 Well, it's six o'clock and I'd like to call to order our legislative breakfast meeting Your nine o'clock, excuse me Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Point of Allegiance to the play of the United States of America Welcome everyone Just want to go through a few things that are different this time Not only are we doing this virtually we tried that once in June and that one pretty well But our city attorney has given the city some rules that when we have these virtual these meetings We have to also broadcast them on WSCS So our meeting is going to be broadcast to the public And then we'll still have people that are online Let's just go through the attendees We have a barb, I think that's barb felling one of our older person Charles Adams our city attorney Kurt mitinsky from the league of municipalities Jennifer Garner from senator Baldwin's office senator lemahue Eric Montanello our fire department chief and then daniella trainer Perpetillo, that's our finance director and then representative terry katsuma And I see alan aches came on and i'm waiting for one more name There to fill in We have our city clerk online meredith de brune eric bushman director of it And wsc s organizers scott miloff who's making our web broadcast possible And christa magalski just joined us david biebel So that's who we have online right now as we start the meeting So I want to welcome our legislators. There's been a lot of things happening in madison. It's been great to see our legislators increasing their Influence and the roles that they have and state legislature and with that i'll turn it over to senator devin lemahue for an update of happenings in madison Well, good morning everybody it's great to be here Glad that these meetings are kicking off again So the last Five six weeks have been fairly busy for me as you might imagine being The majority leader elect now being elected as the next majority leader So I spent the last four or five weeks Hiring new staff. I have most of my staff complete now, which i'm excited about meeting with my colleagues getting many meetings or committees Committees set up for the next legislative session introducing the committees that The senate is going to have so that was done a week a week and a half ago So we're getting excited getting into the next session just trying to figure out how to Operate in this in this covid world right now the capital is still The governor still has a capital lockdown so You know just the challenge of having You know public hearings committee hearings and since trying to find out what the new normal is figure that out We have plans now for inauguration day Which is January 4th when new members and the returning members Take their oath of office And get sworn in again. So we have plans to do that in a safe manner following cdc guidelines and things like that and still giving families a chance to You know newly elected senators a chance to celebrate that day with their families and And get started fresh for a new new session. So We've been dealing i've been working with the speaker and the uh and the governor on If you've been following the news the cares act funding for covid Um all needed to be spent or needs to be spent by december 30th. So we've been working with with the assembly and the governor's office on You know what we can do to help out if the federal government doesn't step up and pass another Another package going forward um and and other type of legislative changes that may need to be done to Continue to have the state address um the covid pandemic nimbly and effectively um as we're still, you know, obviously struggling with Cases which fortunately are going down a little bit now, but uh But they're still still new cases around and the hospitals are still struggling and Is you guys probably know local governments are still struggling. So we're working with the governor and the assembly to try to find solutions who are we can all agree on and uh You know outside of that I'm happy to be here this morning and look forward to getting feedback for you guys Thank you very much senator Then next we'll move on to representative katsuma Good morning everyone and thank you mr. Mayor My focus has been on the election the last couple of months and i was uh very fortunate To receive 59 percent in the most recent election Um, I don't know if a representative vorpah go is on this call or not, but he was elected caucus chair. So he Is now part of the assembly leadership Speaker voss will be appointing releasing the names of the joint finance committee members this week I am receiving an appointment to the joint finance committee and I look forward to that Serving and that responsibility as well. We are very proud of of senator lemme you and His responsibilities as majority leader. So Happy to report that shabuigan city at shabuigan county is well represented in madison This election cycle there was a lot of money that was being spent but the Assembly republicans Lost two members and the margins now will be 61 to 38 And in the state senate they Gained picked up two members So that margin right now is 21 to 12 uh, so Devin already spoke about inauguration. We look forward to that the first monday in july That concludes my report mr. Mayor Thank you very much representative katsuma Next we'll move on to the federal level. Jennifer garner from senator baldwin's office Good morning. Um, thank you so much for letting me join you today and before I get started with my report Let me congratulate senator lemme you on his election as the senate majority leader A big honor and I think everybody in northeast wisconsin will benefit from having his leadership off In that role Uh senator baldwin is been in dc very busy. Uh, as you may have read in the newspaper trying to bring a COVID relief package to fruition before the end of this year Um, there's been another uh, a number of other things that they've had to work on was the continuing Where one was a continuing resolution to continue funding the government um And there's some big pieces of