Vice-Chairperson Jordahl called the Johnson County Board of Supervisors to order in the Johnson County Administration Building at 1:40 p.m. Members present were: Charles Duffy, Jonathan Jordahl, Stephen Lacina, and Sally Stutsman; absent: Bolkcom.

Jordahl called the meeting to order. Countryman said that it was her understanding that they were going to finish up the part they haven't been over which is cities and Johnson County strategies. She said that Jordahl had also mentioned redoing some of the policies and she wanted to know if they could wait until she got them the revised draft. Stutsman said she wanted to wait. Jordahl said he would like to look at the whole thing and see it as a piece. Lacina said he wanted to wait.

Jordahl said that section 5.1, and 5.2 looked good. He said that 5.2 "resolve conflicting policies" was a no brainer. Stutsman wanted to know what conflicting policies there were. Lacina gave the example of Iowa City not wanting any industrial growths along the interstate, but the County would say to someone that they could have commercial zoning along the interstate.

Bolkcom entered at 1:45 p.m.

Stutsman read 5.3, "Coordinate land use planning with cities and adjacent areas." Countryman suggested they say "adjacent fringe areas" and Stutsman agreed. Dvorak suggested "Coordinate land use planning with cities through fringe area agreements." Stutsman asked if they were being redundant. Jordahl said they could leave off adjacent areas. Countryman agreed. Jordahl suggested they say fringe area agreements. Dvorak said they do put in all of the fringe area agreements and that they can be changed at any time. Countryman said that was good because it points out the policy, that is to coordinate but to do that through the fringe area agreements. Lacina asked if they were striking 5.3. Stutsman said they were going to say "Coordinate land use planning with cities." Jordahl said they could put it together with 5.2 and say "Coordinate land use planning with cities, eliminating conflicting policies between through fringe area agreements." Lacina said no, and Stutsman said they should keep them separate. Jordahl suggested that 5.3 come first then. Lacina and Stutsman agreed. Bolkcom said it could include the comprehensive land use plan, it wouldn't necessarily need to be the fringe area agreements. Bolkcom said they potentially have conflicting goals with cities. He said they should at least let them know. Stutsman asked if land use planning and their Comp Plan would be the same thing, so why do they have to say it twice? Bolkcom said the focus has been on fringe area agreements, not on the broader planning that goes on in the cities or towns. He said it was good to have the distinction because the Comp Plan would drive what happens in the fringe areas. Jordahl said that was why they stopped talking to Swisher, because they wanted to revise their comp plan so that could be the basis for what their growth area was. Jordahl said they don't need to make mention of it here but it is an important factor in negotiations.

Stutsman said when they say coordinate land use planning it implies using the comp plan. Bolkcom said he felt it was fine as it was and Stutsman agreed. Lacina said good. Countryman asked if there was anything else they wanted to say about cities. Lacina said unless they wanted to say discourage annexation, but they weren't empowered to do that. Jordahl said they could encourage cities to pursue a policy of voluntary annexation. Stutsman said they could say a thoughtful policy of annexation. Jordahl said the word they used in Des Moines was concurrency, to make a connection between annexation and the extension of city services. Stutsman asked if they could say something to the fact that they support annexations that are concurrent. Jordahl said they would support cities limiting their annexations to areas that they plan to provide city services to within a reasonable period of time. Lacina said the would rather say oppose involuntary annexations. Jordahl said they do have even a legal right to oppose voluntary annexations. Countryman said the one that they have under the Fringe Area says "the County will discourage involuntary annexation and provide opportunities for rural residents to comment during development of fringe area agreements." Lacina said they should take the first part and put it under cities. Duffy said it sounds like a political thing. He said he wished they would have the right to vote on it and they might at the end of the year. Jordahl said they couldn't grant them that. Bolkcom told Duffy that legislation was dead.

Duffy left at 2:00 p.m. and returned at 2:03 p.m.

