 all right good evening everybody it is six o'clock I will call the 20th regular Common Council meeting to order will the clerk state the code of the evening thank you mr. Mayor life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others thank you will the clerk call the roll all the person Ackley excused all the person Decker here all the person Feldy excused all the person Flicky Pineski all the person Heidemann all the person Mitchell all the person Pirella all the person Raimi excused all the person Rust all the person Salazar there are seven present all right thank you hey Paul all right today we have Cub Scout pack 3804 who will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and parents feel free to come on up if you want to take some pictures if you could tilt the mic down if everyone could please stand all right thank you all right we'll move along we have approval of the minutes from our last meeting older Decker thank you mayor I moved to approve the minutes from the 19th regular council meeting held on January 2nd 2024 moved and seconded any discussion on the minutes seeing none this is a voice vote all those in favor of approval the minutes state I I anyone opposed minutes are approved next resignation city attorney there are two resignations Geraldine Leanna and Kelsey Bird from the Sheboygan sustainable task force effective immediately thank you older Decker thank you I moved to accept and file thank you moved and seconded any discussion seeing none all those in favor of accepting and filing state I I any objections all right that is approved city clerk anyone for public forum this evening no in this evening thank you all right we'll quick jump down to mayoral announcements all right good evening everyone thanks for braving the chilly weather with winters finally here in Wisconsin so glad some folks could brave it so January is national mentoring month and throughout the Sheboygan community we have several organizations that do this work day in day out providing leadership mentorship for kiddos and the youth teens throughout the area and I think now more than ever services like these that our community leaders put are vitally important to having a strong community making sure that we have the youth engaged and have proper resources so that they can be successful so I have four organizations here that'll ask to come on up and we'll have some recognitions for them so we have horizon for girls the big brothers big sisters Lakeshore the boys and girls club of Sheboygan County and then the production farm I'm not going to read all four of the proclamations because they're all different but I just wanted to recognize these nonprofits for all the good work that they do chugglies make sure I get these correctly so anyone want to say any remarks let's go first come to the mic so I have been working with char who's been who had bounded the production no the horizon for girls I also work with the production farm so for a long time and she's been doing this work and it's just been meaningful to the entire community and I appreciate the support that we continue to receive from the community and I hope we can only like move forward and make it bigger better just to thank you on behalf of big brothers big sisters Wisconsin shoreline we're excited to celebrate National Mentoring Month and our hundred and twentieth anniversary this year as an organ as an international organization for those of you that haven't been a big talk to Chuck because he can tell you all about it or Chris they're amazing they're amazing mentors in our program and we would love to chat with you not that it's a plug but it's a plug hi everyone I'm Christina sing and I lead our local boys and girls clubs and we run six sites here serving nearly 800 kids with trained staff that provide not just a safe space for kids to be during out of school time hours but positive adults to connect with and we always say that mentors matter for everyone kids teens adults myself but they matter most for kids who don't have other positive adults in their life and that is disproportionately the number of kids we serve lack someone in their life that would play that role in their home or in other places and so if this month is really special for us to recognize the people that make those connections and play that role for kids who need it most thank you hi my name is Emily I'm with the production farm we're a newer organization the community may not be as familiar with us we are providing supportive services through the county services of CCS we're also working with individuals in the youth justice program and we've built a community center in Sheboygan Falls we service the entire county we're providing services to 34 individuals right now in addition to running a pantry and other services because it's great work I just want to thank you for all for recognizing how important this is and to let you know that our community has grown really really great youth out of the services and mentorship that we have my boys have gone through the Boys and Girls Club my daughter who's 25 went through the Boys and Girls Club when we look at big brothers and sisters I had co-workers and friends in high school all the way through they're providing support to individuals that could really use that horizons for girls char she's been a part of everything I've done through my career she's fantastic she just has heart like you can't imagine and I feel really proud to be up here with the group of people that you got to see this evening and to continue to do good work for our youth and our families in our community so thank you for your support well thank you to the to the four organizations for coming today and we appreciate all the hard work that you all do your volunteers that make your organizations function and provide great services in the community so thank you also just a few notes as well transitioning obviously for mentor month today is Martin Luther King junior day observed throughout the country so just want to give a moment of recognition for his legacy and the continued work that we strive to continue to do to make our communities in our country a better place every day also obviously for folks over the weekend you might have noticed that we had to call snow emergency we live in Wisconsin we get snow it gets cold we roll with it so appreciate everyone's patience for for navigating through the inclement weather as well always stay engaged and updated follow the City Hall Facebook page as well as the Department of Public Works as well as chuck up the Department of Public Works for any future inclement weather notifications and just wanted to give a shout out to our plow crews for getting out there staying on top of it all making sure that focusing at the work safe yeah so thank you for that and those are all my notes for this evening right we got the consent agenda items 8 through 16 older Decker thank you mayor I move to receive and file all our O's receive all our C's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances moved and seconded any discussion on any items of the consent agenda older Decker yes I asked to remove item 15 from the consent consent agenda is there a second it's been moved and seconded can I just ask for clarification it was inadvertently put on the agenda without we had not been to it was supposed to be on hold okay it's getting referred to LHPS can your motion be to refer to LHPS yes I move to refer our C number 1802324 back to the LHPS committee thank you so the motion is to refer item 15 back to the licensing hearing public safety committee any discussion on this amendment seeing none all those in favor state I I any objections all right back to the consent agenda as a whole any other discussion on any items on the consent agenda although probably just a clarification on the number 10 so we are asking we are going to in order to get the Wisconsin emergency management grant we are going to need a matching of 1,788,962 but we