Common Council - Regular Meeting

D'accord.

Oui, c'est celui qu'il a publié sur les réseaux sociaux.

D'accord, il a celui-là aussi. Super. Je déclare ouverte la réunion de notre conseil municipal de ce mardi 18 août 2026. Greffier.

Merci, Monsieur le Maire. Tout le monde est inscrit et présent.

Très bien, merci beaucoup, Monsieur le Greffier. Veuillez maintenant vous lever pour le serment d'allégeance et rester debout pour une invocation prononcée par le conseiller Hutchinson.

Je jure allégeance aux drapeaux des États-Unis d'Amérique et à la République qu'ils représentent, une nation sous l'égide de Dieu, indivisible, avec la liberté et la justice pour tous. Conseiller Hutchinson. Eux, vous pouvez vous asseoir. I will offer a moment of silence for those who are not here, but who support us all in this room. In the honor of those who support the councilors, the mayor, the municipal staff required to attend the commissions and meetings of the municipal council, as well as the administrators present at these meetings, to pay tribute to all these partners, partners, friends and family members who mobilize to prepare dinner, keep children and grandchildren, and accomplish daily tasks so that the work of the city can be carried out and that we can meet. Je souhaiterais les honorer par un moment de silence. Merci, Monsieur le Conseiller. Approval of the verbal trial. Approval motion presented by the advisor. De Baker. Supported. Supported by the advisor. Reader Bush. E. Are there any changes to be made? n'envoyant aucun, ceux qui sont pour disent, pour, pour, les opposants, contre, les pour l'emportent. Le procès-verbal est approuvé. Approbation de l'ordre du jour. Motion d'approbation présentée par le conseiller. Bressler, appuyé par le conseiller. Delis, des changements ici, n'envoyant aucun, ceux qui sont pour disent, pour, pour, les opposants, contre, les pour l'emportent. L'ordre du jour a été approuvé. Rapport du maire. Euh, juste une annonce, nous avons la foire d'art ce week-end. I encourage everyone to come if you have a little free time, to enjoy the city center and the original art. Eux, et merci au DDBI, bien sûr, pour leur travail afin de rendre cet événement possible. Eux, je crois que la conseillère me disait qu'il restait encore quelques créneaux de bénévolat disponibles. Donc, si des conseillers ou des membres de la communauté sont intéressés à aider pour l'événement, je les y encourage également. Quelques réflexions sur les points à l'ordre du jour. There are a few points in the personnel and finance report concerning the personnel supply to the mayor's office for a position of innovation and data strategy manager. We simply encourage you to support this approach. We had a good discussion within the personnel and finance committee and the subject has been presented to the council in recent months. And I think the work it does is really decisive for the future of the city. We are about two years away from a triennial plan called Connect Green Bay. This leads us towards strategies that are more focused on data and we really want to be able to continue this effort during this last year. We encourage you to support this initiative and we thank our committees for having already supported this position. Then, we have a point that Director Ditschik will talk about regarding the naval site. I just want to point out that this is a very important public space for us. I thank the municipal council and the re-organization authority for all their past support and the resources devoted to this project via the TID. We have good news that Director Ditschig will tell you about, but this also implies additional TID support. So I again ask for the support of the council for this request. I hope this will be one of the last funding requests for public improvements in this place, because it must be recognized that this project has been expensive. But I think everyone will really appreciate this public space once it is finished. This is really the last masterpiece of this project. We also encourage your support for this. The last point is a slightly pointed subject. I would like to salute the Adjoint Act for having proposed to rename the Beaver Dam Park to Douglas MacArthur Park. However, I would like to propose a friendly amendment to recognize Arthur Junior, the father of Douglas MacArthur, who was also General and Medalist of Honor. I believe they are one of the only two due to father-son to have both received the Medal of Honor. Arthur was originally from Milwaukee and was part, I believe, of the 24th Infantry Regiment of Wisconsin during the War of Secession. There were two flag bearers who both lost their lives. It was then that Arthur MacArthur took the flag by shouting, we are Wisconsin. He became famous for pronouncing these words. He won the Missionary Ridge battle near Chattanooga. He therefore played a very important role in the history of Wisconsin and the United States. A fantastic family as a whole, and I hope that we will be able to recognize the whole family rather than just Douglas. So, we will talk about it when we address this point. On this, are there any announcements from the Council? Yes, Councilor Bush. I would like to invite all members of the Council to our annual community service picnic AFL-CIO at Plage Bébé for the Labor Day, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. I think. It's a great event. Benefits are reimbursed to the community, especially for food entries. Donc, j'adorerais voir les membres du Conseil soutenir cette initiative. Génial, merci, conseillère. D'autres annonces ? Conseiller. L'événement, 11 green, ce vendredi. C'est à Murphy Park de 18h à 20h. Jupiter Lynx will play on the spot. There will be a food truck, bring a chair, come spend a moment and listen to local music. Excellent, thank you, advisor. Others, yes, advisor Morgan. I would like to thank our police and firefighters chiefs as well as their staff for the very interesting meeting last night. I know that everyone has not been able to attend it, but they will send it to you by email so that you can read it or see what we have been able to observe. For me, you know, this is my third mandate. I learn something every day. And it was very useful. Things like that, like when economic development made us visit, I hope it will continue. So that we can stay informed of what is happening in our city. Anything else? Very well, on this, we move on to the nominations. Motion to approve the nominations made by the advisor. Pro-made. Supported by the advisor. Delis. Discussions? Not seeing any, those who are for say, aye. Against? Nay. The ayes win, the nominations are made. We have a few public audiences. The first is a public audience concerning a request for partial closure of Block 700 of Weezy Street. SC 2601. Is there anyone here to talk about this point? Is there anyone here who would like to express himself on this point? Anyone present to talk about this point? Very well. Please note that no one is present for this. Le deuxième point est une audience publique sur une demande de modification de l'utilisation future des sols pour une partie de la propriété située au bloc 600 de Woodside Road, passant de résidentiel à faible densité à résidentiel mixte, R1 à R3, c'est le CPA 2603. Y a-t-il quelqu'un ici qui souhaite s'exprimer sur ce point ? Quelqu'un ici sur ce point ? Anyone here for this point? Very good. Please note to the verbal trial that no one is present for this point either. Then, we have the orders. Second reading for adoption.

