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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-11-03 Transcription#2 Page 1 ITEM 2. OUTSTANDING STUDENT CITIZENSHIP AWARDS -Mark Twain Elementary. Bailey: Would the students from Mark Twain Elementary please come forward. Thank you for being here. As I said when we were talking before the meeting, this is something that we really look forward to, and we're really excited to hear your statements. I have a couple of people up here to help me, um, they're a little bit closer in...to your age so I thought it might be interesting to have them along to help, and first of all I want you to meet Michelle. Han: Hi, my name's Michelle Han and I'm from the Iowa City Youth Advisory Commission. Um, I work with other youth in the area so that we can get involved in the community, um, even if high school students or college students, when uh, in other ways than voting. So, um, I'm really glad you guys are here and... Gunn: Hello, my name is Tyler Gunn and I'm the Student Government, University Student Government liaison here to the City Council, and uh, I applaud your work as student citizens and uh, it's hard to believe at my age, I too am a student, and some day you'll be standing perhaps right here, and uh, I applaud your efforts. Congratulations. Bailey: So we just wanted to have the opportunity to show you some of the opportunities that you'll have as you get older to continue your involvement. So what we'd like to do now is have you read your statements so everybody can hear what you've been doing in your school, and I'll start right here. Okay. Barrett: I try to be a good citizen by being a conflict manager on our playground, attending PTO meetings and helping with school fundraisers. I'd like to thank my teacher Ms. Anderson and everyone who helped me achieve this great award. And I'm Grace Barrett. (applause) Williams: My name is Starr Williams and I am a sixth grader at Mark Twain Elementary. When I'm in school, the first thing I do is my warm-up. Then I go to math and in math we are learning about number sentences. For math boxes we have six different math questions, percentages, place values, multiplication and division. We also learned about arrays. An array is an arrangement of objects into rows and columns. I am a conflict manager and a conflict manager is someone that helps solve problems. At school I'm also organizing...I got a 100% on (mumbled) that I had taken at home. I have three chores that I have to do, and those three chores are the kitchen, living room and my room. When I'm outside I have to take, rake the leaves and mow the lawn. When I'm not doing those things, I usually ride my bike or jump rope. (applause) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #2 Page 2 McNabb: I'm a good...I strive to be a good citizen, or...I am a good citizen for trying to help other students. When other students drop their stuff I try to help them pick it up. At home I pick up sticks and do chores. I also pick up garbage in my yard. I also stay after school and put away chairs and cards other students leave behind. I am also on my school safety patrol and student council. (applause) I'm Nicholas McNabb. Bailey: Thank you. (applause) So we have a certificate for each one of you, and I'm going to read them. Um, they'll each have your own name on them. For your outstanding qualities of leadership within Mark Twain Elementary, as well as the community, and for your sense of responsibility and helpfulness to others, we recognize you as an Outstanding Student Citizen. Your community is proud of you. And this is presented by the Iowa City City Council. (applause) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #3 Page 3 ITEM 3. PROCLAMATIONS. a) National Hospice/Palliative Care Month -November 2008 Bailey: (reads proclamation) Karr: Here to accept the proclamation is volunteer Margaret Reese. applause) Reese: Thank you, Mayor Bailey and Members of the Iowa City Council. We at Iowa City Hospice appreciate very much the City's support through our 25 year history, and our volunteers and staff welcome the people of the city to contact us for more information about hospice care and grief support services, uh, at any time. So thank you again very much for the recognition. Bailey: Thank you. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #3 Page 4 ITEM 3. PROCLAMATIONS. b. Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week -November 16-22, 2008 Bailey: (reads proclamation) Karr: Here to accept the proclamation is Chrissy Cangelli representing the Johnson County Homeless Coordinating Board. (applause) Cangelli: The National League of Hunger and Homelessness is November 16tH through the 22"a this year, and the Johnson County local Homeless Coordinating Board is supporting two, or endorsing two events, um, this board is constituted of 36 different partner organizations and program, who work together daily to address the needs of men, women, and children who are experiencing homelessness in our community. And, the two events that we have, there's a clothing drive that's going on right now with drop-off boxes that are located at the Hy-Vee on First Avenue in Iowa City, and the Hy-Vee in, uh, Coralville in the park, Lantern Park Plaza. Um, there will also be a box located at our third annual "sleep out" which is November 15th. The distribution for the blanket drive will be on November 20th at the Wesley Foundation, uh, Thursday afternoon, and I brought posters for this, for all of you. Um, to kick off the National Week of Awareness this year, we're holding John's Sleep-Out the third, uh, the third sleep out that we've hosted, um, it's located at 429 Southgate Avenue, which is the land that Shelter House owns on which we will build the new facility next year. We, um, we'll have tents need to be up by 5:00 P.M. on November 15th, and we will have a soup supper that evening. I really hope that you're able to come and join us, if not to sleep out with us, uh, to at least come and have some, share some soup with us that evening. Your support, uh, it means so very much to all of us, um, I'd also on behalf of the Local Homeless Coordinating Board like to thank the leadership of this community -you the individual Council Persons, City Manager, and Assistant City Manager, the City staff who have been a tremendous support to us daily, and the men, women, and families throughout this community who support the local non-profit organizations through their gifts of time, treasure and talent. Thank you very much. Champion: I'd like to remind people that I did the sleep out last year. It was 13 degrees. I'd like to challenge one of you to try it this year when it's not going to be 13 degrees. Bailey: Are you doing it again this year? Correia: How do you know it's not going to be... Champion: I think I'm going to take a tent instead of a box. (laughter) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #3 Bailey: Thank you, Chrissy. Page 5 This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #5 Page 6 ITEM 5. COMMUNITY COMMENT (ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA). Bailey: This is an opportunity for those members of the audience to comment on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda. If you wish to do so, please approach the podium, state your name for the record, and limit your comments to five minutes or less. Felling: Hi, I'm Chuck Felling and I'm here from the Senior Center Commission to fill you in on a few of the things that are going on at the Center, uh, there's a conference coming up. It's called a "Positive Aging" conference, which is, the title of it is "Achieving Purpose, Meaning and Vitality in the Second Half of Life." This is, uh, a telecomm sort of presentation. It's broadcast from the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing. Uh, this is a joint, uh, sponsorship by the Iowa City Senior Center, Iowa Association of Senior Centers, and South Slope Community, uh, Center, uh, the program will be held at...in North Liberty at the South Slope site. There is a $20, uh, fee which helps us to pay for the cost of getting hooked up for the telecomm. We also, uh, would like for you to know that we're over 1,100 members at the Senior Center now, which is a real landmark for us. That's the high-water mark, ever, so we're moving up. From talking with some of the new members, uh, I think, uh, Mary Dusterhoff's Dallas tai chi class is a big attractor this year. The other thing I wanted to mention in case you hear of is that we've had some chilly days and chilly nights at the Senior Center. LJh, the other day it was 43 degrees in the, uh, main lobby at the Senior Center, and that's because although the boiler, new boiler has been hooked up, there was a neglect in ordering a part, an essential part -the flu - so it maybe, uh, well toward the end of this month or early December before we have that source of heat, but the contractor has agreed to set up a temporary heating system somehow, and I don't know how this works, in the alleyway in back of the Center that will provide some heat to the second floor and to the mezzanine, and hopefully, although we know that heat rises, we hope that we can smush the heat down into the lower levels, uh, but you may hear something of that and uh, it was one of those things that happens that you're well aware of. When we have projects going, and that's uh, that's it from the Senior Center for tonight. Thank you. Bailey: Thanks for being here. Other members who would like to comment? Payne: Good evening. My name is Michelle Payne, and I'm here for two purposes tonight. One of them is I'm the Planning and Zoning rep here tonight, and also