Iowa
Food Bank of Iowa faces $200K loss after contract dispute
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
The Meals Financial institution of Iowa would not obtain the $200,000 pledged to it by Des Moines final 12 months below a advice anticipated to go earlier than the Metropolis Council Monday.
- The cash would as an alternative go to meals applications and pantries inside DSM’s public colleges, Councilperson Connie Boesen tells Axios.
Why it issues: The proposal follows months of council warning of penalties if contract disputes between the meals financial institution and Des Moines Space Spiritual Council (DMARC) meals pantries weren’t resolved.
- DMARC would get its beforehand pledged $300K. However the meals financial institution’s portion could be reallocated the place it would be extra helpful to the town’s most susceptible households, Boesen says.
Zoom in: The Meals Financial institution all the time deliberate to allocate its portion to high school applications, probably for issues like meals gear or a service automobile, Boesen stated.
- Sending the cash on to the faculties helps to keep away from the group’s contract controversies and allocates assets extra on to meals and private hygiene merchandise for college kids, she stated.
- DMARC would nonetheless get its beforehand pledged $300K.
State of play: As of mid-February, 9 of 15 DMARC-affiliated pantries weren’t contracted with the meals financial institution and have been with out entry to its wholesale distribution providers — regardless of each teams saying different areas of collaboration between them.
Catch up quick: The financial institution supplies discounted or free meals to lots of of Iowa teams. It ended its providers to most DMARC meals pantries in November over a contract dispute.
- The meals financial institution stated in October that its new contracts guarantee all pantry visits to its associate organizations obtain at the very least a three-day provide of meals.
The opposite aspect: DMARC has stated the contracts permit individuals to go to a number of websites probably gathering as much as 45 days of meals staples every month.
Of word: DMARC has day by day entry to its meals rescue, that are principally perishable gadgets donated by eating places or shops.
- Till lately, it had been blocked from accumulating rescue gadgets from locations like Aldi and Walmart attributable to a cease-and-desist letter from the meals financial institution.
Between the traces: DSM has not but paid the federal pandemic funds it allotted to the teams final 12 months.
- Colleges or different meals help applications would additionally obtain a further $100Kthat DSM put aside for the meals financial institution and DMARC as incentive to resolve their variations by the tip of December.
What’s taking place: Meals rescue is growing to virtually twice the variety of meals companions as in comparison with earlier than the contract dispute, Blake Willadsen, a spokesperson for DMARC, tells Axios.
- Willadsen and the meals financial institution did not reply to questions this week about whether or not extra pantries had contracts for the financial institution’s meals distribution providers.
Sure, however: Anne Bacon, CEO of IMPACT, tells Axios that officers from the Drake Space Meals Pantry plan to reapply to turn into meals financial institution members as early as this week.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
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JELD-WEN, a manufacturer of windows and doors in Grinnell, has announced it will be laying off 152 workers effective Nov. 7.
The announcement was made on Iowa’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site.
The company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1960 and has 18,000 employees, with operating facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe with 2023 sales of $4.3 billion, according to the company’s website.
JELD-WEN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, JELD-WEN announced the closing of its Hawkins, Wisconsin facility, affecting 338 employees, and in Vista, California, resulting in the loss of 110 jobs.
The Iowa Hawkeyes lost two players from their football team this week.
Both running back Leshon Williams and wide receiver Kaleb Brown have announced that they will redshirt for the rest of the season and enter the transfer portal at the end of the year.
Despite the two players opting to leave the program, it hasn’t phased head coach Kirk Ferentz. He isn’t worried about the decisions that they made at all.
When asked about Williams and Brown transferring, Ferentz offered a short and brutal quote.
“Not to be callous, but if a player isn’t playing, you don’t lose much.”
Williams had been dealing with an injury throughout the season thus far. Before the injury, he had shown flashes of being a player that could end up making an impact. Unfortunately, those flashes were never able to come to light on the field.
As for Brown, there were big plans for him coming into the season. But, he was suspended for the first game of the year and was never able to earn his role back.
Clearly, Ferentz is not worried about how his team will respond to the news. Basically, he doesn’t think the losses of them will impact the team at all.
Ferentz isn’t necessarily wrong with what he stated. Neither player had a role that will change how the team has been operating. However, it was the way he said it that was a bit out of line.
Regardless of the role that they players had, handling the situation with a bit more grace would have been a better look.
All of that being said, Iowa is not a program that needs to be graceful necessarily. The Hawkeyes want to win football games and neither Williams or Brown was contributing to that goal so far this year.
Looking ahead to the future, we wish the best to both Williams and Brown. Hopefully, they find success in their future endeavors.
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