 All right. Good evening, everyone. Thanks for coming on the 18th regular coming council. I will call the meeting to order. Will the clerk state the quote of the evening? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday and happy new year. Thank you. Will the clerk call the roll? Alderperson Ackley. Alderperson Decker. Alderperson Felde. Excuse. Alderperson Flicky Paneski. Alderperson Heidemann. Alderperson Mitchell. Alderperson Pirella. Alderperson Raimi. Alderperson Rust. Alderperson Salazar. There are nine present. Thank you. For folks in attendance, can you please stand for the pledge? 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. Alder Decker. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from our last meeting? Yes, thank you, Mayor. I move to approve the minutes from the 17th regular council meeting held on December 4th, 2023. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor of approval of the minutes, state aye. Aye. Any objection? Minutes are approved. Next is resignation, city attorney. There is one resignation, Marcos Guavara, from the Mead Public Library Board of Trustees, effective immediately. Thank you, Alder Decker. Thank you, Mayor. I move to accept and file. Is there a second? Second. It's been seconded. Any discussion? Seeing no cues. All those in favor of accepting the resignation, state aye. Aye. Any objection? All right, that's approved. Next is confirmation of mayoral appointments, city attorney. The mayor hereby submits the following appointments for your confirmation to be considered for appointment to the business improvement district board of directors for the 2024-2025 term. Katie Gludeski from the Wiles Center, Marla Testweed from H.C. Denison, David Gas from Rody Dales, David Hondo-Hanneman from GEMs, Jackie Erdman from Above and Beyond Children's Museum, Andrew Jacobs from EOS, and Ryan Sorensen, mayor, city of Sheboygan representative. Thank you, Alder Decker. Thank you, Mayor. I move to confirm. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Discussion on the appointments. Seeing no cues. This is a roll call vote. Nine nays. That's approved. More confirmation, city attorney. Person to the requirements of section 7-30 of the Wisconsin Statutes, the mayor herewith submits for your approval the list of nominations for election inspectors for all elections in 2024 and 2025. The affirmation section of the law stipulates the manner in which election officials shall be chosen. He tenders these appointments as follows as as attached to retain as much seniority and experience as is possible while complying with state law. Thank you, city attorney. Alder Decker. Mayor, I move to confirm. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Seeing none. This is a roll call vote. Nine nays. Thank you. That's approved. Another confirmation. Item 7, city attorney. Mayor hereby submits the following an appointment for your confirmation. Jim Hollister to be considered for appointment to the meet public library board of trustees. Thank you. Alder Decker. I move to confirm. Moved and seconded. Discussion. Seeing none. Roll call vote. Nine nays. Thank you. That's approved. City clerk, anyone for public form this evening? There are two. The first person signed up is Michael Burnett. I don't see him. Is he here? Michael Burnett. All right. Move on. Second person is Jim Venakren. All right. Mr. Venakren, please state your name and address. Then you'll have five minutes. My name is Jim Venakren. I live at 432 Lincoln Avenue in Sheboygan. As I hope you are aware by now, I am the chairperson of the Sustainable Sheboygan Task Force. Over tonight, I speak to you as an individual. I'm speaking about sustainability issues, though. I'm speaking to you tonight about items 40 and 41 on your agenda. You may recall that last month, when I made a comment on the budget, I encourage you to address sustainability in your decision making process. Items 40 and 41 are important decisions, which are needs that we now have in the city. But, if not done properly, could compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Now, I state it this way, because when you created the Sustainability Task Force, you define sustainability as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Item 40 is the pre-development agreement with Cornerstone, Pelton, Builders LLC, which addresses the planning for Poth and Gartman Farms development. I realize that this is the early stages of development, but my experience is that if you don't address issues in the early stages, it becomes difficult to make changes later. When you review the agreement, it referenced the development of a master plan. This is where we, as a city, can create, with the developer, a sustainable development. Sustainability could include such things as requiring solar panels for buildings, or at the very least, citing the buildings to allow the installation of effective solar panels in the future. It should include a plan for the children who will live in this area, so that they're able to walk and ride their bikes safely to Jackson School. It should include the use of heat pumps to heat and cool the buildings. It should include a provision that all building materials and appliances meet energy star standards. It should include the use of passive solar building design. It should include a plan for green space that minimizes turf lawns. These are just a few of the sustainable planning aspects that should be considered. Sustainability should not be something we do on the side. It should be the primary focus of our actions. I encourage you to instruct our city administrators to work with the sustainability task force to help develop a sustainable plan for this property. Moving on to item number 41, the use of ARPA funds. This is a relatively minor point, but I encourage you not to use the funds to develop curling or outdoor ice skating as suggested in the city administrators memo in item 41. While I support trying to encourage activity in the downtown area, our weather is now too warm to sustain these activities that require consistent below freezing temperatures. In the winter of 2022 through 2023, and when I referred to winter, I referred to December, January and February, we had only 34 days out of the 90 days where the daytime high temperature remained 32 degrees or below, meaning 56 days or above freezing. As a volunteer cross-country ski trail groomer for the city of Sheboygan for over 10 years, I can attest to the fact that our winters are becoming too warm for these types of winter activities. We have discontinued the use of ski trails in Evergreen Park and the south side of Maywood in part because our climate is warming and we're not able to sustain these activities. Each of the last three decades have been warmer than the previous one. Global warming is here and it is affecting us. This money would be better spent putting solar panels on the new roofs for the library or uptown social or both, or as a study on the feasibility of a botanic garden greenhouse in the downtown area which would attract people as the city administrator hopes or indicated he would like to do in his memo. The reason I said I don't speak for the Sustainability, Sustainable Sheboygan Task Force is a task force was not made aware of these issues or consulted with by the city administration. If sustainability is truly your goal as a council, I encourage you to instruct the city administration to consult with the Sustainability Task Force in the future. Thank you. Thank you Jim. See clerk anyone else? No one this evening. All right next we'll jump into item nine presentation by Bill Baker-Tilly for the 2022 audit review. Finance director do you want to tee us up for anything? Absolutely. I just want to say thank you to Michelle for coming today. This is the 2022 audit as everyone here knows I'm hoping that we get this earlier in the year moving forward but with everything going on it did take a little longer this year. There are presentation handouts if anyone in the crowd is interested in seeing what Michelle will be going through. They're located on the front table but from that I will just say thank you to Michelle and give her the floor. All right good evening everyone and thanks for having me tonight. My name is Michelle Walter. I am a senior manager at Baker-Tilly. I am in charge of running the day-to-day audit with Caitlin and her team as well as getting the financial statements and everything across the board and finish line. As Caitlin mentions we're coming to you in December for the 2022 audit but that's not to say that anything went wrong. It's just a matter of timing of when everything can got handled but what I want to go through is some very high-level results of the audit. I'm not going to dig into some financial statement numbers because we're at the end of 2023. I think that information there's pages two through four of the handout that is presented that will have some of that information but we're going to touch on overall audit. So the objective of the audit is for the auditors to issue an opinion on the financial statements and in order to do that we have a couple different documents that you should have received. The first one is the financial statements and so our opinion is included in this document and I am happy to say that we were able to issue a clean unmodified opinion for 2022. That means that it's the highest level of assurance that you can get from your auditor so