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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for

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which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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All right, so tonight we have three older persons being sworn in for their oath of

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office.

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If they would please step up over here by the clerk.

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They are our second, fourth, and sixth district alderman.

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You want to come and stand right over here, please.

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Thank you.

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Okay, raising your right hand.

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This is for all the person, District 2, Paul Neumeier, all the person, District 4, Dan

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Benning, all the person, District 6, Mike Beaster, having been elected to the office

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of all the person for your district in the city of Port Washington and for the city of

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Port Washington, but have not yet entered upon the duties thereof.

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Do you swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States?

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The Constitution of the state of Wisconsin will faithfully discharge the duties of set

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office to the best of your ability, so help you God.

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Thank you.

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Welcome.

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Welcome.

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Mr. Neumeier, thank you for, again, committing yourself to the service to the city of Port

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Washington in your ward.

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We are grateful that you did that.

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Mr. Benning, congratulations on your re-election and Mr. Beaster, congratulations on your election.

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And I know that you would like to say something, so I'll give you the mic.

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I didn't want to say too much.

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I just want to say thank you to the voters for giving me the opportunity to lead a word

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six and thank you to all the city staff who have been very welcoming and kind and gracious

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with their emails.

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If I haven't gotten back to you yet, I promise to be shortly.

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Thank you for that.

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Welcome and welcome.

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All right.

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That brings us to public comments for this evening.

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Just a reminder that you have a maximum of three minutes and up to 30 minutes total for

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public comments this evening.

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Are there any registered public comments?

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Give me an address.

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Okay, Tracy Finch, Port View Drive, Port Washington.

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I'm speaking tonight because the people of Port Washington deserve the truth.

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Not half answers, not assurance reassertances that fall apart moment residents open their

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utility bills.

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Your fact sheet told the public that the data center would not cause our utility bills

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to rise.

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That statement is now impossible to defend.

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We energies own filings, their own words list two major reasons for upcoming rate hikes.

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Grid upgrades and rising energy demand from large users like the data center like vantage.

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There's no uncertainty in what they wrote.

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So when the city tells the residents that the data center has nothing to do with these

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increases, that is just misleading.

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It's directly contradicting that by the utility responsibility for the rates we pay, we were

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told vantage would pay all infrastructure and all usage of what they use for the data center.

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If they're that were fully true, residents would not be absorbing the financial impact

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of the grid expansion and massive new demand.

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That we are and the public was never told that these costs would still ripple through

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the system and our land on our monthly bills.

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Mayor Nitsky, this community plans its budget carefully.

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People are already stretched thin.

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They were promised stability and instead they were being hit with increases tied to a project

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they were told would not affect them.

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That is not transparency, that is not responsibility, responsible communication and it's not acceptable.

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At this point, the issue is not just the rising bills, the lack of honesty about why they're

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rising.

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The city cannot continue to stand behind a fact sheet that is no longer factual.

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The public cannot expect to trust leadership that refuses to correct information once

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it's proven wrong.

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Mayor, if you want to rebuild trust, the first step is simple.

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Update the fact sheet.

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Tell residents the truth about how this project affects the grid and why their costs are going

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up.

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Anything less is disservice to the people you were elected to represent.

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For watching deserves leadership that is transparent, accountable and willing to admit that when

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something was communicated incorrectly and right now residents are paying the price for

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information that was incomplete at best misleading at worst because we have no idea what advantage

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is paying for and what not because we can't see what they're paying for.

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Thank you.

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Is that the only other registered comment?

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Okay.

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So, Sebastian Elicher, 1370s, Cleveland, my apologies for not pre-registering.

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I want to say briefly, congratulations to Elder People Banning and Noy Meyer for their

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re-election and to Alderman Beaster for his election.

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It clearly is a great privilege to serve but it's also a big duty and we wish all three

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elder men the best of luck in the coming months and years.

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I also wish to congratulate the voters in Port Washington for showing up in really large

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numbers at the referendum.

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Turnout at the referendum was roughly 50% of registered voters.

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If you look at referenda in the state of Wisconsin and if you look at larger data sets

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examining referenda in the United States more broadly, that's truly impressive and such

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high participation rates should be celebrated.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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We're going to move into the agenda then.

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Under the consent agenda, there is an approval of minutes and accept the March monthly invoices.

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There's someone willing to make that motion.

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Second.

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Second.

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Any questions or concerns on the motion?

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Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye.

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Any opposed or abstentions?

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Okay.

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That moves us into the mayor's business then for this month.

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In your packet, there is an appointment of older persons to boards, committees and commissions.

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That has been reviewed.

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I did check with everyone on council and the shift here is that Mr. Beaster will be on

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the board of public works and the park and recreation board.

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Two great places for him to get a strong understanding of the infrastructure of Port

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Washington.

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So thank you for agreeing to sit on those.

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Otherwise, any other questions on that?

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Otherwise, I'd look for a motion to accept the recommendations.

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I move to accept.

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Second.

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There's a motion and a second.

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Any questions or concerns?

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All right.

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Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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All right.

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Motion carries.

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There are two proclamations then for the month.

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The first proclamation is National Arbor Day and Tree City USA.

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This is something that the city of Port Washington has participated in for quite a while.

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Arbor Day began in 1872 in Nebraska and has carried on a tradition.

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Port Washington is probably a Tree City USA under the direction of our park and recreation

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director and city arborist, Mr. Crane.

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And Port Washington has a very proud, it is called an urban forest, if I'm not mistaken,

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or city forest.

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And I appreciate the diversity and all the actions and work that you do, Mr. Crane, for

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that.

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So thank you for that very, very much.

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The second proclamation for the month came about as a result of a community meeting.

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I had last fall in discussing the data center project when I met with birders and environmentalists

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who live along Lake Michigan.

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And they had asked that we once again participate in becoming a bird city.

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And so we have.

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And as part of that, we also proclaim 2026 migratory bird day and observation for this.

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The state of Wisconsin in Port Washington in particular, this is an important issue for

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me personally.

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Port Washington is in a migratory bird pattern where this is as far south as certain species

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come and it's also as far north as certain species come.

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So birders know that.

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And I was very excited on the fact that vantage corporation worked with the Great Lakes Bird

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Observatory group in the design and are working with them on many of the species that they

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would be planting at their project to attract wild birds and migratory birds.

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One of the things that came up the last time that we had a council meeting that they worked

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with us on was the volume of retention ponds on that property.

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And if I'm not mistaken, there's over 150 acres of retention ponds, which is nearly

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twice the size of random lake that will be there.

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And they're working with them to potentially drain certain ponds to attract ground nesting

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birds for the spring.

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So happy that we are once again a bird city and that we are observing that.

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The next one is that we're moving into is the park and recreation boards charter.

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Mr.

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Crane.

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Oh, our council's doing it.

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I'm sorry.

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No, I didn't know.

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Mrs. Miller, you are the chair.

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You're going to do the charter.

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You guys going to have a rock paper scissors tournament to determine who's speaking here?

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Sure, I can present.

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Thank you.

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So our charter is available on the website and it has been included in our last couple

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of packets.

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If anybody wants to read it, I'm going to go through it quite quickly.

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Our strategic goal is to ensure that we are operating as efficiently and safely as possible

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within the park and rec department, which includes a pool, our park program, our forestry

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department, and help me know what any other programs we got.

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Oh, I'm sorry, community garden community garden and we have lots of other goals out

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there to establish more volunteer help for the community gardens, if anyone's interested.

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On our committee is our newest member who is sitting next to me.

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And Dan Ross, Jane Dean, Wayne Crucial, and John Crane.

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We do a great job.

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We're always looking for volunteers for our board, so please join us.

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Does anybody have questions or concerns?

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I told you it was short and sweet.

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Anything you want to add?

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Anything you want to add, Joe?

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If you want to just touch on it, would you mind just sharing kind of the objectives and

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goals for the year for the community?

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Thank you.

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So, yeah, I'll go through kind of some of these things are the annual things that we

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This year we're removing roughly 100 dead and declining trees.

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We'll continue to structural prune to try to get us on to a seven-year pruning cycle.

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What Dan entails is we have two strategies for when we attack pruning.

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We have to clearance prune for all the trucks that go through and then we also structural

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prune our younger trees so that they develop stronger leads and less damage and longevity

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of the trees.

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We're really seeing a turn in that.

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We've had a lot of windstorms recently and from the time that I started roughly 15 years

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ago to now there's a huge reduction in the amount of calls that we get for down and damage

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trees and windstorms.

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We'll be planting roughly 350 to 400 trees this year.

