P on the meeting is called to order.
Would you please call the roll?
Alderperson, juswicky.
Present.
Alderperson, Bailey.
Present.
Alderperson, Castner.
Present.
Alderperson, Acres.
Present.
Alderperson, Sarien.
Present.
Item B is opening.
Prayer, we have the police chaplain, Vic, here this evening.
Pastor Vic.
Item C is a Pledge of Allegiance, would you please join me as we recite the Pledge of
Allegiance?
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which
it stands, one nation under that indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Hey, item D is there a motion to approve the August 18th?
I would like to make that motion, Mr. Mayor.
Alderperson, Bailey, is there a second?
Second.
Second.
Second.
Alderperson, juswicky.
All in favor?
Aye.
I'll oppose.
Motion carries.
And I notice that we have nine public hearings this evening and some folks signed up for citizen commentary,
I believe, so I'll try to be brief in my Mayor's report.
Before I get to the couple of proclamations that I have, I just wanted to say that our
10th annual car show at Conkel Park was over the weekend.
I think we had well over 550 participants that registered, does that sound right?
Yeah.
There's a great show.
I want to thank Park and Rec.
They pulled it together great.
We had some logistical challenges that a week out that were overcome, and it turned out
to be a great show.
The turf is open.
The parking lot is in.
The storm water system is in.
The flag pulls are up.
The parking lot lights and lights are in.
We still don't have water, but we expect to get that on Thursday, hopefully, if we can
get that done.
We had an event there two weeks ago, I believe.
Not a city event, but an event by the folks from creature skateboards.
We had Eric Dresson, who's a Hall of Fame skateboarder there, probably three, four
hundred people at the event skating the old bulls, which was kind of cool to watch.
A lot of folks from out of town came in, flew in from out of town to attend.
It was really quite the event.
Power line three, the extension of the power line trail, which I think is going to be called
the inner urban south trail or connection from roughly late or 99th and late to the
hills corners municipal boundary on Edgerton.
It used to be a trail that went through there a long time ago.
We energies took the bridge out, so you couldn't use it as a trail.
We received state grant funding.
The bridge is back in.
The path is in.
The landscaping has been completed over the last couple of days.
Might still have a little bit more to do, but that path should add to our trail network
pretty quickly.
116th in Morgan, which is the old, it's known as the Alice Chalmers dump site.
It was a site that was once a quarry a long time ago and was filled with industrial waste
over the years.
The company that owned it, and Carl, correct me if I'm wrong, the company that owned it,
took no ownership interest.
It didn't pay any taxes.
Chris Abley, foreclosed on the property, took it back.
If you drive up to 116th in Morgan, you will see that it looks like a barren field.
It was an environmental disaster underground.
They did the, the county did the, as ordered, did the approved DNR plan to cap the entire
site.
So that looks like it's getting close to done.
I'm not sure if it is done yet.
Spring Mall, the last I've heard about Spring Mall, and it's been vacant now for 10 or 12
years, partly because then Pick and Save continued their lease on it, so there wasn't
any competition, and then it went through some ownership changes, including the city
owning it.
It sounds like that's on track to begin in January with Fingers crossed.
There's some, the financial markets right now are a little bit chaotic, and the equity
that's required requires a little bit more than it normally would.
It sounds like finally at 894 in Loomis in what's known as TID-8, which is north and
south of 894 at Loomis, the third apartment building is I think it's up to three floors
that should be completed by spring.
The area north where the old interchange was in the old park and ride lot, there will
be, it sounds like, two technology, light industrial buildings, beginning construction
there in three weeks or four weeks, I think.
So that's good.
Also under Mayor's report, I have two proclamations.
The first one is Greenfield Classic lanes, which many people probably recognize as a
long standing institution on Layton Avenue, right about 54th, 53rd 54th Street, celebrated
their 30th anniversary.
And it's because we have all these public hearings, I'm just going to say at the end,
with all the good things that they've done, and it's in the proclamation that I, Michael
Knight's, keep my virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor, and on behalf of all
the citizens of Greenfield and the common council, do hereby proclaim September 15th,
2026 as Gina Dara Shuski and Classic Lane's Greenfield 30th anniversary day in the city
of Greenfield.
Gina has been a wonderful human being for all of the time that we've met her.
She's always involved in everything I think everyone here would agree with that.
It's the kind of business that you want in your community, and they're still a bit busy,
and there aren't many bowling alleys left, but her seems to be very successful.
And it adds something of value on our little main street there in our city center.
Additionally, I would like to, by the authority vested in me as mayor on behalf of the citizens
of Greenfield, proclaim November 2nd through the 6th, 2026 as crash responder safety week
in the city of Greenfield, while I won't go through all these numbers and all the things
that they do, the citizens of our community and their visitors and the folks that work
here should be very proud of our EMS and police department services.
I can assure you that they're busy, they're busy more than folks think handling issues
that go well beyond the kind of mayor, mayberry stuff that you may remember on TV or even
Adam 12, if you're old enough to remember, anybody remember Adam 12, somebody remember
Adam 12, mark over there, remember Adam 12.
So they've become social workers, they've become psychiatrists, they've become sharpshooters,
they've become all negotiated, they're doing all sorts of things, mental health professionals,
those kinds of things that are emergency responders and our dispatchers deal with
on a daily basis would probably shock you all.
I'm very, very proud of the folks in that if you're in an accident, you're in a crash,
you're in something bad happens to you, that there will be the kinds of services that you
need and expect promptly.
I will just say because there's a full house here about a month ago, one of my very good
friends had a heart attack at the turf and I won't get into his name and I won't get
into the specifics, he coded twice there, he coded twice at the hospital, there were
some volunteers that came and provided CPR, he cleared his mouth to provide breathing
before the paramedic got there, it did not look good, I just wanted to say that at the
event on Saturday he was back to skating at the turf, so no strokes, no nothing bad and
a lot of those kinds of, a lot of that is the result of the people that provide those
services to all of us, sometimes another pastor said you know we wish them well and
all of that, those wishes really need to be there on a daily basis, they do wonderful
things and in that case they save someone's life, it's not the first time, it won't be
the last time, oftentimes it goes unrecognized, but I'm very, very proud of those folks and
the services that they provide.
Okay, next, automatic reports, are there any announcements?
Citizen commentary, so typically during citizen commentary I see that there are four people
here, you can come up and speak, usually we try to limit it to three minutes, I'm not
going to hold you to that if you have something really important to say and it needs longer,
you will certainly have that, I do know that I see a lot of people that are here for public
hearings not trying to rush anybody, but that would be great, okay, Richard Bartz,
8700 West Forest, Tom was first, remember too that we can't engage with you, this is
just, you're saying your piece.
Avenue, I was here two months ago in regards to a written petition, in regards to the traffic
control in our subdivision, and I have gone to another meeting that Mr. Bailey heads up
and there has been no, to my knowledge, no work done on it.
People from KinderCare continue to turn into the subdivision, people continue to speed
through the subdivision, and I'm at which end with trying to figure out what else citizens
are supposed to do.
