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Monday, July 20, 2026.
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Okay, please continue.
We have ten speakers who signed up for citizen comments.
When your name is called, please proceed to the podium, state your name and address
for the record.
The first speaker is Dorothy Nolan.
Good evening.
Can you hear me okay?
Okay.
My name is Dorothy Nolan.
I live at 802.21 in Kenosha.
My comments today are regarding the proposed AI data center.
This past weekend I had plans for a biking event in Elgin, Illinois.
When the wildfire smoke came pouring into Kenosha on Thursday, it was too late to cancel.
I had to wear a mask and became congested when I rode my bike the next day.
I found my oxygen saturation had decreased from 98 to 94%.
I don't have asthma, but I felt like I did.
I bring this up because we're being told to expect more and more of this.
And what I experienced last week was the worst I've ever seen in my lifetime.
What's even worse was that I learned that both the U.S. and Canada spray their forests
with glyphosate, otherwise known as Roundup, to kill deciduous trees that compete with
the more profitable softwood crops.
Kenosha already has an F ozone rating from the American Lung Association, so I'm wondering
how our air will be further degraded with more AI data centers and two gas fire power
plants in the area.
On top of all that, one of the headlines from the weekend was about the EPA proposing
to eliminate the requirement for public comment on air permits for data centers in other
facilities.
This AI push is all about big businesses and politicians that only see dollar signs.
A is not something we absolutely have to have, but air certainly is.
A lot of people will say, why don't you just move?
My question is, where can you move where there's not an AI data center being considered?
Even if there was such a magical place, there's only a small percentage of people that can
either have the resources or ability to move away for a variety of reasons.
When 70% of Americans agree they do not want AI data centers in their city and the American
Lung Association says our air quality is already graded at an F, I would think this council
would think long and hard about whether this is the best thing for Kenosha.
We are going backwards in this country with respect to energy pollution.
The earth and all living things on it can only handle so much, and most of us are getting
the message loud and clear, thanks.
Speaker Sheryl Swatko?
Hi, I'm Sheryl Swatko, 39, 15, 48th Avenue.
I actually have two, one is short and one a little longer.
I'm concerned about the stoplights that are on Washington Road and 47th Avenue.
Every day drivers make decisions that affect not only their lives, but the lives of everyone
around them.
The traffic lights on Washington Road and 47th Avenue have too many cars, trucks and
some eyes choosing to run a lead to red light.
Even tonight on our way to here to the meeting, we have a thing in our car, we say green light,
and sure enough someone ran the light again on the red side.
No appointment to deliver your destination is worth risking a life.
Taking a moment to actually stop at the red light could mean the difference between arriving
safely and causing a tragedy.
Could the answer be decreasing the speed limit on Washington Avenue?
Red light cameras have permitted more police presence, improved signal timing as that
yellow light is very short, speed feedback signs.
As I said before, someone may lose their life because of poor decisions made on Washington
Road and 47th Avenue.
There are so many accidents.
We hear them all the time.
Here at the crash boom, bam, we go, someone ran a light.
The other thing, good evening mayor, common consul and city staff members.
I'm here tonight to voice my opposition to building an AI data center in Kenosha.
Our town is more than a place on a map.
It is our home.
A large AI data center could fundamentally change our city.
These data centers raise questions about electricity usage, water consumption, continuous noise,
increased traffic and environmental impacts.
These are reasonable questions and not obstacles to progress.
We need to ask questions.
Who truly benefits?
Do the rewards go to the outside investors or large corporations while local residents
bear most of the long-earned impacts?
Then we should consider perhaps a moratorium until all questions can be addressed.
Progress should never come at the expense of the people who call Kenosha home.
We have the right to protect our community, to expect transparency and to insist that
any major development truly serves the public interest.
I encourage you to put our community first, listen to our concerns and place a year-long
moratorium on any approval for an AI data center until the public has clear, complete
and verifiable answers to the many questions surrounding this project.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Marita Huff.
Marita Huff, 793934th Avenue.
Just to follow up on what these people were saying about the data center, the energy plants
are run by natural gas that they want to build.
Natural gas, methane, is the worst greenhouse gas.
It doesn't have the particulates of coal, but as far as a greenhouse gas, it is the
worst.
And we're going to build two of those fact-generating stations here.
It's always escaping from its pipes and its burning process, so you don't want to be
doing that.
I'll put back on my homeless person, facade, because you know that that's what I come
to talk to you about.
And you probably wonder, why does she come and talk to us about that?
How does she expect us to do?
Well, tonight I want to clarify a couple of things.
I have probably mentioned supporters of shelter in the past, and you didn't know what I was
talking about.
I call it a loose coalition of supporters of homeless people.
And it includes the leadership of the Shalom Center, KHDS, the Welcome Center, ELC outreach,
Salvation Army, and other St. Vincent de Paul.
These people come to our meetings, they know what we're discussing, and so we also have
individuals, and those individuals have been the backbone of the volunteers that helped
the Welcome Center to be open over night, starting in December of last year.
They were the folks that were there before staff was hired to help, welcome the Hope
Hub at Shalom Center be open.
And it continues to be open now every night from 6 p.m. until 7 a.m.
Which is a big help to 20 people, and so Shalom, the supporters of shelter also help
to convince the Shalom Center, they always thought that you needed a 24-hour shelter
that overnight shelter wasn't good enough.
But I don't know if we had a lot to do with that, but we did say nighttime is the worst
because there's other places people can be during the day.
So we are going to be having our second point-in-time count for 2026 this Wednesday.
It starts at 11 p.m. and goes to 3 a.m.
And they've been doing this since 2011, and for a decade they found more or less 20 people
outside.
In 2024, the number increased, and in July 2025, 57 people were found outside.
So I wonder how many we will find.
