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AGENDA
March 18, 1997 7:00 p.m.
Civic Center
ITEM NO. 1.
CALL TO ORDER.
ROLL CALL.
a. Outstanding Student Citizen Awards - Grant Wood Elementary
(1) Katie Freeman
(2) Susan UIIrich
(3) Jamie Wilson
ITEM NO. 3. CONStDER ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS PRESENTED
OR AMENDED.
a. Approval of Official Council Actions of the regular meeting of
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(2)
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(5)
February 25, 1997, and the special meeting of March 4, 1997, as
published, subject to corrections, as recommended by the City Clerk.
Minutes of Boards and Commissions.
Board of Adjustment - February 12, 1997.
.(a) Consider a recommendation that the City Council approve the
Cable TV office budget.
Broadband Telecommunications Commission - January 27, 1997.
Design Review Committee - February 10, 1997.
Human Rights Commission - January 27, 1997.
Human Rights Commission - February 24, 1997.
(a) Consider a recommendation that the City Council approve the
proposed Human Rights ordinance as revised.
(6) Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission - January lZ~, 1997.
(7) Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission - February 11, 1997.
(8) Iowa City Planning and Zoning Commission - March 6, 1997.
(9) Riverfront and Natural Areas Commission - January 15, 1997.
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Welcome
Nov/Second item is presentations for Student Citizen Awards and we are going to defer
that for awhile because the students haven't arrived yet. I would like to take this
opportunity to welcome Iris Frost's journalism class. Glad to see you here. Let us
know if you have any questions afterwards.
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ITEM NO. 2 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS. (presented after 5c)
a. Outstanding Student Citizen Awards - Grant Wood Elementary
Nov/Marian, are the children here from Grant Wood?
Karr/Yes, they are.
Nov/Okay. Are they all ready to come forward?
Karr/Yes, they are.
Nov/Okay.
Kubby/Come up and you can just stand up here.
Karr/Right up here.
Nov/Did you all bring something to read about what you did at school? (Can't hear).
/ All three ladies are the kind of students that you can always count on. They are
the ones who are always willing to help. They are excellent role models in their
behaviors, their student skills, their helpfulness to others across all grade levels,
with adults, respect. Everything you would want a citizen to be, all three ladies are.
Nov/Thank you. For each of these students we have a certificate of award which says
Student Citizen. Susan Ullrich is recognized during March, 1997, for her qualities
of leadership at her school and her community as well as her sense of responsibility
and helpfulness to others. Who is Susan? The certificate for Katie Freeman is
worded exactly the same way. I won't read it again. Where is Katie? And the third
one is for Jamie Wilson. And I have to say that when students win these awards, it
isn't just the school that is proud of you, it is the whole community that is proud of
you. We are going to have a tape of this sent to your school. Thank you, ladies.
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Nov/I would also like to make a statement on Irving Weber. [See statement]. His funeral
is at 1:30 PM tomorrow afternoon at First Methodist Church.
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c. Permit Motions and Resolutions as Recommended by the City Clerk
(1) Consider a motion approving a Class C Liquor License for Sports
Column Corp., dba Sports Column, 12 S. Dubuque St. (Renewal)
(2) Consider a motion approving a Class C Liquor License for Little
Donkeys, Inc., dba Panchero's, Inc., 32 S. Clinton St. (Renewal)
(3) Consider a motion approving an Outdoor Service Area for Little
Donkeys, Inc., dba Panchero's, Inc., 32 S. Clinton St. (Renewal)
(4) Consider a motion approving a Class C Liquor License for Gringo's
of Iowa City dba Gringo's, 115 E. College St. (Renewal)
(5) Consider a motion approving a Class B Beer Permit for The Sam Ko
Corporation dba Ko's Kitchen, 18 S. Clinton St. (Renewal)
d. Setting Public Hearings.
(1)
CONSIDER A MOTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR
APRIL 8 TO DISCUSS THE FY98 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) AND HOME INVESTMENT
PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (HOME) BUDGET FOR IOWA CITY,
IOWA.
Comment: The Housing and Community Development Commission
will be submitting a FY98 CDBG\HOME budget recommendation to
the City Council on April 8. The U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development requires a public hearing and approval of a
budget by the City Council for this funding.
(2)
CONSIDER A MOTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR
APRIL 8 ON THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE TO AMEND
THE IOWA CITY HUMAN RIGHTS ORDINANCE TO MAKE
IT SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIVALENT TO THE FEDERAL
FAIR HOUSING AMENDMENTS ACT OF '1989. '
Comment: The Iowa City Human Rights Commission has
recommended enactment of amendments to the Iowa City Human
Rights Ordinance that will make the ordinance substantially
equivalent to the federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1989. A
certificate of substantial equivalency from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development will allow the Iowa City Human Rights
Commission to investigate complaints of housing discrimination in
Iowa City and will provide federal funds to the Commission to
facilitate such investigation. Memorandum from Assistant City
Attorney Dilkes included in Council packet.
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CONSIDER A RESOLUTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR
APRIL 8 ON THE PROPOSITION OF THE ISSUANCE OF
$11,000,000 SEWER REVENUE BONDS OF IOWA CITY, IOWA,
AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION NOTICE THEREOF,
Comment: The resolution sets a public hearing on April 8 to
receive public comment regarding the issuance of $11,000,000
Sewer Revenue Bonds, and authorizes the City Clerk to publish
notice of public hearing. Staff memorandum included in Council
packet.
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR
APRIL 8 ON THE PROPOSITION OF THE ISSUANCE OF
$8,500,000 WATER REVENUE BONDS OF IOWA CITY, IOWA,
AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION NOTICE THEREOF.
Comment: The resolution sets a public hearing on April 8 to receive
public comment regarding the issuance of $8,500,000 Water
Revenue Bonds and authorizes the City Clerk to publish notice of
public hearing.
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR
APRIL 8 ON AN ORDINANCE REGULATING NON-MOTORIZED
VEHICLES.
Comment: This resolution sets a public hearing on a proposed
ordinance which will amend the City Code by repealing the
regulations regarding "toy vehicles" and setting forth new regulations
regarding "non-motorized vehicles."
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR
APRIL 8 ON PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT,
AND ESTIMATE OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE
CORALVILLE-IOWA CITY ANIMAL SHELTER RENOVATION OF
WEST WING PROJECT, DIRECTING CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH
NOTICE OF SAID HEARING, AND DIRECTING THE CITY
ENGINEER TO PLACE SAID PLANS ON FILE FOR PUBLIC
INSPECTION.
Comment: This project includes the complete interior renovation of
the Animal Shelter (1967 structure) west wing. Sixty-eight square
feet of floor space will be added, as well as air conditioning, a new
roof, hot water radiant floor heat, glazed block kennels, employee
locker & lounge, high efficiency boiler & water heater, and high
efficiency lighting. The contracted construction cost estimate is
approximately $171,000. Landscaping, signage, kennel equipment,
storage, and grooming equipment will be contracted or purchased
independent from this project. Funding will be through General
Obligation Bonds. Staff memorandum included in Council packet.
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CONSIDER A RESOLUTION OF INTEN/T~) TO CONVEY A
FIFTY-FOOT WIDE, ONE-HUNDRED //TWENTY-FIVE FOOT
LONG PARCEL OF VACATED GABLE~TREET RIGHT-OF-WAY
LOCATED SOUTH OF ~R!'~E-RCII~E DRIVE TO FRANTZ
CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., AND SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING
AND RESOLUTION FOR CONVEYANCE ON APRIL 8, 1997.
Comment: On March 18, 1997, the City Council will be considering,
for passage and adoption, an ordinance vacating a fifty-foot (50')
wide, one-hundred and twenty-five foot long parcel of right-of-way
known as Gable Street located south of Lakeside Drive. Frantz
Construction Co., Inc. owns the property at the south end of the
vacated parcel, and is currently platting the southern area as a large
lot to accommodate a religious institution. The vacated Gable Street
parcel will be incorporated into the final plat for Mount Prospect
Addition, Part VIII, and will serve as a private drive for the religious
institution to the south. Frantz Construction has offered to purchase
the vacated right-of-way for the sum total of $280.31. All utility
easements over the parcel will be retained. This Resolution declares
the City Council's intent to convey the property to Frantz Construction
Co., Inc., and sets a public hearing and resolution on the proposed
conveyance for April 8.
e. Resolutions.
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO
EXECUTE AND THE CITY CLERK TO ATTEST A
SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF IOWA
CITY AND FIRST NATIONAL BANK, IOWA CITY, IOWA, FOR
PROPERTY LOCATED AT 57 REGAL LANE, IOWA CITY, IOWA.
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Comment: First National Bank has requested that the City approve
a Subordination Agreement for the owners at 57 Regal Lane. On
March 29, 1995, the owners of the property received a loan in the
form of a Rehabilitation Agreement, a Promissory Note and a
Mortgage for a total of $6,775 through the City's Residential
Accessibility Program. First National Bank is about to retinarice the
first mortgage. The appraised value is $75,420 which provides
enough equity to cover the City's second lien position, which was the
City's original position.
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE CITY OF IOWA CITY AND THE IOWA
STATE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR
STATE OF IOWA HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP (HOME)
PROGRAIVI FUNDING, AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO
EXECUTE AND THE CITY CLERK TO ATTEST THE SAME.
Comment: The Iowa Department of Economic Development
(IDED) has agreed to provide the Greater Iowa City Housing
Fellowship (GICHF) a maximum of 9256,902 in U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development funding for an affordable
rental housing project. This Joint Administrative Agreement
transfers administrative authority for the use of these HOME
funds to the City of Iowa City for exclusive use by the GICHF for
project implementation.
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CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE WORK
FOR THE WATER MAIN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS FOR
THE IDYLLWILD CONDOMINIUMS (BUILDINGS t1-t4) AND FOR
THE SANITARY SEWER PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS FOR
THE I DYLLWILD CONDOMINIUMS (BUILDINGS t ~ -t 8).
Comment: See Engineer's Report.
Correspondence.
(1)
(2)
Elizabeth McKray - police,
Marilyn and Earl Rose - prohibition of wheeled recreational
vehicles from Downtown Iowa City. (Public hearing April 8.)
(3) Victoria Gilpin - Downtown Strategy Committee resignation.
(4) David Muhlena - Johnson County Historical Society funding.
(5) Rhys B. Jones - downtown clean-up/smoking.
(6) Hillary Gardner - downtown.
(7) Thomas H. Wegman (Arts Iowa City) - Center Space.
(8) Roger Alberts - deer.
(9) Judy Rhodes - Deer Management Committee.
(10) Stephan Arndt - Police Department survey.
(11 ) Lisa Burke and Lon Olejniczak (Kirkwood) - seminar invitation.
(12) Benn Dunnington - Senate File 230.
(13) Civil Service Commission submitting certified lists of applicants for the
following position(s):
(a) Treatment Plant Operator
(14) Memoranda from JCCOG Traffic Engineering Planner:
(a) Prohibition of On-Street Parking on Both Sides of the Northern
Most 100 Feet of the 900 Block of North Gilbert Street.
(Correspondence included in Council packet.)
I ' (b) Prohibition of On-Street Parking Qn One Side of Dewey Street.
Applications for Use of Public Grounds.
(1) Yvonne Putz (Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Great Strides: A Walk
to Cure Cystic Fibrosis) - May 18, 1997. (approved)
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ITEM NO. 4.
PUBLIC DISCUSSION (ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA).
ITEM NO. 5. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS.
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Consider a motion setting a public hearing for April 8 on an ordinance
amending the Zoning Chapter by changing the use regulations on a
3.74 acre tract located on Mall Drive from Community Commercial (CC-
2) to General Industrial (I-1). (REZ97-0001) ~OAod~.-(~..~
Comment: At its March 6 meeting, by a vote of 7-0, the Planning and
Zoning Commission recommended approval of the proposed rezoning,
Staff recommended approval in its staff report dated February 20.
Action: ~~-..z~/~
Consider a motion setting a public hearing for April 8 on an ordinance
amending Title 14, Chapter 6, entitled "Zoning," Article N, entitled
"Off-Street Parking and Loading," Section 1, entitled "Off-Street
Parking Requirements," to allow existing fraternity/sorority houses to be
converted to rooming houses without having to provide additional
parking.
Comment:
consider this item at its March 20 meeting,
approval at the March 20 Commission meeting.
Action: ~~/7 .~
It is anticipated that the Planning & Zoning Commission will
Staff will recommend
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ITEM NO. 3 CONSIDER ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS
PRESENTED OR AMENDED.
Nov/Moved by Thornberry, seconded by Norton. Is there any discussion?
Kubby/I had a question on page 3, item #5 about the p.h. for non-motorized vehicles. The
regulation of those vehicles. And this is a question for the City Attorney or a
request really. We have a chart that says where these vehicles are allowed or not
allowed. Could we add something to that chart for our information about what the
current regulation are so I can compare whether what we are proposing is more or
less restrictive than what is currently on the books?
Woito/Sure. We can do that. I will have it done this weekend.
Kubby/Thanks.
Norton/I know that we are setting six p.h.s. We may want to bring lunch.
