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October 2, 2000 Work Session 7:00 PM
Council: Lehman, Champion, O'Donnell, Vanderhoef, Wilbum, Pfab, Kanner
Staff: Atkins, Helling, Karr, Dilkes, Franklin, Matthews, O'Malley, Davidson,
Winkelhake, Fowler
Tapes: 00-91 SIDE ONE, 00-93 BOTH SIDES
PLANNING & ZONING
A. CONSIDER A MOTION SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR OCTOBER 17 ON
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AN APPROVED OPDH-12 PLAN TO ALLOW
A 40-UNIT ASSISTED LIVING BUILDING ON 2.87 ACRES LOCATED ON
THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SCOTT BOULEVARD AND AMERICAN
LEGION ROAD. (REZ00-00020)
Franklin/The first item is to set a public hearing for October 17 on amendment to the
Silvercrest Development planned development. Basically this is a change from
having a rehabilitation center to a facility for Alzheimer's patients and we'll get
into the detail of that the next time around.
B. PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE CHANGING THE ZONING
DESIGNATION FROM LOW DENSITY MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
(RM-12) AND NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION RESIDENTIAL (RNC-
20) TO MEDIUM DENSITY SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (RS-8) FOR
FOUR (4) PROPERTIES ON THE SOUTH SDE OF THE 900 BLOCK OF
IOWA AVENUE, SEVENTEEN (17) PROPERTIES ON THE 900 AND 1000
BLOCKS OF WASHINGTON STREET, TEN (10) PROPERTIES ON THE 100
AND 200 BLOCKS OF SOUTH SUMMIT STREET, FOUR (4) PROPERTIES
ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE 10 AND 100 BLOCKS OF GOVERNOR
STREET, THREE (3) PROPERTIES ON THE WEST SDE OF THE 1000
BLOCK OF MUSCATINE AVENUE, AND FIVE (5) PROPERTIES ON THE
900 AND 1000 BLOCKS OF COLLEGE STREET.
Franklin/The next item then is a public hearing on a rezoning, and this is a rezoning
around the Summit Street College, or the Summit Street College and Washington
area which is shown on the map here. The request was made by neighbors in the
area to rezone this property, all of the shaded area from RM-12 to RS-8 and that's
RM-12 is the low densities multi-family zone, the lowest density multi-family
zone that we have, RS-8 would take it to single family and duplex. What the staff
has recommended and what the Planning & Zoning Commission has
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recommended is that the area basically in here and this part all of this be rezoned
to RNC-12 and that this area which includes 11 properties be rezoned to the RS-8.
Now the reason for that is that in this RS, in this area which is recommended for
RS-8 which is consistent with the neighbors request most of the properties in there
right now are of a single family character. And there would be the possibility for
conversions to duplexes here, it would be more limited in terms of those
conversions under the RS-8 and the RNC- 12.
Lehman/Kafin that little spot between the RM-12 over to whatever direction it is there's
a, keep going, what is that? Is that RS-5 now, RM-12?
Franklin/No, this right in here is RNC-20 all of this on the outside.
Lehman/Oh OK the RMol2 is just indicating.
Franklin/This RM-12 is for fight here.
Lehman/And we're recommending or we're being asked to rezone that to RNC-127
Franklin/RNC-12 here and along Washington Street, on either side of Summit as you get
down to Burlington, everything that is in this area shaded.
Lehman/OK.
Kanner/Why do you suppose that they did not pick those spaces to rezone those white
spaces to an RS-8 or RNC-12?
Franklin/Because these were already multi-family of a density that wouldn't fit, I mean it
was just, it was just this was already in the RNC-20 and this was RM-12 and that
was what was being considered for rezoning.
Champion/And that little spot.
Franklin/And this spot is already developed at that higher density. I mean you wouldn't
be achieving anything by including that, do you understand what I'm saying?
Kanner/But from our point of view if we went to an RNC-12 or a 20 we would be
achieving something by saying we wanted to keep that density that this is a good
mix, that are some.
Franklin/This mix will stay the same because this will continue to be the multi-family
that it is fight now and whether you change it to RNC-12 or not, well first of all
this was what was brought in as the request and that' s what we're going by is what
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was requested. But in terms of including this, it's already multi-family by down
zoning it to RNC-12 I'm not sure what you achieve by including those properties
because it is solidly multi-family fight now.
Vanderhoef/And RNC-20 would still make them nonconforming wouldn't it?
Lehman/They are RNC-20.
Franklin/They are RNC-20 now what their status is exactly Dee.
Vanderhoef/No the white area.
Franklin/The white area, if they were made RNC-12, well under the RNC designation
whatever density you have when it is rezoned is the density that you may retain for
that property. So it really wouldn't affect them one way or another.
(All talking).
Lehman/It's all grandfathered.
Franklin/But I think the effort was to get at some of these properties and to where there
was a mix and there was some concern at least on the part of the neighbors about
the stability of this area. Because remember what we're talking about with all of
this is stabilizing the area which was one reason why the staff and the Planning &
Zoning Commission recommended the RNC-12 is because that stabilizes it at
what you are at right now and ifthat's the goal that's what you get with the RNC-
12 and you don't make as many properties nonconforming. With RS-8 you
would make more properties nonconforming.
Lehman/This is similar to the Lucas/Govemor Street that we did a couple months ago?
Franklin/Yes, it's very similar, very similar.
Lehman/I mean it's the same concept.
Franklin/The concepts are the same and it is one of those areas that we would have
looked at as a consequence of council's direction to look at the older
neighborhoods but the residents in the area brought it in first.
Lehman/This is one of the few remaining areas isn't it?
Franklin/Yes, as we're looking at the older neighborhoods, it's, I don't know that we're
going to be bringing you any others for down zoning.
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Lehman/OK.
Kanner/Well. Never mind.
Franklin/OK.
Champion/Well there' s a tremendous amount of neighborhood support for this.
(All talking)
Franklin/Yes, in terms of any protest that we have had on this, the protests were for the
RS-8 properties when this was all being considered for RS-8 and it was for this
property, this one, this one, and this one, those were the formal protests that we
received. Since the, and that was a protest to rezoning to RS-8, since this has
been recommended by the commission for RNC-12 we have had no protests.
Champion/Yea, amazing.
Lehman/Yea, OK.
Kanner/Besides the idea of that comer.
Franklin/This one Steven.
Kanner/Being rezoned, yea in the upper fight comer, being rezoned to RS-8 and
therefore being closer or matching across the street area. What are reasons that
we would want to go down to the RS-8 and why not go with an RNC-12? I like
the idea of RNC-12 for the whole area and I'm having some problems with the
RS-8 and I need to hear some more reasoning.
Franklin/OK the reason had to do, wait a second here, the reason had to do with the
number of properties that could be converted to duplexes, in this area if you look
at all the ones that have the dark circle, if it's RNC-12 all of those can be
converted to duplexes based upon the lot requirements for RNC-12 for duplexes.
Ifit's RS-8 in which you need more land to convert to a duplex there is just one so
if what you are after is stability then the most change that you would have in this
area would be if you went to the RNC-12 and opened that opportunity for
conversion to duplexes. And I mean it's all about whether what your trying to
achieve is stability here, that is keeping it at what it is now as opposed to having
an opportunity for change.
Champion/That is a real plus in that area to change that to RS-8.
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Franklin/Right, that was really the compelling argument that this is practically all single
family now except for this one property, this would become nonconforming, the
four-unit would become nonconforming under the proposed RS-8 zoning but only
one property, this one could be converted to a duplex because it has sufficient lot
size.
Champion/Which I don't object to all it's good.
Vanderhoef/Which we're looking at this also when you talk about stability we're also
looking at diversity of types of housing and this is still walkable to downtown and
campus and so forth that having that mix of private ownership single families
mixed in with multi 's I think is a real positive kind of thing (can't hear).
Franklin/Yea and that was one of the reasons for looking at the RNC-12 is because you
still retain that diversity of uses over the long haul.
Pfab/Karin, what is the goal, how will we know if what we are doing here works 20 years
from now? If 20 years from now what will be there or what will happen?
Franklin/Well the most that could potentially happen would be that in these areas fight
here, well you could have a conversion to a duplex in this lot and this one, under
the RNC-12 you also have the possibility for conversion on this lot, any other one
that has a dot on it. Otherwise assuming the continued financial viability of the
7's, the 4's, the 6's, the 13 it will retain that mix of different kinds of housing in
this spot. I mean the only thing that would make that change in terms of some of
those densities going down would be the choice of the property owner to diminish
the use of the property owner, it would not be the zoning, it would not be the
zoning.
Champion/And that has happened to a lot of those houses in that area.
Franklin/There has been conversions to single family from multiples but that's been a
property owner choice as opposed to a zoning policy.
Pfab/OK if we could go out and sprinkle some magic dust on that what would be the best
thing as a planner would look at that, what would be the best thing that could
happen?
Franklin/Well one of the things that we wrestled with, I think keeping the mix is the best
is the best thing that can happen because of the proximity of these properties to
the down. There's a desire on the part of many people to be able to live in single
family houses close to the downtown and still walk downtown, there are also a
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number of people who want to live in apartments and convened houses and be in
proximity to downtown and this area gives you those choices because it is quite
close.
Pfab/And aside, I think I need my different glasses, I can't see the black spots on the
(can't hear).
Franklin/On the one you have in front of you.
Pfab/Yes.
Lehman/It doesn't have any.
Franklin/Because you don't have them on that one.
Vanderhoef/But we can put them on if you want.
Pfab/Just, just.
Lehman/OK.
Champion/It's a good map, I like it, colored.
Franklin/Anything else?
Kanner/What's the zoning of the coop apartment that' s not pan of the proposal that' s on
Summit Street? Keep going down.
Franklin/Here.
Lehman/Summit and Burlington.
Kanner/Yea.
Lehman/RM-44.
Kanner/The one right next to it is the coop apartment.
Lehman/44.
Franklin/RM-44. That's right there.
Kanner/Right where the star is.
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Franklin/Yea.
Kanner/Well what is? What are the main aspects of RM-44?
Franklin/That' s our highest density multi-family.
Kanner/Thanks.
C. PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDNANCE AMENDING THE NONCONFORMING
USE PROVISIONS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION
RESIDENTIAL, RNC-12 ZONE, TO MAKE IT CLEAR ANY EXISTING
CONFORMING MULTI-FAMILY USE WOULD CONTINUE TO BE
CONFORMING UNDER THE RNC-12 ZONE.
