Audit report on the City of Oakville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Oakville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on a special investigation of the City of Stockton for the period July 1, 2004 to October 31, 2010

Report on a special investigation of the City of Stockton for the period July 1, 2004 to October 31, 2010

Audit report on the City of Palo, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Palo, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Olin, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Olin, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Stockton, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Stockton, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Walking a Fine Line: An Investigation of the Monticello Mayor and City Council, July 5, 2011

Iowa Citizen Aide - Ombudsman Office received a complaint on February 22, 2010, concerning the manner in which the mayor and several city council members for the City of Monticello (City) attempted to remove the city administrator from his position. It was alleged that the mayor and at least one council member went to the homes of other council members and sought their signatures on a letter of offer requesting the city administrator to resign or face a vote to terminate his employment. We were asked to investigate whether this action complied with Iowa’s Open Meetings Law.

Geometría del margen S.E. de la Cuenca del Ebro: discordancias progresivas en el Grupo Scala Dei, Serra de la Llena (Tarragona)

El Grupo Scala Dei, localizado en el margen meridional oriental de la cuenca del Ebro, representa la respuesta sedimentaria a los cabalgamientos desarrollados en las Cadenas Costeras Catalanas. En la Serra de la Llena los 1600 m de materiales aluviales se organizan en cuatro megasecuencias principales (M,-M,) separadas por discordancias angulares. Los nuevos datos paleomastológicos indican un influjo de materiales terrígenos gruesos durante un período que abarca desde un Luteciense superior-Bartoniense en la base, hasta un Catiense medio-superior. La sedimentación en la Serra del Montsant continua hasta la parte media del Catiense superior. La tasa media de acumulación (expresada en términos de centímetros cada mil años- kilo años- K. a,), en la Serra de la Llena, es de 13 crn1K.a. para la megasecuencia inferior (M,), de 7,5 cm/ K.a. para M,-M, y de 6 cm /K.a. para la última y mas fina (M,). La disposición general de los depósitos de la Serra de la Llena con una doble flexión monoclinal buzante al NW indica un control tectónico de la deposición mediante dos estructuras diferentes en profundidad. Las discordancias progresivas desarrolladas en los anteflancos de los anticlinales indican una moción continuada, así como un equilibrio entre la tasa de levantamiento vertical y la tasa de acumulación de sedimentos. Las discordancias progresivas se han desarrollado principalmente en función de la componente tectónica vertical y por la rotación continuada del flanco de antepaís de los anticlinales.

Report on a special investigation of the City of Garner for the period January 1, 2006 through February 22, 2011

Report on a special investigation of the City of Garner for the period January 1, 2006 through February 22, 2011

Report of Recommendations to the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Iowa State Fair Campgrounds: Country Comfort, Big City Style, 2007

This brochure describes the campground and facilities on the Iowa State Fairgrounds. It also includes a map and contact information.

Audit report on the City of Wapello, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of Wapello, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

A Transportation Safety Planning Tool for the City of Ames, August 2011

The historically-reactive approach to identifying safety problems and mitigating them involves selecting black spots or hot spots by ranking locations based on crash frequency and severity. The approach focuses mainly on the corridor level without taking the exposure rate (vehicle miles traveled) and socio-demographics information of the study area, which are very important in the transportation planning process, into consideration. A larger study analysis unit at the Transportation Analysis Zone (TAZ) level or the network planning level should be used to address the needs of development of the community in the future and incorporate safety into the long-range transportation planning process. In this study, existing planning tools (such as the PLANSAFE models presented in NCHRP Report 546) were evaluated for forecasting safety in small and medium-sized communities, particularly as related to changes in socio-demographics characteristics, traffic demand, road network, and countermeasures. The research also evaluated the applicability of the Empirical Bayes (EB) method to network-level analysis. In addition, application of the United States Road Assessment Program (usRAP) protocols at the local urban road network level was investigated. This research evaluated the applicability of these three methods for the City of Ames, Iowa. The outcome of this research is a systematic process and framework for considering road safety issues explicitly in the small and medium-sized community transportation planning process and for quantifying the safety impacts of new developments and policy programs. More specifically, quantitative safety may be incorporated into the planning process, through effective visualization and increased awareness of safety issues (usRAP), the identification of high-risk locations with potential for improvement, (usRAP maps and EB), countermeasures for high-risk locations (EB before and after study and PLANSAFE), and socio-economic and demographic induced changes at the planning-level (PLANSAFE).

Audit report on the City of St. Charles, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the City of St. Charles, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Agreed upon procedures report on the City of Woolstock, Iowa for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010

Agreed upon procedures report on the City of Woolstock, Iowa for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010