 Okay, it's 5.30 and we'll call the public works meeting to order. Start with roll call. All the person head of it. Here. All the person rest. Present. All the person rainy. Here. All the person cells are. Here. Okay. And all the person doctors here. So we will start out with the pledge of allegiance. The pledge of allegiance is a good way for the United States of America and to the United States of America. The pledge of allegiance is a good way for the United States of America and to the United States of America. The pledge of allegiance is a good way for the United States of America. I move to approve the minutes. Second. I seconded. Any discussion on those minutes? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. Those are approved. Okay. Number 6, general ordinance number 4-23-24, June 5th, 2023 in ordinance amending section 8-16 of the Sheboybin Municipal Code relating to allowing pets in parks all the grounds. Right there. Mr. Chairman, we have representatives from our Parks and Forestry Division, Superintendent Mr. Joe Curlin, Tim Bull, Supervisor of the Parks and Forestry Division, as well as the Mayor is joining us this evening. And this is a result of, I believe, the Pet Friendly Task Force. So with that introduction, I'd like to turn it over to Joe and have him give a little bit more background. Mayor, do you mind if I give a little background first? Yeah. Nope. This goes back a while. So we've been doing the Pet Friendly, we've had a Pet Friendly Volunteer Board since like the 2020. It was an initiative, a Mayor's initiative, actually. And through a community-wide survey and the work of the volunteers, we've got a lot of, received a lot of good information that people really want to do, be able to go more places to make it more community-friendly. And through the work that we've done, I'll just note that we are the first Wisconsin City that has received that certificate of being a Pet Friendly City. So a lot of work has gone into this, a lot of time and effort by the volunteers, the Mayor, the past Mayor, myself, and the Police Department. So they've been a representative of this committee also. So this is really the first big thing that we've done. Oh, we did a taste of it. Ended last year throwing out, hey, these are the things we really want to do. Since then, we've gone out to several of the neighborhoods. We curtail things back a little bit right now. And so just to run through things briefly. And I did make copies. We had a red-lined version of the ordinance. It was not showing up on the, on the meetings, but Heather did fix that. So you should be able to go and see the actual changes that have been made. This has been helping the Mayor and myself. So those are on there. Now, I do have a hard copy if anybody wants one. So we did visit King Park neighborhood Indian, Indiana corridor. And even though Memorial neighborhood is not an official neighborhood, they've been meeting. So we've met with them actually twice. I read in King Park. I was Cleveland. And yes, that's a Cleveland Park area. Yeah. Yep. So, like I said, the red line is up. And I do have a hard copy now, but it's changes that we're asking for. Fairly simple. There's some smaller things as you look through the red line version. But under Section 816B, somehow we missed the 18th Street Southside Park has not been in our ordinance as an off-leash area. So that was included to clean that up. And then the new location over by the city offices on 9th Street, that is in there as a new off-leash location. So there's other stuff that goes through here, but the big things are allowing parks, allowing pets on leash at Evergreen Park, J.C. Corrie Park, excluding Corrie Beach, J.C. Park from to Mill Road along the Pigeon River Corridor. Moose Park would be an off-leash area eventually with a fenced in area and an on leash in the park. If you're going to do a, it made sense. If you're going to do an off-leash area, you're going to then have to allow on leash to use it. Moose Park, Cleveland Park. And then we're going to clean up the wordage for Area 8. Same thing at Area 8 Kiwanis. Right now that only coincides with the beer garden or just Area 8, that portion of the park would be just like the rest of the open. We'd eventually have a fenced in area. One thing I wanted to throw in there too that we've talked about for a few years is item M under that would be allowing, we've had requests for events for pets like pet fundraisers, things like that. And for David to be able, his position, to be able to approve that without going through a whole ordinance change. So that's, that's in there also. So any questions? Questions? Any comments? Any comments? I'm really excited about this thing. We had the Indiana Corridor and the Red Association and the, the, um, was perfectly positive from everyone from the, but they were really excited about having this thing. We were looking forward to having the off-leash area. You know, with the timing of that, when that happens exactly, and it's a funds thing, when we can get the fencing, when that happens. I mean, they're looking forward to it. I think it's going to be a positive. There are negatives always with any of these things. I mean, I guess concerning people have this is, you know, the cleanup, you know, people not being responsible, but I think people are responsible. I think this gives the citizens a place to be able to walk the dogs responsibly and to show us that this is going to work. I think this is a good way to do it. So they just, it's not every park. It's just certain parks. And I think it'll be a positive start for us to bring, to move forward and kind of prove itself a little bit. You know, this is a good proving grounds to see how it goes without going to every park. This is a big positive for us. I have a couple questions. In section F, I see the red line was wastebanks was taken off. So we are providing receptacles, but we're not going to do, we're not going to provide bags. Yeah, we felt that that was pretty strong of us to say we're going to provide bags all the time. We have garbages all through the parks and we're going to provide some definitely in the areas of the closed fence and some more in other areas, just so there's plenty for people to be able to use. But what if, you know, we just felt there's not really possible to provide the bags everywhere. No, so they are provided in the off-leash areas, is that what