 meeting of the 2013-2014 Common Council to order. Will the clerk please read the quote for the meeting? Thank you Mayor. Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit of form. Its rewards are inestimable. Thank you very much. Next would the clerk please call the roll. 12th present. Alderman Lissard and Alderman Carlson are excused. Alderman Vercy and Maddichick are not. Next will please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes from our last meeting. Alderman Hammond. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I move to approve. Second. It's been made. The minutes are before us for any discussion. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll. 12 ayes. Next we'll go on to Council Appointments. City Attorney. Sustated today. I hereby submit the following appointment for your consideration. Sean Hurley to be considered for appointment to the Sustainable Sheboygan Task Force to fill the unexpired term of Josh Eldridge whose term expires for 2018 signed by the Mayor. And Randy Schwer to be considered for appointment to the Mayor's International Committee to fill the unexpired term of Susan Kirschner whose term expires for 2018 also signed by the Mayor. Alderman Hammond. Thank you Mr. Mayor. First off I'd make a motion to suspend. Is there the suspension is before us? Can we need to vote or just all those in favor of suspension please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes under suspension. Thank you Mr. Mayor because there's meetings coming up that's why we're suspending and so I would make a motion to confirm both appointments. Second. Thank you for that motion and second those appointments are before us. Is there any discussion on them? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll. 12 ayes. And City Attorney we have one additional one. Right and for on confirmation of appointments Rebecca Clark to be considered for appointment to the Sustainable Sheboygan Task Force to fill the unexpired term of Vicki Hall representative from Environmental Group whose term expires for 2018-2014 signed by the Mayor. Thank you Alderman Hammond. Thank you Mr. Mayor again moved to confirm. Second. Moved and second to confirm the last appointment. Any discussion? If not will the clerk please call the roll. 12 ayes. Next we'll move on to the public forum. City clerk. Yes this evening we have two on public forum. First one would be Kyle Blindauer. Is Kyle here? Kyle could you come up to the front please? And Kyle I need your home address please. 1204 Cooper Avenue. Cooper? And we'll have five minutes sir. Okay. I'm here to discuss the Sheboygan rail trail project. It was supposed to be up for vote in the Common Council this week but that got held at the Department of Public Works meeting last Tuesday. Currently it will be on vote tomorrow in the Marine up Parks and Forestry Commission. It will be coming back here eventually so I figured tonight's as good night as any to discuss it. I have a little bit of history I can pass it on to the members they can read that and then I'm just here to educate you on the vote. I'm I was concerned when I heard that they're considering naming it the Sheboygan trail. I thought that was a not really thought out. The railroad helped build the city and I think that we should name it something the trail something related to the railroad to give us some justification. Like I said I have a history I can pass out and then you guys you can read that. I wanted to just leave that with a clerk we'll distribute it later then Kyle thank you. And next on the list would be Colin Cachal. Colin you want to pull the mic up a little bit people are having a hard time hearing so you need to talk right into the mic. Alright Colin Cachal 321 Bluff Avenue. Okay you may have five minutes. Okay I know that the topic of concern tonight is the new mid-lake management of the Wildwood softball softball park. They are asking for the same thing that the Armory Foundation is. This is the chance to prove themselves with a one-year lease. We are asking for the same thing but for only nine months. The Armory Foundation asked the council to approve our request that we submitted so that we can have a direct dialogue with public works next Tuesday and hopefully get started preserving improving and providing enjoyment at one of Sheboygan's most beloved buildings. Our softball season starts now and we need you to help jump start our season so we can prove to you that the Armory Foundation represents all the citizens and visitors of Sheboygan and will help improve the quality of life in our downtown district. Thank you. Thank you Colin. That's it for public forum. Thank you. Next we'll move on to a presentation of the Next Door Neighborhood Network program presented by City Development, Chad Pellecek. So while Dave's setting that up I'll just give you a little introduction. What we're going to talk about tonight is a new online private social networking system called Next Door that the city has partnered with out of a company in San Francisco. There's been some email correspondence to department heads and older persons on this but what we wanted to do tonight is go through a quick PowerPoint presentation and show the public what this tool is and how this would work for communication. This is very similar to Facebook. The only difference with this is it's a secured private social and you have there's social networking site in you in order to be a part of it it's the city's been divided up in the neighborhoods and in order to be a part of it you need to you need to either there's three different ways that you can sign up it's either through phone mail or by putting your credit card number in and they verify your address that you actually live in that