 I'd like to call order the 26th regular meeting of the 2021 common council and the last meeting of this term. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Celebrate endings for they proceed new beginnings. Thank you for those words of advice. Would the clerk please call the roll? Alderperson Bourne. Here. Alderperson Donahue. Here. Alderperson Felde. Here. Alderperson Phillips. Here. Alderperson Decker. Here. Alderperson Sorensen. Here. Alderperson Savaglio. Present. Alderperson Feliki Paneski. Here. Alderperson Mitchell. Here. There are nine present. Very good, thank you very much. And Alderperson Ackley is excused. Next item is to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join me. 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. Thank you very much. Next we'll go on to the approval of the minutes from our 25th regular council meeting which was held on April 7th. Alderperson Sorensen. Thank you Mayor. I move to approve the minutes from our April 7th meeting. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none. All those in favor please signify by seeing aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? The motion passes. Next item is public forum. Do we have anyone tonight? There's no one this evening. Thank you very much. Next we have some resignations. Alderperson Sorensen. Thank you Mayor. I move to accept the resignations. Second. Okay, we have three of them. Robert Ecker from the Board of Zoning Appeals. Ryan Sorensen from the Sheboygan Common Council is an Alderperson. And Ryan Zinkel from the Sheboygan Transit Commission. Is it okay if we include all three with us? The motioner and the seconder? Yes, you can and we should just clarify that two of them, Ecker and Zinkel, are effective immediately and Alderperson Sorensen is effective at 11.59. Thank you very much, Attorney Adams. Those are before us then. All those in favor please signify by seeing aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? Motion passes. Nobody has to turn off their microphone. Thank you very much. Next we'll go on with Mayor's announcements. To begin with, I'd like to ask Peter Heimoldt to step forward and Joe Curlin for a special presentation. Peter Heimoldt, affectionately known as Painter Pete in the Parks Department. Painter Pete has skillfully painted park benches, tables, numerous other items including Fountain Park, items in Fountain Park for 12 years. He's also recruited high school students that needed volunteer hours. He helped him do some of the painting to get their hours. He knows the park staff very well and they know him. We just want to honor him tonight for for dedicating his time, volunteering his time to work in the Park Department for so many years. Painter Pete let us know that he's going to be hanging up his brush as of last end of last year but he will always have a bench along the lakefront where he worked most of most of the time. We are going to dedicate a bench with the plaque on it and says in recognition of Painter Pete Heimoldt for service to his community. I will take more than 10 minutes. First of all, thanks for the city for allowing me the opportunity to paint the benches and thank you to my wife, Nancy, for helping me get out of bed. It started a long time ago. Can I go back over? 12 years ago our family, the Heimboldt family from the East Coast and the West Coast came to Sheboygan for a family reunion and they loved it here. I can't get any of them to move here. They really liked it and I was down at the bench. I lived near the lake so I'm down there up and down and I noticed that the benches looked basically like hell and so I went to Paul, I believe he's named Meyer, Paul Meyer and asked him if I could paint the benches and he said he would take it up with the powers to be and I said I would do it. There were just two stipulations that the city supplying me with the paint and that no one would lose their job over this. So I started out and immediately a couple of friends of mine, John Visser and Roger Fiegel, God bless his soul, they made a neat little wagon for me to put the paint and brushes and pull it up along the lake along the lakefront. So I want to thank them. I want to thank Ryan Orr and Mike Johnson who are now currently working down at the lake and doing a very very nice job and keeping the restrooms clean and and they've been very helpful to me getting paint, getting wet paint signs, etc. The three boys that helped me were Tim and Dave Gottwald and the other one is James Ode and James Rody and then there's another boy named Luke and I can't remember his name. All I can remember is that his uncle is Boucher, that's his name, Bob Boucher who owns Clan of Strokes. So those boys helped. I want to thank Brian Milbrook because he helped a lot. He is a great guy. Now supposedly I have a pair of glasses. Oh James Rody, did I mention James? Okay. James Luke. How it started as I just explained is that menches look terrible so I went to Paul and we worked out a deal that I could do it just when we said but funny part of it was at that time the city was in negotiations with the Union so I can't remember if it was that year or the next year when I started again but almost immediately I was fired. So I got I got a lot of flak from my friends at the Yacht Club and the Morning Coffee Club. How can you get fired from a volunteer job? It happened. Anyway, thank you very very much. I really appreciate this and we're gonna put it. Thank you