I made a list, and I have the names of 50 people that I know personally from feeding
them at my church that are living outside on the ground or in their vehicle.
So I wonder how many of those will find.
Those people are every description you could imagine.
Some are mentally ill, some use drugs, but a lot of them don't.
They're men, women, every age from 16 to 75.
One's a diabetic on insulin, which is really tricky to try and figure out how much insulin
to take when you don't know if you're going to get food that day.
One is a young man who seems intelligent when you first talked to him, but has bad judgment
and ended up in the lake and almost drowned trying to cool off on Thursday when it was
so hot.
So I just want to say that we need warming and cooling centers in Kenosha.
We have nothing on holidays, nothing overnight except for those 20 people that are at the
Hope Hub, and very little on weekends for a warming cooling center, a little bit, a few
hours at the museum and the two of the libraries.
So the supporters of shelter have a plan.
We borrowed it from Washington County, Oregon.
It's been used there for several years.
We're trying to craft it into something that would work here.
We would like to get a roundtable of people that know about these members of supporters
of shelter and perhaps the mayor and other people that he would like to be there and
plug in what we need in Kenosha County to make this work because we need to have this
ready to go by the 1st of October, ideally.
And you have 30 seconds.
So what we need from you is listen to your constituents if they call and want to tell
you about their concern for the homeless and try to just let us do what needs to be done
for these people that are getting frostbite and losing limbs and are miserable outside.
So thank you.
Next speaker, Arlene Bennett.
Good evening.
My name is Dr. Ariane Bennett.
I live at 3110 169th Avenue.
I'm here to ask the mayor and the city council for a moratorium to pause the construction
or planning of the data center in Kenosha until a greater study and a more in-depth approach
to find out what the possible negative impacts to the residents of Kenosha are.
These include financial impacts, health impacts, environmental impacts, rising energy costs,
declining property values, and a declining quality of living.
I want to say that some of my other peers here will be talking about the health impacts,
but I want to talk about the technology aspect of it.
I've been working in the field of higher education and mental health for the last
three decades, and I want to say that I use technology every day.
I am not anti-technology.
In fact, it was technology that allowed me in 2020 during the COVID lockdown to move
here as a single parent with my kids for a greater quality of life.
But I want everyone to understand that the trajectory of technology is one in which things
get faster, smaller, and more efficient over time.
I started my undergraduate degree in 1981, and at that time, a computer was the size
of this room and cost millions of dollars.
In three and a half years before I graduated, computers sat on people's desks, and it was
the beginning of the PC.
And now we all have not only computers in our home, but I'm wearing a computer the size
of a watch, that when I was a little girl, you might see on the Jetsons.
So what we need is to understand that we're making permanent environmental and health
decisions and financial decisions for a technology that is changing so quickly that the hyperscale
data centers may not be needed within just a few short years.
History repeats itself, and human beings are tend to make mistakes over and over again.
And I want to remind everybody about the .com bubble, which I also lived through in the
90s and the early 2000s.
Little closer to home, remind everybody about the Foxham debacle.
So companies right now are spending hundreds and billions of dollars in AI construction,
and in fact, I asked AI, generative AI today, about what the comparison is between the
.com bubble and the AI bubble.
And it was really interesting because AI responded, I quote, there is a risk of near-term over-building.
And many enterprise companies have yet to see an investment on their return, a return
on their investment.
So that came from chat GBT.
So I encourage you to think about you're making permanent decisions for the residents
of Kenosha for a technology that may not be needed within a few short years.
So I'm asking again for a moratorium to pause and halt the construction or planning of
the AI data center until there can be greater study carried out.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Colton Roberts.
My name is Colton Roberts, I live at 4710, 18th Ave, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
I'm here to further talk about the data center, but to also correct myself.
Last time I was here, I talked about the flock cameras.
I give a quote to Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin actually said that.
I apologize.
Second, it was not the VP of sales that was, that were using the cameras for nefarious
purposes, but the VP of the company.
The reason I correct myself is because I'm not here to spread my information.
I just want to talk about real issues, real impacts.
And if I'm wrong, I apologize, I will correct myself.
Again, to further along the data center, not good, just making that clear.
But I would also like to talk about some zoning policies.
The city of Kenosha has made clear through the harbor district plan and the, I haven't
heard much about it, but the plan to move the dump to create a more larger economical
area.
These big grandiose projects, like the data center along with it, what are their impacts?
You have these big grandiose, oops, didn't know this was on wheels.
You have this big grandiose problem.
Little, sorry, I'm nervous.
Instead of having these big grandiose buildings, we should have small cumulative impacts.
Let small businesses and mediums density buildings come over and grow over time.
If I know per square acre, small businesses in medium density buildings like we have downtown
are far more valuable to the city through tax base and jobs than, you know, Walmart is,
even though Walmart may provide more money short term to the city.
So all I ask is that we look at new ways to make wealth and further, further developments
of little increments as opposed to a large grandiose plants.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Greg Kischlin.
Good evening, my name is Greg Kischlin, I live in 8638, 32nd Avenue.
I would like to remind everybody that there's a free pantry for anybody who needs food
outside the entrance to the Southwest Library.
It gets emptied quickly.
I'll just say that.
I'm not here to support the president.
I speak against him.
No man is born better than any other.
Our president does not believe that.
Every person has a right to life liberty in the pursuit of happiness.
That's equality in declaring their independence 250 years ago.
The founders chose equality as a building block of both the declaration and the constitution.
The constitution was intended to secure freedom for all individuals.
The constitution was written to prevent government abuse of individual rights.
It also limits the authority of elected officials to govern.
A ruling noble class is poisoned to democratic government.
Autocracy is poisoned.
Racial superiority is poisoned, and so is the rule of unlimited money.
