HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999-04-19 TranscriptionApril 19, 1999 Council Work Session Page 1
April 19, 1999 Council Work Session 6:50 PM
Council: Lehman, Champion, Kubby, Norton, O'Donnell, Vanderhoef
(Thomberry Absent)
Staff: Atkins, Dilkes, Schmadeke, Franklin, Helling, Fosse, Karr, Yapp, Schoenfelder,
Mollenhauer, Yucuis, Scott Neumann
Tapes: 99-43, Side 2, 99-46, All; 99-47 All
A complete transcription is available in the City Clerk's office.
Review Planning & Zoning 99-43 S2
a. Consider a motion setting a public hearing for May 4 on an ordinance amending
City Code Section 14-6, "Zoning Chapter," concerning definitions and parking
requirements for carryout, delivery, and drive-through restaurants.
Franklin/This is for reducing the requirements for dtive-through and carryout restaurants,
and this is something that' s been on the pending like a 100 years and we finally
got to it.
Consider a motion setting a public hearing for May 4 on an ordinance amending
the Planned Development Housing Overlay (OPDH-12) plan for Silvercrest, a
20.87-acre 5-lot residential subdivision including 68 assisted living units, 120
independent living units, a 40-bed medical rehabilitation facility and a 900
square foot medical office building, located at the southeast quadrant of Scott
Boulevard and American Legion Road.
Franklin/Set public hearing for May 4. Now the Silvercrest Developers, Dial Company,
you had a letter in your packet that requested that the first reading of the
ordinance be on the same night as the public heating. And I just would like to
know, obviously you can always defer that first consideration. Ifthat's OK with
you that we put it on that way when we set (can't hear).
Kubby/Are they also asking for 2nd and 3rd to be collapsed?
Franklin/They will ask for that yes because their trying, you know they got through the
whole thing, and then they decided to make some changes and have to go back
through.
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Lehman/Are these substantial changes, obviously not, so if we've already approved this
one time, is that correct?
Franklin/That's right.
Lehman/Now we're really approving the changes.
Franklin/What they did is they redesigned one building and one building they made
smaller.
Norton/Did they change any access off of Scott? I thought there was a change.
Franklin/There's one less isn't there? One less access than there was in the previous
approval because there was a, it was a loading area fight Larry? Yea, there were a
loading area that accessed off of Scott Boulevard and that is gone from this. Now
what it does do is it leaves a piece of ground that is potentially developable in the
future. Well when you look at that you can see it. If I put in on for public
heating and first consideration you can always decide if you've got questions or
problems with it, just do not do that first consideration.
Kubby/I have trouble with double collapsing them.
Franklin/Oh, I know, I know.
Norton/Well they've already asked for that in so many words haven't they for (can't
hear).
Franklin/Yes they have, they've asked for a double collapse and I think.
Kubby/So has Scott and Washington.
Franklin/Right, the Mazzotta project.
Kubby/I don't mind doing one of them.
Franklin/We've told them that.
Kubby/But I don't want to do both of them.
Franklin/We've told them that.
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Kubby/So, I guess my preference if we end up doing just one is to collapse the 2nd and
3rd versus the public hearing and the first.
Franklin/OK. Well I'll go ahead and put that on and then you all can decide at that
meeting.
Lehman/OK.
Public hearing on a resolution adopting and incorporating the Northeast District
Plan into the Iowa City Comprehensive Plan (continued from March 30 and
April 6).
Franklin/The Noaheast District Plan is Item c public hearing, again I guess it would be
useful to us so that we can let people know what' s going on with this, what your
intentions are in terms of continuing the public hearing, are you going to continue
it council meeting to council meeting, or continue it from this meeting on the 20th
to something, May 18 is about a month which is what you indicated, some of you
indicated to the home builders was a reasonable period of time to expect their
comments back.
Kubby/Aren't we having the transit public heating that night and there' s one other kind
of big?
Franklin/On the 18th?
Kubby/Yea.
Franklin/Oh.
Kubby/And there's one other thing on the 18th that I would rather not have all those big
things.
Franklin/Sure.
Kubby/I can't remember what.
Atkins/The library board has asked for meeting on the 17th.
Kubby/Oh the library, maybe I'm thinking of the library.
Atkins/We haven't discussed that one yet.
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Norton/My question is when are we going to have the second talk about the Noaheast
Plan among ourselves in light of what we've heard.
Franklin/The 18th your going to have the PIN grants.
Vanderhoef/Well some of us haven't had an update yet on what happened at the meeting
with the home builders and the (can't hear).
Lehman/Are we going to hear about that tomorrow night, do you know Karin?
Franklin/From them?
Lehman/Yea, do you know?
Franklin/I don't think so.
Kubby/So until we see the specific language that their interested in changing it's hard to
know how much time, I mean it may be.
Norton/A month.
Kubby/You know it might be 50 things, it might be two things. And there might be other
community input.
Franklin/Or it might be rousing endorsement.
Norton/Well have they been.
Kubby/Yea, I'm sorry, I forgot that (can't hear). I did I forgot that option.
Norton/
Franklin/Just, it's in the realm of possibility.
Vanderhoef/Can we put that phrase into the minutes?
Norton/They've got to put something in writing.
O'Donnell/We asked them to bring us a list (can't hear).
Norton/When are we going to get that? We need time to talk then.
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Vanderhoef/Yes, I want a work session.
Norton/Right.
Franklin/There's a letter to them.
Atkins/It should be in your packet.
Kubby/Yea, that one's in there.
Lehman/That' s from us to them, but nothing from them.
Atkins/No, it hasn't come in yet.
Lehman/No.
Franklin/My understanding is that they are going to send it to their national association
for some comments from them.
Lehman/What?
Franklin/To get some expertise from their national association.
Lehman/Their going to send the Northeast Plan to their national association?
Franklin/Well yea, or representatives of, but they thought they could have it back and
have comments back to you in a month is what was the understanding. I think
that understand that time frame.
Kubby/Ifthat's the time flame that we're not going to get comments from them until
after then, there's no sense in us in having this on the next council meeting to just
defer it again, so maybe we should do a month or month and a half. I don't want
to want to do a month and a half it's getting long.
Norton/You mean we defer it until middle of June then.
Lehman/Well I don't have, we have transit hearing the same night, I don't kd~ow what to
expect with transit hearing.
Norton/Could be big though.
Franklin/Your next meeting after the 18th would be June 15.
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Kubby/That's getting so far out.
Lel'unan/That's two months from now, it's too long.
O'Donnell/I think we should do it.
Champion/
O'Donnell/Go to June 15.
Norton/We ought to set a date for final so people can.
Lehman/Well the problem is.
Vanderhoef/Then if we need a special meeting for us to talk about it we could do it at a
work session, but we're skipping one in the middle there.
Norton/That's tight.
Vanderhoef/So if we need a work session we might be able to poke one work session in
there.
Lehman/Except that I think some of the things we want to hear we're not going to hear
until the June meeting. So we're not going to be able to have that public heating
and close it I don't think.
Norton/I thought they were going to submit something by May 18.
Lehman/Well if they give it to us, I don't know who they're going to give it to.
Franklin/I would assume they would submit it to the council, but exactly when is
unclear. I guess what I would recommend is that you defer it or continue it to the
18th of May, which allows them some time and they may get it in before then,
who knows. But you also want to have, you want to have an opportunity for the
council to talk about this with specifics. And I would like an opportunity to talk
with the council about some of the responses to some of the comments and we've
also indicated that we would notify the people who had been part of this whole
process that what was going on, and they need some time too if they choose to
take it, I don't know.
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Lehman/Well I think that' s fine, but I do think that after we have the next public hearing
we need to be able to sit down amongst ourselves and discuss what we've heard.
Champion/What if we need their comments by May 15, was that a month from your
meeting?
Franklin/The 12th.
Champion/So we need their comments by May 15 or May 20 so we can have time too.
Norton/But there' s a gap because we don't have a meeting the 1st of June or thereabouts.
I, what' s the matter with getting their comments within two weeks from May,
that' s May what.
O'Donnell/Cause they said it's going to take 30 days to get it in.
Norton/They've already have two weeks.
O'Donnell/I think we've.
Lehman/If we get their comments by the 18th of May I think if we receive them at that
meeting I would think sometime between then and the meeting in June we should
be able to get together with Karin and we can't do that.
Kubby/
Norton/It could be tough because some of us are planning escapes.
Karr/I think what's already shaping up, again it's totally your call but is that in those
times you've scheduled around people are scheduling absences.
Lehman/Right. Right.
Champion/But we could meet two hours early at that work session and get that
discussion out of the way.
Norton/Why couldn't we ask them to get their comments to us unless, a week earlier
than May 187
Vanderhoef/Well that' s not going to satisfy the public if we don't have it presented in a
public forum where everybody hears what they are asking.
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Norton/That's right, particularly the P & Z may want to hear it too.
Vanderhoef/That's exactly right so.
Norton/Oh boy.
Vanderhoef/For us to have it ahead of time would be nice for us to have time to think
about it but it's still is going to have to be presented at a public hearing before
everyone.
Franklin/Well I mean the 18th you're not going to end it there anywhere.
O'Donnell/No.
Lehman/We'll have it the 18th, receive their comment and then try to work out
something among ourselves and P & Z whatever, we'll make that decision after
the 18th. All tight, we'll continue to May 18 tomorrow night.
Franklin/OK.
d. Public hearing on an ordinance amending City Code subsections 14-5H, Site
Plan Review, and 14-65, Performance Standards, regarding lighting standards.
Franklin/The next item is public heating on the lighting standards, and John Yapp is here
to present this and.
Lehman/Is he really the house doctor?
Franklin/Pardon me?
Lehman/Is he really the house doctor?
John Yapp/I really am the house doctor.
Lehman/Are you really?
Yapp/I am.
Lehman/For heaven sakes.
Yapp/I'll be the house doctor.
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Lehman/Is that right, what are your relations?
Yapp/Oh it's 3rd or 4th cousin.
woman/Oh you could marry them.
Yapp/I could marry them.
woman/Thank you very much.
Yapp/This is in Arkansas. One thing I just wanted to make clear before we start, what is
being recommended would not apply to City High. I've had a lot of phone calls
about that.
Lehman/We know that.
Yapp/And this would not apply to public zone.
Kubby/Unless we made an an~endment.
Yapp/And this would not apply to public zones.
Lehman/Can't do it anyway.
Vanderhoef/
Yapp/This started out with wanting to deal with some commercial and industrial level
lighting that is, that is lighting has improved to such an extent it was starting to
become a nuisance. Especially as commercial areas are being mixed in closer to
residential areas. And what these standards are meant to do is to keep the lights
from being a nuisance to the residential area. Their not meant to limit the amount
of light within the property itself. Within the property itself they can still be as
bright as they want, as long as they can do that without being a nuisance to their
neighbors. And on the first page of the February 26 memo there's a 1-4 and these
are the four main points ofwhat's being proposed. Marian could you hit the
lights and turn on the indirect lights. Those right there. (Refers to overhead) This
fight in here this is about one foot candle. This is what is being recommended as
the maximum at the property line. As you can see it's not pitch dark, it's still
bright enough where you can see someone coming down the block for security
purposes but it's not so bright that it's obnoxious. We don't feel it's a nuisance.
Again within the property itself you can be as bright as you want as long as your
not higher than this level at the property line. Also this, were recommending that
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light fixtures be shielded, this is an example of shielded and downcast light. If it
was like this this causes some glare to you.
Kubby/I didn't do it.
Yapp/This would not be permitted, it's shining, if your the residential area your all
sitting there and this is the commercial property or industrial or multifamily, the
same exact bulb, same brightness of light within a shielded light fixtures becomes
much less of a nuisance, and that is what we mean by a shielded light fixture.
You can turn the lights back on, thanks Marian. Third, we're proposing a height
limit on the poles that they be mounted no higher than 25 feet high in a residential
zone or within 300 feet of a residential zone, elsewhere they can be mounted at 35
feet high. The Walden Square lights at Mormon Trek Blvd. those are 24 feet, so
that's a good example of the height we're talking about, and that's a pretty
successful commercial area.
Vanderhoef/
Yapp/Walden Square off of Mormon Trek, Jimmy' s Bistro out there.
Norton/(can't hear) at Winebrelmer, can you tell me?
Yapp/What's that?
Norton/Winebrenner, do you know how high that is?
Yapp/I don't know.
O'Donnell/Do you know what it is for Walgreens?
Yapp/25 feet was the maximum, the new Walgreens, yea 25 feet.
Vanderhoef/OK when you move up to the 35 foot height you still are going to have a
property line (can't hear).
Yapp/Across from residential zones or neighborhood commercial zones.
Vanderhoef/Only on residential, so it's commercial across the street, and you move it up
to 35.
Yapp/If you're across froin a commercial you would not have that requirement at the
property line no. And the feeling is if it's a commercial next to another
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commercial the lights from their from both their properties would combine the
property line.
Kubby/What do we do, we have a lot of commercial areas that aren't neighborhood but
have a residential uses on top.
Yapp/This would apply to residential areas, neighborhood-commercial areas, and office
commercial.
Norton/Those are the ones that can have (can't hear).
Yapp/And those are the ones that for the majority of those are the ones that have
residential, there are some I think commercial's also out in community
commercial, or residential's allowed in community commercial area but because
that scene is a very automobile oriented use, and also the downtown zones you
would not have this requirement because there's a lot more activity a lot more
variety. And it's not, those aren't residential in character. And fourth, we would
require a lighting plan be submitted with the site plan for larger developments and
we define that here as if they have 18 or more parking spaces.
Lehman/Now, let me ask you, what sort of expertise does it take on the part of the
builder or developer to comply with the plan as we are suggesting?
Yapp/Not very much I don't think.
Lehman/It's simple.
Yapp/It's pretty simple.
Lehman/It seems simple.
Yapp/
And for the most all developments where you hire a contractor to build which is
anything unless your building your own addition onto your home or something
like that, higher lighting technicians and deal with the electricians to deal with
that anyway. Which is the reason we recommended and not require a maximum
average level of light within the property itself requiring light shields and
requiting a pole height are much easier for enforcement staff to deal with also.
Much easier to enforce.
Kubby/So the shields have to be put also on lights that aren't on a pole, that are let's say
on a side of building?
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Yapp/Yes, wall mounted, yes. The only time, and it's written into the code for
ornamental light fixtures like on the Pentacrest or in the College Green Park or
even the new lights downtown, we allow wood refractors within those lights if
their above the equivalent of 150 watt bulb.
Vanderhoef/Which is what we did in College Green?
Yapp/Right, yea.
Kubby/So, I think about HyVee on First Avenue, their at one foot candle at their
property line.
Yapp/Right.
Kubby/So their their OK, and maybe it's because some (can't hear).
Yapp/Now the height those are still 38 feet high.
Kubby/And a lot of their lights are not shielded, even though like there's a bank of
fluorescent bulbs on the noah side.
Yapp/Right.
Kubby/They are recessed but the glare is incredible and do you feel that even those
shielded would reduce that glare to an acceptable level?
Yapp/Yes. And now the one thing you're not going to get away from is this example
again. If this is your commercial area, you'll be able to see that there's light here
and there will be some reflection off of the materials on the building, off of the
parking lot, off of the hoods of cars, and I don't see how we're going to get
around that. But by having them shield that takes care of a lot of the problem. If
to really reduce the level of light on the interior of the site you would need to
adopt a maximum level of light for the interior of the site. We're not
recommending that at this time but that' s what you would need to do. There are a
few cities that do do that typically in the Southwest in stargazing areas, New
Mexico and Arizona.
Kubby/I have a question about the outdoor rec. facilities that's on page 3 of the
ordinance, point #3. So that means that all recreational facilities that are not
owned by any governmental jurisdiction need a special exemption?
Yapp/Yes.
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Kubby/To speak more about that.
Yapp/Yes.
Kubby/So if it says that there exempt from specific lighting standards provided the
Board of Adjustment approves the lighting plan as part of the special exception
approval.
Yapp/Right.
Kubby/So does that mean, what will the Board of Adjustment use, will they use this
ordinance as their guidelines?
Yapp/They'll use these, they'll use these standards as a guideline. Yes. Not as, the main
thing there is the pole height with a, if it's a private softball field like at the.
Kubby/They're going to be higher.
Yapp/They're going to be higher and like at the Moose, the new Moose lodge, I think
they have a softball field.
Kubby/But they might look at shielding and direction directional lighting, they might
even look at landscaping issues. Although for 35 feet that's (can't hear).
Yapp/They may and we would recommend that in our reports to the board but these
guidelines would be used as a starting point I think. But the Board of Adjustment
would need to feel comfortable enough to approve that lighting plan.
Kubby/In some of the, we got, this is kind of a question for council (can't hear). We got
a letter.
Yapp/Oh from Ron Vogel, yea.
Kubby/Yea, and one of the things he said was, oh here it is, he says, why the hesitation
to regulate lighting on public grounds, light is light, it's not any less annoying if it
comes from public grounds and.
Norton/(can't hear).
Yapp/I agreed with him there.
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Kubby/It makes a lot of sense.
Yapp/And I told him I agreed with him, light is light. But it's not that we're choosing
not to regulate light on public grounds, it's that we don't regulate any zoning
requirements on public grounds and he understood that.
Kubby/and the immediate (can't hear) is that we've asked Plmming & Zoning to look at
not just lighting as a nuisance from public entities including us but other noise and
whatever other kinds of nuisances public entities may be to the public.
Yapp/There's a lot.
Norton/That is on the work plan isn't it?
Kubby/It is.
Norton/To look at zoning applied to public body's and (can't hear).
Kubby/So I mean one of the things we could do is move it up or what do people think
about this issue of grandparenting in current commercial areas?
Champion/I don't think we can really do that, I mean that would be a tremendous
expense.
Kubby/To not grandparent it in.
Norton/(can't hear).
Champion/I mean (can't hear).
Lehman/Yea.
O'Donnell/(can't hear).
Champion/Right, that's what I mean.
Lehman/Unless they remodel or whatever then.
Yapp/Yea, under these they, if they redeveloped a redeveloping business would need to
comply with these standards or a new business.
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Vanderhoef/How about the same business but just being sold, new ownership but same
business?
Yapp/I don't believe that would trigger these new requirements.
Champion/But any replacement of light fixtures I think would have to be (can't hear).
Lehman/Well I think that that again, that's governed by whether or not your replacing
one broken fixture or replacing them all, I'm sure there are standards on that, that
would be replacement of a system which would require components.
Norton/So the people at City High on Dunlap Court just suffer then?
Yapp/Well I encouraged Mr. Vogel to work with the school board on they have yea, and
I believe they are doing a study.
Champion/They are looking at that (can't hear).
