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ITEM 2. MAYOR'S PROCLAMATIONS
a. NationaIVolunteer Week
Lehman: (reads proclamation)
Karr: Here to accept the proclamation is Rene Paine, member of the Volunteer
Administrators Network. (applause)
Paine: On behalf of Volunteer Administrators Network and the volunteers in
Iowa City and this community, I'm happy to accept this proclamation.
Volunteers are truly model citizens and I urge you, especially this week, to
thank the volunteers in your life.
Lehman: This community would be in big trouble without volunteers. This is the
greatest community for volunteers anywhere.
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ITEM 2. MAYOR'S PROCLAMATIONS
b. Arbor Day
Lehman: (reads proclamation)
Karr: Here to accept is City Forester, Terry Robinson. (applause)
Robinson: To be redundant, I said last year on behalf of the trees, thank you, so I'll
say that again. What an appropriate week that we're having. We're
getting the rain we need, and the trees are really going to bust out and look
great in the next few days, so enjoy them while you can. Thank you.
(applause)
Champion: Thank you.
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ITEM 2. MAYOR'S PROCLAMATIONS
c. Arson Awareness Week
Lehman: (reads proclamation)
Karr: Here to accept the proclamation is Fire Lt. Brian Platz. (applause)
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ITEM 2. MAYOR'S PROCLAMATIONS
d. Herky on Parade
Lehman: (reads proclamation)
Karr: Here to accept is Josh Schamberger, Convention and Visitors Bureau
Director, and Rick Klatt, Associate Director External Affairs, University
oflowaAthletic Department. (applause)
Schamberger: We want to say thank you, Mayor and Council, Steve and Dale. We want
to especially thank Marcia Klingaman with the City of Iowa City who has
been instrumental in planning Herky on Parade, deserves much more the
credit than Rick and I. She has taken on the task of communicating and
coordinating all seventy-five of those artists, which has been quite the
undertaking. So, thanks Marcia and the City of Iowa City.
Klatt: I would only want to add that...echo Ernie's commentary about this
community being in deep need of volunteers. This is another one of those
events that without the volunteer support that we've received from all the
communities, and the University, and artists, etc., etc., it wouldn't have
happened, and we had a lot of work ahead of us but it all looks good, and
thank you for your support.
Lehman: Thank you. In the interest of time, I'll not do my comments about Herky
on Parade, which has got to be the greatest project that we've ever done in
this entire community. (laughter) It's just cool.
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ITEM 3. OUTSTANDING STUDENT CITIZENSHIP AWARDS - LEMME
ELEMENTARY
Lehman: Tonight we have some students from Lemme. If they would come
forward, please. I promised I wouldn't bite. I never have. Okay. What
we'd like you to do is if you would read your name, and then why you
were nominated.
Polsley: Okay. Good evening, everyone. My name is Noelle Polsley and I go to
Lemme School. I am very honored to receive this award. As a citizen I
am a friend to everyone and respect my parents, teachers, others, and my
friends. One way that I show my leadership is by being a patrol captain.
As a patrol captain it is my responsibility to call the other patrol members
to remind them that they have patrol. It is also my responsibility to be on
time. Another way to show my leadership is being in student council and
helping with the student store. One of the after-school activities that I am
in is playing viola in the Eastside Advanced Omhestra. I have been
playing the viola for a year. I am second chair. I have also been playing
the piano since kindergarten and soccer since forth. I am very pleased to
accept this award. I will remember this day forever. Again, thank you.
(applause)
Gier: Good evening, everyone. My name is Nathaniel Gier and I go to Lemme
Elementary. First offI would like to thank the City Council and Mayor
Lehman for presenting me with this award. I would also like to thank a
few of the people who have helped me get to this point. My family, my
teachers, coaches, and instructors, and my classmates. One of my goals is
to help others and these are some of the opportunities I've had. In school I
am a safety patrol captain, and I am president of our school's student
council. I also want to develop relationships within the community. I
play trombone in the Eastside Elementary Band. I take the city bus every
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to math class, and I play almost every
sport available, with baseball being my favorite. I also participate in my
chumh youth group. Being caring, responsible, and active are just a few
ways to be a good citizen. Being a good friend will help you as well, but
being respectful and loving are by far the most important qualities.
