Common Council - Regular Meeting

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Duo. Duo. Thank you. Do you Well, that poor man. He's got he's got a different name. His last name is K. And well, on the health card they put department. And so he called me goes, "Did you look at my cards?" I said, "I don't see your cards." He goes, "Well, because they have 2K for my first and last name." I'm like,

I said, "I'll get it fixed. Just hang on to your cards just in case you have to go in, but they'll send you new ones." And they did. [Music] I know we are popular. Thank you. I'm gonna have it in my head all night long. My kids sing it all the time. Sorry. I hear it in the morning. Alexa, play. Do they really? I'm sorry. and Lane being my musical like guy. He's sings every

I you're gonna miss it. Can I tell you? Um we have a minute. So like my kids all the first three were very musical and then the boys the last two are not and when the first three vacated the home it was like death in the house all the time except for the boys were wrestling or something but like no music, no instruments, no singing. It's just silent and it kind of

I and I only hear it in the shower. They don't BBop around dance singing and it's in the shower that one time my daughter was practicing the uh Star Spangle Banner. She was going to sing at the memorial for you know and she was at the top of her lungs. Didn't think anybody was home and my husband was upstairs at the time scared. And you think with being in a musical like you'd be practicing any chance you get? Nope. I never hear them. I'll hear it at the school. All right. I'll call this common council meeting to order. Tuesday, October 14th, 7 p.m. Can I have a roll call, please?

Cruz here. Sorenson here. Stubby here. Here. Hill here. Nigber absent. Excused. Sorry. We have five.

Thank you. Um, we'll go on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda contains items which staff considers to be routine and have already been discussed and recommended by a committee, board, or commission at a previous meeting. Anyway, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I second it. Motion a second. Roll call. Roll call, please. Boy,

I Stubby. I Hill. I Sorenson. Hi. Niger. Absent. Excused. Thank you. Number 11. Accept the resignation. Oh, I thought you were going to talk. I stopped. Accept the resignation of board of review and plan commission member. recommendation is accept the resignation of Carol Hughes from the board of review and the plan commission as of November 1st, 2025.

Carol's letter is in your packet. She had several years on both commissions and has served the community well. I'll make a motion to accept the resignation of order for review um and planning commission member Carol Hughes. Second. Motion and a second. All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carried. And if we can send Carol a card, please. She spent many years. Julie missed. Number 12, uniform deposit schedule adoption. Recommendation is approve the recommendation of the committee of the whole to adopt the uniform deposit schedules as presented by police chief pulveracher to be effective January 1st, 2026. Are there any further questions? Um, this will also be adopted as part of the fee schedule, but we wanted to do it um separately as as well for the record. Feel like we just did this last week. Was he looking at

Sorry. Was there any changes to We We hadn't sent him to wait to make any changes, did we? No. No. But this is the full This is the full fee schedule. And we forgot to ask you if it could be effective January 1 the last time. So, we wanted to make sure that that was part of your your motion. If you're accepting of that. Okay. I'll make a motion to approve the recommendation. No, approve the recommendation of the No, that still says to the committee of the whole. Oh, you're right. So, the motion

the motion I'll make a motion to approve the uniform deposit schedule as recommended effective January 1 of 26. Thank you. Motion. Do we have a second? I'll second that. Second by Terry. All in favor say I. I. I any opposed? It's habit, isn't it? Try going to meetings that aren't noted her also approval.

Number 13 is amend amend the fee schedule. Approve the recommendation of the committee of the whole to adopt the amended fee schedule to reflect 2026 updates. There were a couple of um additional changes. Um we received the full schedule from Weights and Measures and that's in here. So it actually has been condensed quite a bit for that section. So we wanted to make sure and draw that to your attention. And you had already um changed the change that they requested a month or two ago. But and on here is noted that the um recycling is intended for 2027.

I'll make a motion to accept the amended fee schedule for the city of Berlin to be effective January 1, 2026. Second. Motion by Victoria, second by Missy. All in favor say I. I.

