Community Conversations on Homelessness.

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Usually some of the agenda items will have a period where members of the public may briefly speak to Council.
TO REACH THE MAYOR AND ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL:
Send email to MayorCouncil@AmesCityCouncil.org
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MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL

The Ames City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall.   The regular council meeting agenda  includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.

• 21. Resolution approving Professional Services Agreement with WHKS & Co. of Ames, Iowa for the 2024/25 Traffic System Capacity Improvements (13th & Grand) in an amount not to exceed $326,750.
  This is the highly anticipated first step in updating the intersection at 13th and Grand Ave., and Council is being asked to approve a contract with a consultant to assist with engineering and public input meetings for this project. The preliminary design includes widening each approach to the intersection to 5 lanes instead of the 4 lanes that currently exist along 13th and Grand, so some land acquisitions may be required.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 34. Request to Modify Downtown Facade Grant Funding Eligibility for Maintenance Activities and Rear Facades.
  Council has a Facade Grant program in Downtown to assist property owners in replacing non-historic elements of their front facades. Council is being asked to expand this program to include regular maintenance of buildings (without historical improvements) and to allow the backside of buildings to be eligible for this funding. If Council is to consider these changes, staff recommend seeking public and stakeholder input before proceeding.
  
  
• 35. Initiation of Voluntary Annexation in West Ames along Ontario Street and Lincoln Way.
  This request is for a 100% voluntary annexation of several properties in west Ames. Since there are no non-consenting property owners, this annexation will be simpler than some that require review by the State's City Development Board.
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
• 36. Motion approving/denying a Class C Retail License - Celaya, 217 South Duff.
  This request is a follow-up to a June 11th meeting, where Council recommended that the State Alcoholic Beverages Division revoke Celaya's license due to 4 failed compliance checks that occurred in the fall of 2023 through late winter of 2024. 
  
  
• 37. Water Pollution Control Facility Nutrient Reduction Modifications Phase 1.
  This topic was tabled from Council's July 9th meeting, at which time I wrote:
  This is a huge $ item for the City, and this staff report indicates it is about to get even more expensive. When bids were put out for this project, our engineer's estimate was just under $45 million. The most favorable bid came back around $10 million higher than that. As a reminder, this is because of Gulf-hypoxia, caused by massive amounts of nutrients (nitrates and phosphorus) that flow from farm fields to rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, killing massive amounts of marine life as bacteria feed on the nutrients, consume all the oxygen, and suffocate everything else. Cities, as point sources for testing and regulation, are bearing the financial burden of this upstream pollution. 
  Staff recommend awarding the bid, but working to reduce costs via change-orders, reducing costs on other WPC department projects, and considering annual rate increases to the sewer and water rates.
  
  
• 38. Motion to reject the bid for the FY 2022/23 Story County Edge of Field Project.
  In a way, this is related to the previous item. This watershed based nutrient reduction program is funded at a level of $200K annually, which would be halved in order to pay for nutrient reduction modifications at the treatment plant. This new annual allocation of $100K would still cover the City's portion of this particular project, but the bids received on this project were significantly over the engineers estimate due to the desired construction timeline. City staff recommend rejecting bids and then rebidding the project with different construction timeline parameters.
  
  
• 40. Resolution authorizing staff to enter into an agreement with a consultant for up to $12,000 to assist with hosting community conversations around homelessness.
  Council is being asked to consider funding for a consultant that would assist the City in hosting community discussions about the topic of homelessness and housing insecurity, with a goal of coming up with a comprehensive community strategy to help. 
  
  

Communications to Council: The following items are requests and communications to Council that aren't published on the agenda, so we won't deliberate them substantially.  This includes staff reports and communications or requests from constituents and developers. Typically, Council will ask city staff for more information, put the item on a future agenda for deliberation and possible action, or just accept the communication, taking no further action.

• Electric rate changes.
• Pool racility fall-winter.
• Whole Food store.
• Annexation 2126 State Ave.
• Tailgate parking Stuart Smith Park.
• Energy efficiency.
• Campustown pillar art project.
• Homeless camp.
• Vacant lot and bus.

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Airport Improvements Program (Wildlife Fence Project)

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Usually some of the agenda items will have a period where members of the public may briefly speak to Council.
TO REACH THE MAYOR AND ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL:
Send email to MayorCouncil@AmesCityCouncil.org
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MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL

The Ames City Council meeting is at 10 a.m. telephonically. The regular council meeting agenda  includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.

