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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes-08/02/2010August 2, 2010 The Council of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, met in Regular Session at City Hall Council Chambers, Waterloo, Iowa, at 5:30 p.m., on Monday, August 2, 2010. Mayor Ernest G. Clark in the Chair. Roll Call: Cole, Getty, Jones, Greenwood, Schmitt, Welper, Hart. Moment of Silence. Pledge of Allegiance: Mark Rice, Superintendent of Central Garage. 134960 - Hart/Schmitt that the Agenda, as amended, adding Proclamation proclaiming August as the 50th Anniversary of Club Les Dames; adding item 21. Resolution supporting the review of the City of Waterloo's Comprehensive Plan for Smart Planning Principles in conformance with the State of Iowa's Senate file 2389 -Submitted by Noel Anderson, Community Planning & Development Director; and adding item 22. Resolution approving the application of I -Jobs grant funding requests for the following projects: Dry Run Creek Gate Replacements, Public Works Sandbagging Building, Riverfront Stadium flood protection system, and Virden Creek Flood Control Improvements, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to sign and fully execute any documents for the submittal -Submitted by Noel Anderson, Community Planning & Development Director, for the Regular Session on Monday, August 2, 2010, at 5:30 p.m., be accepted and approved. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134961 - Hart/Schmitt that the Minutes, as proposed, for the Regular Session on Monday, July 26, 2010, at 5:30 p.m., be accepted and approved. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. Mayor Clark read a Proclamation declaring August 3, 2010 as National Night Out. Mayor Clark read a Proclamation proclaiming August as the 50th Anniversary of Club Les Dames. Presentation of Optimist Baseball Character Counts Coach of the Year to: Chris Koester, Zach Schwartz, Kevin Nobis, Robin Lund, Joe Liebold and Eric Heinen Presentation of Optimist Baseball Character Counts Player of the Year to: Aaron O'Leary, Trenton Stoakes, Brooke Craig, Jenna Grey, Hunter Lavelle and Sydney Shannon. Presentation of Certificate of Heroism to Nicholas Connell. CONSENT AGENDA 134962 - Hart/Schmitt that the following items on the consent agenda be received, placed on file and approved: a. Resolutions to approve the following: 1. Resolution approving Schedule AP642, pp. 1-69, dated August 2, 2010, in the amount of $828,374.88, a copy of which is on file in the City Clerk's office, together with recommendation of approval of the Finance Committee. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-668. b. Motion to approve the following: 1. 2. Travel Requests Name & Title of Personnel Class/Meeting Destination Date(s) Amount not to Exceed Nancy Gulick, Community Development Coordinator Region V/VII - NCDA Conference Davenport, Iowa September 1-2, 2010 $260.00 Danielle Rohret, Administrative Assistant CDBG Basics Training and Region V/VII NCDA Conference Davenport, Iowa August 29- September 2, 2010 $900.00 August 2, 2010 Page 2 3. Beer/Wine License Permit Application Special Class C Newton's Paradise Cafe, 128 E. 4th Street (New) (Expires 7/1/2011) (Includes Sunday Sales) 4. Liquor License Permit Application Class C Iowa Irish Fest, Lincoln Park (New) (5 day license - 8/5/2010 to 8/9/2010) (Includes Sunday Sales) 5. Outdoor Service Area Application Newton's Paradise Cafe, 128 E. 4th Street Iowa Irish Fest, Lincoln Park 6. Bonds John Sherbon, 1715 Robin Road - my concern on number three is that there seems to be a problem, we had several council members that were very upset about a bank that followed all the rules and regulations and that were in possible denial because of a parking lot problem. We now have several problems with liquor, wine, beer that were approved. Probably the guys did everything they were supposed to do because that is the way the liquor licenses are, at least in my knowledge. That you have to jump through many hoops to get to a point to be able to apply for this license and those businesses did. Now I am not for liquor, I am not; it is not my deal to go one-way or another. I think we need to get the cart before the horse or some sort of different deal because when these guys spend this amount of money or any other kind of business develops and then is denied at the last stage. Maybe these permits should be okayed first and then do all the other necessary things to get the licenses issued. