 This is great, April, Friday, April 3rd, please. We have a great lineup today, and we decided to make an effort to get started closer to our earlier announced time of 12.15. We've been letting that drift a little bit, and a couple of members correctly pointed out that we were letting it drift too much, so thank you for the feedback. We do appreciate the feedback. Before I get into our program, there's a couple of announcements. The, first of all, I want to say thank you again to Prevea, who has been our sponsor for our first Friday forums this year, as well as last year, so we appreciate them, and I know there's one representative from Prevea, but thanks again to Prevea for all the support. And I also want to thank Windsor Industries and Charles. Windsor is here for their stage. You may not realize that this staging is actually originally intended for docking at, and lakes, and rivers, and whatever, so a personal use here, not Charles, so we thank Charles and Charles for our Windsor Industries. Announcements for the upcoming first Friday forums, our next first Friday forum will actually be on the first Friday in May. As you know, we moved ahead a week because last Friday was a good Friday, would not have been a good idea to have first Friday forum then. But we're coming, our program next month, in our committee's humble opinion, we've got a great lineup coming. We'll be really on the non-attainment status that Sheboye County has as far as VOC of it, and really the way we want you to look at this is it's not going to talk about non-attainment, but it's really to talk about, I think what you're going to hear is how many of our companies in Sheboye County are really at the leading edge of green technology, and this is one example of them being at the leading edge, and you're going to hear how our companies have had to deal with this attainment level for emissions that is really stringent in Sheboye County, and we're also, we'll have a speaker who will talk about sort of the law in general, this kind of give us sort of the layman's perspective, and that will be Scott Manley from WMC. And then we're going to have Eric Sandbake from Alliance who's going to talk about how Alliance is dealing with the emission requirements, and they're in the midst right now of remodeling or refurbishing one of their stacks, and they're going to do the other one, and that's going to have a big impact as well. And then we will have Steve Steinkreis from Plymouth-Bohm who has been very active in this area. He's going to talk about how local businesses are dealing with this. He happens to know how a number of local businesses are dealing with this, I think if you thought initially it might be kind of a geeky, wonky kind of topic, it's not going to be, I think you're going to find out it's very interesting, and you're going to find out what really what Sheboye County businesses are doing, where they are, that they're the leading edge of one item of this. So then the next month we decided to, the next month we had initially scheduled for the legislators, and I don't think we told them this yet because we just decided this morning, but we're going to bump them from the agenda, not because we don't think what they have to say is important, but they're out of session and they're in campaign mode, and so we thought maybe we will give them a break and we also thought it would be good to kind of stay on this sort of green topic, and we are going to bring in a number of area businesses to talk about what area businesses are doing with their trash and the waste that they generate from their operations. Again, what many of us don't know is that many businesses in Sheboye County are at the leading edge of recycling, reuse of materials, and so we're going to come here, we're going to have three small, medium, large, talk about what they're doing, and hopefully there'll be sort of some best practices, things that'll come out of that session. So that's the program for June, July we take a break. In August, we are going to have one or two, we're either going to have the DOT Secretary to talk about kind of the things that are changing at the DOT level, and also the Sheboye County specifically, DOT Department of Transportation, or we're going to have a representative of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, so August and September will be those who depends on schedules, which one will go, which one. And then in October, we started to look at having some people talk about sort of the needs of businesses in data, and in communications and in web, in wireless. That's a big issue, and one of the big issues is what is going to be the ability to handle the large amounts of data, and we're going to start assembling a group of people who will talk about what is available, and we hope to use that as a session to also get feedback from our companies as to what they are going to need for wireless capability going forward, and then we can compile the information and give it to all the wireless providers and see what kind of feedback they might be able to give us. We have had some discussions with them and understand that that's kind of, that's valuable feedback when they make their decisions on where they want to expand their capabilities. So that's the program that we've got coming up in, I think there's some really neat programs in there. So with that, you all have the April events sheet, take a look at that and if you can make any of those, we encourage you to attend any of those sessions. So with that, I'm going