 All righty, it's 5.30. I'm gonna call the meeting to order. Do a quick world call. All the person Ackley. All the person Phillips. All the person Savoglio. And all the person Sorenson. Okay, all present. Well, we'll start out with the Pledge of Allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America. And to the world of religious hand, one nation under God, indivisible, All righty, 2.1, approval of the minutes. Do I have a motion? Approved, last meeting minutes. I can't get it exactly. Got a motion, approved, seconded. All those in favor? Public? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. They're approved. Okay, start right out with 3.1, Resolution 103-20-21, October 5th, document 5.7, Resolution establishing the 2021 budget and appropriations and the 2020 tax levy for use during the calendar year. Director Bebel. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Tonight, we're gonna be presenting the executive program budget, which includes basically the Department of Public Works. So we're gonna be focusing on the Department of Public Works budget. And I'm quite proud to say that for the most part, it's fairly flat. We do have some increases, but those increases reflect some increasing trends that we need to address, as well as mainly cost to living or consumer price index increases and some contractual increases that we have ongoing. So I'm gonna refer to our IFC, which we have as a background and we'll start right at the top with engineering. Engineering, we're increasing it overall by 10,000 in contracted services. And this is what we're starting to see a need, especially where it comes to structural engineering, environmental engineering, and some traffic engineering. Those are three specialized areas that for the most part, our engineering staff is civil, which is a generalized engineering. It has a component of all these factors that I just mentioned, but they're not as specialized. This is type, we have anything with contaminated soils or information where soil conditions warrant further analysis will contract some of that analysis out. Anything was structural, that's a very specialized area that will need help occasionally, as well as traffic engineering. We get numerous requests for incidences where we have a dangerous intersection and if we need to do a signal warrant evaluation as well as doing some study in terms of traffic counts and pedestrian counts and so forth. So that's what that reflects in engineering. Other than that, engineering again is flat. We're not really adding extra costs in that area. Streets division or what we call municipal service building administration, there's no notable changes for 2021. Harbor Center Marina Fund, again, no notable changes. It's fairly flat across the board other than for some slight increases reflecting the consumer price indexes. Streets and alleys and sidewalks. This is a large portion of our streets. This is our repair budget. We're proposing to keep it as we did for 2020. No notable changes in terms of adding a much more construction materials or contractual services there. And that would hold true for storm drainage as well as the street lighting. However, in snow and ice, salt prices again have gone up. And again, we were under contract with the State of Wisconsin, the Department of Transportation. We piggyback on the State of Wisconsin's large purchase of salt for all the highways throughout the state. We're able to get into that bulk type of prices in bulk contract. But nevertheless, it's still increasing. So it's increasing 11,500. Our goal, however, is to, as you know, we've started to add brine and we started to add liquid calcium chloride to help reduce the reliance on actual rock salt. So ultimately, we're hoping to be effective. But yet we have to have a minimum order and this price still reflects that minimum order. Otherwise, if we go below, so it's such an amount. And if we need more next year, we're only limited to percentage increases. So it's one of those necessary evils of being part of the DOT salt program. We get good pricing, but yet it's a little restrictive in terms of the flexibility and how much we can order and how much we have to have and reserve. Sanitation and garbage, there is a $17,600 increase for tipping fees and that reflects 3% increase and that's via contract. And we have a five year contract to manage our waste to go to the landfill. Street cleaning, that's our street sweeping program and leaf collection program. We're not anticipating any major changes with that. Weed control is a small little portion of our budget. It's mainly contractual. This is where if we get tall weeds and grass complaints, we'll inspect, we'll notify the property owner, give them X amount of time to get rectified or get it cut. And if they don't, then our contractor goes out. So that's been a good program. And basically what we have in our contractual services gets reimbursed through then work orders and then charges back to those property owners not following through and cutting their lawns. The drop off site, no notable changes. That's been a good steady operation and things are moving well there. City Hall, there's an increase in utilities, reflecting all of the new technology as well as all of the air handling now that we have in the building where prior we didn't have air handling in the building for heat or for air conditioning. It was a hot water or steam heat in the past. So there's an increase in there. But overall, as I mentioned, I think previously, if you look at the history of City Hall, costs overall, it's flat for the last 10 years. We're steady. It's had its peaks and valleys, but we're still trending right along where we should be. Although there's an increase from last year, last year when we budgeted for the building, we just really didn't know, because we had no history of it being occupied and operating in the building. Civil defense, there's no changes. That is our, and that system's been fully upgraded throughout the city. We have new civil defense sirens and new telemetry where they're activated. So that's been a nice change overall with the maintenance that was necessary in the past. Cemetery, again, really no notable changes. The same