 Thank you, mayor the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place Thank you very much Please call a roll There are 14 present Older person down a hue can you hear us older person down a hue can you hear us Yeah, there's a phone there, but it's blinking. It's not no, okay. She may be joining us Do you want me to mark her as not here? Well, yeah, because she's not right and Alderman bitters damrel are excused Okay, next we'll go on to the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join me 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 All the person down a hue is supposed to be in Helsinki right now, so we'll see how much of a delay we have Next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes from our last council meeting Alderman Wolff. Thank you, mayor I'd like to make a motion to approve Second thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. I opposed motion passes There are no Resignations tonight's nor mayor's appointments nor confirmation of mayor's appointments, so next we'll move on to the public forum City clerk. Thank you, ma'am We have one this evening Mike Brunette and Mike, can I have your home address, please? 1925 South 26th Street. Okay, and you will have five minutes. All right I'm gonna talk to you about bridge water be water calm and not teddy And it's like bridge water has over a hundred and fifty billion dollars to invest for people and they have this weird and crazy strategy It's called radical truth and Radical transparency Openly and thoughtfully disagreeing on important issues is the most powerful way of creating meaningful work Meaningful relationships and great outcomes They record everything they do in every meeting and it's available to every employee at every level They are also the most successful investment company in my lifetime and It's like why I'm bringing this up is I see a body that does not invite open discussion Seldom discusses anything during the actual meetings and I know I'm repetitive, but hey Keep it going and it's like a lot of things are seemingly done before you even get here And even at committee meetings and especially one as of last week I was told by somebody on the committee and there's about quite a few people on the committee They said that they saw everybody but two people in a committee leaving Closed restaurant down by the late front before the meeting when if that's true It's a blatant violation of open meetings law and it's like I don't know it's true But this is a scuttlebutt and kind but somehow things are getting discussed Somehow things are getting done on the same mention here Nobody understands how we keep spending money how we keep spending money tonight. You're gonna spend $400,000 for Lakefront Improvements what exactly are they what exactly are they needed for you're gonna put some grass in you're gonna put a cord walk in You couldn't put a mat in there. It's nice. We have 400 grand. That's actual Money, I mean it adds up, but at the same time We're not taking care of our streets, and I'm talking into that is it's like The garbage needs to be cleaned out of them. I mean the basic make the basic maintenance and going I understand that you need more money more money for repairs, but it's like some things got to give You have in my opinion more community involvement I mean there's people on this council who ran on the whole platform of Community involvement we weren't involved, but yet I'm not seeing community involvement And it's like even the minority report the dissenting report is usually the most important argument in any discussion and it's like if everybody's on the same page You pretty much failed and it's like right now. I bring it up. There's a lot of balls in the works You have a closed meeting again tonight for a competitive advantage Thank God you have that competitive advantage can't imagine what it would turn out like if you didn't have it and it's like but Indiana Avenue Somebody's buying up a lot of properties, and I mean this goes on what's probably old master plan as much as I can tell If this is the thing for bringing a trolley or a light rail in whatever I mean discuss it Where did the public come out and say this is what we want? Who has the time to sit behind closed doors and come up with this stuff? It's what we do I mean, it's what you do and it's like We will have elections again and the bottom line is the next time We need to get candidates out there into In late December people need to get their things going because they need to get their pay their papers taken care of And it's like in pretty much the only way we're going to change anything is Getting people to run for positions and people say people don't run because of apathy It's because they really don't know until it's too late, and quite frankly. There's a lot of good people in this town use them And that's all I got Thank you, Mike, and that would be it for this evening Thank you. Next move on to mayor's announcements. First of all, I'd like to take this opportunity to reintroduce you to alderman whole shoe Effective to august 29th alderman's older person Susie Lissard has legally embraced her maiden name and her new legal name is Susan J. whole shoe and Her feet her phone number is the same but her email address has been changed to Susan dot whole shoe At your boy again wi.gov Next I'd just like to let our public know that there's an opening Available on the board of water commissioners the seat comes open and there's going to be an election for that position 919 here right here at the council meeting Anyone interested in serving in that position should get a letter of interest into the city clerk by 916 Next move on to the consent agenda. It'll include items 2.2 through 2.18 Alderman wolf. Thank you, mayor I make a motion to accept and file all our O's accept and adopt all our C's and pass all resolutions Substitute resolutions and ordinances Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any items in the consent agenda? Seeing no discussion with the clerk, please call the roll for passage 13 eyes Motion passes under reports of officers items 3.1 and 3.2 Will be referred to various committees And at this time I'd like to ask the city administrator to address us on 3.3 which is an arrow by the city administrator submitting the attached summary of the 2017 executive budget for the general funds special revenue fund that service funds capital project funds Internal service funds enterprise funds and fiduciary funds the 2016 estimated 2016 amendment and 2015 actual and 2014 actual amounts are included for comparison So I turned it over to the city administrator for his executive budget presentation. Thank you, mayor Vanistine I'm proud tonight to present to you the 2017 executive budget For those of you that are new to city government. This is a copy of last year's budget roughly 30 33 pages As you know, roughly a week and a half ago you received this document three ring binder 396 pages I think And again, all the management team members are prepared Starting next week to work with you on your committee commission and boards to present some of the details associated with it So please please look forward to that a couple things I want to mention is that the new format Is hopefully something that we will continue to build on Ultimately, you'll be submitted to a national organization for review and possible of work consideration I do want to mention at this time that It occurred only through the hard work of the management team members their supervisors Departmental supervisors and support staff a special. Thank you goes to Nancy bus director of finance a lot of hard work Was involved on her part of the goal The budget is to directly coordinate with the city's strategic plan. And as you know, we recently considered updates to that plan Each of the 89 program budgets included in this document include a mission page Included in the mission pages are the budget's purpose the description budget highlights staffing levels expenditure summary Goals objectives and lastly performance analytics So I look forward to you Spending some time again working with the management team over the next couple months One thing I want to note before I get into some of the slides is that tonight Nancy bus put on your desk some blue pages As changes are being made or recommended at the committee level and ultimately the common council We'll be