 in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible. Thank you very much. Would the clerk please call the roll? There are 15 present today. And all their person, Andy Schneider, is excused. Tonight we want to recognize Jacob Hitman from Troop 818, the Atomacular Conception Church. Jacob has completed the requirements and was received as Eagle Scout Award at a Court of Honor ceremony held November 13th. Jacob, please come forward and will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Jacob's Eagle Scout project was to renovate the Immaculate Conception Cemetery Chapel. This project included painting the exterior, interior, and altar. The floor was refinished. The pews were cleaned and a small heater was installed so the chapel could be used in winter. Congratulations, Jacob, and thanks for joining us tonight. 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 the minutes from our last council meeting. All the person, Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. There are no resignations tonight. Next we'll go on to Mayor's Appointments. City Attorney. One set of appointments from the mayor submitting the following appointments for your confirmation to the Sheboygan-Squared Bid Board. Rick Scroggins, Amy Horst, Jane Davis-Wood, Eileen Simmons, William Holbrook, Paul Rudnick, Chad Palishek, and Sarah Spicer for appointments to expire on December 31, 2018. Those appointments will lie over till our next meeting. We'll move on to Confirmation of Mayor's Appointments. City Attorney. First one is submitting the following appointment for your consideration, Alec Bartoli, to be considered for appointment to the Sustainable Sheboygan Task Force, whose term expires on April 23, 2016. Next, submitting the following appointments for your consideration, Michael van der Steen and Chad Palishek to be considered for appointments to the Sheboygan Area Tourism Commission for the term January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017, and submitting the following appointment for your consideration, Paul Rudnick, to be considered for appointment to the Sheboygan-Squared Bid Board to fill the unexpired term of Jake Toman, whose term expires on December 31, 2016. Alderperson Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I move to confirm. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Item 1.7 is a presentation on Sheboygan Soup. And tonight is joining us tonight is Amanda Salazar to educate us on Sheboygan Soup. All right, give me a second here. I've got to move it way down. All right. Well, first I'd like to say thank you to Mayor van der Steen for having me here tonight. I'm really excited to present this Sheboygan Soup concept that myself and a few other volunteers have been working on for the last, I'd say, about six months to really kind of kick this off the ground. So to give you an idea of what soup is, soup is at its core is a community-based crowd funding dinner. Sheboygan Soup is organized by volunteers who care about Sheboygan and who want to help the community feel empowered to improve the city which we live in. The soup concept isn't new. I'll tell you, I heard about it first at a young professional summit that I attended about a year ago. Detroit's been doing this. Austin's doing it. La Crosse just picked it up. Green Bay is doing it as well. And the idea is, is soup, Sheboygan Soup isn't the grant funder, but our job is to plan an event that creates a place for people to gather and share ideas in a safe environment. The community and the participants in soup decide which project will receive funding. So just to kind of talk to you a little bit about how soup works. So the first phase is the planning phase. Basically the soup organizers, which is we're all volunteers. We all have full-time jobs. So we're doing this on Friday mornings for an hour at a time. But we kind of come together and we are marketing the dinner. We did an open house about at the end of October and we had just through us inviting each volunteer invited five. And we had an attendance of over 40 plus to the open house. And it really was just an open house, a concept of sharing ideas and really talking about how can we empower our community to really collaborate together and create projects that maybe haven't been presented or things that maybe we haven't thought of. So we want all walks of life, all different backgrounds. It's just a really even open playing field for a community to just engage and to talk about positive change. The second phase is a proposal phase. So Sheboygan Soup will solicit submissions and collect proposals that will also seek approval through a committee that we're putting together. So we hope to have some key people to really making sure that these projects, one, are feasible, and two, to really make sure that the person proposing the project understands how much money it actually really requires, right? Not that someone, for example, someone wrote down, can we recreate the zoo? Okay, that's thousands and thousands of dollars. But it's just really helping the community understand what it takes to make some of these projects happen, but also to provide a platform for them to share ideas that they have. The third phase is the proposal selection. So we'll select five volunteers. Four proposals will be selected, and those proposals will be presented at the dinner-based, the dinner that is, sorry, four proposals will be presented at the dinner, and they will be everyone who attends the dinner. It's a donation, a suggested donation of five dollars or more. We will have soup provided. Of course, that's where the soup plays in. Soup will be provided, and everyone will have an access to vote once. And then the proposal that receives the most votes will then move forward and receive all the money that we make that evening at the dinner. And then after that, the volunteers will ensure the success of the selected project and keep the community in the loop of how the projects are moving forward. So I hope that this is shared with all of anyone that you know that's interested. I hope that you're able to attend this dinner. We're looking at April 27th, which is a Thursday. We still haven't found a location quite yet, because we are hoping that we have 300-plus that will attend the dinner. And we're hoping to really kick off this platform so that it is an annual thing that we kind of do, and