 at 6 o'clock. So we'll call the meeting of the mayor's neighborhood leadership cabinet to order. First item on the agenda is Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand. So this is Chad Peleshek with the City of Sheboygan. I think we're going to try to do a roll call. So if you can, we'll call your name from the screen in front of us. And if you can say who you are and which neighborhood you are representing. So we'll start with the people that are in the council chambers. Go ahead. Peter Shalema, Indiana Court. Southside Meet Officer. Kevin Post, the Northside Beacop. And I'm Chad Peleshek with the City of Sheboygan Planning Department. So let's... And Mayor Van der Steen. So let's start with Sherry. Betty. Betty Ackley, can you hear us? I'm like, this is Betty Ackley. I'm representing Maple Heights. Jason. I'm on the streets in Sanitation. Abby. Hi, I'm Abby Block, I'm from King Park. Thomas. Give him all of that. Keith. Jacks. Keith Jacks. Can I just ask, can people mute the mic? Yeah, can we, we have a number of people that have their mics not muted. Can you please mute your mic until you're ready to speak? So go ahead, Keith Jacks. Yeah, Keith Jacks, next door. Rachelle. Rachelle Ross, Franklin Park. I think it's Cooner. Go ahead. Beth, maybe. Okay. Starting the next row, Bill Young. Okay, Bill Young, I think your memorial. Elaine. Jacks. With Gateway, okay. Joseph. With near north. Chris. Chris. Moving on, Cal. Sorry, I think we had both of you. Can you repeat it, Cal? And going back to Chris. Chris, what else do you want to do? Todd. Todd. Wolf City Administrator. Mary. Mary Datsun Park. Adam. Full of Kenny Park. Scott. Actually, I'm using Scott's computer from Ellis' Store. Nancy. Bearing city planning. Jody. Jody, can you unmute? We'll move on. We'll come back to you. Dean. Dean Decker, Indiana Corridor. Also, Alderperson for the Sixth District. Roberta. Roberta Falecki-Poneski. Valrath North Point and Alderperson for District Two and Four Neighborhoods. Thank you. Chief Demagowski, do we already get you or not? We do. Okay. Alder Donahue. If you can just state your name in District. I'm Alder Donahue. I'm in the Near North Neighborhood and the Alder for District Three. Happy to be here. Thank you, Lisa. Okay, that didn't work. Kristin. Christine, sorry. Sorry, at the King's Park Neighborhood Association. Glad to be here. Thank you. Going back to Lisa Salgado, can you hear us? Okay, well, Jody Kramer, you look like you're ready to talk now. Can you just state your name? I'm here. Your name in your neighborhood? Jody Kramer, Memorial. Thank you, we appreciate that. And also in the council chambers. Did you hear me? We did. So now you can mute it, we're good. So just a reminder, if everybody can mute your line so we don't hear any background noise and Janet who was on the screen is now, Janet Duhlman from the city planning is now in the council chamber. So I'll turn it back over to Mayor Van der Steen. Thank you very much, Chad. Next item on the agenda is to prove the minutes from our July 21st meeting and entertain a motion to approve those minutes. I have a motion. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Thank you very much. Is there any additions or corrections to those minutes? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by seeing aye. Opposed? Those minutes are passed. Thank you. Next item is our feature presentation. Build friendships, safety and belonging through valuable neighborhood gatherings. Kim Leipam from Lakeland University is our presenter today. Welcome, Kim. Thank you, Mayor Van der Steen. I appreciate being here with all of you today. I will let you know off the bat because there are many of you and it might be difficult for you to ask a question or share a thought or a comment that you have sufficiently as if we were in person. So I do have the chat open. You are welcome to use the chat function if you know how. And I will monitor that and I will do my best to address any questions or make sure that we document any comments that you'd like to share as we're going along the conversations. As Mayor Van der Steen said, my name is Kim Leipam. I work with Lakeland University and I also own an event and meeting planning business called Eventwise, which I have operated in the Sheboygan area for about 17 or 18 years now. And I've had the opportunity to work with Abby when she was with a previous employer. And I appreciate being here to talk with you all today because I'm a resident of Sheboygan County and she's the city of Sheboygan. I grew up here. I chose to live here and raise my children here and I love being a part of my neighborhood. So what we're gonna talk about today and I understand we had about 20 minutes to talk and maybe about 10 minutes for questions, so 30 minutes altogether. But we're really gonna talk about why all of you are involved with your neighborhood. Why was it important to you? Why is it important for the rest of the neighborhood to build a bond, build a relationship, just even get to know each other? And it's my understanding that there might be some frustrations with having activities or events planned in your neighborhood and then not having the turnout or the attendance for those events that you would like and that's something that we're gonna talk about today as well. But before we start talking about events, I mean I plan events for a living and the last thing I wanna do is have an event that I know may not be successful or well attended or maybe the mission of the goal wasn't clearly defined or met the needs of the audience. So the very first thing that I really want to talk about is you belong to your neighborhood association for a particular reason. But that reason might be different than the person who lives down the block or the person who lives at the other end of your neighborhood association area. And that's something to understand about your neighborhood. Everybody is going to approach being a part of a neighborhood from a different perspective and from a different need. So first and foremost, before trying to do too many things that are formal in nature and activity or a gathering or event, I really suggest that you take up a campaign to get to know the neighbors that are in your association. And that's a huge effort in and of itself. There are simple things that you can do. Now, if I'm not mistaken, everybody should have a handout that was given to you. So I am not gonna read the handout because if I read the handout, you would not need me. So I am gonna talk, yep, that's the one, thank you. So I will talk, big picture, and let you all share some of your thoughts as well. So get to know your neighbors. Something as simple as waving when you drive by with a smile on your face. It makes you feel like that person belongs in your neighborhood. We all know when there are people in our neighborhood that don't look familiar or look like maybe they don't belong there. So let's be friendly