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Call to order the council meeting for Wednesday
September 9th, 2026, roll call, please.
of allegiance.
Tonight, I would ask during this moment of silence
to please keep in your thoughts and prayers
the family of Halen Endal, who was a 2025 Christian life
graduate, a competitive cycling enthusiast,
a lover of the Kenosha Village Room,
who was tragically killed down at school in Tennessee.
We ask, please keep him and his family
in your thoughts and prayers during this moment of silence.
I need a motion on your laptops of the approval of the minutes
of August 17th, 2026, and moved in second
to any change of correction.
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
Please continue.
We have 31 speakers signed up for citizen comments.
When your name is called, please proceed to the podium,
state your name and address for the record.
First speaker, Kim Alaska.
Good evening.
My name is Kimberly Alaska.
I live at 2403, 136th Ave, Kenosha.
And let's see if we can see it.
I brought a rendering of my house for everyone to see.
My daughter drew that.
And this is my exit strategy when Microsoft begins construction
on their proposed data center.
And no part of this image was AI generated.
I want to assure you.
The rendering shows my house from the south
with colorful helium balloons emanating from the chimneys.
I would like to use the balloons to relocate my house.
I guess I'm going to need a permit.
I stole the idea from Mr. Fredrickson, the hero
from the Pixar movie Up.
He uses the balloon method to launch his house into the sky
when pushy developers come in and take over his neighborhood.
He refuses to leave the house and home he's
made over many decades.
For me, the question remains.
How far up do I need to go to get away from data centers?
Up north, upper Michigan, upper reaches of the Arctic Circle.
Maybe some of you recognize my house.
It was the home and studio of Bob and June CUNY for almost
50 years.
Mr. CUNY built the house in 1956, shortly after finishing
his fellowship with the Frank Lloyd Wright at Telly Esson.
The house is an excellent example of Houstonian architecture.
Mr. CUNY and his architecture firm
went on to design well over 100 buildings in the Kenosha area.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if he were alive today,
you wouldn't be making a deal to build a data center 10 feet
out of his studio door.
Today, that studio door is my kitchen door.
And when I open it, I look out onto 5.3 acres of woodland.
In fact, that woodland was zoned C2 low land conservation
before it was attached to the city as egg
and rezoned heavy manufacturing in November and December of 2024.
Shortly before Microsoft purchased the land for the data center,
I want to be clear, if any older people were unaware,
it is not a farm field outside my kitchen door.
It is a woodland, and the woods are full of life.
A bard all arise every fall and winter to nest.
And I can hear a hoot most nights at dusk.
And a red-shouldered hawk has spent the summer scouring
for her next meal.
I know I've seen her and many other wild animals
making a life in that patch of nature.
Most days, I'm pretty busy in my kitchen.
Over the years, I've made countless meals,
helped children with homework, listened patiently to loved ones,
you have 30 seconds, dried tears, and tried to help mend broken hearts.
And I'm going to just cut to the chase here.
According to section 5.20 of the cooperative plan
between the city of Kenosha, village of summers, and town of Paris,
I quote, attached parcels shall come into the city or village
with the most restrictive classification
in their respective zoning ordinance,
a checked.
And C2 is more restrictive than ag.
Thank you.
APPLAUSE
Folks, I'm going to politely ask that we
please refrain from clapping, jeering,
or giving any commentary as someone finishing up their speaking.
I mean, that way we can get through all everyone
that's signed up to speak tonight.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Louis Raghani.
Good evening.
I'm Louis Raghani.
4526, 29th Avenue.
And thank you for this opportunity to speak.
A couple of months ago, I was here.
And with a question about what's happening to Save the Eagles Club.
And I said that, is there a commission?
Is there a committee?
Are there any meetings planned?
Are there any efforts to meet potential buyers?
And that was a question.
On the way out, I found out that indeed there have been meetings.
And lately, it's been publicized in the local media.
I want to thank you.
I want to apologize for not knowing that.
And I want to congratulate everybody who's making this happen.
There are some things in Kenosha that should never change.
The courthouse, main room that was ruined about 1960 or so,
restored with a lot of money, both public and private,
designed by Joe Lindell, the Simmons Library,
designed by Dan Burnham, the Kemper Hall, which
was up for demolition back 51 years ago.
So was the library, for that matter.
There were plans to demolish it and just say that it was old.
The civic center with all the buildings down there,
including the 1923 Central High School,
the original post office, which is now the Dinosaur Discovery
Museum, the post office of 1933, and the courthouse.
And the Eagles Club, designed also by Joe Lindell, 1927.
These things are meant to stay in a college town.
Yeah, college town where over 10% of the residents
are going to universities and colleges,
institutes of higher learning.
You don't do a demolition on a historic building
in a town of higher learning.
You don't do it.
So I continue the Stella Hotel, burned out,
windows smashed, floors collapsing.
Look at it now.
It's a jewel of downtown Kenosha.
We could go on and on buildings that should be saved.
The Nash House, Kemper Hall, which
was ready to come down.
You have 30 seconds.
Which was the subject of condominiums on the lake front.
Yeah, right.
I could go on and on, but you get the message
and I want to thank you for all you do.
Keep the battle alive when you got it.
You don't want to lose it.
And you've got to want to thank you for all you do.
And I wish you a pleasant and productive evening.
Next speaker, Donna Nicolasi.
Good evening.
I'm Donna Nicolasi and live at 4610 Beverly Lane.
I'm a lifelong resident of Kenosha, a retired paralegal,
and currently a bailiff in Kenosha County Circuit Court.
I would ask everyone to recall mid-July of this year
when most of the upper Midwest and Great Lakes,
including Wisconsin, were covered with layers
of smoke from the Minnesota and Canadian fires.
Now that was pollution that we could see and smell and taste.
Everyone was affected, and there wasn't anything anyone
could do.
What many might not realize is, if data centers and the plants
needed to power these centers are allowed to move forward,
the pollutants from these power plants
will be released into our environment and water,
pollutants that we will be unable to detect,
not until years or no, when it's too late.
I'm asking this council, please, do what you need to do
to support halting the construction of this project
to allow for a moratorium to be put into place
until a viable plan for safe practices can be submitted
pursuant to the rules and regulations
that protect our population and environment.
And by the way, the word viable comes from land, meaning life.
If these projects continue to move forward,
I'm concerned and afraid for the health and safety
of everyone, for our land, our air, and our water.
Also consider this, within the next 10 years,
these data centers may well be obsolete
and most likely be reduced to the size of a garbage can,
all at the expense of our health,
the loss of our farmlands, and the contamination of our waters.
I think you know, when you end a people's way of life,
prepare for what comes next.
You have heard the deep concerns of your neighbors
and fellow citizens.
The members of this council need also be concerned.
The pollutants emitted from the power plants
will affect you and your families as well.
It's up to us and you to be strong enough to act,
to continue caring about our future generations,
the same way our ancestors have done for us.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Camden Lash.
A month ago, I was at a city council meeting
where I had serious concerns about the city's decision
to install flock cameras.
At that meeting, I was told I was being paranoid
that I didn't know what I was talking about,
that my sources were radical and misleading,
that these cameras were completely safe
and that our officers, quote, weren't like Milwaukee.
They're not using these cameras to stalk their girlfriends,
even after I had pointed out
that a sheriff's deputy had been suspended
for doing exactly that.
That deputy has now been charged
with two counts of felony misconduct.
On Monday, the Kenosha Police Department
has announced that they are ending their contract with flock
and switching to Axon, a former partner of flock
that does the exact same thing.
The Kenosha County Sheriff's Department
has yet to make a statement.
Is the Sheriff's Department also planning
on ending their contract?
Or are we going to have twice as many cameras
in our community now?
All of these cameras are part of a larger AI network.
Their goal is to collect data.
More cameras mean more surveillance.
More surveillance means more data.
Eventually, you're going to need somewhere
to store that data, like some kind of center for data.
You claim that this data center will create
50 full-time jobs, if all goes well, maybe even 100.
Yet, this technology is being advertised
as a replacement for human jobs.
That these are jobs for hundreds of thousands of people.
So if we do some quick math here,
if you create 100 jobs for a machine
that's literally advertising to replace 100,000 jobs,
you have destroyed 99,900 jobs.
These data centers do not create jobs.
They cannibalize them.
In the event of a fire, this data center
will become a 442-acre lithium battery fire.
No fire department in the country
is well-equipped enough for an event like this.
The trend across the country is that these data centers
are lying about their impacts on the environment.
Families in Georgia's Flint River
no longer have clean drinking water.
An analysis of Port Washington's Vanta data center
showed that it could cost $1.29 million annually
in public health due to air pollution.
Microsoft claims that they do not pollute our lakes and rivers,
but according to the Kenosha Data Center FAQ,
a water impact assessment has not been completed.
In fact, they haven't provided any environmental data at all.
Is that not concerning to you?
The city of Kenosha currently has zero evidence
to back any of Microsoft's environmental claims,
and I doubt that we will see any evidence
before the center is built.
And truthfully, it's because Microsoft does not care.
They are here for our water, not for us.
They will take it if you let them.
They will pollute it if you let them.
They will destroy our community if you let them.
I strongly urge you not to let them.
Thank you.
Folks, please.
Next speaker, please.
Dakota Kane.
Hi.
The AI data center.
Sir, can you come up to the microphone, please?
Sir, and Madam's, the AI data center will use
too much of Kenosha's water to the point that we risk
violating the Great Lakes Compact of 2008.
We will get sued, lose, and we will have to pay damages.
It is a compact made of several US states
and four provinces of Canada.
