HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Watershed Improvement Review Board contract revision RESOLUTION NO. 08-288
RESOLUTION APPROVING WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT REVIEW BOARD
GRANT AGREEMENT MODIFICATION
FOR THE CITY OF AMES
WHEREAS,the Public Works Department,in partnership with Iowa State University(ISU)
Landscape Architecture scientists, has been awarded a grant from the Watershed Improvement
Review Board(WIRB) for improvements to College Creek; and,
WHEREAS,the grant entitled"Establishing and Monitoring Stream Stabilization Practices
for Water Quality Enhancement" is in the amount of$304,335 over a three-year term; and,
WHEREAS, the water quality enhance goal of this project is to reduce sediment delivery
specifically from unstable streambanks and degrading stream channels on College Creek; and,
WHEREAS,this project will also redirect urban storm water run-off into engineered systems,
intercepting it from storm drains entering College Creek; and,
WHEREAS, on January 8, 2008, the Council approved the WIRB grant agreement,but in
working closer with the grant administrator and ISU, it has been recognized that language
clarification to the original grant agreement would be beneficial; and,
WHEREAS,this slight modification would allow the use of an additional practice,vegetative
filters, as part of the riparian enhancement portion of the project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Ames, Iowa,
that the modification to the Watershed Improvement Review Board grant agreement is hereby
approved.
ADOPTED THIS 8`'day of July, 2008.
C:�,*"R. Ly-J& A.
Diane R. Voss, City Clerk Ann H. Campbell, Mayor
Introduced by: Mahayni
Seconded by: Popken
Voting aye: Doll, Goodman, Larson, Mahayni, Popken
Voting nay: None Absent: Rice
Resolution declared adopted and signed by the Mayor this 8th day of July, 2008.