very much. Okay, super. Thank you. Thank you very much Peter. It's a great example of a Sid Misson who sees something that needs to be done and takes care of it himself. We really appreciate Pete's efforts. Next, I have a proclamation to read. Whereas David Cook Cook has served as a director of the Maywood Environmental Park for 30 years and will be retiring on April 30th of 2021 and whereas David has overseen the major park developments and the management of the parks 135 acres including the construction of two ponds, seeding of a prairie, additions of many park features, construction of the Ecology Center addition, engaging the community and planting and thousands of trees throughout his tenure and whereas Dave hiked the 1000 miles of the Ice Age trail through the cyber hike in support of Maywood and Kayak 650 miles through the water with Wisconsin to the world drop of life journey to educate students and communities about the importance of water and whereas throughout his career at Maywood, Dave has educated thousands of children and adults about nature and inspired new generations to be better stewards of our land and our natural world. He has four important partnerships including the partnership between Camp Waikota and the Sheboygan area school district and Maywood create the Waikota nature school at Maywood. These partnerships have benefited the residents and visitors to Sheboygan. I now therefore Mike Landerstein as mayor of the City of Sheboygan do proclaim April 30th of 2021 as David Cooke-Cook Day in the City of Sheboygan and call upon our community members to celebrate and recognize his accomplishments and contributions. Dave please come forward except this proclamation. Thank you very much. Don't forget that April 30th is Arbor Day so get out there and plant some trees but it's been really a privilege to have served the community of Sheboygan and worked at Maywood with hundreds and hundreds of volunteers who have made it a special place. Hopefully we've left it in a state that you'll be proud of for years to come. Thank you very much. Now we have a few retiring older persons that I'd like to recognize. The first is Mary Lynn Donahue. Mary Lynn if you'd like to step forward. Mary Lynn has started out serving on the finance and salary and grievances committee. Then went on to the Public Protection and Safety and Salary and Grievances as chairperson. The Board of Housing Appeals and Fair Practices, the City County Shared Services Committee, Collective Barvigating Committee, Group Health and Insurance and Wellness Committee and the Strategic Fiscal Planning Committee. Then she became the chairman of the Finance Committee and the Salary and Grievances Chairperson. She also served on the Board of Housing Appeals and Fair Practices and the Senior Activity Commission and the Strategic Fiscal Planning Committee. She continued on again on Finance and Salary and Grievances as chair and served on the Sheboygan Collective Bargaining Committee, the Senior Activity Commission and the Strategic Fiscal Planning Committee. In 16 to 17 she served as Council President, Finance and Salary and Grievances Chairperson and the City Shared Services Committee, Collective Bargaining, the Committee Structure Committee, the Group Health and Insurance Wellness Committee and Senior Activity Center Commission and again the Strategic Fiscal Planning Committee. In 2017 to 18 she again served as Finance and Personnel Chair and Law and Licensing Vice Chair and also served on the Capital Improvements Commission and the Sheboygan Transit Commission. In 18 and 19 she again was on the Finance and Personnel Committee and was Chairperson of Licensing Hearings and Public Safety and added the Library Board to her list of committees as well as the Transit Commission again. In 19 to 20 she served as Council Vice President and also on the Finance and Personnel and Licensing and Public Safety Committee. In this last year she served again as Council Vice President and Chairperson of Finance and Personnel and served on Licensing Hearings and Public Safety and also the Capital Improvements Commission and again the Library Board. Mary Lynn we'd like to recognize you and give you a certificate of appreciation for nine years of dedicated services and all their person and many committee appointments. I want to thank you very much for your service you've done a great job and would you like to say anything? Of course I would. I've been around long enough of course I would like to say something but Mike and I were talking this afternoon in the Council chambers here and he reminded me of how I got here which was very bizarre, tiny little creation story. The Saturday before the February primary in 2012 I read this article in the newspaper about the three fairly sketchy people who are running for Alder in my district and I thought gee that's not right and so in consultation with my dear spouse Tim and my political sidekick Maeve Quinn I decided to start a writing campaign. That was my first experience with Facebook, friends created one and the following Tuesday I came in 11 votes behind the front runner as a write-in and the front runner was a convicted felon so he couldn't be on the Council and so here I am and it was really it was really it was pretty funny and since then thankfully I've not been challenged. You know being an Alder in the last nine years has meant like big issues right? The armory, the golf course, the field of dreams or