•  1. Resolution approving preliminary plans and specifications for the 2024/25 Shared Use Path Maintenance Contract 2 (Stuart Smith Park and State Avenue), setting September 4, 2024 as the bid due date and September 10, 2024 as the date of Public Hearing.
  
  
• 2 . Hearing on 2023/24 Airport Improvements Program (Wildlife Fence Project).
  
  
• 3. Resolution awarding a contract to Sulzer Turbo Services, of La Porte, TX, for inspection of CT1 Combustion Turbine to determine options and costs to return the unit to service.
   
  
  

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nuisance Party Volations

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Usually some of the agenda items will have a period where members of the public may briefly speak to Council.
TO REACH THE MAYOR AND ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL:
Send email to MayorCouncil@AmesCityCouncil.org
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MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL

The Ames City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall.   The regular council meeting agenda  includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.

• 13. Resolution approving the report of the rapid needs purchase for repairs to the 161 KV electric transmission line in the amount of $625,504.86.
  Due to a wind event earlier this year, a rapid needs purchase was initiated to replace some poles carrying our 161 KV transmission line. (This line runs south along I35.) These repairs totaled over half a million dollars. 
  
  
• 15. Resolution authorizing immediate towing of illegally parked vehicles on Saturday, August 24, 2024.
  As for prior years, Council is being asked to approve immediate towing for Cyclone Welcome Weekend (unofficially known as "8:01 Day"). 
  
  
• 16. Resolution authorizing enhanced penalties for nuisance party violations beginning at 5:00 p.m., Friday, August 23 and ending at 4:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 25, 2024.
  Like the previous agenda item, Council is being asked to approve increased fines for nuisance parties for the duration of Cyclone Welcome Weekend.
  
  
• 17. Hearing on FY 2022/23 Story County Edge of Field Project.
  This agenda item relates to our efforts to install saturated buffers and bioreactors at strategic points in our watersheds, in an effort to slow down and filter out nutrients. The one bid received for this work came back substantially higher than the engineer's estimate, so staff are recommending delaying an award of bid until more information about the cost estimate can be evaluated.
  
  
• 18. Hearing on 2024/25 Shared Use Path Maintenance program.
  Most of this year's shared-use path maintenance will occur along the North and South River Valley Parks, and along George Washington Carver. (This agenda item covers shared-use path maintenance only...new shared-use path construction is a separate funding category.)
  
  

Communications to Council: The following items are requests and communications to Council that aren't published on the agenda, so we won't deliberate them substantially.  This includes staff reports and communications or requests from constituents and developers. Typically, Council will ask city staff for more information, put the item on a future agenda for deliberation and possible action, or just accept the communication, taking no further action.

• COTA grant extension.
• Garbage update.
  
• Fireworks.
• Feed mill noise output.
• Bad sidewalks.
• Geothermal cost analysis.
• PetrolStationCarWash.
  

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changes to electric rates

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YOU MAY VIEW THE MEETING ONLINE AT THE FOLLOWING SITES:
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or watch the meeting live on Mediacom Channel 12

 

Usually some of the agenda items will have a period where members of the public may briefly speak to Council.
TO REACH THE MAYOR AND ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL:
Send email to MayorCouncil@AmesCityCouncil.org
(Note that emails to elected officials are generally subject to Iowa Open Records requests)
 

MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL

The Ames City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall.   The regular council meeting agenda  includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.

• 29. Presentation on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) annual update.
  This annual update gives a rundown of what the City's DEI Coordinator (Casandra Eames) has accomplished in the past year (hint, it was a LOT), and additional goals and tasks for the next year. Some highlights from the past year include networking with other Iowa and regional DEI Coordinators, assisting with planning for the annual "Building Inclusive Organizations" Symposium, forming an ADA Committee for the City and beginning an ADA audit of City buildings (and getting up to speed on the recent Parks & Rec Department department-level ADA audit), working with the HR Department to understand the City's current recruitment techniques, assisting the Ames Human Relations Commission with their substantial tasks and goals, and working with ISU to improve student access and belonging in Ames, just to name a few. In the coming year, Eames also aims to propose a plan for community-wide inclusion efforts.
  
  
• 30. Changes to electric rates to adopt revenue-neutral rate adjustments to better align with cost-of-service study recommendations, to add optional Time-of-Use rates, and to adjust the Large Customer Interruptible Option bill credits.
  These items were introduced and discussed at our June 18th workshop, and now they are back on the agenda for implementation. The Electric Department is proposing a rate adjustment that wouldn't increase overall revenue, but rather would shift the amount paid by each class of user (residential, industrial, commercial). The residential rate adjustment proposal is -1% in the first year, while commerical and industrial would increase slightly. Also, the City hopes to introduce an optional Time-of-Use rate system, where customers who sign up may be offered better rates in the late evenings and early mornings, as it is cheaper to procure energy at non-peak times.
  