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That includes replacements of dead and dying disease trees along with new trees in the

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developments.

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Unlike a lot of other communities, we handle all of the new development plantings.

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This gives us a stronger control on diversity of what we're doing and also ensures that

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it's properly done.

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In the past it was done by contractors and it costs a lot of time and labor to police

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that and you're relying on what you're getting for contractors.

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We've taken over that program and had great success with that.

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This year I'm proud to say we planted 90% of our street trees straight from our city

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nursery so that was really nice to see the turnaround on that.

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Those were trees that we plant at roughly one-fifth of the cost.

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There's little maintenance involved, I mean it does require some pruning, but we have

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a pretty good setup out there that allows us to keep the labor down.

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We've got a system that sets up that we're able to plant those own trees.

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Other things that we annually do, we've got a properly set up for the pool.

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Get everything, basically we winterize everything and start over so right now the crews are

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getting it ready, all of the drinking fountains, all of the bathrooms, everything like that

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and then timing to get the pool set up because we're getting ready to fill that.

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New seasonal staff, we always have a turnaround in that because kids will stick around for

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a few years and then move on to their careers so that's another thing that's just the annual.

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We'll get into our highlighted projected goals, we have to do new water heater at the bath

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house, that's complete.

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We have a new walkway ramp that's getting started this week leading down to the entrance of

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the pool.

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We'll be putting in new basketball slash pickleball courts at Hill School Park this year similar

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to the Colbach Park set up.

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We've had a big demand for pickleball and I think it actually increased after we put

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those three courts in, it seemed to build a lot of attraction so Hill School is a good

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central location for that.

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We originally were planning on doing just basketball courts there but it's such a large

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footprint that we're able to have a combined court system there.

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We're going to be doing upgraded playground equipment at Lyons Park.

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We have a rain garden that we'll be installing at Colbach Park that is funded through grant

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projects with the Wisconsin Bird Observatory in line with part of the necessities for to

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be a bird city.

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And then we'll also be doing some paving projects, we have a small half court basketball court

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going in at Bly Park along with a paved trail leading up to highway L.L. and then we'll

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also be paving the municipal ball field parking lot to align with our paving of municipal

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lots.

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And most of this work is being done in house so it's going to be a busy summer.

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Next growing sport in America has pickleball so appreciate this.

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And if anyone on the council is not seen up by the water tower or tree farm, it's pretty

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interesting what John has cultivated in there saving a lot of money and spreading those

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species out and I mean Rob talked about this when I first got elected just the beauty of

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our canopy now on our main streets and the diversity and how that looks and not picking

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one species is just fantastic.

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So you and your team do a phenomenal job John and we really, really appreciate it.

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Any other questions, concerns or comments for Mr. Crane?

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Yeah, thank you John, thank you Mary Lou.

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Okay, that takes us into the an update on the bluff.

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I've got three other things here really quickly and I'm going to turn it over to you Rob is

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first is just a reminder council if you are available on May 18th to come to the council

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chambers at eight o'clock that is when the sixth fourth graders will be sworn in for

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mayor for the day and we have that day for them and then I'll send you an invitation

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for the dignitary lunch with them.

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Their day is going to be starting here and then taking the beast, Ernie Vonschle, I don't

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always gives us a nice Cadillac Escalade to drive those young kids around in.

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So we'll take the executive vehicle for them, we'll go over to the police and fire center

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where we're going to get a tour from the chief and the two chiefs, they'll get to see the

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eye beam that they signed so we'll go up there and get to see that and then from there

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they're going to go out and see the data center project to kind of see the scale and

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scope of that.

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I think it's important for young people to be able to see those different pieces as

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they're in motion and then in the afternoon they'll be unveiling the honorary street signs

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that were approved a couple months ago for each of their schools.

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So Lion Lane and Dunwoody Drive and Jaguar Drive so they'll get to unveil those and

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then we'll drive the proclamations around to the schools and they'll declare National

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Education Week for them and then we'll come back here and debrief with their parents,

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grandparents and anybody else.

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So 18th if you're available for that and then on May 15th, I don't know why I'm going

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backwards here in the calendar, May 15th, the senior center is doing the same thing,

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so I'm taking 24 seniors, they are not all mayors for the day, Lord knows what would

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happen if I did that.

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But they will be joining me for that same tour, police and fire center, safety center

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and then out to the data center so that they can see that.

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And the members of the senior center are eligible for that and they'll sign up for that as

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well.

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And then finally the Bluff has come up a few times this week and obviously with the multiple

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failures there, Ask Rob and to really review what we can do, it's accelerating kind of

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the Bluff redesign.

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Members of the council, if you remember, was it two summers ago that we had the students

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from UWM who did the kind of vision of what could be up there with the road and the shifts

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and everything else?

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I'm very saddened that Mother Nature is winning again.

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That Bluff over the course of my life was hundreds of feet into that lake prior to what

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it is today and two major drops, one in the 90s, one in the late 70s and then last summer

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or two summers ago in the summer.

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So it's time for us as a community to really face the fact that a looping road up there

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along the edge is not safe.

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Right now I think it's just shy of seven feet away from the edge with the road and that

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parking lot and unfortunately for the community that will be closed indefinitely and that's

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what we asked Rob to kind of give us an update on with both the Bluff failure and the plan

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to ensure safety and accessibility to the Bluff this summer and the rest of the year.

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Rob?

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So yeah, thinking of backing off of those comments, we do recognize the importance of

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both our beach and accessibility on our Bluff and so our intention, hopefully we're hoping

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for next week to have our street department on site expanding the roadway to the west

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by about five to ten feet and so we can move the travel lane and the pedestrian lane kind

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of out of that immediate failure plane of where the Bluff is encroaching on the driveway

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and so we feel that this is a temporary fix because that as we know the Bluff is receding

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but this has been determined with our geotechnical consultants that in the present condition

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of the Bluff that this would be a safe zone to shift our traffic and so we know we have

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a lot of walkers up there too so we want to keep that open for everyone as quickly as

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possible.

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As the mayor said, I think we should probably also accelerate our discussion on the Bluff

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and we did have a UW student, he performed his capstone project you may recall on opportunities

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for improving Upper Lake Park, we had a lot of public engagement, I think once we determined

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to move forward with some of these improvements, we'll ask for more public engagement but we'd

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like to start that discussion as soon as possible so we really want consensus among our council

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members and the public.

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As far as the North Beach goes, this is something that occurs about every four years it seems

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that the Bluff kind of settles on our path to North Beach and so we are the last two,

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this one and then the one that occurred in 2021 have probably been the largest that

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we've had since I've been here and so Miller engineers and scientists help us out with

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that, they'll do all the survey work and be on site for when we do the regrading of that

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area, they'll provide a proposal, the last one that we had in 2022 actually was $3,000

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so I think it's money well spent to have that professional presence there because it is

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so important and safety is so critical so we'll engage them to drop a plan for essentially

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regrading that area plus removal of the soils.

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I would like to complete, I don't like to over promise but we expect that we should

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have the survey work done in the beginning of May and hopefully if the weather cooperates,

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our crews can get out there and do that regrading by the end of May so that's the, that is our

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plan to reopen North Beach for the summer and to have the road open within the next

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two weeks.

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Any questions, comments?

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All over the first possible?

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There are obviously many curious people who want to look at the problems at the bluff,

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how safe is it for pedestrians to walk to the edge and look over?

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Do you want me to?

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Sure.

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So I can start on that, not at all.

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Chief DeBore, I talked to both Chief Hengis and Chief DeBore last Monday and then Chief

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DeBore took the drone, a high-def drone and flew it along the bluff edge.

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There are, I was just showing the council, there's a tree stand which is really popular

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with young people where everybody hammocks.

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One of those trees has no terraforma underneath it at all, it's just the root system that's

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holding it there.

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So it's not safe and we had talked about fencing or what to do because there used to

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be a snow fence up there 15 years ago and then that, I don't know if it's in Michigan

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now but it's gone, but like that edge that people should proceed with extreme caution.

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One of the signs that says do not stand on the edge is halfway down the bluff.

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So I would really warn people not to do that and ask that I'd stay away unless it's

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in an area that's greater that you can see otherwise.

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Yeah.

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And I guess I would also say, I mean, that road's blocked but not the bluff.

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Without commenting on the amount of risk, yes, we do know that the bluff, we know that the

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bluff experiences failure and the failures are from top down.

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So whether you're up above or you're down below, it's not 100% safe to be along the

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edge and we've experienced bluff failures that go on the beach as well.

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And so that is why I have always been a big proponent of stabilizing the bluff so that

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people can access both the top of the bluff and the beach and be assured of their safety.

