 First of all, and then Phillips is excused, right? Yes. All right. Everyone, 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. All right. OK. Is anyone on the phone? Great. Thanks, guys. Approval of the minutes from July 14. There's been a motion to approve by Dean, second by Marcus. Any comments or questions on the minutes? Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the minutes, please stay dived. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. The minutes are approved. All right. Moving right along, resolution number 59, 2021. Resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute a memorandum of understanding with Advocate Aurora regarding the terms and under-sending between the parties regarding the location, construction, and fiscal responsibility for infrastructure improvements associated with the development of the new Advocate Aurora Hospital, located on the parcel northwest of the intersection of Taylor Drive and Union Avenue, Director Bebel. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What you have before you this evening is the result of months and months of negotiation back and forth on the infrastructure improvements related to the Aurora Hospital complex being built, just west of Taylor Drive at the intersection of Taylor and Union. With this, the infrastructure improvements really are going to entail a complete reconstruction of Union Avenue from Taylor Drive west in front of the hospital complex, as well as eastward to approximately, I would say, it's not the entire length of Union Avenue east, but it does go about halfway towards what I would say horseman, middle school, driveway entrance. The reason it goes east of the intersection is there's some major sanitary sewer that needs to be upgraded in order to accommodate the future sanitary sewer flows from this development. With that, that also impacts the road and the reconstruction of it. The intersection gets fully re-signalized with actual lane improvements. We're getting additional lanes on Union Avenue for left turn, protected left turns, right turn lanes, so forth, to help improve traffic flow and safety as a result of this. Ultimately, this goes back to the original development, and there was an intergovernmental agreement between the city of Sheboygan and the village of Kohler, basically laying out some of the terms and conditions of this hospital complex and its impact on the neighboring communities, especially the city of Sheboygan. Particularly that the things that affect the Department of Public Works is the infrastructure improvements. So we were tasked with leading this process in terms of ensuring that sound design was going to be implemented that's going to meet all of the requirements of the traffic impact analysis that's been submitted to us and meet the future development, not only for Aurora, but also we took into consideration acuity's future plans as well. And as you recall, a couple weeks back at a prior meeting to this, we had a memorandum of understanding between acuity and the city and some of their impacts and infrastructure needed for their development as well. This is kind of similar. Ultimately, that's much more impactful with a hospital. That's why you have several documents in front of you this evening. The one that I guess is probably just gives you a big overview would be the plan sheets that are color-coded that have green and blue basically on them and what they show is who's responsible for what portion of cost on the project. It's about almost a $5 million project with the majority of it being picked up by the Aurora Hospital with around, there's 660,000 that's identified as of today that's gonna be city, but there's another sheet that's gonna be added to this that's adding sanitary sewer that will be additional costs that we're going to talk about as well. The actual memorandum of understanding, we had the city attorney's office review and help draft along with Aurora's attorneys as well. I believe Thomas Cameron, the assistant city attorney with the city of Sheboygan is with us this evening and I guess I'd like to defer to him, Mr. Chairman, if it's acceptable, to have him add any additional comments regarding this memorandum of understanding. So I would defer to him at this point. Okay. Thomas, you got anything? Thank you, Director Babel. So there have been just some minor adjustments to the MOU from the one that was originally submitted in the council packet. They relate really to clarifying that Aurora healthcare is entering into this agreement on behalf of all of the Aurora related entities, a little bit of grammatical cleanup and then referencing the two related changes to the appendices as a result of Director Babel's reference to the sanitary sewer that's being done, adding another insertion, another page describing that and then accounting for that additional cost. And I believe Director Babel, please correct me if I'm wrong, I believe that additional cost is about $110,000 that we're estimating at this point. That's correct. Thank you. So we would recommend that the motion first be a motion to amend the MOU in order to bring that the version that was originally submitted in line with that final version, specifically to insert a new section one which clarifies that Aurora healthcare is entering into this agreement on behalf of all related entities to insert that additional sheet into the GRACE plans to account for the estimated cost of $110,000 related to that additional work and to make a couple of grammatical cleanups. I'm happy to talk about any of those items at more depth or anything else in the MOU if that would be helpful for the committee. I've got a question. Marcus. Thank you, Mr. Treverson. I have a question regarding the ability for Kohler to use the water to expand their water service outside of for Aurora. Is that a possibility? Have we weakened our position? If we sign this document, can anyone explain that to me? That is actually, it's my understanding, it's not part of this. They have a connection available to the water main that's existing there. That is my understanding, it's a wholesale connection to the village of Kohler. It's not directly to Aurora. So