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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2010-11-30 TranscriptionPage 1 ITEM 2. OUTSTANDING STUDENT CITIZENSHIP AWARDS -Lincoln Elementary Hayek: Would the students from Lincoln Elementary please come forward to the front here, please. Well, thanks for coming. I'm Mayor Matt Hayek and this is the City Council, and we are very honored to have you with us this evening. This is the best part of our City Council meeting, and we get to see and meet, uh, the leaders of the various elementary schools around town and hear what they've been up to in their communities, and so the way this'll work is I've got an award I'm going to read and...and hand out to the three of you, but first we'd like to hear from each of you and we'll just go in the order in which you've, uh, appeared up here. Tell us a little bit .about yourselves and then we'll pass the microphone. Peterson: Hi, my name is Will Peterson. I want to thank my teachers and Mrs. Cleric for nominating me to receive this award. I appreciate being chosen and I've had a lot of fun working on the memory book committee, safety patrol, student council, kindergarten reading, and being a lunchroom server. After school I spend my time playing basketball and soccer. I also play the trumpet in the sixth grade band. Thank you again. (applause) McDonough: Hi, I'm Mae McDonough. I'm a sixth grader at Lincoln. I'm really honored to receive the Outstanding Student Citizen award. Some of the things I've done for Lincoln are being part of the safety patrol, being on the newsletter committee, helping with kindergarten reading buddies, helping with kindergarten mail. I take ballet at the University of Iowa. I take piano lessons. I like to spend time drawing, reading, playing outside, and cooking. I'd like to thank Mrs. Hutton and Mrs. Kolarik and all the other intermediate teachers. I love being a student at Lincoln. (applause) Sarin: Hi, my name is Simran Sarin. I think I was chosen for this Outstanding Student Citizenship award because I try my best at what I do. At school I participate in safety patrol, the newsletter committee, kindergarten readers, and I do hole punching for the mileage club. Outside of school I learn piano at Preucil School of Music. I play flute in after school band, and I learn classical Indian dance. I also play tennis. I also volunteer to play piano at Emerson Point Assisted Living. This summer my neighbor and I walked dogs and had lemonade stands to raise money for the Animal Shelter. I'd like to thank Miss Kolarik and all the other teachers at Lincoln Elementary for nominating me for this award. Thank you. (applause) Hayek: Well, I must say, that was very well done, all three of you, and, um, the...the thing you do is showed to the community that leadership is developed at a young age, and you show the community that it's important to become involved and do things for your neighbors and for your schoolmates and... and for really the entire town, and we appreciate that, and a lot of the leaders you see up here did just what you did, uh, back i.n the day. They were active in... in their schools and... and This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 2 developed leadership skills, and you're doing that, and you're really giving back to your community, so that's fantastic! Well, the award we're going to read to you, and...and hand out is the same one, but it has your name on each one, so I'll just read...read one of them. It's called a Citizenship Award. And it says for his or her outstanding qualities of leadership within Lincoln Elementary, as well as the community, and for his or her sense of responsibility and helpfulness to others, we recognize you as an Outstanding Student Citizen. Your community is proud of you. Presented by the Iowa City City Council in November 2010. Um, and I also, uh, want to give special recognition to your parents and to your teachers, and to...I see some extended family members as well. I know they're very proud of you and they've played a big role in helping you accomplish everything that you've accomplished. So, congratulations. I'11...I'll hand this out and then we'll send you back! (applause) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 3 ITEM 4. COMMUNITY COMMENT (ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA). Hayek: This is the opportunity we provide to the public each evening to address the Council on agenda items, or on items that are not on our agenda rather! Uh, if there's something you'd like to talk to us about, please come forward, uh, sign in and state your name, and limit your comments to five minutes or less, please. Dieterle: Uh, hi, I'm Caroline Dieterle. I live on Walnut Street, and I have two issues, uh, that I want to briefly bring up. Um, one is is that I've noticed in the paper that you've been discussing the intersection of Madison and Burlington, where the new University Recreation building is, and worrying about the safety there. That's been a very hazardous intersection for a long time, and I have complained to the Council earlier about it. When I did complain