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IAFP Seeking Nominations for 2015
Family Physician of the Year Award
Is your Family Physician the best of the best? Do they
go above and beyond to care for their patients? Are they
active in the community? Do you think they deserve
the 2015 Family Physician of the Year Award? If so, we
want to hear about them! .
The Iowa Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) is
seeking nominations for the 2015 Family Physician of
the Year. Each year the IAFP awards one family physi-
cian the title “Family Physician of the Year” on the ba-
sis of outstanding service to patients and community
and devotion to Family Medicine.
If you would like to nominate your family physician,
send letters of nomination to the Iowa Academy describ-
ing why your family physician should receive the Fam-
ily Physician of the Year Award.
Nomination letters should be sent by August 24, 2015
to the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians, 100 E. Grand
Ave., Ste.170, Des Moines, IA 50309 or emailed to
kcox@iaafp.org.
The 2015 Iowa Family Physician of Year will be hon-
ored during the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians
Annual Installation and Awards Banquet on October 30,
2015 at the Prairie Meadows Event Center in Altoona.
In the early part of 2016, the 2015 Iowa Family Physi-
cian of the Year will be nominated for the American
Academy of Family Physicians National Family Physi—
cian of Year. '
Iowa Learning Farms to Host
Field Day in Dallas County
Iowa Learning Farms will host a field day Wednes-
day, Aug. 5, from 5:30-7:30 pm. at the Craig Fleishman
farm, 17794 Quinlan Ave., rural Minbum. The field day
will focus on the idea of integrating several conserva-
tion farming practices to help reduce soil erosion and
reduce nutrients entering Iowa’s water bodies.
Iowa Learning Farms farmer parhter Craig Fleishman
has been mindful of the changes he is making on his
farm to do his part to help with the Iowa Nutrient Re-
duction Strategy. His approach looks at the whole farm
and what he can do to improve soil health and water
quality while remaining profitable. He will share his
approach to conservation farming at the field day. At-
tendees will visit a field that has been inter-cropped with
corn, soybeans, and oats, and also a field recently planted
with a mixture of cover crops.
Speaking at the field day is Rick Cruse, Iowa State
University agronomy professor. Cruse has been work-
ing with the Iowa Daily Erosion Project and will dis-
cuss the concern of soil erosion in Iowa. Also speaking
is Bob Hartzler, an ISU Extension and Outreach Weed
specialist. He will offer tips and considerations for her-
bicides and cover crops.
Following the speakers, attendees can enjoy a com-
plimentary supper, prepared by Saddles BBQ in Madrid.
The field day is free and open to the public, but an RSVP
is requested by July 27. Contact Iowa Learning Farms
to reserve a place for the meal: phone 515-294-5429, or
email: cardfarm@netins.n‘et. .
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-William James
Question: Are job applications
public records? v
Editor’s Note: This is a monthly column prepared by the Iowa
Public Information Board to update Iowans on the IPIB’s
activities and provide information on some of the issues
routinely addressed by the board.
ANSWER: The Iowa Supreme
Court ruled in April 1988 that
under a 1984 amendment to
Chapter 22 public agencies can
make job applications confi-
dential.
In City of Sioux City V. Great-
er Sioux City Press Club, 421
N.W.2d 895 (Iowa 1988), a
five-member panel of the Iowa
Supreme Court ruled that such
confidentiality is provided for
in subsection 18 of 22.7. ;
The Court ruled that job ap-
plications might be made con-
fidential if the person so re-
quests or if the public agency
“couldreasonably believe that
those persons would be dis-
couraged” from applying if
applications were available for
public inspection.
While subsection 18 does not
provide confidentiality for
communications required by
law, rule or procedure, the
Court stated that job applica-
tions were not required as part
of the hiring process since the
job applicant is applying vol-
untarily.
In an August 1992 decision,
Des Moines Register and Tri-
bune man v. a Bar
of Regents and Douglas Cra—
m_er, Polk County Judge Ar-
thur Gamble ruled that a pri-
vate firm that had conducted
a presidential search for Iowa
State University was wrong in
keeping secret the names of
candidates who had no objec-
tions to disclosure.
To summarize, a communi-
cation to a government body
can be kept confidential under
22.7(18) only if all of the fol—
lowing exist:
(1) The communication is not
required by law, rule, proce-
dure, or contract. /
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(2) It is from identified persons
outside of government.
(3) The government body could
reasonably believe those per-
sons would be discouraged
from communicating with gov-
ernment if the information was
made public.
Nevertheless, the information
- should be released if the per—
son communicating with gov-
ernment consents to its release
or if it can be released without
identifying the person.
In addition, a communication
regarding an illegal act can be
kept confidential if disclosing
it would jeopardize a continu-
ing investigation or pose a clear
and present danger to the safety
of an individual.
(Excerpted from the IPIB web-
site FAQs, www.ipib.iowa.gov.)
