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 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 You 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 You 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 You 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 You 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 You 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 You 10:43.000 --> 10:44.000 You 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 You 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 orm 10:46.000 --> 10:59.200 June 8th, 2026, Village Board meeting to order, and we first need to find out who is here, 10:59.200 --> 11:01.000 or we need a roll call. 11:01.000 --> 11:02.000 Batia. 11:02.000 --> 11:03.000 Here. 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 Caris. 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Here. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Ventrini. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 Here. 11:07.000 --> 11:08.000 Anastacio. 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 Here. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 Pollack. 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 Here. 11:11.000 --> 11:12.000 DeGroote. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 He's here. 11:13.000 --> 11:14.000 Trustee Washburn is excused. 11:14.000 --> 11:22.600 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for 11:22.600 --> 11:31.000 which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 11:31.000 --> 11:41.000 Okay, so we have a presentation from Baker Tilly, it's the 2025 audit presentation. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.480 All right, well good evening everyone. 11:43.480 --> 11:48.440 My name is Wendy Younger, I'm the principal responsible for the Villages audit. 11:48.440 --> 11:52.240 Included in your package, you should have a several page handout, which is what I will 11:52.240 --> 11:57.120 use to go through both of the final documents that you should have also received, one being 11:57.120 --> 12:02.320 the audited statements, and one being the reporting and insight document. 12:02.320 --> 12:06.400 On the first page of the handout, I've highlighted the objective of the audit, which was to 12:06.400 --> 12:09.200 issue an opinion on the financial statements. 12:09.200 --> 12:13.960 You've done that and included within your audited statements as a clean, unmodified 12:13.960 --> 12:18.880 opinion, same type of opinion you've received in the past, and the highest level of assurance 12:18.880 --> 12:21.880 that you can obtain from us as your auditors. 12:21.880 --> 12:27.440 As a reminder, that unmodified opinion means that the information is believed to be materially 12:27.440 --> 12:28.440 accurate. 12:28.440 --> 12:33.360 All disclosures that are required to be included have been, we follow generally accepted accounting 12:33.360 --> 12:38.600 principles, and accounting principles have been consistently applied from year to year. 12:38.600 --> 12:43.200 On the end of the presentation, I will highlight a new standard, or GASB, that will be effective 12:43.200 --> 12:49.680 for 26 that will have some significant impact on the Villages reporting. 12:49.680 --> 12:53.640 But before we get to that, on the next page of the handout, I've included some very high-level 12:53.640 --> 12:54.640 financial information. 12:54.640 --> 12:57.280 I'm going to go through this relatively quickly. 12:57.280 --> 13:03.440 I will give you some page references so you can look at this in more detail at your convenience. 13:03.440 --> 13:05.280 The first column there is the general fund. 13:05.280 --> 13:08.480 This can be found on page 52 of your audited statements. 13:08.480 --> 13:14.360 When we look at this, we look at this in comparison to budget, $33 million actual revenue 13:14.360 --> 13:17.600 compared to a $30.6 million budget. 13:17.600 --> 13:22.040 The general fund ended the year favorably in its revenue category by a positive variance 13:22.040 --> 13:25.920 to budget of $2.5 million. 13:25.920 --> 13:28.320 Two reasons, or I'm sorry, three reasons for that. 13:28.320 --> 13:35.240 One, licenses and permits were $750,000 over budget, and that was due to the significant 13:35.240 --> 13:38.000 activity in TID 5 and 7. 13:38.000 --> 13:43.880 Health charges for services were $958,000 over budget, and that's where your ambulance 13:43.880 --> 13:45.600 revenue flows through. 13:45.600 --> 13:53.640 That was $600,000 over budget, and then various fire protection fees were $400,000 over budget. 13:53.640 --> 13:57.280 The last item that was significantly over budget was investment income. 13:57.280 --> 14:00.440 That was $415,000 over budget. 14:00.440 --> 14:06.080 You had a great year from a market perspective, so, again, favorable variances there. 14:06.080 --> 14:11.600 When we look at the expenditure category, the next row, $31.2 million of actual compared 14:11.600 --> 14:17.480 to a 31.2 actual compared to a 32.1 budget. 14:17.480 --> 14:23.360 So you were under budget in your expenditure category, again, a favorable variance of roughly 14:23.360 --> 14:26.160 $894,000. 14:26.160 --> 14:31.760 Your general government category came in $527,000 under budget. 14:31.760 --> 14:37.440 The largest pieces of that legal was $100,000 under budget, and then computer maintenance 14:37.440 --> 14:39.720 supplies were $70,000. 14:39.720 --> 14:45.040 A lot of other counts that were under budget, but nothing of that significant nature. 14:45.040 --> 14:53.880 The other category that was under budget, public works, $482,000 under budget. 