Okay, call the good evening, everyone. I call the City Council meeting for Wednesday, August 10, 2022 to order.
A lot of things to think about here and everywhere. Whatever is on your mind, we'll have a moment of silence for you to think about those.
Thank you. All the majority and please lead us all on the pledge of allegiance.
Thank you, all of them, Joachian, Brian, Crop, our city, Deputy City Clerk, please call the roll for tonight.
Dodd.
Here, Kelly.
Here.
McGinnis.
Here.
Lee.
Grip.
Here.
Cornette.
Here.
Dickman.
Job, Jim.
And Orteth.
Here.
Nine present here, honor.
Thank you, sir.
So, again, good evening, everyone.
So, we begin the meeting of the City Council.
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Will the amendment please move approval of the City Council meeting minutes for July 27?
Motion in the second, all in favour?
Aye.
Any opposed?
Very good.
City Administrator.
Ms. Speaker, any update?
Nothing.
Thank you.
Will the amendment please move approval of the committee of the hall for August 3?
Motion in the second, all in favour?
Any opposed?
Very good. We have two appointments this evening. One on his story preservation and one on the zoning board of adjustment. I'll read both and then ask for a motion to approve.
Historic preservation commission John Higgins is a new appointment.
Zoning board of adjustment. Michael Galler is a new appointment. So our motion to approve.
Motion is second. All in favor? Any opposed? Very good.
But just in communications, any from many particular, all their folks.
Alder woman McGinis, I see you, Miss Lee.
Thank you, Anna. I just wanted to let everyone know that there will be a third ward meeting
on Monday, August 15th, here in Council Chambers. It's regular day and time, 630 PM.
And Mayor Matt, some will be our guest and we have to see you then. So again, that's Monday,
August 15th, 630 PM right here. Thank you.
Thank you all the women, McGinnis, Alder, woman Lee.
Thank you very much.
I just want to remind people that tomorrow night is party in the park.
At the 8th Ward Ridgeview park, up on North Pine, there will be fun and games and food and city folks and community folks.
And I believe Alderman Dunn will be shooting off water rockets.
Yeah, yeah.
So that'll be the eight-forward meeting for August.
We won't have another meeting in August.
Then we'll only zoom in the meetings again in September.
And I also was down at Credit Island the other day,
and there were 10 beautiful white herons along the causeway,
just as you go on to the island.
So there's your nature for tonight.
Thank you.
Thank you all the women, Lee, Alderman, or T's.
Thank you, Anna.
I'd like to thank the airport police department,
the DEMPORT Fire Department, Sean Loader, the Fair Board, and all the residents of Davenport
for another successful year at the Fair. Unfortunately, Mother Nature kind of threw us a couple
curveballs in there, but overall, very happy. Fourth Ward residents, very, very thankful.
You were very understanding.
Like I said, hats off to everybody that was involved.
Like I said, it's a great event here in Davenport and I look forward to seeing it next year.
Thank you, Anna.
Thank you, all the minorities, all the men, Kelly.
Thank you, sir.
Good evening.
I want to let everybody know that on August 28th,
the Fifth Ward and the Six Ward will be having a back-to-school giveaway
as Studio 7 on Middle Road.
It's where the Six Ward butt up to each other, so I won't be having a ward meeting this month
because I'll be having a back-to-school giveaway with
Audemn Job Jen.
So if you're interested in that just look us up online
and it will be out there there information for you folks.
Thank you.
Thank you, Audemn Kelly.
Audemn Kanda.
I want to observe a fun occasion that happened yesterday.
My family was an attendance yesterday in Dyer'sville, Iowa.
At the field of dreams, when the riverban
it took to the field as the Davenport blue socks.
And that was the first time that they were a planer
that Moniker since 1937, and they were one of two teams that were the first minor league teams
to play on that great stage.
So one of the things, the River Bandets organization, the players, and one of the players specifically
for bringing home the win, and they all represented us really well on a national stage.
One of the celebrate the great relationship that we've had with the River Bandets over the
and keeping baseball here in Davenport.
There's still a lot of great baseball to enjoy.
Down at Modern Woodman Park.
It's a good reminder for me to get my family down to the ballpark.
And here's the cool thing about baseball.
I think I had myself convinced on the way up there
that my family was a great baseball family.
And then trying to explain the plot of that movie
to my kids.
My dad was like, wasn't Patrick Spazy and Demi Moore in that?
And I was like, no, that's a ghost.
Not field of dreams.
It's ghost.
But that's the cool thing about baseball.
like, if you go up there, the emotions are real, whether you're a baseball family or not,
whether you saw that movie or not, and you can't mess up baseball. So whether you're a baseball
family or not, please get down to a modern woodman park and cheer on the river bandits and help
help us celebrate this fun occasion. Thanks. Thank you on a Macon and anyone else.
Very good. Okay, we'll move to individual approval of items on the discussion agenda. The first item
is a first consideration ordinance for case REZ-22-04 being the request of SCI Iowa funeral services
to rezone 1230-39th Street from SOS Open Space District to see one neighborhood commercial
district, planning and zoning recommends denial, so eight votes of the Council are required
for passage. Is there any public with comment? Seeing none, we will all of them remove force
consideration.
Okay.
Any discussion from council?
Holderwoman Lee.
Thank you very much, Your Honor.
The issue here for me is not that it's going to be from the SCI, I will funeral services.
It's not the kind of use.
It's that I think the city needs to make sure that it considers and protects the precious open space.
the zoning that we have for open space.
So as this move forward, that is going to be my primary consideration for this particular thing,
the protection of open space and not changing it to a commercial district.
Thank you.
Thank you, Alderman Lee, and I apologize to staff.
Where you have an update for Council concerning your discussions with the petitioner.
So I'll go out of a little order here and let her update.
Thank you very much, Laura, Berkeley Development and Neighborhood Services.
I did have the opportunity to have an additional meeting with the petitioners.
And I believe I have a solution that is mutually beneficial to vote the petitioner and the city.
We have not done this under the new code, but we do have a planning tool that could be applied to this.
It's called a plan unit development.
In this case, I recommend that the zoning district remain open space.
But we apply the plan unit development tool to provide some flexibility within that zoning
district to allow for reception facility.
What triggers that ability to do so is the provision of a public benefit that the petitioner
would provide.
And so we've had that discussion and they are willing to provide some level of public benefit
to the city.
And I think that is a still one that being mutually beneficial experience for the city and the petitioner.
Thank you so Mr. Warner. So there's a recommendation to delete this and then go back to P&Z or to amend it and go back to P&Z.
Your out of the recommendation would be since it's changing the approach that the council, someone on the council make a motion to refer it back to the plan and so.
So I'm going to go through everybody's comments and if somebody wants to do that, buzz in at the end and I'll take you at the end.
So, okay, all the men group.
I was going to request a report from staff and I'm happy to make the motion as the chair.
So I'll see anybody else want to discuss this or you go with the motion.
Okay, so I'll go back to you all in group.
All right.
First, I want to, Laura, thank you.
I knew that with a reasonable petitioner and a reasonable ask that the city, the city staff
would be able to come up with a recommendation that worked for both of us.
So with that, I'm going to make a motion to refer this issue back to planning and zoning.
Okay, so there's a motion on the referral to planning zoning, any discussion from colleagues?
Very good, Brian, please call the roll for the motion to go back to planning and zoning.
I'm going to get us. Yes. Job Jen. Yes. Lee. Condon. Yes. Or Tess. Yes. Cornette. Yes. Done. Yes. Kelly. Yes. And Griff. Yes. Yes. That's your honor.
