I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for
which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
All right, so tonight we have three older persons being sworn in for their oath of
office.
If they would please step up over here by the clerk.
They are our second, fourth, and sixth district alderman.
You want to come and stand right over here, please.
Thank you.
Okay, raising your right hand.
This is for all the person, District 2, Paul Neumeier, all the person, District 4, Dan
Benning, all the person, District 6, Mike Beaster, having been elected to the office
of all the person for your district in the city of Port Washington and for the city of
Port Washington, but have not yet entered upon the duties thereof.
Do you swear that you will support the Constitution of the United States?
The Constitution of the state of Wisconsin will faithfully discharge the duties of set
office to the best of your ability, so help you God.
Thank you.
Welcome.
Mr. Neumeier, thank you for, again, committing yourself to the service to the city of Port
Washington in your ward.
We are grateful that you did that.
Mr. Benning, congratulations on your re-election and Mr. Beaster, congratulations on your election.
And I know that you would like to say something, so I'll give you the mic.
I didn't want to say too much.
I just want to say thank you to the voters for giving me the opportunity to lead a word
six and thank you to all the city staff who have been very welcoming and kind and gracious
with their emails.
If I haven't gotten back to you yet, I promise to be shortly.
Thank you for that.
Welcome and welcome.
All right.
That brings us to public comments for this evening.
Just a reminder that you have a maximum of three minutes and up to 30 minutes total for
public comments this evening.
Are there any registered public comments?
Give me an address.
Okay, Tracy Finch, Port View Drive, Port Washington.
I'm speaking tonight because the people of Port Washington deserve the truth.
Not half answers, not assurance reassertances that fall apart moment residents open their
utility bills.
Your fact sheet told the public that the data center would not cause our utility bills
to rise.
That statement is now impossible to defend.
We energies own filings, their own words list two major reasons for upcoming rate hikes.
Grid upgrades and rising energy demand from large users like the data center like vantage.
There's no uncertainty in what they wrote.
So when the city tells the residents that the data center has nothing to do with these
increases, that is just misleading.
It's directly contradicting that by the utility responsibility for the rates we pay, we were
told vantage would pay all infrastructure and all usage of what they use for the data center.
If they're that were fully true, residents would not be absorbing the financial impact
of the grid expansion and massive new demand.
That we are and the public was never told that these costs would still ripple through
the system and our land on our monthly bills.
Mayor Nitsky, this community plans its budget carefully.
People are already stretched thin.
They were promised stability and instead they were being hit with increases tied to a project
they were told would not affect them.
That is not transparency, that is not responsibility, responsible communication and it's not acceptable.
At this point, the issue is not just the rising bills, the lack of honesty about why they're
rising.
The city cannot continue to stand behind a fact sheet that is no longer factual.
The public cannot expect to trust leadership that refuses to correct information once
it's proven wrong.
Mayor, if you want to rebuild trust, the first step is simple.
Update the fact sheet.
Tell residents the truth about how this project affects the grid and why their costs are going
up.
Anything less is disservice to the people you were elected to represent.
For watching deserves leadership that is transparent, accountable and willing to admit that when
something was communicated incorrectly and right now residents are paying the price for
information that was incomplete at best misleading at worst because we have no idea what advantage
is paying for and what not because we can't see what they're paying for.
Thank you.
Is that the only other registered comment?
Okay.
So, Sebastian Elicher, 1370s, Cleveland, my apologies for not pre-registering.
I want to say briefly, congratulations to Elder People Banning and Noy Meyer for their
re-election and to Alderman Beaster for his election.
It clearly is a great privilege to serve but it's also a big duty and we wish all three
elder men the best of luck in the coming months and years.
I also wish to congratulate the voters in Port Washington for showing up in really large
numbers at the referendum.
Turnout at the referendum was roughly 50% of registered voters.
If you look at referenda in the state of Wisconsin and if you look at larger data sets
examining referenda in the United States more broadly, that's truly impressive and such
high participation rates should be celebrated.
Thank you.
All right.
We're going to move into the agenda then.
Under the consent agenda, there is an approval of minutes and accept the March monthly invoices.
There's someone willing to make that motion.
Second.
Any questions or concerns on the motion?
Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye.
Any opposed or abstentions?
Okay.
That moves us into the mayor's business then for this month.
In your packet, there is an appointment of older persons to boards, committees and commissions.
That has been reviewed.
I did check with everyone on council and the shift here is that Mr. Beaster will be on
the board of public works and the park and recreation board.
Two great places for him to get a strong understanding of the infrastructure of Port
Washington.
So thank you for agreeing to sit on those.
Otherwise, any other questions on that?
Otherwise, I'd look for a motion to accept the recommendations.
I move to accept.
Second.
There's a motion and a second.
Any questions or concerns?
All right.
Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Opposed?
All right.
Motion carries.
There are two proclamations then for the month.
The first proclamation is National Arbor Day and Tree City USA.
This is something that the city of Port Washington has participated in for quite a while.
Arbor Day began in 1872 in Nebraska and has carried on a tradition.
Port Washington is probably a Tree City USA under the direction of our park and recreation
director and city arborist, Mr. Crane.
And Port Washington has a very proud, it is called an urban forest, if I'm not mistaken,
or city forest.
And I appreciate the diversity and all the actions and work that you do, Mr. Crane, for
that.
So thank you for that very, very much.
The second proclamation for the month came about as a result of a community meeting.
I had last fall in discussing the data center project when I met with birders and environmentalists
who live along Lake Michigan.
And they had asked that we once again participate in becoming a bird city.
And so we have.
And as part of that, we also proclaim 2026 migratory bird day and observation for this.
The state of Wisconsin in Port Washington in particular, this is an important issue for
me personally.
Port Washington is in a migratory bird pattern where this is as far south as certain species
come and it's also as far north as certain species come.
So birders know that.
And I was very excited on the fact that vantage corporation worked with the Great Lakes Bird
Observatory group in the design and are working with them on many of the species that they
would be planting at their project to attract wild birds and migratory birds.
One of the things that came up the last time that we had a council meeting that they worked
with us on was the volume of retention ponds on that property.
And if I'm not mistaken, there's over 150 acres of retention ponds, which is nearly
twice the size of random lake that will be there.
And they're working with them to potentially drain certain ponds to attract ground nesting
birds for the spring.
So happy that we are once again a bird city and that we are observing that.
The next one is that we're moving into is the park and recreation boards charter.
Mr.
Crane.
Oh, our council's doing it.
I'm sorry.
No, I didn't know.
Mrs. Miller, you are the chair.
You're going to do the charter.
You guys going to have a rock paper scissors tournament to determine who's speaking here?
Sure, I can present.
Thank you.
So our charter is available on the website and it has been included in our last couple
of packets.
If anybody wants to read it, I'm going to go through it quite quickly.