We will lose.
That is all.
Next speaker, Eric Ollep.
Eric Ollep, 7, 6, 0, 8, 10th Avenue.
City Council members, I want to bring to your attention
an incident which recently happened involving the use of
excessive force on a handcuffed woman by Kenosha police
officer.
This woman was being arrested for some unknown reason,
and while being pushed up against a police SUV was punched,
elbow choked, and arm barred.
Considering that she was already handcuffed and defenseless,
this sort of treatment was abusive, unlawful, and unjustified.
It is clear that the officer who did this lost his temperature,
his temper, excuse me, and composure for some reason.
It is an officer's duty to arrest, not punish.
If this woman was resisting, then charge her with resisting.
Let a judge decide the punishment, don't beat or choke her.
This sort of treatment is unacceptable.
I ask that the City Council along with the mayor,
city manager, police chief, and our public safety committee
look into this unlawful treatment of the woman.
Police when doing their duty must be held to a higher standard,
not lower, and if it was up to me, this officer would be fired
on the spot and put on the Brady list.
I would also like our district attorney or an objective
outside agency to look at this case in high detail and decide
if it would warrant criminal charges against the involved officer.
It goes without saying that we are probably going to get sued in civil court again.
City Council members, I don't expect our police to be perfect,
but what happened to this lady was over the line.
It was wrong.
Look into it, please.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Jerry Moore.
Mayor Bogdala and council members, our world today leaves so many
with a hopeless sense of helplessness.
As leaders fight, grift, do secret deals and inhumane acts without consequence.
We see families unable to make ends meet, leaving all on edge,
frustrated, and angry.
Jerry Moore, 10, 9, 18, 69 streets, sorry.
As local leaders, you were elected to represent your constituents
with 70% plus of Americans opposing data centers,
you really kind of have your answer.
And although a vote seems logical to us, we are asking for a compromise.
A pause, a moratorium with time to dial down differences,
workout details, regain trust lost from the now revoked NDA,
which really remains at the core of the matter.
A moratorium would go far to repair and rebuild the unity and trust lost.
I began this cause in January, met with the mayor, stepped back,
then in June restarted because the future needed a voice
as did the bees and the endangered rusty patch bumblebee
that I've talked about at Parkside.
To site gardener-turned-activist Paul Alvolino,
many of us have become accidental activists, not out of rage,
but out of heartbreak.
Because somewhere along the way we realize silence helps no one,
not the earth, not our children, not each other.
For the forests don't have lobbyists, the wetlands can't stand at a podium
and explain why they matter, the owls don't get a microphone.
The soil beneath our feet can't beg to not poison it,
an untouched land can't scream when it's bulldozed into another massive data center,
so humanity can consume even faster than it already does.
That responsibility falls on us.
Our job as humans was never to be endless extraction,
but to be caretakers, translators for the rivers, defenders of the old trees,
a voice for the creatures and ecosystems that cannot advocate for themselves
against profit margins and concrete.
We understand technology has a place, but at some point humanity started
confusing progress with removing every last wild thing
until nothing remains except servers, parking lots, and convenience.
The earth doesn't need more people trying to conquer it,
it needs more people willing to protect.
Because if not now when, we know this is complicated, but Kenosha going forward,
be transparent, be accountable, be protective, be better,
so the future will be proud of what you did today for a legacy of tomorrow's.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Alana Stevens.
Yay, you now own a house,
but there's something as small as an AC unit bolted to the exterior of your house
and that box, well you don't own it.
The house you're making payments on is folded into a cloud
which is connected to a system at a data center that you can't control or opt out of.
Now this isn't just a concept, it's already started to take place in some states.
And one of the largest home building companies in America,
Polte Group has already installed them and NVIDIA supplied the hardware.
A startup company called Span built the system and they're putting them
into every new construction home before most buyers even know this exists.
The Perks, a discounted electric bill battery backup,
free internet and solar installation.
What do they get?
A million dollar asset on your property using Power Running 24-7
for the cloud providers all around the world thanks to these data centers.
Your home has a 200 amp electrical panel and you only use half of it.
Span takes the other half you're not using and installed their smart panels
which monitors your use of power in real time which goes to the box outside your home.
The whole battery along the side of the node attached to your house is great
because you think it's extra power for emergencies.
However, that battery is there for the computer in case the power goes out
to keep the data center node running while you have nothing.
That said, Span said that it is intended not to replace large centralized data centers.
However, I will put into place that if this box were to catch on fire
and your house were to catch on fire, your homeowners insurance will not cover it
and will reject the claim.
We need to understand where the AI infrastructure may be headed next right here in Kenosha.
So while we are all in agreement that this mega data center would like for us to have
so bad except you, I totally disagree with and I want residents to understand
that if we accept this then the risks become even greater for them to keep on going
and adding on.
So the question really isn't how big will the data center be but what could come after it
and what could this mean 20 years from now?
As the Pennsylvania State Director Megan McDowell said,
we are not overreacting.
We are not anti-progress.
We are anti-corruption.
We are anti being told that the billionaire tech bros deserve more protection
than the people who drink the water, breathe the air, pay the taxes,
and live with the consequences.
Lawmakers in this building are going to work for private companies in the data center industry.
Deals are being made, promises are trying to be kept while residents are left in the dark.
This isn't democracy.
You have 30 seconds.
It's betrayal.
They want working people to pay the price while they cash their checks.
They want to hide the impacts, rush the process,
court politicians, and divide communities.
Well, we here stay in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin isn't for sale.
Kenosha isn't for sale.
Our future isn't for sale.
So you ask what do we want?
A moratorium.
And when do we want it?
Now notice.
Next speaker, Nick Prorock.
Nick Prorock.
Nick Prorock 8858 Sheridan Road.
Good evening, and thank you for this opportunity to speak tonight.
The city and the mayor are responsible for ensuring that our neighbors are protected.
Were you aware, and this is according to Mayor Bajula, that the city took the position
that the discount for data centers, that for we energies, if that went into effect,
the city wouldn't have built the data center.
I wasn't aware.
I came and spoke to you all about this in February.
I sent you all emails.
No one said anything then.
I got two replies to that email to tell you about the we energies tariff.
Only two people responded, and one common council member said that they wouldn't make a public
comment because they still need to do their research.
So it seems like you all weren't aware that the city was taking the position,
that if the tariff went through, that you wouldn't build the data center.
So based on the lack of evidence presented by the mayor and the lack of public comments
during that time, it's likely that this never was the position of the city.
The mayor is taking this position now way, way after the fact because it makes it seem
like he was engaged earlier on, even if he wasn't.
The city is not protecting its residents by taking credit for decisions that it did not
stand behind before the decision was made.
Moving forward, last week the common council and the mayor received a letter from a health
professional recommending that the city impose a moratorium on the development of a data
center and the city of Kenosha until the following minimum conditions are met.
A full independent environmental impact statement, including PM 2.5 health impact
modeling has been completed and publicly reviewed.
Wisconsin establishes a mandatory health protective standards for data center sit-ins,
emissions and water use.
The cumulative air quality impacts on the four nearby schools in residential population
have been evaluated and mitigation measures independently verified.
And transparent community engagement processes have been completed with meaningful opportunity
for the city of Kenosha residents to participate in decisions affecting their health.
The mayor bragged last Thursday that the standards him and his team put in place would be models
for other cities in Wisconsin.
The mayor has not done any of the things I listed above.
The mayor's recommendations without regulations are as effective as post-it notes on a whiteboard
during a brainstorming session because that's what it seems like they are.
Mayor, why are you avoiding open dialogue?
Why are you withholding evidence that the neighbors will be protected?
Please pass a moratorium, do the studies to prove we are safe, protect us if the studies show
that we are at risk and engage with the public.
Be a model for other cities.
Thank you.
The next speaker, Montana Peterson.
You all hear that okay?
Montana Peterson's 7102 Pershing Boulevard.
I see that the flock cameras now have bags on them across town.
Congratulations.
That is a great start.
So bag the rest of them.
A surveillance state is a direct violation of our Fourth Amendment rights as private citizens,
utilizing a private company such as flock or now acts on that tracks your Bluetooth signal face,
gate angel license plate removes our right to access public record.
Y'all job is to protect Kenoshaans and not invite harm into our cities.
The cameras are not pointed at y'all homes.
Microsoft data center is not built in y'all backyard.
So it doesn't matter, right?
Allowing these fascist tech billionaires to come in and poison our community is not protecting or serving Kenoshaans.
Those that are on the side of Microsoft are betraying Kenosha residents.
There have been many studies on how emissions from data centers are devastating to be populations,
crops, animal reproductions, circadian rhythms, asthma and other lung conditions,
water quality, mental physical and environmental health due to infrasound emissions, light air and water pollution.
If your main focus is on the economic growth opportunities from this data center,
you are not making a holistic decision with residents in mind.
It's been shown that these companies bring in non-residents to build the centers and hire non-residents to run them.
As residents, we do not want this data center built and it will not benefit Kenosha residents in any way.
I urge our older people to vote in favor of a one year moratorium to slow down this infestation of data centers,
gas plants and battery storage facilities into Kenosha County.
We need to have a full understanding of the impacts on wildlife, farm life, air,
quality, water pollution and human health before making an informed decision to vote on this data center.
It is imperative that at all levels of government we focus our concerns on the residents that you represent,
not foreign interests, not corporate interests and not billionaire interests.
Don't forget that laws do not define morality and we vote you into office.
In a day and age where politicians sell out to the highest bidder, do not be a part of the greedy few harming the good of many.
