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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975-07-01 Info Packet12111 I057A CI0wA. • • li 13 -Mr.CzarnecY.i. _ Thank you, Mr.. Chairman. 14 Lir. Chairman and members of the committee, I'm Edgar; C:arn6cki,-Mayor of; Iowa City, Iowa, a community .of 47,000 15 16 population. 171 I I,suppork liavor Paquutte's view that wo cannot provide 18 -public mass transportation services for our citizens if we cannot afford to operate our new buses -- and we are becoming 19� increasingly unabletodo"so in our small cities. 40i Senator Williams, -without your dilliaent efforts over 21 these past years, we still would not have federal assistance 2211 23` for meeting transit operating deficits. But the ;50,000_PoPu- lation cutoff for such assistance appears to us in somewhat 24 -'erFederui Reporters, Inc. - --- ------ 7 - smaller cities -- especially those in the 25,000 to 50,000 25 - • 187. 1I -- t,3 be an arLitrary figure. It does not reflect the range 2needs -- cities which are currently devoting of - cur cities 3 of very limited resources to maintain public large portions 4II mass transporation services. 511 Transnortation Administrator Frank F.erringer Urban Mass 611 Tuesday that the Administration support- -. told this Committeeon S. .662 regarding operating Issitance for small - =-7I the language o` 8 !� but prefers total flexihili.ty in the urbn and rural areas, a 9j1 million authorization. 1'}e are pleased that use of the $590 1011 has taken this position and that it pro- the Administration the program on a partial allocation/partia 11 I``to posesadminister This will enaUle U 1TA to determine r: hcre. 12 basi discretion:�ry s. 13 �; and what and the stype of funding upport are, the needs employed. The reLult will hopefully be a 1'11 mechanism shculd be effective mass 13 aderuately funded, commitment to providing ne•.+, to the'ci.tizens of our small cities 161 =transportation services 1711 and rural arca,. a note. that is not in the prepared is I would like to add sir. lierringer alsc inforred Jou that the 191 text. That is that favored the use of demonstration programs 20-1 Administration 173 1lighway Act through fiscal year '75 and 211 authorized by the I said the Administration will soon try to tie thil 22 ' 76. lie also mill and provide some provision for spall 23 II into the high%•Iay 241 ur}�an_and rural transit programs. a. F�dc,o R.po, e,t, inc. ro ram it -clear that the demonstration p• g 251 I'd liY.c to mal:e II • • 183 1 1 �� can be no help to sr^.ill urban areas with C;cisting sys cats that 2 are now -in financial trouble. I would also like to,imi dose the 3I idea of turning the small urban and rural transit programs — 4� sl -6�I over to the Federal Highway Administration ar.d thus to the 1 state highway departments. I feel that the record demonstrate onr concern over the ability of the Highway Administration to 7I� administer transit programs. 8I� The demonstration program authorized by the '73 Highway 9'� 101 11 ;i 1i 12IIon Act was signed into law in i�ugust of '73. The 4uicielines on the program were issued in ;March 1975 over 20 months later. U1?TA was able to issue their regulations On the Omer hand, _ -- the operating assistance program within tie short span o` II one month. .� tell you '.chat we in 14 I would like to take: -a few minutes to ` transit with our limited 15 Iowa City are trying to do in mass ' 16 local funds. I won't go through all the detail of the`pre- 17 pared statement, but I would like to give you some background. 18 Phe municipality of Iowa City instituted a conventional 19 transit system in Set Member 1971 that replaced a private '-d ceased operation. 12 new 45 -passenger buses 20II`system that had 21+ purchased with the assistance of the urban Vass Transit were p ' to The fare was reduced from 22I Transportation Act of 1964. 25C 23 L- 15C and the level of service was in from -7 to 10 routes 24 II which provide a 2Q perc,.nt increase in coverage and a ? P er- Inc. I' beginning we had a dramati P•oonen. -: -. From the. 9 25� cent increase in mileage- I� • • 18 4 li i increase ;in r.idcr�liip. In Sc-ptemner '71 through February '72 2 percent increase in our patronage. This has con - we -had a'1G5 p_ L g 3,1 tinued, not as dramatically, but ore are. now almost up to a 411 million and a half riders per -year compared to the 500,000 51 :the ahproziawt% passenger ridership before the city took, over 61 systema I detail some of the interim struggles to maintain the - 71 'I private operator in lnrsiness. It included considerable subsidy s by the city and also by the university. Iowa City is the home 911 of the University of Iowa. 10 jl II just -prior -to taking over of the private system by the 111{ idication by the city of over 500,000 to cir_y there was -a eubs, 12 the private operator for the I,',monthsprior to September -'71. 13 I). �- Our downtown area of the city joins the university and all of. 14II our buses go into the heart of the city and we have a central 15II that -- we have a central location for all of the _buses system 16 _ at the meeting point of the city, -arid the university. 