before, I was happy to find afterward that the. , .the traffic light there had been modified and made better so that there was actually time to get across the street during the interval that the pedestrian crossing was, uh, supposed to be done. Because prior to that there really had time...and there really wasn't time for anyone unless they were really pretty quick to get across. Um, however, the times that I have actually been hit myself and I have been hit there twice. Once was knocked into the middle of the intersection and another time just sort of nudged, and a number of near misses took place when people were trying to turn right on red, and this is...this is a very hazardous place to turn right on red, and I think the quickest fix to make it safer that you could do would be to make it no right turn on red. The other, uh, the other possibility would be to simply have afour-way stop, all at the same time, for 30 seconds, so that people could cross any way they wanted and no...no traffic would move at all. But I really do believe that unless you do something, that someone is going to be very seriously hurt there soon. The only reason I wasn't was because I was wearing so many heavy...heavy winter clothes, that I had enough padding that I, uh, I didn't get hurt too badly. So, uh, that's issue number one. The other one is is that I've noticed in the paper that you're thinking about lobbying the legislature to make some allowance for you to have a different, um, and stricter alcohol policy than the State...allows. Um, and I guess the reason that this annoys me...is is that I've talked to you a couple times in the past, and asked, begged, that the Council do something to limit the usage of toxic lawn chemicals, and the answer that I've always gotten is is that can't be done because you can't pass any legislation that is more strict than the State. But I really do believe that the toxic lawn chemicals are going to have a much worse long-term effect on the general population of the town, to say nothing of the quality of the river water, than a few drunk people. Even if there's lots of drunk people, it's not going to do the same kind of damage. It's not going to give children and pets, uh, cancer in 20 years or less, and...and these chemicals, many of them have been proven to be cancer-causing. If you doubt me, I can give you, uh, references, um, in various publications that would back up what I'm saying. So if you succeed in talking the legislature into giving you a home rule, uh, let-out clause for the alcohol, please consider doing something about the lawn chemicals too, because This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 4 people do...do not apply them according to the label. A lot of people don't bother reading it. They say, you know, if a little is fine, more is better. They don't understand the level of toxicity of these things. So, that's it. One other final idea. I noticed you've been talking about recycling. And I'm happy that you decided not to go for single stream, because um...one of my daughters is a...is an engineer that works with this kind of thing for the City of Lawrence, Kansas, and she says that the single stream is not as good as the one where you sort it, so I'm glad you made that decision. But one thing that we don't have here that is very, I think, necessary is an easy way for people to recycle, uh, rechargeable batteries, the NiCad's and the nickel-metal hydrides, and there are now you have to make an appointment for the toxic waste removal, or toxic waste acceptance at the Landfill, and drive all the way out to the Landfill, and I just...I do that, but I think there are probably a lot of people that don't bother and just throw them into the trash, which is a serious bad thing. We should be trying to do something about. It also should be made easier for people to recycle the compact fluorescent bulbs because everywhere we're hearing about how we should switch to these bulbs and how much we can save on our electrical bills and how much better this is for the environment, but when you're trying to get rid of them when they do eventually burn out, which they will eventually do, again, you have to make an appointment and go all the way out to the Landfill. And they only accept this stuff on a number... a limited number of days a week, I think Tuesdays, Thursdays, and possibly Saturdays. It would be better if they had a way out there that you could just hand these things in, or you know, you didn't have to make an appointment, because these aren't liquids that are like paint thinners and, you know, the other kinds of toxic stuff that they want you to make an appointment for. They're... they...they're really relatively inert. It's just that you don't want to get them into the Landfill and have them broken and then have the toxic contents getting into your Landfill and eventually, possibly, into lots of other things. So that's what I'm saying, and I hope that, uh, you continue with your efforts on recycling and... and do do something about these, uh, moderate improvements that use lots less energy, but also are much more polluting. Thanks! Mims: Thank you. Wright: Good points! Hayek: Thank you, Caroline! Champion: Caroline, I take my batteries up to Iowa State Bank on Rochester. I probably shouldn't say that publicly (laughter) be filled with batteries! Hayek: Would anyone else wish to...like to address the Council? Moving on! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 5 ITEM 5. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS. b) REZONING APPROXIMATELY 1.38-ACRES OF LAND LOCATED AT 385 RUPPERT ROAD FROM INTENSIVE COMMERCIAL (CI-1) TO INSTITUTIONAL PUBLIC ZONE (P-2) (REZ10-00009) 1. PUBLIC HEARING Hayek: Approval of this will allow the property to reflect ownership by the University of Iowa for use as a helipad. This is a public hearing. (bangs gavel) Public hearing is open. Initially, any ex-parte communications? (several responding) Okay. Davidson: Good evening, Mr. Mayor, and Members of the City Council. I'm Jeff Davidson, the Planning Director for the City. And as the Mayor has indicated, uh, this is a request from the University of Iowa to rezone a piece of property, which you see here, on the south side of Ruppert Road, near the intersection with Old Highway 218, from CI-1 to P-2, and...this is for the location of the, uh, new location for the University's helipad for the Air Care helicopter. It'll be moving from Oakdale Campus to, uh, this location. Uh, it's obviously, as you can see from the runways to the south there, adjacent to the Iowa City Municipal Airport. Uh, it is approximately 1.3 acres in size, and was a lot of Aviation, uh, Commerce Park, um, that was purchased, uh, from the, uh, City by the University. Um, this...this action, uh, as I indicated, is to reflect the ownership of the property by either the State or federal government. That's the purpose of the P-2 classification, to put adjacent landowners and anyone else who cares, uh, just on...on record that this is owned by, in this case the State, um...the recommendation from staff and the Planning and Zoning Commission is, uh, for approval. Is there any questions? Are there any questions? (laughter) Thank you! Hayek: Thanks, Jeff. Anyone else from the public? Public hearing is closed. (bangs gavel) 2. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE (FIRST CONSIDERATION) Bailey: Move first consideration. Dickens: Second. Hayek: Moved by Bailey, seconded by Dickens. Discussion? Roll call, please. Item passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa (;ity c.;iry Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 6 ITEM 5. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS. c) REZONING THE FOLLOWING PROPERTIES OWNED BY THE CITY OF IOWA CITY TO NEIGHBORHOOD PUBLIC (P-1) ZONE: FROM OVERLAY PLANNED DEVELOPMENT LOW DENSITY (OPD-5) ZONE FOR PROPERTIES LOCATED IN DEAN OAKES SIXTH ADDITION, THORNBERRY DOG PARK AND PENINSULA PARK, AND OAKMONT ESTATES; FROM OVERLAY PLANNED DEVELOPMENT LOW DENSITY (OPD-5) ZONE AND INTERIM DEVELOPMENT MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (ID-RM) ZONE FOR PROPERTY LOCATED IN SAND HILL PARK; FROM OVERLAY PLANNED DEVELOPMENT MEDIUM DENSITY (OPD-8) ZONE FOR FRAUENHOLTZ-MILLER PARK; FROM LOW DENSITY SINGLE FAMILY (RS-5) ZONE FOR AUDITOR'S PARCEL 2002301, TERRELL MILL PARK AREA, AND CERTAIN CITY-OWNED LAND WEST OF SCOTT BOULEVARD; AND FROM INTERIM DEVELOPMENT MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (ID-RM) ZONE FOR PROPERTY LOCATED NORTH OF MCCOLLISTER BOULEVARD (REZ10-00011) 1. PUBLIC HEARING Hayek: This is a public hearing. (bangs gavel) Public hearing is open. Uh, any ex-parte communications? (several responding) Mr. Davidson. Davidson: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, this is an application from us, from the City of Iowa City, and it's kind of a cleanup item from the Planning Department. Uh, the Mayor has very nicely read through all the properties, so I will not do that again. Um...let's just quickly walk through these. What the purpose of this action is is to reflect public ownership and...and rezoning to P-1, which is the classification for, uh, local entities of government. Uh, the majority of these properties, uh, with a couple of exceptions were acquired, uh, through the subdivision process for parkland and open. space. Uh...as I say, let's...let's just, maybe the easiest thing to do is just walk through these and I noticed now that the senior planner did not put them in the order that we have them (laughter) both myself and you, in our materials, so I apologize for that, but I still think we can get through these, uh, pretty quick here. Um, the...the first item here is from Dean Oakes, uh, Sixth Addition. Uh, you can see the interstate, uh, Interstate 80 up at the north portion of the property here. Uh, Bristol Drive, uh, Oakes Drive, just to orient you. And the shaded area here, which is currently zoned OPDH-5, uh, was dedicated with Oakes Sixth Addition, uh, and is open space, uh, dedicated to the City, and part of the City's parkland system. This is not active parkland, uh, this is considered a woodland preserve, uh, but the maintenance requirements do accrue to the City. You can see there is a connection...right