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Bob Scannell [12/31/09] |
Please feel free to call City Hall at 289-4242 and leave a message for either myself or the particular council member that you wish to speak to. Your call will be returned as soon as possible. | ||
COUNCILMEMBERS: |
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Lane Bleeker [12/31/09] 289-4242 Ext. 1155 lbleeker@leclaireiowa.gov |
Duties: Finances;
Special Projects; and Liaison to the Police & Fire
Departments |
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Mary Farmer [12/31/11] 289-4242 Ext. 1153 mfarmer@leclaireiowa.gov |
Duties: Liaison to Parks & Recreation; Liaison to LeClaire Riverfront Levee Commission. | ||
Bruce Richardson [12/31/09] 289-4242 Ext. 1152 brichardson@leclaireiowa.gov |
Duties:
Utilities ( Sewer,
Garbage, Hydro, Telecom.) & Library Board Liaison |
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Debra Smith [12/31/09] 289-4242 Ext. 1151 dsmith@leclaireiowa.gov |
Duties: Policies and Ordinances; Liaison to Planning & Zoning; and Liaison to Board of Adjustment. | ||
Ron Leiby [12/31/11] 289-4242 Ext. 1154 rleiby@leclaireiowa.gov |
Duties: Mayor Pro-Tem; Streets; Liaison to
Tourism Board; Civic and Business Organizations |
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STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS: Steve Olson [12/31/08] (563)-659-9096 FEDERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS: Senator Tom Harkin [12/31/08] (563)-322-1338 Congressman Bruce Braley [12/31/08] (202)-225-2911
PARK BOARD CAN COLLECTION REMINDER The Park Committee will be holding their monthly can collection fundraiser on the first Saturday of each month, 10:00 a.m. - Noon. Cans and bottles include $.05 and $.10 glass, $.05 plastic and aluminum cans, no deposit aluminum cans, and cleaned aluminum pie pans. They are collected at Hollyhock Park on the corner of 6th and Reynolds Street. For at-home pickup of cans/bottles at any time, call 563-289-5763 or 563-289-4528 and leave your name and phone number so convenient times can be arranged. Proceeds from this fundraiser are used for current and future park improvements. The Saturday date for the next collection is April 5th at Hollyhock Park.
BOARD OPENINGS The LeClaire Community Library Board of Trustees will have three positions up for consideration shortly as well. The Park Board also has some vacancies that need to be filled. Anyone wishing to be considered for volunteer service on either of these Boards must submit a completed application form that may be obtained from City Hall during regular business hours. Take an interest and get involved in your community today. We need your help today to build a better place to live and raise a family in the future!!
NEW LIFE FOOD PANTRY The New Life food pantry is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9AM-2PM by appointment only. Please call at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance to make an appointment. Do not call the church. Contact Linda at (5630 289-3629 or Clarice at (563) 289-9028. This pantry services residents in LeClaire, Princeton, Pleasant Valley, and Panorama Park. Donations are accepted and appreciated.
HOUSE NEEDED FOR LECLAIRE FIRE DEPARTMENT TRAINING LeClaire Fire Department needs your help. The Fire Department is attempting to locate any houses or buildings that could be utilized for training purposes (practice burns). These building(s) would provide the volunteers with the most important training possible, that of Firefighting experience. If you have a building or know someone who has, please call LeClaire Fire at (563) 289-4242, then press Option #5.
LECLAIRE FIREFIGHTERS FUNDRAISER The LeClaire Firefighters Association will be holding a Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser on April 12th at the LeClaire Fire Station, 15th and Jones Street. Firefighters will be serving from 6AM-11AM. Costs are: Adults $5, Children 5 to 12 years old $3, and Children 4 and under are free. Thank you for your support!
STORM WATER MANAGEMENT INFORMATION & CONTACT HELP LINE!!
(563)-289-4242 (Ext. 1502)
“BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION … BY PREVENTING WATER POLLUTION!”
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT “EMERGENCY CONTACT”
We want to remind everyone that the City’s PWD can be reached 24/7/365 by dialing the City’s main phone # 289-4242 and pressing 3&6. This will put you directly into the PWD emergency contact voice mail box where you can leave a message which will be automatically relayed to City personnel.
BUFFALO BILL MUSEUM All of the almost 300 people who attended Buffalo Bill's Birthday party in February had a great time. There was cake, coffee and hot chocolate as well as drawings for prizes.
If you have cabin fever and it's still too cold for outdoor activities come visit this historical local museum. The hours are Monday thru Saturday 9-5 and Sunday 12-5. There are a variety of different volunteer positions open so call Mary 289-4603 or Debbie 289-4458 if you can spare some time.
Construction on the Lone Star building is moving right along. Once the Lone Star is covered it will need renovation and this will take additional funds and volunteers. Remember your donations are tax deductible. S O S - SAVE OUR STEAMER.
LECLAIRE OFFICE OF TOURISM All of you have probably heard that we will be the host city for the end of the 36th Annual RAGBRAI on July 26th. of this year. We are very excited because there will be an influx of around 20,000 people visiting LeClaire that day! Hundreds of volunteers from LeClaire and the surrounding area will be needed. WE NEED YOU! To get involved as a volunteer or just to keep up to date on the events and activities, go to our website of www.visitleclaire.com .
