 Good evening everybody. It is six o'clock and I will call the first regular Common Council meeting to order. Will the clerk state the quote of the evening? Thank you Mr. Mayor. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Thank you. Will the clerk call the roll? Alderperson Decker. Here. Alderperson Felde. Here. Alderperson Mitchell. Here. Alderperson Pirella. Here. Alderperson Raimi. Here. Alderperson Rust. Present. Alderperson Peterson. Excuse. Alderperson Ballinger. Here. Alderperson Lafave. Here. There are eight present. If folks could stand for the presentation of the national colors from the Sheboygan Police Honor Guard. Detail. Hope. Shoulder. Arms. Present. Arms. If folks have joined me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One Nation. Under God. Indivisible. With liberty and justice for all. Right. Shoulder. Next. If Father William Bolson would come up. And he will lead us and kick off the invocation. Peace everyone. Public service is hard sometimes. It can be really rewarding. I'd like to invite you to just take a couple of minutes to plug in again to what led you to take on this responsibility in the first place. What great desire or sense of value led you to offer yourself in this way. Because where the deep meaning is, that's where God lives. So just take a couple of minutes, a couple of seconds in silence. Close your eyes if you need to and just reflect on that. What brought you here in the first place? You have called us here together as people, as counsel to administer your goodness, your justice, your mercy. So illumine our hearts and our minds that these your servants, these leaders, so that we as citizens amidst the fear of confusion, the mundanity may know deeply and trust wholly why we are here. Granted, in all things we, your servants and leaders, we, your citizens, may embody your holy wisdom, your mercy, your justice. So that all things may be brought to their perfection through you, through whom all things were made. This we pray in your holy name. Amen. Thank you, Father Polson. Next, if Brett LaBello would come up and he will lead us in the land recognition this evening. Hello everyone. First of all, my name is Brett LaBello and thank you very much for the invitation today. I'm a relative newcomer to Sheboygan. I've been here for a month and a half. So thank you, I appreciate it. I look forward to getting to know the community, building relationships and participating discussions like this in the future. As a part of the land recognition, I'm going to read the John Michael Kohler Art Center statement. It was written and vetted through grassroots discussions with indigenous communities. And I also believe my predecessor at the museum was a part of those conversations. The statement illustrates respect, intent and meaning and really connects the president with the past histories of those indigenous communities. We acknowledge that we in Sheboygan County occupy the traditional homelands of the Ho-Chunk, Potawatomi, Menominee, Oneida and Ojibwa people along the southwest shores of Michigami. This area holds tremendous value to these tribes and their cultural history. Let this acknowledgement remind all that this land was taken from the native people. Let these words increase public awareness as we honor, respect and support the indigenous peoples who are still connected to the land we live on. Thank you. Thank you, Brett. Next, if the older person's elect would come on down to the well of the council chamber and the clerk will administer the oath. Next is adoption of the rules for the common council, older Decker. Thank you, Mayor. I move to adopt the rules. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Seeing none, this will be a roll call vote. And then for the newbies who haven't gotten their laptops yet, just give a thumbs up. It is. All right, that's approved. Next is election of president and vice president of the common council, older Decker. I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by closed ballot. And if two or more candidates are nominated, the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balancing to continue until one candidate receives a majority. Is there a second? Second. Moved and seconded. Are there any nominations? I move to elect older Dean Decker for council president. Is there a second? Second. Moved and seconded. Are there any other nominations? Older Mitchell? Thank you, Mayor. I would move to postpone the pending motion definitely until the next regular meeting where all 10 districts in the city have a sworn in representative. Thank you. So that motion, that motion is out of order and city attorney will cite the statutes and the ordinances. Well, as far as out of order, not necessarily, but the statute or the ordinance does provide that the election of the president shall occur at the organizational meeting. And today is the organizational meeting per the code. So today is the proper day to vote on that. Thank you, city attorney. Other other other nominations? Older Bellinger? Does that preclude us from postponing because what you're doing is you are disenfranchising Alderman Heidemann from running for any of these positions and you're disenfranchising the residents of the 10th district from having any say or any representation in this process. So is there anything as far as statutes goes to prevent us