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Preliminary police building
information highlighted
Council moving
forward with
smaller design
By JEFF HUTTON
TIMES-REPUBLICAN
The architect in charge of designing a new police station for Marshalltown presented new cost estimates
Tuesday based on a scaled-back verT-R PHOTO BY JEFF HUTTON
sion of the proposed facility.
James Estes with Wilson Estes Police Architects discusses preliminary numbers on a
At a special Marshalltown City
possible new police station with members of the Marshalltown City Council Tuesday
Council meeting, James Estes with
afternoon.
Wilson Estes Police Architects of
Kansas City, Mo., shared preliminary
figures on what a 33,947-square-foot
facility might cost, should taxpayers
approve the measure through a bond
election next May.
Following an original assessment,
Wilson Estes estimated a new 43,054square-foot police station would cost
at estimated $16 million.
But after meeting with the local
police department, its staff and others
— the architects “shaved” off roughly
9,100 square feet from the proposed
facility, thus reducing the size and the
cost — an estimated $12.5 million.
Estes said the ability to trim back
on the facility while maintaining the
ability for the department to meet its
goals and perform their duties was important.
“We wanted to provide enough
space to perform their operations ...
and make sure it’s not too grandiose,”
he said. “Square footage is the single
greatest driver in costs.”
According to new revisions, the
proposed facility, the actual “brick and
mortar” as well as earthwork,
drainage, parking, landscaping, etc., is
estimated at just more than $9.5 million; an additional $2.9 million inPOLICE | A3
141 — mostly
children — killed
in Pakistan attack
T-R PHOTO BY SARA
JORDAN
Branden Storjohann receives a
surprise from
his family
Tuesday at the
Junction Bar &
Grill in Marshalltown
Turning the tables on returning sailor
Family surprises
loved one home
on leave
By SARA JORDAN
TIMES-REPUBLICAN
Branden Storjohann, 19,
thought he was surprising his
fiance, Casey Matney, 20,
when he planned an early visit
home on leave. But Casey
learned Branden was coming
home and decided to surprise
him instead.
Casey and Branden’s family held a welcome home reception Tuesday at the
Junction Bar & Grill inside the
Best Western Regency Inn.
“He thinks he is surprising
Casey,” father Joel Storjohann
said. When Branden arrived,
he was met with four generations of relatives holding welcome home signs. After
hugging his great-grandparents, Branden finally made it
over to Casey for a big hug.
High school sweethearts, the
couple went to school at
BCLUW in Conrad.
Branden is a culinary spe-
cialist aboard the USS Essex in
San Diego, Calif. He originally
told Casey he could only stay
four days, but will actually be
able to stay over a week. Branden and Casey are getting married Dec. 27 at the Church of
Christ in Liscomb. Unfortunately the honeymoon will be
cut short, as Branden has to return to the ship next day.
He flew back from San
Diego Monday night and had a
layover in Atlanta on his way
back to Des Moines, where
mother Penny Gummert and
sister Haley Storjohann picked
him up at the airport and drove
him to Marshalltown.
Four generations of relatives met for the homecoming.
Great-grandfather Alvin Storjohann, 92, great-grandmother
Stella, 89, who will be celebrating their 69th wedding anniversary on Dec. 30 were in
attendance, as well as grandparents Steve and Alecia Storjohann,
great-aunt
Deb
Mettlin, and cousin Christy
Halverson. Friend Montana
Lechner came to lend her support, as well as Casey’s sisterin-law Alicia Matney.
SAILOR | A3
By RIAZ KHAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
T-R PHOTO BY SARA JORDAN
Casey Matney, left, surprised her fiancé, Branden Storjohann, during
a welcome home reception Tuesday in Marshalltown.
Obama signs $1.1 trillion spending bill into law
By JIM KUHNHENN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — With little fanfare to mark a rare bipartisan achievement, President Barack Obama on
Tuesday signed a massive, $1.1 trillion
spending bill that keeps the government operating over the next nine
months.
The legislation was a compromise
that angered liberals and conservatives
alike but avoided a government shutdown and put off partisan clashes over
immigration to next year.
It was one of the last acts of Congress under the current Republican
House and Democratic-controlled
Senate. In January, the new Congress
will return with Republicans in charge
of both chambers.
AP PHOTO
Relatives of Pakistani student, Baqir Ali Bangash, 13, a victim of
a Taliban attack in a school, carry his body for burial, during his funeral procession in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday. Taliban gunmen
stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of
Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least 100 people, mostly children.
The measure retains cuts negotiated in previous budget battles and
rolls back some banking regulations.
But it also retains spending for
Obama’s health care law and pays for
the administration’s fight against
Ebola.
The Department of Homeland Security, however, will only receive its
money through Feb. 27, a condition demanded by Republican leaders to appease critics of Obama’s immigration
measures. The department oversees the
nation’s immigration enforcement.
The agreement, negotiated mainly
by Senate Democratic leader Harry
Reid and House and Senate Republican leaders, was the result of a determined effort by House Speaker John
Boehner and Senate Republican leader
Mitch McConnell to avoid a govern-
ment shutdown like the partial one in
2013 that damaged the GOP’s standing
with the public.
Still, conservatives such as Sen. Ted
Cruz of Texas chafed at Boehner’s and
McConnell’s decision not to use the
spending bill to challenge or undo
Obama’s executive actions on immigration, especially ones that aim to
shield more than 4 million immigrants
from deportation and make them eligible for work permits.
Likewise, liberals complained
about a provision that did away with a
requirement that large banks spin off
their lucrative derivatives business into
separate subsidiaries. They also objected to a provision that permits
wealthy political donors to increase
substantially their contributions to the
Democratic and Republican parties.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan —
In the deadliest slaughter of innocents in Pakistan in years,
Taliban gunmen attacked a
military-run school Tuesday
and killed 141 people — almost all of them students —
before government troops
ended the siege.
The massacre of innocent
children horrified a country already weary of unending terrorist attacks. Pakistan’s
teenage Nobel Peace laureate
Malala Yousafzai — herself a
survivor of a Taliban shooting
— said she was “heartbroken”
by the bloodshed.
Even Taliban militants in
neighboring Afghanistan decried the killing spree, calling
it “un-Islamic.”
If the Pakistani Taliban extremists had hoped the attack
would cause the government to
ease off its military offensive
that began in June in the country’s tribal region, it appeared
to have the opposite effect.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
pledged to step up the campaign that — along with U.S.
drone strikes — has targeted
the militants.
“The fight will continue.
No one should have any doubt
about it,” Sharif said. “We will
take account of each and every
drop of our children’s blood.”
Taliban fighters have struggled to maintain their potency
in the face of the military operation. They vowed a wave of
violence in response to the operation, but until Tuesday,
there has only been one major
attack by a splinter group near
the Pakistan-India border in
November. Analysts said the
school siege showed that even
diminished, the militant group
still could inflict horrific carnage.
The rampage at the Army
Public School and College
began in the morning when
seven militants scaled a back
wall using a ladder, said Maj.
Gen. Asim Bajwa, a military
spokesman. When they
reached an auditorium where
Bush (almost) announces;
he’ll ‘explore’ candidacy
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Jeb Bush answered the
biggest question looming over the Republican Party’s
next campaign for the White House on Tuesday, all but
declaring his candidacy for president more than a year
before the first primaries. | A8
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Ruble collapse shakes
Russian economy,
consumers
MOSCOW — Russian President
Vladimir Putin faces a major new challenge after a catastrophic fall in the value
of the ruble, which hit a new low Tuesday
despite the Central Bank’s desperate efforts to halt the selling. | A7
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