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May 5th, Cinco de Mayo at Port Washington City Hall.

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All older persons are present.

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Please join with me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

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and to the Republic for which it stands,

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

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All right, this time we'll move into public comments and appearances.

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Just a reminder that you have up to three minutes to speak,

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and we will be allowing comments for a maximum of 30 minutes tonight.

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Name and address.

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Tracy Finch, Westport View Drive.

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For it, Mayor, the people of Port Washington deserve honesty tonight.

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I'm asking you to correct the record.

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Your Q&A facts sheet claims you proposed data centers will not raise our power bills,

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but we energies has already announced a 4.7 rate increase in 2027.

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Driven by the new energy infrastructure, major grids, upgrades,

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rising electricity demand fueled largely by data center growth and inflation.

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Those are words, not ours.

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To tell residents this project has no impact on the future rates,

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it's simply not credible.

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Any new power lines or grid expansions required for this data center

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should be paid for by vantage and other developers,

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not taxpayers or homeowners of Port Washington.

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But the issue goes deeper than rising bills.

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Right now, residents are living with confusion, anxiety, genuine emotional distress

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because there is no clear trustworthy way to report problems.

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Complaints bounce between seven different entities,

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including two that many people don't no longer trust.

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This is not a functioning system.

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We need one centralized complaint department,

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one number, one accountable person,

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one unbiased log for of every concern.

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Without this, the suffering will continue

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and the city will continue to look unprepared and under responsive.

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Mayor, you are hurting people because of decisions made under your leadership.

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Families are losing sleep.

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They are worried about their health.

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They are watching their value of their homes.

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The biggest investment slip away.

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These are not abstract policy disagreements.

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These are real human consequences.

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And when residents feel dismissed and or ridiculed

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for raising legitimate concerns in a road's trust

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and edges dangerously close to a failure of duty,

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taxpayers should not have to fight this hard to be heard.

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We expect safe roads.

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We expect clean air.

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We expect leadership that protects those basic rights.

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And when transparency is promised, it must be delivered.

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You presented a construction timeline at a previous meeting

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saying it would clear up confusion.

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Now it's gone.

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It's not in the hallway.

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It's not online.

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Simply removed.

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When information appears once, then disappears without explanation.

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It creates an impression that something is being hidden.

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That damages public trust more than any construction noise

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or dust ever could.

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Mayor, this is the moment for accountability.

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Not for defensiveness.

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Not for excuses.

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The people of Port Washington need a leader

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who recognizes the impact of his choices

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and is willing to say plainly and sincerely

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that he understands the harm and is committed to making it right.

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Annitting mistakes is not weakness.

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It is leadership but below leadership.

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Thank you.

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Other comments?

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Name and address, please.

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Ben Donakowski, 4799 County Road, LL.

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My paint is chipped.

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My windshield is cracked.

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And whatever line, binder, or stabilization powder

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they are using on these temporary roads

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is literally etching vehicle paint.

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At this pace, vantage could hand out car washes every day

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for the next several years

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and it would still wouldn't come close to addressing the damage

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for anyone living in the affected area.

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Car washes aside, what I really want to focus on today

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is something that is genuinely inexcusable

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at this stage of construction, logistics.

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What exactly is the plan for handling 5,000 workers?

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Because right now, there are supposedly only around 500 on site

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and even that is overwhelming in the area.

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Here's an example.

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When not closed for resurfacing,

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the intersections of Lake Drive and LL

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or Lake Drive and KW are abysmal that shift changes

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and can't operate without county sheriffs

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risking themselves while choking on dust.

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Eventually, everything will reopen.

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Both ends of Lake Drive, East West, LL will finally wrap up

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to handle some traffic from Highland under I-43

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or past the town hall.

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But then what?

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5,000 workers will still require

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more routes, more lanes, more options.

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Like that's only four exits.

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We already know 500 workers is too much for one exit.

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Simple math, four times 500, doesn't equal 5,000.

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The complete lack of a real traffic solution

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is putting families at serious risk.

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Civilian vehicles don't stand a chance

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against heavy construction equipment

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and we can't even get a stoplight.

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People have compared this project to Foxconn,

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but there is certainly one big difference.

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Foxconn had multiple roads expanded,

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rebuilt or completely rerouted before construction ever began.

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And again, we can't even get a stoplight.

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I know the response is going to be something like

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we have a tip, a transportation improvement plan coming,

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but that's exactly the problem.

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Why wasn't it done before construction started?

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Everything so far has been reactive instead of proactive

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and the community is paying the price for that.

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Thank you, other speakers?

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Mike Beaster, 305 of South Garfield Avenue.

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I just wanted to, one more time,

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reiterate my great thanks and gratitude to the city staff.

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Roger John, Chief Devore, Melissa Susan.

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Everybody was set down with me and tried to bring me up

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to speed on what's going on in the city.

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So it's been really helpful and we have

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amazing city staff here.

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So thank you.

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Thank you.

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Okay. Any other public comments?

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All right, let's move into our agenda then.

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In the consent agenda, is there anyone willing to make a motion

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to approve the consent agenda?

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So moved.

