 The clerk would please read the quote for the day. Thank you mayor effective teamwork begins and ends with consistent and effective communication. Thank you tonight we have Boy Scouts troops 861 some representatives here to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance I'd like these gentlemen to come forward David Esparza Nigel Thiel Dylan Detloff okay please stand the clerk please call the roll there are 13 present other person whole shoe Schneider and drawn are all excused this evening next move on to the approval of the minutes from our last council meeting all the person will thank you mayor make a motion to approve thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on the minutes seen none all those in favor please signify by saying aye opposed passes next would be confirmation of mayor's appointments city attorney we have one from the mayor submitting the following appointment for your consideration Kyle Welton to be considered for appointment to the library board to fill to fill the unexpired term of Nia Yang whose term expires April 30th 2020 thank you all the person will thank you mayor and make a motion to confirm thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 eyes motion passes next we'll move on to the public forum turn it over to the city clerk thank you mayor first on our list this evening is Mike Brunette Mike if you could come up to the front please I can I have your home address 1925 so 26th Street and you will have five minutes sir all right new faces something different here but same old story and it's like it's Armory time and it's like I kind of had my mind blown the other week when Chad was up here talking about the Armory and the four inches of water in the basement we don't know how it got there la la la what we're gonna do about it and I'm like I see the annual report of the city turns out we have a lot of inspectors and engineers in our employee they should maybe walk into that building and determine what the exact nature of the damage is I personally have a photographic treasure trove of the Armory right before spaceport moved out and it's showing to a detail corners and walls you name it you want it from sections of ceilings I even have a thing called a gigapixel which is literally a huge picture if it would be of this room you could go on to any document in here and read it of the entire inside the Armory that could be looked at it's online and you can see the condition of the Armory and when you're talking about a building that obviously nobody wanted we worked very hard as the Armory foundation because we did have plans and goals for that building more importantly we realized the beauty and value of that building and when Chad was saying what would happen if a nonprofit came in and took that money and restored that building my god you just got one of the best buildings in the world for a very very small amount of money and oh if they wouldn't be paying taxes that's your whole development plan is based on the TIF district which is the art of not paying taxes and shifting them for development funds this would have been we literally didn't ask for a penny at the time the building is in a slightly worse repair because no quite frankly nobody's taking care of it there is an employee working in that building every day either that or somebody's living in the building because somebody's coming and going every day and I'm pretty sure the Department of Public Works is still operating some operations over that building but it amazes me once again I mean you're moving for a number which you did get a number in demolition probably about three and a half years ago because I got something forwarded to me on it and it was way north of $500,000 and that's about when C's stepped out of the picture is when that was published online the document that we got at the time and say it right now and it's like nobody wants to continue this fight in any means but it's a no-brainer to see that it's been an intentional move of the city to get rid of this building for decades now and the bottom line is the building doesn't want to go and it's one of those things that right in here nobody here knows firsthand the condition of that building and it's like you don't really I mean maybe one or two you've stepped in it but bottom line is it's an asset or liability however you look at it but it needs to be taken care of and really our only goal where we got turned back and rebuff when you decided you needed to go through all this paperwork and quite frankly bullshit but you guys did all we asked is to come in the building document the condition and then start laying ground to make sure it didn't deteriorate and slowly improve it this is when the city fought back on us and this is not something I imagined we had a group of good people working hard on this and we spent most of our effort trying to fight the fight of proving the worth of the building I believe we won that fight we won it handily I mean the press can keep saying about all this and bad about the Armory but there's so much online that you can find and that has been presented showing that it's really not true it's basically a fabrication that was made up decades ago and it just keep on pumping on the Armory was discontinued and demeaned in order to try to represent in order to try to justify spending on other buildings and the bottom line is the Armory has been on the chopping block since before you heard of Blue Harbor and coincidentally that's why it was originally on the block and it's one of those things that it upsets me you don't have to come up here and talk about this stuff and to this point nobody has ever asked any questions regarding any of this other than that night battled with the press online even having former editors going we know we were wrong in the past but what are we supposed to do about it and it's like you can't blame us and I mean my your time is up all right you get my point bye next on the list is Debbie David along Debbie can I have your home address please yes it's 1704 North 35th Street okay and you'll have five minutes okay so I want you to refuse the contentious annexation Kohler wants to build a golf course on his nature preserve better known as the Black River Forest a migratory flyway home to diverse flora and fauna wetlands sand dunes Indian artifacts and Indian mounds Kohler has prevented this wildlife refuge from being developed until now a golf course would destroy this ecological gem the most significant losses would be environmental further impairing the Black River the town's well water and Lake Michigan an important water resource for the whole Midwest since the environmental impact and alteration of the Black River Forest has not been submitted by Kohler company or approved by the town of Wilson Kohler in an unneighborly hostile fashion petitions the city of Sheboygan to questionably annex his property which is not at all adjacent to city boundaries something this will financially benefit Sheboygan however Kohler has sued his own village for three years of back taxes totaling almost two million dollars Kohler's whistling straights also dried up residents wells in the town of Mosul could the damages that the town of Wilson residents suffer lead to a lawsuit if Sheboygan annexes the Black River Forest without considering the neighbors who have to live with the consequences of Kohler's project Kohler a