Our strategic goal is to ensure that we are operating as efficiently and safely as possible
within the park and rec department, which includes a pool, our park program, our forestry
department, and help me know what any other programs we got.
Oh, I'm sorry, community garden community garden and we have lots of other goals out
there to establish more volunteer help for the community gardens, if anyone's interested.
On our committee is our newest member who is sitting next to me.
And Dan Ross, Jane Dean, Wayne Crucial, and John Crane.
We do a great job.
We're always looking for volunteers for our board, so please join us.
Does anybody have questions or concerns?
I told you it was short and sweet.
Anything you want to add?
Anything you want to add, Joe?
If you want to just touch on it, would you mind just sharing kind of the objectives and
goals for the year for the community?
Yeah.
Thank you.
So, yeah, I'll go through kind of some of these things are the annual things that we
go through.
This year we're removing roughly 100 dead and declining trees.
We'll continue to structural prune to try to get us on to a seven-year pruning cycle.
What Dan entails is we have two strategies for when we attack pruning.
We have to clearance prune for all the trucks that go through and then we also structural
prune our younger trees so that they develop stronger leads and less damage and longevity
of the trees.
We're really seeing a turn in that.
We've had a lot of windstorms recently and from the time that I started roughly 15 years
ago to now there's a huge reduction in the amount of calls that we get for down and damage
trees and windstorms.
We'll be planting roughly 350 to 400 trees this year.
That includes replacements of dead and dying disease trees along with new trees in the
developments.
Unlike a lot of other communities, we handle all of the new development plantings.
This gives us a stronger control on diversity of what we're doing and also ensures that
it's properly done.
In the past it was done by contractors and it costs a lot of time and labor to police
that and you're relying on what you're getting for contractors.
We've taken over that program and had great success with that.
This year I'm proud to say we planted 90% of our street trees straight from our city
nursery so that was really nice to see the turnaround on that.
Those were trees that we plant at roughly one-fifth of the cost.
There's little maintenance involved, I mean it does require some pruning, but we have
a pretty good setup out there that allows us to keep the labor down.
We've got a system that sets up that we're able to plant those own trees.
Other things that we annually do, we've got a properly set up for the pool.
Get everything, basically we winterize everything and start over so right now the crews are
getting it ready, all of the drinking fountains, all of the bathrooms, everything like that
and then timing to get the pool set up because we're getting ready to fill that.
New seasonal staff, we always have a turnaround in that because kids will stick around for
a few years and then move on to their careers so that's another thing that's just the annual.
We'll get into our highlighted projected goals, we have to do new water heater at the bath
house, that's complete.
We have a new walkway ramp that's getting started this week leading down to the entrance of
the pool.
We'll be putting in new basketball slash pickleball courts at Hill School Park this year similar
to the Colbach Park set up.
We've had a big demand for pickleball and I think it actually increased after we put
those three courts in, it seemed to build a lot of attraction so Hill School is a good
central location for that.
We originally were planning on doing just basketball courts there but it's such a large
footprint that we're able to have a combined court system there.
We're going to be doing upgraded playground equipment at Lyons Park.
We have a rain garden that we'll be installing at Colbach Park that is funded through grant
projects with the Wisconsin Bird Observatory in line with part of the necessities for to
be a bird city.
And then we'll also be doing some paving projects, we have a small half court basketball court
going in at Bly Park along with a paved trail leading up to highway L.L. and then we'll
also be paving the municipal ball field parking lot to align with our paving of municipal
lots.
And most of this work is being done in house so it's going to be a busy summer.
Next growing sport in America has pickleball so appreciate this.
And if anyone on the council is not seen up by the water tower or tree farm, it's pretty
interesting what John has cultivated in there saving a lot of money and spreading those
species out and I mean Rob talked about this when I first got elected just the beauty of
our canopy now on our main streets and the diversity and how that looks and not picking
one species is just fantastic.
So you and your team do a phenomenal job John and we really, really appreciate it.
Any other questions, concerns or comments for Mr. Crane?
Yeah, thank you John, thank you Mary Lou.
Okay, that takes us into the an update on the bluff.
I've got three other things here really quickly and I'm going to turn it over to you Rob is
first is just a reminder council if you are available on May 18th to come to the council
chambers at eight o'clock that is when the sixth fourth graders will be sworn in for
mayor for the day and we have that day for them and then I'll send you an invitation
for the dignitary lunch with them.
Their day is going to be starting here and then taking the beast, Ernie Vonschle, I don't
always gives us a nice Cadillac Escalade to drive those young kids around in.
So we'll take the executive vehicle for them, we'll go over to the police and fire center
where we're going to get a tour from the chief and the two chiefs, they'll get to see the
eye beam that they signed so we'll go up there and get to see that and then from there
they're going to go out and see the data center project to kind of see the scale and
scope of that.
I think it's important for young people to be able to see those different pieces as
they're in motion and then in the afternoon they'll be unveiling the honorary street signs
that were approved a couple months ago for each of their schools.
So Lion Lane and Dunwoody Drive and Jaguar Drive so they'll get to unveil those and
then we'll drive the proclamations around to the schools and they'll declare National
Education Week for them and then we'll come back here and debrief with their parents,
grandparents and anybody else.
So 18th if you're available for that and then on May 15th, I don't know why I'm going
backwards here in the calendar, May 15th, the senior center is doing the same thing,
so I'm taking 24 seniors, they are not all mayors for the day, Lord knows what would
happen if I did that.
But they will be joining me for that same tour, police and fire center, safety center
and then out to the data center so that they can see that.
And the members of the senior center are eligible for that and they'll sign up for that as
well.
And then finally the Bluff has come up a few times this week and obviously with the multiple
failures there, Ask Rob and to really review what we can do, it's accelerating kind of
the Bluff redesign.
Members of the council, if you remember, was it two summers ago that we had the students
from UWM who did the kind of vision of what could be up there with the road and the shifts
and everything else?
I'm very saddened that Mother Nature is winning again.
That Bluff over the course of my life was hundreds of feet into that lake prior to what
it is today and two major drops, one in the 90s, one in the late 70s and then last summer
or two summers ago in the summer.
So it's time for us as a community to really face the fact that a looping road up there
along the edge is not safe.
Right now I think it's just shy of seven feet away from the edge with the road and that
parking lot and unfortunately for the community that will be closed indefinitely and that's
what we asked Rob to kind of give us an update on with both the Bluff failure and the plan
to ensure safety and accessibility to the Bluff this summer and the rest of the year.
Rob?
So yeah, thinking of backing off of those comments, we do recognize the importance of
both our beach and accessibility on our Bluff and so our intention, hopefully we're hoping
for next week to have our street department on site expanding the roadway to the west
by about five to ten feet and so we can move the travel lane and the pedestrian lane kind
of out of that immediate failure plane of where the Bluff is encroaching on the driveway
and so we feel that this is a temporary fix because that as we know the Bluff is receding
but this has been determined with our geotechnical consultants that in the present condition
of the Bluff that this would be a safe zone to shift our traffic and so we know we have
a lot of walkers up there too so we want to keep that open for everyone as quickly as
possible.