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. PUBLIC HEARINGS 134963 - Cole/Welper that proof of publication of notice of public hearing on request from Dick and Don Hurst to rezone approximately 0.45 acres of land from "R-1" One and Two Family Resident District to "S-1" Shopping Center District for property located north of 2102 Kimball Avenue generally located near the northwest corner of Kimball Avenue and West Ridgeway Avenue for the purpose of bringing the existing legal non -conforming commercial parking lot to the Kimball Ridge Shopping Center into compliance with the Zoning Ordinance, as published in the Waterloo Courier on July 22, 2010, be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134964- This being the time and place of public hearing, the Mayor called for written and oral objections and there was one letter of objection on file from Rick Hurtado. Rick Hurtado, 1830 W. 3rd Apt. B, submitted pictures and a petition requesting the area be cleaned up. He stated I am for business in Waterloo, first of all. But we like to see Kimball Ridge Shopping Center cleaned up. We have pictures of it here that I passed around and 18 signed signatures of people that live around the area that want clean up. We like the businesses but we want that cleaned up. Basically the first thing we would like the back end. Right now for two weeks there has been water running out the street going down towards Ridgeway. It is not fixed. Let's straighten the place up first and then go ahead and build it. Mayor Clark stated I know there was some question about the fence back there and I will ask the question. Debra are we anywhere on the retaining wall fence? Debra Anderson, Building Official, stated the wall has been, the property owners have been sited into court and the court date is October 18, 2010. Councilperson Getty stated I had several phone calls about the same piece of property and I went over there and the weeds were growing up around the fence and I see they have now been cut down and the garbage in the alley has been cleaned up and new dumpsters it looks like. The building itself needed some attention. The parking lot really needs a lot of attention and it needs to be striped. Because people don't know for sure where the parking lines are at and so forth. But after saying all that, that has really, there is no way I am going to hold this up or vote against this request because the Hurst Brothers do not take care of the other property. That is up to the Building Official and for the tenants. Councilperson Schmitt stated he echoes Councilman Getty's comments and he has also received a number of calls and emails and he know several other Councilmen did. I did have a conversation with our Building Official and apparently there have not been very many complaints. I think maybe just one about the property. I • • • August 2, 2010 Page 3 think maybe some folks have been unhappy but my counsel to them would be going forward to be sure and call the code enforcement office for any issues out there and we will get them resolved. I think that is what really needs to be done out there. We don't want to inhibit the commercial growth of that are but we also want good neighbors. I would encourage those folks that have problems with the current landlord or tenants to call code enforcement and get those issues taken care of. Cole/Greenwood that the hearing be closed and recommendation of approval of Planning, Programming and Zoning Commission and oral and written comments be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134965 - Cole/Greenwood that "an Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 2479, as amended, City Zoning Ordinance by adding Subsection No. 406 to Section 2A-5, Rezoning Certain Property", be received, placed on file, considered and passed for the first time. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134966 - Cole/Greenwood that rules requiring ordinances to be considered and voted for passage at two prior meetings be suspended. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134967 - Cole/Greenwood that "an Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 2479, as amended, City Zoning Ordinance by adding Subsection No. 406 to Section 2A-5, Rezoning Certain Property", be considered and passed for the second and third times and adopted. Ayes: Seven. Ordinance adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 5001. 134968 - Greenwood/Schmitt that proof of publication of notice of public hearing on request of Dick and Don Hurst for a site plan amendment to the "S-1" Shopping Center District for property located north of 2102 Kimball Avenue generally located at the north end of the Kimball Ridge Shopping Center near the northwest corner of Kimball Avenue and West Ridgeway Avenue for the purpose of construction a 2,543 square foot coffee shop/restaurant, as published in the Waterloo Courier on July 22, 2010, be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134969 - This being the time and place of public hearing, the Mayor called for written and oral objections. There was one written objection filed by Rick Hurtado. Councilperson Schmitt stated question for Noel, we talked at the agenda meeting about the safety factor about the additional traffic coming out onto Kimball Avenue and you mentioned there was a traffic study in place. Did we look at possibly locating this on the front portion or on Ridgeway, down by Flowerama? Noel Anderson, Community Development Director, stated I know the applicants had discussed that at