 Calling together to order the mayor's neighborhood leadership cabinet meeting for July 21st These the sign-up sheet has been circulated around there, so I appreciate you signing up Let's stand and do the Pledge of Allegiance and then we'll move on Okay, next in lieu of the roll call we're gonna be doing introductions First of all online. I think Betty's Hackely is there Betty. Could you say hello? Anybody else online? Okay in the hall here. Go ahead. Chad Belichick on the city planning director Mike van der steen mayor of the city of Sheboygan Joel well, welcome everybody Next item is to approve the minutes from our March 10th meeting and entertain a motion to do that. Is there a second? Thank you. Is there any discussion on those minutes? Seeing none all those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye Opposed those more motions will stand as approved Next item for discussion is a feature presentation on street lighting and this will be done by Nancy Maring and Jeff Mars Okay so neighborhood street lighting I'm gonna talk about Us putting in some new lighting in our community about my block grant area and If you're not familiar the city of Sheboygan it receives a community development block grant Which is from the federal government and we're allowed to spend that money within these Load of moderate income neighborhoods that they've identified so on you can see The dark black outline shows you which census tracts are included in that in that load of moderate income neighborhood area It's kind of straight down the center of our city. It's split into the north side and the south side We one of the number one concerns that we kept hearing as staff as we went to these neighborhood meetings was Darkness in certain areas of our neighborhoods. So we thought okay. What's a way that we can Understand where the darkness is and do something about it So we partnered with the the police department. I printed them off a bunch of neighborhood maps and the third shift Officers went around and rated the darkness of each of our neighborhood streets within this area So their ratings came back and we mapped it using GIS This is from 2017 and 2018 they did the assessment in 2017 for the first time and so where you see the darker blue is the Most dark areas that they found so it's kind of on a sliding scale the areas that are white are the brightest areas so After we got this assessment back and we mapped it and we understood where those dark areas are We went out as planning staff and kind of looked at the situations in those dark areas sometimes the trees We're blocking any street lights that were there and that's still a problem in a lot of our neighborhoods the trees are Large, there's usually one corner lights the trees block the light and therefore the streets are dark So some of it was alleviated with some tree trimming But there were definitely spots that we saw the opportunity for additional lighting fixtures So in 2017 and 2018 We were able to partner with the lion energy and get about 25 extra fixtures put in our neighborhoods on both the north and south sides And an added benefit really of having those third shifters do this lighting assessment is they noticed about 120 Light fixtures that existed but just weren't functioning properly. They weren't turning on or they were flickering so Doing that assessment really opened our eyes to and and those problems got fixed in a matter of a couple of weeks So that really helped our neighborhood lighting is just having those officers be aware and looking for those poles and telling us when they aren't working So fast forward to 2019 and 2020 we do these projects over two years because this is sort of filler work for a lion energy They put these light poles in when they have time in 2017 and 18 there's a couple of hurricanes that really disrupted their work here but in 2019 and in 2020 we're gonna do it a Two-phased approach again. They did the assessment in 2019 and we're going to do the northern portion This spring and then later on in the year. They'll hopefully get to the southern portion. It's for a total of about 33 New lighting locations these new lights will be put up with underground wiring So it won't add to any more overhead wires in our neighborhoods, which is great And again when they did this assessment we identified areas that needed trimming So that was a huge help as well Sometimes we identify spots where we want lights and a lion energy says a light can't go on that spot So we talk about what a better solution is whether there's other underground utilities or whether a tree is in the way Or there's some other reason why the lighting won't work there. We try to find new spots This this lighting program isn't going to fix all of our dark spots in this area so we hope to continue to work on this in years to come and Jeffrey will talk about something that neighbors can do and neighborhood associations can get behind that are gonna Help with the lighting issue even further Thank you So what we did was we had an officer and we've had several officers work on projects getting light added in By just having the people that live in the area add the light in Criminal activity goes down the more light we add the better it is People feel more comfortable at night if they're walking in a lighted area versus walking in the dark Shows that that neighborhood cares for that area because they light it up. You can see what the conditions look like And it also helps partner with us as the police to show that we aren't going to tolerate any problems happening in the area So they did a geographic search the last project done was Keeney Park 100 or 1,088 residents 