 Council to order. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day? Thank you, Mr. Mayor, gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. Thank you very much. Today, we have some special guests joining us from Boy Scout Troop 890 is sponsored by Holy Family and St. Clements Catholic Churches. I'd just like to read the names of the Scouts that have joined us today. First of all, their Assistant Scout Masters, Jim Hodge and Tom Aaron Reich, and then the Scouts are Sergio Isidoro, Benjamin Knudson, Robert Tsarasky, Randy Gilmore, Tegan Kevvis, Kyle Fluke, Alexander Gilmore, Tristan Veldorm, Abraham Hopp, Austin Speck, Levi Rona, Jason Ronam, Alex Hirschhoff, Wade Heslank, and Pablo Gonzales. So thank you for being here today. Would you all stand and would the Scouts please lead us in the pledge? Thanks for joining us today. Next we'll move on to roll call. Will the clerk please call the roll? There are ten present. Next we'll move on to the approval of the minutes from our last council meeting, Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to approve. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes. We have one resignation tonight. I'll turn it over to city attorney Charles Adams. Our one resignation is Ray Hain from the board of water commissioners, effective immediately. Thank you, Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to receive and file. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next item 1.5 is Mayor's appointments, city attorney. And the mayor has submitted the following appointment for your consideration, Kay Hill, to be considered for appointments at the housing authority to fill the unexpired term of Donald Terschner, whose term expires April 20, 2020. Thank you and that appointment will lay over till our next meeting. Next, we have a presentation on the downtown grocery market study findings. Chad Pellecek, director of planning will give that presentation. So we hear a lot about the need for a downtown grocery store from a lot of people within the community. So back in March, the city looked at hiring a consultant to analyze if there is enough market potential for a downtown grocery store. So tonight I'm going to walk through some slides as it relates to the findings of that study and some next steps as it relates to that study and then talk about how that might be implemented as we move forward. So in 2019, the city hired Keith Wick and associates, which is a contractor out of Minneapolis that is a grocery store consultant that has over 40 years of experience in supermarket research. Keith Wicks, we had first obtained him back in 2009 to look at the same market, the downtown, to see if there was enough market demand to support a full-service downtown grocery store. At that time in 2009, downtown Sheboygan did not have the supply and demand necessary in order to support a store. So in this study in January of 2019, we looked at three potential locations for that store. One is a city-owned parking lot on Pennsylvania Avenue east of the Penn Avenue bridge, Penn Avenue pub, so between the Penn Avenue pub and the Jimmy John's strip building on the corner of 8th and Pennsylvania, the former Social Security building, which the city owns, and a building on the corner of the intersection of North A Street in Michigan Avenue. So I understand it's hard to read this map, but what you can see from this map is the trade area for a typical grocery store is within a mile. So whatever you have from grocery services within a mile of the location, this shows the outer ring is I think the actual two miles and the inner ring is the one mile radius in that trade area for the downtown there. The downtown is really serviced by eight different store brands within that mile, so that typically is the distance that a person can travel. The longest person can travel to get groceries. This type of store could fit in this area. They're in the market demand within that sector that there's still some cushion, even though there's eight competitors within this one and a half mile radius. So I just want to address this as well. So we hear a lot about the food deserts, and with the closing of Save a Lot on the North A Street, has that created a food desert for northeast Sheboygan. And by definition, the American Nutrition Association says that a food desert is an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good quality fresh food within a mile. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture has a map that you can pull up and you can type in your zip codes and it'll map out whether you have food deserts or not. So this is the map for Sheboygan County. There's a Wilford, the whole kind of central Wisconsin. And what you can see from this is there's a little food desert in that little red box, which is part of the new business park. So in that area should that ever be residential, which it won't be. But in that area, that is the only area within the county and really within the region that has the designated food desert. Places like Fond du Lac, Oshkosh has two food deserts. Fond du Lac has one. I think that's Wopan has a one. So you can look at the whole state and you can determine from this if there's any food deserts by definitions in that you can't provide quality food. And fortunately, Sheboygan does not meet those requirements. So back to the downtown. So the downtown demographics that were looked at in this study projected a 7.79% annual increase or 229 new residents contributing to roughly 10 to $20,000 in grocery needs weekly. And that's determined as the market potential in the spending income that's available. So this is kind of all played into how they make a determination that if there's enough market demand to justify a store, the new store could capture upwards of 20% of the new potential or $2,000 plus from population growth. So basically, they're projecting that there's an increase in residents in the downtown, which we all know with the apartment development and what that income is related to the people living downtown. So this is very difficult to read. I'm not going to read it to you. If anybody's interested