THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 Tuesday, July 8, 2008 INSIDE UI BENEFITS Complicated was the word of the night at Idyllwild meeting. Ire rises Forum discusses Future Hawks possible changes take center stage to UI employee- Despite losing their Prime Time game Monday, Aaron benefits packages. Fuller and Anthony Tucker put on a show for fans in By Melissa Brownrigg North Liberty Monday. THE DAILY IOWAN Sports, 10 Wary UI employees voiced their concerns about benefits changes The ultimate test that could cost some thousands of dollars a year at a tense meeting Take our Iowa athletics quiz Monday. and see how much you At the public forum, many know about Hawkeye sports expressed confusion and others from the past year. shock at the amount their benefits Sports, 10 package might decrease under a Funded Retirement Insurance Diving with the Committee proposal. The common question raised by world’s best Lindsey Walters/The Daily Iowan UI employees was, “Who will ben- Former Iowa diver Nancilea Jessica McAllister answers a question regarding her nomination for director of the Board of Directors of the Idyllwild Homeowners efit from this program?” Underwood-Foster qualifies Association during a meeting at the Coralville Public Library on Monday. The homeowners are in favor of putting off rebuilding in Teresa Lopes, an associate edi- for the tor at the UI Public Policy Center U.S. hopes of receiving a buyout from FEMA. at the UI, said the new proposal is Olympic like a salary cut. diving “They’re saying it’s fair, but they team and are using such catch words as will com- ‘choice,’ and that sets off a red flag pete in No easy road for Idyllwild for me,” she said. “This represents Beijing a a huge pay cut to my family and month Tom Gelman, who served as an Federal Emergency Manage- everyone I know.” from now. By Alyssa Cashman Underwood adviser. ment Agency. They told the resi- Richard Borchard, a cochair- Sports, 10 THE DAILY IOWAN Idyllwild to Ex-Hawk According to Iowa law, a deci- dents that the process would be Idyllwilderness? man of the retirement-insurance Frustration and confusion sive vote must be made within a long, and a final buyout plan SEE BENEFITS, 3 Point- reigned at the Idyllwild Home- month of the flooding by the would not be completed for over The owners of homes in owner’s Association meeting homeowners in order to keep a year. Idyllwild must either Counterpoint Monday night. the board of directors up and The residents have the option rebuild or seek buyouts Who benefits to ask Iowa City officials to sub- Should the Renewable Fuels At the Coralville Library, running. That date, July 12, from the federal govern- The Funded Retirement Insurance approximately 100 people filled mit buyout applications to Standard be waived to aid loomed as homeowners and lone ment through FEMA. The Committee is pushing for these a meeting room to discuss the board member Phil Zell strug- FEMA, but they won’t know gas and food prices? buyout process is long: changes: Opinions, 4 possibility of a federal buyout as gled to reach a compromise. how much they will get for their • First, the residents would well as whether they wanted to Philip Reisetter and Jay Stein property until the plan is fin- • Increase coverage for married UI have to push for the city to employees from 75 percent to 80 percent start the long and expensive were two of the more outspoken ished. include their homes in its Record Reviews “There will probably be more • Decrease long-term disability insur- task of rebuilding. homeowners, urging the group application for buyout Beck, Albert Hammond Jr., After the three-hour meeting, to delay the decision on whether demand than allocations avail- ance from 70 percent to 60 percent able,” warned Jeff Davidson, the funds to FEMA. • Each employee receives $90 per and Melvins don’t dip below many heated arguments, and to rebuild until more informa- • If the city does include input from nearly 20 different director of Iowa City Planning month for credit toward uncovered three stars. Arts, 5 tion on costs was available. Idyllwild, the application people, the group finally decided Gelman and another lawyer, and Community Development. health expenses wouldn’t go out until to delay making a decision on Joe Holland, also warned the The council has to submit a • Offer a $200 per month incentive to September. Voyager 2 makes the rebuilding, as well as to keep residents against making hasty final application to FEMA by employees who use insurance out- science history the Board of Directors intact. decisions. Sept. 12. Afterwards, it could • After that, FEMA could side of the UI “To lose the [board] would be The residents heard from take up to six months for FEMA take up to six months to • Those who don’t use UI dental insur- The solar wind termination the worst thing that could hap- Iowa City officials about the respond. ance receive $25 per month for credit shock research it has pen,” said Iowa City attorney buyout program through the SEE IDYLLWILD, 3 • Employees who choose $50,000, affected was pioneered by UI or less than two times their salary, in physicists. Metro, 2 life insurance receive $40 per month for credit Gas prices push employees to find alternative transportation Down on the Main Library to reopen UI employees ride bikes and employ carpools to beat Campus workers are getting further along in the cleanup. rising gas prices. Metro, 2 floodplain By Olivia Moran THE DAILY IOWAN dailyiowan.com Iowa City floodplain maps, updated The UI Main Library will reopen Wednesday, roughly three For photos, videos, audio, blogs, in 2007, are not likely to change. weeks after the crest of the flood, and more, check us out online officials announced Monday. By Adam Sullivan Federal Emergency Manage- at: dailyiowan.com A group of library and UI ment Agency. Those maps show THE DAILY IOWAN administrators met at 10 a.m. the statistical likelihood that a Daily updates Monday and determined that the Government officials aren’t body of water will rise into a Now check back at library will run on normal sum- adjusting their floodplain maps, certain area. dailyiowan.com during mer hours. despite two “once in a lifetime” For instance, areas in the the day for the latest news UI spokesman Steve Parrott floods in 15 years. 100-year floodplain face a 1 per- on the UI and Iowa City. “Just because a community said the library’s neighbors — cent chance of flooding in a the Adler Journalism Building has a flood bigger than the flood given year. shown on a map doesn’t mean and the English-Philosophy WEATHER “It doesn’t show the biggest Building — will not reopen this you’ll get a new map,” said Bill flood that ever happened or the summer. EPB will reopen in time Cappuccio, a representative of biggest flood that could ever for the fall session, but Adler the Department of Natural Lindsey Walters/The Daily Iowan happen,” Cappuccio said. “It’s won’t be available until later in Resources’ Flood Plain Develop- Storm clouds roll over the blocked-off Main Library on Monday. just the flood that has a 1 the first semester, Parrott said. ment Program. University officials announced Monday that the library will reopen percent chance of occurring.” Classes in Adler are in the Floodplain maps are process of being relocated, but Wednesday. Partly sunny to somewhat compiled and published by the SEE FLOODPLAIN, 3 cloudy, breezy, 40% Associate Provost Barbara other campus buildings, includ- dehumidifying the buildings and Eckstein said university offi- pumping water out of the lower chance of rain/T-storms. ing the entire Arts Campus. cials are planning for all differ- Adler also lost power that day. levels, attempting to save the © Floodplains ent scenarios. Water had filled the adjacent sec- underground utility systems. 86 30 C 61 16 C (representation of flood probability) “We’re making [at least] two tion of Iowa Avenue at the time, This can sometimes be the © The probability of a floodplain flooding in any given year: sets of plans: plans without those fewer than 100 feet from EPB. biggest problem, Eckstein said. INDEX 10-year floodplain: 10 percent chance of flooding in a given year buildings, plans with those build- Only days later, the basements Although most of the water is 50-year floodplain: 2 percent chance of flooding in a given year ings, and plans with one of them of both buildings plus the base- out of the basements, she said, Arts 5 Opinions 4 100-year floodplain: 1 percent chance of flooding in a given year and not the other,” she said. ment of the Main Library were the cleanup can be difficult. Classifieds 8 Sports 10 500-year floodplain: .02 percent chance of flooding in a given year Adler and EPB were evacuat- flooded. Crossword 6 Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ed on June 14 along with 11 Since then, workers have been SEE LIBRARY, 3 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan Volume 140 Issue 21 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey. .335-5788 Fax: 335-6297 Editor: Pump prices = travel choices Emileigh Barnes. ... .335-6030 CORRECTIONS Managing Editor: Call: 335-6030 Nick Petersen . .335-5855 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editors: Rising gas prices are forcing some UI employees to accuracy and fairness in the reporting Dean Treftz.