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Home My WebLink About1979-05-01 CorrespondenceI n April 25, 1979 Mayor Robert Vevera and Council Members; Woodfield's DBA Ambrose Lovetinsky Inc. is petitioning the City Council of Iowa City to open for business'on Sundays for dancing and sale of non alcoholic beverages. All alcohol will be out of sight, liquor systems will be turned off as well as the beer tappers. only soft drinks will be served. There will be a cover charge and hours will be approximately 7-11 PM. No cigarettes will be sold. We would like persons of 9th grade and older to attend. Sincerely yours, Harry Ambrose oa�O APR 2 61979 ABBIE S70LFUS, CMC CITY CLERK (3) MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS -DES IIOIIIES ". May 2, 1979 Mr. Marry Ambrose c/o Woodfield's 223 East Washington Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Dear Mr. Ambrose: The City Council, at its May 1, 1979 meeting, approved your request to open on Sundays for dancing and the sale of non-alcoholic beverages. That approval is contingent upon the conditions that 1) the minimum age for patrons be 16 years, and 2) that closing time be no later than 11:00 P.M. These are the same conditions upon which Council approved a similar request from another Iowa City liquor establishment last year. Sincerely yours, Neal G. Berlin City Manager is cc: City Clerk v / MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS -DES FIOIRES City of Iowa Cit -1 MEMORANDUM Date: April 26, 1979 To: Neal Berlin and City Council From: Dick Plastino, Director of Public Works Re: Equipment Service Building Complex Impro e t Projects Over the next several months and several years the City Council will be considering many different sets of plans and specifications for improve- ments to the service building. In order that Council feels comfortable about these projects I did want to give an overview of the entire project. A few years ago we made a decision not to bond three to four million dollars for a new complex. Instead, we chose to improve our present facility in small incremental pieces. This approach makes it necessary that we let many different contracts. This summer the Council will be approving plans and specifications for the following projects: 1. Sanitary sewer service line to pump station $25,000 Truck wash facility $55.000 Renovation of modular units $62,500 Sanitary Sewer Service Line. The sanitary sewer on Riverside Drive is very shallow and we are not able to serve the interior of the service building complex by hooking onto to this line. It is necessary togo to the pump station that lies south of the service building on Riverside Drive. This sanitary sewer line will serve the 12,000 square foot addition now being built, the new truck wash, and the .future transit facility. Truck Wash Facility. The City presently has no facilities to wash any vehicle larger than a automobile and pickup truck. The City is incurring high depreciation costs due to salt corrosion on all sheet metal and all operating equipment including salt spreaders, hydraulic components, frames, body panels, chains, hydraulic mechan- isms, etc. Renovation of Modular Units. This will complete the modular units that were transferred from Clinton Street. After we are completely done with the modulars we will have the equivalent of a 40 -year building at a cost of from $20 to $25 per square foot. This is very reasonable. MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS -DES MOINES M_ 3 2 2. Summer of 1980. Fuel island facility Vehicle storage buildings Locker room remodeling and Traffic Engineering remodeling Machine room and equipment offices $40,000 $50,000 $40,000 $70,000 Fuel Island Facility. The gas and diesel pumps are scattered all over the service building yard and the gas pump is located in one of the most congested parts of the yard. The new fuel island facility will serve both Transit and the rest of the equipment fleet. It will be located in a position so that vehicles will be able to move into the fuel island area without blocking traffic in the rest of the service complex. We will put in larger storage tanks and the fuel island will be covered. Vehicle Storage Buildings. At the present time the City has no covered storage. We have rented the 4-H grounds building the last few years but this is very uneconomical. We lose time moving back and forth from the 4-H grounds and our heating bills have been running approximately $500 per month during winter weather. All of our salt spreaders and garbage trucks as well as most of the City's equipment operates with hydraulic equipment. Hydraulic equipment does not work well on winter mornings when the temperature is from zero to 30 degrees below zero. order toTodeligg. In provide a cons_ lI dated locationefornthe erigm eEquipment Division parts room, bus repair area, and general repair area, Traffic Engineering will move into another area of the service building. construcwe tion ofutheU12m000 squaresfoothis repairmre area. er aThe fpresentg undersized engine rebuild and transmission rebuild area will stay where it is temporarily but these funds will allow us to have a full sized and fully equipped machine room for Transit engine rebuilds, transmission rebuilds, brake turning, etc. I Summer of 1981. Salt stockpile cover Landscaping and fencing Salt Stockpile Cover. This will allow us to cover our exposed stockpile. At the present cent of ttime we are loosing three to four per - he stockpile through leaching, most of this leaching goes straight into the Iowa River. ..a��eNina ang rencinq. These are the final amenities to finish off the service building complex and provide security. We will be doing some planting with this summer's project around the outside of the facility abutting Highway 6 and Riverside Drive. Additional funds will complete interior landscaping. MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS -DES MOIeCS 3 I suspect that the employees at the service building complex, the City staff, and perhaps even the City Council are frustrated with the seem- ingly slow progress of the equipment service building construction. To put things in perspective it may help to remember that not one single thing was done to the service building complex from the time it was built in 1957 until about 1976. We are taking the lowest cost approach to renovate a 20 year old facility that received no periodic maintenance during the life of the facility. City. Council is doing the right thing from the viewpoint of the tax- payers and the viewpoint of the City staff and employees. Facilities are being constructed which will allow us to provide services to citi- zens under reasonable working conditions. We have not bonded a three to four million dollar structure; instead we will provide a facility for a total cost of approximately $800,000. The only deficiency is the long time span necessary to accomplish this in a piecemeal fashion. cc: Dave Daley jm3/24 MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS•DES MO1nES