and break down that barrier with a smile or a wave. You know, I really, I recommend doing things that don't seem like gatherings. You know, how can you get to know your neighbors by offering to lend a helping hand? Maybe you see a neighbor a couple blocks down that's trying to put up his or her Christmas decorations or Halloween decorations. Lend a helping hand or at least stop and say, hey, those decorations look really great. My name's Kim. I just lived three blocks over. That's simple and it's not threatening. And it opens the door for conversation because you can't get to know your neighbors if you're not conversing with your neighbors. And you can't find out what your neighbors may want to do from a social standpoint or even from the standpoint of how can your neighborhood be helpful to each other if you don't have a means of communication? So there are lots of ways that you can communicate. Face-to-face communication is great. In this day, right now, we all know that that's a little challenging. So we have to be a little more inventive. Think about, you know, sorry, Marilyn, but we all have yard signs, you know, in our yards and let's upcycle them when this election is over. Flip it over right on the yard sign. Hey, I'll welcome to my neighborhood. Tell them your name. Say, hey, I'm gonna have coffee on my front porch next week. Come and join me. Introduce yourself. It doesn't cost a thing. And it just might add a little goodwill to your neighborhood. When COVID started, my daughter's a nurse and so I put a prayer tree out in my front yard and I had a note that said, with a piece of paper and I said, leave somebody's name and I promise to pray for that person. I had a technical solitaire night and my tree was filled. I had to take notes down because there were so many and it was just a way to make the people that were walking to my neighborhood feel like they belonged there. And I loved that. So what little things can you do in your neighborhood to put a smile on somebody else's face? Just make your house feel more welcoming even if you're not physically there. I love, he posted that he asked if anybody was doing a Christmas decorating contest. I love that idea. I love the idea of anything little or small that you can do to bring a cheer or bring a smile to the outside of your house. And remember that's also an opportunity for you to open up the channels of communication by walking through your neighborhood as people are outside decorating. And introduce yourself and find out how long they've lived in the neighborhood. Do they need help with anything? So communication is key and verbal communication is my first recommendation. But there are a lot of other ways to communicate and lots of other ways that people receive information. So is there anybody in your neighborhood perhaps outside of yourself that is really savvy when it comes to the computer? Might somebody be able to start a Facebook neighborhood group? Might somebody even be able to set up a simple website where you can share information about what's going on in your neighborhood? I'm sure many of you use Nextdoor and I recognize a lot of the neighborhoods that were just announced because they come through my feed as well. Think about asking somebody to regularly make posts in that app about what's going on in your neighborhood. Even something like hey, we're gonna have a Christmas decorating contest. Everybody make sure your house is decorated and ready to go by December 1st. And let's all walk around on December 2nd and appreciate everybody's hard work. Something simple like that, it's not threatening. It's an easy way to let people engage in a way that makes them comfortable. Debbie had a comment. Yeah, I love that idea. You know, if you can really do a contest, it'd be great to select a winner and hey, share that information with the city because they are also here to help vote your neighborhood and the great things that are happening in Sheboygan. And they don't know about posting spectacular that your neighborhood is doing. They can't let everybody else know and you're all resources for each other. Does anybody have any other suggestions about ways that you have tried to get to know your neighborhood? Maybe you've divided and conquered because your neighborhood is so big. You know, you can't do it all, but if you've got several people that are at different points in your neighborhood association geographically, maybe you can kind of divide and conquer and really get to know the people that are in your neighborhood. Does anybody else have any suggestions that you'd like to share that are not written on the information that was shared? Is there anyone here from the in-park neighborhood? They have been holding cockies on the corner. Love it. I think that is a great idea. Play in your front yard. Enjoy a cup of coffee or a glass of wine in the evening before it gets too dark on your front porch or even for the lawn chair in your front yard. It's a nice way just to be welcoming. I love that idea. This is Mary from the in-park neighborhood. One of the things that I realized is that we had a lot of people come to coffee on the corner that could not attend to neighborhood meetings. Sure. So, met different people. And it got cold and everybody, the people that were attending the meetings were asking if we could do it every week. So it was kind of fun. And that's wonderful that that worked for your neighborhood, Mary. You found something that brought people together naturally because you know what? I am the last person in the world that wants to go to another meeting. But you know, you frame it up under, hey, we're having coffee on the corner and that turns into something where you're like, I really like these people. I want to get together and talk with them about what's going on in my neighborhood. Meeting doesn't sound so awful anymore. I love that idea. Well, I was sure to put no agenda and no just coffee. Yeah, that's great. You're treating each other. It's a good thing to do. I like it. It is. And you know, Mary, even those two little things that you just said, no agenda and you know, it doesn't have to be formal. Politics. I think that's important. I think that's really important because you know, a human nature is that somebody has an agenda. So I love the idea that you just put that out there and broke down that barrier. Thank you. Anyone else have suggestions that they'd like to share? Okay, well, thanks. Certainly take a look at the ideas that are on the list under step one and see if any of them might work for your neighborhood or maybe you can adapt something different. It's kind of about throwing all the ideas out there and seeing what sticks for your neighborhood. And remember, what might work for one person might not work for somebody else. So certainly multiple modes and methods of communication will probably bring you the best amount of success. Okay, so let's tackle those activities that you