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Marian Karr 2f(1)
From: Joseph M. Jason <jmj2400 @yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:51 PM
To: rshults@dhs.state.ia.us
Cc: cehlers @dhs. state. ia.us; sups @co.johnson.ia.us; jlyness @co.johnson.ia.us;
press @treatmentadvocacycenter.org; Council; Mondicsj @treatmentadvocacycenter.org
Subject: Subject: Daniel S Jason should get treatment instead of incarceration. The criminalization of
Asperger Syndrome must end.
Attachments: Petition.docx; Jason Letter final (1).pdf
Please see the attached letter from Joseph M. Jason, President of the National Alliance on Mental Illness -
Barrington Area.
Joseph M. Jason, President NAMI BA
Board Member of Criminal Justice Advocacy for People with Mental Illness
Member /Director of CURE
(847)537 -3009
CORMI
National Alliance on Mental Illness
October 10, 2013
The Honorable Paul D. Miller
Johnson County Courthouse
417 S. Clinton Street
Iowa City, Iowa 52244 -2510
Re: State v. Jason, 06531 FECR 099690
Dear Judge Miller:
I am writing concerning Daniel S. Jason whose case is scheduled for trial on October
22, 2013. 1 am the National Legal Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI). NAMI is the nation's largest mental health organization dedicated to building
better lives for the millions of Americans affected by serious mental illnesses.
Although I do not know Mr. Jason personally, I have followed his case closely through
his father, an active member of NAMI. I have also reviewed medical reports that have
been written about Mr. Jason, most recently the psychiatric report written by Mark J.
Mills, JD, MD, a well -known forensic psychiatrist, who has evaluated Mr. Jason several
times in recent years.
Mr. Jason is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, a brain disorder formerly called
Asperger's Syndrome. People with this disorder frequently possess normal or even
superior intellectual capacities, but experience significant deficits in judgment, social
skills, empathy and communications. Highly stressful situations or environments tend to
exacerbate these problems.
Mr. Jason's life is an illustration of the mystifying dichotomy between high intellectual
functioning and very low emotional functioning that so often exists in individuals with
Asperger's Syndrome. He was a straight A student in college and graduated early from
the University of Iowa. At the same time, he demonstrated very low emotional maturity
and extremely poor judgment, as illustrated by his impulsivity, failed interpersonal
relationships, and frequent verbal altercations.
The charges that gave rise to Mr. Jason's case exemplify these problems. After his
girlfriend broke up with him, he sent her threatening emails and text messages. He
never acted on these threats but his ex- girlfriend got an order of protection against him
which he repeatedly violated. After he was criminally charged for violating the order of
protection, he fired the lawyers hired to represent him and sent threatening written
correspondence to one of them, leading to the filing of federal charges against him.
Despite these repeated inappropriate behaviors, there is no evidence that Mr. Jason
has actually engaged in violent behavior or physically harmed another person. It does
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seem evident that the lengthy incarceration that he has already experienced has led to
deterioration of his condition. According to Dr. Mills, Mr. Jason "is doing less well than
when I evaluated him on May 18, 2010." Dr. Mills concludes that while Mr. Jason is not
"grossly psychotic, his mental state has deteriorated over the last three years and he
now incorporates some delusional thinking into his beliefs."
Without attempting to excuse or condone Mr. Jason's inappropriate behaviors and
extremely poor judgment, his long -term incarceration will serve neither his best
therapeutic interests nor the interests of society in preventing a recurrence of these
behaviors. Mr. Jason desperately needs a structured, secure residential placement in a
suitable program with expertise in providing psychiatric treatment and training in
developing better social skills, judgment, and avoiding the impulsive, obsessional
behaviors that have given rise to his legal problems.
There are many individuals with Mr. Jason's diagnosis and profile who live and function
appropriately and productively in society. With appropriate treatment, there are reasons
to hope that he can reach this level as well. Long -term incarceration, without such
treatment, is likely to exacerbate his condition and decrease the likelihood that he will
eventually successfully re- integrate into society.
Your honor, I appreciate your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Ronald S. Honberg, J.D.
National Director of Policy and Legal Affairs
Cc. Joseph Jason
3803 North Fairfax Drive • Arlington VA 22203
(703) 524 -7600 • NAMI Helpline 1 (800) 950 -NAMI • www.nami.org
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National Alliance on Mental Illness
12/11/2013
To:Governor Branstad,
Barrington
Area
CC: Janet Lyness, Johnson County Prosecutor
CC: President Obama, Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Charles Grassley
From: Joseph M. Jason - President National Alliance on Mental Illness(NAMI) BA
Regarding: Petition Regarding Daniel S. Jason - Signed by 537 people including many
residents of Iowa(See Attached)
Subject: Daniel S Jason should get treatment instead of incarceration. The criminalization
of Asperger Syndrome must end.
The crucifixion of Daniel S. Jason in Iowa Cites Posted on September 28,
2013 by josephmiason Overzealous Prosecutors in Johnson County take care of the mentally
ill problem by Joseph M. Jason - President NAMI BA
Iowa prosecutors are intending to convict my son and send him to prison again for perhaps
55 years for non - violent crimes. The trial was going to commence October 22, 2013, but
there has been a continuance-Recent actions of the prosecution in Iowa City are indicative
of the criminalization of Asperger Syndrome. My son will be tried at a future date for
extortion and stalking. My son sent various emails and made two phone calls. These
charges are a travesty. My wife and I met with the prosecutor in December of last year and
explained Asperger Syndrome and mental illness. We explained that our son's behavior is
childlike rather than criminal. We told them he needs treatment and not incarceration.
We gave them a forensic psychiatrist's report that demonstrates he is not violent. He is a
nuisance. We told them that his behavior according to Dr. Mills is typical of one with
Asperger Syndrome. We told them he has an organic brain disorder. His criminal behavior
consists only of phone calls and emails. This meeting has made no difference. If the Iowa
prosecutor's office was serious about avoiding an expensive trial, they would have offered a
humane plea agreement. Instead they offered an agreement of ten years. Subsequently,
they even withdrew this offer. Perhaps the voters of Iowa should be told how much it has
cost to prosecute and imprison Daniel in Iowa. It has to be in the millions and Daniel
could have been treated for a fraction of that.
