 I'd like to call the 11th regular meeting of the Sheboygan Common Council to order. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day? No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Thank you. Would you please call the roll for the meeting? There are 15 present. Alderman Damro is excused. We have some scouts with us from Boy Scout Troop 818 from Christ Child Academy. Boys, would you please step forward and help us in leading the Pledge of Allegiance? The first one coming up is Nicholas Wecola and Alex Cunningham is with him. Let's stand. 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 the minutes from our last meeting, Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to approve the minutes of the previous council meeting. Thank you for that motion and support. The minutes are before us. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please let's see. We can just do this on a voice vote. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. There are no resignations and no new council appointments. And the next we'll go on to confirmation of appointments for the Mayor's Neighborhood Leadership Cabinet City Attorney. This is Mike Vanerstein, Mayor, Julie Coth, Alderperson, Henry Capitillo, Gateway Neighborhood Association, Steve Benish, Gateway Alternate, Greg Leibig, Ellis Historical Neighborhood Association, Ellen Murphy, Ellis Neighborhood Alternate, Chad Pellecek, Director of Planning and Development, Chris Domigalski, Chief of Police, Diane Wilcinski, Sheboyga Neighborhood Pride, President, all terms expiring 430-2015, signed by the Mayor. Thank you. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to confirm. Second. Thank you for that motion and second. Is there any discussion and confirmation of appointments? Hearing none, all those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? They pass. Next we'll go on to a special presentation by the Sheboygan Fire Department. Please welcome Chief Mike Romus. Somebody's working on me. Hello, Council. Do you have the pictures? Next one, please. No pictures, just words. Okay, no. You know what? Don't even show it. Okay. Okay, thanks. Thank you, Mayor, for inviting me here tonight. I really appreciate it. He asked me to come and talk to you about the Fire Department, what we're doing right now, and where we stand at this moment. Would you like it up and down? No. If not, if there's no pictures. No pictures. No pictures, okay. I just want to bring up a couple of things that are important to me, and I just want to let you know where we are right now. First and foremost, I want to talk to you about the employees of the Sheboygan Fire Department. I have an outstanding staff all the way from command to officers to my drivers, firefighters, paramedics. They're outstanding individuals, and it takes a great deal of time and effort to even get on the Fire Department. Our newest hire, Jeff Grankey, an outstanding individual. But not only are they outstanding people, they're very much leaders in the community. I'm sure everybody here knows somebody in the Fire Department. And I have members of my staff and of my department that are Sheboygan County, not Alderman, but supervisors. I have a supervisor on my staff. I have people that are coaches. They take leadership roles in their churches and their schools. They run daycares. They do all kinds of things. And they're just phenomenal people and they're leaders in the community. So everybody here, all the department heads, know that our most important asset is our employees. And Sheboygan Fire Department has outstanding employees. Number two, I wanted to talk to you about the quality and quantity of the work that we do. As you know, budgets are down. We're down from where we were maybe eight years ago or so, seven, eight years ago drastically. And yet, we've taken on the ambulance service and increased our service to the citizens of Sheboygan. Even though we have less money in our operating budget. And I think that's outstanding. We've taken on the ambulance service, which has provided revenue for us. And we added four people when that happened. But since then, we've lost four people. We're at 73.5 full-time equivalents or staff that I have. And it's the same thing as it was eight years ago before the ambulance started. So our people in the Fire Department are doing more with less, just like you asked of them. And they enjoy their jobs. Firefighters are on 24-7. They're on all the time. I live in a neighborhood. Everybody knows I'm the fire chief. They all know that if something happens, if there's a fire or a heart attack or a problem, they can come to me, to my house, knock on the door anytime, day or night, and I'll be there for them. Just like everybody else in my department would be, no matter who asked or what they needed. We'd be there for them. And everybody knows that. We're always on. And we enjoy that. We're held to a higher standard. So I wanted you to know that, too. Third, we are very efficient in our department. And that's a credit to you and to this council and to the leadership of the city. You've asked us to do more with less than we have, just like everyone else in the city has. All the departments have. And we found ways to cut our budget. We found ways to do things differently. And we've been doing it for many years. And we've gotten really, really good at it. I came from a department that was bigger where this wasn't such an issue. Here it's a very big issue, maybe the biggest issue. And our members have risen to the challenge and we found ways to cut. But it's because you asked us to and demanded it of us. And we are