Countryman said that this was 2 and a half pages and it was really just a checklist. She said it was the thing that people keep saying how are we going to follow up on or implement this. Lacina asked if anybody had a problem with "Environmental: Develop standards for common use wells." Bolkcom said no. Lacina then read, "Assure compliance with health regulations," and said they were going to do that. Duffy said he wasn't going to. "Contract with each municipality to set up fringe areas," Lacina said they were hoping to do that. Bolkcom asked why that would be under Environmental and not under residential. Countryman said what she was trying to do was put some kind of an order. She said some of them apply to more than one area and if it applies to more than one she put it in there. Jordahl said it could be put under minimize conflict. Stutsman agreed. She said these are the items that were in the plan she received, so she pulled everything together that wasn't a policy, but more of a strategy and grouped them. The said there were other things she could go back and add in. Bolkcom asked where the Sensitive Areas Ordinance was. Dvorak said they needed that. Bolkcom said that was a major initiative under environment. Bolkcom asked about open space also. Bolkcom suggested "Develop sensitive areas ordinance." Jordahl said they weren't talking about fringe areas, they were talking about the entire county. Countryman asked if they wanted standards for sensitive areas, or sensitive areas ordinance. Jordahl said they have an ordinance that's being reviewed by a committee. Dvorak said this would help them get it passed. Jordahl agreed. Bolkcom said if they are doing it they should put it in the plan. Jordahl suggested "preserve sensitive areas." Bolkcom said this was a laundry list of everything they need to do to implement the plan. Dvorak asked if it would also be advantageous to include conservation subdivision ordinances. Jordahl said they should "promote cluster subdivision design, see conservation subdivision ordinance." Bolkcom clarified that they were looking at the strategies on pages 25 and 26.

Bolkcom asked if there was a page 27. Countryman said it was transportation and parks and open space. Bolkcom asked if they wanted to put in parenthesis in the plan who was going to keep track of the standards. Lacina said no. Bolkcom said every department would get a copy and this was a reminder list to future Supervisors that says you agreed to do this, how is it coming. Lacina said they didn't want exclusivity to any one department that may decide to take it and sit on it. Lacina said if they want it to move there may be multiple departments that need to work on it. Bolkcom said the next question was whether they wanted to put the conservation subdivision design ordinance in environmental or residential. He said it was in residential now. Lacina said it wasn't environmental. Stutsman agreed. Bolkcom asked if there was anything else under environmental. Duffy said he would throw it all out. Stutsman asked what he would put in instead. Jordahl said there were plenty of people in Johnson County who wanted to see environmental protection. Stutsman and Bolkcom asked if he just wouldn't have an environmental section. Bolkcom asked if they needed something on air quality, energy conservation or water quality. Dvorak said they have no way of monitoring air quality because that was a DNR function, he said they could give it lip service. Bolkcom said they should put things in the plan that they are going to do, not a laundry list of things they would like to do.

