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Home My WebLink About2018-05-01 Transcription Page 1 Item 1. Call to Order Item la Roll Call Throgmorton: (bangs gavel) I'd like to call to order the regular formal meeting of the Iowa City City Council for the l51 of May, 2018. Roll call please. I'd like to announce for the, uh, a topic that will interest some of you. Item 6a, some of you may have come for. It's concerning the rezoning of property along Prairie Du Chien. So we're gonna defer our, uh, we're continue our public hearing to May the 15th and defer our first consideration or first vote on it, until May 15th. If any, uh, we're gonna open the public hearing tonight, so if anybody wants to speak at the public hearing, they should feel free to do so, but we're not gonna have staff make a formal presentation, you know, we typically do. That formal presentation will be made on the 15th and people will be able to speak at the public hearing on May the 15th as well. So....I just want ya to know. You don't have to stay around for the Item 6a if that's what you're here for. You can if you want to, but you don't have to. All right, let's turn to Item 2. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 2 Item 2. Student Leadership Awards Item 2a Grant Wood Throgmorton: So we have two students receiving awards tonight—Brody Elgen...Elgin and Kendra Schwarting from Grant Wood Elementary. So, Brody and Kendra, could you come up please? (several talking in background) So why don't ya back up here with me, okay? All right! So....congratulations to both of you....for receiving awards, uh, out of Grant Wood Elementary, terrific elementary school. What grades are ya in? Elgin: Sixth. Schwarting: Sixth. Throgmorton: Yeah, good deal! All right, so....in a second I'm gonna ask you, Kendra, to read your.....uh, speech, which you've already practiced, I know cause we talked about it out front. And then I'll ask Brody to read his speech, and then I'm gonna read one time I'll read the Student Leadership Award cause it says the same thing,just has your name in yours and your name in yours. Okay? So, Kendra, why don't we start with you! Schwarting: My name is Kendra Schwarting. I am in Mr. Glenn's class at Grant Wood Elementary. I would like to thank Mr. Glenn for choosing me for this award, and my family for helping me become an outstanding student citizen. Here are the reasons that I was chosen for this award. I am in the strong girls' reading club that meets every Friday after school. I'm also part of the anthem choir at school that meets every Friday before school, and performs throughout the community. I am part of the UAY Grant Wood Art Club. In the classroom I'm a team leader and a banker. I am a part of the Iowa Gymnasts Excel Team. I'm a part of the sixth through eighth grade confirmation group at our Redeemer Lutheran Church. I am also a pitcher in the Iowa City Girls Softball league. Last but not least, I am part of the youth bowling league at Colonial Lanes. Finally, I'd like to thank the Iowa City City Council for the honor of rep....representing my peers at Grant Wood Elementary School. (applause) Throgmorton: Wow! (applause continues) Wow, that is an impressive list! You're doin' great! Thanks! All right, Brody, your turn. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 3 Elgin: Hi, my name is Brody Elgin and I am honored to win this award. I very much enjoy being an outstanding student at Grant Wood Elementary. Some of the traits of our school students are responsibility and cooperation. I show these well because I take part in what my class and (can't hear) team are doing. I keep and actually use my school planner. At home I show responsibility and cooperation a lot because I have a little brother. You know what that means! I'm a role model as a sixth grader in school and as a....and as an older brother at home. I love learning because I want to have knowledge and wisdom about things. I also find joy in helping people because it's the respectful and kind thing to do. In class I am known....in baseball as the utility player. That means I took it upon myself to learn all of the class jobs, and when someone is absent I step right in. No training needed! For these reasons and more are why I am happy to win this award. I would like to thank the Mayor, the City Council, and my teacher, Miss Grigsby, for nominating me. (applause) Throgmorton: All right! (applause continues) Well done! Oh fun! You're doin' great work too, Brody, but I gotta tell ya, I'm a younger brother so I don't know (laughter) You ....you sounded a bit like my older brother there. Anyhow,keep up the great work! All right, so....I'm gonna read the Leadership Award and it's the same thing, you know, same text for both of ya. So....(reads Student Leadership Award) So, Kendra, here's yours. (both talking in background) And, Brody, this is yours. Can you take that off for me? Thanks. (talking in background) Okay, so, proud parents, where are you? Right down there, right over there. Well done. You're doin' a great job as parents. Thanks so much, and I'm really pleased to be able to hand out these awards tonight. So, you have things to do tonight, I'm sure. You better get on with it and have a great evening. Y'all have a great evening too. (applause) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 4 Item 3. Proclamations Item 3a Bike to Work Week Throgmorton: We have three proclamations to read tonight. The first concerns Bike to Work Week! I biked to work today. (makes noise) (reads proclamation) So I think we have two people who are gonna accept this proclamation, Larry Fitzpatrick and Anne Duggan. Larry, Ann! (applause) Ann, maybe....Larry, could you come up and receive that. Ann, you can go ahead and talk. Duggan: Okay! Well thanks for putting me after those kids from Grant Wood (laughter) ....great. As the older sister, I totally get what (laughter) Um, anyway, thank you for the Bike to Work Week proclamation. We've been working....we do work all year as bike advocates, and then when the spring starts rolling around, we start planning a month of events, which are really highlighted by a whole...the Bike to Work Week right in the middle. Um, the....we really want to thank you. I want to thank the City staff for being such big supporters of active transportation. I think that means a lot in our community. Uh, now that spring has sprung, we're, uh, seeing more bicyclists on the road. We had our first big event of the year last weekend with the Old Capitol Criterion, which brought in people from around the region. It was tons of fun. We're gonna have RAGBRAI for the first time in 42 years, and the World Cup Cyclocross, which was, uh, deemed the best one of all the World Cup events will be back again this fall. Uh, in between those times, and those are clearly the highlights, we also have people who ride to work, uh, who ride to school. We have, uh, children and adults who are learning how to ride bikes and it's important for our community to continue to have accommodations for them to make it a civilized place where people aren't afraid to ride. Uh, the City support of all this was....is shown with its,uh, adoption of the master plan lat fall, and I think we're gonna see some really great changes and I want to thank you all for that as well. Uh, last year's bike month, which, uh, had 30-some events on it had cyclists from pre-schools to people in their 80s, and it was really quite fun, and this really is due to your support. So, thank you again and with... with your support we'll just keep things rolling! Throgmorton: Thank you, Anne. (applause) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 5 Item 3. Proclamations Item 3b Municipal Clerks Week Throgmorton: (reads proclamation) Do we have anybody here to accept this (laughter) (applause) Thanks for the great work that you and others in your office do, Kellie. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 6 Item 3. Proclamations Item 3c Project Green Month Throgmorton: (reads proclamation) So we have I think four people here to accept this proclamation—Cindy Parsons, Diane Allen, Jim Maynard, and Laura Hawks. (applause) Hi, Cindy, nice to see you. (talking in background) Maynard: Mayor Throgmorton and Members of the Council, on behalf of Nancy Seiberling, Gretchen Harshbarger, past presidents Emilie Rubright and uh, Anne Heche, and our current president, uh, presidents Cole...or Cindy Parsons and uh, Diane Allen, uh, I would like to thank you for recognizing Project GREEN and also on behalf of the hundreds and perhaps even thousands of volunteers that have worked with Project GREEN over the years. As part of, uh, our 50-year celebration that we are having this year with various events, I would like to also announce that Project GREEN will during the course of the year furnish and plant 50 large specimen quality trees on the Ashton House grounds to enhance the appearance and....and visitors' experience on the site, and over time they will demonstrate the....the.... the appearance and quality that you could achieve when you're dealing with a flood plain planting, or near flood plain planting environment. Parsons: And I'm Cindy Parsons and Jim didn't mention, but he is one of our original founders, from 50 years ago, so we are (applause) thrilled to have him still with us. (applause continues) And then also here with us is Laura Hawks, who prepared....she's our landscape architect, and she's the one who prepared the annual report that's in the (both talking) Throgmorton: Great annual report! Parsons: ....so.... Throgmorton: Thank you. Parsons: ....that's who we are! And, um....if there's.....if there's any questions or anything about the annual report we could stay around or.....if it's fine then it's fine. So.... but we're....we're thrilled to continue this partnership with the City. It's been strong for 50 years, and we hope it's strong for another 50 years! So....thank you! (several talking) Throgmorton: Keep up the great work! It's really beautiful work. (applause) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 7 Item 5. Community Comment(items not on the agenda) [until 8 pm] Throgmorton: So....anybody who would like to discuss any topic that's not on the formal meeting agenda should feel free to come up now and speak. Please don't take more than five minutes, and when you come up, please state your name. Good evening,Nick! Theisen: Nicholas Theisen. I live at 1240 Esther Court. Just give me a second, got my sticker. Barn! Good evening once again, cowards of City Council! Two more weeks you've sat on your hands. Congratulations, but....I actually wanna talk about something a little different first. Urn, today being May Day, I would like someone to recognize the fact that today is International Workers' Day, a day that commemorates the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, a day that honors the socialists and trade unionists who've made sure there are labor laws at all in this country. The people who gave you the weekend, the 8-hour work day. The people who literally bled so that we don't have to be ground into the ground just to work for our overlords, but you know, that's one thing. The second thing I want to address is a little shade that was thrown in my direction at the previous City Council meeting. I'm fully aware of when the 2019 election is. I'm also fully aware of the fact that it is a year and a half from now, which gives you all a year and a half to actually think about what your legacy is going to be. Now, I can guarantee you that if