Ward & City Precinct Plan okCHESTER J. CULVER
IOWA SECRETARY OF STATE
LUCAS BUILDING, FIRST FLOOR
Des Moines, IOWA 50319
CITY OF DUBUQUE
DEC 6 2001
December 17, 2001
Mr. Guy Hemenway
Dubuque Asst. Planner
50 West 13th Street
Dubuque, IA 52001-4864
Re: City Precinct and Ward Plan Approval
Dear Mr, Hemenway:
As you know, my office is responsible for reviewing and approving all city reprecincting
and ward plans.
Under Iowa law, there are several technical and legal requirements that each plan must
satisfy before the plan can be approved. My office has worked closely with the non-partisan
Legislative Service Bureau and the Iowa Attorney General's office to make sure that all of these
requirements have been satisfied by each plan before it is approved.
My staff, with the guidance of the Legislative Service Bureau, has completed its rtcvSew of the
precinct and ward plan you have submitted for the City of Dubuque.
The plan appears to meet all applicable requirements, and I am pleased to convey
approval of your plan.
Under Iowa Code section 49.7, the new precincts become effective January 15, 2002.
To the extent the new precincts and new wards differ from the old precincts and old wards,
the old precincts and old wards must be used for aH elections before January 15, 2002.
Please contact Bob Galbraith, Deputy Secretary of State for Elections and Voter
Registration, if you have any questiOns. He can be reached by telephone at (515) 281-
6598, or by e-mail at bgalbraith@sos.state.is.us.
Chet Culver
Secretary of State