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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-09-17 Info PacketASG®dJ� CITY OF IOWA CITY www.icgov.org CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION PACKET MISCELLANEOUS IP1 Council Tentative Meeting Schedule September 17, 2015 IP2 Copy of letter to newly elected School Board Members from -G# Mapagor m Qy 1 4c IP3 Memo from Mayor Hayek: Communications Protocol for Economic Development Activity IP4 Article from City Manager: On Wyatt Cenac, `Key & Peele,' And Being The Only One In The Room IP5 Article from City Manager: The Loneliest Number: Being Black in Iowa IP6 Memo from Associate Planner to City Manager: Courtyard Landscape — 435 S. Linn Street — The Rise at Riverfront Crossings IP7 Letter from Mediacom: Adding New Channel IP8 Police Bar Check Report — August 2015 IP9 Civil Services Entrance Examination — Landfill Operator IP10 Invitation — Business Lunch IP11 Invitation —Affordable and Accessible Housing Forum IP12 Invitation —Corridor Works Career Fair �! :rm +� jir► � CITY OF IOWA CITY Date Tuesday, September 15, 2015 City Council Tentative Meeting Schedule SP1 Subject to change September 17, 2015 Time Meeting 5:00 PM Work Session Meeting 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Tuesday, October 6, 2015 5:00 PM Work Session Meeting 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Location Emma J. Harvat Hall Emma J. Harvat Hall Monday, October 19, 2013 4:00 PM - - Informal Gathering ICCSD Adm Bldg. - 4:30 PM Joint Meeting / work session 1725 N. Dodge St. Tuesday, October 20, 2015 5:00 PM Work Session Meeting Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Tuesday, November 10, 2015 5:00 PM Work Session Meeting Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 PM Special Formal Meeting Monday, November 30, 2015 1-6:30 PM Work Session Meeting Ashton House Strategic Planning and Orientation 820 Park Road -Tuesday, December 15, 2015 5:00 PM Work Session Meeting - - - - - Emma J. Harvat Hall Formal Meeting 2016 Meeting Schedule TBD September 16, 2015 COPY Identical letters sent to: Director DeLoach Director Hemingway Director Liebig Director Roetlin Director Yates Dear Director , �I CITY OF IOWA CITY 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240-1826 (319)356-5000 (319) 356-5009 FAX www.icgov.org Congratulations on your election to the Board of Directors for the Iowa City Community School District. We look forward to working with you to address the many objectives shared by the District and the City of Iowa City. As you assume your new role, we thought it would be helpful to provide you with some of the key recent documents regarding our institutions. Enclosed are copies of the December 2012 resolution passed unanimously by the City Council to endorse the District's Revenue Purpose Statement; a December 2014 memo to the City Council from our administration outlining strategies to improve socioeconomic balance between schools; and a May 2015 letter to the ICCSD Board of Directors concerning school boundaries and socioeconomic balance. If you have questions about these or other matters, please let us know. The City Council endorsed the RPS in large part because of our understanding that two new east side elementary schools would be constructed with the funding. These projects — and the planned investments in older schools — remain of critical importance to us. They promote many of the shared goals of our institutions, such as healthy neighborhoods and the equitable delivery of services. We appreciate the District's investments thus far in Alexander and Twain as well as City High. We support the District's ongoing work to promote balance and equity in our schools. The City of Iowa City hopes to continue its collaboration with the District to address mutual needs. Thank you for your commitment to our schools and for your willingness to serve. Sincerely, AA� Matt Hayek Mayor Prepared by: Tom Markus, 410 E. Washington St., Iowa city, IA 52240 (319) 356-5010 RESOLUTION NO. 12-534 O RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING A SHARED VISION FOR THE FUTURE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE CITY OF IOWA CITY WHEREAS, the Iowa City Community School District Board of Education (ICCSD) has voted to submit a Revenue Purpose Statement (RPS) to the voters on February 5, 2013, to authorize the ICCSD to spend sales tax monies for any of the purposes set forth in the RPS; and WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the RPS including its stated expenditure purpose: "To provide funds to build and furnish a new school building or buildings; to build and furnish addition(s) to school buildings in the District; to remodel, repair, expand, and improve the school buildings in the District; to purchase and improve grounds; to furnish and equip district facilities;" and WHEREAS, in January 2012 the City Council adopted Resolution No 12-02, which establishes neighborhood stabilization as one of Iowa City's Strategic Plan priorities; and WHEREAS, the Strategic Plan states that the City "aims to invest in and deliver core services to neighborhoods in a manner that enhances overall stability and maintains the intended character while facilitating new opportunities to improve the quality of life;" and WHEREAS, the Strategic Plan states that the City's neighborhood stabilization initiatives "should incorporate collaborative efforts with the ICCSD to maintain and build upon the success of schools in established neighborhoods while ensuring new elementary schools are planned as integral and sustainable components of neighborhoods;" and WHEREAS, in February 2011 the City Council adopted Resolution 11-51, establishing an affordable housing location model to balance the distribution of federal and other housing funds and encourage income -diversified neighborhoods throughout the community; and WHEREAS, the ICCSD Superintendent has expressed that low income students, and in fact all students, do better when there is a mix of income levels within each school; and WHEREAS, the decisions of the ICCSD Board of Education have a significant impact on the neighborhoods of Iowa City and the other communities In the district; and WHEREAS, equitably distributing facilities, programs, and educational opportunities among our schools promotes stable, income -diverse neighborhoods; and WHEREAS, reinvesting in existing schools helps stabilize neighborhoods by attracting individuals and families who desire proximity to employment centers, commercial services and cultural activities, reduces transportation costs for families and the school district, and is a cost-effective way to accommodate population growth, including ICCSD enrollment growth; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IOWA CITY, IOWA THAT: 1. The ICCSD should prioritize capital spending to bring all existing facilities to the standards of recently -constructed facilities. Resolution No. 12-534 CO Page 2 Q 2. The ICCSD should pursue construction of two new elementary schools within the corporate limits of Iowa City and, through partnerships between the City and ICCSD similar to the Grant Wood gymnasium, the use of these facilities should incorporate community uses in addition to educational purposes. 3. In the event it determines the necessity of a third high school, the ICCSD's priority should be to do no harm to the existing high schools and ensure balance and equity with respect to facilities, offerings and enrollment practices so that all high school students in the district receive the same quality education. 4. The city manager and mayor are directed to meet with appropriate ICCSD officials in advance of the RPS vote to discuss the shared objectives of the City and the ICCSD. Passed and approved this lath day of December , 20_j2_. Approved b ATTEST: CITY tERK City Attorney's Office It was moved by Payne and seconded by Dickens the Resolution be adopted, and upon roll call there were: AYES: NAYS: ABSENT: X Champion X Dickens X Dobyns X Hayek X Mims X Payne X Throgmorton 1 ! � mal lRX oF lowA Cny UNUM CITY OF LnTAATLOU CITY OF IOWA CITY MEMORANDUM Date: December 31, 2014 To: City Council From: Tom Markus Re: ICCSD's Housing Letter of 10/13/2014 Introduction: You are scheduled to discuss the School District's Letter to Elected Officials dated October 13, 2014 at your work session of January 6, 2014. While this letter was directed to all municipalities within the ICCSD, the City of Iowa City has been engaged in a conversation with the District regarding the location of affordable housing for a number of years and has responded to the District's concern with a number of initiatives, including the formation of a Scattered Site Housing Task Force and creation of the Affordable Housing Location Model that is used for affordable rental housing projects receiving financial assistance from the City. As you begin your discussion of the School District's recent request, staff believes it is important to review the history of these initiatives, particularly for those of you that are new to the City Council. Socioeconomic diversity in our neighborhoods and schools has many