neighborhood. So what we what what it is is it's really a communication tool from really the city side of things and we've been doing a lot of neighborhood meetings with the police department planning department in the Sheboygan neighborhood pride group across the city for the last three years or so. This tool is really a kind of another means of it won't necessarily take over the neighborhood meetings but it would be another communication tool for the neighbors to can talk about issues and happenings within their neighborhood it is also is it working it's also a means of communicating it's also a means of communicating and awareness between the neighborhood members so we we're looking at it from the city side of things is another tool of trying to communicate with residents of this community the in the neighborhood it's a communication tool between the residents themselves and they can talk about a number of things it's all privately held as city government we can't see any of that we're just going to be using it as a means whether it's the police department or the DPW or just regular city administration pushing information out there similar to what we would do with a twitter account on our website so as you can see here i'm not going to read through it but there's three ways of being come up part of them methods of being in the neighborhood it's either a postcard with a unique code sent to the home address a phone call listed to read the registered home address or like i said a credit card billing what we've done is map the city out into neighborhoods and identified key people within those neighborhoods so we've done the first bullet point mapping the city and we'll show that to you shortly we've used the police neighborhoods as a tool for kind of breaking our entire city down into smaller neighborhoods we've recruited members and these are founding members these are the first people in the neighborhoods that really are the legendary people if you want to say the founding members that really start the dialogue in the neighborhood and kind of get their other neighbors on board to start the process we've sent out emails and and correspondents to about 850 to a thousand contacts that we had on either the police department's contact list or the city development's contact list and got interested people from a number of neighborhoods to start this process tomorrow we'll actually be going live with next door there'll be a press release going out about our partnership with next door and it's really the phase of launching this to the entire city and allowing the city to start posting information into these neighborhoods so what we're looking for is if the for example if the public works department has a particular garbage schedule that's behind and they want to just notify a specific group of people within the city we can do that if there's a water main break or there's a road construction project happening in a neighborhood we can just pick out a particular neighborhood and notify the neighbors in that area versus the entire city so what i wanted to do is just show you a minute video if i can get this to open this is a this is an introducing next door that's off their website and it kind of gives you a little bit more specific information as soon as this people don't know their neighbors or how best to contact them it's difficult to ask for help and advice without being a bother next door changes all that with free and private neighborhood websites that make it easy for neighbors to connect and talk about the issues that matter it's an online place where you and your neighbors can ask questions stay in the know and exchange local help and advice here you can meet your neighbors get recommendations for local services and learn about neighborhood events whether you want to spread the word about a new park find an owner for that bookcase in your garage or be alerted of recent crimes in your area next door makes it easy to keep up with everything going on in your neighborhood all recommendations are organized and archived so next time you need a trusted dentist or electrician you can find a great one in seconds next door is a secure website where all members must verify that they live in the neighborhood you can be confident that your communications stay within a trusted environment designed just for you and your neighbors getting started is easy with just a few clicks you can get up and running with next door for your neighborhood as your neighbors join the website you build a stronger and safer neighborhood when neighbors start talking everyone benefits to get a next door website for your neighborhood go to nextdoor.com so so this is kind of um this is an example of a neighborhood where you can see the different parcels the colors that are in our red are in this neighborhood this is an example but the the neighbors the colors that are in red are people that have joined this neighborhood that's what we're hoping to get this is really geared towards we've got parcels about 600 parcels in each neighborhood some neighborhoods are a little bit larger um so we've kind of seen this as a communication tool but this is really the shabuigan city you can see all of the neighborhoods that have been mapped out there number of areas have been kind of put together to make them a little bit larger but the majority of them are neighborhoods that the police department has we've currently under the green have 13 neighborhoods on the north side that have launched that means that they've got at least 10 members in the neighborhood and they're communicating on a on a daily basis as a private networking 15 neighborhoods the ones in gold or yellow those are neighbors that there's a founding member and there's they don't have