one point but when they submitted their application it was for the northern end, which is before you so we did not fully review the location at the southern end because we didn't have a site plan to review. The technical review committee did meet on the proposed request and the traffic department is a part of that, as well as the engineering department, who normally would look at curb cuts and traffic conditions and there was no grave concern shown with the layout. There was a question brought up at the planning commission about the amount of stacking that was available. There may be representatives of the company here as well. They normally anticipated, I believe, 3 to 5 cars in line but they actually had stacking distance for up to 8. They thought that was more than sufficient for their business. Councilperson Schmitt stated I think you did talk about the snow that was piled high where the restaurant is going to go, about that being hauled out. Mr. Anderson stated correct and it is our understanding that they were going to move the snow to the southern end or remove it from the site for snow removal. Maxine Highsee, 2036 Kimball, stated it probably doesn't do me any good to be here because the planning and zoning accepted this plan very rapidly. After the Hurst cleaned up the place over there, most of them won't have anything to complain about. Our complaint can't go away. Our bedrooms are on that side. They say that its not going to be a problem but to have children waking up at 6:00 a.m. I understand that they're not going to be open late at night, 6:00 a.m. is awfully early for that. I don't want to cause trouble with our new August 2, 2010 Page 4 neighbors. He's got a very silver flowing tongue, he really presents it nice as a wonderful place and no problems. But that traffic out there is bad. We did not and it wasn't like that when we built the duplex. Many times we have to wait for three rounds of the lights before we can get out of our driveway. I know it won't do any good to complain. But we came to the city council some years back and none of you guys were on it then. The local doctor wanted to use the duplex on one side and have his office on the other side. He asked to have it rezoned commercial. He was going to pay us more money than the building was worth. You guys wouldn't let him zone it when he was going to do a lot of work with Hospice right across the street. And here these guys come in and they can get a rezone just like seem fair. Rick Hurtado, I've talked to you about two years ago about the sidewalk because its all ratty. Eric Johnson, on behalf of the Hurst Brothers, I know that since the last Planning, Programming & Zoning meeting I've been working with them and the adjoining property owners to reach an easement agreement. And part of that is some improvements to the northern portion of the parking lot, its not going to be the whole parking lot. I know they've cleaned up the lot. A lot of the home owners would say it should have been done long ago. Sometimes people have to be forthfull about that and contact the city about that. But it is clean now and I know the first part is the intent to keep it clean in the future. As far as the snow removal, I heard a comment about that. That is part of our agreement with the dentist office that all snow will be moved. There's going to be that parking that's going to be needed for the dentist office. So they have heard a lot of these comments. I think they are trying to take some of them to heart. They don't have unlimited finances to do everything that you hear. Obviously, that would make it easier but they are doing the best they can with what they've got. And so I know the Hurst Brothers have got a lot of confidence in the new proprietor and what he's going to do there. And so they are excited about what he's proposing. Councilperson Welper, just some clarification because everyone is talking about the condition of the parking lot. What authority do we have as a city as far as them to improve their parking lot? All we are requesting is a hard surface. Whether its patched or not I don't know whether we have any jurisdiction on how perfect the parking lot to look. Councilperson Hart, in regards to if there was a parking lot with a big hole in it. Is that a safety issue? Is that a code issue? Is there some type of standard that needs to be? Jim Walsh, City Attorney, this is private property. It may well be a safety issue but if anybody is liable for it would be the owners. And the first question of can we do anything about the parking lot quality, probably not but if somebody who maintains a bad parking lot wants to expand it you can say no. But the current rezoning request doesn't allow you to latitude to do anything about the quality of what they put in. Greenwood/Schmitt that the hearing be closed and recommendation of approval of Planning, Programming and Zoning Commission and oral and written comments be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134970 - Greenwood/Schmitt that "Resolution approving said site plan amendment", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-669. 