 All right, it is six o'clock and I will call the 10th regular Common Council meeting to order will the clerk Please state the court of the day. Thank you. Mr. Mayer the ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have Thank you. Will the clerk please call the roll all the person Ackley Yes, all the person Decker. Yeah, all the person Feldy All the person Felicky Paneski all the person Heidemann all the person Mitchell excused all the person Pirella excused all the person Salazar all the person Rust here all their person Raimi. Yeah, there are eight present Thank you. If you're able will you please stand for the Pledge of Legions I? pledge allegiance to the flag 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 All right next is approval of the minutes all their Feldy Thank You mayor I move to approve Second there's been a motion second for the minutes any discussion Seeing none all those in favor approving the minutes, please state aye. Aye any objection minutes are approved Even for public forum no one this evening Next we'll go into mayoral appointments city attorney Thank you first The following appointments for your confirmation Kim Miller to be considered for appointment to the city plan commission and Kelsey Byrd to be considered for appointment to the city's Sustainable Task Force and those who will lay over Next is confirmation of mayoral appointments city attorney pursuant to section 2-937 of the Shapoigan municipal code relating to the position of the director of human resources and labor relations We being the mayor and the city administrator hereby recommend that Tony Muse be appointed as the director of human resources and labor relations for the city of Shapoigan effective August 29th 2022 Alder Feldy, I move to confirm Second there's been a motion second any discussion on this item Seeing none. This is a roll call vote. Please refer to your meeting code All the person Hyde man rust Feldy I thank you all the person flicky paneski. I'm sorry I thank you eight eyes. All right. That's approved Next item number seven city attorney Next item is Submitting the following appointment for your confirmation Alder Joe Hyde man to be considered for appointment to the Maywood Environmental Park advisory board. Thank you older Feldy. I move to confirm Second motion second any discussion seeing none. This is a roll call vote as well women All the person rust all the person Feldy I Eight eyes. All right, that's approved Next we have a presentation on the five point three million dollars swing bridge grant funded funding Which are director of planning and development Chad Palschek and public works director David Bebel will kick off Thank you So hang tight Thank you. So today we're going Dave and I are going to take team of presentation about this Cheboygan River pedestrian Swing bridge that broke the news late last week about the city receiving a grant for five point three million So we'll get into a little bit more details on the project but in a high level. We're going to run through a couple slides This was originally proposed back. I think in 2007 It's been in a number of years of planning documents And then kind of shelved if you will because there wasn't enough a lot of funding opportunities available until some recent Biden infrastructure grant funding So the location for this bridge would be Connecting the south pier to the riverfront district. So this we would be Connected in near the Parker Johns on the end of Virginia Avenue where Virginia Avenue terminates into The Cheboygan River and then goes across to the south pier district Which was originally planned to have a bridge when that was designed back in the early 2000 era So the infrastructure and the kind of promenade and stuff at the south pier district is a is already in place So this has been a part of the city's planning efforts for a number of years the image on the left shows the south pier design guidelines plan from 2003 that had a Proposed connector across the river at that location and then the harbour Sender master plan Phase 3 which was adopted in 2007 also showed that as Well connecting the two sides of the river. So just to step back and give you a little bit of Flavor for what was down there You'll some of you may recall this and seen this in the past, but these are old historic photographs of south pier before it was south pier and when it was coal yards and Crude oil tanks and all of that kind of stuff. So this is a picture from about probably 1960s or so Before it was developed. This is a more recent one But you can see that it had its industrial use for a long time in the city saw a vision and move forward this is Recently and then as early as a couple years ago with the housing development. So the Location that's proposed is the narrowest part of the river kind of in the middle of this image. So this is showing what that Promenade on south pier at the top image looks like where the bridge would go and then the image on this bottom kind of shows the From the river the area where it would connect on both sides So why this location? This is the narrowest part of the river at 150 feet The as I stated prior the improvements to south pier have been planned for this addition Talked about it's been talked about extensively over the years or just wasn't a funding source to fund it net there's navigation channel limitations as being a US Army Corps of Engineers Federal navigation channel that restricts some of the Opportunities that might be out there to connect the two sides of the river of the clearance envelope And then this has some access points to the A Street Bridge for operation So this is just an image showing the bridge This isn't the final design. This is a concept plan, but the process will ultimately come out with some kind of Final design it's been 12 years since this was originally proposed. So