[0:01] And I wish I wouldn't even said that.

[0:02] I know.

[0:03] What about Mike?

[0:05] Mike? Oh,

[0:07] yeah. But it's not it's not.

[0:10] Not in my purview.

[0:11] That's right.

[0:12] Right.

[0:23] Good evening, everyone.

[0:24] Welcome to the Dyersville City Council meeting being held in

[0:28] the lower level of the Council chambers on Tuesday, September

[0:31] 8th, 2026 at 6 p.m..

[0:34] We'll call the meeting to order.

[0:36] Roll call please.

[0:37] Tricia. Mayor.

[0:38] Present.

[0:39] Council member.

[0:39] Scott DeSousa here.

[0:41] Mike English.

[0:42] Present. Mike Oberbroeckling.

[0:43] Here. Pottebaum here.

[0:44] Mark Singsank here.

[0:46] The pledge, please.

[0:47] Okay.

[0:49] I pledge allegiance to the flag

[0:52] of the United States of America.

[0:54] And to the Republic for which it stands.

[0:56] One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[1:00] justice for all.

[1:04] All right, gentlemen.

[1:06] Next thing we're going to do is to approve.

[1:08] I need approval of the agenda.

[1:10] Is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented?

[1:13] So moved.

[1:13] Motion by Councilman Singsank.

[1:15] Is there a second?

[1:16] Second. Second by Councilman English.

[1:18] All in favor?

[1:19] Say aye.

[1:20] Aye.

[1:21] Next. Is there anyone from the audience that would like to

[1:24] address the Council on an

[1:25] agenda or non agenda item this evening?

[1:30] No one is here to do that, we'll move forward.

[1:34] Then we'll go to the approval of the consent agenda.

[1:36] The first thing we have this evening, gentlemen, is to

[1:39] approve the bills.

[1:40] Does anyone have any questions on the bills as presented?

[1:45] I had one on page three.

[1:47] It just says Martin.

[1:49] Equipment, equipment, repairs, dash insurance.

[1:52] And it says insurance claims.

[1:54] Sure. So we had an incident as we were removing a large tree

[1:59] that was on the on the city street.

[2:02] Um the loader um, lost control of it and hit the tree.

[2:06] So we had to replace out the windshield and then some other

[2:09] things within it.

[2:10] So it was, we did bring it as an insurance item.

[2:15] So it was turned into insurance.

[2:17] And then that'll be covered or.

[2:19] It's turned into insurance.

[2:20] And then we'll get reimbursed for a portion of that.

[2:23] So we paid it already though

[2:25] that our equipment or it's our equipment.

[2:27] Yeah.

[2:28] It was our John Deere loader that that happened to.

[2:32] On page six.

[2:37] Six and seven under Capital Projects Fund.

[2:41] We've got two invoices to communications engineers.

[2:45] Correct. What are they.

[2:47] So those devices are um, uh, one is battery backups for the

[2:53] switches that we've placed in,

[2:55] in um, some of our projects there.

[2:58] Um, and then the other one is for the network switch itself.

[3:01] So those are, so those are some of the items that are there.

[3:05] Um, and those are for the

[3:06] relocation over at the field of dreams.

[3:08] So we're moving, we're moving some of our equipment from

[3:13] other locations over to the ballpark, because that ballpark

[3:16] has got a more stable location to it.

[3:20] Um, and that's what we're doing.

[3:23] So we own the equipment.

[3:25] We own the equipment and the

[3:26] equipment is for city use only, right?

[3:30] We had a UTV that we rented out there for the game.

[3:33] That was for the.

[3:34] Under transportation though.

[3:36] Did we have transportation out there doing anything?

[3:39] Yeah, actually they did.

[3:40] Yeah. So I think I marked it as transportation on on that

[3:44] particular one.

[3:45] I thought I marked it as police.

[3:47] Well that's what I was thinking.

[3:48] It should have been under, but it's under transportation on

[3:51] page three.

[3:52] Broken equipment.

[3:54] Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I put it in police.

[3:57] That should be in there.

[3:57] That makes more sense.

[3:59] Yeah, that should be tagged to police.

[4:01] And that was two.

[4:02] That was two ATVs that we used for the MLB game.

[4:06] I'll get that corrected.

[4:09] Police used them.

[4:10] Police department used them.

[4:11] That's correct.

[4:12] Yeah, that makes more sense.

[4:14] Then the other question I had was on page five.

[4:17] Uh,

[4:19] where is it down under Economic development travel, Dubuque

[4:23] Marketing, $85,000.

[4:26] Yeah. So we budgeted $85,000 for the marketing, for all the

[4:30] special events that we were doing within this area.

[4:32] And that's how.

[4:33] I guess I don't remember that much.

[4:36] Yeah, we actually had it marketed for $85,000 for it.

[4:39] That was to help offset some of the cost of RAGBRAI and also

[4:44] some of the costs for, um, MLB and other special events.

[4:47] And we gave, we did 50,000 for RAGBRAI though as well.

[4:50] Yeah, yeah, we did 50,000.

[4:52] But, but also there was other marketing stuff that we did

[4:57] with travel Dubuque for 85,000.