Emotion approving community investment. So many agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway Company. And authorizing the City of Mr. Just sign the same. Is there any public with comment?
So again, and I'd ask if there's more, if one person could stand up like over here, so I know there's more coming.
If not, I'm going to assume there's not, so if at least one person standing and you guys can work that out,
at least no another one's coming.
So again, name ward, address.
If you're not from here, we'd love to know where you from, you have five minutes.
And thank you.
Mr. Bayer Council, my name is Andy Cummings.
I'm with Canadian Pacific.
I am from Minneapolis.
I am pleased to present this agreement to you this evening.
We are a company that has operated in this community for a very long time.
It is our intent to continue operating here for a very long time.
We are in it for the long haul.
When you see a Canadian Pacific train operating through Davenport,
it is likely staffed at a Davenport.
The people who maintain the track safely for train operations are likely based here in Davenport.
So we're very invested in this community, we're currently hiring, we have a hiring fair coming up for
high paying union jobs that will be next week, we're hiring approximately 100 people just this year.
If we're able to move forward with this merger, we anticipate more hiring future years.
With that, I will take my seat, but I'm happy to address any questions from the Council that will come up this evening.
Thank you, and if they want to call you.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Well,
my name is P.J. Slobogen at Third Board, and I have some concerns about this merger and more specifically along the waterfront.
We found that some of the trains that would be going through maybe as long as two miles, which is a very, when you think about it a very long time, and carrying possible hazardous materials.
So the wait time down in the riverfront could be a very long time and with everything that's going on down there this would prove to be a real problem.
I'm concerned about accidents, about medical emergencies.
If you think about the kinds of things that are going on down at the waterfront,
you've got the modern wood been games going on.
Banshell has concerts all summer, the Quad City Symphony,
and also the cruise ships that are docking.
and I don't know how people are getting off the cruise ships and have to wait for a train
or going to be very happy about that. It would also impact the economy down there
because I would think that people would just get tired of not knowing where to park or how to get
limit attendance at some of these things.
The $8 million that's in descriptionary are part
of those plans to build vehicle spans over or under the tracks. It seems like that's the only
Let's...
And I'm interested in knowing how the council would address this. Emergency vehicles, are they going to wait two minutes? Are they going to wait ten minutes? Are they going to wait half an hour? And whichever of those it is, isn't that too long to wait in any emergency?
I don't know. I haven't seen anything about what I'm going to do.
other spans would be built or how this would be addressed, but I think the public would
like to know.
Another concern is the noise.
Even if the sirens are addressed, there's still other noise going on with the number
of trains going through.
The train itself, a lot of times you have the squealing going on on the tracks.
And I live only a block from the train tracks that go by on fifth street, and even from a block away, if the train is going through, you just can't talk or hear anything that's going on, and this is a big concern also.
I don't think the $10 million will solve the challenge and I see it only as a bandaid kind of a thing that may help for a little bit.
But if you reject this, you will be making an important statement that the city of Davenport can be the David in a David and Glyath situation.
So, I hope you take time to read the reports, to hold public hearings, and to attend this September 13th meeting.
Give more time to study the pitfalls, and please don't give up your waterfront.
Thank you.
Thank you. Anyone else?
The floor of my name is Susan Layhouse. I'm a consultant citizen. With the merger, we're going to have increased
train traffic coming to the quantities. Naturally, we can expect increased accidents and the
women. The report that was released last week tells us that the vehicle to train accidents will increase from
19.1 to 24.49. That's a 30% increase of car accidents with the train. And the pedestrian
train crash is going to go from 1.9 to 21.1. That's a 23% increase. So, this number
is way too high for our level of comfort. And the report also said that there is a very
the spill of the spill of hazardous material, the release of hazardous material is pretty what we may
lower. What effect is in the year 2022 that Canadian Pacific have so far has five
de-royments. And one of which resulted in the release of 44,400,000 gallons of crude oil
which ended up with a fire at a burn for 24 hours and it took two days of firefighter.
A firefighter has worked to put it out.
And it damaged an area that's big larger than five acres.
So that's about the spill.
In 2019, there was also a derailment that occurred in British Columbia
that a CP-Choreen Dorea lost control because of Faulty Breaks ran down, ran down the
steep mountain, and Doreal into a creek and killing three people, three of their employees.
And there has been a lot of controversies around the investigation of this accident.
Canadian broadcast system has made a documentary movie film about this investigation.
So I encourage you to go take a look at that. You go to the CBC website and call up, run a
ray train, investigating the CPP rail crash. So it's 20, it's a 20 minute film.
It
to take care of the faulty equipment and how they do accident investigation.
This one cause of fatality of three people.
As city leaders, we know that you are concerned about the welfare of our citizen.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be sitting here.
I urge you to take a look at Canadian Pacific community commitment to safety.
to equipment maintenance,
to see how they address faulty equipment.
Do they fix some way away?
Or do they just let it go and let the train run?
We are living in the community.
There's way along the riverfront.
We cannot afford to have this type of accident.
This is a $31 million project.
The merger is a $31 billion project, they are the Angling Appearance in front of us, that's worth about 0.03% of that part of money, and tell us that, well, you've got to deal with all the risks that come along, and $10 million can not, is only a part of what is going to take for us to mitigate the potential hazards from coming in from this project.
And when we need to, and also to beef up our emergency response team, come up with an emergency response plan to address future accident that's come along.
I don't want to oil spill in this community. I don't think anybody any one of you here or any one of us in this industry.
Thank you.
Have a water address.
I'm 11, 52, 37, rhyming time.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Hi.
I'm Carol Innis.
I live in Ward 7 and my address is 328 West Columbia Avenue.
I'm here first to ask you all when you have to vote.
When does CPC that the vote has to be taken,
order to get this 10 million dollars?
So, ma'am, we're listening to you here. We're not going back and forth. So, thank you.
Okay. And, okay. So,
you do not accept the proposal.
Well, CP, not responsible for any issues that might occur or any expenses related to doing this project.
that's a question and how will it affect you personally each one of you? Do you live
by the railroader? Do you have a business by the railroad?
How do your constituents feel
about it? You get primarily positive reviews.
Our y'all more familiar with some of this terminology
I'm concerned about, okay first, I thought that the OEA that performed the EIS was a separate
environmental group, but it works its part of STP, which to me says it's not the perfect
review board to decide whether this is a good idea or not.
I have questions about the delays.
According to this, it says that Bill will be,
it is the late area.
It would be 7.3 seconds per vehicle delay.
Now does that have you determined what that means?
Do you all, I don't know, I don't think it means that people will just let the longest delay will be 7.3 seconds.
I know that we have a right and you too, you're more important than we because we depend on you to make the decisions.
But we have a right to attend the public hearing and to ask questions, et cetera, until September
26.
This is not the final EIS, and does anybody know that?
It's not the final.
This is the draft.
The final one will be submitted sometime after September the 26th.
So please, for everybody's said, just don't jump in and accept.
I'm going to call it a bribe because I feel like it is.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, anyone else.
Good evening.
My name is Lori McCollum.
I'm actually from Rock Island, 362638 Street, but I'm a former
Davenport resident and I'm here speaking on behalf of a band that my husband
is in and I sent letters to, he sent letters via my email to you folks
earlier this week and I had several nice responses. I've forwarded it on to him
but he wanted he and the band wanted a representation tonight from musical
groups since this is going to significantly impact so many of the bands that
down on the river. He, his band played at River Palooza last Thursday night and there were about
three, there were three trains that went through about five minutes each. So that affected 15 minutes
of their two-hour set. If a band, you know, typically, if this is going to be tripled, that's going to
take nearly half their set. That's going to have band, that's going to have trains going through.