As the mayor said, I think we should probably also accelerate our discussion on the Bluff
and we did have a UW student, he performed his capstone project you may recall on opportunities
for improving Upper Lake Park, we had a lot of public engagement, I think once we determined
to move forward with some of these improvements, we'll ask for more public engagement but we'd
like to start that discussion as soon as possible so we really want consensus among our council
members and the public.
As far as the North Beach goes, this is something that occurs about every four years it seems
that the Bluff kind of settles on our path to North Beach and so we are the last two,
this one and then the one that occurred in 2021 have probably been the largest that
we've had since I've been here and so Miller engineers and scientists help us out with
that, they'll do all the survey work and be on site for when we do the regrading of that
area, they'll provide a proposal, the last one that we had in 2022 actually was $3,000
so I think it's money well spent to have that professional presence there because it is
so important and safety is so critical so we'll engage them to drop a plan for essentially
regrading that area plus removal of the soils.
I would like to complete, I don't like to over promise but we expect that we should
have the survey work done in the beginning of May and hopefully if the weather cooperates,
our crews can get out there and do that regrading by the end of May so that's the, that is our
plan to reopen North Beach for the summer and to have the road open within the next
two weeks.
Any questions, comments?
All over the first possible?
There are obviously many curious people who want to look at the problems at the bluff,
how safe is it for pedestrians to walk to the edge and look over?
Do you want me to?
Sure.
So I can start on that, not at all.
Chief DeBore, I talked to both Chief Hengis and Chief DeBore last Monday and then Chief
DeBore took the drone, a high-def drone and flew it along the bluff edge.
There are, I was just showing the council, there's a tree stand which is really popular
with young people where everybody hammocks.
One of those trees has no terraforma underneath it at all, it's just the root system that's
holding it there.
So it's not safe and we had talked about fencing or what to do because there used to
be a snow fence up there 15 years ago and then that, I don't know if it's in Michigan
now but it's gone, but like that edge that people should proceed with extreme caution.
One of the signs that says do not stand on the edge is halfway down the bluff.
So I would really warn people not to do that and ask that I'd stay away unless it's
in an area that's greater that you can see otherwise.
Yeah.
And I guess I would also say, I mean, that road's blocked but not the bluff.
Without commenting on the amount of risk, yes, we do know that the bluff, we know that the
bluff experiences failure and the failures are from top down.
So whether you're up above or you're down below, it's not 100% safe to be along the
edge and we've experienced bluff failures that go on the beach as well.
And so that is why I have always been a big proponent of stabilizing the bluff so that
people can access both the top of the bluff and the beach and be assured of their safety.
And Rob, would you just, because there are people who are watching, the reason it failed
is not wave action entirely this time, especially this time, but it's the sand straight that
runs through there.
Can you just give us a 30 second on that?
Yeah, right.
So I mean, that was Miller's response that this is clearly caused by water running through
that sand scene.
That will be attenuated by the watering drain lines that we intend on installing in the
bluff this summer.
But no remedy is, that remedy is not going to be 100% fail safe.
I mean, there's still going to be wave action, the wave, or I should say the lake rises and
falls.
So like in 2022, when we had our last experience, we closed the beach.
You may remember for the entire summer because there really was no beach.
The water was right up against the toe.
And so every time you have that, you're getting that undercutting at the base.
You're getting the water running through the sand scene.
So it's kind of a double whammy that causes instability in the bluff.
Yeah.
Because the water runs through the sand seam, drips through the clay into the sand stream,
pushes the way out, undercuts that, and then it comes through.
And I just think that's important for people to know because, you know, there's some ideas
out there that we've like mismanaged it or the city should have done something and you
can't beat mother nature when there's ancient beaches underneath layers of clay.
But, you know, we're going to try.
Yeah.
I mean, mother nature always has the last word, but we do our best.
Okay.
Hey, Mer.
Any other questions or wonders for him?
Okay.
That moves us into the officer and staff reports.
The first item of business is the election of council president.
At this time, is there anyone willing to make motions or yeah, motions for a council president?
I would, I would nominate all the written ending as council president.
There's one nomination for Alderman Benning.
Are there any other nominations?
Any other nominations?
All right, seeing none, is there anyone willing to make a motion for Alderman Benning to become
the council president?
I would make that motion, sir.
There's a motion by Alderman Neumeier.
Is there a second?
Second.
Seconded by Alderman Ben, or sorry, Alderman Gasper.
Any questions or concerns on the motion?
Seeing none.
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Opposed?
Motion carries.
Congratulations.
Council President Benning.
That brings us to the second under letter B, which is 7B, Approved Official Newspaper, which
is recommended to be the Ozaki Press.
Is there anyone willing to make that motion?
So moved.
There's a motion.
Is there a second?
Second.
Seconded by Ms. Miller.
Any questions or concerns on the motion?
Seeing none.
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Opposed?
Motion carries.
That brings us to the Designate Official City Depositories, the Poor Washington State
Bank, Ellers, D-A-N-A Investment Management, Schwab Custodial Accounts, and Local Government
Investment Pool.
Is there anyone willing to make a motion to designate them as our official Depositories?
So moved.
There's a motion.
Is there a second?
Second.
Seconded.
Thank you.
Any questions or concerns on the motion?
Seeing none.
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Opposed?
Motion carries.
That brings us into Department Monthly Reports.
Melissa?
Thank you.
I thought I'd come up here because I kind of have the next three in a row and I'll introduce
the TID presentation.
So just wanted to welcome you, Michael, officially to our first meeting.
We're glad to have you and hope we don't overload you with emails because I have a tendency
to do that with over-information at first, but welcome.
The BCCs will be appointed within the next meeting, so then we will be having a BCC training
for that, that's boards, commissions, and committees.
I use the acronyms a lot, so sorry.
So we will be having that and we're tentatively focusing on the end of May.
We are hiring.
You'll see that in the department head reports, which are always posted on the administrative
shouldn't page.
Always check those out.
There's usually like 15 to 30 pages of things that are going on with pictures, so it's nice
to see what's all going on in the city outside of, you know, just a development and what happens
here.
There's a lot of work that goes on that we don't see and talk about here.
At the next meeting, we will be doing an update on the public safety building, correct
rep.
So that Maura will be here to do a presentation on that.
You'll get that ahead of time, hopefully with the packet.
So that's moving along nicely.
I don't think that we have any delays I got to go out there myself recently and it looks
nice and it will be a great facility for them.
And then in June or July, I believe we'll be having the bike pad plan or port moves
plan coming forward.
It went to public works.