Franklin/Assuming I don't lose my voice here. The next item is an ordinance
amendment, basically what this is is a housekeeping matter. We found that as we
were looking at the provision that dealt with the conforming nature of the multiple
uses in the RNC zone that it referred to those properties that had been zoned RM-
12 and I'm sure this was because when we did the RNC-12 initially it was a
conversion from RM-12 to RNC-12 as opposed to from RNC-20 to RNC-12.
What this amendment does is allows you to make that policy decision without it
just applying to a previous, one previous zoning category, it's whatever it was
zoned before whether it's 12, 20 or 44. OK.
Lehman/OK.
D. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE CONDITIONALLY AMENDING THE APPROVED
SENSITIVE AREAS DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR LOT 52 OF WALDEN
HILLS, A 4.89 ACRE PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF
SHANNON DRIVE, SOUTH OF WILLOW CREEK. (REZOO-0005/SUBOO-
0016) (SECOND CONSIDERATION)
Franklin/Item D is second consideration on lot 52 in Walden Hills.
E. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
13 S. LINN STREET AS AN IOWA CITY HISTORIC LANDMARK. (REZOO-
0019) (SECOND CONSIDERATION)
Franklin/Item E is that historic landmark designation for 13 S. Linn Street, second
consideration.
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F. CONSDER A LETTER TO THE JOHNSON COUNTY BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS RECOMMENDING DENIAL OF A REZONING OF 125.43
ACRES LOCATED WITHIN FRINGE AREA C EAST OF DANE ROAD AND
WEST AND SOUTH OF THE LAKERIDGE MOBILE HOME PARK FROM
COUNTY A1 RURAL AND RS SUBURBAN RESDENTIAL TO COUNTY
RMH MANUFACTURED HOUSING RESDENTIAL. (CZ0027)
Franklin/Item F your requested to defer this to October 17. The attomey for Lakeridge
and I have been having discussions and we're at the point of starting to draft an
agreement which is a step.
G. CONSDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE FINAL PLAT OF WINDSOR
RIDGE, PART TEN A, A RESUBDIVISION OF A PORTION OF WINDSOR
RIDGE, PART TEN, A 4.90 ACRES, 8-LOT RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION
LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF HUNTINGTON DRIVE, NORTH OF
BARRNGTON ROAD. (SUBOO-00019)
Franklin/The next item then is the final plat of Windsor Ridge Part 10A and this is kind
of peculiar, but not actually so peculiar. This was part of Windsor Ridge Part 10,
and as the development started on Dryden Court which is this street fight here the
developers realized that because all of this was in the final plat that they would be
obligated to construct Court Street and an extension of Huntington, this part right
here. At this time even though the lots that were being completed on Dryden and
Arlington was completed out to Court Street that they would either have to escrow
for that or pave Huntington and that extension of Court Street even though they
did not intend to develop these lots at this time. So what they have done is
requested is that we break this off which means that this will not be required until
they wish to do these lots on Huntington. Now there is another provision of a
conditional zoning agreement for the commercial property, this CN-1 that is to the
east of it. When that comes in Court Street must be extended so one of two things
will occur, they will proceed with these lots in which they must pave Court Street
and Huntington or they will pursue the commercial development to the east here
in which case they would have to pave Court but not necessarily Huntington. Well
no I take that back, they would have to do Huntington too because there's a drive
Up Of Huntington to the commercial so.
Lehman/That's right.
Franklin/So one or the other is going to happen, the commercial or these chain of lots
here. So we're not concerned about breaking this off and having a circumstance
in which development in the area can't proceed so it's recommended for approval.
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Vanderhoef/So the only thing we're holding up are single family housing not any of the
multi-family?
Franklin/No, that's all right over in here.
Lehman/That's his choice though isn't it?
Champion/Yea.
Lehman/It's not ours.
Franklin/Yes. And there is not another property owner in the mix here that could
potentially delayed because this isn't happening, I mean we've got the same
property owner throughout but this is the multiple development that we have
talked about previously and we' 11 see part of this coming in fairly soon.
Vanderhoef/What is in the area where the arrow happens to be?
Franklin/That's the school reservation site, or yea, the reserved site for the school, I
guess it's not a reservation.
Pfab/Put me back to where the other map that so the school is noah of.
Franklin/Right there.
Pfab/It's there or is it farther to your here.
Franklin/It's in this area fight in here.
Pfab/So the street for the school part is already in there.
Franklin/No that is not.
Pfab/I mean it will be.
Franklin/But there's no plans in the immediate, it's highly unlikely that a school would
be built there before these lots would be put in.
Pfab/So where.
Franklin/This is where the school sight is reserved in here.
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Pfab/OK, so I thought I was following maybe I'm not. So you're saying that at this point
the gray area is off the board so to speak.
Franklin/It is a different final plat from Dryden Court is basically what's happening.
Pfab/OK I was under the impression that Court was going to be built out to the yea, out
to about there, OK so that's off now.
Franklin/Not fight now.
Pfab/OK, OK.
Franklin/And even if they had kept it.
Pfab/OK, OK, I misunderstood.
Franklin/Even if they had kept it in the final plat Irvin they would have had, they
wouldn't have had to built it fight away, they would have had to provided escrow
which of course what enables us to go ahead and build it if we need to but I think
the reality of this school being built in the next 10 years is fairly slim.
Pfab/OK that's fine, I have no more further questions.
Kanner/Karin those are two outlots to that have past to the CN-1 to the east and then one
to the north eventually?
Franklin/I'm sorry, this is CN-1 here.
Kanner/On the other map you showed an outlot.
Franklin/Here.
Kanner/No to the right going to the east down under 193.
Franklin/Here.
Kanner/Yea so is that for a path to get out?
Franklin/Yes.
Kanner/And then you'll be able to get to the commercial area.
Franklin/The commercial fight.
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Kanner/And then there's also one to the north to get out to Court Street, what's that
space above 288 to the east of 2887
Franklin/Right there.
Kanner/No to your left.
Franklin/Here.
Kanner/Is that a path also? A path to get up to Court Street.
Franklin/I think so, I can't see it real well. Is that blurry?
Champion/A little bit but (can't hear).
Kanner/A little bit.
Franklin/Well because that's in the other subdivision not this pan, its part 10 not 10A it's
not marked on my, but I would guess Steven that that's what that is for because I
can't imagine why else you'd have that break there that would allow you to get
back up to here but I can check that for you.
Kanner/OK so we put that in as a requirement?
Franklin/Because there's also something right here. I'd have to look at the plat for Part
10 but that's not part of this approval, that's already done.
Pfab/Before you came across where the arrow is now I would say that if it is a path they
would have extended that, made that lot bigger just to allow for the path, it would
have given the, part of that wide V-shaped to one of the lots there.
Franklin/Well not necessarily what we have done sometimes is that this then becomes
something that it's must more accessible ifit's not narrow like this and it's much
more accessible as an open space. Larry do you remember what that is?
Larry Schnittjer/It's an access to the open space, I can't recall whether the sidewalk goes
all the way up (can't hear) or whether it goes all the way through (can't hear).
Franklin/It may be a sidewalk but we can't recall whether it goes all the way to Court
Street or not and there is to be a pond in this outlot next.
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Pfab/What is the thing right underneath the shaft or the arrow, fight next to the shaft or
the arrow?
Franklin/Well I'm going to have to look at the plat of Part 10 and this is Part 10A.
Pfab/Storm sewage.
Schnittjer/Yea.
Franklin/OK storm sewage.
Champion/Karin what we're actually voting on tomorrow night is the lot off that area?
Franklin/Yes.
Lehman/That's all.
Champion/That's all, OK.
Franklin/It's not all of this, it's this part here.
Lehman/Yea, that's it.
Champion/Thank you.
AGENDA ITEMS
Lehman/Review agenda items. Anybody have any agenda items?
ITEM #12. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE TITLE 2,
ENTITLED "HUMAN RIGHTS," CHAPTER 3, ENTITLED
"DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES," SECTION 2-3-2, ENTITLED PUBLIC
ACCOMMODATION; EXCEPTIONS.
Kanner/Well.
Lehman/Yes.
Kanner/Do, in Item #12 it's like the for Eleanor or perhaps Karin, but maybe more for
Eleanor. We're going to change some things in the human fights ordinance. Do
we have bars that offer ladies nights and things like that and how does that fit in
with possible discriminatory practices?
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Dilkes/Well it doesn't relate to the ordinance that's in front of you. Do you understand
that?
Kanner/Right but I guess I'm thinking that we're talking about discounts and so forth and
so that made me think of ladies nights which are also discounts that (can't hear).
Dilkes/Yea there' s an Iowa Supreme decision that would find that that was
discrimination.
Kanner/OK and could we be responsible for prosecuting that case if we found that at a
bar or restaurant?
Dilkes/Well it wouldn't be a prosecution it would be a complaint process through our
Human Rights Commission.
Kanner/Thank you.
Lehman/Other agenda items.
APPOINTMENTS
Lehman/OK appointment for the Animal Control Advisory Board.
O'Donnell/We had one didn't we?
Lehman/We had one if I remember.
Vanderhoef/We had two.
Lehman/Two OK, do we have discussion?
Vanderhoef/I'm trying to remember names and I didn't write them down this time.
Champion/I only saw one.
Vanderhoef/It was one a week ago.
Karr/You have two.
Vanderhoef/And then one a week ago.
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Lehman/Marian's about to tell us who they are.
Karr/You have two applications, Elizabeth Hospodarsky, she was.
Lehman/Hospodarsky.
Karr/OK she was the applicant that you had received earlier and then Jean Walker from
Lucon Drive.
Lehman/What' s your pleasure?
Champion/You know I'd like to (can't hear).
O'Donnell/Your 37 1 think (can't hear).
Kanner/Well when I hear someone say they like to fund raise I kind of like that idea and
that was the candidate Elizabeth and I think that's a very good quality to have for
that position because they plan to do some of that in the upcoming years.
O'Donnell/I like the idea of Jean Walker being in town for 28 years, she's retired.
Champion/That's the one that I saw.
O'Donnell/That's the one I have. 336.
Wilburn/336.
O'Donnell/The other one's last week.
Champion/I don't have it.
Vanderhoef/It's in here.
Karr/1921 Momingside Drive was the first one.
Karr/I forgot where Elizabeth works so (can't hear).
O'Donnell/I'd like to nominate Jean Walker.
Champion/I'll second her.
Lehman/Well I think Steven you did you nominate Hospodarsky?
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Kanner/Sure I'll nominate her.
Lehman/All right we've got both folks nominated, we'll take one at a time. How many
would like Hospodarsky? I'd like to say that right too many times so let's.
O'Donnell/Or once.
Lehman/I said it right twice already. Those who would like Hospodarsky, four times
I've said it.