there, uh, from the end of Bristol Drive, uh, into the remainder of the area. Any questions about this? Okay, the next item here...is, uh, a portion of the, uh, Peninsula Park, which includes the Thornberry, uh, Dog Park. Uh, and as you can see, it is also zoned OPDH-5, uh, and was, uh, a portion that was purchased with federal funds, uh...as part of flood recovery efforts, flood mitigation efforts, uh, after the flood of 93 actually. Uh, so this This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 7 property by virtue of the purchase with those funds, uh, can never be developed for anything other than open space, uh, would be allowed to be inundated during, uh, a flood event if necessary. Um...any questions? Uh, the next piece then...is, and actually I'm glad, uh, Bob put these two slides out of order because this area is...right...right there. So you can see, it's adjacent to the piece that I, uh, was just talking about, and this is part of the Oakmont, uh, Estates subdivision. Again, is a, uh, parcel that was dedicated as parkland and open space, and may eventually, uh, hopefully, attach...uh, be part of a, uh, a trail system that runs along the river on this side of the, uh, on...on the Iowa City side of the river, uh, over here is, um...River Landing area of Coralville. Uh, any questions? Okay, the next piece here„ and I think there's two pieces here, yeah, you can see there's...there's two pieces. Uh, the first piece here that you see was part of Sandhill Estates, uh, Part One, and it was dedigated...uh, dedicated by the, uh, developer as part of the Conditional Zoning Agreement for Sandhill Estates Subdivision. The other piece, directly adjacent...oops! Wrong way. The other piece directly adjacent to it...uh, was...was dedicated by the previous property owner, uh, and is part of, again, the...the two pieces will be combined into a single parkland area. I believe this is the...the portion, uh, that includes a...a, some type of a sand dune feature that is, uh, an environmentally sensitive feature, and um, this parkland has not been developed yet, but will be at some point in the future, uh, future, and you can see, this is zoned IDRM, and the other piece is zoned OPDH-5 currently. Any questions about either one of those? Uh, this is Frauenholtz-Miller Park and specifically the south portion, uh, the...the street that you see, Lower West Branch Road that you see running through the middle of the property no longer runs through the middle of the property since we reconstructed it. Uh, if you've been out there, this is of course the location of St....the new St. Patrick's Church and this is a, um, kind of a, for lack of a better term, a town square feature, uh, that, uh, we've just recently finished doing a, uh, park plan, uh, with the, involving a lot of public input from the...the neighborhood out here, uh, and at some point I imagine we'll discuss that with you when we discuss capital improvement projects and you will determine when it, uh, is going to receive funding to actually be implemented, but the plan is in place, and the north part here is already zoned P-1, and this action would zone the south part P-1 as well. Currently it's OPI)H-8. Any questions? Uh, this is one of those exceptions that I refer to. This is, uh, part of the Country Club, or was part of the Country Club Estates property. We actually purchased this property, um, for a ground, uh, storage reservoir f:or the water system and, Rick, are there plans for implementation of that any time soon? Fosse: No. It's long-terns planning. Davidson: Long-term planning, okay. So the City does own this property. We will at some point when the remainder of the subdivision is platted, we will also receive some parkland adjacent to this area, uh, so it'll become a single open space feature that at some point in the future would include, uh, the ground storage reservoir. Any questions? Uh, this, uh, area, you can see the two shaded locations. This is where This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 8 the Gilpin house was. Uh, and this, to orient you, this is where the...the Trimbles lived, uh, there was an additional property here. These three properties, uh, were, uh, bought out, um, as part of the, uh, the FEMA buyout, actually, this one was bought out with I believe CDBG funds, and the others were bought out with FEMA funds, and um...then the remainder of this property, there was another platted lot right here, and then the remainder of this property, which was owned by Parkview Church, was basically bought out for the potential that it could be developed for housing in... in the future, but essentially if you would have elevated, uh, under our former ordinance, you...if you had elevated a foot above the...the 100-year :Flood plain, you would have been able to develop this area. So we...we purchased. it through the buyout program because of the three existing homes that were here, and then the potential for the remainder to be, uh, developed residentially. Uh, this is intended at some point in the future to be added to Terrell, uh, Mill Park. Of course the strategy in this area is to