The typical offender sitting in Johnson County right now has been charged with robbery,
theft, murder, sexual abuse, domestic abuse assault, drug offenses etc. My son is not a
thug, but yet will get the stiffest sentence out of all of them. It is the criminalization of
Asperger Syndrome. A full one -third of the nation's states get a D or F grade for using
mental health courts and crisis intervention teams (CIT) — diversion programs proven to
reduce the criminalization of mental illness, the study found. Iowa received a well deserved
F. "People with untreated psychiatric disease should be getting the treatment they need
before law enforcement shows up at their door because of behaviors caused by their
illness," said Doris A. Fuller, executive director. I had a deposition earlier this year
recently and they tried to twist Dr. Mills' report. They not only want to lock him away
for 55 years, but they extended the time period of the stalking to include the time he has
been in jail. That is punishment fit for a major drug dealer and /or murderer. This case, as
it always has, cries out for treatment and not incarceration. I have found a place for my
son to live. It is called Trinity in Illinois and it is an excellent place for people with issues
similar to my son. That is where he belongs. Daniel was living with us for the entire time
and did not go to Iowa. This has not stopped the charges of stalking and extortion. This is
not what our founding fathers envisioned that America should be. Daniel has already been
in jail and prisons for most of the time since 2007.
Dr. Mills has stated that Daniels's so called criminal conduct is caused by his Asperger
Syndrome. "Mr. Jason cannot legitimately be considered morally responsible for his
misconduct." Dr. Mills also states that "The lack of significant history of violence is
important." As stated in the article, Forensic aspects of Asperger's Syndrome by Justin B.
Barry -Walsh and Paul E. Mullen in the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, "It
behooves us to draw to the court's attention the obvious: that patients with Asperger's
Syndrome suffer from mental disorder and that their offending and subsequent disposition
must be placed in this context. The core features of Asperger's Syndrome and how they
determine what the individual knows and understand of the world should form a basis for
sophisticated assessment of the issues of disability."
NAMI National, Senator Durbin, and Senator Harkin have been apprised of this
situation. NAMI National sent a letter to the presiding Judge. The Autism Society of
America believes this to be the most egregious case in the United States. Even Drew
Peterson and other murderers have received less of a sentence than my son is
facing. Daniel has a brain disorder and needs mental health treatment not incarceration.
National organizations such as NAMI and CURE are following this trial. This typifies
everything that is wrong in the State of Iowa regarding the Criminalization of the Mentally
Ill and Asperger Syndrome. This Criminalization of the Mentally ill must be confronted
and stopped. I have seen and heard the overzealous prosecutors. It took courageous
people to say no to slavery in our history. We must say no to the incarceration of our non-
violent mentally ill. This is my mission in life.
Joseph M. Jason, President NAMI BA (847)537 -3009
Member of Criminal Justice Advocacy for People with Mental Illness
Board Member -CURE- Illinois
583 Cobblestone Lane
Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089
"if societies are judged by how they treat their most disabled members. Our society will be judged harshly indeed, " said E.
Fuller Torrey M.D., a research psychiatrist and Treatment Advocacy Founder.
Marian Karr 2f(2)
From: Barron, Sara [CO PD] <barrons @iastate.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 5:12 PM
To: Council
Cc: kb4council @gmail.com
Subject: From Big Brothers Big Sisters - -Our year -end progress report
Dear Councilors,
Thank you for your support of youth and their mentors through Big Brothers Big Sisters. We can't do this
important work without you.
We hope you'll take a moment to celebrate the year's accomplishments with us. The following is a progress
report on our current strategic plan, as well as just a snapshot of some of the great opportunities enjoyed by our
youth, families, and mentors in 2013.
Take care,
Sara Barron
Community Relations Director
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County
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Marian Karr 2f(3)
From: Charles Eastham <eastham @mchsi.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 5:40 PM
To: Council; Tom Markus; Stefanie Bowers
Subject: Thank you for supporting FasTrac
December 12, 2013
Iowa City City Council
Mr. Tom Markus, City Manager
Ms. Stefanie Bowers, Equity Director
City of Iowa City
410 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
Dear Council Members, Mr. Markus and Ms. Bowers,
I am writing on behalf of the Coalition for Racial Justice to thank you for your recent decision to allocate
$15,000 to be used to transition the FasTrac Cultural and Diversity Awareness Program from Mayor's Youth
Empowerment Program to Diversity Focus. We appreciate your assessment that minority and low- income
students participating in FasTrac have high graduation rates and have been more likely to pursue secondary
education and that FasTrac has been acknowledged as impacting a great many students in the Iowa City area.
We are very much encouraged by your support of FasTrac and thereby of minority and low- income youth at this
critical time in the program's development and continuation.
Very truly yours,
Charlie Eastham
For the Coalition for Racial Justice
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Marian Karr
From: Jannette Taylor < Jannette. Taylor @unitedactionforyouth.org>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 11:39 AM
To: Council
Subject: United Action for Youth and Community Partners- Find Your Voice Project
Attachments: Partner Sheet.docx
Good afternoon City Council Members. We are writing to inform you of an exciting collaboration
project UAY is organizing with community partners. We are currently applying for a foundation
grant to fund a project titled "Find Your Voice ". If funded, this project will begin in the summer of
2014, and will provide a series of youth led workshops and performances that will foster dialogue
within the community. The participants will include a variety of groups throughout the city; ranging
in age, ethnicities and demographics. This is an inclusive project that is designed to use creative
storytelling and performance art to foster better understanding of the uniqueness of individuals and
their experiences in the metro area. With audience participation, we will address perceptions and
misconceptions as well. Immediately following our events, we will hold facilitated, roundtable
discussions, to dialogue about the issues presented.
