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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-08-04 TranscriptionPage 1 2. Proclamations 2.a. Water and Wastewater Workers of Iowa Week Teague: (reads proclamation) And here to accept today is our City Engineer, Jason Havel. Havel: Good evening, Mayor and Council, uh, on behalf of the City's Water and Wastewater staff, I just want to thank you for this proclamation. These workers are dedicated, talented, and extremely proud of the work they do, every day, to ensure clean water and sanitary facilities throughout the city. So just a couple of quick stats on the water side. The Iowa City Water Division has 32 water professionals, with a combined 458 years of experience, who make and deliver two billion gallons of high quality drinking water every year and that is served to 29,000 metered accounts annually. On the waste water side, the Iowa City Waste Water Division has 25 waste water professionals with a combined 345 years of experience to treat and return to the environment over 3.2 billion gallons of water every year. They're responsible for maintaining 320 miles of sewer pipe and performing over 11,000 tests annually. So again, I just wanna thank you for this proclamation and the recognition for our water and wastewater workers. Thank you. Teague: Thank you! Thank you, thank you. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 2 1-8. Beginning of Consent Calendar — Consider adoption of the Consent Calendar as presented or amended Teague: Could I get a motion to approve the Consent Calendar as amended? Salih: Move by Salih. Weiner: Second, Weiner. Teague: All right, and public discussion? Um, this is a time for people in the public to, uh, address any item on the Consent Agenda. I do understand that we have one person that certainly wants: to address, um, Item #8.b., Maya Sims. And if I can have you raise your hand. I do ... yes, all right. Welcome, Maya! 8.d. Community Transportation Committee Sims: Good evening! Teague: Good evening! Sims: So I am the advocacy intern for Community Transportation Committee, and we know that decisions regarding Iowa City's transit are going to be made shortly. When these decisions are made, I am asking you to please keep low-income, second shift, and Sunday workers at the top of your priority. The current system fails to meet the needs of these workers and we believe that they deserve the same service that week -day, 9 to 5 workers get. When these changes are implemented, we request that you make all bus passes universal on Coralville and Iowa City systems, and that you extend weekday service to midnight and expand service to Sundays. CTC has demonstrated an immediate need for these services in 2015 study, in which we found that 40% of respondents reported turning down a job due to poor transportation. 35% of respondents reported that they have lost a job for the same reason, and 30% of respondents reported that they gave up looking for a job due to limited transit. Our study also revealed that the most difficult days to get to work or a job interview were Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and that the most difficult times to get to work were early morning and evening. It's clear that the current system is not meeting the needs of the community and negatively impacts people with low incomes. Why is it that only the 31 -day pass, the most expensive pass, works on both Coralville and Iowa City buses, but none of the other passes do. All bus passes should be honored on both systems. Expanding service to midnight and Sundays would benefit the many workers whose This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 3 employers remain open at night and on Sundays, such as hotels, food service, and retail stores. Now we understand that funding is a constraint; however, we also recognize and support the Iowa Freedom Riders demands to defund the Police Department and reallocate those funds in a way that benefits BIPOC persons. Law enforcement receives more than 20 times as much funding as transportation. We are also calling on the City to seek state and federal grants for employment - focused transit initiatives and developing public/private partnerships that enhance the affordability of transit for workers. To say that the money does not exist is no longer acceptable. Our community deserves these services and it is the Council's responsibility to find the funds to provide them. These requests are supported by the Center for Worker Justice, Democratic Socialists of America -Iowa City, Iowa Freedom Riders, Coralville Community Food Pantry, Successful Living, and the Domestic Violence Intervention Program. Please commit to improving the lives of low-income, second shift, and Sunday workers by making all bus passes universal and extending service to midnight and Sundays. Thank you so much for your time. Teague: Thank you, Maya! Would anyone else like to address any item that is on the Consent Agenda? Lori, followed by Audrey. Hello, Lori! Lori? Can you... can you hear us? We can't hear you right now. We're gonna go to Audrey and then we'll come back to Lori. Keith: Hello! Can you all hear me? Teague: Yes we can! Keith: All right! Hello, thank you, uh, for having us talk on this. Um, I am here, I am Audrey Keith. I'm the co-chair of the Iowa City Democratic Socialists for America. Um, and I'm also here to speak on Item #8, which Maya just talked about, urn .... and so I'm here to say that