 The fifth meeting of the 2012-2013 Common Council meeting. Clerk, will you read the quote of the day? Thank you. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. The roll call. City Clerk? Press one. 14, present. Alderman Van Der Wheelie and Alderman Bourne are excused. Tonight we have joining us the group of Pathfinders Club of Sheboygan. They will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Tomorrow. Pathfinders, attention. Percent arms. Pledge of 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. One resignation tonight. 11 minutes first. I'm sorry. Can we ask for the approval of minutes? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I make a motion to approve the minutes of the last council meeting. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the last council meeting. Any discussion? Clerk, we'll call the roll. All those in favor, hold one. Motion carried. Now the resident city attorney. Thank you, Your Honor. There's an email from Alderman Bourne to the mayor on May 24th, advising that due to various issues, he's resigning his seat on the city finance committee and also resigning as chair of the public works committee. However, he does wish to remain a member of the public works committee and wishes to remain also as chairperson with the committee of the whole. That will be accepted and filed. Mayor's appointments, city attorney. Honorable members. Excuse me, we need a motion to accept and file first. I'd make a motion to accept and file. Second. It's been moved and seconded to accept and file the resignation. Any discussion? Clerk, we'll call the roll. All those in favor, please press one. 14 ayes. Motion carried. Mayor's appointments, city attorney. Honorable members of the council, by submit the following appointments for your consideration. Alderperson Joseph Heidemann to be appointed to the following committees to fill the unexpired term of James Bourne. The committees are strategic physical planning committee, Schwoig and transit commission and board of marina park and forestry commissioners. All terms expiring for 15, 2013. Alderperson Corey Rassler to be appointed to the finance committee to fill the unexpired term of James Bourne whose term expires for 15, 2013. And Alderperson Joseph Heidemann will replace Alderperson Bourne as chairman of public works committee and Alderperson Bourne will replace Joseph Heidemann as vice chairman of public works. Both terms to expire for 15, 2013. Signed by the mayor. Paul LeMune Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would ask that we suspend the rules and vote tonight on these nominations. Is there any objections to suspending the rules? Seeing none, proceed. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The need to suspend the rules is we've got committee meetings coming up. Strategic physical planning tomorrow and I'd like to have full committees for all of those. So I would move to confirm the appointments as presented. Second. It's been moved and seconded to confirm the appointments. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, clerk will call the roll. First, could you vote one to the suspend please? That would be great. Motion carries. Now the motion to approve. Ortean eyes and the motion carries. Public forum, city clerk. We have one this evening, milk storm. Melt if you could come up to the front please. Both can I have your home address? Yes, it's 1736 Marvin Court. And you will have five minutes, sir. Thank you. I'm not trying to be funny, but I was up and served in Bay with my identical twin brother and we went for a walk in a woods and I found this stick and I found it very useful. But I call it a staff similar to what Moses had only the exception I have yet to figure out how to change it into a serpent. So, but I find it works very good and aids me with my knees and my old age. So I want to thank the mayor and the council members here for addressing you to this evening. It was the spur of the moment that I decided this and that's only because we had our monthly meeting with neighbors against drugs commonly known as NAD. Our group has to dwindle a little bit because we have mostly retired individual but we still are a group that is very dedicated to the eradication of drug activity. Not only here in the city, but we're thinking about maybe going into the county if they still desire us to have. Our group was really the first forerunner what is now chief Demagalski has started. When we got complaints from neighborhoods we went and made surveys and we took information from them and we found that if there was any drug dealing we went in with our signs and we were very receptive by many neighborhoods although there were many neighbors who were a little antsy about us coming in there. I just want to compliment chief Demagalski for what he has now continued what we started. I just learned today that talking to my neighbor that I'm in section number 47. So I told the chief that I can remember that because I would then have celebrated my 47th birthday for the 35th time. Our group is still alive and we're willing to assist in every way that neighborhoods still feel the need if we can be of assistance. Must have lost the page here. We started this organization way back in July of 2003 and I've been a premier member of that organization for approximately now eight years. At that time there was a boy here in the city of Sheboygan especially with the police department what to do about the drug dealing that we had in the city. And we found out that our NAD organization as we call ourselves filled that void. We put up signs, we first surveyed neighborhoods to see if they were receptive to whether they wanted to participate in removing drug dealing and we found some were and some were not. Our group is still alive and although we don't are that visible anymore but with Sheriff Privy now going into town we are also looking to see if we can be some assistance out in the county but we don't go in until we are requested to do something. So I just thought I would let the citizens of Sheboygan and Sheboygan County know that we're still here and we're willing to do whatever we can. And as the Brits would say in their term, cheerio ol'chum. Thank you Milton, thank you for your years with the neighbors against drugs. On to the consent agenda. Mr. Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion to accept and follow ROs, accept and adopt all ROCs and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Second. It's been moved and seconded to pass all ROs, pass all ROCs, all ordinances and resolutions. Is there any discussion? It's two, one through two, 19. See none, clerk will call the roll. How one would be yes, two would be no, three abstain. 14 ayes. Motion carried. Three, one, two, three, six will be referred. Resolutions for one, resolution authorizing the mayor to sign an agreement, to sign three requests to release funds and certified forms so to permit release of funds held by the housing authority. Amen. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Move the resolution to be put upon its passage. Second. It's been moved and seconded that the resolution be put upon its passage. Is there any discussion? See none, clerk will call the roll. One yes, two no, three abstain. 13 ayes, one abstention. Motion carried. Four, two, a resolution authorizing the purchasing agent to solicit proposals for purchase of a thermal drying equipment associated with bio solids and dewatering and drying improvements at the regional wastewater treatment plant. Alderman Hammond. Alderman Heidemann. Thank you, I need a motion to suspend the rules. Second. It's been moved and seconded to suspend the rules. And I want to put the resolution upon its passage. Second. First we have to vote on the suspension of rules. All those in favor? Motion one. One, two, no. Jeremy, thank you. 14 ayes. Now the motion. And a motion to pass the resolution. Second. It's been moved and seconded for to pass the resolution. Okay, on your discussion, I'd like to have Dale come up and give us a little bit of explanation on why we're spending $3 million or $9 million. Okay. Good afternoon, mayor and council. The wastewater treatment plant is in our last permit upgrade, we were in violation of meeting our bio solids storage capacity. It doesn't mean we're in any way or form and any trouble, but they put us on a construction schedule to put in, do something to do that. We could put in additional storage or put in a bio solids drying. The cost for that project over 20 years is about the same whether we put in more storage or we put in drying. The biggest difference is with storages, we still are, the two other people have a little bit more authority than we, the farmers, the land that we apply it on and mother nature because if it's too wet, the farmers won't let you on the land. And if it's, and obviously if it's raining, you can't get it out either. So we looked at the option of drying. And so what we're doing is this project, we're going to look at purchasing the equipment up front to design around it. Because there's three main manufacturers that make a belt dryer and if we tried to design, they all have different components built differently. And if we tried to design around that, we'd have to make three design documents for it. So we're going to go in and look at the dryer systems and bid and then design the construction around that. So this purchase, by purchasing up front, we save on sales tax. It allows us to better meet our schedule with the DNR. We have to have something up and running by September of 2014. Obviously that leaves some construction time in there as well. So this is a, it took us a little bit to get to this point. So we're kind of a little bit behind the eight ball and that's why we're asking to suspend the rules. Thank you. Any questions? Again, this is to go out for bids, not to okay the final projects. Thank you, Dale. Any other discussion? Clerk will call the roll. Ayes one, nays two and abstain three. 13, ayes one, abstention. Resolution passes. For three, your resolution lifting the hiring freeze for benefits administrator in the human resources department. Alderman Raceler. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd move to suspend the rules, please. Second. It's been moved and seconded to suspend the rules. We've only voted on three things and two out of the three we suspended rules. We need to vote on the suspension first. There was a second. 14 ayes. Thank you, I'd move that the resolution be put upon its passage. It's been moved and seconded that the resolution be put upon its passage. Any discussion? Alderman Versa. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just if we can get a brief explanation on the reasoning behind lifting the hiring freeze. Alderman Raceler. Sure, thank you. The benefits coordinator is on an indefinite medical leave and there's no anticipated return. I just want to. Thank you. Any other discussion? Clerk will call the roll. One yes, two no, three abstention. 14 ayes. Motion carried. Four four through four 10 will be referred. Five one through five three will be referred. Other matters, Steve? Attorney McLean. Six one is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2013 and June 30, 2014. That will send to law and licensing. Six point two is an arrow by the city clerk submitting communication from Pamela Schneckloth stating her concerns regarding Wildwood Cemetery and the activities of the families of the deceased leaving trash all over grave sites in section 18. That will send to public works. Six point three is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2013 and June 30, 2014. That we will send to law and licensing. Six point four is an arrow by the city clerk submitting communication from Danny Beeman requesting a waiver from sex offender residency restrictions in order to live at 1332 North Sevelstreet. That will send to public protection and safety. Solomon Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, motion to adjourn. Second. It's been moved, seconded to adjourn. One yes, two no, three abstain. 14 ayes. We're adjourned. Don't forget to bring your voting things back up, please.