WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 You 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 You 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 You 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 You 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 You 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 You 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 You 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 You 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 You 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 You 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 You 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 You 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 You 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 You 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 You 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 You 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 You 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 You 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 You 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 You 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 You 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 You 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 You 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 You 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 You 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 You 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 You 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 You 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 You 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 You 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 You 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 You 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 You 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 You 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 You 17:30.000 --> 17:32.000 You 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 You 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 You 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 You 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 You 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 You 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 You 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 You 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 You 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 You 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 You 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 You 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 You 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 You 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 You 25:00.000 --> 25:02.000 You 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 You 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 You 26:30.000 --> 26:32.000 You 27:00.000 --> 27:02.000 You 27:30.000 --> 27:32.000 You 28:00.000 --> 28:02.000 You 28:30.000 --> 28:32.000 You 29:00.000 --> 29:02.000 You 29:30.000 --> 29:32.000 You 30:00.000 --> 30:02.000 You 30:30.000 --> 30:32.000 You 31:00.000 --> 31:02.000 You 31:30.000 --> 31:32.000 You 32:00.000 --> 32:02.000 You 32:30.000 --> 32:32.000 You 33:00.000 --> 33:02.000 You 33:30.000 --> 33:32.000 You 34:00.000 --> 34:02.000 You 34:30.000 --> 34:32.000 You 34:32.000 --> 34:36.000 You 35:00.000 --> 35:02.000 You 35:30.000 --> 35:32.000 You 36:00.000 --> 36:02.000 You 36:30.000 --> 36:32.000 You 36:32.000 --> 36:34.000 You 36:34.000 --> 36:36.000 You 36:36.000 --> 36:38.000 You 36:38.000 --> 36:40.000 You 36:40.000 --> 36:42.000 You 36:42.000 --> 36:43.000 You 36:43.000 --> 36:44.000 You 36:44.000 --> 36:45.000 You 36:45.000 --> 36:46.000 You 36:46.000 --> 36:47.000 You 36:47.000 --> 36:48.000 You 36:48.000 --> 36:49.000 You 36:49.000 --> 36:50.000 You 36:50.000 --> 36:51.000 You 36:51.000 --> 36:52.000 You 36:52.000 --> 36:53.000 You 36:53.000 --> 36:54.000 You 36:54.000 --> 36:55.000 You 36:55.000 --> 36:56.000 You 36:56.000 --> 36:57.000 You 36:57.000 --> 36:58.000 You 36:58.000 --> 37:12.000 You 37:12.000 --> 37:13.000 You 37:13.000 --> 37:16.800 here. The next item is Pledge of Allegiance. Please, 37:16.800 --> 37:42.240 John, it's okay. First on the agenda is a presentation from 37:42.240 --> 37:47.760 the tourism group. 2026 tourism review. 37:47.760 --> 38:11.920 We have our own trolls. Let the clerk know that the tourism 38:11.920 --> 38:20.000 people are bribing the board. There's an ask here somewhere. 38:20.000 --> 38:34.160 Can I get one here? Hard by this troll. That is the world's smallest troll. 