17 Prior to the city taking over only 3 percent of all the 18 I _, trips downtown occurred through the bus system. Now that has_ . 19 increased to 16 percent. >16 percent of all the people coming. 20 into our downtown area are now coming via the bus. 21( We have added two additional General motors passenger 22I" buses. These came out of our general -revenue funds in 1974. .. 23 the bad news. The cost of operation of our system has Now continually increased because of wage "salary increases, cost ­Ndual ,,i Reporters.�4. 25rox.imately of oil, fuel, etc. I7c are now not quite but app I • • 185 contributing to the system S"no,000 per year 2I Lie have a shuttle system that has buses going around }doth 3 direct.ions-of-tile .campus cont;.nuously. Ore also have a suburb 4� of Coralville which onerates its own independent transit system 5I but also feeds-passengers into the downtown city. b) i Ile are currently trying to secure capital assistance o£ a 71 grant for 20 buses that would providetheur.iveristy with; new , 8�three-additional buses, and Coralville buses,-the city with th c _ 911 with buses. we are almost completing the arrangements with 101 UMTA. The university Iva- "some problems and they might not be illi able to come in at this time. If in fact the City of Iowa 1211 City secures i}:is grant %•:c %.,oulO.. be the only city in the united 13 'states that would lease and work bus operations betoreen the _14I city and the university, a joint effort. 15I SenatorWilliams. What's the population of the university? 16 Mr.-Czarnecki. -20,000 which is included in our 97-98 ti-lousi nd 17 figure 18 I then-mention the problems, as I'm sure.have been pointed 19 times, of the 50,000 population figure. I should out many 20 point out our county has 75,000, the city has 9x,000, Coralvill? 21i has 96,000. So we are a very urbanized county, yet we"don't 22 qualify for any operating subsidies-. .! 23 I would, of course, like to extend our appreciation for all 24 the capital subsidies that we received, but now we art! vc-f -- -. e._e-Fed:_ral Beporten, Inc. 25 tightly pressed to meet operating costs. II • • 186 1 I` act oaltcrinrl the As, l mr•nti.onerl, we havr, a r;r.cat i m r. ta i 211 Toad of transportation of-PuoPle from the car to the bus.. Our i 1 3j 4 parking levels. in the city have declined since we tool, over he buses. The City Iowa City ane. 1 the cities in Iowa 5� .have 6 7� 8I+ - r �I 9u 1OIi � 4 -Ei�'ed Timitat.ion of the amount.,f property taxes that they can raise. We have a 30 mill limit imposed upon us by state. A mill in Iowa City would now equate to about ththeI $90,000 in taxers. So the 3cficit Of the bus system Of 5300,00 �nlc� nt of our total operating budget. I will pe .. is well over 10 explain, however, funds are not taken directly from the 11 �� �I� 1211 jr 1311 14 I�15 operating hndrlet. . -' 47e do have Lwo,-other options in addition to the method -,perating deficit from the transit sY's ' we used to make up the m One, of course, is the increased fares and I think our past _-experience and those of other cities have cautioned us no t 16II 17I -to increase fares unless it's the last resort. The other, we do have the authority to issue a two mill 18 19 especial transit tax assess ment_again because property taxes are so high we are not too interested in doing that -- increas 2OI the burden of taxes of our citizens.' 21 what we have done, ;and I have explained this in .he 22 written testimony; we originally used the,proper y taxes to 23 make up our deficits, but then it got too great and .:e -used v 1•}e used al5out $200,000 0£ the 5300,60'0 that 24 s- _ revenue sharin7• -- .uFcrlerol Reporlen, Inc. < - _ that - 25 comes from revenue sharing, general -revenue ,haring 14 In the appendix I have listed some cities where the 15 subsidies are in the area of $1.50. Our annual rider per 16 capita is 27.8 and I have a chart which shows cities in the---, 17 four--state region. Weare far above all cities. St. Louis -- 18 tdissouri being the closest. 19i 'I also have a figure that shows the amount of subsidy, -= 201 the seven cities in Iowa over 50,000 receive under the bill -21 and the amount of subsidies in the seven smaller cities put 22 into the system is approximately one-third of that of the 23 larger citicr,. In other words, t•hu-cma11,cr c1t1.r„^. cis, rFu:nf- 2411 = dize the bus systems to a great extent. <r Federd Reporters, Inc. 251 -' - . I'd also like to point out that we had two systems in • • ':.189 1 Iowa that had to discontinua se -vice in '67. Fort Dodge,_Io::a, ii 2 city of over '30,000; and-ttuscatine, Iowa, a:city of 22,000. a I - 31. The city of fort Dodge recently has been studying -the possi- ` - 4 bility of initiating mass trensit operations; but t:co r-jlativel; 5 in the "state 'of Io%,a have discontinued transit lar.;e cities { 6if service since 1967. ? What we are basically asking is that the 5250,000,000 be 8;i allocated for operating subsidies as proposed in Senate Bill S!� 662. i+ new iris, as you }:no'a, costs aboat $60,000 today. ;:e 1011 are subsidizing operationwise each of thosebuses about $20,000 11I In a ten-year period, obviously the operating tests ar a year. 12I far beyond lh.:t of the tai-ital. costs. 