54% are homeowners 43 years old is the average age in that area They did the surveys of the 390 homes 60 homes had a porch light on 15% so not a lot of people were leaving any type of light on in the area so from 2016 to the end of 2016 they went from that dark No, lit street to just by having people turn on their other lights adding in more lighting for the area We have light bulbs that can be donated, but now LED lights are very inexpensive If you as a neighborhood association wanted to just go around I would say about nine o'clock at night Go for a walk through your neighborhood take a little map. We can get you maps Mark the areas that you think are the darkest and then go during the daytime or early evening Talk to the neighbors who live there say hey, would you be willing to leave your lights on to help prevent some of the problems in the area? Thank you, I hate being muted But you walk your dog after dark especially in the winter you trip on all the sidewalk hazards We know our sidewalks aren't the like fanciest in the world I'm Feeling safe walking at night. It doesn't Problems don't have to exist in your neighborhood in order for lighting an additional lighting and keeping porch lights on to be appropriate So I wouldn't want you to think my neighborhood isn't high crime. Nobody's gonna care I think there's still a lot of reasons to Encourage one another to turn porch lights on Question Of course it does I think there was a study done if you leave you have one ball on on your porch I'm muted if you have one ball on on your porch It costs less than two bucks to leave it on from the from dark to like 10 or 11 p.m. Every night for a year so it's Yeah, anyone else Well, thank you very much for that presentation need program that you've put together and making some big impacts in our neighborhoods Next is the discussion about our annual September get-together of the neighborhood leads and I'll turn it over to Chad Pellecek to bring this up for discussion So given the times we're in with COVID last year we had a first annual kind of neighborhood get together of all the neighborhood leaders at the Kiwanis Park King Park, and it was very well received and our goal was to continue it Every year we're happy to have it. I guess I'm looking for thoughts on If people will feel safe going in September or if we should postpone it a while or what the neighborhood feel Neighborhood leads feel as it relates to that. I think it was a good time for all of us to come together, especially to build some relationships with the city officials and city staff as well as the neighborhood people to be able to have the opportunity to talk across lines, but I Don't know how people would feel coming to a And we could you know we could look at instead of having a communal food We could have some type of prepackage food, you know Maybe like Jimmy John's or something of that nature that would be individually wrapped to get around that whole thing But I just want to make sure that and I'm not we don't necessarily need an answer now I guess if you would you know talk some on yourself and your neighbors and you know those people on your board if they're not here or Representative that's you know something you want to do and just let either Nancy or myself know otherwise if anybody has any You know Thoughts on it right now. We'd be happy to take them. I just don't know Given the times if this is a good, you know, this is something we should be planning for or should we shelve it for this year? Any comments? Well, it was in the shelter it was We did I mean we could do it outdoors. It would be better if it was outdoors. I if the weather would hold We did we did some stuff outside like a picture and talking in that But the food and stuff originally happened inside in the beginning Dean I guess I'll just looking at it here. I mean I thought it was a great event It was a really really good, you know event for people to get together get the things like that and my heart says Yeah, we should really do this But my head looks out at the audience and sees how many people are at this meeting right here and goes I don't know if it's gonna pay. That's I guess that that's my response to it I think you know the challenge, you know You all are facing how the handle having neighborhood meetings in these new times and you know Is it a virtual meeting? Is it in you know as an outside meeting? Is it, you know, and some neighborhoods aren't even meeting So, you know, I agree with you It'd be a good thing to bring everybody together during these times But I don't know if people are gonna feel differently about a larger group meeting and you know what that looks like I mean, we could do a Virtual meeting a zoom or a go-to meeting and have you just log in from your house I know it's not the same, but at least we could get people together to still share the information or or not I don't know If you hold it in a place where you can have like a shelter and Still be outdoors people could distance themselves and at least if you Light-brain you could you know be under a shelter, but I Guess I'd be in favor of getting together, but I don't know how many people would feel the same We could do that I would just hate to have it and order food for You know 50 60 people and only 10 show up. I guess we won't the people in the office wouldn't mind it, but It's not something we would like to do, but Why don't we do that we Nancy and I can work together on getting something Sent out to the neighborhood leads and and all everybody and see what the general opinion is Maybe a survey and just see would you support it or not and then see what that is make the decision of that