handing out colored sheets with dates down at the bottom So you can keep track and incorporate them into your budget document a couple things I want to note is you know why these changes are before you so I'm going to spend a couple minutes going through What changes are on these sheets versus what are in your budget document the first page? 46 the reason for this change is that originally this Summary of changes and fund balance include proprietary funds and accounting purposes It probably is not appropriate to include it as a fund balance. It's more a net position Change so we removed a proprietary related funds the next Is 51? Is a page change again? These are two-sided or duplex So we photocopied the back to each of these pages So when you put these pages in pull out the original pages, you'll have both Both pages page 51 the 2016 amended column under the expenditure As we put together the 2017 budget We changed some of the categories as to where budgets were placed as an example of the municipal service building Was included as a general fund budget Based upon the budget you have that's been moved to the public works department and we think that makes I think that makes more sense so the original white pages had some of these budgets and Identified in a different category this reflects a more consistent budget presentation page 52 Which is the committed fund balance in the general fund? We've added a line. It's about four lines down on page 52 where it says advanced environmental TID fund That was missing from your original budget document. So that's been added the next page is 217 on mid Midway into the page. There's a category called capital outlay storm sewer infrastructure 80,000 is identified for 2016 amended column Originally public works director Bebo had it as occurring in 2016 So the 2016 estimated column also showed $80,000 This is a project that's being coordinated by the city along with the town of Wilson and Sheboygan County It's it's not expected because of the mutual agreements To occur this year. So it's going to occur next year. So we've shifted that 80,000 into the Executive or the 2017 executive column Page 275 The upper third of the page again a fund balance related change Under any fund balance consists of we've added committed dash environmental TID Fund so this is an advance that the capital projects fund Advanced money to the environmental TID fund and so we need to make sure we state that it's owed that money back at some point So that that's a new line on page 276 it's actually just a matter of spacing We added some additional lines on 275. So a couple line items rolled up into 276. So that's why you have that page 278 at the top of that page We Originally presented to you numbers associated with north 15th Avenue Street Reconstruction as only our net cost Not the cost the the full cost as you know the county is going to be giving a grant or a contribution for that project and In hindsight we decided to identify the full cost of that project including this 600,000 in in intergovernmental revenue. So the reason for the change Sheet on 278 is adding that 600,000 and then on page 279 In the middle of the page under street improvement category For that north 15th Street It's 1.4 and change compared to before. I think it was roughly $800,000 and change so again accounting-wise we want to show the full cost because we are taking the lead in that project Last but not least on 333 This is actually a change where we took something off the page Down at the bottom of the page in your original document. It showed a $400,000 pump Related expense and on page 334 my recollection is it's it's an 800 It's actually an $800,000 cost and the 400,000 was inadvertently identified on this page So that's the change on that Now I'd like to get into the presentation. I have a PowerPoint set of slides For you tonight again, every budget should start off with a mission statement. This is the city's adopted mission statement As well as the city's vision statement For those of you that are keeping track we presented to the Strategic Fiscal Planning Commission Parameters associated with developing the budget. We mentioned that the state law does limit our tax levy also the budget parameters Included continuing to be eligible for our expenditure restraint program a tax rate at CPI or lower And again making sure that we maintain a minimum fund balance at least of 30% Are we up to speed? Tax levy limits We're about three or four in Next one please a tax levy limits Again the state restricts how much we can increase our local levy With the expectation unless we're Including funds associated with recent borrowings There should be no tax rate increase On existing property owners only associated with new construction that occurred in the prior year In our calculation 1.94 is associated with new construction as far as taxes and in fact the 2017 executive budget increases 1.94 Expenditure restraint program again the Wisconsin Department of Revenue Allows the general fund expenditures to increase by the city's tax-based increase plus whatever inflation is Based upon a rolling 12-month period. I think ending in October That's a percent that we are Eligible to increase our general fund expenses right now. It's running at about 1.2 So the overall increase would be 2.4 and the 2017 budget Based upon the original adopted budget is 2.36. So we maintain our eligibility for their expenditure restraint program tax rate at CPI or lower Right now again 1.2 percent is the consumer price index the executive budget recommends for the assessed tax rate Zero increase. So it's flat In the last roughly 10 years the highest CPI was I think back in 2009 last year it was a point 03 so it wasn't even a 1% last year Assessed tax rate this graphically identifies where we're at compared to where we've been in the last five years You can see that really for the last three budget years 2014 tax rate for the 2015 budget 2015 tax rate for the 2016 budget in the 2016 tax rate for the 2017 budget pretty much the same over that period of time Again, what was going on in 2012 and 13 is there was a reassessment of property So that's why the rate actually dropped or or that the rate was different when this city reassessed in 14 That's when it went up To be closer to an equalized versus assessed ratio Fund balance as I mentioned before 30% is our minimum fund balance level Again, it's our safety net for unanticipated expenditures consistent with Moody's credit service recommendation 2017 executive budget Retains roughly 54% So significantly higher the next graphic identifies in I think it's purple Where that 30% dollar amount would be versus where we've ended up at the end of each fiscal year so we can see we're Substantially above in fact in 16 Mended 16 estimated we're almost double. We're at 54 percent My recommendation for the 2017 budget at year in 1231 2017 We will remain at 54 percent of the expected expenditure level Budget facts again, I apologize. This is a lot of information on one slide, but this is in a nutshell the 2017 budget For the major categories again, they're general fund special revenue funds debts fund cap improvement fund fiduciary funds proprietary funds Including enterprise funds internal service funds Of those major categories Proposed budget for 17 the general fund Is recommended to go down debt service is recommended to go down fiduciary funds are recommended to go down enterprise fund and internal service funds are recommended to go down The only two categories where there's a recommendation for an increase are the special revenue funds and the capital improvement funds Down toward the bottom. You can see the total expenses The amended budget for 2016 is roughly 94 million Recommendation for next year is a hundred and roughly a hundred and three million a nine nine million dollar increase of which eight and a half million is capital related Property tax levy. Where's the levy money going for? How is it allocated? You can see from left to right from 2013 2017 that really most of these columns as far as the width or height of these columns remain the same As an example, the library has remained the same Debt service has really remained the same So the only change and transits remain the same from left to right 13 to 17 The only change is really due to a how we account for our capital projects in 2013 We were roughly at 16 million dollars