WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.460 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for 00:06.460 --> 00:13.760 which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:13.760 --> 00:20.640 All right, so tonight we have three older persons being sworn in for their oath of 00:20.640 --> 00:21.640 office. 00:21.640 --> 00:24.000 If they would please step up over here by the clerk. 00:24.000 --> 00:28.000 They are our second, fourth, and sixth district alderman. 00:28.000 --> 00:39.000 You want to come and stand right over here, please. 00:39.000 --> 00:47.000 Thank you. 00:47.000 --> 00:50.720 Okay, raising your right hand. 00:50.720 --> 00:55.600 This is for all the person, District 2, Paul Neumeier, all the person, District 4, Dan 00:55.600 --> 01:01.080 Benning, all the person, District 6, Mike Beaster, having been elected to the office 01:01.080 --> 01:05.820 of all the person for your district in the city of Port Washington and for the city of 01:05.820 --> 01:09.520 Port Washington, but have not yet entered upon the duties thereof. 01:09.520 --> 01:13.440 Do you swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States? 01:13.440 --> 01:18.800 The Constitution of the state of Wisconsin will faithfully discharge the duties of set 01:18.800 --> 01:23.560 office to the best of your ability, so help you God. 01:23.560 --> 01:24.560 Thank you. 01:24.560 --> 01:25.560 Welcome. 01:25.560 --> 01:26.560 Welcome. 01:26.560 --> 01:48.480 Mr. Neumeier, thank you for, again, committing yourself to the service to the city of Port 01:48.480 --> 01:49.680 Washington in your ward. 01:49.680 --> 01:51.360 We are grateful that you did that. 01:51.360 --> 01:57.160 Mr. Benning, congratulations on your re-election and Mr. Beaster, congratulations on your election. 01:57.160 --> 02:02.400 And I know that you would like to say something, so I'll give you the mic. 02:02.400 --> 02:05.240 I didn't want to say too much. 02:05.240 --> 02:09.120 I just want to say thank you to the voters for giving me the opportunity to lead a word 02:09.120 --> 02:13.920 six and thank you to all the city staff who have been very welcoming and kind and gracious 02:13.920 --> 02:14.920 with their emails. 02:14.920 --> 02:17.120 If I haven't gotten back to you yet, I promise to be shortly. 02:18.120 --> 02:19.920 Thank you for that. 02:19.920 --> 02:20.920 Welcome and welcome. 02:20.920 --> 02:21.920 All right. 02:21.920 --> 02:23.400 That brings us to public comments for this evening. 02:23.400 --> 02:27.480 Just a reminder that you have a maximum of three minutes and up to 30 minutes total for 02:27.480 --> 02:29.400 public comments this evening. 02:29.400 --> 02:40.400 Are there any registered public comments? 02:40.400 --> 02:47.400 Give me an address. 02:47.400 --> 03:02.480 Okay, Tracy Finch, Port View Drive, Port Washington. 03:02.480 --> 03:06.880 I'm speaking tonight because the people of Port Washington deserve the truth. 03:06.880 --> 03:11.760 Not half answers, not assurance reassertances that fall apart moment residents open their 03:11.760 --> 03:13.120 utility bills. 03:13.120 --> 03:17.920 Your fact sheet told the public that the data center would not cause our utility bills 03:17.920 --> 03:18.920 to rise. 03:18.920 --> 03:21.000 That statement is now impossible to defend. 03:21.000 --> 03:27.000 We energies own filings, their own words list two major reasons for upcoming rate hikes. 03:27.000 --> 03:32.680 Grid upgrades and rising energy demand from large users like the data center like vantage. 03:32.680 --> 03:36.200 There's no uncertainty in what they wrote. 03:36.200 --> 03:40.720 So when the city tells the residents that the data center has nothing to do with these 03:40.720 --> 03:43.240 increases, that is just misleading. 03:43.240 --> 03:48.800 It's directly contradicting that by the utility responsibility for the rates we pay, we were 03:48.800 --> 03:54.840 told vantage would pay all infrastructure and all usage of what they use for the data center. 03:54.840 --> 03:59.920 If they're that were fully true, residents would not be absorbing the financial impact 03:59.920 --> 04:03.080 of the grid expansion and massive new demand. 04:03.080 --> 04:08.440 That we are and the public was never told that these costs would still ripple through 04:08.440 --> 04:11.840 the system and our land on our monthly bills. 04:11.840 --> 04:15.200 Mayor Nitsky, this community plans its budget carefully. 04:15.200 --> 04:17.640 People are already stretched thin. 04:17.640 --> 04:24.120 They were promised stability and instead they were being hit with increases tied to a project 04:24.120 --> 04:27.560 they were told would not affect them. 04:27.560 --> 04:33.040 That is not transparency, that is not responsibility, responsible communication and it's not acceptable. 04:33.520 --> 04:43.000 At this point, the issue is not just the rising bills, the lack of honesty about why they're 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 rising. 04:44.000 --> 04:48.280 The city cannot continue to stand behind a fact sheet that is no longer factual. 04:48.280 --> 04:52.440 The public cannot expect to trust leadership that refuses to correct information once 04:52.440 --> 04:53.880 it's proven wrong. 04:53.880 --> 04:58.080 Mayor, if you want to rebuild trust, the first step is simple. 04:58.800 --> 05:00.400 Update the fact sheet. 05:00.400 --> 05:05.840 Tell residents the truth about how this project affects the grid and why their costs are going 05:05.840 --> 05:06.840 up. 05:06.840 --> 05:11.240 Anything less is disservice to the people you were elected to represent. 05:11.240 --> 05:16.120 For watching deserves leadership that is transparent, accountable and willing to admit that when 05:16.120 --> 05:21.640 something was communicated incorrectly and right now residents are paying the price for 05:21.640 --> 05:28.000 information that was incomplete at best misleading at worst because we have no idea what advantage 05:28.320 --> 05:33.000 is paying for and what not because we can't see what they're paying for. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Thank you. 05:35.000 --> 05:38.000 Is that the only other registered comment? 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 Okay. 05:58.000 --> 06:12.600 So, Sebastian Elicher, 1370s, Cleveland, my apologies for not pre-registering. 06:12.600 --> 06:17.760 I want to say briefly, congratulations to Elder People Banning and Noy Meyer for their 06:17.760 --> 06:23.800 re-election and to Alderman Beaster for his election. 06:23.800 --> 06:31.280 It clearly is a great privilege to serve but it's also a big duty and we wish all three 06:31.280 --> 06:35.360 elder men the best of luck in the coming months and years. 06:35.360 --> 06:42.840 I also wish to congratulate the voters in Port Washington for showing up in really large 06:42.840 --> 06:45.840 numbers at the referendum. 06:45.840 --> 06:52.160 Turnout at the referendum was roughly 50% of registered voters. 06:52.160 --> 06:58.320 If you look at referenda in the state of Wisconsin and if you look at larger data sets 06:58.320 --> 07:04.440 examining referenda in the United States more broadly, that's truly impressive and such 07:04.440 --> 07:09.400 high participation rates should be celebrated. 07:09.400 --> 07:10.400 Thank you. 07:10.400 --> 07:11.400 All right. 07:11.400 --> 07:12.400 We're going to move into the agenda then. 07:12.400 --> 07:16.480 Under the consent agenda, there is an approval of minutes and accept the March monthly invoices. 07:16.480 --> 07:18.640 There's someone willing to make that motion. 07:18.640 --> 07:19.640 Second. 07:19.640 --> 07:20.640 Second. 07:20.640 --> 07:22.440 Any questions or concerns on the motion? 07:22.440 --> 07:25.880 Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. 07:25.880 --> 07:28.160 Any opposed or abstentions? 07:28.160 --> 07:29.720 Okay. 07:29.720 --> 07:33.920 That moves us into the mayor's business then for this month. 07:33.920 --> 07:38.760 In your packet, there is an appointment of older persons to boards, committees and commissions. 07:38.760 --> 07:39.760 That has been reviewed. 07:39.760 --> 07:46.520 I did check with everyone on council and the shift here is that Mr. Beaster will be on 07:46.520 --> 07:50.040 the board of public works and the park and recreation board. 07:50.040 --> 07:53.760 Two great places for him to get a strong understanding of the infrastructure of Port 07:53.760 --> 07:54.760 Washington. 07:54.760 --> 07:56.600 So thank you for agreeing to sit on those. 07:56.600 --> 07:58.040 Otherwise, any other questions on that? 07:58.040 --> 08:01.120 Otherwise, I'd look for a motion to accept the recommendations. 08:01.120 --> 08:03.280 I move to accept. 08:03.280 --> 08:04.280 Second. 08:04.280 --> 08:05.360 There's a motion and a second. 08:05.360 --> 08:06.920 Any questions or concerns? 08:06.920 --> 08:07.920 All right. 08:07.920 --> 08:09.760 Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. 08:09.760 --> 08:10.760 Aye. 08:10.760 --> 08:11.760 Opposed? 08:11.760 --> 08:12.760 All right. 08:12.760 --> 08:13.760 Motion carries. 08:13.760 --> 08:14.960 There are two proclamations then for the month. 08:14.960 --> 08:19.320 The first proclamation is National Arbor Day and Tree City USA. 08:19.320 --> 08:23.880 This is something that the city of Port Washington has participated in for quite a while. 08:23.880 --> 08:29.120 Arbor Day began in 1872 in Nebraska and has carried on a tradition. 08:29.120 --> 08:34.480 Port Washington is probably a Tree City USA under the direction of our park and recreation 08:34.480 --> 08:37.200 director and city arborist, Mr. Crane. 08:37.200 --> 08:43.360 And Port Washington has a very proud, it is called an urban forest, if I'm not mistaken, 08:43.360 --> 08:44.880 or city forest. 08:44.880 --> 08:48.960 And I appreciate the diversity and all the actions and work that you do, Mr. Crane, for 08:48.960 --> 08:49.960 that. 08:49.960 --> 08:50.960 So thank you for that very, very much. 08:50.960 --> 08:55.200 The second proclamation for the month came about as a result of a community meeting. 08:55.200 --> 09:02.440 I had last fall in discussing the data center project when I met with birders and environmentalists 09:02.440 --> 09:04.600 who live along Lake Michigan. 09:04.600 --> 09:10.280 And they had asked that we once again participate in becoming a bird city. 09:10.280 --> 09:11.280 And so we have. 09:11.320 --> 09:18.360 And as part of that, we also proclaim 2026 migratory bird day and observation for this. 09:18.360 --> 09:22.080 The state of Wisconsin in Port Washington in particular, this is an important issue for 09:22.080 --> 09:23.240 me personally. 09:23.240 --> 09:27.600 Port Washington is in a migratory bird pattern where this is as far south as certain species 09:27.600 --> 09:32.000 come and it's also as far north as certain species come. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.240 So birders know that. 09:33.240 --> 09:40.360 And I was very excited on the fact that vantage corporation worked with the Great Lakes Bird 09:40.400 --> 09:45.800 Observatory group in the design and are working with them on many of the species that they 09:45.800 --> 09:51.600 would be planting at their project to attract wild birds and migratory birds. 