 I'd like to call to order the 24th meeting of the 2015 2016 Common Council with a clerk. Please read the quote for today Thank you, mayor There's a big difference between being a leader and being a boss a boss demands blind obedience a leader earns authority through understanding respect and trust Thank you very much Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance 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 Would the clerk please call the roll for the meeting you're a 13 present I'm sorry. There are 14 present one is remote Okay, Alderman Hammond is attending remotely and Alderman Damro is excused Next would be the approval of the minutes from our last meeting Alderman Hammond Second, thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed Most in passes Are there any resignations this evening? No, they're not and any appointments. No, okay At this time, I'd like if there's no objection. I'd like to pull forward six point one And I'd like to ask the clerk Susan Richards to read this resolution Thank You mayor This resolution is by the entire council and it states as follows a resolution commemorating the distinguished service of Elden e-Burg to the city of Sheboygan Whereas God and his divine wisdom has called from this life our valued friend and fellow Alderman Elden e-Burg Who passed away on Friday? January 15th 2016 and Whereas Elden e-Burg served the citizens of the city of Sheboygan as an older person from the first district for 12 years from 1999 to 2003 2005 to 2007 and 2015 to 2016 and served as common council vice president for a council year 2005 6 and as council president for council year 2006 7 and Whereas during his tenure as Alder person mr. Berg served as a valuable member of numerous council committees including public protection and safety public works as a chair in 2002 2003 salaried grievances chair in 2005 and 6 lawn Licensing Finance Committee Industrial Development Commission Board of Housing Appeals Historic Preservation Commission Motor Vehicle Review Committee Special Public Projects Committee Housing Rehabilitation Committee Sheboygan Transit Commission Special Committee on Risk Management Strategic Fiscal Planning Committee City County Shared Services Group Health Insurance Committee Labor Management Committee Employee Renumeration Committee Information Systems Steering Committee Government Structure Committee and whereas mr. Berg assisted with the development of the Harbor Center marina and South pier by serving on the marina go negotiations committee South pier advisory committee blue Harbor Committee and the marina and Harbor Committee and Whereas mr. Berg served his constituents in the city of Sheboygan faithfully and honorably being a man about standing ability and integrity and Whereas mr. Berg was a valuable member of the Sheboygan City Council Always legislating with an open mind and putting honesty and charity before all else He will always be remembered as exemplifying the best qualities of leadership in public service to the city Now therefore be it resolved that the Common Council hereby commemorates the distinguished service Rendered by mr. Elden E. Berg to the city of Sheboygan throughout his 12 years of service Expresses its sorrow for his passing and offers to his wife Fran and his entire family its deepest sympathy Thank you very much Alderman Hammond Second, thank you for that motion and support all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Motion passes unanimously. I want to express our sympathy to the family and I'll present this to Elden's wife Fran and the family Okay, the next item on the agenda is a presentation on Sheboygan's green to your legacy annual report by Chad Pellecek Chad As your new sustainability coordinator, I just wanted to run through some of the Green tier so green tier is an organization that the city belongs to it's part of a collaborative between the League of Wisconsin Miss Pelle's a thousand friends of Wisconsin a couple other nonprofits and a number of cities and they developed this charter to Kind of track sustainability efforts across cities recently. They change your charter to include Counties so there'll be some counties coming on but there's about a handful I'd say a dozen or so cities that are part of this charter and every year We're responsible to submit an annual report as to our accomplishment so I just want to run through some of the stuff because some of the stuff it's a department-wide Initiative and it shows that the city is on track for some sustainability initiatives, especially with our recently adopted sustainability plan, so if you can go to the next slide This is just a cover of the plan It was approved by the council a few meetings ago on the on the consent agenda And you can see the green tier logo if you go to the next page The first item on here is the bike rodeos that is a program That's handled by the Sheboygan police department on a yearly basis and it's to train kids on how to on bicycle safety skills fitting of Helmets and that kind of stuff to be on a safe side of things next slide We also did our first annual sustainability week with city employees this year, so the city planning organized a Week for all city employees to play what we called bingo sustainability And it had different things that they needed to do at home or at work that were sustainable And they needed to take a selfie of themselves while they're doing The sustainable activities so we get a gardener a lot of support from city employees on this and a lot of pictures that we Can use in marketing efforts of people that were doing sustainable activities if you go to the next slide This is one city employee in the City assessor's office who won the prizes, so we got a bunch of donated Prizes