The Sioux City Community School board is holding two meetings today. At 4:30 the Board will choose a new board member to take the place of Perla Alarcon-Flory, who moved out of Siouxland earlier this year. The candidates are: Chad Krastel, Maria Rundquist, Philip Hamman, Shaun Broyhill, Julie Berens, Eric Boe, Semehar Ghebrekidan, Tashsa Cowan, Ryan Baker, Jebediah Hibbs, Marguerite Cortez, Justin Rhodes, John Meyers and Dr. Julian Lee
The board will from each candidate and then chose the new member, and swear them in. The board will then hold its regular meeting.
The Sioux City Council will be asked Monday to approve an application to the Iowa Finance Authority for a $50,000 grant to provide street outreach to the homeless, according to the Sioux City Journal
Each year, the city is required to hold "listening sessions" with local nonprofits before Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnership funds are released. During those meetings, homelessness was identified as a major area of concern.
The city would apply for $50,000 in Iowa Finance Authority Emergency Solutions Grant program funding, which would be used for "street outreach."
The request for the grant application comes at a time when nonprofits are seeing increased demand for services.
A new museum will open on the Osceola County Fairgrounds next year.
The McCallum Museum in Sibley holds artifacts from the pioneer and Civil War era. It was built in 1957 and has run out of space, according to Radio Iowa.
Some changes have already been made to the 99 year old Commercial Building on the fairgrounds.
Iowa’s Sales Tax Holiday is being held next week.
This year’s holiday is set for Friday, Aug. 4, and Saturday, Aug. 5. On those two days, in general, select clothing and footwear are tax-exempt, meaning no states sales tax will be collected.
This could be Iowa’s hottest week of the year so far. Meteorologist Rod Donavon, at the National Weather Service in Johnston, says the forecast calls for steamy, sticky weather right into the weekend.
Iowa will see temperatures rising into the upper 80s to lower 90s and that will continue into Tuesday, On Wednesday-Thursday highs in the mid to upper 90s and those heat index values starting to top 100.
The heat wave coincides with RAGBRAI as thousands of bicyclists make their way across the state.
