 I'd like to call the 24th regular meeting of the Common Council to order. Would the clerk please call the roll? There are seven present and Alderperson-born as remote. Okay, Alderperson Mitchell and Alderperson Ackley are excused. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Thank you very much. Would everyone 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 item on the agenda is the approval of minutes from our last council meeting. Alderperson Wolff. Motion to approve. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on those minutes? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Aye. Item 1.4 is confirmation of the mayor's appointments. I'll turn it over to Charles Adams, our city attorney. So the first one is 1.4, confirmation of the mayor's appointment of Marlowe-Tesweed to the Harbor Center Business Improvement District Board. Alderperson Wolff. Motion to confirm. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Will the clerk please call the roll for confirmation? Seven aye, it's one abstain. Motion passes. Next is item 1.5, confirmation of mayor's appointments, city attorney. Yes, this is another confirmation of mayor's appointment, James Owen to the Redevelopment Authority. Alderperson Wolff. Motion to confirm. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Will the clerk please call the roll? Eight ayes. Motion passes. And then 1.6, confirmation of the mayor's appointment of Charlie Wig to the Architectural Review Board. Alderperson Wolff. Motion to confirm. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. And I'd also like to let you know that we were able to find a contractor that lives in the city. And that's Charlie Wig, so we didn't have to go outside of the bounds with that appointment. All those in favor, rather please call the roll. Eight ayes. Motion passes. Next item is public forum, city clerk. There is no one this evening. Thank you. Then we'll go on to a presentation of the 2020 downtown district activation and placemaking plan by Chad Pellecek, the director of planning and development. So thank you mayor. Today I'm gonna talk about a downtown activation and placemaking plan that we recently completed with Graf consultants out of Green Bay. So the introduction and purpose. So this is in 2014, the Harbor Center master plan was completed in partnership with the Downtown Business Improvement District in the city of Sheboygan. And that was really the honest for getting a lot of what you're seeing in the vibrancy of our downtown today. Housing, cross connection and marketing, and then placemaking. So I'll talk about placemaking in a little bit more depth as we move forward. But this is really kind of taking this new version of this plan is taking the successes of that 2014 plan of which about 90% of the work in that plan has been completed and kind of evolving into some additional districts and some additional activities for us to continue to bring some vibrancy to the downtown. So in the 2014 plan, there was a number of goals and actions install streetscape amenities to reinforce the arts, culture and food district and encourage pedestrian activity throughout the downtown. There was a number of projects that were completed with the largest one being the revitalization of the library plaza that was completed last year. And then some streetscape improvements along A Street and the Niagara Avenue corridor. Another goal was to increase awareness and understanding of the Sheboygan market opportunities among property owners, investors and developers. And you've seen that success with the additional housing that has happened. Although this plan added, asked for another 50 additional downtown housing units and we've actually are closer to 350. But yearly we hold a regional developer summit where we invite people from the outside to come in and see the opportunities that we have. And that was really the success for moving these developments forward. Other goals were to establish the Arts and Culture District and we did that with the John Michael Kohler Art Center, expanding public art and introducing family-friendly activities in partnership with the Mead Public Library. And then support the coordination among local and regional tourism efforts, events and consumer marketing to leverage investment. And there's a number of events that have been held night market being one of them in partnership with the Sheboygan County Interfaith Organization. Another goal was to improve the mobility within the bid by promoting alternative modes of transportation. And this is kind of where the downtown trolley, the seasonal trolley service that Shoreline Metro operates kind of came out of and then shared bike systems, which we continue to discuss today on where we should go with that. Another improved wayfinding and navigation within the bid to encourage visitors to explore additional businesses and amenities. Although we didn't create an app as what was planned in there, we did reestablish street connections by opening up Wisconsin and New York avenues and then installing pedestrian wayfinding signage throughout the downtown. And lastly, improve economic returns and reduce vacancy for property owners in the downtown. So we developed design standards that our staff follows today as somebody's coming forward and wants to make renovations to their storefront that it kind of follows a plan for how we do so and then preserve downtown property values by increasing the aesthetics and encouraging quality renovation. So the new plan, the 2019 plan that we're talking about here today is to continue to create place-making enhancements at key locations to reinforce identity, celebrate strength and adjust challenges, continue to improving the mobility about within the downtown districts with alternate modes of transportation, continue to support local and regional tourism and then preserve property