Nov/Well, the Consent Calendar has seven and then there are a couple of more later. I
think we are up to about ten p.h.s for April 8.
Woito/In terms of this ordinance for the non-motorized vehicles, formally known as toy
vehicles, Marian has the list of the bicycle shops and the other interested parties
that came to speak to us about it and we will be sending that letter out with the
copy of the ordinance tomorrow.
Karr/Tomorrow because it is going to area schools. We wanted to get it there preceding
break. So there are about 60 letters going out tomorrow.
Kubby/Great, thanks.
Nov/Any other discussion?
Norton/I think it is also worth noting that we are exempting $256,000 in HOME Funds
for the Greater Iowa City Housing Fellowship. I thought that was a notable item
and sure it requires considerable effort putting applications for that kind of funds.
It needs to be recognized.
Nov/Okay. Roll call- (yes). The Consent Calendar has been adopted. I would like to read
a list ofp.h.s that were part of this Consent Calendar. We have set a p.h. on April
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8 to discuss our FY98 CDBG and HOM~ Investment Partnership Program budget
for Iowa City.
We also have set a p.h. on April 8 on the proposal to amend the Iowa City
Ordinance to make it substantial equivalent to the Federal Fair Housing
Amendments Act.
There will be a p.h. on the proposition of issuance orS11 million in sewer revenue
bonds.
Also a p.h. on the issuance of $8.5 million in water revenue bonds.
We will also have a p.h. which we just set on the regulation of Non-motorized
vehicles.
And a p.h. on the plans, specifications, form of contract, estimate of cost for
construction of the Coralville, Iowa City Animal Shelter renovation.
And an intent to convey 50 foot wide parcel of a vacated Gable Street r.o.w.
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ITEM NO. 5b Consider a motion setting a public hearing for April 8 on an ordinance
amending Title 14, Chapter 6, entitled "Zoning," Article N, entitled "Off-Street Parking
and Loading," Section 1, entitled "Off-Street Parking Requirements," to allow existing
fraternity/sorority houses to be converted to rooming houses without having to provide
additional parking.
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Thornberry.
Norton/I just have one comment that people who are interested in this issue and some of
them I know live on N. Linn Street which is affected by the change, may be
affected by this change, should be aware there is a meeting this Thursday with the
P/Z. That would be the first opportunity to talk about it and then there will be a
p.h. here later on April 8.
Nov/And I assume that the neighbors are aware of this. If not, they have heard it here.
Any other discussion. All in favor, please say aye- (ayes). Motion carries.
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Public hearing on an ordinance vacating the portion of the alley
located south of Lot 2 of the A.E. Strohm Addition, generally located
south of Bowery Street between Governor and Lucas Streets.
(VAC97-0001)
Comment: At its February 6 meeting, by a vote of 6-0, the Planning
and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the vacation of this
alley. The staff recommended approval of this item in a staff report
dated February 6.
Action:
Public hearing on an ordinance amending Title lZ~, Chapter 6, entitled'
"Zoning," City Code, by revising Article N, entitled Off-Street Parking
and Loading," to change the required number of off-street parking
spaces for commercial uses in the CB-5 zone.
Comment: At its February 6 meeting, by a vote of 4-1-1 with
Jakobsen voting no and Chait abstaining, the Commission
recommended approval of the proposed amendment. Staff
recommended approval in a memorandum dated January 30.
Action:
Public hearing on an ordinance amending Title 14, "Unified
Development Code" of the City Code by amending Chapter 9, Article
A, entitled "Parking Facility Impact Fee" to exclude commercial
development.
Comment: At the City Council's direction, this ordinance eliminates
the parking impact fee for all commercial development in the Near
Southside parking facility impact fee district.
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ITEM NO. 5c Public hearing on an ordinance vacating the portion of the alley located
south of Lot 2 of the A.E. Strohm Addition, generally located south of Bowery Street
between Governor and Lucas Streets. (VAC97-0001)
Nov/P.h. is now open. Anyone who would like to talk to us about this topic should please
come forward, sign your name, limit your comments to five minutes.
Jackie Omahen/I live at 640 S. Lucas Street. I have lived in this neighborhood for well
over 12 years now. I rented the home that I own now. I purchased the home four
years ago. I have been maintaining the alley for the time that I have been living
there. So it has been over 12 years. The alley is considered below standard. It is
only 12 feet wide. The requirements for the city are 20 feet wide. It has not been
maintained by the city for sometime. Other people have brought to my attention
this alley actually had been vacated in when it was recorded that they actually
recorded it at the alley between Governor and Summit. So the record show that
there are two vacations of the Governor/Summit alley being vacated when one of
them should have actually been the Governor/Lucas. So I hope that the city
council will also take the P/Z Commission approval to vacate this alley. Thank
you.
Charles Heath/I own a piece of property at 615 S. Governor. And I am also
recommending to the city council that they approve the vacation of this alley. It is
not standard and what it is going to do is bring traffic across other people's
property that are hard surfaces that are used as city property. So I recommend that
you follow the zoning recommendation.
Nov/Thank you.
Thornberry/I grew up in the house at 654 S. Governor. I lived there for many many years.
A nice street. It is now paved all the way down, right. The street wasn't paved
when I lived there.
Nov/He is advertising the fact that it use to be an unpaved street.
Thornberry/Right.
Norton/He is emphasizing his age.
Thornberry/No, No, No.
Marty Gaffey/Without beating a dead horse here, I am also in favor of leaving the alley
the way it is without opening it up to a developer. I am the one that started this
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actually. I guess I have talked to some of you on the phone. 21 of the 25
landowners that go up to the. alley want it left closed. The developer who owns the
other four lots, he wants to open it up for his personal development. I have got
three things I guess I would like to share. I will beat that light real quick I hope.
First one is the picture of the alley. It is only 12 feet wide.
Nov/I am sorry but if you are not at the microphone, we can't record what you are
saying. So would you finish talking and then give us whatever papers you have.
Gaffey/I have a photo of the alley. It is only 12 feet wide and you can get a little bit of a
description of what it looks like. The second thing I have is one of the neighbors
also, Evert and Ruth Switzer sent a letter along and I copied that so each one of
you can look at that. And basically I just ask that you would please leave it closed
so that we don't have more development going down there and all the traffic
coming up the alley. That is all.
Thornberry/Is the alley now grass through there?
Gaffey/It is grass. To my understanding, yes.
Thornberry/How far down?
Gaffey/The entire alley is grass. The only thing that the developer claims is that he dug
down far enough and he found some gravel. I don't know what that means. But
that is what he said. So, it has been maintained as a grass alley for a number of
years. My dad built his property at 815 Bowery in 1966 and at that time it was his
understanding that the alley had been vacated and then after visiting with Marian
Karr for quite some time there, I found out that it wasn't. Thank you.
Norton/Marty, go ahead, I will just talk while you are coming up. You understand that- I
talked to Marsha Klingamon today because I have been a little concerned. I have
looked at the alley. I understand the situation. I have a good friend who lives on
the corner there of Governor and Bowery and that was in his backyard and I can
understand your concerns. But she will be talking to the neighbors about
maintenance of the alley because once it is vacated, I suppose people's fences
could move back and I suppose we will expect people to keep it up.
Gaffey/Absolutely. I spoke to Ron Boose and I believe it was a City Attorney as well and
it was my- I volunteered actually to write a letter to the neighbors as well. That if
this does go through, that the properties split the alley, that you would be
responsible for mowing that and making it look as nice as the rest of your property
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and of the neighbors that I spoke to, that is not an issue. That is not a problem and
I will send that letter out.
Norton/You have done a good job of checking with the neighbors. It is an impressive list
that you have got.
Gaffey/Thank you.
Alan Ross/I live at 627 S. Governor Street. The alley runs along my back property line. I
just want to add my recommendation to everyone else that is here that it be
vacated. I can see nothing but noise and traffic and all sorts of- You know, just
degrade the environment for those who already live there, to have it opened up.
Thornberry/The purpose for the alley originally was to have the garbage pickup and trash
pickup back there. And now that we have put our trash and hopefully recycling out
on the curb, they're really really not needed anymore unless they are needed by the
city for an easement of some kind. And if that is not the case for an easement.
Woito/Public Works was not interested in keeping this open.
Norton/Will there be an actual barricade at the end? I don't know how that works.
Woito/No.
Norton/You can get into one end. What is to keep people from going on down into the
grass?
Kubby/People don't do that now. It would be status quo.
Gaffey/I don't know ifI can come back up here. Actually that is one of the things that I
did have in my notes that I did forget to mention. And if there is a cost involved in
that, that is one of the things I would like to ask. because the developer does own
the next four lots, that does concern me. Quite obviously with the ground, we
can't do it right now. But at the south end of Lot 2 is the way I believe it is
worded. Some type of barricade put there that is normally done. I would help put
it there. I would even pay for it. I don't care.
Woito/I would suggest if it is going to be done, it should be done by Public Works. I
think we need to check with Public Works.
Kubby/Are you concerned about vehicles coming there in terms of construction?
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Gaffey/No, that is not the issue I have. My property at 815 Bowery has six units, six one
bedroom units with six cars. The duplex that was built on the first lot and he owns
four more is a duplex with four bedrooms and I have a copy of the ad in the Press
Citizen. It is advertised as four one-bedroom units and that is eight cars and that is
my concern is the encroachment down the alley and ending up with 30, 40, 50 cars
coming up there. So I think without a barricade it may happen anyway. That is the
reason is all. Thank you.
Kubby/Remember that when we vote on it.
Nov/Is there anyone who would like to talk about this alley? Okay. P.h. is closed.
Karr/Could we have a motion to accept correspondence?
Nov/Moved and seconded (Kubby, Thornberry) that we accept correspondence on this
issue. Is there any discussion? All in favor, please say aye- (ayes). Motion carried.
Kubby/So we will vote on this is two weeks.
Gaffey/Do we come back then?
Nov/It is not necessary. You may if you wish.
Kubby/You can watch us vote on it live on Channel 4.
Norton/If something starts going wrong, hurry down.
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A request for voluntary annexation of approximately 140.5 acres
located on the east side of Scott Boulevard, north of Highway 6.
(ANN96-0003)
Comment: At its February 6 meeting, by a vote of 6-0, the Planning
and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the proposed
annexation. Staff recommended approval in its January 16 staff
report.
(1) Public Hearing (continued from February 25 and March 4)
Action:
(2) Consider a Resolution Approving
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Amending the Zoning Chapter by conditionally changing the use
regulations of approximately 140.5 acres of property located on the
east side of Scott Boulevard, north of Highway 6, from County M1,
Light Industrial, to C1-1, Intensive Commercial (38.93 acres), and I~1,
General Industrial (101.57 acres). (REZ96-0021) ,j.~4~
Comment: At its February 6 meeting, by a vote of 5-1 with Ehrhardt
voting no, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended
approval of the proposed rezoning, subject to conditions, consistent
with the staff recommendation contained in its January 16 staff
report.
(1)
Public Hearing (continued from February 25 and March 4)
Action: -~ ~ ~'~~~
(2)
Consider an Ordinance (First consideration)
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ITEM NO. 5f A request for voluntary annexation of approximately 140.5 acres located on
the east side of Scott Boulevard, north of Highway 6. (ANN96-0003)
(1) Public Hearing (continued from February 25 and March 4)
Nov/It is first a continuation of a p.h. from February 5 and March 4 and second, a
resolution approving. P.h. is now open. Okay. The p.h. is now closed.
Kubby/I assume that means that the documents were signed since we closed the p.h.
Woito/Yes-
Nov/Well, that is the second one where actually the conditional zoning-
Woito/They are revised and signed.
Nov/Yeah, it's the annexation I don't think had that. Anyway.
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ITEM NO. 5fA request for voluntary annexation of approximately 140.5 acres located on
the east side of Scott Boulevard, north of Highway 6. (ANN96-0003)
(2) Consider a Resolution Approving
Nov/We need a motion to approve a resolution to annex this property to Iowa City.
Moved by Norton, seconded by Thornberry. Is there any discussion from city
council?
Kubby/Well, I traditionally do not vote for annexations because I think we really need to
do in-fill development. But there are three reasons why I support different kinds of
annexation. 1-to protect environmentally sensitive areas. The second one is to
allow lower cost housing to be built in Iowa City and the third one is to create
jobs. And the choices really for industrial land which we have agreed we need is
for the city to do it, for the private sector to do it or for us to do it in partnership
and this project is going to be a partnership and so I will support this annexation. I
can't believe no one came to the p.h., fi'om the economic development, from the
community or any other sector to talk about this. This is a thing that the
community has said is needed. I am just surprised that no one came.
Norton/A significant move.
Nov/Well, it is the third p.h.
Kubby/No one came to any of them.
Thornberry/They have come to some of the informals and work sessions here and this has
been quite a project and it is a big step and I am glad to see it come to fruition.
Nov/Ready, roll call- (yes). We have approved this resolution.
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ITEM NO. 5g ganending the Zoning Chapter by conditionally changing the use
regulations of approximately 140.5 acres of property located on the east side of Scott
Boulevard, north of Highway 6, from County M1, Light Industrial, to CI-1, Intensive
Commercial (38.93 acres), and I- 1, General Industrial (101.57 acres). (REZ96-0021)
(2) Consider an Ordinance (First consideration)
Nov/Moved by Thornberry, seconded by Norton that we give this ordinance first
consideration. We do have a CZA and I am assuming it has been signed.
