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Charles City Press • www.CharlesCityPress.Com friday, august 2, 2019 11 Sale Ends August 31, 2019 Free In Home Consultation Ionia 641-394-3984 Please Leave A Message Rosalyn’s Custom Interiors AUGUST SPECIALS Established since 1984 Blinds and Roller Shades 20-45 % OFF Comfortex ® • Graber ® • Alta ® Hunter Douglas ® • Levelor ® NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED PLANS, SPECIFI- CATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT, AND ESTIMATE OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE 2019 AC- TIVATED SLUDGE PLANT, WATER RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITY PROJECT IN AND FOR THE CITY OF CHARLES CITY, IOWA, Notice Is Hereby Given: That at 6:00 o’clock p.m., at the City Council Cham- bers, Charles City, Iowa, on the 19th day of August, 2019, the City Council of the City of Charles City, Iowa, will hold a public hearing on the proposed plans, specifications, form of contract and es- timate of cost as well as acting on the proposals received for said facility im- provements. At said hearing any interested person may file written objections or comments and may be heard orally with respect to the subject matters of the hearing. Published upon order of the City Council of the City of Charles City, Iowa. CITY OF CHARLES CITY, IOWA Attest: /s/Trudy O’Donnell, City Clerk No. 19310 08/02/19 Legal Notice had been made from other people in the meat-packing or food-processing industry that had expressed interest in the property. Fox said response to the job fair has been good. Kristle Percy of IowaWORKS, who is helping organize the fair, said eight businesses had signed up as of Wednesday, and that was before the fair had received much publicity. Simply Essentials an- nounced on June 6 that it would be closing on Aug. 5, permanently laying off 513 employees. Local and corpo- rate company officials have not responded to several requests from the Press for comment on the decision to close. CLOSING Continued from page 1 that Quest Site Solutions has imposed. They’re clarifications on stuff we submitted already,” said Tim Fox, the executive director of the Area Develop- ment Corp (ADC). Quest Site Solutions is a South Carolina company that provides economic develop- ment and site selection ser- vices to companies and orga- nizations worldwide. Iowa has hired the company to do devel- opment site state certifications. “It’s just part of the pro- cess,” Fox said about the request for clarification and further details on some of the long list of requirements that must be met to achieve state certification. The ADC has until Nov. 20 to complete a process that started more than 1½ years ago, but Fox said he hopes to be finished by the end of Au- gust. Part of the materials that must be finished deal with the site concept plan. The cer- tification process requires the applicant to show how a 250,000-square-foot building would fit on the site, along with utilities, easements, topo- graphical information and more, Fox said. “OF COURSE, WE HOPE for a much larger building than that, since it is 75 acres,” he said. The site concept plan and other marketing information will be on a dedicated website for the Avenue of the Saints Development Park, and that is being created now, Fox said. A development park up- date was on the agenda for the ADC monthly board meeting Wednesday evening, and Fox said the board spent a good deal of time discussing the site, especially a development agreement with the city. The property is in Charles City’s South Grand TIF Dis- trict, and the city of Charles City is planning to sell general obligation bonds to raise mon- ey to give to the ADC to pur- chase the 75 acres for $2.156 million then market and sell it, with the city repaying the bonds with income generated through the TIF district and from proceeds of the sale of the property to a business. A QUESTION HAD BEEN raised by Mayor Dean Andrews re- garding any money left over after the property is sold, either because it sells at a price high- er than was paid for it, because some of the bonds used to purchase it have already been repaid or some combination of those. Fox had said earlier he as- sumed if the property is sold for more than is still owed on the bonds, the ADC would get the money to use for future de- velopment efforts. Fox said told the Press Thursday the question of where any “leftover” money would go might be of only mi- nor concern, because it looks like that money legally would have to remain in the TIF dis- trict. “It may be a moot point as to who has control of the mon- ey,” Fox said. “It doesn’t mat- ter if it’s in ADC or the city if it can only be spent in the TIF district.” Fox said the ADC board ta- bled any action on a develop- ment agreement with the city until he has a chance to talk about it with the Charles City administrator. PARK Continued from page 1 The victim had pain in her face with minor scratches along with bruising and swell- ing.” Gray was also charged with a second count of assault caus- ing bodily injury for allegedly assaulting another woman on April 20 “by tackling her and striking her multiple times in the head with his fist.” He was charged with sec- ond-degree