14:53.880 --> 15:00.080 Largest items there, salt and sand, came in $100,000 less than expected, and signs and 15:00.080 --> 15:04.320 striping were $115,000 under budget. 15:04.320 --> 15:06.680 Are you on a specific page right now? 15:06.680 --> 15:08.440 I'm in the highlights. 15:08.440 --> 15:10.680 The couple page document. 15:10.680 --> 15:13.680 All right, we're not seeing what you're saying. 15:13.680 --> 15:16.680 You're either going too quickly or I'm not seeing it. 15:16.680 --> 15:18.280 Are you just giving us extra information? 15:18.280 --> 15:19.480 I'm giving you extra information. 15:19.480 --> 15:22.480 I'm just looking for light items of everything you're talking about. 15:22.480 --> 15:23.480 Sorry about that. 15:23.480 --> 15:26.760 I just want to make sure I'm on the right page. 15:26.760 --> 15:27.760 Right. 15:28.760 --> 15:29.760 52? 15:29.760 --> 15:30.760 Yeah. 15:30.760 --> 15:31.760 All right. 15:31.760 --> 15:35.800 And I'll slow down so that I'm not going through this so quickly, but again, that column 15:35.800 --> 15:40.200 is presented in a bit more detail on page 52. 15:40.200 --> 15:43.400 But I'm about mid page in that first column. 15:43.400 --> 15:48.840 When you put together your budget, you budgeted to use fund balance of roughly $1.46 million. 15:48.840 --> 15:54.880 Overall, very favorable results during the year you added almost $2 million to fund balance, 15:54.880 --> 15:59.560 so a positive swing of $3.3 million compared to budget. 15:59.560 --> 16:06.440 When you add that $1.9 million to fund balance, you end the year at $14.8 million of fund 16:06.440 --> 16:08.520 balance in your general fund. 16:08.520 --> 16:13.800 As I typically mention, these are monies that you have available for various purposes. 16:13.800 --> 16:19.160 And as you can see at the bottom of that page, two of them are already broken out. 16:19.160 --> 16:21.720 340,000 is non-spendable. 16:21.720 --> 16:27.480 That is monies that have been spent in 25 that will get recognized as expenditures in 16:27.480 --> 16:28.480 26. 16:28.480 --> 16:32.880 So items like prepaid insurance that you need to pay before your end, but it's really January 16:32.880 --> 16:34.840 type activity. 16:34.840 --> 16:40.560 The other portion, $1.36 million, that is what you use to balance your 26 budget. 16:40.560 --> 16:42.160 So we pull that out. 16:42.160 --> 16:47.080 If everything happens as planned, you would need that in order to cover any shortfalls. 16:47.160 --> 16:53.560 The remaining balance included within your fund balance in the general fund, $13.1 million. 16:53.560 --> 16:55.960 That is referred to as unassigned. 16:55.960 --> 17:04.720 That is your working capital, your contingency, funds that you have on hand to utilize as needed in unexpected situations. 17:04.720 --> 17:08.560 That represents 41% of your operating budget. 17:08.560 --> 17:12.280 We typically look for that to be somewhere between 10 and 25%. 17:12.280 --> 17:17.040 You are on the higher side, but again, that affords you some flexibility when things 17:17.040 --> 17:20.000 are needed or unexpected events occur. 17:20.000 --> 17:27.360 You do have the money on hand in most cases before you need to go to borrow money. 17:27.360 --> 17:30.080 The next column is your debt service fund. 17:30.080 --> 17:34.480 So your debt service fund, you levy a tax, you make principal and interest payments on 17:34.480 --> 17:36.640 village debt. 17:36.640 --> 17:40.880 That fund is located on page four of your financial statements. 17:40.880 --> 17:43.680 5.5 million of revenue. 17:43.680 --> 17:49.520 Most of that is taxes and then you also have the contribution that comes in from Caledonia. 17:49.520 --> 17:55.280 You paid 5.3 million of principal and interest on your long term obligations. 17:55.280 --> 18:01.400 You added a small portion to fund balance and ended the year at 3.79 million. 18:01.400 --> 18:04.000 All that money in your debt service fund is restricted. 18:04.000 --> 18:09.360 That's not money you have to utilize for any other purpose except for debt payments until 18:09.360 --> 18:12.320 the debt of the village would be paid in full. 18:12.320 --> 18:15.880 Next column is your TID 5 capital project fund. 18:15.880 --> 18:20.360 This is also on page four of your audited statements. 18:20.360 --> 18:24.920 As you can see in the summary, 34.6 million of revenue. 18:24.920 --> 18:27.480 Roughly half of that is increment. 18:27.480 --> 18:33.880 Another good portion of that, roughly half of that is the money that comes in from FoxCon 18:33.880 --> 18:39.280 for the makeup of the difference between what was expected to happen and what did. 18:39.360 --> 18:44.000 And then the remaining portion, 3.2 million of that is investment income. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.840 You spent 36 million out of TID 5. 18:47.840 --> 18:54.560 You utilized 1.5 million in fund balance and ended the year at 73.7 million. 18:54.560 --> 18:57.480 Again, that is also fund balance that is restricted. 18:57.480 --> 18:59.800 It can only be used for TID 5 purposes. 19:01.480 --> 19:06.880 The last column here is an accumulation of numerous other funds that the village has. 19:07.280 --> 19:11.840 Can be found starting in the back of your booklet on page 61. 19:11.840 --> 19:19.600 This column here incorporates 24 more village funds all for various purposes. 19:19.600 --> 19:23.040 I'm not going to go through that in detail, but I did want to highlight where you can see 19:23.040 --> 19:28.040 the activity that accumulates to that information there. 19:28.040 --> 19:36.560 Just to highlight a couple points there, that 27 million of revenue includes six TIDs. 19:36.560 --> 19:40.760 So there is TID activity that flows through that in the form of increment. 