1•7e feel that the 50,000 1311 population figure i:: an extremely arbitrary cutoff point. It .. 141 really has no relationship whatsoever to the viability of any 15I articular transit system. 16 in fact Iowa City -I think as.shown by the statistics Iem'and If 171has viable sy�t a high acceptability by its an extremely 18people, why .should_we he denied federal subsidi11 es? We would 191 strongly that Congress pass the proposed amendment. alio argue 201 for operating subsidies and these sums cating'$250,00o,000 21 II not not on a blanket across the board formula such be allocated 22 l allocated, but rather with -the Congress oo'ring as those already 23 and feasibility of a system and deter -mining at the viability 24 by which to measure how these discretionary funds some criteria :r Frdeml Reporlers, Inc. 25 we have suggested severaI possible may be allocated. I • 195 1 Cr.arncccl;i_ Yes, becau';c this ocrars _ir. all the dis- ;:r. 2 `over fedora]. subsidies to cities -- the loca l tax cussions 3 The cities in Iowa do not havetheoption of any effort. 4 to the people in a referendwm We cannot even go local taxes. = _ 5don't have any authority for any state sale II on any local -_ we 61rax._ 1 or local income 7 , and we had to go to the We didn t either, Senator Garn. 8 In fact, one of the chief ' - permission. legislature .or this 9�� further. Ile wanted no fare. i:e's four,h sponsors planted to ,o 10 member. of the legislature -- totally no for it:fer year.• s, a half a,cent. sales tax: and. tha* iter^, enc' finance -it witl ballot and the people turned that one • . JI tic-, on the :was an optic-, - down. justify nq fare. You'd get a lot o 14 I-personail} couldn't reasonable and an_rbody could sightseers.- The 15C fare seemed would invite all kinds of abuse 16 afford it and no fare I think, subsidize to that extent 17 and I`couldn t see why we should 18 eo le' -y could afford to - of P P mho certainl _ --when-there are a lot -' the people 19 both those oP lions were on the baliut and pay, but yet .this particular 20 picked the 15C rather than the no fare, and 21 is still fighting despite the -fact it was-on a legislature 22 public ballot, for.a totally no fare system. 23 I have nothing else. well. Thank you, �entL.n r•n. VII 24 Senator c:illiams. very ;.Federal Reporters, Inc. and y our statements were 25 grateful for your appearance 9 - s are very _ Monterey has Lwo, dr_ , i fin. ruvicw committees > --one for archi- ` Uctural review and one'fcir site plan review. The Archi- tectural.Revi('w.(;nmmittCO was Created . primarily to review -'- the'Physical design of bui-ldinas in -the -multiple family, commercial and industrial zones and all -signs, in addition, to help in thy_protection of historic buildings and areas. fn Monterev- after -an anr.lication is given architectural review, the plans 'are :then re.`.erred'-automatically to tile Site Plan Review Committee. ' The Site Plan' Review Committee was originally created to review proposed 'tree 'removals a•as"tile site plans for major projects in the City. The present function of the Site Plan Review Committee is f:o study the siting of proposed construction, the impact Uf•o» e}isting topogranhy and-natural'vegetation, and the re].itionshi; of pr-orosec construction to existing public and private improvements in the intmediate'area. In actual practice this Committee has been primarily involved in street improvements, -driveway locations, -parking -.lot design, drainage problems, and other related` matters not reviewed by the Architectural Review Committee. The Architectural Review Committee has five members, con- sisting of one mem),er of the Planning Commission appointed by the Chairman with the approval of --the Planning -Commission and four other members _,appointed.by-tile ftayor,-with the approval of at least three members of the council.Two of thesemembers must be_,architects or similar design pro- fessionals: The -Site' - Plan Review Committee consists of thr. City Planning Director, Director. of Public-Vorks,'and one member fron the" Planning Commission appointed by the Chairman. The Architectural Review Committee has been in .existence since the -1940's as a lay committee. The Site Plan Review -'Committee was created in1964and is_primarily a=staff review function which gives the Public Works Department and Planning Department an opportunity to review projects for engineering -and_planning_requirements. The two design _review committees have had remarkable success -`in-dealing with certain _types 'of projects. _Large national franchir_e companies, for example, have had--to,:improve their developments considerably to locate in Monterey. The appear- ance and size of signs have beenupgradedby the Architec- tural Review Committee. 'Many small projects have been improved by'the_ Committee's suggestions, comments, and modifications. -f1ost-minor projects have not been designed f.