Vanderhoef/I would.
Lehman/We've got four.
Karr/Elizabeth.
Lehman/Yes.
O'Donnell/Where were four I only saw three?
Lehman/I'm the fourth.
O'Donnell/Oh your the fourth.
Lehman/I can say the name.
(can't hear).
SIOUX AVENUE
Lehman/Sioux Avenue.
Atkins/You asked the (can't hear).
Lehman/If I'm not mistaken this is a request that we heard at the joint meeting from at
least some of the county folks asking us if we would care to share in the cost of
putting calcium chloride on Sioux Avenue, is that correct?
Atkins/Something like that, however, I don't know how you can share in the cost when
by their own policy they're prohibited from putting any calcium chloride on the
property to begin with.
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Lehman/Well before we get to whether or not it's legal are there four people who would
like to share in the cost of doing something illegal?
Kanner/Well that' s.
Vanderhoef/No.
Atkins/No I think so (can't hear).
O'Donnell/Ernie that's probably the wrong way to say that.
Atkins/Yes.
Lehman/You're right.
O'Donnell/We, Sioux Avenue is a very difficult thing to speak about, Sioux Avenue is I
would like a traffic count if it's possible before the soccer complex we put down
there. We have, and I don't know where the county arrived at 150 cars a day
before they'll do calcium chloride but there's 145 seems a bit odd that we don't
have 150 plus or minus, I mean we're 5 away from these people getting
alleviation from what is a total wipeout out there when cars go by. But you know
the question is it is a city or county road, it's county road so what's the question?
Wilburn/The problem I had with the traffic count they gave us was it wasn't at the point
where cars were going into the soccer complex. I mean if it can be shown that
traffic is coming that way then I'd be willing to, if it's legal to go ahead and share
in some way but I've been out, my daughters play soccer as I'm watching games
I'm keeping an eye for people coming in that way and I just didn't you know,
maybe it's the time of day when I'm out there but I don't see many cars come in
so I'd like to, that's where I'd like to have the traffic count (can't hear).
Vanderhoef/Well you know I have a little problem just in general with this because
South Sycamore we have on capital improvement to get the rest of that road
completed and there certainly are plenty of people who come into Iowa City from
the county on Highway 1 and Highway 6 and use South Sycamore and we don't
have any sharing with that particular road that is getting county uses as well as
city uses. So I think we would be setting a precedence here that would not be
good for the City of Iowa City to take in working with this road.
O'Donnell/Well we're all in this together Dee and the precedence finding me another
road that was relatively untraveled that we put a soccer complex that may or may
not have generated traffic so that's the question, I don't know the answers to that.
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Vanderhoef/And people have the choice of which road they come in on.
O'Donnell/That's right.
Lehman/Irvin.
Pfab/OK is there another, is there a good alternative that's available to everyone?
Vanderhoef/Yea, certainly.
(Can't hear).
Pfab/Alternatives.
Vanderhoef/Highway 6 and Sycamore.
Pfab/OK what is the greatest exposure we could have in cost?
O'Donnell/Calcium chloride is $1,300 a mile, this is approximately 2 miles long and like
I said my real problems is with the county coming up with this 150 count you
know if it would be 145 they would have (can't hear) I mean it's just.
Champion/I have problems with the whole thing.
Lehman/So do I.
Vanderhoef/I do too.
Champion/To be honest with you.
O'Donnell/(can't hear) work here.
Pfab/OK I would just ask another question. What is the potential liability to the city?
Lehman/Zero to the city.
Vanderhoef/Zero.
Pfab/I guess we.
Champion/It's liability to all of us, we, it's all coming out of the same pocket but
basically (can't hear).
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Pfab/No but I mean is it, is there potential for a bad accident that could be avoided for
$1,3007
O'Donnell/Sure there is that's why the county should put calcium chloride on this road.
Pfab/OK.
Lehman/You know if we look, and I'm surprised they came to us for an amount that's as
insignificant as this is. They have the liability for the road, apparently it's a very
dangerous situation out there right now. If you look at what comes in on Prairie
Du Chien every day of the week that we handle that comes in from the county, we
don't ask the county to help us with an intersection. We look at what comes in on
Benton Street, we look at what comes in on Court Street, I mean this is the way
life is, we deal those things every day. They I think could reasonably be expected
to deal with this, I think the total cost of 3 applications is $12,000.
O'Donnell/I don't disagree with you.
Lehman/I, if, unless there's someone who really thinks we should do this badly I'd go
onto the next item.
Pfab/I would suggest we move on to the next item.
NUTRITION BOARD PARKING REQUEST (1P1 OF 9/28)
Lehman/Nutrition Board Parking Request.
O'Donnell/(can't hear) talk about it anymore.
Lehman/I suggest Steve we should notify the county that we're not interested. OK.
Nutrition Board, I think we got a letter in the packet from Steve to Nutrition, I
can't say nutrition but Hospodarsky I can do great. The Nutrition Board is asking
for I think about 100 parking spaces and I think Steve pointed out rather clearly
that to reserve spaces for that period between 11:00 and 1:00 or 11:00 and 1:30 or
whatever would require that those spaces be left empty until the 1:00 or 2:00 in
the afternoon and it would cost, an annual cost of over $100,00.
Atkins/That's correct.
Lehman/And his answer or recommendation whatever that we can't afford to have that
many parking spaces sitting empty until 2:00 in the afternoon to accommodate
100 parkers for 2 hours. Is that pretty accurate? Did I make that too simple?
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Champion/No.
Pfab/How many, was there any contractual agreement? There was no contract. OK how
many spaces did they give out when before the thing was built?
Lehman/I think the tradeoff on parking for the Senior Center and for Ecumenical Towers
that's all taken care of.
Atkins/Keep in mind that the Senior Center have 34 spaces, not Senior Dining, Senior
Center. And it has been my understanding that we are to deal with the Senior
Center Commission which we intend to do, to at the very least I point that out in
the memo replace what they had or design some other system and if any benefit
accrues to Senior Dining so be it. But Senior Center Commission and their
budget is your respon., our responsibility.
Champion/I like the idea of, your idea of letting them have a similar thing as we have
Park and Shop downtown. So you can go in find a space.
Lehman/And bill them it.
Champion/And bill them for an hour because we can not tie up that many spaces for a 7
hour period.
Vanderhoef/Absolutely.
Champion/To provide parking for maybe an hour, but (can't hear).
Pfab/I have a suggestion, it's brilliant. Have them.
Champion/Is that the first time?
Pfab/Early brunch and then we wouldn't have to tie them up so long.
Vanderhoef/No we need a late one.
Champion/No that ramp will be full at night with night time students.
Vanderhoef/No 3:00 lunch.
Lehman/Steve I would agree with Connie that ifthere's some way that we can work out
something like Park and Shop and bill them that might be very convenient for
them and accommodate 38, well not putting an undue burden on us.
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Steven/Sure. I can send them a letter to that affect.
Pfab/I didn't hear what you said.
Vanderhoef/(can't hear) willing to pay for it.
Lehman/If we would do similar to Park and Shop downtown where they could park there
and have the Senior Center validate their ticket, the tickets turned in when they
leave and under Park and Shop the merchant is billed for the number of hours
used, we get that time, we could bill Senior Dining for the amount actual time
used, they could then park wherever they wanted to, just validate the ticket and
keep track of the hours.
Pfab/Well what is our expectation? It's going to be full or it's going to be empty?
Lehman/Well obviously we don't expect either of those.
Atkins/We have budgeted that the ramp will be at a close to 85 percent capacity.
Pfab/So does a 15 percent capacity, I mean theoretically so how many spaces would that
be?
Atkins/Oh 75. That's not much of a swing on almost a 600 car ramp.
Vanderhoef/The big part of it though for me Irvin is that those spaces are most wanted by
students and everyone else through that noon hour time period so if we were going
to be at the maximum capacity I would think that we would be close to the
capacity.
Pfab/That's why I suggested early brunch.
(All talking)
Kanner/Steve, I've got a question for Steve and Joe.
Lehman/Go ahead.
Kanner/Are we planning to set aside at least 34 spaces for the Senior Center?
Atkins/We have committed to the Senior Center Commission that they would basically
be held harmless. They had 34 spaces at $10.00 a month or something such as
that, whatever that, inexpensive.
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Kanner/$10.00 a year.
Atkins/$10.00 a year, excuse me. And we have a variety of alternatives, we just simply
haven't put all those together yet to take to the Commission. Linda and Joe will
be doing that shortly.
Kanner/And with that Irvin ifI can just continue to.
Pfab/Go ahead.
Kanner/And I would assume that the people who are Senior Citizen members who have
those $10.00 passes would be able to use them on any other available spaces if
there happen to be other spaces.
Atkins/As far as I know the parking, yea, the intent, I don't know the full intent of the
Senior Center Commission whether they want reserved spaces or they'd rather
would have as they have now the $10.00 license to hunt you know somewhere in
the ramp.
Vanderhoef/There was comment in the minutes in here that they were doing away with
the (can't hear).
Atkins/And that's why don't leap ahead on this yet because the Commission wanted to
have a sit down with Joe and Linda and work through what alternatives were
available to them, quite frankly they weren't pursuing it because the ramp isn't
due to open for another block of time.
Kanner/I think, just a couple more questions. When you say 85 percent are you
projecting that over the whole week? And if you, one would assume the weekend
would be a lot lighter so then we'll be near 100 percent during the week according
to projections.
Atkins/Microphone Joe.
Joe Fowler/85 Monday through Friday, I think it's like 50 Saturday and a little bit lower
on Saturday.
Kanner/OK so that is Monday through Friday.
Fowler/Monday through Friday and then Saturday and we didn't project, we didn't
project anything for Sunday.
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Kanner/Thanks Joe. The thing that I got out of this especially having worked at Senior
Dining is that Senior Dining wants to be part of the discussions, 100 spaces won't
work and senior diners can be members of the Senior Center and have an
opportunity to buy the pass, there's no cost to join the Senior Center. I guess what
I would ask is that the Senior Dining be part of the next discussion that you just
mentioned, that would be my request and they are a large component of the Senior
Center and have a large amount concentrated at a certain time which may bring up
some special needs and I would ask that we include a representative from there.
Vanderhoef/Well what I would say is first offI think our Senior Center needs to
approach what their needs are and the request has been already made to the Senior
Center to pick up the tab for Senior Dining kinds of things and that obviously is
not going to be, they've put the request on the table and we're saying that isn't
going to work so I think it's imperative that we let our Commission work with this
and they'll have an opportunity to work through knowing full well that the request
is still there from Senior Dining.