in knowing more about the demographic of each of the sites that were analyzed in the trade area, but I will say that the downtown trade area, which is primarily the area from Pennsylvania Avenue to Michigan Avenue, and then kind of that mile out from there, there's 19,761 daytime workers and roughly 1600 businesses in that area. So in the downtown, there is a good amount of people that are both living downtown and people that are driving in to work downtown that would add potential market for a prospective person. So the three sites that we're looked at is this is the Penn Avenue site. It's in the study. It's referenced as site 100. This is a 12,000 square foot footprint around the blue box that sits between the Penn Avenue pub and the Jimmy John's local press building. So this is the reason this site was chosen is number one, it's city owned and number two, it's vacant and it could host a new building in that area. And number three, there's parking potential to the south side of it that is also city owned and operated. In that location, it could support up to a 12,000 square foot store. It has a comfortable parking racial with city owned parking lot and it could house a full service store of 12,000 or an expansion of a food co-op at 10,000 square feet. Site 200 is the Ninth Street location. This is the former Social Security building directly to the west of City Hall. The existing building square foot is 5,000 square feet for conversion. It could be expanded to a 6,000 square feet if the zoning was changed and allowed it to be built closer to the sidewalk. So basically building around the south and east sides of it and it could house up to 5,000 to 6,000 square feet expansion of a food co-op. Site 300 is an existing building, basically directly west of Urbane on the corner of North A Street in Michigan if that was to be redeveloped. That site could house up to a 10,000 square foot store. So what were the findings of the study? The findings of the study support a downtown full service market and cafe type store. So what they're saying is that a full service store would be a store that would offer basically the full gamut of groceries as well as a cafe deli type format. So a lot of the market has shown that there's a need for deli type grabbing goal type of food where you could you could go in there and there would be half completed, you know, take home and warm up meals. You could buy two chicken breasts per say versus a whole bag of chicken breasts. So it's really geared towards the market of the people that are living downtown. Site 100 on Pennsylvania Avenue could support that 12,000 square foot conventional grocery. A conventional grocery would be somebody like Piggly Wiggly or Pick and Save or a Metro Market. It could also serve a 10,000 square foot food co-op store. Site 200, the former Social Security building could support the 5,000 square foot food co-op store and Site 3 could support the 10,000 square foot food co-op. So the other thing that came out of this is yes, there's a market for this type of use but there's also it's going to take some substantial city assistance in order to make their first few years of their performer work. So whatever comes out of these options going forward in order to be profitable, there's going to have to be some type of city incentives to do so. So the next step, so the city and the consultant, we met with three potential leads. Stefano's expansion of his deli and store, so Stefano has recently received Planning Commission approval and Architecture Review Board approval to expand out onto Pennsylvania Avenue basically east of the Legend Lares with a deli type store with some natural organic products and Grab and Go type deli. So that's one option. A second option is working with Teetz's Piggly Wiggly and the corporate Piggly Wiggly staff and working through a condensed version of a larger scale 80,000 square foot Piggly Wiggly kind of shrunk down to a 12,000 square foot to be more of a metro store. And then the third option is to work with Good Side Grocery and see about them expanding. So right now Good Side Grocery food co-op which is on the corner of St. Clair and 8th is about 1500 square feet. This would be a substantial expansion for them to expand into five or six thousand square feet and bring more services and products. So we've met with each one of these groups and presented the findings of the study. We have some leads on, obviously Stefano's option is hopefully moving forward, but the Piggly Wiggly and the food co-op, this is a little bit of a different expansion for them. So it's going to take a little bit more working through the numbers to make those successful. At this stage, I can't sit here and say that there's a downtown grocery store coming next week. This is a challenge that not only Sheboygan has, but Green Bay and a lot of other urban areas have had struggles with downtown grocery stores. At least our numbers are good that they show that there's the potential for a downtown grocery store to be successful, but it's really about trying to recruit somebody and being able to find a location that will serve their needs with parking and the size of the building that they need. So that's what I have on the downtown grocery store. If there's any questions of the common council, I'd be happy to address them. Seeing no questions, Chad, thank you very much for this information this evening. Next we'll have a presentation on our third quarter of 2019 strategic plan action items and critical measurements reviewed by city administrator Daryl Hoffland. Thank you, Mayor Van Restien. This evening I would present an update to the city's action items and related benchmarks. These items were identified in the 2016 approved five-year strategic plan. This is the document that's located on the city's website. In fact, there is a a button on the bottom left corner of the city's home page. As a reminder, the key components of this plan are six focus areas. They include quality of life, infrastructure and public facilities, economic development, neighborhood revitalization, neighbor governing and fiscal management and