values. So what is place-making? Place-making is a collaborative process where community members, business partners and property owners and municipal governments work to reimagine public spaces. The goal of place-making projects is to help people feel more connected to places, more excited to walk to lunch and shop locally and play with their kids in parks and other green spaces. So on the screen is some examples of place-making that you see today that was success of the 2014 plan, sidewalk seating, planters and trees, markets and festivals, downtown district signage, seating areas and community events with the city green. This plan also, this plan looks at four key areas. So the Michigan Avenue and the Indiana Avenue are two districts that haven't been focused on in the past and that are included in the plan as well as what the paradigm folks would call Uptown, which is primarily Erie Avenue to Michigan Avenue, that area and then the downtown, basically from Erie Avenue down to the river. So each one of these districts is broken out with a number of priority recommendations, Michigan Avenue, the three or four priority recommendations are the right sides of the roadway. So there's a lot of road on Michigan Avenue, a wide road with very wide parking lanes. So the idea is how do you try to bring people together with bump outs and those types of things. We'll talk further about strategic nodes of art lighting, district gateway and entrance markers and then facade improvement projects. In the Uptown, it's very similar. Priority recommendations are strategic nodes of lighting, sidewalk seating and facade improvement projects. Downtown is the same as Uptown and then Indiana Avenue is really kind of going off of the whole innovation district and working with district specific street furniture, gateway signage, facade improvements and bike path signage and landscaping. So in the recommendations that gateway signage and street prints you can see on the screen, there's a number of ideas that came forward on different signage to identify these corridors, as well as street prints along the key corridors to try to slow traffic. So there's some plans, there could be some plans to paint some areas and try to slow traffic with traffic calming with painting and those types of things on crosswalks and streets. We've seen some murals already on buildings, particularly on the outside of the Above and Beyond Children's Museum, but the idea of trying to use more district entrance mural signage on key buildings within those districts to identify those districts is another thing that's planned. Parklets, so parklets are taking parking stalls and putting barriers around them and having seating areas out in the street to try to green up areas. So in this picture it shows the US Bank building and what it would be if some of those parking stalls were created into parklets to bring some extra greenage to the green and stuff along the street. And then there's some pictures on the bottom of how parklets, and you see these a lot of times in larger communities as a way to try to encourage people out on the street to dine in and socialize. Strategic nodes of art lighting, so there's different examples here. Some of that lighting has already happened in the alleys downtown in partnership with the Business Improvement District. These are just some additional examples of what that might be. Activating vacant storefronts, so the idea is to take storefronts and put artwork and or dining to try to activate it so when you're walking down the street you feel a sense of connection with those types of businesses. And then sidewalk and alley seating for restaurants. So some of that has happened already with the Black Pig Alley, but considering more of that alley seating for restaurants and people to kind of come out of the building and into these public spaces. And then right-sizing the roadway, particularly as it relates to Michigan Avenue, the idea of some type of bump outs and or landscaped barriers with seating and stuff in to try to connect people closer to the street and not feel like it's an airport runway and trying to green up and make it a place, a third place where people wanna be. And then lastly, facade improvements and projects that support the rehabilitation. So we've successfully worked with the Cauchy's Company on the property where they are today with a paradigm and then the other photo is the Mavericks Barbershop which were historic preservation, renovation projects funded by the city. Under the innovation district specific street furniture, this would be related to Indiana Avenue and trying to give a sense of place with improvements on the street and kind of tied it into the whole innovation district and how that all plays together as a tech corridor and kind of including the streetscaping into those areas. Wayfinding, strategy to encourage walking and biking and telling people how far it is on distances and those types of things so they know where they're going and what to expect. So the next step, so we see this plan as being implemented with a variety of grants and CDBG Community Development Block Grant funds that we have. So the idea would be to start in a document later in the agenda, there's allocations for the 2020 block grant that has streetscaping funding in there. Some of this stuff will be funded with that and then the plan is to work with representatives of the districts in having developing meetings and partnerships to advance these placemaking in the four districts. And then I will leave you with the project for public spaces and that placemaking shows people just how powerful their collective vision can be. It helps to reimagine everyday spaces and to see a new, the potential of parks, downtown, waterfronts, plazas, neighborhood streets, markets, campuses and public buildings. So that's what I have. If there's any questions, I'm