HomeMy WebLinkAboutAmerican Rescue Plan Act Survey All Responses 8.15.21End DateAre you an Iowa City resident? Please provide your zip codePlease share specific suggestions that fall under the accepted uses of ARPA funds.Address economic disparities in householdsAddress physical and mental health disparities in householdsSupport BIPOC and women-owned small businessesSupport tourism and entertainment industryBolster non-profits and social service agenciesReplace lost government revenue and restore delayed projects and servicesInvest in water and sewer infrastructureExpand broadband access and affordabilityProvide premium pay to low-earning essential workersDisaster and severe weather preparedness and pollution mitigation Open-Ended Response8/16/2021 Yes 52240 5 6 8 104321978/15/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 3From the Iowa City Downtown District: Address economic harms to local businesses presented by COVID and support ways for women and people of color to enter the arena by removing barriers. Projects identified in the Downtown Recovery Brief address these issues. Specific projects include: Increasing resiliency of local independents by improving the business climate during winter (public art draw, improving the destination), building an "Iowa City" store that would be a retail incubator to support BIPOC and other entrepreneurs enter the market (more info to be submitted to staff next week), support for COVID‐impacted restaurants identified in the Brief. Similarly, the policies and funding recommended in the ICDD's Draft Advocacy Statement that would support the protection of "heritage" businesses and investments in historic properties that help preserve the spaces that serve independent retailers well. (COVID‐related property sales have added additional demand/lease rate pressure that threaten local independent stores.) Thank you!8/15/2021 Yes 5224576392104518support mothers, people that need better wages8/15/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 109357648Affordable housing, Fund Eviction prevention and diversion, assess community needs related to human services, assess existing human services, make access to services more welcoming and inclusive8/14/2021 Yes8/14/2021 Yes 52245 10287145396Capital Investments: 1. New construction and acquisition of affordable housing targeted to 0‐30% AMI (deeply affordable housing) and 31‐50% AMI 2. Renovation and preservation of existing affordable housing stock available for above income targets. 3. Establish a campus for nonprofit human service providers as prescribed by a Community‐wide Human Services Needs Assessment (see below). Operating Investments: 1. Ongoing funding for Eviction Prevention and Diversion—both financial assistance for landlords and program staffing, management, and administration 3. Operating funds to manage and staff Risk Mitigation Fund Project Development: Fund a community wide Human Services Needs Assessment and set aside funding for prioritized projects. The following are desired end Goals: 1. Comprehensive assessment of community needs related to human services. This assessment is a logical next step to determine the needs of the nonprofit human services continuum that provides essential and valuable public services. 2. Comprehensive assessment of available/existing human services. Identify commonalities between existing services and if/when similarities are found, identify the need for a separate or unique service. 3. Comprehensive assessment of human services field in Johnson County (non‐profits, government, and other entities that provide social services) to include: a. Assessment of Capacity b. Sustainability c. Network Coordination of organizations providing services and ways to share resources to improve capacity for small and large organizations d. Where existing services can be expanded or improved to better serve all populations. 4. Prioritize needs and services. 5. Identify ways to reduce barriers for services and be more welcoming and inclusive. 6. Identify transformative opportunities. 7. Identify ways to improve communication and education about the work and increase community buy‐in and support. How do we talk about the impact and cost‐benefit of the work? 8. Improve access to funding (ARP and long‐term) and consider ways to tie funding to impact.8/13/2021 Yes 52240 5 2 9 10147836funding for human service agencies will benefit many in our community; funding for emergent needs but also for capitol improvements which will be an investment assisting people in need for many years8/13/2021 Yes8/13/2021 Yes 52245 6 7 5 10238914The Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa's "My Home to Yours" campaign for supporting undocumented workers who have lost wages due to COVID.8/13/2021 Yes 52240 4 5 3 10289617Shelter House and services for unhoused people; more access to legal aid; more options for uninsured to receive mental and physical healthcare. Let the new federal infrastructure plan pay for those needs in our community and use this money directly for people who need it the most.8/13/2021 Yes 52245 4 5 2 107319688/13/2021 No8/13/2021 Yes 5224096781051243Don't use for illegal immigrants!!! Secure our borders!!!Please rank the priorities in order of importance, 1 being the most important. The list below indicates approved funding categories. Details will still need to be determined following further input.
8/13/2021 Yes 52245 4 3 1 2Safer bicycle routes. 8/13/2021 Yes 52240 21Excluded workers fund, hazard pay, cooperative housing, expanded public transportation, agrarian reform and only fund nonprofits that have other sources besides the government to pay their bills8/13/2021 Yes 52246 12An Excluded Workers Fund to give stimulus checks to undocumented immigrants and hazard pay to essential workers making less than $15/hour8/13/2021 Yes 52241 12Cheques de estimulos para los trabajadores excluidos y paga de alta riesgo para trabajadores esenciales8/13/2021 Yes 52245 12Un Fondo de Trabajadores Excluidos8/13/2021 Yes 52240 12Fondo de Trabajadores Excluidos8/13/2021 No8/12/2021 Yes 5224038216107495Actively help small businesses toward sustainablilty goals. This will save businesses overhead costs and help the city achieve sustainability goals. Fund infrastructure projects such as affordable and open broadband internet that can save households on utility bills, allow for more work from home jobs, and entice tech and next generation businesses to move here. Encourage businesses investments that keep jobs in town with matching grants and bonuses for jobs created or moved here like the state of Texas offers. Offer incentives to the film industry that will create local jobs and will raise the profile of the city and surrounding area on a national stage. This will have the added benefit of greater tourist traffic and benefit local small business. Put up a "Visit Iowa City" billboard on i80 that will encourage traffic to local small businesses. This would reclaim traffic that would otherwise stop in Coralville do to thier better visibility from the highway. 8/12/2021 52242 6 3 9 10254871Rental and utility assistance.8/12/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 2 10589617I agree with the priorities put forth by the Fund Excluded Workers Coalition.8/12/2021 No8/12/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 9 10685327Provide economic relief to the critical mass immigrant workers who have recieved no federal aid and are working in slavish conditions. Secondarily, focus on aiding people who've been exploited by the rash of small business in town that've come under fire for labor abuse, IE the coffee shops.8/12/2021 Yes 52245 1 8 5 10479326I would like to see the most efficient and speedy way to get funds directly into the hands of Iowa City residents who are financially at risk....rent/car payments/feeding themselves and their children. That direct support after a year and a half of dire circumstances seems to be the most important thing we can do as a city8/12/2021 Yes 52246 4 3 9 10761285These funds should not be used for Illegal immigrants. 8/12/2021 Yes 52240 3 4 2 107956188/12/2021 Yes 522458/12/2021 Yes 52245419352108678/12/2021 Yes 5224571963210845Recruit more mental health councilors 8/12/2021 Yes 52246 9 8 1063415728/12/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 1065123948/12/2021 Yes 522408/12/2021 Yes 52246187543926108/12/2021 Yes 52242 107942163858/11/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 7 106954288/11/2021 Yes 522408/11/2021 Yes 52246 2 4 3 10678915Prioritize funds to eligible recipients who are renters who are at risk of eviction. 8/11/2021 Yes 52240 12Addressing negative economic impacts means putting money directly into the back pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support. It’s the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid the recovery. Addressing negative economic impacts and disparities does not mean giving even more handouts to politically‐connected businesses8/11/2021 Yes 5224012345678910ok8/10/2021 No8/10/2021 Yes 52245 3 1 8 10246597Fund physical and mental health care for uninsured and underinsured children8/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 6 5 10278349Please balance the needs for direct payments of essential and excluded workers with the opportunities to bolster physical and non‐profit infrastructure for the long haul.
8/10/2021 Yes 5224612587693410I would like to see a community program that provides free access to therapists, family therapist, and psychiatrists especially near the south east side of iowa city. I know many adults, one of which being a sibling who recently had a child and is unable to access the mental care they need because of lack of insurance and knowledge/infrastructure. I would also like to see high‐speed municipal broadband that is owned and furnished by residents of the community be extended to all residents at cost to produce. Taking the profit motive out of what has been clearly demonstrated to be a modern necessity would overwhelmingly benefit all residents and particularly poorer residents who have trouble maintaining access because of cost. Their are examples all over the country of municipal broadband models working better than simply private internet providers, many examples exist in our own backyard. Cedar falls Iowa has the best high‐speed internet of any area in Iowa, out stripping average upload and download speeds by many factors and their model is a municipal one. Moving toward municipally owned and managed energy could also provide cleaner more affordable energy options to residents while also having the added benefit of providing community jobs and helping to meet city climate initiative goals. I have more ideas like a library for public resources but these are the ideas I've spent the most time speaking with neighbors, family, and friends about and researching.8/10/2021 Yes 84107123456789108/9/2021 Yes 52240 2 5 4 10367918Money should be set aside for those who were not eligible for previous federal money and support, including undocumented folks. I also fully support the Excluded Workers Fund!8/9/2021 No8/9/2021 Yes 52245312479510688/9/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 4 2Subsidize affordable housing8/8/2021 Yes 52240 7 9 102813456Working to restore lost government funds in order to keep projects progressing is very important. We also must restore the public’s trust in the safety of the downtown‐ so many people refuse to go downtown for fear of destructive protestors/screaming foul language, gun violence, and a lack of feeling safe. Supporting arts, culture, and the downtown is important to the vibrancy and economic well‐being of Iowa City. If all the people who used to spend their money downtown take their funding someplace else, there will be even bigger problems to solve. 8/8/2021 Yes 522408/8/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 10597618Rent relief, payments to front line workers, financial support to bipoc businesses, affordable childcare options 8/7/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 5 103876498/6/2021 No8/6/2021 Yes 52240 10697235814hazard pay for front line workiers such as front desk, housekeeping and other workers in medical field who have patient contact8/6/2021 Yes 52246 4 3 109751286If applicable, emergency funds should be allocated to another emergency. Climate change is rapidly affecting our community. Some of these funds should be spent on upgrading infrastructure, electric vehicles and busses, electric charging stations, and renewable energy. 8/6/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 3 10597618We should prioritize addressing poverty and disparities in this city. We should use these dollars to try innovative strategies to make this a prosperous and inclusive community for ALL.8/6/2021 Yes 52245617921048358/6/2021 Yes 52240 3 5 8 104672198/5/2021 No8/5/2021 Yes 52240 18/5/2021 Yes 5224087452110396Improve bicycle trail infrastructure so people can safely ride bikes in lieu of public transportation or owning a car.8/4/2021 No8/4/2021 No8/4/2021 Yes 5224083714259610Build a municipal golf course8/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 3 10495768more access to services in poor neighborhoods8/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 7 10984651I would like to recommend bus transportation for pre K children enrolled in the public schools. I would like to see more conversation about how to support families with young children who bore the burden of childcare and work during the pandemic. The iowa city school district offers free pre‐K, which is wonderful, but the required drop off and pick up times are in the middle of the day and make these programs inaccessible to working families who cannot spare the time from work or find alternatives (like private paid transport). Additionally, the city should consider ways in which to make day care more affordable, perhaps by supporting the essential staff of daycare workers. 8/3/2021 Yes 52244 108/3/2021 Yes 52245 9 7 104582613
8/3/2021 Yes 52245 5 3 1041267898/3/2021 No8/2/2021 Yes 52245 128/2/2021 Yes 52240 12I support CCI's and Catholic Workers demands 8/2/2021 Yes 52246 12A relief fund for immigrant workers who were left behind8/2/2021 Yes 52241 128/2/2021 Yes 52240 12Excluded workers8/2/2021 Yes 52245 12Stimulus checks to undocumented immigrant workers and hazard pay for essential workers8/2/2021 Yes 52242 4 1 6 10583972Less spraying and recreational mowing, protect our water and children by using native vegetation and gardens instead of grass monocultures. Provide tiny houses for homeless and mental health. Run off mitigation with aquatic vegetation and filtration fields. Provide free public transportation and safer bicycle lanes to lower automobile traffic and pollution. Fully fund The Center and after school ecological/gardening programs.8/2/2021 Yes 52245 4 6 7 102983518/2/2021 Yes 52240 4 6 3 5 2 1Climate change programs Rent and medical expenses for workers (as well as undocumented workers As a as info in essential jobs8/2/2021 Yes 522408/2/2021 Yes 52245125967843108/2/2021 Yes 5224223786951014"Investments in housing and neighborhoods, such as services to address individuals experiencing homelessness, affordable housing development, housing vouchers, and residential counseling and housing navigation assistance to facilitate moves to neighborhoods with high economic opportunity" Housing in Iowa City is unacceptably costly as a student. There are no affordable housing options because new luxury condos are popping up everywhere and the other apartments are run down with a single man owning most of the renting companies and monopolizing on that fact with rent spikes and poor, exploitative management. There is very little reason why IC should have rent for two bedroom apartments be 1800‐2000 dollars when cities such as Des Moines and Ames are 1000‐1300 dollars... Please invest in affordable housing development near campus. 8/2/2021 Yes 52245 5 2 6 101873498/2/2021 Yes 5224012345678910None8/1/2021 Yes 52241 12Fund excluded workers and undocumented immigrants. They do all the work and deserve stimulus, unemployment, and hazard pay8/1/2021 Yes 52245 12Fondo de Trabajadores Excluidos8/1/2021 Yes 52240 12Fund Excluded Workers, hazard pay for essential workers, and transformative cooperative housing projects7/30/2021 Yes 52245423567891107/30/2021 Yes 5224524356108917Backpay for essential works in this city is critical. 7/30/2021 Yes 52245314621089577/30/2021 Yes 52245149832106577/30/2021 Yes 52240 7 10469183527/30/2021 Yes 52246 4 2 5 101397681. Address disparities in availability of health care, including wellness care. 2. Make grants available to hardest‐hit small family businesses. 3. Speed up community improvement projects. 4. Help businesses to create more jobs.7/30/2021 Yes 5224541978103652Greenery and parks, which can be used as ways to mitigate pollution and improve water quality, are a safe way to improve mental health through exercise and being in nature. Converting the Hickory Hill development area into a city park with trail systems and water projects would contribute to public good and is available to all in Iowa City. 7/30/2021 Yes 52245 10674821593Use money to help residents replace lead water lines.7/30/2021 Yes 52240 2 5 4 10378916Restore affordable housing for people living in poverty such as the “lakes side” apartments that used to house them before replaced by high end student housing7/29/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 8 10937645Help those in danger of becoming homelessness not fall into it, including those who are not eligible for tax credits or the earlier government payouts. Help those who are choosing between medicine and food. Make people's homes healthier and more energy efficiency‐‐this could also provide jobs. Do government projects that provide preparedness and primarily local jobs‐‐that's my caveat for having ranked it 3. If the projects aren't that essential and don't provide local jobs, then suggest bumping it much further down.7/29/2021 Yes 523407/29/2021 Yes7/29/2021 Yes 52246 5 7 9 102146837/29/2021 Yes 522457/29/2021 Yes 52240 7 2 8 103541967/29/2021 Yes 5224517582910643
7/28/2021 Yes 5224685926437101Build a pedestrian bridge so that essential workers, low‐income residents, and students can safely cross highway 1 towards Aldi, Walmart, and other essential markets.7/28/2021 Yes 52246 9 6 8 10754321Pedestrian bridge over highway 1 for essential workers and people without cars to safely cross the busy road between residential area and Wal‐Mart and Aldi, shopping area. I see people risking their lives crossing that road by foot all the time. 7/28/2021 Yes 52246 4 1 2 3Could also use to reduce the effects of high property taxes, but lowering all residential property taxes by a small percentage.7/28/2021 Yes 52245123758946107/28/2021 Yes 52245439261758107/28/2021 Yes 522457/28/2021 Yes 52246 32154This is tax money, ie, borrowed money. It must be used only for matters usually and customarily paid for by taxes. This would include infrastructure improvements, and not specific uses for the betterment of all. Care must be taken to avoid benefitting specific groups UNLESS they were measurably disadvantaged by the virus. The entertainment and small businesses who remain in business have not been hurt as much as those which were put out of business due to Covid. But, the unsuccessful ones cannot now be helped, so be certain not to assist those who "made it" to the exclusion of those who did not. That is why I suggest that the money be spent for the benefit of ALL, not just a few. Infrastructure is the most compelling use.7/28/2021 Yes7/28/2021 Yes 52240 6 8 104519377/28/2021 No7/28/2021 Yes 52240 9 8 1065123747/28/2021 Yes 52240 2 5 3 10647918Don’t waste the money on consultants. City staff are highly qualified, aware of the issues and have an understanding of our community since they are part of it.7/28/2021 Yes 52246 3 1028164957Support the existing programs as the funds will run out swiftly,7/28/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 3 10478956Expand child care options, preferably offering flexible options/hours. There is a big shortage of workers and, according to most I have spoke with, affordable child care and flexibility is the biggest barrier to returning to work. Also recommend giving child care providers extra pay as essential workers. Providing health care for the newly uninsured and BIPOC communities who are disproportionately affected. (Iowa City Free Medical Clinic sees these patients)7/28/2021 Yes 52245 5 2 4 10168937Give a boost to local non‐profits providing services to people with disabilities.7/28/2021 Yes 52240217461089357/28/2021 Yes 522407/28/2021 Yes 52246 9 1064831572Increase funding for water and sewer infrastructure, including water main and sewer main replacement and extension projects. Replace funding for projects that have been interrupted or otherwise delayed by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Invest in creation of a municipal broadband utility.7/28/2021 No7/28/2021 Yes 52245 8 9 7 10312546Iowa City needs to repair its streets. The volume of traffic and heavy construction vehicles have had a huge impact. Ridge Road hasn't had any more than an occasional patch in the 17 years I've lived here. The condition of many of the city's streets is deplorable. The city needs to maintain what it has, and is doing a very poor job of it. 7/28/2021 Yes 52245 1 6 9 102345787/28/2021 Yes 522467/28/2021 Yes 52245764318952107/27/2021 Yes 52246163847952107/27/2021 Yes 522467/27/2021 Yes 5224023451789106Support to non profits that have been impacted by Covid and that support low income, disabled or minority populations 7/27/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 6 10179458Support public health expenditures, by funding COVID‐19 mitigation efforts, medical expenses, behavioral healthcare, and certain public health and safety staff; Please do not us these funds to further subsidize the City’s pet projects like Filmscene. This should go to Non for profits that benefit the whole community.7/27/2021 Yes 52240 10187523496No money for illegal immigrants.7/27/2021 Yes 5224521975648310More help for Senior Citizens 7/27/2021 Yes 52245 10893612475Need to concentrate on what has been lost over the past year before expanding service 7/27/2021 Yes 52245 10897642351purchase land to allow buffers that will improve wetland retention of storm water and its natural purification of water runoff.7/27/2021 Yes 52240 3 2 105148967I think the best way to use this money is to help our community feel secure and healthy . Use it primary for nonprofits like the Crisis Center that helps the most desperate people in our community get a food. And the Domestic Abuse shelter that helps keep our families safe from all the anger out there. I would hope that helping our community get back on its feet is the most important part about rebounding from this pandemic. I don't think you can do that until you address and help those with basic needs.
