 Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. Thank you very much. Would the clerk please call the roll? There are nine present. And all the person, Sorensen, is excused. Please stand and join me in 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. Next item on our agenda is the approval of our minutes from our last City Council meeting, all the person will. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to approve. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Opposed? Motion passes. Next is resignation, City Attorney. For the resignation, Bill Fields, submitting his resignation from the City Plan Commission, effective December 30, 2018. All the person will. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to accept and file. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. City Attorney, Mayor's appointments. The Mayor is submitting the following appointments for your consideration to the Sheboygan Squared Bid Board, Marcus Diedrich to fill the unexpired term of David Sanderson, whose term expires 1231, 2019. And the following appointments, beginning January 1, 2019, and expiring December 31, 2020. Rick Scroggins, Amy Horst, Eileen Simmons, Aaron Sloma, Jane Davis Wood, Paul Rudnick, and Chad Peleshek. Those appointments will lie over. And then we have Mayor's appointments. 1.6 is an appointment by the Mayor and the Administrator pursuant to General Lord in 6612-13, creating Section 2-419 of the Sheboygan Municipal Code, relating to the position of Director of Information Technology. We hereby recommend that Eric Bushman be appointed as the Director of Information Technology for the City of Sheboygan. And that appointment will lie over. And then one last one. 1.7 is also an appointment to the Mayor submits the following appointment for your consideration. Dave Hoffman to be considered for appointment to the City Plan Commission to fill the unexpired term of Bill Field, whose term expires April 2020. And that will also lie over. Next City Clerk, open forum. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Joanne Scribner, could you state your name and address for us? Lisa Nicotrio, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 53081. Thank you. Joanne, could you move the mic closer? Thank you very much. You'll have five minutes. Okay. The last time I was here speaking at Common Council about this issue was on April 6th. I think I yelled at just about everybody here, from me or Mike, to Darrell Hoffman, to probably the City Attorney, and not Meredith, all the persons. Dave Bebel, et cetera. Didn't yell at the Chief though, okay. Save our Armory. That's my topic. I know you're going to put it up for referral to Finance Committee on Friday. One of my sources told me that. The last time I spoke, it was Save our Sheboygan Armory. The reason? It was built in 1941. Me. It was by the WPA, which is a federal, you know, works program. So the guys who needed jobs at the time, got jobs. It was depression time. The greatest generation built that Armory. Sheboygan, I'm sorry, but it seems like some of you, all the persons, me or Mike, other people here, which I won't name, want to destroy everything historical. I want to save things that are historical. That's why we have a historical museum on Erie Avenue. History. Save our Sheboygan Armory. Don't tear it down. What, another high-rise apartment building with rents $1,000 to $1,600 or whatever, $2,000 a month? Most Sheboygan citizens can't afford that kind of high-rise. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Not all of us are millionaires or 1,000 nears. We don't have $40,000 a year income. Wish we did. It's not there. Anyway, like I said, the greatest generation were some of the men who built that Armory. Bill Wongaman, you know him, used to be a member of the Sheboygan Common Council. Historian, extraordinaire. He, there's like, I have what, 46 pages, 46 pages of things, events that happened at the Sheboygan Armory and Auditorium. Yes, it is memorabilia. Yes, it's sentimental. My main point tonight is please, from Mayor Mike to Daryl Houghland, to Chuck Adams, to all of you, all the persons. Put this on referendum for the April election so everybody in the city of Sheboygan can vote. Don't just take a wrecking ball to it. You know, that's a bunker. That's one solid bunker. It was built as a military bunker. There are so many events that took place. Cordettes. The Don McNeil Breakfast Club was there. Harlem Globe Trotters. I mean, I could just go, if I had an hour, I'd go through this list of all the things that happened there. Wonderful events. Lakeland College, I graduated Lakeland. The Lakeland College basketball games, the muskies, the e-muskies. North-South basketball games, teen dances. The crescendos was the first teen dance back, and I forgot my notes, but it's all in here. Why are you going to destroy history again? Why? Why Chad? Why Dave? Why Mayor Mike? Why Daryl? Why Mary Lynn? Why? Dave Cedarburg is a really nice town. It's got a lot of historical buildings. They don't tear down their historical buildings. Why does Shipwagon? Save it. Put it on referendum. I'm thinking about talking to Adam Paine. Maybe we should put it on the county ballot as well, not just Shipwagon. County people used the armory. Back in 1968, I was one of those Stiger girls. I was a lot thinner then. Pom Pom's the whole thing. Bill Stiger from Oshkosh. He died too young. Richard Nixon, I was here when he was here to speak. I don't understand why, except I know it's the money. It's always about the money. How about some sentimentality and some history? Save our Shipwagon Armory. Excuse me, Joanne, your time is up. Do I have one more minute? Please wrap up. So, again, my plea is to Shipwagon Common Council, put it on referendum for the April ballot so that we can all, as the citizens of Shipwagon, vote on it. Otherwise, the citizens are going to say, you don't care. You don't care. You don't care. You don't care. You don't care. You don't care. You don't care about the opinions of the residents. If you show that you care, put it on referendum so we can all vote. All citizens of Shipwagon. Maybe Shipwagon County too. Maybe I'll talk to Adam Peene, as I said. Referendum. Referendum. Referendum. Put it on referendum so we can all vote. Referendum. Referendum. Referendum. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Glenn Martin. Can you state your name and address for us, please? My name is Glenn Martin. And my address is West 1198 Highway KK Kokona, Wisconsin. And I'm representing a company called Statewide Raising. Thank you. You'll have five minutes. Okay. So I'm here as the other part of demolishing the building. Not because all of a sudden, I'm not here for public opinion, okay? I'm a contractor. And I'm a contractor that would like to bid on this job, okay? This job was bid out several times, okay? Several years ago, I asked, I got the thing right here. I got a paper called a Daily Reporter where it says that all of a sudden, we're going to be asking for bids for the Shipwagon Armory, okay? And I got this paper on, well, it's mailed out on the 13th. I read it on Monday. It says, and then there's a pre-qualification that was due on, I mean, a mandatory pre-bid that was due on the 13th, okay? And I call up Mr. Ramsey. I think his name is Bernard Rammer, okay? And I asked him, why didn't you send me an email on this, okay? And he said, Glenn, we sent you an email on this. I says, no, you didn't. You didn't send me an email, okay? He says, well, well, it's too late. You can't bid on it anyway. So I went and seen him in person, okay? And I says to him, why wasn't I received the email? This is the second time this happened now. I says, he says, we'll put you on the bid list. I says, no, I don't want to be put on the bid list. I was asked to be put on the bid list and had changed my email address two years ago and you didn't change it, okay? You didn't change my email. As a courtesy thing, all the bidders that bid on the project, they were sent an email saying that you had to be this pre-bid qualification, okay, to be there to bid on the project. And I've done projects for in the city, in the past, okay? I've toured on schools and houses and I've toured on a couple of buildings in the downtown, not the downtown. I know the industrial flats here, okay? A lot of years ago, I've been doing this since I was, oh, God, 1978, okay? I started working for people, 74 really. So that's all I'm asking for is the opportunity to bid. And so I'm kind of sad here is going, well, how am I supposed to bid a job when I'm not informed about the bidding process? And I understand that all of a sudden, when you ask a person to change the email, how that process kind of gets lost or if a person asks you how to go ahead and change my phone number, it gets lost, but I'm going, how am I supposed to know this when all of a sudden I get a publication that's too late to even bid on the project? So I'd like the opportunity to bid on the project, okay? And I realize it's been bid before, but that's all I'm asking for is an opportunity. I can't say I'm going to be low, whatever it is, it's all I say is that I want an opportunity. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next we'll go on to Mayor's Announcements. I'd like to ask Sheriff Pacniak to come to the front please. Tonight we have a proclamation to present in honor of National Mentoring Month. January is National Mentoring Month celebrating the benefits of youth mentoring across the country. And whereas every day communities across the country carrying adults volunteer their time with mentoring programs to create consistent and supportive relationships with young people. At its most basic level mentoring is successful in real life because it guarantees young people have an adult to turn to that they have a guiding hand to help them in dealing with day-to-day challenges. At a more complex level there is a powerful mentoring effect that ultimately makes our communities stronger. And whereas quality mentoring programs are proven to build relationships that improve school attendance, academic achievement, promote responsible decision making, provide skills to better navigate relationships at school and socially and at home. Whereas a report by Mentor, the National Mentoring Partnership found that young adults who are at risk of falling off track but who had a mentor are 55% more likely to enroll in college, 78% more likely to volunteer regularly in their communities, 90% are interested in becoming a mentor, and 130% are more likely to hold leadership positions. And whereas mentoring programs have shown to be effective in combating school violence and discipline problems, substance abuse, incarceration, and truancy. Whereas, I now therefore, Mike van der Steen, as mayor of the city of Sheboygan, to hereby declare January of 2019 as National Mentoring Month in Sheboygan and call upon public officials, business and community leaders and educators to encourage citizens of the city to observe this month with the appropriate ceremonies and activities and programs in order to recognize the men and women who serve as staff volunteers at quality mentoring programs and who help our young