Minutes Council 8 29 02CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
OFFICIAL
City Council, Special Session, August 29, 2002
Council met in special session at 4:10 p.m. at Four Mounds
Present: Mayor Duggan, Council Members Buol, Cline, Connors, Markham, Michalski,
Nicholson, City Manager Michael Van Milligen; Corporation Counsel Barry Lindahl
Mayor Duggan read the call and stated this is a special session of the City Council called for
the purpose of conducting a goal setting session.
The City Council reviewed their Policy Agenda for 2002 – 2004 and identified policy issues
and actions necessary for each targeted goal. The Council established their Policy Agenda
2002 – 2004 Actions for Mayor and City Council as: Top Priority Action Items – Air Service
Strategy, Highway 20 - Short Term Actions, America’s Riverfront Project and Development,
and Stormwater Study; High Priority Action Items – Arts Policy and Funding, Downtown Master
Plan, Marketing Riverfront and Total Community, Gaming Referendum, and Property
Acquisition at Riverfront; Other Priority Action Items – Erosion Policy, School Local Option Tax,
Marketing Program – America’s River, and Brewery Project.
The City Council established the Management Agenda for 2002 – 2004 as:
Telecommunications Strategy, Street Program Funding, Southwest Arterial, Julien Dubuque
Bridge Plan and Design, Zoning Ordinance Update, Vacant Property Redevelopment, River
Valley Initiative, State Grant to Extend Road to Industrial Park, Riverfront Master Plan
Implementation, and Federal Strategies.
The City of Dubuque 2012 Vision Statement was established as: A City of History, Beauty,
Opportunities, Excitement – Dubuque: A Masterpiece on the Mississippi.
There being no further business, upon motion meeting adjourned at 9:02 p.m.
/s/ Jeanne F. Schneider
City Clerk
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