Community Connection is a video series that highlights community response efforts to the COVID-19 outbreak. Sadly, the stress factors of a crisis are often the cause of a spike in domestic violence. Mayor Bruce Teague speaks with Kristie Fortmann-Doser, Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program, and Sergeant Scott Stevens,...

The closure of City facilities to the public, including City Hall and recreation centers, has been extended indefinitely, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

On March 17, 2020, the Governor first declared a State Public Health Emergency due to COVID-19, and has since extended the emergency several times.

In accordance with the Governor's orders, and following Iowa Department of Public Health mitigation guidelines, the City has extended the following facilities closures that began in March:

Community Connection is a video series that highlights community response efforts to the COVID-19 outbreak. People are altering many aspects of daily life as we navigate this pandemic, and that will include how people cast their ballot during Iowa's Primary Election. In this episode, Mayor Bruce Teague speaks with Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert about how folks can...

The City would like to thank all transit users who have been wearing cloth masks when riding buses the past few weeks.

In order to further our goal of keeping drivers and passengers safe, and to follow the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation that cloth masks should be used where social distancing is not always possible, the City has collected roughly 175 cloth masks that transit users can have for free if they do not already have one.

The cloth masks are available at the City's Parking Office, 335 Iowa Avenue, until supplies run out. The office is...