•l a professional designer, and thene'projects frequently benefit from the experience of the two review committees. The design review, process has been well accepted in, Monterey - Lecause there. is a widespread -concern about the,community's appearance : T.lso',the 'review _process itself has been made as -simple as possible. The required procedures have been reduced to a minimum, and this has been extremely important in keeping -the crmmunity,_s support. The staff and the - committee show.cons dieration for. the applicant and try to work with him in the review procedures. The amount of time is critical and has been reduced so that architectural -re- view can normally be obtained within a week's time. very few rases are appealed (less than 1%) Inmost cases -- where there aseswhere-there have been difficulties in obtaining architectural - approval, the applicant occasionally, drops _the ;project, ' or usually comes back and tries to work out the problems with the Architectural Review Committee. we have not had any problems in obtaining a quorum, even though the Committee meets every week (4:00 p.m. on Thursdays). - Monterey's Committee hasnothad any ;difficulties _in reaching a majority decision. 'There has been `only 'one tie vote in the _last twoor three years of hearings. = - -- In PSonterey, the applications -have to be filed a week before the next hearing date. on large -developments, the Committee ----will-hold--over -the -,application another week in order to carefully study the projectbefore'taking action There --are two basic points to consider in establishing the `design ::review procedure. The -first ;problem is•getting ,the - understanding and support of the City Administration and city Council so that they will support the requirements of design approval. If you are going to have.a review process, then it should be fairly and -firmly -administered for •all ;types =of projects: The second problem is enforcing the :design ;review decisions and requirements. when you have design -review and approval, some violations and enforcement problems will 'result. A good part of the violations will be.of a minor nature,' but it becomes a problem of enforcing the City's regulations and of obtaining compliance with the Architectural Review Committee' decisions. Simple and _effective ;procedures 'need to be`organized to deal with these problems. Adequate staff `is_the key -element in carrying out the design regu- lations. Full cooperation and assistance.will be needed from the City Building Department' -and the City Attorney's 0 t help in the enforcement of architectural review. ity of Iowa .Cit MEMORAN-M -, DGE:cw - - L1 The People's Republic woos the nations of the have-not world China's-Artful Courtship SHIRLEY A. CHRISTIAN - Few who saw it can ever forget the tumultuous scene in the General Assembly hall the night in 1971 would behave. A Norwegian who had served: in China -delegation when the - People'sRepublic of China was voted into the United said the high quality of: the Peking was sending meant-it was taking the United Nations seri-' Nations. It seemed the entire have-not world was on its ously. The delegation was led by Vice-Foreign Minister_ feet, cheering. The young Tanzanian ambassador jumped up and Chino Kuan-hua, who has since become foreign minis- tcr. and Ambassador Huang Hua. Pakistanis said it did do­n so wildly that some journalists, reported he had danced a jig. Even delegates of many poor countries not matter if Washington decreased its U.N. support;:`- China would be generous. - that had supported the American attempt to create U.N. seats for both Peking and Taiwan could not resist Not the least of the concern was whether China would _ a feeling of satisfaction. The Establishment had fallen. Although Henry Kissinger was in Peking try to carry out its notion that it was the head of the vast collection of countries variously- described; as Third World, preparing for President Nixon's visit in 1972, U.S. Ambassador underdeveloped.: developing, less :developed, small, or just plain poor. It was a justified concern. In justified or.cerIt as George Bush left the chamber in dejection, consoled by his 'Australian collcaguc,.Sir Laurence McIntyre. The a the years since being its concern. '. next day, Washington was so enraged by the glee of the ful"place in the assembly hall,. China has artfully used it as an arena to woo the Third World. victors that Congress started on the road to reduction of -the_U.S. commitment to the U.N. budget. While ranting g at the Soviet Union and engaging in As for the?Soviet"Union.-:Ambassador Yakov Malik name-calling with Yakov:Malik; Chinese diplomats was quiet. He had once boycotted the Security Councilhave pursued the Third_ World more quietly. demon- as part of along-ago`attempt'to-get China into the United Nations, but Sino-Soviet relations strafing humility, good manners, hospitality,.