eventually have, uh, buyouts occur for all the properties in the, what we now refer to as the `flood hazard zone,' but that will occur, uh, over time, as part of the long-range strategy. In the meantime, we will rezone these properties to P-1. Any questions? Uh, this is a property, to orient you, adjacent to Scott Park, which you see right here. Scott Boulevard, uh, runs through the middle of the...the screen here. Uh, this is a... a parcel that is actually part of a storm water management area. It was purchased for storm water management. Uh, there is a trail... if... if any of you, like me, uh, are out in Iowa City riding your bikes, if you go down to the end of Beech Street, right: here, there's a very nice trail that goes up to the dam and eventually will cross over, and I think it's next year we're going to be completing the trail system through this park, over to where it hooks up with the trail, uh, as part of one of the subdivisions over here. Um, so at any rate, this is the storm water management area that, uh, again, is currently, um, zoned RS-5, and this would create it, uh, make it P-1. And this is an area adjacent to the new Public Works complex, just to the south of Napoleon Park, where the softball diamonds are, up here, and of course the major feature here is the Terry Trueblood Recreation Area, the new arterial street comes through with the bridge across the river here. This was part of the Showers Estate property that we purchased in... in two iterations. Uh, this is the portion that was actually in the city to begin with, uh, and again, would...would rezone it from IDRM to P-1. And that is it. Any questions about any of that? (several talking) Hayek: Thanks for the summary! Anyone from the public, uh, on this? Hearing none I'll close the public hearing. (bangs gavel) 2. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE (FIRST CONSIDERATION) Champion: Move first consideration. Mims: Second. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa t;ity c.;ity Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 9 Hayek: Moved by Champion, seconded by Mims. Discussion? Roll call, please. Item passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 10 ITEM 5. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS. d) FOR A VOLUNTARY ANNEXATION OF APPROXIMATELY 1.85 ACRES OF PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4764 420TH STREET SE, JOHNSON COUNTY (ANN10-00004). 1. PUBLIC HEARING Hayek: This is a public hearing. (bangs gavel) Public hearing is open. Any ex-parte? (several responding) Davidson: If it's all right, Mr. Mayor, I'll take both the annexation and the rezoning up, uh, here, so you...you can consider both items separately obviously. Uh, t his is a request from Max :f. and LaVaughn M. Neppel, the property owners, for a voluntary annexation, and then the following item will be a rezoning... of, uh, approximately 1.85 acres, uh, to allow the property to be incorporated into Iowa City and rezoned to General Industrial, I-1. As I mentioned, it's, uh, slightly under 2 acres in side...in size, and currently zoned in the County for Heavy Industrial. Um...to orient you, here's the location of the property, and you can see...sort of, I guess it's an inverted `L' sort of, which is the former Bonnie Pribell estate, uh, property, 179 acres which we just pur...purchased, uh, and have just recently finished platting for industrial development, and you can see this parcel is, uh, directly...adjacent to it, right there. Um...you know, we don't know for sure if it will be added to property that we currently own or not. This would allow that to occur. Uh, certainly makes sense, and in fact when we were, uh, commencing reconstruction of 420t" Street we actually inquired of all the property owners out in this little corner if they were interested in coming in, uh, to the city. They were not at that time, but this property owner has subsequently, uh, decided to come in. Uh, as you know, when we receive requests for voluntary annexation, we have, uh, three primary criteria that we use to judge whether or not it's a good idea. Does the area fall under con...does the area under consideration fall within the adopted long-range planning boundary? Uh, this one does. You'll recall when we brought our industrial property into the city, uh, we did adjust the growth area boundary out here. The growth area boundary is principle the sanitary sewer, uh, area, the area that the city is willing to commit to sanitary sewer, and Public Works has indicated this property can be sewered with the infrastructure that we're extending to this area as part of our industrial development. Uh, second, does development in the area proposed for annexation fulfill an identified need without an...without imposing an undue burden on the city? Uh, obviously this will, uh, this does involve a "burden" in that we are committing to the eventual extension of utility infrastructure to the area, but uh, with...with our industrial development out here the incremental added burden will be...will be very little. And then is control of the development, uh, in the City's best interest? We clearly