Minutes_City Council Proceedings 02.21.23 Copyrighted
March 6, 2023
City of Dubuque Consent Items # 01.
City Council Meeting
ITEM TITLE: Minutes and Reports Submitted
SUMMARY: City Council Proceedings of 2/20/23 and 2/21/23; Civil Service
Commission of 2/8/23 and 2/20/23; Resilient Community Advisory
Commission of 1/5/23 and 2/2/23; Proof of Publication for City Council
Proceedings of 2/6/23.
SUGGESTED Suggested Disposition: Receive and File
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
Description Type
City Council Proceedings of 2/20/23 Supporting Documentation
City Council Proceedings of 2/21/23 Supporting Documentation
Civil Service Commission of 2/8/23 Supporting Documentation
Civil Service Commission of 2/20/23 Supporting Documentation
Resilient Community Advisory Commission of 1/5/23 Supporting Documentation
Resilient Community Advisory Commission of 2/2/23 Supporting Documentation
Proof of Publication for City Council Proceedings of Supporting Documentation
2/6/23
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
SPECIAL SESSION
The Dubuque City Council met in special session at 6:30 p.m. on February 21, 2023, in the
second-floor Council Chambers of the Historic Federal Building, 350 W. 6t" Street.
Present: Mayor Cavanagh; Council Members Farber, Jones, Resnick, Roussell, Sprank,
Wethal; City Manager Van Milligen.
Mayor Cavanagh read the call and stated this is a special session of the City Council called
for the purpose of conducting public hearings on certain Fiscal Year 2024 Department Budgets.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
FISCAL YEAR 2024 DEPARTMENT BUDGETS
Fiscal Year 2024 City department budgets were presented by staff from the following
departments:
1. City Attorney's Office (Legal Services) Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Presentation: Crenna
Brumwell, City Attorney;
2. City Clerk's Office Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Presentation: Adrienne Breitfelder, City Clerk;
3. Public Information Office Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Presentation: Randy Gehl, Public
Information Officer and Nikki Rosemeyer, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator;
4. Human Resources Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Presentation: Shelley Stickfort, Human
Resources Director;
5. City Manager's Office Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Presentation: Cori Burbach, Assistant City
Manager and Gina Bell, Sustainability Coordinator;
6. City Council Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Presentation: City Manager Van Milligen.
Staff responded to questions from the City Council following their respective presentation.
Mayor Cavanagh confirmed the process for City Council Members to suggest amendments to
the budget. A City Council Member may propose to add or remove something from a
department's budget. Mayor Cavanagh will conduct a straw poll of the City Council Members
to determine if there is majority support for the suggestion. Any items with majority support will
be discussed and acted upon at the final budget hearing to adopt the Fiscal Year 2024 budget.
City Council Members discussed their interpretations of the budget recommendations and the
straw poll process for amending the budget. Mayor Cavanagh advised that any changes to the
City Council's budget amendment process be discussed at the City Council's annual goal
setting. Council Member Farber requested feedback from the City Council on whether there
was an interest in considering amending the budget to add the Public Information Office's
Improvement Package requests for the GIS Application Specialist (Improvement Package No.
1) and the GIS Data Analyst Position (Improvement Package No. 4) which were not
recommended by the City Manager. After discussion, City Council Members decided to
consider the suggestions at a later date. City Council Members determined to conduct further
budget hearings before discussing any amendments to add city staff positions to the budget.
City Manager Van Milligen stated that recently adopted state legislation extends the deadline
to certify the Fiscal Year 2024 budget until April of 2023, so the City Council has the option to
reschedule the public hearing to adopt the final budget if additional time is needed to consider
the budget recommendations.
There being no further business, Mayor Cavanagh declared the meeting adjourned
at 10:13 p.m.
/s/Adrienne N. Breitfelder, CMC
City Clerk