38:34.160 --> 38:39.440 Thank you. All right, good evening everybody. You know, this is the best time of the year 38:39.440 --> 38:45.720 to come up to the village board present what we got going on for the summer. Give you guys 38:45.720 --> 38:51.760 a little feedback on what we had for last year. Kind of bringing it to the end a little bit. 38:51.760 --> 38:57.360 So the big one that we've all been waiting for, we owe you to you the lineup this year 38:57.360 --> 39:03.200 for our concert series of dates have been set. So we got to let you know who's playing 39:03.200 --> 39:08.360 this year. So June 16th, Jay Mathis is a little bit of country for you. 39:08.360 --> 39:14.760 July 7th is going to be dirty boogie. Kind of a cover ban for all sorts of stuff. July 39:14.760 --> 39:19.040 28th, five-card stud, the returning from our first concert that we had this year to come 39:19.040 --> 39:23.520 and join us. And then August 18th, Tripp and Billies is a date Matthew's tribute ban. 39:23.520 --> 39:26.920 We anticipate probably some good crowds of those, so we hope to see everybody out there 39:26.920 --> 39:35.440 for these. Turning out to be quite the events. Let's hope for nice weather. President DeGroote, 39:35.440 --> 39:41.360 I have to say that I did wash my motorcycle yesterday, so I do apologize for the rain. 39:41.360 --> 39:45.560 Makes perfect sounds. It does, doesn't it today? Okay. So then obviously 39:45.560 --> 39:52.400 we're bringing Bluegrass concert back again, June 20th. That's a Saturday. Last year was 39:52.400 --> 39:56.560 by far the hottest day of the year that we decided to have a concert. We learned from 39:56.560 --> 39:59.120 that. We got, we're going to look at some different things in there and we're hoping 39:59.120 --> 40:03.880 we're kind of resetting everything with Bluegrass this year and we'll go from there. 40:03.880 --> 40:07.640 The last one that we have for this summer is Chalk the Walk. Again, that's our sidewalk 40:07.640 --> 40:12.760 chalk event. That's going to be August 22nd. Looking to kind of start building our art 40:12.760 --> 40:16.440 aspect of things coming up. So a couple of things that we've started 40:16.440 --> 40:23.080 been doing this year, we will be doing a marketing, we are working with a marketing firm to start 40:23.080 --> 40:30.280 marketing strategies within the village among pleasant starting next month. So we have hired 40:30.280 --> 40:34.440 a firm that's going to start walking us through that strategies to start not only marketing 40:34.440 --> 40:42.760 tourism but also the village among pleasant. We've also went into a analytics software 40:42.760 --> 40:48.280 that we got a license for this year that's helping us kind of develop where people are 40:48.280 --> 40:52.600 coming from, what our numbers are looking at like that to our concerts and stuff like that. 40:52.600 --> 40:56.840 To give you an example, we can start pulling some of those data to kind of give us numbers 40:56.840 --> 41:01.880 for our concerts. Giving you, for example, Dancing Queen, our last concert last year, 41:01.880 --> 41:07.800 we took at the 7 p.m. mark. This data is being collected by cell phone data that is within the 41:07.800 --> 41:17.240 geofence of the park. We had about 2,400 people. So you know our concerts are starting to get 41:17.240 --> 41:22.760 there. We're seeing at least 1,000 to 1,200 people on average to our concerts this past year. 41:22.760 --> 41:28.680 So we're hoping that those numbers stay going as what they have. Some of the other 41:28.680 --> 41:34.520 software that this is giving us is also breaking down and we just pulled some of this data today 41:34.520 --> 41:39.160 for some of our tourism reports and stuff that will be presented to the commission coming up. 41:39.160 --> 41:43.560 But it's breaking down a little bit of what we're seeing from like visitor spending and 41:43.560 --> 41:53.320 stuff like that for 2025. It broke it down in the two categories for people that were visiting us, 41:53.320 --> 41:59.080 physically going into our businesses and visiting us at about roughly about 50 miles or so. And then 41:59.080 --> 42:04.680 there was the visitor from 150 miles plus. So for a visitor coming in about 50 miles or so, 42:04.680 --> 42:09.880 we're looking at that kind of spending at about 40.6 million dollars that's coming back into the 42:09.880 --> 42:15.400 village. Either through restaurants or stuff like that. For people a little bit over 150 42:15.400 --> 42:22.200 was 24.2 million. Give you an example from last year those are I'm sorry that was for 2025. 