They want to do a little bit more digging in on it.
So we're thinking maybe June or July, back here, back to here in May, May 19th, it'll
be back.
They're going to get that done.
I guess it's the next meeting.
So and then we will also be bringing the lead lateral replacement forward in the next couple
of months.
We're still sorting out how that is going to be financed and how we can make sure that's
the best opportunity options for the community.
So that is what I have from the department head updates.
Any questions or comments from that?
I have one, Rob, and I don't know where this fits.
I don't know if it's traffic safety or that bike pad plan.
We have a new type of vehicle that's emerged in the last really six years, electric bikes.
We have a tremendous amount of very young people doing 25 30 40 miles per hour in town
on those bikes.
And I'm wondering if that's something that we want to explore there or traffic safety,
but I wouldn't traffic safety.
I just don't know where that or how that gets regulated because I looked up.
There's no statutory guidance on it right now.
But tonight was a really good example of our little biking that went flying by on one
wheel.
So I don't know what we want to do that.
So I'll check with the chief on it.
And then the only other things I had is Rob, in your report, you talked about the Valley
Creek tree planting in April of 2026.
And John is here as well.
So maybe he can address this.
Are those saplings?
Are those a variety of trees?
Are those mature trees?
What's going to be planted in there?
Because it states that they're, I mean, a bunch.
And then is that all the staff who's planting those or is there any opportunity for community
service?
I think there is also a community for, yeah, so they're doing, they're doing in conjunction
with Vantage is sending out a group of volunteers to assist with planting.
I just thought maybe if we can invite our young scientists from last month to potentially
come those students from TJ or their classes, but okay.
There was not as much, I mean, volunteers are welcome, but there was not as much, Stantec
is managing it and there was not as much public outreach for it.
But they've been working, I think, Vantage reached out to them to see how they could
get involved.
Okay.
And then the only other thing most of that I wanted to put in here was I really appreciated
that our fire department participated in the funeral of a fallen firefighter in Milwaukee.
So I wanted to give them credit and make sure that the community knew that we did that.
Thanks, Melissa.
Yep, we can go on to the next item, which is, well, monthly reports and city administrator
updates.
Same, just done.
Yep.
Okay.
And that takes us into the presentation of tax incremental district number five, project
planning.
All right.
So thank you for letting me kick this off.
I'll be introducing the folks that are going to do most of the presentation, but I just
wanted to, there's an immense amount of interest in this project and how we're going
to be project planning for the city.
And we really wanted to take this opportunity to make sure that the community knows, council
knows, you know, are basically our one to three year immediate plans that relate to
TID five.
And we want to make sure that we are communicating often, communicating out and letting the community
know what we're doing so that we can work alongside them and then also not work on
top of each other because oftentimes it's, you don't realize, you know, we energy is
going to be here and here at the same time or you're going to be there.
So we're really working on a full scope.
So a lot of work has gone into this presentation that we'll do tonight.
It was in the packet.
We'll post it online.
We'll also link to this presentation and we want to make sure people are able to get
to this link.
So we'll link like where you can start in the video.
So you don't have to sit at home and listen to, you know, the full council meeting.
If you don't want to do all of that listening.
But we, it does take a lot of work to condense a presentation like this down into like 25
minutes.
It's very easy to do a long presentation.
So I do applaud the staff and our consultants for working with us on that so that we can
give a broad scope of what it is.
So I kind of wanted to be the disclaimer for the, for the project.
You know, we're not going to solve all the project problems tonight.
We don't have all the exact numbers that this will, everything will cost.
But what we are doing is letting you know what projects are getting done and what are
the immediate, what are the immediate projects that are going to impact the community.
So it's like the one to three, one to three years.
We had grave here last going through that DOT plan of what's going to be done right
now in the roads, the turning.
So we're really trying to just communicate that out so folks know what tonight isn't.
It's not an action item.
You aren't going to vote on anything.
It's informational only and we appreciate the, the input that we got.
This was presented at Public Works last week and we did get some feedback which we tried
to incorporate within our comments since, since that time.
So we appreciate the, the feedback we've had from some of the community, some of the community
groups and 9th of council.
And this is obviously not a final discussion.
So all of these projects will move through the process like as a normal project.
City staff isn't going to be making the decision on, you know, this is the scope of this project.
These will come through.
We've identified them and then they'll come to the process through Public Works and then
to council like any other normal project would.
So we don't have a blink check unfortunately or fortunately.
And then this also is a way to engage with the community so that you, you all can, you
know, share it with your friends or family or whoever's interested and then they can
solicit to the economic development inbox which I manage and we can make sure we're
getting those answers to the, to the community.
We'll talk about the partnerships that we have but I think the council knows, I interact
a lot with the county, the town, Socville, our friends groups, Main Street, the county
and we're trying to make sure that we're reaching to all of those groups.
We have a couple slides on that later which, which I'll go into a little bit more at that
time.
But we're really excited to present this to you.
We're excited to pull this all together and I'd like to, and then introduce we have Ben
Wood from Stranden Associates.
They, Stranden has been working with us for many years.
So they are very knowledgeable on our systems.
Ben will be doing most of the speaking.
And we also have Aaron Grohl from Kapoor Engineers.
He'll take a piece in this and then we have Roger and Rob who will have some speaking
points from our resident experts, city engineer and public works.
So without further ado, I will let him come up and get connected.
And then we will ask, you just to hold the question until the end and then we'll try
to answer those that we didn't capture in the presentation.
Thank you, Melissa.
So we'll consolidate our questions and we'll wait until it's over.
All right.
And we're helping.
We can get the system to work the entire time.
Yep.
Not to slice the restarts.
Right.
Okay.
Thank you for that introduction, Melissa.
Thank you, staff and council for being with us tonight.
This will be as Melissa indicated, very similar to what was presented last week at the public
works committee.
I'm happy to share it with the rest of the council here tonight.
What we will cover is an overview briefly of the TID project plan that kind of sets
the basis for all of the projects.
The next major item will be all of the specific upcoming projects covering a variety of topics
within those will kind of go through an overview map and then individual projects
sites talking about the need and the thought process that went into each of those.
While we'll step through that in kind of a map and a need orientation toward the end
of the presentation, there is a project index before we wrap up with the summary.
So for the TID project plan overview, this is a developer finance TID, which means that
the developer is at risk for the project cost, and this is established in the already
recorded development agreement.
Approximately 180 million of city led TID projects are identified in the approved TID project
plan for TID number five as established by Ehlers and shown here.
The basis of the need for those specific projects covers a few categories, expanded service
area, redundancy and resiliency and capacity.
What we're going to go through specifically tonight are approximately 100 million dollars
of those city led projects, and again that is the near term forecast of project needs
and toward the end we'll kind of address where are the balance of those projects and
why aren't those being discussed in detail tonight.
This map represents an overview of the project sites.
