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Yeah, John is back. I saw the link. Thank you. Flex is back as well. Sorry about that.

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No, let's go ahead.

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Okay.

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After our rural interruption there.

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Thank you.

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Okay, so we've got some surface materials that are.

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Consistent within the developers.

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Sure.

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Yeah. Surface materials, sort of a darkish wood with, you know, a very dark, almost black.

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metal that has got a little bit of a corrugated look to it.

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So those surface materials along with.

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Some masonry.

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That support base.

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That we see on.

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The quick trip.

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Athletic center.

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Athletic complex, forgive me.

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So we worked with those materials like that to provide a cohesive experience.

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And also do something that's maybe a little bit different to stand out.

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So there's a little bit of a balance there.

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And we will show those to you on these.

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Two concepts.

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So this is one direction.

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With different variations of what we could do.

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For this.

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This is a gateway sign, meaning the entrance.

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So you're.

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It marks the, the start of the place.

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So deforest yards district is the recommended name.

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And, you know, we're worth just thinking that let's pick some typography that is.

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That echoes what's being done by the developers, but also stands on its own.

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And works well with the, you know, the village identity.

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So we've got the district name at the top.

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Very prominent and we're using the logo as, you know, the signature.

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At the end.

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In this case.

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So it's sort of, you know, it.

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It lets people know that this is the district and the village is behind it.

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Just a few different ways to, to structure these signs with regard to the base material.

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What is the, you know, the main part of the sign.

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And then on each of these, we're showing a, you know, human silhouette there on the right.

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Just for a sense of scale.

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So this is, these will be, you know, mostly viewed by people that are driving.

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So size is important.

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So these are probably about, you know, sevenish feet tall here.

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And, you know, we would get, you know, we, we'd narrow the size, you know, working with the, the selected signage vendor.

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The next page shows how this concept could also hold some of the wayfinding aspects.

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We're using these two as an example.

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Okay.

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And then this, the other direction concept be this one leans in a little bit.

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Deeper into that that metal on the left and the right that sort of brownish.

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Color could be, you know, like a weathered metal sort of a rust, a patina.

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With aluminum letters, you know, that are extruded dimensional on top.

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In this case, we're using the force logo at the top, but it's still a smallish compared to the district name.

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So we want people to see the district, but also see the logo, you know, second to know that this is.

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This is the village.

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This is the gorgeous project.

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And second page here for concept be wayfinding.

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You know, this is an idea of how we could treat that directional information.

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In a different way.

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You know, maybe those the arrows are, you know, extend beyond the frame of the main sign and are extra visible that way.

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These will all be ideally lit either from the ground.

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Or perhaps some other way that will investigate with the signage.

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Fabricators, but you know, these will obviously need to, you know, want them to just go dark and be absent during during night time.

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So that will be part of this too.

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And now we can circle back and take your comments and questions.

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Anybody have anything.

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Great way signs a personally like the fourth one.

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With the.

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Brick, it's a brick.

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It's, it's, it's like the, you know, masonry stone.

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Still masonry with similar to what's.

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What was used on the athletic complex.

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Okay.

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I like number four also.

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And I also liked where you showed down below that right there.

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The wayfinding and how that sign is within there as opposed to the other ones that had the arrows sticking out of the edges.

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I like, I do like this.

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It's all I got, Jim.

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I guess if you go back to the five, I personally like, I think was two or four.

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I like the dark wood with the.

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White lettering on it.

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I can get behind for also.

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I did sort of like the protruding arrows, but what I didn't like about it.

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Is that I didn't really see it as a arrows where I thought it should have a white arrow in the protruding portion.

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But either way I'm fine.

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The couple questions that I have is if you go back to the existing signs of the forest.

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And noticed all of them seem to have, and sorry I'm not looking at Windsor.

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I'm looking specifically at the forest.

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But there's a very dark background on those.

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So I think it's nice that we're matching that, but they all have a bit of a swoosh on it.

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So I wonder if we want to incorporate like an arc on the top rather than just straight.

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Black.

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Like maybe if you use that sign number four, maybe the light would be an arc above.

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The square of the dark is something I was trying to bring unity through the signs.

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And the thing I was trying to pull up on my phone.

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I'm wondering if it would play into this at all is that there's a Savannah Brooks is it.

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They have a sign that's right in the district also and I don't know what that looks like.

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Are you talking about the parade of homes sign or the one on the corner of Hanover and whatever it is.

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Williamson.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I couldn't go to the street view on the phone.

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That's all the comments I have again.

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I don't want to I'm hoping that that can somewhat match in with the divorce yards field being that it's.

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In the same location.

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It's got the same background.

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Well, it's enough considering they're not that close together probably.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if you'd want to use that brick tone or if the gray was matching other brick tones and other buildings.

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I guess the last comment that I thought of is looking at the locations.

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I'd say you have a gateway sign announcing safe Peterson crossing.

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I'm wondering if we would want a gateway or a smaller sign on the north side of Peterson crossing saying just sell the bear tree the sort of known said that direction.

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Yeah, we we thought about any sign on the north north end there too.

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One of the challenges was not knowing how the press to jack one property was going to set up.

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So as you come in, press the jack one property is going to be on your right hand side.

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And then it's going to match on the left hand side is Hooper and and the current residential development, which.

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No, we wouldn't want to move the sign in the future. So we decided to leave that and have it a part of the development by that press the job of redeveloping the future.

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I agree with the north or sign as well, but I really like the divorce Wisconsin emblem in the in the first one there.

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My only comment.

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Anybody I'm not a huge fan of that.

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I guess I'm just a little bit concerned about the sizing you feel that's going to be large enough to me that seems a little bit small for a.

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For a gateway sign traffic.

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Yeah, yeah, I think that that's something that will.

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That we will zero in on with the fabricator.

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Once we do know the, you know, the exact locations will meet with them to make sure that it is indeed right sized.

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Okay.

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I do want to thank you. I think they're very nice looks and I like the simplicity of it.

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So hopefully help keep the dollars down to.

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So thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Appreciate it. Thanks for your feedback everyone.

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We want to talk about welfare signs now or I think we got almost a unanimous on the gateway sign number four.

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Yeah, that's what we're hearing that there's consensus on the or sign here.

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Some back and forth in regards to the village of the forest versus the forest Wisconsin.

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Well, you know, I think at the staff, though, we talked about that too. I think Stacey has some comments on that.

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He's smiling at me.

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Come on Stacey.

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Well, one of the things I mentioned was, you know, we're not like at a border and not like below it were between Wisconsin Illinois where you might not know where you are.

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We all know where we're going to Wisconsin.

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So I lean towards the village of the forest. I think it sounds.

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Very prestigious and I think it's a very unique area to our community and it just adds a.

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An element to it.

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So it's going to be the village of the forest not before it's gone.

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What about the logo I personally like our logo and how much we've started got accustomed to it.

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That was another question I had with the logo was how big it would actually be on the sign and is it recognizable as people are driving by like looking at some of these you really just see the oval.

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We know it's our logo because we live and breathe it every day.

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This is mostly going to be visitors to our community. Are they going to recognize that it's our logo or they depending on what the size is and how fast they're driving by or are they going to recognize that.

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So does it make more sense to say prominent village of the forest so they recognize we're into forest or is it seeing a circle emblem that they might not.

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You know, connect the dots to but open to anything and.

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Yeah, I would agree. I think with the logo there.

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I agree with everything you said Stacy and then also to add.

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I think it's just a little too busy.

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You want to keep it a little more simpler.

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I think I'll just mention something if we ever do rebrand and we have our logo there.

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Then we have to change the sign up.

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So if it's just says village of the forest, that's never going to change.

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So.

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Do you want to talk about wayfinding.

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Yeah, I think there are some conversation about the wayfinding. I think there's a little bit of consensus around this sign, but we just want to confirm that.

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Drop down a little so we can see the errors.

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Was this another option for the second option for the gateway sign.

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So this is the second option for the wayfinding.

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Melanie.

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For the wayfinding, I'll just echo Jan's comments from previously.

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I like, I don't like the protruding arrows as much as the white.

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I think it looks cleaner and they're more obvious to me as direction arrows.

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I can go along with that.

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Anybody else?

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I'm fine with that.

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I just want to bring up a question.

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And the deforest yards district being dark on a medium background is that concerning.

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I mean, should that be white? I think it was white in the gateway sign.

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Again, I'm good either way, but I just want to bring it up for discussion.

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Yeah, I think that the depending on the final surface materials.

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You know, we would once we actually see the actual substrate will know if it should be black or white.

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It will be, you know, ideally it will be lit so that we'd be able to see it no matter what.

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But yeah, we will, of course, pay close attention to readability.

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Because that would be a shame if you couldn't see it.

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Okay, anybody else? Otherwise, I guess we like the arrows on the sign.

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Correct? Yes, unanimous. Good.

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And then the rest of the details will come in the design of the sign.

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Does anybody else care about the swishiness?

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About that.

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Does anybody else care about having like an arc or the sort of swishiness that I was on the signs?

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You're no swish.

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I'm in different. I could go either way.

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Yeah, I could go either way.

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Okay, so we'll leave it up as this and go from there.

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Let's do that.

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Great. Thank you, John and Fletcher.

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Great.

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Reminder for the group here. So we'll go ahead and prepare the specs and bids for this.

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We'll go ahead and issue the bids. And so the next time you'll see this is to set the bids.

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And we do have a tight deadline here to set the bids before the expenditure deadline of tax income and district number seven,

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which is that June summer of days. There's a number of projects that will be coming before you over the next two meetings that have to deal with tax income and district seven because of that deadline.

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Okay.

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Is that it for you, Bill?

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Sorry, is that a question about that? I saw it's going to go to the papers.

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Is that a requirement?

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Public bed.

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It's a requirement for.

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Well, if that's it for signage, let's move on to department updates, administration update, Bill Chang.

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Yeah, just quickly, this morning, you should have received an email from me or an invitation. I just want to make sure that you received it or the groundbreaking of the fire station number two next Monday at 1030.

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Just let me know if you intend to attend and we can post a possible quorum necessary.

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Okay.

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Finance update Brandon.

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Thank you much. I just wanted to make sure I introduced myself formally again. I'm Brandon. I'm officially the finance director here.

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I was at a couple or meetings before, but I'm officially in also just wanted to make sure I extended the invite to all the either if you wanted to schedule one on one with me or a little bit of time to catch up.

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Or talk at all. I'd be more than happy to do anything of that.

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Just a few things within the budget or within the finance world too.

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We have started discussions on the 2027 budget season.

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More internally and just what the timeline is going to be within here.

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We're going to shoot for a goal to have a timeline schedule presented to the board here in early June.

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So you all just get the chance to weigh in on it.

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Any suggestions or change or anything like that within the prior budget season and next season.

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We can accept that right away.

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The village after that we have just successfully submitted our annual PSC audit that's public service commission for the water utility.

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The biggest change this year on it was that the village was now classified as a class AB utility.

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What that means is that through responsible growth, the village has now exceeded 4000 connections onto the utility.

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So in the PSC world, they just want way more detail out of us.

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Instead of just operations, we had to split out exactly what every level of operation was within there and so forth.

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So through the responsible smart growth, we have exceeded that connection.

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So we're now a class AB. So just way more detailed reporting for the transparency with them there.

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The last thing I just had is that our next financial report that we're going to be needing to submit here is the Wisconsin DOR form C.

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It's called.

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It's just an annual report that needs to be submitted to the state of Wisconsin.

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The main purpose for that is for the state to review annual state aid payments to us.

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So we schedule, we do it on time. We get more state aid and responsible state aid if we're late with it.

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We have the potential to lose out on state aid. So that's going to be our next report.

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It's due May 15th and we have a goal of trying to get it done this week.

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Thank you.

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What's going on out there? Is this storm? There's something going on up here.

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Oh, Ricky, please for an update. Chief Olson.

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Yeah, just wanted to reemphasize something we talked about earlier this year.

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We continue to have problems and my problems lose. I mean, it's still out in the community.

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The kids on these off highway motorcycles, we did have one incident where an officer tried to literally pull over because they were driving on the street.

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They fled from the officer and the problem is when they flee, they fled onto the trail system, which then puts anybody on the trail system at risk because they're hitting that thing at 30, 35 miles an hour.

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Through good police work, the officer found out who it was referred felony charges against the youth, the juvenile to the Children's Center for fleeing and alluding an officer.

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So it wasn't the first time that person had been stopped. The father was also cited for promoting unauthorized person and drive a motor vehicle.

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So we continue to see the issue. I mean, I can't go anywhere in the community and they get somebody to stop me and ask me about him.

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We're still working to try to message it. Stacy's put some really good stuff together for us to put on social media.

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We continue to work on it, emphasize it to the school to try to get families, kids, parents to realize these are not street worthy vehicles.

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And before, hopefully, it never happens that somebody gets injured or killed riding one of them because they don't pay attention to the traffic laws.

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They just dart into traffic from everywhere. And I just fear somebody is going to get seriously injured.

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We're trying to do everything we can to avoid that. So I just wanted to bring that to your attention.

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Jan, can you tell me what date did this particular incident happen?

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I believe it was within the last two weeks.

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Okay, because, you know, I live on Western Green. I'm back there every day and there still are quite a few of them out there.

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And there's some real fast, crazy drivers. They've got their helmets on, but the rest of us aren't sure.

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So I was just wondering if it was in the last couple of days.

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I've been seeing them back there quite a bit.

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It was within the past two weeks, I believe.

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Yeah, I know that there's about, I can say six different regular drivers out there.

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A lot of double riding going on, then they're going up under the streets and so forth. So appreciate your work on it.

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I think service update, Judd.

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Oops, I'm sorry, Jim.

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Is this going to ask if you're a marketing could also include the single tires?

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Do you know what I mean? There's the one.

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The one wheelers? Yeah. Yeah, we can. We can talk with Stacy about that later about stuff to put out of social media.

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Okay, thank you.

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Yep.

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Public service update, Judd.

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I got stuff in Greg's yet stuff.

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So just thank the board for allowing us to Kelly touched on it.

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I think the last time I heard going to a conference.

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Well, we were able to go to the APWA Wisconsin chapter conference in Brookfield two weeks ago.

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And then last week we were at the APWA North American snow conference.

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So Greg, I and Nate, who's our streets former and got to go.

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It's a great opportunity for learning to learn about how things are done just like we do or better in other communities throughout the country at the APWA snow conference.

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There's a lot of good classes were able to take from AI best practices, leadership, recognition, how to, you know,

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properly recognize your team. And then the state conference is always great as well. The spring conference.

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It gives us an opportunity to meet and talk with our fellow folks who are in our community or in the state, even.

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So we were able to connect with Dane County.

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The highway commissioners and have good conversations with him. So there's more stuff to come.

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So a lot of these things will be bringing forward that we like to implement in the coming year or so as we flush things out and see what the best practice we want to do.

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But again, thank you for giving us that opportunity to learn and grow.

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You're welcome.

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And then I just have a couple of things. We're finally back to somewhat normal public works jobs rather than picking up 319 truckloads of brush plus five or six loads of wood chip, you know, from shipping.

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So the guys guys did a great job and they're really tired of brush. So we're moving on and hopefully we don't get any more storms.

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I just want to provide you that number of the huge number of a lot of the brush.

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And then so we've got we took down the dragons off the library last year because they were deteriorating and falling apart.

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So I've been on a mission to try to figure out who can build these for us.

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I'm following three vendors and actually the vendor that we're going to go with that she actually works. She's a library maker Jenny.

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This is her template that she made just to kind of show off what it's going to look very similar. This is made out of oak. She's going to make it out of PVC plastic.

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So it's going to last for a very long time. The paint will last.

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She's spent a lot of time just trying to figure out how to how to make these things so they last. She's she's amazing artist.

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And then like she's talked to people from Norway of where these originated from the designs.

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So she's got a lot of invested into this and I just wanted to share her talent and that we're going to go with her on making these and hopefully by I'm going to say September October.

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We'll have them back up and looking looking great. So what is your name again, Greg Jenny.

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She's a library maker. So.

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Nice. Nice job. Thank you.

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Administrative services update Kelly. Oops. I'm sorry. Community development. Alex.

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Oh, perfect.

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Administrative services Kelly.

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We are in the tail end of liquor and cigarette license renewal period.

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So far this year we've brought in 124 applications for new or renew renewals for operators.

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We have 19 liquor applications and 11 cigarette tobacco and vaping license.

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And so Joelle has been working very diligently to assist all of our licensees on getting that paperwork into us in a timely fashion.

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So that's all I have. Thank you.

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Our creation and community enrichment, Reese and your associate.

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Yes, I thought I would bring a special guest on with me for my update tonight.

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So you guys should have all received an email from Sam with the apparel order.

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Those are due by May 17th. So if you want to get one in, just make sure you do it by then.

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Otherwise our next one probably won't be towards until towards the end of the year.

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It's hard for us to open up them in between.

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And then Tricia wanted to share that we did receive two grants for the farmers market this year.

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But each for $1,000. So that would be nice. And I don't remember if I shared what we do have a new farmers market manager that started today with Tricia working on stuff and is excited to get the market going the first Tuesday and June.

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And that's all I've got.

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Thank you.

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Communications update Stacey Harmon.

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I'll just share this past week. We've onboarded our communication coordinator, Deeptee. She's doing a great job. We've been busy working on summer events.

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Working on branding and marketing, getting all the Facebook social media calendars and everything updated and branded.

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And then I've been working with Alex on launching the home reach project.

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Right. So I'm going to home reach the forest project, which will be coming out and engaged for soon. So that will be announced by him.

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And that's about it.

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Okay.

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As far as Windsor fire and EMS update, I do not see Chief Lefebvre in person or on zoom.

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We'll pass on that. Any other business that lawfully comes before the committee for discussion only.

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You want to be president Greg.

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Last thing on the agenda is adjournment. Is there motion to adjourn? Motion by Jim.

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Second. Second. Second by Jan. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. No.

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We are adjourned at 6 p.m.

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Yes, please take a five minute break.

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Okay, it is 6.06 p.m. Let's call to order the regular village board meeting from May 5th.

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Callie, would you please know all.

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A recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Brad, would you like to leave this, please?

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Thank you.

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Number four announcements. So I have no announcements.

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We're five consent agenda.

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Google of the minutes from April 21st. Work session and village board meeting.

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Does anyone need anything separated out?

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We don't.

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So is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Motion to approve the consent agenda.

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Second. Motion by Jan. Seconded by Brad to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor say aye.

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Aye. All those opposed. No. Motion carries unanimously.

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Public appearances.

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These are the gentlemen with the radio.

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They can either do their presentation while they're during their proclamation or during a couple of weeks.

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Oh, 9.2.

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Okay.

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Well, for public appearances, let's hear from the gentleman.

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It was handwriting. I wish I could read.

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Regarding the amateur radio weekend.

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Steve.

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What's your last name, Steve?

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You've got a seat for the record.

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If you would state your name and address, please and push the button to get the mic.

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The term green and you're ready to go.

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Okay. Green. We have my.

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Well, my name is W nine gz. Oh, this is my call sign, but I'm also Steve.

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I'm 49 18 Academy drive and Madison and I'm glad to be here.

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And we're spending a lot of time in this area in planning for field day and amateur radio operators.

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Geeks who talk to each other from their basements.

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They're also doing a lot of public service work and part of that is providing support for the government in the case of a national emergency.

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I mean, our group was very active in the recent sky one and the storms and things like that.

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But once a year, we get together and we set up an emergency command center in a park somewhere where it's all run off emergency power for 24 hours.

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So, you know, it's put up our own tennis set set up the radios, the whole nine yards.

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And we move around to do it in different places.

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Last year, we were in Verona at.

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Badger Prairie County Park.

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This year, we have chosen Schumacher farm.