legislation that are moving through right now One of them is the national defense authorization act and there was several things in there that were important to uh To wisconsin Specifically for northeast wisconsin. There is 11.6 million dollars for a new national guard readiness center in akelson And uh, there's funding for a new guided missile frigate that will be built by dincantieri marinet marine And uh, there's also funding for two virginia class submarines, which won't be built in wisconsin But we have over 40 companies in wisconsin who provide parts for those submarines The other thing that's spending this week that will be of interest to all of you Once it's passed is water the water resource defenses Act I can't remember. I use the acronym so often. I can't remember what the d stands for Um, so we'll keep you posted on that finally, um She's very hopeful that this bipartisan package of covid relief the 908 billion dollar package Uh, we'll gain some traction and and get passed this week one of the issues that's a paramount paramount importance to her is um That the package includes funding for state and local government. I think we've all seen throughout this covid crisis just how critical that state and local government infrastructure is and uh, we know that in the upcoming years that we're going to need to To help continue to support those those critical functions like law enforcement and fire and public health so she is supportive of that 900 million dollar bipartisan package a couple other pieces of legislation Um restaurants act Which would create a restaurant revitalization fund as a community that relies a great deal on hospitality We know that that particular sector is suffering and we want to make sure that we do whatever we can to kind of bring them back So we don't lose that critical hospitality infrastructure. We have in our communities A couple of other things the paycheck protection act She's introduced legislation to extend that through march 2021 And allow for a second round loans for small businesses and in this round They would also extend ppp to all nonprofit organizations And that's something that we heard a lot about from uh communities and they think we don't know Uh, just how much nonprofits contribute to our communities and we want to make sure that we support them Uh To the extent that we can There's another bill that of interest and that's the partners act which would establish a grant program to support creation of an expansion of industry and sector partnerships to help small and medium-sized businesses Develop on the job learning programs and provide mentoring and support services for workers This is something that we've heard quite a bit about from uh, I know in northeast wisconsin And that the difficulty that smaller and medium-sized businesses have and accessing Training and other resources in order to keep their workforce current to recruit recruit and retrain And you know that the larger companies primarily do their own training So we need to make sure that we have those resources for our small businesses as well So that is just a brief snapshot. I'm happy to answer any questions Or if there's any other piece of legislation that you are interested in You can let me know and i'll be happy to follow up With you, uh, mr. Mayor via email and you can share that information with the other members on this call Thank you No, thank you very much jennifer Um, appreciate your report next. We'll move on to ellenott from congressman Glenn growthman's office ellen Good morning First thing i'll mention is uh this month at the end of november congressman growthman introduced the air america act This is a An idea that came directly from the district. I was out in an event and heard Um, neil hansen from oshkosh, uh, who wrote a book about his experiences flying for air america in the vietnam war Um, and he requested to meet with clennett to discuss some issues and he met with congressman growthman and after that that meeting Uh congressman growthman started working on a on a bipartisan bill called the air america act which will Ensure that the brave americans who served in that cold war operation will receive federal retirement benefits that they've earned From 1950 to 1976 There were about 500 american citizens worked for air america because the Missions were covert. Um, they were not able to submit paperwork to prove that they that they were ever employees of the federal government so You know and despite having risked their lives and and you know fighting uh fighting for america and fighting communists in the same way The members of the air force did So because of this, uh, caroline mohroney, uh, the democrat chairman of the Um, uh oversight committee has is a co-sponsor of this bill We have uh co-sponsors of both parties in the u.s. Senate and there's a good chance of this going to uh To make it both way through to be to become law So it's kind of a neat example of a local constituent who brought a concern to his congressman and um looks like it's headed towards becoming law um as Jennifer mentioned the they're coming back into session this week to take up Kind of the twin issues of another Relief package for coronavirus And funding the government through september You know, there are a lot of a lot of issues floating around there and a lot of high-level negotiations And we we're not being given a lot of detail on what's being worked out I know the congressman is concerned about some of the you know sending out checks idea again It's important to note that between the congress and the federal reserve. We've spent seven trillion dollars this year alone on the coronavirus You know the ppp and all the programs associated with that Um, I think in real dollars that's close to what we spend world war two And we've done that and and you know in in nine or ten months So um, there are some concerns there, but there are some things that need to be addressed including You know the the Time off provisions that were part of her cares the sort of the cares fmla expires on december 