2024 42:22.200 --> 42:28.680 saw about 32.5 million dollars coming back into our community. So what a great segue 42:29.480 --> 42:36.680 that comes into to the next thing that we discussed here in Cowar earlier. Okay. So 42:37.640 --> 42:46.360 as we explained to you earlier, we had the opportunity and seized it to commission the artist Thomas 42:46.360 --> 42:52.200 Dambo to do one of his renderings of a troll in the village I'm all pleasant. So to kind of give 42:52.200 --> 43:03.800 you a little bit of the back history of it. This idea wasn't fine. It was from some wonderful people 43:03.880 --> 43:09.800 that is in our community. And I wanted to highlight them because it shows the importance of what our 43:09.800 --> 43:15.720 community does to bring forth to us. Now, there's a little bit of a bias didn't I will say, but 43:15.720 --> 43:20.760 you have these wonderful people in our community in our seats tonight. My parents, Tom and Bonnie 43:20.760 --> 43:25.080 brought this idea and said, Hey, I think this is something one pleasant needs. I said, Yeah, 43:25.080 --> 43:31.240 let me take a look at it. And then my wife came and said, Hey, I think we need to have this. I said, 43:31.240 --> 43:35.240 you're right. And then I received the wonderful email from Bobby Schmidt, who's a friend of ours 43:35.240 --> 43:41.400 and sits on our police fire commission says, Hey, right after Wabatoza developed our showcase, 43:41.400 --> 43:47.560 there says, Hey, I think this is great from all pleasant. So, well, you can't say no to your mom 43:47.560 --> 43:52.440 and dad, right? Let alone your wife and your friends. So let's do a little research into it. 43:52.440 --> 43:57.560 So October, we went up to Wabatoza. Wabatoza currently has one of the trolls up there. 43:57.640 --> 44:01.240 Mama Rosa, highly encouraged you guys to go up. They have a beautiful park that they 44:01.960 --> 44:06.840 developed in and around in there met with their tourism people in October. We did a site visit. 44:07.480 --> 44:12.120 And as we explained earlier, all of the funds that they used for that project for the troll itself 44:12.120 --> 44:18.600 was tourism funds that the park the park development was on their plans to utilize 44:18.600 --> 44:26.200 their tax base to develop this thing. So after we went to Wabatoza, we kind of looked and said, 44:26.200 --> 44:29.880 okay, what is your impact? What are those numbers that you're looking at that you're seeing? 44:29.880 --> 44:34.360 At that time, they were still getting a little bit more data, but she was able to provide the 44:34.360 --> 44:41.000 data, which we provided you earlier, that from May 28th of 2025, until the end of March of this 44:41.000 --> 44:49.880 year, they had 192,000 people that visited that park from 48 different states, including DC, 44:49.880 --> 44:53.560 with an impact financially into the community of roughly 13.4 million dollars. 44:55.000 --> 45:00.520 So, you know, we kind of looked and said, I think we can do that. So we brought it to the 45:00.520 --> 45:05.720 Tourism Commission. Tourism Commission said, hey, this is a great idea. Let's do it. We allocated 45:05.720 --> 45:11.000 the funds that we have for the Tourism Commission that we have generated through the room tax over 45:11.000 --> 45:14.920 the years, and we did have some in the reserve or in our funds that we were able to utilize that. 45:15.720 --> 45:22.280 So we presented, after the commission said, yes, we have a, we want to allocate those funds to it. 45:22.840 --> 45:29.960 I worked with our fabulous team of communications that developed a presentation to the artist, 45:29.960 --> 45:37.800 Thomas Dambo, to highlight the village of Mount Pleasant. Now, Sean, Ryan, he's in here somewhere, 45:37.800 --> 45:43.560 at least, Ollie. She's, unfortunately, I hear tonight, and I sat down and developed what 45:43.720 --> 45:48.200 Mount Pleasant is, what it looks like, what our park system is, what is our community all about, 45:48.200 --> 45:52.120 and with them and their assistance, and we couldn't have done it without them, 45:53.000 --> 45:59.480 we submitted our application, and they loved the concept, loved our community, and said, we're 45:59.480 --> 46:09.160 coming. So with that being said, we are now on the verge of bringing in a Thomas Dambo Cho that we 46:09.160 --> 46:13.080 can pretty much guarantee we'll have an impact within, not only Mount Pleasant, 46:13.080 --> 46:19.080 but within Nursing County, that I think we'll be presently surprised. There's currently one 46:19.080 --> 46:25.240 in La Vatosa, which is a, we'll use the second one in Wisconsin. There is several up into Detroit 46:25.240 --> 46:30.680 Lakes, Minnesota, and then we are actually making a site visit on Thursday down to Clinton, Iowa, 46:30.680 --> 46:36.360 where they have three that are being finished as we speak. We've spoken to both of those communities 46:37.080 --> 46:43.720 of the impact that they had. Detroit Lakes, where they didn't keep as good records of their 46:44.760 --> 46:49.160 anticipated crowds, but they were also looking at well over 100,000 people visiting within 46:49.160 --> 46:56.200 probably their first year to that. And then we'll meet with the people in Clinton on Thursday to 46:56.200 --> 47:01.640 talk a little