try so hard to plan and then you're the only one that has showed up. Okay, it's frustrating and I empathize with you. I truly do. So let's talk about some things. I think Mary really started off with an excellent idea. She did something that wasn't threatening. It was something that people do every day. They drink coffee or they drink tea or they have a little set of something and it brings people together. We all know this wooden beverage brings people together. But what other kind of things could you do that are a little less structured or less organized to start out with that will again break down that barrier and show people that you're interested in them as a person and them as a neighbor and you're interested in the safety and the health of your neighborhood. I really think that the decorating contest are great and are fun. Our neighborhood does that, but we do it informally. And one of the things that we do is we have an interesting neighborhood. We have a number of single people in our neighborhood but yet we have a number of new young families. Our whole neighborhood is like changed over. I'm not the old one in the neighborhood. Goodness gracious. But I only have two hands. And it's great because one year when I was putting up my Christmas decorations, neighbor came over and said, can I help you? You have tried four times to put that same side up of your sway going to keep falling down. And yes, that will be really great. And now that prompted us to put together a list of people in the neighborhood who are resources and can help. I know that Ron down the neighborhood, he's down the block. He's got the huge big ladder that I need to reach the second floor of my house. And Julie, on the end of the neighborhood, she always comes over to help me with my life. And who could help us? And what skills do you have that you might be willing to share? And honestly, we put a list together. And actually I'm the keeper of the list in our neighborhood. So I have everybody's names and I have their emails and their phone numbers and how they would like to help other than our neighborhood. So when the neighbor across the street just had a baby, I sent out an email to the people who said, I wanna bake the people who are in need. So I sent out a message and let them know that the neighbors across the street had a baby. And this might be a nice time to bring over a meal or some cookies or some banana bread. And that was, you know, that's the way that they like to contribute to the neighborhood. Sometimes an event doesn't have to be something so formal that engages a lot of people. It can be smaller activities. Yeah, Todd, neighbor's waking leaves. Actually, you know what I want? I want the neighbor who's got the blower because I don't have the blower either. That's the valuable neighbor in the neighborhood. Walk around with your blower. You know, that's exactly right. It's kind of opening your eyes to see what somebody else might be able to value or benefit from that you could help with. And making leaves is a great way to, again, build a bond, talk to somebody, hey, what do you love about our neighborhood? What don't you like about our neighborhood? What could we do to engage you more in the neighborhood? That's the time to ask the question so that you can then create that larger activity or event that brings more people to the neighborhood. I think, Todd, making peace up for your neighborhood could be a prize for the Christmas decorating content. So anybody wanna share other ideas that you've had to bring people together in your neighborhood? Scott, can anybody hear me? Yes, we can hear you, Scott, thank you. Okay, I'm sorry, not able to get online with my laptop. One of the things that we did for our neighborhood was we purchased have-a-heart traps. We purchased three have-a-heart traps that we offered to anyone in the neighborhood who wants to borrow them to use to catch rabbits, squirrels, or whatever they might need to move from the neighborhood. But I think the other point brought was a very good one that maybe the other thing we should purchase is a week floor that we as a neighborhood group would loan to anyone who wants to use it for a period of time. Sir, I think those are really nice ideas, and particularly if your neighborhood has the resources to do something like that, that's great. Then again, remember, it's a matter of communicating that to the rest of the neighborhood so people know where they can go to borrow or use equipment that they may not have. So it's great if you have it, not so great if you don't communicate it out across the neighborhood. Or, you know what? Again, the holidays are coming up. Maybe you are a handy person. It doesn't have to cost very much money. Do little notes or cards and walk around your neighborhood on a lovely autumn day and pass notes in people's doors. Oh my gosh, it's not a political campaign note. They might actually smile and read it. And this is a good time to do that kind of thing. And again, it's a way for you to do this yourself to share the resources that you have available for people to find out how to engage with others in your neighborhood. Any other ideas? This is Mary. I just wanted to say that I'm gonna backtrack this a little bit. We won't pull many people from the neighborhood during our dumpster day. Yeah, people that did not really realize that they had this owed to them and because we worked to become an association. So it was very nice and people have shown an interest because they had been given something. Now there's a higher interest from people in the neighborhood. And one of the other things that I have concerns with is we have a lot of colder people in this neighborhood. People that I think are very lonely. And I am hoping to get some suggestions as to how we could connect with those people and perhaps offer company, you know, with coronavirus, it's kind of tough because they really don't want people in their house or knocking on their door. But right, so I do know that they're on the neighborhood that could use some help. Does anyone have suggestions for Mary about how she can? Anybody have any suggestions, guys? You know, Mary, is there, could you? Yeah, a phone campaign is definitely a very good idea if you have people's phone numbers. But if you don't, again, could you put a sign in one of those people's front yard that's large, that they might be able to see it enough to just tell them you're thinking about them and offer help. And I, you know, it's the communication back and forth that you need to know what people are going to be comfortable doing. But maybe the note says I'm gonna knock on your door tomorrow at one o'clock so I can find out how I can help you or just so I can say hello to you. But it might be a way to visually get their attention in lieu of going to their door first. That's a good idea. I have, we have some new neighbors that just moved in and they're all from out of the city of