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Welcome everyone to City Hall. We have . limited amount of time here, / let's move
right in. First item, questions regarding agenda items. Terry, you and I will be sitting out
Item 6 on the SSMID. Hope you brought some cigars.
Throgrnorton/ Matt, on Item 6, uh, I wonder if we could make sure that Wendy and maybe
Nancy Bird, if she's here, clearly describe + being requested for
and ... and um, maybe for, uh, explaining why the completion of the ordinance should be
done before the end of the year. I'm sure they can explain this, but just like to hear it.
Mims/ Yep!
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session190tchway/ I had 4 ... I had 4f(2), um ... that, it's just a kind of a question. Is there any way we can
just change that in the future? To make sure that doesn't fall on a game day or
(mumbled) Halloween (speaking away from mic)
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Mims/ Won't happen for a few years.
Dobyns/ You know ... are you talking about Halloween?
Dobyns/ Yeah, it really wasn't that bad. Um, I mean I think that people just delayed about a half
hour and we actually had more trick -or -treaters. I know my, uh, daughter lives in
University Heights and they did it the day before and that was really confusing. Um, so it
actually didn't turn out nearly as badly as I thought it would, so....
Markus/ I think they made the call a little late too.
Botchway/ Yeah!
Markus/ As to the time of the game. So ... lot of people have parties scheduled and things to do
(mumbled) so ... it's kind of hard to make that call, but ... it's good to hear it wasn't
impactful.
Dobyns/ Yeah. (mumbled) the parking, uh, which is saturated around my house, it cleared
completely by the time the trick -or -treaters came. So...
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agendaHayek/ Other • - on appointments. we --
commissions for which - need to make appointments
Rights Commission. There are three vacancies.
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Mims/ Oh, Rick! (laughter)
Throgmorton/ Well, yeah (laughter) you can laugh at me too, Susan, cause I ... that's what I had in
mind also, Rick. Um...
Botchway/ I had Eliza, um, Joe, and ... Adil ... Adel?
Karr/ Adil.
Botchway/ Adil. Besher as well.
Throgmorton/ So I ... Andrea ... Andrea Cohen was on the ... the commission for a year or something
like that?
Karr/ Right, and then she resigned because she thought she was moving from the community.
Throgmorton/ Right, and ... and, but now she's ... she didn't really move. Now she's here and she'd
like to be on the commission for a full term, right?
Mims/ I just was impressed with Eliza Jane Willis, um, I mean some of the work she does at
Grinnell is .... is working in terms of, uh, increasing diversity of their faculty and stuff,
and so I thought it ... in terms of the female, uh, position, I thought she was ... uh, was a
strong candidate.
Hayek/ I think ... I think Eliza would be a strong candidate. I think Andrea would, you know,
would be a strong candidate. I like the concept of Mr. Adams. He's, urn ... been before
us, urn ... and hasn't gone well for him. The recourse he has requested hasn't ... we just
haven't been able to help him, uh, and I'm glad to see him, you know, try to get involved.
(several talking)
Botchway/ (speaking away from mic) ...Adol and, uh, Adil, just simply that I was worried
that ... and I don't know this to be the case. I guess I could have called him, but I was just
worried that if it was self-interest that guided, um, him coming onto the commission then
it would steer the commission fo... not to say it would steer the entire commission but it
would be focused on just that particular interest and I was worried about that point, but I
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don't know ... it wasn't obviously in the record that he would state that, but um, I also
didn't call him and ask him as well, so...
Hayek/ Yeah.
Botchway/ ...a concern that carne up that made me choose between... choose the other person.
Mims/ Yeah, I guess I didn't worry about that too much because, I mean, the commission has
such a broad ... um ... I'm drawing a blank here, but I mean their ... what's under their
purview is so broad, urn ... I mean with all the various things that they do, I ... I guess I just
didn't see the ... the personal issues that he had had as being a problem with him being on
that commission, and again, I guess I was kind of looking at it maybe from the same
perspective that Matt just mentioned, is you know, he's been here, he's been involved,
um ... so I just ... I looked at it in that regard.
Hayek/ Yeah, I think, I mean, I ... I like your instincts on that. I think that particular issue is so
unique it doesn't give me concern, and he ... he has a leadership position within the
Sudanese community, um ... and uh... I think that's relevant. The other guy's only been
here a year, year and a half. Um ... they'd probably both be fine, but ... well, let's (several
talking)
Karr/ (mumbled) (noises on mic)
Throgmorton/ So is ... is Nadell Besher female?
Karr/ Yes.
Throgmorton/ Yeah, so we have ... have four to ... four women to choose from.
Hayek/ All right, well let's ... are we in agreement with Joe Coulter? (several talking) Are we in
agreement (several talking and laughing) between Andrea and uh, and Eliza? (several
talking) Everybody okay with that? Enough...
Throgmorton/ Good reasons to do it, yeah.
Hayek/ Okay. And then the third spot?
Botchway/ I mean I ... just based on Susan's comments, I'm ... I'm fine with Adil. That's fine. That
makes sense.
ITEM 16d Parks and Recreation Conmiission
Hayek/ People okay with that? (several talking) Okay! Coulter, Adams, uh, Willis. 16, uh, d,
Parks and Rec. We have two vacancies for that spot. Uh, requirement one female, one
none ... as in no requirement. (laughter)
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Throgmorton/ Glad you clarified that, Matt! Uh, I ... well I'd support reappointing Joe Younker
and Cara Hamann.
Mims/ I would agree.
Payne/ Yes!
Hayek/ Okay, then the third is Senior Center Commission. We have two vacancies.
Mims/ Two applicants.
Throgniorton/ Yeah, I ... I'd support .... I'd support both of 'em!
