 Okay, good evening everyone welcome to tonight's come on council meeting before we have our our city clerk read the quote for the week I am authorized to say please vote tomorrow. It says on here. All right Thank you Madam city clerk, would you please read the quote? Thanks Truth is the glue that holds government together compromises the oil that makes governments go Thank you very much 22nd the meeting of the common council to order please call the roll born here Bauch yes, uh, Hannah here Heidemann Kittlesen. You call you miss Manny Meyer Montemayor Rindflash Ryan Smith Vanderwheel for hassled and Wongamon excuse 15 present forms present This time it's a time to pledge To our beautiful country old man Rindflash please lead us 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 Thank you. Oh, man Rindflash next item on the agenda is approval of minutes president. Hannah. Thank you, mr. Mayor I would move for the approval of the minutes second motion and second to approve minutes under discussion Being none all in favor say aye. Aye any opposed Motion carries Next item on the agenda is a proclamation for mr. Roger Lam artist Roger Lam Now we have a proclamation for artist Roger Lam Ever since I came to Sheboygan and way back about 25 years ago. I was hearing about this gentleman He has become truly an icon not only in the art field in Sheboygan But in the area of love in Sheboygan, I think a lot of your paintings and your Where you talk and write your bullets It's a so force reflect that he has a good heart a good feel for the seat of Sheboygan connect your art expresses that I Want to thank you for for the work that you do and for the wonderful wonderful way that you represent Sheboygan in your paintings Therefore Mr. Lam Whereas Roger Lam captures the essence of Sheboygan and positively reflects the city of Sheboygan through his art and Whereas Roger Lam publish off-domain drive a booklet that shares with the city of Sheboygan and the surrounding areas offer And whereas Roger Lam came to Sheboygan right after completion of late in school of art Milwaukee with the intent of staying one year But has lived here for 40 Thank you for that one And whereas Roger Lam fights to keep and maintain history the history of Sheboygan by preserving his its historical Architecture as is exemplified by his current studio on the corner of Erie Avenue and 7th Street And whereas Roger Lam's love for Sheboygan and art has made him a vital member of the Sheboygan area and an important figure in the city of Sheboygan Therefore by the virtue by virtue of the authority vested in me as a mayor of Sheboygan do hereby extend my personal thanks and Congratulations to Roger Lam and declare February 18th 2008 as artist Roger Lam's day And I urge our council as well of all our citizens to recognize artist Roger Lam and to extend their thanks to him for presenting the beauty of Sheboygan through his art to others. Thank you very much. This is quite a surprise and I certainly appreciate it and certainly feel Just doing what I have to do and enjoy doing it and do like the community of Sheboygan and I defend it on many occasions and defend all of you people and what you all your little your little Little problems that you have and how you resolve them and This is very nice. Nice. Thank you again. Thank you Next item on the agenda will be we'll be skipping. There is a inability to contact the individual at second time Next item public forum madame city clerk. Thank you. Um first on the list is Henry Capitulo Mr. Capitulo, can you give me your home address, please? Yes, that's 16 19 north 38th street And that's in the town of Sheboygan and I'm here representing home ink. Okay. Thank you, and you will have five minutes, sir Okay I had a whole statement prepared but after talking with uh alderman geisha I'm Going to revise some of the things that I was going to say um The concern that I had was I was coming here to let you know that Um, I had received a certified letter from the city assessor's office Basically the city assessor's office is requesting that we Basically reapply for our property tax exempt status meaning that This is what our last application What it was And the concern that I have was number one I received this on February 13th Everything has to be completed and into the city assessor's office by march 1st if This was the process that you were going to go through I think it would have been just a little bit more timely That organizations would have the adequate time to prepare all these documents The concern that I have is if we're not able to get this and prepare it in time and submit it to the city assessor's office That means we're in non-compliance. Does that mean that our property tax exempt status is taken away? And we no longer are eligible for that The other question I have is Who is all having to prepare these what other organizations that are nonprofits that are being asked to submit Or to reapply for their property exempt status I know that I talked to alderman alderman gish at the beginning of the The council meeting and he assured me that The finance committee had directed or had Asked that the city assessor's office review the applications that are presently there Well, there's a difference between reviewing and asking an organization to reapply And complete all the paperwork that is now necessary for Them to consider our property exempt status And the concern that I had when when I did talk to City assessor lutz was well, where did this come from? I hadn't heard anything at the city council meeting or nothing He said well, I was contacted by various city officials that directed me to do this The I don't question the authority or the intent of the city assessor's office They have the authority to do this Is it being done right? I don't think so because what happens is What selection process are you going to use and I did ask that of the city assessor's office He said well, it's the age of the application And I said well, are you aware that our building we only owned it for four years Our last application was submitted in 2006. His response was well your application is old So you have to complete everything that's in this letter Every parcel that you have and all the supporting documents that go along with this Now again the concern that I have is it just Several organizations is it going to be one or two? Is it going to be all the organizations? Are they going to have sufficient time to complete and