your financial statements are free of any material misstatements. They include the required disclosures and they're consistent with prior years. Now if you're a person who likes to look year to year and compare there is something we call emphasis of matter paragraphs and this just calls your attention to anything different during the year and so there's two items that are in our opinion this year. The first is an implementation of a new accounting standard regarding leases and the second is related to a restatement of the 2021 financial statements. Now restatement doesn't mean a bad thing. The restatement that happened this year was kind of identified by the city in conjunction with us being a first year auditor for the city last year in a while so we were able to come in with fresh eyes last year and kind of say what's going on. From that process we were able to work with the city and determine there needs to be some cleanup in your capital assets so that's what the finance department took a lot of effort into cleaning up the records getting detailed records and then that restatement was adjusting the records to reflect where they should actually be at the end of 2021. So that was called out in that opinion. The second item is the reporting and insights document that goes with the audit and this is more of a verbiage report as opposed to numbers and this kind of lays out our audit approach. The objectives of the audit, the responsibilities of the auditor as well as of the city and any kind of risks that may be on the forefront. This is where we'd also discuss any internal control matters. You may have heard material weaknesses before. So for 2022 there were five material weaknesses that were reported and four of them were repeat findings of last year. Some reconciliation items with loans in CDBG as well as you know just monthly reconciliations. Because we your auditors prepare your financial statements we also report a material weakness on that front and that's a byproduct of kind of a cost benefit analysis. We're not saying that the city could not prepare because I have full confidence that Caitlyn and her team would be able to prepare them but we do it out of convenience and they the city and the finance department review those financial statement drafts as we prepare them and we have conversations of things don't look as they see them. The last material weakness is related to that restatement. Accounting standards require us if there is a restatement no matter what the reason that that material weakness has to be presented. Other items within this reporting and insights document are some required communications we have to have as your auditor. So we have to communicate any significant accounting estimates any changes in accounting policies which I mentioned there was a new accounting standard regarding leases. Any independence issues which there are none and if there are any disagreements with management which there were none as well. It's also a document that has you know an audit isn't just one time a year it's throughout the year so if anything were to come up from council members or finance or other city employees we welcome discussion throughout the year of how we can help or bring something to light. The final piece is related to the single audit and this is a compliance audit of your federal and state awards. So this happens annually as the city has over $750,000 of grant funds expended. So this is a report that also has opinions regarding internal control and compliance and in both cases once again a clean unmodified opinion was issued. I will note that there are findings in the single audit which is not unusual. If you have a material weakness that will equate to a finding in your single audit report so those five items that I mentioned were findings in the single audit report and knew this year were two program specific findings. There were no findings in the prior year but both of these items related to unusual programs or items that happened during the year. The first one is the coronavirus state local fiscal recovery funds. There is a quarterly report that you the city reports out on the total expenditures that have been spent and there was an error in what was being reported as given to the water utility when the water utility in essence is part of the city financial statements so there was a difference in that number. The second finding related to CDBG section 108 loan guarantee program and this is an unusual program that the city entered into an agreement this year and there was some disbursement date requirements that the city was unaware of and items were paid after September of 2022. Not a major item but based on the testing that we did we had to bring that up to the city and the board and the federal agencies which there should be no follow-up pretty much from that as that section 108 is closed out now. So I did mention you know things were a little later than anticipated but there was a lot of moving pieces on the city part. Being the second year back on the city's audit there's a lot going on and Caitlin and her team were able to work through new chart of accounts that restatement of the capital asset numbers the new accounting standards and then just some clarification on some past accounting treatments that we made great strides forward this year and then going into 2023 I think we're set up to do very well and I know the finance team is staffed more consistently and a little better than it had been so I look forward to a good 2023 audit. So pages 2 through 5 of that handout are very high-level financial information that I'm not going to go through. The only thing I want to call out is on the third page is the fund balances of all your governmental funds and the general fund is your main operating fund of the city and the main number that I want to call the attention is the unassigned fund balance in this fund is twenty one point eight million dollars. So this is a very and this is about forty seven percent of 2023 budgeted expenditures so this is a very healthy fund balance position that the city is in and it gives you that flexibility for if you have one-off purchases or if something comes up that you need to dig into contingencies so very strong position there. I included my contact information on the the final page of this handout as well as Wendy Unger who is the partner on the job. If you have any questions throughout the year or after you've digested some information please feel free to reach out. Otherwise I'd be happy to try and answer questions that you may have now. All right thank you for your questions. Roberta Alderflick Pineski. Thank you. The unassigned in the fund balance do we call that other in regular budgets? Finance director. If I'm understanding your question correctly when we utilize fund balance for one-time purchases we call it fund equity applied as a revenue source. Okay. Does that help? Yes that helps and then the follow-up is is forty seven percent you said it was healthy because it's very healthy. Yes. Losses flexibility. Yep. What do you usually and customarily see? So it's a wide range at each municipality depending on what their needs are. I mean typically if it's around 25 percent that's a healthy percentage so we like to see it around there so yours is a little higher than that but that's a good thing. Okay. Thank you. Yep. There's no questions. All right. Seeing none. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Number ten mayor announcements just a few quick notes before we jump in I know we have a pretty lengthy council document to work through so I'm looking forward to our conversations on the items ahead. Just reminder that obviously as we move into the holiday season offices throughout the city will be varying and whether they're open or not starting this Friday. City offices will be closed as well as on Christmas on Monday. Please check the respective web pages for more information of times and closure as well. Yesterday in the Sunday edition of the Sheboygan Press there was a message from the mayor of Esslingen, Matthias Klopfer, who is the mayor of our sister city in Germany. So check out that holiday message to the citizens of Sheboygan as well. Also regarding our other sister city, Subame in Japan, on Friday we recently received a plethora of new year greeting cards from students in Subame because 2024 is the year of the Dragon and the students at one of the local schools in Subame were wishing us well and good spirits as we move forward for the year of the Dragon. So that was a fun little holiday gift to receive from our friends in our sister city as well. So again I know we have a lengthy meeting so I'll keep my my comment short but to those have a merry Christmas, happy holidays, as well as a happy new year. So thank you. All right we'll dive into our first two hearings. I'll open up hearing number 523-24 pursuant to letters served and waived and the notice published by the City Clerk and the hearing scheduled for this evening for the purpose of vacating and discontinuing the public way of portions of South 19th Street between Union Avenue and Oakland Avenue and Oakland Avenue between South 19th Street and the Union Pacific Railroad right of way. Is there anyone wishing to be heard on this item tonight? Yep, if you want to come on up here then if you can just state your name and address and then you'll have three minutes. My name is Ian Utec. I live in the town of