 the 20th regular meeting of the 2019-2020 Common Council to order. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The only secret behind a good day is a good attitude. And the clerk also informed me that you should notice the fact that our 20th meeting of the year is being held on January 20th of 2020. Next item is for the clerk to call the roll. There are nine present. And Alderperson Trey is going to be excused. Next is the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join me. I pledge allegiance to the light 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. Next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes from our last council meeting. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to approve. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on those minutes? Seeing none. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next item is Mayor's Appointments. I'll turn it over to city attorney Charles Adams. One appointment, one appointment from the mayor, submitting the following appointment for your consideration. Katie Gladosky to be considered for appointment to the Harbor Center Business Improvement District Board to fill a vacancy with the term expiring on December 31, 2021. Thank you and that will lie over. Next item is public forum, city clerk. There's no one this evening. Okay. Then we'll move on with Mayor's announcements. Just a couple of items here. Christmas tree recycling is going to conclude in the end of January. Christmas trees are picked up on the same day as your garbage pickup. Christmas trees and reeds are picked up at the curb only. There's no alley pickup. Winter shoveling rules. Just want to remind residents with the recent snowfall that you need to shovel out the snow from fire hydrants either on your property or nearby. Residents also need to shovel their sidewalks and open up the crosswalks where necessary. Please consider applying some salt on the sidewalks for the public to walk on. There's a special event coming up this summer called Love Your Neighbor Work Camp and they are accepting applications now through the end of January for those who are interested in being considered for home improvement assistance. This program is being offered by Fountain Park Church in partnership with other area churches. And some of you may have noticed that there's recycling charges on your water bill. So this is something new. A recycling charge of $4 per month and $12 per quarter has been added to your first quarter watering bills. The water utility sends out one-third of the bills each month during the quarter. And this recycling charge will be used to purchase the recycling carts that would be distributed to residents when the automated refuse collection system is rolled out. And they should start to see those being delivered in mid-April. The fee will also cover the cost of the new trucks and the staff and labor that's used on the recycling cart pickup routes. And then the January statements have been sent out already and February and March statements will follow and then everyone will have their notice of that charge for the first quarter of the year. Next we're going to be moving on to a hearing. This is hearing number six of 1920 pursuant to a notice published and the personal notices sent out by the city clerk. There is a hearing scheduled for this evening to amend the city's of Sheboygan's official zoning map to change the use district classification of a property located at 1108 South Wildwood Avenue from Class Urban Industrial to Class Suburban Office. Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Seeing none I'd call on Alderperson Wolfe to make a motion to close the hearing. Thank you Mayor I make a motion to close. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of closing the hearing please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? That hearing is closed. Next we'll move on to the consent agenda which will include items 3.2 through 3.13. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you Mayor I make a motion to receive and file all our oaths, receive all our C's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any of those items in the consent agenda? Seeing none then we'll put the motion on the floor. Will the clerk please call the roll for passage? Nine nays. Motion passes. Moving on to reports of officers. Item 4.1 is our own number 137 of 1920 by the City Planning Commission to whom was referred general ordinance number 38 of 1920 by Alderperson's Decker and our own number 119 of 1920 by the City Clerk amending the City of Sheboygan official zoning map of the Sheboygan zoning ordinance to change the use district classification of property located at 1108 South Wildwood Avenue parcel 59281215710 from class Urban Industrial to class Suburban office classification and recommends receiving the arrow and adopting the ordinance. Alderperson Boring. Thank you Mayor I make a motion to receive the arrow and adopt the ordinance. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll? Nine nays. Motion passes. Item 4.2 is our own number 138 of 1920 by the City Planning Commission to whom was referred general ordinance number 41 of 1920 by Alderperson Donahue and our own number 138 of 1920 by the City Clerk granting Schrader and Holt Architects LLC as its successors and assigns the privilege of encroaching upon described portions of Niagara Avenue on the property located at 832 North A Street in the city of Sheboygan for the purpose of constructing a balcony and recommends receiving the arrow and adopting the ordinance and amending to reflect the encroachment be granted to the owner of the building James Dubois in his heirs and assigns. Alderperson Boring. Thank you Mayor I make a motion to receive the arrow and adopt the substitute ordinance. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. That's on the floor. Is there any discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage. Nine ayes. Motion passes. Items 4.3 through 4.7 will be referred to various committees. Under resolutions items 5.1 through 5.7 will be referred to various committees. Moving on to reports of officers item 6.1 is RC number 223 of 1920 by the Finance and Personnel Committee. Duma's referred resolution number 141 of 1920 by Alderperson Donahue and Boren, authorizing the acceptance of $120,000 in funds from Festival Foods towards the 2020 2020 rather 2020 the 2021 and 2022 City Independence Day celebrations and recommends adopting the resolution. Alderperson Donahue. Thank you. I move that we receive the report of the committee and adopt the resolution with deep gratitude to Festival Foods for its quite extraordinary generosity to the city and its residents. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you Mayor. I also want to thank Festival Foods for the several years that they've been graciously and generously providing the fireworks. This is obviously it's a cost to them. They've been doing it for quite a few years and it's very generous of them to support the city during this great festival. Thank you. Thank you for those comments. Seeing no other discussion, would the clerk please call the roll? Nine eyes. Motion passes. Item 6.2 is RC number 234 of 1920 by the Public Works Committee. Tuma's referred direct referral number of resolution number 149 of 1920 by Alderperson's Wolfe and Sorenson authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with Vinton Construction Company regarding street and utility replacement on Illinois Avenue, Maryland Avenue, South 10th Street and South 11th Street and the vicinity of the Badger State Lofts Development that recommends adopting the resolution. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you Mayor. I make a motion to receive the RC and adopt the resolution. Is there a second? Very good. We have a motion in support. Is there any discussion on that motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll for passage? Nine eyes. Motion passes. Item 6.3 is RC number 235 of 1920 by the Licensing, Hearing and Public Safety Committee. Tuma's referred general ordinance number 39 of 1920 by Alderperson Sorenson and Mitchell amending various sections of article 3 chapter 29 of the Sheboygan Municipal Code as to require a license for installing and repairing of low voltage installations in commercial buildings and provide a fee for certain inspections and reinspections for such installments and recommends adopting the ordinance. Alderperson Sorenson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to receive the report of the committee and adopt the ordinance. Second. Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Alderperson Savaglio. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Can I ask several questions of our city planning person, Ted Palsak? Go ahead. What are your questions? Thank you. First, what's the purpose of requiring the inspection on low voltage lines? There you go. The mic is yours. The reason for the inspection is because in commercial buildings there's a, we've noticed over time that there's a number of places where there's really no regulation in how they're installing them and the workmanship that's being done in installing low voltage wires. Now these are the wires we're talking about for computers and point-to-service systems and those types of things in commercial buildings that the work has not been, how should we say, it's satisfactory to meeting the national electric code. Thank you, Nell. Are phone lines, ethernet lines, and cable lines included in this? Yes. And in 2019, how many cases of damage or injury were reported due to low voltage lines like cable, internet, or phone lines? I can't answer that. Would you tell me it's closer to zero or higher than that? I don't know. Thank you. I'd just like to state here that I believe that requiring regulation for the purpose of health and safety on this is beyond the scope of what we should be doing. It seems that the purpose of having an inspection should be to make sure that our communities and the people on the buildings next stay safe when they buy a property and I'll be voting against this. Thank you for those comments, Alderperson Sorensen. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I guess my question is directed towards Chad as well. Chad, do other cities have similar ordinances like this in place? Yes, most cities do, especially the cities our size. Can you help me better understand the process of if someone is putting in just a simple ethernet line, is there sort of a scope or a line that is drawn based on the project size? If it's just a small one little offshoot thing, do they have to go through the whole inspection process too? No, there's a minimum for work that they can do without having to pull a permit and it follows the same requirements as electrical inspections. Can you explain what that? I believe it's $400, so if the project is under $400 it's not required to pull a permit. Okay, thank you. Sorry, it's $500. Okay, then I sense we're ready to vote on this, although would you please call the roll? Jim, you wanted to make a comment? Before when you're on the consent agenda, it's not going to change how I vote on it, but I thought it might be of interest to the rest of the council, number 313, with re-establishing that bulkhead down on Broughton Drive. Chad gave me a little bit of an explanation before the meeting and possibly Attorney Adams might also, I guess my real question on it is how would this affect our ongoing negotiations with the state regarding the armory? We'll get the vote here first and then we'll go back to that item. Thank you. City Clerk? Vote on 6.3 is 8 ayes, 1 no. That motion passes and we'll take your motion to reconsider 313 and appreciate your question. And I'll ask Chad Pellecek to respond. What we're doing here, well first of all this document is being filed because we are changing the bulkhead line that was originally presented to the Public Works Committee, so there'll be a new line drawn with a legal description coming back at a future council meeting for you to take up the action. It was cleaner just to file this document then to try to amend it. This is to establish the shoreline along the north side of the river from basically the Coast Guard Station to around the Bend at North Point Drive. So this will, in all the documentation and research that we could find, there's never been an ordinance passed that established the shoreline. So this is a step in trying to figure out where the actual shoreline is, whether it's related to the armory or all the properties along Broton Drive just for the city purposes to have the shoreline established make sense. All the person born, we need a motion to reconsider this. The city attorney tells me a motion to reconsider. Is there a second? Thank you very much. All those in favor of reconsideration, signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Motion passes. Okay, did that answer all your items? Yes, unless Attorney Adams had anything you wanted to add. Mr. Adams? Um, no, I don't have anything to add. Okay, okay. Very good. Then we'll continue on with other matters. I know you have, you have, you reconsidered it, so now you have to vote on it on the motion. Oh, okay. So all those in favor of 313, please. You need the motion first. Okay. We have a motion to file on a second. Is there any further discussion on the motion? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. So just to be clear, you filed 313, that's what you've done. We filed it before, actually. We filed it actually before, but I didn't have any problem with the filing. I had a question. I slipped up. I should have asked it earlier. Thank you. Yeah. Okay, then we'll go on with other matters authorized by law. Attorney Adams? Just one, 7.1 is an RO submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31, 2020 and June 30, 2021. That'll be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee. And then next, we have a contemplated closed session. Alderpruse and Wolff? Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in section 19.85. Sub 1, Sub E, Wisconsin stats were the competitive and bargaining reasons require a closed session related to the possible sale of a city-owned property at 229 Southpere Drive and the possible purchase of property known as the tax parcel number 59030454492. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor or rather please call the roll on this one. Motion passes. Council will then adjourn and this will end our TV broadcast for this evening. Council plans to adjourn in closed session. Thank you very much.