And even if you have quiet zone, as people have mentioned, there's a lot of screeching of brakes,
and there's a lot of noise, I think it's going to have significant impact on music performances.
I think a lot of people are going to choose other venues because their audiences are not
going to be happy, particularly if they have to cross the track and then on the other side
and they can't get back out or they can't get to the show on time.
So I think that's something significant to think about because you've spent a lot of money
on the riverfront and it's beautiful, you've done a great job of getting things up and going
down there for all of the musical venues that are in town.
Also, I wanted to mention that the order in which these requirements seem to be happening
seems backwards to me, that you guys have to make this decision about this $10 million
theoretically tonight or within 10 days, I'm not sure what the timeline is, before this
meeting even happens on the 13th of September when there's going to be a review and an
been hearing for the public when they haven't even decided yet whether this merger is going
to occur.
It almost sounds like the thought is it's a done deal and maybe it is.
But it seems to me that this is something that the city should be able to hold off until
the 13th before making that decision because otherwise I think Canadian Pacific will walk
into that meeting saying, oh everybody's already greeted fine, there's no problem here.
So I'm hoping you can possibly table this decision until the timeline allows for the public hearing on the 13th of September.
The impact of this merger is also, I think, going to more significantly impact the marginalized communities along the riverfront
that are going to have to deal with more noise pollution and more air pollution.
I know that the environmental impact study said that there was really no impact on air pollution because it's going to take so many trucks off the road that it balances it out
But that's not comparing apples to apples because the people who are going to be impacted are a different set of people who
have traditionally
had more pollution from transportation in our country and I think that's something else that needs to be considered. Thank you
Thank you
My
name is Carl Berkishino Glein,
Davenport.
I arrived in Davenport about 10 years ago,
and if you're being out of Iowa for about 40 years,
they've got a lot of use of the most beautiful places
in the country for a number of years.
Before I moved here, and when I got here,
I was impressed that there was no traffic,
and a beautiful riverfront.
And taking my two dogs along the river for a walk
from Lindsey Park to Leach Park to Benton Park
through Matt, three miles every day.
It helped them keep their life expand
and help them make me as well.
I feel this project is really gonna jeopardize
our old dream of Davenport and Center of Tourism
in the Midwest.
I think from the end-downs farmers market,
We're at a ballgame, trying to make a transaction by some coffee.
Train goes buck.
I know they're going to silence the whistles, but as I walk my dog every day, but by the way, more than
the whistles is the screech breaks. They can eliminate that. That would be a big relief, because
not only affects my ears, but I can imagine what it does to my dogs here, 14 years.
But I also
I think about the waterfowl, about the migratory birds, about the greens, the herring, about the eagles.
And the reports I read from Ray wrote a apology, they were presented to me.
I have a great effect on the breeding cycles of these birds.
And noise alone, just the increase that noise might affect that.
And that's what we, you know, we show in the news area, the eagles hatching.
This is something that inspires us every spring to know what a great, uh, and they hand
march.
What's going to happen to that if there's an oil spill?
As I understand it, one gallon of crude oil will destroy a million gallons of water.
And right now, folks, we don't have EPA in this country, it's been dismantled.
And the cleanup on that may go for years before it's done.
You guys have created something I'm proud I take pictures every day.
There's a new bridge in Bendorf, the river city, night or day.
You move some beautiful statues.
You've made just some vast improvements on the concrete bike trail.
People use it for fun razors.
I have a business in the East Village.
And I wonder how it's going to affect if I can't have an emergency or something like that,
how that's going to affect people in my building.
I'm tied up over the river.
I can't get through.
I've heard stories about trains being stopped and people just crawling underneath trains to get through.
That really concerns me.
This looks like an accident, but it happened.
And I just want you to table until we get all the reports in.
And we can, you know, even the soil, was that vibration going to do, repeated vibration
going to do is to limestone the structures.
And there's a lot of businesses along the river, the cement company, they cross the tracks
23 times a day, what's that going to mean to get in the concrete out to the projects?
There's a lot of things to consider here, not to mention air pollution, and I don't think
going to have a market anymore. I can't see how we can have a clear concert.
We're taking 20,
30 years back. We need to go forward, and I think there's alternatives that we could do. We could
build tunnels for the train, reroute it. Total letter. Have this, it trains going to be that big
of business. We had to make a national headquarters for the railroad right here in Davenport,
you know,
make it another, you know, turn a limited to lemonade,
doesn't we need to do?
Because it's only going to be problems for emergency.
Uh, it's not, people are going to remember their experience.
You want to log in.
And maybe having a medical problem.
And time is of the essence.
Thank you for your time.
Just, I'm asking to table until we can get more input from the studies.
and those 13ths and we can have open hearing so we can discuss it further.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
My name is Shelley Chambers.
I'm a former member of the Davenport Riverfront Improvement Commission.
Some of you may remember me from there.
I'm also a resident of the Fifth Ward,
formerly of the Sixth Ward, same house,
since redistricting.
I want to just talk a little bit about the quality of life issues from my own personal perspective.
We bought our house almost 30 years ago for the front porch that has a beautiful view of our gorgeous Mississippi River.
And I've noticed that, I think since, maybe since the derecho and the building up of the rail bed,
that the noise has become worse.
I don't know if it's because tree cover, less tree cover and raised rails.
I'm not sure, but it's already with just the volume of trains we have going through now.
It's already extremely burdensome to have a conversation on the porch.
And it's not just do, as others have said,
it's not just due to the train horns.
It's also the engines, the engines, and the wheels.
Noise mitigation and quiet zones, I don't believe,
will fix that.
And we have nine miles of front portures and businesses that will be affected by this.
Life in our beautiful riverfront parks, as others have said, will not be the same.
They will drastically change.
And I think about myself walking along the river path, just below Lindsey Park,
where the train tracks are very close to the path.
And it's scary.
If you're walking there and there's a train going by,
you feel hemmed in no way to get away from there
and just certain sections of the path.
You feel claustrophobic and vulnerable.
I can deal with the few trains a day.
maybe on my walk there might be one, but if we have a tripling of that, I think that could
become way more of an issue for people that choose to walk along the bike path.
Others have mentioned the concerts on the river,
again the noise of the engines and the
wheels going beyond the train whistles.
I'm thinking about a meal at the freight house on the deck of the freight house.
Those may not include conversation when those trains are coming through,
so that wouldn't be a really attractive place to go eat.
And then, of course, as others have mentioned to risk of accident during a farmer's market Saturday,
is this increased risk worth it?
I'm just curious to know.
And then what economic impact does tripling train traffic through Davenport have for our community?
I know that the city of Davenport, the Riverfront Commission and the Parks Department,
have worked hard for generations to create a beautiful riverfront for Davenport's citizens and her visitors.
Again, as others have mentioned, there's the cruise ships that we have coming here now.
Our riverfront amenities serve our citizens and our visitors.
They make living here and spending money here and attraction.
So I don't understand how increased train traffic would serve our community in the long term.
I urge you to reject this deal right this deal for the sake of our community and our quality
of life or at the very least wait until after the public has had a chance to comment so
that others can wait in. Many of us are just now beginning to become aware of what's happening
and I think it would be good to wait until September when stakeholders can weigh in.
