Thompson: We’ll move onto the next item on our agenda, which is discussion action regarding reappointing Mike Gardener to the East Central Iowa Council of Governments ISTEA Technical Advisory Committee for a term ending January 1st 2004.

Lehman: He’d be our representative to help discuss how funding should be spent on different projects in Johnson County. I think he does come to us and ask us to rank them after he gets the information.

Thompson: He’s served on this for a number of years right?

Thompson: The next is discussion action for reappointments of Board members to various boards and committees. We have our list in the packet. Mike, do you want to walk us through this?

Sullivan: I’ll walk you thorough this.

Thompson: You’ll be responsible for making the changes.

Sullivan: I’ll go a head and make the changes on the spreadsheet that I have here and that each of you have as well. The organizations, we’ll start with that and the members. Do you want me to go over the meeting dates and times as well?

Stutsman: Do we need to do that?

Sullivan: Chatham Oaks is currently Mike and the alternates are everybody.

Thompson: Do you want to continue?

Lehman: I could unless someone else…

Thompson: You always get a good lunch.

Lehman: The problem is the Chair, it’s tough to get out of a meeting here.

Thompson: You’ve done it for a number of years.

Lehman: I don’t have a problem if someone else wants to get some exposure. I’d be willing to continue.

Neuzil: Does anybody else want to? Mike if you want to continue to do it, that’s fine.

Sullivan: The Citizen Advisory Board, independence. Whoever can go is how we have that set up right now. The same? The City Assessor Conference Board, that’s everybody.

Stutsman: Mike, about the Citizen Advisory Board. I used to be the representative on that. I’m still getting those notices before any of the other Board members. If you just want to tell Jo that should be circulated to all the Board members, so that anybody who want to go, they can go.

Sullivan: The City Assessor Conference Board, everyone’s involved with that as well, they’ll meet as needed in a few weeks. Clear Creek Watershed…

Stutsman: Do they still meet Terrance?

Neuzil: No, in fact they’re not monthly either. I don’t know if they’re as needed, but I haven’t gotten any notices this past year. Why don’t we take that off, then I think if something comes up in that area, I think those who are part of our fringe area between Coralville and Johnson County, maybe they could attend that. Or Tiffin and Johnson County.

Sullivan: The County Assessor Conference Board. Again, that’s everybody. Decategorization. Terrence and Sally.

Stutsman: We don’t know what the future is of Decat. Why don’t we just leave us on there? Because there’s probably a pretty good possibility they won’t be meeting anymore.

Neuzil: Yes, that’s fine.

Thompson: Does that include Empowerment too? I noticed Empowerment wasn’t…

Stutsman: Empowerment isn’t anything to do with the Board of Supervisors. I serve on that, not as a representative from the Board, but just as a community member. So we don’t appoint anybody to the Empowerment Board.

Sullivan: So we’ll leave it as is until we know what the status is.

Neuzil: Yes.

Sullivan: E911 is Mike and Pat right now.

Thompson: Do you want to change?

Stutsman: I think we should change. Do you have a problem with it?

Harney: No I don’t mind.

Lehman: That might have been part of the purpose of… Usually it’s just been one member, I think maybe Pat, he’s been to several of the meetings last year to help groom a rotation here maybe.

Stutsman: The only reason I say that, is every year we have a lot of questions about the budget for EMS. I think it just helps if other people serve on this, so we can understand how it operates and things of that sort.

Lehman: I’d be willing to go off, if Pat for continuity would stay on and someone else…

Thompson: Then the new person to follow Pat… Yes, that’s a good idea.

Stutsman: I’ll go on there? Is that OK?

Lehman: No, that’s fine.

Neuzil: Fine with me. Pat and Sally.

Sullivan: Sally, is that correct. I’m sorry.

Stutsman: I’ve been on the Board for 6 years and I’ve never gone to one of their meetings, so this will be a new adventure for me.

Sullivan: JCCOG Board of Directors and JTPA, the Work Force Development, LEO Board member, currently is Mike Lehman and Sally Stutsman. I’m sorry. The alternate, wait to be notified from JCCOG regarding the appointment. They meet the last Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m. or 12:45 on the…

Thompson: This is the one that’s hard to get to.

