 I'd like to call the 24th regular meeting of the 2020 21 common council to order with a clerk please call the roll all the person born here all the person Donahue all the person Feldy here all the person Ackley and all the person Phillips all the person Decker here all the person Sorenson here all the person Silvoglio present all the person Flicky Pineski all the person Mitchell here there are 10 present thank you would the clerk then please read the quote for the day thank you mr. Mayor some succeed because they are destined to but most succeed because they are determined to thank you very much next please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and for which is stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all next item on the agenda is approval the minutes from our 23rd regular council meeting which was held on March 1st all the person Sorenson thank you mayor I moved to approve the minutes from our previous meeting thank you for that motion and support those minutes are before us is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying aye opposed motion passes then we'll move on to a public forum there's no one this evening very good our next item on the agenda then is a presentation by administrator Todd Wolf about our community survey results good evening all right so we're going to start with our community survey for the 2020 the obviously the goal here next slide the goal here in our annual survey is to gain an understanding and the views of the preferences of residents this effort supports our city's 2017 through 2021 strategic plan focus and area of communication the survey was administered online by a Google forms no paper responses this at this time or shared public computers due to the pandemic next so as you can see the future years of questions content within the community survey will work in tandem with the up with the update of the strategic plan as this was to be the last year of our strategic plan this this is supposed to be the last year but we will be extending our original 2017 to 21 this is to allow the strategic planning for vendor support to allow for a 2021 to aid in internal development that we're doing within the city next of the truth of the 39,256 residents ages 18 and older the participation rate was 1,540 or 3.9 percent we need to focus on additional means to communicate to our citizens lack of lack of contact is a lack of true detail and wants from our constituents so as you can see assuming randomness of responses and result projected at 95 percent certain with a plus or minus 3 percent margin of error next here we basically have how we rated it for questions that were 0 to 10 scale excellent 10,9 or 8 good 7,6 fair 5,4,3 and in poor which we don't want to talk about is a 2 1 or 0 next as I stated before the history and the number of responses from 2016 from 680 of our constituents involvement to 2021 of 1540 is a start but we have a lot of work to do the concern that I have with this is that this could be the same group year over year although 6% increase approximately we do need to have a broader citizen involvement you'll see why in just a few minutes next so a promotion of the survey the city and departmental websites and related social media outlets the city hall city hall atrium display monitor city electronic message signs again difficult during a pandemic our cable channel WSES for those that view through our station our shoreline metro buses and transfer station monitor for those that use our transit system community partners and agencies our city staff members and our newsletter and subscription list again these are just a scratch of communication in the communities and we need to improve on we need more contact points COVID doesn't help as well as a large population does not use these resources so these are areas that we need to focus on as a as a council we need direct contact with our citizens not just a website next I do want to thank you thanks to all for promoting this communication because obviously with the communication that we did present we did see an in improvement so thank you to all next our survey participant demographics really shows the city of Sheboygan and how the interaction is I really would like to see in the future more interaction on the first three categories versus the ages 56 to 65 although they do add a lot to the value of the city and community again this shows how we need to better better citizen interaction and participation and you'll see why in just a second next again survey participant demographics again the majority of the group was white Caucasian there's quite a bit of areas within our community that are growing that we need additional participation and again this is where we need to all reach out and have more boots on the ground when it comes to communication and maybe in different formats next when I touched earlier on the participant participation you could also see that the survey of participant demographics kind of references to slides prior so when we talk about the group and and the longevity of our of our citizens 25 plus years seems to be the majority of that which fills what I would say into the into the grouping of the 56 to 65 age category we really need to find out more from those less than two years two to five and six to ten that's the demographic that we really need to focus on we need to hear more from our newer shabuiganites what are we doing right what do we need to improve and why you moved here besides it being the greatest place on earth right so then we can improve once we have that information next the quality of life again 82 percent of the survey participants indicated the quality of life was excellent to good and that's great but we really need to focus on why do we still have 15.3 percent in fair 2.2 and poor and 0.5 percent in no response we're doing great things but we need to hear from more people in more areas next city's general direction again 79.7 percent of the survey participants