And I just, I just would urge you not to give up on this quality of life issue here.
To consider waiting before making a final decision on behalf of your constituents.
Because once you make this decision there's no turning back.
Thank you so much for listening.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Good evening.
My name is Ken Kroken.
I live in the 6th Ward at 3215 East Locust Street.
And first, I don't envy you your position on this.
I don't really say a winning hand coming out of this.
But I too would like to add my voice that perhaps this vote
should be delayed until after the public hearing.
Last Saturday, I'm sorry I failed to acknowledge
at the outset that I'm also a part owner
in the Quad City River Bandits.
And at last Saturday night's game,
there was a visitor, park visitor who required emergency medical attention and was happily able to
get it very, very quickly. The tripling of rail traffic, I'm sure you understand jeopardizes
not only access to our riverfront, but also the safety of our riverfront, so that's a grave concern for me.
I am also very concerned about the long term economic impact that this development will have.
Not only the baseball team and the stadium, but every other business on the far side or I hate to use the expression wrong side of the tracks will suffer.
not necessarily, just from a brand perspective, I think people will be reluctant to go
for fear, they'll be locked in or locked out.
We have at the Bull Park often found large crowds of people showing up during the first
and second inning of the game, complaining that they had been unable to get access to the
because they had to wait for a train.
I think there is only, we can only benefit from greater public impact with, excuse me, greater input.
With all due respect to the speakers from Canadian Pacific, their history in this community does not suggest
to me, their grave concern for being good neighbors and being involved, the raising of the
tracks, following that last flood, suggested a rather imperious relationship, and if they
would like to demonstrate their spirit of cooperation
than extending this offer until a such time
as public input can be properly received
would be a great first step in showing
that they are truly engaged with our community.
I know that you, like everyone else in this room,
regards our riverfront as one of our greatest and most beloved assets.
And I also understand you are somewhat limited in your abilities to dictate where we go from here as a community.
But I do believe there again would be no harm resulting from further community input
and Canadian Pacific would do well to come forward and extend its deadlines in order to
allow that to happen. We're only talking about a couple of weeks. Thank you very much
for your time and again, good luck with this. Thank you, anyone else?
Thank you for your service, first of all, and your time tonight, and your openness to listen to perspectives.
You know, when I get around a mic, though, I just don't stop at me, but thank goodness you have a timer on me tonight.
I want to start by credentializing myself.
I am a lifelong proud resident of Davenport, Iowa.
I have lived, I had the privilege of living all over the country.
Um, was married to a guy in the Navy and was in a lot of, all the coasts.
Um, and it wasn't until I came back as, in my 20s, that I actually visited the
Riverfront.
And my dad took me down there with my two kids and he wrote his bike and I ran along and my
kids wrote their bikes.
And I heard sounds.
I remember this clearly of birds I had never heard before.
I saw the river.
I had never been to the river.
I had never paid attention to the river.
And it is what they say it is.
It is a gem, it is something to be appreciated, valued, and it is a worldwide attraction.
People come from all over the world to see them missing.
We have as a city invested and made bets on that riverfront. We are the only town that doesn't have a flood wall. We bear the brunt of that year after year. And we take that risk and we have chosen to do that to honor the river. It is wrong to throw in the towel at this point. I'm asking that you stand up for the city council.
citizens of your city and the surrounding cities. I'm glad to see people from Rock Island
and other towns here because we are, we have blindfold on if we think this isn't the
Davenport issue. This is a Quad City and Beyond issue and we can decide and we're asking you
to be our messenger. Who we are? Who is Davenport? Are we a victim of circumstance?
because the big boys are coming through town and they're throwing something at us and we're just going to take it.
Or are we the strongest peg on that bench?
And there's a lot of pegs on the bench along the river across the country that are like us.
But they're not as strong as Davenport.
We can be that peg that says, no. Slow down. Let's gather this bench together.
And let's not do this. We're asking you to be the one. I'm wearing my live-uncommon shirt tonight.
Because one of the main messages and mantras of it is it only takes one to change the world.
Be that one.
All of you, please have the courage to slow down and listen to your citizens and just hear us out.
You're going to hear a lot about reports about facts about environment.
They're important, but this is our town. This is the history of our town and the long-term future of our town.
Are we going to be trained town? That's damn where I want.
or are we going to be river town?
What we've always been.
We have invested in the downtown.
I'm a lifelong resident.
To further credentialize myself and why I'm here,
and I'm not just a squeaky wheel,
complaining about something that doesn't make sense to me.
We, as homeowners and business,
business, we pay half a million dollars in taxes every year.
In the last two years, we have put together a new community event.
We are lifelong dedicated to film, film, philosophy.
I can't even say that word, philanthropy.
We believe in ours.
We believe in doing the right thing.
We put our money where our mouth is.
Just last year, in the last 13 months, we have out of our own pocket.
But my husband is going to be sad to hear this, $500,000 into a community event that is on the river.
I say this not to say, what a great person I am, what a great people, Brussels are.
We put, we believe in this town, we are investing personally in the greater good what is right or this town.
These choices, I'm glad to hear another person about with a band interest.
We had a major event.
We're trying to bring back to this community a great event in the summer.
Those trains were not right on the doorstep.
They were across the road.
They're not triple the size they will be with this merger.
They highly impacted this event.
Am I at my time already?
Thank you, man.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Or will mayor?
Councilman.
Thank you for listening.
My name is Molly Newell.
I second the emotions that I've heard.
I too am a business person in Davenport.
I have the one river place facility about 37,000 square foot of space for small businesses.
I run a business incubator here on the river.
Oh, I'd say about 75 feet from the tracks, really close.
Also, I'm a resident here in Davenport, in the sixth ward, overlooking the river also.
And I do hear the trains from my porch.
And again, I don't mind the whistles nearly as bad as the sound of what they call wafering
noise coming from the tracks themselves.
So, I just want to say that tripling and quadrupling the train traffic and the train noise
really flies in the face of everything that I've done as citizen on different committees.
The Riverfront Action Committee, when there was one, working with the Riverfront
a levy commission when it was called that. Working on comprehensive plan to unite all the
greenways and waterways, vertically and horizontally to connect the bike trails and everybody
to the river. Excuse me. So everybody could enjoy it. So we'll want what's best for
downboard. I don't question that for anybody here. I understand that the council feels powerless
to reject this 10 million dollar offer, but you are not powerless. We do not need to
take what the railroad dish is out. Together we are strong. I like the comment about
the peg, you know, the strong peg on the bench. We have the most delus, you know, we
have the most riverfront, and we think we're getting more than the next guy. We'll guess
what nobody's getting enough for what they're proposing to take.
I would propose that the Council vote down this 10 million because it's a poor compromise.
Please don't sell us out.
The railroad has engaged city after city to preempt future opposition.
We know why.
They're picking off one city after another one at a time to divide and conquer through this technique.
It's an economic prostitution in my opinion because they can't win any other way.
Yielding now will cause irreparable damage to our community and the future of our place
in the Midwest, our place on the river, our place in history, and how we celebrate the
future.
This has been said already.
I guess the railroad merger causes more harm to death than any other city in its path.
The recent report that came out last Friday afternoon says there will be irreparable, or
I'll get to that in a second, but I want to say in a second the motion someone said earlier
about the STB not being an impartial review board.
They are definitely not an impartial review board yet. They have come out and said there will be
considerable adverse damage and repercussions. My building's historic to shake that ground four times as much as it is
I got 1867 mortar in my the limestone and my building
out of our old pocket we have brought the building back to life all three floors
We did not accept money from the city, we did not accept money from the feds yet it remains historic and it's, I think, a real landmark here.