finally communication. Please note that some of the projects are multi-year in nature. Several in fact have been postponed until calendar year 2020. Staff works collaboratively with internal and external partners for support and improved collaboration and again we attempt to leverage intergovernmental resources in order to maximize savings and improve output. Staff utilizes public feedback for improvement modifications and again we're hoping to add additional benchmarking opportunities and working with other municipalities in order to compare and make sure that we are fiscally responsible. On the handout that was included as part of your packet or on your desk, items that are blue hopefully are easy for you to identify and indicate that we have met or exceeded our benchmarks or accomplished the action item. So let's move on to the first focus area which is quality of life. Again this is for January through the end of September or full three quarters. I'm going to hit some of the so the highlights of this and again if you have any questions along the way please please stop me. First, on line 23 of your spreadsheet it discusses the goal of having traffic radar trailers. The goal is seven. A year to date we've had 17 deployed throughout mostly neighborhood areas. Again as a reminder as all the persons you can make a request for trailers to be placed in an area of concern that you have or your constituents have. Line 24, twice a year the city promotes a prescription drug collection program. Last month in fact was the second of 2019 of the pounds that were collected in addition to those earlier and throughout the year roughly 1,400 pounds of drugs were dropped off. This exceeds the goal by 18 percent. Line 26 of your spreadsheet discusses another important strategy for the city and that is to improve the community's quality of life through enhanced neighborhood involvement. 88 neighborhood meetings of those associations have occurred through September. Last item under quality of life is line 28 a walkability score. This is another indicator of what's important in our community. The city's walkability score is 89 which is just above our identified target score of 88. Another quality of life is the addition of a little over half a mile of additional trails along the ATC corridor. Again this is a project where Sheboygan County is taking the lead and the city is working with them as questions come up. In 2019 three adopted parks. We found community partners so we're 150 percent above our target and also an important quality of life for our community is a service that is offered through Shoreline Metro. Shoreline Metro itself we're at 83 percent of our target through September so clearly we're exceeding our normal goal and Metro our metro buses were at 73 percent that is located on line 40. For infrastructure and public facilities in 2019 for the first time in nine years the city has received new buses. In fact five have been received year-to-date. We're fortunate that 80 percent of the costs of these buses are funded by the federal government. Local share of the cost is remains at 20 percent. On line 59 this identifies the City Hall renovation project we're at 99 percent complete. Public Works staff continues to work on a punch list items or in essence outstanding matters. Line 62 as part of the 2016 city's transportation infrastructure management plan the goal is to have a pavement rating of 6.25. The 2019 rating is 6.01 so we're roughly 96 percent of our goal. This rating occurs every two years so we continue to make advances. Line 63 in 2019 528 trees were planted this is the highest compared to the past three years. Again this is really critical for our community as we focus on tree replanting in light of the emerald ash borer disease. Next is economic development. Year-to-date the city's received 676,000 dollars in room tax this represents 46 of the city's annual target of 1.4 million dollars. Please note that this includes just the first and second quarter. Room tax revenue is delayed in light of the reporting requirements of the different hotels in our community. Quarter number three is actually the largest quarter for our community as far as room tax as you can imagine this represents late summer early fall. It's expected that the annual amount of room tax will exceed our annual goals. The city by state law is eligible to keep 30 percent of the room tax with 70 percent going to visit Sheboygan. On line 77 the spreadsheet identifies the 2019 value of our tax incremental district increment it is at 195 million dollars or 23 increase over the 2018 valuation. In 2018 the value was only 159 million. On line 79 the 2019 value of industrial property throughout the city of Sheboygan did not materially change from the 2018 value which was 189 million. Last on line 80 in 2019 the city saw two new hotel developers taking out building permits Fairfield Inn and Suites and Hampton Inn for a total of is it 120 rooms 200 I'm sorry 200 rooms in addition to adding additional property tax space the city will see a significant increase in room tax revenue in 2020 especially as the city experiences the Ryder Cup tournament and the DNC convention. A neighborhood revitalization is another one of our focus areas. On line 95 this identifies the important part of the city strategy to revitalizing our older neighborhoods which is to improve safety and increase residents' perception of safety. This is accomplished by many different strategies across all city departments including the police department. The city has been successful in obtaining another three-year renewal commitment by the state for 2019 and 2021 for again a beat officer program to fund two police officers. Line 96 a hundred percent of the nine eligible neighborhood associations participated in the spring cleanup event our inaugural event with 23 tons of waste collected in dumpsters. Line 107 year-to-date 122 abandoned vehicles have been towed this is 142 percent of our annual goals. 