to get into the program for today. Again, as we build it, what we wanted to do is have a number of representatives of our communities speak about what is happening in various elements of economic development in Sheboygan County. And who we have with us this lunch are, and this is the order in which they will appear, Mayor Don Pullman from the city of Plymouth and Mayor Pullman will talk about development in Plymouth as well as the railroad which he has a passing interest in. Next will be Mayor Mandy Meyer from the city of Sheboygan Falls and Mayor Andy will talk about things that are happening in Sheboygan Falls. Next will be Chad Pellecek who is the director of city development in Sheboygan and he's going to talk about projects in Sheboygan, things that are happening there. Next we will have Dave Chikolinski. Did I say that right? Dave wasn't out. That's not okay. He's from the Sheboygan County Economic Development or otherwise known as SCEDC. He's going to talk about what SCEDC has been doing for to promote expansion and development in Sheboygan County. And last, as the cleanup batter, John Rogers from the chamber will speak about what the SCORE program has been doing to help encourage entrepreneurial development in Sheboygan County. So with that, anybody have anything else they need to add? Okay, then we will start with Mayor Pullman and we're going to have them speak on the document. Thank you Dave and welcome everybody to today's First Friday forum. It's certainly an opportunity where us as business leaders and community employees and workers and interested people bring together all of our, I think talents which today is a good forum for the collaboration effort that we acquire. We would not be where we are today in the Plymouth development and economics had it not been for community block grants 25 years ago that put Gilson on the map in Plymouth and others. And certainly we've continued in that tradition with collaborating and encouraging, I think to be business friendly in the community. And business when they know that you are working with them, fighting for them, they respond. And I think we have good examples of that certainly in our cheese industry. And in the last five years, we've got over 130 million of local business investment in Plymouth. And yes, I'm passionate about the rail. No, I can't talk on the record about it, but off the record, the choo-choo is coming people. Okay, but you didn't hear on the record. We're very excited about even that opportunity that brings to us with the multiple turnover of dollars to a community that project is now 19 million. You can do the multiplier effect and you can get 50, 60 million real quick out of that. I think the employment opportunity that brings along with all of the increase expansion, the technology center that we collaborated again. People said we couldn't do it between the city of Plymouth, Plymouth High School and LTC. Yes, we can do it. It's a matter of how you go about it and work it out. So regulations are there, you follow them and you can get the job done. We've got a lot of inquiries coming to us because of the technology center. And I think that that's something that will benefit the whole county. I don't look at businesses coming to only Plymouth. I look at businesses coming to the entire county. We might get this one, we might get the next one. If Randy gets it, that's fine with me. If Terry gets it, that's fine with me because eventually it'll spin off to us and it does. We all benefit if it comes into the county and the more that we can partner with businesses, certainly the better off we're gonna be. The types of things that we continue to do, sometimes we learn from others that didn't go quite the way you wanted them to. And quite honestly, Sheboygan lost a couple of businesses recently when Borden's was in Plymouth, that they were looking at different locations, investing 13 plus million dollars. You sit down and say, what does that mean to your community? In our case, it's $22 million annual salary and benefits that's pumped into the community. You do a lot of things to keep that business in your community for your businesses, your restaurants, your grocery stores and everything else. And people that work at Borden's live throughout the county, so we all benefit from it. We have three TIF districts. We work very hard to keep looking at new tenants for there, but we don't do it to take away from Randy and Falls, or Terry and Sheboygan. We want people coming into the community. I think that the relationship that we have in county government, in city government, speaks highly of the attitude that we're all bringing to the table and none of us are greedy because sharing it, we all share the bounty. So the message is certainly to keep working together. We invest, we've invested heavily as a city of Plymouth in our different projects. And I think the more we bring to the table, the more we invest. And of course we have to bounce the books in doing that process. The more we all benefit as sharing that tool. So I thank all of you for being part of the community, believing in the units of government and the businesses that we all run and operate and participate in. And I would encourage all of you to work with your local businesses as much as you can, because we're all in the same boat and we need your support and you need our support. But we are growing and we continue to grow and I think countywide our unemployment is in a good position. We continue to add sometimes five jobs here and five there. We