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Home My WebLink About1984-01-31 CorrespondenceGM JAN 23 1984 CAROLE G. GAUGER _~ ver MARK W GAUGER Sloomin' CITY CLERK - Thing, Ing. Toys In the gasement 108 EAST COLLEGE • IOWA CITY, IOWA 52240 0 PHONE (319) 351-7242 January 23, 1984 SUBJECT City Manager and City Council 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Parking Policy We certainly are aware of the beauty of our pedestrian malls - we are doubly aware of the delivery and loading areas they have eliminated. The few remaining areas dedicated to the delivery of merchandise to and from our business must be protected. I doubt that my business can survive another curtailment of delivery facilities. I invite you to visit Clinton Street any day and count the delivery vehicles that are making deliveries. (This should have been done before final traffic plans were developed.) The Parking Policy of 1972 makes no mention of delivery facilities for the CBD. It is a pity this need was ignored and this beautiful city cannot serve the practical needs of it's citizens. I urge strict enforcement of the loading zone laws on a 24 -Hour basis. Yours truly, Carole G. Gauger /( °Z CITY OF IOWA CIVIC CENTER 410 E. WASHINGTON ST. IOWA CITY, IOWA 52240 January 20, 1984 F CITY (319) 356-500 °LED JAN 241984 Mayor and City Council Members CITY CLERK City of Iowa City 410 E. Washington St. Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Dear Mayor McDonald and Members of the City Council: It has come to our attention that the Parks and Recreation Commission has recommended against funding the $5,000 Brookland Park Improvement project in FY85. You may recall that last fall this project ranked very high (fifth) in CCN's recommendations for funding of 1984 CDBG projects. In discussing the recommendations for CDBG funding, Council members at that time felt that this project should be included in the Parks and Recreation rather than the CDBG budget. CCN recommended funding this project with CDBG monies, in part because it feared that the project might not fit with the Parks and Recreation Commission's budgeting plans. In light of the Parks and Recreation Com- mission's recommendation, we are concerned that this project may not be funded at all. Since the Council supported this project in principle (but felt funding should not come from CDBG monies), we urge you to give strong considera- tion to the inclusion of the Brookland Park Improvement project in the City's FY85 budget. Yours sincerely, Mickey Lauria, Chairperson Committee on Community Needs bj4/2 140 CITY OF IOWA CITY CIVIC CENTER 410 E. WASHINGTON ST. IOWA CITY, IOWA 52240 (3'19) 356-5000 Date December 17, 1983 TO: The Honorable Mayor and the City Council RE: Civil Service Entrance Examination - Maintenance Worker X We, the undersigned members of the Civil Service Commission of Iowa City, Iowa, do hereby certify the following named persons in the order of their standing as eligible for the position of Maintenance Worker II/Water Division Karen Sheldon Hired - 12/17/83 ATTEST: City Clerk IOW CITY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION r etta L. re up V! i Bruce L. Walker John A. Maxwell ■ CITY O CIVIC CENTER 410 E. WASHINGTON ST. Date January 11, 1984 OWA C ITY IOWA CITY, IOWA 52240 (319) 356-5000 TO: The Honorable Mayor and the City Council RE: Civil Service Entrance Examination - PPT Mass Transit Operator f We, the undersigned members of the Civil Service Commission of Iowa City, Iowa, do hereby certify the following named persons in the order of their standing as eligible for the position of Mass Transit Operator/Transit Department Elliot Brown i David Groeninger Prudence Dilkes Kenneth Barnett 1 Kenneth Shropshire Phyllis Stout Anthony Lopez David DeMeulenaere Mark Wisehart IOWA ITY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION r etta L. Urejup Bruce L. Walker John A. Maxwell ATTEST: i7 w. ,moi �Qaw� City Clerk /�S i , �^ CITY OF CIVIC CENTER 410 E. WASHINGTON ST DateJanuary 9, 1984 IOWA CITY IOWA CITY, IOWA 52240 (319) 356-500 TO: The Honorable Mayor and the City Council RE: Civil Service Entrance Examination - Senior Accountant r We, the undersigned members of the Civil Service Commission of Iowa City, Iowa, do hereby certify the following named persons in the order of their standing as eligible for the position of Senior Accountant/Accounting Division Karen Kung (PFT) Hired - 1/9/84 Diane Strurek (PFT) Deborah Russell (PPT) Hired - 1/9/84 Bob Salamon (PPT) IOWA CITY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Trrietta L. Ore up Bruce L. Walker John A. Maxwell ATTEST: City Clerk 146 n CITY OF CIVIC CENTER 410 E. WASHINGTON ST Date January 9, 1984 OWA CITY IOWA CITY, IOWA 52240 (319) 356-5000 T0: The Honorable Mayor and the City Council RE: Civil Service Entrance Examination - P. M. Ramo Manager - X We, the undersigned members of the Civil Service Commission of Iowa City, Iowa, do hereby certify the following named persons in the order of their standing as eligible for the position of P. M. Ramp Manager/Parking Systems Division John Ruppert Hired - 1/9/84 ATTEST: City Clerk I I IOWA_q7 TY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION r etta L. Urelup Bruce L. Walker John Maxwell _ I i STATEMENT TO THE IOWA CITY CITY COUNCIL January 31, 1984 My name is Bill Newbrough. I live in Des Moines and am representing the Television Development Association of Iowa, of which I am a director. As I told you in December, we need your help in building a television station. Unlike a couple of other TV stations that have been proposed for here since then, our station would be licensed for full service operation and would reach out across Eastern Iowa. It also would be linked with stations in Des Moines and Western Iowa so that programs created by.citizens here could be carried to most of the state. I'm talking about free over -the -air TV. Although our signal