[4:59] And that's what we budgeted in.

[5:01] Do they give us an itemized bill or do we just give them

[5:04] the money and they spend it?

[5:05] They gave us they gave us a general bill.

[5:09] We can ask for what what resources they're going to use,

[5:12] but all the resources come back to Dyersville.

[5:15] This is for the year, then for.

[5:18] The whole year.

[5:19] That's for the whole fiscal year.

[5:20] Correct.

[5:21] That includes our membership.

[5:23] Membership and everything.

[5:25] We've traveled.

[5:25] Dubuque.

[5:26] Is that what it's going to be from now on, or was that

[5:30] because it.

[5:31] Was.

[5:31] 50,000 last year?

[5:32] We increased it to 85,000.

[5:34] We'll have to wait for what

[5:36] their ask is for next fiscal year.

[5:38] Um, in the past, we've, we've just, um, you know, earmarked

[5:43] $50,000 for them.

[5:44] But this year, because of the extra special events, they

[5:46] requested $5,000 this year.

[5:50] And I mean, I understand we're, we're spending a lot of money

[5:53] from the city, but we're also there's a large you know, they

[5:57] publicize the economic impact for the area is is tremendous.

[6:01] I get that to.

[6:05] The areas.

[6:06] And I don't want you to I don't want you to think that.

[6:09] We are all falling.

[6:10] Right.

[6:10] That's probably where this money comes out of the hotel.

[6:13] Motel is out of the hotel motel.

[6:15] But I also don't want you to think that Dyersville is not

[6:17] being represented by Travel Dubuque either, because

[6:19] Dyersville is being represented by by me as part of as part of,

[6:24] making sure that that we have,

[6:27] you know, this region is being represented.

[6:29] It's just not city of Dubuque in Dubuque, people.

[6:31] They do have an office here.

[6:33] They have an office here.

[6:34] And then also they have an office in Dubuque as well.

[6:38] We have Bill Miller Wood

[6:39] products for mulch at Xavier Playground.

[6:43] We have to have a special kind of mulch for down there.

[6:45] Yes.

[6:46] Playground equipment.

[6:47] You have to have a certified mulch to.

[6:49] To place in slivers.

[6:51] Well, that insurance companies and insurance companies demand

[6:55] that we use a specialized mulch.

[6:57] We actually have to have the certificate for it.

[6:59] So the grass must be good to go because they're using it.

[7:02] Are they.

[7:02] Do they open?

[7:03] Well, from what I understood, I asked the question.

[7:06] They have the grass portion fenced off.

[7:09] The swing set play playset can be used because they mulched

[7:12] that, but they were going to

[7:13] keep that that closed this fall yet.

[7:16] Yeah, the grass.

[7:18] That was my understanding was.

[7:19] That.

[7:19] We were going to do that.

[7:20] I didn't know if they opened it up or not.

[7:22] Yeah. No, they didn't open it up.

[7:23] They wanted to get more established.

[7:25] Correct. And that's a, that's a more, um the seeds that are

[7:30] being used for that.

[7:31] The grass can handle a lot more heavy traffic.

[7:33] And I think we covered, I don't know if everybody was here, but

[7:35] there was a question to me about putting turf in there.

[7:39] And I would not recommend that for that.

[7:41] Area that that would be expensive.

[7:44] Very expensive.

[7:45] Yeah. No, the grass, the heavier grass is much better.

[7:49] I think we see how it goes.

[7:50] Yeah.

[7:51] All right.

[7:52] Do we have any other questions or concerns with the bills?

[7:58] Very good.

[7:59] We'll move on then to item number two.

[8:02] And that's to approve the minutes of the City Council

[8:04] meeting on August 3rd, 2026.

[8:07] Item number three is to approve the City Council meeting from

[8:11] August 17th, 2026.

[8:14] Item number four approve the minutes of the Board of

[8:16] Adjustment Meeting on August 19th, 2020.

[8:20] Curiosity mic on McConnell and I see on their agenda.

[8:23] The minutes they approved were from 2023.

[8:27] So they haven't had to meet in three years.

[8:29] Correct.

[8:31] That just shows you, you know, how

[8:34] the planning and zoning, you know, the zoning code is

[8:37] holding up fairly well, but we're starting to see a little

[8:40] bit of cracks within the zoning code.

[8:41] So, um, to go back and redo that zoning code at a later

[8:46] date within the next couple of years, just to do the updates,

[8:48] just to make sure that we're, we're up to date with, um, uh,

[8:53] land use policies shows you that, that, that's working out

[8:58] well for us versus having a 1963 code that we had more or

[9:03] less board of adjustment meetings every month.

[9:05] So this board of adjustment, that's the final decision that

[9:08] doesn't come back to us at all.

[9:10] Then it does.

[9:11] So the way it the way it works is that you guys, um, can refer

[9:16] it back.

[9:16] You can't deny it, but you can

[9:17] refer it back for further consideration.

[9:20] And that's but that's not based on just seeing their minutes.

[9:23] That's it's not been presented on our agenda.

[9:25] It is presented.

[9:27] The minutes acts as the as the document.

