1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 You 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 You 3 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 You 4 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 You 5 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 You 6 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 You 7 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 You 8 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 You 9 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 You 10 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 You 11 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 You 12 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 You 13 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 You 14 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 You 15 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 You 16 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 You 17 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 You 18 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 You 19 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 You 20 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 You 21 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 You 22 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 You 23 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 You 24 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Call to order the Common Council meeting for Monday, September 21, 2026, roll call please. 25 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Let the record reflect the quorum is present. 26 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 The gentlemen from the seventh and the ninth are excused. 27 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:38,000 At this time, I would like to ask everyone to please stand for a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. 28 00:09:48,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Can I get a motion on your laptop? 29 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:21,000 All those in favor say aye. 30 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Any opposed? 31 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Motion carries. 32 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Please continue. 33 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,000 We have 13 individuals signed up for citizens comments. 34 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Each will have three minutes when your name is called. 35 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Hello. 36 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:55,000 My name is Ed Ruka, 7727 Fifth Avenue. 37 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,000 I just want to start out with respect. 38 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Okay. 39 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 As we get going this evening, I've been here for a few of these. 40 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 And on this side of the wall, there's been disrespect. 41 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 I've heard it. 42 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:16,000 I would ask everybody on this side of the wall to respect everybody over here. 43 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Okay. Not because he holds the mayor ship. 44 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Not because they're an all their person because they are people. 45 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Okay. 46 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,000 So respect them like you want to be respected. 47 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:35,000 At the same time, everybody on this side of the wall should be doing the same thing. 48 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Respect. 49 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:44,000 You would talk that in school, turn, face, pay attention, sit up, put your books away. 50 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Nowadays, laptops, Chromebook, cell phones. 51 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 And pay attention to what the people have to say. 52 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 We're here for an hour every two weeks. 53 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 That's all you have to deal with us most of the time, right? 54 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,000 We ask for that respect. 55 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:06,000 In the respect, I would also like to say that it has been noted and heard from all the 56 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:12,000 men or all the persons that when we talk about the data center, which is what a lot of people 57 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:18,000 will be talking about, they say they have made up their minds one way or another. 58 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,000 I'm not saying which way they made it up. 59 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:28,000 But shouldn't you, as all the persons be saying to us, my constituents have made up my mind. 60 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Right? 61 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Because that's who you represent. 62 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Everybody over here is who you represent. 63 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,000 So give them the respect, okay? 64 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:45,000 You might not agree with what they have to say, but you still should be doing what they 65 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 ask you to do. 66 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:55,000 And like I would like to say, there are no kings in Kenosha other than our kingfish, okay? 67 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Another thing I would like to talk a little bit about is the FAQs. 68 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:08,000 A long time ago, and all the men say, just have you looked at the FAQs? 69 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000 And I did. 70 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 And that was three, four months ago, whatever it was. 71 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:20,000 And to this day, with as many times as I've heard questions on this side, I haven't seen any 72 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 updates on the FAQs. 73 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 None whatsoever. 74 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I know there's stuff about the noise, the health because of the noise, the environmental 75 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 of the wetlands. 76 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Where are those? 77 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:40,000 And also in the FAQs, I'm sure somebody gave you the answers that you needed to put down. 78 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,000 But I don't think anybody here lives in a perfect world. 79 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Everything has a pro and a con. 80 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:53,000 So these FAQs should be answered and given the people that actually look them up later 81 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,000 when you ask them to go to it, to look at the pro and the con and decide. 82 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Because everything you guys decide, you're deciding on pros and cons. 83 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 So everybody over here needs to also know what those pros and cons are. 84 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,000 So I think the FAQs truly should be updated. 85 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 So you have 30 seconds. 86 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Okay. 87 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,000 And the last, let's see, what did I have? 88 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Oh, I'll quickly do the last. 89 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Besides, I want a moratorium. 90 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:30,000 The building repurpose after going through 195 to look at what we could do with the Microsoft 91 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,000 and seeing what they've built on 195. 92 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:38,000 I'm all ready for, if you've ever seen the movie Escape from New York. 93 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,000 That's what it looks like, a huge prison. 94 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:46,000 So maybe, if that's what your plan is later, I guess we'll be halfway there, all right, 95 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 to fill this in as a prison. 96 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Because that's what it looks like to me. 97 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Thank you. 98 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Next speaker, Cheryl Swatko.