Ballot Language Approved For Five Flags Vote in September

Dubuque voters will head to the polls this fall to decide the fate of the Five Flags Civic Center, and whether to increase their taxes to reconstruct it. Council members voted, 7-0, to approve proposed ballot language for a September 8th vote on a $75 million expansion of the more than 40-year-old venue. City leaders have spent nearly $200,000 on studies and a soils analysis over the past two years as they assess what to do with the arena and theater. The arena would be demolished and then rebuilt, expanding across West Fifth Street to increase its capacity from 4,000 seats to more than 6,400.