Engineering Stude Catfish Creek TrailTHE CITY OF
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MEMORANDUM
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members L: _
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FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager CD a,
SUBJECT: Engineering Study, Trail Along Catfish Creek
Leisure Services Manager Gil Spence recommends City Council approval to use
$70,800 of funds currently budgeted in Fiscal Year 2007 for development of Westbrook
Park to conduct an engineering study for a trail along Catfish Creek currently budgeted
in Fiscal Year 2010. This would flip-flop funding for the engineering study with the park
development and would allow the trail study to be completed. This area of Westbrook
Subdivision has not been platted and the developer advises that this will not be done for
two years.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
Micha I C. Van Milligen
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Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, City Attorney
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Gil D. Spence, Leisure Services Manager
Mary Rose Corrigan, Public Health Specialist
Laura Carstens, Planning Services Manager
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March 12, 2007
TO: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
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FROM: Gil D. Spence, Leisure Services Manage :~°
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SUBJECT: Engineering Study, Trail Along Catfish Creek
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this memorandum is to request City Council approval to use $70,800 of
funds currently budgeted for development of Westbrook Park to conduct an engineering
Study for a trail along Catfish Creek.
DISCUSSION
The current C.I.P. budget contains $150,000 for development of Westbrook Park in the
Westbrook subdivision next to the Dubuque Industrial Center West. The area of this
subdivision has not been platted and the developer has said he will not have that done
for two years. This would mean the park development could not begin until FY 2009.
During the Park Division budget hearing with the City Council, Charlie Winterwood
representing the Tri-State Trail Vision Committee (a subcommittee of the Envision 2010
Committee) asked that the $70,800 budgeted in FY 2010 for an engineering study to
determine the feasibility of a trail along Catfish Creek be moved forward.
I recommend $70,800 be taken from the Westbrook Park development project to fund
this study now, leaving $79,200 in the current budget and $70,800 in FY 2010 for phase
II of the park development.
I recommend we flip-flop funding for the engineering study with the park development.
This would allow the trail study to be completed now and would have atwo-phased park
development -- $79,200 in current budget and $70,800 in FY 2010. This will allow for
park development within the time frame outlined by the developer.
ACTION STEP
The action requested is City Council approval of moving the Engineering Study, Trail,
Catfish Creek forward to the current fiscal year.
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