 it is six o'clock and I will call the 20th regular Common Council meeting to order will the clerk please state the court of the day thank you mr. Mayor the most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example all right thank you would the clerk please call the roll all the person Salazar all the person Walton all the person Feldy all the person Ackley excused all the person Decker all the person for Ella all the person Laster excused all the persons of Aglio all the person Flickie Pineski all the person Mitchell there are eight present thank you for those in attendance would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance 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 right thank you everybody first item number three is approval of the minutes from our January 4th meeting older person Feldy I moved to approve the minutes there's been a motion in second any discussion on the minutes seeing none all those in favor of approving the minutes please state aye anyone opposed minutes are approved anyone for public form today clerk there's no one this evening all right mayor's announcements coming up the Sheboygan County Housing Coalition will be hosting several Town Hall meetings in the next coming weeks the first of the series will be on January 20th check out the Housing Coalition's Facebook page or the city's January newsletter for more information and to register this is a great way to get connected with the community and stay in the know with everything related to housing in the community coming on up Lake Shore Cap will be having their biannual point-in-time homeless count on January 26 and 27 the point-in-time count is conducted to help identify services needed in our community in order to best help those without housing twice per year dedicated community members volunteer in search of the counties for individuals who are unsheltered in an effort to connect those individuals to resources volunteers are needed for shifts between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. obviously training will be provided contact Lake Shore Cap if you're interested in volunteering also the redevelopment authority of the city Sheboygan is seeking a unique year-round destination concept to redevelop the former JP Marine site proposals are being accepted to either lease or purchase this prime real estate parcel located at 1511 and 1517 North Commerce Street the site offers a unique opportunity to create and innovate a sustainable development immediately adjacent to the riverfront contact our planning department if you have any questions also a friendly reminder that TPW or public works department will be collecting Christmas trees until now until the end of January so if you have any live trees or dead trees get them out to the curb by the end of the month additionally today is Martin Luther King jr. Day today we celebrate this national holiday to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King who was a tireless fighter for civil rights we honor Dr. King's legacy and reflect on all the progress that we've made in our society and recognize that we still have so much more work to do to become a more just society so that's all I have for announcements today so we'll jump into items number seven through nine the consent agenda older person Feldy I moved to receive and file all our owes and receive all our seeds and adopt all resolutions and ordinances second motion second any discussion on the consent agenda seeing no questions on the consent agenda this is a roll call vote so please refer to your uni code eight eyes great that's approved item number 10 is our own number 1921 22 by the city administrator submitting an updated regarding the debt services account required by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for the city section 108 loan for renovations for the senior center older person Feldy I moved to receive and file the arrow second it's been a motion second any discussion on this item older Walton yeah just a quick question why was the requirement changed from 350,000 to 415,000 was this something that we knew or that housing development informed us later on hand it over to director Paul check what I would say is we did not know it they told us the number originally 350 and when we were getting down to the nitty gritty of filing all the final paperwork then they said 415,000 so we thought we were at the third hole and we were ready to get it done so we just move forward with it and that's why it's coming back to you after the fact but the all the paperwork has been submitted and we're hoping to get a our first wire transfer next week so they hot is the one that imposed the higher amount additional comments on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote eight eyes it's approved items 11 and 12 will lay over items 13 through 15 will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee jumping down to resolutions item 16 resolution number 123 21 22 by older persons Feldy and flaky Pineski ratifying retaining outside legal counsel in the matter of Patrick a Gillette a formal complaint filed with the city sheboygan police and fire commissioners older person Feldy thank you mayor I asked us to suspend the rules any objection to suspending seeing none please proceed with the motion I move to adopt the resolution is there a second there's been a motion second any discussion on this item older persons of all I owe thank you mr. Mayor can we have a little bit of background on this please city attorney you want to take that one yeah so we are hiring outside counsel because our office represents the police and fire commission and when there is a complaint that involves police officers in the line of duty or you know other fire fire department officers would be involved in that as well we do have the duty to find them legal counsel to provide them legal counsel as it relates to their what they've done in the line of duty and so we have done that we needed to get that going rather quickly so we did hire outside counsel to do that that's attorney Belcher who does that kind of work for us on a regular basis thank you older person Perala can the complaint be disclosed at this time yeah the complaint relates to he disagrees with the way the police handled an investigation basically I mean I can go into more if you want but if you're looking for more so it's an investigation that the police department was conducting and and these individuals not in agreement with that but it is not something related to the police officer himself the way that the police officer conducted himself well the complainant believes that the officers involved should have charged crimes the determination of the police department was that no crime was committed okay thank you it's enough for me any additional questions on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote older Perala eight eyes right that's approved number 17 RO number 124 21 22 by all the persons Felde and flaky Pineski ratifying and retaining outside legal counsel in the matter of Chad Shelton formal complaint filed with the city of Shavuigan board of police and fire commissioners older Felde thank you ma'am I asked to suspend the rules any objection to suspending I moved to adopt the resolution motion and second any discussion on the site of older Perala I have the same question I would like to know if the complaint is about the policemen the police officers behavior or something specific to the police officer in question so this one I generally the answer is yes that he mr. Shelton has made sort of a scatter shot complaint complaining about the way he feels he's been treated by the police department over the past three decades or so and has named a large number of officers there was an investigation the police department in that investigation exonerated all of the officers involved and now this is his hearing before the police and fire commission on his appeal of that thank you additional comments on this item police chief I would just point out that some of the allegations that he's made concern matters that have come in front of committees of this council that the council upheld the actions of the police department and he appealed those matters also to the circuit court and the circuit court upheld those thank you chief Tom Augusti additional comments questions alright seeing none this is a roll call vote eight times it's approved item 18 will be referred to the licensing hearing and public safety committee next we'll do reports of committee RC number 19 RC number 202 21 22 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred direct referral resolution number 1 22 21 22 by older person special inflicted penesky authorizing the purchasing agents to issue a purchase order for the purchase of the new Pierce manufacturing rescue engine for the shabuaga fire department older person Mitchell thank you mayor I moved to receive the RC and adapt the resolution there's been a motion in second any discussion on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote eight eyes that's approved alright number 20 will be referred to the public works committee and next is a contemplated closed session older person Feldy thank you mayor I moved to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in section 19.851 e Wisconsin steps work competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session for the purpose of negotiating with one or more property owners regarding the potential purchase of land on the city's southern border for residential housing. There's been a motion in second to go into closed session this is a roll call vote please refer to your moony code eight eyes all right and those that are watching this will conclude our council meeting we'll be convening into closed session in a couple minutes here so thank you and what we could stay here today if you've got to go