there's probably some new innovations and technologies That can come into place But the bridge will primarily stay open on a Most of the time it'll be open for boat traffic because that's one of the hindrances that the Charter fishermen have shown over the years is that they don't want to wait for the bridge to open So the bridge would just have scheduled times to close 15 minutes on the hour or you know different Dedicated time frames but on on a given day it would be open more than it would be closed It'd be just the opposite of what you think a bridge of what function most people would think the bridge would be closed and then open for boat traffic, but the boat traffic is the You know is is pretty aggressive and needs to be kept that way, especially with the federal navigation channel So this is just another image showing what that bridge would look like in the open position and The you know the connected connection. So I just want to we those of you that have been involved we've worked on different connection issues through a number of planning efforts with the Harbor Center Business Improvement District, and that's where the the route 42 the Trolley for the shoreland Mitchell came into place to try to connect the two sides of the river But we still hear over and over connection issues of people having to go through the a street rotary the busiest rotary intersection in the city to get up to the downtown from the south pier so With the huge investment on the south pier You know it makes sense to try to connect these two sides of the river and especially with The amount of people that are coming in on a yearly basis to the tune of 70 to 80,000 people through the resort That are on south pier So David's gonna talk a little bit about the grant and some of the requirements and why this project was chosen and where we go from here Thanks Chad. That was a nice recap of Kind of the history of south pier and and how we we arrived at this And it's pretty interesting if you look at some of those old photos back from the 60s and 70s in terms of what that land was And it's use and what it is today. It's pretty transforming So let's I let's talk about the grant it in and of itself. It's very specific and that's why This project was chosen is because there's specific criteria We you know, we hear well, let's put the money towards roads. Well, that's not it That's not an eligibility criteria of the grant So when you go for federal grants, you look at the criteria in and of itself and then you look for projects such as This opportunity for the bridge and that's partly why the bridge hasn't been proposed or built is because when we look at our capital improvements There's other priorities in terms of our existing infrastructure and needs that take precedent over it But when we have an opportunity for a grant to get federal funding That's going to pay for a large large portion of the project now the project becomes feasible So like I said, the grant is very detailed And now that we've been awarded the grant it means it's going to start a process and the process is going to take several years There's again the it's a concept at this point. So we actually need to then work with the grant In the dot to actually bring on a designer Look at the design. What makes the most sense is a swing bridge The best option is a lift bridge in this location Is there an opportunity to shift it slightly to get it a little bit higher even so that bolts may able to Transport underneath it without needing to be raised as much So there's opportunities to have that type of discussion. There's going to be a lot of public input through this process And so again that that's just the beginning of it of the design So as Chad mentioned it came eligible through the Through the biden infrastructure process. So what were some of the requirements? Safety is a huge component of the grant eligibility and we talk about Pedestrians and bicyclists that primarily are going to be using this facility right now They're all being sent to the roundabout intersection at 8th and indiana as well as the history bridge The history bridge has Over 12,000 vehicles a day as well as the intersection So it's very congested and very difficult to navigate if you're a pedestrian or for you're in a bicycle Again environmental sustainability environmental and sustainability is a big focus of the new infrastructure bill Reducing greenhouse gases. So how can we do that? Well, that's one way is by Reducing trips if you're on self-peer or if you're on the riverfront and you want to go to the other side today It's either a well over a mile walk and about almost 20 minute walk Or you hop in your car and you take take take the drive around So again, we are in an attainment zone. What does that mean? Our air quality in shiboyan county is not meeting the federal air quality standards So being in an attainment zone Put us in a higher score for that for this project because we're going to reduce emissions Quality of life again helping with the quality of life is promoting walkability and pedestrian bicycle friendly options It increases your walking score again reducing the emissions Promoting energy efficiency Another aspect is the economy Look at the economic development that has occurred on the self-peer district from the beginning from 2003 to today It's trans the slides themselves show the transformation in the millions of dollars of economic Input and activity and development on that on that This is only going to further spur economic development and competitiveness between the two sides allowing easier access for visitors and residents to enjoy that that that area Another aspect is state of good repair just means Continue to do the good things in terms of maintenance that you're doing in your community and shiboyan scores high in that There's partnerships in collaboration. We've