don't necessarily add 100 and 200. That's okay, but we're going strong. So thank you very much. John's got to hook out. He told me five minutes. So thank you very much. And Randy, you're next. You're gonna sit on there, D. Thanks. Beacon didn't feel like jumping up on the stage. You know, as I was preparing for this, I had a few general comments. You know, when somebody's talking about the economy and it just struck me, you know, is this the Bush economy, the Obama economy, the Walker economy or the Doyle economy? I think it depends on which part of the political spectrum you come from. And I think it also creates an interesting dichotomy. If you say it's one way or the other, how do you justify it's not the other way in the statewide economy? That was just something that crossed my mind because we are heading into political season with the recall election, all kinds of ads. And if you listen to these ads too closely, you will think Armageddon is coming. Okay? You'll notice we had some local elections and none of us predicted Armageddon coming if someone else won or this or that thing happened. So again, I really up to the local counties, cities, villages and towns to figure things out. If we wait for the state and the feds to tell us how it's gonna be and things, we might be waiting a long time. The meeting falls in a good position. Was meeting recently with my utility. We're looking at a way to phase in a tripling of power for one of the companies in our city, which tripling of power means they're doing something right. And we wanna make sure our system can handle it, the good news that can. It's just a matter of how do we wanna do that? Do we wanna do a dedicated feed to this company? Or do we wanna do a contingencies based on our other systems? And really making sure that they have reliable power. That's really what the meeting was all about. A lot of times I'm asked by the Highway 32 corridor and what's going on with falls metals. Well, we were sued, we won, he appealed, we won. Now he's going to the Supreme Court. My guess is the Supreme Court probably will not take the case, but we'll see. I've decided to be a nice mayor and not pursue with any other actions unless things get way out of line out there until we get a ruling on the Supreme Court area on that. But really, that'll be step one in cleaning up that corridor. And I knew that would be the toughest step and it's been, I've had to be much more patient than I'd like to be on it. That's not my personality to be that patient. I come from a wrestling background where it's like boom, boom, get it done and let's go on. But sometimes in this job you do have to be a little more patient. So once step one's cleared up, then we'll look at other issues and other problems on that Highway 32 corridor. But I think there's opportunities to make that a better entranceway to the city. The selling of Plain Food Green to Ron Burroughs is an interesting development. Terry Van Egan, my chairman of economic development, I were working with someone else. We thought they were going to be buying that and then Ron stepped in and saw a good bargain and picked it up. The economics will change substantially. The bank was over $4 million into that project. I believe Ron paid 900,000. Now you can offer some reasonable rents and lease to companies. And so I think things will happen out in that area. Sheboygan Falls is from Maxwell on our TIF capacity because I wait for the right opportunity. We do have a TIF out on Vision Park which has about 11 years left on it. But I do have the capability to do more TIF districts if the right opportunity comes along. And the right opportunity to me is something that's $3 million or more in initial development. Sometimes I have people that want to do a half million to a million dollar project and they want a TIF district created. Well, from a mayor's standpoint, that's just really not enough to start things. So I have to be cautious and make sure I have enough to get the thing off the ground to a good start. If my predecessors weren't patient in the TIF district I was able to amend to buy Vision Park, we wouldn't have the opportunity to buy Vision Park. So it's really to their patience and good stewardship that I was able to start Vision Park. What we do need to do at Vision Park is about $250,000 in economic development account that kind of sat there waiting for their opportunity. I think the right opportunity is now to spend some of that money to develop Vision Park. So as Dan kindly put it to me, it looks like a cow pasture now. And we kind of want to change the look of that to make it look more like a business park or industrial park. We've kind of left our options open on which it will be. I guess it depends on what the first large tenant would be out there. Really if it goes more business or more industrial. We created its own zoning called business park zoning. So we kind of left our options open on that. As far as the city in general, I mean, I look at our downtown area again, shops are basically full, did a ribbon cutting yesterday. So I think things are going well there. Sheryl has been recently named our executive director of our chamber main street. And I'm excited about that. I've worked together with Sheryl and her other capacity at chamber main street. So I think we've got a good, good solid working relationship. Also dealing with a few hotel possibilities, either a larger hotel or what they're calling a mini hotel. They wanted to call a bed and breakfast, but when you get above eight rooms, it's