Riprow Valley Pro. - LWCF GrantCITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
May 15, 2001
TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
LWCF Grant Agreement for the Riprow Valley Restoration Project
Planning Services Manager Laura Carstens is recommending execution of the attached
agreement with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for the $49,578 Land and
Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) grant for land acquisition for the Riprow Valley
Restoration Project.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
Midhael C. Van Milligen
MCVM/jh
Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel
Laura Carstens, Planning Services Manager
CITY OF DUBUQU£, IOWA
MEMORANDUM
May 15, 2001
TO:
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Laura Carstens, Planning Services Manager
SUBJECT: LWCF Grant Agreement for the Riprow Valley Restoration Project
This memo transmits a grant agreement with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
for the Riprow Valley Restoration Project. The Riprow Valley Restoration Project involves
the acquisition and redevelopment of over 32 acres at the east end of Julien Dubuque
Drive into a softball complex, prairie planting, picnic sites and open space.
In April, 2000, the IDNR awarded the City of Dubuque a $49,578 Land and Water
Conservation Fund (LWCF) grant to acquire land for the Riprow Valley Restoration Project.
The LWCF grant is a federally funded pass-threugh grant from the National Park Service,
which recently approved the LWCF grant for this project. An archeological survey of this
site is underway as a precursor to receipt of these grant funds.
On a side note, we learned last week that the IDNR has awarded the City a secOnd LWCF
grant of nearly $142,000 for development of the project.
1 recommend that the City Council authorize the Mayor to execute the attached agreement
with the IDNR for the $49,578 LWCF grant for land acquisition.
Attachment
cc Gil Spence, Leisure Services Manager
Icarstens~vp/mvm/dprow. doc
IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND PROGRAM
COUNTY:
PROJECT NO.:
PROJECT AGREEMENT
Dubuque
19-01181
NAME OF PARTICIPATING AGENCY: City of Dubuque
ADDRESS: 50 W. 13TM Street Dubuque, IA 52001-4864
PROJECT TITLE: Riprow Valley Restoration Project
PROJECT January 24, 2001 - December 31, 2005
PERIOD:
PROJECT SCOPE: (Description of Project)
The City of Dubuque will acquire 18 acres of land (Klauer Property) adjacent to
the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for future recreation and open
space.
PROJECT SEGMENT COVERED BY THIS AGREEMENT:
PROJECT COST:
Total Cost $ 1,382,000
Fund (LWCF) amount not to exceed 50%
Fund (LWCF) Amount $ 49,578 (3.6%)
Cost of this Segment $ 1,382,000
Assistance this $ 48,578
Segment
ATTACHMENTS:
1. General Provisions
(Dated:) March 1995
The State of Iowa, represented by the Director, Department of Natural Resources, and the local
agency named on the reverse side mutually agree to perform this agreement in accor(]ance
with the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, 78 Stat. 897 (1964) as amended, with
[he general provisions attached hereto and made a part hereof, and with the approved project
proposal including attachments and any amendment thereto which have been or will be
submitted for this project.
The State hereby promises, in consideration of the promises made by the local agency herein,
to take the necessary steps and action and to attempt to enter an agreement and any necessary
amendments to obtain federal cost-sharing for that portion of the project cost referred to on the
reverse side as "Fund Amount," to accept such funds from the United States and disburse the
same to reimburse the local agency that portion of the total project cost that is the United States'
share. It is understood by the parties hereto that this agreement shall not obligate State of Iowa
funds for the project costs described herein, to execute the project or project segment described
on the reverse side in accordance with the terms of the agreement. It is further understood that
incurred costs will not be reimbursed without written approval that such federal funds have been
encumbered.
The following special project terms and conditions were added to this agreement before the
parties signed it hereto:
A final billing for reimbursement shall be submitted to the State not later than 90 days
Following the expiration of the project period. Failure to do so shall, at the discretion
of the State, be cause for termination of the project with no further reimbursement of
funds.
The grantee shall comply with '43 CFR Part 12, Subpart B -Audit Requirements for
State and Local Governments.
STATE OF IOWA
Jeffrey R. Vonk, Director
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
LOCAL AGENCY
By: /s/ Terrance M. Duggan, Mayor
Name & Title:
May 21, 2001
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