Lehman/Well would it be fair for us, would we concur? That at this point in time we are
not interested in acting favorably on a request for 100 spaces for Senior Dining?
Pfab/Yes.
(Other yes' s)
Vanderhoef/That's correct.
Lehman/The other thing Steve that I would guess would concem me, this is a brand new
parking facility, we really, we guessed 85 percent.
Atkins/Yea.
Lehman/Until that is open and we get some sense of how usage is going to be, it's going
to be extremely difficult for us to even talk about what space will or will not be
available other than the Senior Center which we have a commitment to.
Atkins/Yes.
Champion/I just want to, while Joe is here, before he leaves, (can't hear).
Lehman/You're welcome.
Champion/No one thing I hope you'll consider, I'm just bringing it up, I know the ramp
is not going to open for a while. But I know your also starting to think about
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things, you should be thinking about them now anyway is that I hope there will be
some way that that ramp would be more user friendly, I'd like to see like a debit
card, like you could buy 50 hours of parking, I mean, you know I don't (can't
hear).
Atkins/Funny you should mention that Connie.
Champion/Oh so that students could buy 50 hours of parking or staff could and not have
to have money and not, because they don't want to buy a monthly pass because
they're not there enough hours to make that useful.
Atkins/OK.
Fowler/We've been working.
Lehman/To get into a deep discussion of this, it isn't on the agenda, before Eleanor tells
me we can't talk about it talk quick Joe.
Fowler/We've been working on this for months and we finally got some references from
a company that we can check on other people that are doing this. We are meeting
at 9:00 in the morning with a supplier so that we can find out just exactly what
equipment we need to buy at this point so we don't buy equipment and then have
to go back six months or a year later and try an update to do it.
Champion/That's terrific.
Fowler/We've got a lot of different ideas going on, I hate to throw them all out right now
but we are working on it.
Wilburn/Could we get a memo out to the University student government because this
was a specific request that they had just to let them know that we're working on
that? OK thank you.
Lehman/Thanks Joe.
Atkins/And tell them Connie we didn't put you up to this.
ALCOHOL ISSUES (1P2 OF 9/28 PACKET)
Lehman/OK alcohol issues, we've received a memorandum from Eleanor and Eleanor if
you'd like to kind of lead the discussion.
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Dilkes/Andy you want to come up here with me I need you. Well I think what you need
to do tonight is give us some direction about where you want to go from here.
Let's talk first about the administrative penalties which are dealt with in the
footnote in our memo. I think we've told you for a few months now that state law
authorizes us to impose administrative or civil penalties which include fines,
license suspension, license revocation etc. after we afford due process to the
licensee for violations of the alcoholic beverages chapter in the state code which
includes sales to underage persons providing alcohol or selling alcohol to
underage persons knowing or having reason to know that they are under age. It
also includes, it would also include violations of the provision in the code that
makes it, that prohibits sale to intoxicated persons. I think we've been focusing
on the underage aspect of that, this morning when Lynn Walding was at the
Stepping Up meeting which I attended and which Ernie attended there was, which
Andy was at, there was discussion about using the same proceeding and also
looking for violations of that sale to intoxicated persons which I guess in some
respects is the bigger the bigger problems. So what that would involve is it would
involve setting up a procedure for hearings in front of the city council, the city
council is the body that would decide whether to issue the penalty after being
presented with evidence, the licensee of course would get notice of that there was
going to be a hearing in front of the city council, etc. It would also involve an
enforcement effort by the police department to make the case so to speak for
finding that there are violations in a bar of those things, sells to intoxicated
persons and sales to people under legal age. Do you have any questions about
that process?
Champion/Eleanor is that a formidable task for the police?
Wilburn/What does that mean for the police?
Champion/Yea that's what I mean. I like the idea of(can't hear).
Wilburn/Does that mean more staff, does that mean money for direct observation (can't
hear)?
Dilkes/I think there, and RJ can comment in more detail on this, but I think there are a
couple different ways of getting that evidence. One is just having officers who are
not in uniform be in the bar making observations about what' s going on in there.
One of the examples that Lyrm Walding used this morning was, let me back up for
a minute. You can make your case that a bar owner, or a bar is selling to people
under legal age without taking reasonable efforts to determine whether they're of
age, not just by observing someone under age coming to the bar and buying a
drink. Lynn Walding used the example when he was in the Attorney General's
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office with a case which he was involved in which involved the bartender giving a
pitcher of bar to someone, or selling a pitcher of beer to somebody who was of
legal age, legal drinking age and giving them 5 glasses having no idea where the 5
glasses were going to go for instance. But those, that kind of evidence is going to
have to be gathered obviously by.
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Matthews/You know how old are you, how long have you been here, did anybody ask
you for ID when they gave you this alcohol? And that could be asked very
quickly when the person is arrested and that's not too different than what happens
now except you ask additional questions. And I think you're right you ask right
away because that's when you're going to get the most truthful answer in all
likelihood.
Pfab/Are we getting any closer to where we can get ID at the time of point of sell,
individual sell? Is that legal in this state?
Matthews/That's not an item that we spoke about today.
Dilkes/Let me just clarify before I get to that Irvin one thing that RJ said. We would not
be able to establish that there have been a sale to, an illegal sale to a minor simply
by asking, simply by asking the minor that question. Now obviously if the minor
answers I went to the bar and I had my underage stamp or my no underage stamp
and they sold me yea that would be good evidence we could use but I think but
one of the big issues we deal with underage people and why I think we would
need under cover officers is that somebody of age buys the beer and provides the
beer to the people who are underage so I think RJ was going to get to that third
component of his enforcement effort. But in terms of requiring ID at the point of
sale, I'm not sure what.
Pfab/OK if I come up and I want a beer and where' s your ID now they might not ask me
but somebody they can be sure that person was of age when they sold it.
Dilkes/Well I think most bars put a stamp, I mean they can, that' s not what the major
issue is as I understand it is they can see who the person they're selling to is of
legal age but then that beer gets distributed to underage people in the bar.
Winkelhake/The third thing we were talking about was the fact the undercover, what that
would entail is having somebody that was under the age of 21 going into a bar and
then observing whether it was being sold to, whether they're being asked when
someone comes up and brings a pitcher of beer. We have occasions where, at the
present time we've had where a supervisor was in a bar and everybody's going up
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to the bar simply handing pitchers out bar keep takes it over the crowd, fills it up,
hands it back. That's the kind of observation that Eleanor's talking about but in
addition to that bring people in and have an undercover officer watching what' s
going on when the sale is made and then follow up on that, that gets you closer to
the proof that you need to be able to deal with some of these issues. The way that
we would do that would be incorporation with other police departments quite
frankly because too many of our people are known downtown where we would
have to have other departments come in and assist us and then we would assist
them on some other kind of operation they may have. Nothing that we've talked
about can't be done, a lot of it is already done with the exception of asking a
couple more questions.
Lehman/Steven.
Kanne~ I've got a couple questions. I believe Andy when you made a presentation about
this a few weeks ago you talked about the possibility of using other than police
officers to observe. Is that in part of the consideration training people as
observers that aren't police officers?
Matthews/I really haven't had any discussion at length about that, I'm assuming there's
always a possibility we can do that. My preference is you're going to have to
testify, I personally would prefer a police officer too.
Winkelhake/If I could respond to that. There would be no reason why you could not,
however, we already have trained officers who are used to professionally making
observations or used to testifying as to those observations and it would be much
simpler just to utilize police staff then going about training new individuals as to
the appropriate techniques.
Lehman/I also believe there's reason to assume that the university police would
cooperate with us to a great degree if we wish to do some of these things.
Winkelhake/I would think that we would receive cooperation from Coralville and the
University Department of Public Safety and we may be able to gather some
cooperation from the state patrol as well.
Champion/So you don't think this would be a task that would be very difficult for the
police to deal with?
Winkelhake/Not really, it's something that can be done, it's a little different approach
because your talking about an administrative penalty before the frustrating part
always came in from dealing with the criminal aspect of it. I applaud you for the
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fact that your willing to take this task on, this is the first council I think that
wanted to do that.
Champion/Is the burden of proof, it's not as high or maybe Eleanor needs to answer that
in our civil (can't hear)?
Dilkes/No, the burden of proof is, I think it's preponderance of the evidence in this, yea,
it's beyond a reasonable doubt in the criminal case. Also the other very important
thing is the rules of evidence don't apply in civil proceedings as they do in
criminal proceedings. For instance, the police officer who asks the intoxicated
person where they've been drinking and for how long can testify to that and you
won't get a here say objection simply because you don't have the intoxicated
person testifying.
Kanner/Would you?
Vanderhoef/I was going to ask RJ a question. How do you think this will affect your
staffing and your budget and so forth for this increased patrol within the bars?
Winkelhake/What we usually try to do is find some grant money to help us out on some
of these issues and to be able to tell you it's going to be a $10,000 or $20,000 I
don't think so because we already expend quite a bit of money in the downtown
area. Two of these kind of things are simply asking additional questions and
putting it down on paper, that I don't think should cost anything because we
already put people downtown. The undercover one may cost us something
because I'm going to have to talk to other agencies about the use of their officers
somewhere along the way I have to reciprocate, reciprocate to them by putting
another officer out for them somewhere.
Vanderhoef/Well it strikes me just without any facts or figures what we are paying right
now in cleanup in our downtown and some of these other things, it might be
money well spent to enforce the law.
Winkelhake/I have no idea how those two will equate.
Vanderhoef/I don't either.
Winkelhake/Somewhere in the future we might be able to pinpoint that but at this point
I'd be hesitant to say that if we do this we're going to save money somewhere
else.
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Champion/RJ do you have any idea how many calls you get downtown that deal with
intoxication versus other calls you get from downtown just off the top of your
head?
Winkelhake/No most of the calls downtown don't start with intoxication, it's usually
some other negative that's called attention and then they call somebody will call
in. Most of the intoxication arrests that are made downtown quite different than
some people would like you to believe. It's basically caused by the individual
bring negative attention to their actions and getting a police officer involved in it
and for every person that we arrest for public intox. there are probably anywhere
from 30 to 50 that are not arrested on that same time.
Pfab/What is the, how do you determine what the suit is going to amount to? How much
do you sue for?
Dilkes/How much do you sue for?
Pfab/Yea in other words (can't hear).
Matthews/The fine is.
Pfab/Is it a fine?
Dilkes/The state code provides for a graduation of penalties, when it's.
Pfab/Is it determined, what determines the progression or the changes?
Dilkes/Well the state code determines, and correct me if I'm wrong Andy, but it's, ifit's
an underage sale it's $300.00 for the first infraction.
