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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-01-10 TranscriptionJanuary 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 1 Council Present: Bailey, Champion (6:40), Dickens (6:10), Hayek, Mims, Wilburn (6:07) Council Absent: Wright Staff Present: Markus, Helling, Karr, Hightshoe, Knoche, Moran, Dilkes, Davidson, Fosse, Tharp Council Appointments: Hayek/ Okay, why don't we, uh, get started, um...Mike Wright and Connie Champion will not be at the work session, uh, Connie will be here for the formal. Mike's, uh, at a professional conference, and Terry Dickens should show up momentarily, but (mumbled) some time here and make some progress. Um, first item is Council appointments. We had several. First is...uh, an application to the Board of Adjustment. No gender balance requirement, and one appli...one applicant. Bailey/ Looks fine. Hayek/ Looks fine? Wilburn/ Yep. Hayek/ Okay. So, uh, Brock Grenis for that. Next is Airport Commission. One vacancy, and again one applicant, Richard Mascari. We in agreement? Bailey/ Yes. That's the one that we waited, right (several talking) Hayek/ And um...we have one application for the Board of Appeals, but that was, uh, an incomplete application, so we're going to have to readvertise that. We can't appoint that individual. We didn't get anything this afternoon... Karr/ No, we did not. Hayek/ Okay. And then last is an application to the, uh, HCDC; one applicant, Cheryll Clamon. Bailey/ Looks good! Hayek/ Okay. All right, so those three appointments...we'll take up tonight, uh, at a formal vote. Takes us to agenda items. Anybody have anything? Agenda Items: ITEM 5. CONSIDER ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS PRESENTED OR AMENDED. g) Correspondence This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 2 10. Sally Stutsman: 28E agreement Bailey/ I have a couple things, but I'll just ask during the formal. I think it's more appropriate. Mims/ Yeah, I just, um...under the correspondence, some discussion of Sally Stutsman's, uh, the letter on... she had kind of a formal request of us, in terms of, uh (mumbled) so I don't know where we want to...(both talking) Bailey/ ...if we discuss this at a work session when Mike was present, since he chaired... Mims/ Yeah, I just, I mean, I just want to get it on our calendar. I mean, that's kind of why I'm mentioning it now. I think...I think we need to have that discussion. I agree, that I'd rather have it when all of us were here. Um... Hayek/ And I think Dale and Tom said they were going to look at it. Mims/ Okay. Hayek/ So maybe we can...hear from them, and Mike, at the appropriate time. 15. Danielle Dahl: Sister City -Istanbul, Turkey Mims/ And then, I don't know, what are we doing with things like this, sister city request. Is somebody following up on that or...I mean... Helling/ Uh, we haven't. We've had a number of those come over the years and in the past there's really not been a lot of interest expressed by the City Council. Um...it does entail quite a bit of work to establish those, and there's certainly some expectations. I think there's travel back and forth periodically. Not...not real often, but...so there is (noises on mic) expenses and uh, as I said, we've had a number over the...over the years, a number of, uh, requests or at least inquiries about whether we were interested or not. Mims/ What's the usual response? I mean, I'm not saying I'm supporting it, it's just...I guess, certain things like that I'd at least like to see us respond to and not just... Bailey/ Be happy to travel! Markus/ You can politely respond, um...where I came from we did have a relationship with a city in Japan, so we could always say (several talking) relationship so, we'll come up with something and... inclination is to decline. Mims/ I mean, does that sound reasonable to the rest of the Council, I mean...or do you feel comfortable just dropping these things and not doing any response at all? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 201 I City Council Work Session Page 3 Hayek/ I think we should respond, I mean, (mumbled) locally through civic, and uh, foreign relations council, but I mean it's...may or may not be a good idea, but I think it's a fairly substantial investment, uh, of time and resources. Bailey/ I've never known any of these relationships not to involve travel. Now, I'd be happy to go over and investigate the possibilities (both talking) um, yeah, next week would be great (laughter) but uh... Markus/Now if you do that, there's an expectation that you would provide for ahome-stay from a delegation then from the, uh, place you visited so...(laughter) Hayek/ It's only three or four weeks in your house so...