217.35Beck, Jessica L .................39,789.74Beckman, Gary G ................271.43Beemer, Patricia J.................485.63Beeson, Philip I ....................501.91Beglin, Elizabeth A .........81,648.03Behlke, Donna T .............29,722.60Bell, Bonnie M .....................276.15Bell, Kevin L ....................80,567.11Bengtson, Kate M .............2,644.95Bennett, Emily K .................249.38Benson, Mackenzie .........11,145.11Benson, William M .............467.78Beranek, Th eresa ............41,832.37Berry, Matthew R .................905.22Besler, Karen A ...............48,548.61Bilyeu, Gary E .................91,950.94Bird, Karol K ........................243.60Bissell, Douglas J .............60,091.47Black, Michael D ..................233.63Black, Robert E ...............41,940.88Bland, Kenneth J ...............1,135.00Bleecker, Julia K ..............12,773.16Blum, Richard Y ..................330.23Bok, Karen E ...................58,573.09Bolton, Mason A ...............7,386.50Bombei, Neil M ...............64,249.93Bond, Dixie L .......................691.96Bonfi g, Christopher .............250.48Bonnett, Cory W ............74,435.19Borchert, Jeff rey P ...............505.58Boseneiler, Gary E ..........55,566.61Boshart, Pearl E....................537.61Botchway II, Kingsley ....70,150.32Bourgeois, Jane C .................339.68Bowden, Karen H ...........41,449.77Bowman, Catherine .......18,279.45Boyd, Marilyn ......................514.50Boyd, Norlin W ......................15.75Boyer, Sylvia A .....................318.68Braddock, Kevin W ........69,266.15Bradfi eld Jr, Th omas .........1,270.00Bradley, David L .............68,353.11Brandstatter, Rex...............4,500.00Brase, Th omas P ..............90,999.20Bray, Charles F ................55,679.74Bream, Becky K ...............32,448.28Breckner, Chris J .............62,382.27Breese, Steven R ...................674.64Brennan, Jacqueline ............352.28Brennan, Michael D .......98,140.75Britt, Patricia A ...............15,428.13Broders, Joel T ..................7,865.01Broll, David W ................68,010.20Brookhaus, Judith ................559.13Brooks, Lisa L .......................504.53Brouse, Mitchell R ............6,094.00Brown, Fred W ................72,999.68Brown, Jeremy P ...............4,714.98Brus, Halley P ....................3,921.75Bryant, Andrea L ............53,169.25Bryant, Bruce B ...............58,915.74Bryant, Vickie R ................8,244.24Bulechek, Jason R ...........43,893.10Bullock, Mark R ................1,284.80Burge, Carlyne K .................476.18Burge, Gary L ....................6,408.45Burke, Grace A .....................395.85Burkle, Martin J ..............80,623.13Burress, Lee B .......................497.70Busard, Joshua F .............60,521.13Buser, Daniel G ...............10,177.70Buszka, Brent A ..............79,060.28Butler, Sharon K ..............67,008.70Caccioli, David A .................550.73Calacci, Rebecca E ...............253.05Calcote, Cindy L .............44,020.03Caldwell, Kenneth W .......4,041.42Callahan, Michael D............508.21Camacho, Martina L ......34,408.56Cameron Iv, Louis J .............232.05Campbell, Benjamin ............350.00Campbell, Brett A ...........56,900.84Campbell, Daniel P ........69,154.58Campbell, Diane M ........49,734.40Campbell, Lance A ..............526.58Campney, Susan R ..........49,286.85Cannon, Carolyn A .............263.55Carlson, Tyler S ...............68,291.37Carmody, Patrick J ..............230.48Carpenter, Mildred R ..........198.45Carter, Christopher ........33,573.78Caskey, Benjamin L ..........5,258.60Cassell, Luther O ............60,880.21Castle, John C ..................11,494.27Chan, Wai Yin ......................316.58Chandler, Kimberly ........56,038.88Chappell, Andrew B .... 114,684.37Chrischilles, Th eo .............6,775.97Christenson, John D ............208.43Christiansen, Carol A .........285.60Christiansen, Dana ...... 113,576.10Christiansen, Marian L .......382.21Ciha, Megan A .....................233.63Cirillo, David V ....................340.00Cisar, Yvonne K ...................527.11Clemens, Arleigh R .............283.50Clemens, Susan P.................487.73Clements, Susan J ................240.45Close, Mary L .......................884.11Coghlan, Patricia A .............207.90Cole, Robert J ....................6,383.82Coleman, Michael ..........54,725.86Coleman, Robert J ..........43,376.33Collingwood, Katie ........59,992.60Collins, Brian S ...............29,917.11Collins, Teresa J ..............18,794.25Collyer, Christene ...........48,104.02Colony, Jerald D ...................253.58Colony, Marianne ................936.09Comer, Brad M ...............85,638.22Conard, Angela F ............28,909.15Conard, Jennifer A ...........7,021.72

Conner, John A ...............66,914.49Conroy, Michael J .............5,562.88Cook, Gordon K ...............2,092.74Cook, Karla K.......................542.33Cook, Marilynn K ...............263.55Corbett, Timothy M .......43,031.36Corpstein, Sean M ..........10,258.92Cotter Brown, Moni .......19,809.60Courtney, Sylvia J ...........13,820.88Craggs, Genevieve ............3,390.69Crain, Margaret N ............5,121.23Crigger, Chad E...............59,160.27Curran, Ryan J ................55,419.64Curtis, Gary D ......................261.98Cuykendall, Robert R .......3,587.49Dandridge, Crystal N ..........233.63Dandridge, Karen M ...........237.30Dandridge, Mildred M........237.30Dane, Donna A ....................235.73Dane, James W .....................522.90Davenport, Jerry L ...............242.03Davenport, Linda S .............415.28David, Sherry A .....................13.65Davis, Joan T ........................251.48Davis, Kathy D ................62,695.13Davis, Traci R ..................45,750.15De Leon, Renato R ..............238.35Deatsch, Shelley A ..........44,204.32Deatsch, William A ........82,079.13Decker, Jason A ...............47,099.20Deeds, Nolan L................39,636.14Deeth, John C ..................46,375.97Deloach, Latasha J ..........54,459.75Denham, Susan K ................526.05Deppe, Milton G ..................252.53Dewitt, Jason L ..................2,420.95Dibble, Mark B ................45,732.02Dieter, Daniel D ...................229.43Dietze, Carrie L ...............41,392.68Dinnel, Karen M .............48,079.28Dodds, Julia K .................38,071.36Dolash, Sharon L .................574.88Dolash-Hauser, Sage ...........233.63Dolezal, Raphael J ...........45,222.71Dolezal, Steve S ...............96,267.24Donahue, Roberta J .............240.98Donovan, Jim F ...............11,053.47Donovan, Raymond .......57,606.23Dorman, Jane M ..................251.48Downer, Jane G .................2,600.00Downes, Christopher .....70,166.31Drake, Todd E ...................2,450.72Draker, Anna M ...................384.30Draker, Donald J ..................349.65Dufano, Charles W .........64,330.88Duhaime, Whitney .........11,136.24Dunlap, Diane M ............41,174.76Dupuich, Elizabeth .........60,506.95Durham, Diana M ............1,577.11Durian, Fredrick E...............246.75Durian, Roberta M ..............242.55Dvorak, Billy J .................52,534.62Dvorak, Richard J ...........94,588.44Dvorsky, David J .............80,694.68Dwyer, Christine A.........33,104.49Ebert, Margaret A ................507.16Eckman, Judith O ................531.83Edwards, Chris R ............69,890.69Eifl er, Dara E .....................2,496.32Elbert, Charlene M ..............474.61Ellery, Candy J.................45,407.71Elliott, Kathryn K ...........43,738.05Elliott, Kevin A ...............66,752.20Elston, Kathleen A ............4,920.00Elston, Michael H .............4,920.00Eltoft , Carolyn S ...................470.41Elvidge, Hunter A ...........16,302.79Elzinga, Sarah J ....................249.90Emmons, Marcia A .............240.45Endsley, Jeremy S .................467.50Enters, David J ................56,357.01Ephgrave, James T ...............343.35Epstein, Justin M ..............2,965.96Erhart, Violet J .....................443.63Erickson, Beth E .............16,944.39Erickson, Naeda E ..........62,848.01Esser, Rebecca J ...............42,463.20Essing, Danelle R ............68,667.74Essington, Brenda S ........53,078.79Etheredge, John P ...........55,814.83Farrell, Andrew M ..........34,493.83Fay, Heather A .................42,863.20Feddersen, Brandon .........7,407.71Fedler, Mark A ................48,210.88Ferentz, Mary C .....................78.75Fesler, Karen M ....................307.13Fields, Keshia R ....................294.00Finken, Adam L ..............13,487.42Finlayson, Robert S ........65,072.79Finnegan, Austin J ............7,808.50Fisher, Bradley D ............76,502.89Fisher, Nadine K .............84,186.25Fitzpatrick, Emily E ........47,466.30Flack, Margarita M .........41,161.87Flaherty, Daniel P .............7,221.41Folman, Jon C .................42,909.27Ford, Craig R ...................18,466.77Fountain, Bryant M ...............15.75Fox, Gillian J ....................22,087.94Franklin, Rebecca A .......10,952.83Franks, Bernadine ...............282.45Freese, Lori R .......................459.38Freidhof, Bradley H ........68,002.17Freund, Martha L.................505.58Frierson, Simone A...........4,969.59Friton, Dieter J ................67,438.17Fritz, Holly M ..................42,463.21Fritz, Jess A ......................18,535.55Frost, Iris B ......................16,496.41Fruechte, Mary M ................230.48Gaff ey, Michael J ...............9,084.44Galer, Ernest L ..................2,600.00Garin, Anita M .......................18.90Garin, Jamie A .....................217.88Garmoe Iii, Willard ........70,318.47Garretson, Nicholas..........1,853.33Gatewood, Shannon ............126.53Gaunt, Lavonna R .............7,257.74Gause, Jimmie Ann .............269.33Gauthier, Jeff ry W ............2,697.18Gebhart, Adam M ..........36,488.06Gebhart, Adam W ..........47,250.23Gehling, Denise R ...........42,463.20Geiger, Elaine M .............70,526.12Geisen, Jay M ..................46,022.43Gerard, Erin R ...................6,814.50Gerot, Neil J .......................6,092.86Gerot, Renee J .................37,225.68Gersten, Joshua S ..............2,492.50Giannini, Kate M ............45,850.40Gibbon, Arlene R .................313.43Gibbon, David R ..................319.73Gibson, Kenneth W.............250.43Giese, Kendall J ...............64,459.73Gilpin, Jean C ..................61,815.16Gilstrap, Christoph ..............680.00Gingerich, Jeff rey ............66,331.65Gingerich, Lorena ...........57,466.14Gleason, John G ..............81,260.18Goepferd, Stephen ..........13,099.59Goetzinger, Paula K ........30,940.44Good, John D ..................77,938.61Good, Troy A ..................60,089.51Goodrich, Robert D ............488.78Gorvin, Amber K ............11,351.83Goss, Shane M.................56,854.38Gotto, Patricia L ..............49,076.29Grace, Rose M .................59,613.76Grady, Daniel L ...............57,035.68Graf, Rebecca F .................2,285.26Grant, Sandy K ..................1,327.21Grawe, Catherine L ...............91.35Gray, Laura J ....................10,171.06Greazel, William T ...... 108,655.17Grecian, Judith L.............18,455.41Green, Joseph R ................2,231.25Grout, Heather L ...............9,385.19Guedon, Th erese M ...............96.60Gullett, Larry L ............ 104,233.85Guo, Rong C ...........................15.75Gurwell, John E .................7,866.08Gustafson, David W .......50,259.36Gustafson, Erik A ...........21,171.68Gwinn, Douglas P...........82,789.45Hackman, Amy K ...........59,095.68Hagen, Jean M ......................569.10Hakes, Joan M ......................250.95Halma, Daniel J .................3,096.39Haman, Marlene K ..............485.10Hamann, Kurt P ...................201.60Hamilton, Ian H ................6,983.38