the DSA fully supports the letter that the Community Transportation Committee has sent forward to the City with their recommendations, uh, for how we can improve transit in Iowa City, um, and I mostly just wanted to share, uh, some of my like personal experiences with the public transit system. Uh, ironically I'm actually not a person who's been able to use the bus, uh, but ... in 2014 I was a job coach for Goodwill and I had many clients who some of them use the bus, some of them could not, um, and like a funny thing about working there is a lot of my job was actually to just give people rides to work at the end of their shift when they would get off around 10:00 P.M. or 11:00 P.M. and so, um, as a job coach, the idea is that I work with people, um, and then I'm supposed to help them work towards independence so that they no This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 4 longer need a job coach. However, the lack of public transit meant that there were certain people that would always need me to be there and stay with them until the end of their shift so that they could get a ride home because there's no buses available, and they could not afford a cab nor was a cab like.... something that they were like ... that was not an accessible form of transportation for them, and so I saw, um, these issues with public transit and how they affected my clients and their ability to work independently, which then also like affects their ability to like efficiently use their Medicaid funding because I would have to stay late with them, instead of like me coming to their earlier shifts and things like that. Um, and just experiences with my co-workers, having a hard time getting to and from work, figuring out, you know, where they're gonna live relative to their job or where can they work relative to where they live all depends on the buses for a lot of people. So ... um, I just wanna say that, again, uh, I'm gonna ditto everything Maya said. She really brought forth all of the important points and so as part of the DSA, I'm in support of the Community Transportation Committee's letter and I also wanna thank the Iowa Freedom Riders for bringing to light the like huge funding difference between the Police Department and Transit. I think knowing that makes it all the more urgent, as we can see that there is now ... there is funding available that could be reallocated towards public transit! So, that is all. Thank you! Teague: Thank you. I don't see Lori back on yet. Um, but if she does come back on we will honor her, um, comments later. Anyone else like to address any item on the Consent Calendar.... from the public? Taehun. Please.... Kim: Oh yes, um, my name is Taehun and I am international student from South Korea. So since, uh, I'm a student here, I ... like especially during semester, uh, I need to study at the Library like until like late night, even is on Sunday, and sometimes I found myself to look up the app service is already done. So ... if the like the service keep going on Sunday, and even at the night, I think it usually give me a better feel and makes me more (unable to understand) to study. Phefcheck: Um, I'm Taehun Kim's roommate, uh, Ian Phefcheck. I'm also a student at the University, um, and uh, for me late night, uh, transit on Sunday is really, really nice because, uh, walking home late at night by yourself is not always the most comfortable thing in the world, and to have a safe space that you know is going to be safe and drop you off a block from your house, um, means that I can stay out and work in my laboratory later or stay out and study later, or go socialize with my friends, obviously not right now, um, without having to worry about my own safety as I go home. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 5 Teague: Thanks to you both for joining in. Would anyone else like to address Council..on any item that's on the Consent Agenda? All right, Raneem! 8.b. Black Lives Matter Movement/Systemic Racism/Police Policies Hamad: Hi, my name is Raneem and I am an organizer with IFR. Um, I would just like to make Council aware that IFR will shortly be sending information regarding Phase 1 of our police demands and that we are urging Council and City Manager Geoff Fruin to, um, have the same level of discussion and progress that we have been having regarding the TRC with our police demands. I understand that, um, Council has been consistently updating the Black Lives Matter page that they have on their pa ... on the City page, as well as updating the, um, document regarding what progress has been made on the 17 resolutions, but um, after we send, you know, after we present Council with these Phase 1 demands we are hoping that Council and City Manager Geoff Fruin act more, um, you know, more ... to act, show the same efficiency and show the same, um, productivity in terms of making progress in terms of these demands, as we have been doing with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Thank you very much. Teague: All right, thank you. I'm going to count that as ... somewhat related to 8.b., Black Lives Matter Movement. And if anyone, uh, so the ... we're gonna continue to get public input, uh, and this is time to talk about anything that is related to the Consent Agenda. David. Drustrup: Hi, Mayor, thank you. Um, first just wanna back up what Maya said. Just wanna say thank you, uh, for everything they've brought forward to the City. I think, um, transportation