31st There's some funding or some of the idle loans Come up on the 21st of this month. So and of course there's been the discussion of liability protection for uh businesses schools governments That also could be addressed so we'll have to wait to see How that turns out so those are kind of the the big issues that That the congressman is working on right now Thank you very much for that report ellen appreciate it Next we'll move on to appointments and biannual budget and I think we've covered the appointments pretty well I I really want to commend our legislative Representatives for climbing through the ranks to these leadership positions Takes a lot of work to be recognized in in this way by your fellow legislators and We look forward to working with you again in these new positions But I would like to turn it over to senator lemahue to talk a little bit about the biannual budget and any Um, anything he can tell us about what he sees in the future there It's 2017 since he's Serving on the finance. I'm assuming he's serving on the finance committee this this coming session even though that's not out there yet um, but So where uh, we so we ended the first year of our budget with a surplus Of the 20 the 19 2019 to 20 21 budget Last summer we ended with a surplus despite the pandemic. Uh, so we made another Depositiveness of the rainy day fund, which is great that rainy day fund is now at about 760 million dollars Um, and we're looking to actually finish off this year potentially with a with a surplus again um I think part of that is because we were using prudent budgeting over this time We've had our sales tax revenue has has still been really strong especially through internet Internet sales that that have gone on in the state of wisconsin capturing that that internet sales tax And uh corporate sales tax has actually been still pretty strong going forward the the place where we're sort of emerging is is gas tax revenue and an income tax revenue that being said it's going to be still a A challenge going forward in this next budgeting process um, so we're going to uh I think I I appointed a pretty strong finance committee With a lot of experience two cpa's on there Someone else who's gone through the finance process left You know senator struggle on there who has a you know a year going through a budget So I think in the senate we have a strong finance committee Which is going to take out take a tough look at all areas of the budget to make sure we're We can meet the challenges That lie ahead, but it's it's You know at this point The governor will give his his present his budget in february We're not sure exactly by statute. It has to be done He has to do it by the end of january, but that hasn't been done in about 60 years, I believe We always give the governor an extension to to present his budgets. They'll probably be done mid february Then the legislative fiscal bureau takes that budget Breaks it down it takes them about two before weeks to do that and then the finance committee With terry and and others on the senate and assembly side. We'll start going through section by section and You know, we'll have Listening sessions. We don't know what that's going to look like yet. Typically we'll go around the state four or five locations and have listening sessions, but That may have to be done Some form of virtual fashion this year depending on where the pandemic sat when we get to march in april Probably april in that time But then hopefully by the end of the year or by the end of the fiscal year We'll have a present to budget to the the governor and hopefully like Two years ago the governor signs our budget. So that's that's the plan Sounds good. Thanks very much for that information. Representative kosma. Did you want to add anything? Yes, I will. Thank you, mr. Mayor So we've had As devin stated, there's four new members in the senate on the joint finance On the assembly on the republican side four out of six are new In on the assembly side Co-chair nigran has resigned to take a different position So the co-chair that has been appointed by speaker boss is representative mark born from beaver dam And so we're going to have two new members In the assembly republican side of the joint finance. So There's a big big changes really in the in the composition and in the makeup of joint finance so it'll it'll take some time then to Have the personalities work out and some of that the governor came out with agency budget requests This booklet about this thick A couple of highlights from there the largest increase that was requested was from the department of education About 1.4 billion dollars double digit increases and that was disappointing after the summer when the governor urged his agencies to Be flat with their with their increases and the other Major item that was in this budget request was dhs and in there The agency is proposing a Medicaid expansion to account for a large growth of revenues Certainly, there's resistance in the republican caucus to expand Medicaid But we look forward to the work on the budget as as devin stated revenues appear to be a little bit better than what we thought it's And as you all know in sheboyin county the unemployment rate According to w Her scedc was 3.7 percent in september. I haven't seen more recent numbers But if you're if you're outside of the tourism or the hospitality industry You're doing pretty good actually in despite In this in this economy that we have so We look forward to that work on the budget Thank you very much for those thoughts terry Next I like to go on and talk about levy limits levy limits and and possible Loosening of some of those have been on the agenda in the past It's a priority not only for the city of sheboyin but also the league of municipalities And I'd like to turn it over to administrator Todd wolf to talk a little bit about our local situation and some of the things we're looking for Todd Good morning everybody As a as a new member to this to the city and to this group. I just wanted to You know just say reach out and say good