Kubby/They are and really I mean I know that we kind of feel like we don't have any
responsibility but there was $10,000 of city money in there and that we could be a
resource maybe for the school district cause their not used to dealing with these
kinds of issues with neighborhoods and we are and so I would like to suggest on
that front that we offer some assistance and maybe some ideas for the school
district because it is affecting some.
Vanderhoef/Do you have an idea that you'd like to offer?
Norton/Shield it, try some kind of shielding, I can't imagine their not (can't hear).
Vanderhoef/When we did the College Green Park as I recall there was a shield that was
considered that was on the back side, it was on the pole, not onto the light fixture
itself.
Yapp/I couldn't tell you.
Kubby/That (can't hear) but that' s not what the lights are
Yapp/I think that' s more of a reflector.
Vanderhoef/But it was a shield because it was real specific about a complaint by one
resident that it was coming in the second story window which was the bedroom or
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whatever and there was some sort of a shield, you might call Terry and ask him if
he remembers.
Yapp/Maybe.
Norton/Well those lights are kind of a different character because the bulbs (can't hear).
Yapp/Yea the City High tennis court lights are 50 feet high.
Vanderhoef/Oh, however they need to be lit, the backside of it, now when and that's son
of on a hill as compared to Dunlap Court so in some respects it's probably higher
than 50 feet.
Norton/I'm curious why there that high, I don't understand.
Franklin/I think there' s an issue here of whether you have an expectation that we are
going to do something about the City High lights or not. And I mean in terms of
doing research or anything else. I mean there really isn't reason why the school
district staff couldn't do the same research.
Vanderhoef/Right, that was my question to Karen in the first place.
Kubby/Some of it is process.
Vanderhoef/What we could offer and I wasn't sure what we could offer and then that just
struck me that that was.
Lehman/Haven't they indicated they are going to be looking into this, the school board?
Champion/Right their very (can't hear).
Yapp/Well I read in the paper that they the school board said they would study the issue.
Lehman/Maybe that's where I saw it. Why don't we send them a copy of our proposed
ordinance?
Yapp/I'd be glad to.
Lehman/Let's do it.
Norton/We could write strongly worded letter.
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Lehman/Well I think it would be nice to assist them in their deliberations, here' s a copy
of the proposed ordinance that has been passed by.
Norton/And suggested.
Lehman/And really.
Kubby/I mean some ofit's process too because at that joint meeting and Mr. Palmer said
that there was nothing they could do, and I just strongly disagree.
Lehman/He also said they basically screwed up by not talking to the neighbors. Cause
this was something they normally do.
Norton/(can't hear) certainly.
Kubby/Yea, sending a copy of the ordinance is a good first step.
Lehman/I think it would be a good idea.
Kubby/And it also just let' s them know that we're watching.
Lehman/Paying attention.
Champion/We're thinking of them so.
Lehman/OK.
Franklin/Just write on the bottom, we're thinking of you.
Yapp/We're thinking of you.
Lehman/Thinking of you.
Franklin/With love, City Council.
Yapp/Thank you.
Kubby/Thanks for telling us.
e. Public hearing on a resolution approving annexation of 5.55 acres located in the
northwest quadrant of American Legion Road and Taft Avenue. (ANN99-
0001)
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f. Public hearing on an ordinance conditionally changing the zoning designation of
5.5 acres located in the northwest quadrant of American Legion Road and
Taft Avenue. (REZ99-0003)
Franklin/They have asked that this be indefinitely deferred. Pardon me.
Kubby/Do we know why?
Franklin/Yes because their looking at another property.
Kubby/They've had that for so many years.
Franklin/So, what I would suggest is that you open the public hearing because the notice
has been set, close it and then we'll have to set it and open again at some later
date since it's so indefinite. Because if you continue a public hearing indefinitely
you've really lost the purpose for which you set a public hearing.
Lehman/OK, we'll do that with both (can't hear).
Franklin/Yes.
Norton/Open and then close.
Lehman/Right.
Franklin/Yea. OK.
Lehman/And I suppose then we also indicate after we've closed it that this, they've
asked that this be deferred indefinitely.
Franklin/Right.
Norton/Well there won't be any asking left at that point will there?
Franklin/Well it would be good to make that statement so that it's clear in the record.
Lehman/Well I think we should.
g. Annexation of approximately 10.3 acres of property located east of Scott
Boulevard at Washington Street. (ANN99-0002)
Franklin/OK, (refers to overhead) this is the annexation basically it's this part of the
tract. We could have a dual.
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Lehman/All right.
Franklin/The more important part of this is why this annexation although in terms of our
annexation policy this is consistent with our policy and is within the growth area.
We do have the infrastructure to support it, it should not result in any undo
financial burden to the city as a consequence of the annexation. And it is a logical
growth of the city to the east. The purpose of the project in the short term is for
the development of a project for housing for the elderly and this would be
subsidized elderly housing. That is that the project is done with tax credits in
order to bring the price of these units down. It will not be subsidized through any
funds from the city per se, it does have home funds through your CDBG home
allocations. It's two buildings are proposed, now the proposal that went before
the Planning & Zoning Commission was approved by Planning & Zoning was for
36 units in each building. The developer has found, and this is something that
we've just learned in the last few days. The developers found that in working out
the floor plan of these two buildings he has room that he can put in two more
units. Which would mean 74. I talked with Dean Shannon before the meeting as
to whether that was an issue for the Planning & Zoning Commission and it does
not appear that that is the number of units was an issue at the Commission
meetings. So the developer would like you to consider these additional units, the
option would be if he didn't put in these other two units is that two of the units
would be larger as a consequence, because he's got the floor area. So it does
provide additional couple of units. The issues with this were primarily ones of
design of the building because of the scale of it and relationship to where it is to
the topography and to the existing development. And then also access not from
this development per se but from this whole subdivision to the east. Just to touch
on the design issues first, and I've got a drawing here if anybody wants to see it.
Basically it was a mat, no comment Ernie.
Lehman/Not a word.
Franklin/It was a matter or breaking up the face of the building such that it had some
articulation, some relief. And the developer worked through this with the staff
and with some members of the Planning & Zoning Commission and the design of
it that finally has come through is one that is acceptable to everyone.
Norton/Karin which side are you viewing (can't hear) when you say that?
Franklin/Well the articulation would be on both sides, now one thing that you find on
this side which you don't find here is the doorway and the portecochere. It's over
here.
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Lehman/Got one of them too.
Kubby/Not sophisticated.
Franklin/And not on the Scott Boulevard side. You know, you drive the horse up and
everybody gets out. Right in this area is storm water detention basin and I mean
there's quite a bit of distance between Scott Boulevard and these buildings. And
this storm water detention basin has been there for some time and it provides
compensatory storage for some development that's over on this side. This is all
property that's owned by Bruce Glasgow. And in the development of Scott
Boulevard additions, over here, this storm water detention has provided that
compensatory storage and it's been there for a while.
Norton/So there not really very visible is that what you mean?
Franklin/No, they're visible, they're visible but they're not as imposing as they would be
if they would be right here.
Lehman/Big set back.
Franklin/Yes, there's a big set back but they're up on a hill.
Norton/But they're above yea.
Vanderhoef/Yea, way up.
Franklin/And in the final plan which this is not because you'll notice this roadway is
different but we didn't have an overhead that was that small. I'll show you in a
second the road design. In the final plan there's landscaping all along in here
which was added during the Planning & Zoning Commission negotiations. And
so that's to further soften this face to Scott Boulevard. One of the issues that we
talked about or items that we talked about at a staff level was right here and the
visibility of these garages. You know how big we are garages. Anyway what has
been done here is kind of berming this area a little and landscaping in here to deal
with that issue. And we looked at the sight distance or the line of sight as you
were coming down Scott Boulevard what you would see and given the change in
topography the vegetation so forth we find this is a very satisfactory solution to
that whole thing too. So that's the building.
Norton/Are the planters part of the requirements to plantings along Scott itself?.
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Franklin/Those are probably the right of way trees that you have to put as a requirement
yea, cause that would, that's just.
Lehman/Well there along.
Kubby/There there now.
Franklin/There's something there already.
Lehman/But there along that storm water basin and that' s all city property isn't it?
Franklin/No, that' s private property.
Lehman/Oh, it is.
Franklin/The basin is not ours, it's privately owned. Now there may be some trees in the
public fight of way.
Lehman/Well it looked to me that way.
Franklin/OK this is the alignment that is now in place for the streets. Washington is here
and it kind of solves an issue that we had very early on having to do with street
names. Which was a debate over whether this one coming up here was going to
be Scott Park Drive or Hummingbird Lane, it seemed like we were in an impasse
about it, well this resolves that, this is Washington. This would continue to be
Hummingbird Lane here, and the real issue street name aside has to do with how
this behaves in the larger area.
Norton/Where is the, I'm sorry I'm losing my orientation, where's Scott in that big loop?
Franklin/OK. Scott is over here and Court's down here and I'm going to try to give you
an illustration that will make this all abundantly clear. This is what we were
originally working with, Court's down here, Scott' s up here, Lower West Branch
Road is here. The issue was bringing this street north and continuing on to Lower
West Branch Road and a concen~ on the part of people that live here in the county
that this was going to be a cut-through, that people would avoid Scott and would
use this road. And so what that curve does is it takes you your line of least
resistance is to come this way and then you have to turn to go that way. Now
frankly I think this whole issue of the cutting through to go from Court to Lower
West Branch Road was probably over blown. I mean I don't know that that does
not seem to me like a logical place for people to go for any particular reason.
Because Scott is where you want to get to to go to any destination point. There
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isn't anything up here that is going to particularly take you to Lower West Branch
unless the intersection at Court and Scott becomes congested. But it is much
more likely if that were to happen and at some point in time it will happen that we
would signalize this intersection allowing you to get out easier there than it would
be to get out at Lower West Branch which does not have a 90 degree 4-way
intersection it's offset. So we're not going to be signalizing that up there ever. So
that's going to be a harder one to get out of.
Champion/Well we do have some lights that are signalized.
Franklin/Pardon me, oh, yes, Prentice, but we try and not to do that too often. So that
was one issue with that whole bit and how those two streets come together.
Norton/But Washington makes another bend, as in your previous picture, it's not just
curve straight down Washington, it bends back doesn't it, yea, OK.
Franklin/A little.
Norton/Call that your little.
Franklin/This little thing here.
Norton/It goes back (can't hear).
Franklin/Yea, it kind of goes like this. Yea, now since I've got this one up here, the
zoning here because this is as it's annexed it's rezoned, the zoning is RM-12
basically southwest of Washington, RS-5 here on this little piece cause this Bruce
owns and is undeveloped and not annexed until this action. These properties will
remain in the county. RS-5 here and then OPDH for the elderly housing. OK.
Kubby/Hummingbird as shown on there is not built, how does (can't hear). That is
there?
Franklin/Yea. It's rock or dirt road, probably rolled rock.
Kubby/And you enter from Lower West Branch Road.
Franklin/Lower West Branch, yea, fight. OK. The other issue that had some discussion
and ended in a requirement in the conditional zoning agreement for pedestrian
access, had to do with putting a road to the east to connect with the neighborhood
that will be developing over here on the Lindemann Farm. Now we have a road
down here which is just two lots deep north of Court Street. See, here's Court
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which of course goes out. And I'm going to put up the Lindemann neighborhood
plan so you can kind of see the whole context. Where are we here? OK here' s
Court, is it?
O'Donnell/Yea.
Kubby/Lower West Branch in the middle.
Franklin/Here's Court, Lower West Branch here and this is Washington coming over
from, here's Scott, Washington coming over from Scott. Now currently we have.
Kubby/Oh, that's much better.
Franklin/Amazing what focus can do. Currently we have this road right here platted to
continue over and hook up with the neighborhood. What we had anticipated
recognizing that these lots are in the county, their owned, their developed, there's
people living there, and it's unlikely we're going to blast through there with a
road, that the next logical place that we might be able to get a road through to
make another com~ection to this neighborhood would be at this location here.
And it also envisioned having some kind of a green space in here because there's
quite a few woods there. Well as we looked at this Scott Boulevard Part 3 we
talked about getting the annexation to include, remember that shaded areas is the
annexation, to include an auction at this point for a road to the east, because it was
being annexed it was being zoned, that we do that as a conditional zoning now as
opposed to wait until potentially somebody builds a house there and blocks the
right of way. That we needed to talk about this now and act on it now. Well the
consequence of a lot of discussion that included the engineering consultant, the
property owners, the staff and the Planning & Zoning Commission was that this
area right in here is too steep to ideally put a road through there plus there's some
nice woods there that are worth preserving. So we kind of had to balance out two
different goals, one was to have the interconnectedness with neighborhood, the
neighborhood to the east. And the other was the sensitive areas, and the steep
areas but more importantly probably the wooded. So as a condition in this instead
of requiring that road to be there, there' s a requirement that the developer put
together a plan for the preservation of the woods there and that there be an
easement provided for pedestrian access to the east so we continue to have the
pedestrian bicycle access to that neighborhood even though there won't be
vehicular.
Norton / What do they do go along the edge of that or to the middle, along the edge?
Franklin/The easement?
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Lehman/Yea.
Norton/Yea.
Franklin/That's gotta be located yet, that's not located yet is it Larry? No, it's just a
matter of it will be provided when we plat that area.
Norton/(can't hear).
Vanderhoef/Kafin put the other map up again.
Franklin/That one.
Vanderhoef/Yea. The, this area right in here, I was out there walking today and there is a
strip between that end house and the houses around that little cul de sac before
you get over to the Glasgow property. Now is that.
Franklin/Here.
Norton/Yea.
Vanderhoef/Yes.
Franklin/No, we're talking about north of there.
Vanderhoef/I know your talking about it but I'm asking specifically about this other area
that doesn't look like it's wide enough to develop unless it were combined.
Franklin/This full piece fight here is Diane Boyd's house. And I'm, OK, so what are
asking? If that would be an option? Yea, Diane's house is fight here.
Lehman/In other words that's a lot.
Franklin/Yea, it's a lot.
Lehman/It's a lot oflot.
Franklin/Aren't I right Larry?
Larry Schnittjer/That's right.
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Vanderhoef/Where' s the location of that house?
Franklin/Right there.
Schnittjer/Karin go back a couple slides where it shows the arc of the street, Diane's
house (can't hear).
Franklin/Oh yea, OK.
Vanderhoef/Can you Marian?
Kubby/Larry if your going to say something you should come up.
Lehman/Oh, I see it.
Franklin/OK, see there's the lot that your talking about Dee.
Vanderhoef/OK.
Franklin/And there may be some kind of utilities (can't hear) but see here's her driveway
and there's her house.
Vanderhoef/Clear back in there?
Franklin/Yea and then this is the property we're talking about that's where the (can't
hear) will go through.
Vanderhoef/That I knew but I was trying to see whether the possibility was there to put
the road or the walkway at the south edge of (can't hear).
Kubby/To next trees.
Norton/Well you don't know where it'll be, it'll be ttuTough there somewhere.
Franklin/Right and that's, I mean the plan needs to be submitted for the preservation of
the trees and the easement for the pedestrian.
Norton/(can't hear).
Franklin/Yes, now this is not being platted at this point, we're doing annexation and
zoning and approval of this OPDH, the plat for this will come back. And Bruce
has indicated that that will happen as soon as this goes on because one of the other
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issues that came up as far as the neighbors were concerned was the width of the
lots here, they were concerned that those be extra wide lots. Now the minimum
lots size, lot width in RS-5 is 60 feet, the statements have been made that this is
the plat that will come in. The Planning & Zoning Commission did not and I
think it would probably would be difficult to put a condition on it for 83 foot lots.
Kubby/Really, why so?
Franklin/Well when you put a condition on, it should be the consequence of the zoning
action that's being taken. And what is it about this zoning action and zoning that
to RS-5 that gets you to the point of saying we should require 83 foot or whatever
lots.
Norton/Yea.
Franklin/Ifthat's that case, shouldn't all RS-5 lots be 80 foot minimum lot sizes.
Norton/(can't hear) with their lots.
Franklin/Yea, yea. Yes, all though it's still smaller.
Vanderhoef/(can't hear)40.
Franklin/8,000, their small. 8,000 is the minimum lot size in RS-5.
Kubby/Well I guess it probably wouldn't be, make a difference in protest the vote part of
the neighbors concerns have been reduced because of that pledge and the pledge
may or may, I mean not to say that I think it's going to be any different but
because it's not locked in it can be different and it would have legal fights to make
it different.
Franklin/I don't know this for a fact, but I think the neighbors understand that that's not
locked in. Cause that was stated at the Planning & Zoning Commission.
Norton/Well what about traffic to the east, how did that (can't hear) work in, from Court
on up to between Court and Lower West Branch what is it?
Franklin/What we've done by by not having the road go through, there's one less spot
where you can get over into this neighborhood over here. Basically from this area
you'll need to go up to Lower West Branch down to Court or just over to Scott to
get from here.
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(End of 99-43 Side 2).
Franklin/That we do have efficient circulation in here to make this all work.
Kubby/But it seems like a nice balancing and trying to get maximum circulation and still
protecting the beautiful areas that are valuable to the neighborhood.
Franklin/It was a matter of how much you lost by the road not being in there. And you
lose some, one of the things that we anticipate will be happening here is your
going to have kids from this neighborhood going over to Lemme and Lucas
school. Well then it's very important that you have that pedestrian bicycle access.
Maybe not as important that you have the vehicular. But what's going to happen
is that the people in this area then are going to have to go this way or this way to
get over to here. It makes their trip a little bit longer. But mostly that's a
consequence of all this in here.
Vanderhoef/Which is already there.
Norton/Which is already there.
Franklin/Which is there.
Vanderhoef/You can't do anything about it.
Champion/Well look at the bright side they won't have much traffic on their street.
Norton/But that's a double loaded street there.
Franklin/Here, these folks want, oh yes for them it will be nice, but it means over here
there will be more.
Norton/Yea.
Franklin/Which is always the case.
Champion/Right.
Franklin/Yea, but it also, I would like to point out, also a point at which working with
the idea of this map of this illustration that's gone. OK. We've balanced out a
couple different policies and we're cool. Any questions about this one?
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Kubby/In terms of the tree protection plan it seems that from the discussion that I know
this is just the rezoning so the details of that will be in the platting stage and it
seems like it's pretty clear that the desire of the city is to have and be basically
undisturbed and have as little impact during construction of the roadway or of the
pedestrian access as possible.
Franklin/Correct.
Kubby/So that will, that will help that will essentially dictate where that access will be is
that correct?
Franklin/Yes. And I mean that was an expressed goal of the developers, the Planning &
Zoning Commission so I think that there shouldn't be any problem with having
that come out OK.
Kubby/So in terms of, this is another double collapse one?
