State of the City March 2008
Buol cites city's achievements, priorities
Dubuque mayor
emphasizes work
force, children
and the environment
By ANDY PIPER
TH staff writer/apiper@wcinet.com
As Dubuque turns 175 years old this
year, Mayor Roy Buol used his second
annual State of the City Address to re-
mind citizens that "we stand on the
shoulders" of the dedicated people who
built the city, and "the youth of today
will climb upon our shoulders and take
their positions of leadership."
It was in that spirit that he addressed
aj
That's why work-force development
is a top issue. Buol sees two key ways to
increase the number of available
workers. He points to the eight institu-
tions ofhigher learning within 20 miles
of the city and a new initiative called
Project Hope, which stands for Helping
Our People Excel.
Buol said "accelerated collaboration"
is needed between the city's businesses
and its colleges to help solve looming
work-force challenges. If more people
who train here stay here, businesses
will be more likely to expand and locate
here.
Project Hope is designed to help un-
employedand underemployed residents
"who, are cut off from opportunities for
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Buo] listed the mayor's speech
city's top priorities
as work-force de-
velopment, Every
Child Every Promise and Green City
Initiatives.
Millions of dollars in investment in
the Port of Dubuque,• in downtown, in
the Dubuque Technology Park south of
town and in Industrial Center West on
the city's far West Side testify to the city's
economic progress. But those successes
- marked by low unemployment -also
bring a potential problem: Who will fill
the jobs created in the future?
TH: Kelly Avenson
Dubuque Mayor Roy Buol delivers his
State of the City Address on Monday at
the Historic Federal Building in Dubuque.
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Kuntz s8id Steven 5ueppel
were friends with the family's would happen." Three young gals whd
livl~ in said the Sueppels spent Sunday grew up attending the parish;
children, She said "they were s9rtotherneighbor, 63•yeaz•old
' the development and knew the. morningattendinganEasterser• got married there and had
great people and they were in- Linda Berryhill, said she hadn
t family wrote chalk messages on vice at his church, Kuntz said he his four children baptied
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volved with their kids. children playing outside. "We are going to miss you guys," later he would be consoling the He said Sueppel also .had
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advancement due to social, cul•
hlral or educational barriers."
City Manager Mike Van Mil-
ligan shaped the direction of
the program after visiting Man•
chaster Craftsmen's Guild and
Bidwell Training Center in Pitts-
burgh, one of the nation's top
job-training facilities.
Buol quoted Uan Milligan as
saying "... (P)eople denied op-
portunity cannot contribute to
society"
Every Child EveryPromise is an
initiative to guarantee five indica-
tors of well-being to all children:
the presence of caring adults in
young lives; a healthy start to life,
safe places far our kids; effective
education to Y~~r,are children for
success; and opportunities for
youth to serve others.
Buol pointed to Dubuque's
Housing, Education and Rehabil-
itation Training Program, called
HEART, as fulfilling Every Child
Every Promise. It was named
Program of the Year by the Iowa
CitylCounty Management Asso-
ciation.
HEART is a collaborative effort
between the city, Four Mounds
Foundation, Four Oaks and the
Dubuque Community School
District to give students who are
struggling in traditional school
settings a chance to rehabilitate
derelict housingthrough on-the-
job training.
"These youth, who earlier
AIM NORMANDiN BRIAN COOPER
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Dubuque's 2007 create a sustainable futut2. While To remind Dubuque of the proverb: "we do not inherit the
"green" initiatives include things importance of "~.~;,. initiatives, Earth from our ancestors, we
accomplishments like recycling and conserving BuolrecifedanAmericanlndian borrowitfromourchildren."
J Mike Van Milligan named
2007 Manager of the Year
by the Iowa City/County
Management Association
/ Selection as an All-
America'City by the National
Civic League
/ Narhed 100 Best
Communities for Young People
by America's Promise Alliance
/ Named Iowa Tourism
County of the Year
/ Named aFive-Star Quality
of Life Metro by Expansion
Magazine
/ Ranked 15th for Best
Small Places for Business by
Forbes Magazine
/ Ranked 22nd among the
Top Twenty-five Boomtowns by
Inc. magazine
J Ranked sixth among
Top 10 most affordable job
water, Dubuque is in the fore-
front of another issue -historic
preservation.
Dubuque is in the process of
designating 28 square blocks of
its "Warehouse District" as a pilot
project for anenergy-effickent
zone.
`The adaptive reuse of those
warehouse structures is key for
energy conservation for Iowa's
fuhue," Buol said.
The historic preservation plan
had an impact on Dr, Donovan
Rypkema, of Principal Place
Economics in Washington, D.G.
He recently modified a speech
that he is delivering across the
country. According to Rypkema,
the model for real sustainable de-
velopment is notgoing to beSan
Francisco, Santa Fe or Berkeley,
but "Dubuque, Iowa!"
powerhouses by MSN Real
Estate
/ Ranked 11th among all
U.S. metros for jab growth by
Milken Institute
might have considered them-
selves onthe fringe of society, are
now enrolled in community col-
lege," Buol said. "They are some
of the faces of Every Child Every
Promise."
Green City Initiatives aim to
bring together social, economic
and environmental factors to
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