Sheboygan 4024 North 30th Street. I am the general manager of the Northwestern Hills restaurant. Our owner of the property is not in town right now so I will represent but in the matter of this it comes down to a in public interest and the interest of the citizens of Sheboygan and I don't know that this would be a good thing for the public. Union Avenue is a well-traveled road. I don't know if any traffic studies have been done on 19th Street and how that would pertain to overflow onto a sock trail or onto Business Drive at the intersection of Union and Business Drive. If you've ever traveled that intersection there's many different ways to go and lights and everything else there. I think that would increase traffic there and make that even more unsafe area. Currently there are receiving docs on Union Avenue for HDT that tractor trailers are backing into and blocking the roadway momentarily. You know it's usually not long just a few minutes. There are overhead doors on 19th Street where Sadov iron generally picks up daily. If that street is closed will that be picked up on Union Avenue thus blocking traffic more? I know we use 19th Street as a overflow for our patrons. On Friday and Saturday nights our busiest nights sock trail and Union Avenue gets parked on both sides. The intersection of sock trail and Union Avenue is not the widest area. I know we also butt up against the Union Pacific Railway and there is not much room there for improvement. Because of the grading from the tracks down Union Avenue I don't feel that that's very safe at times also. Our employees park on 19th Street that sort of keeps some overflow off of sock trail for patrons the public and I know that employees of HDT also park on 19th Street. So I don't know if they have a parking lot that's also full. I don't know if they have plans for that to be expanded or what's going to happen with that. I just don't believe that it's in real the public interest of closing that street considering that there's residential on the north side of it. It gets used by our patrons and many of the other businesses on the sock trail corridor. Thank you very much. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to be heard on this item? Good evening. I work with Scott and he did have a PowerPoint. I don't know if that's available. I'm Neil Leland. I am the president of HTT and with me I've got our project manager internally at HTT. I've got our attorneys. I've got our owners and I also have our construction advisors with us. So if there are questions we'd be more than happy to try to answer as many as we can. What I thought I would do at this PowerPoint it gives you a visualization a little bit about what we're trying to do and talk a little bit about why it's important, why we do believe it is in the public interest and talk a little bit about the progress we've made and where we stand today. So in terms of the next slide we're desiring to put 30,000 square feet directly to the west of our building on a space that currently is occupied by 19th Street. That's going to be basically an opportunity for us to secure our future and continue to be a value-added employer in the Sheboygan County area. We've weighed, back up one slide please, we've weighed our alternatives. This hasn't been done just on the spur of the moment. We've given hard and long thought to what makes the most sense and that direction is the one that actually makes sense to us. The project is in standstill depending on the outcome of this conversation. So we've kind of put everything a little bit on hold right now waiting to see whether or not this preferred outcome is the one that is going to fly. Just from an overview map on the next slide you can see that map right in the middle of that rectangle is our proposed building and it occupies the roadway of 19th Street and most of the property that's on the western edge right off of Union Avenue on the south side. There's a 25-foot distance between the property that's occupied by the northwestern house and where this building would go. It would include a 20-foot easement to allow for easy access to utilities and it also would be a five-foot green space between setback from that property edge of the northwestern house to this building. Union Avenue is on the top of that. Just a few moments ago we talked about where this would be located and how it affects the adjacent residents. 19th Street in front of 19th Street there are no residents across the street to the north. You'd have to go to the north and east in order to hit residents and the one that's immediately on the northeast corner from this expansion is more of a warehouse style building and not a house. The flow of traffic that goes down 19th we talk about safety as one of the concerns. Right now our employees park in our lot and it is not filled it is not at capacity. It would take a public street which I can't control who parks on a public street and our employees use most of those spots and we run multiple shifts so even when it goes into the second shift with which is the late afternoon hitting the dinner hour a lot of those parking places on 19th are occupied by our employees. Excuse me. So the parking situation we have our parking lot is going to continue to be there. We have enough capacity. When you park on 19th it narrows that road considerably and in the wintertime it isn't necessarily super wide to try to navigate that. So looking at that portion of the property I don't feel like it's going to affect any of the Jason properties in terms of the utilities and the delivery safely and effectively of utilities nor is it going to hamper the emergency service to any of the neighborhood. You can see in the map that sock trail is less than a half block away so diverting traffic around in that area really does not have a significant impact on traffic flow. If you go to the next map this where you can see it a little bit further out and to the south where HTT is in the red you can see that 19th takes a little bit of a turn before it hits Ashland Avenue. That corner where Highway Business 42 Ashland Avenue intersect and where 19th Street drops into Ashland that's a very tight turning ratio. By closing off 19th I actually think that's going to improve traffic safety at that corner because when it's a busy time of the day with commuters traffic being high that is a very difficult corner to navigate and by pushing the traffic on on sock trail and then to Ashland you keep that interaction to a minimum. So I feel like from a safety standpoint whether it's our employees trying to cross 19th Street or traffic trying to navigate the corner of 19th and Ashland I feel like it's actually improving safety for the traffic in that area. Could you scroll to the next one please? The benefits. HTT wants to grow in place. We want to remain a vital part of the community in our neighborhood and it is in its inner competitive interest to do that as well as in the interest of the community to have us maintain our employment. So we can grow our employment base if we can secure that Western expansion. Additionally for the city of Sheboygan, besides having more employment in the community, we're actually going to grow the tax base by adding more billing and improvement to that property. Sheboygan also gets the opportunity to work with one of our own. Richard Soxley is here tonight. He and his family have been long term business owners going back multiple generations in the city. So this isn't somebody that you have to convince that Sheboygan is worth investing in. They have invested and they're eager to continue to invest in Sheboygan County. So it's a very good partnership between the Soxley family and the city of Sheboygan and you'd be able to hopefully maintain that going forward. Sheboygan would have the opportunity also as a city to look at the roadways and say if there are two roads that we can take out of the maintenance type of expenditure, you would gain that advantage as well. When we met with the Planning Commission, Alderman Mitchell had explained that he had done a lot of homework and this is his home district. So both from residents of businesses and individual people, he said that he felt really good about this project and he tried hard to look all sides of it and couldn't find a negative in this project. So I think that it's an important endorsement by him and we appreciated that. Can you scroll to the next slide please? We've had a really good relationship with progress with the city so far. The mayor in his office and his team have been very helpful for us in trying to talk this through and figure this out. We've worked with the Planning Commission, we've worked with the Public Works Department and the City Engineer. They've always been very helpful with us and we appreciate their interest in their support on this so far. We appreciate your initial approval of the initial resolution on November 6th and you did so in unanimously. So we appreciate that. And the Public Works Department, as we had discussed earlier, they've been very much a value add partner in identifying what we need to do with the utilities to make sure that we continue to be helpful to the delivery of the utilities to the entire neighborhood. Also, the City's Planning Commission unanimously approved our plan so we appreciated them doing that and they supported vacating the streets in the meeting that happened last week. I guess what's needed to happen now is we're doing