 I'd like to call to order the 14th regular meeting of the 2018-2019 Common Council. Would the clerk please read the quote for the evening? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change, and the leader adjusts the sails. Thank you very much. Would the clerk please call the roll? There are nine present. All the person wolf is excused. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance is due to the play 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. The next item on the agenda is to approve the minutes from our last council meeting. Alderperson Donahue. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none, will all those in favor please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Is there any public forum this evening? Not this evening. Thank you. Next, we'll go to item 1.5, confirmation of Mayor's appointments. City attorney. So the appointments from the Mayor for your consideration to the Mayor's Neighborhood Leadership Cabinet. Brian Mohorich, King Park Neighborhood Primary. Andrea Mace at King Park Neighborhood Alternate. Gene Grady, Valrath Park North Point Neighborhood Primary. Beth Kunard, Valrath Park North Point Neighborhood Alternate. All appointed October 1, 2018 for terms to expire April 15, 2019. Thank you, Alderperson Donahue. I move to confirm. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? All rise. Motion passes. And you have to commend our Sheboyga Neighborhood Pride Organization for all the work they've done to get these neighborhoods to the point of becoming new neighborhood associations. Next we'll go on to Mayor's announcements. First of all, there's some great news today. A new environmental study was finished on Highway 23 and both the Department of Transportation at the state level and the Federal Highway Administration signed off on that review and now construction can begin this summer for 19.5 miles of new highway to be built and we'll have four lanes between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac. I'd like to thank all the volunteers who worked at Rock the Block this last weekend. They did a number of projects on South 9th Street and it turned out to be a great day and a lot of work was accomplished. Our curbside leaf pickup began today. We have five different zones, one zone for each day of the work week and people should break their leaves into the street gutter for pickup on that day. Drug take back day is going to be this on Saturday the 27th and it'll be from 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock and our location in Sheboygan for drug pickup will be St. Nicholas Hospital. Early voting continues at City Hall. This will end on November 2nd on Friday. So we thank our clerk's office for handling everybody over there and Sheboygan is conducting a resident survey right now. Please help make Sheboygan more livable community by considering taking the survey. You can go to the city website and click on the banner add and that will take you to the appropriate site to take the survey and as a part of the survey we're conducting some listening sessions and the listening sessions our next listening session will be on October 23rd at Habitat Restore and their time for that is from 11.30 until 1 o'clock. I'd like to ask the representatives of the Rotary Clubs please join me at the podium. Tonight we have a proclamation and whereas the Rotary International was founded on February 23rd of 1905 in Chicago, Illinois and is the world's first and one of the largest not-for-profit organizations there are over 1.2 million Rotary Club members comprised of professional and business leaders and over 35,000 clubs in 200 country and geographic areas. The Rotary motto is service above self and inspires its members to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards and promote goodwill and peace in the world. And whereas Rotary in 1985 launched Polio Plus and has spearheaded the Global Polio Eradication Initiative which today includes the World Health Organization, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to immunize children of the world against polio. And whereas polio cases have dropped by 99.9 percent since 1988 and the world stands on the threshold of eradicating the disease. And whereas to date Rotary has contributed more than $1.7 billion in countless volunteer hours to the protection of more than 2 billion children in 122 countries, Rotary is currently working to raise an additional $150 million which if realized will be tripled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a total of $450 million over the next three years. And whereas these efforts are providing much needed operational support in medical personnel, laboratory equipment, educational materials for health workers and parents. In addition, Rotary has played a major role in decisions by donor governments to contribute more than $8 billion to this effort. And whereas the Sheboygan Rotary Club and the Sheboygan Early Bird Rotary Club and their members have to have and continue to sponsor service projects to address such critical issues as poverty, health, hunger, illiteracy and the environment in Sheboygan and abroad. I, Mike Van der Steen by virtue of the 30 vested in me as mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hereby proclaim October 24th is World Polio Day and encourage all our citizens and myself and Rotary International in the fight for polio free world. I'd like to present this to these club presidents and ask them to see just a little