Countryman said the other thing she did when she was working on this, seeing comments about goals, policies and strategies she made a section of goals that were the things listed under state statue. Bolkcom asked about soil erosion issues. Dvorak said they really have a good handle on erosion control, and the sensitive areas group is also looking at that. Bolkcom asked about water quality/quantity monitoring, do they want to continue that. Jordahl said he had language for that, "Monitoring of well levels in rural areas should be done on a systematic basis." Bolkcom said they are doing it and they should say they will continue to do that. Bolkcom suggested "Continue to monitor water level in appropriate acquifers." Countryman suggested "Continue to monitor well levels in rural areas on a systematic basis." Lacina said he would say just continue to monitor water levels. Duffy said why pay for it when you get it anyway. Jordahl said that environmental protection was the number one thing mentioned in the public input sessions. Duffy said they've had it for years. Stutsman said right and they were saying let's continue it. Jordahl said they were saying it was a good thing. Duffy said they were going to continue whether the land use plan was written or not. The Board agreed to say water levels, and not to go with Jordahl's language of well levels. Jordahl said they were waiting for a report from the Board of Health on what they were going to do with regulations but in the vein of talking about what they were talking about, it was appropriate to talk about wastewater treatment as well. Jordahl said they should tighten up considerably on requiring central systems. Lacina said that if somebody came in and challenged that and said there was no difference between, on a 3 lot subdivision, a septic system versus the other except hardship with the developer, how would they defend it. Jordahl said by reference to the Health Department report that they don't have yet. Bolkcom said they aren't recommending that. Countryman asked about writing the number 2 one to say "Develop standards for common wells and septic systems." Dvorak said he hated to get into specifics because then it was an ordinance almost. Bolkcom said the bigger challenge here is enforcing the rules on septic systems but they have a lot of preexisting systems that are older. Bolkcom said he didn't know if the Board of Health was prepared to do much about it. Steve said the Board of Supervisors wasn't either, unless the property changed hands. Dvorak said they could have complaints too. Bolkcom said they could implement a permitting system that says everybody that has a septic system that is 30 years of age and older now requires a permit. Lacina said he would just tell him no because he was ag. Bolkcom said that ag would be a small subset of the group. Lacina said he didn't think so. Bolkcom said they were talking about older subdivisions. Lacina said legally they wouldn't be able to touch it. Bolkcom said they could. Bolkcom said they had decided that monitoring water quantity in certain selected acquifers, maybe what they should do is see if they can get funding to support a study of some of the older subdivisions where they would go in and do a research project on that subdivision and see what's happening, what's leaving the subdivision by way of septic systems and then they would have the data that the skeptics need. Duffy said he couldn't see why they couldn't look into other alternatives. Duffy said that sewer systems were God's gift to man kind and they are bad deals, they leak. Duffy said there were sophisticated ways to handle sewage and they could make sewer systems obsolete.

Bolkcom said pretending the problems don't exist doesn't mean they're going to go away. Duffy said they should talk to the homeowners association and see what they want to do. Jordahl said the case would be they have the Department of Health for a reason, to protect the environment, and they've got problems with the environment that are reflected in their standards as currently applied to applications for development around major bodies of water in the north part of the County. Bolkcom said they need to develop a plan to address older septic systems in large lot subdivisions because simply saying it's not a problem doesn't hit it. Lacina said if they're not failing they're not going to have anything, and if they are failing and it's identified they have them, and if they go in and it changes hands they're going to pick them up. Bolkcom said that could take 30 or 40 years. Dvorak asked what happened to the Health Department proposal on wastewater management systems. Bolkcom said it was proposed to be eliminated in their new draft of their state change. Lacina said there are other questions. Stutsman said she wasn't ready to leave this, and wondered if they couldn't say something about developing a plan to review subdivisions, wastewater systems that were over 30 years old. Bolkcom said maybe it was just a study. Lacina said they could direct the Health Department to do that. Stutsman said if they don't put it in there she didn't think they'll do it. Jordahl said they have monitoring of wells in there and he doesn't see any difference. Duffy said he had a problem with that. Duffy asked if they were saying that whatever the Board of Health suggests they would do. Duffy read from a Health Department document which said that they were in favor of educating people on septic systems rather than going to a permit system which they said would be an enforcement nightmare.

