08 08 22 City Council Proceedings Official_SpecialCITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
SPECIAL SESSION
OFFICIAL
The Dubuque City Council met in special session at 5:00 p.m. on August 8, 2022, in the
second-floor Council Chambers of the Historic Federal Building, 350 W. 6 th Street.
Present: Mayor Cavanagh; Council Members Farber, Jones, Resnick, Roussell, Sprank,
Wethal; City Manager Van Milligen, City Attorney Brumwell.
Mayor Cavanagh read the call and stated this is a special session of the City Council called
for the purpose of conducting work sessions on National Incident Management System Training
and the Bee Branch Watershed Flood Mitigation Project .
City Clerk Breitfelder announced the order of the work sessions was switched.
WORK SESSIONS (2)
1. Bee Branch Watershed Flood Mitigation Project
Civil Engineer II Deron Muehring presented on the Bee Branch Watershed Next Steps. Mr.
Muehring and City Manager Van Milligen responded to questions from the City Council
regarding the various plants located at the Bee Branch, project funding, and the green alley
program.
This work session concluded at 6:01 p.m.
2. National Incident Management System (NIMS) Training and Education
Police Chief Jeremy Jensen, Fire Chief Amy Scheller, and Tom Berger, Dubuque County
Emergency Management Director, provided an overview of the National Incident Management
System (NIMS) training and education for policy makers and elected officials. The presenters
and City Manager Van Milligen responded to questions from the City Council regarding
recommended training, the role of utility companies during a disaster, state involvement in
NIMS, and past examples of NIMS implementation in other communities. Mayor Cavanagh
requested that the City Council complete the recommended training, NIMS IS -700.B An
Introduction to the National Incident Management System, by September 8 th.
There being no further business, Mayor Cavanagh declared the meeting adjourned at
7:17 p.m.
/s/Adrienne N. Breitfelder
City Clerk