The City of Monticello, Iowa

RESOLUTION #2024-67

Authorizing City Staff to submit an Application to Enter the

Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management program

WHEREAS,    Transportation corridors move people and goods safely and efficiently from one location to another in vehicles, on bicycles and walking. The purpose of the Living Roadway Trust Fund (LRTF) is to promote the implementation of Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management (IRVM) on or adjacent to road, street, and highway rights-of-way in Iowa; and

WHEREAS,    IRVM promotes management of Iowa’s roadsides “…to be preserved, planted, and maintained to be safe, visually interesting, ecologically integrated, and useful for many purposes.”  IRVM is a long-term approach to roadside management that, in part incorporates the use of plant communities that are sustainable along Iowa’s roadways.  The purposes of roadside vegetation are to hold soil in place without creating hazards, improve scenic beauty for users, and provide habitat for pollinators and other wildlife; and

WHEREAS,    the City Council, by motion, authorized City Staff to submit an Application to Enter the Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management program on November 6, 2023, but the Program requires approval by Resolution of the City Council;

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of Monticello, Iowa does hereby authorize the City’s enrollment in the Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management program.

IN THE TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal for the City of Monticello, Iowa to be affixed.  Done this  22^nd day of April, 2024.

Mayor Wayne Peach

Attest:

Sally Hinrichsen, City Clerk/Treasurer