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For more than four years we have heard nothing but doom and gloom about the econ-omy. Jobs have been lost, businesses have gone under and families have had to find a way to survive on one income, or in some of the worst cases, no income.

The picture painted by the last half-decade has not been a joyful one.

But for the first time, in what seems like an eternity, Council Bluffs – and the nation as a whole – began to see new growth sprouting up this past year in all forms of businesses.

From banking to restaurants and com-munity health to interstate construction, the city has seen a number of changes in the last 12 months that will continue to redefine the community.

A change that will have a great impact on the city, and one that will be talked about in year in review issues for the next decade, can be seen on the southern edge of the city. The reconstruction of the interstate system around Council Bluffs will have lasting impacts before and after it is completed in 2020 or 2021.

The portion of the interstate currently being worked on will be 12 lanes wide when completed. The state has focused this year on the relocation of railroad tracks, bridge work and extensive grading work that is still being completed.

With 75,000 vehicles traveling the route every day, the $1 billion project will certainly be the biggest project the city has ever seen.

Big business expansion was also felt in the city, from manufacturing to the digital age.

Google announced they would add to their footprint in the community by expanding operations south of Council Bluffs. The new expansion will bring their Iowa investment to more than $1 billion.

Plumrose USA completed a new $70 mil-lion facility, nearly a year after breaking ground in November 2011.

The company built a 100,000-square-foot cold cut facility north of the intersection of south 32nd Street and 21st Avenue in Council Bluffs to increase capacity to meet strong cus-tomer demand.

And in September, the Council Bluffs City Council approved the 186,528-square-foot store that will become the city’s second Wal-

Mart on North 16th Street. Construction is expected to begin early next year and be com-pleted in early 2014.

Dining options also expanded with stand-alone restaurants that were new to Council Bluffs joining the business community.

In 2012, the ever-expanding Metro Cross-ing Shopping Center added several new restaurants including Starbucks, Cox Bros. BarBQ, Qdoba Mexican Grill, Orange Leaf and Pepperjax Grill opening their doors. But food wasn’t the only new tenant to be drawn to the area ULTA Beauty, the largest beauty retailer in the country, opened its doors at Metro on June 1, and the Mattress People and Charming Charlie’s jewelry and clothing store also opened this year.

In banking, American National Bank uni-fied Peoples National Bank and two Liberty branches under one name this year, and Treynor State Bank announced an existing facility would be converted to new branch on West Broadway. First National Bank also

opened their second Council Bluffs location this year after expanding across the Missouri River at Metro Crossing in 2008.

And it wasn’t just businesses that thrived in 2012. Community projects also came to light.

Two schools and one facility within the Council Bluffs Community School District saw major renovations during 2012.

A new, 18,400-square-foot community health center opened toward the end of the year at South Sixth Street and Ninth Avenue. The new building, with almost twice as much space as the center’s former space at the Omni Centre Business Park will offer room for more providers.

The total cost of the project is expected to be $5.6 million, with a majority of the fund-ing coming from a $4.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In November, Habitat for Humanity broke ground on a $4 million project to renovate

a downtown building into office space and a place for their ReStore, which sells new and used construction materials.

The new Habitat complex will be named after Charles E. Lakin in recognition of his $1.2 million pledge to the project.

And in the arts, the last scheduled Iowa West Foundation art installation was finished in October when the “Gateway” sculpture on the West Broadway viaduct was completed.

Artist Ed Carpenter said he wanted to cre-ate an “unforgettable experience” for drivers as they cross the bridge in the heart of the city, and the lattice-like work is supposed to frame the setting or rising sun depending on the direction being travelled.

Or, perhaps, the yellow and orange struc-ture is a symbol of a city that is rising out of the economic crisis that has plagued a city, state, country and, in fact, the entire world.

A symbol of a city that has weathered the economic body blows and is still standing on the other side, ready for the next chapter.

Council Bluffs growth continues strong

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Growth has been sprouting up in all forms of business in Council Bluffs in 2012, and the Metro Crossing Shopping Center is a fine example of that growth. It added added several new restaurants, as well as ULTA Beauty, the Mattress People and Charming Charlie’s.

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A business owner had this to say on why he chose Metro Crossing Shopping Center for his new Council Bluffs store.

“There are lots of busi-nesses coming in, there are lots of people, and it is right off the interstate.”

That was Tom Davis, a local franchise owner for Fire-house Subs, who chose the ever-growing shopping center in the southern part of town for his restaurant location, the first of this national chain to open in the entire Nebraska/Iowa area.

That was in mid-December 2011 and plenty of eateries and retailers have followed him there this past year.

At least four new eating places opened there in 2012. They were Starbucks, Cox Bros. BarBQ, Qdobe Mexican Grill and Pepperjax Grill.

But, food isn’t the only thing that looks good there.

ULTA Beauty, the largest beauty retailer in the country, opened its doors at Metro on June 1. ULTA Beauty offers consumers quick access to not only their favorite essentials and salon services but also to a world of beauty indulgences.

“The new store also includes a full-service salon with hair cutting, color and styling, as well as skin and brow services,” said company spokeswoman Jamie Green-house.

There is also a large men’s section.

“The ULTA Beauty store is fully illuminated to give the effect of natural lighting, allowing guests to easily see the true shade of any product

that they test in the store,” Greenhouse said.

Other stores that opened their doors this year are the Mattress People and Charm-ing Charlie’s clothing shop.

These fine stores join an already impressive lineup than include Buffalo Wild Wings, Famous Footwear, Men’s Wearhouse and Target.

Metro Crossing is a 100-acre major development that needed much work to become a reality. That’s because

the site was within a flood-plain that initially had lim-ited access and zero access to public utilities. Back in the mid-2000s, more than 850,000 cubic yards of mate-rial was brought in to raise the site abov e the floodplain. The public infrastructure cost more than $7.5 million.

Today, it is a major shop-ping and eating destination, located at the junction of Interstate 29 and Veterans Memorial Highway.