Woito/Yes, it has.
Nov/Okay.
Norton/Any changes from last night?
Woito/Yes, I made the changes that you requested plus the others that I came up with.
Nov/Any other council discussion?
Kubby/Just so the public knows, there are ten conditions above and beyond our normal
regulations for this rezoning and I am concerned about having- Well, if the city
were doing this project by itself, I would not support having commercial
development along Scott Blvd. But because it is a pm-tnership, we have to give a
little to make this happen and because one of the conditions has to do with
building materials and making sure that air conditioning units and dumpsters and
all of that kind of thing are not visible from the streetscape, I think that helps. It
doesn't remove the concern that I have but it helps alleviate some of them in this
particular case and I don't know that we need to go through all of the conditions
but I think it is important for people to know that we are delaying with issues of
stormwater, appropriate permits, sidewalks, additional landscaping above and
beyond the city's tree regulations as well as trying to control the number of free
standing signs for the commercial and industrial portions of the development. I
think that this CZA helps make this development a very much more aesthetic and
something that is compatible with the community and will allow more industry to
come in and provide jobs for the community. In the future when we talk about T[F
and other kinds of ways that the city will contribute to this partnership, that is a
point where we will be getting into whether or not the city and at what level the
city will enter into that partnership in terms of money for sewers and water mains
and the TIF and what that means in terms of businesses that receive that kind of
public assistance, to follow our Economic Development Guidelines. So that is a
future discussion.
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Nov/I think the stormwater management here is particularly important. I went to a
meeting on stormwater management and I found out this is the way to do it. So I
am happy that we thought of that even before we heard it officially.
Norton/Well, I think people should understand this whole-Ordinarily this 140 acres would
all be industrial but the north part of it is different than the other and is separated
by this drainage way that will be part of the water control. So it made a certain
amount of sense in this particular case to make that portion of it commercial and
the rest of it industrial and that also has some benefits to the developer who is our
partner in trying to bring this project to fruition as Dean says. I am very pleased
with the development.
Nov/Okay. Roll call- (yes). We have approved the first consideration of this ordinance.
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Consider a letter to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors
indicating that the City does not intend to extend its two-mile
extraterritorial review area at this time as a result of the voluntary
annexation of 140.5 acres located on the east side of Scott
Boulevard, north of Highway 6.
Comment: At its February 20 meeting, by a vote of 6-0, the Planning
and Zoning Commission recommended that the City not extend its
two-mile review area at this time, but that the City reserve its right to
reconsider this decision in the future through the process outlined in
the Fringe Area Agreement. This recommendation is consistent with
the staff recommendation contained in the February 20 staff
memorandum.
Consider an ordinance amending the Zoning Chapter by designating
the East College Street Historic District, as a Historic Preservation
Overlay Zone, for property located along College Street between
Summit Street and Muscatine Avenue. (Pass and adopt)
Comment: At its January 16 meeting, by a vote of 7-0, the Planning
and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the proposed
historic district, consistent with the recommendation for approval
from the Historic Preservation Commission. ,~.
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Consider an ordinance amending the Zoning Chapter by designating
the College Green Historic District, as a Historic Preservation Overlay
Zone, for property located generally around College Green Park, along
E. College Street from Dodge Street to Governor Street, and along S.
Dodge and S. Johnson Streets between E. College and Burlington
Streets. (Pass and adopt)
Comment: At its January 16 meeting, by a vote of 7-0, the Planning
and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the proposed
historic district, consistent with the recommendation for approval
from the Historic Preservation Com.~nission. Correspondence included
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ITEM NO. 5h Consider a letter to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors indicating
that the City does not intend to extend its two-mile extraterritorial review area at this time
as a result of the voluntary annexation of 140.5 acres located on the east side of Scott
Boulevard, north of Highway 6.
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Norton. Any other discussion?
Kubby/Just for the record, Larry Baker wishes we would not send this letter.
Nov/But Larry Baker is not here.
Kubby/He is not here but out of courtesy he wanted it in the public record. So I did that
for him.
Thornberry/Ernie thought it was best that we send the letter.
Nov/I think this letter does not really make a great deal of difference because if anything
changes in this area, we will extend our territorial review. So, all in favor please
say aye- (ayes). Motion carried.
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ITEM NO. 5i Consider an ordinance amending the Zoning Chapter by designating the
East College Street Historic District, as a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, for
property located along College Street between Summit Street and Muscatine Avenue.
(Pass and adopt)
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Thornberry. Any discussion?
Thornberry/And that was a big second for me.
Kubby/I know.
Thornberry/And I will mention this only because it was in the paper as a letter to the
editor that I don't- I still don't think that- People have property rights that should
not be taken away by ordinance. However, I did not mean and I never said that
someone should be able to do anything they wanted with their property. I have
said they should be able to have rights with their property and do things on their
property as long as it does not interfere with the rights of neighbors or others. And
when several of these houses in this area that are going to be in the historic
preservation overlay area do not want to be in this area, I had a real problem with
that. But if what happens with the particular houses in question that did not want
to be in the area which are owned by one individual, I would rather have
neighborhood integrity which I feel take precedence over the individual property
owner in this particular case. I think the neighborhood integrity goes into the
historic preservation ordinance. I hope that is clear to someone.
Nov/I thought it was clear.
Norton/Very clear, good, Dean.
Nov/Is there any other discussion? Roll call- (yes). We have approved this ordinance.
Karr/Madam Mayor, can we accept correspondence?
Nov/Moved and seconded (Vanderhoef/Kubby) that we accept correspondence. Is there
any discussion? All in favor, please say aye- (ayes). Motion carries.
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ITEM NO. 5j Consider an ordinance amending the Zoning Chapter by designating the
College Green Historic District, as a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, for property
located generally around College Green Park, along E. College Street from Dodge Street
to Governor Street, and along S. Dodge and S. Johnson Streets between E. College and
Burlington Streets. (Pass and adopt)
Nov/Moved by Norton, Seconded by Kubby. Discussion.
Kubby/Ditto.
Nov/Ditto, good discussion. Roll call- (yes). We have adopted the ordinance. Do we have
correspondence on this one? We need a motion to accept correspondence. Moved
by Norton, seconded by Vanderhoef and all in favor, please say aye- (ayes).
Motion carried.
Vanderhoef/I would just like to say thank you to the Historic Preservation Committee,
Doug Russell and all of his hard workers and his whole committee that worked to
get these areas put together and get cooperation from all the neighborhood people.
It is a monumental task and I Appreciate it.
Nov/Good job.
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k. Consider an ordinance vacating Gable Street, a developed right-of-way
east of Sycamore Street, south of Lakeside Drive. (VAC96-0004)
(Pass and adopt)
Comment: At its January 16 meeting, by a vote of 6-1 with
Jakobsen voting no, the Commission recommended approval of the
street vacation, subject to the retention of utility easements, the
provision of an acceptable public access easement to provide a trail
connection to property to the south, and subject to approval of the
proposed preliminary and final plats of Mount Prospect Addition, Part
VIII. An acceptable public access easement has been identified. Staff
recommended approval in a memorandum dated January 16.
Action'.
Consider a resolution approving the preliminary and final plats of
Mount Prospect Addition, Part VIII, a 9.02 acre, 14-1ot residential
subdivision located south of Lakeside Drive and east of Sycamore
Street. (SUB96-0029)
Comment: At its February 6 meeting, the Planning and Zoning
Commission, by a vote of 6-0, recommended approval of the
preliminary and final plats of Mount Prospect Addition, Part VIII,
subject to Council approval of the vacation and disposition of Gable
Street. Staff recommended approval in a report dated
January 16, 1997.
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m. Consider a resolution approving a revised manufactured housing site
plan for Lots 3 and 4 of Saddlebrook, a 44.8 acre, 222-1ot
manufactured housing park, located on Heinz Road south of
Highway 6.
Comment: The applicants are proposing to amend the manufactured
housing site plan for Saddlebrook lots 3 and 4 to permit all 222 lots to
contain double wide units. The previously approved site plan contained
48 single unit lots and 174 double wide lots. Staff has reviewed the
revised final manufactured housing site plan and found it to be in
substantial compliance with the approved preliminary site plan. Final
manufactured housing site plans do not require Planning and Zoning
Commission review. Staff memorandum included in Council packet.
Action:
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ITEM NO. 51 Consider a resolution approving the preliminary and final plats of Mount
Prospect Addition, Part VIII, a 9.02 acre, 14-1or residential subdivision located south of
Lakeside Drive and east of Sycamore Street. (SUB96-0029)
Nov/Moved by Vanderhoef, seconded by Thornberry. Discussion.
Norton/I just wondered, is this the one where it is all going to drainage- The handling of
stormwater is still up in the air until some point in the future? Will we take another
look at it then? Is there anything that have to be done then, David?
Miklo/Provided that the regional basin or facility is built, we will not have to re-visit this
and even if the regional basin isn't built, the plat provides for-
Norton/Just go ahead on site.
Miklo/Space is set aside, correct.
Norton/But the hope is that you will connect into that big project?
Miklo/That is right.
Vanderhoef/Would the owners have to come back for permission to do something else in
that space if and when the other-
Miklo/I believe the legal papers provide that once the regional basin is built, the
alternative space is free and clear for use according to the Zoning Ordinance.
Kubby/And they have agreed to pay the per acre fee if we do the regional? Or is that just
an automatic?
Woito/No, it is in the legal papers.
Kubby/So they understand that obligation?
Woito/It is specifically called out in the legal papers as to the sanitary sewer, tap on-fees,
water main fee and the water expansion fee.
Kubby/Okay, thanks.
Norton/I was just wondering how are we going to establish that fee until we know what
that project costs?
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Woito/Well, it is an estimated fee for the sanitary sewer tap on. It is an actual fee for the
expansion of water, using the $354 per acre fee that is in the ordinance.
Nov/(Can't hear). Stormwater?
Woito/No.
Kubby/Water.
Norton/Water and wastewater.
Nov/Okay.
Woito/Remember that $354 for the expansion of the water system.
Nov/What we had here was a stormwater fee that hasn't yet been decided because we are
going to build this large stormwater area.
Woito/That is another. There are four fees. That is another one.
Norton/And that will come up later?
Woito/Yes.
Norton/But they understand?
Woito/That will be finalized after the project. The same with the sanitary sewer tap on
fees. The fee will be finalized after the project.
Nov/Okay, any other discussion? We are getting very complicated, yes. Roll call- (yes).
We have approved this resolution.
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ITEM NO. 5m Consider a resolution approving a revised manufactured housing site plan
for Lots 3 and 4 of Saddlebrook, a 44.8 acre, 222-1ot manufactured housing park, located
on Heinz Road south of
Highway 6.
Nov/Moved by Thornberry, seconded by Norton. Discussion.
Kubby/Well, I am not going to be supporting the change from the 48 single unit lots and
174 double wide to all of them being double wide. This was one of the annexations
that I did vote for and the rezoning that I voted for partly because of the aspect of
lower cost housing. And even though I realize that having them all be double wide
units, that the cost of housing will be less than stick built homes, I would like to
have that variety of single and double wide lots available so that the range of lower
cost housing will be wider in this particular development. That was part of the
original intent.
Thornberry/In some of my research on this after last night's discussion, first of all I
thought about low income housing versus affordable housing and this was set up
to be an affordable housing area. These units still are in the affordable category and
in talking with people regarding mobile home sales and their depreciation in value,
the single wide unit depreciates much quicker than the double wide and are much
easier to re-sale if someone were to relocate to another area. It also makes for a
nicer area within that mobile home area. They are not mobile anymore, really. They
are manufactured housing. So, I will be supporting this because it is still falls
within the realm of affordable housing and the depreciation factors when you go to
sell it and keep it and re-sell it is much less in the double wides as opposed to the
single wides. Very few people- You can buy a double wide for less money that you
can a single wide, depending on what you want. You know, you can get an upscale
single that costs more than a bare bones double. It is just like a house. You know,
you buy all the house you can even though you can't put all the furniture that you
may want in it at the time you buy your house. But over a period of time you can
outfit it properly. So, I think this still falls within the affordable housing area. So I
will be voting for it.
Norton/I want to comment there a little bit. I do kind of regret the fact that this restricts
the range a little bit. What you say may be true, Dean, about the depreciation and
that might over the long run cost more money in some sense. But, still, the range is
tighter now than it was and also with some singles, there was a little bit more green
space. Some of that now has to be sacrificed for structure. But they are still within
the limits so I am going to support it. They are still within the requirements so far
as open space is concerned. So, I am just going to regret it but support it. Let's
put it that way.
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Thornberry/I don't think you should regret it.
Nov/Some of us have been saying we really need more manufactured housing so that
people will have a chance at ownership a little bit sooner, a little bit easier. We
have been talking about it for long enough. I think it is time that we really approve
it.
Kubby/We are ready.
Nov/So, roll call- (yes; No-Kubby).
Norton/This was a resolution, don't need a roll call?