issues are an important part of, uh, these, uh, systems that... that Council has talked about, you know, using the terms systemic racism, things like access to resources and work are very important parts of that. Um, so I also want to back up what Rancem is saying. I've been working with IFR in some capacity and talking with Raneem quite a bit, and urn ... and just wanna say that we appreciate you all bringing this up again and making sure that we can sort of refocus our efforts on the next steps of this. So some of the things, uh, Councilor Weiner talked about during the work session just before this, um, I think were... were some really important points using the language that we like to hear, like being, uh, sort of imagining what we were thinking about community safety and accountability to look like going forward, and so we really appreciate everyone's, um, thoughts about bringing in, uh, community input, um, specifically focusing on BIPOC voices in doing so. Um, so just wanna back up what, uh, Pro Tem, This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 6 Mayor Pro Tem said about that. Um, and then (clears throat) uh, finally just wanna say that, uh, those ideas that y'all are talkin' about, you know, how can we find these ideas, how can we outsource and get some models for what some of this looks like, some of this, uh, community safety and accountability. Um, this is work that IFR has been doing and so I think we're more than happy to ... to meet with you in the coming week or more than happy to, um, publish some of these things that we've been reading. Um, there's huge bodies of literature about what this looks like, about how to imagine community safety and accountability, um, that exists outside of calling the police for everything. So, um, just wanna let you know that that stuff is there. I mean community input is going to be really important. IFR fully supports that and needs that as part of this process, but there are also, you know, this work has already been done in communities all over the country, and I think we don't have to reinvent the wheel, um, but maybe some of these sessions that y'all are talkin' about, um, can also be sort of educational sessions, and, um, we're happy to provide you with some of the resources we've been using and collecting, um, to understand all these different models for community wellness and accountability. Thank you. Teague: Would anyone .... thank you, David. Would anyone else like to address Council? On items that are on the Consent Agenda? Seein' no one, Council discussion? Roll call please. Motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 7 9. Community Comment (items not on the agenda) Teague: This is a time where anyone from the public that would like to address any item that is not on Council agenda, now is the time to do so. And .... and this, urn .... uh, we ask for people, and I shoulda asked this before, so forgive me for not. We ask people to keep their comments to five minutes or less, and I'm gonna start with Sara Barron! Barron: Hello, Council, good evening. It's good to see you all. Um, I just wanna talk to you briefly, um, about housing. I'm Sara Barron. I'm the Director of the Affordable Housing Coalition. Um, I ... paid, uh, close attention to your discussion at the work session. Thank you so much for reevaluating the constraints on the Shelter House administered funding, um, to make it easier for families to access. Um, as you are well aware, addressing housing and keeping people safely housed through the pandemic, urn, involves a lot of complex issues, because housing is never a one -size -fits -all, um, issue. Um, and so I just wanna highlight a couple of things I want, um, you to continue to consider as you craft the City's response. Um, one is that, um, we are going to have many households that were receiving the $600 a week stimulus, um, who were not eligible for the State of Iowa program, and you have, um, considered that with the extras programs you've put forward, um, but even though they can apply for the State of Iowa funding now, they may already be behind. Um, and so they will be able to apply for August and forward, but they may still need assistance catching up on the previous months, and those are the kinds of,um, circumstances that are going to require a blending of the responses that are available. Um, I also want to encourage you to continue to consider the recommendation that was contained in our Housing Needs and Solutions Report that I sent to you all earlier last month, um, about paying the rent or mortgage upfront so that people don't have to fear eviction and foreclosure before they can get assistance. This is something that the State of Iowa program is offering. People can apply for up to four months from the time which they apply, and the safety and security that that provides to families in this time where we have an increasing, um, acute concern about eviction and the impact that would have on households, um, would... would be another level of support that I very much think, um, the City of Iowa City can .... can do an even stronger job of supporting. Um, none of you will want to be behind on your rent or mortgage, um, before being able to .... to access assistance for that, and we can certainly be a little more creative about how to provide upfront assistance to households so they don't have to fall behind, um, in order to access our assistance. And also so that they don't have to return