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Residents urge Grimes council to pause plan to put administration building in Waterworks Park
Summary
Multiple residents told the Grimes City Council they learned late that the city planned an administration building in Waterworks Park, alleging inadequate notice, missing records and potential violations of Iowa open-meetings and public-records laws; callers asked the council to release contracts and pause the project.
Residents filled the public forum at the Jan. 13 Grimes City Council meeting to press the council to halt plans to site a new administration building in Waterworks Park and to disclose related records.
Brian Hansen told the council the project lacked adequate public notice and that minutes and video for key decisions were missing, saying, “we don’t know what we don’t know if you guys don’t tell us.” Kristen Hansen said contracts related to the project were signed as early as March 2024 but that the public was not broadly informed until December 2025 and only to residents within a 250-foot notice radius; she said she had been quoted a $14,000 fee to obtain records and declared, “Silence is not compliance,” before asking the council to release contracts, alternative-site records and to pause further action until legal compliance and transparency…
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