as we affectionately called it the field of dreams. You know we had a lot of really big issues that came before us and they caused a lot of citizen input and concerns and discussion but then what I the point I want to make is that of course there are those big issues and new Alders coming in and the folks who are staying on the Council there will most certainly be other big issues because that's just what city governments do but it's the smaller stuff that really makes the difference. It is budgeting, it's making sure that our employees are treated well. Who gets the last class B liquor license? How are we going to implement pothole repair? Just on and on and on all those small things and those you know those I think are just as important. The other important piece of it as Alders is to be pretty much completely responsive to our constituents and constituents can be all over the city it's not just the people who live in our districts and to me that has meant answering every email every phone call trying to the best of my ability to be polite and calm which with my Irish temper can sometimes be a challenge but as Alders go on I want to suggest to you that the really important things you do really circulate around being responsive to your constituents. Now problem-solving 101 how do you do that? Well I learned when I was on the school board you can have the best superintendent of schools but if your principals in each and every school are not strong and creative and energetic your school district isn't going to do very well. Let me just take that to Department Heads. Department Heads if you don't have strong Department Heads and Dave Cook and all the other people who are in charge of managing these departments you know it's really just not going to be very successful. So I have viewed these Department Heads almost all the time as friends and allies and really a critical piece of the problem solving puzzle because that's what we do. We solve problems and so it's really it's really important in that respect. Just to close I would be remiss if I did not I was going to say single out if I didn't call my attention to my dear spouse Tim Van Ackeren who's sitting there in that looking blue sweater. Tim for worse has always had my back and it's with his support and his love that you know I've been able to do what I've been able to do and now you're going to see a lot more of me honey and you know now we'll see how much he has my back but I from the bottom of my heart I thank you for everything over the years you're just you are the best and so are you so here's the deal be strong be brave be thoughtful be engaged and I say that to everybody and this is going to continue to be a terrific city so thank you all it's with mixed feelings that I say goodbye today but I really do appreciate the opportunity to have served thank you next I'd like to ask rose Phillips to come forward I want to recognize rose for three years a dedicated service from April 17th of 2018 through tonight and 2021 during that time rose represented district 7 and she served on the public works committee all those years and also the sustainable Sheboygan task force the county emergency medical services council and the Maywood board so I appreciate your time and efforts during that time and like to present you with this certificate of appreciation how I sort of wish I would have gone first because what an impressive list that Mary Lynn had all of those years of service I just want to thank you Mary Lynn for your strong and wise voice on this council and it's been such a pleasure working with all of you all of you really truly this is my third with my second term and I made the decision not to run for a third term and you know that's a difficult decision to make I do think it's the right one for me so I agree with Mary Lynn on that mixed emotions today sad to leave but I know that I'm proud of the things that we've accomplished and really excited to see how things continue to grow and shift and evolve as things move forward thank you next I'd like to call forward all the person Ryan Sarnson our president elect I mean our mayor elect Ryan has served for five years on the city council from 2017 through the current year and during that time he served on the public safety committee as vice chair licensing hearings and public safety the public works as vice chair he was committee of the whole chair person licensing hearings and public safety again as chair in 2019 2020 also as public works vice chair and also committee of the whole chair person and this last year as council president the committee of the whole chair and again on licensing hearings and public safety chair and the public works vice chair in addition he served on the county emergency medical services council the transit commission the capital improvements commission the friends of Maywood board the international committee and I got a very good certificate here for you Ryan recognizing you for those years of service as a Sheboygan Alderperson thank you very much and all the best mayor in the coming years thank you everyone thank you Mayor Van der Steen thank you council members for for your cooperation and your support throughout these years I do want to give a shout out to vice president Donnie you for her her years and mentorship I've been on the council it's truly been a blessing I won't be on the council I'll still be around and I'm looking forward to the future and I wanted