09:51.600 --> 09:55.960 One of the things that came up the last time that we had a council meeting that they worked 09:55.960 --> 10:05.360 with us on was the volume of retention ponds on that property. 10:05.360 --> 10:11.440 And if I'm not mistaken, there's over 150 acres of retention ponds, which is nearly 10:11.440 --> 10:14.000 twice the size of random lake that will be there. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.400 And they're working with them to potentially drain certain ponds to attract ground nesting 10:17.400 --> 10:19.040 birds for the spring. 10:19.040 --> 10:24.240 So happy that we are once again a bird city and that we are observing that. 10:24.240 --> 10:30.600 The next one is that we're moving into is the park and recreation boards charter. 10:30.600 --> 10:31.600 Mr. 10:31.600 --> 10:32.600 Crane. 10:33.600 --> 10:34.840 Oh, our council's doing it. 10:34.840 --> 10:35.840 I'm sorry. 10:35.840 --> 10:38.520 No, I didn't know. 10:38.520 --> 10:41.640 Mrs. Miller, you are the chair. 10:41.640 --> 10:43.600 You're going to do the charter. 10:43.600 --> 10:47.920 You guys going to have a rock paper scissors tournament to determine who's speaking here? 10:47.920 --> 10:50.480 Sure, I can present. 10:50.480 --> 10:51.480 Thank you. 10:51.480 --> 10:56.840 So our charter is available on the website and it has been included in our last couple 10:56.840 --> 10:57.840 of packets. 10:57.840 --> 11:02.160 If anybody wants to read it, I'm going to go through it quite quickly. 11:02.160 --> 11:07.840 Our strategic goal is to ensure that we are operating as efficiently and safely as possible 11:07.840 --> 11:14.560 within the park and rec department, which includes a pool, our park program, our forestry 11:14.560 --> 11:19.520 department, and help me know what any other programs we got. 11:19.520 --> 11:28.080 Oh, I'm sorry, community garden community garden and we have lots of other goals out 11:28.080 --> 11:34.080 there to establish more volunteer help for the community gardens, if anyone's interested. 11:34.080 --> 11:43.520 On our committee is our newest member who is sitting next to me. 11:43.520 --> 11:49.720 And Dan Ross, Jane Dean, Wayne Crucial, and John Crane. 11:49.720 --> 11:50.720 We do a great job. 11:50.720 --> 11:54.720 We're always looking for volunteers for our board, so please join us. 11:54.720 --> 11:56.800 Does anybody have questions or concerns? 11:57.520 --> 11:59.920 I told you it was short and sweet. 11:59.920 --> 12:02.320 Anything you want to add? 12:02.320 --> 12:11.520 Anything you want to add, Joe? 12:11.520 --> 12:14.580 If you want to just touch on it, would you mind just sharing kind of the objectives and 12:14.580 --> 12:17.080 goals for the year for the community? 12:17.080 --> 12:18.080 Yeah. 12:18.080 --> 12:20.080 Thank you. 12:20.080 --> 12:34.960 So, yeah, I'll go through kind of some of these things are the annual things that we 12:34.960 --> 12:38.960 go through. 12:38.960 --> 12:45.800 This year we're removing roughly 100 dead and declining trees. 12:45.800 --> 12:53.560 We'll continue to structural prune to try to get us on to a seven-year pruning cycle. 12:53.560 --> 12:59.120 What Dan entails is we have two strategies for when we attack pruning. 12:59.120 --> 13:03.520 We have to clearance prune for all the trucks that go through and then we also structural 13:03.520 --> 13:10.160 prune our younger trees so that they develop stronger leads and less damage and longevity 13:10.160 --> 13:11.160 of the trees. 13:11.160 --> 13:12.800 We're really seeing a turn in that. 13:12.800 --> 13:18.080 We've had a lot of windstorms recently and from the time that I started roughly 15 years 13:18.080 --> 13:28.040 ago to now there's a huge reduction in the amount of calls that we get for down and damage 13:28.040 --> 13:30.280 trees and windstorms. 13:30.280 --> 13:36.080 We'll be planting roughly 350 to 400 trees this year. 13:36.080 --> 13:42.720 That includes replacements of dead and dying disease trees along with new trees in the 13:42.720 --> 13:45.320 developments. 13:45.320 --> 13:51.160 Unlike a lot of other communities, we handle all of the new development plantings. 13:51.160 --> 13:57.320 This gives us a stronger control on diversity of what we're doing and also ensures that 13:57.320 --> 13:59.720 it's properly done. 13:59.720 --> 14:07.080 In the past it was done by contractors and it costs a lot of time and labor to police 14:07.080 --> 14:12.000 that and you're relying on what you're getting for contractors. 14:12.000 --> 14:16.760 We've taken over that program and had great success with that. 14:16.760 --> 14:24.160 This year I'm proud to say we planted 90% of our street trees straight from our city 14:24.160 --> 14:30.720 nursery so that was really nice to see the turnaround on that. 14:30.720 --> 14:36.240 Those were trees that we plant at roughly one-fifth of the cost. 14:36.240 --> 14:41.240 There's little maintenance involved, I mean it does require some pruning, but we have 14:41.240 --> 14:46.640 a pretty good setup out there that allows us to keep the labor down. 14:46.640 --> 14:53.240 We've got a system that sets up that we're able to plant those own trees. 14:53.240 --> 14:59.360 Other things that we annually do, we've got a properly set up for the pool. 14:59.360 --> 15:03.880 Get everything, basically we winterize everything and start over so right now the crews are 15:03.880 --> 15:09.640 getting it ready, all of the drinking fountains, all of the bathrooms, everything like that 15:09.640 --> 15:16.160 and then timing to get the pool set up because we're getting ready to fill that. 15:16.160 --> 15:21.320 New seasonal staff, we always have a turnaround in that because kids will stick around for 15:21.320 --> 15:26.640 a few years and then move on to their careers so that's another thing that's just the annual. 15:26.640 --> 15:33.640 We'll get into our highlighted projected goals, we have to do new water heater at the bath 15:33.640 --> 15:34.640 house, that's complete. 15:34.640 --> 15:40.560 We have a new walkway ramp that's getting started this week leading down to the entrance of 15:40.560 --> 15:41.560 the pool. 15:41.560 --> 15:47.560 We'll be putting in new basketball slash pickleball courts at Hill School Park this year similar 15:47.560 --> 15:51.640 to the Colbach Park set up. 15:51.640 --> 15:57.480 We've had a big demand for pickleball and I think it actually increased after we put 15:57.480 --> 16:03.080 those three courts in, it seemed to build a lot of attraction so Hill School is a good 16:03.080 --> 16:05.480 central location for that. 16:05.480 --> 16:08.840 We originally were planning on doing just basketball courts there but it's such a large 16:08.840 --> 16:14.080 footprint that we're able to have a combined court system there. 16:14.080 --> 16:18.320 We're going to be doing upgraded playground equipment at Lyons Park. 16:18.320 --> 16:23.720 We have a rain garden that we'll be installing at Colbach Park that is funded through grant 16:23.720 --> 16:32.320 projects with the Wisconsin Bird Observatory in line with part of the necessities for to 16:32.320 --> 16:35.400 be a bird city. 16:35.400 --> 16:41.080 And then we'll also be doing some paving projects, we have a small half court basketball court 16:41.080 --> 16:47.320 going in at Bly Park along with a paved trail leading up to highway L.L. and then we'll 16:47.320 --> 16:55.400 also be paving the municipal ball field parking lot to align with our paving of municipal 16:55.400 --> 16:57.440 lots. 16:57.440 --> 17:05.600 And most of this work is being done in house so it's going to be a busy summer. 17:05.600 --> 17:10.280 Next growing sport in America has pickleball so appreciate this. 17:10.280 --> 17:17.840 And if anyone on the council is not seen up by the water tower or tree farm, it's pretty 17:17.840 --> 17:21.680 interesting what John has cultivated in there saving a lot of money and spreading those 17:21.680 --> 17:28.200 species out and I mean Rob talked about this when I first got elected just the beauty of 17:28.200 --> 17:32.160 our canopy now on our main streets and the diversity and how that looks and not picking 17:32.160 --> 17:33.880 one species is just fantastic. 17:33.880 --> 17:38.520 So you and your team do a phenomenal job John and we really, really appreciate it. 17:38.520 --> 17:41.600 Any other questions, concerns or comments for Mr. Crane? 17:41.600 --> 17:45.120 Yeah, thank you John, thank you Mary Lou. 17:45.120 --> 17:49.640 Okay, that takes us into the an update on the bluff. 17:49.640 --> 17:53.240 I've got three other things here really quickly and I'm going to turn it over to you Rob is 17:53.240 --> 17:58.480 first is just a reminder council if you are available on May 18th to come to the council 17:58.480 --> 18:03.640 chambers at eight o'clock that is when the sixth fourth graders will be sworn in for 18:03.640 --> 18:08.000 mayor for the day and we have that day for them and then I'll send you an invitation 18:08.000 --> 18:10.280 for the dignitary lunch with them. 18:10.280 --> 18:16.000 Their day is going to be starting here and then taking the beast, Ernie Vonschle, I don't 18:16.000 --> 18:20.000 always gives us a nice Cadillac Escalade to drive those young kids around in. 18:20.000 --> 18:25.040 So we'll take the executive vehicle for them, we'll go over to the police and fire center 18:25.040 --> 18:30.160 where we're going to get a tour from the chief and the two chiefs, they'll get to see the 18:30.160 --> 18:33.720 eye beam that they signed so we'll go up there and get to see that and then from there 18:33.720 --> 18:37.320 they're going to go out and see the data center project to kind of see the scale and 18:37.320 --> 18:38.320 scope of that. 18:38.320 --> 18:41.320 I think it's important for young people to be able to see those different pieces as 18:41.320 --> 18:45.480 they're in motion and then in the afternoon they'll be unveiling the honorary street signs 18:45.480 --> 18:49.560 that were approved a couple months ago for each of their schools. 18:49.560 --> 18:57.080 So Lion Lane and Dunwoody Drive and Jaguar Drive so they'll get to unveil those and 18:57.080 --> 19:01.160 then we'll drive the proclamations around to the schools and they'll declare National 19:01.160 --> 19:04.080 Education Week for them and then we'll come back here and debrief with their parents, 19:04.080 --> 19:06.080 grandparents and anybody else. 19:06.080 --> 19:10.040 So 18th if you're available for that and then on May 15th, I don't know why I'm going 19:10.040 --> 19:14.720 backwards here in the calendar, May 15th, the senior center is doing the same thing, 19:14.720 --> 19:18.680 so I'm taking 24 seniors, they are not all mayors for the day, Lord knows what would 19:18.680 --> 19:21.160 happen if I did that. 19:21.160 --> 19:25.880 But they will be joining me for that same tour, police and fire center, safety center 19:25.880 --> 19:29.320 and then out to the data center so that they can see that. 19:29.320 --> 19:34.000 And the members of the senior center are eligible for that and they'll sign up for that as 19:34.000 --> 19:35.000 well. 19:35.000 --> 19:42.440 And then finally the Bluff has come up a few times this week and obviously with the multiple 19:42.440 --> 19:48.480 failures there, Ask Rob and to really review what we can do, it's accelerating kind of 19:48.480 --> 19:50.440 the Bluff redesign. 