you're annoyed now,this isn't anything. When 2019 comes around, this is going to be very, very annoying for you all, because affordable housing will be an issue, and those of you who are seeking reelection (mumbled) damn well sure, I'm sorry. No actually, you better be damn well sure that you actually have a sense of what you want your legacy to be. Do you want your legacy to be that you actually did nothing about this crisis? It's an actual crisis. Can we just call it what it is? It's a crisis! When over 50% of all renters are basically housing burdened, that is a crisis! That's not, you know, a little thing that needs to be tinkered with. That's not a little thing that we need to maybe throw(mumbled) No! It's something that needs to be actually tackled, and we have the means to do it. We....we've actually already covered this. There are really only three things you need to know, and I repeat: one, where will you get the money from? Your over$200 million of unused borrowing capacity. How will you finance that debt? You will finance that debt by either an incredibly modest tax increase, or maybe just not decreasing property taxes every single year. So that's two. Number three, where will you get the land? Imminent domain. Now I know that makes a lot of you....your gut seize up. The very idea that you would actually just seize land to use for a public purpose. But you know it's something that governments actually used to do. It's something that non- This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 8 cowards used to do. But the thing that I actually wanna talk to you about, because I know you don't give a crap about what I think. Every single morning, and I say every single morning because this young woman actually works, seven days a week. My neighbor runs an in-home daycare, and so every single morning I see a young woman drop off her daughter,basically so that she can go work her$9.00 an hour job to have enough money to actually live in a market-rate two-bedroom apartment. Why does she have to live in a market-rate two-bedroom apartment? Because despite the fact that she has a Section 8 voucher,there actually aren't enough units with Section 8 vouchers in this city. She works in the city. She provides a valuable service to all of us, and she can't even find a place to live. She has to work herself to the bone. She has to basically abandon her child every single day of the week just so that she can basically provide food for people (mumbled)basic fundamental decent thing that you can do for another person, make them food. I see her every single morning. I see her drop off her kid. And so the thing is, I realize that the State has actually preempted the County from raising wages. That's one thing. So what's something else that you could actually do for her? Well,maybe if she didn't have to pay $1,200 a month for a two-bedroom apartment,maybe if she had to pay$600 a month or$500 a month or god forbid $400 a month for a two-bedroom apartment she could actually see her own kid. That's what this means! It doesn't mean me screaming at you every two weeks. It doesn't mean my like self-aggrandizement. I don't care what you think of me. I honestly don't. You could(mumbled)in front of this, basically on the steps of City Council, you could take me outside right now. You could tar and feather me, and I wouldn't care, if it meant that you actually built public housing using the means that you have available to you. That's what this is about. Screw you all! Throgmorton: Anyone else? Good evening. Dorfman: Hello, my name is Lorraine Dorfman and I'm a Senior Center Commissioner, and I'm here today,this evening,uh,to give a little update on, uh,what's going on at the Center,uh, in case you don't know all of the events that are forthcoming. It's, May is a particularly busy month. Not that we're not always busy. But anyway, um, first of all as you....as I'm sure you know,uh, Linda Kopping's day was last week. She retired as Coordinator and....and people in the audience may not know this either, as Coordinator of the Center, after 23 years, and accomplished quite a bit. We'll have an Interim Coordinator,um,Ashley Monroe,until the position is filled. Um.....some other important things—after a year of....more than a year of work,uh, finally the Friends of the Center, um, website is up, and that's www.icseniorcenterfriends.org. Um, and it's not just,uh, a website that asks for This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 9 donations and highlights some comments by donors,but it really gives an overview of the Center and some of the programs and services that are offered, and...and, uh, you can,uh, search, uh, for different things. You can search by topic. You can search by date, so that you have a....a comprehensive idea of what's going on at the Center. So that, uh, I viewed the whole thing last week and it's really kind of impressive. It's taken a lot of work. Um, some other, uh, things, uh, some events, urn.....there's going to be a, um, a major one-year, um, event, the Member Engagement Fair, on, uh....May 15th and at that time there'll be different booths, uh, highlighting what goes on at the Center, uh, the work of different comm...uh, committees, of the staff, uh, of the Commission itself, uh, so that members and prospective members can get a better idea of what's going on at the Center. Again, that's May 15th. Last week there was a...another event, um, a donor reception for....for people who had donated to the Center in the last year or so, and that was a very nice event. Uh, some things"that are coming up that I just wanted to highlight. As I said, there are an awful lot of activities, but just, urn, a few. There's going to be something a little different. There's going to be something called the, um, Engage Your Brain Fair, and that's going to be on May 2nd in the afternoon. There'll be a....a, uh, keynote speaker, Michelle Voss, from the Health, Brain and Cognitions Lab on campus. Uh, after her speech, uh, people will be able to circulate and try out different kinds of things to engage their brains. So there'll be different booths and tables for them to have different activities, and that should be pretty interesting. Uh, there are a couple concerts coming up. Uh, the, um, New Horizons Band will be in May, uh, on May 8th• Then the Voices of Experience will be May 10th. And then the five-year anniversary of the Family Folk Machine will be held at the Englert and that will be the....let me see if I have the date right. The 12th. So that's just a, sort of an overview of what's going on recently and what's shortly to come, and I think it gives you an idea of....of how much really is happening at the Center. Are there any questions? Throgmorton: Lorraine, I do have one. What time on the 15th is the membership.... Dorfman: Uh, 2:30 to 4:00. Throgmorton: Thank you. Dorfman: Have you received notices about it? Throgmorton: Could be, but I didn't have it written down. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 10 Dot furan: Okay. I think it's 2:30 to 4:00. At worst it's 2:00 to 4:00. (laughter) If you come at 2:00 we won't make you go away! (laughs) Throgmorton: Thank you, Lorraine. Dorfinan: Uh huh. Anybody else? Thank you. Mims: Thank you! Throgmorton: Good evening, Sara! Barron: Hi, everyone! Uh, I'm Sara Barron, the Executive Director of the Johnson County Affordable Housing Coalition. Urn, and I'm here tonight with two of our board members, John McKinstry and Mark Signs. Urn, we figured since affordable housing is a topic you all have been discussing a lot lately, um, that it was time for us to come and just do a little bit of a check-in with you and, um, and uh, remind you that we're here, urn, and that we are really interested in continuing to talk with you all about affordable housing solutions and the great benefits to our community(mumbled) investing in affordable housing, and so John has just a brief statement to share with you from our board to you all, um, in support of the work that everyone has been doing. So I'll hand it over to him! Throgmorton: Good deal! Hi, John. McKinstry: Dear Iowa City Council and City staff, on behalf of the Johnson County Affordable Housing Co....Coalition, we'd like to express our appreciation for Iowa City's leadership in affordable housing. Affordable housing is a critical and urgent issue. Living in housing that we cannot afford means increase economic insecurity, harm to our physical and mental health, and an inability to meet our most basic needs. Simply put, lack of affordable housing threatens the stability and prosperity of our entire community. When a community commits to affordable housing for all its residents, we make invaluable investments in our safety and wellness, our workforce, our economic growth, and our neighborhoods. Affordable housing makes our community strong. Even though support for affordable housing is just plain common sense, true leadership and action on affordable housing requires innovation. It requires vision. It requires courage and persistence. And we have seen these qualities demonstrated by the Iowa City Council and by the Iowa City staff, in the face of mounting restrictions on your time and on your resources. Residents of Iowa City understand that our community needs to prioritize affordable housing, for every one of us. We as This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 11 residents have demonstrated the will and resolve to support our City leaders who exhibit an ongoing commitment to affordable housing. To innovation, vision, courage, and persistence. We appreciate you for all you've done. We commit to our continued support for this work and we urge you forward in pursuit of even more progress toward the goal of a strong, safe, and prosperous Iowa City....for all of us. Thank you. Throgmorton: Thank you, John. McKinstry: Thank you. Throgmorton: Any...(applause) anyone else? (applause continues) Anyone else? (mumbled) All right, why don't you mention this? Botchway: I was going to do something like live...this is Saturday Night,but basically, uh, basically this is the first time in a long time, or not the first time....first time ever that we're doing a Facebook Live event. I actually, or somebody else watched it while we were up here, and I think it's really amazing and I hope that, you know, as you leave, um, talking to friends, family members, other community members, just get the word out. Uh,right now it was myself and somebody else watching, and so just wanted to get more, um, names out there (laughs) to make sure that people can be,urn,just engaged, um, in this platform that I think is gonna be a....a truly innovative, um, step forward in the right direction. Throgmorton: Wait a minute, you're watching yourself speak on Facebook Live? Botchway: Yeah! (laughter) Throgmorton: All right! Yeah, it's good inn...good innovation. I'm glad we're doin' it! We'll see how it goes. Uh, did anybody else want to speak? All right, seeing no one else we'll go to Item 6, Planning and Zoning Matters. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 12 Item 6. Planning and Zoning Matters Item 6a Rezoning 1705 Prairie Du Chien Road—Ordinance conditionally rezoning approximately 1.89 acres from Planned Development Overlay/High Density Single Family (OPD/RS-12) zone to Low Density Multifamily (RM- 12) zone for the property located at 1705 Prairie Du Chien Road. (REZ18- 00002) a) Public Hearing Throgmorton: All right, the details of the conditional zoning agreement have not been worked out, so the public hearing will need to be continued. I'm gonna open the public hearing, then it will need to be continued and first consideration will be deferred until May the 15111, 2018. So I'm gonna open the public hearing. (bangs gavel) And anyone who cares to speak about this topic can, but we're gonna continue the public hearing to May 15, so you can speak about the topic then as well. Good evening. Guyer: My name is Bob Guyer. Boy that's loud! (laughter) And I live at 1529 Prairie Du Chien Road. I'm born and raised Iowa City. Other than my service time, which included two years of Viet Nam, and I'm here on behalf of the residents of 1705 Prairie Du Chien Road, and I've not spoken to any of'em. I'm not related to any of`em. I have no financial interest whatsoever in the property, but I am requesting this City Council of Iowa City to adopt the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Act of 1970, which is a federal document, as far as supplying relocation assistance to those people. So far it's my understanding they've been offered $1,000 a family to move. You stop and think to yourself somebody comes up to you and tells you, hey, you have to move. But I'll give you $1,000. That doesn't cover boxes, all right? Let alone....anything else involved. And many of these...well, take that back. I do not know and I cannot testify to this, but some of those people still own their mobile homes. These guidelines set forth that were put forth by the federal government and I truly believe Iowa City should adopt those standards. I do not know what the Iowa City standards are presently,but I do know when Iowa City expanded their Airport, there was a trailer park down there and it was taken. Those people were compensated at least 25 times what this offer's been from, uh, the developer. And I don't care if it's city, federal, state....the developer, or the seller of the property. I have handouts for each of you about the federal guidelines. I simply request that you look at them, read them, before you make your decisions on this. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 13 Throgmorton: Okay. Good deal. Thank you, Bob. Is there anything else? Guyer: That's it. Throgmorton: Uh...Geoff, on that particular recommendation, uh, Bob Guyer just mentioned that there was some rezoning down by the Airport, years ago. I don't remember that one in particular, uh, but if there's information about it and it applies directly to the City of Iowa City, that'd be good. Also, when I was on the Council, back in the mid-90s, we did the rezoning for the HyVee at First Avenue, and I know we negotiated, uh, some kind of relocation assistance at that time. So it'd be good to know what was negotiated then, as well. Fruin: Okay! Throgmorton: Anyone else want to address this topic? Moore: Curt Moore, I own the property. Throgmorton: Good evenin'! Moore: So just....just so ya know, it's not our intention to kick anybody out in the street. The problem is with the pro....property is it's timed out. I went through last December and I had to replace about 60-foot of sewer line. When I dug that up I came across orangeburg, I don't know if you're familiar with that, but it's like a cardboard sewer line, uh, galvanized and cast iron. That was just 60-feet out of the whole trailer court. It collapsed. It must have had leaking, uh, water lines. So the whole place is....is a, basically it's a time bomb, and it's the point where now's the time to....to do away with it. I can't afford to go in there and replace all the water and sewer lines. Our....our tenants pay $175 a month. Nobody in Iowa City in a trailer court charges $175 a month. That includes sewer, water, and trash. I...I'm subsidizing the people right now. And I appreciate affordable housing,but now's the time for this to go away. And it's....it's timed out. And all the property around that is already zoned,the RS or RM-12, so it's not anything that's not already there. We're not asking for anything more than just changing it. You're looking at basically the same amount of....of bodies. And it's gonna improve the look of the neighborhood. Uh, if you....I don't know if you saw the minutes from the previous meetings, uh, starting from the very beginning when the developer for Foster Road met. Nobody showed up to complain about Foster Road traffic or anything else. We show up, now we have a problem with traffic. There is no problem. That's....that's a separate issue. We This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 14 need....we need....we need to take care of the city and make it look better. This is one way. The only complain at that meeting was what's gonna happen to that trailer court? When's it goin' away? Now we have a solution now. And it's good for you, it's good for everybody. I also believe, and I could be wrong, uh, the Southside, you had the, uh, the apartments over there where the City and the developer gave money to those people, 500 bucks, something like that. That $1,000 is the correct number that I've been told. We fall below your.....your ordinance. And we're still meeting that. Unfortunately, we don't have to give 'em notice. I as the owner can say, 'You can go away.' That's not our intent. We want them to go away with something in their pocket, but I can't afford to pay for sewer and water and keep them there either. So....hope you consider this next time. Uh, affordable housing is....is an issue. Maybe just, you know, maybe that's something you can look down the road for infrastructure, for tiny houses, something else so that there, you know, you can save a little money and people have a place to live. Thank you. Throgmorton: Thank you, Curt. Anyone else? Good evening. Penningroth: Good evening. I'm Kathy Penningroth. I live at 1613 Prairie Du Chien Road, which is right next door to the trailer park. Um, myself and various neighbors have several concerns, and I know that these things may be considered at the first hearing, but I think it's, urn, probably good to (laughs) tell you what some of us are thinking. Urn, first of all....I wanna support the, urn, proposal to, urn, provide the trailer court residents with adequate money to relocate. And second of all, speaking for just myself, I would....like to see some affordable housing in that area. Now there have been apartment houses proposed for that particular site, 1705, and many of us do not think that they correspond with the neighborhood. Um, we have no apartments in the neighborhood. We do have, urn, some, uh, two-family dwellings. But we prefer townhouses, urn, or duplexes or something that looks more like what exists in the neighborhood. And this is not to keep out people (laughs) I understand that some people on the north side think we're exclusive, but basically, urn, I'm not, and I don't think anybody is. So that is one concern. We would prefer duplexes or townhouses. Or condos. Urn, the second is traffic, and P&Z, uh, wants to have the apartment....lot, which is on Prairie Du Chien Road, have the apartments exit onto Prairie Du Chien Road. That means that if they exit onto Prairie Du Chien Road, and want to go west,they have to go out, go a block, and turn left onto Foster Road. We think that it makes a lot more sense to have an exit on Foster Road. Urn....Prairie Du Chien is, um, quite heavy traffic. I have to wait sometimes quite a while to get out of my driveway. Uh, course that depends on the time of day. But, with traffic coming out of the, urn, This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 15 apartment complex and then turning left,urn, it will, uh, provide nice traffic jams, I think. Now there are curbs on Prairie Du Chien, and on Foster Road, but I would hope that you could figure out a way to have the road exit from the apartments onto Foster Road. Okay, thank you! Throgmorton: Thank you, Cathy. Anyone else? All right, seeing no one else could I have a motion to continue the public hearing to May the 15°i. Botchway: So moved. Salih: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway, seconded by Salih. All in favor say aye. Motion carries. Could I have a motion to defer first consideration to May 15. b) Consider an Ordinance (First Consideration) Botchway: So moved. Mims: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway, seconded by Mims. All in favor say aye. Motion carries. Uh, could I have a motion to accept correspondence please. Botchway: So moved. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway.... Salih: Second. Throgmorton: ....second by Salih. All in favor say aye. Motion, uh...opposed nay. Nobody says anything (laughs) So motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 16 Item 6. Planning and Zoning Matters Item 6c Rezoning 513 Riverside Drive—Ordinance conditionally rezoning approximately 0.62 acres of land from Community Commercial (CC-2) zone to Riverfront Crossings—West Riverfront (RFC-WR) zone for property located at 513 S. Riverside Drive. (REZ17-00005) (Second Consideration) Throgmorton: So could I have a motion to get second consideration please? Salih: Move. Botchway: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Salih, seconded by Botchway. Discussion? John, I think last time you said something about, uh, renderings or elevations or whatever an architect calls this kind of thing, uh, about how we don't have any images of(both talking) Thomas: ...work session? Throgmorton: Yeah. Yeah, uh, we don't have any renderings or elevations for this particular building. Uh, I....yeah, I....I feel that's a gap that.....we shouldn't have. We should have a pretty good idea of what's going to be built there and.....I.....I don't know that we really have that knowledge right now. Geoff, you wanna comment on that? Froin: Yeah,there's, urn, it's....it's probably discussion for another night, but there's some, certainly some....(mumbled) inconsistencies in the applications that come through. Sometimes we have renderings, sometimes we don't, sometimes Planning and Zoning, during their review, want, uh, refinements to renderings or want to require renderings, and other times they feel comfortable,uh,passing those through. I can say in the Riverfront Crossings' area, for me personally, I...I feel comfortable moving ahead without renderings in that area because you have a adopted form based code that, urn, is pretty prescriptive on what the form of the building should look like, gets into building materials and things of that nature. Um, and so as long as, um, you have a process in which the form based code is being applied and reviewed and checked. I feel, um, I feel comfortable with that. You know, if you recall, when we adopted the form based code the City initiated a massive rezoning of several properties, um, without any requirements for, you know, what could be built there in the future. Now some of those properties we don't anticipate, um....uh, development taking place on, but certainly in other This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 17 cases, uh, there at some point will be, urn, development on those. So it's probably a conversation that, you know, we need to have at the Council level to....to determine what your expectations are when you get rezonings. You heard me say it before, re....you know, rezonings are land use questions, and yes you can require renderings and that's when you get into the push and pull with developers and investment that they have to make up front. Um, but I'd always rely on what kind of standards do you have in place, and in certain areas, like the Riverfront Crossings' area, we have a form based code. In other areas, we...we don't have detailed....we don't have a form based code or we don't have detailed design standards. In those cases, that's when I would be more apt to ask for renderings, urn, when you don't have that assurance. So, it's a much bigger topic than what's in front of you tonight but I think that's a conversation that we need to have. Throgmorton: Yeah, well let's, uh, arrange a time to do that. Yeah. Okay, any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 18 Item 6. Planning and Zoning Matters Item 6h Rezoning Historic Landmark Designation 412 North Dubuque Street —Ordinance rezoning property located at 412 North Dubuque Street from High Density Multi-Family Residential (RM-44) to RM-44 with a Historic Preservation Overlay (RM-44/OHP). (REZ18-00006) (Second Consideration) Botchway: So moved. Thomas: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway, seconded by Thomas. Discussion? Mims: I would just make a quick comment on these last five that we've done, for the audience and particularly for anybody watching on TV. These are five that we spent a great deal of time going through two weeks ago, or two or three weeks ago at our last meeting, um, in terms of the detail of whether each of these, uh, warranted this historic landmark designation, and I think we really vetted them very carefully at that time, and so I think we....we're all very comfortable and that's kinda why people see us very quickly moving through these with no discussion. Throgmorton: Right. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7- 0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 19 Item 6. Planning and Zoning Matters Item 6i Iowa City Industrial Campus—Resolution approving the preliminary and final plat of Iowa City Industrial Campus, Iowa City, Iowa. (SUB18- 00007) Throgmorton: Could I have a motion to approve, please? Taylor: So moved. Botchway: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by...who? Taylor: Me. Throgmorton: Taylor, seconded by Botchway, is that the sequence? Good evening, Bob! Miklo: Good evening. Urn, some of you may recall that the Council approved a preliminary plat on this property in 2010. Uh,preliminary plats expire after two years. So this, um,plat has expired. Um, and the proposal is just to reapprove the, uh, previously approved plat. It provides for three development lots on, um, 420th Street and a n....uh, three additional outlots. Two of those are, uh, potential for future development and one outlot is for a....a wetland, uh....um, mitigation area. Um (clears throat) so at this time we're.....we're recommending approval of both the preliminary and the final plat. Be happy to try to answer any questions. Throgmorton: Any questions for Bob? I'm not hearing any. Thanks, Bob. Any discussion, Council discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 20 Item 7. Transit Funding Application—Resolution authorizing the filing of an application with the Iowa Department of Transportation for FY2019 Iowa DOT State Transit Assistance and Federal Transit Administration Funding a) Public hearing Throgmorton: I'll open the public hearing. (bangs gavel) Would anybody like to address this topic? Bye, Mark! (laughter) Fruin: This is...I'll just mention, this is an annual filing that, urn, that we do, uh, with the, uh....uh, Federal Transit Administration and we're happy to take any questions that you have. Throgmorton: Is there anything out of the ordinary associated with it? Ruin: No. Throgmorton: All right. Any further questions or....comments? If not I'm going to close the public hearing. (bangs gavel) b) Consider a Resolution Botchway: Move resolution. Thomas: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway, seconded by Thomas. Discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 21 Item 8. Asphalt Resurfacing 2018—US Hwy 6 (N Riverside Drive) Rocky Shore Drive to Sturgis Corner Drive-Resolution approving plans, specifications, form of agreement, and estimate of cost for the construction of the Asphalt Resurfacing 2018—US Hwy 6 (N Riverside Drive) Rocky Shore Drive to Sturgis Corner Drive Project, establishing amount of bid security to accompany each bid, directing City Clerk to post notice to bidders, and fixing time and place for receipt of bids a) Public hearing Throgmorton: Again I'll open the public hearing. (bangs gavel) Anyone want, would anybody like to address this topic? Seeing no one I'll close the public hearing. (bangs gavel) b) Consider a Resolution Botchway: Move resolution. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway. Mims: Second. Throgmorton: Second by Mims. Discussion? So this particular project will include the reconstruction of the intersection of Myrtle Drive with Riverside Drive. Uh, Ron, do you wanna say anything about that at all, other than that's a good thing? (laughter) Knoche: So with this project we will add a signalized intersection at Myrtle and Riverside Drive. Um, that will allow for access, uh, to the apartments that are to the west, uh, to have access to the Iowa River Trail. Urn, and then, uh,the....there'll also be a dedicated left turn lane there with that, uh, intersection improvement. Throgmorton: Yeah, I think....thank you, Ron. I think that's a really significant improvement. I....for anybody who's tried to cross Riverside Drive at Myrtle Drive, uh, you know it's pretty hazardous, whether you're on a bike or on foot or whatever. So, I...I'm really happy to see this. All right, we have a motion on the floor. Any discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 22 Item 9. Parking Garage Maintenance Program 2018 - Resolution approving plans, specifications, form of agreement, and estimate of cost for the construction of the Parking Garage Maintenance Program 2018 Project, establishing amount of bid security to accompany each bid, directing City Clerk to post notice to bidders, and fixing time and place for receipt of bids a) Public hearing Throgmorton: I'm gonna open the public hearing. (bangs gavel) Anybody like to address this topic? Mims: Only that it's very necessary and it's a pain to use the garages when they're doing this. (laughs) Throgmorton: I guess I'm gonna close the public hearing now, seeing no one else. (bangs gavel) b) Consider a Resolution Botchway: Move the resolution. Mims: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway, seconded by Mims. Discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 23 Item 10. Iowa City Housing Authority's Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2018 - Resolution Adopting the Iowa City Housing Authority's Annual Plan for Fiscal year 2018 a) Public Input Throgmorton: This says open public input, so....yeah, I don't know. (bangs gavel) I'm gonna open public input. (laughs) Steve, do you want to address this? Hold on,Nick, let him speak first. Rackis: Yeah,just if you had any...any questions about the report. This is basically, uh, HUD requires us to every five years have a five-year annual, or five-year plan. Uh, we usually do that in conjunction with the City STEPS plan, with Community Development, and then the annual plan is really an annual report, where we report, uh, our progress in...in terms of the, uh...functioning and operation of our programs. Throgmorton: Uh...am I right in thinking that Section 8 housing is part of the annual report or is it just public housing? Rackis: No,both. Uh, Section 8 program, or the Housing Choice voucher program, public housing, uh, the Family Self-Sufficiency program and the Housing Choice voucher homeownership programs. Throgmorton: So with regard to Section 8 housing, we have over 1,000 units in the area served by public housing, I mean vouchers—not....not..... Rackis: We have, uh, yeah, we have 1,215 Housing Choice vouchers and 83 veteran- supported housing vouchers, and then the 81 public housing units that the City owns and manages. Throgmorton: Right. Okay. Thank you. Rackis: You're welcome! Throgmorton: Anyone else? Nick, I know you wanna talk about this. Theisen: Normally I, sorry, Nicholas Thesiden, 1240 Esther Court. Normally I would of addressed this in the regular community comment section, but this is actually specifically relevant to the, urn, the plan. It's two issues. One, one thing that has This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 24 to be included in the plan is an analysis of...basically demographic analysis of who gets served by public housing efforts within the city. It's a HUD requirement. Urn, the other thing that is covered in the...the report is basically what external grants get applied for, and the reason why I wanted to address....I'll address the issue of external grants first, because.....it has been brought up by Council Members previously that are (mumbled) oh gee whiz, I guess, you know, when are we ever gonna get federal money to help us out, even though we could actually build it ourselves. There is actually really good reason not to be chasing after federal grants,because federal grants come with federal rules, and federal rules are both explicitly and implicitly discriminatory. They are explicitly discriminatory and basically they are only available to citizens and permanent residents. So basically any....I mean I realize that we're not supposed to talk about the sanctuary city issue, but if you're an undocumented immigrant and you're living somewhere in Johnson County, you're basically in a kind of'no man's land' when it comes to housing, particularly when it comes to the few forms of subsidized housing that actually do exist because you can't actually use a federally subsidized housing unit. And that is if you receive any federal money at all, and that's not even getting to the fact that you have to deal with the current administration and a HUD secretary who basically wants to destroy public housing in this country. I mean....