7/27/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 106213495Hire police and pay them more, hire proactive social service workers to support police. 7/27/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 6 10795418The black top on THE NORTH END OF RIDGE RD can use some serious attention ‐‐ the problem being that lumbering heavy trucks use it like a speedway/shortcut to either Dubuque or North Dodge, and tiny pothole repairs last only until the next lumbering truck goes by that's a little hilarious when the city seems to think that repainting the yellow strip each year is gonna make a difference on the curve when it's a wonder some of the trucks w/ trailers even fit. REALLY??7/27/2021 Yes 522407/27/2021 Yes 52246358916710427/27/2021 Yes 52245 9 6 105123874We need a new mayor , that isn’t creating racial tension in the community, encouraging people of protest to paint our fucking city , what a joke, and im sick of seeing all the racial paintings around town, turning this town i to a shithole like Chicago, and it looks trashy 7/27/2021 Yes 52246 1 4 9 105672387/27/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 5 104763897/27/2021 Yes 52240136475102897/27/2021 Yes 52241 10128934567Programs for the Adult Disabled like Field trips or overnight camps for the Intellectually delayed or any disability. Something like Camp Courageous in Monticello IA but in Iowa City. Partner with Harvest Preserve Foundation and the Arc of Iowa City. 7/27/2021 Yes 52245197845632107/27/2021 Yes 522457/27/2021 Yes 52240 6 4 8 10192573Invest them in the community in a way that helps the most people for the longest amount of time—I.e. supporting the established nonprofits and services that serve the most vulnerable in the community; investing in infrastructure that ensures clean water and air for all and supports public health. 7/27/2021 No7/27/2021 Yes 5224098152107346Take care of the people that took care of everyone while the pandemic was happening. 7/27/2021 Yes 52246 8 1 109376425Improve the availability and quality of children's education and care resources in IC from birth to age 18. Extend the preservation of natural areas and ease of availability for use. 7/27/2021 Yes 52246 109827341657/27/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 3 106748957/27/2021 No7/27/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 6 107845197/27/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 6 10458379Help renters behind on payments.7/27/2021 Yes 52240384671295Updating Iowa city infrastructure by improving our water and sewer systems to support more growth.7/27/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 5 101786297/27/2021 Yes 52245679851241037/27/2021 Yes 52245453976811027/27/2021 Yes 5224051392107648Increase efforts in support of gun violence prevention. Add injury prevention specialist(s) to city services.7/27/2021 Yes 52245 3 8 9 10451276The money should be spent to serve the whole community not just individual parts, that is why I think sewer and water infrastructure and broadband should be highest on the list7/27/2021 Yes 52240235819107467/27/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 8 103456797/27/2021 Yes 52240582319647107/27/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 9 108745367/27/2021 Yes 52240 9 4 2 10138657none7/27/2021 Yes 5224512396785410Push for vaccinations, especially children as soon as possible....in the meantime, masks mandates need to come back.7/27/2021 Yes 52246125736910487/27/2021 Yes 52245 2 5 7 103986147/27/2021 Yes 52245 7 9 1024136857/27/2021 Yes 52245 6 4 5 10278913Gardening and time in nature are proven to improve mental and physical health. I would strongly encourage money be used for expanding gardening opportunities, planting trees and other things that add health and beauty to our parks and nature spaces.7/27/2021 Yes 522407/27/2021 Yes 52245 6 4 5 10271983Provide healthy (not just carbs, fats) to at risk.people (low.income, obese, diabetics using food bank and nutrition all services. .Include food preparation and meal.delivery services. Measure how service.improves.health of targeted community.7/27/2021 Yes 522457/27/2021 Yes 52240915431072687/27/2021 Yes 52246 3 4 9 10217865Affordable housing is a key problem in Iowa City. The relatively small amounts from ARPA can only begin to make a dent in solving this problem, but they provide a promising way to start.7/27/2021 Yes 52246 2 4 9 10715836
7/27/2021 No7/27/2021 No7/27/2021 Yes 52246 1 4 7 10986325Please make sure PPE and means of quarantine are available to low‐income families and students who have no way of getting away from infected family members or housemates, or are caregivers to them. 7/26/2021 No7/26/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 10597618Funds should be allocated directly to workers who have been excluded from receiving rental assistance or government assistance during the past year. 7/26/2021 Yes 52240 12Fund Excluded Workers, give pandemic relief to workers who were left out of previous rounds of relief, give hazard pay to essential workers who kept society going during the darkest days of the pandemic, build more cooperative housing, invest in people not in businesses. No debt repayment for Wall Street, no handouts to special interests who have no base and are already overly‐dependent on government funding7/26/2021 Yes7/23/2021 Yes 52245 5 8 9 104621377/23/2021 Yes 5224053741281069Return and expand services related to quality of life. Promote active transportation for shopping, errands and recreation7/23/2021 Yes 52245 3 1 5 10296748Bolster behavioral health, particularly substance use disorder treatment, agencies. Provide family and early childhood support. 7/22/2021 Yes 52246398461102577/22/2021 Yes 07/22/2021 Yes 52240218543106797/21/2021 Yes 52246245831079167/21/2021 Yes 522457/21/2021 Yes 52246689754211037/21/2021 No7/20/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 109836715Expand public transportation, particularly options for people who work late shifts. Expand affordable or public housing options that are energy‐efficient and disaster‐resilient. Increase access to quality health care. Direct payment relief for people who did not receive EIP checks 7/20/2021 No7/20/2021 Yes 52245 6 8 9 104257317/20/2021 Yes 522407/20/2021 No7/20/2021 Yes 52240 5 6 1097834217/19/2021 Yes 52240 4 5 6 10392871Environmental remediation, resilience to Climate Change and green infrastructure investments such as rain gardens and green streets. 7/19/2021 No7/19/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 6 107819357/19/2021 Yes 522407/16/2021 Yes 52245234567101897/15/2021 Yes 52245 2 7 8 10194635affordable childcare, rental assistance, food subsidies7/15/2021 Yes 5224647632981015Build a larger, more equitable “new business mentorship program.” Work with refugee and marginalized communities to expand their business options. Invest in sustainability incentive programs which put local people to work. IEDA is doing interesting stuff with PAYS and it takes up front money. Invest in senior programs!7/15/2021 No7/15/2021 52240 3 4 5 1 2actual reasonable rental property repair and maintain properties for have alleys improve street lighting in residential areas stop tax abatements to developers of high rise apartments. freeze property taxes at the age of 72 clean up creeks and river areas 7/14/2021 No7/14/2021 Yes 52240 2 8 1 7 3 10 9 4Rent relief; food bank support; funding for arts organizations including Englert.7/13/2021 No7/13/2021 Yes 52240 12Monies should go directly to the people that have been affected the most or excluded in past programs. For example, front line workers‐ so called "essential" workers whether in a hospital, hotel, restaurant, child care workers among others. They need money to pay past rent, buy food, pay for child care. They will help the economics of the city by spending that money in our community. Many lost their jobs when they became ill during the past year or were forced to stay home to watch their children. No one should be penalized for staying home due to a pandemic! 7/13/2021 Yes 52246341510867297/13/2021 No7/13/2021 Yes 5224512753689410extra support is needed for not for profits like DVIP, Shelter House, The Crisis Center, etc. 7/13/2021 Yes 5224012345678910kip
7/13/2021 Yes 5224023481651079Providing essential services to low income households, especially BIPOC households, is of primary importance.7/13/2021 Yes 52240 1 5 3 104789267/13/2021 Yes 52246 105934612787/13/2021 Yes 5224582354761109Great opportunity to attract remote workers to the city. But without proper broadband access and being at the mercy of Mediacom, they choose areas like tiffin over iowa city. Remote workers are high paying jobs with minimal impact on city resources, but drive the economy. 7/13/2021 Yes 52240 4 1 2 105789367/12/2021 Yes 52240695327481107/12/2021132456781097/12/2021 Yes 52245 4 2 3 105896177/12/2021 Yes7/12/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 4 10367859Please support non‐legacy non‐profits like Houses into Homes, InsideOut Reentry, IC Free Medical clinic, etc7/12/2021 Yes7/12/2021 Yes 52240371921084567/12/2021 Yes 52245587961410321. Address affordable housing issues ‐ way too much high‐end housing keeps being built. 2. Fix roads that are in terrible shape (E. Court St, etc.) and any bridges that need help.7/12/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 5 104678397/12/2021 Yes 52246 7 8 9 10164325If possible, measures to prepare our schools for a second wave or future pandemic.7/12/2021 Yes 522467/12/2021 Yes 52245 10967431285Repave Rochester Ave. Stop requiring wasteful purchase of new lawn waste containers, it is bad for the environment to create thousands of new plastic bins when we already have suitable bins.7/12/2021 Yes 52240 3 7 8 10692514Essential workers and service industry workers have long been overlooked as skilled and necessary. 7/12/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 8 106953477/12/2021 Yes 52242 12Fondo de Trabajadores Excluidos. Somos escenciales7/12/2021 Yes 52246 12Businesses and nonprofits have benefited from multiple forms of relief already. The city says equity and justice are important principles so if you are to live up to those values you must fund excluded and essential workers first and foremost7/12/2021 Yes 52240 12Excluded Workers Fund!7/12/2021 Yes 52245 12Fund Excluded Workers, direct cash payments to workers excluded from previous rounds of relief, hazard pay for essential workers, cooperative housing, expanded public transportation 7/11/2021 Yes 522467/11/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 8 10365749Provide tutoring for low income students who have fallen behind but their parents can’t afford outside support 7/11/2021 Yes 52246 6 3 1048951727/11/2021 Yes 52245 5 9 2 10813764Improving climate resiliency and sustainability, update wastewater infrastructure to recapture methane, construct bike paths, improve and find social services 7/11/2021 Yes 52240 4 3 2 101789567/11/2021 Yes 52240 1 5 2 107946387/11/2021 Yes 52246 2 3 7 10584169Housing assistance for low income renters, assist public health Dept in communications7/11/2021 No7/11/2021 Yes 522407/11/2021 Yes 52246 4 1 7 103859627/11/2021 Yes 522457/11/2021 Yes 52240 4 5 8 109361277/11/2021 Yes7/11/2021 Yes 52246 9 7 1063514827/11/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 9 108756437/11/2021 Yes 52245 5 7 9 106218437/11/2021 Yes 52240254139678107/11/2021 No7/11/2021 Yes 52240 5 7 8 10493621None7/11/2021 Yes 52240A. I think this is a poor use of federal tax dollars at work. B. If we are going to use this, I would try and use this to lower ridiculously high taxation rates in Johnson county. 7/11/2021 Yes 52240342756819107/11/2021 Yes 52240 3 8 4 10179625Please prioritize services and support for the most vulnerable in our community. Thank you.7/11/2021 No7/11/2021213456789107/11/2021 No7/11/2021 Yes 52245 9 1 7 10562843Fix streets and improve environment with trees
7/11/2021 Yes7/11/2021 Yes 52246134756108297/11/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 6 10387945Affordable housing and preserving historical places 7/11/2021 Yes 522457/11/2021 Yes 52240 6 2 7 10159834Mental health crisis. Any and all effort to help our community with mental health‐ then other things can fall into place because we have a healthy community. And I think that putting money into BIPOC and women‐owned only excludes white males‐ and I think we are better than that. 7/11/2021 Yes 52243 8 7 6 105912437/11/2021 Yes 52245 3 2 5 108976417/11/2021 No7/11/2021 Yes 52246213451078697/11/2021 Yes 52245 4 3 2 101785697/11/2021 Yes 52240 8 3 1075642197/11/2021 Yes 52245 6 7 8 104123597/11/2021 Yes 52245 1 4 2 10786953Please use the fund wisely7/11/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 3 107689547/11/2021 Yes 522467/11/2021 Yes 52240 4 2 7 103968157/10/2021 Yes 52240 4 8 7 10562913Affordable housing7/10/2021 Yes 522457/10/2021 Yes 52240123961078457/10/2021 Yes 52240 9 8 1014653727/10/2021 Yes 522407/10/2021 Yes 52246132867910457/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 1093574867/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 5 10367928Provide equal housing, take action on climate issues, research on ways to increase sustainability7/10/2021 Yes 52240829457161037/10/2021 Yes 5224521475983610We need to address affordable housing and family care. 7/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 4 103687957/10/2021 Yes 52240 6 4 7 10982351Mental health needs are not being met per conversations with those in need.7/10/2021 Yes 52240 7 4 5 10362819Provide supported daycare so low income people can return to work Clean up the Iowa River Provide a space where very small business can get started, such as in former Luckys space. Fix water mains in older parts of town Reimburse residents for covid‐related medical expenses not covered by insurance Reimbuse all public employees for additional costs of working from home (equipment, faster internet, etc) Have large scale vaccination events at University of Iowa at beginning of semester 7/10/2021 Yes 52240216748953107/10/2021 Yes 5224082914106537Put in an outdoor amphitheater for outdoor concerts not just for jazz fest! Subsidize the First Ave Club! Also, put in a new aquatic center. 7/10/2021 Yes 52242 107231964587/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 522407/10/2021 Yes 52240 5 6 4 102178397/10/2021 Yes 52245213710965487/10/2021 Yes 522457/10/2021 Yes 5224012543810769Mental Health and fair housing has to be priority as well as fair housing and shelter for the unhomed. 2nd chance housing is very hard to find supporting our private social services so they can expand would be a solid, tangible return on the spending. 7/10/2021 Yes 52240217546938107/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 3 10986457Affordable housing7/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 53340 2 6 3 10984715AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Rent controlled housing that is actually habitable for living breathing human beings. Affordable housing please. 7/10/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 5 10782964Funding for schools, affordable housing, public transportation (and infrastructure for walking and biking pedestrians), parks and green spaces, reduction of climate change, supporting local small businesses7/10/2021 Yes 522457/10/2021 Yes 522407/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 4 5 103976287/10/2021 Yes 52242312748651097/10/2021 Yes 52245 4 6 7 105832917/10/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 105941362Fix the shitty water quality
7/10/2021 Yes 5224578964235101Increase funding for public parks Improve and expand public river access points Convert Burlington Street dam to whitewater park Improve roads and alleyways in the downtown area neighborhoods Improve and expand walking/biking trails7/10/2021 Yes 52240413621075987/10/2021 Yes 52240 10395472186It’s clear that access to strong and reliable Internet service was very important in keeping our community working and learning. 7/10/2021 Yes 5224547681935102Support infrastructure that builds a stronger and more secure food system. Field to Family and Table to Table are doing great work but need support to grow their impact. Also, the derecho and pandemic hit us all hard but more disasters are imminent. Preparing for those now will ensure we will be better prepared. 7/10/2021 Yes 52245 109687215437/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 9 5 10683274Provide property tax relief that will make housing affordable for everyone.7/10/2021 Yes 522457/10/2021 Yes 52240243811095767/10/2021 Yes 5224696738521104Fiber internet to more areas of Iowa City 7/10/2021 Yes 52246 8 3 1054716927/10/2021 Yes 5224686741052193Improve internet infrastructure! 7/10/2021 Yes 52246247513869107/10/2021 Yes 52240531786410927/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 6 104987537/10/2021 Yes 52246891541037627/10/2021 Yes 52240 109732154867/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52245541873926107/10/2021 Yes 52246 8 4 107163295‐ Support small businesses, regardless or race/gender. (Excluding people based on their race or gender is not ok, even if the intentions are good.) ‐ Support youth organizations (baseball/softball/soccer, swimming, Scouts, promote hiking, provide opportunities to camp) 7/10/2021 Yes 52240836195271047/10/2021 Yes 522407/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 3 10945678Home buyer grants or assistance. Similar to the Single Family New Construction program that was available in 2011 but don’t restrict it to first time home buyers.7/10/2021 Yes 5224018695102743Stop building empty business parks and luxury apartments. Clean up water. Provide help to homeless of ic7/10/2021 Yes 52246 8 7 1035614927/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52240 8 10924751367/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 6 105874397/10/2021 Yes 52340532741091687/10/2021 Yes 52245 8 5 109243617Why not support ALL small businesses in our community? 7/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52240324716895107/10/2021 Yes 522467/10/2021 Yes 52240123849610757/10/2021 Yes 52246 3 2 7 10546189Affordable childcare options for families 7/10/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 4 10397658Establish/supporting child and teen mental health interventions, inpatient and residential treatments 7/10/2021 Yes 52245584310691727/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 1035784967/10/2021 Yes 52240312461089757/10/2021 Yes 52240 9 1 5 102647837/10/2021 Yes 52245 3 2 8 10197645Increasing minimum wage Funding more social programs and housing opportunities for homeless7/10/2021 Yes 52240 6 5 1047312987/10/2021 Yes 52246 2 1 9 10475836It should benefit people who need it most not businesses or wealthy people7/10/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 5 107934687/10/2021 Yes 52245 7 5 102941863Not money to individuals. Money that will support projects everyone can use. 7/10/2021 Yes 52240 3 4 5 107216897/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 5224093817245106Tourism and resident attraction infrastructure 7/10/2021 No7/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52317 2 3 7 104856197/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 4 103576897/10/2021 Yes 5224512374910856
7/10/2021 Yes 52246 7 6 101853294Use for only REAL and CONCRETE long term projects that will benefit ALL.7/10/2021 Yes 5224525847391106We need fiber internet like they have in Cedar Falls (CFU) in order to compete for employers and educate our children 7/10/2021 Yes 52245568372911047/10/2021 Yes 52240 8 10374561297/10/2021 Yes 5224012635479108na7/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52245731826594107/10/2021 Yes 52240 6 1 108294573Funding to non profit food services (pantries, free lunch program etc), and the free medical clinic7/10/2021 Yes 52245 7 5 9 106248137/10/2021 Yes 52240324516789107/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 5 9 102837467/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 6 10397458Make sure funding opportunities are well know, as simple a process as possible, and available in multiple languages.7/10/2021 Yes 52240 6 7 103582194Things that benefit everyone. Not just people of a single race or sex. 7/10/2021 Yes 52240165832794107/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52240634211058977/10/2021 Yes 52246132659784107/10/2021 Yes 52246 2 1 3Provide services to enable the working poor and homeless.7/10/2021 Yes 52240123958764107/10/2021 Yes 52245124851063797/10/2021 Yes 52240 3 4 9 101876257/10/2021 Yes 52245682951431077/10/2021 Yes7/10/2021 Yes 52240125748106397/10/2021 Yes 52240216837491057/10/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 1094152637/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 6 3 10278549Finance the development of the new Forest View neighborhood. 7/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 7 103456897/10/2021 Yes 5224586327941105Trim bike trails and hickory hill park trails. Repave and expand trails. Enhancements and fix up the dog parks7/10/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 5 10498617Increase our woefully short supply of affordable housing, particularly in neighborhoods close to the city center (this is part of income disparity, etc.)7/10/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 6 105834797/10/2021 Yes 52317125841079367/10/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 8 104975367/10/2021 Yes7/10/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 9 10487516Frontline workers badly need support!7/10/2021 Yes 5224021345986107Mental health support7/10/2021 Yes 52246 4 3 109651278Clean drinking water is important for everyone 7/10/2021 Yes 52245324719105687/10/2021 Yes 52246 9 8 1074126537/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 522457/10/2021 Yes 52246 1 7 1095632487/10/2021 Yes 52246 7 8 104563192Make a contingency plan for the next catastrophic event. 7/10/2021 Yes 5224542351107869We need to address the needs of people who are losing their sense of security. We're on our way to people becoming desperate across the board and resentful feelings that come from working a job for under $15 an hour. 7/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52240134568710297/10/2021 Yes 52246 8 4 5 10367219Comment: I had "address economic disparities" as #1 and then realized that taking several smaller, specific actions would do just that, so I placed those ahead of the general category of addressing economic disparity.7/10/2021 Yes 52246 10593417268Address any government debts is most important. Then infrastructure. Then supporting those who have suffered most from the pandemic. 7/10/2021 Yes 522457/10/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 5 102768197/10/2021 Yes 52246 108961523747/10/2021 Yes 52240245711086397/10/2021 Yes 52240246371098157/10/2021 Yes 52240769581241037/10/2021 Yes 52242 1098435167/10/2021 Yes 52245 7 8 5 10941263