and put together bags and as you won bingo you won your free prizes A lot of it was based around the non-motorized program and some other activities next slide we also installed 87 desk side recycling bins in City offices across the city which seems kind of weird that we wouldn't have them But there wasn't Dedicated recycling bins in a lot of places and the ironically there was a lot of city employees That didn't know what could be recycled so we did an education effort on that And then we also added Common Communal bins and you'll see those in some of the conference rooms in the city and in the hallways to try to encourage recycling We also had the recycling czar in our office who went around and inspected people's garbage to make sure they were Compliant and we also had the janitors on board with us telling us who was the compliant and who wasn't next slide We got a grant from the Great Lakes shoreline cities for 239,000 for beach restoration project that's now planned for fall of this year at Deland and King parks But last fall we partnered with the Alliance for the Great Lakes and we did a beach cleanup with high school students from Sheboygan Falls High School as well as water testing and Planting of dune grasses as part of this project We've recently applied for another grant to do this for all of the fourth fifth and seventh and eighth graders in the Sheboygan school district Hopefully this fall if that should get funded Next slide We increased our downtown density and you guys are to part of the solution of 172 market rate units coming into the downtown to provide housing for young professionals and Reduction in the time workers spend commuting to Sheboygan for employment and realist ironically I just did a presentation to the st. Dominic's Dominic's coffee clutch group and 80 and one of the questions they asked is how many people commute into Sheboygan for employment on a daily basis and it's 8,500 8,568 people are coming in on a daily basis for employment here in Sheboygan Which is in my mind a pretty high number so as part of this initiative with the Downtown housing. We're hoping that more people would decide to reside here on The next slide we did street sweeping as a yearly program done in the public works department They collected 850 tons of sweeping debris We received a grant for 75,000 that we have to match with 75,000 to install new LED lights on Colder Memorial Drive That project should be underway here in May to change all the high-pressure sodium lights out from 14th Street out to Taylor Drive, and then we received a grant for Penn Avenue Reconstruction We've done some tree planting. We did the first ever hot-in-place asphalt recycling which they did a presentation on and we continue to control invasive species in Parklands and along Sheboygan River Next slide the Sheboygan Sheboygan Task Force Sustainable Task Force has changed its kind of focus Late in the year and they've developed four criteria that they're going to Their guy their group has been divided up and they're working on so Typically they had different committees in the past and they all worked on different things And now we're working on some specific things to get some accomplishments So the four things are the implementation of a recycling compost a residential composting program To encourage people to compost in their backyards implementation of a rain barrel program the development of a city sustainable website and Then continuation of the residential recycling outreach to try to get more Recycables out of the garbage to lower our tipping costs next slide So in 2015 we developed the blue bag campaign and the flyer that you see the picture on the right is Something that we we purchased 5,000 blue bags and we've got a group of people that are going out and distributing these to schools and getting schools and student councils interested in Recycling so they go home with the intent of having their parents Recycle and understand that they need to use a blue bag in order to get their recyclables picked up So we developed this brochure to go with the blue bags. We also sent out 15,000 recycling brochures in water bills and then In 2015 an additional 435 tons of recycling was collected So it's not we're not at the mayor's goal of 40 percent Recycled but we continue to make headway with this and the groups continue to look at ways to get the word out there On the importance of recycling to lower our overall garbage collection costs on the next page We continued the shabuigan the square, which is a downtown dedicated bus route and wrapped a bus Dedicated to that as you can see in the picture And then we're also working on an implementation of a bike share program Which should allow people to rent bikes in the downtown and south pier on a carousel and drive them around and then just bring Them back. So this is a program that we're hoping to Roll out later this year to try to encourage more biking in our downtown Good side grocery expanded on a street the city provided a $25,000 loan to them to expand into a new storefront and you know bring in more local foods and stuff opportunities to people downtown to try to feel a small need of a grocery store, which we hear a lot about Which we're hoping once we get more people living downtown We can try to encourage a a little bit larger grocery store to come to the downtown next slide So we some other general activities the council passed a resolution Dominating me as the sustainability coordinator and then we welcome the city's first sustainable Internation boy city planning this past year, and that's a position. We're hoping to continue Next this coming summer But we had a student a college student that came in and worked Part-time with us and did a lot of research