not a bed and breakfast anymore. So we had to tell them, no, you don't really fall in the bed and breakfast rules. You're going to have to put in your fire suppression systems and things like that. So we're not willing to cut corners, but we are willing to work with businesses. Bemis continues to be an extremely strong employer in the Sheboygan Falls area, obviously, and was instrumental in working with the county, the EDC, Plymouth, Sheboygan Falls, and a number of other entities that I've probably forgotten on working on the rail project. And as Don said, I think it has a real promising look to it right now, which is something three, four years ago, when the railroads embargoed and stopped to Sheboygan Falls, there was days where I didn't think there was any promise there. So it just goes to show you just have to stick with it and keep pursuing things. And speaking of pursuing things, we will get a roundabout at the intersection of Happy and 32, just off of Highway 23, right where Green is. I think they'll even make that area more developable and attractive because there'll be some traffic control there. Won't be happening until 2015. I only started on that one eight years ago when I was elected mayor. So good things come if you're patient and work with people correctly. So I'm excited about that. Other than that, I mean, the one thing that occurs to me in Sheboygan Falls is we don't have a lot of problems. I mean, we've had a few companies leave. Tom Tessui took Torgonal to the Illumeral Building and he told me he would've loved to stay in Sheboygan Falls, but we didn't have a big Illumeral Building sitting there to be moved into. So you kind of have to accept that sometimes we have exactly what that company needs, as Don said. But the good news is it stayed in Sheboygan County. Viking packaging is working on building something again. All those jobs stay in Sheboygan County. So I don't really chalk those up to losses for Sheboygan Falls. There's opportunities now that we will have and do have some open spaces in our Forest Avenue Park. One success I had last year is Meyer Aluminum really needed to move across the street and need more space. They moved into Larry's hauling spot, but there was some fire department concerns and we met and I went out there with the fire department and some of my fire guys said, well, no, we inspect plans. We don't go out unless this time we're going out to meet with the customer, come along. And we actually worked it out very nice. They ended up putting a sprinkler system in which took care of some of the problems and it wasn't just because of Meyer Aluminum. I was happy to keep them either. But so there are a lot of things you work at behind the scenes. I tend to like to do things quietly and would rather see other people get the credit. That's kind of my style of leadership. So again, I think things are going well in Sheboygan Falls and at the end of this I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. I'm Chad Palaszczuk, the director of city development for the city of Sheboygan and what I decided to talk about today is a little different than economic development but it has ties to economic development and those of you that are in the city of Sheboygan have probably heard a lot lately about the Sheboygan River Dredging Project. This is a massive project for the city and the county. This is upwards of 80 to $100 million of federal dollars. So I just wanna run through some key points to this. As you can see, it's a short-term inconvenient long-term gain. I think this is a major economic development driver for the county and the city going forward. So this is a little hard to see but this is a map of the corridor that I'm talking about from the mouth of the Sheboygan River just past 14th Street Bridge to the Kiwanis Park are actually the limits of the dredging that'll be occurring later this summer. And then from that point out to Taylor Drive there's $5 million in habitat restoration projects happening in the areas in green. So this is the 80 to $100 million project area that's gonna be happening. This is a project that's gonna be 350,000 cubic yards of material dredged from the Sheboygan River. Three major fish and wildlife habitat projects are underway. There's gonna be three de-watering sites and that's one of the key things. We're talking up to three, two to 300 trucks a day leaving downtown Sheboygan via Indiana Avenue and Penn Avenue. Some trucks are gonna be going north to Hilbert and Waila landfills and other trucks are gonna be going south to a landfill in Germantown. It's a 24 hour a day, seven day operation and there's going to be bright lights and dust and issues and noise and everything you can imagine. Next slide. We have closed for those of you that are boarders the A Street Boat Launch and the 14th Street Boat Launch are both closed for 2012. All launching will have to occur in the current Harbor Center marina launch ramps. That's to accommodate dredging operations. We're discouraging canoers and kayakers from newing in that portion of the river from the mouth up to Kiwanis Park. Actually we're pushing people out beyond Taylor Drive to go upstream from there. All the docks will be put in or have been put in as planned. We're working with the fishermen to try to relocate docks and get people to where they need to be. It's gonna be a huge coordination effort. There's gonna be traffic impacts and portions of Kiwanis Park along the river will be closed for this summer. This is just a brief map. The area in red is the