Sheboygan. And they're all about my age, which is kind of fun. What we did is we shared communication information with each other. So in case there's a problem, they have somebody in the neighborhood call. And perhaps we could build on that by going to different neighbors and saying, would you like to join us in this? I agree with that completely. You can meet women all alone. And they want to have safety. I would think that they probably would feel very welcome and have a sense of belonging and safety that is necessary. It's always necessary but it's definitely necessary right now in this time. And, you know, Becky brings up a really good suggestion how just went and introduced herself. And when you tell people, perhaps you have something formal that shows you're a part of your neighborhood association, that also creates trust. You're not just telling them something that you think maybe they want to hear, you're showing them, we are a part of a neighborhood association. It is sponsored or sanctioned by the city of Sheboygan and we have resources to help you. Here's a phone number to call so that we can share more information with you when you're ready. I think that's a really nice thing to do to show trust with someone who's new in your neighborhood. I have an idea. Yeah, please. This is John, John Ott from Gateway. Joined a little late, sorry about that. Last year I started kind of a coffee club, just kind of a general for the city. You know, if you want to meet new people, come on out, we're going to have coffee at, I think the first time was on 8th Avenue, I can't even remember the place. Tells you how good my memory is right now. But paradigm, you know, paradigm, thank you. And, you know, the turnout was fairly well and then we had, you know, we tried to do it once a month but obviously Corona got in our way kind of brought a halt on that. But I was thinking that today that, you know, we could do that just even individually neighborhood-wise, you know what I mean, and have coffee somewhere. Yes, you absolutely could. It's a good idea. And that's what it takes to build, to build that sense of community and neighborhood. Tad just made a really good point. And actually we all have something new going on in our neighborhoods with the advent of our new garbage collection system. Get to, you know, your neighbors who might need help in wintertime, not just with snow blowing or snow removal, but even with those containers. They can be difficult to maneuver if you are someone who is not as sure-footed as somebody else. So maybe take note of that. Take note of who may need assistance in your neighborhood from that perspective, either. That is very, very simple. Thank you, Mary-Lynn, for joining us. Nice to see you. Since our time is just about coming to a close, I just wanna make sure that I bring a couple of things to your attention. Of course, Abby and the other team members of the city are more than capable of helping you with any thoughts or ideas that you have. But we just kind of wanted to make sure that you knew you were supported. And maybe share some new ideas with you or validate the things that you're already doing are really good ideas and you should really keep doing them. So we put together a checklist for you of sort of best practices to think about when you do hold an activity. Granted, all activities are different and would have their own separate checklist. But there are some that have some commonalities to them that we might wanna think about. Certainly, when you're gonna do something, make sure that you tell people about it. Again, that communication part is key. We're visual people. So think about taking photos, whether it's of the outside of somebody's house or their decorations or a gathering that you have and post them on social media or keep them and save them for something that you do later to promote your neighborhood gathering. But I will caution you, if you're going to take pictures in general, please make sure that you get people's permission to do so. Not everybody likes to have their photo taken and lots of people also do not like somebody else hosting their photo on social media. So please make sure that you are kind of asking because nothing could undo all the great work that you have done then by taking a picture of somebody and posting it on social media and that is the last thing in the world they want. They are no longer going to engage with you. Make sure people are welcomed in that they're thanked when they come and when they go, I don't care how small or large your gathering is. Everybody wants to see that their time was appreciated and valued and it's very simple to do. Just a couple of takeaways because I don't want to go over our time but I just want to make sure that you all know that your neighborhoods are different and your approaches are going to be different. What works for Mary may not work for Elaine and may not work for Nancy. But that doesn't mean that you can't share ideas and resources because somebody might have gotten a little twist on Mary's idea of her corner coffee that might work for their neighborhood. So please make sure you share with each other. I do believe that cohesive neighborhoods are only going to flourish if we can do so by creating face-to-face relationship and trust. And that does take time. I appreciate the fact that that takes time, particularly if you have a large geographic area in your neighborhood. Please take action. You can't think somebody else is going to do it. We do have to take action ourselves which will hopefully inspire others to take action and be involved. And I just want to thank you for the work and the time that you're putting into your neighborhoods because it's really valued. It really is. And we want Shiborgen to be a place where we want to stay and we want to be proud of our community and the work that we're doing to build strong and healthy neighborhoods is a very large reason why Shiborgen will remain vibrant and a safe and wonderful place for us to be as young people as well as adults into our older ages that want to be here and settle here and stay here because we know we can get help and we can be a part of something. So thank you for your time. If you have any questions, we're certainly welcome for you to put them in the chat. I'm sure that Abby has helped us in monitoring the chat as well. Kim, thank you so much for your presentation. We really appreciate the ideas on getting to know our neighbors better and building communities. So thank you so much. Thanks, Mayor. Next, we'll go on to a discussion and presentation of the Neighborhood Resource Packet by Nancy Maureen and Janet Duhlman. When it's on. Okay. I'm Janet Duhlman from Planning Department and I'm going to go through the resource packet, a portion of it, and then Nancy will take over from where I left off. You should have received a yellow folder in your bag that was dropped off on your porch. So for the first tab, this