[9:29] Okay. Okay.

[9:30] That's the decision.

[9:31] That's how it works here is that the.

[9:33] Minutes.

[9:33] I just acts as the official document for.

[9:36] So if we approve the consent

[9:38] agenda with that in it, then it's.

[9:40] Yes. Then it's approved.

[9:41] Right.

[9:42] Okay.

[9:43] Are they they could

[9:46] they could take district court

[9:47] would be the next step wouldn't it.

[9:49] You can't.

[9:50] Deny.

[9:51] It. You can refer you can refer

[9:52] it back down to the Board of Adjustment.

[9:54] Board of adjustments can deny it.

[9:56] And then then the only other recourse would be through

[9:59] registrar through the court system at that point.

[10:03] And that is out by Westlinden, not Westlinden wholesale meats.

[10:08] Correct. Right.

[10:09] Yeah.

[10:10] Yeah. By John Deere.

[10:11] Yeah, yeah.

[10:12] We're um.

[10:13] Nichols.

[10:14] Yeah. We're Nichols used to have his operations at which is

[10:17] by wholesale meats.

[10:20] All right.

[10:21] We'll continue with item number five.

[10:23] And that's a class C retail.

[10:25] Alcohol license for oh so good winery.

[10:28] Just one more real quick.

[10:29] Sure. Why limit it to ten.

[10:32] Is there only that much space?

[10:35] That's a big area.

[10:36] Well, his area is not as big as you think it is.

[10:39] Um, it's the limit to ten outside storage units because

[10:43] there's been in other communities, there's been

[10:46] issues that um, if you give them, if you don't put any

[10:51] limitations on it, you'll have it packed one after another and

[10:56] then you'll have an unsightly.

[10:57] Well, I mean, we've shown that there's a need.

[10:59] Yeah. And he was fine with ten.

[11:01] The person was fine with ten.

[11:02] We agreed.

[11:03] We agreed to that earlier before we even had a

[11:05] conversation with him.

[11:06] Okay. Sorry, mayor.

[11:07] No worries, no worries.

[11:08] We ask the questions.

[11:10] Um, item number six is a class C retail alcohol license for

[11:14] the Palace Saloon bar and Grill.

[11:18] Item number seven is a retail.

[11:20] Alcohol license for headquarters.

[11:24] Item number eight is a class C retail alcohol license for

[11:28] Beckman Catholic High School.

[11:29] And that's for their gala.

[11:31] It's a five day October 15th through October 19th of 2026.

[11:38] Item number nine is resolution number 76-26.

[11:42] Hiring a police officer for the city of Dyersville.

[11:46] That kind of the going rate.

[11:48] My

[11:51] assistant chiefs here tonight is that for part time officer.

[11:55] It used to be $25 an hour.

[11:57] 32 um is less than if you do special events.

[12:02] Um but 32 is I think is reasonable within it's less

[12:07] than like maybe a first year officer on duty, but for part

[12:11] time, for part time work, I don't think it's unreasonable

[12:16] And I don't think we're overpaying them either for part

[12:18] time work as needed.

[12:21] Yeah, they're just as needed.

[12:22] Sure. And that's not really I mean, in the resolution that

[12:26] you have, it's a part time cop that's very qualified.

[12:30] It's a certified officer.

[12:31] Yeah. Correct.

[12:32] I mean, it's not a rent a cop.

[12:34] No, no, it's it's it's a certified officer.

[12:39] Yeah.

[12:40] How come that's item number 192.

[12:43] So there's a difference.

[12:44] So so when you're talking about officer DuPont, Officer DuPont

[12:47] does not have a department that she works on.

[12:50] So we actually had to you're

[12:52] hiring that individual for this department.

[12:56] Um, in item number, whatever is on the action item that's to,

[13:01] to satisfy what the base rate is going to be.

[13:04] So that if a part time, if we have a part time officer

[13:07] opportunity, we can establish what that rate is going to be.

[13:11] And then only process that we would have to do moving forward

[13:14] off of that is just going through the hiring process and

[13:17] putting it as a resolution to hire that.

[13:19] That was I guess we'll get to it.

[13:20] But that was my question about the resolution states, you have

[13:24] to be an officer in another department, right.

[13:27] Which which but.

[13:28] This.

[13:28] Individual is not is not anymore.

[13:30] Right. That's correct.

[13:32] And that's why we.

[13:32] That's.

[13:33] That's why we had to separate the two out.

[13:35] And that's why.

[13:36] This makes up for that, because we're hiring her.

[13:39] We're hiring her.

[13:40] And we had to establish a rate because she is not an officer

[13:43] from another department.

[13:45] So that's why that resolution

[13:46] is completely separate it entirely.

[13:49] Okay.

[13:50] All right, gentlemen, moving to item number ten.

[13:52] That's to authorize the mayor to sign a change order number

[13:56] five for the 12th Avenue traffic signal for Eastern Iowa

[13:59] excavating for $12,510.

[14:05] Item number 11 is to authorize the mayor to sign contract

[14:08] payment number six to Eastern

[14:09] Iowa, excavating in the amount of

[14:12] $638.32.