Matthews/They graduate.
Dilkes/And then they graduate up to suspension, revocation, etc. But the sale to
intoxicated person I believe we have more discretion and the initial penalty is
higher.
Pfab/Is higher?
Dilkes/Yea.
Pfab/And how, can you give me an idea of how you know first, second, third, what is
the rate of progression?
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Dilkes/The rate of progression.
Pfab/In other words is it $300.00 for one, first time, second time, how much? Third
time.
Dilkes/Well I think it's $300.00 and then you can go to the other penalties such as
suspension and revocation.
Pfab/OK so it's $300.00 for (can't hear).
Dilkes/$300.00 is the first one, and we're talking about the civil penalty.
Pfab/OK. So in other, so a person can gamble on since it's $300.00 it's part of the cost
of doing business.
Matthews/If I may Irvin, a lot of it depends on the nature of the offense as well, there are
certain graduated penalties.
Pfab/That's what I'm trying to point out.
Matthews/(Can't hear) code and also under civil the civil administrative penalties, there
are also additional options leading all the way to suspension and revocation and
you have to fit it within the code section of the action that's alleged to be a
violation.
Pfab/OK but can you give me any idea, OK the first time, is there a second time, is there
a third time? Does it?
Matthews/There are graduated penalties depending on the nature of the offense, in
certain cases the graduated penalties go $3,4, and $500.00 and in some cases
after the first one it can go fight up to license suspension and if it's necessary the
license revocation, it depends on the nature of the offense and how the state code
deals with it.
Dilkes/Obviously the object here is that ifthere's a threat to the license, I mean that's
what your trying to get at. And I wanted to raise a point about the resource issue
that I thought was made pretty well this morning at the Stepping Up meeting is
that the concentration on issuance of PAULA or possession of alcohol under legal
age citations you will be doing that year after year after year as the student
population changes, I mean hopefully I mean the goal would be of the
administrative penalty is to change the what's happening in the bars and maybe
have some more permanent affect on the situation down there, that's the goal,
that's the idea.
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Kanner/I have a question for you Eleanor and then for RJ. For the cigarette cases that's
we're considering the underage purchases of tobacco you recommend that the
county prosecute these cases. Are you recommending that you would most likely
represent the city, are you recommending in these cases that the county also
prosecute or not prosecute but bring this case before us for a heating (can't hear).
Dilkes/No that's not been the discussion, I think the tobacco thing evolved because Pat
White made the initial proposal to do that and the statutory structure I think for
tobacco and alcohol is a little different. Maybe Andy can address that better than
I.
Matthews/No I think they're somewhat different but I think essentially we're going in
alternate direction with respect to tobacco is simply because the county attorney' s
office volunteered to undertake that and there was a certain attractiveness to it and
so we could maintain that separation of function between city attorney offering
legal advice to the counsel and not also acting as prosecutor. With hearings in the
alcohol area there' s a number of methods you could do if you could use existing
legal staff, you could take the approach that Cedar Rapids uses, Cedar Rapids
uses an approach where police staff actually present those violations to council
and that in fact then also permits the city attorney to act in his or her traditional
role in advising council. The approach used in Cedar Rapids is a fairly
streamlined approach but it still affords due process to the bar or the
establishment. Of course it will involve a commitment of council time but I think
the goal here as Eleanor indicated is to try to change the behavior at the bars
themselves to make them more self policing and more effective their effort is the
less time you'll have to spend at those hearings.
Pfab/If this.
Kanner/Well I had a question for RJ, if you have one for Andy go ahead.
Pfab/OK, all right, If we decide to go this route what is the time frame involved to get
started and when will the first undercover person be in the bar?
Matthews/That's probably more appropriate for RJ.
Winkelhake/I think there are some things we need to work out just to make sure we have
the procedures down so that we meet all the requirements that are necessary and
as far as giving you a date with the press in the back I don't think I'd do that
except it would be done fairly quickly.
Pfab/Like months, weeks, years.
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Dilkes/Let me address the timing a little bit, we have to put a process in place, that may
involve some enabling legislation, an ordinance to say OK we have the authority
to adopt administrative rules to implement this so there's going to be some other
stuff that's going to have to come back to you for approval. I think the other thing
we have to work through, the police department and my department is the issue of
where are we going to focus our efforts? What kind of evidence are we going to
require, or how many instances are we going to require before we're going to give
notice to the bar that there's going to be a proceeding before council for a civil
penalty and those are things that we're going to have to work out. You only have
as Marian pointed out to me earlier three more meetings before your December
meetings so I think the likelihood that we're going to have all that in place this fall
is probably slim, I think the best I can say is we'll devote the time to it we need to
and get it back to you as soon as we can.
Lehman/Steven, I'm sorry.
Matthews/Also in all fairness to the establishments in question certainly they should be
provided with what guidelines are focused the council, we'll be undertaking and
be prepared for it prior to implementation of any of those procedures.
Pfab/Is it possible any of those could run concurrently?
Matthews/Which ones?
Lehman/What?
Pfab/In other words, I, this alcohol problem is getting really monotonous and anything
something has to be done.
Dilkes/Well I can certainly appreciate that but you have to remember that although the
Lynn Walding today you know sort of told us that he'd get support from us when
it goes up from you to on appeal to them. There's also an appeal after that that
point to district court and I don't want to go into this thing without our ducks in a
row and lined up to know that we can sustain the imposition of an administrative
penalty through a court proceeding so I appreciate, I mean we just have to balance
those two things and.
Lehman/Steven.
Kanner/This is RJ and to the council, I read Andy's memo about the video (can't hear)
underage drinking and it was in our packages and one of the points they made
which is what we're talking about is limitations on access and so along the lines
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of what we're considering tonight I also want to put to the council and to RJ the
sting similar to the alcohol to the underage tobacco purchase stings in retail stores
that was mentioned and they said that was fairly effective and maybe we can get
some facts and figures on what kind of problem that might be in Iowa City and.
Champion/I understand, what are you suggesting Steven I missed part?
Kanner/I'm suggesting that similar to the stings that are done with the underage tobacco
purchases where someone is sent in that's obviously underage and has an
underage ID and is able to purchase tobacco and then they're fined and there's
penalties criminal and civil penalties brought against them that we do a similar
action for places that sell alcohol.
Champion/I think they already do that.
Atkins/I don't think we do stings.
Champion/No.
Lehman/We don't do stings now do we R J?
Winkelhake/We have in the past.
Lehman/Have we recently?
Winkelhake/And we have the arrangements made to have individuals that will do it
again, in fact we have some guidelines that we have in place that I talked with the
county attorney about if we were looking at a criminal end of it and then for
Eleanor if we're going to be looking at the administrative end, they're very
similar. We have done that in the past and we are going to do that in the future,
we have that in, working on it fight now.
Kanner/One of the main things then to look at then is the civil end of it and I guess that
would come from our direction if we want to pursue that also and I would suggest
that we should pursue that and see what the problems are, we want to see what the
facts are and then say if it's a problem we want to pursue it on both ends civil and
criminally.
Winkelhake/Your willingness to take this task on is different and I'm certainly glad that
your willing to because I think you can have an impact, a very large impact
because we arrest somebody for underage drinking we're not making much of a
difference down there except for arresting more and until your doing something
that has an impact on a license all we're doing is arresting people.
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Lehman/Well the frustrating thing from at least my position is that there seems to be at
least in the past so little that we could do except we fine the, if we caught them the
underage drinker, we fine the person for public intox., there seem to be little or no
recourse against the folks who provided which is kind of a key word, provided the
alcohol and now this appears to me to be an opportunity where we can require
some responsibility on the part of the bar owners who either sell or provide the
alcohol to underage and/or intoxicated people. Is that correct Eleanor? Now
before you say we did a great job RJ does the council support looking into this?
Champions' Oh yes.
Pfab/Oh yes.
Lehman/Working up a plan.
Vanderhoef/Absolutely.
Lehman/And moving forward with it.
Pfab/I believe this will change when the attitude changes and I believe that this whole
alcohol problem can be solved in a matter of a couple of months once it's
determined we will not back down. It's a matter of will I believe.
Matthews/Just so we go into this with eyes wide open you know, what we see at our
level is just a start, there will be appealed to the state for administrative law judge,
and there are appeals to the district court so this is step 1 and what arguably could
be a long process and I think remembering back to many years ago when council
was wrestling with, a different council of course was wrestling with some of these
issues the council group frustrated at those appeal provisions and the time periods
that that took but if we go into it with our eyes wide open if we have the
procedures down pact, if we're comfortable that they can withstand judicial
scrutiny and if we're aware that you know ultimately it may take some time to
resolve before we start seeing some real action on the part of the establishments
then I think it can still be quite effective.
Champion/But even if the appeal process is lengthy, it also is going to cost the bar owner
a lot of money and time to pursue that, I mean that could even be a detriment.
Lehman/Exactly.
O'Donnell/It could.
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Champion/Penalized or not.
Pfab/I don't expect that we have a 1,000 percent success ratio but I do expect that we do
start at it and I believe the Chinese have a way of saying it, they say every journey
starts by putting one foot ahead of the other and I want to get that first foot
moving.
Lehman/Well would it be fair for us to tell our attorney's office that we would like her to
get together with the police department, work with, I do believe I mean and I
agree with you Irvin I would like to see it start as soon as possible but more
importantly we have to do it fight.
O'Donnell/Well you'd better be headed in the right direction.
Lehman/Yes.
O'Donnell/I mean I don't think we've set a (can't hear).
Lehman/No but they I believe can set that part (can't hear).
O'Donnell/We need, we need, you know we're talking about banning drink specials, I
don't know if we all agree with that.
Lehman/We haven't gotten to that yet.
O'Donnell/No no no and I know that but I mean that's what I mean we're going to have
to sit down and decide the direction we're headed before we.
Lehman/Well I don't.
Champion/This is an easy thing to decide.
Lehman/This is something we can do under present law that we have never done, it's
available to us, it has worked apparently, Cedar Falls I think he talked and told us
about one place that apparently lost their license over it. I mean this, and he told
us today if there are enough violations against bars that it can make a difference
when it comes time to renewal. Ames for example had one bar with 12
PAULA's, I believe it was 12, they gave the guy a 6 month license and that was
upheld by administrative judge, the guy got a 6 month license, now that is an
incredible penalty for a huge bar. I think it will get their attention.
Dilkes/OK but I can't let that go by without commenting because there' s always a
misunderstanding about we just count up with the number of PAULA's and then
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we proceed with the administrative penalty. In Ames they have a law that says
that you know anyone under 21 leaves after 9:00.
Lehman/Right.