just has a bunch of neighborhood information. It has the contact list for your neighborhood associations. And then on the second page is a plan on a page. This just kind of gives you information of how to do your neighborhood plans. On the next page is next door information, which it sounds like all of you are very familiar with next door. But here's just kind of an informational sheet on next door. Then the next sheet is what Keeney Park did for their large item disposal day. And we're going to have Abby discuss it as to what Keeney Park did for their large item disposal. Abby? So we're a very new neighborhood association had our first dumpster day at the beginning of October. And the board went out and did door-to-door leafletting. But as you see, really we're trying to, as I guess all of the neighborhood associations are trying to figure out the best way for people to gather in the same place and build that sense of community. So put a survey on the back and then the three of us chipped in and got some gift certificates from the neighborhood and did a drawing at our next meeting. But I thought it was really interesting. I was a little surprised by a couple of things that we learned. So we had 29 people respond and turn their surveys in. And the four people with the longest time in the neighborhood had almost 200 years in the neighborhood between the four of them. I was surprised that out of the 29, only seven were registered on next door. So if that is our primary means of communicating with neighbors, we're really missing a pretty big segment of the community. And just how people responded about what would encourage them to attend a meeting or a gathering. And that overwhelming me was less formal, more social. 23 out of 29 said that. 16 said they wanna share a meal, whether that's at a restaurant or a potluck style. But yeah, it was a good way to learn a little bit more about our neighbors and reach people that we wanna know about their lives, gotten in contact with. And we had a good turnout that day. So, thank you. Okay, and then for the second tab, there's some information called neighborhood projects. There's a bunch of different ideas that our intern actually put together of ideas that you and your neighborhood association can do in your neighborhoods. So, and then Nancy? Quick note, in those yellow folders, if you open it up and if you guys didn't notice, the handout for Kim's presentation is in that flap as you open that folder. So if you wanna look back on anything Kim talked about and use that checklist that she put together, that's in that folder as well. As we look onto the third tab, this is more city information. So we see city speakers. A lot of you take advantage of asking city staff to come to your neighborhood association meetings and talk about what's going on in the city. And we are always happy to accommodate that. And here's just a list of city staff and sort of what they're available to talk about. And of course, you can always reach out to us if you don't see someone on here and there's a topic you're interested in. The next page you'll see some DPW and some planning department contact information. And after that, you'll see instructions on interactive maps access. We have a GIS technician in our Department of Public Works who's worked really hard to put a lot of maps together for the city. So there's tons of information available online on these maps. And if you turn the page over, you'll see kind of a list of things you can find on those interactive maps. So I encourage you all to sort of play with those tools. After that, you will see instructions here on how to find who your neighborhood officers are on the PD's website. Those do change or they could change every year. So it might be worth checking up on. After that, you'll see links to the different departmental reports. Every year, each department in the city puts together an annual report and you can see the link to the DPW annual report, the PD annual report, and then the link to the admin page, which contains a lot of reports, some of which are interesting and some are very long. And the next page, you'll see the city development abbreviated annual report. Our annual report was sort of long. So I took out the pages that I thought would be most interesting to you all as neighborhood associations and I put them in the binders. But if you're interested in seeing the full report, you can go to that link that's on the front cover there. The next tab is city neighborhood support. So really the Department of Public Works is a great partner for our neighborhood associations. A couple of the programs that they run is the Adoptive Sale and Adoptive Park program. And we have a number of neighborhoods that have taken them up on this and others that are talking about it. So you can read about that program there. Also the Neighborhood Large Item Disposal Program, which I believe all of our neighborhoods participated in this past year. The Planning and Development Department of which Abby, Janet and I are part, we offer a hot dog program and flyer printing. So we'll give you hot dogs once a year, each of your neighborhood associations for a neighborhood block party and the cops will come and grill them for you. And then we also offer flyer printing. And honestly, if you, anything else you might need help with or need some support on, we really encourage you to reach out to us because we're here to support you when we want to see you successful. If you turn that page over, we offer neighborhood planning support. These plans belong to you guys as neighborhood associations, but we are here as resources to help you compile those plans. An MNLC neighborhood mini-grant, special project support and neighborhood mapping. So the next few pages are examples of those things, the hot dog request instructions, the Adoptive Huck and Adopted Trail application and the MNLC mini-grant application are stuck in there. So you can see what might be involved in both of those processes. And then finally, we have a couple of neighborhood maps that we put together. One of them is a map of all of the neighborhoods that currently have associations. So you can see where your neighborhoods are and where the other neighborhood associations are in the city. The other map is our neighborhood district map. So we do have a few aldermen with us tonight. You can see where your neighborhood lies in which districts you can go online to find your aldermen and how to contact them. And then you can see what other neighborhoods share your district and might share your aldermen. So that is it for the resource packet and I will turn it over to our city administrator, Todd Wolf, to say a couple of words. All right, thanks, Nancy. One thing I would like to point out is I think we need to add a list of all of the elders and their contact information. I didn't see it unless I missed it. I think the more we can get them involved with our neighborhood