 Good evening. I'd like to call the fifth regular meeting of the 2021 Common Council to order. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sales. Thank you very much. Would the clerk please call the roll? All the person born? Here. All the person Donahue? Here. All the person Feldy? Here. All the person Ackley? Here. All the person Phillips? Here. All the person Decker? Here. All the person Sorensen? Here. All the person Savaglio? Here. All the person Wolf? Here. All the person Mitchell? Here. All the person May, here in the counters chambers? 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. Next we'll go on to the approval of our minutes from our fourth regular meeting, which was held on May 18th. All the person Wolf? Thank you, Mayor, I make a motion to approve. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of them first of all is there any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next we have a special presentation on the fire department's 2019 annual report delivered by fire chief Eric Montanello. Eric? Thank you mayor council members this is just a quick overview of what the accomplishments were for 2019 for the fire department. First of all we live by our mission statement so the Sheboygan fire department is dedicated to serving all who visit who live who work and invest in the city of Sheboygan through excellence in fire protection rescue emergency and non-emergency medical services, code enforcement and education and at the highest professional level in a compassionate ethical and cost effective manner. So our three our three words that we really live by our courage honor integrity and that's something we preach on a daily basis. So some of the highlights that we accomplished last year we installed over 160 smoke alarms and truly what that is is we don't necessarily just get appointments sometimes we do it on a rare occasion but mostly it's when our staff are out on calls and enter a residence or even a business for that matter and if they didn't have a working smoke alarm we would install it for them. As you are aware we finished the renovation in our station one which is over 113 years old it also is our busiest station for Sheboygan so that was completed in 2019 and out of the 5,735 calls we were able to meet our NFPA standards of arriving within 380 seconds 88% of the time so that is quite an accomplishment for all those calls we are trying to get our benchmark to over 90% of the time so we'll continue work on that. We also took receipt of our 100-foot aerial ladder platform which is housed at station 3 our headquarters station and Acuity donated a thousand dollars to the fire department and it was on a recommendation nomination from the Jackson Elementary second grade class Elizabeth Rommel's class so we use the portion of that money to purchase our thermal imaging camera which will allow us to find any any patients or victims where it's low visibility and difficult to find. In 2019 we also as you are aware had an incident at the Cargill multi-facility where we were able to safely evacuate three of the employees along this was in coordination with the Sheboygan County technical rescue team employees from Cargill and the Sheboygan Police Department so everybody was evacuated safely which is great and then later that fall they we were nominated along with the technical rescue team for the Hometown Hero Award which was presented at the State Capitol. Also Assistant Chief Butler is heavily involved with the dementia crisis program and he was awarded the Hometown Hero Award last year as well. Several retirements occurred in 2019. We had also several promotions due to those retirements and then we were also appointing we had about eight employees that were hired and then a couple of them had left so that's why they're not up here. Some of our responses so we as I mentioned before we run over 5,000 calls out of those 5,700 we have about 4,516 that are all rescue or EMS related so it's not just ambulance calls rescue could be somebody trapped in an elevator somebody out on the water we had about 89 structure fires and then the rest were other calls for service. As our call volume continues to increase we also see an overlapping incident increase and what that overlapping incident means is that when one station or unit is out on a call we have another multiple call come in at the same time so these are simultaneous calls sometimes there's two three four five calls coming occurring at once so it's increasing over the past year so we're at about 45% of our incidents are overlapping. Our busiest time of day is between the 2 p.m. at 7 p.m. hours so that's just the statistic of where our busiest times are and then our busiest days of the week roughly are Monday and Thursday. Typically on most fire departments you see that Friday Saturday be one of the busier but for us it's that Monday Thursday. This is just another stat of how many of the EMS runs we re-ran in 2019 these are all strictly EMS medical related anytime an ambulance went out or an assist the patient. One of the things we pride ourselves on is training. We have a very active training department and all our personnel are just constantly wanting to go to class further their education. This is just a breakdown of where that training distribution is. Majority