Champion/(Can't hear).
Lehman/Yea, I think so. Sounds right.
Franklin/Yea, that's the request.
Kubby/And they had stated that can we confirm that if we don't, well they say that
they've got some construction contracts that the prices are good until a certain
date and that's one reason why they need the double collapse, am I remembering
that fight?
Franklin/Is that, was that a letter to you?
Lehman/Well I think, isn't it according to the funds their receiving from the state.
Norton/Yea, they had to do it their (can't hear).
Lehman/Their way past the time they should have staffed them anyway?
Kubby/Right, but if we write a letter to the state saying we have a process and we're
willing to collapse but and so they need one more extension until this date, I'm
sure that the state would accommodate that when the city's writing a letter saying
this is going forward but we have a process we need to complete. I mean ifthat's
the big, if that's the big (can't hear).
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Lehman/Pardon.
O'Donnell/(Can't hear).
Lehman/I don't know.
Kubby/I just think it's a dangerous precedent we begin to set because I don't ever, there
may have been one or two that I just don't remember but it's not something we've
done and I don't want to start doing that.
Vanderhoef/One of the things that I would say about this project is that there was a lot of
input it sounds like at the P& Z meetings and people were OK and it came out of
there with what a 5-1 ?
Franklin/Yea.
Norton/Yea, not all of them.
Franklin/Yea, Ann voted against it.
Vanderhoef/And I'm not heating any concems that we're stating about the plan itself.
Norton/There were some pretty good concerns even though there was a 5-1 vote. There
were considerable concerns expressed there, I don't see why it wouldn't be worth
a quick call to find out, I wanted to ask in regard to that agency providing
assistance. What's the duration of the commitment to senior housing?
Franklin/20 years, yea.
Lehman/20 years is right. I wouldn't have a problem with first consideration tomorrow
night, that give us an opportunity the second time to decide yes or no if we want
to collapse the second time.
Vanderhoef/Yea. That would put people on notice and they'll be here for the public
hearing at that point.
Lehman/Tomorrow night?
Vanderhoef/Yea.
Lehman/Well I would hope they would be.
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Vanderhoef/Yea so they will hear that we have not made any changes and they'll be able
to voice their changes and we can hear them and we can change them at another
meeting if we hear something that we feel is necessary.
Kubby/Could we confirm if it's the deadline and/or the money?
Norton/Yea.
Franklin/I've got a note to do that, to figure out what exactly is.
Lehman/Well we could ask Beth tomorrow night.
Norton/Or someone could call tomorrow and find out what the deal is.
Lehman/OK.
Franklin/Well Mr. Mazzotta will be.
Lehman/He'll be here.
Franklin/The fellow that's doing the development will be here. What about the 74 units
versus the 72.9 Any thoughts?
Lehman/Well he has no problem with that apparently?
Franklin/I don't think so right Dee, I mean it was not a big deal there.
Norton/Not that we know.
Vanderhoef/But then today was not a.
Franklin/No, and it is within the OPDH density guidelines to have 74.
Lehman/Oh.
Vanderhoef/I guess my question would be is how many of the units are set up for
couples? I know primarily they work for singles in those senior housing because
that's the way most they come about but I'm aware of some housing that did have
some larger units for couples.
Franklin/So you want to know how many units are for couples?
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Vanderhoef/Yes.
Norton/You'd think some large units would be nice.
Vanderhoef/Well my parents happen to be in one and it's different than the others that
are in that particular housing unit and it's appropriate for most people.
Kubby/I have another kind of a larger issue. Has staff ever talked about, I mean this is
the third senior housing project in this one area of town and I guess I'm starting to
feel that if this trend continues we're going to have some segregation.
Franklin/The graying of Scott Boulevard.
Kubby/That's right. I don't want segregation on the east side so.
Lehman/Well we have one on the west side on Melrose too.
Franklin/Well we've actually.
Norton/We're going to have more too.
Kubby/Not to say that there aren't other.
Vanderhoef/Shannon Drive.
Franklin/We've got three, yea there' s the Shannon Drive one, Shannon and Rohret, there
is the Melrose Newbury development if that goes and then Walden Place.
Norton/Well there's three there and three on Scott.
Kubby/Right, maybe I didn't, I guess I wasn't trying to say that this is the only place that
that but there's going to be a large stretch in this concentrated area where the
housing will be higher density senior housing. It's going to be different levels of
senior housing, I understand that but I guess I wouldn't want to see this continue
so that Scott, all up and down Scott Boulevard or in that are of town there's this
concentrated enclave.
Vanderhoef/The only thing that we have going though is our policy is saying that we are
going to put high density either apartment condo or senior type of housing near
our arterial so.
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Kubby/I guess I want to spread it around the city so that it's all over and not here and
here.
Vanderhoef/When you've got.
Norton/Well remember we tried to put it down on Taft Speedway once if I remember.
Vanderhoef/Yep I do.
Norton/It didn't work so well but, I was curious.
Franklin/We have thought about that Karen in terms of where these are distributing but
in looking at it with these other projects on the westside it seems to be balancing
out, but.
Kubby/It would be interesting to have a map, cause I know that when we talked about
manufactured housing that if you color in the places in the city there is some
concentration, it would be interesting to illustrate that somehow at some point.
Vanderhoef/It would show up on Scott Boulevard, I agree with you on that.
Norton/Oh yea.
Vanderhoef/And to meet our policy of putting high densities into the arterial you know it
may be colored for senior housing or it may be colored for multifamily living of
some description but it's still going to be the larger size project.
Kubby/But we have more than one or two or three or four arterials (can't hear).
Norton/Yea.
Franklin/Yea.
Norton/I have a concern or question. This is one of the cases that I would very much like
to have the computerized view of this structure from both east and from west, I
guess those two aspects. In other words (can't hear).
Franklin/You mean a computer simulation, a computer simulation.
Norton/Yea, it would be really nice and I'm sure some of the people on P & Z seem to
have the same feeling. It's hard to understand how it's going to appear up on that
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hill from a distance, but I don't whether that's reasonable to ask. And
incidentally where are maps, are they in previous file, their not here.
Kubby/You mean the rendering?
Norton/No, where are our maps?
Karr/You had requested them to be sent out in an off week so they were in the April 9
packet.
Lehman/That's right.
Norton/They are, oh their already in there.
Karr/At your request.
Norton/Their already in the other there in the other one. OK. Thank you.
Franklin/Now you guys messed yourselves up. That's a general question, we send you
something early, do you expect it again then when you have the public hearing?
Norton/No, no. We're supposed to go back.
Lehman/No, we should remember.
Vanderhoef/I would request. I was in with the same question today, because I was trying
to search this and I found out that I can't search by the number with unless I need
the dash out so I can't find it later but I learned something new. Anyway for me
to have the information early I'd like it in hard copy and then have the be on the
disk at the time of the meeting.
Lehman/Well you can print the hard copy though.
Vanderhoef/Well.
Norton/Yea.
Lehman/Well you can always print that.
Norton/(can't hear).
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Vanderhoef/I know you can always do that, I guess we always excepted it in the meeting
where it was going to be discussed so that you can access it rapidly.
Norton/We knew this was going to be complicated and therefore in order to have the
detailed minutes and the figures to think about it we have to have it early and I
think that was fine. I just should of run it off that's all.
O'Donnell/(Can't hear).
Norton/Oh, I can make it (can't hear).
(A few talking).
Franklin/In terms of the computer simulations get elevations of the buildings. Are you
asking for computer simulation is different yea?
Norton/Yea, that's right (can't hear).
Franklin/Well I think you would have to consider making that a requirement of the
submittals.
Norton/No, that would be pretty heavy duty I guess. Until Larry gets upgraded on his
computer we'll have to wait.
Schnittjer/(can't hear).
Vanderhoef/I think that he said no.
Franklin/Moving on.
Lehman/Moving on.
i. Consider an ordinance amending City Code subsection 14-4B pertaining to a
change in Board of Adjustment notice requirements and incorporation of
Board powers and procedures into the Zoning Chapter. (Second
consideration)
Franklin/Item I is the second consideration of the Board of Adjustment stuff.
j. Consider a resolution approving a preliminary and final plat of Milder Meadows,
a 43.4-acre, two-lot residential subdivision with one outlot located in Fringe
Area B at 4872 American Legion Road.
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Franklin/Item J is the preliminary and plat of Milder Meadows. The applicants have
requested deferral to May 4 so they can be here.
Kubby/Why might we find it acceptable that they don't meet the rule design standards
for the street? Because of the individual circumstance? Is it going to go
anywhere else?
Franklin/No, it's not because we've made that other lot that has to be in agriculture
forever, or until it's annexed to the city which is (can't hear).
Kubby/I mean so is that way it's acceptable to have it be less than urban standards?
Franklin/I don't know, I'll find out.
Kubby/OK.
Franklin/I just don't, I don't remember, we've gone through this so many times.
Kubby/I'm just being (can't hear) like this is, oh really.
(Somebody talking in background, can't hear).
Franklin/Does it, because it doesn't go anywhere? Oh, OK.
Lehman/Well, just call it no name road, we'll have two of them.
O'Donnell/(can't hear).
Kubby/It just feels like we've really kind of torqued around trying to accommodate
something that was done inappropriately in the beginning and I, it's frustrating.
O'Donnell/Right.
Vanderhoef/I don't disagree with you.
Franklin/Yea.
Kubby/You know we're talking about the spirit of the comprehensive plan instead of the
words of it and they don't have to confirm to some standards. Hope that doesn't
happen again. Maybe with the county building codes this would make a
difference.
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man/That should help.
Lehman/OK.
Franklin/I'm done.
Lehman/Thank you.
Review Agenda Items 99-46 S1
1. (Agenda #12- CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AMENDING FEES AND TIMED
DURATION FOR SOUND EQUIPMENT PERMITS.)
Lehman/One of the agenda items that we're going to review is regarding the fee for
sound permits and Lisa's here to answer any questions for it. I think the
recommendation is that the fee.
Norton/Drop it wasn't it?
Lehman/Amounts to hassle amounts to more than the fee is worth and that we would, I
think the recommendation is that we do not charge a fee if you'd like to stand
behind that little thing that Karin knocked apart.
Lisa Mollenhauer/Just because I stay doesn't mean I need to talk. Are there any
questions?
Lehman/Are there any questions for Lisa?
Kubby/No, I think it's a great idea, instead of streamlining it, it makes it easier for
community groups to use public space.
Norton/Absolutely.
Lehman/OK.
Mollenhauer/Good.
Kubby/Thank you.
Lehman/That was, you did always great.
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(Agenda 4e(2). CONSIDER A RESOLUTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING
FOR MAY 4 ON PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT, AND
ESTIMATE OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE WESTMINSTER
SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, DIRECTING CITY CLERK TO
PUBLISH NOTICE OF SAID HEARING, AND DIRECTING THE CITY
ENGINEER TO PLACE SAID PLANS ON FILE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION.)
Kubby/I, because there's going to be some improvements to the park is that going to be
surface trenching or is to going to be board???? so the park is not disturbed?
Anybody know?
Rick Fosse/That will open cut and we're working with the parks department to keep the
clearances from the trees that we hope to be keep them healthy.
Kubby/Have we done notification to neighbors along Westminster and along the park?
Fosse/Yes, yes we have and we have a neighborhood meeting coming up with them next
week. Should I go over the funding thing with them now Steve?
Atkins/Sure.
Fosse/Now that I brought it up OK.
Atkins/No.
Fosse/Oh OK.
Lehman/You just want to go home that' s all.
Kubby/I feel it kind of suspicious right.
Fosse/
Yea, since some of our projects have come in higher than we estimated this year,
we're not sure whether we've got enough, or we're not sure we want to do this
one this year financially. We're going to go ahead and begin the bidding process.
During the bidding process for this project we will receive bids on Foster Road
and that may help us make this decision and ultimately we'll get bids on this
project and at that point we'll be in a position to make a decision to do it this year
or next year. And at the neighborhood meeting we'll prepare the neighborhood
for that option so their aware. Keep in mind this one's already been pushed off
once already. We were going to do it last year, it slid because of our workload,
hopefully it won't slide again this year because of financial reasons but it's
possible.
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Norton/But it depends on other projects or this one?
Fosse/Both.
Vanderhoef/Both.
Norton/On both.
Vanderhoef/OK.
Lehman/OK.
3. Atkins/Ernie, under the council agenda-council time I want to request a work session
on library funding and all that, do you want to do that now or (can't hear).
Lehman/Yea, we can do that now while we're.
Atkins/Well there are four issues that I'm, we need some time to discuss. The parking
financing, until we decide what to do with the Senior Center we can't confirm the
final parking ramp financing. You have a request from the library to meet with
them on the 17th, I wrote you a memo outlining some of those issues, we do need
to spend loads of time to work through it. Tonight when we do Stormwater
management Rick is going to do (can't hear) split this up, first part of the
program is federal requirements and so forth, then in a separate meeting I'd like
to do financing with you. And then finally we talked about a goal session update
that is I wrote a memo to you outlining those issues (can't hear). So I've got
those four pretty good size items pending. I think the meeting with the library and
parking ramp financing would take a good block, (can't hear) a couple hours
(can't hear). So it's just a matter to pick a time.
Norton/I'm (can't hear) the Senior Center issue is going to be in there too because we had
a meeting with the, oh we'll talk about it at council time, we had a meeting with
them and there's still confusion about the county's interest in the role and feel that
they haven't been discussed, we haven't met with them to talk about this. When
do we have our county, our joint meeting coming up with the county?
O'Donnell/Thursday night, Wednesday (can't hear) of this week.
Norton/Thursday night.
Lehman/This Thursday.
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Kubby/Yea.
Norton/Would this be a, would that be a, is that agenda already fixed?
Karr/Yes.
Norton/Does that include Senior Center on it?
Karr/Yes, (can't hear).
Norton/Oh good. OK well we'll discuss that but perhaps some clarification will come
out but they want to wait till they hear from that page reviews process so I don't
know how soon that senior center thing is going to be be discussed?
Atkins/Well, the other thing folks and I'm trying to explain this best I could and shorten
the memorandum. All those things are weaved together. You're going to have to
decide, you know decide what. Something's going to pop out of somewhere else
so, I understand your interest in having the county involved in the thing but I
think as a council we can begin to prep forward (can't hear).
Kubby/That's fight, and if it's a high priority we might have conditions on that pfiority
and we can do that.
Atkins/Absolutely, that's what I need to hear from you.
Norton/But we have another session with them on the 7th of May and some work to do
between now and then.
Arkins/Oh, with your.
Norton/The subcommittee talking about the Senior Center.
Atkins/Well I need some time with you for those things. Particularly to work through
that.
Kubby/So do we need to try to find a date is that what your?
Lehman/Let's do it.
Atkins/I would like to have.
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Kubby/That's going to be challenging.
Atkins/Yes, you can theoretically wait until the meeting of Monday the 3rd.
Norton/Let's don't crowd everything there.
Atkins/And you are going to hearing shortly on the parking ramp.
Champion/(Can't hear) work session.
Lehman/What is the, yea, I agree. What's the week of the 26th, do you have a.
Karr/I've got a council member, one council member gone the full week.
Lehman/The whole week.
Norton/What's the next week? What's that, is that the?
Karr/The week of the 10th? Or the off week?
Lehman/Well the week of the 3rd, I mean we do meet Monday and Tuesday but you
know we've got several things that Steve wants to talk about and the other thing I
think it would be if we could schedule at the same time, we could meet like at
4:00 in the afternoon, work on Steve's concerns, then maybe break and then do
evaluations later, the same day, instead of making two meetings out of it.
Kubby/(can't hear).
O'Donnell/What is there to observe?
Atkins/Ernie the only observation, that's really pretty early too, to do. That's fine.
Norton/We've often done those at 5:00.
Atkins/1 just need to get to you, I just need to get this parking ramp financing and all
these. I suspect your going to ask a whole lot of questions about variety of
scenario 's so we need to have prepped for some of that.
Kubby/How about the 5th of May? Is everyone in for the 5th of May?
Lelunan/It's a Wednesday.
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Karr/Wednesday.
Kubby/It's the Wednesday after council, so it would be three nights.
Norton/When's JCCOG?
Champion/Oh you know, why couldn't we do it in the morning then, I really don't want
to be gone (can't hear).
Letunan/OK.
O'Donnell/(can't hear).
Kubby/I have a 10:00 appointment but if we're done by noon I'd be willing to change
my appointment to do a morning thing.
Lehman/How about the 6th, does that work for anybody, Thursday?
Kubby/No, I'm teaching a class, and I can't change, it's a conference. I could do
morning but I can.
Norton/What about later this week?
O'Donnell/Why don't we just come in early on the 3rd, come in at 4:00 (can't hear).
Lehman/I don't think that, we've got too much to work on, I'm not sure that we want to
tie that up with another meeting.
Norton/That's fight.
Lehman/And we're talking about some pretty heavy stuff.
Norton/Yea.
Atkins/And there are things that you've got to decide.
Vanderhoef/Probably a couple of hours.
Atkins/You've got to (whistle) up or down.
Vanderhoef/And priorities are going to need.
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Lehman/And we do need to do this soon, rather soon I think.
Vanderhoef/The 5th or the 6th I can do.
Norton/If it's going to have to be at night, find a time.
Lehman/Well does the 5th work?
Norton/Connie doesn't want two nights, she wants it one night.
Champion/That's three nights.
Kubby/But Wednesday during the day I can move my appointment.
Lehman/Well can we meet at 8:00 in the morning on the 5th.
Champion/In the morning, yes.
Karr/OK.
Kubby/I know Mike you don't like (can't hear).
Karr/8:00 the 5th.
O'Donnell/What's wrong with 8:30?
Lehman/Well 8:00.
Vanderhoef/8:30 or 9:00 would.
Atkins/Discipline yourselves and get home early after work.
Norton/I'll put on the Saturday the 6th Ernie.
(All talking).
Norton/Give us a little break in there Ernie. Put it on Thursday the 6th.
Kubby/I can't do the 6th, and I can't change what I have.
Lehman/Karen can't.
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Norton/Oh, I'm sorry.
Lehman/Wednesday morning that will work.
Norton/Fine.
Karr/Wednesday the 5th.
O'Donnell/8:00 is fine.
Lehman/That's fine.
Karr/Wednesday the 5th.
Lehman/Let's meet at 8:00.
Kubby/Until?
Lehman/Well probably until 10:00 1 would think anyway.
Kubby/Oh, that's not realistic.
Norton/Make it longer than that, that's not.
Lehman/Well you know, we try for 10:00 and then we know we'll be out by 12:00.
Kubby/No, because if we say 10:00 I'll make a 10:30 or 11:00 appointment.
Lehman/No you won't.