dredging impact area and then what's proposed for canoers and kayakers upstream and trying to keep them out of the lower portions of the river. This is what you're gonna see. Five of these, two in the lower portion and three between eighth and 14th Street. The dredging is gonna be done all mechanically. Be put on a barge truck to a dewatering site. Hence the reason why we're discouraging canoeing and kayaking. Now I just wanna talk about long-term gains. This opens up a wide variety of gains for the city and the county as a whole and it offers us some redevelopment opportunities that we hadn't had in the past. There's some key areas of the downtown that had historically been manufacturing could potentially become another use, could be redeveloped for better use, have access to the waterfront. So this whole area where we've got estimates of 2013, the potential for projects that we know of about $4 million that are hanging out for this project to be finished so they can move forward. There was a case study prepared by the Illinois Indiana Sea Grant that really interviewed people across the wide spectrum in Sheboygan to get their feel for what this river does and the biggest thing that came out of it is the negative impacts that the Sheboygan river has on the region as a whole. Everybody says there's no way I'm gonna go fishing in there, there's no way I'm swimming in there so we really have to work hard to change that perspective. Long-term gains, 10 to 16 feet of draft. We currently have between three and five feet of draft. We're at 16 feet outside of the South Pier district and 10 feet up to the 14th Street Bridge. So this is major from what we currently have now some places upstream of A Street Bridge you can barely get through with the canoe. And then we are, as you know, the Yorktown is making seven stops here. It's a cruise ship, 252 feet. You can see it down here in the corner. That's really what we're looking for in the 14 to 16 feet is to get more of these types of boats in if you go to the next slide. We're also going after this one. This is another cruise ship that's actually stopping in Manitowoc this year. So we're, once we get some depth our goal is to get more of these through tourism stopping and docking off at South Pier and bringing people into the community. Then the last, I'm gonna talk quickly about fish and wildlife habitat. This is, you know, you can bring the river back but if you don't bring the fish and the wildlife that use these rivers and, you know, that whole habitat issue, you're not going anywhere. The EPA has designated $5 million towards this. We're under design now. This is the Kiwanis Park area that I'm talking about that's gonna be closed. Portions of it along the river brought to those events will still continue. There'll be just some impacts but really it's going to look at how to bring back the corridor and kind of get away from grass cutting and put natural areas and bird habitat and nesting boxes and those types of things. So this is just one of the projects. Go to the next one. This is an island in the river. Most people don't know this island is in the river. It's called, we call it the unofficial Wildwood Island. It's off of the Nemshoff property. It's currently, every time it rains in the different flows that come down the river, there's all different aspects to what happens in it and they're gonna try to recreate the ecosystem in there and actually create like a log jam like a beaver would do in a river to back it up and create habitat and backwaters from the river. So one of the tasks that we've been working on which in my career has never happened is I went to the city county purchasing agent and said to him, I have a task for you, you need to find me 350 trees with roots on the bottom of them. And he's like, what? And I'm like, yeah, so that's what we're up against. We're looking for trees if anybody has any that you're putting a road in anywhere, please let us know we want your trees because they actually are going to create a dam like a beaver does to fill these backwaters up and create the habitat that's needed. And then the last part is this is a county project but the city is doing the design and working with agreement with the county but it's really that what I would consider a mud pond at the entrance of UW-Shabuigan and Lutheran High School, it's goose droppings and everything, it's always brown. They're gonna drain that, create a wetland in that area. You can kind of see that at the bottom and then do some improvements at Isling and Park encourage because this is a key fishing area for the community. So in a nutshell, this is what we're up against. This is a huge project and I keep saying that that the until the trucks come and they're driving out of the city over the course of the next eight months, this is, you know, there's gonna be a huge impact to our downtown and I can't stress enough that we're trying to make sure we've got all our tees crossed and dies, dies, eyes dotted. We've been working very close with the county planning department and EPA and the DNR. So there's more to come, but really this is huge for us and it's a huge economic driver going forward. So that's all I have, thank you. Hello, my name is Dane Czekolinski with the Shabuigan County Economic Development Corporation. For those of you who don't know about our corporation, we are the public private non-for-profit that is in charge of promoting Shabuigan County as a prime business, prime place to do business. And just a brief overview is in the way