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special session of the that the consultants preference for Service /
City Council to act will review potential Option #3 or a vari-
upon such business service and organiza- atioh thereof for
that may properly tional options for City further development.
come before the City Council to consider for Council members
Council. modification and im- asked for information
ACTION ITEM provements to the on or clarification of:
Second Amendment
to Incentives Agree- transit system with the
goal to focus on finding equipment purchases;
new signage, down-
SubSCrlbed to before , Iotary Public in and for Dubuque County, IOWA,
ment with Interna-
tional Business Ma- one or a combination
of four options. town shuttle, partner-
ing with RTA, shared
th1S ~ day o , 20 !~9 .
chines Corporation A.T. Stoddard, LSC dispatchers, outsourc-
(IBM): City Attorney Transportation Consul- ing para-transit, com-
recommending approv- tants, 516 North Tejon bining parking and
al of the Second Street, Colorado Springs, transit divisions, fair -
Amendment to the Colorado, provided a treatment of bus
Incentives Agreement
slide presentation of
drivers, modified/re- ~~
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with IBM extending the
the Dubuque Keyline
stricted taxi option, ~
deadline for finalizing Comprehensive Opera- stretching services / ~
the IDED assistance tional Analysis Techni- hours, approval of
agreement to Septem- cal Memorandum #3: marketing plan, coor- otary Public in and for Dubuque County, IOWA.
ber 1, 2009. Motion by dination with DuRide,
' MARY K.WESTERMEYER
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CITY OF DUBUQUE,
IOWA
CITY COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS
OFFICIAL
The Dubuque City
Council met in special
session at 5:30 p.m. on
June 23, 2009 in the
Historic Federal Build-
ing.
Present: Mayor Buol,
Council Members
Braig, Connors, Jones,
Lynch, Voetberg, City
Manager Van Milligen,
City Attorney Lindahl
Absent: Council Mem-
ber Resnick
Mayor Buol read the
cat and stated this is a
special session of the
.City Council to act
upon such business
:that may properly
`.come before the City
Council.
ACTION ITEM
Second Amendment
to Incentives Agree-
ment with Interna-
'tional Business Ma-
chines Corporation
(IBM): City Attorney
recommending approv-
al of the Second
Amendment to the
Incentives Agreement
with IBM extending the
`'deadline for finalizing
the IDED assistance
agreement to Septem-
ber 1, 2009. Motion by
Braig to receive and
file the documents and
adopt Resolution No.
209-09 Approving the
Second Amendment to
the Incentives Agree-
ment between the City
of Dubuque, Iowa, and
International Business
Machines. Corporation.
Seconded by Voetberg.
Motion carried 6-0.
WORK SESSION
Discussion of the
Transit Study with
LSC Consultants
Economic Develop-
ment Director Dave
Heiar provided a brief
history of the Transit
study, the hiring of LSC
Transportation Consul-
tants and the ,com-
piling of data from
public input, service
agencies, Transit Board
and the steering com-
mittee. Heiar stated
that the consultants
will review potential
service and organiza-
tional options for City
Council to consider for
modification and im-
provements to the
transit system with the
goal to focus on finding
one or a combination
of four options.
A.T. Stoddard, LSC
Transportation Consul-
tants, 516 North Tejon
Street, Colorado Springs,
Colorado, provided a
slide presentation of
the Dubuque Keyline
Comprehensive Opera-
tional Analysis Techni-
cal Memorandum #3:
Evaluation of Service
Options and detailed
the following points:
• Project Overview
• Study Process
• Service Options
1. Central hub
2. East and west hubs
3. Central hub hybrid
4. Taxi voucher ser-
vice
•Organizational Op-
tions
— Para -transit opera-
tions
— Intelligent Transpor-
tation Systems
• Marketing program
• Equipment and facil-
ity needs,
• Next steps
— Demand -Response
— Longer service
hours, Sunday service
— Higher service,fre-
quency
City Council discus-
sion included a general
preference for Service
Option #3 or a vari-
atioh thereof for
further development.
Council members
asked for information
on or clarification of:
equipment purchases;
new signage, down-
town shuttle, partner-
ing with RTA, shared
dispatchers, outsourc-
ing para-transit; com-
bining parking and
transit divisions, fair
treatment of bus
drivers, modified/re-
stricted taxi option,
stretching services
hours, approval of
marketing plan, coor-
dination with DuRide,
frequency of Transit
Board meetings and
timeliness of meeting
minutes, targeting bus-
inesses first vs. tar-
geting dependent users,
queue lanes, and fee/
cost schedule.
There being no
further business, upon
motion the City Council
adjourned at 7:00 p.m.
/s/Jeanne F. Schneider,
CMC, City Clerk
It 6/26
STATE OF IOWA {SS:
DUBUQUE COUNTY
CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION
I, Suzanne Pike, a Billing Clerk for Woodward Communications, Inc., an Iowa
corporation, publisher of the Telegraph Herald,a newspaper of general circulation
published in the City of Dubuque, County of Dubuque and State of Iowa; hereby
certify that the attached notice was published in said newspaper on the following
dates: June 26, 2009, and for which the charge is $41.45.
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Subscribed to before otary Public in and for Dubuque County, Iowa,
this 1064 day o , 20 .
otary Public in and for Dubuque County, Iowa.
MARY K. WESTERMEYER
Commission Number 154885
My Comm. Exp, FEB, 1, 2011