7/10/2021 Yes 5224597816432105Help local business and broadband. 7/10/2021 Yes 52240456839211077/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 4 10397856Money to the people and NON Profits agencies that support them. Rental assistance and housing funds7/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 2 104758967/10/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 4 109653877/10/2021 Yes 522407/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 5224587913105264Utilize funds to improve the city, don’t push the liberal agenda on those that don’t want it. 7/10/2021 Yes 52245769832410517/10/2021 Yes 52246213467105897/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 55245 7 1 8 103625947/10/2021 Yes 52246 3 6 5 102984177/10/2021 Yes 5224094658121073Reimbursement of lost parking revenue and parking structure failures.7/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 5 10378964Hhh7/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 2 10467859Take care of the people.7/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 7 101568497/10/2021 Yes 522407/10/2021 Yes 52246 102938651747/10/2021 Yes 52240531981047267/10/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 105731689Use towards city utility and internet connectivity services. Replenish any degraded savings that occurred related to the pandemic. 7/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 5 4 10396728Create more affordable housing. 7/10/2021 Yes 52245 4 3 1 105987267/10/2021 Yes 52246123541069877/10/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 1061234957/10/2021 Yes 52240347516982107/10/2021 Yes 522507/10/2021 Yes 52241 104956321787/10/2021 No7/10/2021 Yes 52245 9 10738541627/10/2021 Yes 522457/10/2021 Yes 52246 3 7 1092146587/10/2021 Yes7/9/2021 Yes 52240 9 1076124583I think we need to spend money to address infrastructure in Iowa. Specifically broadband internet in older neighborhoods not just new construction. I think we need to work on water infrastructure, and aid those who have been hit hardest by the pandemic. 7/9/2021 Yes 52240 10837126594Social services especially need boosting.7/9/2021 Yes 5224576851294310Assist small businesses and non‐profits in recovery.7/9/2021 Yes 52245124731095687/9/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 6 107814957/8/2021 Yes 52245 4 3 6 101792581.Invest in collaborative and capital projects of nonprofits. 2. Explore broadband connectivity (free) to low income households 3. Fund programs included in city’s police restructuring plan 7/8/2021 Yes 522407/8/2021 Yes 52246 5 4 6 103728197/7/2021 Yes 522407/6/2021 Yes7/6/2021 Yes7/5/2021 No7/5/2021 Yes7/5/2021 No7/3/2021 No7/2/2021 Yes 52245 6 4 1097125387/1/2021 Yes6/30/2021 Yes 52245 3 1 9 10254678learning nests and support for migrant families and children6/30/2021 Yes 52240 2 5 1 10698437small business aid specifically for businesses that had funds cut early by the state, aid for low income households and workers who had approved federal programs cut by the governor/state6/30/2021 Yes 52242idk6/30/2021 Yes 52242123756849106/30/2021 No6/29/2021 Yes 522462
6/28/2021 Yes 52240 21Please use these extra funds to get cash benefits to essential workers and their families, especially those that were unable to collect stimulus checks or are not eligible for other programs. The other infrastructure projects listed are important, but could receive funding through other means, such as reallocating funds from the ICPD budget. I'd also like to see broadband expanded through a municipal or otherwise public setup, rather than merely subsidizing companies known for sub par service. Thanks for reading!6/28/2021 Yes 52245562718439106/28/2021 Yes6/28/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 9 10874635Upgrade the traffic light system on the westside of Iowa city highway 6, to have the system synchronized to get traffic flow smooth.6/28/2021 Yes 52240431951068276/27/2021 Yes 522406/26/2021 Yes 52246345612710896/26/2021 Yes 5224667895143102Quality animal shelter, free CPR and first aid training, public guardians for elderly, job training for high school students, little libraries and pantries, meals on Wheels, shelter house and Dvip. Direct services to individuals. Parkland. Pay back property taxes of low income property owners. Fully find early childhood education in our community. The senior center. Free medical and dental clinic funding.6/26/2021 Yes 522456/26/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 6 105943786/26/2021123456789106/26/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 3 106978526/26/2021 Yes 5224015472983610The pandemic showed us that housing is critical to health. More funding for housing services for low income!6/26/2021 Yes 52245 2 5 7 10698314Funds should go directly to vulnerable populations and not funneled through organizations or businesses. 6/26/2021 Yes 52246763421018 96/25/2021 Yes 52246 5 9 6 108431276/25/2021 Yes 52240 5 6 9 10712843Work with Iowa DOT to keep infrastructure projects (mainly roads) progressing6/25/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 107986156/25/2021 Yes 52240412639785106/25/2021 Yes 52246 1 4 5 103269786/25/2021 Yes 52245 5 7 102934618If it qualifies, investing in parks, particularly city park and/or parks on the east side of town where I live. It would be amazing to see the baseball diamonds at City Park and Mercer renovated so that they can stay relevant as venues for youth sports in the summer. 6/25/2021 Yes 52240 4 2 5 101678396/25/2021 Yes 52440489162531076/25/2021 Yes 522426/25/2021 Yes 522406/25/2021 Yes 52245 1 6 9 10278435Rent assistance6/25/2021 Yes 52245 1please make Mountian bike trails in city park and hickory hill park. A pump track.. anything where my kids can ride off road6/25/2021 Yes 52240125961073486/25/2021 Yes 5224012385796410Create programs or invest in current programs that provide direct resources (money, healthcare, health services, childcare) to low‐income community members regardless of their immigration status.6/25/2021 Yes 522456/25/2021 Yes 52242 2 7 5 10413689Fix roads6/25/2021 Yes6/25/2021 Yes 5224054729631108Handle the things that only a government can handle: infrastructure, city maintenance, public spaces, etc. 6/25/2021 Yes 52244528374619106/25/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 8 107634596/25/2021 Yes 5224037458921610Broadband is critical to many other initiatives. Can't say it enough. Mediacom has a monopoly for the most part and no incentive to improve.6/25/2021 Yes 52245346571821096/25/2021 Yes 52246 7 4 8 109123656/25/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 4 105789266/25/2021 Yes 5224615462783910Increased funding for low income families, to help them compete for better job opportunities 6/25/2021 Yes 52240124638597106/25/2021 No6/25/2021 Yes 522406/25/2021 Yes 52240132675894106/25/2021 Yes 52245
6/25/2021 No6/25/2021 Yes 522466/25/2021 Yes 522406/25/2021 Yes 52240 1 6 5 103824976/25/2021 Yes 52245 9 3 8 104157266/25/2021 Yes 52240531928674106/25/2021 Yes 52245 6 7 8 10932541Stop urban sprawl, build new, build up, and renovate existing housing in already established urban areas without affecting our green space and paving over natural habitat and farmland. Housing within Iowa city is better for low income houses anyway since public transportation is already established. 6/25/2021 Yes 52245395748610216/25/2021 No6/25/2021 Yes 5224034796102158Mental health services and pay for health care and other essential workers.6/25/2021 Yes 5224512645108937NA6/25/2021 Yes 5224531274586910More money for local people 6/25/2021 Yes 52245129831045766/25/2021 Yes 52240238791045166/25/2021 No6/25/2021 Yes 52241126981045376/25/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 3 104879656/24/2021 Yes 52246 8 7 1 105629346/24/2021 Yes 52246 1 7 9 10385462affordable housing and fair leasing terms are few and far between and compound harsh conditions faced by iowa city residents during the last year. arpa fund distributions should be complemented by social policy that helps renters and poorer households.6/24/2021 Yes 52246 8 9 106472351Please invest in infrastructure that will survive and help mitigate climate change and other disasters, as these effects will also hit the most vulnerable communities first. Thank you. 6/24/2021 No6/24/2021 Yes 522456/23/2021 Yes6/23/2021 Yes 5224552391687410Bolster City's Non‐profit organizations6/23/2021 Yes 52240 7 6 8 10592134I would like to see higher minimum wages, more support for our local arts/theater scenes, making parking more affordable.6/22/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 1 5As a person with mental illness as well as living in poverty, it is a sad fact that stimulus payments lifted me out of struggling to meet basic needs. We desperately need to lift the weight of poverty when not in a pandemic.6/22/2021 Yes6/22/2021 Yes 522456/22/2021 Yes 5524012435789106Playground and park improvements 6/22/2021 No6/22/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 41Addressing negative economic impacts means putting money directly into the back pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support. It’s the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid the recovery. Addressing negative economic impacts and disparities does not mean giving even more handouts to politically‐connected businesses.6/21/2021 52245 1 5 4 102396876/21/2021 Yes 52245 1 108236457Housing for low income and affordable housing for middle income!6/21/2021 Yes6/20/2021 Yes 52240 1 26/20/2021 No6/20/2021 Yes 52240345872961106/20/2021 Yes 5224645263109817none6/20/2021 Yes 5224545278 39110I don't think the premium pay should be limited to low income employees. The risk to the families that police, fire and ems took is outstanding, and they did it without question. We should thank them with more than words.6/20/2021 Yes 52246 1 7 8 106954326/20/2021 Yes 52240 10893625417We should reward the workers that were unable to work from home. Firefighters, Police, Paramedics risked the health of their family by responding in to the community in a large unknown for months, we asked them to do this and they performed it without hesitation. They deserve to be receive a premium bonus as a thank you for the risk they placed upon their families in service to us.6/19/2021 Yes 52245134729105686/19/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 4 2 56/19/2021 Yes
6/18/2021 Yes 5224578961021435Please take care of failing water pipes, sewer pipes, and roads in Iowa City's oldest sections. Please bury electric lines, etc underground. Iowa City would function and look better and these construction projects would benefit the citizens with paid jobs.6/18/2021 Yes 52245894672151036/18/2021 Yes6/17/2021 No6/17/2021 52732849375261016/17/2021 Yes 52240 4 5 1 103986276/17/2021 Yes 522452136/17/2021 No6/17/2021 Yes 52245 1 5 4 102976386/17/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 1059214636/17/2021 Yes 5224014237568910Money to bipoc6/17/2021 Yes 52240432619710856/16/2021 Yes 52245168729351046/16/2021 Yes 52245132459106786/16/2021 Yes 5224512594687310None6/16/2021 Yes 52245 9 5 8 102741636/16/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 2 10497658Any program that reduces homelessness, crisis teams to intervene where there is a mental health emergency, fund domestic violence shelter and people formerly incarcerated. I see no mention of people with disabilities who have suffered terribly during the pandemic being shut indoors and denied social enrichment programs and job training. 6/16/2021 Yes 5224623584671019Our Service Industry is struggling to rehire. It is a chicken or the egg type situation where they want to pay their employees more to attract the best candidates which in turn will help their business thrive, but 2020 has strained their financial situation to provide that. If these restaurants, bars, hotels and entertainment venues could supply a payroll report demonstrating they are using funding to support a bump in pay initially then over time the business steps down from the funding as business returns and adjust their profits internally to sustain that wage permanently. 6/15/2021 Yes 52240 12Please pass an Excluded Workers Fund to give direct relief to those who were left behind. This fund should be administered by the government, not businesses or nonprofits.6/15/2021 Yes6/15/2021 Yes 52240 7 3 1081964526/15/2021 Yes 52240 12Public money should be used for the common good. All these businesses and nonprofits want the money for themselves, but it should go directly into the back pockets of workers and people. I support the Excluded Workers Fund in their demands and ask that you implement them without delay. 6/15/2021 Yes 522406/15/2021 Yes 5224587961041253Increase city owned affordable housing by buying existing multi family units on the market at far less cost than new.6/15/2021 Yes 52240 12The money needs to go to essential and excluded workers who did not receive pandemic relief or hazard pay. No strings attached. No third party profiteers. The money needs to go into the back pockets of the workers. Not businesses. Not nonprofits. Real people. 6/15/2021 Yes 52245 12Un fondo trabajadores excluidos 6/15/2021 Yes 52240 12An Excluded Workers Fund with $3,200 checks to every undocumented immigrant, previously incarcerated person, and unemployed worker who did not get relief in previous rounds. Plus $1,666 in hazard pay bonuses for 12,000 low‐wage essential workers making less than $15/hour. New affordable housing units should be cooperatively‐owned in community land trusts, like the Catholic Worker House. No more government support for favored businesses or nonprofits. The money needs to go to people and workers, not institutions, owners, bosses, directors, or landlords. 6/15/2021 Yes6/15/2021 Yes 52245 21Addressing negative economic impacts means putting money directly into the back pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support. It’s the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid the recovery. Addressing negative economic impacts and disparities does not mean giving even more handouts to politically‐connected businesses.6/15/2021 Yes 52250 1 2 6 10843759After the difficulties many people faced this past year, I would like to see more accessible mental health services for people who may not be able to afford therapy or know where to turn to. Being healthy mentally and emotionally is crucial to being a successful member of your community.6/15/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 4 10598627I believe strongly that we need to first care for the most needy people in our community by using the funds to provide a reasonable standard of living and wages sufficient to cover all the necessities of life for a family. Everything else needs to take a back seat.
6/15/2021 Yes 52246 10 1 2976345mental health funding6/15/2021 Yes 52245 3 1 2Support [truly] small businesses and business owners that were crippled by the covid response, including those business owners forced to close.6/15/2021 No6/15/2021 Yes 522456/14/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 5 10296847Use these funds in the most progressive way you can. It is a gift, make it a gift to the community. Don't do something short sighted with it or predictable. Make this a profoundly progressive investment that we can be proud of as a community. 6/14/2021 Yes 5224657381296410General funding of initiatives which address gaps that have widened post‐covid. So many of our community's households are food insecure, at risk of eviction, or lacking healthcare or sufficient resources. Funding childcare/education services to give families and young learners additional supports after a challenging year. Also ‐ greater support for nonprofits/programs assisting those transitioning out of homelessness or trying to retain housing. Expansion of mental health resources. This year also showed us how critical access to high speed internet has become. Too many ideas to list...6/14/2021 Yes 5224032894106517Hazard pay for essential workers and direct cash payments for excluded workers, undocumented workers and formerly incarcerated people.6/14/2021 Yes 52246 7 6 9 10142358Affordable, safe housing6/14/2021 Yes 52246128931054676/14/2021 Yes 5224046815372109Help the small businesses that employee our friends and neighbors and pay the taxes that allow the city to work. Jobs solve nearly every issue on your list. 6/14/2021 Yes 52240546171083926/14/2021 Yes 52246 7 6 8 104213956/14/2021 Yes 5224537294106518Relief for financial losses due to COVID‐19 (job loss/medical bills‐loss of insurance/rent and mortgage payments). wage increases for workers who couldn't earn from home. Mental health services for front line/essential workers.6/14/2021 No6/14/2021 Yes 52240 7 4 1056321891. Continue to fund the police department and allocate funding for training on the social needs and communicating with those that have mental health issues. 2. Figure out a way to allocate funds to affordable housing. Incentivize ways to help developers develop smaller lots for smaller homes.6/14/2021 Yes 52245 1 4 3 10657829Use the money for the excluded workers; those workers who were “essential “ during the pandemic, immigrants who were unable to receive any of the pandemic funding, others similarly situated.6/14/2021 Yes 5224667895102134Broadband expansion, disaster preparedness, social services6/14/2021 Yes 5224676984121035Affordable housing or grants targeted at encouraging essential workers (including health care and law enforcement ) to live in the communities they serve6/14/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 3 10475689it would be nice to see an expansion of low cost fiber internet to low income neighborhoods. and if possible to the rest of the city as well. potentially the starting of a city wide city provided internet so that we don't have to rely on companies like mediacom and century link who are wildly overpriced and unreliable. I think a lot of people would be willing to pay some sort of city utility tax for that. 6/14/2021 No6/14/2021 Yes 52240 21The most effective way to address poverty and help recovery is directly financially returning money to essential and excluded workers who need it the most but received the least support. This is what addressing negative economic impacts means. Addressing negative economic impacts is NOT giving even more handouts to politically‐connected businesses.6/14/2021 Yes 52240248513697106/14/2021 No6/14/2021 No6/14/2021 52240126431079856/14/2021 Yes 5224524591831076Donate to agencies that help with rapid rehousing and rehoming for Iowa city residents6/14/2021 Yes 52245 5 6 9 10273481Address climate change by reducing waste, increasing efficiency (e.g. heating, cooling, lighting), and using greener utilities (e.g. electric, heating, water). Support home building by requiring homes be oriented to take advantage of solar and other environment requirements. Climate change is a preventable disaster, just like the pandemic. Let's do everything we can.6/14/2021 Yes 52245 231This money needs to go DIRECTLY to the people––essential and excluded workers. It should not be going to businesses.6/14/2021 Yes 52240 3 2 1095471866/14/2021 Yes 52240 10672813495Return it to the taxpayers, since the funds don't currently exist. It's a loan against our children. Do it for the kids‐‐don't spend it at all.
6/14/2021 Yes 52240231I think the people who have had to work during the Covid and never stopped should get money for being on the job and keeping everything going. They didn't get extra money from the government, but had to work providing health care, all the trade people keeping homes safe and secure HVAC, Electricians, plumbers, etc. They worked thru while other people stayed home and collected checks. It's their turn to get a check for working in horrible conditions. Also we need our roads and bridges taken care of.6/14/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 3 101967586/14/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 7 105824696/14/2021 Yes 5224086957431102Introduce a city wide internet co‐op to compete with the private companies that have poor service and high prices. Also focus on pollution mitigation efforts and climate change.6/14/2021 Yes 5224637215 66/14/2021 Yes 52245 1 5 2 10376849Rent and utilities, unemployment, 6/14/2021 Yes 52240 2 31I believe it is most important to get funds directly to essential and excluded workers who need it most but who have received the least support. I've seen the impact on families left out thus far. It is heartbreaking. This is the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid recovery. Addressing negative economic impacts and disparities does not mean giving even more handouts to politically‐connected businesses. It is concerning to me that many who work in Iowa City, cannot afford to live in Iowa City. So I would suggest going to businesses be contingent on raising wages to workers. However, again it would be most helpful to provide direct payments to those who work in Iowa City. Along those lines, funds given to property owners could be contingent on lower rents, more affordable housing and property upkeep. Additionally, I wish this survey would be provided in hard copy for those without access to computers, and in Spanish and other languages as well. 6/14/2021 Yes 5224517895243106in‐fill low‐income housing development in older neighborhoods.6/14/2021 Yes 52245 109826143756/14/2021 Yes 52246451362789106/14/2021 Yes 52245142356789106/14/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 3 104975686/14/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 6 10795438Disperse6/14/2021 Yes 52245124891067536/14/2021 Yes 52245 5 2 1 103984676/14/2021 Yes 52245 1 5 4 10397826I would like to see our city address the immediate needs of those most impacted by the pandemic in perilous ways, $ to those who lost jobs and are still unemployed, those affected by contracting covid, and the unhoused . Secondly I would hope to see us prioritize small, really small, businesses, those who make Iowa City what it is, those with 1‐6 or 7 employees with very little cushion to weather an event likethis.6/14/2021 Yes 5224025683794110repurposing the Rec Center building downtown to be a center to support people in our community would be a great place to start‐‐it could be a true "center for our community". It is a perfect location for a child care center, a community center for teens that has broadband, as well as a space to provide an outlet for not only physical activity, but a space where those who need it can find mentors or other supports. This wouldn't land all on City staff, but could be some sort of partnership between the City and non‐profits to address community needs in an innovative way. 6/14/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 1Pay to support workers MUST include undocumented workers. It needs to include hazard pay for all of the time spent on the front lines during the pandemic; these workers need to be compensated with backpay hazard pay for the work they've been doing since the beginning of the pandemic. Helping these communities means putting money directly into their pockets with minimal roadblocks and bureaucracy. It needs to be accessible to ALL low wage workers, including those who do not speak English. This money should not be going to businesses who already have had support and who have political connections and it should not be going to the city of Iowa City. It needs to go directly to those who are the most vulnerable. Also, this survey should be provided in multiple languages so as to not exclude members of our community. 6/14/2021 Yes 52246254967831106/14/2021 Yes 5224012695107438Support mental health disparities; Support broadband availability for all; Make affordable child care available.6/14/2021 Yes 52240321410968756/14/2021 Yes 52245 4 1 7 103652896/14/2021 Yes 52246 1 6 5 107824396/14/2021 Yes 52245325641071896/14/2021 Yes 52240 6 1 9 102354786/14/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 5 10678139As far as “delayed projects” go‐there are a few roads on the east side that need to be replaced (Court Street near City High, parts of Rochester Ave) I’m hoping there is a plan specifically to replace some of these in the near future.