We come to this board, and I've spoken to you a number of times, and this has gone over
for a number of years, and as far as I'm concerned, I think you guys do a good job, but on this
thing here, it falls on deaf ears, and I'm disturbed about that.
I still have the petition, a number of the people in the subdivision have signed that,
we've gone through all the statutes that are in the Greenfield's protocol, and I've cited
all those, and I've given that to all of you, and I still have not gotten a response,
and without you saying, I don't know why or you can't, because you don't want to engage
with me at this time, I want to know why something isn't being done about it.
I need someone to tell me why this can't be done.
I see in the Greenfield's website that this board has the authority to change things,
and I brought that up to you guys two months ago, and at Phil on deaf ears at that time,
said it was going to go in for another committee, the committee that I was told was going to
get things done, and it still isn't done.
Now, outside of what I've done so far, I'd like to see this put on the next month's agenda
so that we can engage on it.
For informational purposes, I'm not engaging with you, and I'm walking a fine line here.
I can assure you that something is being done.
The Common Council is generally a body that is by consent agenda.
Things happen at committee, by design, that's where most discussion occurs.
I can assure you that Mr. Katz and I have had discussions with regard to traffic flow,
speed limits, all of the things that you've presented, and we had the discussion last Wednesday
or Thursday, and we had it, if today's Tuesday yesterday.
Very good.
So, just so you, it doesn't fall on deaf ears.
All right, I'm just looking for results, because it's been going on for years.
I've talked to kinder care personally, I've talked to their patrons, I've talked to the
police, and I've talked to you guys, and it's been over years now, and last time I was told
to get the petition together, and I did that, and the neighborhood is waiting for results.
I just had one other topic, and that's the landscaping on Forest Home Avenue on 87th
and Forest Home, and that's on the frontage road.
I've been directed to tell them that they said that it's owned by the state, the state
contracts that are county, to take care of the landscaping, the county won't cut it,
because the grade is too steep, and now we have grass and critters running through the
grass that's 30 inches tall.
Now, if a resident had that, they'd be fined, but because the state owns it, and it goes
through the city of Greenfield, nobody does anything about it, but us, as homeowners,
have that in front of our homes, and I'm going to ask you, hypothetically here, because I
know you won't respond, do you want tar with weeds growing through it, and 20 and 30 inch
grass growing in front of your house, and what do you think that will do to your property
values?
I want you to contemplate that when you decide what's going to be done about what took place
as a finished project on Forest Home Avenue.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next person is Donald Van Trist, Trist, 4425 West Van Beck.
Thank you.
My name is Donald Van Trist, address 4425 West Van Beck.
I'm a four-year resident of Greenfield.
I just want to say how wonderful this community is, and has been to my family and I, and I'm
really proud of the people who live, work, and take care of our community to keep beautiful
and safe.
I've spent the last 13 years of my life serving older adults in a senior living community.
They come from a generation, multiple generations of people who know the importance of humanity
and also know the cost of liberty.
I feel blessed to talk to and learn from these individuals and people who embody our nation's
history and values.
I decided to share my thoughts today on automatic license plate readers or ALPR cameras, including
the flax safety cameras that are deployed in our city and how they pertain to our freedoms.
I'm not here to tell you what the cameras do.
I think everybody here knows exactly what they do and are acutely aware of the capabilities
of these systems, but I really think we need to bring this topic into focus.
I believe we'd all agree that we support a safer Greenfield, but if we lose our humanity
in the process, what have we actually achieved?
Is it worth trading our humanity and freedoms for surveillance cameras that the majority
of people do not support?
The majority of people who do support the cameras frequently say, what do you have to
hide if you're following the law?
What happens when the laws are changed, especially in the politically polarizing environment
that we currently live in?
Technologies like ALPR cameras are collecting data using artificial intelligence, and we
don't know how it may be used in the future.
There are virtually no regulations or guardrails in place for these law enforcement tools.
Flock also offers AI powered drones that automatically follow suspects identified by these cameras.
We already have well over 100 people that have been found across the country to be misusing
these stationary, pole-mounted cameras to stalk their exes or worse.
Let's try to imagine thousands of flying cameras in the future.
It's not great.
Your privacy won't be guaranteed and not necessarily even in your own home, which is
a really dystopian future that we have the opportunity to stop here.
I feel blessed to live here in the United States of America and in Greenfield, Wisconsin,
and I long for a version of freedom in this country that our grandparents lived in.
I want all of our children to grow up with more freedoms than we have today.
Liberty like that is totally possible.
If we take a stand now to stop our inevitable slide down the slippery slope of invasive
surveillance equipment like Flock ALPRs and their counterparts.
I just want to leave off with a quote from Thomas Jefferson that he wrote to James Madison
239 years ago this year.
I prefer danger as freedom over peaceful slavery.
Thank you.
The next person is Ian Nevala, I hope I pronounce that right, 4921 South Woodlawn Place.
Yes, good evening.
My name is Ian Nevala, works as well.
I'm on Woodlawn Place and I also have a little speech tonight.
September 15, 7.05 a.m.
Mother leaving with child.
September 15, 7.35 a.m.
Mother dropping off child at daycare.
September 15, 7.58 a.m.
Mother arriving at work, 7.15, 12.08 p.m.
Mother driving to lunch.
September 15, 12.59 p.m.
Mother returned to work.
September 15, 4.33 p.m.
Father picks up child from daycare.
September 15, 4.55 p.m.
Father arrives at playground with child.
September 15, 6 p.m., father leaves playground with child.
September 15, 6.15 p.m., father and mother arrive at home with child.
Don't forget to make, model, and the color of the vehicle,
and the time, location, stickers, racks, damage, and other characteristics.
All these observations captured, indexed, and made searchable and shared,
all in the name of safety.
Imagine that timeline was an ordinary Greenfield family's Tuesday.
Today.
Now, let me tell you what actually happened.
Less than 20 minutes from here on August 6,
two people were subjected to a high-risk traffic stop on I-94 in Brookfield.
Out of their vehicle, at gunpoint, all because a Milwaukee police
failed to remove a flock safety alert after clearing that specific vehicle.
One human error in Milwaukee was propagated through an automated system
and to another jurisdiction, where innocent people were ordered
out of their vehicle at gunpoint.
In a separate case, a former Milwaukee police officer was convicted
after using this exact same system for 179 personal searches,
involving his romantic partner and that partner's ex.
Good evening, mayor and common council members.
And here today, to discuss Greenfield's contract with flock safety,
just as Don was, for automated license plate readers or ALPR systems.
In theory, the system sounds great.
You deploy a bunch of cameras across the city to read license plates.
Share this data with other agencies, cross-reference those plates
against the hot list, generate alerts, and give officers investigative leads.
Who wouldn't want to use a system like that to solve crime, right?
Well, unfortunately, it's not that simple.
The risks I described at the beginning are not hypothetical.
The Brookfield stop and the Milwaukee misuse happened right here
in southeast Wisconsin.
Ordinary citizens who are suspected of no crime
can have their vehicle movements captured, indexed,
searched and shared across a network of law enforcement agencies
across the country.