(laughter) Bailey/ That's fine too! Wilburn/ I would suggest the, uh (noise on mic) or members of public would like to see Council actually do some type of formal sister city relationship, uh, then maybe it be put on a work session, uh, for example, if we were going to do something like that, it would seem to me to make...if there's going to be some type of investment, to do something along the lines where, uh, we're trying to, uh...um, maybe it's a concerted effort towards, uh, like with our City of Literature, maybe one of the other (several talking) cities and that type of relationship. There might be more, um... support for doing that type of thing. Hayek/ You raise a good point, I mean, in the sense we already have several sister cities through UNESCO. Bailey/ True! Hayek/ Um, and I would also point out, I mean, we are not an isolated community, in terms of interaction with people from, uh, foreign lands and communities, around the globe. Um...I don't know. I think at this point I'd be inclined to just politely say thanks, but no thanks. Mims/ Okay. Bailey/ I agree! Hayek/ Okay. Mims/ Thank you. Hayek/ Other agenda items? I wanted to just briefly touch on the Towncrest, um, plan. I talked to Jeff, uh, this morning about the design plan manual (mumbled) take a look at and, um, I'd expressed some concern to Jeff about the, at least the public, some of the public aspects of, at least what's in this in terms of amenities and the design, and features and things like that, and I...I guess, uh, what I took from the conversation was that, and This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 4 correct me if I'm wrong, Jeff, but those public aspects of what these architects have envisioned for the area.. . ITEM 7. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS. d) REZONING APPROXIMATELY 49.3-ACRES OF LAND LOCATED AT FIRST AVENUE AND MUSCATINE AVENUE AND AMENDING SECTION 14-3C OF THE ZONING CODE TO ESTABLISH THE TOWNCREST DESIGN REVIEW OVERLAY DISTRICT. (REZ10-00015) Dilkes/ Excuse me! We probably should have this discussion at the formal. Hayek/ You want to do that then? Dilkes/ Well, I think we have to, cause it's (both talking) Hayek/ Okay, yep. Strike that, Jeffrey. I'll repeat myself in about an hour (laughter) I was just trying to help Joe get to his football game! (laughter) What other agenda items? That it? Okay, let's move on then. ICAD? ICAD Annual Update Presentation: Raso/ Thank you, Mr. Mayor, I really appreciate the opportunity for you and the Council to allow me, uh, to give an update on ICAD group activities. I guess I want to make two front-end comments before I go through the PowerPoint that I provided to you, and I do apologize to the public for, uh, having that in a format that we weren't able to use here on the overhead tonight, but I will get a copy that could be posted for any citizen to take a look at. Um, my first comment deals with, uh, Susan, you just mentioned sister cities, and one of the things that, uh, that I've learned over the years in contact with a lot of my peers that this...this has come up, uh, this issue has come up is that, uh, they've worked very closely with their regional development group or area development group, like ICAD, to focus on markets around the globe that make economic sense to have relationships with, uh, not just a formal relationship for social or other reasons, and I would be happy to have a further discussion, uh, with the Economic Development Committee of the Council, uh, about this. Uh, I...I know there are times when we can provide data and be very proactive in communicating with other parts of the globe that we feel might be important for us to have relationships with, not just for Iowa City, but the entire area that we serve. Uh, so if there is an interest at some point to have that type of conversation, welcome doing that because I think the economic, uh, relationships may be, uh, as important, if not more important, uh, to the community and the community that we would be, uh, a sister city with. Second comment I'll make, uh, goes kind of to the BCS, uh, comment that the Mayor made. Um, there's a lot of people conflicted tonight. I...I follow Iowa City on Twitter. I don't know if you do that as Council Members. So any time somebody mentions Iowa City on any Twitter, uh, or tweet, it'll pop up. So we just want to follow the opinions and what's going on, and tonight really is a conflict for several people who are debating between coming to the Council meeting, or watching the championship game, so moving this quickly, hopefully they can do both! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 5 Hayek/ Sad commentary! (laughter) Raso/ Well, it's nice to see sports fans and people interested in, uh, their local, uh, government, but uh, I wanted to spend a few minutes with you and give you a quick update, uh, cover a number of items. First, about the economic impacts of really it's not our organization, but our clients, those interstate commerce companies that, uh, are here in Iowa City and in the broader Iowa City area, and what they mean, uh, both overall but specific to the return on investment for the community and the dollars that you put into our organization, and then talk a little bit about the different programming, that we do, uh, I know I want this to be as much a dialogue as a monologue, so if you have any questions at any time, please go ahead and, uh, ask those. Uh, since the start of our campaign, which we're in the...the last year of our five-year campaign, uh, we've provided significant assistance to at least 28 different projects within our service territory. Now there's a lot more companies and individuals that we provided assistance to, but these are...these are ones that we've come to Council, uh, on, uh, matters of expansion or you've seen, uh, in the newspaper, and I had a few of those listed there, uh, companies like Alliance Rock Tenn, Procter and Gamble, um, Metro Wire, ITC Midwest, Alpla are just a few of the ones, uh, I can mention tonight. Also it's important to note that on those projects, the payroll from those employees who were either retained or jobs were added means about $180 million of spending in the local economy every year. So as long as those jobs are in place with those wages, uh, we have a third party firm out of, uh, Georgia that helps us do an analysis on what that means to the area economy, and it's about $180 million. We're just shy of, uh, 5,000 jobs created or retained at a wage of just shy of $40,000 a year. And so, when we look at what that return might be, there's a lot of different ways you can calculate it, but for every payroll, or for every dollar invested in ICAD group, year over year, uh, return's about $70 in additional payroll, uh, spent in the local economy, and that...that excludes, uh, states taxes, payroll taxes and linkage outside of our market. Now in terms of, um, direct impact for Iowa City, just want you to know that we're continuing to work with all of our interstate commerce, and there are over two dozen here in...in the community that we meet with on a year-to-year basis. We work with Iowa Workforce Development to find out where do those people reside. It's not just the companies and the tax base from the commercial and industrial businesses, but where are the employees living that work for our clients throughout the area, and uh, we track that information from IWD, and we know that over 7,800 people actually reside, they have a zip code address here in Iowa City. If you take a look at, as I mentioned, the income around $39,000, just shy of $40,000 a year, that's an estimated $312,000,000 of payroll that's spent here in this area from those employees who reside in Iowa City. They have an Iowa City zip code. And, just to calculate from a residential standpoint, what that could mean to the city's revenue on an annual basis, I took an average home price of $130,000, which is lower than really what the average home price here is in Iowa City, looked at what that meant for city taxes per individual, and calculated about 70% of those folks who live in Iowa City are living in a home that's being taxed at that property value, and I don't know that for certain. I was trying to be conservative, but you can see we're looking at just shy of $5.2 million in residential revenue, uh, from the taxes for, uh, for the city. So about a $52 for every $1 invested in ICAD that the City does annually, This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 6 and as you know, that's $100,000 a year. So not a small amount of money, but I think a pretty decent return in terms of helping the clients, uh, the interstate commerce clients that are here in the community. If you look on, uh, page 3, I want to just spend a second talking about, uh, workforce. I...I don't know if you've seen some of these national statistics, if you spend time on our web site or seen some of the things we've published when these come out, but still to this day we rank as one of the top ten markets in the country, uh, for workforce, for job creation and retention. That's pretty, uh, pretty...a good statistic. I...I know for the past year, the Iowa City Metro has been in that top ten, and in fact at one point was one or two for a couple months, uh, in terms of unemployment rates, having the lowest unemployment in...in the nation. Hayek/ How big's the market? Raso/ Work...or... Hayek/ For purposes of that statistic? Raso/ Yeah, it's about 