had partnerships with the bid And and and Chad's area in terms of downtown development and in the self-peer district The other aspect was innovation A swing bridge for pedestrian. They're not there's there's very few In the country that actually have movable Pedestrian only spans most of them are for traffic or for for roads And so the the feds at the that were scoring this felt. Hey, this is innovative This is this is good. We you know, this is an area where we want to prove that The the taxpayer dollars in infrastructure are going to be used wisely and this is an opportunity to to demonstrate that type of innovation They looked at the cost benefit the total cost benefit was positive on this Looking at around 40 million dollars of economic development over over the lifespan And it serves a specific population Shiboyan is an area in the downtown area does have its challenges with with um, you know The underserved in in the area. Yes, we have many new apartments But yet a lot of those areas surrounding those are are are in need And the census tracts within those areas qualified as well. So you put this all together and The project scored very high So it was a nationwide competitive grant We're we're actually funded and this is this is unique is we're consider We're considered a rural recipient even though we're an urbanized area But our area is urbanized under 200,000. So we're our urbanized areas between 50 and 200,000 So that qualifies as is in a rural urbanized area Some of the other projects that uh, we're funded there are only four in the state the other three were Pottawatomie community There was a multimodal safety connected project the city of Beloit also again pedestrian bicycle accommodations And as well as the Oneida nation bus garage So we applied for a grant of 5.3 roughly almost 5.4 million and our match will be At the end of all this will be right around 1.3 Now there's all sorts of possible matches of this. It's not just necessarily going to be funded with city funds There's There's this is a federal grant. So there's an opportunity to use state grants as a match in this CMAC, which is congestion mitigation air quality. It's a grant program that Only a few counties in the entire state qualify because of our air quality Sheboygan's one of them and we just recently Are using a CMAC grant to upgrade our traffic signal modernization for better traffic flow to help reduce Emissions as well. So there's an opportunity to use that there's other grants with the dnr and other dot The cdbg as well as this is in a tid and I believe tid 17 so We're going to continue to work on this again. We this is very early This is exciting news that we were a recipient of this reward And there's a lot of things that will be brought before this board and this common council as we progress along this path, but it's again A great step in the beginning of a long long proposed project So As we get more information from the dot. We will keep everyone informed We will need to take a look at the grant Requirements as well as some of the design team and and having public engagement and How how we will manage that as well. This is a dot project So we're we're familiar with doing many dot projects and they Are lengthy in process and that's a good thing because there's a lot of things we want to make sure We have good community input. So again some renderings There's a model down on the first floor as you come into city hall as well And I guess jan and I are here to answer any questions if you have any this evening All right. Thank you director bevel and director palishek Director bevel gets extra points today for an appropriate tie for this discussion. So There's bridges on it if you saw that Anyone on the council have any questions for david or chad dean I just said one quick question So like It would be open most of the or be open most of the time for more traffic now What about would this be utilized in the wintertime also with this? Yes, yes, so be closed in the wintertime The channel has to remain as long as there's there's ice open open water Okay, the bridge is operational So it would probably remain open and it There'll be times there'll be Specific times so again a lot of this will be public engagement and learning with the boarding community as well as the public So there may be times in the evening where the boarding is not so heavy It could be remain closed more often than open Or likewise if we do that the bridges plan to be operated from the a street bridge house And there'll be camera systems. There'll be Dial communication from the bridge tender house to operate the bridge and have communication with With intercoms and so forth as well from that. That's the plan again, there's opportunities where You know the charter boats go out at a certain time and after that then there's not a lot of boarding It could be remain closed it a little bit more open for pedestrians. So there'll be opportunities to to work with that throughout the process, but it's it's not going to be Close all the time and wait for a boat because that section of the river is much more boat traffic in other words Alder ramy Is there a deadline uh to have it done by is the does the grant again, we haven't received the the the The contract yet. So we're waiting at typically there's a three to four year window For planning design and construction Alder fliki paneski. Thank you Um Was was this application The same application that was Put in when 2007 is that when it was or is this a new application? that This is a new application, but it took much of the original data from the original proposal from 2007 and then Used economic figures to update the numbers in terms of looking at cost the cpi index Is gross domestic product to to get today's dollar figure for what it was originally proposed to be built back in 2007 Did we have support