the right thing right now in this conversation. We're having a public hearing and we're weighing carefully the benefits and the impacts and it brought our advisors here specifically for the purpose of saying if you guys need to have questions answered, we're here to do that. What we're asking for is you guys to exercise the leadership that you've started on that other slide and that is really think about what does the most people the most good. The city of Sheboygan is a large community and we draw employment base from the entire city. So I think when you start thinking about the benefits I outlined earlier, particularly with employment, it's a good thing to think about the number of employees and the number of families we support and would continue to support by growing in place. Consider what really best sets the future. When we talk about what we can do as HTT to continue to grow the employment base by moving to the West, it allows us to continue the flow of our products through our plant in a motion that's consistent with all of the equipment is set up today. If we have to move in a different direction that takes those efficiencies and blows them out of the water. So I look at it and say if you look at it, our future, if we can continue to in increments as we need to to accommodate growth, move West, it helps with our efficiency and makes us remain competitive in our business. So that's an important thing to do. Finally, the work that needs to be done certainly relates to passing the final resolution and order during this meeting. We're asking you to do that. So I appreciate the time that you guys have given me to speak. And like I said, we welcome any questions that you guys might have. And hopefully we've got answers or we can can develop them. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to be heard? If you could just introduce yourself, name and address, please. Garrett Cortine, I'm the owner of the business kitty corner to them on South 19th 228 South 19th, OPI Incorporated. I just think before any decisions should be made on this, we should have a little bit more information. I noticed there was no discussion of the areas south of Oakland, and across from 19. I think that we're closing off that Oakland Road to what are their plans with that in the future? And what are the plans in that production area that they're proposing to build? Are we talking about production areas? Warehouse thing? Is it going to be loud? Is it going to be hazardous, potentially dangerous to those of us around? For example, currently, their operations very loud. So when we're trying to take phone calls and so forth during summer, especially when the doors are open, we can hardly hear and people can hardly hear us. So I just like to have more information on what's going on in there. And then also, just wonder what's going to happen if they this, if this does go through the area to the end of Oakland, heading east into the closure in 19th heading north into the closure, those areas will be surrounding us and won't be any use to anyone. I assume accept us. So I'm wondering if there's any way we could potentially utilize that space in the future and how we get that discussion going. That's it. Thank you. Anyone else? Mike Robinson, a neighbor. I was just addressed it to you. Is that going to be production or warehouse? I mean, press is in there. Excuse me. Sir, can I have your address too? Oh, 1802 Union. Okay. Thank you. Is that going to be production? Okay. What about the machines? Are you going to have vibration shoes on them? Neil, if you're going to speak, I'm going to have a call you call you to the mic. Noise and vibration. That would be controlled once we are able to design the building. But we are going to do what we can. And we're going to stay within the what the zoning requirements that are the areas owned industrial. So that's we're going to stay within the zoning requirements and fulfill our obligations. But right now at this moment, we don't know which machines specifically. We're in that process. It's put on hold. But there will be manufacturing machines located where 19th Street is right now. So it's going to be manufacturing and be storage there too. Yes. Okay. All right. I was just wondering what was going on there. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to be heard on this item? Anyone else wishing to be heard? Last call? Anyone wishing to be heard? All right. Alder Decker. Thank you, Mayor. Move to close the hearing. Is there a second? Moved and seconded. All those in favor of closing the hearing please state aye. Aye. Any objection? All right. And we'll have further discussion on this item number 24 on the council agenda. Next hearing item 12 hearing number 623 24 pursuant to letters sent and notices published by the city clerk. The hearing scheduled for this evening is for the purpose of changing the land use classification of property located at 3021 Main Avenue parcel number 5928 1615440 from class suburban residential to mixed residential. Anyone wishing to be heard on this item? Anyone wishing to be heard? Last call on this item. Anyone wishing to be heard? Seeing none. Alder Decker. Thank you, Mayor. Move to close the hearing. It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor of closing the hearing. State aye. Aye. Any objections? All right. That hearing is closed. Next we'll jump into items under the consent agenda items 14 through 22. Alder Decker. I move to receive and file all ROs receive all RCs and adopt all resolutions and ordinances. We've been seconded discussion on the consent agenda. Alder Decker. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much. Item number 19, something called flock safety that costs $93,000 was a repeating $45,000 annually. I'd like to know what it is and if it's in the budget or if it's capital improvements or combination of both. Chief. The intent is to use grant safety for it. It's 93 total, 48 one year and 43 the second year. It's a license plate reading camera system, so we would be entering in a contract with flock safety who would install both the hardware and provide the software for a system with license plate reading cameras. It would be used essentially for crime prevention and be used in two ways. One would be what I would call active and by that I mean it would be connected to the state's hot list. The hot list is a list of stolen vehicles, vehicles used in major crimes and so it would take pictures of license plates of cars passing the points where it is. It would compare that to the hot list and if a car passed that was on the hot list. It would notify the officers in the squads that that car had just passed that location and the squads could respond and look for that vehicle in that area. The second way would be used for crimes that had occurred. The easiest way to describe it to you would be if somebody involved in organized retail crime had hit one of our retailers and committed a large retail theft there and their cameras were able to pick up a photo of a car but not the license plate so we could identify who it is. We could enter in descriptors of that vehicle into the software based on that photo and the system would search and hopefully be able to provide us with a license plate to allow us to identify that vehicle and eventually arrest somebody off of that. So we get grant funds for the first year, the second year, and the third year? For the first two years. And then it would be in your budget for the subsequent years? Potentially. So the long-term plan is really to get businesses to fund it. So I already have some businesses that are interested in funding it and some businesses in the city that have gone and purchased cameras and installed them on their own, on their property. The other thing I think that's important to consider is that the first two years would really give us the experience and the data to be able to evaluate and determine whether the return on investment is worth it. Thank you. Are there questions on the consent agenda? Alder Flickipaneski. Thank you. This is item number 21 and it it's the second amendment to a contract for what's quite a wonderful amenity in Kiwanis Park but I want to know what it changed from and to. We're saying now it's three days a week, six hours a day. So what what what is it open more? Is it open less? What what's changed? Director Bebel. Yeah if Joel Curlin our park and forestry superintendent has been actively involved in in the contract with the power pubs and like him to give more detail on that. Thank you. So yeah just a few things changed. It is went from five days that he should be open to just three. He's finding that most week days are pretty slow. So he's basically open some Thursdays for for rentals, things like that, but it's mainly Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. There's some things that came up and if really we would be talking about a more of a long term agreement at this time and he asked that if we could just do a one year. It was the normal it's the normal time to update it but he's asking just for a one year because there's some things going on with his background that that may or may not change. So really other than cleaning up the agreement names and things like that that was really the main. There was one date to where we instead of the end of August renewing the agreement asked if we could wait until least October so we get a better chance of those items are