“It is so convenient and there are so many places to eat and lots of retailers with names you know,” said Kathy Fiscus of the city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Besides being a favorite among local shoppers, it’s an ideal stop for travelers, she added.

“It’s a great place to get out of the car to have a sandwich or a pop or to just stretch your legs,” she said. “Everybody likes a break.”

Expansion at Metro Crossing makes it a destination

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Above, ULTA Beauty, the largest beauty retailer in the country, opened its doors at Metro Crossing Shopping Center on June 1. At top right, an employee of Pepperjax Grill preps lunch for a customer. The national chain was one of at least four new eateries that opened at the shopping center. Also among the new eateries to open this year was Qdoba Mexican Grill, which held its official ribbon cutting on Aug. 24.

Casey’s General Stores on the growDuring the past 12 months, Casey’s Gen-

eral Stores got a whole lot bigger.In late December 2011, the Ankeny-based

convenience store/gas station retailer held grand-opening ceremonies at the newest Council Bluffs location at 510 23rd Ave. The physical move was short, just across the street from where it was located since the mid-1970s. But, the expansion of services is long.

The new Casey’s has 16 pumps to choose from, compared to just six at the old site. What’s more, diesel and premium brand fuels are now available. The interior is designed with an O-styled format. The kitchen is to the left in the new format and the menu has expanded beyond the longtime favorites. There is also an expanded cooler area to allow a bigger selection of beverages.

On the right side is a sit-down area. More recently, it was announced that the

Shenandoah Kum & Go store is becoming a Casey’s. What’s more, the Casey’s store there

on Highway 59 was recently remodeled with new, larger coolers and the addition of sub sandwiches.

Wal-Mart gets the go-ahead to add second store

Work is expected to begin soon on a new Wal-Mart store on North 16th Street.

The Council Bluffs City Council in Sep-tember approved the 186,528-square-foot store that will become the city’s second Wal-Mart, the other being on the southern side in the Manawa Power Centre.

The new store, besides general retailing, will feature a pharmacy, grocery, bakery, deli, optical, seasonal items like lawn/gar-den products, etc., though no car care. The entry will face the south and feature large glass areas, a part of a new look for the giant retailer.

For several months, there were behind-the-scenes negotiations on financial assis-

tance for the project. Eventually, the city agreed to provide tax increment financing over a 12-year period.

Basically, this type of financing, more commonly known as TIF, means that prop-erty taxes the city normally would receive will be given back to the retailer to help pay for the costs involved in the project. Property taxes that go to other entities like schools will not be impacted.

The retailer is doing all the infrastructure work, such as bringing in the necessary utili-ties and street improvements like a signal intersection on 16th Street.

Construction is expected to begin early next year and be completed in early 2014.

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Casey’s Gneral Stores has grown in the last 12 months. The Council Bluffs loca-tion on 23rd Avenue has expanded its services after it held its grand-opening ceremony last December. The chain added another location when it was announced that the Shenandoah Kum & Go store would becoming a Casey’s.

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A barbecue place opened in Council Bluffs this year. So did a new Mexican restau-rant and a Starbucks. There were others, also.

In other words, area folks are getting more and more varieties when they want to dine out.

Cox Brothers BBQ began serving the public in late October at its location in the Metro Crossing Shopping Center.

“We’re unique in that we offer four styles of barbe-cue and not just one,” said Courtney Boman, company spokeswoman. “We have four different regions of barbe-cue: Kansas City, Memphis, Carolina and Texas.”

The restaurant features a one-of-a-kind pit, specially made in Texas and the only one in Iowa.

Located at 3515 Metro Crossing, Cox Brothers has seating for 110 indoors, while 40 can dine on the outsidoor patio. There is also a take-out window.

Nearly 50 local jobs were created with this restaurant.

Also at Metro Crossing, Pepperjax Grill, offering what it terms “America’s Best Philly,” opened its doors on Aug. 1. Located at 3617 Denmark Drive, the Pepper-jax restaurant features 2,400 square feet of dining space with seating for 80. The shaded outdoor area can seat 12 more comfortably. Along with its famous Philly steak sandwiches, sides include rice bowls, giant wraps of steak, chicken or seafood, and salads.

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Starbucks also opened

down there this year. The Seattle-based national chain opened a 1,634-square-foot shop inside the strip mall just south of the center’s First National Bank branch.

Starbucks’ menu features brewed coffees, espressos, smoothies, hot breakfasts, paninis, wraps, ice cream and yogurt.

Also in that strip mall, a Qdoba Mexican Grill opened this year. Qdoba is a fast-casual restaurant known for its fresh and innovative Mexican fare.

“Qdoba may not be a sit down ‘May I take your order’ restaurant, but it’s not a rush, rush fast food place, either,” said company spokeswoman Allison Shaw.

While it happened late last year, it should be noted that a national sand-wich chain opened its first Nebraska/Iowa location in Council Bluffs.

Firehouse Subs opened

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The menu features fire-house-related names like the Hook & Ladder featur-ing smoked turkey breast, as well as the New York Steamer with corned beef brisket. There is also fire-fighting equipment on dis-play throughout the shop.

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Despite a less-than-robust economy, the Edwards fam-ily has continued to invest in the expansion of the family owned businesses that dates back to 1973, including, most recently, the addition of a Mit-subishi dealership in Council Bluffs.

Although the Mitsubishi vehicle line currently repre-sents a relatively small seg-ment of the overall American market, Dave Edwards see that changing in the coming years.

“We see this as a prod-uct line with a really strong future,” Edwards said. “They build a great car, and they have a new American man-agement team that we believe is going to turn the American market around for the com-pany.”

Edwards said that Mitsubi-shi, like Hyundai, another vehicle line that is part of the Edwards lineup, offers a “great” 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty.

Edwards said the decision to add the Mitsubishi line was made after a building on 34th Avenue at South 11th Street, across the street from Classic Chevrolet-Cadillac, became available. The company pur-chased and remodeled the building to accommodate the new dealership and several additional employees, and officially opened for business on Oct. 15.

