EDI Grant, Mississippi River CtCITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
May 15, 2001
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
EDI - Special Purpose Grant Closeout
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Interpretive
Center
Housing and Community Development Director David Harris is recommending closeout
of the $800,000 Economic Development Initiative (EDI) Special Project grant from the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Upper Mississippi River
National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Interpretive Center on behalf of the Dubuque County
Historical Society.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
MiChael C. Van Milligen
MCVM/jh
Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel
David Harris, Housing and Community Development Director
TO:
FROM:
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
Michael Van Milligen, City Manager
David Harris, Housing and Community Development Department
May 15, 2001
SUBJECT: EDI- Special Purpose Grant Closeout
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Interpretive Centerr
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to request the City Council's approval ora resolution
authorizing the closeout of the Economic Development Initiative (EDI) Special Project grant
fi:om the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Upper Mississippi River
National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Interpretive Center on behalf of the Dubuque County
Historical Society.
BACKGROUND
An Economic Development Initiative (EDI) Special Project Grant of $800,000 was received by
the City of Dubuque on behalf of the Dubuque County Historical Society in 1999. The grant
provided design development, including architectural, engineering, and exhibit design services,
for the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Interpretive Center, which
will be part of the River Discovery Center.
The grant paid for the professional planning and consulting for the project, including the
preparation of bid documents for the interpretive center. The project plans are now 100 %
complete and exhibit design documents are 30% complete. The planners engaged for the project
were Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis (EHDD) of San Francisco and the exhibit design firm
of Lyons Zaremba of Boston. The planning process involved extensive planning effort by the
contracted consultants. To date all $800,000 has been expended.
The attached final report regarding the use of the EDI grant funds has been prepared in
cooperation with Jerry Enzler, Executive Director of the Dubuque County Historical Society.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council authorize the closeout of the $800,000 EDI-Special
Project grant on behalf of Dubuque County Historical Society for the Upper Mississippi River
National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Interpretive Center.
ACTION STEP
The action step for the City Council is to adopt the attached resolution, which authorizes the
Mayor to sign the certificate of project completion and grant closeout agreement.
Prepared by Aggie Kramer, Community Development Specialist
RESOLUTION NO. 205-01
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR CLOSEOUT OF THE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (EDI) SPECIAL PROJECT GRANT NO.
B-99-SP-IA-0085 FOR THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL
WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE INTERPRETIVE CENTER ON BEHALF
OF THE DUBUQUE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Whereas, the U.S. Depamnent of Housing and Urban Development awarded the EDI
Special Project Grant No. B-99-SP-IA-0085 for $800,000 to the City of Dubuque for work
associated with the development of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish
Refuge Interpretive Center; and
Whereas, the Dubuque County Historical Society, the sub-grantee for said project, has
utilized the grant funds for project design development and has expended the $800,000 as per the
sub-grantee contract dated August 16, 1999.
NOW TI-IEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. That the Mayor is hereby authorized to sign the Certificate of Project
Completion and Grant Closeout Agreement for the Economic Development Initiative (EDI)
Special Project Grant No. B-99-SP-IA-085 for the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife
and Fish Refuge Interpretive Center.
Section 2. That the Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to execute and submit said
closeout forms to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development together with such
documents as may be required.
Passed, approved and adopted this 21 day of May 2001.
Attest: Karen M. Chesterman, Deputy City Clerk
Terrance M. Duggan,
Mayor
RESOLUTION NO. -2001
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR CLOSEOUT OF THE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (EDI) SPECIAL PROJECT GRANT NO.
B-99-SP-IA-0085 FOR THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL
WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE INTERPRETIVE CENTER ON BEHALF
OF THE DUBUQUE COUNTY IHSTORICAL SOCIETY.
Whereas, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the EDI
Special Project Grant No. B-99-SP-IA-0085 for $800,000 to the City of Dubuque for work
associated with the development of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish
Refuge Interpretive Center; and
Whereas, the Dubuque County Historical Society, the sub-grantee for said project, has
utilized the grant funds for project design development and has expended the $800,000 as per the
sub-grantee contract dated August 16, 1999.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. That the Mayor is hereby authorized to sign the Certificate of Project
Completion and Grant Closeout Agreement for the Economic Development In/tiative (EDI)
Special Project Grant No. B-99-SP-IA-085 for the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife
and Fish Refuge Interpretive Center.
