 Alrighty, I will call the meeting of public works. Sir, we'll start with roll call. Alder Heidemann. Alder Heidemann here. Alder Rust. Present. Alder Remy. Here. Alder Salazar. Here. And Alder Decker is here. Let's start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the spirit of life 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. I think everyone knows everyone here, so I think we can skip the introductions. We'll move to number five. Proof of minutes from July 1st. I move to approve. Second. I'll submit in second. Any discussion on those minutes? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. None opposed? Chair votes aye. Those are approved. Okay, number six. General Ordinance number 14-2324, July 17th, 2023. In Ordinance repealing article 14-3, article 14-4, article 48-3, article 48-6, and creating article 48-8, so as to simplify regulations for utilizing public property. I will speak to this matter. So, staff has been working for, as long as I have been employed by the city, to update various aspects of using public property. Parks, sidewalks, other rights of way. We have had a lot of ongoing complaints about our process of being confusing and complicated, so this was an effort to streamline everything to make our user friendly. So we are, there's a lot of changes and I'm not going to go through all of them as far as the complaint of relating to encroachments on the sidewalk cafes and things like that. We're now changing it from use-based to duration-based. So we don't necessarily treat different uses differently, treat them differently based on if they use the space up to 90 days or 90 days or greater. You will be seeing in the near future, proposed fee schedule update that will go along with this. Our goal is to have this completely approved in time for the day when we open up for reservations for the next year's events. I'm open to questions. We'll have questions. Thank you, Chairman. What's in place now? Is there anybody that's, the change, does that affect anybody in a negative way that's twice done it for the last 50 years? So there's somebody who can come back and say, hey, why did you change it? I ought to do this. I understood everything what my responsibilities were and now you're doing this to me. There may be people who felt they understood everything, but there were a lot of people who felt they didn't. A lot of people would complain that they didn't know, if I want to put a planter in front of my business door, do I need a permit for that? If I want to put a bench in front of my window, do I need a permit for that? Our ordinances weren't clear. Now it is clear. What do I need to do for a sidewalk cafe? What do I need to provide to the city, get it approved? What are the restrictions for having a sidewalk cafe? Now it's clear. So I can't envision a situation where someone is going to complain that these changes impacted them negatively and if there is a situation that comes out, I would ask you to refer that to me so that we can review it because maybe there's something we can consider. But our goal was to make this better for everyone. And I understand that. So the chief is not involved in that. So does anybody from any outside organization that's gonna say, hey, listen, we were never involved or we can actually help implement this? So the business improvement district was interested in seeing these changes go through. Then that was staff right before I got hired, I think. David, were you involved in that meeting? I was early on, but then I think Dawn and Heather and some of the other staff, there was some dialogue back and forth on some of these changes. And for the most part, we took all of their comments and it's a much more user friendly, positive versus that in the past it was, this is way too confusing. No one wants to do it. They don't want to deal with you. That's why nothing ever gets done. Well, I guess. So that's the impetus to get where we're headed. Was you always the chance to trick someone into doing something that they weren't supposed to be doing and then we could love you to find out? No, unfortunately, the old way was so poorly structured that we had limited awareness and had a lot of people who would do things. So like a very common example that we would see would be like a board sign placed in the side of history that would have required some type of permit because putting something cities right of ways, pedestrian access point needs to comply with the ADA. Before the big things, in which there's landowners and benches, we also had a privilege. Just once you started to do the longer duration of the large, large, electrical. You also have questions. I just want to say I'm going to put people on this. I'm going to need to make it easier for the businesses to have a business that we don't have to work with. We want to work with businesses we want to be able to make smooth as easy as possible and make the business. How will this get communicated out to, like, will the bid be sharing the businesses or the data from the front sells peer? I'm not sure. I'll have to talk with the mayor's office about putting something out of social media in addition to the bid. They brought, I've had communication with Heather Cleveland who's working with the bid on this issue. But as far as like a media campaign, we thought that through yet. And I think, Heather, in the office, we're also, as part of this, we're having some new software that will be available for online rentals of parks and online transactions. And a part of this is part of that rollout, we're going to roll these permit applications as well and have it all basically available, interactive and a lot more cleared for people to, instead of having to pick up the phone and ask, well, where do I go for this? So who, who should I need? I understand for the park rentals. I'm specifically talking about, I'm being a little selfish of like my district of businesses who aren't going to kind of necessarily go to your website to rent a shelter. Some of these things are, from the tech side walk to your, you know, the A-Frames, some of this isn't turn rental based, it's business based. Correct, but there's still some of it will need a permit and will be managed through this permit system. But we'll, we'll work with like the big district, we'll push all this new information out, we'll have a flyer and we'll have information on there about the new, the new regulations and how it will be streamlined. And if you have any questions, this is the process. Okay, yeah, okay. And then I do just want to comment briefly there will be, we'll be asking for an amendment to this. We had one more staff meeting today and caught something. So we'll be asking for an amendment today as well. That's right here. So. Okay. Okay, any other, okay, for a motion. I move to approve. I'll second. Okay, motion is being seconded. And then we also would need an amend move to amend. So the section 48 reads as follow, 48-95 reads as follows. And I'll just skip this, you have that one down. It has a copy already. Oh, okay. No person shall encroach upon, occupy or construct or encumber any public street or highway or park thereof unless expressly authorized to do so by the common council or by permanent in accordance with this code or a specifically allowed by state law or another section of this code. No encroach or you reduce the pedestrian path to travel less than it continues with a five feet or extend into the frontage of adjacent properties. So the amendment to this is adding, this is our prohibition subsection, right? So this is how we're going to be enforcing citations. And we're adding that you can't encroach into the frontage of your neighbor's property. So if I own this parcel and I want to put a sidewalk cafe in front of it, I don't permission to put a sidewalk cafe the entire block long. It's just in front of my parcel. Yeah, that makes sense. Unless they get permission from their neighbor or no. We would need to see some. I would expect that the neighbor would submit a request as well. I can't envision a situation where we don't try to think. I think most people want that. Most businesses want the deep boundaries. Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to think there was round. I think it's good. That's fine. So we need that amendment to that also. I move to approve the amendment. Second. Most made an amendment. Well, first we'll vote on the amendment and then we'll vote on the entire thing. So we're all in favor of the amendment. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. That goes on to us. And now we will vote on the entire process. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. It is approved. Don't you have to read the whole thing though? No. No. Do you have? I was reading them all. You have like four hours? I was reading them all. Okay. That was all we had on the agenda. Next meeting date is August 15th, 2023. So you guys may be exhausted today, but you need to motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Chair votes aye. We are adjourned.