While the addition of a new vehicle line is always a major undertaking for a dealership, it was certainly not the only change for the Edwards fam-ily of dealerships in 2012. The spring and early summer

months saw the completion of a major project at Classic Chevrolet-Cadillac – a $1 mil-lion renovation that impacted every facet of the dealership. The renovation was part of a nationwide campaign to upgrade the appearance of General Motors dealerships.

Classic Chevrolet-Cadil-lac General Manager Brett Edwards called it “a full-blown remodeling that encompasses

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“Southwest Iowa does very well for Chevrolet and for our dealership,” Brett Edwards said at the time. “We felt it was time to reinvest in the community that supports us.”

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The renovation of the Clas-sic Chevrolet-Cadillac facility followed an extensive renova-tion of the facility housing Edwards Subaru-Hyundai on 32nd Avenue. Once sharing the same facility, the Subaru and Hyundai lines are now located in separate buildings on the property. With that expansion, Dave Edwards said, came additional employ-ment opportunities.

Although it had already been remodeled once, Edwards said the building housing Lake Manawa Nis-san is currently in the midst of a $500,000 renovation that will expand and improve the current facility.

Edwards said the company is also planning to build a new building to house the firm’s Lake Manawa Kia dealership, currently housed separately from Lake Manawa Nissan but which has outgrown the current facility.

In addition to invest-ing in its own facilities, the Edwards family has contin-ued to invest in the commu-nity that it calls home. Just

a week before the opening of the Mitsubishi facility, the Edwards family of businesses donated four motorcycles to the Council Bluffs Police Department, something that Todd Edwards, sales manager at Edwards Subaru-Hyundai-Mitsubishi, said the family had been doing every couple of years for more than a decade.

Brett Edwards said the family has given the motor-cycles to the department as a tribute to Brett and Todd’s great-grandfather, Robert F. Edwards, who was a captain on the Council Bluffs Police Department and worked in the motorcycle traffic enforce-ment unit. The family also donates motorcycles to the Pottawattamie County Sher-iff’s Office.

Dave Edwards said he sees a bright future for the family’s dealerships.

“We had three years when the number of cars being scrapped was higher than the number being produced,” he said. “Now we’re in a come-back. It’s not just because the economy is improving. Cars last longer, but they still wear out.”

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Classic Chevrolet-Cadillac in Council Bluffs began a $1 million renovation, which was a part of a nationwide campaign to upgrade the appearance of General Motors dealerships.

Although the renovation has its roots in a nationwide effort, the bottom line for the dealership is to create a bet-ter experience for the customers, said General Manager Brett Edwards.

The work will eventually include all Edwards dealer-ships in Council Bluffs.

A renovation project at Edwards Subaru-Hyundai was already completed. Next on the list was the building on the south side of 34th Avenue at South 11th Street the company’s newly acquired Mitsubishi dealership.

Four-month remodel completed at Rhoden Auto Center

Rhoden Auto Center in Council Bluffs completed a four-month remodel in November.

There was a complete makeover to the showroom, service department and storefront, said Jim Pettit.

“We took pride in a clean dealership and making sure it was clean and very presentable,” Pettit said. “It was finished in 1976 and had slight remodeling through the years. Thirty-six years later, the major facelift really gave the dealership the look what it needed.”

The goal was to increase accessibility and comfort for customers. Renovations also included Wi-Fi and updated restrooms.

“It’s everything the customers touches that would help accommodate our customers,” Pettit said.

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In 2012, Classic Chevrolet-Cadillac in Council Bluffs began a $1 million renovation, which was a part of a nationwide campaign to upgrade the appearance of General Motors dealerships.


American National Banks facility at the corner of 26th and Broadway is one of the former Liberty Bank locations purchased by American National Bank in 2012.

American National Bank continues growing trend in Council Bluffs

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In a year in which multi-faceted growth is the big story in Council Bluffs, few busi-nesses achieved more in 2012 than American National Bank as it continued to expand its operations.

American National Bank has long been a part of the greater Omaha metro area. Current family ties to the bank date back more than a century and, through vari-ous acquisitions of other area banks, American National’s roots can actually be traced as far back as 1856.

American National Bank first made its presence known in Council Bluffs in 2001 when it came together with the then-Peoples National Bank to form a new financial institution. Peoples National Bank had been a long-standing finan-cial establishment in west-ern Iowa with locations in Council Bluffs, Crescent, Missouri Valley and Carter Lake. The merger of the two locally owned banks set the stage for the substantial growth that was to follow.

This year, the bank’s expansion efforts took another leap forward when American National Bank increased its Iowa presence by purchasing two Liberty Bank branches in Council Bluffs. However, the pur-chase of the Liberty Bank facilities is only part of the bank’s story of growth.

The bank’s extensive development in Council Bluffs can be attributed, at least in part, to decisions made early on when Ameri-can National Bank and Peo-ples National Bank came together.

At the time, it was quickly decided that the newly formed bank would do two things. First, it would operate as one company but maintained two separate

identities. The new bank would continue to operate in Iowa as Peoples National Bank, while on the west side of the Missouri River the bank’s identity would remain American National Bank.

Second, and more impor-tantly, it was decided that key members of both man-agement teams would be retained to form a new leadership team that would focus on the goal of expand-ing and improving services in order to provide maxi-mum banking opportunities for all its customers – both current and future.

As the results indicate, the approach has been quite successful.

For more than a decade, American National Bank has seen steady growth in a vari-ety of arenas on both sides of the river, but particularly in southwest Iowa.

Since 2001, the bank has nearly doubled its employee base in Iowa, growing from 87 employees to nearly 160 in 2012. Today, nearly one-third of all the bank’s more than 400 employees live in Iowa.

The bank has also seen tremendous growth in loans made and in municipal bond holdings purchased.

Outstanding loans in Iowa have more than doubled, growing from $130 million in 2000 to $306 million in 2012. Commitments to the communities of western Iowa via investments in municipal bond holdings are nearly $29 million today as compared to $8 million just prior to the merger of the two banks.

