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MEMORANDUM
Date: December 31, 1981
To: City Council
From: City;a(r
Re: NoiseControlOrdinance
Some months ago the City Council discussed the need for a noise
control ordinance. Enclosed is an ordinance draft which is based
upon model provisions and experience in other communities,
particularly in Iowa. This proposal has been reviewed by the City
staff, including the City Attorney, and the noise specialist
employed by the League of Iowa Municipalities. At the informal
discussion on January 4, your suggestions and comments will be
solicited. Also, at that time you should determine if you wish to
have*the staff prepare a final draft for your consideration or if the
project should be abandoned.
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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER OF THE CODE OF IOWA CITY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IOWA CITY, IOWA:
SECTION I. That Chapter of the Municipal Code of Iowa City be and is
hereby amended by adding thereto a new subchapter to be known as Subchapter
entitled, "Noise Pollution", being Sections to
both inclusive, relating to noise pollution, as follows:
SUBCHAPTER _, NOISE•POLLUTION
SEC. POLICY, PURPOSE, TITLE AND SCOPE
(a) Statement of Public Policv. The city council finds and declares that:
(1) Excessive noise is a serious hazard to the public health and welfare
and the quality of life in urban society.
(2) A substantial body of science and technology exists which provides for
substantially reducing excessive noise without serious inconvenience
to the public.
(3) Certain of the noise -producing equipment in the city is essential to
the quality of life therein and should be allowed to continue at
reasonable levels with moderate regulation.
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(4) Each person has a right to an environment reasonably free from
disturbing noise or that which jeopardizes health or welfare or
unnecessarily degrades the quality of life.
(5) It is the legislative declaration of the city to promote an environ-
ment free from certain excessive noise, otherwise properly called
"noise pollution", which jeopardizes the health and welfare and
degrades the quality of the lives of the residents of the city,
without unduly prohibiting, limiting or otherwise regulating the
function of certain noise producing equipment which is not amenable to
such controls and yet is essential to the economy and quality of life.
(b) Purpose Title and Scope.
(1) The purpose of this subchapter is to establish standards for the
control of noise pollution in the city by setting maximum permissible
sound levels for various activities and to protect the public health,
safety and general welfare.
(2) This subchapter may be cited as the "Noise Control Ordinance" of the
City of Iowa City.
(3) This subchapter shall apply to the control of noise producing
activities and objects originating within the limits of the City of
Iowa City or originating from properties lying outside the limits of
the City of Iowa City owned or controlled by the city of Iowa City
with a lease or other. similar arrangement, except where either 1) a
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state or federal agency has adopted a different standard or rule than
that prescribed within this subchapter and has so preempted the
regulation of noise from a particular source as to render this
subchapter inapplicable thereto, or 2) the city council has
determined that, by reason of public acceptance of the activity
producing a particular noise or noises, such noise is deemed
acceptable to the residents of this city.
Sec. . DEFINITIONS.
Unless otherwise expressly stated or the context clearly indicates a different
intention, the following terms shall have the meanings shown. Definitions of
technical terms used in this subchapter which are not herein defined shall be
obtained from publications of acoustical terminology issued by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) or its successor body.
"Ambient sound level". The noise associated with a given environment,
exclusive of a particular noise being tested, being usually a composite of
sounds from many sources near and far, exclusive of intruding noises from
isolated identifiable sources.
"A -weighted sound level". The sound pressure level in decibels as measured on a
sound level meter using the A -weight network. The level is designated dB(A) or
dBA.
"Barking Dog" or Bird or Other Animal. A dog, bird or other animal that barks,
bays, cries, howls or makes any other noise continuously and/or incessantly for
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a period of ten (10) minutes or barks intermittently for one-half (h) hour or
more and the sound therefrom is plainly audible across a residential real
property boundary or within a noise sensitive area.
"Decibel (dB)". A logarithmic and dimensionless unit of measure often used in
describing the amplitude of sound, equal to 20 times the logarithm to the base
10 of the ratio of the pressure of the sound measured to the reference pressure,
which is 20 miscropascals (20 micronewtons per square meter).
"Motorboat". Any vessel which is designed to operate on water and which is
propelled by a motor, including, but not limited to, boats, barges, amphibious
craft, water ski towing devices and hover craft.
"Motor vehicle". Any motor -operated vehicle licensed for use on the public
highway.
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"Noise". Any sound which disturbs humans or which causes or tends to cause an
adverse psychological or physiological effect on humans.
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"Noise control officer". The city employee, designated by the City Manager as
having responsibility for the enforcement of this subchapter.
"Noise disturbance". Any sound of such character, intensity and duration which
endangers or injures the welfare, safety or health of a human being, or disturbs
a reasonable person of normal sensitivities, or devalues or injures personal or
real property.
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"Noise sensitive activities". Activities which are conducted under conditions
of exceptional quiet including, but not limited to, operation of schools,
libraries open to the public, churches, hospitals and nursing homes.
"Noise sensitive area". Any areas designated in this sub -chapter for the
purpose of ensuring exceptional quiet and clearly posted with "Noise Sensitive
Area" signs.
"Person". The word shall have the meaning prescribed by section 1-2 of the Code
of Iowa City and shall in addition include any officer, employee, department,
agency or instrumentality of the state or any political subdivision of the
state.
"Plainly Audible Noise". Any noise for which the information content of the
noise is transferred to the listener, such,as but not limited to understanding
of spoken speech, comprehension of whether a voice is raised or lowered, or
comprehension of musical rhythms.
"Powered model vehicle". Any self-propelled airborne, waterborne, or landborne
model plane, vessel, or vehicle, which is not designed to carry persons,
including, but not limited to, any model airplane, boat, car or rocket.
"Public right-of-way". Any street, avenue, boulevard, highway, sidewalk, or
alley or similar place which is owned or controlled by a governmental entity.
This definition shall also include an area between the traveled portion and the
sidewalk or private property line if no sidewalk exists.
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"Public space". Any real property, including any structure thereon, which is
owned or controlled by a governmental entity.
"Real property boundary". An imaginary line along the ground surface, and its
vertical extension, which separates the real property owned by one person from
that owned by another person, but not including intra -building real property
divisions.
"Recreational vehicle". Any race car, motorcycle, snowmobile, or any other
motorized vehicle equipped for use in racing or other recreational events or
uses off of public right-of-way on public or private property. For purposes of
this chapter, a motor vehicle or motorized vehicle which is taking part in an
organized racing; endurance, or other, coordinated sporting event shall be deemed
a recreational vehicle.
'!Residential". Any property on which is located a building or structure used
wholly or partially for living or sleeping purposes. This definition shall not
include school, college or university dormitories.
"Sound". An oscillation in pressure, particle displacement, particle velocity
or other physical parameter, in a medium with internal forces that cause
compression and rarefraction of that medium. The description of sound may
include any characteristic of such sound, including duration, intensity and
frequency.
"Sound level". The weighted sound pressure level obtained by the use of a sound
level meter and frequency weighting network, such as A, B, or C as specified in
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American National Standards Institute specifications for sound level meters
(ANSI S1.4-1971, or the latest approved revision thereof). If the frequency
weighting employed is not indicated, the A -weighting shall apply.
"Sound level meter". An instrument which includes a microphone, amplifier, RMS
detector, integrator or time averager, output or display meter, and weighting
networks used to measure sound pressure levels, which complies with American
National Standards Institute Standard 1.4-1971.
"Used" or "occupied". For the purpose of this subchapter either word shall be
deemed to include the words "intended, designed, or arranged to be used or
occupied". .
Sec. . EXCEPTIONS TO THIS SUBCHAPTER.
The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to:
(1) The emission of sound for the purpose of alerting persons to the time of
day, the existence of an emergency or the approved testing thereof.
(2) The emission of sound in the performance of emergency work.
(3) Non-commercial public speaking and public assembly activities conducted on
any private property, public space, or public right-of-way, except those
activities controlled by section
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(4) The unamplified human voice, except those activities controlled by section
(5) Agricultural activities, exclusive of those involving the ownership or
possession of animals or birds.
(6) Snowmobiles regulated by chapter 321G, Code of Iowa.
(7) Rail and air transportation and public mass transportation vehicles.
(8) Emergency vehicles such as fire trucks and ambulances.
(9) Non-professional athletic events.
Sec. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED. The following acts, among
others, are deemed to be loud, disturbing, unusual, unreasonable and unnecessary
noises in violation of this subchapter, but any enumeration herein shall not be
deemed to be exclusive:
(a) Sales by "hawking or barking". No person shall offer for sale or sell
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anything by shouting or outcry within any residential area in the city,
except in conjunction with an event which is exempt from the provisions of
this subchapter or for which a permit has been issued by the City.
(b) Loading and Unloading. No person shall so load, unload, open, close or
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handle boxes, crates, containers, building matprials, garbage cans, or
similar objects outdoors between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M. the
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following morning as to create a noise disturbance across a residential
real property boundary or within a noise sensitive area. This section
shall not apply to activities covered by section
(c) Vehicle or Motorboat Repairs and Testing. No person shall repair,
rebuild, modify, or test any motor vehicle, motorcycle, or motorboat either
within a residential' zone in such a manner to cause a noise disturbance or
in any other zone in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance across a
residential real property boundary or outdoors within a noise sensitive
area.
(d) Powered Model Vehicles. No person shall operate or permit the operation of
powered model vehicles in a residential zone, in a public space or within a
noise sensitive area between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. the
following day.
(e) Sound Trucks and Other Devices. No person shall operate or permit the
operation upon the public streets of a sound truck, or other device for
producing, reproducing or amplifying sounds.
Sec. . MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND SIMILAR DEVICES.
No person shall operate, play or permit the operation or playing of any drum,
musical instrument or similar device which produces sound in such a manner as to
be plainly audible across a residential real property boundary or outdoors
within a noise sensitive area.
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Sec. REGULATION OF SOUND EQUIPMENT AND SOUND AMPLIFYING
EQUIPMENT.
(a) Except for activities open to the public and for which a permit has been
issued by the city, no person shall so operate, play or permit the
operation or playing of any radio, television, phonograph, record player,
tape deck or player, loud speaker, amplifier, or other device for
producing, reproducing or amplifying sounds in any building or upon any
premises, public or private or any other sound producing equipment or
apparatus:
(1) As to create sound therefrom which is plainly audible across a
residential real property boundary or on any public street or
property.
(2) As to create a sound therefrom which is plainly audible 50 feet from
the device, when operated in or on a motor vehicle on a public right-
of-way or public space, or in a boat on public waters.
(b) Sound equipment --permit required. No person shall use, operate or cause
to be used or operated any radio, record player, tape deck or player, loud
speaker, amplifier, sound truck or other device for producing,
reproducing, or amplifying sounds, hereinafter referred to as "sound
equipment", upon the public streets or in any building or upon any
premises, public or private, if the sound therefrom be plainly audible
across a residential real property boundary from any public street or
public place within the city, unless said person:
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(1) First obtains a permit in accordance with this section;
(2) Complies with the conditions imposed by the permit, including the
maximum permitted sound level shown therein; and
(3) Complies with all other applicable provisions of this section.
Sound equipment shall not include:
(1) Equipment used for public health and safety purposes;
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(2) Church or clock carillons, bells or chimes;
(3) Parades, processions or other public events for which a parade or
other permit has been issued, provided the conditions of the permit
are complied with;
(4) Automobile radios, tape decks or players, or other standard
automobile equipment used and intended for the use and enjoyment of .
the occupants, provided the sound emitting therefrom is not plainly
audible for more than 50 feet from the vehicle;
(5) Recorded music used in a non-residential district in conjunction with
a civil or religious celebration;
'I (6) Unamplified live music provided, sponsored, or funded, in whole or in
part, by a governmental entity.
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(7) Mobile radio or telephone signaling devices.
(8) Car or truck horns or similar devices when used to denote danger or a
warning or possible danger.
(c) Fees. A separate permit shall be required for each type of activity
described below. Permits shall be nontransferable. The permit shall be
conspicuously displayed on or immediately adjacent to the sound eqiupment.
Fees for sound equipment permits shall be estaolished by resolution of the
City Council.
(1) No fee shall be required for any sound equipment permit issued to the
City of Iowa City, State of Iowa, or the Federal government or any
other governmental subdivision or agency.
(d) Information required. Application for permits required herein shall be
made in writing to the City Clerk, accompanied by the required permit fee
and such information as the City Clerk may require. If the application
contains the required information, is accompanied by the required fee, and
the proposed use complies with the requirements of this subsection, the
City Clerk shall issue the appropriate permit.
(e) Application standards.
(1) Type A permit --general standards. A type A permit may be issued for
sound equipment emitting music or human speech registering not more
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than 60 dB(A)'s when measured at the real property boundary of the
private residence nearest the sound equipment and measuring not more
than 100 dB(A)'s at a distance of 50 feet from the sound equipment.