very lean and efficient right now. So I wanted you to know that, also. The fourth thing I just wanted to tell you about was the fact that we do have some challenges coming up in the future. And they've been discussed in finance and public protection and safety. We've discussed these things. But when budget time comes up, everybody focuses on that. But 94.5% of my budget is salaries and benefits. So I control very, really, very little of my budget. Of that 5.5%, now we're talking my operating budget and my line items. So when the budget comes around, now everybody's looking at those line items and they've either been cut or frozen for the last seven or eight years. So we're kind of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Leadership in the city listens to me. If we need a new roof on two of my firehouses, they're working with me to try to get that to happen. Apparatus needs to be replaced. Equipment needs to be replaced. It gets outdated. It breaks down. It gets old, just like everything in your homes. Eventually you have to get things taken care of. And we're looking at that, but that's a challenge. The other one is my department's going to change over soon. In the next year and a half, not quite. I'm guessing around 15-18% of my department is going to retire. And it's not because I'm here. Okay. It just happens to be the timing of it. I have a lot of people that have 25, 30 years in the department. They love their jobs. You know, what if they could stay young forever? I think they'd stay forever. I really do because they have so much satisfaction from what they do. But we all come to that time. We have to retire eventually. We always say it's a young person's job to be a firefighter. And it is. It takes a great deal of effort and a lot of work. And you have to be young to be able to sustain that. It's not easy. So I'm going to have a big turnover. And my goal and my challenge is to make sure that those people that are young are going to be prepared when they do take those leadership positions and that they enjoy their jobs and that everything is there that needs to keep them safe and able to do their job to the highest level that they can to serve the citizens of Sheboygan. So that's about all I wanted to say. I want to thank you again for listening to me. Everybody here listens. They look at me and I believe that they're listening to me and trying to put themselves in my position, just like I try to put myself in your position. And I admire what you do. I went to a course in Boston at the Harvard University Kennedy School for State and Local Government. Half the class was elected officials at a local, county, state, even a federal level. We had a couple of judges and things from the federal level. And I'd say about half my class was people like myself, department heads, assistant department heads, things like that. And you network with these people and you listen to the things that they have to do and the things that you do. And I developed a big admiration for those people, how it just was amazing and what they do and how much they care to even take these positions. So thank you for that. And unless anybody has any questions, I always wanted to do this, Mayor. Does anyone in the council have any questions? Does anyone in the council have any questions? Does anyone in the council have any questions? Hearing none, I think I'm done. Hearing is closed. I'm always available. Thanks. I'm always available for any questions you want. I'll sit down with you. I'll talk to you honestly and openly. I'll give you everything. Even if it's something I don't want to tell you, I'll tell you what it is and I won't lie to you. So help you make an educated decision for the budget. And thank you very much for having me, Mayor. Thank you very much for that presentation, Chief. We'll go on to public forum. There's no one this evening. Okay, next is Mayor's announcements. I just want to remind people that there's going to be election for the Board of Water Commissioners at our next council meeting on September 15th. And you can contact the clerk's office if you might be interested in that position. Next is a hearing. This hearing is held this evening with regards to the proposed ordinance creating a commuter-impacted parking on the east and west sides of North 11th Street between North Avenue and School Avenue. Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Please come forward. Dan, can I have your name, please? Oh, Goddy. And your address? 2706 North 11th Street. Okay, go ahead. And I'm so happy I wrote this down because I was looking at you now. I never would have made it through. But first I want to say to Chief Romas, I work at Aurora ED Department, and your EMTs are outstanding, professional, and wonderful to work with. So you're not saying more than what they are. So I live on the north. I'm also going to test your direction. So I hope you can stay with me because I'm a lot of northeast, west, south, but stay with me here. I live on the northwest corner of 11th and North Avenue. I have the former Maitland Apartments, and I call them that because I think you can maybe reference that, and North High School to the north of me. And I have Urban Middle School to the west of me. I am sandwiched between both schools. Thus I've been able to observe the fiasco at both start and release times. Just this morning, I watched the confusion caused by the installation of a new four-way stop on 12th and North Avenue. Traffic coming from the east on North Avenue, traveling west on North Avenue, formed a long lane going west, along with a second lane, which was formed