19:50.440 --> 19:54.880 Members of the council, if you remember, was it two summers ago that we had the students 19:54.880 --> 20:01.440 from UWM who did the kind of vision of what could be up there with the road and the shifts 20:01.440 --> 20:04.520 and everything else? 20:04.520 --> 20:08.240 I'm very saddened that Mother Nature is winning again. 20:08.240 --> 20:13.840 That Bluff over the course of my life was hundreds of feet into that lake prior to what 20:13.840 --> 20:20.040 it is today and two major drops, one in the 90s, one in the late 70s and then last summer 20:20.040 --> 20:21.960 or two summers ago in the summer. 20:21.960 --> 20:26.360 So it's time for us as a community to really face the fact that a looping road up there 20:26.360 --> 20:28.920 along the edge is not safe. 20:28.920 --> 20:33.800 Right now I think it's just shy of seven feet away from the edge with the road and that 20:33.800 --> 20:39.560 parking lot and unfortunately for the community that will be closed indefinitely and that's 20:39.560 --> 20:43.960 what we asked Rob to kind of give us an update on with both the Bluff failure and the plan 20:43.960 --> 20:48.400 to ensure safety and accessibility to the Bluff this summer and the rest of the year. 20:48.400 --> 20:49.400 Rob? 20:49.400 --> 20:55.360 So yeah, thinking of backing off of those comments, we do recognize the importance of 20:55.360 --> 21:02.600 both our beach and accessibility on our Bluff and so our intention, hopefully we're hoping 21:02.600 --> 21:11.480 for next week to have our street department on site expanding the roadway to the west 21:11.480 --> 21:16.760 by about five to ten feet and so we can move the travel lane and the pedestrian lane kind 21:16.760 --> 21:25.840 of out of that immediate failure plane of where the Bluff is encroaching on the driveway 21:25.840 --> 21:33.360 and so we feel that this is a temporary fix because that as we know the Bluff is receding 21:33.360 --> 21:41.560 but this has been determined with our geotechnical consultants that in the present condition 21:41.560 --> 21:47.760 of the Bluff that this would be a safe zone to shift our traffic and so we know we have 21:47.760 --> 21:53.480 a lot of walkers up there too so we want to keep that open for everyone as quickly as 21:53.480 --> 21:55.520 possible. 21:55.520 --> 22:03.000 As the mayor said, I think we should probably also accelerate our discussion on the Bluff 22:03.000 --> 22:12.920 and we did have a UW student, he performed his capstone project you may recall on opportunities 22:12.920 --> 22:21.520 for improving Upper Lake Park, we had a lot of public engagement, I think once we determined 22:21.520 --> 22:32.760 to move forward with some of these improvements, we'll ask for more public engagement but we'd 22:32.760 --> 22:40.520 like to start that discussion as soon as possible so we really want consensus among our council 22:40.520 --> 22:43.680 members and the public. 22:43.680 --> 22:49.360 As far as the North Beach goes, this is something that occurs about every four years it seems 22:49.360 --> 22:58.280 that the Bluff kind of settles on our path to North Beach and so we are the last two, 22:58.280 --> 23:05.640 this one and then the one that occurred in 2021 have probably been the largest that 23:05.640 --> 23:13.120 we've had since I've been here and so Miller engineers and scientists help us out with 23:13.120 --> 23:19.960 that, they'll do all the survey work and be on site for when we do the regrading of that 23:19.960 --> 23:30.560 area, they'll provide a proposal, the last one that we had in 2022 actually was $3,000 23:30.560 --> 23:36.480 so I think it's money well spent to have that professional presence there because it is 23:36.480 --> 23:45.680 so important and safety is so critical so we'll engage them to drop a plan for essentially 23:45.680 --> 23:49.600 regrading that area plus removal of the soils. 23:49.600 --> 23:57.040 I would like to complete, I don't like to over promise but we expect that we should 23:57.040 --> 24:03.400 have the survey work done in the beginning of May and hopefully if the weather cooperates, 24:03.400 --> 24:08.880 our crews can get out there and do that regrading by the end of May so that's the, that is our 24:08.920 --> 24:16.000 plan to reopen North Beach for the summer and to have the road open within the next 24:16.000 --> 24:18.160 two weeks. 24:18.160 --> 24:22.600 Any questions, comments? 24:22.600 --> 24:24.880 All over the first possible? 24:24.880 --> 24:31.640 There are obviously many curious people who want to look at the problems at the bluff, 24:31.640 --> 24:37.520 how safe is it for pedestrians to walk to the edge and look over? 24:38.520 --> 24:41.000 Do you want me to? 24:41.000 --> 24:42.000 Sure. 24:42.000 --> 24:45.080 So I can start on that, not at all. 24:45.080 --> 24:50.600 Chief DeBore, I talked to both Chief Hengis and Chief DeBore last Monday and then Chief 24:50.600 --> 24:55.840 DeBore took the drone, a high-def drone and flew it along the bluff edge. 24:55.840 --> 25:00.760 There are, I was just showing the council, there's a tree stand which is really popular 25:00.760 --> 25:04.680 with young people where everybody hammocks. 25:04.680 --> 25:09.440 One of those trees has no terraforma underneath it at all, it's just the root system that's 25:09.440 --> 25:11.200 holding it there. 25:11.200 --> 25:18.160 So it's not safe and we had talked about fencing or what to do because there used to 25:18.160 --> 25:23.000 be a snow fence up there 15 years ago and then that, I don't know if it's in Michigan 25:23.000 --> 25:28.760 now but it's gone, but like that edge that people should proceed with extreme caution. 25:28.760 --> 25:34.280 One of the signs that says do not stand on the edge is halfway down the bluff. 25:34.280 --> 25:41.440 So I would really warn people not to do that and ask that I'd stay away unless it's 25:41.440 --> 25:44.200 in an area that's greater that you can see otherwise. 25:44.200 --> 25:45.200 Yeah. 25:45.200 --> 25:50.800 And I guess I would also say, I mean, that road's blocked but not the bluff. 25:50.800 --> 25:55.960 Without commenting on the amount of risk, yes, we do know that the bluff, we know that the 25:55.960 --> 26:01.200 bluff experiences failure and the failures are from top down. 26:01.200 --> 26:07.760 So whether you're up above or you're down below, it's not 100% safe to be along the 26:07.760 --> 26:13.200 edge and we've experienced bluff failures that go on the beach as well. 26:13.200 --> 26:18.520 And so that is why I have always been a big proponent of stabilizing the bluff so that 26:18.520 --> 26:24.280 people can access both the top of the bluff and the beach and be assured of their safety. 26:24.280 --> 26:29.720 And Rob, would you just, because there are people who are watching, the reason it failed 26:29.720 --> 26:35.160 is not wave action entirely this time, especially this time, but it's the sand straight that 26:35.160 --> 26:36.160 runs through there. 26:36.160 --> 26:38.120 Can you just give us a 30 second on that? 26:38.120 --> 26:39.120 Yeah, right. 26:39.120 --> 26:45.360 So I mean, that was Miller's response that this is clearly caused by water running through 26:45.360 --> 26:47.240 that sand scene. 26:47.240 --> 26:53.600 That will be attenuated by the watering drain lines that we intend on installing in the 26:53.600 --> 26:56.040 bluff this summer. 26:56.040 --> 27:02.160 But no remedy is, that remedy is not going to be 100% fail safe. 27:02.160 --> 27:07.040 I mean, there's still going to be wave action, the wave, or I should say the lake rises and 27:07.040 --> 27:08.040 falls. 27:08.040 --> 27:11.400 So like in 2022, when we had our last experience, we closed the beach. 27:11.400 --> 27:15.000 You may remember for the entire summer because there really was no beach. 27:15.000 --> 27:17.040 The water was right up against the toe. 27:17.040 --> 27:21.560 And so every time you have that, you're getting that undercutting at the base. 27:21.560 --> 27:24.120 You're getting the water running through the sand scene. 27:24.200 --> 27:29.920 So it's kind of a double whammy that causes instability in the bluff. 27:29.920 --> 27:30.920 Yeah. 27:30.920 --> 27:35.920 Because the water runs through the sand seam, drips through the clay into the sand stream, 27:35.920 --> 27:38.760 pushes the way out, undercuts that, and then it comes through. 27:38.760 --> 27:43.120 And I just think that's important for people to know because, you know, there's some ideas 27:43.120 --> 27:47.360 out there that we've like mismanaged it or the city should have done something and you 27:47.360 --> 27:53.120 can't beat mother nature when there's ancient beaches underneath layers of clay. 27:53.120 --> 27:54.440 But, you know, we're going to try. 27:54.440 --> 27:55.440 Yeah. 27:55.440 --> 27:59.440 I mean, mother nature always has the last word, but we do our best. 27:59.440 --> 28:00.440 Okay. 28:00.440 --> 28:01.440 Hey, Mer. 28:01.440 --> 28:03.440 Any other questions or wonders for him? 28:03.440 --> 28:04.440 Okay. 28:04.440 --> 28:09.240 That moves us into the officer and staff reports. 28:09.240 --> 28:13.200 The first item of business is the election of council president. 28:13.200 --> 28:22.160 At this time, is there anyone willing to make motions or yeah, motions for a council president? 28:22.160 --> 28:27.880 I would, I would nominate all the written ending as council president. 28:27.880 --> 28:29.280 There's one nomination for Alderman Benning. 28:29.280 --> 28:33.280 Are there any other nominations? 28:33.280 --> 28:34.280 Any other nominations? 28:34.280 --> 28:40.440 All right, seeing none, is there anyone willing to make a motion for Alderman Benning to become 28:40.440 --> 28:42.000 the council president? 28:42.000 --> 28:43.640 I would make that motion, sir. 28:43.640 --> 28:45.000 There's a motion by Alderman Neumeier. 28:45.000 --> 28:46.000 Is there a second? 28:46.000 --> 28:47.000 Second. 28:47.000 --> 28:50.760 Seconded by Alderman Ben, or sorry, Alderman Gasper. 28:50.760 --> 28:52.480 Any questions or concerns on the motion? 28:52.480 --> 28:53.480 Seeing none. 28:53.480 --> 28:54.760 All in favor signify by saying aye. 28:54.760 --> 28:55.760 Aye. 28:55.760 --> 28:56.760 Opposed? 28:56.760 --> 28:57.760 Motion carries. 28:57.760 --> 28:58.760 Congratulations. 28:58.760 --> 28:59.760 Council President Benning. 28:59.760 --> 29:06.320 That brings us to the second under letter B, which is 7B, Approved Official Newspaper, which 29:06.320 --> 29:08.000 is recommended to be the Ozaki Press. 29:08.000 --> 29:10.560 Is there anyone willing to make that motion? 29:10.560 --> 29:11.560 So moved. 29:11.560 --> 29:12.560 There's a motion. 29:12.560 --> 29:13.560 Is there a second? 