WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2017 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ News District seeks immigration board To Know The immigration task force updates the School Board on recommendations. UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital on By AUTUMN DIESBURG AND EMILY KRESSE After attending the Eastern about it,” he said. “So one of the things that national lists [email protected] Iowa Refugee Summit, Botch- I hope for this Immigrant Advisory Board is The U.S. News & World Report way said, he decided to include that we’ll provide for an opportunity to talk recognized The University A task force created to analyze the needs of a recommendation to estab- through some of the elements that are very of Iowa’s Children’s Hospital student immigrants presented its recommen- lish an Immigration Advisory important … I want to make sure that, you on their national listings for dations to the Iowa City School Board during Board to continually provide in- know, we have an Immigrant Advisory Board another year. News, 3 its meeting Tuesday evening. put and guidance for students that we can run that through as well as the Kingsley Botchway, the director of equity and their families. community at large, but it’d be good to get that and engagement for the School District, led Botchway “As we’re thinking about feedback.” Ally Disterhoft the task force to determine how the district director of equity and policy changes, we want to School Board member Phil Hemingway be- nominated for NCAA will address the two resolutions passed on engagement make sure that we’re getting award March 28. all people at the table talking SEE ICCSD, 2 Former Hawkeye basketball player is one of 543 female college NATIONAL POLITICS athletes to be nominated Disterhoft Big Kahuna makes for the Woman of the former Hawk Year award. Sports, 5 waves for playground EPA takes Iowa City Landfill raise recycling rates Starting Saturday, new rates aim at will apply to recycle items The Iowa City School Board deliberated over the redesigned plans for the new in the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Center. The minimum playground at Shimek Elementary School. waste fees will increase to Obama $6.50 for Iowa City customers, and $7 for others. Small items, such as printers, stereos, and DVD players, are $3; TV or other water rule monitors less than 18 inches are $12; screens larger than 18 inches are $17. The EPA on Tuesday to retract the clean water Mountain lion killed in rule and redefine ‘waters Ida County of the United States.’ Iowa Department of Natural Resources officers killed an 88-pound female mountain By MADELEINE NEAL lion on Monday night as a last [email protected] resort after a landowner called 911 several times. This is the The U.S. definition of “water- fourth mountain lion killed way” may be changing yet again. in Iowa and the first female, The Environmental Protection though there is no evidence Agency and the Army Corps of that she has any offspring. Engineers Civil Works formally proposed to rescind the Obama administration’s clean-water policy. The EPA also announced Metal bands come to its plan to rework terms of “the town waters of the United States.” Among jazz festivities around As the EPA submits the prop- town this weekend, there will osition for publication in the be one event not like the rest Federal Register, some Iowa poli- — Blue Moose Tap House will ticians are pleased with this an- hold a death-metal concert on nouncement. Friday. Arts, 3 Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, re- leased a statement responding to the EPA’s decision. Need for blood donors “Waters of the United States The UI DeGowin Blood center was a significant and severe case is looking for blood donors, of government overreach by the as donations decline in the Obama administration,” Reyn- summertime. The center will olds said in the statement. “I be holding a drive today at the want to thank [EPA administra- IMU sun porch from 12:30 to tor Scott] Pruitt for recognizing 4:30 p.m. Donations take about that [the Obama policy] forced 45 to 60 minutes. onerous and unnecessary bur- dens on Iowa’s farmers and busi- Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan nesses. I also want to express The School Board heard revised plans for a play structure at Shimek. Top: Two overturned basketball hoops lie on the ground at Shimek Elementary on Tues- my appreciation to the Trump Iowa Lottery to close day. Left: Playground construction at Shimek Elementary continues on Tuesday. The old wooden playground was razed after the past school year. Right: A loopholes administration for its continuing rock commemorating the donors of the former wooden playground completed in 1994 is seen on