 Yep. I'm going to look back fondly on that hearing. Well, it is four o'clock and I'll call our meeting to order. Do a roll call. Alder Decker here. Alder Ackley here. Alder Donahue here. Alder Feldy here. Alder Sorenson is present. All right. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from January 27th? So moved. Well, second. There's been a motion by Mary Lynn, second by Dean. Any discussion on the minutes from our previous meeting? Seeing none. All those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. The minutes are approved. All right. Three point one twenty twenty annual report for the Department of City Development Building Inspection. Is Chad present? He is. Thank you. So those of you that were on the finance committee, saw the planning and development side of this report on Monday. There's two divisions in planning, city development, planning and development and building inspection, building inspection reports to this committee. So in the report, the first 12 pages are related to planning and development starting on page 13 is the building inspection profile. You can see on the chart that there is a five year trend chart of the revenues and building inspection permits and licensing looking at the twenty twenty. We issued about thirty six hundred and forty five permits for a total of about one point one million dollars. It's a little bit lower than the previous year in 2019, although given that we were in a pandemic, I think we fared fairly fairly well on revenues closing out the year in twenty twenty. On the bottom of that chart, it talks about licensing. We license weights and measures, which is gas pumps and grocery store scales and stuff. So the state, we contract with the state and they do all the onsite inspections of that. And then the city bills out for those services. And then the last thing in that area is contractor licensing. We have a local licensing program where we contract, where we license local contractors to do work in the community so you can see the total revenues year over year as it relates to building permits. If we move on to the next page, there's a five year history of residential housing construction. The primary focus has been in the past of apartments and multifamily development. You can see we've had one, three single family homes. That's really given the fact that we don't have a lot of single family land to develop, although with the new subdivision coming on the south side and the opportunity for another hundred and seventy four lots. This should help these numbers going forward on the single family construction site on page 15 of the report. It outlines the code enforcement and nuisance orders. So this is the work of the two part-time code enforcement officers in partnership with the police department. We issued a total number of complaints of 683 for nuisance. Nuisance would be sanitation, off street parking, those types of violations, and then 1184 of housing related violations. And the map in this report kind of shows you where those complaints have been. And then it goes into a little bit more about our continued interdepartmental focus on neighborhood issues per the strategic plan and landlord training programs. And then a final picture of our department. We've had a lot of change over in the department with retirements in the last two years. And we've got a good group of people working with the both divisions. So that's it in a nutshell. If there's any comments or questions, I'd be happy to address them. Any questions for Chad, Alder Donahue? Thanks, Chad. I really appreciated your report. Is there any way to get two things? Is there any way to get a readable map of the nuisance and housing code violations, number one? And number two, do you see a trend or an area of concern more than, say, one neighborhood more than another? And what would you be doing to address that, if anything? To answer your first question, yes, we have this. Thank you. To answer your first part of the question, yes, we have this map in a larger format that we can share with the committee so I can send it out via the email. To answer your second question, I think the interdepartmental staff meeting where we collaborate with the police department, public works, the mayor's office, Todd's office, attorney's office. We actually just had one this morning is the piece where we try to identify issues that are congregated in certain neighborhoods and then strategize how the different departments are going to employ resources into those neighborhoods. So we hope our goal of that is to try to figure out those issues beforehand. And then we're collaboratively across all city departments to rectify the issues. Now there is increased crime and calls for service in different areas that comes into play through what the police department is doing. And then the building inspector and code enforcement officers are working very closely with particularly the beat officers but other officers as well to address issues as they're identified. I would say that your department has received most of the state and federal COVID relief to disperse. This is an unrelated question if that's right with you, Ryan. Well, let's keep it towards building inspection just so it's joined to the agenda. Yeah, and so that's my thought in terms of assistance that is available in sort of substandard housing kinds of relief. So we have received the, we administer the CDBG program, which has received two allocations through the CARES Act. So the first allocation was geared towards a small business program as well as some nonprofit public service activities. The third round is geared toward we were working with Lakeshore CAP to roll out a mortgage assistance program, which will actually be announced next week to provide mortgage assistance for homeowners that had a loss of income or are in a forbearance state with their mortgages. And the idea behind that is to try to curb the issue that if people did get forbearances with their mortgages as lower income people to make sure that we don't end up where we did when we came out of 2007's depression and had a number of foreclosures to try to help those people get current because as what data is showing across the nation, people got forbearances on their mortgages and they haven't planned for how they're gonna get current once those forbearances are gone or it gets added to the end of their mortgage. So we're hoping to be able to provide up to three months of assistance to kind of help bridge some of those gaps. HUD has kind of tied our hands on some of that. We were hoping to do six months, but if we do more than three months, we have to make sure that the property is up to lead based paint standards, which adds another layer of complexity to it. So it hasn't been easy working through little guidance from HUD on how to spend these dollars and the ways we can and cannot spend them, but we've tried to help funnel funds into these neighborhoods to help lower the moderate income people that may have been affected by the pandemic. Okay, thank you. Thanks, Chad. Any other questions