you're saying? Yes, that's the plan is to provide them in the off-leash area. And I think too, we're looking at, I think this 18th street one has it where it's just like a communal refill. Yeah. That sort of strategy that's just us providing it. Yeah. Everyone got a thousand in the space. And then the other question slash comment, I guess, is hopefully there's plans for like a frequently asked question thing on the website and all of that stuff. Yeah, already working on it. Perfect. Thank you. It's exciting. I'm excited. Yeah. I think one of the reasons that you talked about it too is it says it in there that we will provide them that we don't provide them that they can say, well, you said you were going to provide them and I didn't, and I don't, they're not there. So it's not, I'm not responsible for cleaning up this way. It kind of keeps us off. It keeps us out of that. Any other comments? Joel? Thank you, Chairman. I think this is a big step for the city of Sheboyga. And I want to see this go through and be very positive. And the citizens get an opportunity to have the pets that didn't have an opportunity to walk their pet in a park. They get to you do that. And that's fantastic. I guess my concern, if I have any, is how the signage is going to be put up and what size signage is going to be put up and where the signage is going to be put so that people understand where they can have their dog and where they can't. Okay. There's nothing in your boat. What size of signage is going to be, is there going to be, are we going to be able to say, hey, okay, who's designed what size signage is? Because I know, for a fact, over on Lakeshore Drive, we assigned there for a year that was faded. No, couldn't even read it. They're walking the dogs right past the sign. So that's not what I want to see. I want to, I also want to know where the police are on, as far as regulating to make sure that all this stays fair for everybody. Is this going to be referred to the law licensing at all or not? The plan is not for it to go there. It's to go to council after this. Representatives of the police department were involved in the brainstorming of this and on the task force. And so my expectation is that they're providing input on enforcement and concerns from their perspective. And Tyson Pitch, who's the sign shop we've been, has been at a few of the meetings too. And we're designing the signs in a way that it is visible and it pops and making sure we're utilizing, you know, a lot of the flashy colors. So like we'll have designated areas that will be red and that, that pop out and hopefully don't fade. And let's say no dogs in this area or there'll be green dogs on leash in this area that can provide some more succinct messaging visually and with the signs and then having the ordinance on there that says no dogs in this park per ordinance blah, blah, blah, blah or yes, the dogs on leash in this park per ordinance blah, blah, blah. So the PD has been very helpful in providing insight in terms of the signage on that as well too. And I believe that's important for both the dog owner and the citizen that goes, Hey, what's happening here? When it is changed? Because you know, there are going to be people that call you up to say, I got a guy running around with his dog and he doesn't realize that that park is open. And I think the placement of the areas is our wise choices. Okay, so I think basically, I think you've covered a pretty good portion in Sheboygan already. And I think it has room for growth. But then this has got to be maintained and people have to understand you got to clean up after your pet. I hope it works out. That's a nice thing about working with this committee. I mean, they want to educate, they want to have a good website, they want to, they're helping with the signs, the design and placements. So it's just not the city saying, Well, this, this, this is where that should go. It's people actually put their dogs knowing locations. And so we're getting a lot of input from them. And just trying to make some creative ones also. So that's, that's the nice thing about having a committee really work and passionate about this, the work with us. You know, I guess the name of it is Moose Park. It's an underutilized park. It's a nice park. It's, it's, it is a nice park, but it is underutilized. And it's, you know, so for this to be something unique for that park, be able to have it. I think it's a great, you know, as a great asset to our neighborhood and we'll look at forward to it. So good to take turn. The fine of $125. Where does that money go to? Does that just go into the general profit or? Yes, I got it. Pardon me? It's real because I've got one. I'll just go into the general fund. Okay. But we don't receive the full amount of a forfeiture. We receive a percentage of it, percentage goes to the state, other initiatives and quotes by the legislature. All right. Anyone else? For the section M where it says, you know, with Dave's approval for, you can have events and stuff. Have you talked like with the Humane Society for like adoption events and stuff like that? Is that the idea kind of for it? That's actually where this whole thing came from when they were doing their fundraising. Yeah. We will allow to have been able to have an event for them. Sure. Just, it just will bring, we're unable to do current ordinance. Sure. All right. The other piece is now this committee can also do something to like encourage, you know, what if we need to buy new receptacles or maybe we have a dog drinking station or something at these places. Now there's opportunity for that. That's exciting. And I think just a few other points I want to speak about too. We got a grant from the Head Friendly Certification City too. So we're utilizing that for signage and poop stations. The official term. Yeah. So it's been easy to use those funds to fit some of these projects. But they're just some of the notoriety that we've got for working on this from the city. Visit Sheboygan has been a good partner with this as well. And by just mentioning it to some of the travel writers who have some of the Pet Friendly initiatives, we got some good notoriety online for pet focused tourists. So it's actually been very interesting kind of some of the spin-off benefits of doing some of this stuff as well too. So yeah. And then actually meeting with some developers, even with the dental time dog park, there were some developers that were very impressed with the walkability aspect and having it really close right downtown. So it's just those little, you know, it's like the cherry on top that just kind of elevates us a lot of our story too. And, you know, to Dean's point and some of the conversations we had at some of the neighborhood meetings, and a lot of folks are excited that, oh, now we can just walk two, three blocks instead of getting in the car and driving, you know, all the way to the south side. Yeah. And in the winter, that's rough. Yeah. With all the mess, they're bringing back you in the car. Yeah. Just a few. Any other comments? Okay, I guess I'm looking for a motion then. I need to approve the ordinance. Second. Motion made second. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. That has approved. All right. Number seven, general ordinance number six dash 2324, June 5th, 2023. Ordinance repealing portion of section 21 of subs of general ordinance number 28, 1415 relating to certain parking restrictions on the east side of the 2200 block of the north fifth street and the 400 block of Euclid Avenue. Yeah, right. Okay. This, the map here, you see Euclid and fifth street, the white building. That's currently the million dreams facility, which I believe they purchased a year or two ago. Prior to that, it was Christian high schools, their grade school, I believe like kindergarten to sixth, seventh, eighth grade. And because it was a school, like all schools have, there was tons of no parking on school days, 7am to 4pm. Obviously, there's no longer a school there. So the million dreams, they want as much, they want to have as much on street parking as they can possibly have for drop-off and pickup and stuff like that. So they were asking us to eliminate the old school parking that was there. I asked the million dollar question, but we went through a lot with the neighbors in that neighborhood. Are they, or the rest of the neighbors in that neighborhood okay? Well, some of the neighbors moved. Okay. Because they were unhappy with the million dreams. But all the parking that's being eliminated is not on both sides of the street, like on Euclid, it's on the million dreams side. Can I, I've been, by their enough, it does not get parked here. I just think that it's like the idea of being able to drop off and pick up. Because around all schools, it's usually pretty restrictive. This will just loosen it up, which it makes, makes sense. Anyone else have questions? Looking for more, should they? I moved to approve the ordinance. A second. Made a second. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Chair votes aye. That's approved. Okay. Number eight, General Ordinance 7-23-24, June 5th, 2023, Nordensens repealing section 11 of subs of General Ordinance 28-15, General Ordinance 25-03-04, relating to parking restrictions on the north side of the 1600 block of Illinois campus. Okay. Same, pretty much the same situation. That's the Emanuel Lutheran Church located up at 17th and Illinois on the north side of the street. Again, they used to have a grade school there from kindergarten to 6th, 7th, 8th grade. And they no longer had the grade school located in their facility. So again, they're asking to have the school, parking school days, Monday through Friday, 7 a.m., the 4 p.m. remuled, because there's no need for it anymore. It's the same situation as the other one. Questions? Discussions? Okay. Okay. Second. Made a second. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? General Orts, aye. That's approved. Number nine, resolution number 18-23-24, June 5th, 2023, resolution authorizing Director Public Works to take necessary access to receive a grant from Delight Energy and a grant from Restoration of our Trees, Sheboygan for the Purchase and Finding the Municipal Trees and Authorizing and Adjustment for the 2023 Budget. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm going to defer to, again, our Parks and Forestry Division, Jim Curlin and Tim Bould, our City Forrester, who's been real active in this area, working with Alliance, getting grants, helping us get money for trees and helping our forest. So with that, would you guys want to give a little background? Yeah, I'm going to let Tim work. He did all the work to get the grants for us. Yep. Yeah, we have two grants here. So first one is specifically from, directly from Alliance, and it's, they're partnered with, what is it, Trees? Trees for tomorrow or something like that. The Ball Rath Park, they're doing, the Water Utility is doing that work. They're expanding, and part of that we had to remove about 50 trees in that, what's called the old buffalo pit, and they're filling that in. It's been filled in with some of the dirt from the construction. Anyway, some of those trees had to be removed, so I applied for this grant to try to cover the cost of replacing those 50 trees. So we received it, and that's what that $5,000, the cost of the 50 trees was like $400 more than that. So it was covered pretty much all of it. And then the other grant is from Roots, which is restoration of our Trees Sheboygan. They've been, they kind of partnered with Alliance as well as part of the same, Alliance has this goal to plant a million trees in their surface areas. So they partner with various people or, you know, nonprofits. So Roots is one of them, and they came in to help us out. We have 400 trees right now in our holding area, our gravel bed in the backyard here. Which we'll be planting this fall. So they were willing to pay for half of those, which was the $18,487. So together that's $23,000 and change. And so that's what's what's going on, which really helps out, covers the cost of some of those trees. This is great, great news. I mean, we're trying to catch up on that. Still from the Emerald Ash Park, I think we're, it's going to be, I think we'll be catching up for quite a long time yet. But any extra money that we can get for this is, I think, a positive. Any other discussion? Okay. Just looking for a motion then. I move to approve the resolution. A second. Wait a second. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. We opposed. Chair votes aye. That is approved. Next meeting date is June 27th, 2023. So I'll say the agenda. I'm looking for a motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn. Second. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Bye, we are adjourned.