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Park, which we have never been to before, but I'll tell you what, it's up on a hill.

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That's wonderful for us.

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Good communications capabilities, but we're going to make it for us.

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It's not just our event.

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It's a chance for us to communicate.

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It's also for public awareness is for people to understand about emergency communications, what our options are open to you, how you can get involved and things like that.

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And so we're going to have people from sky one from, you know, the radio, the weather people going to be there.

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The EMS people from Wannakeema are talking about coming.

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So we've got a whole range of people coming and it's a one time a year when amateur radio operators all over the country.

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Get online and do something like this and try and, you know, connect with the public and say,

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Immersive preparedness is something we don't think about, but it's something we should consider.

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So let's give you a little taste of it.

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And we're also going to have a get on the air station.

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Say, bring your kids out.

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They want to get on the air.

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Talk to somebody.

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We'll give them an opportunity.

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Is there any questions?

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We're kind of limited as to questions at this point.

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Okay, Dan, you can do one clarifying.

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Well, first of all, I wanted to say I find this very interesting and I thank you for doing the emergency.

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Operation preparedness.

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Something beyond what we normally use in our everyday communications that most of us are using.

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Anyways, I did have a question like about how many are there of you in Dane County.

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That's a good question.

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Nationally, there's about 750,000 licensed radio amateurs, not all of them are active.

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But I would say in the Dane County area, our club represents, and the couple clubs I belong to present 100 or so.

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But that's actually a small number of people who are here.

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There's a lot of other amateur radio guys because it's very diverse.

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They do a lot of different things.

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Everything from mesh networks and ways to eliminate texting and do it by radio.

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But there's so many different people and we represent kind of the general club of general interest.

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There's two meter repeaters.

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There's all kinds of things.

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So I would say there's hundreds.

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If I look at the roles of who's around, there's several hundred, but the activity is probably a hundred or two at the most.

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Thank you, sir.

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Okay.

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Number seven presentations presentation of resolution 2026 049.

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Resolution thanking Jane Kay Hill, both Graham for her dedicated service to the village of the forest.

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Did you wish to say anything, Kelly?

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Nothing but thank you, Jane, for your service.

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And Colleen has your resolution.

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She will be reading.

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Yes, we need a motion.

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Okay, what we have here is a resolution thanking Jane Kay Hill, both Graham for her dedicated service to the village of the forest.

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Jane, you want to come up while I read it or you want to wait until I'm done.

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Okay.

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Whereas the village board recognizes the hard work commitment and exemplary service Jane Kay Hill, both Graham has offered to the village of the forest as a member of the village of the forest board, serving first as trustee and then as village president.

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And whereas village trustees and staff recognize and appreciate Mrs. Kay Hill, both Graham's dedication leadership and service to the residents of the forest.

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And whereas while serving with distinction, this is K Hill, both Graham has been an integral part of the village's continued growth and success, including the attraction and retention of important businesses and employers and expansion of commercial and industrial opportunities.

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And whereas during her tenure, the village experienced continued investment in parks, trails and recreational amenities, including improvements to fireman's park and the expansion of community facilities that enhance the quality of life for residents.

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And whereas Mrs. Kay Hill Wolf Graham supported housing initiatives to meet the needs of current and future residents, including single family, multifamily, senior and workforce housing opportunities, as well as programs to assist homeownership,

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home repairs, and neighborhood improvements.

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And whereas throughout her service, Mrs. Kay Hill Wolf Graham demonstrated perseverance, thoughtful leadership, and a deep commitment to the village she has called home for many years.

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And whereas the village of the forest board wishes to express its sincere appreciation to Jane Kay Hill Wolf Graham for her dedication and for the service she provided to the residents of the community.

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Now, therefore, be it resolved that the village of the forest board of trustees on its own behalf and on behalf of the staff and residents of the village of the forest.

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Thanks Jane Kay Hill Wolf Graham for her exemplary service to the village and presents this resolution adopted at a regular meeting of the divorce village board this fifth day of May 2026.

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Jane, why don't you come on up here.

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Make a motion to approve the resolution.

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Motion by Brad. Is there a second second.

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Seconded by Melanie. All those in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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All those opposed? No.

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The motion carries unanimously.

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Oh, that was the vote.

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Oh, I'm going to go.

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I'm going to go.

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The next.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Yeah.

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All right, I just wanted to say I was involved with a partnership here that made it possible for us to accomplish the things that are in the resolution.

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We have one of the most talented staff led by an administrator that we need to hold on to because he is extremely good.

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Al has kept me honest and kept me out of trouble more than one could believe.

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I had to look at him. I had to be able to see his eyes during every meeting and I appreciated him being there when I had questions, but also a partnership with the community and residents.

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So it isn't just one person. It's all of the trustees, all of the staff and the residents who are making the forest a remarkable community.

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So thank you everyone for working with me.

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And next up under presentation 7.2 presentation of resolution 2026 050.

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Resolution thanking T.C. Dr Allen for her dedicated service to the village of the forest.

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You want to say something, Kelly?

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Thank you.

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There you are. I can't see her.

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There you are.

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And Colleen will read your resolution for you.

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This is resolution 2026 dash 050 thanking T.C. Dr Allen for her dedicated service to the village of the forest.

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Whereas the village of the forest board on behalf of the deforest community.

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Recognizes trustee T.C. Dr Allen for her service from April 2024 through April 2026 to the residents of the village of the forest.

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And whereas the village board wishes to sincerely thank trustee Allen for her contributions to the community and her interest in the betterment of the forest.

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Now therefore be it resolved that the village of the forest board of trustees employees and residents.

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Thank T.C. Dr Allen for her commitment to the village of the forest.

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Adopted at a regular meeting of the deforest village board this 5th day of May, 2026.

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Do we have a motion to approve?

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I'll make a motion to approve that resolution.

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Motion by Jim is there a second.

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Second.

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Seconded by Jan.

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All those in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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All those opposed no.

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Motion carries unanimously.

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Did she do it?

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Would you like to come forth please?

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Aye.

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All those opposed no.

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You see, Dr Allen, President of the forest.

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I first I first wanted to say thank you so very much for giving me an opportunity to serve with such amazing individuals and.

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and staff, you guys are incredible.

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You keep us on our toes, you keep us prepared,

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you keep us informed.

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And so I am incredibly humbled to the community.

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I am so proud of you.

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I'm so proud of you for showing up,

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using your voice, bringing each other along,

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lifting each other up in my hope,

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my goal, my dream and my deepest wish and desire

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is that you continue to work together as a family,

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continue to show the rest of Wisconsin

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and all of the U.S. and across the seas,

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how to be a loving kind, effective and caring community.

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Whether we agree or disagree, we are always family.

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And next is 7.3,

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presentation of Resolution 2026-051,

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proclaiming June 27th through 28th.

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2026 is amateur radio weekend

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within the village of DeForest.

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Motion to accept the resolution 2026-051.

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We have a motion, is there a second?

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Second.

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Seconded by Brad, all those in favor say aye.

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Aye.

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All those in close, no.

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Motion carries unanimously.

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Let me just, this is a little bit long.

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Whereas amateur radio operators are celebrating

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over century of the miracle of the human voice

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broadcast over the airwaves,

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and amateur radio has continued to provide a bridge

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between people, societies and countries,

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by creating friendships and the sharing of ideas.

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And whereas amateur radio operators have provided

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countless hours of community service,

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both in emergencies and to other local organizations

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throughout these decades.

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And whereas these amateur radio services

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are provided wholly uncompensated,

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and whereas the village of DeForest

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recognizes the services, amateur radio's people

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also provide to our many emergency response organizations,

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including amateur radio emergency services,

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Wisconsin Emergency Management,

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and Dane County Emergency Operations Center.

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And whereas these same individuals

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have demonstrated their value in public assistance

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by providing free radio communications

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for local parades, bicycle events,

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walk-athons, fairs, and other charitable public events.

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And whereas the village of DeForest, Wisconsin

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recognizes and appreciates the diligence of these hands,

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who also serve as weather spotters

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in the sky-worn program of the National Weather Service.

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And whereas the American Radio Relay League, ARRL,

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is the National Association for Amateur Radio in the USA.

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And whereas the ARRL Amateur Radio Field Day exercise

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is a 24-hour emergency preparedness exercise

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and demonstration of the radio amateur's skills

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and readiness to provide self-supporting communications

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without further infrastructure being required.

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And whereas the Four Lakes Amateur Radio Club

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of Dane County will host the Field Day exercise

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at Schumacher Farm County Park on June 27th and 28th, 2026.

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Now therefore be it resolved

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that the Village of DeForest Board of Trustees

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do hereby officially recognize and designate June 27th

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and 2026 as Amateur Radio Weekend

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in the Village of DeForest.

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Adapted this 5th day of May, 2026.

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I'm sorry, I don't have a framed one.

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Next up on presentations 7.4.

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Presentation of Snow and Ice Control Award and update

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regarding Madison Metropolitan Sewage District.

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This will be done by Mr. Eric Dundee.

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Thank you, Eric Dundee.

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I'm actually here for two topics tonight.

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One is I serve as the Executive Director

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for the Madison Metropolitan Sewage District.

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But the second is as a past president

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of the EPWA American Public Works Association,

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Wisconsin chapter.

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I'm here to congratulate those that do the work

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that some of us don't think about all the time.

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So what I would like to do is just recognize

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the Village of DeForest and the Public Works Department

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for the Excellence in Snow and Ice Control Award.

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That award was received actually by Village Staff,

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which was very supportive and a good thing

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a couple of weeks ago.

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And one of the highlights is to recognize

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that this group in the Village of DeForest

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is a leader for the state of Wisconsin

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and nationally for their snow and ice excellence.

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What they do is they balance and demonstrate best practices

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and winter maintenance while minimizing environmental impacts.

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If we think about this, and I'll actually talk about this

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as a sewage plant, we try to maintain

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contaminants, salt is a contaminant,

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but we need it for safety.

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So we have to balance those things.

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So one of the things in the application

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and nomination form that the Village had for this award,

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I just want to read a few of those and recognize them.

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The Village of DeForest Investments,

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including in the leadership and the Village Board support

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for snow plows with ground speed control dispensing,

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which means you only put down as much salt as you need

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to keep road safe, doing pre-wedding brine to reduce salt

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and to increase effectiveness, completing in-house

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and external staff training programs, community outreach,

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and even investing in monitoring devices.

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The group here is a leader,

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and I would like to recognize them for that.

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So on behalf of the American Public Works Association,

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Wisconsin Chapter, I'd like to give them the award again

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in front of their peers and their Village Board.

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So I want to thank-

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That's Blau and Greg Hall.

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Would you like to join Mr. Dundee?

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Okay.

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Good job, guys.

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You must have a part two to your present.

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You have a part two of this works out great.

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So my second job here tonight is as Executive Director

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of the Madison Metropolitan Sewage District.

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So this is an opportunity for me to just provide an update

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to the Village Board and the community of DeForest

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on what is going on in the treatment plant service area.

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DeForest is one of those.

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So as we move forward, just a little background,

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the Madison Metropolitan Sewage District was established in 1930.

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It has grown to 24 customer communities.

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You can see DeForest at the top of the chain.

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So everything that goes down the drain in DeForest

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goes all the way down to Southtown Boulevard in Manona

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down by the Super Walmart.

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That's what we like to explain.

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So we serve about 440,000 residents of the population

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and that includes all the businesses

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and industries in that area.

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We collect about 38 million gallons of water a day.

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So if you can think of Camp Randall Stadium,

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fill up the bowl every day, we clean it and send it away

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and get the next bowl the next day.

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And to just explain how the sewage is collected,

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basically, if you think of your house,

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anything that goes down the drain, this is in your sink,

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this is in your toilet, this is in your basement drain,

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this could be in a apartment complex,

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the underground parking.

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State of Wisconsin building code and plumbing code is,

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if there is a underground parking

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in a large residential building,

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it goes down the drain to the sewer.

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So all of those things, including businesses and industry,

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goes through pipes into village-owned pipes

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that then are then collected

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in Madison Metropolitan Sewage District pipes.

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Those larger pipes we collect

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and we actually pump that to the treatment plant

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and then we clean it and pump it away.

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And one of the things we like to explain to people is,

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we are 1%ers, this is an informal thing we talk about,

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but 99% of the water that comes to the treatment plant

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is just that, water.

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We spend our time, money and energy on the 1%,

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all the contaminants, all the things that are flushed,

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we have to either take them out

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or we have to treat them and to our permit level.

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And then it turns into what we call as effluent,

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basically cleaned waste water, it goes to a stream,

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we actually pump all of this to Badfish Creek,

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about seven miles south of Madison

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and it is considered stream quality.

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It is also something that we're proud of

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because we just actually won with the DNR Lab of the Year.

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So we were able to get that recognition

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for all the testing that we do on that.

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That ranges everything from our parameters,

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which is the solids, nitrogen, phosphorus,

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chlorides that are in there,

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all the way till we are already advanced

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in year four and five of our PFAS sampling.

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So we are trying to be proactive

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and learn about these things as we go.

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And one thing I took over in this position about 15 months ago

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and one of the things that we need to do as a sewage district

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is make sure that we are watching out for our communities.

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The last thing we want to do is not be proactive

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with infrastructure renewal

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and we come to communities and tell them

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you have to stop developing.

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That happens around the United States.

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There are areas that cannot develop

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because they do not have the infrastructure.

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My job here and my staff's job

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is to make sure that all communities that we serve,

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all 24 of them can grow the way they want to.

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That means businesses, that means infill,

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that means different community developments,

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all of that, that's what we're trying to do

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is serve you in that way.

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So a few things though, I just wanted to highlight today

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is a few of the projects that we're undertaking

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that are things that we hope are helping

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the community as a whole.

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And when I say community as a whole,

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I mean nationwide, what we are trying to do

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is be innovative by saving money

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and taking care of the things we have to take care of.

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One of that is force means.

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So we have pipes that are pressurized.

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We are basically pushing water through those uphill

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to gravity mains and then getting to the treatment plant.

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We have now found out in the last five years,

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the hard truth of building a lot of infrastructure

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with the Clean Water Act in the 50s and 60s

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and it is now all aging to the point where it's failing.

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So in the last five years,

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we have had five force main breaks.

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For us, this is not a small four inch pipe

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or six inch pipe force main break

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that may spill a thousand gallons of sewage.

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This is in the millions.

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Our last one was six million gallons

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and we had that turned off within five hours

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of when it actually, when we found it.

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So for us, this is significant.

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This is an environmental impact.

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So what we're doing is trying to be innovative

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and trying to assess these pipes.

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If you know about public works and utility work

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about TV and clean and lining sewers,

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basically what you're trying to do is not dig it up.

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You're trying to assess the condition

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while it's below ground and then either put a liner in it,

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basically think of putting a coating on the inside

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to structurally renew that pipe.

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Our problem is with force means there's no access points.

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Some of these pipes are five, six miles long

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without an access point.

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So right now we are actually testing solutions

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that is signals and I could look behind me

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and say radio signals,

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but it's also sonar and different things like that

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to test wall thickness,

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to test if there's voids in the pipe, all those things.

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So that's one thing we're investing in.

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One thing you'll hear about if you pay attention

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to our budget in 2027 is beyond is

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we have to get a handle on this.

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These are environmental impacts

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that we want to pay attention to.

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And then we're gonna talk about the treatment plan.

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So we are growing in a way that

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we have a new WPDS permit.

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So basically the treatment plan is regulated by a permit

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and how much we're supposed to treat.

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At the treatment plant, we can only treat so many things.

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Chloride, which is salt, is one that we cannot treat

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or at least treat effectively and cost

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with a good cost.

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Basically what we're saying is,

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if we try to treat the salt that is in the water,

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we're talking about reverse osmosis system

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and we're talking hundreds and hundreds of millions

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of dollars to get to that.

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So one thing we are talking to communities about now

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is chloride reductions.

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Not just in road salts, a lot of people think about that.

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The next thing they think about is,

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well, wait a minute, you're putting it on the road.

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How does it get into a sewer?

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Well, it happens.

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Flooding, runoff, going into driveways,

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into drains, things like that.

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It's all coming to us in one way or the other.

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We just got our new permit and the permit limit is lower,

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which means that our current place right now,

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we could violate our permit up to five or 10 times a year

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based on the new limit.

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So what we're gonna be doing is engaging communities

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to figure out what else we can do.

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Being preventative saves hundreds and hundreds

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of millions of dollars.

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So the goal here is what can we do for that?

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Some of that is roads, some of that is home rebate programs

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for water softeners.

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We have heard stories of water softeners

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taking a 40 pound bag of salt every week.

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That's a lot of salt.

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We receive at the treatment plan 100,000 pounds of salt a day.

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We have to meet our permit.

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We have to get that number down.

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That is gonna be difficult because one of the opportunities

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or ways to do that is enforcement.

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And enforcement for the sewer district means

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we enforce the village of the forest

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and then they have to go enforce those things.

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So this is where I stop and pause and say,

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we are lucky to have a public services group here

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into forest that is engaged with us

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and helping us talk through these things

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because we have to find a solution

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for all 24 customer communities

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and that's ranging from customers

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that are 50 houses in a sanitary district

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up to the city of Madison.

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So one solution is not gonna fit all

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but our goal is to work on that.

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Oops, of course I hit the wrong one.

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And then one of the last things to talk about with everybody,

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I don't go anywhere without telling you

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don't flush the things that aren't supposed

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to be flushed down the toilet.

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What we wanna do is talk about

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non flushables and fat soils and greases.

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So these things are flushable wipes.

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They are non flushable.

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There is lawsuits in the United States about this.

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Just because it's advertised as flushable

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doesn't mean it doesn't cause problems later.

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Yes, it can go down the toilet or go down the drain.

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Lots of things can.

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But what happens is when they go into one of our pumps,

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we chew them up or they tear up

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and then they come back together and clog a pipe

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or they cause problems in other places.

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You can find in the national news,

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this kind of nothing happening all over the place.

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For us, we do a lot of nighttime emergency work

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calling in our mechanics and electricians and staff

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when a pump isn't working and we have to come in

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and pull that apart.

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That is a messy job.

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I will tell you that we can fill a 30 yard dumpster

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which is about a quarter of this room

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the other day with all the things that we pull out

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at the treatment plant of things that are flushed.

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So we are trying to make sure we educate everybody

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as best we can about prevention on that

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and then also fats, oils and greases.

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Those things that can go down the drain that end up

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sticking in the pipes.

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It happens.

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Well, for us, 440,000 people putting a little bit of fats,

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oils and greases in the drain turns into a really big problem

01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:04.880
by the time it gets to us.

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So we are talking about incremental change for people.

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Every little thing you do helps everybody in the long run.

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So with that,

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the last thing to talk about is infiltration and inflow.

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So I talked to you about 38 million gallons a day.

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So Camp Randall Stadium filling that up.

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In wet weather events or in a very large wet weather event,

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my record is 155 million gallons of water

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coming to the treatment plant at once.

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So instead of one Camp Randall Stadium,

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you're talking about four.

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That creates a problem.

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One of the things the forest is doing very well

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and proactively is working on I and I,

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basically stopping storm water from getting into your sanitary sewers.

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What we did here is we made sure to provide our customer community

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is with that community outreach as needed.

01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:02.880
If you want to put it in a utility mailer,

01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:05.880
if you want to put it onto social media,

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you can go on our website and get the graphics,

01:05:07.880 --> 01:05:10.880
get anything you want to use for that.

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So that's just another note there.

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And then, of course, I would welcome you all to come take a tour.

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My joke is if you're lucky enough, I'll give that tour.

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But otherwise, please come check it out.

01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:29.880
One of the unique things about Madison is not every community

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has a treatment plant.

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Regionalization is something the Department of Natural Resources recommends.