the 15 members yet but they're working on it and every day neighbors are inviting neighbors and they're continuing to build that to get to 10 neighbors to be able to be in the launch category and 28 under the red are unused that means there hasn't been really any interest in those areas and and I think you know I I'm we're willing to work Nancy Maring in our office is a new employee she's been working really hard on this and understands this and if you live in a south side neighborhood and you have an interest in this as you can see from the map there is not a lot of launched neighborhoods in that area so we would be willing to work with you in you know the south side area that obviously the north side area has really taken off we can see who's we can see the number of members that are in it we can't see who the participants are we know who the founding member of that neighborhood is and that's about all the information that the city sees we don't see anything on the private social networking that's happening that happens between neighbors but it's like I said another communication tool so tomorrow we're actually going to be announcing this partnership with next door and really opening this up this is kind of a precursor really opening this up to the entire community as a networking communication tool I've talked about it similar to Facebook but it's more about verifying your addresses to participate and you know like I said if you've got a if you live in a neighborhood and you're willing to come on and be part of it I we think it's another great tool to kind of communicate what's not going to take over neighborhood meetings but it's kind of that in between thing to keep talking about issues and things that might be happening within the neighborhood a lot of people ask well how this is free there's no cost to the city there's no cost to the resident and they ask how do they do it they their business plan is to work with local businesses on advertising just like a lot of other businesses do and bring on some local advertising as part of this as we move forward so well you can get to it off the city's website and then we're really just linked into nextdoor.com and they'll bring on the local advertising that's how they'll fund this so we just wanted to kind of give everybody a you know an update of where it is it's it's been really a initiative of the mayor as another communication between our neighborhoods and we'll be launching this probably tomorrow so if there's any questions i would be happy to answer the questions otherwise the mayor may have thank you Chad is there any questions for Chad right now all right well thank you for your attention are we all ready Sue okay David i think she needs some additional help right now i'd like to take this opportunity to welcome our new fire chief Mike Romus the city of Sheboygan welcomes Mike as its new fire chief chief Romus started his new position Monday February 24th Mike's the Milwaukee native native and has served in the Milwaukee fire department since 1983 where he has held a number of positions with progressive responsibilities including that of a firefighter heavy equipment operator lieutenant captain Italian chief deputy chief and assistant chief lifelong learner Mike holds an associate degree in fire technology a bachelor of science degrees in physical education health education and fire science management and also a master of business administration he's achieved the designation of executive fire officer from the national fire academy and fire chief officer with the center of public safety and excellence and then his long-standing member of local and national fire chiefs association Mike his wife Melanie will be relocating to Sheboygan his children Mike and Elise are both attending UW Madison and as a matter of fact his son Mike is a trumpet player in the UW band and in his spare time Mike enjoys having being active in the community attending festivals plays and concerts along with visiting local restaurants and entertaining friends and family he's enthusiastic and really ready to serve the citizens of Sheboygan please welcome Mike Romas I just want to let everyone know that I'm very excited my family we've already bought a house up here we're excited to be here I'm excited to work for the city of Sheboygan and for the citizens of the city and everything that I've been involved in I had a I started last week Monday unfortunate we had a fire death on Tuesday morning I came back for that it was very very unfortunate and our prayers and our thoughts go out to the family of that incident and I'm very proud to be the chief here and everything I've seen and heard from everybody just really bolsters that makes that true people I'm working with are unbelievable they work very hard they're very dedicated to the citizens in the city of Sheboygan and it's just an amazing place to be and I can't thank you for the opportunity can't thank you enough thank you while Mike's coming in the door and joining our team at Sheboygan we've got to say goodbye to some people have been with us for quite a while Karen Menzer would you please come forward Karen was hired at Mead Public Library in February of 1984 as a children's librarian she earned her master's degree in library science later that year in February of 2006 he was promoted to a manager of the youth services team in February of 2013 she became the interim library director for four months while the library board conducted their search for a new library director Karen has been voted at one time by her employees the best boss anyone could have she's one of the founding members of Sheboygan children's book festival and that's been her dream come true Karen's convinced many world-famous authors and