Thanks again. (applause)
Lehman: This is one of our favorite times in Council meetings. You know, we
don't get to do it in the summer because there's no school, but I know you
folks are very proud of this. We're very proud to give them to you, but the
really proud folks are your parents and especially your grandparents. I
don't know if the grandparents are here, but believe me, they're proud.
I'm going to read what one of these says, and then I'll present them to
you. "For outstanding qualities of leadership within Lemme Elementary,
as well as the community, and for sense of responsibility and helpfulness
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to others, we recognize these outstanding student citizens. Your
community is proud of you. Presented by the Iowa City City Council."
Thank you very much. (applause)
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ITEM 4. SPECIAL PRESENTATION
a. Trees Please Grant- MidAmerican
Phelps: Good evening. My name is Brian Phelps. I'm the Engineering Manager
here for MidAmerican Energy in Iowa City. I just want to take one
second to digress here for a second, and wanted to thank the Mayor and
Councilman Elliott for attending our outage workshop a few weeks ago.
Hopefully you found that beneficial to see the technology and tools that
MidAmerican has for fighting storms. Probably walking into it tonight
because Mother Nature's kind of firing things up, but just wanted to
remind our audience at home that outage calls are important. We take
them seriously and that, I won't repeat the number here but the outage
number is in the phone book. Use it. It really helps us determine the best
action when restoring power. So with that, I guess the fun part of my
presentation tonight is I guess it's appropriate. We had an Arbor Day
announcement earlier that the City and the community recognizes the
importance of trees, and before I go too far, I did want to give some credit
to Terry Robinson. I haven't met Terry before. He's worked through our
staff, but Terry had submitted the paperwork for a Trees Please Grant this
year, and I guess I'm here to award that grant tonight, and along with that,
just an overall sense, MidAmerican is helping out 87 communities, or
community organizations this year, to a tune of about $226,000, and I
think everybody recognizes the benefits of the trees. Not only to beautify
the neighborhood but also for energy efficiency for the shading and the
wind breaks in the winter. So, I guess with that, Mr. Mayor, I have a big
check here for you, in the amount of $20,000. I don't know, if Terry
wants to come up too, we can get a picture together, because he deserves
some credit too.
Lehman: Yeah, Terry come on up. That's a good thing it's going to the City. It
wouldn't fit in my bank bag. (laughter) Yes. Thank you very much.
Terry, you applied for it. You just take care of it. (applause)
Champion: Steve? Ho~v do we use that money?
Atkins: Terry? Would you tell them about the...
Champion: How will we use that money? The public might want to know how we use
that money.
Robinson: Oh, thank you, I'm sorry. That's very appropriate. We plant trees.
(laughter) The trees will be planted throughout various areas of town.
What this will help us do this year is increase our planting quite a bit, to
say the least. Typically the trees we plant are around $200 to $225 a tree,
so you can do the math there as far as that helps. We probably will not do
all of them this spring. We will do some of them this spring -- a portion of
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them, and then we'll do some more in the fall. We can spread it out that
way a little bit, and then we find more locations, and also one of the things
we try to do - immediately upon removing a tree, if the tree has to be
removed, is if we have any capability whatsoever, to get one right back in
to that spot, we try to do that too. So that is one of the ways that we use it
and it works out very well and we sure appreciate it.
Champion: Good, thank you.
Lehman: Thank you.
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ITEM 5. CONSIDER ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS
PRESENTED OR AMENDED.
Champion: Move adoption.
Elliott: Second.
Lehman: Moved by Champion; seconded by Elliott. Discussion?
Vanderhoefi Okay, we need to defer g. 1).
Lehman: Indefinitely?
Vanderhoefi Indefinitely, uh-huh.
O'Donnell: Second.
Lehman: Okay. We have a motion and a second to defer. I don't think we need
that but.., any other discussion?
Vanderhoefi And then we have a revised...
Lehman: It's been revised.
Vanderhoef: Okay.
Lehman: Yeah. Okay, roll call on the Consent Calendar with item g. 1) being
deferred indefinitely. Motion carries.
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ITEM 6. COMMUNITY COMMENT (ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA)
Lehman: This is a time reserved on the agenda for folks to address the Council on
items that do not otherwise appear on the agenda. If you would like to
address the Council, give your name, address, and limit your comments to
five minutes or less.