American National Bank is now the third largest home lender in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area. In the past four years, the bank has assisted in providing financing to nearly 4,700 homeowners. American National Bank also operates an “Indirect Lending Division” in Council Bluffs that has become one of the

largest local “indirect” lend-ers in the multi-state area. In addition, the bank now has a full mortgage operations cen-ter in Council Bluffs located in the Omni Centre.

Earlier this year, as the result of its growth and the acquisition of the Liberty Bank facilities, the bank’s leadership made the decision to re-brand under one name – American National Bank.

According to the bank’s Senior officer in Council Bluffs, Gilbert Thomas, man-agement came to the conclu-sion that trying to maintain two identities while also add-ing the Liberty Bank facilities would simply be too confus-ing. Thomas said that using a single name ensures that there is a distinct brand identity and helps customers realize they have the conve-nience of banking at any of the bank’s 32 full service loca-tions in Iowa and Nebraska.

Today, American National Bank is one of the largest locally owned financial insti-tutions in the area, but nei-ther the bank’s impressive growth nor its change of identity to a single name has altered its commitment to its customers or the communities the bank serves.

American National Bank’s president, Steve Ritzman, says the bank is steadfast in its commitment to be a strong partner to all the communi-ties the bank serves. Like-wise, Ritzman says the bank takes great pride in the sup-port the communities have given the bank.

As an example of the sup-port the bank receives from its patrons, Ritzman points to

American National Bank as having been voted the No. 1 bank in Council Bluffs by the people of the community in The Daily Nonpareil’s annual “Readers Choice” survey for eight straight years.

“As a community banking organization, it is imperative for us to consider how we positively impact the commu-nities we serve,” Ritzman aid. “A strong local community with economic growth is posi-tive for everyone.”

Continuing, Ritzman added, “Our commitment to provide financial resources through our lending activity to consumers and businesses, along with financial sup-port by the Bank and volun-teerism by our staff for com-munity-based organizations is extremely important to the health of our communities.”

American National Bank has exercised its community support in a variety of ways.

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leaders and c o m m u n i t y activists that have vital roles in the various Iowa communi-ties served by the bank.

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“We strive to meet the needs of the communities we serve by supporting nonprofit orga-

nizations that provide support to low-to-moderate income individuals, at-risk individu-als, educational opportunities and human services,” Ritzman said.

Ritzman also stresses that many of the bank’s employees give generously of their per-sonal time and talent. Accord-ing to bank’s 57-year-old leader, who became president of the bank in 2007, the bank strongly encourages employees to volunteer in their respective communities.

American National Bank’s commitment to the commu-nity has proven to be exten-sive. Combined with its related associates, the bank has con-tributed more than $530,000

in the last five years alone to local non-profit organizations that benefit their Iowa market areas.

Since 2010, substantial gifts have been given to 25 various local organizations, including the Charles E. Lakin Human Services Campus, Children’s Square USA, Habitat for Humanity, Hospice of South-west Iowa, the MICAH House and the Salvation Army, to mention just a few.

In addition, the bank’s Iowa-based officers have pro-vided over 750 hours of com-munity service to Iowa-based non-profits.

In 2012, American National Bank became the second larg-est privately held local bank

in the Omaha/Council Bluffs market area; and is the larg-est depository bank in Coun-cil Bluffs. The bank has been consistently recognized as one of the preferred lenders by the Small Business Administra-tion.

Tom Whitson, the former chairman of Peoples National Bank and the current chair-man of the bank’s Iowa-based community advisory board, is pleased with the growth the bank has achieved and the support it continues to provide the area.

“One always wonders how a decision made now will affect the future,” Whitson said.

“When we (Peoples) merged with American National Bank

in 2001 I felt we had picked the best partner to continue the mission of running a strong bank, but being ever mindful of serving the communities we had offices in,” Whitson said, adding, “I think the numbers speak for themselves.”

After recapping the bank’s impressive growth record, Ritzman was asked what

American National Bank saw as its future.

His response was quick and simple.

“More of the same,” Ritzman said. “We simply want to grow by supporting a wide variety of community-based projects and by providing our customers with the best banking avail-able.”

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First National Bank of Omaha built its sec-ond Council Bluffs office on the south side of Broadway at 25th Street, in a block anchored by a Hy-Vee Food Store, in 2012.

The new branch opened in October just east of Thomas Jeffer-son High School.

The First National Tower, the tallest building between Chi-cago and Denver, has overlooked Council Bluffs since 2002; yet it took until 2008 for the 155-year-old bank to establish a branch in Council Bluffs. (The former First National Bank of Council Bluffs was not affiliated with the Nebraska bank.)

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Elected officials and executives from Plumrose USA broke ground in Novem-ber 2011 on a new $70 million facility. Nearly a year later, the facility opened.

The company built a 100,000-square-foot cold cut facility north of the intersec-tion of South 32nd Street and 21st Ave-nue in Council Bluffs to increase capacity to meet strong customer demand.

Complex Director Terry O’Rourke said the goal is to produce 1.3 million pounds of cold cut meat per week, of which the facility produces 60 percent.

The addition, which opened on Oct. 31, created 75 more jobs for the plant.

“We did the whole project without any type of employee safety issues or envi-ronmental safety issues,” said O’Rourke. “We started on time.”

CEO David Schanzer said that after an extensive search of cities throughout the Midwest, Council Bluffs was chosen as the best place for the company to expand.

The company is owned by the Den-mark-based packaged meats company Danish Crown.

“It went very well with the continued support of the community,” O’Rourke said. “We’re very excited to be here.”

Council Bluffs Mayor Tom Hanafan said the plant brought good economic news for the city, county and state.

The facility is LEED certified, which means it meets green building standards.

The project has been aided by the Iowa Department of Economic Develop-ment with $520,000 in Grow Iowa Values Financial Assistance Program, and will receive a $600,000 capital investment

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Plumrose USA completed its new $70 million facility on Oct. 31. The addi-tion, which opened on Oct. 31, created 75 more jobs for the plant.