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As moved and seconded, any questions or concerns on the agenda?

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Are the consent agenda seeing none?

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All in favor signify by saying aye.

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Opposed?

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All right, motion carries.

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That takes us into Mayor's business.

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There are no appointments to boards, commissions,

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or committees this evening.

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They will all come on May 19th and that brings us into

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proclamations.

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There are multiple proclamations for the month of May.

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One is for ALS Awareness Month.

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Another is for Professional Municipal Clerks Month.

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Another is for National Nurses Week, which begins today.

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Another is for Teacher Appreciation Week,

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and another is for National Peace Officers Memorial Day

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and National Public Works Week.

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I'll have all of those available for public consumption,

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but I wanted to speak to three of them tonight

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and just share our gratitude.

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The first is for National Peace Officers Memorial Day

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and National Public,

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or I'm sorry for National Peace Officers Memorial Day.

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I just want to thank the Port Washington Police Department

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for their constant commitment to community policing.

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Making sure to follow the mission of serving and protecting

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and also making sure they have a strong commitment

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to the future of Port Washington.

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They've done a fantastic job this year as is every year.

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And as the department continues to grow

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and we'll move into a new facility and building,

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I just wanted to thank Captain Zarnicki and Chief Angus

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for their work and making sure that those two buildings

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are looking good and will be really future focused.

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And we're going to hear about that a little bit from Rob tonight.

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I'll be delivering that to the Police Department here this week.

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The second one is Teacher Appreciation Week.

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That's a special spot, I think, at all of our hearts

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because I don't know anyone who never had a teacher.

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Regardless of where you went to school or even homeschooled,

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you still had a teacher.

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And this week for the fourth through the eighth

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is Teacher Appreciation Week.

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And I would just ask citizens of Port Washington

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to send notes to the teachers who provide a great public education

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in the Port Washington Stockfield School District

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to our children and as well as all the staff at those schools.

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One of the things I don't think we always recognize

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is that the 180-day school year is a really awesome time for teachers

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but it's also a very trying time.

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And May is the reason that they put Teacher Appreciation Week in

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because this is the last few weeks of school.

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It's the most difficult time to be an educator.

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And I think if you remember, it was also a tough time to be a student.

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So they share that together.

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But after spending all that time together,

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one of the things I think is really, really important is

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62% of a child's waking life by the time they graduate from high school

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is in a school.

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And that means they're in front of our teachers

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more than they are their own families.

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And I think most of our teachers in the city of Port Washington

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treat those children as if they are their own.

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So please extend a great warmth and thanks to them.

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And then the other one is it's National Nurses Week.

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I think it's really fantastic that three people who selflessly,

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three groups that selflessly serve the community either through nursing,

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teaching, or policing get the same week together.

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And if you get the opportunity, I think we've all been on the other end of a

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very caring and empathetic nurse who has taken the time

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he or she to ensure that we feel comfortable and safe.

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Because if you've ever been hospitalized unexpectedly,

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it's a really scary thing.

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And you are front facing with these beautiful people

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who calm you down and take you through that.

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So National Public Works Week, let's keep removing there.

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Rob, well done.

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And then Susan, the Municipal Clerks Week,

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we appreciate you very much for all that you do on a regular basis

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to ensure the city of Port Washington has amazing elections

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as well as records and support for our community.

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And the ALS Awareness Month is something that's also very important to us all.

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I have no further mayor updates,

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so I'm going to take us into officer and staff reports

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and start out with an update on the public safety building.

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Rob.

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Okay, yep, we have Maura Riordan from MC Group,

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who is going to lead a short presentation on the status of our construction

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of the public safety building.

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Good evening, everyone.

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Someone did it for me.

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Thank you.

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I haven't seen you in a while, and I'm glad to say I have good news.

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So most of you have probably aware we're coming to the end

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of the building of the new public safety building.

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Tonight, I'm going to give you an overview of what's happened,

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where we are today and what to expect.

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I'm going to start with the good news.

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So the whole project we've had over 100,000 work hours,

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with not a single recorded safety incident.

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That's very impressive.

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We are still on track to complete construction in July,

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which is how we started.

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That's the schedule we started with,

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and we are on track to maintain that schedule.

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Current construction contract is below the original contract amount by over 300,000.

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So example of effective cost control throughout the whole process.

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And the total project budget of the 31.9 budget approved,

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we have approximately $1.7 million remains unallocated.

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That means that we're well positioned at this point to deliver the project under budget.

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And the last I'm just going to say is a group.

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I think you can, again, thank your police and fire.

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You can thank Susan for her effort, Rob for his effort, Melissa for your help.

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And everyone else that's been involved in this process,

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because from the beginning, a very clear vision was stated,

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and we feel that we've accomplished the mission.

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So it's been a very successful project,

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and you could all be very grateful for the team that you have working in the city.

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Project budget update.

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Currently, as I mentioned, the project is trending under budget

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due to competitive bids, discipline change order management,

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for active coordination.

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It's been a very collaborative project team with the architects and engineers

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and the construction manager.

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We have limited any kinds of major cost growth.

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We've preserved our contingency.