illustrators to come to Sheboygan and collaborate with the John Michael Kohler Art Center Bookworm Gardens in the library the program attracts between four to five thousand people every year to Sheboygan for a weekend each fall the 2014 festival authors and illustrators that yet to be publicly announced but they include another CalDOT winner and we are amazed each year at the famous names that Karen comes up with to bring to Sheboygan in retirement Karen plans to continue volunteering her time to ensure the future generations have access to good literature and spend time more time with her family and her horses we look forward to seeing her regularly at Mead Library she continues to weed the juvenile nonfiction selection and offers her time to do special library programs like the make-and-take a model aircraft home on March 8th Karen's last day as an employee at Mead was on February 28th I have a certificate I'd like to read yeah a certificate of appreciation the city of Sheboygan is honored to present Karen Menzer this certificate in recognition of your 30 years of dedicated service to the city of Sheboygan and Mead Public Library thank you I just want to say that I have truly enjoyed my 30 years here at Mead Public Library and serving the citizens of Sheboygan thank you and another employee that we have to say goodbye to is Dale Kuhn Dale would you please come forward Dale started with the Department of Public Works in 1977 in 1978 he was promoted to laborer one in 1979 laborer two 1980 sanitation operator and in 2007 he started another position as special service driver and maintenance worker two until his retirement on March 3rd today Dale is a big fan of Jeff Dunham the famous ventriloquist and stand-up comedian all of Dunham's characters have been described as politically incorrect gratuitously insulting and ill-tempered Dale's favorite character is Ahmed and he's known for imitating Ahmed as he visits some of the city hall offices during his deliveries but Dale also brought many memorable moments to the employees at DPW during his 37 years of service and one of the most that his co-workers enjoyed was his habit to tell jokes almost daily basis Dale would have a new joke or humorous anecdote to share with his co-workers be it rain shine or snow he'd get almost everyone into a laugh or at least crack a smile before they all went on there and signed tasks for the day sometimes he may have told that joke many times through that day and some of us would hear it twice but you know that none of his co-workers minded because of his genuine desire to make them laugh now keep in mind that Dale handled the city's refuse five days a week for most of his career and he never lost his sense of humor now that's a real accomplishment Dale it's an honor to provide you with the certificate of appreciation on behalf of the department public works for working there for over 37 years of service to the city of Sheboygan and again the city of Sheboygan is honored to present Dale Kuhn with a certificate of appreciation and in recognition of your 37 years of dedicated service November of 1977 through March of 2014 Dale thank you very much first off i'd like to thank the city of Sheboygan for hiring me back in 1977 i'm glad i could continue my service with the city of Sheboygan for almost 37 years i'd also like to thank all my past and present co-workers and management people for their guidance leadership and friendship and i hope i can continue during my retirement and hoping to spend more time with my family and friends not that i'm retired thank you very much this last week had the privilege of attending the Sheboygan county champion celebration at blue harbor where Sheboygan county and the city of Sheboygan were a nominee for the working together award and the Sheboygan river cleanup i want to read a little description from the program after more than 30 years of discussion the cleanup and dredging of the Sheboygan river was completed in 2013 the city and county leaders and community stakeholders stepped up to gain support and financial backing to get the job done there were many challenges throughout the course of this dredging project but parties involved had incredible passion and commitment to see the job through the 100 million dollar collaborative effort will reduce health threats for people fish wildlife and enhance the economic development opportunities the river is now 10 feet deeper in some areas the success of this project will have a lasting effect on Sheboygan and Sheboygan county for many years on thursday as mayor i was proud to accept this award on behalf of the city of Sheboygan we have a great team here at the city and everyone played an important support role in this river cleanup the common council approved contracts and appropriated funds other departments were involved were city attorney's office finance purchasing dpw engineering redevelopment authority and planning department the coordination of this effort largely fell on the shoulders of our director of planning and development Chad Pellecek he was a rock star when he came to the daily coordination between the contractors and the city permitting issues and many other issues he also helped to coordinate open houses he was truly the go-to guy when any kind of coordination between the city and the contractors and their agencies arose he coordinated with all the affected neighbors and coordinated the use of 2d watering treatment facilities as well he worked with the military heritage museum to get office space for the contractors and to utilize the work site for them chad attended all the work group meetings coordinated all the other departments involvement for a successful project and i want to recognize him for the exceptional work