personnel's assigned to the facilities, seasonal, as well as the work that's being done. We do have small little money to fix some of the roads and pavements that are within the cemetery. And that's an ongoing annual kind of maintenance activity that we try to attack every year. Parks, again, no notable changes. The big items in parks are our maintenance of the buildings and facilities as well as the utilities. But overall, the personnel's remaining the same. We supplement a lot during the busy season with summer seasonal, so we're tracking, again, well with that. This past summer, however, we really held back on our summer seasonal with the pandemic affecting our park usage in terms of the rentals of the facilities and such. So at the end of 2020, we're anticipating that we should be in good position in that area of the parks department. Maywood, no notable changes, again. We currently have a contract with Maywood and the Association for them to manage it and operate the facility as, and then we pay for the utilities and upkeep and some of the activities necessary to keep it ongoing. The Park and Open Space Fund, this mainly is for our forestry division and there's no notable changes. That's part of our Emerald Ash borer long range forestry plan. And we're probably in our third, fourth year of about a seven to eight year program. And again, that's no changes. We're keeping it the same as last year. So we'll have activities in terms of treating chemicals with the ash trees, removing and trimming and so forth. So the treating program, now we've hit every tree that we've treated. Now we're on retreats and even with the retreating of trees, we're still having some loss of those trees. So the chemical application to help preserve is eventually going to start dwindling in terms of the amount we'll be using because there is about a 10% loss of those that are treated on an annual basis. The Park Impact Fund, no notable changes. That fund is, again, that is the fund that when we have new housing units being built in the city, we get a fee for when they take out the building permit to build. So for instance, the Oscar project will have, let's see, 200 units in it. Each unit then provides us revenue to this fund to be used to implement new park facilities, our new equipment within our existing parks. So I could foresee like with the Oscar development, something over at Moose Park eventually or something within the area at Veterans Park that could potentially help as even Franklin Park, which is across self-business drive. So that could be a clear impact in use of that funds that we get for the impact fee goes right to that development or those new areas that need to support the new residents within those areas. And the last couple of years we've had with the apartments, we've had a significant increase in the fund. So we'll be able to make a difference in some of these areas. The stormwater utility fund that's, we don't have a utility per se. We had a utility years ago, it's been suspended. We're not collecting a fee anymore for what we call equivalent runoff units as we used to for residential and commercial properties as well as it could be non-taxable properties that would be charged this utility fee. We're not doing that, but the utility fund is still in existence. And that's mainly for when we have stormwater permits or drainage application, drainage permit applications, those revenues fund that account. And it's roughly only about 50,000 a year, but it's enough to keep it in place for if and when eventually if a stormwater utility does make sense again to reactivate or implement for the city. And we're finishing up a citywide master stormwater management plan. It's been probably 20 years since the last one was completed. We're in the final review stages of that internally with our engineering department. And some of the early recommendations are some pretty major capital projects coming down in the next five to 10 years. In just addressing stormwater. So I think that's gonna bring that kind of discussion around a little bit more full circle is how do we fund that? Do we have those projects compete within the capital improvements program against other projects such as roads, fire engines, building improvements to say the least. So the stormwater utility could be an opportunity to maybe fund those larger stormwater projects through that funding mechanism, in other words. So again, stay tuned. That's not today and it's not for 2021. But I'm thinking within the next two to three years we'll have to have a discussion on that to at least determine what really financially is the best way to fund these types of improvements for the longterm. Motor vehicle division. There's an increase in rental charges and right around roughly $50,000. The fund is approximately $2 million. So this 49,000, or 50,000 roughly, excuse me is about 2.5% increase is what we anticipated in our rates that we're charging internally for our equipment. Again, this is a separate fund that we internalize our vehicle equipment. That way it's separate from the general fund budget. So we're charging ourselves a vehicle rental fee, which that fee then goes into this fund for ultimately replacing equipment. That way we're not again competing with the capital improvements. Now there was if you recall for those of you that have been on the council longer, we had a couple of years where we had a million dollars of capital improvements specifically for the motor vehicle fund. And that was really replacing the fund for several years ago when that fund had a surplus of roughly around I'd say $7 million. And there was about $4 million of that was taken and used for other debt repayment services that were needed at the time. With that money being taken out of the fund, then the fund wasn't as solvent and things were starting to get, excuse me, the equipment was needing to be replaced. That fund was no longer able to keep up. Therefore we needed to hit the capital borrowing. Ultimately we do not want to go into capital. So now instead of about a million dollars that we are heading to capital improvements fund for vehicle replacement, we've reduced that to 250,000. And ultimately we want to get it to zero where