- and a _ willingness to learn. New China's diplomats have not were no longer once were. forgotten the continuing importance of "face'' in the In the three wehey between the vote and the traditional societies which "make , up most of the Third k of New York T China's delegates, U.N. work a almost World. With the same sense.of what's right that led to a' halt. Too many things, it seemed, should not be should t be them to entertain New York policemen, they have taken decided in the absenceof a major.power, An English- tca with the delegates in the diplomats' lounge and -:man said it was like waitingforGodot, except that the paid me[iculousattcntion to the wording resolutions Chinese were definitely coming. :Euphoria -gave way to - on such subjects as colonialism, economic develop- apprehension as diplomats wondered how the Chinese ment, and small-nation rights. The Chinese treat even•- one like a grownup in a manner the other big powers Shirley Ar Christian was a U.N. correspondentforthe- and former colonialists never mastered. Assoc iatedPress atthe time the People's Republic of Why.does China place such emphasis on the Third China was voted into the United Nations. Last year she studied Nieman World? The answer seems to Ile in how China perceives as a l-ellow al Harvard. specializing in _ China. sforeign relations. She has covered Latin the entire world. It has decided the Soviet Unum i no% Americanafjairsand livedjorayearinChile. the foremost imperialist in the world and China's principal enemy. sPeking's,nuclear arsenal _isdeveloped 34/ JULY 1975 Inc., of San Francisco, transit engineering specialists, 10 make -a six-week survey sof-the district's entire - -operation.. In killing dial -a -bus the supervisors acted on - the Bechtel report. -which -said that the fleet of. 212 coaches was not sufficient to serve the arterial routes and Ilial -a -bus- too. -The engineering firm also reported -- --- _ -- that dial -a -bus -cost lot) much -in proportion to benefits. 'rhe system \vas -a --victim of: its own success. A( the ' n111�C1..•11 W. t•xpeetl'll-.that-that-a•t-isle \\'1111111 serve -10.000 riders daily after- two years: Only months had --.passed when daily use reached 7.000. riders. at a cost `that greatly exceeded estimates. - At the, May ,mceting,thc supervisors decided to - continue-dial-a-ride`at'least- temporarily in several ---= wwne'inthe southern part of the county, where an - Mala Strikes Again - estinlalcd 25,0110 persons live. .Big.. At the same time, tile' supervisors voted to expand We have all learned' by ,now that Americans are a the district's bus fleet to 516 vehicles in the expectation simple. childlike people who don't know what is best for -politicians that Federal funding will help pay for. the additional themand therefore need bureaucrats and -_ coaches: -The: district is supported by state funds and _. and various law enforcement agencies to tell them what Federal grants r` plus bus' fares. It is likely that the to do from the time they get out of bed in'tiie morning supervisors will submit a half -cent sales tax proposal to until they get back in at night -and occasionally even - the voters in November in an effort to obtain additional hcyond that.-,, revenue for the transit district. Ungrateful citizens sometimes refer to this as a Big -- --Financial considerations arc believed to have been a Brother syndrome, but in the American tradition. it -large factor in the decision of the four supervisors, tomighP mareaccura[dy be called Big Mama. The latest. -- curtail dialer -bus: In addition, the Bechtel study. the example .of_this _is -seen in the --California Highway ` -supervisors received a report by A. Alan Post, analyst - patrol. Great numbers of people, on weekends, drive Fur. the California legislature, which pointed but that over to Las Vegas to take a tLtnblc at the dice tables ---Ilial-a-flus .'consumed 49 per cent of the combined and with the cards and whecls. There are long. flat sv+tom's nperating budget but carried only 18 per cent stretches of boring highways and some are tempted to nl the total passengers. On the other hand, dial -a -ride drive faster thanfifty-five miles an hour. -: generated jonly 518,000 of the system's 598,000 in The police have found .that speeding tickets. arc :not _ monthly -revenues." enough—that people simply cannot be forced to hold it The Ione supl.rvisor supporting dial -a -ride was Dom- down to fifty-fivc. So, a new. plan:.A police car. with ;.inic 1-.. Cortese. -whose district includes a section of San lights flashing, drives along -at fifty-five. exactly.. Any lose where he claims some 40 per cent of the county's car passing it gets a ticket. They back up in long lines . population of more than 200.000- behind the police cars, at fifty-fivc, dreaming of big -Mexican-American --- live-. Many- of them do not own cars and depend on killings at the gambling tablcs and only. wishing they `dial -a -bus to go'to`work. Cortese said. could get there sooner and get their hands on the dice One of the eighteen persons who spoke. for the dial -a -bus continuation was Jack Ibarra, chairman of .and the cards. --_Of course, they're going to Vegas in the first place _ the transportation commission and a past president of because the California Big Mama won't let them gam - the Cori(eileracion de /u Nuza Unidad. which includes ble at-home. So they take money earned in California about ftfly-fivc Mexican -American organizations. and haul it across the state linetolose it in Nevada. _- - "'I -here were a -lot of poor people and low-income Nevada, with all thisoutside money coming in, hardly -- - people .who used. dial-a•ridc," Ibarra said. "Nobody has to pay any taxes at all, whereas in California they're _ reallybelieved that there were that many people who rising all the time. One mightthink there was some- supportcd dial -a -ride simply because they did not go -thing a little screwyhere, bud, let It pass: -It -. down to the board chambers to scream and holler.