associations, the better. So thank you, everybody. One of the things that I would love to just compliment everybody because you guys are leaders in our city because you guys have moved forward and really helped foster and bring neighborhood associations together. And you guys need to be complimented tremendously because that is how we continue and start to make the city a better place, not just for ourselves, but for our children and for people that are visiting Sheboygan. And the neighborhood associations are very important and we compliment everybody. And even this morning on WHBL, yesterday in council, we introduced the Kinecourt. So again, congratulations in joining the group. And it's very important that we get people to get these neighborhood associations working together, working with the city, working with each other. Unfortunately, typically when a neighborhood association it started because of the negative and we really need to focus on the positive. We have so much to offer our community and new neighbors and people that are visiting our community. So thank you again. And if you ever need anything, I can get you Nancy Merring's number. Or Abby or any of the other team members. But thank you again. Again, hats off to you guys for doing a great job. We have so many new neighborhood associations. It's really, really exciting. Thank you. Well, thank you very much to the staff for putting that packet together and for the presentation on it. Next item we're gonna move along to is the large item disposal program results. And we're gonna turn it over to Jason Vlasiola for that. Jason? Jason, you have to unmute. Yeah, sorry. No, I didn't realize that I didn't, I don't have the numbers in front of me. I didn't get my packet, but all the neighborhood didn't participate. We had about 30 tons total that we did collect in both the dumpsters and in the garbage trucks. So it was a pretty good and successful turnout this year. Good, well, thank you very much. Next we'll move on to Sheboygan Neighborhood Pride Update. Travis Gross, I understand you might have a report for us in this area. Please unmute. There you go. My apologies, I stepped away for a moment, my dog was having, so I missed the comment, I'm sorry. We're just looking for a report on Sheboygan Neighborhood Pride. We understand you might have some information for us. Taylor Park, just trying to continue on working with new neighborhoods. I've been personally trying to get Cleveland Park to start meeting regularly. However, with COVID, it's kind of an issue finding places to meet that aren't outside. So going into the cold weather days, we might have some issues there. And I know Penny's been working with a couple other neighborhoods. And just keep moving along, really. Well, thank you very much for that information. You know, Sheboygan Neighborhood Pride has played a huge role in bringing all of you together to be a part of this. We appreciate all the work that they've put into incubating all these different neighborhoods that are part of our Neighborhood Association today. Next move on to a round table discussion. Yeah, did you want to give any introduction on that? I'm not sure if the group has any further information that they want to share. I just want to comment that we will, to City Administrator Wolfe's comments, we will get the older men listing emailed out to you guys tomorrow so you can line it up with your, with the map and we will, we've seen a glitch in some listing of some contact information. So watch for some updated pages as it relates to the contact information coming your way to include everybody that should have been included. So with that, if there is any further discussion on any kind of round table idea sharing anything as it relates to concerns or opportunities or anything in the neighborhoods, now is the time for anybody to share that with us with the group. Otherwise, you know, we'll be on our way. But we thank everybody for joining us today and we're just looking if anybody has anything that they want to share out to the larger group. Chad? Yes? Chad? Yeah, this is Todd. Just to help Jason out as far as the tonnage for the garbage pickup, I just wanted to kind of give everybody an idea. In 2019, we had 23.07 tons. And in 2020, again, you know, here we are in COVID, we actually had 30.06 tons. So we're pulling a lot of stuff out of our neighborhoods, cleaning things up. So, you know, compliments to everybody, help neighbors helping neighbors and, you know, communicating it out there. It's a great resource to help keep our neighbors, neighborhoods clean and organized. And it's amazing. I know how many neighborhood associations I've been to where how many mattresses are collected during this time. It's amazing. But 30 tons is a lot. So if you wanted to pass that on, thank you. Thank you, Todd. I have something to add. Go ahead. One of the neighborhoods said that what they were doing is they were creating like a welcome pack for, I guess, for new neighbors, just the resources. And I don't know all that was in it, but I thought that was a nice idea to, especially for the lady who was talking about all having a lot of new neighbors, if the association created a welcome pack that would be awesome, I thought. Very good idea. Thank you. We did that already. One point. I'd like to add something. You should have. Go ahead. Franklin Park, Franklin Park Association, the Flaps and King Park Association are working with the Sheboygan Police Department on the making the grade clothing collection from now through November 6th. If you want to get the word out, there is one drop off place that I know of because we set it up. Is that St. Peter Claver Parish on South 12th Street? People can just come in with new clothes, purchase for the kids that long fellow. The school that probably needs the most help a lot of the time. And it was, you know, if kids feel good about themselves, their grades are better in school. So it's a clothing drive that'll benefit the kids that long fellow. That's great. Thank you for letting us know about that. Anybody else? I have a question. Next to her. Go ahead. Go ahead, Mary. Mary should go. Okay. When you say that you're going to, first of all, there's a couple of things. When you say you're going to do welcome banks to new neighbors, the End Park neighborhood has also been talking about that. But one of the things where I'm stuck and maybe somebody has the answer, how do you know when people leave your neighborhood and when people come in and new people commit? It's kind of a difficult, I get these notices on next door that says verify that this is your new neighbor. Well, I don't know where that neighbor is. It's just a name. And when people leave, I know that they themselves can remove themselves from receiving the End Park neighborhood or whatever neighborhood it is information. But as a lead on next door, leads are expected to keep that up to date. I have no idea how to do