I don't want my children to grow up in a society where simply moving
through their community creates a searchable government record
of where they've been and who they've been with.
Every elected official sitting before me and before us today
took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and of Wisconsin
and to faithfully discharge the duties of this office.
Carpenter doesn't decide the constitutionality of the flock system
or flock cameras.
But the Supreme Court has recognized the privacy interest
in the whole of a person's physical movement.
When government technology makes it possible to cheaply catalog
and retrospectively search those movements,
I believe that this council should take that constitutional warning seriously.
The question isn't whether an officer can see my vehicle on a public road.
Of course he can.
The question is whether a government should build a searchable database
of vehicle sightings that can be used to reconstruct people's movements
accessible across hundreds of agencies who without individualized suspicion.
According to records provided by the police department,
Greenfield shares its flock data with more than 563 external agencies.
Locally we only have 70 active flock safety users in the city of Greenfield.
Also the city is committed to a $276,350 five-year contract with flock safety.
The police department says identifying a donor who contributed $10,300
to this system would erode public trust in law enforcement.
I submit that concealing who privately helped finance a government surveillance system
is itself what erodes public trust in our law enforcement
and in our public officials.
You see the cities of Fitchburg, Oshkosh, Kenosha, Sturgeon Bay along with the counties
of Dane and the Racine County Sheriff have either ended or are ending their contract
with flock safety.
And just one week ago today, the Sheboygan Common Council voted unanimously to terminate
its flock safety contract.
Earn the public's trust.
Uphold your oath, protect our constitutional rights and serve the people of this community.
I call upon all of you today to place termination of the flock safety contract
for the city of Greenfield on the next Common Council agenda for public discussion.
Until that, until that public discussion occurs, I ask you to cover all of the cameras.
Pause further deployment and suspend the outbound data sharing with these 563 agencies.
Thank you.
Next one is, the last name is Nyman, but I can't pick up the first name.
Kate, Kenha, Nyman, 316 Water Street.
Are you here for a public hearing?
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
We're going to start going through these public hearings.
I, one, public hearing on a special use permit for the construction of a new 150-foot tall
telecommunications monopole on the existing energy substation property located at 9601.
West Cold Spring Road, submitted by Keith Nyman, doing businesses diamond communications
LLC, represented by Laura Karch, doing businesses edge consulting engineers.
This is to approve a resolution for the special use permit for the construction of the tower
as well to approve the site plan.
150-foot tall communications monopoles being constructed at the existing energy substation
property.
The property is own institutional, special use, future equipment added to the existing poll
does not need planned commission or Common Council review.
The hours of operation, meaning when they could service that poll, if necessary, is 7 a.m.
to 10 p.m.
daily, except if there was an emergency.
The location is a, is within a 2300-square-foot area enclosed by an eight-foot cedar fence
with a swing gate.
Fences taller than six feet require planned commission approval.
Asphalt driveway will be extended from the existing driveway to service area.
The enclosure is large enough for future leases by other companies.
Equipment.
An updated landscape plan was submitted per PC plan commission recommendation.
And bond and lettering credits required so that if the, just in case the poll is abandoned
in the future, a bond or irrevocable letter of credit shall be provided to the city for use
by the city for removal of the antenna facilities, if the antenna facilities are abandoned or
no longer used.
And the, there's that agreement is recorded with, there's an agreement recorded with the
Milwaukee County Register of Deeds.
The property owner also shall sign an agreement and record with the Register of Deeds a deed
restriction to remove the tower within 12 months of this discontinuance.
Plan Commission recommended approval.
No letters of support or objection have been received.
Okay, thank you. Is there anyone that would like to speak for against informational purposes
concerning this item? Is anyone that would like to speak for against their informational
purposes concerning this item? Is there a motion to close the public hearing?
Motion to close the public hearing.
The public hearing is second.
A second.
Vice President Bailey, all in favor.
Opposed? Motion carries.
Does the council wish to take any action?
I'll make a motion to approve the proposal as presented.
I do have a question.
Okay, sir. Second by all the person, Bailey.
Just quickly under discussion, most of these things are almost impossible for a city to regulate.
We're essentially.
Is this replacing the location along the power line trail that is in disrepair?
As far as I know, it's not a replacement for any other tower.
This is a new tower.
Maybe we should look at the existing one on the we energies
that is in disrepair along the power line trail.
Really close to here.
I think it might be the replacement of it.
I don't know which one that is.
The fence is falling down.
It's a separate issue, of course.
It's forcing the same people.
Okay.
I think.
Okay.
Okay.
Motion is made seconded.
Questions.
What did you call?
Older person, choose wiki.
Aye.
Older person, Bailey.
Aye.
Older person, Castner.
Aye.
Older person, Acres.
Aye.
Older person, Sarion.
Aye.
Next one is for public hearing.
I'm especially is permit for growing mindful psychotherapy, crescendo, planamente.
I hope I pronounce it right.
A proposed mental health counseling office located 6510 with slight navney, sweet five, submitted
by Cecilia Gonzales Esparazzo.
Approved the resolution for the special use in the site plan review.
Growing mindful psychotherapy is proposing to occupy a 425 square foot tenant space in
an existing multipurpose building, building zone C2 special use.
There'll be two full time employees, hours of operation, 9 a.m. to 7 daily.
91 parking spaces are required, 66 are provided, council may waive the shortage.
Parking lot has been restriped.
Plan commission recommended approval on August 11th, no letters of support or objection have
been received to date.
Is there anyone that would like to speak for against the informational purpose is concerning
this item?
Is there anyone that would like to speak for against the informational purpose is concerning
this item?
Is there a motion to close the public hearing?
This is essentially a tenant space in an office building that has a special use attached to
it.
Make a motion to close the public hearing?
Aye.
Aye.
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Is there a represent an eps?
Yes.
I'd like to ask the psycho therapy do.
Raphael, I am and I am all one and one of the full time psychotherapist.
the owner and one of the full time psychotherapists.
I'm a licensed professional counselor,
so I provide counseling, individual counseling
to children and adults, and my employee works with adults
and couples, individual mental health,
working with anxiety, depression, trauma-based.
Theraply with children, brain spotting, EMDR type of work.
Thank you.
Motion was made and seconded, what'd you call it?
Alder person, Juzwicky.
Aye.
Alder person, Bailey.
Aye.
Alder person, Kastner.
Aye.
Alder person, Acres.
Aye.
Alder person, Zarian.
Aye.
Okay, item three, public hearing on a special use permit
at the same exact building, I think.
Yes.
For the Milwaukee Intertribal Circle,
a proposed individual, family services organization
located at 6510 Westlake and Avenue Suite 101,
submitted by Trina Cinova,
I hope I pronounce that properly,
doing businesses, Milwaukee, Intertribal Circle,
this is to approve the resolution and the site review.
It's essentially the same building that you can see.
Nothing is really significantly different.
Yeah, same building, a larger space,
four full-time employees, hours of operations,
seven to 11 PM daily,
parking requirement, again, same as before.
