 I'd like to call the 22nd regular meeting of the 2020 21 Common Council to order Would the clerk please read the quote for the day. Thank you, mr. Mayor every accomplishment starts with the decision to try Thank you very much with the clerk then please call the roll all the person born Here all the person down a heel Here all the person fell the Here all the person acley Here all the person Phillips All the person Phillips All the person decker here all the person sorenson here all the persons of aglio All the person filiki paneski All the person filiki paneski She's here. She's here. We just can't hear her I'll try it ruberta All the person michel is he on there? I can't see Just signed in All the person michel here All the person phillips Well, it looks like there's nine present, but we can't hear ruberta Okay, and um all the person Is roses phillips is excused next up please stand to join me in the pledge of allegiance 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 Next we'll move on to the approval of minutes from our 21st regular common council meeting Which was held on february 1st of 2021 all the person sorenson. Thank you, mayor I moved to approve the minutes from our february 1st meeting Is there a second thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none all those in favor of approval, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed Motion passes Next we'll move on to mayoral appointments. I'll turn it over to city attorney charles adams Federation john scholke to be considered for appointment to the city or activity center commission The fellow vacancy with the term expiring on april 17 That appointment will lie over till our next council meeting Is there anybody for public forum? There's no one this evening Okay, then we'll go on to mayor's announcements Um tonight. I'm proud to announce that the city of shabuagan and lakeshark community action program are offering a mortgage and utility assistance program For city of shabuagan homeowners who have been negatively affected by the covet 19 pandemic Under the corona virus aid relief and economic security otherwise known as the cares act That was passed by the united states congress on march 27th of 2020 The city of shabuagan received two allocations from the department of housing and urban development community black grant program COVID one and three The city has partnered with lakeshark cap to develop a new mortgage assistance program With the cv3 funds for lower to moderate income households that are affected by a loss of income related to the covid pandemic on making timely mortgage payments The mortgage assistance program will provide up to three months of mortgage assistance to eligible households within the city limits Eligible household applicants must reside in the city limits Own the home that they reside in have a current income Of less than 80 of the county median income and further information is available in the prescreen application on that And then to not be eligible for mortgage forbearance and facing foreclosure The prescreen application can be found on lakeshark cap dot org On the web and questions that can be directed to lakeshark cap at nine two zero six eight two 37 37 And then the city of shabuagan will be hosting two landlord training programs in 2021 The first one will be held on april 29th at 5 30 here in the common council chambers Space is limited to 10 participants due to covid protocols And there's a nominal fee of $10 to cover printing of materials and a refreshment For more information you can Go to the city's website at shabuagan wi.gov And the program has trained so far 175 landlords since it began in 2012 And the second program will be announced later in the year. It's probably going to be late summer or early fall The city survey Please help us shape shabuagan by taking the city's annual survey This survey provides feedback to city staff and officials It is utilized to improve the quality of life and services that we provide in our community The online survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete and participants will be entered in a drawing for $100 in shabuagan county chamber cash we value your input and As we strive to make shabuagan someplace better Go to the website city website. There's a banner ad just click and take the survey And it's going to be available through next monday february 22nd. That's the closing date for that survey And then shabuagan Wants to remind small businesses of their emergency assistance program We continue to accept applications for the small business emergency Assistance program to help local businesses stay in business The new federal guidelines have been approved to allow these cares act funds to be used When are the programs like the paycheck protection program for example has been used The date the program has helped about 20 small businesses and provided about $200,000 in support There is another 200,000 or so left to assist businesses and applications are being accepted on a first come first serve basis For more information contact shad pelichick the director of planning and development at 459 33 83 or visit the city's website Tomorrow is the spring primary The ballot for the spring primary will include voting for the state's superintendent of public instruction shabuagan mayor and shabuagan area school district board members Pulling locations are listed on the city website and pull hours are from 7 a.m. To 8 p.m Bridge maintenance will be happening on our a street bridge the southbound lanes on the a street bridge Will be closed tomorrow Tuesday, february 16th through friday february 19th for contractor maintenance of the hydraulic room of the a street bridge The northbound lanes will continue to be open for particular traffic during this period And the city of shabuagan understands the inconvenience. That's its causes and appreciates everyone's patience and cooperation Obviously we work to complete this project And then i'd like to give a covet update for monday february 15th we have 12666 positive cases that have been reported that's uh That's up 115 from last week We have 177 cases that are active right now and that's down 79 from last week's 256 We have 12,364 people who've recovered and that's up 180 from last week And uh, we have a difference of one in the person's hospitalized that went down from five down to four We maintain the the same death total of 125 from last week That's been even and the negative test uh total fourth 44,443 at this time And that's up 632 from last week The shabuagan county covet 19 activity level is currently high And we've had a dramatic decrease in our trajectory in the last two months The current burden rate is 169 per 100 000 persons And if this trajectory continues to to shrink and our burden rate goes to under 100 Then we can move from the high level down to medium in our shabuagan county activity level There are currently 16 registered vaccinators in shabuagan county These locations have all begun to receive vaccine and are able to assist with the phase one a vaccinations The supply of vaccine from the state is currently at about 25 percent of expectations This is preventing all vaccination sites from full operation Right now about 28 percent of the 65 plus age group has been vaccinated in shabuagan county The public health estimates that are at vaccination nations of the Phase b1 group will begin about march 1st I want to thank everybody for all the efforts to wear a mask keep social distance and avoid groups By the residents of shabuagan county This has worked to achieve a decrease in the trajectory of our positive cases Please keep on practicing these preventative measures And when you're eligible, please make an appointment to receive the vaccine. Thank you very much Okay, next we'll continue with the consent agenda This will include items 2.2 through 2.21 all the person