134971 - Hart/Schmitt that proof of publication of notice of public hearing on Purchase of One (1) 2011 Automated Side -Loading Garbage Truck, as published in the Waterloo Courier on July 20, 2010 and July 29, 2010, be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134972 - This being the time and place of public hearing, the Mayor called for written and oral objections and there were none. Hart/Schmitt that the hearing be closed and oral and written comments be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134973 - Hart/Schmitt • • August 2, 2010 that "Resolution confirming conjunction with Purchase of be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Page 5 approval of specifications, bid document, etc. in One (1) 2011 Automated Side -Loading Garbage Truck", Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-670. 134974 - Hart/Schmitt that "Resolution authorizing to proceed in conjunction with Purchase of One (1) 2011 Automated Side -Loading Garbage Truck", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-671. 134975 - Hart/Schmitt to receive, file and instruct City Clerk to open and read bids and refer to Superintendent of Central Garage for review: Name & Address Truck MFG Price Total Cedar Rapids Truck City 5549 6th Street SW Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 Mack $209,552.71 Cedar Rapids Truck Center 9201 6th Street SW Cedar Rapids, IA 52406 Peterbilt $209,860.00 Truck Country of Cedar Rapids 700 29th Avenue SW Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 Auto Car $222,920.00 Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134976 - Hart/Schmitt that proof of publication of notice of public hearing on Young Arena Ice Floor Cover, as published in the Waterloo Courier on July 21, 2010, be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134977 - This being the time and place of public hearing, the Mayor and oral objections and there were none. Hart/Schmitt that the hearing be closed and oral and written comments be on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134978 - Hart/Schmitt called for written received and placed that "Resolution confirming approval of specifications, bid document, etc. in conjunction with Young Arena Ice Floor Cover", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-672. 134979 - Hart/Schmitt that "Resolution authorizing to proceed in conjunction Floor Cover", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 134980 - Hart/Schmitt with Young Arena Ice 2010-673. to receive, file and instruct City Clerk to open and read bids and refer to Leisure Services Director for review: Bidder Bid Amount Robbins Inc 4777 Eastern Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45226 $92,500.80 SpaceAge Synthetics, Inc. 1402 39th Street NW Fargo, ND 58102 $83,800.00 Sport Systems Unlimited 685 Rupert Street Waterloo, ON N2V1N7 Canada $96,847.00 August 2, 2010 Page 6 Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. RESOLUTIONS 134981 - Cole/Hart that "Resolution accepting a FirePALS grant from National Center of Injury Prevention and Control (CDC) in the amount of $150,000.00, with no required city match -Submitted by W.D. Carter, Fire Chief", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-674. 134982 - Cole/Hart that "Resolution approving Contract for the Disaster Recovery Commercial Rental Revenue Gap Program for LM Holdings, LC d.b.a. The Russell Lamson, LC at 209 W. 5th Street, in the amount of $7,489.10, and authorize Mayor to execute said document -Submitted by Aric Schroeder, City Planner", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-675. 134983 - Cole/Hart that "Resolution approving Contract for the Disaster Recovery Loan Interest Supplemental Program for LM Holdings, LC d.b.a. The Russell Lamson, LC at 209 W. 5th Street, in the amount of $27,112.31, and authorize Mayor to execute said document -Submitted by Aric Schroeder, City Planner", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-676. 134984 - Cole/Hart that "Resolution approving Contract for the Disaster Recovery Flood Insurance Reimbursement Program for LM Holdings, LC d.b.a. The Russell Lamson, LC at 209 W. 5th Street, in the amount of $391.00, and authorize Mayor to execute said document -Submitted by Aric Schroeder, City Planner", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-677. 134985 - Getty/Welper that "Resolution approving contract with Tideflex Technologies of Carnegie, Pennsylvania in the amount of $72,695.00 in conjunction with F.Y. 2010 Dry Run Creek Arch Valve Purchase, Contract No. 793 and authorize Mayor and City Clerk to execute said document -Submitted by Jamie Knutson, P.E., Associate Engineer", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-678. 134986 - Getty/Welper that "Resolution approving Professional Services Agreement with AECOM Technical Services, Inc. of Waterloo, Iowa in the amount of $19,800.00 in conjunction with F.Y. 2011 Secor Railroad Spur, Contract No. 794 -Submitted by Jeff Bales, Associate Engineer", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-679. 