I strongly ask you to end the contracts, remove the cameras and support a moratorium of data centers to protect Kenosha
and to protect the health of the water, the air, the land, the people in the fragile ecosystems of the Great Lakes.
Be on the right side of history.
You are 30 seconds.
Thank you.
This is the sound of data center makes, by the way, thank you.
Just so we can be clear.
Your time is up.
Thank you.
Y'all have a good night.
Next speaker, Cheryl Swatko.
Folks, I'm truly asking one last time, although we're going to have to ask some people to leave,
we want to get through all of these if we possibly can.
We're sitting here listening, we're taking notes.
I'm just asking for please to be polite and let everybody speak without any type of applause during or any commentary.
Thank you.
Cheryl Swatko.
Cheryl Swatko, 3915, 48th Avenue, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Good evening, Mayor and members of the Common Council.
I am asking tonight for something very simple, a moratorium on the data center developing Kenosha.
This is not about anti-business or anti-technology and it is not about stopping Kenosha from growing.
Many residents have appeared before this council with concerns about water, electricity, noise, air, traffic, property values,
and the long-term impact in our community.
We are not asking you to ignore the development.
We are asking you to slow down long enough to get all the answers.
A moratorium gives this council the opportunity to establish clear standards before another permit or approval moves forward.
It gives independent experts time to study the impacts.
And most importantly, it gives your constituents who actually live here a meaningful voice as to what happens in their community.
So I ask you, what is the rush?
If this venture is truly beneficial and safe for Kenosha, then a temporary pause should not threaten it.
There are unanswered questions about our water, our power grid, our neighborhoods, our taxpayers, and our quality of life.
Then those decisions deserve answers now, not after the decisions are made.
You were elected to represent the citizens of Kenosha.
Tonight, please listen to the people who are standing before you.
We have one chance to get this decision right.
Slow down, demand transparency, protect our taxpayers and resources, and make sure that our city, not an outside corporation like Microsoft, controls our futures.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Leanne Carpenter.
It's much cooler up here.
Leanne Carpenter 1585 43rd Avenue.
Over the last several months, people have presented, and tonight,
about all of the negative effects that are plaguing the communities where the data centers are being put.
I kind of wanted to talk a little bit about the end game of AI, and somebody already did when they started talking about the floor cameras,
but the end game of AI, everybody, I'm sure, has seen the videos and listened to some of the researchers and the CEOs talk about how AI is sort of taking off.
I'm going to be teaching itself, it's going to be developing superintelligence, and that's not stopping.
There was a man named Jacob Coxin, who worked as a researcher for anthropic and open AI, and he resigned on the 8th, and he put this out on X.
I resigned from anthropic today.
I spent the last three years doing pre-training research in both open AI and anthropic.
Neither company is acting responsibly.
They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.
Do not underestimate the power of this technology.
These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.
We have all witnessed the progress in front of us, and the progress is not slowing down.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.
This is not a marketing stunt.
If anything, the executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in press conferences to make it sound sensible,
but I hear those same people express fear privately every day.
There is no other human activity that possesses this level of danger.
So I looked up some interviews that some of the CEOs and researchers have done when people are asking them,
what are you going to do when AI goes completely out of control and off the rails, because they are predicting that it will.
They don't really know what's going to happen.
Elon Musk, when he was interviewed by Ted Cruz, I believe, was asked how real is the prospect of killer robots annihilating humanity,
and deadpan, he said 20% likely.
A dude named Dario Amade, who is anthropic CEO, when asked what is the percent chance that this ends in disaster,
set very optimistically and excitedly.
I'm an optimist, so I think there's a 25% chance that things will go really, really badly.
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, said AI will probably most likely sort of lead to the end of the world,
but in the meantime, there will be great companies created.
You have 30 seconds.
Daniel Kolkajao, I'm slaughtering his name, a lead researcher at AI Futures Project,
said there's a 70% chance of all humans dead, or something similarly bad.
The interviewer said, whoa, whoa, what do you mean all humans dead, and he looked at deadpan in the face and said,
in fact, Sam Altman, same thing.
The job destruction in the next couple of decades is going to be massive, like honestly.
One of the things that I struggle with when I get out of bed every morning is that my job is to kill other people's jobs.
So this is incredibly disturbing.
This is not going to add well no matter what, and we don't need to be a part of it.
We could be the model for the rest of the country and just put a moratorium, or even better, say no, no data centers here at all.
Next speaker, Sandy Kado.
Good evening, Council.
My name is Sandra Kadoop.
I'm a resident of Kenosha County at 6403-238th Avenue.
Mayor Bagnola campaigned on the explicit promise that the number one job is communicating with constituents.
Yet on May 9th, 2024, this administration willingly signed a secret corporate NDA with Microsoft, the worst man in the world.
While the public was kept completely in the dark, you fast tracked the annexation and rezoning of 240 acres of farmland in the town of Paris to bring the city of Kenosha to the city of Kenosha,
and you were hooking up a multi-billion dollar tech giant to the Kenosha water utility.
And the city captures the primary revenue while the county and local taxpayers are left holding the bag for millions in road degradation and heavy hall destruction on regional highways.
I spent my career at Naval Facility Engineering Command for the Department of the Navy,
serving as a primary financial manager overseeing the multiple general fund appropriations for the command and being part of the team overseeing the building by building demolition and reconstruction of the Great Lakes Recruit Training Command.
To manage that large scale of infrastructure, safety safely without misusing public funds, the Navy deployed a full-time dedicated civil engineering core officer backed by an entire on-site task force of full-time industrial engineers, contract specialist,
project managers, and financial managers tracking over a dozen distinct federal appropriations.
Yet here in Kenosha, we are simultaneously fast tracking a $360 million hard rock casino that isn't uncomplicated.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is involved and hard rock is doing the funding.
You're not going to get property taxes.
They have to decide on what the sales tax is, who it goes to.
Does it go to hard rock?
At the same time, a hyperscale Microsoft data center corridor without a fraction of that oversight capability.
Let's look strictly at the numbers.
This council consists of 17 part-time older persons, and the county has 23 part-time supervisors.
You are a part-time citizen of volunteers who often hold full-time outside careers in our likely reviewing multi-million dollar corporate proposals in your spare evening hours.
Worse, you have a massive technical staffing deficit of the local government engineers, three are working for the county, only leaving only one in the city.
Neither the city nor the county has a single full-time specialized industrial engineer, project managers, nor an experienced contract specialist on the public payroll.
The county's only contract specialist works for human services, tracking healthcare payable.
Your time is up.
I'll see you next time.
Next speaker, Dorothy Nolan.
Dorothy Nolan, 802. 21st Avenue, Kenosha.
My comments today are about the AI data center, Kenosha.
I was kind of curious about what Google's Gemini AI would respond to some of my top questions.
So I've got 10.
One, will data centers create more pollution?
Yes, they will create more pollution by consuming massive amounts of electricity and often relying on fossil fuels.
Two, do AI data centers cause noise pollution?
Yes, they can cause significant pollution for nearby communities from cooling systems, power equipment, backup generators that have been linked to sleep,
disruption, high blood pressure, stress, and heart issues.
Number three, will data centers cause massive layoffs?
AI data center investments are currently linked to corporate layoffs as major tech companies cut staff to fund infrastructure.
Four, will electricity rates go up with AI?
Yes, electricity rates are widely expected to rise as they strain the power grid and require massive new infrastructure.
Five, will closed loop systems use more electricity and push water usage to power companies?
Yes, they could use 10 to 40% more and shift a substantial burden upstream to the power company.
Six, what is the likelihood of power failure as more of these are built?
The risk is moderate to high and specific high concentration areas,
driven less by a total lack of national electricity and more by the unpredictable instantaneous load swing behavior of massive AI computing loads.
Seven, what's the likelihood of an AI infrastructure bubble?
The likelihood of a bubble is significant and rising, driven by a trillion dollar capital expenditure surge that currently outpaces end user monetization.
Eight, what is the impact on AI on privacy and security?
AI creates major privacy and security risk by enabling mass data collection, deep fakes, and automated cyber attacks.
Nine, what should communities consider when faced with a proposed AI data center?
They must consider high energy demand, massive water usage, local noise, zoning rules, and economic impacts.
You have 30 seconds.
Ten, what is the most dangerous aspect of AI?
AI is super intelligent.
We'll think millions of times faster than humans.
We will not be able to outsmart it, predict its choices, or turn it off.
In summary, AI is being rolled out in a menacing, careless way by competing billionaires that don't trust each other to achieve ultimate control and infinite profits.
This is all being done without national or international collaboration, oversight, or regulations of any kind.
This is too important to get wrong.
Pass the moratorium.
Next speaker, Amy Mayer.
Hi, Amy Mayer, 61415 place.
I did a little bit of research too, and I'm finding that there's roughly 364 to 368 operational data centers in eight states surrounding our Great Lakes.
Now, hundreds more are planned and under construction, but the exact figures are not publicly disclosed, and why not?
Well, numbers vary and differ by industry tracking and definition of how they're counted by different groups.
There's a transparency gap where the Alliance for the Great Lakes has found precise,
withdrawal amounts are shielded by the NDAs between private tech and local municipalities.
Communities around the country are reporting low water pressure, low water tables, depletion with private wells, municipal water systems, and aquifers.
Now, again, with water quality, that's been another thing talked about a little bit tonight.
The discharge water contains heavy metals.
It's no secret, and it's also very concentrated.
It contains things like biocides, corrosion inhibitors, and anti-scaling agents within those cooling loop cycles.
