FY26 Update to Dubuque County Resource Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP) 5-Year PlanCity of Dubuque
City Council
CONSENT ITEMS # 15.
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August 4, 2025
ITEM TITLE: FY26 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 2026 update to the Dubuque County 5-
Year Resource Enhancement and Protection Program
(REAP) Plan.
SUGGUESTED Receive and File; Approve
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
1. MVM Memo
2. Staff Memo
3. FY 26 REAP Plan
4. FY 25 REAP Plan - Redline
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: FY26 Update to Dubuque County Resource Enhancement and Protection
Program (REAP) 5-Year Plan
DATE: July 30, 2025
Interim Parks and Recreation Director Stephen Fehsal is recommending City Council
approval of the City of Dubuque's FY 2026 update to the Dubuque County 5-Year
Resource Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP) Plan. The Dubuque County
REAP Committee is updating the Dubuque County REAP Plan for FY26.
The City representative that was previously appointed to the REAP Committee is City
Council Member Danny Sprank.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
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Mic ael C. Van Milligen
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Attachment
cc: Crenna Brumwell, City Attorney
Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager
Stephen Fehsal, Interim Parks and Recreation Director
Wally Wernimont, Planning Services Director
Marie Ware, Acting Project and Facilities Manager
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Stephen J. Fehsal, Interim Parks and Recreation Director
Dubuque
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SUBJECT: FY26 Update to Dubuque County Resource Enhancement and Protection
Program (REAP) 5-Year Plan
DATE: July 31, 2025
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to request City Council approval of the City of
Dubuque's FY 2026 update to the Dubuque County 5-Year Resource Enhancement and
Protection Program (REAP) Plan. The Dubuque County REAP Committee is updating
the Dubuque County REAP Plan for FY26.
DISCUSSION
The Dubuque County REAP Committee has requested the City of Dubuque's FY26
update to the Dubuque County 5-Year REAP Plan.
Citv FY 2026 Update to Countv REAP Plan
Attached is the completed questionnaire for the City of Dubuque's FY26 update for the
Dubuque County 5-Year REAP Plan. The update was prepared based on the FY 2025
REAP Plan, the City's adopted FY 2026 - FY 2030 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. A redline is provided for the FY 2025 update to the FY 2026 format.
City Representative to County REAP Committee
The City representative that was previously appointed to the REAP Committee is City
Council Member Danny Sprank.
The Dubuque County REAP Committee must approve updates to the annual REAP
Plan prior to their submittal to the IDNR. The REAP Committee will meet on August 4,
2025. The city of Dubuque does not have a REAP application this year.
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ACTION REQUESTED
I recommend that the City Council approve the City of Dubuque's FY26 update.
attachments
cc: Wally Wernimont, Planning Services Director
Prepared by: Marie L. Ware, Acting Project and Facilities Manager
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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 2025 update of the Dubuque County Plan:
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 voters 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:
Eagle Valley Park
English Ridge Park
Westbrook Park
Caledonia Park
3. List the projects for which you pe to utilize REAP funding in the next five years:
FY 2026 Eagle Point Park - Implement Environmental Restoration Management Plan,
Plan new addition (Phase 3)
FY 2027 Chaplain Schmitt Island Environmental Restoration or Trail Connections
FY 2028 Four Mounds Park - Implement Ecological Restoration Plan (Phase 2) or
Dubuque Arboretum Environmental Restoration Plan and implementation
FY 2029 F. D. Roosevelt Park — Park and Trails Development
FY 2030 Land Acquisition — Mines of Spain / E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center
(tentative)
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4 List all actual and anticipated expenditures of REAP fund for FY2026:
22-R4-JQ REAP grant - Completion of Acquisition of Four Mounds Purchase $200,000
5. Summarize any additional information about your gency/cfty/organization that
would like to have included in the Dubuque Copp . Plan.
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 — Environmental Restoration, Recreational and Trail
Connection Projects and Outdoor Recreation Development
• Land Acquisition and Development of E.B. Lyons Interpretive Area / Mines of Spain
Recreation Area
• F.D.R. Park Master Plan- Implementation
• Dodge Street Bike/Hike Trail
• Southwest Arterial Mississippi River Trail Bike/Hike Trail
• Dubuque Industrial Center West Trail Development to connect to Southwest Arterial
planned trail
• 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
• Pebble Cove Subdivision Park Development
• Land acquisition to expand existing parkland (citywide)
• Maus Park and Maus Lake detention basin — Park and landscaping improvements
• North Fork Trail Subdivision Park Development
• The Farm Park Subdivision Development
• Silver Oaks Park Subdivision Development
• Usha Park (Phases 4 and 5)
Use Additional Sheets if Necessary
Return to: Dubuque County REAP Committee, 13606 Swiss Valley Rd., Peosta, IA 52068 by
mail, or email to Brian.Preston@dubuquecountyiowa.gov
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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 County Plan:
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 voters 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 your jurisdiction:
Eagle Valley Park
English Ridge Park
Westbrook Park
Caledonia Park
None.
3. List the projects for which you hope to utilize REAP funding in the next five years:
�'"�5FY 2026: Eagle Point Park - Imnlement Environmental Restoration
Management Plan, Plan new addition (Phase 3)C4ap1.,:« ehff :,+ rs1and
FY—IOMFY 2027: Chaplain Schmitt Island Environmental Restoration or Trail
Connections Eagle Point Park implement Environmental Restoration
Plan,Management Plan new addition (Phase-3.)
FALL FY 2028: Four Mounds Park - Implement Ecological Restoration Plan (Phase
2) or Dubuque Arboretum Environmental Restoration Plan and
implementation
FAA' FY 2029: F. D. Roosevelt Park — Park and Trails Development
FAQ— FY 2030: Land Acquisition — Mines of Spain / E.B. Lyons Interpretive
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Center (tentative)
List all actual and anticipated expenditures of REAP fund for FY2025:
22-R4-JQ REAP grant - Completion of Acquisition of Four Mounds Purchase $200,000
5. Summarize any additional information about your agency/city/organization that you
would like to have included in the Dubuque Count
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 — Environmental Restoration, Recreational and Trail
Connection Projects and Outdoor Recreation Development
•_Land Acquisition and Development of E.B. Lyons Interpretive Area / Mines of Spain
Recreation Area
• F. D. Roosevelt Park Master Plan -- Implementation
•_ Dodge Street Bike/Hike Trail
• Southwest Arterial Mississippi River Trail Bike/Hike Trail
• Dubuque Industrial Center West Trail Development to connect to Southwest Arterial
planned trail
• 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 Subdivision 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 Subdivision Park Development
South Point Park Subdivision Develepmen�
• Mazena Farm Park Subdivision Development
• Silver Oaks Park Subdivision Development
• Usha Park (Phases 4 and 5)
Commented [MW t ]: Removed as funded by other grant
program. Design nearly complete and in permitting phase.
Commented [MW2]: Developer currently developing
Commented [MW3]: Currently in design with bidding
this fall.
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Use Additional Sheets if Necessary
Return to: Dubuque County REAP Committee, 13606 Swiss Valley Rd., Peosta, IA 52068 by
mail, or email to Brian.Preston@dubuquecountyiowa.gov
Commented [MW4]: This group is in the process of
disbanding.
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