Dilkes/So that's a very different situation.
Vanderhoef/But there was one.
O'Donnell/Well shoot and that's a big part of this (can't hear).
Kanner/Will people from your office have to go to Des Moines for the appeals that might
happen to represent the city?
Dilkes/Yes.
Kanned I think with this proposal we need to get an estimate of the cost of what it's
going to take, it's going to be putting a burden, it sounds like somewhat
substantial burden on the city attorney's office and somewhat on the police
departments.
Pfab/I have a question to ask, a substantial burden compared to what?
Kanner/Well.
Pfab/What we have now?
Kanner/Well you bring a good point and that should go into the mixture, we should
weight what we hope to save in other type of destructive behavior, prevention is
usually if we could put this in a preventive mode your going to save money.
Pfab/And like I said I don't expect perfection, I expect action. You know even if it is,
everything isn't perfect the first shot you take you can always adjust it.
Dilkes/I expect perfection though Irvin.
Lehman/Well would it be fair to start moving in that direction? I mean I think that we, I
sense that this is something that we probably should have been doing before now,
obviously this is going to require a fair amount of effort on the part of the city
attorney's staff working with RJ to come up with some sort of a program that you
could present to us and we'll say yea or nea.
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Dilkes/Yea I think that you can say that it will take a good amount of time from my
office and from RJ's office in getting this coordinated, in terms of the amount of
time that we spend on council issues so you just have to keep that in mind.
Lehman/Irregardless of what we may be discussing do we want to pursue with this?
Pfab/Absolutely.
Vanderhoef/Yes.
Kanner/I would like to put in the addendum that we also look at retail stores.
Champion/We already do that, it's already in the (can't hear).
Kanner/Well it, we don't look at the civil.
Lehman/I think the same rules would apply to any sales wouldn't it Eleanor? We pick
up someone for public intox.
Dilkes/Yea you could use the same, you could use same structure for (can't hear).
Lehman/(can't hear) alcohol at a Quik Trip or a grocery store.
Kanner/It seems that there are civil penalties that.
Champion/But there would be.
Kanner/But we're not enforcing it.
Lehman/That' s what we're talking about doing.
Kanner/Well I'm saying are we doing, are we asking to put those resources into sales to
minors at retail stores?
Lehman/I think we'd have a real problem if we didn't enforce the law equally.
Kanner/No I just want to make sure that it's clear that we're looking into that too, it's
something we haven't done in the past and we're going to be more stringent on
that now.
O'Donnell/It's all liquor license holders as well.
Kanner/All right.
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Lehman/All fight, no, I think that's.
Kanner/So we're looking at all liquor license holders (can't hear).
Dilkes/That's what I understand.
Lehman/You have a go ahead with that.
Dilkes/OK.
Lehman/Now in your memo to us you indicated that you felt there may be some
possibility that we could enact an ordinance that would prohibit at least some sort
of drink specials.
Dilkes/OK I want to, I want to clarify something particularly since the press wasn't at the
Stepping Up meeting this meeting. There was an article in the Press Citizen
relaying an interview with Lynn Walding, the Director of Alcohol Beverages
Division suggesting that we would not be able to regulate specials and that would
be inconsistent with state law. I asked him about that this morning and asked him
if he had been misquoted and if he wasn't what the inconsistency was because we
didn't see it. And he said that no he wasn't misquoted but he thinks he was
wrong.
Lehman/Right.
Dilkes/So and I really appreciated that that was very up front you know.
Lehman/(can't hear) you said you were right.
Dilkes/He's a new director of that division and he's in a new job so and he had talked to
his deputy Judy Streb who handles the licensing stuff on the way down so that
was a change from him. So yes I think that we can do that regulation at the city
level, I don't know if Ernie if you want to talk about what this discussion was at
the Stepping Up thing today about the potential for legislation at the state level.
Lehman/Oh, I think the fact that they asked me specifically if, which we would prefer a
local ordinance that would prohibit specials or a state law well obviously from at
least my perspective I would much rather enforce a state law than have to answer
to why we made an ordinance locally and then have to enforce that when other
communities like ourselves or even adjacent to us wouldn't have to. But it seems
there is some interest in the Stepping Up folks are going to be providing Lynn
with some information of to the kinds of things they would like to see in an
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ordinance that would prohibit specials. And I think the specials that were referred
to today that I heard obviously all you can drink, or unlimited consumption
specials, even two for one specials. Some exclusions, for example for hotels that
might have a bottle of wine or a drink with your meal included in your, I mean
there are exclusions that would protect some places.
Dilkes/I think the approach or Lynn Walding's approach anyway will be to allow
reasonable specials not to outlaw them completely.
Lehman/Right.
Pfab/I think what we should focus on is results not how we get there, I mean we want,
we do not want to have a lot of people getting in trouble because they are
intoxicated because they were continually given or sold alcohol when they should
not have been. And if we can put that, we look at the results and we want that to
stop, how the bars get to that I don't care but I just want results at the end that if
they are going to do it they will pay.
Champion/But when are they going to decide that at their (can't hear) approach that at
all? (can't hear).
Pfab/I don't care how they do it (can't hear).
Dilkes/I think Lynn Walding told us that he was going to discuss it at the commission
meeting, the next commission meeting.
Champion/Is that would be state law, or would it be decided by the commission?
Dilkes/No they would have to have authorization by state law.
Champion/Well it would be, this little thing from Stepping Up is you can approximately
buy a gallon of beer downtown for $4.00, I mean water outside is $21.19 per
gallon. You can't afford not to drink in Iowa City.
Lehman/Well I think the question is.
Champion/Exploring the possibility.
Lehman/Exploring the possibility of prohibiting drink specials in Iowa City.
Vanderhoef/Yes.
Pfab/I would be against it if we proceed post haste with this.
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Champion/So would I.
Lehman/I don't think we could go post haste with anything.
Pfab/Well but I would rather, then I would rather rifle in at the idea that if you do things
your not suppose to, and results that a retail establishment ends up with the people
intoxicated coming out the door or whatever the problem is if they'll put a stop to
it we don't care how they do it how they run their business but we just don't want
drunks coming out and that's where they got drunk.
Dilkes/Are you saying you would prefer a focus on the administrative penalties is that?
Pfab/I would focus 100 percent and it's results we want and I think they should run their
business as they see it, we just want them to run it so the public safety and welfare
of this community is taken care of and how they do it I don't think I have any
interest in telling them how to do it.
Kanner/Eleanor in your memo with Andy you said the case law suggested higher prices
do not necessarily result in decreased consumption of liquor and then you said
cannot find any case law which would support the contention of lower prices do
not lead to increased consumption in the intended health, welfare and moral issues
associated with increased drinking. And you said council would have to establish
or make appropriate findings that such specials result in increased consumption
and identify or articulate the result in problems associated with such increased
consumption's. Could you talk to that and how we would have to go about doing
that.
Dilkes/I think it would just have to be clear in your whereas clauses and in your
discussions that that was your objective is to address over consumption. I don't
think that that would be difficult, I think it would just have to be done, I mean I
think you've already got a good start on a legislative record here that says what
your interest is is in preventing over consumption.
Champion/The only thing I want to bring to all of our attention is I did get a call from the
student senate today that they are doing a student survey, ideas to help curve this
over consumption or drinking problem going on downtown and that we did say at
one time that we wouldn't make any decisions about the bars until we met with
them, I think the decision we're making about the civil penalties has something to
do with the decisions about the bar but maybe before we decide on drink specials
we ought to be heating from the students and what ideas they've also come up
with.
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Pfab/As long as it doesn't interfere with the process of going for civil (can't hear).
Champion/No it wouldn't.
Lehman/Well Connie I think that the for me the appropriate procedure would be if we
were to consider drink specials or in eliminating them we obviously would have
to have a public hearing and I think that's the point where we would invite all of
the public, students and everyone to comment on it. But unless we have
something to comment on, you know if we talk about the drinking problem, it's
just a problem out there. If we specifically have ideas in mind I think it's much
easier to discuss them, it's much easier for the students or anybody else, the bar
owners or anybody else to address these specific remedy that we are considering.
Now I, yea, but everything that I've seen when it comes to overindulgence of
alcohol there's two key things, convenience and cost. And I can't imagine that
when we have a bar that runs all you can drink for $5.00 that that doesn't
contribute to overindulgence.
Champion/It might not at our age.
Lehman/Connie do you see me downtown late or early morning?
Champion/But I think it does when you're talking about the population that we're talking
about.
Lehman/I really think we should pursue.
Vanderhoef/I certainly would like to have.
O'Donnell/I think it would be so difficult to enforce that.
Pfab/Yea I think it's.
O'Donnell/You know and I'm all, it's like we're trying to do everything we can before
we go to this 21 where you have to be 21 to get into a bar.
Champion/Well I think we're trying to avoid that.
O'Donnell/Well, and I, yes, but can we?
Vanderhoef/I think when (can't hear).
O'Donnell/Excuse me go ahead.
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Vanderhoef/I think what Ernie's idea that unless we have something to respond to or to
talk about, until we have a possible ordinance to look at and get public input on it
we'll never answer this question whether it's something our community wants or
doesn't want. I for one would like to see an ordinance for us to respond to and
have a public hearing.
Dilkes/I agree that it's, your going to have some, an ordinance in place for people to
comment on, there's a lot of different ways of going about that, regulation and a
lot of different permutations of it so I think it's going to be hard just to say we're
having a public hearing on the regulation of drink specials so.
Wilburn/A nice example was that meeting we had with the bar owners if you walked out
of that feeling that you know I mean it was all over the place and several
comments people, concerns people had were things that just really weren't the
case so.
Pfab/I think that when they walked out of here well business as usual.
Lehman/Well I think we did hear from at least some of them that they really don't like
specials, they feel that they have to have specials to compete and they flat told us
we will not change our method of operation until you change the law that makes
us all do the same thing, they told us that.
Wilburn/All I'm saying is that if you have something for people to look at it can help
guide the conversation better (can't hear).
Kanner/I don't think we need, I'm sorry.
Wilburn/Go ahead.
Kanner/I don't think we need a specific ordinance, I think we should move ahead and we
should have a public hearing on all these issues including the civil penalties and
because we said we would bring it to the whole community to have this discussion
and I think we should following through on that. At the same time move forward
on these issues saying that.
Lehman/What are we going to talk about at the public hearing?
Kanner/We're going to talk about the administration of civil penalties, we're going to
talk about possible drink special limitations, we're going to talk about possible
minimum prices, and we're going to talk about the third one, what was the third
one? Eliminating out of sight, those are the main things, plus whatever anyone
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else wants to bring up that they think might address the problem of over dtinking
and underage dtinking.
