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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-07-11 Transcription Page 1 Council Present: Bergus,Harmseen, Taylor Teague, Thomas,Dunn Staff Present: Fruin,Jones,Kilburg, Goers, Fruehling,Platz, Havel, Sovers, Olsen, Knoche, Gardner USG: LeFevre 1. University of Iowa Update on Capital Building Plans Teague: It is July 11th,2023,and this is the City of Iowa City Work Session. The first item on the agenda is the University of Iowa update on Capital building plans. And,uh,are you just going to jump-jump on up and come on up. I love it. Welcome. Lehnertz:Mayor Teague,how are you? Teague: Awesome and amazing,good to see you. [OVERLAPPING] Lehnertz: Geoff,is this thing fired up and ready to go? Fruin: Get ready to go? Lehnertz: I'll bet it is.I don't see it. Fruin:It's bottom-left comer there. Lehnertz: Alright. Kilburg: This way. Lehnertz: Great. We're good. Teague: And some of the council don't know who you are. Lehnertz: Absolutely. Yeah. Good afternoon. Uh,Rod Lehnertz. I am Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations and University Architect at the University of Iowa. I've been with the University for,uh,well,I'm in my 30th year and,uh,was bom and raised in Iowa City.Uh,I have the pleasure of meeting with,uh,Mayor Teague,and Geoff on a regular,uh,occasion with our president and some of our,um, senior staff'as a chance to catch up,and during that,we thought it'd be a nice idea too come here and present to you some of the projects,uh,that are going on. Do you want me to go any further than that,anything that you want[OVERLAPPING] . Teague: That's good. [OVERLAPPING] Before I jump in. That's great. Yes. Lehnertz: Uh,I see the G is missing and part of the logo, so I'm going to hope that the graphics on this are the same as what I sent. If not,well,it looks like it's cutting off a little bit of the right side of the screen and I'll-I'll describe it regardless.But what I'm going to present to you is a summary of a unique ten year master plan we were asked to provide for the Board of Regents at the start of This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 2 2022.Uh,typically,our projects are delivered on now-on a project-by-project basis with the Board of Regents. In this case,what they wanted to do because we have a lot going on,as you might be well aware,related to the hospital,they wanted us to contextualize that with the entire campus and give us a- a picture of the master planning and the project planning we intend for the next 10 years. So obviously at 10 years,it's not exactly as it will be delivered,but its a good look at the highlights of the-the primary directions and priorities for the University of Iowa for the next 10- 10 years. And as Iowa City hosts our campus,uh,we are-there's a fuzzy edge all over the place with us and we interact. I will say just as one small piece of introduction and we hear our president say it a lot,but I do as well in the circles that I travel in with respect to other universities, administrative leaders,University architects or planners,um,I am-we are not aware of any other University setting that has a better town-gown relationship than we have with our hosts in Iowa City,Coralville,University Heights. Uh,many universities are suing their cities and cities suing their universities because of inconveniences, and we know the challenges we can have,but the partnerships that we have forged,the ways we've worked together have benefited hopefully Iowa City,but certainly the University of Iowa. So we are always thinking in terms of our community as we develop the campus,and with that,I'll go ahead and start and see what it looks like on your screen as we go. Uh,it's just a little bit cut off on the-maybe the final 20%of these slides. This is not intended to be anything to take in other than,uh,our campus map,which I use as a background for-,uh-uh, for the presentation of these projects,and I will theme them as I go with the different parts of our campus here you cut off a little bit more. You miss the Pentacrest,and that's what those lines are all headed toward.As we look at the themes or the different parts of our campus that represent the changes that are going to occur in the campus during the next 10 years we certainly center on,as you can see in the inset photograph,uh,our Pentacrest,which was the-really the origin of,uh,the state of our city,of our community,and of our University. Uh,the four buildings that surround the Old Capital-the Old Capital built in,uh, 1842,those buildings surrounding it.As a bit of a history lesson,I suppose emulated or copied the Chicago World's Fair of 1893,uh,and,uh,over a 25-year period,from 1898-1924,we created the four buildings that now represent the Pentacrest,the former state capital grounds. And it is the academic heart of our campus,geographical heart of our campus,and symbolic heart of our campus.But the three buildings that I've circled,McLain Hall,number 1,Jessup number 2, and McBride Hall, are all buildings at or over 100 years of age and have not been updated. Schaefer Hall to the upper,uh,right in this photograph,was updated,was modernized in 1998 and those changes have actually stuck very well,the building is still very effective,uh,as it was renovated, but the other three need help and we're working with our state to enable those projects.All of the projects we have have ripple effects. Those buildings aren't empty and ready to be renovated,so we have to work through a series of projects that will enable that, a couple of them shown here on this image are Gilmore Hall,which is across the street from the Pentacrest,it was our,uh, 1910 built for our College of Law,and then the original 1936 art building,which has been mothballed now for more than 14 years,now 15 years because of the flood in recovering that and protecting that with FEMA,it was always envisioned that it would be reprogrammed at some point, and we're in the programming process for that moving,we would eventually then move the Graduate College and a couple of other academic programs to the-to a renovated and modernized original art building. That will give us the room to make the renovations and modernization to the Pentacrest and make it even more,uh,centered on academics and the student life on our campus. Uh,also on the East side,and a high priority for us as our Iowa Memorial Union,originally built in 1925. You may have seen we recently received approval by the Board of Regents to advance the modernization of the Iowa Memorial Union and in partnership with our student body,the student body government,both graduate and undergraduate agreed,like our campus recreation and wellness center,which was done in 2010,to help in the funding of that through a student fee. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 3 And that will allow us to,uh,modernize that building which was impacted by the flood,but was not updated at the time of the floods,FEMA did not,Iowa city suffered through some of this as well. They would recover as was,not as it should be or according to what we needed. So after the period of audit from all of our flood recovery expired about a year-and-a-half ago,we are free now to advance modernization and fixing of a lot of deferred maintenance needs in that building. It has a couple of other inset photos,again,relating to other projects that we would do. Uh,you can see right next to the Iowa Memorial Union is the worst parking ramp in the world,the Iowa Memorial Union parking ramp,built in the early 1960s,the bad ones are always built really well, meaning it's not aging to a point where we have to take it down.But the way it was pinned into all too tight a site for a parking ramp,there's a circular spiral that goes up in today's- actually today's turning radius on a lot of the SUVs can't make that. So a lot of people are three-point turning all the way up and then a bunch of little dead-end parking places. And so the problem is you can't fix that without a larger footprint. And it so happens that as we're planning and we'll be advancing the IMU modernization project,the lowest photograph shows Halsey Hall,which was the women's gymnasium. Uh,it is no longer-we've-used to have a pool in it. We've covered that up. It's for the dance department.It was a building we actually closed down during COVID because it has such an antiquated circulation,air circulation system that we didn't feel it was a safe place for us to have people there when we were worried about health and well-being of folks during COVID.As such,we began to look at options even after the flood as to how we could do better for our dance department.Returned to the other side of the river. The top photograph is the 1969 original Museum of Art. And that building,because of large volumes,high ceilings,not many columns because there were galleries fit the program by size and by spaces almost ideally for the dance department. It would put the dance department back on the arts campus right next to theater,right next to Hancher and the other performing arts areas,and would make good use of a building that was recovered by FEMA,the Museum of art. That would then allow us to take this very operationally obsolete building in the- in Halsey Hall, and remove it and allow for enough space for us to build a representative place for visitor parking.It is often the very first place that prospective students and their families visit our campus. That's their first stop and the experience in that ramp. And so connections,better pedestrian connections to the Iowa Memorial Union and Cleary walkway above it,our objectives for that site when we move forward with this project. Next,our Tippie College of Business, 1996 building occupies most of the-of the block that it is on. We have grown by programs and students by almost two times since that building was built. We have faculty sharing offices. And it is the one of our 12 colleges that through our space management and planning efforts,has a designated space problem with additional square footage needed. There're exploding programs like our Entrepreneurial Studies,which is a leading program in the country,drawing not just business students,but students from many of our colleges.Putting the pressure on the Tippie College of Business and the Pappajohn Business Building. So across the street and Geoff and his team are certainly all know this, across the street, across Clinton street to the east of this, and straddling both sides of Market Street are two properties the University owns. The one on the upper left is the Fred Riddle property. Fred Riddle had dentistry program or practice and then apartments in the building as well.He has gifted that site to us. We'll be closing on that within the next year to two years. We work with him on that. And then the lower right-hand is showing the other block. Our intent is to grow the Tippie of col- Tippie College of Business directly across the street to the south of those two properties. And I'll talk in a bit about what we'll do on the Fred Riddle property in context with our housing and dining program. The next slide has two big buildings and buildings that are important and certainly central to our student's success.First,the main library is the largest building on the University of Iowa campus at about 550,000 square feet,was built in 1951. Very antiquated systems,the largest deferred maintenance backlog on our entire campus and it is in dire need of This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 4 updating.It's also in dire need of fimding to update it,which is a great challenge for this project. It's more likely that we will have to do it in fits and starts and smaller pieces within the building to modernize it.We'll be exploring the viability of the building for the long term but at this point, I was just meeting with our librarian,John Cole Shaw on ways to fixed raise for the project and move that forward. The other is the University capital Center. The University currently owned 62%of the mall,The Hodge Group owns the balance. We have a contract with The Hodge Group to be able to purchase the balance of the building in 24-25,we can negotiate that and work with The Hodge Group to adjust it.But with -after the flood, it became very important place because the Student Union was closed it actually became our Student Union for as many as five years. And since then in our campus master planning,a triangle of buildings have become very important for our students' success. The Iowa Memorial Union as the social gathering clubs space,government space for and health services space for our students,the library as our academic teaming,mentoring,coaching programs, and the- and the UCC as a Student Services Hub where we have relocated many of our students services to that building serving the students. It's been very popular to our students. It's obviously right across the street from the very core of the campus and the Pentacrest.We would intend to maintain the retail that is outboard because it's good for the community and certainly for the students.But to activate some of the spaces that are already being activated on behalf of students services and transactional spaces on behalf of students. Teague: You anticipate the inside of the building not be in retail,but just the- Lehnertz: Yeah.Mayor Teague it hasn't been determined at this point,some of the spaces on the interior are already being changed to different spaces. I think The Hodge Group has found it easier to have the outboard areas as,as retail. We wouldn't necessarily be against retail on the interior.It's just whether or not the services for the students are balanced with what.And by the way, food is part of the service to students because they love food. And where we've been able to have the,the venues that we've had,the students have enjoyed them and I think the businesses have enjoyed having the students there. So nothing in particular with the planning of that balance of the first floor,but we know there are more-more students services to be collected there. One of those that we're working on right now in a space that used to be but then became vacant on the inboard side is split in two,where the Four Seasons clothing store was, split in two,one for disability services for the student disability services department and office for the University serving our students with various either mobility or,or other disabilities. And right next to that,we are in construction right now on what will become a welcome sort of front-facing portion of our campus safety unit. You know,campus safety is in the building but downstairs below what used to be JC Penny's,I think it used to be a hair salon and now it's a bunker and it works well when it needs to be a bunker,but it's not a very friendly face. And we've really been working hard on our relationship with the students,involving students.We have students involved with the Campus Safety Department now, shout and other programs.And it's been asked for and actually campus safety wants to have a presence on the first floor as a place to stop in our community service and DEI functions will be in the building at that place. And we look at it as sort of a friendly go-between for the activities that can occur in the mall,but also in the entire campus. The text here is a little cut-off in this slide,but,uh,what I want to point out as an important element of our campus success and drive is the right sizing of our campus. Over the last,ah, five years,we've removed some of the most troubling,problematic,antiquated,operationally obsolete buildings on our campus. Uh, Seashore Hall was one of those, a wood frame structure built in 1899s as our first University of Iowa hospitals and clinics.And,um,we moved the hospital in 1928 and it remained there,home to our largest College of Liberal Arts and Science Program,psychology for 70 years. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 5 Wood frame structure.We had floors that had been decommissioned because of past decade termite challenges and ultimately,um,was a building that just didn't stand the test of time for us. And yet,it was a big deferred maintenance and energy waster and challenge for us.And so as we look forward,those kinds of examples,they speak to our legislature who wanna know how,if we're right-sized,are we doing the right thing with every state dollar.In this case,a couple of buildings that I'm showing here,Westlawn,which was the 1990 nurses dormitory. It's not used for dormitory and has been used for a hodgepodge of things, sits right at the heart of our Health Sciences Research campus. And we have virtually no space available in the health sciences for research,but needs on that front.Uh,it's a very low land use efficiency building and has leaking roofs and leaking windows and all kinds of problems.We've been slowly emptying that building for some time. I mentioned health,you can see in the sign. Uh, student health and wellness will be part of that IMU modernization. So we will move and at that point the building will become mostly empty.And our long term master plan has that site being used for modern research space for the health sciences. I do show that Jefferson Hotel,the Jefferson building,uh,but hotel 1912, one of the most opulent in the Midwest when it was built. The University operates all of those floors,but not very effectively. It's still got the structure and the fiunctions- a functional layout of a hotel,but we put staff in-in the building,um,somewhat disconnected for the-with the main parts of the campus. We do not look to rid that building. It's a very personally,very important building in Iowa City.It was our first skyscraper and,um, and is an important building to Iowa City,but someone else can do better with it than we can. We would be very,um,directed in any kind of,um, sale or giveaway on that front,um,to make sure that it is protected and that we work with the city to make sure that it's protected.But we are in the post COVID.Next stage of work with us,some of the transactional functions going to,uh,online remote hybrid situations,we are seeing enough of a change in the way work is done in that transactional part of the University that we believe a litmus test for right sizing our campus is that we won't need the Jefferson building in the years to come. And so it can go to a higher better usage at some point in the fixture.No hard schedule on it,but that would be,uh,generally our-our objective. One thing you can't really see on this slide,but the bottom bullet is selling Mayflower. I know this has been in the news. The building built in '69 as an apartment then sold to the University in 1980. Um,it is the least favorite of our residence halls for our freshmen. It is the last filled up,first transferred out. We have lower returning,uh,student statistics in that building.Its distance from the other student residence hall,the food service,classes have proven to be something that doesn't work well for first year students.And as we look forward, and I mentioned that one site North of the Tippie College of Business,um, expansion site,the Fred Riddle site.We're exploring on that Fred Riddle site the idea of building our first,many of our peers have them,we don't,but our first returning student residence hall,which would have more suite style communities. And if we can build that, it's right near the food service at Burge Hall.It'd be an ideal location for returning students.We have fewer returning students,but almost all the freshmen live on campus. And so,uh,we know that we don't have to have the Mayflower to house all of the freshmen on our campus,but we would be short on what we would do for returning students,and that's why we're looking at that option. Currently that building,uh,Mayflower,is out on the streets. It's being,um,if you will, shopped or certainly,uh,solicited,um,by our real estate agent on that. It's been a lot of interest. It's just been listed,so we're-we're allowing and-and real estate,um, consultant is being-is suggesting we wait a few weeks, see what comes in and then assess at that point.No hard date on when it stops and it's not binding if we don't think it's good enough for the University of Iowa,we wouldn't sell it. Yes,please. Dunn: Yeah. So I'm just curious about,um,what kind of purposes people,uh,that are interested in the property are- are wanting to-to pursue with it.Did you have any idea? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 6 Lehnertz: It's a good-it's a good question,Andrew. You know,um,we-we haven't received or dug into many of the proposed see that it's otherwise. Obviously the building itself is designed for residence. Um,the way it was designed when it was built for apartments,it has a kitchen kitchenette and a bathroom that is surrounded by two separate units or two,uh,actually four rooms,two on each side,uh,that would house two students on both sides,is how the residence, uh, system used it.It could be flexible and that could all be one unit with the living area and-and, um,bed area and then the kitchen and bathroom in the middle. Um, it is desi-the building was originally designed as two towers. We have worked to connect the two so that the elevators can be shared and so there's more of a community,but one could imagine,you could treat it still as two different towers. It could be student housing and senior housing,it could be different types of housing. In a different era,it could have been part of it is used for office space,but,um,that's not a-not much of a market need these days. Certain floors,we've already done some of this. The lower floors can be converted into more amenity space,which has become more popular and it doesn't matter what age,uh,group for housing. So there are some flexibilities there,but it's hard to say right now. That's some of what-what we've been thinking.I would assume,based on its proximity to the campus,that it serves,uh,probably serves a- a commercial niche for students, um,if not others living and working on campus. It's a good question. There's always a slide related to athletics.Uh,and there's a reason athletics does. It's one of the auxiliaries of the University of Iowa and-and active,um,part of our campus. Uh,one of the things to note,the projects enabled,uh,by athletics are enabled by their donor base. Um,the University of Iowa Athletic Department is fiscally independent of the University. I give one exception to that by Iowa law. They-and we are not allowed to,um,borrow money or bond for anything other than capital dollars. So when COVID hit and they lost two football seasons,basketball seasons and the others,the athletic department,um,needed to and asked the University to give them a loan. They are paying that back with interest to the University,um,and,ah,that has allowed them to continue forward.But otherwise- and again,they'll pay that back with,uh,with interest. Otherwise,they stand on their own bottom. And,um,that is still relatively unusual at a national level,we're helped by being in the big 10 obviously. Uh,so the projects that occur in the athletic department are driven by,uh,donor dollars. You see half of a rendering.Actually see the half of the rendering that doesn't show the building,but,um,the,uh,newest