19:40.760 --> 19:44.440 There's also your Broad Improvement Fund and your Capital Project Fund. 19:44.440 --> 19:49.360 So again, lots of activity, but again, across 24 funds. 19:49.360 --> 19:55.440 So when we look at those funds collectively for the year, those funds added almost 5.4 million 19:55.440 --> 19:59.320 to fund balance, ended the year at 32.9 million. 19:59.320 --> 20:01.560 And then you can see the breakout on the bottom. 20:01.560 --> 20:03.920 There's 20 million that is restricted. 20:03.920 --> 20:07.960 That would be mainly your TID activity and impact fees. 20:07.960 --> 20:13.800 Any type of fund that has a particular regulatory purpose. 20:13.800 --> 20:17.040 The remaining balance is on a signed 12.7 million. 20:17.040 --> 20:23.880 And again, if you look in the back of your booklet, you'll see what that additional 12 million is set aside for. 20:25.520 --> 20:29.880 If we move to the next page, this is the last page of financial information. 20:29.880 --> 20:34.400 So on this page, I've highlighted the operations of the sewer utility. 20:34.400 --> 20:36.760 This follows a different accounting methodology. 20:36.760 --> 20:40.680 So we don't use the term fund balance, we use the term net position. 20:40.680 --> 20:44.720 This is a full accrual accounting process. 20:44.720 --> 20:47.400 This can be found on page seven. 20:47.400 --> 20:50.320 The income statement is included on that page. 20:50.320 --> 20:51.920 And we'll start with that. 20:51.920 --> 20:57.040 When we look at the activity of the sewer utility, we don't compare that to budget. 20:57.040 --> 21:00.720 We typically look at that in comparison to a prior year. 21:00.720 --> 21:05.000 So essentially in 2024, the sewer utility broke even. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.680 Added 86,000 to net position. 21:07.680 --> 21:14.400 You can see for 25, the sewer utility added almost 9 million to net position. 21:14.400 --> 21:15.920 Couple reasons for that. 21:15.920 --> 21:17.680 You did see an increase in revenue. 21:17.680 --> 21:20.720 Customer charges were up roughly 500,000. 21:20.720 --> 21:23.640 You saw a decrease in your treatment cost. 21:23.640 --> 21:25.640 So you paid less out for treatment. 21:25.640 --> 21:28.120 That was approximately 600,000. 21:28.120 --> 21:32.880 And then the other largest contributing factor is the capital contributions role, 21:32.880 --> 21:36.960 where you'll see that to be 6.6 million during the year. 21:36.960 --> 21:39.440 That's up 5 million over the previous year. 21:39.440 --> 21:41.200 And again, that's the TID activity. 21:41.200 --> 21:46.800 As the TID does work, the infrastructure gets contributed over to the sewer utility, 21:46.800 --> 21:49.840 who then maintains it on a go forward basis. 21:49.840 --> 21:57.240 So overall, sewer added almost 9 million to net position, ended the year at 135 million. 21:57.240 --> 22:03.240 Again, I remind you, very large number that includes all of your infrastructure, all your capital assets. 22:03.240 --> 22:10.000 So there's a very large dollar there because of that additional capital. 22:10.000 --> 22:14.480 Overall though, on page 8 of your statements, we do provide a cash flow. 22:14.480 --> 22:21.280 For the sewer utility, you'll note sewer cash went up, a little bit over $4 million, 22:21.280 --> 22:28.280 ended the year at 32 million of cash in your sewer utility of which 2 million was restricted. 22:28.280 --> 22:35.800 So essentially roughly 30 million available to fund that program and do what you need to do within the village. 22:35.800 --> 22:41.480 Before we switch to the last page, I just want to point out a couple other items included in your footnotes. 22:41.480 --> 22:48.640 There's an extensive section on page 29 through 33 that highlights the long term obligations of the village. 22:48.640 --> 22:55.120 When we look at the long term obligations, we look at what does the village owe, and what does the sewer utility owe. 22:55.120 --> 22:59.800 So one is titled governmental activities, one is business type activities. 22:59.800 --> 23:06.600 I just want to point out the village long term obligations, ended the year at 253 million, 23:06.600 --> 23:10.400 and the sewer fund ended at 22 million. 23:10.400 --> 23:15.760 When you look at that, keep in mind there's a very large portion of revenue bonds that are sitting within the village section, 23:15.760 --> 23:20.280 194 million for all of the TID activity. 23:20.280 --> 23:29.600 But probably the most important section of that is there is a paragraph that follows those two tables that highlights the borrowing capacity of the village. 23:29.600 --> 23:36.000 The village can borrow up to 5% of its equalized value that equates to roughly 354 million. 23:36.000 --> 23:42.000 As of the end of the year, you had approximately 55 million of general obligation debt outstanding. 23:42.000 --> 23:44.400 That limit only applies to geo debt. 23:44.400 --> 23:49.640 The revenue bonds are supported by revenue sources not by tax levy. 23:49.640 --> 23:57.720 So when you look at that, as of the end of the year, roughly 300 million in remaining borrowing capacity as you go forward. 23:57.720 --> 24:04.560 And as you can imagine, that number ebbs and flows as your equalized value changes and as you make principal payments on your debt or 24:04.560 --> 24:08.800 on your own new funds, so just wanted to note that. 24:08.800 --> 24:16.040 On the last page, I'm going to switch gears a little bit and go over to the other document that we issue as part of the audit process, 24:16.040 --> 24:21.840 which is the reporting and insights document that's got more of a solid green cover. 