from the scedc? For this for this application We did well they they supported after the fact now that it got funded they We didn't get so we didn't have any need for letters of support from partners for the grant application That was my question. Thank you Any additional questions from elders? All right, seeing none. Thank you gentlemen Um Just had some quick mayoral announcements Just wanted to thank those again who attended uh, estling infest yesterday Again, this is our 55 year anniversary With being sister cities with estling in the shambuig and son recently did a wonderful article recognizing The sister city partnership with germany. So go check it out on their website as well too. So That's all I have next we'll move along to the consent agenda Items 11 through 22 alder feldi thank you, mayor I move to receive the receiving file all our o's receive all our c's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances Is there a second second there's been a motion second any discussion? Alder heidelman. Yeah. Thank you, mayor I'm looking at the ordinance I have one question When the task force looked at the Impact of what it was going to have in those areas that they actually involved the property owners In that area in helping make that decision Whether they thought it was if they didn't want to have the dog parks there or that Were the local Residents included in this at all not So I I see superintendent joe cullin is here shorter answer is yes. The city did do the citywide Survey a few months back. I understand about the survey there that that but that what happens if And that information is compiled and probably would be positive and I think it would be but Are the actual property owners that are connected to the beaches and connected to these other bucks were they contacted as to what the effect was for them Joe do you want to add to that? So to answer that no specifically we did not So you wouldn't if if I had a dog run going right past me and I was a property owner I have no seeing it once forever at this time. We have not we do plan on working with each neighborhood association In that area as we develop that plan for each of those parks Okay One other thing tonight you went down at the end of indiana avenue Okay, and there's a red sign that says no pets And there's a green sign right underneath the red sign that says dogs unleash I can pick up after yourself I would you know, I don't know why you would have two signs and if this wasn't adopted yet Why would they be able to have the leash animals on that that corridor? Yeah, I can explain that I think maybe I need to remove the bottom sign the the top one the red one says no pet on beach Okay, and this is right before the the walkway You know So the second one is for the walkway dogs are allowed on on leash on our pathways in the city So it's a little confusing. I've had people ask that Maybe I just need to remove the bottom sign to remove confusion Well, because when I was down and I watched the guy walk right onto the beach with the dog Right on a leash and then when you enter the beach from indiana, we do have a sign right there the main entrance and and we may have to There's getting to be more and more entry areas off of the the The not it's not really a parking area, but the the green Space where a lot of people do park on the grass They're making their own pathways onto the beach and we're finding that well people aren't walking All walking on you know the designated pathways and so they're not able to see the signs So we may have to put up a few more signs along that area And and signage is a huge process that this committee wants to work on So we know the beach one We're going to really we want to get creative with it And we want to really want to make sure we're marking that beach area correctly and and to tell you just Just to say This is really a good thing not having anything There is no beach access anymore at lake view park and even if it goes down It's it's it's a pretty rough area to be able to tell people or say This is not where you should be you should not be between indiana and illinois. Okay. This is this is no dogs But over here. Hey bring your dogs And use a leash and there's an area for you. You shouldn't be at the land. Here's your area Um quantus park this fenced in area eventually. This is where you can be, you know Same with moose same, you know the ones we've picked out cleveland It's an area that people can go And you can talk to them now and say you're not supposed to be here You know, this is not a good place. You can be here with your leash You can be here off leash. It's giving them a place to go Okay, and I understand I was on the council when we approved the on 18th street Works out fantastic great dog park A lot of people loved it. It was in a perfect spot and at that time that Area wasn't being used at all. I want to make sure that this is done right and correctly The neighbors that are affected by this these this ordinance that they're involved in this And my other question is how do you how do you enforce these things? That's whether the guy has the dog. Are you going to have an officer down there chief? It's it's like You know, how do you determine who's the good head owner who's not? and that That's part of the problem right now is Is it it's really hard to enforce? All the ordinances everywhere, you know Um It just really is so again this I think this help this is going to help with enforcement By by giving the people a place to go and be able to you know educate them This this committee really wants to work on signage and they want to work on education And just you know in the effort to be more pet friendly in the community I hope it's successful. Thank you Oh their decker Just wanted to echo Joe's comments or the girl's comments about This is kind of a phased and thing when we looked at