and-and next project for them is that,um,wrestling center,the Goschke Family Wrestling Center,which is well under construction projects going well, 100 percent donor-fimded project that will be complete in probably April this next year.And,uh,has a new connection to the floor with a new tunnel to the floor of Carver-Hawkeye arena. Um,it will in effect be the final addition to Carver-Hawkeye arena. There isn't more space on the site,so but an important project for that- for that program for which the University of Iowa has noted and will, in about a half hour after the schedule is released,will sell out the entire season. [BACKGROUND] It's sort of cultural.Um,we are doing other projects with athletics. They're gonna look at the various modernization is to Carver- Hawkeye arena. There's a field hockey project,a baseball project,a gymnastics project that they're working on again with donors and with revenues from the auxiliary,that is,the athletic department. I do have a bit of a catch-all when we're working with the Board of Regents,the other things that we're working on, some of those priorities,East and West Campus research growth. We've seen a lot of growth and research on our campus and more diversification.We've typically been an NIH-rich campus,mostly medical.But thanks to,uh,our-our space physics program in Van Allen hall and our partnerships with NASA,our largest grant,uh,of all time, $115 million was awarded by NASA to our space,ah,physics,uh,group.And those diversifications protect the University in the fixture,but they also reveal that we have,um,some undernourished spaces for the high expectations of groups like NASA. So we'll continue to look This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 7 at both East and West side,uh,research growth in-in the decade to come. Cambus,parking,uh, campus services are always a chum on our campus,uh,especially in urban setting and the things work And I mentioned housing,uh,care and modernization.We continue to go through all of our residence halls. We're at a pinch right now because 300 beds in Hillcrest are out because we're modernizing a major portion of that building,which will be great for the students that get in thereafter it's modernized.Um,and then obviously TBD.New opportunities do arise and donor opportunities do arise on a regular basis.And the whole notion of a master plan is to make sure that we're ready for those and can,uh,welcome them and make them work Final slide I have is one that just highlights,as you can see,a one and a two and then an A,B,C. Um,these are some of the health care projects that are really driving a lot of the dust in our area.Number 1-where you see number 1,this would be the,um,this would be the Jacobson as-is driving the largest gift in the history of the University of Iowa,$70 million gift,uh, for an inpatient and operatory care tower at- at location number 1.It would be a North version of the children's hospital. A project of that scale,not unlike the Children's Hospital project of that scale,doesn't happen by just plopping it down on the ground. There are things around it that are impacted from utilities and roads.But more specifically,it lands on another very old parking ramp and one that is actually having conditional challenges,old hospital ramp one. So that ramp will be lost to this project will be o- occupied by the footprint of the tower. Thus,the AUC on the map north of Kinick stadium is a project that has already under construction. That is a new 950 space parking on ramp that will serve both the,um, staff and faculty,doctors,nurses that-that work within the hospital,but also patients.As we look at the network of ramps that we have that serve it wills- it will connect to the overhead walkway that you see that goes over Hawkins Drive and directly into the hospital. Uh, B and C that you see on the map.Uh,B is also under construction,as we speak,the site is enclosed. That was what we referred to as parking lot 14,uh,east of the Field House. Um,it is going to be a large Health Sciences academic building, surveying our Speech and Hearing Program,which is year Number 1 or Number 2 in the nation,depending on the year. They're old building built in the'60s is in the footprint of the fixture tower. So they need to move and modemize. They're glad to be a victim in this case. Um, and then also two other rated programs are physical therapy program in the Carver College of Medicine is a Number 2 program in the country and our health and human physiology program,the largest and fastest growing program in our College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It includes a really fast growing Sports Medicine Program.We'll all be located in this new academic building. They all have fixnctions and faculty that relate to each other but had been separate. This will only make those strong programs even stronger as we move forward,and then C will be at this stage because those programs welcome not just students,but also subjects because a lot of them do,um,research and work that serve the public.We have to have adjacent parking. Uh,we did a lot of study to find out if we could put parking underneath the building.Uh,we're saving millions and millions by using available space you see on C,that will be developed as surface parking space that will serve,um,visitors to the building and also visitors to the little building between the two,which is the,um,Jordyn Athletic Leaming Center. It's a stand-alone facility for our 625 student athletes. It's been in place since 2005,and you'd place for them to go in the evenings,um, for- for the work that they do. Um,that takes us to almost the full word Iowa,and,um,I'll be glad to answer any questions. It does not address all of the projects over a ten-year period. It's a highlight reel of the things we're aiming. It also looks like a lot of work.It is a lot of work,but it's also spaced out over 10 years. It actually does not show apart from a hospital project to do,does not show an escalation in the amount of work on our campus. And as I pointed out on the main campus,it's actually a slowdown in taking care of what we have as opposed to more and more new with the exception of the-of the Tippie College of Business growth. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 8 Teague: Thank you so much. That's a lot of great information. I wonder if you could just give us a little bit of,uh,information about the North Liberty? [OVERLAPPING] Lehnertz: Yeah.Absolutely. Yeah, Sure. As-as if the hospital is not vibrant. So we've all heard,um,the challenges related to University of Iowa hospitals and clinics,they-they only tertiary quaternary hospital in the state. We have a mission that we take everyone insured or not. These missions have driven us to a point of 100%,uh,occupancy within the beds of our,not only our hospital but our emergency room. It's- it's-it's-it's not sustainable,it's not efficient,it's not in the best interest of care.We have,um,quite a few of our rooms are double beds with two patients in a room that is not a standard that we or others aim for,but you can't do anything about it until you have capacity. And so the tower I mentioned is-is an incredibly important part of that in the main campus. The North Liberty project,which we refer to as a hospital as well,has about 40 beds. It's primarily a 24 hour surgery center. So the more ambulatory,in fact,we're relocating,or-or locating or- orthopedics, clinics and staff and faculty at that location.It also has a fully functioning emergency room at that location. It can also be added onto over time,we have,uh, acreage adjacent to it where overtime we can add to it.But the project itself has been going wonderfully in a time when-when construction,um, staffing