approved. Item 23 RO number 822324 by the City Planning Commission to whom was referred number 74 2324 by City Clerk in general ordinance number 30 2324 by older persons fell the amending the City of Sheboygan official zoning map of this Sheboygan zoning ordinance to change the use district classification for property located at 3021 Main Avenue personal number 59281615440 from class suburban residential to mixed residential classification. Alder Mitchell. Thank you Mayor. I move to receive and file the RO and adopt the ordinance. Moved and seconded discussion on this item. Seeing none it's a roll call vote. That's approved. Next item 24 RO number 852324 by the City Planning Commission to whom was referred resolution number 1142324 by older persons Mitchell and Decker submitting the final resolution in order discontinuing portions of South 19th Street between Union Avenue and Oakland Avenue and Oakland Avenue between South 19th Street and Union Pacific Railroad right away. Alder Mitchell. Thank you Mayor. I move to receive and file the RO and adopt the resolution. Moved and seconded. Any discussion on this item? Alder Decker. I guess I have a couple questions for the gentleman from HTT if it's possible. Without objection. All right. Okay. I guess one of the questions I guess I have was did you guys have conversations with the neighbors in that area and did you talk to them about like the the neighboring businesses and stuff? Has there been some conversations and stuff with them? I'm going to ask Bob to step up. We did not speak individually to the houses that are to the north and to the east of where this building would be. Bob you had conversations with the people at the northwestern house. Yeah we had brief conversations with people at northwestern house regarding some of the street closings some of the things that were going on and they had voiced their concerns about the parking. Okay. Other than that we didn't have any contact with anybody else in the area. So you did not contact like gaspers or the other gentleman there with the okay no archery place I mean those those are places that would be affected. Sure. Both sides of both pieces that we're looking to vacate. Okay. And the area that we You speak in the right mic. Sorry. We own both sides of the streets that are being currently vacated. Yes. We're requesting to be vacated. And then the pieces that are down the block we felt weren't going to be immediately impacted by this building. Okay. I guess that would be my disappointment that you did not contact and talk to those people because they still will be affected. I really wish that that conversation I be honest with you I wish that that conversation had taken place. I guess and I mean when you talk to northwestern have you addressed possibly working out a concern with them as far as maybe helping them with additional parking since you are taking some of the parking away from them. Yeah. I've moved the options open to to have those conversations. I guess I'd like to see something like that happen. Thank you. Alder Decker. Alder Flicky Presky. Thank you. I'd be interested in in the economic impact or the at least the personnel impact. How many people do you employ now if this addition moves? How many will you employ after the addition comes on? There's a couple of things we can talk about now we can talk about the future now we've got about 150 employees total and we're going to be bringing jobs from two different locations potentially into our facility. We've got one in the town of Sheboygan and one in the city of Sheboygan Falls. The town of Sheboygan is on a shorter term lease so we would be logical to bring those jobs back in and the number of people that are up there is about six people. So there'd be six jobs moving from the town of Sheboygan to the city of Sheboygan and then the Falls plant is a bigger discussion that we have to have internally as to whether or not the timing would make sense at this point. If we can get all of our machinery equipment and warehouse storage under one location it saves considerably. We are not a I would say it this way we're we're a nickels and dimes business not a ten and twenty dollar business and so efficiencies matter more than anything else and when we're trucking products between two different plants in a third location of the warehouse that is that is not helping us be competitive and maintain the future. What we can do with the western expansion in the future is as you look at you know these are like blue sky guesses but I think by giving us the western route to expand this phase would be one phase there could be alternate or additional phases beyond that as our business grows that would allow us to stay in place in Sheboygan but if we do not get the ability to move westward then we're going to have to look if growth happens in the way we believe it's going to we're going to have to look outside the city of Sheboygan because right now we have no other place to grow besides west. How many employees in Sheboygan Falls should that happen and I know you need to make other. Okay there's about 25 employees right now. Alder Mitchell. Thank you Mayor I just wanted to restate my support for the project I want to rehash everything that was already said the various benefits as well as what I mentioned that plan commission other than I have not personally heard any concerns from constituents about it I feel like any chance that we have to support a Sheboygan business especially local family-owned business is a good opportunity for us I would also like to point out that there's no incentive being asked for as part of the project at this time and I also find that to be quite refreshing I Neil and Bob from HTT from my perspective have been proactive and eager partners in all of this they've had me in the facility two times a couple times to over the project to see the facility walk around the building and really get into the details answer any questions that were had which I also highly appreciated how engaged HTT has been so far with that stretch on with the stretch on Oakland Avenue my understanding is they own both sides of the property it already does not go through so vacating that street is just going to not have that street going between the two sections of property they own for self-19th I understand now the parking concern and I do hope that conversations would remain ongoing with neighbors about the best way to handle whatever future steps in the process with this project occur but it does seem like sock trail is a much more natural way around that again 19th is only going to Ashland which has that very short intersection with a business drive every time it's very anecdotal I am one person in the district had many but anytime I've gone there I've always gone around and again with owning both sides of the property the property on both sides of the street I understand that there will be an impact but perhaps as major as it could be and nothing to dissuade me from what I think would be a very large step to support a local family-owned business so I will be supporting this this evening and I would ask my peers to do so as well right thanks for the Mitchell older cells are I'll start with the gentlemen that are at the podiums so the map that you posted or that we saw in your presentation it looked like there was a house maybe that was an old map it looked like there was a house on that top corner across the street from your building to the side of the northwestern like a little yellow brown house across the street from 19th you can see where 19th is correct and if you look immediately to the east on that corner before before the tree on the top of the map mm-hmm roughly in there that is a warehouse style building it is not a house I'm talking about in the corner yeah that house doesn't exist anymore it doesn't live okay great sorry okay I was like that looks like a house doesn't exist anymore both sides of that as as alderman Mitchell explained both sides of 19th are owned by the soxies and so that house was purchased and it was demolished okay great and then then my question I want to volley over to either public works or have we done any internal sort of viewing of the impact it would have on the traffic in that space have we as the city looked into that I know we're looking at this as a business decision but have we looked at it on how it pertains to the safety of the car traffic and constituents in that area city engineer we didn't do any kind of formal traffic impact studies because this little section of road is used so minimal by by the neighborhood traffic anyone traveling north and south bound up in this area they're either going to use sulk trail road or they're going to use self business drive so no we did no no formal traffic study but like I said I think this road is used quite a bit during the day for parking for the htt employees yeah so okay thank you all the rust thank you I think this is important to go through it because we already lost an opportunity with another manufacturing company that built in port washington and there's your bogeyman base company and i don't want to see us make that same mistake again for the city thank you anyone else wishing to speak okay with no more cues this will be a roll call vote six eyes two nays one upstain all right that item is approved items 25 26 and 27 will be referred to the respective committees next we have item 28 resolution number 120 23 24 by