In-person Hearing Schedule
For Calendar Years 2007 & 2008 Parties and Representatives to Unemployment Insurance Contested Case
Hearings
2007 & 2008 Hearing
Schedules Available Below
During calendar years 2007 & 2008, we will visit each of
our in-person hearing sites outside of Des Moines and Council Bluffs
in accordance with the schedule below. We are again taking this
step to minimize our travel costs, to maximize our productivity
and to let you know well in advance when we will be visiting
your hearing site.
State law allows the parties, not the
agency or the administrative law judge, to choose if a hearing is to
be conducted by telephone or in person.
Telephone hearings have been your overwhelming choice.
Last year 94% of our cases were conducted by telephone.
Of the remaining 6%, half were in Des Moines or Council Bluffs,
communities in which administrative law judges are stationed.
Only 3% were scheduled for the fourteen sites listed below. To
meet the needs of the vast majority of our parties, it is
necessary to maximize the amount of time available for telephone
hearings.
All of us in state government are
facing tight budgets at a time that requests for services are growing.
Last year, we docketed 12,549 new appeals. I project we will docket a similar number in 2007 and that
our caseload in 2008 will be higher yet.
At the same time, our budget is flat at best. Travel costs associated with hearings outside Des
Moines and Council Bluffs are much higher than the costs of telephone
hearings. Time spent
traveling to the other hearing sites is time more
productively spent holding hearings and preparing decisions.
We use our limited resources most efficiently when we hold
hearings by telephone and minimize the time and cost of
traveling. The schedule
below allows us to do so.
Announcing the schedule now gives you
several months rather than two weeks’ notice of when we will be
coming to your hearing site.
You
will know when to be ready and available for a hearing.
You can also make a more informed choice of whether a hearing
by telephone or in-person best meets your needs.
If you have any questions or concerns,
you may call me at (515) 281-7082, fax me at (515) 242-5144 or e-mail
me at
.
Dan
Anderson
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Unemployment Insurance In-Person Contested Case
Hearings Schedule 2007:
1/8 - 1/12
5/7 - 5/11
9/10 - 9/14
1/22 - 1/26
4/16 - 4/20
7/9 - 7/13
10/22 - 10/26
1/29 - 2/2
4/23 - 4/27
7/30 - 8/3
10/29 - 11/2
3/19 - 3/23
8/6 - 8/10
11/26 - 11/30
2/5 - 2/9
6/4 - 6/8
10/15 - 10/19
2/12 - 2/16
6/18 - 6/23
11/5 - 11/9
3/5 - 3/9
7/23 - 7/27
11/12 - 11/16 (Holiday 11/12)
3/12 - 3/16
7/16 - 7/20
12/3 - 12/7
Unemployment
Insurance In-Person Contested Case Hearings Schedule 2008:
-
Carroll/Creston
3/10 – 3/14
6/16 – 6/20
11/10 – 11/14
(Holiday 11/11)
-
Cedar Rapids
1/21 – 1/25
(Holiday 1/21)
4/28 –
5/02
7/14 – 7/18
11/03 – 11/07
-
Davenport
1/07 –
1/11
4/07 – 4/11
7/07 – 7/11
10/06 – 10/10
-
Dubuque-Decorah
3/03 –
3/07
7/21 – 7/25
12/01– 12/05
-
Fort Dodge-Mason
City
2/18 – 2/22 (Closed 2/18)
8/18 – 8/22
11/17 –
11/27
-
Ottumwa-Burlington
3/30
– 4/04
8/04 – 8/08
12/08 – 12/12
-
Sioux City/Storm Lake/
Spencer
1/14 –
1/18 5/05 – 5/09
9/15 –
9/19
-
Waterloo
2/04 –
2/08
6/02 – 6/06
09/29 – 10/03