134987 - Getty/Welper that "Resolution approving Reconstruction and Overlay Street Improvement Lists for 2011 -Submitted by Eric Thorson, P.E., City Engineer", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Councilperson Jones, I was wondering if Mr. Thorson could talk to us a little bit about the options for materials and longevity of those types of materials used. Eric Thorson, City Engineer, for the street overlay we use asphalt for that. I think what Councilperson Jones is referring to mostly is the reconstruction project where we actually bid alternates. We have concrete alternates and an asphalt alternate. We need to remember that on both alternates we get a concrete curb and gutter. Asphalt does not make a good curb so we get concrete curb and gutter on both alternates. Its really just the paving in between we bid alternates on. That's for competitive purposes. We believe that in residential sections for instance on a residential street that we spec 6 inches of concrete for a residential street we spec 7 inches of asphalt. And we believe that gives equivalent strength and life to those products. We are very please with both products. They each have their own pluses and minuses but we • • • • August 2, 2010 Page 7 believe that by having those extra thicknesses the asphalt lasts as long and has as much strength. Certainly as you would increase thicknesses concrete would also increase. On the concrete curb and gutter if the asphalt alternative is chosen in some of the residential sections you actually get an even better curb and gutter from a thickness and strength stand point. With the asphalt alternative whereas with the concrete we only have six inches of concrete and gutter to match a six inch pavement. So we believe those alternates are appropriate. We've had a real good success over the years of bidding those alternates off the reconstruction project. Mayor Clark, who makes the determination of the equalness of the two materials ? Whether its 7 inches of asphalt equals 6 inches of concrete? Who makes that determination? Mr. Thorson, the engineering staff has researched that many years ago and made those decisions. So far everybody has been comfortable with that. Mayor Clark, every time we go out for a bid whether its overlay or reconstruction we always request that its from concrete contractors, is that correct? Mr. Thorson, yes. And actually most of our new paving is also spec'ed as concrete. Its about equal each year if you take all of the projects under consideration. Mayor Clark, did we just not get bids from concrete contractors? Mr. Thorson, well we haven't been lately. I'm not really sure what the reason for that is. I did a little reconstruction project as your well of from some of the discussions we've had. There are a lot of subcontractors involved. It's a lot of coordination really for the prime contractor to coordinate all of the different subcontractors that are involved. Some contractors don't really like to do that. They would rather just pave the road and not deal with all of the other coordination of subcontractors. So we feel that that is some of the issue with that. Some of the concrete contractors prefer the longer stretches when they can just pave the longer stretches. And not just have to come in to do a block or two at a time. There are lots of factors that go into that. Mayor Clark, this item really has nothing to do with the contract we are really just approving the streets. Mr. Thorson, right. These are just the streets that we are proposing to do next year. We need to finish up our surveying so we can start design this fall. Its about a year process from the time we actually select the streets, council approves them and we go through the survey and design to ration under construction. And we do that all in house. Forrest Dillavou, 1725 Huntington Road, my street was done probably 25 or better years ago in concrete. Its still there today. It's had its first overlay. I believe the lifespan speaks for itself. You look at the fine homes and fine neighborhoods they all have concrete driveways. Strength, I'm sure the strength is probably there but if you'd go over by West High and look at the intersection there at West you will see that the asphalt is all mushroomed out. There are big water holes and rise ponds in the winter time. You could go right here to Franklin Street, walk across the street and you can see that its dipped out and dished out. Concrete would not do that. Concrete I believe has a much longer lifespan. I did gather some material, did a little reading, did a little research. And the reason the concrete people area not bidding is because you take the low bid. Asphalt is cheaper than concrete. Quality costs a little more. And that margin is going down with the price of oil going up. But we are going to need to encourage those concrete people by saying we are willing to pay a little more for better quality. You can look around the city, you don't have to take my word for it, just look as you go across intersections or down streets that are asphalt versus those that are concrete. My example over at West High, look at the crossing there. The concrete is nice, flat and smooth. The asphalt is all mashed out, its probably 4 to 6 inches deeper. It speaks for itself. Our citizens are putting a lot of money into this road use tax and it is tax to fix roads. Lets step up and do a little better quality. Please look into it, please do research before we issue this contract. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-680. 134988 - Schmitt/Welper that "Resolution approving recommendation of award of contract with Peterson Contractors, Inc. of Reinbeck, Iowa in the amount of $365,728.50 in conjunction with F.Y. 2011 Ridgeway Avenue and La Porte Road Intersection Improvements, Contract No. 775 -Submitted by Jeff Bales, Associate Engineer", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. August 2, 2010 Page 8 Councilperson Getty, is that going to be added to the cost of the fire station? Noel Anderson, Community Planning & Development Director, comes out of NPO funds which are federal funds for the road improvements in the area. That is matched with local option money. Councilperson Getty, I understand but what I am saying is we were told that the fire station cost that we sold the fire station for was going to build the new fire station and I want to know where we are at with the cost of the fire station and now we are going to change this intersection. And I have heard them say this is all in conjunction with that and we were going to do this anyway. I don't buy that idea. We wouldn't have done a thing if it had been to move the fire station. And I guess I would like to see figures show, and I don't need them tonight but I would appreciate them in our mailbox, where we are at with that fire station and what it is costing us. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-681. 134989 - Schmitt/Welper that "Resolution approving recommendation of award of contract with Lehman Trucking and Excavating, Inc. of Waterloo, Iowa in the amount of $43,600.00 in conjunction with Demolition and Site Clearance Project, Contract No. 171 -D -EDI - 08 -02-10 for the following properties: 1828 Franklin Street, Sycamore Street site clearance, 215 Courtland Street, 411 Archer Street, 318-320 Irving Street, 160 Dawson Street and 438 W. Airline Highway -Submitted by Louis Starks, Contracts and Grants Coordinator", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-682. 134990 - Schmitt/Welper. that "Resolution approving award of hotel/motel discretionary funding to the following entity: $10,000.00 to Main Street Waterloo on behalf of the Public Market -Submitted by Michelle Weidner, Chief Financial Officer", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Councilperson Schmitt, the public market building is just a great facility and everything they are doing down there. My question is as I remember when we originally looked at that scope of work or that plan of work for that project the city was not going to be subsidizing our...and I think about six months ago we contributed $30,000.00 I think for insurance or liquor license or something. And now I see we are going to contribute $10,000.00. I'm just wondering if the plan is going forward? Is it going to be self-sufficient? Councilperson Hart, that are the same questions that we actually had in taking a look at our subcommittee. And this was actually in relation to a coop. Michelle Weidner, Chief Financial Officer, there was a hotel/motel discretionary tax grant from the same pool of money so its not the city budget property tax money. But $20,000.00 was awarded to West Co, which is a separate entity managing the Expo grounds and possibly the Public Market for start up funds to get the Expo more directed toward the Expo grounds themselves. This particular application is to work for the Public Market. To have someone that's working on developing that for us. We were trying to get vendors interested in working in the Public Market year round. He is considering establishing a form of coop to do that. In which case we need members of the public. And the goal is 2,000 members to actually participate and actually purchase a stock in that. And that's what these marketing dollars will be used for. To be used for to recruit the vendors and the members that would become investors. That will hopefully make that a self-sustaining operation and won't require city funding in any form such as hotel/motel tax or anything else. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-683. OTHER COUNCIL BUSINESS 134991 - Welper/Schmitt that "Resolution setting date of hearing as August 16, 2010 to approve request of Jonathan Boswell of Boswell Properties to purchase four (4) city owned residential properties located at 720 Park Avenue, 312 Charles Street, 116 Parker Street and 261 Cottage Grove at a cost of $3,500.00 per property for a total of $14,000.00 -Submitted by Noel Anderson, Community Planning & Development Director", be adopted and City Clerk instructed to publish notice of same. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-684. • • August 2, 2010 Page 9 134992 - Welper/Schmitt that "Resolution setting date of hearing as August 16, 2010 to approve request of Iowa Habitat for Humanity to purchase city owned property located at 600 South View Street at a cost of $1.00 -Submitted by Noel Anderson, Community Planning & Development Director", be adopted and City Clerk instructed to publish notice of same. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-685. 134993 - Welper/Schmitt that "Resolution setting date of hearing as August 16, 2010 to approve request of Fortunes Tap to purchase the remaining portion of city -owned vacated Elm Street located next to their site at 328 Elm Street at a cost of $1.00 -Submitted by Noel Anderson, Community Planning & Development Director", be adopted and City Clerk instructed to publish notice of same. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-686. 134996 - Welper/Schmitt that "Resolution setting date of hearing as August 16, 2010 to approve request of Janet Kendall to vacate approximately 3,180 square feet of Maplewood Street right-of-way at the intersection of Maplewood Street and Riverside Drive located directly west and adjacent to 903 Riverside Drive, and to purchase the area at a cost of $1,633.00 and subject to a utility easement is retained over the entire area -Submitted by Aric Schroeder, City Planner", be adopted and City Clerk instructed to publish notice of same. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-687. 134994 - Getty/Schmitt to instruct Fire Chief to prepare specifications, bid document, etc. in conjunction with Purchase of a New Fire Truck, be received, placed on file and approved. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134995 - Getty/Schmitt that specifications, bid document, etc. in conjunction with Purchase of a New Fire Truck, be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 134996 - Getty/Schmitt that "Resolution preliminarily approving specifications, bid document, etc. in conjunction with above described purchase", be adopted. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-688. 134997 - Getty/Schmitt that "Resolution setting date of hearing on specifications, bid document, etc. and taking of bids as September 13, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers on the above described purchase", be adopted and City Clerk instructed to publish notice of same. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-689. 134998 - Hart/Schmitt that "Resolution supporting the review of the City of Waterloo's Comprehensive Plan for Smart Planning Principles in conformance with the State of Iowa's Senate file 2389 -Submitted by Noel Anderson, Community Planning & Development Director", be adopted and the item is being placed on the agenda with less than 24 -hours' advance notice because today is the deadline for the council to take approval action, and without such action the grant opportunity will be forfeited. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-690. 134999 - Hart/Schmitt that "Resolution approving the application of I -Jobs grant funding requests for the following projects: Dry Run Creek Gate Replacements, Public Works Sandbagging Building, Riverfront Stadium flood protection system, and Virden Creek Flood Control Improvements, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to sign and fully execute any documents for the submittal -Submitted by Noel Anderson, Community Planning & Development Director", be adopted and the item is August 2, 2010 Page 10 being placed on the agenda with less than 24 -hours' advance notice because today is the deadline for the council to take approval action, and without such action the grant opportunity will be forfeited. Ayes: Seven. Resolution adopted and upon approval by Mayor assigned No. 2010-691. ORAL PRESENTATIONS Tim Hurley, 1933 Crabapple Lane, Aaron Buzza the Executive Director from the Convention and Visitors Bureau is joining me tonight. We are here as part of the organizing committee for the Waterloo RAGBRAI. It seems impossible this intense period of the last two weeks and in fact the last five months has come and gone. As Aaron and I sit and stand here I think we'd both say that we are very proud of the effort that this community put on. And are even more proud of the result. And we will be back for a more comprehensive review but because I used the relationships that I built with council and staff for six years to gain favors and to get some attention to help put this on I am simply here to say thank you. Thank you to the City of Waterloo government for the support that you gave. We could talk to any number of folks in the non-profit area and the for-profit, you wouldn't believe when you'd get the final report those that stepped forward with cash, in-kind or letting