Nov/We need a roll call on a resolution and we approved this resolution on a 4-1 vote,
with Kubby voting no.
Baker/Almost like a supermajority.
Nov/Almost.
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ITEM NO. 6.
AMENDING TITLE 3 (CITY FINANCES, TAXATION AND FEES),
CHAPTER 4 (SCHEDULE OF FEES, RATES, CHARGES, BONDS, FINES
AND PENALTIES) OF THE CITY CODE, TO INCREASE THE HOURLY
PARKING RATE FOR SIXTY (60) MINUTE METERS LOCATED IN THE
CENTRAL BUSINESS (CB-10) ZONE.
Comment: This action will increase the current parking rate from $.60 per
hour to $1.00 per hour on some sixty (60) minute meters located in the CB-10
Zone. The streets affected will be: 10 block of S. Dubuque; 200 block of S.
Dubuque; 10 block of S. Clinton; 10, 100, and 200 blocks of S. Linn Street; and
the 100 and 200 blocks of E. Washington Street. Staff requests first
consideration of the ordinance the same night as the public hearing becau~se
the rate must be determined before staff can implement Council's decision to
increase time limits to 60 minutes.
ITEM NO. 7.
a. PUBLIC HEARING
Action:
b. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE APPROVING (First Consideration)
THE FILING OF AN APPLICATION WITH THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION FOR FY98 IOWA DOT STATE TRANSIT
ASSISTANCE AND FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION FUNDING.
Comment: JCCOG will be filing an application in behalf of Iowa City
Transit with Iowa DOT for State Transit Assistance [STA] and Federal
Transit Administration [FTA] funding for FY98. Iowa City Transit will be
receiving approximately 9252,906 in Iowa DOT STA formula funds for
operations and is applying for 9954,480 in FTA capital funds. The
attached memo lists the capital projects being applied for in FY98 by
Iowa City Transit. Staff memorandum included in Council packet.
PUBLIC HEARING
Action:
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING
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ITEM NO. 6 AMENDING TITLE 3 (CITY FINANCES, TAXATION AND FEES),
CHAPTER 4 (SCHEDULE OF FEES, RATES, CHARGES, BONDS, FINES AND
PENALTIES) OF THE CITY CODE, TO INCREASE THE HOURLY PARKING
RATE FOR SIXTY (60) MINUTE METERS LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL
BUSINESS (CB-10) ZONE.
A..PUBLIC HEARING
Nov/I don't know how this is going to work out but I would prefer that we defer the first
consideration until we have a full council. But let's hear the p.h. first. P.h. is now
open.
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Nov/Speak about this issue, come forward, sign your name, limit your comments to five
minutes.
John Gross/I am speaking for the DTA. At our last board meeting both the ideas, the
extending the meters to 60 minutes and the raising of the fee to $1.00 were
discussed. There was virtually unanimous support for raising the meter time to 60
minutes. However there was a lot of mixed feeling on raising the fees to $1.00.
The intent, as we understood it, was to minimize the number of low terms parkers
and increase the turnover by raising the fee to $1.00, maybe encouraging people to
move into the parking facilities. After speaking with our resident expert with many
years of experience with parkers in d.t. Iowa City, Mr. Fowler, he indicated to me
that the affect would be minimal in terms of moving people into the parking
facilities and in terms of students moving into the facilities now that they could
park for an entire class period. It is not likely that we would see any significant
affect. The long term affect I think would be that we would build a lot of
resentment from shoppers and other people who park d.t. and they would perceive
us as a little foolish when we see a new mall coming to the area and we are raising
our parking from $.60 to $1.00. It doesn't appear to make a lot of sense,
particularly when we don't need the money especially to do that. Do, speaking for
the DTA, I believe that we would not support the raising of the fees from $.60 to
$1.00.
Thornberry/John, as spokesman for the DTA, I have a question. Most of the d.t., a lot of
the d.t. businesses support Park and Shop and Ride and Shop. In other words, they
stamp your parking ticket giving you one hour of parking or a bus ride. Is there
any thought about if someone came into a business giving them some kind of a
parking rebate- I don't know how they can show if they parked in a meter. If there
was anyway that they could work that out with the-
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Gross/Some merchants have done that. Rather than participate in Park and Shop or Bus
and Shop, they just give somebody $.50 and say here, ride the bus or here, pay
your parking fee. There are a few that do that but not many.
Thornberry/That could be a program of the DTA and have that publicized to the public,
the shopping public, to come down, hey, parking spaces are now available in front
of Technigraphics or- That would be a little tough. However the DTA advertises
their Park and Shop and Ride and Shop. They can also advertise the meter and
shop type idea.
Gross/
I am not sure how that might work. All they could do would to be give them coin
to put in the meter but then they are not suppose to be feeding the meters anyhow.
It would be very difficult to do.
Kubby/And we don't need to reward people for parking in the street because they do that
naturally and for me, you know, it is a hot commodity to park on the street. It is
the most desirable kind of parking. So, I like the program that rewards people for
shopping d.t. and for parking in the ramps.
Nov/I
would have no problem if somebody said I will give you $.50 because I am not
participating in Park and Shop. You would have already put that $.50 in the meter.
You wouldn't necessarily be encouraged to feed the meter. You might drive home
having had free parking.
Gross/Some merchants may still be doing that. I am really not sure and that is wonderful.
Nov/John, did you talk at all about the enforcement of feeding meters? This has come up
before the council which have not decided at this moment to increase that
enforcement. But it is a possibility that if we increase the fees in the meters, we
might not have to pass for the enforcement. Or else it is a strong possibility that we
would just send them to a different street. Has anybody thought about this?
Gross/
I am not sure if that was brought up at that particular meeting. It is my opinion, as
I indicated last night and following Gary Lundquist's comments, that people are
accustomed to being able to feed the meters if their errands are talking them a little
bit longer. They would like to be able to drop another couple of quarters in and
finish their business.
Kubby/Do you think that is fine?
Gross/I think that is fine. Our problem is the meter feeders who work d.t. I have seen
people come to parking meetings and complain about not having adequate parking
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when 3-4 of their employees are taking the meters in front of their very own store.
I think an educational effort needs to be made, needs to be led by the DTA, to let
people know to make room for the customers. It is not that tough to figure out.
Nov/At one point we offered a bargain on monthly parking permits for d.t. employees and
monthly bus passes for d.t. employees. It wasn't terribly successful.
Gross/It wasn't utilized a great deal. Several of my staff use it. I think it needs to be
marketed more continuously and promoted. I think we can make a better effort
there through the DTA and encourage that participation.
Kubby/And even though that program has a discount, it might be interesting if some d.t.
business owners would give their employees a fi'ee three month trial. So that we
subsidize it, you all subsidize it for three month. To have a fi'ee new habit. Then
they can pay for it at a cut rate.
Gross/
The beauty of the program is the employers can do whatever they want. They can
give the employees the bus passes. They can give them at any discount they want.
It is a wonderful program. We just need to support the city and market it better.
Kubby/I know Mercy Hospital did a prograin like that where they put on the map where
all their employees were and ones that lived really near bus stops, they marketed to
those specific employees. To say this is a block away froin your house, it would be
easier, cheaper, more convenient and free for you. That is something to think
about.
Thornberry/We are going to be talking about this in-depth in the following weeks and I
think we are going to put it on hold for awhile and discuss it at length and if you
have anymore ideas, feel free to come by and give us all the help we can get.
Gross/Thank you. I will bring it up to the DTA again. We will try to come up with some
more supportive activities.
Norton/Does this mean that we can't move them to $.60 now?
Kubby/We need to make a decision about cost.
Nov/We need to make a decision and I see no problem in deferring that decision until we
have a full council.
Norton/Both time and rate again?
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Fowler/The 60 minute is done. You passed that at the last meeting. But the only thing is
the implementation and that would just be delayed a little bit.
Thornberry/60 minutes was needed.
Norton/We have already approved that, yeah.
Nov/But in order to change the meters, they don't want to change to the 60 minutes and
then come back again and change it in terms of price. They would like to do it in
one motion.
Norton/I just thought there was something nice and symmetrical about a quarter for 15
minutes and a buck if you want to stay an hour. It just seems pretty symmetrical
and simple straight forward to me. I hope you give that some consideration.
Straight fo~wvardness, John.
Nov/Well, it is not terribly complicated the way it is. I had one store owner talk to me on
the phone about this and the main emphasis in that conversation was if it is truly
illegal to feed the meters, you must enforce it consistently because people really
don't believe that they are not allowed to feed the meters and they have become
upset by it. To either be consistent and do it absolutely every day which we don't
do or else just don't do it.
Thornberry/I didn't know until just recently that it was not legal to feed the meter. I
figured if you kept money in there, you were eligible to park there. But I do
remember them coming along in those little scooters with their little chalk marks
on the tires when we did have motorcycles.
Kubby/Someone also commented to me that there is random acts of kindness. That one of
the suggestions in there is to feed people's meters.
Nov/Which is illegal.
Kubby/In our town it is.
Council/Remember the woman in Kansas City who was arrested and sent to jail for this.
Kubby/I assume that we would not behave that way here.
Vanderhoef/It would certainly take a large educational program if we were going to
enforce this.
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Norton/Very true to handle complaints.
Kubby/As well as money to employ more people to enforce. We couldn't do it with our
current staff. I hope we keep our decision to not enforce this meter feeding
ordinance. Or maybe just could just take it off the books as a way to handle it.
Nov/That's a way to do it.
Kubby/If we are not going to enforce it, why have it.
Thornberry/Yeah.
Nov/If you really go back to our original premise that we want to discourage people from
feeding meters, we want to move the long term parkers to the ramps, excuse me,
garages.
Vanderhoef/And we want parking places to continue to turnover so that people who
come at different times during the day will have an opportunity to get a parking
place. That this is something that has to happen.
Nov/Enforcement is what we have to do in order to maintain it.
Vanderhoef/It is enforcement that makes the cars turnover and create opportunities for
shoppers in various areas of the town.
Thornberry/I know, but in my entrepreneurial spirit, I could see hiring myself out to
college students who were going to class to make sure that I fed their meters
properly so they wouldn't get a- I could see all kinds of possibilities of making
money here.
Norton/Well we might find some common grounds whereby you could enforce it if they
hung around as long as two hours. You aren't going to catch everybody that tries
to stay over an hour. But there might be some way to deal with people who try to
stay for four hours. Paint their tires flaming red or something.
Nov/Okay, we can always reconsider this. there anyone else who would like to talk about
this topic? Do we need a motion to continue the p.h.?
Karr/If you want to continue it.
Nov/I would like to defer the vote.
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Kubby/We don't need to continue it.
Vanderhoef/We did ask for some extra information. So maybe we should leave it open.
Norton/Yeah, why not?
Nov/All right. What extra information did you ask for?
Thornberry/John is going to come back with extra information.
Kubby/What is that?
Norton/Somebody might come back.
Kubby/What is the extra information?
Thornberry/He doesn't know yet.
Vanderhoef/I thought we were asking- They had not had a conversation about meter
feeding.
Kubby/They can give us feedback without the p.h.
Thornberry/Without a p.h., yes, they can.
Nov/All right, is everyone in agreement to close the p.h? The p.h. is closed. Moved and
seconded to accept correspondence, Vanderhoef and Thornberry. Is there any
discussion? Okay, all in favor, please say aye- (ayes). Motion carried.
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ITEM NO. 7 THE FILING OF AN APPLICATION WITH THE IOWA DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORTATION FOR FY98 IOWA DOT STATE TRANSIT ASSISTANCE
AND FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION FUNDING.
a. PUBLIC HEARING
Nov/And council has asked for a little bit more explanation on this one. I am going to
open the p.h. and ask Joe Fowler to speak first. The p.h. is now open.
Fowler/This basically is just putting these projects into our prograin which is necessary
before you can go to the state and apply for the funding. Through the state we
make the application for federal funding and it would be easier probably just to run
through what the different one are. Items 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7, replacing the bus shelters,
replacing a van, replacing the sweeper, replacing the energy management system in
the bus maintenance and overhaul. Those are just basically our operational items
that work through a rotation cycle and those are in for replacements. we put thein
in the prograin to go ahead and replace those to replace the 80% federal funding
for the assistance on those. The first item, the purchase of the three 35 foot low
floor buses along with the special funding for the special projects from the state
was put in here basically for a planning mechanisms. we have discussed throughout
the entire time we have talked about a Southside parking facility, the need to have
a shuttle bus service from there to the CBD. This just puts this into our planning
document. It doesn't guarantee any funding. It doesn't guarantee that we are going
to get us money of we are going to go ask for this money. but because we have to
do it so far in advance, we place it into our document now. If you would decide,
you know, before these funds are allocated, we could go ahead and make the
request. If you would decide that we are not ready to make this decision on either
one of these projects, then we just move it back a year in our schedule. But they
are in our program which the federal government requires before we can do
anything. We couldn't come in right now and say we want to do this in six months.
We have to plan way out in the future. So we are just putting that in there right
now. The second item, the purchase of the on-board video system for passenger
safety. Ron was at a conference recently. It was one of the topics that we had
there. They felt that it gave a sense of security to the passengers to have these
installed on the buses. What they do is they sit in front of the bus and they monitor
the activities in the back and they are recorded on a tape. In the event that there is
a problem, there is documentation. Any questions?