and available positions as a challenge for everyone,we've seen it in the escalated time and- and- and costs. That project is-is currently under budget and under its expected time. So we're-we're thrilled with the partnership we have with the contractors working on it. And it has gone very well so far. Yeah,it's really taking shape. Teague: Yes. Well councilors, any. Thomas: Uh,I had a question about the status on Maneville Heights. There was discussion of the practice field,and,um, [OVERLAPPING] developing their what's happening? Lehnertz: Yeah. Thank you,John.In-in the theme of some of the areas,whether it be Mayflower for the athletic clubs site near Finkbine or the park road former band practice field.Um,we've been encouraged by the Board of Regents to right size to make sure that the assets we're paying for are paying dividends to our students and to our objectives. That's a site that since we moved the band practice to the Hawkeye campus,uh,west of Finkbine. We've done nothing,no programming on it except mow it and take care of snow and other things and spend about$45,000 a year to just care for it. And so in that spirit of looking at those assets,one of the things that we went and meet-met with and visited with the neighbors on was a redevelopment plan, a development opportunity for,uh,developer to come in?Again,one of the things we were very careful with it because it's a wonderful neighborhood. We look to strengthen it,not-not-not harm it,is we put three,uh,representative neighbors on our planning team. We asked them to write the intro to the RFP process for us. We worked with the city. One of the concerns we heard was it's so close,it's really not a park,it's a flat plot of grass,but there is a park,your City Park right across the street. But quickly they said it,but it's hard for our neighborhood to get to it,uh,whether true or not, it's- it's viewed as a thoroughfare on Park Road and tough to kind of get through that,to enjoy the park.We-we intend to work with the City to i-improve the connection points to the City Park through this project. And again,it would be non-binding if we don't find a-a development that's fitting,we wouldn't take it.We have held on that project currently,primarily because of what we're seeing around us with,um,high interest rates,high construction costs,and long lead times. We've seen those challenges on some other sites like the Finkbine site where a developer was selected for that and in the end,couldn't do the project. Too costly,too many delays. And so we This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 9 don't have a reason to hurry the process.We're going to let the time solve it,but we are,um, ready to explore that option in what the year to come. Thomas: Any year significant outdoor developments in terms of you know the common spaces,the-you know the-the spaces between the building,shall we say? Lehnertz: On campus? Thomas: Yeah. Lehnertz: Yeah,absolutely. One,we're probably-we're-we're as proud or more proud of our landscaping now than we've ever been.We've really worked hard to get a great team,and they've worked hard over this last decade to really work on the spaces that connect the buildings. Um,we have a new infusion of pocket parks on our campus,and even with some water features that-that we've really received nice,uh, and positive comments on.We've got an entire site improvement plan that allows us to look for donors and others that celebrate gateways that look for other new ways to celebrate pockets of-our-of our landscape in working with Iowa City and working with Coralville the whole river trail process. We have and continue to aim at improving what we do on both sides of the river. Um,we-we just advanced project or Iowa City has with the idea of,um, grant dollars that would make the connection from Dubuque Street down to the river at Park.Uh, were just as behind this as Iowa City would be again,another one of those examples of partnerships that we have.But in it, in a fairly urban campus,the green space is obviously very important. I think one- one great example is Gibson Square on Burlington street. It-it used to be just sort of an underutilized pass through green space.Not that,that was a wrong.Uh, since we located the Stanley Museum of Art at the West end of that and made that park a sculpture park, it's traffic and,um,the compliments we get are far more than they've ever been. So I think it's not necessarily about finding more green space,but really taking advantage of the green space we have when we do the Memorial Union project. We're looking at modernizing and programming elements of Hubbard park along with the perimeter of the IMU to bring in gardens and other ways for mental health and experiential spaces that are both inside and outside of the Memorial Union.We have a very active gardening student group that does work out on the Hawkeye campus. They'd like to be on the main campus,and our notion is to incorporate that into the Iowa Memorial Union projects so that the site itself starts to act as a garden for students,whether you're a gardener or not,to experience. Thomas: Great. Lehertz:Yeah-yeah,a lot of exciting things on the landscape front. We're very proud of it. Thanks for asking. Taylor: Having spent 38 years of my life at University hospital,working at University Hospital,as you can tell,from 1974 till 2012,I saw it grow immensely. Lehertz:Immensely [OVERLAPPING] about 4 million square. Taylor: It-you know we used to joke that it's going to be over two Melrose at some point and- and-and it is now currently. And of course,as it grew,uh,we also saw them units shuffled around and-and moved around and empty space is used for offices,etc. Good planning on the most part for using that space that the units were moved from. So I just wanted some clarification.I'm a little This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 10 confused on this new North Tower thing. Then are all of the in-patient units and from the existing hospital going to be moving over to there or how is that going to work and then what would be done with that space? Lehertz:Yeah,Pauline, it's -it's a great question. The major project of the tower will enable a whole series of projects within the main hospital,not only to modernize it,but to reprogram it for highest use,we-to get to all single rooms. You have to have more beds just to spread out that way as opposed to just more beds. And there's a Certificate of Need Program that limits the number of beds were even licensed to have. We do have ability to grow that number within the hospital. Um,but the idea would be the tower would primarily be a patient bed tower with floors of operatory. So we will have operatory space within it.And then we will go and modernize the pavilions that have beds now modernize those to decompress them to single rooms.And also modernize the way they work for nurses,for staff,for doctors,and for patients. And using some of the best practice models we learned with the children's hospital,there are new and better ways. Some of them call them Disney-esque onstage and offstage are backstage things you do so that the patients don't see all of the work that happens and it's good for them,it's good for us. They're not in our way. And so absolutely,the beds-not only the beds will move there.We'll add beds there that will allow us to decompress in the main hospital.But it's a great question and it is complex.It's an amazing sort of spaghetti as a set of projects that happened,but it starts with a tower that enables it. Taylor:Well,that's good here. I could set,I still have this heartfelt connection to it. Lehertz:Absolutely. Thank you. Taylor: Good to hear.I think growing and expanding and still a great place. Lehertz:Yeah. Thank