multiple times for help, but they know that they have a three or four-month window, um, in which they can get back on their feet. Um, so This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. please continue to consider providing some sort of monthly rental assistance rather than only an emergency response to people who are already behind. We need that stability so desperately right now. Um, finally I just want to, um, to, um ... give, uh, a word of support to our non-profit partners who are taking the responsibility to keep people safely housed very, very seriously right now. Um, and we had some City of Iowa City staff and others from HCDC, thanks to Janice's recommendation, who did participate in a series of ongoing meetings to develop a really comprehensive response. Um, that promotes those values of equity and safety and stability and also a rapid response for families right now. Um, the last thing that we need is for someone who is struggling to knock on five or six different doors to get the help they need. So we're really pulling together a system that leverages the strength of existing partnerships and also creates new ones, so that people can go to one place, um, talk about the need that they're facing, and be met with the response that's appropriate for their situation, and we wouldn't be able to do that without the City of Iowa City's support, so thank you and also let's keep moving forward. Thanks very much! Teague: Thank you, Sara. Would anyone else like to address Council? If so you can raise your hand by, um, there's a little raise hand button. And I will call you. Seein' no one .... all right! Boos: No, I'm here! Teague: Oh, I am sorry! Florence! Boos: (laughing) (garbled) Can you see me? Teague: We can hear you. Please (both talking) Boos: Okay, fine! Okay, thank you very much. Um .... I'm very glad that you have these online forums. We appreciate that very much. I'm Florence Boos. I live at 1427 Davenport Street. I'm a member of the Iowa City Deer Friends. We know that you are preparing for a bow hunt this year. We are very sorry about that. We'd like to know more of what's in the code and we have also researched what the codes are in other, um ... districts, in Cedar Rapids, elsewhere in Iowa, and around the country to see what some of the .... items which are included in other codes may be. Now our first concern is to plead with you that this year at least we not have out of county bow hunters, which might be bringing in COVID-19 and other, um, infections. Remember that students are gonna come back, we think, August 2401 in huge numbers, and to add to all the uncertainty of that to have out of town, This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 9 uh, bow hunters might increase the COVID rate. Then ... each bow hunter should take out insurance, uh, it seems to ire that they should be similar to accident insurance that you have to take out when you drive a car. Obviously many different kinds of, uh, accidents can happen. We hope not to people, but certainly (garbled) to animals and others. Hence, somebody who's out at night. And so forth. So insurance beforehand. The size of the property on which the hunt occurs should be three acres or more. It's not appropriate to have a bow hunter in the city on a tiny little plot. Um. ... the person who hunts must get permission from the owner of the property in writing. There could be a form for this, but the point is it should be on record who it is, because during a bow hunt it's extremely inappropriate to ask an owner to rush out and say what's your name. These guys have big weapons, and the house owner might not, so permission must be gotten in person, excuse me, in writing beforehand, and also for the neighboring owner, because as you know the deer will run across property lines. Urn .... it seems to me that the registration or the bow is necessary but also the individual arrows. As you know, often a deer is found bleeding to death and then, uh, there's an arrow in it, and it should be clear from which bow that arrow came, so that one can see who is responsible for this death. Uh, and no trespassing on adjoining land. Honestly a homeowner could have four different neighbors, so even if the one neighbor has said it's okay, there will be other properties nearby. Urn.... another.... important concern for us is the minimum distance of the tree stand. Hunters obviously, um, bow hunt from .... from raised platforms. This should be a certain number of yards from the roads, from paths, and of course from buildings. So we hope that you will take these matters into account so that we can have a code that protects the citizens of Iowa City and, um, and minimizes some of the unfortunate and in some cases cruel incidents that will accompany such a bow hunt. Thank you very much for listening. Ura .... and I'm glad that we'll be able to talk about these matters at future Council meetings also. Teague: Thank you, Florence. Um, and I am sorry, Council. I realize that was 914 so.... Taylor: Yes. Teague: So ... yep, yep! Anyone else like to address Council? We do have a caller on the line and so if you would like to address Council, you can press *9. To raise your hand. All right, hearing no one else, um .... we are movin' on to Item #10. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 10 10. Planning and Zoning Matters 10.a. Conditional Use Permit — 4200 Block of Yvette St. SW —A letter of recommendation to the Johnson County Board of Adjustment for a conditional use permit to allow a commercial communications tower at the 4200 block of Yvette St. SW in unincorporated Johnson County Teague: Can I get a motion to approve? Mims: Move by Mims. Salih: Second by Salih. Teague: All right! And I see Danielle. Welcome! Sitzman: Thank you, Mayor (garbled) Council. This is Danielle Sitzman, NDS. This is an application, uh, from Steve Ward of Ward Development, representing AT&T New Singular Wire... Wireless PCS LLC for a conditional use permit, uh, from the Johnson County Board of Adjustment to allow for a commercial communications' tower in unincorporated Johnson County on Yvette Street, just south of Highway 1 and west of Sharon Center Road, shown here in the white, uh, outline. This is the surrounding zoning. The property is currently zoned, uh, County Agricultural. It's adjacent to, uh, some commercial devel... uh, zoning, County zoning, uh, both C, Commercial, and CH, Commercial Highway.... Highway Commercial, as well as, uh, surrounded by agricultural. Um, the County zoning code permits commerc.... commercial communication towers as conditional uses in agric... agricultural zoning districts. A conditional use permit allows for, uh, types of uses, not specifically permitted in a base zone, as long as certain conditions are met related to whatever the proposed use is. Uh, the subject property is located in the City's fringe area, um, but outside the City's growth area. So the inside growth area is that purple area at the top (mumbled) outside the growth area is, uh, located (mumbled) where the subject property is actually located. Um, fringe area agreements are a component of the City's comprehensive plan, um, this is a conditional use permit, uh, not specifically addressed by the fringe area and, uh, forwarded to us because (garbled) County's zoning ordinance that includes a City review of such, uh, types of applications. So in general the City (garbled) locate commercial land uses within the City limits, um, but this is not a typical rezoning. It's a rezon... it's a rezoning action just for one specific type of use, um, it gives us a more precise understanding through the conditional use permit process of the purpose, the scale, the intensity of any proposed future land uses. Um, in this This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page I1 case the underlying zoning would not be changing. So the land would remain zoned agricultural. Also in this instance we know that the proposed use is for a specific thing, a .... a cell tower, as we would call it. It's a 190 -foot tall mono -post style of communications tower. It's intended primarily to improve cellular signal service in the southwestern Johnson County area, and it will offer a location for a future co -location by other providers and, uh, further strengthen the FirstNet network as well. Prior to applying for the conditional use permit, the applicant did study other alternative locations where they could perhaps co -locate their facility. Uh, they found none that were available or suitable for their needs for the purposes of expanding their coverage area. The scale and nature of the proposed end use, um, will not require water or sewer. It is fitting for an agricultural zone. Um, furthermore the County's review process does provide a formal process for ensuring that the development of the site will be (mumbled) codes, including setbacks, landscaping, security fencing, lighting, maintenance of the tower, and eventual decommissioning of the tower. Uh, the ... parcel of land on which this tower would be located is highlighted in blue here. As I mentioned, it's adjacent to some commercial development in the County, um, it is outside the City's gra... growth boundary, um .... and the existing neighborhood character is large lot farm land and scattered rural residences, um, and its subject use would be located at least 700 -feet off of Highway 1 and 187 -feet from the eastern property line. Um, in particular this property does include a ... a stream, as you can see kind of in that spider web, uh, on the northern part of the property and can barely make out that there's a ... a electrical transmission line that bisects the property (garbled) to southeast. (garbled) permit process, as I mentioned those are included here related to standards that would have to be met. And the City did ... do an analysis of this, um, the communication's tower is allowed basically by the County in any zoning district in the County but for one, environmental resource preservation zone, which this is not. The fringe area agreement directs uses, um, outside the City's growth boundary to be consistent with rural agricultural character of the area. The County's future land use plan indicates this area is appropriate for eventual redevelopment to, um, intense commercial or low intensity industrial, while it's agricultural today. And communication towers can be found in both, um, agricultural areas and near commercial uses as well. So the overall character of the subject area will not be greatly affected by the addition of this tower. As I mentioned, uh, the process here is that the City provides input to the Johnson County, um .... Board (garbled) for them to make their, uh, determination. The County staff has indicated to us that they also intend to include several other conditions, um, and County staff would be making those, um, suggestions to their board (clears throat) That includes approval