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It's cost effective.

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It makes everybody's life a little easier, I would say,

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by having one treatment plant in the area.

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So thank you.

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Thank you, Eric.

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That was very informative and interesting.

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Surprisingly enough.

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Yeah.

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I agree with Colleen.

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It was very informative and there was a lot of information there.

01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:04.880
And I thank you for that.

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You had mentioned that DeForest does well in a few different areas.

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And what my question is, is do you have a way or a mechanism to measure

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what's coming from each different community?

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We do.

01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:21.880
So actually that is part of our rate structure.

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So how we build our customer communities is we split out the flow

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from each community or each area that goes through.

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DeForest being at what we call the top of the chain,

01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:35.880
it's actually very easy to measure yours.

01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:39.880
You do, though, have some complexities with DeForest being close

01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:43.880
with Windsor and boundaries and then also the town of Vienna.

01:06:43.880 --> 01:06:47.880
So there is math involved there in making sure we have things separated.

01:06:48.880 --> 01:06:52.880
But that is how we build is basically by measuring the flow

01:06:52.880 --> 01:06:57.880
and then what we call the loadings or the things that are in the wastewater.

01:06:57.880 --> 01:07:00.880
Those are the two ways that we build.

01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:04.880
Thank you.

01:07:04.880 --> 01:07:06.880
Jim.

01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:07.880
I'm curious.

01:07:07.880 --> 01:07:12.880
So I'm an engineer and I had a coworker that actually went to MST,

01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:14.880
the Milwaukee version.

01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:19.880
And I know when he went there, they were building like the deep tunnels.

01:07:19.880 --> 01:07:23.880
And I'm wondering if we have any of those problems with storage.

01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:27.880
I'm hoping we just don't have as much infiltration as they did in Milwaukee.

01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:34.880
Is that a answer or is that something that we're looking into having more storage?

01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:39.880
I'll try to keep this brief because I love this topic.

01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:45.880
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District has a unique system where they have what they call a combined system.

01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:53.880
So the old downtown Milwaukee proper area actually takes stormwater and wastewater.

01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:57.880
So their deep tunnel system is there for wet weather events.

01:07:57.880 --> 01:08:01.880
Basically, they are putting it into the deep tunnels to store it.

01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:08.880
And then they pump it out of 300 foot deep big tunnels.

01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:11.880
And then they treat it after that.

01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:16.880
For us, we actually have in Madison, a little different problem.

01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:22.880
It is not about dealing with the wet weather in the way of it getting to the plant.

01:08:22.880 --> 01:08:25.880
We actually have to get it away.

01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:34.880
And because we only have one pipe to get it away, we're unique as we have 100% of the flow pumped to us 100% pumped away.

01:08:35.880 --> 01:08:41.880
For us with our pumps, if we turned all of our pumps on at 100%, we would actually explode the lines.

01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:45.880
So if you come around the treatment plan, you'll see lagoons.

01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:48.880
It's birding area. It's habitat.

01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:54.880
That's actually a storage area for us to store treated wastewater or effluent.

01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:59.880
We store it, wait till the flows go down, and then we pump that away.

01:08:59.880 --> 01:09:04.880
Anybody else?

01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:09.880
Thank you.

01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:18.880
7.5 presentation regarding a funding request from Kent Paulson of Nungasur development.

01:09:18.880 --> 01:09:22.880
To the home reach the forest affordable housing program.

01:09:22.880 --> 01:09:23.880
Alex.

01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:35.880
Yeah, I'll just do a brief overview here and then turn it over to Kent to talk about his request and his project and then open it up for any questions from prestige.

01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:43.880
So we officially approved the home reach for us the portable housing program in April with an amendment at the last meeting.

01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:49.880
As you mentioned, we're hoping to get the, there's, there's two separate funds of this program.

01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:55.880
One is for larger scale development, the others for residents home improvement, down payment assistance, those types of things.

01:09:55.880 --> 01:10:00.880
We're hoping to do the soft launch of the website for that second bucket.

01:10:00.880 --> 01:10:09.880
This week with applications opening to the general public on the 20th after the next board meeting, but with the program being officially approved.

01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:15.880
We've got two applications tonight for funding through the first part of the program, which is the development side.

01:10:15.880 --> 01:10:20.880
So the first application is from Kent with Nungasur development.

01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:23.880
This is a project that is being proposed on North Town Road.

01:10:23.880 --> 01:10:27.880
They have already gone through their approvals process with the village.

01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:32.880
It is a senior affordable housing building and can kind of tell you more.

01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:36.880
The amount of funding that they're requesting is $112,500.

01:10:37.880 --> 01:10:39.880
With that, I'll kick it over to Kent.

01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:47.880
And we should have, yeah, we've got the PDF of the concept plan on line as well, if you want to orient around that.

01:10:50.880 --> 01:10:54.880
Yeah, as Alex said, Kent Paulson with Nungasur development.

01:10:54.880 --> 01:11:04.880
Talk about the Alice Place de Forest project, which is 50 units of affordable housing for seniors, 55 and older.

01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:08.880
There will be one and two bedroom units.

01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:19.880
All of the units are income restricted and rent restricted at 30%, 50%, 60% and 80%.

01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:27.880
The breakout of those are in the, I believe, first page there of that request.

01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:36.880
The project has a tax credit award from Wisconsin housing.

01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:46.880
And so we are very close to getting this thing all done and expect to be under construction at least by July.

01:11:46.880 --> 01:11:50.880
Hoping, hoping we can actually be under construction come June.

01:11:50.880 --> 01:11:55.880
We have previously applied to the federal home loan bank.

01:11:56.880 --> 01:12:01.880
We applied for housing trust fund from the state of Wisconsin was denied on that.

01:12:01.880 --> 01:12:06.880
We applied for Dane County funds denied on that one.

01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:10.880
So we've solved it thus far.

01:12:10.880 --> 01:12:15.880
The development team stepped up the tax credit investor.

01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:22.880
In this case happens to be Wells Fargo bank stepped up with an increase pricing on the tax credit investment.

01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:30.880
And the construction lender also Wells Fargo and the permanent lender Mount City bank.

01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:36.880
Both banks also stepped up reduced fees interest rate that kind of stuff.

01:12:36.880 --> 01:12:42.880
So we are very the summary their sources and uses.

01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:47.880
We're basically there.

01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:53.880
The request to the village here is 112,500.

01:12:53.880 --> 01:13:10.880
Without that we will be looking to go back to do some additional work on what we can take out of the GC contract to balance the budget to make it work.

01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:14.880
As the development team were long term owners.

01:13:14.880 --> 01:13:19.880
So in no way looking to take out the quality of anything.

01:13:19.880 --> 01:13:25.880
It's important to us for the quality of what's built both for the benefit of the residents,

01:13:25.880 --> 01:13:29.880
but the long term maintenance everything else that goes into it.

01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:34.880
You start looking at windows, cabinetry, countertops, that kind of stuff.

01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:40.880
I mean, it, you know, we can get there.

01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:45.880
We're fully committed to building this project.

01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:49.880
But we're asking the the village for some help to get it across the finish line.

01:13:49.880 --> 01:13:54.880
The request is $2,250 per unit.

01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:59.880
This would put 50 units of affordable housing in play.

01:13:59.880 --> 01:14:07.880
With construction completed expected to be by September of 2027.

01:14:07.880 --> 01:14:10.880
So September of next year.

01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:20.880
We would have 50 units in place to be able to house seniors low income seniors within the village.

01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:28.880
Happy to answer any questions or if I was unclear of any of that.

01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:30.880
Anyone have questions?

01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:31.880
Jan?

01:14:31.880 --> 01:14:32.880
Okay.

01:14:32.880 --> 01:14:39.880
So are these rental units or are these life lease units?

01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:41.880
They are rental units.

01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:46.880
I'm not sure what a life leased where they would own it.

01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:50.880
They would own their, you know, they, they are all rental rental.

01:14:50.880 --> 01:14:54.880
It's the way the federal tax credit program is set up.

01:14:54.880 --> 01:14:55.880
Okay.

01:14:55.880 --> 01:15:00.880
So when it comes to the rents that you'll be charging,

01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:03.880
what prevents you from increasing the rents?

01:15:03.880 --> 01:15:09.880
Say five years down the road to something much higher.

01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:14.880
The through the tax credits, closing and all of that.

01:15:14.880 --> 01:15:20.880
There is a allura land use restriction agreement.

01:15:20.880 --> 01:15:25.880
We have a total of 30% of area median income.

01:15:25.880 --> 01:15:33.880
And the rents for that are affordable to somebody who makes 30% of the area median income.

01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:49.880
So if, you know, just for example of area median income or $60,000, I mean, 30% of that obviously is $18,000.

01:15:49.880 --> 01:15:57.880
So it's, it's a very low income and the rent cannot be more than 30% of that.

01:15:57.880 --> 01:16:02.880
HUD does publish what the allowable rents are.

01:16:02.880 --> 01:16:05.880
And they update that annually.

01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:13.880
And there's the compliance process for these projects is verified annually.

01:16:14.880 --> 01:16:22.880
So if the development team decided, well, you know, we're not making, we're not collecting enough rent to pay the bills.

01:16:22.880 --> 01:16:25.880
And so we just decided to charge a thousand worthy allowable.

01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:26.880
It's 500.

01:16:26.880 --> 01:16:28.880
Then you're out of compliance.

01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:31.880
Everything blows up it.

01:16:31.880 --> 01:16:36.880
So developers don't do it because of the implications in the long term.

01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:39.880
You know, impact on the property.

01:16:39.880 --> 01:16:47.880
So everybody stays in compliance and the, uh, the compliance period is for a minimum of 30 years.

01:16:47.880 --> 01:16:48.880
Okay.

01:16:48.880 --> 01:16:50.880
Yeah.

01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:53.880
And apologize if that was way more lengthy.

01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:54.880
No, that was right.

01:16:54.880 --> 01:17:00.880
That's right. That was a great answer. I needed to know that.

01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:05.880
So.

01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:09.880
At the planning and zoning commission, I believe.

01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:22.880
So I'm going by memory. We approved everything, but I thought there was also a bit of a discussion with the desired for improved aesthetics or maybe some additional landscaping.

01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:34.880
And the way I remember the committee is that we locked it up to the applicant to work with staff. And I'm wondering if any of those things have been applied.

01:17:34.880 --> 01:17:38.880
Yes, they have all been addressed have been working with Mark offers.

01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:47.880
And he's been reviewing through staff, but the landscape plan has been revised, enhanced.

01:17:47.880 --> 01:17:52.880
However, you want to think about it. The aesthetics.

01:17:52.880 --> 01:17:56.880
There's balconies on the front of the building.

01:17:56.880 --> 01:18:01.880
The, there were some changes with the citing and brickwork.

01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:07.880
Those were those that come to mind right now. There's probably.

01:18:07.880 --> 01:18:16.880
Yeah, I know. So Mark has been working with the development team, mostly as far as I understand, mostly on the facade side and they've got a two point.

01:18:16.880 --> 01:18:22.880
This was probably a few weeks back where it was where I needed to be.

01:18:22.880 --> 01:18:27.880
Thanks for bringing that up. Remember that conversation.

01:18:28.880 --> 01:18:32.880
Alicia has her hand. Oh, I'm sorry. Alicia.

01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:38.880
That's okay. I just had a quick question on the units for veterans are those also.

01:18:38.880 --> 01:18:46.880
Only for 55 plus or is that open to just all veteran designation? How does that work?

01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:52.880
The veteran designations are also 55 plus.

01:18:53.880 --> 01:19:01.880
We did not designate the am I limits? Sorry, am I as area median income?

01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:08.880
Because if you get a veteran that comes in and they're at say 50% of am I.

01:19:08.880 --> 01:19:21.880
We want to be able to provide a unit where if we pre designated them and all of a sudden you, you don't have one in the right income category, then that end up excluding somebody if they don't qualify otherwise.

01:19:21.880 --> 01:19:32.880
So they're not apologize. I don't remember if there's six or seven veteran units, but those, those are part of the project.

01:19:32.880 --> 01:19:40.880
Okay. Awesome. It says six. So thank you for explaining.

01:19:40.880 --> 01:19:46.880
I did have another question. So it's a 50 unit building and there are 32 garage spaces.

01:19:46.880 --> 01:19:50.880
How do you go about determining who gets those garage spaces?

01:19:50.880 --> 01:19:54.880
It would be on a first come first serve.

01:19:54.880 --> 01:20:00.880
There is with the garages, there is a small monthly charge.

01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:07.880
And so since it's an affordable building, not everybody will will want one.

01:20:08.880 --> 01:20:16.880
So that's a the most, most of the buildings like this that get built don't have any garages.

01:20:16.880 --> 01:20:30.880
So this is actually a fairly significant amenity or, you know, the people here who can afford the additional part as part of that round.

01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:36.880
Okay, great amenity because we live in Wisconsin and those winners can be called.

01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:41.880
Thank you. Yes. Anybody else?

01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:45.880
Okay. Thank you, Mr. Paulson.

01:20:45.880 --> 01:21:01.880
Seven point six presentation regarding a funding request from habitat for humanity of being county to the home reach to forest affordable housing program.

01:21:02.880 --> 01:21:07.880
Similarly, second application through that first development fund.

01:21:07.880 --> 01:21:14.880
Hillary Parker and her team are here from habitat to talk about their proposal is outlined in the memo.

01:21:14.880 --> 01:21:22.880
This is a request of $315,000 in grant funding with a proposed development of the home education center.

01:21:22.880 --> 01:21:28.880
I did note in the memo, but perhaps the applicant can speak to this as well in terms of status.

01:21:28.880 --> 01:21:34.880
That at the time of writing, the, to my knowledge, the property was not under contract.

01:21:34.880 --> 01:21:37.880
However, I know they've had some active discussions.

01:21:37.880 --> 01:21:45.880
So, and again, just to reiterate, these are more presentation, question and answer, and then we'll have a second discussion later in the agenda as well.

01:21:45.880 --> 01:21:48.880
So with that, I'll turn it over to our team.

01:21:48.880 --> 01:21:53.880
I have two ladies here who appear to be from habitat for humanity. Can you please identify yourselves?

01:21:53.880 --> 01:21:58.880
Hi, I'm Gabriela Gerhard on the vice president development for habitat for humanity of being county.

01:21:58.880 --> 01:22:00.880
And I'm Hillary Parker and the CEO.

01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:07.880
Thanks, Kelly. I also included there should have been a PowerPoint there to you. Perfect. Thank you.

01:22:07.880 --> 01:22:12.880
Thank you all so much for having us here tonight. We're really honored to be considered by the village of forest for this funding.

01:22:12.880 --> 01:22:22.880
As I mentioned, I'm Gabriela Gerhard, Hillary Parker, and we also have Brad Armstrong here, our new COO, who leads the construction team in case you have any additional questions, we can go to the next slide.

01:22:22.880 --> 01:22:27.880
Or we have to scroll, I think.

01:22:27.880 --> 01:22:32.880
All right, so habitat, our vision is a place where everyone has a decent place to live.

01:22:32.880 --> 01:22:35.880
That's a really want to world in that that looks like that.

01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:39.880
And so we bring people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

01:22:39.880 --> 01:22:44.880
And volunteering is a huge part of our mission. It's probably what we're most known for. And that's a huge part of what we do.

01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:47.880
We can move on.

01:22:47.880 --> 01:22:53.880
All the mic just a little closer, please. Absolutely. Thank you. Usually I'm not quite too quiet.

01:22:53.880 --> 01:23:03.880
It's good to know. So habitat, Dane, we have been operating since 1987. So nearly 40 years of impact, we build affordable energy efficient homes for low to moderate income families.

01:23:03.880 --> 01:23:06.880
And we'll talk a little bit about more about that in a minute.

01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:12.880
And we're really about wealth building for these families. We want them to be to build equity. We want these homes to be sustainable.

01:23:12.880 --> 01:23:22.880
And we want those families to be sustainable in the community. They're building stability, both for the family and for the community is really at the heart of what we do.

01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:28.880
So we have multiple core programs. We're mostly going to talk about home building today. That's our original and most well known program.

01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:32.880
We built 365 homes and sold them throughout Dane County.

01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:36.880
Habitat Home Repair is a newer program. We've done 62 repairs since 2015.

01:23:36.880 --> 01:23:42.880
We also have a financial capability training that we offer for those that cannot be part of the Habitat program, but want to move towards home ownership.

01:23:42.880 --> 01:23:49.880
71 graduates in recent years. And then we also operate two restore thrift stores that help support our mission.

01:23:49.880 --> 01:23:55.880
And the resource run a furniture bank, which is kind of like a food bank for furniture.

01:23:55.880 --> 01:23:59.880
We serve all of Dane County. We've built in over 18 communities.

01:23:59.880 --> 01:24:13.880
Deforest, this would be our first home in this in the village of Deforest with you joining the urban county consortium. We can now use Dane County CDBG funds in the village, which is why we're looking to move into the forest and very excited about it.

01:24:13.880 --> 01:24:21.880
So our home building program we build and sell homes department families that make 30 to 80% of Dane County area median income.

01:24:21.880 --> 01:24:25.880
Our average AMI is 41% as of last year.

01:24:25.880 --> 01:24:29.880
Homes are financed with a no to low interest mortgages.

01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:39.880
And importantly, the payments are capped at 30% of gross income, and that is inclusive of home insurance property taxes and HOA fees when we calculate the payment.

01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:50.880
And that payment is really important. We're only able to do that because we leverage down payment assistance and sometimes financial donations to habitat in order to make that that financial picture work.

01:24:50.880 --> 01:24:55.880
So load modern income families have a lot of challenges. Two primary ones. The first is availability.

01:24:55.880 --> 01:25:03.880
The average selling price. When we put this together was 431,000, but actually there was new reporting that it's over $500,000 in Dane County now.

01:25:03.880 --> 01:25:11.880
And then there's just very few older homes available in that affordable range. So we increase availability by building the homes and then financing is also a huge barrier.

01:25:11.880 --> 01:25:15.880
So homeowners aren't always eligible for market rate loans from a bank.

01:25:15.880 --> 01:25:20.880
They have a high monthly payment that's unaffordable and sometimes the down payment the upfront costs can be a barrier.

01:25:20.880 --> 01:25:26.880
And we solve that problem by actually financing the mortgages ourselves.

01:25:26.880 --> 01:25:29.880
So what makes habitat distinct?

01:25:29.880 --> 01:25:38.880
We are a homeownership nonprofit. And as I mentioned, we want those homes to be wealth building and equity building for the working families that live in them.

01:25:38.880 --> 01:25:47.880
And by working families, I mean, healthcare workers, firefighters, post office, post men. Those are a couple of the recent ones that I've looked at their stories.

01:25:47.880 --> 01:25:52.880
It's people that are working in the community and working very hard and really want homeownership, but it's just out of reach.

01:25:52.880 --> 01:25:58.880
We both we serve both as a builder and a lender. And as I mentioned, that's to solve both of the problems that faced LMI families in the region.

01:25:58.880 --> 01:26:06.880
We kept those payments at less than 30% of the income, which I said, we have to leverage a lot of sources, many of which we can leverage as a nonprofit.

01:26:06.880 --> 01:26:14.880
So we can have that ability to do that for the families. And then we also have a really extensive homeowner education program, which is part of the sweat equity hours that the families put in.

01:26:14.880 --> 01:26:25.880
And that is leads to successful homeownership. They do a lot of education and they're ready when they when they get the keys to be successful long term. And that's what we see.

01:26:25.880 --> 01:26:32.880
There's a couple of examples of how housing styles that we built in the past. So you get a sense. We can happy to show you more pictures if you're ever interested.

01:26:32.880 --> 01:26:43.880
Recent homes that we've built have have been praised between 280 and 290. These are modest homes. These are not have all the high high end buzz and whistles. You might, some of you might call them a starter home, but they're beautiful homes.