elder persons decker and sales are ratifying retaining outside legal counsel in the matter of two citations issued to robert mcgill's and um andrea lee rickman currently pending in municipal court alder decker uh i asked to suspend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed uh i moved to adopt the resolution moved and seconded any discussion seeing none this is a roll up alder heitemann thank you mayor i guess that my concern is then we've got a series of suspends rules what is the reason for suspending the rules can you give me a legitimate reason why we have to do it at five times in a row i believe city attorney so i can only address them one at a time and um if you read the document you'll see it there but for this particular one it's it's because the matter is pending in court and so we need to get uh an outside attorney on this this is a matter that our office cannot handle because we are conflicted out okay so how long did you have previous knowledge of this that you had an opportunity to have it brought to a committee or or it's just something that this is what this is the way we're going to do it this is the way to do it to get it going right away once you have a citation and we learned that the person is pled not guilty we need to get on it quickly yeah thank you alder mitchell thank you may right perhaps just out of curiosity what is the conflict that presents us from pursuing these citations internally a member of our office is the victim fair enough thank you additional comments on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote nine nice all right that item is approved next item number 29 resolution number 1818 23 24 by elder persons decker and salsar authorizing appropriate officials from the shabuigan fire department to sign a day meeting contract with blue harbor resort and conference center for the use of meeting and bakewood space at blue harbor for an i ff peer support conference hosted by the shabuigan fire department on march eighth and ninth 24 alder decker thank you mayor i asked to suspend the rules is there an objection all right there's been an objection all those in favor of suspending the rules state i i any objection all right uh in opinion of the chairs the eyes have it alder decker please proceed i move to adopt the resolution is there a second second it's been moved and seconded any discussion on this item alder flicky paneski thank you um i can understand the need to get an attorney into court before the court uses up its days i can understand needing to get to a bank so that the uh property doesn't foreclose i have a hard time doing it to make sure you get a room at a hotel for suspending the rules all right any questions on that one old city attorney but what i can speak to that is this is that blue harbor required this to be signed actually by the 15th they agreed because of the council schedule they agreed to wait until today but the fire department would lose the contract if we did not pass it today thank you very chief no i was going to say the same thing as 30 adams we got it we received a grant for this peer support class for the county and unfortunately due to our fire department we're not able to host it would be due to the ADA requirements uh and we would lose the grant so mental health awareness is very important in our field and this was the opportunity to do it otherwise we wouldn't be able to thanks any other discussion on this item all right seeing none this is roll call vote nine eyes that's approved next item 30 resolution number 129 23 24 by elder persons decker and sales are authorizing the city attorney's office to settle civil actions pending before shaboin county circuit court caption mid-state amusement games llc versus city shaboin in which we're consolidated case number 2021 cv 000325 elder decker thank you mayor ask to suspend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed i moved to adapt the resolution second it's been moved and seconded any discussion on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote nine eyes that's approved all right item 31 resolution number 130 23 24 by elder persons decker sales are authorizing the purchase of parcel number 59281479010 located in the shaboin business center from wisconsin wpllc elder decker thank you mayor ask to suspend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed i moved to adapt the resolution is there a second it's been moved and seconded any discussion on this item holder mitchell i apologize if i'm forgetting something on this one do we have an explanation of why we are buying this property city attorney yes okay this is part of a negotiated development agreement we're working on and we could review more in close session but this is something that has been presented to this council before and you agreed with moving forward with unfortunately uh the company has taken we've got verbal confirmation that they're moving forward we need to finalize the development plan but as part of the development plan this was the city's portion that needed to be fulfilled so we're fulfilling this so that the landowner can honor their contract there's a swap that's taking place so i believe we have until the 28th um for the swap to be fulfilled so our plan is to move forward on our purchase so that they can fulfill their portion of the purchase thank you thank you additional comments on this item all right seeing none this is a roll call vote nine eyes that's approved next resolution number 123 23 24 by older persons mitchell and flicky paneski authorizing retaining outside legal council to do legal work for the city of shabuigan related to tax incremental financing elder mitchell thank you mayor i move to suspend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed with your motion i move to adapt the resolution it's been moved and seconded any discussion on this item older mitchell i suppose a similar question to the last one around it was a bit vague in the resolution i have a feeling that there may be more conversation happening are we able to get any more idea of the nature of the work that we'd be hiring council for yes we have a number of development agreements that need to be written over the next probably two months i think we're looking at somewhere on 10 to 15 total that we'd be looking at and obviously we don't have the staff to get that done and then we're also looking at potentially setting up some to districts so we'll need legal opinions on those as well so with the current workload in the attorney's office i talked with turni adams about potentially looking at appointing someone that specializes in tiffs to get us through that kind of big bulk obviously all these call all of the work that would be done is reimbursable through the tiffs so it's not an actual cost to the city out of our operating budget either thank you additional comments all right seeing none it's a real call vote nine eyes those are that's approved items 33 through 39 will be referred to their respective committees all right item 40 rc number 154 23 24 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred resolution number 110 23 24 by elder persons michel and flicky paneski authorizing entering into a pre-development agreement with cornerstone lc regarding redevelopment of the poth and gartman farms property on the south side of the city older michel thank you mayor move to receive the rc and adopt the substitute resolution with the advised agreement revised agreement moved in second is there a second moved in second discussion on this item all right seeing none this is a real call vote nine eyes all right that's approved next item 41 rc number 155 23 24 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred resolution number 113 23 24 by elder persons michel flicky paneski obligating american rescue plan act funds to pay for various eligible capital projects and authorizing the finance director to complete a 2024 budget amendment with a sorted anticipated costs older michel thank you mayor move to receive the rc and adopt the substitute resolution moved in seconded discussion on this item all their sales are thank you um so i first i'd like to ask um our development director if you can sort of give us a clarification of how this impacts um the uptown parklet the st claire parklet and then i'd also my follow-up question to that is asking why the name is being changed you know why we're asking to change the project name from the st care parklet to the downtown parks thank you so um this does not impact the funding that the city received a grant for 50 000 from wisconsin economic development corporation for the parklet so this does not impact that funding at all so this is arpa only um and so and then i think that to your second question it's really to broaden the city is focusing on multiple downtown parks to look at opportunities for place making and to um reinvigorate some of our parks and so it just broadens it so that we're more inclusive can i ask a follow-up yes um could that downtown parks sort of umbrella still include the st care parklet once you actually hear sort of the project ideas that could happen there or as they work through some of that the request that we made for the reallocation of arpa had no work being done in the st claire parklet the plan here was to address some place making in the park specifically it had we had no intention that it got included into the resolution but the request that we requested