of tax levy in the general fund in the last couple years The council staff and council have agreed to create Capital projects fund and and assign a levy directly assigned a levy to that So there's roughly one one point one million dollars now that separately identified from the general fund into the capital Projects fund and that's why you see at the top. I think it's colored What color is it purple Is in essence more of an accounting change than an actual increase in expenses Or increase in the levy in 2013. It was 21 point eight million was the levy What's being recommended for next year's twenty two point one or only a one point four percent increase over a five year period of time Where's the additional tax levy going and how much is it is the next slide the amended budget again is twenty one point seven Recommendation for next year's twenty two point one or four hundred twenty one thousand dollar increase again a hundred percent of that levy increase Is coming from new construction zero from from existing property owners As council you've discussed over the last several months personnel both those that were budgeted but not filled in 2016 as well as your Hope for changes as far as increase in personnel So I'd like to spend the next couple slides discussing with you changes in personnel Again public protection safety is discussed to new police officers Including an officer with school resource officer do responsibilities new digital evidence manager a battalion officer or battalion chief for the fire department in the cable studio one part-time TV production technician Eliminated positions is one full-time community service officer One part-time record specialist clerk in the PD and one full-time TV production coordinator Next slide Positions budgeted 16 but not filled three firefighters. Those are recommended to be filled for 17 Next slide identifies continuation of positions created or proposed in the second half of 2016 again a police officer associated with a grant was approved and we should be hiring that officer The second half a part-time community service officer has been approved and when the process of recruiting and then Sellering grievances is discussing my request for a full-time budget analyst Next slide is the 2017 general fund revenues This gives you a sense as far as where our major categories of revenues come from again just in the general fund You can see that the two largest categories over almost 83 percent are between intergovernmental revenues Which is shared revenue our transportation aids and property tax levy The next slide compares both 2016 to the 2017 You can see that there's really consistency Between the years as far as the proportion of funding for the general fund budget again There's minor changes the levy actually goes from 42 to 43 percent The other changes licensing and permits are going from 2 percent to 3 percent and that's mainly due to Being maybe less conservative as far as projecting amounts based upon past revenues We received in the building construction related permits and then a slight decrease from 9 percent to 8 percent is the last line item in her inner fund transfers All in all there's a $617,000 increase in total revenues in the general fund Again the major areas for change 273,000 and change is additional property tax levy the building permits I mentioned roughly $200,000 more transportation aids. Unfortunately, we project to go down by 154,000 Additional 121,000 for state grants for the police officers Court fines over what was budgeted in 16 versus what we estimate for 17 The net amount that's going to be transferred from the municipal court special revenue fund to the general fund Is expected to go down by roughly 181,000 last but not least the planned use of fund balance in the 2016 budget Originally budgeted was 847,000 dollars of a deficit or actual use of fund balance Actually more than that but the net change is roughly 847,000. It was actually over. I think a million dollars My recommendation is a little over 200,000 in use of strategic use of fund balance on the general fund expenditures again, no surprise Public works public safety comprised of 80% of the general fund budget Major categories between 2016 and 2017 executive again comparing the Percent of the of the pie general government is going down by 2% Public works is going up by 1% and a new category for the 2017 budget is is called unclassified It's reserved for contingency the request of department heads Who have funds in the budgeted for the 2017 budget is? No contingencies no fluff should be budgeted in those individual accounts Instead the philosophy for the 2017 budget is we will create a Segregated contingency account and should there be a need Something that's not planned for come up then a request can be made and then we will as a counsel You will approve a transfer into those accounts, but no extra funds for contingency should be in any individual program area Comparing the 2016 amended to the 2017 executive. It's actually a 229,000 dollar decrease In addition to as part of that 220 in addition to the 229,000 dollar decrease Included that as I mentioned the 2017 budget is actually $215,000 of contingency. So if you add those two together again of unspent funds or unplanned for spending Almost four hundred forty four thousand dollar decrease in expenditures are being recommended for the 2017 budget As you can imagine What has been traditional in many governments is that whatever you? Received as funds in a prior year for the next year everybody across the board gets a 1% increase That philosophy is not in place in the city of Sheboygan with the 2017 executive budget The funds are assigned only if they're needed There is an expectation on the management team that if there is a unique need a one department as an example in the 2017 budget public works. You can see it's going up by three hundred thousand dollars a Lot of the other budgets are actually decreasing. So based upon the individual needs of a particular year Department head management team member can justify the reason for the request But a standard inflationary or incremental increase is not going to be entertained for the future General fund expenditures major changes SCEDC funding The hundred thousand dollars in contribution in the past has been funded in the mayor's budget Now it's 75,000 of that's been moved to the Community development or planning and development budget and remaining 25,000 is coming out of a tid 16 Capital projects fund of course next year proposed. We only have two elections versus four versus four So 128,000 is saving there battalion chief an additional 50 almost 59 58,000 with a July 1st hiring date Street reconstruction materials with the expectation that a paving machine will be Authorized by the common council for for 17 200 roughly 289,000 in additional Basically construction or street materials are being requested Park capital items roughly a hundred ten thousand dollar decrease in the general fund But for the 2017 budget, I'm requesting a new Special revenue fund be created. This will be a park forestry and open space program So instead of these capital items being in your general fund I'm recommending for the first time we create a separate fund just because the need is so great and the need is to Isolate and have a very specific discussion Over ongoing capital park and forestry needs last but not least as I mentioned before almost two hundred fifteen thousand dollars in Continuities in that in the general fund the same I same amount is actually what's being proposed as far as the use of Fund balance, so ultimately if no contingency amount is used then we have a 100% balanced budget for 17 Next slide again is that park forestry and open space fund as I mentioned It's a reallocation of the general fund these are the three items that are identified the goal and the hope For the future is somewhere between a hundred and ten and maybe a hundred and thirty thousand a Year will be allocated for capital items associated with the parks or forestry program You see these three items that would kick off the new use of this fund Block grant funds for the first time the budget will Incorporate the block grant program into our budgeting process. I know it is a special program federal program It doesn't have the same time lines as far as calendar fiscal calendar year as a general fund But again in order to