City of Waterloo City Council Meeting Regular Session - Monday, October 5, 2026

The City of Waterloo City Council’s regular meeting on October 5, 2026, approved several infrastructure and service agreements. By unanimous roll calls, the council approved a $1,667,660 contract with Boomerang Corporation for partial runway rehabilitation (FAA AIP projects 3-9-94-059-2026 and 3-9-94-060-2026), and a three-year, $20,526.37 generator maintenance agreement with Interstate Power Systems. It also approved a professional services agreement with Terracon Consultants, not to exceed $15,350, and a grant-administration agreement with the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments, not to exceed $30,000, for an EDA grant. Other approved project items included an agreement for DOT-required pavement markings at 36 intersections, supported by a grant written for $220,000; a $500 temporary easement for the Katoski Drive–Huntington Road reconstruction project; and $2,162 in total compensation for property impacts related to the Leavitt Road Phase 3 reconstruction project. The council also authorized proceedings for a sewer revenue capital loan not to exceed $3,968,000. An AIA-207 amendment with a stated $5.3 million amount and fee schedule was approved, though its details are garbled in the transcript. Added bill-payment batches were approved, but their amounts are unclear in the transcript (rendered approximately as “4,15,7855” and “$4,383,86183”).

The council approved setting an October 19 public hearing on a proposed real-estate contract with LMJ Investment Properties LLC for the Keystone building at 100 East Fifth Street; this was a hearing-setting action, not final approval of the contract. Major non-procurement discussion concerned proposed changes to the Human Rights Commission ordinance and a city-manager proposal. The Human Rights Commission ordinance proceeded with changes to commission terms, while the proposed change from a mandatory (“shall”) to discretionary (“may”) director provision was struck from the amendment; the ordinance remained pending further readings. A motion to reconsider the earlier 30-day delay on the city-manager proposal failed. The transcript does not identify additional procurement decisions arising from those policy discussions.