01:26:43.880 --> 01:26:51.880
They are sized to the families actual needs. And so are much smaller than what you'd see from a market rate builder.

01:26:51.880 --> 01:27:01.880
We've become land developers in recent years by necessity land is just becoming more scarce and undeveloped land is is the land that's available in a lot of cases. So a couple of examples of recent cases.

01:27:01.880 --> 01:27:11.880
Kai court is a is a cul-de-sac in downtown Oregon, which is on the left side there. We just wrapped that up last year, private road, private stormwater facility.

01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:22.880
Relatively small one, but we have a very big development called town hall crossing in Sun Prairie, 118 lots mixed income neighborhood. So about 40% in the end will be habitat units.

01:27:22.880 --> 01:27:33.880
And phase one is currently wrapping up. Phase two infrastructure is under contract and will be underway very soon. And then we have two more phases after that as well.

01:27:34.880 --> 01:27:42.880
And in case you're interested in seeing what one of our developments look like town hall crossing in Sun Prairie, we are having an open house on May 28. The public is welcome.

01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:58.880
We'd love a feed register and let us know you're coming, but you can also just show up on the day. Have some Kona ice here from Hillary here from a family, importantly, and then also get to tour up to three of our homes and also drive on the streets that we've built and all that infrastructure that we put together.

01:27:59.880 --> 01:28:10.880
So going into the forest project. So this is the Holum Center property, and this is the initial conceptual design. We haven't passed this point because we need to get farther along with the property acquisition before we do that.

01:28:10.880 --> 01:28:19.880
But you can see the initial design has twin homes and small rows of town homes in order to achieve 36 units. We anticipate that this could change.

01:28:19.880 --> 01:28:26.880
Maybe some single family homes would be on the table in the end, but this is kind of what our early conceptual design looked like that we thought could work for the property.

01:28:27.880 --> 01:28:29.880
And we can go to the next slide.

01:28:29.880 --> 01:28:39.880
So what would the impact to the community be new affordable homes again with that lower price point that you would see a market rate 36 families become first time home buyers in the forest.

01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:49.880
We really want there to be opportunities for the local workforce here to live where they work. And so we would do a lot of outreach within the within the village of the forest itself to make sure that people know about the program.

01:28:50.880 --> 01:29:02.880
And we'd also love to work with the school district, given that this is a school district property to potentially have school district employees have additional consideration in the application process so that they could be more likely to get one of these homes.

01:29:02.880 --> 01:29:12.880
And then long term affordability, as I mentioned, is guaranteed by habitat and partner family support is is key in our opinion to making creating successful homeowners in the long run.

01:29:13.880 --> 01:29:18.880
So our total projected cost for the 36 units is 16.35 million.

01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:23.880
The request is for 315,000 from the deforest of part of the housing fund.

01:29:23.880 --> 01:29:31.880
Other sources of funding we hope to get specific funding for a site prep infrastructure and remediation of the site, including demolition.

01:29:31.880 --> 01:29:34.880
We'd look at the Wisconsin economic development.

01:29:35.880 --> 01:29:43.880
WEDC, other other locations, other organizations that we can apply to, maybe the federal home and bank to make that funding picture work.

01:29:43.880 --> 01:29:50.880
Dane County has given us money for land acquisition, which we would use to buy that property. That's the last quote that I had when I put this together.

01:29:50.880 --> 01:29:57.880
And we are currently in discussion about buying the property. I have an offer on the table, but nothing is nothing is signed at this point.

01:29:58.880 --> 01:30:05.880
We also leverage a lot of money from our restore revenue and then also monetary donations to the community. That's individuals, corporations and foundations.

01:30:05.880 --> 01:30:11.880
We have over, we have thousands of annual donors that contribute and make it possible. And then we also sell those mortgages.

01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:19.880
And as an opportunity, we have a banking partner like Ridge Bank that buys our mortgages and we continue to service them.

01:30:19.880 --> 01:30:25.880
But we also leverage down payment assistance to make that financial picture work, which is obviously a huge piece of the picture.

01:30:26.880 --> 01:30:27.880
Next.

01:30:28.880 --> 01:30:36.880
So we are in progress to land acquisition. We anticipate that the site work could begin as soon as spring 2027 with home building beginning the next year.

01:30:36.880 --> 01:30:45.880
Usually takes about a year for us to get underway with the infrastructure. And then families would start closing on homes fall winter of 2028.

01:30:45.880 --> 01:30:51.880
And then we would expect the project to be completed in 2035. We would kind of make build the homes on a rolling basis.

01:30:51.880 --> 01:31:00.880
It wouldn't all happen once necessarily. But again, some of the planning has to unfold as this move forward. We can't say exactly, but this is what we anticipate.

01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:04.880
We're confident we could complete the project and its entirety by 2035 or earlier.

01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:13.880
And then just the last note about Habitat, we have a track record of nearly 40 years of affordable home building.

01:31:14.880 --> 01:31:25.880
We build owner occupied housing and that's a core part of our model. Again, 30 to 80% of AMI. That's our low to moderate income families mentioned we would be interested in developing a program with school employees.

01:31:25.880 --> 01:31:32.880
So that's uncertain at this point, but we are working on that or we will work on that. And then just the last point about this is really about the long term impact.

01:31:32.880 --> 01:31:35.880
We want people, a lot of our Habitat families, they stay in these homes.

01:31:36.880 --> 01:31:44.880
A lot of our homeowners, the original ones from 1987 are still living in their homes because they want that stability for themselves. They want that stability for their kids.

01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:54.880
They want their children to be able to focus on school and friends and not have to worry about living paycheck to paycheck about moving school districts every year, trying to stay ahead of rising rents.

01:31:55.880 --> 01:32:08.880
We were just speaking, I was just speaking this morning with Tina, who was a homeowner that's been in her home for over 10 years and her daughter dreamed of being a lawyer since she was a little kid, but faced all the stresses of those rising rents and moving, living paycheck to paycheck.

01:32:08.880 --> 01:32:17.880
And they moved to their Habitat home and her daughter thrived in high school, graduated, went to law school, graduated and is now working as a lawyer in DC.

01:32:18.880 --> 01:32:28.880
And she's just like beams with pride and said, you know, my daughter had so much potential and Habitat made it possible for her. She made her like the ability for her to for the flower and blossom.

01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:38.880
And that's what a lot of our homeowners talk about. They want that stability. They want that place to live. And that's what we are excited to offer at the village of the forest in the near future. Thank you very much.

01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:43.880
Thank you. Looks like Brad has a question.

01:32:44.880 --> 01:33:02.880
Yeah, I got two questions. How do you choose who gets to select one of these homes or get some move in there? And then why do you select them before they build and they have an input or why the eight year time span?

01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:05.880
Good question. Do you want to tackle sooner?

01:33:05.880 --> 01:33:10.880
Yeah, so the we have a whole community services department that runs our application process.

01:33:10.880 --> 01:33:15.880
It starts with an information session where people come and find out about it because the application is more than just, I want a home.

01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:22.880
It's actually a mortgage application because at the end of the day, they're buying the home. So the information doesn't make sure that they're interested that they qualify.

01:33:22.880 --> 01:33:30.880
And then if they want to move on to the application session, they submit a full application. Last year, we had over 80 applications, which was a record for us.

01:33:31.880 --> 01:33:40.880
We usually have about a little over 150 folks in the information sessions and then narrow it down. And then we, for this most recent cohort, we narrowed that down to a pool of 10.

01:33:40.880 --> 01:33:57.880
Some people for 10 homes. Yeah, we narrowed them to 10 families. Yeah. And so in terms of, you know, how we choose the families, we've done it different ways in different years, but we would, we definitely would be advertising these as village of the forest homes to families.

01:33:57.880 --> 01:34:06.880
And we want to get families and homes as fast as possible. So the development timeline all depends on the funding schedule and also the ability of us to be able to build the homes.

01:34:06.880 --> 01:34:14.880
We're looking at innovative, innovative things like modular housing, like working with other builders to help support us that could potentially speed up the timeline.

01:34:14.880 --> 01:34:21.880
But that those family outreach is important and the homes often are built after the families are selected.

01:34:22.880 --> 01:34:29.880
But sometimes it's happening a little bit in concert and happening at the same time, but those home sizes vary depending on the size of the family.

01:34:29.880 --> 01:34:38.880
So a family of three is going to have a much smaller home than a family of seven. And we do have that variability.

01:34:39.880 --> 01:34:45.880
Sorry, trustee chords. Were you asking about the criteria for the families?

01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:52.880
No, I think she answered what I was looking for. Thanks. Jim.

01:34:52.880 --> 01:35:02.880
Well, I'll say I have a number of concerns with your layout because I think that site is rather challenging. So I think you'll work your way through that.

01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:08.880
It seems like there's enough money in there, but that may grow too. So that's a concern of mine.

01:35:08.880 --> 01:35:21.880
But before not really diving into that, because I'm sure you will as you work your way through this, the one question that I do have for you as you talked about a 30% cap and income.

01:35:22.880 --> 01:35:34.880
And then you also noticed there said that the property taxes are in that 30%. And that just brought questions up to me is like, how does that work?

01:35:34.880 --> 01:35:45.880
Because you guys are a nonprofit. So I'm assuming you own the land and it really you don't maybe see property taxes until it actually gets transferred to the individuals.

01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:50.880
Can I explain some of that? Sure. And it depends.

01:35:50.880 --> 01:36:03.880
But to answer your broader question about how do we make this work? First of all, we do think the 36 lots might be the tightest configuration we could possibly get out of that land.

01:36:03.880 --> 01:36:13.880
But we've done the math and even at 26 lots, the math maths. So for us, it's exciting to try to build as densely as possible.

01:36:13.880 --> 01:36:27.880
In terms of how do we make it work with what we know are, you know, rising taxes and rising home insurance, you know, payments.

01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:39.880
It's the whole reason we're here. It's the whole reason that habitat exists, because you can't do this easily and make a profit. Otherwise, the for profit people would be doing it.

01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:59.880
It's an investment in the community. And there's no better way to do it than to invest in communities in those families to go ahead and be take the charge of their futures of their children's futures and invest in those families.

01:36:59.880 --> 01:37:10.880
That way, you get people who live here, who work here, who care about here, who care about the forest.

01:37:10.880 --> 01:37:17.880
When does the tax transfer? Was that your other question?

01:37:17.880 --> 01:37:34.880
I'd say yes, because I guess from my point of view, I don't want it to be a tax burden on the individuals. That's not part of the program and I'm not really even just talking about the village of the forest, but also the school district and stuff like that too.

01:37:34.880 --> 01:37:48.880
Yeah, so I think we typically will get a waiver as a nonprofit for three years for property taxes, and then beyond that, we do pay property taxes on any undeveloped land that we're building, and then upon the sale of the home, the homeowner will take over the property taxes.

01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:57.880
And with the calculation of that 30%, how it works is the initial calculation kind of establishes what their mortgage payment is, and then that never changes.

01:37:58.880 --> 01:38:06.880
We don't ever revisit that, that mortgage payment stays the same. Obviously, we cannot control property taxes, home insurance, or even HOA fees if that does apply.

01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:21.880
But we, that first mortgage payment stays the same throughout the property, throughout the mortgage, and then for many of our homeowners, you know, the hope is that they build their wealth over time, that they increase their their income, and that money can go towards savings.

01:38:21.880 --> 01:38:26.880
And sometimes to cover those those increased costs that happen. Does that help answer the question?

01:38:26.880 --> 01:38:30.880
Yep, that does exactly. Thank you.

01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:39.880
Alicia Alicia.

01:38:39.880 --> 01:38:41.880
All right guys, I was on mute.

01:38:42.880 --> 01:39:02.880
Good question. Just curious about the, if you could talk to more about like what the equity portion of the application is, or just provide a little bit more detail and then how you said it hasn't quite been worked out yet, but how you would prioritize

01:39:03.880 --> 01:39:12.880
employees who are in the district and also other like employees or people who are working here in divorce.

01:39:12.880 --> 01:39:14.880
Thank you. That's a great question.

01:39:14.880 --> 01:39:23.880
Sweat equity is one of the things that we use in the habitat world where we like to say this is a hand up, not a hand out.

01:39:23.880 --> 01:39:34.880
And the reason that that's important is that we partner with our partner families to create these homes and to support habitat in general as we're creating these homes.

01:39:34.880 --> 01:39:45.880
So depending on the size of the family, depending on the number of adults in the family, our families work between 250 and 450. Is that correct?

01:39:46.880 --> 01:39:49.880
Thank you. Copy. So good.

01:39:49.880 --> 01:39:54.880
425 hours throughout their time in the program.

01:39:54.880 --> 01:40:04.880
And that's what equity can be used in many ways. Sometimes they're building on a home. Sometimes it's their home. Sometimes it's a different person's home.

01:40:04.880 --> 01:40:07.880
Sometimes they're volunteering in one of our restores.

01:40:07.880 --> 01:40:14.880
Sometimes they come and give a presentation to the village of the forest, although not this time. Sorry.

01:40:14.880 --> 01:40:26.880
Sometimes they write, you know, thank you notes to the folks who have taken their time to give to our program as a way of saying, you know, you touched my life.

01:40:26.880 --> 01:40:29.880
So all of those things add up to those hours.

01:40:29.880 --> 01:40:31.880
What am I forgetting?

01:40:31.880 --> 01:40:39.880
Oh, and the homeowner education program every every time that they spend doing homeowner education is part of their sweat equity.

01:40:39.880 --> 01:40:42.880
And then the second part of that question.

01:40:42.880 --> 01:40:59.880
Oh, the school district. So one of the fun things about attempting to purchase land is that you have to talk through your brokers. So I can't just talk to the school district directly and say this, but I can say this here.

01:40:59.880 --> 01:41:02.880
And I have sent an email through the brokers.

01:41:02.880 --> 01:41:19.880
We would be very interested in anyone who qualifies for our program, getting like that extra point, we would call it so that people who are part of the school district do have a, you know, right of first refusal, if you will.

01:41:19.880 --> 01:41:25.880
And we cannot do that if all 36 of them, you know, come forward.

01:41:25.880 --> 01:41:40.880
And there's more than 36, we would have to have some sort of a system in my experience that doesn't happen. But what I'm hoping is that this gives the forest a chance to keep your workers close with gas being what it is.

01:41:40.880 --> 01:41:43.880
I know that I like living close to where I work.

01:41:44.880 --> 01:41:57.880
I think some of its education, making sure people know that they qualify for the program. I think a lot of working families, they might not realize that they qualify, especially have multiple children. The am I does go up high, but obviously the buying power of that salary is relatively low.

01:41:57.880 --> 01:42:08.880
So I want to make sure that people know if they qualify so that they have that as an option. And then it probably would just be a practically additional points on the scoring criteria because we do have to score applications to rank them.

01:42:08.880 --> 01:42:15.880
And again, that's, that's up for debate, but we would love to see some school teachers living in these homes.

01:42:15.880 --> 01:42:19.880
Jan.

01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:30.880
First of all, I want to say I'm very familiar with habitat for humanity. And you do a lot of great work. I've known some families that live in your homes.

01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:40.880
And I understand the success stories about having families in these homes and raising kids there and the stability and so forth.

01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:48.880
But on the flip side of this, I'm looking at your proposal and I've got a lot of concerns. Okay.

01:42:48.880 --> 01:42:54.880
And I know this has come up in these village meetings before I see a lot of row houses.

01:42:54.880 --> 01:43:03.880
And I have a big concern about that in your nice little presentation. I didn't see one row house shown. I've saw a couple duplexes, but no row houses.

01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:12.880
So I'm very curious. First of all, how is that going to work? Each individual family owns their little unit. No land.

01:43:12.880 --> 01:43:15.880
Are there actual lot? Okay.

01:43:16.880 --> 01:43:24.880
Let me just, and I appreciate those questions. That is perfect for a planning commission. And I would love to have that conversation down the line.

01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:35.880
The only reason that we put this design together at this point and are able to present it is that it's our maximum density best wish idea.

01:43:36.880 --> 01:43:44.880
As you all know, there is a 42,000 square foot school on the land with some remediation, et cetera.

01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:55.880
We have a lot that we just don't know. What I would love is that we can put up single family homes and make it all work, which is why I asked them.

01:43:56.880 --> 01:44:05.880
I asked them to go ahead and make it as dense as they could to see, you know, what would work, how many we think we could offer.

01:44:05.880 --> 01:44:15.880
But the truth is we are not committed to row houses or townhouses. We're committed to families in houses. So we're very flexible on that.

01:44:16.880 --> 01:44:25.880
And we have a date that's good to hear because best wishes for the village. I don't think are row houses. I see a lot of problems with them.

01:44:25.880 --> 01:44:33.880
Not so much when they're brand new, but going down the road when they start needing work. How do you determine when that roof is going to be replaced?

01:44:33.880 --> 01:44:38.880
Are you going to have firewalls extending all the way up through the roofs? You will.

01:44:39.880 --> 01:44:43.880
So that they know where their roof line is and what they're responsible for.

01:44:43.880 --> 01:44:48.880
Will there be firewalls completely within these things? There's so many questions.

01:44:48.880 --> 01:44:56.880
You're absolutely right. There are so many great questions. The answer is we are not committed to this design.

01:44:56.880 --> 01:45:03.880
And we have partners who are able to build these and have built these.

01:45:03.880 --> 01:45:17.880
But again, we would love to have the chance to put families and homes on this space. The design itself is very much preliminary.

01:45:17.880 --> 01:45:23.880
Okay. So thank you on that. We'll have more discussion on row houses.

01:45:23.880 --> 01:45:28.880
You can definitely tell I'm very against it. I'm an insurance agent for 38 years. It's tough.

01:45:28.880 --> 01:45:33.880
You know, even in condos, it's a problem. Yeah. And not so much when the buildings are new.

01:45:33.880 --> 01:45:41.880
But when there's some sort of natural disaster or these buildings start getting older and there's a problem, it can be a big problem.

01:45:41.880 --> 01:45:54.880
I would love to learn more about that from you. And what I can tell you is our goal is putting as many families and homes as possible in a way that is safe and conducive to a happy neighborhood,

01:45:54.880 --> 01:46:01.880
which brings me to my next set of questions. And it's kind of going off what Brad was talking about.

01:46:01.880 --> 01:46:12.880
You specifically are not going to say that this is for deforest current deforest residents. Is this, is this, or can you do that?

01:46:12.880 --> 01:46:18.880
Because, and the reason I'm asking this is because you're asking for deforest tax money.

01:46:18.880 --> 01:46:28.880
So I wouldn't want to see anyone else. And I think we have plenty of people to choose from and that could benefit from this that are current deforest residents.

01:46:28.880 --> 01:46:45.880
But I think that I've seen before, because I'm familiar with humanity, your organization, that sometimes I'm seeing these families being transplanted from California to Sun Prairie or that sort of thing.

01:46:45.880 --> 01:46:53.880
Okay. And that's what I would not want here, because we're giving away this tax money. And this is deforest tax payers money.

01:46:53.880 --> 01:47:02.880
Absolutely. Yeah, the, so the, there is residency requirements for a period of time before you can apply to the program. They have to be saying county residents for 12 months.

01:47:02.880 --> 01:47:08.880
Yeah. I'm not saying being pony. I'm saying before. Yeah. If you can keep it to that.

01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:13.880
You know, I, we'd have to discuss it with our community servers about how to structure it in that way. I don't think we've ever.

01:47:13.880 --> 01:47:19.880
Not to my knowledge. We haven't done that before. It's not to say that we can't structure a program a different way. I will say though.

01:47:19.880 --> 01:47:27.880
I imagine that there's probably a lot of first responders teachers that work into forest that don't necessarily live in the forest. So I don't know if there's a way for us to.