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And Rob, would you just, because there are people who are watching, the reason it failed

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is not wave action entirely this time, especially this time, but it's the sand straight that

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runs through there.

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Can you just give us a 30 second on that?

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Yeah, right.

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So I mean, that was Miller's response that this is clearly caused by water running through

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that sand scene.

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That will be attenuated by the watering drain lines that we intend on installing in the

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bluff this summer.

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But no remedy is, that remedy is not going to be 100% fail safe.

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I mean, there's still going to be wave action, the wave, or I should say the lake rises and

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falls.

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So like in 2022, when we had our last experience, we closed the beach.

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You may remember for the entire summer because there really was no beach.

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The water was right up against the toe.

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And so every time you have that, you're getting that undercutting at the base.

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You're getting the water running through the sand scene.

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So it's kind of a double whammy that causes instability in the bluff.

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Yeah.

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Because the water runs through the sand seam, drips through the clay into the sand stream,

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pushes the way out, undercuts that, and then it comes through.

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And I just think that's important for people to know because, you know, there's some ideas

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out there that we've like mismanaged it or the city should have done something and you

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can't beat mother nature when there's ancient beaches underneath layers of clay.

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But, you know, we're going to try.

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Yeah.

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I mean, mother nature always has the last word, but we do our best.

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Okay.

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Hey, Mer.

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Any other questions or wonders for him?

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Okay.

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That moves us into the officer and staff reports.

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The first item of business is the election of council president.

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At this time, is there anyone willing to make motions or yeah, motions for a council president?

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I would, I would nominate all the written ending as council president.

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There's one nomination for Alderman Benning.

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Are there any other nominations?

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Any other nominations?

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All right, seeing none, is there anyone willing to make a motion for Alderman Benning to become

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the council president?

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I would make that motion, sir.

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There's a motion by Alderman Neumeier.

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Is there a second?

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Second.

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Seconded by Alderman Ben, or sorry, Alderman Gasper.

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Any questions or concerns on the motion?

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Seeing none.

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All in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Congratulations.

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Council President Benning.

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That brings us to the second under letter B, which is 7B, Approved Official Newspaper, which

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is recommended to be the Ozaki Press.

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Is there anyone willing to make that motion?

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So moved.

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There's a motion.

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Is there a second?

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Second.

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Seconded by Ms. Miller.

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Any questions or concerns on the motion?

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Seeing none.

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All in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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That brings us to the Designate Official City Depositories, the Poor Washington State

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Bank, Ellers, D-A-N-A Investment Management, Schwab Custodial Accounts, and Local Government

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Investment Pool.

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Is there anyone willing to make a motion to designate them as our official Depositories?

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So moved.

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There's a motion.

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Is there a second?

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Second.

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Seconded.

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Thank you.

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Any questions or concerns on the motion?

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Seeing none.

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All in favor signify by saying aye.

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Opposed?

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Motion carries.

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That brings us into Department Monthly Reports.

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Melissa?

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Thank you.

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I thought I'd come up here because I kind of have the next three in a row and I'll introduce

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the TID presentation.

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So just wanted to welcome you, Michael, officially to our first meeting.

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We're glad to have you and hope we don't overload you with emails because I have a tendency

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to do that with over-information at first, but welcome.

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The BCCs will be appointed within the next meeting, so then we will be having a BCC training

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for that, that's boards, commissions, and committees.

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I use the acronyms a lot, so sorry.

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So we will be having that and we're tentatively focusing on the end of May.

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We are hiring.

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You'll see that in the department head reports, which are always posted on the administrative

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shouldn't page.

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Always check those out.

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There's usually like 15 to 30 pages of things that are going on with pictures, so it's nice

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to see what's all going on in the city outside of, you know, just a development and what happens

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here.

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There's a lot of work that goes on that we don't see and talk about here.

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At the next meeting, we will be doing an update on the public safety building, correct

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rep.

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So that Maura will be here to do a presentation on that.

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You'll get that ahead of time, hopefully with the packet.

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So that's moving along nicely.

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I don't think that we have any delays I got to go out there myself recently and it looks

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nice and it will be a great facility for them.

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And then in June or July, I believe we'll be having the bike pad plan or port moves

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plan coming forward.

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It went to public works.

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They want to do a little bit more digging in on it.

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So we're thinking maybe June or July, back here, back to here in May, May 19th, it'll

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be back.

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They're going to get that done.

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I guess it's the next meeting.

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So and then we will also be bringing the lead lateral replacement forward in the next couple

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of months.

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We're still sorting out how that is going to be financed and how we can make sure that's

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the best opportunity options for the community.

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So that is what I have from the department head updates.

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Any questions or comments from that?

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I have one, Rob, and I don't know where this fits.

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I don't know if it's traffic safety or that bike pad plan.

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We have a new type of vehicle that's emerged in the last really six years, electric bikes.

473
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We have a tremendous amount of very young people doing 25 30 40 miles per hour in town

474
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:29,680
on those bikes.

475
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:34,040
And I'm wondering if that's something that we want to explore there or traffic safety,

476
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,640
but I wouldn't traffic safety.

477
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,400
I just don't know where that or how that gets regulated because I looked up.

478
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,240
There's no statutory guidance on it right now.

479
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,240
But tonight was a really good example of our little biking that went flying by on one

480
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:48,240
wheel.

481
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,720
So I don't know what we want to do that.

482
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,160
So I'll check with the chief on it.

483
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:58,680
And then the only other things I had is Rob, in your report, you talked about the Valley

484
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,360
Creek tree planting in April of 2026.

485
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,360
And John is here as well.

486
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,360
So maybe he can address this.

487
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:06,360
Are those saplings?

488
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:07,760
Are those a variety of trees?

489
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,240
Are those mature trees?

490
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,240
What's going to be planted in there?

491
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:20,160
Because it states that they're, I mean, a bunch.

492
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,880
And then is that all the staff who's planting those or is there any opportunity for community

493
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:24,880
service?

494
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:33,480
I think there is also a community for, yeah, so they're doing, they're doing in conjunction

495
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,880
with Vantage is sending out a group of volunteers to assist with planting.

496
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,280
I just thought maybe if we can invite our young scientists from last month to potentially

497
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,480
come those students from TJ or their classes, but okay.

498
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,800
There was not as much, I mean, volunteers are welcome, but there was not as much, Stantec

499
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,760
is managing it and there was not as much public outreach for it.

500
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,400
But they've been working, I think, Vantage reached out to them to see how they could

501
00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:59,400
get involved.

502
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,400
Okay.

503
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,960
And then the only other thing most of that I wanted to put in here was I really appreciated

504
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:10,200
that our fire department participated in the funeral of a fallen firefighter in Milwaukee.

505
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:14,440
So I wanted to give them credit and make sure that the community knew that we did that.

506
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:15,880
Thanks, Melissa.

507
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,160
Yep, we can go on to the next item, which is, well, monthly reports and city administrator

508
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,160
updates.

509
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,160
Same, just done.

510
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,160
Yep.

511
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:30,160
Okay.

512
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,840
And that takes us into the presentation of tax incremental district number five, project

513
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:33,840
planning.

514
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:34,840
All right.

515
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,440
So thank you for letting me kick this off.

516
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:42,360
I'll be introducing the folks that are going to do most of the presentation, but I just

517
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:48,320
wanted to, there's an immense amount of interest in this project and how we're going

518
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,680
to be project planning for the city.

519
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,960
And we really wanted to take this opportunity to make sure that the community knows, council

520
00:34:54,960 --> 00:35:00,200
knows, you know, are basically our one to three year immediate plans that relate to

521
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,840
TID five.

522
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:07,440
And we want to make sure that we are communicating often, communicating out and letting the community

523
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:12,160
know what we're doing so that we can work alongside them and then also not work on

524
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,840
top of each other because oftentimes it's, you don't realize, you know, we energy is

525
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,720
going to be here and here at the same time or you're going to be there.

526
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:21,640
So we're really working on a full scope.

527
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,480
So a lot of work has gone into this presentation that we'll do tonight.

528
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:26,480
It was in the packet.

529
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:27,480
We'll post it online.

530
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:32,560
We'll also link to this presentation and we want to make sure people are able to get

531
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:33,560
to this link.

532
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,320
So we'll link like where you can start in the video.

533
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,760
So you don't have to sit at home and listen to, you know, the full council meeting.

534
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,720
If you don't want to do all of that listening.

535
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:49,800
But we, it does take a lot of work to condense a presentation like this down into like 25

536
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:50,800
minutes.

537
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,440
It's very easy to do a long presentation.

