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Home My Public Portal About2022 11-November Newsletter Friendly Reminders From the City of RIVERDALE, Iowa www.riverdaleia.org | 110 Manor Drive | (563) 355-2511 | deputyclerk@riverdaleia.org | November 2022 Please stop at the stop sign at Manor and Circle Drives; northbound Manor Drive does not stop. Please watch for children, especially near the parks. As winter approaches, please keep trash and recycling bins at the end of your driveway and out of the street on collection day. This will greatly help the process of snow removal. Republic Services’ yard waste composting program ends for the season on November 28th. Unlike other cities, Riverdale has no yard waste sticker/fee program. Yard waste bags can be purchased locally, filled, and left at your curb any time of year. Riverdale, Iowa, allows yard waste and leaf burning, with some restrictions. Any time the City, County, or State issues a burn ban, the burn ban takes precedence over the City’s ordinance, which can be found here: For further information, visit the following websites: • State of Iowa Fire Marshal Burn Ban – https://dps.iowa.gov/divisions/state-fire-marshal/burn-bans • National Weather Service Drought Monitor Graphics - https://www.weather.gov/dvn/drought • Iowa Code 100.40 for Burn Ban - https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/ico/chapter/2013/100.40.pdf • Scott County Emergency Agency - https://www.scottcountyiowa.gov/ema 6 Daylight Savings Time- Fall Back 7 Utility payment due 7 RFD training 6:30pm 8 Elections 7a-8p 8 Council meeting 7pm 11 Veteran's Day - City Hall Closed 11 Council Goal Setting Workshop 2pm 14 RFD training 6:30pm 21 RFD training 6:30pm 22 Council meeting 7pm 24 Thanksgiving - City Hall Closed 25 City Hall Closed 28 Last day for yard waste composting 28 RFD training 6:30pm All November events are at City Hall. Riverdale Fire Department Participates in 1st Annual Quad Cities Firefighter Chili Cookoff The people have spoken - RFD participated in the first annual Firefighter Chili Cookoff and took 2nd place in the People’s Choice category! This annual event took place on October 8th at the Isle of Capri in Bettendorf, and Riverdale was one many local fire departments that participated. We’re very proud of our fire department and extend our sincerest congratulations for a job well done! From the City of RIVERDALE, Iowa www.riverdaleia.org | 110 Manor Drive | (563) 355-2511 | deputyclerk@riverdaleia.org | November 2022 Meet our New Deputy Clerk: Sabryna Tripp Sabryna lives in Davenport with her husband, Jeff, 2 young daughters (Ali & Ella), and a beagle named Chloe. Sabryna has experience in an office setting, having worked in a few different office roles during her adult life. Most recently, she owned and operated a small hair salon suite. Sabryna has over 12 years of experience as a small business owner and manager. In her free time, Sabryna enjoys cooking, documenting family memories with slideshows and photos, planning events with friends and family, and spending time with her husband and kids. Working for the City of Riverdale will allow her to have more family time and is something she is most excited about. Sabryna looks forward to meeting the residents of Riverdale and getting to know the community. Having grown up in a small town herself, she understands the value of a tight knit community. Sabryna hopes to be another friendly face you can rely on at City Hall. PLEASE HELP US KEEP LEAVES AND YARD WASTE OUT OF THE STORM DRAINS Actions you take in your yard maintenance have direct impacts on the quality of the water that is collected in the roadway storm drains and then conveyed to Duck Creek or Crow Creek. Letting leaves remain in the street allows them to enter the storm drains. From there, they are conveyed, via storm sewer, to Duck or Crow Creek. Yard waste, which includes leaves, can cause nutrient pollution and oxygen depletion in the water within the creeks. The City’s street sweeping machine has been out of commission for some time. The City is now looking at options to, once again, start sweeping the City streets. A special emphasis will be placed on more street sweeping efforts being made during the fall season. Until the City is once again sweeping our streets, it is a permit requirement from the State of Iowa that you remove the leaves from the street in front of your home. Please bag them with the other leaves from your yard. Most importantly, please do not rake the leaves from your yard onto the street. That just makes the street litter problem worse as the City is not yet sweeping. Remember to change your smoke and carbon monoxide batteries as well! Mayor’s Monthly Question Over the past 3 years, Quercus Land Stewardship Services has provided landscaping for our City for approximately $20k/year. They have significantly revamped the landscaping and mulching at most of our parks and public spaces, two of which have been certified as monarch waystations. A separate contract handles all the mowing, weed eating, edging, spraying for weeds, etc. Council is currently considering whether to reissue this contract and if so, what changes to make to it. What landscaping efforts would you like to see the City tackle in the next 3-year contract, or should we take a break from landscaping? Email your response to mayor@riverdaleia.org From the City of RIVERDALE, Iowa www.riverdaleia.org | 110 Manor Drive | (563) 355-2511 | deputyclerk@riverdaleia.org | November 2022 bicentennial General Election Scott County, Iowa Tuesday November 8, 2022 Riverdale voters cast their ballots at City Hall, located at 110 Manor Drive, Riverdale, Iowa. Polls are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Preview a sample ballot by scanning this QR code: Did you know…. Alert Iowa is a county/statewide mass notification and emergency messaging system used by state and local authorities to quickly disseminate emergent & non- emergent information to residents in counties that utilize the system. This third-party platform is called Smart 911 by Rave Mobility. Sign up today at www.smart911.com. Mayor & Clerk Engage in Ongoing Training In late September, Riverdale’s Mayor and Clerk attended the Iowa League of Cities conference in Waterloo, Iowa, and learned about topics such as diversity and inclusion, optimizing operations, special assessments, and much, much more. In October, Riverdale’s Clerk attended the Iowa Municipal Finance Officers’ fall training in Des Moines, Iowa, and learned about Iowa land records, water assistance programs, economic development and redevelopment, public bidding, disaster readiness/recovery, and more! Your Clerk is well on her way to becoming a certified city clerk. Bicentennial Park Reopens: New Emergency Path Complete On October 14th, the City officially reopened Bicentennial Park! Ethics Contracting, LLC, in conjunction with MSA Professional Services, completed the emergency path connecting Woods Estates to the Pleasant Hills addition. This new path allows pedestrians to traverse from one neighborhood to the other and provides a secondary path for emergency situations. Please note the newly seeded areas on the sides of the path and stay clear until grass is established next spring. From the City of RIVERDALE, Iowa www.riverdaleia.org | 110 Manor Drive | (563) 355-2511 | deputyclerk@riverdaleia.org | November 2022 Welcome to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library! The City of Riverdale, in conjunction with the Riverdale Fire Department Support and Assistance Organization, has joined the Dolly Parton Imagination Library! Children ages birth to five years who live in Riverdale, Iowa, or are the children of RFD volunteer firefighters, may sign up to receive one free book per month mailed directly to their homes from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library! To sign up, scan the QR code below or go to https://tinyurl.com/3rddyeec. Since launching in 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has become the premier early childhood book gifting program in the world by mailing well over 90 million free books in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States. Currently, the program mails over one million specially selected, age-appropriate books monthly to registered children from birth to age five. Dolly’s vision was to create a lifelong love of reading, prepare children for school and inspire them to dream. If you or your business would like to sponsor a monthly mailing, please email clerk@riverdaleia.org for more information. Happy reading! Save the Date: Riverdale’s Winter Celebration will be Saturday, December 3, from 2-4p at City Hall. After the festivities, the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will be making a stop in Davenport! Check out the Holiday Train schedule by scanning this QR code: SCAN ME