Champion/Well why don't you make it later 10:30 or 11:00.
Atkins/Let's decide, can we decide what the issues are, parking ramp financing, and then
a whole. I don't think you're going to be able to decide that library bond,
community events, Senior Center, but I sure would like to get kind of a ski~my it
up a little bit and make sure.
Vanderhoef/Got to.
Atkins/Particularly you need to do things for you.
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Kubby/Can we say 8:00 to noon and then if we end early if we get burned out, you know
it's too overwhelming we can?
(All talking)
Champion/We'll be out of here by 8-11.
Lehman/Well but I do think, we do need to decide.
(All talking).
Norton/8-noon and then your fine.
O'Donnell/(can't hear)
Lehman/8:00 just you and I.
Atkins/It's Wednesday morning the 5th.
Lehman/Right.
O'Donnell/Let's go 8-11 in the morning.
Atkins/OK. We'll bring some food so.
(All talking).
Norton/What did they decide?
Lehman/8:00.
Norton/8 to when?
Kubby/11:00.
O'Donnell: 11.
Champion/(can't hear).
Norton/And Steve you'll pick the items that need the most timely?
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Atkins/Well I need parking ramp financing and your meeting with the library, I'm
assuming you want to talk about this, you have a letter that makes a request to
you.
Champion/And somehow we need to get a grip on how we will audit (can't hear).
Lehman/Well the Senior Center expansion, if we do that is going to really impact the
finance of the parking so I mean that's all three will tie the vote.
Atkins/You can't wrap up the parking ramp financing until you make this decision.
Lehman/Right. All right.
Norton/The thing is then we can't finish till after the 7th, well, we'll try but I don't.
Champion/Well we need to get some idea about where people are coming from.
Vanderhoef/When we find out what (can't hear) finances are possible.
Norton/Yea, let's put together, do the financial.
Lehman/All right.
Champion/(Can't hear).
Lehman/OK. Other agenda. I'm sorry.
Champion/Steve, when was our next meeting with the county?
Norton/May 7, 10:00.
Champion/Well, then we can't do that.
Norton/Well we won't have all the answers about where they stand on it, but we can, as
Dee says we can review the financing options.
Chan~pion/OK so we.
Norton/And that won't affect how we proceed perhaps on the 7th.
Atkins/I would like at the very least you would be armed with significant information
when you sit down with the county and say here's where we are.
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Champion/I like that.
4. (Agenda #15- CONSIDER A RESOLUTION CERTIFYING UNPAID WATER,
WASTEWATER, SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING CHARGES, INCLUDING
FEES AND PENALTIES, TO JOHNSON COUNTY FOR COLLECTION IN THE
SAME MANNER AS A PROPERTY TAX.)
O'Donnell/Did anybody read this delinquent water goals...
Norton/Yes.
O'Donnell/$300.00 water bills and my concern was weren't notifying the landlord in a
reasonable amount of time before the returning the damage deposit. So I spoke to
Don today and Don says 22 days after the final bill was notified, the landlord then
we have another, a letter goes out 50 days after the water bill, my question is,
how, if$300.00 in some of these water bills just have to do with a period of 7-8
months.
Lehman/I don't think that's right because we shut them off long before that.
O'Donnell/Except I saw one for $28.00 and I saw one for $290.00.
Lehman/Some of those could be apartment buildings with 10 or 12 apartments, it could
be a one month water bill.
O'Donnell/Well that's right, some of those buildings have to have $290 for like a single
unit. I'm just wondering how long we let this go before we (can't hear)?
Atkins/You could have a really high read in a month, you could have a leak, there are all
kinds Mike that could occur, and we wouldn't know it until we do the routine
reading.
Vanderhoef/A four bedroom apartment.
Kubby/If you gave one of those 5 bedroom apartments and a leak.
Atkins/Oh, that could be easy, I'm surprised if it wasn't $1,000. (can't hear).
Kubby/Yea, like Dave Moore.
Atkins/Yea.
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O'Donnell/Well then I have another incident where we have a property on Dubuque
Street that was listed as a four plex and in relative it was 5, (can't hear). And we
over a period of over have been billing as a four plex and then we discovered the
error and went back five years to a total orS1,700.
Norton/We split the difference.
O'Donnell/We split the difference, that's still $800.00 and I just.
Champion/But the people knew about the (can't hear).
O'Donnell/No they didn't. Well Connie as you sit there and look through your water
bill, if you get a bill and your paying I know this was one not his mistake.
Kubby/Well and it's a honest mistake on our part too and that's what the policy is about
because if the property that use those resources the services from the city doesn't
pay the bill, the rest of the rate payers have to pay and that's, and so we thought
it's a mistake on their part, it's a mistake on our part and that's how the policy
came about, split it in half.
Norton/We went through this with great agony yea.
Kubby/We could go back further couldn't we? So we decided five years was (can't
hear).
O'Donnell/I thought we had a (can't hear).
Norton/Well I thought at one time we had.
Lehman/Do you think we do, yea.
Kubby/We always find it.
Norton/We have that hassle with a number of people in exactly the same situation but I
think most of us felt that the person had some idea they wanted to build without a
whack with that many units but maybe not. So we figured with an honest
mistake on their part and an honest mistake on our part.
O'Donnell/I think it would be if it were a duplex getting billed for one, but I can't 4
versus 5. But again ifthat's the policy.
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Norton/It would be hard to articulate a new policy though I can't quite see how.
Dilkes/It's not just a policy though, it's in the ordinance. Yea and we, I'm just
reminding you that we went through this back-billing a couple years ago and also
to point out that when their over charged they get a 100 percent of the refund.
They only 50 percent of what we haven't charged.
Kubby/So Don in this memo too that we got it says that water fees will not be collected
to the new assessment or delinquent account if it's residential rental property.
And the account holder is the tenant why wouldn't we?
Don Yucuis/That's a state law. There's a law on that and there's, their trying to, their
working on changing and in fact I think they just voted in a change which will not
affect this lien process but the next time it comes through I think water will be
included.
Kubby/Has this always been the case?
Dilkes/Yes.
Vanderhoef/It has. And the $5,000 in public change there's a lot of work and staff time
that I don't see that we gain anything I think we lose (can't hear) and the overhead
of doing that that process but I don't know what would happen if there weren't a
process and how many would not pay up then, one hand disk on the other hand
the other. If that has been changed at the state level has there been any request
again to take the tax off of the state, the state sales tax off of water.
Atkins/Still working on that the week.
Vanderhoef/For the cities.
Atkins/For everything. They want to get the sales tax off of water. It's not going
anywhere.
Vanderhoef/OK. This is one of the things that I think this council could write a letter
about again.
O'Donnell/Sales tax off of water.
Vanderhoef/Take sales tax offof water, because we're paying sales tax too the state to
fill the swimming pools in Iowa City and.
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Kubby/That would be something to work on early next session before final date to make
sure someone from our delegation understands that.
Norton/We're not going to write it here.
Vanderhoef/I think this is true but I would like to see it put on a letter sent now in that if
there's any committees that work over the summer on taxes then this is one of
them that' s in front of them again.
Norton/I thought we had Steve on that committee to advise the tax laws.
Vanderhoef/Well there are several we want to take the tax off of the recreation activities,
and.
Lehman/I thought we had in fact taken off the water the city itself uses.
Vanderhoef/No, we tried.
Atkins/(can't hear) the recreation fee sales tax.
Lehman/All right anything else that's not on the agenda that we're going to talk about.
Vanderhoef/Can we have a letter?
Norton/Let's have a letter.
Lehman/Yea, let's do letter.
Norton/There's four people for a letter.
Lehman/Any other agenda items?
Norton/Strongly worded.
Vanderhoef/Strongly worded.
Lehman/OK.
5. (Agenda #7- PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE FY00 ANNUAL ACTION
PLAN, INCLUDING THE FY00 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT (CDBG) AND HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
(HOME) BUDGET, FOR IOWA CITY.)
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Vanderhoef/I have something on the CDBG monies, does anyone have any concerns
with things that are on the list? I have one concern and I'm just curious whether
I'm the only one that.
Lehman/What's that?
Vanderhoef/My concern still is whether this is the right time to be putting an elevator
into Old Brick.
Champion/Well I don't think $20,000 is for an elevator.
Lehman/Well that'll help.
Vanderhoef/It isn't and that's part of it. The other part is I have my question answered
about the liability of that building. I talked with Kevin Monson and he's the one
whose working with the committee so that part is OK but there's a lot of things
that need to be done on the building and at this point they don't even have an
estimate of the cost of all those things and to start putting in $20,000 right now at
a later time if it fit into the whole picture I think I could be real positive about
putting an elevator in there, but up front right now when we don't know how
much it's going to cost and whether they have the ability to raise the money to do
more of that activity and whether their going to receive any of these other large
grants that they applied for and don't have an answer on I.
Norton/Their only supporting aren't they one human service agency now aren't they?
Lehman/Everet Connor's.
Norton/Yea, isn't that it?
Vanderhoef/That' s the only one that I know of right now but there may be some.
Norton/So it's not massive support for the.
Vanderhoef/No, and when I looked at the HCDC commission on the first go around there
were a number of people that said they didn't want to put any money into it. And
so then it that apparently changed with their conversation but there was still some
concern evidently from some of those folks.
Lehman/I think part of this is accessibility issue on the Old Brick?
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O'Donnell/Absolutely.
Vanderhoef/Well it is and there thinking in terms of using the building and renting it for
more and one of the questions I asked the chair of them when I talked to Ms.
Gerlick was and if the building becomes totally accessible then do you have plans
to change the rents for the spaces because obviously the space becomes more
valuable and this is a value added in there. And she said no, they hadn't had any
of those conversations yet either so.
Norton/My problem with that is.
Kubby/And that's when they can less accessible when the price goes up so that's kind of
a compromise.
Norton/My problem with the process one Dee I, you know that's a pretty good size book
and by the time you go through the whole thing it takes more than a brief
weekend. And yet I guess the only time we had a serious discussion of it was that
April 5 wasn't it? When we had a few people from the Housing and Community
Development Commission here but at that point I thought we were just raising
preliminary concerns, then I got my nitty gritty concerns together now it's
practically gone, cause I had other, for example, I can see places where we're
funding repairs of the mental health center, but somehow it ought to be
programmed into any agency and the county and Coralville and other people who
use that ought to be contributing to those capital costs to keep that thing in repair,
it's going to go downhill again I mean, it needs a roof every you know X years.
So I don't, it seems to me kind of irrational to proceed this way when something
you know is a capital project that's got to be supported with reserves so and I
don't know they, fees that may be charged or the county and include overhead
piece I don't know so I ran into a series of questions.
Vanderhoef/I agree with you.
Norton/And I wrote them to Steve but I'm kind of late to be bringing them up at this
point I think, that's my problem, I think that's true on a good many of these.
We're funding but nobody else even though there are a variety of users are not
carrying their weight in my judgment. So I don't know whether it's timely to start
changing these things around now but.
Vanderhoef/And this is something that we need to add to our priority list or something
that we want the Commission to look at in another year ongoing.
Norton/What I did was write my concerns down.
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Vanderhoef/Overhead expenses need to be planned on a regular basis.
Norton/And several of these are that way, you know. You go back to MECCA or
something and you can identify who their services, who they're serving and
therefore the support for them ought to be somehow prorated and capital expenses
ought to be programmed in either their (can't hear) structure or in some other
more systematic way that hoping for community development block grant money.
But I think what I'm going to do now is write my concerns, I've always discussed
them with Steve and see what we can do next year. I know the committee.
Vanderhoef/Which Steve, we've got.
Norton/Steve Nasby
Vanderhoef/OK.
Kubby/I know the other place, thought it would be too late at this point but during the
United Way budget hearing the councilor representative (can't hear) could be
asking agencies that question, you know where is your money for capital
expenditures for no maintenance issues.
Atkins/I don't think many of them I know that, I don't think the county government
(can't hear) I don't think they use depreciation accounts like we do, where we
actually make an incrementally that those meetings might not need some capital
infusion when you don't have sufficient depreciation and I'm not so sure they do
that there.
Vanderhoef/Well it seems.
Atkins/I think the human service agencies simply because many of them operate on a
shoe string anyway so.
Kubby/Yea, it's hard for them to have that.
Lehman/Well can't management of the county seldom take into depreciation as a factor
and yet you have to replace things.
Kubby/Yea.
Norton/And I understand their trying to keep there fees down where they charge a fee
and keep those nominal so it would come fight out of the hides of people who can
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hardly afford it but I don't, it's not so much that as I want to be sure it's shared
among the various agencies that use these services as that is certainly not just
Iowa City.
Kubby/Well we're not getting that operating now.
Vanderhoef/Well fight now though we have a couple more agencies that have purchased
their facilities and now's the time to put, if this is what we want in a policy, then
this is the time to put them on notice that these are the things that we expect of
them and that we're not necessarily going to approve funding for the emergency
because all at once the roof is totally gone.
Kubby/If you look at it the other way, a lot of these agencies have higher percentage of
Iowa City residents than unincorporated county residents. The county pays a, 40
percent of their budget goes to human services, we even though we feel like we're
contributing a lot it's not fractioned I mean, it is a fraction, but it's not a you know
a huge amount of the human service budget and one of, you know, one of that
tradeoffs is maybe some of our CDBG monies goes to some of the capital.
Norto~f Well I'm a county resident, and I'm paying both ways, I'm paying both ways
remember this thing chopped me every way but up and including up and so I'm a
county tax payer and accounting for half the county taxes fight now. So I don't, I
mean the allocated money that's allocated for them for mental health and all the
rest of these issues is something that ought to be incorporated that's all. I think
we need to look these over pretty carefully, maybe make some statement before
they go into this next year whether any of the agencies or whether any of these
allocations that we ask of that.
Vanderhoef/Or both.
Norton/All of these are desperate needs, I'm not denying that at all. It's just a matter of
shares.
Kubby/Maybe the discussion has to happen earlier, I mean once we approve this budget
they're kind of in their off-season for, you know, their major part of their work
and so maybe this is an issue that we could ask them to discuss.
Norton/Well these are things we need to talk about.
Kubby/Way before the next budget.
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Norton/At the meetings with the county and school board, I'm getting tired of just
kicking the ball around there and not getting anywhere, I want to get onto some
hamme and...issues with these folks and this is one. OK.
Kubby/You bring the hammer I'll bring the (can't hear).
Norton/Mostly we just eat cookies or something like that.
(All laughing).
O'Donnell/That's the only reason I come.
Lehman/I think Karen, I think your fight, I mean obviously we go through the process
but if there are concerns and obviously there are that those concerns should be
communicated to those folks very soon after this so that, you know we did change
the guidelines two years ago.
Norton/Yea.
Lehman/And if we need to change them again then we change them again.
Norton/Well before they go into it again we should meet off season, meet with the
Housing Community Development and express our concerns with them but some
of them need to be formally and directly to the other agencies, county and
Coralville (can't hear).
Lehman/OK.
Norton/I'm still not sure how I feel about the elevator.
Vanderhoef/OK, well we'll talk about it tomorrow.
Atkins/Ready for Recycling Center?
Lehman/I think it will take about three minutes. Actually it will take five.
Champion/It might take 7 or 8.
Lehman/OK. We're doing a recycling center.
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Recyclinll Center 99-47 S1
Dan Scott/I'd like to start out tonight with a question. I know that might be unusual but
how many of you have all been to the Iowa City land fill?
Norton/Your going to have to get fight into that microphone.
Scott/Can everybody hear me now?
Lehman/Yea.
Scott/Has everyone been there?
O'Dom~ell/What's the question?
Scott/How many of you have been to the landfill?
Lehman/Land fill.
Scott/
Has everyone been there? OK. So, I just wanted to make sure that you all realize
it is an industrial site, it is a large facility there's big trucks out there, there's
heavy construction equipment out there, and there's a lot of things going on out
there and your in a small car and your taking out things it can be very intimidating
to people and I think, and it can also be confusing. And so what we have here is
our future vision of the Iowa City landfill.
Norton/Looks like a Kentucky horse barn.
O'Donnell/Looks like we could rent it out.
Lehman/Kind of looks like a roundhouse in a railroad yard.
Scott/That's very intentional, suppose to bring (can't hear).
Lehman/OK. Shoot.
Scott/We are already in place a long-term plan, last year we did a lot of planning and put
a lot of planning efforts into the landfill, we now have our master plan and we
now have our land fill policy statement and basically from those we have a
commitment to the site for at least 30 years and more if we choose to so we're
going to be at this site for a long time with our land filling operations, we just felt
it made a lot of sense to increase the services that we provide to the public and
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also make the sight more user friendly at the same time. And we have several
ideas included in this proposal that we fill will accomplish that. And there all
pretty well listed out here in your packet but I guess I'd like to go through them
also just to kind of discuss them with you real quickly here. We had a nice little
storm last summer that pretty much destroyed our existing weigh station at the
landfill so we need to rebuild that. And also there are some features of the landfill
that have been there for ever since it opened for example, the scale is almost 30
years old and it's need of some renovations. So there are some parts to the site
that we need to do some renovation work to so we wanted to include that work
along with this proposal to kind of tie everything together and to make it more
cost effective. So some ofthat's included in here as well. And we also felt that
since we would be building a new structure out there for our weight station it
made a lot of sense to go ahead and include the household chemical waste facility
and along with that a waste exchange and some kind of an educational component
to try and promote recycling and reclamation and basically existing solid waste
technologies and things that people can do to reduce the amount of solid waste
that both helps us out and helps out the environment. So let's dive right in here,
what I'd like to do is go through the site which is kind of over here and there's
also another drawing in your packet that we can look at also and what I wanted to
do was go through some of the reorganization of the site that we hope to do to
make it more user friendly and then I'd like John Shaw our architect to come up
here to talk about the building and some of the environmental ideas that we have
in the construction of that so we can show people that we not only talk the talk we
walk the walk so to speak. So, I'm going to try and move this over here. (can't
hear) See this, the entire side kind of starts at the entrance here, we wanted to start
off with a new one, we want everyone to come to the entrance and have some
signage here so that they know where their going and what their doing, that's kind
of our effort to get off on the right track here, so everyone comes in here, then
basically the traffic is divided into two pieces. Pretty much everyone that goes to
the sight is either paying to dispose or their bringing out things to recycle that the
services are free. So the commercial haulers and the people that are paying fall
right onto the new scale and that's fight here. And if you look at the 3-
dimensional sketch (can't hear) and if you look at the 3-dimensional sketch
everyone pulls in right here, that's where the new weight station is, that's the little
silo looking thing with the windows around it, this provides nice visual view of
the entire site from, right there, you can see all aspects of the site.
Norton/Hold your finger on the silo.