It may be familiar to some of you as we've talked about specific other water or sewer
system planning needs, but I want to break this down as kind of the foundation for the
need for a lot of these projects.
TID five covers the vantage site, the south portion which is being developed right now
is shown in yellow, the north portion for which there is no imminent site specific development
plan is shown in the pink.
The canalsville obligation area which is a part of the town of Port Washington is shown
in blue and then local adjacent lands are shown in green.
The need to consider these local adjacent lands shown in green was prompted by the southeastern
Wisconsin regional planning commission that encouraged the city to think about what lands
might attach themselves to municipal utilities once utilities are run this far north to
TID number five.
So there is no obligation to serve those areas in green, but the southeastern regional planning
commission wanted us to be prepared for that in the event it did happen.
Shown here is an overview map of all of the TID five city led projects that we'll be discussing
tonight and we'll break down each of these kind of on a case by case basis, but I wanted
to point out the various project categories as Melissa talked about, Grace was before
you at the last meeting talking about some of the DOT and intersection improvement projects.
We're covering the city led projects shown here and as a note, the city led projects
all start with a project number such as 26 one or 26 dash two.
That is the construction start year that is planned.
And then of course, we understand these projects don't exist in a vacuum.
You also have your normal capital improvements within the city and we're aware of the need
to coordinate those schedule drivers for the TID five projects include site occupancy
and the city's obligations to Camelsville.
Well, let's say you want to touch a little bit on city coordination.
So we realized that the city touches so many organizations.
So this project will touch every corner of this city.
It'll touch every corner of Ozaki County and beyond that.
So my one of my goals and one of my missions personally is to make sure that we are communicating
and can I go to the next one.
When you think about all of the agencies that the city touches, we have the school district.
We have the transportation to the bus company.
We have the county and our neighbors and we have emergency services, the police department.
We have on the waterfront, we have the yacht club.
We have charter operations when we're doing our grave program.
We realize that the boats that come out of the town of Port, we have to make sure that
they can actually get their boats out to us and there's like every element of our operations
are impacted.
We have the downtown businesses as partners, our economic development.
So the county economic development, then we have we energies and then our utilities and
we have tourism, fish days, the veterans, like we are going to impact everyone.
And so our mission here is to take this, you know, the citywide coordination and make
sure that we're communicating out and there is going to be a time that we miss a communication.
But our goal is to keep a list going and make sure that when we're doing projects that we're
reaching out or that the groups feel comfortable enough to reach in and say, hey, what about
these lights are too low because we just learned this today for the charters to get through
from the town of Port Port, Washington and then we adjust and make sure that they can.
So we're going to have misses, but know that we're trying and know that you can reach in
and say, hey, what about this may impact this run or this walk.
We're going to do the best we can, but we have this in our mind's eye while we're doing
all this planning.
So I appreciate it.
And next we will have Erin girl from Kapoor, I believe.
Thanks, Melissa.
Good evening, everybody.
So my role here is just to talk about the projects that we have planned for 2026, then
Ben will come back and speak on the projects thereafter.
So this map here shows two blue stars, the southern or the lower star on the map is where
we completed our work this winter and spring.
I'll completed the utility work.
Paving still needs to happen in the next couple of weeks, but at least the utilities have
been extended to that southern blue star.
The intent is in 26 and be completed by 2027 is to extend a water main loop up to Lake
Drive in the north side of the development and also to serve a canalsville and the agreement
that we have with canalsville.
So with that, I want to talk about the specifics of this first project that we have planned
in 26.
This is a 26-1.
This starts at the water tower along I-43, runs underneath I-43 up to Mink Ranch Road
with water main extends to the east on Mink Ranch all the way up to Highland Drive and
then it connects into where the project finished this late winter early spring.
And that also continues up Conantronk Highway KW up to approximately where the boat storage
facility is.
So that's both sewer and water is about 9,000 feet of water, 3,000 feet of sanitary sewer
and then we'll also extend sewer and water services or laterals to all of the parcels
within canalsville.
The purpose is to continue a loop for water main and then also to serve the canalsville
obligation area.
The schedule is first line item here is a subject to permitting.
I'll follow up a little bit more detail in a couple slides from here.
But our plans are 90% complete.
We plan on bidding now it's already the end of April so we expect on bidding out in
May and this project is expected to take about four and a half months to complete.
26-2 is a continuation basically on Conantronk KW from the boat storage area or facility
north to Lake Drive and then heads east on Lake Drive to what was that northern blue
star two maps ago.
About 11,000 feet of water main.
The intent is to complete looping for the development and also to serve canalsville.
Again subject to permitting which I'll follow up more on the next slide where 90% complete
with these plans will bid these out in May and this construction timeline is about four
months.
Any considerations we had some pre submittal meetings with both PSE and DNR to make sure
that our team and the city staff and the approving agencies are aware of what our next
plans are.
We talked about specifics we talked about things that we were looking to do from the
city standpoint and then they also told us some things that they were looking for and
so we're working and collaborating with the agencies to make sure that we're on the same
page.
And submitting those permit applications to PSE and DNR in the next couple of weeks.
Once PSE approval comes in play the intent is to complete the water main loop up to Lake
Drive on the northern end by January of 2027.
One of the key components here is phasing we understand that we're going to have to
run both of these projects 26-1 and 26-2 concurrently but we'll make sure that we write
into our specifications that both contractors can't be working on KW at the same time.
We'll make sure that the southern portion is completed before the northern portion starts.
That'll help the businesses, the residents out there and just in general traffic.
Lastly is just a general preliminary detour map.
This is similar to the detour that you see out there currently but we'll finalize this
map with our final plans and once we finalize this map we'll get that out to the public
to make sure that everybody's aware of what the plan traffic changes will be based upon
our construction.
With that I'll turn it back over to Ben.
All right thank you.
To carry on with the plan shown on the side are utility looping projects that are needed.
So I'm going to start using the laser pointer on the back screen here to kind of help talk
through these.
So whereas projects 26-1 and 26-2 accomplish a partial loop the other utility looping
projects are needed along the east side up to the north to kind of complete primarily
a water main loop it's important to recognize that we're trying to optimize the projects
so that while water main may be the driving need that while we have that corridor that
roadway torn up that we also get in the gravity sewer any force mains in there as well.
So project 29-1 is kind of outlined in blue here and that will include water sewer and
some force main for the forthcoming lift station which is shown as project 28-3 and that lift
station would actually be kind of generally in this area.
Specific site is not picked out yet and then project 30-1 shown in the brown would complete
the loop of the water main up here and then again we would add gravity sewer anywhere
we can in the corridor while that area is disturbed.
Want to talk about the Canalsville obligation?
Canalsville is an unincorporated area within the town of Port Washington shown in the figure
here is the comprehensive land use plan map for Canalsville.
