Work Session Request for Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan DraftCity of Dubuque
City Council
ACTION ITEMS # 8.
Copyrighted
November 17, 2025
ITEM TITLE: Work Session Request for Parks and Recreation
Comprehensive Master Plan Draft
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending City Council schedule a Work
Session for Monday, December 8, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. for an
update and overview about the Parks and Recreation
Comprehensive Master Plan draft document.
SUGGUESTED Receive and File; Council
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
1. MVM Memo
2. Staff Memo Request for Work Session Parks and Recreation Comprehensive
Master Plan Draft
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Work Session Request for Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Master
Plan Draft
DATE: November 13, 2025
Parks and Recreation Director Matthew Kalcevich is recommending City Council
schedule a Work Session for Monday, December 8, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. for an update
and overview about the Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan draft
document.
This work session will allow Parks and Recreation staff, along with the team from
Kimley-Horn, to provide details and data about how this process has evolved and the
critical findings documented in the report.
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
Matthew Kalcevich, Parks and Recreation Director
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Matthew K. Kalcevich, Parks and Recreation Director
SUBJECT: Work Session Request for Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Master
Plan Draft
DATE: November 10, 2025
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to request a City Council work session to provide
an update and overview about the Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan
draft document on Monday, December 8, 2025, at 6.00 p.m.
BACKGROUND
The City solicited proposals from qualified professional consulting firms to provide a
comprehensive parks and recreation master planning process with Kimley-Horn being
selected. The comprehensive master plan will include a quality -of -life assessment,
natural resource plan, and deferred maintenance review.
The consultants have inventoried and assessed the current asset levels of service and
compared them to state and national standards. They have reviewed the capacity,
functionality, accessibility, condition, and convenience of services and programs. They
have identified and documented deferred maintenance. The assessment provides data
and information necessary to evaluate how the Department facilities meet current and
future needs.
The natural resource plan inventoried and analyzed natural resource assets, invasive
species, other environmental concerns, management practices, and makes
recommendations.
A key component of the assessment has been the engagement of the community into
the process. Over the last six months they have engaged with our residents about
concern areas and additions. Parks and Recreation staff have been engaged about the
vision, mission, and organizational values consistent with the plan. A statistically valid
survey was also completed in addition to the robust engagement.
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DISCUSSION
This work session will allow Parks and Recreation staff, along with the team from
Kimley-Horn, to provide details and data about how this process has evolved and the
critical findings documented in the report.
The consulting team from Kimley-Horn will be providing a draft of the plan. Their
presentation will review community engagement and provide information and context to
their findings and recommendations.
The public will be engaged to provide additional feedback of the draft. Those comments
will be included and considered with the final plan presented back to City Council for
approval and adoption in February 2026.
This is an exciting place to be in the process and a major step in shaping the next
decade or more of parks and recreation services in Dubuque.
ACTION REQUESTED
I respectfully request a City Council work session to provide an update and overview
about the Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Master Plan draft on Monday,
December 8, 2025, at 6.00 p.m.
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