bit about a special project that's going on on that day in Sheboygan. So we are partnering with the local area culvers on October 24th from 4 to 8 p.m. They have agreed to donate 50% of their proceeds to ending polio. So we encourage everyone and we're trying to get the word out to please go and support this effort and go have dinner at culvers between 4 and 8 and the 24th. Thank you very much. Next we'll go on with hearings. Item 2.1 is hearing number 6 of 1819 pursuant to a notice published in the personal notices and sent by the city clerk. There is a hearing scheduled for this evening to amend the city of Sheboygan's official zoning map to change the use district classification of property located at 3411 Lakeshore Road from Class Urban Industrial to Class Suburban Industrial. Is there anyone who wishes to be heard? Is there anyone who wishes to be heard? Is there anyone who wishes to be heard? All the person down here. Thank you, Mayor. I move to close the hearing. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of closing the hearing please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Item 2.2 is hearing number 7 of 1819 pursuant to chapter 65.9 of the laws of Wisconsin. Notice hereby given that the annual budget hearing will be held this evening at which time any taxpayer resident of governmental unit will have the opportunity to be heard on the proposed budget. Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? All the person down here. I move to close the hearing. Thank you for that motion and support. Will the clerk please call the roll? Nine ayes. Next we'll move on to the motion passes. Next we'll move on to the consent agenda that include items 3.2 through 3.10. All the person down here. Thank you, Mayor. I move to accept and file all reports of officers accept and adopt all reports of committees and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any of those items? All the person boring? Thank you, Mayor. I just had a question for either all the person down here or the city attorney on 3.9 I read over the document about Axon Enterprise Incorporated and I'm just wondering get a little bit of a description the services were purchasing and I also don't believe I could find what those services are going to cost us. City attorney. Well you couldn't find what they were going to cost us because they cost us zero. It's basically it's a it's a build on to the contract that the police already have and it's it allows our office to have access to video and other evidence that is being stored by Axon allows us to have the access that we need to you know have it for trials if we have to send out discovery we can take care of doing the editing that needs to be done that kind of thing and it takes away some of the work of that from the police department. Okay thank you. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage on those documents. Well it is 9-i. Motion passes. Under reports of officers items 4.1 through 4.12 will be referred to various committees. Under resolutions 5.1 is resolution number 107 of 1819 by all the persons Ryan Flesch, Wolf Donahue, Trester, Savaglio, Decker, Phillips, Sorensen, Mitchell and Boren commemorating the distinguished service of Scott Lewandowski to the city of Sheboygan. All the person Donahue. Thank you mayor I would move that the council pass this resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. At this time I'd like to ask the clerk to read the resolution. Resolution 107 is a resolution commemorating the distinguished service of Scott Lewandowski to the city of Sheboygan. Whereas Scott Lewandowski served the citizens of the city of Sheboygan as an older person from the 5th district for four years from 2012 to 2014 and 2016 to 2018 during which time you serve faithfully being a man of outstanding ability and integrity and whereas during his 10 years older person Mr. Lewandowski served as a valuable member of numerous council committees including law and licensing committee and salaries and grievances committee chairman of the historical preservation committee and also served as assistant city historian and volunteered his time at the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center and Sheboygan County Historical Museum and whereas Mr. Lewandowski was a valuable member of the common council and the committees upon what she served giving conscientious consideration to all matters that came before him and putting honesty and charity above all else he will always be a good example to all and now therefore be it resolved that the common council hereby commemorates the distinguished service rendered by Mr. Scott Lewandowski to the city of Sheboygan throughout his years of service expresses its sorrow to his passing in his passing and offers his family and friends its deepest sympathy and be it further resolved that this resolution be published in the council's official proceedings and that a suitable copy be presented to the family of Scott Lewandowski. Thank you I'd like to ask the council to rise to a standing vote for this so if you approve of the resolution please stand you can sit down then those opposed the resolution passes unanimously and this will be presented to his family and friends at the memorial service that'll take place for Scott on Wednesday at the historical museum thank you moving on item 5.2 is resolution number 106 of 1819 by Alderperson's Wolf and Sorensen authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract or contracts to