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Scott/The scale and that's where the money is exchanged and that's where the person to
person contact is placed fight there. So all the paying customers pull onto the
scale and from there there directed to where ever they need to go throughout the
entire site. What we tfied to do is to set up a.
Norton/Does the person have to walk out to them there? Do they have to walk out to
them?
Scott/No.
Lehman/No.
Scott/No, it's 'set up so that he can, it's like a.
Norton/Like a.
Scott/Like a fast food restaurant with a little.
Norton/Drive-through.
Scott/Like Burger King.
Lehman/Fast food in a dump, there you go.
Vanderhoef/The grain elevator is (can't hear).
Scott/OK. I tried to set up the site on looping system so that it would just people get
through the system. We're still going to be operating the same existing services
are compost and our used oil, scrap iron, cardboard, and solid waste, tires and
appliances. And some of those free are some of those are pay items but basically
with having everything up here the small cars and trucks that go out there don't
have to go down to working base, they can stay up in here on the paved surfaces
so it's going to be more convenient for them and it's just going to be a lot more
user friendly and then when we tried to set it up so it's convenient to both the
paying customers and the nonpaying customers and the way we've done that is
that the nonpaying customers can go right through the site, either going around
the scale down to the cardboard and waste oil and all of these the same recycling
containers that we collect curbside and we'll also include glass and three types of
glass and cardboard and newspaper. So that we drop off locations here that you
can just get to and drive on through the system your not in anybody's way and
you don't have to pay, you can also go over here and this of course will be our
new chemical waste facility and it you look at back to our sketch you'll pull in
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right up along in here underneath this canopy and this is what your looking at and
again we realize some people coming out here this will be a new experience to
them and there not going to know where to go so again we'll have the signage
telling which lane to get into, if your paying, if your not paying, and usually what
will happen is that they'll end up at one of these two places by default anyway so
right here they'll have person to person interaction which we can tell them where
to go and which lane they need to be in. If they end up over here we'll have a
speaker box and as you can see from this (can't hear) the operator in here can the
speaker box will be right here so you'll be able to see people over there and you
can talk into the speaker box if you have questions you can have them answered
that way and you can get on through the system. But this will be the chemical
waste facility, this is by appointment only. You pull up under the canopy, you'll
be unloaded and then the doors here into the facility and if, for example, they have
a mix load, maybe their coming out, maybe they've just cleaned out their garage,
maybe they've got things that they want to drop off at the chemical waste facility
and maybe they also have used tires or something that need to be dropped off
down here so they can get on through the system and then on and out.
Lehman/That's not going to be open on Sundays is it?
Scott/No, it's open Monday through Saturdays 7-4.
Norton/When you come around to this side, to drop different, let's suppose I've got some
fluorescent tubes or something. I take it to one of these specialty places or which
one is that?
Scott/The main building right here. That will be for batteries, and fluorescent light bulbs
and (can't hear).
Norton/OK, but if I'm going over to the other one let's say with magazines or something.
Scott/Yep.
Norton/Are the cars lined up, fight now for example, you're always backing into
somebody trying to get out of there.
Scott/Right.
Norton/I don't, do you avoid that problem?
Scott/That is a good question, we realize that when the facility first opens there probably
is going to be a line of cars to get to this facility but we hope that by offering the
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drop sites for the recycling and I mean you don't have to have an appointment to
do that.
Norton/Even when your at a drop site I mean there' s more than one car there, are they
parallel to each other, behind one another, on top of one another?
Kubby/Well there's no markings on the pavements will there be?
Scott/No.
Kubby/So people will just.
Shaw/There's plenty, there's plenty of speculation.
Kubby/You have to come up and talk.
Shaw/It, there may be some congestion because of the number of containers but on
average we don't think it's going to be that busy that the facilities open enough
hours during the day (can't hear).
Norton/A list.
Kubby/How will we, especially for tires, cause you have to pay for tires, how will you
ensure that people pay the appropriate fee and not just drive around and?
Scott/OK. That's a good question and that's something that we talked about quite a bit
actually. That goes back to the visual observation from this window we can see
the exit. So basically this, the operator here will be able to see what's going on at
all the drop sites and if someone leaves we'll know.
Kubby/Well how do you know they have tires to note, I mean all your going to be
watching to make sure they, aren't watching me when I put them, when that truck
comes in that's when I'm going to take my tires out of my trunk and put them in
the bin.
Lehman/You just by with it.
Scott/Well I guess maybe we won't catch everyone but we'll try.
Champion/Well the good thing about it most people are basically honest.
Scott/They'll.
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Kubby/But they might not realize that there's a fee because it's in with all the other
things that you can just drive up and do your oil and everything else and so it may
not be that their trying but that your setting it up in a way physically that indicates
well there's nothing different about tires than about the waste oil or the other
materials.
Scott/Well that will all go back to the signing also. We'll have the prices on the signs so
that as you drive into the facility and you' 11 know what you have and what your
going to be paying.
Kubby/Well I guess if that becomes a problem we might need to switch some things
around but.
Scott/It could be.
Kubby/If they don't pay we have to pay at some point.
Scott/Yea, but they're not throwing them in the ditch you know, at least we're.
Kubby/Right, your not having to (can't hear).
Scott/It's not going to be perfect.
Lehman/No, but I think that's a good point, the person whose going to cheat and is going
to try to dispose of a tire without paying for them isn't going to go out here where
he can get caught, he's going to dump it in the ditch.
O'Donnell/That's true.
Vanderhoef/And we still had the.
John Shaw/They tell me I have to speak in the microphone. That point has been
addressed with this site plan, from this vantage point, this individual not only has
direct visual access through all the operations here but they know who and when
any vehicle has you know, what vehicle has entered and when that vehicle has
entered the system. There will be verbal direction regardless of whether the
vehicle comes through the upper lane or the lower lane, there will be verbal
direction, there will be visual monitoring, the three top reclamation stations will
be the pay stations, there in a very very close proximity visually to the person who
sits in this control point at all times and the people will already have come
through and received direction as to where to go.
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Kubby/So you kind of have to stop there?
Shaw/Yes, yes, there's, there in fact there will be a stop here and here because as trucks
and car come back up through the system, a lot of these trucks are going to have
to weigh twice, once full and once empty. So they all have to come back up
through the system and as they come back through, they will que here and it will
be like a 4-way stop. They'll, you'll alternate as you pass here, so everybody is
going to receive direction from the individual that sits at the control point.
Kubby/So on a busy day that person really needs to keep track cause they've got many
directions to supervise.
Vanderhoef/John, we're talking the four, where there going to have to stop and accrue a
stop, is there something that is going to make sure that when you come into the
system that you don't swing around the wrong direction and get into the drop area
without going past the station?
Shaw/There really, do you mean they'll come down through?
Scott/They'll cut through there.
Vanderhoef/Yea, they' 11 cut through there.
Shaw/This is going to be a one-way, it's going to be set up as a one-way road and it's
going to have.
Vanderhoef/So there will be no way that you can get make a right hand turn there, it'll be
set up in such a way that you couldn't go the wrong way and come back.
Norton/Put dragon teeth.
Scott/There you go. Yea, that's a good point, we'll have to set up that intersection so
that you can't do that.
Vanderhoef/Cause if I don't know that I have to go that way and I know where my flee
drop places are, it would be faster not to go past all the scale and stuff because I
know I don't have anything to pay for.
Shaw/But if you don't know where your going at this point it's counter intuitive to take a
right and come back down through here when you realize that all the direction and
activity and facilities are down through here.
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Vanderhoef/But after you know the system and you know you don't have to pay for
anything the quickest way is going to be circulate the other way (can't hear).
Scott/Well you can also go down on this side of the scale and go right around there too,
so there's actually two lanes through there.
Vanderhoef/So there is, there are two lanes there OK.
Scott/So you don't have to go across the scale, if you don't have to pay you can go
around.
Shaw/And then the people.
Vanderhoef/So that's going to move faster, your not waiting for the pay and (can't hear)
pay together.
Scott/Right, fight, exactly.
Shaw/People that have multiple you know more than one item come back through, to see
if they've got something that goes up here, they get rid of that and then they
come back through here and fight back into the entire system to take care of the
second items may not be accommodating at that point.
ScotUYea. Right.
O'Donnell/(can't hear).
Scott/Right and to answer your question we'll have three people to run the upper area,
one in the weigh station all the time and then two, well there'll be one down here
part time and then one here full time so this person will help out that person
repacking paint and things in chemical waste facility.
Shaw/
And the location of that control point is going to help keep the number of
employees who will be required down here, so that one individual can monitor the
entire system.
Norton/Kind of use this as the same personnel that you have.
Scott/Exactly, that's the plan right now.
Norton/This is the (can't hear) to be wished or is firm?
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Shaw/Firm.
Scott/I think it's pretty firm from what I understand.
Vanderhoef/That's the way the budget says it.
Lehman/You know why don't you give them an idea of what size that building is,
because when I first looked at it I looked at it and I thought it was bigger than
most barns, but it's 3,000 square feet and my.
Scott/OK.
Shaw/It's just under 3,000 square feet.
Scott/Well why don't we go on into the building and you can talk about some of the
environmental issues and components, do you want to go into that?
Shaw/I'm not enthusiastic about this. OK. One of the things that was presented with
this project early on was and I think most of you will remember there was a very
comprehensive list of alternative energy and recycling parameters they we called.
Jim Schoenfelder developed a real strong list of things that should be considered,
should be studied, and should be explained why they were appropriate and
incorporated into the project or why they were probably outside of either the
budget or the intent of the project. I took the opportunity that was afforded to get,
I got someone from UNI that works, he's an energy coordinator up at the Center
for Environmental and Energy Education up at UNI and he got work study
students involved with the project, we took every one of the parameters, we pulled
them apart and we made a fairly nice report on all of them, and the city will get a
copy of this report and it's really a nice simple single source place to go for a
fairly wide range of alternative energy and recycling choices and issues, practices,
you all have the outline, you see that there are, there is two extensive lists of
things that have been considered as the project has been designed. We're dealing
with recycled and renewable materials, assemblies that are made from recycled
products, practices out on the job site while this is being built, we're trying to
incorporate the weigh spec. which there at least the viable parts of the weigh spec.
that was developed by a land fill organization that is designed to require practices
during the construction process that minimizes the amount of construction waste
with the idea that if you start here possibly you can have this sort of thing spread
throughout the construction industry. The building itself has been designed to
have absolute modular out to out dimensions so when you lay four foot wide
panels on it you get to the end of the outside wall and that's where the four foot
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wide panel stops and it meets the comer, your not cutting, your not throwing
away waste, you know, it's just common sense things. I think there I think I
counted the list up I'm not going to stand here and read them to you but I think
there are right around 5l items on here. Out of those 51 some of those are
mutually exclusive because if you do one you can't do the other, but out of those
51 at this point we've incorporated 28 of the items into the project as it sits before
us and as it becomes more finely developed we keep finding more ways to
incorporate more. You know it's just a method of thinking about it and it opens
itself to those opportunities. The picture you have in front of you and you have
elevations that show some texture in the pass outs in the packet. The exterior
material will be steel siding that will have batten seams on it, it was very
conscious, I very consciously tried to pick up an language in even with the higgly
piggly arrangement of the various pans of the building. You go out to any farm
yard and nobody stood there and said boy I think this building would like nice
here. They stood there and said how can I use this building and that's where it
went. The steel siding of course has got the batten reference of a barn siding, it's
also a recycled material, steel roofing, steel will use wood studs on the outside, to
take advantage of the energy or the thermal resistance of wood, all the wood will
have to be certified by the forest steward council that it's come from recyclable
sort, or renewable sources, tree farms and then on the inside we'll use metal studs,
again recycled material. We've got, the top three windows on the side side will
be photovoltaic panels, they aren't actually windows, there'll be photo bouquet
panels. They will push five overhead ceiling fans that will sit in the top of the
clerestory space, of course we'll reverse these fans summer and winter, and we'll
draw warm air up or push cool air down depending on what the need may be. The
windows are, there's been a very conscious effort to take advantage of the
common sense things that you drive out by any farmstead and you see the
windows are all double hung windows, you get to have hot air go out the top and
cool air come in the bottom. The top windows to the south in the little control
stack there will be some structural steel flaming up there that will act as a thermal
as thermal storage, that entire stack, the height of it is important visually because
it is a marker, it tells people where, what there destination is but it's important
functionally also because the height allows us to develop solar stack effect and
we'll use the draw through that to ventilate all the habitable spaces within inside
the building. The building is not laid out on, it's actually pulls more to the noah
and south than it does east and west, which would be the normal logical way to
weigh out a very energy building. But one of things we're going to do with this is
we're going to heat and cool it at 100 percent with waste oil. We can get units
that will burn at zero emission, they will produce the cooling and the heating and
the nice thing is that the landfill produces enough waste oil out of their own
operations that they can heat and cool this so they don't have to receive oil from
the public that they would no idea actually was was in it. They can control the
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source of the waste oil going into the equipment and once that move is made then
the north/south, or the east/west orientation becomes less important because solar
gain is you know if your essentially getting free heating and cooling, solar gain is
not as big an issue, there's still solar strategies at work here but what became a
greater energy concern was the day lighting and the space. And that's one reason
the ceilings are nine feet high to cast the natural light deeper in. I could go on but
I think our time's about up.
Norton/How do you run the fans when the sun's working?
Shaw/You have a battery sink up there.
Norton/Oh (can't hear).
Shaw/Yea, the portable tanks charge the battery store and they run off that.
Norton/And that's a net gain I guess. Is that a net gain or?
Shaw/No, how many years do you want to protect it over?
Norton/Well I don't know.
Shaw/It's going to start paying for itself probably within about 2 ½ years.
Kubby/That's pretty quick.
Norton/I get the feeling this whole thing is done with mirrors. We're reducing the
landfill charges aren't we? Isn't that in the hopper too, reducing the charges and
getting all this high tech system here it feels almost impossible?
Atkins/You want to look at strictly from financing perspective Dee, landfills make no
sense at all. I mean what we're trying to do is diminish the volume of materials
going into the landfill and at the same time trying to maintain the cost figures and
it just it's like economic development, why is economic development, every time
we bring a business or industry to town they create more waste to put in our
landfills.
Kubby/So that amount of money on the ticking fee that' s for household hazardous waste,
have we spent all of that for our once in a while cleanups or some of that money
has been squirreled away for this facility?
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Atkins/We have put money so my build this project, we have money set aside, we will
still sponsor special hazardous cleanup days, we still wish to continue to
programming these facilities not unlike we have done with programs in the past.
Noaon/Well this one is the landfill.
Atkins/This comes out of landfill yes, we've set aside on reserves efficient money to pay
for this project.
Noaon/In reserve.
Scott/Yea, and I'd like to add to that, we've applied to the state for $100,000 grant to pay
for some of the equipment and part of the educational component and the
household hazardous waste storage little component, little self-contained unit off
to the noah there.
Atkins/Some members of the council might recall that 4-5 years ago we were thinking
about the east side of town trying to build one, we couldn't find land, and it sort of
all come together instruction's that John got through Jim was that when we call
it a recycling center, how much can we make it respective (can't hear) used
process and I think John's folks have gone far and beyond. 1 mean it truly is a
recycling center, process purposes but also for the (can't hear).
Kubby/So what is the educational component, I mean is it all on site or is, do we also
have a programmatic thing that's more that have a PR component to it?
Scott/I think it will be all of that, maybe can you answer that better Brad?
Brad
NeumanrF Dan mentioned our grant we're applying for through the state and it's a
$100,000, $60,000 is going towards the education component and then we match
that with $60,000 that's spread out over three years. We're looking at doing radio,
TV, lot of printed material, tours, big kickoff type things, so it's quite extensive,
$60,000 is quite a bit.
Norton/Are we inventing the wheel here or have we seen one of these somewhere else?
Neumann/There's about six of them in the state, they vary in size. Des Moines Metro is
probably the larger one. Yea.
Neumann/Davenpoa has one, Des Moines has one, Cedar Rapids has one, Clinton
County has a smaller version and then there's a couple other smaller ones.
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Norton/And you're handling all hazardous waste now, will this handle all kinds of waste
now? Don't forget my neon tubes, I don't know where to drop them.
Neumann/Those will be accepted here for residents. They will be accepted at the
facility. The facility will start with residential waste only. And then we'll move
into small quantity, conditionally exempt small quantity generators, business, and
schools.
Kubby/That's great, because those small generators, they just don't know what, they
landfill the stuff.
Norton/Landfill the stuff yea.
Neumann/So we're taking any hazardous material out of the home and including needles,
syringes, some of those type items also.
Vanderhoef/Is there anything that has to be incinerated?
Neumann/Most of what we collect here will be incinerated somewhere, out of that
hazardous.
Norton/When you get fight down to it.
Vanderhoef/We're not.
Neumann/We will contract with a company that will come in, we will do the lab packing
and then they'll come in with a truck and take it away, that's all manifested back
to us and we get the destruction papers and most of that will be incinerated. Some
go into special landfills, most of it's incinerated, depends on what it is.
Norton/Might as well make your own incinerator pretty quick.
Vanderhoef/What, yea, what's our cost to send this out to be incinerated?
Neumann/The events we have now, the one day events, the majority of that is incinerated
now, and those are in the $100,000 - $75,000 to hundred thousand dollar range for
one day event.
Kubby/I mean that's why the educational component is so important to get people to
choose less toxic options or to choose (can't hear).
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Neumann/Well you have to remember a lot of the material will be given back to the
public so we don't, if it comes in good condition, it will be put on a shelf in the
exchange room, public can come in and take it, and the best way to get rid of it is
to use it, so we don't have to pay to incinerate it.
Shaw/And I really have been spending weekends at similar facilities and.
Lehman/Microphone.
Shaw/I'm sorry.
Neumann/Every time I've spoken with anyone who runs one of these facilities they've
said the shelves in the exchange areas stay empty. People do come and remove
the material, and virtually any materials that go up there, you know, it's a free
lunch right and I think that must mean that there are a lot of rental units in these
towns that are painted brown because they hog all the paint.
Atkins/What about our bid schedule, did we get one, finally get a bid?
Neumann/Yea, the documents will be ready by the end of April, and then.
Atkins/Sometime in May or (can't hear) summer?
Lehman/This one will be complete by Fall?
Kubby/This is really a.
Shaw/That's the plan.
Lehman/September, October.
Neumann/It'll be closed in by fall, anyhow, I don't know that it will be complete, May,
June, July, August, yea, late fall, late fall, yea, it's really not even a large house,
the size of a large house. The reclamation area is kind of a separate area that sits
down to the south but everything is covered so people don't have an excuse not to
come out in the rain.
Norton/You have a fair amount of paving to do though don't you in this?
Neumann/Yes.