the village of Kohler then through their water rates will backcharge then Aurora through their metering process as well. Again, this isn't my area, that would be the water utility. But again, we do currently have a wholesale water agreement with the village of Kohler. We provide water to the entire village as of today. So I don't know if this water main in its location can be expanded to other locations, either underneath the interstate or whatever to provide further water connection at some future point. But again, it is allowable though through the wholesale connection through the village that we'll be providing the service. Thank you. Yep, team. Dr. Riebel, I just have one quick question about the extension of the union, the improvements is this going to be a full rebuild basically of union avenue? And I guess my question is, has it been considered to finish it up to 26th street so that it would be kind of, because that's gonna be like a half a block stretch that's gonna be odd otherwise. Yeah, so the project will have curb and gutter. It's gonna be an asphalt road, asphalt section road, but it will have curb and gutter and storm sewer sidewalks in the improved area. As we get east again, it's going back into that rural section. The thought process is we wanted to potentially hold off on completing that with whenever eventual maybe redevelopment of the property to the south side of union avenue, which is agricultural right now. So, but depending upon that and timing, that could be maybe a couple of years or it could be decades, we just don't know. And we realize if it's gonna be prolonged, we'll have to put in the capital improvements to then make that what we call that orphan section right in the middle. We gotta get it completed. I think that's gonna happen sooner and later. And I think what we'll start to do is identify it in our next five year capital improvements program, that section to be upgraded. So it matches from the east side, like it was you would say from 26th street to the new improved section up to about George Avenue. Okay, I guess because one of the biggest things that I've heard from residents in that area has been they would like a bike path or something along that because that is a treacherous road to try to connect to that bike path. I would agree and what we're looking at as an interim measure is to maybe place an asphalt path on that north side of Union Avenue which would be along the school side, I would say. Because that's where most of the traffic is and we would have it off the side of the road. So it's not right on the edge of the road because that it's pretty tight there. So we would try to separate that as well for safety. Okay, that's good to know. I've got a follow up question. Regarding storm water management, the storm water that's coming from the village of Kohler, is that entering into our storm water system? How is that handled? And are we going to be facing most of the cost of dealing with that storm water? Because I know down at the lake we've been really focused on the erosion and everything that's coming with that. Actually the storm water is being retained on the site of the hospital. It is discharged but it's discharged into the town of Sheboygan through what I would say the Lutheran school area. There's some drainage ways and ponds. Eventually it goes to the Sheboygan River then. Thank you. The other questions? No. Make a motion to approve. Do you need to? Give the amendment first. Well we gotta make a motion and then a second. Okay, I'll second. Okay, there's been a motion. Motion to amend? There's been a motion to amend to accept the staff's recommendations as city attorney Thomas Cameron stated previously. That's a friendly amendment if I've ever heard one. Is there a second on the? Second. It's been a motion and a second on the amendment. Any discussion on the proposed amendment? Seeing none. All those in favor of approving the amendment, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. The amendment is approved. Back to the whole document. Any discussion on the whole document as amended? Seeing none. All those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. Is everybody? 3.2, resolution 60-2021. Document 4.4, resolution authorizing the Director of Public Works to accept conveyance on certain lands from the Schwauginger School District. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This document as we talked about, this is also part of the same project. Right, it would be the northeast corner of Georgia and Eugen Avenue. It's part of the Sheboyan Area School District. And in order to provide a better turning radius at that intersection when it's finally approved, we need some small triangle of right-of-way as well as a temporary limited easement to be able to construct this as well. So this is, we've talked Ryan Sasma, City Engineer Ryan Sasma, talked with the school district and was able to get this right-of-way and easement needed at no cost to the city. Comments from committee members? Motion to approve. Second. I'm gonna motion my mark as second by Dean. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. 3.3, quarterly reports. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, this is our quarterly benchmarks that we provide on a quarterly basis. From now, this is for the second quarter. And I know it's a tremendous amount of information that we provide from the department. And I guess I don't wanna go through this line by line, but I'm very proud of all of the efforts from all of our divisions within the department. And I know Mike Wilmes from Buildings and Grounds and Traffic is available this tonight as well as Ryan Sasma, City Engineering. Jason Blasiola is available as well as Dawn Sokolowski, our business manager, can answer any of these questions regarding some of the data that's included in your report. And again, it's for information purposes. We're always available at any time. If you have any questions, comments throughout the year, we don't always have to wait for our quarterly benchmarks to come out. So always willing to help and answer and help your constituents whenever an issue arises. So I guess I would entertain