that we try to accomplish that is we offer information and consulting services to support business growth. This could include anything from non-traditional financing options, cost reduction through state and local programs as well as site selection and development assistance. So that's in a nutshell of what we do. Right away, I'm gonna give you a little fun fact to talk about tonight when you're at your fish fries. How many of you knew that our GDP here in the county was $5.1 billion? And to put that into perspective, out of 190 recognized nations around the world, Shabuigan County would be about 150 on that list. That puts us in the economy about the size of Liechtenstein and Kyrgyzstan. I mean, for those of you who know what countries those are, but there's 50 nations on earth that produce less than this county. That's an amazing fact. Right away, what we've been seeing is over the last year about mid-summer, something happened, something picked up. And for those of you probably in the broker community realize that we started running out of space really quickly, primarily in industrial. And that's one of the challenges that we've seen going forward here. If any business here is particularly industrial is looking for something with about 20 foot clear that's roughly the size at which modern industrial it really starts to need. Anything over 40,000 square feet, if someone's looking to lease, we don't have it. I cannot tell you that two or three businesses were looking at Shabuigan County and had to go elsewhere because it couldn't find space here. So that we have identified as one of our primary issues going forward. So if anyone wants to talk about that and how we can accomplish that, I'm completely yours. The second thing is, last year we started an initiative for young professionals. We wanted to see what their grasp on the county was. And one thing that kept coming up time and time again through this effort, and some of you may know was a need for market rate apartments in downtown Shabuigan. And the reason for that is, is if you think about it and everything we've been told about the millennials is that they're much more urban in nature. A lot of companies, very great companies here in the county are sucking in young people from Chicago, from Milwaukee, from all around the area. They don't necessarily have connections here. And the first thing they wanna do is live in a place where they can socialize, they can then go out and they can be in the middle of it all. So we've also identified that as yet another opportunity moving forward here in the county. And general, some of the actions that we've taken over the last year, we've been able to make quite a bit of headway on getting us more visible in terms of commercial brokers. For the first time, we listed area industrial parks in Acceligent, which is the official commercial database for Milwaukee area brokers, which Shabuigan County is a part of. Before then, nothing was listed. So that was one of the actions we took. We also took that data and we combined it with the local MLS. And we're still having a little bit of development issues by imagine here in a week, it'll be cleared up. But we've been putting it into a system called Location One, which is supplied by a great company in the area, right, Bruce? But anyways, we basically now put, for any company out there, normally you'd have to pay about $3,000 to see what commercial properties were out there. We now supply that for free to everybody on our website. So those are just some of the things that we've been working on just in general, trying to get a solid push for all the communities moving forward. So definitely I'm looking forward if anyone has any questions, and I will leave it to John. All right. Well, first on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, I'm glad to see everybody here. One of the things that we've tried to promote over the last number of years is cooperation and collaboration. And I appreciate Mayor Pullman and Mayor Meyer and Chad and Dane talking about the ways in which people have been working together to make things happen here in Sheboygan County. What I'm gonna talk about today is primarily SCORE. SCORE was an acronym called, that stood for Service Corps of Retired Executives. Well, there are a number of us who are involved with SCORE, who are not retired yet. We will be one of these days, I think, but so far we're not. But what we do is work cooperatively and collaboratively with entrepreneurs or other businesses that need some outside assistance or guidance or maybe some new ideas. And make sure you pay attention to that little sign that we have over there because that talks a little bit about SCORE. But I also wanna introduce the rest of the SCORE team that's here with me today. Linda Olson, Diane Unger, Sharpakniak, John Williams, and Dick Kramer. Now, why are these people so important? Well, I can't handle all of the entrepreneurs that come to me. So, just like Aaron Rodgers, who doesn't know how to spell Rodgers, by the way, I get to hand off people every now and then to this great group. An example being Lily. I met with Lily, please stand. Lily is kind of a poster child for us right now because I started working with Lily last August with her ID. Well, it quickly became apparent to me that I was gonna need some other resources to draw upon. So she's sitting between Linda and Diane, and it's very appropriate because the three of them have been working together like crazy over the last number of months. And in the not too