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Gov. Terry Branstad (right) waves a Google flag for the start of the backhoe engines, with Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds, Council Bluffs Mayor Tom Hanafan and Google Operations Manager Chris Russell looking on.

State officials met Nov. 17 in Des Moines to discuss Google’s further expansion in Iowa.

The news meant the Internet giant will surpass a major milestone of investing more than $1 billion in Iowa. It also meant good news for Council Bluffs.

“The decision to continue its substantial investment in Council Bluffs reflects the strong partnership our city and county governments have built with Google,” said Mayor Tom Hanafan.

The data center Google has in Council Bluffs already employs more than 130 workers and houses computer sys-tems and associated components that support services such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps and new products including Google+.

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A new, 18,400-square-foot community health center now serves patients near South Sixth Street and Ninth Avenue.

Council Bluffs’ new community health cen-ter is now open.

The facility opened Dec. 19 at 900 S. Sixth St. An open house is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 31, said Cecelia Creighton, executive director.

“We are so excited,” she said.Previously known as the Council Bluffs

Community Health Center, the clinic has been renamed All Care Health Center, Creighton said. The cost, with equipment and furnish-ings, is expected to total $5.6 million. Most of the funding will come from a $4.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The project’s general contractor was ConStruct Inc.

The new building, with almost twice as much space as the center’s former 10,200-square-foot space in the Omni Centre Business Park, will offer room for more pro-viders, Creighton said.

“We are adding medical providers and dental providers and their support staff,” she said.

Another dentist will be coming in Febru-ary, and a new physician will soon be added, she said. The clinic recently added a part-time nurse practitioner for obstetrics and gynecol-ogy, and a part-time nurse practitioner will be added for psychiatry.

That means the health center, which served 6,465 patients in 2010, will eventually be able to serve an additional 1,500 to 1,800 people per year.

The facility will have its own in-house pharmacy, which will open in January, she said.

The new facility was needed because space limitations at the previous location did not allow the center to provide timely care to all patients, Creighton said. Patients had to wait two to three weeks to see a physician – longer to see a dentist. New patients had to wait up to four months.

Meanwhile, demand was soaring. The center was getting about 200 new patients a month, she said.

The center hopes to offer same-day appointments. A previous effort to provide “open access,” or walk-in care didn’t quite work, she said.

“We were having 12 to 15 patients walk in every day and want services, and we didn’t have the providers,” she said. “We surely want them to come in for those preventive, non-emergency services. We’ve always allot-ted for each provider to have at least four of those slots in their schedule.”

The new facility will have ground-level parking, which should make access easier for many patients.

The center will soon expand its hours, Creighton said. Beginning in February, the center will be open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and dental services will be available Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The new center will be a pioneer in the patient-centered medical home concept seen by some as a more efficient way to deliver

health care services. The medical home would be a patient’s entrance into the health care system.

Federally funded community health cen-ters are required to eventually get a des-ignation as a primary care medical home from the Joint Commission or the National Commission for Quality Assurance. Approval

requires the medical home to acquire records of all tests and visits to specialists, etc. The center implemented an electronic medical records system May 3, 2011, that will help the clinic keep track of this information. The clinic is part of a network with Nebraska community health centers that shares com-puter servers.

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Twin City Dental, formerly at 2800 Twin City Plaza Suite 1-R, is now New Image Dentistry at The Marketplace, 3331 Market Place Drive.

The practice – the same business with a new name and location – opened at its new home on Dec. 10, said Darlene King, office manager.

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A new housing project will soon give Council Bluffs more affordable housing.

NeighborWorks and Com-munity Housing Investment Corp. are developing an apart-ment building at 2400 S. 19th St. and nine single-family dwellings along 19th Street, according to Joe Kueper, exec-utive director of CHIC.

Beacon Place, intended for low- to moderate-income fami-lies, is currently under con-struction. It will contain 41 units, including one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, Kueper said. The project is being aided by tax credits arranged through the Iowa Finance Authority.

“As a result of that, we’re able to charge lower rent,” he said. “We’re taking applica-tions now, and we should be ready for occupancy the first part of February.”

Mayor Tom Hanafan applauded the project and said it will help provide affordable housing for working families whose income falls within a certain range.

“They have to have a job, they have to have income,” he said. “It’s a pretty good pro-gram.”

NeighborWorks and CHIC are partners in an ongoing effort to increase affordable housing, Kueper said.

“We are building together a pipeline of such projects to serve Council Bluffs,” he said. “We expect to do at least one big multi-family per year – sometimes for seniors, some-times just multi-family.”

The single-family houses are part of the city’s infill pro-gram, Kueper said. They will be priced at $139,000, but fam-ilies that qualify can receive assistance on the down pay-ment.

“When you put $20,000 down payment assistance on there, basically they’re get-ting a $140,000 house for $120,000,” he said.

The first house is being built by construction technol-ogy students at Iowa Western Community College, Kueper said.

“Every year, they build two houses for us,” he said. “That’s a real fun part of the program. They provide the labor, we pick a design and they build the houses. Out of the profits from the house, we’re able to give them some scholarship money, too.”

The Council Bluffs Commu-nity Development, keeps track of who moves into housing built with the help of public money or tax incentives, Hanafan said. They have found that it’s primarily Council Bluffs fami-lies looking for better hous-

ing and people from southwest Iowa who don’t have access to this kind of program in their own communities.

The city receives more fund-ing for housing since it started applying with Omaha as a metropolitan area, he said.


Staff members from New Image Dentistry assistant Audra Ferguson, at left, hygienist Dena White, assistant Raina McAuliffe, hygienist Amber Allison, office manager Merlee Shire and Dr. Bernie Dudzinski pose for a photo in their new office at 3331 Marketplace Drive. Staff members Dr. Kent AcArdle, Dr. Maribel Caudillo and Peg Sornson are not pictured.

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Council Bluffs gained another expert in 2012 to help patients recover from their lat-est pain in the neck.

Dr. Ty Dworak, D.C., opened a practice, Bluffs Fam-ily Chiropractic, in June at 303 McKenzie Ave.

Dworak hopes to get some traffic in that location, which is directly across from Fare-way.

