 You may not be able to control every situation in its outcome, but you can control your attitude and how you deal with it. Thank you for that quote. Would you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Pledge of 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 would be approval of the minutes from our last meeting. Alderman Hammond. Roll call. Roll call. 14 present. Alderman Lussard and Maticek are excused. Now we go on to approval of the minutes. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to accept and file. Second. I've been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of our last meeting. Any discussion on those minutes? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? 14 ayes. Next is Resignations, city attorney. Thank you, Your Honor. Mayor's office received an email from Susan Kirchner, advising that she needed to resign from the International Committee due to her college schedule. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to accept and file. Second. Thank you for that motion and second. The resignation is before us. Any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? 14 ayes. Next, we'll go on to election for the Board of Water Commissioners. Alderman Hammond. Thank you again. I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot. And if more than two candidates are nominated, the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list. And balloting to continue to one candidate receives a majority. Is there a second? All in favor of the motion and please signify by saying aye. Aye. Alderman Hammond. Thank you again. I moved to open the floor for nominations for a member of the Board of Water Commissioners. Is there a second? I got it. The motion is on the floor. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Alderman Hammond. Thank you. I move to nominate Jerry Vandekrieg for Board of Water Commissioners. And we have a second. All in favor of the nomination, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any further nominations? Are there any further nominations? Are there any further nominations? Jerry Vandekrieg is with us. Jerry, did you want to accept the nomination? Would you like to come to the podium and say anything? Not really. OK. I just got done with the three hour walk. You killed me. All right. Alderman Hammond. Thank you. I move that nominations be closed and to direct the city clerk to cast unanimous ballot for Jerry Vandekrieg as a new member of the Board of Water Commissioners. Second. OK. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify. Oh, I'm sorry. Alderman Boren. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate very much the job that Jerry Vandekrieg does on the Board of Water Commissioners for the last number of years. However, because Jerry Vandekrieg has also done a wonderful job as my CPA over the last few years, I need to abstain from this vote, vote please. Thank you very much. All in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Welcome to another term. Next is a presentation in the 2014 budget summary. Jim Amodio, our Chief Administrative Officer. Leave one for Susie. Good evening. Back on September 15th, I had presented an executive budget summary for the 2014 budget. Basically, everything on these two sheets of paper, front and back, remained the same. At that point, we had a $293,000 deficit after we had gone through the city, budgets at least several times, and have since gone through all these standing committees, as well as a final review by the Finance Committee. The only thing that was decided that changed this letter was on the second page towards the bottom. The Finance Committee, after reviewing all budgets, made a recommendation to the council to restore the lever rate back to 2012 levels, which is up to $0.13 a thousand. At the time, we put the estimate together as between $0.09 and $0.10 was the estimate to cover the $293,000. But again, we didn't have all of the state information in which we're getting in now. So we believe we should be OK with a $0.09 and a half to $0.10 increase. That's the only update I have on the budget since July 15. Thank you very much for that presentation, Jim. Is there anyone registered for the public forum? No. Under Mayor's announcements, tomorrow night, the Harbor Center strategic plan is going to be worked on at the John Michael Kohler Art Center. That meeting is going to be held from 6 to 8 PM. We'll be planning for the future of downtown, including discussions on downtown trends and opportunities, input on streetscape, redevelopment, and the business mix. There's also a survey that's being conducted as a part of the master plan. And you can go to the city website at shaboyganwi.gov. And that'll link you to the survey. Or you can go down to Meade Library and participate it on the paper form. They have those available. And you can leave it at the library when you've finished. Our shaboygan firefighters opened up a new permanent exhibit on the third floor of the Above and Beyond Children's Museum on 9-11 last week. This display includes a replica of fire station number one, a restored fire truck cab, and a window overlook of the community garden. Be sure to take your children or grandchildren to see this exciting new exhibit. And it's a real tribute to our firefighters, the work that they did and the sponsors that they incorporated in this for creating this new attraction at the Children's Museum. Road repairs continue. Geely Avenue between Calumet Drive and North 15s will be addressed this next week. There'll be some road closures there. The annual September Adopt-A-Beach cleanup is going to be held this Saturday from 9 AM to noon. People should meet at the Land Park Beach. Camp Waikota is organizing the volunteers for this effort, so please come down and join them on Saturday. Community survey on heroin is being conducted by the shaboygan police department. To participate, just go to the city website at shaboyganwi.gov and click on the Survey Banner, which will take you to the survey link where this can be filled out. There's a household hazardous waste drop-off this Saturday from 8 o'clock until 11 at the county highway shed on 7614 Frontage Road. The fee is $10 a car, and that includes electronics to be dropped off. Next, we'll go on to the consent agenda. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to accept and file all ROs, accept and adopt all RCs, and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Second. Thank you for that motion and second. The consent agenda is before us. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? 14 ayes. And just a point of information on item 2.3, because the state has moved up the date that the state aides are supplied to cities, we were able to move up our budget schedule. And that means that on 10-7, we'll be holding the public hearing on the 2014 budget. And on 10-21, the 2014 budget will be up for final council approval. Documents relating to the budget, which were previously held over till 11-4, will now be laying over until 10-21. Next on reports of officers, we'll hold item 3.1 until we get to item on the agenda, 4.1. 3.2 an RO by the administrative officer with listing of the estimated unreserved balances will lie over. Items 3.3 through 3.13 will all be referred to various committees. Under resolutions 4.1, a resolution authorizing the purchasing agent to enter to a contract for the provision of health screening biometric services for all city employees currently participating in the city's health insurance program and to waive the need for competitive bidding for the services. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to suspend the rules. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please go ahead. Thank you. I move that we put this resolution upon its passage and also accept and file RO 3.1. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Will the clerk please call the roll? 14 ayes. Motion passes. Items 4.2 and 4.3 will be referred then onto reports of committees. 5.1 is an RC by law and licensing pursuant to RO number 86 of 1314 by the city clerk submitting taxicab operators license 8147. That'd be denied based on his failure to accurately reveal all convictions on his application. This record of violations related to the licensed activity and his failure to cooperate with the committee. Alderman Vanderweel. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion to refer this back to committee. Second. It's been moved in second to refer this back to committee. Any discussion on that motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? Who did the second on that please? Alderman Carlson. 14 ayes. Motion passes. 5.2 is an RC by strategic fiscal planning commission amending the public forum rules for common council meetings. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to accept and adopt to file the resolution. Second. It's moved and seconded to accept and adopt to file the resolution. Any discussion on that motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? 11 ayes. 3 noes. Motion passes. Next 5.3 is an RC by strategic fiscal planning commission repealing and recreating section 2-112 of the Shboygan Missile Code relating to the time of regular meetings as to change the regular meeting time to 6 o'clock PM rather than 7 o'clock PM. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Move to accept and adopt and put the resolution upon its passage. Second. It's been moved and seconded. The motion is on the floor under discussion. Alderman Boren. Alderman Hammond. Thank you. I would make an amendment given our current budget cycle and some of the things that are already in place that I would amend that just begin on 1-1-2014. It's been moved and seconded to amend the document and have an effective starting date after the first of the year. Any discussion on that amendment? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll on the amendment? OK, hold on just a second, please. Alderman Boren. Thanks, Mayor, under discussion. Would you explain that again, Alderman Hammond, your reasoning for not doing it until January? If we have a chance to start earlier, why not start earlier right away? Go ahead, Alderman Hammond. Thank you. Because of what we're doing with the City College and some of the public hearings that have been posted in our budget cycle that we've already approved, I believe it was kind of the consensus of staff that starting after 1-1 made more sense than starting it prior to 1-1. It would throw off a lot of schedules and a lot of things would have to be rescheduled. So thank you. On the amendment to make it effective 1-1 of 14. Any other discussion on that amendment? Will the clerk call the roll on the amendment? 12 ayes, 2 noes. OK, the motion as amended is before us. Any further discussion on the motion? Seeing none, will the clerk call the roll? I will. 12 ayes, 2 noes. Motion passes. Next, we'll go on to ordinances. 6.1 through 6.7 will all be referred to various committees. And next will be Other Matters, City Attorney. 7.1 is a resolution supporting the Green Tier Charter for Legacy Communities as set forth by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. That will be referred to strategic fiscal planning. Yes. 7.2 is a resolution establishing in the monthly premium equivalent rates for the medical benefit plan effective for January 2014 coverage. That will be referred to salary and grievances. 7.3 is an RO by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30, 2014, and June 30, 2015. That will be referred to the Law and Licensing Committee. And 9.2 is resolution number 55-13-14. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to discharge the finance committee regarding the aforementioned resolution, amending resolution number 184-10-11 to establish service fee for payments that are made by credit card or debit card to the city of Sheboygan. Is there a second? Second. OK, the vote needs to be a two-thirds vote of the council to discharge. Would the clerk please call the roll? 13 ayes. Go ahead, Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that resolution number 55-13-14 be passed. Second. I move the second to pass resolution number 55. Under discussion, Alderman Boren. Thank you, Mayor. It says establish a service fee. What is the service fee going to be? What is it going to be based on? I suppose our costs, or go ahead. Alderman Hammond. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is a service fee right now. Traditionally, when you run a credit card, that service fee is paid for by the vendor that has the credit card. I'm very similar to an ATM. We're going to a fee for service where somebody used a credit card or a debit card, depending on the amount. Grades just from about a buck 50 to about three bucks, depending on what the amount that's being charged, and that gets charged to the individual that is making that charge. I believe Chad, correct me if I'm wrong, up to 50 bucks, it's a buck 50, over 50 to 100, three bucks. So again, passing on that cost instead of to the taxpayers, those that are using the service would pay for it. Thank you for that explanation. Alderman Boren. Just to follow up, how much would we anticipate? How many credit card transactions are we doing now and how much are we estimating that the fee will bring in? Alderman Hammond. Thank you. I'm not exactly sure the total number of credit cards that are swiped every year, but we estimate about a $15,000 savings. Thank you for that information. Rather, Chad Pellecek, you have some additional information. This is a new system called Point and Pay. The county right now uses it. We've adopted it and have programmed it and what we're looking at doing is implementing credit card payments and other departments that haven't historically accepted a credit card as in building inspection, the municipal service building. So those types of fees where we've always collected cash or checked, they'll now have the option to do credit card. So the $15,000 savings that we would see is really the savings that is in the finance department currently and the municipal court system. So what we're looking at is if we would implement the current credit card system in all, in these other departments as well, transit is on and municipal court, we would obviously see more expense to it. This puts the expense, like Alderman Hammond said, on the user versus on the city. So there's a processing fee every time you would use your credit card and that way we can roll it out to other departments so we've got another means of payment for people that are paying for services. Thank you very much, Chad. Any other discussion? Would the clerk please call the roll in the motion? 14 ayes. Motion passes. Alderman Hammond. Thank you again, Mr. Mayor. Move to convene in the closed session under the exemption provided in section 19.851 E Wisconsin Statutes for the purpose of deliberating the possible sale of public property where competitive and bargaining reasons require a closed session. Second. Move to second it to go in the closed session. Will the clerk please call the roll? 14 ayes. Motion passes. We'll take a five minute recess and then go into closed session.