24:21.840 --> 24:25.800 That document again, accomplishes several purposes for us. 24:25.800 --> 24:29.680 We communicate what we need to from our audit process. 24:29.680 --> 24:34.720 We have some very standard and customary communication that we need to include in there. 24:34.720 --> 24:41.000 Just a couple items I will point out included within the earlier section of that report. 24:41.000 --> 24:44.800 There are some highlighted material weaknesses. 24:44.800 --> 24:51.880 There is segregation of duties, controls, lacking over the payroll process. 24:51.880 --> 24:59.000 And when I say that, I only mean there's not enough people to completely segregate the payroll process within the village. 24:59.960 --> 25:05.360 Also, there's a material weakness regarding material journal entries and the fact that we prepare the audited statements. 25:05.360 --> 25:08.440 So we do become part of your internal controls. 25:08.440 --> 25:15.320 Neither the financial material entries or segregation of duties is something unusual or 25:15.320 --> 25:18.440 unexpected for organizations the size of the village. 25:18.440 --> 25:24.200 In fact, most of my clients, small and large, have those type of material weaknesses. 25:24.200 --> 25:31.800 You always need to keep in mind the cost benefit of eliminating those and putting enough resources on hand to be able to do that. 25:31.800 --> 25:39.120 The only other item I will highlight, I know when I began, I talked about a new governmental accounting standard that will be effective for the village. 25:39.120 --> 25:47.160 There's actually two in 26 and one in 27, but the one that will affect the village is GASB 103. 25:47.160 --> 25:51.520 It's really going to change the way your statements look and feel. 25:51.520 --> 25:59.120 So the management discussion and analysis, which is that narrative portion, will be really revamped. 25:59.120 --> 26:03.520 The standard requires much more detail, much more explanation. 26:03.520 --> 26:12.480 A lot of more details, really encouraging transparency on what happened at organizations during the year. 26:12.480 --> 26:15.600 Your sewer statement will look and feel different. 26:15.600 --> 26:19.840 Bottom line will not change, but the buckets in which it's presented will change. 26:19.840 --> 26:30.040 And then the budgetary information that is included within your statements back in that I believe when I highlighted the general fund on page 52, that will change. 26:30.040 --> 26:32.080 There's more detail that needs to be added. 26:32.080 --> 26:37.840 There will be a footnote that explains all variances between original and final budget. 26:37.840 --> 26:40.680 And then final budget and actual revenue. 26:40.680 --> 26:44.640 So there'll be a lot of information that will be provided. 26:44.920 --> 26:51.080 Make sure we work with Kathy and her team to make sure the villages position well to implement that. 26:51.080 --> 26:53.120 Again, there's going to be some leg work up front. 26:53.120 --> 26:55.320 So just want to mention that. 26:55.320 --> 27:04.360 And then the last item included in that report, as I noted when I began some required information that we need to include, but nothing I need to draw your attention to. 27:04.360 --> 27:09.080 And then lastly, I have included my email address, my direct line. 27:09.080 --> 27:10.720 Happy to speak with any of you. 27:10.880 --> 27:14.720 Again, I know I go through this at a very high level and very quickly. 27:14.720 --> 27:19.880 But happy to have conversations with any of you to talk about any of this in more detail or 27:19.880 --> 27:24.360 our audit process, what we look at, what we don't look at, happy to share that information. 27:24.360 --> 27:26.240 So please feel free to reach out. 27:26.240 --> 27:31.680 But I will do my best to answer any questions you might have now about any of the information I've presented. 27:31.680 --> 27:38.960 Any thoughts for Wendy? 27:38.960 --> 27:46.280 You're drinking through a fire hose with the audit here. 27:51.560 --> 28:00.000 I do have a question and it's something that goes back years and years when we formed TID-5. 28:00.000 --> 28:05.040 We took on a lot of the borrowing. 28:07.200 --> 28:18.280 This board, as it was constructed at the time, we voted for a lot of water bonding, sewer bonding, general bonding. 28:18.600 --> 28:29.720 And the numbers were so outside and the village's ratios, the accounting ratios, 28:29.720 --> 28:44.000 the current ratio, the quick ratio and whatnot, were very top heavy because of what we thought was a very prudent risk that we were taking to form the TID, to fund the TID. 28:44.000 --> 28:51.200 And knowing that we had certain guarantees from the players at the time of Foxconn. 28:51.200 --> 28:54.760 We had certain guarantees from the state of Wisconsin. 28:54.760 --> 29:04.160 We had the Racine County as a co-signer because we didn't have the financial heft ourselves to be able to do what we're trying to do. 29:04.160 --> 29:11.400 Moody's and Standard and Poor's and others took an eye to that and they're like, well, we're going to ding you. 29:11.400 --> 29:22.120 We don't know why because on paper, it looks good, but again, they're uncomfortable with where the ratios were starting out. 29:22.120 --> 29:33.400 And so we took some hits on that and the Boobirds were out there saying the sky was falling and Mount Pleasant was going to go bankrupt. 29:33.400 --> 29:43.280 And of course, none of that happened and everything that we were planning on in terms of repayment schedules and whatnot, we never missed a payment. 