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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-10-19 TranscriptionPage 1 2. Proclamations 2.a. Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery Salih: (reads proclamation) And here to accept is, uh, our Fire Marshal, Brian Greer. Right. Greer: Thank you. Um, seeing you a couple of weeks ago in one of these council meetings, but this one is- is a little bit earlier than when- when the actual date is. So November 7th is the day that we change our clocks and then with that same time we change our batteries in our smoke alarms. I'm going to hit a couple of the- of the big points off of the- off of the proclamation. Two-thirds of home fire deaths result from fires and homes without a working smoke alarm, and there's many reasons why that could be. They may just be old, they may have taken it out to put in something else. Um, there's multiple things that can happen. We- we do see that a lot when we go out. So we try to educate when we're- we're out on the streets and- and go and helping people with- with making sure that they're having- they're having a good safe, uh, living environment and place to be. Also, working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in home fire in half. So I mean, that's- it's very important to have one that works. Every fall we- we have this- this, uh, life-saving habit of changing and testing the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, because we don't wanna fit- forget those either, they're- they're very important as well. Um, one thing that you need to do when you're- when you're changing your batteries is take the- take the smoke alarm down and look at the back of it, see what the date is. It should be stamped on the back somewhere there. The smoke alarms are a 10 -year device, so we wanna make sure that if it's older than that, we want to get it replaced. That way we know for sure we have one that's working right. Most of them will- if- if they do have a battery that's- that's, uh, getting low, they'll have a chirp. If they go off for a- a fire, it's gonna be a lot of beeps and really loud. But you may hear just a- like a little chirp, and that will go on every so often. That's letting you know that that battery is ready to be changed, it's low. So listen- listen for that and make sure that works like that. They do have different types of- of smoke alarms. One of them that's becoming most prevalent are the 10 -year sealed. Those, we don't have to change any batteries at all, and they should last 10 years, but at the end of those 10 years, we need to replace them. When you- when you do have smoke alarms in your house, it's best to have one in each bedroom, one outside of the bedroom or the living areas there, and one on every floor. So if you've got a two-story house, the second floor needs one, the first floor, and even the basement. With that we just wanna make sure that everybody takes care of- of this at their houses and- and we do offer assistance to people who need it if they- if they need help in changing their batteries or- or smoke alarms. So that's all I have. Teague: Great. Thank you so much. [APPLAUSE] This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 2 2.b. LGTBQ+ History Month Teague: (reads proclamation) And to receive this is Aiden Bettine, LGBTQ Iowa Archives and Library Director accepting this. Welcome. Bettine: Thank you. My name Aiden Bettine and I'm the executive director of the LGBTQ Iowa Archives and Library. On behalf of our organization, I want to thank Mayor Teague and members of City Council for proclaiming October as LGBTQ History Month in Iowa City. LGBTQ History Month offers us as a community, the opportunity- opportunity to learn, celebrate, and share the queer history that has always surrounded us. Sharing and celebrating our past affords LGBTQ people visibility in the face of ongoing homophobia and transphobia in our broader community and state on one hand. Well, more importantly, providing legitimacy and representation for LGBTQ youth who need fierce advocacy, love, and protection. LGBTQ History Month invites us to reflect on how far our community has come and what we've survived in order to find ourselves and one another today. When we look to the local history of queer life in Iowa, and Iowa City more specifically, we recognize lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, non -binary, and gender nonconforming people as our neighbors, friends, teachers, family members, and engaged citizens, as people who have always or have been ever present and integral to the formation of our city. LGBTQ history in Iowa has long been overshadowed by the history of queer life in urban centers on the east and west coast of the United States. Reclaiming October as LGBTQ History Month in Iowa City is a firm commitment to acknowledging that LGBTQ people have always and will always exist in smaller cities in the Midwest, including ours. We will always make history worth celebrating during and beyond the month of October. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. And I have the proclamation. [APPLAUSE] This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 3 2.c. National Disability Employment Awareness Month Teague: All right. And the next proclamation is 2C National Disability Employment Awareness Month. And this will be read by Counselor Pauline Taylor. Taylor: (reads proclamation) Accepting this proper- pro excuse me, proclamation uh will be Jolene Sorenson from Systems Unlimited and Andy Ostrut, who is an individual served by Systems Unlimited. Teague: Welcome. Sorenson: Hello. Ostrut: Hi. Teague: Hello. Sorenson: Hi. This is Andy Ostrut and my- I'm Jolene Sorenson and I'm Director of Development at Systems Unlimited and we are honored here today to accept this proclamation. We want to thank you so much for identifying this as an issue across to a- as- as we as Iowans are facing a staffing shortage. People with disabilities, I have twice as high employment uh or unemployed a- and so it's very important that we look at this as a resource and understand that the people that we serve are very much a part of our community, ans can really give back. And not only can they give to us, but they are- we can give to them the opportunity to have the digni- dignity of having being employed. So we really appreciate today that you made this National Disability Employment Month. Thank you. Teague: All right. Thank you both. [APPLAUSE]. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 4 2.d. Public Health Professions' Day Teague: The next proclamation is 2D, which is Public Health Professionals Day also read by Councilor Pauline Taylor. Taylor: (reads proclamation) Accepting is Sam? Is Sam Jarvis in the audience? Teague: Yes. Taylor: Yes, there he is. Accepting is Sam Jarvis from Community Health Division. Jarvis: Well, on behalf of Johnson County Public Health, thank you. This is quite a surprise. I- I believe we intended to uh perform our usual provide updates as uh we uh, have done to the pandemic. And this is just um uh thank you for this acknowledgment. Um, today is 500 day- 590 for those of you who are still counting and it's just been such a long road for all of us in our community, but we appreciate the support and understanding uh throughout this entire pandemic. Uh, probably what you read off today certainly resonates. It's been tough for a lot of us. If you haven't seen those reports, we've taken our own internal uh wellness surveys to- to assess our staff and the impact it's had on all of us. Uh, we know that our federal partners have noted that roughly uh we are short 80,000 workers across the nation for public health. Uh, this was before the pandemic. And many of us have mentioned in the hallway in at work that it would've been nice to have those 80,000 when it started. So we hope that as time goes on and- and our federal and state partners recognize that we can rebuild our workforce and prepare for those future pandemics. So again, uh, on behalf of our Director Daniel Majewski and our Board of Health. Thank you for this and thank you for the acknowledgment. Teague: Great [APPLAUSE]. And you're also next on the agenda, so. [LAUGHTER]. Great. Thank you. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 5 3. Special Presentations 3.a. COVID Update — Johnson County Public Health Teague: So we're on to item number 3A, which is COVID update from Johnson County Public Health, and we're going to welcome again Sam Jarvis. Jarvis: Good evening to the Iowa City Council. As always, appreciated the opportunity to provide updates. As many have been tracking and notice, we are seeing a decrease in our cases which we're happy to see. Roughly the past seven days, we've had low 200s reported to our department. About a month ago, as we reported out, we were seeing close to low 400s, so we've seen that cut in half so far. We're happy to see the progress. We're happy to see that many are still complying and wearing masks, especially in indoor spaces. We continue to promote vaccines and provide either off-site clinics or provide the information for folks can make that informed decision. Across the board, we're also seeing hospitalizations decrease for our state, which is a good sign as well too. We know our health care workers and hospitals are very strange right now. We continue to hear about staffing shortages and staffing issues. And so we know that we want to give our healthcare workers reprieve as well, because we know that we're entering flu season too and we're unsure what that will look like. Many have coined as potentially a twindemic and certainly last fall season or flu season, we had noted that there was a concern for that as well. But we know that this- this flu season is different because our vigilance is different and we all know and feel it. We know that fatigue is there as well too. So we hope that the good practices and behaviors that we've all been practicing can stay in place, and that we can also curb flu transmission as well. In terms of our testing capacity, again, a huge appreciation to the City of Iowa City and to our other municipal partners and public libraries who have stepped up and provided access as a test Iowa at home