bit more. This is Mount Pleasant's event. This is happening in Mount Pleasant, 47:01.640 --> 47:05.880 but this is going to be Racine County. Our goal on this is to make sure that everybody's 47:05.880 --> 47:09.800 included, because we're going to need supplies. We're going to need reclaimed wood. We're going 47:09.800 --> 47:19.160 to need volunteers. This is going to be a project to who knows what is going to bring, but once 47:19.160 --> 47:25.000 everything gets approved, we will be getting more information out to the trustees here, so you have 47:25.000 --> 47:29.480 an understanding of what kind of materials that we will be looking for, but it will be reclaimed 47:29.560 --> 47:35.640 wood, anything left over. Building supplies, stuff like that, we'll be working with more of them to 47:35.640 --> 47:44.120 get that taken care of. So we got a busy year ahead of us. I think this is going to be really 47:44.680 --> 47:50.920 an impact that we have making, again, Mount Pleasant a destination for not only day trippers, but 47:51.000 --> 48:01.800 for people coming in outside of here. The aspect of Thomas Dambel, the influences that he has on 48:01.800 --> 48:09.800 the recyclable aspects of nature and all that stuff is unbelievable. I highly, if you're on 48:09.800 --> 48:15.080 Facebook, please look for some of their Facebook pages. We have people that are in the audience 48:15.080 --> 48:23.800 today. Former interim chief Nitter has taken his family and gone through several places 48:23.800 --> 48:30.520 throughout the country. People travel to do this. People travel to come into these communities 48:30.520 --> 48:36.440 to see this. So it will not be unusual for us to see people from probably all over the world 48:36.440 --> 48:44.680 coming into our community and also visiting Wabatosa. This will be a good partnership with Wabatosa 48:44.680 --> 48:47.720 because if you're going to come to Wabatosa, you're going to come to Mount Pleasant. If you 48:47.720 --> 48:52.360 go to Mount Pleasant, you're going to go to Wabatosa. So it's on the consent agenda tonight. We're 48:52.360 --> 48:58.840 looking forward to being approved. We have better hotels than Wabatosa has, don't we? We do. You 48:58.840 --> 49:05.400 know, our hotels are really starting to become top notch up here and we're going to be filling 49:05.400 --> 49:10.840 those hotels. Jim, go ahead. Sure. I just want to make it clear for the record and for all the 49:10.920 --> 49:16.200 people out there that are watching. This is not from the tax base. This is a tourism commission 49:16.200 --> 49:26.520 money. So money comes from the room tax and it's meant to be spent in a way that puts beds and heads. 49:26.520 --> 49:34.520 So you keep that going? Heads and beds. Heads and beds. Thank you. So to keep that cycle going. So 49:34.520 --> 49:39.880 as I said earlier, this is probably really the first big project where I'm going, 49:39.880 --> 49:45.400 this is truly going to accomplish that. And again, it's not the taxpayer dollar. It's 49:45.400 --> 49:53.480 corralia we have from the tourism commission. Oh, I want to, one of the, he's Thomas Dambos 49:54.440 --> 49:57.880 from Denmark. He is from Denmark. Yes. And so I think it's really interesting that 49:57.880 --> 50:03.560 with our cringle history here in this area, how this ties in because we are a Danish community. 50:03.560 --> 50:08.600 Well, we're an Italian community with some Danes in here. There's a lot of Danish people. 50:09.080 --> 50:13.000 First and foremost Italian, but we have a few Danes too. That's what you meant to say. 50:14.600 --> 50:19.080 You know, Thomas's trolls are all over the world. His goal is to try to get one in 50:19.080 --> 50:23.880 every state of the United States. But if you get an opportunity to go to his website and take a 50:23.880 --> 50:30.840 look at the map, they are speckled throughout the entire world. So this is, in essence, 50:30.840 --> 50:34.600 putting Mount Pleasant on the international stage. Go ahead. 50:35.080 --> 50:40.760 That's a good question. How does Wauwatosa know where all these people came from? 50:40.760 --> 50:45.880 So the software, um, place where AI is a software analytic software that we have 50:46.760 --> 50:53.320 entered into a, or a contract with them. What it does is it takes, um, cell phone data 50:54.440 --> 51:02.120 and that you put in like a specific location, people that are coming in will, will register 51:02.120 --> 51:07.240 their cell phone now. It's not like a big brother or anything. We don't know who you are. We don't 51:07.240 --> 51:13.000 know. The only thing we know is that it tracks, um, where they're coming in from. So like there, 51:13.000 --> 51:17.080 there are zip codes and stuff, but it's through cell phone data. So that's how they're getting 51:17.080 --> 51:24.120 that accurate. So it's not, um, it's not, I