to thank Mayor Van der Steen for having a transition a smooth transition and supporting me during this time and making sure that we're fighting for the city that we love so much so thank you all of you appreciate it I'm sure that you've all heard the advice that you'd find something that you love to do do it well and find a job that allows you to do it every day and you'll never have to work for a day in your life well for me that was serving as your mayor it was never a chore for me I love coming to City Hall every day I've been blessed to have the privilege of serving as your mayor at the end of my full-time working career I model a lot of what I did as mayor after what I learned from many different community organizations serving as an alder a county supervisor a county board chair and the mentors that I work with there's so many people that have helped me along the way and I just want to thank all of them for their contributions and assistance as an elected official I worked to build communication and partnerships with Sheboygan County Sheboygan area school district and many community organizations and I hope that these connections that I built will continue to be procted for our city in the future during the campaign you need to claim credit for credit for many of the improvements that have taken place during one's term I've never really been comfortable with that because there's been so much help from our team of department heads and staff I'm indebted to all the department heads managers and all the persons and staff that I've worked with over the last eight years we've achieved so much and made so much progress for our city it's just amazing the current city team is an outstanding loyal and dedicated group administrator Wolf is developing great teamwork to continue to move Sheboygan forward with our new mayor Mary Sorenson I've had two wonderful assistants during this time Mary Rager and Sarah Schwaefel when I arrived at the office my first day my wife stopped in to visit and asked Mary how many mayors she had worked for the answer was five she said Mike is my fifth mayor well Mary got me off to a great start in my first term and Sarah has taken on an increased role as the city communication special and mayor's assistant and provided strong support for me in my second term these two assistants were able to think on their feet handle any situation answering calls from residents fielding complaints and also connecting callers to the help that they need and provide a great service to our residents I also want to take time to thank my wife Julie Julie and I will celebrate our 40th anniversary this August and she's been unbelievable putting up with me for 45 years she never holds anything back and as unfiltered as my sounding board and I appreciate her honest feedback she's been helping with my campaign since 1977 when we were dating and I ran for JC president Julie thanks you for your support all these years I've had a wonderful 40 years serving on different citizen committees as older person supervisor and mayor we have had many challenges that we faced but we have so much success that we've achieved working together when I moved to Sheboygan in 1973 and opened it to manage Du Bois from where I never could have imagined that I would have the privilege and the support to serve as mayor of this amazing city we've shared many challenges and numerous accomplishments have been achieved and many goals remain reached to build a better Sheboygan and the I think past and current older persons and the residents that served on various committees over the eight years for all of your participation to build this success my experience as mayor is everything that I could ask for and more during this time I built relationships with many people that I will call friends for the rest of my life so thank you very much it's been a great time now getting back to the agenda we'll move on to the consent agenda that will include items 2.3 through 2.14 older person sorenson thank you mayor I moved to receive and file all our O's receive all our C's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on any of those items see none will the clerk please call the roll motion passes moving on to reports of officers item 3.1 is our own number 176 of 2021 by the city planning Commission to must refer resolution number 193 of 2020 by older person born receiving the city of Sheboygan affordable housing market study prepared by MSA professional services incorporated in encouraging staff to take action to implement the finding strategies and recommendations of the study and recommends adopting the resolution all the person born thank you mayor I make a motion to receive the ro and adopt the resolution second thank you for the motion and support is there any discussion on the motion see none will the clerk please call the roll motion passes items 3.2 and 3.3 will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee of the new council under resolutions item 4.1 is resolution number 200 we have to do something special for this mayor I'd like to suggest that I would be able to move the 4.1 resolution for me to read it to the council and committee over at the lecture okay Mike I'd like to read the resolution to you the resolution commemorating the distinguished service of Michael van der steen to the city of Sheboygan whereas Michael van der steen served as served the residents of the city of Sheboygan for eight years as the