Neuzil: It’s the one in Cedar Rapids normally. Usually is the Chair usually on that?

Stutsman: I think that’s how it’s been historically.

Harney: Between that one and the ECICOG, or is that the next two, that you go to Mike that I go up in the afternoon and it’s kind of like making dual trips?

Stutsman: Yes, I agree, it’s always been that one person serves on both of them so your up they’re for that one meeting…

Harney: It makes more sense, because… I find myself going up as a loss of what transpired.

Lehman: Just away from my parking place.

Neuzil: We could make the ECICOG could be the Chair and Vice Chair. If one can’t go, the other one could. Of course I’m volunteering you two to do it, but…

Thompson: Do you want to do both of them.

Harney: It doesn’t make any difference.

Lehman: The Work Force Development usually meets, starts at 10:30. Sometimes they meet at the same place, 1:00…

Thompson: Maybe this would be one to appoint the Vice-Chair like we did yesterday for the…

Lehman: It could be Vice-Chair and the Chair could be the alternate.

Stutsman: Well, but the Chair is usually running the meetings. It’s easier for one of us to go versus the Chair, so maybe…

Neuzil: I’ll go as an alternate.

Stutsman: Pat and Terrence then. Alright.

Thompson: Terrence are you going to keep the ISTEA policy committee?

Neuzil: I can’t actually. Pat’s been going to those. Particularly with the Technical Advisory.

Stutsman: Yes, your term expires. Let’s leave Pat on.

Neuzil: Do you just make Pat and I the alternates. Make Pat the person and me the alternate, kind of like…

Lehman: Is that the position that we’re talking about that’s inter-related here…

Neuzil: Yes, that’s what I’m saying. If we’re going to be up there anyway.

Sullivan: FEMA Board. We have Pat Harney on that as well right now.

Stutsman: There again I’m not sure what this does. Is EMS, should this be the same person? Is there consistency with having the same person on E911 as on FEMA. Is there overlap.

Harney: They overlap, they tie together some what in certain situations. They really don’t meet that often, so it doesn’t hurt to tie together.

Stutsman: Do you want to stay on that then?

Harney: It doesn’t make any difference to me.

Stutsman: Because you’re still on E911.

Harney: That would be fine. HACAP? Terrence do you want to stay on that?

Neuzil: I can stay on that. I’m just actually getting my feet wet with that one.

Stutsman: OK. It is pretty complicated.

Sullivan: Heritage Agency on Aging Taskforce, Carol.

Thompson: That has changed this past year. We don’t appoint these people any more. It’s a term that will end in July. If we wanted to appoint someone else that person would have to apply to Heritage when the application period comes up, which I think is maybe March.

Stutsman: Would we need to apply for this because we’re not involved in the Senior Dining program anymore?

Thompson: I don’t think so. I don’t think there’s any requirement that a Board member be on it.

Stutsman: This may be one that has run its course. So Carol do you want to continue ‘til July?

Thompson: I’ll continue until the end of my term. Yes.

Sullivan: Housing Task Force. Carol is currently sitting on that or has been. It meets every two months.

Thompson: It’s a really nice group. I enjoy doing it. Actually we switched to quarterly now. But I’d be willing to share if someone else wants to do it. No takers.

Stutsman: I’ll go on that if, just for exposure to something I have not been involved with.

Neuzil: You haven’t done all these yet?

Stutsman: No.

Sullivan: ICAD is currently Mike, and Terrence has been the alternate.

Neuzil: Mike, you went to about everyone of these. Kept me off the hook.

Lehman: I wouldn’t mind staying on. There’s a couple projects…

Harney: I wouldn’t mind being the alternate.

Neuzil: You want to be the alternate Pat? That’s great.

Sullivan: The Iowa City Area Chamber.

Thompson: We did that yesterday.

Sullivan: We did that yesterday. OK. Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development Board of Directors. It’s been Pat and Ed Williams as an alternate.

Neuzil: Has that been meeting much?

Stutsman: Yes, they meet monthly. There’s some travel involved with that, because they meet in Williamsburg and some other place. I served on that. It’s tough getting to the meetings. There’s no doubt about that, but they have some interesting projects going on.

Harney: It’s the trails. It’s what they’re doing in Iowa County through Linn County, the development.