29:13.560 --> 29:14.560 Second. 29:14.560 --> 29:15.560 Seconded by Ms. Miller. 29:15.560 --> 29:18.560 Any questions or concerns on the motion? 29:18.560 --> 29:19.560 Seeing none. 29:19.560 --> 29:20.560 All in favor signify by saying aye. 29:20.560 --> 29:21.560 Aye. 29:21.560 --> 29:22.560 Opposed? 29:22.560 --> 29:23.560 Motion carries. 29:23.560 --> 29:26.960 That brings us to the Designate Official City Depositories, the Poor Washington State 29:26.960 --> 29:33.240 Bank, Ellers, D-A-N-A Investment Management, Schwab Custodial Accounts, and Local Government 29:33.240 --> 29:34.240 Investment Pool. 29:34.240 --> 29:38.640 Is there anyone willing to make a motion to designate them as our official Depositories? 29:38.640 --> 29:39.640 So moved. 29:39.640 --> 29:40.640 There's a motion. 29:40.640 --> 29:41.640 Is there a second? 29:41.640 --> 29:42.640 Second. 29:42.640 --> 29:43.640 Seconded. 29:43.640 --> 29:44.640 Thank you. 29:44.640 --> 29:47.120 Any questions or concerns on the motion? 29:47.120 --> 29:48.120 Seeing none. 29:48.120 --> 29:49.120 All in favor signify by saying aye. 29:49.120 --> 29:50.120 Opposed? 29:50.120 --> 29:51.120 Motion carries. 29:51.120 --> 29:54.120 That brings us into Department Monthly Reports. 29:54.120 --> 29:55.120 Melissa? 29:55.120 --> 29:56.120 Thank you. 29:56.120 --> 29:59.120 I thought I'd come up here because I kind of have the next three in a row and I'll introduce 29:59.120 --> 30:14.320 the TID presentation. 30:14.320 --> 30:19.000 So just wanted to welcome you, Michael, officially to our first meeting. 30:19.000 --> 30:23.520 We're glad to have you and hope we don't overload you with emails because I have a tendency 30:23.520 --> 30:26.680 to do that with over-information at first, but welcome. 30:26.680 --> 30:33.400 The BCCs will be appointed within the next meeting, so then we will be having a BCC training 30:33.400 --> 30:37.240 for that, that's boards, commissions, and committees. 30:37.240 --> 30:40.080 I use the acronyms a lot, so sorry. 30:40.080 --> 30:45.320 So we will be having that and we're tentatively focusing on the end of May. 30:45.320 --> 30:46.320 We are hiring. 30:46.320 --> 30:50.280 You'll see that in the department head reports, which are always posted on the administrative 30:50.280 --> 30:51.280 shouldn't page. 30:51.280 --> 30:52.280 Always check those out. 30:52.280 --> 30:56.240 There's usually like 15 to 30 pages of things that are going on with pictures, so it's nice 30:56.240 --> 31:01.920 to see what's all going on in the city outside of, you know, just a development and what happens 31:01.920 --> 31:02.920 here. 31:02.920 --> 31:06.960 There's a lot of work that goes on that we don't see and talk about here. 31:06.960 --> 31:11.720 At the next meeting, we will be doing an update on the public safety building, correct 31:11.720 --> 31:13.200 rep. 31:13.200 --> 31:15.680 So that Maura will be here to do a presentation on that. 31:15.680 --> 31:20.160 You'll get that ahead of time, hopefully with the packet. 31:20.160 --> 31:21.160 So that's moving along nicely. 31:21.160 --> 31:27.320 I don't think that we have any delays I got to go out there myself recently and it looks 31:27.320 --> 31:31.880 nice and it will be a great facility for them. 31:31.880 --> 31:36.640 And then in June or July, I believe we'll be having the bike pad plan or port moves 31:36.640 --> 31:37.760 plan coming forward. 31:37.760 --> 31:38.960 It went to public works. 31:38.960 --> 31:41.280 They want to do a little bit more digging in on it. 31:41.280 --> 31:49.760 So we're thinking maybe June or July, back here, back to here in May, May 19th, it'll 31:49.760 --> 31:50.760 be back. 31:50.760 --> 31:51.760 They're going to get that done. 31:51.760 --> 31:52.880 I guess it's the next meeting. 31:52.880 --> 31:58.520 So and then we will also be bringing the lead lateral replacement forward in the next couple 31:58.520 --> 31:59.520 of months. 31:59.520 --> 32:03.000 We're still sorting out how that is going to be financed and how we can make sure that's 32:03.000 --> 32:05.840 the best opportunity options for the community. 32:05.840 --> 32:09.760 So that is what I have from the department head updates. 32:09.760 --> 32:12.720 Any questions or comments from that? 32:12.720 --> 32:15.040 I have one, Rob, and I don't know where this fits. 32:15.040 --> 32:18.440 I don't know if it's traffic safety or that bike pad plan. 32:18.440 --> 32:23.840 We have a new type of vehicle that's emerged in the last really six years, electric bikes. 32:23.840 --> 32:28.680 We have a tremendous amount of very young people doing 25 30 40 miles per hour in town 32:28.680 --> 32:29.680 on those bikes. 32:29.680 --> 32:34.040 And I'm wondering if that's something that we want to explore there or traffic safety, 32:34.040 --> 32:36.640 but I wouldn't traffic safety. 32:36.640 --> 32:40.400 I just don't know where that or how that gets regulated because I looked up. 32:40.400 --> 32:43.240 There's no statutory guidance on it right now. 32:43.240 --> 32:47.240 But tonight was a really good example of our little biking that went flying by on one 32:47.240 --> 32:48.240 wheel. 32:48.240 --> 32:49.720 So I don't know what we want to do that. 32:49.720 --> 32:52.160 So I'll check with the chief on it. 32:52.160 --> 32:58.680 And then the only other things I had is Rob, in your report, you talked about the Valley 32:58.680 --> 33:02.360 Creek tree planting in April of 2026. 33:02.360 --> 33:03.360 And John is here as well. 33:03.360 --> 33:05.360 So maybe he can address this. 33:05.360 --> 33:06.360 Are those saplings? 33:06.360 --> 33:07.760 Are those a variety of trees? 33:07.760 --> 33:10.240 Are those mature trees? 33:10.240 --> 33:11.240 What's going to be planted in there? 33:11.240 --> 33:20.160 Because it states that they're, I mean, a bunch. 33:20.160 --> 33:23.880 And then is that all the staff who's planting those or is there any opportunity for community 33:23.880 --> 33:24.880 service? 33:24.880 --> 33:33.480 I think there is also a community for, yeah, so they're doing, they're doing in conjunction 33:33.480 --> 33:37.880 with Vantage is sending out a group of volunteers to assist with planting. 33:37.880 --> 33:42.280 I just thought maybe if we can invite our young scientists from last month to potentially 33:42.280 --> 33:46.480 come those students from TJ or their classes, but okay. 33:46.480 --> 33:50.800 There was not as much, I mean, volunteers are welcome, but there was not as much, Stantec 33:50.800 --> 33:54.760 is managing it and there was not as much public outreach for it. 33:54.760 --> 33:58.400 But they've been working, I think, Vantage reached out to them to see how they could 33:58.400 --> 33:59.400 get involved. 33:59.400 --> 34:00.400 Okay. 34:00.400 --> 34:03.960 And then the only other thing most of that I wanted to put in here was I really appreciated 34:03.960 --> 34:10.200 that our fire department participated in the funeral of a fallen firefighter in Milwaukee. 34:10.200 --> 34:14.440 So I wanted to give them credit and make sure that the community knew that we did that. 34:14.880 --> 34:15.880 Thanks, Melissa. 34:21.000 --> 34:26.160 Yep, we can go on to the next item, which is, well, monthly reports and city administrator 34:26.160 --> 34:27.160 updates. 34:27.160 --> 34:28.160 Same, just done. 34:28.160 --> 34:29.160 Yep. 34:29.160 --> 34:30.160 Okay. 34:30.160 --> 34:32.840 And that takes us into the presentation of tax incremental district number five, project 34:32.840 --> 34:33.840 planning. 34:33.840 --> 34:34.840 All right. 34:34.840 --> 34:37.440 So thank you for letting me kick this off. 34:37.440 --> 34:42.360 I'll be introducing the folks that are going to do most of the presentation, but I just 34:42.360 --> 34:48.320 wanted to, there's an immense amount of interest in this project and how we're going 34:48.320 --> 34:50.680 to be project planning for the city. 34:50.680 --> 34:54.960 And we really wanted to take this opportunity to make sure that the community knows, council 34:54.960 --> 35:00.200 knows, you know, are basically our one to three year immediate plans that relate to 35:00.200 --> 35:01.840 TID five. 35:01.840 --> 35:07.440 And we want to make sure that we are communicating often, communicating out and letting the community 35:07.440 --> 35:12.160 know what we're doing so that we can work alongside them and then also not work on 35:12.160 --> 35:15.840 top of each other because oftentimes it's, you don't realize, you know, we energy is 35:15.840 --> 35:18.720 going to be here and here at the same time or you're going to be there. 35:18.720 --> 35:21.640 So we're really working on a full scope. 35:21.640 --> 35:25.480 So a lot of work has gone into this presentation that we'll do tonight. 35:25.480 --> 35:26.480 It was in the packet. 35:26.480 --> 35:27.480 We'll post it online. 35:27.480 --> 35:32.560 We'll also link to this presentation and we want to make sure people are able to get 35:32.560 --> 35:33.560 to this link. 35:33.560 --> 35:35.320 So we'll link like where you can start in the video. 35:35.320 --> 35:38.760 So you don't have to sit at home and listen to, you know, the full council meeting. 35:38.760 --> 35:42.720 If you don't want to do all of that listening. 35:42.720 --> 35:49.800 But we, it does take a lot of work to condense a presentation like this down into like 25 35:49.800 --> 35:50.800 minutes. 35:50.800 --> 35:52.440 It's very easy to do a long presentation. 35:52.440 --> 35:57.640 So I do applaud the staff and our consultants for working with us on that so that we can 35:57.640 --> 35:59.240 give a broad scope of what it is. 35:59.240 --> 36:03.320 So I kind of wanted to be the disclaimer for the, for the project. 36:03.320 --> 36:06.960 You know, we're not going to solve all the project problems tonight. 36:07.440 --> 36:11.960 We don't have all the exact numbers that this will, everything will cost. 36:11.960 --> 36:16.040 But what we are doing is letting you know what projects are getting done and what are 36:16.040 --> 36:21.600 the immediate, what are the immediate projects that are going to impact the community. 36:21.600 --> 36:24.920 So it's like the one to three, one to three years. 36:24.920 --> 36:29.560 We had grave here last going through that DOT plan of what's going to be done right 36:29.560 --> 36:31.400 now in the roads, the turning. 36:31.400 --> 36:36.640 So we're really trying to just communicate that out so folks know what tonight isn't. 36:36.640 --> 36:38.240 It's not an action item. 36:38.240 --> 36:40.720 You aren't going to vote on anything. 36:40.720 --> 36:45.440 It's informational only and we appreciate the, the input that we got. 36:45.440 --> 36:50.240 This was presented at Public Works last week and we did get some feedback which we tried 36:50.240 --> 36:54.560 to incorporate within our comments since, since that time. 36:54.560 --> 36:58.200 So we appreciate the, the feedback we've had from some of the community, some of the community 36:58.200 --> 37:00.880 groups and 9th of council. 37:00.880 --> 37:03.720 And this is obviously not a final discussion. 37:03.720 --> 37:09.000 So all of these projects will move through the process like as a normal project. 