could get up to 9 million and something is that correct who wants to take that would say David David people that's correct yeah it's just a language because we say that that's a matching but it's not a matching for it's it's the terminology that Wisconsin emergency management in FEMA use it's the local match of our share towards the project right so it's not matching one dollar for dollar our share to the project is the 1,700,000 and we're getting 9 million from the FEMA and Wisconsin emergency management and we know ready that we get the whole 9 million that's what the grant is that's what this document is is requesting that when we submit it that's the award that we would be receiving from FEMA as well as Wisconsin emergency management okay thank you director thank you any other any other discussion on the consent agenda right seeing none this is a roll call vote seven eyes right those items are approved next items 17 through 23 will be referred to their respective committees next under resolutions item 24 resolution number 141 23 24 my elders Decker and rest excuse me adopting a marina and riverfront slip fee schedule holder Decker thank you mayor I asked us to spend the rules any objection right there's been an objection all those in favor of suspending the rules state I any objection alright in opinion the cheers the ice have it older Decker please proceed with your motion I moved to adopt the resolution moved and seconded any discussion on this resolution right seeing none this is a roll call vote it's saying saving and spinning so hold on let me see as I pull out the quick word six eyes one no right that item is approved next item 25 resolution number 140 23 24 by older persons Mitchell and flaky Panasky authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the engagement ladder with intrigue realty resources relating to the preparation of appraisal and appraisal review services and depending Walmart real estate business trust assessment appeal litigation older Mitchell thank you Mary I move to suspend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed with your motion I move to adapt the resolution is there a second moved and seconded any discussion on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote seven eyes all right that item is approved and 26 resolution number 139 23 24 by older persons Mitchell and flaky Panasky authorizing the finance director to proceed with the process of rescinding the excess excess property tax payable to the Sheboygan Outboard Club related to the 2023 real estate tax for personal number 5928189 5368 P and paying the incorrect amount for tax settlement older Mitchell thank you Mary I move to suspend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed with your motion I move to adapt the resolution moved and seconded any discussion on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote seven eyes all right that item is approved next resolution number 138 23 24 by older persons Mitchell and flaky Panasky authorizing the finance director to proceed with the process of rescinding the excess property tax payable to Harbor Pride LLC relating to the 2023 real estate tax for personal number 59281835115 P and paying the correct amount for the tax settlement older Mitchell I move to suspend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed I move to adapt the resolution moved and seconded any discussion on this item right seeing none this is roll call vote seven eyes all right that item is approved items 28 through 30 will be referred to their respective committees next reports of committees the RC number 172 23 24 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred general ordinance number 34 23 24 by older persons Decker and Salazar reestablishing the salary schedule for older persons and the mayor older Decker thank you mayor I move to adopt the ordinance moved and seconded any discussion on this item older Heidemann thank you mayor I attended the finance and personnel committee meeting honest we're the only at three people okay so there wasn't a lot of discussion I also was part of a committee years ago to establish the city administrator's position which basically does the brunt of the work for the city sheboygan and even at that time back then we had considered but we had not adopted it that we would take the mayor position and possibly go to a part-time position allowing that individual to also also work and provide income for themselves I look tonight to where we don't even have a full council I believe again I it's not that I don't want discussion on this but I would like to see more input of possible send us back to committee so we can do a little bit more research as far as what other communities are paying their mayors that have city administrators I just don't think this is a good idea at this time but I'd be willing to discuss it I'd be willing to look at it a little bit further but as it is right now the way it came through that committee and the way it's adopted and not having a full council here tonight I'm not going to support it I think you'll do any other discussion for the site of older Decker I guess I would like to just bring out why we did this we came forward with this from Carl Carlson Deppman study we from that study it showed that we were lagging behind that mayor also salary by quite a bit some of the falsities that's come out of you know some of the committees and things like that is that that you know we that we don't have a part where we don't have a full-time mayor we have a full-time mayor our position is a full-time mayor is listed as a full-time position and I know that our current mayor works prop approximately 45 plus hours a week the mayor of the city is the CEO of the city and with the but the administrator being the CEO all other cities with full-time mayor and the city administrator include Racine Kenosha Waukesha and West Alice other cities that have a full-time mayor may not have an administrator but have additional personnel who handle some of those duties also I believe this is the right way to do it to bring us into in line anyone else wishing to speak all right seeing none this is a roll call vote five eyes two nose all right that's approved next item 32 RC number 178 23 24 by the licensing hearing and public safety committee to whom was referred to director for a resolution 137 23 24 by older person Salazar and Feldy authorizing the appropriate city officials to accept and expend funds received from the Wisconsin Department of Justice as part of the burn Memorial Justice grant assistant grant program older cells are I moved to receive the RC and adopt the resolution second moved and seconded any discussion on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote seven eyes all right that item is approved next item 33 RC number 181 23 24 by the licensing hearing and public safety committee to whom was referred resolution number 133 223 24 by older person Salazar and Feldy authorizing application for the NA MI Wisconsin CIT and CIP expansion grant elders how's our I moved to receive the RC and adopt the resolution second moved and seconded any discussion on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote seven eyes all right that's approved next items 34 and 35 will be referred to their respective committees next is kind of played a close session older Decker thank you mayor I moved to convene close session under the exemption provided in section 19.85 sub 1 sub G for conferring with legal counsel who is rendering an oral advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the Common Council with respect to litigation in the following matters pending in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Todd will versus city of Sheboygan et cetera AL and Chad Velchick versus city of Sheboygan et cetera AL. So that's approved this will conclude our meeting then for those watching at home and in the audience and we'll take a three-minute recess as we transition to close session thanks.