So yes, I'm vested and I don't want to lose my investment, but I dare say, even if we stick with it forever more, there's going to be little additional investment.
because people are not going to want to come down to the river for all the reasons
that have been mentioned.
So the magnificent harm to the city, to our safety,
in some cases to the health and definitely to the environment,
I would say is huge.
I understand that attorneys from Canada flew down and talked to representatives
But an advocate for Davenport may have told you that any measure that causes this much magnificent harm to the city must go to a referendum.
Someone should have told you that the Council has a fiduciary responsibility to not be transparent and truthful.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
Good evening, Cindy Winkler, 6-30 court, and Davenport.
One of the things that I think about other than all of the things that have been mentioned
is the wake that will be created when we have a flood and what will happen to our ability
to maintain the stability, any structure that we put up to hold the water back.
I am a state representative.
I have the riverfront from Mount Street to the end of the county.
So I represent Buffalo as well.
And I know that the weight created for them is tremendous.
With the current trains that are running.
And when we think about how we multiply that and what it might do
when we are trying to meet the needs of a disaster
And the wake that could be created by three times the amount of trains going through.
And the amount of money that the city will have to spend to mitigate that.
I think that it's just one more piece of the puzzle.
I certainly know that you're between a rock and a hard place with this situation.
and it's unfortunate that it is the deadline as I understand it is ahead of the public hearing
that the federal government has put together.
If Canadian Pacific then will use a decision that you make now as any kind of reasoning or
rationale to the fact that it won't create a problem that they, that they would triple the number of trains.
I think that's unfortunate because not only are you between a rock and a hurt place, but then you'll be used.
And you'll be used as a tool that will potentially create more expenditure for the citizens of
I don't, I haven't read, and I might have missed it, but what the cost will be for the city of
Davenport to mitigate all of the issues that will be created by increasing the number of trains.
I haven't seen it yet, and I think that that is a consideration.
it should be a proportional response from Canadian Pacific in regard to what they are offering
because mitigation will be every year. And I don't envy you. I don't know if you have
the opportunity to delay this decision. But I think that there are so many
stimulating circumstances that are created and this is such a significant
decision to make. I hope that you take the time that you need to make the
decision. Thank you. Thank you anyone else.
Good evening. My name is Brett
Vickstrom. I live at 12 12 East Tent Street. Number seven in Davenport. I'm in
the fifth ward. Tim Kelly is my very responsive Alderman. Thank you. I respectfully
ask that you table the decision until the September meeting. I am the great
granddaughter, the granddaughter and the niece of real rotors. I am very
family with real road what it does and also the damage a real road can do to a
body that was impressed upon us from as soon as we could walk and I do fear that
with more trains more people will be tempted to illegally cross the tracks. My
grandfather was an engineer for the Berlin to Northern. You can't stop a train car
going 60 you can't stop it going five. I've also been stopped at train and
for an hour at a time, even though legally it's 10 minutes.
I know there are exciting circumstances, but being blocked at 10 for an hour at a time with the current train schedule.
I can only imagine with that being tripled.
So please ask you to respectfully tailor your decision until the September meeting.
Thank you.
Thank you. Anyone else?
Hello, everyone. Jim Russell, I live in the fifth ward.
and appreciate the service and the time to speak for all of you.
I just want to say really one thing, 10 million is a lot of money.
And I know what's to take it or leave it to the kind of thing,
and there's a risk of getting less.
There may not be an opportunity of getting more,
but 10 million, as you guys already know,
buys a fire station. 10 million doesn't even buy a skybridge.
So 10 million's not a lot of money. It's not a lot of money in contrast to the economic
and social and all the impact you already heard from everyone else. So I'm a little bit of a
gambler. I would roll a dice and say no and see if we can do better. Knowing that we might not
But I still take that risk if I were sitting in your shoes. So, thank you for the opportunity to share my thought
And thank you for your service
Thank you anyone else
But Kevin O'Brien, 12-03 Garfield Court, regards to the huge increase in traffic that they're discussing on the rail road.
You know, one of the greatest places to have lunch, or anything is sit down by the river.
And now that you've got the freight house all fixed up, sit on the deck, and have lunch there.
and something we frequently did, especially doing COVID-19, but now already we have a lot of
trains going through there and when a train goes through there, you might as well just stop
talking for 10 minutes because that's how long the train goes through there. Some of it's the
but just the rattle and so on the blockage of the riverfront it just doesn't seem like it's good for
Davenport to go from eight trains to 224 and who how many might they increase it to in the future.
You know you talk about two and a half hours or more it takes about 10 minutes or so and set their
time for each train to go through and talking about two and a half hours or so per day that traffic won't be you won't be able to see the river and you won't be able to drive through down or from the river.
And what kind of requirement does Davenport have as far as, like, if there's emergency on the riverfront and a 911 call, and you've got to wait 10 minutes to get across to respond to it, whether it's police or medic, and you're going to take, we've got about 80 minutes doing the whole day.
that's the riverfront is blocked right now.
But are you willing to jump forward to two and a half hours?
Or perhaps more?
You know, if they loosen up the, you know,
the staff imported get any liability for not being able
to respond to 911 calls if there's emergency
at the ballpark or at the riverfront.
If there's a concert, you know,
Sometimes at the ballpark, you've got 5,000 people there,
some of the 10 minutes, 15 minutes extra can mean a lot,
life and death.
So, I would oppose this.
You know, the 10 million may be more than what you get,
but if by signing off with it,
you give up your right to go forward and speak against it,
doesn't try to negotiate something better because it's other better routes that railroad could take.
Thank you.
Thank you. Anyone else?
My name's Bill Globa.
24, 21, Gangstead, a third ward.
Let me just say, folks here, amazing,
on our bold positive reaction from our city folks.
I'm impressed what you're saying here tonight, just a citizen.
So we go, I was done or by myself.
But I don't know, Mayor Mats and members of the
Damport City Council.
I come here tonight to share my thoughts on perhaps
the most threatening issue, the most threatening issue,
ever to face our great city, the pending 31 billion
all emerge between the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City,
Southern Railroads.
Let me say at the outset, I firmly believe,
I honestly believe that you feel this 10 million dollar deal that you're preparing to accept is the best you can get.
I respectfully, but I respectfully disagree better on this a long time and through lots of similar sort of kind of things, nothing quite like this they're going to destroy our city.
But I know you mean well, okay. So we'll make that clear and I appreciate that, but the decision you make here at a night
We'll be life threatening to our citizens
Disaster to our city and for ever
Recavoc on the most beautiful, most beautiful Mississippi riverfront
That's the tragic reality, cut through all the other, that's the reality.
Now let me be fair.
All negotiations should be a win-win for our parties.
This one is not.
In this vein, are there other more rural railroad lines that go through Iowa that could accomplish
what Canadians civic wants to do,
to are their other possible routes around
the haven't port that could be developed,
that would have waved our downtown area,
what about an underground subway type rail tunnel?
Perhaps under river drive,
or maybe running from Tremot to Marquette Street,
all over the country, go to any major city,
and there's tunnels under streets and rivers, et cetera.
So, that's such a tunnel would eliminate the need for all most what we're talking about,
the noise control, pedestrian overpasses, crossing signals, and bridges except for the one proposed
by support, love to see, down around Concord Street and over River Drive there.
Perhaps we could trade land on which the Canadian Pacific runs now, you know, that area we're talking
about and turn for given and working with a state to give them a right away under River
Drive.
