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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999-11-09 Transcription#2a Page I ITEM NO. 2. AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE - STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS. a. City High Boys Cross Country Lehman/This is the fun part of the meeting. Tonight we have two awards and we'll read each of them. The first is an award of excellence for their show of great success recognizing City High Boys Cross Country Team as 1999 State Champions. Your community is proud of you presented by the Iowa City City Council so if you would like to come forward. Marian Karr/And here to accept is Coach Jayme Skay and the City High Boys Cross Country State Champions. Thornberry/I don't see too many overweight. Lehman/No nobody's overweight. Norton/You noticed. Coach Skay/Thank you very much. Lehman/Yea kneel down I'm short. O'Donnell/Emie looks even (can't hear). Lehman/You guys are digitally (can't hear). He's pretty slow on that camera deal. OK. Skay/Thank you very much. Lehman/Thank you. Karr/Thank you. Lehman/I like that guy. Kubby/All right (can't hear) the mayor enough. Thornberry/Wonder what they paid for that? Champion/I don't know. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #2b Page 2 b. City High Girls Cross Country Lehman/Our second award of excellence for their show of great success we recognize the City High Girls Cross Country Team as 1999 State Champions, your community is proud of you and this again is presented to you by the City Council. Karr/Here to accept is Coach Tom Mittman the City High. Champion/They're more Ernie's size. O'Donnell/They're in a lot better shape. Coach Mittman/Thank you very much. O'Donnell/What an outstanding group. Lehman/Yes. You know just a comment before we do the Citizenship awards. The State of Iowa is always I think almost always 1, 2 or 3 in the nation when it comes to our school systems. The quality of education that we have. In Iowa City we've always been very very fortunate to have absolutely the cream of the crop when it comes to high school education not just reading, writing, arithmetic but in drama, the arts and whatever and now in addition to being absolutely the best there is in academics we are absolutely one of the school districts in the country when it comes to athletics so I think we can be very very proud of these young folks and hopefully next council meeting we'll have a presentation for the West football team so, well I certainly hope so but we're really proud of these kids. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #3 Page 3 1TEM NO. 3. OUTSTANDING STUDENT CITIZENSHIP AWARDS - IRVING B. WEBER ELEMENTARY Lehman/As we do throughout the school year we have outstanding citizenship awards. Tonight we're honoring students tiom the Irving Weber Elementary School so if Ali, Ryan, and Kristin would come forward we have some awards for you. So if you'd give your name first and then read your award. Ali Brookhart/Hi my name is Ali Brookhart, first of all I'd like to thank you for this special award, some of the extra things I do at school are Safety Patrol. I try to help students be safe at school, I also do Media Helper, I check out books for students over the lunch hour. I read to students in other teams, I am a buddy reader to younger students who need extra reading time. I follow the school's core of virtues which are giving respect, responsibility, kindness, honesty, perseverance and self discipline. I help I also was a bank helper and a member of the Student Council. I enjoy helping other people, sometimes I help the teachers in team 4 at Weber School. Thanks again. Ryan Charbon/Hello, my name is Ryan Charbon and I am a student at Weber Elementary in Ms. (can't hear) class room. I want to thank you very much for giving me this award for citizenship. At Weber we have virtues to live by I try to always be honest, respectful, and responsible at school. I have been a member of the school safety patrol for the past two years. I have always been a buddy reader with a young student at Weber. I have also been a member of 4-H for the past two years. One of my project was to help the elderly at a 4-H supper. I have also raised cows, pigs and horses for the 4-H Fair. One of the best things about 4-H is you can make lots of new friends. Another project I have worked on is is helping out at the Noah Liberty Jaycee Haunted Barn in Noah Liberty. I helped build the barn. I thank you again for this award. I hope this is the only beginning of many years of community service. Kristin Schwab/Good evening, my name is Kristin Schwab. I want to thank you for this special award for nominating me and believing in me. It is truly an honor to be presented with this award for doing special things in my school and community. I am a member of the Weber School Safety Patrol, I help out as a buddy reader and read with younger students, I'm a media helper so I help students check out library books, I've also been a bank teller at our school bank and a member of the student council. I try to model all of Weber Schools core of virtues, responsibility, perseverance, honesty, compassionate, respectful, self-discipline and giving every day. If we all work together and for one another in our community we will survive as a happier, healthier and better community. Before I end I would like to thank Dr. Burger my principal and my teachers Mrs. Kurtz and Mr. Lasson and all my previous teachers for making me the best student I can This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #3 Page 4 be. I'd also like to thank my parents Brace and Mary Schwab for raising me to be a great helper to anyone and to everyone. Thank you. Lehman/I'll read one of the awards. (Reads award). I'I1 bet your moms and dads and grandpa's and gramma's are really proud of you. All right thank you very much. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #4 Page 5 ITEM NO. 4. CONSIDER ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS PRESENTED OR AMENDED. Thornberry/Move as adopted. Champion/Second. Lehman/Moved by Thornberry, seconded by Champion. Discussion. I think Item 12 is that corrected in the copy for the public? But the date for the public the second public hearing is December 7 rather than December 23. Kan'/Correct. Norton/I sure hope there, I notice there are what seven public hearings for the 23rd. Karr/Those have been changed also. Lehman/They're all changed to the 7th, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are all. Norton/Four of them so we'll be a little bit little less but still several big ones right? Karr/Correct. Norton/I mean the sewer project and the is certainly going to be a big a substantially one. Lehman/Four of them are tap on fees. Norton/Yea those are fairly straight forward I think but the City Steps is on it, isn't it? The review of the housing plan then, that's an important one that people ought to be aware of. Lehman/Other discussion. Roll call. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #5 Page 6 ITEM NO. 5. PUBLIC DISCUSSION (ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA). [UNTIL 8 PM] Lehman/This is a time reserved for the public to discuss items that do not otherwise appear on the agenda. If you wish to address council please step forward, sign in, give your name and limit your comments to five minutes or less. Bud Louis/Bud Louis. I'll be brief, I believe you have a letter that I sent about the driveway at home. To clear that manner I do know that a year ago to get the zoning we accepted the addenda that Betty and I could have the driveway as long as we lived there or in case they started doing something on Foster Road that would necessitate closing it. Well the other day they closed it but I don't think the extenuating circumstance here that I want to bring out is that they didn't realize that to put in that road that Hodge calls Louis Way they had to go as deep as they did and they've got a 7-10 foot cut in off the new Foster Road and in order for me to get out of my driveway now I can't go West because of Furmans four-plex, I can't go Noah because Hodge is going to build a new building there and to go East we would have to dig through the back yard down take part of that wall that they built out and it's going to make quite a steep thing to come up there in the winter time, one minor point is that it goes through the graveyard of our dogs that we have in the middle of the backyard but that' s minor but the idea is if we could rescind that amendment and let me keep my drive it would sure simplify things. You know lots of people in town have a drive that leads onto a busy street we've always, we've had that there 49 years and there will have to be one at the foot of the hill and they'll have to be 2-3 up West and I know the idea behind it was to keep as little as few new roads coming onto Foster Road but I really would like to consider allowing mine to be one and now I know that Connie and wait who all came out to look at that. Do you see what I'm saying that in order to put that new road in they're going to have to start at my shop and make quite a what I call for a better term a mess in the back yard and the walls will have to be short end coming in and it's a it's I would just rather keep the driveway if it's at all possible. Do you have a question to ask me about it? Lehman/My understand and I haven't you and I talked about this earlier this weekend. And I haven't gone back by my understanding that the one of the conditions for the rezoning was the elimination of a access to Foster Road when it was completed. And I haven't read all that but I think because that was a stipulation on the rezoning that we're going to have to probably get at the very least staff input and might very well have to go back to Planning and Zoning. Steve Atkins/Bud knows I spoke to Chuck briefly yesterday and we'll get somebody out to look at it for sure and I would hope Bud somebody would be talking to you by tomorrow. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #5 Page 7 Louis/That would be good because if we go through Planning and Zoning it will be a deal where it's two weeks and then two weeks and then two weeks and then if there's any question about it it will repeat that. Lehman/That' s if it' s passed. Louis/It's going to be Easter before we get anything so that's why I was hoping we could, I know you always look over your shoulder and accept the recommendations of the Planning and Zoning as a general rule but and once in a while there's an exception why. Lehman/My understanding is that this might be a legal requirement that for us to change a stipulation we might have to go back to Planning and Zoning. Eleanor Dilkes/Well this was a condition of the zoning, it was part of the conditional zoning agreement part in parcel of the rezoning so I think it will have to go back through P & Z, I don't think the council can unilaterally change that. Lehman/But we will get. Kubby/But we can certainly say that there' s a suspension of action until that process is gone through, would we have the ability to do that to allow Bud to use a driveway onto Foster Road until we go through that process and figure out the determination we make. Champion/Yea it just needs some new fill between the new curb and the. Norton/Yea. Louis/I'm kind of hard of hearing, what did you say Connie? Champion/Bud if you were to use that driveway temporarily while that's going back to Planning and Zoning they would just have to put some fill in wouldn't they between the curb and the drive? Louis/ Well probably what would happen since Hodge isn't going to start that North building until Spring I'd do the way I did tonight. He has a temporary gravel road there because last week when they were working on the Louis Way entrance, all the trucks and everything came through our driveway. Champion/OK. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #5 Page 8 Louis/So he did have to build a road so I can get by until Spring when he puts in that new building so that's. Lehman/That's Easter right. Norton/Apparently there's time to. Lehman/That's when it gets through P & Z. Louis/I'm sorry Ernie I. Lehman/I'm kidding, OK we'll look into it. Atkins/Shortly. Champion/I think there's other things to consider here too I mean I think it's important that part of that property is historic, it's very old and the driveway is lined with trees, and has a metal gate and part of the ambiance of the whole thing is that driveway and I think it's just one of those aces where the road becomes more important than the aesthetics of the situation, there might be a safety factor and I'm not arguing that but I think we ought to seriously consider and look at this about what can be done about that. Louis/Those iron gates are the last job that Dutch Lasky ever did, he made those and then a week later he was gone but anyway I sure do thank you for helping me on this. Lehman/OK Bud. Thornberry/Thanks Bud. Champion/Can I just ask another question because I'm ignorant of this. When, if the driveway is closed then does the city pay to dig up that driveway and put a new one in? Lehman/Not if it's a condition of the rezoning. Champion/OK. Louis/Mr. Pott's out there the superintendent of the job said there would be no problem to do that he had been planning to do it all along and then they poured a little curb, he said we could cut the curb out in five minutes and he had an idea of how he was going to fill it in to connect with mine so that's. Thank you. Lehman/Other public discussion. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #5 Page 9 Dennis Keitel/Good evening Ernie. I'm Dennis Keitel with Troop #218 and I just wanted to warn the City Council that we have a group of young boy scouts here working on their community and their citizenship in the community merit badge and they're here tonight observing city government in action. Kubby/(can't hear). Lehman/We're very pleased to have them here, welcome fellows. Champion/And your very lucky because it will probably be a short meeting. Lehman/Any other public discussion? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #6 Page lo ITEM NO. 6. PLANNING AND ZONING. a. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 14, CHAPTER 6, ZONING, TO AMEND THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO HOME OCCUPATIONS. (PASS AND ADOPT). Thornberry/Move adoption. Norton/Second. Lehman/Moved by Thornberry, seconded by Norton. Discussion. Roll call. This is probably the grampa in me but we don't pass things this quickly, every resolution has to be voted on three times. But we actually did talk about this the first time it came up, this is the third vote so when you hear first, second or third vote it isn't sometimes that we haven't talked about. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #7 Page 11 ITEM NO. 7. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE DESIGN OF THE EXTERIOR TO THE COURT-LINN PROJECT AT 338-398 LINN STREET. Champion/Move adoption of resolution. Thornberry/Second. Lehman/Moved by Champion, seconded by Thornberry. Discussion. This is re. we need to sell. Norton/All the buildings downtown look a like that's. Lehman/But we. Kubby/There is a definite pattern to the new especially the apartment buildings but this probably and because it's the same architect going to match the Iowa Avenue Parking Facility too but people will be able to tell the definite, a definite architectural style in Iowa City in the late 1990's. Norton/Well the main street building across from the Rec. Center and the building. Champion/Right. Norton/At Burlington and Dubuque right and now this one all have a vast similarity. Thornberry/Well it's the (can't hear). Lehman/They will historical significance 150 years from now. Norton/I'm sure they will and what are we, are we choosing an option for the railing here is that a? Lehman/The comments says that the handrails or whatever will have to be will be used one of the two it doesn't specify which one of the two and apparently either of those will receive approval from the design review staff. Norton/The ones in the supplementary picture you mean yea. Vanderhoef/Yea. Norton/To bad people don't have a chance to see what we're looking at. Are we suppose to make prefer, preference for those two? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #7 Page 12 Champion/No. Lehman/I don't think so. O'Donnell/Unless you'd like to. Norton/What are we looking at them for then? I mean no that's not the one, the options are on this center page aren't they? Champion/Right. O'Donnell/Yep. Norton/I like this one but I guess it doesn't make any difference. O'Donnell/I do too. Lehman/Well. Champion/Well you know why don't you just put your little bid for that. Lehman/This is has been approved by the design review folks at the city staff which is a requirement for this. Norton/When you say this has which railing? Champion/Either one. Dilkes/Either one. Lehman/Well they've both been approved. Kubby/That's up to the builder. Thornberry/Which one do you like better? Norton/B, C this one. I don't know whether we got, we don't have anything to say about it what are we discussing it for? Kubby/Well now we do have something to say because it's our decision and we have a recommendation and we could certainly if there were four people who had a preference could probably express that and amend the resolution, that's why it comes here, we have the option to do that. Do you have a motion? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #7 Page 13 Champion/I'm not really (can't hear). Lehman/Do we have a motion to accept the recommendation do we not? Vanderhoef/Of one or the other? Lehman/No of the report, not one or the other. Thornberry/The design review committee. Dilkes/The rest yea. Thornberry/Reviewed exterior design. Norton/It said the handrail. Dilkes/The resolution that's. Norton/May be used are one of the two alternate designs shown at the meeting right? Champion/Right. Kubby/Right. Norton/Not the style shown on the overall elevation so they're talking about one of these separate ones and that's why I say why not throw our oar in the water and have a preference. Champion/I don't know I think I'd rather let the builder decide that or let the (can't hear). Norton/Let them in and show that Norton preferred alternate 2. Kubby/But there' s a reason it comes to us, I mean there, it is an option to have that kind of preference. Lehman/Legally we have to act on it by our own ordinance. Kubby/Yea. O'Donnell/What's that? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #7 Page 14 Lehman/That' s why we're acting on it. Are there people who would like to specify which railing to use besides Mr. Norton? O'Donnell/No. Vanderhoef/Just to be different I like the privacy part that shows in the style of number 1. Thornberry/That's why the staffs doing it. Vanderhoef/Well I just thought the two Dee's ought to have something different to say. Lehman/OK, further discussion. Roll Call. Motion carries I think. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #8 Page 15 ITEM NO. 8. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE DESIGN OF THE EXTERIOR TO THE QUIZNO'S PROJECT IN OLD CAPITOL MALL A THE CLINTON AND COLLEGE STREET ENTRANCE. Lehman/Again this is a design review item, it has been approved by the design review committee and it's presented to us for approval. Norton/Move adoption. Thornberry/Second. Lehman/Moved by Norton, seconded by Thomberry. Discussion. Kubby/I can't really tell exactly where this is going to go. Champion/I couldn't tell either Karen. Kubby/So I need some explanation. Lehman/As you go into the Old Capitol Center it's directly across from the taco place the left hand side. Vanderhoef/It's on the south side. Norton/Could you explain a little more Jim? Kubby/But these sides need to be outside or we wouldn't be looking at. Jim Schoenfelder/It's fight at that Clinton-College Street entrance it will be on the south side just opposite of the Taco Bell that' s there. Kubby/Oh OK so they will have that outer frontage. Schoenfelder/There's an existing planter there now which will be partially taken by the entrance. Kubby/So will they take that planter space as we had allowed Taco Bell? Schoenfelder/No actually the entrance is recessed under that overhang so it doesn't come out like Taco Bell. The ramp does but the entrance to the store is recessed. Kubby/Thank you Jim. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #8 Page 16 Lehman/Other questions. I like the activity in the Old Capitol Center (can't hear). Other discussion. Roll call. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #9 Page 17 ITEM NO. 9. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING A PURCHASE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF IOWA CITY AND OLIN L. LLOYD FOR A 20.78 ACRE PARCEL OF REAL ESTATE TO BE USED BY THE CITY AS A PUBLIC WORK SITE AND A .10 ACRE PARCEL OF RIGHT-OF-WAY ALL ADJACENT TO GILBERT STREET AND SOUTH OF NAPOLEON PARK. Thornberry/Move adoption of the resolution. Vanderhoef/Second. Lehman/Moved by Thornberry, seconded by Vanderhoef. Purchase price or the offer for this property is $420,000 and it will be the talk at some length over the last several years about relocating the public works department which is in sorry need of repair. This is fight on Sand Road just directly, fight adjacent to the new sewer public station just north of the south sewer plant. Seems to be a reasonable idea. Discussion. Vanderhoef/Well I'm just glad we're moving forward with this, it's long been needed and I'm delighted we're moving on. O'Donnell/I agree. Norton/Yea this is a really significant move people should understand the present some of the structures in the present public works on the comer of Sturgis Ferry there are really in bad shape, we've been needing to move this for a long while. Vanderhoef/A long time. Champion/Well I think we should point out that these are not buildings that we've built and haven't taken care of because when you say our buildings are in bad shape that they're old what were they called temporary's from the urban renewal days of 20 years ago those old temporary buildings that sat in the street on Clinton and Capitol and Iowa are what we've been using for public works offices and pretty bad shape. Lehman/Other discussion. Roll call. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #10 Page ITEM NO. 10. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION OF AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE INDEMNITY AGREEMENTS FOR POLICE AND FIRE TRAINING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. Thornberry/Move adoption of resolution. O'Donnell/Second. Lehman/Moved by Thornberry, seconded by O'Donnell. Discussion. Champion/I don't know exactly what this means. Lehman/Well. Kubby/Will you give some examples of what kind of private property would be, people would want us to bum? Atkins/Not as much as property to bum and those are occasionally afforded to us, our special response team in the police department as well as personnel within the fire department need basically to have experience within structures, what they might experience within a structure if they were called upon for response to oh hostage situation in the case of our police, something such as the smell of gas the case of the fire department. Local businesses have offered to us to allow us to use their properties in their down time for our training exercises. What this does is basically indemnify them if our personnel damage their property we break something we have to fix it. Champion/I thought that's what that meant but I wanted to clarify that. Lehman/Other discussion. Roll call. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #11 Page 19 ITEM NO. 11. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION RESCINDING THE 1997 COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR DRUGS AND ALCOHOL AND ESTABLISHING AN AMENDED COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM. Vanderhoef/Move adoption of the resolution. Norton/Second. Lehman/Moved by Vanderhoef, seconded by Norton. Discussion. Kubby/I'm really glad we're making these changes even though there pretty minor changes most of them are just to clarify language or if we're referring to some other body of law or listing of records somewhere we state what we're talking about in the policy which helps make it really clear to employees what the rules of the game are. And I know that this is something we need to do by federal law but I know that it also puts a lot of stress sometimes on our whole system not just employees that are getting tested but people creating the randomness tests for selecting whose going to get tested and so it's it can be stressful and so especially, number, one of the, there are five changes we are making and the third one is listing behaviors that constitute a refusal to task. And I think it's really good that those are outlined in the policy so it's really clear to everybody what that term means so I'm very glad that we're doing this. Lehman/Other discussion. Roll call. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #12 Page 20 ITEM NO. 12. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE BUDGETING POSITIONS IN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION OF THE PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND THE AFSCME PAY PLAN BY DELETING ONE HOUSING REHAB OFFICER POSITION AND ADDING ONE HOUSING REHAB SPECIALIST POSITION. Thornberry/Move adoption of the resolution. Vanderhoef/Second. Lehman/Moved by Thomberry, seconded by Vanderhoe~ Discussion. This is a reorganization correct Steve? Atkins/Yes as you recall when Maurice left we appointed someone to be our new Community Development Coordinator, we now have a retirement in one of those work units that being the housing rehab. we figure at that time, this is the time to take review of it. Financially it's favorable, it reduces our administrative costs by about $10,000 per year. Norton/But it won't reduce our interest in rehab. (can't hear) at all. Atkins/No it does not, no it does not, in fact we believe it improves our position. Norton/Because that' s one of the important components of our housing program. Kubby/And well it's a great opportunity to thank Pam Barnes for all of her years of work, she has really, sometimes it's stressful when people have an emergency repair and she helps people she guides people through the mass of paperwork that can go with some of these are federal funds directly given to us trying to get when people have to do their own bidding, she helps people learn how to go through that process so it's, it can be either a frustrating or empowering experience and I think Pam tries and make it more empowering. And getting local construction folks to be on the list and learn what the rules and regs. are of the programs I think she' s really kept us in a fine position in making this a strong program. So thank you Pam. Lehman/It's been a great program. ????man/Still is. Lehman/Roll call. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #13 Page 21 ITEM NO. 13. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION RATIFYING SETTLEMENT OF PENDING LITIGATION. Lehman/I think I saw that. Champion/Yea it's here. Lehman/When I sat down, it disappeared. It says approving a settlement of $30,000 in a (can't hear). Norton/I'll move adoption of the resolution. Vanderhoef/Second. Lehman/Moved by Norton, seconded by Vanderhoef. Discussion. Roll call. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #16 Page 22 ITEM NO. 16. CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION. Champion/I just, you know I was disturbed about the article in the paper today about the man who sleeps in the van on Brown Street because there was a statement from John Zalenski that he was thinking about moving out of the neighborhood because the city has turned his back and he's concemed about assaults and burglaries, robberies, theft, in that neighborhood. And I'm wondering if anybody else is interested, I would like, because we have had a lot of letters from people who live in that neighborhood over the past year about problems they're having and I would like and if there are four of you who would like to hear a police report about what's going on up there because if there's something we should be doing about it that if people are living on the north side are afraid that we're not responding to their needs I think that' s really tragic. John says that he's thinking about moving out of the neighborhood because of the problems that there. Lehman/Connie I think we responded last night and I think the only way we can. Champion/No that's about the van. Kubby/Right and I don't think John is relating those two things as being interrelated but in addition. Champion/No, in addition to, and maybe the problems up there are not any worse than they are in any other parts of the city but if they are maybe we need to think how we can respond to those. I hate to have our older neighborhoods of historic significance have people move out. Kubby/And we haven't heard anything from the neighborhood association in terms of any new pattern or new trend. Atkins/And the Chief has not informed me of any new extraordinary activity that might be going on. Lehman/We can check that out though can't we? Atkins/What I'll do is I'll talk to the chief possibly take 3-4 months of history in the general area and give you a report of what kind of activity, police activity has occurred. Champion/That would be. Atkins/And we can draw some comparisons for you. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #16 Page 23 Champion/Right I mean be I mean like. Atkins/See ifthere's something extra ordinary occurring. Champion/Is that a tremendous amount of work? Atkins/No. We can do that fairly easy (can't hear). Norton/I think there are some other aspects that might be looked into too because there have been a number of changes made over the last several years in respect with housing matters up there about you know we changed that so that there's a different zoning to try to preclude some of the conversions that might were happening up there. I'd like to make sure we check on some of those too because I thought we had tried to preserve the integrity of that neighborhood in quite a few ways. Atkins/And that's probably going to be, I mean I think. Champion/That's a different question. Atkins/It's not that it can't be done but I think. Norton/But that's a bigger problem. Atkins/ That' s, and probably historically you'd want to go back 3-4 years to see what kind of building activity what kind of, I mean we can do that but it will. Norton/Don't do it for this one because I am concemed but I thought we had paid considerable attention, we have not solved the parking problem up there. Champion/No, but it sounds to me, according to the correspondence over the past year that it seems to me that they have more problems than parking up there but maybe there, you know when things happen in your neighborhood you tend to think that sometimes that happens more often than it does and it must be the worst neighborhood in town for those kind of things. Atkins/Well I will prepare a report. Champion/To be curious if we are (can't hear) beating heads up there. Atkins/We can do that by next meeting. Kubby/There are a lot of activities going on it's this isn't the place for never ending things to do. Thursday November 11 Environmental Advocates is having a This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. # 16 Page 24 membership meeting but the general public is certainly invited at 7:00 PM at the First Christian Church, our former own Jim Throgmorton is going to talk about his trip to Berlin and seeing all the wind turbines there that are not just pieces, technological phenomena for energy use but their pieces of art work and they're all painted and they're very amazing. And David Astroberg will speak as well whose a consultant now to the DNR. And then the next day Friday November 12 which is this week the Iowa Women's Foundation is having their annual awards luncheon and it's really great the work to see the work that they've done across the state of Iowa in collecting money from corporations and business and individuals and then spreading them out to programs and organizations that do work for girls and women across the state of Iowa. Then on Saturday November 13 you can go to the First United Methodist Church which is the congregation on the comer of Dubuque and Jefferson Street from 10-4 for a silent auction for public access television. There will be many many items that you can auction that you can bid on. And then Monday November 22 there will be a very interesting discussion in front of the Board of Supervisors about the living wage campaign. And I know that was a topic that sparked a lot of interest in the recent City Council elections and it's something that's going to be discussed at the County level. Again November 22 at the Country Administration Building at 1:30 PM. So if your bored it's your own fault. That's all I have thank you. Thornberry/I probably ought to be the last. I would just like to thank a number of people that have been sending cards and letters to me in the last few days. I'm very humbled by the quality and quantity of people that have been sending in the cards. I would like to thank you publicly by name but you know it's 20 minutes to 8 and they wanted to be out before 10:00 so I better not start but thank you very much your cards and letters are very much appreciated. Vanderhoef/Just a