Lacina read the first sentence under ag rural, "Define public hunting areas and develop recommended policies." Stutsman said they need a 2 with ag. Jordahl said they should have a firm Right to Farm policy, have a definition of farming and they need a committee to do it. He said they need it for their zoning ordinance and they were supposed to get it for the sensitive areas ordinance so they still need it. Jordahl said in order to do agriculture protection they need to be able to say what agriculture is. Lacina said that definition wise there was a Supreme Court ruling on 3 acres that determined that it was a farm. Jordahl said it doesn't necessarily mean acres, it might mean type of production. Lacina said they need to affirm the Right to Farm. Dvorak said when they talked to County Attorney Pat White about this they said they needed to be careful right now because a lot of the activity that's going on with legislation and with lawsuits because of hog confinements. Dvorak said he wouldn't want to approach it right now. Lacina said they could say, "For zoning purposes Johnson County defines 40 acres or less as being required to be subdivided." Lacina said they wouldn't want to get into the definition of ag use. Dvorak said that White had said the definition of agriculture wasn't too bad, it's just the interpretation of the definition needs some work. Jordahl said that if they were going to go back to what White said, it needed to be noted that he was in agreement with him that there is no automatic right to build a house on a 40 acre parcel. Lacina said that in this they should state with their regulations that less than 40 acres is required to subdivide. Dvorak said their definition hasn't been enforced very well. He said a person should prove that they're actually farming that property and that's never really enforced. Bolkcom said they have a definition now and there was interest to review it, it doesn't preclude them from reviewing it. Stutsman asked if they wanted to say that they wanted to review their records. Dvorak said he has no problem with that and Lacina agreed.

Jordahl said they could talk about how prime agricultural land is a concern. He said they could say "Prohibit non-farm development on prime agricultural land," and then they would need to get a definition of prime agricultural land. Stutsman asked what they do around the area around Swisher then and around Stoner's. Jordahl said they did prohibit it in Stoner's case. Lacina said they shouldn't use the term prohibit but rather discourage. Lacina said as soon as they do one they have wiped out the whole option. Bolkcom suggested strongly discourage and Stutsman agreed. Countryman said her inclination was to put that back under policy. Bolkcom said it sounded like a policy. Jordahl suggested "Do not allow conflicting land uses in agricultural areas." Stutsman said that was a policy. Bolkcom asked how they wanted to implement avoidance of conflicting uses.

Stutsman asked if they were going to develop standards for buffering. Lacina said standards would be setbacks, vegetative buffering, and hunting right provisions. Bolkcom said they need to develop some policies on those 3. Lacina said he would like to provide adequate transportation planning to allow for agricultural use. He said if a road needs to be enhanced because of semi's they need to step up and address that concern. He said they aren't doing much for the ag and this is one way they can have the 5 Year Plan and address demands upon the transportation system. Bolkcom suggested "Continue to maintain rural transportation." Lacina said a transportation component referring to roads under ag is important. Jordahl said that was a good idea. Lacina said an example was that some of the bridges were too narrow to handle farm equipment. Countryman asked if she could put that under agriculture as a policy and then under standards say "Develop standards for rural agricultural..." Bolkcom said develop a plan could be the strategy. Stutsman asked if they wanted to say anything about developing a monitoring system of ag land that's taken out of production because of annexation. Jordahl said yes. Lacina said they would have that information from Dvorak's annual report but they could put it in the comp plan. Jordahl said it was a strategy for protecting farming that could mean anything better than having numbers. Bolkcom suggested "Develop annual report on changes in land uses." Countryman said that was good. Dvorak said he would need some help because all he does is ag land. He said sometimes people ask for specifics. Jordahl said that GIS should be able to do something about that. Dvorak said they could do it without GIS. Lacina said they do tend to say no to residential, no to conflict but on the other side they do need to take some practical things. Stutsman said that was a good point because they talk about preserving ag land then they don't go the next step.

Lacina left at 2:30.