Section 2. That the Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to execute and submit said
closeout forms to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development together with such
documents as may be required.
Passed, approved and adopted this day of May 2001.
Attest:
Terrance M. Duggan, Mayor
Jeanne F. Schneider, City Clerk
FINANCIAL STATUS REPORT
(Short Form)
Follow instructions on the back)
1. Federa[Agency and Organizational Element 2. Federal Grant or Other Identifying Number OMB Approval Page of
to Which Report is Subm~ed Assigned By Federal Agency No.
0348-0039 'J
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development B-99-SP-IA-0085
3. Recipient Organization (Name and complete address, including ZIP code)
City of Dubuque
50 West 13th Street
Dubuque, IA 52001
4. EmployerldentiflcafionNumber 5. RecipientAccountNumberorldentEying Number 6. FinalReport 7~ Basis
42-6004596 [] Yes [] No [] Cash [] Accrual
8. Funding/Grant Period (See Instiuctions) 9. Period Covered by this Report
From: (Month, Day, Year) To: (Month, Day, Year) Fram: (Month, Day, Year) To: (Month, Day, Year)
10-1-1999 10-1-2004 I 10-1-1999 , 3-31-2001
10. Transac~ons I I I II I III
Previously This Cumulative
Reported Period
a. Total outlays 800,000 800,000
o
b. Recipient share of outlays
c. Federal share of outlaysI I~ 800,000
d. Total unliquidated obligations
e. Recipient share of unliqu[dated obligations
f. Federal share of unliquidated obligations
g. Total Federal share (Sum of lines c and f)
800,000
h. Total Federal funds authorized for this funding period ~ 800,00~
i. Unobligated balance of Federal funds (Line h minus line g)
a. Type of Rate (Place "X' in appropriate box)
11. indirect [] Provisional [] Predetermined [] Final [] Fixed
Expense b. Rate c. Base d. Total Amount e. Federal Share
12. Remarks: At~chanye~planalionsdeemed necessa~y~rinf~rma~i~nrequiredbyFedera~sp~ns~ringagencyinc~mp~iancew~thg~vem~ng~egis[a~n~
13. Ce~ficafion: ~cer~ifyt~thebest~fmykn~w~edgeandbe~iefthatthisrep~rtisc~rrectandc~mp~eteandthata~~~ut~aysand unliquidate(
obligations are for the purposes set for[h in the award documents.
Typed or Printed Name and Title Telephone (Area code, number and extension)
David Harris, Housing and Community Development Director
319-589-4239
Signat~re~f Auth~ri~d CertETing Official Date Report Submit[ed
Standard Form 269A (REV 4-88)
Prescribed by OMB Circulars A-102 and A-110
Community and Economic
Development Department
50 West 13th Street
Dubuque, Iowa 52001-4864
Housing and Urban Development Upper Mississippi River
National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Interpretive Center Planning Grant
Final Report
EDI - Special Project Grant B-99-SP-IA-0085
City of Dubuque
October 1, 1999 To March 31, 2001
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES
The City of Dubuque, working with the Dubuque County Historical Society and Mississippi River
Museum, received an EDI grant of $800,000 to develop plans for the interpretive center for the
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. The interpretive center is to be located
at the 3rd Street Ice Harbor and 4th Street Peninsula in Dubuque, an area of slum and blight that
will be transformed by this project.
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is the longest refuge in the 48
contiguous United States. It stretches 261 miles from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island, Illinois
and includes 194,000 acres of federally protected land. There is no major interpretive center for this
refuge at present, even though the refuge has over 3 million visitors a year (as many as Yellowstone
National Park).
This new Interpretive Center will provide a 65,000 square foot building for exhibits, archives,
offices, and visitor services. Adjacent to the interpretive center will be an outdoor wetland with
living history stations; an outdoor boat building interpretation m'ea; an educational boat and
breakfast on board the steamboat William M Black; and an examination of the cultural landscape
surrounding the museum.
The 65,000 square foot building will be added to the existing Woodward Riverboat Museum
building and will contain exhibits, interactive classroom galleries, a changing exhibit gallery,
archive and reading room, offices, and museum support services.