There's an existing city and town agreement that establishes that the city will provide
water and sewer to Canalsville and that those areas will remain part of the township.
The existing agreement indicates that those water and sewer utilities have to be available
for use by the end of 2027.
This map shows specifically the projects that will help to accomplish this.
I want to take a step back here and point out we have gravity sewer areas and lift station
sewer areas.
So while Canalsville is shown all of those lands are shown in blue there is some light
blue hatched area it's kind of difficult to see if I'm trying to outline it here there
are some light blue hatched areas.
Basically what we have determined in some preliminary analysis is that the hatched
areas will not flow by gravity all the way through these sewers all the way down to the
wastewater treatment plant and that because of the lay of the land say at this breakpoint
by the boat storage area gravity sewer would actually flow north to a lift station in this
approximate area and then that would have to get pumped back down into here where then
it can flow by gravity.
So we've discussed this concept with the town and what we've moved toward is putting
in all of the water means that we can and gravity sewers within the area where we're
putting in water main and that the lift station area projects that we would delay those beyond
2027 to allow for time to understand what the actual flows would be so that those lift
stations can get sized and planned appropriately.
It's also important to note that lift stations involve a lot of equipment and electronics
that have longer lead times that realistically the construction schedule will just not allow
for those projects to be done by the end of 2027.
So as Aaron talked about project 26-1 here will include water main and sewers and that
will also serve canalsville and we're adding in project 27-2 which gets water main and
sewer along county highway H. At the end of each of those are anywhere from one to three
properties that won't flow by gravity but their existing properties and the intent is
that they get served on individual grinder pumps in small diameter i.e. 2-inch diameter
force mains.
That covers the canalsville west area.
The canalsville east area are these 28-3 and 29-1 projects I talked about.
Actually from this point on Highland Drive right here all the way north the lay of the
land is such that it flows all the way up to a low spot kind of at the top of the map
here that entire area the sewer will drain to the north have to get picked up by lift
station and then pumped in a force main all the way back to Highland Drive where it can
kind of get into the existing city system.
So I've noted on that project about approximately a year 2030 completion again the purpose for
delaying that is twofold one just the lead times on lift station components and two we
want to make sure that we can get some kind of project specific or or land use specific
planning done so that those left lift stations are sized appropriately.
This map shows off-site tid improvements and these break into several categories sewer
conveyance water distribution wastewater treatment plant planning and treatment plant site resiliency.
This is an overview of those off-site tid projects I'm going to take the next few slides
to go through these in more detail.
First of all sewer conveyance what this project accomplishes or these projects accomplish
is not only conveying flow from the tid area down also picking up canalsville also accounting
for the flows from those green area adjacent lands there are other local sewers that connect
to this interceptor shown in pink here sewer so it's going to help take on extra wet weather
flows and convey those to the plants as well.
So the pink project is from Terrace Drive all the way down to the wastewater treatment
plant it's broken up into three different bid packages 27-3 27-4 and 28-2 so we have kind
of break points on the extents of these projects kind of as planned shown with these
couple of dash marks here just know that those might change a little bit but our intent and
staff's intent is to keep in mind the potential disruption to local residents users of the inner
urban trail for example project areas that might disrupt the inner urban trail we want to make
sure they all get done in one construction season Terrace Drive that gets done in one construction
season we know this is going to be a disruption to people and we just want to be cognizant of
trying to coordinate that and minimize that to the extent practical. Another capacity
increase project is 28-1 that's the Jackson Street sewer interceptor that project is also going to
upsize the diameter of that pipe and is critical to help convey what weather flows due to
inflow and infiltration or what we call shorthand I&I.
Water distribution upgrades this map shows your existing water distribution system which has two
pressure zones the purple area is the low pressure zone and that's inclusive of the water treatment
plant that's where all of the water produced is first pumped and then there's the high pressure
zone shown in green where water is repumped up to the higher elevations within the city so that
everyone has appropriate pressure most of vantage and canalsville areas are in the high pressure zone
meaning all of that water has to get repumped from the low pressure zone up to the high pressure zone
project 27-1 is a new consolidated booster station facility so right now shown on the border of
the low zone and the high zone are these two existing booster stations the oakland and the
sunset stations a new consolidated booster station would be built that has all of the capacity as
the existing two stations combined plus enough capacity for the added service area this is a
critical need because oakland and sunset stations are beyond their useful life the equipment is
aged and the existing stations have actually experienced a failure that's why this one we
would like to advance as quickly as possible treatment plant planning this map shows the overall
planning area for the wastewater treatment plants this is the proposed sanitary sewer
service area so on the north side of that you can see kind of the TID project site and
adjacent lands but I wanted to show the entire city extent because there are also
some areas toward the west of the existing system extents kind of moving towards sockville
that are being accounted for in wastewater treatment plant planning the service area includes again
vantage canalsville other known growth within the city and then some projects kind of toward
the border a facility plan is currently underway and the intent of that is to proactively forecast
the project needs at the wastewater treatment plant so that as we monitor the increase in flows to
the plant the projects are completed ahead of the time that we kind of forecast that capacity
being needed the sanitary sewer service area plan is being conducted by sewer pack that establishes
the service area relative to neighboring utilities quite specifically we participated
along with city staff and sockville staff and staff from sewer pack to discuss which lands are
more appropriate to be served by the city of Port Washington which ones are to be served by sock
ville and that's accounted for in this map plan projects will only be implemented as the flows
are realized and then real briefly on the water treatment plant the existing capacity is adequate
for the actual usage which is less than the planning request that came from vantage the actual site
specific plans have actually resulted in a reduced forecasted capacity for the site
treatment plant site resiliency so shown in the middle here are projects 28-5 and 27-5
note that as hopefully most of you know the drinking water plant and the wastewater treatment
plant are on a common site at the lakefront there's been some as was talked about earlier today some
bluff failures north of the wastewater treatment plant site in the past valley creek has been
problematic and has caused some flooding at the drinking water treatment plant project 27-5 is
the valley creek restoration for which an overview is shown here on the right that design is in
progress and the intent is to start bidding out that work in 2027 that will help mitigate the
flooding at the plant some bluff stabilization is planned along with the wastewater treatment plant
facility plan that is ongoing that work is slated to start in 28 or 2029 it's critical to
understand that this isn't expected to stabilize include bluff stabilization much north of the
stairway that's going down from the upper to the lower portion where some of the failures have
occurred rather the intent behind this is that if a capacity increase is needed at the wastewater
treatment plant that means there needs to be a footprint expansion of that plant to accommodate
newer expanded processes and one of the options being considered or one of the alternatives being
considered is expanding into the bluff further stabilizing the bluff building a retaining wall
etc. So the wastewater treatment plant facility plan that's ongoing needs to be completed first
to choose what the best alternative is one of those alternatives is bluff work.