from the FAA for the tower height, um, ensuring that, um, compliance with all those supplemental conditions remain This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 12 and also the applicant did go through a separate County process to slightly alter the setback requirement that the County's ordinance requires, reducing the overall setback from (garbled) 10% of the tower's height (mumbled) roughly about 96% of the tower's height. Um, the applicant did provide a rationale for why that would continue to meet the safety requirements that the County is interested in maintaining. So based on that analysis of the proposed, um, project, staff did recommend approval of the application. And at their July 15°1 meeting, by a vote of 4-0, the Planning and Zoning Commission did as well. That concludes staff report. I'd be happy to answer your questions! Teague: 1 don't hear any questions. Thank you, Danielle! Would anyone from the public like to address this topic? If so please raise your hand. And I will call on you. If you're on the phone, press *9. And the caller on the phone, um, we're askin' all comments to be limited to five minutes and ... please, uh, identify yourself, um, with first and last name on the phone. Ward: Uh, good evening, this is Steve Ward with Ward Development. Um, staff did a very good job at presenting the case. Um, I just wanted to be here and answer any questions that the Council may have. Thank you. Teague: Thank you! I don't hear any questions for you. Thanks for bein' here, and would anyone else from the public like to address this topic? Hearin' none, Council discussion? Thomas: Well I .... I will be supportive of it. It's, um, it's pretty well covered, I felt, in reading the, uh, the staff ..the summary of the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, um, pretty comprehensive review at that stage and I think it was well, uh, well considered at that phase, and um, so I will be supporting it. Taylor: I.... will also support it. I, uh, I agree with John. We got a lot of pertinent information on this, and one thing that stuck out to me was that, uh... uh, this tower could potentially be used for many other providers too, as well as just a single one, which that... that's a good thing. Teague: Hearin' no other comments, roll call please. Motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 13 11. Amend Heinz Rd. Urban Renewal Area — Resolution approving Amendment No. 2 to the Heinz Road Urban Renewal Plan to add projects to the Urban Renewal Area. Public Hearing Teague: And this is .... I'm gonna open up the public hearing. And ... staff presentation for 11, urn ... well the staff presentation, and they're gonna cover items .... on our agenda for 11, 12, and 13. Ford: Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council, I'm Wendy Ford, Economic Development Coordinator. Um, this and the next two items are resolutions adopting amendments to three of our industrial urban renewal areas. Those are the Heinz Road, the Scott Six, and the Sycamore and First Avenue areas. These amendments will allow the City to enter into agreements with businesses and industrial users to provide economic development assistance for properties, uh, or for projects that improve energy efficiency of businesses and industrial users located within them. The goal is to reduce carbon emissions required to power their operations and help us achieve a 45% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. This is important because industrial users, and there aren't many of them out there, but they do account for about 27% of Iowa City's carbon emissions, and commercial users account for another 20%. That was in the accelerating Iowa City climate action's report. Lots of work, as you know, has been done over the last decade on climate action and last year in particular the Council, um, increased the carbon emissions reductions targets, um, also declared the climate crisis, and reque... requested a report to accelerate the City's identified climate actions. That report I referred to earlier, the 2020 accelerating climate actions report includes a buildings and incentives section, which includes this action item. Launch a TIF funded climate action incentive program aimed at reducing industrial energy consumption. So to encourage energy .... or excuse me, to encourage industry to make the sizable investment required to improve energy efficiency, companies will be able to apply for economic development assistance for eligible energy efficiency improvements. Upfront costs are significant, but companies that make those improvements will begin to see an immediate return in the reduction of energy costs, and over time the cumulative reduction in carbon emissions required to operate the business will be better for us all. So how will the program work? Through tax... through the tax increment financing capacity in the remaining life of these three areas. As you know, tax increment is derived from the difference in value between the year we first certify a Council -approved TIF project and the current value. The TIF increment is the taxes paid by the property owners in This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 14 these industrial areas, above the original or base value, and that can be used for matching grants or unqualified industrial energy efficiency improvements. Our local industries would apply for funds for their projects, which would be vetted by industry professionals