2019 is expected to exceed the number of vehicles towed as compared to the last two years. The fifth focus areas governing and fiscal management line 113 in an effort to improve employee morale retention and performance the city's holds annual picnics as well as an annual anniversary recognition event. Line 116 the city received recognition by the government finance officers association for its 2019 budget document. In 2019 only 22 Wisconsin communities have been recognized this is Sheboygan's third consecutive award. Line 118 the city has the challenge of operating many legacy software applications which is duplication of the operations and maintenance of an updated or replacement software often a module in our munis system. Year-to-date the city has retired three legacy applications. Line 120 our new munis module that was implemented which played a critical role in our 2019 budget was a budget module. The total number of modules currently in operation are 26. The last focus area is communication. Line 125 the city recently received an award by ARP for its livability Sheboygan community plan. Goals of the plan incorporate several community strategies. Line 130 the city has initiated a relationship in 2018 with ClearGov to share with Sheboygan residents its financial information in a transparent manner. In addition to making financial information available it all surprised viewers with how Sheboygan compares with other Wisconsin communities of a similar population. Social media on lines 133 134 135 139 and 140 the city is fully embraced social media and reaching out to its residents especially with as traditional media sources daily newspaper has waned. Year-to-date the city has exceeded its goal in all forms of social media. Lastly line 143 one of the fire department's critical goals is public education. This is accomplished in part by holding or participating in events such as elementary school events special Olympics station tours and Boy Scout events. Last slide for you again all projects programs purchases and decisions are truly based upon their impact on the six strategic plan focus areas. For more information about the strategic plan again it's located on our website which is Sheboyganwi.gov. I'll entertain any questions or comments that you may have. Older person Sorenson. Okay just a few quick questions Darrell. Lines 51 and then 61 as well. I think 61 is I'm just sort of curious if this is regarding streets and resurfacing is 61 is that we're kind of referring is the last percent and quarter is that just finishing North Avenue. In the past several years the goal has been at minimum 3.75 miles. Okay. You're correct in identifying that we will not achieve that in 2019 specifically because of this sort of the intensity associated with the North Avenue project. Again this project is expected to reopen to the public after Thanksgiving. This is a federally run program so the timing is a little bit delayed again the city has limited control because it is a fairly run project. And then 51 and I guess my question was just regarding if we were anticipating finishing that finishing that in the fourth quarter but I guess not and then line 70 market infill development site. Is this regarding the innovation district? A market infill development sites along Indian Avenue. Of course is that the Badger state law. So I'm just kind of curious what what what the plan was for that one. Why is only a 10 percent. This one more specifically focuses on the block between 9th and I think in 10th street where several buildings were demolished. Purchased purchased and demolished by the city's RDA. The city's in discussions with a developer who hopes to break ground sometime in 2020 on a multiple story office building. Okay cool thanks Darrell. You're welcome. Any other questions? Seeing none thank you very much for that information. You're welcome. Next we move on to public forum. There is no one this evening. Okay thank you very much. Next I'd like to announce that we had a recent retirement from our Board of Water Commissioners so we'll be conducting an election which will be held on our next council meeting November 18th. The term to begin immediately and end on September 30th of 2020. Those interested may contact the city's clerk's office for more information or to send in their letter of intention for that office. Next move on to mayor's announcements. The league municipalities held their annual meeting in Green Bay on October 23rd through 25th. This year we budgeted for all their persons to attend in addition to the mayor. The four that joined me were all their persons Barb Feldy, Rose Phillips, Marcus Savaglio, Ryan Sorensen, and Todd Wolfe. I guess that's five excuse me. We'd like to review some of the takeaways that that I had from the the meeting and also share the opportunity with the other older persons. While we were up in Green Bay they offered a tour of neighborhood development projects. They've assembled many larger sites and been successful in finding developers to develop townhouses rather than smaller homes. Many times it's difficult for a single family home to be built and have it be able to be sold reasonably and this allows them to increase the density in those areas and then make those developers successful. They also use their RDA to augment this multi-home development. They've closed out several TIF districts as we have done with one this year and are keeping them open for one additional year which is allowed by the state and they'll generate 3.6 million dollars for their housing program and this is also managed by the redevelopment authority of Green Bay. We had a session on flooding and they showed graphically that we had 15 more rain events since 1950 than in the past and the reoccurrence of many three plus inch rain events has kind of changed the 100 year flood levels and those haven't really been adjusted and and this was suggesting that they need to do that in the future because these extra rain events have changed that landscape. We discussed conditional use permit changes and they noted that Kenosha has kind of led the way in rewriting their conditional use of permit zoning ordinance to adhere to the new legislation that was passed last year so we're going to take a look at that and see if we