  
• 31. Request to Initiate Zoning Text Amendment to allow Social Service Uses within the O-SFC (Single Family Conservation Overlay) Zoning District .
  This request came to Council from the Romero House, a non-profit organization that purchased the property at 709 Clark Ave. in 2020, and uses it for free meals and services such as laundry, showers, and providing food and winter clothing to those in need. They have also purchased the property at 702 Clark, and are proposing that staff reside at 702 while services are provided at 709. This does not fit the standard household living use zoning of the area, so staff have proposed a special-use permit process for requests of this type in these zoning districts.
  
  
• 32. Steven L. Schainker Plaza Ice Skating Ribbon Status Report.
  As many people have observed and noted, progress has stalled on the Steven L. Schainker Plaza. This staff report explains that the concrete for the ice ribbon was poured in a way that all parties agree is unacceptable. Due to all the infrastructure under the concrete, tearing it out and re-pouring is a complicated, costly, and time-consuming proposal. The Contractor, Henkel Construction out of Mason City, IA, is instead suggesting a series of coatings of products from Euclid Chemical that would even out rough surfaces, gaps, and pitting, and have a cement-like finish and look. When a test patch was attempted, though, the applicators had difficulty, and were not able to produce an acceptable finish. Euclid won't guarantee their product given our unique (ice rink) conditions, but Henkel is still promoting it as a solution to the unacceptable concrete work. Council is being asked to hire a third-party concrete expert who could advise on the feasibility of a coating vs. re-pouring the concrete. 
  
  
• 33. Hearing on Major Site Development Plan For Dunkin' Donuts at 209 Lincoln Way.
  The old Burger King building (vacant) on Lincoln Way is proposed to be redeveloped as a Dunkin' Donuts, and this Major Site Plan has a few items requiring Council approval, such as the drive-through setback, a sidewalk waiver, and a reduction in parking spots required.
  
  
• 34. Hearing on Water Pollution Control Facility Nutrient Reduction Modifications Phase 1.
  This is a huge $ item for the City, and this staff report indicates it is about to get even more expensive. When bids were put out for this project, our engineer's estimate was just under $45 million. The most favorable bid came back around $10 million higher than that. As a reminder, this is because of Gulf-hypoxia, caused by massive amounts of nutrients (nitrates and phosphorus) that flow from farm fields to rivers to the Gulf of Mexico, killing massive amounts of marine life as bacteria feed on the nutrients, consume all the oxygen, and suffocate everything else. Cities, as point sources for testing and regulation, are bearing the financial burden of this upstream pollution. 

Communications to Council: The following items are requests and communications to Council that aren't published on the agenda, so we won't deliberate them substantially.  This includes staff reports and communications or requests from constituents and developers. Typically, Council will ask city staff for more information, put the item on a future agenda for deliberation and possible action, or just accept the communication, taking no further action.

• Geothermal cost analysis.
• Martin Historical Pier.
• COA Programs.
• Rental practice by Property MgmtCo.
• Request for text amendment to Municipal Code Chapter29.
• Bicycle safety.
• Housing on WelbeckDrive.
  

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North Dayton Avenue Industrial Park TIF

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Usually some of the agenda items will have a period where members of the public may briefly speak to Council.
TO REACH THE MAYOR AND ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL:
Send email to MayorCouncil@AmesCityCouncil.org
(Note that emails to elected officials are generally subject to Iowa Open Records requests)
 

MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL

The Ames City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall.   The regular council meeting agenda  includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.

• 17.

  Motion approving salaries of Council Appointees for FY 2024/25.
  Each year, two Council members are responsible for heading up the evaluation committee for the two Council-appointed employees of the City (the City Manager, and the City Attorney). 
  
  
• 41. Resolution approving FY 2025/26 ASSET Priorities.
  Council regularly reviews our stated funding priorities for the ASSET process. (The ASSET process is how the City funds social services in the area, in partnership with Story County, United Way, and ISU Student Government.) There are no proposed changes to our priorities this year.
  
  
• 42. Resolution approving amendment to FY 2024/25 ASSET Contract with The Salvation Army to add $100,000 for temporary emergency shelter services.
  Last fiscal year, Council authorized The Salvation Army to access $40,000 of ASSET money for emergency shelter services. They are continuing to provide temporary emergency shelter services, so are asking Council for $100,000 for that purpose in FY 24/25.
  