you, Shawn. Harmsen: So anyway, first of all,thank you for coming and for this presentation,I know that it's nice to hear at least as one gauge of the success of such an important institution. All of these building projects certainly an indicator of good health and lots of programs expanding. Great to hear. One question I do have and maybe you kinda touched on this a little bit when you were talking about Mayflower,maybe you can circle back to it or is this undergraduate student housing component, which is something that definitely you talk about town and gown. That's definitely a shared sort of thing that we know that we either provide or don't provide for our-for our undergraduate students and we want to have good housing options. Could you speak a little bit more to what the University is like in the ten-year plan to increasing dormitory space. Are there some plans?If so, what are those look like to sort of ease some of that pressure? Lehertz: Sure. Yeah. So first of all,unlike some of our peer institutions,we don't require students to live on campus. Yet somewhere around 97 percent of the first-year students that come to the University of Iowa do live in our residence hall system.Um,with Mayflower we have a capacity within our current living situation, save Hillcrest's 300 beds,which has put a pinch on us.But as it's normally arranged,we have enough for all of our- all of our first-year students and somewhere around 800 -1,000 returning students. That has been right-sized based on requests.Um, a reality in Iowa City,I don't know that it's necessarily the case.And other University towns is that for many of the apartments, first-year students have to know who the roommates are and where they're going to live by no later than November,if not sometimes October. That's a tough This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 11 challenge for a lot of students,especially in a COVID,post-COVID world where we have seen evidence that more people are introverted,it's harder to bring them out.We have more programs to bring students in smaller communities to get them out of their rooms,to get to know people. And by October,you're supposed to know who it is that is a good influence,a good friend,and that you want to live with them for a full year in our apartment.It can be stressful for some students,ideal for others,but that's a good part of the reason why we still have that 800-1,000 students that want to choose to live still on campus,even though our residence halls are designed prototypically for fust-year students,double loaded corridors,rooms on each side of the corridor for two roommates. And we see that many of the students prefer either have a single room or have a community of roommates,that sort of thing.Um,we don't offer any of those at this point. Most of our peers do. The count of residence hall beds we have. If we got rid of Mayflower today,we would have a capacity for all incoming students,freshmen,first-year students,and roughly 300 additional beds.And what that would mean is we would be able to offer less than might be the market to live on campus. That's why we're looking at the Fred Riddle property for an opportunity to,um,put in some unique dedicated to returning students. Some students will still pick to live in say,Elizabeth Catlett Hall and others,and pick the roommates for that.But some who want an apartment esk setting will be able to hear with a residence hall director with RAs, with teaching space,teaming space,social space that we have in our residence halls,have that,in that-in that setting. That-that site probably doesn't satisfy the number that we would need. We have looked at other sites adjacent to North Hall and other places on our campus that might afford some fixture options for more housing.But when it comes to the undergraduate population, in the Iowa City apartment market,we do stay aware and work closely with Geoff and the team. Stay aware of where things are. Geoff is in the meetings that you have a chapter of the meetings we have the president are some of the latest development opportunities or proposals or others. Some of them have already been recognized. There's been more collection of apartments right at the border of the campus. I think they're,as I understand the city's objectives to,there's some positives to that and that the more residential areas can be free for more residential areas.But we're not looking at growing the population of the University of Iowa from a student perspective. Very much last year we had the third largest class of incoming freshmen we're at that this year. But our objective is not to-there's not a specific sweet spot,but not to really go more than say, 32,000 students. And I think one of the secret sauces the University of Iowa has,is it scale.Many of our peers are three times our size. And people don't know each other and get lost. And that's very urban scale environment where small enough to know each other and to feel comfortable whether it's students or faculty or staff to staff on this campus.And we recognize that that's something that fits Iowa City well. So we don't have a big need to grow student population,or rather student housing on our campus.But step-by-step,we'll be exploring what we can do for returning students. We do have some space on the west side of the river as well,where quadrangle the east portion of quadrangle residence hall used to reside,where we can put another returning student residence hall.there-kind of at the edge of the quad ravine. Skunk Hollow for some of you who have been here too long. So we have that in our master plan,but no-no big plans to grow beyond that description. Harmsen: Thank you. Lehertz:Yeah. Dunn: Can you walk us through what the transition will be like for after the sale of Mayflower,when it comes to where the students are going to go,are they going to be there next year. Pardon my ignorance. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 12 Lehertz:Yeah.No,it's a good question. So part of what we have advertised is that the University will continue to use Mayflower this year,this academic year,and would plan to not be assigning beds for the following fall. That would be the base intent.We don't know what the proposals will be when they come back It could be that somebody says,well,we can make a go of this,but we want to make sure we've got a little runway. If you could have students assigned to maybe one of the towers or both of the towers for one more year.We could be amenable to those kinds of arrangements and it'll depend on the proposals,but we will be ready to leave the residence hall after this coming academic year. Dunn: So do you anticipate the new residence hall to be completed by that time or? Lehertz:No. Dunn:No. Lehertz:No. We-we made the decision based on the fact that we would have enough capacity for our first-year students. We will have-by the end of this next year,we will have completed the Hillcrest project having a wiggle room of that additional 300 beds.And we just will-will have first come first serve basis for the returning student capacity. And it will mean that it's likely more returning students would have to opt for something other than a residence hall. Dunn: Like an increase of 700 in the market? Lehertz:Yeah. If we stopped right now,that would be roughly what we looked at.We might see a little a little more capacity on our campus because of the Hillcrest work.Um,there are always options if we get too many requests and we're concerned,you may have,I experienced as a student here of us going to increase number of triple beds where we can increase if we need to,we can increase the capacity in our residence halls. It's not historically ideal for the students,for the size of the rooms