social, educational, and cultural benefits, and the City supports initiatives that can improve this diversity. However, while the concerns expressed in the School District's letter are understood and the goal of greater socioeconomic balance across the District is laudable, the solutions proposed are decades' long processes whereas the detrimental effects of the current imbalance are immediate. As you know, we are currently contemplating an inclusionary zoning ordinance for Riverfront Crossings as a first step. However, I would caution anyone against believing that this will be a panacea for socioeconomic imbalance in our community or the School District's attendance areas. Inclusionary zoning by definition is tied to new development and thus positive effects would be realized in growth areas, not in the established neighborhoods impacted by socioeconomic imbalance. In fact, some of the growth areas in Iowa City are located in elementary school attendance areas that already have a disproportionate percentage of low to moderate income households, for instance new development near Terry Trueblood Recreation Area. Thus, requiring more affordable housing in these areas may increase the total availability of affordable housing but has the potential to exacerbate the socioeconomic imbalance of some schools. That is not to argue against adopting inclusionary zoning, only to place expectations for its effects on the School District's goal of improving elementary school economic diversity in a realistic context. It is also important to make a distinction between market rate housing that is inexpensive and subsidized affordable housing for income -qualifying households. Housing costs respond to a number of factors including the age, upkeep, and modern amenities of the structure itself, proximity to public amenities and employment centers, land values, and nearby investments in schools, parks, and other public facilities. A fraction of rental permits are for subsidized affordable housing units and Iowa City has adopted a scattered site affordable housing model December 31, 2014 Page 2 OA,O�-� that precludes the City from subsidizing additional affordable housing in areas with a disproportionate number of low income households. For instance, there are 864 active Housing Authority vouchers in Iowa City and 81 public housing units, compared to 18,000 rental permits. There are 1,099 subsidized housing units in Iowa City, many of which were subsidized privately or through public agencies other than the City. This is a small percentage of the City's rental units. History By letter of November 13, 2003 the ICCSD Board of Directors asked that the City Council "carefully review locations of future affordable housing" in light of the District's focus on removing "barriers to student learning", specifically, the barrier of "living conditions associated with poverty" that had been identified in a recent community -wide forum. The letter included a table showing poverty rates in ICCSD attendance areas that were determined based on free and reduced lunch data. ICCSD communicated that the most important factor that presents "barriers to student learning" was "mobility", meaning that improving housing stability will have the greatest impact on student outcomes. In response to the District's November 2003 letter the Council created a Scattered Site Housing Task Force by resolution dated April 6, 2004. The direction to the Task Force was to "study the existing distribution, location and types of assisted housing in Iowa City" and "recommend policies or actions, as appropriate, regarding the disbursement, location and type of future assisted housing," which was defined as that "receiving any public assistance or support." (Resolution No. 04-101). The Task Force was comprised of persons from the Neighborhood Council, United Way of Johnson County, the ICCSD, Planning & Zoning Commission, Board of Supervisors and HCDC. The Task Force was chaired by Mayor Hayek who at the time was Chair of HCDC and not a member of City Council. The Task Force submitted its final report to the City Council on October 11, 2005. Beginning with Fiscal Year 2005, the CDBG/HOME Applicant Guide has addressed the desire of the City to encourage the distribution of affordable housing and included consideration of the location of the project and the potential impacts on the school district. In 2007 the Council discussed the differences between owner -occupied and rental projects, concluding, based on staffs recommendation, that location criteria should apply only to affordable rental housing projects because owner -occupied housing is more stable, and therefore, there is less mobility of children and less effect on the schools. As the School District identified mobility as the most important factor in this discussion regarding student outcomes, this was an important distinction to make. In February 2011 Council adopted resolution no. 11-51 which adopted the Affordable Housing Location Model, a map -based GIS model, to guide the City's use of funds for rental housing projects (excluding elderly/disabled). A copy of that resolution is attached for your reference. The resolution identifies three goals/concerns regarding the location of affordable housing in Iowa City: 1) "the City does not want to further burden neighborhoods and elementary schools that already have issues related to a concentration of poverty"; 2) the "City desires to have diverse neighborhoods in terms of a range of income levels"; and 3) the need to "determine the views of the Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD) on the affordable housing issue." In developing that model, the City staff worked with the District to determine what school data should be considered in determining whether there were concentrations of poverty, and were told that the following data should be considered: 1) mobility data, as represented by the rate of turnover at each elementary school; 2) academic performance as shown by test scores; and, 3) free and reduced lunch percentages at the schools. Of those three factors we were told that mobility was the most important factor. All three factors are included in the model with mobility rate being the second most important factor of the 7 factors used in the model. December 31, 2014 Page 3 O,P? The City's Affordable Housing Location Model has received a significant amount of national attention as other communities struggle with the same issues. A number of communities have contacted City staff about the model, including Danville, Illinois; Boise, Idaho; Charlottesville, Virginia; Davenport, Iowa; and Palm Beach County, Florida. Additionally, staff has been informed that the City of Austin, Texas is using our model as a starting point for a similar project. "Planning," the magazine of the American Planning Association, featured the model in its March 2013 issue and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University has told staff that HUD is moving in this direction and that the City's model could be used as a national model on deconcentration. The Affordable Housing Location model is updated every fall in conjunction with the City's funding cycle for HOME/CDBG funds. Unfortunately, this year when the City asked the ICCSD for the mobility data, the response was that it would not be presented to the Board until December, and therefore, would not be provided to the City in time to include it in the model update for the next funding cycle. As a result, the previous year's mobility data were used in updating the model. Zoning: As noted above, inclusionary zoning affects only new development and realistic expectations for the impact on existing neighborhoods should be discussed. The neighborhoods around the older elementary schools, including Twain, Mann, Longfellow, Wood, Lucas, Lemme, Hoover, and Horn are already developed, and an inclusionary zoning ordinance would have little effect. For example, the majority of the neighborhood in the Twain School enrollment area was developed in the 1950's — 60's, with some homes built as far back as 1900. There is little, if any, additional developable area in the Twain neighborhood nor in many other older elementary school enrollment areas. While an inclusionary zoning ordinance would have some effect in new neighborhoods as they are being developed, it would have little to no effect in the older elementary school neighborhoods where the school district has identified FRL imbalances. The older neighborhoods are already developed, and the best way to preserve housing stock, and make these neighborhoods more attractive to families is through programs such as the UniverCity Neighborhood Partnership, Residential Rehabilitation programs, and investment in parks and infrastructure — all of which the City has funded using local and federal funds. Reinvesting in Neighborhoods: Reinvesting in neighborhoods can have a positive impact on neighborhood diversity. As you know, supporting healthy neighborhoods is one of the City Council's five strategic plan goals. As a means to pursue this goal the City has and will continue to invest in neighborhood parks, microenterprise loans