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AGENDA
SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING OF DECEMBER 17, 1993
7:30 A.M.
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CIVIC CENTER
410 EAST WASHINGTON
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AGENDA
IOWA CITY CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING. DECEMBER 17, 1993
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ITEM NO.1- CALL TO ORDER.
ROLL CALL.
ITEM NO.2. CONSIDER ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS PRESENTED OR
AMENDED.
a. Minutes of Boards and Commissions.
(1) Housing Commission meeting of October 12, 1993.
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(2) Broadband Telecommunications Commission meeting of Novem-
ber 17, 1993.
(3) Riverfront and Natural Areas Commission meeting of November
17,1993.
(4) Human Rights Commission meeting of November 22, 1993.
b. Permit Motions and Resolutions as Recommended by the City Clerk.
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(1) Consider a motion approving a Class "C" Liquor License for
Gabe's, Inc., dba Gabe's, 330 E. Washington St. (Renewal)
(2) Consider a motion approving an Outdoor Service Area for Gabe's,
Inc., dba Gabe's, 330 E. Washington St,' (Renewal)
(3) Consider a motion approving a Class "C" Liquor License for
Lohaus & Larson Investment Co., dba The Airliner, 22 S. Clinton
St. (Renewal)
(4) Consider a motion approving a Class "E" Beer Permit for Randall's
International, Inc" dba Randall's Pantry, 1651 Lower Muscatine
Rd. (Renewal)
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(5) Consider a motion approving a Class "C" Liquor License for 3-D
Enterp'rises, Inc., dba Potter's Pub, 619 S. First Ave. (New)
(6) Consider a resolution to issue a Dancing Permit for Gabe's, 330
E. Washington SI,
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Agenda
Iowa City City Council
Regular Council Meeting
December 17, 1993
Page 2
c. Setting Public Hearings.
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(1) Consider setting a public discussion for January 4, 1994 on an
ordinance amending Chapter 34, entitled "Vegetation," Code of
Ordinances of the City of Iowa City, Iowa, by adding a new
Article IV, Division I, entitled "Commercial Pesticide Application,"
which article shall provide for regulating commercial application
of pesticides and provide for the enforcement thereof.
Comment: Based on discussion with the City Council December
7, 1993, the City Attorney presents the latest version of the
commercial pesticide application ordinance which includes
provision for a larger, bolder and brighter sign, of a size at least
8 y," x 11", and which must be placed on the property to be
treated by the commercial applicator prior to treatment. Included
are some basic definitions, and exempting farms. This is a fairly
simple ordinance, and Is ready for discussion.
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d. Motions.
(1) CONSIDER A MOTION TO APPROVE DISBURSEMENTS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $6,055,436.72 FOR THE PERIOD OF NOVEMBER
1 THROUGH,NOVEMBER 30,1993. AS RECOMMENDED BY THE
FINANCE DIRECTOR SUBJECT TO AUDIT.
e. Correspondence.
(1) Letter from Gordon and Lynda Dyer regarding proposed improve-
ments to Rohret Road.
(2) Letter from the Board of Directors of Public Access Television,
Inc. requesting that the PATV contract be extended.
(3) Letter from Johnson County Coalition for People with Disabilities
regarding ADA.
(4) Letter from Dorothy Paul and Sara Mehlin regarding appointment
to the Human Rights Commission.
(5) Memoranda from the Traffic Engineer regarding:
a) Designated Sunday Only Handicapped Accessible Parking
Stalls in the Civic Center Lot.
b) Handicapped Parking in the 600 Block of N. Johnson Street.
(61 Copy of League of Women Voter's testimony given to the
Johnson County Solid Waste Management Technical Advisory
Committee.
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Consent Calendar page 1
Courtney/ Consent Calendar.
Kubby/ There is something in here about the registry of
commercial applicators but there is nothing in here that
allows us to charge a fee to run the registry. I don't
think at this point we need to decide on an amount that that
fee would be. But if it not in the code we can't pass a
resolution at a later date establishing that fee. I would
like to add that to this ordinance.