that he did on the Sheboygan river project by presenting him with the award that the city received from the chamber of commerce chad will you please come forward thank you it's it's it's really a collaborative between the number of city departments all accepted on behalf of the planning department but it really was a huge project and i appreciate getting acknowledgement over this and i think you know going forward we're not done with that project we have some other issues to deal with one of them is beneficial use impairments that have been put on as part of it and matter of fact next week epa will be back in town to start trying to remove number one the restriction on dredging that hasn't been in place for 20 some years so the project continues but we're seeing some benefits of it in some interest in our river that we haven't in a long time and i think it's going to be good for the community moving forward so thank you okay next we have some hearings um yeah we can just read them all the first one is 2.1 i'm going to read all the hearings and then we'll allow anybody to speak on any one of the hearings they would like to 2.1 for the vacation and discontinuance of the remaining 40 feet of new york avenue the right away from west line of north water street to the east bank of the sheboygan river item 2.2 is to amend the zoning map for property at 1539 north 33rd place from ur urban residential to class so suburban office 2.3 is to amend the city zoning map for property located at 1712 north 17th street from nr 6 residential to uc urban commercial 2.4 is to amend the city zoning map for property located at 1704 north 17th street from nr 6 neighborhood residential to uc urban urban commercial and 2.5 is to amend the city zoning map for property located at 1714 cambridge avenue from ui urban industrial to uc urban commercial does anyone wish to speak on any of those hearings does anyone wish to speak on any of the hearings does anyone wish to speak on any of the hearings alderman hamman thank you uh move to close the hearings second move in the second to close the hearings will the clerk please call the roll 12 eyes motion passes next is our consent agenda items 3 1 through 3.1 2 alderman hamman thank you mr. mayor i move to accept and accept and file all all our o's accept and adopt all our c's and put all resolutions upon our passage second thank you for that motion and support the consent agenda is before us does anyone have anything they'd like to discuss seeing none will the clerk please call the roll and consent 12 eyes thank you motion passes next we'll go on to reports of officers that will include items 4.1 through 4.1 1 those would be referred alderman hamman thank you mr. mayor i would like to pull 4.4 for discussion and vote okay is there a second second then moved in second and to pull 4.4 for a separate discussion and vote under discussion thank you mr. mayor i would like to put i would like to pass this or put the resolution or excuse me what am i talking about here i would like to move that the arrow we put on file okay accepted in place done file thank you okay we have a motion in a second to discuss this now and put the arrow on file is there any discussion on the arrow alderman hamman thank you the reason we're pulling this is this is money that the city collects on behalf of the bid and they would like to get this as many of you know they're embarking on a master plan and need the funds to pay for some of the expenses that go along with it and we prefer not to wait a couple weeks to get it so this is just a pass through that we collect for them so thank you thank you for that discussion anyone else okay seeing none we'll call the roll 12 eyes motion passes and item 4.3 will be referred to strategic rather than finance but otherwise all the referrals will be as they are on your agenda under resolutions 5.1 is a resolution by alderman hamman authorizing moving the city of was shaboygan wards 22 and 23 for all future elections to good shepherd lutheran church at 1614 south 23rd street alderman hamman thank you miss mayor i'm going to put the resolution upon its passage second it's been moved and seconded to pass the resolution is there any discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 12 eyes motion passes item 5.2 is a resolution by alderman van der wheel authorizing the city attorney to hire outside council to represent law and licensing in the council for a quasi-judicial hearing regarding the suspension slash revocation of taxi cab driver's license zero two three five and authorizing payment for said services alderman van der wheel thank you mr. mayor i move to suspend the rules suspension okay we'll do a voice vote all those in favor of suspension signify by saying aye opposed that passes under suspension move the resolution be put upon its passage second been moved and seconded to pass the resolution any discussion on the resolution seeing none will the clerk call the roll 12 eyes motion passes 5.3 is a resolution by alderman authorizing accepting the jurisdictional transfer of county road ls within the county highway system to become a local city street alderman heidemann thank you mayor could we take that with 6 1 yeah we'll hold that then till 6 1 thank you okay then we'll go on to 5 4 which is resolution by alderman boran bellinger pentaco herman authorizing entering into an agreement with the mid-lake softball organization ink for operation and management of the wildwood softball complex for the 2014 softball season alderman boran thank you mayor i ask for suspension of the rules please okay all those in favor of suspension please signify by saying aye opposed under suspension under suspension i would make a motion that the resolution be put upon its