and forgivable grants for businesses that benefit low to moderate income persons, and public art to name a few. Significant investments continue in Towncrest and the Iowa City Marketplace. Reinvesting and rehabilitating homes and commercial building stock is accomplished through the UniverCity, General Rehabilitation and Improvement Program, Targeted Neighborhood Improvement Program, and several CDBG and HOME programs. Home rehabilitation programs are subject to income eligibility. Down payment assistance is also available through the City for income eligible homebuyers in the Grant Wood, Twain, Downtown, and Miller -Orchard neighborhoods which can help encourage home stability. These are just a few examples of the many investments the City is making in the community's neighborhoods. Much of this is focused on neighborhoods experiencing socioeconomic imbalance. While the cost of land, age and condition of housing stock, and other social and economic factors can exacerbate the suburbanization that leaves older neighborhoods with higher concentrations of poverty, public school and infrastructure investments can certainly play a role in the type and amount of residential investment and reinvestment in neighborhoods. For December 31, 2014 Page 4 instance, the southern end of Iowa City has seen significant residential investment surrounding public investments in Terry Trueblood Recreation Area, Archibald Alexander Elementary School, and the South Sycamore Greenway. Much of this residential construction will help to diversify the socioeconomic balance in Iowa City's lowest income census tract. Conversely, many factors have led to increased concentration of poverty in the Grant Wood catchment area. Examples of such factors can include smaller and aging housing, a poor street grid, and the long term use of mobile classrooms on the school campus. In recent years, the City has invested in this neighborhood through its parks, streets, and in partnership with the ICCSD on an expanded gymnasium and programming. It stands to reason that all else being equal, families with the means to do so will choose to rent or purchase homes in less overcrowded school zones with modem educational facilities. We applaud the School District's recent investment in Twain Elementary, Alexander Elementary School, and future investments planned for City High and Hoover Elementary on American Legion Road. These investments in Iowa City schools east of the river were long overdue. Overcrowding on the east side has long been a problem while new facilities were constructed to the north and west. School siting and investment, along with public infrastructure and housing, all play a role in the socioeconomic makeup of neighborhoods. Rental Density: The City recognizes the many benefits that housing diversity can provide neighborhoods. Today's planning procedures and policies encourage the densest multifamily developments in the downtown and near downtown areas, while multifamily developments in residential areas are encouraged to be designed into the fabric of the neighborhood. Recent development in the City has included multifamily housing in new neighborhoods, including those that are predominantly single family. As the City's Comprehensive Plan update notes, "A rich mix of housing within a neighborhood may include single-family homes on small and large lots, townhouses, duplexes, small apartment buildings, and zero -lot -line housing, as well as apartments in mixed-use buildings located in neighborhood commercial areas and the Downtown." For example, the South District Plan, adopted in 1997 and amended in 2002, calls for development to, "locate low to medium density multi -family housing in the form of townhouses and small apartment buildings at the edges of the neighborhood along arterial streets, and near the neighborhood commercial center, trails, major open space areas, and institutional uses, such as a school or religious institutions. Limit the size of individual parcels zoned for such development, so that the scale of buildings is compatible with surrounding uses and the traffic generated from such developments is adequately accommodated." It should be noted, however, that planning for future development does not affect existing buildings or their density. Again, significant impacts on elementary school socioeconomic diversity will not be realized in older neighborhoods. Conclusion: In short, the answers the School District is looking for in the near term do not lie in zoning policies. Those are long term solutions that are part of an ongoing discussion of urban growth and investment in pubic facilities and infrastructure. While the discussion of long term strategies is important, frankly I believe tying this conversation to the current socioeconomic imbalance of elementary schools may be a distraction from the issues the community experiences in the near term. I also believe it is essential that this effort garners strong regional buy -in from all local governments. Inclusionary zoning in one neighborhood or one community in the ICCSD service area will have minimal impact on the larger issue. Further, inclusionary zoning policies will have the largest and fastest impact in higher income growth areas. As the School District is learning with challenges and complications in instituting the Diversity Policy, so too is inclusionary zoning a difficult process to embark upon. This is not a course to take lightly or without due diligence. December 31, 2014 Page 5 opt We will pursue this analysis, but one should not depend solely on inclusionary zoning to remedy the socioeconomic imbalance across ICCSD elementary schools. A potential collaboration between the School District and cities that may affect future development could be tied to school siting decisions. The opening of a new school is of significant benefit to a municipality in a number of ways and there could be prerequisites tied to the selection of a new school site. A policy requiring a certain percentage of affordable housing within a School District defined walkable distance radius as a condition of site selection could be implemented. Further, to have truly economically diverse neighborhoods adjacent to schools, facilities must be sited on land that has the potential to achieve the necessary density. Understandably, the cost of land is a significant factor in selecting the site for a new school. However, the cost of residential development can be significantly impacted by the topography of the site. Higher development costs may prove to be a barrier to the development of affordable housing. We appreciated the collaboration with the School District on choosing the two new elementary school sites in Iowa City and these sites have good potential to achieve economically diverse schools. The cost of new development will be less expensive than if they were wooded lots, and will be able to achieve the density necessary to have a diversity of housing. We appreciate the School District's concerns and look forward to community -wide discussions as to how future planning and zoning can best be approached, though recognizing that impacts are long term propositions. May 9, 2015 Iowa City Community School District Board of Directors 1725 North Dodge Street Iowa City, Iowa 52245 Re: Boundary Discussions Dear Board Members, j r w. CITY OF IOWA CITY 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240-1826 (319) 3S6-5000 (319) 3S6-5009 FAX www.icgov.org On behalf of the Iowa City City Council, I write to express our support for scenario 5F and our appreciation of your efforts to promote equity in our schools. When in 2012 the City Council voted to support the School District's Revenue Purpose Statement, we noted that, 'the ICCSD Superintendent has expressed that low Income students, and in fad at students, do better when there Is a mix of income levels within each school' and that "equitably distributing facilities, programa, and educational opportunities among our schools promotes stable, Income -diverse neighborhoods." The School District Is at a crlNcal juncture. Previous boards have avoided mejor redistricting and it is long overdue. With the construction of o .third high school, there is an opportunity — in fact we believe an ethical obligation — to promote equity between our schools. We recognize the pressure you face to elevate parochial interests over the collective good. It takes courage to not bow to this pressure. There is significant tension within the School District these days. Much of it centers on the lack of balance and equity, especially eonceming boundaries and facilities. Steps the Board can take now to address the imbalance and Inequity will, we think, alleviate tension and pronate district -wide fairness In the years to come. Scenario 5F makes sense and Is consistent with the Board's values. We hope you will support C Thank you for your leadership and service. Sirxmvly, AAS, Matt Hayek Mayor, City of Iowa Cly r �`a.