Politics & Government

Price Lab Letters Unsent?

Iowa Board of Regents executive director told Cedar Falls Patch that the board did receive critical comments on Price Lab School closing.

 

Cedar Falls Patch reported on Tuesday that dozens of letters meant for the Iowa Board of Regents, prior to its vote to close Price Lab School at the University of Northern Iowa, went undelivered. According to batches of emails Patch obtained through an open records law request, Regents Executive Director Bob Donley told the communications director .

However Donley told Patch Wednesday that the regents did receive all letters, according to a posted to CedarFalls.Patch.com.

Find out what's happening in Amesfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

Donley said the regents notified him that many of the emails the board office was forwarding were duplicates of messages they were receiving independently.

"Many of these individuals were communicating directly with the regents," Donley said. Others, he said, had clearly been copy and pasted from other letters.

Find out what's happening in Amesfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

More from Ames