Sound equipment permitted under a type A permit may be used only in
areas of the city zoned for non-residential use and only between the
hours of 9:00 A. M. and 9:00 P.M.
(2) Type B permit --sound trucks --general standards. Sound trucks may be
operated only under a type B permit. A type B permit may be issued for
sound equipment mounted upon a motor vehicle and intended for use upon
city streets provided that the sound equipment emits only music or
human speech registering not more than 80 dB(A)'s when measured at a
distance- of 100 feet from the sound equipment. Sound equipment
permitted under a type B permit may be used only in non-residential
areas and only from 9:00 A. M. to 9:00 P.M.
(3) Type C permit--parks--general standards. A type C permit may be used
for sound equipment emitting music or human speech registering not
more than 60 dB(A)'s when measured at the real property boundary of
the private residence nearest the sound equipment and registering not
more than 100 dB(A)'s when measured at a distance of 50 feet from the
sound equipment. Sound equipment permitted under a type C permit may
be used only in public parks owned and operated by the city, or public
grounds owned and operated by another government body, from 10:00 A.M.
to 11:00 P.M. for events authorized and approved by the city or other
body having jurisdiction over the park or public grounds.
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(4) Type D permit --school ground -general standards. A type D permit may
be issued for sound equipment emitting music or human speech
registering not more than 60 dB(A)'s when measured at the real
property boundary of the private residence nearest the sound
equipment and registering not more than 100 dB(A)'s when measured at a
distance of SO feet from the sound equipment. Sound equipment
permitted under a type D permit may be used only on school grounds, or
in conjunction with a school sponsored activity, from 10:00 A.M. to
11:00 P.M. for events authorized and approved by the school
authorities having jurisdiction of the grounds.
(f) Commercial advertising --sound equipment prohibited. No sound equipment
shall be permitted to be used on public streets or public places, or in any
building or upon any premises if the sound will be plainly audible from any
public street or public place within the city, when any such use is for
commercial advertising purposes, or for the purpose of attracting the
attention of the public to any building or structure for monetary gain.
Sec. . MOTORIZED VEHICLES.
(a) No person shall operate the engine providing motive 'power-, or an auxiliary
engine, of a motor vehicle of a weight in excess of 10;000 pounds for a
consecutive period longer than 20 minutes while such vehicle is standing on
private property and located within 150 feet of property zoned and used for
residential purposes except when such vehicle is standing within a
completely enclosed building. This section shall not apply to delivery or
pickup vehicles that require the operation of the engine to unload or load
their vending loads.
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(b) No person shall drive or move or cause or knowingly permit to be driven or 1
moved a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles at any time in such a 1
manner as to exceed the following noise limits at any time in such a manner
as to exceed the following noise limits for the category of motor vehicle
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shown below. Noise shall be measured at a distance of at least 25 feet (7.5
meters) from the near side of the nearest lane (s) being monitored and at a
height of at least 4 feet (1.2 meters) above the immediate surface.
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Sound Pressure Level, dB(A)
Speed limit Speed limit
40 MPH or less over 40 MPH
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or gross combination weight rating 90 94
(GCWR) of 10,000 pounds or more, or
any combination of vehicles towed
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combination of vehicles towed by 80 84
any motor vehicle.
Any motorcycle. 82 86
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This section applies to the total noise from a vehicle or combination of
vehicles and shall not be construed as limiting or precluding the
enforcement of any other provisions of this code relating to motor vehicle
mufflers for noise control.
(c) The measurement of sound or noise shall be made with a sound level meter
meeting the standards prescribed by the American Standards Association.
The instrument shall be maintained in calibration and good working order.
Octave band corrections may be employed in meeting the response
specification. A calibration check shall be made of the system at the time
of any noise measurement. Measurements recorded shall be taken so as to
provide a proper representation of the noise source. The microphone during
measurement shall be positioned as not to create any unnatural enhancement
or diminution of the measured noise. A windscreen for the microphone shall
be used when required. Traffic, aircraft and other transportation noise
sources and other background noises shall not be considered in taking
measurements except where such background noise interferes with the
primary noise being made.
(d) No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle or motorcycle
by installation of a muffler cut-out, by-pass or other similar device and
no person shall operate a motor vehicle or motorcycle which has been so
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modified. A motor vehicle so operated shall be deemed equipped with .a
muffler which emits excessive and unusual noise and which is not in good
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(e) 1) No person shall operate a recreational vehicle or permit the operation
of one or more recreational vehicles, individually or in a group or in
an organized racing event, on public or private property in such a
manner that the sound level resulting from such operation exceeds 73
dBA for a total of three minutes in any continuous one hour period or
exceeds 90 dBA for any period of time during such operation. Sound
levels which exceed the limits herein described at the real property
boundary of the receiving land use shall be deemed a noise
disturbance.
2) No person shall conduct or permit the conduct of any part of an
organized racing event which involves contest between or among
recreational vehicles on public or private property between the hours -
of 9:00 P.M. and 9:00 A.M. the following morning.
Sec. . ANIMALS.
(a) No person shall own, possess or harbor any barking or noisy dog, bird or
other animal regardless of whether the dog, bird or other animal is
physically situated in or upon private property. However, the dog, bird or
other animal shall not be deemed a barking dog or noisy animal if, at the
time the dog, bird or other animal is barking or making any other noise, a
person is trespassing or threatening to trespass upon private property in
or upon which the dog, bird or other animal is situated or taking any other
action which would tease or provoke the dog, bird or other animal to bark
or otherwise be noisy.
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Sec. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE NOISE CONTROL OFFICER.
(a) The noise control program established by this subchapter shall be
implemented, administered, and enforced by the noise control officer who
shall be that person, designated by the City Manager.
(b) To implement and enforce this subchapter the noise control officer shall
have the additional power to:
(1)• Conduct research, monitoring, and other studies related to sound.
(2) Conduct programs of public education regarding the caus8s, and
effects of sound or noise and general methods of abatement and control
of noise, as well as the actions prohibited by this subchapter and the
procedures for reporting violations.
(3) Coordinate the noise control activities of all municipal departments.
(4) Review public and private projects, including those subject to
mandatory review or approval by other departments, for compliance
with this subchapter, if these projects are likely to cause sound in
violation of this subchapter.
(5) Upon presentation of proper credentials, enter and inspect any
private property or place, and inspect any report or records at any
reasonable time when granted permission by the owner, by some other
person with apparent authority to act for the owner, or a tenant of
the premises.
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(6) Issue sound variances pursuant to the provisions of section
(7) Prepare recommendations for consideration by the city council, after
publication of notice and public hearing, for establishing the
boundaries of noise sensitive areas.
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(8) Designate any area for the purpose of ensuring exceptional quiet and
to be clearly posted with "Noise Sensitive Area" signs because of the ,
noise sensitive activities conducted therein. These areas may
include, but are not limited to schools, libraries, churches,
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hospitals and nursing homes.
(9) Authorize the capture and impoundment of any dog, bird or other animal
described in section of this ordinance when the noise made by i
the animal cannot be reasonably controlled by the owner or other
person on those property the animal is located.
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All departments and agencies of the city shall carry out their programs so as to
further the policy of this subchapter.
Sec. SOUND VARIANCES.
(a) The Board of Adjustment shall have the authority consistent with this
section, to grant sound variances from the requirements of this subchapter.
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(b) Any person seeking a sound variance under this section shall file an
application with the City Clerk. The application shall contain information
which demonstrates that bringing the source of sound or activity for which
the sound variance is sought into compliance with this subchapter would
constitute an unreasonable hardship on the applicant, on the community, or
on other persons. The application shall be accompanied by a fee in the
amount established by the City Council by resolution. The fee shall not be
refundable.
(c) In determining whether to grant, deny, or revoke the application the Board
of Adjustment shall balance the hardship to the applicant, the community,
and other persons. of not allowing -the sound variance against the adverse
impact on the health, safety and welfare of persons affected, the adverse
impact on property affected, and any other adverse impacts of allowing the
sound variance. Applicants for sound variance and persons contesting sound
variances may be required to submit any information as may reasonably be
required. Applicants are required to give notice by certified mail to:
(1) the occupants of surrounding single family or duplex residences
located in an area that includes the next two homes in any direction,
or those within 100 feet of the noise source, whichever is less; or
(2) the owner or manager of multiple family residence structures,
including hotels, within such area.
In granting or denying an application or in revoking a sound variance
previously granted, the Board of Adjustment and/or the noise control
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officer shall place on public file a copy of the decision and the reasons
for granting, denying or revoking the sound variance.
(d) Sound variances shall be granted by notice to the applicant containing all
necessary conditions, including a time limit on the permitted activity.
The sound variance shall not become effective until all conditions are
agreed to in writing by the applicant and placed on file with the Noise
Control Officer. Noncompliance with any condition of the sound variance
I shall terminate it and subject the person holding it to those provisions of
this subchapter regulating the source of sound or activity for which the
sound variance was granted. Termination for non-compliance shall be made
in accordance with Section 2-188, Emergency Orders, of this Code.
SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in effect upon its passage,
approval and publication in accordance with law. Enforcement shall be effective
upon establishment of guidelines for procedures and criteria for the enforcement
as required by section -(f).
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY OF PROVISIONS. Each section, and any and all
provisions of this ordinance, is independent of every other section and any and
all provisions, and the invalidity of any thereof, shall not invalidate any
other Section or provision.
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December 23, 1981
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and discussion (copy attached).
Items for the January 5 agenda include: i
Public hearing for offstreet parking
Public hearing on airport overlay zones
Appointment to Planning and Zoning Commission
A memorandum from the City Manager regarding evaluations was distributed
to the staff. The staff was informed that the self -evaluations and notes
from progress5eandscussions will be comments will be sentetodthe staffthe iwithinathe nexter to sess
weeks. it# .
Another memorandum from the -City Manager regarding bonuses for administrative
employees was distributed to the staff. Recommendations for such bonuses
should be furnished to the City Manager before January 29. Recommendations I
will again be received at the end of the fiscal year. I
Prepared by:
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December 21, 1981
DEPARTMENT REFERRALS
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COMMENTS/STATUS
Housing Lawsuit
12-21
City Attor
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Discuss with Council in Executive
Session on 1-4-82.
Cit Conference Board
y
12-21
City Clerk
Public Hearing on Assessor's
budget on 2-1-82 at 4:45 P.M.
Post agenda.
city/County Assessor
12-21
City Mgr
Meet with Conference Board-
Committee (Don Sehr, Tom Cilek,
John Balmer) regarding consoli-
dation of City and County
ssessor positions.
Informal Meeting cancelled
12-21
Info
No meeting on 12-28-81.
Early informal meeting
12-21.
Info
Will begin at 12:00 noon on 1-4-82
after organizational meeting at
11:30 A.M.
Iowa -Illinois Franchise Review Committee
12-21
Kate Dickson to replace Bob
Vevera.
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Inspection policy regarding owner -
occupied duplexes to be discussed
after January 1, 1982.
Item deferred two weeks to give
Council more time to review draft.
Apparently reply has not been
sent to earlier letter.
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Regular Council Meeting
November 10, 1981
DEPARTMENT REFERRALS
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COMMENTS/STATUS
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Item regarding personnel changes
Parking ramp security
11-10
Finance
deferred two weeks.
DOT Agreement - Benton & Riverside
11-10
Public Works
Deferred indefinitely
Amendment to Article V, Chapter 15,
I1-10
Public Works
City
passed and adopted
Draft letter for Mayor to appli-
Historic Preservation Task Force
11-10
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cants not appointed. Invite them
to participate at Task Force
Borchard - Cedar Streets
11-10•
ublic Wks
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When were leaves picked up?
Special Council meeting
11-10
lity Clerk
Schedule on 11-16 during informal
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"Star Port" for beer permit are
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November 16, 1981 DEPARTMENT REFERRALS
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DATE
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DATE
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00RAMENTS/STATUS.
Pending List - Informal
11-16
Assistant
City i1gr/
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Update report on Block 64 Project
from Plaza Towers Associates.
Absence
11-16
Info
Clemens gone on November 23 and 24
Progress Report
11-16
City AttornE
Meeting with Council re. office
policy and procedures, scheduling,
etc.
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Informal Council Meeting
December 14, 1981
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SUBJECT
DATE
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DATE
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COMMENTS/STATUS
Reword language re. proposals for
Old Library RFP
12-14
P&PD
parking lot to clarify use of it
is optional. Development contract
parking lot cannot be changed
for a period of time if lot is
purchased.
Dubuque Street Improvements Downtown
12-14
P&PD
What is status of replies from
property owners re. assessment for
C.1.P.
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Public Wks/
Finance
Delete handball courts.
Revise to provide list of options
Recreation Questionnaire
12-14
Parks & Rec
re. what improvements/facilities
are most needed.
Mercer Park Flagpole
12-14
Parks & Rec
Install!
Service Club Projects
2-14
City Mgr
Letter to service clubs re.
possible projects of interest -
include Napoleon Park.