Horow/ Isn't it possible to do that during the public hearing or
at the p.h.
Courtney/ Yeah, actually this is a public discussion, not a
legally required p.h.
Kubby/ I guess I wanted to bring it up now so that the pUblic
knew what they would be discussing.
Throg/ Do you have any particular ideas about what that fee
might-not the amount but how that fee might be administered.
Had you thought about that any.
Kubby/ Well, it is going to cost-people are going to have to do
some paper work with the city clerk's office and we may need
to be sending out copies to different people or
organizations to run the registry. We had talked before
about this ordinance. So I think to cover the costs.
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Horow/ The costs will have to include the overhead in the city
clerk's office and that had we had not, I think, agreed on
in terms of whether of not it needed more personnel.
Kubby/ They just good a new person.
Horow/ But they got it for purposes of the tobacco and for the
other increased jobs.
Kubby/ I guess what the fee would entail is not really what I am
aSking us to discuss. But if we should have some kind of
fee we can talk about later how much the fee should be-
Horow/ And why it would be. Well, if you are going to go into it
I suppose that is a necessary aspect of it. This has to be
regulated or enforced some how. I suppose that element that
should be up for discussion.
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Courtney/ Let it be noted that there will be discussion on a fee.
Kubby/ Thank you, Darrel. The pUblic is hereby notified. The
amount to be set.
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Agenda
Iowa City City Council
Regular Council Meeting
December 17, 1993
Page 3
g. Application for City Plaza Use Permits.
(1) Application from Geoffrey L. Hennies for permission to set up a
table on City Plaza on December 4 and 5, 1993, for the purpose
of informing people about the Human Rights Campaign Fund,
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ITEM NO.4- PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS.
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Consider a resolution approving the final plat of Windsor Ridge.
Parts One & Two, a 35.75 acre, 34 lot residential subdivision
with 12.95 acres of open space located north of American Legion
Road and west of Taft Avenue.
Comment: At its November 4, 1993, meeting, the Planning and
Zoning Commission, by a vote of 6-0, recommended approval of
the final plats for Windsor Ridge Subdivision, Parts One & Two,
Three and Four, subject to conditions listed in a memo dated
November 23, 1993. The Commission's recommendation is
consistent with the staff recommendation included in the staff
report dated November 4, 1993. It is anticipated that the legal
papers, construction plans and landscaping plan will be approved
prior to the December 17, 1 993, Council meeting. The condition
concerning trail construction and parkway dedication in Outlot B
has been incorporated in the resolutions for final plat approval of
Windsor Ridge - Parts One & Two, and Part Four. Each of the
three final plats must be considered by separate resolution.
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b. Consider a resolution approving the final plat of Windsor Ridge.
Part Three, a 19.59 acre, 22 lot residential subdivision with a
5.27 acre private open space area located north of American
Legion Road and west of Taft Avenue.
Comment: See item a. above.
Action:
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courtney/ 3a.
Moved by Horow, seconded by Nov. Discussion. Roll call.
Gentry/ No.
Throg/ Wait. I would like to make a short comment. Well let me
just look at what my notes say here. I am concerned about
this type of development and I don't mean anything oritical
of the people who prepared and planned for the development
or anything like that. It is more a concern about the
general pattern of development that it expresses. My
concern is that it does not provide affordable housing for
people who need it. It is not transit accessible. And it
works against any efforts to improve the transit system or
to alleviate traffic and parking problems. Example, the
city High parking problem that we talked about last week or
two weeks ago. The homes are not a walkable distance from
stores and offices. The project will not help create a
coherent neiqhborhood. And it helps makes public services
more expensive by spreading them out over a wider area. So
I have several misgivings. Despite that, I mean I see quite
clearly that I have no legal grounds at all upon which to
base a negative vote so I will, of course, approve the vote
to approve the final plat. But I have concerns about it and
want to find a way to express them in the proper procedures
that the council haS. ThankS.
courtney/Thank you. Any other discussion.