test kit pickup site, where we've increased our access capacity to about 16 plus sites in Johnson County alone, and we know that that testing capacity we absolutely needed as we enter a respiratory virus season. So for those who become symptomatic, we will continue to encourage and urge folks to get tested so that they know and make those informed decisions for work, school, daycare, and going about our lives as we continue on through the pandemic. In terms of our case rate, we are still within high transmission for our communities. So again, following the CDC's guidance, we are continuing to urge and recommend that folks wear masks m indoor spaces. Roughly about 84 percent of counties across the US are still in high transmission. We are seeing that decrease happen, but we hope that that trend continues on and that we can eventually get to low- lows transmission so that we can one, be a little bit safer, and then certainly look at what future recommendations will be, which we hope and many hope that we won't have to be wearing masks in indoor spaces. But going into flu season, it would be prudent still to do these things. And so again, we'll keep a pulse on that and report out if there are any new recommendations on- on that front. In terms of our total population vaccination stats, we're at 64.3 percent. For 12 and older, we're at 74.3 percent. And when we were just passed by Buena Vista County, so huge kudos to them and congrats for- for having a higher rate. For much of the time, Johnson County has had the highest vaccination rate in This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Pate 6 all age categories, but we're happy to see that others are making good progress as well too, because that benefits all of us. The biggest news and what we're still waiting for, last Thursday and Friday, the ACIP met to discuss the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccine data for boosters. And it sounds like it will be substantially similar to what the Pfizer recommendations will be for Moderna, but those have yet to be issued by the CDC and signed off by their director. So we- we await that information. So as soon as that is noted and sent to us, we will be sure to share that with our community. But those are probably the major highlights at this moment. And then to report out on our 5-11 year- olds, we are just now receiving pediatric planning guidance from our state and federal partners, excuse me. And we know that- that meeting for the ACIP is scheduled for November second and third, so we have a defmitive date for that and we will be waiting to hear more on what that will look like. Because we know that at this moment, pediatric planning will be somewhat similar to what we're doing now. But in terms of logistics, there'll be some differences that we'll have to discuss with our health care partners and pharmacy partners. So but other than that, happy to answer any questions or concerns. Teague: Any updates on what schools are doing? Jarvis: Yes. So I know that a handful of our schools are continuing to- to recommend masks, not all are requiring. I will note that, I believe, yesterday on our- the joint entities meeting, our Iowa City School District superintendent, Matt Degner had noted that there- they've been able to implement a mask requirement and that's produced positive results. And everything in that it has helped one, keep cases and transmission low m schools. And that it's also helped to reduce quarantine. So we would absolutely encourage all school districts to require masks in school spaces at this moment. We've continued to share that information. And we know that until that happens, we know that it's likely to be expected to have increases in transmission or small outbreaks in classrooms going forward. So because as everyone is aware of, many of those folks are still unvaccinated at least 11 and younger. And then it's a very similar kind of mindset with our daycares as well too. We know that several of them had been impacted as well. So we'll continue to really encourage vigilance with symptom monitoring and mask wearing at this moment so. Teague: Great. Thank you. Jarvis: Thank you. Teague: Thank you. Yes. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 7 4-9. Consent Calendar Teague: All right. We are at items 4-9, which is our consent agenda. Could I get a motion to approve, please? Taylor: So moved. Weiner: Second. Teague: All right. Move by Taylor. Seconded by Weiner. I'm going to ask that our city attorney just talk about 7B, which is the south -district, SSMID. Goers: Thank you, Mayor. Ah, so obviously this is going to be a topic of great interest both to the council I know and to the public, and so there may be questions about why this item is only on the consent agenda as opposed to having more substantive discussion on the regular agenda item. So I thought it would be helpful to kind of provide some of the procedure for how this goes to explain how this will work. So the city first receives the petition and ensures that it's legally sufficient. We've received the petition and the staff and myself have reviewed