They do so after the budget is already approved in the spring. The city wants to hear those opinions before they make financial decisions. Each february, the Dubuque City Council listens to hours and hours of budget input from the head of each city department. The public is welcome to weigh in, but the city says very few people show up to speak. Each november the city manager hosts a public budget input session, still very few people attend those meetings. The city says they really want to know whats important to people prior to setting the budget. There may be things were not aware of that we could do differently or maybe some things we are funding that arent as needed as other things that come from the input we do receive. Larson says some people complain about the citys debt. Others complain if the city raises service fees. She says recently shes heard from people who want to city to spend more money on bikehike trails and public safety. Live in dubuque Katie Wiedemann kcrg tv9 news
Melissa . Not so good. Just got off the phone with the police. This may be shut down still. The westbound lanes could be shut down until 8 00 this morning. Somebody hit a pepco pole. Its going take some time to get that out of the way. Right now, quantico, going to taken 17 minutes. Thats as good as it gets for sure. No problem here. On 395, no problems there as well. No major issues to worry about. This morning, taking a look now, lets see if it will advance, 66 in to town and out of town. Ill see you back here at 5 11. Developing now, missing 80yearold man. Police think they have found luben phipps body. He was there with his center. He asked to go to the restroom and never came back. Phipps family was concerned he was not getting proper care for his dementia. Neither the facility or phipps family has returns our calls. We now know the name of the man who fep to his death. He is Alexei Lichtman from the uk. He was apparently taking pictures, jumping from rock to rock and lost his bal
Nearly every president ial poll. He knocked his rivals and poured powered through a confrontation between thinks supporters and protesters in the crowd. Next president of the United States donald trump wasted no time firing up the crowd with the issue that exploded his rise. Illegal immigration, important. We are going to build the wall. Ok. Believe me. We are going to build the wall. Among the thousands of supporters, perhaps a dozen activists used this line as a cue to protest the gop front runner. Thats why we have freedom of speech, folks. Some turned on the protesters with at least one violent. Trump turned his verbal fire on president obama, his gop competition to take his job and a set of the media he loves to hate. You have 15 20 who are 1520 who are truly bad people, they are dishonest, horrible human beings. Its not a question of being lazy. They actually go out of their way to write false stories. Trump called last nights democratic president ial debate practically unwatchab
These are photos from their mission there. The group of volunteers made 138 flights over that flooded region to help look for people who needed help and they provided aerial pictures to help fema get a handle on all the damage. 4 31. Time for weather traffic on the 1s. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is back. Welcome back. Thank you, aaron and eun. Its cool and clear. The suns not coming up until after 7 00. Its cool this morning. Mid to upper 40s through 7 00 in the morning. Mid50s by 9 00. Mid60s by 11 00, 12 00. A gorgeous afternoon coming. Sunshine and mild temperatures in the low to mid70s all this afternoon and going out this evening temperatures dropping back down into the mid60s by 9 00 this evening. The overall weather impact will be nice and low. If youve got the day off, its going to be a perfect day for that. If youre going to school, go to the bus stop. Good news in the traffic department. Overall looking quite good. We have this problem with a truck that hit a pepco
One does not have to be a rocket scientist to coach football, but it certainly helps. At least it does according to Yusef Johnson, who is a flight design engineer