Jordahl, talking about the roads question, suggested "Do not permit rezoning for development along a rural gravel, seal coat, calcium chloride, or any other non hard surface road which would lead to the necessity of upgrading the road unless the road is already in the 5 Year Construction Plan for reasons independent of the request for rezoning." Countryman asked if that was a current standard. Jordahl said not exactly but it was sort of being enforced on the basis of the Transportation Study. Countryman asked if it was something they wanted to adopt as a policy or is it something they want to become a standard. Jordahl said they want to have a policy that is consistent countywide. He said it is not possible to equate any 2 particular situations. He said you could have 2 gravel roads both a mile long, both with hills but with different underlying soil types that would be different situations. Countryman asked if it was part of transportation management. Jordahl said it was part of transportation management but it was also part of rural development. Bolkcom said it seemed to him it was almost common sense that if they've got a gravel road in the corner of the county and somebody wants to put 40 houses on it, the Board is going to say bad idea. Bolkcom asked if they needed to specify that as a strategy. Stutsman said that was a policy though. Bolkcom said they kind of say it in the ag section where they basically say in an ag neighborhood don't put non-farm uses in there. He said that implies that it's a gravel road, it's rural, not a good place for 30 houses. Countryman said she thought what Jonathan was saying was that there's no criteria other than on a first come first serve basis as to who gets to build. Countryman said it sounded like all of the circumstances could be exactly the same except that I would come in 5 years from now and somebody else would come in tomorrow. She said tomorrow there is still capacity on the road, 5 years from now there isn't. She said it wasn't based on an overall density, but on a first come first serve basis. She said there seems to be an inherent inequity in that and what Jonathan was saying was getting at developing a standard such that unless it's in the Plan there is still an element of first come first serve but that implication is if your going to exceed 200 at least there's an opportunity to lobby to get that road in the Plan.

Jordahl said he wrote a longer piece on the tax impacts of rural development, "Since the County receives no additional tax revenue for the rural services for the Ambulance and Sheriff and so forth that there is no economic incentive to the County to permit..." Bolkcom asked what the strategy was, don't allow things that don't pay their fair share, a fiscal impact statement on every subdivision. He asked if there was a specific strategy they were getting at. Jordahl said limit the rezoning of the rural property for residential or other non-farm development by adopting in addition to the other policies which they've already talked about and to make certain that they don't allow requests for rezoning on substandard roads. Stutsman and Bolkcom said that sounded like a policy. Jordahl said they could say "Do not permit rezoning which would lead to the necessity of upgrading the road." Jordahl said they could have development which was compatible with it staying a gravel road. Duffy said if it was prime agricultural land then they shouldn't develop on it. Jordahl agreed.

Stutsman said the strategies were fun and Bolkcom said this was where it all comes together. Bolkcom said under minimize conflict they need to add agriculture to that. He said they were noting "The County must make every effort to minimize conflict between agricultural, commercial, industrial and residential development areas." Duffy said it makes it sound like there's a lot of controversy which there really isn't. Stutsman said it didn't say that. Bolkcom said they were saying if any controversy pops up they will know how to deal with it by buffering and setbacks. Bolkcom asked how they felt about "Develop buffering screening standards for separation of ag, residential, industrial and commercial uses from each other." Stutsman said that was OK. "Develop standards for mixed use affordable residential development."

"Create and adopt an economic development plan." Bolkcom asked who was going to do that. Jordahl suggested Lacina. Bolkcom asked what happened because he thought Duffy and Lacina were going to do that. Duffy said they have been working on it. Bolkcom asked if they were going to roll it out pretty soon. Duffy said that economic development could mean a lot of things and he can't be Des Moines all of the time. He said the big thing now is home based business. Bolkcom asked if they want to have it in there. He said he didn't really see them doing it but it could happen. Duffy said it was a big area. Bolkcom said he knew that and that was why he was wondering why it was in there. Stutsman said they need to have it in the Plan whether they‘re going to do it or not. Duffy said it should be in there.