6/14/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 6 10547928ARPA should be used to replace lost income for citizens of Iowa City. This includes individuals considered essential that had to work at the height of the pandemic at personal risk of infection and infection of their families. 6/14/2021 Yes 52240869142371056/14/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 1046837956/14/2021 Yes 52246 6 5 4 108231796/14/2021 Yes 52240 101732458966/14/2021 Yes 52240 3 7 101452689Support small business who was ravaged by the pandemic 6/14/2021 Yes6/14/2021 No6/14/2021 Yes 522466/14/2021 Yes 52240 1 5 102639487That it should happen small business like mine ...Barbershop6/13/2021 Yes 5224017895106423I hope to receive more assistance since I was laid off specifically due to COVID‐19 and have not yet found any jobs. I have applied for 2‐4 a week for a full year but research positions are not available. 6/13/2021 Yes 52246 9 8 106423175(1) Iowa City families need a real, professional quality rock climbing gym. With climbing joining the Olympics this year and no modern facilities in this region, the lack of a climbing gym is a significant deterrent to growth and retention of young professionals in this city. (2) A “maker” space (staffed and equipped for welding, machining, CNC, 3D printing, electronics, coding, robotics, etc.) with programs and discounts geared toward low‐income youth and adults would seed innovation and enhance economic opportunities for generations of residents to come.6/13/2021 Yes 52246627913584106/13/2021 Yes 52246978453121066/13/2021 No6/13/2021 Yes 52245 9 8 7 10123564Provide funds to the free medical clinic where Heath disparities including mental health can be addressed6/13/2021 Yes 5224054687101293Give the money back.6/13/2021 Yes 52246561324987106/13/2021 Yes 522456/13/2021 Yes 52245 5 3 7 10428169Need resources for those who have lost their jobs/homes due to COVID such as job opportunities, education, food assistance 6/13/2021 Yes 5224624159786310Give all essential workers a large raise of at least $1 an hour more. Give bonuses to essential workers.6/13/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 4 10568937Allocate funds for housing and food assistance to the poorest members of our community, those who face a threat of eviction, and those who are already homeless.6/13/2021 Yes 5224083724510169Subsidized broadband access for low‐income households. Incentivize people to get back to work (please no incentives to the unemployed ‐ businesses are struggling big time because they can't find workers). Provide funding to organizations that help improve the mental and physical well‐being of people: CommUnity Crisis Services, UAY, the Bike Library, etc. Invest money in paved and dirt trails that will encourage people to get outside walking and biking. 6/13/2021 Yes 52245 2 31Affordable housing development; hazard pay for essential workers; direct distribution of funds to excluded workers, undocumented immigrants, unemployed workers, etc.6/13/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 8 103647596/13/2021 Yes 52246 9 8 7 10436125Improving broadband will help members of all economic classes and will help bridge economic disparities6/13/2021 Yes 52240 5 2 3 101987646/13/2021 Yes 522406/13/2021 Yes 52246 6 7 1038124956/13/2021 Yes 52245 9 6 8 107413526/13/2021 Yes 5224585973241061Provide more funding for HACAP to increase Early Childhood Teacher pay specifically. Provide classroom with funding to buy new toys a d equipment that was damaged by frequent washing during COvid. Support, cash benefit to working individuals....single who are above poverty level but still at 400%, real debt solutions/bankruptcy. I make 20.17 per hour with a masters in Iowa city. With $140000 in student loans since 1986. 6/13/2021 Yes 5224513584710629Those in the lowest quartile of the economic scale have suffered the most. They should get the greatest share of this money.6/13/2021 Yes 52245 1056712493Money should be spent on restoring jobs lost from Covid 19. It should not be a free give‐away. 6/13/2021 Yes 52240562478193106/13/2021 Yes 52240 3 5 6 101247896/13/2021 Yes 52340 6 1 9 10257834Help people dealing with mental health a drug rehabilitation due to covid. 6/13/2021 Yes 52246
6/13/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 6 10793584I think this money should be used for the most basic and important needs of survival. Improving housing, improving water quality, improving sanitation with a focus on the underserved and sustainability. Low income folks have been hit hardest and should be taken care of. 6/13/2021 Yes 5224665138410279I would love to see some of the funds allocated to the Project Better Together program to incentivize new and support existing BIPOC and women owned businesses across town. Also funds should go to support the beautification of neighborhoods like the South District and improve wayfinding and placemaking in Riverfront Crossings with new banners, street lights, public art and more. I would also love to see some of the funds go back to the University of Iowa directly, especially the hardest hit areas of campus like the arts. 6/13/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 1 108975646/13/2021 Yes 52245 2 7 9 106513486/13/2021 Yes 52246 2 3 5 10687419I believe that there are essential workers out there who desperately need money after this past year. The economic disparity has gotten worse after Covid. Premium pay is so important 6/13/2021 Yes 5224016475310829Balance short term assistance (rescue worker fund) with investments for the long run (infrastructur). 6/13/2021 Yes 52246 2 5 3 101674896/13/2021 No6/13/2021 Yes 52240 4 6 8 103527916/13/2021 Yes 52246148627310956/13/2021 Yes 522456/13/2021 Yes 52245 1 23Getting money to the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support6/12/2021 Yes 52245 12Ultimately, it's important that we spend our pandemic recovery money on directly helping the poorest and most disadvantaged people, and the essential workers, in our community, ideally including by directly giving them more money or directly increasing their paychecks. A community is judged by how it treats those on its margins, and the most effective way to alleviate poverty is to give people money. As someone who has worked a low‐wage "essential" job to survive, the fact that my family and family friends were able to give me a little extra money drastically reduced my stress about where my rent was coming from. And the result was that I was able to give back to Johnson County in many ways that I would never have been able to do so if I was just scraping by. I would not have the highly‐skilled job I have now if I hadn't had the time and lack of stress I needed to develop those skills while I was working at Hy‐Vee. Essential workers deserve additional compensation and poor people deserve direct help. The fear of being evicted, not being able to buy food, not being able to buy school supplies, etc. is exhausting and traumatizing and no one should experience it in our community. This is simply more important, pressing, and morally imperative than giving "trickle‐down" handouts to small businesses. 6/12/2021 Yes 5224086547102193Roads. We need better roads. The potholes are a significant financial hardship on lower‐income families who often do not have vehicles with the suspension to handle poor quality roads. I know of two single parent households who have missed work due to car issues caused by poor road maintenance. 6/12/2021 Yes 5224613689105427Support low wage workers and immigrants 6/12/2021 Yes 52240 5 6 9 10743812Every school needs proper ventilation systems that replace and filter 100% of the air.6/12/2021 Yes 5224012394581067Funding that will target the following groups for which I see gaps in services or barriers to meeting their needs. 1. Childcare assistance for undocumented parents/caregivers and expanding childcare options for all. 2. Transitional facilities like Guide Link that are longer term and can serve homeless individuals who are in need of a substance‐free shelter as they can be high‐risk for relapse. Shelter House reportedly is not completely sibstance‐free. 3. Increase transitional services to individuals between 18‐23 years old, in particular those who have aged out of foster care. 4. Improving public transportation, including a service that can seamlessly transport folks throughout the county. 6/12/2021 Yes 522456/12/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 10896517As a community member who works closely with vulnerable populations in our community, I would like to ask Iowa City Council to truly consider and adopt the Excluded Workers Fund. This move would be a good step in the direction of providing true relief to our community. Social services exist in abundance in Iowa city, and they’re funded. That is a blessing. So let this money stand as a route to recourses for the excluded workers, who cannot access the social services as they exist due to means testing or other barrier.
6/12/2021 Yes 52245 9 8 103721645Extend bike/walking paths. For example, extend paths from the east side of Iowa City to downtown. The current path ends just off Lower Muscatine. west of Walgreen's, making it challenging to navigate the roads to get to the downtown area. Also, add a bike/walking path on American Legion Road east of Scott Blvd. so that students/families can get to Hoover Elementary safely.6/12/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 3 105978166/12/2021 Yes 52240 7 6 8 10513492Use funds to replace biodiesel‐powered city buses with electric vehicles as part of restoring plans to revamp and improve city transportation services. Categories: Infrastructure improvements, reduce impact of climate change, reduce community health disparities6/12/2021 Yes 52240946581271036/12/2021 Yes 52246 7 6 105432819Invest in fixing infrastructure such as potholes, give some of the money to everyone who is a full time employee and tax payer in the city. Sustainable energy and clean water projects such as solar. Rent credits for residents who pay over 50% of monthly income to pay for rent 6/12/2021 Yes 5224612983106547Ensure money goes to people and families who lost it during the pandemic due to closures that were required for public health6/12/2021 Yes 522456/12/2021 Yes 52246 5 2 3 10769418Provide some type of incentive or bonus pay to essential workers like nurses, postal workers like myself that has been delivering mail throughout this pandemic, risking my life and my children lives everyday 6/12/2021 Yes 52240 5 1 6 108243976/12/2021 Yes 522456/12/2021 Yes 5224023761108459In terms of broadband, the city should establish an ISP public utility with highest speed access at a low cost for every citizen just as Cedar Falls has done. 6/12/2021 Yes 52245 5 6 9 104132876/12/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 4 105876296/12/2021 Yes 522406/12/2021 Yes 522456/12/2021 Yes 52240 4 9 1078132566/12/2021 Yes 52245 3 2 4 10 5 1I think the money should go directly to the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support. Addressing negative economic impacts and disparities does not mean giving even more handouts to politically‐connected businesses.6/12/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 6 10975438Direct funds to essential workers and low income community members are really the only things from that list that matter6/12/2021 No6/12/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 6 10485729Please fund excluded and essential workers who have been struggling. We could not transition to work from home.6/12/2021 Yes 52240124579610386/12/2021 Yes 522406/12/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 5 104978166/12/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 6 10893457Give the money directly to the workers. Do not give money to the businesses and institutions that tried to murder us for profits. Refuse your salaries. Resign. Move to another country. All of you have failed spectacularly.6/12/2021 Yes 52245795261043816/12/2021 Yes 52245834671592106/12/2021 No6/12/2021 Yes 5224024385796110Excluded Worker's Fund6/12/2021 Yes 5224025493106817Help people with rent while they get back on their feet.6/12/2021 Yes 5224513869527104Property tax reduction in for low income.6/12/2021 Yes 5224524157681039Sustainable community growth as IC is becoming more popular. Address income inequality throughout the city and geographically. Give support to small businesses and minimum wage workers.6/12/2021 Yes 52240 10963824175Fix the pot holes and put more police over by Taylor Dr. and Broadway to lower the shootings. Living over there feels unsafe. 6/12/2021 Yes 52245 103576184296/12/2021 Yes 52245 5 1 8 102396741. Iowa City is in desperate need of more mental health workers and facilities as we try to achieve a new normalcy to our society. 2. Iowa City needs easily‐available low cost or free transportation for low income and elderly people to medical appointments, shopping for essential items and to get to available shelter housing. 3. If ARPA funds can be used to support city services, a property tax holiday could make large sums of investment funds available.6/12/2021 Yes 52240142358107696/12/2021 Yes 52245 5 2 1 10397846Poorer members of the community were struggling before the pandemic, and even more so now. They deserve to be helped first through these funds.
6/12/2021 No6/12/2021 No6/12/2021 Yes 522406/12/2021 Yes 52245123465897106/12/2021 Yes 52240 3 6 1078425916/12/2021 Yes 52240 106854132976/12/2021 Yes 52240 123Hazard pay for essential workers and direct cash payments for excluded workers, undocumented immigrants, previously incarcerated people, and unemployed workers. 6/12/2021 Yes 5224512973468510Re‐establish service for senior citizens (Senior Center).6/12/2021 Yes 5224052413678910Please prioritize the arts and entertainment industry including music venues, art stores, and places who support creativity and innovation.6/12/2021 Yes 52240312459678106/12/2021 No6/12/2021 Yes 52240213567894106/12/2021 Yes 5224013594106728Low income housing, bonuses to essential workers in small businesses, bonuses to self‐employed essential workers6/12/2021 No6/12/2021 Yes 52245 7 6 3 101985246/12/2021 No6/12/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 426/12/2021 Yes 52245 4 6 9 105813726/12/2021 Yes 522406/12/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 7 10894625These funds need to go directly to the people who are most economically impacted by the pandemic and poverty. Essential workers and those who have been excluded from government stimulus packages and other forms of relief need these funds to survive. To truly begin addressing poverty and loss of income, the first step is giving people the funds they need to keep themselves afloat. Businesses, non‐profits, and infrastructure are not a priority, as they do not directly aid those in need. If low‐wage workers and people who have been excluded from economic relief in the past year have more money to spend, it will naturally bolster the rest of the economy, too.6/12/2021 Yes 522456/12/2021 Yes 52240 9 2 101853674provide tax refunds to parents who had increased childcare costs as Iowa City Schools failed to provide consistent in person education6/12/2021 Yes 522456/12/2021 Yes 52240 10693712584Prioritize education please 6/12/2021 Yes 522456/12/2021 Yes 52240 3 4 2 106985176/12/2021 Yes 52240236951084176/12/2021 Yes 52240 6 1054289713Mercy hospital is in dire straits after the pandemic, has lost many specialists, nurses, etc. due to budget issues from no elective surgeries for months. Nurses especially are overworked and underpaid and they have put so much effort into saving lives. 6/12/2021 Yes 5224014387105926Addressing negative economic impacts means putting money directly into the back pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support. It’s the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid the recovery. Addressing negative economic impacts and disparities does not mean giving even more handouts to politically‐connected businesses6/12/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 41 Excluded Workers Fund 6/11/2021 No6/11/2021 Yes 52241 6 4 9 10752381Repair of long neglected infrastructure. 6/11/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 4 10397856Do something about housing. Rent prices are ridiculous and you keep letting a handful of companies control all the housing stock and allow them to extort everyone. Don't you dare give an extra cent to the ICPD. In fact, their budget should be slashed asap. 6/11/2021 Yes 52245 21We need to put money directly into the hands of the essential and excluded workers who need it most and received little to no support. It’s the most effective way to stimulate our local economy and address poverty in our community. The ARP funds should not be distributed disproportionately to politically‐connected businesses. Trick down economics has not worked for decades. We need trickle up economics to best support the recovery of our community.6/11/2021 Yes 52245124837965106/11/2021 Yes 52245145637892106/11/2021 Yes 5224647583291016In the event we face vaccine resistant Covid in the future a more robust testing/surveillance program plus stockpiled PPE would be a good use of the ARPA funds6/11/2021 No6/11/2021 Yes 52246 8 9 1046231756/11/2021 Yes 52240 1 7 8 104953266/11/2021 Yes 52240 6 7 9 10451283
6/11/2021 Yes 52245 12Addressing negative economic impacts means putting money directly into the back pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support. It’s the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid the recovery. Addressing negative economic impacts and disparities does not mean giving even more handouts to politically‐connected businesses.6/11/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 3 5 6 26/11/2021 No6/11/2021 Yes 52245142356810791. Creating easy‐to‐use funding avenues for our BIPOC residents and others who have met financial challenges during the pandemic to start businesses/create long‐term investments in this community. 2. Invest in our creative economy to ensure it reboots and grows‐‐we rely on our cultural assets to build our brand, identity, and economic viability.6/11/2021 No6/11/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 4 10567819Addressing negative economic impacts means putting money directly into the back pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support. It’s the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid the recovery.6/11/2021 Yes 522456/11/2021 No6/11/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 2 106749586/11/2021 Yes 52246213861075496/11/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 3 1The bulk of the money should be distributed to those most in need who have not been provided support ‐ essential, low‐wage workers, immigrants and prisoners.6/11/2021 Yes 52245 21Fight wage theft, and other harmful impacts on excluded and essential workers. Target dollars to the purses and wallets of those most in need to bring about the swiftest recoveries with the greatest positive impacts.6/11/2021 Yes 52240597231461086/11/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 5 103968476/11/2021 Yes6/10/2021 Yes 5224541356978210Addressing negative economic impacts primarily supporting essential and excluded workers who need it the most. This is the best way to address poverty and help us to recover.6/10/2021 No6/10/2021 Yes 522406/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 5 1 103976486/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 9 3 10675428Addressing negative economic impacts means putting money directly into the pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most (to survive) but who received the least support! It’s the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid the recovery of our community and local economy. 6/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 5 1Addressing negative economic impacts means putting money directly into the back pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most but who received the least support. It’s the right thing to do and the most effective way to address poverty and aid the recovery.6/10/2021 Yes 52245 1Provide stimulus checks to undocumented workers and their children. They were left behind in the pandemic. Hazard pay for essential workers. Stop funding non profits and bussiness who have conflicts with city governemet, specifically those who sit on the counsel. Include those who do not have a voice, cannot access an online survey in english, who do no have a computer. Stop with millions of loop holes and online applications, provide direct payment to undocumented workers and families and let them decide what they need, not non profits who provide charity to families. 6/10/2021 Yes 52245 21I would like to see the bulk of the funding to go to essential workers who were unable to work online during the pandemic, and to low‐income people who lost pay or were not paid at all during the pandemic and are now suffering from poverty. I would include direct housing, food, and clothing assistance. 6/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 41An excluded worker fund would be great. An extension of mortgage forbearance, especially for immigrant, refugee and asylum families would also be good. Something to offset or cancel student debt would be good.6/10/2021 52245 1 3 5 1067892Pay essential and excluded workers who need it most but have received least support. 6/10/2021 Yes 52245312641075896/10/2021 Yes 52241 21Put money directly into the hands of essential and excluded workers. This will address poverty and aid in recovery as well as stimulate the local economy.6/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 5 104689276/10/2021 Yes 52240 4 3 1091287Invest in endangered road bridges that were deemed unsafe. Replace corroded and leaking water mains.6/10/2021 Yes 52246 5 4 8 10973216Conduct neighborhood needs surveys to pinpoint where funds can best be distributed. Help the poor first. Corporate and NGOs do not need these funds!
