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Staff updates: fireworks compliance, RAGBRAI hosting and 9-1-1 funding change

5322361 · July 8, 2025
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Summary

Staff reported largely positive outcomes for Sturgis Falls and city fireworks enforcement, outlined RAGBRAI plans and warned of state changes to 9-1-1 fee distribution that may reduce dispatch funding to the city.

City staff provided several operational updates at the July 7 council meeting:

Fireworks and Sturgis Falls Public safety and public works reported Sturgis Falls went well and thanked volunteers. On permitted consumer fireworks around July 3–5 staff recorded 29 calls for service related to fireworks, issued six citations and found 12 late-night fireworks complaints; there were no reported injuries and one small trash-fire…

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