37:09.000 --> 37:14.360 City staff isn't going to be making the decision on, you know, this is the scope of this project. 37:14.360 --> 37:15.760 These will come through. 37:15.760 --> 37:19.880 We've identified them and then they'll come to the process through Public Works and then 37:19.880 --> 37:23.400 to council like any other normal project would. 37:23.400 --> 37:28.160 So we don't have a blink check unfortunately or fortunately. 37:28.160 --> 37:32.600 And then this also is a way to engage with the community so that you, you all can, you 37:32.600 --> 37:35.720 know, share it with your friends or family or whoever's interested and then they can 37:35.720 --> 37:41.720 solicit to the economic development inbox which I manage and we can make sure we're 37:41.720 --> 37:45.240 getting those answers to the, to the community. 37:45.240 --> 37:51.440 We'll talk about the partnerships that we have but I think the council knows, I interact 37:51.440 --> 37:57.920 a lot with the county, the town, Socville, our friends groups, Main Street, the county 37:57.920 --> 38:02.760 and we're trying to make sure that we're reaching to all of those groups. 38:02.760 --> 38:06.320 We have a couple slides on that later which, which I'll go into a little bit more at that 38:06.320 --> 38:07.320 time. 38:07.320 --> 38:09.720 But we're really excited to present this to you. 38:09.720 --> 38:15.260 We're excited to pull this all together and I'd like to, and then introduce we have Ben 38:15.260 --> 38:17.360 Wood from Stranden Associates. 38:17.360 --> 38:20.640 They, Stranden has been working with us for many years. 38:20.640 --> 38:23.200 So they are very knowledgeable on our systems. 38:23.200 --> 38:26.160 Ben will be doing most of the speaking. 38:26.160 --> 38:30.640 And we also have Aaron Grohl from Kapoor Engineers. 38:30.640 --> 38:36.440 He'll take a piece in this and then we have Roger and Rob who will have some speaking 38:36.440 --> 38:41.640 points from our resident experts, city engineer and public works. 38:41.640 --> 38:46.040 So without further ado, I will let him come up and get connected. 38:46.040 --> 38:50.240 And then we will ask, you just to hold the question until the end and then we'll try 38:50.240 --> 38:54.240 to answer those that we didn't capture in the presentation. 38:55.240 --> 38:56.240 Thank you, Melissa. 38:56.240 --> 39:01.240 So we'll consolidate our questions and we'll wait until it's over. 39:01.240 --> 39:02.240 All right. 39:02.240 --> 39:03.240 And we're helping. 39:03.240 --> 39:05.240 We can get the system to work the entire time. 39:05.240 --> 39:06.240 Yep. 39:06.240 --> 39:08.240 Not to slice the restarts. 39:08.240 --> 39:09.240 Right. 39:09.240 --> 39:10.240 Okay. 39:10.240 --> 39:18.600 Thank you for that introduction, Melissa. 39:18.600 --> 39:23.320 Thank you, staff and council for being with us tonight. 39:23.320 --> 39:28.800 This will be as Melissa indicated, very similar to what was presented last week at the public 39:28.800 --> 39:29.800 works committee. 39:29.800 --> 39:34.000 I'm happy to share it with the rest of the council here tonight. 39:34.000 --> 39:38.880 What we will cover is an overview briefly of the TID project plan that kind of sets 39:38.880 --> 39:41.920 the basis for all of the projects. 39:41.920 --> 39:48.520 The next major item will be all of the specific upcoming projects covering a variety of topics 39:48.520 --> 39:52.840 within those will kind of go through an overview map and then individual projects 39:52.840 --> 39:59.080 sites talking about the need and the thought process that went into each of those. 39:59.080 --> 40:03.320 While we'll step through that in kind of a map and a need orientation toward the end 40:03.320 --> 40:10.920 of the presentation, there is a project index before we wrap up with the summary. 40:10.920 --> 40:17.160 So for the TID project plan overview, this is a developer finance TID, which means that 40:17.160 --> 40:22.560 the developer is at risk for the project cost, and this is established in the already 40:22.560 --> 40:26.160 recorded development agreement. 40:26.160 --> 40:33.200 Approximately 180 million of city led TID projects are identified in the approved TID project 40:33.200 --> 40:38.200 plan for TID number five as established by Ehlers and shown here. 40:38.200 --> 40:43.560 The basis of the need for those specific projects covers a few categories, expanded service 40:43.560 --> 40:47.760 area, redundancy and resiliency and capacity. 40:47.760 --> 40:51.680 What we're going to go through specifically tonight are approximately 100 million dollars 40:51.680 --> 40:58.760 of those city led projects, and again that is the near term forecast of project needs 40:58.760 --> 41:02.920 and toward the end we'll kind of address where are the balance of those projects and 41:02.920 --> 41:07.000 why aren't those being discussed in detail tonight. 41:07.000 --> 41:10.600 This map represents an overview of the project sites. 41:10.600 --> 41:15.200 It may be familiar to some of you as we've talked about specific other water or sewer 41:15.200 --> 41:19.880 system planning needs, but I want to break this down as kind of the foundation for the 41:19.880 --> 41:23.120 need for a lot of these projects. 41:23.120 --> 41:27.520 TID five covers the vantage site, the south portion which is being developed right now 41:27.520 --> 41:34.000 is shown in yellow, the north portion for which there is no imminent site specific development 41:34.000 --> 41:36.600 plan is shown in the pink. 41:36.600 --> 41:42.880 The canalsville obligation area which is a part of the town of Port Washington is shown 41:42.880 --> 41:49.000 in blue and then local adjacent lands are shown in green. 41:49.000 --> 41:55.480 The need to consider these local adjacent lands shown in green was prompted by the southeastern 41:55.480 --> 42:03.960 Wisconsin regional planning commission that encouraged the city to think about what lands 42:03.960 --> 42:10.480 might attach themselves to municipal utilities once utilities are run this far north to 42:10.480 --> 42:12.280 TID number five. 42:12.280 --> 42:17.760 So there is no obligation to serve those areas in green, but the southeastern regional planning 42:17.760 --> 42:24.320 commission wanted us to be prepared for that in the event it did happen. 42:24.320 --> 42:31.280 Shown here is an overview map of all of the TID five city led projects that we'll be discussing 42:31.320 --> 42:37.480 tonight and we'll break down each of these kind of on a case by case basis, but I wanted 42:37.480 --> 42:42.080 to point out the various project categories as Melissa talked about, Grace was before 42:42.080 --> 42:48.200 you at the last meeting talking about some of the DOT and intersection improvement projects. 42:48.200 --> 42:54.840 We're covering the city led projects shown here and as a note, the city led projects 42:54.840 --> 43:00.560 all start with a project number such as 26 one or 26 dash two. 43:00.560 --> 43:06.000 That is the construction start year that is planned. 43:06.000 --> 43:09.440 And then of course, we understand these projects don't exist in a vacuum. 43:09.440 --> 43:15.160 You also have your normal capital improvements within the city and we're aware of the need 43:15.160 --> 43:22.600 to coordinate those schedule drivers for the TID five projects include site occupancy 43:22.600 --> 43:25.840 and the city's obligations to Camelsville. 43:25.840 --> 43:30.400 Well, let's say you want to touch a little bit on city coordination. 43:30.400 --> 43:37.840 So we realized that the city touches so many organizations. 43:37.840 --> 43:41.480 So this project will touch every corner of this city. 43:41.480 --> 43:45.200 It'll touch every corner of Ozaki County and beyond that. 43:45.200 --> 43:52.480 So my one of my goals and one of my missions personally is to make sure that we are communicating 43:52.480 --> 43:56.600 and can I go to the next one. 43:56.600 --> 44:03.480 When you think about all of the agencies that the city touches, we have the school district. 44:03.480 --> 44:07.480 We have the transportation to the bus company. 44:07.480 --> 44:13.960 We have the county and our neighbors and we have emergency services, the police department. 44:13.960 --> 44:16.560 We have on the waterfront, we have the yacht club. 44:16.560 --> 44:21.480 We have charter operations when we're doing our grave program. 44:21.480 --> 44:25.760 We realize that the boats that come out of the town of Port, we have to make sure that 44:25.760 --> 44:31.880 they can actually get their boats out to us and there's like every element of our operations 44:31.880 --> 44:33.280 are impacted. 44:33.280 --> 44:36.360 We have the downtown businesses as partners, our economic development. 44:36.360 --> 44:43.000 So the county economic development, then we have we energies and then our utilities and 44:43.000 --> 44:48.400 we have tourism, fish days, the veterans, like we are going to impact everyone. 44:48.400 --> 44:53.680 And so our mission here is to take this, you know, the citywide coordination and make 44:53.680 --> 44:59.640 sure that we're communicating out and there is going to be a time that we miss a communication. 44:59.640 --> 45:05.280 But our goal is to keep a list going and make sure that when we're doing projects that we're 45:05.280 --> 45:10.560 reaching out or that the groups feel comfortable enough to reach in and say, hey, what about 45:10.560 --> 45:16.080 these lights are too low because we just learned this today for the charters to get through 45:16.080 --> 45:19.920 from the town of Port Port, Washington and then we adjust and make sure that they can. 45:19.920 --> 45:24.280 So we're going to have misses, but know that we're trying and know that you can reach in 45:24.280 --> 45:29.080 and say, hey, what about this may impact this run or this walk. 45:29.080 --> 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 45:33.680 --> 45:34.680 all this planning. 45:34.680 --> 45:36.360 So I appreciate it. 45:36.360 --> 45:42.200 And next we will have Erin girl from Kapoor, I believe. 45:42.200 --> 45:43.200 Thanks, Melissa. 45:43.200 --> 45:44.960 Good evening, everybody. 45:44.960 --> 45:50.240 So my role here is just to talk about the projects that we have planned for 2026, then 45:50.240 --> 45:54.640 Ben will come back and speak on the projects thereafter. 45:54.640 --> 46:01.720 So this map here shows two blue stars, the southern or the lower star on the map is where 46:01.720 --> 46:06.680 we completed our work this winter and spring. 46:06.680 --> 46:08.880 I'll completed the utility work. 46:08.880 --> 46:12.240 Paving still needs to happen in the next couple of weeks, but at least the utilities have 46:12.240 --> 46:15.560 been extended to that southern blue star. 46:15.560 --> 46:22.280 The intent is in 26 and be completed by 2027 is to extend a water main loop up to Lake 46:22.280 --> 46:28.600 Drive in the north side of the development and also to serve a canalsville and the agreement 46:28.600 --> 46:30.280 that we have with canalsville. 