29:43.280 --> 29:47.840 And subsequently, Standard and Poor's and Moody's and all that. 29:47.840 --> 29:57.440 I know have bumped our credit ratings back up, I believe, to where they were before any of this started. 29:57.440 --> 29:58.680 Can you comment on any of that? 30:03.960 --> 30:06.120 I'm not sure what part to answer. 30:06.120 --> 30:08.360 Again, I think you are. 30:08.360 --> 30:11.120 Are our ratings, you know, where do they really need to be? 30:11.120 --> 30:12.400 I think they are. 30:12.400 --> 30:15.400 I think that you're moving back up in the right direction. 30:15.400 --> 30:20.720 I think the positive improvement, you really needed to prove you could do it, right? 30:20.720 --> 30:22.200 And you've done that, right? 30:22.200 --> 30:28.640 With the results and again, the ability to make the payments, your tids are in decent position, 30:28.880 --> 30:30.840 five's in a decent position. 30:30.840 --> 30:36.880 So everything is going in the right direction, the direction you would have hoped it would have gone when you began the project. 30:41.920 --> 30:45.400 I'd like to make a couple of comments. 30:45.400 --> 30:56.080 Number one, obviously, you know, this whole report is very detailed and it is time to digest what I appreciate the summary, 30:56.080 --> 31:02.200 if you have provided, and again, based on the numbers, I think there is a good standing. 31:02.200 --> 31:12.000 When I am reviewing the audit report every year, I mean, you order the numbers wherever they are. 31:12.000 --> 31:15.160 You are not going to, you know, like present us. 31:15.160 --> 31:21.720 So you're presenting the numbers as they are, the actual versus the budget and the variance is everything. 31:21.720 --> 31:30.160 But what I'm looking for is a, if you have any areas of concern or any kind of a weakness is identified. 31:30.160 --> 31:35.880 And so based on your comment, I'm pretty comfortable where we are. 31:35.880 --> 31:37.800 And thank you for your report. 31:37.800 --> 31:38.800 Thank you. 31:43.360 --> 31:45.040 All right, is everybody good? 31:47.000 --> 31:48.120 Well, thank you, Wendy. 31:48.120 --> 31:56.120 Appreciate your, the way that you handle something that's not easy to explain. 31:58.840 --> 32:02.880 And you've done it down to a level where we can get it. 32:10.920 --> 32:15.640 Okay, so let's move on to public comment members of the public are welcome to provide comments in any manner. 32:15.640 --> 32:19.440 Please fill out a comment form, and the president will recognize you. 32:19.440 --> 32:22.800 Use the microphone, state your name and address for the public record. 32:22.800 --> 32:24.400 Comments are limited to three minutes. 32:26.160 --> 32:32.560 Can we hear from Mike Brown up here at the podium, name and address? 32:35.200 --> 32:36.800 Good evening, and thank you for the time. 32:36.800 --> 32:40.080 Mike Brown, I'm 5922, Brown Road. 32:40.080 --> 32:45.640 This has been a namesake, or my namesake road for named after my great-grandparents. 32:45.640 --> 32:51.680 So I have great pride in living on there, and I'm here to speak about the Pike River construction. 32:51.680 --> 32:59.200 And the necessity to have the entrance that has been a driveway for my residents since 1977. 32:59.200 --> 33:03.360 And the proposed providence drive to go to Brown Road. 33:03.360 --> 33:08.400 If you look at the safety aspects of Brown Road and the high amount of traffic we currently have, 33:08.400 --> 33:16.120 the amount you're going to increase that by with 93 possible residential homes. 33:16.120 --> 33:21.280 And all the other activity that's going on with Microsoft and what have you. 33:21.280 --> 33:30.760 Before any final plant confirmation has happened to really reconsider the necessity to have two more 33:30.760 --> 33:37.520 entrances on a very high and safety effective area. 33:37.520 --> 33:43.640 There's been four rear end collisions just in front of my house, and unfortunately I was one of them about three years ago. 33:43.640 --> 33:52.880 While waiting to turn into my driveway, waiting for oncoming traffic with the hill just west of where this road is proposed, we're ended. 33:52.880 --> 33:59.200 My neighbor to the other side of where this road is proposed, seven months pregnant, was rear ended right in that area. 33:59.200 --> 34:07.400 So I would really plead that we really look at the necessity with all the other entrances going into this area. 34:07.400 --> 34:12.800 Do we really want to increase the traffic that much more on Brown Road? 34:12.800 --> 34:19.800 Not to mention the children that are being dropped off for the condo, it's right in that exact same spot every day. 34:19.800 --> 34:22.680 It's a major safety concern. 34:22.680 --> 34:30.560 So I just ask that you reconsider that portion before any final approvals are made. 34:30.560 --> 34:31.680 Thank you for your time. 34:31.680 --> 34:36.680 Steve Michaels. 34:36.680 --> 34:41.680 Does anybody else signed up for a public comment? 34:41.680 --> 34:51.680 Okay. My name is Steve Michaels, 5812 Brown Road. 34:52.480 --> 35:04.080 I'm here today speaking because I needed you voting members to know that there are still some existing property line issues with the development. 35:04.080 --> 35:13.840 That they're proposing a sanctuary at Pike River and a group of us homeowners along Brown Road on 35:13.840 --> 35:20.840 the southern edge of the development have gotten together because we all have disagreements with the details of what's being shown in the final 35:20.840 --> 35:25.680 plot drawings and the preliminary civil plan drawings. 35:25.680 --> 35:30.360 And it basically regards to the property lines. 