the other one is, um, I'm the community contact person for MidAmerican Energy. Terry Smith used to have this job and he probably came to every meeting that you had. I won't come to every meeting that you have (laughter). Um, Marian has a piece of paper to hand out for you, kind of explaining the community contact program with This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #5 Page 7 one of my business cards, Um, the real idea of the program is if anybody needs somebody to call, you have a...my name and number. You can call me directly. So if you need anything, I'm there to call. Also Marian has, uh, something in your work packets for you tonight regarding a meeting that's in Cedar Rapids, uh, regarding, um, communities and community leaders. Um, I encourage everybody, or at least somebody, to attend that meeting from the Council. Thank you. Bailey: Thank you, Michelle. Payne: Yes? Bailey: I said thank you. Payne: Oh, sorry! Bailey: That's okay. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to comment? Karr: Motion to accept correspondence. Wilburn: So moved. Champion: Second. Bailey: Moved by Wilburn, seconded by Correia. All those in favor say aye. Those opposed same sign. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #6 Page 8 ITEM 6. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS. b. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE 14-SB, SIGN REGULATIONS, ARTICLE 14-9C, SIGN DEFINITIONS, SECTION 14-4B-1, MINOR MODIFICATIONS, AND ARTICLE 14-3C DESIGN REVIEW, TO ALLOW LIMITED USE OF FREESTANDING SIGNS IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS SERVICE (CB-2) ZONE, ADD A DEFINITION AND STANDARDS FOR ENTRANCEWAY SIGNS, AND CLARIFY REGULATIONS REGARDING SIGNS ON RENTAL PROPERTIES. (PASS AND ADOPT) Wright: Move adoption. Correia: Second. Bailey: Moved by Wright, seconded by Correia. Discussion? Champion: I was going to bring up an amendment to this, but I think, um, I do think there is some unfairness in this ordinance. Um, but Regenia, you said we would...why don't you tell me what you said you thought we might do. Bailey: Well, I suggested that perhaps we look at how this works. This was brought forward to us from, um, the Northside Neighborhood out of the concern of proliferation in the residential, and look at the, um, zones in which this unfairness, um, about size was mentioned, and see if there's sign proliferation, what challenges there are, and address that separately, after we look at how this...how this works, because it's addressing a certain thing that citizens have brought forward, and I think it does a good job of that. Champion: Oh, I don't have any problems with that. But I am concerned about the unfairness of a number of units it takes to put a sign up and if you have two less you don't get to put a sign up. That does kind of bother me. But I'm still going to support it. Bailey: Okay. Further discussion? Hayek: I haven't changed my position and I've stated it to this group twice now. Bailey: So you're not going to restate.. . Hayek: I'm not going to restate it (laughter). I think it's unfair. Bailey: Okay. All right. Roll call. Item carries 6-1, Hayek voting in the negative. Karr: Motion to accept correspondence. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #6 Wilburn: So moved. Wright: Second. Page 9 Bailey: Moved by Wilburn, seconded by Wright. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Those opposed same sign. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #6 Page 10 ITEM 6. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS. c. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE CONDITIONALLY REZONING APPROXIMATELY 3.87 ACRES OF PROPERTY LOCATED SOUTH OF DODGE STREET AND WEST OF SCOTT BOULEVARD FROM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT PARK (RDP) TO COMMERCIAL OFFICE (CO-1) (REZ08-00008) (PASS AND ADOPT) Champion: Move adoption. Bailey: Moved by Champion. Correia: Second. Bailey: Seconded by Correia. Any ex-parte communications that you wish to disclose at this time? Discussion? Roll call. Item carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #7 Page 11 ITEM 7. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 9, ENTITLED "MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC," CHAPTER 4, ENTITLED "PARHING REGULATIONS," SECTION 9, ENTITLED "PARHING DURING SNOW EMERGENCIES," TO REQUIRE, UPON DECLARATION OF A SNOW EMERGENCY BY THE CITY MANAGER, ALTERNATE SIDE PARHING UPON CITY STREETS NOT CURRENTLY POSTED FOR SAME DURING THE DECLARED EMERGENCY. (FIRST CONSIDERATION). Wilburn: Move first consideration. Bailey: Moved by Wilburn. Hayek: Second. Bailey: Seconded by Hayek. Discussion, and we have Rick here to walk us through this, and that would be a good place to start if you're willing to do so, Rick. Fosse: Certainly. Let me begin with just a little bit ofbackground, um, Iowa City has had a snow ordinance, snow emergency ordinance, in effect for a number of years, but as a matter of policy it hadn't been used and posted 30 years. And that was because of a view that, the concern that because of the unique nature of our community with...with the University and all that the hardships that it would impose would outweigh the hardships that it solves. So, but last year we crossed a threshold. It was just a difficult year and it made it clear that we need to have a workable snow ordinance in effect and ready to go, and the net effect of not using it for so many years is the language became outdated and more importantly, um, our community was not familiar with it. So it's not something that you can spring on somebody, you know, on a day's notice. People need to know about it in advance, and that's part of what we'll do this fall, if this is adopted. Um, so what we have in front of you tonight is...is a tune up to the existing ordinance. And we've researched ordinances in other community towns like Madison, uh, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Ames, and others. So, our primary objective is to...to be able to get at the areas in which there are unrestricted parking on streets now, and that's really what the problem was last year, or one of the problems that we experienced. And, the way it'll work, the declaration will be by the City Manager, um, we'll have a minimum of four hours notice before it goes into effect. If it goes into effect after 8:00 P.M., you know, or if it's declared after 8:00 P.M., excuse me, it won't go into effect until after 8:00 A.M. the next day so that you're not out moving your car in the middle of the night. Um, and both the time and the date of the beginning and the ending will be included in the declaration. Now, with the unpredictable nature of winter storms, there are some provisions where we can change the ending if that's This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #7 Page 12 necessary. Um, notification will be by the regular media outlets, um, we'll ask for public service announcements on that, and we'll have information on our web sites. We're also in the process of setting up a, uh, service that you can subscribe to, where you'll get an email or a text message when the snow ordinance is put into effect, and then that'll be a very active way to get a hold of people. And also, um, we discovered that one of the provisions in the State code is we have to have some sort of signage at the edge of town, uh, we thought that's when the old leftover things in our old ordinance, but it's still required today by the State code. So that's in this amendment. So, the restrictions that'll go into effect when a snow emergency is declared, uh, again, I want to remind you that the...what we're really trying to get at here are the areas in which there are unrestricted parking where we don't have access to get in and plow the areas that we need to. Uh, so where there are no posted parking restrictions, this would go to odd-even parking. So on the odd days of the week, you park on the odd side of the street. By odd I mean the, uh, the house numbers and typically that's on the west and the south sides, but you'll want to look at the houses to be certain. Um, and on the even days, you park on the even sides of the street. Um, where there are posted parking restrictions, those posted parking restrictions will remain in effect. For example, if you live in a neighborhood and you park on a street that has calendar parking, that will remain in effect because that accomplishes what we need to, people move from side to side daily and we can get in and do the removals that we need to. Another example to look at is if we have a street in which there's parking prohibited on one side all of the time, and let's take Jefferson Street for an example. There's, uh, no parking on the north side of that street. There's continuous parking on the south side of the street. During a snow emergency, there will always be no parking on the north side of the street, will not switch parking over to that side because it's prohibited all the time. On the south side of the street, uh, there'll be no parking on the even days. And that allows us to get in and clear the snow on those days. Areas in which the snow ordinance does not apply, is metered parking spaces, um, loading zones, and then the Central Business District, because we already have a means in place for clearing those areas that, uh, was some tune-ups that we did last year, works relatively well. Um, the real difficulty for the people will be finding other places to park, and...and the key here is some advance planning. People need to think about it in advance, figure out where they're going to go, make arrangements to get their car off the street, if they can, or figure out where they want to park it, uh, alternatively. And we're working with our Parks Department to make the parks' parking lots available to people, and then also we're working with the, uh, Parking Department to look at, uh, making free parking in the parking ramps during the nighttime hours, and we have yet to work out the details on that, but when we have the details we'll get that information out to the public. So, with that I'll open it up to questions. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #7 Page 13 Champion: Well, if you, um, if you have an...like when you call the snow emergency, and you say it's going to be from 8:00 and it's going to end at 12:00 or whatever, I mean, I know it won't end quite that soon probably, but, uh, if you park...nonnally park on Jefferson and you see that it's already been plowed, are people going to be ticketed if they park there after it's been plowed? Fosse: No, if it's been plowed already.. . Lombardo: I think in order to answer that it really depends on the snow event, and if there's been a snow emergency declared, then we're expecting people to adhere to the policies in place. Whether or not the...if it's been declared for a period of time, we can make the decision to lift it early if need be, but if more snow is anticipated, we don't want to have to get into conflicting messages. So, once the snow emergency is declared, we're expecting people to follow the procedures that are in place. Wilburn: I think that'll be helpful too, not necessarily just with more snow, but uh, the conditions will certainly (mumbled) drifting and (mumbled) areas of town where, um, when people clearing their (mumbled) commercial areas where they push the snow out onto the street after (mumbled) Fosse: That tends to be problematic. And, one thing that you can expect is the duration will be a minimum of 48 hours, because we'll need 24 hours to get at each side of the street, city wide (mumbled). Hayek: We also don't want people following snowplows, waiting for them to (laughter). Jumping right in, which I could see happening. Wright: I do think it's worth noting to the, uh, unlike the ticket you might get now for violating calendar parking, this is going to have a little bit more teeth to it because not only will you have a ticket, but will also involve towing. Fosse: Yes, and that's significant, and that's why we want to go to quite a bit of effort to get the word out to folks so that they understand it. Correia: Will there be any other signage, besides at the edge of town, on particular streets? Fosse: No, there will not be. There...there are some communities that have specific snow routes, and keeping of our arterial street network open has not been a problem for us. So we won't have specific snow routes. It'll be a citywide type thing. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #7 Page 14 O'Donnell: Rick, I think an incredibly important part of this is alternative parking. You know, there's so many cars and we...they have to go somewhere, so I like the idea of utilizing our parking structures, but um, that's got to be explained very clearly because like I said, there's so many cars and they have to go somewhere. Fosse: Yes. O'Donnell: And I can see `em ending up in yards and...somebody else's driveway. But um, you know, I hope we get that implemented just very quickly. Bailey: And I think I agree with you, Mike, and I think another concern or important part of this is going to be clarity and consistency. So, um, enforcing it consistently so if it's a minimum of 48 hours, even if the street has been plowed, continuing to enforce the ordinance, and clarity up and down the organization, including our own understanding of it when we get calls, as well as perhaps disseminating some information through the neighborhood, um, groups. I think that that would help, um, making sure that Marsha fully understands that, as well as some of the other ideas we talked about, um, I think, Amy, you mentioned you thought that our non- emergencynumber would get calls, um, a lot of questions, and I think it'll be important that we all understand and have clear information when people ask, because people will ask. Correia: So, once the ordinance is in place, how will we inform the public? We're not going to put the...I mean, obviously the ordinance will be on the web site, but will there be, you know...snow ordinance for dummies type of thing (laughter). Fosse: We've actually got a couple people working on that right now. We see two components to the...to the information roll out to the public, and one is that...that just general education about the ordinance, and hopefully we'll get good coverage in the...in the local media. Uh, we'll have information on our web site, uh, might use InfoVision, and we also want to work with the University to make sure that the news gets out to the students, before they go home for winter break so they can make decisions on whether or not they want to bring their cars back after winter break, if that's something that they're going to need to deal with during that time period. And certainly so that they don't go home and leave their car on the street during winter break. LTh, the second component to getting the information out is...is when a snow emergency is actually declared, and we talked about some of the mechanisms for that. We're approaching it on two different fronts. Bailey: Any other questions for Rick? Okay. Thank you, Rick. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #~ Page 15 Fosse: You're welcome. Bailey: Hope it's not a very snowy one. Okay, further discussion? No further discussion? I think this is good. Okay. Roll call. Item carries... Champion: We'll need to expedite this next time. Bailey: ...item carries 7-0. Champion: ...snow (mumbled) Karr: Motion to accept correspondence. Hayek: So moved. Wilburn: So moved. Bailey: Moved by Hayek, seconded by Wilburn. All those in favor say aye. Those opposed same sign. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #8 Page 16 ITEM 8. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ADOPTING SIDEWALK SNOW REMOVAL POLICY. Wright: So moved. Champion: Second. Bailey: Moved by Wright, seconded by Champion. Discussion? Hayek: Um, I'm wondering about the, uh, and I understand we're not changing what's already policy. We're codifying? Wright: Codifying. (mumbled) Hayek: Okay. Um, the complaints I get are from people who were not the cause of the complaint, but who lived down the street and who were also inspected when the, when staff went out there to look around, and I...my question is...is, um, does the City, does that staff person investigate, have the authority to investigate all homes on that side of the street from intersection to intersection, or is it everybody on both sides? Do we know? (several talking) Wright: ...the policy is to take a look up and down the street while they're there. Hayek: Both sides. Okay. Dilkes: I think that's the last sentence of (both talking) Hayek: Oh, did I miss.. . Dilkes: Field investigation of the complaint, and enforcement action may not be limited to the specific address given, but may include the entire frontage from intersecting street to intersecting street. Hayek: Right. And that's...I just wanted to clarify that was both sides. Bailey: So if there's a bad block, there's a bad block (mumbled) looked at, yeah. Okay. Further discussion? I think this is good to codify what we've been practicing, especially given what we heard from last winter. Hayek: And I think we might want to entertain the same public information roll out. Lombardo: We'll put it out simultaneously. Hayek: Yeah. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #8 Page 17 Bailey: Yeah, I think that would be good. Hayek: There's really people honked off. Correia: The other thing I think would be good to let people know is that...that the City has salt at Mercer and other places that the public can come and take. I didn't know that, until last year, because somebody else just happened to mention it to me. Because I think it can be a hardship to purchase, um, you know, de-icing for sidewalks, and so... Bailey: Rick, will we be providing that again this year? Is that a service that is consistently provided? Fosse: That's a service we've provided for a number of years, when salt became in short supply last winter, those piles disappeared quickly. And so we're going to begin the season with that, and see if they're gobbled up. Our concern is that the commercial people are getting it and using it for their businesses, uh, prior to last year, we'd have many years of...of good track record there. People just taking what they need for their residential use. We hope it continues this year. Bailey: And I do notice the hardware store is stocking up on de-icing, which is expensive, but you know, remember that it wasn't always available last year. So, okay, further... Dilkes: In conversations with my office today, Doug said that the Housing Inspection Services is going to set up a snow hotline so that the snow complaints are directed to a particular place, and can be left also on weekends. They're going to try and deal with those snow complaints more efficiently. (several talking) Bailey: Okay. All right. Any other comments, discussion? Okay. Roll call. Item carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #11 ITEM 11. COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS. Page 18 Bailey: At our work session we had applicants for the Human Rights Commission and the Public Arts Advisory Committee, and we agreed for the Human Rights Commission to appoint, um, Gathua, Day and Lubaroof, and for the Public Arts Advisory Committee, Williamson and