and then would enter into a development agreement with Council upon, um, finishing that part of the work. I wanna show you the area, if I can. And ... let's see here. Well there are only two of them. Can you see okay? Um .... slide show .... there we go! There we are. Um, so as you can see, the red arrows are pointing to, uh, Scott Six and Heinz Road, and uh, Sycamore and First Avenue. They kind of march down our industrial area in the southeast comer of town, and t hose areas we're choosing in particularly .... in particular because of the, I referred to it before, the life that is left in the TIF district. When we set up an economic development TIF district, there's a 20 -year life span on it, and in each of these there are, urn, just a few years, if not ... in one case just one year left. And, urn, it is that, uh, tax increments from those areas that would be available for us to use, uh, on these energy efficiency projects. This is a little bit more of a close up that shows the roads here. Those are basically all of my comments, and I'd entertain any questions if you had them. I'll leave the map up if that helps.... for a bit. Teague: Hearing nothing for you. Thank you, Wendy! Ford: Thank you! Teague: All right! Would anyone from the public like to discuss this topic? If so please raise your hand and I will call on you. Seein' no one, I'm gonna close the public hearing. And could I get a motion to approve? 2. Consider a Resolution Mims: So moved, Mims. Taylor: Second, Taylor. Teague: Council discussion? Roll call please. Motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 15 12. Amend Scott 6 Urban Renewal Area — Resolution approving Amendment No. 2 to the Scott Six Urban Renewal Plan to add projects to the Urban Renewal Area. 1. Public Hearing Teague: I'm going to open the public comment. And would anyone like to address this topic from the public? I'm gonna close the public hearing, hearin' no one. And could I get a motion to approve the resolution? 2. Consider a Resolution Salih: Move, Salih. Thomas: Second, Thomas. Teague: Council discussion? Weiner: I just wanted to say that for all three of these I think it's a really... it's really commendable and creative way to use the ... the remaining years of the ... the TIF in these three cases, and I really hope that some of these companies take advantage of it. Teague: Agreed! Yes! Roll call please. Item passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 16 14. Deer Management — Bow Hunting — Ordinance amending Title 8, entitled "Police Regulations," Chapter 7, entitled "Weapons," to allow persons to discharge an arrow as part of an approved deer management plan. (First Consideration) Teague: Could I get a motion? Mims: So moved, Mims. Thomas: Second, Thomas. Teague: All right, and is there staff presentation on this one? Fruin: I can jump in and, uh, or Eleanor, were you going to handle this one? Dilkes: I ... I can. It's pretty straightforward. Uh, the City code prohibits the discharge of an arrow within City limits, except at an inanimate object. Deer are not inanimate objects and so this adds an exception for the discharge of an arrow in connection with the City's deer management plan. Teague: All right, any questions for Eleanor? Would anyone from the public like to address this topic? If so please raise your hand, and I will call on you. Seeing no one I'm going to close the public hearing. And actually this wasn't a public hearing, now that I think about it. (laughs) Urn .... I'm gonna end the public comment, and then Council discussion? (several talking, garbled) Taylor: Oh, go ahead, Susan! Mims: Oh, I'm sorry. Um, I will support this, but only because it was a matter of our negotiation with the Department of Natural Resources so that we could get the sharpshooting contract, which I felt was really important given the deer numbers in the city. I'm not a proponent, um, of a bow hunt within the city, but we have an obligation to follow up with the agreement that we made with the DNR. So I will honor that. Taylor: Um, this is kind of back to Eleanor, just a quick question. So this that we're deciding on purely is discussion of adding, uh, the ability to bow hunt, um, but as far as like the specifics of that, that's a whole other discussion for us if we wanna add some specific rules and regulations for that? Is that correct? This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 17 Fruin: Yes, that's correct. And ... and we're working on those now, so we've pulled as much information as we can from other cities in Iowa. We've been consulting with the DNR staff, uh, to try to determine what the appropriate rules and regulations will be, uh, for... for us here in Iowa City. Um, you can see the, uh, correspondence with the DNR attached to your agenda item. Um, we are looking at bow hunting only taking place on private property. So you may recall that we did do sharpshooting on .... in public property as well, but uh, as far as the bow hunt goes, that'll be limited to private property, and then, um, much like I believe it was Miss Boos spoke earlier, they'll have to put limitations on where. So you can't just hunt on any private property. We're gonna have, uh, certain characteristics of that property, permissions from property owners, and all those sorts of t hings, urn, to present to you, probably at the third reading of the ordinance, which will take place on, uh, September 151 if we stay true to schedule, and uh, with the bow