01:47:27.880 --> 01:47:38.880
Parse that, make sure that people that are working and want to live here. That would be, that would be fine for those. Right. They have people relocate from a different community like we'd like to move to the forest.

01:47:38.880 --> 01:47:50.880
I don't think that's right. So I would like to see some constraints on that. Assuming it does not violate fair housing laws. Let's talk. Right. Then that might be a problem, which might.

01:47:50.880 --> 01:48:03.880
Bring up a lot more. Well, I was just going to say, I would just add that our, our down payment assistance programs and the other half of the bucket don't have a forest only restriction, the project that we just reviewed. I would say also it was open residence outside.

01:48:03.880 --> 01:48:09.880
So I just would offer that as well. But that's not as big a project.

01:48:09.880 --> 01:48:17.880
I'm, but thank you. Thank you.

01:48:18.880 --> 01:48:25.880
Good, folks. Thank you, ladies, for your presentation. Thank you very much.

01:48:25.880 --> 01:48:29.880
Oh, I'm sorry, Jim.

01:48:29.880 --> 01:48:34.880
I just wanted to make a motion to take things out of order.

01:48:34.880 --> 01:48:38.880
9.3 up ahead of 8.1.

01:48:38.880 --> 01:48:41.880
They continue these discussions.

01:48:42.880 --> 01:48:46.880
I'm sorry, I didn't catch most of that. You want to move what? 9.3.

01:48:46.880 --> 01:48:53.880
9.3, which is discussion about the possible award funding to have that discussion.

01:48:53.880 --> 01:48:58.880
Now, while the information is fresh in our head.

01:48:58.880 --> 01:49:00.880
We need a motion for that.

01:49:00.880 --> 01:49:04.880
I just made the motion.

01:49:05.880 --> 01:49:08.880
Oh, it's getting late.

01:49:08.880 --> 01:49:10.880
Alicia was that you.

01:49:10.880 --> 01:49:12.880
Yes.

01:49:12.880 --> 01:49:14.880
Thank second by Alicia.

01:49:14.880 --> 01:49:19.880
Okay, all those in favor of moving 9.3 out of order.

01:49:19.880 --> 01:49:21.880
Say aye.

01:49:21.880 --> 01:49:23.880
Aye.

01:49:24.880 --> 01:49:37.880
So we shall move to discussion and possible action to award funds through the home reached forest affordable housing development fund.

01:49:37.880 --> 01:49:44.880
I just give a little bit extra context. I think this was all really good conversation that we've had so far and good presentations.

01:49:44.880 --> 01:49:52.880
This is obviously a new program for us, a new process for us to so that I would just want to say off the bat. There's no right or wrong way to do this.

01:49:53.880 --> 01:50:08.880
The two, the memo that was included in your packets tried to align as much as I could with the stated program goals in the home reach the forest program as well as some of our stated housing goals and housing strategy reports comprehensive plan.

01:50:08.880 --> 01:50:12.880
Some of those plans that we have in place as well.

01:50:12.880 --> 01:50:14.880
The.

01:50:14.880 --> 01:50:19.880
If you can scroll down to the chart there a little bit, whoever's got a mouse.

01:50:20.880 --> 01:50:32.880
A couple of different criterias against the housing program itself. Obviously, I think the biggest one that was a clear priority for owner occupied in the home reach program.

01:50:32.880 --> 01:50:39.880
But both of these projects, I would say really hit strongly on the goals that we've had for the community, both from a senior affordable housing owner.

01:50:40.880 --> 01:50:44.880
And then also potentially looking at some of our workforce as well.

01:50:44.880 --> 01:50:58.880
From an affordability perspective, I would say both of these have a skew more towards the heavier affordable level, which is obviously a need in the community to both of the development teams have a significant experience.

01:50:59.880 --> 01:51:01.880
A couple of different.

01:51:01.880 --> 01:51:11.880
I guess deviations point out would be the Alice Place projects is clearly closer to moving forward from an approval standpoint, a construction standpoint.

01:51:11.880 --> 01:51:14.880
Whereas habitat is a little bit earlier.

01:51:14.880 --> 01:51:21.880
Certainly both of those, I think, fit the character of their various locations pretty well as well.

01:51:21.880 --> 01:51:28.880
And then habitat, obviously that's been a priority redevelopment site for the community for quite some time.

01:51:28.880 --> 01:51:33.880
Whoever's got the mouse biggest scroll, the second page.

01:51:33.880 --> 01:51:40.880
A couple of different points that weren't included in the home reach program itself. Again, sort of timing of this.

01:51:40.880 --> 01:51:50.880
And the component of funding on each of these, I think for both projects, actually, the amount of funding that we'd be kicking in is smaller in proportional to the overall.

01:51:51.880 --> 01:51:52.880
Funding need.

01:51:52.880 --> 01:52:01.880
And then the last paragraph here, just sort of comparing your point using taxpayer money, what's the tax implications of these developments.

01:52:01.880 --> 01:52:09.880
They're relatively, these are estimates relatively comparable in terms of annual property taxes, one obviously occurring a little bit faster than the other.

01:52:09.880 --> 01:52:15.880
And then finally, I try to lay out a few different options for structuring funding.

01:52:15.880 --> 01:52:19.880
Should you decide to make an award? And I want to say that it's at your discretion.

01:52:19.880 --> 01:52:28.880
So you certainly have the ability to wait for future projects as well, although I would say that these are probably aligned pretty well with the program.

01:52:28.880 --> 01:52:38.880
So I guess those were meant to be examples, not fixed dollar amounts in terms of you have to choose any one of those, but just to kind of get your wheels spinning a little bit.

01:52:38.880 --> 01:52:44.880
So with that, I'm happy to kind of just open it up for discussion.

01:52:45.880 --> 01:52:48.880
I do have one public appearance here.

01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:55.880
Don Clemens wishes to speak on the home center also.

01:52:55.880 --> 01:53:16.880
My name is Don Clemens, 309 Mohawk trail into forest.

01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:24.880
I've been a resident here into forest for 48 years and I thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight.

01:53:24.880 --> 01:53:34.880
I'm here to express my concerns about allowing zero lot line homes in our community, particularly the ones being proposed at the whole street property.

01:53:34.880 --> 01:53:38.880
Those kind of homes can also be called row homes.

01:53:38.880 --> 01:53:41.880
And that is a very small piece of land.

01:53:41.880 --> 01:53:47.880
Our village has been built around neighborhoods that offer reasonable spaces between homes.

01:53:48.880 --> 01:53:58.880
That spacing is part of what makes our community feel open, welcoming and cohesive zero lot line developments would significantly change that character.

01:53:58.880 --> 01:54:07.880
Creating a more crowded environment that doesn't reflect what many residents myself included value about living here.

01:54:07.880 --> 01:54:24.880
I'm also concerned about the long term impact on property values and overall neighborhood appeal homes built extremely close together can make an area less attractive to future buyers, which may affect the stability and desirability of our neighborhoods over time.

01:54:25.880 --> 01:54:36.880
In addition, there's real life quality, excuse me, real quality of life considerations when homes are placed directly on or very near property lines.

01:54:36.880 --> 01:54:48.880
It reduces privacy, it increases noise concerns, it limits how residents can come, can, excuse me, comfortably use their outdoor spaces.

01:54:48.880 --> 01:54:52.880
These are everyday impacts that matter to people who live here.

01:54:53.880 --> 01:55:04.880
There's also practical concerns to consider drainage, snow removal, long term maintenance between closely built homes and higher almost insurance costs.

01:55:04.880 --> 01:55:10.880
These issues can create a challenge, not only for homeowners, but potentially for the village as well.

01:55:10.880 --> 01:55:16.880
I understand and support the need for thoughtful growth in additional housing.

01:55:17.880 --> 01:55:24.880
However, I believe the growth should be balanced with preserving the character and livability of our community as it stands now.

01:55:24.880 --> 01:55:36.880
Once zoning changes like this are approved, they set a precedent that can gradually reshape our village in ways that may be difficult or impossible to reverse.

01:55:36.880 --> 01:55:51.880
For these reasons, I respectfully ask the board to reconsider or limit the use of zero lot line zoning and instead prioritize development that maintains appropriate spacing and protects the integrity of our neighborhoods.

01:55:51.880 --> 01:55:54.880
Thank you for your time. I think I just ran out of time.

01:55:54.880 --> 01:55:59.880
Good. Thank you very much. And I appreciate all of you working so hard on all of this.

01:55:59.880 --> 01:56:01.880
Thank you, John.

01:56:01.880 --> 01:56:06.880
And we'll go back to discussion.

01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:14.880
If I could just add one more piece on some of the design. Sorry, I'm sorry, because I think that I've heard it in a couple of instances.

01:56:14.880 --> 01:56:18.880
Obviously, the site plan and Jim, you alluded to it too is very preliminary.

01:56:18.880 --> 01:56:25.880
So I can't speak for what the applicant is ultimately going to plan to put on the site if they were to move forward with the project.

01:56:26.880 --> 01:56:35.880
But I know that they've had their engineering team has had preliminary discussions with our planner mark about this and some of that commentary has passed on to them in terms of.

01:56:35.880 --> 01:56:37.880
Free network and how that fits.

01:56:37.880 --> 01:56:43.880
Row houses, townhomes, you know, that, that I think is a.

01:56:43.880 --> 01:56:49.880
Fourth coming consideration, but in terms of that neighborhood itself.

01:56:49.880 --> 01:56:53.880
I don't know if anybody can build or whoever's got a mouse can pull up GIS.

01:56:53.880 --> 01:57:03.880
Maybe that is our traditional like RM six neighborhood, which is smaller lot sizes. So it's, I mean, you look at the everything that's adjacent to there.

01:57:03.880 --> 01:57:08.880
And they are 50 foot with, which I think is probably the smallest in the village.

01:57:08.880 --> 01:57:13.880
So take that for what it's worth all the design pieces out.

01:57:13.880 --> 01:57:16.880
Yes. Do you have to rezone for the row houses?

01:57:16.880 --> 01:57:20.880
So this would have to be no matter what gets developed here, this property.

01:57:21.880 --> 01:57:25.880
Because currently it's institutional because it was school.

01:57:25.880 --> 01:57:34.880
I go back to your comment, though, that you just made saying that these are designed smaller lots or homes, not row houses.

01:57:41.880 --> 01:57:45.880
Is this program annually funded?

01:57:46.880 --> 01:57:53.880
So this program, this is the first year we've had it. This program was funded through an extension of tax increment increment district number three.

01:57:53.880 --> 01:58:00.880
And that was sort of a one time capitalization of it across the board for both the development side and the other program that we're having.

01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:12.880
If the board, if we had the opportunity to do this, either through a future tip extension, that would be at your discretion to refund it, but it's not something where we're appropriating funds from property taxes annually.

01:58:12.880 --> 01:58:14.880
It was a one time deal.

01:58:14.880 --> 01:58:23.880
Certainly, I will say that, you know, it probably behooves us also to look at different grant uses that are out there to just continue to bring funds into this.

01:58:23.880 --> 01:58:25.880
If there continues to be demand.

01:58:32.880 --> 01:58:33.880
Any other discussion?

01:58:35.880 --> 01:58:36.880
Can we make a motion?

01:58:39.880 --> 01:58:40.880
So it's possible.

01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:53.880
So before we do that, I just want to describe what what potential next steps would be. If there was a decision to award funds to either these projects or both these projects, however, that looks.

01:58:53.880 --> 01:59:01.880
The next step would be working through putting in place, which we're familiar with for other projects, a development agreement with the development team.

01:59:01.880 --> 01:59:05.880
And then that would come back for an approval at the hopefully in the next meeting.

01:59:11.880 --> 01:59:16.880
Yes, I would make a motion to fully fund Alice Place.

01:59:16.880 --> 01:59:29.880
The $112,500 and defer funding for habitat for humanity until more is known about the project and it moves further along.

01:59:34.880 --> 01:59:37.880
I'll second if we continue this question.

01:59:38.880 --> 01:59:48.880
Motion by Jan seconded by Jim to fully fund Alice Place and defer funding on habitat for community project until more information is available.

01:59:48.880 --> 01:59:50.880
Correct.

01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:53.880
I personally really liked.

01:59:54.880 --> 02:00:03.880
Second option because I am definitely more in favor of owner individually owned homes.

02:00:04.880 --> 02:00:09.880
So that's a direction I would rather go in split funding for both.

02:00:11.880 --> 02:00:18.880
Knowing that we still have a process to go through to finalize what this site might look like.

02:00:21.880 --> 02:00:24.880
I'm sorry, I don't have what I want.

02:00:24.880 --> 02:00:27.880
What did you say? It was the second.

02:00:28.880 --> 02:00:30.880
Yeah, number two here.

02:00:36.880 --> 02:00:38.880
Yeah, so I did this one.

02:00:48.880 --> 02:00:49.880
Alicia, go ahead.

02:00:50.880 --> 02:00:57.880
I also too am going to echo sentiments with Brad knowing that we'll have further presentations more favorable to funding both.

02:01:03.880 --> 02:01:04.880
I guess we need to go ahead.

02:01:06.880 --> 02:01:14.880
I just want to state that when I was reviewing this looking at the different proposals last night.

02:01:14.880 --> 02:01:23.880
I actually came into this meeting thinking I wanted to fund more fully the habitat and not fun to Alice, please.

02:01:23.880 --> 02:01:35.880
But after the discussions, I was pleased to find out that you did add some aesthetics and worked with the staff to try to dress up that lot.

02:01:36.880 --> 02:01:42.880
I am still worried a bit about the aesthetics of it, but also know that it's adjacent to industrial.

02:01:43.880 --> 02:01:50.880
So I think it can be appropriate and hope that the landscaping and stuff will help that lot.

02:01:51.880 --> 02:02:01.880
So because of what you did, I feel like I do want to fund at least a portion of what they're asking for for the Alice place.

02:02:02.880 --> 02:02:06.880
The habitat, I am very in favor of that program.

02:02:07.880 --> 02:02:14.880
So I love to fund that fully too, but obviously we got to figure out a balance.

02:02:15.880 --> 02:02:21.880
Again, I am very concerned about some of the challenges, the engineering challenges that you're going to run into.

02:02:22.880 --> 02:02:30.880
So I would personally, I'm personally okay with waiting on that because I want to make sure that those are things that you can overcome.

02:02:31.880 --> 02:02:41.880
Because I saw a blank line for the remediation, I'm concerned of what you might find with that and just the grading and the storm water and things like that.

02:02:41.880 --> 02:02:51.880
I think there's going to be, hopefully it would be something that you get through rather quickly and we can have you come back here with better numbers.

02:02:51.880 --> 02:02:54.880
That's sort of the feeling I'm feeling tonight.

02:02:55.880 --> 02:03:04.880
Okay, we have a motion and a second to fully fund Alice and defer funding for habitat for humanity.

02:03:04.880 --> 02:03:06.880
Are you proposing something different?

02:03:07.880 --> 02:03:14.880
I am okay with sticking with that. But again, there's continued discussion if somebody wants to offer something different.

02:03:14.880 --> 02:03:23.880
I just have a question. So looking at.

02:03:23.880 --> 02:03:27.880
Option three, which was Jan's motion.

02:03:27.880 --> 02:03:32.880
Which is deferring funding.

02:03:32.880 --> 02:03:34.880
Let me see.

02:03:34.880 --> 02:03:40.880
No, I mean, yeah, deferring, deferring funding for habitat with the potential for them to reapply on the projects further along.

02:03:40.880 --> 02:03:50.880
So what does that look like? How long do they have? And are there restrictions or just what would that look like for the possibility of them reapplying if we don't give them funding tonight?

02:03:50.880 --> 02:03:59.880
I would say there's not any restrictions built into the program in terms of when they could reapply so they could technically reply as soon as the next meeting.

02:04:00.880 --> 02:04:12.880
But I would think that having heard some of the comments, they may want to dig a little bit deeper into the details of their projects before doing that just based on the feedback that we've heard tonight.

02:04:12.880 --> 02:04:19.880
Unless you have a different recommendation on that or if your motion said something different.

02:04:19.880 --> 02:04:26.880
So that's a long way to say there's no technical timeframe in which they could come back.

02:04:26.880 --> 02:04:31.880
Yeah.

02:04:31.880 --> 02:04:36.880
I guess.

02:04:36.880 --> 02:04:48.880
Alex or bill or whoever can answer this. Can you tell us the potential future opportunities for extending? Is there any coming up in the near future to.

02:04:48.880 --> 02:04:57.880
I'll lean on bill for that, but I would say it's probably at least four years out would be my guess.

02:04:57.880 --> 02:05:03.880
So, yeah, so a couple of things to consider in regards to.

02:05:03.880 --> 02:05:07.880
Potentially, when a tax economic district is closing.

02:05:07.880 --> 02:05:14.880
We anticipate that approximately 2029 2030 would be the next available time.

02:05:14.880 --> 02:05:22.880
Or when a tax economic district closes, we do have a rather large project in queue, which is the public service facility.

02:05:22.880 --> 02:05:31.880
Eventually that we could balance that. So it's going to depend on how much how much increment is remaining or the annual increment.

02:05:31.880 --> 02:05:45.880
And whether or not, you know, the board at that time, you know, what their priority is on, on some of this revenue sources were affordable housing.

02:05:45.880 --> 02:05:55.880
Okay. So going back to first of all, habitat for humanity, please know that I was one of the trustees that said, yes, we'd like you to come to our community.

02:05:55.880 --> 02:06:04.880
I just can't go for this row housing. And this row housing actually came up on a different project than before you were here with somebody else.

02:06:04.880 --> 02:06:21.880
And I think when I'm proposing this about not giving any money to them this tonight, it's not that I'm against having that project, some sort of project from them here, because I find your organization to be valuable.

02:06:21.880 --> 02:06:30.880
But I just don't think we're at a point, knowing, not knowing where the project is and how we're going to handle the applicants.

02:06:30.880 --> 02:06:37.880
And who are they actually going to be? Are we going to be relocating people that really have nothing to do with the forest at this point?

02:06:37.880 --> 02:06:45.880
Or are we going to somehow be able to condense that? And you heard the answers right here. They weren't able to answer that because they haven't done it before.

02:06:45.880 --> 02:06:48.880
That was the answer. They haven't done it before.

02:06:48.880 --> 02:06:58.880
Can I say something? Sure. Yeah, I think the answer also had to do with making sure we're not being discriminatory against the Fair Housing Act.

02:06:58.880 --> 02:07:08.880
And so I think that that will come along, but that they're more open to going along with funding, knowing that very well.

02:07:08.880 --> 02:07:20.880
There would be more consideration given to people who work here, which is in line with us bringing more workforce housing into the forest.

02:07:20.880 --> 02:07:35.880
So I just have a question on, as the motion stands, if we wanted to fund both of them, do we have to make another motion?

02:07:35.880 --> 02:07:38.880
The motion is to defer funding.

02:07:38.880 --> 02:07:43.880
Then the second.

02:07:43.880 --> 02:07:49.880
Was that a full scale motion? I didn't think so. I'm sorry.

02:07:49.880 --> 02:07:54.880
Yeah, correct.

02:07:54.880 --> 02:07:57.880
I'm sorry. What was your question, Alicia?

02:07:57.880 --> 02:08:01.880
More question about the motion. So.

02:08:02.880 --> 02:08:05.880
So I think we need to vote on the motion we have on the floor.

02:08:05.880 --> 02:08:20.880
Okay. And if we vote, can we make a motion to fund both of them? Like there, or if we knock this motion down, if it doesn't pass, then that means the first one doesn't go. I'm kind of confused on that.

02:08:20.880 --> 02:08:26.880
I need to consult higher up here. I'm going to say this much.