Treatment plants are not really designed to handle the massive amounts of water that will be discharged,
and this also will disrupt our biological process by the water plants in order to treat human waste, trying to filter out and clean all these things up.
It's going to be expensive and challenging and maybe not even doable, because the treatment plants just can't filter it all out.
There's also the flooding risk, and I think that's a big one too, because as more land is taken over, we don't have the soil in order to absorb the water from rains and the sure.
Sometimes there's heavy rains and it's just storms or whatnot, but with climate change eminent, we don't really know what's going to happen with the heat or the cold or the water.
If you think about it, it's just unnatural to think about one data center using 150 million gallons of water in one month.
We're 32nd times that, times eight states and hundreds of data centers.
I'll just add one little note here.
Growing up, I had my stepdad was a sergeant, a detective, and a policeman, and I do come from law enforcement family, but he always gave me good advice.
And he said, Amy, if anything doesn't feel right, if you have any doubt about something, don't do it.
Thanks.
Next speaker, Kelly Fogle.
Thank you for allowing me to speak.
Kelly Foglio at 8806, 65th Street in Kenosha.
Speaking of Foglio, I was at the Italian festival last year, chatting with a friend that I had run into.
We used to work together and I'm like, what brought you up here?
I thought you lived down in Libertyville and she said, well, yeah, but my husband works up here at Mount Pleasant at the data center.
Like, I thought that was also supposed to be local people that were employees that are building the data center and she's like, yeah, everybody there's from Illinois, you got to be kidding.
So, just thought, don't know if there's anything in place in that.
I also found out just in researching that we're one of 38 states that give tax breaks as incentives in Wisconsin.
Beaver Dam Center, they were a billion dollar project, Mount Pleasant, a $20 billion project, Port Washington, a $15 billion project,
and they didn't have to pay the 5% Wisconsin sales tax or local sales tax on any construction or equipment that comes out to about $1.5 billion during construction,
$369 million per year once built, just estimates.
I mean, can we recover some of these things through, you know, corporate income tax or utility tax?
I mean, maybe.
I know that Mayor Bogdillo was speaking at the Dam meeting last Thursday talking about all the things that we could possibly benefit from.
And I think when I was watching that, what really threw me is that it sounds like the decision is already made and it's just the details being worked out.
That's a problem for me.
I was hanging out with a friend of mine earlier this afternoon, we're out golfing, actually.
He's on the ops and under the spectrum from me politically and I said, you know, I got to get home, I got to feed the dog and then
head over to do my civic duty and speak, even though I hate public speaking.
And he said, you know, this is the one thing we agree on?
Everybody, I know, agrees on this.
We do not want data centers.
They take jobs.
I mean, I'm coming at it from a biologist point of view and I'm like all the other things that they do and not even thinking about the jobs and the flat cameras and everything else with the data.
Thirty seconds.
Acquisition.
I mean, I'm not going to hit everything that everybody else said, but when big data Microsoft does leave the bag, who's going to pick it up?
Who's going to be covering the legal costs?
Who's going to be challenging when we do have pollution, when we do lose our water?
Who's going to be footing that bill?
Is that us?
I'm done.
Next speaker, Alyssa Stearns.
Alyssa Stearns, 4618 Fifth Avenue.
I'm speaking out today in hopes that you will hear my concerns about the proposed hyperscale AI data center construction site in Kenosha County.
I, among many others in Kenosha, don't appreciate how our community has not had any controller voice in the discussions and decisions surrounding this proposal.
The lack of transparency and legal contract signed behind closed doors with Microsoft to push this project forward is appalling.
I believe local officials have acted and hastened in approving this project without enough regard for the health, well-being and autonomy of our community members.
I would like to take this opportunity to use my voice to advocate for a moratorium to pause the construction of this AI data center in our city to allow for more public feedback, further research from experts on the environmental impact on our land, water quality, and the health of our citizens,
and a thorough investigation into how this may affect property values and rising electricity costs.
In considering perspectives from other Wisconsin communities and communities around our country that have played host to hyperscale AI data centers,
we have learned that any benefits from these monstrosities are far outweighed by the grave costs these community members must now pay.
Any local economic growth through temporary jobs created or profits for the community pales in comparison to the negative consequences community members will face in terms of several quality of life and public health measures.
I urge you to listen to your constituents and prioritize the rights and well-being of your constituents and neighbors in Kenosha over a multi-billion dollar corporation.
I leave you with this paraphrased indigenous proverb from the people who lived and thrived on this land before it was stolen from them.
Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish has been caught, and the last river poisoned will re-realize that we cannot eat money. Thank you for your time.
Next speaker, Jamie Forsyth.
Hello, I'm Jamie Forsyth, 854554th Avenue in Pleasant Prairie.
On June 4th, I used the new carapool service for my daughter, Amity, who was the inspiration child for the dream playground,
and I have found it to be extremely subpar.
The first van that picked her up, I was texted beforehand and said it was going to be a black van.
It was a gray van. It was a 2011 Dodge Caravan with no carapool markings on it.
The van that brought her home was over an hour and a half late and was also over 10 years old and also had no markings.
I immediately complained to the company, the bus company, the city transportation department, and emailed Alderman Pizala and Alderman Kennedy.
I had planned on using this taxpayer-funded service to take my daughter who started college yesterday back and forth to gateway this year.
I am now paying $28 each way to the KAC out of my own pocket, and this is due to her disability.
This is discrimination 101. It is violation of her civil rights and of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
What other groups of people in the city have to get into janky vans instead of taxpayer-funded buses that everyone else gets to ride,
including Gateway, the bus service is provided free for all able-bodied citizens.
I cannot find the maintenance records on the vans.
I cannot find who is the oversight at the state or federal level at this time, which I am looking into.
Driving records of the drivers who is pocketing the money when it used to be nice vans at the KAC, and now it's a 2011 Dodge caravan.
I was given paperwork. I did come to the transportation meeting. They hosted me there. That was very nice of them.
I did get some records. Supposedly 40% are allowed to be outside of the maintenance.
100% of the wheelchair accessible vans are outside of the maintenance.
Some of the ambulatory vans are within the last eight years, but zero.
The newest van that's wheelchair accessible is a 2017.
You have 30 seconds.
This is a disgrace. This is not how we should treat people with disabilities.
My daughter is going to go to Gateway for this year, and then she plans on going to UW Milwaukee
and become an American Sign Language interpreter to help others with disabilities.
Do better.
Next speaker, Erin Rauci.
Erin Rauci, 3749, 15th street, here to voice my opposition to the data center.
I looked through the FAQ earlier for that, because you guys put an FAQ that's got a bunch of...
It addresses a bunch of things that we bring up, like electricity and water and environmental pollution and stuff.
And I noticed a lot of uncertainty in a lot of that stuff.
For example, the electric costs. It was saying the citizens should not have to pay a cent more for their electric.
It doesn't say they won't.
It's like, we hope not.
It seems like maybe somebody's not sure.
It doesn't know. Lack of info.
We didn't do any environmental studies on it. Straight up says there. We have not done it.
And it's like, we usually don't do that for this kind of thing.
This doesn't seem like a usual build. It doesn't seem like a normal business that we can just wave off stuff like environmental or water.
Also, it's straight up says, has not been looked into.
Why? Why don't we know these things? Why don't we have the answers to these huge problems?
These things that we are caring about.
Taxes. Do they just get to wave off the property taxes or whatever that is?
The building stuff? I'd love to own a home someday.
In this world, it's pretty difficult too.
If they get to, I'm asking, who do I talk to for that?
I'd love to build a house and not have to pay my taxes on that for a decade or whatever it is.
It's not my problem.
Where's the information? That's all we're asking for.
It's like, pause this project so we can know what we're dealing with.
Pause this project so we can look at these problems and address them. Get some answers for these people.
Myself included. I live here. I care about this.
This is where my taxpayer money goes. This is my city. This is the air I breathe. The water I drink.
This is the electricity that funds my ability to have my family over for dinner.
I'd love to do that.
Where's the information? That's all we're asking for.
We want to have concrete. Yes, this is what's happening. No, this is not.
We hope so. We hope it's going to bring 50 to 100 jobs because that's what other data centers do.
We're just going to trust Microsoft, the company who actively says constantly,
we are fighting to reduce the amount of jobs that we have to pay people for at these data centers.
That's the purpose of them. Artificial intelligence is designed to do work for humans.
The first people organ users are the ones who are going to have to pay less people to do the same thing.
I don't know where these answers are. I'm looking for them. I'd love to know because it seems like Kenosha doesn't.
Next speaker, Valerie Kutchmer.
Good evening. My name is Valerie Kutchmer, 10209 80th Street in Pleasant Prairie.
Good evening, mayor, city council members and everyone in attendance.
I'm here tonight to address two concerns.
The first one is RFP number 202-502 for paired transit services, which was awarded to Carepool replacing KAC.
A friend of mine, Jamie, has a disabled daughter, Amity, who uses a wheelchair and plan to use the services to attend college.
When she tried the new service, she reported that the vehicles appeared very old and rusted,
and she was uncomfortable with the driver who arrived.
After I contacted the mayor's office, she was referred to Carepool.
Alderman Kennedy provided her with a list of vehicles, and the newest listed was a 2017 vehicle with approximately 70,000 miles.
She requested information about vehicle maintenance, insurance, and driver background checks, driving records, and federal fingerprinting.
This was requested after August 12th, and she still has not received a response.
The RFP requires complaints to be addressed within five business days and vehicles to be safe and sanitary.