to have triples.But we've done it before and we can certainly do it if we need to. Bergus:Rob,what is the scope of this as far as investment? So over the 10 years,what's it going to cost and is that can you sort of speak to how that might be distributed in that time-frame? Lehertz:Yeah. So if we look at it in two pockets,uh,health care in the hospital,and the main campus. Uh,a vast majority of the work I described from a dollar's perspective is in the health care side. That would be from,uh,a hospital. Um,usage fiends as they call it,it'd be the revenues from the hospital and the North Liberty project is- is-is costing the hospital and as it opens,it then begins to generate the revenue that will enable the next step of projects. And- and that's how the plan for the hospital project works. It's self-contained as an auxiliary,so those aren't state or University dollars associated with it.And it's based on,um,debt coverage,uh,uh,days,cash on hand,and all of the balances that the finance team for both the University and the hospital work on. Same with any of our auxiliaries. Athletics,as I said,primarily gift related and revenue-related on the athletics projects.Housing also stands on its own as an auxiliary, so as we work on this,the-the purchase price of a Mayflower project will enable them to invest in the returning hall. There are specific as a- as a-as a bonded enterprise. They are specific debt coverage,uh,percentages they have to maintain. They coordinate that with our office and we will always make sure we do that if we can't afford to do a project and show that it's paid back,we-we don't do it.But it's fairly clear in a residence hall system,the beds cost this much,that many fill it up.You know what the This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 13 revenue is. On the main campus side,uh,we do continue to request specific appropriated fimds from the state of Iowa that's independent of the state appropriations for operations of the University,which are very flat.Uh,we-we don't-we don't get,nor do we really expect though we certainly ask our Board of Regents fight for and ask for more fimds.We generally see a flat line on that. Um,but capital project investments are different. The College of Pharmacy building, which was completed,uh,just a couple of few years ago,was a project the largest in the state's history of an appropriation. They appropriated$64 million for that project.Now,they don't just appropriate that we invested a partner$28-30 million. So,um,there's always a partnership.But we're asking the state every year for-what we're doing is changing from asking for new buildings like a pharmacy building to money,to buy down deferred maintenance.We-it's not very sexy, but we want the money.We'd like to have the money in the partnership to simply make the operation of the University more effective and cost-effective and efficient. Um,we believe that also speaks to the state and we know that the state likes when we take truly antiquated and obsolete buildings and don't keep-keep pay-paying for them and caring for them. There's a level of efficiency that they want to see from us as well.Um,otherwise,it's our revenues. It's the money that we have in investments that the money that we have in deferred maintenance that we pay ourselves and effect,we hold back funds to pay for deferred maintenance by the millions of dollars each year.Uh,in general,our campus is cared for better than many of our peers probably began because of scale.We've been able to keep up with it more than many of our peer institutions have.Um,but it is a challenge.It is a challenge everywhere,it is for the city as well. Um,but those-tho-the central projects come from ourselves,from the state, from gifts,um, we're-we're-we rely more and more heavily on philanthropy and driving those projects with partners of alumni and fans of the University of Iowa. And we have meaningful projects like the one right at the end of,um,Clinton street,right across the street from the President's residence on Clinton and Church.We just fmished a new building there for the number one nationally rated nonfiction writing program. Um,that is a new home,a new building for them that was paid 100% by private donors, and,uh,has been completed and there'll be activating that for,um,this next semester.Um,that's just one small example,but they happen all over our campus. The generosity of- of donors to the University are remarkable and make a remarkable difference. Bergus: I really appreciate that as far as all the different sources and also understanding the auxiliary functions that have to be self sustaining. I think I read something in the paper that just on the hospital side,the anticipated 10-year investment was something like$2 billion in capital as that- Lehertz: Starts there. Bergus: Starts there. Okay, so what's-what's your overall [OVERLAPPING] 10-year plan expenditure? Lehertz: Some of them are preplanning and so they don't have,uh, specific numbers,but I can tell you the enabling projects. I mentioned the academic building,the parking ramp,the much loved used to be malign now much loved water tower next to Kinnick that has to be moved because footprint lands on that.Moving that water tower is $42 million project.It's no small task. It's- it caries a million gallons of water. It's grandfathered since the 1950s. As soon as we replace it,it has to be 2 million,and we have to upgrade and grow the water storage we have on the east side at the same time by regulations. So it's no small task to move that.At the parking ramp is,uh,I think roughly 70 million in total,almost with roads,utilities,the academic building,um,you know,4- $500 million to enable the tower project,and then Pauline,as you mentioned,once that tower project is done,now you go back into the hospital and modernize a hospital that has been put This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 14 together in pieces since 1973,um,and made modem for the most important hospital in the state of Iowa. Bergus: Thank you for that.Just trying to give my colleagues a sense of scope compared to the projects that-that we authorize and that we see so. Lehertz:Big. Bergus: Yeah. Thank you. Thomas: One quick question on the Saxsay-I don t think you mentioned Saxsay-Gilmore. You know,the historic house- Lehertz:Yes. Thomas: on market. What-what's the status there? Lehnertz: Yeah. So I showed it on the inset project.It's one of those two properties on Clinton Street across from the Tippie College of Business. It is directly across from the Tippie College of Business,the site that we purchased from the Gloria Dei,um,Church,um, in anticipation of the Tippie College of Business project. The other-the other,um,uh,structures on that side have been removed. The Saxsay House remains there. We did work with generosity of and-and partnership with the city,um,and your former mayor in-in a plan to see if we could relocate it.In fact,the city generously offered a-a small parking lot right across the street. Um,I think some of the- it- it's not a registered home from a historic perspective.It's old and it's got a history.And-and some of that lead to,um,moving companies shying away from it.But ultimately,uh,it was going to cost more than $2 million to relocate it,uh,without putting anything in it to make it work. Uh, we've had some we've restored the Shambaugh house,um,the Bowman house,we did the Bowman house just up the street from that because of what we have to do for those who will use it,we had to fit into it architecturally,historically carefully,an elevator and other things that lead to a simple renovation we thought would be re-replacing windows became over$ 1 million project. In this case,we don't have any programs that need or would fit in