The exhibits will engage the public in a discussion of the rivers - past, present and future. For
example, a River Planning Stream Table will let visitors see how manipulation of rivers over time
has changed them from their "natural" state. Visitors will see the effects of dams, cutoffs,
impoundments, reservoirs, cutoffs and other changes we have made to the river.
The River Flood Table will be a scale model of a stretch of the river. By operating levers on the
side of this model, visitors will be able to add or remove floodwalls and experiment with other
forms of flood prevention.
Service People Integrity Responsibility Innovation Teamwork
Five major aquaria will show the distinct habitats that we have helped create by the introduction of
the lock and dam system on the upper Mississippi River in the 1930s. The bottomland forest
aquarium will show a bottomland area inundated with floodwaters with muskrat and fish swimming
about the submerged tree minks. The backwater marsh will show the most diversity including
catfish, turtles and diving ducks.
The main channel aquarium will present a wall of water 35 feet wide and 9 feet high, the depth the
Corps of Engineers maintains for navigation for towboats. A dredge cut in the river will show the
change in the river bottom caused by dredging. Giant catfish, sturgeon, paddlefish and other fish
will swim in the new habitat created by our river manipulation. Ten smaller aquaria will show the
smaller inhabitants of the river.
The Discovery Wetlab will explore changes made to the river over time through human
civilization. It will offer "the invisible river" with large-view microscopes and the "touchable
river," with touch tanks. Sedimentation and pollution will be compared with water samples from
different parts of the river.
River of Choices will ask visitors to make choices for the river today on keypads next to their seats.
Should the locks and dams be lengthened to allow longer tows? What should be done about the
destructive zebra mussels brought in by riverboats? Should flood walls be removed from the river?
The votes will be tabulated and the new "river" created by visitor opinion will be projected onto the
screen, along with tire impacts to the economy, recreation, and the environment.
The EDI grant of $800,000 paid for the professional planning and consulting for the project,
including the preparation of bid documents for the interpretive center. The project plans are now
100 % complete and are being prepared for bid on April 12, 2001.
The planners engaged for the project were: Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis of San Francisco.
EHDD was the architect of the award winning Monterrey Bay Aquarium and has designed
interpretive centers and aquariums across the country: Including recent work at the Shedd
Aquarium in Chicago.
Lyons, Zaremba exhibit designers from Boston are the designers of the Tennessee Aqtmrium, the
world's largest freshwater aquarium. Recent projects include the Charleston, South Carolina
Aquarium.
The planning process involved several meetings in Dubuque and extensive planning effort by the
contracted consultants. Meeting dates, which were funded by this project, took place on: April 26-
27,2000; June 9,2000;June 14~ 15,2000;July 19-20, 2000;August 29-31,2000;September 19-
20,2000;February 20-22,2001
As a result of tkis project, an area of slum and blight is being transformed into a major economic
and cultural center, which will provide outstanding benefits to the residents and visitors of the area.
Products created by this project include the following: Exhibit design documents 30% complete;
Construction documents 100% complete; Project specifications booklet
City staff Aggie Kramer, Community Development Specialist, monitored the project costs and
verified applicable costs as provided by the grant were undertaken for the project. Paid invoices
certified that $25,469 was expended for travel and $774,531 for contractual expenses, as provided
in the grant budget summary. Project costs not covered by this EDI grant were funded by private
gifts and state grants.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
GRANT CLOSEOUT AGREEMENT
FOR
1999 EDI-SPECL4L PROJECT GRANT NO. B-99-SP-IA-0085
This Agreement, enter into by and between City of Dubuque. IA, hereinafter referred to as
"Grantee") and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to
as "HUD").
1. Whereas, the Grantee undertook activities with financial assistance from HUD provided
pursuant to the authority of Title II of Public Law 105-276 for project no. B- 99 - S P- I A- 0085
hereinafter referred to as "Project".