Stutsman: Scenic Roadways.

Thompson: Ed Williams goes when we can’t go?

Stutsman: Generally someone always goes…

Harney: The people from Soil and Conservation go.

Stutsman: Either Mary Somerville or Chris Taliga is of course on staff there, so…

Neuzil: I’d be interested.

Stutsman: Yes, Terrence, I think it’s very informative.

Sullivan: JCCOG Board of Directors. There are two appointments. Currently it’s Carol and Mike.

Thompson: That’s usually the Chair and Vice-Chair, I think.

Neuzil: Yes.

Stutsman: So Pat?

Lehman: We need to send a recommendation for that.

Sullivan: JCCOG Rural Policy Board, again two appointments. Sally and Carol. One need to be on the Board of Directors. One needs to be on the Board of Directors.

Stutsman: OK.

Neuzil: Can that just be Pat and Carol again or do you want something different?

Thompson: Do you want to do it with Pat?

Stutsman: Yes. Or that’s fine if you want to do that. I think it’s good for a rural dweller. Both Pat and I feel that way as well as Carol.

Sullivan: Johnson County Emergency Management and LEPC. That’s been Pat as well.

Stutsman: There again I’m asking if that ties in with 911 and FEMA and stuff?

Harney: It actually does more with FEMA that 911. 911’s more or less separate, that’s what I was thinking of when we put FEMA and the LEPC’s working management ties more together. I don’t mind going to those too, they’re not that often.

Stutsman: All right.

Harney: Unless someone else wants to.

Stutsman: I’ve not done them before. Would you care if I did?

Harney: I don’t care either way.

Neuzil: OK. That makes Sally.

Sullivan: Pat or Sally? Who’s going to do that one?

Stutsman: I’ll do it.

Stutsman: Pat do I want to do that. Let’s leave Pat on there.

Lehman: You can attend as an alternate, maybe or something.

Stutsman: Yes. That’s a good suggestion.

Sullivan: The Johnson County Iowa City Airport Zoning Commission. That’s the Chair and then all Board members are the alternates. So that’s kind of decided. Johnson County Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. That’s everybody. The subcommittees under MH/DD, the Executive Committee has been Mike.

Lehman: That’s usually the Chair.

Thompson: So I switch to the Executive.

Sullivan: Continuous Quality Improvement has been Carol.

Neuzil: So does Carol go to the Executive. Remember the Advocacy as well as research Development is now one committee.

Lehman: I’ve been on the Finance before, so the Continuous Quality would be something new for me.

Neuzil: I’d be willing to get… Just to make a change. Just to get a different feel for something.

Lehman: Do you want to go to Continuous Quality and I’ll go to…

Neuzil: Yes, just pick me out one.

Sullivan: All right. You’re in Continuous Quality Improvement. Finance Committee?

Neuzil: So I’ll be Continuous Quality?

Sullivan: Yes.

Lehman: Do you want to stay on that or do you want to rotate too?

Stutsman: It doesn’t matter. Let’s see. You know we haven’t met all that much. I guess I don’t mind staying on it. I think these all are going to quarterly meetings. Do you want to do the Advocacy and Research… I guess I don’t mind doing that either.

Neuzil: That’s a fun committee. I mean, we did the stuff for the library and all that.

Thompson: So do you want to do that and Mike will do Finance and then we’ll have them all switched around?

Stutsman: OK. The only other way we’d have them all switched around, Mike you haven’t done Quality Improvement?

Lehman: No, I’ve done Finance.

Stutsman: So maybe Terrence, you should Finance. Then we’ll all have new experiences.

Neuzil: Mike Sullivan and Casie did you get that?

Sullivan: Advocacy and Research will be Sally. For both?

Stutsman: No, I thought it was Mike Lehman.

Thompson: No, Mike took Continuous Quality Improvement.

Stutsman: OK. That’s right. I’m on…

Neuzil: I’m Finance? I just want to make sure I got that right.

Sullivan: Juvenile Justice Youth Development Program has been Carol and Sally.

Thompson: That’s another very nice group to work with.

Lehman: Do one of you ladies want to rotate on or do you want to stay on?

Stutsman: I’ll rotate off. Just so somebody else can be exposed to that.