present to you and to the public what our comprehensive expenditures are I feel is important to include that in in the document and you can see the projects that are identified Tourism fund again continuation of the 8% room tax for next year Two projects that I think are tourist related are the boots and sports complex as well as the Wildwood baseball complex 590,000 is for the complex a sports complex 80,000 of that 670 is for the Wildwood baseball complex again in both cases significant contributions of the cost of the projects are occurring by others The city's amount is is limited Me library fund even though there's no change in funding from 16 to 17 I thought this was an important slide to show that over the last Three years and projected for next year. No change in tax. So we just support the library Special assessment fund again quite a few things are being transferred out of this fund again all these are street related More LED street lights, I think the city has done a good job in kicking this off again It results in lower utility rate cost And then another 97,000 specifically for 8th Street the downtown area for LED light conversion sidewalk replacement program 100,000 and again the street trees are so critical. I'm identifying a transfer of 75,000 for Tree replacement Harbor Center Marina fund Transfer from this fund I'm sorry transfer in from the debt service fund Into this special revenue Marina fund for the 350,000 dollar rep continued repair of the marina building itself As many of you are aware, it's a I think a cedar-sided building being that is right on the water unfortunately We need a more permanent Siding material a fiber cement board It's it's it's critical next slide is debt service fund. How much of the nine dollars and fifty cents? Is going toward debt service? $1.24 and it's actually two cents lower than what's Included as far as tax rate for the 2016 budget of our statutory debt capacity 29.5 as most of you know Currently there is a 60 percent no more than 60 percent of the statutory limit and again We're almost half of that amount for non-tid debt It's only 21 percent Outstanding debt service Again from 14 to 17 it's in that 28 to 29 nine and a half a range The 20 2017 net outstanding debt of 36 million Actually includes 6.3 million that's currently on the table as recommended by the cap improvement commission Next slide is a capital projects fund again, this is the most robust One of the more robust funds and again applying commission next week We'll be discussing again the recommendations of the cap improvements commission changes that are occurring in this fund include For the first time we're going to be budgeting Money's associated with the vehicle registration fee. This fee was approved after the budget was created last year. So 970 970 791,000 and change again. This is full 12 month Where in 2016 the estimated amount is only 11 months We had a one month delay in getting that up and operating county sales tax We will only receive three quarters So 308,000 and change the full year in future years are projected to be closer to 410,000 411,000 federal grant 389,000 again, it's been earmarked to help fund the Evergreen Park Bridge Boots and Sports Complex 3.5 million Roughly of which 290 2.9 million in donations while the baseball complex 300,000 of which 220,000 is in donations Shaw Family Playground 100% The 530 is from donations Evergreen Park Bridge project, which I mentioned before Skate Park 457 thousand dollars is the call projected cost 200,000 is donations 208,000 Is coming in from another fund 15,000 is from Park and Open Space and then only 34,000 is actual tax lovely being applied for the skate project the 200 other 208 it's actually Community development block grant funds the biggest project in capital projects fund other than the Sports Complex is Washington Avenue from 18th Street to Lakeshore 1.1 million other capital projects are Included in our tids our tid 12 tid 16 and our industrial park parking lot improvement associated with the Oak Brook Apartment project Helper in Fountain Plaza improvements 145,000 again tiff funded another tiff funded project is a study $40,000 for the downtown parking study industrial park fund has two projects One is a new turn lane on Taylor Drive for the plan Fairfield in 250,000 and last is Water Main associated with the water utilities extension of Water through city owned industrial park land south of the business park as they plan for a new water elevated water tower our internal service funds Where no change in revenue are requested Water, I'm sorry workers compensation fund liability insurance fund health insurance fund Major changes in the white water utility fund include a recommendation for a 4% revenue increase and at the Public Works Committee they'll be discussing more as to what that means for a typical Water user a family of four water sewer user family of four switch gear project design. This is phase one with the bulk of the work being done in 2018 And 18 so $300,000 associated with the design phase and then an additional pump Raw water wastewater pump again not a hundred percent of the cost, but roughly $800,000 Just a couple more slides ago. I appreciate your patience a parking and transit fund No material changes in these funds as far as how they operate one thing to note that is that in the capital improvement fund There is a hundred eighty thousand dollars. I earmarked for the city share associated with with the purchase of two buses The city needs to have those funds in hand when the city places an order And and receives all authorization by the federal government Those buses will not be delivered up until it's expected to be March of 2018 Boat facility fund Proposed is repainting the South Pier rail Replacing 52 river docks on the South Pier side of the river and then Installing a kiosk at the launch ramp roughly $30,000 we expect somewhere between a three and five-year payback This will help provide credit card purchases A printout that boaters can stick it under their Winch wiper around under their yeah under their wind windshield itself so again improved customer convenience whether they want to purchase a season Pass or whether individual launch Charge and again, it really makes it easier for for those that are Enforcing that in fact that printout is is on the on the dash Budgets are available There's an extra copy of the comprehensive budget is available at City Hall. It's also available at me library this afternoon It went on the city's website It's currently in a one big PDF file Hopefully by tomorrow or later in the week. We will have it in a flipbook style, which will make it easier to go through By the end by the end of the week We will have a budget brief roughly a 20 page document again to hit the high spots of the budget and then Working with the cable studio To put to have a YouTube video available again. The goal is to make this budget as transparent So that as you receive questions From citizens as to what's going on you can direct them to a budget that hopefully For one for anyone that wants to spend time Hopefully many of the concepts made the funding request will be self-explanatory any any questions All they're they have otherwise as I mentioned all the program budgets will be discussed at committee over the next couple Darrell one thing that you had in the in a report was about the municipal court that you were anticipating $181,000 in less revenue What do you attribute that to and I also saw in the article in the paper a couple of days that the municipal court is Has has about two point three million dollars and outstanding fines by going to the system assistance with the state Do you think possibly for 2018 that? 181,000 Reduction and revenues that's that's going to potentially go away I think that there's probably a couple things going on here. I think there's a A Decrease in the number of citations being issued I think also the level of fines that are being imposed by our current municipal judge Is probably a lower than the previous municipal judge? I think that as you mentioned we hope to work with a new state Collection process so starting hopefully The last month or so of this year In fact, you'll hear from the judge next week at finance committee who requests for funds this year yet for programming to occur by our current Software collection firm that we get this up and running as soon as