Bikeway Improvements
P-14
P&PD
Discuss with bicycle groups
possibility of funding improvements
with license fees and possible
Report on status and problems to
Maintenance of Tree Stock
2-14
Parks & Rec
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Rec. to discuss with City Manager
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Transit
Re. FY 83 budget - discuss with
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Date: December 23, 1981 l
To: City Manager and City Council /
From: Jeff Davidson, Assistant Transportation Planner
Re: Council Referral of 12/14/81 Concerning Bike License Fees
A suggestion was made by the City Council to investigate the possibility
of earmarking bicycle license fees to fund bikeway improvements in Iowa
City. This is an idea I proposed in August in the Bikeway CIP proposal I
j( submitted. With the compulsory bike licensing statute in Iowa City I
think this arrangement is especially appealing: you would have every
i potential user of bikeways also a contributor to their funding. I have
met with the president of the Bicyclists of Iowa City (BIC) and he concurs
that this is a worthwhile idea. BIC is an advocate of bicycle licensing
sprimarily
incefew because it is a�
stolenbicyclesareever recoveredd in , usingnthec eessforHbikeway
activities would be an added benefit for bicyclists.
I received information from the Finance Department that with the present '
$2/four year bike license $4,024 was received in bicycle license fees in
FY81. I have checked with several Iowa cities and found that bike license
fees range from no charge in Ames to $2 per year in Cedar Rapids. If a
Policy is adopted of bike license fees going into a special fund, then I E
feel it would be reasonable to raise the license fee to $1 per year, in the
form of a $2/two year or $3 /three year license. BIC would support this
increase, but only if the special fund is set up. Additionally, BIC would
like to be represented on the committee that would decide how these funds i
were to be used. This would create approximately $8,000 a year in revenue i
for bikeway improvements. This amount of funding would do a great deal
in terms of improvements such as route signing, lane marking, curb cuts,
and parking facilities; however, it would not make much of a dent in terms
of any actual bike path construction. It costs approximately $3,000/block !
to construct a bike path, not including any right-of-way acquisition or i
special grading. For example, it is estimated to cost $123,000 to build
the proposed Rocky Shore Drive bikeway from Park Road to Highway 6/218.
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I would like to offer two additional bikeway funding possibilities that
the Council may want to consider. The first would be to earmark for
bikeways money raised from the City's annual auction of impounded
bicycles. The auction last May raised $6,528.50 which was deposited in
the City general fund. A secondossibi would be to earmark a
of the money the City receives in the form of fines from bicycliststion who
are ticketed for traffic violations. I have no estimate of how much money
the City receives from this-source, but indications are that it is quite a
substantial amount. Both of these funding possibilities would be keeping
with the policy of funding bikeway projects out of bicyclist-generated
revenue, and would also be keeping with the philosophy of the Reagan
administration of having users pay for transportation facilities.
Feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss this further.
cc: Don Schmeiser
John Lundell
Shelly Plattner, BIC
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MEMORANDUM
Date: December 21, 1981
To: City Council
From: Anne Carroll, Director of Human Relations
Re: Employee Retirement Planning Program
Early in January the Human Relations Department will be sponsoring a
retirement planning program to be conducted by staff of Kirkwood
Community College for 15 employees and 9 of their spouses who are
nearing retirement age. The program is being offered in recognition
of the 244 years of city service contributed by these employees with
the hope that this program will assist them to make a smooth
transition into their retirement years. The program will be provided
free of charge to the employees, at a cost of $350 to the City.
The 'retirement planning program consists of 5 evening sessions
covering the following topics: estate planning, financial
management, legal considerations during retirement, IPERS and Social
Security programs, the emotional and personal changes brought about
by retirement, and the community resources available to retired
persons. The program moderator will be assisted by local experts in
each of the above areas.
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DECISION UNIT: POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DEPARTMENT: CITY CLERK
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. To continue basic services at current level.
2. To meet necessary legal requirements.
Work Completed:
1. Prepared election packets for both district and at -large candidates
for Council election, which included nomination papers, affidavits,
Charter, code requirements for elections and political signs.
Processed 12 sets of nomination papers and certified candidates to
County Auditor.
Clerk and Deputy tested voting machines for four and a half days, 70
hours, using the County's eight page checklist for the primary
election.
Deputy completed a week in the second year of a three year Clerk's
Seminar at Ames.
Attended five bid openings. Processed 17 applications for Board and
Commission vacancies.
2. Legal requirements met for attending and providing minutes for ten
informal meetings, six regular meetings, six executive sessions; for
posting of 21 notices; for publishing of six sets of minutes, 11
ordinances, 67 notices; issuing 40 cigarette permits,. 37 beer/liquor
licenses; recording and issuing 12 cemetery deeds.
Code supplement #9, 48
95 Codes. Retrieval
requests, 371, filled within n24 hours;1eph nercalls answered, 652; 14
sets of minutes, 14 packets cross-indexed, resulting in 452 items
cross-indexed and typed into 1356 reference strips; 18 Planning and
Zoning applications accepted, 9 applications finalized. Taxi
licenses issued, 5; peddler's permits issued, 11.
Analysis:
A wall panel was removed providing access from the office to Clerk's
office, a real time-saver. The workload was increased with the election
duties, issuance of peddler's permits for University football events.
During checking of voting machines, one employee was alone much of the
time, a difficult situation. This also happens when vacation is used, or
sick leave taken. The $911 in Expenditure Account 9700 is for prior year
encumbrances.
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Quarter
%
6000
$ 63,065
$13,691
21.7
7000
1,907
111
5.9
8000
40,530
3,838
9.5
9000
1,000
972
97.2
9700
911
Totals
$106,502
$19=523
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DEPARTMENT: CITY MANAGER
DECISION UNIT: ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAM QUARTER: FIRST FY82
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Complete follow-up energy audits of 45 city buildings to check if
recommendations from first energy audits were followed, check for new
problems, and insure compliance with Emergency Building Temperature
Restrictions.
2. Adapt the existing building energy use computer monitoring program to
the City's in-house computer, by September 30, 1981.
3. Provide monthly monitoring of energy use to determine the effectiveness
of energy conservation measures and feedback to divisions comparing
their energy use to their past use and energy budget. Electricity and
natural gas use reports to 18 'divisions and compressed natural gas,
diesel fuel, and gasoline use reports to 14 divisions. (96 reports per
quarter starting second quarter.)
4. Assist the building maintenance crew in establishing a preventive
maintenance program.
5. Adapt vehicle maintenance system computer printout, by September 30,
1981, to facilitate energy consumption monitoring.
6. Assist Equipment Superintendent in investigating a motor fuel
distribution system, recommendation made by end of first quarter.
7. Review existing street light system, lighting needs, electric rate
structure, electricity use, and cost; review alternatives; and present
analysis to City Council by end of second quarter.
8. Apply for federal energy planning funds to develop and implement an
energy plan, if available.
9. Provide technical assistance for the City staff on the Emergency
Building Temperature Restrictions, fuel supplies and the government
allocation system, etc, with one week or less response time.
10. Sponsor a "Town Energy Meeting" in March, 1982, to obtain community
leader input on an energy policy. Arrangements made by interns.
Work Completed:
-The City building electric and natural gas use data was compiled and
missing data on 86 account was requested from Ia.-Ill. Gas & Elec.
-Energy audit recommendations were completed on 12 buildings identifying
annual savings of $34,000 at an initial cost of $63,000.
No -Cost Low -Cost Capital Cost Total
Savings $3,900.02 $12,485.56 $17,600.47 $33,986.05
Cost - 7,623.54 55,426.33 63,049.87
-The changes necessary in the vehicle maintenance system computer
printout, to facilitate energy consumption monitoring, were prepared
and given to the Accounting Division, for inclusion in the new in-house
computer printout.
-Solar project monitoring continued until one piece of monitoring
equipment broke down, in August.
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Performance Measurements:
FY78
FY79
FY80
FY81
FY82
Actual
Actual
Actual
Actual
Year -to -Date
Buildings
54,566
13,758
MPG*
Audited xxx
xxx
3
33
0
Recommendations
Completed xxx
xxx
3
0
16
Energy Use
MPG*
Reports xxx
xxx
xxx
xxx
0
Electricity KWH*
BTU/sq. ft./Ave. Temp
Natural Gas Therms*
BTU/sq. ft./Ave. Temp.
TOTAL BTU
Reg. Gasoline
gala
84,018
84,445
59,273
54,566
13,758
MPG*
L -F Gasoline
gal.
71,386
67,025
87,051
73,913
13,302
MPG*
Diesel #1
gal.
138,677
157,714
165,283.4
170,744.5
37,200
MPG*
Diesel #2
gal.
55,521
58,796
51,318.2
52,706.1
15,236.4
MPG*
Compressed
Nat. Gas
xxx
xxx
xxx
889.5
631.1
MPG*
xxx
xxx
xxx
TOTAL GALL. 349,602 367,980 362,925.6 352,819.1 80,127.5
OR EQUIV.
*This information.is not available; will be reported as it becomes
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-Follow-up energy audits will be done in the fourth quarter.
-A City building energy use mpnitoring program will be set up on the City's
computer when it is possible fo gain access to the computer.
-Monthly reporting on energy use by division is totaly dependent on the
computer because of the amount of data involved.
-The investigation of a motor fuel distribution system was made at the end of
FY81.
-One item not listed in the division objectives is contract supervision, for
the Technical Assistance program. With the award of the matching grants by
the DOE, the City will contract with an engineer or architect to do a
technical energy audit.
-To date, no work has been done on the street lighting review.
-No federal energy planning funds are available.
-The electricity and natural gas data will be available for the second
quarter report.
Expenditures
Budget
This Quarter
%
6000
21,709
4,766.35
21.956
7000
. 645
49.07
7.608
8000
11,987
1,529.76
12.762
9000
0
0
0
Total
34,341
6,348.39
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DECISION UNIT: POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DEPARTMENT: CIVIL RIGHTS SPECIALIST
FISCAL YEAR OBJECTIVES:
1. Investigate all formal complaints and make recommendations to the
Human Rights Commission within 120 days.
2. Resolve informal complaints independently or in conjunction with the
Human Rights Commission within 30 days.
3. Attend all Human Rights Commission meetings and provide staff support
for the Commission in carrying out related programs and projects.
4. Identify W/MBE vendors, contractors and consultants available to the
City and maintain a current list of W/MBE's for reference by City
departments and/or consultants and develop a central monitoring
system for achieving W/MBE goals.
WORK COMPLETED:
FY78 FY79 FY80 FY81 YTD
1. Routine responses to
citizen complaints . 10.3 23
per month
2. Formal complaints
per month
_ cases opened 16 18 19 19 5
_ cases closed 12 12 11 15 2
_ average time to 7.4 7.4 6.5 9 9
closure (monthly)
3. Informal complaints
_ received 4
resolved 4
_ average time to 1 working
resolution day
4. MBE's on list
(average)
5. Percent of total City
purchasing from MBE's
Comments:
A committee has been established to work on the W/MBE program. Policy
and program development will occur during the second quarter.
The Contract Compliance Committee submitted their final draft of the
City's Contract Compliance Program to the Legal Department. A draft
has been returned with some minor changes which the Committee will
discuss. A final document will be submitted to the City Council for
their approval during the second quarter.
All Human Rights Commission meetings were attended and the
information packets were prepared prior to the upcoming meeting.
Staff support included: _
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-two newsletters written and distributed.
-staff support given regarding the public forum the Commission is
coordinating for November 19, 1981
DIVISION ANALYSIS:
The majority of the discrimination complaints continue to occur in the area
of employment. The Human Rights Commission has a FY82 goal of coordinating
a seminar designed to inform local businesses of their equal employment
opportunity responsibilities. Staff will be very supportive in this
endeavor.
Expenditures Budget This Quarter %
6000 19,028 4,403.66 23.14
7000 680 105.30 15.49
8000 2,700 391.48 14.50
9000 0 0 0
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DEPARTMENT: CITY MANAGER
DIVISION: EQUIPMENT DIVISION QUARTER: FIRST FY82
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Establish an in-house tire inventory which will enable the division to
Purchase tires based on cost per mile performance rather than low
initial cost With high cost per mile which is common with service
agreement tire purchase systems.
2• Reduce police patrol cost by providing an effective alternative fuel
system (natural gas).
3. Reduce the cost of the street sweeping program while providing for
superior equipment availability.
4. Monitor performance of new diesel .snowplow trucks and revise
specifications as necessary to prepare for scheduled replacement of
four very high cost per mile gasoline powered units in FY83.
5. Work with the Streets/Sanitation Superintendent in completely
reviewing the solid waste collection operation in order to determine
Optimum equipment configuration in preparation for purchasing three
trucks in FY83. This analysis will include comparing our projected
(based on well specified equipment) cost per unit of collection to
available private sector arrangement to determine whether or not we
are competitive.