would say made up. It is like physically, 51:24.120 --> 51:28.520 these are registering showing showing that in the amount they spend is more some kind of a 51:29.000 --> 51:36.040 formula that they, you know, has been created over time. Yep. Yeah. So we'll, we'll take as, 51:36.040 --> 51:41.240 as we get closer to like starting to collect our data, we'll find out what the local tourism 51:41.240 --> 51:47.800 thing is. Um, I think I did roughly right now an average person is, you know, if you're coming 51:47.800 --> 51:53.000 here for the day, you could spend anywhere between 70 and $90 a day. If you're staying 51:53.000 --> 51:59.160 in overnight, anywhere is between $116 and $220, and, you know, for your stay. Um, so what we'll do 51:59.160 --> 52:04.280 is we'll take that, you know, those, those numbers, find out how many people came into a specific 52:04.280 --> 52:10.680 location that you can multiply and get those numbers from that. Is that, uh, geofencing? Yep. 52:10.680 --> 52:14.760 Okay. Yep. The kind of stuff you find in data centers. 52:15.640 --> 52:20.600 Right. I just heard a story on the radio today, actually. Uh, go ahead. 52:23.080 --> 52:27.880 Were you yawning? Yes, I have a question. So if mama Rosa is in Wauwatosa, 52:28.520 --> 52:33.480 do we get the baby or the kid or do we have any input on who are tying? Because that'd be a 52:33.480 --> 52:38.040 nice natural tie and you're going to want to see both. Yeah, I don't know. So the artist has, 52:38.040 --> 52:42.120 obviously we have some input, but at the end of the day, he's the one that has those decisions, 52:42.120 --> 52:48.760 but, you know, from what I've heard and especially speaking with his team, they're really easy to 52:48.760 --> 52:54.360 work with. Um, and definitely look for everybody's input, but we will, when we're down there Thursday, 52:54.360 --> 53:00.200 we'll have a really one on one idea of what, what we're getting into because, uh, we'll be able to 53:00.200 --> 53:04.760 meet with our team and the Iowa team to discuss that more. And then is there going to be like a 53:04.760 --> 53:10.440 big event unveiling? Well, of course. And can you do events around it? Like, could somebody rent 53:10.440 --> 53:15.960 that space and have a party theme with that in it? Or is it only for public? No, it's only for 53:15.960 --> 53:21.400 public. Yeah. So it would be placed within, you know, two places that we've designated with the team 53:21.960 --> 53:26.600 to be determined later on when they come in there. It is open to the public. It's not restricted. It 53:26.600 --> 53:30.840 won't be rented or anything like that. So there's going to be no admission fee. Nope. Okay. 53:31.640 --> 53:39.800 I know that there's, um, well, based on your answer to Gina's question, you know, that we have 53:39.800 --> 53:46.440 some input in it. And I know that there's a press release that's going to be coming out regarding 53:46.440 --> 53:53.880 this. But at some point in time, putting out some kind of a doodle pull, you know, would be 53:53.880 --> 53:59.560 interesting just to get the constituents thoughts on what they might want to see in a troll. 54:00.520 --> 54:04.280 Yeah. And I know, and that's one of the things that we'll discuss when we go down there, 54:05.240 --> 54:11.320 to understand like their visions and stuff like that. When we went up to Wabatosa, they were, 54:12.200 --> 54:18.520 they walked the site and you'll see there's a video, if you go to discover Wabatosa, 54:18.520 --> 54:23.720 they did a video on the fact that he was walking through their DPW lot, came across 54:24.280 --> 54:29.320 old pole, old light poles that they took out and he goes, I want to use these make it work. 54:30.200 --> 54:35.640 And they did. They refurbished them. They ran power to it and stuff. So, you know, he does have 54:35.640 --> 54:40.360 a vision of what he's looking for with the input of what we have around here. So it's going to be 54:40.360 --> 54:47.080 pretty exciting. Well, you've got a lot of constructions, materials left over from a lot of new 54:47.080 --> 54:51.720 construction. I think so going on. Yeah. Believe me, every time I run, drive around the village, 54:51.720 --> 54:55.800 you're looking going, hey, we could use that or, you know, we got that place there, stuff like that. 54:55.800 --> 55:02.120 So we'll definitely be coming up with wish lists and stuff for everybody to get involved with. 55:02.120 --> 55:09.240 The thing that really sticks in my head is what you mentioned about 48 states, you know, have 55:09.240 --> 55:15.880 come and visited Wabatosa. And so, you know, clearly there's a national following and indeed 55:15.880 --> 55:22.040 international. Correct. You know, so Peter, so there really are people that geek out about this 55:22.680 --> 55:28.520 and, you know, we'll certainly visit us. Well, and they make a