There will be a Community Update Meeting on RAGBRAI held at the LeClaire Fire Station on April 3rd at 6:30 P.M. We sincerely encourage you and/or your organization to come to this meeting to find out more details regarding the event. Recycle your bicycle for RAGBRAI! The RAGBRAI Committee is looking for donations of bicycles to be painted and used as decorations for this summer’s RAGBRAI event. If you have an old bicycle you have been wanting to get rid of please take it to the LeClaire Public Works building on Iowa Drive Monday – Friday 7:00 am – 3:30 pm or on Saturday, April 19th during the City Wide Clean up day. LECLAIRE LIBRARY NEWS We’re trying to build a collection of local and regional materials and need your assistance! Teachers frequently visit the library, hoping to find history books about the Quad-Cities area and LeClaire. Because our library is so new, our shelves are fairly bare. So if you have purchased local books in the past, we would love to have your donations!
We’ll be starting our spring reading incentive program on April 14. “Read—Set Sail for Adventure” is our theme, and we’ll have activities and prizes for readers age 2-12. Our goal is to have children listen to stories or read for 20-minutes every day, since this increases their vocabulary and comprehension, and helps them be better students.
Thanks to our technology volunteers, Burt Gearhart, Michael Souhrada and Bob Jones. With their help we’re trying to keep the library’s public computers functioning and user-friendly. If you need assistance in learning basic computer use, please let us know. Bob Jones is happy to schedule individual tutoring sessions here in the library.
We appreciate recent gifts that are helping our library thrive: The proceeds from Dr. Jay Johansen’s fundraiser was used for a new rug in the children’s story time area; memorial gifts from the family of Pat Pelo are helping establish the library’s endowment for the future; and donations given in memory of Edward Randolph are going into the fund that will help us install wooden end caps on our metal shelving.
Also, if you have fines on your library account, please pay them at the LeClaire Library! The fines and copy fees we receive are a large part of the budget we use to purchase new library materials. So don’t give that money to another area library---pay your bills here to help your local library grow!
As
you are spring cleaning, please remember that the Friends of the LeClaire Library are always in need of gently read books, games, puzzles, and videos. The
Friends have a small on-going book sale near the Adult Reading Room in the
library in addition to the upcoming sale held in conjunction with the
Shopkeepers Sidewalk Sale weekend in May. Please keep those great quality
donations coming our way! You will notice that the spring "Jazz on the
Bluff" event is taking a year off. However, you can show your support of
the LeClaire Library by getting a table for the April Trivia Night
scheduled for April 19 at the Civic Center. RETAIN THE RAIN: A NEIGHBORHOOD STORMWATER INITIATIVE In 2008, River Action is reaching out to citizens in neighborhoods with drainage problems who are seeking to work together to solve them. River Action’s newest project, The Neighborhood Stormwater Initiative, offers neighbors education, design and funding to solve drainage issues in their neighborhoods. River Action is seeking interested homeowners in Buffalo, Davenport, Bettendorf, LeClaire, and Princeton, Iowa and Rock Island, Moline, East Moline, Hampton, Rapids City, Port Byron, and Cordova, Illinois. Possible projects suitable for funding are rain gardens, bioswales, native landscaping, prairie restoration, porous paving and rain barrels as long as they are a cooperative effort among participants. If you want your neighborhood to be considered, contact Clare Kerofsky, 563.322.2969, clare@riveraction.org.
River Action has already begun turning “puddles to prairies” with neighbors of Black Hawk Park and Namequa Creek in Rock Island. Residents can be home or business owners and can be connected by a street, ravine, or creek to qualify for the project.
River
Action, a non profit organization in the Quad Cities, is responsible for many
Retain the Rain stormwater demonstration projects in the area. River Action
funds and implements rain gardens, bioswales, native landscaping, prairie
restoration, porous paving and green roofs in the Quad City Area, in the past
in parks and on other municipal lands. The Neighborhood Stormwater Initiative
seeks to bring these project opportunities directly to residents, right to
their own backyards! SWISS STEAK DINNER The LeClaire Civic Club will be hosting a Swiss Steak Dinner on March 29th with serving from 5PM-7:30PCosts: Adults $7.00 ($8.00 at the door) Children 10 and Under $5.00. All proceeds to go to the Civic Center Building Fund. We invite you to come down and join us and enjoy a “real home cooked meal”!
CITY-WIDE CLEAN UP!! CITY-WIDE CLEAN UP DAY – FREE DISPOSAL!! – SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2008– On Saturday, April 19, 2008 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., the City will be sponsoring its regular bi-annual city-wide cleanup day with free disposal for all residents. Any resident** may bring large, bulky waste items, appliances, and tires, [no regular garbage, hazardous materials, construction debris, commercial business items, “e-waste” or yard wastes will be accepted] to the city’s Waste Water Treatment Plant at 1800 Iowa Drive [located behind (North) of the Welcome Center on Iowa Drive] during the hours mentioned above. City public works employees will be present to verify residency and to assist with your disposal efforts. Please bring proof of residency, such as a driver’s license, city utility bill, etc.
Regularly scheduled future disposal dates will be held in the FALL on the 2nd Saturday of October [October 11, 2008] and again in the SPRING on the 3rd Saturday in April [April 18, 2009]. For more information or if you have any questions or special needs, please feel free to call City Hall at 289-4242 (ext. 2, 5, and 1).
** Only LeClaire residents with proof of residency (no commercial businesses) whose City garbage accounts are paid in full may participate.
“E-waste” is defined as devices that contain a circuit board or a cathode ray tube such as, computer monitors, televisions, VCRs, stereos, computers, radios, and video game systems. E-waste contains environmental hazards such as lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, chromium, lithium, and PCBs.
CITY HALL INFORMATION City Hall will be closed on Friday, March 21st in observance of Good Friday. The next Bits & Pieces articles are due by Wednesday, April 16th. These can be sent electronically to wbloomingdale@leclaireiowa.gov, by fax to (563) 289-6010, by mail or hand delivery to 325 Wisconsin Street, from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday thru Friday.
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