If all men are created equal, then kings in racial supremacy and dictators cannot coexist
alongside the principle of equality for all human beings.
Those propositions are incompatible.
They cannot be reconciled, which leads us to a non-judicial warrants being used to
seize brown people and accented people.
Concentrating those people in camps raises the question why, for what purpose?
A new term, detention centers, has appeared.
We'll have 34 separate facilities by this year's end.
16 of those facilities are designated for processing or long-term detention.
This is the government's phrase, not mine.
State-large-scale facilities will each have a capacity of 7 to 10,000 people inside refurbished warehouses.
That population is at least 60,000 people.
Detention centers are the last step before elimination of these detainees from the U.S.
landscape without leaving evidence left behind.
Does this sound at all familiar?
It should.
The words and actions of the current administration shout white supremacy, such as ending birthright
citizenship for immigrants opposing minorities' access to the ballot, minority voter removal
and suppression among other actions.
Directly from Project 2025, our president's stated goal is to increase and concentrate
executive power by blaming the less than equal groups for the social and economic issues
facing the United States.
His actions include, deporting millions of illegal immigrants who are not equal, demanding
the end of birthright citizenship, suppressing black dissent and erasing black history by
decree, remapping of black voter districts for political advantage.
Allegations of stolen elections in non-white districts without proof, allegations of voting
by illegal non-whites, again, unprovable, characterizing illegal immigrants as criminals
mentally deranged or rapists, threatening intimidation of non-white voters during future elections.
That came from Steve Bannon.
When he speaks of repatriating people back to shithole countries, that is an uncensored
white nationalist speaking.
Democracy demands equality when our national elected officials openly embrace the notion
that one person, meaning himself, or one group is better or worse than the rest of us by
birthright than those principles handed down by the founders become a call to action.
All men are created equal, means that no one in the United States is born with extra
rights or fewer rights.
Sir, you have 30 seconds.
The United States is by design a diverse republic of equal access and equal opportunity.
They are unalienable rights.
I oppose the president.
We are not a stratified nation of white nationalists, despite his beliefs and his actions.
Next speaker, Jerry Moore.
Good evening.
I'm Jerry Moore, 10, 9, 18, 69th Street, 17th District, and I'm here to talk about the
data center issue.
First, I wanted to say I was going to talk about the bees again.
I was going to talk about the rusty patch bumblebee, which is on the endangered species
list, which is by UW Parkside, and what I talked about two weeks ago, I talked about
the electronic vibration waves and how it affects their habitats.
Until yesterday, my husband brought me an article that talked about how our president
had completely changed the meaning of the word harm in the endangered species act.
So as a result, I'm not here on behalf of the rusty patch bumblebee, but it's still
near and dear to me.
First I'd like to thank, for the recently posted frequently asked questions, a data center
link on the city website.
I'd like to thank that for being done.
Good information.
I'd like to thank Alderman Kennedy, who passed this information along to me, and I suggest
that maybe other alders do the same to their constituents.
I also appreciated seeing an answer to my question about the environmental study.
Thank you.
I do hope this is also bilingual at some point, and at least it goes out in some manner through
a mailing, possibly inserted with water bills, taxes, meals on wheels, trays, library emails
or something like that in a flyer type of thing in a bright color so that it stands
out from the white paper.
Since the July 6 meeting, I've had some input from friends who have called me asking questions.
Some have met with the mayor, thank you, Dave.
Others are calling alder people.
Yet so many are still unaware, puzzled and confused, thinking that what I talk about
has to do with Foxconn, wherein that kind of an unusual situation because of that.
And I've had three friends of mine tell me their house hunting.
I've certainly received no calls of joy or excitement over the data center.
Additionally, I've heard from some alders in emails, et cetera.
One mentioning something like starting to learn about, which baffles me because if a
vote to annex and rezone occurred way back when, how could a decision be made without
knowing, and they're now just starting to learn about it.
Another said and looking very relieved, may I say, that they'd reached a decision.
Not divulging it, but obviously it was a great relief.
Believe me, I get it.
How daunting this is, how full my brain spins.
How much time I spend on this.
I have no children.
I'm doing this for the mentees that I mentor through AmeriCorps seniors and those that
I have worked with through the years for the youth.
Another shared, another alder shared the acreage size and that we've seen no plans.
Again, we've seen no plans.
That took me off guard for I just can't understand how a vote occurs to annex and rezone land
in such a dramatic new manner and way without seeing plans first.
But maybe under an NDA, only a few new.
And as alders, you two were unaware or as out of the loop as we.
If so, I now better understand your silence.
But facts still remain, 70% of Americans don't want data centers.
And there are thousands in Kenosha that know nothing.
Which is why we ask for time to pause.
We are a community that wants our area to flourish and grow.
We are friends, not enemies.
We're rooted in building better, but also smarter and more cooperatively.
Ma'am, you have 30 seconds.
This is also new and what is happening is different.
So I hope amoratorium, let's be cool about this.
And I'm just in my best B speak language, I leave with you, be kind with the footprints
you leave as the single decision mark and vote, be the legacy you leave as a council member.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Montana Peterson.
Hello, Montana Peterson, 7102 Pershing Boulevard.
I'm going to be talking about the data center and also the flat cameras that keep popping
up in the city.
Also I'm going to start big and small, I'll land the plane, I promise.
Roughly 71% of the world is covered in water, according to USGS.gov, that translates to
about 96.5% of all the earth's water is ocean.
National Geographic Society states that of the 3% of earth's water that is fresh, 1.2%
is accessible, of that 1.2% of accessible freshwater in the entire world, our Great Lakes
make up 84% of North America's surface freshwater and 21% of the globe's surface freshwater.