criminal mischief, a Class D felony, for allegedly causing about $1,200 to the al- leged victim’s home by break- ing several windows. And he was charged with harassment in the first degree, an aggravated misdemeanor, for allegedly having called the first victim while he was in the booking room to the jail “and threatened to kill her.” Gray had pleaded guilty in December to assaulting the same person he allegedly assaulted again in April and causing property damage then, too. He had pleaded guilty to assault with intent to cause serious injury, an aggravated misdemeanor, and to criminal mischief in the third degree, an aggravated misdemeanor. He was sentenced to a total of up to two years in prison, with all but two days suspend- ed, and placed on one-year probation. In January, the Iowa Depart- ment of Corrections reported that Gray had failed to report for probation and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was arrested on the probation violation warrant at the same time he was arrested for the al- leged April 20 assaults. The contempt charge for al- legedly violating that proba- tion was also dismissed. PLEA Continued from page 1 Press photo by James Grob Charles City Community School District projects continue through the summer, including new safety fencing at Lincoln Elementary School. School district officials said the new fence will be ready for the first day of school. See news happening? Report it to the Charles City Press at 641-228-3211 or to [email protected]. Business plan competition has a winner A winner of the 2019 Charles City Area Develop- ment Corporation (CCADC) Business Plan Competition has been selected. The winner is Matthew Per- ry, of T&K Tractor Repair LLC of Nashua. The contest is judged on completeness and clarity of a business plan, including summary, analysis of vari- ous components, marketing, operations, management and finance. Photo submitted CCADC board President Paul Coonrod presents the 2019 Charles City Area Devel- opment Corp. Business Plan Competition $2,500 grand prize to Matthew Bailey of T & K Tractor Repair LLC, Nashua, with CCADC Executive Direc- tor Timothy S. Fox. Good fences make good neighbors At rally, Trump laces into Democrats but avoids race By Jonathan Lemire and Dan Sewell The Associated Press CINCINNATI — President Donald Trump used a revved-up rally Thursday in Cincinnati to tear into the Democrats he has been elevating as his new polit- ical foils, attacking four liber- al congresswomen of color and their party's urban leaders, while also training fire on those he could be facing in 2020. But the president mostly avoided the racial controversy that has dominated recent weeks as he basked in front of the rau- cous crowd for nearly 90 min- utes, unleashing broadside after broadside on his political foes. Trump, who had faced wide- spread criticism for not doing more to stop the chants of "Send her back" about Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar at a rally last month, seemed to want to avoid further furor, urging his support- ers ahead of the rally to avoid the chant and largely sticking to a greatest hits performance. But while he did not mention Omar or her three colleagues by name in the opening moments of his Ohio gathering, the target of his attacks was unmistakable. "The Democrat party is now being led by four left-wing ex- tremists who reject everything that we hold dear," Trump said of Omar and her fellow House Democrats Alexandria Oca- sio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. But the fleeting mention did not lead to further chants. Nor did an extended attack on Dem- ocratic leaders of urban areas, which Trump has laced into in recent days as part of his incen- diary broadsides against Rep. Elijah Cummings and the major- ity-black city of Baltimore. "No one has paid a higher price for the far-left destructive agenda than Americans liv- ing in our nation's inner cities," Trump said, drawing cheers from the mostly white crowd in the packed arena on the banks of the Ohio River. "We send billions and billions and billions for years and years and it's stolen money, and it's wasted money." The rally was the first for Trump since the "Send her back" chant at a North Carolina rally was denounced by Democrats and unnerved Republicans fear- ful of a presidential campaign fought on racial lines. In the early moments of Thursday's rally, Trump de- clared, "I don't want to be con- troversial." He mostly stuck to it. With the eyes of the political world shifting from two days of Democratic debates to see if Trump would stoke racial anger, the president largely delivered his standard stump speech. But Trump, the most avid cable news viewer in the history of the of- fice, could not resist delivering his review of the Detroit debates. "That's was long, long televi- sion," Trump said. "The Demo- crats spent more time attacking Barack Obama than they did attacking me, practically." He mocked some of the lead- ing Democratic contenders, re- viving his nickname of "Sleepy" for Joe Biden, teasing Elizabeth Warren for claiming some Native American heritage and lashing the Democrats for their health care and immigration proposals. "The Democrats have never been so far outside the