  
• 43. Resolution authorizing staff to enter into agreements with ASSET agencies for up to a maximum of $25,000 to provide relocation services to tenants.
  This is in response to a request from Good Neighbor Emergency Assistance to assist a number of tenants who are being displaced after the properties they rent were found to be out of compliance with our rental code and unsafe to occupy.
  
  
• 44. Resolution Awarding Downtown Facade Grants for Spring, Fiscal Year 2023-24.
  
  
• 45. North Dayton Avenue Industrial Park TIF Agreement with Dayton Avenue Development LLC.
  This is a final draft of the TIF Agreement that Council discussed last month for an industrial park off of North Dayton. Due to increased costs, the developer had asked for more reimbursement through the TIF funding mechanism.
  
  
• 46. The Bluffs at Dankbar Farms Subdivision Final Plat Second Addition.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 47. Staff report to determine the process for rezoning of 113 North Dakota from Residential Low Density (RL) to Residential Medium Density (RM) within Urban Corridor Designation.
  The owner of the property on the northwest corner of North Dakota and Lincoln Way is asking for a rezoning to allow the construction of medium density residential housing. Staff have presented several options that might accomplish this, and Council is being asked for direction.
  
  
• 48. Review of Draft RFP for Development of Surplus City Land at Harrison and Welbeck.
  At a meeting recently, Council asked staff to see some options for a potential addition of housing at the intersection of Harrison and Welbeck. The neighbors would rather see it left as green space, so Council also directed staff to provide some options for maintaining green space while still infilling with some single-family style small-lot housing.
  
  
• 49. Motion approving/denying a 12-month Class E Retail Alcohol License - Neighborhood Liquor and Smokes, 3505 Lincoln Way, Suite 105.
  Neighborhood Liquor is applying for a new 12-month alcohol license. They were denied for their prior request, and staff recommend denial again.
  
  
• 50. Follow Up on Scope of Storm Water Modeling for Conservation Subdivision Ordinance Changes.
  
  
• 52. Resolution approving agreement with the Arbor Day Foundation accepting US Forest Service Inflation Reduction Urban and Community Forestry Grant in the amount of $810,500.
  The City is being awarded a grant for trees!

Communications to Council: The following items are requests and communications to Council that aren't published on the agenda, so we won't deliberate them substantially.  This includes staff reports and communications or requests from constituents and developers. Typically, Council will ask city staff for more information, put the item on a future agenda for deliberation and possible action, or just accept the communication, taking no further action.

• Bicycle safety
• Quarry Estates 4 ways top.
• Affordable housing.
• Little Bluestem Ct.
• Ames trash collection.
• Drop Box referral memo.
• Romero House request for SFCOD text amendment
• Code enforcement updates.
• 2023-24 Campustown public improvements.
  

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1

 

Electric Services Cost of Service Study

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YOU MAY VIEW THE MEETING ONLINE AT THE FOLLOWING SITES:
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or watch the meeting live on Mediacom Channel 12

 

Usually some of the agenda items will have a period where members of the public may briefly speak to Council.
TO REACH THE MAYOR AND ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL:
Send email to MayorCouncil@AmesCityCouncil.org
(Note that emails to elected officials are generally subject to Iowa Open Records requests)
 

AGENDA
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL

The Ames City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall.   The regular council meeting agenda  includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.

• 6. Electric Services Cost of Service Study.
  A Cost of Service (COS) study is designed to compare the rate users pay with the actual cost of providing the electricity. The last time one was done was 2011, so another was undertaken starting about this time last year. The rate changes proposed by the consultant and staff wouldn't increase the overall revenue, but rather would shift costs to better reflect the COS for any given time of day. This should incentivize strategic power consumption strategies, especially for the heavier industrial/commercial users of electricity. Finally, the demand for electricity is highest during the mid-afternoon in the summer, so by charging a higher rate for "on peak" power, it sends pricing signals to the consumer to shift any flexible power usage to "off peak" times. Council is being asked for input on this strategy, then the issue will go to EUORAB (Electric Utility Operations Review and Advisory Board) for comment before a final decision is reached.
   
  

Communications to Council: The following items are requests and communications to Council that aren't published on the agenda, so we won't deliberate them substantially.  This includes staff reports and communications or requests from constituents and developers. Typically, Council will ask city staff for more information, put the item on a future agenda for deliberation and possible action, or just accept the communication, taking no further action.

• 113 North Dakota Rezoning Request.