Bolkcom said that number 2 was "Include the expanded use..." he asked what it meant. Dvorak said through the years they felt more comfortable in zoning properties CP1 and CP2 because of the checks and balances built into it. He said as they review plans the building permits are being checked but with other commercial industrials they just build, so from the hearings they've had even the commercial developers wanted them to expand that, remove some of the things in the C1, the C2 and the CH and put them more into the CP1 and CP2 because of the checks and balances that they seem to like and work with well. Dvorak said he thought that was the intent of the language. Bolkcom asked if they were going to be creating more categories in the commercial zoning. Dvorak said that was what this talked about. Jordahl said Bolkcom was talking about the opposite of defining more commercial types. Bolkcom said there was a use where they had 10 things that they could do and the Board might be comfortable with 4 of those things but they have to approve all 10 things because that's the only classification they have because they only have a couple classification. Bolkcom said why don't they regroup these in a way that people would apply for a specific set of uses that would be 3 or 4 uses as opposed to 10 or 12. He said he might be able to agree with a storage building, but not a gas station, but they've given them the power to do a gas station when they said they were just going to do storage buildings. He said he would like to do an ordinance that had more choices for applicants where they could slot people more appropriately into what they wanted. Dvorak said that's where the site plan review comes in. Bolkcom said they could change the site plan. Dvorak said they couldn't. Countryman suggested they change 2 to read "Review and update commercial zone district classifications," then they could decide what they wanted to do. Dvorak said that made sense. Bolkcom agreed, and Stutsman did also. Dvorak said the most important part of that to him was an occupancy permit. Duffy said he might agree with Bolkcom on this point. He said they ran into problems a few years back at Lake MacBride. Dvorak said he would like to see "Encourage the adoption of occupancy permits." Bolkcom said it was there. Dvorak said that currently what they have is the Board of Adjustment has a 14 stage criteria, they sit down for 6 months with the cellular companies to establish this. Dvorak said if they want to write a regulation they can, but so far they've been covered by the 14 criteria. Stutsman asked if there was anything else under economic development. Jordahl suggested review policy on home businesses. Dvorak said they've worked for the last year trying to develop a conditional use permit and they've decided not to pursue that because of other stuff on the table but one of the expansions was they were expanding the home business to get more control but allow more types. Bolkcom suggested conditional use permits go in the plan. Jordahl suggested "Review policy on conditional use permits." Duffy said it might stop the erosion of the family farm. Stutsman said it bothered her that they can review and revise and have all of this stuff down but if they don't have anything to regulate it. Dvorak suggested they give the County Planning and Zoning department 2 more employees. Countryman said the enforcement issue is part of reviewing and revising the conditional use permit.

Dvorak brought up building codes. Duffy said they ought to handle that controversial issue by itself. Dvorak said day to day they are getting more people wanting to see them. Countryman suggested "Develop standards for mixed use residential development." Stutsman said yes. Jordahl said mixed use was a little bit contradictory. Countryman suggested "Develop standards for unincorporated villages." Bolkcom said no and asked why they were going to put energy into this. He said they are going to allow people that want to have a subdivision contiguous to a rural village. He said he didn't know if they wanted to put staff time into developing some sort of plan, but if this is going to be a major push to develop the orange areas then they should spend time and effort doing some sort of planning thing. Bolkcom asked if they were talking about a mini-mall, apartments, a convenience store. Stutsman asked if he wanted to take it out. Bolkcom said he didn't know but it got complicated when you start talking about details. Stutsman said she didn't understand what it means either so they should just take it out. Jordahl said what's lurking there is some sort of assistance from the County for these rural villages as they may wish to develop into towns. He asked if they wanted to guide that. Bolkcom said there was no mechanism for the people in the villages to communicate with the Board. Bolkcom said they've got plenty of work to do already without trying to incorporate villages.

Bolkcom asked what other residential strategies there were. Stutsman asked if they begin looking at building inspections. Jordahl and Bolkcom agreed that would be one of them. Jordahl said it would pay for itself. Dvorak asked them to be careful on what they adopt because it will create a lot of work for the Planning and Zoning Office. Jordahl said he was under the impression that they would be adopting building codes soon. Dvorak said until Coralville and North Liberty became a higher priority it was going to go this fall. Bolkcom suggested "Study the development of county building codes and building inspections." Jordahl said it wasn't strong enough. Stutsman said she was ready to move ahead with it. Countryman asked about study the adoption. Dvorak said this would not restrict anybody from becoming a developer. Duffy said he wouldn't be supporting that. Stutsman said she was hearing people wanted this. Duffy asked who and said this is a very controversial issue. Stutsman said as more people move to the rural areas they want some assurance that their houses are built safe. Duffy asked if they hire an inspector and they say yes their house is all right and then it burns down and someone dies, is the County responsible. Stutsman replied that they would have to ask Pat White. Duffy said he wouldn't vote for it. Bolkcom said he didn't have to.