main- stream," Trump claimed. Hours earlier, Trump an- nounced that China had not kept up its end of trade negotiations, prompting him to increase tariffs 10 percent on $300 billion worth of new goods. Trump at the rally expressed confidence that a deal would get settled but said, "Until such time there is a deal we'll be taxing the hell out of China." The rally was also Trump's first since special counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress, the apparent final chapter of the Russia probe that has shadowed the White House for more than two years. But Trump only men- tioned it once, mocking Mueller's at-times halting appearance by sarcastically saying the investiga- tor seemed "sharp as a tack." Though boisterous at the be- ginning, the crowd began to thin as Trump crossed the hour mark and stayed disciplined in touting the strong economy and his ad- ministration's accomplishments. The president's remarks were also interrupted twice by protesters. Speaking to reporters before leaving for Cincinnati, Trump said he didn't know whether his would revive the "Send her back" chant anyway or what his response would be if they did — adding that, regardless, he "loves" his political supporters. "I don't know that you can stop people," Trump told report- ers. "If they do the chant, we'll have to see what happens." The chant in North Carolina followed racist tweets Trump sent against Omar and three oth- er first-term lawmakers of color, instructing them to get out of the U.S. "right now" and saying if the lawmakers "hate our coun- try," they can "go back" to their "broken and crime-infested" countries. Two weeks ago, Trump wa- vered in his response to the divi- sive cries, letting the chant roll at the rally, expressing disapproval about it the next day and later re- treating from those concerns. Since then, Trump has pushed ahead with his attacks of Cum- mings and Baltimore. Heighten- ing the drama, Trump's Ohio ral- ly took place against a backdrop of simmering racial tension in the host city of Cincinnati. A variety of opinions about the chant dotted the crowd be- fore the rally. Robyn McGrail, 64, and her husband were celebrating their 44th wedding anniversary by attending their third Trump rally. She said that if the crowd did begin the chant, "I'll probably be cheering. If they don't like Amer- ica, they should leave. We love our country." Cynthia Wells, 63, a Cincin- nati nurse, said she would follow Trump's lead. "We listen to him and we won't do it," Wells said. "I don't think it will happen. If it does, we won't participate because he's against that. That's not what his message is." Hours before the president's rally, Omar posted a photo of herself and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Africa, writing, "They said 'send her back' but Speaker Pelosi didn't just make arrangements to send me back, she went back with me." Trump captured Ohio by near- ly 9 percentage points in 2016, and he fared somewhat better among midterm voters in Ohio than among voters in Rust Belt neighbors Michigan and Wis- consin. About half of Ohio vot- ers, 49%, expressed approval of Trump's job as president, accord- ing to AP VoteCast, a survey of the electorate in 2018. Forty-four percent of voters in Michigan, and 43% of voters in Wisconsin, approved of Trump.
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had been made from other people in the meat-packing or food-processing industry that had expressed interest in the property.
Fox said response to the job fair has been good. Kristle Percy of IowaWORKS, who is helping organize the fair, said
eight businesses had signed up as of Wednesday, and that was before the fair had received much publicity.
Simply Essentials an-nounced on June 6 that it would be closing on Aug. 5, permanently laying off 513 employees. Local and corpo-rate company officials have not responded to several requests from the Press for comment on the decision to close.
CLOSINGContinued from page 1
that Quest Site Solutions has imposed. They’re clarifications on stuff we submitted already,” said Tim Fox, the executive director of the Area Develop-ment Corp (ADC).
Quest Site Solutions is a South Carolina company that provides economic develop-ment and site selection ser-vices to companies and orga-nizations worldwide. Iowa has hired the company to do devel-opment site state certifications.
“It’s just part of the pro-cess,” Fox said about the request for clarification and further details on some of the long list of requirements that must be met to achieve state certification.
The ADC has until Nov. 20 to complete a process that started more than 1½ years ago, but Fox said he hopes to be finished by the end of Au-gust.
Part of the materials that must be finished deal with the site concept plan. The cer-tification process requires the applicant to show how a 250,000-square-foot building would fit on the site, along with utilities, easements, topo-graphical information and more, Fox said.
“Of cOurse, we hOpe for a much larger building than that, since it is 75 acres,” he said.
The site concept plan and other marketing information will be on a dedicated website for the Avenue of the Saints Development Park, and that is being created now, Fox said.