prepare this information to submit to the city assessor's office? I can understand that there's a mood for To generate additional revenue And I've been the first one that have come here and have said You know what there has to be something done But I really think this is Not the way to do it. I think that if you're going to do something You want to have input you want to have open discussions You want to be able to have the people come here and to discuss the issue at hand I don't have a problem with with paying property tax to some extent But if it's only us and no one else And now we're talking about we already pay property tax. It's not like we we're not paying that we are And does that mean now that If we submit this and for whatever reason they're not going to approve our application We now have to pay our full property tax, which we did the first several years when we had our building At that time it was almost $18,000 annually You're not going to what you're doing is Creating a hardship for all the low-income people that we have in our building They're the ones that are going to have the burden to pay additional money for this And what I'm saying today is I would request that you look at this You you basically Have discussion to do this if you're going to generate income from it I don't have a problem with that. In fact, I would encourage you to do it But I think that it has to be in an open fashion where you have input from the nonprofits And you Get their feedback on this and I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of other organizations that feel the same way I do Excuse me, Henry. Would you like your additional minute? Yes. Okay, go ahead That feel the same way that I do that would given the chance They would probably do the same thing now We're going to try to prepare this application But this application included where the backup of some of the other things You could just submit one now. They're saying you need to submit everything for every single one So now this application is probably one and a half times this size And for us to prepare this by march 1st, I think you're creating a hardship for us I think if this was the intent you should have told us back in November October december To give us adequate time to prepare this Again, I say that You want to have this you want to provide input you want to generate income? I'm all for that The other thing I wanted to talk about is I've heard that There's people in the community that asking questions pretty much about my health Some of the problems that I had and I want to just set everything straight right now I do have cancer I had major surgery I went through six months of chemotherapy and just to let people know I'm not dying Thank you very much. Thank you Um Some issues have been raised here that I think need to be addressed and Also primarily because other organizations or directors of other organizations may be watching tonight that some of those issues have been raised So I'd like for uh, uh, mr. Dave Lutsky to step up and address this Dave is the city uh assessor testing one two testing I've never addressed this committee before but it's true. I am the new city assessor with the city of sheboygan and um What I wanted to talk about now was what uh, mr. Capitello was discussing and this is regarding the um Regarding the exemptions and my role Every year from about january 1st to march 1st is really a focus on exemption for city assessors across the state This is the time when This is the time when we look at exemptions um typically If there's anyone a new classification change people must Per a form That's prescribed by the department of revenue. They must fill that form out and get it to us by march 1st Um Since I'm new You know all the different exemptions. Uh, it's a new it's a new process for me and looking at all of them Right now we have uh somewhat uh around 522 exempt Parcels in the city of sheboygan the vast majority of those parcels are city owned Then there's quite a few a bit more that are owned by the school system and so on and so forth So in terms of my review process what i'm doing is uh, we have to follow the statuette The state statuettes to the letter of the law And what I do is I've got a spread excel spreadsheet and i'm taking each parcel and putting it in a the appropriate tab on the spreadsheet So if it's if it's a municipal property it goes with the municipal properties if it's a school district It goes with the school district and so on and so forth um What has happened in the process of my review which I started and I have reviewed For the most part all the properties But then what happened was there are some properties That when you look at the property and you try to put it in a category because it must be categorized under a statuette number Um, some of them don't fit Some of them Are give cause for further review Home ink was one of those properties It it didn't it didn't fit You know you pull a folder and you look at it and it's and it's a building that's uh somewhat of a uh an apartment building Um, it's uh, there's some residents There's some leased properties in there from what our record show There's a lot of different things going on those those buildings, but but also mr. Capitello's Original application He fit himself because you have one of the one of the aspects of the application that says that you must um Provide the precise statutory language It's item number 27 on the application. You must give precise statutory language Uh Telling how this property fits into an exemption and On that form and he it was he had said uh see attached so on the attached There was no exact precise statutory language He had repeated an entire section which covered all kinds of benevolent educational Types of institutions and then he went on further to to say that he fit into an educational Uh an educational organization And you know from the onset of the city assessor you look at it and you think okay There's a lot of people renting space there a lot of there's a lot of dwellings in there Is that an educational institution? So I just took a couple of drives by to look at it as I do kind of a field audit I didn't it was just a cursory out of it, but I couldn't see I couldn't even find the words home ink on the property I didn't see anything about classes. There was no class schedule So what I did was I sent him a letter and this is what we do, you know, this is part of our role Um, I sent him a letter