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Norton/Do you have decent soil out there for that? You don't have paved roads at the
moment?
Neumann/No, there's a lot of rock out there, there's, there's 30 years worth of rock there
that we can work with. But that's true there's going to be a lot of hard surfaces,
we're looking at different types of material to work with, to keep our costs down
here and that is a large area to pave and we're trying to address that.
Vanderhoef/How are we doing with our shingle droves?
Neumann/Oh, very good. We've shingled this east/west and north/south portion of this
road over there along the east and north boundary, it's holding up very well.
Champion/I have an odd question, can we, I mean this is the land fill right? Have we
thought of some way of how we're going to clean those buildings (can't hear).
Kubby/Whose?
Neumann/What do you mean clean?
(can't hear).
Neumann/You mean as far as polluting the ground water and that, is that what you
mean?
Champion/Or keeping the building clean.
(can't hear).
Neumann/That' s true, and another reason we want to try and pave a lot of this upper
portion is to keep the dust down to keep it more less muddy, a nicer facility. And
as far as cleaning out the inside, it's all self-contained so we're not polluting any
of ground water around it, their in that process.
Atkins/Connie is your question, is it going to be tidy?
Champion/Yea, right.
Atkins/I think that' s director of Public Works will have that responsibility (can't hear).
Champion/I don't know.
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Atkins/It seems so untidy.
Kubby/But we do need to.
Vanderhoef/We're going into pick out products, when we want a nice place to shop?
Champion/Right.
Kubby/We get a lot of complaints, like people love the services of City Canon but
there's also on a blowy day there's a lot of stuff flying around.
Atkins/Connie, landfills are obviously traditionally (can't hear) to maintain.
Champion/Right.
Atkins/That building because it is (can't hear) closed certainly presents an easier
opportunity, you're not going to go out there with your pumps and handbag and
go shopping around.
Shaw/But you could.
(can't hear).
Kubby/And your pumps.
O'Donnell/I like my pumps.
Scott//Those services are separated from the building down here to.
Norton/So you know, people are going to still ask the general question, is this a an
unlitigated good, I mean is this thing, in other words people will say well why are
you spending money to do this, why don't you spend it some other way? That is,
what are you giving them, really, other than this stuff is all going to be handed
back and, it's going somewhere now, fight.
Neumann/Well that's just it, it's going somewhere now and we don't know where, and
we know it's out there, so this is just giving us an opportunity to capture that and
make sure we know it's being safely disposed of.
Kubby/To ground water protection.
Atkins/I think it's real important that.
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Norton/I'm trying to get an overall vision here that makes it work.
Atkins/First of all we, our generation, and I think local governments have been assigned
responsibility to clean up these messes. I mean practically speaking it would
seem a wiser policy would be the federal govemment to require that all packing
that goes out the door of some business or industry be required to be recycled.
But they choose not to do that, we are the custodian, the janitor here, and it's been
handed to us and this is the way we believe we can get those materials out of the
landfill hopefully back into some other productive use, but the bottom line is
that's the hand we were dealt hopefully, and as the local government I think we
need to deal with it.
Norton/But it's got to be trucked out basically, the stuff that comes in, all goes out, you
know were, some people may take it out individually but most of what comes in
here you said is trucked out somewhere.
Atkins/But the recyclable (can't hear).
Norton/Why truck it in here and then truck it out again, why not send it out to start with?
Atkins/The recyclable materials are going to find their way to license facilities, for
example, the syringes, they've got to be incinerated, that's the only really truly
safe way to do that, we don't have that facility. There are certain hazardous
materials that we have, isn't there someplace in Kansas we go or something, or
Oklahoma, I don't know, whatever it is we have a contract.
Neumann/The south.
Atkins/Where we dispose of certain materials by contract and it's in there controlled
environment that it's taken care of. I mean the only other option is don't create
these materials. Now.
Norton/Just load in a truck and take it to Illinois like everybody else does.
Lehman/Yea, but you still have to, you still have to collect it.
Norton/Yea, but you don't have to sort it.
Champion/You have to worry about the future.
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Letunan/Well I think you do have to sort it long-term.
Norton/Let somebody else sort it.
Shaw/The list of counties I visited goes Bremer, Linn, Blackhawk, Polk, Scott. All of
those counties have a facility somewhat analogous to this and I think that puts
Johnson County behind the curve.
Norton/You mean being progressive in that sense?
Kubby/Well I mean the two big issues we deal with the land fill are volume and toxicity.
And this facility helps us deal in some way with both of those major issues and
hopefully in the long-term what some of this does is makes our landfill last longer
and it helps us maintain the quality of ground water.
Norton/Yea, I, those are virtues, and you know.
Kubby/So those are the tangible benefits but their longer term and their gooey.
Champion/Somebody has to be first.
Atkins/And the other choice is what, not to do this?
Champion/Right.
Norton/Truck it to Illinois.
Atkins/I don't think that's, truck it to Illinois. But then I you know.
Norton/Unsort it.
Lehman/That's the short term solution.
Norton/Well that's what a lot of people are doing, that's what New York is doing, their
trucking it or barging it somewhere.
Kubby/And well and we have a component of that in that it's being incinerated
elsewhere so we are buying into that.
Atkins/And to accomplish that Dee would requirement of the government to take even
strong hand. And the goal of the solid waste dream, federal court rulings certainly
don't work to our advantage. Are you willing away the (can't hear).
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Norton/I'm in favor of being progressive Steve I'm just trying to be the deviled
advocates so somebody says oh here we go again, on the cutting edge of
technology and sweetness of life and.
Atkins/I don't think there's any sweetness about it.
Neumann/The reason we do the HHW is not necessarily volume it's more the toxicity
and what in the future your going to have to take care of that landfill and the more
we put in the more expensive it's going to be in the future to clean it up.
Norton/Can you use the methane out of there?
Neumann/That's a whole other subject. But you've got to remember when we have a
clean up day a full blown toxic clean up day we got 2-3 percent of the households
in this county. So you know there's stuff going into that landfill yet.
Norton/2-3 percent.
Neumann/Well it's only once a year too, so if we do it weekly.
Vanderhoef/Ongoing.
Neumann/We hope to increase that and take out a lot of that toxicity.
Lehman/Well we're also in a situation where we need a scale house.
Norton/Yea, well.
Scott/Well we don't have any choice, it blew away.
Lehman/I mean this is going to be really nice scale house, look that one way.
Atkins/OK, let's go.
Vanderhoef/What would it take to do our incineration? What are we looking at?
Lehman/(can't hear).
Neumanrd I don't think you even want to get into that.
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Atkins/Because I've seen licensing and permitting (can't hear).
Neumam~/I don't even think the state of Iowa would allow.
Kubby/And a revolution from the community.
Atkins/And I don't think the state would be permitting it.
Kubby/Actually it's not pan of our landfill plan, our county plan so we, so that's really
not an option.
Neumann/No, I don't think the state would allow such an incinerator? There closing
them down.
Norton/Well somebody's got to do it.
Vanderhoef/What does Ames have?
Kubby/The University's closing there's?
Neumann/Ames has a solid waste incinerator that they produce power for the City of
Ames. It's been there, it's grandfathered in, it's been there for almost thirty years.
The only one in the state.
Letunan/And it doesn't work real well I understand.
Neumann/No, it'll probably be the last one.
Norton/Somebody's (can't hear) someplace come on guys, their incinerating chemical
weapons for god's sake.
Neumann/Well to be honest with you most of the material we send out from a cleanup
day ends up in the south. Goes to Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky.
Norton/That's not fair.
Neumann/That's where the.
Norton/You just told me Illinois.
Neumann/That's where the burners are.
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Norton/I don't mind Illinois, but South Carolina.
Neummm/That's where the incinerators are located.
Vanderhoef/That's where he's going to retire.
Norton/I see, it's.
Neumann/Usually the company that's picking it up owns their own facilities, or the big
ones do and they locate them in those southern states usually. Very few of them
up north.
Vanderhoef/Is that because of the way the permitting goes?
Neumann/Could be.
Norton/Sure.
Champion/(Can't hear). You've created a monster with all of our travel, stuff we use in
our houses and businesses, and it's incredible too.
Neumann/But if we send it to Illinois we end up paying for it in the future again too,
we're liable for what goes in over there.
Lehman/We had this on our CIP.
O'Donnell/Cuts down on (can't hear) but most the time you can carry that list.
Arkins/Oh yea. This, you improved the project, late fall, you say we're ready to go to
bid, what's the big deal?
Vanderhoef/And this being7
Neumann/This fall, late fall.
Vanderhoef/And it's for.
Arkins/Cause we're ready to go to bid.
O'Donnell/(Can't hear).
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Kubby/We're ready.
Neumann/How long before?
O'Donnell/Did you say this is like a (can't hear).
Shaw/
Number one the materials here are very modest materials, and very straight
forward materials. And you know, just virtually on the edge of industrial
materials, they make sense with the metal pole buildings we already have out at
the landfill. There extremely durable, you've got a 40-50 year roof here, we're
going with metal roof rather than asphalt shingles, the steel siding is going to have
at least a 20-year life. And that again all of this was planned with the recycling
component in mind, the longer you put forward the materials you've used the first
time, the less the whole system starts up and the less your putting in the land fill
later on. But this is, there's virtually, well not virtually, I will say that there is,
this is a maintenance flee building from finishes, from the standpoint of finishes.
Everything will either be a factory finish, well actually everything will be a
factory finish. We're not going to introduce any follicle organic compounds to
treat any of the building components so it's going to be extremely, it's going to
take care of itself fairly well.
O'Donnell/(Can't hear).
Lehman/Thank you very much, build it, bid it, bid it, then we'll build it.
Vanderhoef/Bid it at a good price.
Kubby/Great job.
O'Donnell/I think it's a great job.
Vanderhoef/I think this is wonderful, we can get this done with own income.
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Atkins/Ernie.
Lehman/Yes.
Atkins/Can I ask to take Chauncey Swan before Stormwater, I mean I just need a yes or
no from you whether you like that idea or not.
Lehman/On Chauncey Swan?
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Kubby/Chauncey Swan yes but not until we've done our priorities.
Arkins/Well I can live with that.
Kubby/Well, so like, I think it's a great idea but I think there might be other things that
are more important.
Norton/We can put it on the agenda.
O'Donnell/(can't hear).
Arkins/I just, first of all is it a good idea?
Champion/Yea.
Lehman/Yea, I mean 1 think it's a great idea.
Norton/Which is that?
Lehman/Moving the fountain across.
Kubby/Chauncey.
Norton/Oh, moving the fountain, yes.
O'Donnell/I think it's a great idea.
Norton/Public Art has looked at that have they not?
Vanderhoef/Yes.
Arkins/Yes.
Kubby/But I might not want to spend $30,000 this year and maybe not in five years
depending on our priorities and what other things.
O'Donnell/But there may be four people here that do.
Kubby/Yea.
O'Donnell/I think it's a great idea.
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Atkins/Am I heating it's a great idea and sit on it, or it's a great idea go ahead?
O'Donnell/I think go ahead.
Kubby/It's $30,000.
Lehman/Well I think there's going to be certain segment of the population that are going
to be very unhappy with that fountain being removed. We know that.
O'Donnell/It's very (can't hear).
Lehman/And there' s also a fairly large number of people who were involved in raising
the money to pay for that fountain.
O'Donnell/That's right.
Lehman/I guess I'd rather see the relocated sooner rather than later.
Norton/Can you find the $30,0007
Arkins/Well we have three options. One option is that traditionally we always have
enough room in our CIP, of course this year it doesn't look like we're going to be
able to.
Vanderhoef/Yea, this year.
Atkins/Secondly, we have money within the Parks and Recreation budget for the
development of parks, they rarely spend all of that, and thirdly is contingency
transfer, I mean, we have three options. The first one, I understand Karen's point,
it's all taken, but we do have two others.
Norton/I don't see any point in letting it sit, I think it ought to get moved.
O'Donnell/I do too.
Norton/If we are not being too elaborate on that base onto which it's going to sit, but it's
got to sit on something that will be (can't hear).
Atkins/Jim and Kumi put together a very straight forward project that's intended to be
something that's an attractive feature, it's intended to allow little ones to play in it
without the other ones being at risk. And we're also trying to reuse that resource,
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that piece of sculpture. It will have cascading water, it will not pond, it will drain
fight off.
Norton/Drain fight off, yea.
Vanderhoef/Was I mistaken when I read in one place that it was brass and one place that
it was copper?
Norton/Yea, they said that was a contradiction.
Atkins/It is a contradiction because (can't hear) thought it was copper, now we're pretty
sure we think it's brass. It's brass.
(Cant hear).
Lehman/Microphone up here.
Kumi Morris/My name is Kumi Morris I'm the intern architect working with Jim
Schoenfelder the city architect. Originally we thought that it was indeed copper in
the drawings that I had had and some information that I had from other people
who had sanded the materials down at one point. They believe that it was copper.
But after when I did some further research I found that after speaking to a person
who had last painted it in the last spring had sanded it down to it's main material
and then refinished it and painted it they found that is was indeed brass. Again
it's still questionable, if it's brass, we're going to put a sealant on it, and perhaps
it will weather with the sealant but also it will maintain the material, if it's copper
we'd like to bring it down to it's base and have it patina and.
Norton/What does brass do, copper gets green, what does brass do?
O'Donnell/Rust.
Morris/Yea, brass rusts, that's why it needs a, it would need a sealant, brass rusts.
Vanderhoef/And that would be an ongoing cost then? That sealant.
Morris/That's right, but it's already a cost that the fountain, that the existing fountain
already maintains, as far as painting, it's something that happens every 3-5 years,
that they take the sculpture down, sand it down to it's base and repaint it, so it's
something that's in order to maintain the existing as a painted piece, will have to
happen as well.
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Vanderhoef/So this would have to be one of our first costs that I've been talking about a
whole lot on maintaining our art.
Norton/Yes.
Vanderhoef/And when it comes up our.
Champion/It's not a new cost.
Vanderhoef/Well but we've been talking about in terms of our art budget and that there
would be a component in the art budget to paint.
(All talking)
O'Donnell/I'd like to see it.
Norton/Well copper would actually would not take any.
Vanderhoef/Come on give me a break.
Morris/That' s correct, just continue patina.
(All talking).
Kubby/I guess I just want to caution us because until we had that priority discussion, I
mean we just don't say no to very much.
Norton/But we're going to have to.
Kubby/I guess I mean it's not a big amount of money but it's just kind of the principle of
when do we say no and to what things and.
Champion/We will say no Karen.
Kubby/What's that?
Champion/(Can't hear)
O'Donnell/(can't hear)
Norton/This is what I'll agree with you, the 30.
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Kubby/I'm looking forward to that because.
Norton/We've got to start saying no, I agree with Karen but we, whether we this thing
can't just sit there and be stored can it I mean?
(all talking)
O'Donnell/We could put a garden hose and (can't hear).
Atkins/Chauncey Swan Park is an attractive park.
Kubby/Yea, it will be beautiful.
Norton/It's fine.
Atkins/It can be stored for a while, we felt it would be simply a productive use and what,
it had been there, it's another feature for downtown. Kumi and Jim did most of the
work (can't hear).
Norton/I think it'll be lovely.
Atkins/Our own people will design the palming mechanism, (can't hear).
Lehman/Has the Art Advisory Committee talked about this?
Atkins/Yea, Karen looked at it and their OK.
O'Donnell/Karen once they decided (can't hear).
Lehman/Well I don't.
Norton/I think they were ready to go they were looking it at, I know their not looking at
the budget, we've got to figure out how to get the $30,000 out of somebody's
hide.
(All talking).
Vanderhoef/$30,000 and the maintenance of it and the art budget.
Norton/I don't know whether they counted it, did they include anything in their budget?
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Atkins/No. This is not an art issue, they did not, I simply asked to Karen to take a look
at it from the artistic quality, what we're trying to do is preserve a piece of art
sculpture found.
Norton/Which was given to us.
Atkins/Bought and paid for. We'll put it to another use.
O'Dom~ell/That's good.
Norton/I say let's do it that's fine (can't hear).
Lehman/Now are we, did you?
(All talking).
Vanderhoef/Pay my taxes too?
Lehman/Marian did you pick that up?
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Atkins/(can't hear). There's a whole bunch of, we're not going to answer all your
questions tonight, I would certainly prefer that you just kind of kick back for them
and let them walk us through this issue, we're not going to get to financing
tonight, we'll get back to this later on but this is a new federal law, we want to get
ahead of the game and I've asked Rick to put it all together (can't hear) PCs and
some of the major issues, with that.
Rick Fosse/Thank you. I have 30 minutes on the agenda, I'll do my best to get it done in
15. We're at a bit of a crossroads in our Stormwater Management in the sense
that we got the Phase II Stormwater rates coming up and what we want to do is
take a full comprehensive look at our Stormwater Management, both where we've
been and where we're going so what I've put together is a short program to do
that and I'll just dive right into it so we don't bum up any.
Lehman/I realize your concerned about the time but it's also important that we hear what
you have to say.
Fosse/OK. OK.
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Atkins/You're done already.
Fosse/No.
Norton/Ernie didn't want him to rush too fast, that's right, your right.
Lehman/Well I think we really got to.
Norton/You got to be serious about it.
Fosse/It's much more comfortable talking behind your back.
Lehman/OK.
Fosse/
(slide show) First of all what is stormwater? And it's most easily defined as
anything that doesn't find it's way into our sanitary sewer system. Our sanitary
sewer system is closed and our stormwater system is much more undefined than
that. This stormwater is intended to be drinking water until the water main broke
but once it's out and on the street it's it is stormwater and same is true for the
runoff again for the gas stations and same is true for paint thinher or the motor oil
that somebody takes and dumps down the storm sewer inlet down the street from
them. We're all managers of stormwater at our own homes and we stand by, for
anybody's got a home, and it all begins with our down spouts, and our gutter
system, this guy's even got a thingy up here on his roof, he's starting to manage
his stormwater before it even gets to his gutters and for the most part people are
good storu~water managers it's not until the 15,000 plus households donate their
water to the city that it becomes a problem for us and then it becomes something
that I'm always, people always call it city water. They come into my office and
city water is causing trouble for me. So that's when we begin to get into the
picture of managin~ Stormwater. Oh, Karen this is the tree I was telling you about
at break time, this was a research project, about 10 years ago we put his big sewer
in, next to this tree, we decided to leave it and see how it would do. This
particular tree is still doing great, and it survived the windstorm last summer but
you can't do that to every tree. But anyway, storm sewer systems typically when
you think of a sewer system you think of pipes and that's true for a lot of our
newer storm sewers, we have some older storm sewers, this is the Beer Creek
storm sewer, this about ½ block noah of us, you've heard me talk about the beer
creek storm sewer before, it's the one that goes along the historical society
building, it's caused some problems for them. This is a sewer built by the Roman
2,000 years ago. I think they had better materials to work with than we did. The
ironic thing is is that is the sewer that's causing trouble for the historical society.