of the EMS and fire related like firefighter driving apparatus related and then the rest are all break out is some of the firefighter basic skills that we do. We try to do some administrative training as well and then we have health safety management and then hazardous material as well as some of the tech rescue. So our big months of fire prevention September and October and during this those two months we do the programs going out to the schools and these are some of the topics that you see and every it's through K through 5 so every year we do a different program so the kindergartners aren't getting the same class that a first grader would get so that way we progress and they get exposed to different aspects. Last year we did about 149 programs and we saw over 3,000 students again the students are something we can't control we don't know what the student volume will be but it's pretty impressive over 3,000 and also our fire prevention Bureau also does completes about 1900 of the businesses so we do about 19,000 1,987 inspections throughout the community so that's just a little synopsis of our 2019 so I appreciate it and if anybody has any questions please I'll be glad to answer otherwise thank you. Thank you very much Eric and I just wanted to let everybody know that on June 3rd you'll be celebrating your one-year anniversary as their fire chief done a great job in a very short period of time and look forward to many more in the future. Well thank you it's been an honor and please no gifts. Thanks. Next item on the agenda is public forum. There's no one this evening. Okay then we'll move on to Mayor's announcements. This past week there was a very disappointing event that took place in Minneapolis on behalf of the City of Sheboygan I extend our sympathy to the family of George Floyd. This event has a generated protests around the country and even here in Sheboygan. Today Chief of Police Domigolski and I met with Joshua and Dante who organized the event at Fountain Park on Friday night and they're here with us in the council chambers this evening. They made it clear that they hope that their efforts in this protest would make for a better world for the youth that are growing up now. We had a great conversation with them and Pastor Thomas who reached out to me to set up this meeting and we decided to continue to meet to work on a partnership between the black community and the City of Sheboygan so we really look forward to these meetings in the future and thank you gentlemen for your time today. Moving on to COVID-19 the Public Health Department is scheduled or did schedule a community testing opportunity last week at the Sheboygan County Fairgrounds. They were within conjunction with the National Guard. There were 250 tests that were administered and within the next day or two we should have all the test results back. City Hall as of today is now open or rather last week is open to the public. The Meade Library is also open with limited hours Monday to Friday. They're open 10 to 6, Saturday 10 to 2 and the third floor and also their meeting rooms are still closed. Municipal Court will be conducting virtual hearings for the next few months at Municipal Court. Our city parks have remained open through all of this but the following park facilities will remain closed until June 30th and reevaluated based on the Sheboygan County Safe Restart Guidelines. All city park playgrounds will remain closed. City park buildings and shelters will remain closed and city park restrooms will have a phased reopening as new dispenser for hand washing is installed. Our senior activity center will remain closed and starting today short-line Metro resumed half-hour service. They have been operating on hourly service for the last month and a half and they'll be open weekdays now and operating until 4 until 5.45 in the evening and they will maintain a capacity of 10 riders on board each bus this week and then next week they plan to change that to 15 riders per bus. So they're coming back in the future weeks. We'll also see service return in the evenings and on weekends. The other thing that the coronavirus has caused is for the canceling of many events and while the city had canceled some of our events for the 4th of July today along with Festival Foods the sponsor of the 4th of July fireworks we have decided to cancel the 2020 fireworks due to the guidance of the Sheboygan County Safe Restart Plan which was put in place by the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health. These regulations recommend that outdoor events should allow for people to maintain six feet of physical distance from others and gatherings should be limited to 25 people or less. It's clear that we cannot maintain that with the 4th of July fireworks. In our announcement on April 30th regarding the 4th of July festivities we stated that the fireworks plans would be finalized today on June 1st. That announcement mentioned the possibility of postponing them till Labor Day weekend however that option is no longer viable and the decision has been made to fully cancel the fireworks for this year. Given that Festival Foods has been a major sponsor of the fireworks for many years and the city values his partnership the city leaders felt that it was the best decision to cancel given the uncertain