These data centers seek to poison that, these big corporations come into our small communities
and take advantage of us like we saw with Foxconn to steal from us, to poison the water,
to poison the land, to poison the air and poison our bodies.
Farm life has already shown negative reproductive consequences due to emissions from data centers.
I love being from a farm community for the opportunity to be self sustainable, especially
showing how dangerous and careless large corporations are and the government are with food protections.
Speaking of protections, each year with the Canadian wildfires creating severe air quality
alerts, it is extremely foolish to believe that these poison emitting backyard data centers
are not going to have negative impacts on residents.
As someone who breathes air, drinks water, and eats food grown from this land, I take
deep issue with the passive violence from the rich and powerful that keeps getting excused
and keeps us sick.
I've heard some of y'all are sick and tired of hearing about the data center, while we
are tired of living with the repercussions of your actions.
I've noticed that many flat cameras popping up all over town.
I do not appreciate the flock that flock is able to freely survey and sell the data that
they collect on us because they have contracts at all levels of government.
I don't recall voting in favor of this, and as of July 7th from Deflock.org, there are
111,802 flock cameras in the United States, about 50 of which are in the city of Kenosha.
Crisis and surveillance and invasion of our privacy as private citizens is a direct violation
of our Fourth Amendment constitutional rights.
Flack has been shown to not only misread vehicles and wrongly ticket individuals, the
cameras also track people, our faces, our walking patterns, which has been shown to
be extremely accurate and general descriptions, which has also been shown that people with
access has, I'm so sorry, which also has been shown that people with access have abused
that power to stalk others.
It is not lost on me that the one on Roosevelt is up the block from the Planned Parenthood
entrance.
Y'all want to be claimed, you want to claim to be pro-life yet continue to not value
the lives in your community by bringing harm and unsafety to us, please end the contract
with Flack.
Eight senators and 72 representatives have APAC as their all-time top contributor per
Open Secrets reports.
In Wisconsin, according to track APAC, eight of our representatives received money from
pro-Israel PACS, including Ron Johnson, Tammy Baldwin, Brian Steele, who has also taken
a lot of money from Microsoft to advance their agenda, Derek Van Orden, Scott Fitzgerald,
Glenn Grothman, Tom Tiffany, and Tony Weed.
If you were nervous as I was reading names, good.
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.
Midterms are coming, and anyone not making decisions with Kenosha residents, Wisconsin
residents, and residents of United States needs to be voted out.
The priority needs to be voted out, excuse me.
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 contract with Flack and support the moratorium of data
centers to protect Kenoshaans and to protect the health of safety, health of the water,
the air, the land, the people, and the fragile ecosystems of the Great Lakes.
Be on the right side of history, and I yield my time.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Dan Lasky.
Hi.
I'm not against technology, either.
This helps me read out of the eye condition.
In fact, I have to use AI every day and my job is required.
I see Kenosha's written a page.
Don't get your name in it.
I'm sorry.
Dan Laska.
I live right next to this site.
I share a property line with Microsoft.
I'll give you an idea of a close assist to me.
I see Kenosha where innovation fuels our economy, where neighborhoods are safe and thriving,
where every resident feels a sense of belonging.
I see a city that embraces sustainability, celebrates culture, ensures every voice is
heard.
This vision will take hard work, collaboration, and a shared commitment to our community,
and have no doubt that Kenosha is up for the tax pass.
Together, we will build a safer, stronger, and more prosperous Kenosha for everyone.
I don't even think this is a really good statement, something I want to hear from the
leader, but I fear that some of it rings hollow now as we fight to be heard, represented,
rather than ruled, which is kind of how we're feeling right now.
I ask the common counsel for a one-year moratorium on the Microsoft hyperscale data center.
I request this pause for due diligence, not only in investigate reports and studies,
but personal accounts and experiences.
I encourage you to reach out to your counterparts in other municipalities and to get their first
hand point of view.
Pleasant Prairie, Port Washington, Beaver Dam, Milwaukee, California.
If they approved a data center, what has been in response and experience of the community?
If they refuse a data center, what has been in response?
This is valuable first-hand information, first-hand knowledge that should inform your
decision.
I ask you to visit.
Visit the site if you haven't.
The transformation of farmland will directly affect your constituents.
Use that first-hand knowledge of where and what is going to change.
See first-hand how the power poles and trees are forced by the wind to lean towards Kenosha.
The same wind will carry exhaust from both the power plant and the data center to Kenosha.
I ask that you consider the legacy.
We've been told that we need a petition.
The council responds to seeing commitments of a name on paper.
This made me think about commitment of a name, seeing what it means, seeing I believe so
strongly in this, I will lend my identity to it.
With that, I thought, let's take this in another direction.
Let's take this conversely.
What if the data center was called the David F. Bagdala Hypercenter by Microsoft or the
Kenosha Common Council Data Center by Microsoft?
I imagine it doesn't sit well with some of you, if not all of you.
If that's the case, you can't have your mark on your legacy.
You have to ask why.
How does it fit into the safer, stronger, more sustainable, and prosperous Kenosha?
In closing, this is from the Visit Kenosha link.
Picture Lakefront Community with two lighthouses, sandy column miles of Lake Michigan Starling.
Picture streetcars passing through the vibrant downtown filled with museums, boutiques, shops,
restaurants, and public arc.
Picture yourself in the middle of a clause on and out there concert theater performance.
Picture iconic trails to bike, hike, and ski, as well as opportunities to fish, golfing,
and sailing.
Picture a destination that lies beyond the expected, right in the heart of the Midwest.
Picture your Kenosha.
Now imagine on I-90, exit 340 to Kenosha, Richard Bong recreational center, Mars cheese castle,
and the Hyper skill data center capital of Wisconsin.
Thank you.
Next speaker, Jared Hunt.
Hello, my name is Jared Hunt.