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So the remaining contingency levels, both owners contingency

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and construction contingency are healthy and appropriate.

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They're better than appropriate for this phase of the construction project.

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And as we reach completion, we'll maintain those two contingencies to the very end,

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and then those will eventually be returned to the owner.

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But basically, you won't be billed for those amounts is what happens.

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And so holding on to that amount makes just makes sure that to the very end,

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we have the finances available to take care of anything that might come up.

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But generally, it's all good news financially.

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As far as milestones schedule wise, we're also predicting a very successful completion.

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So we've completed everything up to interior roughing.

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We've started already with final grading and paving.

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Landscaping is projected to complete by next month, substantial completion.

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We're on target, like I said, for like I got to predict here, July 4th.

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And we have started the owners fixtures and equipment procurement and installation.

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And that should be wrapped up by the end of July.

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Last 30 days, a lot has been happening.

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So you might have noticed that they started building the police side,

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then they've moved into the common area, and then they've worked on the fire department.

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So we call those units A, B, and C.

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So at this point, unit A, the police department, is nearly complete.

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So drywall's done, ceilings are done, finishes, casework is going in,

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and final mechanical electrical and plumbing.

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It's all wrapping up here.

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Moving into the common area, and they've already started with a lot of those trades,

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and nearly done like with ceramic tile in the fire department.

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Elevator is underway, should be installed and certified, maybe next week, depending on if we get

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it, have phones to the building, phone lines.

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And as I said, we started finished grading and site concrete is underway.

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So sidewalks are going in.

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And the owner furnished equipment, the procurement is well underway,

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over 85% complete, and they started deliveries.

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So in the next 30 days, we're expecting the majority of the work to wrap up and to start

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the final finishes.

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So landscaping, they're going to do start up and testing and commissioning.

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That's all going to be in the next 30 days.

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And I went ahead and added a slide here for a 60-day look ahead.

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So after our 250th Independence Day celebration, that's when you can imagine

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they're going to be moving in, hopefully.

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So the strong coordination between the city,

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the architect, and CD Smith, the construction manager, we've minimized disruptions.

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Like I said, we're aligned with the overall project time lighting,

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meaning the substantial completion date of 7-1, which was in the original contract.

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We've managed to maintain that.

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Like I said, owner furnished equipment, procurement is 85, almost 90% complete right now,

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no lead time concerns.

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And CD Smith, the construction manager, has accepted the idea of partial substantial

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completion, so we're going to start installing equipment.

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Like I said, unit A, B, C, we're going to start installing equipment in that same pattern.

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And the police and fire department, the leaders are going to handle their own

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occupancy planning, and that has already begun.

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So meaning they're going to help, they're going to figure out how to move everything in,

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get everything up and running.

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So that's already started.

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So overall, good news.

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As you've probably seen from the outside, training tower's done, there's glass up,

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signage is going on the outside of the building.

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As I said, sidewalks are in.

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That gives you a little brief look at what the inside of the training room slash

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court area is going to look like, lots of light.

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We've now well surpassed where this picture was taken.

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So that wraps up my presentation.

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And I am happy to answer any questions.

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Any questions from Council, Mr. Planer?

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Yeah, no, I guess I'm just thinking about contingencies, Morris,

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so like nothing to be concerned about this time.

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No, we're expected surprises that you're thinking about.

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No, no unexpected surprises with contingency.

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And as I mentioned, there will be a decent amount of

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contingencies being returned to the owners, how we reference it.

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But it's basically you won't be billed for that about.

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And then I guess like Rob, will we have like access to some of those

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numbers and dollars when we start talking about borrowing for the fall and like budget time?

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Yeah, we think so as we go into budget season.

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Yeah, well, I mean, I think we're going to have our substantial completion.

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Like Morris said, it's seven on July 26th, I think.

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And so, yes, we should.

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Yeah.

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So at budget time, we should have a pretty good grasp of what we have.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Even before then, I mean, I think we'll know.

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July, for sure, we'll be getting our final bill from the construction manager.

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Other questions?

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Mr. Numer?

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Oh, just a quick question.

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We're set with DOT as far as access to the highway now.

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We're on the agenda for tonight.

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Yep.

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Thank you.

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Mr. Benning?

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No, I get to look at it every day and watch it from my work.

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It's a funeral home, but and I have gone through it a couple of times and

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it's a very impressive.

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I think it's going to be key to recruiting and retaining staff at this facility.

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And we said, you referred to the vision of a 50-year building and it's

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it will be a 50-year building.

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We'll not be going in.

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I know Melissa and I've talked was we've got plans for how we're going to maintain

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it going forward.

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That's been a key for us to know how we're going to mow the lawn, plow the snow,

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you know, and know when we have to put a new roof on it or something like that.

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So it won't be in five or 10 years.

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It'll be 50 years.

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And so talking with the Ben, the site manager out there, he's very pleased and

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impressed. I've been very impressed with he and his crew with with everything they've done

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out there.

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So thank you and the whole team.

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It's it's been a fun project to work on a good group of people.

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Other questions?