times. The City of Sheboygan will not be hosting any 4th of July celebrations this year. This encompasses the beach events, the land park events, the parade and fireworks. These celebrations are planned to resume for the 4th of July in 2021 and no fires on the city beaches will be allowed on July 4th unless they are within the recreational fire rings per regulations which are posted on the city website. Should further guidance be needed please contact Chad Pellecek the Director of Planning and I thank you very much for your time today. Moving on on the agenda next item is our Consent Agenda that will include items 2.1 through 2.13. All the person will thank you Mayor I make a motion to receive and file all RO's receive all our C's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances. Thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on any of those items on the Consent Agenda? Hearing none we'll ask the clerk to call the roll for passage. Ten ayes. Motion passes. Under reports of officers item 3.1 is RO number 14 of 2021 by Director of Planning and Development submitting for information a progress report of the allocation of the CDBG-CV funds that were provided by the U.S. Government housing and urban development. All the person will thank you Mayor I make a motion to receive and file. Thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll. Ten ayes. Motion passes. Item 3.2 will be referred to the Finance and Personnel Committee under resolutions item 4.1 is resolution number 29 of 2021 by all the persons Wolf and Donahue repealing resolution number 137 of 1920 relating to a relocation order in the City of Sheboygan. All the person will thank you Mayor I make a motion to suspend the rules is there any is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none please proceed. Thank you Mayor I make a motion to adopt the resolution. Thank you for that motion and support that's before us for discussion. Seeing no discussion with the clerk please call the roll. Ten ayes. Motion passes. Items 4.2 and 4.3 will be referred to various committees under report of committees. Item 5.1 is RC number 38 of 2021 by the Finance and Personnel Committee to whom was referred RO number 10 of 2021 by the City Administrator submitting the 2021 preliminary budget physical factors for guidance prior to the department budget preparations recommends filing the document. All the person Donahue. Thank you Mayor I move to receive the report of the committee and file the document. Thank you for that motion and support. That's before us for discussion. Mayor yes, I'm born. Please go ahead. Thank you Mayor. I didn't I did not support this document in the Finance and Personnel Committee last week because I I feel that the document is premature and laying out some things that under the circumstances with the financial situation for our budget may be difficult to carry out. Number three maintain city services with no decrease in service levels funds for a 2% raise for city employees including the representative bargaining agreements and also incorporating the 2020 2021 projects and equipment vehicles identified in the capital improvements budget. And the reason the reason for that is that I was surprised that the document wasn't in with this with this document. We're considering the financial condition of the of the 2021 budget now shows a general fund shortfall of almost $1.5 million and a debt service debt service fund shortfall of almost $360,000. The 2% raise is going to add another $590,000. They might as well say $591,000 to the budget and a 4.5% increase in health insurance of almost $257,000 for a total of almost $848,000. And with our revenue streams being very uncertain at this point, I just didn't feel that it was appropriate to go ahead with this for me to vote on this document at this present time. I realize that it's kind of an outline and a guide for budgeting. But I think it's at this point, it's a little too optimistic with all of the various funding sources that we have no idea on data just the first quarter. And I hope that I hope that we get an update on these on this data at the end of the second quarter at our finance and personnel committee meeting. And if things look more promising with the all of our revenue streams after the second quarter, then I would consider going ahead with this roadmap for our 2021 budget. But under the circumstances, I will not be supporting this document because I think it outlines things that may be not necessarily that we're going to be able to fulfill. Thank you. Mayor? Thanks for sharing your comments. Who would like to speak next? Yes. Alderperson Donahue. Thank you. We did have a long and I think good discussion at finance about this preliminary budget parameter outline. I in fact have requested and certainly not out of order or anything unusual that the city administrators give us some basic parameters to consider one before he leaves but two as department heads are beginning to start to think about and plan their budgets. So this has always been for us a step by step process and I don't think that's going to be any difference this year. So in other words, just to reassure Alderborn, the fact that these particular figures are listed on the on this preliminary roadmap really does not keep us or doesn't focus this