6/10/2021 Yes 5224057934126108Replace funds that were lost by the city due to the pandemic. 6/10/2021 Yes 52246 2 3 5 10476819I think it is most important to put money back in the hands of essential and excluded workers who are in most need. It will help those workers, and also help our city's economy. When people have money they tend to spend it where they live.6/10/2021 Yes 52245124537968106/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 5 1Helping excluded essential workers will address poverty and help stimulate the local economy.6/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 105879166/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 9 105863476/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 9 10384765Upgrade playgrounds in run down neighborhoods. Help the homeless seek care and jobs goes along with the mental health6/10/2021 Yes 5224552478106139We needed universal broadband across the city years ago, but even more so during this crisis. With so many job applications, bank services, etc. only or primarily available online, and now likely to remain so, the biggest barrier to equity in our community is unequal internet access. Supporting artists and other low‐pay workers is vital because the half‐assed minimum wage campaign a few years back targeted only businesses that were already paying competitively, failing to bring that vital pay increase to food, transportation, and other absolutely necessary workers; it would be a shame to use pandemic funds for what that campaign should have solved, but the workers need the money, so here we are. Third in importance would be new infrastructure projects to provide long‐term mitigation strategies, like larger public indoor meeting spaces, upgrades to ventilation in all public indoor spaces, improved outdoor meeting, work, and play/exercise spaces, etc. ‐‐ and not as "tax base improvement" or as side projects for already wealthy developers ‐‐ as projects funded by, for, and employing our own citizens. ...Last note: Equalizing the playing field for women and BIPOC and LGBTQ+ business owners and workers is vital. Make it a real project. Find out what makes Coralville or North Liberty such a compelling destination for these businesses, why downtown spaces aren't necessarily attractive to novel business models, etc., and really sit down and talk with people who haven't opened businesses and don't think they can. You might find that projects to assist diversity are both less expensive and not as complicated as you think.6/10/2021 Yes 52241 3 4 8 10159627Help non profits serve the city and county6/10/2021 Yes 52245 21I'd like the funds to address the economic disparaties faced by essential and excluded workers. These folks kept our city running during the pandemic, and yet are most at risk for poverty. Please focus on helping them.6/10/2021 Yes 52246 4 6 5 10782931We need to reduce the effects of climate change. I would like to see easier methods of composting, especially in apartments, and a central drop‐off location for compost. There could be a community garden, for example, that the compost supports. Or perhaps there are farmers who would use the compost. 6/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 5 10967418Direct monies to people excluded from the stimulus in the past. 6/10/2021 Yes 52241 2 3 10 4 16/10/2021 Yes 52240 12Direct cash grants to excluded and essential workers, or people who were harmed by the pandemic.6/10/2021 Yes 52245843519710266/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 5 102978366/10/2021 Yes 52246 5 4 1021389676/10/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 41Addressing negative economic impacts means directing funds to essential and excluded workers. These folks who live and/or work in Iowa City need the support the most, and have the least access to money from other programs. This is both the right thing to do for our most impacted neighbors and the best way to serve the common good in Iowa City.6/10/2021 No6/10/2021 Yes 5224523896754110Keep the governor and politics away from decisions6/10/2021 Yes 52246 12Provide direct cash payouts to essential excluded workers who are in great need in our community yet receive the least. Please consider doing the moral right thing. Too much money has already been given to political based businesses which has done nothing for those truly in need of assistance. This survey shows discrimination as it is offered to English speaking only when so many of our essential workers are of low income, people of color, immigrants and refugees in the most need of assistance. We are a diverse community and need to include all!6/10/2021 Yes 52240
6/10/2021 Yes 5224556724381109This may sound crazy at the moment, but with changing trends in education, I wonder whether Iowa City can depend on the U of I as a great revenue draw in the future. I think we need to plan for a future where students are learning in alternative ways. That means pre‐planning for a city that has other ways of surviving. I believe positioning Iowa City as Iowa's City of the Arts is one way to insure this town's future. Investing in things like The Englert, Hancher, and a new community art center, among many other possible initiatives, is a way to get this germinating. We've still got the UI Hospitals and Clinics, but it makes no sense to put all our eggs in one basket. Strategic planning is key. 6/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 5 4 2Individuals and families who were particularly negatively impacted during the pandemic but were not eligible to receive unemployment or stimulus checks particularly need additional direct support to get back on their feet, as well as the organizations that offer them the most support.6/10/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 3 104869576/10/2021 Yes 52245 1 4 5 10678329Help individuals and small businesses that have suffered the most.6/10/2021 Yes 52245 104561378926/10/2021 Yes 52245 6 7 3 101452896/10/2021 Yes 5224071852109346Bolster funding for community‐based mental health projects (i.e. NAMIJC initiatives). Expand economic (tourism and restaurants) opportunities, especially among BIPOC.6/10/2021 No6/10/2021 Yes 5224112893107546Elderly home repair assistance. REPAIR OF MONEYS L9ST FOR PRIVATE INDISVIDUALS...NOT THE STATE. Nami moneys to help with growth of day centers.6/10/2021 Yes 52245152637104896/10/2021 Yes 52240253817106496/10/2021 Yes 52240213567894106/9/2021 Yes 52245967312541086/9/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 4 10389756Some people are in danger of losing homes/ bankruptcy due to unemployment during COVID19 6/9/2021 No6/9/2021 Yes 52240472561083196/9/2021 No6/9/2021 Yes 52246845732191066/9/2021 Yes 52240674218953106/9/2021 Yes 522406/9/2021 No6/9/2021 Yes 52246234561978106/9/2021 Yes 5224534791568210Invest in the critical infrastructure of the non‐profit community service agencies ‐ both those that serve people in crisis (like CommUnity and Shelter House) and those that invest in young people's long‐term outcomes (like Big Brothers Big Sisters)6/9/2021 Yes 5224075421896310Arts nonprofits have been greatly affected by the pandemic. Most will take years to rebuild to prepandemic staffing levels, further disadvantaging them. Direct support for restoring lost positions will help them bounce back. Internet needs to be a public utility. Use these funds to advance the infrastructure needed to make this a reality. 6/9/2021 Yes 52245 3 5 4 10678219Municipal broadband—no longer a luxury utility 6/9/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 8 10267549Funds for affordable housing6/9/2021 Yes 52245123648710956/9/2021 Yes 52245852711036496/9/2021 Yes 52246 2 3 4 101956786/9/2021 No6/9/2021 Yes 52245142537910686/9/2021 Yes 5224024591678310Is there anything we can do on a local level about people who do not have good access to affordable healthcare? The pandemic really highlighted this need more than ever. Maybe use some of the funding to help employers pay living wages? (They should all be planning appropriately, but perhaps as a stopgap for essential workers who are low paid. Or, have those who can already afford it begin paying living wages.) It would also be nice to see key city infrastructure projects continue again if they have been put on hold. 6/9/2021 Yes 52240524638791106/9/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 4 10397658Support the Excluded Workers Fund. 6/9/2021 Yes 5224012345678910Grants to BIPOC owned businesses for employee retention, expansion.6/9/2021 Yes 5224512384659710Other small businesses, not the restaurant industry will need drastic support of this financial help. Sectors such as health and recreational facilities (gyms) to provide the community with a healthy way of living and working out. 6/9/2021 Yes 52246183246579106/9/2021 No6/9/2021 Yes 5224023751498610Non‐Profits, i.e. Shelter House, should get funding to continue providing more housing assistance. 6/9/2021 Yes 5224012498107356
6/9/2021 Yes 52240 4 1 2 10398567Housing, mental health and victim services are my priorities6/9/2021 Yes 52246675918410326/9/2021 Yes 52245 102458916736/9/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 4 103986576/9/2021 Yes 52246 8 796106/9/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 4 10578629Offer back pay for hazardous working conditions to essential workers who made less than $15/hr during the pandemic (grocery store workers, direct care providers for social services). Another good use for the monies that was not specifically mentioned would be grants for small businesses and non profit (Especially Human Service) agencies who could use technology upgrades like newer computers, work cell phones for direct care providers, printers and scanners, and wifi equipment.6/9/2021 No6/9/2021 Yes 522456/9/2021 Yes 52245 1 7 3 104956286/9/2021 Yes 522466/9/2021 Yes 52245 5 6 7 10893124Increase availability of fiber optic internet instead of broadband.6/9/2021 Yes 5224021583610947provide funds for free medical clinic. Free daycare for all. Community center. Free mental health services.6/9/2021 Yes 52246 2 1074586319Institute a minimum wage of $15.6/9/2021 Yes 52245 8 1065271493Public health and safety. Natural resource conservation and restoration which will lead to better clean drinking water outcomes. 6/9/2021 Yes 52245 2 6 3 10857149Expanding internet access is important. I teach working adult students. Many were trying to attend school online and help their children with online learning without sufficient (reliable, speedy) internet access. The other thing we should do is help fund high quality childcare, especially in lower income neighborhoods. 6/9/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 5 102786496/9/2021 Yes 52245917634528106/9/2021 Yes6/8/2021 Yes 5224624195673810Focus on childcare and education. The pandemic exposed how it is the moms who are finding themselves unable to rejoin the workforce and struggling to get strong footing. It also helps to mend financial, social, sex disparity in overall impact.6/8/2021 Yes 52246 8 9 105621473Invest in downtown district 6/8/2021 Yes 5224041376109528financial support for public school teachers. not schools. not administrators. teachers.6/8/2021 Yes 52245 4 2 6 10873951Anything related to climate change should be a top priority.6/8/2021 Yes 522406/8/2021 Yes 52246235671041896/8/2021 Yes6/8/2021 Yes 52240 3 1 6 105789246/8/2021 Yes 52245 7 8 9 10514236Our senior community members were not connected during the pandemic, infrastructure to support them going forward. Retrospective monetary thanks for front line workers. 6/8/2021 Yes 522456/8/2021 Yes 52240123467589106/8/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 4 10396587Increase housing vouchers and more support to non profits for lower income or households in need6/8/2021 Yes 52240 9 7 6 10831452Water plant improvements CW1 and CW2 rehabilitate. High service pump VFD's. Lead service line replacement.6/8/2021 Yes 522406/8/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 4 106973586/8/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 10578916Support teachers and school staff! With a bonus, free access to mental health providers and or support groups to process this past year. Anything to thank them for the incredible job they have done this past year. Rent assistance for people who are facing eviction or debt from lost wages during the pandemic. Tutoring and social‐emotional support for children: if possible and safe, in‐person, outdoor groups to support social‐emotional learning and academic support for school age and early childhood children to help support a transition back into school in the fall. Make it affordable and easy to find mental health support. I know many people are having a hard time finding a therapist right now because many are full and not taking new clients. I wonder if there is a way to bolster the availability of counselors and therapists. 6/8/2021 Yes 52240 4 7 8 10692315Don't use any money for police6/8/2021 Yes 52246123456789106/8/2021 Yes 52246 9 7 8 10641253Invest in community resilience. 6/8/2021 Yes 5224527851394610
6/8/2021 Yes 52240 321 4Be state‐of‐the‐art in one of these areas. Particularly suitable to Iowa City would be city‐wide broadband infrastructure, especially fiber optic. "Using these funds, recipients generally should build broadband infrastructure with modern technologies in mind, specifically those projects that deliver services offering reliable 100 Mbps download and 100 8 Mbps upload speeds, unless impracticable due to topography, geography, or financial cost. In addition, recipients are encouraged to pursue fiber optic investments."6/8/2021 Yes 5224612395107648Provide micro loans with low interest rates to low‐income individuals and families (e.g. 200‐300% of federal poverty line) for the purpose of starting businesses, spreading out/buffering large unexpected expenses (medical bills, car repairs, etc.), and other ways to help people with few financial resources avoid predatory loan agencies.6/8/2021 Yes 52240352961078146/8/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 5 106984376/8/2021 Yes 52240769181052436/8/2021 Yes 52246526438791106/8/2021 Yes 524026/8/2021 Yes 5224213245678910Housing for the homeless.6/8/2021 No6/8/2021 Yes 52240134529106786/8/2021 Yes 5224026954108137Reopen Iowa City icon and heart, The Mill (arts, music, politics, book fairs, campaigns, trivia, open mic, watch parties). It was a community hub that there is not an adequate replacement for. 6/8/2021 Yes 52240153768924106/8/2021 Yes 52245 6 4 8 10912753Road work/repair, highway sound barriers, sewer/water maintenance, and public utilities 6/8/2021 Yes 52445124956810376/8/2021 Yes 522456/8/2021 Yes 52240 1 6 4 103975286/8/2021 Yes 5224515894763210Actually affordable housing geared towards households making less than the area median income, make public transportation free 6/7/2021 Yes 52240138971056246/7/2021 Yes 52245 9 5 7 10821364The roads are in terrible shape all over town and main roads. Maintaining roads help ALL people.6/7/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 4 106958376/7/2021 Yes 5224653278106149Bike path and infrastructure including city bikes for borrowing Programs in nursing homes to be intergenerational housing6/7/2021 Yes 52245248361591076/7/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 4 10875936Provide more low income housing and access to medical care for unhoused people.6/7/2021 Yes 52246 1 6 2 10587439PUT CHILDREN FIRST: food insecurity; free healthcare options/programs; access to public transit; utility assistance programs; broaden/improve extracurricular activities; re‐evaluate how city paid leaders/employees marginalize POC and other vulnerable groups.6/7/2021 Yes 52245135849762106/7/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 105967186/7/2021 Yes 5224562394785110Certify that every pre‐K‐12 student is regularly viewed in attendance at the school program LEA and parents have agreed will best compensate for pandemic learning losses and that they have all the equipment, materials, and skills assistance needed for that achievement. 6/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 3 104657896/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 522466/7/2021 Yes 52240 26/7/2021 Yes 52246 3 5 4 106172986/7/2021 Yes 5224094857213106Pay for spray paint removal lead by our mayor.6/7/2021 Yes 52240 105897123646/7/2021 Yes 91344137528961046/7/2021 Yes 522416/7/2021 Yes 522466/7/2021 Yes 522466/7/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 6 103584796/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes6/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 7 104862596/7/2021 Yes 52246 6 8 1 102943576/7/2021 Yes 522466/7/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 3 10598617Raise minimum wage, city‐wide6/7/2021 Yes 52240
6/7/2021 Yes 5224063417592810More options of fiber internet. Continuing new infrastructure in rundown areas. ‐What Big Grove has done for their area has been fantastic. So much work done to make that a nicer area. 6/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 5 109847636/7/2021 Yes 52240 12There has been an unequal economic recovery just as black and brown workers suffered the most from Covid19 itself. ARP money should go towards those who were left behind in previous rounds of relief6/7/2021 Yes 5224513564710829Provide safety net funding for those at risk of homelessness. Prevent evictions for working families/individuals. Increase minimum wage. Provide medical expense emergency funding.6/7/2021 Yes 522406/7/2021123456789106/7/2021 Yes 52240217810635946/7/2021 Yes 5224561971085234Increase minimum wages. Provide affordable safe child care6/7/2021 Yes 52245178564923106/7/2021 Yes 52240514367810296/7/2021 Yes 52241 1 2 7 10394568Provide continued rent assistance to people who are unable to cover their rent. Make it accessible, language appropriate, and widely advertised in all channels to the large refugee and immigrant populations living in the Iowa City area6/7/2021 Yes 5224583754101269Clean rivers and streams and expand green park spaces. 6/7/2021 Yes6/7/2021 Yes 5224564875231109Do not supplement pay to workers whose employers do not pay them well or provide them with paid time off. We should not compensate or reward companies that do not do the right thing, instead do not give those companies TIF, tax breaks, NOTHING, if they can't treat their employees like humans then we should not want the in our community. Why not have low or zero interest school loans to learn a better trade, skill or complete a degree? Why not provide childcare assistance for those in school, to better themselves, particularly focusing on women, first generation students and those obtaining training or a degree in a new field or advancement field. Fund long term parenting classes and newborn/breastfeeding classes free of charge, bring them to the most at risk neighborhoods to build community and support. Healthy habit and cooking classes, basic home, give people the tools to independence rather that rely on others. Offset tax increases scheduled, I don't want to keep paying more in taxes. Provide more mental health providers and require more appointments, it is incredibly difficult for anyone to get an appointment. Make utilities underground, the derecho impacted everyone so significantly when there was no power for a week. Low interest loans to businesses that want to open or remain open in areas of town that struggle (e.g. sycamore mall area). Replace our aging water lines. Offer assistance to get your home rewired to current standards and efficiencies. Mom or parent breaks‐programming at the library or rec enters, I know as a Mom I was so overwhelmed and alone that I didn't have time for myself. We need support groups for families all along stages of life. Support for helping small businesses pay for healthcare so it isn't such a high out of pocket premium. How about a medical expenses repayment fund? Someone signs an agreement to pay so much and to have matching funds as long as they meet their original terms.6/7/2021 Yes 52245 2 7 6 103185496/7/2021 Yes 52240683457 21016/7/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 4 10796538affordable housing for ALL6/7/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 4 105679386/7/2021 Yes 52246 9 6 105812473Repair roads and infrastructure services before handling out to any other organizations!!!6/7/2021 Yes 52245 7 6 5 10812493Infrastructure Projects: Solar Energy projects/support Road projects Storm Water Management improvements Disaster planning 6/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 9 106538746/7/2021 Yes 52240127946310586/7/2021 Yes 522456/7/2021 Yes 522456/7/2021 Yes 522456/7/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 9 10387456Due to the mental health strain this pandemic has caused, I feel that mental health should be first priority. This pandemic has also only aided in increasing substance abuse, which can have long lasting debilitating mental health effects, which will affect not only the person, but their friends and family, the community, and the city. 6/7/2021 Yes 52240135641098276/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52240 12Hazard pay for essential workers and direct cash payments for excluded workers, undocumented immigrants, previously incarcerated people and unemployed workers.6/7/2021 Yes 5224071296103485
6/7/2021 Yes 52246324586791106/7/2021 Yes 52240 9 2 1037145866/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 7 10834956Support public health expenditures, by funding COVID‐19 mitigation efforts, medical expenses, behavioral healthcare, and certain public health and safety staff6/7/2021 Yes 52246243851096176/7/2021 Yes 52245 107853146926/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52245517421086396/7/2021 Yes 52240 2 34156/7/2021 Yes 52240 8 4 1039612756/7/2021 Yes 52240 12Fund Excluded Workers!6/7/2021 Yes 52245234511098766/7/2021 Yes 52245134567891026/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 6 105839726/7/2021 Yes 52240 12Hazard pay for low‐wage workers and stimulus checks and unemployment insurance for undocumented immigrants, previously incarcerated people, and unemployed workers kicked off the rolls by the governor. Also, real affordable housing cooperative owned by the tenants themselves. 6/7/2021 Yes 52245521948106736/7/2021 Yes 52245 12Addressing negative economic impacts means getting money into the back pockets of the essential and excluded workers who need it most, not more handouts to big business and well connected nonprofits6/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 9 10 8 2Excluded Workers Fund6/7/2021 Yes 522406/7/2021 Yes 52246738261541096/7/2021 Yes 52245312947856106/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 9 105627816/7/2021 Yes 52246345678912106/7/2021 Yes 52246 9 8 1015426736/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52245327951648106/7/2021 Yes 522406/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 2 10498756Because so many of the essential workers also earn lower wages and/or are BIPOC community members, we need to make sure we are taking care of both groups: ensuring that they’re protected against Covid and white supremacy. Covid vaccines need to be more accessible to vulnerable groups. Low‐wage jobs need better pay and benefits. We now have clear evidence which of our jobs are essential. We need to compensate accordingly. The ARPA funds aren’t ongoing, so I guess they can’t be used for salaries, but can the funds serve to convince companies of the importance of paying employees a living wage? Good luck!6/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 6 10279548Make the transit system free for all users. It would reduce economic disparities and racial inequities, improve economic opportunities, support the community's economic growth and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.6/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52242 9 6 102814537Use the resources for lost revenue for city services. Not using monies for all small businesses but only specific groups is called racism.6/7/2021 Yes 52240 9 3 4 10651278We need improvements to sewers in southern Iowa City that are gravity‐based. We need deep sewers for run‐offs.6/7/2021 Yes 126/7/2021 Yes 52246 9 8 102763415Use money to hire more police. Increase pay of lower paid medical workers making less than $60,000/year.6/7/2021 Yes 52240 7 4 8 10165293We need to make sure everyone has good internet access ‐ the future depends on it 6/7/2021 Yes 5224023458106719Pay hospital staff more!6/7/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 1053467896/7/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 9 102675186/7/2021 Yes 52245 3 5 4 10178629Support women's return to the workplace by providing affordable services.6/7/2021 Yes6/7/2021 Yes 52246 6 1 107523984Support mental health programs which would ultimately assist all citizens and reduce the need to call police for mental health situations. Fund further mental health training for all professionals who are called on to assist this population.6/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 5224518675910423Providing internet access to all ICCSD students.