35:30.360 --> 35:43.000 And when they were going through, for example, there are existing land survey markers in the back that have been in place since the fifties and sixties. 35:43.000 --> 35:51.920 And they don't seem to have been taken into consideration when they looked at that southern property line. 35:51.920 --> 35:55.080 Basically, I believe they ignored that. 35:55.080 --> 36:03.080 And because of that, there's a number of sheds and fences that they are calling incursions onto their land. 36:03.080 --> 36:07.720 And that is not what our understanding is. 36:07.800 --> 36:21.000 So these homes were established in the fifties and seventies and been using the land to those land survey markers since they were put in. 36:21.000 --> 36:28.080 So I grew up in this house. 36:28.080 --> 36:37.400 I was born in 65, so it kind of tells you I do know the history of the land, both my property 36:37.400 --> 36:39.680 and the surrounding properties. 36:39.680 --> 36:53.160 And what I wanted to put forth today is we weren't feeling that our voices were being heard. 36:53.160 --> 37:05.240 So we got together as a united group and we've provided and so we got and hired council. 37:05.240 --> 37:11.160 And there's a couple of people within the village that would have been notified this afternoon on that. 37:11.160 --> 37:15.160 Sam and Robin were notified of that. 37:15.160 --> 37:24.680 And so I want to make sure that you guys are aware of that prior to the vote that you guys are going to do today. 37:24.680 --> 37:30.440 So that's really all I have to say. 37:30.440 --> 37:32.040 Appreciate your thoughts. 37:32.040 --> 37:36.520 Okay, thank you. 37:36.520 --> 37:39.600 Okay, anybody else willing to speak? 37:39.600 --> 37:41.040 No? 37:41.040 --> 37:50.120 In that case, we'll close the public comment and we can move on to the consent agenda. 37:50.120 --> 37:57.160 Before we motion for the consent agenda, if I could just mention to you guys, 37:57.160 --> 38:02.160 the final plan was approved by the plan commission. 38:02.160 --> 38:10.080 It's sitting on our consent agenda for action tonight while there may be some questions. 38:10.080 --> 38:14.840 There may be some civil questions regarding that. 38:14.840 --> 38:17.680 Did you want to address any of that? 38:17.680 --> 38:25.080 We did receive a letter, a copy of the letter from some of the residences that are suing 38:25.080 --> 38:31.520 the or sending a letter of notice to the developer for the Sanctuary at Pike River. 38:31.520 --> 38:38.720 What they're asserting is that there are property line rights or property line discrepancies as he attested to. 38:38.720 --> 38:42.240 That is a civil matter between the two different property owners, 38:42.240 --> 38:49.760 the developer who owns the big parcel and what the individual smaller property owners are saying. 38:49.760 --> 38:56.680 That will proceed through the civil process, that's why they have a legal advisor. 38:56.680 --> 39:05.160 As far as what you're doing here tonight, if they end up prevailing, then it ends up coming back to you. 39:05.160 --> 39:14.120 But from our process, their civil suit does not stop your process and 39:14.120 --> 39:20.160 the other property owners' property rights for what you are making a decision on. 39:20.160 --> 39:24.480 Again, they may prevail, and then it'll end up changing things. 39:24.480 --> 39:26.680 We don't adjudicate that. 39:26.680 --> 39:29.920 That'll end up going through their scene counting courts, okay? 39:29.920 --> 39:34.840 What's in front of you is your final plat that you are reviewing, 39:34.840 --> 39:40.680 which again is based on what has been submitted, and then that is going into the other, 39:40.680 --> 39:42.560 the developer's property rights. 39:42.560 --> 39:45.560 So again, it does not change what they need to do. 39:45.560 --> 39:51.760 It does not say that by you approving this, it does not negate what they're doing. 39:51.760 --> 39:58.760 It doesn't cause a problem for what they're doing, because they've already filed notice with the developer. 39:58.760 --> 40:03.240 And again, it's a civil matter that is between the two, the different property owners. 40:03.240 --> 40:07.560 So are they questioning the legitimacy of the certified survey map? 40:07.560 --> 40:10.800 Again, that's a civil matter. 40:10.800 --> 40:15.080 What they're saying is that there's adverse possession and things like that. 40:15.080 --> 40:20.480 Whether the markers were wrong, whether a survey at one time was wrong. 40:20.480 --> 40:25.800 Again, all I have is the letter that their attorney provided, 40:25.800 --> 40:28.760 just giving the village a copy of it. 40:28.760 --> 40:31.240 The villages are not a party to it. 40:31.240 --> 40:43.840 Being on the planning commission, Mr. President, I can add to that because that the letter is a civil matter. 40:43.840 --> 40:45.320 It was not part of the discussion. 40:45.320 --> 40:47.640 It was not presented to the planning commission. 40:47.640 --> 40:56.200 So what we have on the agenda is the final plat for approval as recommended by the planning commission. 40:56.200 --> 41:02.760 And I am reading the description, the developer. 41:02.760 --> 41:06.280 The village had already approved the preliminary plat. 41:06.280 --> 41:14.280 So now, based on a couple of conditions on the preliminary plat and some requirement, 41:14.280 --> 41:21.520 what's on the agenda is, and what was on the agenda of the planning commission was that the developer came with those changes amendment. 41:21.520 --> 41:28.520 And that's what the planning commission discussed, and that's what the planning commission has recommended for approval of the village. 