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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 April 4, 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, 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 2025 Department Budgets.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Fiscal Year 2025 City department budgets were presented by staff from the following
departments:
1. Emergency Management Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Tom Berger, Emergency
Management Director.
2. Emergency Communications Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation : Jessica George-
Rethwisch, Emergency Communications Director.
3. Police Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Jeremy Jensen, Police Chief and Joe
Messerich, Assistant Police Chief.
4. Fire Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Presentation: Amy Scheller, Fire Chief and Josh Knepper,
Assistant Fire Chief.
Staff responded to questions from the City Council following their respective
presentations.
There being no further business, Mayor Cavanagh declared the meeting adjourned at 9:51
p.m.
/s/Adrienne N. Breitfelder, CMC
City Clerk