Paine: Hello. This will be the last time I address the Council as Director...
Lehman: Rene, give your name first.
Paine: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Rene Paine. This will be the last time I address the
Council as the Director of Public Access Television. I would like to say
that I've enjoyed working with you, and appreciate the support that you've
given to Public Access Television during my tenure as Director, and I
would like to introduce you to Josh Goding, the new Director of Public
Access Television, beginning May lst. I hope your support for PATV and
for Josh will continue. Thank you.
Champion: Welcome, Josh.
Lehman: Welcome, Josh. Thank you.
Goding: I'll just say I'm Josh Goding and I look forward to working with all of
you, so thanks.
O'Donnell: Thanks.
Bailey: Rene, thanks for all your hard work.
Lehman: Good luck to you. Any other public comments?
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ITEM 8. CONSIDER A MOTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR
MAY 4, 2004 REGARDING IOWA CITY'S FY05 ANNUAL
ACTION PLAN, THAT IS A SUB-PART OF IOWA CITY'S 2001-
2006 CONSOLIDATED PLAN (A.K.A. CITY STEPS) AS
AMENDED
Wilbum: Mr. Mayor, on this next item...involves opening the Annual Action Plan
related to CDBG and Home Funding. I will be abstaining and not
participating in the setting of the Public Hearing due to that conflict of
interest.
Lehman: Very good, thank you.
Vanderhoef: Move to set the Public Hearing.
Lehman: Wait....I had to wait for....(reads Item 8).
Vanderhoefi Move to set the Public Hearing.
Bailey: Second.
Lehman: Moved by Vanderhoef; seconded by Bailey. Discussion?
Champion: Was it changed from the 4th to the 2nd? You said the 2nd.
Lehman: Did I say the 2nd.9
O'Donnell: Yeah.
Lehman: I'm sorry. It's the 4th. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries.
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ITEM 9. AMENDING TITLE 3 "CITY FINANCES, TAXATION & FEES,"
CHAPTER 4 "SCHEDULE OF FEES, RATES, CHARGES, BONDS,
FINES AND PENALTIES" OF THE CITY CODE, TO DECREASE
WATER SERVICE CHARGES AND FEES IN IOWA CITY, IOWA
Lehman: Public Hearing is open. Public Hearing is closed.
Wilburn: Move first consideration and ordinance.
O'Donnell: Second.
Lehman: Moved by Wilburn; seconded by O'Donnell. Discussion?
Vanderhoef: I thought we'd have cheers in the audience when we did that.
Champion: It's only if we were raising them would they be here.
Lehman: You know, for those folks who weren't here, I think 93, was it, Steve, we
decided to raise the cash up front to help pay for the water plant so we
didn't pay so much in interest charges, and we have abominable rates.
Now we have reduced them twice, and actually we'll start reaping perhaps
the rewards of what hopefully was a good decision.
Atkins: Right, yes.
Lehman: Other discussion? Roll call. Motion carries.
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ITEM 17. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 10 OF THE
CITY CODE, ENTITLED "USE OF PUBLIC WAYS AND
PROPERTY," TO CREATE A UNIFORM PERMITTING
PROCESS, TO ESTABLISH REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
FARMERS MARKET, TO PROVIDE FOR THE
NONCOMMERCIAL PLACEMENT OF OBJECTS IN CITY
PLAZA ON A TEMPORARY BASIS, TO MODIFY THE
PROVISION ON RESIDENTIAL PICKETING, TO CLARIFY THE
CURRENT PROVISIONS REGULATING MOBILE VENDORS
AND AMBULATORY VENDORS, TO CODIFY SPECIFIC
ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AFFECTING SAID VENDORS, AND
TO MAKE ADDITIONAL NONSUBSTANTIVE CHANGES
(SECOND CONSIDERATION)
Bailey: Move second consideration.
Wilbum: Second.
Lehman: Moved by Bailey; seconded by Wilbum. Discussion?
Elliott: Before we vote on this I just want to point out and express my
appreciation, the fact that these are so vital, of such vital concern to so
many people, and Eleanor Dilkes and her legal staff worked on this, and
reworked on this as we changed our minds, and we provided more input,
and to Regenia Bailey for the heavy lifting she did for the Council on this,
and especially the public. Caroline Dieterle and others provided things
that were very important. Even when they disagreed they did so in a
productive manner, and I was just very pleased with all that went on in
putting this together.