02:08:26.880 --> 02:08:31.880
I realize that Habitat for Humanity has a big project in front of them here.

02:08:31.880 --> 02:08:35.880
And I know we also need senior housing.

02:08:35.880 --> 02:08:44.880
But everything about what Habitat for Humanity is proposing is exactly what we've been talking about for, I don't know how many years to now workforce housing.

02:08:44.880 --> 02:08:51.880
People who work in our own village, and I understand you may not be able to limit to that, but at least you're going to give it a try.

02:08:52.880 --> 02:08:57.880
So I guess I would be in favor of.

02:08:57.880 --> 02:09:02.880
Number two.

02:09:02.880 --> 02:09:08.880
75,000 for Alice Place and 225 to habitat.

02:09:08.880 --> 02:09:13.880
That's my two cents on the whole issue. Now we need to vote on the motion.

02:09:13.880 --> 02:09:28.880
I mean, to answer Alicia's question, if you wanted to do both funding for both, you would have to vote against this motion. And then if it failed, then we would have to remake a different motion.

02:09:28.880 --> 02:09:30.880
That's correct.

02:09:30.880 --> 02:09:32.880
Okay.

02:09:32.880 --> 02:09:33.880
Thank you.

02:09:34.880 --> 02:09:37.880
I'm in the motion.

02:09:37.880 --> 02:09:46.880
Well, a member of the motion would be inconsistent with what the motion to begin with, because the motion included funding for one and no funding for the other.

02:09:46.880 --> 02:09:55.880
So an amendment would be a different motion.

02:09:55.880 --> 02:10:00.880
I was just about to say that.

02:10:01.880 --> 02:10:14.880
All right, the motion on the floor, which has been first and seconded is to fully fund the Alice Place project and defer any funding to habitat for humanity. All those in favor say, I.

02:10:14.880 --> 02:10:16.880
I.

02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:18.880
Are those opposed? No.

02:10:18.880 --> 02:10:19.880
No.

02:10:19.880 --> 02:10:20.880
No.

02:10:20.880 --> 02:10:23.880
Motion fails.

02:10:24.880 --> 02:10:31.880
Yeah, one to five.

02:10:31.880 --> 02:10:36.880
Now we need another motion.

02:10:36.880 --> 02:10:43.880
I'll make a motion.

02:10:44.880 --> 02:10:45.880
To.

02:10:45.880 --> 02:10:49.880
Award funds through the home reach to forest to.

02:10:49.880 --> 02:10:51.880
Gosh, sorry guys.

02:10:51.880 --> 02:10:56.880
The affordable housing development fund.

02:10:56.880 --> 02:11:01.880
For, I guess, both options and also for Alice Place.

02:11:01.880 --> 02:11:05.880
And habitat for humanity.

02:11:06.880 --> 02:11:08.880
I'll second that.

02:11:08.880 --> 02:11:16.880
I guess I just stating the clarification that funding both is the 75 and the 225.

02:11:16.880 --> 02:11:18.880
That was the option to.

02:11:18.880 --> 02:11:19.880
Is that correct?

02:11:19.880 --> 02:11:25.880
Are you referring to the number two that was in the packet 75,000 allocated to Alice Place.

02:11:25.880 --> 02:11:29.880
And 225,000 allocated to habitat.

02:11:30.880 --> 02:11:35.880
Or number one is a fully funding Alice Place and partial for habitat.

02:11:35.880 --> 02:11:42.880
So that place would get a hundred and twelve five and habitat would get a hundred and eighty seven five.

02:11:42.880 --> 02:11:46.880
On fully funding both projects.

02:11:46.880 --> 02:11:48.880
We can't do that.

02:11:48.880 --> 02:11:51.880
We can't do that as much as I wish.

02:11:52.880 --> 02:11:55.880
We've got 315,000 total.

02:11:55.880 --> 02:11:58.880
So in the packet, I just.

02:11:58.880 --> 02:12:03.880
Did the limited math that I'm capable of doing and try to split those out.

02:12:03.880 --> 02:12:06.880
Certainly those are not the dollar amounts that need to be.

02:12:06.880 --> 02:12:09.880
Made in the motion, but those are just examples.

02:12:09.880 --> 02:12:10.880
Okay.

02:12:10.880 --> 02:12:14.880
So then it'd have to be option the 75 and.

02:12:15.880 --> 02:12:19.880
75,000 for Alice Place and 225 for habitat.

02:12:19.880 --> 02:12:20.880
Right.

02:12:20.880 --> 02:12:23.880
Prioritizing funding for owner occupied development.

02:12:23.880 --> 02:12:24.880
Okay.

02:12:24.880 --> 02:12:26.880
That was what I was seconding.

02:12:26.880 --> 02:12:28.880
So I'll give my second.

02:12:28.880 --> 02:12:29.880
Yeah.

02:12:29.880 --> 02:12:30.880
Okay.

02:12:30.880 --> 02:12:32.880
So we have a motion and a second.

02:12:32.880 --> 02:12:38.880
We're 75,000 to Alice Place and 225,000 to habitat.

02:12:38.880 --> 02:12:41.880
Discussion, Jim.

02:12:42.880 --> 02:12:47.880
My continued concern is the challenges that are habitat is going to run into.

02:12:47.880 --> 02:12:52.880
And what happens with that and how long it's held up if we want to have a.

02:12:52.880 --> 02:12:56.880
And date or a revisiting date or something.

02:12:56.880 --> 02:12:57.880
Yeah.

02:12:57.880 --> 02:13:01.880
So that's what I was just asking our legal wizard about.

02:13:01.880 --> 02:13:04.880
So obviously pending an award here.

02:13:04.880 --> 02:13:10.880
We would come back with a development agreement that would have some of the normal contingencies we're used to seeing.

02:13:11.880 --> 02:13:17.880
But certainly if there's any specific additional contingency that you'd like to include for us to consider on that.

02:13:17.880 --> 02:13:23.880
And that would be the time to voice that I suppose.

02:13:23.880 --> 02:13:26.880
Anybody have anything.

02:13:26.880 --> 02:13:34.880
Something that we could talk about the number of single family lots and things or have that part of the discussion.

02:13:34.880 --> 02:13:37.880
The next developer.

02:13:37.880 --> 02:13:38.880
Al wants to speak.

02:13:38.880 --> 02:13:46.880
I was going to say implicit in these motions is that the funding is going to be made available only if the projects are approved and go forth.

02:13:46.880 --> 02:13:47.880
So.

02:13:47.880 --> 02:13:48.880
I just.

02:13:48.880 --> 02:13:50.880
That's kind of automatic.

02:13:50.880 --> 02:13:55.880
I think if there are any other conditions you want to put on it, now will be the time to address that.

02:13:55.880 --> 02:13:57.880
And to your point, Jim.

02:13:57.880 --> 02:14:01.880
So in the case of Alice Place, they've already moved through most.

02:14:01.880 --> 02:14:03.880
All of their approvals.

02:14:04.880 --> 02:14:14.880
But in the case of habitats redevelopment, obviously there's a lot more discretionary approvals, one of which would be the initial zoning approvals that they would have to go through.

02:14:14.880 --> 02:14:18.880
And the site details have a long way to go to.

02:14:18.880 --> 02:14:22.880
Well, as you sit on P and Z to kind of flesh out to as well.

02:14:23.880 --> 02:14:30.880
Can I ask you, you said how it's implicit that this gets approved, but.

02:14:30.880 --> 02:14:33.880
What is the timeline on that?

02:14:33.880 --> 02:14:40.880
These, I guess I'm more familiar with say like subdivisions where there's different say six months and things like that.

02:14:40.880 --> 02:14:41.880
It's.

02:14:41.880 --> 02:14:47.880
They're just going to hang out there till we get to the developers agreement or is there an end date if we don't have her.

02:14:48.880 --> 02:14:49.880
Developers agreement.

02:14:49.880 --> 02:14:51.880
Well, that's up to you.

02:14:51.880 --> 02:14:56.880
I mean, right now it's no money gets paid out unless the development goes forward.

02:14:56.880 --> 02:14:59.880
If you want to put a deadline on what that has to be.

02:14:59.880 --> 02:15:07.880
And I don't think that's a bad idea because you want to use this money for some project and you don't want to tie it up forever.

02:15:07.880 --> 02:15:09.880
For a project that may never happen.

02:15:09.880 --> 02:15:15.880
So it would make sense to put some kind of a timeline on when the development has to.

02:15:15.880 --> 02:15:20.880
Be approved and start construction or get a building permit or something like that.

02:15:20.880 --> 02:15:26.880
Yeah, I guess my thought is somewhere like around six months.

02:15:26.880 --> 02:15:29.880
I don't know what that would look like.

02:15:30.880 --> 02:15:35.880
I suppose a site plan right six months is that something I can't wish for.

02:15:35.880 --> 02:15:39.880
I think six month time period to get to.

02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:46.880
It's because this would likely be a plan unit development to get to a final development plan would probably be a little bit quick.

02:15:46.880 --> 02:15:57.880
I don't know if we are able to whoever's got the mouse to pull up the anticipated timeline from the presentation.

02:15:57.880 --> 02:16:14.880
I would also say there could be potential other.

02:16:14.880 --> 02:16:19.880
Like progress contingencies. So, for example.

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If they were unable to get the property under contract and move forward with development in six months.

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But we set a timing of getting a site plan at a year.

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Now, do we tie up those funds for a year even if that project is moving forward.

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So there may be sort of a very contingency to look at.

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I like what you just said at six months, we want to know whether or not.

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The site is under contract.

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It is under contract.

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I mean, that certainly could be one.

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And then within a year, they have to start construction.

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Either yeah, either site work. Yeah, that could certainly be.

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I would say within six months, having the site under contract.

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And within a year to have a approved PDP.

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PUD is that what you said.

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Yeah, site plan PDP, whatever it would end up.

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Yeah, I would just say.

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I guess I don't know 100% that they're going that this would go to a planned unit development,

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certainly if they're able to make it fit into so a final site plan.

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That would hit both of those.

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I forget who did I make the motion.

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No, I struggled to make the motion.

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Alicia is at a friendly amendment.

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Yes.

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Who made the motion, please, Kelly.

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I did.

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Alicia made the motion and Jim seconded the motion.

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Oops.

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I asked for a friendly amendment and six months to have it under contract.

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And then here to have a approved site plan.

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And that's okay with Alicia.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Okay. So.

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What we are voting on.

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Or the motion is, I should say.

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Do you want me to repeat what I have here?

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Yes.

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One, don't shoot.

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All right. I would love to.

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So I have a motion by Alicia seconded by Jim to award 75,000 to Alice plays.

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And 225,000 to have a tap for humanity on the condition that the site is under contract within six months and the final site plan approved in one year.

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Perfect.

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Thank you, Kelly.

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Those two conditions are on the habitat.

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Alice, please.

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Well, they could be on both.

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They'll just meet.

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There's a lot faster.

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Just one other thing.

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I think the motion should probably be conditioned on the execution of a development agreement because that is going to be a necessary step in this process.

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Except that as a friendly.

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So.

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We should accept.

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It was really.

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Kelly's got it.

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And that is for both properties, correct?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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All those in favor of the motion.

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As read by Kelly.

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I.

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All those opposed. No.

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Motion carries.

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Five to one.

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Okay.

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Next up.

02:20:17.880 --> 02:20:20.880
Good luck with your projects.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Discussion regarding an appointment process policy to fill vacancies on the village board.

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Bill Chang.

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Before I get started, it looks like everyone needs a break.

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You know what?

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That's an excellent idea.

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It's 755.

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Let's break until.

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Discussion and possible action

02:31:41.880 --> 02:31:44.880
regarding the process for filling the vacancy in the office.

02:31:44.880 --> 02:31:46.880
A village board trustee.

02:31:46.880 --> 02:31:47.880
Bill.

02:31:47.880 --> 02:31:54.880
All right.

02:31:54.880 --> 02:31:57.880
So upon direction from the board at the last meeting,

02:31:57.880 --> 02:32:02.880
we put together a timeline here schedule.

02:32:02.880 --> 02:32:08.880
To consider applications for the vacant trustee opposition.

02:32:08.880 --> 02:32:13.880
A period to review those applications.

02:32:13.880 --> 02:32:17.880
And then potentially.

02:32:18.880 --> 02:32:23.880
I'm collecting up to five candidates to move to the interview.

02:32:23.880 --> 02:32:25.880
If we get more than five.

02:32:25.880 --> 02:32:30.880
And so we've put out a template of that on in the within the memo.

02:32:30.880 --> 02:32:34.880
Couple questions or direction that I need.

02:32:34.880 --> 02:32:38.880
Kelly and I need to go ahead and put this out there.

02:32:38.880 --> 02:32:46.880
As I believe we talked at the we discussed at the last meeting that we were going to add questions to the application itself.

02:32:47.880 --> 02:32:55.880
So we have included in the memo attached to the memo, a list of post questions for you.

02:32:55.880 --> 02:33:03.880
This is a combination of questions that were revised from the last round.

02:33:03.880 --> 02:33:11.880
And then also questions that I received from trustees and from residents as part of this process.

02:33:12.880 --> 02:33:24.880
And so again, if we could kind of, you know, I would suggest three to five of what your, your favorite questions are and we can add that to the application.

02:33:24.880 --> 02:33:38.880
And then we can talk about the next step.

02:33:38.880 --> 02:33:40.880
No, we do not.

02:33:40.880 --> 02:33:43.880
Sorry, we do not have any public appearances on this.

02:33:43.880 --> 02:33:45.880
We still do not.

02:33:45.880 --> 02:33:48.880
Thank you, ma'am.

02:33:48.880 --> 02:33:53.880
Discussion.

02:33:53.880 --> 02:33:55.880
Anybody got anything?

02:33:55.880 --> 02:34:00.880
I guess I'm indifferent to the questions.

02:34:00.880 --> 02:34:02.880
I would leave that up to anybody that cares.

02:34:02.880 --> 02:34:07.880
The only question I want to critique is the second bullet point.

02:34:07.880 --> 02:34:10.880
It says, why do you believe you're the best candidate?

02:34:10.880 --> 02:34:12.880
I think that's just opening it up.

02:34:12.880 --> 02:34:17.880
People that compare to other trust current trustees or other candidates.

02:34:17.880 --> 02:34:20.880
So I would just ask that that be changed.

02:34:20.880 --> 02:34:25.880
Why you're a good candidate or something similar.

02:34:25.880 --> 02:34:28.880
I was actually going to suggest we don't ask that at all.

02:34:28.880 --> 02:34:31.880
I like the first, the third.

02:34:32.880 --> 02:34:39.880
The residential or future divorce and balance economic growth.

02:34:39.880 --> 02:34:44.880
And then the last one of prioritizing concerns in the community.

02:34:44.880 --> 02:34:50.880
That would be five. I would choose.

02:34:50.880 --> 02:34:54.880
I hate that question. Why do you think you're the best candidate?

02:34:54.880 --> 02:34:59.880
Melanie, that was going to be my comment. I also don't like that question.

02:34:59.880 --> 02:35:13.880
If I can just add, well, I'm talking.

02:35:13.880 --> 02:35:18.880
I liked questions three, four and five and seven and eight.

02:35:18.880 --> 02:35:21.880
The first two and the third to the last.

02:35:21.880 --> 02:35:26.880
About how you view municipal financing and standards of service.

02:35:27.880 --> 02:35:33.880
Didn't speak to me as strongly.

02:35:33.880 --> 02:35:38.880
Anyone else?

02:35:38.880 --> 02:35:44.880
The other suggestion I was going to do is.

02:35:44.880 --> 02:35:46.880
I think you said you had.

02:35:46.880 --> 02:35:50.880
If we're going to get it down to five, I'm fine with that.

02:35:50.880 --> 02:35:55.880
I'm just wondering if we don't ask five questions then when they're in person for that interview, it'd be less than an hour long.

02:35:56.880 --> 02:35:57.880
We have five candidates.

02:35:57.880 --> 02:36:01.880
I think if we're going to narrow it down, give the candidates a chance to.

02:36:01.880 --> 02:36:07.880
To talk a little bit so we can understand where they're coming from and their point of view on things.

02:36:11.880 --> 02:36:13.880
Yeah, so.

02:36:13.880 --> 02:36:17.880
Following these questions, we would have, I would take a different.

02:36:17.880 --> 02:36:20.880
A new set of questions for the interviews.

02:36:21.880 --> 02:36:23.880
And so it would depend on how long.

02:36:23.880 --> 02:36:31.880
With an introduction, you'd want each to provide how much time you want to provide for each candidate to answer the question.

02:36:35.880 --> 02:36:38.880
You know, anywhere between a minute, 30 to.

02:36:38.880 --> 02:36:42.880
Two minutes, two minutes, 30 minutes, three minutes long.

02:36:45.880 --> 02:36:48.880
But it depends on how extensive your questions are.

02:36:51.880 --> 02:36:59.880
So, for example, for five candidates, a short introduction.

02:36:59.880 --> 02:37:01.880
And five questions.

02:37:01.880 --> 02:37:05.880
Straight through, that's, that's an hour long already.

02:37:05.880 --> 02:37:11.880
So you consider, you know, a break between each candidates when you're rotating them in and out.

02:37:12.880 --> 02:37:19.880
You're probably at hour and 30 minutes, our 45 minutes at that point.

02:37:19.880 --> 02:37:23.880
And then for the remainder of that meeting also.

02:37:23.880 --> 02:37:27.880
Time and consideration for, for grading.

02:37:27.880 --> 02:37:33.880
And then also discussion, potentially an appointment.

02:37:34.880 --> 02:37:41.880
Oh, we're talking about a two hour meeting with five questions, five candidates and introduction.

02:37:44.880 --> 02:37:46.880
If it all runs smoothly.

02:37:50.880 --> 02:37:58.880
I had answered your earlier email about when you put questions out, but it looks like they were different than what was in the packet.

02:37:59.880 --> 02:38:03.880
And I know I like what you see is your primary role as a trustee.

02:38:03.880 --> 02:38:13.880
What's your vision for the future and how would you balance girls in need residential needs and describe your priorities for the board.

02:38:13.880 --> 02:38:20.880
And specific qualifications to effectively address them, I believe is what I like.

02:38:20.880 --> 02:38:25.880
However, that fits in with what everybody else is saying here.

02:38:25.880 --> 02:38:36.880
So I should have numbered these to make it easier for you.

02:38:36.880 --> 02:38:39.880
So right now what I'm hearing.

02:38:39.880 --> 02:38:46.880
Say one, three, five, seven and eight seem to be the top ones.

02:38:46.880 --> 02:38:50.880
Yes.

02:38:50.880 --> 02:39:00.880
Okay.

02:39:00.880 --> 02:39:05.880
Could you repeat that one? Yeah, one, the first one.

02:39:05.880 --> 02:39:15.880
So please describe priorities, which you believe the village board should address in your specific qualifications to effectively contribute for resolving those problems.

02:39:15.880 --> 02:39:25.880
Three, when the village board faces complex issues, such as questions on public health or new developments, how do you approach decision making as a trustee.

02:39:25.880 --> 02:39:33.880
Five, what is your vision for the future of the forest and how would you balance economic growth of residential needs.

02:39:33.880 --> 02:39:39.880
Seven, how would you consider input from the forest residents and businesses.

02:39:40.880 --> 02:39:49.880
And finally, how do you prioritize addressing concerns within the community.

02:39:49.880 --> 02:39:55.880
My only comment with that is the last two year red seem to be pretty similar.

02:39:55.880 --> 02:39:58.880
I was going to say.

02:39:58.880 --> 02:40:04.880
I was going to say three, seven and eight seem fairly similar to one another.

02:40:05.880 --> 02:40:10.880
I don't know if those could be combined into a single or concise question.