I wasn't sure what address to put down.
I'm in the middle of a move.
I'm moving to 5921 Sixth Avenue.
One of 10 speakers today have come to voice concerns about the Microsoft AI data center.
Everyone here has asked for a moratorium.
I know that they've received, that people have received varying degrees of pushback.
What I would like to say in addition to all of the environmental and economic concerns
with people, you know, how this is going to affect wildlife and property values and our
air quality.
One of the things that I like about living in the United States is that we do have a
representative government.
We get to choose our elected officials.
And I believe that that's an honor if people elect you to this position.
Excuse me, I didn't, I didn't prepare a statement, but it's, you know, it's an honor to be chosen
to represent your people.
And I think it is a virtue if even if you hold reservations about what the people are asking
for work on their behalf, 90% of the people here have said that we either want a moratorium
on this AI data center or we don't want it at all.
Please take that into consideration.
Thank you.
Okay, thank you all, please continue.
Be communications petitions reports of departments be one approval of the following applications.
Be 41 operator's licenses, be three special class be beer and or special class be wine
licenses.
Gentlemen from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Make a motion to concur with the recommendation to approve item B1.
Move in a second to approve item B1.
Any discussion?
Seeing none.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Second.
See recommendations from the committee on licenses and permits.
See one application of Samantha Moore for a new operators license.
Gentlemen from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Make a motion to concur with the recommendation license permit to grant an 85.
allow it.
Move in a second to approve or I'm sorry, concur on item C1.
At this time, open up to a hearing.
I'm here to speak in item C1, please come forward,
state your name and address.
Anyone here speaking out of C1?
Anyone here speaking, seeing none?
Samantha Moore, 4517, 60th Street.
If there's anything you'd like to say,
right now the motion is to concur,
which is to grant at 85 points, correct, Mr. Chair?
Unless there's anything you want to add to that?
No.
Thank you.
If there's any questions from a council,
we'll call you back up.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, at this time, close the hearing.
Motion on the floor is concurrence on item C1.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
C2 applications for new operators licenses,
A, Jessica Sanchez, 70, B, Williams, Zachary, 40.
Gentlemen, from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, make a motion
to concur with recommendation of license and permit
to approve, to approve.
Is there anything else on that?
List, Mr. Chair.
To concur?
No, sir.
Okay.
The movement is second to concur.
At this time, we'll open up to hearing.
Anyone here speaking item C2,
please come forward, state your name and address.
My name is Williams, Zachary.
I live at 25, 25 rooms as well, Rose.
And on my license, I just wanted to,
I see it says yes, but do I get some full paper
or can I use this agenda?
I'm not, can you, I'm not sure what you're asking for right now.
I want to pick up your license.
Well, right now the motion is to concur,
which is to approve at 40 points
if that motion is successful.
You can come downstairs tomorrow
at the clerk's office and pick that up.
All right, thank you.
Anyone else on item C2?
Anyone else?
Anyone else seeing none?
Close the hearing.
Motion on the floor is concurrence.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
C3, renewal application of George Anna Wilson
for an operator's license.
Gentlemen, for intent.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I make a motion to concur with the recommendation
of license permit to grant subject to 50 to mayor points.
Is that the only one, Mr. Chair?
Yes, sir.
We'll get in there, sir.
Okay, moving in second to concur item C3.
At this time, we'll open up to a hearing.
Anyone here speaking item C3,
please come forward, state your name and address.
Anyone here to speak?
Anyone here to speak?
Seeing none, close the hearing.
Motion on the floor is concurrence.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
C4 applications for renewal operator's licenses.
A, carry, denore.
B, W, Malave.
Gentlemen, for intent.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I make a recommendation to concur with the recommendation.
Let's try that again.
I make a motion to concur with the recommendation of license
and permit to grant subject to a non-renewal revocation.
Okay, it's moving to second to concur.
It's time to open up to a hearing.
Anyone here speaking item C4,
please come forward, state your name and address.
Good evening.
Debbie Malave and 250360 Street,
Kenosha, Wisconsin.
I'm new at this, so I don't know how this really goes.
Am I able to speak upon my behalf to show?
Please, please do.
Okay, I've been a licensed carrier for several years now,
and it is actually my priority to continue to keep it.
Based upon the information that you guys have
off my background check,
it doesn't defy who I am, what I do,
and how I provide for my family.
My actions that have shown, I don't have any priors.
I don't have any cases, I haven't done anything.
I'm a good employee, I work hard,
I take care of my family, I'm a single mother,
to a widow of an alcoholism problem.
So, me to carry my license does not defy
who I am and what I do.
I ask upon you guys, are you everybody,
to please accept, I have several letters
or a couple of letters of recommendations from people,
as well as the owner of the store,
which is at Kenosha gas stop.
If this can help, I would like it to,
and please reconsider, my licensing.
Do I?
This is your opportunity to present your case.
Right now, the committee has made a recommendation
to grant subject to a non-renew revocation hearing.
That's the motion that is on the floor right now.
This is your opportunity to say whatever you have
to say on that, and if the council has any questions
for you, we would obviously call you back up,
after we finish the hearing.
Okay, I have my first letter,
which is from Kenosha gas stop.
Please accept this letter of verification of W. Malave.
I am the owner to the Kenosha gas stop located
at 2207 60th Avenue.
W is an employee here and is a very full time employee
and hard worker, and I would like to keep her as a role,
as the role that she plays at my store as manager.
She's a very good asset in my store.
Please consider renewing her liquor earbuds
at their license.
Sorry, I'm nervous about this.
My name is Amber Sork.
I am an HRS specialist at the employee,
in an employee and labor relations
for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
I'm writing this letter on behalf of Ms. Debbie Malave,
which I have been known for the most past three years.