6. Institute a fuel allocation program based on 90% of FY80 usage levels;
this is contingent on approval of CIP projects for monitoring
equipment.
Work Completed:
1. Began an in-house tire inventory (police squad cards and light
trucks), researched tire service equipment, began specification
writing for tire service equipment, and completed initial work on tire
service truck.
2. Continued installation of CNG conversions on police squad cards.
(Conversions were 67% complete at the end of the quarter.)
3. Replaced one gasoline powered street sweeper with another diesel
powered street sweeper. The gasoline powered sweeper averaged 2.1
m•P-9. whereas the diesel powered sweeper average 5.6 m.p.g. The
diesel powered sweeper has 167% better fuel economy.
4. Gasoline powered snow plow trucks are averaging 3.7 m.p.g, whereas
diesel powered snow plow trucks are averaging 8.0 m.p.g. for 116%
better fuel economy.
S. We have talked with the Streets/Sanitation Superintendent regarding
his needs in refuse collection but no study of collection costs has
begun yet.
6. Approval for thefuel monitoring equipment was given by the City
Council and information was collected and specification writingbegun
on the "Fuel Island" project. At this time it looks as hough
specifications will not be complete and ready for bid until late
November.
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Tire Cost: $31,371 $50,847 $46,966 $65,000 $13,998
(est.)
Patrol Car
Fuel Cast: 24,880 . 49,947 53,481 87,375 13,166
(est.)
Cost for operating
2 street sweepers: 30,136 17,289 12,042 9,000 4,336
(est.)
Cost per mile,
snow plow trucks: 1.04 .98 .86 .95 .81
(est.)
Cost per mile,
refuse trucks: 1.12 1.72 2.25 1.65 1.78
(est.)
Analysis:
The tire service truck should be set up by the first of the year and we will
continue to build up a tire inventory. CNG conversions on police squad
cards should be completed by the first of December and then we will start
on the truck conversions. This process is going slower than we had hoped,
but we are progressing. The new elevating hopper diesel powered street
sweepers are working out very well. The total operating cost for two
sweepers for FY81 was $8,000 less than we had estimated so we are very
pleased with the operation of the new sweepers. The new diesel powered
snow plow trucks are giving much better fuel- mileage and lower operating
costs and we are pleased with their operation, also. We will be getting
into a review of solid waste collection after the first of the year and
will then have some dollar figures for comparison. Work on the fuel
monitoring equipment is progressing and as soon as bids are received we
will be able to set a timetable for completion.
Expenditures
Budget
This Quarter
%
6000
304,823
60,418.08
19.8
7000'
939,034
173,992.81
18.5
8000
148,693
21,959.77
14.8
9000
276,732
1,468.46
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Total
1,669,282
257,839.12
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MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVES
QUARTER: FIRST FY82
1
Fiscal Year Objective:
1. To make the general community and particularly the elderly aware of the
Senior Center as a community resource.
2. To effectively administer the. coordination of available community
services and activities for the elderly of Johnson County.
3. To provide the elderly community a focal point from which they can plan,
organize and implement o rimgrovingatheircqualityswhich
ramsof lf. they deem
i important in maintaining P the to
4 To exchanvidge ean nformatirtunit shareor co raise and gcoordinate tencies heir services to
pe
the elderly.
j 5. To serve city, county and other entities as a source of data on the
elderly of Johnson County to facilitate the planning process.
6. To promote a cooperative exchange with the University for training,
research and continuing education.
Work Completed:
receitial
1 Facility: anllthecontra to opened tovthe general public Sept mere I.
Ie the
2 Public facilityelt a nservAcee avaiilablemandgprogrammak potenteal�was wainitiated
culminating in the Grand
edrtion oftthetSenior Ceies of nterbPost, invitations
Included were: special'
and programs, news coverage such as interviews and feature articles.
3 re
agenciestatn the Centereeithereon arfull-timelor8scheduled bas8 services is. Thred e
staff continues to facilitate the interchange of ideas and information
through the Service Providers organization.
4. of
commission,
he Senior Center tCommissionuand the Council ofaElders t w
The two
groups were active in the planning of the Grand Opening activities.
and
Commission has been actively involved in developing the p
practices of the Senior Center program.
committees involved in
5. University Involvement: There are studentublicizing the Eldercraft
creating a new Senior Center slide show and p
Shop which will open November -2. There is one practicum student from
the School of Social Work investigating rural outreach and one student
j in recreation working with committees to begin Sunday dance. i
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elderly; 63 tours were given by the 27 guides during y
Opening. By the end of September there were 117 volunteers recruited
and interviewed for opportunities in setting up the Eldercraft Shop, ;
putting out the newspaper and planning the
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library. This does not include the 8 teachers previously mentioned.
The guide contributed to 466: hours in September alone.
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quarter as the whole process was as new to those collecting the data as
to those providing it. The Center colled no data on participation
during the grand opening, but we estimate that 1400 people attended
during the 3 day event. The following figures are probably at least 10%
shy of of actual participation.
Sept. Figures
Senior Center
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SEATS
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Congregate Meals
- 1983 - City
278 - County
44 - Guests
ESA
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AARP
- 98 - City
13 - County
50 - Guests
EXPENDITURE
BUDGET YEAR-TO-DATE %
6000
$ 81,104 $14,074.41
17.354
7000
4,200 1,304.28
31.054
8000
51,045 7,945.29
15.565
9000
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$136,829x 25,53 .84
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8.663
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Processing $1132.11 - First
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QUARTER: FIRST
DIVISION: HUMAN RELATIONS
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Revise non -bargaining unit pay plans by 12/81.
2. Revise performance evaluation system by 10/81.
3. Review and revision of all Police and Fire promotional examinations,
as vacancies arise, to more effectively indicate applicant qualifi-
cations, utilizing assessment center concepts, by 6/82.
4. To provide suitable applicant pools on a timely basis following notice
of position vacancy.
5. Furtherance of the principles of Affirmative Action in City employ-
ment through assisting in the establishment and attainment of
Affirmative Action goals and objectives for every department and
through the preparation of quarterly reports on Affirmative Action
progress throughout FY82.
6. Provide a minium of 20 hours of in-house staff training covering
personnel procedures, Affirmative Action, managerial, supervisory and
human relations skills.
7. Respond to all employee inquiries and/or requests for assistance on a
timely basis.
Work Completed:
1. Will be completed in the second quarter.
2. Performance evaluation committee formed and provided assistance on
areas to be improved and acceptable/effective techniques to be
utilized in performance evaluation system design and tightening of
the pay for performance relationship. Research completed on the
integration of Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales with present MBO
system. Initial system design revisions and compensation techniques
presented to committee and approved. Final form to Committee, staff
and City Manager in second quarter.
3. No Police -Fire promotional openings.
4.Ongoing.
5. Ongoing. Quarterly report data gathered manually. Computerization
of EEO base data completed in programming for data use will be pursued
throughout the fiscal year.
6. No formal staff training during the first quarter.
7. Ongoing. Approval of Human Relations Department Operating Procedures
manual, the development of which is completed, will provide better
information to employees and supervisors, and will decrease inquiries
and speed response time by the Human Relations Department it is
anticipated.
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This Quarter
Measurement
FY81
First Quarter FY82
Applications Processed
2,374
249
Applicant Pool Minority
427
8.7
Representation
8.6%
8.4%
Entry -Level Vacancies -
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Positions Filled Externally
85
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Promotions/Transfers -
Positions Filled Internally
49
13
Reclassification Requests
19
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Training Conducted (Hours)
7
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Expenditures
Budget
This Quarter
%
6000
84,933
20,180
23.6
7000
4,885
427
8.7
8000 33,296 18,362 55.2
9000 0 54
Total 123,114 38,870 31.6
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DEPARTMENT: POLICE QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: ADMINISTRATION
Fiscal Year Objectives:
I. Assess departmental productivity.
2. Improve in-service training.
3. Improve downtown patrol.
Work Completed:
I. Underway - tabular presentation of activities is being developed.
2. Basic police skills training, a refresher course offered to all Iowa
City police officers is one-third completed.
3. Measurement indices to indicate departmental productivity are in a
raw stage of development. Indications of these devices are offered in
the quarterly reports of other divisions.
Analysis:
The nature of the tasks undertaken by and assigned to the several divisions
is altering overtime as the demand for police services and resources
increases in the community.
Expenditures Budget Year -to -Date %
6000 $ 87,909 $19,560 22.25
7000 850 280 33.00
8000 14,234 1,931 13.57
9000 --- ---
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DECISION UNIT: PATROL
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. To promptly provide called for services (C.F.S.)..
2. Develop a strategy of "directed patrol" as a substitute for general or
random patrol.
Work Completed:
Directed patrol assignments have been successfully used several times in
those continuing criminal occurrences from which available reports and
data are sufficient so that anaylsis can arrive at valid determinations of
time, place, and method of operations of those involved. Raw data
comparing caTled for services (CFS) to arrests, citations or tickets (ACT)
is the basis for the analysis of type of crime, etc., that may trigger
directed patrol.
Called for Service (CFS) Compared to Arrests Citations and Tickets (ACT)
Quarter CFS FY81 ACT CFS FY82 ACT
1 7,500 8,000 8,002 7,503
2 8,600 9,600 --- ---
3 10,600 8,500 --- ---
4 9 600 6 400 ---
Total. 35;700 32�T0 8,00 7,M
Analysis:
Analysis is difficult because of the volume of incidents reported to and
handled by the division. Hand tally and indicating trends or developments
consume a great deal of time and resources and bring the question of the
validity of subsequent analysis sharply into focus,
Expenditures Budget Year-to-Oate %
6000 $ 945,894 $187,537 19.8
7000 97,672 22,302 22.8
8000 72,565 11,631 16.0
9000 91 720
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DECISION UNIT: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
Fiscal Year Objectives:
Provide investigative and referral services equal to those provided in
FY82.
To furnish on-call investigative services, as needed and to continue
investigative services to the patrol units.
Work Completed:
"On-call" assignments completed and functioning: Level of service noted
below.
Investigations Assigned (A) as Compared to Clearance Rates (R
Quarte r (A) FY81 (C) (A) •FY82 (C)'
1
228
143 214 147
2
316
171 --- ---
3
193
111 --- ---
4
149
87 --- ---
Total
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Analysis:
The unpredictability of investigative caseloads plus resource limitations
make it extremely difficult to formulate and accomplish any objectives more
meaningful than carrying out assigned tasks.
Expenditures Budget Year -to -Date %
6000 $140,219 $31,753
7000 1,750 18
8000 4,075 621
9000 --- ---
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DECISION UNIT: RECORDS AND IDENTIFICATION
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Produce timely and accurate reports, data and statistics as required
for operational purposes and as demanded by law.
2. To assist in the programming, installation and operation of the police
portion of the City computer.
Work Completed:
1. Keeping up with requirements and demands.
2. No progress.
Documents Filed (DF) and Reports Requested by All Agencies (REQ)
Quarte r OF FY81 REQ OF FY82 REQ
1 35,000 1,650 32,000 1,760
2 35,700 1,180 --- ---
3 25,000 1,175 --- ---
4 29 500 1 386 --- ---
Total i�7 66a Ji 3'F66b 16
Analysis:
No problems.
Expenditures Budget Year -to -Date %
6000 $147,202 $29,282 19.89
7000 2,275 276 12.16
8000 6,435 3,093 48.06
9000 270 438 162.22
Total 1 6,182 $§3—,M —ff.-13
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DEPARTMENT: POLICE
QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: ANIMAL CONTROL
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Procedures to improve the pet licensing program will be developed (2nd
Quarter).
2. Certification by the Humane Society of the United States (3rd Quarter).
3. Graduation of one officer from the Animal Control Academy (4th'Quarter).
Work Completed:
1. Licensing program update continues. Records are being computerized.
New license renewal notices are being printed.
Number of licenses sold and revenue (L = Licenses, R = Revenue)
Quarter (L) FY79 (R) (L) FY80 (R) (L) FY81 (R) (L) FY82 (R)
1 294/$1716 299/$1759 232/$1409 284/$1768
2 160/$1055 204/$1262 179/$898
3 330/$2048 352/$2241 1699/$11,771
4 376/$2180 326/$2126 475/$1912
Total 1160 6999 —11-81—/$-7 3-88 —258-5T$15,990
Number of Responses to Complaints on Dogs and Cats (D = Dogs, C = Cats)
Quarter (0) FY79 (C) (D) FY80 (C) (D) FY81 (C) (D) FY82 (C)
1 354/83 365/58 300/62 306/98
2 276/44 319/53 235/62
3 302/26 317/36 272/36
4 389/63 374/94 281/92
Total 1321/216 1375/241 1088/252
Analysis:
Work on the attainment of the stated objectives is proceeding as rapidly as
personnel and other resources allow.