Kubby/It seems like that is more a set of comments for us being
in terms of what our codes are, what our philosophy and how
we facilitate different kinds of development for our
development can-
Throg/That is the way I mean it.
courtney/Roll call-
The resolution is adopted.
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Iowa City City Council
Reguiar Council Meeting
December 17, 1993
Page 4
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c.
Consider a resolution approving the final plat of Windsor Ridge -
Part Four, a 13,71 acre, 22 lot residential subdivision located
north of American Legion Road and west of Taft Avenue.
Comment: See item a. above.
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d. Consider an ordinance vacating portions of the northern half of Lafayette
Street and the eastern half of Maiden Lane. (Pass and adoptl (V AC93-
00031
Comment: At its October 7, 1993, meeting, by a vote of 4-0, the
Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that a 395 square foot
portion of the Maiden Lane and Lafayette Street rights-of-way located
east of Gilbert Street and south of development at 702 S. Gilbert be
vacated. The Commission's recommendation is consistent with the
staff recommendation included in a staff report dated October 7, 1993.
No comments were received at the Council's November 2, 1993,
hearing on this item.
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ITEM NO.4.
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CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE CITY OF IOWA CITY COMPRE-
HENSIVE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY ICHASI ANNUAL PERFOR.
MANCE REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1993. AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO SUBMIT SAID REPORT AND ALL NECESSARY CERTIFICA-
TIONS TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOp.
MENT, AND DESIGNATING THE CITY MANAGER AS THE AUTHORIZED
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER FOR THE CHAS.
Comment: Iowa City is required to prepare a CHAS Annual Performance
Report (APR) for fiscal year 1993 in order to assess the City's performance
in relation to the one.year objectives set forth in the 1993 CHAS Annual Plan
approved in November 1992. Public input is required and any comments
received wili be addressed in the document that is submitted to the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Iowa City Housing
Commission will hold a public discussion on the 1993 APR at its December
14, 1993, meeting. The Commission's recommendation and comments will
be available for Council's December 17, 1993 meeting.
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Courtney/4.
Moved by Nov, seconded by Throg. Discussion.
Horow/Yes. I would like to make a comment on this. I certainly
intend to support the transmittal of this document to HUD.
By the same token I would like to challenge us next year. I
noticed that there is a section in here in terms of
research. I felt that although the various support
agencies, not just for acquiring land or acquiring homes or
doing renovation. There was not, for my purposes,
sufficient material in here to put HUD on notice of the
various support agencies that are needed for working with
people who are getting into affordable homes. Yes, Life
Skills was mentioned and certainly the array of various
agencies. As Steve pointed out the agencies in the
beginning of the document. But there is no real picture of
how a city must support and nurture those people to find
them, to make them aware of getting into affordable homes
and then to assist them in moving into the homes and assist
them in home management. I think that is something that is
a new element. certainly for me it is. And I suspect it is
for many other cities. I think HOD needs to be put on
notice as much as possible that this isn't just providing
money for the facility. It is providing money for the new
home owners who have not previously had the experience of
watching their parents buy a home, outfitting it,
maintaining it and keeping it al within the integrity of the
neighborhood in which that home is located.
KUbby/It is not just homeowners either. It is how to have a
reasonable relationship with a landlord.
Horow/That is right. Exactly. If we say we are doing research
on this I think the extent of a word research for affordable
home needs to be broadened so that we can document exactly
to tax payers how much we really feel strongly about
investing in this. I appreciate the document as it is and
also the fact that we had the minutes from the Housing
Commission on time.
Throg/I would like to make a related point. I noticed that some
of the material that we received referenced a staff memo of
barriers to affordable housing. I don't think I have seen a
copy of that. It probably came out before I carne on
council.
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Throg/I would appreciate it.
Kubby/Is there anyway we can also tell HOD that this document and
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the whole CHAS report, the way they have us set it up, is
repetitive and I don't see what the purpose is. I know that
we are putting things that are interconnected into various
kinds of categories and so to show that interconnection
there is repetition but-
Horow/Karen, just based on my own experience in terms of
reporting back to congress I can tell you that these are
usually used as a cut and paste jOb for sending various
aspects to different locations because different people who
are testifying back to congress need to emphasize certain
parts of the whole act and you can't-They just want a
snapshot abstract of it so they can cut and paste and insert
into testimony. And it is a lot easier for a bureaucrat to
do it that way then to go through and rewrite.