Hamilton, Jeff rey L ..............232.58Hamm, Michael G ..........71,371.27Hammes, Aaron R ..........71,956.26Hammond, Twilla C ............669.91Hanes, Jeanne M ..................189.53Hanke, Patricia A .................230.48Hannaford, John M ........57,280.25Hansen, Mickey R ..........45,510.41Hardin, Bryan E ................2,156.35Harney, Patrick L ............55,814.83Harrison, Kathleen V ..........266.18Hart, Holly J .........................252.53Harvey, Jon R ..................49,594.56Hatch, Peter J........................233.10Haupert, Melanie .................257.25Haupert, Raymond B ..........255.68Hauser, Tegan C ...................516.08Havel, Richard W ...........85,366.74Havran, James D ..................175.35Hawes, Jeanne K ..................476.71Hawkins, Lois A ...................558.08Hayes, Darrin W ...............9,735.53Hayes, Kevin R .....................597.46Heick, Gina M .................31,674.09Heick, Sandra M .............82,527.89Heiserman, Shirley ..............485.63Hemingway, Anita B ...........240.45Hemingway, Keith ............3,500.00Hendricks, Matthew .......80,133.21Henke, Barbara G ..................33.60Hennes, Mike ..................62,844.73Hennessy, Christop .............460.00Henry, Cameron J .............6,503.33Hensch, Josephine ...............389.56Hensch, Michael H .........79,718.51Henze, Christopher ........76,302.07Herrig, Adam S ...............68,426.55Hess, Th elia E .......................483.00Hicks, Marie E ........................57.75Hicks, Th omas A .................539.71Hileman, Lu A ......................343.36Hinde, Steven M ..................123.75Hintze, David A ................2,600.00Hintze, Sharon L ..................552.31Hipple, Gregory A ..........75,979.42Hoagland, Todd E ...........70,873.34Hodous, Brian P ..................232.58Hodson, Cody B ...............2,264.33Hoff man, Christop ...........4,019.28Hoff man, Koleen A .............291.38Hojka, Eric J .........................221.03Holland, Janet L ...................240.45Holliday, Danielle J ..............191.63Holt, Erik N .....................10,890.99Hornbeck, John Paul ...........601.91Horning, Paul M ..................217.88Horning, William P ........89,859.36Horton, Jyleahia L .................44.10Horton, Kari M ...............54,254.11Hosack, David W ..............3,339.00Hoskins, Gary H .............23,146.06Hoskins, Kathryn S .............497.71Houss, Breanna D .............7,134.48Hove, Kathryn L ..................227.85Hruby, Luke J ..................71,529.80Hubbard, Linda L ................262.50Huff , Jeff rey A .................42,713.20Huff erd, Carolyn R ..............237.30Hughes, Melva D .................579.60Hulbert, Carol A ..................201.60Hunt, Brian D ......................499.80Hunt, Catherine M ..............247.28Hurst, Emily G ................48,881.70Husak, Peter A .....................647.85Husted, Russell F .................271.43Hyde, Elizabeth L ..................96.60Hynek, James E ....................571.20Hynek, Sandra L ..................498.23Innis, Shannon J .............49,775.36Isaacs, Th omas F ...............7,730.00Jackson, Jordan F ............10,107.81Jacobsen, Cody L ............10,251.31Jacoby, Lynette A ............73,312.48Jeff ress, Rosalie A ................362.25Jenn, Marcia R ...................1,197.53Jenn-Cox, Tina K ............56,157.52Jennings, David C .............7,003.61Jennings, Dawn M ..........69,524.20Jennings, Kim L ..............24,654.48Jennings, Kyle J .................4,184.99Jensen, Dean O ...............58,192.44Jensen, Teresa L ...............48,517.92Jiras, Bonnie L ......................237.30Jiras, Jason P ....................56,243.98Johnson, Andrew ............91,532.28Johnson, Cameron ..........43,174.81Johnson, Charles T .........62,702.60Johnson, Fiona B.............69,471.78Johnson, Mina L ..................702.46Johnson, Patrick E ...............702.46Jones, Jane D ........................248.33Jones, Sharon L ...............10,876.96Jonker, Cody A .....................320.00Joynt, Joseph R .....................298.73Juels, Margaret H ............45,472.16Juetten, Bruce G ..............68,083.70Jurgensen, James L ..........59,675.85Justis, Rita L ..........................240.45Justis, Roy C .........................240.45Kaefring Oyarzun, Sharmi D ......................................36,061.93Kahler, Brian K ...............66,996.65Kaster, Diane K ...............47,536.22Kauble, Merlyn J ..................498.75Kauff man, Christine M ....6,017.63Kauff man, Julia L ..............3,314.00Keefer, Judith A ....................474.60Keefer, Randall J .............46,794.11Keely, Terry A ..................13,790.94Keeney, Adam D ...............1,817.14Keilp, Joanna L ..................4,565.76Kellems, Ernest H ................247.80Kellems, Ruth A ...................247.80Kelley, Maureen A ..........48,367.92Kelly, Betty ............................494.55Kelly, Katherine L ................497.18Kelly, Teresa J ....................2,634.73Kemp, Karma L ...............52,603.56Kennedy, Lucas W ............8,682.11Kennedy, Michael J .........57,298.29Kessler, Jeff A ........................429.46Kinney, Deborah S...............565.96Kinney, Kevin J ...............80,168.45Kinney, Terence J ............59,424.96Kirchner, Betty C .................247.28Kistler, Mark A ................65,832.79Kitzmann, Tricia L ..........87,231.14Kjosa, Dory S ...................23,007.34Klahn-Ramstad, Ma .......45,472.16Klaren, Isabelle E ............46,664.85Klausner, Richard E .............500.86Kleinmeyer, Gary ............59,657.70Kline, Jared M ...................2,304.75Kloos, Alberta M .................247.80Kloos, Glenn G ....................247.80Knepp, Marjorie M ..............550.21Knight, Stephen E ................690.38Knowling, Mary D ...............436.28Knox, Audrey A ...................253.05Knox, Jeff rey A .....................253.05Koch, David A .................77,406.91Koch, Kelly A .......................997.86Koehler, Kathy J ................4,720.26Koenigsaecker, Charli .........534.98Konrad, Cameron P .........9,101.73Koopman, Janet M ..............239.93Koury, Suzanne ....................503.48Kral, Joyce M ........................483.53Kramer Iii, John L ..................36.75Kramer, Adam J ................4,704.00Kramer, Dan J .................59,608.08Kramer, Gary J ................92,731.06Krause, Daniel A .............48,411.95Kremzar, Diana C ...........53,139.36Kringle, Edward C ..........35,785.76Kriz, Th omas L ................81,165.80Kron, Jerry J ....................63,558.86Krotz, Dolores B ...............3,611.48Kruse, Todd R .................55,120.65Kubit, Lynn M .................45,438.46Kudej, Kimberly M ..............222.60Kuester, Bonita M ................235.73Kuester, Boyd L ....................235.73Kunkel, Bradley E ...........75,176.12Kuntz, John K .......................251.48Kushner, Lucy R ...................261.45Labadie, Katherine .........19,642.09Lacina, Bonita L ..............41,666.79Lacina, James P ...............66,310.40Laff ey, Angela L ...............38,549.12Lahey, Anne M ............. 111,243.51