- The Big Mama rulein this easels this: is all right to It remains to be seen whether -dial -a -ride supporters drive over to Vegas and pour California money into will continue their. protest. Supervisor Cortese said that `Nevada; it is all right to go into_Nevadaand do legally the Urban Mass Transportation Administration did not -what is not legally allowed in California. But you must suggest that the district drop dial -a -rids, whichwas"a -obey the speed limit on your way thereto do it. unilateral decision on the; part of the supervisors:' He No doubt Big Mama means well, but she certainly added that UMTA was willing to put more money Into can be silly. dial -a -ride. F'R[sDI--RICK U. ROSS DAVID BPI!,* r.LEI (Frederick U. Ross is a•(rerlunce.,ariter in Pula Alto. -_ (David Brinklci� reports front Washington for NBC CnG(nrnL,.) Ncws. ) THE PROGRESSIVE /33 End of the Line _. latrly in May. -nurce.-than . 200 persons ovcrflowed -the San .lose affecting_roni of the supervisors-olSanta Clara Couniv. fifty miles suullt of Sao`. Francisco. to learn the future of dial-a-bus, file county's public'- - transportation. system which provided door-to-doorsery ice in response to a telephone request. The supervisors, acting as directors or the county's transit district, voted 4 to I to discontinue' dial-a-bus" - - -- - fourdays later except in the southern part of the county. - - Begun last November. the system. also called dial-a Landmark." (Much of the area is alreadv Federally ride, believed ,to be file only computerized dial-a-bus owned.). This is (fie necessary first step-toward making -operation in the world, was certainly the most ambi. it a national park. At Nelson's request life Nationaltious of all such experiments that have beenstartedin 1'ark Service is making :r feasibility study to determine the past three years in communities in twenty-two <.whether the Kickapoo River VaRzy can become - a ..states. II was hoped that it would set a pattern in public � national park. As for the plight of those in danger of -.=transportation throughout the United States.. Its virtual floods the answer would seem to be relocation of abolition triggered a debate among the county's popu- -- -- residents from flood-prone areas of the valley., which lation of 1.2 million, 97 per cent of whom live in the 240 could be-undertaken-at-less than half the cost (if the --square miles that the system. operating in conjunction .:dam, according -tn estimates by a Wisconsin Depart- withnineteennew arterial routes, was designed to- .._metal of Revenue analyst. - serve. A combination of these two measures could provide Dial-a-bus proponents turned )of in lull force for the the most permanent kind of flood control, as well as a meeting. Before the supervisors acted. eighteen advo-- .solid base for economic redevelopment of this chroni- cafes of the system. representing the large Mexican- . cally depressed arca. withoul destroying the river. One American population in San .lose. the elderly, the might expect reasonable people to be persuadedby--handicapped, and the poor, pleaded for the cominua- such argumcnts.but noonc has everaccused the Army tion of dial-a-bus. Nine persons spoke against the Enginecrs of being reasonable. lThey -have resolutely operationat the meeting. "-here feeling ran- _high. refused to give serious consideration to alternatives. Why did dial-a-bus spark such emotional reaction? A ` preferring simply to tune out all life ball news. The prospective passenger simply telephoned a reservation :.agency's top- brass insisted that since -Congress: has ist at the central control headquarters in San Jose, gave provided the money to built) a dam• by_Gild. 'a dam will his address. destination• last name, telephone number• be built. - and -the number of persons inlhq party. The rreserva- The picture began to change only recently, when life - :finalist fell the information to a computer which EPAissueda-stern warning that the La FargcAake -instantly indicated which bus would bestservethe - would violate state and Federal water quality stand passenger.: The, _busi-equipped .with a two-way radio. ards. At about the same time, Senator Nelson began was dispatched to the passenger's door. The fare was an aggressive effort to sever the Congressional purse only twenty-five cents---icn cents for persons under strings for 1976 spending on the -project, and early ' eighteen years of age or over sixty-four—with no extra indications arc that he maybe successful.` The Corps. charge for a transfer to an arterial route. reading the writing on the wall. has finally imposed a ..That was the theory of-dial•a-bus: the practice was " moratorium on new construction until the water quality somcthing'else.