sorensen Thank you, mayor. I move to receive and file all ro's receive all rc's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances Second Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on any of those items in the consent agenda? See none. I'd ask the clerk to please call the roll nine eyes motion passes Under reports of officers item 3.1 is our own number 137 of 2021 by the city clerk submitting license applications Alderperson Sorensen Thank you, mayor. I ask for suspension of the rules Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. Thank you, mayor. I move to grant the extension of premise Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes Motion passes items 3.2 through 3.9 will be referred to various committees Then moving on to resolutions item 4.1 is resolution number 164 of 2021 by alderperson's decker and sorensen Authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with butane peterson construction company incorporated To replace the sanitary sewer along bell avenue between north fifth street and north sixth street Alderperson decker Thank you, mayor. I ask for suspension of the rules Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed Yes Alder donahue here Just as our usual courtesy could we have a just a brief word as to why the rules need to be suspended? Alderperson decker This is a Sewer replacement project that is in dire need and has to I cannot wait for The two-week period waiting period Thank you for that information. Okay, please proceed Thank you, mayor. I make a motion to adopt the resolution second. Thank you for that motion in support Is there any further discussion on the motion? see Please go ahead Yeah, I just to the discussion I just like to say that i'm happy to see that we're going with a local company on this I applaud the dpw for and I did look at the bids and they were the low one But i'm still happy that we're using a local company Thank you for those comments. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll Nine eyes motion passes Moving on to item 4.2 resolution number 165 of 2020 by Alderperson sarnson and donahue authorizing the appropriate city officials to sign the january 1st of 2021 through december 31st of 2023 contract between the city of shabuagan and the international association of firefighters local 483 Alderperson sarnson. Thank you, mary. Ask for suspension of the rules Is there any objection to suspension? under donahue here Again, if we could just have a brief explanation as to why the rules are why we are requesting to suspend the rules Alder sarnson, can you take that? I'll Uh, take send that to vicki or the fire chief Or chuck or whoever Vicki There we go. Mike's on Chuck was going to answer it mr. Mead. Okay. Go ahead check So the reason we're suspending the rules at this point is uh the The document the contract itself is before you for the first time But obviously, uh, you already had in front of you and then we're going to commit Sort of the tentative agreement that has all the details on it Additionally, uh, now that it's ready to go Allowing having the council to spend the rules not to pass it having already seen What was in it? allows The allows it to get in time more quickly and allows the union to take care of their issues with Setting up an election and and those kinds of things that they can sign it. They don't typically do that until they know that the council's going to approve Thank you. Thank you for that explanation. Is there any other objection to suspension? Hearing none, please proceed Second Thank you for that motion and support Is there any discussion on the motion? Uh, this is alderman borne. I have a Uh question for the city administrator Please go ahead Thank you, mayor Todd was there any effort when these contract negotiations understanding that the 2022 budget is going to be very difficult to Hold the line on wages for 2022 You know, this is setting a precedent now that everybody is going to be getting at least a 2% raise next year of all the city employees And we know that's another $500,000 hit to the budget Thank you, elder borne. Uh, yes, there was quite a bit of discussion when it comes to the 2022 Concerns with wages and benefits. I believe that's another reason that the uh fired They uh fired fire union went with a three-year contract was to help Obviously strengthen What they were going to be getting for the next three years. It will be difficult, but there were other concessions and discussions That were discussed With the union and the city at that time. So overall it's it's a it's a good fit for both sides Is there any other discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll nine eyes motion passes Items 4.3 through 4.10 will be referred to various committees Under reports of committees item 5.1 is rc number 261 of 2021 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred resolution number 155 of 2021 by all the persons donahue and borne repealing resolution number 196 of 1920 regarding early retirement incentive program offered to qualifying city employees All the person donahue Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion mayor Yes, barb Out of question. Why are we repealing this? We aren't going to offer early retirement anymore No, we're not under this program Okay, thank you. You're welcome any other discussion Well, then the clerk, please call the roll nine eyes motion passes Moving on to item 5.2 Is rc number 262 of 2021 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred resolution number 153 of 2021 by all the persons donahue and borne providing for the seal of approximately 5,000 5,140,000 In general obligation promissory note series 2021 a and recommends adopting the resolution all the person donahue Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion Seeing none Will the clerk please call the roll for passage nine eyes motion passes Item 5.3 is rc number 263 of 2021 by the public works committee to whom was referred direct referral resolution number 163 of 2021 by all the persons decker and sorenson Authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract With rebuild its services group to replace the to clarify or drive units at the wastewater treatment facility and recommends adopting the resolution All the person decker Thank you mayor. I make a motion to receive the report of the committee and adopt the resolution Thank you for that motion in support Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll nine eyes motion passes And then we'll move on to general ordinances items 6.1 through 6.6 will be referred to various committees And under other matters authorized by law i'll call on city attorney adams Item 7.1 which is an aro by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending june 30 2021 and june 30 2022 That'll be referred to licensing hearings and public safety committee And then 7.2 is a resolution by all the persons decker and sorenson authorizing the appropriate city officials Entering to a design engineering services agreement with a e com technical services pink To finalize the engineering and provide construction services for the influence building age back project at the wastewater treatment site That'll be referred to the public works committee Then we have a contemplated cold closed session all the person sorenson Thank you, mayor. Um, I moved to convene into closed session under section 19.851 e wisconsin statutes were competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session related to the development opportunities in south point enterprise campus second Thank you for that motion in support Would the clerk please call the roll from closed session Hi nice Motion passes We'll take a a shared three minute recess and I just like to let our viewers at home Know that this will end our broadcast for this evening council will adjourn in closed session this evening. Thank you very much