possible so we can potentially collect This very large number of fines and forfeitures that are unpaid. I think that will significantly help With the amount of outstanding collections in 16 But I definitely think for Going forward. I think we will see an up to an increase or an uptick as far as the percent of of fines They're actually collected if I get so my number is is conservative if I can follow up Are you still in the process of evaluating at the municipal court? Going to a part-time clerk rather than the previous full-time clerk because I know that that past full-time clerk a lot of her Time was dedicated in collecting accounts and now we're we've got a very key person in that municipal court That's now part-time. Is that is that a continuing evaluation on whether we should keep it part-time or go back to full-time? As you correctly identified in 2014 we had in addition to the half-time municipal judge We had one full-time court clerk as well as one full-time office clerk Based on the recommendation of the current judge it was decreased from a full-time equivalent to point six three FTE Based on discussion roughly two months ago So I think salary agreements actually recommended it increased by a few hours per week So we're up to point seven three FTE and I'm recommending an actual slight increase to point seven five next year I'm I anticipate the judge at the next week's finance committee to recommend that go back to full-time Unfortunately, there was quite a bit of turnover in the last year at the municipal court. I think she would Be the first to say that you know her and her staff were overwhelmed again I appreciate our police chief for working with her and her staff The police department staff across the hallway has been willing to collect some of those payments of fines and forfeitures But now we do have because staff that has been hired and has been trained Finance department has actually lent Some of its staff to assist during this transition period My hope and expectation is things will be more streamlined more seasoned staff So with the point seven five I'm recommending my hope is that it will work Alderman Lee Wendalski No Alderman Herman No Alderman Jose No, okay All right. Thank you very much. We meant Alderman Bellinger. Thank you mayor Darrell you mentioned at the very beginning of your presentation that the general fund Reserve balance was was mandated by city ordinance at 30 percent. It's currently at 54 percent You said for 2017 you intend to keep it at 54 percent So therefore by stating that I'm inferring that that you are not Can you're not considering drawing down any reserves to pay for City Hall and that you plan on bonding and borrowing for that right now, I think the capital Improvement fund does identify four million But I anticipate as part of the Plan Commission as well as the Common Council that possibly an alternate Source as far as fun funding the first half as we've discussed in the past potentially half in 1817 and remaining in 18 There are sufficient fund balances in some of our non general fund budgets in case the Common Council doesn't want to draw down Say a full four million in that in the general fund there are There are substantial Fund balances and other accounts that at least we can look at tapping first and then Potentially if you're interested in not borrowing for the first half of any City Hall project for 17 then we could maybe Complete the four million dollar amount in the general fund even with potentially a full four million in the general fund There would still be Probably 35 percent Still remaining so still above that 30% minimum fund balance amount But if this is 54 not at 54 again at this budget as recommended does not wreck is not recommending the use of fund balance It's it's recommending the four million of expenses associated with it Capital projects for City Hall would be borrowed funds in in 17 Yes, so it'd be roughly 10.3 Well, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our administrator Hufflin for all the work done on this budget as well as the finance committee and all the department heads This now will be referred to all the standing committees So this will be on your agenda for your next standing committee meeting to have a presentation on the parts of the budget that that commit each committee is Is responsible for Moving on items 3.4 and 3.5 will be referred to the public protection and safety committee And next we'll go move into resolutions Item 4.1 is a resolution by Alderman Bellinger authorized entering into a contract to the land park and King Park Beach restoration Projects Alderman Bellinger. Thank you mayor. I move to suspend the rules. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. The reason for the suspension is that this is a project as Mike Bermont Burnett previously Mentioned that Is on on board there are funds from the federal government of four hundred twenty seven thousand dollars originally this went out to bid And it came in significantly over budget so it was put out to bid again and now it's come back in A more favorable situation and within budget It's for the sewer or stormwater sewer outfall for both the north and south beaches and beach erosion so it is a Project that is needed and we need to mitigate the the beach erosion and it needs to be addressed Half of the funds are going to be federal funds half of them It's going to be the city funds and the federal portion needs to be spent before the end of the year Hence there's a timing issue. We need to get this contracted and the work done and completed before the end of the year And therefore we need to suspend the rules and move forward. So thank you John then I'd entertain a motion. I would make a motion to approve Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none while the clerk, please call the roll 13 eyes Motion passes item 4.2 is a resolution by Alderman Donahue approving the fourth amendment to the WB-13 vacant land offer To purchase between the John Michael Kohler Art Center and the city of Sheboygan Alderman Wolfe. Thank you, mayor. I would like to make a motion to suspend second Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, please proceed. I'd like to make a motion to pass resolution second Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion under Alderman Bellinger. Thank you, mayor I would just like to know why we're suspending anytime we suspend It's it's an anomaly or it's outside our normal protocol So I think the people at home deserve to know why we're suspended. I'm not ejecting to the suspension I just would like an explanation city planner is making his way to the podium to explain that Before I begin I was asked to just know announce that Mary Lynn is on the line as well the reason for the suspension on this item is the fact that The art center as we know we were set to sell the southern half of the Shukrit farm For the art preserve project as part of their process They tried to obtain fine arts insurance from their insurance provider and found out that They need to finalize the design of the building and the site plan and petition FEMA to Get it taken out or put into the 500 year flood plain And make sure that it's eligible for funding under a 500 year flood Currently the anybody that's in development knows that it's typically around a 100 year and the property has all been taken out of the 100 year Flood plane which would allow development to happen But under current fine art fine art standards and their insurance company They need to justify it that it's not in the 500 year flood plain. So to do so they're gonna have to get they've got an architect They're gonna engage them get the site plan going they feel by the end of the year. They can get that site plan in Actually in October get it submitted to FEMA who has around a 60 to 90 day process for review And be able to wrap this up by the end of the year so we could close sometime no later than the middle of February So this amendment is extending the due diligence period to 12 31 16 and a closing by February 15th of 2017 staff has we've worked diligently. We've taken care of a lot of the issues on our end It's ready to close other than this so we're recommending approval because we think it's still a great project It's just a little hiccup in the road and they feel pretty confident that they'll be able to overcome this Thank you Okay Okay, we have a motion on