And then maybe you could just ask them to RSVP and that's what I ordered RSVP Okay Thanks for that input. We appreciate it next. We're going to go into the neighborhood round table discussion Anything anybody wants to bring up? I Think that we'll have Andy talk about the beat cop program a little bit first So I'm Andy Cunningham. I was one of the original beat cops four years ago About four years ago now And I will be taking over the supervision of the unit. I guess kind of immediately so They'll probably be some small changes I know we've talked about getting back to a little bit more foot patrol things like that But really just making sure that we're engaging those communities and the neighborhoods and helping out the associations so We do have a new officer Kevin post and he is going to be starting on August 3rd will be his first day as the beat officer I guess the only other thing I would like to say is if there's anything that you would like to see different or Anything that we could help you guys out with please get a hold of me I do have cards with me and you can get a hold of me by email or by phone and We also have some Facebook pages to be able to follow and get a hold of us that way as well I'm pretty good at answering those types of things at all hours of the day So if you have a question or something comes up, you can get a hold of me He will he will be the beat cop for the nice So So the beat officer position is basically an extra body in those neighborhoods to help out We look at different things that are going on the neighborhoods and kind of decide which neighborhoods need the most help or Where our officers can be the most supportive of the community and that's how we pick those positions So we'll take a look at those again here when I start Next week, can you say which ones they are today? Right now You are the Israel Right now your neighborhoods And Jeff north side Any other questions, I really really enjoyed the position when I was in it four years ago, and I'm really excited to Have the opportunity to lead it and and have a lot of fun doing it. Thank you very much, Andy And does the new officer want to say anything? Acceptance speech Acceptance speech So I said it at the beginning I'm Kevin post I've been with the supporting police department coming up on four years in November It's been a blast working here so far. I did three years on second shift. I spent the last six months on third shift Trying to get a little bit of stuff going with Jeff before he retires and leaves us unfortunately But yeah, it'll be a great opportunity and I've enjoyed doing neighborhood stuff. I've worked very closely with Israel and Matt Hymerl when he was B cop on the south side because I have the same neighborhood So work directly with them kind of a general idea of the things that they're looking to do and look forward to partnering with with Israel and then Sergeant Cunninger and trying to see what we can do on the north side to continue things going in a positive direction Welcome. Thank you. Thank you for comments And I'd also like to Extend our wishes for a happy retirement to Jeff Mars We honored him last night with the certificate and recognized his service to the The city as a police officer for the last 28 and a half years And we were really glad that he finished his career off in as a beat cop. He did a great job. So thank you Jeff Any other round table discussion? Go ahead First of all, I would like to know if we can have like a neighborhood map as far as like You know where gateway is and all kidding park because you rattle them off And I'm trying to figure it out in my head and I really don't it be kind of nice to know put a name In a map location if we could have that for these meetings that'd be really kind of great so we in the last time we did the Neighborhood get together Nancy put together a neighborhood resource binder So we will make sure that we do that again and the map was what the map in the current Assignments from the police department and a number of other resources were in there So we will get that to you and if we don't meet we'll get it to otherwise if we do meet We'll share that updated information. Okay, great. Thank you Thank you Okay, okay, great. Thank you The other thing is kind of going back to the neighborhood lighting situation I received an email on the 8th of July from a gal She lives on the corner of 7th and Geely and she sent me this email She said hello I would like to revisit the street lights on Geely Avenue with the city again is This something the neighborhood association would be willing to help me do and potentially join forces with the association that covers The south side of Geely We were targets of a second theft on our property in less than a year Streets like street lights should not be determined by the average income of the neighborhood residents But rather by the need based on pedestrian traffic and disturbances So with that and kind of walking and knowing, you know, what would be good ideas to come up with a lighting situation Is there something Can be done as far as What besides walking through the neighborhood and asking the neighbors? I guess what she's looking for is a pole You know a street light to be Place there because it is dark in that area as you drive through at night and walk through so I don't blame her I agree with it should be based on disturbances and pedestrian traffic because it is right there by the hospital So it will be brought up at our Association meeting which is going to be held on the 6th of August So I just want to get your ideas as far as you know other things that can be done So to that I think I would say We