-4 CITY OF IOWA CITY .., � z--� —gos a MEMORANDUM Date: September 17, 2015 To: Iowa City City Council From: Mayor Matt Hayek Re: Communications Protocol for Economic Development Activity Sparked by the financially-incented relocation of Von Maur and the resulting TIF law reform, Iowa City has since 2012 advocated for a communications protocol between local governments. Over the course of two -plus years the city managers and city attorneys for Iowa City, North Liberty, and Coralville worked on a protocol intended to promote conversation between municipalities when private businesses relocate from one community to another and tax dollars are involved. A draft document was negotiated between the three cities but was shelved in 2015 when Coralville's leadership indicated it was no longer willing to sign on. As a result Iowa City staff dropped the idea, convinced that there was not genuine interest. A detailed summary of the 2012-2015 history of this effort was provided to Council in the April 7, 2015 City Council agenda packet and is attached. Earlier this year, North Liberty Mayor Amy Nielsen and I agreed that the issue should be resurrected and that the elected leadership of our cities represented the best chance of achieving a regional agreement to address the use of tax dollars when businesses relocate from one community to another. The two of us approached Coralville Mayor John Lundell and suggested that the mayors and city managers meet to discuss and negotiate a meaningful agreement. Mayor Lundell agreed to take up the issue with Coralville's City Council. In August Mayor Lundell reported to us that Coralville is unwilling to attend such a meeting until at least 2016 if at all. We were informed that Coralville is devoting staff time to its arena project. At this point I do not see a path forward on the issue of a communications protocol. North Liberty and Iowa City have supported it, but I do not believe there is genuine interest on the part of Coralville. I consider this a defeat for regionalism and hope that someday the circumstances are different. AI ft CITY OF IOWA CITY MEMORANDUM Date: April 2, 2015 To: Tom Markus, City Manager From: Simon Andrew, Administrative Analyst Re: Communication Protocol for Economic Development Activity Introduction: Below is a summary of the development of the Communication Protocol and how this background relates to recent media coverage of the agreement approved by City Council. History/Background: A draft agreement was first sent to the City Administrators of Coralville and North Liberty as well as the Executive Director of the Iowa City Area Development Group on September 26, 2012. City Manager Tom Markus met with both administrators to discuss this draft on October 31, 2012. In an email from Mr. Markus' office to the administrators two days later, two outstanding issues for discussion were noted and an email from Mr. Markus' office on November 6, 2012 stated Iowa City's intention to present the draft agreement to our City Council by the end of 2012. The other communities were asked to submit proposed amendments or additional language for the draft. Emails from each administrator the following day stated their general agreement with the protocol concept with some reservations. Subsequent drafts of the protocol attempted to address these concerns. The City Attorneys for both Coralville and North Liberty reviewed the document and Iowa City was asked to allow additional time for this review. In an email on December 11, 2012 Mr. Markus agreed to wait until the first meeting in January 2013 to present the draft to our City Council. A draft of the document was presented to City Council on January 3, 2013, having received no proposed amendments from the other communities. On February 17, 2013 the cities of Coralville and North Liberty submitted an alternate document entitled the South Corridor Economic Development Agreement. The Iowa City City Attomey's Office had concerns with this document, especially insofar as it was affected by state law. Managers and attorneys representing the three cities met on April 9, 2013 to discuss the differences between the two documents. After the April meeting, we made contact with the other cities on May 6, June 11, and June 21, 2013 and received commitments for their suggested amendments. North Liberty's City Attorney sent us a revised draft on August 1, 2013. The format of the draft provided by North Liberty is the basis for the current proposed agreement. Due to an error on our part we did not review this draft until September 2013 and discussions resumed at this point. We communicated our suggested revisions to the City Administrators on September 17, 2013 and Mr. Markus met with representatives from the cities on October 10, 2013 to discuss the most recent version. On October 15, 2013 the City Administrator of North Liberty provided an additional example from the Quad Cities to help further the discussion. Worked continued over the subsequent months and in January 2014 the North Liberty City Administrator submitted a revised document with suggestions from both him and North Liberty's City Attorney. At this point, the only substantial difference between the two drafts was whether the protocol should be initiated when a city is contacted by a business considering relocation or April 2, 2015 Page 2 c(opy when incentives are formally requested. Mr. Markus again met with representatives from the other communities on January 17, 2014 and sent a revised version of the document to the city administrators that same day. This is the version that ICAD and the City Council recently approved. Mr. Markus discussed this version on February 14, 2014 with the city administrators. At this point Iowa City staff became discouraged that the other communities had any intention of executing an agreement. In August of 2014, the ICAD Executive Director informed the three managers and the President of the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce that he believed the best strategy for economic development collaboration in our region is to have a signed agreement and his intention to discuss at the following ICAD board meeting. The ICAD Board of Directors has since unanimously approved the agreement, a meeting at which Coralville's City Administrator did not articulate any concerns with the document and was recorded as voting in support of the agreement. Our neighbors have provided input for the document for approximately two and a half years. The document reflects many of their suggested revisions and is based on a format that North Liberty staff provided. The Chamber of Commerce has also supported the concept of a communication protocol, as have editorials in the Press Citizen. We have been receptive to our neighbors concerns and have been willing to amend the proposal accordingly and are open to further discussions if they are done in a good faith effort to execute an agreement. March 27, 2015 Press -Citizen Article: An article posted on the Press -Citizen's website on March 27 contained statements by local officials that warrant a response. The article states that the protocol "is intended to prevent Iowa City, Coralville and North Liberty from actively recruiting businesses from one city to another by using financial incentives" The Communication Protocol provides that incentives may be offered if the business' home community provides a letter supporting the relocation. The City of Coralville is currently requesting a letter in this case anyway. Having the agreement in place would have simply informed us sooner to allow for collaboration. We would have had the information we need to make an informed decision on whether we can provide a letter of support sooner. Furthermore, according to the protocol if a business has "independently indicated an interest in moving" it is not defined as "active pursuit". The article goes on to quote Coralville's City Administrator. Coralville City Administrator Kelly Hayworth said Wednesday he does not think the communication protocol agreement would have made a significant difference in this case, and said the city of Coralville is not interested in signing the document. "There has been plenty of communication from the Iowa City Area Development Group, and I don't think the compact has anything to do with this at all," Hayworth said. The Communication Protocol would have absolutely had a positive effect on communications in this instance. Coralville requested a letter from us, but we don't have the information necessary to make an informed decision on that matter. Earlier communication would clearly have made a difference. Had we known the details of this proposal sooner and been able to complete our due diligence, it is conceivable that we would have already provided a letter. We simply did not have the information to know if we could support this relocation and the communication agreement would have facilitated this information being shared upfront. Furthermore, if the City of Coralville "is not interested in signing the document", communicating this position to the partners who have invested years in refining the proposal would be April 2, 2015 Page 3 beneficial. Understanding the rationale behind the opposition to the concept of a communication framework will help inform future conversations with local businesses and ICAD. Coralville's Mayor is