Botchway/ Yeah.
Hayek/ Okay! All right.
Botchway/ I had one issue with it. Is there any way, and maybe this is something we couldn't do.
Maybe this is specific to the Human Rights (mumbled) should have read a little bit more,
but could we get the same type of attachment, um, that's with the Human Rights
Commission members ... with the other members?
Karr/ We are looking at, um ... standardizing the application form. We are looking at those issues
right now.
Botchway/ Okay!
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Hayek/ Info Packets. We have three. First one is October
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Botchway/ (mumbled)
Hayek/ We're into December here, so we ... might want to look at those four dates real quickly.
Anybody, uh, do December 9t"?
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Dickens/ I'll do December 16th. Fun birthday present! (laughs)
Botchway/ I can do the 9th
Hayek/ I can do the 30th, I think.
Karr/ So Botchway's the 9111, 16th is Dickens.
Dickens/ Yep!
Hayek/ I'll do the 30th
Karr/ And 30th is Hayek, and we have the 23rd then.
Hayek/ As my outgoing act I'm going to announce a whole bunch of pardons on the radio!
(laughter)
Dickens/ Start with me! (laughter)
Payne/ Let me go get my, um, cell phone with my work schedule.
Hayek/ Okay! Uh... anything else from that Info Packet?
Karr/ You also have the Friday ones, when she gets back. You have a couple Fridays
November 20th and December 18th,
Hayek/ Oh, sorry!
Throgmorton/ What are the dates?
Karr/ December ... I'm sorry, for the Fridays, November 20th and December 18th,
Botchway/ I can do November 2e.
Throgmorton/ I could probably do December 18.
Karr/ November 20th is Botchway? And December 18th ... is ... Throgmorton.
Throgmorton/ What time do we have to be there, uh, 4:30?
Karr/ It's 7:15 to 7:45 ... um, and the intent of that is to be live. As opposed to the potential of the
Wednesdays being prerecorded.
Throgmorton/ Good grief! How have y'all done this? Oh! Well, Rick's done it (several talking)
Dobyns/ What's that?
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Dobyns/ Yeah, I get there at 5:00 but Jay (mumbled) (laughter and talking)
Hayek/ Do you need any others?
Karr/ Um, December 23rd
Payne/ And I'm on vacation.
Karr/ Okay, so we still need December 23rd if we can. If not I'll bring it back, but it'll be a week
before. The 9th, we've go the 9th is Botchway, the 16th is Dickens, the 30th is Hayek. We
can go with a prerecorded. I could see about ... if he's interested (several talking)
Botchway/ I can do that. If it's prerecorded. (mumbled)
Hayek/ Go for it!
Karr/ I'll check. Okay, and I'll let you know.
Hayek/ Okay! Anything else on the October 22nd packet? October 29th packet?
Mims/ Just the cycle -cross event sounds pretty interesting, so you're going to get ready to make a
trip! Or...
Markus/ Next week. Yeah.
Mims/ Good, and then the ... two, IP3 and IP4, the, uh... police killings and uh, presidential task
force on 21 St century policing. Just appreciate those being in there and the information.
(several talking)
Payne/ IP6 was the listening post that Rick and I went to. Um ... I don't know if anybody had any
questions, but there was only three people ... who came and talked, but there was quite a
few items that they talked about.
Hayek/ Uh huh.
Payne/ I think the biggest one was ... that we probably wanted some follow up on was the snow
removal one. Rick, do you agree?
Dobyns/ Yes. Yeah. And that was, uh, that's something Michelle and I have heard a lot of other
people talk about, as well. Um ... and ... even more so than, I mean, everyone always talks
about snow removal, um ... so that's (mumbled) we can bring up when we talk about like,
um, budgetary items or strategic plans going forward, but I think that's, uh... uh, you know
the sense I've had is that the City, um, you know, it'll be interesting to see how those
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decisions are made in terms of how much money to put into it. Um ... and so I think that
was a ... an area of very broad discussion, not just in the listening post.
Hayek/ Okay. Let's go to the final ... Info Packet, November 5th
Throgmorton/ I don't know if I misread it, but it seemed to me that, uh, the ... October 15th
meeting, minutes of the October 15th meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission
appeared in both this packet and the one before it.
Payne/ I thought so too.
Throgmorton/ I don't know if ..if it was identical but...
Payne/ And I looked at 'em and I thought they both said "preliminary" too. One wasn't the final.
Throgmorton/ Yeah.
Karr/ I'll look! We haven't received the final yet (mumbled) Okay, I'll look. Thank you!
Council Time / Meeting Schedule:
Hayek/ Anything else? Council time and meeting schedule. Um, the meeting schedule's at IP 1
on that November 5th Info Packet. We've got our, uh... uh... work session meeting,
strategic planning and orientation on Monday the 30th. At ... at Ashton House, and then
we've got one final meeting in December. Any other Council time?
Throgmorton/ Think I'd like to mention one thing, Matt. I ... I had the opportunity to attend the
Friends of Historic Preservation's 40th anniversary, uh, event at Old Brick. Uh, it was
really fun. Uh, a substantial number of people there and it reminded me that my ... my
cousin Janet was married there 57 years ago. So ... pretty cool.
iT�cominCornanunity Events / Council Invitations:
Hayek/ Well and Old Brick is the symbol of the ... birth of historic preservation in many respects,
given how it came about to be saved. Okay! Pending work session topics, IP3. And
upcoming... events. All right. That was a....16 -minute (laughter)
Throgmorton/ That was a record! (laughter)
Hayek/ All right, unless there's anything else we'll end the work session. We'll come back in a
few minutes for our formal at 7:00! Thank you!
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