46:30.280 --> 46:36.080 So with that, I want to talk about the specifics of this first project that we have planned 46:36.080 --> 46:37.080 in 26. 46:37.080 --> 46:39.920 This is a 26-1. 46:39.920 --> 46:47.080 This starts at the water tower along I-43, runs underneath I-43 up to Mink Ranch Road 46:47.080 --> 46:51.920 with water main extends to the east on Mink Ranch all the way up to Highland Drive and 46:51.920 --> 46:57.680 then it connects into where the project finished this late winter early spring. 46:57.680 --> 47:03.560 And that also continues up Conantronk Highway KW up to approximately where the boat storage 47:03.560 --> 47:05.560 facility is. 47:05.560 --> 47:11.880 So that's both sewer and water is about 9,000 feet of water, 3,000 feet of sanitary sewer 47:11.880 --> 47:17.880 and then we'll also extend sewer and water services or laterals to all of the parcels 47:17.880 --> 47:18.880 within canalsville. 47:18.880 --> 47:23.440 The purpose is to continue a loop for water main and then also to serve the canalsville 47:23.440 --> 47:25.480 obligation area. 47:25.480 --> 47:29.640 The schedule is first line item here is a subject to permitting. 47:29.640 --> 47:32.640 I'll follow up a little bit more detail in a couple slides from here. 47:32.640 --> 47:35.440 But our plans are 90% complete. 47:35.440 --> 47:39.240 We plan on bidding now it's already the end of April so we expect on bidding out in 47:39.240 --> 47:45.520 May and this project is expected to take about four and a half months to complete. 47:45.520 --> 47:55.760 26-2 is a continuation basically on Conantronk KW from the boat storage area or facility 47:55.760 --> 48:00.960 north to Lake Drive and then heads east on Lake Drive to what was that northern blue 48:00.960 --> 48:03.480 star two maps ago. 48:04.480 --> 48:07.600 About 11,000 feet of water main. 48:07.600 --> 48:14.480 The intent is to complete looping for the development and also to serve canalsville. 48:14.480 --> 48:19.080 Again subject to permitting which I'll follow up more on the next slide where 90% complete 48:19.080 --> 48:24.400 with these plans will bid these out in May and this construction timeline is about four 48:24.400 --> 48:28.840 months. 48:28.840 --> 48:35.960 Any considerations we had some pre submittal meetings with both PSE and DNR to make sure 48:35.960 --> 48:43.240 that our team and the city staff and the approving agencies are aware of what our next 48:43.240 --> 48:44.680 plans are. 48:44.680 --> 48:48.320 We talked about specifics we talked about things that we were looking to do from the 48:48.320 --> 48:53.080 city standpoint and then they also told us some things that they were looking for and 48:53.080 --> 48:57.160 so we're working and collaborating with the agencies to make sure that we're on the same 48:57.160 --> 48:58.160 page. 48:58.160 --> 49:03.200 And submitting those permit applications to PSE and DNR in the next couple of weeks. 49:03.200 --> 49:09.680 Once PSE approval comes in play the intent is to complete the water main loop up to Lake 49:09.680 --> 49:13.040 Drive on the northern end by January of 2027. 49:13.040 --> 49:16.800 One of the key components here is phasing we understand that we're going to have to 49:16.800 --> 49:23.480 run both of these projects 26-1 and 26-2 concurrently but we'll make sure that we write 49:23.480 --> 49:29.280 into our specifications that both contractors can't be working on KW at the same time. 49:29.280 --> 49:34.480 We'll make sure that the southern portion is completed before the northern portion starts. 49:34.480 --> 49:39.520 That'll help the businesses, the residents out there and just in general traffic. 49:39.520 --> 49:43.320 Lastly is just a general preliminary detour map. 49:43.320 --> 49:47.240 This is similar to the detour that you see out there currently but we'll finalize this 49:47.240 --> 49:51.840 map with our final plans and once we finalize this map we'll get that out to the public 49:51.840 --> 49:56.920 to make sure that everybody's aware of what the plan traffic changes will be based upon 49:56.920 --> 49:58.560 our construction. 49:58.560 --> 50:02.960 With that I'll turn it back over to Ben. 50:02.960 --> 50:06.200 All right thank you. 50:06.200 --> 50:13.520 To carry on with the plan shown on the side are utility looping projects that are needed. 50:13.520 --> 50:18.440 So I'm going to start using the laser pointer on the back screen here to kind of help talk 50:18.440 --> 50:19.640 through these. 50:19.680 --> 50:28.280 So whereas projects 26-1 and 26-2 accomplish a partial loop the other utility looping 50:28.280 --> 50:34.200 projects are needed along the east side up to the north to kind of complete primarily 50:34.200 --> 50:40.920 a water main loop it's important to recognize that we're trying to optimize the projects 50:40.920 --> 50:47.680 so that while water main may be the driving need that while we have that corridor that 50:47.720 --> 50:56.640 roadway torn up that we also get in the gravity sewer any force mains in there as well. 50:56.640 --> 51:05.640 So project 29-1 is kind of outlined in blue here and that will include water sewer and 51:05.640 --> 51:12.160 some force main for the forthcoming lift station which is shown as project 28-3 and that lift 51:12.160 --> 51:16.040 station would actually be kind of generally in this area. 51:16.040 --> 51:23.360 Specific site is not picked out yet and then project 30-1 shown in the brown would complete 51:23.360 --> 51:28.880 the loop of the water main up here and then again we would add gravity sewer anywhere 51:28.880 --> 51:34.800 we can in the corridor while that area is disturbed. 51:34.800 --> 51:37.520 Want to talk about the Canalsville obligation? 51:37.520 --> 51:42.800 Canalsville is an unincorporated area within the town of Port Washington shown in the figure 51:42.800 --> 51:48.360 here is the comprehensive land use plan map for Canalsville. 51:48.360 --> 51:53.280 There's an existing city and town agreement that establishes that the city will provide 51:53.280 --> 51:59.600 water and sewer to Canalsville and that those areas will remain part of the township. 51:59.600 --> 52:05.280 The existing agreement indicates that those water and sewer utilities have to be available 52:05.280 --> 52:09.440 for use by the end of 2027. 52:09.440 --> 52:15.400 This map shows specifically the projects that will help to accomplish this. 52:15.400 --> 52:21.480 I want to take a step back here and point out we have gravity sewer areas and lift station 52:21.480 --> 52:23.840 sewer areas. 52:23.840 --> 52:29.760 So while Canalsville is shown all of those lands are shown in blue there is some light 52:29.760 --> 52:34.120 blue hatched area it's kind of difficult to see if I'm trying to outline it here there 52:34.120 --> 52:36.840 are some light blue hatched areas. 52:36.840 --> 52:42.120 Basically what we have determined in some preliminary analysis is that the hatched 52:42.120 --> 52:47.880 areas will not flow by gravity all the way through these sewers all the way down to the 52:47.880 --> 52:53.240 wastewater treatment plant and that because of the lay of the land say at this breakpoint 52:53.240 --> 52:59.560 by the boat storage area gravity sewer would actually flow north to a lift station in this 52:59.560 --> 53:04.440 approximate area and then that would have to get pumped back down into here where then 53:04.440 --> 53:06.720 it can flow by gravity. 53:06.720 --> 53:13.480 So we've discussed this concept with the town and what we've moved toward is putting 53:13.480 --> 53:19.840 in all of the water means that we can and gravity sewers within the area where we're 53:19.840 --> 53:26.080 putting in water main and that the lift station area projects that we would delay those beyond 53:26.080 --> 53:32.960 2027 to allow for time to understand what the actual flows would be so that those lift 53:32.960 --> 53:36.440 stations can get sized and planned appropriately. 53:36.440 --> 53:41.320 It's also important to note that lift stations involve a lot of equipment and electronics 53:41.320 --> 53:46.520 that have longer lead times that realistically the construction schedule will just not allow 53:46.520 --> 53:50.440 for those projects to be done by the end of 2027. 53:50.440 --> 53:56.880 So as Aaron talked about project 26-1 here will include water main and sewers and that 53:56.880 --> 54:02.960 will also serve canalsville and we're adding in project 27-2 which gets water main and 54:02.960 --> 54:09.560 sewer along county highway H. At the end of each of those are anywhere from one to three 54:09.560 --> 54:13.880 properties that won't flow by gravity but their existing properties and the intent is 54:13.880 --> 54:20.200 that they get served on individual grinder pumps in small diameter i.e. 2-inch diameter 54:20.200 --> 54:22.760 force mains. 54:22.760 --> 54:24.840 That covers the canalsville west area. 54:24.840 --> 54:31.160 The canalsville east area are these 28-3 and 29-1 projects I talked about. 54:31.160 --> 54:36.520 Actually from this point on Highland Drive right here all the way north the lay of the 54:36.520 --> 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 54:42.160 --> 54:48.440 here that entire area the sewer will drain to the north have to get picked up by lift 54:48.440 --> 54:53.280 station and then pumped in a force main all the way back to Highland Drive where it can 54:53.280 --> 54:56.600 kind of get into the existing city system. 54:56.600 --> 55:03.120 So I've noted on that project about approximately a year 2030 completion again the purpose for 55:03.120 --> 55:08.360 delaying that is twofold one just the lead times on lift station components and two we 55:08.360 --> 55:15.520 want to make sure that we can get some kind of project specific or or land use specific 55:15.520 --> 55:21.560 planning done so that those left lift stations are sized appropriately. 55:21.560 --> 55:28.840 This map shows off-site tid improvements and these break into several categories sewer 55:28.840 --> 55:36.440 conveyance water distribution wastewater treatment plant planning and treatment plant site resiliency. 55:36.440 --> 55:40.760 This is an overview of those off-site tid projects I'm going to take the next few slides 55:40.760 --> 55:44.540 to go through these in more detail. 