Thompson: I’d kind of like to keep doing it.

Sullivan: Mike and Carol then.

Lehman: Yes.

Sullivan: MECCA has been Sally.

Stutsman: I like serving on the MECCA Board, but if somebody else wants to do it, that’s perfectly all right with me. I’ll continue.

Sullivan: Sally. All right. The Nutrition Advisory Board.

Thompson: That will be debunked.

Sullivan: Random Cash counts. Chair and Vice Chair.

Stutsman: The Auditor’s office takes a lead on it.

Sullivan: You really don’t. You just have the policy to follow. REAP, Terrence and Pat has been the alternative.

Neuzil: We haven’t had a meeting.

Sullivan: There’s one in August, is when they have it.

Neuzil: Let us know about it.

Stutsman: So you’re going to stay.

Sullivan: Do you want it to stay the same?

Thompson: There’s some duties to that that we have to do. We have to provide a meeting place and take minutes. Should we just appoint Mike to do that?

Stutsman: That’s fine with me.

Sullivan: Staff it. Do you want to just do that? All right.

White: They were kind of testy when they met and we didn’t staff them the last time.

Neuzil: Well that explains it.

White: That was in transition after Carol.

Stutsman: Nobody wanted to take minutes huh?

White: Well we just forgot. We didn’t send anybody.

Sullivan: We will. Regional Trails and The Bicycling Committee has been Terrence.

Stutsman: Would that be good for Terrence to continue?

Neuzil: We met twice this past year and we’re just starting to work on redeveloping our trails plan Countywide. So, I wouldn’t mind staying on there.

Sullivan: Stay on it.

Stutsman: Are you on the Resource and Development Board? Did we put you on that? With Iowa Valley.

Neuzil: Yes. That would be a good tie in.

Sullivan: Roads liaison had been Pat and Mike.

Neuzil: That was actually Pat and then Mike got off and I joined Pat. But I think the persons who are on the Transportation Strategic Plan probably should go to that. That’s you…

Stutsman: Yes, that’s what I was thinking of. I think that’s me.

Neuzil: That’s you and Pat.

Sullivan: SEATS Advisory Committee has been Sally and Pat.

Stutsman: I was thinking that the Advisory Committee appoints that, but we appoint that.

Lehman: Do you have some projects that you need to stay on at least for the time being?

Stutsman: Because we were being Lisa’s mentors that it’s been a good linkage.

Thompson: Because we might appoint different mentors this year too. Could we rotate, so that one stays and one goes.

Stutsman: That’s a good idea. I could go off that unless Pat you wanted to go off. Basically what we’re saying is that one of us will no longer be in that mentor relationship.

Harney: I don’t mind either way.

Stutsman: I guess I don’t either Pat. Maybe we could count and see how many everybody has.

Thompson: Who wants to join it?

Stutsman: Yes, does somebody want to… I can go off, because I think I’ve been on longer then you have Pat. OK.

Thompson: OK, so that would be Pat and…

Stutsman: Who?

Thompson: Do you want to do that one because I’m going to do the Operations… That’s usually the Chair?

Neuzil: Put Mike on that.

Lehman: Not necessarily. It hasn’t met much other then we did when we first…

Thompson: This year we do our contract so that’s the group that.

Lehman: Last time we got together was when we were looking at the new locations.

Stutsman: So, who is going to do SEATS Operation Carol?

Neuzil: Is that a Chair/Vice-Chair kind of thing? Is that why Mike and Carol were on.

Thompson: I thought it was, but I don’t know for sure.

Lehman: No. I don’t think so.

Thompson: So who wants to switch to Advisory then?

Neuzil: We have Pat and Mike right now on Advisory.

Lehman: Yes. We need a second for Operations.

Sullivan: As an alternate.

Neuzil: Do you want me to be the alternate unless Carol can’t go?

Stutsman: Yes.

Neuzil: I’ll do that.

Sullivan: OK got that. United Way Joint Funding Hearings. Terrence and Jeff.

Lehman: We should revisit that next fall maybe?

Neuzil: I think so. I mean that’s one of those things that probably all of us should do that. It’s so much fun.

Stutsman: Who is the Human Services Strategic Planning liaison?