The contract also provides an opportunity to terminate within 180 days if requirements aren't being met.
Sorry.
Where the vehicles inspected before the contract was awarded was anyone with disability transportation experience consulted,
and was feedback from actual users or after this contract was implemented considered,
or was a decision primarily based on price.
Jamie has already spent $280 with KAC the school year because she doesn't feel comfortable using the new service.
My second concern is playground accessibility.
I previously contacted Parks Director Katie Elder about new playgrounds.
I believe do not meet federal accessibility requirements.
I was told they do meet ADA requirements.
As a mother of a daughter who uses a walker and someone who has served on the Pleasant Prairie Parks Commission for over two years,
I have extensive experience with accessible playgrounds, and I respectfully disagree.
I would welcome the opportunity to meet with the city and share the federal requirements and accessibility guidelines.
Everyone deserves the opportunity to access our parks and playgrounds.
I hope we can work together to address both of these concerns.
One of the things I do want to mention, over 20% of the population, I believe it's over 25% of the population has a disability,
whether it's visible or invisible.
And I always say, it is the largest minority that we are all going to be a part of someday if we live that long.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Nev Raman.
Hi, my name is Nev Raman and my address is 683755th Avenue.
I have to admit, it's getting harder and harder to come up with something fresh for this council.
I think of every single angle that's already been taken, every feeling that's been evoked, and nowhere that's been left unsaid.
And somehow I just keep getting inspired every other week here by every single impassioned speaker.
So I will read this to you in the rambling thought process I had as I sat down to write it the other night.
I'm so disappointed in you all.
We the people have been failed by our government on a federal level, on a state level, and I want to believe not by our local government yet.
I want to believe that, but I'm having a really hard time with that.
It seems to me that the same old pattern rings true no matter what level of government it is.
Money talks, money, and greed, and power, and carelessness, and selfishness, and turning a blind eye, and maybe ignorance is bliss for some of you, I don't know.
But guess what goes with you when you die?
Not your money, not those tax cuts, none of that.
And what stays is your legacy, your choices, the consequences of your actions, your words, or lack thereof.
Your cowardice, your inability to stand up to corporate billionaires and protect your community from resource exploitation, all in the name of tax benefits, that all stays.
So what will you stand for?
What will you leave behind?
How will you choose to be remembered?
It's not too late to reflect internally.
It's not too late to stand up to your peers, to ensure your seat in the next election, to choose bravery and independent thinking, something that's in short supply these days, to vote for the greater good, because this is a common sense issue.
And you know what they say?
Common sense is not that common.
So I'm hoping, after the immense amount of meetings we've had on the same topic, that finally some light bulb will go off.
Mayor and council members, we've reached the maximum total time limit of 60 minutes for all speakers.
So we still have speakers left on the docket in order to continue.
I would need a motion to extend by 30 minutes.
It's been moved and second to extend the time by 30 minutes.
If we go over that time limit on 30 minutes, we would have to make another motion to extend by 30 just so everyone's aware.
So motion on the floor is to extend citizen comments by 30 minutes.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Please continue.
Next speaker, Arabella Kessler.
Arabella Kessler 332747th Avenue.
I'm here again supporting the demand for a moratorium.
Put simply, our electrical infrastructure cannot handle the amount of energy this data center will require.
And I'm concerned about Kenosha facing a situation like Gary and Deanna's recent outage.
Over 9,000 residents in Gary did not have power for two weeks due to severe storms taking out power lines.
You know who didn't have to suffer from the power outage?
The local data centers.
Imagine not having access to electricity for weeks.
How would that affect your life?
Does that make sense?
My power personally has gone out more times at my home this year than I recall in my whole life due to the amount of storms.
I'm extremely concerned.
Our power being out will become commonplace if this data center is constructed.
From the global strain fossil fuel plants make on our environment to the hyperscale data center stripping us of our natural resources
and the automatic license plate readers that are harvesting our data tracking us everywhere we go,
which I noticed Kenosha switched out flock for axon which arguably has a worse track record.
All are interconnected issues.
They are ushering in a system that will impact all of us.
The complications caused by these hyperscale data centers do not discriminate on who decided to play nice with Microsoft Meta,
XAI, or any other tech conglomerate that wants to steal our resources.
This is bigger than Kenosha and bigger than all of us.
You must realize sooner or later, you, me, your data, my data, their data are the product, not the consumer.
Much like the robber barons of the Industrial Revolution, these companies are more comfortable putting profit over not only land and natural resources,
but ultimately human lives.
Just this week, a US federal court in Mississippi ruled that clean drinking water is shockingly not a constitutional right.
And an EPA proposal from this past week would eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public
and seek comments before issuing air pollution permits for data centers and other industrial facilities.
The EPA stripping this mandate away directly affects residents, potentially leaving them entirely in the dark on what is happening in their communities.
Allowing data centers to get air pollution permits secretly goes directly against the EPA's promise of transparency
and will expose local communities to dangerous levels of suit and toxic chemicals.
If we cannot depend on the EPA or federal courts to protect us in our land or state government,
then local governments must uphold their responsibility to the community they serve,
and furthermore, should uphold their responsibility as human beings to be stewards of the earth.
If this is not a commitment any of you are willing to uphold, do not expect to be reelected.
As a young adult, I want to feel represented and proud of the mayor and council before me.
It is infuriating to hear all of these alarm bells ringing constantly.
You have 30 seconds.
For them only to fall on deaf ears, please hear me and all of the speakers in support are demand for a one year moratorium.
Be willing to examine your beliefs and remember it is never too late to change your mind and support a better future.
A better path forward is still possible.
Allow room for that possibility or respectfully get out of the way.
Thank you for your time.
Next speaker, Colton Roberts.
My name is Colton Roberts.
I live at 4710, 18th Ave, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
I know I ruffled quite a bit of feathers last time I came up here.
I mentioned my personal belief in the fact that I think the mayor is a tomato-headed freak.
I still stand by that opinion.
I would like to bring up just a quick couple facts for you all.
Since 2014, we have known that noise pollution in any way, shape, and reform will in fact cause birth defects in pregnant women
along with other myriad of health problems.
My wife's pregnant.
We're expecting our second daughter.
I'm very excited for that.
When this data center is constructed and all of a sudden a bunch of birth defects are in our children,
one of you be there to care for them.
One of you be there for the many, many more hours it takes a mother and father to raise a special needs child
as opposed to a child who does not have disabilities.
With the diesel generators and the methane power plants causing air pollution,
will any of you be there for the funerals of those who have asthma?
One of you be there for my funeral of my sister who has asthma, my grandmother who's elderly?
How many corpses must we put in the ground before any one of you decide maybe,
maybe for an Iota of a second, profit should never come first under any circumstances?
How many gallons of blood do we need to pour onto people's hands before they question?
Was it really worth it?
Nine million in property taxes? 50 jobs?
How many people have to lose food and go hungry as the power goes out for weeks on end?
How many must starve to feed the machine of the AI data center?
How many millions of gallons of water must we lose before the question appears in anyone's head of,
was this worth it?
I did some quick math, and if you look at the nine million property tax estimate,
that's roughly five to ten dollars a household.
Can I just pay that now and not have to deal with the suffering of my family?
Can I pay it for my neighbor?
They're a neighbor?
Is that an option?
Can I opt out of poisoning the air of which we breathe?
The water of which we drink, and the land of which Christ instructs us to coexist and steward?
Is that an option?
Or must I be poisoned?
Must my wife, my family, your families, yourselves?
It took roughly 50 years for us to discover that lead is not good.
You have 30 seconds.
Thank you, ma'am.
How much longer do we need for, sorry, skipped a bit?
How long did it take us for asbestos?
How many millions of children were poisoned because we didn't do our due diligence as humans?
Sir, in the back, please get off your phone, I'm speaking.
Yeah?
You, sir.
How many must die to feed the machine of which none of us benefit from?
Yeah.
Please, folks, continue.
Next speaker, Gazan Mian.
All right.
Kazan Mian, 330314th Street.
So I'll keep this brief.
I am an urgent care doctor.
I spent four years at UW Parkside for undergrad.
Four years at UW Madison for med school, and then three years in Milwaukee for residency.
All that so I could come home to Kenosha, my home, and advocate for the health of this
community.
I can tell you for certain that data centers are not good for the health of this community.
We've kind of heard that all night from multiple people.
I challenge anyone up here who feels different.
Come and talk to me about it afterwards.
I'm sure we'd have a productive conversation.
I'm a little concerned that this body seems to have not that much consideration for the
health of this community and a lot of consideration for data centers.
I mean, honestly, the majority does not want this.
You're our representatives.
You also should not want this.
And then, honestly, I'd also ask that instead of using the power to stop us from clapping
for five seconds, you use that time to actually think about what we're saying to you.
Thanks.
Next speaker isabella Kuzel.
Isabella Kuzel, 2531 82nd Street.
Good evening, mayor, members of the common council, and my neighbors.
I'm standing here tonight because the only way we will ever find resolution on this issue
is if we reach a basic moral conclusion.
Corporate welfare does not come before the welfare of people.
Corporations don't matter if people don't matter.
And as long as the corporate establishment continues to put its greed above our lives,
they should expect resistance, including right here in this room.
We keep hearing from big tech lobbyists and their allies that if we don't hand over our
land, water, and power, the U.S. will lose its technological lead to Beijing.
To the mayor and anyone else pushing this national security talking point, I ask you directly.
If you're truly worried about national strength and the future of innovation,
why are you supporting projects that poison our air, water, and food?
Why are you allowing environmental damage in our backyards?