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I just I have one quick one that one of my the expectations that we laid out from the

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start was that once we took occupancy of the building, we also acquired a capital plan that

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showed life expectancy of carpet, windows, paint, and that we could adopt a nice

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can chart or project map showing that, you know, in 2048, we would have to replace windows or

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just so that future councils can maintain it because the current state is it's a 50-year

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building, but there's nothing precluding that from being 100-year building.

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If it's maintained properly, that's that's I'd really like to see that adopted, you know,

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given to council when we take occupancy.

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I think that's going to be critical.

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I will make note of that. So a separate the idea would be like a separate binder for council

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beyond the owner's maintenance manuals that we would give to say the building management team.

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Yeah. So what I've what we've done in the past with larger projects is, you know,

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like the carpet is warranted for X amount of time, HVAC's warranty, and just shows the end dates

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of all of those so that that the the council and GGF can plan for an understanding that,

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you know, the expected life cycle is X. So start saving now. So in the future,

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some councils not sitting there going, well, you know, we can they don't need air conditioning.

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Like it's a $250,000 liability. We know that the date of the year, and we need to be appropriately

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budgeting for it. Good idea. Okay. Thank you. Anything else after that?

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This was quick. I just want to say that working inside this project for all this time,

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Mora, you've been outstanding to work with. And I really appreciate your professionalism

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and your attention to detail. And I just wanted you all to know that she has been amazing this

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entire time. Thank you. Thank you. I'll be back next week.

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Well, anybody anybody who tells us we get some extra millions of dollars they deserve an applause.

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Yeah. Yeah. We'll go get you some beanies, chips and nachos.

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Okay. City administrator update. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to I have to say this every time

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the department heads do a report every month and it goes on the city under administration.

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This month, I think it's 20 pages. I do encourage everyone to read those there in the packet. But

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if you are wanting to read them at a different time, they're all each month, they're on the website.

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We are hiring for the summer. So if you have anybody that is looking for a summertime job,

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they can still jump online and help us out. I know I think John was filling in the pool yesterday.

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So we're getting ready for summer around here. I wanted to also let everyone know for we're

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going to be doing some work by underneath the i43 by the Inner Urban Trail. There will be some

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closures during the daytime. We will do every effort to open it at night and on the weekends.

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We're partnered with the county who runs Inner Urban Trail website and it's innerurbantrail.com.

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All of the updates will be on there. I just double checked and Andrew from the county has

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it updated. So it'll be open at night or after six o'clock and it'll be open on the weekend. So

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we're going to allow as much as much access as possible to anybody using that trail. And then

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they're doing as much as they can to keep that website updated if there are any closures. So

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stay tuned on that. This week we will also there will be striping done on Lake Drive.

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So that'll be happening and hopefully that will help alleviate some of the traffic

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out there and they will get that handled. And I believe the I will get that data center

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schedule backups up there. I don't know why it was taken down but I will get it back up there.

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I don't I didn't take it down but we'll get we'll certainly get it back up there.

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Oh okay. Okay. Okay we'll get it back up. So sorry about that. I didn't realize it was down.

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And then lastly I believe Rob wanted to do just a micro update on the Upper Lake Park.

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Sure. So I'm happy to report that our street department our street department was able to

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get a little small section less than 100 feet of Upper Lake Park

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reconstructed this week. So we should be opening reopening traffic northbound and

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through Upper Lake Park tomorrow afternoon. And just for the community's sake that was

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approved by overseen by can you just give the like slight details on why we're able to do that?

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Safely. Sure. Well just so this is a recommend this was a recommendation from our geo tech

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Miller engineers to pull back that section of the road from from the bluff which of course has

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been creeping towards the road. And we were essentially able with our own street department

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our own forces to do to do this work. And we rent the paving machine from Ozaki County and we're

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able to complete that. Yeah complete that work today and we'll stripe it tomorrow so the

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pedestrian lane will be back in action as well. I'll give a probably a larger I will give a

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larger presentation to Board of Public Works just a discussion and update at their meeting next

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Tuesday. Awesome. But that's a safe stretch now. Yes yes you have to travel again. Okay.

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And so we pulled out we pulled out a section of asphalt so that people you know to discourage

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people from even driving into that area. Yeah. I just it was back in the old days there was a

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guy who ran parks department or yeah parks his name was Joe Weiss. And he loved putting boulders

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along those strips to deter young people from driving along there. And I was thinking I was

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wondering if are we going to put anything on the other side to stop traffic from getting a little

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too close to that edge that isn't safe. Well the guardrail is still there. Yeah. Yeah. It's not

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being moved over with the road. No it's okay. That was not the plan currently. Okay. Yeah. Melissa.

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One more one question on that. Rob are we putting up fencing snow fencing or something along the

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top of the bluff to keep people back way? We were not planning on doing that. We do have signage that

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advises people to stay away from the edge. Okay. Because I you know Mayor talked about the

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undercutting and I just feel like we need to put something up there and people don't assume that

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it's good up to the edge. Yeah. Yeah. I guess that's I mean that's something we could discuss. I you

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know that would be a long you know it it might give the impression anywhere you don't have a sign

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that's perfectly safe. I guess nowhere along the bluff is perfectly safe to be standing on the

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edge. I just I'm just more worried about undercut areas. Yeah. Okay. Melissa.