any questions or then also then specifically, I might refer them to specific division heads. Any questions for committee heads or department folks? I've got a question. Marcus? Looks like the amount of potholes in tons that we have filled with HotMix, CodeMix or asphalt overlays is down significantly compared to last year and most years before. Is there a particular reason for that? Yeah, we haven't started our real big paving. So we're still on Savement Avenue and we'll be paving 10th Street. We're gonna start working on 10th Street this week and then Martin Avenue. So those tonnages for the overlays will increase dramatically. This year with the COVID, we didn't bring back very many seasonal workers and they do the majority of the potholes at this time of the year. So we are sending pothole wagons out. It's mainly the complaints and the complaints and ones that we've come across and know we're in the previous summers, we'd have kids and we would give them routs and go out and proactively look. But this year we just haven't done that as much with the lack of seasonals. Thank you. I've got a couple more questions. Can I just have a couple? When it comes to street cleaning, I just wanna say that I have noticed the street sweeper come by my house very frequently and I appreciate it. But can we talk about the backwater calls, what they are and why there's so many of them compared to last year? Yeah, the backwater calls when we received the two inches of rain in the, I think half an hour, it overwhelmed the sanitary sewer and that's where the, with the inflation, excuse me, the rainwater getting into the sanitary sewer and it caused a significant number of backups. But that was due to that main rain event that happened a month ago. Is that something that we should be fixing? The system, the system is really, there's certain areas that we fix and we tighten up the system, but there are cases where it's just not designed for that type of flow and that type of event, which is a rare occurrence. And if we designed, it would just be far too expensive to reconstruct and design sewer systems to handle that type of flow. So there are, I guess what I would say, it's unfortunate situations that do occur in nature that overwhelm the system and that's part of the cost overall in terms of managing it. So it's a decision point made that do we spend millions and millions of dollars to prevent maybe a couple tens of thousands dollars in damage over decades versus, again, trying to reconstruct everything. So that's the dilemma. It's not uncommon. This is, it's not unique to Sheboygan. In fact, over the years, especially in the storm, storm sewer system, we spent literally tens and tens of millions of dollars over the decades since 1998's flood that has increased the amount of rainwater that we're able to handle. It's pretty rare for sanitary to get overwhelmed and typically either it's a situation where the storm in the water is so fast that it builds up and then it finds its way into the sanitary either through a manhole or a manhole, it gets blown off and then it gets overwhelmed. Then we get backups. That's, again, a rare occurrence. Overall, on an annual basis, our backwaters are fairly low. Thank you. Just to go to the other question. Any other, Marcus? No, the only question I, how are we doing as far as the garbage collection as far as the, I know that our amounts were higher because of COVID. How is that going now with this? Is it decreased or are we still doing and also how is it going with the new garbage collection system? Yeah, I think what I'd like to do is refer to Jason and he's been really honest. I know the tonnages are still up. They haven't really come down, but I'll let Jason explain that it's really been a successful rollout and can't say enough about the team Jason and his crew and Dawn and the office in terms of the amount of calls that we've taken to help explain the system to the public. Overall, it's been a great success, but I'll let Jason explain more. Okay. Yeah, we've seen a pretty big increase in the amount of garbage. And with that too, if you look at, when I was looking at this, the self-help center or the recycling center too, the amount of yard waste, we've seen a spike in that, but people not working bring stuff down to the yard. I was talking to our sanitation supervisor, Luzon, all the daily numbers, and he said he's starting to see it come down a little bit, but if you look at the second quarter from this quarter, which I have here, where'd it go on me? Sorry guys, find my paper here. We've seen it go up quite a bit, but for the most part, the containers have been able to hold the garbage. We haven't had a whole lot of cases where people aren't able to fit the weekly garbage and recycling has gone up too a little bit. I've been also working with Thomas. I'm working on a letter. We've been tagging people with who have been using bags. So I've been keeping a spreadsheet of that. So people that have been multiple times, I'm gonna send a friendly letter out to say, hey, maybe you didn't see our tag, but we need you to correct the bags on the recycling and if we've had problems with that. So last, what do we have here for? I'm looking at the tonnage and it's gone up from 2,900 to 3,400 from first and second quarter, 19 to 20. And we're just now starting to see and take back down a little bit. Any other questions for Jason? Can you guys hear us? That's it. Yes, one final question. How are trees, are tree branches ground measured in dollars? I just don't understand that. The branches, what we do is we actually hire a contractor to come in and grind the branches. That's what that expense is for. Thank you. Yeah, I don't have a way to measure or weigh the branches that the citizens are bringing in. So we can distract the dollar amount. Thanks, Jason. Any other questions on the performance report? All right, sounds good. Next meeting, August 11th, seeing that we've exhausted the agenda, is there a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. All right, there's been a motion. Second, all those, please state aye. Aye. And you're gonna pose, chair votes aye. We are adjourned at 555. Thank you, everybody.