billionaire is also requesting state parkland to be able to enter his course this is the rich stealing from the public how shameful but the both the course and park sharing an entrance with Stifle Park Tourism a major source of revenue for Sheboygan runoff from the course polluting Lake Michigan would deter tourists as well Kohler's golf clients buy package deals and stay at his hotels and eat at his restaurants Sheboygan businesses would receive little benefit Kohler is no friend to the environment he has a super fun toxic dump which stretches eight miles in Sheboygan County leaching those toxins into the groundwater as for the ethics of this annexation we need to consider the neighbors and the impact that this major decision would have upon the residents of the town of Wilson people living near golf courses can contract cancers from the toxic pesticides and herbicides don't rush this annexation through without study of the environmental economic or ethical repercussions I protest this travesty and demand a sustainable task force study and a public hearing to include town of Wilson residents but in the end raising an entire forest destroying wetlands and pairing Lake Michigan in the Black River as well as the well water etc it doesn't take rocket science to realize that there's nothing positive for the environment if Kohler replaces a complete ecosystem with a sterile golf course green residents of the town of Wilson wanted to come and state their objections and the reasons as well as give you a stack of petitions from the town residents objecting to the building of a golf course in the Black River forest but I was alerted about this matter at 4 p.m. too late for them to change their plans so I would suggest in the future that we don't limit the public forum to what's on the agenda if they can change the agenda or add matters at the very last minute I think you know any city matters should be able to be discussed in the public forum whenever you know at every common council meeting thank you thank you next on the list is Mary Fetish Mary if you could come up to the front please can I have your home address yes it's 5631 driftwood lane okay you'll have five minutes thank you I just found out that some of the issues regarding this proposed annexation of parts of Wilson and Kohler-Andre Park were going to be discussed tonight there was actually less than 24 hour notice given mr. Adams has spoken with our attorney indicating that if you are not going to vote on an issue if you're just going to discuss 24 hour notice is not necessary we in fact in our attorney who is represents friends of the Black River forest has a different legal opinion on it so I'm sorry that these several items were added to the agenda and not given people the opportunity we were we attempted to sign up last week thinking it might be discussed and it was not on the agenda these items were put on it noon today but aside from that I have nothing prepared other than to say I spent several hours today talking to professors and people in planning departments at universities in Chicago Milwaukee and Madison and I asked them about the process of doing a develop a complete development impact assessment and I said what's included in this and I kind of knew because I had researched it earlier but what they said was well a complete picture involves assessing impacts to quality of life other social impacts the environment fiscal transportation and economic and we are just extremely surprised that the government employees and officials of Sheboygan involved in coming up with working with Kohler on this would use only the economic impact report which by the way has never been independently verified by the city and I asked one of the professors if one of your students was given the job of coming up with an economic impact piece of the puzzle and you said where did you get that information and the student said the developer told me this is not acceptable it's not vetted and it's not validated and I think you oh the people of the city of Sheboygan to know all the costs that will come to them the cost of cleaning up pollution is multi-million dollar the waters along Lake Michigan shore and Black River are already impaired and knowing that for you to approve a golf course eventually after the organization a project like this saying well we don't need to know about any of that because the DNR is going to take care of it that's very short-sighted we can give you a history just this past year of DNR caused environmental crises throughout the state so for you to rely on an agency which is being sued on several fronts right now to determine the impact I also think is short-sighted so please figure out the costs of all of the impacts just look at the money and by the way I read the PowerPoint that the city apparently has prepared which uses the Kohler information and Kohler economic impact assessment there are huge gaps huge in the cost of the city of Sheboygan please give this more professional attention please don't just look at what you think you're gonna have within a year or five years or ten years because our children everybody who comes here to enjoy the resources of Lake Michigan will be affected by your decision thank you thank you Mary and last on the list is Ali's a day Milan can we have your home address please yes I live at 17 04 North 35th Street in Sheboygan okay and you'll have five minutes thank you so I have a number of questions to ask to ask for Kohler what when you're considering this proposal for annexation as Alderman so why if Kohler thinks the city can provide more services did they string the town of Wilson along for three years without mentioning this and also do a quiet buy-up of property to arrange a contentious annexation Gotzaker commercial realty approached a resident in 2015 about selling his home saying it was for an undisclosed buyer one of the homes purchased which has renters is owned by Wilson Sheboygan County LLC with the same address as Gotzaker commercial realty why did Kohler not tell the town that they thought it was not as financially secure as the city did this just done on them last week when they announced their petition to annex Kohler attorneys told the town board last year they would not finish the town's conditional use permit application until they had all necessary permits together then on April 7th the DNR informed Kohler their wetland permit was incomplete the plan commission asked Kohler if they would be proceeding with the arranging payment for the consultants hired their attorney said they would think about this in a month Kohler pulled out a surprise petition for annexation all this is very strange dealings but since we're on the subject of economic impacts do they have any interest in separating out their economic numbers to indicate what amount of money will be spent in local businesses had to done any research on what local businesses say they benefited from the previous tournaments have they separated out the 80 million dollars that goes to the PGA for a tournament the people who do support small local businesses are the 400 plus annual visitors and campers at Kohler Andres State Park golfer to pay $400 for a round of golf frequent high end Kohler venues not your small local businesses that support the economy of Sheboygan with 300 plus tournament attendees the visitors and campers will stop visiting as their weight on County