This is the State bill which funded the $309,000 grant from the Department of Commerce to study an Urban Creek (bioswale) along 223rd Street as part of the Skylab Marina Redevelopment drawings. (Search for “Des Moines”) This is how ‘the sausage’ is made. Cities request monies for various pet projects in the form of grants like this and they get rammed through as a pro forma process ‘in the back room’ because there are simply too many for the various committees to review. Plus within the context of a $125BB biennium they are all basically rounding errors. It’s the grant application with the DOC that matters, not the legislation. But fwiw, here it is, along with a link to all the hearings (such as they are.)
Unfortunately, the City Manager has thus far refused to supply me with that grant application. So… I have requested the document from the DOC. As soon as it arrives, I will post as a follow-up.