DES MOINES — 4 Iowa regulation enforcement businesses will cut up $750,000 in federal grant funding from the U.S. Division of Justice to rent six new regulation enforcement in Dubuque, Postville, Le Mars and Jefferson County to advance group policing.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson introduced the funding on Friday via the Division of Justice’s Workplace of Group Oriented Policing Companies COPS Hiring Program.
Hinson, in a press release, mentioned Iowa wants “extra regulation enforcement officers to guard our communities, however recruitment has been a serious problem.”
Funding for the COPS Hiring Program was included within the FY22 appropriations bundle Hinson supported.
“I will proceed working to maintain our neighborhoods secure and supporting our courageous women and men in blue,” mentioned Hinson, who sits on the budget-writing Home Appropriations Committee.
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The funding is a part of a mixed $139 million grant awarded by the Division of Justice to 180 regulation enforcement businesses throughout the nation to rent 973 further full-time regulation enforcement professionals.
The aggressive award program gives grant {dollars} on to regulation enforcement businesses to rent new or rehire further profession regulation enforcement officers and deputies to advance group policing and crime prevention efforts.
In accordance with a DOJ information launch, of the 180 businesses awarded grants, almost half will use the funding to concentrate on Constructing legitimacy and belief between regulation enforcement and communities; 30 businesses will search to deal with excessive charges of gun violence; 26 will concentrate on different areas of violence; and 28 will focus assets on combating hate and home extremism or supporting police-based responses to folks in disaster.
The entire listing of awards may be discovered on the federal justice division web site.
Pipeline listening to postponed
State utility regulators will reschedule a public listening to relating to a hazardous liquid pipeline in Iowa after the board decided correct discover had not been offered to all affected people.
The general public listening to should be rescheduled as a result of an error relating to sending discover to landowners and another affected folks with an curiosity in property over which eminent area is being requested, an Iowa Utilities Board information launch mentioned.
The Iowa Utilities Board will meet at 10 a.m. on Wednesday to debate doable dates for the general public listening to.
The listening to is relating to a 14-mile anhydrous ammonia pipeline fully in Lee County in southeast Iowa. The venture is proposed by the San Antonio, Texas-based vitality firm NuStar. It could give Iowa Fertilizer Co., close to Wever, Iowa, entry to a bigger anhydrous ammonia pipeline community.
Water high quality tasks funded
The Iowa Financial Growth Authority introduced $3.3 million in grants to water and sewer infrastructure tasks in 9 Iowa communities. The funding comes via the state’s Group Growth Block Grant program.
“Investments in water infrastructure are important to supporting Iowa households and companies,” IEDA director Debi Durham mentioned in a information launch. “The awards introduced right this moment is not going to solely help 9 water high quality tasks but additionally will create alternatives for these communities to thrive.”
The tasks that obtained funding are in Arcadia, Crystal Lake, Elgin, Fostoria, Guttenberg, Hospers, Oelwein, Spencer and Yale, and the grants vary from $1.9 million for water system enhancements in Arcadia to $322,000 for wastewater plant enhancements in Elgin.
— Gazette Des Moines Bureau