mayor from April 16th 2013 to April 19th 2021 and whereas Michael van der steen served the residents of the city of Sheboygan faithfully honorably being a man of outstanding ability and integrity and whereas during his two-year term of the city of Sheboygan saw growth and development with the with a variety of projects including south point enterprise campus bike pedestrian improvements on Taylor drive and the shoreline 400 land annexations redevelopment of the memorial mall property into Meyer Meyer development of the Boston store property into the city green and and the encore luxury apartments renovation of the washington school into multi-family housing renovation of the old tannery into the badger state locks redevelopment of the van der vart property into the oscar apartments and many more projects and whereas as a steward of protecting our land and water Mike van der steen helped the helped with the Sheboygan river cleanup project and is also currently serving as the chairperson of the great lakes and st. Lawrence city's initiative and whereas Mike van der steen mayor van der steen served a strong proponent of the growing our neighborhood associations program from two when he took office in 2013 and now having 12 official neighborhood associations and whereas in the years 20 2007 through 2012 the city resurfaced an average of 1.4 miles of streets per year during the years of 2013 to 2019 the city resurfaced an average of 4.2 miles of the city's resurfaced per year and whereas to expand the city's communication efforts the mayor's office launched the Sheboygan insider digital newspaper newsletter in 2017 implemented and the next door social media platform and activity actively promoted the click to report app and the citizen services portal for residents to use for reporting concerns such as pothole and code violations and therefore it be resolved that the common council hereby commemorates the distinguished service rendered by Michael Michael van der steen to the city of Sheboygan throughout his years of service expresses gratitude to him so Mike I'd like to give this to you so uh an appreciation Mayor van der steen for the eight years of dedicated service thank you very much thank you stand over here Mike one more one last thing um it would I also would like to present from our academy the nomination in regards to Oscar right for best mayor of Sheboygan during 2013 to 2021 so thank you thank you very much Todd this is a great surprise and really thank you for the accolades you know this is a lot of fun to do this it was important work but I really appreciate everybody in this room putting their ore in the water and helping to make this happen it's just been a great eight years and thank you so much for this opportunity to serve Sheboygan I appreciate it we'll move on now to hold on that one with a clerk oh this is a voice vote all those in favor of item 4.1 please signify by saying aye any opposed it passes unanimously moving on to item 4.2 that'll be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety of the new council under reports of committees item 5.1 is RC number 316 of 2021 by the finance and personnel committee two was referred resolution number 199 of 2021 by Alderpersons Donahue and Warren approving fiscal year 2021 one-year annual action plan for community development block grant cdbg program submission Alderpersons Donahue thank you I moved to receive the report of the committee and adopt the substitute resolution second thank you for that motion in support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none Ryan did you have a comment okay will the clerk please call the roll for passage motion passes item 5.2 is RC number 317 of 2021 by the licensing hearings and public safety committee two was referred direct referral general ordinance number 43 of 2021 by Alderpersons Darnson and Decker regulating the rental and operation of electric scooters in the city of Sheboygan Alderpersons Darnson thank you mayor I moved to receive the report of the committee and adopt the ordinance second thank you for that motion in support that motion is available for discussion seeing none I had asked the clerk to call the roll Alderpersons born Alderpersons born are you still there yes I am sorry I thank you nice motion passes items 5.3 through 5.17 will be referred to various committees of the new council um next item with general ordinances and there's nothing on that item so other matters authorized by law to turn it over to attorney Charles Adams thank you 7.1 is an RO by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending in 30 of 2021 December 31st 2021 April 14th 2022 June 30th 2022 and that will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee of the new council 7.2 is a resolution by Alderpersons Darnson and Dornan authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute a cancellation agreement and mutual release in order to terminate the listing contract with CBRE Inc regarding the self-employed enterprise camp and that will be referred to the finance and personnel committee of the new council uh last item is uh adjournment or Alderpersons Darnson thank you mayor I move to adjourn seen a die thank you for that motion in support will the clerk please call the roll for adjournment that's voice call all those please signify by saying aye aye aye are there any opposed thank you we stand adjourned appreciate your time both tonight and for the last eight years