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Kalona City Council Discusses American Rescue Plan Funds

The Washington County Board of Supervisors approved providing a letter of support for a grant application for a trail project in Kalona’s Southtown Area development. Washington County Conservation Director Zach Rozmus, Kalona City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh, and Adam Kos of C.J. Moyna & Sons, LLC. presented their project to the board Tuesday, explaining that the Iowa Transportation Commission has approved a one-time $5 million allocation of funding to partially offset COVID-19 related reductions in their State Recreational Trails program. Grant applications are being accepted until May 1...

The City of Kalona will continue to deliver meals to senior residents through the summer months. Once a week, 25 to 30 residents receive meals prepared by the Goodwin Dining Center in Wellman and delivered by Kalona city staff. The meals were free through mid-March, but recipients now pay $4-7 per meal based on their financial ability to pay. The program was scheduled to go on hiatus at the end of April, but City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh says, through donations, the program will continue at its current level of service with plans to increase deliveries to three days a week again this fal...

The City of Kalona is taking steps towards possible upgrades to their fire station. The council approved a contract Monday night with Carl A. Nelson and Company to conduct a facility needs assessment of the fire department’s current building to determine if a new station should be built or the current structure could be renovated. City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh says the assessment and any actual fire station building project are two separate items at this stage, “It is completely different at this point. This is really just to take a professional and put him in a room and assist with ...

The City of Kalona is getting back the full use of their public works building after being home to thousands of pounds of food for residents facing food insecurity the last several months due to the pandemic. Due to a drop off in public need, the city recently suspended their pop-up pantry and senior bags programs until next fall. City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh says the food they distributed required a lot of space and commended the public works’ staff for making room, “Being able to move things around, to accommodate bringing in, at any given moment, 10,000 pounds of dry goods and re...