[14:16] So did we receive any funds from Quick Start Corp?

[14:21] We have not built yet, so we want.

[14:23] State of Iowa.

[14:23] We got some coming from them too, right?

[14:25] State of Iowa.

[14:26] State of Iowa is for phase two.

[14:28] The for phase one.

[14:29] The traffic signal.

[14:31] We have $350,000 that's being applied to to this project.

[14:37] And so once this project gets to final completion, then we

[14:40] will build them for phase two.

[14:43] Phase two is for from going north from um Tysons, basically

[14:50] from quick start all the way up to 10th, which would be we're

[14:54] talking motors is at and redoing that intersection.

[14:59] In the sidewalk, the drainage and the sidewalk, the.

[15:02] Drainage.

[15:02] The sidewalk.

[15:03] Urbanize in that section, working.

[15:05] Out.

[15:06] Working out the working out the issues that are with the car

[15:10] dealership, making sure that there's curb and gutter, making

[15:13] sure that all the lights are in control.

[15:15] That's within that project area that's finished.

[15:18] No.

[15:19] That's not finished.

[15:20] No, that will be sometime this winter.

[15:22] Is that designed the previous designers that's still going to

[15:26] be redesigned?

[15:27] No, it's a previous design.

[15:29] There's some modifications that we have to make some tweaks for

[15:32] the transportation you know, plan.

[15:34] But other than that, it's pretty much intact.

[15:38] Item number 12 is a miscellaneous correspondence

[15:41] for fireworks permit for the Shinedown concert September

[15:44] 4th, 2026.

[15:47] Number 13 is a miscellaneous correspondence for Keep Iowa

[15:50] Beautiful for August 2026.

[15:54] Item number 14 is a miscellaneous correspondence

[15:56] from Greater Dubuque Development Corporation for

[15:59] August 2026.

[16:02] Is there a motion on the consent agenda?

[16:05] Motion to approve.

[16:06] Motion by Councilman English to approve the consent agenda.

[16:09] Is there a second?

[16:10] Second. Second by Councilman Pottebaum.

[16:13] Roll call please.

[16:14] Tricia.

[16:14] DeSousa. Yes I Oberbroeckling.

[16:17] Yes. Yes.

[16:18] Yes.

[16:19] Gentlemen, that takes us to our action items.

[16:21] The first action item we have this evening is a 6:00 public

[16:24] hearing to approve and and approve with modifications or

[16:28] deny approval, an approved

[16:30] amendment or proposed amendment.

[16:32] Excuse me, to the text of the

[16:34] zoning Ordinance of the City of Dyersville.

[16:37] Motion to open the public hearing.

[16:39] Most of my Councilman

[16:40] Oberbroeckling to open a public hearing.

[16:41] All in favor, say aye.

[16:43] Aye.

[16:43] Anybody? Oh, I'm sorry, a second, second, second.

[16:47] All in favor, say aye.

[16:48] Aye.

[16:50] Uh, now will entertain discussions from the audience.

[16:53] Is there any correspondence that City Hall has received

[16:56] about this ordinance?

[16:57] There is.

[16:58] There has not been any correspondence on.

[17:00] Okay.

[17:01] And planning zoning recommendation was approved.

[17:08] Any other discussion from council?

[17:12] I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing.

[17:14] So moved.

[17:15] Motion by Councilman English to

[17:16] approve or to close the public hearing.

[17:18] Is there a second?

[17:19] Second, second by Councilman Pottebaum?

[17:22] Uh, all in favor, say aye.

[17:24] Aye.

[17:25] All right, gentlemen, takes us to ordinance number 880.

[17:28] Amending chapter 165.

[17:31] Zoning Regulations of the Code

[17:34] of Ordinances of the City of Dyersville.

[17:36] By repealing and reenacting section one, 65-9-11

[17:42] for fence regulations relating to a permit.

[17:46] Requirements for permanent and temporary movable fences.

[17:51] Motion to waive the reading of the ordinance.

[17:54] Motion by Councilman Oberbroeckling to waive the

[17:57] reading of the reading of the ordinance.

[17:59] Is there a second?

[18:00] Second.

[18:01] Second. By Councilman DeSousa.

[18:04] Roll call please.

[18:05] Tricia.

[18:05] Singsank. Yes.

[18:07] Yes. Oberbroeckling.

[18:08] Yes. English.

[18:09] Nay.

[18:10] DeSousa. Yes.

[18:12] All right.

[18:13] Is there a motion to approve the first reading of ordinance

[18:16] number 880?

[18:18] So moved to approve ordinance number 880.

[18:21] Motion by Councilman English to approve the ordinance.

[18:24] Number 880.

[18:26] Is there a second?

[18:28] Second.

[18:29] Second by Councilman Singsank.

[18:31] Roll call, please.

[18:32] Tricia.

[18:33] Oberbroeckling. Yes.

[18:35] Yes. Yes.

[18:36] A yes.

[18:38] Next, we have the motion or.

[18:42] Excuse me.

[18:42] We have a waive the reading of the ordinance number 880.

[18:47] Motion to raise to waive or read

[18:52] one question.