v the main access point to the park will be interminable or completely unapproachable during tournaments as is already the case for the town of Mosul they have they will block off a lot of roads so that their their golfing attendees have you know privileged access will be be why widened to provide a separate lane all the way from 43 with a dedicated lane going directly to the dedicated roundabout lane to the golf course who pays the tab for this the county and taxpayers do as we did for Kohler's off-ramp on 43 leading directly to the entrance of whistling straights why will they not release information on what the specific jobs and the salaries are for even their current golf courses we know for a fact that with our climate etc they will be seasonal and part-time you won't have full-time work on a golf course in the middle of January so you most of your jobs that they've been mentioning will be part-time and seasonal so no benefits etc has Kohler at a city studied the cost of taxpayers who pick up all the tab for cleaning up pollution pollution of the lake and our river has a marked impact on our on our economy in terms of our tax dollars paying for pollution cleanup and the loss of tourism dollars who paid for the Superfund cleanup that was already mentioned the Superfund site in in Schwagen County that runs through the eight miles that was that was created or generated by the Kohler foundry waste and that has leached chemicals into the groundwater and the shabuigan the onion and mullet rivers that are the tributaries the shabuigan River those PCBs we have been cleaning up for a long time as you are probably well aware so the taxpayers will be paying for all this who will pay for the county's gold to clean up the Black River and its watershed taxpayers so there's a lot of hidden costs in this if you decide to go through with it every agency involved in pollution cleanup is paid for or by our tax dollars how will your constituents feel about all these added costs on to you know this project that was not mentioned not brought up by Kohler company etc so you know and I mean we think Kohler mentions that their eyes so environmentally friendly but they ignore the massive loads of construction and stormwater runoff of pesticides fertilizers and sediment into the lake and Black River this process is the fact that will immediately be apparent in murky sediment loaded into the water on the shore so I really wish you would consider all these you know impacts when you're looking at the economy especially the pollution cleanup thank you thank you that's it for this evening thank you very much next move on to a presentation by municipal court judge Natasha Tory a called welcome to Sheboygan Kohler municipal court like you to take a note whether it be writing something down or with your device and answer three quick questions first question multiple choice a or does in 2016 did the city of Sheboygan village of Kohler municipal court handle a less than five thousand five hundred citations or be more than five thousand five hundred citations a would be less than fifty five hundred B is more than again we're talking about 2016 second question true or false in 2016 did the city of Sheboygan police department write two hundred more citations than they did in 2015 true true or false third true or false question there were over 200 less citations written for building code violations in 2016 than 2015 true or false so we'll come back to those later really happy to or excited to be here tonight I've been meeting to come for a while and in fact I was so excited that I was told that I was overzealous in my PowerPoint presentation that I prepared and so thanks to the mayor you will not hear 51 slides you'll hear 15 hopefully but because I am excited about the topic I'm planning to have an open house later this fall and so I'll make sure to invite you all and it'll be open to the public and if you want to see that whole PowerPoint now feel free to email me and I do have a city email it's natasha.tory at Sheboyganwi.gov and I'll send that to you and you don't have to wait all right if we could go Sue is gonna help me tonight with my with my presentation going through the slides I'll start talking even with that technical difficulty okay all right so Wisconsin has over 240 municipal courts and municipal courts are community-based justice courts community-based it's a community-based alternative to the criminal justice system so municipal courts are not criminal courts they're civil courts a defendant in the municipal court is not accused of committing a crime anyone that is convicted and the municipal court is convicted of a civil forfeiture infraction so they owe forfeitures not fines and so that's something that I find that I have to keep reminding myself sometimes in my language and it's not we're on the fourth slide the municipal court is it's the fourth slide a co-equal branch of the municipal government thank you and so we have the legislative body which would be the council or the village board the executive which would be the mayor and administrator and then the municipal court next slide so basically the way that our hierarchy is is the voters the city of Sheboygan village of color voters then I would be below them I have a clerk and I have a deputy clerk we handle various types of cases which would include non-criminal traffic violations including first defense OWIs and Wisconsin is the only state in the nation that does that and we also do something else a little more strange than that you can actually have a second defense OWI handled in municipal court as long as it's been more than 10 years since your first we handle criminal code that has been adopted by ordinances and that could be disorderly conduct retail theft trespass shop lifting is an example other ordinance violations which would be building code violations or zoning and we also handle juvenile ordinance violations or truancy violations and so in Sheboygan we actually have two separate evenings a month where we have just juvenile hearings and those are closed proceedings so each juvenile and their family comes into my chambers and we have a separate hearing for them and the point of that is because for the juveniles our goal is to try to get to the bottom of what's going on in their life and hopefully make an impact one example of ordinance violation that I do come across would be possession of marijuana and that could be marijuana or paraphernalia and I know that we have lots of different opinions in our country about legalization of marijuana in Wisconsin it's not legal but it can be a code violation in the city of Sheboygan and if a police officer decides to issue a marijuana citation as a municipal court citation that can have a much different impact on anyone but especially young people if a ticket is written for someone as a crime or excuse me as a municipal court forfeiture or citation then there would be a forfeiture assigned to it and our range of penalty for that is between 250 and $1,000 plus cost so 376 to 1329 somewhere near that plus cost but then they don't have a criminal record if they're issued a ticket that goes to circuit court then the penalty is increased and later on I'll get into that a little bit more but you can also have a situation where young persons not able to get federal financial aid because they if they are convicted of that and it is a crime