Bettendorf to consider $1,616,300,000 bond sale, fire station reconfiguration, zoning and traffic measures

Bettendorf City community engagement manager Angie Sharp said the city will hold a “double header” of meetings Tuesday, Feb. 18: a Committee of the Whole at 6:30 p.m. followed by the regular City Council meeting at 7 p.m., where council members are scheduled to consider a planned sale of $1,616,300,000 in general obligation bonds and other agenda items.

The meeting matters because the bond sale, if approved by council action later in the session, could affect capital funding decisions and the city’s fiscal plans; the agenda also includes public-safety and land-use items that may change local traffic and development rules.

Sharp said the Committee of the Whole will discuss two consent-agenda items, including consent item J, a resolution approving a site-development plan for lots 1 through 4 of the Glen Grama addition. The packet description locates that development at the southwest corner of Forest Grove Drive and Devil’s Glen Road (packet page 99). Sharp also identified consent item P as a resolution to approve a contract to reconfigure the State Street Fire Station, including building sleeping quarters on the second floor and creating a permanent emergency operations center command post on the main level (packet page 185).

At the regular meeting, the city will hear a receipt of bids, sale and award for $1,616,300,000 of general obligation bonds and then vote on a resolution directing the sale of those bonds, Sharp said. The transcript did not specify the bond projects, maturity schedule, or debt-service implications.

Council will consider three ordinance items listed on the agenda: a first reading to add a stop sign at the intersection of Deer Trail Road and Deer Brook Drive (item 7); the third and final reading of a zoning-map amendment for 438 Sixteenth Street from a single-family residence district to a community-commercial district (item 8); and the third and final reading of an ordinance to add a school zone on Maplecrest Drive (item 9). Sharp said the full consent agenda contains 18 items; the transcript did not list those items individually.

Sharp also noted the council is holding the first of three budget work sessions for fiscal year 2025–26, which begins July 1; those sessions start at 5 p.m. The city posts the meeting packet and additional details online at www.bettendorf.org/citycouncil and provides livestreams and archived video through the city’s YouTube channel, Sharp said.

Sharp closed the agenda preview by reminding residents of future meeting dates: a Committee of the Whole on Monday, March 3, followed by the regular City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 4.