and worked on Strategies to implement stuff as outlined in our Sustainability plan and then she got to understand how government worked an intern was able to get some credits And at her training at UW Stevens Point and then the last thing is is at the Sheboygan wastewater treatment plant There's been a lot of talk about the dryer program and the bio gas collecting that to dry the solids to 204 degrees and the final product is a pellet-sized dry product that is you safe to be used on lawns and trees and flowers and stuff So it's and not only that they've done a lot over the years in the treatment plant with Biogas and generators and trying to create a net zero. So they've done a very, you know, efficient Operation down there. So in a nutshell, that's pretty much what we have accomplished for the year And we're on track with a number of initiatives in this next year So we'll be happy to report on 2016 and if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Thank you Any questions for Chad? Chad, thank you very much for that report Is there any public forums? Okay, next we'll go on with Mayor's announcements I'd like Lieutenant Daryl majorly to join me up at the front the salvation army which Daryl is The leader of and Sheboygan has just celebrated their hundred and twentieth anniversary and we have a proclamation to deliver in honor of this occasion Whereas the Salvation Army is an international movement is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church Message is based in the Bible and its ministry is motivated by the love of God Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet the human needs in his name without discrimination And whereas the vision of the Salvation Army of Sheboygan is to join with the community as agents of hope to enhance the comprehensive Christ-centered services that promote self-sufficiency and whereas this year marks the 120th anniversary of the Salvation Army's presence in Sheboygan County and Whereas the Salvation Army works daily to instill hope Foster accountability and provide a safe haven and whereas the Salvation Army's annual red kettle campaign and bell ringers are a time-honored holiday tradition that heralds the beginning of the Christmas season and whereas year after year The officers soldiers volunteers and staff of the Salvation Army of Sheboygan have touched the lives of thousands of men women and children through programs such as emergency lodging free medical care food pantry utility assistance work boots other clothing youth programming child care Christmas toy shopping and coats for kids and Whereas the Salvation Ride Brings the community together to provide an opportunity to participate in a fun healthy activity while raising money to support the Salvation Army's Many life-enhancing programs this family-friendly event also promotes tourism in the Sheboygan area And whereas by providing these important community services and doing so with care and compassion For the for everyone who enters their doors the Salvation Army is a vital and well-respected member of the Sheboygan community I'm Mike van der steen mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hear by wish to congratulate and extend my personal Thanks and appreciation for those of the entire city of Sheboygan for our Salvation Army on the occasion of their 120th anniversary Darrell congratulations, and would you like to say a few words? Thank you mayor on behalf of the Salvation Army. I just want to Tell you how humbled and how truly grateful we are for the support of the city as well as the Generosity of the citizens of Sheboygan who really make what we do possible on a daily basis Thank you, and God bless each of you Next I'd like to represent an award that was given to the city at the chambers Working the together award and their their gala that was recently held This project that was recognized was our summer concert series that was held in the former Boston store property and We received the working together award, and I'd like to call Chad Pellich up Pellichek up to accept this award because he really headed up all of our efforts in this Working with John Michael Kohler Art Center was a great partner and also the Sheboygan squared business district Chad Congratulations All I can say is be prepared for an exciting year because the lineup is coming out soon And it should be a great time for all while we have construction going on in the north side of the lot So we're looking forward to it. Thanks. I Also want to let you know that today. We received the communication from the Arbor Day foundation and they have again named The city of Sheboygan a tree city USA for 2015 This is our 38th year of Consecutively receiving this award and that's the longest stretch of any community in the state of Wisconsin So that's really good to hear and I thank Joe for all the work in making sure that We are involved with our trees and continuing to plant and keep our trees up in the city Joe Curlin is our park and forestry director who's in the audience The last thing I'd like to do is again call Chad up to introduce us to members of the near-north Association these leaders have worked with city planning and our police department and They have a very important resolution on the agenda later Thank you. I'd like to ask Ryan Berg and Jill Clark to come forward and what we wanted to do was They have successfully worked in the near-north neighborhood, which is bordered by a street superior Geely and the lake is that your boundaries? Close enough so anyway they in later in your resolution there in the document. There's a resolution Recognizing them as the fourth neighborhood association to be recognized by the city and this has been a great initiative It's taken some time for neighbors