Expenditures Budget This Quarter %
6000 70,268 15,830 22.52
7000 8,745 1,936 22.14
8000 17,809 2,825 15.86
9000 345 0 0
Total 97,167 20,891 21.50
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DEPARTMENT: FIRE QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: FIRE DEPARTMENT
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Develop equipment rebuilding plan by October 1981.
2. Continue the current level of fire prevention programs.
3. Continue to provide the current level of educational and technical
opportunities for selected members of the department.
4. Continue the department training program at its current level.
5. Integrate housing inspection duties into the general duty program.
Work Completed:
FY78 FY79 FY80 FY81 1st Qtr.FY82
1. Total number of alarms 671 904 1006 1060 216
2. Total number of first
responder calls 46 60 244 240 61
3. Total number of fire
inspections 2193 2065 2786 3000 863
4. .Total number of fire
safety programs 34 48 44 40 54
5. Total number of training
drills 2387 2523 • 2407 2000 493
6. Total number of drill
hours 7161 7570 7220 6000 1479
Division Analysis:
The amount of work handled by the department appeares to be slowly but steadily
increasing each year. To continue to provide the current level of service in
all areas, it will become increasingly necessary to seek more efficient methods
to provide these services.
Expenditure Budoet This Quarter %
6000 $ 942,265 224,782 23.85
7000 19,373 4,220 21.78
8000 43,845 9,945 22.68
9000 13 600 7 162 52.66
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DEPARTMENT: HOUSING & INSPECTION SERVICES QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: ADMINISTRATION
Fiscal Year Objectives:
To assist all divisions within the department in meeting their objectives
and to promote and nurture a higher degree of supervisory, administrative
and professional development and performance by all division heads.
Work Completed:
1. Public housing construction completed on Phase I. Phase II and Phase
III under construction and on schedule.
2. Conducted a workshop on congregate housing.
3. Completed scheduling and training program for Housing Inspectors and
Firefighters.
4. Attended first state meeting of the Iowa Association of Housing
Officials, a professional organization of Housing Inspectors.
Analysis: .
Unbudgeted expenditures shown in category 9000 below will be reimbursed
from other accounts.
Expenditures Budget Year -to -Date %
6000 $50,007 $12,434.00 24.86
7000 454 21.60 4.758
8000 7,921 1,556.29 19.648
9000 0 1,276.62
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DEPARTMENT: HOUSING & INSPECTION SERVICES QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: HOUSING INSPECTION
Fiscal Year Objectives:
To supply a level of service which would not allow the quality
of rental
housing nor owner -occupied housing to deteriorate from the level
which has
been achieved to this date. The division will strive to meet the needs of
including,
the property owners and property renters by providing services
but not limited to, the following:
1. Accurate housing inspections.
2. Reasonable and equal Code interpretation and enforcement.
3. Access to the Housing Appeals Board.
4. Support services to other departments and divisions.
5. Public relations to all members of the community.
6. Report of first years experience in enforcing revised Housing Code.
Work Completed:
This Quarter Year -to -Gate
Violation letters issued 140
140
1
Emergency orders issued 1
98
98
Certificate of Structure Compliance
109
109
Rental Permits
10
10
Referral to Legal
1
Court filings 1
0
0
Rent escrow
Number of appeals granted/denied 3/3
3/3
Analysis:
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reimbursed
from other accounts.
Expenditures Budget Year -to -Date
%
6000 $78,212 $16,889
21.595
7000 1,411 461.48
32.706
8000 7,510 1,778.19
23.678
9000 2,243.86
Total $87,133 5211373.12
24.529
REVENUES GENERATED: $15,802
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DEPARTMENT: HOUSING & INSPECTION SERVICES QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DIVISION: BUILDING INSPECTION
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. To conduct plan review for all but the most complex plans with the
quickest possible turnaround time.
2. To document current nonconforming uses and conversions in conjunction
with the new zoning ordinance.
3. To maintain and provide the public with information on building safety.
4. To instruct and certify one inspector within their job classification.
Work Completed;
1. A final certificate of occupancy was issued for the enclosed mall
building. 37 tenant spaces have obtained a certificate of occupancy and
are now open for business.
2. Systematic inspections have been further reduced in order to maintain
and respond to citizen complaints.
3. Building permits and construction in general has shown a small increase
despite a decrease on the national average.
4. Plan review turnaround time has increased due to the large amounts of
complex commercial plans to be reviewed.
5. The Senior Building Inspector successfully took and passed the Council
of American Building Officials examination in Kansas City on
July 25, 1981. The examination finds him proficient in.the fields of
law, Administration and technology. He is the 327th person in the
nation to receive this certificate.
Analysis:
- Number of building permits: 137
- Dollar amount: $4,534,132
- Number of field inspections: 1701
- Number of plans checked: 121
- Average turnaround time: 2.5 days
- Number of violation orders unknown; compliances unknown.
EXPENDITURES BUDGET YEAR-TO-DATE %
6000 $112,892 $24,883.96 22.042
7000 2,050 192.84 9.407
8000 15,224 2,907.23 19.096
9000 -0- 51.75 -O-
Total $130,166 a37M 21.538
Revenue Collected: $24,897.13
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DEPARTMENT: PARKS AND RECREATION
DECISION UNIT: ADMINISTRATION QUARTER: FIRST FY82
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Prompt dissemination of information from the Council, City Manager,
Parks and Recreation Commission, and other departments and divisions
to appropriate division heads and divisions.
2. Systematic monitoring of divisions to ensure that each is functioning
at capacity for the complete budget year.
3. Avoid duplication of services within city government, and attempt to
avoid duplication of parks and recreation services that are offered by
other governmental units or private enterprise.
4. Conduct the seventh in a series of citizen surveys, each covering an
eight block area, to determine citizen satisfaction with the
department, and what additional services the citizens desire.
Work Completed:
Objectives 1, 2 and 3. Objectives are being met, *divisions are getting
their work done on time.
4. No survey has been conducted yet.
Analysis
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Expenditures Budget This Quarter %
6000 55,979 12,915 23.07
7000 449 32 7.13
8000 2,431 310 12.77
9000 0 0 0
Total 58,859 13,258 22_53
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QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: RECREATION
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. To expand the Halloween program to include four pre -parade activities
by 11/1/81.
2. Offer two more cultural arts trips by 6/82.
3. Conduct a spring or early summer festival at Children's Museum by
7/82.
4. Hold ten special arts programs in the Recreation Center game room area
for junior and senior high.
S. Expand playday activities to include nature awareness and
rhythm/movement by 4/82.
6. ' Conduct five music activities in the plaza area by 11/81.
Work Completed:
1. The SPI Teen Club visited the "Haunted House"; Halloween activities
planned for playday Saturday a.m.; a Halloween mask/costume workshop
on 10/22 and 29.
2. A trip to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History is planned for
11/20. An Ice Follies and Botanical Gardens trip to Des Moines is
scheduled for 11/28.
3. During Arts Surrounds the Plaza in mid-September, ten cultural arts
activiites were held with five music activities as per objective N6.
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FY79 FY80 FY81 FY82
4. Paid swimming admits 154,336 156,232 128,872 60,781
5. Number of attending
Recreation Center 196,062 181,024 180,000* 37,176
6. Number of attending
playgrounds 12,897 . 10,497 6,713 4,474
7. Number attending
Children's Museum 2,406
8. Number of units organized
activities (includes
aquatics, cultural,
physical, social, SPI,
and miscellaneous, but
not drop-in use) NA
5,756 5,636 1,564
NA 6,563 3,534
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Current service levels are being maintained. Rapid growth in aerobic
dance. Swim attendance decline probably due to rate increase. Prior year
encumbrances of $9,738.35 not included in expenditures.
Expenditures Budget This Quarter %
6000 385,091 119,866.89 31.127
7000 41,150 18,436.48 44.803
8000 106,864 34,433.84 32.222
9000 4,580 159.20 3.476
Total 537,685 172,896.41 32.156
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QUARTER:
FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: PARKS
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Provide new floral displays at Creekside and
Court Hill Parks by May
31, 1982.-
2. Schedule mowing operations of park areas according to type and usage
during FY82.
Work Completed:
YTD
FY79 FY80 FY81
FY82
1. Number of flower 12 14 16
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2. Number of hours
spent on mowing 5,043 4,910 4,703
2,539
3. Number of shelter
reservations 1,055 1,224 1,349
651
4. Number of hours
spent on projects
for other city
departments 2,252 2,784 • 2,455
175
Analysis:
1. Floral displays will be very noticeable to the public along Muscatine
Avenue and Friendship Street respectively.
2. More.selective mowing operations will be necessary
to hold down fuel
and other operating costs with expected budget
cuts.
3. Flower buds will not be planted until fourth quarter.
Expenditures Budget This Quarter
%
6000 252,887 57,081
22.572
7000 30,322 6,235
10.564
8000 101,174 27,926
27.602
9000 4,500 2,030
45.114
Total 388,883 94,893
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QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
Fiscal Year Objectives:
I. Implement use of a building cleaning survey to be completed monthly.
Areas will be graded Poor, Fair, Good, or Excellent. Specific jobs
measured will include floor maintenance, room cleaning, toilet care,
and miscellaneous jobs such as window cleaning, etc.
2. Start recording legitimate complaints as basis for future comparison.
Work completed:
1. Survey form is in use. Surveys show areas ratings as follows:
Excellent 'Good Fair PDor
26 5 1 5%
% of Fair and Poor areas.must decrease from 17% to 10% maximum.
2. Legitimate complaints are averaging six per month.
Analysis:
Costs for heating and air conditioning repairs are down drastically due to
new equipment and better preventative maintenance.
YTD
FY78 FY79 FY80 FY81 FY82
$6412 $5266 $8984 $5357 $0
Expenditures Budget This Quarter %
6000 30,714 4,829 15.72
7000 8,125 1,409 17.34
8000 81,139 12,510 15.42
9000 101,500* 155 .15
Total 221,478 18,903 8.53
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QUARTER: FIRST FY82
DECISION UNIT: CBD MAINTENANCE
Fiscal Year Objectives:
1. Provide year-round interest and color in some horticulture display
areas by using spring flowering bulbs, summer annuals, fall mums, and
Christmas trees. Completed.
2. Reduce mortality rates and increase health and vigor of trees and
shrubs by implementinga general horticultural care system consisting
of proper watering and fertilization, diagnosis and treatment of
diseases and pests, and proper pruning. Mortality rate - 3%.
3. Establish procedures to ensure high quality maintenance and
cleanliness of areas. Successful - see N2 below.
Work Completed:
1. Start a formal system for visual inspection of facilities on a
biweekly. basis for high -use season, April 15 through October 30, and
rate each area Poor, Fair, Good or Excellent. Specific areas checked
are those listed in the Plaza Maintenance Manual, including sweeping,
cleaning spills, % of water in soil in planters, fountain operation,
snow removal, etc. The overall goal is to have all areas rated Good
or Excellent 90% of the time for the complete year.. Any time that an
area is rated Poor or Fair, it must improve to Good or Excellent on
the next survey. Survey in use shows 90% Good, 7.5% Fair, 2.5%
Excellent.
2. For the Plaza, survey each adjacent business semi-annually for
effectiveness ratings, and ideas for improvement. The survey was
started in' May of 1981 as basi's for future comparison. The goal for
FY82 will be 93% of business satisfied with our performance. The goal
for implementing ideas for improvement, assuming that they are
practical and possible to do within the current budget, will be 90%.
Spring survey complete - 100% of businesses satisfied.
Division Anslysis:
The Plaza area has received a high degree of acceptance by the public.
With the expansion of this small division to include Streetscape II, close
monitoring of maintenance will be necessary to insure that the maintenance
of existing areas, Plaza, Washington Street, Chauncey Swan,•etc., does not
fall below the level of previous years.
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-This Quarter
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6000
29,566
7,463
25.24
7000
5,843
1,556
26.63
8000
4,382
674
15.40
9000
18,811
2,794
14.85
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MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVES
DEPARTMENT: PARKS AND RECREATION
DECISION UNIT: CEMETERY/FORESTRY QUARTER: FIRST FY82
Fiscal Year Objectives:
I. Introduce and acquire Council approval of a specialized planting
program for specific areas by March 1, 1982. No action.
2. Continue a realistic approach to the entire public tree maintenance
program during the year.
3. Modify the Weed Ordinance by August 15, 1981 to reduce unnecessary
administrative expenditures. No action.
4. Reduce by 40% the amount of time spent by the cemetery crew outside the
cemetery and increase cemetery maintenance projects proportionately
during 1982.
Work Completed:
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FY82
FY79 FY80
FY81
YTD GOAL,
1.
Number of street
trees planted 0 309
223
0/30
2.
Number of cemetery
trees planted 0 7
8
9/10
3.
% of time spent out-
side cemetery by crew 13 19
22
13/13.6%
4.
Number of cemetery
graves repaired 120 20
35
30/120
5.
Number of monuments
repaired by crew 5 2
2
48/50
6.
Number of monuments
repaired by contract 20 40
50
39/45
7.