“It’s been pretty good,” he said. “It’s starting to pick up here close to the end of the year.”

Dworak sees patients with a lot of different conditions, with back and neck pain among the most common. He sees patients of all ages.

“We see kids all the way up to grandmas and grandpas, as well,” he said.

Dworak, originally from Ord, Neb., earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and received his med-ical training at Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Mo. Following graduation, he spent three years at a Kearney clinic.

“I treated a lot of patients right away, which is nice,” he said. “I got experience and got to see a lot of different condi-tions.”

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Now that the end of 2012 is near, that means it’s another year closer to the completion of one of the big-gest projects this area has even seen – the reconstruc-tion of the Interstate system around Council Bluffs.

“Everything is on track,” said Scott Suhr, an official with the Iowa Department of Transportation. “The bulk of the work should be done in 2020 or 2021.”

When completed, the interstate, especially the I-29/80 east-west stretch on the south side of town is going to look a whole lot different – and a whole lot wider. That interstate stretch will fea-ture six lanes – three local and three express – in each direction. In fact, the project is so big it has been divided into five segments.

Expensive, too, with an estimated cost of $1 billion when completed. The funds will come from the federal and state governments.

This past year, the main focus was construction of two new bridges, along with the necessary grading work, at the west junction of I-29/80. The purpose was to line up

with the new configuration of the I-29/80 stretch between the Missouri River and the east junction of those two interstate systems. Expected completion is next year.

Relocation of numerous railroad tracks to make way for the new interstate has also been a priority. One of those removals involves the tracks for the Council Bluffs Energy Center Rail-

way behind the Lewis Cen-tral School campus.

Track relocation will allow construction of three lanes in each direction for I-29 south of its east junc-tion with I-80 and past the interchange with U.S. High-way 275.

The widening of I-80 north of its junction with I-29 past the Madison Ave-nue interchange from two to

three lanes will occur later with completion set by 2025.

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While 2012 proved to be a year full of ups and down for Iowa School for the Deaf, the outcome at the end of the year was bright.

In June, a special study committee was formed to con-duct a feasibility and planning study on the future of Iowa’s education services for students who are deaf, hard of hear-ing, blind, visually impaired or deafblind. The commit-tee, which met monthly, was appointed by the Board of Regents.

The study committee looked at eight “guiding questions” that included options of clos-ing the deaf school, merging it with programs for blind and visually impaired students or having four or five regional facilities throughout the state.

The Iowa Education Ser-vices for the Blind and Visu-ally Impaired and Iowa School for the Deaf scheduled several public hearings throughout the

summer and fall on increasing efficiencies and effectiveness in their service to students, including services provided at the state’s two special schools, ISD and the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School in Vinton.

The first public hearing was held in Vinton on July 30. A second was held at Iowa School for the Deaf on Aug. 27, which attracted more than 250 peo-ple who voiced their opinion on why the school should remain open in Council Bluffs. A third meeting, held Oct. 22, was offered in seven Iowa locations via the Iowa Communications Network. Locally, the ICN site is located on the second floor of the Careers Building on the ISD campus, 3501 Harry Langdon Blvd. Public support for saving ISD was strong.

On Nov. 27, the school announced that the feasibility and planning study commit-tee recommended that Iowa School for the Deaf’s doors should remain open.

“I think the decision, as it relates to Iowa School for the

Deaf, is very positive and one that certainly recognizes the importance and the value of ISD for not only this part of the state but for the whole state in terms of services,” said Patrick Clancy, superinten-dent of Iowa School for the Deaf and the Iowa Education Services for Blind and Visu-ally Impaired, at the meeting. “So the outcome was very good there.”

The committee’s recom-mendation, which came Nov. 26, include keeping the Iowa

School for the Deaf campus in Council Bluffs as a regional and residential school, as well as using the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School in Vin-ton. Both schools will be used for regional programs that will include classrooms for blind and deaf students.

Additionally, the committee also recommended that three regional centers be added to the continuum of educational options for the state’s visu-ally impaired, blind, deafblind, hard-of-hearing or deaf stu-

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Two schools also saw major renovations, including Edi-son and Roosevelt Elementary schools.

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Iowa Western Community College saw several renova-tions and additions during 2012.

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semester. Total cost of the project was $6.7 million and will put the college at 864 total rooms in the suite com-plex.

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“And it may involve the request for additional state appropriations,” he said. “Uti-lizing dollars differently will also be part of the process.”

The recommendations were brought to the Depart-ment of Management and were advanced to the Board of Regents at their Dec. 5 meeting for informational purposes. Action on these rec-ommendations is anticipated at the board’s Feb. 4 meeting.

“From there, it will also go to the Legislature for their action and consideration,”

Clancy said. “So we’re cer-tainly a couple of years before full implementation of the recommendations that came out of the committee work.”

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The $1 million “Gateway” sculpture on the West Broad-way viaduct was completed Oct. 30.

“Gateway” was part of the Iowa West Public Arts Master Plan, which was created in 2004 to make Council Bluffs a prosperous urban area for cultural enlightenment and public art by 2015.

Public reaction to the proj-ect has been positive, said Pete Tulipana, president and CEO of the Iowa West Foun-dation.

“The artist was struck by the beauty of the sunrises and sunsets from atop the viaduct, and they beautifully frame the art,” he said. “Then the lights take over at night.”

In June 2008, artist Ed Carpenter, 65, of Portland, Ore., was contracted to be a part of the project. The West Broadway Railroad Viaduct was a Top 5 priority to receive public art in the Iowa west Public Arts Master Plan.

Carpenter is the seventh nationally-acclaimed artist to participate in the Iowa West Foundation’s Public Arts Pro-gram.

The steel sculpture forms a peak on the viaduct, which

reopened in 2011 after a more than $16.5 million project to replace the 50-year-old struc-ture.

Project completion was delayed due to additional welding required for bolted joints. Construction began in September.

Carpenter visited Council Bluffs several times during the installation process to oversee progress.