55:44.540 --> 55:49.560 First of all sewer conveyance what this project accomplishes or these projects accomplish 55:49.560 --> 55:56.880 is not only conveying flow from the tid area down also picking up canalsville also accounting 55:56.880 --> 56:02.920 for the flows from those green area adjacent lands there are other local sewers that connect 56:02.920 --> 56:11.240 to this interceptor shown in pink here sewer so it's going to help take on extra wet weather 56:11.240 --> 56:15.480 flows and convey those to the plants as well. 56:15.480 --> 56:21.400 So the pink project is from Terrace Drive all the way down to the wastewater treatment 56:21.400 --> 56:31.240 plant it's broken up into three different bid packages 27-3 27-4 and 28-2 so we have kind 56:31.240 --> 56:37.480 of break points on the extents of these projects kind of as planned shown with these 56:37.480 --> 56:43.160 couple of dash marks here just know that those might change a little bit but our intent and 56:43.160 --> 56:49.880 staff's intent is to keep in mind the potential disruption to local residents users of the inner 56:49.880 --> 56:55.640 urban trail for example project areas that might disrupt the inner urban trail we want to make 56:55.720 --> 57:01.320 sure they all get done in one construction season Terrace Drive that gets done in one construction 57:01.320 --> 57:06.040 season we know this is going to be a disruption to people and we just want to be cognizant of 57:06.040 --> 57:13.240 trying to coordinate that and minimize that to the extent practical. Another capacity 57:13.240 --> 57:21.000 increase project is 28-1 that's the Jackson Street sewer interceptor that project is also going to 57:21.000 --> 57:26.520 upsize the diameter of that pipe and is critical to help convey what weather flows due to 57:27.160 --> 57:31.160 inflow and infiltration or what we call shorthand I&I. 57:33.400 --> 57:39.640 Water distribution upgrades this map shows your existing water distribution system which has two 57:39.640 --> 57:46.920 pressure zones the purple area is the low pressure zone and that's inclusive of the water treatment 57:46.920 --> 57:53.080 plant that's where all of the water produced is first pumped and then there's the high pressure 57:53.080 --> 57:59.240 zone shown in green where water is repumped up to the higher elevations within the city so that 57:59.240 --> 58:06.680 everyone has appropriate pressure most of vantage and canalsville areas are in the high pressure zone 58:06.680 --> 58:12.360 meaning all of that water has to get repumped from the low pressure zone up to the high pressure zone 58:13.080 --> 58:21.240 project 27-1 is a new consolidated booster station facility so right now shown on the border of 58:21.240 --> 58:26.440 the low zone and the high zone are these two existing booster stations the oakland and the 58:26.440 --> 58:35.000 sunset stations a new consolidated booster station would be built that has all of the capacity as 58:35.000 --> 58:41.480 the existing two stations combined plus enough capacity for the added service area this is a 58:41.480 --> 58:46.520 critical need because oakland and sunset stations are beyond their useful life the equipment is 58:46.520 --> 58:52.920 aged and the existing stations have actually experienced a failure that's why this one we 58:52.920 --> 59:01.720 would like to advance as quickly as possible treatment plant planning this map shows the overall 59:01.720 --> 59:08.120 planning area for the wastewater treatment plants this is the proposed sanitary sewer 59:08.120 --> 59:12.920 service area so on the north side of that you can see kind of the TID project site and 59:12.920 --> 59:17.080 adjacent lands but I wanted to show the entire city extent because there are also 59:17.960 --> 59:24.600 some areas toward the west of the existing system extents kind of moving towards sockville 59:24.600 --> 59:32.680 that are being accounted for in wastewater treatment plant planning the service area includes again 59:32.680 --> 59:39.400 vantage canalsville other known growth within the city and then some projects kind of toward 59:39.400 --> 59:46.680 the border a facility plan is currently underway and the intent of that is to proactively forecast 59:46.680 --> 59:52.680 the project needs at the wastewater treatment plant so that as we monitor the increase in flows to 59:52.680 --> 01:00:00.120 the plant the projects are completed ahead of the time that we kind of forecast that capacity 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:09.400 being needed the sanitary sewer service area plan is being conducted by sewer pack that establishes 01:00:10.200 --> 01:00:15.640 the service area relative to neighboring utilities quite specifically we participated 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 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 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 01:00:36.040 --> 01:00:43.080 are realized and then real briefly on the water treatment plant the existing capacity is adequate 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 01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:58.520 specific plans have actually resulted in a reduced forecasted capacity for the site 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 01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:13.400 note that as hopefully most of you know the drinking water plant and the wastewater treatment 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 01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:27.560 bluff failures north of the wastewater treatment plant site in the past valley creek has been 01:01:27.640 --> 01:01:34.120 problematic and has caused some flooding at the drinking water treatment plant project 27-5 is 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 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 01:01:48.680 --> 01:01:55.080 flooding at the plant some bluff stabilization is planned along with the wastewater treatment plant 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 01:02:03.400 --> 01:02:10.280 understand that this isn't expected to stabilize include bluff stabilization much north of the 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 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 01:02:21.720 --> 01:02:27.000 treatment plant that means there needs to be a footprint expansion of that plant to accommodate 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:32.760 newer expanded processes and one of the options being considered or one of the alternatives being 01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:39.320 considered is expanding into the bluff further stabilizing the bluff building a retaining wall 01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:47.080 etc. So the wastewater treatment plant facility plan that's ongoing needs to be completed first 01:02:47.080 --> 01:02:52.200 to choose what the best alternative is one of those alternatives is bluff work. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 01:03:48.200 --> 01:03:53.720 and it's important to know that coordination between our consultant team and city staff is 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 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 01:04:08.680 --> 01:04:12.920 opened with just know that we recognize and it's important to us to coordinate these 01:04:14.040 --> 01:04:21.160 to be as efficient as possible. So in summary this presentation is intended to provide the 01:04:21.160 --> 01:04:28.120 background for specific forthcoming project plans and decisions. Approximately a hundred 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 01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:41.160 of which is provided by the developer. Extensive project coordinating coordination is ongoing 01:04:41.160 --> 01:04:47.720 this is between projects between governments and departments the community and organizations. 01:04:47.720 --> 01:04:53.240 This overall plan will be revised as actual projects progress and with that we would like 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 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 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? 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? 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 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 01:05:32.360 --> 01:05:40.680 plans for stabilization of the Bluff and so that depending upon what the sewer pack 01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:47.160 facilities plan comes back with we'll kind of inform our decision making going forward on 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 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 01:06:05.640 --> 01:06:09.640 mean the yellow area or the southern part that's kind of under construction right now. 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 01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:26.040 brought forth for that it would likely include more water main looping and and sewer extension 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 01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:46.120 of the waste water treatment center? Would it be appropriate to think about maybe moving that 01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:53.400 to maybe make a better structure? About specifically about moving the wastewater plant all together? 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 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. 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 01:07:16.040 --> 01:07:20.280 considering moving the plants altogether. So I'm glad that you brought that up. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 01:08:07.480 --> 01:08:12.840 Aaron has taken into that taken that into account as he's planning those projects. 01:08:13.800 --> 01:08:19.000 That is however a town responsibility correct not a city of Port Washington responsibility 01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:21.160 because that was our understanding from the beginning. 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 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 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 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 01:08:48.280 --> 01:08:54.760 projects along KW and then LL that could you please make sure to communicate very proactively 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 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 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 01:09:10.440 --> 01:09:14.280 very very well. The other thing is the 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 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 01:09:26.360 --> 01:09:30.760 you know moving to the north not shutting those down coordinating with multiple contractors 01:09:30.760 --> 01:09:34.920 just being thoughtful for our neighbors and that flow of traffic lots of people shoot up 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:19.720 we work with a team to create a real strong construction calendar that's almost quarterly 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 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 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 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 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 01:10:42.360 --> 01:10:48.120 communications so. Mr. Mayor I did want to just mention one thing the inner urban trail 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:33.720 okay that's what I had any other that spark anything else otherwise 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 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 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 01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:57.240 that is there is public relations through the county with their website and that we 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 