and I outlined I said at a minimum, please include the following documents So he showed you a big thick document that could take a long time to create But I have six items that I asked for on here and most of these items should be in one's file These aren't documents that you would need to create These are documents that you would have on file articles of incorporation Allocation of square footage based on usage rent roll if applicable 2007 and 2008 course schedules I feel that that's important if you're claiming you're an educational institution that you should supply a course schedule And then listing of places where the general public can find out about the course offerings Again, I as a city assessor have to uphold the state statuettes So then there was a couple others and there were other other letters set out and there will continue to be But there wasn't a lot in the in the form of exemptions That didn't fit most of them fit, you know as a city assessor if I see schools I'm not going to go over to north high school And ask him to fill out this form. I pretty much know it's an educational institution But there's some that you look at it and you think Is this in the same thing with tax in part? We've got some situations with tax in part The city's assessor's office Isn't and I say this it isn't about taxation. It's about fairness Our role is to be fair and uniform based on the statuettes And that's what we've done here and and I know mr. Capitel It was it was rather upset. I can understand that however. I also told him Um in terms of time frame That we're not late. We're early in my conversation. I told him was for the 2009 tax year So we're being beyond generous people think we're behind March 1st. No, we're beyond early Where this wasn't for this march. It was for next march But these things take a long time to in review of one of these, you know We have about 20 properties that we're looking at that have exemption and we have I have to do a lot of work on these So what we have to do is we have to dig deep each one of these Uh can take several weeks to do and if you extrapolate that out And then in the end we'll make the determination for 2009 as a group These are the ones that lost their exemption That's what that's what's going on here. Um You know, I don't I don't really have much I don't really have much more to say on this You know, I I think that um, mr. Capitel The only thing is I can would suggest is next time maybe you can come in We wouldn't have to go through this in a public forum Um, you know, we're nice people You know, we don't we don't look for ways to not tax people We look for ways to fit into the exemption on my spreadsheet I have For each property it's exempt. I have a statuette That I have to put in I've created this document for my own future reference And then I have another big spot where I put in the precise statutory language For that particular property So in the future when we go and we open up this file if somebody were to come to me and say Dave why is this property exempt? I can say per statuette number 70 dot 11 Four and these are where the and this is the precise statutory language that allows it to be exempt So it's like really doing your homework dot your eyes cross your t's and and um Again, we I have you know, maybe 20 properties that need some some further review And I don't feel this is a forum to be discussing You know other people's exempt properties, but mr. Capitel has brought this forward and um You know, I feel that uh, you know, I I need to be obliged to be up here and and and speak about these things Okay. Thank you very much. Sure. Let's give Appreciate it We do have one more uh individual for the public forum Chief listoski Oh, he made it Okay, we will take him as soon as we let the other person. Let him see clerk Um last on the list would be wendy schmitz And wendy if you want to pull the mic down just a little bit and then if you could give me your home address, please If you feel really short 25 high and avenue plumbeth pine avenue high in h e i n Plumbeth Plumbeth Okay, you will have five minutes and sue. Can I ask did everybody receive one of these everybody but three Alderman mani alderman clayunas and alderman wangman did not get one because they were on commission on aging I'm assuming they already had one we can give them to them a little later. Yeah, correct Okay Well, my name is wendy schmitz and I'm here as the supervisor of the senior activity center of shabuigan So named in april of last year A lot of what i'm going to tell you about is in this annual report But I know that a lot of people don't read them. So i'm going to tell you what's in it As you know united way published its community needs assessment in may of 2007 In which shabuigan county identified that elderly care and support was the fourth biggest concern to families and agencies I quote Research participants voiced the need for services and facilities that address general concerns for the elderly The elderly population is soaring Elderly care needs have increased in the last three years and is noted as one of the top changing needs of the community Abuse of the elderly is a growing problem in the state of wisconsin and in shabuigan county In 2004 the number of elder abuse statewide rose 2.2 percent and in shabuigan increased by 7.7 percent It's a fact people are staying alive longer in greater numbers and we're really not prepared as families or as a community That's where we come in In 2007 our goal was to improve the image the community's perception of the senior center and to increase participation We did both We have had very positive press coverage and our tv 8 series senior connections Has generated a lot of interest The show produced entirely by senior volunteers Under the direction of the tv 8 staff has just completed its 10th episode It seems that a lot of people read the moxie As many of our visitors read about us there In 2007 we conducted approximately 175 tours There are now 1265 people in our database and I do have to thank jeff schoesl for developing that And last year we increased our visits by 3,223 for a total of 30,742 Our most impressive statistic I think is that since the friends of the senior activity center Had a part-time volunteer coordinator in may We now have 250 volunteers Who logged 995 hours in seven and a half months Money is always an issue, but the effort put into networking with community partners paid off 18 special events were