2 24 20 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. February 24, 2020 in the
Historic Federal Building, 350 W. 6th Street.
Present: Mayor Buol; Council Members Cavanagh, Jones, Resnick, Roussell, Shaw,
Sprank; City Manager Van Milligen
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 certain Fiscal Year 2021 Departmental Budgets.
PUBLIC HEARINGS
FISCAL YEAR 2021 DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET REVIEW
Fiscal Year 2021 City departmental budgets were presented by staff from the following
departments:
1. Health Services: Mary Rose Corrigan, Public Health Specialist;
2. Human Rights Department: Kelly Larson, Human Rights Director; Collins Eboh,
Organizational Equity Coordinator; and Temwa Phiri, Community Engagement
Coordinator;
3. Carnegie-Stout Public Library: Susan Henricks, Library Director;
4. Dubuque Regional Airport: Todd Dalsing, Airport Director;
5. Finance & Budget Department: Jenny Larson, Director of Finance and Budget.
The presenters responded to questions from the City Council following their respective
presentations.
Following the Human Rights Department presentation, Human Rights Commission Member
Jerry Hamel requested that funding for the Race in the Heartland conference be added to the
department’s budget request as it was inadvertently left out. The City Council reached
consensus on reconsidering the funding request at the final budget hearing on March 26, 2020.
There being no further business, Mayor Buol declared the meeting adjourned at 8:58 p.m.
s/Kevin S. Firnstahl, CMC, City Clerk