FY 2021 Dubuque County REAP Plan Update Copyrighted
August 17, 2020
City of Dubuque Consent Items # 11.
City Council Meeting
ITEM TITLE: FY2021 Dubuque County REAP Plan— City Update
SUM MARY: City Manager recommending approval of the City of Dubuque's Fiscal
Year 2021 update to the Dubuque County Resource Enhancement and
Protection (REAP) Plan.
SUGGESTED Suggested Disposition: Receive and File;Approve
DISPOSITION:
ATTACHMENTS:
Description Type
FY 2021 Dubuque County REAP Plan - City Update- City Manager Memo
MVM Memo
Staff inemo Staff Memo
FY 2021 Dubuque County REAP Plan—City Update Staff Memo
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FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: FY 2021 Dubuque County REAP Plan - City Update
DATE: August 12, 2020
Leisure Services Manager Marie Ware recommends City Council approval of the City of
Dubuque's FY 2021 update to the Dubuque County REAP (Resource Enhancement
and Protection) Plan.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
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cc: Crenna Brumwell, City Attorney
Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager
Cori Burbach, Assistant City Manager
Marie L. Ware, Leisure Services Manager
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TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Marie L. Ware, Leisure Services Manager
SUBJECT: FY 2021 Dubuque County REAP Plan — City Update
DATE: August 12, 2020
INTRODUCTION
REAP (Resource Enhancement and Protection) is a grant program for parks and open
space administered by the lowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). This memo
requests City Council approval of the City of Dubuque's FY 2021 update to the
Dubuque County REAP Plan.
DISCUSSION
The Dubuque County REAP Committee has requested the City of Dubuque's FY 2021
update to the Dubuque County 5-Year REAP Plan. Attached is the completed
questionnaire for the City of Dubuque's FY 2021 update for the Dubuque County REAP
Plan. The update was prepared based on the prior REAP Plan, the City's adopted FY
2021 - FY 2025 Capital Improvement Program and projects not currently contained in
the current capital improvements program. The Dubuque County REAP Committee
must approve updates to the annual REAP Plan prior to their submittal to the IDNR.
ACTION REQUESTED
I respectfully recommend approval of the City of Dubuque's update of FY 2021
Dubuque County REAP Plan.
cc: Steve Fehsal, Park Division Manager
Wally Wernimont, Planning Services Manager
CHANGES TO DUBUQUE COUNTY 5-YEAR REAP PLAN
QUESTIONNAIRE
NAME OF ORGANIZATION OR MUICIPALITY: City of Dubuque
1. List general REAP legislation-related goals and objectives of your organization or
municipalitv that have changed since the 2020 u�date of the Dubuc�ue Count.�
None.
2. List additions or deletions from present recreational/natural areas under,��jurisdiction:
3. List the projects for which you hope to utilize REAP funding in the next five years:
FY 2021: Eagle Point Park - Implement Environmental Restoration Management Plan
(Phase 3)
FY 2022: Four Mounds Park- Implement Ecological Restoration Plan (Phase 2)
FY 2023: Land Acquisition—Four Mounds Park(tentative)
FY 2024: Land Acquisition—Mines of Spain/E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center (tentative)
FY 2025: Southwest Arterial MRT Bike/Hike Trail
4. List all actual and anticipated expenditures of REAP fund for FY20:
➢ $200,000 for Eagle Point Park — Implementation of Environmental Restoration
Management Plan (Phase 2)
5. Summarize any additional information about , o�genc,�v/organization that ,�
would like to have included in the Dubuque Count.�.
A. Request that the Iowa Legislature increase the cap on the Environmental First Fund
(under which REAP and many environmental programs are funded) to help fund REAP
Pass legislation to increase the state sales tax from 6% to 6 3/8% with the 2/7 of one
percent to be deposited in the Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund that
the votes of Iowa already supported.
B. Additional REAP-eligible projects in the city limits of Dubuque include:
In alphabetical order:
➢ Chaplain Schmitt Island Master Plan—Recreational Projects
➢ Comiskey Park Redevelopment
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➢ Dodge Street Bike/Hike Trail
➢ Dubuque Industrial Center West Trail Development
➢ Eagle Valley Park Development
➢ English Ridge Park Development
➢ Granger Creek Nature Trail (Dubuque Technology Park)
➢ Greenbelt/Wildlife Preserve, Medical Associates Clinic West
➢ Greenway Trail Development: Usha Park at NW Arterial and Pennsylvania Avenue
to Keyway Drive (North Fark Catfish Creek)
➢ Kerper Boulevard Bike/Hike Trail—Phases 2 and 3
➢ Pebble Cove Park Development
➢ Land acquisition to expand existing parkland (citywide)
➢ Mauss Lake detention basin -- Landscaping Improvements
➢ Middle Fork Catfish Creek Trail Development
➢ North Fork Trail Park Development
➢ Northwest Arterial Connection to Southwest Arterial Trail
➢ Usha Park(Phases 4 and 5)
➢ Westbrook Park Development, Phases II& III
C. REAP-eligible projects outside the city limits of Dubuque include:
In alphabetical order:
➢ F. D. Roosevelt Park Master Plan -- Implementation
➢ Land Acquisition and Development of E.B. Lyons Interpretive Area/Mines of Spain
➢ Mississippi Circuit—Grant Wood Mississippi River Region Master Plan
➢ Southwest Arterial MRT Bike/Hike Trail
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