it, and it does appear to meet all the statutory requirements for a petition to move forward. Then council notifies the planning and zoning commission. That's the item on today's consent agenda because they, planning and zoning, are required to do an evaluative report and to make recommendations based on the merits and feasibility of the plan back to you, members of the council. So after tonight, you send it to the planning and zoning, they will do that, and then you will get their report and then you will set a public hearing. Notice is sent via certified mail to all the property owners within the district so that they are, you know, obviously aware of what's going on. That has to be done at least 15 days prior to the hearing. Then excuse me. Counsel then holds that public hearing on the petition for the Schmid district. Council then, and this is what's a little different than other public hearings, council has to wait 30 days after the public hearing before the- before council can proceed with the- with the vote on the- on the district- on the ordinance that would implement the district. So that's the procedure. And so that's why again, all we're doing tonight is just sending it to the planning and zoning commission so that they can do their own report and send recommendations to you because council is not to have any-, you know, basically they can't do anything on it until we get that report back and the 30 days have passed and the recommendations from the planning and zoning commission and so forth. It would be inappropriate to talk about the merits of it tonight. And so that's what's going on tonight. Salih: I just have a question for you. You are saying like 30 days were- like waiting period for the council. Is that because we might receive some petition? Why- why wait? Goers: Sure. You would have the opportunity for- the public hearing would take place and so forth, and then it's possible that members of the public would reach- reach out to council members and so forth. Or they may want to have an opportunity to, you know, run numbers, whatever the case may be. But unlike oftentimes where council has a public This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 8 hearing and then votes that same meeting, that same night, on an item. Here, the statutory requirement is that 30 days are passed in between. And again, I think to just kinda take it slow and just have another opportunity to make sure everyone can be heard and they can express their opinion to you as council members if they so wish. Salih: Okay, thanks. Teague: Any other questions on that, councilors? I'm going to open up this items 4-9 to the public. If anyone wants to come up and address any of the items 4-9, please do. Welcome. Kauble: Good evening, council. Excuse me. I have a question about 7C, which is the Tobacco Enforcement Agreement between the City of Iowa City and the state. Whereas it looks like the state will pay the city $75 per compliance check and if a permit holder is not found to be compliant in the first check, the city agrees to conduct a second compliance check. My question, and I- if someone's in the know to just to kind of further expand clarity on this issue, is it going to be Iowa City police conducting these checks? And what- I mean, I guess my question is, what will these checks look like? I was- if someone on staff could kind of expand 7C, I would appreciate that. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. Anyone else like to address a topic that's within the consent agenda? Petersen: I'm just going to second his comment that the answering the guy who's going to be- is that going to be ICPD or- yeah, just expand more on that. Teague: Thank you. And we'll ask all participants that speak to sign in, please, and thank you. Anyone else like to address this topic, any of these items? See no one council discussion. Roll call please. Motion passes, 7-0. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 9 10. Community Comment (items not on the agenda) [UNTIL 7 PM] Teague: We're on to item number 10, which is community comment. And this is for any item that is not on the council agenda, and individuals will be given three minutes to speak. The community period will end at 7:00 PM unless an extension is needed to meet a minimum of 30 minutes, which we're good on that front. And I will welcome everyone. We ask that you sign in, and there will be a clock right over here. Welcome. Please state your- your name and address. Gravitt: My name is Mary Gravitt. I live at 2714 Wayne Avenue in Iowa City. I have- my usual - my complain is my yearly complain about snow removal, especially the snow removal from the bus stops. When you- it seems like it's intent, the bobcats or whoever's in charge, pile up the snow at the bus stops so that when you step on the bus you bring the snow in with you. Or they bank the snow up at the incline so that a person in a wheelchair can't get across the street. And at one time we had to renew our permits to- disability permits. It always had to be renewed in February, the worst month of the year. And how snow was cleaned up in the