hunt, uh, cannot start until October 151. So we'll have basically a month to work those out, if you see anything at that September 151 meeting that you want to change. Taylor: Uh, thank... thank you, Geoff, cause I think, yeah I had a lot of concerns about this, about the bow hunting, but, and I think Miss Boos brought up some I hadn't even thought of, so I think that'll be a good idea, and if staff looks at those concerns and ... and we can see those, that'll be great! Weiner: What is the minimum amount of time that we can ... sort of honor our agreement with the DNR (mumbled) and... and still have a bow hunt? Fruin: I believe we, uh, at minimum committed to a 30 -day, uh, bow hunt. Um, I'll have to ... double check that real quick, but I believe it was stated in the DNR, uh, the approved plan, that it would be a minimum of 30 days. Mims: I think so too. Teague: Yeah, it needed to be meaningful. We needed to define meaningful. Weiner: So in other ...I hope in the end that we will not approve it for more than 30 days. Fruin: That ... that'll certainly be your discretion. Our ...our intent going into it was to just mirror the ... the state bow hunting season, which would be much longer than 30 days, but if. ... your direction is only to conduct it for 30 days, then we will certainly follow that. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 18 Mims: That would be my preference as well, if that's... what will get us within ... as long as that keeps us in ... within compliance of our agreement. Taylor: I agree! Teague: Yeah, this was .... this one was a challenge for Councilors I know, uh, especially for me. I wasn't in agreement with the bow hunt, but ... at the end of the day, we really didn't have, um, any other option in order to get our numbers down, uh, with the deer. We needed to have that sharpshoot, which even that we didn't want to do, but we needed to do to get the numbers down, and we continue to see, um .... deer in our community (laughs) and hopefully, uh, we'll be able to do some meaningful bow hunting to even get the numbers down safely. So I will support this, uh (mumbled) without... without much excitement that's for sure! Fruin: Real quick, uh, I will need to .... I'll need to (mumbled) at your next meeting on the 30 -day period. Um, I do see in our correspondence with the DNR, um, back in May, that we ... indicated it would coincide with the bow hunt season, in our approval letter referenced our letter as well, so we'll have to see what kind of (mumbled) um, to ... to create a 30 -day window, but we'll ... we can talk about that at your second reading. Teague: Any other Council discussion? Hearing none, roll call please. Uh, motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 19 15. Council Appointments 15.a. Planning and Zoning Commission — One vacancy to fill an unexpired term. Upon appointment — June 30, 2023 (Larry Baker resigned) Teague: All right, and we're gonna have Council discussion at this point. Mims: Well if I read the packet appropriately, we have a gender requirement here, uh, for one male, and ... I think as we discussed last time, um, the one male that we have here is another realtor. That would give us three out of seven members on P&Z that are realtors, which I personally am not comfortable with. So I would like to defer this and request that all of us on Council get the word out to, uh, people in the community, men in the community, that we're looking for an applicant for P&Z that is not a realtor. That would be my preference. Taylor: I was thinking along those same lines also, Susan. Uh.... we certainly have a lot of folks out there that have urban and regional planning background that would be perfect for this commission. Uh, John can attest to that. Uh, so I would think too that we could, uh, although it says then after September 24°1 we can appoint without regard to gender, but of course that would make five females, two males, but uh, so be it if it has to be, uh, but hopefully any men out there that would be interested in this it'd be perfect. Nothing against Adam but, uh, yeah, I think three realtors would be too many. Bergus: I would agree with deferring for that reason. Salih: Me too! Teague: All right (mumbled) look like we have a majority, um ... wanna defer so .... could I get a motion to defer? Salih: I make a motion to defer this to next time (laughs) Taylor: Taylor, second. Teague: All in favor say aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020. Page 20 18. Community Comment Teague: Ryan Longenecker, we're gonna ... let's see, are you still with us? There you are! Longenecker: Yes! Hi, Council. Urn ... I don't have much to report tonight, um, I personally was in Iowa City on the first, starting to move things into my new townhouse and so were about thousands of other students, um, that I saw and I was lucky to not have to wait in line to get into an apartment complex. Um, but so students are getting ready, moving back into Iowa City. Um, classes for the most part are finalized as to whether they're online or in-person, um, and students can find those in their myui. Um, and that's essentially all that I have right now and we're continuing to work on, you know, questions that students might have related to COVID and um, so we're both excited and nervous, uh, for the start of the school year. Teague: Well, welcome back to Iowa City! (laughs) All right! This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of August 4, 2020.