 I'd like to call the 20th meeting of the 2015 2016 Common Council to order with the clerk. Please read the quote for today Before you assume learn the facts before you judge understand why before you speak thank Thank you very much. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America Into the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all as many of you know former Alderman Berg Passed away last Friday after losing his battle with cancer that began last May Elden was a Vietnam veteran who received many service medals and commendations for his distinguished service with the US Army Elden also served as a leader several different community organizations for over 30 years and most important to us at city hall He served as a city alderman for three terms and it recently won election to begin his fourth Aldermanic term before the aggressive treatment to treat his lymphoma began During the time on the city council. He was recognized by his peers and elected to serve as council president Council vice president as well as chairman of several committees We give his wife Fran and his and their in his family our heartfelt condolences a gathering to celebrate Elden's life Will be held at the first congregational church tomorrow Tuesday January 19th starting at three o'clock and continuing until the time of the memorial service at seven I'd like you to please stand for a moment of silence to honor the life of Alderman Elden Berg Would the clerk please call the roll 13 present Thank you Next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from our last meeting alderman bellinger. Thank you mayor move to approve Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on those minutes? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye opposed motion passes Next move on to resignation city attorney We do have We do have one resignation Shauna Nishik is resigning from the sustainable Sheboygan task force Alderman Bellinger Thank you mayor. I moved to accept and file Thank you for that motion in support. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed motion passes Next item is mayor's appointments city attorney first appointment from the mayor Hereby submitting the following appointments for your consideration Joe Heidemann to be considered for appointment to the finance committee to fill the unexpired position of Daryl Carlson Whose term expires on April 18 2016 and Roman drawn to be considered for appointment to the public protection and safety committee To fill the unexpired position of Daryl Carlson whose term expires on April 18 2016 Also submitting the following appointments for your consideration from the mayor Bill feel to be considered for appointment to the Sheboygan transit commission to fill the unexpired position of Daryl Carlson whose term expires on April 18 2016 Bill feel to be considered for appointment to the city county shared service committee to fill the unexpired position of Daryl Carlson Whose term expires in April 18 2016? Bill feel to be considered for appointment to the strategic fiscal planning committee to fill the unexpired position of Daryl Carlson Whose term expires on April 18 2016 and Susan Lissard to be considered for appointment to the strategic fiscal planning Committee To fill the unexpired position of Jody Vander wheel whose term expires on April 18 2016 Thank you Alderman Bellinger. Thank you mayor. I move to suspend. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. Thank you. I would move to confirm Thank you for that motion and support and confirmation all those Excuse me need to take a roll call for that city clerk. Please call the roll 13 eyes motion passes Next we have a presentation this evening by Dane Czecholinsky the executive director of the shabuigan County Economic Development Corporation On someplace better their workforce development plan. Dane. Well, thank you mayor and I appreciate everyone's time tonight My name is Dane Czecholinsky the director of the shabuigan County EDC Just to give you a little quick recap if Who we are the shabuigan County Economic Development Corporation is a non-profit supported by the city Supported by the county and over a hundred different organizations around the area And it's our job to try to grow the local economy and we've done that through focusing on three core services The first one is non-traditional finance. You hear about grants tax credits items like that We know where to find them and how to get them the second one is site selection and helping companies find locations in our communities And the third is workforce development and workforce development is what this initiative is all about As we talked to our companies over the last year or so It it became increasingly clear that they were having a more and more difficult time finding people and finding talent and Basically what that boils down to and why that's important for us as an organization and as a community is that when you have a manufacturer or company who has work has the inventory has the orders and is sitting on Sales because they cannot produce physical product because they cannot run an assembly line That company will no longer expand in this community Why would they ever add production capacity if they cannot fill what they already have and so Two organizations partner to do this us is one the other one is the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce And what we started to do was look at relocation tools, and I'll give you a little bit more of the details behind it Flip the next one So what it boils down to the next slide what you're going to see is Gross domestic product growth in the county and one thing that's evident. That's really clear is that Sheboygan County GDP growth has been outstanding We've outgrown the state average and we've outgrown the national average as a matter of fact the MSA that we sit in the MSA by the way is the entire county is One of the top 20 is in the top quartile in terms of the fastest growing communities in the United States What that