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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-06-06 Transcription Page I Council Present: Alter,Bergus,Dunn,Harmsen, Taylor, Teague, Thomas Staff Present: From,Jones,Kilburg, Goers, Fruehling,Platz, Havel,VanDyke,Yoder, Rummel, Sitzman,Hennes,Kubly, Gripp,Lyon,Nurnberg,Roth Others Present: LeFevre,USG Alternate Liaison 1. Call to Order: Teague: Welcome. Today is June 6, 2023. And welcome to your City Hall. It is 6 PM and this is our City of Iowa City's formal meeting. I'm going to call this meeting to order. (Roll Call) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 2 La. Proclamations l.a.(1) Juneteenth National Freedom Day Teague: All right. Well, our fust item is IA proclamations. (Reads proclamation). We just want to say,um,to all of those that are going to be a part of this celebration, it's going to be held Downtown on Friday,but there's many more events, so we would ask that you go to the website to see all of the opportunities that our city is, um, and our county is actually having in honor of Juneteenth. So we'll just give a hand clap for Juneteenth. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 3 l.a.(2) LGBTQ+Pride Month Teague: (Reads proclamation)And to receive this is Joe Reilly,who is the current president of the Iowa City Pride. Reilly: Thank you. Thank you,Mayor Teague,uh, Council. Um,thank you for continuing this long storied tradition we have here in Iowa City of having an inclusive community that is positive and affirming. And that's part of our message this year, is we are stronger together and we're sharing our experiences,we are visible,we are present,we are represented. Please come out June 17th,uh,will be a long day of activities, fun and entertainment,us kicking off with a parade at noon. It's shaping up to be perhaps our largest festival yet. Um, so now in our 53rd years, one of the oldest prides in the United States. We are very proud to continue being that for this community and for the members of our Iowa City community to come out and share their experience. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. And here is the proclamation. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 4 8. Community Comment(items not on the agenda) Teague: We're on to item number 8,which is our Community Comment. This is an opportunity for anyone to speak on a topic that is not on our agenda. So if you're present,we ask that you come on up and you have up to three minutes. Um,there is a sign-in sheet at the table. Also at the back of the room,there -there are stickers that you can pre-fill out your information. We ask that you state your name and city you're from. Welcome. Ross: Hey. City Council it was so great to see the Family Folk Machine perform at the Englert just a few weeks ago. It was really brilliant. And some of our councilors really have beautiful voices. And they sang all kinds of things from folk music, Irish music,would have made my dad happy to see that, soul music,Bohemian Rhapsody,no. Laura Bergus and our Mayor,uh,both really showing quite the community spirit and their vocals and I loved it. Man,be involved,you know. That's a great group. So fust of all, I'd like to say that. Thank you so much for being part of that,made my day. Uh, second of all,yeah, Juneteenth,that's cool. I'm for Juneteenth. I'm against racism, I'm for democracy, I'm against fascism. I think we should celebrate the day,but,you know,we always say,we're going to have a day. You know, one day out of 365,we're going to have that day. But man,we should have 365 days where we respect people of color,LGBTQ,uh, and we should work all year long. I mean,we say Juneteenth,you know, cool. It's great to celebrate. But really,you know,we live in a state where we can do a lot of stuff to-to show our appreciation by helping people who are on the outs,which,you know,when talk about people of color,we know that they are disproportionally imprisoned. We have the largest prison population in the world. As a country we have the largest population per capita in the world. And that's something that we can work on. And LGBTQ, I feel the same.This is kind of loose, loose leaf for me tonight. I would say those of you who are outside have been breathing the air,which has a lot of Canadian wildfire burning,uh, a lot of Canadian cities burning, a lot of climate change going on out there. Just as a reminder,we have to keep working on our congress and senate to do better,uh, in this area and we have to do better at home. And I just read this statistic just for fun. I know you guys want something trivia tonight,but our military pollutes more carbon footprint than 140 countries combined.Now we're spending about 1 trillion on military,yet we're cutting food stamps. I think we could do something there. I love all you guys,you're super cool and groovy. Keep working at it.You'll get it right. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. Welcome. Ramotowski: Hello. Teague: Please state your name and city you're from. Ramotowski: Hi,my name is David. My last name is kinda long, so you can see it in the guest book,but I live in the East side of Iowa City. So fust things fust, I would like to apologize, since I don t think I did a good job explaining my issue with the Captiol Street ramp at the last meeting and,um, I was a little nervous because I've also never addressed This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 5 a City Council meeting before. So basically, all I, and I hope other motorcyclists are asking, is for the parking department to please,uh, shorten one of the exit gates at the Capitol Street ramp so that we can exit the normal way like we used to,uh, which I think is much,much safer. To be clear, I don't think this was done intentionally. I think it was just an unintended consequence of the new parking system. So I brought up my cost and emissions estimates to show why I love motorcycling and why I've continued to do it for the past four years even though I don't really have to anymore. But I think it may have come off as being a bit selfish since I understand that not everyone wants to take the risk. And if I had to choose between my car and bike, it would be really hard choice because I haven't yet ridden my scooter to Costco and unfortunately, I don't live in the south anymore. So that being said, I'd like to really thank the City for increasing my bus service frequency to two every 20 minutes. I really appreciate it and I strongly support the zero-fare transit pilot project. So to conclude, I understand that there'll be a public hearing on making improvements to the city parking ramps on the 20th. Unfortunately, I can't make it. I'll be spending Juneteenth on a plane to Boston for going to a conference, but I really appreciate it if my suggestion on improving the safety of the Capitol Street Ramp can be discussed. So thank you and I yield the rest of my time. Teague: Thank you. Welcome. White: How are you doing?My name is Sherman and I'm from Iowa City and I've been coming to these meetings for awhile. And tonight I would like to begin with an analogy. When neglected or left unattended, our beloved pets will turn feral. Even a baby will turn wild just to survive. But can the man of mind go feral when forced into survival mode?When we have to make choices we wouldn't normally make. When we have to survive on animal instinct. What kind of metamorphoses happens to men?Do our minds go feral? Some of us,we enforce our living structures. Some of us harm ourselves. Some of us succumb to the introduction of the new elements such as drugs and violence. Either having to use violence or drugs to survive or becoming a victim of their forced environment. I've been coming to these meetings since May 2nd, calling for an investigation and audit of Crissy Canganelli and Shelter House and past and present staff. They don't seem-they don't set you up to succeed,they set you up to return to be a part of the recidivism rate and the City of Iowa City and its citizens will continue to give money into a broken system, a sinking ship. I implore this council to inspect the following documents of 501 shelter house,bookkeeping records,balance sheets, donation records, receipts,tax write-offs, income documents,payrolls, invoices, account balances, management, accounting, and reporting systems. Crissy,you should be transparent and above reproach,reveal your budget and expenditures. Answer the taxpayers. One day you will say,maybe he's on to something. Maybe we should sort this out and assert what is true by the time you realize I'm not going to be silenced and go away, I'll be campaigning against you and your services will no longer be needed in Iowa City. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. Was there a correspondence by chance? Okay. Can I get a motion to receive,um, correspondence? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 6 Alter: So moved. Dunn: Second Dunn. Teague: All in favor say aye. Aye. Any oppose?Motion passes seven to zero. Anyone else like to address a topic that is not on our agenda today? So no one in person or online. Thanks to everyone that spoke today. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 7 9. Regular Formal Agenda 9.a. Building Code Update - Ordinance amending Title 17,Chapter 1,Building Code,by adopting the International Building Code,2021 edition, including Appendix K,and the International Residential Code,2021 edition,including Appendix F and Appendix J, and providing for certain amendments thereof; adopting section 103.6(1)(a) of the Code of Iowa (the state electrical code) and section 105.4(1)(a) of the Code of Iowa (the state plumbing and mechanical codes); to provide for the protection of the health,welfare and safety of the residents of Iowa City,Iowa and Title 17,Chapter 12 to clarify the process for Building Code appeals. Teague: We're going to move on to item Number 9A building code update,ordinance amending Title 17, Chapter 1 building code by adopting the International Building Code 2021 addition, including appendix K and the International Residential Code 2021 addition, including Appendix F and Appendix J,providing for certain amendments thereof, adopting Section 103.6 of the Code of Iowa and Section 105.4 of the Code of Iowa to provide for the protection of the health,welfare, and safety of the residents of Iowa City, Iowa and Title 17, Chapter 12,to clarify the process for building code appeals. And I'm going to open the public hearing and we're going to welcome our staff,Danielle. 1. Public Hearing Sitzman: Thank you. Danielle, System and Development Services Coordinator. I'm joined tonight with my senior building inspector as well, Tim Tennis. Just to give you a brief overview of this agenda item,the Iowa City regulates the construction alteration, relocation, enlargement,replacement,repair, equipment use, and occupancy of residential and commercial structures through the building permitting process and the adoption of building codes. Building codes to the minimum design and construction requirements to ensure safe and resilient structures. A model building code is a building code that is developed and maintained by a standards organization independently of the jurisdiction responsible for enacting the building code into law. A local government, such as ours, can choose to adopt a model building code on our own, as our own and this saves local governments the expense and trouble of developing their own code standards. The I- Codes,which are developed through a process facilitated, facilitated by the International Code Council, or ICC, are the most widely used set of model building codes in the world, currently adopted and used in all 50 US states, US territories, and in many other countries. The I-Codes provide a minimum safeguard for people at home, at school, at play and in the workplace. The I-Codes are revised on a three-year cycle through the Code Councils consensus code development process that draws upon expertise of hundreds of building and safety experts across North America. The codes are updated regularly to capture lessons learned from prior disaster events,new building and climate science research, and new technologies and practices. The state of Iowa imposes state required codes upon local, local jurisdictions such as Iowa City. As part of the last code This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 8 update we did in 2019,the City has amended its cost to conform to state regulations requiring all local jurisdictions to adopt a state plumbing, state mechanical and state electrical codes and the state's adopted version of the International Energy Conservation Code or IECC. Local jurisdictions do have the option of adopting the remaining state adopted International Building Code, IBC, and International Residential Code, IRC code, or a stricture codes are determined by our jurisdiction. The ordinance before you tonight continues to adopt the required state codes and locally amended versions of the most recent additions of the IBC and IRC model codes. Included in your packet is a memo from Tim Hennes, our Senior Building Inspector,highlighting the notable changes between the 2018 and 2021 additions of the model codes and our local proposed amendments. There are very few significant changes included in this code cycle. Many of the proposed local amendments simply maintain existing practices that we've had for many years. The proposed changes were developed in collaboration with other jurisdictions in the Iowa City, Cedar Rapids corridor to ensure as much consistency as possible and the information about the code adoption process was also shared with Iowa City Home Builders Association. A document 2021 IBC and IRC codes with amendments as proposed,will maintain consistency with national, state, and surrounding jurisdictions, allow designers and builders uniform standards for design,provide protection from many man-made and natural disasters and guard public health and reduce property losses. The Board of Appeals at they're public meeting on May 1, 2023 voted to recommend approval of the ordinance as proposed and staff does recommend adoption at this time. We're happy to answer questions if you have any. Teague:No questions. Thank you. Anyone from the public who would like to address this topic? Please come to the podium and state your name and city you're from,please. White: I don't know if what I have to say it's pertinent,but I moved out to Town and Campus Apartments back in October. And at the time,there was water leaking into my apartment. When it snowed back in December, I had snow coming into my apartment. And when I would call the inspector, I called Mr. Laverman and everybody,they would tell me that, they told them say,well, I told them about this. You know, and I'm thinking,well, if you told them about this,why am I living here?Why don't I have a water heater?Why don't I have a furnace. I just got a water heater, sir in April. And I've been there since October. I just got a new furnace last month. You know,but they say,well,we told them about it, you know,you told them about it. Why are they renting these partners out? Teague: I think you're talking a lot about rental permit,which isn't the topic. This is building code update. White: Okay. That's why I didn't know. Teague: I understand. White: Yeah thank you. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 9 Teague: Yeah. All right. Thank you.Yeah. Anyone else like to address this topic. Seeing no one in-person or online, I'm going to close the public hearing. 2. Consider an Ordinance(First Consideration) Teague: Can I get a- get a motion to give fust consideration? Dunn: So move done. Harmsen: Second Harmsen. Council discussion. Teague: I appreciated hearing the collaboration with other communities so that there is consistent language. And also including,um, The Home Builders Association, is who I think that they talked to. Roll call, please. (Roll Call). Motion passes 7 - 0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 10 9.b. Fire Code Update - Ordinance amending Title 7,Chapter 1,Fire Prevention and Protection,by adopting the 2021 edition of the International Fire Code to regulate and govern the safeguarding of life and property from fire,explosion,life safety risks,or health hazards. Teague: Ordinance amending Title seven, Chapter one, fire prevention and protection by adopting the 2021 edition of the International Fire Code to regulate and govern those safe garden of life and property from fire, explosion, life safety risks, or a health hazards. And I'm going to open the public hearing and welcome staff Troy. 1. Public Hearing Roth: Good evening, Council. Um, I am coming tonight to update the International Fire Code from the 2018 edition to the 2021. The International Fire Code is also an I co-developed by the International Code Council is model codes which are published on a three-year cycle. Er,the proposed ordinance includes the most recent edition of the International Fire Code with local amendments. These local amendments reflect a new level of co- collaboration between the area of fire marshals to create continuity. The cities of Iowa City Corps bill,North, Liberty, and Tiffin have taken efforts to closely align our local amendments so that a contractor is less likely to find different rules in different towns. Er, the International Fire Code and the International Building Code refer to each other. And for that reason Iowa City has always tried to keep the two codes on the same cycle. State law requires a public hearing on the adoption of a model code. Staff is recommending the adoption of the 2021 edition of the International Fire Code, along with local amendments, a copy of the ordinance and the International Fire Code are on file and the City Clerk's office, er,the memo and your packet details,the minutes to the Board of Appeals for our local amendments. That's all. Teague: Great. Thank you so much. Any questions? Seeing none,thank you. Anywhere from the public link to address this topic? Seeing no one in person or online, I'm going to close the public hearing. 