During this time, which I have found her
to be one of most responsible, honest caring
and hardworking people that I have ever met.
She is a single mother who works full time
and supports not only her biological daughter,
but also has care for other three children
that their mother has biologically passed,
or their mother had passed away.
She also is a caregiver to her grandmother
who has to mention other health issues.
I have witnessed Ms. Malave make her family
and well-being to the others of her top priority.
During the time that I have known her,
please allow Ms. Malave to renew her liquor license
so that she can keep her position
as a manager with her current employer.
Excuse me, this job is vital to her
and is being able to provide for those
who rely on her as well or herself.
I have the utmost confidence
and the ability to utilize her license responsibly.
Basically, all these letters show the same thing.
Please give me that chance.
Nothing defies what I did in my past year
is an honest mistake.
I'm not anybody just off the street
who intentionally just gets in trouble.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Anyone else on an MC4?
Anyone else?
Anyone else seeing none?
Close the hearing.
Gentlemen for the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Through the mayor to the applicant Ms. Malave.
You presented this information at the committee meeting?
No, I did not.
I wasn't able to.
I was not understanding on how this goes.
So you didn't attend the committee meeting?
I did attend it.
Okay.
Were you understanding that the motion is to grant
and at some later point you get to make a defense
of why you need to keep the license
so you can continue to work?
No, if this motion passes,
you can continue to work
and at some later point you will have to make a defense
and why you need to keep the license.
You understand?
No, I do.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Okay, motion on the floor is concurrence
and I don't see for any discussion.
Seeing none, all of us have ever say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
C-5 applications for a temporary outdoor extension
of the Class B beer, Class B liquor license
with no adverse recommendations from the police department
with a waiver request of 10.075 D-3
by the common council under 10.075 I.
A, Kenosha Creative Space Inc. located at 624 57th Street
on July 24th through 26th, 2026.
B, Kenosha Tap House LLC located at 12556th Street
on July 30th, 2026.
Gentlemen from 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I make a motion to approve C-5 and C-6 after being read
any necessary applicant or public hearings.
So C-5 would need a, to grant,
and then also approve the request for a waiver.
C-6 application of keynote ink for a new secondhand
article dealer license located at 2926 75th Street
with no adverse recommendations from the police department.
Okay, at this time we'll open it up to a hearing.
Anyone here speaking, I am C-5 or C-6.
Please come forward, state your name and address.
Anyone here to speak?
Anyone here to speak?
Seeing none, close the hearing.
Motion on the floor is concurrence on item C-5 and C-6,
which is to wanna make sure Mr. Chairman
that that would also include the waiver, okay.
So make sure everyone understood that.
Okay, any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
C-7 application of Salon Diamante LLC
for a probationary cabary license located at 671230th Avenue
with no adverse recommendations from the police department.
Gentlemen, from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I make a motion to approve.
Moving the seconded to approve.
I have to sign open up to a hearing.
Anyone here speaking, I have a number C-7.
Hi, my name is Rosalco Rodriguez.
My address is 1721 50th Street.
I'm here just for the Salon Diamante, if you have questions.
Okay, if there's any questions from council, we'll call you back up.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
Close the hearing.
Motion on the floor is concurrence or to approve?
Okay.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Any opposed?
Okay.
Please continue.
Motion carries.
C-8 application of the Ash Sports Bar LLC for a yearly cabary license
located at 3216 16th Street with no adverse recommendations from the police department.
Gentlemen, from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I make a motion to approve item C-8 and C-9 after being read.
Any unnecessary applicant hearings?
Correction, correction.
I move to approve C-8.
Is that because of the denial, sir?
You could concur with the license and permit recommendation would be an appropriate motion.
That's what I meant, Mr. Mayor, thank you.
Okay.
That's why you're in the big chair.
C-9 application of Moona convenience store LLC for a new class A beer, class A liquor license located at 6830 14th Avenue.
Okay, at this time, we'll open up to a hearing.
Anyone here speak on item C-8 or C-9, please come forward.
State your name and address.
Anyone here speak?
Anyone here speak?
Seeing none.
Close the hearing.
Motion on the floor is concurrence on item C-8 and C-9 license permit.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
C-10 license availability, one class B beer class B liquor.
Consider two applications for a class B beer class B liquor license.
A, Bon Appetit, management company located at 2001 Alfred Park Drive to be effective July 21, 2026 with no adverse recommendations from the police department.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I make a motion to separate 10A from 10B, please.
Okay.
Motion is to separate.
If I could, Mr. D attorney, do we need to separate?
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I make a motion to separate 10A from 10B, please.
Second.
Okay.
Motion is to separate.
If I could, Mr. D attorney, do we need to separate?
Or do we need, or the committee made a recommendation at that point, could they not make a motion to concur with that unless someone else is going to happen?
I just want, do we even, do we need to do that?
The gentleman wants to do that, we can, but I just wanted to.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I did, did you microphone?
Go ahead, sir.
I wasn't at the committee meeting.
I'm presuming based upon the motion that the applications were separated and considered separately.
And after the initial vote on item A, there was a second vote on item B.
You could move to concur with the recommendations on A and B as your honor has indicated.
Or you could separate them and have separate votes.
Okay.
Again, it's up to you, Mr. Chairman.
I just want to make that.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I still make the motion to separate, please.
Okay.
Is there a second on separation?
Seconded.
Seconded to separate C10A and B. Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
Mr. Chairman, on C10A.
C10A, Mr. Mayor, make a motion to concur with the recommendation of license and permit to grant.
Is there a second?
On your laptop, sir.
Is it to grant or to concur with license and permit?
Concurs, sir.
The motion on the floor is to concur on C10A.
I still need to have a hearing.
At this time, I open up to a hearing.
At this time, were anyone here to speak on C10A?