Lalla, Joseph V ................51,033.54Lamm, Randall A ...........79,573.48Lampe, Fred R .................60,160.58Langenberg, Christop ....71,189.40Langenberg, Kay F ..........57,074.60Langhurst, Mary J ................523.43Langhurst, Val A ..................523.43Lavrenz, Jeff rey T ..............9,241.32Lebeau-Meyerdirk, Ronita ......................................59,992.32Lee, Kevin M ........................392.50Leick, Michael J ....................217.88Lembke, Lois A ......................31.50Lenz, Jesse K ....................31,389.91Leonard, An S .................58,227.85Lepeau, John P .....................264.60Lepic, Alicia K .................24,375.44Levien, Jeremy J ..............23,217.92Lewis, Angela .......................227.33Libby, Robert D ...............80,451.73Lind, Joan K ....................40,337.44Lind, John H ...........................16.80Lindemann, Charles ............500.33Lindley, Robert R ............29,462.25Lintz, Leon M ..................11,151.08Lintz, Michael J ...............58,426.13Lipman, Karen K ............35,405.73Lippisch, Blanca C ............2,399.20Liston, Jeanne A ...................248.33Littin, Lucinda S ..................671.38Lockwood, Courtn .........50,222.67Logan, Christy B ..................711.38Loomer, Margaret I .............719.25Lord, Benjamin M ..........62,050.97Lovetinsky, John R ..........57,846.54Loyd, Rebecca A .............46,306.69Luchtenburg, Darla ........45,987.68Lundquist, Jonathan .........6,408.15Luze, Mischeale L ...........47,377.60Lynch, Katherine A ........44,415.15Lyness, Janet M ............ 133,619.33Mabry, Jill R ..........................315.00Madden, Scott L ..............59,057.34Madoerin, Laurie S .........58,009.77Madole, Spence R .............3,910.00Madura, Steven R ...........57,894.76Mahoney, Robert J ..........62,557.12Mangold, Jacob T .................222.60Manning, Mathew ..........11,815.04Manrique, Gustavo ..............506.63Marlowe, Demetrius.......75,138.28Marston, Shelley C .........59,991.18Martin, Diane L .....................75.60Martin, Phoebe Z ..............2,600.00Mather, Justin M .............54,117.24Mattoon, Kory W ...........59,929.80Mayo, Kelly E ....................2,731.84Mcareavy, Susan J ...........24,221.12Mcbride, Beth A..............63,988.97Mcbride, Linda M ................230.48Mccambridge, Kayla .......17,572.05Mccambridge, Scott ........35,612.73Mccann, Joyce E ...................241.50Mccaslin, Richard C .......44,346.17Mccomas, Charles A ........2,600.00Mcdonald, Th eresa L .............84.00Mcdowell, William P ...........222.60Mcgee, Patricia E ..............1,032.16Mcgill-Patience, Kath ..........235.73Mcgreevey, James L ..........1,756.54Mckenna, Kelly J ..................235.73Mckenna, Peter T.................235.73Mckiness, John P ............45,197.16Mckinley, Marcia A ........42,588.20Mckinley, Tywanees ............222.60Mckinney, Corey J ............5,387.75Mclachlan, Janet K...............672.53Mclachlan, Robert M ..........748.13Mclaughlin, Bret J ...........55,312.96Mcnaughton, Scott M ......1,205.83Meade, Paul F ....................5,661.92Means Jr, Gregory K .........4,536.00Means, Mikeesha E ...........9,446.81Melick, Clint A ................52,998.72Melvin, Tineke R .................156.45Meyer, Scott K .................60,383.55Michael, Elaine M ................235.73Michel, Cynthia J .................351.75Michel, Steven T ....................10.50Mieden, Patricia A ...............246.75Miksch, Th omas H ................99.75Milder, Linda C ....................254.63Milder, Michael J .................254.63Miller, Alvin V .....................235.73Miller, Dennis D ..................241.50Miller, Electra M ...............6,127.00Miller, James R ................42,333.25Miller, Kenneth D ...........45,726.60Miller, Marcia S ....................235.73Miller, Margaret E................405.83Miller, Michele B ............49,759.36Miller, Minette .....................222.60Miller, Nathaniel S ..........29,883.87Miller, Ross H.......................535.00Miller-Todd, Benjamin ..29,729.51Mills, Becky A .................70,136.02Mills, Roger J ........................256.20Mitchell, Patti A ...................471.98Molina, Deanna K ............3,289.89Monette, Shonda L ..............289.28Montz, Ryan J ..................73,125.53Moore, Daniel F ..............19,601.56Moore, David L ...............43,798.26Moore, Evelyn J ....................243.08Moore, Jennifer E ...........42,212.00Moore, Ronald J ..............84,762.77Moore, Shanna M .............9,794.40Moore, Th omas J .................530.25Moothart, Kevin L ............3,302.34Morris, Jeanne L ..................105.00Morriss, Mary J ....................346.50Moses, Lois A ..................32,270.14Moses, Mark B ................70,992.42Mothershed, Michael .....71,873.86Mozak, Anthony J ..................50.00Mueller, June D ....................322.88Mueller, Marvin P ................422.63Mulcahy, Angela M ........58,513.36Mullane, Melissa M ........41,544.41Mullen, Christine G .........1,467.38Murphy, Charles W ..........1,298.33Murphy, Cliff ord W ..........7,820.00Murra, Curtis J ................19,482.95Muston, Linda K ..................466.20Muston, Ray A .....................241.50Nachazel, Steve T ............17,681.49Nash, Laurie A ................68,701.90Nash, Logan M ................40,116.77Nash, Steven V ..................1,335.00Naumann, Linda J ...............436.28Neel, Carol A ........................220.50Neel, Todd A ........................648.91Nefzger, Patrick H ...............227.85Nehring, Susan D ........ 100,047.00Nelson, Nicholas R ...........3,076.58Neuzil, Terrence L ..........55,814.83Newark, Kristin L ...........81,968.25Newmire, Eugene E ..........8,104.63Nibaur, Scott L .....................596.38Nichols, Mary J ....................544.43Nielson, Deanna ..................250.95Nilsson, Cynthia R...............288.75Nkumu, Peter N ..............31,908.40Noesen, Cynthia A ..............202.13Norfl eet, Lonise R ...........44,399.36Nowachek, Rebecca ........20,395.66Oakes, Danielle M ...............235.73Odea, Margaret A ................840.01Ohare, Cody R ..................4,496.75Ollinger, Nick A ..............57,022.94Olmstead, Harry F ...............213.15Olmstead, Karen L ...............254.10Olshansky, Darlene .........38,073.11Olthoff , Nancy A..................232.58Oneill, Marsha E ..................480.91Orourke, Kelly L .............20,572.83Orr, Sally A .............................99.75Ortale, Sandra K ..................217.88Otdoerfer, Patricia F ............241.50Otto, Robert M................48,117.92Owen, Lisa A ...................14,162.40Oxley, Kellynne S ............52,197.53Paetz, Marilyn C ..................554.40Painter, Kimberly A ........81,165.80Palmer, Cory K .................3,046.32Pannell, Jude T ................62,824.76Panos, Mary A ......................621.61Parker, Gregory S ......... 126,829.36Parkes-Perret, Ariane ..........230.48Patch, Alexander J ...............235.73Patnode, Stacy A .............44,670.97

