 Like to call the 6th meeting of the 2015 2016 common counsel to order with the clerk Please read the quote for the day. Thank you mayor when you look at a field of dandelions You can either see a hundred weeds or a hundred wishes Thank you very much Would you please call the roll? There are 15 present Okay, we'll move on. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America Into the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Move on to the approval of the minutes from our last meeting Alderman Hammond Thank You mr. Mayor and move to approve second. Thank for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on those minutes? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed motion passes Next we'll move on to resignation city attorney. There are three I'll read them first to Mayor van der Steen and members of the Harbor Center bid board hereby resign my position as board member effective May 2025 as I'm no longer able to attend meetings due to a change in employment Relocating me outside of the district. I'm grateful for having had the opportunity to serve on the board of this fine Organization for my best wishes for its continued success And I look forward to seeing the continued progress of the district sincerely Tom Brickley Second one Dear Mayor van der Steen This is to inform you that I am resigning from the mayor's international committee effective as of today's date. It's dated May 29 Due to family health issues, I am unable to attend meetings or commit anytime for committee events sincerely Fran Berg And then this is to inform that I have resigned from the library board effective June 1 2015 sincerely Martha Warchie Thank you Alderman Hammond. Thank you. Mr. Mayor move to accept and file second Thank you for that motion in support all those and let's see we all those in favor, please signify by saying aye Opposed motion passes Next we'll move on to mayor's appointments City attorney. Yes, honorable members of the common council I hereby submit the following appointment for your consideration Cindy dross to be considered for appointment to the joint review board as the LTC representative with the term expiring on April 30 2016 signed by the mayor Alderman Hammond. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. I move to confirm second. Thank you for that motion and support The clerk, please call the roll for confirmation 15 eyes motion passes Next item on the agenda is Election of an alder person for vacancy in district number one Alderman Hammond. Thank you, mr. Mayor I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot And if more than two candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped on the list and the balloting to Continue until one candidate receives a majority Second thank you for that motion and support Alderman Hammond. Thank you, mr. Mayor I'd move to nominate Todd Wolf and Tim Lorenz second Thank you for that motion and support Alderman Hammond Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations Alderman Hammond? Thank you, mr. Mayor. I move that nominations be closed second Thank you very much. I Guess at this point we'd like to take a minute and ask each of the candidates to come up and give us a brief Reason why they want to run and their their resume if they'd like so bring this alphabetically Tim Lorenz Would you please come up to the podium first? Right up here Well, good evening. My name is Tim Lorenz Citizen of the city of Sheboygan have been now for Over ten years off and on I was out of pass an interesting government fact I served on this Auguste body from 1980 to 1982 I Was a lot younger at the time and so it's and and Probably not quite as mature as I am right now. I Don't know if you had a copy of what I got down here. It's pretty simple Was on the streets committee law and licensing committee currently I'm an independent insurance agent Primarily deal with health insurance Life insurance and so forth and I opened up an office Right across from Fulton Park called the ABCs and Ds of Medicare Many of you may have read my articles that I place in the beacon. I have a Currently I'm a landlord as well as I have a degree in urban planning and regional planning so other than the fact that you know I've always had this keen interest in government I'm gonna leave it at that any questions. Do we okay entertain questions anybody want to Probably not okay. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you very much Tim Next we'll call up Todd Wolfe Thank You mayor and council Although it's unfortunate that Eldon has recently become ill as he has been a good asset to the council in all the position We wish him and his family well on his road to recovery I'd like to thank thank you for this opportunity and considering me as a candidate for the district one of Alder Alder person. I look forward to assisting you in supporting Sheboygan and representing our constituents As you know, I have served in the past as on transit City transit and city planning commissions and have returned back to the city planning With a two-year hiatus I also would like to say that with the many years of business and Manufacturing experience and will bring a continued perspective To the two in assisting the difficult decisions that continue to be made in the future Please consider me for district one Alder person appointment. Thanks again for your consideration Thank you very much Todd I Then ask the city attorney to hand out the ballots after you filled out your ballots just hold it up and Around to collect them While they're counting the ballots I'd just like to ask all of you to make sure you put your microphones on your shirt or whatever They've been hearing a lot of rustling papers and things like that that goes through to the the public If you're leaving it sit on your desk like they feel that that would really help out so if we could accommodate them That'd be great. Thank you very much We have a new alderman Todd Wolf Congratulations Tim thank you Tim, thank you very