Pollinator/Wildlife Friendly Areas on City PropertyCopyrighted
December 19, 2022
City of Dubuque Consent Items # 09.
City Council Meeting
ITEM TITLE: Pollinator/Wildlife Friendly Areas on City Property
SUMMARY: City Manager submitting information related to pollinator and wildlife
friendly areas that are located on city property.
SUGGESTED Suggested Disposition: Receive and File
DISPOSITION:
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Description Type
Pollinator/Wildlife Friendly Areas on City Property- City Manager Memo
MVM Memo
Staff Memo Staff Memo
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Pollinator/Wildlife Friendly Areas on City Property
DATE: December 12, 2022
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Leisure Services Manager Marie Ware is submitting information related to pollinator and
wildlife friendly areas that are located on City Property.
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CC' Crenna Brumwell, City Attorney
Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager
Marie Ware, Leisure Services Manager
Stephen Fehsal, Park Division Manager
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Marie L. Ware, Leisure Services Manager
SUBJECT: Pollinator/Wildlife Friendly Areas on City Property
DATE: November 30, 2022
INTRODUCTION
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The purpose of this memorandum is to provide information related to pollinator and
wildlife friendly areas that are located on City property.
DISCUSSION
The City has many areas that could be considered pollinator or wildlife friendly habitat.
Most of those areas are maintained by the City's Park Division. These projects and
locations include:
• Valentine Park: eight acres of native prairie installed in 2019.
• Eagle Point Park: eleven acres of turf conversion to native vegetation, three bio-
retention cells are planted with native plants, and one registered Monarch
butterfly waystation landscaped bed.
• 32nd Street Detention Basin: planted in native prairie.
• Bee Branch Creek Greenway and detention basin: multiple native prairie
landscaped slopes.
• Creek Wood Park: native prairie installed on sloped areas.
• AY McDonald Park: two dedicated pollinator beds with one also being a
registered Monarch butterfly waystation landscaped bed.
• All Veterans Memorial Plaza pond on Chaplain Schmitt Island: One slope of pond
area has native prairie installed.
• South Fork of Catfish Creek behind Simmons Food: streambank restoration
project included the installation of native prairie.
• FDR Park: thirteen acres of tillable farmland converted to native prairie.
• Dubuque Technology Park: Most non -developed sloped areas are planted with
native prairie.
• Dubuque Industrial Center West: Multiple sloped areas throughout corridor are
planted with native prairie.
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16th Street Park (formerly Pyatigorsk Park): Areas of landscaped beds are
planted with native prairie plants.
Comiskey Park: Re -imagine Comiskey phase 1 will have some native prairie
landscaped areas.
Flora Park: the new detention basin project will have native prairie installed on
some of the slopes.
While the areas described above are all specific to pollinators and native prairie, the
City is fortunate to have un-developed areas that support wildlife within City limits.
These include wooded areas in parks such as Eagle Point Park, FDR Park and Murphy
Park. A portion of Chaplain Schmitt Island is designated as a natural protected wetland.
The City manages a conservation easement for a portion of the Riprow Valley near the
Water and Resource Recovery Center. The Mines of Spain EB Lyons Nature Center
and addition is also another location where the City owns property and the State of Iowa
does as well.
The City Council 2022-2024 Goals and Priorities includes a Management in Progress
goal of Pollinator Habitat in Park System. The Park Division as a part of the FY24
budget process is requesting funding for contractor installation of additional pollinator
areas throughout the park system. Pollinator beds are also one of the performance
measures form the Park Division.
If the funding is approved, the department can engage the residents that voiced
concerns recently regarding the residential development behind Asbury Plaza regarding
any input they might have on plantings to consider that might support the specific bird
species of concern and birds in general. We also have a meeting coming up with
another citizen regarding learning more about Bird Friendly Iowa communities
https://birdfriendIViowa.org/.
ACTION
This memo is for informational purposes only.
Prepared by Steve Fehsal, Park Division Manager
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