in a way that we can't move around. And I do understand the concerns. I think everybody has to have concerns about where we're going and how we're going to do it. The thing that's intriguing to me and that Administrator Hoffland pointed out a couple different times at the meeting is the fairly substantial swing that we have from the prior budget where we again had forecast if my memory serves a substantial budget deficit and instead we ended up with a projected surplus of $1.7 million. So about a $3 million swing. So that in some respects I think is something that we're obviously going to be keeping an eye out for as we as we go through the budget process. The other piece of that though is I think it would be helpful and of course we will have a new administrator and working through different things as we get into many more specifics is why that swing. You know, budgets are nothing but planning documents. We do our very best to analyze both expenses and revenues. We understand as any organization or any household that matter that budget numbers change over time and what we thought would happen doesn't happen. But I mean it's almost a leap of faith to think that we'll have that same kind of really dramatic budget swing in the 2021 budget. So I'm very comfortable supporting this basic first out of the gate planning document which certainly does not lock us into any decisions. I mean, I think we all hope that we're lucky in a sense, you know, our property tax that Levy won't change. It doesn't change that rapidly, but the state aid certainly could. So I mean, we have our fingers crossed and I think we'll do adequate planning in that respect. So I'm fully supporting this and I appreciate Darrell putting this together for us. Thank you for those comments. Administrator Hofflin, can I go ahead? I do share the concerns that Alderborn raised as well and I appreciate Alder Donahue kind of getting some more insight about what the finance committee discussed during this process. I will say I am kind of concerned to just about what our projected revenues look like while we kind of endure these difficult times. And I hope City Administrator Hofflin can kind of speak on to that. What are some of the anticipated struggles that we might see moving forward throughout the budget planning process? Whether that, you know, less folks getting licenses and fees and inspections or whatever, what impact that that's going to have on budgets, where do we see decreased state aid coming in as well, coming through the future as well, just kind of a holistic budget approach and the impact that COVID pandemic has had on us. I'm just kind of curious on what those points are as well and what that is going to be incorporated through this budget process. So if City Administrator wants to speak, I appreciate that kind of hitting on some of those points. Thank you. Thank you, Alderperson Sarnson. Darrell, would you? Good evening, everyone. At a meeting in early May or late April, I did provide some information, I think, to the Finance and Personnel Committee as it related to COVID related changes to the 2020 budget. As part of that presentation, I identified some areas where revenues are weaker than originally forecasted or projected, such as parking violations and related tickets. We also noted that, again, with the Federal Reserve reducing the overnight borrowing rate, our interest income projections darted down slightly. I mentioned the parking violations, also municipal court. We expect, ultimately, the fine levels to drop. And as you heard, both at the presentation, COVID related changes, but also at Finance and Personnel this last week, tourism is down. So room tax associated with our hotels. We expect there to be an impact throughout this calendar year. If you've read some of the recent articles, especially for airline, they don't expect things to be back until 2023. So I'm hoping that travel and tourism in Sheboygan will not have to wait until 2023 to come back to where it was pre-COVID. But that's something that we need to keep our eye on, possibly because we are fairly close to sort of the source of the traveler, that they will feel comfortable hopping in their car and driving north in many cases. It's driving north to Sheboygan. Other impacts. I did mention a bright spot is with CARES Act. We have received substantial funding, especially as it relates to our transit system. And those funds will more than meet our needs in 2022, or 2020. And we will have additional money to carry over into 2021 to help not only operating, but also to possibly allow us to advance our capital purchase, specifically our replacement of some of our buses. So, older sorts, and I hope that brief summary is helpful to you as the city considers its 2020 as well as 2021 projections. Thanks, Darrell. Thank you very much. Is there any other discussion? As long as you got Darrell up there, I have another question, Mayor. Go ahead, Jim. Darrell, I know we have the upcoming payment in June and another one in December for our debt service on the Salt Point, our new Salt Point business park. Can you explain to me again, and also the rest of the council members, where that $500,000 is going to come from, where, what fund, how those funds are going to be paid? And then also I got an email from Marty late last week