Nov/ It is not literally cut and paste. Each section is given to
a different person to review and therefore each section has-
Horow/ Yes, that is true too. I did forget one thing. One
positive aspect of this is I really appreciated the emphasis
you had on regional planning.
Franklin/Karen, that comment has ben made to state officials and
to federal officials and ciscerQs reorganization and this
whole effort. In some ways it has been a little bit
bothersome in terms of coming back to the locals now for a
lot of input on how to reconfigure what we do and the time
to take to get involved in that kind of discussion has been
difficult now particularly with flood work. But Marianne
has spoken quite frankly to a number of state officials as
you can well imagine knowing Marianne about the format that
has to be Used for both the CHAS and the APR.
courtney/Any other discussion.
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The resolution is adopted.
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Agenda
Iowa City City Council
Regular Council Meeting
December 17, 1993
Page 5
ITEM NO.5. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE BLOCK 62 URBAN REVITAL-
q3 - 33<{- IZATION PLAN.
Comment: On December 7, 1993, the City Council adopted Ordinance No.
93-3600, which designates Block 62 as an urban revitalization area.
Approval of the resolution on the agenda would establish the urban
revitalization plan for the area. No comments were received at the Council's
November 9, 1993, hearing on this item.
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ITEM NO.6- CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING A CHAPTER 28E AGREEMENT
BETWEEN JOHNSON COUNTY, IOWA. AND THE CITY OF IOWA CITY,
'i3 -335 IOWA, FOR CERTAIN ROAD MAINTENANCE PURPOSES. (M~dr~r tB~~)
Comment: This agreement establishes maintenance responsibilities for
American Legion Road from approximately Scott Boulevard to Taft Avenue _
City responSibility; Taft Avenue from American Legion Road to Lower West
Branch Road . County responsibility; Lower West Branch Road from
approximately Scott Boulevard to Taft Avenue - County responSibility. This
agreement is necessary because the City has recently annexed territory which
includes a portion of the roads mentioned herein. Public Works recommends
approval of this resolution.
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CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 9.1 OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF IOWA CITY,IOWA ENTITLED "CITY PLAZA"
BY REPEALING SECTION 9.1-7(1) ENTITLED "NEWSPAPER-VENDING
MACHINES" AND ENACTING IN LIEU THEREOF A NEW SUBSECTION 9.1-
7(1), TO BE TITLED AND CODIFIED THE SAME. lPass and adopt)
ITEM NO.7-
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Comment: At the request of the City Council, the City Attorney has revised
an ordinance to require the use of space in City-owned modular vending
machines for all newspapers and advertisers sold via vending machines in
City Plaza. These modular units would be handled by a lottery system if the
number of requests exceeded the number of units available, Otherwise, the
units Would be provided on a first.come, first served basis upon payment of
a minimal fee based on actual administrative costs. As drafted, the revised
ordinance contemplates only one unit/space per newspaper/advertiser.
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Courtney/5.
Moved by McD, seconded by Horow. Discussion.
Kubby/ I have a clarifying question. I thought when we were
talking about this before that any building that was
renovated for any use or for housing, I wasn't sure. After
reading this, I am reading it as that only historic and
architecturally significant buildings within that block
which all but one I think are and only for housing. Which
way is it.
Franklin/Both. Both of what you just said.
Kubby/Okay. Only historically and architecturally significant
housing used for low to moderate income housing.
Franklin/That ie right so you have to meet both of those
criteria.
Nov/l have another question. Why did we get to 115% for the tax
exemption schedule.
Franklin/l can't answer that. Sorry, David is sick today. Get
to 115% on the-
NoV/l15% of the valUe added but the improvement is in the tax
exemption schedule. It is hard for me to accept 115%.
Franklin/Do you know the urban revitalization well enough, Linda,
to know. I am assuming that that is part of the law, Naomi.