Paul, Hannah M ..............21,586.05Paustian, Mariella F ........50,991.36Pearson, Kimberly L .......42,962.95Pearson, Marivel ...............8,802.71Peck, Jeremy A ................63,693.84Peckover, Jessica M .........65,687.43Pelechek, Julie L ...................239.93Pelechek, Samuel L ..............239.93Pence Jr, Chuck W ..........58,916.76Penno, Bonnie J ...................505.58Peters, Carolyn F..................539.18Peters, Mitchell J .............58,630.24Pettit, Teresa A ..................5,851.73Pfannebecker, Lisa ...........2,500.00Pfohl, Judith L ......................534.98Phelps, Justin A .................1,606.91Phillips, Cindy R ..................509.25Phillips, David P .............39,696.89Phillips, Lora L ................50,388.96Pidgeon, Gary L ..............59,611.26Pierce, Kathy R ................31,235.66Pietrzyk, Donald J ...............224.70Pirkl, Patricia A ....................492.98Pitcher, Shirley A .................600.60Pitlick, Jeff A ....................61,093.89Plotz, Walter J .......................715.06Poe, Robert E.....................9,605.68Pogue, Courtenay J ..............234.15Pohnl, Donald R ..................232.05Pokhrel, Keshab ..............42,684.30Poock, Adam J...................3,522.80Poremba, Mark S ............59,991.75Portillo, Alex .....................8,731.76Potter, Paul E ........................230.48Pottorff , Michael V .........58,891.87Pregon, James D ..............69,890.69Prentice, Gwen L .................464.11Prentice, Mark L .............77,962.27Price, Sandra K .................1,933.94Prochaska, Janice M ............504.00Proehl, Joshua J .................1,792.95Prybil, Adam T .................5,896.00Pulkrabek, Lonny ........ 112,664.94Putman, Kelley L .................584.86Quiles, Danny W ............22,271.68Quiles, Ryan P .................57,812.03Raim, David A .....................488.78Raim, Michele M .................427.88Rarick, Th eola K ..................992.78Rauer, John E ........................230.48Rediger, Elizabeth ................226.80Redlinger, Ann E ............30,195.72Reed, Dylan G .................34,632.32Reedy, Shaun A ....................100.00Reimann, Jean ......................227.85Reinhardt, Michael R ............36.75Reinier, Alan S ..................4,055.00Remmert, John B .................315.00Remmert, Mary J .................233.63Renneckar, William R ......3,612.00Rettig, Janelle R ...............55,814.83Reynolds, Bruce D ..........59,389.07Richardson, Constan ...........573.31Richmond, Brandon .......63,138.72Ridenour, Ann R ..................230.48Ridenour, James C ...............230.48Rieck, Jeremy C ...............48,280.64Riggan, Vicki L ................41,449.76Riss, Adam L ...................27,547.15Ritchie, Stacy L ................22,401.91Robbins, Wendy A ...............428.93Roberts, James L .............75,721.16Robinson, Nathan J ........61,614.41Rocca, Benjamin L..........17,948.19Rockafellow, Jessica ........15,837.20Rockafellow, William .....77,789.46Rockensies, Nancy ..........42,713.20Rodgers, Lisa L ................42,863.20Rodney, Lajonese C .............238.35Roeder, Roger L ................1,465.96Roling, Nicole L ..............55,312.79Rourke, Carolyn M ..............600.61Routh, John M ................41,622.20Rovelstad, Laurie A ........44,781.95Ruch, Russell J ...................2,297.28Rudish, Katrina M ..........70,474.17Rudolph, Janet K ..................480.38Rueber, Harry L ..............43,525.23Ruegsegger, Donna .............366.98Ruess, Dan L ....................43,274.51Ruhland, Irene H .................239.40Ruiz, Monica ..........................78.75Rundquist, Gordon D .........230.48Ruragira, Samu F .................933.09Rushlo, Kathy B....................232.05Russell, Rosemary A ............273.00Rysdam, Travis J .............50,319.44Sachtjen, Alicia D ...........41,472.90Salazar, Billie J .................41,049.76Salow, Adam J .................55,756.23Samek, Susan K ....................711.91Sankey, Stewart P ..............3,442.16Sass, Sharon K ......................240.45Satterly, Kevin C...................703.19Saville, Brenda K ..................467.26Scamman, Franklin L ..........254.63Schabilion, Kari K ...........49,338.89Schaff er, Joshua L .................233.63Scheetz, Constanza .........10,384.71Schense, Deborah ...............252.00Scherbring, Carla A ........65,597.13Schier, Joshua P .................2,901.75Schintler, Phillip J ...........76,006.37Schmidt, Carla A .................501.38Schmitt, Heidi M ............38,648.37Schnedler, Eric J ...................550.00Schneider, Ronald J ........46,287.26Schneider, Tyler F ...........65,818.34Schnoebelen, Connie ..........579.60Schoerning, Christop .....48,636.81Schropp, Hazel M ................394.81Schuerer, Alissa M ..........65,965.13Schuerer, Robert G .........71,595.45Schultz, Jean K ............. 115,591.19Schultz, Wade A ..............70,122.35Schulz, Karen L ....................217.88Schulz, Kenneth G ...............231.00Schuneman, Clayton ......59,182.93Schutte, Jacob H ..............10,464.80Schwarting, Rick B .........59,781.25Scott, Audrey W...................227.85Seagren, Kay A .....................589.58Seberg, Charles H ................378.53Seidlitz, William R ..........44,106.42Sena, Alisha C ...................3,114.25Seymour Guard, Deb .....69,910.45Shafer, Cody J ..................46,960.16Sharma, Parul .......................244.13Shatek, Neil J ...................71,052.13Shaw, Jan D ......................78,697.26Sheldon, Nicole R ...........60,092.32Sheriff , Gerald T .............36,045.82Sherman, Patricia ...........43,959.04Shimon, Fred D ...............17,815.09Shindelar, Cassandra ........5,468.01Shramek, Lora A .............89,667.08Shriver, Timothy D ..............733.44Shroyer, Donald A ..........27,637.93Shumaker, Sarah .............17,705.41Shurson, Joseph T ...........66,933.85Sieverding, Michael ..........2,515.00Silver, Jeff rey W ...............56,601.93Simmons, Elizabeth ............541.28Simon, Rebecca C ...........85,813.20Simons, Robert M .............3,434.69Simonsen, Jeff D .............14,403.62Simonson, Emma S ..........1,016.16Sims, Kaitlin N .......................99.75Sissac, Henry S .....................418.18Slaughter, Eldon E ..........68,805.16Sliger, Brigitte B ..............20,130.77Slonneger, Mary E ...............219.45Smith, Gary D ...................2,663.33Smith, Jon W ...................68,112.00Smith, Karalee K ..................223.65Smith, Karina L .................7,438.32Smith, Michael S ...............5,568.86Smith, Rachel Z ...............83,106.91Smith, Shannon O ..........60,010.52Snetselaar, Gary R .............1,931.91Sniegowski, Todd A .............475.13Snow, Dan N ...................66,713.04Snyder, Cassandra J ........16,853.84Soglin, Rebecca E............22,719.06Sokoll, Martin D ..................232.58Somers, Sharon O ................486.15Sommers, Guy V.............61,679.25Sopher, John K .....................642.08Souer, William D ............70,564.76Spahn-Teghanemt, J .......59,961.77Spenler, Stephen L ..........93,809.22