02:40:10.880 --> 02:40:11.880
Okay.

02:40:11.880 --> 02:40:20.880
I would say three, I think is getting us something a little different with like how they approach decision making, but seven and eight certainly I think could be combined to one question.

02:40:20.880 --> 02:40:26.880
I agree with Melanie and agrees with Melanie.

02:40:27.880 --> 02:40:34.880
I would suggest just doing those four then, because if I remember right, the application process already had several questions and it was quite long.

02:40:34.880 --> 02:40:35.880
Yeah.

02:40:35.880 --> 02:40:44.880
So adding a few more, I think, or more and be plenty.

02:40:44.880 --> 02:40:47.880
Alicia, do you have something?

02:40:47.880 --> 02:40:52.880
I mean, so is campaigning. So I'm just kidding.

02:40:52.880 --> 02:40:55.880
I'm fine. I think you, I think.

02:40:55.880 --> 02:40:59.880
Do you guys are on the right track with combining the last two and.

02:40:59.880 --> 02:41:02.880
So.

02:41:02.880 --> 02:41:06.880
Thanks. I hadn't looked right for a while, so I couldn't see if you had a hand up or not.

02:41:06.880 --> 02:41:07.880
No forget about it.

02:41:07.880 --> 02:41:09.880
Thank you.

02:41:09.880 --> 02:41:10.880
Yeah.

02:41:10.880 --> 02:41:14.880
I just wonder if we want to ask for like a limitation of a page or two.

02:41:14.880 --> 02:41:19.880
I don't necessarily want to read a page on every question.

02:41:19.880 --> 02:41:20.880
Yeah.

02:41:22.880 --> 02:41:24.880
We'll create a form for that.

02:41:24.880 --> 02:41:28.880
Limit the number of words in the text box.

02:41:28.880 --> 02:41:33.880
I'll see what my limitations are on the application, the online.

02:41:33.880 --> 02:41:41.880
We'll be to do the same online application process that we used for the last time.

02:41:41.880 --> 02:41:46.880
Did you get what you need?

02:41:46.880 --> 02:41:50.880
Yes, for this portion.

02:41:51.880 --> 02:42:00.880
Second kind of confirmation here. So.

02:42:00.880 --> 02:42:05.880
So what we would do is we would open the application process sometime tomorrow.

02:42:05.880 --> 02:42:12.880
Likely at the end of the day, we have about a month for the application period to be open and closes June 5th.

02:42:13.880 --> 02:42:23.880
Which gives us enough time to put together a packet for you to review and get that information out to you early enough for you to review.

02:42:23.880 --> 02:42:27.880
You'll then review it at the June 16th meeting.

02:42:27.880 --> 02:42:32.880
And I all have a rubric for you to kind of score your top five candidates.

02:42:32.880 --> 02:42:35.880
What I'm proposing here is that we're not scoring each question.

02:42:35.880 --> 02:42:44.880
Then it says, hey, one through five. What is your top five candidates in all particular order.

02:42:44.880 --> 02:42:50.880
And then we would set that interview for June 30th.

02:42:50.880 --> 02:42:56.880
That's a special meeting. So we have an extra week in June.

02:42:56.880 --> 02:43:03.880
And again, we're thinking about five questions for the interview process.

02:43:03.880 --> 02:43:09.880
And five candidates, we can expect that meeting to be in our 30 minutes to about two hours.

02:43:09.880 --> 02:43:15.880
So if you could confirm that June 30th day works for you as a special meeting.

02:43:15.880 --> 02:43:21.880
I'd appreciate it. You don't have to answer me now, but this should be an email.

02:43:21.880 --> 02:43:32.880
And then, you know, that to be, it's to be all that we need.

02:43:32.880 --> 02:43:38.880
That work. It works. You need a motion. I don't need a motion. We'll just go ahead and put it out there.

02:43:38.880 --> 02:43:39.880
Yeah.

02:43:39.880 --> 02:43:44.880
I'll ask a question. Please feel free to say absolutely not.

02:43:44.880 --> 02:43:49.880
I'm just wondering if we close the application period.

02:43:49.880 --> 02:43:56.880
Say like I was guessing like me 27th or 28th, does that allow you enough time to get.

02:43:57.880 --> 02:44:03.880
Pack it together for June second. So in fact, moving it up two weeks.

02:44:15.880 --> 02:44:19.880
It's really anybody could say no, because then we're doing that actual meeting.

02:44:19.880 --> 02:44:21.880
So that might be too much for a meeting.

02:44:22.880 --> 02:44:27.880
Yeah. I mean, you can, we can, we can adjust the dates as you wish.

02:44:27.880 --> 02:44:32.880
Kind of also thinking about the back of the calendar, right? So.

02:44:32.880 --> 02:44:39.880
With June having an extra weekend there, it allows for you to have spacing between your meetings.

02:44:39.880 --> 02:44:43.880
We pull that back two weeks.

02:44:43.880 --> 02:44:48.880
And we're running into other meetings and space availability.

02:44:49.880 --> 02:44:54.880
So that's, I think that's, that's why we settled on that June 30th date.

02:44:54.880 --> 02:44:57.880
Of course you can have a long period between.

02:44:57.880 --> 02:45:02.880
Application review and the interviews itself, but then you start to lose.

02:45:02.880 --> 02:45:06.880
Entrance from candidates. If you have too much space between them.

02:45:06.880 --> 02:45:08.880
The mindset changes.

02:45:08.880 --> 02:45:11.880
Good.

02:45:11.880 --> 02:45:13.880
Good as is. Thank you.

02:45:13.880 --> 02:45:15.880
I can't hear you.

02:45:15.880 --> 02:45:19.880
I'm good as it was proposed. Okay. All right. We're good.

02:45:19.880 --> 02:45:28.880
Bill's got what he needs to moving on to new business discussion regarding an appointment process policy to fill vacancies on the village board bill.

02:45:28.880 --> 02:45:32.880
So yeah, I believe this comment came up at the last meeting.

02:45:32.880 --> 02:45:35.880
Also a recommendation of.

02:45:35.880 --> 02:45:38.880
Yeah, that we.

02:45:38.880 --> 02:45:44.880
Go ahead and establish an appointment process policy, whether by resolution or.

02:45:44.880 --> 02:45:46.880
Otherwise.

02:45:46.880 --> 02:45:50.880
So that we don't have to run into.

02:45:50.880 --> 02:45:57.880
These timing issues as the vacancies come up.

02:45:57.880 --> 02:46:03.880
So a couple questions here. First and foremost, let's start with the easy one and the most recent one.

02:46:04.880 --> 02:46:15.880
Those are the process that we've set out currently on the appointment of the trustee seat whereby application.

02:46:15.880 --> 02:46:20.880
Application review and then interviews.

02:46:20.880 --> 02:46:24.880
Does that suffice for this group moving forward?

02:46:24.880 --> 02:46:30.880
If it does, we'll replicate those process into a policy document and then we would bring that word.

02:46:31.880 --> 02:46:34.880
We have no appearances on this correct, Kelly.

02:46:34.880 --> 02:46:36.880
No appearances. Okay.

02:46:36.880 --> 02:46:40.880
Yeah, it works for me, Jim.

02:46:40.880 --> 02:46:46.880
I'd say it works for me. The only caution I'd have is if the timeline gets too short.

02:46:46.880 --> 02:46:49.880
Say, like, if it's, I don't know, say November.

02:46:49.880 --> 02:46:52.880
I don't know if we want to go through the whole.

02:46:52.880 --> 02:46:57.880
So if it's only going to be for a couple of months.

02:46:58.880 --> 02:47:10.880
Yeah, I mean, I think any policy would be if the board decides to make an appointment, this is the policy that would apply.

02:47:10.880 --> 02:47:14.880
So it would all be up to the board whether to leave the position vacant.

02:47:14.880 --> 02:47:16.880
Makes sense. Thank you.

02:47:16.880 --> 02:47:17.880
Anyone else?

02:47:17.880 --> 02:47:18.880
That's good.

02:47:18.880 --> 02:47:19.880
Can's good.

02:47:19.880 --> 02:47:21.880
Alicia's good.

02:47:21.880 --> 02:47:22.880
Melanie's good.

02:47:22.880 --> 02:47:23.880
Okay.

02:47:24.880 --> 02:47:33.880
And then the second part of this conversation as long as we're writing a policy on appointment through the village presidency is also.

02:47:33.880 --> 02:47:35.880
An elected position.

02:47:35.880 --> 02:47:39.880
So just want to confirm again that.

02:47:40.880 --> 02:47:45.880
If it is decided to appoint those trustee that that position.

02:47:45.880 --> 02:47:52.880
As we've done with with the last couple of vacancies as appointed from the village trustee.

02:47:52.880 --> 02:47:57.880
And that is set by.

02:47:57.880 --> 02:48:03.880
First consideration of a permanent appointment or temporary.

02:48:03.880 --> 02:48:08.880
Or do we write into the policy that it's permanent for the term.

02:48:08.880 --> 02:48:14.880
And then by nomination or is there a different process for which you want to to.

02:48:14.880 --> 02:48:21.880
Work through that process.

02:48:21.880 --> 02:48:23.880
Anybody got any input.

02:48:23.880 --> 02:48:26.880
Jim.

02:48:26.880 --> 02:48:30.880
So I don't quite know exactly what you're asking.

02:48:30.880 --> 02:48:35.880
I know you when I reading the packet, there is talk of like a vice president.

02:48:35.880 --> 02:48:43.880
I would think it just be the more or less the interim until another president was appointed.

02:48:43.880 --> 02:48:46.880
Yeah, and that could be a consideration.

02:48:46.880 --> 02:48:51.880
However, I reckon if I'm wrong, but if we're going to have her.

02:48:51.880 --> 02:48:54.880
Have a policy on appointing.

02:48:54.880 --> 02:48:57.880
A vice or.

02:48:58.880 --> 02:49:01.880
As interim top permanent can be appointed.

02:49:01.880 --> 02:49:03.880
Does that have to be an ordinance.

02:49:03.880 --> 02:49:08.880
You know, that would actually have to be a charter ordinance to create the position of.

02:49:08.880 --> 02:49:11.880
Vice president. If you go there.

02:49:11.880 --> 02:49:15.880
And then what what the.

02:49:15.880 --> 02:49:24.880
But the perks of that office are with whether they automatically become the president in terms of vacancy or whether they service interim.

02:49:24.880 --> 02:49:27.880
That would all be up to you in deciding at the time.

02:49:27.880 --> 02:49:30.880
As part of the charter ordinance.

02:49:30.880 --> 02:49:35.880
For the policy portion, it's simply.

02:49:35.880 --> 02:49:38.880
At the village board chooses to appoint.

02:49:38.880 --> 02:49:40.880
What does that appointment process look like.

02:49:40.880 --> 02:49:42.880
Pretty much like it just did.

02:49:42.880 --> 02:49:45.880
So by nomination.

02:49:45.880 --> 02:49:47.880
I was going to suggest.

02:49:48.880 --> 02:49:55.880
Permanent unless it's in within 30 days of an election, which would do a temporary appointment.

02:49:55.880 --> 02:49:59.880
Until a permanent one can be decided after the.

02:49:59.880 --> 02:50:02.880
Election within 30 days.

02:50:02.880 --> 02:50:05.880
And then I am not in favor of.

02:50:05.880 --> 02:50:09.880
Creating a new position of vice president.

02:50:09.880 --> 02:50:13.880
You're saying if the.

02:50:14.880 --> 02:50:20.880
If the if the president's term that they can term would continue beyond the next election for another year.

02:50:20.880 --> 02:50:24.880
Then if it's within 30 days of the election, you would want to.

02:50:24.880 --> 02:50:26.880
Terminated at the election.

02:50:26.880 --> 02:50:29.880
No, I think for the entire term.

02:50:29.880 --> 02:50:34.880
It'd be permanent unless there's an election within 30 days where the board would flip over.

02:50:34.880 --> 02:50:40.880
The problem with that is 30 days is that enough time for anybody to get on the ballot for.

02:50:40.880 --> 02:50:41.880
The president position.

02:50:41.880 --> 02:50:44.880
You'd have to know that it'd be pointed from.

02:50:44.880 --> 02:50:48.880
A current trustee as a temporary position.

02:50:48.880 --> 02:50:50.880
Just.

02:50:50.880 --> 02:50:52.880
More or less what.

02:50:52.880 --> 02:50:53.880
Okay.

02:50:53.880 --> 02:50:54.880
Okay, so.

02:50:54.880 --> 02:50:57.880
What almost happened here.

02:50:57.880 --> 02:51:05.880
What do we need.

02:51:06.880 --> 02:51:09.880
Yeah.

02:51:09.880 --> 02:51:11.880
Well.

02:51:11.880 --> 02:51:17.880
I don't guess I care really either way, but I just remember like I'm planning and zoning.

02:51:17.880 --> 02:51:24.880
I think we had like a, I don't know if we called advice chair or just somebody that we didn't have to go through the process of.

02:51:24.880 --> 02:51:27.880
Bill coming up and say it was.

02:51:28.880 --> 02:51:29.880
Chairing.

02:51:29.880 --> 02:51:30.880
Is that.

02:51:30.880 --> 02:51:32.880
You had a charter or a dance or.

02:51:32.880 --> 02:51:36.880
It's a facilitator or something.

02:51:36.880 --> 02:51:39.880
I mean, you can certainly delegate somebody.

02:51:39.880 --> 02:51:45.880
To chair to chair a meeting when the, when the president is absent.

02:51:45.880 --> 02:51:50.880
But if you're going to create a position where the person fulfills the president's duty is beyond that.

02:51:50.880 --> 02:51:53.880
I think you need to go to go to a charter ordinance for that.

02:51:54.880 --> 02:51:59.880
Well, I mean, the idea that bill calls meeting the order is by your ordinance.

02:51:59.880 --> 02:52:02.880
Just an ordinance created that rule without it.

02:52:02.880 --> 02:52:04.880
You had no rule.

02:52:04.880 --> 02:52:11.880
So you could certainly change that to somebody else by or by just changing that ordinance.

02:52:11.880 --> 02:52:16.880
Okay, I guess my opinion that be the furthest.

02:52:16.880 --> 02:52:18.880
I'd really want to go. It's just.

02:52:18.880 --> 02:52:21.880
So we wouldn't have to go through that process of.

02:52:21.880 --> 02:52:24.880
Colleen was absent, but.

02:52:24.880 --> 02:52:26.880
It does, I guess, leave us open.

02:52:26.880 --> 02:52:30.880
If God forbid something happens, a colony and we might.

02:52:30.880 --> 02:52:34.880
Be without somebody for a couple of weeks.

02:52:34.880 --> 02:52:37.880
You all can take turns.

02:52:37.880 --> 02:52:44.880
I'm assuming we're okay with that. I mean, we sort of went through that.

02:52:44.880 --> 02:52:48.880
This period where we had bill signing for the president.

02:52:48.880 --> 02:52:53.880
Yeah, I think, I think upon a vacancy, we just have to remember to.

02:52:53.880 --> 02:52:54.880
I'll authorize that.

02:52:54.880 --> 02:52:58.880
Well, we'll have to go to those preliminary steps absent.

02:52:58.880 --> 02:53:00.880
A charter ordinance amendment.

02:53:04.880 --> 02:53:07.880
You just want to point out a charter ordinance is not a big deal.

02:53:07.880 --> 02:53:10.880
It's like doing a regular ordinance, except that.

02:53:10.880 --> 02:53:14.880
It requires a two thirds vote and it can't take effect until 60 days.

02:53:14.880 --> 02:53:17.880
And it's potentially subject to referendum with people in the community.

02:53:17.880 --> 02:53:19.880
I think it's a really bad idea.

02:53:19.880 --> 02:53:23.880
But other than that, it's just enacted like a regular ordinance.

02:53:27.880 --> 02:53:28.880
We done with this.

02:53:30.880 --> 02:53:33.880
So I just want to confirm. Oh, no.

02:53:34.880 --> 02:53:39.880
In regards to the appointment of the village president.

02:53:39.880 --> 02:53:41.880
They can see.

02:53:41.880 --> 02:53:46.880
At this group is in favor of pointing a.

02:53:46.880 --> 02:53:51.880
If this group is in favor of the pointing a permanent member.

02:53:51.880 --> 02:53:53.880
That it be from.

02:53:53.880 --> 02:53:55.880
The board of trustees.

02:53:55.880 --> 02:53:57.880
By nomination.

02:53:57.880 --> 02:54:01.880
Unless it's within 30 days of the end of term.

02:54:02.880 --> 02:54:03.880
Let's see.

02:54:03.880 --> 02:54:04.880
Tom Fade.

02:54:04.880 --> 02:54:06.880
Is that correct?

02:54:06.880 --> 02:54:08.880
Just one one gap in that.

02:54:08.880 --> 02:54:11.880
And that is if it's not permanent, how long is it?

02:54:17.880 --> 02:54:19.880
So I was a little bit different.

02:54:19.880 --> 02:54:21.880
Thought is.

02:54:21.880 --> 02:54:25.880
Let's say the scenario we just had were 30 days out from a trustee election.

02:54:25.880 --> 02:54:29.880
We would wait until that trustee election if it's within 30 days.

02:54:29.880 --> 02:54:33.880
Because the board would then flip and we would have new members to vote.

02:54:33.880 --> 02:54:36.880
So it would be a temporary appointment until that election.

02:54:36.880 --> 02:54:40.880
Where then it would be appointed as a permanent for the rest of the term.

02:54:40.880 --> 02:54:46.880
Okay, so it would be an interim appointment that would run until the board makes.

02:54:46.880 --> 02:54:48.880
A permanent appointment.

02:54:48.880 --> 02:54:49.880
Correct.

02:54:50.880 --> 02:54:59.880
That might be more complicated. You want to go and that's fine.

02:54:59.880 --> 02:55:01.880
I'm just thinking so. Okay.

02:55:01.880 --> 02:55:04.880
So there's an appointment process for the.

02:55:04.880 --> 02:55:06.880
The temporary.

02:55:06.880 --> 02:55:11.880
Until there could be a permanent appointment for.

02:55:11.880 --> 02:55:17.880
Unless it's within 30 days of an election.

02:55:18.880 --> 02:55:23.880
That permanent appointment should be stayed until after that election.

02:55:25.880 --> 02:55:27.880
Where a new board may be seated.

02:55:27.880 --> 02:55:28.880
Correct.

02:55:28.880 --> 02:55:29.880
Right.

02:55:31.880 --> 02:55:34.880
My job is to find problems on.

02:55:34.880 --> 02:55:36.880
I can be.

02:55:36.880 --> 02:55:37.880
Please do.

02:55:37.880 --> 02:55:40.880
The village president makes appointments to committees and things like that.

02:55:40.880 --> 02:55:42.880
They have them right after the election.

02:55:42.880 --> 02:55:44.880
What do you guys want to do in terms of.

02:55:45.880 --> 02:55:50.880
That scenario where you're waiting to apply to permanent president, but you have an interim president.

02:55:50.880 --> 02:55:54.880
When everybody's term is expiring on committees, the things like that.

02:56:02.880 --> 02:56:04.880
I guess I would add if you're.

02:56:04.880 --> 02:56:07.880
If you're appointing an interim, I don't necessarily.

02:56:07.880 --> 02:56:10.880
The

02:56:10.880 --> 02:56:14.880
issue because the interim would then work on getting those appointments because it's.

02:56:14.880 --> 02:56:16.880
Ultimately the board that.

02:56:16.880 --> 02:56:18.880
That approves those.

02:56:18.880 --> 02:56:20.880
Appointments.

02:56:20.880 --> 02:56:23.880
Correct. So it really shouldn't matter who.

02:56:23.880 --> 02:56:27.880
Make the lines that certainly a viable option.