While this slide this slide shows the project index for all of the city led projects so whereas
the previous maps kind of showed a color coded outline and name tag for each of these projects
this shows each of those projects kind of in a line item order it actually includes a little
more of a breakdown of the project so this kind of pumpkin yellow or orange color here is all
project 26-1 and it describes the various segments of water and sewer etc. And that's the case for
all of the projects on here so if you would like to read more about the specific extents of a
project that can be found here in the project index. Of course like I mentioned we understand
that the city of Port Washington has all of its normal capital improvement needs within the city
and it's important to know that coordination between our consultant team and city staff is
ongoing we actually meet together on a weekly basis and one of the kind of rolling topics
discussed is coordination of each of these projects on a case-by-case basis. So as Melissa
opened with just know that we recognize and it's important to us to coordinate these
to be as efficient as possible. So in summary this presentation is intended to provide the
background for specific forthcoming project plans and decisions. Approximately a hundred
million dollars of city led to five projects are anticipated in the next five years the financing
of which is provided by the developer. Extensive project coordinating coordination is ongoing
this is between projects between governments and departments the community and organizations.
This overall plan will be revised as actual projects progress and with that we would like
to go ahead and open it up for any questions. Questions? Mr. Chair I'll go first. We talked
about the Bluff stabilization work I mean I guess Rob would behoove us at all to consolidate
some of that work further north I mean can we consolidate some of that work with work further north?
Do we need to start making decisions now in time for 2728 as a part of this work?
Yeah I think some of what we're going to discuss in the upcoming months first of all is what
we want up really far to look like on top of the Bluff and then we already have the engineering
plans for stabilization of the Bluff and so that depending upon what the sewer pack
facilities plan comes back with we'll kind of inform our decision making going forward on
stabilization. So I just had a question are all the upgrades for vantage and here is this
assuming phase one or just phase two effect? It's just phase one which by that I assume you
mean the yellow area or the southern part that's kind of under construction right now.
It's the project specific to that so if the north phase if a site specific development plan is
brought forth for that it would likely include more water main looping and and sewer extension
projects. Is Miller? Yes so is the stabilization of the Bluff helped or is a hindrance because
of the waste water treatment center? Would it be appropriate to think about maybe moving that
to maybe make a better structure? About specifically about moving the wastewater plant all together?
Yes. Yeah so it's I'm glad that you brought that up so the wastewater treatment plant facility plan
is ongoing right now and we expect to be done with that toward the end of this calendar year.
It will consider all types of big picture alternatives for that site one of which will be
considering moving the plants altogether. So I'm glad that you brought that up.
Also anybody that's in the Canalsville area or any of the areas that will now have water are not
going to be forced to take the water. That will be their choice the homeowners choice as to whether
or not they choose to participate in our water sewer systems. That's a good question and what
I'll say to that is that's a policy decision kind of between the leaders and the public
the public service commission will have something to say about that also. What I will tell you is
that the town chair for Port Washington for the town of Port Washington has actually gone door to
door to talk to people to garner interest and for those that are interested in connecting right away
Aaron has taken into that taken that into account as he's planning those projects.
That is however a town responsibility correct not a city of Port Washington responsibility
because that was our understanding from the beginning.
Okay just wanted to be clear that we're not forcing them to do anything. No that's a separate
municipality. Other questions? I just have a couple of things I just I one of them was same as
Miss Miller there with the KW hookup process with the town just to make sure that that's clear
one of the pieces that I'm going to ask that as you're developing and doing the different
projects along KW and then LL that could you please make sure to communicate very proactively
with Johnson bus. I had a conversation with them yesterday and just if they can have a two three
week kind of run of this is when this is going to be closed etc. Obviously post memorial day
it should not be as big of an issue but summer school transportation etc and that's been working
very very well. The other thing is the
thoughtfulness that you have put in place here I want to just applaud I don't know it's what you
do but like on our end of hey we're going to start the south end of the project first before
you know moving to the north not shutting those down coordinating with multiple contractors
just being thoughtful for our neighbors and that flow of traffic lots of people shoot up
H and KW to get to Belgium and then head to work and Plymouth and Shabogan and all kinds of other
places so I really appreciate that. One other thing that I wanted to point out too is already
we're feeling an impact here I mean I think last week and the week before with the rain
is the first time in a really long time that Valley Creek did not surge tons of trees down
I mean Sock Creek was huge so you can already tell the retention the reduction of different
drain tiles on that egg land is already making a difference so I appreciate your work on that as
well and then the last thing is an expectation I'd like to throw out there which is that you know
we work with a team to create a real strong construction calendar that's almost quarterly
that goes out with all of these projects so that the community can foreshadow and see this is
what's coming this is when it is and then even putting out kind of like a next week in Port
Washington social media posts so people just are that's in front of us so you know why the heck
is the bike trail closed and where did this come from and how come we didn't know and
I think it's going to be really really important for us to be as proactive as possible in those
communications so. Mr. Mayor I did want to just mention one thing the inner urban trail
does come up a lot and I failed to mention it earlier that is actually run by the county they
have their own web page and their own Facebook page on when their closures are and then the closures
are done by we energies so we won't always know and we won't be communicating out
we tell everyone to go to that and we put it on the website but that is really a trail that's
owned by we energies that lets us use it and you know they don't always get a chance to update us
but that website on our urban trail Andy at the county keeps that updated so just so the community
yeah thank you I just anything within our purview let's double down on it so thank you for that
okay that's what I had any other that spark anything else otherwise
you're all right I'd say just I I will presume that the san tary sewer along the interurban
trail in the city which actually the county does not maintain the portions in the city limit we
we do that I presume the trail will have to be closed for that we need to make sure that
that is there is public relations through the county with their website and that we
get a detour route posted because that trail is very valuable to tourism in the city sure yeah
short-term pain long-term gain so thank you all right well done thank you everyone
feel free to stick around for the next really exciting agenda item consideration and possible
action on a request to amend a condominium plan for the maritime sheds industrial condominiums
702 through 745 maritime drive next sudden north is the applicant the issue is the common
councils being asked to approve an amended condominium platform of the maritime industrial
condominiums to reflect the recent change to the project plan the staff recommends approval
of the the amended condominium plan as did the planning commission mr. Harris so this is a
this is a condo plan to reflect a minor slight plan change that the plant commission approved
last month the developers of that project which is now under construction after being
approved in 2023 they have requested to make some minor changes to the site plan specifically
while it does not material materially change the site plan the number of buildings remains
the same what it will change is adding an additional unit to two buildings that are located on the
north side of the project area while they're developing and marketing the units they found
that there is more there's some greater demand for units under three thousand square feet
previously this was approved with three thousand three thousand square foot minimum units so
what the minor site plan change was to allow for instead of three units in two of those buildings
it is now four units and those are a little under three thousand square feet this was a
condo plant required because obviously these are condominium owned units and so any change them