obtain trees and tree planting services to replace street trees and park trees in the city of Sheboygan. Alderperson Sorensen okay under suspension is there any discussion okay then we have your motion to pass the resolution is there a second thank you is there any discussion on the resolution Alderperson Boren. Thank you mayor I was wondering maybe Mr. Bevel could fill us in if he knows on what type of species we're going to be planting a variety of them around town or yeah it's going to be several varieties and they're specifically chosen based on the type of terrace for the width as well as if there's utilities overhead lines so we'll use ornamental trees smaller trees slower growing trees in those areas other areas we're using the larger type of canopy trees there are there is a new american elm there isn't also american chestnut seedless so there's other varieties there are hybrids that are coming out that are more conducive to the urban street tree environment since we're losing so many of the ash have those species that you mentioned do they have kind of a proven track record as far as the things that have been affecting some of our trees over the years they are somewhat disease resistant all all trees do have going to have some of the some issues being that the environment between the curb and the sidewalk is is a tough environment to grow but that's that's these are the trees that have been tested and vetted through the urban forestry institute as well as the dnr forestry and they've kind of guided us in terms of a recommendation in terms of the species of type of trees in these areas thanks thank you for those questions any other discussion all the person down to you and mayor i would also note that as i understand it the rotary foundation which is comprised of the of the rotary clubs the the our presidents who were here earlier are also making tree replacement one of their priorities and are working with city officials to provide some funds for tree replacement yes that's correct that's correct and the rotary club will uh as asking us to pass the resolution on that they'll hopefully be referred to the committee next week and come back for a final vote then more information on the program at our next council meeting any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes items 5.3 through 5.6 will be referred to various committees under reports of committees item 6.1 is our scene number 156 of 1819 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred resolution number 101 of 1819 by all the person rindflash borne asking rather authorizing the transfer of appropriations in the 2018 budget all the person rindflash thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes item 6.2 is our scene number 158 of 1819 by the public works committee tumors referred general ordinance number 20 of 1819 by all the person wolf creating time parking limits on the west side of south a street between new jersey uh avenue and virginia avenue recommends approving the ordinance all the person sorenson thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none all would the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes item 6.3 is rc number 157 of 1819 by licensing hearings and public safety committee tumors referred rc number 111 of 1819 by licensing hearings and public safety committee and general ordinance number 8 of 1819 by all the persons donahue and rindflash repealing article 8 of chapter 70 of the municipal code entited sexual offender residency restrictions and recommends that the document be filed all the person rindflash or donahue excuse me thank you mayor i move to accept a file is there a second second thank you very much is there any discussion on the document all the person born all the person donahue i see that this must have been the original document and then there's a new referral on the same thing that's going to your committee the the next meeting that's correct thank you thank you for that question any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes item 6.4 through 6.6 will lay over under general ordinances uh item 7.1 and 7.2 will be referred to the various committees and then under matters laid over item 8.1 is r o number 122 of 1819 by the city planning commission to whom was referred general ordinance number 17 of 1819 by all the person rindflash and r o number 118 of 1819 by the city clerk for an application from gusky electric ink for a change in the zoning classification of property located at 3411 lakeshore road from class urban industrial to class suburban industrial and recommends approval of general ordinance and r o all the person born will accept and file and pass the ordinance is there a second second thank you very much any discussion on the ordinance all the person born thank you mayor uh i abstained on this at the plan commission i'll be abstaining again tonight as this is being rezoned for my wife's chiropractors office thank you very much any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll eight eyes one abstain motion passes item 8.2 will be referred uh and rather just lay over and uh under other matters i will be uh discussion of the 2019 proposed budget i'll call on administrator daryl hoffland thank you mayor uh tonight on your table uh cary erin's distributed copies uh erin pink uh relating to uh suggested additional changes to the 2019 budget uh the top page identifies uh the first item identifies action already discussed or possible action already discussed at