- At the inception of the ,system the - -disputeis-resolved al-the-Fcdcnl level.: - control headquarters .was -swamped with calls. Fre-' While the time now• seems ripe for a reassessment of locally a bus could not be dispatched for an hour or, what Nelson' calls "an environmental nightmare." the more, and sometimes it never arrive(]. The district battle of the Kickapoo is not over yet. The Corps of Increased the number of trunk lines to the central office _ Engineers remains unwilling to admit that the only way `and-thc.response time: of- the -rescrvationists-was cut to settle the water quality dispute is to forego construe- down to seconds. In all respects the system began to tion of the dam and lake And that mind-set `puts -[he operate more efficiently. but the county supervisors ,.:agency in the. position of destroying a river in order to continued to be deluged-with complaints. Some 2.000 '> save it. Sound familiar? persons called for reinstatement of the original arterial l WHITNEYGOUI.D lines-in operation before the nineteen new arterial-- routes and dial-a-bus were started. flowing to the - Mu'inryr Goalrl. it Nieman Pellaw ar Mirvard him year, dcnt:utd, the ;supervianrs 4r.ciAcA'' ur tial ire oven carers enrlronnneniol neivs,%rir;The Capital 7'/11111v is original lines recently. AludAmt. Wisronsin.)_r In March, life harassed supervisors hired Bechtel, 32/ JULY 1975 usually been caused by outside events -the escalation of bombing. the renewal of bombing, the invasion of - Cambodia—rather than by conscious, planning within the antiwar movement. - - - - lf Americans were responsible for helping to achieve peace. they apparently didso-haphazardly, with the -sporadic: campus: uprisings. the marches and dcnum- stralions IhaLso'unhingcd Richard M. Nixon. It was satisfying to have taken part in the protests. but it had all taken loo long, and there had been too much %offering,in Indochina, for us to rejoice now that the `war was over. It -was clear, too, that suffering in Southeast Asia and elsewhere in the world had not ended, and that at home the Government had begun to )lapse over the old myths of, how we had become' involved. with new myths about our leaving Indochina. So when someone at the party said, "Well. we still. -'have a lot todo.".w•e all nodded. not vcryjoyously, and began to gather -up the wine glasses. RACHELLE MARSHALL (Kuchelle Marshall is a free-lance wrherin Stanford.) Taming the Kickapoo-.. - Lo Purge. Wisconsin The Kickapoo River engraved itself on the rolling -landscape 'of southwestern Wisconsin about a. million" years ago; during the Ice Age. This is the "driflless" :arca. one of the few parts of the Midwest which escaped .the advance of the glaciers. Because of its unique geological features, a twelve - mile stretch of the Kickapoo between thetinyVernon -County communities of La Farge and Ontario provides- breathtaking vistas for legions of canoeists. The water- way snakes below sandstone and dolomite cliffs whose russet faces are pockmarked by the wind and rain of millennia and doltcd with rare wildflowers andlumi- nous mosses. - But the Kickapoo; like many rivers, has a tendency to --"flood on occasion. And to many of the residents of the villages which have grown up along its banks since the mid -Nineteenth Century. the river is less a natural wonder than a`nuisance. Enter the Army Corps of Engineers. - In a scenario often played out across the country, the -Corps proposes to tame the sometimes rambunctious Kickapoo with what is euphemistically known in the lexicon of the boondogglers as a "flood control and recreation project --a dam. First authorized by Congress in 1962 at a cost of $12 million. Ilse project, finally got ander way a few years ago after bitler.fighl will -environmentalists.- Today, the cost It" shared to $51.5 million. More than $14 million has already been sunk into the project. mostly for land acquisition androadrelocation. - Even at $51.5 million. the dam will offer only incom- plete _flood - protection.: by. the Army Engineers own admission. "rhe: project's recreational value is also in doubt. The dant will inundate the Kickapoo's twelve most scenic miles with an _ 1;800 -acre_. reservoir which will be foul-smelling and choked with weeds and algae, according to astudy commissioned by the Corps itself and conducted by the University of Wisconsin's prestig- ious Institute for Environmental Studies. Nutrient -rich farmland runoff was pegged as the principal culprit -- "A cesspool." four times as sick as Lake Eric, was the way -David Schindler, head :of Canada's environ- mcnlal protection agency, described the proposed lake. The experts agree that there is little that can be done. in practical terms, to make it better. The Army Engineers' feeble defense is that the lake will be no worse than other man-made lakes which are heavily -used -forrecreation. But -a report -from -the General _Accounting Officer the investigative arm of Congress, indicates that the Corps has greatly inflated the alleged benefits of the project and underestimated its defects. Members of Congress rarely; oppose pork barrel projects for their constituencies, and in this case even that scourge. of Pentagon -waste. .:Wisconsin's -senior Senator, William Proxmire. is