to the site plan should be reflected on this on the condo plant as the mayor indicated this was
at plan commission after april meeting and the recommended approval any questions or concerns
for bob is there someone willing to make a motion to approve the staff recommendation i would
make the motion to approve the staff recommendation oh the new mayor moved is there a second second
second any questions or concerns on the motion all right seeing none all in favor signify by saying
i opposed motion carries
all right that brings us to the second agenda item from boards and commissions consideration
impossible action on a final plat for phase one of the highland point north subdivision located
north of esock road in west of the ozaki inner urban trail highland point llc is the applicant
the issue is the common counsel is being asked to approve a final plat for the first phase of the
highland point north subdivision and the staff recommends approval of the final plat subject to
final review by the city engineer mr harris okay so this is the most recent approved subdivision
in the city this is located on the north side of esock road and northwest of the ozaki inner urban
trail this is the first phase of that subdivision by noumen developments it is 30 single family
lots on the eastern half of this this subdivision and they are seeking a final plan approval
to get moving again this was at plan commission last month it was approved subject to final city
engineer review and approval and the recommendation is the same is is to approve subject to civil
engineer just to finalize or confirm minor details with civil and street directionals
and nothing that material materially changes the final plat and with that staff recommends approval
all right any questions concerns or comments on this
anyone willing to make a motion to approve the staff recommendation
make a motion to approve i'll second there's a motion and a second
on the approval of phase one highland point north final plat subject to final review by the
city engineer any questions or concerns on that motion so you know all in favor signify by saying
aye opposed all right motion carries that takes us to board of public works consideration and
possible action on approving a task order for strand associates incorporated for on call
engineering services funded by vantage data center the issue is should the city approve a
task order with strand associates incorporated to provide engineering support services to
tit 5 projects related to the vantage data center the staff recommends approval of the task order
to provide engineering support services to tit 5 projects related to the vantage data center
roger all right so as we just saw in the previous presentation that
we have obligations for our agreements with the with the town of port washington and and with
vantage and previously with clover leaf as part of our developers agreement
and some of those obligations strand is in a unique position to to fulfill based on your previous
work with the city and we had some planning documents ongoing when when those developments
came to us so it was easy to slide them in and say okay add add this work to your to your scope
our previous agreements with strand have expired so so we do we need to we need to issue a new
task order we do have a master contract with strand with terms and conditions previously
approved so so as we look at at these point in time it's just to add scope via a task order
so this task order is essentially an on call as needed task order we don't have a defined discrete
project like Melissa said been largely put together that this presentation tonight so projects like
that uh kapoor will call them and ask them for assistance on on various items so that that's
like like really quick quick projects that that need to be done timely vanished gives us a lot of
what if sort of questions if what if we do this with our water what if we do that with our water
and we need to respond and and uh strand with their experience in the city is is uh
uniquely qualified so this this task order would be a five-year agreement on call we expect it to be
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
because quite frankly we don't know what's going to come up um the early months of this year where
um you'll see that we're looking like maybe up to 150 000 this first year i was kind of just
trajectory around dnr hit us with um in the process of of our utility extensions for
ll they said hey we want a sewer interceptor facility plan so i was like okay we got to throw
that together let's get that done so we can get our permits um so that kind of put us on a
trajectory that that that we that we might double that amount this first year but i i've talked
to ben today and and we look at what we're expecting the remainder of the year and we're starting to
go down we i guess they don't expect to hit that number i expect that to come down significantly
again though roger just for clarification this is not an expenditure liability for the city
for washing we are not paying these dollars this is part of the agreement with vantage
much correct these are these will be tid tid five expenses okay that we will manage and that
they're paid by them not us correct thank you yep so it's very very similar to the
agreement with von briezen and kapoor except for kapoor has certain strengths and capabilities
strained of supplementing them and complementing them and uh with their with their experience
with the city we will it behooves us to continue with them
the second behoove tonight i i guess any other questions yeah any questions or concerns comments
for roger mr baster i just i think i'm gonna recuse on this one i just don't know enough about
this from the public works okay is there anyone then willing to make a motion on the staff recommendation
the recommended motion is i move to approve the task order with strand to provide engineering
support services i'll make the motion there's a motion is there a second
moved and seconded any questions or concerns on the motion
all right seeing none all in favor signify by saying aye opposed
abstentions mr baster okay that takes us into the last agenda item for the evening public
comments and appearances any public comments and appearances
may i address
plus
okay tracy bench west port v drive um there when you asked me uh when i got where i got my
information about the diesel generators i did not respond because i did not know but because my
time at the podium had ended and based on how residents who raised their concerns about vantage
data centers have been treated i knew about how that exchange would go so let me answer you now
every fact i've stated comes from directly from the wisconsin department of natural resources
according to the dnr own permit filings vantage submitted an application on august 29th 2025 for
for 45 fire diesel emergency generators totaling 87 megawatts of backup power this is not a rumor
this is not speculation it is public records these generators would sit at the proposed
vantage site east of the is inter-urban trail south of dixie road and just west of i-43
right here in pore washington in a county already classified as moderate ozone pollution
meaning our air is already failing federal health standards diesel exhaust is linked to
cancer health uh heart disease long disease and worsening smog and if all five generators just
ran for just one hour the pup the pollution released would equal 5.2 million miles of car travel that
is the scale of what we are being asked to accept meanwhile cleaner alternatives like battery
storage exist today and are already being used by other data centers across the country so
when you question how someone like myself could possibly know this information it it didn't undermine
my credibility it raised a far more serious concern that the people elected to protect this
community may not fully be aware of the consequences of the decisions being made or maybe dismissing
residents who take the time to read the documents themselves pore washington deserves a leadership
that does not minimize legal legal concerns or act surprised by facts that have been publicly
available for months leadership that stands up for health of its residents instead of brushing
off the risks and that is why i am asking you again ted marinyski reject the insulation of a
gas fired generators for this data center and to pursue alternative that protects our residents
and reflect the values of pore washington the cost in action will not fall on vantage it will fall
in every family breathing the air in ozaki county wake up
other comments okay we're going to move into uh we're going to convene into closed session
for wisconsin state statute 19.851 e for the purpose of deliberating or negotiating
the purchase of public properties the investing of public funds or conducting other specified
public business whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session to wit to
discuss and formulate negotiating strategies including without limitation the terms and conditions
for an offer to purchase received by the pfd development llc regarding city-owned property at
104 west washington street and 365 north wisconsin street in the city of port washington ozaki
county wisconsin tax id number 16-098-10-01.001 is there someone willing to make that motion
moved and seconded that is a voice vote any questions or concerns on the motion
all right seeing none ward 1 ward 2 ward 3 ward 4 ward 5 ward 6 ward 7
all right we stand in closed session please clear the chambers council will meet in the side
chambers in four minutes
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