morning and for those of you that know me I'm gonna I'd like to change our topic a little bit Right now everybody talks a lot about about covid and rightly so, you know, it's it's affected us Not just at you know in the city level county level state level or you know Or throughout or the united states or globally But I'd like to point out the fact that the levy limits has been discussed And it's been on on a topic for for many many years and you know since 2011, you know, that's when the state imposed this It is the strictest That Limit in the in the nation So what I'd like to kind of touch on real quickly is You know, we talk about covid we talk about how it affects us but we from a levy limit and a levy to equalized balance This year was my first my first Approach to developing an actual budget and I I realized very quickly that These limits really need to be adjusted So when I read when I read about the the league talking about since 2011 I sit there and go This is kind of an old old standard and we really need as a state need to make some course corrections Any decision is a good decision at the time that it's made But if we're going to continue to have restrictions That are nine plus years old and not make adjustments I I don't think that that's good stewardship So when I look at things and I look at the responsible Responsibility that we have for good stewardship and maintaining and providing the services to our communities I think it's very important that we think about that tremendously, especially during tough times like covid so The cares act that that that helped out a lot it helped us out from transit It helped us out as a city to to maintain and take care of some of the additional costs that covid had put on the communities But if you reach out and you talk to people that are in the league of municipalities, not everybody Was able to use those fundings Because because of the way that it was structured Many municipalities are struggling when I when I sit on these meetings with the league And I'm sure that Curtis can can elaborate on that Sheboygan has been very lucky that we've had the net new construction for the last couple of years are From 2019 into carried into 2020 we had a 13 percent net new construction But the majority of the communities within the state of wisconsin have not had that luxury and with covid we're really going to see Somewhat of a slowdown. I don't want to say a stop But definitely a slowdown Part of the problem that we have as a community is that the fact that that 13 percent was tid related So tids are great and I and I'm very happy that we have them, but we also have to understand that a tid is basically paying forward for development in the in the future, but Basically those costs that we continue to Have You know year over year whether it's increases in construction increases in services increases in Wages and benefits those are things that most communities don't have the ability to have the increase that's needed to sustain it So again going back to the meetings that I've been in More and more communities are struggling more and more So what's going to happen is if if if we don't start addressing our levy limits We are going to continue to see reductions in In service which is what we're responsible for and I personally think that during a covid situation like we're in Which is going to carry into 2022 respectfully We can't continue to lose services when our when our constituents need it the most so In closing I really would like to see our representatives really look into it because many small and rural communities are Experiencing zero to or Little net new construction and shabuigan county has been very very fortunate But again, we we struggle we're going to be struggling in 2022 I'm already anticipating that we're going to either be flat or we will have to actually cut services Thank you Thank you Todd legislators any response or suggestions or questions Well, I was kind of surprised when I when I saw my tax bill a couple of days ago my tax bill went up 6.1 percent and That was a combination of a reduction in the first dollar credit a reduction in the lottery and gaming credit and a result of a school referendum in the school district of which I reside but 6 percent increase in in my net taxes is Pretty substantial and I I got to believe that that increase is more than what a lot of Wage increases are that that taxpayers are receiving. So I'm trying to balance that with with Your comments on relief of tax levies. So That's what I'm looking at Terry one one thing I would like to point out in about and putting our budget together for 2021 and balancing between the equalized and levy limits that we have technically the city of shabuigan should have had an increase of around 26 cents per thousand because of our our levy But because of the fact that again because of covet we kept it at the 15 cents again because We've had net new construction, but with the equalized balance to levy We were limited to what we could really do and to go to this to constituents and say we want 26 cents that would have been catastrophic in my opinion to ask for that but that means that we left levy on the table Which is again growth For the city. So again, it's We're trying to balance what we can and we've had some tremendous growth But again again our costs continue to go up and we're we're I I'm speaking for shabuigan and I'm speaking for the group that on the legal municipalities and again I ask that Curtis can always jump in and and and defend the statement that I'm going to make but For a for a levy limit that dates back to 2011. I'm sure that the first couple of years there was still enough Fluctuation in the budgets to be able to to control it, but I don't believe that there's enough, you know As the old statement, you know, you can cut fat at some point you're cutting muscle And I think that there's a lot of municipalities that are now cutting into the bone. So Thank you Kurt did you want to add anything to that? You have to unmute Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to