[18:53] Nick, have you seen anything that you need to use this

[18:56] ordinance for right away?

[18:59] Oh yeah.

[18:59] I'm just waiting.

[19:00] Yeah. I'm I'm waiting for some sections to get approved.

[19:04] So hence your letter right.

[19:06] Yeah. Right.

[19:07] Basically your response to people.

[19:10] Yeah. So I'm just waiting for, for that to happen so that we

[19:14] can execute on some things I'm starting to see.

[19:17] You know, I do see around town mobile fences, uh, around town

[19:22] and stuff like that.

[19:23] Um, we're not actively going out and, you know, looking at

[19:27] every house and everything like that.

[19:29] We don't have the resources to do that, but, um, this will

[19:32] draw attention to it and it actually will help out a lot,

[19:36] especially if our neighbor complaints and stuff like that,

[19:38] how that will all work and it'll clean up this language

[19:43] that needs to be cleaned up.

[19:44] The only thing I questioned in the whole thing was 180 days

[19:47] for a temporary fence.

[19:50] Um, but I mean, I'm okay with it, but I just think maybe a

[19:53] temporary should be less than a half a year.

[19:55] Six months.

[19:56] Let's start with six months.

[19:57] If if it's still turns out to be a problem, we can, we can.

[20:01] Tweak.

[20:01] It, we can tweak it.

[20:02] And, you know, I didn't want to make it a year.

[20:05] You know, I think six.

[20:06] We start with six months.

[20:08] The same shortened.

[20:08] Like I was saying, shortened.

[20:10] Shortened. Yeah.

[20:11] For a temporary fence.

[20:12] I was saying short.

[20:13] Yeah.

[20:14] Yeah.

[20:15] Well, the problem the problem is that you have some you have

[20:19] some fence that are for like keep dogs out, some mobile

[20:22] fencing that's there that's going to be there.

[20:25] I would think at least six months, you know, and then once

[20:29] the winter hits, then they'll

[20:30] remove those fences for the year.

[20:33] Um, but I'm comfortable with six months.

[20:35] If you guys want to adjust it.

[20:37] Well, we can, we can adjust it off of that.

[20:41] Try that.

[20:42] Yeah.

[20:43] I think we try it.

[20:44] If there's an issue problematic that.

[20:46] Then we it's nothing to go back and just retweak it and and

[20:50] move from there.

[20:52] So do I have a motion to waive and approve the second reading

[20:55] of ordinance number 880.

[20:58] Motion to waive and approve the second reading of ordinance.

[21:03] Motion by constant Oberbroeckling.

[21:04] Is there a second, second, second by Councilman Singsank.

[21:08] Uh, roll call please.

[21:10] Tricia.

[21:10] Pottebaum. Yes.

[21:12] DeSousa. Yes.

[21:14] Yes yes.

[21:16] Now we have the third reading.

[21:17] Is there a of 880 is there a motion to waive or approve the

[21:21] third reading of ordinance number 880.

[21:24] Motion to waive and approve the third reading.

[21:28] Motion by Councilman English.

[21:29] Is there a second?

[21:30] Second, second.

[21:31] By Councilman Pottebaum.

[21:32] Roll call please.

[21:33] Tricia.

[21:33] DeSousa. Yes.

[21:35] Oberbroeckling. Yes.

[21:36] Singsank. Yes.

[21:37] Pottebaum. Yes.

[21:39] Gentleman takes us to item number 19.

[21:42] That's resolution number 7726.

[21:44] Establishing the hourly wage for certified part time police

[21:49] officers in the city of Dyersville.

[21:52] Did we have any further discussion on this?

[21:56] He answered my question with because I knew we were hiring

[22:00] Molly from the previous.

[22:02] So.

[22:02] Right.

[22:03] And so other officers would want to hire part time.

[22:06] We want them to meet these guidelines.

[22:08] We want them to meet these guidelines.

[22:10] Um, the other thing is that the code section doesn't allow for

[22:13] like myself or Brant to do a hire.

[22:16] Um, you know, so we actually have to rely on the council to

[22:20] do that.

[22:20] And that comes by recommendation at that point.

[22:23] I don't see that being an issue at all.

[22:26] Um, but it's nice for

[22:28] recruitment purposes to have this.

[22:31] And then also it's nice for Brant so that he understands

[22:34] the police chief understands

[22:35] what the conditions are on that.

[22:37] And he and he's agreeable to this.

[22:39] He actually requested this to happen.

[22:42] So she left the department.

[22:43] But she's coming back part time.

[22:45] Yes. She left full time.

[22:46] And then and then she then we

[22:48] rehired her as a part time office.

[22:50] Did she go work someplace else?

[22:52] No, she just resigned.

[22:53] She she does work part time for other departments.

[22:57] Yeah.

[22:58] Yeah. And that's her call.

[23:00] Right?

[23:00] I mean, it fits better with her or her family.

[23:04] Okay.

[23:05] Yeah. I think it's a great win for us.

[23:07] It's a win.

[23:08] Win because I think she'll work probably a fair amount for us.

[23:11] But yeah I agree.

[23:13] I think it's a win win.