Plans originally called for joints to be filled with mortar,

Carpenter said, but welding proved more effective. The last step to complete the 50-ton structure was to install cover plates on electric access doors.

“Gateway” stands 75 feet high from its bases on the viaduct with a width of 100-feet. Y-shaped steel pylons, made from hollow steel, rise 70 feet from two concrete bases, which rest on the north and south sides of the viaduct. There are six feet tall trans-lucent lanterns with LED lights at the tips of each pylon. Seven steel beams span from each pylon, which forms a lat-tice over the roadway.

“My intention has been to create an icon for the commu-nity while making the cross-ing of the bridge an unforget-table experience,” Carpenter said. “The name ‘Gateway’ describes its role as a cen-terpiece for Council Bluffs, regardless of whether one is traveling east or west.”

Several metro companies were involved in the proj-ect, which was fabricated in Omaha. Bluffs Electric of Council Bluffs handled all of the electrical elements. From

Omaha, the steel elements were fabricated by Puritan Manufacturing, Davis Erec-tion assembled the sculpture, Valmont completed galvanized coating, W.S. Brunch painted the structure and Keystone Glass installed the glass. Greg Peterson of Omaha served as project manager.

The Portland, Ore., firm of Grant Davis and KPFF han-dled the engineering, while another Portland company, Glass Strategies, made the

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with elements to match the viaduct’s brightly colored poles, which are a fairly recent addition to the structure as well. The lights emphasize the sculpture’s sunrise-sun-set theme. The layered glass reflects different colors so it looks different to motorists and pedestrians.

Said Carpenter: “The proof is in the pudding, I’m very happy with the results.”


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Public arts commision formed in 2012There is a new commission in Council Bluffs that will

oversee future public arts project.Approved by the City Council in June, the nine-member

Council Bluffs Public Arts Commission has been meeting regularly each month to deal with public arts issues.

The members have a lot of responsibilities. “They will definitely look at and recommend art propos-

als to the City Council,” said Larry Foster, director of city parks. “But, they will be equally encouraged to promote art, to do art projects on their own. We want them to be a pro-active group, too.”

The commission’s work will also include promoting all art and getting ideas from what the public wants in art.

Four commissioners come from city and school interests, while the other five come from the city at-large. They were chosen from 33 applicants. Art gallery owner Rob Gilmer was chosen chairman.

“I think it is going to be a productive committee,” he said.

A commission goal is a close working relationship with the Iowa West Foundation, which has been active in its own public art projects, one member said.

“We want to cooperate with them,” said Boyd Littrell. “The importance of cooperating with organizations needs to be emphasized.”

“We want them on board,” Gilmer added. “They are a resource we could go to if needed.”


Council Bluffs’ newest assisted living facility opened in October.

Hansen House Memory Care Residence at 2331 Nash Blvd. began accepting tenants in October and held a grand opening in early November.

The development held an open house and ribbon cut-ting in August but was not yet ready for people to move in, said Ron Seibel, residence director.

The one-story building is about 8,800 square feet and contains 16 apartments. There is a common lounge, kitchen, dining area, activity room and laundry room inside the building and a courtyard out-side. Meals come with each unit. There are raised plant-ing areas where residents can grow their own gardens or flowers.

Certified nursing assis-tants provide 24-hour care. A staff person will meet with residents and their families to assess individual needs.

The facility on Nash Bou-levard, which opened on Oct. 1, cares for people afflicted with a variety of dementias, including Alzheimer’s, vascu-

lar dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies, according to Rick Hansen, co-owner, who became interested in develop-ing such a facility after watch-ing his father’s health decline from Alzheimer’s.

Each room at the Hansen House features a memory box outside the door containing keepsakes to remind them “which room they live in,” Hansen said.

Residents furnish their own bed, furniture and television, with facility staff encouraging them not to buy new things. Bringing items from home

helps provide familiarity at the Hansen House.

The building is on part of the property that was formerly the site of the Holiday Inn and subsequent hotels. After the building sat vacant for an extended period of time, the city of Council Bluffs obtained the title to the land, demolished the hotel, installed infrastructure and prepared the land for redevelopment. The rest of the land has been replatted into 23 single-family lots.

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Elementary school to be converted

The former Gunn Elementary School property will become moderate income housing for seniors ages 62 and older.

The Council Bluffs school board approved the sale of the property, located at 1735 N. Broadway, to the Seldin Company for $246,500.

The offer came from Central States

Development, LLC, for $300,000 – $53,500 greater than the $246,500 offer by Seldin Company.

On Aug. 27, CSDLLC, said the company had been interested in the property since spring, but despite their presentation to the board, members voted unanimously to sell the property to Seldin Company.

On Nov. 2, Habitat Executive Director Gina Primmer announced a $4 million capi-tal campaign to redevelop two buildings in downtown Council Bluffs for use as the Habitat ReStore and as professional office space for their business operations.

Habitat purchased the buildings located at 1216 and 1228 S. Main St. in June, and they will begin an eight-month renovation around February.

Primmer said the complex would be named after Charles E. Lakin in recognition of his $1.2 million pledge to the project.

The 1216 S. Main building will become the Habitat ReStore, which is a retail outlet that sells new and used building materials, appliances, furniture and other items that are donated and resold at discount prices.

Primmer said 1228 S. Main will house

office space.The total development costs are esti-

mated at $3.4 million. The campaign total of $4 million includes a goal for additional staff for a larger ReStore and Habitat’s first-ever endowment fund.

In addition to generous philanthropic support – which includes a $500,000 grant from the Iowa West Foundation and $60,000 from American National Bank to acquire the 1216 S. Main St. building – Habitat is work-ing to generate state and federal tax credit financing through both Historic Tax Credit programs and the State of Iowa Gray Fields Tax Credit Program.

Primmer said that the public portion of the fundraising campaign will begin imme-diately and will run through the spring, until an additional $800,000 is raised.

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A series of sculptures representing the founding moment of Children’s Square in Council Bluffs were unveiled in Novem-ber.

