Iowa City Area Government News and Meetings

Iowa City Update is a weekly video featuring City of Iowa City projects, programs, and events. Topics this week include the Iowa Arts Festival, the summer schedule for the Bookmobile, and your chance to be a citizen scientist. Iowa Arts Festival Summer of the Arts is kicking off festival season with a full weekend of amazing art, live music, delicious food, and family-fun! Learn how you can get in...

Regular monthly meeting of the Human Rights Commission. More videos of Iowa City boards, commissions, and committees are available at https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

Regular monthly meeting of the Housing and Community Development Commission. For more videos, visit https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

Regular monthly meeting of the Senior Center Commission. For more videos, visit https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

Regular monthly meeting of the City of Iowa City's Airport Commission. More meetings are available at https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

Gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Iowa City City Council meeting, generally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month. Click here for the City calendar Click here for agenda and meeting information packets Click here for City Council contact information

Coverage of the Iowa City Council work session.. Live first and third Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Click here for the City calendar Click here for agenda and meeting information packets Click here for City Council contact information

Iowa City Update is a weekly video featuring City of Iowa City projects, programs, and events. Topics this week include details on opening weekend of City Park Pool & splash pads, the Memorial Day ceremony, and employment opportunities at the City. City Park Pool and Splash Pads Time to break out the sunscreen and beach towels! Get details on the opening weekend of City Park Pool and the City'...

Iowa City Update is a weekly video featuring City of Iowa City projects, programs, and events. Topics this week include three free community events to attend: Public Works Open House, AAPI Awareness Festival, and Pedal Power. Public Works Open House Celebrate the hard work and dedication of our Public Works employees during an open house at the water plant. Staff will be giving tours of the plant,...

Regular monthly meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission. For more videos, visit https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

Regular monthly meeting of the City of Iowa City's Board of Adjustment. More meetings are available at https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

A meeting of the City of Iowa City's Parks and Recreation Commission. More meetings are available at citychannel4.com/bcc.

University Heights City Council Meeting of May 9, 2023 was held on Zoom. Minutes and other information can be found on the University Heights website .

Regular monthly meeting of the City of Iowa City's Community Police Review Board. Due to technical difficulties, this meeting is audio-only. More meetings are available at https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

In this webinar, Dr. Jeannette Gabriel examines the immediate and long term impacts of a small, but influential, wave of Jewish refugees into the Iowa City area in the 1930s. The webinar uncovers marginalized history concerning activities in the Iowa City area to resettle a group of young people, intellectuals, and political leaders fleeing Germany and Austria. Iowa City became a hub of refugee re...

Iowa City Update is a weekly video featuring City of Iowa City projects, programs, and events. Topics this week include a community celebration of Iowa City's newest business district, a summer camp opportunity for teens, and a reminder to use your City tree voucher before it expires. South of 6 Launch Event & Ribbon Cutting Everyone is invited to help South of 6 Business District celebrate its cr...

Regular semi-monthly meeting of the Ad Hoc Truth and Reconciliation Commission. More meetings are available at https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

The regular monthly meeting of the Public Art Advisory Committee. More videos of Iowa City boards, commissions, and committees are available at https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

The City of Iowa City's Office of Equity and Human Rights and the Iowa City Public Library partnered to host Book Talk: "Water Tossing Boulders" with author Adrienne Berard via Zoom. A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America's "separate but equal" doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for school desegregation. Why isn'...

Regular monthly meeting of the City of Iowa City's Airport Commission. More meetings are available at https://citychannel4.com/bcc.

Coverage of the Iowa City Council work session.. Live first and third Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Click here for the City calendar Click here for agenda and meeting information packets Click here for City Council contact information

Gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Iowa City City Council meeting, generally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month. Click here for the City calendar Click here for agenda and meeting information packets Click here for City Council contact information

Pauline Drobney reads part of her essay from the book "Tending Iowa's Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future." Drobney is a prairie biologist with four decades of experience in restoring prairie remnants and reconstructing plants prairie and savanna. Held by the City of Iowa City's Parks and Recreation department, the 2023 Native Plant Symposium was an opportunity for attendees to learn...

Tyler Baird, Iowa City Superintendent of Parks and Forestry, explains how he has incorporated native plants into Iowa City's landscape, as well as his own home. Held by the City of Iowa City's Parks and Recreation department, the 2023 Native Plant Symposium was an opportunity for attendees to learn about the beauty, importance, and power of native plants. To learn more about the department, visit...

Carol Davit, Executive Director of the Missouri Prairie Foundation, oversees the operations of the Missouri Prairie Foundation, a 57-year-old land trust, including "Grow Native!", its 23-year-old native plant marketing and education program. She has worked for 25 years in conservation and environmental communications, development, administration, and leadership for private and nonprofit...