O'Donnell: Well said.
Lehman: Thank you, Bob. Other discussion? Roll call. Motion carries.
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ITEM 21. ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANCIES
Lehman: (reads vacancies) A great opportunity to volunteer and be part of City
government.
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ITEM 23. CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION
Elliott: Nothing, sir.
Lehman: Connie? Mike?
O'Donnell: Nothing.
Lehman: Dee?
Vanderhoefi Couple of things - the first one was, is them any interest on the part of
Council for looking into the possibility of a Jake break ordinance for the
City?
Lehman: I think we have to at some point in time.
Vanderhoefi I think so too. The noise complaints are starting to increase, and certainly
they are noisy. Thank you.
Atkins: We will draft something for you.
Vanderhoef: And, secondly, yesterday I went to the Board of Supervisors work meeting
where they were discussing the new Readiness Center for the National
Guard that will be on 25 acres of land that the County owns, out on
Melrose Avenue, west of 218 south. This is quite a large project, and I
thought perhaps it would be well to let people know what kind of impact
this will have on the City of Iowa City. Not only will the County take
over the present armory on south Capitol Street, and then they will trade it
for the land out on Melrose. This is a $16 million project. Of that, about
$3 million of it is state money. That has already been appropriated. They
are now in the competition for the remainder of that money from the
federal government, and they're very hopeful on it. Deputy Commander
Zirkelbach was here to work with Stanley Consulting and also with the
Colonel Ayers who is doing the local engineering and construction
management. For Iowa City, this can mean many new jobs. Right now
they have over 450 guardsmen who work out of this armory at the present
time. Of those they have now increased well over 40 full time employees
at the unit. They will be bringing in other units after the new readiness
center has been completed. So not only will we have $16 million worth of
construction project going on, we will be increasing the payroll in our
area, which is a huge, huge amount for the City of Iowa City, and I
applaud them for their project, and hope it goes well, and we'll be looking
forward to getting the money appropriated from the federal defense bill.
Lehman: Thank you. Ross?
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Wilburn: I just have to reemphasize the value that volunteers make to our
community ~vith our human services. The thousands of hours of work that
is done, to the hospitals, to even the informal volunteer work that someone
will do at a church or in their own neighborhood. The work that you do,
the bonds that you create, providing connections to young people, with
adults in our community, just goes a long way and provides just a nice
thread of goodwill throughout the community so I'll be speaking at
Goodwill's volunteer banquet on Monday out at the Holiday Inn in
Coralville, so I look forward to doing that.
Bailey: Ijust want to express my appreciation to the Horace Mann volunteers who
put on the Horace Mann Carnival on Saturday. They did a ~'eat job.
Young people and older people, and it was a lot of fun, and I hope that it
was a success raising funds for the school.
Lehman: Thank you, Regenia. Ross, it probably isn't too early to remind people of
the Crisis Center Breakfast which will occur on May 9th. Is that correct?
Wilburn: On Mother's Day, feel free to take mom out.
Lehman: Mother's Day, 9th, and O'Donnell is going to learn how to cook pancakes
for me (laughter). Start serving at 8:00, is that right?
Wilbum: That's correct. St Wenceslas' at Dodge and Davenport, two kinds of
pancakes.
Lehman: Right, great, great time.
O'Dormell: Sounds like a challenge, Ernie, and I welcome it.
Elliott: Those people who will be there will find that the juice and milk will be
served extraordinarily well. (laughter) I won't say.
Lehman: Tonight at 6:00 we had 15 members of the 109th return to Iowa City. I
believe we had three weeks ago there ~vere like 22 other folks that...the
armory was packed, standing room only, and of all the things that I've had
the privilege of doing as Mayor, none has been as memorable as
welcoming these folks home, and it was a very, very emotional
experience. It's so great to have those folks home. Steve?
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ITEM 24. REPORT ON ITEMS FROM CITY STAFF
Atkins: To remind you tomorrow, you have your joint meeting at 4:00, and that I
have no other appurtenances this evening. (laughter)
Lehman: Eleanor? Marian? Do we have a motion to adjourn?
O'Donnell: Move to adjourn.
Bailey: Second.
Lehman: Motion and a second. All in favor? Motion carries. We are adjourned.
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