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I actually said the same thing and there is a sign there. It's just one sign and you sent me

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the photo of it that to don't go there because I didn't see either. There isn't like barricades

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or anything and I don't think that we'll put those back up unless.

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And then the deal the only other question I had was do we have a timeline on the clearing

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of the path to the beach? We would like to start whether dependent we'd like to start that work

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next week. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. And then one other you're going to do the bike

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bed plan in June 2nd. Correct. Not next week or not. Yeah. We're going to what we're going to do

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with the bike bed plan is we'll take it. It was tabled at the board of parks last month. So we'll

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take it to public board of public works again this month. Traffic safety meets in May. So we're

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going to traffic safety and then take it to the council on June 2nd. I think it is. Perfect.

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Thank you. Awesome. Okay. And then the next agenda item then is from council committees

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general government and finance committee consideration and possible action and a recommendation to

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use debt reserves for the purchase of a replacement stump grinder.

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Should the use of a debt service serves be approved to fund a purchase of a replacement

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stump grinder in 2026 is the issue the staff recommends approval to use debt reserve to fund

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the purchase of a replacement stump grinder and there is a recommended motion to use $84,500 for

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that. Melissa. Thank you, Mayor. This did go to GGF and this was approved for our parks department.

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This was in the plan from 2024 and we had pushed it out and unfortunately it kind of

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went to put on it for us for what we need. John Crane is here for any questions on logistics or

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more of the mechanical pieces of it. But if we didn't buy it now, we would be spending probably

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20,000 more in a year. And then we don't have the usage of it right now. And we do use this

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piece of equipment quite a bit. And if you have any questions on the logistics,

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John's here. Otherwise, financials.

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Great, Lou. Just a few questions. What is the lifetime of this piece of equipment expected

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lifetime? It's right here.

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I guess we would look at it to about 10 years. At 10 years, we would see if we can extend it

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further. But I would say at about 10 years, maybe looking at a replacement.

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And what's the warranty on this product? Is there a warranty?

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There is there's a full warranty on it. I'd have to review what the warranty is, but

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it's in the itch. Yeah, it should be in there, but it's the same as the new purchase.

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Yeah. So one year standard limited warranty, three years gearbox and drive line and two years

476
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standard cat engine warranty.

477
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,600
Where is that on? What page?

478
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,440
It's in the packet under the quote. 17.

479
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,640
I was wondering what the remote control, can you just do all this work from your house?

480
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,200
With use of GIS, we may be able to do it from the office.

481
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:38,320
A robotic stump writer. And lastly, Melissa had asked about it would cost us 20,000 more. Are

482
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:43,040
there any other costs that would impact this if we didn't buy it now?

483
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:54,160
Well, the cost would be we wouldn't be able to grind any stumps. What do you mean on what more costs?

484
00:30:54,800 --> 00:31:04,640
Like the type of product that it is, it's from a certain country, it's chances of getting this product.

485
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:10,160
I guess anything's possible with the way things are changing with imports.

486
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:19,680
But right now, as it stands, if we were to wait until next year, there's a $20,000 increase on a

487
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,600
new piece of equipment. This is a demo model. We actually demoed this. We

488
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:30,240
had demoed three different types of units. We want to switch to a track unit. This is going to

489
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:37,120
save on a lot of time and labor. Part of the problem is we had a tow behind unit that the

490
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:42,080
operator has to back up onto the parkways and it isn't very efficient. Also, when you want to do

491
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:48,720
stumps in the parks, you have to drive the pickup truck and the machine. It's a towable trailer.

492
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:55,040
We end up making a lot of ruts. We do a lot of stump grinding in spring, so the parkways are

493
00:31:55,040 --> 00:32:01,280
soft. It causes a lot of extra work to fill these in. That's why we were switching to a track unit.

494
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:07,600
As I said, we demoed three different types of track units and felt this one was the best.

495
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:18,560
What had happened is I don't know why, but the motor blew on the last one. I talked with our

496
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:26,000
mechanic. Sensively on it, one of the injectors could have failed. We don't know for sure. Once

497
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:32,880
it blows, it's kind of hard to say exactly why it happened. I talked with him about a rebuild and

498
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:38,400
he wouldn't have the time to do it. It wouldn't be cost effective to pay for it with the amount of

499
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:46,560
hours that are on it. That's why it should be done now. If we don't do it now, then all the stumps

500
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:52,560
sit all summer. We have several stumps along the bike path right now. Then we do have several

501
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:59,520
stumps throughout the summer. Then coming into fall, we're also going to have more stumps from

502
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:05,680
our street tree removal. That would be a big cost as we don't have a stump grinder. We would have

503
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:14,560
to rent one. Grafton was gracious enough to let us use theirs for our spring stumps. There's several

504
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:21,040
costs in labor. I can't give definitive costs if we waited.

505
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,040
Other questions, Mr. Gasper?

506
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:32,560
Sure. Since we're going to pay for this out of reserve funds, are we going to budget for next

507
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:38,800
year to refill the reserve funds for the same amount? Also, I said for selling the old one,

508
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,440
to Cedarburg for $5,000, is that then going into reserve to make up for this?