93,000, uh, workers, uh, that work in, uh, Johnson County and/or Washington, because both Johnson and Washington are part of the Iowa City MSA, and that's out of 367 metropolitan statistical areas across the country. Uh, so we're...we're constantly ranked up there in the top ten, and I think what's even more important, because quite honestly, unemployment rankings mean less and less to companies today. About 90% of all people who are hired by companies are already currently employed, so they're...they're in the workforce, they're no, uh, seen as...in the unemployment statistic. What's more important is the workforce growth rate of your population, and in the last decade we've seen about a 15%, actually a little over 15%, workforce growth, and even as we've gone through these recessionary times the last couple of years, it's still approaching about 8%. So we still continue to see growth, both in total workforce and total population, even during, uh, some economic downturn. Now we completed a labor shed study, so we wanted to take a look at where are people coming from to work in Iowa City, and we're going to be reporting out the results of that data on the 19t" of January. I know Wendy Ford, uh, from the staff here will be attending that, but that's open to all of the, uh, all of the Council Members and other staff if they'd like to attend that, uh, event, and at that we'll be providing some information specific to Iowa City. We...we do this for, uh, nearly all of the communities that we serve, and we serve ten communities within five counties. Having said all of that, when we talk to our employers, still to this day the biggest issue that they face, and the thing that they like the most, and I'll show a slide on this in a second, is the skill of the workforce. The issue that they face as the biggest challenge is a perception of this market not being a place that, if they...people don't know about it, they're really surprised at what's offered here. So, the challenge is, our...many of our companies tell us is we just need to get that employee, or perspective employee, into this community. Once we have them here we feel very confident that we're going to land them, we're going to get them to move, uh, from wherever they're located around the globe, uh, here but 70% of our...our employers say that that's their biggest challenge. And 90% of our top hiring employers say that's their biggest challenge. So it's a real concern for us, and there's a number of things that we're doing This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January ] 0, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 7 about that. The last slide on that page are...just lists some different initiatives that we have, uh, within our workforce programming to attract, help our companies to attract and retain their employees. Everything from reaching out to alumni, uh, through the alumni associations, not just at the University of Iowa, but at Kirkwood and the private colleges, and even...even UNI and Iowa State. We hold a number of events with them every year. I think last year we held four different events here in our market, uh, to inform people about job opportunities, uh, who live here or might be traveling back to the area during the holiday times, uh, to visit their family. Uh, you may not be aware of this, but about 220,000 veterans leave the military every year, and we've got a great market, both...because of the V.A., because of our life-long learning, because of just being a great community to raise a family, all of those things bode really well for our ability to attract veterans. The problem is is that the language of the military, so to speak, people that have certain skills, may not be understood as well by our area employers, so we hold...we've been holding events to...to help connect and...and get people within the marketplace, hear our employers to understand, uh, what to look for when they're reading resumes from people coming out of the military, and we're...we've got a huge webinar, or web... seminar that's on the web. Is that called a `sebinar,' a `webinar?' (laughter and several talking) Thanks, Ross! Um...that we'll be holding, uh, starting I think in March for about three months, uh, to help our employers better understand, uh, this opportunity for them. We're also continuing with what's now called Iowa's National Career Readiness Certificate. I think I've spoken to Council before. It used to be called Skills Advantage, uh, we created that here and developed it, and worked with ACT, worked with Kirkwood Community College and our office to put that in place, and it's really an understanding of people's foundational skills through this certification program. Today we have about 156 employers