quoted in the article. "it asks, as written, for a great deal of information from the private sector business community to provide one city with information that would then be shared with the second city,"Lundell said. "It would require the business to share information about their intent to either expand or move their business to another community with that city, and once that happens, it would be subject to freedom of information and, frankly, oftentimes the business community would be very uncomfortable if their plans for expansion or movement were to be shared with the public for obvious proprietary reasons. Their competition would rind out what their plans are." This same provision already appears in the State of Iowa TIF law. The protocol requires minimal information that would already be subject to open records requests if incentives are being discussed with a public entity. The cities currently are subject to open records requests regarding development activity, and staff already conducts itself with an appreciation for a business's privacy concerns in the early stages of development. Iowa City does not resist amendments consistent with the State open records law that are designed to keep the business plans private until the time that Council action is necessary. Furthermore, these concerns could have been addressed in the two and a half years the three communities worked on this agreement or when the ICAD board unanimously approved the draft. North Liberty City Administrator Ryan Heiar was quoted, saying "1 think the biggest sticking point is when to begin the communication. At what point do we need to communicate with each other? When a business begins asking about one of the neighboring communities?" War said. "1 think ultimately it's the right thing to do, but it has to be something that we all can agree with. The existing document is, at least from what I've seen, not something we're all going to agree with. " The protocol explicitly spells out when communication between the communities is to begin and this timing was part of the lengthy discussions when drafting the agreement. Mr. Heiar has provided several proposed amendments to the agreement and on this matter we remain open to further amendments that accomplish the broader goal. As noted above, the ICAD Board of Directors, the Chamber of Commerce, the Press Citizen editorial board, and the Iowa City City Council have all supported this document or at a minimum the concept of a communication protocol. The City Administrators of Coralville and North Liberty have communicated that they agree with the concept. We have been drafting the document for over two years. If there are specific concerns the other communities wish to address we would like these concerns communicated to us so that we can find compromise. If other communities are opposed to any agreement at all we would appreciate communication to this effect and the rationale for their opposition. 09-17-15 IP4 From the City Manager On Wyatt Cenac, 'Key & Peele,' And Being The Only One In The Room Last week, the Internet exploded after an episode of the WTF! Podcast with Marc Maron went online. The guest was the comedian Wyatt Cenac, who talked about being a writer and correspondent on The Daily Show for several years. He recalled getting into a heated argument with Jon Stewart over the host's impression of Herman Cain, which Cenac had found troubling: "[Stewart] got incredibly defensive. I remember he was like, 'What are you trying to say? There's a tone in your voice.' "I was like, 'There's no tone. It bothered me. It sounded like Kingfish [a minstrel -like Amos 'n' Andy character].' "And then he got upset. And he stood up and he was just like, 'F*** off. I'm done with you.' And he just started screaming that to me. And he screamed it a few times. 'F*** off! I'm done with you.' And he stormed out. And I didn't know if I had been fired." Much of the ensuing hullabaloo over Cenac's recounting of this incident focused on the fact that Stewart, a reliably liberal skewerer of the racial missteps of Washington's powerful, appeared to have badly mishandled a conversation about race with one of his own staffers. But less attention was paid to what Cenac had to say about being the only black writer in the room, torn between speaking up or saying nothing and keeping the peace. (Full disclosure: Cenac is a personal friend.) I gotta be honest if something seems questionable," he told Maron, "because if not, then I don't want to be in a position where I am being untrue not just to myself but to my culture, because that's exploitative. I'm just allowing something to continue if I'm just going to go along with it. And sadly, I think that's the burden a lot of people have to have when you are 'the one.' You represent something bigger than yourself whether you want to or not." The Stewart-Cenac exchange illustrates what those of us who are often The Only One In The Room tend to know: It sucks. But it turns out that being The Only One isn't simply burdensome and annoying on an individual level. There's evidence that when people feel like they're The Only One in a group, even a group that professes to care about diversity in its ranks, it actually gets in the way of everything said diversity was supposed to achieve in the first place. Not long ago, I spoke to Scott Page, a professor at the University of Michigan who studies how people interact in teams and organizations. His work on a mathematical formula to show how greater diversity makes organizations more effective has been explored in The New York Time:. Page told me that while there's been a lot of conversation lately about increasing the numbers of non-white, non -male people in various companies and sectors, it's left open the question of how many folks those organizations are supposed to be aiming for. Is one enough? Is 10 too many? Can you fiddle the dials to calibrate some sort of ideal workplace diversity score? Page says it all depends on what you're trying to achieve. If you simply want more women in the room, that's easy enough. Hire a woman and stick her at a desk. Your room has, indeed, become more diverse, numerically speaking. Time for happy hour. But if what you're going for is bringing new perspectives into your organization, and getting people to actually think differently and come up with new ideas, then a different calculus is needed. "One question you can ask is how many people of a particular group have to be in a room for them to speak," Page said. That is, having a woman in a room doesn't affect a whole lot if she doesn't feel comfortable speaking up. And while he has found that the presence of just one member of a minority group in a room can positively influence the rest of the group to be more cognizant of their own language and behavior, that's different from actually hearing out that person's ideas. How many people from "a non-dominant group" need to be in a room for that to happen? It depends on a bunch of factors, like the size of the group and some other social dynamics. Individual personalities matter. So does the professional standing of the people in the room. And, of course, the number of people from the "non-dominant group" matters, too — it's just not the only thing that matters. When it comes to speaking up about, say, the racial dynamics of a Herman Cain skit, being the Only One in the room can be especially tricky to navigate, says Page. Questions about whether an idea might be offensive often put them "in the position of speaking for all women or for all black people." (Which, again, sucks.) And depending on the power dynamics of the particular room, Page said, the person they're questioning might wield a whole lot of power over what happens next. That's the kind of situation Cenac found himself in. As he told Maron, after the argument with Stewart, he wasn't sure whether he'd just been fired. He went outside, sat on a baseball field and broke down. "I was shaking, and I just sat there by myself on the bleachers and f****** cried. And it's a sad thing. That's how I feel. That's how I feel in this job. I feel alone," he said. Cenac stayed on the show for another year but took something of a back seat for the rest of his tenure. Eventually, he decided to leave altogether, a move that he says was partly connected to his rocky relationship with Stewart. The tricky thing about being The Only One, though, is that even when you know it might suck, you put up with it to get your foot in the door. That could mean being the only black writer on the staff of The Daily Show — because, come on, it's The Daily Show — or getting to participate in something way more pedestrian. The point is, you want to be there. I was reminded of this while watching i recent, much -circulated clip from Comedy Central's Key & Peele the other day. (The show's namesake duo announced last week that the current season will be its last.) In the sketch, Key and Peele play two black dudes in college vying to inhabit the implied "one spot" for a person of color in an an otherwise all -white a cappella group on campus. In order to win over the white kids in the groups they're trying to join, they