that. The only thing that I can say is we have a realtor that lives in our neighborhood and she told me that she's going to get me a website that will tell me when houses are sold. And I guess that's one clue, but there's renters also that may be moving out. So I'm looking for suggestions because I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to keep it valid on the next door website. Well, thanks. I can speak to that for just a sec. The next door website is unfortunately sort of a third party website that city staff can't really help with very much. If it might be worth sending a note to the next door administrators and you can do that with their help button to see if they have any suggestions for you as far as keeping up to date on next door goes. But something that you could do as a neighbor if you're trying to understand who might need a welcome packet is maybe to get block captains for your areas and be responsible to just keep an eye on a couple of blocks to see if you notice anyone moving in or moving out rather than trying to keep an eye on the entire neighborhood. I think King Park is a good example. They've had block captains for a long time. And so everybody sort of takes a street and keeps an eye on what's going on there. Thanks for those suggestions. We have a couple of meetings. However, N Park is kind of a, and I'm sure it's the same in every neighborhood. But when we have the people on A Street it's like they live in a totally different world than the people that live on Los Angeles Avenue. It's totally different situations. We finally got a person to join our meetings. He is from A Street. And he's been very verbal about what's happening on A Street. A lot of speeding, a lot of, you know he's got a lot of issues about A Street. And sometimes it's hard to understand if those people are going through when you live on a street where it's perfectly quiet. So it's a little, so we've been trying to get a representative from every street. We have not been very successful. As an example, we have nobody that comes to our meetings from Ninth Street. We have nobody from 10th Street. It's mostly neighbors around the park. And we've done flyers. Every time Next Door gives me invitations that I can send out, it's usually 100 at a time. I go back and I resend the Next Door invitations just trying to get information about people that live on those streets. But you know, there's so much confidentiality and it's kind of hard to find out who people live in an entire neighborhood without voluntarily stepping forward. Okay, thanks Mary. Dean, did you have your microphone on? Yes, I just had a couple of quick comments about some of the things that we've been doing in our neighborhood. We did have, what was kind of successful was we had a meeting this last end of September and it was, Israel-Deutsch kind of suggested it to us and it worked out kind of nice. We had a mid-block meeting. We had it actually in the old gas station lot. We had our hot dogs left over from our cleanup which because the cleanup was on a rainy Saturday which wasn't great, but we had those left over so we decided to fry those up at that time and we actually got quite a few neighbors stopping by as we were right on the Indiana Avenue there and I think it's something that we're gonna pursue in the future, try to move it around the neighborhood, go in different corners and possibly have a similar thing. Maybe not, maybe have hot dogs or maybe get to have ice cream or have something like that as a treat and see what we can do for attracting people to those kind of things. We're, like I said, it'll have to wait until next spring when the weather's nicer but this is a suggestion to some of the other groups. Thank you, Dean. Bill Young, did you have a comment? John, you have your microphone on. Did you have a comment? John Ogden, yeah, from Gateway, I do have a question I guess. I thought a year or so ago I was entering into near North and I swear I saw a sign underneath one of the street signs that said welcome to near North or your near North neighborhood welcomes you or something similar. Is that something that's possibly available to us that we could put at different entry points into our neighborhoods? Nancy, would you comment on that? Yeah, near North did that sign project as actually their city mini grant project a few years ago. So in that resource binder, you'll see that mini grant application. That's what near North used to put those signs up in their neighborhood. One of their goals in their neighborhood plan was to have more awareness just that near North exists and it has a name and here we are and these are our borders. So the sign project is what they did. So not only do they have a few street signs on the perimeter of their neighborhood, they also printed some yard signs and gave them away to whoever wanted a yard sign and all it's a really simple yard sign that's brightly colored that has their near North neighbor logo on it. It says near North neighbor and so if you walk through that neighborhood, you'll see quite a few of those signs out in people's front yards. I don't know if Joe has anything to add to that. I don't, other than that we're roughly proud of those signs and thanks Nancy for helping us figure it all out. Thank you. Bill Young again, you have your microphone on. Did you have a comment? He hasn't muted. Chad, do you want to see him? I just want to follow up to the comments that Nancy made to just say that the city does have a sign shop and those signs were printed in house. So if we can work with neighborhoods to fund those and use resources that we have here, it's very cost effective. So if there is neighbors that are neighborhoods that are thinking of wanting to kind of reproduce that in their neighborhood, we have the resources to be able to do that with our sign shop at the Department of Public Works. Thank you, Chad. Any other comments or questions? When you said resources for signs, does that mean that there's an expense to the neighborhood? So let me speak to that a little bit. Although we used the city sign shop to create those signs, near North did go through that grant application process. So there was not a cost to the neighborhood. Actually the match that you'll see a sheet in that grant application that talks about a neighborhood match. But what we're looking for is really volunteer time. It could be a monetary match, but near North used a volunteer time that's valued at I think $15 an hour as their match. So they put in a little bit of sweat equity into the project and we covered the cost in the financial burden of the project. So there was not, I mean, there is a partnership for sure to get those projects done, but there wasn't a financial cost to the neighborhood. Are you talking about the yard sign or the street sign or both? Both, that was part, all part of one project. Okay, I guess what I'm asking is for the neighborhood signs because if the city would