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CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
SPECIAL SESSION
The Dubuque City Council met in special session at 6:30 p.m. on March 2 6, 2024, in the
second-floor Council Chambers of the Historic Federal Building, 350 W. 6th Street.
Present: Mayor Cavanagh; Council Members Farber, Jones, Resnick, Roussell (attended
virtually), 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 adopting a resolution regarding the release of historic real estate filings and
conducting public hearings on certain Fiscal Year 202 5 Department Budgets.
CONSENT ITEMS
1. Dubuque Racing Association – Request from Lender to clean-up items that remain listed
in Abstract – Title Opinion: Motion by Sprank to receive and file the documents and adopt
Resolution No. 66-24 Approving the release of Historic Real Estate Filings related to Dubuque
Racing Association and Q Casino as they have either been exhausted, satisfied, amended, or
superseded by subsequent documents and make creating an abstract and title opinion related
to financing improvements intended by Dubuque Racing Association on Chaplain Schmitt
Island more cumbersome and difficult and consenting to the removal of such filing from the
abstract. Seconded by Farber. Motion carried 7-0.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Mayor Cavanagh summarized the public hearing process that previously occurred to set the
maximum property tax rate for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25). City Council Members discussed their
options for holding certain improvement package requests for separate discussion. The City
Council determined that at least four City Council Members must agree to hold an improvement
package request for separate discussion. Mayor Cavanagh stated that he would request
feedback from the City Council at the end of each budget heari ng special session on any
improvement packages to discuss. Final discussion on improvement package requests would
occur during the final hearing to adopt the FY25 budget on April 11, 2024. City Council Members
also determined that a City Council Member should propose how to offset the additional funding
of any improvement packages they would like to recommend.
Fiscal Year 2025 City department budgets were presented by staff from the following
departments:
1. City Attorney’s Office Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Crenna Brumwell, City
Attorney.
2. City Clerk’s Office Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Adrienne Breitfelder, City Clerk.
3. Public Information Office Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation : Randy Gehl, Public
Information Officer and Nikki Rosemeyer, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator
4. Human Resources Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Shelley Stickfort, Chief
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Human Resources Officer and Connie Palm, Benefits and Compensation Manager.
5. City Manager’s Office Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Cori Burbach, Assistant City
Manager and Gina Bell, Director of Sustainability.
6. City Council Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Presentation: City Manager Van Milligen.
Staff responded to questions from the City Council following their respective presentations.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Mayor Cavanagh declared the meeting adjourned
at 10:42 p.m.
/s/Adrienne N. Breitfelder, CMC
City Clerk