at the curb for drop-off. So the left lane assumed that these cars were parking, when in essence they were only dropping off and trying to work themselves back into the left lane of traffic. What I observed was the left lane figured they had the right-of-way to make a right turn on 12th Street while they turned right in front of a vehicle trying to get back into the lane. So no one knew what anyone was doing there this morning. Okay, this certainly did not make a safer crossing for the students as it was intended to do. Now, add to the confusion, and I'm getting to 11th and North Avenue. We have parked cars all the way from North High to North Avenue on the west side of the street, which is your proposed two-hour parking. You have North students when school is released. You have these students trying to get into the lane of traffic and make a right turn on 11th and North Avenue, or they're trying to go across 11th and North Avenue or make a left turn. With the parking that is already there, only one lane can be formed. So it doesn't ease traffic to make a right turn onto North Avenue. With the two-hour parking, that would ease up some of that, and two lanes could be formed on 11th Street going south to the 11th and North Avenue intersection. I also observed what you have with the additional stop sign today. You have release of the school. The traffic was backed up from North High, or School Avenue, to 11th and North Avenue. From 10th Street west to 12th Street. No one was observing an open intersection to let traffic cross over 11th Street. So what you had was everything blocked. Now without the two-hour parking, you're not going to have a lane for turning right onto North Avenue either. So it basically is pretty chaotic now. Now on a personal level, last year when we had a snowstorm, students parked my two-car driveway in. Now certainly they cannot see that that is a driveway because of the snowstorm. But if you had looked 15 to 20 feet to your right, you would have seen two garage doors. By the time I was able, being a second shift worker, by the time I was able to get out there and plow the end of my driveway, it had already been replowed several times, iced over, and that ice never melted until spring. So my access from my driveway, I had to create my driveway butts up against an alley, which is also used as a roadway from urban to get back onto 11th Street. So I had to create an access from my front driveway so that I could back out of my garage, back forward, back backwards, get into the alley, and get out. Now if there was two-hour parking, I would have had an opportunity of window to get out there and plow that open. Well, I had called Dan Stengel and asked for assistance from North High, which I didn't get. So basically I was plowed in until spring came. So my case would be, if you had the two-hour parking, that would allow a right turn from 11th Street onto North Avenue. If there is opposition from people in the Maitland apartments, I guess I would ask that you consider from the alley access that I was talking about to North 11th Street at least have a two-hour parking, so that would kind of free up some of that distance and still have the right turn lane. I hope I made some sense. A lot of direction. But I see its benefit. Thank you. Thank you, Sue. Is there anyone else wishing to be heard? Please come forward. Can I have your name, please? Yes, my name is Barbara Minster and your address, Barb. And I reside at 2738 North 11th Street. Okay, you may go ahead. Thank you for the information, Mrs. Cotty, because you can cut me short. But all as I'm saying to everyone is today was an example for me because if I was given the opportunity to park in front of my condominium and I had a sticker on my car, I would not have been able to park in front of my condominium. On the east side or the west side. It didn't matter. The traffic. The students had us parked in. I guess what I'm recommending to everyone is that the city work with the school district. And I want people to consider that our students today have a privilege of driving to and from school. And they do. It's a privilege for them. So why don't you get together with the school district and encourage them to have those students park in the parking lot? I recognize the fee is $25, possibly more now. I don't know. But I am saying, we need to work together. And this needs to be not only a city issue, but I believe we can work with the school district and quietly resolve this. My final thought is if you do decide to give residents a sticker, give us to it for a free charge. Just give us a sticker. We are residents of this community. We are taxpayers likewise. And I really don't believe that the $6 should be necessary as a resident of and a taxpayer of this wonderful community. And that's really all I have to say. So thank you. Thank you, Barb. Is there anyone else that would like to be heard on this issue? Is there anyone that would like to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to close the hearing. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? The hearing is closed. Next, we'll go on to the consent agenda as item 3.2 through 3.10. Alderman Hammond. Thank you again. I move to accept and file all ROs, accept and adopt all ROCs, and put all resolutions, ordinances, and substitute ordinances upon their passage. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the consent agenda? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll for passage? I'm sorry, my internet connection isn't working. It is. That would be an aye. So I would vote aye. Okay. No, that's okay. Thank you. 15 ayes. Motion passes. Next is report of officers. Item 4.1 through 4.3 will be referred to various committees. Under resolutions, 5.1 is a resolution by Alderman Hammond accepting a conditional gift from the estate of Carol Bootson. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First, I move to suspend the rules. Second. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please go ahead. Thank you very much. I move to put the resolution upon its passage. Second. The resolution is before us. Is there any discussion on the resolution? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Item 5.2 is a resolution by Alderman Hammond authorizing entering into a contract for the construction slash installation of a sanitary sewer and water main in Whedon Creek Road. Alderman Hammond. Actually, it's Alderman Heidemann. Heidemann. Thank you, Mayor. I need to make a motion to suspend the rules. Second. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please go ahead. And we have to have the suspension. There's only a short period of time that we can get this work done. We needed to get the contracts. We have discussed this at Public Works. So I put the resolution on its passage. Second. You have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next is item 5.3, a resolution by Alderman Heidemann authorizing entering into a contract for the crack ceiling of various asphalt streets throughout the city of Sheboygan. Alderman Heidemann. Thank you again, Mayor. I move the suspended rules. Second. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. And again, this is the same situation where we've got a contract with somebody once. We want to get these things signed. These projects started, and there's only a limited amount of time that we could do that. Thank you for those comments. Any other questions upon this passage? Second. Thank you for that motion. Is there any other discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor of the resolution, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Items 5.4 and 5.5 will lie over. Item 5.6 and 5.7 will both be referred to various committees. Next is reports of committees. Item 6.1 is a RC by finance, to whom was referred, RO number 109 of 1415 by the director of planning and development, and recommends approval of the 2015 City of Sheboygan Tourism Budget Request from the Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce for room tax, profit, and loss. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to accept and adopt. Second. The motion is before us. Is there any discussion to accept and adopt? Seeing none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Item 6.2 is an RC by salary and grievances, to whom was referred, charter order number, ordinance number two of 1415 by Alderman Carlson, and recommends filing the documents that provide for the appointment of the city attorney in lieu of the current method of election by the voters to such office. Alderman Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I would move to accept and adopt to file this resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. The motion is before us. Any discussion? Seeing none. Would the clerk please call the roll? Registered. Just did. Okay. 15 ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.3 is an RC by salary and grievances, to whom was referred, resolution number 58 of 1415 by Alderman Donahue, and recommends authorizing the human resources director to contract with diversified benefit services for the provision of insurance benefit consulting services. Alderman Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I would move that the resolution be, excuse me, resolution be put upon its passage. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. The motion is before us. Any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Item 6.4 is an RC by law and licensing pursuant to RO number 76 of 1415 recommending denying a taxi cab driver's license number 0450 based upon his failure to accurately reveal all relevant convictions on his application, his record of violations related to the license activity, and his record as a repeat law offender, his failure to cooperate with the committee. Alderman Vanderwill. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that the RC be accepted and adopted. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is Peter Regis here this evening? He's not here. We did invite him two separate occasions, and he did not appear. Any other discussion? Seeing none. Will the clerk please call the roll for passage? 15, ayes. Motion passes. Next is item 6.5 an RC by law and licensing recommending that RO number 90 of 1415 denying a beverage operator's license of 0484 based upon his failure to accurately reveal all relevant convictions on his application, his record of violations related to the license activity, and his record as a repeat law offender, and his failure to cooperate with the committee. Alderman Vanderwill. Thank you. I move that the RC be accepted and adopted. Second. Thank you for that motion under discussion. Is Alton Lucas here this evening? He's not here. Same thing with him. We invited him two separate occasions, and he did not appear. Thank you. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none. Will the clerk please call the roll for passage? 15, ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.6 through 6.10 are all related to the budget for 2015. Those will lie over. Item 7 is ordinances. 