Work Session Request: Regional Workforce Landscape, and Imagine Dubuque Comprehensive PlanCity of Dubuque
City Council Meeting
Action Items # 04.
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August 5, 2024
ITEM TITLE: Work Session Request: Regional Workforce Landscape, and Imagine
Dubuque Comprehensive Plan
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending City Council approval to schedule a work
session on August 19, 2024, from 5:15 — 6:00 PM for Greater Dubuque
Development Corporation staff to present information on the Regional
Workforce Landscape to City Council. This work session will be
immediately followed by a work session in which Planning Services Director,
Wally Wernimont, will provide an Imagine Dubuque Comprehensive Plan
update.
SUGGESTED Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Council
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
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MVM Memo City Manager 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: Request for Work Sessions — Regional Workforce Landscape, and
Imagine Dubuque Comprehensive Plan
DATE: July 30, 2024
Economic Development Director Jill Connors is recommending City Council approval to
schedule a work session on August 19, 2024, from 5:15 — 6:00 PM for Greater Dubuque
Development Corporation staff to present information on the Regional Workforce
Landscape to City Council. Material will focus on the following topics:
Outcomes of the NEXT GEN Perceptions Survey
Greater Dubuque Skills Gap Analysis
Greater Dubuque Laborshed Study
Strategic Programs (includes Opportunity Dubuque, Transportation, Child Care,
College/University Engagement/Layoff/Closure Outreach)
This work session will be immediately followed by a work session in which Planning
Services Director, Wally Wernimont, will provide an Imagine Dubuque Comprehensive
Plan update.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
Michael C. Van Milligen
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cc: Crenna Brumwell, City Attorney
Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager
Jill Connors, Economic Development Director
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http://www.cityofdubuque.org
TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Jill M. Connors, Economic Development Director
SUBJECT: Request for Work Sessions — Regional Workforce Landscape, and
Imagine Dubuque Comprehensive Plan
DATE: July 30, 2024
This memorandum requests an August 19, 2024 work session from 5:15 — 6:00 PM for
Greater Dubuque Development Corporation staff to present information on the Regional
Workforce Landscape to City Council. Material will focus on the following topics:
Outcomes of the NEXT GEN Perceptions Survey
Greater Dubuque Skills Gap Analysis
Greater Dubuque Laborshed Study
Strategic Programs (includes Opportunity Dubuque, Transportation, Child Care,
College/University Engagement/Layoff/Closure Outreach)
This work session will be immediately followed by a work session in which Planning
Services Director, Wally Wernimont, will provide an Imagine Dubuque Comprehensive
Plan update.