Bronwyn's Council Preview

The Ames City Council meeting is at 5 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. The Regular City Council Meeting will immediately follow the meeting of the Ames Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (AAMPO) Transportation Policy Committee.

FY 2024/25 BUDGET WRAP-UP

• Council Budget Presentations
  The past week involved presentations from departments including Library, Water and Pollution Control, Transportation, Fleet, Parks & Rec, Electric, Fire and Building Safety, Law Enforcement and Animal Control. Now we hear reports about the following budget proposals, hear public input, and make decisions on the budgets and Capital Improvements Plan. 
  • Public Art
  • Arts Funding (COTA)
  • Human Services (ASSET)
  • Outside Funding Requests
  • Other Requests
• Public Input on Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) and Budget
• Final Council Decisions
  • Amendments to 2024-2029 CIP
  • Vote on motion to approve 2024-2029 CIP, as amended
  • Amendments to FY 2023/24 Adjusted Budget
  • Vote on motion to approve Adjusted Budget for FY 2023/24, as amended, including interfund transfers
  • Amendments to proposed FY 2024/25 Budget
  • Vote on motion to approve proposed budget for FY 2024/25, as amended, including interfund transfers 
  • Motion setting April 9, 2024, as date of final public hearing to adopt a property tax levy for FY 2024/25
     

REGULAR MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL*
*The Regular City Council Meeting will immediately follow Budget Wrap-Up

• 32. Hearing on Ash Pond Closure and RDF Ash Pond Construction and Motion accepting report of bids.
  Staff are recommending we accept the report of bids but delay awarding a contract to allow staff more time to look into why the bid was so much lower than the engineer's estimate for this project.

• 34. Hearing on rezoning of 210 South 5th Street from Agricultural (A) to Highway Oriented Commercial (HOC) with an Environmentally Sensitive Overlay.
  This request is from Boys and Girls Club for an expansion project, and would change the land from it's current Ag zoning to HOC (highway oriented commercial). Part of the property has an overlay, due to its proximity to Ioway Creek's floodway, so development on that portion would be limited.

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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.
 

•  Parking waiver request for MSI workshop.
• Research park residential rezoning.
• Zoning text amendment ISU Research Park Hub area.
• Slow pitch field conditions.

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