involving drugs and so that's a huge difference of impact that having a municipal court can make in a young person's life so obviously there are some advantages for defendants for having a municipal court if you receive a municipal court citation you don't end up with a criminal record it's not sortable on CCAP I do explain to young people that if they plan to go in the military recruiters come to the municipal court because they know it's not available on CCAP and they want to see if they had any any citations but that's so that's so you know a big difference they don't have to tell anyone that they were convicted of a crime if they had a municipal court citation there's no jail time associated with it unless they're not paying their forfeiture for good cause but there's no automatic jail time and a citation in municipal court is $76.50 less expensive for that defendant than it would be in circuit court and I'll break that down again a little bit later the advantages for the city or village are that you have prompt efficient and cost effective adjudication of cases so recently speaking with the village of Kohler police chief and he was telling me about when Kohler was interested in joining and having the municipal court it was a time that they would send cases to the district attorney's office and sometimes wait seven years and then hear back that it wasn't going to be prosecuted and so nothing at all was done that doesn't happen when you have a municipal court municipal court trials aren't stacked and treated like they're the least important thing like they can be in the circuit court and and you don't waste time for police officers sitting in the court all day or even attorneys sitting in the court just to be told that they have to come back because their case wasn't important or another trial bump them. There's also an advantage that it's it's community based justice and so it's it's we're not hamstrung based on statewide initiatives we can focus on things that are important to us for instance I mentioned that we have separate nights for juveniles and we also have a program for kids to have a relationship with the police officers maybe to work off community service and that's something that kids can be really specific and can change and be fluid based on what our needs are at the time. I just volunteered at a habitat for humanity event this weekend and was asked could I what I agree for people to cut grass this summer to work off some of their forfeitures and and I can I can do that if someone wants to to work off a forfeiture that way and that might not be as easy to do with the circuit court citation. You know I know that our counsel and and citizens are concerned about revenue impacts that a court can have and and it is absolutely true that there's a revenue advantage and so basically there is a thirty eight dollar increase in revenue for every citation that you have when you have a municipal court and so this just is an example of so than it for every one thousand citations that's thirty eight thousand dollar advantage. Having a municipal court then can also can make municipality be more fiscally responsible there's again greater flexibility and collecting unpaid court obligations. I was just talking to the current district attorney who indicated to me that he's having a problem with the clerk of court's office being willing to certify restitution debt to be collected so we don't have that problem we certify our own debt just last year we started using the state debt collection program and we're having some good outcome with that it's a little slower than we had hoped but we're having some good outcome with that some other remedies that we have are the ability to suspend licenses if that would be appropriate we can more closely monitor payment plans people can come to the municipal court and enter a payment plan right there if they don't have to wait for a court date they don't have to necessarily have have a hearing or hear back from the judge because it's my policy that I allow payment plans at all times if it's reasonable and there is also still the the remedy of commitment to the county jail but then because of the closer oversight we also have the ability to have people released much more quickly and so then you don't have as much of an expenditure refer to court costs earlier and so where you can see the biggest differences this is an example of if you have a $30 speeding ticket costs get added to that so your tickets not $30 if you were issued the same ticket for instance for going eight above that ticket in the city would be $98.80 if you're outside of the city where you're in a jurisdiction that does not have a municipal court and it has to go to the circuit court that ticket then is going to be $175.30 what's the most interesting about that you can keep going I'm not sure which side I got to explain that okay is if you don't have that municipal court the municipality is going to get $25 out of that $175 if you have a municipal court the municipal court is going to get $63 out of that $98.80 so you have this double impact and I think that that's something that really needs to be understand if you take anything away from from this tonight understand when you have a municipal court your citizens do have repercussion if that's what you want there can be hopefully some impact on behavior but it's a lot less harsh for them and it's a lot more beneficial to the municipality and that's where that $38 that I mentioned before comes from because again if you only have a circuit court you're going to get $25 the difference between that $25 and $63 is $38 to get $38 more dollars per citation if you have a municipal court and and again that's when you go through all the figures that's where then the defendant also saves $76.50 when you have a municipal court that is all I planned to get through tonight so again if you are interested in the rest of my PowerPoint please feel free to email me and and I'll get you information then about our open house later this fall so thank you Natasha thank you very much for that report we appreciate it I should answer I should go back to the quiz though I'm sorry yeah again I again with getting excited all right so that first question was true or false the city of Sheboygan village of Kohler municipal court excuse me I'm not I'm not doing this correctly a in 2016 the municipal court handled less than 5500 citations or be more than 5500 who thinks that the answer is a less than 5500 all right well B is correct we handled more than 5500 in 2016 we handled 5,975 true or false there were over 200 more citations written by police by the police department 2016 thinks that's true that is true there were over 200 more in 16 than 15 and the last one true or false there were over 200 less citations written for building code violations in 2016 than 15 who thinks that that is true that's also true there are 200 there's lots of good reasons for that next item is mayor's announcements first of all I'd like to ask Chris Tomagalski to come forward tonight we have a proclamation whereas the Congress and president of the United States have designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which May 15th falls is National Police Week and whereas the members Sheboygan Police Department play an essential role in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of citizens and Sheboygan and whereas it