Why are you cooperating to leave us desolate, displaced, and footing the bill?
You don't build a strong future by sacrificing the living standards of the families who actually live here.
What's more, we are being kept in the dark about decisions that fundamentally rewrite our neighborhoods.
You demand to transform our community, but you didn't do not acknowledge we are owed transparency.
What is this massive infrastructure actually going to contribute to us?
What's in it for working class people?
Why should we care about corporations that couldn't care less about us?
We are tired of fake promises of cash injections and corporate handouts that we know will never reach our pockets.
This isn't an investment in Kenosha, it's corporate extraction.
We want investment in us, our people, our public infrastructure, and our local economy.
Invest in the people living in this city, and we will build a thriving economy ourselves.
I ask this council, do not trade Kenosha's health and future for corporate promises.
Stand up for the people you represent, put an immediate freeze on these developments, and pass a data center moratorium.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Rachel Kirschner.
Rachel Kirschner, 2613 136 Avenue, town of Paris.
Good evening, mayor and members of the city council.
I think this is like my fourth time here, speaking out against the data center.
Listen up, I'm going to give you a task.
I know where the mayor stands, but I do not agree.
I follow logic and reason.
His fear mongering about China, his fear of missing out, his analogies,
comparing data centers to simple objects failed to account for the actual complexity, his years of experience.
These arguments have not convinced me that my family will be safe from the noise and the pollution.
My family's health is important.
So now, I ask you all the persons where you stand.
You have your own voice.
You don't need to listen and obey the mayor.
You may have more experience and knowledge than he has.
I want every other person at the end of this meeting to speak up and say where you stand, and please don't ignore my speech,
and choose to speak up data centers only to accept where you feel a little insulted.
Talk about the real issue.
I'm going to make it easy.
I'll give you what you can say.
Option one is simple and sweet.
I don't want a data center in Kenosha.
Kenosha does not have a good place to put a data center that wouldn't negatively affect residents.
That was nice, isn't it?
Option two.
I want a moratorium to see if Microsoft can reduce the infrasound or low-frequency noise still coming out of the Mount Pleasant facility.
They haven't fixed it yet.
And I want to wait until Microsoft can commit to renewable energy,
and not allow gas plants in Kenosha County to support them.
That was not bad.
All right.
So here we have option three.
I absolutely want the data center.
I don't care about the residents in the township of Paris.
Frankly, I have no idea where County Road EUE or MBR,
and I haven't driven down highway 142, busifying 94 in years.
So why?
What should I care?
They don't vote for me.
I don't care if this makes me a bad neighbor.
I want that tax money from Microsoft, and I don't care if the residents of Paris will face data center howl.
I also don't care about my residents that work for Amazon or ULINE.
Let them breathe in the polluted air from the gas plant being proposed adjacent to the data center.
Let them feel the constant low-frequency or infrasound at their place of work.
I want that tax money.
I don't care if it scares off the other businesses.
Microsoft tax money is all I want.
I want those few jobs after construction ends too.
I accept the premature deaths caused by the proposed gas plant.
I accept the risk when a driver, a 9-84, crashes from the infrasound effects
or the blackout fogging conditions from the heat of the data center.
I'm okay with environmental costs.
The documented infrasound health issues and the reality of leaving my neighbors to suffer.
I will get the tax money and a few jobs.
Maybe a free Microsoft park.
Damn straight, that park won't be near that.
Her rent is data center, gas plant, electrical substation because nobody would go there.
Speaker, your time is up.
I'll continue next time.
Next speaker, Samuel Irving.
Hi, my name is Angie Hartwick.
4809 Pershing Boulevard.
Angie, the next speaker was Samuel Irving.
Oh, they said you're an engine.
Sorry.
I'm not a fan of it.
I'm not a fan of it.
I'm a fan of it.
Hi, guys.
Thanks for your time.
Appreciate it.
Samuel Irving, 8829, 17th Avenue.
So I got another movie for you.
You know what Jurassic Park, right?
I mean, it's classic, 1994.
Dr. Ian Malcolm says about the whole Jurassic Park situation,
your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could.
They didn't stop to think if they should.
Great, right?
So back to my speech because that's the one thing I had to say about that.
I think you can follow along.
So do we have a plan for when things fall apart,
when the dinosaurs are loose, or should I say when the dinosaurs blow up?
That would be especially awful.
Maybe a good thing.
I don't know.
But, excuse me.
Not just the small penance mentioned in the recent meeting at the Democrat meeting.
Sorry, meeting.
Not a slip of the tongue.
This is the worst implications than just being another fox con.
We know what we're going to get if they do pull out for whatever reason.
But what about in addition to that?
Pagonically speaking, what plan do we have for the likely scenario that this doesn't go as
planned, everything going according to plan?
We're going to make a pretty great amusement park, guys.
I promise you, it's going to be so cool.
What else could go wrong?
Microsoft and many other companies can afford to effectively pull out
or legally do the bare minimum if the AI bubble bursts.
Sure, they'll pay whatever penance they need to give that little penny to get through
to pull out at that last minute or whatever happens if the AI bubble does burst or not
burst, whatever.
Excuse me.
However, they're definitely not going to do it out of the goodness of their hearts.
They don't care about our community.
What's a few million dollars of donations of social philanthropy when they can make billions
in the short term and then escape the disaster when the AI bubble burst or whatever happens
that leaves us footing the bill of billions of damage in health care costs
and the priceless state of human and environmental health.
You've heard from everyone else here all the other stats and statistics and everything else
that was mentioned.
You've heard those.
Take those to heart.
Those are real stats.
What are we going to do about those?
That's us citizens being left behind with that.
The doctor mentioned in himself, what are we going to do about those health costs in
the future when the AI data center infrastructure does poison our health?
That's all I have to say.
Thank you.
You don't want to run around too long today.
Thanks.
Next speaker, Darlene Duncan.
Hello, mayor and council members.
Darlene Duncan, 822057th Avenue.
I'm a retired educator.
I came tonight just to learn and find out more about the data centers and man, if I learned
a lot, holy cow, you know, I see a lot on social media and think, oh, that's just, you know,
dramatic fear-ganging.
But what I've heard tonight from so many different people, civil engineers, medical
doctors, I am opposed to the data center in every way, shape and form.
I don't have any other data to share and so much was already shared with you.
So I appreciate being able to be part of the 70% as my friend Jerry said that are opposed
to the data center.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Christopher Lyon.
Christopher Lyons, 3225, 55th Court.
With the word that we bring to you every common council meeting, I want to stress to you all
today that we're not just performing, we're real people with real lives and real experiences.
This council is one of the few outlets and the few ways we're able to gauge your attention,
at least when we're off the streets.
I want to emphasize the necessity of what we're doing here.
Us, the people in the city, are holding you all accountable and especially the mayor accountable.
Because we don't have a choice, whether it's with this data center, disability services,
police conduct and whatever else.
We see something in our community that is unjust.
We see something that is in our community that we don't want and that we do not need.
And we've demonstrated that we are willing to go without.
For those who are willing to listen, you need to meet the demands of the people.
The ultimate indicator of whether our representatives are on our side, whether they stand with the people
and whether they stand with us is if you vote no for this moratorium or vote yes for this moratorium
or vote no on this data center.
Microsoft, along with the mayor, is going to lobby you very hard if it hasn't happened already.
Regardless of the status of that, resist that advance because what you're seeing here is bigger than a Microsoft data center
or we're seeing here as a domino waiting to be knocked down.
To the elders, if this data center is built, expect many more knocking at the door,
the corporations with these proposals will sue the city if you do not comply.
Not only will you be under fire by the people, you'll be under fire by the corporations as well.
And that's not a great recipe for being reelected.
So please, whatever vote comes to this floor concerning this data center, vote no and vote for a one year moratorium.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Linnea Elrod.
Linnea Elrod, 8042 42nd Avenue in Kenosha.
Good evening and thank you for this opportunity to speak.
I recently read a post with words to the effect of AI is here to stay.
Get accustomed to it.
Start focusing on the good things that AI can do for us.
And stop focusing on imaginary harms.
Imaginary harms.
So the people spending a nice summer evening shut inside their homes because they can't go outside
from because of the noise from the data center 24 seven are just hearing things.
So the people feeling ill physically and emotionally are just imagining the effects from infrasonic sound waves emanating from the data center.
It must be psychosomatic illness.
And the pollution from
Sorry, I can't read my writing.
The pollution from fossil fuels used to power generators and power plants.
Is it early a problem?
Well, certainly not in Kenosha.
There's lovely city on the banks of Lake Michigan.
Can't be a problem here, can it?
Not in the Chicago to Milwaukee corridor.
Where there are already elevated rates of respiratory illness.
People going into the emergency room to be treated for respiratory illness.
And come to think of it.
What will happen when we don't see a lot of bees around anymore?
They say the sound from the data center disrupts their ability to communicate.
And to go back and forth from the hive and to communicate with each other so that they can do things like pollinator crops.
And bring us flowers and woodlands.
Things that beautify life.
What happens when they're gone?
Well, it's not really a problem, I guess.
Because those bees they'll eventually evolve.
You have 30 seconds.
They'll get past it and they'll be able to survive, right?
Well, not if there's too many to let nature heal.
Other people have said things much more eloquently than I have today.
And I urge that the voices of the citizens take at least as much weight as those of tech billionaires who are not in the community.
They need to carry equal weight and they need to have the right to vote.
Your time is up.
On this issue.
Next speaker, Angie Hartwick.
Are you sure?
If I wasn't watching that, I am now.
All right, Angie Hartwick.