Plan Commission recommended approval on August 11,
and no letters of support or objection have been received.
Anyone that would like to speak for
against informational purposes concerning this item?
Is there anyone that would like to speak for
against our for informational purposes concerning this item
and entertain a motion to close the public hearing?
Motion to close.
Motion by Alder person, Acres.
There's second by Alder person, Bailey, all in favor.
Aye.
Motion carries, does any Alder person wish to pass
the specialise permit and the same motion?
To approve the resolution for the specialise permit
for Milwaukee, Intertribal Circle.
By Alder person, Bailey, second by Alder person, Acres,
which you call, yeah.
Can you give me a summary of what you're doing there?
Please state your name.
Trena Sonova.
Milwaukee Intertribal Circle is a non-profit
Native American organization here in serving the five counties,
Milwaukee and the five counties that surround it.
And so we're open to all Native American tribal members,
their descendants, and anyone else interested
in learning their culture.
Did you have any other questions?
Thank you.
Okay, motion was made second to approve the resolution
and the site plan review.
Would you call?
Alder person, Juice Wickey.
Aye.
Alder person, Bailey.
Aye.
Alder person, Castner.
Aye.
Alder person, Acres.
Aye.
Alder person, sorry.
Aye.
Item four is a public hearing and a special use permit
for a face-to-face spot, proposed medical spot
located at 7426 West Palm, submitted by Leanna Utley,
doing businesses living while holding company.
This is also for a special use and site plan review.
This is property zone PUD with C2 uses, three full-time
and three part-time employees.
Hours of operation, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
67 parking spaces required, 62 provided,
council make way of the shortage.
Site review, no issues or concerns.
Plan Commission recommended approval on August 11.
No letters of support or objection have been received to date.
Is there anyone that would like to speak for
against informational purposes concerning this item?
Anyone like to speak for against informational purposes
concerning this item?
That includes you.
Do you have any questions for informational purposes
concerning this item?
Not this time.
Okay, so it's during the public hearing.
Okay.
Is there a motion to-
I will make a motion to close by.
Alder person, Castner.
Is there a second?
A second by alder person, Bailey.
The close of public hearing.
All in favor?
Aye.
Opposed?
Motion carries.
Is there a motion to approve the resolution
and the site plan review?
I will make a motion to approve the-
A resolution as well as the site plan review.
Is there a second?
Improvement.
Second.
I think the other person just wiki.
Would you please call?
Alder person, juice wiki.
Aye.
Alder person, Bailey.
Aye.
Alder person, Castner.
Aye.
Alder person, Acres.
Aye.
Alder person, Sarion.
Aye.
Item five is public hearing and especially is permitted
for Z alterations in bridal sewing.
I'll see a proposed clothing alterations business
located at 4160 A south,
108 streets emitted by Dau Van.
I'll pronounce that right.
Doing businesses Z alterations in bridal sewing.
This is to approve the resolution
for the special use permit as well as site plan review.
I just think it's great that you're coming
because you can't find anybody to do it.
That's a true statement.
Yeah.
We're having you.
The property zone C4, special use,
one full-time employee hours of operation
10 to six, Monday through Friday
and 10 to three on Saturday.
92 spaces required, 80 provided.
Council may waive the shortage.
No issues are concerned with the site review.
Plan Commission recommended approval on August 11.
No letters of supporter objection have been received today.
So anyone to speak for again,
sir, informational purposes concerning this item.
So anyone that would like to speak for
against her informational purposes concerning this item,
sir, motion to close the public hearing.
Motion to close.
Now, the person acres are second.
Second.
Second by all the person who is wiki
on favor of closing the public hearing.
Aye.
Aye.
Opposed, motion carries.
Can I make a motion to approve?
He so's.
Can I make an emotion to approve both?
By acres to approve the special use and second by Bailey.
Would you please call?
All the person choose wiki.
Aye.
All the person Bailey.
Aye.
All the person castner.
Aye.
All the person acres.
Aye.
All the person, sorry.
Aye.
Item six of the public hearing of special use permit
for Hannah Fedor, hopefully.
Tattoo Studio proposed.
Tattoo Power located 51 76 streets.
Suite 213, submitted by Hannah Fedor.
This is a special use permit and a site plan review.
The information is before you.
This business, this building has complied
with all of the site plan things that are required.
This is a plan.
If we could only issue another special use
in this building, that would be.
I think we should do that.
Yeah.
So the item is represented.
Is there anyone that would like to speak for
against informational purposes concerning a site?
Yes.
Go ahead.
Would you please state Richard Bartz?
E700 west forest on the avenue.
I just have a question for you.
Is there a reason why it has to stay open till 10 at night?
The entire building stays open until 10 at night.
OK.
I just thought that was kind of late.
That's all.
I mean, the residents around that area.
It's in the south of the street, but.
It's in the south of the parking lot, too.
I mean, that's OK.
So this building, just while we're talking under.
It used to be Pier 1.
It used to be Pier 1 is divided in special suites.
So every massage thing that goes in there, any tattoo thing
that goes in there, and they rent spots,
has to come before for a special use.
OK, thank you.
And I think the building is open till 10 PM.
So OK.
People do work.
Yep.
They need to get in.
Is there anyone that would like to speak for
against informational purposes concerning this item?
Anyone who would speak for against informational purposes
concerning this item?
Is there a motion to close to public hearing?
Motion to close.
File to person acres, there's a second.
Second.
Second by other person castner.
Is there a motion to approve the resolution for the special use
on the site plan review?
I'll make a motion to approve both A and B.
Not by other person castner, is there a second?
Second.
Second by other person, Joe Swicki.
Would you please call?
Alderperson, Joe Swicki.
Aye.
Alderperson, Bailey.
Aye.
Alderperson, castner.
Aye.
Alderperson, Acres.
Aye.
Alderperson, Sarion.
Aye.
OK, item seven is a public hearing and a special use
for Wisconsin Early Autism Project.
Weep.
A proposed mental health practitioner's office
located 4131 West Loomis Road, Suite 100,
submitted by Kerry Wallencamp, doing businesses
learned it, systems LLC, represented by Tom Vavara,
doing businesses, Vavara Designs.
This is to approve the special use and the site review.
The Wisconsin Early Autism Project
is occupying 5,300 square feet of tenant space
in a multi-tenant commercial building
and zoned office, special use, 16 full-time employees,
and 10 part-time employees.
Hours of operation, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Parking requirement, 231 parking stalls
will be provided once the new technology park is complete.
200 are currently provided.
Site review had no issues or concerns.
Plan Commission recommended approval August 11.
The letters of support or objection
have been received to date.
Is there anyone that would like to speak for
against her informational purposes concerning this item?
Is there anyone that would like to speak for
against her informational purposes concerning this item?
Is there a motion in the close of public you want to have?
So just before you ask your question in the lower right-hand
corner, this business has provided temporary occupancy
to make sure that they could open their doors
because there hadn't been any objections
and it seemed like a worthy and worthwhile addition
to a formerly vacant space in the medical office
building on Loomis.