538
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:57,640
So I do applaud the staff and our consultants for working with us on that so that we can

539
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,240
give a broad scope of what it is.

540
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:03,320
So I kind of wanted to be the disclaimer for the, for the project.

541
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,960
You know, we're not going to solve all the project problems tonight.

542
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,960
We don't have all the exact numbers that this will, everything will cost.

543
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:16,040
But what we are doing is letting you know what projects are getting done and what are

544
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:21,600
the immediate, what are the immediate projects that are going to impact the community.

545
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,920
So it's like the one to three, one to three years.

546
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,560
We had grave here last going through that DOT plan of what's going to be done right

547
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,400
now in the roads, the turning.

548
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:36,640
So we're really trying to just communicate that out so folks know what tonight isn't.

549
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,240
It's not an action item.

550
00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:40,720
You aren't going to vote on anything.

551
00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:45,440
It's informational only and we appreciate the, the input that we got.

552
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,240
This was presented at Public Works last week and we did get some feedback which we tried

553
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:54,560
to incorporate within our comments since, since that time.

554
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,200
So we appreciate the, the feedback we've had from some of the community, some of the community

555
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,880
groups and 9th of council.

556
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,720
And this is obviously not a final discussion.

557
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:09,000
So all of these projects will move through the process like as a normal project.

558
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:14,360
City staff isn't going to be making the decision on, you know, this is the scope of this project.

559
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,760
These will come through.

560
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,880
We've identified them and then they'll come to the process through Public Works and then

561
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,400
to council like any other normal project would.

562
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:28,160
So we don't have a blink check unfortunately or fortunately.

563
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,600
And then this also is a way to engage with the community so that you, you all can, you

564
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,720
know, share it with your friends or family or whoever's interested and then they can

565
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:41,720
solicit to the economic development inbox which I manage and we can make sure we're

566
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:45,240
getting those answers to the, to the community.

567
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:51,440
We'll talk about the partnerships that we have but I think the council knows, I interact

568
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:57,920
a lot with the county, the town, Socville, our friends groups, Main Street, the county

569
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,760
and we're trying to make sure that we're reaching to all of those groups.

570
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,320
We have a couple slides on that later which, which I'll go into a little bit more at that

571
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,320
time.

572
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,720
But we're really excited to present this to you.

573
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:15,260
We're excited to pull this all together and I'd like to, and then introduce we have Ben

574
00:38:15,260 --> 00:38:17,360
Wood from Stranden Associates.

575
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,640
They, Stranden has been working with us for many years.

576
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,200
So they are very knowledgeable on our systems.

577
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,160
Ben will be doing most of the speaking.

578
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:30,640
And we also have Aaron Grohl from Kapoor Engineers.

579
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:36,440
He'll take a piece in this and then we have Roger and Rob who will have some speaking

580
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:41,640
points from our resident experts, city engineer and public works.

581
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:46,040
So without further ado, I will let him come up and get connected.

582
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,240
And then we will ask, you just to hold the question until the end and then we'll try

583
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:54,240
to answer those that we didn't capture in the presentation.

584
00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:56,240
Thank you, Melissa.

585
00:38:56,240 --> 00:39:01,240
So we'll consolidate our questions and we'll wait until it's over.

586
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:02,240
All right.

587
00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:03,240
And we're helping.

588
00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:05,240
We can get the system to work the entire time.

589
00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:06,240
Yep.

590
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,240
Not to slice the restarts.

591
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:09,240
Right.

592
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:10,240
Okay.

593
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:18,600
Thank you for that introduction, Melissa.

594
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,320
Thank you, staff and council for being with us tonight.

595
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:28,800
This will be as Melissa indicated, very similar to what was presented last week at the public

596
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:29,800
works committee.

597
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,000
I'm happy to share it with the rest of the council here tonight.

598
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,880
What we will cover is an overview briefly of the TID project plan that kind of sets

599
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,920
the basis for all of the projects.

600
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:48,520
The next major item will be all of the specific upcoming projects covering a variety of topics

601
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,840
within those will kind of go through an overview map and then individual projects

602
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:59,080
sites talking about the need and the thought process that went into each of those.

603
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,320
While we'll step through that in kind of a map and a need orientation toward the end

604
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:10,920
of the presentation, there is a project index before we wrap up with the summary.

605
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:17,160
So for the TID project plan overview, this is a developer finance TID, which means that

606
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:22,560
the developer is at risk for the project cost, and this is established in the already

607
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,160
recorded development agreement.

608
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:33,200
Approximately 180 million of city led TID projects are identified in the approved TID project

609
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:38,200
plan for TID number five as established by Ehlers and shown here.

610
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:43,560
The basis of the need for those specific projects covers a few categories, expanded service

611
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,760
area, redundancy and resiliency and capacity.

612
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,680
What we're going to go through specifically tonight are approximately 100 million dollars

613
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:58,760
of those city led projects, and again that is the near term forecast of project needs

614
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,920
and toward the end we'll kind of address where are the balance of those projects and

615
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:07,000
why aren't those being discussed in detail tonight.

616
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,600
This map represents an overview of the project sites.

617
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:15,200
It may be familiar to some of you as we've talked about specific other water or sewer

618
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,880
system planning needs, but I want to break this down as kind of the foundation for the

619
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,120
need for a lot of these projects.

620
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:27,520
TID five covers the vantage site, the south portion which is being developed right now

621
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:34,000
is shown in yellow, the north portion for which there is no imminent site specific development

622
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,600
plan is shown in the pink.

623
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:42,880
The canalsville obligation area which is a part of the town of Port Washington is shown

624
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:49,000
in blue and then local adjacent lands are shown in green.

625
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:55,480
The need to consider these local adjacent lands shown in green was prompted by the southeastern

626
00:41:55,480 --> 00:42:03,960
Wisconsin regional planning commission that encouraged the city to think about what lands

627
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:10,480
might attach themselves to municipal utilities once utilities are run this far north to

628
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,280
TID number five.

629
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:17,760
So there is no obligation to serve those areas in green, but the southeastern regional planning

630
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:24,320
commission wanted us to be prepared for that in the event it did happen.

631
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:31,280
Shown here is an overview map of all of the TID five city led projects that we'll be discussing

632
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:37,480
tonight and we'll break down each of these kind of on a case by case basis, but I wanted

633
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:42,080
to point out the various project categories as Melissa talked about, Grace was before

634
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:48,200
you at the last meeting talking about some of the DOT and intersection improvement projects.

635
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:54,840
We're covering the city led projects shown here and as a note, the city led projects

636
00:42:54,840 --> 00:43:00,560
all start with a project number such as 26 one or 26 dash two.

637
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:06,000
That is the construction start year that is planned.

638
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,440
And then of course, we understand these projects don't exist in a vacuum.

639
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:15,160
You also have your normal capital improvements within the city and we're aware of the need

640
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:22,600
to coordinate those schedule drivers for the TID five projects include site occupancy

641
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,840
and the city's obligations to Camelsville.

642
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:30,400
Well, let's say you want to touch a little bit on city coordination.

643
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:37,840
So we realized that the city touches so many organizations.

644
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,480
So this project will touch every corner of this city.

645
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,200
It'll touch every corner of Ozaki County and beyond that.

646
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:52,480
So my one of my goals and one of my missions personally is to make sure that we are communicating

647
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,600
and can I go to the next one.

648
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:03,480
When you think about all of the agencies that the city touches, we have the school district.

649
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,480
We have the transportation to the bus company.

650
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:13,960
We have the county and our neighbors and we have emergency services, the police department.

651
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,560
We have on the waterfront, we have the yacht club.

652
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:21,480
We have charter operations when we're doing our grave program.

653
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,760
We realize that the boats that come out of the town of Port, we have to make sure that

654
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:31,880
they can actually get their boats out to us and there's like every element of our operations

655
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,280
are impacted.

656
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,360
We have the downtown businesses as partners, our economic development.

657
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:43,000
So the county economic development, then we have we energies and then our utilities and

658
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:48,400
we have tourism, fish days, the veterans, like we are going to impact everyone.

659
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:53,680
And so our mission here is to take this, you know, the citywide coordination and make

660
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:59,640
sure that we're communicating out and there is going to be a time that we miss a communication.

661
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:05,280
But our goal is to keep a list going and make sure that when we're doing projects that we're

662
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:10,560
reaching out or that the groups feel comfortable enough to reach in and say, hey, what about

663
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:16,080
these lights are too low because we just learned this today for the charters to get through

664
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,920
from the town of Port Port, Washington and then we adjust and make sure that they can.