Norton/Does that entail other things? Tape storage and viewing and so forth, right/I
mean there are other things entailed with that?
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Fowler/I would assume that you would not take a tape out and store it unless you had a
problem. It is just a continuous tape that wouldn't be archived unless there was an
incident.
Kubby/It would be kind of boring.
Norton/That is a funny movie.
Fowler/It would be a long day if you had to watch those all day. That would be my guess,
yes.
Kubby/When I talked to Ron and he stated that there wasn't a huge need for this but
there seemed to be an increase in vandalism and a few routes were having some
problems with vulgar language and rowdiness. I am guess I am really concerned. Is
there really- When you put something in a planning document, sometimes it creates
a life of its own and it assumes that it is there. And even though we have the power
to take it out, sometimes we are doing so many other things that we don't follow-
up on this kind of smaller items. And I guess I am just really not sure that we need
to go this route. I am interested if there are- Ron said that at this national meeting
that there was this real emphasis on passenger safety. I guess I would like to know
what are the other options for us to decrease vandalism and to maintain increased
passenger safety besides video cameras. I just feel just very big brotherish for the
number of incidents that we are talking about.
Fowler/So far the disruptive passenger ordinance that you passed, I think is being used
effectively. I don't think that there has been a problem that we haven't been able to
address with that. There has been a problem on a bus, the driver has called, a
supervisor has gone out. If the situation warrants, a police officer does come out
and assist in a situation. I think so far we have addressed a problem very
adequately with the policies that we have.
Kubby/Do we know how many times we have used that ordinance?
Fowler/I would venture to say twice since you have passed it and it was probably a year
and a half ago.
Nov/It was a year ago.
Thornberry/The bus drivers do have two way communication?
Fowler/Yes, they do.
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Thornberry/So they can call in-
Fowler/They can call in. They also have communication that if necessary, they can talk
directly to the police dispatcher.
Norton/Is this another one where if you put it in, you can drop it out without any manifest
embarrassment or something?
Fowler/What they do is' everybody puts their list of projects together on a list, they go to
Des Moines and have a meeting and they start basically bartering and giving and
taking among the cities. Well, I really need this and they prioritize their needs and
you get a portion of what you request.
Norton/It does have kind of a grim flavor, I would have to say. I guess I would like to
think about it slowly. But it can stay in as far as I am concerned now and if we can
drop it at some point after we think about it further.
Nov/My concern about this is that the resolution says this is funding for FY98 which is
this July.
Fowler/FY 98 would be when you would make the request to the federal government.
The request would be made in October. So it gives us like, if we decide in the next
six months that we want to put a shuttle service in for the Near Southside, we
could. At that point, if we haven't reached that decision, we just move it back a
year and the following October we can make the request.
Nov/Okay, so the federal government FY rather than ours.
Fowler/Yes.
Kubby/I don't mind leaving the buses in but I want to take the video systems out.
Thornberry/I don't think we need a video system when we have two way communication
with the police department. If they feel that there is a problem and other riders are
being harassed anyway or there is vandalism to the bus, they can call right away
and I am sure that they will expedite-
Fowler/We have never had a problem with the Police Department responding promptly
anytime that there was a problem or any request for assistance.
Nov/Tell us how much problem you have with vandalism on buses.
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Fowler/Mostly it is the back of the bus, cut a seat type of vandalism, carve your initials.
Just the basis vandalism that occurs anyplace in Iowa City where there is an
unsecured area.
Nov/It is not likely to be deterred by a video camera.
Kubby/Well, you can get them afterwards.
Fowler/Right. It is more of a follow-up mechanism than it is a direct response.
Nov/I don't know. It would seem to me that if you did an inspection at the end of every
run, you would then know which run that particular occurrence happened. But if
you are not inspecting the bus more than once a day, how would you know when
this happened and who do it.
Fowler/Drivers do walk through the buses and look for and retrieve lost and found
articles that somebody might have let~ on the bus. They check for spills or anything
on the bus that does need to be cleaned. Drivers do make inspections throughout
the day.
Nov/Okay. Dee, you had something.
Vanderhoef/It just strikes me that we keep getting opportunities for capital improvement
purchases from the federal government and what I personally would like to see the
federal government do is give us $80,000 towards operation.
Fowler/So would I. Apparently the way the funding is going, the federal government is
getting the requests. They are more honoring the requests from the large systems,
the large cities. And they make enough money through their farebox to fund their
operation. But they don't make enough to buy their equipment. So the larger
systems are putting the pressure on the federal government for capital and not
operations and that is what they are responding to.
Kubby/We could help there by squawking louder.
Fowler/Yes. If the money became discretionary to use either way, that would be a much
better benefit to us.
Kubby/It would be the flexible philosophy in the current Congress. Let communities
decide. You can say it has to be used for transit but let us determine what is the
bets way to use that money for transit.
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Vanderhoeff I would much appreciate that.
Nov/I think we all would.
Kubby/Let's write a letter, Madam Mayor.
Nov/Okay.
Norton/You can send me to Washington some more.
Kubby/Naomi just came back.
Norton/I happen to be going next week.
Kubby/I will give you a list.
Vanderhoef/Joe, is it this the experience of other smaller cities with transit systems?
Fowler/On the funding, yes, that is the trend right now.
Vanderhoef/And in your professional group, when you gather, is there any collective
group that might push for a letter and ask for this.
Fowler/Most of the groups are controlled by the large systems. There is a group that is
forming right now and doing some preliminary lobbying asking that allocation be
made based on merit, by the number of rides you give on your population rather
than just on the size because the federal government gives out the money
depending on how big you are, not how many riders you have or how efficient you
are. So we will be joining in that effort to lobby that way.
Nov/And I am assuming that when we talk about a letter, we want one for the Legislature
and one for the Congress because this is both state and federal funding?
Fowler/Yes.
Nov/Okay.
Kubby/Thank you.
Nov/Is there anyone else who would like to talk on this topic? P.h. is now closed.
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ITEM NO. 7 THE FILING OF AN APPLICATION WITH THE IOWA DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORTATION FOR FY98 IOWA DOT STATE TRANSIT ASSISTANCE
AND FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION FUNDING.
b. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Vanderhoef.
Kubby/I would like to move that we delete the video system from the resolution.
Norton/Second.
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Thornberry, that we amend the resolution to delete
the video cameras. Is there any discussion on the amendment? Okay. Do we need a
roll call on amendments? All in favor of amending the resolution by deleting the
video cameras, please say aye- (ayes). Opposed same sign- Motion carries. Now
we need to vote on the resolution and amendment and that needs a roll call. IS
there any other discussion before we do roll call? Roll call- (yes). We have
approved the resolution without video.
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ITEM NO. 8.
PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT AND ESTIMATE OF
COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE 1997 ASPHALT RESURFACING
PROJECT, ESTABLISHING AMOUNT OF BID SECURITY TO ACCOMPANY
EACH BID, DIRECTING CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH NOTICE TO BIDDERS,
AND FIXING TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIPT OF BIDS.
Comment: This bi-annual project involves the asphalt resurfacing and the chip
sealing of vadous streets throughout Iowa City. The Engineer's estimate for
the project is $707,612 and will be funded by Road Use taxes. Staff
memorandum included in Council packet.
PUBLIC HEARING
Action:
ITEM NO. 9.
ITEM NO. 10.
b. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING
Action: ~/'~~/:~~4.4~ 2
CONSIDER A MOTION TO APPROVE A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE CITY OF IOWA CITY, IOWA, AND THE POLICE LABOR
RELATIONS ORGANIZATION OF IOWA CITY.
Comment: This is a three-year agreement with across-the-board wage
increases of 3% each year. It also includes increases in on-call pay for
investigation and watch differential for all second and third watches,
along with a number of modifications in non-economic contract
provisions. A copy of the Agreement is included in Council packets.
Action:
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION DIRECTING SALE OF $5,200,000
CORPORATE PURPOSE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS.
Comment: Sealed bids on the sale of these bonds were received at
11:00 a.m. on March 18, 1997. Bond proceeds will be used to pay costs of
constructing, reconstructing and repairing vadous projects pertaining to
streets, bridges, storm sewers, parks, trails, the Airport, the Library, the
Animal Shelter and the Civic Center. This resolution ratifies and confirms the
actions of the City Clerk and the Finance Director in the determination of the
most favorable bid. A completed resolution will be presented to the City
Council at the formal meeting the evening of March 18, 1997.
Action:
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ITEM NO. 8 PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT AND ESTIMATE
OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE 1997 ASPHALT RESURFACING
PROJECT, ESTABLISHING AMOUNT OF BID SECURITY TO ACCOMPANY
EACH BD, DIRECTING CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH NOTICE TO BDDERS, AND
FIXING TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIPT OF BIDS.
b. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING
Nov/Moved by Vanderhoef, seconded by Thornberry. Is there any discussion?
Vanderhoef/We probably won't hear from them until they want their resurfacing.
Norton/I am worried about W. Benton but I take it it doesn't get this kind of treatment.
Kubby/Eventually.
Norton/It is a disaster area.
Kubby/The ones on the list have been waiting in line for a couple of years.
Norton/I am sure.
Vanderhoef/And isn't this the one that they have resurfaced it so many times that we
basically have not curb left and it has to be totally rebuilt.
Norton/Perhaps that is the case because it is pretty bad.
Vanderhoef/That is what I remember from Rick's conversation.
Norton/Certainly Washington Street also deserves it.
Thornberry/A lot of streets.
Kubby/I had talked to Rick, for example, on Washington Street. It does not included
Washington Street going east. It stops on Governor. It doesn't go all the way to
Muscatine. Both in my car and on my bike it needs it. And even with my new
struts it is still really bad. And he said that if the bids come in lower, that they can
add some of those things on the section of the streets that they are already doing
and if the bids come in really well, then they will go to the next batch of streets and
go on the top priority. Let's hope for some good prices.
Nov/We can do that. I think this is an interesting way of resurfacing streets because we
do invest every other year based on the fact that there will be more asphalt
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involved and we can get a better deal on cost per square foot that way. And so far,
so good. So we may get a low enough bid to add to the end of the street that you
like to add on. Any other discussion? Roll call- (yes). We have approved the
resolution.
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ITEM NO. 9 CONSIDER A MOTION TO APPROVE A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE CITY OF IOWA CITY', IOWA, AND THE POLICE LABOR
RELATIONS ORGANIZATION OF IOWA CITY.
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Norton. Discussion.
Thornberry/Do we approve this first and then the police union votes on it or have they
voted on it already?
Helling/They have already voted on it and ratified it is my understanding.
Thornberry/Okay.
Nov/And we don't need a resolution? We need just a motion here?
Helling/Just a motion on the tentative agreement. We will come back with a complete
contract and then you will adopt that by resolution.
Nov/Okay.
Norton/Were the 3% raises, were they already programmed earlier? Is that a change?
Helling/I think the current budget covers that. The next two years we will base on the
budget on what has already determined.
Norton/One part of that has already been scheduled, in other words?
Helling/Well, we didn't know exactly but there is sufficient money in the budget to cover
the 3% increase.
Thornberry/Or Don can get creative.
Nov/He is going to need to next year. We are going to need to next year.
Nov/Okay. That is it. All in favor, please say aye- (ayes). All opposed same sign- Motion
carried.
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ITEM NO. 10 CONSIDER A RESOLUTION DIRECTING SALE OF $5,200,000
CORPORATE PURPOSE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS.
Nov/We have a completed resolution?
Kubby/Our bond guy is here.
Don Yucuis/I just wanted to point out one thing that the city did receive a AAA rating
from Moody's before the bonds were sold. I just wanted to point that out. That is
an important factor when we sell the bonds and get the best rates on the bonds
when we are rated that high. I am very pleased with that. It is not something that
happens all of the time and my dealings with Moody's is always not a given that
you will get this again. You always have to go through your financial records and
how is the city doing and how is the area doing before they will reconfirm the
AAA. So I am real pleased with that. We did receive six-
Nov/We have had it for awhile. Let's say how long we have had a AAA.
Atkins/I have been here ahnost 11 years. We have had it all those 11 years.
Thornberry/How many cities have these AAA bond ratings?
Atkins/38.
Thornberry/38 cities in the United States over a certain-
Atkins/That is 38 cities, counties and or school districts. 38 units of government.
Thornberry/38 either cities, counties or school districts in the United States?
Atkins/Correct, units of local government.
Thornberry/So it doesn't make any difference what size they are?
Atkins/No.
Thornberry/Why are there only 38 in the whole United States that have a AAA bond
rating?
Yucuis/It is not an easy thing to do.
Atkins/It is not easy to get.
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Yucuis/It is not an easy thing to get and it is not an easy thing to maintain. Maintaining is
the biggest thing. You can get it but maintaining it is the struggle. And we have
been very fortunate to be able to maintain that.
Six bids were received. The lowest bid was received from Prudential Securities of
Chicago at a net interest rate of 4.7954%. I am real pleased that we received six
bids on that. I do have Dave Dierks, Senior vice-president of Evensen Dodge, the
city's financial adviser with us tonight and just wanted to have him add a few
comments.