Tuesday. commitment to work with states, The Iowa Lottery plans not against them.” to tighten security after The office of Sen. Chuck Grass- allegations of retail employees The Physical Plant staff, Melissa Krishnan, whose ley, R-Iowa, referred to the sena- stealing tickets and winning By EMILY KRESSE Shimek Principal Savannah 9-year-old son will start fourth tor as an “ardent opponent of the prize money illegitimately. [email protected] Conlee, and the Parent-Teacher grade this fall and is restricted [clean water] rule.” In a state- Officials discussed plans to fix With the next school year Organization chose the equip- to a wheelchair, said it was nev- ment Tuesday, Grassley said the weaknesses at an Iowa Lottery quickly approaching, Shimek El- ment proposal from Boland Rec- er just about the Big Kahuna. withdrawal is great news for ac- Board meeting in Clive, Iowa on ementary parents have concerns reation in December 2016, and “You have entire sections of countability in government. Tuesday. about whether their children the district awarded a contract the playground that have no “This was a bad regulation will have a playground to exer- to it for the equipment the fol- play components for the mobil- drafted under a bad process,” cise on. Others are concerned lowing March for $99,275, ac- ity challenged,” she said. “Espe- Grassley said. “The EPA over- Facebook tops 2 that even if there is a structure, cording to board minutes. cially not for multiple disabili- reached its authority and ig- billion monthly users it will not be accessible to stu- Parents raised concerns that ties; it’s not just wheelchairs.” nored and manipulated legit- Facebook CEO Mark Zucker- dents with disabilities. the plans for the new play- The redesigned playground imate concerns raised by the burg announced yesterday the An ongoing con- ground did not include enough featured a zero entry stretch, public.” news. “We’re making progress versation that activities for students with dis- ADA compliant ramps, and a The release contended that connecting the world, and now started with initial abilities or access points, which step to another play structure the rule would have defined 97 let’s bring the world closer plans to replace the led to a board work session on that wheelchairs could access percent of the land in Iowa as a together,” he wrote in a post. old wooden play- May 23. with assistance. Duane Van waterway. Grassley has called on ground in 2015 con- The plans were updated based Hemert, the director of School Trump to repeal the rule since WEATHER tinued during the on the feedback from the work District Facilities Management before his inauguration. Iowa City School session and were presented to Department, said on Tuesday “Farmers, landowners, and Board meeting on Shimek parents and the PTO that he thinks they can tweak builders in Iowa struggled to HIGH LOW Tuesday. Hemingway on Monday and to the board on the design to include both the make sense of the regulation. 79 68 Board member board member Tuesday. ramp and Big Kahuna, but there Having the federal EPA and Phil Hemingway The proposed changes were are budgetary constraints and the Corps of Engineers require Mostly cloudy, windy, 70% chance of rain/T-storms. said making the met with contention. Namely, the ramps will not be ready for permits for routine land-use playground more accessible is the absence of the “Big Kahuna,” another six to seven weeks. That decisions is a waste of resourc- INDEX necessary and that “[school play- a giant fish that children and component of the playground es that are better used enforc- grounds] are public spaces and board member Phil Hemingway will not be completed in time for ing existing regulations against CLASSIFIED 7 an extension of the classroom.” can crawl through, in favor of an school, but other elements will discharging pollutants into the OPINIONS 4 The wooden playground was ADA compliant ramp. be ready. nation’s waterways,” he said. demolished a week after the A Shimek sixth-grader spoke The improvements would cost “Agencies ought to enforce the DAILY BREAK 6 2016-17 school year ended, and during the community comment close to $10,000, Van Hemert laws as Congress intended, not SPORTS 8 construction equipment has tak- time at Tuesday’s meeting to said. stretch beyond their authority to en over the land, yet changes to voice her support for the Big Board member Brian Kirsch- inflict unnecessary expense and the plans have delayed progress. Kahuna. She said students took ling said the Big Kahuna is im- red tape on law-abiding farmers The project was initially expect- the time out of their days to vote portant because “the kids did se- and employers.” ed to be completed by August, on a playground and they chose before the fall session resumes.