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A retired Washington city employee is seeking to return to city hall with a bid for the Ward 3 City Council election on March 2nd.
Illa Earnest, who retired as city clerk in December after working 36 years for the city, is running against Haleigh Brockman to represent the southeast quadrant of Washington in a term that ends December 2023. Earnest was born and raised in Washington and has volunteered and served on several boards including Habitat for Humanity, Lending Hands Adult Day Center, Washington Betterment Foundation, and the Chamber of Commerce tourism committee. Earnest says she wants to use her knowledge of the city to help its future development, “Obviously the new business park is going to be having some expansions. There’s continuing improvements in the infrastructure, the water/sewer mains, streets, and then with the city having the NLW subdivision which is in the third ward and then the Bell property developments and there’s another phase of the downtown enhancem
The Iowa House and Senate came to a compromise on increasing state aid to K-12 schools last week, though it comes as a concern to districts that have seen decreased enrollment in the last year.
The Iowa House passed an amended Senate bill last Thursday that would increase state aid by 2.4 percent. That’s about the same as last year’s 2.3 percent increase, but because of an enrollment drop of about 6,000 students across the state, the dollar increase would be about $50 million smaller. Washington Community Schools Superintendent Willie Stone voiced his concern at this proposal during a visit from Governor Kim Reynolds Thursday, stating that he can’t make any staff changes that would accommodate a couple hundred thousand dollar decrease, and that the district would have to increase property taxes to make up for it. District 42 State Senator Jeff Reichman comments on the legislation, “Raising property taxes is always a concern, I own property down here in Lee County and the tax