Committed community partners are: The Englert, the University of Iowa Art Education and Theater
Arts departments, The City of Literature, Iowa City Public Library, Riverside Theater, ArtShare and
Summer of the Arts.
At this time we only want you to be aware of the project. We do not intend to seek local funding
support for the project. We will be submitting a letter of intent this week and hope to be invited to
submit a proposal. We will keep you informed of our progress and, as always welcome your
questions or feedback. Thank you for your ongoing support of UAY.
Jannette Taylor, MOL, NDR
Executive Director
United Action for Youth
(P) 319.338.7518 (F) 319.337.7999
www.unitedactionforyouth.org
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Dear Bob Thompson,
Jim Throgmorton
Monday, December 16, 2013 4:14 PM
thompbobson @mchsi.com; Council
RE: Fwd: RE: Iowa City "Citizens Survey"
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Thank you for sharing your data, map, and assessment with me. I think you offer a powerful and important critique, and
I would encourage you to share it directly with the Council as a whole. You can do so by sending an email to
council @iowa - city.org
If you do share your assessment with the whole council, however, I would strongly encourage you to state your findings
more constructively. By quickly implying that the staff /consultant intentionally biased the survey you run the risk of
immediately alienating the very people you want to influence.
With that in mind, I would ask you to frame your email as an effort to support the City in its effort to determine what
city residents think. If the Council and the staff really want to know what the residents think, they /we won't limit the
survey primarily to homeowners who have utility accounts, and hence largely ignore people who rent in multi - family
units or mobile home parks.
It is also possible that some of your assumptions are wrong. I'm not saying there are. I'm just saying you could write in a
way that makes you appear open to learning too.
You probably would want to know that several Council members, myself included, expressed considerable skepticism
about the survey when we held a 6 -hour strategic planning work session on Nov 25.
So, thank you for sharing your critique. And please do consider revising it in the manner I've suggested.
Best regards,
Jim Throgmorton
From: Bob Thompson [thompbobson @mchsi.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 12:11 PM
Cc: Jim Throgmorton; coulter.joe.d @gmail.com; Stefanie Bowers
Subject: Re: Fwd: RE: Iowa City "Citizens Survey"
A brief update, I just posted this on the Facebook group:
I think I found the major source of extreme bias in the survey sample. As Rachel noted, on p. 84, it says "City of Iowa City
officials were concerned about the large number of students in the City. Therefore, they opted to provide their own list
from which the sample was obtained." It goes on to say, "Utility customer households within the City of Iowa City were
eligible to participate in the survey." This bothered me, so I looked at it a bit more. It's too vague because it doesn't
specify which utilities: Water? Garbage collection? If garbage collection was used, that probably would eliminate all
multifamily housing units and trailer courts in the entire city, which obviously would exclude a huge swath of students
and lower income people. Since every apartment complex I found on the map has no survey recipients whatsoever, I'm
guessing that's how it went down. Is this really the standard methodology NRC uses? No, but apparently they allow
paying customers (city governments) to determine who gets excluded, because the City provided the list of households.
This isn't the standard method NRC uses at all; for example, in the Sunnyvale CA survey, the sample was obtained from
"a comprehensive list of all housing units within the City of Sunnyvale boundaries. The basis of the list of all housing
units was a United States Postal Service listing of housing units within zip codes." HUGE difference between IC's horribly,
deliberately biased sample, and the correct method. Furthermore, in Sunnyvale, "Multi- family housing units were over
sampled as residents of this type of housing typically respond at lower rates to surveys than do those in single - family
housing units." That's how you go about doing a valid "Citizens Survey "; you not only include all households in the
jurisdiction, you over sample for those statistically less inclined to respond. The City opted to silence them completely.
On 12/14/2013 01:30 PM, Bob Thompson wrote:
Jim,
I'm forwarding the information below at the request of Human Rights Commissioner Joe Coulter. He hoped I'd share it
with "the appropriate City Offices and members of the City Council." He copied it to Stefanie Bowers, so that pretty
much covers the appropriate City Offices. And sending this to you covers the appropriate members of the City Council.
Based on past experience and subsequent sense of total disenfranchisement, I estimate that there's approximately a
100% chance it would be ignored by anyone else in local government. Since you're my District representative on the
Council, I'm kicking this ball at you so I can get back to being reticent about Iowa City politics; I have no expectation that
anything whatsoever will come of it. I guess the main point of this has to do with the legitimacy of using this "Citizens
Survey" as a basis for making decisions, when the sample so obviously fails to represent all citizens. This failure appears
to me to be a result of deliberate manipulation of the sample; but I could be wrong, and I actually hope I am.
-- - - - - -- Original Message -- - - - - --
Subject: RE: Iowa City "Citizens Survey"
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:35:51 +0000
From: Coulter, Joe D <joe- coulter @uiowa.edu > <mailto:joe - coulter @uiowa.edu>
To: thompbobson @mchsi.com<mailto:thompbobson @mchsi.com>
< thompbobson @mchsi.com > <mailto:thompbobson @mchsi.com>
CC: stefa n ie-bowe rs @ i owa-city.o rg<m a i Ito: stefa n ie-bowe rs@ iowa -city.o rg> <stefanie- bowers @iowa -
city.org><mailto:stefanie - bowers @iowa- city.org >, coulter. joe. d @gmail.com<mailto:coulter.joe.d @gmail.com>
< coulter. joe. d@ gmail.com > <mailto:coulter.joe.d @gmail.com>
Mr. Thompson:
Thank you for your concern and analysis of the City of Iowa City "Citizens Survey ". I hope you will share your work with
the appropriate City Offices and members of the City Council. As a member of the Iowa City Human Rights Commission, I
have copied this email to Ms. Stefanie Bowers, the head staff of the Commission.
Joe D. Coulter, Ph.D.