we're just using our internal funding mechanism to replace equipment and not have to go and compete with those other capital funds. The recycling fund, it's a new fund. We just implemented it last year. We're not increasing rates. There's still $4 a month. And it just has a slight increase of 10,886 that represents the cost of the CPI index for the contract for waste disposal and recycling processing per ton. Lastly is the wastewater treatment plant division. We have increased here 74,000 in interest investments and again, this is this more of an accounting exercise as well as an increase in 125,000 in billing services. The water utility processes our sanitary. So when you get your water bill from the water utility it also has our sanitary sewer charge on there. When we have the water utility process our sanitary sewer bills, they have the ability through the public service commission to charge us for that service. Now it's an expensive service. It's about $650,000 a year. But what goes into it is just not processing the bills. It also processes their capitalization of the water meters themselves. So when the water utility had to buy meters and replace them through all the properties as well as the technology for the radios to do the meter reading itself. All of that type of cost is also built into this billing. So I just wanted to explain that. And lastly, there's an increase in chemicals. Chemicals aren't cheap, but they're very necessary. So that's around 37,400. So that's really quickly the highlights of the public works budget. Again, I'm very proud of the staff, their commitment. I have tonight with us all the superintendents and city engineer with us to discuss any details. But again, we're cognizant of the need to balance and keep the city at a high level in terms of the services that we provide and the improvements that we make on a daily basis. Yet doing a cost effective matter that recognizes the taxpayers and the ability for the community to afford this as well. With that, I entertain, just real quickly and I know Steve's on the line, he can maybe provide more detail. But the wastewater plant, the rate there is roughly about a 5% increase. That is actually much less the last couple of years we were trending right around 9%, roughly at the wastewater. And that's because of many of the large capital projects. Now we do have our self-shore interceptor project that's gonna be coming. That's roughly a $10 million project right now. However, we're entering into some preliminary design on that as well as we're just applied for a FEMA grant and there's other grants we're chasing to significantly reduce the burden of having the utility, the wastewater utility fund that entire project. So there's opportunities there. And I think at this point we're in good position with that project. It's already less than about $14 million we originally planned. So I think only good news is going to come forward with those grants as well. So with that Mr. Chairman, I guess I turn it back to you and be happy to answer questions. Well, thanks Dave. I really appreciate it. I really see the work that's put into this. And I guess I'll entertain any other questions from any committee members. Mr. Chair, I have a question. Go ahead, Marcus. Thank you. Dave, if you could help me a better understand here in your kind of like in brief document that says what changes are notable or not. I've kind of added up here roughly somewhere in the neighborhood about $350,000 increase compared to last year. Would that be reasonable to view with me? That's less than a million. I, okay, what I would look at however is did you include like the motor vehicle, the recycling funding and store, well not store mark as we didn't have it. And the wastewater in that figure? I just went through the document. You just kind of went over where it starts with this is a request for public board committee consideration report date October 6th that kind of talks about wastewater is the last item. Right. That has like $200,000 in it alone. So as long as we're kind of working off of that document and then this other document that is noted as the resolution 103-20-21. I'm showing here a couple pages in the budget summary says that for 2021 executive public safety is going up by someone in the neighborhood of, I'm sorry, public works is going up in the neighborhood about $4 million, $3 million or so. And you've only explained about 300,000 or 400,000 of it. Could you help me understand the difference there? Again, the majority of that is in the wastewater and capital areas. Not, what I was giving you highlights tonight was mainly in what I would consider what is our operating budget. Those items that affect the tax levy directly. And even within there, there's some like such as wastewater that doesn't affect the tax levy. That's actually the wastewater utility billing of which I mentioned so roughly around about a 5% increase for next year. Thank you for the clarity there. Any other questions online here? Nope, none for me, I'm good. Thanks guys for all their hard work putting in on this. At this point, can I call for a motion to approve this and pass it on to general counsel? And I'll give that a second. Okay, motion made and seconded to approve the resolution. And all those in favor? Hi. Anybody else? I only heard two. Rolls, do we lose some people? Okay, I'm gonna do a roll call of it. All the person actually, do we have anybody else? Are they calling in, maybe, or I wanna? I just see me and Marcus. Yeah, we have a quorum. I guess we have three, we have three. I guess we'll just, I guess Betty was on. I know she was on and so was Rose. We'll put her on, so we have a quorum to vote, so we have to, we can just vote it on it. Okay. So and all the person's Vaglio. It's I, thank you for your hard work guys. All the person's Sorenson. Okay, and I guess Phillips, is Rose still on yet or not? Okay, well, we have three. Chair votes aye, motion passes. Alrighty, next regular meeting date, October 27th, 2020. And I guess we'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Move to adjourn. Second. Motion made and seconded. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Okay, and I, Chair votes aye. We're adjourned.