Champion/So you're talking more of a town meeting then than a heating, a hearing
would be on a proposed one.
Lehman/On a proposal.
Champion/A town meeting would be just to anybody could come and speak their mind.
Karmer/Yea I think that' s what we had in mind.
Vanderhoef/They can do that tight now.
Kanner/Well I think t hat' s what we had in mind when we set it up that we were going to
have that town meeting and I expect that in all likelihood we'll move towards
these things we're talking about tonight and have a heating on them also. But I
think we should have a town meeting, I think it's good you brought it up and
reminded us and make sure that we (can't hear).
Champion/I'm probably willing to do that but I want to move forward with the civil
penalty things.
Vanderhoef/I can do a town meeting, however to keep the focus on what is and isn't
possible at a town meeting, my experience with some of these things is people
come and talk off the top of their head and state things as if they were so without
any true information so what I would like to have available is exactly what is
legal, what we can do, what this ordinance could look like and there might be
several pieces to this ordinance which is what I'm heating Eleanor say there's
many ways we can put it together and as they research it they'll find out what may
or may not.
Dilkes/Just let me give you a couple of examples that were talked about earlier today at
the Stepping Up meeting. There's legislation about whether you have to provide
food, there's legislation about how long the happy hour can go on, I mean there's
a lot of ways to write this thing and you can see very different reactions from the
public to something that says you can have a one hour happy hour into something
that says you can have a 6 hour happy hour so.
Vanderhoef/And there was something in one of those laws in one of the states was that
you could have specials but the special had to run for the whole 24 hours.
Dilkes/Yea.
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Lehman/Happy Day.
Vanderhoef/One special a week, so I want something for the public to respond to as what
is possible and so we can dispense with any of that other I think we could this and
I think we could do with that, I think that's wasting their time and our time.
Winkelhake/As police chief I would certainly encourage you to take a real hard look at
this particular issue because I think it is one that can have an impact, and you talk
about what the ordinance may look like, obviously as it, as Eleanor would be
drafting it we would be taking a look at what can we really enforce and how can
we do that to make sure the ordinance is something that is simply on paper but in
reality we can't do much with. So that would, I'm assuming that's going to
happen that we'll be working together at that but this is something I think that
could have a dramatic impact in the downtown area and I certainly encourage you
all to really take a hard look at that, of course the decision is yours but I would
encourage you to take a look at.
Lehman/But I think who knows more about it than the folks who are down enforcing the
rules. I believe if we're going to have a public meeting we need something to
talk about.
Champion/Agree.
Vanderhoef/Absolutely.
Champion/You read my mind.
Lehman/I think that drink special.
Vanderhoef/Thank you, we now have four.
Lehman/Is a good start and heaven knows if we have a hearing there's nothing to say
that the ordinance as proposed could not be changed here there or somewhere else
but we need something to talk about.
Dilkes/Just as a footnote too, the violation of that local ordinance I think could also lead
to the simple imposition of a simple penalty.
Lehman/I think we need to let, you know we've been talking about this for well over a
year.
Champion/Right.
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Lehman/In fact a lot longer than that. I think the public is kind of expecting us to do
something, we've got your report Eleanor and now the civil penalties have been
available to us apparently for some time, I mean it's kind of new to us but I think
we should go forward with that but I also think there's some expectation on the
part of the public that we're going to do something other than batter gums and
we've been told that we can do an ordinance that would prohibit drink specials
and I think we should do it.
Vanderhoef/OK let's go.
Lehman/I just, who doesn't think we should do it?
Pfab/I think it's time to quit talking and do something.
Lehman/All right that' s.
Champion/What was the third thing?
Dilkes/There's four for the drink specials.
Lehman/Well there's at least four there may be seven. Is there anybody who doesn't
want us to do a drink special before I put?
Pfab/I think it's a waste of time.
Lehman/Irvin doesn't want us to prohibit drink specials. Is there anybody else that
doesn't?
Pfab/I think proceed with the other and concentrate our efforts there and look for results
and I think the less we interfere with the bar owners as long as the results are
good, we have a peaceful safe place how they get there that's their business.
Lehman/We haven't interfered with them to date and you can (can't hear).
Pfab/Oh I can see and they have no fear, and up till now they have no fear that we will.
Lehman/That' s a go. Is there anything else we want to talk about?
Champion/We talked about the out of sight issues.
Lehman/Alcohol issues.
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Dilkes/What about the out of sight?
Champion/I think that' s a.
O'Donnell/That's a must.
Vanderhoef/That's a must.
Lehman/All right you've got a go there.
Kanner/How would that work?
Champion/You can't go to the bar and get three dtinks and take them to your friends.
Lehman/I think we'll have to wait and see what, how the ordinance comes out and then
we can critique it and just see how it works because I'm not sure how it works
either, I'd like to see it.
O'Donnell/It's a one person who goes up and gets one pitcher with 28 glasses, gives you
a pretty good idea they're not going to drink alone.
Lehman/Probably.
Vanderhoef/28 glasses nobody can get drunk on that.
Lehman/Or 23 straws.
O'Donnell/Depends on how big they are Dee.
Dilkes/They're very sanitary.
Lehman/All right.
Kanner/Well I think though we do need to talk about a town meeting then.
Lehman/Well no the town meeting is going, when we have a public heating on the
proposals that will be coming from the city attomey's office, there's obviously a
time when the public can speak to any alcohol issue they want to and will because
she will, won't let me stop them when they talk about something as long as it's
alcohol related it's going to be relative to the public heating. But at least there' s
going to be something to shoot at whether your a bar owner, an underage drinker
or an alcoholic, or a tea totaller, at least you'll have something that you can pick
up and read and say I agree or I don't agree. I think you need that.
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Wilburn/It'll help friend the discussion.
Lehman/Absolutely.
Matthews/If I can, if memory serves me right when we last had that discussion and
promised that there would be an opportunity for student and other input at that
time the focus wasn't at the 21 ordinance and the concern the student population
raised on having some input as to that so you did at that time have a particular
focus that you had indicated would be the basis for town meeting or public
heating similar to that having some (can't hear) or drafts of ordinances would
again provide some focus for the student and other population to address and
provide some feedback.
Lehman/OK.
Champion/Great, that's great.
Lehman/OK. We're going to take 5.
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Lehman/OK the next item on the work session is smoke free restaurants, Eleanor.
Dilkes/I've reviewed the ordinance, not in a lot of detail and not in enough detail to give
you enough conclusions about whether I think we can do it or not. I think what
needs to happen is you all need to establish a policy position as to whether this is
something that you want to pursue and then my office is going to have to look at
the issues. I think there are some definitional issues, such as the definition of
restaurant and we have that defined in other areas in our code etc. I think there' s a
major preemption issue as to whether this is consistent with state law that I'm
going to have to satisfy myself about before I can recommend that you can
proceed. So there's not a whole lot more I can tell you at this point.
Lehman/I just have a question for you, I understand this has been done in some
jurisdictions where they have not prohibited smoking in a restaurant but have
required restaurants that allow smoking put up warning signs and even signs to
the point of prohibiting people under the age of 16 in the restaurant. That's a
pretty blank scare I've got from you.
Dilkes/I don't, is that a question?
Lehman/Yea, I mean I understand that that has been done.
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Dilkes/OK.
Lehman/Well I mean, if, well first of all are there four or more of us who wish to proceed
the smoke free ordinance for restaurant in Iowa City? I see seven.
Dilkes/OK.
Lehman/Should you find that that you feel that is not something that is permissible under
or you feel it isn't would we be interested in something as I've just described
where we can't prohibit smoking then we can require you know a skull and cross
bones on the front door, or a skeleton and a sign that prohibits people under 16 to
be in the restaurant.
Pfab/My concern that any worker in the place like that does not have to work in a smoke.
Lehman/Well that's something she'll have to determine.
Pfab/No but I mean as long as it gets that.
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Champion/I need the answer to our first question before I can make that determination.
Lehman/All right you've got, go for it.
Dilkes/I mean when we go through the preemption analysis with this we're going to be
able to tell you what we think about other (can't hear).
Champion/I mean I don't know how many ordinances we can make that affect people's
personal property but how can you not be against non smoking restaurants?
Lehman/Obviously seven of us can't so run with it.
Dilkes/OK now I have a question for you, alcohol first or smoking in restaurants.'?
Pfab/Alcohol.
Dilkes/Because I think it's going to be in terms of the resources in my office we need to
do them not at the same time.
Lehman/I do believe that the alcohol issue is a more immediate problem.
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Champion/Yea I do too.
Lehman/Not that it's any less but it's more immediate I believe.
Champion/And I do believe some of the nonsmoking is already being taken care of by
restaurant owners, there's more and more (can't hear).
Dilkes/Well we'll get to them as soon as we can I just didn't want to have to be doing
them at the same time because I don't think I have those resources.
Lehman/All fight.
Vanderhoef/There were just a couple of things that as I looked at this sample ordinance
that came through here, there wasn't anything in the definition on restaurants and
my preference would be when we're talking about defining that restaurant that we
talk about food and the amount of dollars when they talked about 50 percent and
so forth, my preference would be on the food that comes in the back door not what
goes out on the ticket that the patron pays. That would be one of the things I'd
like to.
Champion/Eleanor says (can't hear).
Pfab/What.
Dilkes/Well I think you know a lot of the definitions that they've got in the ordinance
track the state code which is a good thing I think.
Champion/Sure.
Lehman/It should be consistent.
Dilkes/And so we need to be consistent with that to the extent we can.
Vanderhoef/The other thing that in all the literature I've been looking at is where it's a
combined bar/restaurant situation and the cover charges don't go into either the
food or the alcohol equation if we can.
Dilkes/Well we've, those are all kind of the same issues that we would have to deal with
in an under 21 regulation as well.
Lehman/All fight go for it.
Dilkes/All right.
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COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROCESS
Lehman/OK the next item is collective bargaining process. Steven.
Kanner/Well I wanted to ask that we postpone this until two weeks and I was, gathering
some more information on this to make a presentation to council.
Champion/Fine with me.
Atkins/OK with us.
Lehman/You've got it.
COUNCIL TIME
Kanner/I' 11 go.
Lehman/Go.
Kanner/Two things, one at the joint meeting we recently had at North Liberty we talked
about some, there was good. Let me start over, we talked about neighborhood
resource centers and there was some good points brought up about we offer a lot
of resources in Iowa City currently and so my question is and my proposal to City
Council is that we explore the option of neighborhood resource centers if we want
to contribute to that and see if it's something that would be a benefit to our
citizens in Iowa City and that we talked, and that we ask staff to look into that
because we had a proposal by the School Board about a possible neighborhood
resource center that one of the schools in the Iowa City area. And I can see pros
and cons, it was brought up that we offer these resources, maybe it would be
redundant and we don't need to but I'd like to have a little more exploration.