Professor
Community and Behavioral Health
College of Public Health
105 River Street, N414 CPHB
The University of Iowa Phone (319) 384 -1478
Iowa City, Iowa 52242 FAX (319) 384 -4106
Joe Dan Coulter <http: / /www. public - health.uiowa.edu /faculty- staff /faculty /directory /faculty-
detail. asp ?emailAddress =joe- coulter @uiowa.edu>
From: Bob Thompson [mailto:thompbobsongmchsi.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 1:09 AM
To: Coulter, Joe D
Subject: Iowa City "Citizens Survey"
Dr. Coulter,
In a recent City Council Info Packet, I saw your breakdown of demographics in the City's
"Citizens Survey" compared to U.S. Census data, and posted it on the Facebook group "Reform
the Johnson County Justice System." That topic revived recently, and some scrutiny of the full
report ensued. As your comparison reveals the significant racial disparities of the survey's
sample, and a lot of questions in the survey were relevant to the local justice system, we looked
at stuff related to economic disparities, which are of course related to the racial ones; one very
striking economic disparity is the percentage of home ownership. 91% of survey respondents live
in an owner- occupied household (p. 62), whereas U.S. census data shows that only 48.8% of the
I.C. population reported this. It's doubtful that selection bias (e.g. financially stable people more
likely to respond to the survey) alone could account for this huge disparity; obviously some
condition of the survey methodology was responsible for this.
Someone noticed on page 84 of the survey that "City of Iowa City officials were concerned
about the large number of students in the City. Therefore, they opted to provide their own list
from which the sample was obtained." Fair enough, by their own admission they didn't want
students participating in the survey. No details pertaining how City staff went about excluding
students, but whatever method of exclusion was used, it was pretty effective, since only 5% of
respondents reported being U of I students. However, that's not the problem you pointed to, and
it appears to me that the method of exclusion may have had some effect in the extreme
disparities your data show.
A map of survey recipients was provided on page 85 of the full report; however, it was
conspicuously lacking in detail; the map background is merely a blue background, with dots
indicating the survey recipients, with no useful detail such as street locations. Useless, in and of
itself, because of the total lack of detail in the background. It occurred to me that it would be
easy to make that image semi - transparent, and paste and align it to a real map. So I did that,
aligning it with a map of neighborhood zones. There are minor spacial distortions of one or both
maps, but the result is accurate enough to get a picture of the alleged "random" distribution of the
recipients of the survey:
Noticing a large number of "dead zones" with few or no recipients, I then did a visual
comparison of this map with Goo leg 's hybrid satellite /street may of Iowa City (zoom in, and
move around a lot, an informal visual comparison of these maps will be arduous). I may have
better visual comparison skills than most people, so one might not be convinced by this evidence
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alone. What this shows (to me) is that quite a number of "dead zones" on this map correspond to
areas with housing where low income people are likely to reside: trailer parks, large apartment
complexes, and areas with a high density of rental housing. And let's remember that this map of
dots is a map of recipients of the survey, not respondents, so points to deliberate manipulation of
the sample. I conclude that since City staff elected to grant themselves the luxury of excluding
whoever they wanted, they elected to disproportionately exclude low income people.
Some specific areas of systematic exclusion I've identified so far:
-Bon Aire Mobile Home Court
- Hilltop Mobile Home Court
- Forest View Mobile Home Court
-the large apartment buildings around Lakeside and Highway 6 (where "them Black people from
Chicago" live, as local white racists are prone to say)
-large apartment complexes in the vicinity of Benton and Melrose
-and obviously, the rental neighborhoods in the vicinity of downtown
I think there are many more excluded zones than what I've identified so far. Thank you for your
efforts at debunking this remarkably bogus "survey." I have yet to see any official reaction to the
questions you raise, but that's not at all surprising. Maybe we need an inquisition to discover the
precise methods used by City staff to exclude lower income people from this survey; to me, it's
pretty obvious that they were in fact systematically silenced.
Memo originally sent in December 19 Information Packet
CITY OF IOWA CITY
MEMORANDUM
Date: December 19, 2013
To: Tom Markus, City Manager h
From: Simon Andrew, Administrative Analyst �..I
Re: 2013 National Citizen SurveyTM
This memo is in regards to the Iowa City 2013 National Citizen SurveyTm and the rationale
behind using utility accounts as the basis for the sampling frame.
First it is important to recognize that because this survey sampled only utility account
households, it is not meant to be, nor was it used as, a definitive snapshot of the perceptions of
Iowa Citians as a whole. Rather, it is one piece of a large puzzle that includes, but is of course
not limited to, input from boards and commissions, the ad hoc diversity committee
recommendations, neighborhood and community organizations, various planning documents,
Council meeting public comments, staff, and other department- specific surveys.
Each of the sampling frames staff considered had advantages and drawbacks. Many of the
same addresses that were left out of the utility account sampling frame were also not included in
the USPS mailing list. These include dormitories, assisted living facilities, and other group living
quarters. Mobile home parks, with the exception of Baculis, have individual utility accounts and
thus were represented in both sampling frames. Similarly, the vast majority of multifamily units
have individual utility accounts and were also included in the sampling frame.
Furthermore, the large number of questions in the survey that are specific to City utility services
made utility account - holding households a logical frame to consider. Given the number of
dormitory/group living quarters represented in neither frame, utility accounts were deemed more
useful. Registered voter roles and telephone lists are also frequently used as sampling frames;
both are also prone to selection bias. The 2011 Iowa City survey used a telephone sampling
method.
Another factor that was considered was the overall response rate. The timing of the survey's
distribution gave rise to the concern that the potentially large number of empty student
apartments would drive down the response rate to the point that the survey would be neither a
useful assessment of utility account holders nor the City as a whole. Using utility accounts
allowed the minimization of vacant addresses.
The large number of Iowa Citians that aren't represented in any of the sampling frames
considered made demographic weighting undesirable. Even using a USPS mailing list that
excludes dormitories /group living quarters could make the sampling frame deviate from census
data substantially, making weighted results questionable. Rather than attempting to generate a
survey that manipulates statistical data in order to broadly characterize the City as a whole, staff
thought it better to present a more specific survey of utility account holders. Ultimately, while
the survey does not characterize the perceptions of the City as a whole, it does represent the
opinions of over 500 utility customers in an identical format simultaneously. Though not used to
represent the City in its totality, staff believes that it is useful as a piece of public input to be
considered as one among many.