the floor is there any other discussion on the motion all of them wolf. I just wanted to Make sure that everybody understood that this is just a hiccup. I mean 500 years compared to a hundred years Who would have thought so I support this? Thank you Thank you any other discussion With a clerk, please call the roll Alderman Donahue. Do you have a vote to cast? Yes, we can Yes, okay. I vote aye. Thank you. Thank you. We don't see you in board docks, but we can hear you Motion passes Item 4.3 is a resolution by Alderman Donahue authorizing the execution of ingress egress easements With bank mutual and Tom Colbeck properties as it relates to parking lot 14 Alderman wolf. Thank you, mayor. I would like to suspend the rules back up. Thank you for that motion to suspend Is there any objection? Seeing none, please proceed John. Again, I would just like to know why we're suspending Thank you, Jed As you recall at the last council meeting there was a suspension of the rules for a similar document Granting some easements so as part of the oakbrook development deal We're reconstructing the parking lot to the north of the property and there's two businesses the bank mutual that has Frontage on that parking lot and the Colbeck building that the current relish store is in that has frontage on that parking lot And they needed access to get in in order to get to a point of closing the sale of the property to oakbrook These easements there was current easements that no longer existed needed to be terminated and new exempts needed to be Granted that project has closed and the sale occurred on the 19th Of August so there they own the oakbrook owns the property, but in doing so we had to take some We had a way to move forward with allowing them to have an additional easement on this So there's an easement directly to the east of those two buildings in that parking lot And there's also an easement in the in the northbound lane Exiting the parking lot. There's a vacant lot at Niagara Avenue and where this entrances to the parking lot We're also granting an easement through there so they can come into the parking lot and they can leave the parking lot So it's really just an additional easement in a current area That's used by the public anyway for these two entities to be able to get to their building Thank you. Thank you very much Chad Okay, we have a motion on the floor is there any other discussion alderman boron. Thank you mayor I Looked over this I looked over this document in this agreement and now by easement. This doesn't entail any more construction It's just reconfiguring the existing Exits and that type of thing so there's no additional construction involved. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. Thank you Chad She'd sit closer to the front of the chambers Just as a clarification and city administrator Hufflin brought this up There is it going to be construction in that parking lot though under the Tiff improvements Tiff 12 the parking lot improvements We're going to be reconstructing a good half of that lot Took allow for this off-street parking for the Oak Brook deal right to provide those 43 stalls And that's where this issue comes in is because they had easements directly through this proposed parking lot that we're going to segregate out But as for this document, there's no more Construction other than those 43 stalls that's planned for this spring and those dollars for that kid part The other part of it is covered by $10 that is there'll be no general fund dollars. Okay. Thank you Thank you for that explanation Please call the roll Alderman Donahue She's in she's in the board docks. Okay. That's good Alderman Donahue Yeah, I have to cast you. I'm sorry Did you say I The ingress egress easements or point three is it an eye Thank you 14 eyes motion passes Items 4.4 through 4.9 will be referred to various committees under reports of committees 5.1 is an RC by law and licensing to whom was referred our own number 75 of 1617 by the city clerk submitting various license application and recommends denying the beverage operators license application 1226 based On his failure to accurate review all convictions on his application his record of violations to the Licensed activity as record as a repeat law offender All the person holds you thank you mayor I move that the report a committee be accepted and adopted second. Thank you for that motion in support under discussion is Antitellabilly He is not our committee Chatted with him and and asked for some explanations as there were a number of Disorderly conducts and our committee voted two to one to deny based on his activities Thank you for that discussion any other discussion on the motion See none where the clerk, please call the roll Alderman Donahue Thank you 14 eyes motion passes Item 5.2 is an RC by finance to whom is referred under direct referral resolution number 75 of 1617 by Alderman Wolfe to authorize the transfer of appropriations in the 2016 budget for 2016 community development block grant entitlement program and recommends passing the resolution Alderman Wolfe Thank you, mayor. I make a motion to accept and adopt and pass resolution second. Thank you for that motion in support under discussion See no discussion with a clerk, please call the roll Alderman Donahue It was an eye Thank you 14 eyes Motion passes Item 5.3 is an RC by committee of the whole to whom is referred RC number 131 of 1617 by the law and licensing and charter ordinance number one of 1617 by Alderman Lewandowski Herman and Rob being subject to the home rule Provisions of section 66.0101 of the Wisconsin statutes to maintain the number of all the persons in the city of Sheboygan at 16 and recommends that the charter Ordinance be passed Alderman Heidemann Thank you, mayor. I'll take a motion to accept and adopt the resolution Thank you for that motion in support under discussion Alderman whole shoe After a lot of soul searching and chatting with some of the citizens, but also to our city attorney I'll be voting against this charter ordinance change due to its legal merits only I'm in favor of 16 Alderman. So how do we proceed? I have scheduled a meeting with our city attorney this week and are proposing a legal remedy to this charter That does not carry any flaws in its legality as to the current charter ordinance change offers Addressing the legal flaws I will propose returning the council back to the original 16 members in Addressing the terms of Alderman it will be proposed that those running for office in 2017 will run for one year in the 2018 election will find all 16 Alderman running Feeling the fairness to those who had about ran for an initial term of one year They will be able to run for two years and the remaining will be running for another year That means both groups have Aldermatic seats have served the one-year term the following year in 2019 the one-year terms will end and That their term will end and then the proposal will return these seats back to a two-year term for office We will then find our terms back to the two-year terms Moving forward as well with 16 Alderman and having two aldermatics Alderman serving each district I believe that still some of our committees can be changed combined and some can't but I think that can be a different discussion So with that being said to my fellow Alder persons if you agree with this proposal Please let me know and I will add your names collectively to the new proposal but only because of the legality on This I am not supporting it and I would ask it this time that our city attorney if He could comment if I said This correctly, I think you've described our our discussion exactly as it was. Thank you Can I please ask who seconded this motion? Thank you Okay, under further discussion Alderman Jose. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Mayor I'm gonna vote in favor of Returning the council to 16 Alderman as if the reduction never occurred For a couple of years, I think more representation is better than less I'm not weighted by the the city attorney spoke at the committee of the whole meeting and Said that there's a chance that Citizen could object to the To the returning it to 16 and they could file a petition But for sex such a petition to be successful It would require 25% of the people that voted in the last governor's race to sign that petition and historically Those petitions fail for lack of the correct number of signatures, so I don't think that's a too big of a concern And really going back to 16 Actually, I got an email Trying to recall where it was from from Within the past two weeks since the committee the whole meeting I know it was from from our county clerk John doleson requesting that that that that it be reduced to the it stay at the 10 the reduction to 10 and I had an idea that I hadn't thought of before But if they're so concerned with mirroring the districts the county the city districts mirroring the county going to 10 districts What would be wrong with having instead of 16 Alderman 20 Alderman? You would still have two Alderman per district and I for one would be willing to take a if we don't want to increase the The pay that we're already paying 16. I would be willing to take a pay cut to fund the other Four Alderman to get it to keep us at 22 Alderman per district But go to 10 districts instead of eight. I guess is what we would be doing and so but I don't really think that the chance of somebody Filing a petition collecting the correct number of signatures to oppose this is really a viable thing That's going to happen and so I'm going to as I did when we passed this at the committee of the whole meeting I'm going to be voting in favor of returning the number of Alderman to 16 Thank you for those comments Alderman Wolfe Thank You mayor couple of things first off having having the fact that our city City Attorney has brought to our attention the rules and in the the situation that we're in I I'm for reducing it to 10 to make sure that we're compliant with what we already have in motion As we have said in in prior meetings Representing our constituents To the best of our ability The only phone calls that I have received and conversations that I have had with my constituents Has been to reduce it to 10 so having said that I have not received anybody Contacting me or in any way shape or form to keep it at 16. Thank you. Thank you for those comments Alderman Heidemann. Thank you mayor This ordinance before us let's we have to understand we need 11 votes To pass it because it's a charter ordinance I know that The committee of the whole I think we had seven votes so we need four people to change their mind Two individuals that voted against are not here and Mary Lynn somewhere But we know how she's going to vote. I'm going to support this Not that I don't kind of want to compliment Alderman whole shoe On her proposal. I'll support that but tonight we have an opportunity to get the council back to 16 And that's what I want to support because I want to give people opportunities to run for office I don't want to take opportunities away and And I didn't I never heard the outcry from my constituents that we were wrong at 16 and I have talked to a number of constituents and I've had some that said Reduce but I also had some that said maintain the 16. In fact more of them said maintain the 16 Thank you. Thank you for those comments Alderman Thiel Thank you, your honor since the committee the whole meeting. I also was given some of this some thought What I remember hearing was we went from Abe Lincoln four scores and seven years ago to somebody talking about 16 older persons lighting candles is where this all became I Have not received a single call email anything on this until today where a lady called me today So I decided to ask the people that I work with in the lunch room find out what it is I think this is really a non-issue outside of here I think this is really an issue with everybody in here on why we want to reduce or keep I Really think a lot of us don't trust everybody and I think that's why we want to keep it at 16 If that's a good reason or not, I don't know But I really think that's the whole issue here is it's everything that deals with in here and not with the public out there I really think the public don't have an opinion on this because that's what I got from the people at work I said you care 16. Do you care 10? I feel like we really don't care. Just just take care of us the way you can I Also thought about it when we look at the districts I think some of us will end up running against each other I think even one district had like four people running against the same person and it'll leave one empty I think that might be playing a little bit of this part too. I understand it's hard running against other people So I really think this is pretty much an issue within here It's a non-issue out there. We should really work work on the issues that Are important to the city, which is the budget those type of items I think we're wasting a lot of time on this obviously I'm in favor of 16 I just think we should do it by the book. I like what Susie proposed but like I said, I think we just got to look deep and Trust the person next to you or or don't trust or I think we should all be on the same page. So thank you Thank you for those comments all the men boring Thank You mayor Attorney Adams if this document comes in from Alderperson whole shoe Are the voting requirements still going to be the same with that document that it's going to take a two-thirds to change it? It would it would still take two-thirds to change it and it would still take seven percent not twenty five percent of the Voters in the previous gubernatorial election to force a referendum Thank you Alderman Trester I Did get several phone calls from my constituents I guess the people on the north side of Sheboygan are a little more informed or care a little bit more about what's going on in the city Then on the south side I did get calls and I guess their biggest issue Was not whether we have 16 or whether we have 10 But the fact that they are not being represented in the vote They feel that this is their council. This is their city We work for them and we should be asking them how many council members we should have and it should be put to a referendum vote and just to keep the record straight There are several people that watch us on TV and watched committee meeting of the whole and we're very disappointed that this council is more concerned in Making things easier for us cleaning house and Getting our ducks in a row than we are about the people in the city so I think the best thing we could do and I Don't know if we can do this or not But I would ask that we either a follow Alderman whole shoes Example and go with what she's proposing or that we ask if we can delay The ordinance the enforcement of the ordinance that's already on the books For one year so that we can get this into a referendum vote and let the people decide and then if the people say they Want ten council members? Then so be it no more discussion the people have spoken and we are listening if the people say they want 16 no more discussion we stay at 16 and we let the people speak Thank you for those comments I'd like the city attorney to chime in and answer your question about delaying implementation Delaying implementation is not possible because you have an ordinance that says what you have to do But what you should note is that we would not be moving to ten alderman until 2018 even under the current Ordinance it this first step in 2017 is a preparatory step by holding elections for one-year terms so that it could Reduce to ten so could you have an advisory referendum during that time? Yes, you could it would be a separate matter from what Alderman whole shoe is talking about but it's certainly something that could be considered It is important to know though it would be an advisory referendum a binding referendum is not possible on this except Through the process of seven percent of the electors opposing a particular charter ordinance Thank you for that explanation Alderman Lee Wendalski Yes, I'm still I'm going to vote in favor of this and I do want to keep it at 16 And I have had people talk to me and also Send me private messages on Facebook and also call me up and And the one thing that they're really against is that the council did this without any input from the Citizens of Sheboygan and they are complaining that the council just doesn't listen to them Thank you for your comments alderman Jose Thank you mayor I Received one maybe two people that want to see it reduced to ten and the vast majority of people I've talked to want to see it go stay at 16 where it is and I just want to point out I don't know if the people that that want to reduce a ten I somehow I get the