need to make some changes in ours. In 2017 Act 243 required cities to file some new reports. They have to file a new housing fee report list all the fees that are charged for building permits, impact fees, park fees, land dedication, fee and lieu of land, plaid approval, storm water fee, water or storm hookup fees and we learned that this is a one-time mandatory report but if it is not finished by the end of the year it prevents us from charging those fees in the future. We met with representatives of the Department of Revenue at the meeting and they're working on legislation that could restore part of our utility aid payments that were lost to Sheboygan when I'm Energy Close Down Unit 3 and 4 and we lost that utility aid payment so we're working with them there still would have to be legislation passed by the legislature to restore some of those funds to us and now I'd like to ask Alderperson Feldy if she'd like to make a few comments. Licker licensing and learned about the different classes that I am on that committee so that was helpful. PFAS which is something new that is now it's a man-made chemical that they've discovered in both drinking and groundwater and the League of Municipalities feels that the municipal government is probably going to be writing more of the laws on this than the state government will so that's something that we're going to be watching out for. How not to become an ethics case study that was interesting very debatable. New legislation affecting municipalities that will be coming down the pike now that we have a new governor and innovative housing solutions which I really found interesting it was a range range of housing choices that treats the needs of all levels of income and some of it was like cottage clusters or municipalities are using larger lots and breaking them into smaller properties they're getting multiple tax base that way instead of just one tax base off of it I found that very interesting so it was a good conference I enjoyed hearing Leroy Butler do the closing ceremony it was interesting to know that he grew up as a child was in a wheelchair and then developed he was the first one to do the Lambeau Leap so that was interesting. Thank you very much for sharing those takeaways next is Alderperson Phillips okay then we'll go on to Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you Mayor I put mine together my notes a little bit different just to kind of help everybody understand for me it it was the 121st league of annual conference of municipalities I was just amazed that it's the 121st so there were many different subjects for the elders that attended could choose from although the decisions on which to participate were difficult having several elders attending allowed for us to kind of pair up and learn together so I found it very positive that we could go into a session together and we could bounce ideas off each other and ask questions accordingly so one of them that I attended was a deep dive on HR resources 101 and being that I'm from the private sector of business I wanted to see how what the differences were from a municipality compared to business so I thought that was quite interesting it was also interesting that the league annual business meeting was the mayor of Gary Indiana and she talked about the benefits that they've done there with housing and different things so she was a really great speaker for us to kind of expand on we also had a little bit of a mock and effective meeting for counsel and it was kind of on a humorous side there were certain people that were kind of positive and some people were negative so you got to see how some characters in other municipalities work together and how team building is very important and good communication and understanding what each person is whether it's the city clerk's position or the city attorney's position or the mayor's position understanding how each of those all work together in running a smooth meeting so it was a fun example with a lot of issues that you know in regards to respect and challenges I also participated in the engineering and public works roundtable I thought that was very effective especially because it allowed a lot of municipalities to ask questions large cities small villages all the different gamut and we could bounce ideas and questions off each other I also there was an exhibit of 104 different vendors so obviously anybody's sharing their wares that participated I also went to levy levy limit strategies and as you guys have heard possibly city of Sheboygan's gone through stuff like you know levy limits and how it how it pertains to taxes so it was interesting to see how other communities deal with that I also went to storm waters and mitigation utilizing suspended pavement you guys would really enjoy that I'm just saying it's really uplifting I'm waiting for the movie so great options for cities that don't have that are have tight constraints kind of like the downtown where you don't have a lot of grassy areas and then what do you do with a lot of a lot of flooding and in communities that want to have trees to make it more inviting the problem with trees is you have to have it you know again spaced to grow things so there's actual ways around that rethinking the GIS informed planning deeper insights I did this because I'm the chair of public works and I wanted to see how other communities are using our the same GIS system that we have and it's really exciting when you sit in a in a room with other municipalities and you find out that we're actually one of the leaders when it comes to technology at least in the public works area so it was really you know kudos to our team in using that type of technology so it's it for me it was another great discussion and it was easy for us to kind of go there and learn and bounce things off each other so thank you thank you for sharing those older person next older persons of aglio thank you mr. mayor when I go to a conference I only look for one or two nuggets to take away and focus on actionable items I spent a lot of time with renew Wisconsin and I learned that in 2016 the federal government