[23:14] She was a very good officer for us.

[23:16] And if you hire someone you have to pay them overtime.

[23:21] Like it says.

[23:21] Everything like that.

[23:22] Yeah. If they work over 40 hours.

[23:25] Gentlemen, do we have any further discussion or anything

[23:28] on resolution number 7026.

[23:32] Motion to approve resolution 7726.

[23:35] Motion by Councilman

[23:36] Oberbroeckling to approve 70-26.

[23:39] Is there a 770, 26, 77, 77, 26, 77, 26 I got too many things in

[23:48] yellow here.

[23:48] Tricia

[23:51] is there a second?

[23:52] I will second the motion to

[23:53] approve resolution number 77-26.

[23:56] All right.

[23:57] Second by Councilman DeSousa.

[23:59] Roll call, please.

[24:00] Tricia.

[24:01] Oberbroeckling. Yes.

[24:03] Yes. Yes.

[24:05] A DeSousa.

[24:06] Yes.

[24:07] Uh, Council comments, gentlemen.

[24:09] Did the mayor get to meet his idol Sunday night?

[24:13] I mean, Father Petty.

[24:14] No. Oh,

[24:17] Underwood.

[24:18] Oh, I meant, uh, no, I did not.

[24:21] No, I did not get to meet Miss Carrie Underwood.

[24:25] I just read your comments.

[24:26] So, media.

[24:29] I did have one person reach out to me about the city sewer

[24:34] clean out.

[24:35] Yeah. Yeah.

[24:36] Was that just so I understand, John?

[24:38] They just go down the they just go down the center, right.

[24:43] Just the mains just do mains.

[24:46] Correct. We don't do the service lines.

[24:47] No.

[24:47] Okay. Well and

[24:51] how does notification go out on.

[24:55] With standard procedure.

[24:57] I can tell you that.

[24:58] Well, that, yeah, they put it in the paper that they're going

[25:01] to do a certain area of town.

[25:03] Yeah.

[25:03] Like the southeast or the south.

[25:04] And we let the council know as well.

[25:07] Yeah. I remember we talked about it in the past.

[25:09] I think it's.

[25:10] On the website too, isn't it.

[25:12] Yeah. I think we yeah.

[25:13] So you discuss it here.

[25:15] That's public information.

[25:18] Um, uh, we, we, we posted on, I guess they call it the city

[25:23] information outside the library as well.

[25:27] And I think at times we put it in the newspaper and we've, I

[25:32] think we've even put it on Facebook at times.

[25:34] I'm not sure

[25:36] all that happened this time, but that's normally what we do.

[25:40] I just, I don't I think you guys do a great job.

[25:43] It's just one person reached out.

[25:45] I'm just doing my due diligence.

[25:47] Well, I would think I still think now we've had this

[25:49] conversation, but to me, there has to be a more universal way

[25:54] of letting people know than no offense to the Dyersville

[25:56] commercial, but it's a small percentage of people read the

[25:59] Dyersville commercial, right?

[26:01] So unless you're unless it's an email to everybody or somehow.

[26:05] Yeah, I.

[26:05] Think it has to be a more universal way to let people

[26:08] know about things happening.

[26:09] We also have in our message board on our on our local

[26:11] access channel as well.

[26:13] Um, it, it, I understand, I understand that, but, but you

[26:17] also, there's, there's a little bit of responsibility of the

[26:21] homeowner to try to get access as well.

[26:24] And we throw these, we throw these measures out there.

[26:28] Um, if the homeowner doesn't want access, that's their

[26:32] discretion, but the city is doing its due diligence to try

[26:36] to send messages out as much as we can to do that.

[26:38] You know, the alert.

[26:39] System we use is.

[26:40] There. There's probably not.

[26:42] Any way.

[26:42] To to.

[26:44] Narrow that focus to like the southeast side of town or.

[26:49] But.

[26:49] It has to be an emergency to see that.

[26:51] It's.

[26:51] Not okay.

[26:53] To emergency.

[26:54] There's no emergency.

[26:55] A water main break.

[26:57] Sure, we use it quite often for water main breaks, but when

[26:59] we're doing routine maintenance, we're not supposed

[27:02] to be using it for that purpose.

[27:03] But we would work really good.

[27:05] I could see that.

[27:05] Yeah. No, I like the when the when the main First Avenue

[27:09] bridge buckled.

[27:11] That was that was an emergency.

[27:12] That's an emergency though.

[27:13] Correct. That's an emergency.

[27:15] Street closure is considered an emergency.

[27:17] But we did put it on the website.

[27:20] That when the when the bridge.

[27:22] Oh didn't they?

[27:23] I know we didn't get it for one, but I know the people who

[27:26] didn't get that also.

[27:28] So anyway.

[27:29] Did it are you can I ask I

[27:30] mean, you don't have the answer.

[27:31] I mean, just we need to make sure that they're signed up for

[27:33] alert Iowa then and we can kind of help with that.

[27:36] Well, I'm pretty sure we are.

[27:38] Well, they switched, what, a year ago?

[27:41] A couple years ago?

[27:42] Yeah, about 2 or 3 years.