city, the service alleys are never clean and never salted so that you can walk from the corner of Burlington all the way down past the library. But when you get to the surface- the public service alleys, you know, when trucks make deliveries, it's always ice stuck. So you have to go out in the street, compete with the traffic and get across the service alley. Because it's dangerous, because it's iced up. And furthermore, the- one year, they surpass themselves about banking up snow at the bus stop. Because they banked up where the wheelchairs come on- off Washington onto the curve. So that the only- you- that the person in the wheelchair just couldn't make it. And so what have- wha- if they were on the right side of the street catching the towncress, the bus driver had to go out into the intersection to let the wheelchairs on, let the disabled people and let the passengers on period. And this year is going to be worse with these new bus stops. It seems like the people the- with the promise of Sunday service, they sold out their good service for palage. Cause we know how long it's going to be and l- and we need the snow where I- a sign where I live. No parking to the corner so that the bus- so that the snow can be cleaned up. So it's matter of if Iowa City is truly going to be a city, you have to clean up the snow and know how to clean up the snow. It seems like the persons in charge of cleaning up the snow is from Florida, from Miami and never saw a snow and think is- it's nice and pretty. No. We got to get on the buses, and in the neighborhoods it's worse. Because I've had an event where a per- young man, he stopped his car to help me up on the curve because I couldn't get over the thick snow. So this has to be the last year for that. Clean it up or hire somebody who knows how to clean it up. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. Welcome. Fixmer-Oraiz: Welcome. Thank you for having me here. Let me just pull this up here. Teague: And please give us your name and your address. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 10 Fixmer-Oraiz: V Fixmer-Oraiz 437 South Governor Street, and my pronouns are they, she, and Shia. And you think I'd never done a presentation before. Um. View. There we go. Hmm. Funny. There we go. That's what I was looking for. Okay. Yeah, so I am the CEO and founder of Estate Planning and the co-founder for R.E Connect Collective, which we've presented before to you. And this year we worked with the Johnson County Affordable Housing Coalition who was awarded a human rights grant. This is my company, Estate Planning. I worked with Johnson County Affordable Housing Coalition. And we were basically in the Woodland neighborhood looking at how can we assist residents there in rental units with some of their housing. And so Sara Baron from the Affordable Housing Coalition and Steve Nachazal from the Johnson County Navigator was there. So we did two events on Saturday kind of like afternoon and then Wednesday early evening. And the reason why I bring this up is because we, you know, we had food and we had games and we were able to assist people directly. So we brought people to the people that can actually help them navigate systems and find resources in the moment. And so we worked with about 50 households and 30 percent of those residents communicated in French, about six percent in Arabic. And we had a Spanish speaker and the rest were English speakers. Many people came off the streets because we had a huge banner that said affordable housing resources. We had, you know, we had the fliers that we sent out door-to-door. We worked with Southgate who has the property and they helped us flyer and send out emails to some of the residents, letting them know. The flyers were in several different languages, and we had translators there. And I bring all of this up because it was really powerful event to be able to come where people are. And oftentimes people came with, you know, the flyer folded up to their language to say, you know, "I need assistance with housing." And I bring this to you because- one example was a couple who has about $8,000 in unpaid rent. And through this one program, we were able to help them fmd resources to resolve that completely $8,000 in background, we just did this event last month. So the reason why I wanted to bring that to you is because the collective is, you know, we're doing the work in the community just to give you an example, but also just to reiterate how urgent the need is to release those emergency upper funds. People are experiencing housing issues, food, insecurity, all kinds of things. And we just wanted to provide you with that direct example of community residents that are just on the street. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. Welcome. Jaramillo Guayara: Hi. Good evening. My name is Paola Jaramillo Guayara and I'm a representative of LULAC 308 Council that is with the greater Iowa City area. I currently serve as their president. Our council is currently surprised of over 50 Latinx community members and allies who are striving to advance economic condition, educational attainment, housing, health, and human rights of not only the Latinx population in the United States, but specifically our area. Our LULAC 308 Council actually chose to join quite recently, the racial equity connect collective to further advance the needs and desires of our local Latinx community. This community is rich with hard-working, under- represented business owners who are eager to gain access to resources that they really truly need to thrive and build up their dream businesses in our community. They don't This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 11 want to export them, they don't want to take them anywhere, excuse me. They want to keep them here. They sell conchas, they cut your hair, they serve delicious tacos, and they sell artisinal goods to fill up your beautiful homes. They're our friends and our neighbors, and they deserve the support of the community to grow and prosper. I'm confident that the unique and collaborative work coming specifically from our reconnect collective will result in long-term positive impacts for members of my specific community for generations to come. We are excited at the prospect of partnering with the City of Iowa City to continue this important racial equity work. But understand that these upper funds hold the magic key. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. Anyone else like to address a topic that's not on the council agenda tonight? Welcome. Kauble: Uh, good evening, Council. Uh, this is Dan Kauble again. Um, I would just like to, uh, make a few comments about the work session that occurred earlier this evening. Um, one of the astounding things to me and the work session was about the Citizens Police Review Board recommendations that they provided to the City Council. Uh, personally, if- there were several things within that, that really just kind of astounded me. One of them was focusing on, uh, a lack of transparency in regards to disciplinary proceedings for officers, um, not only from the public, but also from the Citizens Police Review Board. That is something that I think is extremely concerning because I think these are the people who are in charge of, uh, making our community more equitable, safer for residents. Um, I think that they need to be empowered to do whatever it takes to achieve that. Uh, secondly, it was pretty astounding to me where- uh, there are several arguments about how some of the recommendations went up against state law and how the city cannot go up against state law. That was pretty astounding to me given that the city earlier this year has gone up against state law in regards to the mask mandate. And I know the city attorney, uh, described how th- the Citizens Police Review Board Recommendations are different. But those explanations to me did not really amount to anything. I think it's a instance of the city picking and choosing which state laws it wants to go against in which it doesn't. Um, and in regards to Councilor Thomas, to make comments about how the goal is to have zero complaints. Um, well, I think for in or - order to have zero complaints and to have the citizens of Iowa City be happy, I think it requires a complete overhaul of the Iowa City Police Department. Um, because, I mean, there- if you look throughout the recent history, there are things that are major issues that the city has not, um, worked to solve. And there are significant harms that are occurring to the community that I think need to be addressed. Um, another thing that was pretty astounding to me was that I didn't realize that Iowa City police officers are unionized. Police unions if you look at their role in other cities across the country, they have a very toxic influence on, uh, on cities. Because police unions often get in the way of progress to keep citizens safe from the police. Um, so yeah. Thank you. Have a good night. Teague: Thank you. Would anyone else like to address a topic that is not on the council agenda? Welcome. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 12 Petersen: Hello. My name is Noah, as you know. I live in Iowa City. Um, couple things that I discussed earlier with y'all about the benches and picnic tables and stuff that' going missing. Um, y'all should return those the way they were, specifically the one by Uncle Sun, the picnic tables by riverfront crossing, come to mind. Second, is, uh, the exluded workers fund. It's to actually fund that- the 8 million they're asking for from the city instead of just dragging your feet waiting for the county to do that, to like do that yourselves. You don't have to wait for the county. You can- there's nothing stopping you from doing that now, you're just choosing not to. Yes, and just very simple accessibility things about how boardsof supervisors allows people to call in on Zoom and have public comment like I'm doing right now. But your current policy is not allowing people to do that and whatever like, yes, you can contact you guys different ways, but that is not the same as what I'm doing right now, public comment that's being recorded live and there - that's not the same as if I was to write