of finance was to change it to downtown parks we're specifically looking at fountain park and city green of putting some your own amenities there but they could be included in that is what i'm asking um they could be included but i don't think there's going to be enough funding to address anything so i don't want to give the false hope that we're going to proceed with a project there and we don't have enough funding to address that city attorney i'm just going to make a recommendation since this is also including city green and city green is not actually a park and we've purposely not to find it as a park uh perhaps what it should be is down parks downtown parks and city green or fountain park and city green or down pout downtown parks and public spaces something of a sort can that be accepted as a friendly amendment city attorney yeah if someone makes that as a friendly amendment i think yeah i'd make an amendment to include public space because then that could include the parklet in the future okay so there's been a motion to include uh the the definition regarding public space so make a motion to change it from downtown parks to public space second all right it's been moved and seconded on the amendment now we're discussing the amendment any discussions on this amendment older okay older prolery speaking on the amendment okay seeing none all those in favor of speaking on the amendment state aye aye any objections all right the amendment is approved now we're back it's at the main motion as amended all their sales are you still have the floor i don't have any further questions okay older prolet so i'm still a little bit confused so please um if you don't mind just to clarify so is there still a parklet project and is there a budget for that project which is completely separate from what we have discussed here from the 344 plus yes the there's a state grant that the city has for 50 000 that is for the parklet and that is still in place and will not be affected by this at all so that project has its own funding and its own funding source and we're just looking at reallocation of ARPA funds and there's a follow-up the the funds that we are located for the parklet project based on the plan that has been discussed and designed um are those funds sufficient or would that parklet again based on the plans for that parklet projects are the funds sufficient the 50 000 correct no um i just got the plan sunday um was the first time i've seen them 50 000 is not sufficient to address what's needed there the 344 000 is not sufficient to address what's needed there um or what's being requested so we have to go through that um i've had absolutely no discussions on the plans that they're proposing so we're a long way from being able to say what that request might look like and um it was mentioned during the committee meeting that there were um objections to close the road permanently which would then hinder the implementation of the projects or the plans um is that still the case or that is just something that needs to be talked about other pro i guess that questions out of order the question at hand is regarding the american rescue act plans and then the route the amendment that was added as well to change it to i respectfully challenge that because the decision right there's been a challenge okay other prella please proceed then with no without without the quite we're not talking about closing the road right now no i can't know i can prevent that the only thing is that i can i i can do without that however the what has been recommend done during the committee the finance committee which then was recommended included the idea of the road so i mean that decision was made based on the response we received during that meeting that also the street would be closed so we can talk about that at another time but it was included in the subject because i asked that question during the meeting yep that is correct we did have a conversation about that so dpw had weighed in that they have some concerns about potentially closing the road we have not had any conversations with those or i have not had any conversations with those who have proposed a project and we have not had any formal conversations with dpw about moving that forward so we have none of that project included in these costs because we haven't had that conversation yet so to say that there is a project or is it a project we don't know yet because obviously nothing's been presented to council to consider so that we're a long way off we've got a kind of cost out what's being proposed bring that proposal to you guys and let let you guys make a decision if you want to move forward on a project and then ultimately if you're going to make that kind of an investment you want to be looking at closing the street so either you're wrong so a number of conversations have to take place to get to that point very good thank you so much and i'll just add to if folks if council members do want additional comments can't regarding the park let in general and the plans i would i would respectfully request the public works committee chair to add an item on the future agenda so just a commentary note all their cells are um okay so then i guess my question would be towards the city administrator you just said that we would need to see a plan for the word i'm not allowed to say but if we but we're looking at moving funding from the ARPA fund to these downtown parks will we be able to see a plan public spaces to public spaces it doesn't say downtown public spaces if we're will we see a plan for what that funding is going to go to because the other items on there it makes a lot of sense to me and i can sort of validate what those are going to but that public space section i don't what's the plan what are we seeing is there going to be more information because then it's difficult to approve it tonight without actually knowing what you're going to do with it yes none of this funding was spent until a plan is approved by council all we're doing now is asking you to reallocate it and we're currently working on proposing a plan and then ultimately if you guys approve that then we have the funding secured for that would that include the additional items that are also in there like for the gymnasium and the other pieces are just really all reallocating the funding but not approving it well you'll have to approve the contract for award for building the gymnasium and things like that so there's other steps before actual expenditure for these projects okay so we'll be seeing them individually coming down the pipeline once the correct i don't think there was any direct spending in any of that allocation each one of them would come before you guys in different pieces whether it be um parks projects you're still going to have to approve the contracts and go through that process for each of them is that correct i think the radios might be the only one that wouldn't come back yeah radios the only specific purchasing radios for police department i think was the only specific equipment item so we won't so then it won't come back to council then it's a part of budget yes that piece would not okay it's a part of the budget but the other pieces will still come back through council correct because we would have to enter we'll have to bid them and then they'll have to come back as contracts okay all right holder ramy thank you mayor um my comment uh slash question i suppose is i i i don't want to ignore the fact that um this is i feel like the second or third time i've heard that we're making major plans without including a task force so i'm i'm referring to uh mr van akron's comments about we have our sustainability task force and they're not being included in anything um uh is that going to be remedied are we moving forward going to be including this task force and if not why do we have this task force anyone who wants to answer would be great so i guess the the question specifically relating to the sustainability task force is not in order because we're talking about reallocating arpa dollars but i guess generally we do incorporate when we talk about planning uh and getting feedback in the task of the sustainability task force is to advise the council in terms of items that they want us to move forward and they have provided no recommendation i don't feel like it was if it was out of order for me to speak to that why was it not out of order for mr van akron to speak to 40 and 41 to which or or 41 is what i'm talking about ah i'm just saying i'm i'm noticing a trend and i don't want to see it continue going that way so if i need to ask that question every time i i suppose i will because that's important that's a fair question thank you thank you older flicky paneski thank you and it kind of bumps on that don't we have a marina in parks commission or committee so then that question is out of order the item on the agenda is relating to reallocating funding for arpa dollars thank you okay alder heidemann yeah thank you mayor i think what mr van akron was talking about was curling and and putting things in a park that might not we wouldn't really need i don't think it had anything to do whether or not we uh bring a substantial that committee into the council or we have representation i think that would be up to the mayor to do something like that but they killed her any discussion on this item as amended all right seeing none this is a roll call vote alder