Marian Karr 2f(6)
From: Mike Carberry <mikecarberry@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:23 PM
To: Council
Subject: Fwd: Please either slow down or cancel the Fiberight deal
Attachments: Fiberight Iowa City Council.docx; trash incineration factsheet.pdf
This is a bad deal for Iowa City. I am concerned about the effect on the City in many area including financial
risk, jobs, recycling but my professional expertise is the environment, so that is my main concern. Please see the
attached documents.
Mike Carberry
2029 Friendship St.
Iowa City IA 52245
319 -594 -6453
mikecarberry_gemail.com
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
Fiberight: Right for Iowa City & the Environment?
Waste to Energy or Waste of Energy?
• Trash to Ethanol (Trashanol) Process New & Unproven
Do we want Iowa City & Marion to be the Guinea Pigs?
• Financially and Environmentally Risky
Ethanol has a bad financial & environmental history and getting worse. Not
commercially viable without massive Federal Subsidies which are on the chopping block
or have already been axed. Who holds the bag if this deal goes bad?
• Trashanol uses risky GMO's
Genetically Modified Enzymes that melt all organic matter used in process. A Bio-
Hazard if released, leaked or stolen. Do we want to risk it?
• Trashanol is Dirty and Polluting
Municipal Solid Waste's carbon footprint is the dirtiest of all ethanol feedstocks
including sewage sludge and automobile tires. Can't we do better?
• Burning Trashanol contributes to Global Warming
Iowa City has experienced two 100 year floods in the last 20 years that have been fueled
by the burning of fossil fuels. Do we really want our land -fill waste to exacerbate the
problem of Climate Change?
• Many new Waste Streams with Trashanol
Iowa already has the worst water quality in the country thanks to industrial agriculture
and its lust for Corn Based Ethanol. Do we really want to add to these problems with all
the additional waste water and other waste from this process?
• There are Better Alternatives
Upstream solutions exist that find the Highest & Best Use for our solid waste. Zero
Waste Plans divert over 90% of solid waste from going into the land -fill and are working
in communities like Austin, TX and Oakland, CA. Can't Iowa City be added to this list?
• Too Many Questions, Not Enough Answers
Need to slow the process down, ask the right questions, get the correct answers, get more
expert and public opinion and the move forward only if it is prudent.
Mike Carberry — Green State Solutions — 319.594.6453 — mikecarberry @gmail.com
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Incineration 101
Municipal solid waste (trash) incineration
is the most expensive and polluting way
to manage waste or to make energy.
Only 11.7% of U.S. trash in the U.S. is
incinerated. The rest is recycled, composted
or landfilled.
Incineration is a dirty word, and industry
knows it, so they use other terms to make
it sound good, like resource recovery, trash -
to- steam, waste -to- energy and energy from
waste. All of these terms are untruthful and
misleading. The most aggressive in arguing
that they are not incinerators are specific
types of incinerators using technologies
known as gasification, pyrolysis and plasma
arc. In the U.S. and in the European Union,
these technologies are legally defined
and regulated as incinerators. They share
the same fundamental problems with
conventional incinerators, but they operate
in two stages, first turning the waste into a
gas, then burning it, letting the companies
pretend that they aren't actually incinerating
(burning) the waste itself.
In reality, incinerators are waste -OF-
energy facilities. Incinerators destroy
resources that are better reused. If the same
materials burned in trash incinerators were
recycled or composted, they would save
3 -5 times more energy than incinerators
can make from burning them, since raw
materials don't need to be extracted and
produced all over again. Most of the energy
in materials, like paper, was spent making
them, but is not physically present in the
paper itself.
FACT SHEET
Trash Incineration ( "Waste -to- Energy ")
www.energyjustice.net /incineration/
Not Renewable
Incineration is not renewable energy. While
many state renewable energy laws count
it as renewable energy, municipal waste
is non - renewable, consisting of discarded
materials such as paper, plastic and glass
that are derived from finite natural resources
such as forests that are being depleted
at unsustainable rates. Burning these
materials creates a demand for "waste"
and discourages much - needed efforts to
conserve resources, reduce packaging
and waste and encourage recycling
and composting.
Environmental Racism
Incinerators are an environmental racism
issue. Incinerators for trash, hazardous
waste, sewage sludge and other types of
waste are typically located in communities
of color and low- income communities. At
least with hazardous waste facilities, race
is more of a factor than class, so it's not
just that people of color tend to live in
low- income communities. Some are located
in relatively affluent communities of color.
Dirtier Than Coal
To make the same amount of energy,
burning trash pollutes the air far more than
burning coal, even though incinerators are
generally newer and have more air pollution
controls than coal power plants. Trash
incinerators release 28 times as much dioxin
air pollution than coal, about six times
more lead and mercury, 3.2 times more
nitrogen oxides (NO), 2.5 times as much
carbon dioxide (CO2), twice as much carbon
monoxide (CO) and 20% more sulfur dioxide
(S02).
Sometimes called "trash -to- steam"
plants, incinerators cannot turn trash into
mere water vapor, as there are all sorts of
elements in waste, not just hydrogen and
oxygen to make H2 (water). Trash contains
toxic metals like arsenic, lead and mercury,
halogens like chlorine that produce acid
gases and ultratoxic dioxins and furans
when burned, carbon, sulfur and nitrogen
compounds that form some of the above -
mentioned pollutants, and much more.
Incinerators are really "trash -to- toxic-
ash - and - toxic- air - pollution" facilities.
Imagine that you throw an old pen "away"
and it goes to a nearby landfill. There are
metals in the pen, some of which may be
toxic, as well as plastics and inks that may
be chlorinated. Buried in a landfill, it will
take a very long time before any of those
chemicals can reach you in a form that
you can breathe or drink. However, if that
pen were sent to an incinerator, any toxic
materials in the pen are instantly made
available for breathing and drinking through
a combination of air pollution and the toxic
ash produced, which still goes to a landfill,
but now can blow around and leach into
groundwater more readily. In addition to
making toxic elements more available,
burning creates new pollutants that weren't
there to begin with, including acid gases,
NOx, CO, COZ, SO,, dioxins and furans.