couple of things, I can reiterate the thank you to all the folks who did work on campaigns and get out and vote and the people who worked behind the scenes are as important as the people who are out front and that includes all of our staff and our commissions and our volunteers on those commissions and we thank you for being part of the government process. I want to announce tomorrow night ig the State Legislative Day, City I-Iall Day, and ~tarting at 6:30 tomorrow night you are all invited to come down, local legislators will be here and we will have conversations about legislative issues that will be out on the table for this upcoming legislature starting in January. So come down, get informed, bring your questions to the legislatures and be part of this government process from the grass roots area. Then one more thing, I would like if you folks are interested there's been a lot of talk about putting a walkway between the new parking ramp and the Senior Center. And we've all talked about how expensive that might be and how we might accomplish this. I understand that the Senior Center folk are asking for this in their upcoming budget and I would like to put in an application to our Housing and Community Development Commission to see if we can use This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #16 Page 25 some CDBG moneys for helping to build this walkway that I think is very important and needed by our citizens and folks who use the Senior Center. Kubby/I thought the only way we could do the skywalk is if the Senior Center was using that upper level because the space would be too small to make a walkway from the parking area to get over to the sky walk to get over to the Senior Center. Vanderhoef/There is another way. Kubby/But there's another option. Vanderhoef/There's a corridor option there and for the safety of our senior citizens I'm real concerned about the other way around and that this might be a way that we could get some funds to help build that. Kubby/I'd like to understand what that option is before I could say I want to take it to CDBG. Lehman/Well I have a question, I have a question too, if we were to make an application and the committee were to approve that and then Council subsequently didn't approve the walkway. Vanderhoef/That's fight, it would go back into the funds. Lehman/I mean yea, I don't think. Vanderhoef/The point is. Lehman/The construction of that ramp will be complete in what a little over a year? Atkins/A little more, yea, 15 months. Vanderhoef/And they're taking applications fight now and they have to be in by December 1 so that. Lehman/I know that I was thinking about next year as opposed to this year. Vanderhoef/I thought about that too Emie because I recognize that this is ahead of a council decision of whether for sure we're going to do that. However, we've always put those dollars back in when a project has not gone forward and the funds have been reallocated. Kubby/Except when it comes from council to direct staff to put the application in it sends a very strong message to the commission and to the Senior Center that we This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #16 Page 26 are making a decision about that whether or not that's really but we always have the opportunity to say no later, it puts us in a position of sanctioning that and I 'm not, I don't understand the full project to be able to say, I'd like to put it on a work session maybe to understand it a little more before I could say yes. Vanderhoef/That's fair enough. Norton/That's my suggestion that we could, if we could. Vanderhoef/Move forward with this. Norton/So much talk about that and we're losing track a little bit of the details. I think we need to review for example again exactly how that might work because fight now as I understand it they have to come downstairs and across and walk down Liun Street, and come in the side entrance or go on. Pretty much as they do now except they wouldn't be walking in the alley, they'd come out on Linn Street, now if they could go across street there's still going to be some elevators and some kind of inconveniences, could somebody describe that to us at a work session at some point? Lehman/Well I think your right, I think there are too many questions for us to move forward on this until we get some answers. Kubby/And then we need to sit through the process and perception. Vanderhoef/We need to put in on the work session then and. Norton/And then there may be other sources wouldn't there? Vanderhoef/Real soon. Lehman/Well I agree with you but I don't think there's anyway your going to get it on a work session and get the engineering questions that you need answered in time to make CDBG application for this year. Now obviously next year would still be plenty of time because of the construction of the ramp. But I don't see time wise being able to do that. Norton/Assuming nothing in the construction precludes adding a ramp (can't hear). Lehman/Which we don't know but I don't think there is. Vanderhoef/No we've been. Lehman/Well let's put in on a work session. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #16 Page27 Champion/Right because if we're going to add a ramp we should make the decision before the walls go up. Vanderhoef/That's part of the concern and whether the dollars are available to assist with that project. Kubby/But we've already made the decision that we want the option later and so the ramp is. Norton/Want the option yea. Vanderhoef/Right but it will be cheaper. Kubby/The parking facility was built so that we could add it on, that's already done, that's not an issue. O'Donnell/I understood there was an alignment problem between the floors though. Champion/There is. (All talking) Kubby/There's a little elevator for that six foot it's very it's very (can't hear). O'Donnell/And so that's what we need, we need to get a work session. Vanderhoef/Good, good, let's go for it. Thank you that's all. Lehman/All right, OK. Dee Norton/Well I have a couple of announcements and then a question, one is there's a meeting tomorrow night and again on the 17th of November on the north district neighborhood planning workshop, this is a part of our comprehensive, element of our comprehensive plan considering the north district of town and that' s November 10 tomorrow night and November 17 at 7:00 PM at Shimek School so those in that neighborhood are invited and urged to come out and contribute the review of the plans for that long range plans for that area of town. There's also those who are interested a Veterans Day celebration tomorrow at the Senior Center from 2-3:30. I suppose there are others but that's one I know of at least. And now a couple of questions, could somebody and Steve I don't know if you were there I was curious how the skateboard meeting went. Could we have a quick report? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #16 Page 28 Atkins/The skateboard meeting was help the 271h at Scanlon I understand there were 40 people there and I. (End of 99-102 Side 2) Atkins/So it was very well attended and yes, a great deal of interest. Norton/And the other question I had was did I read somewhere that the Cable TV was moving to the parking structure? Atkins/Our Cable TV folks have been looking for space and one of the options they're looking at is the purchase of space in the new parking garage. Norton/OK so that would be a purchase from ourselves basically? Atkins/Yes but we'd be using cable money as opposed to general fund moneys, yea, and we're not prepared to bring that back to you yet but yes it is being considered. Lehman/A couple things, there is a Veteran's Day dinner. Norton/Oh that's tomorrow evening fight. Lehman/Thursday night at the Radisson. Norton/Thursday night right. Lehman/A huge event in Iowa City. Norton/There's also a breakfast for Veteran's at Wal-Mart. Lehman/But I think, I'm going to say this wrong, Adjutant General or General or I mean this guy is big time, (can't hear) Lawson, Lawson will be the speaker, he is an incredible speaker, I've heard him once before so, and I think there are still tickets available but that is a tremendous event. It's annually now for almost 20 years and extremely well attended but a lot of fun, Thursday night at the Radisson. I mentioned this last night Steve but I think for the public's benefit our contract with White Buffalo is with them and I think. Atkins/Yes. Lehman/In the process of being taken care of, we know of no problems with that contract. Atkins/Signed it tonight, it was left on my desk. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. 4/16 Page 29 Lehman/Oh it's done. Atkins/It's done. Lehman/Great, folks the contract's been signed. In addition to the City Hall Day and I. Thomberry/You might want to explain to some of them what White Buffalo is. Lehman/Oh White Buffalo is the contracting company that will be helping to harvest the deer population in Iowa City sometime this Fall and Winter after much debate but that they will be here sometime between now and the end of February middle of March. That's something that's been long awaited by a lot of folks with some rather some severe deer problems so that' s done. You mentioned the City Hall Day tomorrow night, I don't know how many legislatures we have coming, fight · now I think there's two. Vanderhoef/That's all I know of. Lehman/Yea I don't think there's (can't hear). Norton/How many Council Members are coming for sure? Lehman/Pardon? Norton/How many Councilor's are coming for sure? Lehman/How many council people are coming tomorrow night? Kubby/I'm teaching a class tomorrow night. Champion/I'll be there for a short time. Lehman/Well there will be two of us. Norton/Well I'll come for part of it. Lehman/Don't be late because. Norton/No, no I want to come to the good part. Lehman/The reason I say that because the one we had in Coralville last year was six people wasn't it, it didn't last very long. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999. #16 Page 30 Norton/Well I'll come for the reception how about that. Lehman/6:30 to 7:00. A week from yesterday will be a meeting between the Council and we're all aware of that and the Library Board looking at possible options for the expansion or expansion or redoing of the public library. That's an important meeting I'm sure the press will cover that, it will not, it will be a public meeting and that people can listen, but it will be conversation between the council and the library board. Atkins/And Emie at the Library. Lehman/Pardon. Atkins/At the Library. Lehman/Thank you I would have been here, at the Library, 7:00 next Monday night, thank you. We would have had a really short meeting. Champion/A short meeting. Kubby/We all would have been here. O'Donnell/Probably would have been a lot better meeting. Atkins/Well that's where it is right now if it changes we'll certainly let you know, it won't change, thank you Ernie. Lehman/OK, that's really all I have. Steve. Atkins/Nothing sir. Kubby/Move to adjoum. 0'Donnell/Second. Lehman/Moved by Kubby, seconded by 0'Donnell. All in favor. Meeting is adjourned. 7:50. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City council meeting of November 9, 1999.