The City Council in Atlantic will meet during a regular session 5:30-p.m. Wednesday, in their Chambers at City Hall. One of the top items on their agenda is cutting the sleeves off of Atlantic Police Chief Dave Erickson, as part of Breast Cancer Awareness.

IA Gov, Kim Reynolds cuts the sleeve of Atlantic Police Chief Dave Erickson to get his pink Breast Cancer Awareness Month patch to benefit the Cass County Relay for Life. (A-PD photo)

Last week, the Chief presented Governor Kim Reynolds and Senator Joni Ernst with the opportunity to cut off one of the department’s pink police patches from his uniform, while they were in town. Both took him up on the offer and made a donation to purchase a patch. Money raised from the sale of the patches will be donated to the Cass County Relay for Life.

The Council will then receive an Annual report from Atlantic Public Library Director Michelle Andersen before taking action on a Resolution “Obligating funds from the Hotel Whitney Urban Renewal Area Revenue Fund for appropriation to the payment of annual appropriation TIF (tax increment financed) obligations,” which will be due in the next fiscal year. This will be the third year the City has been eligible to capture the taxes paid by the Whitney Group for their renovation project, using TIF. The appropriation will be an annual feature on the Council’s agenda until the maximum payment of $750,000 is paid-off, or 20-years expires…whichever comes first. The City will pull tax dollars from both the Hotel Whitney Urban Renewal Area and North Urban Renewal Area.

In other business, the Atlantic City Council will hold the third and final reading of an Ordinance amending the City Code, and entitled “Stop Required,” with regard to the proposed 4-way stop at 22nd and Olive, and the conversion to a three way-stop at 32nd and Chestnut. Afterward, the Council will hold a Public Hearing on an Ordinance calling for the City of vacate the Right-Of-Way for partial, non-connecting stub of E. 9th Street, east of Plum Street, which would agreeably increase the size of two taxable properties to the north and south, and provide a minor benefit to the City in the form of additional taxes.

The Council will hold the first reading of an Ordinance vacating a certain City alley, as previously discussed. And, they’ll act on an Order to approve the Fiscal Year 2020 Urban Renewal Report, as required by the Code of Iowa, for those cities with an active Urban Renewal Area. The report details everything related to TIF districts and projects.