approved a settlement with Volkswagen for 15 billion dollars of that 46 million ended up coming I'm sorry 67 million ended up coming to our state and a bulk of that money got spent on getting the new buses that Darrell talked about a few moments ago but we have the opportunity to use the bid and our local government to put in charging stations for electric vehicles and I've already spoken with the chat about that to try and see what we can do to get that into our community using these VW funds thank you very much and last wrapping up is older person Sarnson all right thank you mr. mayor I too attended some similar sessions that previous allers attended as well too I attended the innovative housing solution deep dive so that was a lengthy to our discussion and conversation about what other elders and communities were doing across our states to address the the low housing supply that is impacting all our communities across the state so it's very interesting to hear what some cities are doing regarding updating old land use regulations getting creative with small lot usage and just what they do is zoning to get creative as well too I attended the liquor licensing deep dive so we're not the only city that is hitting our limit constantly so many other cities are struggling as well when it comes to that except Milwaukee they have a bunch more left so we talked about what solutions would be needed for local communities to to overcome some of their barriers and challenges when it comes to handling licensing I attended a breakout session learning about the dignity and respect campaign that is going on in the city of Appleton I think that was very refreshing to hear what Appleton is doing when it comes to diversity and including different communities and different backgrounds making sure that everyone feels welcome in their hometown I had I had the fun experience of helping out the league with their public communications in just media throughout the conference so if you check out their Facebook page my face might pop up a little bit some videos and stuff too and if you check out their league wrap up video you might recognize my voice I got to do the voice over for the video as well too so that was fun and then the mayor and I and Marcus also attended the large community roundtable discussion so this was a great opportunity to chat about different issues that were impacting our state and kind of bounce ideas off of each other I'm just hearing that you know different solutions that communities are struggling with when it comes to addressing the opioid crisis whether it comes regarding innovations innovative solutions to fixing infrastructure and roads and then just different internal issues that were being addressed as well too so I think it was very informative I encourage elders that are new that are older to attend the conference for me this was my third conference it was the first conference I was not the youngest older person at anymore some of you met my friend Trevor Young who's on the Racine City Council he was the youngest now so I had a wonderful time I wrote down a lot of notes so I encourage everyone to attend in the future thank you thank you very much for sharing those takeaways and I want to commend these older persons for taking some time over these three days to attend these these meetings and learn a little bit more about things that we can improve on in the city thank you Shabuigan's forming a complete count committee for the 2020 census we scheduled a training session tomorrow on Tuesday here in the council chambers as this program will be the program for the mayor's neighborhood leadership cabinet who will also be here and we'll be having Tasha Jenkins who's the partnership specialist with the Chicago Regional Census Center to conduct the meeting and the meeting's open to the public and anybody who'd like to learn more about the census are getting involved in the complete count committee please stop in later this week on Thursday the 7th we have our landlord training program taking place that'll be from 530 to 930 at city hall in the room just to the west of this room interested landlords can still get in there's a $10 fee and they just need to call the city planning department to make a reservation and on your desk today is with your budget materials you'll find my 2020 budget memo supporting the budget that has been presented by administrator hofflund next we'll move on to the consent agenda all the person wolf that'll include items 2.2 through 2.16 thank you mayor i make a motion to receive and file all our oaths receive all our c's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on any of the items on the consent agenda seeing none will the clerk please call the roll ten eyes motion passes uh under reports of officers items 3.1 and 3.2 will be referred to various committees under resolutions items 4.1 through 4.6 will again be referred to various committees under reports of committees item 5.1 is rc number 175 of 1920 by the finance and personnel committee to him was referred direct referral ro number 95 of 1920 by the director of planning and development submitting the 2020 business improvement district statement of purpose and budget dated october 1st of 2019 and the bids 2020 operating budget recommends uh filing the document all the person down to you uh thank you mayor i move to receive the report of the committee and file the document thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on the motion all the person sorenson thank you mr mayor um i'm curious uh just as to i know that there's been some changes at the bid um in regarding just some organ organizational restructuring um if any city staff members could just speak to just about um if there's been any feedback from the bid or bid members or businesses in the downtown area or the riverfront um just about the changes and how this is different moving forward uh chat would you like to respond to that you're serving on that committee as a voting member i can't say that i've heard from any businesses either positive or negative on it i think um they're looking at the board is looking