An attendance with Representative Kirsch,
Senator Carpenter, myself, Representative Donovan,
Rob Hanson from Glen Moore's office was also there
and the Greenfield Chamber of Commerce
for the ribbon cutting last week was there.
Senator Kirsch was also there.
I said, did I say Representative Kirsch?
I did hear.
Representative Karen Kirsch?
Yes, he said.
Okay, I'm just not listening to you.
Were you there?
How do you know?
I was not able to meet.
I was there.
I have another full-time job, so I don't know.
Yeah, only really important people get to go to these now.
Okay, yep.
No, so it's a wonderful organization.
When we walk through it, we go.
I know what it is.
And I want to just get as a head of summary.
No, you want to get some?
I want to know what they do.
Did you?
If you don't mind.
That's fine.
They might support the people at the turf.
Oh, damn.
Hello, Linda Klotz, Regional Clinical Director
and Board Certified Behavior Analyst.
We provide intensive applied behavioral therapy
to children with autism, primarily ages two to six years old.
Thank you.
I just want to say that it was a very impressive place,
both ends of the political spectrum were there.
And I think everyone there recognized
that this is like a critical need and service that's
being provided in the community, while we weren't
able to take pictures of the kids and all that stuff
and their privacy was protected throughout.
It was really impressive to see the staff that they had
and the care and attention, which
is pretty significant attention to the kids
that were there.
I was incredibly impressed by what they were doing.
So I would hope that there isn't even any doubt on this one.
It's my daughter's livelihood.
So she teaches the professors that are doing that.
Yeah.
I'm a retight.
They seem like really good people.
If you guys end up in the paper for doing something bad,
just forget I said all this stuff.
No, but they seem really.
They it was really, really well run.
Everybody was impressed.
Is there a motion to approve?
Are you close yet?
Is there a motion to close the public hearing?
To the close.
By all the prisoners and acres, they're second.
St. Valdres and Bailey, all in favor?
Aye.
Opposed?
Motion carries.
Is there a motion to approve the special use?
A motion to approve the special use permit at this location.
And the site review?
And the site review.
By all the version cast.
Is there a second?
Second.
St. Valdres and Juswicky, would you please call?
Alder person, Juswicky?
Aye.
Alder person, Bailey?
Aye.
Alder person, Castner?
Aye.
Alder person, Acres?
Aye.
Alder person, Sarien?
Aye.
Item 9 is a public hearing on the ordinance
to amend the official.
Part 8.
No, 8.
Oh, 8.
I'm sorry about that.
Item 8, public hearing on a special use permit
for star life wellness clinic and spa
for public personal wellness services business
to be located at 6825 West late now.
And he's submitted by Amar Salah,
doing business as star life wellness clinic and spa
represented by Julie, hopefully, Vilcan, Vilcan, Alvera,
doing business as Anderson commercial group.
This is to approve a resolution or special use
as well as a site plan review.
The property zone, C2 special use.
It will have one full time employee and two part time
employees, open 9 AM to 8 PM daily.
50 parking spaces are required.
30 are to provide, provided, oops, sorry.
Council may waive this shortage.
All issues from previous, from the previous appearance
at the plan commission, I believe, were addressed.
Plan commission recommended approval on August 11th
and no letters of support or objection have been received
to date.
Is there anyone that would like to speak for
against her informational purposes concerning this item?
Anyone would like to speak for against her informational
purposes concerning this item?
Is there a motion to close the public hearing?
File the version acres, there's a second.
Seeing a bell, there's some cast there on favor.
I would like to ask what they do, please.
Sure, are they here?
Consistent, I suppose, we have to.
That's right.
I want to be fair.
You know, I bet you they do wellness stuff and spa stuff.
I don't know what wellness stuff is.
Are you here for that?
Yeah.
Hi, my name is Nashville Saleh.
I'm a board certified family nurse practitioner.
I'm excited to come to the town of Greenfield.
I do have an offering wellness, medical grade skincare,
medical grade services, weight loss, IV therapy, IV drips.
We do primary care, just anything and everything
regarding, like, just making a better version of yourself.
So all medical grade.
Thank you, all right.
Thank you.
Sir, did we do a motion?
Is there a motion to approve?
No.
Motion to approve.
The second order person, Bailey, would you please call?
Elder person, juice wiki?
Aye.
Elder person, Bailey?
Aye.
Elder person, cast there?
Aye.
Elder person, acres?
Aye.
Elder person, sorry.
Aye.
OK, item 9.
Is the public hearing an ordinance to amend the official
designing map by rezoning the property?
Look at it, 1, 2, 1, 4, 0, and 1, 2, 1, 6, 4.
West Beloit from C1 neighborhood commercial district
to MFR to medium-gen city multi-family residential
districts, moved by Karl Miller, doing businesses
to mention four Madison design group
represented by Pat Fenn doing business as a sigma group.
This is to approve the ordinance to amend the zoning map
and approve the certified survey map
for the proposed land combination of two parcels
of the two parcels to combine them, essentially.
Both parcels are zone C1 neighborhood commercial.
Whenever any parcel is rezoned, the new zoning
must be consistent with the land use map found
within the 2020 city of Greenfield comprehensive plan.
The land use map is currently, the land use map
is MR, recommended zoning for MR is MR, MFR 1, 2, 3, or PUD.
The proposed rezone to MFR 2 is consistent
with the land use map.
The plan commission recommended approval on August 11.
So you would like to speak for, again,
some informational purposes concerning this item.
Can you come up in and state your name and address?
My name is Scott Poliska, 1-2-1-9-4 West Bullock Road.
I have owned the property since 1998
to adjacent to the west of this proposed property combination.
Before this rezoning application is granted,
I'd like to voice a few concerns that I have about the project.
My first concern is the driveway entrance
to the property on Beloit Road.
Beloit Road was basically taken down
and completely rebuilt a few years ago.
And we had many conversations with the lead engineer
regarding the project expressing concerns
about the 40-mile-an-hour speed limit
and the minimal traffic control that
existed on three stoplights between 124th Howard Avenue
and Highway 100.
We were told they would be monitored
and the lights would be adjusted based on the data.
We observed monitoring took place one afternoon
for a couple hours in the middle of the day
with minimal traffic.
Can I just interrupt you?
Was that by Milwaukee County or the state?
It's a county highway, so I'm assuming it was the county.
It was a pickup truck with the guy counting vehicles
in the middle of the afternoon when it was a little traffic.
The road was torn up for six or eight months, so.
At present, it's common to see anywhere
from five to 20 vehicles waiting at each
of these intersections at a red light.
There are a series of false islands
that they painted on the pavement
that we were told by the engineers would improve the flow
of traffic to allow safe areas for turning
into our driveways.
With no stoplights and signs between 124th and Howard,
Beloit Road continues to be a stretch of road
where typical speeds in the morning and late afternoon
exceed 50 plus miles an hour.
Any future neighbors will incur the same hazardous traffic
or worse given the proximity to the intersection
of Beloit Road and Cold Spring Avenue.