happy to answer them but the Planning Commission has unanimously approved this and the document is before you tonight for adoption and then we will start implementation. So thank you. Thank you for that presentation. Are there any questions? Very good. Next item is Mayor's Announcements. The city of Sheboygan is taking proactive steps to protect the health of our community by making recommendations that are meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus in our community and reduce the number of people infected. The steps we are implementing will impact people in our community. Our Sheboygan County Health Department is making these recommendations and consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and based upon the best information we have to protect the health of everyone in our community. We've closed the Senior Activity Center, the Sheboygan Water Utility in Maywood and last week we saw large community events like Flapjack Day and Ice Bowling also canceled. At this time I'd like to bring to the podium Assistant Fire Chief Charles Butler who serves as the Emergency Operations Director for the city of Sheboygan to give us an update on the coronavirus in Sheboygan. Thank you Mayor, members of council. As the Assistant Fire Chief, my job also is to handle all hazards emergency management for the city and I just wanted to report to you tonight that while this is something that is unprecedented and is on everybody's mind right now it's in every media outlet, every source, every email we get right now. I just wanted to update you on a couple of things that are happening here locally for the city of Sheboygan. Right now the Sheboygan County Emergency Operations Center is partially open. This is primarily a public health emergency so public health takes the lead and as you know we do not have a municipal public health agency but we do partner with Sheboygan County to provide those services to our city. So right now that operations center is open, we are working long hours through the weekend, late in the day, starting early in the morning with meetings. We do have our incident management structure in place and we are doing everything we can. Right now honestly the biggest part of the operation aside from just communicating between our internal partners and the school system and the other agencies in the county, law enforcement, the hospitals, the clinics, anybody that's really impacted and there are quite a few including businesses. So we're trying to keep everybody informed with what's going on and honestly aside from some of the things that are happening directly related to the COVID exposures on which I will have a star Grossman from Public Health come up here in a minute but we are doing a tremendous amount of information management right now through a joint information center. We have regular meetings with all of the concerned partners and their information people to make sure that really all of our information is as accurate as it can be, as timely as it can be and as steady and continuous into as many outlets as we can get it because at a time like this we really need to be the loudest voice in the room and that's what we're trying to do right now. We really have to focus on getting the correct message out so that all by itself is a huge task right now and we appreciate everybody's understanding and patience with all of these changes and disruptions to our life but we are trying to follow the recommendations and also trying to make just good rational decisions based on how we manage our lives going forward. So with that being said, I'm gonna have star Grossman come up here. She is the Sheboyin County Public Health Officer and she's gonna speak to you just a little bit about some of the specifics of those cases, what this is not and what it is for us and how we're proceeding with that. So start. Thanks, Chuck and thank you for having me here today to talk a little bit. So my name is Star Grossman. I'm the Health Officer for Sheboyin County Division of Public Health. I'm just gonna give you a little bit of a background so you have some situational awareness about what we're seeing locally. So we have in our county three confirmed cases of COVID-19 and in the state of Wisconsin there announced today that there are 47 cases and they've tested 504 people in the state or 504 negative tests have been done in the state so far. For our three confirmed cases that we have, they came from international travel and Egyptian cruise and when they came back to Wisconsin, they were told to self-isolate when they left their flight and so they were self-isolating and were supposed to call the Sheboyin County Division of Public Health or their healthcare provider if they started to have symptoms. They did go and seek care in Fond du Lac County and were tested in Fond du Lac County and we did get results of those tests on Friday, March 13th when we were also notified that they were tested so we weren't aware initially that they had been tested. But once we got the results, we notified our state partners in the media and notified our community of those three cases. Sheboyin County Division of Public Health is working on our contact investigation right now just trying to make sure that we follow up with, that we follow up with, okay. Jim, could you please mute your line? Sorry. So the role of public health is really making sure that we can stop the spread of this illness any further in our community. So we have a team of nurses that are working very long hours to try and make sure that we follow up with anybody who may have had exposure to these cases. So far we have about between 90 and 100 people on our contact investigation list. We've been following up with every single person on that list and calling to make sure we do a symptom review with them, see if they have any symptoms. If they don't have symptoms, they're