Participate in this meeting mayor and let me just say congratulations to senator. Let me hear very Very proud and happy for you and your accomplishment And uh rips of posma. I'm glad to hear your likelihood to be reappointed to finance My finance committee. So yeah, Mike and I just want to underscore some of what Todd was saying that um I think one thing to keep in mind as legislators kind of struggle with this Levy limit topic it has been in place actually since 2006 and then in 2011 it turned into this very restrictive one Where you can only increase your levy? I mean it's like going increases levy from one year to the next by the amount of new construction is it's experiencing And there's a lot of communities that aren't as lucky as shabuagan many many many communities aren't as lucky as shabuagan to have growth And so they've been stagnant as far as For many years in their ability to increase their levy from one year to the next while all you know typical inflationary growth and expenses Continue from year in and year out and and these communities aren't able to keep up or match that So, you know two things in our legislative agenda that I think could address that one would be to Restore what was in place in the first five or so years of levy limits where there was basically inflationary increase allowed At least a minimum if your community was not experiencing any growth new construction uh, you'd be able to increase your levy by the amount of uh inflation that the that the state is experiencing um, the other change would be some um Remove a enhancement of levy limits. Uh, that was created about 2011 or 2013 or so that makes it um Impossible really for a community to turn to fees to pay for certain services without having an impact on their levy and reducing their Their levy even more So for example, I know shabuagan already has a storm water utility Many communities do not have a storm water utility. So they're still trying to pay for the Mandate that they treat storm water Before it goes into our rivers and our lakes off of the levy so um, it would be helpful for those communities to Meet that mandate by creating a storm water utility. But if you do so Any community that doesn't have a storm water utility current if they create one they would have to reduce their allowable levy Getting rid of that Further restriction would be very helpful too. So those are two ideas We'll be we'll be by to talk more about these as the as the joint finance committee, you know works through the budget process and and representative katsuma voted for something very Very helpful to me to specialize along those lines. So last Last the budget. I appreciate that And what could you have those discussions? So thank you for the opportunity to I have a conversation with you this morning about that Curt and one other thing we should add is you're right. Sheboygan does have a storm water utility But about a decade ago council, uh, put the rate at zero So it really is uh has been ineffective for the last decade for us And if we would institute it now we'd have to reduce our Something else in order to compensate for it because of the way levy limits are structured I'd like to move on to proposed changes in the utility aid program um Back in late 2019 Sheboygan was informed that uh, because lion energy had closed unit three and four That we were going to lose About half of our utility aid payments of 1.2 million dollars Earlier that year the state had given us information that we would be receiving all of that money And that the late adjustment was uh, it was very tough for us And uh, we we basically had to just go into our general fund and and and move money over because we didn't have any other way to deal with that much revenue loss And I'd broach both Senator lemmy hue and representative katsuma. Is there anything we can do because normally when a facility closes a plant closes You get a five-year phase out of those funds And because this was two units within a plant that was still going to stay open It was just a drop in the bucket boom It's it's there and you have to absorb it all right away And I know the gentlemen have done some uh, some looking into that So i'm just wondering when we talked about it We were very late in the legislative session and we weren't able to Any see seeing a new legislation to modify those laws? Introduced but uh, is there something we can still do where sheboygan could qualify for Part of those phase out dollars. So i'll turn it over to senator lemmy hue or representative katsuma. I'll go first the we've had a briefing from the utilities on on some of their plans as far as phase outs of Plants similar to what happened in edge water So we feel that this is going to be something that it needs to address needs to be addressed on a statewide issue so But to my knowledge there is nothing specific that has been proposed at this Up to this point. We've been looking into this for a while obviously with you mr. mayor and sort of the most frustrated thing that we found in the process outside of trying to get information from um The different agencies and how and why they were doing it this way is There's even some decommissioned plants that are still getting their full utility aid payments that are totally decommissioned and they're waiting until Either that property is sold or restored to start that step down process. So just the way they're administering the program From plant to plant around the state It has been very frustrating. Um, so yes, we've been working with Different agencies in government ledge council the reference bureau things like that trying to figure out why The agencies are are interpreting the law the way they are which seems like They're using the most prescriptive Interpretation of the law in your case and in other cases where a plant is totally being decommissioned Which by the way edge water is working towards total decommissioning. So it's it's sort of frustrating that they're treating it this way Whereas other plants which just went from you