2. Consider an Ordinance(First Condiseration) Teague: Can I get a motion to get fust consideration? Alter: So moved Alter. Bergus: Second Bergus. Teague: Council discussion.Well, I will say that,um,you know,the international codes do provide businesses in our community an expectation to provide safety. I myself went This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 11 through revitalizing a building and,um,we're required to have fire sprinklers as well. That comes at a great expense. I really know that the-the-the real,um,need for that is true,that there are cost in place to make sure that we protect folks. And so I really appreciate,um,you all continue in the work to make sure that there's,um, I- I think, collaborative language amongst the-the different communities, as well as, er, for those like me,who are lay folk that can understand what all of this means in practical terms. So I really appreciate,um,this-these updates that you all are doing today. Roll-call,please. (Roll Call) Motion passes 7 - 0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 12 9.c. Asphalt Resurfacing 2023 - Resolution approving project manual and estimate of cost for the construction of the Asphalt Resurfacing 2023 Project, establishing amount of bid security to accompany each bid, directing City Clerk to post notice to bidders,and fixing time and place for receipt of bids. Teague: Item 9.c as asphalt resurfacing 2023,resolution approving the project manual and estimate of costs for the construction of the asphalt or service in 2023 project has established and amount of bid of security to accompany each bit. Directing city clerk to post notice two bidders and fixed in time and place for receipt of bits. And I'm going to open the public hearing and welcome. 1. Public Hearing Van Dyke: I'm Marie Van Dyke. I'm with the engineering division. This project is an annual project that's part of our larger pavement management program. And so the goal of the project is to,um, extend the life of pavement on older streets without having to fully reconstruct them. So the general process for the project includes, er,milling of existing asphalt and then patching any- or patching the worst areas of existing pavement, and then curb and gutter repairs and curb ramp replacements. And then the streets are overlaid with 3 inches of asphalt. Um,typically,we would have a handful of streets that we overlay each year. But this year we kept this project a bit smaller so that we could use funds for other pavement management projects. Er, for example we're working on a design of four First Avenue to reconstruct a small portion north of Rochester. And so that will hopefully happen later this year. And then we're also looking at doing some extensive patching on Mormon trek,which would happen later- later than First Avenue, but still hope-hopefully in the near future. So back to the resurfacing project. The majority of the work will be on Court Street. So we would be overlaying between Elmira Street and Berkeley lane. We'll also have a little bit of work on Gilbert Street where we will mill and overlay the pavement at the railroad crossing that's between the bus barn and the forestry building. And then we'd also be chip ceiling Taft Avenue between American Legion road and Herbert Hoover highway. The estimated construction cost is 600,000 dollars. The bid opening would be June 27th. We would award the contract July 11th, and then construction would be July to October this year. Er,that's all. Are there any questions? Teague: Thank you much. Anyone from the public like to address this topic? Seeing no one in person or online, I'm going to close the public hearing. 2. Consider a Resolution Teague: Can I get a motion to approve? Thomas: So move Thomas. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 13 Taylor: Second Taylor. Teague: Council discussion. Alter: Actually just find it so amazing that it- even while the work takes time,that the process of actually getting it bid to the contract one is so short, It's just one of those layperson types of observations that we think of these things is taking years in the making to figure out but really it seems it's like the other way around as I get it out there. Let them bid and let's go. Thank you. Teague: Roll call,please. (Roll Call) Motion pass to 7 - 0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 14 9.d. CDBG ADA Curb Ramp 2023 -Resolution approving project manual and estimate of cost for the construction of the CDBG ADA Curb Ramp 2023 Project, establishing amount of bid security to accompany each bid, directing City Clerk to post notice to bidders,and fixing time and place for receipt of bids. Teague: Item 9.d is CDBG ADA curb ramp 2023 resolution improvement project manual and an estimate of costs for the construction of the CDBG ADA curb ramp 2023 project, establishing amount of bids security to accompany each bid directed city clerk to post notice two bidders and fixing time and place for receipt of bits. And I'm going to open up the public hearing and welcome staff. Ethan. 1. Public Hearing Yoder: Thank you. My name is Ethan Yoder and with the engineering division, I'm going to talk about the CDBG ADA curb ramp project for this year. The project locations that we selected are gonna be at Broadway street at cross Park Avenue,Apple court, and Sandusky Drive,Davis Lane and Tracy Lane intersection Sandusky Drive at Davis street and Bancroft Drive,Hollywood Boulevard at the intersections of Delwood with Drive both East and West side in Hollywood court. And the last location is Ridge Street and Downey Drive. This project, it's gonna to generally include removal and replacement of existing curb ramps at a few of the locations there are no crossing or receiving ramps, so we'll be installing new ones too for that. We'll be doing some full depth street patches, as well as final surface restoration and seeding. The estimated construction costs is $155,000. This will be CDBG funded. The schedule is Bid Letting is June 27th, awarding July 11th with start date of July 31st. Majority of it should be completed this fall. Some of it might fall outside of the seating window, so it'd be completed in the following spring. Are there any questions? Teague: Hearing none. Anyone from the public link to address this topic? Seeing no one in person or online, I'm going to close the public hearing. 2. Consider a Resolution Teague: Can I get a motion to approve,please? Bergus: So moved Bergus. Alter: Second Alter. Teague: Council discussion. I can hear Harry Olmstead saying good job. Harmsen: I was just talking about here. Yes, absolutely. Alter: About damn time This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 15 Teague: Oh,yeah. Harmsen: It's always good to see these projects every year and another community,keeps chipping away at this. Teague: Yes. Alter: Yeah. And since I live right in that area, it's like this is gonna be really,really welcomed just because they're well traveled and it will be nice to have them more accessible for more people. Teague: Roll call,please. (Roll Call) Motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 16 9.e. FY23 Annual Action Plan Amendment#1 -Resolution approving Substantial Amendment#1 to Iowa City's FY23 Annual Action Plan. Teague: Item 9.e, is fiscal year 23 annual action plan amendment number one,resolution and proven substantial amendment number one to Iowa City's fiscal year 2023 annual action plan and we're going to welcome. Well, can I get a motion to approve,please. Alter: So move to Alter Dunn: Second,Dunn. All right and welcome Erica Kubelet. Erica. Kubly: Erica Kubly with neighborhood services. I'm also here to talk about the curb ramps. So we are proposing to shift CDBG set aside funding to allow for neighborhood improvement project to proceed this construction season. The city sets aside 75,000 of our CDBG funds for neighborhood improvements each year in annual action plan and we work with parks and engineering departments to identify projects. The proposed project is curb ramp accessibility improvements in the South District as Ethan discussed. The total cost of the project is about $150,000 and was initially intended to be covered by two years of funding- CDBG funding for FY23 and FY24. We have the opportunity to start the project. These construction season if we wait until we get approval of our FY24 funds,we wouldn't be able to start probably until next summer. So after speaking with our HUD representative,they suggested we shift funds to the project so we look for unspent funds that we could use more quickly. We have about 25,000 and program income that we want to shift to this project and then we also proposed shifting unused CDBG economic development funds for FY23 to this project. We currently use those funds for small business technical assistance and applications are available on an ongoing basis. We don't have any pending applications right now,but we'll get another set of funding beginning on July 1st. Any increases to project funding over 50,000 or 25% of the total project costs triggers a substantial amendment to our FY23 annual action plan in accordance with our Citizen Participation Plan. We've held a 30 day public comment period and have not received any comments to my knowledge, age, CDC recommended approval of the amendment at their May 18th meeting. Staff also supports this amendment we have strict timeliness standards with HUD and this will help facilitate quick spending over funds and we'll also get the curb ramps out to the neighborhood more quickly. Teague: Any questions? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 17 Alter: I just have a clarifying question. You said that the money that you'd be using now is for the economic development grants,but there aren't any and you'll have a new round of money available July 1st. Kubly: Right. Alter: Okay. Kubly: So we have $50,000 for FY23 and it hasn't been allocated or spent so usually after two years, it goes back into the pool,but we're gonna kinda put it back into the pool early. And then we'll have funds available July 1st. Well, 50,000 available for anyone to apply. Alter: For the economic? Kubly: Yes. Alter: Okay. Thanks. Teague: Thank you. Anyone from the public likes to address this topic? Seeing no in person or online, council discussion. Roll call,please. (Roll Call) Motion passes 7 - 0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 18 9.f. Zero-Fare Transit Pilot Project-Resolution authorizing the City Manager to initiate a two-year zero-fare pilot project on all Iowa City transit routes. Teague: zero fair transit pilot program resolution authorizing the city manager to initiate a two- year zero fair pilot project on all Iowa City transit routes. Can I get a motion to approve please? Bergus: So moved. Dunn: Second done. Teague: All right. And we're gonna welcome our City Manager. From: Thank you Council. I'm gonna continue on the mobility theme,building off the curb ramps there and talk about public transit. You actually spent quite a bit of work session time at your last meeting discussing the possibility of a two year zero fair pilot project on our transit system. This resolution just formalizes the-the decision that was made that work session which is to proceed ahead with that two-year pilot program. Um, I'll highlight a couple of aspects again,uh, for the public here tonight and then if you have specific questions,uh-uh,Mark Rummel our associate director in transportation services was kind enough to join us tonight and can help respond to,uh, specific questions. Uh, zero fair,um, transit systems are gaining more interest across the country,um, and based on implementation and other communities we expect that it could boost our ridership by 20-60%which not only helps us meet,um-uh, equity goals,but also climate action goals, um-uh,that are both contained in your strategic plan. We do have,uh, federal relief funds that are available to carry us through this two-year pilot program. However,we have not yet identified a sustainable funding source to take us past the two years. So our intention is to,uh,run this program,uh, for a year and then report back to you. Again, it will be a two-year pilot, but we would start that review process and that-that actual discussion of whether to go beyond the two years or not in about 12 months from,uh, whenever we launch. Um, at that time staff will be ready,uh,with some,uh, options,uh- uh, in terms of,uh, a sustainable revenue source for zero fair transit. And you'll have the benefit of a year's worth of data,uh,to look at to determine,uh,the impact that it's had in the community. Uh, our hope is that we can launch this,uh-uh, in the late summer or early fall of,uh,this year and a transit staff is,uh,busy making all the preparation that's needed to-to,uh, shift to that zero fair system. Uh, communications is also assisting with the,uh,branding and messaging that'll behind-uh,that'll be behind that shift to-to make sure that the public knows that,uh,the service level change is coming. So I'll leave my comments at that, and again,uh,Mark and I are able to answer any questions that you have tonight. Harmsen: What steps are left to, uh-uh,to get this up and running? From: Sure. Mark, do you wanna come up, I'll start and then you can-you can fill in. Um,we have to work through some past,uh, logistics. We do have,um,bulk people that This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 19 organizations that buy bulk passes. We also have to transition people that are on passes off at the zero fair system. We want to build a brand and a message,uh,to be able to-to put this out there,uh, as well, um, and I know passenger counting systems is- is something that Mark is,uh, also focusing on. So what have I missed there mark? Rummel: Yeah, good evening everybody. Uh,really as far as hardware side of things, our- our game plan would be to just cover our current fare boxes at this point,uh,rather than taking or removing them completely. Uh, if you remember when Darien did or presentation or in the work session, she commented that,uh, our current fare boxes are near the end of their useful life, and we're looking- if we don't go for free,we will definitely have to look at,uh-uh,purchasing it and acquiring a new either fare box,uh, total system or at least replacing the hardware that's in the-the buses that was going to come at a pretty,uh,hefty price tag. So at this point, our intention would be to just cover those fare boxes. I just said we still need to account riders for federal,uh,reporting. So a couple of options we can use old flash and clickers or through our,uh,bus tracking software and the tablets that are in the buses. There's a module that we can purchase for that,that Canvas actually uses right now,uh,that seems to work pretty well, but I mean, all in all our- our bus schedules have rates on there. The website has rates on there, so it would really just be modifying some of those,uh, aspects. We're not looking to expand the fleet or expand our,uh, our employee,uh- our- our full-time employee count at this point,uh, due to demand but that could be something that,that comes up down the road. Harmsen: And I know this is cart and horse because we haven't actually approved this yet. But when the communications sort of gets a plan, I would love to hear some kind of an update on how we're going to be pushing this out to the community. I mean, I don't expect you to have that tonight,but-but when that-when that comes out, I'll be really interested in hearing about it. Bergus: On that same education theme,Mark, I- I heard you use the term fair free. And I've had a conversation with Geoff and a couple of my colleagues have zero fair versus fair free. So, uh, I mean personally I like fair free but of course you are the professional . Rummel: Sure. I don't know that we've [OVERLAPPING] Harmsen: We could call it the bus fare free and BFF. Rummell: There you go. Bergus: It's fair, it's free. It's fare free. Rummel: I liked the ideas, so we'll have to figure out what-what we're laying down there. Dunn: You're-you're right. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 20 Teague: [OVERLAPPING] Has there been any communication with our neighboring city Core Ville since this has been out? Fruin: I've - I've reached out to their city administrator to let them know and then we're also,uh, engaged in discussions on,uh,para transit- on the-the para transit aspects of this as well. Teague: Great. Any other questions? Thank you. Rummel: Thank you. Teague: All right. Uh, anyone from the public who would like to address this topic?Please state your name and city you are from. Ramatowski: I'm David Ramatowski, Iowa City. So, um, I guess I already said it,but I really do support the zero fair pilot project,um. So I'm a PhD student here studying environmental engineering and,uh- and so,uh, as I said before I don't live in the South anymore. So obviously in the colder months of the year, I rely on the bus pretty heavily because it does go right by my apartment and so it's very convenient. And so,um- so actually because of that,uh, so right now,uh, I typically bind the university,you pass to ride the bus and,uh- and the thing is I can't- it doesn't really pay for itself except like in the winter like when I'm actually riding the bus regularly really so on. So for example this summer I actually didn't renew it and so,uh, if I want to ride the bus so I'll have to actually,you know, carry cash and pay and I don't really like doing that. So,uh, so yeah, I think it's really great that you guys are considering this because,uh, I did my master's. So like before I started my PhD, I did my master's in Raleigh,North Carolina. And the buses there ran once every hour and that's in the metro area with like-probably the same population is like the entire State of Iowa. And so,uh, I think that's pretty sad,but it also,um, I just wanted to express my appreciation that you guys are supporting public transit and thank you. Teague: Thank you. Anyone else like to address this topic? I see no one in-person or online council discussion. Alter: I'm just tremendously excited that this is going to happen. Um, and I commend staff for doing all the work to see if this is viable. And,um,you know,this. I just think that this is going to take some really large steps in terms of concretizing what it is that we want to do for our city in terms of accessibility, in terms of equity, in terms ofum,making it a livable place,working on climate goals. So it just, it hits everything. And,um,this is just an awesome thing. So thank you, everybody who's contributed and worked so hard to make this happen. Bergus: I agree. And I think the combination of this with the increased frequency and the other changes that we've made with the route adjustments,that kind of thing all happening in close- close in time to each other. That marketing piece will be really critical and helpful because I think there's a number of people who just haven't tried the bus in a while or haven't riden the bus,uh,recently after the,you know, so many people stopped riding the This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 21 bus last few years with the pandemic. So I think it'll be really exciting to see people come back to riding the bus with a lot more new people riding the bus and not having to pay a fare. Taylor: It's the one thing that I've heard a lot of positive comments from the public about they're- they're all excited about this too. And I'm excited for our transit drivers,uh,because I think this is going to be very helpful to them,uh, as far as they don't have to worry about making change or argue with people about how much to pay. So I think that's going to be very helpful in a big change for them. Dunn: All right. I think it's important to go over just for the sake of- of this being the meeting, we're making this vote on,uh, some of the things that I really think that and I know that the rest of this council shares are really critical to- to going forward with this project. Um, so I've got three things that are really important to me and why I support this. So one. It's gonna help us achieve our climate goals. It's gonna keep people off of the roads,you know which it will additionally save us money. Ah,reducing wear on our roads. Two, it will hopefully help boost the local economy. But keeping dollars in people's pockets and two-third in doing that, it's going to help the poor and working people save money and spend it on other necessities. This is something that I've seen firsthand. I've been helping out a local refugee who is 100 percent dependent on public transportation, specifically public transportation in Iowa City, in Coral Bell. And this person literally ran out of money because of how often she had to use the buses. And so when I think about this vote, I think about how many of those people exist in our community that this is going to have an immediate impact on being able to buy more food,being able to do other things that don't just simply get you to the job that you have.Um, so I'm very thankful for all the work that staff has done on this. I'm very thankful to you know,the Biden administration as well as members of Congress for getting us these dollars and allowing us to do this really type of transformative work for our community. And I'm also looking to the future. I don't think this should be the place where we stopped with expanding public transportation in our community. Um, I think that we also need to be looking towards expanding service,but this is a fantastic, great fust step that I don t think should be overlooked. Harmsen: I can't think of anything to add to that, so I'll just say ditto. Teague: Yeah-yeah. Thomas: I guess one- one thing I might add is it- it will be interests- certainly interesting to see how ridership changes with the free fair. Um, and so hopefully we'll see you in a significant increase. I think it would also be interesting to-to try to expand our horizon in terms of where-where might there be development opportunities along these bus lines with the free fair? Perhaps with an emphasis on affordable housing. Since the means of transit would-would be free, fair?And see- see if that can accelerate. Again, our movements on all the fronts that have been described with regard to this project. So,uh, that too, I think is often when-when we make these transit enhancements and This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 22 improvements,there is an opportunity to-to incentivize its use by aligning our land-use accordingly. And we are certainly advancing our transit system. So it'll be interesting to see if we can take advantage of that. Teague: So often I say, let's begin with the end in mind. And this is one where we have that, I think what we have at the end of the- at the end of this pilot program is faith and hope that we'll be able to do something because right now the funds,you know,we already saw that they will not last. So how do we ensure that we have enterprise funds to so make this up. But I'm happy that we're doing this and I'm going to keep the hope and the faith alive that we'll be able to continue to do this for the people that Councilor Dunn just talked about. Um,very exciting. I'm happy to support this. And what I hope is that between now and then we'll see,um,really what we're talking about now more ridership. And I would love to see how,you know, along the bus routes we can see some improvement of places where people destined to go. And so that'd be interested in just to see how this plays out,but happy to support it. We're ready for roll-call. (Roll Call) Motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 23 9.g. ARPA - Childcare Wage Enhancement Program -Resolution authorizing the Mayor to sign a State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) grant agreement with Johnson County and the Community Foundation of Johnson County to administer the Child Care Wage Enhancement Program. Teague: Item Number 9.g, is RPA childcare wage Enhancement Program resolution, authorizing the merit of sinus state and local fiscal recovery fine. Resolution of the grant agreement with Johnson County and the Community Foundation of Johns County to administer the childcare wage Enhancement Program. And can I get a motion to approve,please? Alter: So moved alter. Taylor: Second, Taylor. Teague: All right. And welcome, Cassandra. Gripp: Hi there. Cassandra group grant specialist with Neighborhood and Development Services. Um, as you mentioned,the-this resolution would authorize,uh,the support of the,um, childcare wage Enhancement Program through an agreement with Johnson County and the community- community foundation of Johnson County. Um,this program addresses the growing challenges of childcare staffing wages without increasing the cost of tuition or passing those onto additional cost to the families. In addition to increasing the childcare staffing wages by,um,up to $2 per hour the fund pays and the increase payroll taxes so that that is not passed on to the provider either. Um,this resolution was additionally presented at a work session in March. Um, and so this is the combination of those planning pieces. Um, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Alter: Have been made public. I know that there is a local business partner who has committed that this is like a big gut. Has it been made public who that is?No. Okay. We'll just have to wait with bated breath, I guess Teague: So here are no more questions. Thank you. Anyone from the public likes to address this topic in person or online? So I guess you all are a part of the applicant in a way. Gerlach: I'll be the public today to. Teague: Okay. Go down. Welcome. Gerlach: Thank you. Kady Gerlach, director,better together 2030 and a partner in the childcare solutions collaboration here with Missy Forbes from 4Cs. We've been a part of the Child Care Solutions Group for many years. And out of the pandemic came the