41:28.520 --> 41:39.520 I agree with the administrator that if the results of the civil matter are not according to the plat, 41:39.520 --> 41:46.520 the approval, my guess is that the developer will have to make the adjustment. 41:47.520 --> 41:55.520 Because we are approving the plat as presented and as discussed at the planning commission. 41:55.520 --> 42:03.520 So if the court rules against that, then it will have to be dealt with at that time by the developer and between the residences. 42:03.520 --> 42:10.520 And they probably will come back to both the planning commission and the village board to make those changes. 42:10.520 --> 42:18.520 Right, so if it's proven that there's hair on the plat, on the CSM, that gets worked out. 42:18.520 --> 42:28.520 I think one thing we all have to be aware that most of us residents is now I'm speaking of the residents. 42:28.520 --> 42:39.520 We are not always aware of what's going on in the court level, what's the responsibility of the elected officials on this board 42:39.520 --> 42:44.520 or the planning commission versus many what's going on in the court system and everything. 42:44.520 --> 42:49.520 So sometimes the things overlap. 42:49.520 --> 42:56.520 And it looks to me that this is one of those that we are doing our duty. 42:56.520 --> 43:07.520 The residences have gone after or gone to the civil court for their concerns against the developer. 43:08.520 --> 43:10.520 So regarding the consent agenda. 43:10.520 --> 43:11.520 Okay. 43:11.520 --> 43:12.520 I have a question. 43:12.520 --> 43:14.520 So, Rom, you're on the planning commission. 43:14.520 --> 43:19.520 Are you aware of these issues at the committee level when you plan this? 43:19.520 --> 43:20.520 No. 43:20.520 --> 43:22.520 So there was no knowledge of any of this. 43:22.520 --> 43:23.520 No knowledge. 43:23.520 --> 43:28.520 The letter like Tammy said that the village received the letter. 43:29.520 --> 43:30.520 Okay. 43:30.520 --> 43:31.520 From the attorney. 43:31.520 --> 43:32.520 From the attorney. 43:32.520 --> 43:33.520 We got a copy. 43:33.520 --> 43:39.520 The letter was sent to the company. 43:39.520 --> 43:46.520 It was sent to SST old green Bay road LLC and Cal Atlantic. 43:46.520 --> 43:52.520 Group LLC and that is the developers and the landowners for sanctuary at Pike. 43:52.520 --> 43:53.520 River. 43:53.520 --> 43:55.520 And we just received a copy of it. 43:56.520 --> 43:57.520 Okay. 43:57.520 --> 43:58.520 Carbon copy. 43:58.520 --> 44:00.520 So we are not a plaintiff. 44:00.520 --> 44:01.520 We are not a. 44:01.520 --> 44:02.520 It's knowledge. 44:02.520 --> 44:08.520 It's knowledge that you that the planning commission did not have prior to making the decision of recommending this. 44:08.520 --> 44:10.520 This plan map. 44:10.520 --> 44:11.520 Is that correct? 44:11.520 --> 44:12.520 That's correct. 44:12.520 --> 44:13.520 Okay. 44:13.520 --> 44:17.520 What knowledge or disclosures did you have to show, you know, boundary lines. 44:17.520 --> 44:18.520 egress. 44:18.520 --> 44:20.520 You know, who drew that up? 44:20.520 --> 44:22.520 It was the developer that drew drew that up. 44:23.520 --> 44:27.520 Well, no, the developer, the preliminary plan had been approved. 44:27.520 --> 44:28.520 Okay. 44:28.520 --> 44:30.520 So now this is the final plan. 44:30.520 --> 44:38.520 And so the planning commission, the discussion was if you look at the item one agenda, there's a details of the plan. 44:38.520 --> 44:41.520 And it lists what the changes have been made. 44:41.520 --> 44:47.520 95 foot single family located. 44:48.520 --> 44:59.520 I'm trying to read the changes with minor changes, including the elimination of one lot, lot 52 on the West side, which is approximately one half acre. 44:59.520 --> 45:01.520 Fronting old, old green Bay road. 45:01.520 --> 45:08.520 So these were the changes which were discussed and the last planning commission because again preliminary plan has been approved. 45:08.520 --> 45:11.520 So now we're going from the preliminary to the final. 45:12.520 --> 45:17.520 So they eliminated one lot and then they eliminated one more. 45:17.520 --> 45:22.520 Lord, which was a far more outlawed to on the south of the property. 45:22.520 --> 45:28.520 And out loud one remain a retain the proposed public park and wetland area. 45:28.520 --> 45:38.520 So these were the changes that brought with planning commission and planning commission discuss and we didn't see any problem and hands the recommendation for the approval. 45:38.520 --> 45:42.520 I just I just know from 20 years in real estate property. 45:42.520 --> 45:48.520 Boundaries and whatnot, that's it gets really sticky after the fact. 45:48.520 --> 45:53.520 It would have been nice to know those boundary lines ahead of time. 45:53.520 --> 45:59.520 If there is if there is some kind of dispute going on, unfortunately, we didn't know that, right? 46:00.520 --> 46:16.520 And again, the letter that the Tammy is referring if that was presented to the planning commission or if any of the resident had a comment and spoken, we would have address that issue. 46:16.520 --> 46:19.520 But even if it happened, again, it's a civil matter. 46:19.520 --> 46:26.520 It is not something that the village, the planned commission or what have you was going to get involved in. 46:26.520 --> 46:30.520 Well, I understand that, but it now that it's a civil matter. 46:30.520 --> 46:39.520 But when if we're making decisions based on you don't have all the information in front of you, I think that's problematic. 46:39.520 --> 46:41.520 That's what I'm saying. 