believe, uh, that it is. It will allow the property to be developed consistent with our Comprehensive Plan and, uh, will ensure that it's done according to City standards. Uh, so, uh, we, the Comprehensive Plan states that when these three criteria can be met, we, uh, recommend approval of the This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 11 annexation. We believe this is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and I won't go into detail, but obviously we've slated this area for expansion of our industrial area. Uh, we are in the process of finishing up the, um, reconstruction of 420t" Street out to this point. We will eventually commit to the remainder and then to the, uh, reconstruction of Taft Avenue. That' 11 be the next north-south arterial, paralleling Scott Boulevard, at some point in the future we'll begin reconstruction of that. We're currently, as part of that 420th Street project, we extended, uh, water. mains out into this area, and then, uh, if you've been out there recently you've seen that the sewers been going in up the draw, and so we' 11 have sanitary sewer, uh, service, as well. Uh, so recommendation from both staff and Planning and Zoning Commission is that the annexation and rezoning of this property be approved. Any questions? Bailey: Just to get a sense of this area, um, which we've looked at quite a lot this year, um, how many property owners are around this property? You said you talked to all of them. Davidson: Oh, there's an aerial! Bailey: Okay, great! Davidson: If you're interested! Um...there are at least...two, if not three, and I apologize. l don't know exactly, but the other properties are under at least one other ownership, if not two. Bailey: And then south of here, south of 420th, is...county residential? Davidson: Um...I, sorry Regenia, I can't tell you what it is zoned in the county, but it is...it is county property that is... Bailey: Okay, so it's county residential. Davidson: Right, within our...without our growth area. Bailey: All right. Davidson: At some point, wee do see that area filling in, between our industrial park and, uh...um, Highway 6, uh, we have planned our rail infrastructure, the...the sitings which, uh, the spurs, which will extend into our lots that we're planning, uh, that can eventually be extended further south, as well. Bailey: Okay. That's kind of where I was going with that. Thanks! Davidson: Any other questions? Thank you. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa Lary airy Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 12 Hayek: Thanks, Jeff. Anyone else from the public? Okay. Public hearing is closed. (bangs gavel) 2. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION Bailey: Move adoption of the resolution. Mims: Second. Hayek: Moved by Bailey, seconded by Mims. Discussion? Roll call, please. Item passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 13 ITEM 5. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS. e. REZONING APPROXIMATELY 1.85 ACRES OF LAND LOCATED AT 4764 420TH STREET SE FROM COUNTY HEAVY INDUSTRIAL (MH) TO GENERAL INDUSTRIAL (I-1) (REZ10-00012) 1. PUBLIC HEARING Hayek: This is a public hearing. (bangs gavel) Public hearing is open. Any ex-parte? Okay. Anyone from the public? Public hearing is closed. (bangs gavel) 2. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE (FIRST CONSIDERATION) Wright: Move first consideration. Champion: Second. Wilburn: Second. Hayek: Moved by Wright, seconded by...Mr. Wilburn. Discussion? Roll call, please. Item passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November :30, 2010. Page 14 ITEM 6. APPROVING PROCEEDING WITH THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF NOT TO EXCEED $2,400,000 AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MIDWESTERN DISASTER AREA REVENUE BONDS (EPS PROPERTIES LLC PROJECT) SERIES 2010 OF THE CITY OF IOWA CITY, IOWA, AND RELATED MATTERS. a) PUBLIC HEARING Hayek: This is a public hearing. The public hearing is open. (bangs gavel) Dale, do you want to...give us just a quick summary on this. Helling: Yes, um, I don't think you've dealt with Midwestern Disaster Area Bonds before. Uh, this is essentially federal money that is made available as low interest loans to businesses in these designated areas, and I'm not sure if the whole state of Iowa, if not most of the state of Iowa, is included. Um, we're merely a conduit for... for this...this money. Uh, there's no risk to the City. We don't pledge our full faith and credit like we do the GO Bonds, or any revenues like we do the Revenue Bonds, um...and it doesn't affect our debt limit in any way. Uh, in fact, even any costs that we incur in the issuance of these bonds as the conduit is also reimbursed to us by the borrower. So, at no cost to the City we can bring this federal money in and make it available, uh, as low interest loans to businesses that can use it in the community. This is the first one, I don't know if there'll be others, but we have not done...this is the first one. Wilburn: As I recall a few years back, uh, different type of bond, but the...with ACT, we did a similar conduit