much for your interest in the position Todd if there's no objections I'd like to have Todd sworn in right now and then he can take his seat on the council floor Todd would you please come forward? Please state my name The Constitution of the United States And will Then we'll have some committee appointments ready for the next meeting for your approval To fit Todd into the committee the committee structure Next we'll move on to the program our downtown and Harbor Center rebranding Dave Hoffman Couldn't make it this evening so Dave gas the president of the board is here to pitch hit forum Dave Please come forward and Dave Davis Wood is joining him now that you're my older person We can talk about some potholes in front of my Thank you everybody for having us what we're going we were asked to kind of give to you an abbreviated version of a Presentation we gave at a networking event. We hope we held on May 18th and maybe before I get into that This some background if you'll remember a couple of years ago The bid had some challenges as to whether that was even going to continue to exist And there was actually moves to disband the Harbor Center business improvement district Sorry about the acronym we which we called the bid And that passed and we stayed together and as a board we Basically said we really got to figure out. Where are we going with this downtown association with the Harbor Center Association and After with that discussion we went into a master plan process Spent a fair amount of money to do that But it was in my opinion well worth it because if it did nothing else it kind of got us on the same page It was a consensus builder and out of that master plan There were three key items that came out of that one to create an arts food culture district in the downtown area to work on urban development Primarily housing and also to work on better connections between the areas of the downtown After we did that we kind of restructured our board We refocused our money a lot of our money was spent on on programs and running events Which in all candor were not really Worth the dollar and so we refocused our money on beautification enhancement and we we reformed some committees and At one of those committee meetings we started talking about the whole downtown bid area and really everybody said you know that name doesn't mean anything to anybody in fact It's even worse sometimes. It means a negative to people. It doesn't sound real jazzy Doesn't communicate anything and so we thought we needed to really talk about Really, what are we trying to communicate here? I mean do we want to create something like a third ward or whatever? And so we were connected with a group called the lanius group who did some work for us and came up with Some new branding that we'll talk about tonight and was part of our presentation so what we're gonna do is we had a presentation we did for a networking event Which is the first time we've done anything like that in the bid that I remember and the purpose of was to get the members of the downtown bid together to say you know what First of all if we expect people from the outside to be positive about shabuagan We better be positive and so when people are coming into our businesses and our places of hospitality We better be cheery and positive and excited about shabuagan because otherwise You can't expect that they're just gonna be spontaneously excited Although a lot of them are so that was really the purpose and we had a good a good showing so what we're gonna do is Run through our our presentation We'll abbreviate it because we've spent a little bit more time on it and Jane As you some of you may know Jane Davis would owns relish which is local in a street and deals in Kitchen and food and miscellaneous other neat items Okay And so Jane is on our board and has been big has been active on our board in our committee So so I think I'm gonna let Jane start with the first several slides. Let me move over there So the first thing we did was welcome the newest business On downtown urban artique if you haven't been an urban artique. It is such a good fit to our area They take all of re others 30 Wisconsin artists who make Artwork and home decor out of repurposed goods and they also offer classes and sell paint and they've got a real exciting Feel about their store real fresh and where it's really excited to have yet another stock shopping destination Next please The one thing in moving forward is everything is attitude Attitude attitude attitude you have to be positive about your your store first of all you need to be positive about your neighbors You need to be positive about Everything that's going on, you know, there's always a little setback But you know what the changes that I've seen downtown the 20 months of being in business have been nothing But positively affecting my business. I was just telling Chad the barricades went down on Thursday business tripled The minute they went down people said and I can see you now as I'm coming from the South So it's been great. So we are all about positive and you know What's happened in the past happened in the past and the whole idea is to move forward now and get people Really involved and engaged in who is downtown who is in the bid who's in South Pier and get to know each other and Also move traffic within the area so that we're keeping people in one place Next please so It means it's so the biggest thing is that we need to work together Everybody in the in in all of the shopping districts one of the things we did They put together was a nice list of who is here So we all have our laminated lists by our cash reps and somebody comes up to us and they go. Where's a good restaurant? I'm needing a lawyer service because I'm moving to town or I need an insurance agent We pull out the list. Here you go Please spend your dollars here So we need to when I was in the department store world and there's an there's an old Selling thing that we do in department stores and this is