pilgrim out of it too. You know, 55:28.520 --> 55:34.040 there's been, we've watched some of the things on Facebook that are like, hey, we're coming down 55:34.040 --> 55:37.800 this way. Is there any trolls nearby or we're hitting this one today? We're hitting that one. 55:38.680 --> 55:44.920 Talking with Minnesota, talking with Iowa, these are all plans that, you know, we want to see how 55:44.920 --> 55:53.800 we can incorporate them in all the different states of how do we market from that standpoint of 55:53.800 --> 55:58.440 go to Iowa, go to Wisconsin, go to Minnesota. It's all in that succession. So I think this is 55:58.440 --> 56:03.320 this is going to be bigger than what we've ever imagined. It's the troll trail. The troll trail. 56:03.320 --> 56:08.600 The bourbon trail. Correct. And honestly, Nancy, that's one of the things that was just coming up 56:08.600 --> 56:13.640 in the conversations. The people in Minnesota and people in Iowa are very excited to have another 56:13.640 --> 56:22.120 one coming in here. Yep. So since you did say 48 states, does that mean that we haven't had 56:22.120 --> 56:27.480 any visitors from Alaska or Hawaii yet? Not yet, but we can get there. I think that should be our 56:27.480 --> 56:33.400 goal. Yeah, it should be. It should. So that's a tourism and a nutshell for this year. We appreciate 56:33.400 --> 56:38.600 everything that the not only the commission has done with this project and they need to be recognized 56:38.600 --> 56:43.400 too. They've been very supportive with all the tourism, the aspects that we brought into the 56:43.480 --> 56:47.480 village among pleasant, I think with this and with our marketing strategy, you're going to start 56:47.480 --> 56:52.760 seeing some more things coming through. And we appreciate the support from the village board and 56:52.760 --> 57:00.520 everybody too. Thank you, Matt. Great news. Good job. Okay, let's move on to public comment. 57:01.240 --> 57:05.240 Members of the public are welcome to provide comments on any matter. Please fill out a 57:05.240 --> 57:10.440 comment form and the president will recognize you. Use the microphone and state your name and 57:10.440 --> 57:13.880 address for the public record. Comments are limited to three minutes. 57:16.200 --> 57:18.760 Can we hear from Jim Kootz? 57:22.600 --> 57:28.520 You know, the drill, sir, name and address for the record. Yes, sir. James Kootz, 6812, 57:28.520 --> 57:37.080 Green Ridge Drive, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. I live on a cul-vis-ac. In 2019, we purchased 57:37.160 --> 57:42.760 this land and we noticed that a cul-vis-ac was in our front yard. It was never on the registered 57:42.760 --> 57:52.360 deed of Mount Pleasant decided to just take more road. I have pictures from 1965 till today and 57:52.360 --> 57:58.360 the road is double itself. Now, a cul-vis-ac is 50-50 from center of road on both sides, 57:58.360 --> 58:04.760 correct? Not a D pattern into my front yard, which every time I try to apply for a permit to do 58:04.760 --> 58:08.840 something in my property, I have to pull off the back of my property because nobody even 58:08.840 --> 58:14.120 a village has no clue where the lot line is in the front from the road in the Eastman whatsoever. 58:16.760 --> 58:21.560 Then you guys sent a bill. Well, you didn't send a bill. You came to my house in a letter with an 58:21.560 --> 58:27.560 attorney tell me that you were going to purchase the land. I said, it's not for sale for four grand. 58:27.560 --> 58:32.920 I have that paperwork. Then you decided to tell me that it was going to be taken from me on the 58:32.920 --> 58:38.760 randomment domain. Well, I got an attorney involved and then you guys decided to put the sewer project 58:38.760 --> 58:43.880 on the other side of the road, the south side of Green Ridge Drive. And then when that was done, 58:43.880 --> 58:49.000 I came back in here and asked what we could do to retrieve my front property. I was told, 58:49.000 --> 58:52.840 well, we need that cul-vis-ac for the dump garbage trucks and everybody to turn around. 58:53.560 --> 58:59.640 There's not another cul-vis-ac in Mount Pleasant like I have in my front yard. I've asked since 58:59.640 --> 59:08.360 2019 of April to work nowhere. Now, you guys chose to put the sewer line on the south side of 59:08.360 --> 59:13.080 the road. Here it is now two and a half years later and I still haven't had my front yard. 59:13.880 --> 59:20.520 I want my front yard where I will remove the asphalt that's on that property of mine that I own 59:20.520 --> 59:25.560 and I pay taxes on. You don't give me a tax credit. You did not give the other people a tax credit. 59:25.640 --> 59:31.240 I want my yard back. We need to set up some kind of meeting that we can all sit down. 59:31.240 --> 59:34.760 I can show you all the paperwork in another meeting. The last time we tried to get a meeting, 59:34.760 --> 59:41.080 you said it was sewer. It's not sewer. It's my front yard. I want it back. It's a real simple. 