financially sponsored by local agencies From our monthly card party a halloween dance a casino day to providing the prize money for bingo Choosing to offer trips to exciting locations such as costa rica and australia Really paid off we boosted our revenue by 2,809 in commissions A three-day tour to chicago escorted by one of our senior volunteers Proved to be a valuable fundraiser for us We also changed the look of our holiday fair last year Local vendors 18 of them contributed 10% of their takings and over $3,000 was raised that day Of course our goals are far more important than raising funds We're proud that we're now fully accessible as the friends of the senior activity center Provided the funding for handicapped accessible entrances and for one of our bathrooms to be remodeled to meet ADA standards As people are living longer, they don't just want to be entertained They want to be valuable to keep learning and exploring new things Not surprisingly Our volunteer computer tutors cannot keep up with the demand And our writing class and readers theater group are growing quickly We're now partnering. We just started in january with LTC and we offer an evening computer class I cannot stress strongly enough how the impact of volunteer Oh, excuse me. The impact of volunteers has changed our environment 16 of our programs are led by volunteers I'm in the enviable position where I see someone coming and I start to think But where can I put that activity as I hear them enthusiastically say we've had an idea. Can we start? They're starting another laser tag team We are responding to the community's need for resources for our aging population We are responding with lots of enthusiasm energy and support from our friends group Excuse me, wendy. Would you like your additional minutes? Yes, please. Okay We are one of the only centers in wisconsin to be open only four days a week We would like to thank all the persons mani, maya and clahunas for their work on the commission on aging And all the persons barren bauk and hannah for touring our center Our theater group is called not the land of the living dead If you haven't visited already, please do but call ahead. We're very busy Thank you. Thank you Thank you very much wendy this time I'd ask Mr. Alex gilliam to come forward We have one more presentation to make here to mr. Alex gilliam. What do you mean? This is a young man that many of you may have read about That did perform quite a heroic act that I don't know a lot of people would do but but he did and In the midst of potentially serious harm to another individual Did something heroic and We're very proud of you Presented to Alex gilliam in recognition of coming to the aid of a sheboygan girl who had a gun pointed at her chest On february 8th 2008 while at the home of his girlfriend an acquaintance of hers showed up and asked to speak with her Minutes later You heard her screaming and rushed to her side You saw he had a gun pointed at her chest and wrestled the rifle from the 15 year old boy You also managed to eject several rounds from the rifle and held him down until the police arrived Your quick response and heroic efforts prevented a much more serious crime from taking place I command your gellin efforts and issue this certificate to fix my seal and signature upon it Certificate of recognition to Alex gilliam Before before we move on I just want to touch on on an issue real quickly I know it's not on the agenda, but it's important enough to to talk about rather quickly here It's the issue that Involves the city's efforts in cleaning up snow The department of public works police fire And water utility and the mayor's office. We're getting a lot of calls as to what is it that you are doing to take care of the snow As you know, we've had an incredible amount of snow falling We've had some really really serious conditions out there and people are wondering what is it that you're doing I just wanted to touch a little bit on that on what we're doing But we are basically working with our within our means and within our resources And I went out there a couple of days and drove around the city and one of the things that you see is people are not moving their cars Okay, and I say that because I'd like to ask the public to please help us out when you're supposed to move the car Please move your car because two things are going to happen. You're going to get a citation And they're not going to be you're not going to be very happy The other thing is if you don't move your car the people that think you should are going to be mad at us because you're not Moving your car and we're not enforcing the the ordinance. So it's important that the public moves the car Another thing that's happening as we work within our means and resources is that we very low We are very low on salt. We've ordered salt, but we're not the only ones in wisconsin that has ordered salt So every city in the state of wisconsin and anywhere else that have the same salt sources that have done that And we're behind on that we've got a minimal amount and some of it is being mixed with sand and trying to do the best we can On there as you know last friday. I believe last friday. I issued an emergency executive order Now what that did was extended winter parking rules not in snow emergency rules The snow emergency rules rule supersede winter parking rules What the winter parking extending the winter parking rules did Is it helped us clear the streets so that our public works department can come through and clean A lot of this snow has been accumulated The order was issued not necessarily because a lot of this snow has fallen although that is a reason But it's because a lot of snow has fallen a lot of accumulation is occurring And then streets are becoming narrower and narrower and narrower to the point where police squad cars fire trucks ambulances Other vehicles in the city cannot get through because there's cars parked on the on the sides and they're bringing They're causing the street to get narrow So it's important to extend those rules so people move their cars so we can go in there and clean them Everyone is going to get their street clean. I believe everybody has but just to give you an idea since november Just since november here, which is when our winter season started The city of sheboygan has had about 80 inches of snow 80 inches of snow and just the last month or six weeks. We've had 48 alone That is a lot of snow folks. That is a lot of snow