Dave Dirks/I think the most important comment you have already discussed and that is
getting the AAA. The important thing is retention of it is the most difficult thing.
An answer as to how long the city has had it, we have been the financial adviser
for the city for 14 years and it pre-dates us by 3 years I think. With respect to the
bids, I think you can see from the report that the groupings- that the low bid was
obviously a very competitive bid if you look at the groupings of the other five bids.
And we would enthusiastically recommend the council adopt that bid, especially
given the state of the market as it is today. This is very close to what we had
projected several weeks ago and so we are very happy with it. And I would be
happy to answer any questions you might have.
Kubby/This is about the AAA rating again. Is it available, the information, how long 38 of
the entities have maintained their AAA? Is this a big deal?
Dirks/We can get you some additional information on the profile of the existing AAA. I
can tell you that it is a very difficult rating to obtain. We also are financial advisers
to the school district and the Iowa City School District is by far one of the
economically and financially one of the healthiest school districts in the country
and we have because of just some very unique ways they view school credits, there
are just a half a notch below that. We are very hopeful that they will be, in the
future, upgraded to a AAA. I think we made a- And the district itself made a very
compelling argument a year or so ago to Moody's about it and at that time we did
a pretty in-depth analysis of the AAA credits around the country. We can share
that with you because it will be actually fairly specific to Iowa City and how you
folks rate in there.
Kubby/Thanks.
Nov/Interesting, thank you.
Vanderhoef/We appreciate the rating and all the work you two people do to get it for us.
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Nov/All right, for the benefit of the audience, a AAA bond rating means that we get a
lower interest rate. We pay a lower interest rate to the people who buy the bonds.
Okay, now, did we have a motion? We did not. We need a motion. Moved by
Norton, Seconded by Vanderhoef and the motion is to approve the sale of these
bonds and the bidder is Prudential Securities of Chicago. Our net interest rate that
we pay is 4.7954% and we are selling $5,200,000 worth of Go Bonds.
Kubby/And the items that we are going to spend this money on are streets, bridges, storm
sewers, parks, trail, some improvements to the airport and the library and the
animal shelter. Did you read that already?
Nov/I neglected to hear a motion, so I went back. Sorry.
Kubby/It couldn't hurt to repeat what we are going to spend this money on.
Nov/On various worthy causes.
Vanderhoef/Are we going to have a video on the end of this?
Nov/It is going to be done on the government channel in the future. I talked to our Police
Chief. He said there are not only going to run the video on this is what we need to
do but they are going to come back with the camera every once in a while and
show the progress.
Vanderhoef/Good deal.
Thornberry/With all the puppies crying in the background.
Nov/Roll call- (yes). We have approved this resolution.
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ITEM NO. 11.
CONSIDER A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE FORM OF TAX EXEMPTION
CERTIFICATE PERTAINING TO THE $$,200,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION
BONDS.
Comment: This certificate is executed and delivered in connection with the
issuance by the City of Iowa City of $5,200,000 General Obligation Bonds.
This certificate sets out, in detail, a number of facts, promises and obligations
which must be met and agreed to by the City in order to maintain these Bonds
as tax exempt.
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ITEM NO. 12. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND PROVIDING F
ISSUANCE OF $5,200,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND LEVYING
A TAX TO PAY SAID BONDS
Comment: This resolution provides final authorization for issuance of the
ITEM NO. 13.
ITEM NO. 14.
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$5,200,000 General Obligation Bonds.
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY
FOR PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS.
Comment: The City has received requests by different charitable
organizations to allow City of Iowa City employees to make donations to their
organizations through payroll deductions. The only charitable organization the
City currently allows for payroll deductions is the United Way. In order to ease
the administrative burden and minimize the workplace disruption of
implementing payroll deductions for charitable organizations, the City has
drafted the proposed policy. By law, all restrictions must be objective,
reasonable, and viewpoint neutral. All the restrictions contained in the policy
have been approved by the courts.
ot,on: .
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE DESIGN OF AN AWNING
AT 116 E. COLLEGE STREET.
Comment: Dave Long Protective Products has submitted an application
for approval of the design of an awning at 116 E. College Street (College
Street News). The Design Review Committee will review this item at its
March 17, 1997, meeting.
Action:
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City of Iowa City
MEMORANDUM
Date:
To:
March 14,1997
Mayor and City Council
From:
Re:
Don Yucuis, Finance Director
Agenda Item
Item No.
Comment:
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CONSIDER A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE FORM OF CONTINUING
DISCLOSURE CERTIFICATE PERTAINING TO THE $5,200,000 GENER-
AL OBLIGATION BONDS.
This certificate is executed and delivered in connection with the issuance
by the City of Iowa City of $5,200,000 General Obligation Bonds. The
disclosure certificate is being executed and delivered for the benefit of the
holders and beneficial owners of the bonds and in order to assist the
participating underwriters in complying with the Securities Exchange
Commission (SEC) Rule 15c2-12(b)(5).
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ITEM NO. 11 CONSIDER A MOTION TO ACCEPT TI-I~E FORM OF TAX
EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE PERTAINING TO THE $5,200,000 GENERAL
OBLIGATION BONDS.
Karr/Madam Mayor, you have two motions. There is an addition tonight.
Nov/Oh, I thought it was a correction.
Karr/No, it was not a correction. It was an addition. That is okay, we can go back to that
one.
Nov/Okay, I read the wrong one if that is the case. I read-
Karr/That is okay. They both needed to be acted on. They are both motions.
Nov/Okay, so we have a motion to accept the form of taxation exemption certificate and
then a motion to accept the form of continuing disclosure certificate pertaining to
the same $5,200,000 Go bonds. I read the tax exemption certificate title and I read
the comments of the other one and I am sorry. We need now a motion to accept
form of continuing disclosure certificates pertaining to the $5,200,000 Go bonds.
Moved by Norton, seconded by Thornberry. Discussion. All in favor, please say
aye- (ayes). We approved two motions, 11 and 1 la.
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ITEM NO. 12 CONSDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND PROVDING FOR
THE ISSUANCE OF $5,200,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND LEVYING
A TAX TO PAY SAID BONDS
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Norton. Any further discussion?
Kubby/Don, have we retired an approximately equivalent amount of bonds recently so
that this is not an additional tax but a continuation?
Yucuis/This has been factored into our most recent property tax rate that we filed when
we adopted the budget at the last council meeting. So it is not going to increase
the property tax rate at all. It has been factored in. I don't believe we have an equal
amount being paid off annually. This is a sizable amount that we have issued and in
1994 and '95 we issued approximately $7 million and $8 million worth of Go debt.
It is less than those two years but we do try to pay off our debt over approximately
ten years. So it is a pretty rabid payoff and helps maintain the AAA rating. We
keep coming back to that AAA and trying to make sure we maintain it. And this is
one of the ways to do it. It is a ten year pay back. You will not see a dramatic
change in the debt service property tax rate because of this bond issue.
Kubby/Thank you. Just so people know that we are not levying an additional- We are
going to pay this through tax money but your tax rate will not change because of
it.
Yucuis/That is correct.
Nov/Okay, we need a roll call- (yes). We have approved this resolution. And now that we
have sold all of these millions of dollars in bonds, I am going to take a break.
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ITEM NO. 13 CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING ADMINISTRATIVE
POLICY FOR PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS BY CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS.
Nov/Moved by Norton, seconded by Vanderhoef.
Kubby/I know that our current policy is unconstitutional but I don't like the policy that
we are about to approve. I think we should either do it all or nothing because I
don't want to be telling our employees you can have this convenience if you are
going to give money to a certain kind of group but not to another kind of group.
And part of me says I would rather have the city sued and then have a even better
policy. So I am kind of conflicted. I want it to be constitutional but I don't want it
to be what we are about to approve.
Woito/Then how about nothing.
Kubby/Yeah, I would rather have nothing. I want it all or nothing.
Woito/But not have any payroll deduction?
Norton/I want to speak another way. If we have any, I think it is perfectly reasonable to
limit them to organizations who money is largely spent locally and that is what is
implied here or stated here. That to organizations to where all or substantially all
of their health and welfare services to individuals and/or families in Johnson
County. And if that is legal, it seems to me a reasonable restriction. So I am
certainly strongly in favor of this policy. It expands it beyond United Way. It raises
some questions about if it becomes a burden because there are too many local
agencies and it becomes an administrative burden, I think we are going to have to
revisit that.
Kubby/Looking at #2 Linda, where it says provides funds. The wording is funny here.
Although that is not my point. Substantially all the organizations health and
welfare services. What if they are not a social service agency? What if, for
example, Environmental Advocates as an individual organization who would I
believe fall under most of these guidelines except there are not a health or welfare
services but they have- They are based in Iowa City, they have zero administrative
costs. So they would be spending all of their money locally.
Woito/I think the language of the organization health and welfare services is comes out of
the courts because that is the type of case that has made it through the 8th Circuit
Court of Appeals. If you had an environmental- If you can qualify under federal
IRS codes as a charitable organization, it doesn't matter. It doesn't have to be
health and welfare. It can be anything charitable so long as you avoid any sort of
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political persuasion. I mean that is one thing that will take you out of the charitable
deduction.
Norton/Why don't we leave out the words health and welfare and just say charitable- all
of the organizations and services to individuals and families in Iowa City.
Kubby/Yes, we could delete that.
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Vanderhoef/Like to the Library Foundation and to the P/R Foundation.
Woito/Anything that qualifies under 501.
Nov/It is 501.
Vanderhoef/It is 501 but not the 401.
Woito/401 I don't know about.
Norton/But 501 is charitable, strictly speaking. And non-politically advocating.
Woito/Non-profit. Definitely non-political. not any political affiliations whatsoever. The
money can't be used.
Norton/They can't even to affect legislation.
Woito/Absolutely not, no.
Nov/That would take out the Environmental Advocates. They do lobby for particular
issues.
Woito/There can't be any political affiliation at all.
Nov/It would take out the League of Women Voters also.
Norton/So then if you delete those words health and welfare in paragraph 2, it wouldn't
hurt anything, would it? If we define 501 organizations and the word charitable is
used. It is appropriate I take it.
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Woito/What you are trying to define is that the services are provided to families in
Johnson County. That is the limitation that presumably is approved by the courts.
Whether you want that or not, that is up to you.
Thornberry/I am sitting where I can see that this is a possible administrative nightmare if
many employees want to have payroll deductions and I want mine to go here and
somebody wants his to go there and somebody else wants theirs to go there and
then they change from one to another even though it is every two months or six
months or whatever. It is going to be quite a administrative nightmare possibly. I
still think that if anybody wants to give to an organization, they can do so for how
much ever they want to and it doesn't necessarily have to be through payroll
deduction.
Woito/You could have a rule that you could only opt into this payroll deduction once a
year. I mean you could add that to the policy.
Vanderhoef/Okay but one of the things that is the administrative nightmare to me, I know
that the computers can kick it out, the amount. But if it is every pay period and
then we are responsible for mailing that check and cutting all those checks and so
forth. And the previous ordinance, as I understand how it has been working now,
we have used it for just our United Way organization and we have cut one check
and that one check has gone to United Way and they are the ones who have
distributed the money to the various organizations under that umbrella. So that has
taken a lot of the administrative kind of things away from our city staff and this
really opens up a large possibility, at least, for a lot of additional work for our staff
and money.
Woito/The problem is, Dee, we don't have an ordinance or a policy. That is the
constitutional problem.
Kubby/If we say no to this, it means we don't have a policy at all.
Woito/It means that we don't do any payroll deduction, period, paragraph.
Norton/I would hate to see that.
Vanderhoef/Because the previous one is unconstitutional.
Woito/Well the fact that the City Manager is making the decision is the problem. It has to
be- I mean it is a constitutional problem, it is not the problem in Iowa City. You
have to make the decision, not a staff person.
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Kubby/How much is that United Way check? Do we have a ballpark range? I mean
because it is a convenience to the employees that I would like to offer. I would like
to find a way to offer it that I feel comfortable with.
Atkins/Our employee contribution to United Way annually is about $12,000.
Kubby/So about $1,000 a month. I mean that is an important contribution to various
agencies in the community.
Thornberry/However, if these people wanted to donate to United Way or whatever-
Kubby/Right, they can do that.
Thornberry/They still can do that.
Norton/But Dean, lots of agencies do payroll deductions. I mean the school does them.
The school district does them. The University does them. The only problem is to
get straight with the law here and make sure that other agencies who meet the
code and who are meeting whatever legitimate restrictions you can put on, that is
what we have to have. But I don't see why we are the only ones who can't do
payroll deductions.
Woito/Steve, didn't the University of Iowa stop doing United Way?
Atkins/A number of years ago but now they are re-opening it.
Norton/They do it.
Woito/After they adopted the policy?
Norton/They have always done United Way.
Woito/After they adopted the policies. now they are doing it. That is the difference.
Kubby/Doesn't the University do Iowa Shares? So their policy allows other groups?
Woito/I don't know.
Norton/I don't think so.