59:43.240 --> 59:45.560 Thank you for your comments. Thank you. 59:46.040 --> 59:50.520 Anybody else sign up for public comment? 59:54.440 --> 59:59.720 Go on. What's going twice? Okay. With that, we can end the public comment and we can go to 59:59.720 --> 01:00:05.960 the consent agenda. Mr. President, I make a motion to approve the items on the consent agenda as 01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:13.880 presented. I hear a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? 01:00:14.600 --> 01:00:17.800 So the consent agenda is approved. 01:00:20.680 --> 01:00:25.160 So we have public meeting. Public hearing. 01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:40.040 Public hearing for ordinance 2-2026, zoning map amendment for 36-49, late through Babinew, ZMA26-01, 01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:46.120 zoning public hearing notice, ZMA. Well, that's the attachment. Okay. 01:00:48.360 --> 01:00:53.400 Following a brief presentation by staff, I'll open the public hearing. If you wish to speak, 01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:59.400 please fill out a public hearing form, which is on a table near the entrance. Once recognized, 01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:03.800 speakers should come to the podium and identify themselves with their name and address. Please 01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:09.720 speak clearly into the microphone. Speakers must direct all discussions towards the board. 01:01:09.720 --> 01:01:15.400 I will not allow interchange between members of the audience and the petitioner. We request 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:20.520 that you not interfere with nor interject comments while another person has the floor. 01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:27.480 This is to ensure respectful and orderly process. Please keep all comments on the particular 01:01:27.480 --> 01:01:33.320 item before the board and at most five minutes. Finally, to ensure a focused and productive hearing, 01:01:34.040 --> 01:01:41.240 please turn off or mute your electronic devices. Who's speaking towards us? Robin. 01:01:41.240 --> 01:01:46.520 Yes, it's me. You guys get stuck with me for the next few months because Sam is out on 01:01:46.520 --> 01:01:53.640 paternity leave with his new son. Don't get a big head over it. I definitely, you know, 01:01:53.640 --> 01:02:00.840 just I have power. It's more like the extra phone calls and emails is what I have. 01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:05.560 Let's say Robin. Yes, let's go. All right, so for ZMA, 01:02:07.240 --> 01:02:15.160 2601, 3649, Lathrop Avenue, this is an application to amend the zoning 01:02:15.160 --> 01:02:20.840 classification from RE, which is residential state to RL, low density residential. 01:02:21.800 --> 01:02:26.280 The applicant wishes to construct 400 square foot outbuilding on his property, 01:02:26.280 --> 01:02:31.800 which will increase the impervious surface percentage of the property from approximately 01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:39.880 33% to 35%. Pour our code on Lathrop building regulations to limit on impervious surface in 01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:47.880 the RE district is 25%. However, that limit was added to the code via ordinance in summer of 2025. 01:02:47.880 --> 01:02:54.280 So not even a full year ago. So the existing structures are legal nonconforming. So that's 01:02:54.280 --> 01:03:03.880 totally fine that this 33%. The limit in the RL zone is 50%. The mass plan indicates residential 01:03:03.880 --> 01:03:11.880 for the property and the near bar parcels in the area are both RE and RL zoning. This sort of kind 01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:21.400 of mean, yeah, those staff and recommend and the planned commission also recommended to approve 01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:28.360 the ordinance to 26 to the village board. It was basically I was saying that this is a very 01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:33.800 minor kind of improvement, but unfortunately, the only way to address it without seeking a variance 01:03:33.800 --> 01:03:43.000 was to request a zoning change. This would have been no problem a month a year ago. So they have 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:49.400 to request the zoning change in order to do it. We're looking for ways to basically alleviate or 01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:55.880 mitigate going over that limit, such as stormwater retention, without the need to have a public 01:03:55.880 --> 01:04:01.240 hearing and zoning change for every time. So that is it. That's my presentation. 