Think about that.
Subway going down, at least the area affected under River Drive.
It happens in other cities.
And we get back that other land they have for future development parks.
Some visionaries believe that underground tunnels are the way of the future and highly
congested areas. For example, if you Google, just Google
Elon Musk and his tunnel company, you will learn that he is
developing such tunnels. Show them in on videos. I'm not
qualified to say that this could be the only answer to the
problem of having 22 or more oil tank or trains roaring through
our city and bluff, brokking traffic every day, but it might be
I'm not the expert, I'm not here to tell you anything I am.
This is probably, uh, uh, this is this probably,
oh, I remember I was going to say, we
built the West Side Diversion tunnel for $43 million, big deal, by as long as our downtown
area is, you know, so how much would this, another approach cost?
I don't know, but it's your responsibility to look into it, not ask the railroad what they think.
Maybe a combination of federal state and local private financing could be put together to pay for such a tunnel.
Since the federal environmental report released just a few days ago shows that Scott County and Davenport in particular
will sustain the most irreparable damage of any city by this railroad merger,
I suggest the city asks the surface transportation board for a quote carve out exception for
Davenport and help us develop a more safe and acceptable alternative like a subway tunnel or something better.
Any decision or negotiation has to be a win-win for both sides? This deal is not.
Table it. Listen to our citizens. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
Anyone else?
My name is I Lino Brian. I live at 12 or three in our field court in Davenport.
It's kind of hard to follow after Bill Globa before that. My husband.
But I just want to add also my concern and weight in,
against accepting the merger and the money.
I know 10 million dollars is my sound like a lot of money,
but I think that the city has to do a lot of work to make it work.
So all that money is not going to the city.
It's going to be used to make some repairs.
And I don't even think 10 million dollars a year would be enough.
I just do have grave concerns.
Bill, I think I'm going to say some creative ideas.
I think it should be looked into and table and have lots more discussion.
And I just do feel very strongly against it.
I know it's a big, windy decision.
Someone said you're between a rock and a hard place.
So actually, between the railroad ties.
But it's a tough one.
But please really think long and hard.
And I'd like to preserve our city and rather not have this.
I don't mind educational training.
It's a very nice thing down there.
And here in a bar, the ballpark and the freight house,
But triple it, it's not going to be so nice.
And I have seen, when I like to go to your band's games often,
I have seen when a train was coming, people
jump in across the tracks to try to beat the train.
And then I also want to get the game.
But it's not as young and quick as they are,
but still not a wise thing.
And with the triple, the traffic,
we're going to get frustrated and want to get somewhere.
and they might make rest decisions, so for the noise aspect and the time waiting for trains
and then people may be taking risky moves there to get across the tracks. I worry about,
so please thank you for your consideration. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Anyone else?
I believe there is a total misunderstanding of the proposed merger of these two railroads.
Some people believe the approval or denial of this merger is totally dependent on the approval
of the city of Davenport.
This belief is false.
The deciding approval or denial will be made solely by the surface transportation board.
So, regardless of the outcome of any discussion or vote tonight, it's not up to you.
Now, they talk about hazardous materials.
If you've got hazardous materials going to go from point A to point B,
you want it on a truck? You want it on a rail?
Personally, I would prefer the rail. Now, accepting the compensation agreement that
Canadian Pacific has offered is not an endorsement of the merger.
those two are totally separate. So you can accept, you can accept the compensation, but still
be against the merger. But legally, the rail is not required to give us anything.
So yeah, we can snub them, we can call them names, we can do all that stuff, and then they
can say, okay, job's done, so it's up to you.
Thank you. Anyone else?
Okay. Seeing no one, so I'll make some comments. And I'll ask
Council if they want. So first I, what? I apologize. Is there a motion to approve?
There's a motion a second to approve. Okay. I'll take privilege and say some comments first.
So first I appreciate everybody who came down. We spoke and who certainly is concerned about
So thanks to the public for showing up, speaking, thanks to the City staff, STP staff,
citizens, CP Council, Riverfront Improvement Commission, and everybody that we've engaged
to discuss.
The Service Transportation Board determines whether a rail merger is approved and what mitigation
in the railroad applicant is required to provide.
Not the City Council in the City of Damport, it's the SCP that holds the public meetings
and gathers public input on the proposed merger.
Our prospect process by law is to put this agreement on the public agenda and vote on it at a public meeting.
Tonight is the second night that the public is at our opportunity to speak, and we get a speaker, of course.
Last night.
I believe the City Council's role in obligation is to ensure that our city does not find itself in a position,
where the merger must forward, and we have zero dollars invested by committing specific in our community.
That outcome would be completely irresponsible in my opinion.
We have done our due diligence.
We have provided input to the STP numerous times.
We research the criteria used by the STP to order mitigation.
We research passive outcomes in prior mergers many approved by the STP.
We estimated likely project costs and we engage the STP to get a commitment from
CP to do more than what they will be required by the STP.
The recently released draft environmental impact statement is consistent with our expectations
based on our due diligence work.
In our case, the draft EIS recommends the STP order very little mitigation, not even
quiet zones.
It is essentially says CP would be required to pay the city of Davenport $0.
CP is agreeing to invest in our community more than $10 million and we appreciate it.
that. I appreciate the productive and collaborative work in relationship we have developed
with CP. I appreciate their willingness to engage us. I appreciate the citizens
to engage us and speak out and share their perspectives. At the end of the day, the risk is
do we take the $10 million invest in that money on the riverfront for mitigation or risk the
possible zero.
Summary of the conclusion of the draft EIS Environmental and Pack Study by the Office of Environmental
Analysis.
In Preparing.
During the draft EAS, OER conducted an extensive analysis of the environmental impacts that could result
from the applicant's acquisition of Kansas City by CP. As discussed, based on consultation
of federal, state and local agencies consultation with tribes, input provided by organizations
and the public, and local agencies consultation, and its own independent environmental analysis.
The Office of Environmental Analysis has concluded that, apart from train noise, which could
result in adverse impacts at some locations, the potential impacts of the proposed
acquisition would be negligible, minor, and a temporary.
A time line of what we've been doing, this started for us about November 2021.
We were made aware of public meetings in regard to the EIS for a merger of railroad research
began a river merger in the process in general started and many of us were engaged by week,
every week.
December 2021, staff, we met with Canadian Pacific on overbeer what the high level plan was
for potential merger staff and council members participated in one of the virtual public options
together input on the merger and stated opinion during the public meeting.
Council staff and riverfront and movement commission submitted impact papers to the surface
transportation board with impacts and consequences.
January 2022.
Council and staff met virtually again with the STB
to share a position paper and understand the mitigations.
The STP might offer if the city and CP were not
to come to an advanced settlement.
Staff met virtually was sever and include other potential
impacted cities to review likely outcomes
with an agreement based on precedent of railroad
and there are many.
Council members and staff members with CP Resby represented
to review position and concerns and started point for
negotiations.
Staff hires, we hired a consult, council approve,
hiring a consulting firm to review quite own
engineering needs.
February 22.
Staff continues the analysis and legal reviews
past president likely outcomes.
STB mandates if there is not an agreement.
Based on past agreements with other places.
Council and staff holds second meeting with CP representatives to include me.
March 2022, Council and staff hold third meeting with CP representatives discuss now negotiations
of where we can deal with.
April 2022, staff and council hold second meeting with STB to review the third likely outcomes based on
current status of the draft potential EIS.