Woito/If they had a policy similar to this, it would probably not qualify.
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Norton/It had one similar to this now, I think. A new one.
Woito/They probably followed the same case law that we looked at.
Nov/I think that we could try this policy. If it becomes an undue administrative burden,
we can change it and this says a payroll deduction should not impose undue
administrative burden. We just haven't decided, have defined what that burden is.
So, if the definition comes along and we decide that it is a burden, we can amend
this resolution or delete the resolution or stop doing payroll deductions or
whatever.
Kubby/If it passes, we could have six month review period. We could monitor this and
direct staff to come back to us with some information.
Woito/Or you could even limit this to six months if you wanted to.
Nov/I think a one year, opt in or opt out is much more efficient than six months.
Vanderhoeff Would it be possible to make the deduction from an employee check and
hold it and only make payment to the organization say once every six months? In
other words, if the employee wants something taken out of every paycheck, every
other week and then put it all together so the administration part of it would be
just once every six months the organization would get their checks.
Woito/Seems to me that we could do it anyway that we wanted to.
Atkins/You could pretty much do it anyway that you want. We cut checks twice a month
now to pay vendors. If I was an employee, I am not so sure I would be thrilled
about having my payroll deduction accumulate in an account. I would like to make
the assumption it is going out the door as quickly as possible, Dee.
Vanderhoef/I understand.
Atkins/I think we pay monthly now.
Nov/One month is what we do now rather than every pay period?
Atkins/I think we issue the check probably once a month. I know it is not anymore.
Norton/To the outside agency.
Vanderhoef/So two pay periods, not every pay period.
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Atkins/Don't hold me to that but I would suspect that it is one a month.
Thornberry/And that is only to one organization, right?
Atkins/Right now with United Way, we send it directly to them and they distribute it.
Nov/IfI were on the board of United Way or an administrator, director of United Way, I
would be disappointed if any payroll deduction and keep the money for six months
and not have use of it.
Norton/Right.
Atkins/And I think it is important to declare right now that I am a member of the United
Way Board of Directors. So I will caution my questions and answers.
Woito/So you can't vote.
Norton/May I ask, do we need an amendment to the document in front of us, Naomi, to
take out health and welfare since that seems to me to confuse the issue to some
extent.
Nov/If we want to take it out, I certainly have no personal objection to saying that the
organization services to individuals and families in Johnson County and not say
health and welfare.
Norton/I move to delete health and welfare.
Kubby/Second.
Woito/And you want to out in the opt in only once in a calendar year?
Nov/I think that for an administrator, that would be much easier. That is what we often
do on other items, like employee benefits for insurance or what is it, IPERS or
things like that. Aren't those opt in or opt out once per year?
Norton/I would be happy to add that amendment and a further amendment or in addition
to my amendment. To delete the words health and welfare and add a restriction
that you can change your allocation decision once a year.
Nov/Can we do that in two separate? They are really different issues.
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Norton/Just trying to be convenient.
Nov/Okay, is there any discussion on removing the words health and welfare and keeping
the idea that the services are for families in Johnson County? No objections. Okay,
all in favor please say aye- (aye). Okay. Is there any discussion on-
Karr/If you separate them, do you want a motion.
Nov/We had a motion for his first one, didn't we.
Karr/And you just voted on that one.
Nov/now we need a second motion please.
Norton/I move that we incorporate a condition that people can change their option,
employees can change their options once a year.
Kubby/Second.
Nov/Seconded by Kubby. Is there any discussion on the number of times a year that an
employee may opt in or out of payroll deductions?
Norton/That doesn't seem too restrictive, does it?
Atkins/Annual is fine.
Nov/Okay, we assume under this one someone who leaves employment is automatically
taken out. So there will be a little bit more administrative bookkeeping as people
come in and out. Okay, any further discussion? All in favor, please say aye- (ayes).
Motion carried. now we are back to the original resolution and this needs a roll
call. Everybody ready? Roll call- (yes; no: Kubby, Thornberry). Okay, we did not
pass this resolution. It failed because we did not have four votes. It was a 3-2 with
Kubby and Thornberry voting no.
Kubby/So those who voted in favor could move to reconsider at the next council meeting.
Nov/We can, can we not? But we still need four people to agree with us, don't we?
Woito/Right.
Nov/Okay, at the next council meeting, we can see if there are four votes to reconsider
this.
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Woito/(Can't hear). It could be either Karen or Dean move to reconsider.
Norton/The people on the prevailing side would be reconsider. I take it that is the yesses.
Woito/(Can't hear).
Nov/The yesses.
Kubby/Who would ever think that you and I had power over something together.
Thornberry/(Can't hear).
Nov/But it would also take four votes in favor of reconsideration. So we would need to
wait for another time.
Atkins/Understand, prevailing side in this case are the losers. Because of Dean and Karen
prevailed-
Woito/That is what I said.
Norton/Oh, then they are the ones that have to initiate the reconsideration. Well, there is
No likelihood that they would do it. This is weird.
Thornberry/Well-
Norton/Wait a minute, you guys, I am going back to Robert's Rules.
Kubby/This is Robert's Rules.
Council/(All talking).
Norton/The majority is in favor of-
Nov/I think this has to be in the majority. I don't think the minority prevails.
Council/(Can't hear).
Thornberry/Karen and I, we are the majority.
Nov/No.
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Atkins/You are prevailing.
Council/(All talking).
Nov/All right. We will all read out Robert's Rules next time.
Woito/We will double check it.
Norton/gan I clear? It was 3-2 in favor, right?
Nov/It was 3-2 in favor but-
Norton/If that ain't prevailing, I can't- I don't know what is.
Nov/I think we can re-check this. Let's not get into the discussion again.
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ITEM NO. 14 CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE DESIGN OF AN
AWNING AT 116 E. COLLEGE STREET.
Nov/Did we get approval for this one? Does anyone know?
Kubby/We did and I move that we adopt his resolution.
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Thornberry. I didn't see anything written.
Thornberry/There is.
Nov/(Can't hear). Okay, the butterfly garden and the awning both. Okay. Okay, thank
you, Karen.
Kubby/You are welcome.
Nov/The awning is for College Street News. Is there any further discussion? Roll call-
(yes). Okay, we have approved the resolution of an awning.
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ITEM NO. 15.
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE DESIGN OF A
PROPOSED ENCLOSED BUTTERFLY GARDEN ON CITY PLAZA.
ITEM NO. 16.
Comment: The Iowa City Science Center has submitted an application
for approval of the design of a proposed enclosed butterfly garden, a
temporary structure to be located on a portion of City Plaza from May 15
to October 10, 1997. The Design Review Committee will review this
item at its March 17, 1997, meeting. Correspondence regarding the
ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANOlES.
a. Current Vacancies.
(1)
Animal Control Advisory Board - One vacancy to fill a three-year
term ending May z~, 2000 (Term expires for Dennis Cowles).
(1 male and 3 females currently serve on this Board.)
(2)
Civil Service Commission - One vacancy to fill an unexpired term
ending April 1, 2000 (,Susan Dulek resigned). (1 male and 1
female currently serve on this Commission.) Correspondence
included in Council packet.
(3)
Historic Preservation Commission - One vacancy to fill an
unexpired term ending March 29, 1999 (Sue Licht resigned).
(3 males and 2 females currently serve on this Commission.)
(4)
Planning and Zoning Commission - One vacancy to fill a five-year
term ending May 1, 2002 (Term expires for Jane Jakobsen). (3
males and 3 females currently serve on this Commission.)
These appointments will be made at the April 22 meeting of the City
Council.
b. Previously-Announced Vacancies.
(1)
Housing and Community Development Commission - One
vacancy to fill an unexpired term ending September 1, 1998 (Tim
Ruxton resigned) and one vacancy to fill an unexpired term
ending September 1, 1999 (Cynthia Larson resigned). (3 males
and 4 females currently serve on this Commission.)
(2)
Historic Preservation Commission - Two vacancies for three-year
terms ending March 29, 2000 (one of the vacancies is for a
representative of the Woodlawn District). (Teems expire for
Douglas Russell and Ginalie Swaim.) (3 males and 2 females
currently serve on this Commission.)
These appointments will be made at the April 8 meeting of the City
Council.
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ITEM NO. 15 CONSDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE DESIGN OF A
PROPOSED ENCLOSED BUTTERFLY GARDEN ON CITY PLAZA.
Nov/Moved by Norton, seconded by Kubby. Any discussion?
Kubby/I am really goad this is happening. We need events like this d.t. and I would
encourage people to think about not only going as an individual or family but if
you are planning any kind of event, reception, fund-raiser, to contact the science
center to see if you will be allowed to rent it for that purpose. I think it would be a
beautiful place to have a reception.
Nov/You can have weddings there. As far as I know, they are willing to allow people to
use it for that kind of purpose.
Thornberry/I have had one. I don't think it would be appreciated if I would have another
one.
Nov/Maybe your son.
Thornberry/You would have to talk to him about that.
Nov/Any further discussion? Roll call- (yes).
Thornberry/One thing I would like to say about this before we leave this butterfly garden.
It is not going to cost the city any money. Did you mention that? We are not
putting any money into this thing. It is going to be self sustaining except that we
are going to be losing a few parking places for a short period of time. The city is
not buying this butterfly garden. Do you know what a butterfly garden is?
Nov/It is the Science Center that is constructing this and they will charge fees to pay for
their costs.
Thornberry/They pack it with butterflies.
Karr/Madam Mayor, could we go back and accept correspondence relative to the
butterfly garden?
Nov/Moved by Thornberry, seconded by Vanderhoef, that we accept correspondence
regarding the butterfly garden. All in favor, please say aye- (ayes). Motion carries.
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ITEM NO. 17. CITY COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS.
ITEM NO. 18.
a. Consider two appointments to the Broadband Telecommunications
Commission to fill three-year terms ending March 13, 2000,
(Terms expire for Eric Rothenbuhler and Betty McKray.)
(0 females and 3 males cu~rrently s~ve on this Commission.)
CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION.
ITEM NO. 19.
REPORT ON ITEMS FROM THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY.
a. City Manager.
b. City Attorney,
ITEM NO. 20.
ADJOURNMENT.
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ITEM NO. 17 CITY COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS.
a. Consider two appointments to the Broadband Telecommunications Commission to fill
three-year terms ending March 13, 2000. (Terms expire for Eric Rothenbuhler and Betty
McKray.) (0 females and 3 males currently serve on this Commission.)
Nov/Moved by Kubby, seconded by Norton that we appoint these people (Betty McKray
and Cathy Weingeist).
Thornberry/Of all the applicants that we got for the BBTC, there has been a lot of
discussion among most of us about these people because they all seemed very very
good and geez-
Nov/Well, it is nice to get that many good applicants.
Thornberry/William Kelly, you know, is doing a fantastic job and it seems silly. Dee
Shannon-
Norton/Well, they would be perfectly appropriate.
Thornberry/Great. You know, all of the people who have applied are very very good. I
mean they look like they would be fantastic. Did you have any input?
Vanderhoef/I would just like to say whoever isn't appointed, we would welcome them to
apply again for this commission or for any other commission because we can use
good solid citizens to help us with our commission work.
Nov/I have to say that every time that we have sent a letter to someone saying you were
not appointed this time, we always say we encourage you to apply again.
Thornberry/These people are really good. Now who are the two that you were-
Norton/Well, Betty McKray is one who has filled a term. So she is not being re-appointed
for a full term which has been somewhat common practice I think and she joined
that group at a time when many questions needed to be asked, staking out
arrangements between community programming and PATV and so forth and they
have really made some good progress and she asked a lot of good questions. That
would be a strong reason, I think, to re-appoint her.
Kubby/Betty is really strong and her- The energy she has put in to be a very
communicative liaison between our commission, our cable commission, and
PATV. And I think both groups have really appreciated the time she has taken to
be that actively involved.
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Thornberry/Howie Vernon gave Elizabeth McKray very high rating and would like to see
her continue.
Norton/She also knows the scene at the Senior Center which is another aspect.
Kubby/One of the reasons, well, there are a couple of reasons that I made the nominations
I did. One is that we had talked about trying to get more student involvement in
our boards and commission and I think that we have only appointed one student
since we made that decision a year and a half ago maybe. I can't remember when
we did that. And Cathy is completing a masters in communication studies and has
working knowledge of cable technology and because all of the applicants are
qualified, that is the time when you look at gender balance and these other kind of
outside issues like student or non-student. And so because all of the applicants are
qualified, I think it is reasonable to look at those other factors.
Thornberry/Well, with Cathy completing her masters in communication studies this May,
I was wondering if she wouldn't be leaving after she got her degree. But I was
assured that she would be staying.
Nov/She is a long term member of this community. I don't believe she will be leaving.
Kubby/We do have a motion and a second.
Nov/Okay, any further discussion? All in favor, please say aye- (ayes). We have appointed
Betty McKray and Cathy Weingeist to the BBTC.
Thornberry/Well, if Cathy received a $500,000 salary for going to New York because she
got her masters degree, I think she maybe would consider it.
Kubby/If Betty McKray got that kind of money, she would go there, too. I would.
Council/(All talking).
Thornberry/I don't know. It doesn't go as far as you think.