don't necessarily determine the need for the street lights on that low-income neighborhood area It's just that we have the funds available to put them there So it sort of comes down to the cost of the street lights and when we put those street lights in it The cost ranges depending on what it needs from about $1,500 like $4,500 So it's really just it's about funding at that point Mike Wilmes has agreed to come to your meeting on the 6th. He is the superintendent of facilities and streets So he not streets facilities and traffic So he would be the one that would orchestrate putting in a new light for you But it goes through a line energy and it would be a matter of whether the funds would be available and what that looks like Running as we pay for the electricity for all of the street lights it costs us about a hundred and fifteen dollars a year per street light So that's not a huge concern. It's it's finding the funding to put the street light in in the first place So what I would say is we definitely talked to Mike about that on the 6th and specifically the area that it is It's a high pedestrian area. They've had thefts on that property. It's definitely worth the conversation I would say it's also a great opportunity to do that those conversations about life tonight with the porch Lighting unfortunately all of our street lighting in our neighborhood is off of cobra lights on the power poles and the trees Do a really efficient job of blocking that light? So even if a light goes in obviously on the corner of 7th if it goes right on the corner That's really helpful. Hopefully it's it's an appropriate spot for a light But when you're talking about pedestrian scale sometimes that really high lighting doesn't do an efficient job of lighting the ground surfaces So those porch lights are still really important Nancy never Nancy didn't address this but just so you guys are aware so the the 2017 18 19 and 20 Light maps that she showed on there by the time we're done with it The city will have been vested through federal grants about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for that. Yeah, almost two hundred thousand dollars. Yes So it's not it's not a cheap project. Yeah Unfortunately our Eighth Street is the cut off. Yeah, it's The cut off is eight so the nearest thing would be on And I'm not seeing anything even ninth is the closest new light Proposed and and yeah Like I said before to our new lights are some of the problem But there are still plenty of dark areas that we haven't gotten to get to yet. So it doesn't look like Anything is near Microphone yeah It's a good opportunity for associations to just Tell people again to be a good steward to the city. I don't know what the theft is on her property But you know, we have to remind people at time vehicle thefts lock your doors lock your house But there's bikes out put your bikes away, you know those type of things I don't know her situation, but that's a good opportunity for the associations to tell their neighbors are you locking your stuff up What was stolen different between landscaping you'll be installing and bikes being left out But also then what Jeff said get a hold of them and maybe go to their house at night and be like Yeah, you have no lights on maybe think about turning on the lights, too So as neighbors and associations you can educate them as well as us Educate them the more we educate people on that the less thefts we're gonna have to so keep that mind as well Other than just street lighting because like Nancy said sometimes they can't put up street light in certain areas Because it's just too expensive sometimes they can it's an easy fix It's difficult to assess it without getting out there and looking at the streets and in words Yeah, you shouldn't have to worry about that But that's just being part of the city and being good stewards of the city and making sure we don't have those crimes Opportunity there and that's anywhere. That's out in the county. That's that's anywhere, you know Thank You Jody any other items that you'd like to bring up Go ahead A Volrath North Point has continued to meet We've had two meetings May and Planning meeting and we have had our annual meeting and election That we met at the shelter at Volrath Park, which seemed to work out pretty well we have Obvious these are challenging times as far as doing projects, so We are we're having a neighborhood picnic, but we have canceled that and we still hope to have our fourth annual history walk in on October 3rd Around the Volrath North Point neighborhood and I want to thank Chad because the program that funded the the the box that we have on the shack those brochures are disappearing quickly and people are taking them and I'm hoping that some history gets Shared with many people that are just walking by so I want to thank you for the funding to do that and just to let you guys know that we're still all meeting and Hoping to do some good things yet for our neighborhoods. Very good. Thank you for that report Any other information? Indiana quarter we're gonna have our first Post-COVID meeting tomorrow night. We're gonna have at Moose Park. We're hoping for great weather so that we don't Have to cancel, but if we have some nice weather, we're hoping for a good turnout We actually be a moose. Yeah, Moose Park Moose Park. We're gonna have it there and We're gonna just we're asking everyone to bring lawn chairs masks and we'll social distance and Hopefully have a good discussion. We've got some exciting things happening yet. We the Playground equipment has been ordered for Moose Park so we've got that coming in and We're also gonna be We are having our large item pick