Springer, Janeen M ...........7,501.59Staff ord, Dana M ............57,844.32Stallman, Kolby M ............5,208.00Stanford, William ................231.00Stannard, Debra A ...............326.03Stanton, David M............65,312.92Statler, Erma L ......................665.43Steinberg, Erica L ............44,392.39Stender, Chrystal C ........38,461.13Stephan, Christopher ..........492.98Stephan, Madonna T ...........481.95Sterler, Rita J ...........................89.25Stewart, Mark R ..............65,416.36Stewart, Samuel D ..........43,146.73Stickney, Kathleen A ...........245.70Stimmel, Jacqueline .......36,683.89Stimmel, Jerald R .................755.00Stockman, Margaret A ........263.55Stockman, Sandra E ............500.33Stockman, Suzann D ...........482.48Stotler, Terry E ................66,933.86Strabala, Doreen A ..............782.78Stranieri, Anna M ................253.58Streb, Kathryn A ..................246.75Strub, Melody G ..............50,534.56Struzynski, Mary M .............234.15Struzynski, Michael ........60,244.51Stutzman, Adrian J ..............565.00Stutzman, Madeline .........2,928.31Sueppel, Carolyn K ..............264.08Sueppel, Carralee A .............518.18Sullivan, Jerry E ...................616.36Sullivan, Jordan F ................557.55Sullivan, Mary L ...................576.98Sullivan, Rod E ................55,814.83Sullivan, Susan L ..................280.88Svec, Virginia L ....................369.00Swanson, Kristina L........58,407.18Swanson, Michael J.........61,785.62Swartz, Twila D ....................256.20Swartzendruber, Shawn D ......................................64,068.86Swearson, Carl W ................235.73Symonds, Benjamin .........1,941.22Tabak, Avidan H ...............1,394.29Tack, Sara L .......................3,500.00Tebockhorst, Jesse ..........62,643.96Teeter, Kelsey A ...............45,507.24Tetrault, Geraldine K ..........537.60Teut, Oran R .........................478.28Th erme, Erik C................69,615.69Th omas, Diane M ................135.45Th ompson, Arlan R .............275.63Th ompson, Katharine .........471.98Th ompson, Marlene ............243.08Th ompson, Sandra .........49,246.65Th omsen, Steven J ..........42,588.21Th ornton, Krista J ...........59,581.44Th relkeld, Barbara ...............302.93Th ul, Robert J ..................47,711.36Tiegs, Richard P ................3,182.27Tienda, Jerold M ....................15.75Tienda, Linda C ...................251.48Tiff any, John R .....................250.43Tilkes, Becky J .................59,992.32Timmins, Kevin L ...........44,335.43Tippie, Dustin R .............58,190.62Toerner, Timothy M .......17,941.31Tomkovicz, Nancy L .......63,280.88Tomlin, Bobby G ..............4,347.00Tosh, Eileen M ................59,552.96Travis, Th omas E ..............7,144.27Trouten, Ronald J ...........60,192.32Trump, Th omas D ............1,097.27Tubbs, Christine C...............238.35Turner, Erin C .................48,751.68Tvedt, Douglas A .................235.73Tvedt, Gail J ..........................235.73Ungaro, Peter M ..............69,882.35Urban, James W ...................232.58Van Allen, Lory A ................233.63Van Laere, Ellen L ................114.45Van Ommen, Nicole.......56,866.16Vance, Carol A ................41,511.30Varnum, Charles W..........7,293.00Velterean, Bogdana .........46,496.65Vileta, Susan L .................25,025.28Villhauer, Dillon J .............5,379.00Villhauer, Mary E.................255.68Villhauer, Tom M............60,399.61Vitosh, Jean A.......................243.60Vollenweider, Mark J ......17,909.47Von Sprecken, Sandra .........413.18Voss, Emily A ..................79,906.11Voss-Grumish, Amanda D ......................................50,937.40Vriezelaar, Elizabeth .......64,936.39Wade, Gertrude A ...............105.00Wagner, David M ............84,150.34Wagner, Erica L ...............53,996.75Walden, Patti ........................522.90Walling, Harold W .........43,619.01Walls, Tyler W ...................4,866.75Wanzek, Gregory J ...............226.28Warson, Mandy R ...........41,327.03Washington, Tyeisha M ...7,755.23Waters, Letha K ....................472.50Watkinson, Turner R ........2,122.50Watts, Virginia D ............78,896.33Waul, Lisa A ....................60,192.32Weaver, Allyson F .............1,900.05Weaver, Paula L ....................476.71Webb, Jarod L ..................59,327.72Weber, Beth A .................55,290.02Wehde, David D..............65,097.27Weigel, Andrew V ..........53,690.18Weingeist, Catherine ...........477.76Weipert, Travis J .............81,165.79Weir, Patricia A ...............84,317.37Weir, Stephanie J .............49,001.29Weitz, Michael J ................3,846.96Wells, Jeff ery A ..................3,461.25Wellsandt, Collin P ...........8,631.45Welsh, David A ...............70,626.30Wenger, Kristal R ............54,519.57Werner Jr, George R .......70,090.71West, Julian B ....................7,928.87Weston, Kelly D ..............59,978.52Westphal, Linda C ...............237.30White, Cherie L ...............44,060.10White, Daniel F ...............54,641.99White, Valerie L ...................463.58Wick, Mary E ..................38,166.42Wieland, John M ..................863.38Williams, Doran A .........69,400.89Williams, Karen S ................267.23Williams, Michelle R ......48,952.82Williams, Peggy L ...........52,739.37Williams, Tate C ...................221.03Willman, Scott R ....................28.35Willoughby, Catherine ........230.48Wilson, Dave C ...............71,786.70Winder, Blake M ..................230.48Winder, Teresa K .................601.13Winstead, Robert D ........94,773.01Wisman, Christopher .....75,913.55Wittau, Paul R .................44,817.12Wolf, Cory G ...................34,793.04Wollard, Deborah E ........60,192.31Wollum, Jane K ...............68,752.28Woltz, Benjiman J ...........15,096.97Wray, Raquel L ................78,899.02Wright, Jannine L ...........13,421.24Wunder, William B ..............943.96Wyatt, Mark A .................12,811.73Wyckoff , Joseph T .............2,740.50Yakish, Robert J...............33,220.55Yancy, Angela D ..............26,838.27Yanney, Linda J ....................408.98Yansky, David L ....................504.01Yardley, James R ...................249.90Yardley, Rosemary ...............249.90Yeggy, Patricia A ..................270.38Yochem, Felicia A ...........48,665.10Yoder, Gary J ...................73,105.58Yoder, Kent M ...................3,150.00Yoder, Phillip G ....................486.68Yoder, Timothy J ..................135.00Young Ii, Clair R .............59,992.32Young, Audrey A .................233.63Young, Vanessa M.............5,486.81Zaehringer, Andrew .......36,607.02Zeck, Gene J ....................10,500.01Zeman, Brian J .....................240.45Zomermaand, Grant .............34.65Zomermaand, Kymb ......17,798.05

Travis Weipert, AuditorJohnson County, Iowa

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FEBRUARY 12, 2015 SECTION BPUBLIC NOTICES

COUNTY NAME: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING -- BUDGET ESTIMATE CO NO:

Johnson Fiscal Year July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016 52

The County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing on the proposed Fiscal Year County budget as follows:Meeting Date: Meeting Time: Meeting Location:

02-25-2015 6:00 p.m. Boardroom/Johnson Co. Admin. Bldg.; 913 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IAAt 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:

johnson-county.com 319 688-8095

Iowa Department of Management Budget Re-Est Actual AVG

Form 630 (Publish) 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 Annual

REVENUES & OTHER FINANCING SOURCES % CHG

Taxes Levied on Property* 1 51,265,873 48,999,441 46,391,782 5.12 Less: Uncollected Delinquent Taxes - Levy Year 2 0 0 0 Less: Credits to Taxpayers 3 1,296,089 1,242,396 1,014,608 Net Current Property Taxes 4 49,969,784 47,757,045 45,377,174 Delinquent Property Tax Revenue 5 700 715 2,352 Penalties, Interest & Costs on Taxes 6 329,000 358,000 330,695 Other County Taxes/TIF Tax Revenues 7 874,076 868,086 948,428 -4 Intergovernmental 8 19,634,603 19,859,374 20,118,454 Licenses & Permits 9 646,225 570,925 649,116 Charges for Service 10 4,161,787 4,123,676 4,121,731 Use of Money & Property 11 219,234 222,404 285,134 Miscellaneous 12 2,629,378 2,655,365 2,210,147 Subtotal Revenues 13 78,464,787 76,415,590 74,043,231Other Financing Sources: General Long-Term Debt Proceeds 14 13,930,000 14,000,000 9,900,000 Operating Transfers In 15 20,826,704 14,174,596 19,542,052 Proceeds of Fixed Asset Sales 16 210,650 8,300 62,213 Total Revenues & Other Sources 17 113,432,141 104,598,486 103,547,496EXPENDITURES & OTHER FINANCING USES

Operating: Public Safety and Legal Services 18 23,116,404 22,501,100 20,445,480 6.33 Physical Health and Social Services 19 9,411,761 9,257,414 8,498,656 5.24 Mental Health, ID & DD 20 7,852,904 10,389,995 8,368,750 -3.13 County Environment and Education 21 4,144,391 4,041,941 3,581,434 7.57 Roads & Transportation 22 8,754,380 9,403,108 8,615,818 0.8 Government Services to Residents 23 2,402,067 2,304,099 2,005,740 9.43 Administration 24 8,486,697 8,066,516 7,554,452 5.99 Nonprogram Current 25 89,500 79,500 37,907 53.66Debt Service 26 14,512,641 16,082,017 11,599,144 11.86Capital Projects 27 13,609,790 19,760,678 9,757,506 18.1 Subtotal Expenditures 28 92,380,535 101,886,368 80,464,887Other Financing Uses: Operating Transfers Out 29 20,826,704 14,174,596 19,542,052 Refunded Debt/Payments to Escrow 30 0 0 0 Total Expenditures & Other Uses 31 113,207,239 116,060,964 100,006,939Excess of Revenues & Other Sources

over (under) Expenditures & Other Uses 32 224,902 -11,462,478 3,540,557Beginning Fund Balance - July 1, 33 21,705,515 33,167,993 29,627,436Increase (Decrease) in Reserves (GAAP Budgeting) 34 0 0 0 Fund Balance - Nonspendable 35 0 0 0 Fund Balance - Restricted 36 7,101,933 5,448,672 12,847,854 Fund Balance - Committed 37 0 0 0 Fund Balance - Assigned 38 6,503,272 6,759,272 12,073,130 Fund Balance - Unassigned 39 8,325,212 9,497,571 8,247,009Total Ending Fund Balance - June 30, 40 21,930,417 21,705,515 33,167,993Proposed property taxation by type: Proposed tax rates per $1,000 taxable valuation:Countywide Levies*: 46,231,110 Urban Areas: 6.90239Rural Only Levies*: 5,034,763 Rural Areas: 10.37178Special District Levies*: 0 Any special district tax rates not included.TIF Tax Revenues: 0Utility Replacmnt. Excise Tax: 811,737 Date: 03-05-2015Explanation of any significant items in the budget:

PUBLIC NOTICE: JOHNSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

PUBLIC NOTICE: JOHNSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Cost of this publication: $103.21Fiscal year to date cost(as of 7/1/14): $4,962.24

THE JOHNSON COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

FORMAL MEETING MINUTESJANUARY 29, 2015

Vice Chairperson Sullivan called the Johnson County Board of Supervisors to order in the Johnson County Administration Building at 9:00 a.m. Members present: Mike Carberry, Terrence Neuzil, Janelle Rettig, Rod Sullivan; absent: Pat Harney. Unless otherwise noted, all actions were taken by the following vote: aye: Carberry, Neuzil, Rettig, Sullivan; absent: Harney. Social Services Coordinator Lynette Jacoby spoke and accepted the following proclamation.