it at the public works Is this kind of this is the phase the first phase of it? We're going to see how this goes We're going to you know monitor how this is and it and it will model things as as we go along And this this just just the first part is just a leash area It's going to be for you know, the um, but we'll later on would they have the the runs at like moose park and cleveland park They'll be working with the neighborhood moninana quarter neighborhood committee We'll be we'll be working with them to to determine what's the best place to put these things. So it's it's they are involving the neighborhoods Oh their athletes I just wanted to also mention the fact that this group is not new we've been around for a couple of years now So we're not making decisions willy-nilly You know, we're trying to do this in an appropriate manner and take it step by step And that's why it is going kind of slowly as a pet owner I would love to be able to have a dog spot right away on the north side where I can just run over and take my dogs But that's not being responsible So that's why we're taking our time to do this and I appreciate your questions But I want you to feel assured that you know asking neighbors questions That will come down the pike when we're ready, but right now we're just in the planning stages of getting these things pulled together Still comments from alders seeing none This is a roll call vote for the consent agenda yay alder heidemann alder rust Eight eyes. All right. The consent agenda is approved Reports of officers items 23 and 24 will be referred to the finance personnel committee items For resolutions items 25 through 28 will be referred to their respective committees as well Next we have reports of committee item number 29 RC number 73 22 23 by the public works committee to whom was Referred direct referral resolution number 51 22 23 by elder person's decker prella authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract With the smith group for the study and design of the harbour center marina upgrades in the two phased approach Where in phase one includes analyzing existing conditions and phase two includes Designing a new dock system and breakwater slash harbour improvements as identified in the scope of services provided August 2nd 2022 alder decker Thank you, eric. I make a motion to approve or to adopt the resolution Is there a second second motion second any discussion on this item? Alder flicky paneski. Thank you um Do do we know how much this is this study is going to cost and if it's in two phases are we Fronting the cost for the whole phase all at once Director people do not take that Yeah, the first two phases go hand in hand So, I mean the total cost of the study is roughly around 79,000 so The first part of it is looking at the wave conditions and the harbour conditions reviewing what they did back in 2016 With that kind of being a worst-case scenario to help then use that for the design of the docks But we don't long term the the phasing of this will be what is the long term ultimate build out of the Future of the marina in terms of its eventual replacement of those docks Right now we've we've we lost the the g dock which is some of our larger vessel docks So it's not available this year And for it's one of our highest earning revenue dock systems as well But it's also right at one of the beginning of the mouth of the marina Which takes a lot of the brunt of the wave action and Wave flow As well as ice flow during the winter the group will look at that Analyze it in the design and look at ultimately new dock systems for the future now Ultimately with the work that is being done on self peer the the the federal breakwater They've done significant upgrades as well as it's not completed yet So what we're we're looking at is once that is done that Reconstructed or are enhanced self breakwater The goal here is to see if that is going to enhance also help reduce the action that is affecting the marina That for therefore that in the future once that's done and studied as part of the phasing Well, maybe we're hoping is that it should help also reduce the The resiliency and the robustness that may need to be in the existing marina that's today That's why we're having so much damage And we're at the point of the end of its life of 30 years So these first two phases that's all we're authorizing is the 79,000 and the majority of it is in the design and upgrade of the dock system There's there's several dock vendors that have to be analyzed and vetted throughout this process And that's the majority of the cost of of the first two phases Thank you Additional questions on this item Seeing none. This is a roll call vote Alder Felde Aye Alder Heidemann Aye Alder Rust Aye Eight ayes All right that item is approved Next other matters authorized by law city attorney There is one ro by the city clerk submitting a license application And that will be referred to the licensing hearing and public safety committee Next is a contemplated closed session. Alder Felde Thank you, mayor. I moved convene in closed session pursuant to state mandate 19.85 1g for conferring with legal counsel for the city who is Rendering oral advice regarding strategy to be adopted by the body with respect to Litigation in which it is or is likely to be involved to wit ab ab Gayle H. Hernandez versus city sheboygan police department erd case number cr20210 190 190 EEOC case number 2 6 g 202 00011c Is there a second? Second Motion in second. This is a roll call vote to go into closed session Alder Felde Aye Alder Heidemann Aye Alder Rust Aye All right eight ayes All right that is approved. This closed session will be only for elected officials as well as chief Darmigowski and administrator wolf And we'll convene in 305 Prove adjourning please state aye Aye Any objection we are adjourned at 653. Thanks everyone