indicated the city's general direction was improving and steady that's great from a from a high level the concern that I have is that some of some of the participant demographics didn't didn't like the change that has happened in my opinion some in that area don't like change period need to hear from those that are using the amenities again those younger generation people that have lived here you know less than 10 years next overall performance again 76 percent of respondents indicated overall performance of the city as excellent and good which is great great job to our city staff and team again please remember the majority of the group that took the survey out of 56 to 65 we really need to hear from our younger Shabuiganites to the community next priorities and effectiveness focusing on priorities you can see that 25.6 percent is excellent and 33.4 percent is good but we still need to focus on the fair and poor because that's where we can improve our community because if we can focus on our fair and our poor there's 40 percent right there delivering services efficiently again 41.6 excellent 31.2 percent good but if we can pull in another 25 26 percent just by focusing on our fair to poor what are we doing that's not hitting the high marks next informing and managing keeping our residents informed again how do we communicate how do we communicate to all of our all of our all of our constituents and how do we communicate even better so keeping residents informed again 37.2 and 30.8 so they're basically saying we do it we're doing a great job but then there's 20 30 percent if you take the fair to poor and you combine those that's that's a large population that's not looking at how we communicate very well managing taxpayers money again 27.8 excellent 34 percent good but again 28.9 and 6.6.9 is fair and poor so again lots of room for improvement next community survey service levels ranked as excellent and good so zoning land use 54.5 all the way through our city our overall city administration 67.9 even our transit services is 67.7 so people like what we're doing but we're still missing a little bit yet next service levels ranked as excellent and good community community events street maintenance recycling garbage and just we have to remember that we have the new cart system that has been a hit I know that was a controversy for quite a few years for all of us attracting business 62 percent again lots of room for improvement there only complaint seagulls are hungry look for this looking at the city it's much much better much cleaner next so department ratings and we'll go through these as you can see they're in alphabetical order and you can see the assessors building it building inspection city administrator's office all the way down to common counsel next finance fire department mayor's office down to planning and development next police department public works senior services shoreline metro and water utility so out of those three slides fire department for 2021 was number one at 8.57 the library was number two at 8.08 police was number three at 7.85 the water utility was number four at 7.74 and public works was at 7.48 unfortunately city administrator was not rated next so when we talk about our top five sources of city information again we get excited about our website social media the shabuigan son we talk about the shabuigan press the shabuigan insider newsletter and WHBL those are our top five we as a community need to continue to extend our technology to our constituents there's a lot more ways to communicate and you can see these top five in the demographics that we showed earlier next so the community has told us our for our foremost frequently mentioned critical project initiatives I think number one that I've talked about with you is our number one failure and that's our street repairs again budget constraints right affordable housing comes up quite often we need to better understand that and what it means business development again we're in a COVID situation but business is developing things are happening it's just taking a little bit longer diversity equity and inclusion I think that's all communities goal to improve that and include it and make everything a much better community for all next our chamber cash winner so we have to say congratulations to Amy and her daughter Finley it's so great to actually see the families that are behind the people that take our actual our surveys next so according to Amy my husband and I both grew up in shabuigan but we moved away during our college years it happens so often right as soon as we started our family we knew we wanted to move back to shabuigan it's such a wonderful place to raise a family how many times do we hear that from everybody that comes to shabuigan our number one thing is a great place to live work and play and raise a family and we have so much to be proud of next wanted to say thank you for everybody's community participation in this and I hope that next year we'll be able to do even better with our community survey thank you next is mayor's announcements the city continues to try to help people that are in distress during COVID we have a small business emergency assistance program the city continues to accept applications for the small business emergency assistance program to help our local businesses stay in business applications are accepted on a first come first serve basis for more information they can contact the shabuigan planning department we also have a mortgage and utility assistance program shabuigan in this and this and makes our community action program are offering a mortgage and utility assistance program for the city of shabuigan homeowners who have been negatively affected by COVID-19 pandemic the mortgage assistance program will provide up to three months of mortgage assistance to eligible households within the city limits and eligible household applicants must reside in the city limits own the home the reside in have a current income