the committee of the whole for adding a project that is cable cable fund related associated with a new fiber line the next three adjustments are based upon the information we we receive from the state both on the of revised cost of living as well as revised state aids the first listing is a slight decrease in the connecting highway aids $152 the next is a sizable increase in general transportation aids of $85,323 increase uh the last is associated with again that cost of living adjustment as we've discussed at at the committee of the whole uh the cost of living affects the city's expenditure restraint program and we received information from the state based upon the formula we are allowed to increase our budget up to 3.36 if you turn to the next page of your packet you'll see uh the first line is general fund expense under the uh 2019 budget fax page you'll see that the expenditure on this pink page shows in the last column a percent increase of 2.2 percent so even though the city is allowed to increase as much as 3.36 uh city staff is recommending an adjustment to allow for a 2.2 the original budget pages that were presented to you identified a 1.27 percent so we're increased by roughly nine tenths of a percent uh the reason for the the way in which uh the increase in the expenditures in the general fund uh how that's uh recommended to uh be changed is that the reserve for contingency which if you look at on your pink pages uh page 2.16 so second to the last page of your pink pages you'll see the unclassified uh program page the second the last line uh is reserve for contingency and you'll see the difference between the two columns 2019 requested in 2019 committee uh that number has increased by 350 thousand dollars so the recommendation is with the uh revised or identified cost of living that the city take advantage in order to provide for further sort of capacity when we're when we're looking at a year from now at the 2020 budget so this simply raises the floor uh as you know this uh the department heads budget carefully uh they monitor their budget carefully and ultimately uh more times than not uh the unclassified reserve for contingency line item is never touched or or again only maybe in a limited way so the hope and expectation is this 350 thousand dollars will not be spent but simply by placing that that additional funds in this line item it will give us a larger base to work from when we were again sitting at these desk uh a year from now um if i could next turn your attention to again the on the pink pages it's really the fourth physical page it's uh page number 91 so would the increase in the total expenditures on the last column the two 2019 committee uh recommended column in order um we do have some as i mentioned offsetting increases due to transportation or highway aids but that does not fully fund all of the 350 thousand dollar increase in the reserve for contingency so the remaining rem the uh the remaining amount is coming down toward the bottom where it says excess of revenue over under expenditure so the last column uh for that line item is 1 1,165,778 your original budget pages had that number at 900,949 so uh sort of the good news bad news is that we have the capacity to increase our expenditures uh i'm not recommending any other corresponding revenue sources other than tapping at least for the purpose of balancing the budget applying this fund balance so this fund balance will increase due to the expenses uh going up um when you go down to the second line from the bottom i know this is sort of getting in the weeds as far as details but under ending fund balance consists of the uncommitted line so that number that revised number is uh 15 million 866,850 and that is equivalent to 14 uh 41.2 percent i know that often when we talk budget strategies we talk about the fund balance percent the fund balance as a percent of our expenditures um originally when i presented the budget it was at 42 percent so roughly eight tenths of a percent it is dropping due to a higher applied fund balance because again strategically i'm recommending that we increase our expenditures again to put us in a better position when we're budgeting in 2020 often when we talk with Moody's about our fund balance as a percent of our expenditure we draw attention not only to this uncommitted line but we also talk to them about our contingency line account as well uh so we i we will tell them that we're artificially increasing from 150 to 350 so in essence here is an additional 350 thousand dollars that is expected to remain uh unspent or unallocated and uh as a result we feel that that should be considered part of our overall uncommitted fund balance going into calendar year 2019 that is a summary of of changes that we will be discussing at your next comic council meeting i will be asking from the floor an amendment to the 2019 uh budget resolution to take into consideration the items which i've discussed tonight thank you very much for that report is there any discussion see none next item is other matters received after the agenda was published city attorney adams 10.1 is an ro by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending december 31 2018 june 30 2019 and june 30 2020 that will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee all the person down here thank you for that motion and support all those in favor of adjournment please signify by saying aye opposed we stand adjourned and go packers and brewers have a good evening