The sculptures, titled “Pathways... Past, Present and Future,” depict the Rev. Joseph G. Lemen and his wife, Flor-ence, the three girls who were left for the Lemens to take care of and their father.

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The flood of 1881 left many homeless and spawned illnesses that led to death.

On Nov. 28, 1882, The Daily Nonpareil published its first article with the pastor’s plea to the community to help those who were struggling.

The Lemens provided shelter not only to children but to sick and elderly people, said Carol Wood, president and CEO of Children’s Square. That lasted until the 1930s or 1940s, but their focus was always primarily children.

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Work has begun on the transfor-mation of one of Council Bluffs’ older neighborhoods.

After a survey and the estab-lishment of a neighborhood asso-ciation in 2011, implementation of the Kanesville-Tinley Neighborhood Transformation Initiative began in 2012.

The multi-year initiative, sup-ported by a $216,000 grant from the Iowa West Foundation and a grant from the Pottawattamie County Community Foundation, is led jointly by the Kanesville-Tinley Neighborhood Association and Chil-dren’s Square U.S.A., the anchor agency.

The neighborhood goes from North Eighth Street on the west to North Sixth Street and Scott Street on the east and from Kanesville Boulevard on the south to Avenue G on the north. Children’s Square occupies a large section of land in the middle of the neighborhood.

On Oct. 1, 2012, Sheila Graham came on board as project coordinator.

“Really, the first year, a key part of my job is building relationships, and that’s what I’m doing,” she said. “My goal is to meet all of the house-holds in this first year.”

She has recruited block captains and held meetings with them.

“I want them to kind of be a team

and a level of leadership. I see some potential in some of these people who have stepped up.”

The neighborhood association, formed July 19, 2011, has established a community garden, arranged for improvements on a couple homes, awarded a contract for replacement of sidewalks in poor condition and collected five tons of trash on its first official cleanup day. The group has held more than 15 meetings, and 165 different individuals have attended one or more meetings, said Carol Wood, president and CEO of Children’s Square.

The association formed a part-nership with Habitat for Human-ity, which improved porches on two homes and will replace several sec-tions of sidewalk, she said. Work on the sidewalks, funded by a CURB grant from the Pottawattamie County Community Foundation, began this fall.

Officials have been talking to landlords about making repairs where needed to city codes, Graham said, but some residents are reluc-tant to press the issues because they don’t want their rent to go up.

The association board has been looking for a facility – not at Chil-dren’s Square – that could serve as a gathering place and resource center for the neighborhood, she said. It could include computers with Inter-net access that residents could use to get information or communicate.


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A downtown Council Bluffs struc-ture, vacant for years, was reborn in 2012.

The Fourth Street Parking Garage, closed since the summer of 2008, reopened on Oct. 1 following months of repair from structual damage that caused the garage’s closure.

There was no elaborate grand open-ing ceremony on that sunny, crisp October morning, just high praise from downtown workers who now had a nice, new place to park. And, that is the best ceremony of all.

“It’s great,” said local banker Matt Gronstal, as he was getting out of his vehicle on that first day. “We’ve been

waiting for this for a couple of years.”Located across the street from the

Council Bluffs YMCA, the garage was empty, except maybe for transients and graffitti writers, since 2008 after large steel beams supporting the garage floors collasped. Attempts to fix the problems failed over the years until a group headed by Scott Simp-son bought the structure in January of 2012.

Simpson, president and an owner of TS Reis, Inc., said his group made a substantial investment in repairing the structure. Besides the structual repairs, improvements were made to the upper level’s entry and exit ramps.

Lighting was installed in the enclosed areas, along with security cameras running 24/7. A new and brighter out-door PARK signed was put in place.

The renovated garage offers 286 stalls on three levels. The lower level and the Fourth Street level are avail-able on lease agreements, while the upper level offers day parking fees.

“This has been a long time coming,” Simpson said.

Gronstal couldn’t agree more as he and fellow bank employees had to park much further away businsess day during the closure.

“Now, it is real convenient. It’s only a half block away,” he said. “It’s great.”

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Harrah’s Council Bluffs Casino & Hotel officials began the process to move its gaming machines from its Missouri River boat to a renovated area inside its adjacent hotel.

The plans call for the current

convention center on the hotel’s main floor would be converted into a casino.

Future conventions would move to the Harrah’s-owned Mid-Amer-ica Center. The move, according to

officials, would generate additional revenue for the city, state and Iowa West Foundation.

Approximately 20 table games and 600 slot machines will be relo-cated to the new area.

Harrah’s to change convention center to additional casino space

Harrah’s Council Bluffs Casino & Hotel, a subsidiary of Caesars Enter-tainment Operating Co., took over Mid-America Center management for a five-year agreement on July 1, 2012, from SMG, a Pennsylvania-based copmany

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Southwest 8 Senior Services will be the lead agency for the new redesigned Planning and Service Area 6, the Iowa Commission on Aging decided Nov. 15.

The state plans to consolidate the current 13 Area Agencies on Aging into six by July 1, 2013.

“The goal for all six agencies is that, hopefully, we can do this without dis-rupting services to our clients,” said Barbara Morrison, executive director of Southwest 8, during a legislative roundtable discussion.

State officials got the ball rolling on consolidation in January 2011 but made several changes before arriving

at the current framework, she said. On April 27, the Iowa Commission on Aging approved a map that established the six Planning and Service Areas. The new PSA 6 covers 20 counties, including the five counties served by Siouxland Aging Services of Sioux City, the seven counties served by Creston’s Area XIV (a name dating from a time when there were 16 areas) and the eight counties served by Southwest 8 (Harrison, Shelby, Pottawattamie, Cass, Mills, Montgomery, Fremont and Page).

Officials from the three agencies are now working to identify best practices

and operational efficiencies and fill in the details of the plan, Morrison said. They must submit a comprehensive plan to the state by April 1.

It appears that Morrison may be the de facto director of the combined agency. The Siouxland director has decided to resign, and the Area XIV director has moved to a transit agency, she said. However, the new director will have to be ratified by the new board of directors. A new advisory council will also be established.

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