People “see” things in different ways. For Brandon Kimble, design technician specialist in the Office of Design, that vision comes in three dimensions.
Getting our kids to school safely takes the cooperation of an entire community. Iowa’s Safe Routes to School program is a way to bring community planners, school officials, and parents together with that common goal.
A new law passed by the 2013 Iowa Legislature in House File 215 will allow parents who home school their children to teach driver education in certain circumstances. The law requires the Iowa DOT to develop rules for approved courses suitable for parents who home-school. Once courses have been identified and approved, they will be posted on the Iowa DOT’s website.
This segment of the Transportation Matters for Iowa blog is a space where Iowa DOT employees can share family milestones with their co-workers. Celebrating life events like the birth of a new baby, a wedding, retirement or other personal news brings us closer together as an Iowa DOT family. If you are an employee and want to submit information for this section, please click on the "submit a story" link in the upper right corner or contact the correspondent in your office or work location.
There is a quiet hero in our midst. On an otherwise seemingly normal day two friends, Dan Miner, highway technician senior in the District 1 materials office, and Burt Chaska, materials technician 5 in the Office of Construction and Materials, went to lunch at a popular Ames restaurant.
Much has changed at the Iowa DOT in the last 30 years. One thing that had not changed was the logo that we associate with the agency. In January, a new logo was adopted as the identifying mark of the agency and the mark will be implemented over the next five years.
The Iowa DOT continues to find ways to make our processes simpler and easier for our customers. In January, the agency began accepting payments that allow motor carrier customers to use Dwolla when filing and paying International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) returns and International Registration Plan (IRP) fees. As the only online payment option for the nearly 55,000 annual transactions, the new partnership provides the state and its taxpayers a streamlined online process, reduced turnaround time, an alternative to costly card payments and mailed checks, and a reduction in clerical errors and administrative costs.
Information supplied by the Office of Employee Services for Dec. 6, 2013 to Jan. 2, 2014.