2 Whereas, the Grantee and HUD entered into a Grant Agreement dated n~, ~ lqqq, ,as
revised by amendments, hereinafter referred to as the "Grant Agrie~rfiefit", and;
3. Whereas, the authorized and specified activities which comprise the project have been
completed by the Grantee and/or other participating panics, as required by the Grant Agreement,
and;
4. Whereas, the Grant Agreement requires compliance with 24 CFR Part 84 or 85, as
applicable, which includes requirements continuing after Project completion related to use and
disposition of real or personal property purchased with Federal funds, retention of and access to
records after close-out dis-allowances of Grant payments, and collection of amounts due;
5. Whereas, the parties hereto desire to close-out the project in reliance upon: 1) Grantee's
final progress/performance report including financial data and a performance/narrative report;
and 2) the Grantee's Certificate of Project Completion.
Now therefore, in consideration of the mutual covenants, promises and representations
contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section A. The Grantee shall continue to comply with the applicable requirements of
24 CFR Part 84 or 85, as applicable, related to the use and disposition of real or personal
property purchased with Federal funds, retention of and access to records, after close-out dis-
allowances of grant payments, and collection of amounts due.
Section B. The Grantee agrees to the Total Grant Amount for the Project, including
any reduction in the grant amount caused by a decrease in cost, as indicated on the Grantee's
Certificate of Project Completion attached hereto and made a part hereof;
Section C. Any excess grant funds drawn by the Grantee, in the mount specified in
Line 5 of the Certificate of Project Completion shall have been or shall be returned immediately
to-HUD under the following repayment terms:
Section D. Any grant funds remaining in the Grantee's Line of Credit account for the
referenced Project have been reduced to zero (0) pending any final draw indicated as a positive
balance on line 7 of the Certificate of Project Completion. Grantee shall draw down this balance
within the following period or Credit to zero (0) and the Grantee shall
have waived its rights to the remaining funding.
Section E. Execution of this Agreement shall constitute completion of the Project
activities and financial closeout of project costs, except for ongoing requirements described in
Section A of this Close-out Agreement. This Close-out Agreement shall be followed as required
by the Program directives cited therein and the following additional post close-out requirements
shall be followed as committed to in the approved application which was incorporated in the
Grant Agreement:
Section F. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, such holding shall not
affect the validity of the remainder of this Agreement.
Section G. If a default occurs under this Agreement or under the Grant Agreement,
HUD may at any time proceed to protect all rights available to HUD under this Agreement or
under default provisions of the Grant Agreement.
Section H. Special Conditions required by this Agreement are attached:
This Grant Close-out Agreemem is hereby executed and delivered by the parties hereto on the
dates set forth below their respective signatures and the Grantee agrees to abide by all governing
regulations as of the datd executed by HUD.
Nanle:
Title:
Grantee's Authorized Official
Signature:
Date:
Nanle:
Stella Hall
Title:
Grant Officer
HUD's Authorized Official
Signature:
Date:
(DATE OF EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSiNG AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
CERTIFICATE OF PROJECT COMPLETION
FOR
EDI-SPECIAL PROJECT GRANT NO. B-99-SP-IA-0085
The Grantee, City of Dubuque hereby certifies that: 1) the project as described in the approved
application has been performed/completed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
executed Grant Agreement and applicable Grant award statute; 2) all data provided below fairly
reflect costs and sources of funds for the project; 3) all data are taken from the HUD approved
Financial Status Report and other current related documents; and 4) the Grantee has complied
with all the requirements of the Grant Agreement.
Description Amounts $
1) Grant amount per Grant Agreement
$800,000
2)
.3)'
Grant amount that meets the allowable and allocable
requirements, including the necessary and reasonable
standard, of OMB Circular A-87 or A-122 $800,000
Cumulative Grant funds drav~ down. ~oo~ (~d(~
4) Balance available for drawdown. 0
(line 2 minus line 3 if greater than zero)
5) Amount to be returned to HUD. 0
(line 2 minus line 3 if less than zero)
6) Unused Grant amount to be canceled by HUD
(line 1 m'mus line 3 minus line 4 if greater than zero)
Name/Title of Grantee Official Signature of Authorizing Grantee Official Date
(WARNING: Section 1001, Title 18 of U.S. Code (Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure, 72
Stat. 967) applies to the above statements.)
THIS CERTICATE OF PROJECT COMPLETION IS HEREBY APPROVED:
Stella Hall, Grant Officer
Name/Title of Authorizing
HUD Program Official
Signature of Authorizing HUD Official Date