to come forward But these guys are leading the charge in their neighborhood and Nancy Maring in my office has kind of worked with them from day one And originally lived in the neighborhood And worked to get them to become an official neighborhood association and since we're really trying to promote this and get other Neighbors on board. I thought it was pertinent for that these guys to be recognized as the fact that they're the new leaders in that neighborhood and We welcome them to the community and the name in the family of neighborhood association. So would you guys like to say anything I Should not have stood right next to the mic You know first off You know on behalf of you know my my stepmom my sister My wife my sister's fiance and all of us, you know that are related to dad We're humbled and grateful, you know for the For the resolution that you had passed earlier Honoring a true servant leader and we are grateful For for that now granted if if he would have found out that this was going on He probably would have answered with a swear word But he would have been pleased and for that we thank you But on to the matters at hand the near-north neighborhood is something that Joe myself Nancy even though she abandoned us by moving as we're about ready to settle up as as we're about ready to become a neighborhood You know and many other people have worked tirelessly over the past nearly two years, you know to to come together and come up with plans and wonderful ideas which which Which mayor van der steen and his cabinet will be hearing shortly? If he hasn't heard already about things that we can do to make the near-north neighbors a true neighborhood where we work together a play together and resolve our problems together and That's something that Joe and myself and everyone else has been involved in our committee Are we're very very excited to finally give birth into this and our first meeting is going to be on April 5th So, thank you Thank you very much and with that I'd like to if there's no objection pull 9.3 forward Item 9.3 is resolution number 153 of 1516 by Alderman Donahue officially recognizing the Neighborhood Association named near-north Neighbors Alderman Hammond looking for a resolution. I mean a motion to pass the resolution 9.3 Second, thank you for that motion and support Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed motion passes Congratulations, you're all set Okay, the next thing we'll go on to a hearing item 2.1 is a hearing regarding the community Development block grant one-year annual action plan and their proposed funding allocations for the 2016 2017 program year Alderman Hammond Very good. Is there anyone wishing to be heard on this matter? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? It's all yours down Second the motion and second to close the hearing all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed motion passes then we'll move on to the consent agenda It includes items 3.2 through 3.23 Don Alderman Hammond second Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any of those items in the consent agenda? Seeing none with a clerk, please call the roll 14 eyes Motion passes next we'll go on to communications item 5.1 is a communication from Jim Amodio giving a notice of retirement effective May 1st of 2016 Alderman Hammond second Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed motion passes Under reports of officers items 5.1 through 5.3 will be referred to various committees under resolutions item 6.2 is A resolution by Alderman Hammond Donahue Lesard Bellinger approving the fiscal year 2016 one-year annual action plan for the community development block grant Program submission Alderman Hammond second is there any objection to suspension Seeing none, please proceed Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll 13 eyes one abstention motion passes Item 6.3 is a resolution by Alderman Hammond authorizing city officials to execute an agreement for medical direction between the city of Sheboygan dash Sheboygan police department and Aurora health care central incorporated regarding the Sheboygan police department's Naxalone program Alderman Hammond Second. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed second Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on this motion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll 14 eyes Motion passes Item 6.4 is a resolution by Alderman Donahue establishing a committee structure subcommittee for the city of Sheboygan Alderman Donahue Thank You mayor. I would move to suspend rules second Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. Thank you. I would move to put the resolution resolution upon its passage second Thank you for that motion and support under discussion Alderman Heidemann. Thank you mayor As there has been a lot of talk about downsizing this council and this is the start of this I'm not going to support this Measure only because I don't think the council needs to be downsized I don't think the council's broken. I don't think the committee structure is broken And to me downsizing this common council will only give our citizens less representation so I guess I want to go on record and not supporting that prerogative or the Going forward this is and I guess I just wanted to make that note. Thanks. Thank you for your comments Alderman Donahue Thank You mayor, and while I appreciate Alderman Heidemann's Sentiments on the matter the plain fact is we have passed a resolution which reduces the size of the council from 16 to 10 persons and That will be in full place as I understand it by 2018 the purpose of this committee is for The council to look overall at how it does business and how it can do it in the most efficient way that really benefits