Nov/Okay, moving on.
Council/(All talking).
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ITEM NO. 18 CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION.
Nov/City Council Information. Dee Vanderhoef, would you like to start?
Vanderhoef/I don't know.
Nov/Okay, we will start at the other end.
Norton/I have a couple of quick items. I just wanted to comment for the benefit of the
staff and the public that may be listening in. I think the staff has made excellent
progress in getting a graffiti removal policy together and an effort to involve young
people who are doing community service. I really think that it is excellent. I am
anxious to see it go into affect. I think the effort has been wonderful.
Kubby/The way you worded it, it seems like these younger people were voluntarily doing
community service and you don't mean that.
Norton/I don't quite mean that. It is a different form of community service, right. We are
working with the Magistrate, I think. Maybe that will convey the necessary
message.
The other thing I wanted to mention one more time, my old rail crossings. I got a
couple of angry calls this week about South Capital Street and my car is going
worse and worse. It is getting terrible.
Nov/You have to stop driving on that street.
Norton/South Capital Street. It is from somebody who lives out southwest and they said
they have to use it everyday and they are really suffering. There are others. I will
repeat my list with you later, Steve.
Thornberry/You need shocks on your car.
Norton/There are very very few shocks on my car.
Atkins/At your last meeting you asked for a list and that is being prepared for you.
Norton/Well, I know somebody is. I just hope we can get some this spring. Heaves, I am
sure I causing trouble. But- And even South Gilbert Street which is very heavily
traveled, Steve. It is in trouble.
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I also want to make a comment because we discussed the DTA Strategy report last
night and I came off in the local press looking like I was less than enthusiastic. I
am very enthusiastic about the proposal. I thought the committee did a tremendous
job and presented us a wonderful outline. Clearly the concerns about funding
things are ones that are very real to us given the tightness of the budget. But I
think their general program that they laid out was something that we can really get
behind and I just want to go on record that I am terribly enthusiastic about it and
we try to figure out how to get the support.
Thornberry/The money, you mean.
Norton/The money, right.
Nov/We will have to look hard. Anything else? Karen.
Kubby/We had a lot of items tonight that was both p.h. and voting and I was fine was it
for the annexation and rezoning for industrial land because it is something that we
had had p.h.s about. Is there a specific reason? I hope this isn't a trend that is
going to happen. That even if no ones appears, I think that the appearance of open
government, that you don't vote on things right after a p.h. is really important. I
would like us to put a check on that. There was a reason for that that prevent it
from happening very frequently. If there is a crunch for time because of a grant, I
don't mind it happening once in awhile.
Nov/I think the transit one was that kind of thing but some of the others I think we could
have delayed.
Kubby/I guess I could have said something at the time but-
I have three events I want to advertise. One of them is tomorrow morning from
7:00 to 9:00 AM. It is an open house for the American Red Cross. The Grant
Wood Area Chapter is at 328 S. Clinton Street and a continental breakfast will be
there. You can look at the new expanded offices. You can actually put more than
eight people in a health and safety class and not feel like we are elbow to elbow
with all the mannequins in the room. I am very happy as a volunteer instructor and
instructor trainer for the Red cross to have some space in which to teach. Come
look at our offices.
On April 11 & 12 stone of us politically active people in town have been working
with people at the WRAC to organize a training to help people learn skills on how
to make social change happen, how to organize people, events, work with the
press. And if you want information on registering for this class that will be on April
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11 & 12, you can call 335-1486. And we hope to, on a monthly basis, May
through December, have some evening courses that deal with very specific nuts
and bolts issues. So if you want information, call WRAC or you can call me as
well.
The third event is happening on May Day. There is a group of people in Iowa city
who have formed called ourselves Human Rights Iowa City and what w want to
do is celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the U. N. Declaration of Human Rights and
to take- And how we want to commemorate it is to kind of take our own human
fights temperature here in Iowa City and kind of see if we could declare ourselves
a human rights community in terms of how well we follow that U. N. Declaration.
And we are going to have an event so that it is not just not a small group of people
but it is a community that will come in and to help us take this temperature and we
are going to focus on six areas. We will have some generalized discussion about
the U. N. Declaration and global human rights and local human rights issues in
understanding the breath of issues that really are under the umbrella of human
rights and then break up into small groups on housing, transit, health, gender
issues, wages, benefits and working conditions and the environment. To kind of
see what are some fthe positives that are going on in Iowa City. What are some of
the challenges that we are facing in these areas and what are some of the solutions.
So we are actually going to kind of use the matrix that Dee developed for parking
and transit on meeting with the student senate. It seemed like a really good matrix
to help us guide our discussion. So that is happening on May Day from 7:00 to
9:00 PM at Old Brick. So you can put that on your calendar way in advance. And
come to a May Day Celebration at the American Federation of Teachers, Local
715, traditionally put on d.t. from noon to 1:00 for some singing of some labor
songs and open mic and then go to the human rights thing at night to celebrate
May Day. SO, that is all I have. Thanks.
Thornberry/The meeting tomorrow night from 5:00 to 7:00 with council and the Library
Board is an open meeting?
Nov/Yes.
Thornberry/And it will be at the Library in Meeting Room A. This is the meeting with the
city council and the Library Board discussing the conceptualization of a possible
new library on Lot 64-1A which is the parking lot across from the current library,
across the walking plaza from the current library. And we will discussing the
possibilities of what a library or what all would be involved in that library building
or may not even be a library building. It might be another building with a library in
it. It could be a lively discussion. But in any case, it is going to come to the voting
public, apparently this fall. Is it going to be that quickly.
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Nov/We don't know. We will discuss the timing of this if we decide there will be a bond
issue. We will then have to discuss the placement of that bond issue.
Thornberry/In any case, it will take a bond issue, and the people of Iowa City would be
voting on it.
Nov/It will take a vote.
Thornberry/But to get a preview of what we are looking at and if you are at all interested
in the Iowa City Library, what the possibilities could be, that meeting again is at
5:00 PM, 5:00 to 7:00 at the Library in Meeting Room A. And branch libraries will
probably not be discussed.
Nov/They are not on the agenda.
Thornberry/I wish they would be but I am in a minority. So I will be listening to the rest
of the council.
Nov/You did read the agenda items.
Thornberry/I read the agenda.
Nov/Okay. I have to make one more comment. Though this is a public meeting because
all meetings of this city council are public, it does not have any time on the agenda
for public discussion. Anyone from the public is welcome to sit and listen and
comment later, let us know how you feel about it. But not at that meeting.
Thornberry/They are letting me know how they feel about it. That is all I have at this
point. Thank you.
Vanderhoef/Just a couple of things and it is from some of our hard working commissions.
The Council on Disability Rights and Education have been working for a couple of
years at least that I am aware of and they have put together a guide for accessible
features of restaurants, cafes, and bars in d.t. Iowa City and this is available, I
presume, at the library and here at City Hall for anyone who has any disability and
wants to know what is accessible or not. This is available. It is very very nice. A
lot of hard work that these people put into it and we thank them for their efforts.
We have one other group that put together some information for the city and they
now have a new listing of registry of heritage trees in Johnson County, Iowa and
this is also available at the library and we have the listing of all the trees, the type,
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the size, the age and a map that locates these trees in case anyone would like to go
and see them. This particular project had a little bit of council and city money to
support it and we thank them for their efforts. That is it.
Nov/I have a couple of things. Last Wednesday James Dixon conducted the last
University Symphony Concert of his career. He is going to retire at the end of the
semester. I think he is going to be conducting the University Opera Orchestra but
that will be the end and I went and presented the proclamation declaring last
Wednesday as James Dixon Day. They had some very nice ceremonies, some nice
comments from former students and colleagues and it was an important event at
the University and his has been an asset to our city as well.
I also went to the National League of Cities, Came back with some good
information which I will plan to share with the city council.
I spoke to Julie Phye who is working on Stepping Up The Prevention of Binge
Drinking at the University. Her committee letters are going out soon to organize a
steering committee and an executive committee. They are going to start meeting in
April and we hope we are going to make some progress there.
We have already made a little progress on local control of cigarette sales because I
have a letter from Senator Dyvorsky saying that he introduced an amendment to
the State Cigarette Licensing laws which would allow local licensing of cigarette
sales and would also provide that cigarette sales have to be done by a person. It
has to be a face to face transaction. In other words, no vending machines. And if
this happens we will have some local money which to control some underage
cigarette sales.
Kubby/You mean there is money attached to the bill?
Nov/There is an allowance of local licensing which-
Kubby/Pay could have a fee associated with it?
Nov/Right. If someone wanted to sale cigarettes in Iowa City or any other local
community, would pay a state license fee and a local license fee and we would be
allowed to keep the local license fee if this all goes through and I will keep
watching that one and if there is anyone in the audience who would really like to
help us with local control of cigarette sales, it is high time to call your
representative and senator and tell them that you feel that way.
Thornberry/I saw that they got the cigarette vending machine cheap right now.
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Nov/Well, if this passes, they could be out.
Thornberry/Fire sale.
Norton/We had a proposal in somebody's letter, I think from Maurice Jones, for us to
consider a ban on smoking or establishment of certain smoking areas d.t. It is a big
contributor to trash down there as well as the smoke hazard. Someone drive their
baby carriage through there, I think it is really pretty heavy.
Vanderhoef/Until we get home rule, we will have some opportunities. Until we get the
home rule on that which has been the thing at this point.
Nov/And this amendment would not provide local control of all smoking. But it would
provide us a local licensing and some restriction on how cigarettes are sold. So it is
not completely local control but at least it is a good step. And as far as cigarettes
in terms of litter, I really think that we and the DTA need a strong advertising
campaign on don't litter. The anti-littering campaign of 15 years ago or so was
very effective and the advertising and such has just dropped off completely and we
are seeing the affects of it.
Thornberry/There could be an amendment added to that for gum littering too.
Nov/Well, if we could get a strong anti-littering campaign that would cover cigarettes and
gum and cups and bottles and cans and the other things that litter d.t.
Norton/Naomi, I think we probably ought not close without mentioning that the work on
Melrose is going to start next Monday. Maybe that was on your agenda, I don't
know.
Atkins/No.
Norton/To remind people that work on the last section of Melrose, from Byington down
to Grand, is going to begin. The road is going to be open, I take it. That people
would be well advised to take other routes if they can find them. If they can find
them.
Nov/We will keep it open the same way we have been keeping it open all along. But it
will slow people down. Okay.
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City Council Meeting Schedule
and Tentative Work Session Agendas
March 7, 1997
8:30 a.m. - t2:00 p.m.
SPECIAL COUNCIL WORK SESSION
Police Policies and Procedures
Review Draft PCRB
Council Chambers
7:00 p.m. SPECIAL COUNCIL WORK SESSION Council Chambers
EXECUTIVE SESSION (tentative) - Land Acquisition
Review Zoning Matters
Residential Parking Impact Fees
Downtown Strategy Committee Report
Graffiti
Deer Management Committee.,
Animal Shelter Renovation
DARE Program Review
7:00 p.m. SPECIAL FORMAL COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. JOINT MEETING WITH LIBRARY BOARD Room A, Public Library
Parcel 64-1A
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. SPECIAL COUNCIL WORK SESSION Council Chambers
Police Policies and Procedures
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. JOINT MEETING WITH BOARD OF SUPERVISORS T~3D
7:00 p.m.
REGULAR COUNCIL WORK SESSION Council Chambers
FY98 Community Development Block Grant & HOME Budget Proposal
Human Rights Ordinance Amendments
Economic Development Guidelines
Water Project/Telephonic Meter Reading
Iowa River Power Dam Renovation
Waste Pickup - 4-Plexes
PCRB
Cemetery
7:00 p.m. REGULAR FORMAL COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers
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City Council Meeting Schedule
and Tentative Work Session Agendas
March 14, 1997
8:30 a.m, - 12:00 p,m, SPECIAL COUNCIL WORK SESSION Council Chambers
Police Policies and Procedures
Discussion of Previously-Submitted Questions
Review Draft PCRB
7:00 p.m. SPECIAL COUNCIL WORK SESSION Council Chambers
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7:O0
7:30
7:50
8:35
9:05
9:25
9:35
Review Zoning Matters
Animal Shelter Renovation
Downtown Strategy Committee Report
Scott-Six Industrial Park and Financial Assistance
DARE Program Review
Deer Management Committee
Butterfly Garden
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5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. JOINT MEETING WITH LIBRARY BOARD Room A, Public Library
Parcel 64-1A
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p,m. SPECIAL COUNCIL WORK SESSION
Police Policies and Procedures
Review Draft PCRB
Council Chambers
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. JOINT MEETING WITH BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Plum Grove Room,
AND BOARD OF EDUCATION Westfield Inn
7:00 p.m. REGULAR COUNCIL WORK SESSION Council Chambers
FY98 Community Development Block Grant & HOME Budget Proposal
Multi-family Residential Parking Requirements and Impact Fees
Human Rights Ordinance Amendments
Water Project/Telephonic Meter Reading
Iowa River Power Dam Renovation
Waste Pickup - 4-Plexes
Animal Control Ordinance
Graffiti (10)
Cemetery
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