Streets are also a component of our stormwater system. A lot of people don't
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realize that but you can only make the pipes so big, or you can only afford to
make the pipes so big, and the rest of the water has to run somewhere else, and it
goes down our streets and picks up a lot of things along the way. There's a limit
of how far you can take that street concept though. We also transpoa stormwater
in open channels if you will. Now this one probably would have been better off
handled in a pipe because of the erosion that's going on there. And of course we
handle our stormwater in creeks, this is a shot of Ralston Creek and it's just now
feasible to put something that large in a pipe at least not financial reasonable. So
that's it on some of the general issues about what is stormwater, so let me dive
into what where we've been, what are some of the non-mandated things that we're
doing. We were the first in the state in 1976 to adopt a Stormwater Management
ordinance to deal with the issue of Stormwater quantity and this is a shot of a 2-
state basin that's out in Hunter's Run that's functioning very well, you can see
this basin is completely full, you got an overlay in route going down to the next
basin and into is overtopping and going between some homes that's handled very
large storm detained a lot of water and nobody's been damaged. It is designed
well and functions well. We've got a few in town that don't though.
Norton/Where is that one, where was that one?
Fosse/
That was out in Hunter's Run. Now of course a good share of the city was
developed prior to 1976 when our Stormwater Management ordinance came into
affect, and we had a lot of flooding issues from that prior development. And
because paaially because of the way our flood plains were managed back in the
early development days of the city. There's where the Chauncey Swan Ramp is
now, here's the view out Eleanor's window. It's the only department head with a
life jacket in here credenza.
Champion/Me too, that is an old (can't hear).
Fosse/
In response to that we've built some large detention basins on both the noah and
south branches of Ralston Creek. The noah branch one is in Hickory Hill park,
this is the south branch one, we discovered if you put enough soccer balls in a
shed, it will float. We've got that tied down now. It settles down over the outlet
and causes troubles. We still have some flooding downtown, this car started out
over by Johnson Street, and ended up down by the parking ramp here. It actually
went through the culvea, fight out here by the coop, and fortunately it didn't get
stuck in there or it would have cost us a lot of problems. There's nobody in this.
And, but the flooding has been reduced but not eliminated ceaainly in the
downtown area. In our neighborhoods this is over on Fairview Street, our
neighborhoods, especially our older neighborhoods experienced a lot of
stormwater problems, and if you recall back in the beginning when I showed the
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home and any other flooding problems, I deliberately showed pictures of an older
areas, a lot of people will attribute problems with stormwater just to urban sprawl,
you know (can't hear) urban sprawl but seems the majority of our stormwater
problems are in our older neighborhoods because when they originally developed
they didn't do a good job dealing with stormwater. But anyway over on Fairview
I like this picture because these people don't even seem phased by all the water
running by their house, it's, like you started talking before that came along.
Instead of having potlucks, they get together and build levy' s in this neighborhood
to protect it but this was, we did a storm sewer project out here, we spent about
$300,000 in 1995 and got a good handle on this problem. I would say on the
average over the years that I've been here, we spend about a half a million dollars
a year to come in and take a problem like this, go in and improve the storm sewer
system and then return the neighborhood the best we can. Oh, that's First
Avenue, did all of you recognize that?
Lehman/Right.
Vanderhoef/Oh yes.
Champion/I got caught on that one.
Fosse/
Yea, and the key with these, any storm sewer improvement that you make you
never eliminate the problem, you only make it less frequent. So that's something
we need to be very careful of as a city we go into a neighborhood with a project
and we can't say we're going to fix the problem, all we can promise them is it's
going to happen less frequently, because there will always be a storm that comes
along bigger than what we can afford to put pipes in. Well in addition to storm
sewer improvements we have this issue of storm sewer maintenance, and this is
out on Woodridge Avenue, had a big sink hole show up and had to go out, dig it
up, find out what was going on there and what we found is some thirty years ago
contractor had coppled a couple of pieces of different size pipe together. And it
took 30 years for the results to show up. That's why construction inspection is so
very important, when you get a five year maintenance bond on a project that some
problems take decades to show their face. One thing you might recall from the
budget a couple years ago is we did get a camera that we can run through the
sewers now so we can go in and diagnose some of these problems before we dig
the hole and in some of them, some cases we can actually fix them from the
inside. And that equipment has more than paid for itself, the staff really likes it
cause the old map would, it would just cause all the blood to run to your head.
Give you a headache. (All laughing)
Lehman/Is that old chip root. That was old Chip...
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Fosse/
As long as somebody's holding on it's (can't hear). Stormwater basin
maintenance is becoming a real issue for us because the lower basins are over 20
years old, and we really don't have any plan or place on how we're going to take
care of them. This is a basin, it's a small basin, it doesn't function very well,
we'll come to you later with some revisions to the stormwater management
ordinance to try to head off problems like this one in the future but two weeks a
coffee can caused over $2,000 worth of damage to a home out here because it got
lodged in the outlet. The small basins are very susceptible to flooding. It's one
of the reasons we're looking at other ways to manage our stormwater, this is the
whispering meadows wetland park, and one that's still on the drawing boards is
the south sycamore regional stormwater basin, we're really taking very large a
regional approach and we're looking at more than just stormwater quantity but
we're looking at quality in addition to that. But the point being we've literally got
hundreds of these basins around town and all of them are slowly filling with
sediments and sand and you know that in our budget we've got money to remove
the sediments from the north branch, south branch detention basins but for all
these ones out in our neighborhoods, we really don't have a good plan on how to
deal with that yet and that's facing us.
Vanderhoef/And we own most of those?
Norton/Are those private or public there?
Fosse/
Most of them are on private land but with an easement dedicated to the public and
we have a clear responsibility to maintain the outlet structures as far as getting the
sediments out of it, that's less clear. I put a quiz in here, a short quiz. How does
paying $1.00 a bag for stormwater, or excuse me, for yard waste get us involved
in financially in doing a project like this? And the answer is when you charge a
dollar a bag people find other things to do with their yard waste and put it out at
the curb, and one of the most popular things is putting it in our creeks and that's a
6 foot diameter culvert there.
Lehman/Oh my lord.
Fosse/And when those get plugged like that there's water ponds and in this case it got
about this deep and went into the basement of that home. The point here is that
since we've gone to the dollar a bag for yard waste, our streets department has a
list of culvert locations they need to get out to when it rains to just clear the stuff
off it. That's a problem that's come on lately. It's interesting how so many of our
decisions are intertwined. We also charge to pick up bulky items, I couldn't find
any, if the other two cushions hadn't floated away, I might have this in my family
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room now. I kind of like the neat floral pattern. But milky yard waste on the
other side of the creek as well. And this is right in the middle of town, it isn't
like on the edge of town, so with that we'll move into federally mandated
requirements. The EPA will be releasing the Phase II of the stormwater rates this
fall. And Phase I kicked in around 1991, Phase I1 will have the most direct
impacts on Iowa City, in three ways, one is with municipal permits, second is
industrial permits, and finally construction permits for construction projects.
Municipal permits we're going to need to get a what's called a national pollution
discharge elimination systems permit for our storm sewer system. And that's the
same type of permit that we get for our waste water treatment plant and it's going
to have two basic statutory standards for this permit, one is to eliminate elicit non
storm sewer discharges.
Norton/E what?
Fosse/Elicit connections, that's what this is, see that fm~y green there.
Norton/Bad connections.
Fosse/Yea, this one is actually about 2 ½ blocks up stream from where Karen lives, she
never complained about it but it's driving me crazy we kept it for about seven
years, we tracked this down and this storm sewer was tied into a floor drain in a
gas station and this green stuff is what.
Lehman/Antifreeze.
Kubby/Turned the creek green.
Fosse/Cleaned the floors in the gas station. It wasn't antifreeze but it had this floor
cleaner.
Norton/There was a direct connection you mean from the storm, sanitary sewer to the
creek.
Fosse/Yep, and we got that mess cleaned up.
Kubby/I thought I was seeing things when I went outside one day.
Fosse/You thought you were seeing things you say?
Kubby/Yea, I couldn't believe my eyes, yea.
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Fosse/
But there are a number of sanitary sewer services that are still connected to storm
sewers around town. If you recall we used to have a combined sewer system in
Iowa City, and they were separated in the 60's and 70's and there are a few of
those elicit connections still out there. There's one in Beer Creek storm sewer I'm
told, I was thinking about when I was crawling in there. Need to find those and
get those disconnected. The other statutory standard is to reduce pollution
discharges to the "maximum extent practicable." And the EPA calls that MEP's,
and that's a change in language from Phase I, Phase I was "best management
practices," now both of those terms nobody knows quite sure what they mean,
they've got subjective words in them it'll be interesting to see how it all shapes
out there.
Norton/What does that one stand for?
Fosse/
You've got "best management practices" is the old language, the new one is
"maximum extent practicable." Most people interpret the word practicable as
being better for us than best, but. Onto industrial most industries in Iowa City are
already regulated by the EPA Phase I rate. And the intent of those is to make sure
industrial operations aren't creating contributions to stormwater runoff, (can't
hear) stormwater runoff, here you can see some stuff going on outside, lots of
stains here, a barrel of stuff there. It's intended both to limit these incremental
pollution's entering the storm sewer system and also to provide protections against
larger spills, such as this one. This came out of the Coralville Industrial Park, it,
can you see the swirlies up here in the water? This is a mixture of diesel fuel and
insecticide, somebody was using diesel fuel to rinse out a big container that had
insecticide in it and.
Kubby/Probably (can't hear) it too.
Fosse/
Didn't know what to do with the diesel fuel, didn't want to put it in his truck again
so he dumped it down the storm sewer and I really think you could have lit the
river that day, it was really bad. We had some blotter, some skimmer, and a
blotter to keep that out of the water plant. But those are some of the things that
industrial regs. are hopefully they'll protect against. And then that also is a reason
why our water plant site is upstream from Interstate 80, it's upstream from that
Industrial Park that I was talking about, we're upstream from vulnerabilities to
spills along the interstate as well. Then there's the construction standards.
Currently, well first let me talk about this slide, this is. Some of the developers
here are still trying to get the hang of the stormwater management or the erosion
control thing, we've got about 200 feet of silk fence here, with just a knob on the
hill, and there's about 70 acres draining through here, and they've got 16 feet of
fence so it got overwhelmed.
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Lehman/Is that in Iowa City?
Fosse/Yes it is. And this was taken about six years ago, and I got to tell you when I was
getting ready for this, I was going through some slides from 20 years and they
have improved a lot. There's a slide from 20 years ago. This is when the houses
are being built.
Lehman/Is that a street?
Fosse/Yea, there's a street under all of that.
Lehman/Is there concrete under that?
Fosse/Yea, oh yea.
Norton/Is that Pepperwood by any chance?
Fosse/I don't know, a lot of split foyers in there so, might be, but.
Vanderhoef/That looks like (can't hear).
Fosse/
From what I've seen we've made a lot of strides all ready in the erosion control
area. Backing up a slide this is one of our projects on the west side of town,
we've got some silk fence in along here. Currently city projects are not regulated
by that. And it was the surface transportation act that excluded city projects from
those construction runoff requirements. But and that exclusion's going to expire
in 2001 but whether we're covered or not we like to take precautions like this
because it's the right thing to do out there. And as I said this, once you get the
subdivision built then you've got to build the homes, and that's what this is an
example of, the subdivision is all built here, this was coming from the individual's
home being built. And again things have improved a lot over time.
Norton/(can't hear).
Fosse/
Environmental damage aside this is one of the reasons we don't like to see all
those sediments getting into the storm sewer system because they diminish the
capacity and it causes a lot of maintenance to need to occur. That's it on the
federally mandated things, and in summary there the object of Stormwater
Management has changed significantly over the decades and at one time the goal
was really very single minded and that is if we can limit deaths, that's a worthy
goal. Since then it's become much broader, and we're looking at making our
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water resources more of an asset than a liability. Something that's pleasurable to
live around, and that includes not only taming some of the peaks and flow but also
addressing the stormwater quality. So that.
Norton/(can't hear).
Atkins/Thank you Rick, nice job.
Kubby/Rick you have the best slides.
Norton/Great slides.
(All talking).
Vanderhoef/Good job.
O'Donnell/Who writes your material?
Atkins/He writes his own.
Norton/Yea right.
Champion/Really terrific.
Atkins/(can't hear) gave you a (can't hear), obviously we don't have a plan for you, we
will begin putting together information that allows you to measure the magnitude
of what we're talking about and we've not done that either. But we wanted to
give you a feel for the thing, I think this kind of presentation, let other folks see,
try to figure out some way to, they'll understand (can't hear) appreciation for it.
But this is going to be a major issue for us, and the bottom line is we do not have
a funding source. And that's what we're going to have to talk about. Not only the
extent of what we're going to do but how we're going to do it and it's both capital
and (can't hear).
Norton/But some things can be begun even without that though, I mean fit into the
picture we were talking about the minutes of the Riverfront Natural Areas
Commission and the question of trying to map our creeks, identify our problem,
working with neighborhood associations on keeping grates clear and so forth
which is seem to be one of the, you know their doing neighborhood watch but
that's another aspect of neighborhood watch is to surely keep the mattresses out of
the grates you know.
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Atkins/You know one of the most disappointing thing we've experienced and remember
on the east side of town and we were putting in (can't hear) east of First Avenue
and (can't hear). I mean I actually would see people walk out the back and empty
their grass clippings into the creek and of course it's going to only go one place
and then it would back up (can't hear).
Kubby/Then they call the city.
Atkins/It's just really disappointing and we agreed with that, Karen and I have been
spending time talking about it and I do see her (can't hear) neighborhood
association, but the bottom line is we don't want them crawling around those
grates.
Norton/Oh no, that's just a piece of the.
Atkins/That's too risky of stuff.
Norton/A piece of the puzzle that's all.
Atkins/But it is disappointing because people are throwing things in the streams (can't
hear).
Norton/No, I mean I was thinking of their reporting question. We had this out at
Shamrock you remember, a few years ago, with that huge grate there and all.
Lehman/Right.
Norton/And I haven't looked at it lately but I was out there a couple years after we did
that and it seemed to me they were managing but by just observing and calling
somebody that can happen cause the city cannot get around and monitor all these
sites so I'm just thinking little ways we can begin to proceed.
Kubby/We do, I mean we do, when it rains hard we have a crew that goes around to
certain problem spots and make sure things are clear right.
Norton/Oh yea, I know. They sure do.
Atkins/They have a list.
Lehman/Well and I think there are people who really do not realize that dumping their
clippings in the whatever is going to have that effect.
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Vanderhoef/It's just our recycle programs that we have educated and educated and
educated and people have both always dumped into the creek because it washes
away, well they don't think the rest of those piece.
Atkins/Well and there's many of our services (can't hear) is a Stormwater Management
device for us.
Lehman/Oh yea.
Norton/Well one of the other aspects is the sand. I when we were working on the
Shamrock Creek I stood up at the head of that thing where all of the construction
on Court, on Scott and where all we were talking tonight you know, now there's
going to be another 72 unit building that's going to drain down, drizzle down,
right down there and the sand just rolling into that thing and filling up that you
know, coming off the streets, so I don't know how we're going to stop that, we fill
up our own creeks with street sand.
Vanderhoef/And we have increased the amount of sand we're putting on our own streets
to decrease the amount of chemicals that we're putting in the runoffs so you know
we have some things to look at for ourselves.
Norton/Reduce the chemicals, I understand, can't win.
Fosse/We've talked with other communities about that and there's some communities
that have gone to putting down pure salt, not using any sand and there's some
communities that have gone the other direction. There's a 100 ways to go after
this.
Vanderhoef/Yea.
Norton/All I meant was we can't wait to get started on some aspects of this even though
some of the educational aspects even though we can't do everything.
Atkins/In some respects we've already done, done that our street sweeping up (can't
hear) sand, (can't hear) program, I don't think we've ever been able to effectively
police people from throwing grass clippings into the...
Kubby/Are we nqandated by state law to have our storm water detention ordinance?
Fosse/No we're not.
Kubby/So that's, we're already ahead of the game for the last 20 years or whatever.
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Atkins/Oh were ahead of the game yes.
Vanderhoef/Ahead on that.
Lehman/Almost 30.
Atkins/I think we we're the first in the state to do that.
Fosse/We were the first and we're certainly the most stringent in the state, our detention
requirements are exceed almost every other community in the state.
Norton/Is this during construction you mean or for a subdivision or what do you mean?
Fosse/This is, what will be in place after.
Lehman/Operational.
Fosse/Yep.
Vanderhoef/The basins.
Norton/But we also have stringent rules in regard to construction don't we to controlling
runoff during construction?
Fosse/Oh, yes. As I've said it's improved a lot in the 20 years just going back and
looking at old photos.
Norton/(can't hear).
Lehman/Are we to assume your going to get this worked out for us. I mean obviously
you know where the problems are, you know, you document them.
Fosse/Yes. Well we'll know a lot more in October when the feds release the Phase II
regulations, we've got a good idea ofwhat's in them, we've got some ideas for
some strategies. I think one of the major unknowns right now is how are we
going to pay for this?
Norton/Yea. That's what we got to pay for.
Atkins/(can't hear).
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Vanderhoef/The general fund isn't going to handle it.
Lehman/But now, I think what I hear you saying though is that we would rather than
clean the waste water once it runs off, we'd kind of like to eliminate the source of
the pollution.
Fosse/Right. For managing stormwater that's the best way that I'm aware of, is to get
into the water shed and limit the sources of pollution rather than trying to get them
back out of the water later.
Lehman/Treat them.
Atkins/Can you imagine what some of these urban cities...
Norton/Oh yea.
Atkins/Virtually no ability to have retention or detention basins whatever (can't hear).
Norton/Yea, I was in San Francisco and you go by a grate on a high street you know, and
they say don't wash your car by this grate, it runs right into the bay, well
obviously people are, stuffs going in there.
Atkins/Well (can't hear) on top of the thing and we will be putting things together
verbally and have discussion with financing (can't hear).
Kubby/Great, thank you.
Champion/(can't hear).
Norton/Do we have special inspections when a car wash goes in, is there special
inspection goes in for example?
Fosse/Yes, car washes are connected to our sanitary sewer system and they, Del (can't
hear) pretreatment before he even gets into our sewer system, gets the scum off
the top and sand out of the bottom.
O'Donnell/Does (can't hear).
Fosse/Yep, right here, for Washington.