Determined that the maximum amount of relief granted by the STB will be a quite possible
quite own estimated cost of maybe $3 million.
Staff continues to work with our consultants, specific to rival mergers to discuss
likely outcomes and based on his historic president.
We received the Council received a letter from the River for Run and Improvement Commission
today, and I'll read.
Community and investment settlement agreement with Canadian Pacific River for Run and Improvement
Commission for people who don't know probably are one of our best partners in how we
do with the River for Run.
Several months ago, along with the City of Damplore, the River Improvement Commission expressed in submitted concerns regarding the proposed murder of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern.
Today, we want to convey our support for the community investment and settlement agreement with Canadian Pacific Railroad Company and encourage the City Council to approve the same.
The Commission understands that through good faith negotiations, many of the concerns outlined below are being adequately addressed with this agreement.
In fact, the desk discretionary $8 million with fund infrastructure related to rail, pedestrian
vehicle noise concern, such as establish a quiet zone for mountain market as well as other
critical projects.
In addition, the $2 million commitment will fund a great separation in South Conquer, which
will allow rail, vehicle pedestrian bicycle to co-exist and must safer in enjoyable environment.
The Red Front Improvement Commission appreciates the work of the City Council and ensuring
that that Davenport's River fund is accessible safe and dynamic destination for other citizens
as a visitor's community.
In reference to the money, the use of the money will be discussed in detail with council, very soon
in future endeavors.
So, again, I appreciate everybody that came and I want to give a little background,
a little timeline, little things that we've been done.
We have been engaged fully with many of our partners, many of our cities, many of the
STP staff in reviewing the history, the participation, the understanding of what the STP
wants to do, what the potential is, what the mitigation could happen, and we believe that
this council this step in CP, we have done our due diligence.
So, if any council member want to speak, I will engage that opportunity.
I see Alderman Grimm.
Thank you.
Thank you, Your Honor.
So, first off, I wanted to thank everyone who came out tonight to voice your concerns.
I can tell that we have a shared love and passion for our riverfront.
I've also received emails from the public concerned about the impacts of the merger.
I assure you that I share those concerns with you.
And it's clear to me that many of you are going through the same mental process
that I went through when I first heard about the intended merger in December.
I mean, really, it nearly ruined my Christmas.
I was so upset about it for weeks thinking about what the impacts would be.
So to be clear, if Davenport had the choice of having seven trains a day or 20, 22 trains a day come through our riverfront, we prefer seven, but to reiterate, we're not voting to approve or not approve the merger, that decision will be made by the surface transportation board not by the city of Davenport.
The process we've gone through since CEP has announced the merger is one of the evaluation risk mitigation and doing what is best for the city of Davenport.
We've looked at the merger process, we've studied past precedent, which there's plenty, set by mergers that have happened in the past and we've looked at what other cities have received in settlements.
And we've had discussions with the STB, we've had discussions with other cities and we've gone through the process.
Here's the conclusions I came to.
The STB is very likely to prove this merger.
Our supporter of Jackson is one very small piece of the puzzle,
and we are very unlikely to be the voice that
sweys the STB one way or the other,
especially in light of our neighboring cities
already reaching agreements.
If we went to arbitration,
we would likely be awarded quite its own only.
After the draft EIS, we changed that to,
we would very likely be awarded $0.
So, certainly we could object to the merger and try to fight it, but the outcome will very likely be the same in a proved merger.
So that's why I've come to the conclusion that the settlement is the best option for the city to get insurance policy.
It gets us quiet zones, something we've wanted for quite some time.
It gives us money for pedestrian crossings and it gives us an opportunity for a great separation at our water pollution control plant.
Is it ideal? No.
Is it the best ideal for the city given the circumstances?
I certainly think so.
I also want to point out that many cities who have come to these agreements with CP put this on their agenda and voted on it before the draft EIS came out.
We very purposefully said we would not put this.
We would not vote on this agreement until the draft EIS came out so that the public would have an opportunity to weigh in,
which is what you are doing tonight, and that was very important to us.
So, if we vote this agreement down, or if we table it, it is highly probable that the outcome
is going to be that the merger gets approved, the data importance is zero dollars, and we
the city are going to be trying to figure out how to fund quiet zones, pedestrian crossings,
and great separations out of our capital improvement budget over the next several years.
Thank you.
Thank you, Adam.
Please call the roll on the motion to approve this agreement.
Condon.
Yes.
Done.
Yes.
Job, Jim.
Yes.
McGinnis.
Yes.
Kelly.
Yes.
Cornet.
Grip.
Yes.
Lee.
Yes.
And Ortez.
Yes.
The Scherner.
Thank you.
The motion passes.
Next item is a motion to prove in beer and liquor license applications.
New license, new owner, temporary permit, temporary outer area.
and I'll read the, all the respective ones
because they're kind of related to the same
and then I'll ask for a motion.
Highby Market Cafe, I'll pause for,
I'll take privilege and pause just,
because it looks like a lot of people are leaving,
so don't want to disturb the interaction with the council.
I thank you very much for your participation tonight.
Even though this is a serious, little one,
might want to listen to this.
Okay, thank you for your indulgence of,
I'll read again.
The High V Market Cafe, High V, 2200 West Cafe Road,
Cafe Air, premises up premises update
to include entire store license type C.
Next one, we'll first want to work to,
Second one's work for, High V Market Cafe,
High V, 2351 West Locustree, Cafe Air,
premises update to include entire store license type C.
Ward 6, High Bay Market Cafe, 40, 40, 60, 40, 50, 30,
premises update to include entire store license type C.
Is there any public with comment?
I think that's all.
Yes, any public with comment on any of those?
Seeing none, counsel.
Very good.
Will Mal, Alderman move?
Move, is there second?
Now is there any discussion?
Alderman, Lee.
I apologize again. Yes, if somebody from HyVy would come up and describe what you're expecting this to
This to create and why you're doing it
My name is Dory Decker, and I'm the district director for HyVy.
My name is Dory Decker
And I'm the district director for HyVy at the U.D. Courage and West Locust 3
Really we're just looking to as we up new as we renew our licenses
we're just looking to look towards the future and at that some point we have like a food
whole concept where there would be seating outside of the cafe area would allow our customers
to sit outside of the cafe area and take you know part of all the food options that we have.
At this point we're not looking to do anything more than that.
I thought you're not expecting to have people walking around the store while they're shopping with
No, that's not what you're aiming at.
No, because if you do that with this approval,
without the, yeah, they could.
That is not what we do.
I guess, specifically, that is not what we're looking for.
It's just having the ability to have seen
the outside of the cafe area.
You did all the way, all the way.
Thank you. All the minorities.
Mike, just sitting down.
Actually, I will.
Yes.
Thank you, Honour.
Well, with that answer,
that changes a lot of my questions, would you guys put some kind of condition?
I just have a lot of concern with when you say whole premise.
Say, I always, somebody that is 22 years old goes by, you know, is there going to be a limit
on how many drinks per person could buy at one time, let's say they buy two jacket coats, for example.
go back to Iowa, give it to their 20-year-old, brother, niece, friend, whatever.
You know, there's just a lot of red flags that I see at this when you say,
whole store or premise, you know, is there something that you would feel comfortable,
maybe, you know, put some conditions on it that would say just outside area.
Only not up and down the food aisles or something, you know,
And then hours of operation, or that could be served.
Lickert could be served, is there, do you have any, is it for all?
Sure, we would follow the same guidelines that we currently follow within the cafe,
which I'm sure are dictated by the rules of operation, as far as individuals that would
take it out.