a well-trained thing that we do You a customer usually starts in cosmetics if they can't get them to spend money It is a path that they automatically send them to shoes Hey There's a beautiful pair of shoes if shoes can't sell on something they send them to men's if men's can't sell on something They send them to the home store until somebody in that group is able to gently turn that person upside down and shake the Money out of their pockets. So that's what we're trying to accomplish in our shopping district and getting people together and getting to know each other and So that if Scroggins is running in a state sale on Saturdays I when people are in my store. Hey, did you know it was a great sale going down the street? And then when he says did you know that there's a great Bloody Mary's available over here? So we're trying to keep all of the shopping money in one of the last shopping districts in the entire city and move forward So what that does it by supporting each other People stay longer in your stores and they stay longer in your district and when they stay longer in the district They remember positive experiences. They spend their money They tell their friends we get repeat business. It's all very very good with my neighbors making money I'm making money and it goes down the line and down the line and down the line We become the most popular shopping district like the old days You move forward The one of the things that we've done in our group and our Facebook page the ship organ squared Facebook page we've established a closed discussion group just for the the owners and Employees of the district so it's closed discussions so they can ask any questions that they want and Dave moderates it and administers the page and so You know, we'd let them know about events. We let them know about if people are having sales right now it was posted that a Good article was posted about how Retailers need to have a chip reader in place by federal law For their charge cards machines and that has to be done by October 1st Well, that started a nice discussion and somebody says well I can get that for everybody if anybody needs any help with that I can help you get that installed in your stores So we pass the information around like that. We want to use this site to to offer Tips on customer service and what customer service is from around all of it how customer service is approached Whether it be the bus drivers Smiling and because they're so happy to be at their jobs and and talking about the downtown to store owners to service people to the insurance agents to the chiropractors and just getting people You know discussing what's going on and keeping a good positive discussion going. It's not a place to go and complain So if we keep it extremely professional so that's been very positive and there's 77 members and growing every day and It's been a very exciting time for us down there And it's I'm seeing positive changes as people are sending people my way I'm sending them their way and it's positively impacted my business Jane mentioned the Laminate it So this is maybe I'll let This is a little laminate card we gave to every merchant The bid put this together so that they would have this handy-dandy reference and then we also put together this The put on their windows so that basically there's some branding that's going to start taking place And that's a good kind of segue into the next so what do we we Tast the lanias is to come up with a more exciting design a more modern design a more captivating design and We thought they get it did a great job In fact, they kind of got it right the first time It's I think it's unusual when you deal with branding and creative people You can spend a lot of time going back and forth and this was their first Presentation to us and what they said was you know we had if you remember we had the riverfront South pier and downtown and we were struggling and it and none of those really had a separate identity We call it the bid And they came forward kind of a fresh face fresh look and they said, you know what you really have two areas You have one big area, but you kind of have a harbor center and a downtown And the way to do it is we can tie them together with like a third Shabuigan banner and that's how they came up with so you have the shabuigan banner Which is the blue and then we have the downtown which is for the downtown area and the harbor center And what we are going to do In fact, maybe starting this week is we've printed up 72 of these banners and I don't remember the quantity difference separation But like maybe 40 of them or 30 of them are going to go downtown on a street Maybe another 20 or so are going to 30 are going to go in riverfront the riverfront area and South Peria and then Tied to that. We also talked about you know, this color Makes you feel much better and so we decided to also look at planters and we came up with the Circular planters and I think we've got 30 of those planters out and They're up it and with the rain and the Sun They're going to start growing and hopefully overflow and really be something else and maybe next year We'll even be able to do more. So there's going to be some real visual change there The next couple slides I think just show where the locations are and I'll just Okay You've I'm sure all of you have seen the bus One thing I should say that has come out of our work here is We have a great partnership going that we didn't really have before I mean, it's not that this that the bid in the city didn't talk before but I think we really are working together and We are getting some organizations that we never had any conversations before to no one's fault John Michael Kohler Art Center and the Wild Center and you know, they John Michael Kohler Especially has become a great participant. We have a member from the John Michael Kohler on our board And they've been helpful and so with the city We've worked on this bus and city development has been really helpful and