509
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:44,480
Yes.

510
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:45,920
Yes.

511
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,920
Yes, the most said yes.

512
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,120
Thank you.

513
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,680
In their capital reserves.

514
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:55,840
Any other questions or concerns?

515
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,000
I'll move to approve.

516
00:33:58,560 --> 00:33:59,280
I'll take a second.

517
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,400
There's a motion to approve in a second. Any questions or concerns on the motion?

518
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,200
All right, seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye.

519
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:06,320
Opposed?

520
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:07,840
Motion carries.

521
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,880
That takes us to the next agenda item from the planned commission.

522
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:16,720
Consideration and possible action on ordinance 2026-02 amending the zoning ordinance relating

523
00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:23,120
to permitted uses by right in the I-1 existing industrial and I-2 industrial park zoning districts.

524
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,000
City of Port Washington is applicant. This is the first reading.

525
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:32,880
The issue is should the common council, the common council is being asked to amend section 485-170

526
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:38,160
of the city of Port Washington's zoning code to add indoor storage to the list of permitted uses

527
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,640
for existing industrial planned developments?

528
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,680
The staff recommendation is there's no recommendation at this

529
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,920
as it is a first reading of the ordinance.

530
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,560
We did review the supplanting commission and agreed with it.

531
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:49,120
Mr. Harris.

532
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:50,640
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

533
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:57,040
So the this ordinance will permit or it's a change in the zoning code to add that indoor storage use

534
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:04,480
in industrial zoning districts, specifically only for those existing industrial planned

535
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:10,800
developments. So in this case, it's both the business barns that are on South Park Street.

536
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:16,000
Those are actually were allowed at the time of approval and also the maritime light industrial

537
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,240
condominiums. And then the intent of this is just after speaking, you know, both with the developer

538
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:29,440
on uses and also police and fire on certain code issues with these industrial developments.

539
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:36,560
I think it's almost just a path of least resistance to allow this use in what is

540
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:42,320
essentially a mixed use industrial district. So I think it just I think in this particular

541
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:48,480
case with these particular developments, I think it's just it's an acceptable use.

542
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:53,600
And so so there is no indoor storage use allowed right now.

543
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,040
So in a plan development, it has to attach itself to an existing use.

544
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:02,320
So we're putting it in the code and applying it to those industrial plan developments.

545
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,200
Thank you, Mr. Harris. Any questions?

546
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,560
Just speaking on behalf of myself from the planning commission a few years ago,

547
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,800
I would have been adamantly opposed to this because we would have wanted to put density

548
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:21,360
and high value industrial uses in the industrial park. And after, you know, two decades of trying

549
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:27,840
to attract as well as working with those the existing occupants of the industrial park,

550
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:33,120
they've sold off their extra lots. They do not see themselves growing. And this would be the best

551
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:39,040
use for that land now. So I do recommend it from watching it for the last few years.

552
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,320
So we'll have the public hearing and the action on this matter at the next council meeting.

553
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:50,800
All good. Anything else? Okay. That takes us into the next agenda item.

554
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,440
New business consideration and possible action on a quit claim deed with the

555
00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:00,640
Department Wisconsin Department of Transportation for highway access to the new safety building.

556
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:06,480
This is at the corner of County Highway LL and State Highway 33. The staff recommends the city

557
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:11,040
approve a quit claim deed with Wisconsin Department of Transportation to permit access

558
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:16,160
to the new public safety building off of County Highway LL and State Highway 33.

559
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,400
Mr. Vanden Oven. All right. Well, I'm happy to report that we

560
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,600
that in just under the amount of time that it took to build the entire building that we were

561
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:32,240
able to receive from the DOT a quit claim deed that we've been waiting for. So this is, as I think

562
00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:40,000
you all know, the DOT has had access restrictions on that property because of the ramps that used

563
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:48,160
to be there for the old US Highway 141. And so it was a long process in which they typically sell

564
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:54,320
these rights to people who wish to develop on the land. We were able to negotiate a deal

565
00:37:54,880 --> 00:38:00,560
with the DOT that they would only charge us the cost of the appraisal that they had to go through

566
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:07,440
to find out how much the access was worth before they sold it to us for zero dollars.

567
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But the so the cost associated with it is twelve thousand five hundred

568
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,800
and that substantially under the I think we had over two hundred thousand dollars budgeted for that

569
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,840
two hundred and ten thousand dollars budgeted. So we the other requirement that they have

570
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,680
for this access what they are which they are giving us and this quit claim deed

571
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:36,240
is the cost of the left hand turn lane which will be going in this summer when we recon when the

572
00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:43,200
DOT researches Highway 33. So in that cost I think I have estimated around sixty

573
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:51,520
thousand dollars. So part of our part of our savings that we'll realize with the construction

574
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,920
of the new building. And we worked you worked with the Department of Transportation on this.

