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Board member Nicolás “Niko” Aguirre speaks during his first applicant interview in 2019, who was ultimately appointed to the board for his first time.
The Marshalltown Community School District Board of Education voted to accept the resignation of a fellow board member.
Board member Nicolás “Niko” Aguirre, JBS Marshalltown human resources director, recently accepted a transfer to the JBS Swift Pork Facility in Louisville, Ky. and will be removed from his seat on the board effective May 7.
While Aguirre did not attend the board meeting Monday night where his resignation was accepted, he expressed bittersweet gratitude in his resignation letter to the board.
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T-R PHOTOS BY LANA BRADSTREAM The American and Iowa flags were given a color guard at the Monday rededication ceremony of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. About 60 people attended the event.
The Veterans Memorial Coliseum has two reasons to cherish March 15. Not only was that day Monday used as the day of the grand reopening and rededication, but 90 years ago, residents of Marshalltown gathered to do the same thing on March 15.
Roughly 60 city officials and people active in the reopening, watched the rededication ceremony and listened to a variety of people speak about their memory of the Coliseum.
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Marshalltown Community School Board Secretary Paulette Newbold presents the school’s certified budget for the 2022 fiscal year.
The Marshalltown Community School Board published an estimated budget for the 2022 fiscal year at the Monday meeting, established a property tax rate and moved to use an income surtax.
The instructional support program, a program allowing school districts to increase programming by 10 percent of regular costs, is funded entirely through property taxes. The program is allowed to be funded entirely through property taxes or by a combination of property taxes and income surtaxes which would lower the potential property tax rate.
Due to declining enrollment, Marshalltown Community School Board approved a budget adjustment resolution for the 2022 fiscal year levying property taxes to acco