throughout our region who will recommend, and/or require, that people if they're applying for a certain position will... should have this certificate, and we've got several thousand people in our market who have already taken the necessary tests to...to get their certificate. Lastly, one of the things that we're really excited about is a tool we call "Pick Your Pace." Uh, there's a web site we've developed that's been live for several months now, and it allows our employers to, as I said, to..the challenge is getting people familiar with what this market has to offer. This is a tool that allows our employers to communicate with perspective employees from out of state, direct them to the web site, pickyourpace.com, and allow people to look at not just what it's like to work for these companies, but really what it's like to live in the community, and on page 4, there are a couple slides there, I wish the public could see this. The bottom one is the snapshot of the homepage, uh, for this site, so if anybody's interested in wanting to know what it's like to live in the community -arts, culture, housing, healthcare, uh, education, uh, the business here, dining and shopping -they can click on one of these links. They get aone-minute YouTube, uh, video that really describes, very quickly, and a bunch of links to that particular topic, and we've had hundreds if not thousands of...of views of...of this site or different components of this site, just in the last few months. And so, for...anybody who's listening here today or...or sees this, if they want to go to that site and they want to utilize that, they can direct people to it. The other thing that we're doing is we're offering our clients access to create their own homepage on this site, so if ACT wants to hire somebody, they can direct them, they can see information about ACT, but then they can also see everything else that's here. You This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January l0, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 8 go to page 5, just real quick, in terms of our existing industry. Uh, as many of you know, we do a report every year for all of our cities that have a large enough number of our clients. Uh, we...put that together...I didn't want to present that tonight. That's something we can talk about with the Economic Development Committee, but I wanted to highlight a few things. We have over 13,400 people that are employed with our clients, living here in this marketplace. And, a 1,066 new positions is what our employers are projecting that they will hire over the next three years. Now in the last year, from 2010, we'll say 2010 to 2009, our workforce grew by 6% in our client's categories. In Iowa City, that was 14%. So considerable growth, uh, for those companies that are located here and they employ over 6,000 people. So we know the importance of the University and of the Hospital and the public sector to our community, but we have 6,119 people employed by interstate commerce businesses right here in Iowa City. And paying a very good wage, and it's projected that we'll see almost 500, or 470 is what they're saying right now, new jobs by those employers here in our market in the next few years. And there's a couple slides I have in here about strengths of Iowa City as a place to do business. I think we noted the...the top ones, which shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, uh, the workforce, the skills of our workforce, the quality of life here, and, uh, the general infrastructure of (mumbled) to be able to transport people and goods, uh, throughout this market is seen as a strength. On page 6, and I'm almost done, uh, the weaknesses are barriers to growth, uh, again, just highlight a few of the ones that get the highest, uh, highest marks. Difficult finding employees; we love the people here; we don't have enough of them with the skills that we need. That's...that's kind of our challenge. Uh, community leadership concerns, and that's really kind of a broad-based statement that, uh, we aggregated up, and sometimes the cost of doing business is...is perceived as high, especially for those companies that have other locations. We want to take a good look at that. Sometimes if this is your only location, you might have that opinion, but it's not based on...on any other place that you're doing business, and uh, so we were pulling some of that data out. Now in terms of our business recruitment activities, this is a question we get asked all the time, I would say right now our activity is moderate to really slow, uh, usually during the holidays that happens, but it's also has to do with the economic conditions. However, talking to several of my peers around the country and