Issuance of not to exceed $11,000,000 General Obligation Bonds in order to provide funds to pay the costs of; 

a) opening, widening, extending, grading, and draining of the right-of-way of streets, highways, avenues, alleys and public grounds, and market places, and the removal and replacement of dead or diseased trees thereon; the construction, reconstruction, and repairing of any street improvements, bridges, grade crossing separations and approaches; the acquisition, installation, and repair of sidewalks, culverts, retaining walls, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water service lines, street lighting, and traffic control devices; and the acquisition of any real estate needed for any of the foregoing purposes;

 b) acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and improvement of real and personal property, useful for the reclamation of property situated within the corporate limits of cities from floods or high waters, including the construction of levees, embankments, structures, impounding reservoirs, or conduits, and the development and beautification of the banks and other areas adjacent to flood control improvements;

 c) rehabilitation and improvement of parks already owned, and facilities, equipment, and improvements commonly found in city parks; and

 d) settlement, adjustment, renewing, or extension of any part or all of the legal indebtedness of a city, whether evidenced by bonds, warrants, or judgments, or the funding or refunding of the same, whether or not such indebtedness was created for a purpose for which general obligation bonds might have been issued in the original instance,

for essential corporate purposes, and that notice of the proposal to issue the Bonds had been published as provided by Section 384.25 of the Code of Iowa.