at uh just they get a hundred and fifty thousand dollars and spend 75 to 80 thousand on wages and salaries and doesn't leave a lot of money left to do other things so they're looking at how to be more creative with the little bit of money they get but as from the business community i've not i can't say that i've heard anything either either way as it relates to it follow up question sure um i'm just i'm curious too if if there's a lot of expenses in here regarding operations website maintenance um accounting insurance event coordinating marketing business promotion who who's going to be the point person moving forward for that who's going to be executing chad well at this stage the board is response the board is going to be in the executive committee of the bid is going to be responsible for executing those now whether they come to the city to get some service agreements or they go to visit shabuigan to get service agreements and work with outside vendors to fulfill the requirements of what they would have had with paid staff that's going to be their decision as to what they decide to proceed with okay is there any other discussion older person donahue uh thank you um i intend to uh vote for this resolution it's my understanding that uh it is timely uh in order for the bid assessment to be made and and collected by the city i do continue to have some significant concerns regarding the transition from a staff person executive director for the bid which has been in place for a number of years to the the plan that is before us including a budget that is lacking in detail i think would be a charitable way to describe it i understand that the bid board of directors is in a transition period and that hopefully we will get more information i'm i'm voting for this but i continue to have um concerns page five of the proposed agreement indicates the board of directors is going to look to contract with the city for coordination of existing events in the bid maybe they won't but at least they're looking at it including riverfest night market restaurant week and pop-up shops i'll note that not so long ago we transferred our event planning to uh for city green concerts for the fourth of july and i think there are a couple of other events to visit sheboygan i don't believe that event planning is anything that the city number one is particularly qualified to do and number two i'm not sure that we should be spending our limited resources even if we get money to do that from the bid i continue to have concerns so it is my hope that we will continue to get reports that as matters settle down and their uh and the bid board of directors engages in in some some real planning about this really 180 degree change in how they're doing business that they stay in touch with us i just want i i just keep having this vision of you know the the social director on a cruise ship and i don't think that the city needs to be the social director on a cruise ship so enough said but i i'll i'll be paying attention i guess would be a a fair way to put it thank you all the person born thank you mayor this was quite quite a lively discussion at finance and personnel particularly between all the person donahue and attorney gas who represented the bid i have some of the same concerns that uh all the person donahue has my particular concern is who's going to be the staff person from the city that's going to be working with the bid what is the time commitment going to be for that staff person from the city is that staff person going to have enough time to do what what they're asked to do for the bid so i'm also going to support this tonight but i hope it comes back to finance and personnel of the near future for an update thank you thank you seeing no other discussion will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes one no motion passes item 5.2 is rc number 176 of 1920 by the public works committee to him was the referred direct referral resolution number 92 of 1920 by all the persons wolf and sorenson authorizing the emergency slope repair along the shabuagan river near south water street jefferson avenue and recommends adopting the resolution as amended all the person wolf thank you mayor i make a motion to receive the rc and adopt the uh substitute resolution thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion all the person sorenson thank you mike i just like to thank the department of public work staff i know that this has been a lengthy process just for others to be aware this is sort of the the slope of the bank near the river just off of water street and jefferson avenue well behind the school district administrative offices i know that moving forward we discussed just with the ground freezing over getting colder on the ideal time to be doing this would be the the upcoming months so i know it's been a lengthy process but we discussed it at hand at public works so i'll be supporting this thank you thank you all the person born thank you mayor i was i'm gonna address my question to director bevel director bevel i read over the document here on on the repair and it's a pretty thorough explanation but i guess my question is is this going to be in your opinion a permanent solution to this problem or is this going to be a continuing problem not only in that area but other areas along that bank with with the product and the methodology that we've selected this is going to be more of a permanent repair that's what was the debate and took us some time to research given that the steep slope and where the outfall of the sewer currently outfalls on on the bank this product will ultimately create a situation where it's it's a more permanent repair one of the difficulties we had was as we mentioned the steep slope as well as the outfall in the shiboyan river we need to keep the outfall above the water line given with the ice issues as well as permitting and dnr issues with with excavating at that location it's virtually impossible to get equipment we're going to do this from the top down so we'll be removing quite a bit of the intersection to ramp down this slope to safely install the product for