Eleanor Hildebrandt | May 27, 2021
Environmental groups and state lawmakers are asking Department of Natural Resources Director Kayla Lyon to block a project that plans to place 11,600 cattle near a protected trout stream in northeast Iowa.
The Supreme Beef cattle operation is planned to be near Monona and Bloody Run Creek. The creek is a protected trout stream and is considered an Outstanding Iowa Water. The feedlot will be in the creek’s watershed. Supreme Beef plans to apply manure in fields that are also in the watershed.
More than 40 groups, individuals, and elected officials sent a letter to Lyon asking her to use the “director discretion rule” to veto the approval of the operation. Lyon was appointed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to head the DNR. She formerly worked as a lobbyist for the Iowa Instituted for Cooperatives according to Iowa Capital Dispatch.
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The Des Moines School Board voted 4-3 to not extend embattled Superintendent Tom Ahart s current contract past June 30, 2023, during Thursday night s meeting.
The school board met virtually in closed session Thursday to discuss Ahart s contract. The meeting had originally been posted as the contract being only a discussion item but the agenda was changed Wednesday night to include a vote. Motion was made to accept the recommendation from the compensation committee for a 2-year contract for the superintendent through June 30, 2023, with no change in compensation or benefits, said Phil Roeder, district spokesman, in an email.
Board Chair Dwana Bradley and board members Teree Caldwell-Johnson, Kelli Soyer, and Kim Martorano voted not to extend Ahart s contract.