 Well, I'd like to call the first meeting of the pet friendly task group to order. I Want to thank everybody for joining us today To open the meeting. I'm going to call roll first Just reply present or here first Michelle Gentine Lisa Merrick Yeah, Karen Houston Abbey black Michelle Warner Yeah, Betty Ackley Yeah Bill Bussard Nicole reticent Kate Hodges Christina or other Christine Potter. Okay, let's go back And this bill here Bill Bussard very good and Mike your name Mike Mike Heimbach Okay, and then Christine Potter Okay, next item on the agenda is to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join me I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with Liberty Okay, next I'd like to Go through introduction If you'd please mute your phone until you're called on what I'd like you to do is tell us your name if you represent a particular group and a little bit about the pets in your life so I'll start out I'm Mike van der Steen mayor of the city of Sheboygan and I had a Beagle when I was a young kid Our family he had a lab mix Kaia and When Kaia passed away, we ended up with two grand dogs Claire and Dakota both labs one yellow lab and one black lab which we enjoy having to the house along with our grandchildren So with that, I'll turn it over next to Michelle Please unmute and introduce yourself or of the Sheboygan Humane Society for the last three years I've had dogs all my life Little guys have no which I was trying to get on camera. He's being shy right now So I'm happy to be here and part of this group Welcome Michelle Lisa Marek Lisa Marek. I'm the operations manager for the Sheboygan Humane Society for going on 10 years. I grew up on a farm, so I had you name it animals currently I have two dogs and three cats and Usually an office cat with me every day or dogs Well, welcome Lisa. Is Karen Houston here yet? Yeah, I'm Karen Houston, and I'm also with the Humane Society of Sheboygan County and Yeah, I've had all kinds of animals around my entire life as well and currently have two dogs an English Mastiff and English Bulldogs, so And I'm also glad to be here. I'm really appreciative that you got this up and running there Well, welcome Karen Next is Abby Black Hi, I'm Abby. I actually work for the city of Sheboygan, but was interested I Think I have a little bit of a different perspective. I have three ferrets and a rabbit And my ferrets welcome for walks. So we've kind of I guess skated under the You know, no dogs in the Area Yeah, excited to be here Welcome Abby next is Michelle Warner. Hi, I'm Michelle I'm just I live here. I'm new to town. I'm used to being pretty involved So when I saw this I wanted to jump at the chance because it's weird to move somewhere in the middle of a pandemic So I don't I don't represent any organization, but I've grown up with dogs my whole life and I currently have a Rescue he's basically a black Irish setter. He looks like a setter, but he's black We must have a little bit of lab in him and Yeah, we're excited to be in town and excited that you're You're putting this on we're from Denver where it's like dogs everywhere and no rules. So Getting used to it here and figuring out how I can help Welcome Betty Ackley Hello, my name is Betty Ackley and I'm the district for older person here in Sheboygan I'm also a volunteer at the Shanane Society of the Cats Cage Cleanup And currently I have three dogs and three cats. The majority of them have come from And I am really excited to be here and be a part of this group. So thank you mayor for looking into this pet friendly past group Welcome Betty Bill Busser My name is Bill Busser. We won't care about 20 years ago. I love the community when this came up We have one dog He had several other dogs in the first few years. I worked like he became busy We're both now retired and when I read this It was fantastic. I thought I just really wanted to be involved and Get to get something going here because it is difficult having a dog and finding places to go and Be a respectful citizen of the community. So again, thank you mayor for getting this going here. Really appreciate it Welcome Bill. Thank you. Nicole Bredeson Good afternoon. I'm Nicole Bredeson I travel around but my family lives in Sheboygan. So I finally settled down and bought a house here I've got two beagles and they're both rescued female and a male Welcome Nicole Kate Hodges Hi, my name is Kate. I've been a volunteer At the Humane Study of Sheboygan County for a few years and I've had four dogs over The last 20 years all pit bull breeds and all from the shelter um I guess being a pit bull owner. I'm very aware that you have to be a responsible owner. So I thought that input would be helpful Thanks Welcome Uh christine potter is she here? Then we'll go on to mike Hi, hi everyone. I'm mike. I'm buck. Uh, my wife vicki and I we live here in Sheboygan We have two corgis Walter and uli and in about a month corgi number three will be joining us and his name is tail Very good. Welcome mike and then joe curling joe's our ex official member of our group But he's our parks and superintendent Joe Joe did you unmute joe everybody? Thank you mayor um, I'm I'm also looking forward to getting this going and I think there's a a lot of room for improvement in parks and other areas um, so and I also have basically had a dog all my life growing up and um I still have a pug mix But my wife and I swear this will be our last dog But I look forward to dog sitting my daughters and my sons in the future Welcome to Next I'd like to go on to items for discussion and possible action. First of all As mayor, I'm really not technically a member of this group. I just set it up But we're looking for somebody to be the chairperson of the group and at this time I'd like to open nominations for chairperson I'd like to nominate uh, betty acklett bit excuse me betty ackley for chairperson Thank you for the nominations Is there a second? Thank you Uh betty would you accept the nomination? Yes, please. Thank you Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? With that I entertain a motion to cast a unanimous ballot for betty ackley Is there a second? second Thank you for that motion in support