7.1 will be referred to public works under matters laid over. 8.1 is RC number 142 of 1415 by public protection and safety reporting that the documentary evidence by the city engineer pertaining to general ordinance number 22 of 1415 and RC number 110 of 1415 creating commuter impacted parking on the east and west sides of North 11th Street between North Avenue and School Avenue does meet all the necessary criteria to be eligible. Alderman Carlson. Thank you, Mayor. I move to accept and adopt and put the ordinance upon his passage. Thank you. Thank you for that motion. Alderman. Alderman Bourne. Thank you, Mayor. Could somebody give me a definition of computer impacted parking? I wasn't able to attend the... Commuter, I'm sorry. Commuter. My mistake. Impacted parking. I wasn't able to attend the committee meeting in the document and make it real clear to me. So could I get a definition of that from somebody? Thank you. Go ahead, Alderman Carlson. Thank you, Mayor. Essentially what it is is that the residents along those streets will pay $6 a year for a sticker to be allowed to park on that street. Otherwise, I believe it's two hour... Pardon me, Ryan. Otherwise, it's two hour parking. Yes, we did. Alderman inside. Okay. Is there any other discussion? Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I understand the necessity of doing this and with the commuter. I guess the one concern I would have would be the $6 fee. I know to most people, let's say, that's just a nominal fee. For one or two vehicles, I'm questioning whether we need to charge $6. I'm wondering if it wouldn't make sense to charge nothing for the first two vehicles and then six for each vehicle after that. I'm not sure where the $6 was arrived from, but I just maybe want to take a look at that. Thank you. Alderman City Attorney, could you answer that question? I can't say where it comes from other than it's the ordinance that it's $6 and it's been that way forever. So this is common in other areas we have this type of parking? Yes. And I think part of the rationale is that otherwise, if it was available to everybody in every neighborhood for nothing, you'd probably get a lot more requests for impacted parking permits so that people could feel that they could park in front of their own house without any additional charge. And I don't think, you know, I can't speak necessarily for the reasonableness of it, but $6 per vehicle, per year, you know, is not really an excessive amount, I don't think. Alderman Van Akron. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I guess if we could try to open the floor to Ryan and maybe have him explain the process that's involved with permits, what we're trying to solve here, the actual problem that we're trying to address. I know this is something that's been discussed in that area for several years now. If Ryan would be willing to come up and just explain the process he's gone through to get to this point and then also, like I said, explain what residents are going to be eligible for that, the permit and the exemptions and so on. There's no objection. Ryan Sazma, would you please step forward? So I guess the question is, you're wondering how we got to the point here with Commuter Impact Parking and what it is. Commuter Impact Parking, when you started, you started with a traffic study and you check it, you check it out for several weeks. You check it like once a day or three or four times a week. If over two thirds of the traffic parked on that street are from residents that don't live there, and in this case, obviously, it's probably North High students. It meets the Commuter Impact Parking. And the residents that do live there, as was explained by Alderman Carlson, is if you live there, you pay the $6, you can park there longer than two hours. But the issue is it's just, the neighborhood just gets packed tight from North High. Any questions of Alderman Gassler? If I can follow up. Go ahead, you can finish. Can you explain the permit process? Who is going to be eligible for permits? Are students going to be eligible to pay $6, or is it restricted to only the households that live on those specific blocks? And how does that process work? And also, I guess if you can explain the $6 fee, it seems to be, I guess, a little bit of an unknown, because I don't see a $6 fee in the ordinance itself. Is that part of our Commuter Parking program throughout the city? That I'm just not seeing that. And it's in the ordinance? I believe it is in the ordinance. I know the other areas we've done, it's always been $6. I'm pretty positive that it's in the ordinance. How you would get the stickers, you would go to the police department, and you would just show that you live on that street. Therefore, you're eligible for a ticket. I mean, you're eligible to get the sticker. If you don't live on the street, then you wouldn't have the proof that you live, that you have a house or a home on the street. Alderman Dassler. That adjusts my question. Thank you. Okay. Alder and Carlson. Thank you. You just want to go through the process and how you contacted all the residents in this area and the response you got and how many people actually got back to you. Yeah. Okay. First of all, the request came in. We did the study. It met all the criteria in the ordinance for Commuter Impact Parking. But part of it is you have to send out a letter to all the residents on that street. And there's a total of 35 letters we sent out to everybody. I sent that out July 22nd. I believe I gave them a week or two to respond to me, either by email or phone call or by letter, telling me if you're in favor of it, if you're not in favor of it. And then the letter had said, if I do not hear from you, I'll take that as a positive, that you