their people on their payroll go to work for the RAGBRAI effort and to show off Waterloo. All with that focus to put the best foot of Waterloo forward but again because folks of the requests that I made and the immediate responses that were given on the part of the city I felt it very necessary for me to come as soon as possible to say thank you. Because for all of those people that I mentioned we could truly say it couldn't happen without them but I'm here to tell you and I know from having sat on that side of the barrier here that it would have not have happened. And I want to mention specific Mayor Clark your openness. I heard a number of times where you said, where department heads said Mayor told us to do what we can to make this happen. So we appreciate that and your patience in all of the noise and requests that kept coming. Council your hotel/motel tax votes certainly helped. Simple things like the liquor license, giving us a forum for the work session to talk about RAGBRAI and build it up. And I hope we can come back in that again. Now Dennis Clark and Rick Wilberding from the Water Works were one of the first people I called. We had to provide water for showers, food preparation and drinking for 20,000 people and these folks helped me identify the hydrants, flush them, test them, get the RPZ back flow preventers and the 2 inch meters on. See I'm learning things, I learned a lot of things through this. Sandi Greco and the Traffic Department along with Susan Holmes when Sandi was out for the traffic barrels and the bucket truck that we used in very important locations. Paul Huting and Bill Bachman at Leisure Services: picnic tables, wood chip pick up and delivery so we could have a roadway through the mud. Just anything I asked of Paul, the little measuring wheel I probably put several miles on that little measuring wheel. Eric Thorson and Noel Anderson from the Engineering and Planning Departments: early on back in March and April I was asking them for help all of the time for aerial mapping and infrastructure advise. Larry Smith and Keith Kearns at Waste Management couldn't have been more help and bailed me out in more times and it would surprise you council if I said at times I didn't know what I was doing. Most of the time I didn't and as folks like Larry and Keith who calmed me down, got things done, identifying wood chips, finding gray water receptacles, identifying manholes, getting us an ry dumpsite. All of these things that really help make things go smoothly. Chief, principally through Lieutenant Mike McNamee and Officers Keith Rogers, Frank Krogh, the Waterloo Police Department was all over the place out there. Lieutenant McNamee was on our organizing committee responsible for safety, security, traffic control and Chief I see you were doing some yourself. That was tremendous and that number of vehicles and intersections. We had a couple of minor accidents but things went very smoothly. Fire Marshall Steve Jordan was very important later in the game before the final set up to advise us, our food vendors, our electrical set up, stage and those sort of things so that everything went smoothly. It was a huge success. Its been an intense couple of weeks but again it wouldn't have absolutely happen without the City of Waterloos help. And again, finally I hope to return with a more complete overview. Its too early to say if we ended up in the black. We are counting the cash as we speak, we are very hopeful of that. All of the comments that I heard were positive. Best this and that, the entertainment was fun, we were fairly well self contained. Folks that stayed in homes loved the hospitality. So I just think the City of Waterloo and the citizens complimented themselves very well. I've put so much into this personally and I know Aaron and others have that its difficult to finally see it come to an end. I'm hoping that it isn't another 25 years. I hope it isn't next year but I'm hoping that it isn't another 25 years. So simply said, thank you. Mayor Clark, thank you and Aaron and all of your committees for all that you did to pull this thing together. As some of us up here know its no small feat to pull an event like that off. So "Gung Ho" to you too. 135000 - Hart/Welper • • • • August 2, 2010 Page 11 that the above oral comments be received and placed on file. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 135001 - Hart/Welper that the council adjourn to Executive Session at 6:45 p.m. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. City Attorney Jim Walsh stated that discussion of acquisition of property is an approved topic of Executive Session pursuant to Iowa Code Section 21.5 (1) (j) (2009) . EXECUTIVE SESSION 135002 - Hart/Cole that the council adjourn Executive Session at 6:55 p.m. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. 135003 - Hart/Cole to proceed. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. ADJOURNMENT 135004 - Hart/Cole that the Council adjourn at 6:55 p.m. Ayes: Seven. Motion carried. City Clerk