Urbandale council: routine approvals and established public hearing schedule

The Urbandale City Council carried a series of routine motions and approved a number of resolutions and public hearings during the meeting.

The council voted to adopt the meeting agenda and to adopt minutes from the Dec. 16 meeting. A 15-item consent agenda passed without substantive discussion.

Resolutions recorded and approved during the meeting included library-related items (recorded as resolution 317-2025, 318-2025, 319-2025 in the record), multiple resolutions tied to the Fire Station 42 project (recorded as resolutions 314-2025, 315-2025, 316-2025), and assessment approvals associated with the 142nd Street paving project (recorded as resolutions 012-2026 and 013-2026). The council also approved council letter 8417.

The council established public hearings for: an electric franchise with MidAmerican Energy (public hearing Jan. 20; ordinance hearing Feb. 3), a natural gas franchise with MidAmerican Energy (same schedule), a municipal code update (phase 1, Jan. 20), 101st Street & Dennis Drive preservation (Feb. 3), 65th Street storm sewer improvements (Feb. 3), PCC Patch Program phases 1 and 2 (Feb. 3), and Douglas Avenue planting work (Feb. 3). Each motion to set hearings was moved, seconded and passed.

Where the transcript records motions as "that passes," explicit roll-call vote tallies were not provided in the meeting record. When vote tallies were not included, the minutes state the motion passed without listing individual yes/no votes.