of less than 80% of the county median income and not be eligible for mortgage forbearance and facing foreclosure the pre-screening application is available at www.lakesharkap.org and questions can be directed to Lakeshark cap 920 68237 37 there's a spring election candidate forum coming up the shabuigan branch of American Association of Youth University women will sponsor a virtual candidate forum for the April election for the mayoral contest in the Aldermanic District 2 contest the forum for mayoral candidates will air live at 6 p.m. on WSCS on Thursday March 18th Orion Sorenson is challenging incumbent myself Mike van der steen in a forum for Aldermanic District 2 candidates will immediately follow the mayoral forum the candidates for the council seats are Roberta Felicki Panofsky and John Ranieri our spring election is set for April 6th the ballot for the spring election includes state and local offices the state offices to be elected are the state superintendent of public instruction a court of appeals judge and a circuit court judge local offices to be elected our mayor alder persons and districts 1 2 3 5 7 and 9 and the shabuigan area school district school board members in person absentee voting it will be available at the city clerk's office beginning on March 23rd through April 2nd on weekdays voting hours are from 8 o'clock in the morning till 4 30 in the afternoon and there'll be special hours on April 2nd the last day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Next I'd like to give a COVID update first of all let's review the numbers for today our total positive cases increased by 83 during the last week that is a total of 13,070 active cases went up slightly and they're up 7 and that's a total of 139 recovered cases have increased by 76 to a total of 12,799 we only have six people hospitalized currently that's down three from last week and the death total has stayed at 132 no increase in that death total and shabuigan County COVID-19 activity level is high we've had a dramatic decrease in our trajectory in the last two months the current burden rate is at 157 per 100,000 persons if this trajectory continues to shrink our burden rate goes if it goes under 100 per 100,000 persons the shabuigan County activity level will improve from high to medium they are currently 16 registered vaccinators in shabuigan County they've all begun to receive their vaccine and are able to assist with vaccinations the supply of vaccine from the state is currently less than expectations and preventing all sites from operating at full capacity new and eligible COVID groups have just been announced the eligible groups are frontline health care personnel residents and staff and skilled nursing and long-term care facilities police and fire and correctional staff adults over 65 education and childcare workers individuals enrolled in Medicaid and long-term care programs and some public-facing essential workers non-frontline essential health care personnel and faculty and staff and residents in congregate living settings on March 1st the city of shabuigan made a decision to proceed with the planning for a 4th of July celebration called freedom fast in 2021 this will include Venetian night parade freedom run 4th of July parade afternoon entertainment and fireworks because the 4th of July falls on a Sunday in 2021 all freedom fast activities will be held on Saturday July 3rd of 2021 this decision was based on the downward trajectory and the COVID-19 pandemic locally we need to continue this downward trajectory and get everyone vaccinated now if there would be a spike and new code COVID take cases and a serious increase of COVID-19 in shabuigan this decision to hold the event could change so I urge everyone to continue to mask up wash your hands often and please keep on practicing these prevented measures and when you're eligible please make an appointment to receive your vaccine thank you very much next we'll move on to hearings item 2.1 is as hearing number 6 of 2021 pursuant to a notice published in the personal notices by the city clerk this is a hearing to amend the city of shabuigan's official zoning map and to change the use district classification of a proper property located at the northwest corner of south 10th street in Illinois formerly 935 Illinois Avenue parcel 5928 1505 800 and property located at off of south 12th south 10th street rather formerly 1011 south 10th street parcel number 5 9281 505 810 and property located off of south 10th street formerly 1015 south 10th street parcel 5928 1505 820 and property located off of south 10th street parcel 59281 505 930 from class urban industrial to class commercial is there anyone who wishes to be heard is there anyone who wishes to be heard is there anyone who wishes to be heard Chad please go ahead there you go thank you mayor so I just want to state that these are all parcels that are owned either by the redevelopment authority or the city of shabuigan and anticipation of future development in the area that's been identified as in an innovation district or some other use it made sense at this time to move forward with rezoning because we know that it's not going to be an industrial use so the central commercial use is the most the the has the most options for redevelopment to occur so it's the most flexible zoning for that area and you'll recall about three years ago we the rezone of the badger state lost for the affordable housing development that was zoned central commercial as well so the plan is to get this ready for future redevelopment thank you very much for that information all the person sorenson thank you very moved to close the hearing thank you for that motion and support all those in favor of closing the hearing please signify by saying aye aye opposed opposed motion passes to close the hearing next we'll go on with second hearing item 2.5 hearing number 10 of 2021 pursuant to a notice published and the personal notices sent by the interim finance director this