passage second is moved and seconded to put the resolution on its passage under discussion alderman hammond thank you mr mayor i just want to do point out a couple highlights of this that i think make it worthy of approval first off there's a clause in here that if possible 20 of this year's gross proceeds would come back to the city to be held for future improvements i think you know that's a good direction forward secondly it asks for a financial review of and that's submitted to the council i think that's kind of where we might have gotten off track a little bit also provides for two reps from the city on the board of directors of mls o and then secondly from the finance department asking for a fidelity bond for the treasurer i think that was a great idea by director amodeo to put that in so i think this is a good agreement and would encourage people to vote for it thank you thank you for that discussion any other discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 12 i's and items 5.5 through 5.7 will be referred to various committees onto reports of committees uh 6.1 is an rc by public works recommending entering into an intergovernmental cooperative agreement between the city of shabuigan the town of shabuigan and shabuigan county for county road ls relocation and this will also include the previous item we talked about 5.3 alderman heidemann thank you mayor i i'm i'm gonna make a motion to suspend rules second all those in favor of suspension signify by saying i i i opposed motion passes under suspension okay i'd like to make a motion to accept and adopt the rc and pass both the res and also pass the resolution that has been moved and seconded to put the uh the motion before us is there any discussion on the motion see none please call the roll 12 i's next we'll go on to matters laid over item 7.1 is an r o number 231 of 1314 by the planning commission recommending amending the zoning map for property located at 1539 north 33rd place from ur urban residential to s o suburban office alderman hamlin thank you mr mayor i moved to accept and file and put their ordinance promise passage second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on the motion see none will the clerk please call the roll 12 i's motion passes item 7.2 is our own number 232 of 1314 by the city planning commission recommending approving the vacation and discontinuance of the remaining 40 feet of new york avenue right away from the west line of north water street to the east bank of the sheboygan river alderman hamlin thank you mr mayor i moved to accept and file and pass the resolution second thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on that motion see none will the clerk call the roll 12 i's motion passes 7.3 is an r o number 250 of 1314 by the city planning commission recommending approving the change of zoning map of property located at 1714 cambridge avenue from ui urban industrial to uc urban commercial alderman hamlin thank you again mr mayor i moved to accept and file and put the ordinance upon his passage second thank you for that motion and support the motion is before us is there any discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 12 i's motion passes item 7.4 is r o 251 of 1314 by the city planning commission recommending approving the change of zoning map of the property located at 1704 north 17th street from nr6 neighborhood residential one to uc urban commercial alderman hamlin thank you mr mayor i moved to accept and file and put the ordinance upon its passage second thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion see none will the clerk please call the roll 12 i's item 7.5 is r o 252 of 1314 by the city planning commission recommending approving the change to the zoning map of property located at 1712 north 17th street from nr6 neighborhood residential to uc urban commercial alderman hamlin thank you mr mayor i moved to accept and file and put the ordinance upon his passage second thank you for that motion and support that motion is before you for discussion seeing no discussion will the clerk please call the roll 12 i's motion passes item 7.6 is r c number 313 of 1314 by the salary and grievances committee recommending amending the municipal code is to add and delete various positions and the police department's table of organization alderman donahue thank you mayor i would move to excuse me accept adopt and put this ordinance upon its passage second thank you for that motion and support the ordinance is before us for discussion see no discussion will the clerk please call the roll 12 i's next we have a closed session on the agenda alderman hamlin oh i'm sorry we have other matters city attorney thank you your honor 81 is the resolution to authorize the transfer of appropriations in the 2014 budget that will be referred to the finance committee 8.2 is an r o by the city clerk submitting communication from attorney michael bower providing documentation regarding initiating proceedings to vacate and discontinue the west 33 feet of a public way in the town of shabuigan known as north 32nd street that will be referred to the city planning commission 8.3 is an r o by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending june 30 2014 and june 30 2015 that will be referred to law and licensing and then alderman hamlin thank you mr mayor i moved to convene in closed session of the exemption contained in 1985 one e wisconsin statutes for the purpose of deliberating a proposed development project where competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session second thank you for that motion and support the clerk will call the roll for closed session 12 i's motion passes we'll take a five-minute recess and reconvene at about 12 minutes to the hour