(sighs) Carson has actually already eliminated the Obama-era rule that ensured actual enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. So that's the implicit bias. And then in addition, Carson recently suggested to (laughs) raise the (laughs) the rent for all subsidized....federally subsidized housing units to 35% of income, which by the way, 35% of income is de facto housing burdened. That is automatically over the 35% housing burden threshold. So these are the rules that will get applied when you chase after federal dollars. And so....and I already kind of touched on the issue of who actually gets served, but the thing is, when you look at particularly the, I mean the....the issue of the trailer park (mumbled) I mean that was trailer parks that are actually in the city, but not a lot of attention is actually paid to the trailer parks that are immediately butt up against city boundaries, or places like Breckenridge, where they have Coliform outbreaks and where there actually are a lot of undocumented people living, and they live there precisely because they get shut out of the local housing market in the city. And (sighs) when it comes to the issue of who gets served, there has been this steady, like accretion. Bas...not even accretion. It's been sort of a dissipation, that basically working class people have been slowly but steadily pushed out of the city. I mean you have the explicit displacement, you know, Rose Oaks, the near displacement at Forest View, the current displacement on Prairie Du Chien(clears throat) uh, plot....but then you also have the implicit displacement or the fact that,you know, I mean.....I.....I wore this shirt today This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 25 because everybody knows that Iowa City is ridiculously expensive to live in. They know it so well, but it's literally a meme that you can buy a t-shirt making fun of. So that's the two things, like you don't actually want to be going after, cause you really wanna serve every single member of this community. Adequately. Then you don't want to chase after federal dollars, and as...I hate to remind you, you don't have to. Thank you. Throgmorton: Anyone else? Seeing no one else I'm going to close the public input period. (bangs gavel) b) Consider a Resolution Mims: Move the resolution. Botchway: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Mims, seconded by Botchway. Discussion? Salih: I just wanna say like really how, uh, the good thing that Iowa City(unable to understand) and how important, uh, of renter assistant to families (unable to understand) and that (unable to understand) evictions and kind of things, and also keep, uh, the student at their home school, and also this is really good for the neighborhood. I think this is something really good, but is not enough. Throgmorton: Yep. Anyone else? Cole: I guess I just have one question. Urn, and maybe it's, uh, directed at Eleanor. This question of uniform relocation (mumbled) Property Acquisition Act, um, is that something that's solely limited to projects in which we receive federal funds, or is a condition of receipt of federal funds, would we have the authority to do relocation assistance, um....either under the state or federal law? In terms of displaced residents? Dilkes: The federal re....relocation guide or laws apply when federal money is involved. Um, they apply when we're exercising imminent domain authority. Botchway: I had another quick question. Um, can you just, I mean, this got brought up a little bit about the waiting list. So we have a waiting list and we talk about, you know,just kind of help me have a better understanding as far as I'm looking at the participants on the waiting list, um, and the number of people we have on the This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 26 Housing Choice voucher waiting list compared to public housing waiting list. Can you, you know, can you speak to why we have such a waiting list, and what...what have we been doing to address that issue? Rackis: Yeah, I would say that the number one reason for the number of people on our waiting list is the simple fact that people think we are the Iowa Housing Authority. And then they hear that our waiting list is open and they think that they're applying to a waiting list for the entire state of Iowa. There are 71 housing authorities in the state of Iowa, 44 have the Housing Choice voucher program. No other housing authority, not even Des Moines, because Des Moines is (mumbled) they call it the Metropolitan Housing Authority. They get some of the same thing, where people think that they are the only housing authority, but they don't have anywhere near the amount of applications that we have. As...as a matter of fact, I got a call once and I asked the person, how'd you get my number, because they thought they were applying for the entire state, and she said I called, um, I called the, you know, directory assistance and I asked for the Iowa Housing Authority and they gave me your number. So that's....that's the biggest reason. You know, people call us from Dubuque, Clinton, Davenport, all over the state. They get confused. Another housing authority sends 'em a letter. They call us. So that....that's probably the biggest reason. Uh, the second reason for the....the length of our waiting list is simply we are utilizing 100% of our vouchers. So even if....even if, I mean we spent $7.6 million last year on Housing Choice voucher program. We had $8.1 million available. But we were already at 100% and we couldn't really spend any more money. HUD doesn't allow for you to be overleased to that extent. So....large number of people applying, voucher utilization stays at 100%, the waiting list is just gonna get longer. And....more people apply to the Housing Choice voucher waiting list because they like the mobility that goes with having the voucher versus a fixed public housing unit. Botchway: Thank you. Salih: And also since you are here I just wanna ask a question too. Uh, because I knew a lot people who have like the....they were on the waiting list long time and finally they get this voucher, say for four bedroom, but you know the....the market is really different from the maximum threshold (unable to understand) like the voucher. Say people who get like$1,500 for four bedroom, but in the area you cannot find four bedroom for 1,500. Uh, what you guys really wanna do about that or is this, uh....Iowa City's really different than maybe Coralville and maybe North Liberty, and I know they can find over there too but....people really cannot find, you know, the market price is way high than the voucher. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 27 Rackis: Yeah and we....we are required by HUD to set our payment standards based upon the fair market rents, which are issued yearly by HUD, and we have to be within 90, uh, to 110% of the fair market rent. Uh, so our payment standard is part of that formula that we use to determine how much of the contract rent we're gonna pay and how much the family pays, and that's always a balancing act because we're trying to maximize those payment standards to give people more opportunities. We're....we're trying to maximize the size of vouchers that we're issuing to give families more opportunities and actually the thing that we did a couple a years ago that really helped us with the voucher utilization, we used to just issue the vouchers for 180 day...well we issue 'em for 120 days and then we would allow extensions up to 180 days. We now have gone to 365 days. So, again, we issue a voucher for 120. They ask for extensions. We extend `em by.......by, uh, 60 days and that has really helped people. You know, it takes a little bit longer but it's really helped people find units before their voucher expires, and yes, we run into that cost issue all the time, and it's...it is difficult and actually one of the most difficult things is finding two and three-bedroom, well one, two, and some three-bedroom units in....in Iowa City. Salih: (unable to understand) You saying like fair market price but....we don't have a fair market price in Iowa City (laughs) Unfortunately! But, yeah, I don't know. Rackis: Yeah, well.....and the thing is, a couple a years ago, HUD raised our fair market rents by, you know, an average of 17%. Salih: Uh huh. Rackis: And Chris Ackerson, who used to be in Community Development and myself, uh, along with Casey Cook, uh, analyzed rents and....we could not find any tangible data to support a 17%increase in those fair market rents. That really shot up our costs because we had to get our payment standards in between that 90 to 110%, but....the payment standards being higher also help us get people leased up and renting a unit. So it's always this balancing act. Salih: But you can go up to 40%, right? Rackis: Yeah, on the initial....on the initial lease up, a family cannot exceed 40% of their adjusted gross rent, or they can't pay more than 40% of their adjusted gross rent, or excuse me, their adjusted gross income, towards the rent. And that...that is built in by HUD to kind of ensure affordability, because, you know, landlords This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 28 ...you know, hey, fine, you know....I don't care if you're at 60%.....70%, whatever, as long as I'm getting money from the housing authority and I get money from you. So, uh, it....it's a good protection, but after the initial lease up, you know, landlords can raise the rents and it's perfectly fine. Salih: Sure. That's great. Thank you. Rackis: You're welcome! Anybody else? Throgmorton: Thought I heard another voice down here. No? Thanks, Steve. Okay,we have a motion on the floor. Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 29 Item 11. Univer-City Sale—115 North Dodge. Resolution authorizing conveyance of a single family home located at 115 North Dodge Street a) Public hearing Throgmorton: I'll open the public hearing. (bangs gavel) This is our 60th UniverCity sale.... which has been a really excellent program for.....uh, for.....ensuring stability within our residential neighborhoods and so on. But I just opened the public hearing, didn't I, so I should not be talking. Anybody wanna speak to this topic? Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing. (bangs gavel) b) Consider a Resolution Botchway: Move resolution. Mims: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway, seconded by Mims. I've already said what I should have said....then.....now, so anyone else? Seeing no one, roll call please. Salih: (several speaking) Throgmorton: I'm sorry! Salih: I wanna talk about this. (laughs) I'm sorry! Discussion, yeah? Um, I was earlier asking Tracy about likeI feel like I would like to know really the data and maybe she doesn't have the data, the demographic people who buy this kind of houses and how they advertise it, because really this program, urn, myself being looking for house forever, this is the first time I know about this program when I start running for the City Council (unable to understand) going on in the city. That's how I knew about it. Even though I been like really,uh, you know, working as a community organizer, close to City Council's member, close to...but I didn't have no idea. Um,that's why I think the advertising of this program should be like really, you know, I don't know how but we have to expand it to the low-income people, and also I know that, uh (unable to understand) Steve was here I forget I wanna ask him also, because I know Section 8, people come,but if they have a Section 8 voucher, they can't buy a house or that. And there is many people who bought a house(unable to understand) okay,here you go. I really wanna ask you about how many people, like having Section 8 voucher, has been like....they bought a house through Section 8. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 30 Rackis: Yeah, I...I just left the annual report in my office. I...I believe the total number of vouchers that were converted for homeownership, and it's in the report, I believe is about 40 or 45, and we currently have 15 families that are active, uh, participants in the homeownership program. Typically what we see is their income goes up and they go off the program. Salih: Yeah. Rackis: So that....that's....I.....I believe it's 40 or 45 was the total. Salih: (unable to understand) transition, you know,helping people from like a....like buying a house and you give 'em....helping for the voucher, for the mortgage, and after that they get off the program. It is...it is really great,but the way that, uh, how those people can know there is something called like UniverCity housing. We...we need....we need the people who have Section 8 to also know about this opportunity,uh, since they have a voucher, beside their income they can be eligible for....for, you know, those kind of....buying those houses. And, uh, really I...I don't know. I think still 185 and we coming to the other one, 205. This is still not like affordable. I know it's going to be affordable for certain people,but we being keeping...doing everything for those only 60%, 70%, 80%, many thing, when we have(unable to understand) and now for UniverCity house, what are we doing for the people who are very low income,the 30% income? We are not doing anything! That's what we really need to think in the futures about, uh, all ....you know, this is really crisis, as we said before, and we need to think about it as (unable to understand) That's all I wanna say about this. Thanks! Throgmorton: I....I wanna take a stab at, uh, describing a little bit of ba...about the background of the UniverCity program, and I'm probably going to get some of this wrong, so Eleanor and Geoff and, uh,maybe Tracy could help on this. Uh, it was started around five years ago. It was an initiative that, uh, initially involved a collaborative, uh, effort on the part of the Univer...the University of Iowa and the City of Iowa City, and it was designed to do two things: to stabilize residential areas that were located near the University.....because there's so much student (both talking) Salih: The students, yeah. Throgmorton: (both talking) ...pressure from student demand for housing. Uh, and....to enable, uh, people who work at the University of Iowa to find housing that was close to This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 31 the University. I think that was the original purpose, those two things. Uh...maybe three years ago the University pulled out of that collaborative effort. So instead it became a program that was, uh, run entirely by the,uh, City of Iowa City, and the purpose became mainly to focus on....tryin' to....help stabilize those residential neighborhoods. We now have, this is the 60th house we've sold. The next one's gonna be the 6151. (both talking) Yeah. Uh, but they're....Geoff, I don't know,there are three or four in the works this fiscal year? Tracy (several talking) Hightshoe: We are acquiring two more, we have four left to rehab. Throgmorton: Yeah, so there'll be six more will be up for sale at some point in the next year or there abouts, right? Hightshoe: Yeah, and then fiscal year 19 you approved for the acquisition of three more homes. Throgmorton: So, Maza's raising an interesting question about how people out in the public who don't know about this program can learn about and uh, I hope we have ideas about how to do that. Hightshoe: Yeah, we currently....currently we advertise on Facebook, Next Door, a lot of social media. We've sent out press releases. We try to highlight the program, but we could do a better job of reaching deeper audiences and neighborhoods. We can work on that. Salih: Sure. I know you can, yeah. Thanks! Hightshoe: Um, we do have that difficult if we purchase a home, I mean we've purchased now 65 homes in our University-impacted neighborhoods. It's getting harder to get single-family homes that can be repaired under our budget. So, you approved for three homes in fiscal year 19 for 60,000. Urn, so....so we're working with that. It's just....we've cherry picked the homes that we....we can do now. It just takes us more time to find appropriate homes. So if we have to buy a home at 190, 200,000, we have to sell it because you have to sell it for your carrying costs, your taxes, your insu....your insurance, your interest. So it pushes that sales price over 190, 200,000. So yes, it's not necessarily in the affordable range for many folks but.....um, that's what happens if we have to buy a house at 190, 195, 200. Um....and then when you deal with old houses, you get in there and (laughs) your original rehab budget kinda(makes a noise) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 32 Throgmorton: Yeah. Hightshoe: Sometimes it's difficult what you find in older homes. Throgmorton: Indeed! Thank you,Tracy. Okay, we have a motion on the floor, right? So, discussion? Salih: The only thing also I wanna ask Geoff maybe or one of the staff about when they said there is....there will be no impact on the general fund for ongoing operation expenses. What do you mean by that? Fruin: So we no longer own the home, so there's no maintenance. We're not obligated to maintain the home. That..that burden shifts from the City to the buyer of the property. Salih: You mean the....the ongoing. Okay. Fruin: The ongoing maintenance, correct. Throgmorton: Any further discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 33 Item 13. 2018A Bond Resolution -Resolution directing sale of$8,895,000 (amount subject to change) General Obligation Bonds, Series 2018A Throgmorton: Could I have a motion to approve please? Mims: Move the resolution. Salih: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Mims, seconded by Salih. Good evenin'! How ya doin'? Bockenstedt: Good evening, uh, I'm good. I'm Dennis Bockenstedt,the Finance Director for the City. Um, we're gonna address Items 13 and 14 tonight. Uh,they pertain to the sale of the City's 2018 GO bonds that took place this morning. Uh, Maggie Burger from Spirit Financial who is the City's financial advisor is here tonight, and she's gonna present the results of that sale, and I'm gonna turn it over to her! Throgmorton: Hi, Maggie! Good evening. Burger: Good evening. Thank you all for having me. Uh, we have provided some information. We were here this morning at both 10:30 and 11:00 for electronic bidding. That is the, uh, the situation that occurs, uh, for these bonds. We will note that, uh, the$8,895,000, which is on Item 13 for general obligation bonds, Series 2018A, we are recommending that we sell those bonds to BOK Financial Services out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at a true interest rate of 2.5979%. There were five bidders. Um, we did have a discussion. There were only two bidders for your tax- exempt issue last year, so we were very happy,urn,with the five bids that were received this year. Um, part of that discussion is we did keep these bonds bank-qualified, so you are selling tax-exempt bonds as Item 13 and taxable bonds as Item 14. There was discussion with your Finance Director, urn, early on in the process, in an attempt to keep bank qualification, and we do believe that is what led to, urn, additional bidders,uh, versus, uh, being over that $10 million bank qualification amount. We have provided you a copy of the Moody's rating report, as well. I'm sure that you've been informed, but you have maintained and, uh, kept your triple-A rating from Moody's. We appreciate, um, all of your staff, uh, all different departments were included in that process and urn, did a very nice job on the phone and during the presentation, reviewing the presentation and all the information. So we....we, uh, strongly, uh, appreciate all of what they were able to do for us. Um, there were the five bids that were received on the tax- exempt side of things, the 2018A bonds. There was $184,000 premium that was This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 34 bid. Those are 10-year bonds and we, uh, have been seeing premiums. Those interest rates are a 3% all the way down, and again, to get down to that 2.59%, urn, they're gonna pay you money upfront to do that. Urn, that is something that we've been seeing for a number of years. Just a little recap, uh, last year your interest rate on your tax-exempt bonds was about 1.98%. We have seen the market, uh, make some adjustments since that time last year of about 85 basis points. Urn, not only from, uh, the Federal Reserve moving on short-term interest rates,but also, um, with the inclusion and,urn, approval of tax reform. We saw an immediate jump in the municipal market, urn, so...we're very happy to say that we really didn't absorb the 85 basis points, and we really are looking at about a 60 basis point difference between, urn, last year and this year's bond sale. Uh, so that would be our tax-exempt. Our taxable issue is $3,100,000 and this is, urn, your Item#14 that you'll be taking action on. This is, uh, we are recommending that you would sell then this to Northland Securities of Minneapolis, Minnesota, at a true interest rate of 2.5944%. Urn, there were eight bids for the taxable. Taxable was only two years long, and so we're pretty sure that's why we saw a...a great number of bids on the taxable side. Two years, uh, they're not having to invest their money very long. They know they're gonna get a decent return out of it. Urn, those interest rates, uh, were 2.35 in...in 2019, and a 2.6 in, uh, 2020. So, uh, there was no premium paid for the taxable, and uh, we were told late in the day that the taxable series, uh, even though it was bought by Northland Securities, you do have a local bank here in the Iowa City area that is going to be taking all of this off of Northland Security's hands. So, we do like to, uh, see that as well. Are there any questions this evening? Throgmorton: I'm not hearin' any. Burger: Thank you! Throgmorton: Thank you, Maggie. All right, we have a motion on the floor. Discussion? Mims: I would just comment, it's interesting, and I think again it's...it's a....a factor of our triple-A bond rating that basically the market has gone up by 85 bps, which is .85%, urn, and yet ours has only gone up about 61, 62. So it's I think, again, commending Dennis and the rest of the staff on what they're doing with our, uh, financials, that we're able to see ours not increase as much as the market is. Throgmorton: Further discussion? Thanks for your help, Maggie. Dennis, good to see you. Thanks for your good work! Roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 35 Item 18. Board of Adjustment alternate- Ordinance amending Title 14, "Zoning Code", Chapter 7, "Administration", Article A, "Administration," Section 2 "Board of Adjustment" to provide for an alternate temporary appointment when a Board member is unable to participate in an appeal due to a conflict of interest. (Second Consideration) Throgmorton: This is second consideration, but staff requests expedited action. Mims: I move that the rule requiring that ordinances must be considered and voted on for passage at two Council meetings prior to the meeting at which it is to be finally passed be suspended, that the second consideration and vote be waived, and that the ordinance be voted on for final passage at this time. Taylor: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Mims, seconded by Taylor. Discussion? Cole: I just have one question in terms of logistics. How will this work in terms of selecting the temporary.....I think it's a good idea,but I'm just wondering (mumbled) how will it work? Dilkes: Um, the pool from which they're going to be selected will be those who have been members of the board in the last five years. Cole: Oh, okay! Dukes: And...um, there'll be a call put out to all of them and whoever responds first or.......will be appointed. Cole: Okay, cause...the concern was if there's a hot button issue, sort of...how do we ensure that the person selected, you know, so it seems like (both talking) Dilkes: Right, and they're...if that person had a confl....I mean we would be (both talking) Cole: Yep! Dilkes: ....paying attention to that. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 36 Fruin: We thought about, you know,just...staff pick and then we'd be scrutinized for our pick. Does the board share a pick, I mean if you go back and rethink the Lusk house, the scrutiny on who picks that person would have been pretty intense. So we figured the best way to do it is just put out the call and first one to say 'me' as long as they don't have a conflict, they're....they're the one. Cole: ...trained and, yeah. Perfect! Salih: And this going to be only during the....for that matter only, right? Throgmorton: Just for Board of Adjustment(several talking) Salih: ....that decision only. Throgmorton: Yeah. Salih: Uh huh. Throgmorton: Okay, uh.....any further discussion? Hearing none, I guess we need a roll call here. Motion carries 7-0. Mims: Move final adoption at this time. Botchway: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Mims, seconded by Botchway. Discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 37 Item 19. Taxicabs-"Soft" Taximeters - Ordinance amending Title 5, entitled "Business and License Regulations," Chapter 2, entitled "Taxicabs," to allow for"soft" taximeters and for taxicab business licenses to be sold. (Second Consideration) Throgmorton: This is second consideration, but staff has requested expedited action, and I think the, uh, couple taxi, uh, company owners have asked the same thing. That was in our late handout, right? (several talking) Mims: I move that the rule requiring that ordinances must be vo....must be considered and voted on for passage at two Council meetings prior to the meeting at which it is to be finally passed be suspended, that the second consideration and vote be waived, and that the ordinance be voted on for final passage at this time. Taylor: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Mims, seconded by Taylor. Discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Motion carries 7-0. Mims: Move final adoption at this time. Botchway: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Mims, seconded by Botchway. Discussion? Hearing none, roll call... please. Motion carries 7-0. Could I have a motion to accept correspondence please? Botchway: So moved. Mims: Second. Throgmorton: Moved by Botchway, seconded by Mims. All in favor say aye. Opposed. Motion carries. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 38 Item 21. Community Comment [if necessary] (items not on the agenda) Throgmorton: Gustave, would you like to speak? Stewart: Hi! Urn first off I just wanna thank you for, uh, supporting this position. Urn, that it is, urn, great to have students' voices on the table and this relationship with the City and University of students has been a pretty good one, I believe. A collaborative one. Whether it's looking at, um, recently, urn, the unit lock ordinance or the apartment recycling. That these are issues that are community- wide, that affects students and the community, and that just continuing with these formal and informal relations truly go a long way. Um, so that being said, I'm excited to be the City Liaison for the next year. I'm excited to work with you all, urn....and, yeah, and I would like to introduce, uh, Austin Wu, uh, who will be the Deputy City Liaison. Wu: Uh,hello everyone. As Gustave mentioned earlier, I'm Austin Wu, a second-year student majoring in public health at the University of Iowa. I'm from Cedar Rapids, and I'll be taking over the position as Deputy City Liaison. So I am, uh, excited to start getting to work here. Throgmorton: Super! It's great to have you here, Austin. Wu: Thank you! Throgmorton: We go through a lot of unfamiliar topics (laughter) on this Council so it's....it's an eye-opener I think. (unable to hear response from audience) (laughter) This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 39 Item 22. City Council Information Throgmorton: So, uh, let's see we should start somewhere (mumbled) to start? Um.....hold on. Could we start with Pauline and move to the right. Taylor: Okay! It's been very busy last couple weeks with things going on. Urn, I know, uh...several of us were at the, uh, Iowa City Police ceremony,uh, last week, uh, with awards and the introduction of the new officers, which is very exciting and it's, uh, the diversity and the experience of the new officers was very impressive. Uh (mumbled) great to see their families there. The one young man,his mother looked so proud,beaming, uh, and we, uh, drew them from University Heights and...and West Liberty, and I was impressed that, uh, the young lady's former chief from West Liberty was present. So that spoke highly of her, and what he'd felt about her. Uh, and on, uh, Thursday I attended a public forum, discussing public employee retirement systems. We saw some of the data on that in our information packet and Susan touched on this a little bit on....on how, how much these cost, uh, primarily our....our employees have the IPERS system, uh, but this forum talked about the future of the public employee retirement systems, including the Municipal Fire and Police Retirement System. Uh, it affects our loyal, hard-working employees and, uh, I think everybody needs to keep their eyes and their ears to the ground on what's going to happen in the state, uh, with these systems, cause these are, uh, vitally important for our employees' economic security in their....in their retirement. So we need to keep an eye on what happens with that. Uh, and then upcoming things, uh, this Thursday, although I was confused when it was cause somewhere else I saw another date, I think is that the groundbreaking for Augusta Place or did that happen? (laughs) Okay (mumbled) Thursday, May 3rd, 4:00 P.M. for the groundbaking....breaking, which is, uh, exciting. We've been waiting for that for a long time. Uh, and then, uh, the other thing coming up, May's going to be a busy month. Uh, John had talked about getting to know one another and connectivity in the neighborhoods, and uh, part of our InvestHealth, uh, projects, we still had some funds left, so May is going to be our....our project month with a series of events, uh, coming up, uh, inspired by the neighborhood surveys we got that said that they didn't know their neighbors and they'd like to do things, uh, how they could know their neighbors, and they also said they felt confined and kinda depressed when they had to stay in their homes and couldn't get out and about. So this Sunday, May 6th, at 1:00 P.M. at Wetherby Park, uh, the shelter, Grow Johnson County and Global Food Project of Johnson County are holding a workshop about gardening. It'll be hands-on gardening activities, with tips on, uh,how to grow the plants and also some,uh, free samples, from recipes using garden materials, and also the first 30 families This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 40 get to take home a free tomato and pepper plant....and/or pepper plant. (several talking) When? Sunday, May 6th, 1:00 P.M. at the Wetherby Park shelter. And then Saturday, May 12th, uh, is a very exciting event. It's going to be called `Off- Broadway Music Festival,' and that's off Broadway, not like Broadway,New York, but Broadway our neighborhood. Uh, it's a multi-cultural music festival. Uh....and, uh, we're thanking Southgate for providing the location, cause it's going to be at the old Kmart parking lot. There's going to be a variety of music, uh, some, uh, Latin music and some blues and gospel music from,uh, various local artists. So again,that's Saturday from noon to 4:00 P.M. Throgmorton: (both talking) Taylor: Saturday the 12th (both talking) Saturday the 12`s. Food trucks are gonna be there on location, selling,uh, some food. Um, encourage people to bring blankets or armchairs to sit in, and uh (laughs) uh, if Maryann Dennis has anything to do about it, there will be some dancing. (laughter) She was hoping for a dance competition, but I don't think that's going to happen, but we'll see! Uh, in case of rain, uh, since it's outside location, it'll be May 13th, the next day, the Sunday, at that same location. Throgmorton: What's the title again? Taylor: Uh, Off-Broadway Music Festival. Throgmorton: Thanks! Taylor: And then lastly, Wednesday, May 231d, from 6:45 P.M. to 7:30 P.M., this is also a fun activity, uh, sport's night at Wetherby Park, uh, in conjunction with, uh, Iowa City Parks and Recreation. It's a family-friendly(mumbled) event with soccer and basketball. Kingsley! Skills' challenges, and youth activities, and, uh, they're going to hand out free basketballs and soccer balls to the families while supplies last. So that'll be another fun thing, and get people out and know their neighbors, uh, and do some fun, physical activities. That's it! Throgmorton: Kingsley! Botchway: So I'll carry on with some of the arts conversation, um, so I'm kind of dismissive, urn, on this particular piece,but Joe Russo was here last night. He is the Director of, uh, Marvel, uh,Avengers:Infinity War. Not exactly excited about how that transpired when I went to see it but, um,he was here and so kudos to the Englert This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 41 and the University for, you know, bringing, you know, relevant, I mean, like literally the movie dropped Thursday, relevant talent to the area for people to have an opportunity to have a conversation and discuss. Um, wanted to shout out to (unable to understand) and everybody else that works with him, the City, multiple organizations. Flyover Fashion Fest or....Flyover Fest, uh, was amazing. Didn't have the opportunity to go to all the events, but just the fact that it was in different places, you know. One was in the Library that I didn't even know about that I was able to go to, and it was speaking about a....a, one of our Ph.D., um, well one of...one of our doctors, um, who was able to provide a reading to, uh, in Jordan and do some amazing programs around that and Hannah Beachler um, who is the production designer, Black Panther, Creed, um, a lot of different movies, urn, was here. I was only able to stay for a little bit cause my son was with me,but I thought it was just an amazing opportunity to hear from her, at least the little bit that I heard, around, you know, finding your niche, you know, and....and going full blast,being able to, urn, work with something that you, um, clearly have skills on and just kind of finding that way. I thought it was awesome to that extent. Um, another thing is the Englert. Um, May 10th, Joe, uh, Jay Pharoah, is the Saturday Night Live actor that gets a lot of acclaim. He's a comedian. I don't know, it may be a little bit raunchier for the family-friendly co...crowd, but I'm excited about it, because again, I think it's bringing some talent to the area that, you know, you get at a....you get it, you know, Chicago,New York, and some of the other places. So, again, kudos to the Englert. Katie, Andre, whoever. And last but not least, Farmers Market tomorrow, right? So.....tis the season! I'm ready for it! Salih: Okay, for me I don't have a lot to report but I guess I enjoy the police ceremony. This is my first time and I....I really like the, um, diversity that we have in selecting police. Uh....this was great for me and I guess the event itself was really good, uh, to see like the family supporting, you know, the new employees. And also, um....in the same day I guess, yeah, I went to the....annual volunteer recognition for the Library. That was really awesome. You know for me like just sitting there and hearing the history of the Library, the old one and how they moved their books from the first one to the new one and all has been done by volunteer. That's what really amazing, and the amount of the volunteer there and the amount of the hours they put in our Library, or my god, that's huge! I really was really exciting to see our community helping like (unable to understand) our Library like this. And uh...on, uh, I guess Saturday the 5th, I will be speaking (unable to understand) the people for the City program, like how to open your business....business at the Kirkwood Community College and that's the one that's corning up. Yeah. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 42 Cole: Great events! Salih: Yeah. Saturday. Yeah. Cole: I don't have a ton of events to update on. I do want to call out though Invest Health, Pauline. It's really....awesome to see, I mean I know you guys have put in a ton of hard work over this past year, doing the various traveling and doing a lot of programming, but to see....to see it now manifest and bear fruit. I know there are other projects you're working on, with the project for the off Broadway, I think that's really terrific. I think the second thing is I'm going to be covering for Jim up here for an opening here in a week or two,but I think we should, um, exchange events that we can't make it to during this process, so just sort of keep an open mind as far as that goes. If you get a little bit stacked up with your schedule, you got six other Councilors to help out with, and so I really encourage one another to....to come ready to also share those other events that we can't maybe make it to as far as that goes,but great work, Pauline and Tracy and everyone that was involved with that. Thomas: Okay, in the spirit of neighborhood cohesion, um.....I wanted to report back to you all on the, uh, the dunk tank experience (several talking and laughing) At the, uh, the Horace Mann carnival, urn, and.... Cole: Can we do it again, John? Is there another (both talking) Thomas: ...sure they do it every year and....and so my.... Cole: How bout next week? (several talking and laughing) Thomas: ...tell you that I think the....if....if your strategy is to not get dunked, the best approach is to start....go first, because the...these folks haven't warmed up yet. Throgmorton: And who went first? Thomas: I went first! Cole: ...go last (both talking) Thomas: So Jim followed and, you know, Jim got hammered. He....he dropped three times, I think, so (laughs) Anyway, that was a lot of fun and it was a huge This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 43 success, and uh, was good to see the...the Family of Mann, as I sometimes call it, uh, attending that. And tomorrow, at 9:30, I have at the,um, adaptation plan for Terry Trueblood. This is with the University students will be held at the IMU room and (several talking in background) Union at 9:30, room 343. So that should be kind of interesting to see....what they come up with. Throgmorton: Yep! Mims: A few things, try to make it quick. Urn, went to the Civic Diplomacy Dinner. This is the Committee for International Visitors to Iowa City. Simon Estes was the keynote speaker. He was absolutely fantastic. It was...it was kind of an informal speech. It was really about his life, and his history, and um,just a very, very compelling, um, speech and...and sharing that he did that evening. So it was...it was very nice. Urn, went to the, uh, the Community Police Review Board forum last....I think it was last week. Uh, would again like to commend Chief Matherly. He always does a great job at these, and I think, um, I think that new face with the Police Department has been a....has been very positively received by members of our community. I think he does a great job in those. Urn, Jim and Kingsley and I met with, uh, some people from Kirkwood and....and two or three other individuals, with, uh, from Refu....Refugee, what was the.... Botchway: Refugee Alliance. Mims: ....Refugee Alliance. Just talking about the need for more adult, um....more classes for adult English learner....English language learners. Um, so just starting conversation, in terms of what can and needs to be done there. Um, again both Pauline and...and Mazahir mentioned the Police Department. I just wanted...couple things. There were four new hires. Two of the four were people of color. One was a minority female. Um, I just want to....I think it really speaks volumes for the fact that we are getting, urn, a much more diverse and qualified diverse applicant pool than we have ever had before. Uh, this comes under civil service rules in the state of Iowa. Urn, they are very stringent. They....it's....it's not easy to, urn, it's not easy to make an exceptional effort to hire diverse people when you have civil service rules. The...the way you have to get them is you have to get them to apply, very qualified, diverse people to apply, and that is starting to happen more and more,urn, that our applicant pool is much more diverse than it has ever been in the past. So, um, that was fantastic. We had a promotion,uh, but also the awards. It's, uh, Dick Lee's family is always here for the award, uh, remembering him and there's a couple of the others, Officer of the Year, etc., and I think people really appreciate that. I think they always appreciate, um, you This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018. Page 44 know, having Council Members and other staff there, and I think this may be the first time that they have combined a new hire, uh, ceremony with a promotion with the annual awards, and let me tell you, it was a packed house in here, and so it was...it was really great to see. Urn, John mentioned the thing tomorrow morning with the students; looking forward to that on the Terry Trueblood. Uh, Friday morning, urn, Merge is selling its...celebrating its one-year birthday at 8:00 A.M. So encourage people if they have a chance to stop in at Merge, uh, on Friday morning. On Monday morning, the 8th, they have their, urn, I think it's every other month Tech Brew, urn, at Merge, and this is where it's....it's always sponsored by Imon and they're talking with either somebody in the tech area or in this case next week it's Nancy Bird from the Downtown District is their key executive that they're interviewing, so always a great event there. And then finally, Thursday the 10th, uh, is the grand opening of Joann's....it's not called Joann's Fabrics. It's Joann's something else, urn, out at the Market Place, Iowa City Market Place, the old Sycamore Mall. So would encourage people to go if they can. Throgmorton: Well good deal! So....last Saturday, as John said, he and I got dunked, except I did get dunked. And I can tell ya, I wish it had been warmer that day. (several talking in background) Yeah it was fun though but uh.....Brian, the owner of No Dough, uh, on the Northside owes me one, cause he's the first person that brought me down. (laughter) Anyhow, he's a good guy. It was fun to do it. I attended the Racial and Ethnic Disparities Conference, uh, in Coralville on the 19th. I was really impressed by what Dr. Monique Morris had to say. She was brilliant in her presentation. It was really fun to hear. I made a keynote presentation at the Civil Rights Tour banquet on the 19th. At Old Brick. That was fun to do. On the 20th I welcomed members of the Pilot Club at their annual meeting. I frankly had never heard of the Pilot Club,but Janet Lyness asked me if I could do this, and the Pilot Club is, uh, was organized in....uh, I think Macon, Georgia, back in 1921. It involves females only and...and there is....it's like an alternative to the Rotary or any of those other kinds of clubs, uh, it was organized for women in particular, and they....uh, they thought of the name Pilot, uh, because it has to do with riverboat pilots somehow, but I don't know....I don't fully understand the connection(laughs) but it was fun to be at their event. I also had a chance to participate in the World Climate Simulation at the Library on the 215`. That was pretty much fun, and I know Channel 4 was out there. Jack Brooks was filming a whole bunch of it. I....I don't know how much he'll end up showing but it was fun to do. And....did you....did you mention the Workers Memorial (mumbled) So I know several of us went to the Workers Memorial event at the Library on the 27th. That was quite moving. I don't know, I've been goin' to those for 25 years This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 45 now and, uh....the.....the refrain, the original refrain, uh, gone but not forgotten is pretty moving...when....when we mention the name of a worker who died in the past year. Uh, there's gonna be a Youth Human Rights Award event at the Englert on May the 9th. I'm not sure when it starts. I think it starts at 7:00. (several talking in background) Uh, Stefanie was here, she was over there (laughs) over in the corner, but she's not here now. Good for her! And the last thing I want to mention is that, uh....um.....couple days ago I saw Taylor Mack perform at Hancher. How many of you have ever heard of Taylor Mack? I see John nodding. Okay. Taylor Mack is, uh....um, I don't know....I'm not very good at this...the appropriate language. Uh, but he's....he/she is an astonishingly good performance artist. He/she refers to self as Judy. So it....it can be kind of complicated for, uh, an old guy like me to use the right language,but Judy is an amazing performance artist. So Judy....sang....oh I don't know, maybe....12 songs or 14 or somethin' like that, that were profoundly moving, including Bob Dylan's "Hard Rains Gonna Fall." It was the second song Judy sang and it was so moving, you can't believe it. It was like it was crystal clear and really connected to the present moment. So that was quite the thing. And, let me think...was there something else that I wanted to say about Judy? Well,probably not. It was a great performance though and if you ever get a chance, I mean she really pushes the envelope. She's shocking to most people who are not....who've never encountered Judy. And there are a lot of, uh, older donors, Hancher donors there. I don't know what they were thinking really, but nobody got up and walked out! And...Judy's pretty amazing. All right. That's all I wanted to say. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1, 2018. Page 46 Item 23. Report on items from city staff a) City Manager Throgmorton: Geoff, it's your turn! Fruin: Nothing. Monroe: I have a couple things. Urn, I'll make a connection to the Terry Trueblood, uh, project. They are a partial recipient of; uh, our sustainability partnership grant program, so the info packet described the project just a little bit and this'll be the results of that. Urn, I...wanted to let you know about the Airport tour. We want to have, uh, Council for a tour of the Iowa City Airport. Uh, if you're available this Friday, we have time, uh, from....it'II start at 2:00 at the Airport. Mike Tharp is going to, um, provide guidance and it should be really fun. Uh, we'll have a second tour I think on the 18'h. So the...Friday two weeks from now. And, urn... the last thing I'll say is that as my new role as Interim Coordinator at the Senior Center, uh, Lorraine brought some great comments here, uh, talking about all the things that are happening at the Center and I can tell you from just the last couple of days really, um, couple things last week, urn, it's a really active place. There are a lot of things going on, um, May's older...uh, Older Adults Month and um, they had a new member breakfast last week, and I was really happy to see a good showing. New members, a wide range of adults, um, ages of..of adults that are members, and excited about what's going on there. So, urn, I invite the community and you guys to check it out. (mumbled) Throgmorton: Hey, Ashley, I'd really like to tour the Airport. Monroe: Okay! Throgmorton: But I don't know which time would be best and....and, if you've sent us emails, it's in my queue buried. I don't know where it is. Monroe: We just arranged this, so we can include it in the recap, urn, email that'll go out to you tomorrow. Throgmorton: Okay. Monroe: 2:00 on Friday. Yeah! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of May 1,2018.