engage in a series of increasingly hacky, hammy attempts at one -upping each other with a kind of performative, easily identifiable, ingratiating version of "blackness" that is, a kind of blackness that calls attention to itself while being completely safe and cliche. One breaks into a barbershop-esque scat at the end of a song, much to his white teammates' delight. "I love that little Motown outro thing!" says one. "Super soulful!" After the white boys leave the room, though, it's a different story. The black dudes drop the hammy affect and beef over their "territory" — that is, who gets to be the token black guy in the room. ("Do you have any idea how long it took me to infiltrate this group?" one asks the other.) We later see the pair trying to one-up each other in an improv group, with one making super -obvious jokes — "Why does the cat have to be black?" — to uproarious laughter from their troupemates before the other tags in with a lame joke about his giant penis that also kills. Being The Only One, in the way Key and Peele are sending up here, is an anxious dance for a lot of folks in the real world: What happens when you're in a space that seems to have room for Just One, and the racial currency that helped you get in the door suddenly becomes much less rare? And what happens when your racial identity is part of what got you picked for the team, but you know you'll get booted unless you you play to the crowd, never letting your identity confuse or disrupt? Tanner Colby teased out this very tension in a great over at Slate last year, poking at the racial dynamics of the real-world comedy troupe at Saturday Night Live. Colby points to the long list of black comedians who joined the cast and left unhappily (Chris Rock, Damon Wayans, Yvonne Hudson, Danitra Vance, Dean Edwards, Jerry Minor, Finesse Mitchell, Ellen Cleghorne, etc.) — often because they felt they were being typecast — and the much - shorter list of black comedians who had long, successful careers on the show (Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, Kenan Thompson). The difference, he notes, is that the comedians who struggled tended to come up through black comedy clubs, performing for black audiences, while the ones who flourished tended to come up through super -white comedy proving grounds like Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, which were more aligned to the sensibilities of their future SNL cast members. That is, they probably had more practice navigating the terrain of white people. The tricky thing here, of course, is the soft skill of "navigating the terrain of white people" often translates to not upsetting the apple cart, and yet upsetting the apple cart is exactly what advocates for diversity say they want. The tension between those two motivations eventually prompts so many of The Only Ones to throw up their hands and bounce, like Cenac did. Page, the organizational theorist, told me that's to be expected when people feel excluded from groups, even ones they've joined voluntarily. "If you feel like there's a group and there's a vision and you're not part of that vision, you're just going to exit," he said. And he's found that problem holds true whether we're talking about entire societies or tiny niche groups. "There's a sense that you're going to have to stand up and shout, or you're going to leave." From the City Manager IPS The Loneliest Number: Being Black in Iowa I used to loathe the end of January. Around that time, anxiety -ridden managers would start suggesting that I help organize the Black History Month activities for February. Bless their hearts. They either genuinely felt our staff needed to be more conscious of the contributions African Americans made to society, or somewhere in their manager handbook, this was mentioned in the cultural sensitivity part. Growing up, I was always slated to read the "I Have A Dream," speech in class or chosen to explain how the Underground Railroad operated without physical tracks.Back in 1st grade, when our progressive music teacher wanted us to learn about soulful pop music, she wrote a play and cast me as Michael Jackrabbit, the moonwalking bunny with a culturally ambiguous face. All of this was a version of tokenism that I had become accustomed to before I even knew tokenism was a thing. Tokenism is race and gender agnostic. No one is safe. Consider the exemplary woman who has broken into the good 'ole boys club of corporate America, or the Ione gay man at a job brimming with tough guys and their laughable displays of machismo, or in my case, the prototypical black face in nearly every social group to which I've belonged. Anyone can become a victim of tokenism, but it will always befall the Only One in the Room, a phrase that I've borrowed from a recent NPR article. The article, "On Wyatt Cenac, Key & Pee/e, And Being The Only One In the Room," describes situations wherein there is only one minority in a group, otherwise known as the last 20 years of my life. Life is hard for the token, and it's hard for the Only One. When you are both at once, it feels like playing a game of chess while balancing on a high wire. I know my teachers and peers were not willfully trying to make me a mascot for diversity or the defender of all things Black. Their behavior --like all behavior—had a cause. They lived in an extremely homogeneous society and, save for the Huxtables, I was almost the only image of Blackness they saw, and I was certainly the only image they could readily access. They could literally feel my knotted hair, or gauge in real- time my reaction to comments about slavery. And since I have green eyes, blonde hair and tapioca -colored skin, I was all the more exotic, and a seemingly inexhaustible point of reference. Growing up in predominantly white environments can be challenging for black youths. And as of late, we've seen that growing up while black can be dangerous. Anymore, one need only to be armed with a hoodie and a pack of Skittles to be considered a mortal threat when you have black skin. And in a time where Stand Your Ground has become a reasonable defense for justifiable homicide, the black experience in America is to live under constant fear for life and limb and a persistent anxiety about how your black body affects the public space around you. I attended college at the University of Iowa, the largest public education institution in the state, boasting over 30,000 students. One would think that the law of large numbers would prevent me from being the Only One in the room, but unfortunately that was not the case. The University reported last fall that African Americans make up about 2% of the entire student body population. The law of large numbers notwithstanding, for most of my classes, I was often the Ione brown face in a sea of white. The largest gathering of African Americans in any one place on campus was not at a Black Student Union meeting, but rather on the sideline at Kinnick Stadium on game day—a fact that fed into the unfortunately pervasive and persistent stereotype that students of color were merely athletic workhorses, whose primary role was to secure Big Ten championships and help the university sell club seats to boosters. Being the Only One in the classroom, or even at a bar, forced me to constantly calculate appropriate responses to a myriad of situations. It's like having two processors in your brain, one for analyzing information just like anyone else might, and the other for analyzing information as a black person. My college years coincided with the 2008 presidential race, and the prospect of the first African American president often meant I was the de facto authority on Barack Obama's campaign, and Barack Obama the black man. Not only was I to know all of his policy positions in great detail, but I was also expected to know what made him tick; what went on inside of his mind. I was expected to know this not because I was a student of political science, but because Barack Obama and I shared the same race. In social circles outside of the classroom, I served as a guarantor of sorts, promising white friends that if elected, Obama would neither institute policies that would have punitive effect on whites, nor would he champion policies that showed favoritism towards blacks, and in no way would he force every American to learn the Electric Slide. Being the Only One also means you become a spokesperson for your race, whether you want the job or not. As the appointed representative of your people, you must know every fact of history concerning your race and be prepared to answer any and all questions—no matter how ridiculous—as if you were presenting a dissertation you've spent your entire adult life researching. Anything less suggests you may not really be black, or, at the very least, you simply don't know your own history, and isn't that sad? The mental calculus is exhausting at times. When someone you know shares a racist joke, you find yourself wondering whether to bite your tongue or speak up. Heaven forbid you get cast as the angry black man, or risk harming your relationship with that person by speaking up. Rarely does speaking up result in fruitful