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Residents urge Dubuque council to review administrative overhead charges, citing fairness and legal risks
Summary
At a special April 28 session, multiple residents challenged the city’s administrative overhead recharge approach for enterprise funds, arguing it shifts costs to ratepayers and may conflict with Iowa and federal cost-allocation guidance; councilors agreed to a detailed review.
Several residents at the Dubuque City Council’s April 28 public hearing pressed elected officials to re-examine how the city allocates administrative overhead to enterprise funds, arguing the method shifts costs to ratepayers and may not have been formally adopted.
Rob McDonald, a resident who said he’s reviewed budget memos and recharge spreadsheets, told the council the "modern method" of administrative overhead recharges appears never to have been adopted by council resolution…
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