that our debt service on the Salt Point for 2021, I believe is going to be in excess of $600,000. So can you kind of tell us how that you anticipate that that's going to sit into the rest of the 2020 budget and then also 2021? Thank you. As many elders know, the city's original business park is substantially full. And in order to address the needs of existing Sheboygan businesses who want to retain their employees and their operations in our community, there really was up until a year ago limited locations. And so this is really our future sort of livelihood, as far as allowing existing companies, especially those that have no place to go on their existing lots, that they would seek out this new South Point Enterprise campus for potential growth. In addition, of course, we hope to attract businesses that may not currently be within our limits and potentially want to locate. Again, it's a great location up against I 43. The city, as many of you know, did borrow money for the development of this tax incremental district. I think it's number 18. As far as a cash flow, absolutely older born is correct in that since we do not have any businesses in the newly developed areas, the debt service is sort of ahead of the amount of increment or taxes generated in the business park itself. We were fortunate in that the original TIFF 18 boundaries included one or two lots of our original business park and FedEx built a large facility new distribution center at that location, which we will receive. We receive some preliminary numbers from our assessor. We will receive some additional tax increment associated with the finalizing and full evaluation of that project. In addition, with the Plan Commission's review and approval of preliminary plot associated with Stonebrook residential subdivision on the southwest corridor along South Business Drive, the city expects that we will receive additional increment. Again, not in time for the 2021 budget for future years. More specifically about the 2021 budget associated with it, the deficits operating deficits within TIFF number 18 have primarily been funded by advances from other healthy budgets. The industrial park fund has sufficient funding and my recollection it was a planned source of revenue to make the 2020 debt service payment and we do have additional funds that remain within that industrial park fund so that we could offer additional advances for the 2021 payments. Our finance director is here in attendance. Is there any other sources that I missed out? As you know, the city's general fund is extremely healthy. So in times of unique sort of financial situations like COVID-19, it can be a source. That's why it's a rainy day account. It's possible that we may need to look to the general fund again for an advance with the expectation once businesses populate South Point Enterprise Campus that they will be able to, in essence, with that new tax-based free payback, both the industrial park fund as well as potentially the general fund. Thank you very much, Alder Administrator Hofflin. Is there any other discussion? That's the part that concerns me, Darrell, is that if you're having to go to the general fund reserves to fund that and with a $1.5 million structural deficit, you know, that that may be also coming from general fund reserves. You know, I just hate to see that general fund reserve, even though it's healthy, be continually, continually hit for for budget deficits. Thank you. Administrator Hofflin. With the anticipation in the next month of a formal presentation by CLA, our auditing firm, we expect that we will be close to 50% of cash on hand compared to our annual operating general fund budget. Our current fiscal policy that specifically addresses the percent, minimum percent allowed or recommended in our general fund is 25%. So we're almost double as far as the reserves in the general fund. So it gives the city, it gives the common council an opportunity to consider possibilities that some communities would enjoy that flexibility. So I urge you to sort of keep an open mind as you consider and develop the 2021 budget. Thank you very much. Any other discussion? Then I'd ask the city clerk to please call the roll. Eight ayes, two noes. Motion passes. Item 5.2 is RC number 39 of 2021 by the Licensing, Hearings and Public Safety Committee. Tim was referred direct referral general ordinance number six of 2021 by all the person Sorensen and Donahue amending section 110-502 of the municipal code. So it was the temporarily ease requirements related to sidewalk cafes and recommends adopting the ordinance. All the person Sorensen. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to receive the report of the committee and adopt the ordinance. Second. Thank you for that motion and support under discussion. I have a question for the city attorney, Mayor. Please proceed. All the person born. Thank you, Mayor. Attorney Adams with this with these and I certainly understand while we're doing why we were doing this and I support it by only concern is by not going before the city plan commission. Is there are there are there's certain zoning zoning items that that are hoops that these bars are going to have to go through. And I'm concerned mainly about we had one last year in the neighborhood over on Wilson Avenue where the neighbors were were against the sidewalk seating. And it didn't pass the the plan commission. But I don't see any mechanism on what we're voting on tonight. Is this going to have to be complaint driven if some of these new establishments set up these these this outdoor seating? Is it going to have to be complaint driven if we get any complaints, seeing that there's no hoops to go through for these bars really to to open these city attorney still does have to go through the licensing hearings and public safety committee. And in doing that, there is a staff group that meets before every meeting with representatives from my office, the clerk's office and the police department. And while we're doing these sidewalk cafes and some of the other things that are going on right now, we also do have representation from public works and from planning and zoning. So we do have staff that is reviewing it. And so if there does seem to be an indication that there would be a problem, that is that that would be caught there and brought to the licensing hearing and public safety committee for their review. Anything else? Concerned neighbors and would have an opportunity to to appear before the committee. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any other just go ahead. Thank you. And at licensing and hearings, we're very pleased with these changes, noting that they are for this year. And in fact, what we are trying to communicate to our local businesses that are really hurting is that the city is not our job is not to get in the way our job is to help. So that rather than think about hoops that we're requiring people to jump through, we're trying to affirmatively be of assistance and offer staff time and expertise to ensure that businesses that are really have been very hard hit for striving to reopen for looking at different business models, have a friend in the city rather than a bureaucrat. There are substantial as Chuck just outlined substantial substantial staff input. And so we're hoping we're hoping that we are seen as part of the solution and not not the problem. So I really would urge you all to support this. Mr. Mayor, can I speak as well to that? Sure, please follow up. Thank you. I'd just like to add on to all the person Donny. He was comments too. I think that this is a really good positive solution to help a lot of businesses, restaurants and bars in the area to get creative and how they address the challenges that we're all facing right now. I think it's it's a creative tool that folks can choose to utilize and ensuring that they keep their customers safe, making sure that they're practicing social distance in a safe manner. So I would encourage, you know, anyone that that that is a small business owner to to see the options that they might be able to to approach with this and just a reminder that it is temporary. It just just the one year change for this one, if they choose and it's successful for them in the future, then then the normal process would come back into play. So I would encourage other folks to support this as well. Thank you. Thank you for those comments. Anyone else? Mike, go ahead. Alderperson Wolf. Thank you, Mike. I also wanted to add in that I agree with Alder Donahue and Alder Sorenson. This is a this is a troubled times for our businesses and our local local businesses that we, you know, that have struggled over time and this is not helping the situation. But we should take the you know, as they say, take lemons and turn it into lemonade. This is a great opportunity for us to help them and expand their opportunity, you know, outside their facility. And you know, let's let's look at this as an opportunity for them in the future to be able to again, utilize this outside space and expand their services in the future. So this is a good springboard where the city has an opportunity to reach out and become the the arm of assistance versus the arm of holding them back. So I support this 100%. Thank you. Thank you for those comments. See no other discussion. I'd ask the clerk to please call the roll. 10 eyes. Motion passes. Next, we'll move on to general ordinances that are authorized by law. City Attorney Adams. So on other matters, 7.1 is an arrow by the city clerk, submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31 2020 and June 30 2020. Those will be referred to licensing hearings and public safety committee. 7.2 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending April 14 2021 and June 30 2021. That will also be referred to licensing hearings and public safety committee. 7.3 is a resolution informing the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that the 2019 compliance maintenance annual report CMAR has been reviewed. It'll be referred to public works committee. 7.4 is a resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to sign the final offer of the city of Sheboygan with the attached tenant of agreement which document is approved by amalgamated transit union local 998. It'll be referred to the transit commission. Next is adjournment. Alder Prisenwolf. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to adjourn. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of adjournment, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. We stand adjourned. Thank you for your time tonight.