has led to is just job growth overall these this is the percentage of job growth over the last four years And you can see this area has really outstripped the entire Lakeshore matter of fact our job growth has been so rapid. We outgrew Dane County, which is Madison Who's often held up as this pinnacle of job creation in the state in this area beat them So what that ultimately has resulted to is the simple fact that no matter how you look at it what I have up here is The very first column is unemployment claims So in mid-December there were 900 people drawing unemployment in Sheboygan County There are over 900 jobs inside the city of Sheboygan itself posted online in just four sources that we looked at The next you know not everyone who's unemployed is collecting unemployment check. There's an estimated 2,000 people who are unemployed according to the state data when you look at the number of jobs within 25 miles of Sheboygan or commuting distance You see that there's 2,400 So what I call this is where we are now underwater as long as the economy stays Good and of course we're not insulated from global events Right now we have more jobs in this area than we have people to physically work them So what type of jobs? I mean the question is is how good are they? What type are they less than five jobs posted? This is looking at one of the sources less than five job five percent of the jobs posted are temporary or seasonal Two-thirds of the jobs are full-time and over one-third of the jobs require a four-year degree now These are job postings. These are not jobs themselves and these are only looking at jobs online So if someone hangs a help wanted sign in a local company It's not going to be included in these numbers and very often what we find there's I believe last time I showed There's usually an average of about two or two to three jobs behind every posting You might have a company post one general labor production job, but there might be 17 positions behind it Okay So what we did is with at joint with this joint effort is we created a new branding initiative But it goes far beyond the initiative far beyond a brand I don't believe we can put together a brand and actually encourage people to move here but what we did do is create a series of tools and One tool you have right in front of you if you want to click on the next one is a hard copy guide Now this guide is designed to go in the hands of local HR companies and help them sell the area as a place to live The second one if you go to someplace butter.org is an entire website 180 pages specifically designed to sell this area as a place to live looking at everything from school districts Where are the average ACT scores looking at where you can find homes and most importantly where you can find apartments? I mean multi-family has been a huge challenge for the first time We did an exhaustive search and we found every apartment complex we could and we actually threw their name and contact information on this website so That is kind of the initiative in a nutshell over the next few weeks We are going around and talking with companies one-on-one with their HR departments make sure they know how to use these tools There's going to be a little bit of a public awareness campaign You should see that in the next few weeks to try to get the local population Because every time you talk with somebody and they ask how did you move here? How'd you find out about this place? It was always a friend a relative someone that they knew in that area that usually sparked them to come So part of the campaign is to get our own population excited about it So with that, I don't know if I can accept any questions, but See any questions of Dean? Well, thank you very much for all the work you're doing in that area Dean. We really appreciate it. Thank you Next is mayors announcements and I'd like to have char pack me. I come up with her therapy dog faith Shares with horizon girls Today we'd like to present a proclamation Whereas in 2002 the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Mentor The National Mentoring Partnership created the National Mentoring Month and whereas the goals of National Mentoring Month are to raise awareness of mentoring recruit individuals to mentor and encourage organizations to engage and integrate Quality mentoring into their efforts a mentor is a caring consistent presence who devotes time to a young person To help that young person discover their own personal strength and achieve their potential through a structured and trusted relationship quality mentoring encourages positive choices promotes self-esteem and Supports academic achievement and also introduces the young people to new ideas Mentoring programs have shown to be effective in combating school violence and discipline problems substance abuse incarceration and truancy I might van der steen mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hear by declared January 2016 is National Mentoring Month in Sheboygan and call upon public officials business and community leaders and educators to encourage all Citizens of the city to observe this month with the appropriate ceremonies activities and programs in order to recognize the men and women who serve as staff and Volunteers at quality mentoring programs and to help our young people find the inner strength to reach their full potential Sure, I'd like to present this to you Thank you for all the work that you're doing with the young girls in the horizon for girls program. We really appreciate it No, there is nobody here for public forum Moving on then to the consent agenda Items to point it'll include items 2.2 through 2.11 Alderman Bellinger. Thank you, mayor I would move to accept and file all reports of officers accept and adopt all reports of committee and Pass all resolutions and ordinances Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the consent agenda Alderman Boren? Thank you, mayor on item 2.6. I just had a question I wasn't able to get to the finance committee meeting But is