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I'm Beau Klaver from Kamrar Iowa. I grew up on our family's century farm where I am now a 6th generation farmer. I am a graduate of Webster City High School and from Iowa State University. I started a precision drone spraying business in 2023 and have built the business from the ground up. I have clerked in the Iowa Senate to learn the legislative process in Iowa and gained experience on what it takes to work with other legislators to get strong legislation passed. I am a member of the Hamilton County Farm Bureau Board. At Iowa State I was the president of Bacon Expo, the largest agriculture philanthropic event at ISU and was awarded the Carolyn Ulestad Unsung Hero Award for my philanthropy work.
Q1.How will electing you improve the two parties working together better at the Iowa State House?
A1. If elected to the state legislature I would work well with other legislators to improve good policy for the state and be open to ideas if they are for the betterment of the future of Iowa.
Q2.How can you impact the concentration of the population in the metro areas and create more business, industry and residential growth in the cities with populations under 10,000 in population.
A2. I believe that in order to help out our cities with populations of less than 10,000 we need to focus on economic growth and creating affordable housing while maintaining a lower cost of living.
Q3. How would you make housing and property taxes more affordable, while protecting essential local services? Consider the fixed income of senior citizens and young families in your answer.
A3. In order to maintain property taxes and keep our local essential services we need to continue to work to tighten government spending to run more efficiently so one is not taxed out of their own home and it is affordable to buy a home for younger individuals.
Q4. What specific changes would you try to implement to improve student achievement, retail qualified teachers and help recruitment efforts from rural and smaller school districts that would provide a quality education for our youth?
A4. The first step that I would look at is reducing the amount of administrative work that is required of teachers so they are truly able to focus on teaching their students. I would also like to work on efforts for incentives to teachers to teach in the rural and smaller school districts.
Q5.Do you have ideas for ways to attract healthcare professionals and doctors to our smaller and rural communities? Do you have suggestions for keeping our costs, such as tax supported hospitals, in line with what the residents in our small towns can afford?
A5. Ways that we can attract healthcare professionals to our rural and smaller communities would be to work together with some loan repayment options and then making sure that they are fully equipped with modern technology to compete with larger hospitals. To keep costs in line with what our residents can afford we need to create a more efficient environment and maximize tax dollars.
Q6. If you are elected, what would be your top priority in getting legislation passed, and what steps would you take to get it passed?
A6. The very first priority of mine would be to work to retain our young individuals in our rural areas. I will work to expand jobs and create more economic growth for House District 55. I would also like to expand the Choose Iowa program, an initiative created by Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig. The steps that I would take is to create legislation to expand access for our schools to buy more locally grown food to support our local producers.