City Fiscal Year 2024 Update to Dubuque County Resource Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP) 5-Year PlanCity of Dubuque
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July 17, 2023
ITEM TITLE: City Fiscal Year 2024 Update to Dubuque County Resource
Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP) 5-Year Plan
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending City Council approval of the City of
Dubuque's FY 2024 update to the Dubuque County 5-Year Resource
Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP) Plan.
SUGGESTED Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Approve
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
Description
MVM Memo
Staff Memo
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City Manager Memo
Staff Memo
City of Dubuque REAP Plan Supporting Documentation
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: City FY 2024 Update to Dubuque County Resource Enhancement and
Protection Program (REAP) 5-Year Plan
DATE: July 12, 2023
Leisure Services Manager Marie Ware is recommending City Council approval of the
City of Dubuque's FY 2024 update to the Dubuque County 5-Year Resource
Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP) Plan.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
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Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager
Marie Ware, Leisure Services Manager
Steve Fehsal, Park Division Manager
Wally Wernimont, Planning Services Manager
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Marie L. Ware
SUBJECT: City FY 2024 Update to Dubuque County Resource Enhancement and
Protection Program (REAP) 5-Year Plan
DATE: July 11, 2023
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to request City Council approval of the City of
Dubuque's FY 2024 update to the Dubuque County 5-Year Resource Enhancement and
Protection Program (REAP) Plan.
DISCUSSION
The Dubuque County REAP Committee has requested the City of Dubuque's FY 2024
update to the Dubuque County 5-Year REAP Plan and confirmation of the City's REAP
Committee representative by August 1, 2023.
City FY 2023 Update to County REAP Plan
Attached is the completed questionnaire for the City of Dubuque's FY 2024 update for
the Dubuque County 5-Year REAP Plan. The update was prepared based on the FY
2023 REAP Plan, the City's adopted FY 2024 - FY 2028 Capital Improvement Program,
and City Council goals for Sustainable Environment: Preserving and Enhancing Natural
Resources and for Diverse Arts, Culture, Parks, and Recreation Experiences and
Activities.
City Representative to County REAP Committee
The current City representative to the REAP Committee is City Council Member Danny
Sprank. The appointment was made the first of the year when Council made all
committee appointments.
The Dubuque County REAP Committee must approve the updates to the annual REAP
Plan prior to their submittal to the IDNR. The REAP Committee will meet on August 7,
2023. REAP grant applications are due to the IDNR by August 15, 2023. The city of
Dubuque does not have a REAP application this year.
ACTION REQUESTED
I recommend that the City Council approve the City of Dubuque's FY 2024 update of the
Dubuque County REAP Plan.
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cc: Steve Fehsal, Park Division Manager
Wally Wernimont, Planning Services Manager
CHANGES TO DUBUQUE COUNTY 5-YEAR REAP PLAN
QUESTIONNAIRE
NAME OF ORGANIZATION OR MUNICIPALITY: City of Dubuque
1. List general REAP legislation -related goals and objectives of your organization or
municipality that have changed since the FY 2024 update of the Dubuque Count
A. Pass legislation to increase the state sales tax from 6% to 6 3/8% with the 2/7 of one
percent to be deposited in the Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund that
the votes of Iowa already supported.
B. If this does not happen then the Iowa Legislature increase REAP to full funding of
$20 million and create more permanent funding year after year. Request that the Iowa
Legislature increase the cap on the Environmental First Fund (under which REAP and
many environmental programs are funded) to help fund REAP. This is due to the same
granting amounts since the program began and increased construction costs have made
the funding grants smaller each year for what they fund if grant approved.
2. List additions or deletions from present recreational/natural areas under .jurisdiction:
None.
3. List the projects for which you hope to utilize REAP funding in the next five years:
FY 2024: Chaplain Schmitt Island Trail Connections
FY 2025: Eagle Point Park - Implement Environmental Restoration Management
Plan (Phase 3)
FY 2026: Four Mounds Park - Implement Ecological Restoration Plan (Phase 2)
FY 2027: F. D. Roosevelt Park — Park and Trails Development
FY 2028: Land Acquisition — Mines of Spain / E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center
(tentative)
4. List all actual and anticipated expenditures of REAP fund for FY2024:
NA
5. Summarize any additional information about your agency/city/organization that
would like to have included in the Dubuque County Plan.
Additional REAP -eligible projects in the city limits of Dubuque include:
In no specific order:
• Trail Connections to Port of Dubuque Riverwalk, Historic Millwork District, Main Street,
and Chaplain Schmitt Island
• Chaplain Schmitt Island Master Plan — Recreational and Trail Connection Projects and
Outdoor Recreation Development
• Comiskey Park Redevelopment — Phase 2
• Dodge Street Bike/Hike Trail
• Dubuque Industrial Center West Trail Development to connect to Southwest Arterial
planned trail
• Eagle Valley Park Development
• English Ridge Park Development
• Granger Creek Nature Trail (Dubuque Technology Park)
• Greenbelt/Wildlife Preserve, Medical Associates Clinic West
• Greenway Trail Development: Usha Park at NW Arterial and Pennsylvania Avenue
to Keyway Drive (North Fork Catfish Creek)
• Kerper Boulevard Bike/Hike Trail — Phases 2 and 3
• Pebble Cove Park Development
• Land acquisition to expand existing parkland (citywide)
• Maus Park and Maus Lake detention basin — Park and landscaping improvements
• Middle Fork Catfish Creek Trail Development
• North Fork Trail Park Development
• Usha Park (Phases 4 and 5)
• Westbrook Park Development
C. REAP -eligible projects outside the city limits of Dubuque include:
In alphabetical order:
• F. D. Roosevelt Park Master Plan -- Implementation
• Land Acquisition and Development of E.B. Lyons Interpretive Area / Mines of Spain
Recreation Area
• Mississippi Circuit — Grant Wood Mississippi River Region Master Plan
• Southwest Arterial Mississippi River Trail Bike/Hike Trail
Return to: Dubuque County REAP Committee, 13606 Swiss Valley Rd., Peosta, IA 52068 by
mail, or email to Brian.Preston@dubuquecounty.us