665
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:24,280
So we're going to have misses, but know that we're trying and know that you can reach in

666
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:29,080
and say, hey, what about this may impact this run or this walk.

667
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:33,680
We're going to do the best we can, but we have this in our mind's eye while we're doing

668
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:34,680
all this planning.

669
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,360
So I appreciate it.

670
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:42,200
And next we will have Erin girl from Kapoor, I believe.

671
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:43,200
Thanks, Melissa.

672
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,960
Good evening, everybody.

673
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:50,240
So my role here is just to talk about the projects that we have planned for 2026, then

674
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:54,640
Ben will come back and speak on the projects thereafter.

675
00:45:54,640 --> 00:46:01,720
So this map here shows two blue stars, the southern or the lower star on the map is where

676
00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:06,680
we completed our work this winter and spring.

677
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,880
I'll completed the utility work.

678
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,240
Paving still needs to happen in the next couple of weeks, but at least the utilities have

679
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:15,560
been extended to that southern blue star.

680
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:22,280
The intent is in 26 and be completed by 2027 is to extend a water main loop up to Lake

681
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:28,600
Drive in the north side of the development and also to serve a canalsville and the agreement

682
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,280
that we have with canalsville.

683
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:36,080
So with that, I want to talk about the specifics of this first project that we have planned

684
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,080
in 26.

685
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,920
This is a 26-1.

686
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:47,080
This starts at the water tower along I-43, runs underneath I-43 up to Mink Ranch Road

687
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:51,920
with water main extends to the east on Mink Ranch all the way up to Highland Drive and

688
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:57,680
then it connects into where the project finished this late winter early spring.

689
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:03,560
And that also continues up Conantronk Highway KW up to approximately where the boat storage

690
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,560
facility is.

691
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:11,880
So that's both sewer and water is about 9,000 feet of water, 3,000 feet of sanitary sewer

692
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:17,880
and then we'll also extend sewer and water services or laterals to all of the parcels

693
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:18,880
within canalsville.

694
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:23,440
The purpose is to continue a loop for water main and then also to serve the canalsville

695
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,480
obligation area.

696
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,640
The schedule is first line item here is a subject to permitting.

697
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,640
I'll follow up a little bit more detail in a couple slides from here.

698
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,440
But our plans are 90% complete.

699
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:39,240
We plan on bidding now it's already the end of April so we expect on bidding out in

700
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:45,520
May and this project is expected to take about four and a half months to complete.

701
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:55,760
26-2 is a continuation basically on Conantronk KW from the boat storage area or facility

702
00:47:55,760 --> 00:48:00,960
north to Lake Drive and then heads east on Lake Drive to what was that northern blue

703
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,480
star two maps ago.

704
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,600
About 11,000 feet of water main.

705
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:14,480
The intent is to complete looping for the development and also to serve canalsville.

706
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:19,080
Again subject to permitting which I'll follow up more on the next slide where 90% complete

707
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:24,400
with these plans will bid these out in May and this construction timeline is about four

708
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,840
months.

709
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:35,960
Any considerations we had some pre submittal meetings with both PSE and DNR to make sure

710
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:43,240
that our team and the city staff and the approving agencies are aware of what our next

711
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:44,680
plans are.

712
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:48,320
We talked about specifics we talked about things that we were looking to do from the

713
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:53,080
city standpoint and then they also told us some things that they were looking for and

714
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,160
so we're working and collaborating with the agencies to make sure that we're on the same

715
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:58,160
page.

716
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:03,200
And submitting those permit applications to PSE and DNR in the next couple of weeks.

717
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:09,680
Once PSE approval comes in play the intent is to complete the water main loop up to Lake

718
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,040
Drive on the northern end by January of 2027.

719
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,800
One of the key components here is phasing we understand that we're going to have to

720
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:23,480
run both of these projects 26-1 and 26-2 concurrently but we'll make sure that we write

721
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:29,280
into our specifications that both contractors can't be working on KW at the same time.

722
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:34,480
We'll make sure that the southern portion is completed before the northern portion starts.

723
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:39,520
That'll help the businesses, the residents out there and just in general traffic.

724
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,320
Lastly is just a general preliminary detour map.

725
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:47,240
This is similar to the detour that you see out there currently but we'll finalize this

726
00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:51,840
map with our final plans and once we finalize this map we'll get that out to the public

727
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:56,920
to make sure that everybody's aware of what the plan traffic changes will be based upon

728
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:58,560
our construction.

729
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,960
With that I'll turn it back over to Ben.

730
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,200
All right thank you.

731
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:13,520
To carry on with the plan shown on the side are utility looping projects that are needed.

732
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:18,440
So I'm going to start using the laser pointer on the back screen here to kind of help talk

733
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:19,640
through these.

734
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:28,280
So whereas projects 26-1 and 26-2 accomplish a partial loop the other utility looping

735
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:34,200
projects are needed along the east side up to the north to kind of complete primarily

736
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:40,920
a water main loop it's important to recognize that we're trying to optimize the projects

737
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:47,680
so that while water main may be the driving need that while we have that corridor that

738
00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:56,640
roadway torn up that we also get in the gravity sewer any force mains in there as well.

739
00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:05,640
So project 29-1 is kind of outlined in blue here and that will include water sewer and

740
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:12,160
some force main for the forthcoming lift station which is shown as project 28-3 and that lift

741
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:16,040
station would actually be kind of generally in this area.

742
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:23,360
Specific site is not picked out yet and then project 30-1 shown in the brown would complete

743
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:28,880
the loop of the water main up here and then again we would add gravity sewer anywhere

744
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:34,800
we can in the corridor while that area is disturbed.

745
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,520
Want to talk about the Canalsville obligation?

746
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:42,800
Canalsville is an unincorporated area within the town of Port Washington shown in the figure

747
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:48,360
here is the comprehensive land use plan map for Canalsville.

748
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:53,280
There's an existing city and town agreement that establishes that the city will provide

749
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:59,600
water and sewer to Canalsville and that those areas will remain part of the township.

750
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:05,280
The existing agreement indicates that those water and sewer utilities have to be available

751
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:09,440
for use by the end of 2027.

752
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:15,400
This map shows specifically the projects that will help to accomplish this.

753
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:21,480
I want to take a step back here and point out we have gravity sewer areas and lift station

754
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,840
sewer areas.

755
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:29,760
So while Canalsville is shown all of those lands are shown in blue there is some light

756
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:34,120
blue hatched area it's kind of difficult to see if I'm trying to outline it here there

757
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,840
are some light blue hatched areas.

758
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:42,120
Basically what we have determined in some preliminary analysis is that the hatched

759
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:47,880
areas will not flow by gravity all the way through these sewers all the way down to the

760
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:53,240
wastewater treatment plant and that because of the lay of the land say at this breakpoint

761
00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:59,560
by the boat storage area gravity sewer would actually flow north to a lift station in this

762
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:04,440
approximate area and then that would have to get pumped back down into here where then

763
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:06,720
it can flow by gravity.

764
00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:13,480
So we've discussed this concept with the town and what we've moved toward is putting

765
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:19,840
in all of the water means that we can and gravity sewers within the area where we're

766
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:26,080
putting in water main and that the lift station area projects that we would delay those beyond

767
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:32,960
2027 to allow for time to understand what the actual flows would be so that those lift

768
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,440
stations can get sized and planned appropriately.

769
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:41,320
It's also important to note that lift stations involve a lot of equipment and electronics

770
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:46,520
that have longer lead times that realistically the construction schedule will just not allow

771
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,440
for those projects to be done by the end of 2027.

772
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:56,880
So as Aaron talked about project 26-1 here will include water main and sewers and that

773
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:02,960
will also serve canalsville and we're adding in project 27-2 which gets water main and

774
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:09,560
sewer along county highway H. At the end of each of those are anywhere from one to three

775
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:13,880
properties that won't flow by gravity but their existing properties and the intent is

776
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:20,200
that they get served on individual grinder pumps in small diameter i.e. 2-inch diameter

777
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,760
force mains.

778
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,840
That covers the canalsville west area.

779
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:31,160
The canalsville east area are these 28-3 and 29-1 projects I talked about.

780
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:36,520
Actually from this point on Highland Drive right here all the way north the lay of the

781
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:42,160
land is such that it flows all the way up to a low spot kind of at the top of the map

782
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:48,440
here that entire area the sewer will drain to the north have to get picked up by lift

783
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:53,280
station and then pumped in a force main all the way back to Highland Drive where it can

784
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,600
kind of get into the existing city system.