02:56:27.880 --> 02:56:28.880
Yeah.

02:56:28.880 --> 02:56:30.880
I just need to know if that's what you guys want.

02:56:30.880 --> 02:56:33.880
Do you want the interim president making appointments.

02:56:33.880 --> 02:56:36.880
Or the village administrator.

02:56:37.880 --> 02:56:41.880
What's the likelihood that's ever going to happen again.

02:56:41.880 --> 02:56:44.880
I think we did okay.

02:56:44.880 --> 02:56:45.880
We should.

02:56:45.880 --> 02:56:47.880
Yeah.

02:56:47.880 --> 02:56:55.880
I am certainly willing to call out to appointees and confirm.

02:56:55.880 --> 02:57:02.880
Whether they would like to serve or not, but I think the board should be.

02:57:03.880 --> 02:57:09.880
Okay.

02:57:09.880 --> 02:57:11.880
Okay. So I think I have what I need.

02:57:11.880 --> 02:57:13.880
We'll put together a policy.

02:57:13.880 --> 02:57:19.880
And get it out for review at the next meeting and make changes from there.

02:57:19.880 --> 02:57:20.880
I think you'll be.

02:57:20.880 --> 02:57:24.880
More efficient to do it that way rather than try to solve every.

02:57:24.880 --> 02:57:27.880
We issue this evening.

02:57:27.880 --> 02:57:28.880
Thank you.

02:57:29.880 --> 02:57:32.880
9.2 resolution 2026.

02:57:32.880 --> 02:57:34.880
052.

02:57:34.880 --> 02:57:38.880
Resolution approving a memorandum of understanding with the forest professional

02:57:38.880 --> 02:57:42.880
police association and Wisconsin professional police association law

02:57:42.880 --> 02:57:46.880
enforcement employee relations division relating to canine unit

02:57:46.880 --> 02:57:47.880
operations.

02:57:47.880 --> 02:57:49.880
Chief Olson.

02:57:49.880 --> 02:57:53.880
There's a memo in your pockets if you have questions I'm happy to answer.

02:57:53.880 --> 02:57:55.880
Public appearances.

02:57:55.880 --> 02:57:56.880
None.

02:57:57.880 --> 02:57:59.880
Discussion and possible action.

02:57:59.880 --> 02:58:00.880
Anyone.

02:58:00.880 --> 02:58:03.880
Jan motion to approve.

02:58:03.880 --> 02:58:05.880
Second.

02:58:05.880 --> 02:58:08.880
Motion by Jan second by bread.

02:58:08.880 --> 02:58:09.880
Any discussion?

02:58:09.880 --> 02:58:12.880
All those in favor say aye.

02:58:12.880 --> 02:58:13.880
Aye.

02:58:13.880 --> 02:58:14.880
All those opposed?

02:58:14.880 --> 02:58:15.880
No.

02:58:15.880 --> 02:58:17.880
Motion carries unanimously.

02:58:17.880 --> 02:58:19.880
Thank you.

02:58:19.880 --> 02:58:21.880
All those opposed?

02:58:21.880 --> 02:58:24.880
I'm going to go ahead.

02:58:24.880 --> 02:58:28.880
It's time to roll.

02:58:28.880 --> 02:58:33.880
9.4 ordinance 2026 dash 005 and ordinance to resolve approximately 0.33.

02:58:33.880 --> 02:58:38.880
Acres currently addressed at 612 Park Avenue to the R M 3

02:58:38.880 --> 02:58:41.880
residential mix to family district in the village of divorce.

02:58:41.880 --> 02:58:42.880
Alex.

02:58:42.880 --> 02:58:55.880
You've to borrow from chief. You've got a memo in your packet. So Brandi put this together. Planning and zoning did review this rezone a request at its meeting in April and recommended approval.

02:58:55.880 --> 02:59:05.880
We did have public comment as part of that rezoning. There were a few that had written statements, which I can certainly provide to you.

02:59:05.880 --> 02:59:16.880
Generally speaking, I would say most of the comments were in favor of keeping it to the single family. This rezoning would allow for a duplex.

02:59:16.880 --> 02:59:23.880
So that's the general gist of it. It is consistent with the comprehensive plan.

02:59:23.880 --> 02:59:34.880
I would say it largely fits the character of the surrounding neighborhood. There's RM 6 to the Southeast and then RM 3, which this is a rezone to RM 3 to the West.

02:59:34.880 --> 02:59:42.880
Happy to answer any questions. Anyone have any questions for Alex.

02:59:42.880 --> 02:59:51.880
No public appearances.

02:59:51.880 --> 03:00:04.880
Yes, I believe that planning and zoning commission held public hearing on this. Yes, the comments. That's what I just said.

03:00:04.880 --> 03:00:10.880
Is there a motion.

03:00:10.880 --> 03:00:24.880
I'll make motion to approve ordinance 2026 dash 005 to rezone approximately 0.33 acres currently addressed at 612 Park Avenue to the RM 3 residential makes to family district.

03:00:25.880 --> 03:00:28.880
Seconded by Jim.

03:00:28.880 --> 03:00:31.880
All those in favor say aye.

03:00:31.880 --> 03:00:32.880
Aye.

03:00:32.880 --> 03:00:33.880
Opposed no.

03:00:33.880 --> 03:00:36.880
Motion carries unanimously.

03:00:36.880 --> 03:00:50.880
Resolution 2026 053 resolution accepting the laws qualified bids and awarding contracts for chip ceiling and crack filling contracts A and B respectively within the village.

03:00:50.880 --> 03:00:57.880
Greg, I want to go with the packet. There's a memo on the packet. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

03:00:57.880 --> 03:00:59.880
We have no public appearances.

03:00:59.880 --> 03:01:02.880
None. Okay. Any discussion?

03:01:02.880 --> 03:01:05.880
Zero motion.

03:01:05.880 --> 03:01:09.880
I'll make a motion to accept.

03:01:09.880 --> 03:01:15.880
Resolution 2026 053.

03:01:15.880 --> 03:01:17.880
Is there a second.

03:01:17.880 --> 03:01:21.880
Motion by Jan seconded by Jim.

03:01:21.880 --> 03:01:24.880
All those in favor bring the capes aye.

03:01:24.880 --> 03:01:25.880
Aye.

03:01:25.880 --> 03:01:27.880
All those opposed no.

03:01:27.880 --> 03:01:30.880
Motion carries unanimously.

03:01:30.880 --> 03:01:41.880
Resolution 2026 054 resolution supporting the establishment of a sustainable transportation funding solution.

03:01:41.880 --> 03:01:44.880
Mr. Chang.

03:01:45.880 --> 03:01:47.880
I guess there was a memo on the packet.

03:01:47.880 --> 03:01:49.880
It was a memo on the packet.

03:01:49.880 --> 03:01:54.880
This is something supported by the Wisconsin League of Municipalities and to make their case with the state.

03:01:54.880 --> 03:02:00.880
They'd like as many municipalities as possible to kick in and say, give us some more money for roads.

03:02:00.880 --> 03:02:04.880
They set that they set their legislative agenda every year.

03:02:04.880 --> 03:02:07.880
I'm not prepared for the legislative session transportation.

03:02:07.880 --> 03:02:13.880
It has been stagnant or quite some time. They're the formula for which the amounts are determined.

03:02:13.880 --> 03:02:19.880
And so wherever we can, we are sleeping for more state aid towards municipalities.

03:02:19.880 --> 03:02:26.880
This would include all local governance. So talents and counties also.

03:02:26.880 --> 03:02:29.880
You didn't need action on that.

03:02:30.880 --> 03:02:35.880
Motion to approve resolution 2026 054.

03:02:35.880 --> 03:02:36.880
Second.

03:02:36.880 --> 03:02:39.880
Motion by Brad second by Jan.

03:02:39.880 --> 03:02:42.880
All those in favor indicate the saying aye.

03:02:42.880 --> 03:02:43.880
Aye.

03:02:43.880 --> 03:02:44.880
And but.

03:02:44.880 --> 03:02:50.880
I just wanted to ask what, what are they actually asking for just additional funds?

03:02:50.880 --> 03:02:52.880
Are they asking for different creative.

03:02:53.880 --> 03:02:55.880
Be using things like that because.

03:02:55.880 --> 03:02:59.880
The state that I'm not necessarily for creating.

03:02:59.880 --> 03:03:02.880
Say wheel tax or other things like that.

03:03:02.880 --> 03:03:06.880
Yeah, it's, it's primarily additional funds into.

03:03:06.880 --> 03:03:09.880
The general transportation aid bucket.

03:03:09.880 --> 03:03:13.880
And allocation into it from different sources potentially.

03:03:13.880 --> 03:03:18.880
Not necessarily just the taxes received by the state for it.

03:03:19.880 --> 03:03:23.880
That which could lead to other discussions generally.

03:03:23.880 --> 03:03:29.880
When these things are being negotiated at the legislative level, some folks may become.

03:03:29.880 --> 03:03:36.880
Creative in ways to put revenues into that bucket. So that's why I believe it's.

03:03:36.880 --> 03:03:39.880
It's ran the way that it is.

03:03:43.880 --> 03:03:45.880
We have a motion and a second.

03:03:46.880 --> 03:03:48.880
We need to vote.

03:03:48.880 --> 03:03:50.880
We need to vote or do we do a vote.

03:03:50.880 --> 03:03:51.880
We need to vote.

03:03:51.880 --> 03:03:54.880
All those in favor and keep it saying aye.

03:03:54.880 --> 03:03:55.880
Aye.

03:03:55.880 --> 03:03:56.880
All those opposed no.

03:03:56.880 --> 03:03:57.880
No.

03:03:57.880 --> 03:03:58.880
Five.

03:03:58.880 --> 03:03:59.880
Five.

03:03:59.880 --> 03:04:00.880
Is one.

03:04:00.880 --> 03:04:01.880
No.

03:04:01.880 --> 03:04:03.880
Yeah, I have it.

03:04:03.880 --> 03:04:14.880
Where's resolution 2026 dash 055 resolution authorizing the purchase of an additional census water.

03:04:15.880 --> 03:04:17.880
Reading tower for the water utility.

03:04:17.880 --> 03:04:18.880
Good.

03:04:18.880 --> 03:04:19.880
Greg and Brendan.

03:04:19.880 --> 03:04:20.880
Brandon.

03:04:20.880 --> 03:04:24.880
I go to echo my fellow team members memo in the packet.

03:04:24.880 --> 03:04:27.880
Please let us know if there's any questions or concerns.

03:04:27.880 --> 03:04:30.880
No public appearances.

03:04:30.880 --> 03:04:33.880
Is there a motion?

03:04:33.880 --> 03:04:34.880
Bill.

03:04:34.880 --> 03:04:36.880
I want to read.

03:04:37.880 --> 03:04:42.880
Restate the memo and make sure that the board knows that.

03:04:42.880 --> 03:04:47.880
The 5th Street 1119 is not in the current budget.

03:04:47.880 --> 03:04:52.880
Where the water utility.

03:04:52.880 --> 03:05:01.880
But my dancing has determined that there will be capacity within the utility to be able to support this project.

03:05:02.880 --> 03:05:04.880
We noted.

03:05:04.880 --> 03:05:06.880
Where was that?

03:05:06.880 --> 03:05:10.880
Can you just briefly describe how this works.

03:05:10.880 --> 03:05:12.880
It's not somebody driving around anymore.

03:05:12.880 --> 03:05:13.880
Check in a meter.

03:05:13.880 --> 03:05:15.880
It's a pulling data to.

03:05:15.880 --> 03:05:18.880
Yeah, so we've got antennas.

03:05:18.880 --> 03:05:21.880
Well, one antenna on the river old water tower.

03:05:21.880 --> 03:05:26.880
That actually comes over on point to point to Madison Street tower.

03:05:27.880 --> 03:05:29.880
Back to pennies office.

03:05:29.880 --> 03:05:31.880
Where they can.

03:05:31.880 --> 03:05:34.880
Do all the reads and actually.

03:05:34.880 --> 03:05:36.880
And Marsha will.

03:05:36.880 --> 03:05:41.880
Review all the readings like we can see how much people are using.

03:05:41.880 --> 03:05:44.880
And if they've got a spike in usage, they.

03:05:44.880 --> 03:05:45.880
She calls.

03:05:45.880 --> 03:05:47.880
Residents and.

03:05:47.880 --> 03:05:49.880
We'll let them know.

03:05:50.880 --> 03:05:59.880
But the majority of our issue right now is while there's lack of redundancy redundancy.

03:05:59.880 --> 03:06:02.880
So if that tower goes down, we have to go out and read them.

03:06:02.880 --> 03:06:06.880
Drive around and read them, which takes hours.

03:06:06.880 --> 03:06:11.880
Two or three guys, which we had to do when we had the power.

03:06:11.880 --> 03:06:13.880
Repainted last year.

03:06:13.880 --> 03:06:14.880
Wasn't fun.

03:06:15.880 --> 03:06:18.880
But we also since then have.

03:06:18.880 --> 03:06:25.880
Two to 200 to 225 water meters that we have to go out and.

03:06:25.880 --> 03:06:27.880
Read by hand.

03:06:27.880 --> 03:06:30.880
So by adding this tower.

03:06:30.880 --> 03:06:33.880
Extra tower should hopefully.

03:06:33.880 --> 03:06:35.880
Take care of that.

03:06:35.880 --> 03:06:38.880
And then all the reads will be back here.

03:06:38.880 --> 03:06:41.880
So this tower will be down at token Creek.

03:06:42.880 --> 03:06:43.880
Anderson road.

03:06:43.880 --> 03:06:44.880
Water tower.

03:06:44.880 --> 03:06:46.880
It'll be a standalone.

03:06:46.880 --> 03:06:48.880
Oh.

03:06:48.880 --> 03:06:52.880
Is that any else.

03:06:52.880 --> 03:06:57.880
A little in favor of resolution 2026.

03:06:57.880 --> 03:06:58.880
055.

03:06:58.880 --> 03:07:00.880
I don't think we had a motion.

03:07:00.880 --> 03:07:01.880
Motion.

03:07:01.880 --> 03:07:02.880
All right.

03:07:02.880 --> 03:07:04.880
We need a motion.

03:07:04.880 --> 03:07:05.880
I'm sorry.

03:07:05.880 --> 03:07:07.880
I thought we did that.

03:07:08.880 --> 03:07:12.880
Motion to approve resolution 2026.

03:07:12.880 --> 03:07:18.880
055 authorizing purchase of additional census water reading tower for the water utility.

03:07:18.880 --> 03:07:19.880
I can.

03:07:19.880 --> 03:07:23.880
Motion by Alicia, seconded by Melanie.

03:07:23.880 --> 03:07:25.880
All those in favor.

03:07:25.880 --> 03:07:27.880
And to keep us saying hi.

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All those opposed no.

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Motion carries unanimously.

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Convene into call session discussion and possible action regarding the acquisition of public land for park land and public service facilities.

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Village forward may convene into call session is authorized by Wisconsin statute 19.85 parent one parent e.

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The purpose of deliberating or negotiating the purchasing of public properties.

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The investing of public funds or conducting other specified public business.

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Whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session.

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Village forward may we convene an open session and take action on the subject matter discussed in closed session bill.

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All right.

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So as you know, we are working towards all the working to the due diligence for the acquisition of.

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The properties at 6889 and 6897 I believe.

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North town road, which is the lane burger farm.

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The intention of acquiring those properties.

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Again, was for future site site for a future public services facility and a community park.

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As we work through the inspections.

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We did find a number of defects associated with.

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The home inspection Apple locations and then the shared while system.

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So we do have those contingencies within our.

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Our offer to purchase the properties and so this is the time and opportunity for the board to consider.

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Those defects and whether or not there is a.

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substantial impact to.

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Where the villa stands towards the purchase of the property.

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Quite frankly.

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Again, the property was intended to.

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Be purchased for the public services facility and park.

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However, we did not intend to construct that facility until.

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Twenty twenty nine or later, which leaves a couple of years in between.

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A consideration of bringing back revenue towards this.

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Property was to be able to rent facilities or be able to utilize the homes for.

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Other uses.

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That option.

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Is jeopardized here by these defects and that.

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These would be would have to be addressed before we would be able to rent.

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The homes out.

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Now again, there wasn't ever a decision made by the village board.

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To do that.

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However, it doesn't impact the revenues potentially helping the offset.

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Or compensating for at least a small portion of the purchase price.

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So at this point needs some direction from the board.

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If the board would like to consider.

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Any change in terms or potentially negotiation.

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A deliberation of the defects.

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I would recommend moving into calls session.

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If the board is thinking, Hey, we purchased this for a certain reason.

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We're not interested in being landlords.

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And we want to move forward a closing.

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Then simply instruct me to do so.

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We'll continue to move forward in our due diligence.

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We do have remaining as our environmental phase one assessment.

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And then an all total survey.

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Of the property.

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These inspections, except for the yes, the environmental.

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Except for the all to survey.

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Is Nintendo be completed by May 22nd.

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And the closing is set for July 1st.

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Well, the compareances.

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None.

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Discussion.

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Oops.

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Yeah, go ahead, Jim.

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I just going to ask you.

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The property owners have been talked about talked to and have they offered the remedy and these defects.

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Well, we've sent over.

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The inspection reports.

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They've acknowledged receipt of them, but there has been no offer yet.

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Frankly, they are waiting for a response from the board.

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Motion to convene into closed session.

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Motion by Brad to convene into closed.

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Is there a second?

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Seconded by Jim.

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All those in favor.

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I have a saying aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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All those opposed?

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No.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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We need a roll call.

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Kelly.

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Thank you.

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Trustee Bardoff.

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I.

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Trustee cords.

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Trustee Simpson.

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All right.

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Trustee Stefan.

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Hang it on.

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Trustee Williams.

03:13:03.880 --> 03:13:04.880
I.

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And president little.

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I.

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Motion carries six zero.

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Well.

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All right.

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Reconvening into open session action resulting from closed session.

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Possible action regarding the acquisition of public land for park land and public service facilities.

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No action coming out of closed.

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Check register communications is next check register is in your packet.

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Committee commission board reports those minutes for all in your packets.

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Any questions on anything.

03:13:52.880 --> 03:13:53.880
No.

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President doesn't have a report.

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Any other business that will actually come before the board.

03:13:59.880 --> 03:14:00.880
Colleen.

03:14:00.880 --> 03:14:05.880
I was wondering if you just wanted to talk about your your listening sessions that you're going to hold.

03:14:05.880 --> 03:14:08.880
Oh, well, I'm going to try something.

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Friday.

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It's going to be my first.

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What Stacy has named community conversations.

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I'm just going to be available from nine until noon.

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It's a little discovery room here for lack of a better place to get started.

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And see if anybody shows up and just get to know each other and see what their concerns are.

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If there's any interest in it as things go on, I'll move the day of the week.

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Time of the day.

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I'll move the location just to try and accommodate as many people as we can.

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Thank you, Brad.

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Next up is adjournment.

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Is there a motion to adjourn?

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I'll talk to you once.

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Go ahead, Melanie.

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You made a motion.

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You did.

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I didn't hear you.

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I literally didn't say anything.

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I'm sorry.

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I didn't.

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It's like I just over taught you.

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Alicia, did you make that motion?

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It was a leash.

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It was Jan.

03:15:06.880 --> 03:15:07.880
We were at the same time.

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Nobody said anything.

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So.

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There's a little pie.

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To adjourn.

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Is there a second?

03:15:14.880 --> 03:15:15.880
Second.

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Seconded by Jan.

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All those in favor say aye.

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Aye.

03:15:18.880 --> 03:15:19.880
Those opposed?

03:15:19.880 --> 03:15:20.880
No.

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We are adjourned at 913.

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Okay.

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So.

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Sorry.

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Bye.

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Bye.