I think it would be the same kind of come-to-market that we have now, where, I mean,
we take the responsibility seriously in, and there's always folks in that aisle one area,
And again, we don't have the concept to come to the market right now, but in those situations if you can kind of like that whole aisle one area where there's a food options and then it's still very much within that area
the seediness because it's convenient to those offerings.
Okay.
Thank you for your answers.
Thank you.
Thank you, Your Honor.
So the way this reads is that what we're voting on is to be able to have alcohol in the entire store,
but it sounds like the intent of the petitioner is that they would like to be able to serve alcohol and an unenoutdoor cafe,
which we routinely approve outdoor areas for alcohols.
right.
Craig, I believe on the cycle we're proving one for you to
correct an outdoor area.
So if the intent is truly for outdoor consumption connected to the cafe, I really have
no problem with that.
But that's not the way the application reads, what it reads is, and many stores are doing
this nationally, which is we're going to sell alcohol in our store, we're going to allow
people to drink alcohol while we're shopping.
And I won't get you far into it.
I oppose that.
I don't think that's something we should normalize in Davenport.
And I don't want to do alcohol for the entire store.
Certainly, I'm supportive of alcohol for an outdoor cafe.
I think that makes total sense.
But either way, we have a routine process for that.
And we need to, is that the way the petitioner wants to go?
And we could amend it, but I won't support an entire store license as what I'm saying.
Thank you.
All of them, Joe.
Thank you.
All of them, Joe.
Thank you.
Just another clarification. So say, you know, we make the recommendation this evening, not to approve this, um, these license. I mean, does that affect the whole entire license? Or again, is it just specific to, I guess, this particular use without reviewing their file, I'm going to go off to top of my head. I believe this classy liquor license gives them all the privileges that they need, so they only have the one license.
When I was just happening, I'm not sure that we can amend the premises drawing at this point
in the process and have council approve it tonight and amend the drawing.
I'm not sure about that.
So what I would recommend is that we table it a cycle and get a revised drawing on a premises
and you'll see it on the next cycle.
They can continue serving because they're timely filed.
Well taking that cue if there's no other comments then I'll make a motion to table these items for one cycle.
There's a motion and the second to table there's no discussion on a table so Brian please call the roll on the table for one cycle.
Or Tess.
Yes.
Job Jen.
Condon.
Yes.
Kelly.
Cornette.
Yes.
Done.
Yes.
And McGinnett.
Yes.
Thank you.
Very good.
The tables approved.
So I'd encourage, obviously, staff and I'd be to work out the particular drawings
or whatever's needed, right?
Thank you.
Council for the discussion.
Next item is the remotion for approval.
All items on consent.
The gentleman.
Motion is second.
Brian, please call the roll for all items on consent agenda.
Helling?
Yes.
Done?
Quarna?
Yes.
Gripper?
Yes.
Jobton. Yes. Beginners. Yes. Lee. Condon. Yes. And Orteeth. Yes.
Thank you, sir, Your Honor. Very good. Concentrate the proof. The next item is is.
Other ordinances, resolutions and motions. And we have one for this evening. But first we have to do a motion to suspend the rules.
Is there a motion to suspend the rules?
Motion second to suspend the rules.
Brian, please call the rule for suspension.
Coranette.
Greg.
Yes.
Job Jen.
McGinnis.
Yes.
Lee.
Done.
Condon.
Kelly.
And Ortez.
Yes.
There's that one.
Very good.
It's approved.
So now we can discuss the resolution to be at.
And resolution.
Approving the following public ground closure on the list of date time to hold an outdoor
Third, Missionary Baptist Church Fellowship Picnic, 222 West 14th Street, Sunday, August 14th, 2022, 8am to 2pm.
The closures, portion of the North South Alley, West of the Church, between West 14th and West 15th streets, and Harrison and May.
Is there any public with common? Seeing none, we'll all remember the resolution.
Motion in second, any discussion? Seeing none, Brian, please call the roll forward this resolution.
Done. Yes. McGinnis. Yes. Lee. Yes. Jobton. Yes. Kelly. Yes.
Scrip. Yes. Cortez. Yes. Condon. Yes. And cornet.
No, I guess. Is your honor? Very good. That resolution is approved. The next item is there any public
with business for stuff that was not on the agenda. Please come to the podium.
I'd love to know your name, water address. If you're not from here, I'd love to know where
are you have five minutes and thank you. Michael Ross second word. I came up here three weeks
ago talking about the crime in this community. It's been very mute and from what somebody
said to kids driving around 12-hour spray paint and cars. What is it going to take for this council
to address the criminal activity that we have? Do the residents got actually called the Guardian
angels back in this community? We're tired of
it. We're done.
Pop the city down on on curfew.
Have nice old girls, somebody.
Patrol.
Why are eight, nine, ten-year-olds run around in my area at two o'clock
Okay, in the morning,
I've spoken with a 73-year-old elderly lady last week.
She fears for life.
She doesn't want to leave her house or is this going to be another Seattle Washington
where we just let criminals take over
and ask everybody.
Mayor, legal, counsel people,
start draft and bills.
These criminals need to be held accountable.
This catch and release with these juveniles?
Three of them got released last week.
They were back out stealing cars,
two cars up my firm up.
same kids,
campus city, talk to the state, about the judgements, allowing these kids
to go back home,
you have multiple residents on that important place when they were trying
to find out the identity of these two kids.
You have multiple residents that are in tired of it.
They have specifically tanned,
dabbing for police and said,
do something before we do.
Is that what it's gonna take to wake up this city?
I'm a community activist.
If I have to fly to New York to have a meeting
with the guardian angels, I will.
I'm not gonna sit there and let the criminals have their time and day while everybody that sits here.
I haven't heard one thing from you, Mayor.
Evol.
So I'm gonna engage right here, but I'm happy to talk to you after.
But you must not be listening then.
Sorry.
But something's gotta go on.
We've got to take our streets back guys.
Something it has to be done.
Make new laws.
Parenting, I spoke three weeks ago.
Parenting accountability act.
Start listening to the police standards.
The HBO calls.
Handling by officers.
Actes.
Go.
To, you know, have police.
I backed the blue, but start writing tickets. That's all.
Thank you, anyone else?
Jean Saivers, C24, North Main Street, Galvinport.
On the custom notes, I am to public speaking.
I would like to say a few thousand of all chosen words.
No, good news, it won't be a thousand.
I've been a downtown resident for over 30 years.
And I don't know where the time's gone, but I do want to ask the question, one way or two way,
which is a safe way for the downtown neighborhood, the neighbors, and all the pedestrians.
Either way, the right hand turn on red should be eliminated in the downtown area.
It's very dangerous, and Eelsburg has gone ahead and eliminated their right-hand turn on red in the downtown area many years ago.
It's just not safe.
Both the one way, while I was crossing the Third and Brady one morning, I was struck by a car,
which was on Third Street and then turned on to Brady.
I was crossing Brady and had the light as in the crosswalk.
It was eight o'clock in the morning, someone was in a hurry to get to work, I guess.
So the result of that was I was hospitalized for a week, head surgery, and I have some
permanent injury, so which way is the safe way when you're considering the one way
or the two ways, do the research, do the research, the neighbors in the downtown area are entitled to the safe intersection, as are all the pedestrians.
Thank you.
Thank you. Anyone else?
Okay. City ministry, speakers, anything else?
There's not. There's a motion to adjourn.
All in favor to adjourn.
Be safe, drink water.