575
00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:01,760
We also talked to some local legislators got some help on that. So that's a big swing in

576
00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:07,200
costs and a reduction. So thank you for that extra effort as well as our friends who helped us on

577
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:13,040
that. Any other questions for Rob? Yeah I guess since you brought it up Rob do you have timing

578
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:20,880
from the DOT when they're going to start construction on 33 there? We don't so they they had we it

579
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:26,320
was just out for bids we do have a low bidder and I apologize I can't remember who it is but we do

580
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:30,960
not have a schedule from that contractor yet but it will be this year. Yes I'm doing yeah I don't

581
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:36,000
know if it'll be mid-summer or late summer but yeah as soon as I know that I'll certainly get

582
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:42,560
that information out. Thanks. I did have a question about this not this particular thing but it's

583
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:49,520
within the purview of this conversation is when visiting the fire and safety center one of my

584
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wonderings was because of the both contingency fund and the DOT approval for this did we or can we

585
00:39:56,240 --> 00:40:01,360
consider on County Highway LL where the fire engines and trucks would be coming out?

586
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,360
I know that we've talked about potentially striping LL in a way to ensure that people

587
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:11,840
driving know that that's an exit but would we ever light that i.e. you know safety light

588
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:16,880
traffic light flips red when the engines are coming out or an ambulance is coming out to ensure

589
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that traffic safety on that corner. We've not we've not considered that I think I think

590
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:28,320
we did talk about it but we did not move forward with it I think the fire department felt that

591
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with the lights and the sirens that are on the vehicles themselves that that would be enough

592
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given that it's a fairly low low traffic volume on LL. Okay that was the thinking but we did

593
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discuss that during design. Okay all right so then there is a motion a recommended motion to

594
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approve the quid claim deed. Oh Mr. Benning or Mary Lou I'm sorry.

595
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:58,160
Do you know what the landscaping that they're planning on doing in June will be disturbed from

596
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,320
the work that they plan on doing in July? Has that been?

597
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:09,360
What could you say the question again? Well so they're going to do a left hand turn right

598
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:16,400
and that goes into which direction is that coming help me out? So that's yeah so that's

599
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:23,760
eastbound highway 33 left hand turn into the public safety building yeah into the driveway

600
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:28,720
highway 33. Yeah which is shared with earnesty. Okay so that's not going to impact any any of

601
00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:34,640
the work that's being done or is. No not any of the work that's being done at the public safety

602
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:41,360
No. Okay. Mr. Benning I would move to approve. There's a motion to approve is there a second?

603
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:46,160
Seconded by Ms. Miller any questions or concerns on the motion? All right seeing none all in

604
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:51,840
favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? All right the motion carries. That takes us to the next

605
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agenda item under new business consideration a possible action on accepting a donation in the

606
00:41:55,520 --> 00:42:01,040
form of a sculpture in Cole Dock Park. The issue is should the common council accept an I love

607
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:07,040
Port Washington sculpture in Cole Dock Park. I'm going to have Melissa start with this and then

608
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:14,480
I'll add to it. Sounds good. So this action item is out of working with Park and Rec and the

609
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:21,040
Friends of Parks and Rec. We have a donation for a sculpture in the Cole Dock Park and this has

610
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:27,760
been a long awaited project of having a sculpture garden in Cole Dock Park from a long time ago

611
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:34,000
some plans we had there so we're working on getting that started. This is would be one of

612
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:40,480
hopefully many in the future and this is this is a donation from cloverleaf who we were working

613
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:45,920
with early on in the project and I know that John Crane is here to answer any questions about

614
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:52,320
location. He was out there and then Mr. Mayor if you have any additions. You handled it pretty

615
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:57,840
well. I mean what what we did was this was five six years ago so right after covid when we

616
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:04,400
decided to use the relief funds to support paint on port we had said that when that stage kind of

617
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,560
closed out we would seek the opportunity to put sculptures at Cole Dock Park and around the city

618
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:13,920
of Port Washington. So this is really just to kind of trigger those pieces and philanthropic

619
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:19,440
investment in there. It's a steel sculpture. It'll be fabricated in the state of Wisconsin and

620
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,000
CD Smith is working with us on there. CD Smith has done the two jobs at the

621
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:29,440
police and fire center as well as our water plant and they will be making a cash donation

622
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:34,400
towards us as well to support the ongoing maintenance of the project but is also doing some work in

623
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kind as a as a level of gratitude to the city of Port Washington. So the total project costs are

624
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:45,200
now estimated to be $92,000. We added a sidewalk in there and a couple of other things after John

625
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:53,280
and I met with CD Smith but it's being laid out in a way that it'll be tilted a little bit so that

626
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:58,240
when you're downtown Port Washington you'll look across 13 feet high by 12 foot wide. You'll be

627
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:03,520
able to see it and really the vision of starting with an I love Port Washington sculpture was I

628
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,280
think anybody who grows up in Port Washington there's like three places you go take prom homecoming

629
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:13,680
pictures and wedding photos etc and we just thought it would be a really iconic kind of start to our

630
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,360
sculptures here in the city of Port Washington so I'm pretty excited about it and happy that we

631
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,600
were able to find someone willing to fund the whole thing versus you know chasing some different

632
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:26,400
pieces and actually just the conversation around this has led to other inquiries of other people