all in favor of the motion signified by c&i I Opposed Motion passes unanimously. Thank you Uh, next we have a position of secretary open I'd accept nominations for the position of secretary I'd like to nominate abbey block Is there a second? second betty ackley Thank you Do you accept the nomination abbey? I do and while I'm on mute, can I ask who seconded uh betty's nomination for my notes? Is that bill without you? Yeah, it was me. Sorry, I can't miss on the mic Okay, and who has a second on this? I'm doing my nominated for both Very good. I guess that's an acceptance With that I'd entertain a motion for a unanimous ballot to be cast for secretary Who who second betty ackley? Who first who made the motion? Bill, I did very good All those in favor, please signify by c&i I I Opposed Congratulations, betty. Rather abbey is our secretary. Thank you for those two people stepping forward to help us out with those positions Next I wanted to review the playbook for pet friendly cities I hope you had a chance to connect with the link that was on your agenda and take a look at the playbook Does anybody have any any comments or things that they saw that really kind of Caught their eye in the playbook. It's a really complete Gives us a lot of things to consider as we go forward with this committee Speak if I may please go ahead I did go over the Files yesterday and I think that this is a fantastic opportunity I'm really looking forward to hearing from Residents here in the city of shilligan to see what we can do to make this a more pet friendly city But I thought that this playbook offered us some fantastic ideas of how we can get started I guess I'd like to to say that you know, I'm kind of concentrating on The the things in here that Say if you're a city But there's a lot of other things that we could take advantage of In the things that if you're an animal welfare advocate or if you're an individual citizen Or if you're a business So I guess my real goal in here is to to move us forward To become more of a pet friendly city to take, you know the survey and do the inventory and assessment And and be able to be certified By the mires corporation as a pet friendly community. So I'm really looking forward to Our work in that area and that eventual outcome With that I'm going to turn it over to betty to Run the rest of the meeting. Okay, so the next item on the agenda was to look at the survey questions And the online assessment. I think we've already kind of covered that with the playbook We need to discuss when the next meeting will be And how often we are meeting I am unsure of that. I apologize for not being aware mr. Mayor Do you have an idea of how often we are going to be meeting? Well, you know, you normally a committee like this will get together once a month You know if there's something important you might be able to call a special meeting You know, we set this meeting up based on the doodle poll that everyone responded to And if we'd like to continue to meet on a wednesday at at noon If that works for everyone's schedule, we could continue that or if the group would like to Meet on a different day or time we can also consider that as well If everybody is comfortable with meeting on wednesdays at noon once a month At the end of the month around this time of the month. So it'd be the last wednesday of the month I'd be in the favor of that It's great with me The 26th of national bob getting my wife ended on the calendar Okay, so um the last item on the agenda Let's let's let's bet if we could go back a little bit and talk about the the survey um included in the um The documents that you received on the pet friendly city's book they they do have some suggested survey questions And I guess what I'd like to see if we have some volunteers That would be interested in going over those questions and while this may be worked well in some other communities Are there any other questions that we should consider? When we do a survey and maybe bring that back to the next meeting with a blessing that they cover all the bases Or if they have some suggestions, they'd like to propose to the group for additional questions Would anybody like to Volunteer to be on the on the survey subcommittee Michelle warner. I'm happy to do that Great. I'm happy to do that as well Okay, that sounds great. Um, so Lisa Okay, we have And this is michelle gentine I would join it as well Okay, so then that subcommittee will have to decide when they want to meet to to look at the survey in greater detail um I think we sent a roster out. I don't know if we had everybody's email addresses but I think you can pull it off the email and That that subcommittee can make their own decision on when they'd like to meet to work on that and then um The next thing would be the pet friendly online assessment so um I set up a basic Uh account for the city in their program And they're asking for us to gather demographics pet statistics Uh animal welfare and adoption and organizations or programs public parks trails and green spaces uh business um With pet friendly policies and programs uh pet homes evaluation Looking ahead in your community top pet related city priorities So this is something that after we do the survey We can look at uh at doing this as assessment Is there anybody who'd like to get involved with uh doing the assessment? I think I could be helpful on that capacity Hopefully I can help as well And the names are that's so Kate Hodges And who else was the first one? Um me I'm very good. Okay Here I can help with that too since it's uh parks amount Okay, so we have our second subcommittee that'll be working on the assessment and uh What I've done is gone in and pull out all the pertinent questions that they ask So that I'll turn that over to Joe so that he can work with the committee on On all the answers to the questions in the assessment Turn it back over to betty then We um kind of we already covered number four. So now I am looking for a motion to adjourn So I'll turn I made a motion to adjourn the meeting We need a second Second. Do I have a second in favor of adjournment? Please say aye. Aye Aye Thank you very much for your time this meeting is