erosion control and ultimately providing a good spillway for the outfall thank you elder prusa wolf thank you mere i just wanted to add to it correct me if i'm wrong dav the the actual stormwater sewer the outfall as you called it is dates back to 1926 so that's part of the problem yeah it's it's quite old and it's failed and where it where it's failed is now it's eroded severely the embankment around this area as well as when we get into the intersection money the sewers in that location are from the 20s as well and we will be reconstructing the intersection in the storm sewer network in that area as well thank you for that discussion seeing no other lights on will the clerk please call the roll all eyes motion passes item 5.3 will be be referred to the public works committee under general ordinances item 6.1 through 6.3 will be referred to various committees and then we'll go on to other matters laid over item 7.1 is rc number 158 of 1920 by the committee of the whole to whom was referred rc number 135 and of 2019 by the finance and personnel committee director referral resolution number 83 of 1920 by all the persons donahue and borne establishing the 2020 budget appropriations and the 2019 tax levy for use in the calendar year and recommends adopting the resolution with amendments all the person sorenson thank you mr. mayor i move that the council receives the rc and adopts the substitute resolution for items 7.1 7.2 and 7.3 thank you for that motion and support under discussion i'd like to ask administrator hoffland to give us an update on some of the numbers that have changed in the last week in this document in light of the audience members tonight i guess i'm going to go through the updated numbers as well as a little bit of background the post 2020 budget public hearing was held on monday october 7 before this body the document that has been presented to you the first monday in september has really four basic purposes one is it's a policy document that is defined by the common council as a direction toward which the city is moving it's also a financial plan which defines various sources of funds to be collected as well services programs activity that citizens can expect to be provided the third basic purpose is it's an operational guide for department directors on how programs and activities are structured and finally it's a communication device providing public and other entities with a document defining in lay person's language as opposed to past budget documents which were exclusively numerical in nature as mentioned earlier this budget helps implement the city's strategic plan which is covering the areas 2017 to 2021 and implements the city's five-year capital improvement program the total financial plan identifies a decrease of 25 million last year's or 2019's budget is 135 million in total the proposed 2020 budget is 110 million in total it's a 19% reduction overall for personnel changes the city currently has 451 employees two additional positions are recommended to be created one is a grant coordinator which is funded totally by black grant or tax incremental district funds also the water utility is requesting an additional distribution technician positions that will decrease or be eliminated is a network administrator position as well as two and a half maintenance workers in our public works department keep major public works projects are reconstruction of superior avenue between north 29th street and north taylor this is three tenths of a mile the cost of this project is two million dollars three and a half million dollars of other street improvements will occur surrounding the former tannery or the copely storage building also two million dollars of both sanitary and water main replacement or repair will occur in order to accomplish the goals of the 2020 budget uh 3.4 million dollars 3.6 million dollars of general obligation bonds will need to be issued plus an additional 2.9 million dollars of tax incremental district related projects for a total of 6.5 million overall property tax levy is recommended to increase by 322 387 dollars this is a 1.36% increase the exact amounts are are 23 million 770 487 that's our current levy proposed increases 24 million 92 874 dollars if the associated city's tax rate will increase by 13 cents for a thousand assessed value so for each 100 thousand valued property the taxes will increase for municipal purposes 13 dollars thank you very much is there any other discussion on the motion seeing no call-ins would clerk please call the roll for passage ten eyes motion passes item 7.2 and 7.3 our rc's number 159 and 160 by the committee the whole two was referred rc number 136 and 137 by the licensing hearings and public safety committee and a copy of direct referral resolution number 83 of 1920 by Alderperson's not a human born establishing the 2020 budget appropriations and the 2019 tax levy for use during the calendar year and recommends filing the document Alderperson sorenson thank you mr. mayor i moved to file thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying aye opposed motion passes then we'll go on to other matters authorized by law a call on city attorney adams 8.1 is an ro by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31st 2019 December 31st 2020 June 30th 2020 and June 30th 2021 that'll be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee next we have a contemplated closed session alderperson wolf thank you mayor i make a motion to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in section eight 19.85 sub one sub e wisconsin stats where competitive and bargaining reasons require a closed session related to the possible sale of the city owned property in downtown sheboygan along pennsylvania avenue at 229 south pier drive second thank you for the motion in support would the clerk please call the roll for closed session all eyes motion passes this will end our transmission of our meeting tonight council is planning on a journey in closed session so thank you very much for your attendance and viewing this evening we'll take a three-minute recess and reconvene for our closed session