DPW has responded very well I am very proud of the way, uh, mr. Bill Bender and and mr. Bebel and his and his employees have responded Since that the last month we've had about 13, uh, snowfall events Okay, meaning that huge like now we haven't snowfalling Two of those were actually snow emergencies that had to be declared We have, uh, we and we the city has 200 and miles of right-of-way streets That's what within our city limits. We have 201 miles That means we have 402 miles we have to pay because we have to go on this side and we have to go on that side When the crews make a pass a pass is referred to as cleaning all those miles of street Both sides, which is 402 miles In the last 30 days The department of public works has made 21 passes of our city 21 Not only put that in one to more perspective that translates to about 8400 miles of cleaning If you went around the circumference of the state of wisconsin with all those miles we could do that Six times Around the state of wisconsin folks. That's a lot of plowing. We are doing our job It's a lot of plowing. We may not be able to get to your house the minute you want us to Clean it in the manner you want us to but we're doing a job. You could even go With 8400 miles go from here to the tip of texas and brownsville And back three times That's a lot of plowing. That's how much we've done out there So our public works have done their job and and I commend them for them The last three 30 days we've used 1,546 tons of salt That's a lot of tonnage since november in 2007. We used 3,910 tons of salt That's a lot of salt that we've used obviously is going to impact our budget But if we've used that much salt that much salt to date We're definitely going to be needing more salt But so is everybody every other community and everybody's asking for salt and the people that have the salt communities have the salt Really don't want to share and I don't blame them quite frankly because I don't want the problems that we're having people calling my office and everybody else And saying what are you doing to to deal with the situation? But I want to assure the public and I want to assure the council that we're doing everything we possibly can to to address this matter We have and in doing so we have 55 dedicated employees. That's how many people are doing that And we have 40 trucks That's all we have folks. That's all we have we put every single truck out there We put every single employee to work. They're working overtime. They're working in weekends That's the time anybody and everybody including myself would love to be with their families They're out there working hard to uh to help us clean their streets and just since last uh since sunday mother nature It was another big hit What exactly was the city of shaboy and then doing them because people have asked well, what are you doing? You're not cleaning you're not cleaning up. Yes, we are. Yes, we are started at 2 2 a.m We had seven plows out there with with salters. They were working between 6 a.m. And 9 a.m talking about sunday We added 17 more workers. Now these this is a weekend. So this is over time people are at home with their family We added those 17 because we saw that there was flooding going on the rain was melting the snow The catch bases weren't weren't uh taking care of the drainage So it was flooding the streets and people were running all over the place and it was just a mess I had calls from a lot of people then We had uh In the beginning at 6 p.m The day we had a new crew that was dispatched to relieve all those people that were out there So it was a constant barrage of workers out there all this time dealing with the situation Total we had 31 workers on sunday to deal with the difficult freezing rain situation We did not ignore it. We were out there again. We're working within our means and our resources And I think it's it's important to to thank the public works apartment the police and the fire department And the water utility came to a2 And many citizens are heard were helping their neighbors doing their share of cleaning the the catch bases And just doing whatever they possibly could to help us deal with the very with this very very difficult situation And I also want to thank the the elderly gentleman that walked past my house while I was shoveling the snow And Reminded me by the way, you do live in wisconsin. It's just the way things are with snow Folks I ask for your support and understanding help us out in dealing with this very difficult situation And we will take care of the snow problems for you Thank you very much Next item on the agenda Oh, uh almond mire. Did you want to say something? Yes? Thank you ronner I just wanted to add that every plow driver has a route that they follow I've heard many people complain while the plow came down my road and he didn't have his plow down Well, that is the reason for that is that he is going to his route And they have to follow their their routes and someone will be coming through and just that everybody understands that They are working hard. Thank you very much. Thank you Next item on the agenda as we have All of them about thanks ronner just to add on to that One thing is an encouraged a lot of people move in and out of sheboygan and winters a long season If there's someone near you that doesn't doesn't appear to be living by the rules Go knock on their door and introduce yourself to your darn neighbor and explain to them We get you know a young couple on our street. They just didn't know they're new they're working hard They're not getting the newspaper. They're not listening the radio. They're working and they just didn't know So knock on your neighbor's door and explain it to them be a good neighbor. That's number one and number two On sunday. I saw some streets flooded as I was driving through town and Called the non-emergency police dispatch number just to say hey, you know, I saw a street that looks kind of dangerous Thinking I was being a good citizen helping out and she said all I'm about gotcha Your number 42 on the list. So citizens called in the police the police dispatcher was wonderful about it And the the public works team was out there working their tails off There were 40 intersections that were flooded and they were out there taking care of them So I echo your compliments to mr. Bittner steen. Thank you everyone vote Okay Next item on the agenda. We have five hearings I'm going to name read out each one and then I'll ask if