Please come forward, state your name and address.
Good evening, Parker Conover.
One east main, Madison, Wisconsin.
Council to Bon Appetit.
Good evening.
My name is Genevieve Mylin.
It's 6048 10th Street here in Kenosha.
I am the Bon Appetit General Manager on site at Carthage College.
Happy to take any questions.
We're taking over.
So Bon Appetit is taking over the Food and Beverage Service at Carthage College.
So this is not the same license, but effectively a transfer of the license from the old provider to us.
And again, we welcome any questions.
Thank you both.
If there are any, we'll maybe just hang tight there for a second.
At this time, I will close the hearing.
Older persons.
Right now, the motion on the floor is to concur on C10A, which is to grant.
Any discussion?
John, we're from the 16th.
Yes.
Teddy applicants, can you talk a little bit about your license and the students that go to Carthage?
How that's going to work with alcohol?
So the catering department at Carthage College does not do alcohol services to the students.
This would be for events, donation events, presidential events, maybe a wedding that we do on site.
So this is more focused towards the catering department, not the students nor sporting events or concessions.
Thank you.
I just wanted to add a record.
I know you mentioned that the licensing and purpose committee.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Thanks.
Okay.
Anyone else?
If not, motion on the floor is to concur with C10A, which is to grant.
All those may ever say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Any laptops?
Aye.
I thought I did.
Sorry about that.
moved and seconded to deny,
due to lack of license availability.
Yes, sir.
At this time, we'll open up to a hearing.
Anyone here speaking on item C10B,
please come forward, state your name and address.
Again, my name is Rosar Rodriguez
and my address 1721, 50th Street,
Kenosha, Wisconsin, I don't know if you have questions or...
If there are any questions, we'll finish the hearing
if there's anything you wanted to add,
if there are specific questions from Council,
we'll call you back up.
Okay, I'll close the hearing.
Motion on the floor is to deny based on
lack of license availability on B, any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
C11 findings of fact,
conclusions of law and recommendations
and proposed order in matter of the operator's license
of Nicholas P. Enzel-Dua.
Gentlemen, from the 10th.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I make a motion to concur with the recommendation
of the license and permit
to suspend the license for 10 consecutive days
and reinstate the subject to 85 to mere points
or to accept the conclusions of law and recommendations.
Second.
So I'm moving it second to concur with license and permit.
At this time, I'll open up to a hearing.
Anyone here speaking on item C11,
please come forward, state your name and address.
Anyone here speak?
Anyone here speak?
Seeing none.
Close the hearing.
Motion on the floor is to concurrence.
Any discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries.
Gee orness's second reading.
Gee one orness by the Mayor to repeal and recreate
chapter 5.119, recycling of the Code of General Ornesses
for the City of Kenoshell.
Lady from the 8th.
Yes.
Make a motion to approve item G1.
Is there a second?
On your laptop?
Uh.
Thank you.
Sorry about that.
It's been moving and seconded to approve.
At this time, open it up to a public hearing.
Anyone here speaking on item G1?
Anyone here speak?
Anyone here speak?
Seeing none.
Close the public hearing.
Gentlemen from the third.
Thank you, Ron.
Just so that the public is clear on one of the changes,
I know a lot of times people have been told you can't recycle
your egg cartons, et cetera, that are poly foam,
polystyrene, et cetera, and as I read this ordinance change,
that is now going to be acceptable for recycling.
If I got that correct.
Mr. Cater.
Yes, that's correct, yes.
Did you say yes?
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
This is something that for many people will try to recycle in the
city.
I realize that the blue cans fill up a lot,
but the egg cartons and the polystyrene and some packaging,
it's got to go somewhere.
And I think most people would prefer to go and recycling
rather than into the present Hill landfill.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Anyone else?
Seeing none.
Motion on the floor is to approve.
Item G1.
All those in favor will vote aye.
Those opposed?
No.
Roll call, please.
Motion carries 15-0.
G2, ordinance by the mayor to amend subsection 2.06 of the code of
general ordinances for the city of Kenosha regarding payment by
non-sufficient fund checks.
General from the 13th.
Thank you, your honor.
I move to concur with the finance committee recommendations on G2.
Second.
It's been moving second to approve or concur on item G2.
At this time, open up to a hearing.
Public hearing.
Anyone here speak on item G2?
Anyone here speak?
Anyone here speak?
Seeing none.
Close the public hearing.
Motion on the floor is approval.
General from 16th.
Yeah, Mr. Mayor, can I have a little bit more information about this
before I vote?
One tenth.
I can speak on that.
So historically, we've never charged back the customer for
submitting a check that did not clear the bank.
So we've always absorbed those fees and now we're trying to be
able to charge them for the fees that we incur.
Okay.
Thank you.
Good idea.
Which is in line with other municipalities and county
government?
Yes.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Anyone else on item G2?
Seeing none.
Motion on the floor is approval or concurrence.
All those in favor say aye.
We'll vote aye.
I'll suppose no.
Roll call please.
Motion carries 15 to zero.
H zoning ordinance is second reading.
H1 zoning ordinance by the city plan commission to repeal and
recreate section two of rezoning ordinance 17-24 to rezone the
property at 54-37th avenue 54-37th avenue 610-55th street
618-55th street and 620-55th street from B3 central business
district and IP institutional park district to B5 downtown mixed
use district in conformance with section 10.02 of the zoning
ordinance.
Thank you, your honor.
I move to approve this after public hearing.
I moved and seconded to approve at this time open up to a public
hearing.
Anyone here speaking on item H1?
Please come forward.
Say your name and address.
Anyone here speak?
Anyone here speak?
Seeing none.
Close the public hearing.
Motion on the floor is approval.
Any discussion?
Seeing none.
All those in favor of vote aye.