Thompson: It was you and Sally.

Stutsman: I think it still is.

Neuzil: It’s Mike and…

Sullivan: I’d have to go pull it out of the file.

Thompson: It’s Terrence and me I think.

Neuzil: I’m not on Human Services. Mike and I…

Lehman: I believe I was one.

Stutsman: I think I was one too.

Neuzil: I think it’s Mike and Sally.

Stutsman: Have you gone to those?

Thompson: Pat hasn’t gone yet.

Stutsman: OK. Mike and Sally. So Pat do you want to go?

Harney: I don’t mind going?

Neuzil: It’s in December. It’s only in December. December in one week here.

Lehman: I have Iowa Wednesday Basketball games.

Stutsman: Oh, look at Pat.

Sullivan: It will be Pat and Jeff Horne then?

Stutsman: We’ll deal with those tickets Pat, we can take them off your hands.

Sullivan: All right. Now we go to in-house committees. The Comprehension Plan and the Land Use Plan. That’s been everybody. The Economic Development has been Terrence and Mike.

Stutsman: We did these yesterday.

Sullivan: Yes, we did some of these yesterday.

Neuzil: So that one was staying the same.

Lehman: I think Sally went on. Did you take my place on that Sally?

Stutsman: No I think Carol did.

Neuzil: I think it is, it’s me and Carol. Yes it is.

Thompson: That’s Economic Development.

Sullivan: Facilities Planning.

Stutsman: Pat and… Who did we name yesterday?

Recording Secretary Casie Parkins: Pat and Mike.

Sullivan: Financial Management Planning. We went through all of these…

Neuzil: Pretty much. Not all of them though.

Sullivan: Financial Management Planning.

Stutsman: So it was me and who else?

Neuzil: Sally and Mike.

Sullivan: Health Care benefits.

Neuzil: We nixed that one.

Sullivan: Human Services, Sally and Terrence.

Neuzil: It’s now Sally and Mike.

Sullivan: Jail Alternatives.

Neuzil: Is that one, I guess we can’t all be on it if you have a small committee.

Thompson: It’s been the Stats committee and they’re meeting at the end of this month.

Neuzil: Do you want to just keep the same?

Harney: I wouldn’t mind continuing, but if somebody wants to be on it.

Neuzil: Why don’t we just keep the same. You guys already met.

Lehman: For the next two categories? Jail Alternatives and Jail Planning Committee.

Neuzil: It’s the same difference.

Sullivan: The Living Wage Study Committee.

Thompson: I think that’s default.

Neuzil: I haven’t heard anything about that one.

Sullivan: Public Information.

Stutsman: Well Terrence and I serve on that Communication Committee. Is that what that is? Yes, it should be. It’s important that somebody… I guess what I’m saying if somebody else wants to do it that’s fine, but I would certainly like to see somebody attend.

Neuzil: It really is a good group.

Stutsman: Oh yes. It is a fun group. Maybe on second thought we’ll stay on.

Neuzil: I’m willing to get off, but…

Thompson: Do we need two?

Stutsman: Yes.

Neuzil: Yes, it’s kind of fun. One of us sometimes can’t make it.

Stutsman: Does anybody else want to do it?

Harney: Sure, he can have it.

Sullivan: Terrance and who else? Sally? Senior Center 28E Agreement Review.

Stutsman: No.

Sullivan: Technology Plan GIS.

Stutsman: Who did we put on that? Was it Carol?

Neuzil: I wouldn’t mind getting on it, just I’m on the Technology Committee.

Stutsman: Didn’t we appoint somebody on the technology committee yesterday?

Parkins: You’re on it. Terrence and Carol.

Neuzil: Terrence and Carol are. Is that the same difference as Technology Planning?

Sullivan: Transportation Planning. Go to Casie again.

Parkins: Sally and Pat.

Harney: You’re going to be busy Sally.

Sullivan: The Hills Fringe Area has been Mike.

Thompson: I think we should keep these the same.

Stutsman: I thought that memo that Rick sent out. Didn’t that list my name on Hills? I don’t have to Mike.

Lehman: I don’t have a problem. We don’t have anyone for Tiffin. Do you want to go Hills and I’ll go Tiffin.