6/7/2021 Yes 5224012673891054Affordable housing would be high on my list. People in the "Creative Community" contribute a great deal, but often struggle to get by.6/7/2021 Yes 522456/7/2021 Yes 52245123541068796/7/2021 Yes 5224578936124105I do not have any specific suggestions, but I think that keeping the budget in place so that you do not have to raise property taxes should be a priority6/7/2021 No6/7/2021 Yes 52240217981036456/6/2021 Yes 52245 6 8 9 105732146/6/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 9 105478166/6/2021 Yes 52245165742108396/6/2021 Yes 52245 4 5 6 10923176/6/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 7 103459686/6/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 5 10198736/6/2021 Yes 52246341251086976/6/2021 Yes 52245247653891106/6/2021 Yes 52245374856219106/6/2021 Yes 52245 4 6 7 108321596/6/2021 Yes 52245 8 9 7 102354166/6/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 8 10673549Better mental health services. Better low‐income housing and temporary housing and services for homeless.6/6/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 4 10598637Rental assistance and low‐income housing6/6/2021 Yes 52240 10 3 67425186/6/2021 Yes 52240869171043256/6/2021 Yes 42245 4 6 5 10781923improve storm water infrastructure6/6/2021 Yes 52245 1 6 4 10295378Help for immigrant population, who have been left out of stimulus money6/6/2021 Yes 5224287956134102Shoring up funding shortfalls at applicable agencies that need it and bolstering whatever limited pollution mitigation or water/sewer improvements can be made with these funds6/6/2021 Yes 5224510586976/6/2021 Yes 52242869471351026/6/2021 Yes 524526/6/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 4 103957686/6/2021 Yes 52245 3 2 5 106741896/6/2021 Yes 52246 3 4 7 10981256Support public health expenditures, by funding COVID‐19 mitigation efforts, medical expenses, behavioral healthcare, and certain public health and safety staff; Address negative economic impacts caused by the public health emergency, including economic harms to workers, households, small businesses, impacted industries, and the public sector; Replace lost public sector revenue, using this funding to provide government services to the extent of the reduction in revenue experienced due to the pandemic; Provide premium pay for essential workers, offering additional support to those who have borne and will bear the greatest health risks because of their service in critical infrastructure sectors; and, Invest in water, sewer, and broadband infrastructure, making necessary investments to improve access to clean drinking water, support vital wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, and to expand access to broadband internet6/6/2021 Yes 522456/6/2021 Yes 522456/6/2021 Yes 52240123951076486/6/2021 Yes6/6/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 2 108746596/6/2021 Yes6/6/2021 Yes 52240 10897612543Repairing and replacing ancient infrastructure is critical.6/6/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 5 106978146/6/2021 Yes 52245 1 5 102364789I've never heard of the BIPOC corporation but I don't know why they should get public money. 6/6/2021 Yes 52246 7 2 1014368956/5/2021 Yes 52240 9 8 1065423716/5/2021 Yes 5224023841951076Iowa City should expand public transit including having a mobile app for tickets and boarding. The current transit system is inadequate. We also need safer bike Lanes. 6/5/2021 Yes 522456/5/2021 Yes 52245 8 9 106513472Buy land along creeks for flood protection and to improve water quality.6/5/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 8 104756196/5/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 4 10589762I feel minorities are the hardest hit when it comes to pay and disaster, as well as mental healthy issues.6/5/2021 Yes 52240 4 5 9 106728316/5/2021 Yes 5224558432971016Free pizza for everyone
6/5/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 9 10248657additional support for public schools to bring make up for lost learning6/5/2021 No6/5/2021 Yes 52240 6 5 8 10472193I would like to see another dog park that is more accessible in town. The two we have are on the outskirts of town.6/5/2021 No6/5/2021 Yes6/5/2021 Yes 52245146328795106/5/2021 Yes 52245637485129106/5/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 6 10457839Prepare emergency /transitional housing for renters (lots of children will be impacted) who WILL be evicted and owe thousands of dollars in back rent when the Federal Eviction moratorium ends July 1. Provide direct back rent assistance to families to prevent mass evictions. Increase the pay for city employees who must interact face to face, indoors, in small enclosed areas with the public on a daily basis (many of them still not fully vaccinated) once City Hall and facilities open to the public. This includes all receptionists, front lobby staff, Senior Center employees, library staff, cashiers, and housing inspectors. Expand public waiting areas (for example, the Housing Authority lobby is too small with two public use computer kiosks less than five feet apart. This is not safe given the fact that children are not vaccinated, many poor and marginalized community members are not vaccinated. Perhaps computer stations for public use should be moved to the front lobby of City Hall, and seating spaced in corridors for overflow waiting. Also, each City office should be provided with enough copiers, printers, scanners and barriers to prevent prolonged crowding and increase traffic flow. Consider reclassifying receptionist and customer service positions, which often perform similar duties, similar services and intensive face to face customer service in recognition of their essential nature and risk when interacting with the public during a pandemic. Pay receptionists working face to face with the public (18.79/hr) at least as much as customer service representatives who do not (22.79/hr..) Consider re evaluating such positions through out City staffing and job descriptions to make pay equitable. 6/5/2021 Yes 523176/5/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 5 106478396/5/2021 Yes 522456/5/2021 Yes 52246 2 7 8 10635419direct pay to residents. Payments for utility bills6/5/2021 Yes 52245237984610156/5/2021 No6/5/2021 Yes 52246847259361016/5/2021 Yes 52240 5 2 4 103976186/5/2021 Yes 5224518536794210While I believe that we should explore income disparity, I think we should do it by education of all populations, in all grades of school. There should be mandatory finance classes. There should be one semester of all languages, so that more are exposed to more cultures. I do not want to make handouts the norm.6/5/2021 Yes 522416/5/2021 Yes 52246619258437106/5/2021 Yes 52246325917864106/5/2021 Yes 5224026193104857Address the housing crisis6/5/2021 Yes 52245342768951106/5/2021 Yes 552406/5/2021 Yes 52246 9 8 1046315726/5/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 8 106149756/5/2021 Yes 52240895162341076/5/2021 Yes 52246789542316106/5/2021 Yes 522406/5/2021 No6/5/2021 Yes 52246 10739416258Restore the $300 unemployment benefit for laidoff hourly employees6/5/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 106597831Continued flood mitigation is a concern impacting everyone in the city particularly as climate change continues to impact the area. 6/5/2021 Yes 5224635698421107We'd like to see an increase in broadband development. Preferably not by Mediacom.6/5/2021 Yes 52245561281034976/5/2021 No6/5/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 5 10938647Do not use any money for Non Profit and Tourism who wee on all that's good to put their mark on it. The big idea from ICAD and Think IC was to create another non profit Project Better Together? To do what? More signs and buttons? A slight of hand political campaign? 6/5/2021 Yes 52240 3 5 7 10164928The money should be used to help those most in need in whatever way they need most desperately, as allowed by the law. 6/5/2021 Yes 52246213458791066/5/2021 Yes 5224683947105126SAVE THE MILL
6/5/2021 Yes 52245234975816106/5/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 105613492Provide higher salaries for law enforcement Hire more law enforcement officers Better equipment for law enforcement Construction of a larger jail6/5/2021 Yes 522466/5/2021 Yes 52245 1 5 108763294Municipal broadband6/5/2021 Yes 52245 107829354616/5/2021 Yes 52245148635910276/5/2021 Yes 5224035124678910BIPOC owned small businesses need more support by way of grants and/or low interest forgiveable loans. 6/5/2021 No6/5/2021 No6/5/2021 Yes6/5/2021 Yes 522456/5/2021 Yes 5224014567983210Help the underpaid essential workers 6/5/2021 Yes6/5/2021 Yes 52240529478631106/5/2021 Yes 52240789152341066/5/2021 Yes 522406/5/2021 Yes 52246 3 4 9 105821676/5/2021 Yes 522406/5/2021 Yes 52245936810427156/5/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 1097853466/5/2021 Yes 5224618295741036Affordable housing 6/5/2021 Yes 52245714210836956/5/2021 Yes 52245659241071836/5/2021 Yes 52246816945321076/5/2021 Yes 52246 1 8 7 10365924Increase funding for creating and sustaining housing for low and moderate‐income owner and renter households.6/5/2021 Yes 52240312698710546/5/2021 Yes 52245 5 38766/5/2021 Yes 52245 6 8 1094521736/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 502736/4/2021 Yes 52245 9 4 1067123856/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 8 356946/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 6 5 10798312Municipal broadband would be incredible 6/4/2021 Yes 52241726153410896/4/2021 Yes 52240423867519106/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 1346/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 5 103874696/4/2021 Yes 52242 9 10734581266/4/2021 Yes 52240 10512467398A) grants to small businesses for difference between pandemic sales levels and pre‐pandemic sales B) grants to cover installation costs of installing broadband for low to medium income residents and small businesses C) advertising grants for small businesses to advertise in local sources such as Little Village, local TV and local radio, and local web such as the Iowa City Mom's Blog. This will help the businesses and the local media recover while helping tourism recover too! D) grants to help offset the cost of compostable or more green packaging for local stores and restaurants E) iowa city tourism website focusing on what to do on your visit F) hire content creators to help ensure non‐profit events and Iowa city entertainment industry are showcased on sites such as traveliowa.com and other travel sites, many of these sites just want content, and making videos and content could boost tourism. They could help small businesses with web content too. G) boost tourism and sales in local businesses by getting a billboard on I‐80 telling people to get off and enjoy Iowa City's shopping and restaurants 6/4/2021 Yes 52246 2 1 9 105837466/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 1082469756/4/2021 Yes 52246854961073216/4/2021 Yes 5224669751021438Water and sewer infrastructure projects. The City has deferred maintenance on a number of water mains that should be replaced on a much more accelerated basis than is currently planned. 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 7 10485619Premium pay for essential workers is so important! And not just low‐earning (or minimum wage). 6/4/2021 Yes 5224062978410153
6/4/2021 Yes 52245 543126/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 5 8 10961372Maintain the parks. Review the water pipes and water access in schools, parks, and the downtown area6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245538961071246/4/2021 Yes 52245213459106786/4/2021 Yes 52240235617910486/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246 6 9 7 104153286/4/2021 Yes 52246165478923106/4/2021 Yes 52246 6 3 7 108912456/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52246 6 2 1095871346/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 3 106784596/4/2021 Yes 52246 106823154976/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 4 5 3 10892761Continue adding in more native prairie6/4/2021 Yes 52240 7 9 1016532846/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 8 45712396Improve public transportation including Sunday bus service. Make this a fantastic bike city. Look at Amsterdam.6/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 10679518Look into a pre K ‐ kindergarten bridge program for children w special needs... Look into closing the gaps of women of color and their health disparities when delivering a child...6/4/2021 Yes 52246 6 3 108471259Fix the housing crisis here you idiots. 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 5224023896751014more ADA accessibility, assisting the homeless population, paying low income essential workers6/4/2021 Yes 52245 7 3 4 102985166/4/2021 Yes 52245236149810576/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 2 104587966/4/2021 Yes 52245 7 3 4 10691258Improve parking infrastructure (especially for the hospital!!!) and address how landlords make living in Iowa city difficult 6/4/2021 Yes 52246 6 1 9 10453872Fund GuideLink, all staff under Johnson County6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 8 1014632756/4/2021 Yes 52240 7 9 8 10512634Please consider our public employees ‐ they are our most valuable resource. 6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52246124851093676/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52246143951067286/4/2021 Yes 52246123457981066/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 5 7 10462183Update lead lined service lines, expand fiber internet services are top two issues.6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 4 10596738Throw as much money at poor people and people of color as you possibly can, and it will improve so many things6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 6 104958716/4/2021 Yes 52240735624910186/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 5 106894376/4/2021 Yes 52240512967843106/4/2021 Yes 52245435291610876/4/2021 Yes 52246683245101976/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240839567121046/4/2021 Yes 52240384561017926/4/2021 Yes 52241 6 2 4 108931576/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 7 102853164Coronavirus impacts everyone regardless of race, so the focus for the spending of these funds should not be focused on assisting groups based off of immutable characteristics. 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 6 3 101892576/4/2021 Yes 52246
6/4/2021 Yes 52246 9 8 6 104531726/4/2021 Yes 52240214569381076/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 5 6 4 10712938Upgrade and expand Lee Rec Center ceramics lab and art studios for community. Provide free swim lessons for any child under 18 citywide.6/4/2021 Yes 52240 6 10 3 8 1 4 26/4/2021 Yes 52245 3 2 8 101756496/4/2021 Yes 52245 9 4 1065731826/4/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 5 10298617Come to the rescue of Forestview residents. Fight wage theft. Encourage employers to increase wages for any earning less than fifteen dollars and hour.6/4/2021 Yes 52240 7 5 6 102981346/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 5 2 10389647Address the needs of the lowest earners and most economically challenged first.6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246 5 1 3 102748696/4/2021 Yes 52246536798121046/4/2021 Yes 522403458761019Return it to people that belong to (tax payers)6/4/2021 Yes 52245 7 8 3 104561296/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 5 2 106739186/4/2021 Yes 5224087921013564Invest in mental health supports both for emergency crisis intervention and expansion of long‐term treatment capacity. 6/4/2021 Yes 52245327981051466/4/2021 Yes 5224065174109328help minority owned businesses get back on their feet; increase broadband availability (decrease costs, provide competition); help increase wages of essential workers6/4/2021 Yes 52246124576839106/4/2021 Yes 52250 2 3 7 104985166/4/2021 Yes 52246457391016826/4/2021 Yes 52242 2 3 8 10156794Ecosystem restoration, park maintenance, water runoff issues. Invest in rain gardens, for example. 6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246126759841036/4/2021 Yes 5233356479811032Improve city water, plant new trees many many more trees, help students with student loans (ie minorities, under‐represented, first generation students), mental health services for all, medical care for all. Aid for single mothers. 6/4/2021 Yes 52246235647911086/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 1056374896/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 5 7 103984266/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 8 104762956/4/2021 Yes 5224071854106239. 6/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522426/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52245237489110656/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52245 9 8 107431562have better system to mitigate disasters like floods and derecho support non profits like Englert, Filmscene
6/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 4 109586327I don t have specific answers because Im not an expert but I presume the people in charge are or at least have the connections and resources to make a difference. My main concern above anything else is addressing economic disparities and the insanely high cost of living. This city think it's Seattle with how much they charge for a one bedroom apartment that's not dilapidated. Not all of us are students with rich parents in Naperville who pay for us to live here. (I know not all students are dependent either. Some have to pay their own way as well which makes the high cost of living that's catered to rich kids even more unfair.) I've lived here for 12 years and despite more housing being built the costs have just gotten worse. Most people in this city are full time citizens who don't leave after 4 years and live here during the summers. We pay our taxes here, shop here, invest here, and stimulate the economy here. We should be the priority. The predatory housing prices need to be dealt with. The rent costs are almost unaffordable even with a full time job. I work at UIHC as a nursing assistant and I'm in nursing school at Kirkwood. They are becoming an increasingly more neglectful employer. They take away our step raises, our union rights, and our benefits and increase the cost of our insurance all while acting like the new 2% yearly cost of living raise they had to be begged to give us is actually making a difference. I know the city might not have much power over the U, however you would think that being the host city to the largest employer of the state would make the city feel obligated to match the trends of what those employees and citizens are being paid. The discounted housing and social services intended to help people who are struggling financially are only helpful to those living at the poverty line and/or families with dependent children. I'm grateful those people have help and they should continue to be helped. The problem is the poverty line cut off is outdated and no longer matches the financial reality of most citizens. The middle class is disappearing. I make $26,000 a year and can barely afford to live here but can receive no help because I'm single and make more than the cut off. Yet, most landlords want me to make triple the amount of rent per month in order to be accepted for tenancy. That means I would have to make approximately $3000 a month. I make about $1600 a month working full time at what is supposed to be a "good, respectable job." As a 30 year old adult I should not be forced to live with a roommate just to have a decent place to live. Please put your foot down and help your citizens against predatory landlords and high cost of living. 6/4/2021 Yes 52245 8 9 1076541326/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 Yes 52246 3 2 4 105786196/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 4 107582696/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 6 2 10378945Prioritizing normally minoritized or marginalized communities can completely turn a town around by leveraging those who do so much for and bring so much to the community! It’s all about building bridges of connections and lowering the sense of disconnect!6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1049136782Buy The Mill and preserve it as an entertainment venue, help the Englert Theatre reopen with full staff.6/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 6 1087521436/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52340213756481096/4/2021 Yes 522426/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 522406/4/2021 No6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52240 7 8 9 10632145Community owned broadband internet service 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52240831456107296/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 9 106542876/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 7 108456296/4/2021 Yes 5224087623591104Invest in more community spaces around the city.6/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 Yes 52246 106497851236/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 3 104561872Bonus pay for essential hospital employees (minus doctors/admin staff) and first responders that were required to show up to work during the entire pandemic.6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52245 4 3 2 105981676/4/2021 Yes 5224015498107326N/A6/4/2021 Yes 5224662318579104City should have a rock climbing gym 6/4/2021 Yes 5224085692711034road maintenace
6/4/2021 Yes 52246 2 3 1Add community services, community service buildings, and youth activities in the southeast and other lower income areas. 6/4/2021 Yes 52241 4 3 2 10986715The best thing to do would be to give a significant portion to low income households and to those who have disabilities or lost their jobs6/4/2021 Yes 52246 5 2 3 10789146Establish municipal broadband6/4/2021 Yes 52246126591087346/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 1 3 104965786/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52317 4 5 3 106918726/4/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 5 106978216/4/2021 Yes 5224235812647910Downtown revitalization, additional public facilities or public private partnership towards some cool new areas ‐ think more of the closed off streets, help by giving some of lower income or minority people a stake in the development 6/4/2021 52245 2 3 1076981546/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 6 3 102954786/4/2021 Yes 52242 8 9 1054721636/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 105681796/4/2021 Yes 52240 7 8 9 10632145Given the increase in ransomware attacks on companies and local governments, I would HIGHLY encourage the City of Iowa City to invest in their critical IT infrastructure and develop/implement a robust data disaster and recovery plan across all departments. The cost to our city in the event of a compromise could range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in exposure.6/4/2021 Yes 52240 5 8 3 104791626/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245324961075186/4/2021 Yes 52245125761094386/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 52245513971084266/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 5224087935462110Add additional snow plows and staff. Bring infrastructure (water/sewer/roads/City Park Pool) up to date and fix badly needed repairs on roads (Wayne Avenue). Raise minimum wage.6/4/2021 Yes 52242 5 4 8 10697213Funds toward educating people/children to achieve mental health through mindfulness practices, meditation, self care,…6/4/2021 Yes 52245 7 8 106153294Better broadband6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246123765109486/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 1092536786/4/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 5 10913264If anything, it should first be put towards supplementing lost tax revenue. Got to eat some potatoes before you can have the gravy. 6/4/2021 Yes 52246281341095676/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 8 10396745na6/4/2021 Yes 52246124971068356/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 8 10376529Increase minimum wage, increase social program (i e mental health, affordable housing, etc) funding6/4/2021 Yes 52240329861471056/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52246 2 4 3 10678915Raising minimum wage for essential workers, or otherwise providing bonuses and paid time off so they are able to care for their family. Start a vaccine outreach program that targets people who may have limited access to the vaccine Or are wary of getting the vaccine (e.g. shuttle services, vaccine clinics, information outreach, funding a program that reduces or redirects excess vaccine doses). Re‐investing in small businesses. Providing additional support to local teachers so that they feel comfortable teaching and well‐resourced. Support transit operators like bus drivers. 6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 8 103546976/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 52245