Carney. I'd entertain a motion to that effect. Correia: Move those appointments. Hayek: Second. Bailey: Moved by Correia, seconded by Hayek. Discussion? All those in favor say aye. Those opposed same sign. Motion carries. Also at our work session we discussed, um, that these other, the Board of Adjustment, the Airport Zoning Board of Adjustment, the Board of Appeals, Parks and Rec Commission, and Senior Center Commission will be readvertised, and it was suggested that the Youth Advisory Commission advertisement for vacancies be deferred indefinitely, um.. . Wilburn: (mumbled) Bailey: Announcement. Moved by Wilburn, seconded by Wright. Discussion? This is due to the changes in the by-laws, we'd like to do those first. All those in favor of deferring that indefinitely say aye. Those opposed same sign. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #14 Page 19 ITEM 14. CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION. Bailey: Let's start with Amy...tonight. Correia: Um, I had the opportunity two Sundays ago to attend a pastor appreciation day at Salvation Army, um, there were members of that parish were appreciating the pastors for the work that they've done in the community with the flood recovery and other disaster recovery, so I went, um, representing City Council (mumbled) as a past Mayor, um, members of their board, faith based organization were there as well, so it was very moving, and I want to thank Salvation Army for their work, uh, in the community, and I also wanted to let you all know that there's, the effort to create a voluntary certification program for universal design has, um, been completed. There, um, there will be a press conference next Thursday morning. It's a joint effort of the Iowa City Area Homebuilder's Association and the Livable Communities for Successful Aging, um, Doug Boothroy has been really instrumental in...in, um, helping to write the, uh, the certification guidelines. This is to help establish livability and visitability standards, and encourage, um, this in new construction and we have in all the building departments (mumbled) with taking applications and doing inspections during the regular inspection process. So, look forward to telling you more about it as we get it more off the ground. Bailey: Mr. Hayek. Hayek: Um, November...Tuesday, November 11 is Veterans Day, and as usual, the Johnson County Military Affairs Association puts on its annual banquet, um, this year the venue is different. It's going to be at the Riverside Casino. Time is a little different as well. It starts at 5:30 with a special flag dedication, uh, with everything else starting immediately after that. Tickets are still available through the Military Affairs Association and I encourage people to support this event. Bailey: Thank you. Wilburn: Encourage everyone to go out and vote, exercise their right, and um, there was a little bit in the paper about whether or not your vote matters or will make a difference (mumbled) historical note, I believe that (mumbled) where it was a tie and they had no (mumbled) breaking the tie, and so they drew names (mumbled) provision now, but uh, to this day no one can tell me whether or not it was a (mumbled) but... Hayek: Move to strike that comment. Wilburn: ...so please get out and vote. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #14 Page 20 Wright: Just a few years ago we had a City Council election here that was decided by one vote. Bailey: That's right. All right. O'Donnell: And I hope tomorrow night is decided. I hope we don't need a coffee can tomorrow night. Um, I...I mentioned to you, Mike, short time back about a place to put leaves, where um, City can pick them up rather than putting them on the curb where they wash into the storm drains, and you know, I think it would save us a lot of time. I'm wondering, did you see any value to that? Lombardo: That's something I haven't gotten an answer back. I'll follow up this week for you, Mike. O'Donnell: Okay, good. And incidentally, I had, um, some complaints on parking structures that were not being utilized very well, and um, I've had some (mumbled) since we cleaned up the parking ramp, I've had some very good comments on it so please continue that. Lombardo: It's something, um, we're taking very seriously and putting together a longer-term strategy for how to manage that situation. O'Donnell: Okay, great. Thank you. Champion: Tomorrow is the big day. I can't wait! O'Donnell: There's a lot of that! Bailey: Is that it? Champion: That's it. Bailey: Okay. Wright: I can't wait either, and I just go along with Ross. I encourage everybody to get out and vote tomorrow. It is incredibly important. One event I do want to, uh, bring to your attention is partly sponsored by the City's office of Neighborhood Services. Next week at the University campus, the off- campus living expo. This is geared for students who are preparing or considering living off campus, uh, this is the first time something like this has been done, and uh, I really appreciate the work that Marsha Bollinger and folks at the University have done putting this together, and also want to thank the University of Iowa Community Credit Union for uh giving 15 $50.00 gift certificates to folks who are in attendance at this. It's a very nice event. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #14 Page 21 Bailey: Thanks. I want to announce that on November 19, it's Wednesday, from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. there will be a public forum, Fairness for All Families. It's a marriage equality public forum that will be held at the Senior Center assembly room. That's at 28 S. Linn Street. I would encourage people to attend. It's sponsored by many of our organizations here locally, and it's an issue that affects, um, many of us here in Iowa City. Um, I'd also like to just note that we don't see them very often, but we did get a chance to see Tyler on camera tonight, but our student liaisons from the University of Iowa Student Government. Tyler and Alexis, I know that this is a particularly busy time for you this time of the semester, so I want to thank you for your dedication to the Council, and for your participation. We get to see you, and hear from you a lot more, at our work sessions, but it's good to have you here at these meetings. And then when I was at, getting my dinner tonight I did get a complaint, and I don't know, maybe Connie, you can speak to this as well `cause you're downtown more frequently, that there seems to be a rash of bicycles again on the sidewalks downtown. I know that we get a lot of grief for that enforcement, but it is a safety issue and I think that, once again, um, probably need to look at that, as well as some scooters on the sidewalks. Champion: And the scooters too. But there are, it has been a big problem in the past couple weeks again. (mumbled) Bailey: Oh, that's probably it, yeah. Champion: It is a dangerous situation. Lombardo: Absolutely. Bailey: Yeah, so... Wright: I've actually seen a couple scooters on the sidewalk. Bailey: Yeah. Just a reminder that we don't allow bicycles in, on the sidewalks in downtown Iowa City. It's just too much of a pedestrian area, so it's tempting, but they're not allowed. So... Champion: I just want to point out too that, um, when I was pulling out of my driveway tonight, there was a bicyclist coming up the street, riding very close to the curb, and so I had to kind of get my car out there, and um, I saw him -it's not aproblem - but I saw him because he had a light. And please, it's so important at night to have lights on your bicycle. It's so important. Bailey: Right. Right. Good point. Okay. All right. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008. #15 Page 22 ITEM 15. REPORT ON ITEMS FROM CITY STAFF. a) City Manager Bailey: City Manager? Lombardo: Well, several weeks ago the Mayor had, um, raised the idea of a concept to have, um, lunch or a series of lunch with the area not-for-profit managers and directors, and Thursday, Friday and today, um, I had lunch here in Harvat Hall with, uh, many of the area not-for-profits, their directors and...and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it was a great opportunity, just, uh, get to know them better in a relaxed setting, but also to discuss kind of common issues and...and uh, challenges. I just want to say thank you, Mayor, publicly for suggesting. It was a great idea, and it's kind of got me thinking about, um, a brown-bag series, and I guess I'll throw it out to you all and perhaps the public if there are topics, um, that we want to have broader discussions with the public about in a kind of relaxed brown-bag setting, um, I'm willing to go through the process of scheduling that and getting that, the work together around that, but only willing to do so if folks think it would be very well received and there'd be attendance, uh, and that there's a desire to do that. So, I'll put that out there and encourage you all to weigh in on it, um, and then, um, one final thing, uh, I will be out of the office tomorrow for the day, uh, joined by Kelly Hayworth, the City Administrator of Coralville, and Nancy Quellhorst, the Chamber Director, um, we're going to be meeting with some folks to discuss regional economic development, and cooperations and collaborative and just trying to get some new ideas for, uh, how we all work together, but also, uh, how we engage hospitals and universities and others to look at a long-term approach to sustainability. Bailey: So we hope you've already voted! Lombardo: I haven't already voted -thank you. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council Special Formal meeting of November 3, 2008.