conversations that lead to more understanding or reconciliation. People don't like hearing that they've brushed up against society's boundaries on race. Nearly every institution of consequence in this state is filled to the brim with people of caucasian descent. In a lot of these institutions we've achieved more gender diversity, which is a great thing, but we've got a long way to go on racial and cultural diversity. Our schools, our school boards, our city council, our corporate leaders, our police departments, all are institutions with significant influence in the community, and all are nearly completely white. From my cursory research, the Iowa City school board is leading on the diversity front with three women, one of whom is a person of color, and one African American man. In instances where there is a minority or two in these powerful institutions, I can guarantee you that they are also playing chess on the daily, being strategic about their every move, playing the long game. These institutions are the backbone of our society. The people who make up these institutions make budgetary decisions, pass ordinances and react to the needs of their constituents. If there are few to no people of color at the highest levels of our community leadership, who then will be our advocate? Who can skillfully articulate the concerns of black America when necessary to ensure equitable decision-making at the highest levels? Iowa City has just one person of color on its city council. Our capital city of Des Moines which is also the largest city in Iowa, and Cedar Rapids, the second largest city in the state, have no members of color on their respective councils. When issues with clear racial undertones come up for discussion before the council in Iowa City, must this Ione member become the natural advocate? Is any position he takes on the matter automatically compromised vis-a-vis some sort of implied racial bias? Does Councilor Kingsley Botchway's,skin color—an unchangeable fixture of his identity—constitute a conflict of interest? Does he let down his people if he does not champion a cause they care about? Again, the calculus is menacing. People of color try mightily not to be accused of playing the race card, the quick rebuff often used by those in the dominant group to dismiss our claims and concerns. The fear of dismissal is balanced against the soul - crushing charge of "selling out," and being silent too often. It is the classic catch-22; a terrible drama that plays out in our heads while we sit in classrooms and serve as mediators during conversations about race, when we hear white folks express disgust at the "singular," focus of the Black Lives Matter movement, when our faces turn to stone after hearing the joke that begins, so a Mexican, a Jew, and a black guy walk into a bar. As the students return to campus from the gilded suburbs of Chicago, from Iowa's many towns and cities, and as first -timers come too, one of the things they likely won't be concerned about is how it feels to be the Only One in the room. That feeling, if it exists at all for them, lives deep down in their psyche until it is jolted out by circumstance. My hope is that as a community, we can raise our collective consciousness about race and the challenges posed to minorities and communities by too little racial diversity. Even if our community leaders cannot see the long term benefits of addressing racial disparities in our institutions straight away, surely they can understand that in the short term, this effort will make our society more inclusive and understanding; two key ingredients for progress. The greater Corridor area is generally forward-looking and its cities are anchors for the region. However, we can be even better. Our students on campus can strive to make more meaningful connections with their peers of color, not as token gestures, but in an effort to broaden their understanding of different people. Our companies can be intentional about grooming minority employees for leadership positions so that over time, corporate culture and governance can be more inclusive. Our police departments can work a little harder to understand the root causes of criminality, which lays like a thick fog over economically depressed and heavily minority neighborhoods. Only then can they work on preventive measures to address crime before it happens. And if education is the great equalizer, the University of Iowa can play an outsized role in addressing racial disparities across this state, perhaps beginning with a renewed effort to recruit more minority students and faculty, and then providing both groups with the tools and resources they need to be successful. Perhaps the University will go so far as interviewing a minority candidate as it searches for a new president. A good friend of mine told me that to win a chess game sometimes takes up to 50 good moves. However to lose a chess game may only take a single misstep. Addressing racial disparities in this community will take time and great effort. It will take many good women and men who are wise and steadfast. It will not be easy, but it is worthy of our efforts. Now it's time for us to start playing to win the long game. I r 1 IP6 �� N CITY OF IOWA CITY MEMORANDUM Date: September 16, 2015 To: Tom Markus, City Manager From: Karen Howard, Associate Planner, on behalf of the Staff Design Review Committee Re: Courtyard Landscaping — 435 S. Linn Street — The Rise at Riverfront Crossings Introduction: At the September 15 City Council meeting during the discussion regarding bonus height for "The Rise" project, which will be located at the corner of Court and Linn Streets, Councilmember Payne inquired about the amount of landscaping proposed in the courtyard between the hotel tower and the residential tower. Clarification and Description of the Landscaping Plan: After the meeting, I reviewed the latest site plan and would like to clarify that the 3-D aerial perspective drawing shown at the meeting while conveying the general building design, but did not show the latest landscaping plan for the courtyard. I have attached the most recent landscaping plan for the courtyard, which is more extensive than what was visible on the perspective drawing shown in the powerpoint presentation. The woven patterned areas in the attached drawing of the courtyard represent raised landscaping beds, which will be planted with a variety of perennials suitable for this location. A large planter central to the courtyard will contain a shade tree. This plan view also shows the accessible passage through the north (hotel) tower to the courtyard and to the east entrance of the residential tower. We have asked the developer to include additional planting beds and street trees where possible along the Court Street frontage in their next site plan submittal. The stairs leading up to the courtyard from Linn Street are flanked on both sides by large terraced landscape planters and some terraced bench seating. The second plan view drawing attached to this memo shows the landscaping plan along the Linn Street frontage of the residential tower, which includes foundation planting beds and street trees. The stairway on the south side of the building that provides a second pedestrian connection between Linn Street and the alley will be flanked by a series of raised landscape planters that will break up the long stairway and soften the south garage wall. Conclusion: Overall, the staff design review committee finds that the landscape architects working on the project have presented a plan that uses foundation landscaping, terracing, and raised planters quite effectively to address the challenges presented by the sloping building site. They have proposed landscaping at the ground level to soften the building walls as the storefront and residential windows step down the sloping street frontages; raised planters to screen the garage wall and break up the long stairway located on the south side of the property; and planters leading up to and within the central courtyard to create a pleasant, usable outdoor space for the residents of the building and the visitors to the hotel. All of these green elements, along with the street trees within the public right-of-way will help create a pleasant and comfortable environment for pedestrians travelling along the street and for visitors and residents of the new building. September 17, 2015 Page 3 tit tt 1411 aI .. :. _ r■ :.I IL -------------- tit Mediacosim ®M� #a po~ to npft September, 14, 2015 Ms. Marian Karr City of Iowa City 410 E. Washington St. Iowa City, Iowa 52240-1826 Dear Ms. Karr: 1,.E 2015 SEP 17 Phi 2: 00 It3WA CI iY, IC'MAk On or around Oct 1st, 2015 Mediacom will be adding a new channel to the line-up in your community. For your convenience, we have outlined the channel change below: New service Station Action Digital Name Level Channel Fox Life A Add 658 Canales Latino A Requires a Mediacom digital converter or cable card. On September 14, 2015, ID found on channel 205 and ID in HD found on channel 772 was moved from the Kids and Variety tier to the Family TV tier. They will remain on the same channels. All of us at Mediacom