distant future, Lily is gonna transform the villager into a restaurant called Catalonia. And did you bring your trial menus? All right, if you wanna see what Lily is gonna offer at Catalonia, she's got some sample menus. I recommend from what I've seen that you look at the menu, you take one, and you plan ahead because we wanna support entrepreneurs, right? And if you take a look at some of the industries that are long-standing businesses in this community, they started out as entrepreneurs. You look at Sargento. Sartori, Gentine, with an O, makes a difference. And there's all kinds of other examples that we can use of companies in this area that have grown from ideas. The other thing I wanna call your attention to is the lineup. You can't tell the players without a lineup, or you can't tell us about the programs. Now, we don't have enough for everybody, so I would ask that if you're really, really interested in score, you take one. And why would you be interested in score? Because we've got a tremendous amount of knowledge in our group that is useful to entrepreneurs, but we need more knowledge. And I know there are some people in this room that can become outstanding score counselors because you have run a business, you've been working with banks as a banker, you're an accountant, you're a lawyer, or you have some other area of expertise that is really important for somebody who is an entrepreneur that might need just a little bit of guidance or maybe they need a little bit of mid-course correction. That's what we're looking for. Also, in that is an announcement about an event that we're doing on June 23rd, which is a Saturday, from nine o'clock to two o'clock, we're having a score fest, if you will, where people who are entrepreneurs can come in and meet one-on-one with counselors. And the counselors are on that sheet with our areas of expertise. You can stay there the whole day if you want and meet with five or six of us. So take a look at that. There's other brochures in the packet and we're looking for leads also. In other words, if you have a business or you know of a business that might need a little bit of tweaking, come and talk to one of us. I'm usually the entry point. I'll hand you off if I think it's appropriate or I'll keep you to myself because I love working with entrepreneurs. I really do. The other thing that we would be real interested in is some financial support. You already are supporting SCORE as a taxpayer because SCORE is a small business administration program. We don't get a whole lot. I think we're getting $1,000 this year to do a little bit of marketing, to do a little bit of radio advertising, to do things like that. I don't want to give myself the hook and I guess I will stop my presentation there to see if anybody has any questions about anything that you've heard about today, whether it be from Mayor Pullman and the railroad. I'm real glad that that's gonna happen from Mayor Meyer. Some interesting things going on there. Dane and the downtown program, Chad and the river are entrepreneurs. So Dave, you want to come back up here and answer questions or field questions? I'll field them. Okay, questions, maybe I can ask. Questions anybody have? Mayor Meyer, the vision park in Falls seems the main contact to the highways is highway is through County Road TT. It's something being done for that intersection because getting semis off a TT on the street is pretty difficult these days. At intersection, there's plans to have to redo highway. There's plans to redo highway 23 which will result in that intersection getting completely refigured. Before highway 23 reconstruction, I would say there's no plans imminent with the DOT. So it's definitely on the radar. I fought very, very hard to keep TT open to highway 23 because there was some plans and the future TT would be shut off and I thought that was just very critical to Shboyton Falls, the airport and the town of Shboyton Falls fire department that TT stay open. So that was successfully done. That's in the long range plans but there's no immediate plans to do anything with that intersection with the DOT and the things. Any other questions? I'm going to ask a question. Okay, go ahead. Regarding the dredging, obviously there were problems created many, many years ago but what has been done upriver are they discussing that as far as front waste and other things that are going to be impacting water quality and wildlife and stuff? Is it going beyond a river to address future problems? I have this a good question. I think they'll continue to work with the county conservation department and some of their programs. I don't know that soil sediment runoff is always going to be an issue into the river. I don't know if there's nothing planned or there was some upstream that were planned as part of this. It becomes a difficult situation when it's federal funding and you have to try to get private access onto properties versus public access. They did look at that. The Sheboygan River Basin Partnership is the one that originally applied to the feds for this funding and they identified these key projects as significant projects that could be implemented and kind of meet the timeline and would then continue with other projects upstream as part of their partnership with the county. Other questions? Just a question for Chan. Also, do you expect to get all this work done this summer? The plan is to be done. Originally they had said they were going to be done by September 30th and now they said they're going to be done by the