 I'd like to call to order the first regular meeting of the Common Council of 2018-2019 Would the clerk please call the roll for the day? There are 10 present Thank you. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress and working together is success Thank you very much We'll begin with the presentation of the national colors by the Sheboygan police department's honor guard Please stand I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Please be seated Next I'd like to invite the musical group Vox to entertain us with a few patriotic songs. Please come forward Ladies, thank you very much Next I'd like to call forward pastor John Putnam. He's a senior pastor of the Pentecostals of Sheboygan County They've recently purchased the South Town Mall and are in the process of moving their church from Sheboygan Falls to Sheboygan John also serves as a pastor And helps for the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department the Wisconsin patrol and also the Secret Service of the federal government Flur is yours an ancient Jewish prophet who once said it is God alone who judges He decides who arrives and who will fall and so as you accept the vote of the citizens Tonight God's hand has been upon your rising and into this prominent all that your role that you're serving in Dale Carnegie once said In relation to giving speeches He said there are always three speeches For one that you actually gave He said the one you practiced the one you gave and the one you wish you gave And certainly as new council members. I think if we tweak this a little bit it could be in reference to your role here There are always three campaigns The one that you embarked on and ran the message that you have Your time that you actually serve and then when you're done looking back on how well did you serve and Certainly tonight as you begin this new council session Let it be said of you for the citizens of Sheboygan that we share ideas Instead of demanding our will and we serve instead of being served That we move forward in confidence not in fear and that we seek the common good of all not just a few Let's bow our heads Dear Lord, I thank you for this evening I thank you for the privilege to be here Lord and I thank you for those God that you have Lord risen Lord and raised to be in the prominent role that they are in I Pray right now Lord a blessing upon the mayor and the city government Lord I pray a blessing on these councilmen and women that God that they would serve well That you would use them that you would protect them that you would bless them as they serve Lord The citizens of this city. I pray Lord as we face Lord the days that are ahead That you would give us a new birth of clarity in our aims responsibility in our actions humility in our approaches and Civility in our attitudes even when we disagree on the fact I pray that you'd bless each and everyone and Thank you Lord for the privilege to serve in this great city in Jesus name Thank you very much pastor Next item we'll move on to is a swearing in of all their person select turn it over to the city clerk Meredith de Bruin Please come and line up Front of the rostrum Where that I will support Wisconsin The next item on the agenda is adoption of the rules of the common council and this will lie over to our first meeting in May Then we'll proceed with the election of the president and vice president of the city council The floor is open for nominations All the person wolf I move that the nominations are received by from the floor voting to be done by closed ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes Be dropped from the list and balloting continue until the one candidate receives a majority Is there a second second? Okay, are there we nominations from the floor? Are there any nominations from the floor? For president all the person Mitchell For president or vice president. This is for president Pardon me, I don't not this time. Okay All their person down here. I now may talk wolf is president Thank you for that nomination. Is there a second second all their person Ryan flesh. Is there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? I Entertain a motion to close nominations and cast a unanimous ballot make a motion to close the ballot second and cast unanimous ballot. Yes, the unanimous ballot. All right All right, is there a second to that second other person savaglio Okay, nominations are closed and we all those in favor of the motion on the floor. Please signify by saying I I Opposed Congratulations, all the person wall Okay, next we'll go into a vice president nominations all the person Mitchell I'd like to nominate all the person and trust her for the position of vice president Okay, is there a second? All right, that nomination is on the floor for vice president. Are there any other nominations? I nominate Maryland on here Second is there a second? Okay, we have two candidates. Are there any other nominations? accept the motion to close nominations and begin balloting I Make a motion to close the nominations and Collect the balloting Thank you for that motion Will we please distribute the ballots other person Donahue? Congratulations Next move on to election of two representatives on the capital improvements commission Alderperson Wolfe I move to that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if one or more to then two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and Balloting to continue until one candidate receives the majority Is there a second Alderperson Donahue? Are there any nominations? the office Capital improvements commission all the persons of Aglio. I move to nominate Maryland Donahue Is there a second? Okay, we have one candidate. Do you accept Maryland? Okay, is there any other nominations Alderperson Donahue? I understand this is for two positions and Therefore I nominate Alderperson Red Flesh Second Very good. We have a second candidate and you accept also. Yes, okay Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Alderperson Wolfe I'd entertain a motion to close nominations and a unanimous ballot I move that the nominations be closed and the city and the city clerk be instructed to cast unanimous ballot Is there a second second and all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed we have a unanimous ballot Congratulations to both of you next move move on To election What we'll call a recess. I'm sorry City planning is yet, so we'll have an election for city planning commission position Alderperson Wolfe I move to not I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by his closed ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated a candidate with the lowest number of votes to be dropped from the list and Balloting to continue until the one candidate receives it receives a majority Is there a second second all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed Nominations are open Alderperson Wolfe I nominate Jim boran Thank you very much We have one candidate Alderperson Donahue. Did you have your hand up? Okay? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? All the prison wolf I moved that the nominations be closed And the city clerk be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for all the person Jim boran All those in favor of the motion signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes Next we'll call a recess to elect the chairman of the committee the whole and I invite council president Todd wolf to take the front of this chair All right, I moved I moved that the nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes Be dropped from the list and the balloting to continue until the candidate one candidate is received Is it there's a second? Thank you for that second There will be nominations from the floor Mary Lynn Second Is there anybody else to ask two more times? Is there any other any additional nominations? Any additional nominations? All right seeing none all in favor I Any opposed? Congratulations Ryan all the person wolf. Would you please report on the election of the committee the whole chair person? I'm so sorry I move that the nominations be closed and the city clerk be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot for alder person Ryan Sorenson for the committee at all Congratulations alderman Sorenson Next we're going to go on to a couple of Speeches and messages the first would come from our president of the council Todd wolf. Todd. Did you want to take the rostrum? Feel like I'm in the corner. I'll try to keep it short like last time Thanks, I want to thank thank you all for supporting me in this position of council president We are embarking on a historical path with a reduced council Not to mention a group of highly talented and youthful in the understandings of the city government I want to thank the city and the managers for continuing to support in supporting the council through educating and better To better understand and allow us to represent our constituents It's very important that we reach out to our management the city management when we have Constituent problems. I want to to also thank my beautiful wife and daughters that unfortunately weren't available tonight That continued to support me in a positive in the position as alder They see daily the many hours That we dedicate in this position and also the good the bad and unfortunate ugly that that is associated with this position but We have so much to be thankful for So our great community of citizens that have voted us into this into these older positions We our great community and citizens Have done this because they have faith in us and they believe in the direction that we're going to be honestly Moving forward to move the city We have so much potential in improving the way we live work and play We need to reflect on the past so that we do not make the same mistakes But to be responsible in driving growth But this is through responsible budgeting and management in our spending to maintain our double a to It's so important that we understand the magnitude of that of that and how proud we should be on that on that budget rating We need to be open to the needs of the community and understand that our passion and our personal opinions need to be kept in check With trust and honesty on all subjects and sometimes it's difficult for us, but we need to lean on each other We need to be respectful and counsel as well as in the public and show a high level of professionalism as well We need to lead with direction as this is what our constituents need to in expect I'm grateful and thankful for this team So, please feel free to reach out to me and to others within the group with questions as we move forward. Thank you Next I'd like to recognize Committee the whole chairperson Ryan Sarnson Mayor van der steen city administrator hofflin city clerk to Bruin city attorney Adams council members department heads and Fellow shabuiganites. I want to thank you for entrusting me to be the committee the whole chair I think that this year we have a fantastic group of alderman I think we all have a shared vision of moving this city forward And I hope that we all can work together to make sure that shabuigan is a great place to work I'm gonna really keep my comments short today because I didn't prepare any statement because I wasn't really anticipating speaking But I do think that Over the past year on the council. We have had some big items on our agenda from the cholera annexation for the golf course From the armory discussion that has happened over the past few months And I think that this next year we're gonna have a lot of Fantastic items come forward with us. So my vision for the committee the whole and for this council is that we have fought thoughtful Discussions educated discussions that we're all working together to make sure that our city is a better place for everybody to live Play and thrive. So thank you guys for it. Thank you all for entrusting me to become the whole chair I hope that we all do a fantastic job this year. Thank you Next item is public forum. Do we have anyone signed up? There's no one this evening. Okay, thank you Next we'll go on to the mayor's message City council members shabuigan residents 2018 promises to be a strong year for the city of shabuigan We just finished the historic election as we reduce the city council from 16 to 10 all their persons This included the first time in well over a half a century that the entire council was up for election in the same year All their persons elected to resent the represent the even number districts will serve for two years and the all their persons Elected to serve the odd number districts will serve for one year and this arrangement will return us to the past practice of having half Of the city council up for elections every year in the future I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the candidates that ran spirited campaigns for their offices Tonight we welcome three new members to the city council Rose Phillips Dean Decker and Trey Mitchell And I'm looking forward to working with them and all of you to make shabuigan someplace better Tonight we're going to remember some of the accomplishments from the past term and look forward to opportunities for the next council year But they just want to review the latest numbers that showed shabuigan's unemployment rate is 2.1 percent We're tied with Madison and wassa is with the lowest unemployment rates in the state of Wisconsin There are currently thousands of jobs open in our community in shabuigan in shabuigan County the city Is one of the top 10 manufacturing towns in the United States and the top 10 factory town with the lowest unemployment Shabuigan has 34 percent of their population employed in manufacturing, which is tied for fourth highest in the nation Last year shabuigan took the first steps to address the shortfall in market rate housing and there were 169 new apartment units That are occupied now in the shabuigan squared business district downtown and south pier shabuigan also supported the founders club the home with their theory remodeling of the retirement home Into place for interns and hospitality employees were which are