Sullivan: No, no one for Tiffin.

Neuzil: I’ll go, you and I are both kind of doing Tiffin right now.

Lehman: Sally do you want to do Hills then and Terrence and I can both do Tiffin.

Neuzil: We have to add a few. Iowa City is not on here, Coralville’s not on here.

Sullivan: Oxford fringe area has been Carol. Stay the same?

Thompson: So we need to appoint Tiffin.

Lehman: We need Iowa City, because we’re talking Iowa City again.

Neuzil: Yes. Because Mike and I are doing Iowa City and Tiffin. Who is on Coralville.

Stutsman: I don’t think it’s up, so probably…

Thompson: So whose going to do Tiffin?

Neuzil: Mike and I. Actually we met with them last night.

Stutsman: Oh, really.

Thompson: I’d do Iowa City.

Neuzil: Right now, Mike and I have been working on Iowa City with the area around Herbert Hoover Highway.

Lehman: We had a meeting yesterday with the proposal.

Neuzil: Two days ago.

Neuzil: I can get off if you want to get on Iowa City’s.

Thompson: Can I do it with you?

Lehman: That’s fine.

Neuzil: OK. I’ll get off Iowa City.

Stutsman: So Carol and Mike are doing Iowa City.

Neuzil: I wouldn’t mind getting… I think Coralville’s is going to be coming back up in a very short while. Particularly as we work on Tiffin, because there’s a lot of overlap.

Sullivan: I have Mike for Tiffin and who else is for Tiffin. You?

Lehman: Terrence.

Thompson: At some point we’re going to have to have some arrangement to meet with all of these Cities to talk about the shared areas.

Neuzil: Yes that’s exactly what I’m talking about.

Thompson: Maybe we ought to figure that out. Appoint somebody to…

Stutsman: It looks like Terrence pretty much is…

Neuzil: I’m on Tiffin right now.

Stutsman: And Coralville if your on that.

Stutsman: Well, we have North Liberty.

Thompson: Yes. North Liberty will be involved.

Neuzil: But right now the hot ones will be Coralville and Tiffin in the very near future. Maybe Mike should be on that one too.

Stutsman: What?

Neuzil: As far as Coralville and Tiffin.

Lehman: So Mike and Terrence for Coralville and for Tiffin.

Neuzil: So I’ll get off Iowa City’s. Carol you can start attending those.

Sullivan: Carol and Mike will be on Iowa City then. Now the Staff Liaison, is that the evaluation type thing. We talked about we’ll do that in May because the rotation you’re on right now goes through June of 2002 then it starts up again. So you can either redo the matrix or you can wait until May and I’ll send it out again and do it at that time.

Stutsman: Let’s wait until May.

Thompson: Yes. I think that’s a good idea. I do think we should switch them around.

Stutsman: Yes. I agree. Is that OK with everybody to wait until May?

Neuzil: Yes. I’d like to get on one. Yes. That would be good.

Stutsman: Do we want to change now?

Neuzil: Mostly we did where you 3 were doing it, because you had done it before.

Thompson: Our original plan was to do it for only one year, but now that we seem to be continuing it.

Neuzil: It seems like that should be tied into our strategic plan as we meet with these folks.

Thompson: It’s tied into the evaluation plan. 2 people do the evaluations. For some reason we do that from July instead of in January.

Neuzil: Well, let’s just start in July. That makes sense.

Stutsman: Continue until then.

Neuzil: That works with me.

Sullivan: I’ll send it out a couple of months early so we can go through it. Then those not appointed by the Board. The Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Committee has been Pat and Mike.

Stutsman: I’ve been attending those too. I would like to keep attending them. I don’t think there’s any problem with the 3 of us going to those meetings, because they keep minutes, they’re posted.

Lehman: The ones that I haven’t gone to, you have. So I think there’s enough rotation there. So if you want to be the official…

Stutsman: I don’t know that I need to be the official.

Lehman: I guess it’s one of those things where you know you can’t go and it’s coming up I encourage you to offer it to someone else to attend because it’s good exposure.

Harney: It’s a good meeting.

Sullivan: ISAC DHS Cabinet. Sally. Do you want to maintain that?

Stutsman: Yes.