role... Helling: Industrial Development Revenue Bonds. Yeah. Those were back in the 80s and even the early 90s I think before they phased them out. Wilburn: Yeah. Bailey: Are businesses aware of the availability of these? You said that this is the first... Helling: Uh, yes, I mean, we...we've, you know, made it known...in the community, and... and the federal government has done that, as well. Um, you know, I can't say who is or who isn't, but anybody who's...who has been eligible, if they've....if we know who they are, we at least made them aware of it. So...there may be others. I don't know if there's a limitation...how long this money will be available. I'm sure there is. Cause it's primarily for disaster areas. So... Hayek: Um, okay. Thank: you. Anyone else from the public? Public hearing is closed. (bangs gavel) b) CONSIDER A RESOLUTION This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa city Lity Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 15 Wright: Move adoption. Bailey: Second. Hayek: Moved by Wright, seconded by Bailey. Discussion? Roll call, please. Item passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 16 ITEM 11. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ON UNCLASSIFIED SALARY COMPENSATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY AND CITY CLERK. Hayek: This entails a 2.87°% increase for both positions. Bailey: Move adoption of the resolution. Wilburn: Second. Hayek: Moved by Bailey, seconded by Wilburn. Discussion? Wright: Just point out that this is in line with the increases that other City (mumbled) Hayek: (mumbled) Roll call, please. Item passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal lows City Lity Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 17 ITEM 14. CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION. Hayek: Why don't we start down on your end, Mr. Dickens. Dickens: I'd like to, uh, hope everybody comes downtown this weekend. We have "Celebrate the Seasons" uh, there's going to be children's yoga, story time, Santa Claus is coming on a Clydesdale-drawn wagon, uh, also like to congratulate Regina on their championship. Uh, Solon on their championship, and City High's almost championship. They played very well, so they did well for the area (mumbled) Bailey: Is that it? Dickens: Yep! Bailey: Um, I thought Caroline had some really good suggestions for the Burlington/Madison Street, and I was wondering is that, um, walk-light a timer? Is it a count-down timer on...it is? I'm not familiar with the area, but I was wondering if we could look at some of those other transportation adjustments there. I think it makes a lot of sense. Or, if we have...what we've done. Wright: I also thought she had a good point in terms of the lawn chemicals, although that means tackling the- Farm Bureau. Bailey: Is that what we want to do this year? Wright: Maybe not this year; there's always next! (laughter) Bailey: That's all I have. Wilburn: Nothing. Wright: Um, I just want to point out that we have a new City Manager starting his position tomorrow, which we're all very pleased about. And also, to thank Dale Helling and Rick Fosse for yeoman service in their acting, uh, interim city manager and assistant city manager positions. You guys have done a terrific job and we could not have made it through without you! Champion: You have done a terrific job! I also liked Caroline's idea of making it easier to recycle, uh, fluorescent bulbs of any kind, and batteries, besides Iowa State Bank. Wright: Maybe adrop-off in the lobby! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa City City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 18 Champion: Yeah. We used to have one. That was a student project! Remember when we could drop off batteries and stuff here. That was a student project, uh, a City High student project. Mims: Nothing. Hayek: Um...as to the work Dale and Rick have performed, ditto times a hundred, um, we are incredibly appreciative of the, uh, hard work you have performed in recent months, and I know I speak for everyone when I say that. I also want to welcome Tom Markus, uh, who is the new city manager, who's sitting out in the peanut gallery for the last...first and last time, and will be, uh, here in the...the hot seat, uh, starting, uh, well, actually you start tomorrow, and uh, want to invite the public to a reception we are holding for, uh, Tom Markus at City Hall on December 9th, uh, from 4:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. It's a chance for the community to meet our new city manager and interact with other, uh, representatives from City Hall, and we f;ncourage your attendance. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the formal Iowa (;ity City Council meeting of November 30, 2010. Page 19 ITEM 15. REPORT ON ITF,MS FROM CITY STAFF. a) City Manager Hayek: Dale? Helling: Nothing, Mr. Mayor. Hayek: Rick? Fosse: I'll just point out that Jennifer's already working on a program for the drop-off for the CFL, uh, bulbs. (several talking) get the details on that we'll get those to you. Hayek: No surprise! 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