Earlier this week, Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) announced two competing funds are now available to communities with populations under 20,000. A total of up to $400,000 has been allocated to the Rural Innovation Grant program and the Rural Housing Assessment Grant program for current Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 through FY 2022. The Rural Innovation Grant program provides up to $300,000 to support creative, non-traditional ideas that focus on current issues and challenges faced by rural communities. These are to be associated with the themes of community investment, growth and connection. The Rural Housing Assessment Grant program provides up to $100,000 to support the use of publicly available online information through the “Profile of Iowa” tool. This includes efforts to interpret the data presented with supplemental information as well as to implement through changes to development codes, local ordinances and housing incentives specific to their
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The city of Tama has been considering four design options (above) to potentially adopt as an official city logo. An online survey distributed through Facebook indicated the bottom left design in blue and yellow was the most popular option. Plans are to schedule an action item regarding the logos on the next council agenda for the Dec. 21 meeting.
The city of Tama will soon be considering the adoption of an official city logo.
At the regular city council meeting on Dec. 7 council member Matt Beatty gave an update to the council on the logo project he has been spearheading in recent weeks.