is important that all citizens know and understand the problems duties and responsibilities of their police department and the members of our police department recognize their duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and property by protecting them against violence and disorder and by protecting the innocent against deception and the weak against oppression or intimidation whereas the Sheboygan Police Department has grown to be a modern and scientific law enforcement agency which unceasingly provides vital public service I now therefore Mike van der Steen call upon the citizens of Sheboygan and upon all patriotic civil educated organizations to observe the week of May 14th through the 20th of 2017 is police week in which all of our people may join in commemorating the police officers past and present who by their faithful and loyal devotion to their responsibilities have rendered a dedicated service to their communities and in doing so have established for themselves an enviable and enduring reputation for preserving the rights and security of all citizens I call upon all citizens to observe May 15th of 2017 as peace officers Memorial Day to honor those peace officers who through their courageous deeds have lost their lives or become disabled in the performance of their duty Chris I present his proclamation to you next I'd like to ask Public Works Director David Beable to come forward I think he wants to bring some others okay the proclamation whereas public work services provided in our community are an integral part of our citizens everyday lives whereas the support and understanding and informed citizenry is vital to the efficient operation of public work systems and programs such as water sewers streets and highways public buildings and solid waste collection and whereas the health and safety and comfort of this community greatly depends on these facilities and services and whereas the quality and effectiveness of these facilities as well as their planning design and construction are vitally dependent upon the efforts and skill of public works officials and whereas the efficiency and of the qualified and dedicated personnel who staff public works departments is material influenced by the people's attitude and understanding of the importance of the work that they perform I know now therefore Mike van der steen is mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hereby proclaim the week of May 21st through 27th is National Public Works week in the city of Sheboygan and call upon all citizens and civic organizations to acquaint themselves with the issues involved in providing public works and to recognize the contributions which public works officials make every day to our health safety comfort and quality of life David I will present this to you thank you mayor I just would like to say we the public works men and women of Sheboygan we're going to be hosting that coming this Saturday an open house at the municipal service building as well as at our wastewater treatment plant at the service building we're going to have equipment on display in our parking lot and personnel around to allow people to access and get in the equipment see what it's about and answer questions about what we do for the community and at our treatment plant we're going to talk about our processes as well as offer an opportunity for residents to pick up our natural fertilizer that we produce at the plant and we also encourage the citizens that attend our open house to please bring a non perishable food item as we are also collecting food for the Sheboygan County food bank during this week so thank you and I also like to call up Ken Vigiletti and Hannah Shear whereas the city of Sheboygan recognized as that investment in creative economy development creative place making and civic engagement through the arts and creativity are important to the health and vibrancy of the community and its future and whereas the city of Sheboygan appreciates that the creative economy development and community cultural engagement are directly related to economic vitality education for the 21st century engaging residents and a community's vibrancy and success and whereas the city of Sheboygan celebrates many impressive creative economy activities projects and initiatives such as educational programs that are art related museums revitalization initiatives and civic engagement projects and whereas the city of Sheboygan recognizes that investment in its creative economy is critical for local and statewide success for these reasons the arts mean business according to Dunn and Bradstreet there are nearly 10,000 businesses in Wisconsin involved in the creation or distribution of the arts that employ over 42,000 people representing 3.2 of the state's businesses and 1.4 of its employees the arts engage and add to Sheboygan's economy a recent economic impact study released by Lakeland University identified that the creative economy of Sheboygan County impacts $882 per person in the dollar value or 1.2 percent of the overall total economy the arts also drive tourism arts travelers ideal tourists staying longer and spending more time to seek out authentic cultural experiences the U.S. Department of Commerce reports that the percentage of international travelers including museum visits on their trip has grown steadily since 2003 from 18 to 28 percent the arts also sparked creativity and innovation the conference board reports that creativity is among the top five applied skills that are taught by business leaders with 72 percent saying creativity is of high importance when hiring they're ready to innovate report concludes that the arts music and creative writing drawing and dance provide skills taught by employers of the third Nobel laureates in the sciences are 17 times more likely to be accurately I mean actively engaged in the arts and other scientists the arts have a social impact research shows that a high concentration of the arts in the community leads to higher civic engagement more social cohesion and higher child welfare and lower crime and poverty rates now therefore be resolved that the city of Sheboygan declares the week of May 13th through 20th of 2017 as Creative Economy Week to celebrate and promote the arts creativity vitality and for our community and furthermore the city of Sheboygan requests that the city clerks send a copy of this resolution to our state legislators to Governor Walker and the League of Municipalities I'd like to present this to Kim so thank you like the mayor said we were I was under the privilege of leading a 14 week class at Lakeland University and it was very very helpful and it was a great experience I've brought Hannah Shear along who is a student in the class to give her perspective as well so as a student all the time we hear things like you know you're taking your business degree you're going to learn the terms so once you get out in the field you have to learn on your own and having this class as a hands-on experience where we actually learned what we were doing and did real market research made me feel a little bit more prepared to go into the workforce later on so I would just want to thank the city of Sheboygan and the John Michael Kohler Art Center for giving us this opportunity on Friday May 19th of 2017 the city of Sheboygan and Esslingen will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our sister city at a