2026 Pavement Marking Project - Initiate Public Bidding Process and Setting Date for a Public Hearing Copyrighted
April 6, 2026
City of Dubuque ITEMS SET FOR PUBLIC HEARING # 11.
City Council
ITEM TITLE: 2026 Pavement Marking Project - Initiate Public Bidding
Process and Setting Date for a Public Hearing
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending City Council set a public
hearing for April 20, 2026, authorize the public bidding
process, approve the preliminary plans, specifications, form
of contract, and estimated construction amount $214,000 for
the 2026 Pavement Marking Project through the adoption of
the attached resolution.
RESOLUTION 2026 Pavement Marking Project: Preliminary
Approval Of Plans, Specifications, Form Of Contract, And
Estimated Cost; Setting Date Of Public Hearing On Plans,
Specifications, Form Of Contract, And Estimated Cost; And
Ordering The Advertisement For Bids
SUGGUESTED Receive and File; Adopt Resolution(s), Set Public Hearing for
DISPOSITION: April 20, 2026
ATTACHMENTS:
1. MVM Memo 2026 Pavement Marking Project Initiate Public Bidding and SPH
2. 2026 Pavement Marking Project - Initiate Set PH Staff MEMO
3. 2026 PW Overlay Curb Ramp Bid Package 4 - Council Initiate Set PH
RESOLUTION
4. 2026 Pavement Marking Project - Notice of Public Hearing
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: 2026 Pavement Marking Project
Initiate Public Bidding Process and Setting Date for a Public Hearing
(Project Code 5521000013)
DATE: April 1, 2026
City Engineer Gus Psihoyos is recommending City Council set a public hearing for April
20, 2026, authorize the public bidding process, approve the preliminary plans,
specifications, form of contract, and estimated construction amount $214,000 for the
2026 Pavement Marking Project through the adoption of the attached resolution.
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
Gus Psihoyos, City Engineer
Justine Hull, Traffic Engineer
Troy Kress, Engineering Tech.
Jenny Larson, Chief Financial Officer
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Gus Psihoyos, City Engineer
DATE: April 1, 2026
RE: 2026 Pavement Marking Project
Initiate Public Bidding Process and Setting Date for a Public Hearing
(Project Code 5521000013)
INTRODUCTION
This memorandum requests the City Council authorize initiating the public bidding
process and set a public hearing for April 20, 2026, for the 2026 Pavement Marking
Project.
BACKGROUND
The pavement marking program is vital to our transportation system as it provides safety
to drivers and pedestrians on the public road system. Well-defined crosswalk stripping for
example provides areas where pedestrians can traverse a roadway safely.
The City contracts for a city-wide pavement marking project to furnish, install, maintain,
and remove permanent pavement markings to include lines, symbols and legends on City
streets as directed by the Engineering Department.
DISCUSSION
The Pavement Marking Project is completed annually due to a more rapid deterioration
on higher volume, high vehicular movement roadways. Pavement markings are applied
using waterborne paint with a service life of approximately two (2) years.
As part of a cooperative Maintenance Agreement with the lowa Department of
Transportation (lowa DOT), the City will include portions of lowa DOT jurisdictional
pavement markings with the City's annual pavement marking program. The Maintenance
Agreement includes all symbols and legends and a portion of center lines on lowa DOT
routes within the City. The lowa DOT will reimburse the City for their share of project costs
after the project is completed and accepted.
Additionally, as a part of the Central Ave. and White St. Design Phase 1: Pavement
Marking Restriping project along the one-way pair from 4t" St to 22nd St., the lines and
symbols along the corridor have been removed from the 2026 Pavement Marking Project.
These lines and symbols will be physically removed and replaced with new lane lines,
symbols and additional markings in a separate pavement marking project later this
calendar year using this same funding source.
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PROJECT SCHEDULE
The schedule for the project will be as follows:
Initiate Bidding April 6, 2026
Publish Notice to Bidders, Advertisement for Bids April 10, 2026
Publish Notice of Hearing on Plans & Specifications April 10, 2026
Public Hearing April 20, 2026
Receipt of Bids April 23, 2026
Award of Contract May 4, 2026
Completion Date November 18, 2026
BUDGET IMPACT
The estimate of probable cost for the 2026 Pavement Marking Project is summarized in
the following table:
Description Cost Estimate
Construction - City Pavement Markings $ 190,000.00
Construction - lowa DOT Pavement Markings 24,000.00
Engineering Design and Administration 5,000.00
Total Construction Cost Estimate $ 219,000.00
The proposed project funding is summarized as follows:
Project Code Fund Description Fund Amount
Pavement Markings (FY26) $ 36,715.00
5521000013 Pavement Markings (FY27) 185,285.00
lowa DOT Funding 24,000.00
Total Project Funding $ 219,000.00
RECOMMENDATION
I respectfully request the City Council set a public hearing for April 20, 2026, for the 2026
Pavement Marking Project and authorize the public bidding process and set a public
hearing for April 20, 2026, and approve the preliminary plans, specifications, form of
contract and estimated cost for the 2026 Pavement Marking Project through the adoption
of the attached resolution.