our citizens Like any business whether private or public It's really necessary from time to time to look at how you do business to see if there are better ways more efficient ways That matters can be addressed so we do hope that the end result will be I Guess I would call it a leaner and meaner kind of structure that will allow the ten Alders who will Be in place in 2018 to do the city's business in the best and most efficient way also without burning themselves out Thank you for those comments. Is there any other discussion? See none will the clerk please call the roll 11 eyes three nose motion passes the Item 6.5 through 611 will be referred to various committees Under reports of committees item 7.1 is an RC by public works who met and discussed Entering into a contract with Vanell Industries Inc for the purchase of three 25-yard capacity Spartan Leaf Pro plus wagons and Passenger side pickup option for the replacement of four tandem axle dump trucks currently used in leaf collection operations Committee makes no resolution to the council regarding the attached Report of officer and resolution Alderman Bellinger Thank You mayor we debated this at the committee last week and it was a vote of two to two so there was no Recommendation coming out of out of committee What this is is it's about three years ago. We purchased four leaf acumen units and they were pulled by tandem axle trucks and The leaves were then discharged into the back of these trucks and What we found that the trucks that's their only use these tandem axle trucks is for these the leaf collecting that's done each fall and as a result of that Those trucks are of 1995 vintage and it's my understanding that they're in very poor condition The frames aren't suitable. They really aren't road worthy any longer and to replace those trucks It's around two hundred fifty thousand dollars alone for the vehicles and they serve no other purpose. So in lieu of that what Director Bebel has come up with in his staff is a different piece of equipment and Instead of four units. They only need three and the capacity what happens is they've got a self-contained leaf collection system where they can Can can hold more leaves than the backs of these tandem axle trucks And they can be pulled by a regular one-ton truck which the city has many of those At its disposal and can use Now the cost of this the equipment is I believe it's a hundred and ninety one thousand dollars but there is a reap or To to dispose of the existing units in the old trucks I think that we can expect to get it roughly seventy nine thousand dollars back from that and So that is a net cost of a hundred and twelve thousand dollars and When going through this It was my Opinion and I've held this opinion ever since I moved to Sheboygan Is that I'm kind of baffled why the city in fact collects leaves The city doesn't you know shovel your driveway. It doesn't mow your lawn It doesn't you know, why are they collecting leaves? Why isn't it the individual responsibility of the resident to take care of their own leaf picking or collection and and Dropping it off into a site And I've lived all over the midwest You know where trees shed their leaves every fall and I've never had a municipality do do provide this service So it was my recommendation that we eliminate this service altogether and Get out of the leaf collecting business There's a significant equipment cost as you've just seen and there's a significant labor cost every fall And as it was described at our meeting, it's an approximately seven or eight week snowstorm where every day They've got crews out collecting, you know leaves for that period of time and In the past when I've discussed this issue I've always been brought with the objection of The dnr the dnr mandates that the city collects leaves So what I did was I contacted the dnr. I had numerous emails go back and forth with the dnr And their response to me was uh, and I'll read it from an email Um, the city is not required to collect leaves But per the following permit condition in the pollution prevention program They are required to have proper management of leaves and grass clippings This could be accomplished through a comp composting facility Accessible to the public to collect the yard waste the city may not just vacate leaf collection without providing a reasonable alternative and this was from An email sent to me by brook yankee from the wisconsin dnr and um And in further conversations with director bebel that the city would have to amend the permit and do some continuing education and whatever Remedy that we come up with it would have to be Substantially similar to what we're achieving in collecting leaves right now But it's my belief that the city could eliminate this and provide an alternative at a significantly less Expensive cost than you know the hundred and twelve thousand dollars that we're looking at right here so for that reason there was um The vote was two to two and um, I would like to make um a recommendation to um, just file this document and You know get out of the leaf collecting business And official motion Yes Okay, we have a motion on the floor to file the document under further discussion I'll turn it down to you. Thank you mayor. Um I guess since it wasn't on the agenda, I would just ask city attorney Adams if this motion is appropriate I think the motion is appropriate to file it appropriate, but the additional language was not on the agenda and would not be appropriate at this So I I think that perhaps Severing the motion at this point would be the most appropriate way to do this or I guess I'm just concerned that all of a sudden a very valuable and important service to our citizens is Being referred to a committee without any notice or