A development park up-date was on the agenda for the ADC monthly board meeting
Wednesday evening, and Fox said the board spent a good deal of time discussing the site, especially a development agreement with the city.
The property is in Charles City’s South Grand TIF Dis-trict, and the city of Charles City is planning to sell general obligation bonds to raise mon-ey to give to the ADC to pur-chase the 75 acres for $2.156 million then market and sell it, with the city repaying the bonds with income generated through the TIF district and from proceeds of the sale of the property to a business.
A questiOn hAd been raised by Mayor Dean Andrews re-garding any money left over after the property is sold, either because it sells at a price high-er than was paid for it, because some of the bonds used to purchase it have already been repaid or some combination of those.
Fox had said earlier he as-sumed if the property is sold for more than is still owed on the bonds, the ADC would get the money to use for future de-velopment efforts.
Fox said told the Press Thursday the question of where any “leftover” money would go might be of only mi-nor concern, because it looks like that money legally would have to remain in the TIF dis-trict.
“It may be a moot point as to who has control of the mon-ey,” Fox said. “It doesn’t mat-ter if it’s in ADC or the city if it can only be spent in the TIF district.”
Fox said the ADC board ta-bled any action on a develop-ment agreement with the city until he has a chance to talk about it with the Charles City administrator.
PARKContinued from page 1
The victim had pain in her face with minor scratches along with bruising and swell-ing.”
Gray was also charged with a second count of assault caus-ing bodily injury for allegedly assaulting another woman on April 20 “by tackling her and striking her multiple times in the head with his fist.”
He was charged with sec-ond-degree criminal mischief, a Class D felony, for allegedly causing about $1,200 to the al-leged victim’s home by break-ing several windows.
And he was charged with harassment in the first degree, an aggravated misdemeanor, for allegedly having called the first victim while he was in the booking room to the jail “and threatened to kill her.”
Gray had pleaded guilty in December to assaulting
the same person he allegedly assaulted again in April and causing property damage then, too.
He had pleaded guilty to assault with intent to cause serious injury, an aggravated misdemeanor, and to criminal mischief in the third degree, an aggravated misdemeanor.
He was sentenced to a total of up to two years in prison, with all but two days suspend-ed, and placed on one-year probation.
In January, the Iowa Depart-ment of Corrections reported that Gray had failed to report for probation and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was arrested on the probation violation warrant at the same time he was arrested for the al-leged April 20 assaults.
The contempt charge for al-legedly violating that proba-tion was also dismissed.
PLeAContinued from page 1
Press photo by James Grob
Charles City Community School District projects continue through the summer, including new safety fencing at Lincoln Elementary School. School district officials said the new fence will be ready for the first day of school.
See news happening? Report it to the Charles City Press at 641-228-3211
or to [email protected].
Business plan competition has a winner
A winner of the 2019 Charles City Area Develop-ment Corporation (CCADC) Business Plan Competition has been selected.
The winner is Matthew Per-ry, of T&K Tractor Repair LLC of Nashua.
The contest is judged on completeness and clarity of a business plan, including summary, analysis of vari-ous components, marketing, operations, management and finance.
Photo submitted
CCADC board President Paul Coonrod presents the 2019 Charles City Area Devel-opment Corp. Business Plan Competition $2,500 grand prize to Matthew Bailey of T & K Tractor Repair LLC, Nashua, with CCADC Executive Direc-tor Timothy S. Fox.
Good fences make good neighbors
At rally, Trump laces into Democrats but avoids raceBy Jonathan Lemire and Dan SewellThe Associated Press
CINCINNATI — President Donald Trump used a revved-up rally Thursday in Cincinnati to tear into the Democrats he has been elevating as his new polit-ical foils, attacking four liber-al congresswomen of color and their party's urban leaders, while also training fire on those he could be facing in 2020.
But the president mostly avoided the racial controversy that has dominated recent weeks as he basked in front of the rau-cous crowd for nearly 90 min-utes, unleashing broadside after broadside on his political foes. Trump, who had faced wide-spread criticism for not doing more to stop the chants of "Send her back" about Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar at a rally last month, seemed to want to avoid further furor, urging his support-ers ahead of the rally to avoid the chant and largely sticking to a greatest hits performance.
But while he did not mention Omar or her three colleagues by name in the opening moments of his Ohio gathering, the target of his attacks was unmistakable.