people find their inner strength and reach their full potential. Shahr is here on behalf of Horizon for Girls, a great mentoring organization. We also have a robust Big Brothers and Big Sisters program and also we have other youth programs that supply mentoring. So, Shahr, I'm very happy to present this proclamation to you. And I want to thank you for all the great work that your organization is doing and also mentioned the good work that other organizations in our community are doing in mentoring. I'd also like to just remind you that the police department is putting together their Citizen Academy for this year. Their Citizen Academy will be an 11-week program and will run March 12th through May 21st. And they're looking for applications to be into them by February 22nd. I know that some, like Rosemarie Trester has said, she's gone through that in the past and what a great experience it was. So, and Jim Boren. So, I hope that other citizens will be interested in this. And I also want to let you know that on the 29th of December, a new episode of Discover Wisconsin was on featuring Sheboygan in the fall and winter. And they have it on their website if you'd like to go and view that, but this is part of our Visit Sheboygan effort to get the word out and that's one of the programs that they've set up for that purpose. Thank you. Next, we'll go on with the Consent Agenda. That'll include items two point through through 2.4. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to accept and file all ROs, accept and adopt all RCs and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Those items on the Consent Agenda are before us. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll. Nine ayes. Motion passes. Under reports of officers, items 3.1 and 3.2 will be referred to the Finance and Personnel Committee. Under resolutions, items 4.1 through 4.5 will be referred to various committees. Under reports of committees, item 5.1 is RC number 219 of 1819 by the Finance and Personnel Committee. To whom is referred, resolution number 145 of 1819 by Alderperson's Reinflation, born and supporting. Placing an advisory referendum question on the April of 2019 ballot to determine if the Wisconsin legislature should consider and pass legislation requiring all businesses to pay their fair share of property taxes by closing perceived loopholes in the assessment process and recommends approving the resolution. Alderperson, Reinflation. I move to accept and adopt and pass the resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Alderperson, Reinflation. Similar to what other cities and villages and counties have been doing in this state. This is involved with the dark store situation where after stores are being assessed at a lower value than the general lead and public is assessed at. So people are paying excess and personal property taxes which is a referendum they're doing is really kind of encouraging the local budget. Thank you for those comments. Alderperson down here. And just to follow up on that there was an extensive article on the Sunday New York Times featuring the Wauwatosa mayor. Mike, you should have lobbied harder to get your picture in. But I think that really sets out the breadth and depth of this problem which unfortunately our legislators just aren't listening to us. And so building support within communities I think is extremely important. And so I will wholeheartedly vote for this and then I think part two of that is an educational campaign to let people know exactly what is this all about. It's hard to figure out what a dark store is and so forth. So I think that we need to be engaged in that as well. Thank you for the comments. Alderperson born. Thank you, chair. The amount of property taxes that big stores are arguing about the city actually needs to be in full on this but it's not the residential property that taxpayers are making up of different cities. This is an substantial, substantial amount of state. So I agree. I think there has to be more education with and more education globally. I'm all for doing the referendum. I think there has to be another educational component for the referendum. So the citizens understand that they're the ones that are paying for the big box stores not paying for their share. Thank you very much. Alderperson Wolff. Not to continue to review this subject but I do agree with the fact that we need to take this to referendum also because of the fact that as more and more brick and mortar disappear because of online shopping and things like that if this situation is not addressed and understood by our citizens it's going to continue to cripple cities all over. Thank you very much. Any other discussion? Seeing none, would the clerk please call the roll for passage? Nine ayes. Motion passes. Under item number 6, general ordinances. Item 6.1 and 6.2 will be referred to the Finance and Personnel Committee. Under other matters received after the agenda is published I'll turn it over to the City Attorney. Thank you Mayor. 7.1 is an RO by the City Clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2019 December 31, 2019 and June 30, 2020. That will be referred to the Licensing Hearings and Public Safety Committee. 7.2 is a resolution by Alderperson Wolff and Sorensen authorizing Advertising For Bids for the Mead Public Library Plaza Project. That will be referred to the Public Works Committee. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you Mayor. I make a motion to adjourn. Second. Thank you for that motion. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? We stand adjourned. Thank you very much.