Atkins/Grate fight outside of the as you walk out onto the parking lot you'll see a grate
(can't hear). He has to go down in there, he said (can't hear).
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O'Dormell/So then it empties under the bridge down there?
Fosse/It goes up to the Brewery, that's where it (can't hear).
Lehman/Do you want to crawl in, is that what?
Fosse/Absolutely.
Vanderhoef/Brewery Square.
Fosse/Yea, that's the upstream man fill.
Atkins/That's all we have sir.
Lehman/OK.
Council Time 99-47 S2
1. Vanderhoef/Since Rick is here I'd just like to say while I was out today I went on
Court Street extended and went to the back side to look at the property for the
Glasgow project. I really like the grill work and building area around the Ralston
Creek.
Kubby/The root culvert, the green.
Vanderhoef/Culvert, those are really nice and the erosion looks like it's (cant hear)
handled right now.
Fosse/Thank you.
2. Kubby/I had one thing and that is we got this memo about the transit route study and
the public meeting and just so people know that May 6 meeting at the public
library there wasn't a time on there but it's 3:45 to 5:45. And my concern about
holding the public hearing at a regularly scheduled council meeting is if we keep
our regular order of the meeting it won't, depending on public discussion if we
have the Northeast District Plan public hearing, this could be late in the night and
that the transit portion of the hearing may not be done before the last bus takes
off. And so is there a procedure Marian that we can change, we can move to and
advertise that we're going to do this to move that hearing up in the evening to
ensure that transit riders can participate for that end of that public hearing and still
catch the last bus?
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Karr/Well two things, all your public hearings are advertised the same way at 7:00.
Kubby/Right.
Karr/And that allows the flexibility for Council Members to change any items on the
agenda, their discretion. Now certainly if Council would like to direct staff for
preparing the agenda.
Kubby/To put it further.
Karr/To put it.
Kubby/I guess I'd like to request that.
Lehman/Well I would maybe suggest that we normally the events at the very beginning
of the meeting last no longer than 10 or 15 minutes and then we have about 45
minutes of public discussion, maybe that would be the great time to run it, right
there from 7:15 to 8:00. I think we'd have, we have to cut it off at 8:00, that
public hearing is done. I mean we're not going to listen to public hearing's all
night or 8:15 I mean I don't see any point.
Kubby/Well we wouldn't cut off public hearing if it started at 9:00 PM later than.
Lehman/We have, we have, yes, we have. We've asked them, or sometimes you have to.
O'Donnell/I think we could go longer also if we can control it to 5 minutes.
Lehman/Well we can do, well we can try.
O'Donnell/Last time we had four people who took 50 minutes, we could hear more and
when it's get repetitive then (can't hear).
Lehman/Well the other thing we can also do.
Kubby/(can't hear) to how many people show up.
Lehman/We can also continue it.
Kubby/Cause you've got, you might have people from all different routes who have five
minutes without different routes.
Norton/The transit thing is going to yea.
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Lehman/Well yea, but I.
Kubby/Make sure there's a full hearing.
Lehman/I think.
Kubby/If that's continued that's OK too.
Lehman/Yea.
Kubby/But early is really important I think.
Lehman/OK I have no problem with continuing it. But I've got a big problem letting it
go more than an hour, cause we've got everybody else sitting here waiting for an
agenda, and if we move it forward on the schedule that's fine, I have no problem.
Kubby/But if we publish it from the very beginning people who are here for there agenda
items see that there is that public hearing.
Champion/But there might not be too many people are going to come. But an hour is all
you can listen to something anyway.
Lehman/Well then we can continue it.
(All talking).
Norton/We've listened to at least three.
O'Donnell/(Can't hear).
Champion/(can't hear).
Kubby/It depends how many routes with all these different channels, we might have
more.
Lehman/Do we agree with that that we would have the hearing where we normally have
public discussion.
Champion/Right.
Kubby/Well for an hour, not 45 minutes.
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Lehman/For no more than an hour.
Vanderhoef/The library one is at what time?
Lehman/That's in the work session.
Norton/But your saying we're having a separate session, I'm concerned on the Noaheast
thing because some of that discussion could be at the council meeting. But we're
going to have a separate session focusing on a sudden death, right.
Lehman/Probably.
Norton/After we get some input from these folks fight, so we can talk among ourselves
about, and make sure we're together on the Noaheast Plan right?
O'Donnell/Ernie, didn't you get the impression that they were going to be here Tuesday
night to list their concerns?
Lehman/I don't know what impressions I got from the Home Builders, I really don't
know. They were just barely getting into some of what we should have been
talking about for an hour and a half and the meeting was over. I think there are
some legitimate questions that they have, I think for the most part we probably
have answers for them, it's just that they don't understand them. Whether or not
there going to be here tomorrow night I really don't know.
O'Donnell/I expect (can't hear).
Kubby/Yea.
Norton/Yea.
Champion/(can't hear).
Kubby/So back to the transit thing, it's at the very beginning of the hearing you could
say that we've moved this up to accommodate transit riders, and we'll go for an
hour and if there's more to say we will continue it.
Lehman/That's fine, I don't have a problem.
Kubby/So people will know on the front end.
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Lehman/I have no problem with that.
Kubby/Great. I thank you for that accommodation I think it's important to the riders.
3. Norton/I have a couple of quick reports I want to make, one is for Mike and me with
respect to the SEATS subcommittee. Let me say first of all that the SEATS
Advisory Committee on which we sit is not the fight contact thought nitty gritty
about whether the county is doing the job for us SEATS wise. It's just, your
talking about other issues there, and it's not the right context to bring up our
particular concerns about reporting and so forth. Now Mike and I didn't want to
sit down with Lisa whose a county employee and then ask her so I talked with
Jonathan and they brought it up to the, I was looking for the process. They
brought it up to the Board on Tuesday and decided that it would be OK if we have
Joe (Fowler) our staff sit down with Lisa to identify what it is we're expecting,
now I'm talking about reporting statistics that they are suppose to be preparing for
us routinely. And Joe I think knows what to ask for there so I'm just telling you
that's what we're going to ask Joe.
Atkins/Have you spoken to Joe about that yet?
Norton/No, I've got to go back to Joe because Jonathan just called me today and gave me
the word that we're going to ask Joe to sit down and talk about the operational
things and this other document that we're suppose to get guys which would have
to do with operational policies, and the ridership survey I think we'll get that all
right but have Joe was concerned with the more operational nitty gritty about bus
up time and down time and riderships and things of that kind. So that's how
we're going to proceed with that, Mike and I can't sit there and, in other words,
don't leave the advisory committee to make it as for us to get much done there
OK.
4. Norton/Now the other one is more complicated, almost more complicated that this,
and that's the senior thing Co~mie and I went, met with, we didn't know where we
were first, we met, Eleanor went with us and they had Pat and Carol Thompson,
and Donovan and of course did the background.
Lehman/Oh yes.
Norton/But I didn't know whether he was a committee member of not, but at any rate we
sat there quite a while figuring what are we a working group, a subcommittee, do
we have an agenda, or are we advertised, or are we covered. You know we
finally decided to call ourselves a working group, but we're still a little unsure
about our status. And again process you see is moving it's ugly head here. But
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we did manage to proceed after spending our wheels at this. And I just want to
say I'm trying to put together a memo about this for your, but their, the argument
from their point of view was that this was suppose to be a partnership but we ain't
been very good partners, we haven't talked to them. OK. So city hasn't
effectively consulted, noticed a sign in front of the building, for example, and
other issues I'11.
Champion/Old old.
Norton/Oh it goes onto a whole litan~,.7)ofhorrors. Now they agreed that their
appointees on that committee are not suppose to be making them, they haven't
briefed them, they haven't told them what to expect, their members of that
committee, and somebody said well there, besides their out voted. And Carol
said well I think yea, you could have them outvoted if you want, 90 percent of the
budget you could have the votes but it's there some strange mixtures about how
this partnership ought to operate. And they feel that for example, we're
considering the Senior Center expansion which Pat sees at a generational
discussion and very important to them and funding of course that we're doing that
without having been consulted. So anyhow, we expressed, so I haven't written
this county views, city views which I'll try to summarize for you and next step,
city and county needs to draft a policy guideline, that is about this question of
partnership, how is it suppose to work, what are the priorities, we're not trying to
revamp the 28e you understand.
Lehman/But that' s what we really doing.
Norton/Ultimately yea, but not at this point.
Kubby/We'll lead to it.
Norton/And Eleanor certainly.
Champion/They argue with one word in that.
Norton/But we need to get straight on a mechanism here in other words what do we
mean by a partnership and what is the mechanism for that to happen? If we just,
it's just crazy let me tell you, it's just crazy.
Letunan/Well Dee the thing that I think that I and I've talked to Jonathan a little bit, and
I met with Carol and Jonathan and Pat once, the purpose of this really is to
provide service to seniors.
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Norton/True.
Lehn~an/It isn't trying to protect our turf, or them protecting their turf. But I don't know
that it's really seen that way.
Norton/Well it's not because they said they for example as a city structure with a county
program.
Champion/Not only do they see it as city structured as a county program they think the
only program here should be county wide.
Norton/And senior dining does have a peculiar status despite what they (can't hear) and
so on and on that goes back to the historical CDBG grant that funded the, so it's
not an easy process to figure how, but we got to do some things pretty fast and
their waiting for the space review from that committee, we're meeting again on
May 7, and Connie and I in the meantime will try to put together some kind of a,
our suggested about a mechanism and a policy but we're just playing this out,
we're not doing anything weird yet, we'll let you know.
Champion/I mean it was a (can't hear).
Norton/But I'm telling you it was kind of interesting wasn't it? A lot of nitty gritty.
Champion/Not what I anticipated at all.
Kubby/Well I appreciate the reporting too it's very valuable.
Norton/Well one of the things that comes out of it is that you know we spend a lot of
time with them, and I mentioned it earlier tonight, I get excited every time I spend
time with these agencies and we never totally talk around each other. And we're
talking about trivia where we've got serious questions like SEATS and Senior
Center and other areas of coordination that we don't seem to get talked about in
our joint sessions. And I don't know quite why it is, even if their on the agenda
they don't get, maybe it's too big a group for people to be frank and earnest.
Champion/Yea, it is.
Lehman/Well I tell you your group needs to be very flank.
Norton/Well. Eleanor.
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Eleanor Dilkes/I think I just need to pass along one thing that occurred at the meeting,
and that is that Pat White was seemed to be expressing much interest on the part
of the county in talking with the council about the new space and the financing of
it. And I told everyone there that there was nothing about the status of property
acquisition, that means you could not talk about you know, what contributions are
going to be made to financing space, so, they put the topic on the agenda for the
joint meeting so you need to be.
Norton/Well at one point Carol said well if it's a million dollars, it costs a million dollars
to put them in there that means $200,000 for us. I said you've (can't hear) that
was just a rough figures. But as I went 20 percent you know they've been doing
that funding now there's some suggestion that number ought to be argued about
too at some point because the number's actually 27. But it's going to be
complicated to get this worked out as it is with SEATS, and nothing seems easy,
well we've been through that before you guys were on the SEATS committee.
Kubby/Well I think some of the complicatedness like knowing what structure to
communicate it is because we, you know the supervisors or administrative people
and we're policy people and that creates some.
Norton/And they don't have any staff.
Kubby/There' s just it's just jointed somehow to know the appropriate way to talk about
stuff I think, we just need to cut through that and figure that out quick like it
sounds like your starting to do.
Norton/And yes, and one reason when we're trying to have a subcommittee and the
question is what is the status of the subcommittee it's kind of hard, we understand
we're representatives.
O'Donnell/Well there the responsibility is us.
Norton/Yes, it's unclear.
Dilkes/I, Pat seemed to be more concerned about whether it was a meeting, you know,
subject to open meetings or not, I don't think it was, and I frankly don't whether
you call it a working group or a couple subcommittees from different bodies
getting together really is what makes the difference but I was fine with ending up
calling it a working group and.
Norton/So, well anyhow we'll keep you informed but.
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Lehman/Well.
Champion/But they feel, I mean, you know, their, it was inter, they feel very wrong, I
think they had (can't hear).
Norton/Yea, it wasn't exactly friendly.
Champion/No, it wasn't.
Norton/In fact it was kind of tense.
Lehman/It was sent, I've never sensed that before.
Kubby/Well that's good for it to come out I mean cause your not, we're not going to
cooperative agreement and that's true about SEATS too with that kind of tension
is acknowledged.
Norton/Sorry about that but it was tense, more tense than, it was kind of uncomfortable.
Champion/We were attacked at the very beginning.
Norton/Did you think it was kind of uncomfortable?
Dilkes/Well I think one of the things that started it off very strangely was Jonathan
Jordahl interpretation of the 28E agreement to mean that the city was going to
provide the building and the county was going to be providing the services.
Which.
Norton/He said that' s one way of interpreting it.
Dilkes/Yea, and I think that was sort of an odd interpretation of the agreement.
Vanderhoef/Could we each have a copy of that 28E that agreement, I've never seen that
particular one with the senior center.
Champion/Oh I've got a copy of it.
Norton/We'll see that you get it.
Vanderhoef/I guess I'd like to read a little at least.
Champion/And we spent a long time as guppies.
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Norton/Oh I can give it to you it's only three pages, I'll see that you get one tomorrow.
Dilkes/That, yes.
O'Donnell/I'd like to have that too.
Dilkes/And I think the other thing that I thought one of the best issues was and Dee (can't
hear) was the mechanism for making decisions about the Senior Center. Now
Terri was there, chair of the Senior Center Commission, Terri Miller, and Linda
Kopping were both there and I know that, at least I think they feel very strongly
about the Commission being that mechanism. And I got a feeling from the county
that they don't necessarily see it that way and that may be a function of how much
control they have of that commission I don't kd~ow.
Norton/The commission to them is very different that what we plan to give the
commission some responsibility, make some recommendations, and, but that's not
at all, they their woo, they could hardly name the people that were on there let
alone having given them any guidance or anything.
Vanderhoef/But the commission goes and reports to the Board of Supervisors because
you see it in the.
Norton/Yes they do. Terri pointed that out, she said.
Vanderhoef/They go and give the same kind of public report that we get.
Champion/But not necessarily, not necessarily. Their commission members report to
them.
Vanderhoef/Pardon me.
Champion/I mean there were people I could (can't hear).
Norton/Terri reports to them but their commission members don't get much chance to
report to them.
Champion/They don't get any direction.
Norton/No. I' 11 have to admit to that.
Champion/Even the Senior Center members agree with the rest of them, I don't know.
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Lehman/Must be agreeable.
O'Donnell/Next time you'll go in there with a different attitude.
Norton/Well, Connie and I got some work I'll be in touch with you incidentally, we
need to sit down.
O'Donnell/You really have it right on the head because I'm getting the feeling that
there's no cooperation on the SEATS and what we're trying to do is SEATS, it's
incredible (can't hear). It's a matter of control rather than providing service and I
just, you know, it's frustrating but you just put your head down and go.
Norton/Well there are some issues there because Joe has gotten some information from
them and some of the issues are very much like the ones you met with at the slack
time in the middle of the day and people are on funny different shifts and some of
these exact issues that were battled by our previous league are still present in the
present system and almost to the point where there's so much slack time that there
was a talk of a separate, well they might run a separate grocery run you know, a
...bus system.
Vanderhoef/The accountability performance accountability is not being given to us at
this point.
Norton/Right.
Vanderhoef/And that certainly was part of the agreement.
Norton/But then I said to Jonathan well I feel kind of funny sitting down with your
employees saying what it is we want, we'll send our.
Kubby/I don't know like why not?
Norton/Well.
Kubby/She's the head of the contracting agency so why isn't it appropriate, and like
maybe with some communication saying you are going to do this but.
O'Donnell/(can't hear).
Norton/Well that's what I did I didn't want to go without telling Jonathan and he said
wait till I talk to the Board on Tuesday so I.
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O'Donnell/I think you can sit down and talk to Sally and Jonathan, that's what you need
to do, because Lisa is responsible for that, she's there with some (can't hear).
Norton/Well we first of all got to get agreement, we have a 28E with them with a cited
agreement, and with a site. Jonathan's copy of it isn't the same as mine, there's
two paragraph's on ours that are not on his.
Lehman/Oh.
Champion/But if you'd be. (can't hear).
Norton/Gees.
Vanderhoef/Well adding services would be something that would be totally different
than the 28E agreement (can't hear) says and certainly I suspect that they would
want to reopen the for cost (can't hear) if they added service in there and if there's
a service being added then that's something we need to.
Champion/We don't cover CDBG services though (can't hear) interpreted was that they
were the only ones (can't hear) provide services there.
Kubby/Your talking Senior?
Norton/No, their talking SEATS now, we're talking SEATS.
Norton/We've got, their similar but not.
(all talking).
Lehman/I was with you.
Norton/All fight, I'm shutting up.
Lehman/OK. Any other thing for council time? I've got one thing, I'd like to have you
think about, you know we voted to prohibit parking on Tower Court.
Champion/(can't hear).
Lehman/I have a problem with, no, I have a problem.
Norton/Between certain times.
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Lehman/I have a problem with prohibiting parking on both sides of any street if it isn't
for a public purpose. I mean if it isn't for health and safety, I can understand
limiting the hours of parking to more than two or three hours or whatever, but, I
just think that if we can ban parking on both sides of a public street that we plow,
we maintain, we own, and whatever, if we do that, we're going to have people
asking us from all over town to do that and I don't think that's a good policy.
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Lehman/Only place in Iowa City that we have banned parking on both sides of the street
except for health or safety reasons.
(All talking).
Champion/Parking on either side of the street.
Lehman/Is that because of the ware to the street?
O'Donnell/What you have to do then is get them to change the ordinance because or
change the procedure because these people followed the policy, do the procedure,
and we tell them no after they do it.
Lehman/All I'm saying is that I think it's a bad policy to even consider it.
O'Donnell/(can't hear) so we have to change the process.
Norton/Well Ernie we have to go back to Manville Heights then because day storage was
the problem there right, everybody from the hospital parks and walks across the
bridge.
Lehman/It's just something to think about.
Champion/The other thing, I know one more thing to think about about that parking on
Tower Street, or whatever it is.
Atkins/Tower Court.
Champion/I mean there's a little park at the end now, it will have to be totally unusable
by mothers and children for picnics (can't hear).
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Lehman/Fathers and children too.
Champion/Grandparents.
Lehman/Oh.
(All Talking).
Norton/We've done the procedures.
Lehman/Well I talked to Jeff about it, I don't have a problem, I don't think it's a good
idea.
O'Donnell/Only bicycles and horses.
Champion/And elephants.
Lehman/No, no, we're going home.
Kubby/OK, so 7:00 tomorrow.
Lehman/Yes.
Adjourned 10:20 PM
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