is a hearing to confirm the exercise of police power and making an assessment for those benefited properties against which assessments are proposed for parking assessment districts number 1 2 4 and 5 is there anyone wishing to be heard is there anyone wishing to be heard is there anyone wishing to be heard all the person sorenson thank you mayor I move to close the hearing thank you for that motion and support all those in favor of closing the hearings please signify by voting aye opposed motion passes that hearing is closed next we'll move on to item 2.6 which is rather excuse me the consent agenda the consent agenda will include items 3.2 through 3.15 all the person sorenson thank you mayor I move to receive and file all RO's receive all our seas and adopt all resolutions and ordinances thank you for that motion and support those items are before you is there any discussion she's green mr. Mayor I think that sounded like bird's voice yes it was me Roberta Roberta please go proceed I just like to point out that item 3.3 and several after our in support of our downtown restaurants who are wanting to maintain outdoor eating areas as the summer begins and I am all in favor of that and I think it was a great city business relationship and I'm all in favor of it thank you thank you for those comments there go ahead if I could just second what Alder-Felicke Pineski stated and hope that we can carry that forward into the coming summer even though we are on a downward swing which will hopefully continue I think a close examination of our current business practices as relates to our restaurants would certainly be in order and that's something I think we can take a look at thank you for those comments is there any other discussion all those in favor please signify by saying aye I think I'm sorry we're gonna have to take a roll call on consent if you would please enter your votes ten eyes motion passes under reports of officers item 4.1 is our own number 165 of 2021 by the director of planning and development submitting the 2021 Golden Shovel certification for South Point Enterprise campus through New North Alderperson Sorensen thank you for that motion and support under discussion seeing no discussion all those in favor please signify by saying aye opposed motion passes item 4.2 is our own number 166 of 2021 by the director of planning and development submitting communication from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding the approval of a recent application for section 108 loan guarantee pursuant to resolution number 105 of 2021 in the amount of 3.2 million dollars for the senior community center at 1817 North A Street Alderperson Sorensen thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on that item Chad thank you mayor so I just want to give the little cliff nose version so in the resolution there's a number of items that conditions that are part of this approval that city staff has looked at and we don't believe will be any issues with this financing this will be paid back this 3.2 million does not go against the city's general obligation borrowing capacity it's a loan with an interest rate of 0.3% and it'll be paid back over 20 years with an estimated payment of $160,000 per year and we will start making those payments in 2020 and 2021 as part of our yearly and entitlement allocation so the plan is to dedicate 2.7 million towards renovation of the former save a lot into the senior community center and reimburse the city 500,000 towards the purchase price that we did earlier this year of that real estate Chad what was that interest rate again 0.035% thank you very much Alderperson Sorensen did you have a comment oh no I just very good Alderperson Donahue and Chad thank you for that financial update because I it is a kind of a complicated financing scheme I just want to speak to the fact that this is a huge home run for the city to take a fairly derelict structure in a neighborhood that can certainly use some love and care and to place a senior center right in the middle of that near habitat for humanity with a lot of good parking Meredith you got to be thinking polling place no I'm just kidding and but when we look at revitalizing neighborhoods placing a community center like this right in the middle of it is just critical and I just am really looking forward to it because I think it's going to be a great addition and I think it's also an opportunity for the senior center which is under excellent new leadership to engage in really interesting and thoughtful ways to use that huge building and so I think it is a win-win-win-win and I'm just so happy this worked out so Chad thank you everybody else involved thank you for those comments Roberto I have a comment I would just like to add one little other thing it is directly on a bus route the bus to stop right smack in front of it so that's another win any other online comments mayor Alderman Warren please proceed mayor I guess this would be for Todd Todd where are we in the planning process with this as far as laying out the floor plan and that thing thank you Jim we're still in the layout process of it we basically have been working with the architects in developing a multi-phase program as I've stated in the past and we're working on the budget as far as getting budgets for for the first phase originally just to update everybody we were looking at the the gym as being the focal point so it'd be the front lobby into the gym and we've changed that so now it's going to actually be a focus and the lobby the entry area the office space and the multi-use rooms that will give the senior center much more ability for flexibility with with the seniors in programming so that'll be the first phase and then there's the replacement of the roof and the HVAC portions of it to designate those accordingly and then there's going to be a proposed area for lease for an additional business to help share in overhead costs and then we're also looking at a facade upgrade which will