01:12:05.720 --> 01:12:09.960 short-term pain long-term gain so thank you all right well done thank you everyone 01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:16.440 feel free to stick around for the next really exciting agenda item consideration and possible 01:12:16.440 --> 01:12:21.880 action on a request to amend a condominium plan for the maritime sheds industrial condominiums 01:12:22.440 --> 01:12:27.880 702 through 745 maritime drive next sudden north is the applicant the issue is the common 01:12:27.880 --> 01:12:32.600 councils being asked to approve an amended condominium platform of the maritime industrial 01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:37.400 condominiums to reflect the recent change to the project plan the staff recommends approval 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 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 01:12:50.440 --> 01:12:55.800 last month the developers of that project which is now under construction after being 01:12:55.800 --> 01:13:04.760 approved in 2023 they have requested to make some minor changes to the site plan specifically 01:13:05.480 --> 01:13:12.600 while it does not material materially change the site plan the number of buildings remains 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 01:13:19.960 --> 01:13:26.600 north side of the project area while they're developing and marketing the units they found 01:13:26.600 --> 01:13:32.040 that there is more there's some greater demand for units under three thousand square feet 01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:38.520 previously this was approved with three thousand three thousand square foot minimum units so 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 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 01:13:54.040 --> 01:14:00.040 condo plant required because obviously these are condominium owned units and so any change them 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 01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:12.040 at plan commission after april meeting and the recommended approval any questions or concerns 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 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 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 01:14:29.560 --> 01:14:33.880 i opposed motion carries 01:14:33.880 --> 01:14:43.320 all right that brings us to the second agenda item from boards and commissions consideration 01:14:43.320 --> 01:14:48.200 impossible action on a final plat for phase one of the highland point north subdivision located 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 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 01:14:57.320 --> 01:15:02.520 highland point north subdivision and the staff recommends approval of the final plat subject to 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 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 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 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 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 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 01:15:49.320 --> 01:15:57.480 engineer just to finalize or confirm minor details with civil and street directionals 01:15:57.480 --> 01:16:03.160 and nothing that material materially changes the final plat and with that staff recommends approval 01:16:04.360 --> 01:16:06.600 all right any questions concerns or comments on this 01:16:09.400 --> 01:16:12.760 anyone willing to make a motion to approve the staff recommendation 01:16:13.320 --> 01:16:16.680 make a motion to approve i'll second there's a motion and a second 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 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 01:16:27.080 --> 01:16:32.360 aye opposed all right motion carries that takes us to board of public works consideration and 01:16:32.360 --> 01:16:37.960 possible action on approving a task order for strand associates incorporated for on call 01:16:37.960 --> 01:16:42.680 engineering services funded by vantage data center the issue is should the city approve a 01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:48.040 task order with strand associates incorporated to provide engineering support services to 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 01:16:52.680 --> 01:16:58.040 to provide engineering support services to tit 5 projects related to the vantage data center 01:16:58.040 --> 01:17:04.920 roger all right so as we just saw in the previous presentation that 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 01:17:14.360 --> 01:17:19.240 vantage and previously with clover leaf as part of our developers agreement 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 01:17:29.640 --> 01:17:35.320 work with the city and we had some planning documents ongoing when when those developments 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 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 01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:59.240 task order we do have a master contract with strand with terms and conditions previously 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 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 01:18:14.840 --> 01:18:22.360 project like Melissa said been largely put together that this presentation tonight so projects like 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 01:19:24.280 --> 01:19:32.280 trajectory around dnr hit us with um in the process of of our utility extensions for 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 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 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 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 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 01:20:04.120 --> 01:20:08.840 again though roger just for clarification this is not an expenditure liability for the city 01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:12.040 for washing we are not paying these dollars this is part of the agreement with vantage 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 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 01:20:23.480 --> 01:20:29.560 agreement with von briezen and kapoor except for kapoor has certain strengths and capabilities 01:20:30.200 --> 01:20:35.240 strained of supplementing them and complementing them and uh with their with their experience 01:20:35.240 --> 01:20:38.760 with the city we will it behooves us to continue with them 01:20:40.040 --> 01:20:47.000 the second behoove tonight i i guess any other questions yeah any questions or concerns comments 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 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 01:21:00.680 --> 01:21:04.040 the recommended motion is i move to approve the task order with strand to provide engineering 01:21:04.040 --> 01:21:07.480 support services i'll make the motion there's a motion is there a second 01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:11.240 moved and seconded any questions or concerns on the motion 01:21:11.960 --> 01:21:15.320 all right seeing none all in favor signify by saying aye opposed 01:21:16.200 --> 01:21:23.560 abstentions mr baster okay that takes us into the last agenda item for the evening public 01:21:23.560 --> 01:21:27.240 comments and appearances any public comments and appearances 01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:31.240 may i address 01:21:33.560 --> 01:21:33.880 plus 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 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 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 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 01:22:02.120 --> 01:22:08.360 every fact i've stated comes from directly from the wisconsin department of natural resources 01:22:08.360 --> 01:22:17.240 according to the dnr own permit filings vantage submitted an application on august 29th 2025 for 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 01:22:26.680 --> 01:22:32.600 this is not speculation it is public records these generators would sit at the proposed 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 01:22:39.480 --> 01:22:45.320 right here in pore washington in a county already classified as moderate ozone pollution 01:22:45.320 --> 01:22:51.560 meaning our air is already failing federal health standards diesel exhaust is linked to 01:22:51.560 --> 01:22:58.280 cancer health uh heart disease long disease and worsening smog and if all five generators just 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 01:23:07.160 --> 01:23:12.920 is the scale of what we are being asked to accept meanwhile cleaner alternatives like battery 01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:19.160 storage exist today and are already being used by other data centers across the country so 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 01:23:25.560 --> 01:23:31.560 my credibility it raised a far more serious concern that the people elected to protect this 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 01:23:39.160 --> 01:23:45.000 residents who take the time to read the documents themselves pore washington deserves a leadership 01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:51.480 that does not minimize legal legal concerns or act surprised by facts that have been publicly 01:23:51.480 --> 01:23:57.640 available for months leadership that stands up for health of its residents instead of brushing 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 01:24:05.240 --> 01:24:12.200 gas fired generators for this data center and to pursue alternative that protects our residents 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 01:24:19.320 --> 01:24:23.320 in every family breathing the air in ozaki county wake up 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 01:24:33.240 --> 01:24:38.280 for wisconsin state statute 19.851 e for the purpose of deliberating or negotiating 01:24:38.280 --> 01:24:43.240 the purchase of public properties the investing of public funds or conducting other specified 01:24:43.240 --> 01:24:48.040 public business whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session to wit to 01:24:48.040 --> 01:24:53.080 discuss and formulate negotiating strategies including without limitation the terms and conditions 01:24:53.080 --> 01:24:58.840 for an offer to purchase received by the pfd development llc regarding city-owned property at 01:24:58.840 --> 01:25:04.600 104 west washington street and 365 north wisconsin street in the city of port washington ozaki 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 01:25:17.720 --> 01:25:21.640 moved and seconded that is a voice vote any questions or concerns on the motion 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 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 01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:43.800 chambers in four minutes 01:25:51.640 --> 01:25:53.800 you 01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:23.640 You 01:26:51.640 --> 01:26:53.640 You 01:27:21.640 --> 01:27:23.640 You