46:41.520 --> 46:44.520 Are you aware of how many accidents are on that road? 46:44.520 --> 46:54.520 Is any of that information when we're when we're approving this and and that there was no, you know, there's boundary disputes and things like it just feels like it's going to be problematic. 46:54.520 --> 47:01.520 If we just go ahead and blindly approve this knowing that there's all these other issues, that's all I'm concerned about. 47:01.520 --> 47:16.520 Well, I, you know, with your mission, Mr. President, I think I will not use the word blindly approved there because it's been discussed at the planning commission level. 47:16.520 --> 47:21.520 And this is a issue which has been at the planning commission and the board for almost like any year now. 47:21.520 --> 47:26.520 Many of the residents, many of the residents, maybe if not all of them. 47:26.520 --> 47:37.520 A most majority of the residents have come to the planning commission and to the village board over the last, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's been on the agenda for good nine months to one year. 47:37.520 --> 47:41.520 They have come and spoken. They have expressed their opinion. 47:41.520 --> 47:48.520 And based on those feedback from the residents, the developer has changed the layout. 47:48.520 --> 47:58.520 They were, when this project started, they had a multi units and now is most of them are all a single family home. 47:58.520 --> 48:01.520 So we, we listened to the residents concerned. 48:01.520 --> 48:04.520 They were concerned about the property values and everything. 48:04.520 --> 48:11.520 So it has gone from multi units, condos and everything to single family home. 48:11.520 --> 48:12.520 We have gone through all that. 48:12.520 --> 48:22.520 So every time the residents came, whether to the planning commission or to the village board, the planning commission and the village board and the developer, they took into account. 48:22.520 --> 48:27.520 They kept on making a modification until the preliminary plot was approved. 48:27.520 --> 48:34.520 And since their preliminary plot, they were still a couple of the changes are concerned that they address. 48:34.520 --> 48:38.520 So I would not use the word blindly approved now. 48:38.520 --> 48:50.520 No, the question here, here we are. If the new concerns come to our attention, you know, you know, why this ladder, which is a civil case, no, this is something new. 48:50.520 --> 48:59.520 So being something new, we cannot go back to that. 48:59.520 --> 49:05.520 All the process that we have, the follow for last one year or so forth. 49:06.520 --> 49:11.520 We did the due diligence and concern about address and they were included. 49:11.520 --> 49:20.520 And at some point in time, if somebody brings up new information, yes, we have to be concerned about that. 49:20.520 --> 49:30.520 But at the same time, like Tammy said, I'm not to show, you know, the, you know, where the legal authority is, you know, I'm speaking because I'm on the planning commission. 49:31.520 --> 49:36.520 I'm not sure where the line is that the responsibility of this board versus a civil matter. 49:36.520 --> 49:43.520 Well, our job is to approve what's in front of us as approved by the plan commission. 49:43.520 --> 49:48.520 I'm sorry, I can't take any more comments from you. I closed public comment. This is board discussion at this point. 49:48.520 --> 49:50.520 And I don't even have a motion yet. 49:51.520 --> 50:00.520 The motion for the approval. 50:00.520 --> 50:06.520 Mr. President, I make a motion to approve the identical center agenda as presented. 50:06.520 --> 50:07.520 Second. 50:07.520 --> 50:11.520 So I hear a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. 50:11.520 --> 50:12.520 Mr. President. 50:12.520 --> 50:13.520 Yes, sir. 50:13.520 --> 50:19.520 Before we have, I do want to add a comment to item number five on the center agenda. 50:19.520 --> 50:29.520 It's just again for the clarification, which is a Kingston home. 50:29.520 --> 50:38.520 Again, I just want to add that the planning commission discuss that item in detail. 50:38.520 --> 50:47.520 And as the right of say, the recommendation is to approve their item subject to the condition that the condominium records. 50:47.520 --> 50:56.520 That the condominium records that temporary access easement along the 18 for wide connection to the Emerson road. 50:56.520 --> 51:04.520 That was the recommendation from the planning commission. And I'm glad that I'm glad to see that that's part of the approved process because 51:04.520 --> 51:10.520 that was a concern again from the residents. The residents came and they were not. 51:10.520 --> 51:16.520 And they expressed some concern about the construction, you know, where the construction trust will come. 51:16.520 --> 51:25.520 So that's what we put that in the recommendation and just want to highlight for the public out there that that has been included. 51:25.520 --> 51:26.520 Okay. 51:26.520 --> 51:30.520 So again, we still have a motion and a second on the center agenda. 51:30.520 --> 51:34.520 Call the vote for that. All in favor say aye. 51:34.520 --> 51:35.520 Aye. 51:35.520 --> 51:36.520 Opposed. 51:36.520 --> 51:41.520 So that matter passes. 51:41.520 --> 51:58.520 And move on from there. 51:58.520 --> 52:01.520 So we got one last motion. 52:01.520 --> 52:03.520 Motion to adjourn. 52:03.520 --> 52:04.520 Second. 52:04.520 --> 52:07.520 So I hear a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. 52:07.520 --> 52:08.520 Aye. 52:08.520 --> 52:09.520 Opposed. 52:09.520 --> 52:11.520 We stand adjourned. 52:28.520 --> 52:32.520 All in favor say aye. 52:32.520 --> 52:33.520 Aye.