633
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:31,200
who want to then donate sculptures and one of the pieces that I'm going to be requesting is that

634
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:36,800
the council when we do our strategic planning work session here this summer that we kind of

635
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:43,600
establish a sculpture policy like other cities and communities have of kind of the lane of which

636
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we would allow or accept sculpture donations in the city so that we can make sure that people

637
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have parameters understanding of that. I think for me the biggest thing was that there's operating

638
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,480
and maintenance cost built into this so that we don't we aren't in the hook there's no surprises

639
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:02,560
when it comes to long-term maintenance of the sculpture or hopefully future sculptures and I

640
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,440
also commend Melissa for for getting that generation policy kind of buttoned up so that we feel good

641
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about this and that being stuck with me on on-term maintenance costs going forward so very happy

642
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to see that as well. Ms. Miller? I'm very happy with the sculpture and I think it will be a great

643
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:25,280
addition however I am so disappointed that it didn't go to park and rec first that that committee

644
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:32,480
truly doesn't get to contribute much to this community at this point and it saddens me

645
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:39,520
that those individuals are left out so I know I'm no no I'll say I'll take responsibility for that

646
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and I did bring this to park and rec I think two years ago when we had multiple sculpture

647
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kind of conversations and and and yeah looking back I appreciate that. Other comments or concerns

648
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:58,080
though is is there anyone willing to make a motion to accept the donation? I'll make a

649
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:02,640
motion to accept the donation. There's a motion in a second. Any questions or concerns on the

650
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:08,240
motion? All right seeing none all in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? All right the

651
00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:12,400
motion carries. I guess before we move on Mr. Mayor you don't mind um schedule for installation?

652
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:20,160
Yes so this thank the good question um after meeting with C.D. Smith being approved tonight

653
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:25,920
the donations will be acquired in the next four or five days but that will allow John to execute

654
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with park or friends of park and rec to get moving. The estimated time I think he said would be by mid

655
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:39,040
June would be not the most aggressive because my goal was actually Memorial Day but it turns

656
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,280
out fabricating that much steel getting it painted installed it takes a little longer than that.

657
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:49,760
Yeah so well before the goal was well before fish day and in the heart of wedding season so

658
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:56,160
we can go down there plan on a nice ribbon cutting uh some beautiful day in June where it's 30

659
00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:02,480
degrees at coldock park and 80 right here. Okay thank you for that everybody. All right so

660
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:08,800
consideration and possible action on resolution 26-05 approving the elected officials handbook for

661
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:14,400
elected officials holding office as of April 21st 2026. The issue is should the common console

662
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approve this and the city attorney recommends common console adopt resolution 2026-05. Mr.

663
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:27,760
Nugent. Thank you Mr. Mayor uh resolution 2026-05 um is a resolution regarding the elected

664
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:33,200
officials handbook um essentially it's ratifying that elected officials handbook the current version

665
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:38,720
uh the updated version excuse me of that handbook essentially what we've done is we've gone through

666
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and updated some information that needed to be updating um really bringing it in line to what

667
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:50,080
actually is occurring in the city um this year um the sole real material change is the addition

668
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of a confidentiality policy um there was some confusion amongst council members about what

669
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in fact was confidential what obligations and responsibilities that were for confidentiality

670
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and so it made sense to kind of write that down and put that in one place to um allow council

671
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:11,120
members to review and refresh if if they have any questions about that um so that's really what

672
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this is it's it brings it in line with what we do with the employee handbook employees um they

673
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:21,280
have to sign the handbook um when they come on um they sign it they acknowledge it and so resolution

674
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2026-05 really brings the elected officials handbook into line with that practice as well.

675
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,120
Thank you for that Mr. Nugent. Any questions on the handbook?

676
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,760
Just a reminder to council to read it thoroughly and then ask if there's any wonders or worries

677
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:42,400
in there to make sure to address them with Melissa and I just wanted to thank Melissa

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and Susan and the team for putting that handbook together a couple years back we didn't really

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operate with any kind of norms or rules governing ourselves other than ordinances and that's a

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a burdensome understanding for each of us so with that is there anyone willing to make a

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motion to adopt resolution 2026-05? I'll move to approve. There's a motion to approve and a second

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any questions or concerns on the motion so you know an all in favor signify by saying aye.

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Opposed? All right. Motion is carried. That brings us to public comments and appearances

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are there any public comments or appearances as we close out.

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Okay seeing none that brings us into our last agenda item which is a convene in a closed session

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per Wisconsin state statute 19.851g for the purpose of conferring with legal counsel for the

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governmental body who is rendering oral or written advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the

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body with respect to litigation in which it is or is likely to become involved. Is there anyone

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willing to make such a motion? There's a motion and a second. Any questions or concerns on the

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motion? I'm going to abstain on voting in this. Okay in a second we do a roll call and then when

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we roll call then that's with them. Okay so roll call vote Ward 1. Ward 2. Ward 3. Ward 4. Ward 5.

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Ward 6. Abstain at Ward 7. We are now in closed session. Please clear the chambers.

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Council will do this immediately.

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Thank you.