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Home My WebLink About2011-07-05 Correspondence=� ®4 CITY OF IOWA CITY -� 11 MEMORANDUM Date: June 23, 2011 To: City Manager From: Kristopher Ackerson, Acting Traffic Engineering Planner Re: Item for July 5th, 2011 City Council meeting: Removal of (2) NO PARKING 8AM TO 5PM MONDAY THRU FRIDAY signs on the south side of 300 -block of East 2nd Street As directed by Title 9, Chapter 1, Section 3B of the City Code, this is to advise the City Council of the following action. Action: Pursuant to Section 9- 1- 3A(10) of the City Code, two signs indicating NO PARKING 8AM TO 5PM MONDAY THRU FRIDAY will be removed on south side of 300 -block East 2nd Street. Comment: This action is being taken to enable on- street parking for customers during normal business hours. June 16, 2011 FILE[) 2011 JUN 17 AFB 11: 2 Matt Hayek C1"1'Y LIER"K City of Iowa City 1011A CITY, 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240 Dear Matt, 39(2) Iowa City Area Development Group Extraordinary opportunities in unexpected places. I'm pleased to inform you that we have selected Funding Solutions of Austin, Texas, to counsel ICAD Group in our upcoming five year investment campaign. Funding Solutions specializes in fundraising for economic development organizations. Their personnel are knowledgeable and likable and their processes are well suited for our organization. As we discussed at the last board meeting, this is a two part engagement, and we have contracted them to provide the first part, the feasibility study, at this time. Upon successful and satisfactory completion of that component (approximately 2 months), we plan to engage them to help us administer the campaign (an additional 6 to 8 month engagement). I would like to acknowledge the significant efforts Joe and his staff provided and also thank the executive committee and the board members who took their time to meet with this organization and the others that were considered. I appreciate your active participation and ask that you continue to provide the expert guidance to ICAD Group staff and the Funding Solutions team as the process moves forward. You will receive more information on those processes from Joe very soon. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Joe or me. Sincerely, Scott Fisher, Chair ICAD Group Board Chair 325 E. Washington Street, Suite 101 Iowa City, IA 52240 319.354.3939 p r,. c nl (3 Marian Karr From: Dale Helling Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 7:36 PM To: Karen Jennings Cc: Kathryn Johansen; Tom Markus; Marian Karr Subject: FW: Nepotism Policy Request Karen, Please send him a copy of our policy. *Policy was sent by Personnel Thanks, Dale From: Gary Chaison [mailto:gary.t.chaison @gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 7:12 PM To: Council Subject: Nepotism Policy Request In pursuit of my area of academic interest, I am in the process of contacting selected cities, counties and other governmental entities across the country asking for copies of their nepotism policies. I am seeking sample policies in order to examine what proportion of cities, counties and other governmental entities have expanded their policies to deal with consensual "romantic" relationships between employees, specifically between supervisors /administrators and their direct or indirect subordinates. Traditionally most nepotism policies have dealt primarily with formalized family and often cohabitational relationships. I am studying the effects of consensual, non - cohabitational relationships in the workplace and resultant trends, specifically: • How such relationships affect others in the workgroup, particularly perceived favoritism towards the one subordinate employee involved and the resulting tension, uneasiness or strife between employees in and outside of the relationship, resulting in a hostile work environment for non - participant employees and, if applicable, direct supervisors. • Business decisions actually made or perceived to be made based on emotions of the relationship rather than on facts; • An actual conflict of interest or appearance thereof based on the perception of employees and /or the public; • Possible liability of organization for sexual harassment lawsuits. If you would like to see examples of organizational policies already in place, you can refer to the State of Missouri Department of Transportation, City of Oakland, California; and many public and private colleges and universities, such as the University of Minnesota. If you could either send me a PDF or link to a copy of your policy and /or state the basic tenets of your policy, specifically whether consensual, non co- habitational relationships are currently included in your policy, it would be greatly appreciated. If your policy is in the process of being reviewed and /or revised to include consensual relationships or there are plans to do so, I would also like to add that to my database. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. G. Chaison Marian Karr From: Dale Helling Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 4:46 PM To: 'jazbl058 @inabc.net' Cc: Council; Eleanor M. Dilkes; Darian Nagle -Gamm; Andy Rocca; Sam Hargadine Subject: RE: this happens all day every day Dear Ms. Barker, Thank you for your recent email messages to Council regarding parking issues on Waterfront Drive. Perhaps I can provide helpful information in the form of an update. As I'm sure you are aware, City traffic engineering staff has reviewed the situation to determine if further control measures are warranted based on uniform traffic standards. Beyond the removal last year of parking from the east side of Waterfront Drive south of Southgate Avenue, they have concluded that road width, traffic volume, visibility, etc. are adequate for traffic movement in that area without imposing additional parking prohibitions or other restrictions. Further, while vehicles are frequently parked on the west side of Waterfront Drive, these have not often been found to be improperly parked or in violation of the "street storage" (parked over 48 hours without being moved) regulation. Police officers have observed people sleeping in these vehicles from time to time but there is no law prohibiting that. Further, no violations of the zoning code have been identified. The police have been directed to monitor the current situation involving vehicles parking along Waterfront Drive in the evenings with occupants congregating in the area with car doors open, etc. If you or your neighbors observe instances where the street is being blocked or traffic is encumbered, the police should like to be notified immediately, if possible, so they can respond in a timely fashion. We remain in contact with Shelter House administration as well in the interest of seeking workable resolution to problems that may arise. Regards, Dale Helling Assistant City Manager - - - -- Original Message---- - From: jazbl058 @inabc.net [mailto:jazbl058 @inabc.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 20118:09 AM To: Council; Eleanor M. Dilkes; Darian Nagle -Gamm; Andy Rocca Subject: this happens all day every day This is what we have all day every day along the stretch, now extending beyond our drive up the hill towards Friendly Farm. But is this taken into account on your width of road? Normally if there was a car comming people shut the door or get out of the way.... I can tell you on a daily basis that the stretch from HACAP's drive to Southgate on Waterfront... they DO NOT! They look at the cars trying to give way to each other and go back to what they were doing... with the door hanging wide open... All the while the parking lot at Shelter house is at least 1/2 empty. This tells us they are NOT trying to be good neighbors. They are trying to say we are here and YOU have to live with it... All we are asking for since you CAN NOT legislate good character is to give us an accessable road. Please consider and impliment no parking on the west side of Waterfront! This is even more poinient to me as my husband just spent time in the hospital for chest pains. Thank You Joyce Barker 2018 Waterfront Dr Iowa City Marian Karr 3g(4) From: jazb1058 @inabc.net Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:09 AM To: Council; Eleanor M. Dilkes; Darian Nagle -Gamm; Andy Rocca Subject: this happens all day every day Attachments: waterfront june 28 2011.jpg This is what we have all day every day along the stretch, now extending beyond our drive up the hill towards Friendly Farm. But is this taken into account on your width of road? Normally if there was a car comming people shut the door or get out of the way.... I can tell you on a daily basis that the stretch from HACAP's drive to Southgate on Waterfront... they DO NOT! They look at the cars trying to give way to each other and go back to what they were doing... with the door hanging wide open... All the while the parking lot at Shelter house is at least 1/2 empty. This tells us they are NOT trying to be good neighbors. They are trying to say we are here and YOU have to live with it... All we are asking for since you CAN NOT legislate good character is to give us an accessable road. Please consider and impliment no parking on the west side of Waterfront! This is even more poinient to me as my husband just spent time in the hospital for chest pains. Thank You Joyce Barker 2018 Waterfront Dr Iowa City 10 9✓Ill