from suspending this until the next meeting? City attorney? Well, under our rules of procedure, really the only way that would happen would be via what is colloquially known as the three-man hold. But that would require three Alders to request that hold. All right. Other other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Yes. Alder Bellinger? I would like to nominate Tray Mitchell. All right. Is there a second? All right. There's been a motion second. Are there any other nominations? Seeing none, will the clerk distribute the ballots? We need to close the nominations. Thank you. Is there a motion to close the nominations? I move to close. Second. Moved and seconded? All right. Now the clerk will distribute the ballots. All right. Thank you. Alder Decker, congratulations. All right. We'll keep it moving. Next is nominations for Council Vice President. Alder Decker. Thank you, Mayor. I move that nominations be received from the floor. Voting to be done by closed ballot. And if two or more candidates are nominated, the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list. And validating to continue until one candidate receives a majority. Is there a second? Second. Moved and seconded. Are there any nominations? Are there any nominations? Can I make a move? Sure. Alder Decker? I nominate Zach Rust. All right. Second. There's been a second. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Last call. Are there any other nominations? All right. Alder Mitchell. I would move to nominate all their bell and chair. All right. There's been a motion. Is there a second? All right. Moved and seconded. All right. Is there a motion to close nominations? All right. Is there a second? Second. You can second it. All right. Will the clerk distribute the ballots? Second. All right. Congratulations, Alder Rust. All right. Next, we'll jump into election of representative on the city plan commission. Alder Decker. I move that nominations be received from the floor, voting to be done by open ballot, and if two or more candidates are nominated, the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority. Second. Okay. Moved and seconded. Are there any nominations? For plan commission. Alder Mitchell. I would nominate Alder Ballinger. All right. Is there a second? Second. Moved and seconded. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? All right. Seeing no other nominations, is there a motion to close nominations? I move to move closed nominations. Second. Moved and seconded. All right. Alder. Okay. All right. Okay. Yep. Okay. Yep. Okay, that's right. Okay. Alder Decker. I move that the city clerk be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for John Ballinger, for representative on the city planning commission. All right. Is there a second? Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. All right. Congratulations, John. All right. Next, we're doing representatives to the capital approval commission. Alder Decker. I move that nominations be received on the floor, voting to be done by open ballot, and if three or more candidates are nominated, the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until two candidates receive a majority. Second. Moved and seconded. Are there any nominations? Are there any nominations? Are there any other nominations? Okay. So do I make a motion to close the nominations? City attorney? If we have no one wants to. Ordinance does require that the common council actually elect members to this commission. So a motion to close with, obviously it's up to the chair, but likely would not be in order. Yeah. Okay. That's right. Keeping asking. I nominate Alderperson Graziaparilla. Second. All right. Are there any other nominations? We need two. Alder Mitchell? Alder Mitchell. Nominate Alder Rust. All right. Is there a second? Second. All right. Are there any other nominations? All right. Alder Decker. I move that the city clerk be instructed to cast unanimous minutes ballot for Alderperson Graziaparilla and Alderperson Zach Rust for the representatives on the Capital Improvement Commission. Is there a second? Moved and seconded. All right. All those in favor? State aye. Aye. All right. Any objections? That's approved. Next, we will recess council and we'll turn it over to committee of the whole. Okay. I'm not going to read this. Okay. I will bring the committee of the whole to order. I'm looking for someone to make a motion for a committee of the whole chairperson. I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot and if two or more candidates are nominated the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority. Second. Okay. There's motion and seconded. Are there any nominations? I nominate Grazia Perrella. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? I move to close nominations or close unanimous. Yeah. I move that the city clerk be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot for Alderperson Grazia Perrella for committee of the whole chairperson. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Congratulations, Grazia. Thank you. There we go. All right. We'll reconvene the city council. All right. I need a report by the council president on the election of the committee of the whole chairperson. Thank you, mayor. Who is the committee of the whole selected as their chairperson? The committee of the whole is elected Alderperson Grazia Perrella as our committee of the whole chairperson. Thank you. Council President, do you have a message? Yes, I do. Very brief and short. Okay. Citizens of Sheboygan, Mayor Sorenson, Administrator Badly, fellow Alders, I would first like to thank the citizens of the sixth district for entrusting me to represent them on this council. I'd also like to thank my fellow Alders for honoring me in this office and I'm honored and humbled. We have a lot of great things going forward in Sheboygan and I look forward to working with all of you as we look to increase housing, expand businesses, and reimagine the marina. Along with our city staff, we can accomplish a lot and look forward to doing great things. Thank you very much. Thank you, Council President. City Clerk, anyone for public forum? No one this evening. All right. Thank you. Next to quick mayor's announcements. First of all, good evening, everybody. First off, I want to welcome our two new Alders that will be joining us this session. First, I want to welcome back Alderman John Bellinger from District 2. Welcome back, John. And I also want to welcome newcomer District 4, Bob LaFave. I'm looking forward to working with everybody this session and seeing what we can do. We have many projects and initiatives that we'll be working on in this coming session and I'm looking forward to collaborating with all the city staff, department heads, and all of our city partners. Coming down the line, we'll be working on adding $650 million of economic development throughout our community. We know that growing our tax base and helping our businesses thrive keeps our city strong. And additionally, as the weather warms up, we'll be rolling out more orange barrels this season, getting caught up on fixing more roads. It's very important that these investments in our infrastructure are key to ensuring that our municipal services can get done and provided. This session will be also working towards streamlining government processes and operations. Cutting through red tape and bureaucracy will help operate us more efficiently, save taxpayer dollars, and make sure that we can get more projects done in a timely fashion. Over the last several months, Administrator Bradley, Director McGinnis Casey and myself have been meeting with many of our local businesses, big and small, and we've heard two consistent themes. One is do what we can to help build and support more housing development. Our local businesses want to grow and expand and add more employees, and these businesses need places for their employees and their families to raise and grow right here in Sheboygan. We need to build all types of houses and continue our all-of-the-above strategy. Another theme we've heard from our employers is making investments in our downtown and waterfront. Our downtown and waterfront are the heart of our community and help shape our identity and it draws people to our community. Drawing people to our community is a key focus in making sure that we can grow and expand our workforce. Sheboygan is a great community to do business in and we want to keep that going. And please, elders, I encourage everybody to reach out, lean on staff. They are dedicated, passionate, making our city thrive. So we have a lot of work ahead of us, so let's keep it going. Thank you, everyone. All right. Next, we have Mayor's Appointments and these will lay over. Next, Matters Layovered Item 16, Resolution Number 206, 2324. By older persons, Decker and Mitchell authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute an agreement letter with Corals and Bradley to serve as bond council regarding taxable water systems revenue bond. Older Decker. I move to adopt the resolution. Moved and seconded. Any discussion on this item? Seeing none, this will be roll call vote. Eightyes. All right. That's approved. Next is 17, Resolution Number 207, 2324. By older persons, Decker and Mitchell authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the engagement letter with Landry and Company LLC relating to appraisal review services regarding three appraisals pending the Walmart Real Estate Business Trust Assessment Appeal Litigation. Older Decker. I move to adopt the resolution. Second. Moved and seconded. Discussion on this item? All right. Seeing none, this will be a roll call vote. Eightyes. All right. That's approved. Item 18, Resolution Number 208, 2324. By older persons, Decker and Mitchell authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute a conflict waiver prepared by Vombrison and Roper regarding representation of the city in Sheboygan and Inspired Holdings. Older Decker. Thank you, Mayor. I move to adopt the resolution. Second. Moved and seconded. Discussion on this item? Older Bellinger. Could I just get an explanation? I haven't seen any of the documents or anything. You know what this is? Yep. City Attorney? Yes. So Vombrison and Roper represents the city on a number of matters and they would like to be able to represent Inspired Holdings LLC who is doing business with the city. In order to do that, they would have to get a conflict waiver signed by the city to allow them to represent Inspired Holdings LLC. And so this is before you to vote on that. I will note that it is my understanding that staff is recommending this because Inspired Holdings LLC is involved with some developments with