actually help beautify the the neighborhood and bring it up and revitalize it as well as cleaning up the parking lot thank you are there any other comments just as a follow-up to the what the city administrator said the plan is to be out to bid hopefully in summer so sometime in July get under contract in September renovate over the winter season next year and open sometime in the second quarter of 2022 thank you for that schedule any other comments thank you've seen none then all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes item 4.3 is our own number 167 of 2021 by the director of planning and development submitting for common council information a progress report on the allocation of cdbg cv one and three funds is provided by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Alderperson Sarnson thank you for that motion in support ask Chad to explain thank you mayor so in the document you'll see that there is a number of loan funds under the small business emergency assistance program that have been given out primarily in 2021 to date we have given around three hundred and thirty five thousand has been loaned we dedicated four hundred and twenty thousand towards this so we have a balance of about eighty five thousand we also in the first round of covid issued some funding to area nonprofits to help with some of their operational losses and then we as you know cv three cdbg cv three was allocated later at 230,000 we gave that entire amount 230,211 to Lakeshore Cap to administer the mortgage assistance program on behalf of the city 204,000 of those funds will be direct allocation to residents the rest of that difference will be management and administration costs the cv two so there was three allocations two of the cv one and cv three funds came to the city cv two funds came to the State Department of Administration we were notified that we would receive 229,000 out of that pool so we have been working with the state to try to get to an agreeable projects it looks like it's going to go to a number of additional nonprofits that have implemented new programs as it relates to covid and help with some of those costs as it relates to pp and e ppe and and the new programs so we're hoping to get that under contract in the coming weeks and be able to distribute those funds accordingly. Thank you very much for that report all the person down to you and again I just there's so much good news for the community to you know in this agenda that is really pretty heartwarming I'm really so pleased to see that a good chunk of the emergency assistance assistance fund has been already expended when I am starting to go out and about now I say hey if you applied for that money and I'm hoping all of all those are doing that and there's still quite a bit left but we can't emphasize enough how these are just absolute you know it's like a blood transfusion it's just critical for survival and so I'm really happy to see it and I'm hoping and looking forward to the details on the rental assistance money that should be coming to the city at some point hopefully in the fairly near future because that is an enormous issue in our community thanks thank you for those comments anyone else mayor please come here um Chad as far as the HUD amount that we've given out already this year is that in line with the usual per year or we had a schedule that this seems to be progressed well we get around 917,000 a year 920,000 of normal entitlement allocation this roughly million dollars was on top of that 900,000 so we've given out our typical allocation to public service agencies that are doing great things in our community and then this was on top of it as it related to COVID so a number of nonprofits have gotten funding from the city to deal with COVID related expenses thank you any other discussion see none although those in favor of the motion please signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion passes item 4.4 will be referred to the both the dual referral to licensing hearings and public safety in the public works committee resolutions items 5.1 through 5.3 will be referred to various committees and under reports of committees item 6.1 is RC number 298 289 rather of 2021 by the Finance and Personnel Committee who was referred resolution number 180 of 2021 by all the persons Donahue and borne authorizing the budget adjustment and appropriation in the 2021 budget regarding the Mead Public Library all the person Donahue second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on the motion see none would the clerk please call the roll for passage ten eyes motion passes item 6.2 is RC number 290 of 2021 by the Finance and Personnel Committee to whom was referred resolution number 183 of 2021 by all the persons Donahue and borne awarding the sale of 5 million 140,000 in general obligation promissory note series 2021 a older person Donahue thank you mayor I move to approve the resolution and award the sale of bonds is outlined I'm sorry that promissory notes not bonds thank you very much for that motion in support that's before us for discussion Carol worth are you on with us do you want us to make the amendments are you should motion to amend mayor please go ahead I moved to amend the resolution to decrease the amount of bonds to be issued from 5 million 140,000 to 5 million 125,000 which includes updating the amounts identified in the resolution title section 1 a in section 2 and to incorporate the exhibits provided by Wisconsin public finance professionals based on the bids received today second second thank you for that amendment discussion on the amendment seen none all those in favor of the amendment as presented please signify by saying aye aye opposed the amendment passes so now we're discussing the main motion as amended is there any further discussion on the main motion please go ahead thank you mayor I was wondering if Carol could give us a result of the of the sale who is the winning bidder and what was the interest rate please