"The Democrat party is now being led by four left-wing ex-tremists who reject everything that we hold dear," Trump said of Omar and her fellow House Democrats Alexandria Oca-sio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
But the fleeting mention did not lead to further chants. Nor did an extended attack on Dem-ocratic leaders of urban areas, which Trump has laced into in recent days as part of his incen-diary broadsides against Rep. Elijah Cummings and the major-
ity-black city of Baltimore."No one has paid a higher
price for the far-left destructive agenda than Americans liv-ing in our nation's inner cities," Trump said, drawing cheers from the mostly white crowd in the packed arena on the banks of the Ohio River. "We send billions and billions and billions for years and years and it's stolen money, and it's wasted money."
The rally was the first for Trump since the "Send her back" chant at a North Carolina rally was denounced by Democrats and unnerved Republicans fear-ful of a presidential campaign fought on racial lines.
In the early moments of Thursday's rally, Trump de-clared, "I don't want to be con-troversial." He mostly stuck to it.
With the eyes of the political world shifting from two days of Democratic debates to see if Trump would stoke racial anger, the president largely delivered his standard stump speech. But Trump, the most avid cable news viewer in the history of the of-fice, could not resist delivering his review of the Detroit debates.
"That's was long, long televi-sion," Trump said. "The Demo-crats spent more time attacking Barack Obama than they did attacking me, practically."
He mocked some of the lead-ing Democratic contenders, re-viving his nickname of "Sleepy" for Joe Biden, teasing Elizabeth Warren for claiming some Native American heritage and lashing the Democrats for their health care and immigration proposals.
"The Democrats have never been so far outside the main-stream," Trump claimed.
Hours earlier, Trump an-nounced that China had not kept up its end of trade negotiations,
prompting him to increase tariffs 10 percent on $300 billion worth of new goods. Trump at the rally expressed confidence that a deal would get settled but said, "Until such time there is a deal we'll be taxing the hell out of China."
The rally was also Trump's first since special counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress, the apparent final chapter of the Russia probe that has shadowed the White House for more than two years. But Trump only men-tioned it once, mocking Mueller's at-times halting appearance by sarcastically saying the investiga-tor seemed "sharp as a tack."
Though boisterous at the be-ginning, the crowd began to thin as Trump crossed the hour mark and stayed disciplined in touting the strong economy and his ad-ministration's accomplishments. The president's remarks were also interrupted twice by protesters.
Speaking to reporters before leaving for Cincinnati, Trump said he didn't know whether his would revive the "Send her back" chant anyway or what his response would be if they did — adding that, regardless, he "loves" his political supporters.
"I don't know that you can stop people," Trump told report-ers. "If they do the chant, we'll have to see what happens."
The chant in North Carolina followed racist tweets Trump sent against Omar and three oth-er first-term lawmakers of color, instructing them to get out of the U.S. "right now" and saying if the lawmakers "hate our coun-try," they can "go back" to their "broken and crime-infested" countries.
Two weeks ago, Trump wa-vered in his response to the divi-sive cries, letting the chant roll at the rally, expressing disapproval
about it the next day and later re-treating from those concerns.
Since then, Trump has pushed ahead with his attacks of Cum-mings and Baltimore. Heighten-ing the drama, Trump's Ohio ral-ly took place against a backdrop of simmering racial tension in the host city of Cincinnati.
A variety of opinions about the chant dotted the crowd be-fore the rally.
Robyn McGrail, 64, and her husband were celebrating their 44th wedding anniversary by attending their third Trump rally. She said that if the crowd did begin the chant, "I'll probably be cheering. If they don't like Amer-ica, they should leave. We love our country."
Cynthia Wells, 63, a Cincin-nati nurse, said she would follow Trump's lead.
"We listen to him and we won't do it," Wells said. "I don't think it will happen. If it does, we won't participate because he's against that. That's not what his message is."
Hours before the president's rally, Omar posted a photo of herself and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Africa, writing, "They said 'send her back' but Speaker Pelosi didn't just make arrangements to send me back, she went back with me."
Trump captured Ohio by near-ly 9 percentage points in 2016, and he fared somewhat better among midterm voters in Ohio than among voters in Rust Belt neighbors Michigan and Wis-consin. About half of Ohio vot-ers, 49%, expressed approval of Trump's job as president, accord-ing to AP VoteCast, a survey of the electorate in 2018. Forty-four percent of voters in Michigan, and 43% of voters in Wisconsin, approved of Trump.