PROCLAMATION 01-29-15-01Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

Awareness DayJanuary 30, 2015

Whereas, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the largest anti-poverty programs, annually lifting over 6 million children and adults out of pove11y each year; and Whereas, money received from the Earned Income Tax Credit fl ows back into the local community, strengthening the economy through the purchase of goods and services; and Whereas, in 2013, more than 212,000 working Iowans received $462 million dollars as Earned Income Tax Credit, an average of $2,182 per household; and Whereas, an estimated 20% of house-holds eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit do not claim the Earned Income Tax Credit, leaving billions of unclaimed dollars each year nationally; and Whereas, Johnson County Social Services is working collaboratively with the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business to raise awareness and increase the number of qualifi ed people who receive the Earned Income Tax Credit in Johnson County; and Whereas, the Internal Revenue Service encourages all communities to declare a National Income Tax Credit Day. Now, Therefore, be it Resolved that we, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, do hereby proclaim Friday, January 30, 2015, as: Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day and urge all citizens to recognize this day by learning about the Earned Income Tax Credit and by exploring whether you qualify prior to fi ling your 2014 Federal income taxes. Motion by Rettig, second by Carberry, to approve Proclamation 01-29-15-01. Motion by Rettig, second by Neuzil, to approve the claims on the Auditor’s Claim Register as approved by a majority of the Supervisors.4l Ultimate Topco Corp ..................121.41Advance Auto Parts ..........................12.58Aero Rental Inc ..............................220.00Airgas North Central ......................170.28Alex Air Apparatus In ..................1618.41Alliant Energy ................................892.45Amy Bouska.......................................9.60Anderson Erickson Dairyy ...............58.83Big Brothers Big Sist ...................3340.48Bound Tree Medical Llc ................637.13Brian Decoster ...............................800.00Bryan Jeremy Davis .........................39.60Btm & J Ltd Dba Coles ..................325.00Carahsoft Technology ..................1550.00Central Iowa Distribut ....................110.80Chadwick T Gerdes ..........................30.00Charles T Johnson ............................50.00Chet Smith .....................................112.50Christine Boyer ..............................180.00City Carton Inc .................................30.00City Of Iowa City .........................1140.17City Of Iowa City - La ...................114.92City Of Iowa City - U ..................1557.89City Of Iowa City-Acc .................4122.38City Tractor Co ................................61.56CJ Cooper & Associates.................105.00Consumers Cooperative ...............1892.28Control System Specia .................2250.00Coralville Frame & Ax .................1265.97Cott Systems Inc ..........................2226.00County Zoning Offi cial ..................150.00Crisis Center .................................5250.00Custom Hose & Supplies ...............121.45Dan Quiles .......................................30.00Dan’s Overhead Doors 1 ................721.00Dell Marketing Lp ..........................818.97Delta Dental Of Iowa ...................5603.42Division Of Labor/Elev ..................350.00Document Destruction & .................38.50Dolphin International .....................400.00Domestic Violence Int ..................8250.00Dustys Precision Auto ....................259.62Earthview Environment ...............6305.85Eastern Iowa Human Reso ...............90.00Eastern Iowa Light & Po ..................23.21Edon Apartments ............................475.00

Elder Services Inc ........................6000.00Eldon Slaughter ..............................120.00Elizabeth Dupuich ..........................117.12Fastenal Company ..........................152.13Fidelity Security Lif .....................2392.60First Choice Distributi......................42.01Free Lunch Program ....................3500.00Gary H Hoskins ................................15.00Gazette Communications ...............163.20Gemini Land Co Llc ......................337.50Gerald A Fuhrmeister .......................30.00Gerry Gogel .....................................18.00Grainger .........................................487.21Graphic Printing & Des .................256.35Grout Scouts Inc ..........................7121.71Harrys Custom Trophies ..................51.32Hawkeye Weld & Repair ...............201.65Heartland Shredding Inc ..................35.00Henderson Products .................169570.56Henry Schein ..................................503.94Hobby Lobby ...................................33.91Howie Moffi t ....................................65.00Hy-Vee #1281 ................................238.15Hy-Vee #7042 Dba Drugt ..............304.54Hy-Vee Inc .......................................51.32Ils Llc .............................................450.00Imagetek Inc .................................2530.43Informatics Inc .................................50.00Iowa Association Of Bu .................250.00Iowa Business Supply L .................259.48Iowa City Express Lube ...................44.40Iowa City Mhp Llc .......................1240.00Iowa City Motorsports .......................8.96Iowa City Press-Citize ...................358.03Iowa Lodge Inc Dba Th ...............2600.00Iowa Paper Inc ...............................789.67Iowa State Prison Indu ...................903.50Iowa Weed Commissioner .............120.00Isac .................................................960.00James R Miller ...............................120.00James Sedlacek ................................18.00Jcg Land Services Inc ....................472.20Jim Donovan ..................................120.00Joanne Downes ................................44.40John Deere Financial ......................519.98Johnson County Audito ................6614.35Johnson County Extensi .................417.26Johnson County Mh/Ds................1667.54Johnson County Sheriff ..................464.21Johnson County Treasu ................3817.86Jonna Osborn ...................................75.00Julius N Cavira ...............................250.00Kirkwood Comm College ..............275.00Koch Brothers ..................................38.39Latasha J Deloach ............................55.00Latish S Larkins .................................5.00Linn County Rec ..........................1931.46Lisa A Waul ......................................48.52Lynette Jacoby .................................60.00Mandy Rose Coates .........................44.40Maria L Buendia Lobato ..................70.00Marks Auto Body Inc .....................250.00Mathews & Associates L ................529.00Matt Sladek Dba Mbe As ...............400.00Menards - Iowa City ......................659.81Michael J Kennedy ........................120.00Michael J Ryan ...............................425.00Mid American Energy ................20773.75Midwest Frame & Axle ................4299.00Midwest Wheel & Equipm ............214.13Multi Service Corpora ..................6126.66National Medical Servi ..................255.00Neighborhood Centers ...............38982.73North Liberty First U ...................1625.00Oherron Co Inc ..............................361.50Olen Stidham .................................800.00Optimae Life Services ..................5508.60Penn Oaks Condos .........................948.00Pitney Bowes Inc ...........................507.80Plumbers Supply ............................142.21Purchase Power - Pitn ..................5000.00Pyramid Services Inc. ....................392.12Quality Striping Inc ....................18338.40Racom Corporation ..........................71.25Randolph M Jackson ......................500.00Reliance Standard Li ....................3459.99Richard Herrmann / Ric .................480.00River City Housing Col .................297.00River Products Co ........................1665.21Rj Thomas Mfg Co Inc ................1863.00Ronald J Moore ................................35.76Safeguard Business Sys .................815.20Shagbark Acres Homeo ..............67218.80Sharon K Butler .............................120.00Shelter House .............................16000.00Shive Hattery Inc .......................45778.80Shoemaker & Haaland .................7354.50Sky Blue Labrot ...........................7500.00Southgate Property Man ................475.00Staples Business Advan .................985.98Staples Credit Plan .........................159.98State Hygienic Laborato ..................25.00State Medical Examine ................1639.00Storm Steel .........................................6.60Successful Living ...........................325.00Susan Uthoff ....................................18.00Tallgrass Business Res ...................241.28Technigraphics ...............................105.25Telacomp Corp .............................3510.00The Lone Tree Reporter ...................25.00Thomas L Kriz ...............................206.36Titan Machinery ...............................62.50Treasurer State Of Io ......................818.45