banquet in Esslingen Germany a delegation of 34 persons will travel to Germany with fire chief Mike Romas and myself uh we're leaving tomorrow to participate in this event including this delegation we members of the mayor's international committee people the people and residents of the Sheboygan area on January 16th of 1967 the city of Sheboygan common council recognized and endorsed the sister city relationship with Esslingen this was done with the hope that would lead to a lasting friendship between the peoples of Esslingen Amnecker and Germany and Sheboygan Wisconsin USA during this time I'm the ninth Sheboygan mayor participate and preserve this partnership with our colleagues and Esslingen city government during this time many young students have enjoyed and learned from the visits to Esslingen and Esslingen to Sheboygan the exchange students have made lifelong friendships and their families have adopted the students and family of their German partners during the past 50 years many individuals have had the privilege responsibility of keeping this relationship strong and meaningful I extend a special thanks to the past city councils mayors international committees former mayors people the people you chaperone city staff and the local families who are participating in student exchanges all has helped to nurture and strengthen this very special relationship with our friends from Esslingen and we will be celebrating this anniversary because of all these efforts over the past 50 years and then I just want to give everybody a reminder about Memorial Day coming up on May 29th activities will begin with a parade at nine o'clock and after the parade we'll be having a program at Fountain Park we want to thank the employees of the cooler credit union for organizing this Memorial Day celebration and I also want to announce that a public informational meeting on the proposed annexation of property to the city of Sheboygan will be held on May 30th as part of a city planning commission meeting that'll be held here in the council chambers and it'll take place at our normal meeting time of four o'clock on Tuesday thank you next item on the agenda is a hearing item 2.1 is hearing number 2 of 1718 relating to the proposed ordinance regarding impact fees in accordance with Wisconsin statute 66.0617 to pay for park and recreation facilities that are required to serve new development in our community is there anyone wishing to be heard is there anyone wishing to be heard is there anyone wishing to be heard all the person wolf thank you mayor I make a motion to close the hearing thank you for that motion and support all those in favor of closing the hearing please signify by saying aye opposed motion passes next move on to the consent agenda that'll include items 3.2 through 3.11 all the person wolf thank you mayor make a motion to accept and file all RO's accept and adopt all our C's and pass all resolutions and ordinances second thank you for that motion and support those documents are before us is there any discussion on anything in the consent agenda seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 ayes motion passes item 4 is reports of officers item 4.1 is RO number 19 of 17-18 by the director of human resources and labor relations and the fire chief pursuant to resolution number 227 of 16-17 submitted a report of the audit and review of the fire department's job descriptions the identification of any overlapping duties and responsibilities and any recommendations resulting from the study all the person wolf thank you mayor I make a motion to accept and file second I have a motion and a second under discussion I'd like to call up fire chief Mike romas and our HR director sandy and they'll give us a little synopsis of this report thank you mayor um you all received I believe last week Friday by five o'clock you received an IFC an item for consideration and in it was a document attached to five pages that explained the results of our findings those findings are we agreed on them both um sandy took the lead because she was from outside of our department looking at it from a third party perspective and in in synopsis for resolution 227 16-17 we did conduct job description reviews this is the third time that I've done it but we did it again this time looking at it again fresh sandy was involved and we have determined that um they are complete there is no overlap and they will stand as is in our opinion the second thing was deficiencies and we believe that there are two deficiencies in the department and they are again they were identified in my fire 2020 report the staffing levels of the department um the management staffing levels are low and I believe that the fire staffing levels are also low so those two deficiencies were identified what has been done to I to take care of this issue has been that fire 2020 plan which I presented to the council some of the newer members I believe did not receive that I sent that to you today so that you could be more aware of what's going on I'm always available as I'm sure sandy is also for any questions that anybody might have but to address those deficiencies we reinstituted the three positions that were vacant this year and July 1st we're going to add a battalion chief to the staff which is going to help greatly but that won't completely solve the issues of the problem and in 18 I'm requesting three more firefighters and another battalion chief and a 19 three more firefighters and that's my fire 2020 plan which addresses this issue sandy did you have anything you wanted to say that's all I have unless anyone has any questions under discussion all their person down here no I managed to disconnect my microphone I appreciate the work that was done here I see that in the report there's section one but there's no section two I found that the the conclusion was certainly strong but I didn't see any supporting information chief I think you rightly identified we do have new alders on council and I think you also understand that your proposed budget expenditures will break the bank essentially and and and and violate our expenditure restraints and so forth so it seems to me that you've got a good basis here and I really appreciate sandy rurix so intense I am sure attention to this but it seems to me to make sense that at this point that we refer and my motion is to refer this report to finance and personnel for further discussion and review maybe take a look at section two and discuss some of those deficiencies in more detail second okay we have a motion on the floor um we have two on the floor check the motion report takes precedence okay any other discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll we do that in voice vote all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes that'll be referred to finance and hr thank you very much for your work on the report thank you item 4.2 and 4.3 will lie over items 4.4 through 4.13 will be referred to various committees under resolutions items 5.1 through 5.5 will be referred to various committees and uh item 6 reports of committees item 6.1 is rc number 9 of 1718 by finance and personnel to whom was referred our own number one of 1718 by the city administrator submitting the city of sheboygan citizen engagement program for consideration and recommends establishing a citizen engagement program to authorize the implementation of the program all the