there any determination yet on what the city's portion of that? Refund of excess property tax is going to be for the city yet And if not, when would we when would we know there was a number in that document? Does anyone from the meeting remember what that was? Our city attorney is looking that up for us I read the documents and it was kind of because of because it was a number of years It was kind of hard to follow of exactly what the liability was going to be Thanks. I don't think the exact number is is available, but it's I'm not going to estimate it Chad Chad Ken. Thank you. Thank you very much any other questions Seeing none with a clerk, please call the roll for passage 13 eyes motion passes Next we'll move on to reports of officers item 3.1 will lie over Items 3.2 through 3.7 will be referred to various committees They're moving on to resolutions item 4.1 is a resolution by Alder persons Donahue Heidemann Boren Hammond and cost setting forth the hiring process for the city administrator Alderman Donahue. Thank you mayor Initially, I would move to suspend the rules to consider this matter Is there a second second and my motion in a second. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. Thank you. I would move to put the resolution upon its passage Thank you for the motion in support Resolution is before us. Is there any discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage 13 eyes Motion passes item 4.2 is a resolution by Alderman Lissard authorizing the city attorney to engage the services of special outside legal counsel for a quasi-judicial hearing regarding the suspension revocation of alcohol beverage license number 3126 Brian's down under music bar and authorizing the payment for said services Alderman Lissard. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I would like to suspend the rules Thanks for the motion and support. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed And we have made several attempts to get hold of this establishment and unfortunately everything is returned Via mail and they've never appeared at any of the meetings So to be able to free up this this license. We have to take these steps and do the quasi Thank you, is there any other discussion See none will the clerk please I mean to second Is there any other discussion Would the clerk then please call the roll for passage 13 eyes motion passes items 4.3 through 4.7 will be referred to various committees Under reports of committees item 5.1 is an RC by law and licensing to whom is referred our own number 220 of 1516 by the city clerk Voted to conditionally recommend that the common counsel not renew taxicab driver license number 2744 held by Elaine K. Willis Alderman Lissard. Thank you, mr. Mayor We had Sent out two notifications for her to come and appear before a committee and she did not so we're asking that this License be denied Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Is a lane K. Willis in the chambers this evening Don't see her Okay, is there any other discussion With a clerk, please call the roll for passage 13 eyes motion passes item 5.2 is an RC by law and licensing to whom is referred Pursuant to our own number 220 of 1516 by the city clerk License applications for the period ending December 31st of 2016 and June 30th of 2017 and recommends That taxicab driver's license number 0972 be denied based upon his failure to accurate reveal all relevant convictions in his application his record of violations Related to the license to activity and his record as a repeat law offender and his failure to cooperate with the committee Alderman Lissard. Thank you, mr. Mayor we again had sent him notifications on two occasions to appear before our committee and he did not show up on either one So we're asking that his license be denied Thank you for that motion. We have a second This buck mood Haleem here. Okay. Is there any other discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll for passage 13 eyes motion passes Item 5.3 is an RC by finance to whom was referred Resolution number 124 of 1415 by Alderman Carlson Authorizing the police department to waive competitive bidding and enter into a contract for the replacement of two Morphole track life scan printer RMS interface and annual maintenance alderman kath Thank You mayor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted Thank you for that motion and support Motions before you for discussion Seeing none will the court, please call the roll for passage 13 eyes motion passes Section 6 is ordinances Item 6.1 will lie over Item 6.2 will be referred to the public protection and safety committee And then we'll move on to other matters city attorney 7.1 is an RO from the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31 2016 and June 30 2017 that'll be referred to the law and licensing committee 7.2 is an RO by the chief of police Submitting his quarterly report showing the activities of the police department for the period commencing October 1 2015 and ending December 31 2015 That'll be referred to the public protection and safety committee 7.3 is an RO from the city clerk Submitting a claim from Richard Woodard for alleged damages to his mailbox when a snow plow Driver allegedly hit it while plowing and that'll be referred to the finance committee Next we have a planned closed session alderman bellinger. Thank you mayor I would move to convene and closed session Under the exemption provided in section nineteen point eight five one e of the Wisconsin stat for the purpose of deliberating the possible sale of public property where competitive and bargaining reasons required a closed session related to parcel number 59281-470615 South Taylor Drive possible development opportunity Thank for that motion in support All those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed we'll take a short recess of about five minutes, and then we'll reconvene I'd like to let our viewers at home know that the council will adjourn in closed session, so this will end our broadcast for tonight