Gentry/ I assume so. Do you want me to briefly check 404.
Nov/Can we avoid that. Can we use 100% and still be within the
law.
Gentry/l think we have an option. We have options form the
statute.
NOV/l am on page 5 of the resolution under tax exemption schedule
#1.
Franklin/ This schedule is straight from the state law. These
options 1, 2, 3, and 4 are from the state law. That is what
is permitted under Chapter 404.
Nov/But we don't necessarily have to allow 115%.
Gentry/That is for homesteads only. You know the homestead break
you get on your tax.
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Kubby/So if it is assessed as residential property.
Franklin/The one that we are doing for the Burns project is #2.
Gentry/ These homes will not-
Kubby/AII of those properties are zoned commercial.
Gentry/They won't qualify for the homestead. I presume David put
that in there for some reason-
Franklin/ As I say this tax exemption schedule, this whole
section comes form the state code because that is what is
allowed under the state code for you to choose from as a
developer in an urban revitalization area one of these
schedules.
NOV/I would like it to be our choice. I would much prefer #2 to
#1. But if we are not having anything in there zoned
residential.
Franklin/ It won't apply to this area.
Gentry/Those are your options but that is really not an option in
this instance.
Courtney/okay. Any other discussion.
Roll call.
The resolution is adopted.
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Moved by Horow, seconded by McD. Discussion.
Horow/Back on page 2 of this agreement it includes normal
maintenance which is not limited to-it talks about brush and
weed control and there has been, as I understand it, some
concern among county residents in terms of the fact that the
county is-they are not using chemicals but they are also not
controlling the seeds and so do we have some sort of
agreement or awareness level of what brush or weed control
actually means when we are signing this document.
Schmadeke/We will take care of that brush and weed control on
American Legion Road just as we do on other unimproved
roads.
Horow/And we don't use chemicals for that purpose or we do.
Schmadeke/We do use chemicals like tree stump~ I think we spray
so it doesn't grow back.
Horow/I feel uncomfortable about that, Chuck. I recognize the
efficiency of the whole thing but I also would prefer not
using the chemicals but I also want to make sure that there
is weed control. And if this means getting say Project
Green or citizens involved in this in terms of the manual
labor that is involved in weed control.
Pigott/ I agree with you.
Kubby/I feel comfortable taking responsibility for it. I would
also like to see a non-chemical strategy. volunteers is a
great way to do that.
Horow/I have got three votes. can I have another one.
courtney/That is not something that is written into this
agreement. That is a policy that you send down through the
staffing.
Atkins/Why don't we write you a memo explaining to you how we
would intend to satisfy that element and then that will give
you something you can debate and if you wish to change it or
amend it. You can kind of point right at that. We can cut
the weeds. That is not a problem. We have occasionally
used chemicals. you need to know that. particularly in some
spots. We had a complaint last SUmmer along Park Road. The
whole hillside was covered with poison ivy and we had
neighbors saying please get rid of it. So we did tap it
with chemicals. Traditionally we don't use it extensively.
Why don't we write something and then you have got something
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which you can shape it. Is that okay. All right.
Kubby/And have we heard back form the county.
Schmadeke/ Haven't heard.
Kubby/ So if we should agree to this and the county doesn't.
Horow/ We need to work that out with the county.
Courtney/It just has to come back again with any revisions that
they make for you to consider. This agreement has taken a
long path and- I was going to say a long road, but.
And I think that there has finally been some meeting of the
minds on this thing. As late as early last week there was
no agreement with the staffing at least on the county having
any obligations at all. I think this is a very good
compromise that is in place here. Chuck certainly would
prefer for us tQ have responsibility for American Legion,
having the responsibility for Taft and Lower West Branch,
Something that I was not prepared to endorse. I am happy
with it finally. Any other discussion.
Roll call-
The resolution is adopted.
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CourtneY/7.5 Council Time.
kubby/Mr. Mayor, I have a few council time type things.
CourtneY/Okay.
