Local Agency Pavement Marking Plan, TR-551, 2010

The proposed Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) amendments to the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) will change the way local agencies manage their pavement markings and places a focus on pavement marking quality and management methods. This research effort demonstrates how a pavement marking maintenance method could be developed and used at the local agency level. The report addresses the common problems faced by agencies in achieving good pavement marking quality and provides recommendations specific towards these problems in terms of assessing pavement marking needs, selecting pavement marking materials, contracting out pavement marking services, measuring and monitoring performance, and in developing management tools to visualize pavement marking needs in a GIS format. The research includes five case studies, three counties and two cities, where retroreflectivity was measured over a spring and fall season and then mapped to evaluate pavement marking performance and needs. The research also includes over 35 field demonstrations (installation and monitoring) of both longitudinal and transverse durable markings in a variety of local agency settings all within an intense snow plow state.

Iowa Department for the Blind Agency Performance Plan, 2013

Agency Performance Plan

Iowa Department for the Blind Agency Performance Plan, 2010

Agency Performance Plan

Iowa Department for the Blind Agency Performance Plan, 2014

Agency Performance Plan

Iowa Department for the Blind Agency Annual Report, FY2010, March 2011

Annual Report. The Department is funded through a state appropriation of General Fund dollars, which is then matched by federal grant funds. For each state dollar allocated to the Department, we receive approximately four federal dollars in matching funds.

Audit report on the South Dallas County Landfill Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the South Dallas County Landfill Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Shelby County Area Solid Waste Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Shelby County Area Solid Waste Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Crawford County Area Solid Waste Agency Commission for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Crawford County Area Solid Waste Agency Commission for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Prairie Solid Waste Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Prairie Solid Waste Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Appanoose County Service Agency in Centerville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Appanoose County Service Agency in Centerville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency for the year ended June 30, 2015

Senate File 2239 Section 30 AGENCY COLLABORATION AND REPORT

Section 30 of Senate File 2239 mandates “the Department on Aging, Department of Human Services, Department of Inspections and Appeals, Department of Public Health, and the Office of the Attorney General shall collaborate and provide written recommendations on strengthening Iowa’s elder abuse prevention, detection, and intervention efforts.

Agency problems with non-smooth decision profiles: the case of monopoly under product quality

A method for dealing with monotonicity constraints in optimal control problems is used to generalize some results in the context of monopoly theory, also extending the generalization to a large family of principal-agent programs. Our main conclusion is that many results on diverse economic topics, achieved under assumptions of continuity and piecewise differentiability in connection with the endogenous variables of the problem, still remain valid after replacing such assumptions by two minimal requirements.