the home effectively, um,and at over$2 million.It didn't work,uh, for us to move it. We still endeavor to have it saved. I would-I would expect we're talking to some folks,now that we get people to approach us every once while interested in it.And our objective would be to work with anybody,offer it at no cost and probably help to,um,defray some of the costs to moving if- if someone will be willing to move it.Um.It's,uh,it's been an interesting pathway for that house.Er,there's no specific build date. One of the challenges in the city auditor-the-the county city auditor,in 1905, half of the house was built onto and was changed to the point where the,um,assessor said the building was built in 1905,not in the 1800s could because it was changed so much. That doesn't make it less historic or- or full of heritage.We-e-you bring up or you point out an important thing and I talked about Halsey as well.We balanced the issue of historic preservation constantly and carefully. Uh,we have invested more than anyone I know of in the preservation of history on this campus.But there comes a time for some buildings that don't stand that test of time.We don't take them lightly but they do happen on occasion when they have we've been careful. I even think about the Sabin school working with the city,uh,where MidWest One is now in saving parts of those buildings the way they don't build them anymore. And if had somebody approach me,do you could save where it says women's gymnasium and put that into the landscape on that site and remember it. One,we always register it with,um,video and photography in the histories we've This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 15 worked with the State Archaeologist and doing some of that with us. And then if we can save parts of the building,um,are an important part of that but not always,just saving.It's a good question. Thank you. Teague:Well,thank you so much.You-you've given us a lot to think about. Ten years is a lot to do all of this work we're looking forward. [OVERLAPPING]. Lehnertz: Plenty of time. Teague: Yeah-yeah.Well,and I-I guess I appreciate that 10 year outlook I-I think,um,oftentimes you say you are approaching with single projects, so the regents,um,Board of Regents and I think just having that bigger. Lehnertz: It tells our board- our-our partnership with board and board office has been great because of this. They know what's coming. We had a freedom and communicating this. It did-it did and it does lead to reactions of my gosh,that's a lot of work and it is a lot of work but it is over a 10 year period. And,um,you know,we look forward to always making sure that this campus works with the community and-and for our 30 plus thousand students. Teague: We love- Lehnertz: Could be prouder to be here with you and-and Iowa City,it's- Teague: Well,we love the students and,uh,we love the partnership that the city has with the University of Iowa. So thank you for coming. Lehnertz: Absolutely. Teague: We will see you around. Lehnertz: I'm glad to come visit with you. Teague: Yes. Thank you. Yes. 2. Clarification of Agenda Items Teague: All righty.Next item on our agenda is clarification of agenda items. Thomas: Uh,yeah. I wo-I would like to just mention that,uh,on the consent calendar,6.1,uh,we could pull that from the consent calendar. Teague: Sure.I-I would be in agreement with that. Yeah. So all right. Any other thing from the formal agenda?Hearing none. 3. Information Packet Discussion (June 22&July 6) Teague: We're gonna go over to information pack is item number 3. July 22nd. Bergus: June. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 16 Teague: June 22nd, July 6th,because June didn't have much. Um,July 6th. So we have the IN memo from our City Clerk for our Joint Entities meeting,which is gonna be July 17th. And,um,any other topics that we're thinking? Fruin:I just wanted to clarify that the requests that Councilor Taylor had for emergency management,you want us to proceed with that. That was on the,um,kind ol� smart 911 technology. I've-I've confirmed that they're available to-to present that. Yeah. Okay. Teague: Perfect.Any other topics of interests that we wanna,um,present?I can't recall if we ever had guide link,uh,come and do the presentation.I know that we suggested it and they weren't able to make it. It was the Coralville meeting and I can't remember if they were ever rescheduled.Not suggested maybe for this meeting but maybe we can look back through the meeting agenda for a fixture meeting. Bergus: We have,uh,MPO meeting tomorrow.Um,and so hopefully we'll have some update. I don't know if John,if you have more information on the bus rapid transit. Thomas: There will be an update. Bergus: There will be. So that might be good to share with that group since there's a little broader than just the MPO,that I imagined to be very brief. Fruin:Do you-just clarification. Do you want MPO staff there to provide that update or are you comfortable representing? Bergus: I think we can just report out. Fruin:Report out. Thomas:Well,Kent I think it would-Kent be attending that meeting or could he attend that meeting or would you- Fruin:I could check his availability typic-typically staff when its end if there's an agenda item that pertains to them but I'd have to check that as well. Thomas: I wo-I would suggest either you or Kent. I-I know Kent has been discussing it with you.Yeah. Fruin: Okay. Teague: I wanted to make- mentioned that I won't be at the meeting,neither will Mayor Pro Tem,um, Alter be at the meeting. So,um, sometimes they have the-the city that-that put the item on the agenda,kinda says something so I don't know if Councilor Taylor you wanted to kind of- Taylor:Lead into the? Teagu:At least introduce whomever is going to talk about the- Taylor:With the Emergency Management?Yeah,sure. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023. Page 17 Teague: Yeah. Okay.Um,and that will be the same thing with the MPO. So you all can battle that out. Normally they just list the City of Iowa City in the topics. Bergus: Yeah. Teague: So yeah,just introduce the person that's gonna speak. All right.Any other thoughts for that meeting? 4. University of Iowa Student Government(USG)Updates Teague:Moving on to item number 4.University of Iowa student government updates.USG.Welcome. LeFevre: Hey,Council. Well,there's not too much,um,but I figured I just kinda give you,um,a little bit of our possible future events because we kinda have our GR platform a little bit hammered out now. Um, so it's just good to keep guys in the loop.Uh,we were thinking of having a City Council tour slash campa-campus visits similar to how the Board of Regents does it,but a bit-a bit low-more low key. Um,it would just be really nice for a lot of,um,we're trying to make a new committee that is gonna be working on more city initiatives. And we think it would be a great way to like- actually like have them meet you guys or always some of you guys and,you know,walk around campus or something like that.Um,that's still really well in the works. Uh, we're still gonna have a candidate forum for those who are up for election this year.Uh,that'll be in the works as well from GR. Um,town hall will probably happen again second semester. And then of course,you're going to have this semester meetings wanna like,meet with me in Matthew, hopefully. So that's all we really have. So thank you so much. Teague: Great. LeFevre: Thank you. Tegaue: Thank you. 5. Council updates on assigned boards,commissions,and committees Teague: Item number 5 is Council updates on assigned boards,commissions,and committees.We have nothing. All right.We're gonna be adjourned until 6:00 PM. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session of July 11, 2023.