feeling they think that we we make like what alderman and Milwaukee make like 40,000 a year or something like that We don't even make like 4500 a year So reducing six alderman isn't even going to save $27,000 You're talking about less than the 20th. You can't you can't pay half of one block of street for for $27,000, so It's it's not a money-saver if that's why we got some conservatives out there that and I'm financially conservative I'm conservative, but if they think by reducing the alderman by six You're not even going to save what one walkie alderman makes a year by by eliminating six shabuigan alderman Thank you very much Alderman Bourne I just want to correct something that alderman Jose said that the Milwaukee alderman currently makes $73,000 a year, and I believe that that's they're also in Entitled to a city health insurance, so it's quite a bit more than 40 any other discussion Again, I'd like to turn it over to the city attorney to tell us how many votes are needed on this issue 11 votes would be needed to pass the charter ordinance Thank you with a clerk. Please call the roll Alderman down a hue Okay, thank you Seven eyes seven nose Cheer votes. No, no, you don't you don't need to vote because okay Motion is defeated Next move on to ordinances 6.1 and through 6.3 will be referred to various committees Under matters laid over 7.1 is RC number 130 of 1617 by law and licensing to whom was referred pursuant to our own number 75 of 1617 by the city clerk various license application and recommends denying beverage operators license application 9 4 1 0 based upon or failure to act at reveal all convictions on our application or record of violations Related to the licensed activity and her record is a repeat law offender Alderman holds you 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 sinthony chrisman here? Synthy you can come right up to the We I had asked to hold this over after I had been contacted as she was out of town at our last meeting But during our council meeting we went over the a number of different Charges she had and had forgotten to put down and she has a very long history of disorderly conducts all invite all involved with intoxication and Our council or our committee Anonymously denied her license and we wanted to make certainly that simp Synthony had the opportunity to speak to the council So I will leave it up to you I Will you speak into the mic then Cynthia? Not all of my disorderly conducts were alcohol related the ones from I think like 2009 up until about 2000 I don't even know my land 2014 or 15 have all been Pretty much self-defense against one of my exes it was we both got charged with it and I have Even started drinking. I didn't start drinking until Three years ago four years ago So I mean the let the the last two Two three disorderly conducts I got yes were alcohol related, but the one I was at my house and Nobody got hurt. I was it was between me and my brother my brother came over and I asked him nicely to leave and he wouldn't so they got called and I was the verbal one so I got it and Then I got a disorderly and a resisting arrest last year And I was I had just gotten my anxiety pills and I Was warned not to drink with them and I was going through a really bad time in my life So of course I got a bottle and I went home and I drank and I ended up going out and mice me and my sister and The last one from December. I have actually have court for tomorrow. I It got dismissed by Joe that Chico, I don't know how to say his last name Back in December it got dismissed and it just got reissued to me. So I don't know Thank you for explaining the charges Did you want to give the council any reasons why we should vote differently than what the committee re-recommended? I Had my job up until I got denied at Dave Susan I was working the whole time. I quit drinking. I haven't drank since February Okay Alderman Boren Thank You mayor. I didn't hear where you were working ma'am with this license Dave Susan Dave Susan. Thank you And then I have an all question for all our person whole shoe was there a recommendation on this applicant from the police department? Thank you. I was trying to remember and I can't remember if they gave a recommendation But I did they they they thought it to be we're hopeful that some time could pass Before she's given her license and I'm going to ask our attorney if he would just Go over the charges because there was more than just disorderly conducts right the background check Indicates the following 2006 possession of drug paraphernalia 2006 possession of marijuana 2008 possession of THC To 2008 disorderly conducts at 2009 disorderly conduct Actually three 2008 disorderly conducts 2014 contempt of court 2015 obstructing resisting 2015 disorderly conduct and another 2015 disorderly conduct Quick that 2008 drug charge. I have no idea where that came from. I only have one charge and that was for the 2006 But 2001 I don't know what that is Alderman Boren Thank You mayor just to refresh my memory from my days on law and licensing attorney Adams if we do not grant the license She can still work at Dave's who's in but she can't work alone. Is that is that by understanding? That's correct Someone who is unlicensed may May serve alcohol, but they may do so only under the direct immediate supervision of a licensed bartender Thank you. Thank you. Alderman Jose or any of your Disorderly conducts and and other charges at the city attorney as mentioned work related No, I was not working any any one of them. I've been working at Dave's for almost five years now, so All the men was a whole shoe. I wonder if you could tell me did any of these disorderly conducts happen at Dave's who's in The disorderly conduct and the resisting arrest. Yes, but I was there as a customer Is there any other discussion on this motion Alderman Lewandowski? Okay, we're seeing none. I'd ask the clerk to call the roll Motion is to accept and adopt and deny You may please sit down nine eyes five nose Motion passes Next we'll move on to other matters city attorney 8.1 is a resolution authorizing the acceptance of 1106 1110 and 1114 North 10th for the purposes of the raising the property for new private investment as part of the neighborhood revitalization strategy activities that'll be referred to the city planning Commission 8.2 is a resolution authorizing an application to the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program for an ADA canoe kayak launch facility at Kiwanis Park that I've referred to the finance committee At a mate point 3 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31st 2016 June 30th 2017 and June 30th 2018 That'll be referred to the law and licensing committee 8.4 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting a communication from Joe Lam President of the mid-lake softball Organization requesting an agreement between the city of Sheboygan and the wake brothers Construction company as they've expressed an interest in donating the entire cost of a new scoreboard for Wildwood softball complex That'll be referred to the board of marina parks and forestry In public works Next is a motion to convene a closed session alderman wolf Thank You mayor. I make a motion to convene in closed session pursuant to the exception of section 19.85 sub 1 sub g of the Wisconsin stats in order to Confer and leave a counsel for the city of who is rendering oral advice concerning strategy to Be adopted by the body with respect to litigation in which it is involved to wit sub 1 discussion possible approval of a mediated settlement of the matter of Gilbertson Ete Versus city of Sheboygan to discussion of the possible action regarding assessment litigation relating to the memorial mall Including jfm 1 versus city of Sheboygan tax years 2010 through 2013 and nrfc Memorial holdings versus city of Sheboygan tax years 2014 and 15 and the motion to convene in closed sessions under the exemption provided in sections 19.8 sub 1 sub e of the Wisconsin stats were competitive and bargaining reasons Required the closed session related to the redevelopment opportunities in the 600 block of north a street Thank you for that motion in support with the clerk. Please call the roll for closed session One no Motion passes. I'd just like to advise our TV viewers that will be adjourning in closed sessions So this will be the end of our broadcast for today, and then we'll take a three minute recess