01:04:04.040 --> 01:04:11.640 This would be the time for me to invite the public to speak. I have no reason to end up 01:04:11.640 --> 01:04:17.640 having heard anything from the clerk. Anybody here wishing to speak on this particular item? 01:04:17.720 --> 01:04:25.240 That hasn't signed up going once going twice. So they're being, you know, nobody wishing to speak 01:04:25.240 --> 01:04:33.720 on that. I can close the public hearing. And is there a motion? Mr. President, I make a motion 01:04:33.720 --> 01:04:42.040 to approve ordinance two dash 2026 for a zoning map amendment at 3649 Leithrop Avenue as presented. 01:04:42.920 --> 01:04:49.880 Second. So the motioner and the seconder, since you both sit on the plan commission, 01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:59.800 your thoughts? Right. Thank you, Mr. President. I think this is very typical of some older lots 01:04:59.800 --> 01:05:06.680 in the community that we're larger to begin with. And so when we redid the zoning code, they ended 01:05:06.680 --> 01:05:12.120 up with that RE designation on them, where they're in neighborhoods that are really, 01:05:12.120 --> 01:05:18.040 if they were to be rezoned as a whole today, we'd look at the RL. When you look at the site plan, 01:05:18.680 --> 01:05:26.280 obviously, they enjoy their property. They have sheds and their gardeners and the pool and so 01:05:26.280 --> 01:05:32.680 forth. So they wanted to add an outbuilding, which seemed reasonable. And staff was able to use our 01:05:32.680 --> 01:05:38.840 code to come up with a way that was amenable. I think the big thing is the big question we had 01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:44.920 and Robin answered it was they're adding more impervious surface. So in an existing neighborhood, 01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:51.320 we always have to be careful that they're not now sending more stormwater offsite than 01:05:51.960 --> 01:05:58.200 then would be reasonable or that the neighborhood can take. But all in all, the zoning is appropriate 01:05:58.200 --> 01:06:03.720 for the neighborhood as well as for their future use. And that's all I have. 01:06:05.160 --> 01:06:07.080 How big is the outbuilding that they want to put in? 01:06:09.240 --> 01:06:14.920 400 square feet. 400 square feet, right? Yeah, it's basically the size of a two car garage, 01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:20.440 but it doesn't have any additional driveway access or anything like that. So it's for 01:06:21.720 --> 01:06:26.040 lawn tools, stuff like that, not cars. So it's on the order of a pole barn? 01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:30.360 Yeah, probably a little bit smaller than the average pole barn in Mount Pleasant that's 01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:34.840 being constructed these days. But yeah, Ron, did you have anything? 01:06:35.720 --> 01:06:42.040 No, again, my colleague, Washburn, she said everything that we discussed at the planning 01:06:42.040 --> 01:06:47.960 commission and we're good with that. There actually was a comment from one of the commissioners that 01:06:47.960 --> 01:06:53.480 did the proposed garage because they're calling it a garage. It's really an outbuilding in my 01:06:53.480 --> 01:06:58.280 eyes in terms of the way it's going to be used. Should it have its own driveway or 01:06:58.280 --> 01:07:03.880 be consolidated? And the intent of the map that site plan they showed us was for no 01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:08.760 additional driveway access at all to the building. So it's a storage building. They have a pool. 01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:15.160 They probably have chairs and things that need to come inside. And the current garage they have 01:07:15.240 --> 01:07:18.200 is a bit small. Okay. 01:07:20.120 --> 01:07:30.200 So in the matter then of ordinance 2-2026, ZMA26-01, roll call please. 01:07:31.320 --> 01:07:41.640 Ventrini? Aye. Pollack? Aye. Anastacio? Aye. Batia? Aye. Washburn? Aye. Caris? Aye. DeGroote? Aye. So that motion carries. 01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:44.600 We have nothing else. 01:07:46.120 --> 01:07:50.920 Was that covering both of the items? What's that? Yeah. Was that two different things? 01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:58.680 No. Well it was the ordinance approval and the zoning map approval. 01:08:03.720 --> 01:08:10.440 Waiting for a motion. Oh we just love it here so much. Why would we ever want to move to adjourn? 01:08:10.440 --> 01:08:18.680 To adjourn. Move to adjourn. Okay so we have a move to adjourn. Second. Okay all in favor. Aye. 01:08:19.720 --> 01:08:22.120 We stand adjourned. Thank you very much everybody.