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Meet Your Future Leaders april 21, 2017 The business journal serving Central Iowa’s Cultivation Corridor Price: $1.75 EMPLOYERS, MEET YOUR FUTURE LEADERS FINDLEY ELEMENTARY “Dreamers” DISPLAY THEIR COLLEGE GRADUATION DATES businessrecord.com | Twitter: @businessrecord @businessrecord | Twitter: businessrecord.com Employee Owned CENTRAL IOWA’S EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION SINCE 1998 Palmer Group is proud to be employee owned serving the local business community. We take great pride in our ability to connect the brightest and best employees with the area’s finest employers. Palmer Group provides a broad range of employment services including temporary and contract staffing, direct-hire and executive placement, outplacement/career transition services, along with part-time and seasonal work assignments. thepalmergroup.com April 21, 2017 CHECK OUT OUR 2017 SALARY GUIDE ONLINE 3737 WOODLAND AVENUE, SUITE 200 | WEST DES MOINES, IOWA 50266 | 515.225.7000 Business Record | | Record Business 2 CONTACT US (515) 288-3336 [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS FOLLOW US Volume 35 | Number 16 | APRIL 21, 2017 www.businessrecord.com FB: www.facebook.com/DMBusinessRecord Twitter: @BusinessRecord LEADERSHIP PUBLISHER WHO’S IN Chris Conetzkey CITY (515) 661-6081 [email protected] THIS ISSUE? A list of local people and the page number EDITORIAL of the article in which they are mentioned. @businessrecord | Twitter: businessrecord.com SENIOR STAFF WRITERS COUNCIL Joe Gardyasz JOHN “PAt” DORRIAN, 17 (515) 661-6084 [email protected] RED BRANNAN, 17 Beats: Insurance & Investments | Health & Wellness | Manufacturing & Logistics | LOSES TERRY BRANSTAD, 24 HR & Education ERIC BURMEISTER, 4 Kent Darr FRANK COWNIE, 17 (515) 661-6083 [email protected] DEAN ANGELA CURRIE, 6 Beats: Real Estate & Development | Banking & Finance | Law & Government ROBERT D. RAY, 17 Perry Beeman CHRISTINE HENSLEY PRESTON DANIELS, 17 (515) 661-6086 MARVIN DEJEAR, 4 [email protected] HAS BEEN ON THE Beats: Economic Development | Transportation | BOB DUNCAN, 4 Tech & Innovation | Energy & Environment DES MOINES CITY COUNCIL JONI ERNST, 4 NEWSROOM OPERATIONS MANAGER FOR NEARLY 24 YEARS. John Retzlaff WAYNE FORD, 4 (515) 661-6082 SHE HAS DECIDED NOT TO [email protected] RUN FOR RE-ELECTION. WE MARIO GANDELSONAS, 17 Calendar | On the Moves MARC HANSEN, 24 SPOKE TO HER ABOUT HER COPY EDITOR CHRISTINE HENSLEY, 17 Kurt Helland VICTORIES, CHALLENGES, STEVE HENSLEY, 17 ART & PRODUCTION BEAUTY TIPS FROM BILLY KIRBY, 8 SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Brianna Schechinger CONSTITUENTS, UNDONE JOSH MANDELBAUM, 17 GRAPHIC DESIGNERS BUSINESS, AND PLANS. KAREN MCLOUGHLIN, 4 Danielle Miller Lauren Hayes TIM NELSEN, 8 JILL NISWANDER, 8 PHOTOGRAPHER Duane Tinkey PAGE 17 HENNY OHR, 8 SALES TINKEY DUANE BY PHOTOS JOHN PAPPAJOHN, 17 DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING MARY PAPPAJOHN, 17 Ashley Holter CHRISTINE RICCELLI, 4 DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS THIS WEEK Katherine Harrington EMILY SHIELDS, 8 SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES BETH TOWNSEND, 4 Lori Bratrud 4 INSIDER NOTEBOOK Maria Davis EMILY WESTERGAARD, 8 Laura Stapes • The New World will have Des CONNIE WIMER, 17 MARKETING COORDINATOR Moines family to thank for pepper TOM WITOSKY, 24 Catherine Skepnek • Minority unemployment committee STEVE ZUMBACH, 17 ADMINISTRATION begins work BPC VICE PRESIDENT Jason Swanson • Cognizant sees Des Moines as BUSINESS MANAGER model for additional centers of 22 CALENDAR PICKS Eileen Jackson excellence Your first look at upcoming events ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST Becky Hotchkiss • Confronting the new urban crisis OFFICE MANAGER • News you might have missed 22 ON THE MOVE Laura Stegemann Job changes, hires and promotions INSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE Alison Damon 6 ANGELA CURRIE Take a closer look at the senior vice VOICES BPC CHAIRMAN Connie Wimer president and commercial banking We want to hear from you. To submit an BPC PRESIDENT team leader for Commerce Bank in Janette Larkin Des Moines. article for the Guest Opinion column or to send a letter to the publisher, please contact Business Record® (USPS 154-740, ISSN 1068- 6681) is published by Business Publications publisher Chris Conetzkey at (515) 661-6081 Corporation Inc., The Depot at Fourth, 100-4th 8 EMPLOYERS, MEET youR or [email protected]. April 21, 2017 Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309, (515) 288-3336. ON THE COVER: Contents © 2017 Business Record. Published Front row, left to right: Tristyn Bragg, kindergarten; Jaelyn FUTURE LEADERS weekly. Annual subscriptions $69.95. Single Dominguez, 3rd grade; Skyler Fongdara, 4th grade Three growing nonprofit organizations 23 LEARNING FROM UNITED copy price is $1.75. Copies of past issues, as Back row, from left: Lah Shee, 1st grade; Ahmed Abdella, available, may be purchased for $4.50 each. address a variety of workforce needs. Marketing: By Drew McLellan Periodicals Postage Paid at Des Moines, Iowa. 5th grade; Melany Torres-Martinez, 2nd grade POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 10 I Have a Dream Foundation - The Business Publications, The Depot at Fourth, FOCUS: HUMAN RESOURCES Dreamer Academy 100-4th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309. BARGAINING BILL HAS 24 Business Record | | Record Business 12 EMBARC Iowa connects refugees LEGAL FLAW with employment training The Elbert Files: By Dave Elbert 14 Iowa Campus Compact 3 THE INSIDER notebook CHRIS JOE KENT PERRY Bits and bites of the finer side of Iowa business CONETZKEY GARDYASZ DARR BEEMAN publisher senior staff writer senior staff writer senior staff writer The New World will Minority unemployment have Des Moines family businessrecord.com | Twitter: @businessrecord @businessrecord | Twitter: businessrecord.com committee begins work In case you to thank for pepper BY JOE GARDYASZ missed it... BY PERRY BEEMAN For Wayne Ford, the fact that Iowa A brief look back at members-only news Some people struggle to decide what to wear Workforce Development officials went to the from the past week on BusinessRecord.com to work. But the folks behind the Doomsday Vault effort to design a logo for a new statewide think about the world at the brink of The End, and committee that seeks to lower Iowa’s minority Rowat moving, they are smart enough to make sure that we’ll unemployment rate is a really big deal. selling company “We got us a logo!” exclaimed Ford, the founder always have the Riccelli family’s heirloom peppers Rowat Cut Stone & Marble Co., a to spice up life post-doomsday. Not to mention and longtime executive director of Urban Dreams fixture on the Des Moines industrial seeds that could sprout hundreds of thousands of in Des Moines, holding up a copy of a flyer during the other varieties of plants. inaugural meeting of the Minority Unemployment and landscape since 1882, is moving to The Riccelli family includes our own Outreach Standing Committee. “This is an opportunity; let’s not Norwalk and, after more than three Christine Riccelli, editor of dsm Magazine. waste it,” he told other members of the committee. decades, toward new ownership. The late-afternoon meeting at Roosevelt High School on April 11 was the She was telling us the other day how CBS flew bit.ly/2nZCYhE out a whole team that traveled around Iowa, did first of several listening posts the committee will conduct across the state to hear hours of interviews, checked into the famed Seed input from community members about how to address disparities that lead to Savers program and such, and then aired less unemployment rates among minorities in Iowa that are two to three times higher Big plans at 300mlk than a minute of footage. But you can see a nice the statewide average. The committee’s goal is to reduce the unemployment rate development print story online: cbsn.ws/2oRUOT1 among people of color by 5 percent, or to the statewide average, within five years. Michael and Lisa LaValle will open About 30 participants discussed a number of barriers that Iowans of color The Riccellis have been eating this thin- the River Center Eventorium on skinned Italian pepper for centuries. It became run into when applying for jobs, such as a lack of reliable transportation, past the south side of Rich Eychaner’s part of posterity when Theresa Riccelli received criminal records, and overcoming biases among hiring managers and human seeds as part of her wedding gift 71 years ago. resources offices. 300mlk development in downtown Along the way, the family realized they couldn’t find Other hurdles that often come up in the hiring process are credit checks and Des Moines. bit.ly/2opqtY3 another pepper like this one, and they applied to proof of auto insurance that some employers require, even for positions that don’t have it added to the famous Seed Savers Exchange require handling money or driving, participants said. In other cases, people are CRE event takeaways based in Decorah — a place known especially for trapped in low-paying positions because they would lose their child care benefits if Experiential development, tax preserving native prairie plants and dedicated to they earned a higher wage, a problem known as “the cliff effect.” preserving heirloom varieties of many species. Iowa Workforce Development Director Beth Townsend, who is serving on the reform, lending habits and tax That led to interest on the part of the committee, brought several members of her Iowa Works office team with her to incentives were just some of the Doomsday Vault, which is intended to help us the meeting. She heard firsthand the story of a 23-year-old woman who is working takeaways from our April event. in a minimum-wage job and is saddled with student debt after dropping out from reboot the landscape — or damaged bit.ly/2opGnBz parts of the landscape — should a Des Moines Area Community College. “If it’s a matter of getting you some loan hurricane, typhoon, flood or other forgiveness and getting a fresh start, that’s probably not an uncommon problem,” disaster wipe out plants. The Townsend told her. VIDEO: Five real estate vault several weeks ago added “We don’t want her to give up,” Townsend said after the committee adjourned.
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