785
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:03,120
So I've noted on that project about approximately a year 2030 completion again the purpose for

786
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:08,360
delaying that is twofold one just the lead times on lift station components and two we

787
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:15,520
want to make sure that we can get some kind of project specific or or land use specific

788
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:21,560
planning done so that those left lift stations are sized appropriately.

789
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:28,840
This map shows off-site tid improvements and these break into several categories sewer

790
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:36,440
conveyance water distribution wastewater treatment plant planning and treatment plant site resiliency.

791
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,760
This is an overview of those off-site tid projects I'm going to take the next few slides

792
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:44,540
to go through these in more detail.

793
00:55:44,540 --> 00:55:49,560
First of all sewer conveyance what this project accomplishes or these projects accomplish

794
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:56,880
is not only conveying flow from the tid area down also picking up canalsville also accounting

795
00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:02,920
for the flows from those green area adjacent lands there are other local sewers that connect

796
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:11,240
to this interceptor shown in pink here sewer so it's going to help take on extra wet weather

797
00:56:11,240 --> 00:56:15,480
flows and convey those to the plants as well.

798
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:21,400
So the pink project is from Terrace Drive all the way down to the wastewater treatment

799
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:31,240
plant it's broken up into three different bid packages 27-3 27-4 and 28-2 so we have kind

800
00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:37,480
of break points on the extents of these projects kind of as planned shown with these

801
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:43,160
couple of dash marks here just know that those might change a little bit but our intent and

802
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:49,880
staff's intent is to keep in mind the potential disruption to local residents users of the inner

803
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:55,640
urban trail for example project areas that might disrupt the inner urban trail we want to make

804
00:56:55,720 --> 00:57:01,320
sure they all get done in one construction season Terrace Drive that gets done in one construction

805
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:06,040
season we know this is going to be a disruption to people and we just want to be cognizant of

806
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:13,240
trying to coordinate that and minimize that to the extent practical. Another capacity

807
00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:21,000
increase project is 28-1 that's the Jackson Street sewer interceptor that project is also going to

808
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:26,520
upsize the diameter of that pipe and is critical to help convey what weather flows due to

809
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:31,160
inflow and infiltration or what we call shorthand I&I.

810
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:39,640
Water distribution upgrades this map shows your existing water distribution system which has two

811
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:46,920
pressure zones the purple area is the low pressure zone and that's inclusive of the water treatment

812
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:53,080
plant that's where all of the water produced is first pumped and then there's the high pressure

813
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:59,240
zone shown in green where water is repumped up to the higher elevations within the city so that

814
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:06,680
everyone has appropriate pressure most of vantage and canalsville areas are in the high pressure zone

815
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:12,360
meaning all of that water has to get repumped from the low pressure zone up to the high pressure zone

816
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:21,240
project 27-1 is a new consolidated booster station facility so right now shown on the border of

817
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:26,440
the low zone and the high zone are these two existing booster stations the oakland and the

818
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:35,000
sunset stations a new consolidated booster station would be built that has all of the capacity as

819
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:41,480
the existing two stations combined plus enough capacity for the added service area this is a

820
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:46,520
critical need because oakland and sunset stations are beyond their useful life the equipment is

821
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:52,920
aged and the existing stations have actually experienced a failure that's why this one we

822
00:58:52,920 --> 00:59:01,720
would like to advance as quickly as possible treatment plant planning this map shows the overall

823
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:08,120
planning area for the wastewater treatment plants this is the proposed sanitary sewer

824
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:12,920
service area so on the north side of that you can see kind of the TID project site and

825
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:17,080
adjacent lands but I wanted to show the entire city extent because there are also

826
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:24,600
some areas toward the west of the existing system extents kind of moving towards sockville

827
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:32,680
that are being accounted for in wastewater treatment plant planning the service area includes again

828
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:39,400
vantage canalsville other known growth within the city and then some projects kind of toward

829
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:46,680
the border a facility plan is currently underway and the intent of that is to proactively forecast

830
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:52,680
the project needs at the wastewater treatment plant so that as we monitor the increase in flows to

831
00:59:52,680 --> 01:00:00,120
the plant the projects are completed ahead of the time that we kind of forecast that capacity

832
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:09,400
being needed the sanitary sewer service area plan is being conducted by sewer pack that establishes

833
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:15,640
the service area relative to neighboring utilities quite specifically we participated

834
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:23,800
along with city staff and sockville staff and staff from sewer pack to discuss which lands are

835
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:29,640
more appropriate to be served by the city of Port Washington which ones are to be served by sock

836
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:36,040
ville and that's accounted for in this map plan projects will only be implemented as the flows

837
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:43,080
are realized and then real briefly on the water treatment plant the existing capacity is adequate

838
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:50,760
for the actual usage which is less than the planning request that came from vantage the actual site

839
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:58,520
specific plans have actually resulted in a reduced forecasted capacity for the site

840
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:07,960
treatment plant site resiliency so shown in the middle here are projects 28-5 and 27-5

841
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:13,400
note that as hopefully most of you know the drinking water plant and the wastewater treatment

842
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:21,080
plant are on a common site at the lakefront there's been some as was talked about earlier today some

843
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:27,560
bluff failures north of the wastewater treatment plant site in the past valley creek has been

844
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:34,120
problematic and has caused some flooding at the drinking water treatment plant project 27-5 is

845
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:41,560
the valley creek restoration for which an overview is shown here on the right that design is in

846
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:48,680
progress and the intent is to start bidding out that work in 2027 that will help mitigate the

847
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:55,080
flooding at the plant some bluff stabilization is planned along with the wastewater treatment plant

848
01:01:55,080 --> 01:02:03,400
facility plan that is ongoing that work is slated to start in 28 or 2029 it's critical to

849
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:10,280
understand that this isn't expected to stabilize include bluff stabilization much north of the

850
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:15,240
stairway that's going down from the upper to the lower portion where some of the failures have

851
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:21,720
occurred rather the intent behind this is that if a capacity increase is needed at the wastewater

852
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:27,000
treatment plant that means there needs to be a footprint expansion of that plant to accommodate

853
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:32,760
newer expanded processes and one of the options being considered or one of the alternatives being

854
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:39,320
considered is expanding into the bluff further stabilizing the bluff building a retaining wall

855
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:47,080
etc. So the wastewater treatment plant facility plan that's ongoing needs to be completed first

856
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:52,200
to choose what the best alternative is one of those alternatives is bluff work.

857
01:02:54,280 --> 01:03:02,440
While this slide this slide shows the project index for all of the city led projects so whereas

858
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:09,000
the previous maps kind of showed a color coded outline and name tag for each of these projects

859
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:16,040
this shows each of those projects kind of in a line item order it actually includes a little

860
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:22,280
more of a breakdown of the project so this kind of pumpkin yellow or orange color here is all

861
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:29,560
project 26-1 and it describes the various segments of water and sewer etc. And that's the case for

862
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:35,560
all of the projects on here so if you would like to read more about the specific extents of a

863
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:42,680
project that can be found here in the project index. Of course like I mentioned we understand

864
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:47,640
that the city of Port Washington has all of its normal capital improvement needs within the city

865
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:53,720
and it's important to know that coordination between our consultant team and city staff is

866
01:03:53,720 --> 01:04:00,680
ongoing we actually meet together on a weekly basis and one of the kind of rolling topics

867
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:08,680
discussed is coordination of each of these projects on a case-by-case basis. So as Melissa

868
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:12,920
opened with just know that we recognize and it's important to us to coordinate these

869
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:21,160
to be as efficient as possible. So in summary this presentation is intended to provide the

870
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:28,120
background for specific forthcoming project plans and decisions. Approximately a hundred

871
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:34,840
million dollars of city led to five projects are anticipated in the next five years the financing

872
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:41,160
of which is provided by the developer. Extensive project coordinating coordination is ongoing

873
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:47,720
this is between projects between governments and departments the community and organizations.

874
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:53,240
This overall plan will be revised as actual projects progress and with that we would like

875
01:04:53,240 --> 01:05:03,640
to go ahead and open it up for any questions. Questions? Mr. Chair I'll go first. We talked

876
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:07,800
about the Bluff stabilization work I mean I guess Rob would behoove us at all to consolidate

877
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:13,080
some of that work further north I mean can we consolidate some of that work with work further north?

878
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:21,960
Do we need to start making decisions now in time for 2728 as a part of this work?