"Create and adopt a transportation management plan." Bolkcom said this sounded good. Jordahl said in some way that ought to be regionally conceived. Bolkcom said this is a County Plan and they're going to have their hands full doing their own thing. There was agreement that the second one was good. Bolkcom said he had a third one, that they need some language in their zoning ordinance that says, "The Board of Supervisors and Zoning may require dust alleviation as a result of your development." Duffy said he wasn't sure they could do that. Bolkcom suggested "Develop an ordinance revision that requires dust alleviation at the direction of the Board." Bolkcom said they are in trouble and they bully people into doing dust alleviation. Stutsman asked if they wanted to say anything about impact fees. Bolkcom said "Study the imposition of development impact fees."

Duffy left at 3:15 p.m.

Bolkcom said they still have a quorum and they will keep working. Stutsman said it should say "Study the adoption of residential development impact fees." Jordahl felt they should limit it to residential and not do fees in commercial and industrial. Stutsman said it says to study it and they can work out the details later. Countryman said the option would be to just say impact fees and then when they analyze it they can say they just decided to do residential. They agreed to do that. Bolkcom said that 3 was dust alleviation. Countryman said the other day they discussed having a plan with cities for arterial roads. Bolkcom said they should let JCCOG do that. Stutsman agreed. Bolkcom said they were really loading up here. Countryman suggested that they say work with JCCOG. Bolkcom said he would hope fringe area agreements would do that. Jordahl asked if that got added into the Fringe Area Agreement section. Bolkcom said that would be the proper place for it. Bolkcom asked if the Transportation Management Plan covered that. Jordahl said it should but it's stated. Countryman said it was not clear to her if the Transportation Management Plan was looking at how the Board was going to handle what they have or looking into the future. Jordahl said it was like 2 things and they both need to be in there. Bolkcom agreed and said maybe there was another way to identify that in the policy section or some other section, not in the strategy.

Bolkcom said the Plan to say something about trails. He said this year they are doing West Overlook and next year they are doing Prairie du Chien. Stutsman said she still wanted to include that under parks and open space and not transportation. Bolkcom said it needs to be under transportation because of ISTEA money. He said they might get criticized if they are using road money for something that they consider strictly recreational. Countryman said she would reference it under both areas. There was general agreement on that.

Bolkcom reminded the Board they were meeting next Wednesday. Countryman asked if she could bring them the Comp Plan by Tuesday with everything revised. Bolkcom said that would be great and they need it in one chunk. Jordahl said with transportation it is key that they coordinate with the cities because the cities have money to do things and also their possibilities of getting funding will be greater if they are coordinated. Bolkcom said they have the regional trails going. Jordahl said they hadn't adopted it as a vote. Bolkcom said they should put it on and get it done then. Bolkcom asked if it was necessary they adopted the plan. Jordahl said it would help Coralville in their application for trails. Bolkcom asked what the status of the maps was. Countryman said they need a map of the county, there will be some charts and graphs, they could include CSR, a landsite map and then an overall map showing density. She said she wasn't looking at a whole lot more maps then that. Bolkcom said they are probably talking a color map. He said they need a draft map at least to submit to Zoning. Countryman asked if they wanted her to do it. Bolkcom said they need to figure out who is. Countryman said she wasn't planning on doing any maps. Bolkcom said OK and he would talk to Dvorak.

Adjourned at 3:25 p.m.

Attest: Tom Slockett, Auditor

By James Erwin, Recording Secretary

Sent to the Board of Supervisors on December 22, 1998 at 6:15 p.m.