[27:44] Used to be like Iowa Red.

[27:45] And then it went.

[27:47] Anyway.

[27:47] Into that.

[27:48] Right.

[27:49] It was on our website too, by the way.

[27:51] Yeah. I think you're just caught in generations.

[27:53] I mean, you have generations that, you know are all tech

[27:57] savvy and all.

[27:58] That's the only thing they look at and they don't look at a

[28:00] printed thing.

[28:01] And then you have the next person that they only look at

[28:03] the Dyersville commercial, correct.

[28:04] For their notification.

[28:06] It just we're caught.

[28:07] And I think you're absolutely correct.

[28:10] We we have to cater to cross generations.

[28:13] So it's tough.

[28:13] So we can't just say, well, we got everything on the website

[28:17] because there's some generations that don't even

[28:19] know what the website is.

[28:21] You have to use just multiple, multiple ways to get.

[28:24] The point is that we're making an attempt to try to

[28:27] communicate when something's going on.

[28:29] Now, the individual that you're, you're talking about

[28:33] the way that we're going to communicate moving forward, and

[28:35] we communicated this is that because of the sensitivity is

[28:39] we're going to actually put a door tag on it so that that

[28:41] person understands that.

[28:43] And we do have certain areas that if an incident does

[28:47] happen, we actually market in our asset management software,

[28:50] that they get a door tag, they'll get a door tag for

[28:53] that, like a day or two days ahead of time on that.

[28:57] Are you doing about the same time every year?

[28:59] Right.

[29:00] Well, we try to.

[29:02] This year the truck was just not available.

[29:04] There were issues with that.

[29:05] So this is a little later than normal.

[29:07] Usually we're right around the middle of the summer.

[29:09] How long do we keep that truck then.

[29:11] Two months.

[29:11] Yeah. Two months.

[29:12] Yeah. Two month rental.

[29:14] And then every year you do a certain different section.

[29:16] Yeah, yeah.

[29:18] We do a quarter of the town every year.

[29:20] Um, the regulations say you should do a fifth of the town.

[29:25] So we're above the regulations.

[29:27] That's what we try to do.

[29:30] While you're up there, John.

[29:31] Uh, different subject.

[29:33] Olde Castle road utility.

[29:34] I know we hit rock out there supposedly, and then that was

[29:39] maybe delayed things, but what's are we moving forward?

[29:43] Yeah. You'll notice equipment moving in this week.

[29:47] They're going to start next week and they're going to start

[29:50] with the crossing.

[29:51] So we we hit rock.

[29:52] There were issues with boring and rock.

[29:55] And so we were able to get the

[29:56] county to permit us to open cut that.

[29:59] And so that they're going to

[30:01] close it no more than than two days

[30:05] for the excavation and then another day for paving for.

[30:09] That'll be another notification thing that we want to make sure

[30:14] that that's.

[30:14] Correct.

[30:15] Yeah. Castle Hill folks and the Castle Court folks all know

[30:18] about it.

[30:19] Yeah. Because they'll have to go all the way around.

[30:22] Is that more money to do it like that or less money to.

[30:24] It's it's around the same amount of money.

[30:27] Yeah.

[30:28] But if we had to do rock excavation, it would have been

[30:30] a larger change.

[30:32] Yeah, it would have been huge with rock.

[30:33] Boring. It would have been huge.

[30:36] While you're up there, John.

[30:37] Yeah. Um, the Westlinden lift station still moving forward

[30:40] with that on as planned.

[30:43] It is?

[30:43] Yeah. Yep.

[30:45] Do we know when we would bid that this fall?

[30:48] Some time, I believe.

[30:49] Do you remember the date?

[30:50] It was like wintertime because

[30:51] we still have to go through the EPA.

[30:53] Oh that's right.

[30:55] Okay, good.

[30:56] Yeah. We haven't seen the plans yet.

[30:59] No, we're still working through that.

[31:01] We're going through an environmental right now.

[31:03] And then once we get through environmental, we have to

[31:05] purchase the property.

[31:07] And then we still have to work out

[31:10] the details.

[31:11] Even though we have a direct earmark from the federal

[31:14] government, we still have to apply for the grant.

[31:17] We still have to work through the grant and the conditions of

[31:19] the grant.

[31:20] So but it is moving.

[31:22] Good.

[31:24] So we apply for the grant until

[31:26] you have the design and the property.

[31:30] Correct, because it is how the

[31:33] federal regulations work on that.

[31:35] And EPA is helping us and

[31:37] guiding us through that, that process.

[31:40] Any other questions for John Wallace at the podium?

[31:42] No. Thank you John.

[31:43] John. I have a couple for Matt.

[31:45] Okay. The

[31:48] property, the sale of it, or have we?

[31:51] Yes. So I got, I, I got the um the attorney's opinion back

[31:57] along with the appraisal, the appraisal as well.

[32:01] Um, did not have an opportunity to get it on this council

[32:03] meeting, but it's going to be on the next council meeting.

[32:05] Um to work through that process and what we need to do.

[32:09] Um, is there any interest that you know of?

[32:12] Is there any interest.