you an email, which is also public comment, but it's not a public comment like this, is happening right now, it's discriminating against people who were not able to come into meetings, to give public comment like this because I mean, we still are in a pandemic in case you all forgot that. That still is occurring. People still are not able to go out to areas if they have health problems, stopping them to come to public meetings like this to give comments like this, and there's no reason whatsoever besides your choice not to allow them. The supervisors are doing that. There's no reason you are not doing that. That's a good reason. That's not discriminatory, is you can't say it's not, you can, like, try to justify that however what choice of words you want doesn't change the fact that it's not the same. We're talking about stopping complaints and solving upstream problems and doing that within the law. Well, the- there is no law passed saying you can't defund cops anywhere. So if you want to, like, solve the problem, well, the problem is the police, so defund them and put those - that money to services that actually help the community instead of sending armed agents to the states to deal with every problem. Because when you have a gun that's what you're going to want to respond with is this force. And you can defund them, the- there's nothing- the back the blue law had- that provision was not actually signed into law, that you can't defund. You can defund them. So you should do that. I'm just waiting for the time run out. Teague: Thank you. Anyone else like to address Council on an item that's not on the agenda? Seeing no one. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 13 11. Planning and Zoning Matters 11.a. Zoning Code Amendment — Form Based Zones and Standards - Ordinance amending Title 14, Zoning Code and Title 15, Land Subdivision, to create form -based zones and standards consistent with the South District Plan. (REZ21-0005) (Second Consideration) Teague: We're going on to item number 11, planning and zoning matters. 1 la Zoning Code Amendment, Form -based zones and standards. This is a ordinance amending Title 14, so in accordance Title 15, land subdivision to create Form based zones and standards consistent with the soft district plan. This is second consideration. Can I get a motion, please? Weiner: So moved. Bergus: Second. Teague: Moved by Weiner, it's seconded by- Salih: Bergus. Teague: -Bergus. Okay. Great. And anyone from the public like to address this topic? Seeing no one. Council discussion. Bergus: [OVERLAPPING] Sony, Mayor. I just want to draw attention to the memo that was in the packet addressing the question about ADA accessibility. Just so everyone is aware that under new construction, commercial uses are required to be accessible, which can be accomplished through at grade entry, providing a ramp or installing a lift, and that such, um, options have to be compliant with the ADA and are reviewed at the time of the building permit or change of use, permanent so if a new residential building was built under the Form -Based Code and converted, it must also be accessible. So I just wanna make sure we were all aware that which is good news. Teague: Thank you. Any other comments? Roll call, please. Motion passes seven to zero. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 14 15. Community Comment [IF NECESSARY] (ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA) Teague: We're at item Number 15 and we welcome USG. Hello. VanHeukelom: Hi Council. Um, so we have the city council meet and great, um, next Tuesday. Um, so it's during normal council times. I - I would assume you guys might have your calendars open, if you do want to stop by and say hi to the mayor. Um, but it's 4:00 to 6:00 PM at the second floor ballroom in the IMU. Um, Hawk the Vote is helping sponsor. So we'll be doing a lot of, like, advertisement for that this week, um, to encourage students. And then we're almost done with the graphic and I'm going to be sending that to the comms team for the city, so they'll be able to spread that out as well. Um, on the 28th, we have a partnership- meeting with the partnership for alcohol safety. The Mayor help put that together. So we're looking forward to- to that to discuss sexual assault on campus and in the community. Um, and then I just wanted to say again that there is- there is early voting available, um, on the 26th, the 30th, and 31st. Um, the- the one on the 26 is at the old Cap town center and the other two dates are the Iowa City Public Library. Um, and then tomorrow is President, uh, Wilson's welcome, um, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM at Hancher auditorium, if anybody wanted to stop by. And then lastly, the Iowa climate statement, um, release- was released by the University of Iowa's Center for Global and Regional and Environmental Research. And Ellie used to work for them. That's a cool plug. Um, but they have an article on The Daily ION calling on Iowa to strengthen their electric infrastructure. That's all from us today. Thank you. Teague: Thank you. Lots to take note of today. VanHeukelom: Yes. Teague: Yes. VanHeukelom: Yeah. Let me know if you didn't get anything and I can send that in an email. Thanks. Teague: Great. Thank you so much. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 15 16. City Council Information Teague: On to item Number 16, city council information. Weiner: So I'd add on to what, um, Anna said about- about voting. You can also vote early at- at the auditor's office, but directly the auditor's office. But - but more- um, more conveniently for many people, they have the drive-through voting, early voting again, uh, and really urge people to get out and vote for these local elections, city council and - and school board. They're usually very low turnout elections. So your vote really does matter in terms of electing local officials. And, um, the - the other item is that the - that ECICOG, the East Central Iowa Council of Governments, much is - is working on their future visioning process. They have a number of - of, urn, focus groups corning up. You can get - you can get information if you want to participate on [inaudible]. This is an area that consists of Benton, Leanne Jones, Iowa, Johnson and Washington Counties. If you would like information about the - the upcoming focus groups, you can go to talkto.ecicog.org. Um, and there are- for example, there are groups that you can go to in person or by Zoom on food and bioprocessing, um, insurance and finance, engineering and automation, main street and small business, education technology and services, and biotechnology, and medical technology. So they're - they're doing a lot of focus groups to feed into this, uh, future visit - visioning process. And like if you want more information, I can give it to you. But basically that the web - the - the website can get you into pretty much everything. Again, talkto, to the word.ecicog.org. So that's it. Taylor: Last Friday, uh, evening, the City of Iowa City had an entry in the University of Iowa's Homecoming Parade. Um, some council members, including the mayor and myself, walked the parade route together with several city staff members, showcasing the city's climate action, uh, efforts with a banner and one of our electric vehicles. Uh, it was lot of fun and great to see the positive reaction from people in the crowd that recognized our efforts. Special thanks especially to Zach Berg in the communications department for making the arrangements and for designing the awesome T-shirts. I'll show this because you too can have them. Zach has a bunch of them and he just ask that you wear them to community functions and or just being out and about. They're really pretty cool and showcases that we're the city of literature as well as our, uh, climate action logo. So they're really cool. So thank you, Zach again for doing that for us. What should we - do what? Well, that's it. Bergus: I mentioned it last meeting, but through the end of this week is the Iowa City Book Festival. So checkout, iowacitybookfestival.org for events continuing through the weekend put on by the UNESCO City of Literature. Teague: I wanted to remind everyone that in November we do have a different schedule for council meetings, we'll be meeting the 3rd and the 5th Tuesday. So November 16th and the 30th. And then in the month of December, we're going to meet on December 14th, which is the third Tuesday. So I wanted to remind everyone of that. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 16 17. Report on Items from City Staff Teague: All right. We're on to item Number 17, reports on items from city staff, our city manager. Fruin: Nothing tonight mayor. Teague: Our deputy city manager. Jones: I just wanted to take a - a moment. This is totally unscripted. But to, uh, as we probably all know that we lost a great American hero this week, uh, Colin Powell. He personally was a - a - a person of inspiration for me personally, and I just wanted to acknowledge that and invite anyone who doesn't know or haven't heard very much about him, take this opportunity to learn about some of the contributions he's made to our country. And a perfect example is a - as a patriot. Taylor: Thank you. Teague: Thank you for that. Our city attorney. Goers: Nothing for me, mayor. Thanks. Teague: City Clerk. Fruehling: Nothing for me. Teague: All right. We're at item Number 18. Can I get a motion to adjourn? Mims: Can I make just one really quick comment. Teague: Please. Mims: It's just a quick correction. December 14th is the second Tuesday. Teague: Oh, thank you. Mims: It is the 14th that [LAUGHTER] our meeting is but it's the second Tuesday in case somebody was listening to that. Teague: Thank you. Mims: Yeah. Teague: Yes. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021. Page 17 Weiner: And - and I - I would like to add onto what Red - Redmond said, I worked under Colin Powell for four years at the State Department. Um, never - never worked under another Secretary of State who cared about his people so much. This represents only a reasonably accurate closed captioning transcription of the Iowa City City Council regular formal meeting of October 19, 2021.