More than 5,000 Scott County homeowners applied for the new senior homestead property tax exemption available to those 65 and older.
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8/8/23
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New MEDIC ambulance director Paul Andorf expects county residents will notice little about the ambulance service’s transition from independent nonprofit to a full-fledged department of Scott County.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/8/23
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Martha Nieto brings 20 years of finance experience to Eldridge city hall, along with an eagerness to learn more.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/8/23
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The Eldridge city council and Scott County library board members will meet 6 p.m., Monday, Aug. 28, at the library to discuss the future of the library headquarters in Eldridge.
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8/8/23
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Eldridge council members will be able to consider a whole new range of uses for property zoned for industry.
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8/8/23
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Look for a half-million dollars in street patching this year and next under contracts approved Monday by Eldridge council members.
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8/8/23
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Princeton council members agreed to pay ex-police chief Wyatt Heyvaert $4,161 in unpaid compensatory, vacation and sick time after dismissing him July 12 from city staff.
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8/8/23
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Supervisors have spent about $9 million of the county’s $32.3 million pandemic aid check.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/8/23
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Let the petition-passing begin.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/1/23
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Scott County will forego carbon pipeline regulation for now after learning about a new federal court ruling, meeting with Wolf Carbon Solutions staff, and hearing support from an ADM executive and a national pipefitters union leader.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/26/23
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Princeton residents will find out terms of former police chief Wyatt Heyvaert’s resignation only after he has approved it.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/26/23
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Supervisors bought 80 heavy-duty Panasonic Toughbook laptops and extra memory for sheriff’s squads and conservation officer vehicles for $315,945.60.
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7/26/23
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Scott County supervisors allocated $100,000 of federal pandemic relief to the Visit Quad Cities tourism agency, to help cover expenses and bidding fees that bring new events to the region.
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7/26/23
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Eldridge will convene a public, committee of the whole meeting to discuss the Scott County Library’s renewed lease of the city-owned headquarters at 200 North Sixth Ave., Eldridge.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/19/23
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Changes to development and traffic ordinances will be coming before the council next month.
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7/19/23
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Wyatt Heyvaert resigned his new Princeton city manager position a week after a council investigation into concerns he had missed scheduled work hours and damaged a squad car.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/19/23
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Princeton has an engineering firm willing to take on trail design, but still faces council concerns about the town’s ability to afford anything more than a design.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/19/23
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The council approved the second of three readings amending sidewalk ordinances to allow the council to waive requirements in industrially zoned areas. On Monday, the council added a requirement that property owners alert the county recorder if a waiver is approved.
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7/19/23
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Event organizers – not the city of Eldridge – would be responsible for verifying licensing and insurance obligations for alcohol venders at public events, including the Moonlight Chase, Sheridan Meadows concerts and other North Scott Chamber of Commerce events.
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7/19/23
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The council will allow homebuilders in the new Ivy Acres subdivision to add basements with underground sump pump discharge connections to a buried stormwater main.
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7/19/23
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