the city and having our attorney who is well aware of what is happening with these developments assist them in this matter is not only beneficial to Inspired Holdings but would likely be beneficial to the city. I'm going to show you a banner. Yes, I just want to echo what Chuck said. The reason that we're asking for this waiver is specifically because there is a benefit to the city by having our attorney that we work with in all of our development agreements and development processes write this specifically what they're looking at writing is the condo documents for a proposed project. The developer has to develop them and submit them to the city by having our attorney do it. It creates a format that we would use going forward for other projects. So that's already done. The developer in this case would be responsible for 100% of the costs but the work that would be done would be in a format that's agreeable to the city for future use. Any follow-up, Alder Bellinger? No, thank you. I appreciate the information. Seeing no more queues, this will be a recall vote. He does. All right, that's approved. Next 19, resolution number 2092324 by Elder Persons Decker and Mitchell authorizing the city attorney's office to center the matter of state of Wisconsin versus City of Sheboygan and the aforementioned case numbers. Alder Decker. The canary moved to adopt the resolution. Second. Moved and seconded. Discussion on this item. Alder Bellinger. Again, could I get an explanation what are these cases? What are we agreeing to here? Yes, so the DNR issued some citations to the City of Sheboygan related to alleged failures in the Clearwater Runoff System in the South Point Center that occurred between 2018 and 2021. As we've negotiated a settlement in that matter in which we would pay approximately $2,500 and that would be the end of the matters. I'm sorry, how much? $2,500. Okay. Any follow-up, Alder Bellinger? And that's for each one of these cases. There are a total of five citations. One of them will be dismissed as part of the settlement. And this occurred when there's absolutely no development in that site right now. Right. The allegation is that the proper work wasn't done to prevent water runoff that led to soil leaving the area. That's the allegation. And a little subnote there. An issue that we've been dealing with is kids riding their four-wheelers tearing up the grass that was planted, causing a lot of that as well. Any other questions, Alder Bellinger? No. All right, thank you. Seeing no more queues, this will be your recall vote. Eight ayes. All right, that's approved. Item 20, resolution number 210-23-24 by Alder Person's Decker and Mitchell, authorizing the purchase of 636 Wisconsin Avenue from Wells Fargo Bank for future use by the city. Holder Decker. Thank you, Mayor. I move to adopt the resolution. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion on this item? Alder Lefebvre. I was just wondering what plans might be in the works for this property. City Administrator? We're currently working on a couple of different options to bring back for future consideration by council. Right now, we don't have a specific development in mind. We're putting those together. We're working with a couple different groups on potential interest in the property, but given that it's a vacant property, we want to make sure that it gets repurposed and not sit there and linger for decades. Understood. Okay, thank you. Yes. And this is in the project plan for TID 21 and budgeted. As you can see, it's well under the budgeted amount that we estimate. Okay. Holder Belger. What is the amount? 1,700,000. And where is this coming from? This was in the TID project plan, so the revenues that'll be generated out of developments within the TID, that will be where the funding will come from that will ultimately reimburse the city for this cost. So it's just coming, so eventually it's going to be reimbursed. Yes. So projects over what kind of timeframe? Well, it's going to depend on how quickly the projects develop. We can go in more depth. Obviously, Kite Beach is a project that we know about that is moving forward. They're looking at that project starting yet this year, so revenues are flowing in for that project next year. And then we've got some other projects that'll be starting later on this year. That will also start having revenues that'll start flowing in the next five to 10 years to help reimburse that and other projects that'll be going on in TID 21. And this isn't part of TID 21 though? This is TID 21, yes. So Kite Beach is too? Yes. So it's okay, so it stretches that far. Yes, it goes all the way from the Kite Beach King Park area all the way up to about Fulton Park and then all the way over to the marina. And TID 21, the reason it was created first is then also a recipient for the other TIDs so that as development available increment in those TIDs becomes available that'll help offset the large amount of public infrastructure costs that we have in TID 21. Okay. Thank you. Any other discussion on the item? Seeing none, this will be a roll call vote. It is. All right, that's approved. Alder Decker, we've exhausted the agenda. What is your pleasure? I move to adjourn. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor of adjourning, state aye. Aye. All right, we're adjourned at 638. Thanks everyone for attending.