Because I have a feeling these resource centers are doing some good work and
also I just wanted to say I was reading from the Broadway improvement group
summary that we got in our comment that struck me, it says it will be important to
try and increase a partner with the school district and I think that holds probably
throughout the city, we want to make as many connections as possible and I think
these resource centers might be a way to do that.
Lehman/Steve do you have, off the top of your this is unfair I'm sure.
Atkins/You can ask it anyway.
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Lehman/I'm going to. But obviously I think we know some of the sorts of services that
are offered by resource centers and I think Steven's fight we presently many of
those are offering within the community. Is there some quick way of doing a
summary of the kinds of services offered by community resource centers?
Atkins/I don't know if it's a kinds of services Emie as much as how you focus them in
one spot. I gather that one of the first things I would probably do is talk to Lane
Plugge and find out what he sees. Secondly with your, I asked Ross, Ross has
extensive experience in these things in his professional life and that's just to see
how they work. I mean I can put together a summary I don't think that without a
lot of work on it, is there something yea. No I'm not going to do a long study or
whatever.
Lehman/Well we'd decide that if that's worth pursuing but I think that's.
Atkins/OK.
Pfab/I believe one way that to work on that is to get some mission statements from some
of those.
Atkins/Probably what I would do Irvin is just that is contact some of the providers and
tell me what are the things that you do, where is the (can't hear).
Pfab/Mission statements, I think that is, once you focus on that, it's a one stop shopping
for people's needs.
Atkins/And I'd probably talk to Joan [VanderBerg] I think [Julie] Stem.
Wilburn/Yes.
Atkins/She ran the place.
Wilburn/Yes Joan would be who you would want to talk to and I already, at that meeting
I mentioned to Lane to get some type of idea because the schools are so
independent on who they let into the schools.
Atkins/Why don't I do this, let me take a crack at some kind of a summary memo and
then we'll take it from there.
Lehman/OK.
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Kanner/And the other thing is on the, we're moving forward assessing, I think we were
moving forward on assessing the civil penalties for cigarettes retailers called
selling to minors. Is that correct? Did we decide we're moving forward?
Vanderhoef/Well we talked about it at the joint meeting.
Dilkes/Yea I think Pat White is going to do that.
Lehman/I think that's right.
Kanner/So the question is do we want to, well I'd like to propose that we go after as far
back as the time limit allows which someone told me was two years that we can
still assess civil penalties to people to businesses where there were criminal fines
assessed.
Dilkes/Yea I don't know what the statute of limitations is I'd have to look at that.
Lehman/The only thing I'd say about that Steven if we have not assessed civil penalties
in the past I really think we need to give fair notice that we're going to do that
before we change the rules. We aren't really changing the rules but if we have, if
folks have no reason to believe we would pursue civil penalties in the past I think
they need to be put on notice, today at the meeting we had with the folks from the
Liquor Control Commission they said one of the most important things was if you
change the rules tell the public. Let the bar people know, let the people who are
buying drinks know, let the underage drinkers know you are going to pursue these
penalties. I think that from a public notice standpoint we probably should do that.
Not that they're not guilty and should be pursued but in fairness I think that we
probably should notify them. Other.
Wilburn/I agree with that especially if your focusing on trying to change future behavior
you know we could load up the documents stuff from the past and then get
bogged down with that and not be able to proceed forward with changing the
current behavior so.
Kanner/So are we sending out notices this month to all the licensees, tobacco licensees?
Lehman/I don't know how we would provide those.
Kanner/Just a short note.
Vanderhoef/(Can't hear) licensing.
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Dilkes/Well I think that effort is going to come from Pat White, I thought that was what
the decision was.
Kanner/Well but we're talking about, I just want to make sure someone does it and it
doesn't fall through the cracks, I don't think that would be that hard for us to send
out notices that we're going to be pursuing civil penalties.
Lehman/Can we call Pat's office and find out what sort of notice he's intending to do and
if chooses not to then we can notify the permit holders?
Dilkes/Well yea we don't want to notify them until he's ready to go, I mean the effort's
coming from him so.
Lehman/OK. He coordinates it.
Dilkes/Yea.
Vanderhoef/An offer that I would like to make to Pat White is that when people come in
for renewal of their license we could give them an additional piece of information
notice or whatever that he would choose to offer so that it could just be handed
out when they get their license.
Champion/That's a good idea.
Vanderhoef/I don't think it would be an imposition do you Madan?
Karr/No, no, that would be fine, that seems appropriate, sure.
Dilkes/I'll talk to them about that.
Vanderhoef/OK.
Karr/And that's part of that education process anyway and this is a different procedure, it
makes sense, sure.
Lehman/Mike.
O'Donnell/Terrill Mill Park I've been driving by that about every day there' s never a
parking spot available down there, never.
Lehman/Storage lot.
Pfab/Where?
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O'Donnell/It's at Terrill Mill Park down by City Park, that's become a storage lot for the
Mayflower.
Vanderhoef/Well it's also free parking for the day for people who hop on the Cambus
come on into work.
O'Donnell/But those are, you can watch them, I live in that area and it's all students, you
can watch them walk over to Mayflower.
Champion/Well there must be something we can easily do about that.
O'Donnell/Well I think it's.
Atkins/I can take care of that.
Champion/Put up a two or three hour parking sign.
O'Donnell/There is a sign.
Atkins/I'm allowed to do emergency parking regulations.
Champion/(can't hear).
Atkins/No I can't do that.
O'Donnell/Because if you want to use the park you can't do it because there's no parking
spot. I've also had a couple calls on skateboards and bicycles on the pedestrian.
Champion/Oh yea it's true.
Vanderhoef/Absolutely.
Lehman/We're doing a lot, we're really doing a pretty good job down there though and I
think there was a meeting downtown what two weeks ago with RJ and who was
there, anyway there wag a half a dozen business folks and I've had two of them
already tell me they feel that.
O'Donnell/They've seen an improvement.
Lehman/They've seen improvement. Incidentally I hate to bring this up but you brought
it up but it's relevant, one of the things that I've talked with the officers about and
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I've talked to Karin Franklin about is we do not have in my opinion adequate
signage downtown that says you can not write a bicycle or use a skateboard.
Champion/No we don't.
Lehman/We, she, Karin told me she would contact Boulder Colorado to see, apparently
at the entrance to their pedestrian mall they have kind of rules to the road or
whatever. In front of my store I was visiting with an officer the other day and he
saw four people on bicycles, not one of the four didn't knew he couldn't ride a
bike, one knew he couldn't ride it in the ped mall, he did not know he couldn't
ride it on the sidewalk and I believe as did the officer that those folks did not
know they couldn't ride the bikes. So until we post it well enough for people to
know it's going to be pretty tough to really start, I mean we can tell them to get off
their bike.
O'Donnell/Well we should do that then pretty fairly quick Ernie (can't hear).
Lehman/I think we need the signage.
Vanderhoef/I had three bicycles pass me between the Civic Center and the Library.
Champion/Did you chase them down?
Vanderhoef/No.
O'Donnell/I was done the other day and I saw two skateboards and about half a dozen
bicycles in about 5 minutes.
Lehman/The guys are really working pretty good on it, I think when the kids, some of
them not to go.
O'Donnell/OK.
Champion/The other problem is too like though it's like unless the policeman is there
you speed you know.
O'Donnell/Yea, and the signage might help. But also at Hickory Hill Park dogs are
evidently running loose, people are, I've had two calls on that where they've been
accosted by a dog that's been running loose and we've got to get control on that.
I mean we either need to take the necessary steps on a, I don't know how many
favor a dog park, I personally think it's a (can't hear).
Pfab/We've got a $5,000 offer cash if we can add it.
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Champion/I don't think the dog park is going to influence the dogs from running wild at
Hickory Hill.
Lehman/I think we'll be getting the dog park proposal coming up I would assume.
O'Donnell/But the way we have it today is that if you walk outside your house with
Rover and he's off the leash you get a ticket.
Champion/Right.
O'Donnell/And I think part of the responsibility of owning a dog is throwing a stick and
having him bring it back and so I would, we need to, regardless we need to control
Hickory Hill Park.
Lehman/I think that, we are going to get the dog park recommendation.
Kanner/No I think there's some good discussion going on in the Parks and Rec. with
people involved with that.
Lehman/OK. Connie.
Champion/I don't have anything.
Lehman/Dee.
Vanderhoef/OK I just handed one of these updates on Iowa's Bottle Bill and it will be in
the packet, it's a program that is being worked on statewide because there's
obviously some push to drop the bottle bill law and our solid waste folks at the
Regional Council of Govemments is violently against it as well as all of the TAC
(committee). What they have done is put together an information sheet that you
can get out of the packet, the other thing that they are doing and I brought some
extras in case anybody wants them but they have these little tickets that they are
giving to people to hand out and it says "Support and Update Iowa's Bottle Bill"
and then on the back ofit's "I Support the Bottle Bill, I recycle here and I shop
here" so wherever you go and shop and buy your bottled beverages you hand them
to this to the retailer and say I support this and these will be available a lot but if
you any of you want a few of them to hand out to your friends and use at the
places where you shop I have them available.
Champion/Well I think that's a mistake (can't hear).
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Vanderhoef/I wouldn't be opposed to having this council talk about and see if we want to
go on record as the council supporting it.
Pfab/I would recommend that we do.
Champion/I think it's ridiculous to think about that.
O'Donnell/It doesn't have a ghost of a chance of making it.
Kanner/So it sounds like you have four votes to bring it to a.
Lehman/You've probably got 7.
O'Donnell/I think I'd be counting 7.
Vanderhoef/Well can we just put it on an agenda item and so we can work with it.
Atkins/Some sort of a policy position supporting it.
Champion/Or a letter to the.
Karr/Yea are you wanting a letter or a resolution?
Champion/A letter.
Kanner/A resolution.
Lehman/No not a resolution, we don't need to vote three times on it.
Karr/Well if it's a letter you don't need to.
Atkins/Do you wish to vote as a body supporting this bill?
Lehman/Yes.
Atkins/That' s a resolution.
Lehman/Will that take three votes?
Vanderhoef/No.
Atkins/No just one.
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Vanderhoef/That' s an ordinance, it's just a resolution.
Lehman/Oh OK good, I'd vote three times for it. Do you got anything else before Irvin
doesn't? We're done guys see you tomorrow night.
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