I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Number 14 is a capital improvement plan adoption. Recommendation is to approve the city of Berlin 2026 through 2030 capital improvement plan. Obviously, we've been talking about this one for the past few meetings. So, the sheet for the pool was also included separately so that you could see that so you can just stick it into your binder. Um, so that was really the only change that was noted by the the council at the last meeting. Additionally, we provided some um information. It had been asked what um the $2 million borrowing every other year would look like and what that impact would be to um the taxpayers depending on the value of their home. So this chart here shows um at the 100 200 300 $400,000 property value level um what that borrowing um would have an impact on the levy uh every every other year. Well, it would impact every year, but I'm sorry. The borrowing would be every other year. Does anybody have any questions on the CIP or the borrowing rate or anything related? I'll make a motion to approve the city of Berlin 2026 to 2030 capital improvement plan.

I'll second. Motion by Victoria, second by Sam. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Number 15 is the purchase of 169 Ripen Road. Recommendation is approve the purchase of 169 Ripen Road to provide base/living quarters for onduty EMS personnel. As a reminder, the city's lobby is not anticipated to be impacted by the purchase of this property. I'll make a motion to approve the purchase of 169 Ripen Road to provide base living quarters for under the EMS personnel. I'll

second. Motion by Sam, second by Christina. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Just for clarification, at the asking price of 190 plus closing costs. Okay. Thanks Evan. Sounds good.

Um number 16 then is budget preparation update. Recommendation is discussion on budget preparation including the wage and compensation study with action as appropriate. So, I also just wanted to do a quick overview of what's anticipated for uh the rest of the budget process. So, um as we've discussed, we have to put a public hearing notice in the paper at least 15 days prior, a class one prior to the public hearing. Um the public hearing I'd like to do on our normal um November evening, but a half an hour early. Um so, at 6:30 do the public hearing. So on November 11th, so we would plan to have it in the paper on the 23rd, I believe that would be. So we need to have it to them um by the end of this week is our goal. So, um, after getting any further input from the council, I will work with Adam tomorrow to try to get everything finalized so that we can get the, uh, most accurate version we possibly can to the paper so that, um, the community can see what we're doing and come to the public hearing, um, having the best information available. Now, that being said, the council of course can change it and you can adopt the budget that you want on November 11th. If you see something wrong or you want to add something or something needs to be taken out, of course, you can do that. However, we of course want to give the public as much accurate information as as possible. So, I'm not anticipating any changes, but if you have changes, of course, that's in your purview until it's actually adopted. Are there any questions on any of that? I think that's probably what you've done in the past.

Okay. So, where were we at with recycling fee? So, with the no update since we were going to hold off a year on that anyway. I just wanted to make sure there was no like miraculous change than this last week. No. No. Okay. I just want to make sure did and forgive me if I can't remember from the committee whole. Did we already approve the additional needed spending for the rest of this or borrowing for the rest of this year or is that yet to be determined?

So the rest of the borrowing I have um calculated based on the recommendations that I have made and um that will be in the public hearing notice um what that amount is and of course if if that needs uh to be tweaked. So, we don't have to necessarily approve that specifically until we adopt the formal budget. Okay. But with the the budget adoption process, we will also be bringing forward resolutions to do that short-term borrowing. The anticipation would be to see if um perhaps a local bank would be willing to do the short-term borrowing of just under 300,000 um which we would anticipate we would take out yet this year before um before December 15th because it has to be done by then in order to be on the levy worksheet

and then we would repay that shortly um once the tax payments started coming in beginning of next year. So I would hope by February for sure we could could get that paid back. Okay. Any other questions on budget? Nope. All right. Moving on to number 17 is motion to go into close session pursuant to Wisconsin statute 19.851C 9851C considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility determination of placement of all non-represented employees within proposed wage ranges. Can

I say so moved or do you guys require all the words? I'll make a motion to convene into close session. Thank you. I'll second that motion in a second. Do a roll call. Roll call, please. [Music]

Stubby. I Nick Burr. Sorenson. I Hill. I into close session at 7:12. You get to go home early tonight.

We'll get records for a 10-minute meeting.