anyone would like to address the council With respect to either Here in as I read them if you want to speak on one remember the number and if you need to be repeated, please ask number one For the proposed assessments a bituminous resurfacing for illinois avenue from south 14th street to south 17th street number two for the proposed assessments for bituminous resurfacing for north 4th street from niagara avenue to superior avenue number three For the proposed assessments for bituminous resurfacing for south 7th street from indiana avenue to high avenue number four For the proposed assessments for bituminous resurfacing for here on avenue from north 2nd street to north 10th street number five For the proposed assessments for bituminous resurfacing for north 6th street from superior avenue to gilly avenue At this time. Is there anyone that would like to address the council? Is there anyone that would like to address the council? Is there anyone We do have We do have a a a memorandum from Mr. Bill bulky city engineer copies were Delivered to element balkan ryan I don't normally do this, but this individual is was not able to be here due to health reasons And we will be sensitive to her her condition. Her name is Janita Holgate lives in 1226 north 4th street She is a property owner who is on the list for hearings on number two On tonight's agenda for the proposed street assessments for bituminous resurfacing on that on north 4th street from niagara superior As I said, she will not be able to attend this hearing for health reasons And what she would like to convey to the council Is that she does not feel that north 4th street needs to be resurfaced at this time And that it should be delayed for as much as five years There are more there are many other streets that are more heavily traveled like iri avenue and superior avenue that should be done first That is her comment Is there anyone else who would like to address the council? president hannah Thank you, mr. Mayor. I'd make a motion to close the hearings second motion in second to close hearings one two three Four and five under discussion There is none all in favor say aye. Aye any opposed? motion carries Consent agenda 21 1 through 22 20 president hannah Thank you, mr. Mayor. Um, I move that all our oaths be accepted and placed on file And that all rc's be accepted and adopted second motion and second any discussion I'll let me play you this Thank you, your honor. I just uh questioning on 22 17. Is this a housekeeping? Issue that they're clearing out old documents. Is that correct? Okay. Thank you president hannah Is it yes it is is that satisfactory? Okay okay 21 through 20 22 1 through 22 20 any other discussion There being on please call the roll boran bauk geisha hannah Heidemann kittleson clayunas manny meyer montemeyore rinflash ryan smith Vanderweal and verhasel 15 ayes motion carries communications and petitions 22 21 to be referred almond boran Thank you, your honor. I uh spoke with the city clerk about this before the meeting but for the rest of the council On the agenda under 22 21 Uh, the last line, uh on the agenda where it says by september of 2008 That should be corrected to read 2007 City clerk is going to correct it for her records, but I wanted the rest of the council to know that that's 2007 and that goes back to the uh table of organization committee from last july. Thank you Thank you, my president boran Report of officers to 22 22 to 22 32 to be referred Resolutions introduced three 22 33 by alderman meyer Authorizing an application for financial aid from the non-motorized transportation pilot program to fund construction of a missing sidewalk connections almond meyer Thank you, your honor. Must I ask for suspension on the rules? Then I move that the resolution be put upon its passage Motion in second under discussion Being non, please call the roll Yesha hannah Heidemann kittleson Clowness manny meyer montemay or rinflash ryan smith Vanderwheel for hassled and boran 15 eyes Motion carries 22 34 by alderman hannah boran clayunas and geisha authorizing a refund in part for the 2007 personal property assessment for text parcel number 850494 President hannah. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I move that the Resolution be put upon its passage second motion and second under discussion There is none. Please call the roll geisha hannah Heidemann kittleson Clowness manny meyer montemay or rinflash ryan smith Vanderwheel for hassled boran and bulk 15 eyes motion carries 22 35 through 22 38 lies over 22 39 through 22 42 To be referred, but please make a notation on 22 40 that will go to public works only Not financed 22 41 We'll go to finance as indicated But it will also go to motor vehicle review committee public works committee and the marina and harbor committee Hold on just a second Would you repeat that case? Yes motor vehicle review committee public works committee marina and harbor committee and finance And finance is already there. Okay Report of committee six 22 43 by law and licensing recommending denying taxi cab driver's license number 7745 Based on the applicant's record of violations related to the license activity And record of repeat violations Vice president borne Thank you, your honor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted Motion and second under discussion Under discussion is angela stroging here tonight She's not here your honor. Please continue Uh, miss stroging had two opportunities to appear before our committee. Uh, she she didn't go cooperate with the committee And then as mentioned before based on the applicant's record of violations the committee unanimously decided or voted not to grant the license Thank you, vice president borne Any other discussion? There being none, please call the roll hannah Heidemann kittleson Manny Meyer montemayor Rinflesch Ryan Smith fander wheel for hassled borne bauk and geisha 15 eyes motion carries Reported reports of committees seven 2244 by law and licensing recommended denying beverage operators license number seven seven seven five Based on the applicant's record of violations related to the license activities vice president borne Thank you, your honor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted Motion and second under discussion under discussion is uh, andrew Uh, batansis leblanc here tonight It's not here your honor. Thank you. Please proceed Uh, mr. Leblanc appeared before the committee at our last meeting and Based on his