Number of graves
pinned out 0 0
0
48/50
Analysis:
The
Superintendent's responsibilities and
duties'are
being divided between
the
cemetery foreman, Parks and Recreation
Director,
Parks and Recreation
secretary, and the park horticulturist.
The
reason for the high expenditure percentage
in the 8000 series is that
$34,000
of the $40,000 forestry budget i6 already spent.
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Expenditures Budget —This Quarter %
6000 96,195 24,922 25.90
7000 10,811 1,313 12.15
8000 57,411 37,943 66.10*
9000 10,150 24 _24
Total 174.567 64,204
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leagan' Signs
>ewer Grant Bill
�f $102 Billion
'Daow'Au. Srn JOv Ai'SWfR"C"n "
L40S ANGELES - President Reagan
sncd Into law a $103 billion bin that ex•
!nda sewage treatment aid to local govern•
tens through fiscal 1985 but reduces the
deral government's role.
The measure Includes as much as $t.6
Him a year in construction grants to local
rveroments and Is intended to transfer the
iogrun's emphasis from public works to
ar Urpbg of ams with water, -quality
roblems. By 1985 the' federal share of
rants will drop to 55% from 75%.
-The change in emphasis should benefit
ates in the Industrial Northeast. The legis•
tlon eliminates anticipated- population
mth, on which the Sun Belt has relied, is
basis for grants to build sewage lines and
aste•treatmenl plants.
The President said N a statement that
to bill "represents a rededication to envi•
mmental goals, and a turn away from pub•
c works for the sake of We works"
The bin Incorporates many of the
ranges the White House demanded before
ie President would agree to continue the
twergrants program. Congress didn't go
t far as Mr. Reagan wanted in some areas,
Id as late as last week there was some un.
!rtainty about whether he would sign the
ieasure.
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By JANiFS FLANSBURG
ROM THE story, . 6e told
during his successful re-elec.
tion campaign last fall, Des
Moines City Councilman
George Flagg tried for months to get
other council members and City
Manager Richard Wilkey to look into
the behavior of a bunch of city
housing inspectors.
But. be said, robody at City Hall
was interested in doing anything until
Des Moines Tribune reporters
followed inspectors on their daily
rounds and found some Londucting.
personal business on city time wRlle
others were loafing and drinking and
using their city can for uanfficial'
trips.
Although his account is disputed by
some at City Hall, the circumstances
give weight to his story. Close en the
beeis of the papers report,' Wilkey
fired, demoted or suspended 19 of the
troops and set out to reorganize the
department.
Flagg's ax -grinding to the side -.`
he has so many sits to grind that a
lot of savvy people don't pay much.;
attention to his stories — the
situation don pose a valid questiorc
The inspectors were doing the same
thing the Inspectors have been doing
for at least 15 years, so why didn't the
other council members and the
manager, who In truth are just as in-
terested as Flagg In efficiency and
saving tax money, do anything about
it?
The Des
mission or;!weredl
�the
ghen
it ruicd on the apxals 21 Wilke_y's
ted¢msou. It said he'd been too tough
in ii ot the cases and MUM -the
Penalties.
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It's a story that baa Deets written
over and over again about civil
service in Des Moines, every other
city and in the state and federal gov-
ernments.
Federal, state or local civil iervice
is nothing but a system to guarantee
public employees their jobs, come
hell or high water. That's the reason
public executives go slow on things
that would have a private executive
moving in a minute. Even with an
Ironclad cases puisne esecutive has
'a Im the fact that the odds are
stains m t at is civil -service
commission, in all ILS 1
Will slap all" doWn. ... ,
ToNe-M Or COMM, appeal to the
cotuts.' But that form a mayor or
city manager or governor or
president to put on his budget hat and
weigh' what that will cost the
taxpayers against what abiding by
lite' commLuloo's decision will cost
the tarpayemThey usually go for the
lower coat and try to set up a new
manigement system aimed at.
making the transgressors change
their ways
The lowest cast, however, is to try
to work out the problem without
resorting to firing, suspending,
demoting or anything that gets the ci-
.vil-service system into the act '••^:
For the Rich Wilkeys of this nation,
should be 20011e0Pd_irs an
nee time has passed: It was
In Its:lime, but today —
state and local - it provides
It's the body ponies equivalent of
the human appendix — useless'for
any greater good although potential-
ly highly beneficial for a narrow
special Interest.
The original purpose of civil
service In this country was toput
sharp: limits on spoils -system
patronage so that non-political
technical types wouldn't be thrown
out and replaced by Unqualified hacks
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every lime a new administration took
power. (Some Register critics may be
heartened by the Idea that Zreform
was brought on about 100 years ago
by the spoiLs-system excesses of a
one-time editor of The Register.) But
the human appendix once served a
carom. too. . .
y^coo uctiog a trance and
promotion examinations, civil -service
systema are also supposed to be the
screens that keep politics — personal
or partisan — out, so that merit Is the
deciding factor on apPolnlmmM
That has been phony from the start
The legal loophole —lists of 10
persons for the appointment to one
job — and the extra -legal phenome-
non of lest answers getting Into the
hands of favorites have always made
`.a mockery of the system (And so
have the subsequent performances of
r number of high-scoringcivil
servants.) Anyone questioning the
test -copy assertion is referred to
another Des Moine Tribune coup of
20 years ago when the paper found
that some firemen had advance
copies of their promotional tests.
If this is the correct view, a person
Who has just tunid in might ask. why
have so many Politicians — federal,
state and local — been so quiet about
Il?
The answer probably Iles if the
fact that the oublh •molovees have
N,
ins orWn votin9 blocs and
wee- u o f o . Out here in
real lize, where you don't worry much
about people voting for or against
you, that would seem to be another
powerful argument that the poor,
downtrodden public employees really
have little need of civil -service Pro-
' lecdon nowadays. But in political life,
the rule is that you don't do
something to' make enemies unless
you're sure It's going to make you a
lot more friends, and the civll•scrvice
Issue can make enemies but not.nec-
essarily friends. .
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Public executives who have to deal
with civil service usually approach
the issue by half -measures, and try to.
get new people on their comtolvion•
or board to see the problem fromthe'
public point of view. .,;' • . f';,
Invariably, they -end up angry and
•
frustrated, feeling they've been
betrayed, because the perfectly ra-
sonable person they -put on the com-
mission has suddenly. turned perfectly
unreasonable. ;....:,.,
As a mutt, they often apew.venom
on people rather than focm on the
lacl that the people,are executing a
whacky set of outdated laws t1Ut are
alined at problems' that no longer
exLit.
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The Cedar Rapids Gazette: Sun.; .Dec. 20, 1981 11C
City, , insurance company
join in protection* plan
By Robert Strand
MILL VALLEY, Calif. = The city
of Mill Valley Is going Into partner-
ship with a private company — the
first deal of Its kind in the nation —
to sell homeowne{s insurance to Its
residents.
The same deal, pushed by AVCO
Financial Group, currently Is being
quietly discussed in at least 10
California cities squeezed for funds
because of Proposition 13 and other
tax -cutting measures.
The Mill Valley City Council last
month approved a plan by which
AVCO promises the city. a cut of
money it expects to save from a
home inspection program to be
operated by police and firemen.
A homeowner who. volunteers to
have his home Inspected, and who
makes recommended corrections,
will get a reduced premium if he
takes his Insurance from AVCO:
AVCO should save money be-
cause its losses should be lower, and
It promises to share the savings with
the city.
• AVCO, of course, will also have a
competitive advantage in the Mill
Valley' market, although it is not
really expected that AVCO will wind
up Insuring the whole city.
IF THE PLAN works, other large
insurance companies probably will
move Into Mill Valley and other
cities to offer the same deal.
"I consider It, a win-winsitua-
tlon;' said Mayor Douglas Binderup,
a financial consultant In his.private
life. 'The Insured enjoys a lower
premium, the company will be
paying out less for losses because
we will reduce loss exposures, and
the bottom line for Mill Valley Is the
saving of lives and property."
Direct sales Insurers such as
Allstate and State Farm could be
hurt, along with Independent agents
who do not carry AVCO.
But Fred Dupuis, executive vice
president of the Indepehdent Insur-
ance Agents Association of Califor-
nia, said, "We question that the plan
will tum out as well as the city
expects."
AT PRESENT, any Mill Valley
homeowner can call the fire depart-
ment for an evaluation, but only: a
couple each month do so. Under the
new plan, the homeowner will be
prompted to,call by a promise of a
cut in his cost_
Inspectors will check for fire
hazards such as faulty wiring, bui
glary hazards such as a lack 'of
protective devices, and liability hai-
ards such as a loose step that could
cause a homeowner to be sued. Then
a risk assessment will be sent Lo
AVCO.
Of the premium dollar, Binderup
-says a dime typically goes to
commissions, 30 cents is retained by
the Insurance company, and 60 cents
Is spent to pay claims.
If AVCO can cut Its Mill Valley
' claims to So cents, for example, it
promises to pass on to the city
government the 10 -cent saving. Over
three years that is projected to tie
$100,000 for the city and Its taxpay-
ers.
BINDERUP INSISTS the Inspec-
tions can be carried out by existing
personnel at little extra expense.
Dupuis says this Is an assumption
that the city has police and fire
personnel sitting around now with
little to do.
William Walsh, city chief 'tif
police and fire services, said the 30
minutes It takes to make "Chorue
security analysis" Is a lot less man-
hours than It takes to investigate' a
burglary or put out a fire.
However the money calculations
work out In practice, the mayor says
the real payoff should be fewer
burglaries and fires. About this
prospect Chief Welsh says he's
"quite excited." .
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Can We Afford
To Maintain our
Physical Plant?
IN THIS ISSUE: As society builds
Up an ever greater dependence on
physical and technological support
systems, maintenance and
rehabilitation become increasingly
burdensome. This raises a gnawing
question of how much society can
afford.
October 1981
Environmentalists have worried greatly about the impli-
cations of biological limits to growth. They have warned against
the depletion and contamination of essential natural resources.
But there is another type of constraint on society: Are we
capable of maintaining the elaborate structural and technological
Systems by which we develop, distribute, and use resources?
As a civilization, we have built and come to rely heavily
on a number of such systems for our existencee, our health,
our quality of life, and our economic well-being. The most
important of these systems are used to supply water, to treat
water, to transport and distribute food, to dispose of wastes,
and to provide energy.
Such support system's, like all human constructs, aro subject
to the inexorable laws of physical decay; They therefore need
to be maintained, repaired, or replaced. Their life expectancies
generally range from 20 years to 100 years or more, with
highway pavements and nuclear power plants at the shorter
end of the scale, while water mains, dams, and bridges usually
endure much longer.
Since all these systems inevitably deteriorate, several
questions arise: Will society stagger under the difficulties and
costs of maintaining them? Will our descendants be able to
cope with the burdensome legacies we leave?
One can only ask the questions, not answer them. But
they bring to mind an observation of Eric Hoffer, the phil-
osopher longshoreman, that history shows the level achieved
by a civilization can be measured by the degree to which it
Performs maintenance.
In the last few years, there has been growing concern
over the condition of the nation's urban infrastructure. It is
clear that much of it has deteriorated badly and that other
facilities also have problems. There also is general agreement
on the causes of decay, the remedies, and the fact that they are
expensive.
It is easy to paint a grim picture of mounting' costs and a
problem allowed to get out of hand: Some cities have been
described as crumbling or in a state or ruin. The degeneration
of physical systems has been linked to inflation, loss of pro.
ductivity, economic doldrums, and budget deficits. In fact,
much of the recent anguish over deteriorated urban infra.
structure results from the belief that this deterioration is
thwarting economic M'halization.
Despite the obvious problems, it is by no means clear
that the nation and its cities will find it too difficult or financially
overbearing to cope with the situation.
Yet the current fiscal vise is obvious enough, and a number
Of thoughtful observers have expressed concern about the
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heasy commitments society has made.
In a broad context, writer William
Ophuls says. "The important question
is not 'Con We do it?' in the narrow
technological sense. Rather, we must
ask: Can we do all the things we have
to Eo at once, given
factors
money, manpower, and other
potentially in least supply?"t
Another writer, Jeremy Rifkin, in
his treatise on the Second Law of
Thermodynamics, said: "The near fiscal
collapse of New York and Cleveland
is a sign of what lies ahead for our
overgrown and outworn cities in the
next two decades. The sober truth is
that we can no longer afford to main-
tain these incredibly entropic urban
environments."'
Rifkin believes that, as cities require
more and more energy, ".to maintain
the maximum flow-through it becomes
necessary to continue to reorder the
disorder that is proliferating faster and
faster in every pan of the system.
Economic and political institutions
enlarge their functions and expand their
outreach. They begin to serve a main-
tenance and repair function. Main-
taining a high energy flow-through and
absorbing the increasing disorders that
build up along the city's flow line re-
quire money."