it really helps kind of empower your community. I'll say as a young professional myself, there are eight of us total. The seven others that I work with all feel the same that I do. We all work here, we live here, we play here, and we also want to participate and make better change. But it would be an honor to have your faces there as well, so you can kind of hear the impact that these projects can make and how your community members want to make a change. So that's all I have. Amanda, thank you very much for your presentation tonight, and we really appreciate the work that you and the soup committee is doing here in Sheboygan. Great, thank you. I look forward to seeing you all in April. Next, I'd like to have the Sheboygan squared business district manager Dave Hoffman come forward. We have a proclamation. Whereas the government of Sheboygan, Wisconsin celebrates our local small businesses and the contributions that they make to our local economy and our community. According to the United States Small Business Administration, there are currently 28.8 million small businesses in the United States. They represent 99.7% of all businesses with employees in the United States and are responsible for 63% of the net new jobs created over the past 20 years. And whereas small businesses employ over 49% of all businesses with employees in the United States and whereas 89% of customers in the United States agree that small businesses contribute positively to the local economy by supplying jobs and generating tax revenue and whereas 93% of consumers in the United States agree that small businesses are critical to the overall economic health of the United States and whereas Sheboygan, Wisconsin supports our local businesses that create jobs, boost our local economy and preserve our neighborhoods and whereas advocacy groups as well as private and public organizations across the country have endorsed the Saturday after Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday. I'm Mike Van der Steen, mayor of the city of Sheboygan, do hereby proclaim November 26th as Small Business Saturday. Dave, I'd like to present this to you. Do you have any words? Shop Sheboygan, there's no place like home. All right. Thank you very much. A couple other announcements. There's going to be an open house on Wednesday 1130. That's going to be at six o'clock at the senior activity center. That open house is going to be for the purpose of presenting the draft strategic plan that staff and alderman have been working on recently. We're looking for some feedback and input from the community and this will be their opportunity to deliver that. We also want to tell people that fall leaf collection ended as of last Friday. However, we will have a crew that will be out doing some additional cleanup. It'll make one pass each week through the community. It may not be on exactly the same schedule as your normal leaf pickup, but if you miss that or if you're motivated to take your leaves down to the drop off site, we'd really appreciate it because we only have a partial crew that's out to do this last cleanup. All the other trucks are being converted to ice and snow removal, so we have to be ready to deal with that when that part of winter shows up. Thank you. Okay, next we'll move on to the consent agenda. That'll include items 2.2 through 2.22. Alderperson Donahue. Thank you, Mayor. I move to accept and file all reports of officers, accept and adopt all reports of committees, and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any of the items in the consent agenda? Alderperson Boren. Thank you, Mayor. On 2.7 having to do with the fire rings, it's my understanding that this is just filing the original document and that the fire rings will continue as in the past. Is that a correct understanding? That's correct. All right, thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll for passage? 15 ayes. Motion passes. Section 3 is reports of officers. Items 3.1 through 3.4 will be referred to various committees. Under resolutions, 4.1 is a resolution by Alderperson Bellinger authorizing the emergency repair and reconstruction of the sanitary sewer main on South 27th Street between Fairway Drive and Jefferson Avenue. Alderperson Bellinger. Thank you, Mayor. I would move to suspend. Second. Thank you for that motion. Is there any objection to suspension? Please proceed. The reason for the suspension is that during routine inspection of this water main, it was determined that it was an extremely poor condition, collapsing and infiltrating, and it would not last through the winter. And immediate emergency repairs are required to address it, and that's the reason for the suspension. And with that, I would move to pass a resolution. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? 14 ayes. One no. Motion passes. Items 4.2 through 4.10 will be referred to various committees. Under reports of committees, item 5.1 is an RC by finance to whom was referred, RO number 153 of 1617 by the Board of Water Commissioners seeking a small parcel of 2.5 acres of vacant land in order to construct an elevated water storage tank in 2018 and recommends the request and the attached counter offer. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to accept and adopt. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? 15 ayes. Motion passes. Item 5.2 is an RC by law and licensing to whom was referred, RO number 116 of 1617 by the city clerk submitting various licenses and recommends denying taxicab license number 1486 based upon her failure to accurate reveal relevant convictions on her application, her record of violations related to the license activity, and her record as a repeat law offender and failure to cooperate with the committee. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted. Second. Thank you for that motion and support under discussion. Is LaShelle Tatum here? She is not here. She's been invited to the committee. I believe this was her third invitation and has not appeared and due to her record and her inability to appear at our committee, we have denied her license. Any other discussion? Alderman Gerron, did you second the motion? I did. Thank you. Thank you very much. No other discussion? All those in favor? I see we have to call the roll. 15 ayes. Motion passes. Item 5.3 is an RC by law and licensing to whom was referred, RO number 140 of 1617 by the city clerk submitting various license applications and recommends denying a fermented malt beverage in Class C wine license application 3-2-2-5 for SAP Lee based upon the agent's record of violations related to the license activity and also the probation rules which prevent her from buying, selling and possessing and consuming or being in the presence of alcoholic beverages and also based upon the other member of the LLC's failure to accurate reveal relevant convictions on his license application and his record of violations related to the license activity as a repeat law offender. All the person holds you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I report that I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted. Second. Thank you for that motion and support under discussion. Is Alexandria Hernandez and Antonio Neone here? They are not here. We believe that they will come back to our committee when they have an agent that would qualify to be able to be given this license, but at this time our committee did not feel that we could under the direction of our city attorney present them with this type of license. So we have denied this. Thank you for those comments. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? 15 ayes. Motion passes. Second. Five point four is in RC by finance to whom was referred resolution number 121 of 1617 by Alderperson Wolfe authorizing amendments to the terms of the Development Revenue Bond, Series 2010 RCS Empowers Incorporated Project and the execution of related documents and recommends that the resolution be passed. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you Mayor. Make a motion to accept and adopt and pass resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. see none will the clerk please call the roll 14 eyes one no motion passes item 5.5 is an RC by law and licensing to whom is referred RC number 2 3 5 of 16 17 by law and licensing and general ordinance number 24 of 16 17 by Alder Person Ballinger repealing and recreating article 4 of the chapter 30 of the municipal code relating to sales of drug paraphernalia and repealing and recreating section 70-8 of the municipal code entitled adoption of state law regarding controlled substances and recommends that the ordinance be passed Alder Person holds you thank you mr. Mayor we refer this back to our committee after discussion at our last council meeting and it was sent back to our committee and despite the allegations that it did not reflect the statute it does it is not word-for-word repeat of the statute but rather takes provisions from multiple places and places them in one single single location and after discussion our committee voted in favor of passing us we need a motion yet Alder Person holds you oh I apologize I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted second pass the ordinance and pass the ordinance sir a second second okay we have a motion on the floor under discussion Alder Person Jose I'm going to vote against this because I think that the premise put forth for the the passage of it therefore is a lie if if the premise put forth was as to mirror the state statute it does not mirror the state statute and therefore the premise is a lie and I'm going to vote against the lie thank you any other discussion Alder Person borne thank you mayor at the meeting where the other interested parties that appeared at the last council meeting were did they appear and where the agreement with the committee's decision Alder Person hold you Mr. Mayor the one establishment did have representation and he chatted with us and at the end of the meeting the hook a bar came and was there there was no one else there that I can recall and he agreed with the understanding knowing that because we have this all over the place and bringing it all together into one area we're not rewriting the law we're just putting it all in one place and he was okay with that okay thank you okay next Alder Person Donahue I just rise to a point of personal privilege I just really don't think that we advance our agenda or represent our citizens when we call people liars or tell people that things we don't agree with our lies there can be honest disagreements among all of us and there are a number of them but I think in the this is a civil body not only in the sense of it represents civil government but we need to be civil and have civil communications and I just I'm offended personally when I hear words like liar and lie it's just we can do better thank you for those comments Alder Person Jose well I just like to say that on November 8th the United the majority of states in the United States said that they're tired of political correctness and people are people's viewpoints are not going to be stifled anymore and if I if I see if I see a spade I'm going to call the spade if I see a lie I'm going to call it a lie is there any other discussion the clerk please call the roll 13 eyes to nose motion passes under ordinances item 6.1 will be referred to the salary and grievances committee under matters laid over item 7.1 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting a communication from the Shboygan area school district submitting the approved tax levy for the 2016 2017 school year Alder Person Donahue thank you mayor I move that the communication be accepted and filed second thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes next we'll move on to other matters city attorney I have no other matters I'm sorry you do have you referred to the law and licensing committee you need it's submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31 2017 June 30 2017 June 30 2018 it's an arrow by the city clerk and that'll go to the law and licensing committee next we have a contemplated closed session Alder Person Donahue I moved to go to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in section 1985 sub 1 sub e of the Wisconsin statutes for competitive and bargaining reasons require a closed session related to a development opportunity in the 600 block of North Goat Street second thanks for your motion and support would the clerk please call the roll for closed session 14 eyes one no motion passes we'll take a short three minute recess and then reconvene and I just like to let the viewers at home know that we will be adjourning in closed session so this will end our broadcast for the evening thank you