6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 6 8 10795123Broadband needs expanded, more affordable as it is essential for all citizens6/4/2021 Yes 52246 8 3 109274516Transit worker pay Address unemployed/underemployed people Affordable housing6/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 5 1067832196/4/2021 Yes 52241 6 4 5 103271896/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52245 4 7 106895132A lump sum payment to those who worked essential jobs and/or were required to work through the pandemic 6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 Yes 52245 7 4 8 103621596/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 5 106897246/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 5224523498105617We need to make sure Iowans are not loosing there homes and are. It starving, we need rent help programs and/or stimulus checks for Iowans in need6/4/2021 Yes 52245 5 4 7 10632198Broadband for low income households 6/4/2021 Yes 52240 3 2 1074851966/4/2021 Yes 52240 5 4 2 3 6 1I think it would be prudent to acknowledge the police and firefighters of our community that placed their families health at risk by continuing to work and respond to COVID patients.6/4/2021 Yes 52240126345789106/4/2021 Yes 52240 8 7 3 105419626/4/2021 Yes 52245 9 4 6 102751386/4/2021 Yes 52241 9 7 105463182Parks and public spaces6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 4 10567289Expand bicycle infrastructure with protected lanes and signs. 6/4/2021 Yes 52245214561089376/4/2021 Yes 52245 3 1 4 102875696/4/2021 Yes 52241659837141026/4/2021 Yes 5231723518471069Call volunteers as if they were members of jury, selective random and related the cause at hand.6/4/2021 Yes 52240 8 4 1073621596/4/2021 Yes 52241 1 2 4 105783966/4/2021 Yes 5224125897106413Increase wages for essential workers.6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 5224016952841073Direct payments to individuals and households6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 8 103957466/4/2021 Yes 52246 3 1 2 104798566/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 10 1 2Give the money back to the taxpaying citizens.6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52245125961074386/4/2021 Yes 52240 6 5 8 104932716/4/2021 Yes 5224031492587610Services to address behavioral healthcare needs exacerbated by the pandemic, including: Mental health treatment Substance misuse treatment Other behavioral health services Hotlines or warmlines Crisis intervention Services or outreach to promote access to health and social service Serve the hardest‐hit communities and families6/4/2021 Yes 52240 6 2 101853794Make a new pool or a waterpark. New playgrounds6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 6 7 4 10385912Raise the minimum wage for essential jobs (food preparation, healthcare, etc.)6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52240135689724106/4/2021 Yes 5224242135106798Help with metal health. This pandemic and police violence has really hurt people mentally. 6/4/2021 Yes 5225 1 3 6 10457829please prioritize people having decent shelter, food, salaries, and healthcare. NO MORE $ for arts/entertainment or the already well off business community downtown, thanks6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 4 1 2 105786396/4/2021 Yes 5224027583961410Please provide more opportunities for fiber internet. Our internet options are severely lacking and is an essential utility in present day
6/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 9 104765386/4/2021 Yes 5224034792658101Environmental and health justice is social justice ‐ please don't give this money directly to HyVee. 6/4/2021 Yes 5224061792 35486/4/2021 Yes 52241 8 7 5 10692143Ensure that drinking water is not contaminated with nitrogen run‐off, plastic byproducts, etc. Internet should be a public utility like water. 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 4 1065812736/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 5 7 10498136Broadband and low income assistance 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52241312761085496/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 5224012435678910Give 400$ EBT per kid under 17 years 6/4/2021 Yes 52245 7 2 6 101354896/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52245 6 2 7 104135986/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 2 104987566/4/2021 Yes 52246235764918106/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 5224076819324510Bring people to Iowa city for other reasons besides for football sports6/4/2021 Yes 522426/4/2021 Yes 5224086954103172Better and cheaper internet access has shown time and time again to enable those who are historically underprivileged the opportunity to become entrepreneurs and gain education and economic opportunities they haven't had access to in the past.6/4/2021 Yes 52242514326798106/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 4 105768396/4/2021 Yes 52240 3 9 5 107628416/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 1 5 107823966/4/2021 Yes 52246314267895106/4/2021 Yes 52246487691032516/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245672981015346/4/2021 Yes 52246 4 5 2 10378619Medical personnel of all sorts, teachers, garbage collectors, specifically deserve bonus pay for keeping our society going.6/4/2021 Yes 52245 5 6 3 10492178We need community broadband in Iowa City, and we needed it years ago. Mediacom has created itself a monopoly in this area, and their service is not worth what we have to pay for it. Broadband internet service should be treated like a utility and made available to EVERY member of our community, regardless of income or need or housing status.6/4/2021 Yes 52240123789561046/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 6 104815976/4/2021 Yes 52240 6 3 9 10581247Water, sewage, and broadband investments/preventative maintenance are great long term investments. These, and road maintenance, are inevitable expenses that normal tax revenue from low density residential will struggle to pay for. Doing so now will create flexibility in the city's future budget. A city owned broadband would easily rival the overpriced, trivial services offered by Mediacom, as they have no competition to incentivize improving things. No one can reasonably achieve success without the internet in 2021, so it should be a fair priced public utility. The pandemic quarantine only made that more obvious.6/4/2021 Yes 5224058497101362Invest in pedestrian infrastructure, public mass transit, social services and other infrastructure.6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 8 109456376/4/2021 Yes 52242 7 6 3 10542198Fix all the pot holes.6/4/2021 Yes 52240312781095646/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 5 8 104317626/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 5 10679384Pollution mitigation ‐ Institute a curbside glass recycling program so people don't have to choose between hoarding their glass and driving it all over town or just throwing it in the trash.6/4/2021 Yes 52245 10481723695Give money to all small businesses don’t be racist about it6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245
6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 4 101856796/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 5224554316789102A new public park ‐ blocking off Linn St 6/4/2021 Yes 5224515647832910Need more affordable housing options in order to diversify the community6/4/2021 Yes 522468345671296/4/2021 Yes 52240 16/4/2021 Yes 52246 3 4 1089651276/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 5224076521841039—6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 9 10384765Assist families that are about to be evicted. 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 10765813429If these funds take some burden of the current budget, let's increase the budget for improvements to heavily travelled roads within town. The conditions of many of our main thoroughfares are very poor and we should be ashamed. Instead of spending more money on artwork on benches and murals on walls downtown, let's put our money towards improving our hazardous roads which leave a terrible impression on visitors/tourists. Roads needing completely overhauled ‐ Rochester Ave (patchwork will not work), First Ave North, and Park Road/Rocky Shore to name a few.6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 7 8 10964253Create an expanded food pantry and free housing to the local homeless population.6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246168921054736/4/2021 Yes 52242 6 8 7 103129546/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 4 5 6 107219386/4/2021 Yes 52240 6 4 7 10591283Iowan waterways are still being abused by large companies and farmers who often aren't supporting the public system as well as the average City resident, who isn't making as much in profits, and isn't getting as many tax breaks or bailouts. As an example of how dire our water situation is, just look at the trees. Yellowing from nutrient deficiency. My cats always get urinary problems when they drink the tap water here. Our indoor houseplants suffer, and the water lines get clogged with buildup of some kind. Don't let your taxpayers keep footing the bill and suffering from negligence. We'll turn into Illinois ‐ your young and skilled workers leaving for a state that takes care of it's residents better in relation to the cost of living and taxes.6/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 5224512984751036Funds to aid the unfortunate (low income and/or handicapped citizens) should be put toward their housing, food, and utilities. Buildings owned by landlord/ladies should have a rent cap ‐ this includes lowering the “luxury” apartments rent. Any organizations that aim to help feed, housed, and clothed the needy should be given more money (and hire people) to do so. This includes RVAP, Food Not Bombs, and the organization that runs the shelter. Funds toward the public libraries and parks should be used for upkeep and innovation. Workers at these places should be paid more and/or given more benefits. Infrastructure should change stroads to streets, make more walkable places (like areas near Brix), barriers for bike lanes (for bicyclist safety), and more parking garages (replacing parking lots) will make Iowa City a more wonderful tourist attraction. 6/4/2021 Yes 52240157689234106/4/2021 Yes 52245 7 6 4 10531982Invest in city infrastructure badly needing repair such as roads, bridges and sewer systems. Also invest in public transportation so city buses run 7 days a week. Invest in the East‐Side of Iowa City with badly needed resources for small business and public services such as a branch of the public library.6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52242 9 8 104512763Use the funds to replenish any funds diverted due to COVID relief efforts.6/4/2021 Yes 5224512847695310temporary increase in wages of low income essential workers. More outdoor entertainment and dining options in Iowa City.6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 2 10587649Paying workers better and giving better supports to small businesses who employ residents. Offer better social supports to those who are still feeling from economic effects of COVID‐196/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 5 101968376/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 8 104567396/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52241 5 8 3 10694712UIHC nurses need hazard pay. 6/4/2021 Yes 5224516798231045Spending on infrastructure projects that will create jobs and get the money in the hands of local lower‐income workers, who will spend it locally.6/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 6 10893574
6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 6 10597318Money should be directed towards the Excluded Workers Fund6/4/2021 Yes 52245 7 2 3 105864196/4/2021 Yes 5224654326 16/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246 9 1 7 108234566/4/2021 Yes 5224067948513102Clean up the south side/ Hwy 6/ Sycamore mall area and invest in a sustainable business model to improve the area for all the residents who live in that area. Make a direct bus route from the sycamore mall area to UIHC for all the employees without having to deboard/board multiple busses.6/4/2021 Yes 5224089611034257N/A6/4/2021 Yes 52240547198210636/4/2021 Yes 722406/4/2021 No6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52242 108637521946/4/2021 Yes 52241 3 2 1 106758946/4/2021 Yes 5224112546108397Relief for low income families and communities, at‐risk populations6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 10762985143expanding internet access along with providing faster more reliable service 6/4/2021 Yes 5224643267108519The minimum wage hasn't increased for 10 years. This needs to be addressed asap, as many essential workers were earning the low minimum wage during the peak of the pandemic. 6/4/2021 Yes 522446/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 5224021783910456Ensuring more reliable internet availability Helping out those families most at need of food security and ensuring access to health care Helping provide access to anyone wanting vaccine (rides or paying people to reach out and encourage those concerned about costs or other repercussions) Expanding access to vaccines for teens6/4/2021 Yes 52240123941078566/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 5 106478196/4/2021 Yes 52246867931521046/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52242231741089656/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52246 2 3 5 101678496/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 Yes 52246 2 3 7 10694815Pay people wages that they can actually survive on. Explore cutting things like CEO pay with those that can. See Dan Price and his company as an example. Invest in businesses that don't rely on out‐of‐state tourism or cause a huge carbon footprint and waste. More places to hangout that don't involve alcohol. Seems like most arrests involve drunks. Reduce production of waste in general. Plastic bag ban; invest in paper made from bamboo (which grows rapidly) or recycled paper. There's a company in Kenya that makes bricks from plastic because their rivers are filled with it. Take inspiration from them instead of adding more waste to be dumped in and outside of the U.S. Shut down Petland of Iowa City. It is animal cruelty. Expand adoption centers and veterinary centers. The apartment/shared housing options in Iowa City are overpriced and abysmal. Several buildings are just old/ugly and probably cost more upkeep than they're worth. I don't mean historical buildings, just terrible apartments that companies happily exploit poor students and young adults with. More shelters and resources for homeless folks and those seeking safety from terrible family. I see people begging for cash on the highway all the time. Dog parks. More parks or green/flowery spaces in general. Some places in Iowa City are just really, really bland and ugly. I see a lot of loose wires that are apparently old telephone wires at places like Melrose CT. Or busted‐open Internet/electric boxes on the roadside by apartments.6/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52240356847191026/4/2021 Yes 52246 3 4 1 105872696/4/2021 Yes 52240 5 6 109812374More frequent bus service6/4/2021 Yes 52245247159863106/4/2021 Yes 5224574823951610Park maintenance and expansion6/4/2021 Yes 52246 8 5 106431792Being prepared for the next emergency is priority for all.6/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52242628571941036/4/2021 Yes 4224531247810569
6/4/2021 Yes 52240596374108216/4/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 1 26/4/2021 Yes 52246134756810296/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 5 10478619Supplement essential workers’ income.6/4/2021 Yes 52240523146789106/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 4 107965386/4/2021 Yes 522426/4/2021 Yes 5224032561479810Yes: Low income housing for homeless; NOT excluded workers fund6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 4 103958766/4/2021 Yes 5224613489102567Building of affordable housing for non‐student Iowa city residents 6/4/2021 Yes 5224521674108539Tourism: add an outdoor skating rink! There has been a boom of folks taking to roller skating during the pandemic (there even was a worldwide roller skate shortage due to the trend!), But there are few places to safely gather and practice. I think an outdoor rink would attract tourism and also increase residents' enjoyment of the city. Possibly in the winter it could be converted to an ice skating rink?6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 10985621473Use funds to educate people about wasting water watering lawns and create a program that allows households to waste water using grey water instead of drinking water, that would be awesome!6/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 8 104756396/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 1063895716/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 8 9 1072653146/4/2021 Yes 52240763289101546/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 7 102968456/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 8 103745696/4/2021 Yes 52246 8 7 1046521936/4/2021 Yes 52240 3 1 2 107946856/4/2021 Yes 52240123567849106/4/2021 Yes 52240985164237106/4/2021 Yes 52245 3 5 1024871696/4/2021 Yes 5224264275910138College students can’t complete work due to poor internet in a COLLEGE town 6/4/2021 Yes 5224512496105738Pay our essential workers and fund support for our most in need/underprivileged/marginalized groups. 6/4/2021 Yes 52240 5 6 9 107824136/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 5224665897103412Provide economic support to businesses that were specifically impacted by measures used to mitigate the spread of COVID‐19.6/4/2021 Yes 52240 3 1 108694527It all starts with mental health.6/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 5224515436781029Use the money to reduce businesses taxes. They can use that money to pay employees more money. Not keep it for themselves 6/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 Yes 52240 7 9 1025341866/4/2021 Yes 52246 7 1 1083542966/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 3 10167958Funds for non profits supporting the most vulnerable populations in Iowa City and funds for individuals who are low income that have been devastated by COVID‐196/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 9 8 106734516/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52245218976453106/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 4 5 102638796/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 8 10796534Affordable housing with access to public utilities and services (ie: bus lines). Investing in early childhood education and childcare to enable under‐privelidged young parents to pursue self‐improvement and to be better able to support and care for themselves and their dependants.6/4/2021 No
6/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 7 1068523416/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 5 4 107361896/4/2021 Yes 52240 3 5 109627814I really want to see the city address the housing crisis as well as preserve local landmarks‐ specifically, hickory hill park6/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 5224094613852710Lower taxes/give tax rebates to single family residents that are not rental property. Increase police dept. 6/4/2021 Yes 52246 9 6 7 10543182Street maintenance! There are so many potholes and roads that need to be redone. 6/4/2021 Yes 5224537564102198Invest in infrastructure6/4/2021 Yes 52333 8 9 5 102136746/4/2021 Yes 52242 1 3 108675924implement local version of universal basic income.6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 5 108974266/4/2021 Yes 5224637241108965n/a6/4/2021 Yes 5224074819631052Invest more in local businesses and get entertainment and professional sports to this city!6/4/2021 Yes 52245 756321 46/4/2021 Yes 5224676945123108The Thornberry dog park has seen significant use since COVID, and its users pay significant fees to the park, but it appears none of those fees have been used for capital improvements such as improving the path that encircles it, fixing the fence trimming that is ripped and littering plastic everywhere, improving sidewalk drainage at the entrance, and giving the attendants a more comfortable working area. 6/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 6 103785496/4/2021 Yes 5224634567819106/4/2021 Yes 52245 6 7 105891234Water and broadband makes the most sense to me. 6/4/2021 Yes 52240126831049576/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 8 4 10396751Idk the exact guidelines for the funds, but I'd like to see resources put toward affordable housing. Perhaps there could be grants/subsidies available for landlords to encourage them to maintain properties, because some of the lower rent options have issues like mold and poor electrical systems that landlords don't fix. Better enforcement of building codes and inspections to support renters.6/4/2021 Yes 52246 8 9 7 10342651Plootion mitigation, planting trees.6/4/2021 Yes 52240 6 7 8 10193542Construct/create a permanent low barrier shelter to protect people from the cold and from freezing between October 1 and April 306/4/2021 Yes 52240138910745266/4/2021 Yes 52245134569728106/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 5 103789466/4/2021 Yes 52240 104673259816/4/2021 Yes 52245 109637142856/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 4 10398567Support increased mental health, increase access; Increase homeownership and build wealth for persons of color Emergency cash payments to COVID impacted household under limited situations. Increase access to before/after school programs, use public facilities Rebate for energy efficiency and reimbursement of improvements in rental properties (improvements to remove moisture and pest infestations). 6/4/2021 Yes 52246124357896106/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 4 10795638Under no circumstances should any police see this money. Not the ICPD nor the university police, we should use this money to actually make a positive change on the community, not teargas them. 6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 1096587346/4/2021 Yes 52245 4 5 9 107132866/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246 2 4 6 10319857Replace lost tax revenue for the city, provide financial assistance for people and families struggling with rent/mortgage payments because of the pandemic, premium pay for low‐income essential workers (healthcare workers, transit operators, teachers) 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246731458926106/4/2021 Yes 52242 4 7 2 105681396/4/2021 Yes 52317 5 7 102916483Commuter train running from Iowa City to Cedar Rapids with stops in Coralville and North Liberty.6/4/2021 Yes 52245 3 2 5 104716896/4/2021 Yes 52240 3 2 4 101756986/4/2021 Yes 52246 2 9 8 10574316Increase wages of earners making Iowa city minimum wage
