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7/2/2009 8:18:19 AM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
This week, the City of Cedar Rapids is mailing a progress report, called “A Season of Progress”, to all households in the city. This annual report summarizes flood recovery progress since the disaster, lists major milestones, outlines a timeline for ...
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6/30/2009 8:02:31 PM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
Tomorrow, the Cedar Rapids City Council will consider the appointment of Greg Eyerly to the new Flood Recovery Director position. If appointed,Eyerly will end his tenure as Utilities Operations Manager for the City of Cedar Rapids and begin the new p ...
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6/30/2009 8:37:32 AM
Category: News Releases : Linn County
Linn County has been granted $1,686,217 in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to acquire 17 rural properties that were affected by the June 2008 flood. The non-federal match requirement of ...
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6/29/2009 2:29:30 PM
Category: News Releases : Other Organizations
Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2009By Betsy Rubiner / Cedar Rapids"Survivors BBQ. Everyone Welcome," read the handwritten sign tacked onto a recently rebuilt home last weekend in a Cedar Rapids neighborhood still ravaged a year after the city's worst flooding d ...
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6/29/2009 2:27:36 PM
Category: News Releases : RIO: Rebuild Iowa Office
State Action Plan for $516.7 Million in New CDBG Funds Open for Public Comment(DES MOINES)– Funds continue to flow from federal and state disaster-aid programs to communities, businesses and individuals in Iowa from the more than $3 billion which has ...
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6/29/2009 2:18:26 PM
Category: News Releases : Linn County
(CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – June 26, 2009)—In an effort to increase communication with the public regarding Linn County’s flood recovery progress, Linn County announces the News to Know e-newsletter that will provide timely information about Linn County’s fl ...
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6/29/2009 12:44:24 PM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
I-JOBS Board Approves First Projects TodayCEDAR RAPIDS – Making its first approvals today, the I-JOBS Board met and gave the go-ahead to more than $45 million in projects that will help rebuild communities damaged by last year’s severe weather as wel ...
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6/24/2009 7:37:59 AM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
The City of Cedar Rapids invites all residents to provide feedback, input and comments on its combined facilities and parks and recreation public participation processes through a new link on the City’s home page www.cedar-rapids.org titled, “CR OPEN ...
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6/23/2009 12:28:45 PM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
The Jumpstart Housing Assistance Office in Cedar Rapids is moving to a new location. Beginning Monday, June 29, the Jumpstart Office will operate from the Dows Building, located at 210 2ndSt SE, Suite 204 in downtown Cedar Rapids. Hours of operation ...
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6/22/2009 2:41:49 PM
Category: News Releases : RIO: Rebuild Iowa Office
Community Events in Elkader and Cedar Falls Mark One-Year Commemorations of Disasters(Des Moines)– Lt. General Ron Dardis, Executive Director of the Rebuild Iowa Office, will discuss disaster recovery at two events this week to mark the one-year anni ...
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6/22/2009 2:37:10 PM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
The City of Cedar Rapids invites all residents to the first of three “CR Open House” events tomorrow, June 23, from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Ballroom, 350 First Avenue NE. This open house will provide information on the needs ...
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6/19/2009 10:19:20 PM
Category: News Releases : RIO: Rebuild Iowa Office
Disaster Recovery Funds to Cover Cost of Buyouts, More Assistance for Business The Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) today posted an action plan for the $516.7 million allocation for disaster recovery from the U.S. Department of Hou ...
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6/18/2009 1:12:06 PM
Category: News Releases : Volunteering
This summer, give back to an amazing community.www.vistacorridorrecovery.org Record-setting flooding during mid-June 2008 drastically impacted the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, Iowa, area, often referred to as the Corridor. Thousands of Corrido ...
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6/18/2009 7:32:56 AM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
The City of Cedar Rapids invites all Cedar Rapids residents to join the Community Facilities and Parks & Recreation public participation processes. The City is combining these two public participation processes to make the events more conve ...
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6/15/2009 12:06:58 PM
Category: News Releases : Other Organizations
DES
MOINES - Whether you wish to volunteer or simply stop in to learn
something new, the DNR invites you to the seventh annual Project AWARE
(A Watershed Awareness River Expedition) river cleanup event. This
year's expedition, scheduled for June ...
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6/15/2009 9:35:58 AM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
The Recovery and Reinvestment Coordinating Team (RRCT) is coordinating all of the Cedar Rapids and Linn County government applications for the state I-JOBS Local Infrastructure Competitive Grant program. Governor Culver announced the program in Marc ...
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6/15/2009 9:33:07 AM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
Today, the City of Cedar Rapids published the community’s Neighborhood Reinvestment Action Plans onwww.CorridorRecovery.org. The online action plans will provide residents with an opportunity to track the implementation of neighborhood recovery and r ...
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6/13/2009 4:55:12 PM
Category: News Releases : RIO: Rebuild Iowa Office
An Additional $516.7 Million in CDBG Funds Announced This WeekIowa received word this week of an additional $516.7 million in disaster recovery fundingfrom the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This brings total disaster relief ...
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6/13/2009 4:53:47 PM
Category: News Releases : City of Cedar Rapids
At10 a.m. on Saturday church bells will mark the one-year anniversary of one of the largest disasters in U.S. history based on damage to public facilities. On June 13, 2008, the Cedar River crested at 31 feet and flooded 10 square miles of the center ...
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