U S Cellular ....................................353.71Univ Of Ia Credit Uni ....................993.81US Bank .......................................6592.52Van Meter Industrial I ....................392.81Verizon Wireless ............................248.59Visa ................................................324.40Wellmark Blue Cross ...............110500.00Westport Touchless Auto ..................30.00Windstream It-Comm.Llc ..............216.82Winter Equipment Compa .............832.45 Motion by Neuzil, second by Carberry, to approve the minutes of the formal meet-ing of January 22, 2015. Motion by Carberry, second by Rettig, to approve the payroll authorizations sub-mitted by department heads, as approved by a majority of the Supervisors. Motion by Rettig, second by Neuzil, to approve a Renewal Application for a Class C Liquor License, Application for Catering Privilege, Application for Outdoor Service Area, and Application for Sunday Sales Privilege for Pleasant Valley Golf Course, Iowa City, as submitted by Aleda Feuerbach. Assistant Zoning Administrator R.J. Moore spoke about the following agree-ment and the rezoning application. Motion by Rettig, second by Carberry, to approve and authorize the Chairperson to sign the Performance and Financial Assurance Agreement between Koethe Investments, L.L.C., Hills Bank and Trust Company, and Johnson County regarding

Site Plan Review Application 25199. Motion by Carberry, second by Rettig, to approve the application to the City of Iowa City requesting rezoning of Coun-ty-owned Lot 8 of Block 28 County Seat Addition from CI-1 Intensive Commercial to P-1 Neighborhood Public. Human Resources Administrator Lora Shramek spoke about the tentative agree-ments for the Sheriff’s and the Secondary Roads Units. Motion by Neuzil, second by Carberry, to approve the tentative collective bar-gaining agreement for FY16 to FY18 with Public Professional and Maintenance Em-ployees International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Local 2003 for the Sheriff’s Unit. Motion by Carberry, second by Rettig, to approve the tentative collective bar-gaining agreement for FY16 to FY18 with Public Professional and Maintenance Em-ployees International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Local 2003 for the Secondary Roads Unit. Motion by Rettig, second by Neuzil, to approve and authorize the Chairperson to sign the First Amendment to the Pro-fessional Development Contract (DCAT 4-15-088) between the Iowa Department of Human Services and Johnson County Social Services, adding $5,000 to Profes-sional Development. Motion by Neuzil, second by Carberry,

to approve and authorize the Chairperson to sign the Third Amendment to the Focus on Youth/Crisis Childcare Contract (DCAT 4-14-118) between the Iowa Department of Human Services and Johnson County Social Services, adding $5,000 to Focus on Youth. Motion by Rettig, second by Neuzil, to approve the Contract for Girls Circle Facilitator Training between One Circle Foundation and Johnson County Social Services, in an amount of $9,450. Motion by Rettig, second by Carberry, to approve and authorize the Chairperson to sign the Commission of Veterans Affairs Temporary Emergency Assistance Program Policy and Procedures. Motion by Carberry, second by Rettig, to approve and authorize the Chairperson to sign a letter to the Iowa Department of Transportation regarding the proposed interchange on Forevergreen Road. Adjourned to Informal Meeting at 9:32 a.m./s/Pat Harney, Chair, Board of Supervisors

Attest: Travis Weipert, AuditorRecorded By Kymberly ZomermaandThese minutes were sent for formal approv-al and publication on February 5, 2015.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR ANNEXATION

Date and Time of Meeting: February 18, 2015 at 5:30 PMLocation: Solon City Hall Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Solon City Hall at 5:30 p.m. February 18, 2015 at the Solon City Hall, Solon, Iowa; at which the Solon City Council will consider a request to annex and zone property for the new Solon Middle School, situated in Solon, Johnson County, Iowa to-wit: The south 15 acres of the west half of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 23, Township 81 North, Range 6 West of the 5th P.M., excepting there-from that portion described as Auditor’s Parcel 98028 on Plat of Survey recorded in Book 38, Page 277, Plat Records of Johnson County, Iowa This hearing is being held to review the annexation application and consider zoning. No City Council action has been taken on this request, but is anticipated within the next several weeks. Please contact City Hall for additional details regard-ing this matter. Any and all persons wishing to be heard on this matter may be heard at the time of the hearing. Written comments will be received on or before the time of the hearing at the Solon City Hall, 101 N. Iowa Street, Solon, Iowa 52333.

SOLON CITY COUNCILJANUARY 28, 2015

SOLON, IOWASOLON CITY HALL

Mayor Steve Stange called to order the special bud-get City Council meeting at 5:33pm. Roll Call: Casey Grover, Steven Duncan, Mark Krall and Mark Prentice. Also Present: Public Works Director Scott Kleppe, City Administrator Cami Rasmussen and City Clerk Susie Siddell. Motion by Krall to approve the agenda. Seconded by Grover. Roll Call Vote: Prentice, Krall, Duncan and Grover. All Ayes. Motion Carried. 4-0. Citizen Speak: NoneWork Session: FY16 Budget: Rasmussen went over with Council her Budget Memo, Recap of Expenses, the Expenditure reports and balance sheets. Council discussed where the remainder of funds could possibly come from to complete the cost of the stop light. Mayor Stange stated Rasmussen has done an outstand-ing job with the department heads doing the same.Other Busines: Council Committee Reports: Mayor Stange stated he would be meeting with the committees to discuss issues.

City Clerk Report: Siddell informed Council the previous Friday new software was downloaded for our meter reader, there were some issues but all is well and water bills went out today. Rasmussen informed Council water bills might seem a bit higher for January, meters were read approximately a week earlier in December because of the holiday. City Administrator Comments: Rasmussen stated she has received the building permit for the “Red Vespa” Mayor Comments: Mayor : Mayor Stange stated he wanted the Council to be aware of some issues with a commercial building, concerning some inspection issues. Mayor Stange stated at the next Council meeting they would be appointing a council person to fi ll the vacant spot. Mayor Stange stated he was impressed and thankful for the interest for the open Council seat and it would be a hard decision but was hoping whomever was not chosen would run for a spot next term or would be interested in being appointed to one of the City’s boards. Motion by Grover to adjourn meeting at 6:40m. Seconded by Krall. All Ayes. Motion Carried. 4-0. ATTEST: Susie Siddell, City Clerk Steve Stange, Mayor

PUBLIC NOTICE: CITY OF SOLON

MOUNT VERNON– The So-lon varsity boys basketball team has now won two of its last three games and has a chance at a win-ning record if it sweeps the last three games of the regular season.

The Spartans split a pair of games on the road last week, de-feating Mount Vernon, 60-53, and then falling to Western Dubuque, 78-68.

At Mount Vernon Feb. 3, the Spartans jumped out to a 19-7 fi rst quarter lead against the Mustangs, but Mount Vernon narrowed the gap in the third quarter, holding Solon to only six points. The Spartans held a seven-point lead heading into the fi nal frame and held on to it until the end.

Solon had three starters in dou-

ble fi gures, led by Emilio Villagra-na with 17 points and six assists. Halston Durr added 15 points and Streeter McIlravy added 13. The Spartans shot 47 percent from the fi eld, 36 percent from the 3-point arc and 62 percent from the free throw line.

The Solon defense held the Mustangs to just 30 percent from the fi eld and 25 percent from the 3-point arc.

The Spartans continued to shoot well Friday, Feb. 6, at Epworth against Western Dubuque, but the Bobcats shot better.

Solon shot a respectable 43 percent from the field and 75 percent from the line, but Western Dubuque was 30-50 from the fi eld for 60 percent.

The Bobcats built an eight-point lead in the fi rst quarter and held a 40-28 advantage through the fi rst half. The Spartans cranked out 40 points in the second half, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the fi nal 10-point defi cit.

Solon had four players in double figures, led by Villagrana with 16, Durr and Jacob Coons with 15 each and McIlravy with 13. Coons shot 7-10 from the fl oor, while Durr shot 50 percent from the 3-point line and was 6-6 from the charity stripe.

After hosting Dyersville Beck-man Feb. 10, Solon travels to Mount Pleasant Monday, Feb. 16, and fi nishes the regular season at home Thursday, Feb. 19, against Williamsburg.

Solon boys split two-game road tripSpartans hang on against Mt. Vernon, can’t close gap at Western Dubuque

Emilio Villagrana, pictured here against Central Clinton of DeWitt Jan. 30, was Solon’s leading scorer last week against both Mount Vernon and Western Dubuque. (photo by Doug Lindner)

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nical fall against Kyle Irwin of Central Clinton of DeWitt in the semifi nals.

Fritz took both his semifi nal and fi nal matches with fairly close decisions, winning 13-9 over Joe Kelly of West Liberty and 10-7 in the championship match against Walker Wegener of Central Clinton.

Dall won by fall over Blake Chapman of Central Clinton and then earned a technical fall in the fi nal against Kyler Campie of Camanche.

Haight, Carr, Nelson and Wymer all lost to Assump-tion wrestlers in their re-spective fi rst-place matches, but came back strong in their second-place chances.

Nelson pinned Reece Westphal of Central Clinton, while Wymer also won by fall against Nick Smith, also of Central Clinton. Nick Bailey didn’t lose to Assumption in the fi nal, but he also defeated a Central Clinton wrestler, George Zabrs, in the runner-up match.