4-8-0-9 Persian Boulevard.
I don't like talking, I don't like attention on me.
I'm not a great public speaker, so it's very nerve-wracking for me, so it's very important.
That being said, every day my husband and I, well, almost every day we try to every day, go for a walk at pets.
I'm actually missing my walk today, I missed it to be here.
So again, it means a lot to me to be here.
Everything that they said, when it comes to all the environmental harm and damages and it doesn't just affect human beings, it affects everything around us.
It includes all those deer, those squirrels, the chipmunks, everything, you know, that's out of pets.
Going there means a lot to me.
It helped me through a really rough time, the last year and a half.
And if it could do that for me with everything I was going through,
I know it would help a lot of other people too, and I know those animals don't want to die.
Point is, these data centers are going to ruin the planet, if we let them.
We're not going to have any nature left.
And if they ruin the planet, where do humans live?
And I know some people think like, well, it's not going to be my problem because I'm not going to be around, so what do I care if it kills everybody off?
First off, we don't know what happens to us after we die.
But whether it's real or not, I like to try to keep in mind the possibility that we might come back one day and don't we want to come back to a healthy, loving planet full of life.
I mean, whether it's real or not, I'd like to live by that idea, so maybe it'll make me treat the world a little bit better.
And not just the earth, but all my fellow human beings.
We need to treat each other better and care about each other and where we live, because we all have to share the earth.
Let's not ruin it.
Step peen in the pool.
Sorry.
Okay.
Thank you. Please continue.
Be communications, petitions, reports of departments.
B1 approval of the following applications.
A33 operators licenses.
B3 special class B beer indoor special class B wine licenses.
Gentlemen, from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Make a motion to concur with the recommendation of the license and permit to approve.
B1?
Second.
Moved and seconded to approve item B1.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
B2 conditional use permit for a tattoo establishment located at 4,400 Sheridan Road.
And gentlemen, from the third.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I wish to concur with the City Plan Commission approval of, in their opinion, B2, B3, and B4.
After public hearing and being read.
B3 conditional use permit amendment for a tattoo and body piercing establishment located at 7611 purging Boulevard.
B4 appeal of City Plan Commission decision to deny a conditional use permit for a vehicle facility located at 5514 22nd Avenue.
Okay, at this time, open up to a public hearing.
And in here speaking items B2, B3, or B4, please come forward, state your name and address.
One second search, sorry, hang on.
Okay, go ahead.
Ben Raider 492568 Street.
I'm just here for any questions if you have any for gypsy gem girls piercing.
Okay, if there are any questions, we'll call you back up.
Thank you, sir.
Anyone else on items B2, B3, or B4?
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
Seeing none.
Close the public hearing.
Motion on the floor is concurrence on B2, B3, and B4 with City Plan.
Correct?
Any discussion?
Seeing none.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
It was.
Yeah.
See recommendations from the Committee on Licenses and Permits.
See one application of Kyle Lee Singer for a new operator's license.
Gentlemen from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Make a motion to approve C1, C2, and C3 after being read in any necessary applicant hearings.
C2 applications of the Port LLC for a temporary outdoor extension of the Class B beer, Class B liquor license located at 714 50th Street.
With no adverse recommendations from the Police Department, A, September 13th, 2026, B, October 3rd, 2026.
C3 application of to Lomation Services Inc for a daily public entertainment license located at 937 Sheridan Road for an event on September 12th, 2026.
With no adverse recommendations from the Police Department, License and Permits recommended to approve 5 to 0.
Okay, at this time, open up to a hearing.
Any applicant here to speak on C1, 2, or 3?
Any applicant here at C1, 2, or 3?
Any applicant seeing none?
Closing hearing.
Motion on the floor is approval of C1, 2, and 3.
Any discussion?
Seeing none.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
Seconded.
The City of Canada is the first reading, E1 Ordinance by Mayor David F. Focdala to repeal and recreate in its entirety subsection 5.041D regarding honorary street sub-names.
Public works recommended to approve 5 to 0.
Gentlemen from the 10th?
Make a motion to send E1, F1, and F2 on the way after being read.
Thank you.
F-zoning ordinance is first reading, F1, zoning ordinance by the mayor to create subsection 18.02, BB, BB, BB, BB, of the zoning ordinance to amend the land use plan map for the City of Kenosha, 2035.
F-2, rezoning ordinance by the mayor to rezoning the property
at 40th Avenue from B-1 neighborhood business district
to RG-1 general residential district.
Okay, motion is to send E-1 through F-2 on their way.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
G-1, it says second reading.
G-1 ordinance by the Committee on Public Safety
and Welfare to amend section 7.125
of the Code of General Ordinance's entitled
streets controlled by yield signs
by re-sending there from the yield signs
on 54th Avenue at its intersection with 41st Street
and to include east and westbound yield signs
on 41st Street and 54th Avenue.
Gentlemen from the fifth.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I make a motion to approve G-1 and G-2
after being read in all public hearings.
G-2 ordinance by the Committee on Public Safety
and Welfare to amend section 7.12
C of the Code of General Ordinance's entitled stop streets
to include a cell phone stop
at the intersection of 25th Avenue and 55th Street.
Okay, motion on the floor is approval.
At this time, open up to a public hearing.
Anyone here to speak on item G-1 or G-2?
Anyone here to speak?
Anyone here to speak?
Seeing none, close the public hearing.
Motion on the floor is approval
or concurrence with public safety and welfare,
G-1 and G-2.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor will vote aye.
Those opposed?
No, roll call please.
Motion carries 15-0.
H-zoning ordinance is second reading.
H-1 rezoning ordinance by the City Planning Commission.
To rezone the property at 3719-25th Street
from E-2 agricultural and holding district
to Iris-1's single-family residential district.
Gentlemen from the third.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Move to approve H-1 after necessary public hearings.
It's been moved in a second to approve.
I'm going to move to the second to approve.
It's second.
It's been moved in a second to approve item H-1.
At this time, open up to a public hearing.
Anyone here speaking item H-1, please come forward.
Stay tuned to name and address.
Anyone here to speak?
Anyone here speaking?
Seeing none, close the public hearing.
Motion on the floor is approval.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, roll call please.
Motion carries 15-0.
Eye resolutions.
Eye-1 resolution by the Finance Committee.
To amend the City of Kenosha capital improvement program
for 2026 by increasing LI 26-002 Northside Library flooring
in the amount of $72,000 and decreasing 2024 LI 23-001.
Southwest structural repair in the amount of $72,000
for a net change in the CIP of zero.
Finance, recommended to approve 5-0.
Public works, recommended to approve 6-0.
Gentlemen, for the 13th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I move to concur with the Finance Committee recommendation
to approve I-1.
Just I-1, sir?
Yeah.
OK.
It's been moved in a second to approve item I-1.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, roll call please.
Motion carries 15-0.
Eye-2 resolution by the Committee on Public Works
to vacate an alley south of 68th Street
and east of 3rd Avenue.
Public works, recommended to approve 5-1.
Gentlemen, for the third.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I move to approve I-2.
And also, I'd like to be heard for the public hearing part
because I got requested by the sponsor of this sort of thing.
Just a motion, sir.
It's good.
All we need right now is there a second?
Moving a second to approve.
At this time, open up to a public hearing.
Anyone here speaking item I-2, please
come forward, state your name and address.
Anyone here to speak?
Anyone here to speak?
Seeing none, close the public hearing.
Gentlemen, from third, do you want to speak on it?
Yes, I do, Your Honor.
I promise the people who brought this forward
that I would speak up on it tonight.
This is an unusual alley vacation
because half of the property on the lakeside
actually belongs to the city water utility, their property,
and they are very willing to give it up.
But they were hoping to get this thing done
so that they can get the alley resurfaced
before the snow flies.
This has been, of course, totally approved by the city plan.
It is, again, the water department is totally in agreement.
They don't have to worry about that section of the property
anymore and urge everybody to vote.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Gentlemen, from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I need to apologize to the city clerk.
My vote was unbekening.
The alley was not this alley.
It was the alley in the second district, and I apologize.
We have that noted for the record, OK?
OK, motion on the floor is approval of item I-2.
Any further discussion?
Seeing none, roll call, please.
Motion carries 15 to 0.
I-3, resolution by the Committee on Public Safety and Welfare
to designate as no parking on the south side of 61st Street
for a total of 205 feet east of 14th Avenue.
Gentlemen, from the 5th.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I make a motion to approve as recommended
by Public Safety and Welfare.
Is there a second?
Second.
Moving in seconded to approve item I-3.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor will vote aye.
Those opposed, no.
Roll call, please.
Motion carries 15 to 0.
I-4, resolution by principal sponsor, Mayor David F.
Bogdala, case settlement authority
regarding pending prosecutions of various delinquent
personal property tax accounts.
Finance recommended to approve 5 to 0.
Gentlemen, from 13th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I move to approve items I-4 through I-8 as recommended
by Finance Committee after being read.
I-5, resolution by the Mayor approving a tax incremental
district affordable housing extension
for the City of Kenosha TID number 11,
Finance recommended to approve 5 to 0.
I-6, resolution by the Mayor to approve a 2026 to 2028
across the board of wage increase
and other benefit modifications for fire administration.
Finance recommended to approve 5 to 0.
I-7, resolution by the Mayor to approve a successor
labor agreement for 2026 to 2028 between the City of Kenosha
and the Kenosha Professional Firefighters Local 414.
Finance recommended to approve 5 to 0.
I-8, resolution by the Mayor authorizing the issuance
of taxable tax increment revenue bond
of the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin tax incremental district
number 27 block I-project.
