4 29 18 City Council Proceedings Official_SpecialCITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
SPECIAL SESSION
OFFICIAL
The Dubuque City Council met in special session at 6:00 p.m. on April 29, 2019 in the
second-floor Council Chambers of the Historic Federal Building, 350 W. 6th Street.
Present: Mayor Buol; Council Members Del Toro, Jones, Larson, Resnick, Rios, Shaw;
City Manager Van Milligen, Senior Counsel Lindahl
Mayor Buol read the call and stated this is a special session of the City Council called
for the purpose of conducting a work session on the Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Report.
WORK SESSION
Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Report
Inclusive Dubuque network partners presented updates on the following topics.
1. Initiative Updates: Paul Duster and Collins Eboh of the Community Foundation
of Greater Dubuque
• Advancing Equity Report
• Business Leader Equity Cohort
• Best Practice in Diversity
• Equity and Inclusion Series
• Data Walk of April 2, 2019
• NAACP Speaker Series
• MIT Students
2. Network Partners at Work: Taylor Cummings of Travel Dubuque
• Enhance traveler & community experience by Infusing inclusion considera-
tions into the development of the 2019 Travel Guide
3. Loras College Campus in Action: Jake Kurczek, Katrina Ferren-Eller; Loras
College students Mallory Gardner, Jon Quinn, Alex Rowe, Isabel Hernandez, and
James Dunican
• Partnerships with City of Dubuque Human Rights and Imagine Dubuque
2037 A Call to Action
• Campus Compact Civic Action Plans
• Cultural Snapshots Project
• Engaged Scholars Initiative
• Civil Leaders Program
• Immigration Consultation; Marshallese Canoe Program, Community Sur-
vey
• Using a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lens and systems approach
• Organizational Communications: the Lorian Project
The City Council had discussion with the presenters following the p resentation.
There being no further business, upon motion the City Council adjourned at 7:14 p.m.
/s/Kevin S. Firnstahl, CMC, City Clerk