no'exception. -.Proxmire. who is up for -re-election nextyear, has taken, the astonishing position that since the local people support- ing the La Fargc dam and lake project arc the ones who will have to live with it; he will do nothing to stop it. ' Wisconsin's other Senator, Gaylord Nelson. has waged a tireless battle against the project. Nelson (a specialist in environmental affairs): the Environmental Protection' Agency (EPA). the President's' Council on Environmental Quality,,- and Wisconsin's Governor Patrick'Lucey, once a reluctant backer of the project, have all issued calls for moratorium and a thorough study of alternative methods of flood control. Local pressure for an Engineer Corps dam. especially among those who thought there were great money- making possibilities for development of a sizable tourist attraction, -was mollified it hit when Senator Nelson" succeeding In getting the Interior Department to desig- nate the Kickapoo River Valley as a National Nature THE PROGRESSIVE /31 z �IVolunteer SerV,ice` uuc� Rlll rditchell' n' -ley !rouse . - Eve 6riPY.e, ✓In_ic�A... li: School : Kny G ��ry lc. Tett lL / Ch: Youth LmerJcncJ 5hulLarPLrnSr: LT'T u v'to c.n. SrrourD rrE"T1il I D; �� fir, t. Y Tlu: 11v1ubec U �� j: , (ac tatg an .cdeit ii l t�, '..�.r-•�: ' _�(mm¢rLilLi�_; CJt,V�•U., .•cttCNW6'rt.l,l.utl .t�5 C�� i`.::•1.A'!C- fOR "7T'SO'� .t:7RL-Scoff Contrrt Ka Lc I,cc -'_339-9794 -day Camps T. 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HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICE Pur ose:` To create a new department providing personnel services to the City and an equal opportunity commitment in all of the City's dealings as well as throughout the 'Iowa City Community... Anticipated.Scope: To- andVtransfer, separationancompensar including recruitment,: hi.-ung,-,p t to i tion, and benefits te WntFederalmandmState regulationsainVvarietynofrareasles Provides,e p -for Human Relations -including labor relations. Planning -and programming_; Commission activities including community education=and research and-enforce- ment of civil rights through the complaint process. To-provide .to the City.,a strong affirmative action program which will include completion of the current affirmative action program in hiring of and minorities discriminatory of incoming`Federal monies for equal opportunity allocation, review of the City's vendors and licensees for discriminatory practices. Need for This Plan: Personnel services for the City are currently -under - staffed.with an inordinate amount ofpersonne partmentsl W7hksbsituationeing rleaded s other administrative offices and by the inefficiency-in the followingways: 1. overworked --;-the most Other departments are serious situation -_appears currently in the Finance Department, 2. There is room for=departments,to -ignore-the administrative goals- Commitment to affirmative -action and OSHA goals. _ 3. Applicants=and employees experience-inefficient handling of their .dealing with ,the personnel office. = - - istakes in routine 4: There are too many mtransactions and paperwork. of em oyment Because of the increase in Federal anatandePublic EmployeelRelationsan5- actions including equal opportunity, OSHA, Board', the-Personnel DepIntthetpastthardlyamoredthaniminimaliservices9have administrative policy: been provided because of insufficient staff. - Staff Required: view departmental Human Resource Director to-lan, department before thefmanager,f, and eCouncil, cortmmissi ncand�public. Represents-: Personnel Specialist to organize and carry, out personnel policies and objectives. Adequate clerical support staff. Administrative intern for special.projects;as needed.ro rams in education, Civil rights specialist to.carry out the Commission's p 9 research, and the complaint process. rrent employee with released time. OSHA technician who is a cu Support Services Required: Adequate legal support for the Ccmmission's__litigation and: to advise on State and Federal regulations in the areas as well as in labor relations: Adequate Community Relations support in education,_inter-City the areas of community research and cornnunication and education_ FY 76 Plan: Human Resources Director Director levei Personnel Specialist Administrative level Secretary Level 6 Administrative intern Hourly FY 77 Plan: lluman Resources Director - Director level Personnel Specialist _ Administrative level Civil Rights Specialist 1/2 time Administrative level- Risk Manager Superintendent level - Secretary Level 6 Administrative Intern Hourly bihat the Plan Will Offer: - - Provides top level management responsibility. __ -For personnel decisions with arrirmative action thrust. ' Provides authority and responsibility to affir;native action officer to insure that the affirmative action plan will be implemented. Provides for adequate implementation of Federal safety laws.` Provides systematic coordination for the abovelisted activities. Cuts down on the number of administrators while providing for adequate support staff. Promotes current employees. --- Possible department for logical expansion in the future into a coordinated - and yell -managed -social service effort: -2-