ackley is not here to vote so there are eight eyes all right that is approved next item 42 rc number 159 23 24 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred to direct referral resolution number 117 23 24 by alder persons mitchell flicky paneski authorizing the appropriate city officials to sign the january 1st 2024 through 20 december 31st 2026 contract between the city of shabuigan and shabuigan professional police officers association alder mitchell thank you mayor i moved to receive the rc and adopt the resolution with the amended agreement is there moved in seconded any discussion on this item right seeing none this is a roll call vote eight eyes that is approved item 43 rc number 160 23 24 by the finance and personnel committee to whom was referred to direct referral resolution number 116 23 24 by alder mitchell and flicky paneski authorizing entering into section 125 flexible benefit plan agreement for services and business associate agreement with the versified benefits services ink regarding section 125 flex benefit plan services for 24 alder mitchell thank you mayor i moved to receive the rc and adopt the resolution it has been moved in second any discussion on this item seeing none it's a roll call vote eight eyes that's approved next 44 general ordinance number 33 23 24 by alder persons mitchell flicky paneski modifying the city's table of organizations alder mitchell hey can mayor i moved to suspend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed i moved to adapt the resolution moved in seconded any discussion on this item seeing none older cells are can someone give me a little clarification of exactly what's happening here we're moving positions into higher levels or need some clarity finance director thank you um i helped put this together so i will uh defer to hr director if you have additional questions uh this is actually adding positions to our table of organization one being the cafe coordinator at uptown social building which was a previously friends of uptown social position funded position and they actually had it within their budget and employed them so this would be um changing that position to a city uh employee and additionally with the end of the f3 management marina management contract we are requesting that we have positions at the marina added to the table of organization as well so those were previously f3 marina positions that we are now requesting to have city employees brought on as city individuals i am i have put this forward as a suspension of the rules request because with the ending of the contract at the end of the year we're hoping to get these positions posted with the council approval as soon as possible so that we can have these positions filled right after the beginning of the year can i ask a follow yes well the um money that we used to pay for the f3 contract cover these positions as a whole or will be additional cost to us and that would apply for the other cafe coordinator position is that money that's covered in the friends and would that be additional cost for the city as well city administrator so sorry uh so the the marina positions will all be funded with the existing revenues would actually be the dock revenues so the slip rental fees will cover the cost of operations so as the contract stood before we actually paid all of the expenses out of f3 that f3 generated we paid all of them plus we paid the hundred thousand dollars a year so we'll be saving the one we should be saving about 109,000 i believe the last estimate was it's with the new wage assignments that number is going to fluctuate some but we anticipate there will be a surplus there as a result okay for the uptown social positions those i believe the net's about 60,000 roughly break even with what revenues versus new revenues versus new expenses okay so the position is the cafe is covering the money that you're making the cafe is covering the and the new revenue that were that revenue shift that we're doing with the friends that revenue will cover the new expenditures that were okay so this shouldn't have a large impact on our bottom budget line correct it should have a positive in both great thank you older mitchell okay to finance director my dance director commentary thank you i did want to just point out that there are two budget amendments that are going to be coming forward that moves the funds from the lines that they currently are into the salaries uh taxes all those lines that would be appropriate to expense to however that does require two readings no matter what with a budget amendment so that could not be suspended and adopted today so you'll see that come back on january 2nd thank you older mitchell thank you mayor i would somebody be able to give just a bit of an overview of what we expect the i don't want to call the department the area for the marina to look like as far as operations with these positions so i have a marina manager a marina maintenance manager those are our two full-time positions an assistant marina manager that is seasonal and then the only non-manager of some form is the backhands which are also seasonal director bevel you want to take that one sure um those positions will report to the department of public works we'll be managing the operations we did have oversight of f3s contract as well so bringing these positions on there'll be more of a direct report to our offices so we currently manage for instance all the the boat lease is on the river and we're going to extend kind of that type of philosophy along to the marina during this period of i guess uncertainty while we embark on this new reimagination and and looking at the future of what the marina will look like so bringing these people on we're looking for someone just to be on site we're going to need someone on site to help manage the daily operations down there the maintenance is although it's a manager position is what it's called because they they manage the seasonal staff the marina manager manages everybody that would be on site in other words if there is an issue to be communicated from a voter or from a resident or something in the area the marina manager within dispatch the necessary person or then contact our office to respond accordingly any follow-up alder mitchell now at this time thank you thank you additional comments on this item great seeing none this is a roll call vote alder perla thank you eight ice that item is approved next matters that have been laid over item 45 resolution number 108 23 24 by alderperson rust officially recognizing the farnsworth neighborhood association alder rust i moved to approve the resolution moved in second any discussion on this item alder rust i'd just like to say that i've gone to a lot of farnsworth neighborhood association means and they've worked really hard on this and i'm really proud and happy to say that's district 8's first neighborhood association and hopefully many more to come thank you all right thank you alder rust and just kudos to you help and get this neighborhood association going as well as to our friends at neighborhood pride so any other discussion on this item seeing none this is a roll call vote eight ice okay that's approved next we have a contemplated closed session holder decker thank you mayor i moved to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in in section 19.85 one e wisconsin stats where competitive and bargaining sessions require a closed session related to the following one potential development of opportunities land purchases and incentives involving potential growth of the neemac facility in the city's southside business park two potential land purchase and incentives involving redevelopment in the downtown and south pier areas three potential use of tax incremental financing involving the creation of new tid districts within the city okay okay and a motion to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in section 19.85 sub e sub g for conferring with legal council who is rendering oral advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the common council with respect to proposed settlement agreement in the matter of frank bernard versus anthony tj hamilton etc al us district heart eastern district of wisconsin case number two two three cv 00999 scd it's been moved and seconded this is a roll call vote thank you hi okay computers are shut down hey guys all right we're going to take a five to ten-ish minute break and reconvene in closed session sorry i'm sorry all right we'll reconvene an open session um i'll call on older decker item 48 resolution number 124 23 24 by older persons mitchell flicky panesky authorizing the city attorney's office to settle the matter and frank bernard versus anthony hamilton uh u.s district court eastern district of wisconsin alder decker i ask us to spend the rules any objection seeing none please proceed with your motion i move to adopt the resolution it's been moved and seconded further discussion on this item seeing none this will be a roll call vote alder person decker i all the person flicky panesky all the person heiteman all the person mitchell all the person parella all the person ramy all the person rust all the person salazar eight eyes thank you older decker it's been a long meeting uh we've exhausted our agenda uh is there a motion to adjourn i move to adjourn moved and seconded all those in favor hi the objection we're adjourned at 903 have a wonderful holiday and merry christmas