record of violations related to the license activities the committee voted unanimously not to grant the license Thank you, vice president borne Any further discussion? There is none please call the roll heidemann Kittleson Manny Meyer Montemayor Rinflesch Ryan Smith Vander wheel for hassled borne bauk geisha and hannah 15 eyes motion carries 2245 to be referred Report of committees eight 2246 by finance Recommend and authorizing a transfer of appropriations in the 2008 budget Establishing revenue and appropriations for 2007 led hazard control grant From the u.s. Department of housing and urban development in the amount of one million eight hundred and eighty four hundred and forty one thousand President hannah Thank you, mr. Mayor I've moved to accept and adopt the rc and place the resolution upon its passage second motion and second under discussion All in rehearsal. Thank you. Your honor. Could I ask the chair of the committee just to explain the items? I titled site work. I assume that's to do with the police station To transfer about 1.4 million dollars president hannah. Do you be able to do it? Thank you, mayor and comment council This is the the lead hazard reduction grant for Homeowners and so the act the site work has to do with the actual lead Removal that we do in the homes And they're either loans and or grants to homeowners Yes Yes, multitude of homes throughout the community All right. Okay. Thank you president hannah And I think at the at the same time. I think we place a lien on the property, don't we? Yes, we do. Okay, so that's There's a whole process to go through on this So if they remain in the home for a certain length of time it becomes a grant if not it's paid back Thank you paulette Okay, any further discussion on 22 46 There being none, please call the roll kittleson Clowness mani mayor montemayor rinflash ryan smith vander wheel for hassled boron bauk yeshia hannah and heidemann 15 eyes motion carries 2247 by salary and grievances recommended amending the vantage care retirement health savings program to make participation mandatory for eligible meet public library employees Solomon montemayor Thank you your honor. I move to accept and file the rc and the resolution be put upon its passage Motion and second under discussion There being none, please call the roll clowness mani mayor montemayor rinflash ryan smith vander wheel for hassled boron bauk yeshia hannah heidemann and kittleson 15 eyes motion carries 2248 by finance recommended amending the vantage care retirement health savings program to make participation mandatory for eligible meet public library employees President have Thank you, mr. Mayor I move to accept and adopt the rc and put the resolution upon its passage Motion and second under discussion Please continue This is being done to to be consistent with actually the the plan document itself So we're we're doing something because the vendor needs their plan document to have certain language Thank you president have There'll be a no more discussion attorney mclean This is the same document that just passed the last thing So I guess I would suggest you file the copy that's attached here except then adopt the committee report But file the duplicate resolution Is that okay old man hannah president hannah? I'll amend it to file In a second Okay, so the motion is to accept and adopt the reporter committee and file the copy of the resolution Any more discussion or being on please call roll manny meyer monta meora rinflash ryan smith vander wheel for hassled boron bauk geisha hannah heidemann kittleson and clioness hi 15 ayes Motion carries 2249 by finance recommend authorizing a transfer of appropriations in a 2008 budget Establishing revenue and appropriation for witness fees for the municipal court cases for individuals subpoenaed by the city attorney President hannah, I'm sorry. Yes, president hannah. Thank you, mr. Mayer I moved first to accept and adopt the rc and then to Place the resolution upon its passage second motion in second under discussion president hannah This is a situation where We're a little bit in arrears and pains of witnesses that have come and we're not going to get witnesses to show up We don't comply. It's true. Thank you very much Alderman kittleson. Oh, thank you your honor. I guess I just I just wanted some explanation as to why Um Where this was coming from and and I guess how this came up. Were we paying these fees before or President hannah, apparently we were paying them before but then we had I don't know why we got into arrears on that and I think it shifted between the municipal court To our attorney's office. So the responsibility is now in the attorney's office and that's where it's going to be taken care of Okay, thank you I'll press my present board Thank you your honor and just just to add to the the discussion from the finance committee The ten thousand dollar figure I believe attorney mclean mentioned Is what he kind of anticipates for this year, but This could be adjusted. He feels that it may be able to be adjusted downward after this year to see what our experience is So next year it may be five thousand. It may be six thousand, but We felt comfortable in recommending this for the first year Very good turn to me. Thank you. Thank you your honor. Uh, what this is alderman, uh, kittleson is the court sent our office An email saying from here on forward The court was not going to uh Pay for the witness fees out of the court account and that they needed to come From our account Our office we historically have not had a budget for witness fees We did check around other uh municipalities that have municipal courts and many of them Do process the witness fees through the city attorney's office uh, so We agreed to do that, but We need to set up an account in order to pay those monies out The the way it works is like in civil court where If you want to have a witness appear you got a subpoena them in civil court Circuit court in a civil action You have to pay the witness up front In order for them to be required to appear municipal court The prosecution does not have to pay up front But they do if when the witness does appear Have to reimburse the subpoenaed witness. It's five dollars plus their mileage of 20 cents a mile And so we need to establish an account which to be able to pay those monies now The concern that the court has is What they've been doing is taking that out of the court monies of revenue that's collected, but A