person done thank you mayor i move to accept and adopt second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 ayes motion passes item 6.2 is rc number 20 of 1718 by finance and personnel to whom was referred resolution number 10 of 1718 by all the person down here authorizing the transfer of appropriations in the 2017 budget to establish an appropriation for parking lot improvements and tax increment district number 12 and recommends passing the resolution all the person down here thank you mayor i move to accept adopt and pass the resolution second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 ayes motion passes item 6.3 is rc number 21 of 1718 by finance and personnel to whom was referred resolution number 13 of 1718 by all the person down here authorizing a loan from the trust fund of the state of wisconsin and the sum of 400 000 for tids 16 housing project and recommends passing the resolution all the person down here thank you i move to accept adopt and pass the resolution second thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 ayes motion passes item 6.4 is rc number 22 of 1718 by public works to whom was referred resolution number 14 of 1718 by all the person will authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with brain associates for phase two project implementation for city hall remodeling design development construction documents including bidding and negotiation as well as construction management all the person will thank you mayor i make a motion to accept and adopt and pass resolution second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 12 ayes one no motion passes item 6.5 is rc number 12 of 1718 by law and licensing to whom was referred pursuant to our own number 295 of 1617 by the city clerk submitting various license application recommends denying the beverage operators license 9763 based upon his ineligibility for a license all the person down here thank you mayor i move to accept and adopt thank you for that motion and support under discussion this is the application of john wenzel is mr wenzel here he is not unfortunately mr wenzel because of some activity two decades ago is ineligible for a license and accordingly the committee denied the application thank you very much is there any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 ayes motion passes item 6.6 is rc number 13 of 1718 by law and licensing to whom was referred pursuant to our own number 295 of 1617 by the city clerk submitting various licensed applications and recommends denying beverage operators license number 1492 based upon his ineligibility for a license and his failure to cooperate with the committee all the person down here i move to accept and adopt thank you for the motion and support under discussion is mr potowills here he is not mr potowills did not appear at the law and licensing committee on may 9th and is in addition ineligible for a license accordingly the committee voted to deny his application thank you for those comments is there any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 ayes motion passes 6.7 is rc number 14 of 1718 by law and licensing to whom was referred pursuant to our own number 295 of 1617 by the city clerk submitting various licensed applications and recommends denying beverage operators license number 1540 based upon his failure to accurate reveal of relevant convictions on his license application his record of violations related to the license activity and his record as a repeat law offender all the person down here i move to accept and adopt second thank you for the motion and support under discussion is chris amador here mr amador is not he did not appear at the hearing uh and based on the information and the resolution the committee voted to deny his application thanks for those comments is there any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 ayes motion passes next we'll go on to other matters received after the agenda was published city attorney 7.1 first oh i'm sorry uh 7.1 is general ordinance number uh 3 of 1718 by alderperson wilf schneider bitters bellinger nelson creating article 3 of chapter 74 the municipal code relating to impact fees um alderperson wolf thank you mayor i make a motion to suspend and pass ordinance second thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on the motion alderperson nelson thank you mayor um objecting to the uh suspension i'd like to see it go back to committee there's some ambiguities in the language there's some uh opportunities for other uh people to uh meet in in committee venue so rather than discuss it on the on the foot and take up the time of the full council i'd like as i say i'd like to see it go back to committee or go to committee okay is there a second okay we have further discussion on motion uh to send back to committee uh like the administrator to chime in uh as many you are aware by placement of this on the agenda with an earlier public hearing this evening uh there was a step in the process of the city council or the common council's uh based on staff's recommendation was omitted uh so the public hearing was held and consistent with state statute earlier tonight um one item i wanted to address to you tonight is that between the approval date uh and tonight we have collected zero monies associated with this with this new fee it's five hundred and forty seven dollars per residential dwelling unit uh we do anticipate one of our key downtown apartment projects will be coming in within the next two weeks uh earlier this evening there was a loan associated with additional incentive that we're providing this project as part of the discussions with that developer it would it became we the staff made it known to that developer uh that this new park impact fee was was in place and that they would incur this cost my concern is if this is suspended and referred back to committee that potentially that permit could be submitted and ultimately this developer could avoid what will be i did the math earlier a 91 units times five hundred forty seven thousand which is forty nine thousand seven hundred seventy seven dollars times five hundred forty one thousand forty nine thousand seven hundred seventy seven dollars so my concern is uh if this is uh referred back to committee potentially the city would not receive that impact fee on that specific project the city attorneys reminded me that we can't have two motions on the floor at the same time so the first one we have to dispense with is first of all the motion to suspend and if that's upheld then we go on to a motion to pass the ordinance and then we can consider another motion so right now we we uh we have a somebody who who doesn't want to see us suspend the rules on the floor so uh we'll take a vote on suspension so an i vote would be to suspend the rules and allow us to vote on this tonight uh an a vote would be against that that we would not consider this tonight it also does have to pass by a three-quarters margin of those elected so it would need 12 votes to pass yep so you hear votes are ready to be entered yes to clarify a little bit if we vote on this we're voting in favor of the funds no you're voting to discuss it and then we'd have to have another motion to approve the project and i mean to approve the ordinance so this is just allowing us to discuss it further tonight and and bring it up for consideration so an i vote would be to allow to