told to self-quarantine at home and we do daily virtual monitoring with them so we check in with them once a day virtually and they have to list out their symptoms. If they don't check in that day, we call them to make sure that they're doing okay. And so we ask them to take their temperature twice daily and also ask about any symptoms. If someone should become symptomatic there, we help connect them with testing through our healthcare systems. And so far we have 90 to 100 contacts. We've referred 18 people for testing and we have four negative results back so far and the rest are pending or people that are still trying to get in for that test. We're working on increasing community awareness about our contact tracing process and our isolation and quarantine process and what that all looks like. And then we've also, as Chuck alluded to, have been working very closely trying to get messaging out to partners, especially with so many contacts in our community. There's been a lot of questions about, if I'm sick or if I'm a contact to someone who's sick and my wife is not a contact to someone who's sick, can my wife still go around the community or do we both need to stay home? There's been a lot of questions like that. So trying to clear up all that confusion and make sure that people know what the recommendation is. The biggest, everything's been changing very quickly. The guidelines from the state and federal government are changing, it seems like pretty rapidly. So trying to stay on top of what those guidelines are and then share them out with our community. But from what we know right now, there's been no local spread of this illness within our community. So we're really just working on trying to get those contacts notified and making sure that they are self-quarantined and know how to take care of themselves if they become ill. Thank you very much. Is there any questions? Holder Proust and Sarnson. Thank you so much, Darfur, for chatting with us today. I'm a little curious. So you said you have a contact list of like 90 to 100 people. How do you find these people? Are these people that are self-reporting that they have symptoms or are these people that your department has identified? So it's a little bit of both. When we get a confirmed case of any category one illness and COVID is no different, we contact the person who is ill and we walk through with them based off of the disease process, who you've been in contact with and for COVID it's for the last 14 days. So we talk about who have you seen over the last 14 days and we consider close contact, anybody who's been within three to six feet. So then our contacts or our confirmed cases help us to kind of build that list out of who that person would be and who we should all contact. So we start making those contacts. Cheboygan is a small community and so a lot of times when you start making phone calls like this, word gets out and then people start calling you and saying, hey, I know someone who knows someone who said this and so it's a lot of room or management and those types of things, but then we try and work to the bottom of were they a true contact in helping them get resources. Are there any additional concerns with these three individuals from their time coming from the airport to Cheboygan, have they been in contact with other people? Is there any concern about that sort of community spread with those individuals? So what we look for is we look, they were told to self quarantine, but we're really basing that 14 days off of when they became symptomatic. Okay. So, and they give us that information kind of where they've been once they become symptomatic and we go from there. Okay, thank you. Yes. Any other questions? Well, thank you very much for that information. The next Planned City Council meeting is 22 days from now on April 8th and in the meantime, I ask all the chairs of our city committees not to schedule any meetings until the week of April 18th unless there's something very timely that has to be dealt with. On April 18th, rather week of April 13th, we'll need to close out all of the dockets from all of the committees and get those documents back to council as we close our council year in an adjourn signed die to close that out. So just keep that in mind. And then our city staff is meant to review operations of city government and Daryl Huffland is gonna be giving us an update on those items. Thank you, Mayor Van der Steen. As you mentioned earlier tonight, a couple of city facilities have closed. The senior activity center and the water utility payment window have closed. Also all city park facilities, buildings specifically, including restrooms are closed. Anyone that has scheduled a reservation will be notified by the city staff and refunds will be mailed to them. As far as other city facilities, all remaining buildings will be open. City staff will remain working at those locations either in place or remotely, but will always be available to answer any questions regarding city services. Face-to-face or in-person visits to these city facilities are highly discouraged. Staff will be limiting informal meetings involving the public. And again, residents are asked to contact the applicable department. There are listings and directories on the city's website. In checking with the city clerk regarding absentee voting, again, city hall remains open. And so the city clerk's office will be open for in-person absentee voting. Begins on Wednesday, March 18th continues through Friday, April 3rd. Hours are between 8 and 4.30 with extended hours on Friday, April 3rd being from 8 till 5 p.m. Request for absentee ballot by mail. Again, a ballot will be mailed to you at home. So please contact websites or the city clerk's office. Registering to vote, Wednesday, March 18th is a deadline for electors to register to vote by mail or online for the presidential preference