Prepared by: Justine Hull, Traffic Engineer
cc: Gus Psihoyos, City Engineer Troy Kress, Engineering Tech.
Jenny Larson, Chief Financial Officer
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Prepared by Robert Schiesl City of Dubuque Engineering 50 W 13th St Dubuque IA 52001 (563)589-4270
Return to Adrienne N. Breitfelder, City Clerk, 50 W. 131h St., Dubuque, IA 52001, (563) 589-4100
RESOLUTION NO. 117-26
2026 PAVEMENT MARKING PROJECT
PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT,
AND ESTIMATED COST; SETTING DATE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PLANS,
SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT, AND ESTIMATED COST; AND
ORDERING THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
WHEREAS, the 2026 Pavement Marking Project will include providing all labor,
equipment, and materials to furnish, install, maintain, and remove permanent pavement
markings to include lines, symbols and legends on City streets and a portion of center
lines on Iowa DOT highway routes within the City.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DUBUQUE, IOWA:
The proposed plans, specifications, form of contract and estimated cost for the
2026 Pavement Marking Project in the estimated construction amount $214,000, are
hereby preliminarily approved and ordered filed in the office of the City Clerk for public
inspection.
A public hearing will be held on the 20th day of April, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. in the
Historic Federal Building Council Chambers 350 W. 6th Street, Dubuque, Iowa, at which
time interested persons may appear and be heard for or against the proposed plans and
specifications, form of contract and estimated cost of said Project, and the City Clerk be
and is hereby directed to cause the attached notice of the time and place of such hearing
to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the City of Dubuque, Iowa,
which notice shall be published not less than four days nor more than twenty days prior
to the date of such hearing. At the hearing, any interested person may appear and file
objections to the proposed plans, specifications, form of contract, or estimated cost of the
Project.
The 2026 Pavement Marking Project, is hereby ordered to be advertised for bids
for construction.
The amount of security to accompany each bid shall be in an amount which shall
conform to the provisions of the Notice to Bidders hereby approved.
The City Engineer is hereby directed to advertise for bids for the construction of
the improvements herein provided, by publishing the Notice to Bidders to be published
on the City of Dubuque website and a contractor plan room service with statewide
circulation, which notice shall be published not less than thirteen but not more than forty-
five days before the date for filing bids before 2:00 p.m. on the 23rd day of April, 2026.
Bids shall be opened and read by the City Clerk at said time and will be submitted to the
City Council for final action at 6:30 p.m. on the 4th day of May, 2026, in the Historic Federal
Building Council Chambers 350 West 61h Street, Dubuque, Iowa.
Passed, approved and adopted this 6th day of April 2026.
Attest:
Adrienne N. Breitfelder, Ciiy Clerk
Brad av nagh, Mayor
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
OFFICIAL NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Dubuque City Council will conduct a public
hearing on the 20t" day of April 2026, at 6:30 p.m., in the Historic Federal Building, 350
W. 6th Street, 2�d floor, Dubuque, lowa, at which meeting the City Council proposes to
authorize initiating the public bidding process for the 2026 Pavement Marking Project.
At the meeting, the City Council will receive oral and written comments from any resident
or property owner of said City to the above action. The official City Council agenda will be
posted the Friday before the meeting and will contain public input options. The agenda
can be accessed at https://dubuqueia.portal.civicclerk.com/ or by contacting the City
Clerk's Office at 563-589-4100, ctyclerk@cityofdubuque.org.
Written comments on the public hearing may be submitted to the City Clerk's Office by
email at ctyclerk@cityofdubuque.org or by mail to City Hall, 50 W. 13th St., Dubuque, IA
52001, before the scheduled hearing. The City Council will review all written comments
at the time of the hearing.
Documents related to the public hearing are on file in the City Clerk's Office and may be
viewed Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Individuals requiring special assistance should contact the City Clerk's Office as soon as
feasible. Deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals can use Relay lowa by dialing 711 or (800)
735-2942.
Published by order of the City Council given on the 6t" day of April 2026.
Adrienne N. Breitfelder, City Clerk
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