Those opposed?
No.
Roll call please.
Motion carries 15 to zero.
So we have one resolution by the committee on finance to levy
special charges.
A boarding and securing $538.30.
B traction degree removal $1603.58.
C grassing weed cutting $83.2321.
D property maintenance reinspection fees $24,062.
E building and zoning reinspection fees $3,954.
Finance recommended to approve 4-0.
So, gentlemen, for the 13th.
Move to concur with the finance committee recommendations
on L1 and I2 after being read and all necessary hearings.
Second.
I2 resolution by the committee on finance
to correct resolution 2-26 by rescinding one special charge
in the total amount of $140 assessed to the property
at 5402 25th Avenue Finance recommended
to approve 4-0.
Okay, at this time, we'll open up to a hearing.
Anyone here speaking item I1 or I2, please come forward.
Say your name and address.
Anyone here speak?
Anyone here speak?
Seeing none.
Clothes are hearing.
Motion on the floor is concurrence with finance.
Any discussion?
Seeing none.
Roll call, please.
Motion carries 15-0.
K-public construction and improvement contracts.
K-1 award of contract for project 26-1140.
Tremors storm sewer improvements to AW Oaks and Sun Inc.
In the amount of $14,260,000,
public works recommended to approve 5-0,
storm water utility recommended to approve 5-0.
Lady from the 8th.
Yes, I make a motion to concur with the Public Works Committee
on item K-1 and L1.
L, other contracts and agreements.
I1 grading and soil stockpile performance agreement between the city of Kenosha
and BL land LLC.
Public works recommended to approve 5-0.
Okay, motion on the floor is concurrence of public works on K-1 and L1.
Any discussion?
Seeing none.
Roll call, please.
Motion carries 15-0.
L2, development agreement between the city of Kenosha and Sri Vishnu LLC
for property located south of 71st Street and east of 125th Avenue.
Public works and storm water utility committees recommended to approve 5-0.
Yeah.
L2, gentleman from the 3rd.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I move to concur with the opinion of the City Plan Commission for L1,
L2, rather, and L3 after being read and any necessary public hearing.
L3, development agreement between the city of Kenosha, the Kenosha Water Utility,
Continental 875 Fund LLC and Blackhawk Ridge LLC for property located south of 60th Street
and west of Green Bay Road.
Public works and storm water utility recommended to approve 5-0.
Board of Water Commissioners recommended to approve 5-0.
Okay.
Any discussion?
Seeing none.
All those in favor will vote aye.
Those opposed no.
Roll call, please.
L2 and L3.
Motion carries 15-0.
L4, a ward of contract to remove and dispose of asbestos containing material
and universal waste raised structures and restore a lot at the former Hillcrest
School located at 4616-24th Street between the city of Kenosha
and New Berlin Grading Inc. in the amount of $165,312.50.
Finance recommended to approve 4-0.
Gentlemen, from 13th.
Moved to concur with the Finance Committee recommendations on L4, L5, and M1 after being read.
L5, agreement for the purchase of a new Honeywell U.S. digital designs fire station,
tone alerting system from Gen.com.
Finance recommended to approve 4-0.
M recommendations from the Committee on Finance.
M1 disbursement record number 12, $4,357,409.42.
Finance recommended to approve 4-0.
Motion on the floor is concurrence on L4, L5, and M1.
Gentlemen, from the 16th.
Yeah, on L5, I hear from the fire chief.
Executive, what this is about?
Chief.
Can you repeat your question, Alderman?
Yeah, what on L5, about the Honeywell?
Yes, so this is the purchase agreement for a new tone alert system.
It's a 2026 CIP item previously approved.
This is a contract to buy that system.
Replace all of the tone alerts and all the fire stations are outdated.
This will be an updated modern system, and it will do several things.
One, it should result in faster dispatch times.
And the second thing, it's safer for the firefighters.
It's a ramp-up tone versus the loud startling tones that we have right now.
But it's a more advanced system to put in all of our stations.
It's for the dispatch to get all of the fire station.
So when you call 911, dispatch sends the tone to the appropriate station based on the call,
and that's if they're tones that come over the air, that's what this system will do.
Okay, very good.
Thank you.
This is also something Chief Craig.
We work very closely with men and women of Kenosha fire, particularly on looking at their health
and safety in terms of the very different types of tones that have been in the past.
This is a much, much easier on them, particularly at two o'clock in the morning when they tend to get calls.
Yes, sir.
It's shown to have health benefits, and there's a heart rate spike that firefighters experience
when the tones go off, and this system's help keep it down.
Yep.
Gentlemen, front of the fifth.
Thank you, Mayor.
Chief, there's also a two-color sequence on this explain that.
So along with the audio tone alert, there's also visual lights in the station,
depending on the rig that you're on.
So if you're assigned to a med unit, the blue lights will flash.
If you're assigned to a suppression rig, it will be red.
I hope you can tell by the color of the light, which units need to respond as well.
Yep.
Thank you, Chief.
Anyone else?
No.
Motion on the floor is concurrence in L4-5 and M1.
Roll call, please.
Motion carries 15-0.
All the person's comments.
Lady from the 12th.
National night out is coming up.
It's going to be on August 4th at Lincoln Park, and we're looking for volunteers to come
help with the setup and take down.
So if anyone is interested, please see Chris.
Chris Coachman, correct, in the Mayor's office.
Thank you, ma'am.
Lady from the 15th.
I just want to say a big thank you to the Public Works Department.
There's been a lot of stuff over the last month that has happened in our city, whether it's
the storms and the tree debris, and just being so responsive to our community.
My residents greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Anyone else?
If not, a motion to adjourn on your laptop will be in order.
We would second to adjourn.
All those favor say aye.
We stand adjourned.
Thank you, everybody.