And at certain times of the day,
perhaps even adding to the issue.
The intersection of Beloit Road and Cold Spring
has stopped signs on Cold Spring only,
making this an even more dangerous span of road
and intersection, causing drivers to accelerate significantly
trying to cross the road westbound onto Beloit Road
during heavy traffic periods.
The addition of an entrance to a multi-family project
just off this intersection has the potential to be a hazardous
given the current state and speed of Beloit Road traffic.
While a county highway issue, I still
find it very concerning for the existing
and future neighborhood safety.
Like second concern would be the elimination
of rain, water, and snow.
With the addition of tens of thousands of square feet
of additional hard surface added to this property
from buildings and pavement, the huge reduction of green space
will create a significant additional amount of water
during rainfall.
Adding this much additional water to the existing storm
sewer system will likely cause issues.
Snow removal could potentially create massive piles
of salt laden snow creating environmental and runoff
issues in the spring.
There is nowhere for the snow on the property to go
given the location with the intersecting streets.
It cannot be plowed off the street or off the property.
The corner of Beloit Road and Cold Spring
Avenue is already one of the lowest spots in the area.
So while the concept of a retention pool,
which is in their proposal, might
reduce some of these issues, I have
safety concerns of having a body of water
at the corner of Beloit Road and Cold Spring.
Several questions regarding barriers
to keep pedestrians, especially children in the area safe,
and the potential of billions of mosquitoes to breed,
are issues I would like to see addressed before the development
of the retention pool.
Portions of the existing draining culvert in the area
still become fully saturated with water today,
even after a 24-inch pipe was buried underground
and the culvert was pulled up from the three-foot depth
that it had initially.
Additional runoff into the culvert
may again cause flooding on Beloit Road
like we saw before the road replacement,
as there is currently no outlet for the existing surface
of the culvert on Cold Spring.
In conclusion, building several multifamily townhomes
would not have been my first choice to see in the area
as my immediate neighbor.
However, I'm not opposed to it either.
My neighbors and I have cut up many fallen trees
and spent countless hours cutting
overgrown grass on this property to retain visual appeal
to our neighborhood for the past several decades
that this land has basically been abandoned.
We are all vested in the visual and environmental outcome
of this development.
It is our home and our shared community.
The long-crest pie-shaped subdivision was created
in the 1940s when it was the town of Greenfield
with all single-family residences.
Many of the homes were built in the 50s and 60s,
our single-story ranch style,
and likely are considered very small
by today's building style.
Most of these townhouses would actually have more square footage
than several of the homes that exist.
We all have abundant tree populations on our properties,
creating natural privacy for our yards
and environmental harmony.
As the anchor point of our small pie-shaped subdivision community,
I feel strongly that whatever is built on this site
needs to respect that initial concept and design
and all our neighbors living in it.
Thank you for your time and listening to my concerns.
Thank you.
Would you be supportive of traffic signals,
or resolution from the city to the county
for traffic signals at Gold Spring and Deloitte?
Absolutely.
We asked about it initially when the role of this repaved
and it got years.
Okay, thank you.
With that, absolutely.
Would you be a team changer for the traffic?
Just under the public hearing guys here
that the bar that was there that never opened, right?
Because there was a bar there that sat vacant for decades
because there was supposed to be parking across the street
where the other MR is, right?
And it was never allowed, so the bar never opened
and it basically just sat there, right?
This is one of the most complained about properties
in the city and has been for the, I don't know,
21 years, 27 years, I've been around.
Well, yeah, obviously longer than I probably.
Yeah.
I don't disagree.
I live next door going into the building aspect
and I saw that people in throughout the years
trying to rehab it and never went anywhere.
My concern is the property next door
which became basically in the whole room in Florida.
I mean, there were 20, 30 years lived in there.
I have heard some not heard packs of recalls
rolling like I don't know after these.
Basically, it came to the left.
It was virtually all the trees off today.
Okay.
So just so you're aware,
this is with regard to zoning and land use.
This has nothing to do with site landscaping of the site yet
or the detention policy.
My concern is the safety,
especially with the traffic and the environmental impact
due to the excessive reporting that was run off
or it basically had no redevelopment.
Okay, thank you.
Will that be a little bit of a knockdown?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was falling down.
The roof was collapsing, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was pretty rough.
Okay, is there anyone else I'd like to speak for
against their informational purposes concerning this item?
Is there a motion to close the public hearing?
Make a motion to close public hearing.
Members and cast, Senator, is there a second?
Second.
The person who's working on favor?
Aye.
All those motion carries.
I'd like to take these two items separately.
The first one is to amend the ordinance
to amend the official greenfield zoning map
by rezoning the park.
Motion to amend the ordinance
of to the official greenfield zoning map at that location.
By all the person, cast members, there's a second.
Second by all the person, Bailey, would you please call?
All their person, juice, wiki?
Aye.
All their person, Bailey?
Aye.
All their person, castener?
Aye.
All their person, acres?
Aye.
All their person, sorry.
Aye.
Okay, under 9A is to prove the certified survey map
for the land combination of those two parcels.
Is there motion to approve?
Make a motion to approve the combination.
The second by all the person, Bailey, would you call?
All their person, juice, wiki?
Aye.
All their person, Bailey?
Aye.
All their person, castener?
Aye.
All their person, acres?
Aye.
All their person, sorry.
Aye.
Okay, under J, I don't have any appointments
deceiving under K new business discussion
possible adoption of resolution
allowing settlement of the claim of Greg and Kathy
Parnell regarding alleged property damages
from a fallen tree before July 15th, 2026.
The city attorney provided a sample resolution
allowing those full settlement of $500
towards their deductible.
The rest was paid for through insurance, I believe,
and there's a deductible without admitting liability.
He recommended approval of that.
I'll make a motion to approve the resolution.
Motion by the person, castener?
Second by the person, Bailey, would you please call?
All their person, juice, wiki?
I need to abstain because I work with Greg.
All their person, Bailey?
Aye.
All their person, castener?
Aye.
All their person, acres?
Aye.
All their person, sorry, Ian?
Aye.
Item K2 is adopted resolution
appointing additional election inspectors for 26, 2026,
and 2027, is there a motion to approve that?
File the person, acres?
Second by the person, Bailey, would you please call?
All their person, juice, wiki?
Aye.
All their person, Bailey?
Aye.
All their person, castener?
Aye.
All their person, acres?
Aye.
All their person, sorry, Ian?
Aye.
Item three is approve applications for 2026 and 2027
operator licenses presented by our city clerk
subject to all payment of outstanding fees, costs,
and compliance issues.
Is there a motion to approve that?
Motion to approve.
File the person, castener?
Second.
All their person, acres?
All in favor?
Aye.
All opposed?
Motion carries.
Item four is approve an application for 2026, 2027,
class B fermented malt beverage retailers license and class C.
Wine retailers license from Denali group franchises,
LLC for the property at 4751 South 76 Denali pizza.
Is there a motion to approve?
Motion to approve.
File the person, acres, there's second.
Second.
All in favor.
Aye.
All opposed?