Sullivan: Chamber of Commerce Human Services Committee.

Thompson: These are all ones where they’ve appointed, so we can’t change them.

Sullivan: So from here just leave these as is?

Stutsman: Unless anybody has any changes that they’ve gone off of things.

Neuzil: No, I’m still on all those, in fact I’ve added… I’m on the Chambers… I guess I’ll have to tell you what it is, but it’s a Council for the legislative issues.

Sullivan: Let me know what it is and I’ll add it to this.

Neuzil: It’s all kind of non-appointed stuff.

Stutsman: I think we just added this so the community knows what other committees we serve on in the community that the Board doesn’t appoint that we’ve involved in like that Empowerment and stuff.

Sullivan: That should do it.

Neuzil: I’m on the HACAP Board for Cedar Rapids, but that makes… For whatever reason they’ve also put me on the HACAP Board for Iowa City, I think just obviously it ties. But it wasn’t until July that I even realized that… It actually meets twice a month.

Thompson: There’s 2. There’s one for housing and there’s one for Head Start and the Board decided that Linda would represent us at that one so you personally only had to go to the Cedar Rapids meeting, but I think they forget, so if you call their scheduling person…

Neuzil: Yes. I think we had Linda Severson supposed to show up at those and then… Maybe I’ll work with her as an alternate. So one of us is always there.

Thompson: It’s fun to go, especially the Head Start meetings are pretty interesting.

Harney: Carol I wouldn’t mind doing the Iowa City Fringe area unless you want to. If you want to do it that’s fine.

Thompson: You can do it.

Sullivan: So move that then.

Neuzil: We really don’t have it listed, but we have to let those P and Z guys know.

Thompson: So you and Mike will do it.

Harney: Yes, put Mike in the Iowa City Fringe Area.

Neuzil: Well that didn’t take long now did it.

Thompson: That brings us up to reports and inquiries. Do you want to start?

Stutsman: I had a great time in Shreveport Louisiana. I wish the Cyclones would have won the game, but I guess it just didn’t work out. I guess that’s about the extent of my report. It’s been kind of getting my feet back on the ground again, getting organized for the coming year and looking forward to a busy productive year. That’s it.

Neuzil: I met with the representatives working with the City of Iowa City and the County. Mike and Pat are going to kind of work on this, but it is kind of working with the Herbert Hoover Intersection, Herbert Hoover Highway Intersection, as kind of a gateway into Iowa City. We’re trying to work with them. There’s a lot of new development plans that are on the horizon there. Met with them Friday morning. Had a Hawkeye Friday Listening Post at the Senior Center. Obviously a lot of the Seniors are very concerned about some of the issues that the County is dealing with right now when it comes to funding. We’re going to have a Senior Center funding discussion that will take place Monday, January 7th at 9:00 a.m. Obviously the publics invited, it is here in this Boardroom. I attended the Chamber of Commerce year ender over at Wetherby's. That was an exciting time. It was announced that, the citizen Dick Schwab that lives up by Solon, he was the recipient of the Person of the Year by the Iowa City Press Citizen among others. That’s pretty much been the week. We’ve been taking a few days off here haven’t we, so it’s been all right. Got the first off.

Thompson: That’s why they call them holidays.

Neuzil: Is that what they are. I lost track of those. But last night though Mike Lehman and I had a chance to meet in the City of Tiffin. We’ve been working with not only their City Councilors, but also their Planning and Zoning Department. Mostly just trying to rebuild a relationship that was a bit tarnished by the fringe area agreements and such and some of the agreement that have taken place in City Limits of Tiffin and how they’ve grown. We want to kind of regroup a little bit and kind of get back with the City of Tiffin and their P and Z Department as well. So we started that along with our Planning and Zoning Department here started that initiation. We tend to hold some meetings here coming up very soon, so that’s been my week. Thanks.