Edward Goldsmith, an editor of The
Ecologist. develops the theme this way:
'A point must eventually be reached
when the rate at which the physical
infrastructure is disintegrating is equal
to that at which it is being extended.
When this occurs, the lack of money
for maintenance becomes an effective,
indeed an inmperabie barrier to jwther
economic growth. In fact it may well
be that this point has already been
reached, who knows? No government
has to my knowledge even considered
the matter. It may also be that even
without further economic growth, we
may not be able to maintain the phys-
ical infrastructure that we have already
built."r After citing some dollar esti-
mates of pending maintenance and
replacement costs, Goldsmith con-
tinues:
"It isanaccepted ecological principle
that in the early stages of development
of an ecosystem a very considerable
proportion of the energy and resources
used are devoted to growth. If this is
possible it is because little, at this stage,
is required for maintenance. As the
ecosystem develops, however, less
energy and resources can be devoted
to growth because correspondingly
more are required for the maintenance
of the growing biomass. Eventually
when the ecosystem reaches its climax
state (adulthood) practically all the
energy and resources used are required
for maintenance.
"The same principle must apply to
the development of the man-made
physical infrastructure of our industrial
society." However, while the climax
ecosystem reaches a stable, ideal state
and no longer has to grow, the indus-
trial state as it grows becomes increas-
ingly unstable, with an increasingly
destructive impact of economic activi-
ties on the social and ecological en-
vironment. "To these problems our
industrial society can only provide
technological solutions which, needless
to say, do not work. In order to apply
them, however, the economy must
continue to expand, which gives rise
to more problems requiring more
technological solutions, etc.... Our
growing inability to maintain the
physical infrastructure of our industrial
society constitutes in itself yet another
limit to growth."
While such warnings about urban
entropy and economic growth limits
are grounded more in theory than hard
evidence, there are, nevertheless, some
disturbing signs of confirmation in the
real world.
Many local and state governments
are in a financial straitjacket, which
makes it a most unpropitious time for
them to tackle problems of deterioration.
Yet most costs of maintaining infras-
t ,rture n(sp^^Svstems arc
ryrivni ahle—like budget items tradi-
tionally considered "uncontrotlables,"
such as Social Security benefits and in.
terest on debt. P4gWMment only in-
e^Sw h octe later,
Federalaid is being cut even as new
responsibilities are shifted to states and
municipalities. With inflation, expen-
ditures tend to increase more quickly
than revenues. Citizen resistance to
taxation is widespread—witness Pro-
position 13 in California, Proposition
2tft in Massachusetts, and similar re-
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calcitrance elsewhere in the form of
taxing and spending limits and oppo-
sition to bond issues, user charges, in -
'creased subway fares, and in some cases
even the approval of funding to krrp
schools open.
Economic hard times have ieduvrsl
tax revenues in many places; a severe
recession would he devastating flu
capital investment and maintenance
programs. The exodus of well-to-do
residents and businesses from many
cities (sometimes partly due to exas-
peration with the very deterioration and
system breakdowns at issue) erode the
property tax base, thereby setting up a
vicious circle with fewer revenues to
pay for maintenance and better service.
Municipalities and states also face With
interest rates, a most difficult bond
market (likely to be worsened by the
competition from the new "All Savers"
certificates), and competing needs for
private capital.
A National Governors Association
study shows most state governments
to be in unhealthy fiscal condition!
Even California, which has enjoyed a
hefty surplus for some years, appears
to be sliding backwards, as Governor
Edmund G. Brown Jr. recently ordered
5460 million in emergency budget cuts
to prevent the current budget from go-
ing out of balances
The financial status of many cities is
poor, especially considering their heavy
reliance on federal and state aid. In
1980, it is estimated that the largest
cities (over 250,000) depended on state
and federal aid for some 30% of their
C3 CCL
WO WOWm K. Relay. President
Rhes odea. Editor
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general revenue.^ New York City, wh.-.,
clawed its way out of a fiscal crisis
several years ago and has been balanc-
ing its budget, appears headed into red
ink again.t
• Most of those who have studied the
situation agree that under current fiscal
politics and circumstances, an un er
cxistina facility and service standar s,
there it rte waylhat nerd` d ins c-
,rnm rehahil ation andolamra nt can
.be financed_ Speaking of overall public
works needs, one study states: "Clearly
not all needed projects can be funded.
Too many othercompelling public and
private uses of capital exist."r Another
says, "It is as attain as economic and
political events can be, that the United
States will not choose to make this
degree of commitment to public capital
upgrading.'+
Pat Choate, a senior analyst with
TIZW, Inc., predicts a ecline'in e
o pts Itc serwces no ter
what we o overt is says
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Even though it Is blessed—nor-
mally—with plentiful rainfall, like
its sister cities in the East, and even
though foresighted planners pro-
vided It with an excellent water
supply system, New York City has
water problems similar to those in
other cities around the country. For
one thing, more and more water
mains burst each year along the
6,200 miles of piping that serve the
dry. Many of the mains are far older
than their 60 -year life expectancy,
yet they have been on replacement
cycles of up to 296 years. (Occa-
sionally workmen still dig up one
of the bored logs that Alexander
Hamilton used for the city's water
mains around 1790.)
Water Is brought to the several
boroughs through two huge tunnels,
built In 1917 and 1937. Neither
tunnel has been inspected since—
because it would have to be emptied,
depriving the city of much of Its
water. Yet at least a few officials
fear that either tunnel could fail at
any time. Forone thing, they carry
far more water than planned.
the distress that is going to occur as
leu tie
we fnd cri0nr5RSOtd vc bnihI or
rc a i nate? T Rase areTcatty-going to
c our chorees. A o t-_oph=ns re
bieak_ "10
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian and
professor of humanities at the City
University of New York, sums up the
situation this way: "Even if we had a
national,govemment prepared to meet
its responsibilities, state and local go-
vemment would be in trouble enough
in the face of fiscal stringencies, pro-
hibitively high interest rates, and a
crumbling infrastructure in desperate
need of repair and renewal. But, with
an Administration in Washington
yearning to dump still more problems
on local units already staggering under
overload, the prospect is grim."13
Considering the strongly competing
claims on limited funds that will be
played out at the local level, some%rri-
cuffs can be expected. Farther down
that path lies social and political disin-
SUPPLY-SIDE HYDRAULICS
Now under construction is a huge
and enormously expensive (53.5
billion) Tunnel No. 3. It will not
increase the water supply, since it
will tap the same reservoirs, but.
will eau problems of distribution
and low pressure, take some load
off the two older tunnels and, per-
haps mon importantly, permit them
to be emptied for inspection and
any needed repairs. Not until the
year 2000 will enough of the new
tunnel be completed to permit clos-
ing the old tunnels. Work on Tunnel
No. 3 began more than 10 years
ago, but in 1975 was halted for sev-
eral years, chiefly because of the
city's fiscal crisis.
Aside from the severe droughts
that have hit New York from 1961-
67 and during the past year, some
officials feel that a new source of
supply—the Hudson River—must
be tapped to accommodate in.
creased consumption expected In the
area during the next century. Others
are skeptical of the need, but the
Corps of Engineers has drawn up a
design for a controversial 53.7 billion
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tegi"tion. In September, angry Dade
County, Florida, taxpayers, who have
been under considerable strain, jeered
a legless blind man and other seriously
handicapped people who sought county
funding for a special van service to
take them to work—one of many social
services the county commission voted
to end rather than make up for cuts in
federal assistance.ie
Why have we allowed so much ur-
ban infrastructure to lapse into decrepi-
tude? There are many reasons:
a Those who plan and budget for
facilities often fail to assess t e nits
casts of , ate matntenanceor
t ,much tete
p �^•^'•^ provide or t tem.
This may be deliberate, to make it easier
to sell projects to officials and taxpayers.
Or it may be the municipal equivalent
of human nature, which shies away from
the ounce of prevention that will save a
pound of cure, whether in health, auto -
project to capture high -Row water
from the Hudson River some 75
miles upstream and pump it into
reservoin!i Another concept, also
certain to stir up considerable op.
position, would be to create a re-
servoir 225 miles away in the Adl.
rondack Mountains and either de-
liver the water to New York City
by tunnel or release it to the Hudson
River to be tapped downstream.
The city implemented a program
to stop leakage and running faucets
In vacant buildings that were esti.
mated to be costing it 100 million
gallons a day. But Martin Lang, as
commissioner of parks and recrea-
tion, has said, "Even If we attribute
all possible savings to leak control,
metering, water conservation drives;
and the possible restraining effects
of higher water rates, still the city
must look to expand Its water
supply.... 2.6 million people, both
within and adjacent to the city, are
looking to upstate sources for re0ef
and are as yet unaware of the true
costs of the massive distribution
system that will be required."'
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mobile, or home maintenance.
• Greater strains on some infra•
structure systems have resulted from
increased per capita water consumption,
heavier trucks, chemical spills, increased
waste disposal loads, and the like.
• It is commercially more lucrative
to construct a grand, new facility like a
bridge or a Watway in New York than
to repair an old one.
• It is politically more profitable to
cut a ribbon on a short-term, tangible
project than to deal more quietly with
long-term, mundane deterioration
problems that Can better be left to later
office holders and their constituents.
• In the kind of fiscal pinch many
cities have found themselves in during
the last decade or two (with New York
and Cleveland the most publicized), of.
ficiab are little inclined to use precious
funds for preventive maintenance when
they can opt for deferred maintenance.
"The effects of deferring capital invest.
ment and crtr, l maintenance are eu
visible to taxpayers than cutbacks in
social services an ro
Roils Mamie S. Shaul, a voitingseho
at the Charia F. Kettering Foundationis
• In recent times, much of the federal
as well as state and local emphasis has
been on sans se VIM miner g nopt I
i ras ructure. 0131 public works in.
vestments, measured in constant dollars,
declined from $38.6 billion in 1965 to
less than S31 billion in 1977, according
to a study of the Council of State Plan.
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Furthermore, federal public works
Programs often have been biased against
cities in favor of suburbs, against the
. Northeast and Midwest with their older
and denser urbanization in favor of the
South and West, and against repair and
maintenance in favor of new facility
construction. Examples include water
resource projects, highway programs,
and wastewater treatment plant con-
struction grants.
These categorical or matching grants
can attract local funds to new construc-
tion, including replacement of facilities,
and away from repair and maintenance.
"One example of this," says Shaul, "is
found in premature retirement of rolling
stock due to the Urban Mass Trans-
portation Administration's emphasis on
capital grants."Is
Here are capsule looks at major
infrastructure systems that promise to
be most troublesome:
Maus Transit: Ina dramatic illustra-
tion of the fiscal plight of many urban
transit systems, on December 6, 1980,
the Boston subway system shut down
completely. Emergency rescue legisla.
tion was enacted by the legislature the
next day, but the underlying problems
remain. It has been estimated that total
federal, state, and local operating sub.
sidies for the nation's mass transit sys.
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tems will climb from S2.2 billion in
1978 to more than S6 billion in 1985, if
present trends continue.17 From 1973
to 1978, their operating expenses
jumped almost S2.2 billion, while re-
venues rose only 5464 million.ta The
choices—cuts in service or fare boosts,
or both—are not likely to please local
citizens.
"The biggest casualty of tight transit
budgets has been maintenance," says
Congressman Robert Edgar of Pen.
nsylvania. "Deferred maintenance can
be hidden for years while saving money
for escalating wages, expanded service,
and rising fuel bills. Ultimately, how-
ever, service is brought to the brink of
collapse."16
Edgar -notes that in 1968. Philadel-
phia's buses averaged 8,477 miles be.
tween breakdowns, but that by 1979
the average slid to 757 miles. The fig-
ures for Broad Street subway ars fell
from 265,860 miles to 6,462 miles. A
UMTA survey showed that 35% of bus
repairs are done improperly.n
The Reagan Administration pro-
poses to cut out all federal mass transit
operating subsidies by 1985, greatly
upsetting city and transit officials.m The
current level of federal support is SI.1
billion, which is available for capital
projects as well as operations.
Railroads: The sorry state. of the
nation's trackage—and the delays, de-
railments, and discomfort it causes—is
well known. In any case, for fiscal rea-
sons the Administration seeks budget
cuts for railroad programs, including
those for track rehabilitation and repair.
The Northeast Corridor Improve-
ment Project would be trimmed down
somewhat, and the commitment to fast
trains abandoned. "High-speed track
is much more expensive to maintain
than is medium -speed track,* says the
Office of Management and Budget. "It
is unlikely that Amtrak will be able to
fund this work in the future."ta Am.
trak i overall budget is on the chopping
block too. The Administration recently
proposed a reduction from the 5906
million appropriation in 1981 to 5457
million, though Congress has voted
for S735 million.
The program of "railroad restruc.
turing assistance," which gas mainly
for track rehabilitation, would be
phased out by 1986. A GAO report
said that "federal assistance solely to
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essential."" Including unobligated
funds from the prior year, the budget
authority for fiscal 1981 is S 151 million,
which would be lowered to SI10 million
in 1982.
