Minutes Enterprise Zone 2 2 04ENTERPRISE ZONE COMMISSION
City of Dubuque, Iowa
MINUTES
DATE:
February 2, 2004
TIME:
4:03 P.M.
PLACE:
Conference Room B, City Hall
50 West 13th Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001
COMMISSION:
Present: Doug Buswell, Doug Stillings, Dan LoBianco, Andrea Muntz,
Rick Stein, Mike Van Milligen
Absent: Dave Baker, Dan White, Kelly Deutmeyer
STAFF:
Bill Baum, Pamela Myhre
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m. by Commission Chair Rick Stein. Staff
certified that the meeting was being held in compliance with the Iowa Open Meetings
Law.
MINUTES
Van Milligen moved and Stillings seconded a motion to approve the minutes of May 7,
2003. Motion passed unanimously.
BUSINESS
McKesson Corporation Application
Stein introduced the project and noted the eligibility checklist that indicated that the
application did meet all requirements for submission, including the additional affidavit
from Susan Penway. Baum summarized the $5+ million expansion project to improve
the Dubuque Building facility and add 74 new jobs. He explained that the benefit
package meets the state’s requirements. He then asked Rick Dickinson to add any
comments on behalf of the company.
Dickinson shared the history of the project which involved a meeting in San Francisco
last fall with company, IDED and City representatives. He said it was a great project
that will reinvest in downtown Dubuque and consolidate jobs from Sacramento to
Dubuque. He indicated that over 1/3 of all Medicare reimbursements are handled in
the Dubuque facility and that the company is the biggest mailer in Iowa. He thanked
the Commission for their consideration of the application.
Dave Robbins of McKesson introduced himself and explained the company’s three
operations in Dubuque. Stillings asked about the locational disadvantage justification.
Dickinson reported that 3 cities were considered for the expansion: Dubuque, Atlanta
and a Milwaukee suburb. Buswell noted that the jobs being created were a good fit and
just the type that the GDDC hoped to attract to the city. He also asked about the legal
cases pending. Robbins responded that most of the cases involved an acquisition of
HBOC but that there has been no criminal activity by McKesson itself.
Motion by Buswell, second by LoBianco, to authorize the resolution approving the
application. The following vote was taken:
Aye: Buswell, LoBianco, Muntz, Stein, Stillings and Van Milligen
Nay: None
Abstain:
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.
Approved _________________ ________________________________
Chairperson
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