“Ben Carr was the one I was a little con-cerned about,” said Bevans. “He was facing off against a guy that beat him 14-2 earlier in the year. That’s a lot of points to make up,

IHSAA 2A Sect. 13 Results for Solon

106: Christian Haight (31-17) placed 2nd and scored 17.50 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Christian Haight (Solon) 31-17 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Christian Haight (Solon) 31-17 won by tech fall over Tyler Bossom (Central Clinton) 21-16 (TF-1.5 4:22 (15-0))

1st Place Match: Sean Casey (Assump-tion) 30-14 won by fall over Christian Haight (Solon) 31-17 (Fall 4:46)

2nd Place Match: Christian Haight (Solon) 31-17 won by rule over Tyler Bossom (Cen-tral Clinton) 21-16 (RULE)

113: Jaden Owen (10-35) placed 5th and scored 8.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Nathan Thoms (Camanche) 31-13 won by fall over Jaden Owen (Solon) 10-35 (Fall 1:54)

Cons. Semi: Jaden Owen (Solon) 10-35 received a bye.

5th Place Match: Jaden Owen (Solon) 10-35 won by fall over Nate Bailey (Northeast) 13-21 (Fall 5:47)

120: Ben Carr (32-8) placed 2nd and scored 19.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Ben Carr (Solon) 32-8 won by fall over Carsen Mangelsen (Northeast) 15-29 (Fall 2:44)

Semifi nal: Ben Carr (Solon) 32-8 won by major decision over Jeremy Sorem (Caman-che) 27-7 (MD 12-4)

1st Place Match: Jacob Fenske (Assump-tion) 34-4 won by fall over Ben Carr (Solon) 32-8 (Fall 3:00)

2nd Place Match: Ben Carr (Solon) 32-8 won by rule over Jeremy Sorem (Camanche) 27-7 (RULE)

126: Louis Gnida (38-6) placed 1st and scored 20.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Louis Gnida (Solon) 38-6 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Louis Gnida (Solon) 38-6 won by decision over Kirk Mommsen (Assump-tion) 28-9 (Dec 3-1)

1st Place Match: Louis Gnida (Solon) 38-6 won by decision over Brice Everson (Camanche) 37-4 (Dec 8-4)

132: Trevor Yahr (23-18) placed 3rd and scored 12.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Trevor Yahr (Solon) 23-18 received a bye.

Semifinal: Noah Everson (Camanche) 25-10 won by fall over Trevor Yahr (Solon) 23-18 (Fall 4:12)

3rd Place Match: Trevor Yahr (Solon) 23-18 won by decision over Noah Barten (West Liberty) 26-18 (Dec 8-6)

2nd Place Match: Noah Everson (Caman-che) 25-10 won by rule over Trevor Yahr (Solon) 23-18 (RULE)

138: Cole Fritz (35-11) placed 1st and scored 20.00 team points.

Quarterfinal: Cole Fritz (Solon) 35-11 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Cole Fritz (Solon) 35-11 won by decision over Joe Kelly (West Liberty) 41-8 (Dec 13-9)

1st Place Match: Cole Fritz (Solon) 35-11 won by decision over Walker Wegener (Central Clinton) 28-8 (Dec 10-7)

145: Kade Steuhm (35-4) placed 1st and scored 21.50 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Kade Steuhm (Solon) 35-4 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Kade Steuhm (Solon) 35-4 won by tech fall over Kyle Irwin (Central Clinton) 15-19 (TF-1.5 4:46 (15-0))

1st Place Match: Kade Steuhm (Solon) 35-4 won by decision over Nicholas Johnson (Assumption) 21-12 (Dec 6-0)

152: Graeson Dall (36-14) placed 1st and scored 23.50 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Graeson Dall (Solon) 36-14 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Graeson Dall (Solon) 36-14 won by fall over Blake Chapman (Central Clinton) 14-16 (Fall 1:25)

1st Place Match: Graeson Dall (Solon) 36-14 won by tech fall over Kyler Campie (Camanche) 24-17 (TF-1.5 5:32 (18-3))

160: Trevor Nelson (36-6) placed 2nd and scored 20.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Trevor Nelson (Solon) 36-6 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Trevor Nelson (Solon) 36-6 won by fall over Jack Damgaard (Camanche) 15-20 (Fall 1:12)

1st Place Match: Joe Argo (Assumption) 31-11 won by fall over Trevor Nelson (Solon) 36-6 (Fall 3:10)

2nd Place Match: Trevor Nelson (Solon) 36-6 won by fall over Reece Westphal (Cen-tral Clinton) 11-9 (Fall 1:41)

170: Dillon Diltz (26-22) placed 3rd and scored 12.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Dillon Diltz (Solon) 26-22 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Justus Burke (Assumption) 25-10 won by decision over Dillon Diltz (Solon) 26-22 (Dec 3-2)

3rd Place Match: Dillon Diltz (Solon) 26-22 won by decision over Kolby Snodgrass (Camanche) 23-19 (Dec 10-4)

2nd Place Match: Mason Cousins (Central Clinton) 18-11 won by decision over Dillon Diltz (Solon) 26-22 (Dec 15-14)

182: Zach Wegmann (17-19) placed 3rd and scored 14.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Zach Wegmann (Solon) 17-19 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Blake Dierks (Northeast) 39-3 won by fall over Zach Wegmann (Solon) 17-19 (Fall 0:51)

3rd Place Match: Zach Wegmann (Solon) 17-19 won by fall over Jeremiah Jones (Camanche) 1-6 (Fall 1:42)

2nd Place Match: Blake Dierks (Northeast) 39-3 won by rule over Zach Wegmann (So-lon) 17-19 (RULE)

195: Nick Bailey (33-18) placed 2nd and scored 18.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Nick Bailey (Solon) 33-18 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Nick Bailey (Solon) 33-18 won by fall over Layne Dean (Camanche) 19-20 (Fall 0:59)

1st Place Match: Bryce Esmoil (West Lib-erty) 37-5 won by major decision over Nick Bailey (Solon) 33-18 (MD 11-0)

2nd Place Match: Nick Bailey (Solon) 33-18 won by decision over George Zabrs (Central Clinton) 7-8 (Dec 7-0)

220: Tanner Wymer (21-17) placed 2nd and scored 20.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Tanner Wymer (Solon) 21-17 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Tanner Wymer (Solon) 21-17 won by fall over Mason Tvrs (West Liberty) 28-20 (Fall 2:43)

1st Place Match: Noah Broderson (As-sumption) 38-4 won by fall over Tanner Wymer (Solon) 21-17 (Fall 1:15)

2nd Place Match: Tanner Wymer (Solon) 21-17 won by fall over Nick Smith (Central Clinton) 20-16 (Fall 3:54)

285: Logan Linderbaum (42-1) placed 2nd and scored 20.00 team points.

Quarterfi nal: Logan Linderbaum (Solon) 42-1 received a bye.

Semifi nal: Logan Linderbaum (Solon) 42-1 won by fall over Andy Lopez (West Liberty) 13-17 (Fall 1:17)

1st Place Match: Gabriel Rangel (As-sumption) 42-3 won by decision over Logan Linderbaum (Solon) 42-1 (Dec 7-3)

2nd Place Match: Logan Linderbaum (Solon) 42-1 won by fall over Ethan Sharp (Camanche) 24-23 (Fall 1:50)

but Ben has been getting better each week and really starting to peak. To see Ben put it on that kid was very encouraging. He’s given himself a shot at making the state tournament as a sophomore.”

Carr ended up taking on four opponents on the day, earning a fall in the quarterfi nal and a major decision in the semifi nal.

Assumption edged Solon out of fi rst place in team points, 261 to 245.5, while Camanche was a dis-tant third with 170.5 points.

“We did qualify 10 and it is nice to host (the district meet),” Bevans said. “No travel and get to sleep a little more. I feel very good that we are going to have a lot

moving on to state as well.”In the meantime, Solon’s wrestling squad

was scheduled to drive back to Assumption Tuesday, Feb. 10, for a regional dual meet. The Spartans will square off head-to-head with Assumption, with the winner taking on either Dubuque Wahlert or Williams-burg. The regional winner qualifi es for the state dual team tournament in Des Moines Wednesday, Feb. 18.

Wrestling: Solon to host district meet Feb. 14 (Continued from page B1)

Team Scores1. Assumption .........261.02. SOLON ...............245.53. Camanche ..........170.54. Central Clinton ....150.55. West Liberty ........139.56. Northeast ..............58.0

Solon’s Logan Linderbaum lost the fi rst match of his season Saturday in a sectional meet at Davenport Assumption. (photos by Mary Hadenfeldt)

Nick Bailey captured second place in the 195-pound division with a 7-0 decision over George Zabrs of Central Clinton of DeWitt.

Tanner Wymer (220 pounds) was one of 10 Solon wrestlers to qualify for the district meet this weekend.

Graeson Dall captured fi rst place at 152 pounds for Solon and will advance to the district tournament Feb. 14 in Solon. The meet starts at noon.