Incinerators, like nearly all facilities with
smokestacks, do not monitor what they
are putting into the air on a day -to -day
basis. Permits only tend to require three
pollutants — CO, N0, and SO, (none of
the toxic ones) — to be monitored on a
continuous basis. Several other pollutants
are tested once per year, many not at all.
Annual testing is like having a speed limit
where a speed trap is set just one day a year,
there are signs warning "speed trap ahead"
and the driver's brother runs the speed trap
(the companies do their own testing). In
reality, incinerators are "speeding" many
other days of the year, with excessive
emissions during startup, shutdown and
malfunction times, when testing is not done.
Incinerators do not replace landfills, but
require smaller, more toxic, landfills for their
ash. Any pollutants captured in air pollution
controls are added to the ash, so the cleaner
the air, the more toxic the ash. Ash is more
toxic than unburned trash because new
toxins were formed by burning, and since
existing toxins are more available. Think of
coffee beans vs. coffee grounds. Pour water
over beans and you won't get coffee, but
grind them up and increase their surface
area, pour water over them, and you get
coffee. Ash is similar in that its higher
surface area means more toxins can leach
out, polluting groundwater.
Health Effects
Incinerators are bad for people's health.
Studies have found, in communities around
incinerators:
• Increases in pre -term babies and babies
born with spina bifida or heart defects.
• Increased cancers, especially: larynx, lung,
colorectal, liver and stomach cancers,
leukemia (blood cancer), childhood
cancers, soft - tissue sarcoma and non-
Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Increased dioxins in the blood of
incinerator workers.
Most Expensive —
Bankruptcies and Bailouts
Studies done for U.S. Energy Information
Administration in 2010 and 2013 show
that trash incinerators are, by far, the most
expensive way to make energy. Even though
trash incinerators get paid to take their fuel,
they're the most expensive to build and
most expensive to operate and maintain
— even worse than nuclear and biomass.
They're nine times more expensive to build
than a conventional natural gas power plant
and 30 times more expensive to operate.
They even cost about twice as much to
build as solar and nearly four times as much
as wind.
Incineration is also far more expensive
than landfilling. It competes only by
locating in high - priced waste markets and
by locking local and county governments
into long -term monopoly contracts,
often with "put -or -pay" clauses. Such
clauses require that a certain amount of
waste be provided to the incinerator, or
the governments pay the full amount,
even if not providing enough waste. This
discourages waste reduction, recycling and
composting, because the community can't
save money by doing these things. It also
allows the incinerator company to fill that
extra capacity with waste from other places,
getting paid twice for the same capacity.
Expensive incinerators have driven some
local governments into bankruptcy. The most
spectacular examples have been Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania (the largest city bankruptcy
at the time, filed in 2011), and Claremont,
New Hampshire, where 29 towns filed for
bankruptcy due to "put -or -pay" contracts.
In other cases, massive bailouts have been
necessary, such as the $1.5 billion in state
bailouts for New Jersey's five incinerators,
and the $1.2 billion in debt payments at the
Detroit incinerator, contributing to that city's
bankruptcy. In most other cases, the expense
of incineration is covered other ways, such
as through hidden fees on property tax
assessments, by accepting more profitable
industrial wastes, and/or by cranking up
fees on the captive local community while
offering discounted waste disposal to
outlying areas to compete with landfills and
attract waste to meet capacity.
Incinerators are terrible ways to
produce jobs. For every 10,000 tons of
waste processed per year, incinerators and
landfills create one job, while recycling
facilities create 10 jobs and reuse,
remanufacturing and repairing materials
creates far more (20 -300 jobs depending
on the material). With a national recycling
rate of less than 33 %, the U.S. recycling
industries currently provide over 800,000
jobs. A national recycling rate of 75% would
create 1.5 million jobs.
Competition with Recycling
and Clean Energy
Incineration competes with waste reduction,
recycling and composting, both through its
contracts demanding a certain amount of
waste generation, and by virtue of the fact
that incinerators need recyclable materials,
like paper, tires, wood and plastics, to be
able to burn effectively. Within renewable
energy policies, incinerators (and landfills
that burn their gas for energy) often
get subsidized as renewable energy, but
recycling and composting do not. Burning
trash, "biomass" and landfill gas crowds out
wind power in renewable energy mandates.
CO2 Emissions
from U.S. Electric Power Plants
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The "Carbon - Neutral" Myth
While EPA data shows that trash
incineration is 2.5 times as bad as coal for
global warming (CO, pollution per amount
of energy produced), the industry pretends
that they're carbon negative! They pull
off this trick by comparing themselves to
methane emissions from landfills, and by
not counting the portion of emissions from
burning paper and other organic material.
Even if you don't count that "biogenic"
fraction of what is in waste, the CO,
emissions from the rest (plastics and such)
is still 55% worse than coal. However, the
"carbon neutral" myth has been repeatedly
busted in recent years, since it takes trees
centuries to suck all of the carbon back
up, even if trees were replanted and left to
grow for that long. It's true that landfills are
worse than incinerators for global warming,
but this can be avoided by keeping clean
compostable organics out of landfills,
and by digesting dirty organics before
landfilling them, so that their methane
can be contained and used for energy in a
cleaner way.
It Doesn't Work in Europe
Incinerator pushers like to point across
the ocean and claim that incineration
works in Europe and Japan, where they
rely heavily on incineration. Incinerators in
these countries are also very polluting, still
compete with recycling, and some European
countries have found themselves having to
import waste from neighboring countries
just to keep their incinerators fed with
enough waste to operate.