know, 100 production down to nothing Is being treated differently I think that one of the things that triggers this change is when the utility submits a report to the state In the case of aliant energy unit three was closed down About two years prior to this notice being given But when they closed down unit four, I don't know if they just noticed it or whatever But we got utility aid payments for unit three for two years longer than we we maybe should have And so a lot of it may depend on what that utility does then they're reporting to the state on this but I guess uh My question is do you see some path? For some legislation that will at least address this issue For the city of shabuagan Just for one case We need to still work with the different agencies to Try to figure out why they're See if they can find a good interpretation of how this this can be done So they're treating everybody fairly but I mean it would be The fix wouldn't be just for Your instance it would be statewide for all utilities well, I think you know something that Would propose that any facility that shuts down a unit and they still have a plant that's operating That that unit because much of the utility aid payments are calculated on the amount of kilowatts that are produced So if those kilowatts are adjusted Then they should still qualify for that phase out that would affect everybody in the state And with many of the utilities looking at changing To solar and wind You know this is going to happen more So I think it's very important that you consider that the one thing we are asking that would affect us as maybe As well as I think green bay That that the the utilities where they've done this already that at least qualify for the The trailing phase out rates. So we may have missed The first or two years, but we still qualify for the final three years of that normal phase out You think that's a possibility? We'll take a look at it, but I certainly I can't commit what's going to happen I understand. Well, thank you for that commitment to look at it and we'll talk to you more about that later then Next I'd like to move on to Public and private property damage due to lake michigan water levels um And just talk a little bit about uh, does the state have any programs that a local municipality like sheboygan could Apply to we have a sewer line on the south side of sheboygan. That's right along the bank of the lake and We have to reinforce that and so that those lines still work on the north side by our water treatment plant We're planning a raw water intake project and the land where we want to build the The new well for this project is beginning to be attacked by the lake again And we have to do more work to reinforce it and when we've got some other small projects, you know Along some of our trails and things along the lake Is there any help that you feel the state can provide for some of these infrastructure? improvements that are needed to maintain Our borders with lake michigan if there's not a state of emergency most Most funds FEMA and things like that You know if you have a proposal If there's a quantified amount, you know, we can talk to the governor and His office and see what's available, but just generally saying The water's rising And it's doing some damage here and there I mean that's not quantifiable Okay, well we'll work on getting that together for you Is is there anything that that our federal partners are looking at certainly the lake michigan is Is high not just in shabuigan county but what can government do to to Adjust the lake level well nothing, but what what can we do? Is there any anything that's being done on the federal level? Well, one of the things we are doing is FEMA has a new brick program building infrastructure in resiliency And that program Has to be submitted to the our projects have to be submitted to the state which we've done and met the applications Or we're working with the state right now and seeing our projects submitted to the federal government Now this is a competitive program and they only have 500 million dollars to distribute around the united states So we're at least Trying to see if we can get some help through that fema program that's available to us And time will tell whether or not we're successful with that If we aren't then then we have to look to other avenues to cover some of those costs And by the way, you know the work that Yes I was just going to say if If you want to let us know of when your application you're going to submit your application We'd be happy to do a letter of support for you on that grant application. All right. Thank you very much, Alan. Appreciate that I just have a real quick statement um It's data it sounds it sounds like the state of michigan actually declared A state of emergency because of the high levels Just wondering why this state of wisconsin hasn't had the the same the same effect It is affecting everybody. I know it obviously in sheboyton county. We've had a lot of erosion a lot of constituents Losing a lot of property not to not to mention just the the effect on our on the location of our Our piping that that the mayor had mentioned which is right along the the lake shore also Thank you. It would be a great question for the governor's office since the governor issues states of emergency Thank you very much The next item on the agenda is tids sharing with other tids There's been some legislation recently to allow more of this So if you do have a successful tid rather than having to close one out that isn't Producing and and observe that We're looking to see if the state legislature could adjust the laws to allow some of those successful tids to have More opportunities to share with the ones that maybe aren't doing so well Chad, did you want to add anything on that? Is brian from the scedc on the phone? No, I don't see him Well, I understand this is chad pelishek the director of city development. I understand that there was an assembly 2019 assembly bill 859 Um that was supposed to be going to the senate and didn't I don't think it made