are in favor of the parking. And from my letter, I got four responses. Three were positive. Yes, they want. The other one was no. They didn't want Commuter Impact to parking. Like I said in the letter, it was pretty specific. If I don't hear from you, I'll take that as a yes. Okay. Alderman Bourne. Thank you, Mayor. Is the two-hour parking something new up in that area, you know? Yeah, it is. Actually, up in that area, that's the only Commuter Impact to parking that's going to be if the ordinance is passed. Okay. So right now it's not two-hour, but it will be. But then the residents will be able to buy the sticker and park there all day if they need be. That's correct. Okay. Thank you. And I think we've got everybody then. I'd also like the city attorney to make some comments about the ordinance and what's in there on the fee. Thank you, Your Honor. Yeah. Perhaps to address Alderman Van Ackman's question. When I was speaking about the ordinance, I wasn't speaking about this specific general ordinance, but it's in our municipal code. And the fee section is, well, the whole impacted parking or residential daytime parking privilege is section runs from section 118-191 through 118-220. And it has the factors that the committee and the council needs to consider the procedure for designating and talks about the fee of $6 a year. And one of the factors to be considered by the committee and the council is on the fee speaks of the desire and need of two-thirds of the residents for residential permit parking and their willingness to bear the administrative costs and connection they're with. So really the $6 is to cover a little bit of the administrative costs in issuing stickers and managing who's on the street and doing all the studies and so forth. But this ordinance has been in place for a long time. I can't think of, I think there are several other impacted parking areas in the city. I can't identify specific ones or maybe Ryan can, but it works in cases where, you know, if it's near the hospital where you've got a lot of employee parking on the street or here in the case of a school, you've got kids parking on the street and it's unlimited parking so they park on the street rather than having to pay to park in the parking lot and so forth, so designing to alleviate some of that so that the residents can have some relief. Thank you for that explanation. Alderman Hammond. Thank you. Just a real quick question, Ryan. Is this the only area we're looking at doing this in that North High area or are there other streets that are under review at this point for this very same issue? No, this is the only block because it's the only communication that came in at PP, public protection and safety. It's the only block we looked at. And answers, Steve McLean's question. The other two big areas is over by Fifth of New York down by the county building. That's all impacted parking and also over by Aurora by 6th and North. That's all commuter impacted parking. Very, just like this will be. Thank you. Alderman Bellinger, did you have a comment or question? Go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. The reason that this came about was I was contacted by a constituent who happens to live on 11th Avenue. He is a relatively new parent and new to the neighborhood, works third shift, and he would come, by the time he would get back home from work, it would be after 8 o'clock in the morning, and he wouldn't have anywhere to park. And you'd have to park two or three blocks away and then have to, if it later in the day, he was going to take his newborn out and run errands or take her to the doctor, whatever he had to do. He had to take Bundler up in the wintertime and take two or three blocks away to get to his car, and it became just a real hassle. So he came to me and asked me what we can do, and I talked with Ryan, and this was a solution. If it met the criteria, we would look at it and see. I also have three kids at recent graduates from North High School, and at the time they graduated, the fee was $35 a year to park in the lot. And the only time I ever saw the lot full was in the winter when a third of the lot was used for snowpiles that they didn't haul away. So it was never full when I was there, or when my kids were there, I should say. So that's kind of the genesis in how this started and was impacted, and he did show up to the PPS meeting, and he did address the committee and spoke in favor of some type of resolution to his problem, and this is what came about. And Ryan, I do believe, are we looking at it on 7th in North by the hospital too? Wasn't there some complaints there too about parking? I know there was some, it was brought up and no communications had been brought in yet. Okay, yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for those comments. Any other discussion? Seeing none, will the court please call the roll for passage on 8.1? 14 ayes, 1 no. Thank you. Motion passes. Next we'll go on to Other Matters, city attorney. Document 9.1 is a resolution by older person Hammond, authorizing an application to the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program for a wave surge and hydraulic modeling study for the Harbor Center marina. That'll be referred to the finance committee. 9.2 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2015 and June 30, 2016. That'll be referred to the law and licensing committee. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Move to adjourn. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of adjournment, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? We stand adjourned. Thank you very much.