appreciate your business and look forward to providing you with exciting new services in the future. If there are any questions please call me at 319-35-9699 ext 3461 or e-mail IRrasslev(amediacomcc.com Sincerely, Lee Grassley Senior Manager, Government Relations Mediacom Communications Corporation 6300 Council St. NE Cedar Rapids, ]A 52402 319-395-7801 • Fax 319-393-7017 V L L L L C L L C L C C L C L L L L C E E E E Iowa City Police Department ,'LED and University of Iowa DPS Bar Check Report - August, 2015 2015 SEP 10 PIS Possession of Alcohol Under the Legal Age (PAULA) Under 21 Charges ,,, rr� e1��tjtN{uyy�Y{bet5,-"are reflective of Iowa City Police activity and University of Iowa Police Activity Business Name Occupancy (occupancy loads last updated Oct 2008) = University of Iowa Monthlv Totals Bar Under2l PAULA Checks Prev 12 Month Totals Bar Under2l PAULA Checks Under2l PAULA Ratio Ratio (Prev 12 Mo) (Prev 12 Mo) 2 Dogs Pub 120 1 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 Airliner 223 0 0 0 19 7 70.3684211 0.3684211 (American Legion 140 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 (Atlas World Grill 165 0 0 0 (Bard Ot Iowa 2 0 0 19 4 0 0.2105263 0 Baroncini— 0 0 0 (Basta 176 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 (Blackstone— 297 0 0 0 ]Blue Moose— 436 0 0 0 28 4 2 0.1428571 0.0714286 ]Bluebird Diner 82 0 0 0 ] Bob's Your Uncle *" 260 0 0 0 ]Bo -James 200 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 ] Bread Garden Market & Bakery ^' 0 0 0 Brix 0 0 0 ] Brothers Bar & Grill, [It's] 556 15 4 3 125 20 12 0.16 0.096 ]Brown Bottle, [The]— 289 0 0 0 ]Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar' 189 0 0 0 ]Cactus 2 Mexican Grill (314 E Burlin€ 0 0 0 2 0 6 0 3 ]Cactus Mexican Grill (245 s. Gilbert) 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 ]Caliente Night Club 498 1 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 ]Carl & Ernie's Pub & Grill 92 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 ]CarlosO'Kelly's— 299 0 0 0 ]Chili Yummy Yummy Chili 0 0 0 ]Chipotle Mexican Grill 119 0 0 0 ]Clarion Highlander Hotel 0 0 0 ]Clinton St Social Club 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 Thursday, September 10, 2015 Page 1 of 5 Iowa City Police Department and University of Iowa DPS Bar Check Report - August, 2015 2015 SEP 10 Possession of Alcohol Under the Legal Age (PAULA) Under 21 Charges Nl Tpyr� r-preflective of Iowa City Police activity and University of Iowa Police Activity If7w.�- C)1 Business Name Occupancy (occupancy loads last updated Oct 2008) UniversityofIowa Monthly Totals Bar Checks Under2l PAULA Prev 12 Month Totals Checks Under2l PAULA Ui (Pi Club Car, [The] 56 1 0 0 2 0 0 Coach's Corner 160 0 0 0 5 0 0 Colonial Lanes— 502 0 0 0 Dave's Foxhead Tavern 87 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 DC's 120 12 11 2 128 53 16 0, Deadwood, [The] 218 0 0 0 14 0 0 IDevotay" 45 0 0 0 ]Donnelly's Pub 49 0 0 0 4 0 0 ]Dublin Underground, [The] 57 0 0 0 5 0 0 ] Eagle's, [Fraternal Order of] 315 0 0 0 ]Eden Lounge 9 1 0 25 4 0 ]EI Banditos 25 0 0 0 ]EI Cactus Mexican Cuisine 0 0 0 ]EI Dorado Mexican Restaurant 104 0 0 0 ]EI Ranchero Mexican Restaurant 161 0 0 0 ]Elks #590,[BPO] 205 0 0 0 ] Englert Theatre— 838 0 0 0 ]Fieldhouse 178 9 0 1 79 18 8 C ]FilmScene 0 0 0 ]First Avenue Club— 280 0 0 0 8 0 1 ]Formosa Asian Cuisine— 149 0 0 0 ]Gabes"' 261 0 0 0 4 0 0 ]George's Buffet 75 1 0 0 14 0 0 ]Givanni's— 158 0 0 0 ]Godfather's Pizza 170 0 0 0 ]Graze— 49 0 0 0 Thursday, September 10, 2015 Ider 21 PAULA Ratio Ratio ev 12 Mo) (Prev 12 Mol 0 0 0 0 0 0 9140625 0.125 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.16 1 0 ,2278481 1 0.1012658 0 1 0.125 0 0 0 0 Page 2 of 5 F C C C C C C C C C C C E E E C E C E E [ ] [ Iowa City Police Department and University of Iowa DPS Bar Check Report - August, 2015 1015 SES ) Pi Possession of Alcohol Under the Legal Age (PAULA) Under 21 Charges C)"r>3'jiQEahe,reflective of Iowa City Police activity and University of Iowa Police Activity 16WA CI�'Y, h 4,. Business Name Occupancy (occupancy loads last updated Oct 2008) = University of Iowa Monthlv Totals Bar Checks Under2l PAULA Prev 12 Month Totals Bar Checks Under2l PAULA Under2l PAULA Ratio Ratio (Prey 12 Mo) (Prey 12 Mo) Grizzly's South Side Pub 265 1 0 0 34 0 0 0 0 Hilltop Lounge, [The] 90 2 0 0 44 0 0 0 0 Howling Dogs Bistro 0 0 0 IC Ugly's 72 5 0 0 57 0 0 0 0 India Cafe 100 0 0 0 I Iron Hawk 0 0 0 IJimmy Jack's Rib Shack 71 0 0 0 IJobsite 120 2 0 0 51 0 0 0 0 ]Joe's Place 281 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 ]Joseph's Steak House- 226 0 0 0 ]Linn Street Cafe 80 0 0 0 ]Los Portales 161 0 0 0 ]Martini's 200 8 3 0 69 46 10 0.6666667 0.1449275 ]Masala 46 0 0 0 ]Mekong Restaurant" 89 0 0 0 ]Micky's- 98 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 ]Mill Restaurant, [The]- 325 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ] Moose, [Loyal Order of) 476 0 0 0 ] Motley Cow Cafe" 82 0 0 0 ]Noodles & Company- 0 0 0 ]Okoboji Grill` 222 0 0 0 ]Old Capitol Brew Works 294 0 0 0 ]One -Twenty -Six 105 0 0 0 ]Orchard Green Restaurant- 200 0 0 0 ]Oyama Sushi Japanese Restaurant 87 0 0 0 ]Pagliai'sPizza- 113 0 0 0 Thursday, September 10, 2015 Page 3 of 5 Iowa City Police Department and University of Iowa DPS '"3 Bar Check Report - August, 2015 2015 SEP 10 PPr8sSesSidn of Alcohol Under the Legal Age (PAULA) Under 21 Charges c lyrfllueEs�reflective of Iowa City Police activity and University of Iowa Police Activity 10 VIA CIC Y, f l; .` ., Business Name occupancy (occupancy loads last updated Oct 2008) = University of Iowa Monthly Totals Bar Checks Under2l PAULAks Prev 12 Month Totals Under2l PAULA Under 21 PAULA Ratio Ratio (Prev 12 Mo) (Prev 12 Mo) Panchero's (Clinton St)— 62 0 0 0 r77 Panchero's Grill (Riverside Dr)` 95 0 0 0 (Pints 180 5 0 0 6 0 0.0779221 0 1 Pit Smokehouse— 40 0 0 0 IPizza Arcade 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ]Pizza Hut- 116 0 0 0 ]Players 114 0 0 0 ]Quinton's Bar & Deli 149 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 ]Rice Village 0 0 0 ]Ride 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ]Ridge Pub 0 0 0 ] Riverside Theatre— 118 0 0 0 ]Saloon— 120 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 ]Sam's Pizza 174 0 0 0 ]Sanctuary Restaurant, [The] 132 0 0 0 ]Shakespeare's 90 1 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 ]Sheraton 0 0 0 ]Short's Burger & Shine" 56 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ]Short's Burger Eastside 0 0 0 ]Sports Column 400 10 7 4 91 36 19 0.3956044 0.2087912 ]Studio 13 206 2 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 ]Summit. [The] 736 8 0 5 120 43 34 0.3583333 0.2833333 ]Sushi Popo 84 0 0 0 ]Szechuan House 0 0 0 ]Takanami Restaurant" 148 0 0 0 ]Taqueria Acapulco 0 0 0 Thursday, September 10, 2015 Page 4 of 5 Iowa City Police Department and University of Iowa DPS FILE". Bar Check Report - August, 2015 2015 SEP 10 P91451on7of Alcohol Under the Legal Age (PAULA) Under 21 Charges L�pr� a "eflective of Iowa City Police activity and University of Iowa Police Activity 10WA CITY, Business Name Occupancy (occupancy loads last updated Oct 2008) ©=University ofIowa Monthlv Bar Checks TotalsPrev Under2l PAULA 12 Bar Checks ) 67 Month Totals Under2l, PAULA 0 0 Under 21 Ratio (Prev 12Mo) ❑TCB 250 9 0 0 0 ❑Thai Flavors 60 0 0 0 ❑Thai Spice 91 0 0 0 []Times Club @ Prairie Lights 60 0 0 0 ❑Trumpet Blossom Cafe 94 0 0 0 17 Union Bar 854 13 5 3 117 32 24 0.2735043 ❑VFW Post#3949 197 0 0 0 E] Vine Tavern, [The] 170 1 0 0 14 11 2 0.7857143 ❑ Wig & Pen Pizza Pub- 154 0 0 0 ❑Yacht Club, [Iowa City]- 206 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 ❑Yen Ching 0 0 0 ❑Z'Mariks Noodle House 47 0 0 0 PAULA Ratio (Prev 12 Mol 0 0.2051282 0.1428571 G1 Totals 119 31 18 1366 284 141 0.2079063 0.1032211 Off Premise 0 0 19 0 0 108 0 0 Grand Totals 1 1 37 1 1 249 * includes outdoor seating area exception to 21 ordinance Thursday, September 10, 2015 Page 5 of 5 Jim Dickerson, PGA Golf 319-351-0596 09-17-15 IP9 � r 1 CITY OF IOWA CITY 410 East Washington Street Iowa City. lona 52240-1826 (3 19) 356-5000 (319) 356-5009 FAX wwwJcgov.org September 14, 2015 TO: The Honorable Mayor and the City Council RE: Civil Service Entrance Examination — Landfill Operator Under the authority of the Civil Service Commission of Iowa City, Iowa, I do hereby certify the following named person(s) as eligible for the position of Landfill Operator. Todd Courtney IOWA CITY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Lyra W. Dickerson, Chair - 1 I - 1 IP10 Business Lunch! A special workshop for jobseekers Tuesday September 29th 1049,00 AM Shelter House Computer Lab 429 Southgate Ave, Iowa City IA *Job application tips *.Resumes and fit Cover Letters -- • Interviewing and assessments w q'-. 09-17-15 INN Round - Table Panel Discussion Moderated by the Human Rights Commission. I� ka AMMIQM CITY OF IOWA CITY Human Rights Commission '91:�:�DZ�I' •■OZZa�M0 ^ '11 '"ter --MimiOCTOBER 13, 2015 Kirkwood Regional Center At The University Of Iowa 2301 E Oakdale Blvd, Coralville, IA 52241 4:00p.m. to 7:00pm visit to register a table! Presented by: 0 0 v Iowa City Area Development Group