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JOINT MEETING
A Joint meeting of the City Council of Iowa City and Coralville and
Johnson County Board of Supervisors was held on October 21, 1999 at
6:30 P.M. at Coralville City Hail.
Coralville Mayor Fausett presided.
Coralville Council: Herwig.
Coralville Staff: Hayworth.
Iowa City Council and Mayor: E. Lehman, O'Donnell; Thornberry, Norton.
Iowa City Staff: Franklin, Arkins, Karr.
Johnson County Board of Supervisors: Stutsman, Duffy, M. Lehman.
Johnson County Staff: Peters
Greg Mohling, Johnson County Extension Director, introduced Jeff
Zacharias.
Jeff Zacharias, Community Resource Development Specialist, presented
the Rural Development Initiative (RDI) for the two communities. The
purpose of the report compares the profiles of the communities studies
with a hypothetical city that t~ifies other similar cities included in
the Study.
In 1997 15 Cities were picked for the study. The survey participants
were picked out of the phone book. Zacharias went through the survey
results for both Coralville and Iowa City comparing the response with
the Sigma City. (Sigma City is the average response of the Cities in
that size category.)
Herwig questioned if the study can be duplicated?
Zacharias responded it could but local community would have to pay. He
would recommend doing the survey every 2 to 4 years. The cost would be
an estimated $6,000 to $8,000.
Shriver of Union Planters Bank and Chamber Member questioned if you can
partner with other states to have a sigma in other regions of the
Country?
Zacharias said that other states don't have the base line data.
Financing would be an issue.
Norton asked if the questionnaire was developed locally. The questions
are very generic. You could use the same method to do survey specific
to your community.
Zacharias will get more studies zo iowa City, Coralvitle, Johnson
County and to the Chamber of Cornerce.
The next Joint meeting of the Iowa City and Coralville City Council,
Johnson County Board of Supervisors and Iowa City School Board was set
for January 20=h at 4 P.M. at the Iowa City School Board office.
Kelly Hayworth,
Coralville City Administrator