879
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:28,200
Yeah I think some of what we're going to discuss in the upcoming months first of all is what

880
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:32,280
we want up really far to look like on top of the Bluff and then we already have the engineering

881
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:40,680
plans for stabilization of the Bluff and so that depending upon what the sewer pack

882
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:47,160
facilities plan comes back with we'll kind of inform our decision making going forward on

883
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:59,000
stabilization. So I just had a question are all the upgrades for vantage and here is this

884
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:05,640
assuming phase one or just phase two effect? It's just phase one which by that I assume you

885
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,640
mean the yellow area or the southern part that's kind of under construction right now.

886
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:19,800
It's the project specific to that so if the north phase if a site specific development plan is

887
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:26,040
brought forth for that it would likely include more water main looping and and sewer extension

888
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:39,880
projects. Is Miller? Yes so is the stabilization of the Bluff helped or is a hindrance because

889
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:46,120
of the waste water treatment center? Would it be appropriate to think about maybe moving that

890
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:53,400
to maybe make a better structure? About specifically about moving the wastewater plant all together?

891
01:06:53,960 --> 01:07:01,000
Yes. Yeah so it's I'm glad that you brought that up so the wastewater treatment plant facility plan

892
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:07,480
is ongoing right now and we expect to be done with that toward the end of this calendar year.

893
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:15,240
It will consider all types of big picture alternatives for that site one of which will be

894
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:20,280
considering moving the plants altogether. So I'm glad that you brought that up.

895
01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:28,120
Also anybody that's in the Canalsville area or any of the areas that will now have water are not

896
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:33,880
going to be forced to take the water. That will be their choice the homeowners choice as to whether

897
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:40,680
or not they choose to participate in our water sewer systems. That's a good question and what

898
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:46,360
I'll say to that is that's a policy decision kind of between the leaders and the public

899
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:53,480
the public service commission will have something to say about that also. What I will tell you is

900
01:07:53,480 --> 01:08:00,440
that the town chair for Port Washington for the town of Port Washington has actually gone door to

901
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:06,680
door to talk to people to garner interest and for those that are interested in connecting right away

902
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:12,840
Aaron has taken into that taken that into account as he's planning those projects.

903
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:19,000
That is however a town responsibility correct not a city of Port Washington responsibility

904
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,160
because that was our understanding from the beginning.

905
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:28,040
Okay just wanted to be clear that we're not forcing them to do anything. No that's a separate

906
01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:37,080
municipality. Other questions? I just have a couple of things I just I one of them was same as

907
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:42,120
Miss Miller there with the KW hookup process with the town just to make sure that that's clear

908
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:48,280
one of the pieces that I'm going to ask that as you're developing and doing the different

909
01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:54,760
projects along KW and then LL that could you please make sure to communicate very proactively

910
01:08:54,760 --> 01:09:00,120
with Johnson bus. I had a conversation with them yesterday and just if they can have a two three

911
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:06,040
week kind of run of this is when this is going to be closed etc. Obviously post memorial day

912
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:10,440
it should not be as big of an issue but summer school transportation etc and that's been working

913
01:09:10,440 --> 01:09:14,280
very very well. The other thing is the

914
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:20,680
thoughtfulness that you have put in place here I want to just applaud I don't know it's what you

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01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:26,360
do but like on our end of hey we're going to start the south end of the project first before

916
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:30,760
you know moving to the north not shutting those down coordinating with multiple contractors

917
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:34,920
just being thoughtful for our neighbors and that flow of traffic lots of people shoot up

918
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:39,480
H and KW to get to Belgium and then head to work and Plymouth and Shabogan and all kinds of other

919
01:09:39,480 --> 01:09:45,320
places so I really appreciate that. One other thing that I wanted to point out too is already

920
01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:49,640
we're feeling an impact here I mean I think last week and the week before with the rain

921
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:56,920
is the first time in a really long time that Valley Creek did not surge tons of trees down

922
01:09:56,920 --> 01:10:02,520
I mean Sock Creek was huge so you can already tell the retention the reduction of different

923
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:07,560
drain tiles on that egg land is already making a difference so I appreciate your work on that as

924
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:12,520
well and then the last thing is an expectation I'd like to throw out there which is that you know

925
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:19,720
we work with a team to create a real strong construction calendar that's almost quarterly

926
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:24,440
that goes out with all of these projects so that the community can foreshadow and see this is

927
01:10:24,440 --> 01:10:29,240
what's coming this is when it is and then even putting out kind of like a next week in Port

928
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:34,760
Washington social media posts so people just are that's in front of us so you know why the heck

929
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:38,680
is the bike trail closed and where did this come from and how come we didn't know and

930
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:42,360
I think it's going to be really really important for us to be as proactive as possible in those

931
01:10:42,360 --> 01:10:48,120
communications so. Mr. Mayor I did want to just mention one thing the inner urban trail

932
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:55,960
does come up a lot and I failed to mention it earlier that is actually run by the county they

933
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:59,960
have their own web page and their own Facebook page on when their closures are and then the closures

934
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:05,240
are done by we energies so we won't always know and we won't be communicating out

935
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:10,920
we tell everyone to go to that and we put it on the website but that is really a trail that's

936
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:17,080
owned by we energies that lets us use it and you know they don't always get a chance to update us

937
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:22,840
but that website on our urban trail Andy at the county keeps that updated so just so the community

938
01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:28,680
yeah thank you I just anything within our purview let's double down on it so thank you for that

939
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:33,720
okay that's what I had any other that spark anything else otherwise

940
01:11:35,480 --> 01:11:42,840
you're all right I'd say just I I will presume that the san tary sewer along the interurban

941
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:47,960
trail in the city which actually the county does not maintain the portions in the city limit we

942
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:52,520
we do that I presume the trail will have to be closed for that we need to make sure that

943
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:57,240
that is there is public relations through the county with their website and that we

944
01:11:57,240 --> 01:12:03,480
get a detour route posted because that trail is very valuable to tourism in the city sure yeah

945
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:09,960
short-term pain long-term gain so thank you all right well done thank you everyone

946
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:16,440
feel free to stick around for the next really exciting agenda item consideration and possible

947
01:12:16,440 --> 01:12:21,880
action on a request to amend a condominium plan for the maritime sheds industrial condominiums

948
01:12:22,440 --> 01:12:27,880
702 through 745 maritime drive next sudden north is the applicant the issue is the common

949
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:32,600
councils being asked to approve an amended condominium platform of the maritime industrial

950
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:37,400
condominiums to reflect the recent change to the project plan the staff recommends approval

951
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:44,920
of the the amended condominium plan as did the planning commission mr. Harris so this is a

952
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:50,360
this is a condo plan to reflect a minor slight plan change that the plant commission approved

953
01:12:50,440 --> 01:12:55,800
last month the developers of that project which is now under construction after being

954
01:12:55,800 --> 01:13:04,760
approved in 2023 they have requested to make some minor changes to the site plan specifically

955
01:13:05,480 --> 01:13:12,600
while it does not material materially change the site plan the number of buildings remains

956
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:19,960
the same what it will change is adding an additional unit to two buildings that are located on the

957
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:26,600
north side of the project area while they're developing and marketing the units they found

958
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:32,040
that there is more there's some greater demand for units under three thousand square feet

959
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:38,520
previously this was approved with three thousand three thousand square foot minimum units so

960
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:46,360
what the minor site plan change was to allow for instead of three units in two of those buildings

961
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:54,040
it is now four units and those are a little under three thousand square feet this was a

962
01:13:54,040 --> 01:14:00,040
condo plant required because obviously these are condominium owned units and so any change them

963
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:05,560
to the site plan should be reflected on this on the condo plant as the mayor indicated this was

964
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:12,040
at plan commission after april meeting and the recommended approval any questions or concerns

965
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:18,520
for bob is there someone willing to make a motion to approve the staff recommendation i would

966
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:24,840
make the motion to approve the staff recommendation oh the new mayor moved is there a second second

967
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:29,560
second any questions or concerns on the motion all right seeing none all in favor signify by saying

968
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:33,880
i opposed motion carries

969
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:43,320
all right that brings us to the second agenda item from boards and commissions consideration

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01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:48,200
impossible action on a final plat for phase one of the highland point north subdivision located

971
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:53,720
north of esock road in west of the ozaki inner urban trail highland point llc is the applicant

972
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:57,320
the issue is the common counsel is being asked to approve a final plat for the first phase of the

973
01:14:57,320 --> 01:15:02,520
highland point north subdivision and the staff recommends approval of the final plat subject to

974
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:09,640
final review by the city engineer mr harris okay so this is the most recent approved subdivision

975
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:19,000
in the city this is located on the north side of esock road and northwest of the ozaki inner urban

976
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:25,880
trail this is the first phase of that subdivision by noumen developments it is 30 single family

977
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:33,480
lots on the eastern half of this this subdivision and they are seeking a final plan approval