up the second weekend in September Or we're still going ahead with that. We did postpone it we had for the for actually the first weekend originally in May and We postponed it to the second weekend now in September, so we'll see how that all goes and We're we're chugging along Great, thanks for that report Dean are any of you having Any any challenges with getting together from like resistance from anybody that Didn't think about that As far as bugs but it's difficult to get Anyone other than the board members to come out. I mean, we haven't had much in the way of visitors or guests or We haven't had any programs since right before everything shut down with our aldermanic forum But that was the last real event we had And And speaking of all wrath park Some people may have noticed that there were some no parking signs put up there on Monday and the food trucks Went off to different locations. I Did this because that morning we had a meeting with Cheboygan County's community health and we learned that over that last week our Positive cases went up by 97 just a huge number and you think of it that one week that was 23 percent of all the cases that we've had since March the middle of March when this whole COVID thing started and I really felt that I needed to do something To try to turn this around now as mayor I don't have many powers that will allow me to Do something at a restaurant do something at a bar, but in this case I do have the right to say that we can't have any parking along certain streets and so I use that tool and and we we had a meeting virtually today with some of the food truck people and They've agreed to do some things to make that a much safer event in the future So they've agreed that vendor staff will incur direct That incurred direct contact with food prep or customers will be masked Signage at each food truck should encourage others to be masked Signage at each food truck should include the Cheboygan County promise which is really putting these things down on paper It's a program that Cheboygan County's public health has and then signs cones or other markers should be put at the order lines to Set them up with a six feet apart from each person that's that's ordering and each truck should post Instructions so that how to return for pickup So we don't want people huddling and gathering and waiting for their order to be finished And then they should all have hand sanitizer available at each truck so I really appreciate the food vendors working with me on this and Hopefully this event will continue to be a positive thing for our community and a safer Event that happens every Monday. Is there anything else on the round table? I Guess I just have one quick question. How did you advertise your? Double-ster pickup refer for people that do did you do flyers? Did you did you just word of mouth? How did you just? Next door just or Okay Okay, okay. You did next door. Okay. That's a okay Is yours this fall? Yeah. Yeah, that's what we did. That's what we did. We did door hangers last It is it's extremely and it's very difficult. It's very difficult in the best of times to get people to go around and do it Dean so King Park had theirs And they did door hangers last year and looking at the numbers from DPW. They have the same amount of tonnage really, okay? And they just did Facebook and next door. Okay, so I think we just do that word spread from last year If you just do Facebook and next door, okay, you'll probably get the same results. Okay And your signage you put on the road that you guys had last time. Yeah Okay, then we'll go on to Sheboygan neighborhood pride update as Penny Weber shared any information with any of the officers on I don't know if she's been able to have any any meetings during this period either Usually she'll send me something, but I didn't get any emails Um, I know she attended the kidney park meeting Earlier or late in July. That's the last meeting a lot of our meetings got canceled in July. So We're kind of waiting. I did not get any emails for any updates. Okay. Thank you Mayor so we she met um, so she started her meetings back up. We met at Taylor park With her board members. It was more like an update of the neighborhood associate, you know up and coming association statuses And kind of just covering the books from the previous months since they haven't had any meetings So it's kind of a catch-up meeting really I don't think there's anything not where they're really from that meeting that came out of it Okay, besides Franklin park in the flats is forming and then the one on the north side that's forming as well are the two Things to note, I guess Thank you very much. Israel So Jeff did Keeney court So Abby's in her office and she's been working with the group with as well So did they approve bylaws and what is where are they at? So they are working on their bylaws. They did their goals and all that She has the bylaws drafted They need to wait till their august meeting and then they're going to push out and they already have three people willing to be officers So I see them being an association easily by the end of the year. Okay Very good And then again, we're planning tentatively our next meeting on september 22nd That's possibly going to be the the date for our big get-together We'll see how the information comes back with the feedback from the other members that aren't here And with that I entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting So move second. Thank you for that motion and support All those in favor of adjournment, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed We stand adjourned. Thanks very much for making time for this tonight