instrumental in working with on the bus and the design I thought they came up with a really great design obviously mirrors the branding that we put up and that's running around in the new Sheboygan squared area, I didn't mention that the Branding that sort of the overall brand is going to be Sheboygan squared. I don't know what your first thought is when you hear that I know when I first heard I thought ooh Sheboygan squared I don't know but after a while it really for me it grew on me And I think everybody we've come in contact with really likes it And you'll start to see more and more of that as we you know, we get the banners up and talk about it more and more So next slide, Sue Obviously, you know about the Boston Star You know, we were pretty helpful in working with the city on that and we're very happy with what's happening there We think it's going to be a great Jumping point for development The grass is growing. I drove by there on the way over here I bet it was greener and taller than it was this morning And so we're looking forward to that Okay, and you've you've seen that so we can go past that you've seen all of that The concert series you've heard about again this is part of the partnership that we've really I think been able to kind of develop with the with John Michael Cole Art Center in the city is For 12 weeks, there's going to be a concert and it'll be downtown Obviously on the former Boston store property. We have to think of a different name than the former Boston store property that's a task But we it's going to you'll see that that that silver space capsule looking I think which is a recording studio And so they'll be there and I think it's going to be great We we're working with our businesses to see if they are willing to stay open We're going to have a raffle that has some promotions attached to it They go people go into the businesses after they go to the concert. They're going to have food trucks out front So again, it's the first step Rome wasn't conquered in a day and and you know, we're not going to get this all, you know To a third warden one day, but we're going to get it done Okay, moving forward. This is the whole concert here. I think you've all seen this already Continuing next one And love it at next Obviously, you know about the housing I'll skip over that we talked about that with our groups that they were a little aware of it and And I'm optimistic that there'll be stuff coming in the very short term So should we get squared is really kind of the theme that we're using to bring this all together and You've seen the the map got the guys. We were able to get these things redesigned really at the last moment With the banners on there And again the city with the bus they were able to get these little routes for the square Which is what the bus is known as and I think some of the banners you'll see we'll also have different names on them Like it'll want some will say food near food the restaurant. Some will say Culture near like John Michael Cole Art Center. So We talked about networking. We were starting to work on getting the businesses to work together even more So in fact one of our next things we're going to put together is internal Customer perspective not customer appreciation customer perspective We're going to really try to get the businesses to focus on you know How do they orient their store to maximize customer enjoyment and again help us grow and grow and grow so That I think is pretty much the essence of our dog and pruning show here tonight. Anybody have any questions? Well, Dave, I'd like to thank you and Jane for the presentation. It's really quite a great job You're doing and in refocusing the Sheboygan squared group and the merchants down there. So thanks for all your work in that area Okay, next move on to public forum Jason Peters, I don't see Jason here That would be it Okay, next is mayor's announcement. I just like to know let everybody know that this Wednesday is the first Sheboygan pops concert that'll take place at Fountain Park from roughly six o'clock to 8 30 So hopefully we'll get some good weather for that and get that season started Next we'll move on to consent agenda that'll include items 2.2 through 2.26 Alderman Hammond Thank You mr. Mayor move to accept and file all reports of officers accept and adopt all reports of committees and put all Resolutions and ordinances upon their passage second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the consent agenda? See none will the clerk, please call the roll for passage 15 eyes Motion passes next move on to reports of officers item 3.1 is an RO by the city clerk submitting an application for a change of Premise for the Duke of Devon Alderman Vanderwheel Thank You mr. Mayor I move to suspend the rules Is there any objection to is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed when I move the RO be accepted and placed on file second Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll for passage 15 eyes motion passes Items 3.2 through 3.7 will be referred to various committees under resolutions Item 4.1 is a resolution by Alderman Hammond accepting thirty two thousand dollars in grant monies from the Department of Administration, Wisconsin coastal management program for the wave attenuation study at the harbour center marina Alderman Hammond. Thank You mr. Mayor move to suspend the rules second Thank You for that motion. Is there any objection to suspension? Not please proceed. Thank you. I moved to put the resolution upon his passage second The motion is before us. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll 15 eyes motion passes Item 4.2 will lie over to our next meeting Items 4.3 through 4.8 will be referred to various committees Item 4.9 is a resolution by Alderman Hammond authorizing retaining outside legal counsel to represent the city in the matter of NRFC Memorial Holdings LLC versus the city of Sheboygan and authorizing payment for said services Alderman Hammond Thank You mr. Mayor again. I'd move to suspend the rules second. Thank for that motion in support. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. I move to put the resolution upon its passage second Thank You for that motion. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll 15 eyes motion passes under reports of committees Item 5.1 is an RC by finance to whom was referred Resolution number 23 of 1415 by Alderman Hammond authorizing the transfer of Appropriations in the 2015 budget to establish revenue and appropriation for contribution received from NEMAC for firefighting protective clothing Alderman Hammond, thank you, mr. Mayor I moved to accept and adopt and put the resolution upon its passage second Thank you for that motion support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Alderman Hammond, thank you, mr. Mayor I'd just like to take the opportunity to thank NEMAC for their contribution to the fire department. Thank you very much Is there any other discussion? Not with a clerk, please call the roll for passage 15 eyes motion passes Item 5.2 is an RC by finance to whom was referred resolution number 24 of 1415 by Alderman Hammond providing for the sale of approximately for the sale of approximately four thousand three hundred ten four million three hundred and ten thousand in general obligation promissory notes in approximately Two million three hundred seventy five thousand in taxable general obligation refunding bonds Alderman Hammond Thank you, mr. Mayor and move to accept and adopt and put the resolution upon its passage second Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Alderman boring Thank You mayor Alderman Hammond, could you go into a little bit of the detail on this as far as what savings we're going to realize on? doing this bonding and Are these bonds also callable in the future if need be? Thank you. Thank you. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, mr. Mayor The three million of the four point three million dollars two millions for capital improvements a million dollars for the motor vehicle fund $1.3 million is debt refinancing of our debt offering to 2007 alpha that debt offering had about a four point eight seven five interest rate the two point three seven five our 2006 bonds that we had issued Roughly between five point six five point eight percent interest bond council believes we can get somewhere around two percent interest rate If that comes through it should be roughly after fees and expenses from bond council legal counsel about $26,000 of savings the 20 the three million dollars of 2024 bonds or the three million dollars. That's a ten-year bond Comes doable pay or comes payable in roughly 2024 Thank you. Thank you for that information Alderman born. Thanks, mayor. Just a just a follow-up. I forgot to ask Alderman Hammond is any of that money? To go to our obligation to the county for a combined dispatch or is that going to be a future bonding? Thank you very much Alderman Hammond No, none of that is for the combined dispatch That'll be part of the discussion with the budget and where to take those funds out in late 2016 or 2017 when we're Responsible for paying that thanks Thank you for your information Alderman Jose I'd like to make a motion to separate the Separate the resolution into two separate that we're not voting for voting. I were not voting for for both Okay, is there any objection to the separation Alderman Hammond I Guess the only objection I would have is to keep in mind that you know if we separate the two vote for one vote for the other They're all part of a package And the fees legal expenses all those types of things that go along with it Would be higher if we separate these out and did one now and one at a different time If it's even possible to do and to call those bonds that are coming due so just want to make sure everybody understands There's a infrastructure a structure challenge with separating this question And voting on them separately if one goes down could be more expensive to do the others Okay, then we'll be voting on the general obligation promissory notes of Approximately four million three hundred and ten thousand first where the clerk Was there a second there wasn't a second Okay, is there a second to division seeing none and everything will stay together We're with a clue is there any other discussion on five point two Seeing none with a clerk, please call the roll then 14 eyes one no motion passes Item five point three will be referred to the Marina Park and Forestry Commission Under ordinances both items six point one and six point two will be referred And we'll go on to other matters city attorney Other matters seven point one Is an arrow from the city clerk Submitting a summons and complaint in the matter of NRFC Memorial Holdings LLC versus the city of Sheboygan referred to the finance committee 7.2 is a resolution Authorizing the sale of city-owned property Formerly known as 1036 Erie Avenue. They'll be referred to the city Planning Commission 7.3 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30 2016 and June 30 2017 I'll be referred to the law and licensing committee I'd just like to go back a little bit on the agenda item 4.3 was listed as a referral to the committee the whole and we're going to change that to strategic fiscal planning So just make a note of that on your agenda And then next I'd like to ask Alderman Hammond for a motion on a closed session Thank you again, mr. Mayor move to convene in closed session on the exemption provided in section 1985 1e of the Wisconsin statutes for the purpose of deliberating or negotiating regarding specified public business We're competitive in bargaining reasons require a closed session to wit potential remedies for non-performance of contractual provisions Related to the development of the former Boston site second Thank you for that motion in support with the clerk, please call the roll for closed session 15 eyes That motion passes will take a five-minute recess and reconvene