[32:13] I think there is 1 or 2.

[32:14] There was I had a question, an inquiry previous.

[32:18] So we'll have to see if they're still interested once the

[32:22] amount of money gets you know,

[32:25] approved solidified.

[32:27] The next question I had was out in Castle Hill.

[32:31] They had four phase four and the four A and 4B4A is is the

[32:38] street is done.

[32:38] The street lights are in.

[32:40] There's homes along some of it.

[32:42] Four B is the newest where they just paved this summer.

[32:46] Correct. And there's a couple of homes on it now.

[32:49] Uh, any idea on timeline?

[32:51] On lighting?

[32:53] Oh, um, that is the

[32:56] developer. So we'll, we'll go

[32:58] back and ask the question maybe.

[33:00] Yeah. Just because it's, I mean, it's really dark and no

[33:05] curbs and.

[33:06] Sure. Wintertime it's a lot harder if there's no lights

[33:09] even for snow.

[33:10] We'll ask we'll ask the question of the developer.

[33:12] I don't know.

[33:13] I do know is I'm not sure if that's Maquoketa Valley

[33:16] Electric Co-op or I don't know.

[33:19] That subdivision is divided in both.

[33:21] Maquoketa Valley and Alliance.

[33:23] So I don't know which is which over there.

[33:25] As far as the lighting design, the lighting design of the

[33:27] locations, I think we've already approved what those

[33:30] locations should look like in full development.

[33:33] I mean.

[33:33] There's.

[33:34] Probably three two for sure, different light street lights

[33:38] out there.

[33:39] I don't know.

[33:39] Yeah. Doesn't matter.

[33:40] It's I just looking for street lights.

[33:41] Yeah.

[33:42] We won't plow unless we accept the project.

[33:44] Right?

[33:46] Correct? Yeah.

[33:48] Well, we haven't done that.

[33:51] Right. But we haven't seen a bill yet either.

[33:54] So. So.

[33:55] Yeah.

[33:56] So it still is.

[33:57] It's still his project.

[33:58] Okay. Um, and then the last thing, just to let you guys

[34:02] know, the veterans banners that they're going to put on the

[34:05] street lights have been ordered

[34:07] and will be here within two weeks.

[34:09] Great. Great.

[34:09] So we'll get them to the city.

[34:12] The Legion will get them to the city.

[34:13] And, uh, the city's going to help out with the installation,

[34:17] and they should look cool.

[34:19] Should look nice.

[34:20] And we have the locations already marked and everything.

[34:22] So we're just waiting for that.

[34:23] Are they all sold?

[34:25] They are.

[34:26] The first 78 have been sold, and he's already got a waiting

[34:30] list for two years from now.

[34:31] Great.

[34:32] So you go from 52 all the way out.

[34:34] Where's it going to go?

[34:35] Um, so right over here on going down.

[34:41] Uh, what street would that be?

[34:43] Fourth street.

[34:44] I think a couple of lights and then down Second Avenue all the

[34:48] way down.

[34:49] To 52.

[34:49] To 52, and then from the

[34:52] Basilica West out on First Avenue.

[34:56] And then, uh, going out Third Street, there's some along

[35:01] Third Street on the backside of the church, going out towards

[35:03] the hospital.

[35:04] There's some along there.

[35:05] And then on the south side of the auditorium, there's three,

[35:08] I think 3 or 4.

[35:10] That'll be a nice addition, really.

[35:11] So yeah.

[35:13] I think they're going to look fantastic.

[35:15] I don't know, I'm very happy about them.

[35:19] Um, I'd like to extend our sympathies to Mike and his

[35:24] family for the loss of his brother in law.

[35:26] So, yeah.

[35:27] Sandy's brother, it was sad.

[35:29] Yeah.

[35:29] So he's a good guy?

[35:31] Yeah. For sure.

[35:32] So you have our sympathies.

[35:33] Um, I'd also like to comment about the festival over the

[35:37] weekend and compliment everybody who was involved with

[35:40] that, especially our local law

[35:43] enforcement and fire department.

[35:44] I think they did a great job out there making sure everybody

[35:47] stayed safe.

[35:48] I don't think there's any events out there that were

[35:50] extreme that, um, that need to be brought up.

[35:55] But we are very grateful for all the support that they gave

[35:58] us for that.

[36:00] Anything else, gentlemen?

[36:02] Any other comments?

[36:03] Dyersville. That's for sure.

[36:04] Yeah. You know, once again, we were recognized all around the

[36:07] world, so that's great.

[36:09] Uh, a lot of positive, positive feedback for that event.

[36:13] So and, and the previous events as well.

[36:16] And going forward, I think we have a number of events out at

[36:19] the ball field.

[36:20] So we have a busy year out there.

[36:22] So we're we're very thankful for that and everything.

[36:25] The Field of Dreams people and Dyersville events are doing for

[36:29] the city of Dyersville.

[36:31] All right, gentlemen, anything else?

[36:34] Is there a motion to adjourn?

[36:36] So moved.

[36:37] Motion by Councilman English to adjourn.

[36:39] Is there a second?

[36:40] Second by Councilman Singsank.

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