end of the year. Following up on the dredging project, I don't know if you mentioned, Chad, when does it formally begin? And is there like, are they going to start in one area or are they going to work in different areas? When they pull the stuff up, are there staging areas downtown? Correct. They're actually, the timeline for actually starting in is not confirmed yet. They're still negotiating as the EPA still negotiating with their contractor to secure that. But the intent was to actually start dredging, start the work and the dewatering site preparation at the end of May and then start in dredging in July. The three locations that are on the radar screen as being looked at is the former Wisconsin Public Service Corporation Camarena site. That's a city owned property on the corner of 10th and Wisconsin Avenue. That's one dewatering site just north of the Penn Avenue bridge. The other one is the Winsa property, which is the former Alliance property right next to the A Street bridge. Those two dewatering sites would be for the portion of the river from A Street up to 14th Street. And then the offloading site for, what was a Corps of Engineers project prior, it's now an EPA project, that actually offloading site is on South Pier directly east of the Searice Coal condos between there and the fish cleaning station. So unfortunately a lot of the traffic from that project is gonna be right in a prime commercial district. But the issue that came up is there's no other accessible to be able to offload it. And this was a property that's owned by the Redevelopment Authority in the city of Sheboygan. And it was easier access to get to it. But they've said all along, it's gonna be very challenging because the river is pretty well developed and there's not a lot of offloading sites to be able to do a project of this magnitude. When you say dewatering, maybe just explain that, I think we might all have an idea, but. The dewatering is basically where they put the material in on a sedimentation pad where the water runs off into a sump and then they treat that water and put it back into the river and then they'll mix a material called calcite, which is calcium chloride and fly ash or something into it to thicken it up. So, and then they'll load it in the trucks and hand and truck it away. And so one of the things that a lot of people have said is, is this gonna be slopping all over and be all over the road and we're gonna be plowing the roads with our snow plows because we have all the sediment in the roads. Well, that's not the case. The case is, is this material, when it leaves the site, is gonna be like the compost that you would use in your garden. There's gonna be some moisture to it, but overall it's going to be thickened enough that it won't be slopping over the side of the truck. Now that's not to say there's not gonna be dust and dirt in the roads. We've got a plan with our department of public works as well as the contractor to deal with those issues on a timely basis, but there is gonna be dust and there is gonna be dirt. Is there been any word on the company that was gonna move in the layer of the plant? Did you hear the question? Are you referring to green and viral tech? Yeah. That's, the last we've heard on that project is they're still trying to acquire financing so nothing has been solidified at this stage. If I can ask the mayor, I mean the railroad project, what does your crystal ball say when that'll be formally complete and announced? Or Mayor Meyer, whoever wants to. You deserve crystal ball. After five years of being shovel ready, you become patient real quick. So we will extend our patience a little bit longer but yes, we're very optimistic that it'll go forward. Hopefully they'll start to brush out in May. Hopefully it will be the falls. If it goes through next September, but that all depends on, of course all the people that got a sign off yet. So we're hoping and we're very optimistic. I take it you, the governor's office and the state department of economic development has been working with you on this? We have worked with DOT under Doyle and DOT under Walker. We've also worked with both Department of Commerce and everybody's involved, everybody's in their head, but of course you gotta have, we don't need lawyers in the crowd, I better be careful. We have to be, the lawyers have to bless it and of course, we all know how quickly they were, sorry about that, but it's, we're very optimistic, yes. I am taking the microphone, not because I have a question or an answer, but it's because I wanna introduce you to somebody who's gonna be a very important person and a very nice person for our region and that's Barb Fleissner. Barb is the recently appointed new account manager for this area. I've known Barb for at least 10 years. Account manager for Google. Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. So regional director, regional account manager, good person, friend, tenacious worker, all kinds of accolades that I can bestow and put pressure on Barb. But I was delighted when I heard that she was gonna be the person representing this area, because I know she will work tirelessly, might put too much pressure on you, tirelessly for us and you as an individual company. So Barb, thanks for coming down here. Said we would close. Any other questions anybody has? Hearing none, and thanks again for coming. Remember the May 1st, Friday, which is gonna be on the attainment, very interesting program, you'll get something by email on that and have a great weekend. Thank you.