As for Conrail, rather than dealing
with major rehabilitation needs and
operating losses on 385 of its freight
lines, it seeks Interstate Commerce
Commission permission to abandon
them. These lines comprise some 2,800
miles of Conrail's 17,700 mile total
system.tt
Highways: In 1973, a section of New
York City's elevated West Side High-
way collapsed, thereby creating what
'GREAT VIGILANCE'
"The Romans had a respect
amounting almost to adoration for
running water," according to histo-
rian Michael GtanO This is evident
in the formidable public and private
baths, the sewers, and the famous
aqueducts, some of which are still
in use, so fine was their engineering.
The great Cloaca Maxima sewer in
Rome also is still used today,
prompting urbanologist Lewis
Mumford to remark that "with its
record of continuous service for
more than 2,500 Years, that structure
proves that in the planning of cities
low first costs do not necessarily
denote economy; for If the utility
needed has been soundly conceived
and built, the final costs, extended
over its whole prospective lifetime,
are what really matter."u
That is not to say that, even with
great gangs of slaves for building
and maintenance, there was sufB-
dent Infrastructure to serve the poor
in their tenements. There was not.
In addition, serious problems of
vandalism and illegal tapping of
water beset the city (a hint of things
to come in New York and elsewhere
should a prolonged drought, or a
massive system failure, create un-
precedented shortages?). The water
commissioner In Rome, wrote
Frontinus, "must see that no one
draws water without a written au-
thorization from Caesar.He must
exercise great vigilance against
manifold forms of fraud."rt
Rtwwins of a Roman aqueduct.
one observer said is "perhaps the ar-
chetypical anecdote of urban infra-
structure deterioration."u It seems the
city had neglected to paint the high-
way's supports to prevent rusting. It
had to be closed permanently.
The Interstate Highway System, with
most of its mileage built, is in a state
of rapid decline. Its pavement has an
expected life of 20 years, but many
sections have gone to pot in 15 years
or less, chiefly as a result of heavier -
than -expected trucks and traffic. By
1978, some 9% of the system already
needed immediate resurfacing.° The
cost will be enormous.
The Administration has proposed
that by 1984 federal assistance for urban
arterial streets and secondary roads be
eliminated. The program is earmarked
for SI.6 billion this fiscal year (1982).
This proposal, says George E. Peterson,
of the Urban Institute, "can be ex-
pected to have a large impact on the
financing of road repairs and im-
provements in large cities, where these
funds (and the now terminated Local
Public Works program) have been
largely responsible for the post -1976
surge in street repairs and improve-
ments."
Some states already are pushing for
gasoline tax increases to keep up with
needs. It should be noted that the fed-
eral Highway Taut Fund, which is used
to support all federal -aid highway
programs and which for years has been
stuffed with revenues like a Strasbourg
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goose, is fully obligated and is being
replenished at a much reduced rate by
gasoline and other user taxes. last year
for the first time more money was taken
out of the Fund than it received. Thus
it cannot be expected to keep up with
rapidly inflating costs, even with a re-
duced allocation of money for new
highway construction.
-if you tike what we did to our rail-
roads, youll love what we're about to
do to our highways," cracks Francis
Francois, executive director of the
American Association of State High-
way and Transportation Officials -23
Bridges: In 1967, the Silver Bridge
over the Ohio River collapsed, killing
46 and focusing national attention on
bridge conditions. Cities and states face
an estimated 541.1 billion backlog of
bridgework. This includes some 98,000
bridges that are so structurally unsound
they must be closed, restricted to lighter
vehicles, or immediately rehabilitated
to prevent collapse or further deteriora-
tion. It also includes 102,000 bridges
with less pressing needs; they are con-
sidered functionally obsolescent bemuse
they are narrower than the roads lead-
ing to them, they are poorly aligned,
or they have low clearances or inade-
quate load capacities."
"Bridge problems arc particularly
severe in cities where heavysaltingdur-
ing winter months speeds conoslon of
bridge docks even faster than read sur-
faces. sed in cities when fieal two/'
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backs," says Peterson. He added ....
a series of Urban Institute case studies
of cities found that in many older cities
the bridge problem is the "most expen-
sive and most urgent" element in the
backlog of capital needs.r
The Reagan Administration budget
would sharply reduce federal aid for
bridge replacement and rehabilitation
from 51.3 billion in fiscal 1981 to $200
million this year."
Water supply systems: Some urban
water distribution systems, especially
in the Northeast, are in extremely poor
shape. In 1977, to take an extreme ex-
ample, Boston estimated that 46% of
the water it produced was unaccounted
for, chiefly because of leakage. It fig-
ured that 212 miles of water mains, a
fifth of the system, needed relining or
replacement." Leakage involves an-
other viriotueircle: the more water lost,
the lower the revenues for the amount
put in the pipes and the less available
for repairs.
A study of 756 urban water systems
in cities of over 50,000 population came
up with this estimate: Aside from new
supply systems that will be needed, the
total cost over the next two decades to
rehabilitate or replace existing systems
will total S40 billion to S63 billion.
Many cities would experience funding
shortfalls even if their water rates were
doubled, it said."
Sewage treatment systems: A Na-
tional League of Cities survey showed
that 48% of local officials responding
said their sewage and drainage facilities
needed major rehabilitation or re-
placement and constituted their most
serious infrastructure problem. Fifty-
four percent said they cant afford to
pay even half the rehabilitation cost."
Federal grants for treatment facilities
cannot be used for operation and
maintenance. As more and more of
the new treatment plants start to age,
maintenance and repair expenses are
likely to climb and the thrust of federal
aid may be shifted as it has been for
interstate highways. EPA estimates that
in the 19 -year period 1981.2000, the
nation will need a total (in 1980 dollars)
of S95 billion for operation and main-
tenance of public treatment facilities,
S38 billion for replacement of sewers,
and 517.7 billion for replacement of
treatment plants."
Other structural systems: A number
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of other physical facilities also are sub-
ject to wear and tear. The collapse of
the Teton dam in Idaho in 1976 led to
arc inventory of unsafe dams that is
still going on. The estimated cost of
making them safe is huge. The Love
Canal case drew attention to the high
costs of maintaining hazardous waste
disposal facilities. (Nuclear waste dis-
posal costs are not yet known.) Gas
pipelines must be repaired. Waterways
and harbors are dredged at considerable
cost and their locks must be repaired
or replaced. Nuclear power plants must
be not only maintained but, if they
manage to live out normal lives, de-
commissioned.
Speaking of nuclear plants, the fail-
ure of that at Three Mile Island is a
reminder that gradual decay is not the
only means by which society's support
systems are jeopardized. They also are
subject to technological breakdown,
human error, natural disasters, strikes,
vandalism, and sabotage. While the
safety implications of the Three Mile
island fiasco may be debated, the costs
of undoing the damage are clear.
Estimates now run up to $1.3 billion,
and there is a desperate scramble for
funds from every conceivable source—
the customers of the utility company
owner of the plant, its stockholders,
the equipment manufacturer, other
utilities' customers around the country,
the state government, and the federal
government. (About 5300 million in
insurance is payable.)
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What are the prospects for effec-
tively tackling the problem of infra-
structure deterioration? A number of
remedies have been suggested, none of
them painless.
Certainly there already is greater
awareness by public officials, citizens,
and businesses that the time is overripe
to begin paying the piper for past neg-
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lect. There has in recent months been
considerable publicity about the prob-
lem; various agencies have produced
studies; and citizens have become all
too familiar with gaping potholes,
crumpled interstate highways, closed
bridges, flooding from burst water
mains, stalled commuter and subway
trains, and other problems.
Also, some federal and local agencies
already have begun diverting money
from other programs, and from new
capital investment, into the operation
and maintenance of what is already
built. Since 1974, the Urban Mau
Transportation Administration has
been authorized to provide operating
subsidies, which can include mainte-
nance and repair work, to mass transit
systems.
The focus of the Interstate Highway
System has shifted from new con-
struction to the five-year-old "311"
program—for resurfacing, restoration,
and rehabilitation. The House just
passed a bill that would make it a "4R"
program by adding reconstruction and
would increase authorizations in fiscal
year 1982 from 5275 million -to 5800
million.sr
The Surface Transportation Act of
1978 expanded federal aid to include
rehabilitation as well as replacement
of bridges, if it is needed to "restore
the structural integrity of a bridge" or
to "correct a major safety defect.—Mc
authorization level for bridge re-
placement and rehabilitation has in-
creased from S 18 million in fiscal 1978
,0 $1.3 billion in fiscal 1981.
At the urban level, New York City
has managed a dramatic reversal in its
priorities. Until'a few years ago, only
about 30% of the city's capital budget
was devoted to existing infrastructure;
current plans call for about 70% to be
so allocated. New York was jolted by
a 1979 report of its comptroller that in
the 1980's the city would need almost
S39 billion for its physical plant. The
report added that, even with federal
and state aid financing half the cost,
the city would most likely be unable to
pay for the balance—so "priorities must
be established to assure that the most
critical needs are satisfied.first."n More
recently, the city's Office of Manage-
ment and Budget put the estimate of
needs for 1982.1991 at S30 billion
plus)] Either figure—the comptroller's
annual average of about S4 billion or
the New York OMB's average of S3
billion --compares unfavorably with the
actual fiscal 1982 capital budget of just
over S2 billion.
Another option for local govern-
ments is to seek more federal and state
aid. However, in contrast to the trend
of some federal programs to authorize
more money for upkeep, the Reagan
Administration's budget recommen-
dations (a number of which were noted
earlier) can be expected to reduce sub-
stantially the available funding. The
proposed cutback in the General
Revenue Sharing program that funnels
54.6 billion per year to local govern-
ments would have a similar effect.
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Lor_ ,avemments can develop new
sources of revenue—increased taxes,
debt financing, and user charges. In
the current climate, these options are
highly unattractive. And user charges
are regressive in that they weigh mote
heavily on the poor.
Cities and their residents can settle
for diminished levels of service. Rather
than pay higher income taxes, they can
learn to live with the potholes. Rather
than pay for the peak -capacity water
supply facilities needed to cope with a
severe but infrequent drought, they can
put up with water shortages when they
come.
A corollary approach to such deci-
sions is to lower facility standards or
change definitions of what is "needed."
An example is the Reagan Adminis-
tration's proposal that the Northeast
rail corridor settle for medium -speed
rather than high-speed trains.
Peterson points out that the age of
a water main may be less important
than its type and location. "Studies in
New York City have revealed that a
water pipe line replacement strategy
that targets on pipe segments with the
highest probability of failure an ac-
complish the same reduction in breaks
as a replacement strategy based on age
alone that costs three times as much."
Similarly, many bridges considered
deficient are simply narrower than the
approach road, so that continued in-
convenience could be substituted for
expensive widening. "Capital standards
are not 'needs' in any literal sense,"
says Peterson, "but merely policy ob-
jectives which must be balanced against
their costs of achievement."
Another example is the proposed
reform of the wastewater treatment
construction grant program which
would eliminate funding for facilities
that can be considered overdesigned
or that encourage wasteful sprawl. -
nfrastrcture experts seem un-
animous inutheir belief that govern-
ments have an urgent need to lay out
longterm ppital budget programs that
include (I) an inventory of facilities
and their condition, (2) estimates of
projected needs, including costs of op -
ration, maintenance, rehabilitation, or
replacement (in other words, life -cycle
costing), (3) a formal and politically
responsive process for establishing
priorities, and (4) the identification of
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financing sources.
A bill introduced by Senator Chris-
topher Dodd of Connecticut would
require much of this on a national wale.
It calls for a "national public invest-
ment requirements analysis.->'
What all this coma down to is plan-
ning -the kind• of coordinated and
cohesive planning that is so rare.
"organizationally," says Harry P.
Hatry of the Urban Institute, 'the
capital infrastructure choice process is
highly decentralized, with specific
choices and project ranking done
primarily at the agency level. Decisions
on capital -fund projects are often made
separately from the operating budget
process (but this seems to be slowly
changing).ns
FOaaraec
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Ham DOW& W.H. Frecnun a CO., 1977.
)Europy. by Jeremy Mo. Viking Press.
s7ha &SAW, &,inerly. Aduma 1978.
.Nna York 7b as October It, 1961 and
Wwhk4roa fou, May 10. 1981.
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been noted by David A. Grossman, a
former budget director of New York
City. One is "linking capital project
planning to neighborhood -oriented
land -use planning.' Another is "con-
sidering what options may be available
if either the predicted financing or
physical programs prove impossible to
put in operation in the precise form in
which they have been projected.""
Society must live within its mans -
not only its biological means but its
financial and managerial mans as they
relate to the maintenance and protec-
tion of the delivery systems that allow
it to utilize natural resource; and dis-
pose of the wastes from its activities.
Roundtabk, uMated.
aCallgrecrmwl Record April a. 1911.
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