Kubby/One of them is I am interested in having us speed up the
idea to talk about staffed drop off site and eliminating our
unstaffed drop off sites. I think it just costs us a lot of
money and we are throwing a lot of things that people drop
off to be recycled into the landfill. Either because they
are contaminated with oil or diapers or dirt or whatever of
because we don't have time to separate the different type of
plastics that people put in there. And the staff drop off
is one way of dealing with that and converting the money
from the way we are doing it now into a staffed site. And I
know that Floyd had informally talked with john Ockenfels
about the possibility of doing something cooperatively at
the site that is centrally located. So I am interested to
see if there are people who would like to see something put
together for us for budget time.
Horow/ I certainly would like to _
Pigott/I would like to Bee something.
Nov/ (can't hear)
Kubby/ I am talking about a 9-5 staffed place.
Horow/That is the cost aspects that I would like to see. I would
love to do this sort of thing but I shutter at the cost.
Kubby/ I don't know what all the pros and cons are. Doing it on
our own. Doing it with the county because they are not
doing anything and a lot of the percentage-a significant
percentage -
Courtney/ Sounds like a great discussion for budget time.
Kubby/ I just wanted to get information so we could discuss it
and make a decision.
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Horow/ Would you be willing-
Rubby/ I would love us to do something that would make it easier
for multi family units to participate. That doesn't eKclude
single family homes from participating in multi famlly-
Horow/ That is the discussion aspect because frankly I would like
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the multi family units to get their acts together from the
private point of view more than me having to force them to
do it.
Kubby/ It might be a combination.
Horow/ It is a discussion more than just budget time.
Atkins/I don't mean to be Chuckling. I was listening. Floyd had
already done some preliminary work on a staffed drop off
site and we have that.
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trying to speed it up.
Atkins/ I was just heading in the office the other day and
obviously with changes in council coming I said we need to
put together a list of all the things that we think they
want to do a little bit differently. We have volume based
rates, drop off sites, we want to pick up cardboard, what
about magazines. We have this whole list of things. We
have a whole list of things. I think what I would like to
do is work up a list of say lets start with some of these
and work it through and move on to the others. Okay. Okay.
kubby/ I just don't want to get it-
We also got a request from PATV to extend their contract and
I don't know what kind of process to go through for that.
If we have to accept that request or-
Helling/ The process is fairly simply. That they request it and
then that they gave us a report. They held a p.h. I think
last night and so we should get some results of that and
then it is just the city's decision on how we want to
approach it. I think what happens with the refranchising
issue has a lot to do with it.
Kubby/ So we wait until that process.
Helling/ I think we will have to because until that process is
over we don't really know what kind of resources we have to
provide funding for them and so forth so we couldn't shape
any kind of an agreement until we know.
KUbby/ When does our current-
Helling/ With the franchise.
KUbby/SO we are okay time wise.
And lastly we also got a letter from the Johnson County
Coalition For People With Disabilities and I know that there
are some representatives form that committee here and they
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had requested something specific of us and I thought we
should talk about it even today-
Horow/ They have been calling us and I have said we are already
very concerned about that and are willing to have all the
input in that we can get.
Kubby/ They specifically kind of requested that we make sure that
we use them as kind of a consulting body.
Horow/ I don't see anything wrong with that at all. As a matter
of fact I think that is the way to go.
pigott/ In that same vein I just was thinking earlier and I don't
know what the process is for establishing commissions and
boards or rather what the process for doing that is but I
thought given the scope of the ADA might it to be something
to consider at a different time but establishing a
commission specifically on the ADA. Just as we have a
oommission on Human Rights, involving businesses and
community people because there is the accessibility, some
transit people because there is a transit issue, some people
with disabilities. Just to consider all of these things in
one place or the city to educate us. Frankly, it seems to
be a very big issue inVOlving a lot of different areas and
if we had one place instead of a lot of scattered different
places I think we might gain some valuable information as
council. I wanted to throw that out.
Horow/ I think that should be brought up under the new council
because I see that going to the rules committee. I think
that would be a good-
McD/ I have a feeling you are going to have a much more aotive
Rules Committee this year or next couple of years than what
you have had the last two years, Karen.