others here in the state of Iowa, we're starting to see a little bit of an uptick, in terms of activity, and uh, we're...we're hoping to see more of that, of course. Um, but please remember that 70% of the growth of this market's going to be our existing companies, and helping them to grow, and in fact I would say long-term not only is it that, but it might even be 80 to 90% when we see new companies growing here in the market, and I want to talk about that for just a second, but if you have any, uh, interest in learning more about the details of what we're doing, or how we're representing the City and the area, you can go to our web site, iowacityareadevelopment.com, or our regional site that we partner with Priority One called techcorridor.com, and we'll continue to be updating those sites and...and reaching out to national site location consultants who use those sites to gather information about our marketplace. The, um...the last business recruitment item I want to mention, and it's a big investment that as a community Iowa City's making, and that is moving towards certified shovel-ready, uh, site status. I know the infrastructure's going in on the industrial park on the southeast side; that's continuing to move forward, and we're continuing work with our consultants to, uh, finalize This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 9 the...the needed information to get that certified. The hope is to have that done here in the spring, uh, for this park. We've got another park that we'll probably be certifying and announced here, uh, it's not in Iowa City, but will be announced here in the next month or so. So that's a...that's a good sign, and in fact the state of Iowa passed legislation last year, uh, and we've been working with them to model the state program after ours. The last thing I'll mention, and probably, uh, is the most exciting, cause a lot of this stuff that I've talked to you about tonight is...is what I call in a...in a good way kind of a commodity economic development. We need to make sure we have a workforce; we need to make sure we have infrastructure; shovel-ready sites; we're responding to our clients; we're marketing ourselves; but economic development's changing quite a bit, uh, and it has a lot to do with global... globalization, a global economy, and to some extent to do with the recent recession, what that's meant for a lot of lay-offs nationally, and more people who are interested in going out on their own and...and running their own businesses, working in partnership with others, but maybe not working for a large corporation. In fact, some recent members point that about 20 to 25% of the nation's workforce, uh, is classified as, uh, consultants or contractors, rather than working for an established, well-known company. And so we've been working very closely, as many of you know, with uh, Jeff and Wendy with the City, looking at the downtown, and the development plan for the downtown and kind of the future, uh, of the downtown, but also the future of how business is done, and the last slide I have here really talks about this culture of innovation that we're trying to create down here, uh, a way in which we can get individuals who have an interest in growing an idea; growing their own business; maybe it's an established company; maybe it's a company that's looking to come in here; maybe it's the individual who's working out of their home or out of a coffee shop or whatever it might be; to get those ideas and those minds together - in locations that's set up and conducive for that kind of conversation. And so we've been working very closely with a number of individuals here in the marketplace. We've identified some sites, uh, several of those are in downtown Iowa City, and our hope is in the next few months, in working in partnership with a lot of different groups, uh, to unveil a location and building out what we call a co-work environment. They're about 300 co-work environments around the country. We've studied many of those. We've done a lot of research on this, and...and we really feel like the balance of the private sector and the public sector coming together and developing out a co-work facility where these people can get together, develop companies, new ideas, and grow new businesses, so 50 years from now we'll be talking about what we talked about today with ACT and integrated DNA technologies and Pearson and others that really got their foothold in the start here in our marketplace, and I look forward to continuing the work with you, and with the staff, on developing this concept further. So I'd love to answer any specific questions you might have. Hayek/ Any questions for Joe? This is a very thorough presentation. I appreciate