Carol are you on line with us then in that case we'll turn it over to our industry to here please proceed and answer the question Carol notes received six bids today and the winning bidder was submitted by the firm of Robert W. Barrett out of Milwaukee and the true interest rate is 1.109 percent so the notes obviously are funding the capital improvement projects for the city and for two of the cities to districts thank you for that information Carol is there any other discussion or questions just the question for Carol Alderman Warren Carol how is this sale compared to some of the other ones you've had in the last week or 10 days a great question because we've had we've seen a lot of changes in the market the last couple of weeks interest rates actually rose about 40 basis points since the beginning of March when I presented to you back in beginning of February we were projecting a 0.92 so as you can see we we are higher but not as high as that what the market has moved and when I look at other sales for example the another a very good comparable sale was the city of on Alaska which is also double a to and they came closer to the 1.5 percent range so it's very well thank you Carol thank you very much for that discussion is there any other discussion see none will the clerk please call the roll for passage ten ice motion passes item 6.3 is RC number 291 of 2021 by the Finance and Personnel Committee tumors referred resolution number 184 of 2021 by all the persons Donahue and born awarding the sale of three million six hundred and sixty thousand dollars in taxable general obligation refunding bond series 2021 be all the person Donahue I moved to adopt the resolution second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion mayor go ahead our all the person Sarnson I moved to amend resolution the resolution to decrease the amount of bonds to be issued from three hundred excuse me three hundred and sixty six thousand excuse me three million six hundred sixty six thousand to three million six hundred thousand which includes updating the amount identified in the resolution title section a one in section two and to incorporate the exhibits provided by the Wisconsin public finance professional based on the bids received today second thank you for the that amendment and a second that amendment is before us for discussion is there any discussion on the amendment see none all those in favor of the amendment please signify by saying aye opposed the amendment passes now we're on the main motion as amended is there any further discussion I have a question mr. Mayor please proceed when I reviewed the document there was a blank page in mine and I'm very weary of blank pages in contracts so Chuck if you could check it out it was page five I think or what would have been page five there are no there are no blank pages in yours I did not see you Carol would you like to give us an update on this one as well Carol are you on mute she's not online anymore it's got a she's still on my screen otherwise I can do it it's like one point nine percent administrator wolf please please proceed with the update thank you mayor for the three million six hundred thousand taxable general obligation refunding bonds they had they had six bidders again and the winner was Northland Securities Inc. out of Minneapolis Minnesota and the true interest rate was one point nine two which is still really good considering the fluctuations in the market recently one thing that I did want to point out that I was hoping Carol would touch on is that the city did maintain its double A2 rating and that Moody's actually did reference the fact that they were they liked the balancing that the city of Sheboygan did with its debt payments and how we were strategic in looking at not just this year but the years to come so that was something that they identified during their review thank you thank you for that report is there any other discussion on the motion other person for like you can ask me I would just like to say thank you because that balancing was very thoughtful and very well planned planned out so congrats to finance City Administrator we got it right and I would also point out that we have lowered lowered the dollar amounts for both of these refinancing and the bonding which is a good thing we've just quote saved money by not needing to spend that money thank you thank you for those comments any other discussion hearing none will alert please call the roll for passage ten eyes motion passes moving on to item 6.4 RC number 292 of 2021 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred general ordinance number 38 of 2021 by older persons down a human born temporarily providing for the change of various due dates related to parking assessments in the city of Sheboygan older person down here I moved to receive the report of the committee and adopt the ordinance second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on this item Chad I just want to mention that this document is coming before you to change a payment due date for the businesses that are affected by the parking assessments typically parking assessment payments are due on May 1st this will extend it out to June 1st giving the businesses an additional 30 days with the idea that hopefully as the pandemic becomes less that people will start participating in local businesses and give them the revenues in order to make the payments we did do this the council approved a similar thing in 2020 the majority of the businesses however did pay on time but we just feel it's a good gesture given that we're just coming out of the pandemic to give them a little bit more time to make payment thank you for those comments anyone else need have a question or discussion like all the prison wolf yeah I just wanted to touch base and reiterate what what Chad mentioned it's basically we're we're doing the same thing as 2020 trying to show that a better relationship between the businesses in the city and giving some relief