employed by shabuigan businesses Even with the addition of these new new units. There's still a critical 1% vacancy rate for housing in shabuigan The high-point apartments are under construction with 91 units and will soon be open for occupancy in another 41 unit apartment complex and the former Nino site will soon have a groundbreaking Shabuigan was the 11th city to join the green-tier communities of Wisconsin the 2017 city of shabuigan sustainability annual report detailed a number of Accomplishments that have been achieved by that committee the sustainable shabuigan task force focused on four goals to provide recycling education to elementary schools provide To students in shabuigan to make rain barrels available to residents to promote Composting to remove food waste from the garbage system and to promote sustainable water initiatives Shabuigan also continued to upgrade municipal lighting to LED bulbs And we were awarded a focus on energy grant to upgrade the lighting along the shabuigan river When you live in shabuigan, you live in a great city in a great neighborhood We now have seven neighborhood associations that are managed by the neighbor's mayor's neighborhood leadership cabinet And I thank the members of our neighbor shabuigan neighborhood pride for all their work to develop these new neighborhood associations We further leveraged our neighborhood revitalization efforts by adding a second code enforcement officer and a second beat cop They follow up on problem properties and keep our neighborhoods clean maintain clutter-free and safe In addition to quality neighborhoods shabuigan businesses are growing and investing in industrial commercial and residential projects There is a hundred and sixty million in new construction that was completed in 2017 The assessments for these new constructions has increased tax collections by one point nine million and seventeen and expected to increase by an additional seven point six million in 2018 the next Next week on April 23rd We're gonna have a groundbreaking ceremony at one o'clock for the South Point Enterprise campus shabuigan's business park expansion The first phase will see the development of a hundred and fifty acres streets Water lines and sewers will all be installed to accommodate future business growth Last year parts of the Memorial Mall were demolished to make way for a new Meyer Foods location And that structure construction should begin this summer Funding of the resurfacing our city streets is a priority and last year shabuigan department of works the public works Completed one of the most aggressive street resurfacing programs in the last decade In the last ten years we averaged about two miles of streets that were resurfaced every year more recently It got a little bit above three miles of streets But with new sources of revenue and the use of a new paving machine by our DPW staff We were able to reserve six point one miles of streets in 2017 that new paving equipment and the purchase of asphalt from shabuigan County Highway Department We can extend the dollars that we have available for street resurfacing in 2018 we've we've scheduled another aggressive program calling six point five miles of streets to be resurfaced Our police department continues to bring a strong focus on community policing The strategy has produced a significant decrease in part one crimes again in 2017 Department also added that second beat cop to strengthen our north side neighborhoods Last year we completed a convert a conversion to county dispatch for all nine one one Emergency calls and this will eliminate the transfer of cell 9-1-1 calls from one dispatch center to the other and the all Dispatch operations and now consolidated in the shabuigan County law enforcement Center The Harbor Center master plan was a collaborative effort with shabuigan squared businesses in the city The encore apartments are almost filled with downtown residents in the area will be known as that's known as a city green We'll soon host the leaven amp concerts this summer and other new programming is being put in place Over the over century old city hall will be restored and remodeled beginning in mid-may The departments that see frequent use by the public like building inspection planning city clerk and finance We'll all move across the street to the former social security offices the last week of April All other city offices will move in early May to the shabuigan County highway department offices located next to the police department This is anticipated that the city hall project will be completed in October of 2020 2019 excuse me The new a new skate park at Kiwanis Park is now finished and is being used by the youth of shabuigan This project we split replaced a skate park that was removed over three years ago a New Taylor Drive bike trail was finished last year in another bike trail will be added soon along the Alliance energy transmission corridor these shabuigan County non-motorized projects give us improvements to benefit the residents on the south and the west side of shabuigan. I also Think we should would look for the city to set up a bike share program this year And we hope that these non-motorized improvements will allow shabuigan to be recognized as a bike-friendly community. I Would like to think all of our city employees for their hard work each and every day I'm so appreciative of all the work that they do and for their service to the city without all of them We could not be the great city. We are today last year We launched a city monthly newsletter the shabuigan insider this e-newsletter allows us to highlight the accomplishments of city staff and increase our communication with our residents Thank you to all the volunteers who serve on city committees or participate in our community in many different ways It's their contributions that make our city great It's my honor and privilege to serve the people of shabuigan as your mayor I'm proud of what we've been able to accomplish in the past and look forward to a very successful council term May God bless each of you and may God bless the city of shabuigan. Thank you Next item is resolutions item 2.1 is resolution number one of 1819 by Alderperson wolf requesting that the mayor reactivate various special committees for the 2018-2019 council year Alderperson wolf, thank you mayor. I make a motion to pass the resolution second. Thank you for that motion and support Is there any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor signify by saying aye. I opposed motion passes The last item for today is to pass out the appointments These will be voted on our meeting next Monday I just want to thank you to all the all the alder persons for filling out the surveys Those were a big help in putting these together And I'm proud to say that everyone was able to get their first choice for a committee appointment. So With that I entertain a motion to adjourn Make a motion to adjourn Thank you for that motion and support all those in favor of adjournment, please signify by saying aye. I Opposed we stand adjourned. Thank you very much