Finance recommended to approve 5 to 0.
Okay, motion on the floor is concurrence with finance
and I-4 through I-8, any discussion?
Seeing none, roll call please.
Motion carries 15 to 0.
K public construction and improvement contracts.
K-1, over to contract for project 26-1531,
Northside Public Library Flooring Renovation
to Continental Flooring Company
in the amount of $140,000.
Public works recommended to approve 6 to 0.
Lay from the 8th.
Yes, I make a motion to concur
with the Public Works Committee on K-1.
Move and second to concur with Public Works on K-1.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, roll call please.
Motion carries 15 to 0.
I'll other contracts and agreements.
L-1, sanitary sewer easement and agreement
between Great Lakes Church, Inc.
and the Kenosha Water Utility.
And I don't have the recommendation
from the Board of Water Commissioners.
Mr. Chairman, you know what that was?
On item L-1.
Unanimous.
Okay.
Would you like to make a motion, sir?
Yes.
I'll make a motion to approve.
Just L-1, sir?
No.
L-1, L-2, and L-3.
Okay.
L-2, sanitary sewer easement and agreement between Blackhawk,
Ridge, LLC, and the Kenosha Water Utility.
Also that recommendation, still pending.
L-3, development agreement between the City of Kenosha
and Kenosha Downtown Black B, LLC for property at 663, 54th Street.
Store water utility recommended to approve 6 to 0.
Jump from the 16th on L-2, is that also unanimous?
Yes.
Recommendation from the Board?
Yes, it was.
Okay.
Thank you.
Board of Water Commissioners unanimously voted for it.
Thank you, sir.
Okay.
Motion on the floor is approved of L-1, 2, and 3.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, roll call, please.
Motion carries 15 to 0.
L-4, offer to purchase property at 3,050th Street between the City of Kenosha and RHB Associates.
Finance recommended to approve 5 to 0.
Gentlemen, from the 13th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I move to concur with the Finance Committee recommendation to approve L-4.
Move to the second to concur on item L-4.
Any discussion?
Seeing none.
Oh.
Jump from the 16th?
Yes.
L-4, that piece of property has been vacant, I don't know, late 50s, early 60s.
We had some interest in it through the years, but I'm tired of looking at it, that's for
the City of Kenosha, and so are most citizens in the City of Kenosha.
I'm not a fan of the City by a lot of real estate, but in this case, it makes a lot of
sense.
That's right on our main 50 seconds recorder and kitty-quarter to the kin, and the kin
is just going to take off.
I guarantee it.
And this will be all part of it in the future.
And we'll have some more details on this piece of property later, but, you know, we bought
it, proposed to buy it for less than it was listed for the research that I did.
I'm proud to say that I do endorse this.
I usually don't on houses or land acquisitions, but on this one I do.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Jelma from third.
Just a side note, I was talking to one of the representatives of the Realty Company, and
he has mentioned that your honor was a very, very, very, very tough customer in dealing
with.
And so I just want to let everybody know that you were really, really trying hard to look
off for the City's interests, and you were very, very hard negotiator.
Thank you.
I learned from him.
Motion on the floor is a concurrence on item L4.
Any further discussion?
Seeing none.
Roll call, please.
Motion carries 15-0.
L5, street lighting easement and agreement between Sri Vishnu LLC and the City of Kenosha.
Public works recommended to approve 6-0.
Lady from the eighth.
Yeah, make a motion to concur with the Public Works Committee to approve L5.
Motion on the floor is approval of item L5.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, roll call, please.
All right, motion carries 15-0.
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second I'm sorry okay l7 stormwater management facilities maintenance
agreement between the city of Kenosha and Blackhawk Ridge LLC stormwater
utility recommended to approve six to zero l8 permanent storm sewer easement
and agreement between Blackhawk Ridge LLC and the city of Kenosha stormwater
utility recommended to approve six to zero l9 temporary construction easement
agreement between the city of Kenosha Wisconsin and terabasi investments
LLP stormwater utility recommended to approve six to zero okay
jalmer from the 16th yeah thank you mr. Mayor yeah most of these items are in
a wonderful 16th district l7 and l8 are pretty much tied tied together we have
to redo move the sewer a little bit the biggest one is 118th Avenue and 52nd
Street to cities we're gonna punch that road through now it ends at I 94 we're
gonna punch that all the way to 128th Avenue that'll help develop that corridor
greatly besides the widening of 128th Avenue eventually but just acquisition
some land in there that's gonna that's gonna make that really develop in the
real near future so I'm all forward thank you thank you sir anyone else
seeing none motion on the floor is concurrent stormwater utility on l6
through l9 roll call please
motion carries 15 to 0 l10 legal representation agreement with God
we in con finance recommended to approve 5 to 0
jalmer from 13th I move to concur with a finance committee
recommendation on l10 and m1 after being read
and recommendations from the committee on finance and one disbursement record
number 15 7,149,261.55 finance recommended to approve 5 to 0
okay motion on the floor is concurrence of finance l10 and m1 any
discussion sing none roll call please
motion carries 15 to 0 and recommendations from the committee on
public works and one acceptance of project 24-10 25 16th Avenue new road
construction which has been satisfactorily completed by AW Oaks and
Sun Inc the final amount of the contract is 992,913.53
cents public works and stormwater utility recommended to approve 6 to 0
lady from the eighth I make a motion to concur with the public works committee
on item n1 n2 n3 after being read and n4
and 2 acceptance of project 24-10 44 69 street and 99th Avenue resurfacing
which has been said spectacularly completed by the lawn contractors ink
the final amount of the contract is 267,490 dollars 15 cents public works and
stormwater utility recommended to approve 6 to 0 and 3 acceptance of
project 25-10 40 71st Street resurfacing which has been said as
spectacularly completed by the lawn contractors ink the final amount of the
contract is 285,622.88 cents public works and stormwater utility recommended to
approve 6 to 0 and 4 acceptance of project 25-10 42 34th Avenue resurfacing
which has been satisfactorily completed by the lawn contractors ink the final
amount of the contract is 470,195.55 cents public works and stormwater utility
recommended to approve 6 to 0. Okay motion on the floor is concurrence with
public works and n1 through n4, any discussion? Seeing none roll call please
motion carries 15 to 0 P and such matters as are authorized by law are
regular business P1 claim of Germantown mutual insurance company finance
recommended to concur with the recommendation of the city attorney 6 to
0 5 to 0. Gentlemen from 13th move to concur with the finance
committee recommendation to approve P1 as recommended by the city attorney
okay it's been moved and seconded to concur with finance on P1 any discussion
seeing none roll call please
motion carries 15 to 0 okay mayor's comments a couple of updates first of
all we've started the blood donation drive as we did last year I know a number of
myself a number staff members were able to get out the museum last week and start
that kickoff I would like to happily say that Wisconsin is starting off in the
lead and we hope that Wisconsin will do that number one because they will be
receiving a very large donation to that you to the university as it did last
year but also there's a tremendous blood shortage across the nation and with our
delivering blood on all of our rescue squads I can tell you here in fact I
just got a text today that the blood that I donated last week was already on its
way to somebody here locally who would need it and it was kind of a nice way
to kind of see that your donation actually is being utilized right here in this
community for somebody who might need it and that is truly tremendous so we're
going to continue this drive through the first week of December our next event
is scheduled for September 18th you can check our website as well as all of our
social media accounts to find out what the other locations are if you can't make any of
those locations you can still continue to donate and I would encourage everyone to
please do so and if when you do that to keep in mind that you are doing this for
the Big Ten Challenge then you can sign up that way and you can identify hopefully
the University of Wisconsin for as a recipient of that donation. Secondly this is coming Friday
September 11th we will be having a memorial event at the band show it is a joint
event between ourselves the county and we would like to invite everyone here as well as all
members of the public to come out and commemorate and remember that tragic day 25 years ago
I think it's very important we've got an agenda I think that is very
that will honor the memory of those who we lost but honor what we as a community need to come
together on a variety of topics and I hope that when you're there you can have that
reflection as you attend this event it will be at the band show starting at 1 p.m.
There will be chairs and things set up for folks there but I would encourage people to get there
a little bit earlier I would anticipate there to be a pretty decent crowd there so this Friday
September 11th 1 p.m. at the band show. Gentlemen from the third thank you Your Honor I'll be very
brief school has just started for most of our students so I'm encouraging everybody when you
see these kids be very very careful uh school zones when they say it's 15 miles an hour that
means 15 miles an hour that doesn't mean 25 30 and if you're following a school bus it
stops and that flap on the driver's side comes out that says stop that means stop it doesn't mean
while you can sneak around because you didn't see the kid coming around the front of the school bus
so I mean the little kids are our precious future and uh you know you don't don't be
thoughtless and let's keep their safety in mind thank you
Okay. Gentlemen from the 10th. Thank you Mr. Mayor I just wanted to comment on one of the items
tonight the city of Kenosha now owns the Bonnie Hayne location as is spoken on earlier today
it's been a long time to get to this point we had a proposal at one time for Navy housing
we had another proposal one time for Walmart we've had various proposals come for the development
of that land we will now be in charge of the development of that land and I think that's very
important um for those who came before me I want to thank them for having a vision
and seeing where this could possibly go to 30 years ago
um so the fact that this comes to fruition tonight I think is very important and want to thank
everyone that was involved in getting us to this point thank you sir anyone else if not a motion
to adjourn on your laptop would be in order moved in second to adjourn all those favor say aye
we stand adjourned thank you everyone
thank you