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Home My WebLink About2020-06-16 CorrespondenceItem Number: 7.a. J une 16, 2020 AT TAC HM E NT S: D escription J esse Roling: D rinking water Item Number: 7.b. J une 16, 2020 AT TAC HM E NT S: D escription J oe Poch - Waterworks solar panels J . E lizabeth Maas - 1980's water works park aerial Beverly P rem - S olar P roject Kellie Fruehling From: Sent: To: Subject: To the City Council: Tom Carsner <carsner@mchsi.com> Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:24 AM Council Letter for Packet Water Works Park Solar -t� -7o b Late, Handouts Distributed (Date) Greta Thunberg visited Iowa City October 4, 2019 and told us "our house is on fire." She said we need to act now to prevent the worst effects of climate change in 10 years. The Time Magazine Person of Year came to Iowa City because she was impressed by our local Climate Strikers. They had accomplished significant action by our School Board, and then City Council, getting them to declare a Climate Crisis in August and create plans to take significant climate action. City Councilors stood with Greta that day and before the 3,000 supporters committed to do that. The City Council did promptly create a new Climate Action Plan. One element of the plan was to partner with others to create solar panel farms to quickly produce large amounts of renewable energy. After months of careful site selection, Mid -American Energy presented such a plan to place 10,00o solar panels at Water Works Park to the City Council. On April 7, 2020, the Council voted 7-0 to reject the proposal. What would Greta think? It is not presumptuous to assume she might restate her popular quote: "World leaders are behaving like children, so it falls on us to be the adults in the room." Iowa City should easily take on the mantle of leadership in response to the Climate Crisis. We created a plan that specifically noted the advantages of partnering with others, especially utilities, on projects to create new sources of renewable energy. Iowa City would have to spend $12 million to complete this project on its own. The project is a financial bargain with only the cost of leasing City land. We do not have the luxury of choosing who comes to the City with proposals. We do not have the luxury of rejecting this proposal without also saying the Climate Action Plan is only a piece of paper to make us feel like we took action. The original plan can be modified to answer legitimate questions raised by citizens. The Climate Crisis demands new ways of thinking and leadership equal to take on the 10 -year challenge before us. The City Council should reconsider the Mid -American proposal and pass it to support its own plans, and the 3,000 people who supported Greta in October and many thousands more who support continued action on Climate Change. Greta said: "Our house is on fire." What action would you take when you house is in flames? Tom Carsner carsner@mchsi.com 319-338-9335 Iowa City,Iowa 52245 This email is from an external source. Item Number: 7.c. J une 16, 2020 AT TAC HM E NT S: D escription K. Patricia Chong - R ochester Avenue S idewalk, F urther I nput PRESENTATION TO FOLLOW: By: _____________________________________ Anthony Zarzycki, Iowa City Resident 8. DIVISION II TECHNICAL CHANGES Sec. 5. Section 39.2, subsection 9, paragraphs a, b, and c, Code 2019, are amended to read as follows: a. For a county, on tim day of the ymmral elect±on, the day of the zeyulmz city e1ect±on, ULL the date of a spm±al: e]mct±on held to f±13: a vacancy ±LL the cUU11ty, UL U11 the f±rst Tuesday ±LL March in an odd -numbered year, the first Tuesday in May March, ur the Ylrst second Tuesday in August of—each—pear September, or the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. For a county_, in an even -numbered year. the first Tuesday in March or the second Tuesday in September. b. For a city, ULL the day of the 9mieral elect±ori, ftist Tuesday tL1 March in an odd -numbered year, the first Tuesday in May March, cr the first second Tuesday in August of—each-year September, or the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. For a city, in an even -numbered year, the first Tuesday in March or the second Tuesday in September. C. For a school district or merged area, in the odd -numbered year, the first Tuesday in -February March, Aprti, the last second Tuesday in lure September, or the sscand first Tuesday after the first Monday in September November . For a school district or merged area, in the even -numbered year, the first Tuesday in Febzuazy, the f±rst Tuesday ±LL Apr ±1 March, or the second Tuesday in Septemberurthe secvnd- Tuesday ±n Decmabe�. Sec. 6. Section 39A.3, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2019, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: NEW SUBPARAGRAPH . (5) Falsely or fraudulently signs nomination papers on behalf of another person. Sec. 7. Section 39A.3, subsection 1, Code 2019, is amended Section 7.05. Action On Petitions. A. Action By Council. When an initiative or referendum petition has been determined valid, the council shall promptly consider the proposed initiative measure or reconsider the referred measure. If the council fails to adopt a proposed initiative measure and fails to adopt a measure which is similar in substance within sixty days, or if the council fails to repeal the referred measure within thirty days after the date the petition was finally determined valid, it shall submit the proposed or referred measure to the qualified electors of the city as hereinafter prescribed. If at any time more than thirty days before a scheduled initiative or referendum election the council adopts the proposed initiative measure or adopts a measure which is similar in substance or if the council repeals a referred measure, the initiative or referendum proceedings shall terminate and the proposed or referred measure shall not be submitted to the voters. B. Submission To Voters. (1) Initiative. The vote of the city on a proposed measure shall be held at the regular city election or at the general election which next occurs more than forty days after the expiration of the sixty day period provided for consideration in section 7.05A, provided that the initiative petition was filed no less than 80 days prior to the deadline imposed by state law for the submission of ballot questions to the commissioner of elections. (2) Referendum. The vote of the city on a referred measure shall be held at the regular city election or at the general election which next occurs more than forty days after the expiration of the thirty day period provided for reconsideration in section 7.05A, provided that the referendum petition was filed no less than 50 days prior to the deadline imposed by state law for the submission of ballot questions to the commissioner of elections. The council may provide for a special referendum election on a referred measure any time more than 120 days after the filing of the referendum petition with the city clerk. C. Ballot. Copies of the proposed or referred measure shall be made available to the qualified electors at the polls and shall be advertised at the city's expense in the manner required for "questions" in section 376.5 of the Iowa Code. The subject matter and purpose of the referred or proposed measure shall be PRESENTATION CONCLUDED