if relief is needed as Chad had stated the majority of them did did pay according to the standard but this does give some relief to those that need it thank you for that comment there's no other discussion I'd ask the clerk to call the roll for passage tonight motion passes item 6.5 is RC number 293 of 2021 by the Public Works Committee tomb was referred general ordinance number 39 of 2021 by all their persons decor and sirens and amending section 110 through 210 of the shboygan municipal code relating to assessments of costs for sidewalks and recommends to amend the ordinance to provide limitation of 75 square feet of sidewalk per parcel per side adjacent to the public right away per year all the person Decker thank you mayor I make a motion to receive the report of the committee and adopt substitute ordinance second thank you for the motion in support is there any discussion on this item or Alderman borne go ahead Jim could I have director Bebel explain this a little bit somehow I overlooked this when I was preparing for the meeting so I have a little better understanding of it director Bebel can you handle that yes I guess I am thanks thanks a little more with this ordinance does is basically provides relief to the citizens or residents for if we have a tree that is lifted a sidewalk the old ordinance was the city would pick up 40% of the cost of the squares lift adjacent to a tree and the property owner was still responsible for 60% of that cost with with emerald ash borne and the removal of several you know thousands of trees now we're in starting the face of starting to replant and reforest our urban forest within the city and it's it's become somewhat contentious especially with some of the residents because they've had to pay for sidewalk repairs not just once but sometimes more than once as a result of trees lifting the sidewalk panels so one of the one of the one of the things that we when we're going around with the sidewalk replacement program and the tree planting program to encourage trees is to have the ability to say you know moving forward the city will pick up any any tree any sidewalks slabs and maybe immediately adjacent to the tree that would be lifted up to a maximum of 75 square feet and that's roughly three sidewalk panels now what we're anticipating however that this burden should be reduced because as we reforest and replant trees our city forester has identified the proper trees for the for the particular terrace space where maybe in the past I would say is that that wasn't the case and we probably had the wrong species of trees in some of our terraces too large for instance for too small of an area we had wood damage to the sidewalk so moving forward as I said we would plant the proper tree in the proper location to minimize this but yet there still would be relief to those residents if and when that would occur into the future thank you very much for that explanation are there is any other discussion or questions seeing none I'd ask the clerk to call the roll ten eyes motion passes under see under general ordinances item 7.1 and 7.2 will be referred to various committees under matters laid over item 8.1 is our own number 152 of 2021 by the director of planning and sustainability coordinator Chad Pellecek submitting the 2020 green-tier legacy communities annual report outlining the city of Sheboygan's 2020 sustainable accomplishments and reporting that the document will be submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Alderperson Sorenson thank you very much to accept the report 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 ten eyes motion passes the next couple items we're going to combine so item 8.2 3 4 and 5 our own number 153 154 155 and 156 of 2021 by the City of Sheboygan Planning Commission tumors refer general ordinance number 32 of 2021 by Alderperson Donahue and let's go back to ordinance number 33 34 and 35 by Alderperson Donahue and our own number 139 140 141 and 142 by the city clerk amending the city of Sheboygan's official zoning map of the city of Sheboygan zoning ordinance to change the use district classification of property located at the northwest corner of South 10th Street in Illinois Avenue formally 935 Illinois Avenue parcel 59281505800 and property located off of South 10th Street formerly 1011 South 10th Street parcel 59281505810 and parcel and property located off of South 10th Street formerly 1015 South 10th Street parcel 59281505820 and property located off of South 10th Street parcel 59281505930 from class urban industrial to class commercial central commercial and wishes to report that this matter was discussed at a regular meeting of the City Planning Commission on February 23rd and after due consideration recommends adopting the general ordinance and filing the RO's Alderperson Bourne thank you mayor make a motion to adopt the general ordinance and file the RO and that's all ordinance four ordinances and five and four or RO's is there any discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage ten eyes motion passes next is other matters authorized by law I'll turn it over to city attorney Adams June 30th 2021 April 14th 2022 in June 30th 2020 that'll be referred to licensing hearings and public safety committee is a resolution by Alderperson's Decker and Sonison authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into an engineering service agreement with Erickson engineering company LLC regarding the design of the trail bridge at Evergreen Park crossing the Pigeon River that will be referred to the public works committee next is adjournment older person mayor yes I have a just have a question is our next meeting the day after the election yes that's correct we'll be meeting on a Tuesday on a Wednesday excuse me Alderperson sorenson thank you mayor I move to adjourn thank you for that motion and support all those in favor of adjournment please signify by saying aye aye opposed we stand adjourned thank you for your time this evening