for Chad regarding his report, Dean? I have one quick question, maybe it doesn't really have to do with the report itself, but it has to do with the issues of, I've had some of the neighborhood officers discuss with me, possibly looking at a ordinance or something, and this is possibly goes to Chuck's office too, where we could follow up with certain landlords that we have problems with, where we could possibly, instead of going through all the steps, you go through all the steps with one house, and then boom, it goes on to the next house of the house, and where we would be able to, we have almost like a chronic nuisance, like a chronic nuisance ordinance for certain landlords. If you were, if that certain landlord is giving it, being a chronic nuisance, you would be able to almost extend it from one property to the next, each time that they have another nuisance, we'd be able to extend some of the timelines on that. I don't know if that's something that can be done or not. So to Alderman Decker to answer your question, we actually talked about that in our meeting this morning. The B cops brought that up, and they're gonna be sharing information with Marie and the city attorney's office, and she's gonna have a discussion with Thomas and Chuck to see if there is any flexibilities based on what other communities have tried. So some of it might be state law, and some of it may not be feasible, but we're gonna look into that to see if we can either update our chronic nuisance ordinance or implement another one. Okay, great, great. And it sounds like, you know, we're probably gonna need to get more details is what they're looking for, but from your description, it sounds like something we can already do under the current nuisance statute. Okay. Awesome. Thanks, everyone. Any other further questions for Chad? No. All right, that's the report just for discussion only. I'll do 3.2, 2020 annual report for the city attorney's office. Attorney Adams. Here, I have a report there attached. You can see it if you're, if you looked at it in board docs and I can answer any questions that you might have. Any questions for attorney Adams? All right, see none, move along. All right, 3.3, RO number 128, 2021, submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31st, 2021, June 30th, 2022, Taxicab license application number 3452. All right, so it looks like this is, we're holding a hearing for denial. Is Mr. Peterson president all in the council chambers? He is not. The only people that are in the council chambers is Officer Stelter with the police department myself and Scott from WSCS. Chuck, we should provide you the information at least so that you can, okay, turn down the lights, that's what you're choosing to do. I'll turn it over to you, Chuck. Thank you. Officer Stelter, if you're at the microphone, there's no camera in the council chambers. I'm there, Chuck. Okay, so I'll just ask you a few questions. You're familiar with the record, both criminal and traffic of applicant, Jamie Peterson, is that correct? That is correct. And he did reveal some felony convictions, one for firearm by a felon. And there are some other, there are a couple of other felony convictions as well that may be less related to the license activity, but you're aware of the firearm by felon conduction from 2010, is that correct? Yes. Additionally, you're aware of a felony manufacturer delivery of heroin as a repeater and as a party to the crime in 2014, for which he remains on extended supervision, is that correct? That is correct. In a 2017 felony possession of narcotic drugs on prison grounds as a repeater for which he remains on probation and owes fines and fees, correct? Correct. Before I move on to some of the other potentially related items, why is it that as a department, you would be concerned about these drug conditions for a taxi driver's license? Well, obviously, operating a taxi would provide transportation for anybody that is still currently dealing or manufacturing drugs. Through my experience in law enforcement, with the Sheboygan Street Crimes units as well as a supervisor of that units and a supervisor of Sheboygan County Drug Unit, we have received credible intelligence before and have investigated suspected drug dealers that's or taxi drivers. Does it also have the following convictions of 2017 there to keep vehicle under control, correct? Correct. 2018 speeding, correct? Yes. 2019 misdemeanor possession of narcotics as a second offense and as a repeater for which she is currently on extended supervision and owes fines and costs, correct? Correct. And she also potentially relevant, although relatively old and would be a 2007 year obstructing from Osaki County, which can be, which may be considered because it remains unpaid, is that correct? That is correct. And so based on that record of violations related to the activity and the record of Jamie Peterson as being a visual law violator, is it the recommendation to deny this taxi driver's license? Yes. That's all my questions. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions from council members? Make a motion. I'll second. Motion by Dean, second by Barb. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor of denying the application, please state aye. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. The application is denied. Moving along. 3.4 RO number 135-2021, submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31st, 2021, June 30th, 2022. Attorney Adams. Thank you. We are recommending the following. First, we're recommending holding the taxicab driver's license application of Stanley J. Hansen for a denial. We are recommending granting the change of premises application of time and a half with the additional grant of permission for the use of city right-of-ways, which is sidewalks in this case, for commercial purposes on the date of the change of premises application. It's just one day, so they don't need to necessarily get a sidewalk cafe permit, but we do have to grant permission for that use. We are recommending granting the beverage operators license of John F. Rinnauer with a warning to conduct himself at all times within the confines of the law, including full cooperation with the police. That's based on a record of violations that we felt was insufficient to deny the license, but still led to some concern from the committee, and then granting their all remaining licenses on the RO. Is there a motion to accept the staff's recommendations? Motion to accept the act of recommendation. Second. Motion by Dean, seconded by Mary Lynn. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please state aye. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. Okay, next meeting date, February 24th. Motion to adjourn. I'll make the motion to adjourn. Second. Motion by Barb, seconded by Mary Lynn. All those in favor of adjourning, please state aye. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Chair votes aye. We are adjourned at 418. Thanks, everyone. Have a good afternoon. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye, everybody. Thank you.