Motion carries.
Item five is approve an application for prayed license and a request to waive the license
fee received from the Greenfield High School student senate to conduct their annual parade
on October 1, 2026 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. as indicated.
Is there a motion to approve and approve the waiver?
Motion to approve.
File the person, castener?
Is there a second?
Second.
would you please call, is it the waiver?
Alderperson, Juice Wieke?
Aye.
Alderperson, Bailey?
Aye.
Alderperson, Castner?
Aye.
Alderperson, Acres?
Aye.
Alderperson, Sarriha?
Aye.
Item six is discussion, decision regarding contract,
allowing for the continuation of the stocks box program.
Is there a motion to approve?
Motion to approve.
Motion by other person, Juice Wieke, is there a second?
Second.
Alderperson, Sarriha?
Would you please call?
Alderperson, Juice Wieke?
Aye.
Alderperson, Bailey?
Aye.
Alderperson, Castner?
Aye.
Alderperson, Acres?
Aye.
Alderperson, Sarriha?
Aye.
Item seven is discussion, decision
to adopt the resolution in support
of applying for grants from the Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources for urban forestry.
These have been pretty successful in the past.
I'd urge you to adopt this resolution.
Motion to approve.
Aye, Alderperson, Juice Wieke, is there a second?
Second.
Aye, Alderperson, Bailey, the Tree Commission
representative on the Common Council
who gives wonderful reports, usually every meeting
about trees, right?
Would you please call?
Alderperson, Juice Wieke?
Aye.
Alderperson, Bailey?
Aye.
Alderperson, Castner?
Aye.
Alderperson, Acres?
Aye.
Alderperson, Sarriha?
Aye.
Item eight is discussion, decision
to approve a data use agreement between the Greenfield
Fire Department and Milwaukee County
of Office of Emergency Management.
Is there a motion to approve?
Motion to approve.
Alderperson, Acres, there's a second?
Second.
A second.
Alderperson, Juice Wieke?
Would any questions?
Would you please call?
Alderperson, Juice Wieke?
Aye.
Alderperson, Bailey?
Aye.
Alderperson, Castner?
Aye.
Alderperson, Acres?
Aye.
Alderperson, Sarriha?
Aye.
Item nine is approved now to a special event application
for Blue Most Fall Fest on Saturday,
October 17th, 2026.
Is there a motion to approve?
Motion to approve.
Alderperson, Acres, there's a second?
Second.
Alderperson, Juice Wieke, all in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
All those motion carries.
Items 10 and 11 can take together.
These are approving outdoor special event applications
for the House of Harley Live Music Saturday on September 26th
and an outdoor event at the Harley Local 215 Packer Party
on October 4th.
Is there a motion to approve the two outdoor special event
applications?
Motion to approve.
Alderperson, Castner?
There's a second?
Second.
Alderperson, Juice Wieke, all in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
All opposed?
Aye.
Alderperson, Acres?
I think the only dissenting vote?
OK.
Items 12 is a provis-special or excuse me,
provis-site landscaping review and certified survey
met combining three commercial lots located 50, 949,
5981 South 27th Street, submitted by Parvin Work
doing business as a Greenfield Veterinary Clinic.
It says three lots because there's
a very small sliver behind the house that's
going to be coming down to the north of the vet clinic.
Motion to approve.
Alderperson, Castner?
Is there a second?
Second.
I think that building next door or that house
was my daughter's first day care.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
It's been a couple of years.
A couple of times in the left?
Yeah.
Because your daughter said it would be a one.
Yes.
We just did it together.
Round draw.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, I think I went there as a kid.
Honestly.
I don't think it was around when you were a kid.
It was around.
That house has been there forever.
I know, but yeah.
It was my daughter's day care.
OK.
Was there a motion in a second?
Yes.
I have a very clinic.
It's done a wonderful job.
So it's a certified survey map in there.
Would you please call?
Alderperson, Juice Wieke.
Aye.
Alderperson Bailey.
Aye.
Alderperson Kastner.
Aye.
Alderperson Acres.
Aye.
Alderperson Sarriam.
Aye.
And 13 is a proven architectural plan review
for Star Life Wellness Clinic and Spa
located at 6825 West late in Avenue.
They had their special use approved this evening.
But there's a pretty dramatic change
to the front of the building in the doorway that goes into it.
It'll really make it look much nicer.
Is there a motion to approve that?
Motion to approve.
I like all the prison acres.
There's second second, Balderperson Bailey.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Those motion carries.
Item 14 is this proof of special use permit
and site landscaping architectural plan review
for the Cobblestone Hotel in Suites.
Or was Hotel located 80, 900, Sarah Lane,
submitted by Jeremy Greesbach doing business's
Cobblestone Hotel development.
Is there a motion to approve?
A move for approval.
By Alderperson Sarriam.
Is there a second?
Second.
Thank Balderperson Bailey.
Do we have any information on this?
I think all the pictures are in your packet, right?
Right.
So this is going in the public's?
Yeah.
So there are pictures associated in the Planning Commission
minutes, I believe, those that are in there, right?
They recommended a change to the pictures
anyhow, so they're going to be in there.
So next door, there is some pictures of a hotel
that kind of look like a penitentiary.
That is not the picture of the hotel.
That's being placed there.
This building, it kind of did look like a penitentiary.
So the building itself doesn't have ethos on it.
It's got hardy architectural grade, cement, lap siding,
and a lot of stone.
So it looks really good.
It goes in between and different elevations.
And it's going in the lot between Steinhoffals
and the Aurora building.
There's one lot remaining in 84 South,
and that's where it's going.
Pretty exciting.
So I know Cassie has been doing, you've
been around here longer than me, I think.
But one of the things, there was a committee
called Ford Greenfield a long time ago,
where people in the community were
trying to make Greenfield a better place 30, 40 years ago.
And one of the priorities from that time
until actually this time was to try
to get a nicer hotel within the community.
Everybody that's ever ran against me for mayors
is like, why does a mayor get a hotel?
Why doesn't he get a hotel?
He's a loser.
Why doesn't he get a hotel?
Well, in order to get a hotel and hotel financing,
you need a hotel study says that says that a hotel will work.
And if you can't get a study, then you're not going to,
a developer's never going to get the financing to put a hotel
in.
We did a study.
I spent four hours with a hotel consultant
driving around the city, showing her what's happening
and how this and things that happen
at the House of Harley-Davidson, for instance,
and the Turf Skateboard Park and Cops,
and that Walmart has their education center
is at that location for the region.
I don't know if people know that I went 100.
There's all sorts of things that are going on
that would be served by a hotel.
And the hotel study, after 40 years,
said that this is a good place to put one.
So I think every single mayor, older person,
going back as far as I can remember,
has always wanted a hotel.
And every time a mayor couldn't get one,
they always griped about the mayor not doing his job
and getting a hotel.
So I got a hotel.
Or we got a hotel.
But we wouldn't have got a hotel if we didn't make
the investment in 84 South and all the other things
that we've been trying to do along our means
to be excusing in Leighton Avenue, right?
I agree.