Courtney/ But never any more dedicated members.
McD/ That is right.
Kubby/I don't know if Kevin or I don't know who the other person
on the committee is. Tom-
Kevin Burt/ The main purpose of the coalition was to get
established with the city to provide technioal assistanoe as
far as app1ioation of the ADA as it pertains to members of
the community. The ADA has set up sets of guidelines but
some of those guidelines point blank don't work for
different individuals. You oan still operate within those
guidelines and set up different accommodations that do work.
But the ADA, as it is written in many spots, isn't very
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practical for a lot of people. To avoid renovations that
may be to ADA specific code but not practical use isn't
doing anybody any good. So you have a group of concerned
citizens that are willing to provide assistance on those
lines. I have been providing technical assistance through
Independent Living Inc. as their ADA coordinator to the
group. The mediator is a gentleman by the name of Tim
Clancey. He was the person that was elected by the group as
far as the official spokesperson. But he can be reached
through my office also. As far as the overall plans for the
group they would like to be a part of or endorsed more so by
the city council to approach the business community 0
provide assistance to them. Point blank those are the areas
that there is a lot of assistance needed. With the
transition plan coming into effect for public transportation
there is going to be some assistance needed there also. So,
as opposed t having like the transit authorities kind of
scramble around and grab hold of some volunteers to come out
and be, as it was explained to me, guinea pigs for the
training session that they had for the drivers as far as
using the lift. If you had a group of people together that
they could access at any time it wouldn't be a scramble. It
would just be one phone call is all they would have to make.
So just the concept of saving time and money for the city
and the community and also provide a little bit of practical
education, practical use education for the community at
large. There is a lot of people that have been coming to me
for technical assistance. Mr. aecker and quite a few others
that have asked me to provide training that I received for
them to get a higher understanding of what the ADA is and
means. So that is one of the things that I have asked of
them in providing the information to them would they assist
with educating the community. And it is interesting that
YOU brought up PArv because we are gOing to enter into some
type of agreement with them. I have got to sit down with
them and talk aver the specifics. But to do informercials
for PATV to be played by individuals with disabilities on
different aspects and different barriers that are within the
city. So, we are as a community we are starting to come
together but there is still separation between persons with
disabilities and the abled body individuals in the city and
that is another barrier that the group wants to kind of
bring down or do the best to brinq down.
Horow/ your honor, I have a question. Is your position with
Independent Living part of the grant that you have received
from the federal government. So these sources would be
already paid for in the course of your jOb description.
Burt/ The services as far as technical adviser to the Coalition,
yes.
Kubby/But if you any kind of accessibility audit you charge.
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Burt/ Yes. Accessibility audits to businesses, to individual
businesses, is something that it provides employment tor via
contract for individuals with disabilities. So to be able
to pay individuals we charge a rate of $50 hour but that is
also negotiable depending on the size of the business and
the amount of support that they have provided to the
community.
Karr/ sir, could I have your name please for the record.
Kevin Burt/ Kevin Burt.
Karr/ Thank you.
Courtney/Just one item of note and as time goes on I will be baek
with-we have two things for the fund raising drive for city
Park. Both of them are good news. #1 I was visited from a
representative from Howard R. Green yesterday who presented
a check for $5000. And the second piece of news is the
initial report going into FENA, the final process by the
parson who did the evaluation of Iowa City has been
recommended for more money than originally that we thought
for City park so we may be able to lower the)1oal of the
fund raising drive somewhat. I don't know how much yet but
both of them ar good news to getting to the final goal.
This one is of particular note. We are approaching $25,000
now.
Any other discussion.
Horow/ I have two things. One, your honor, as you go out, we
would like you to be able to go out two fisted in a sweet
manner to remember your time on counoil (Gives candy).
The other thing, Ms. Kubby representing one end of our table
and I have collaborated on this for the former mayor. Karen
has a pot that she has made and here are black jelly beans.
(Gives pot and jelly beans).
MeD/ Thank you very much, It is very nice. I really appreciate
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