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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 8, 2024, in the
second-floor Council Chambers of the Historic Federal Building, 350 W. 6th Street.
Present: Mayor Cavanagh; Council Members Farber, Resnick, Roussell, Sprank, Wethal;
City Manager Van Milligen.
Absent: Council Member Jones.
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 202 5 Department Budgets.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Fiscal Year 2025 City department budgets were presented by staff from the following
departments:
1. Housing & Community Development Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation : Alexis
Steger, Director Housing and Community Development; Michael Belmont, Assistant Director
of Housing and Community Development; Ben Pothoff, Deputy Code Official; Gina Hodgson,
Assisted Housing Supervisor; Mary Bridget Corken Deutsch, Community Development
Specialist; Maddy Haverland, Urban Development & Housing Rehabilitation Project
Manager; and Nicole Lytle, Housing Grants Program Manager.
Public input was provided by the following individuals: Lynn Sutton, 445 Nevada St.; Carla
Shepard, 2710 Potosi Dr.; Carla Anderson, 1131 Main St.; Shea Miloy, 1349 Locust St.; Gayle
Weitz, 1630 Lori Ct; Jaime Izaguirre, 1394 Locust St.; Michael Link, 1190 McGregor Dr., Nino
Erba, 180 W. 15th St.; and Evan Hudson, 741.5 W. 3rd St. Public input topics included options
for tenants to submit landlord complaints, concerns about rent increases, and requests for more
frequent inspections of rental units.
2. Purchase of Services Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Mary Bridget Corken
Deutsch, Community Development Specialist.
3. Public Works Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Arielle Swift, Public Works Director
and Ken Miller, Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency (DMASWA) Administrator.
Public input was provided by Paul Shultz, 1040 Carmel Dr. regarding equitable fines
and fees, expansion of the food scraps program, and representation on the DMASWA Board.
Clark Schloz, 2925 Burlington St., provided input on developers’ costs for public improvement
projects.
4. Economic Development Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Jill Connors, Economic
Development Director and Bonnie Spurling, Arts & Cultural Affairs Manager.
Staff responded to questions from the City Council following their respective presentations.
There being no further business, Mayor Cavanagh declared the meeting adjourned
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at 10:12 p.m.
/s/Adrienne N. Breitfelder, CMC
City Clerk