6/4/2021 Yes 5224523485961107Iowa City is plagued with terrible internet service options for a city of its size. I suggest building a public broadband option, or incentivizing local utilities like South Slope or IMON to expand more into Iowa City. I would also love to see assistance to help narrow inequities in the city. More housing assistance, help with down payments on homes or home upgrades for people in need (individuals, not businesses or house flippers).6/4/2021 Yes 52240239784611056/4/2021 Yes 52242 2 3 105681479I think funds should be allocated pretty equally across all the categories. Most importantly in my eyes is improving all forms of infrastructure across the city. 6/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 8 106352714hazard pay for essential workers6/4/2021 Yes 52246 10978612354Fixing Streets instead of just patching the holes6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 4 9 10865327There is an affordable housing crisis in Iowa City. More than any of these other projects, I would like to see the money go towards developing affordable housing.6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 5 10837642196/4/2021 Yes 52405256784193106/4/2021 Yes 52245568237941106/4/2021 Yes 52240512378941066/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240123965481076/4/2021 Yes 52246756491238106/4/2021 Yes 52245 106957123846/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 52246 1 3 1045687296/4/2021 Yes 52245 3 4 2 105978166/4/2021 Yes 52245859161023746/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52246371541096286/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 3 105687496/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 8 7 104963256/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 6 102985476/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 5224567514823910Allocate resources to tangible projects and infrastructure to bolster economic and environmental projects in the community. Water, internet access, trail systems, pollution mitigation.6/4/2021 Yes 5224025396107418No6/4/2021 Yes 52240134510789266/4/2021 Yes 52246243911075686/4/2021 Yes 52245 8 9 1012634756/4/2021 Yes 52245149256783106/4/2021 Yes 52246 5 4 1012678936/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 6 4 7 103981526/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 1089645736/4/2021 Yes 52240674931051286/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52240 8 6 7 104521936/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 9 10785643Housing and mental health needs should come first. It helps raise everyone up and no one should have to struggle to have roofs over their heads. Anything we can do to support our community by raising up those in poverty we should do. 6/4/2021 Yes 52246 9 2 7 10465381Prepare for future pandemics and disasters 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 3 4 8 10165729Homeless shelter and the new 501 building6/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 3 5 104876296/4/2021 Yes 52240 104837156926/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 5224045769103821Cleaner water, cleaner air, more pay to healthcare workers6/4/2021 Yes 522416/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 5224565978134102No specific ideas, but I wanted to thank you for asking for input!6/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 7 2 103945686/4/2021 Yes 522406/4/2021 Yes 52246 7 8 1039421566/4/2021 Yes 52246
6/4/2021 Yes 52240245718103696/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 7 5 103842966/4/2021 Yes 52245 8 9 107642153Ensuring there is competent competition (multiple options) throughout the city for broadband access. Expanding the number of hotspots available for borrow from the library and other gov't agencies for those in need. Continued investment in water and sewer infrastructure throughout the city to continue to make the quality of water in town a positive aspect of living here for current and future residence. 6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 1 5 10392678More money for mental health services6/4/2021 Yes 52240137862410596/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 5 104976386/4/2021 Yes 52240 9 8 1013645726/4/2021 Yes 5224521473589610The pandemic fully illustrated the harm that gross inequality can cause on the health and welfare of low income people, and exacerbated that inequality severely to the point our very culture will suffer in a myriad of ways. 6/4/2021 Yes 52245 9 5 106823741Increase policing6/4/2021 Yes 52240 8 7 105312496None6/4/2021 Yes 5224697852311064Return to the federal government because we don't need it 6/4/2021 Yes6/4/2021 Yes 52246589743161026/4/2021 Yes 5224059723186410I don't know if it's an "accepted use" but we lost a lot of smaller restaurants that I would love to see come back if we could offer an incentive (specifically Blaze pizza in the Old Capitol Mall).6/4/2021 Yes 52245 8 6 1059124736/4/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 7 104983566/4/2021 Yes 52240 2 3 4 1 7Infrastructure first for the future!6/4/2021 Yes 52245 108923167456/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52245 2 1 4 105869376/4/2021 Yes 52246 2 5 8 103476196/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 522456/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 9 108457366/4/2021 Yes 52246 10965723481Restore any delayed projects at City owned facilities. Prioritize climate action projects.6/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 5224096758124103Repair our infrastructure first. 6/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 6 9 10385724This survey is biased against workers who don't speak English or have access to internet and a computer. We need this money to go towards an Excluded Workers Fund. No duplication of relief until those who have been left behind get the relief everyone else received!6/4/2021 Yes164278359106/4/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 9 10456728Excluded Workers Fund, undocumented immigrants, previously incarcerated people, unemployed workers, hazard pay for essential workers, affordable housing cooperatives and community land trusts. No strings or conditions, no red‐tape, no barriers, or hurdles. 6/4/2021 Yes 52246 9 1031257846Grants for businesses such as Englert, Film Scene, Riverside Theater6/4/2021 Yes 52240 5 8 9 10472163encourage competition in ISP sector6/4/2021 Yes 52246 5 6 7 102149836/4/2021 No6/4/2021 Yes 52246218493571066/4/2021 Yes 52242 8 9 101652473Apply the funds even handedly without focusing on special interest groups or socioeconomic disparities.6/4/2021 Yes 52245 4 78351210FREE DOG PARKS, no more charging for acceds to A PARK. make all the dog parks free! maybe even add more! 6/4/2021 Yes 522466/4/2021 Yes 52240 4 3 2 10197658Support for housing, mental health and victim services6/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 6 108975326/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 3 4 10768529Give unrestricted cash directly to those left out of the federal stimulus and to low wage essential workers6/3/2021 Yes 52240467281910536/3/2021 Yes 52240 8 6 104713592Parks maintenance (disc golf courses, DNR (fisheries), police dept6/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 6 10873459Help out FilmScene!6/3/2021 Yes 5224674521391068
6/3/2021 Yes 5224565432198710Mental health support could include adding social worker type staff to help police respond to calls for people in mental distress. Support unique Iowa City restaurants and entertainment artists and workers (Englert and other venues), support library to add more options for tutoring for students who have missed out on so much learning. Provide low income people with a path to home ownership and support other affordable housing options.6/3/2021 Yes 52240132568749106/3/2021 Yes 5224649735628110Give bonuses to essential workers.6/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 109367528El Fondo Trabajadores Excluidos6/3/2021 Yes 52245512310768946/3/2021 Yes 5224053296101487See ranked list. Top 5 are of most importance to me. 6/3/2021 Yes 52240 3 5 4 2 1$12,000 premium pay to fire fighters and police officers. The firefighters and police officers of Iowa City went through a tremendous and unfathomable stress responding to COVID patients, known and unknown. They did this selflessly and at risk to thier families health. Not once did they request additional compensation for this major increase in risk to thier already dangerous profession. The $12k stated is $1k per month that the officers and firefighters took on this task prior to vaccine access.6/3/2021 Yes 5224512398104567This needs to go to the people in this community hardest hit not just by the pandemic, but by the increasing cost of living. Not a single cent of this should touch the ICPD or be grant money for some small business tyrant. We need to house the unhoused, make this cities broken bus system functional. And not throw it into an empty government or not‐for‐profit sink‐hole.6/3/2021 Yes 52240 10593712486Relief for private businesses most financially impacted by City’s disaster proclamation directives6/3/2021 Yes 5224536492587110Support households experiencing food, housing, childcare or transportation insecurity.6/3/2021 Yes 5224523741109658This is an incredible opportunity to do something big and meaningful for housing! Let’s make a dent in our affordable housing crisis!6/3/2021 Yes 52240 8 7 1046159236/3/2021 Yes 52245125637894106/3/2021 No6/3/2021 Yes 52240534276101986/3/2021 Yes 52245567981032416/3/2021 Yes 52246219810346576/3/2021 Yes 52240213946581076/3/2021 Yes 52245 2345618910Fix the wetland/ storm water retention area in Olde Towne Village the City and Corp of Engineers screwed up.6/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 4 5 10279638Complete development of a new Forest View neighborhood as provided by the existing North Dubuque redevelopment plan.6/3/2021 Yes 522401256387 4106/3/2021 Yes 5224597856124103Please fix our roads. 6/3/2021 Yes 52245 9 4 1078521636/3/2021 Yes 52240 6 2 9 10831475Please place an emphasis on sewer and street infrastructure in south Iowa City where there is only gravity‐based drainage and streets need re‐surfacing.6/3/2021 Yes 52246 10594631287Upgrade water and sewer lines before it becomes a larger issue in our older neighborhoods. Replace residential streets.6/3/2021 Yes 52240631759102486/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 6 104579386/3/2021 Yes 5224576218354109Economic development. Long term ad plan to bolster business in the community. 6/3/2021 Yes 5224014358710269This is an opportunity to invest in generational solutions; “teach to fish” instead of “give a fish”. Investing in land trust for affordable housing and equitable mass public transit, for example. 6/3/2021 Yes 52245215947863106/3/2021 Yes 52240 3 9 2 105867146/3/2021 Yes 52245 9 1025146378Improve and expand broadband offerings.6/3/2021 Yes 52245657812943106/3/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 6 101578396/3/2021 Yes 522456/3/2021 Yes 52245 109658312746/3/2021 Yes 5224514675103829Excluded Workers Fund for the immigrant workers, hazard pay for essential and low wage workers. You should already have money for roads, businesses, tourism. Lift people out of poverty before inequitable financial skewed towards tourism and businesses.
6/3/2021 Yes 5224532594107816There's a lot of ARPA funding coming to EVERYONE. My hope would be that each entity carve out a space where they hold the sole or primary responsibility and take on those finite projects to not duplicate and then agree with other entities for joint projects where the ROI is multiplied. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure after all. Please address immediate need, but also future and strategic planning to address the social determinants of health. You should probably rely on the health department or college of public health folks for assistance. 6/3/2021 Yes 52245137581096246/3/2021 Yes 5224078612593410Support struggling businesses and households through direct payments (RENT/MORTGAGE PAYMENTS TO AVOID FORECLOSURES/EVICTIONS); replace lost governmental revenue 6/3/2021 Yes 52245 10965823174Iowa City needs to invest in expanding Residential Fiber internet service.6/3/2021 Yes 52240 5 2 4 10739618Support organizations designed to assist with economic challenges. Divide funds to Invest in different buckets: backfill essential areas, expand existing community development projects to be bigger (stage/ amplitheatre at River crossings park) and invest in a few game changing community projects (buy Sycamore mall and turn into a year round market like Newbo to support BIPOC business and small business in general). Communicate with county so you are not funding the same things, think BIG and make investments that will change the community for generations where possible. 6/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 7 10389546Repair the human damage first, then do the rest.6/3/2021 Yes 52240645879231016/3/2021 Yes 52240 10875631294Water/Sewer projects and other public infrastructure projects delayed by COVID that will benefit the community as a whole6/3/2021 Yes 522456/3/2021 Yes 52245123Iowa City parks and recreation renovation and upgrading is a positive for all people of all economic levels6/3/2021 Yes 52246 9 7 108632145Infrastructure, roadways, bumpy streets, bumpy streets, bumpy streets, and bumpy streets. 6/3/2021 Yes 5224013524107869Help struggling music venues and restaurants.6/3/2021 Yes 52240 3 4 9 105782166/3/2021 Yes 52246 2 3 8 10497516Some people with unreliable jobs who are struggling to pay their rent and bills should get an extra relief, including immigrants with temporary status or illegal Extra help for children daycare for low income family6/3/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 1 10598637Support people first. People over profits. So you need to put tourism last, because that does not support BIPOC, women, LGBTQ, low income people. 6/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 5 7 10498326Establish an excluded workers fund to assist the people in our community who have mostly not benefited from Covid stimulus payments and have continued to serve our communities throughout the pandemic.6/3/2021 Yes6/3/2021 No6/3/2021 Yes 52240526738914106/3/2021 Yes 5224086592341107Upgrade infrastructure: high‐speed internet, roads/bridges, water/sewer, rehab for low‐income homeowners, etc.6/3/2021 Yes 5224584352961017Help all small business that were effected by lack of revenue during the restrictions: bars, restaurants, fitness and yoga studios, salons, retail etc.6/3/2021 Yes 52245 7 6 5 109132846/3/2021 Yes 52245324751068196/3/2021 Yes 52240 12Fund Excluded Workers, undocumented immigrants, previously incarcerated people, essential workers, affordable housing cooperatives, and expanded public transportation6/3/2021 Yes 5224546857110239Let’s get ahead on some public works projects. 6/3/2021 Yes 52240764291083156/3/2021 Yes 52240 8 3 9 10726541support for infrastructure, low‐income and essential workers, sustainability, broadband, health and mental health6/3/2021 Yes 52245 3 5 7 104196286/3/2021 Yes 52245623711094586/3/2021 Yes 52240437981102656/3/2021 No6/3/2021 Yes 5224535674108219Classify internet as a utility and take the power away from Mediacom. Like Cedar Falls did. 6/3/2021 Yes 5224078946123105Improve recycling infastructure and circular product processing and availability 6/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 5 4 3I suggest the City take a look at plans that you currently have in place ‐‐District Plans, Affordable Housing Plan, City Steps, etc. and use the money strategically to benefit vulnerable people and neighborhood through initiatives or projects that have already gone through an extensive vetting process rather than casting about for new suggestions from the general public. Surely you have priorities within the various plans that can then be fleshed out with input from various groups.
6/3/2021 Yes 522456/3/2021 Yes 5224097826541103The best thing that could be done with this money is to send it back. The increased national debt brought on by this frivolous spending is going to ruin our country.6/3/2021 Yes 5224576452131089Replacing lost public sector revenue.6/3/2021 Yes 52240 9 8 1056123746/3/2021 Yes 5224025671834910Help for people with low incomes (food, housing, etc.) 6/3/2021 Yes 52245526341871096/3/2021 Yes 52245 5 4 9 10721683Improve deteriorated roads. Fund preK.6/3/2021 Yes 522458945 2311066/3/2021 No6/3/2021 Yes 52245325916784106/3/2021 Yes 5224694876312105Make sure small businesses survive. Now that we are coming back, their bills are still due. Identifying real successful businesses, that may not make it because of the last year and helping them get on stable footing should be the priority. 6/3/2021 Yes 52240324956817106/3/2021 Yes 52240 3 4 8 10695217Give payments to low‐wage workers and folks who did not receive stimulus checks. Follow the Relief, Recovery, and Reparations for 20,000 Essential and Excluded Workers plan laid out by Catholic Worker House and other orgs6/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 3 4More mental health and substance abuse funding is badly needed post‐pandemic. 6/3/2021 Yes 52245 8 7 9 10531246Work with MidAmericanEnergy to incentivize solar and wind power generational and (more importantly) large‐scale long‐term energy storage solutions. We can produce our own energy and storage solutions are more frequently available on larger scale projects (as opposed to individual residential installations). Let's be a leader in true energy independence!6/3/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 109147568Give that money to the non‐profits that are providing food, shelter, mental and physical healthcare, and other essential services in our community. 6/3/2021 Yes 52240142 3Bolster the low headcount and pay levels on the Police department. Eliminate the excessive gun violence and occurrence within the city limits6/3/2021 Yes 52245 8 10976312546/3/2021 Yes 52240 5 1 7 109832646/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 7 10346589Focus on undeserved communities. Continued housing and utility assistance. 6/3/2021 Yes 52240234957861106/3/2021 No6/3/2021 Yes 522406/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 4 8 10957623Please invest the money to improve disparities in our community. This requires big‐picture thinking over brief stimulus response. While stabilization is critical, we should use this opportunity to make our community more equitable for educational opportunities, homeownership, small business opportunities, livable wages and higher‐earning opportunities, and expanding general assistance eligibility to those who do not qualify for assistance due to severe restrictions. Childcare is a major problem in Iowa City. For years, our monthly childcare for one child cost nearly as much as our monthly mortgage payment. Childcare should be a public‐private partnership. Government jobs are high‐paying with excellent benefits that could bring families out of poverty. Explore opportunities to expand City staff, address community needs, and provide additional jobs in the area. 6/3/2021 Yes 52245 4 3 6 105817926/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 5 106947386/3/2021 Yes 52246 2 15673946/3/2021 Yes 52245 7 4 9 103621856/3/2021 Yes 52240 7 8 5 104231966/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 2 6 10385947Fund social workers who are doing the work in field better. Support the families they work with by providing economic incentives and a way to become self sufficient. 6/3/2021 Yes 5224642978103516Support mental health services. Provide premium pay to essential NON‐government workers. Provide dental care to those in need and better support the free medical clinic. Provide rent support to those impacted by COVID. I'm okay with Iowa City delaying its own provides projects (except streets need repair). If you provide support to not for profits, before you do so, require some of them to merge and become more efficient, especially from an overhead standpoint. One great idea would be to use the funds to permit very low income individuals to build equity in a condo rather than enriching a developer for decades and making very low income people pay rent.6/3/2021 Yes 52245542139710686/3/2021 Yes 52246 1 9 8 10437562INFRASTRUCTURE ‐ high speed internet access for all, streets, water & sewer improvements6/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 7 4 108562936/3/2021 Yes 52245823141096576/3/2021 Yes 52245 9 7 104512386
6/3/2021 Yes 52245 109568431726/3/2021 Yes 52240312748910566/3/2021 Yes 5224035421678910Strategic planning, prototyping, and community input on what particular projects might do to support these goals.6/3/2021 Yes 52245 9 6 105824173Invest in broadband throughout the City so there is equal access to affordable, reliable, high‐speed internet in ALL our neighborhoods. The private sector is NOT taking care of providing affordable, reliable service of this basic infrastructure. It's time for the City to address this. Invest in the City‐‐its projects, its infrastructure, healthy, attractive spaces. In that past decade or so there has been under‐investment in public infrastructure and services. The town looks shabby; the roads are in bad shape; trees have been removed and haven't been replaced. Downtown looks like a big, sun‐baked, concrete slab without landscaping or shaded areas and is an uninviting space to walk/bike/hang‐out. We need to be better prepared for extreme weather events and other disasters because with climate change, these will become more common. The City should use some of these funds and determine what this looks like and begin investing in what's needed. As we saw in the pandemic, State and Federal government were unable and unwilling to adequately and quickly respond to the disaster. Increasingly, residents will look to their city to take the lead on disaster preparedness, mitigation, and response. Much of Iowa City's economy and attractiveness is connected with the tourism and entertainment sectors (I include restaurants in this category). These sectors have been hard hit over the past year. Providing support to ensure that these businesses and organizations can bounce back and continue operations is an important step in supporting Iowa City's sense of place. 6/3/2021 Yes 52246124768910356/3/2021 No6/3/2021 Yes 5224551342City infrastructure and broadband should be considered first. Aid should attempt to be targeted towards individuals in need as opposed to savvy businesses that may or may not help their employees. 6/3/2021 Yes 52240 8 6 9 10512473Restore services lost under the Trump administration.6/3/2021 Yes 52245 108967142536/3/2021 Yes 52240 10419675328Fund social services to create parity with the outside ICPD budget. Universal design principals on all new construction and all upgrades.6/3/2021 Yes 52245 3 2 4 10596718These funds should be directly almost solely toward our community members who were unable, for any reason, to receive stimulus checks. The Center for Worker Justice and the Catholic Worker House would be prime folks to ask who these people might be, and how best to contact/serve them. There should be some kind of stipulation that expressly prevents the money from being used to bolster the payroll of overfunded non‐profits. CEOs do not need this money, actual people in times of crisis need this money. 6/3/2021 Yes 5224523791108546I don't believe a good use of funds is to support city employees who were not furloughed while their facilities were CLOSED. Should not be used to replace tax revenues because people could not pay their taxes due to the pandemic. 6/3/2021 Yes 5224013865794210Think boldly and creatively about how to use these funds to make real progress in affordable housing with long term benefits. Example ‐ purchase land for manufactured housing with 99 year leases and low interest loans. Think Forest View and Regency Park as examples of folks who need decent affordable housing. Maybe help with the road that Blackbird needs to build to get that project moving again? Just examples of actions that would make a real and lasting difference in "essential" lives.6/3/2021 Yes 522456/3/2021 Yes 52240452816937106/3/2021 Yes 52246134751086296/3/2021 Yes 52245 2 10481653976/3/2021 Yes 522406/3/2021 Yes 52245 7 10968315426/3/2021 Yes 522466/3/2021 No6/3/2021 Yes 52246 2 5 8 10317469Providing mental health support Small business start up Broadband on busses and all areas Single parent/ family plan to support families in building a foundation of self sufficiency Home ownership program for low income families Social Sevices Advertising Police and peer program to introduce first responders and there communities that also includes mentorship6/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 6 2 105784396/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 7 3 104569286/3/2021 Yes 52245 10583671294Fix our streets6/3/2021 Yes 52240213968745106/3/2021 Yes 52240 2 7 5 104168396/3/2021 Yes 52240 2 4 8 10573619
6/3/2021 Yes 5224147392651810i am still thinking about it6/3/2021 Yes 5224047681935210I think we should support low income, essential workers who were not provided hazard pay as well as organizations who support low income and migrant families, particularly those who didn't receive stimulus checks. We should also invest in public health initiatives.6/3/2021 Yes 5224587965123104N/A6/3/2021 Yes 52245 2 4 3 106789156/3/2021 Yes 52245 1 8 1094253676/3/2021 Yes 52245 2 3 4 10658917Please refer to the Excluded Worker's Fund as proposed by the Peoples' Truth and Reconciliation Committee6/3/2021 Yes 52245352611087496/3/2021 Yes6/3/2021 Yes 522406/3/2021 Yes 52240 1 2 4 105789366/3/2021 Yes 52246192871045366/3/2021 Yes 522406/3/2021 Yes 52246 1 2 3 104576896/3/2021 Yes 52245 3 5 2 10986714Direct payments to those left out of stimulus payments including essential workers, undocumented workers, and BIPOC people who were disproportionately affected by the pandemic.6/2/2021 Yes 52246 1 4 3 10679528Please do not help tourism businesses5/28/2021 Yes 5224013564108729