Real Solutions for
Energy and Waste
We can meet all of our electricity needs with
conservation, efficiency, wind, solar and
energy storage. Sometimes incinerators are
used for heating as well, but those needs
are best met with conservation, efficiency,
geothermal, air - source heat pumps and solar
hot water.
The "zero waste" alternative aims
to eliminate incinerators and cut use of
landfills by at least 90 %. Some communities,
especially San Francisco, are well on their
way. These solutions involve maximizing
source reduction, reuse, recycling and
composting. For whatever is left, it must be
examined to see what failed to get diverted
upstream, so products can be redesigned
or phased out. Any remainder should
go through mechanical and biological
treatment before landfilling to get out more
recyclables, and digest the remaining waste
first, avoiding gassy landfills and their global
warming impacts.
Energy Justice Network • Mike Ewall • 215- 436 -9511 • incineration@energyjustice.net • www. energyjustice.net/incineration/
Marian Karr
From:
Holden, Palmer J <pholden @iastate.edu>
Sent:
Thursday, December 19, 2013 7:19 PM
To:
Council
Subject:
Fiberight
I oppose using my tax dollars to contract with a business that has no functioning facility, only a pilot plant. Would you
buy a pig in a poke ? Neither would I. If it is so good let a private investor eat the losses.
Remember all of Obama's unproven green energy projects that were busts but cost taxpayers millions.
Dr. Palmer Holden
ISU Emeritus Prof.
15 Mary Court
Iowa City, IA 52245
515- 231 -5543
Marian Karr
From:
Dieterle, Caroline M <caroline- dieterle @uiowa.edu>
Sent:
Friday, December 20, 2013 2:33 PM
To:
Council
Subject:
Fiberight (Trash to ethanol) - BAD idea
To the City Council:
On Tuesday (12/17) I came to the Council's formal meeting and told you that the trash -to- ethanol process you
are contemplating (signing a contract for it) with Fiberight is a bad idea, if only for the wastage of water - a
resource we in Iowa cannot afford to waste. I promised to send you more information.
There are other environmentally destructive characteristics of the process besides water waste. Please consider
the information in the link below and DON'T sign Iowa City into this arrangement.
The process of converting municipal solid waste to ethanol is both water and chemically (feedstock) intensive,
and largely untested on a commercial scale.
Because solid waste is heterogeneous, efficient fermentation and other conversion will not occur without
significant processing, i.e. grinding, shredding, etc.
Rule #1 in solid waste management is that you want to handle the waste as few times as possible. Those
disposal or recycling technologies that involve multiple (logistical and process) steps are rarely cost effective.
For more information, see:
http://www.energyjustice.net/fuels/
- Caroline Dieterle
Marian Karr 2f(7)
From: Corey <corey @pniowacity.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:38 AM
To: Council
Subject: Foster Road Egress
To the Honorable Councilmembers from the City of Iowa City,
I have recently become aware of a push by residents of the Foster Road area of Iowa City to have a second road
put in place to provide egress during potential flooding. I would like to chime in with my support for this action.
It would be a great comfort to know that our homes would continue to be accessible during not only a flood
event but any other instance in which Foster Road may be temporarily blocked.
I understand that due to budgetary or land ownership issues, some options may be off the table, but urge that all
ideas be fully explored and vetted so that landowners and residents of one of Iowa City's most dynamic
neighborhoods be provided a level of repose when planning for the future.
Sincerely,
Corey Wilson
1451 Foster Road
Iowa City, IA 52245
Marian Karr
From: Paula Brandt <paulaobrandt @gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 9:05 AM
To: Council
Subject: Peninsula access
Dear Councilors - -This morning's Press Citizen had an article about a second access to the Peninsula. What most of us are
concerned about is flooding and being able to stay in our homes. Aside from one person who was quoted, I have not
spoken to anyone who supports anything but pedestrian /bicycle bridges across the Iowa River. The last thing we need is
to have Foster Road become a short cut between Coralville and 1 -80, or an alternative to 1 -80.
Our first concern is flooding and access to our homes. The simplest solution that has been proposed so far has been to
raise that small, low section of Foster that floods so that we can still drive up the hill to our homes and so emergency
vehicles could also get to the Peninsula. The long term second access solution seems to be with a road that would run
parallel from Forest View Mobile Home Court along 1 -80, turn south, and intersect with Foster at the top of the hill,
across from the entrance to the Elks Golf Course. These two proposals would, together, solve the problems of flooding
access and provide a second access in case of some other type of emergency. The Gateway Project would, for the most
part, take care of the problem of access to Iowa City. Access to Coralville is absolutely not an issue since, as long as we
can get down Foster and turn north on Dubuque St., we have access to 1 -80. The problem is that low flood prone section
of Foster Rd., the issue is not being able to get to shops and businesses in Coralville.
Best wishes,
Paula O. Brandt
67 White Oak PI
Iowa City 52245
354 -6948
Marian Karr
From:
Marian Karr
Sent:
Monday, December 30, 2013 11:22 AM
To:
Marian Karr
Subject:
FW: Peninsula Iowa City Secondary Access
Dear Esteemed Council Members,
My name is Amy Pretorius and I am a resident at 670 Walker Circle in the Peninsula Neighborhood. I am also
the Assistant Project Manager at the Peninsula Development Company and have been so for the last 4 years. I have
recently met with a group of people that represent different area neighborhoods within the Iowa City Peninsula on Foster
Rd. As of recent we are; The Peninsula Neighborhood, Mackinaw Village, Elk Run, White Oak, and Elk's Golf
Course. We have come together with one single motive, to have a second way out of our subdivisions in the event of a
flood similar to that of 2008. It would be impossible I am sure to find one common solution that all would fully support,
because of this it is our intention to simply ask you the City Council for the answer. I plan to support any solution given,
even though it may not be one I have already considered, and ask others to do the same. I understand launching an idea
onto a platform is only the first challenge and supporting an idea and seeing it through will be the last. The only thing that
I do not think would be acceptable is any solution that is not in the near future, even 5 years may be too long to wait. As a
resident I fear losing access to my home for any period of time, and the flood of 2013 was a recent reminder of this
potential. If Foster Rd. did in fact flood again, the question is not only where would I live, but would my home and my
neighbors homes be safe from vandalism?