would be carried by .many cable TV systems, we also would be able.to reach most of the approximately two-thirds of the homes in the state that are not connected to cable. There would be many different benefits from the station to your community. Among them would be the opportunity for the University of Iowa to telecast cultural events from Hancher, cover athletic events such as women's basketball, use it for fund raising and student recruitment and for carrying educational programming. Iowa City businesses would have new opportunities to attract customers from a wide area by advertising on the station. Governmental groups and civic organizations would have powerful new communications opportunities. The station would broadcast over the air on Channel 20, which was assigned by the Federal Communications Commission for use in Iowa City many years ago. That assignment is an important asset to the city, and we are planning maximum possible development of it. 17a2, i MM A tall tower is essential for the city to realize all the potential of its over -the -air commercial TV channel, whether we operate it or someone else does. The tower also is critical for the future health and vitality of local radio station KRNA. Your other commercial FM radio station also could benefit from the tower, as could many other organizations through various additional communications eystems proposed for installation on it. I want to emphasize that with the tall tower, we are talking not only about the ability to reach farther with our signals, but also the ability to provide better service to close -in areas, including many in the city where hills or buildings make television and FM radio reception difficult. By placing many communications applications on this single tower, there will be fewer obstructions for aviators to worry about. Unlike some other tower proposals, there has been relatively little aeronautical opposition to this one. The Airline owners and Pilots Association has filed comments indicating that it does not object to the construction. The tower has been thoroughly studied by the Federal Aviation Administration. The main problem it found was conflict with an instrument approach to your airport, which, according to some knowledgeable local pilots, is the least desirable of several available instrument approaches. It also may be relevant that the instrument approach that is a problem didn't even exist when the tower was proposed. However, to deal with that problem, we have proposed to fund a new radio beacon that will permit an improved instrument approach to replace the conflicting one. The Airport Commission has refused this funding, as well as a couple of other less costly solutions to the conflict. This refusal apparently was based upon inaccurate and misleading information and a belief that other problems at the airport would be negatively impacted if the tower is built. /7z 1� - 3 - i We have been assured, as has Congressman Evans' office,' that there is no connection between accommodation of the tower and the struggle to regain Federal funding for the airport. The F.A.A. has said that resolution of the conflict between the'tower and the instrument approach is entirely a local matter. It is important that the TV station be in operation by the end of this year. In order for that to happen, a complex 'chain of events will need to occur very quickly. Timing is crucial --we are talking about a matter of days to get this problem's resolution worked out so that Iowa City's TV station has a chance to be on the air by the end of the year. The Airport Commission chairman has tried to cooperate, on -this matter. He and the other Commissioners have spent a great deal of time with the problem, but it was difficult for them to act in the interests of the city as a whole, because they have been lead incorrectly to believe that the issue is one of choosing between aviation and communications. At least one of the Commissioners has sorted through these distortions and is strongly in favor of accommodating the tower. Others who want to see the tower accommodated include Congressman Evans, Senator Grassley, the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the Iowa Freedom of Information Council. The question is not one of choosing between the airport and a tower --there need not be any conflict between the two. We are not proposing to sacrifice aviation safety, even near the tower, which would be 14 miles from the airport. The FAA has determined that the tower would be highly conspicuous to pilots in all weather conditions. There is no record of a tower marked like this one would be of ever being involved in a near -miss with an aircraft, let alone an accident. i - 4 - The President of our company, Mike Pauley, is eager to return to his -native Iowa and move his family to Iowa City to take charge of our activites here. We want to be a part of your community, and, if given a chance, we will contributea great deal to it. I therefore urge you to resolve tonight that the TV station is in the best interests of the city and that it is your wish that the Airport Manager immediately take steps to.replace the conflicting instrument approach with one that will not be affected by the tower and to otherwise cooperate with us so that the tower can be built. /7o2— i I i_ _ i tI I - 4 - The President of our company, Mike Pauley, is eager to return to his -native Iowa and move his family to Iowa City to take charge of our activites here. We want to be a part of your community, and, if given a chance, we will contributea great deal to it. I therefore urge you to resolve tonight that the TV station is in the best interests of the city and that it is your wish that the Airport Manager immediately take steps to.replace the conflicting instrument approach with one that will not be affected by the tower and to otherwise cooperate with us so that the tower can be built. /7o2—