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1

 

 

 

Year-End Sustainability Report.

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YOU MAY VIEW THE MEETING ONLINE AT THE FOLLOWING SITES:
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or watch the meeting live on Mediacom Channel 12

 

Usually some of the agenda items will have a period where members of the public may briefly speak to Council.
TO REACH THE MAYOR AND ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL:
Send email to MayorCouncil@AmesCityCouncil.org
(Note that emails to elected officials are generally subject to Iowa Open Records requests)
 

AGENDA
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL

The Ames City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall.   The regular council meeting agenda  includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.

Note: I just returned from a trip to visit family, so this newsletter will be a little incomplete. Links are present and should work though, for the items I wasn't able to summarize.

• 27. FY 2023-24 Year-End Sustainability Report.
  
  
•  29. 

  Motion directing staff regarding solid waste collection & disposal strategy

  
  Over the past year or more, Council and Staff have been studying our residential solid waste (trash) disposal systems, and it is clear than an overhaul is needed. (We are not discussing any changes to commercial or industrial solid waste collection.) For many years, Ames residents were told just to throw everything away, and that garbage would be sorted and then recycled or incinerated. It turns out that wasn’t exactly true, and it has led us down a course that now needs to be changed, for a couple of reasons.
  First, while SOME of our garbage was getting sorted, and SOME of that sorted material was getting incinerated, some of it was going unsorted straight to the landfill in Boone. When there is too much garbage, or when the power plant or Resource Recovery plant are undergoing repairs and maintenance, all of our unsorted materials (including metals and glass) are being landfilled, which happens more frequently than most people know. This “just throw it away and the City will sort it for you” messaging gave people a false sense that any recycling thrown away would be sorted out and recycled. This is still something I hear from residents to this day. I think if people knew how much of their garbage ended up in landfill in our current system, they would be very surprised and disappointed.
  The second issue is that in order to incinerate those materials which can be burned, a lot of natural gas is required. Our power plant can NOT incinerate just garbage…in fact, to incinerate our waste, it requires a ratio of 90% natural gas to 10% garbage. Since the price of natural gas is climbing, this requires the City to use natural gas when we could instead purchase potentially greener and cheaper energy off the grid.
  For these reasons, we are considering moving to a more traditional system in which residents would be asked to sort recyclables from non-recyclables before pick-up, and then those materials would be hauled to a transfer station before going on to be recycled or landfilled. At this point, I often hear the argument that recycling doesn’t happen like people think it does, and that most plastics don’t even get recycled. This is not news to us. We would ask people to recycle items for which there IS some value in recycling…metals, glass, cardboard/paper, and certain plastics still do have value as recyclable materials.
  We are also considering ‘organizing’ our solid waste collection in Ames. Under our current system, any one of 7 or 8 providers can pick up garbage from anywhere in town, leading to situations where one small residential street could see 7 garbage trucks per week. This is hugely inefficient, and leads to increased traffic and road repair costs, not to mention the carbon output of the vehicles themselves. Under an organized system, Ames could be split into zones, and bids could be sought from any of the providers to service each zone. Since recycling is proposed to be part of the equation, any service provider bidding on a zone would need to be able to provide trash AND recycling pick-up. If we pursue organized collection, we wouldn’t let one bidder win all the zones, as it is healthy to keep some competition going among the haulers.
  Long story short, our current system is not sustainable financially nor ecologically, and we as residents need to be more aware of our responsibility as individuals for our solid waste. We don't take these decisions lightly either, we know it will impact small business (some of the haulers) and residents greatly.


• 30. Staff Report on Infill Development Standards, including Pocket Neighborhoods and Townhome Dwelling Type.
  
  
• 31. Request from the Alcoholic Beverages Division to provide a response regarding the status of the Class C Retail License - Celaya, 217 South Duff.
  
  
• 38. Hearing on Zoning Text Amendment to Allow For 20% Alternative Design Adjustments to General and Base Zone.
  
  
• 39. Hearing on Zoning Text Amendment on Updates to Chapter 9 Flood Plain Zoning Regulations.
   
  
  

Communications to Council: The following items are requests and communications to Council that aren't published on the agenda, so we won't deliberate them substantially.  This includes staff reports and communications or requests from constituents and developers. Typically, Council will ask city staff for more information, put the item on a future agenda for deliberation and possible action, or just accept the communication, taking no further action.

• Campustown.
• Fellows Leadership.
• EUORAB.
• Solid Waste Collection and Disposal.
• Public Works-Welch Ave Tree Trenches.
  

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1