number of cases they're not they haven't collected the revenue from the defendant and So they don't have the money in effect to pay the witnesses and what specifically led to this issue was experts from the state uh department where they Certify the intoxicizer and provide expert witnesses on First defense drunk driving cases in municipal court The court was not going to reimburse them until the defendant paid And then we got into a catch 22 the state said well, we're not going to come anymore as expert until we get our witness fees so So this is going to come out of Um our account once it's established and Then hopefully we will get reimbursed those monies as the defendants pay the forfeitures So as alderman boran said this 10,000 dollars is a ballpark Figure that's a high number, but we don't have anything more concrete than hopefully by You know next budget will have a better number to use only kittleson follow up. Thank you your honor So this would just be the normal way that you probably would set this up. Anyway, it's nothing unusual, right? Thank you. Okay, thank you Okay, there's been more discussion There's a motion to accept an adopt of 22 50 and to put the ordinance upon its passage. Please call the roll I'm sorry 22 49. Yes, myer Montemay or rin flash ryan smith vander wheel for hassled I boran bauk geisha hannah heidemann kittleson clayunas and mani 15 eyes motion carries 22 of reporter committees 9 22 50 by salaries and grievances is reestablishing The salaries of the election officials alderman montemay. Well, thank you your honor I move that we accept that the rc be accepted and filed and the ordinance we put upon its passage Motion and second under discussion Your honor, I would like to make an amendment to that Okay Now therefore the common council of the city of shaboy can do ordain upon passage and publication as of February 2nd 08 Then as follows We have to put the date in there so that actually happens. There's a motion. Is there a second to amend second to amend Any more discussion on that We will take the vote on the on the geisha. Did you want to say something? Yes, thank you your honor I'm going to abstain from this vote because actually I'm a poll worker And I attended The instructional training last week, which is really interesting sus got people who've been doing this for 20 years and some of them longer So I will be receiving these funds, but then turning and donating them back to the junior police academy Oh, and by the way, there's some x alderman doing it. Uh, dulcy johnson, uh Mark sagali and others so Alderman graff So the more the merrier I think sue would love to help love the help county board supervisors also Thank county board supervisors also volunteered great. Thank you On the amendment has read any more discussion on that We'll take the vote on the amendment only all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? One abstention motion carries almond month of honor motion passes amended I move that the amended ordinance be put upon its passage Motion in second under discussion There is none. Please call the roll Montemay or Rinflaesh ryan Smith Vander wheel for hassled boron bulk geisha Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness Manny and meyer 14 ayes one abstention motion carries This is introduced 10 22 51 through 22 55 lies over 22 56 to be referred Matters laid over 11 21 33 resolution number 20 30708 by alderman meyer Authorize and execute in a one-year lease for the agricultural property in the town of wilson formally owned formally owned by john Poth jr. Alderman meyer Thank you, ronner. I move that we accept and adopt and put the resolution upon its passage Motion in second under discussion There being none. Please call the roll Rinflaesh ryan I'm sorry. Thank you. Smith Vander wheel for hassled boron bulk geisha Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness Manny meyer and montemay or 15 ayes motion carries 21 34 resolution number to 2040708 by alderman hannah boron bough geisha and clowness Authorizing a transfer of appropriations in the 2008 budget established revenue for appropriate and appropriation for STA grant funds received by the meat public library President hannah. Thank you, mr. Mayor I would Move that the resolution be put upon its passage second motion and second under discussion There is none. Please call the roll ryan Smith Vander wheel for hassled boron Bulk geisha Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness Manny meyer montemay or and ryan fleisch 15 ayes motion carries 21 35 resolution number 2050708 by alderman hannah boron bough geisha and clowness Authorizing a transfer of appropriations into 2007 budget established revenue and appropriation for funds received by meat public library President hannah Thank you, mr. Mayor I would uh move that the resolution be put upon its passage second motion and second under discussion There is none. Please call the roll smith Vander wheel for hassled boron Bulk geisha Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness Manny meyer montemayor ryan fleisch and ryan 15 ayes motion carries 21 47 general ordinance number 860708 by alderman montemayor meyer geisha heidemann and verhasel Amending the municipal code so as to change the job code and the job description for the lieutenant of police assistantship supervisor slash operations division in the police department of table of organization Alderman montemayor Thank you, your honor. I move the ordinance be put upon its passage Motion and second under discussion There being none. Please call the roll Vander wheel for hassled boron Bulk geisha Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness Manny meyer montemayor ryan fleisch ryan and smith 15 ayes Motion carries Other matters attorney mclean Thank you, your honor. 22 57 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting the 2007 annual report of the senior activity center shabuagon That lies over 22 58 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending june 30 2008 and june 30 2009 That will be referred to law and licensing 22 59 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting a claim from diane Miller velboom for alleged damages to her vehicle when a snowplow hit her vehicle that will be referred to risk management Thank you, mr. Mayor. I'd make a motion to adjourn second motion second to adjourn any discussion on that all in favor say aye Opposed motion carries Stand adjourned. Good night. Thank you very much