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By Krystal Fowler

The Burlington City Council has selected four capital projects to work toward over the next two years.

Monday was Chad Bird's first day on the job as Burlington's city manager. The Hawk Eye Chad Bird arrived Monday to City Hall for his first day as Burlington's city manager to find a trail of rubber ducks leading the way from his outer office to his desk overlooking downtown Burlington. Mailed to city clerk Kathleen Salisbury ahead of Bird's arrival by his former colleagues, the ducks are somewhat of a fixture of events in Decorah, where Bird had served as city manager until taking on the same role in Burlington. A similar row of ducks — this one led by a "lame duck" with bandaged wings —...

The Hawk Eye The Burlington City Council may violate one of its own financing policies several times in the next 10 years. It has been a goal of the city council to not use more than 70% of its total debt capacity. Based on current projections, however, the city will violate this policy in four of the next 10 years. "That is our goal and there are going to be times when we are under and times when we are over," Burlington Mayor Jon Billups said. In Iowa, cities are limited in their ability to borrow debt to 5% of their total assessed property valuation. For Burlington, the Fiscal Year 2022 ...