it. Well, as always, Joe, thanks for keeping us apprised of the good work ICAD does, and we...we appreciate the partnership. Raso/ I do too, and I really appreciate your time on the board and Tom, you'll be joining the board at the end of the week at our... at our next meeting, uh, so it's nice not to only have This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January ]0, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 10 the financial support of course, but it's really important to make sure that the expertise within the Council and the community is connected with us so we're working together. Hayek/ All right. Thank you. Raso/ Thank you. Hayek/ Thanks a lot. Okay, info packet. Nothing there? Information Packets: Bailey/ Are we just taking them altogether? Um, there was one in...there was an item, IP4 in the January 6th info packet that I was interested in (noise on mic) there were other Council Members who would be, um, interested in asking our City Attorney to move forward on what it would take to, uh, prevent firearms on municipal properties in Iowa City, including City Hall. I think that just makes sense. I know that the Supervisors are looking at some... such a policy, as well. Are others interested? Hayek/ I think we ought to put it on a work session. Mims/ Yeah. Hayek/ I mean, thus far the...the legal opinion is really geared (both talking) specific to the Library, in response to... Dilkes/ Well, that's where the question came from, but if you look at the conclusion, I...I expanded it to other municipal properties, cause the conclusion is essentially the same, so then the question becomes...you know, where do you want to prohibit the firearms, what properties and that kind of thing. I mean, I would suggest maybe staff would have a discussion about that and present you with a proposed resolution. Um... Hayek /I think that's wise (several talking) take a look at this and... Bailey/ Yeah, whatever process, but I think...I would like to see something move forward and an opportunity for us to discuss it. Dilkes/ Yeah... Bailey/ For sure. Dilkes/ ...I assumed that that's where we would go next. Bailey/ Thanks! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 11 Hayek/ Anything else from the four info packets that, uh, are before us? And I'm lumping them altogether, you're right, Regenia! (laughter) Do we want to deal with the KXIC schedule? Karr/ That would be mine...uh-huh. Starting with January 12tH. Dates in January would be the 12tH, 19tH, and 26tH. Hayek/ I can't do any days in January, but I can do Feb 2 and 9, if you want to sign me up. Karr/ Matt, February 2nd and Stn, okay. Mims/ I can do the 26tH Karr/ January? Mims/ Yep. Karr/ Thank you. Hayek/ Don't fall over yourselves, just sign up here! (laughter) Champion/ What are you doing? Hayek/ Connie, do you care if we sign you up for a couple of... Champion/ No, I don't care! Hayek/ You don't have any... Champion/ ...out of town so...except on weekends. What do you have open? Karr/ January 12tH and... Champion/ I'll try to keep them straight this time! Karr/ January 12tH and 19tH, or February... Champion/ (mumbled) Mims/ Yeah, like two days from today. Champion/ Oh! Karr/ Or February 16tH and 23rd Champion/ February 16tH will work. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Karr/ Okay. Champion/ I'm not sure about Wednesday. Just because I lost my car keys and I have no (mumbled) ..can't find `em anywhere! Dickens/ I can do January 19tH Karr/ 19tH, thank you, Terry. So we have January 12tH, February 23rd, and the two dates in March. Champion/ (mumbled) February 16rn~ Karr/ February 16, yes. Champion/ I can do a March date too. Mims/ I can do the 23rd of February. Karr/ 23rd of February, Susan; March 2nd and Stn? Or January 12tH! Hayek/ I think Mike Wright's...he's at a conference so I don't think he can do day after tomorrow. Champion/ But if I find my car keys I'll call you. Hayek/ Why don't you just do it... Karr/ I' 11 put that down. Hayek/ ...call you, you can do it...you can do it by phone. Champion/ Oh, okay! All right, so Wednesday. Okay. Karr/ Okay. Dickens/ I'll do March 2nd as well. Karr/ Thank you. Champion/ I can take March 2^d off. Page 12 Karr/ March... you didn't have March 2nd. You had February 16tH (both talking) February 16tH and January 12tH Champion/ Okay! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 13 Hayek/ Why don't you stick Mr. Wright on March 9t" and see if that.. . Karr/ Okay. That's fine. Thank you. Council Time• Hayek/ Anything else before we move on to Council time? Hearing none, let's move onto Council time. Nothing? (several talking) Anything? (several talking) Okay. Budget priorities. Knee-deep would be the, uh, term. Okay. Uh, Marian, did you want to talk about that budget meeting...yeah. Schedule: Karr/ We can talk about scheduling, yes. Uh... Hayek/ Yeah, I guess that's the last bullet point. We can do it there. Karr/ January 18t" you're scheduled to meet with boards, commissions, and community events - and as of, uh, you've also agreed to do that on Tuesday the 18t", and to start at 7:00 P.M. As of right now, we have, um, the direction we gave is the same in the past to the organizations. A...ten-minute presentations and five minutes for questions and answers. And as of right now, you're booked from 7:00 to 10:30. So, uh, before sending out the schedule I thought I would ask if there was any interest to alter that, perhaps by starting somewhat earlier, or, um...another date, or shorten the 15-minute durations. Champion/ I was just going to suggest that, because we're always done early on those things and people are here, and we're waiting for people to come. Fifteen minutes is really not necessary. I mean, that's been my experience. Bailey/ I'm available to start earlier, but I know that (several talking) Hayek/ Why don't we try 10 minutes and start earlier? Karr/ Ten minutes and start at 6:30? (several talking) Champion/ Yeah, I think we... any, I don't think any of those ever took the full 15 minutes. Karr/ Yeah, they did. Champion/They did? Karr/ Uh-huh. Champion/ Oh. Well... This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 14 Karr/ And you do have some new ones this year, too. That might prompt some more discussion, than perhaps ones you're very familiar with. Bailey/ You told them 15 minutes, right, already or... Karr/ I did, but before...that was before we confirm it and put it into a schedule. That's why I wanted to talk to you this evening. Bailey/ (mumbled) 6:00 and go with what you said and tell people to be here at least one appointment early. And then if we're running ahead... Champion/ Yeah, that's okay. Karr/ So 6:00 or 6:30? Bailey/ (mumbled) at 6:00? Wilburn/ 6:30 would be better. Hayek/ Let's do 6:30. Karr/ 6:30 and ten minutes. Hayek/ Sure. Karr/ Okay. Champion/ If somebody runs over, it' 11 be okay. Hayek/ Okay, that's...that'sthe budget meeting we needed to talk about. Karr/ That's the 18tH Hayek/ Yeah. Okay. Uh, pending work session issues, IP2. Pending Work Session Issues (IP2): Bailey/ Well we added one. Hayek/ Is landlord-tenant relations is that what our UISG rep has...proposed? Karr/ Yes. Hayek/ Okay. Karr/ And that's just there as a bookmark. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Page 15 Hayek/ Sure. Okay. Anything else on that? Okay. Upcoming events, Council invitations. Upcoming Community Events, Council Invitations: Bailey/ I...um, am planning to attend the ICAD, and I haven't talked to Marian about making that reservation. Are others, I hope... Mims/ I am. Bailey/ Good, okay. Um, I think it's good to have, and then I think staff is attending, correct? (mumbled) Hayek/ Yeah, we should make a presence at that. Karr/ So I have Regenia and Susan? (several talking) 19th. (several talking) Bailey/ It's really early! Champion/ Yeah, it's 7 to 8, isn't it? Bailey/ Yeah, I think it's 7. Karr/ So if there's others besides Susan and Regenia, you'll let me know? Hayek/ Okay. Karr/ Mr. Mayor, one final question, the...going back to the 18th, all of those budgets were presented to you in your packet on December 16th. Do you wish then re-sent to you again in this packet, or... you' 11 bring them on the 16th Champion/ I have mine. Hayek/ Why don't we bring them... Bailey/ I have...mine. Hayek/ How about a friendly email reminder to seven Councilors. I think that might help (mumbled) bring their packets. (several talking) Bailey/ ...are word processed this year. World of difference! Hayek/ Thank you. All right. Anything else? Discussion of meeting schedules. It's a pretty heavy schedule! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011. January 10, 2011 City Council Work Session Mims/ Are we, do we know yet if we're meeting on the 27tH? Karr/ No, you have it on hold if needed. I think you'll probably know a little more as you proceed with...how far you get on the 13tH and 18tH Mims/ That's fine. Hayek/ Anything else on the schedule? Page 16 Wilburn/ Uh, just an FYI. The...I will...I will be at the formal meeting on the 25tH, um...will not be at the work session on the 24tH Dickens/ And I'll be gone 24tH and 25tH. Karr/ I have that. Thank you. Hayek/ Okay. Karr/ But both here the 27tn...if need be. Dickens/ Yes. Karr/ Yes. Dickens/ (mumbled) ...just for that! Hayek/ Okay. Anything else on meeting schedules? If not, why don't we disband and... convene in 15 minutes for the formal. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council work session meeting of January 10, 2011.