suspend and discuss it all the person bellinger um i don't have anything else i just wanted clarification on the reason to suspend so i would you know that's been clarified thank you did you did you get what you wanted from the administrators report yes okay thank you okay everybody know what they're voting on i might want to just review that one more time so enable okay there's a motion out there to suspend the rules that's all we're voting on is just to suspend the rules not on the document and i vote would be to suspend enable it would be not to suspend the rules okay ten eyes three notes so it lies over because you can take no further action okay next we'll go on to other matters received after the agenda was published city attorney yes just making notes here 8.1 is a resolution authorizing the purchasing agent to enter into a contract for a court ordered raise order demolition of the residential four-unit commercial property located at 1114 north 10th street that'll be referred to the finance and personnel committee 8.2 is a an rc by public safety to whom was referred an aroh by the city clerk submitting a communication from angela smith who resides at 14 10 illinois avidu raising concerns regarding activities of promise industries allegedly violating noise and lighting ordinances of the city of shifuagan um that'll be referred to the city planning commission 8.3 is an aroh by the city clerk submitting a communication from rinehart attorneys at law at the request of their client kola company a wisconsin corporation enclosing the annexation petition for lands in the vicinity of stall road county highway kk and 12th street county v in the town of wilson that'll be referred to the city planning commission 8.4 is an aroh by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending december 31 2017 june 30 2018 and june 30 2019 that'd be referred to the law and licensing committee 8.5 is an aroh by the city clerks submitting various license applications for the period ending december 31 2017 june 30 2018 and june 30 2019 that'll be referred to the law and licensing committee 8.6 is an aroh by the city clerk submitting an application from the kola company for a change in the zoning classification of property being the entire area included in the annexation petition as shown on an attached map received and dated may 15 2017 from town of wilson p1 a2 a3 r1 to class suburban residential sr5 classification that'll be referred to the city planning commission 8.7 is a resolution uh by all the persons born in sorenson directing a public hearing to be held in connection with the change in the zoning classification of property being the entire area included in the annexation petition as shown on the attached map received and dated on monday may 15 2017 from town of wilson p1 a2 a3 r1 to class suburban residential sr5 classification that'll be referred to the city planning commission 8.8 is a general ordinance by all the persons born in sorenson amending the city of shabuigan official zoning map of the shabuigan zoning ordinance to change the use district classification of property being the entire area included in the annexation petition as shown on the attached map received and dated may 15 2017 from town of wilson p1 a2 a3 and r1 to class suburban residential sr5 classification that'll be referred to the city planning commission all the person born thank you mayor attorney adams is there any opportunity to reconsider 7.1 uh if uh someone wishes to uh reconsider their vote um and one of the uh three alderman who uh voted against um the uh motion to suspend that could be done alderman boring thank you uh i reviewed this document back when i was on public works i believe the last session when uh alderman bellinger was chairman the last committee and i had some misgivings about this but after reading it and the impact that this can have and particularly the impact that uh uh mr hoffland expressed with this development down there we're passing up over 90 000 dollars in impact fees uh i wish one of the people that voted no not to not to pass this tonight would reconsider because we're going to be missing out on over 90 000 dollars in impact fees and we're only going to get one kick at the cat on that on that development so i would encourage one of the three nays to maybe reconsider so we can get this passed and that we don't miss out on this over 90 000 dollars thank you yes i'm sorry just to clarify uh the amount is 49 777 dollars still significant significant another person elson uh thank you mayor uh at first i uh i was interested in having the not being suspended and returning to our committee because it seems like it from the very start this was kind of uh not a problematic but a uh certain amount of inconsistencies in how it was done because because of the lack of uh of following state statutes when it was first approved by the previous board and so that's why it came back tonight as i understand and um uh i understand the uh the the monetary implications uh is again however um it also has implications for uh for some of the uh existing properties that own lots uh in the city that won't be quite they're vacant you know for development and um to make a long story short uh i would make a motion to reconsider that thank you for that motion to reconsider is there a second second okay we have a motion to reconsider on the floor any debate okay will the court please call the roll for reconsideration and then we'll have to do second that yes thank you the aye vote would be to reconsider everybody got that 13 ayes motion passes okay item 7.1 is before us again is there any further discussion all the person elson thank you mayor just one last comment uh hopefully in the future some of this can be done in a more timely manner so that uh you know there are critical points and all of a sudden we need to do something at 11 59 p.m to you know to to get it done correctly thank you thank you for those comments is there any other discussion alter person boring uh i think this is germane would it still be possible if we if we suspend and pass this ordinance tonight is it still possible maybe for the public works department to take a second look at it yes if you um if you uh pass it now tonight having suspended the rules or having rescinded the objection to suspending the rules you can always amend an ordinance to make changes to it so if this if this passes maybe maybe uh alderman nelson would want to make remake his motion to have the public works committee take another look at it that's a possibility thank you thank you for those comments is there any other discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll just as a clarification are we voting to suspend and pass again voting to suspend and pass correct 13 ayes motion passes next is a contemplated closed session all the person wolf thank you mayor i make a motion to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in section 19.85 sub 1 sub e of the wisconsin stats where competitive and bargaining reasons require a closed session related to the land in the town of wilson adjacent to i-43 thank you for that motion and support would the clerk please call the roll for closed session 13 ayes motion passes i'd just like to alert the viewing public that the council will be adjourning in closed session so this will end our broadcast for this evening we'll take a five minute recess and reconvene