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MEMORANDUM
Date: October 6, 1998
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Marian K. Karr, City Clerk
Re: Council Work Session - Joint Meeting, September 29, 1998 - 6:30 PM
City Council: Champion, Kubby, Lehman, Norton, O'Donnell, Thornberry, Vanderhoef
UI Student
Senate Facilitators: Zak, Wolseth, Villaneuva, Rudd, Chiesa, Pettinger, Shuman, Murphy
Tape: 98-108, Side 1.
Introductions 98-108 S1
City of Iowa City Mayor Lehman welcomed University student participants and emphasized that
University of Iowa Students are members of the Iowa City community.
University of Iowa Student Senate President White welcomed the City of Iowa City City Council
members. White explained the University student group facilitators will facilitate group/table
discussions about issues related to both the University and City of Iowa City.
University of Iowa students and City Council Members held group focus discussions about safe
travel, lighting and police/public safety roles and attitudes. The discussion groups reported the
following:
GROUP CHARTS:
Table 1 - Lana Zak
Walking beats - campus security
Insufficient volunteers Safewalk
Expand Safewalk hours. Weekends and later hours
Saferide - Bus for drunks
Cambus after midnight
Police statistics. ICPD/Campus Security
Saferide off campus
Saferide/Safewalk
Table 2 - John Wolseth
Safewalk expansion
Free phones on campus
Expand "Blue light" off campus
Joint bus venture - UI/City
i.e. downtown shuttle
expand weekend hours
Joint Meeting
September 29, 1998
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Table 3 - Jess Villanueva
Later night bus service
Consistent bike registration rules between City and University
Availability of campus phone outside of academic buildings, well lit areas
Table 4 - Abby Rudd
Bike path on east side of river
Ped lighting from Church to Park Road on Dubuque
Table 5 - Tom Chiesa
Lighting in the Broadway areas
Lighting going south on Dubuque Street towards Mayflower
Lighting in City Park across from Mayflower
Lights in ped mall
Issue of street lights not existing
Light back of sidewalks for ped.
[No Table 6]
Table 7 - Sarah Pettinger
Police intervention-parties. Police can help if getting out of control
PERCEPTION
Public safety doesn't carry weapons. Tragedy needed to change?
Police Citizens Review Board. Confidential complaint or ICPD citizen complaint
Public safety-formal complaint forms, too.
IC does have gang problem. Police and citizens responded.
Bicycles can be on Univ. sidewalk but not on City and causes problems.
Skateboarders
Table 8-Scott Shuman
Views of Public safety Not real cops
Do not know range of capabilities
May not see
Views of PD
The "enemy"
Most interactions are extremes (get helped or being ticketed)
Ways to change
Personalize it
Programs in residence halls
Put programs in center of rights
Table 9-Shuan Murphy
Attitude/Relationship between students and PD's
PD's report good intentions majority of time
However, general student attitude is bad reflecting lack of personal contact
Promoting better attitude presents problems, i.e. notification of police inside to bars
Many of the problems are closely related to alcohol
Influence enforcement has on drinking related problems.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m. clerk\mins\o929ws.doc