it but there was two pieces of multi-use tiff residential increase Um for the percentage of land that can be in a tiff district as it relates to resident Uh residential and then there was a tiff housing extension. So under current law There's a one-year extension that can be granted for tids and there was a request to increase that to three years for affordable and workforce housing So i'm just wondering If anybody can shed any light on that bill and whether it's going to come back or where it is Chad was this bill passed in the assembly? Did you say? I believe it was a lot of bills that we passed And I'm assuming then the senate was unable to uh to take a look at some of those I'm assuming if they were a good bill and they passed our house. We would be looking at it again Yet carry that ab 859 one that's uh a rob brooks bill that looks like it was passed on one of our last session days and in february So it's probably one of those I Not speaking for the senate, but one of those that Uh may just have gotten caught up in covid Well representative or pogle thanks for joining us And congratulations on your election to head the majority caucus Thanks, sorry. It was a few minutes late, but uh again always is always looking forward to working with all of you Kurt did you have any input on that particular issue? Yes mayor um and ribs are more pogle is exactly right We were supportive the realtors were supportive the builders were supportive of package that came out of Representative brooks's office that the assembly did pass right at the end and one of the things it did was extend this ability to use Uh tiff dollars for affordable housing workforce housing from one year, which is current law after tiff closes the three years Uh, but I had a number of other provisions in it too that we liked a lot Um, and this leads me to a question that I just wanted to ask the senator. Let me you Um, if your caucus has had any discussion about Kind of prioritizing some of that those bills those 90 or 100 bills that the assembly passed But at the end that were may have had a lot of support within your caucus But because of covid, uh, you weren't able to meet that last morning I was just wondering if there's been any discussion about maybe prioritizing those earlier early in the session I know they ought to be reintroduced and we'll be working on that But so there's been any discussion about that within your caucus Yeah, sir. Thanks for the question. So we've been uh, We've been working through those bills sort of in my office just in case This conference will now be recorded Just just in case we did come back Um into session here in in december some of those bills that we could possibly take up that didn't have any Dollars attached to them at this point. Um, so we we started the process of going through that list. I think Hopefully there are a lot of good bills in there I couple myself that that didn't get through the senate that I'd like to see done uh next session so um, so yeah, I think Hopefully moving into the next session there are like like you mentioned there I don't know if there were 90 that had no no funding attached to them But there were a good amount of bills that had bipartisan support that We were still planning to take up in the senate prior to covid hitting and hopefully we can get those done early early this upcoming session Great. Thank you Okay Time to May I ask a question? Sure. Go ahead Yeah, thank you in preparation for this meeting. I I watched the presentation that Development director chad did to the city council in june or july with a nice overview of the 11 tids that city shabuagan has and um I was pleasantly surprised at the Pleasure I was happy to see the positive balances in in many of those projects and the uh, I think the You're well under the 12 limit at 190 million compared to your total valuation was 350 million And um, but I I was looking at all you know the the areas of the of the tids And do you know like a rough number of the? Square miles or or how much what percentage of the city? Is currently covered in a tid district? round numbers That's a really good question. I don't know that I can answer that I would have to do a little bit more Uh, searching but just high level. I would say about a third All right. Well, thanks for your discussion on these issues on the agenda Now we'll go into a round table and I'm just going to call off Members who are here and see if they have anything they'd like to add all their person barb feldi Okay, um, I have nothing to add Thank you very much. Thanks for being here barb Next charles adams Thank you christa mcgalski Not been today. Thank you. Thank you David bebel And thank you. Thank you Um fire chief, uh eric montanello Nothing happy holiday to everybody but nothing to add. Thank you. Thank you and Derek mink Director of transit I have nothing today mayor, but I do want to say thank you to the legislators for joining us and happy holidays Thank you very much Anyone else here in the council chambers? Okay, all their person rather administrator administrator will not the only one Wow Anyway, I just want to say happy holidays to everyone and congratulations Um, but I do ask that you guys that you all continue to Obviously focus on the covet as that's uh our present task at hand But that we also continue to work towards how we can Contr continuously Grow our communities and provide the services that our constituents want And you know, please Please consider some some levy adjustments To help us all in uh in these Unprecedented times again happy holidays. Thank you And I just like to close with thank everyone for their time today It's a great opportunity to talk to you in this type of a meeting I think we've adapted it pretty well for covet in a virtual situation But again, congratulations on your elections to leadership positions And I appreciate the work that you did to achieve that and I have a great holiday Any other responses? Okay, then, uh, it's okay with everyone. We'll adjourn for today and thank you for your time Have a great day