any I mean, I appreciate all them in Bellinger's reasoning I think there are many many good reasons to argue against that Which I would you know pretty adamantly do but I'm just wondering procedurally It seemed to me that maybe the best thing to do would be just to refer this motion back to committee Particularly as it sounds like That that director beable Has an alternative proposal As I was understanding what alderman bellinger was saying and the the committee with And this was a 2-2 vote. So if the committee were at full force, there might be a majority opinion About the new program and then if alderman bellinger doesn't want to bring a resolution to eliminate leaf pickup You know, he would certainly be free to do that. So just however the best way would be to handle that. I would suggest that's how we do it Okay, the motion on the floor is to file and that would have to be withdrawn in order to refer back to committee There's a number of lights that are on and and david beable is trying to get my attention So at this time I'd like to ask director be able to come up and And speak to the motion to file Thanks, mayor Yeah, we we had this discussion and Respect alderman bellinger's opinion on this It is an operational Battle for the department every year However, it's it's a public service that the department has provided for at least 30 some years probably more so What we've proposed with this equipment And in our opinion with our staff's review is really A cost-effective Efficient measure moving forward if we're going to stay collecting leaves as a public service to the citizens at the curbside We're not unique in this. This is throughout wisconsin And as john has alluded to it's true. It's not a mandate However, it is part of our stormwater pollution permit That we have to file annually so Communities typically will pick up Leaves at the curb because we're out sweeping the streets already. It's effective We can collect a ton of leaves. I mean annually In fact in 2014 we collected over 1900 tons of leaves that was documented In 2015 it was over 1800 about 100 tons difference So if we get out of the leaf business and we direct it elsewhere or we could have a compost site It has to still be managed It has to be documented and we have to make sure that we attain at least That similar amount of tonnage on an annual basis are are come up with other programs to meet the stormwater permit regulations so I guess what I would ask if if you have concerns yet is not fully rejected We timing is of the essence because if we don't order this equipment within the next month We're going to get Back logged in terms of getting the equipment delivered on time for this fall coming season So that's some of our concern But I I would urge you just not to just reject the program at this point And we can develop other other alternatives and come up with some costs But we had a compost site in the city We used to manage that Compost sites are now regulated further by the DNR and there's monitoring and permitting along with that So it's it's not as if we can just put them in a pile and forget about them so If council so desires again, I would I would urge not just to file at least refer it And we can come back out a committee with further information Or if the committee and the council feel so desired that they want to continue this program This equipment again most effective Cost effective as well as efficient as well for operations. Thank you. Thank you for those comments Proceeding then alderman hosé um I guess if rather than file it maybe I would like to make a motion to table it for 30 days I would this came I was I'm not on the department of public works committee and I asked that night before the meeting closed if this would be coming to the next council meeting because that's kind of fast I would like time to discuss with my constituency whether they want to continue this program or if To be honest, I think a lot of my Constituency would like to see more money at this time going to fixing the roads So if we can save some money in this area for the city If we get on efficiently where we can get a reasonable savings I would rather see the the savings go to fixing more roads And I think my constituency would support that but I would like additional time To put that question out there To the public Thank you for those comments. Alderman boring. Thank you, mayor Unfortunately, I was not able to be at the public works meeting last tuesday night had I been there I would have voted to go ahead with the purchase I've been on the public works committee for a number of years. You can't remember how many it's gotta be five or six chairman a couple years And I appreciate the work that the uh, the guys do down the public works and collecting the leaves I think the city has it down to a science with the various zones I think mine is on monday and I know my constituents for the most part are out there religiously Gathering their leaves for pickup In fact, yesterday morning my wife and I were on our way to church and we uh, my wife commented to me how Clean everything looks looked in our neighborhood and going down past rooseville park And I venture to say there's not too many communities that look like this in the spring and march Everything else is brown, but the leaves are gone. And I think it's very important That we continue this service so that we don't have clogged sewers and water backing up So I'm uh, I'm gonna vote if it comes to that tonight. I'm gonna vote for the purchase Of this equipment and I think it's very important that we continue the service. Thank you Thank you for the comments. Alderman bellinger Thank you mayor Would The proper then to withdraw and then refer back to committee The city attorney has