wage Enhancement Program,which your generously supporting with your resolution tonight. I wanted to say thank you on behalf of the entire coalition. With this support tonight we'll be able to launch the official childcare solutions Johnson County Community Collaboration brand through the business partnership, ICAD and all the better together This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 24 2030 partners,which will allow us to go out and really publicize this with our business partners to be able to have a badge on their website, a sticker in their windows showing that they are also a part of the solution. But we couldn't have gotten there without the city and county support and leading the way. And we're here to say thank you for that tonight, and we're looking forward to what the next three years does for childcare in our county. Teague: Thank you. Anyone else like to address this topic? Seeing no one else in person or online. Council discussion. Harmsen: I think this is just like the last item, another example of something that people have worked on for quite awhile years. Um, and now we're at a point where actually getting to take some action on things and that feels really good. Especially because many times when people asked me,well,what are you doing about this?What do you do about that? And I said,you know,we move at the speed of city. And sometimes,uh, Iowa City actually moves pretty quickly on things compared to some other cities I've lived in and covered as a journalist. Uh,but it still takes a lot of time and there's a lot of work. And so, um, also just to pat on the back to all of those who have worked for weeks,months, and years to bring forward a proposal which should help us move the needle on a major issue confronting families,businesses,um, and- and children. So thank you. Taylor: Something that's been a long time coming and we've been hearing about and talking about,but a lot of- lot of words but not much action. So it's really great to see this and- and hoping to see over time that-that it's helpful because we hear over and over again and see the effects that the lack of childcare,uh, does affect the economy. Uh,people can't go to work if they don't have the childcare and- and those kinds of things. And- and we heard that the drastic numbers must have been at the work session that you were talking about of- of the lack or the need for spaces. So it'll be interesting to see how this helps them. Thank you. Bergus: I really appreciate how this program is in alignment with our partnership and engagement,uh,value from our strategic plan. So much,not just with the coalition that's been working so hard and pulling together so many stakeholders to come up with this idea, let alone the actual logistics of the program itself. But also the fact that two local governments are seating this fund, and it will be successful through the collaboration and support with private businesses participating as well. So my one question was going to be,how are we going to market it?And thank you Katie for explaining that now we can and that your organizations we'll be doing that. Dunn: I think I- again, echo a lot of the comments that I had for the last item. Um, this is just a really great program that we have the opportunity to participate in. It's going to make a really big impact on- on working families in the community. Um, again, speaking to a- a particular line from the-the agenda item, child care professionals have the lowest wages of any tract professions in this county. So again,the same type of stuff that I'm thinking about for,uh,you know,the refugee that's going to benefit from having free,fair,we're going to have the same types of benefits. More-more food be able-being able to be put This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 25 on the table,more doctors visits that people can afford and just a more comfortable life for a lot of people in this community and across the county. And I'm really excited for that. Thomas: There is a nice pairing as we've been saying with that last item. And,um, it- it does just strike me how both are really foundational in terms of improving the lives of a lot of people on an everyday basis. And,um,that's not something,you know we'll see it. But it's- it's so widely distributed and so foundational that it,you know, it doesn't necessarily make headlines,uh, in the way that special events can. But,uh,when you add it all up, it's a very significant achievement. Dunn: But also say one-one other thing. I think I have asked Kady and Missie,uh, quite a few, uh, questions during this period of- of deliberation. Uh, and I have very much appreciated the responses that you've gotten,uh,to me, and again, I- I am very clearly going to be voting for this. So thank you very much for your hard work. Alter: I just wanted to say as somebody who million years ago was part of this coalition,but then,um,you know, childcare has so many layers to it. Um,the perfect metaphor is it's an onion,you peel back one and there's more and more and more layers. And the thing that is so wonderful about this particular piece of the puzzle is that it is so concrete and it helps in a such,you know,pragmatic way to professionalize what is an incredibly difficult and specialized skill set and jobs. And,um,before COVID, it was there are not enough slots and of course,that also had to do with not being enough workers but post- COVID when it's such a low wage. And in so many ways,uh,with the state as well, making it more risky for people to be workers in this industry. I think that the more that can be done to help professionalize these workers,um, in our community,the better and to show that we value their work, and,um,hopefully,you know, it's one toe hold at a time. But this is an incredibly important effort. And to bring attention to it really shows that in fact,yes, Iowa City and the people in this community and the county are really working hard to shine a light on just how dire the crisis is and that there are ways to help mitigate it. And you can't fix childcare without attacking it piece by piece, and so thank you for doing that. Teague: There's been lots of words that's been shared by my fellow councilors. Um, I think what I wanted to,uh,maybe just bring light to,um, is that marketing makes sure that the-the workers that have already been in the system know that they're appreciated. You can give money,uh,but I also believe that the words are so valuable,um, and sometimes taken for granted that just,you know, a little thank you for all you do might not be significant,but you'll be surprised, er,when people are told thank you for the work that they do,how they really take that to heart. So great that we can give and be a part of this two dollars an hour. But also want to make sure that their marketing includes a thank you. Roll call, please. (Roll Call) Motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 26 10. Council Appointments 10.a. Airport Commission -Airport Commission - One vacancy to fill a four-year term from July 1,2023 -June 30,2027. (Term expires for Scott Clair) Teague: Item number 10 is council appointments and we have several. Um, so I think how we're gonna do this is,we're gonna go kinda one-by-one,um, and then at the end,we'll take a- we'll give our official vote naming a mass motion for each of them. All right. So we will do fust the Airport Commission today,which has one vague set of fill a four-year term from July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2027. And there is no gender balance. And we had three applicants. Dunn: Ryan Story really stood out to me. Bergus: I agree. Taylor: Me also. Alter: Same. Teague: I think I hear a majority. Any other nominations?All right. So for Airport Commission, we have Ryan story [OVERLAPPING] Fruehling: I'm sorry,there was correspondence that went with the Airport Commission that was in the late handouts yesterday. Teague: Great. Can I get a mot,um, can I get a motion to accept correspondence? Harmsen: So move to Harmsen. Bergus: Second,Bergus. Teague: All in favor say aye. [OVERLAPPING] Aye. Teague: Any oppose?Motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 27 10.b. Community Police Review Board- Community Police Review Board- One vacancy to fill a four-year term,July 1,2023 -June 30,2027. (Term expires for Jerri MacConnell). Teague: One vacancy to fill a four-year term,July 1st, 2023,through June 30th, 2027. It does have a female requirement. Harmsen: Mr. Mayor, I think in- in light of the fact that,uh,um, the person whose term expires, Jerri McConnell, I think,was just recently appointed,um, I would be- and they have,uh, you know,resubmitted an application. I- I would put them forward as,um, as- as a nominee. Taylor: I would agree with that because that,uh, one that she was appointed to was,uh, an unexpired term. So it wasn't even a full term that she filled. Harmsen: And just elected the chair. So the group apparently must think highly of somebody who is that new and already,you know,relatively new. [OVERLAPPING] Taylor: and perfect attendance. Teague: Any other nominations? I here no other nominations, are people inclined to support the majority? [Overlapping] Yes. Teague: Okay. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 28 10.c. Historic Preservation (At-Large) -Historic Preservation (At-Large) - Two vacancies to fill a three-year term,July 1,2023 -June 30,2026. (Terms expire for Kevin Boyd and Frank Wagner) Teague: Two vacancies to fill a three-year term,July 1st through 2023,um,through June 30th, 2026. This does require two males. Dunn: I think Frank,uh,Wagner really stood out to me. Harmsen: He is on my list as well. Bergus: Yeah. Alter: I was also interested in,um,Andrew Lewis. Thomas: Agreed. Bergus: Yes. Thomas: Okay. Any other nominations?Are people are inclined to support Andrew Lewis and Frank Wagner? [OVERLAPPING]: Yes. Teague: Okay. All right. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 29 10.d. Historic Preservation Commission (Longfellow) -Historic Preservation Commission (Longfellow) - One vacancy to fill a three year term,July 1,2023 -June 30,2026. (Term expires for Carl Brown) Teague: Okay. Historic Preservation Commission,Longfellow. Uh, one vague set to fill a three- year term,July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2026 has one male requirement. "Thomas: Carl, I was going to suggest Carl Brown he also,has only served one term. Taylor: I agree. Bergus: Yep. Alter: Yep. I agree. Sure. Teague: All right. There's a majority there. And,um, Item 10E,we're going to come back to because the,uh, Councilor Taylor will recuse them herself. Um, so we'll go on to Item IOF. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 30 10.f. Library,Board of Trustees -Library Board of Trustees - Two vacancies for a six-year term,July 1,2023 -June 30,2029. (Terms expire for Carol Kirsch and Claire Matthews) Teague: And this is two vacancies for a six-year term,July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2029. Alter: Of one them I would,um,uh,put forth Clair Matthews. Harmsen: Agreed. Bergus: Agree. Harmsen: I thought two others had, I mean fust of all, I want to say, I love that we were in a community that loves its library this much the number of applicants,these are people after my own heart. Alter: Yes. Harmsen: So with all the commissions and boards,but that's just one that-that I don't know if every community has that-that level of interests in the library board. Um,there were two on there that I would throw out as- as possibilities in addition to,um, Ms. Matthews,uh, Bonnie Boothroy, and,uh, Cecilia green, did I tried to read my own. Alter: Lucille. Dunn: Lucille. Lucille. Cecilia. Harmsen: So I'm reading my own handwriting. So my apologies. Um,they- I think they just both had,uh,really impressive resumes. Um,the-they jumped out at me. So I would see if any of the councilors,um,had a particular thought on one of those or anybody else. Taylor: Yeah. I agree with,um, Councilor Harmsen,Bonnie Boothroy, ah, stood out to me,but also, ah,Janine Cane. Um, she talked about the importance of literacy, and the importance of supporting all students. Um,no matter what kind of fell into our strategic value is as far as,uh, inclusiveness, and in all persons. So I throw that name out there also. Teague: Any other nominations?All right,we have four. So far we have Bonnie,Lucille,Janine, and Claire. Wanted to see I'll just,um, I'll go in the order of how they were called out. If I can remember, so wanted to see hands of support for Claire. So all right. We have majority there. Uh,wanted to see hands of support for Bonnie. Okay. Want to see hands of support for Lucille? I think we have majority there. All right, so Lucille Green and Claire Matthews. All right. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 31 This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 32 10.g. Planning& Zoning Commission -Planning& Zoning Commission - Two vacancies to till rive-year terms,July 1,2023 -June 30,2028. (Terms expire for Billie Townsend and Chad Wade) 10.h. Planning& Zoning Commission -Planning& Zoning Commission - One vacancy to rill an unexpired term,upon appointment- June 30,2026. (Mark Signs resigned) Teague: Two vacancies to fill a five-year term,July 1st, 2023,through June 30th, 2028. And we have two males and one none. Fruehling: There,the next item, it's also an unexplored, so there's two items,three terms. Teague: So we might as well just combine them. Okay. We'll do that. So Item IOff is planning and zoning commission. One vacancy to fill unexpired turn upon appointment through June 30th, 2026. But that's a part of the two males and one nun. Taylor: Total of three. Teague: Yep. So we have a total of three for those two. Bergus: I'll just throw out three names. Um,Michael Marut, Milly Townsend, and Chad Wade. Taylor: I agree with all three of those. Harmsen: Both Billy and Chad,run my list as well. Thomas: Yeah. Bill- Billy and Chad are both already serving. So the-the newcomer would be, was it Michael? Bergus: Michael Marut. Dunn: And I'm good with that. Alter: I think they- I just wanted to throw this out as for a brief point of discussion, is that in times past,based on the number of applicants,we have tried to do some turnover,um, on the commissions. I'm playing my own sort of both sides. I do also recognize,especially, um, in the past several instances,um,P and Z has it- it's pretty specialized and,uh, knowledge. So I certainly- I don't have an issue with,um,having to experience people come back on. Um,but I just wanted to raise that. And I realized it was not- it was more of a rule of thumb rather than a rule of law or anything that we had set forth. But I just- I did want to point that out that we've had conversations previous about,um,turning over commissions to give more people opportunities. But I also recognize P and Z is a little bit This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 33 different. So I just wanted to throw that out there, and see if that anybody think differently. Taylor: Oh I- I, with all due res-respect,um, Mayor Pro-Tem Alter. Um, as you'd mentioned, planning and zoning is pretty intense,but so are some of the other ones. And- and I- I just really see value in- in some of these terms are just short, like three or four years. And,uh, I think when these people want to put time and effort into it. If they want to apply for a second term. Um, so be it. And- Alter: Sure. Taylor: And I don't see any problem with that. That's no different from those of us running again, for Council. So um, Alter: Yeah. Taylor: I don't see any problem with-with reappointing folks. Dunn: Yeah, I'm comfortable with that three that had been suggested. Thomas: It is a long term, I will say. [OVERLAPPING] I know I couldn't be served on P and Z. It is one where- Taylor: Five-year term yeah. Teague: Five,yeah. Thomas: Yeah,there's a lot that can go into understanding the structure of our planning and zoning,um, documents. So there's a learning curve there for sure. Um, so I- I would support reappointing,but it is a five-years I don't know who came up with that number, but- Bergus: I don't know. Thomas: Yes,that's correct. Especially doing it twice. Yeah. Alter: Got keep a challenge somehow. Teague: All right. So it- it appears that we have majority for Billy Towns and Chad wade and Michael Marut. Okay. Goers: Mr. Mayor,the one question I have is at two of those will be for a new five-year term, and one will be for an unexpired term. And I think our council will need to designate This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 34 which is which looked at Kelly for a moment to see whether the gender balance requirements, it looks like,um, it- it was a male Mark Sines who is resigning,um, from the uncompleted term. So I would assume that we would want to place one of the male candidates you've addressed into the unexpired term. Fruehling: I don't think it matters. Goers: Doesn't matter ultimately. Fruehling: Overall. Goers: Okay. Fruehling: Yeah. Goers: Great. Thanks. Harmsen: I would suggest Michael for the,um,the three-year term or no, sorry. You got an expired term. I beg your pardon. I was doing the math. Teague: Anyone?Are people okay with that? Okay. Great. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 35 101. Public Art Advisory Committee(At-Large) -Public Art Advisory Committee - One at-large vacancy to fill a three-year term, July 1,2023 -June 30, 2026. (Term expires for Dominic Dongilli) Teague: We're on to item number 10i,which is public art advisory committee, one at-large vacancy to fill up three-year term July 1st, 2023,through June 30th, 2026. One female and one non-requirement. Bergus: How about Nate Sullivan? Dunn: I think that's a good idea. Teague: All right. Bergus: Yeah. Thomas: One of his primary reasons implying was to advocate for the performing arts,which is not really in within the scope,but just to let that,you know. Teague: All right. And then the other will just remain- Alter: Open. Teague: Open until filled. Fruehling: Are there... Because- Taylor:No. Fruehling: We do have two applicants for-. Taylor:No. Fruehling: For the professional. Teague: All see as the next one. Yeah. I always say. So we'll do the both. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 36 10.j. Public Art Advisory (Art or Design Professional) -Public Art Advisory Committee: One vacancy to fill a three-year term for an art or design professional, July 1,2023 -June 30,2026. (Term expires for Anita Jung) Teague: Well we will go to the next one,which is public art Advisory Committee and IO.j. One of exit for three-year term for an art or- or design professional,July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2026th. Taylor: And this is another situation Anida Young is currently,uh, filling in unexpired term, so I- I would,um, a pointer to that. Alter: Anida? Taylor: Anida Young. Bergus: I agree. Teague: All right, so I think we are where we need to be. [OVERLAPPING] Yeah, so what we're gonna do is we're going to vote on this fust. Um, and then we will come back and vote on the next item I OF. All right, I'm just,um, I think I'm done here. So can I get a motion to approve IOF airport commissioner-commission, story Ryan. Ah, IOB CPRB,Jerry MechanO,IOC historic preservation at-large, ah,Andrew Lewis and Frank Wagner, IOD historic preservation Longfellow Car Brown,IOF library board of trustee Claire Matthews and Lucille Green, IOG and H,Planning and Zoning. Billy Townsend, Chad Wade, Michael Marut who will get the unexplored term, 10I is gonna be public art advisory at- large,Nate Sullivan. And then IOJ is going to be public art,um, committee art or design professional. I need a young. Dunn: So moved,Dunn. Harmsen: Second Harmsen. Teague: Moved by Dunn, second Harmsen. All in favor say aye. [OVERLAPPING] Aye. Teague: Any oppose?Motion passes 7-0 This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 37 10.e. Housing& Community Development Commission - Housing& Community Development Commission - Three vacancies to fill a three-year term,July 1,2023 - June 30,2026. (Terms expire for Nasr Mohammed,Kiran Patel,& Kyle Vogel). Teague: And we're gonna allow,um,the,um,recusal of councilor Taylor for item number 10.e Housing and Community Development Commission,there are three vacancies to fill a three-year term,July 1st 2023,through June 30th 2026. There are two males and one nun. Dunn: Lance Glaser, someone who I caught my eye. Harmsen: I would throw out both Kiran and Kyle to come back. I think this is probably one of those opportunities where we have three positions,HCDC does a lot of difficult work allocating funds and stuff like that. So we can do a mix of experience and get some new blood in there. Bergus: So I agree with that. Alter: I would agree. Teague: And I heard Kyle,who was the other. Dunn: Lance Glaser, and Kiran Patel. Teague: Any other nominations? Okay. Do we need to identify who gets what? Dunn: I think- I think James Pierce would also do well, if people would wanna choose. Teague: I mean, I- I would throw out James Pierce as well as. Thomas: I had him as well. Teague: All right, so we have,um,two males and one none. So we have three males right now, if I [OVERLAPPING] know. I'm sorry. Bergus: Kiran Patel, who is female. Teague: So we have two males and two females-two females right now. Okay. Goers: I'm sorry. Maybe I forgot the name is wrong. I have Lance Glaser who I haven't checked, but I assume is male,Kiran Patel, female, Kyle Vogel,male, and James Pierce male. Is that right? Dunn: Correct. Alter: We haven't decided. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 38 Teague: Right. Alter: Or is it three-year. Goers: Total of three that we're looking for? Alter: Right. Goers: Two of them need to be males and one could be either. Teague: Okay. I thought there were three that are identified as male, so yeah. Okay. So we have well, I guess the nine we can determine what we want because it's not a gender required. Harmsen: I mean, I would support Kiran regardless. Bergus: And we just appointed her, didn't we? Harmsen: We did,yeah just last year. Alter:Not long ago. Harmsen: I'm pretty sure. Teague: So- so sounds like there's majority support for Kiran. Um, so then let's look at two,um, remaining that we want to support. So maybe I'll do them in the hour,try to recall the order of the names as they- as they were given. Um,Kyle [OVERLAPPING] support. So we have majority there. Um, and then Lance Glaser, and then, ah,James Pierce. Yeah so we have all right. So can I get a motion to a point for Housing and Community Development Commission,um,Kiran Patel,James Pierce, and Cow Vogel. Harmsen: So movee Harmsen. Alter: Second Alter. Teague: All in favor say aye. (Voice Vote) [OVERLAPPING] Aye. Any opposed. Motion passes 7-0. Great. Fruehling: 6-0. Bergus: 6-0. Teague: Oh, motion passes 6-0 or the one recussal. Leave it to the lawyer to catch me now, and it's technically This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 39 Bergus: Kellie said it fust. I was just repeating to make sure you heard. Teague: Of course the city clerk caught me. [OVERLAPPING]A All right. We are on to item This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023. Page 40 12. City Council Information Alter: I just wanna say again, it's, ah, for several of us who were able to go to the Sunday day in the life of, ah,Duffers trying to be fire people. Um, it was an amazing training. It was incredibly,um, instructive,valuable, exhilarating. Being able to use the jaws of life was pretty cool,but,um, it also just gave a whole new insight into what it is like for the fire department um, and so I just greatly appreciate the effort that went into creating that for us. Um,walking us through it,helping us,not laughing at us, all of that. But now, it was a tremendous experience. And,you know,unfortunately,with the fires that you have recently had to attend to,um, it made my reading of the articles utterly different than in times past. So thank you very much for extending that to us. Taylor: I wanted to, ah, give a shout out to the Summer of the Arts program. I attended the Arts Festival this weekend and- and it appeared to be very successful. Hundreds, if not thousands of people downtown. It was just great to see downtown so vibrant and so full of people of diverse backgrounds that we love to tout ourselves as- as a city of,um, and of course all the wonderful vendors. I saw some from Colorado and Wisconsin and Illinois. They came from all over and had wonderful-wonderful products. Ah,But there were also some unique things that some of you might have missed. One that caught a lot of attention. There were two little shelter dogs, if you know what charities are there like the loader manager to colleagues that sunglasses on and people were just really getting a kick out of that. It was really cute and stopping the people to take pictures of these little dogs with sunglasses. It was just adorable. Um,then,there was the man on stilts. He was like over seven foot tall and that's five foot two person that's that's really taller. And he had a bubble machine and that was also like really drawing people, especially the young people to him and that was really fun to see. And then,um,my favorite was what appeared to be a- a brass sculpture. I don't know if those of you who attended saw this or not. It was- it was a young man with a fishing pole. And at fust I thought, oh my goodness,we've got another new brass sculpture in- in B1ackRock mini park because. He just stood there still like a statue and he was painted to like- like brass and it was just amazing. But then every now and then he would slowly moving and startle the crowd. But that was just really amazing. Something I was- I was expecting go down and shop for,uh, for art. Where's but seeing those kinds of things also, it was really fun. Harmsen: Just to congratulations to all of the various graduates, ah, over the past couple of weeks,um, as well as for the other students in ICCSD where their last day of school today, and I'm sure they're much-much happier tonight than they were last night. Teague: And just a reminder,the two proclamations that we gave was Juneteenth and Iowa City price. So there's events happening,um, look at the website. They're gonna be exciting, they're gonna be hot,um,but come in and celebrate these two and commemorate as well. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of June 6,2023.