print them week and park will do it. I'm sure that all of my board. Yeah, go through that neighborhood. It's part of that neighborhood grant process. So we can talk about that. I believe Janet goes to your meeting. And so if that's something you're interested in, I think she can work through that grant process to get those signs done for you. That's great. Thank you. Yes, thank you very much. I have one other question, please. When you, the person that was talking about the building drive from Longfellow School, are there sizes, size recommendations? Yeah, I'm sorry, I should have said that they're looking for size six to eight and 10 to 12. And this is all new clothing. And that, and you're just talking about like, not shoes or anything, just clothing. No, they're basically looking for pants, sweatshirts, t-shirts, that type of thing. Okay, thank you. Well, I believe there's a flyer associated with that making the grade event. And we could include that flyer on a follow-up email to this group if any of you are interested in contributing to that project. Any other comments? We heard from one older person. We've got one more out there. Roberta Flicky-Pineski, would you like to make any comments? You're not muted yet. Sorry. I have been to at least one of each of the neighborhood meetings in my district. And I will tell you, each of them has a very different flavor. They engage differently. They choose different projects. They run their meetings differently. And each of them are very effective. I happen to be in the Memorial neighborhood and they are talking about changing their name because Memorial Hospital in a few years won't be in that neighborhood. So they are obviously very engaged with that particular neighborhood. The other thing that occurred to me when I heard about the clothing for Longfellow, what used to be the Grant School neighborhood that had the different name, that neighborhood adopts a Grant School family every year. And they put together a Christmas present package and they use the recommendations from Grant School itself. So they're well on their way doing that. But there is a great deal of enthusiasm with all of these neighborhoods and we're gonna have to get really creative and maybe learn a few more tech Zoom things because everybody was meeting outside, everybody was meeting in a park and it's getting pretty cold out there folks. So I'm hoping that the groups can stick together for the winter. That's it, thanks. Thank you very much. John, did you have another comment? I think he's just on the phone. Okay. So I just wanna, this is Chad. No, I'm just, thank you. This is Chad. I just wanna make some closing remarks and then I think Nancy's got her mic off so she's probably wants it too. But what I wanna say is that we understand, we would have loved to do this party in person. We had hoped to do this at Kiwanis Park to celebrate the successes that all of you have made for us throughout the year and obviously the pandemic kind of put a damper to that. So we're hoping that those of you that ordered food, your food was delivered in the neighborhood, dog didn't eat it before you got it. If you're on the phone and you have not received the yellow folder for some reason, please reach out to us because we would be happy to provide that after the meeting. And the last thing I wanna say to older Flicky Paneski's comments is we have a beautiful city hall with very large rooms and the, you know, the, you can social distance, particularly in the council chamber. So if there is a need, I know it's not in your neighborhood, but if there is a need to have neighborhood meetings in a place where you can social distance, we can work through access to the building after hours to host those meetings here. So please reach out to the staff if that's something you need to take up because we don't wanna see the pandemic separate us and give us challenges as well as we also have a city go to meeting account and a zoom account that if, you know, if it need to be done, the neighbors are more than willing to, we're more than willing to organize those so you can do virtual meetings. So there is opportunities to meet through the winter and, you know, I would just encourage anybody to reach out to the staff and myself if you need further assistance. Nancy. Just to echo Chad's comments, thank you all so much for being here and being participating in your neighborhoods. It's terrific to see that tonight. As a quick follow up, we look for an email from probably Janet who's been sending the reminder emails about this meeting. We'll put together, you know, that aldermanic list and any updated resource materials that we think might be useful. We can include that clothing drive information. And we're also gonna put together a survey as a follow up to this meeting really to get at how we as staff can best serve you all as our neighborhood associations. You all need any support that we're not giving and how we can maybe improve that relationship. So keep an eye on that and please respond when you get it. Thank you again. It's great to see all of you here tonight. And I'd like to thank the staff for putting a great agenda together for us tonight and sending us a great meal with some really yummy cookies. It was great. Thank you. With that, I'd accept the motion to adjourn. So moved. This is Chad. I have motion. Then we have a motion and a second. All in favor of adjournment, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. And we'll be looking to see you on January. We have one quick question. Go ahead. Yeah. Dean. This is Dean. I just noticed on our map, the Indiana corridor is expanded a little bit. Is that correct? It shows the parking terrace apartments now included in our neighborhood. Is that a misprint or is that how that's been added to us? Cause we used to end at 25th street. Right. So the map that we have, the original boundaries have you all including that apartment complex. But we need to chat about that because the police don't include you. So whatever your official boundaries are, I can change this map to reflect that. The original boundaries that we have of all the neighborhoods show Indiana corridor as that shape. So if you don't include that, I'm happy to make that change. Well, we have it in the past. That's not saying that we wouldn't want to. We have never included them in the past. When Penny set us up and originally, we originally ended with the two circles on 25th street off of Georgia Avenue. And that was the end of our thing. But if that needs to be, I don't know if it necessarily, you know, just so in the future, then we would start like, we would do flyers and things like that to them and invite some of the people that are at the Parkview Terrace already. So. Let's chat about that Dean. I'll talk in your next meeting. Okay, sounds good. Well, I'd like to wish everybody happy holidays ahead and our next meeting will be January 5th. Have a great evening. Thank you.