Perhaps more than a typical resident of this area am I reminded of the flood potential and lack of access to the
Peninsula. Almost every time when talking to potential future residents, they ask "what happens when Iowa City
floods ?" I quickly remind them that the Peninsula Neighborhood itself is high on a bluff approximately 50 feet above the
river, but I reluctantly inform them access can be lost and in the past the neighborhood was evacuated. I have learned that
certain real - estate firms in the area refuse to show homes here because it does not have secondary access. I believe even
with this handicap we have been able to successfully sell homes, but surely not at the speed first anticipated by my
company or the City of Iowa City. My company has battled many issues in the building of the Peninsula Neighborhood
subdivision, and though the lack of secondary access is not the only issue, it is still a very large one. Many other issues
we have learned how to overcome, but this one we cannot do without your help. As we prepare to launch our much
anticipated commercial building this spring I only hope the businesses that choose to come here thrive and meet
success. A future flood event may have potential to completely devastate these.small commercial businesses in addition
to the residential component of this area.
Lastly, I want to thank you for your time listening and perhaps acting on this issue. If I can be of help in
anyway please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Amy Pretorius
Assistant Project Manager
Peninsula Development
(319) - 887 -1000
amy@pniowacity.com
THE PENINSUTA
NEIGHBORHOOD
DECEMBER 20, 2013
TO: IOWA CITY COUNCIL &
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MUNICIPAL BUILDING
410 E. WASHINGTON ST
IOWA CITY, IA 52240
FROM: H. ERNEST LUND, RETIRED
2423 WALDEN ROAD
APARTMENT 110
IOWA CITY, IA 52246
felund @yahoo.com
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ENCLOSED ARE PHOTOS OF THE WALDEN PLACE THAT SHOWS THE
SIDEWALKS - BOTH ON THE PROPERTY & CITY WALKS ADJOINING. I AM
REQUESTING A SIDEWALK EXTENSION FROM WALDEN'S SIDEWALK TO THE CITY
WALK THAT RUNS ADJACENT ALONG MORMON TREK BLVD. RESIDENTS
THAT LIVE ON THE SIDE, THAT FACES MORMON TREK, MUST TRAVERSE THE
PROPERTY TO THE ACCESS AT WALDEN ROAD TO ENABLE THEM TO USE THE
CITY SIDEWALK THAT IS ALONG MORMON TREK. THIS IS A LONG WAY WITH A
WALKER &/OR WHEELCHAIR. A SHORT EXTENSION (SHOWN ON THE COPY "B ")
WOULD ALLEVIATE THIS SITUATION.
WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO INCLUDE THIS IN YOUR 2014 PROJECTS?
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I have reviewed your request for the City to build a sidewalk connection between the public sidewalk
along Mormon Trek Boulevard and the private sidewalk around the Walden Place building.
Unfortunately, the sidewalk you request in your letter is a private sidewalk extension and construction
of this sidewalk would be the responsibility of the property owner. I recommend you discuss this with
the property manager of Walden Place.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at (319)356 -5138.
Sincerely,
Ronald R. Knoche, PE
City Engineer
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JERRY BOKASSA,On Behalf of Himself
And ALL Others Simimilary Situated.
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Iowa City Low- Income Home building
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Others to be amended in later.
Defendant
JURY TRIAL REQUESTED..
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I, JERRY BOKASSA,Declare as follows:
1. The placement of these people from America "s Slums in Iowa City,Iowa.
Or any where outside there home towns with out regards to other
Americans safety is a Crime in it self. After spending long periods
In America's prison systems to place them in a place like Iowa City,
Iowa is like placing a FOX in a chicken COOP.There is no intent of
Changing there Criminal mind set.Life time of criminal act that
Comtinue's in Iowa City.
There for it should be the responsibility of those who are paying
There RENT,ELECTRIC and WATER BILLS Bills to also PAY for there
CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR. With out WELFARE assistance thay could not live
Here and only in AMERICA'S SLUMS.
I am asking the court for an injunction to STOP ALL FINANCIAL
Payments of RENT,ELETRIC AND WATER BILLS Until The VICTEM's Like
Me Are PAID Or Settlement made.
Be for WE have a mass shooting or-- Gne--of-3.QWA CITY POLICE OFFICER'S Is
KILLED during a routine car stop.
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December 31, 2013
Dear City Council,
I urge the City of Iowa City to apply for the designation as a Walking Friendly Community
(http: / /www.walkfriendly.o[g). According to US Community census data about one in six people in Iowa
City use walking as a form of transportation which ranks us in the top ten cities nationally. Along with
bicycling, becoming walking friendly would move our community towards the City Council's stated goal
of enhancing environmental friendliness. Becoming walking friendly would be consistent with the goals
of the Chamber of Commerce's Blue Zone Project which kicks -off in 2014, and the goal of the Downtown
Association's recent Inspire Downtown initiative to make itself walkable. Making Iowa City walking
friendly would have market appeal to population demographics such as millennials and baby boomers
who would reside in the new River Crossing area which is within a mile of the entire downtown business
area.
There is no fee to submit the application, and the evaluation provides significant free expert input
towards meeting all of the civic goals mentioned above. Walking friendly communities enhance the
quality of life, provide significant economic benefit to the community and appeal to "creative" class
professionals.
I encourage the council to embrace this challenge.
Sincerely,
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Bob Qppliger
1928 Delwood Dr.
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MEMORANDUM
Date: December 26, 2013
To: City Clerk
From: Kris Ackerson; Acting Traffic Engineering Planner
Re: Item for January 7, 2014 City Council meeting — prohibit parking near alley entrance
on east side of 10 -block of Valley Avenue
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), prohibit parking twenty feet south of the alley intersecting on
the east side of the 10 -block of Valley Avenue.
Comment:
This action is being taken to improve visibility for westbound motorists exiting the alley onto
Valley Avenue.