So, good job, guys.
How many years?
Mr. Bart, what do you want?
I just want one question.
How many rooms are in that hotel?
400.
No, there's...
No.
No.
It's either 60 or 80, I don't remember.
It's in the materials.
But I think it's...
It's 62 and R.
62?
I think it's 62.
It's an upper mid-grade hotel.
It's not the fister.
But it's not a motel six.
That is so cool.
It's a real nice cobblestone.
It's a real nice hotel.
They just built one in Maka-Sha, which is very nice.
Yeah.
All the person Bionai went out to visit the hotel
that they just completed in downtown Maka-Sha.
And ours looks better than that one, I'll be honest.
I want it really nice.
But they're pretty darn nice, actually.
It's a pool inside or outside?
Inside.
It's in inside.
Okay.
So...
I know it's Wisconsin.
I was...
Yeah, no.
It's...
It finishes 84th South, there's nothing there.
And for other people that have been asking you lately,
what's going on across the street?
There's a big development sign next to Penny Mustard
north of it.
There's some houses in there.
I have no idea.
No one that I'm aware of has approached the city, have they?
They have approached the city.
I would probably should.
They're looking at a...
I think it's a two unit strip center, and they already have potential tenants.
Yeah.
I mean, the problem there is access and...
Yeah.
But they haven't figured out.
So they'll be coming to Plan Commission, I think, either the next one or the following.
I include all four of residential lots or just the two.
Just the two.
You should probably show them.
It doesn't go all the way to the freeway now.
You should probably...
We should probably talk.
We should think about that one.
We need to think about that one.
When we did Landmark, we tried to provide access through Landmark to get to that, because right
now 84th and Layton is sort of a hot mess as far as traffic goes.
I agree.
And then the end house is owned by the same people that have the apartments, so there's
actually a connection that way.
There was talk about putting a roadway through to the apartments from 84th Street, remember,
through that house.
80, whatever that is, frontage.
Or whatever that frontage road would be.
Does anybody have to go?
We can stop.
No, I'm just kidding.
All right.
So was there...
Could you...
Would you please call, because there's a special use permit?
Alderperson Juswicky.
Aye.
Alderperson Bailey.
Aye.
Alderperson Kastner.
Aye.
Alderperson Acres.
Aye.
Alderperson Zarian.
Aye.
Okay.
Items 15, 16, 17, and 18.
We have...
Wait.
Items 15 is discussion, decision to point a new assessor.
Less is no longer there.
So Rayanne Schmitz, is she here?
I would ask that Ray and Schmitz be appointed our new city assessor.
Same firm, different person.
Same firm.
I'll make a motion to...
Alderperson Kastner.
Is there a second?
Second.
Second by Alderperson Acres.
How would you please call?
Alderperson Juswicky.
Aye.
Alderperson Bailey.
Aye.
Alderperson Kastner.
Aye.
Alderperson Acres.
Aye.
Alderperson Zarian.
Aye.
Items 16, 17, and 18.
I'd ask to be taken together.
Those are your typical finance committee items for reimbursements, disbursements, and investments
and reinvestments.
Is there a motion to approve those?
Move for approval.
Second.
Alderperson Zarian, saying by Alderperson Kastner, would you please call on those.
Alderperson Juswicky.
Aye.
Alderperson Bailey.
Aye.
Alderperson Kastner.
Aye.
Alderperson Acres.
Aye.
Alderperson Zarian.
Aye.
Anything from anybody else?
I am certain.
For the recommendation or whatever to tell any about the lights in Beloit, do we need
to put that on it?
I think that's the point that he brought up as a good point.
It's dangerous enough, just even if you stop at the stop signs with the sight line issues.
Yes, it is.
The field of vision is not good there, and the traffic on Beloit is incredibly fast.
So I think at the Board of Public Works, we should create a resolution for public safety
and with regard to other development that's happening there that might create more vision
triangle issues to put a resolution together for the county.
We did one on 124th in Lane, didn't we?
We've done them all over.
We did one on 124th in Lane to try to get stop sign signals there and they worked when
I thought they worked.
No, they definitely worked.
They were very productive.
And then they get rid of them, I think, right?
That was during the construction is the only reason they did it.
And then I didn't know Mr. Barthes' problems.
Mr. Barthes has got so many problems, I don't know.
I'm just kidding, Mr. Barthes.
I forgot your question.
You had a question.
I might have cut you off before I'm sorry.
No, his original one, which he's been complaining of.
If the traffic concerns and everything in our subdivision could be put on the agenda.
I can assure you that I've been talking to Jeff about speed limits and direction of traffic
and all of those things at great length, right, Jeff?
So we're going to talk about a Board of Public Works.
So it should probably be at the next Board of Public Works.
Next Tuesday, he's got a plan that he's been working on.
He'll present that to everybody next Tuesday at 6.30.
Right here.
And did you come three weeks ago?
It wasn't two months ago, was it?
It was last month's meeting.
And then I went to the Public Works meeting after that.
And then they said that there was going to put a survey together to find out what was going on.
And then the next meeting was...
The Board of Public Works meeting was the following week.
Yes.
So it's kind of reasonable that they should think about it for a month, I guess.
And the next Public Works meeting was canceled.
So...
The next one's next Tuesday, B here...
Or B square.
Or B square.
Yeah, I got it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Is that good?
Anything else?
Motion to adjourn.
Viola, I have one thing that we may have to go on a closed session.
We may have to have a special common council meeting in the future and go on a closed session
with regard to contract negotiations related to health insurance and all that kind of
stuff.
Okay.
That is a killer.
No, it's really a killer.
There was a big, beautiful bill that increased our initial, and maybe it's not the big, beautiful
bill, I don't know.
But our health insurance premiums for the last 21 years, other than the first year that
I was in office and the year after, that was 20 and 21 years ago, and I inherited the
previous mayors since then our health insurance has never gone up by double digits, 9.9 was,
I think the worst year was usually in a low to mid single digits.
This year's renewal came in at 34%.
I want to just caution that every percentage, and I budgeted for 10, not knowing and hoping
it would be less.
Every percentage is about $50,000 to $52,000.
So the additional $24,000 or 24% premium is the equivalent of roughly $1.2 million.
I can raise taxes next year, the levy, not related to debt, but the operating levy by $130,000.
That's a problem.
Having $2.9 million of health insurance when increase is not inclusive of wages, 70% of
our employees are unionized, get 3% raises, the other 30% get basically the same raises,
3%.
Yeah, and I can raise the levy by $130,000.
And I will hear people say, but my house property taxes have gone up.
What are you doing with all that extra money?
We're not getting any extra money.
The property tax burden is being shifted to you because the property that's being spread
over is to single family homes, which have accelerated in value.
The businesses and all the medical office buildings and retail, which are not rising
as fast as single family homes, their property taxes are declining or staying stagnant.
That's a problem.
And we're going to have to talk about it.
Is this a good time to bring up the motion to adjourn?
It sure is.
It would be great.
I'd love that.
Motion to adjourn by the person castor.
Is there a second?
Second.