 this third regular common council meeting to order will the clerk please say the quote of the day there we go thank you mr. Mayor change is the end results of all true learning all right call the roll all the person athlete all the person born here all the person Decker all the person Feldy here all the person flicky paneski here all the person Mitchell all the person Pirella all the person Salazar here all the person Savaglio there are nine present all right for folks in attendance would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes from our April 26th meeting president Feldy I make a motion to approve the minutes second there's been a motion in the second any discussion on the minutes seeing none all those in favor please state aye aye anyone opposed aye minutes are approved anyone for public forum today no one this evening all right next five point one point five resignations of Kyle Welton from the Meade public library board president Feldy thank you mayor I move to receive in file second there's been a motion in a second all those in favor please stay dived and you want to pie all right that's approved six point one mayor's appointments those will lay over all right announcement all right good evening everybody so first we have an announcement for an election to be held at the Common Council meeting for May 17th 2021 to fill the unexpired term for a former older person Ryan Sorensen for District 8 so if anybody knows anybody that lives in District 8 please have them contact the city clerk's office to send a letter of intent and your resume otherwise feel free to call my office as well for any questions all right six or excuse me 1.8 mayor's announcements all right so starting off just a quick brief COVID update currently in Sheboygan County there are 123 active cases this past week sadly there were two additional deaths for individuals over the age of 80 currently there are only three people in the hospital and our activity level in the county has seen a 55 percent decrease in our from our burden rate however this is still a high number and we keep encouraging folks folks to wear masks and socially distance the city has been doing a wonderful job with their Monday morning meetings with other stakeholders in the health health care field and experts and we're working with a lot of different entities to ensure that vaccines are getting rolled out and my encouragement to all citizens that are eligible please look on the public health's website the schedule of appointment I have my second COVID shot tomorrow so I'm looking forward to getting that over with I'm really looking forward to this discussion and conversation after the city council meeting tonight for the committee the whole meeting to review and dive and head first with the affordable housing study so I'm looking for a fruitful conversation on that as well so now we're going to dive right into some proclamations here I got a big stack of them so we're going to go through these so first one is nursing's month so today we have Lori and Lauren from both St. Nick's and advocate Aurora today here to accept the proclamation so whereas registered nurses in the United States constitute our largest our nation's largest health care profession and American Nurses Association has a voice for registered nurses in this country and working to chart new courses for a healthy nation and relies on increasing access to primary and preventative health care a renewed emphasis on primary and prevent preventative health care will require better utilization of all our nation's registered nurses and resources whereas professional nursing is an incredible indispensable and incredible component of safety and quality of care for hospitalized patients and many more community members whereas more qualified registered nurses are needed in the future to meet increasingly complex needs of health care health care consumption in this community and whereas the cost-effective safe and healthy quality health care services provided by registered nurses will be an incredibly increasingly important community and component excuse me component to the United States health care delivery system for the future now therefore I Ryan Sarnson Mayor of Sheboygan do hereby declare May 2021 as nurses month so Lauren and Lori would you please come up and on behalf of all the citizens of Sheboygan I'll give you this proclamation thank you Mayor Sarnson and council members we nurses really appreciate this day and your support for the future thank you got two other ones I'm not gonna read the full ones today because I'm gonna be presenting them out throughout the week at different events next one I'm gonna be proclaiming May 3rd through the 9th as Rockets for Schools Week May 6th is National Day of Prayer this one I'm gonna read out loud whereas the Office of Municipal Clerk is a time-honored and vital part of local government that exists throughout the world and whereas the Office of Municipal Clerk is the oldest among public public servants and whereas the Office of Municipal Clerk provides a professional link between residents and local government bodies agencies of government at all levels whereas municipal clerks have pledged to do even mindful job of their neutrality and impartial rendering of a rendering of equality services to all or as municipal clerks serve as the information center on functions of local government and the community and whereas municipal clerks continually strive to improve the administration of many affairs of the Office of Municipal Clerk through participation in education programs seminars workshops and annual meetings of their state and county and international professional organizations whereas it is most important and appropriate that we recognize the accomplishments of the Office of Municipal Clerk and whereas municipal clerks weeks is celebrating its 52nd annual anniversary in 2021 and now therefore I Ryan Sornsson mayor of the city of Sheboygan do hereby proclaim the week of May 2nd through 8th as Municipal Clerks Week so will our municipal clerk Meredith the Bruin please come on down and accept this proclamation she didn't know I was doing this one so older person Felde I moved to receive and file all our O's receive all our C's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances second there's been a motion and second on the consent agenda any discussion regarding the consent agenda right this is a roll call vote please check your board talks nine eyes all right 3.1 and 3.2 will be referred to committees resolutions 4.1 resolution number 3-21-22 by older persons Felde and Flicky Paneski authorizing the IT director to enter into a contract with AT&T regarding the Sheboygan police department's phone services older person Felde I moved to adopt second first we need a moat we need a request to suspend the rules okay I moved to suspend the rules please any objection to suspending the rules seeing none there's been a motion in second any discussion on this item I would like to make a comment the ordinance itself clearly outlines the rationale for the need to suspend rules and I truly appreciate that when that's provided thank you all right thank you for that any other feedback or discussion on this item mayor Alderman Boran Alder Boran thank you mayor I had an opportunity earlier today to talk to our IT director Eric Bushman regarding this and I'm wondering if he could just go over some of the important parts of this is how it's going to improve the service to the police department and are we going to be saving any money on this or is it going to be a little more expensive thank you Jim so basically today the police phone service comes in on a copper line AT&T is end of lighting that copper line the end of July this year so we will be replacing that with a fiber optics line coming in to a building the long-term goal is to move all of our phone services over to AT&T which will then back up today we have three phone services or PRIs running into the buildings if one drops there's no failover this paves the path for us to establish failovers so if a PRI circuit does fail it'll fail over to another circuit so that will be an advantage to the police department and that they'll have that recovery in the long run it will save us some money probably around a thousand dollars a month in phone expenses so any other questions thank you Eric any other questions seeing none this is a roll call vote so please refer to your board doctor vote thank you nine eyes four point two will be referred to the finance and personnel committee items six point one and six point two will both be referred to the public works committee other matters authorized by law city attorney thank you seven point one is an appointment appointing Caitlin Krieger to the position of finance director slash treasurer and that lays over seven point two is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications and that will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee seven point three is a resolution by Alderperson's Decker and Pirella authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with parms tree service Inc. for the removal of six hundred and seventy six tree stumps and that will be referred to the public works committee seven point four is a resolution by Alderperson's Mitchell and Decker authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into contracts with enterprise FM trust and enterprise fleet management Inc. for the lease of vehicles the disposal of vehicles and the maintenance of vehicles and authorizing the city administrator to administer the lease program to the extent funds are appropriated and that will be referred to the finance personnel committee and the public works commission all right we've exhausted the agenda is there a motion to adjourn I move to adjourn second there's been a motion second all those in favor of adjourning please state aye aye anyone opposed we're adjourned at 614