primary in the spring election. After the state, electors must register in person at the city clerk's office or at the polling place on election day. Meet public library remains open at this time. Police and fire department program changes the police department is suspending fingerprinting services, citizen academy, a hop with a cop event, coffee with a cop event and police department tours for the fire department, they are suspending departmental tours. Municipal court dates will continue as scheduled. Pre-trial conferences have been adjourned until May. All adjournment requests will be honored for any reason. Payments, again, the recommendation is to make payments either by phone or through a drop-off. Two drop-off sites are available in the city. One is located outside city hall on Ninth Street and the police department has a drop-off box as well. As we heard earlier tonight, the city is working in conjunction. We'll continue to coordinate with the county's public health division who is also working in conjunction with state and national health agencies. Any questions? Seeing none, thank you very much. Mike, Mike, oh, I'm sorry. No, my question is, or actually would be to Chuck. Is it possible for committees to meet in their entirety by phone? Yeah, this isn't on quite yet, so. We have too many lights on. So the question was whether committees can meet entirely remotely. The answer to that is, yes, with a caveat. You can meet entirely remotely, but we must provide a location for the public to attend and to hear what's happening and to be involved and participate. So the way to do that would be to continue to hold those meetings in their regular locations but allow people to also remotely attend someone someone, whether it's a member of the committee or staff from City Hall will have to man that location to make sure that people can hear, et cetera. All things being equal, particularly finance and personnel, we have a fairly large agenda. I mean, just viewing the items that are coming to us from tonight's meeting. I think it's something we may want to consider unless it's a huge hassle, but it would be something to think about. Thanks for bringing up that idea. Any other questions or suggestions? Go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. One additional service that the city provides, of course, is transit service. Derek Mink, the utility director, excuse me, Shoreline Metro director is in contact with his counterparts as well as state and federal officials. Again, all services remain in effect as a result of the closure of public and private schools in Sheboygan. There are going to be some service level adjustment as a result of a reduced student population. However, transit service remains in effect until further notice. Thank you very much. You're welcome. And just like to also tell people that we have a few poll workers that are in that category, older people that have a high issue with this coronavirus and some of them are not able to make their normal workday at the polls. If anyone's interested, please call the clerk's office for more information. Okay, with that, we'll go on to our hearings. Item 2.1 is hearing number 10 of 1920, pursuant to a notice published in the Personal Notices Incentive City Clerk. There is a hearing scheduled for this evening for the proposed assessments for the installation of new water main or laterals in Ghillie Avenue from Calumet Drive to North 23rd Street. Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Is there anyone wishing to be heard? Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to close. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those, I want to please call the roll for closure. Alderperson Bourne. His mic is off. He's muted. Aye. Hi. The motion to close the hearing is aye. Yes. Okay. Yes. Eight ayes. Motion passes. And then on the consent agenda, that'll include items 3.2 through 3.13. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to also pull 3.12. Can we put a motion on the floor first? Thank you. I make a motion to receive and file all ROs, receive all RCs and adopt all resolutions and ordinances. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. And then the item you wanted to pull was? 3.12. Okay, we'll put that on the floor for discussion. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to adopt the new lease. Is there a second? Second. Okay. So under discussion, city attorney, we need to make it clear what you're doing. So what you're doing is moving to amend the document so as to provide that the new lease document is the proper attached document. Is that correct? That is correct. Okay, that's on the floor. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll for passage? Do we have a second on that? Yes. It was Ryan. It was Ryan. Okay, thank you. This is the motion to amend. 12 minutes. Alderperson Bourne. As amended. Eight ayes. The motion to amend passes. Now we'll need a motion to approve as amended. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to approve. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. One last call for any discussion. Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? Eight ayes. Motion passes. Then the other items on the consent agenda are before us. Is there any other discussion on any of the other items? Seeing none. Will the clerk please call the roll for passage? Eight ayes. Motion passes. Going on to reports of officers. Items 4.1 through 4.4 will be referred to various committees under resolutions. Item 5.1 is resolution number 185 of 1920 by Alderperson Wolff and Donahue, supporting the Wisconsin Assembly Bill 48, AB 48. Alderperson Wolff. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to suspend the rules. Second. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to make a motion to adopt the resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Under discussion, Alderperson Sorenson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm in favor of this. I just had a question. Is the state legislature, are they in session anymore? That they'd be taking this up? Yeah. Okay, I didn't know if there was a timeline associated with this bill and if that was moving forward. So that was just my question. Thank you. Okay. Mayor. Yes, Jim. Please, the Assembly has adjourned and the Senate will still be in session for another week or so. Correct. Thanks for that information. Okay. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Motion passes. Moving on to item 5.2 through 5.10 will be referred to various committees. Under reports of committees, item 6.1 is RC number one, excuse me, 281 of 1920 by the Finance and Personnel Committee, to whom was referred, direct referral resolution number 184 of 1920 by Alderperson's Donahue and Boren, approving the fiscal year 2020 one-year action plan for the Community Development Black Grant Program submission and recommends adopting the resolution with amendments. Alderperson Donahue. I moved to receive. Hang on, Jim. I moved to receive the report of the committee and adopt the substitute resolution. And we have a very good, thank you for that motion and support that is before us for discussion. Are there any questions? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll for passage? Oh, I'm sorry. Chad Pellecek. Aye. Aye. I just wanted to mention that the committee deliberated on the mounts and after we recalculated them the mounts are a little bit higher as you will see for the big brothers, big sisters than what was originally discussed, but this was the motion that you made and they were calculated as such, but I wanted to clarify that it wasn't necessarily the mount that we had talked about because in the quick calculation at the committee, we had taken half of the one that we did not fund and we needed to take the whole thing. So I'm just giving you that heads up. Thanks. Thanks for that information. Mayor? And if I could just... Yes, go ahead. Reflect on that a little bit more. We had, I think, a really interesting discussion at finance and personnel regarding the allocation of these funds and I found a resolution from 2008, believe it or not, which sets out sort of a community involvement process. Yeah, Mary Lynn, speak into our microphone. How's that, Jim? Much better, thank you. Okay, so in terms of the process, I think we all agreed that for next year, maybe we'll try to be a little bit more proactive and involve a bit more of community input. We don't necessarily wanna go back to the process that we had when I was first on the council of extensive interviews with potential recipients because the amounts are generally very small, but it still may be a way for us to look to expand our community participation. Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll. Seven ayes, one abstain. Motion passes. On item 7.1 is resolution number 179 of 1920 by all the persons Donahue and Wolfe supporting the Hmong Lao community opposing federal deportation of Hmong Lao residents to Laos, Alderperson Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I proudly move to adopt the resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll. Eight ayes. Motion passes. Item 2.2 is resolution number 178 of 1920 by Alderperson Ackley confirming the exercise of police power and making an assessment for those benefited properties against which assessments are proposed for the installation of a new water main or laterals in Gilea Avenue from Calumet Drive to North 23rd Street, Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to adopt the resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll. Eight ayes. Motion passes. Under other matters authorized by law, I'll turn it over to city attorney Adams. 8.1 is a resolution by Alderperson Wolfe and Sorensen authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with Lemahue Tree Service for the complete removal of 80 trees and stumps in associated landscape restoration. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to convene in closed session, pursuant to sub A, the exception in section 19.85, sub one, sub G, Wisconsin stats in order to confer with legal counsel for the city of, city who is rendering oral advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the body with respect to the litigation in which it is involved to wit discussion and possible action regarding assessment litigation relating to Walmart, Sheboygan County case numbers, 2017 CV 616, 2018 CV 441, and 2019 CV 444, and sub B, the exemption in sections 19.85, sub one, sub D, Wisconsin stats in order to deliberate the negotiable, negotiate, sorry, and purchase the property from Union Pacific Railway adjacent to the South Business Drive, South 14th Street between Union Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, including the spur between South 10th Street and South 13th Street adjacent to Indiana Avenue and transfer the real property on the South Pier located on 501 and 502 Indiana Avenue, formerly owned by Pentair Corporation, and improvements to the land located at 229 South Pier Drive. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Could have made it longer. All those, would the clerk please call the roll for closed session? Aye. Mayor Amiga, am I gonna be able to hang on for the closed session? I don't believe so, Jim. Wonderful. Here's eight highs. The motion for closed session passes, and I should also note that the item under other matters, 8.1 will be referred to the Public Works Committee. And for the people viewing tonight, this will end our council transmission for this evening. The council will adjourn in closed session. Thank you very much. Now we'll take a short five minute recess. We're gonna reconvene closed session in these chambers. So just stay in your seats or return to them shortly.