Lehman: Just to follow up with the meeting last night. Terrence said, just a chance to inform each of the entities of a mutual benefit of a fringe area, of limitations, of things that we allow outside of municipality now, will soon be, could be annexed to the future in. It’s mutual benefit for both entities to have good quality type construction with our building code now because in the past before we had a building code within the fringe area, especially the Tiffin fringe area, they did the inspections of those areas. I also attended Business P.M., our City area Chamber of Commerce last Friday. It’s fun to visit with a lot of the people you don’t see on a regular basis. I also met an individual that lives in California, hasn’t been back for quite awhile. It was interesting their take on our community versus where they’re at now. It’s kind of interesting comparing notes. I guess that’s about all. If anyone hasn’t picked up on it, Carol’s our new Chairperson and Pat Harney is our Vice-Chair. So it’s a little strange sitting off to the side here, but Carol did an adequate job demonstrated this morning. Very extraordinary keeping things moving. I’ll put the kiss of death on you there… I think we have a good quality Board and I’m looking forward to working this coming year with everyone.

Harney: Well for myself it’s been a short week. With the holidays there wasn’t a lot going on. Friday as Terrence mentioned the Chamber of the Year ender at Coralville. The same thing. Dick Schwab was very worthy winner of the Person of The Year. I congratulate him on that. On Wednesday we had the Board organizational meeting and evaluations we did some of those. Other than that, that’s been pretty much my week. It’s hard to believe it’s been one year already on the Board. It’s gone awful fast. I think I’ve learned a lot, but I certainly have a lot more to learn.

Neuzil: Look at all the gray that he’s getting. I don’t know what he’s doing.

Stutsman: You know, oh Pat are you done? I was just going to add congratulations to the Iowa Hawkeye's for their win at the Alamo Bowl. We Cyclone fans were excited about Hawkeye fans winning.

Harney: It was a good year end for both of them.

Thompson: Thanks. I also attended the year ender. It’s one of my favorite events. I really enjoy seeing everybody. Tomorrow, or this afternoon and tomorrow in the afternoon the Board has ambulance interviews for the new Ambulance Director. Next Tuesday at 3:00, there is a meeting about the Roads Plan, which the public is invited to attend. At 9:00 on Wednesday, is the Planning and Zoning work session. Do you want to add something?

Stutsman: I was going to ask about the Secondary Roads. Is that going to be a work session where there will be an opportunity for public comment at the end of the work session? That’s the way we’ve done it in the past, but I don’t know if that’s how it was set up or not. OK. Because somebody had asked me if there was an opportunity for public comment and I just wanted to clarify that.

Thompson: Then at 4:00 next Wednesday the 9th. We have the Cities meeting at the school district, which should be a lively meeting because we have the TIF discussion on there. Anything else from the Board? Then we’re up to inquiries from the public.

Welsh: A couple things. Is the meeting on the 7th at 9:00 a.m. like Terrence said? I had that as 1:30.

Thompson: It was switched to 9:00 because somebody couldn’t come in the afternoon.

Neuzil: Pat Harney. No, Pat White…

Stutsman: That’s a good clarification Bob, it was changed.

Welsh: So people have been notified about that.

Stutsman: Well the agenda has gone out.

Thompson: There will be an agenda.

Sullivan: The people from the City, City officials were all notified of the time change. I talked to Steve Atkins and I talked to Linda Kopping directly. They said they would get in touch with others too.

Thompson: All of our meetings are on our web site if people from the public need to check.

Welsh: The other is to make you aware of the fact that the 11th of January, Friday will be the last full day Mike Foster will be in charge. At his request we’re not doing anything except to have a sign, but I would hope that you as Supervisors would do something in terms of a program plaque or something at that point. I would hope that you would send a letter to the people on the Nutrition Advisory Committee, except for myself, thanking them for their service. Because some of them are a little upset about the taxation at that point. My last comment is when you go through the Iowa Business, you have various points you’ve been able… Just as one listening. You all have to many things to do. Some how you spread yourselves to thin. Whether or not there is other ways of doing that. I don’t have another suggestion to you. Just sitting in this chair here, boy that a lot. Your plate is all to full.

Neuzil: Yes, but we got the first off.

Welsh: I wanted to express some appreciation for all that you do.

Harney: Thanks for the comment Bob, but at the same time we allow a lot on committees and citizen groups that volunteer. I know services that they volunteer is really worth the time and we really appreciate those people.

Thompson: Thank you. I think we’re adjourned.

Adjourned at 12:00 p.m.

Attest: Tom Slockett, Auditor

By Casie Parkins, Recording Secretary