978
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:41,960
to get moving again this was at plan commission last month it was approved subject to final city

979
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:49,320
engineer review and approval and the recommendation is the same is is to approve subject to civil

980
01:15:49,320 --> 01:15:57,480
engineer just to finalize or confirm minor details with civil and street directionals

981
01:15:57,480 --> 01:16:03,160
and nothing that material materially changes the final plat and with that staff recommends approval

982
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:06,600
all right any questions concerns or comments on this

983
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:12,760
anyone willing to make a motion to approve the staff recommendation

984
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:16,680
make a motion to approve i'll second there's a motion and a second

985
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:21,800
on the approval of phase one highland point north final plat subject to final review by the

986
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:27,080
city engineer any questions or concerns on that motion so you know all in favor signify by saying

987
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:32,360
aye opposed all right motion carries that takes us to board of public works consideration and

988
01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:37,960
possible action on approving a task order for strand associates incorporated for on call

989
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:42,680
engineering services funded by vantage data center the issue is should the city approve a

990
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:48,040
task order with strand associates incorporated to provide engineering support services to

991
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:52,680
tit 5 projects related to the vantage data center the staff recommends approval of the task order

992
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:58,040
to provide engineering support services to tit 5 projects related to the vantage data center

993
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:04,920
roger all right so as we just saw in the previous presentation that

994
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:13,240
we have obligations for our agreements with the with the town of port washington and and with

995
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:19,240
vantage and previously with clover leaf as part of our developers agreement

996
01:17:21,480 --> 01:17:29,560
and some of those obligations strand is in a unique position to to fulfill based on your previous

997
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:35,320
work with the city and we had some planning documents ongoing when when those developments

998
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:41,720
came to us so it was easy to slide them in and say okay add add this work to your to your scope

999
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:50,680
our previous agreements with strand have expired so so we do we need to we need to issue a new

1000
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:59,240
task order we do have a master contract with strand with terms and conditions previously

1001
01:17:59,240 --> 01:18:06,360
approved so so as we look at at these point in time it's just to add scope via a task order

1002
01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:14,840
so this task order is essentially an on call as needed task order we don't have a defined discrete

1003
01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:22,360
project like Melissa said been largely put together that this presentation tonight so projects like

1004
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:31,880
that uh kapoor will call them and ask them for assistance on on various items so that that's

1005
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:40,200
like like really quick quick projects that that need to be done timely vanished gives us a lot of

1006
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:44,600
what if sort of questions if what if we do this with our water what if we do that with our water

1007
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:50,920
and we need to respond and and uh strand with their experience in the city is is uh

1008
01:18:50,920 --> 01:19:00,520
uniquely qualified so this this task order would be a five-year agreement on call we expect it to be

1009
01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:09,400
it an annual cost of about 80 000 this year i um it's not it's not capped as a not to exceed though

1010
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:18,200
because quite frankly we don't know what's going to come up um the early months of this year where

1011
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:24,280
um you'll see that we're looking like maybe up to 150 000 this first year i was kind of just

1012
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:32,280
trajectory around dnr hit us with um in the process of of our utility extensions for

1013
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:40,360
ll they said hey we want a sewer interceptor facility plan so i was like okay we got to throw

1014
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:47,640
that together let's get that done so we can get our permits um so that kind of put us on a

1015
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:53,000
trajectory that that that we that we might double that amount this first year but i i've talked

1016
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:58,120
to ben today and and we look at what we're expecting the remainder of the year and we're starting to

1017
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:03,080
go down we i guess they don't expect to hit that number i expect that to come down significantly

1018
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:08,840
again though roger just for clarification this is not an expenditure liability for the city

1019
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:12,040
for washing we are not paying these dollars this is part of the agreement with vantage

1020
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:17,480
much correct these are these will be tid tid five expenses okay that we will manage and that

1021
01:20:17,480 --> 01:20:23,000
they're paid by them not us correct thank you yep so it's very very similar to the

1022
01:20:23,480 --> 01:20:29,560
agreement with von briezen and kapoor except for kapoor has certain strengths and capabilities

1023
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:35,240
strained of supplementing them and complementing them and uh with their with their experience

1024
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:38,760
with the city we will it behooves us to continue with them

1025
01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:47,000
the second behoove tonight i i guess any other questions yeah any questions or concerns comments

1026
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:54,040
for roger mr baster i just i think i'm gonna recuse on this one i just don't know enough about

1027
01:20:54,040 --> 01:21:00,680
this from the public works okay is there anyone then willing to make a motion on the staff recommendation

1028
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:04,040
the recommended motion is i move to approve the task order with strand to provide engineering

1029
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:07,480
support services i'll make the motion there's a motion is there a second

1030
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:11,240
moved and seconded any questions or concerns on the motion

1031
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:15,320
all right seeing none all in favor signify by saying aye opposed

1032
01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:23,560
abstentions mr baster okay that takes us into the last agenda item for the evening public

1033
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:27,240
comments and appearances any public comments and appearances

1034
01:21:27,560 --> 01:21:31,240
may i address

1035
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:33,880
plus

1036
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:43,720
okay tracy bench west port v drive um there when you asked me uh when i got where i got my

1037
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:49,480
information about the diesel generators i did not respond because i did not know but because my

1038
01:21:49,480 --> 01:21:54,760
time at the podium had ended and based on how residents who raised their concerns about vantage

1039
01:21:54,840 --> 01:22:02,120
data centers have been treated i knew about how that exchange would go so let me answer you now

1040
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:08,360
every fact i've stated comes from directly from the wisconsin department of natural resources

1041
01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:17,240
according to the dnr own permit filings vantage submitted an application on august 29th 2025 for

1042
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:26,680
for 45 fire diesel emergency generators totaling 87 megawatts of backup power this is not a rumor

1043
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:32,600
this is not speculation it is public records these generators would sit at the proposed

1044
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:39,480
vantage site east of the is inter-urban trail south of dixie road and just west of i-43

1045
01:22:39,480 --> 01:22:45,320
right here in pore washington in a county already classified as moderate ozone pollution

1046
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:51,560
meaning our air is already failing federal health standards diesel exhaust is linked to

1047
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:58,280
cancer health uh heart disease long disease and worsening smog and if all five generators just

1048
01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:07,160
ran for just one hour the pup the pollution released would equal 5.2 million miles of car travel that

1049
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:12,920
is the scale of what we are being asked to accept meanwhile cleaner alternatives like battery

1050
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:19,160
storage exist today and are already being used by other data centers across the country so

1051
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:25,560
when you question how someone like myself could possibly know this information it it didn't undermine

1052
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:31,560
my credibility it raised a far more serious concern that the people elected to protect this

1053
01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:39,080
community may not fully be aware of the consequences of the decisions being made or maybe dismissing

1054
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:45,000
residents who take the time to read the documents themselves pore washington deserves a leadership

1055
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:51,480
that does not minimize legal legal concerns or act surprised by facts that have been publicly

1056
01:23:51,480 --> 01:23:57,640
available for months leadership that stands up for health of its residents instead of brushing

1057
01:23:57,640 --> 01:24:05,240
off the risks and that is why i am asking you again ted marinyski reject the insulation of a

1058
01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:12,200
gas fired generators for this data center and to pursue alternative that protects our residents

1059
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:19,320
and reflect the values of pore washington the cost in action will not fall on vantage it will fall

1060
01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:23,320
in every family breathing the air in ozaki county wake up

1061
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:33,160
other comments okay we're going to move into uh we're going to convene into closed session

1062
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:38,280
for wisconsin state statute 19.851 e for the purpose of deliberating or negotiating

1063
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:43,240
the purchase of public properties the investing of public funds or conducting other specified

1064
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:48,040
public business whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session to wit to

1065
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:53,080
discuss and formulate negotiating strategies including without limitation the terms and conditions

1066
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:58,840
for an offer to purchase received by the pfd development llc regarding city-owned property at

1067
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:04,600
104 west washington street and 365 north wisconsin street in the city of port washington ozaki

1068
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:16,120
county wisconsin tax id number 16-098-10-01.001 is there someone willing to make that motion

1069
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:21,640
moved and seconded that is a voice vote any questions or concerns on the motion

1070
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:31,640
all right seeing none ward 1 ward 2 ward 3 ward 4 ward 5 ward 6 ward 7

1071
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:37,720
all right we stand in closed session please clear the chambers council will meet in the side

1072
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:43,800
chambers in four minutes

1073
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:53,800
you

1074
01:26:21,640 --> 01:26:23,640
You

1075
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:53,640
You

1076
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You