just advised me that a motion to refer would take precedence. It's non debatable And that would override the the motion to file. I will make a motion to refer back to the public works committee Okay, we have a motion to refer back to the public works committee. Uh, so we're not going to be able to hit the other lights Um Sure, okay clerk will call the roll 13 eyes one no Motion to refer back to committee passes Sorry about that Okay, moving on to 7.2 is an rc by finance to whom was referred resolution number 154 of 1516 by alderman hamman Authorizing a transfer of appropriations in the 2016 budget to establish Revenue and appropriation for the contract with truck country of wisconsin for an upgrade of the de icing Tank system on the two freight liner trucks and recommends that the resolution be passed alderman bellinger Thank you, mayor move to accept adopt and pass resolution Second thank you for that motion and support any discussion on the motion Please call the roll 14 eyes motion passes Item 7.3 is an rc by finance to whom was referred resolution number 155 of 1516 By alderman hamman being a resolution supplementing resolution number 100 of 0506 awarding the sale of 2,125,000 and water utility revenue Refunding bonds series 2016 and providing for the payment of said bonds and other details and covenants and recommends that the resolution be passed alderman hamman second Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Alderman bellinger Thank you, mayor. I'd like to open the floor or yield the floor to carol worth, please Thank you. Is there any objection? Seeing none carol, please come forward Okay, good evening. We have distributed Two actually two handouts here One is a summary. We call it a summary of sale report That is describing what you are acting on in this resolution Okay, this resolution is a resolution to borrow But the good news is that it's to borrow to refinance some outstanding debt They're called revenue bonds from the water utility that were sold back in 2005 And now there is a 2,135,000 of those bonds outstanding at interest rates of 4.1 So we're going to with this action refinance those with 2,115,000 dollars worth of new 2016 revenue bonds at an interest rate of 1.518 And in the process the difference between those two interest rates There is a savings generated And that savings is 248,000 dollars roughly That occurs over a 10-year period The process also included us preparing the city and the water utility to go to a bond rating through moody's investor service And moody's has reaffirmed the double a to bond rating On the water utility, which is a very, very high credit rating It's only two notches below the highest triple a that you could achieve. So it's an excellent rating And uh, then we went to the next step, which was to Take bids from underwriters And we received this morning six different bids and the winning bid was from the firm of BOSC Inc. It's called BASC Inc. Which is the former Trading desk of M&I Bank And they opened up a Milwaukee office under that firm name And the action of this resolution Is to award the sale of these bonds to that successful bidder of BASC Inc At that interest rate of that 1.518 percent And the other action that's occurring in this resolution Is to notify the bond holders of the 2005 revenue bonds That the city is exercising its right to stop the interest on their bonds As of May 1st of 2016 and that's that interest that's out there at 4.1 So this resolution provides for all of that to happen Um locks in the interest rates And the money is delivered to the utility on April 20th And on May 1st those 2005 bonds are completely paid off So thank you very much carol. Is there any questions? I was just advised by the clerk that the correct amount should be 2,115 thousand dollars Okay. Yes. All right So we uh to have that document on the floor. Is there any further discussion? Alderman borne Thanks, mayor. Uh, I'm going to have to abstain on this my wife and I have uh I purchased this bond before I was on the council, but I still own it. So I'm going to abstain on the vote Thank you any other discussion Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage 13 eyes one abstention motion passes Excuse us a minute while we sign documents Carol, thank you very much for your assistance with this refunding project You're welcome Next we'll move on to 7.4 Which is an rc by finance to whom was referred resolution number 160 of 1516 by a Allerperson Hammond direct referral Authorizing the city of shaboy again to enter into a contract for tyler content manager Enterprise upgrade for retention of documents in a digital format and recommends that the resolution be passed alderman hammond second Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll passage 14 eyes motion passes Item 7.5 through 7.21 will be referred to various committees under ordinances 3.1 is an ordinance by alderman donahue heidemann boran and hammond amending general ordinance number 40 of 0708 Establishing the salaries of crossing guards alderman donahue Thank you, mayor. I would move to suspend the rules second. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed Accordingly, I would move to put the resolution on its passage. Yes. Thank you for that motion in support Is there any discussion on the motion? Thank you very much clerk. Please call the roll 14 eyes Motion passes 8.2 will be referred to the city planning commission Uh number nine under matters laid over 9.1 is ro number 292 of 1516 by the purchasing agent submitting a summary of anticipated Expense for the provision of financial advisory services on a contract renewal basis for a period of april 1st of 16 through 3 31 of 18 Alderman hammond second Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none. Well the all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed Motion passes 9.2 is a resolution number 152 of 1516 by alderman coth heidemann wolf donahue authorizing the entry into a contract for renewal for obtaining financial advisory services formally referred to as bond council services alderman hammond Alderman hammond Thank you second Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on this motion? Seeing none. Well the clerk, please call the roll for passage 14 eyes Motion passes Number section 11. Let's see. No, we would do other matters 10 Okay, other matters received after the agenda was published item Please city attorney Thank you 10.1 is an ro from the city clerk submitting a communication from the wisconsin department of administration Stating that the resubmitted sheet 2 of millerfield west has been reviewed and the department does not object to the final plat bearing the march 10 2016 revision date That uh when we lie over 10.2 is a resolution approving the terms and conditions of the development agreement between cheb pro llc and the city of sheboyan That'll be referred to the finance committee 10.3 is an ro by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending december 31st 2016 and june 30th 2017 would be referred to the law and licensing committee 10.4 is an ro by the city clerk Submitting a communication from brian mire Expressing his concerns regarding two incidents. He was involved in with shoreline metro. That'll be referred to the transit committee 10.5 is a resolution by all the person wolf Approving the terms and conditions of the parking and access lease agreement by and between the city of sheboyan and eighth street sheboyan housing corporation That'll be referred to the transit commission Okay, next is item number 11 Notice to discharge the capital improvements commission alderman hammond alderman hammond second Thank you for that motion to discharge all those in favor of discharging from the capital improvements commission. Please signify by c&i I opposed motion passes Alderman hammond Second Thank you for that motion in support That motion is before us. Is there any discussion? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by c&i opposed motion passes Number 12 is a notice to discharge strategic fiscal planning committee alderman hammond second Thank you for that motion in support Is there any Okay, all those Okay, we have a comment on the motion to discharge alderman hosay I just want some clarification on what we're voting on This this disband the One issuer does it disband the committee in its entirety? Now at the end of the council year all the committees have to get rid of all the documents in their folder and these These other committees are not standing committees So you can see some of these documents have been sitting in their folder for quite some time And this is an effort to clean those out So that as the new council year starts, they won't have any existing documents Only the new ones that would be referred to them The only issue I have is at the committee of the whole meeting last week. We referred to this committee the issue with the What to do whether that's been four million seven million or eleven million on the new city hall, so Um, so that we would not be throwing out that document as well. No that one will stay there. Okay Okay, so on the motion to discharge all those in favor, please signify i'm sorry alderman borne Thanks mayor, uh, originally this was my document And I submitted it to strategic fiscal planning. I think back in april or may And uh, I was kind of surprised to see it come up, uh To be discharged But we are getting close to the end of the council year. So I was hoping that the strategic fiscal planning committee Especially in lieu of the fact that we have about a structural deficit of two million dollars for next year on our budget And unless it's a given that we're going to continue the garbage fee I was hoping that the committee may may take a look as an alternative to the garbage fee Maybe looking at a priority driven budget process Uh, so I guess I'll go along with filing it tonight Because it's the end of the council year But I think it's something we should take a look at and I would urge my colleagues on the council The document that's attached is very very long But I would ask you to if you have time to look at page seven of the document It's called the anatomy of priority driven budget process The introduction and I'm not going to take time to read it tonight But I thought the document was very well done It was in fact it was passed on to me by a member of the shabuagan county board And there's a number of cities and counties from out the country that That were in this study on priority driven budget and they all they all they already do it So, uh, when the new ca comes on board and he gets his feet on the ground I'll probably schedule a get acquainted meeting with with daryl And I think one of the topics of discussion Is going to be at least to consider this priority driven budget process if it's too late to do it for 2017 To possibly at least give it some consideration for 2018. So I'll go along with filing this tonight, but uh, It may resurface again. Thank you Thank you for those comments any other discussion Seeing none all those in favor of discharging, please signify by saying I I opposed motion Motion passes Alderman hamlin Second, thank you for that motion any discussion Seeing none all those in favor of filing, please signify by saying I Opposed motion passes Alderman hamlin second Thank you for that motion with a clerk. Please call the roll to adjourn All those in favor, please signify by saying I I opposed we stand adjourned. Thank you very much for your attendance tonight