Motion to suspend the regulation for points 1 to 3.

Councilor Prophète proposes to suspend the regulation and to examine points 1 to 3 with a single vote by nominal appeal. Supported by Councilor Presley. A discussion on this subject. In the absence of comments, those who are for say for. For. Against. Against. The for takes it away. The regulation is suspended. Adoption motion presented by Councilor Presley. Supported by Councilor Delis. A discussion on adoption? In the absence of comments, we will vote on points 1 to 3. And they are adopted unanimously. Now, point K4. Oh! It seems unanimous. I thought it was fast. Clear and clear. I'm sorry. Oh no, I was wrong, 11 against 1. E, point 4.

I can make a motion.

Yes. E, I propose to report point K4, ordinance diverse number 04-26, until the meeting of September 15, 2026.

Oh no.

I said it without the microphone. Did you all hear? Okay. Okay, I propose to report point K4, order number 04-26 to the meeting of September 15, 2026. Like that, there are enough days between the first and the last reading.

Well, is there a second for this motion? Supported by Councilor Eng Kwi. In addition, Councilor Hutchinson proposed to report this point until the meeting of September 15, supported by Councilor Eng. A discussion, in the absence of comments, that those who are for say, for.

For. Against. Against. The for win. This point has been reported. Authorities of redevelopment. Motion to approve. Motion to approve presented by Councilor Prophète. Supported by Councilor Presley. Points to be treated separately here. In the absence of comments, those who are for say, for, against, against, the for take it away. This report has been approved. Committee of Improvement Services. Motion to approve presented by Councilor Presley. Supported by Councilor Delis. Points to be treated separately here. 11. Others? 1. 1 and 11. Others, in the absence of other requests, than those which are for the approval of the rest of the report, signify it by saying « for », « for », « against », « against », the « for » take it away. The report has been approved with the exception of points 1 and 11. On point 1, Councilor Presti.

E. I would like to present a motion to approve. E. I just wanted to point out that we certainly have media that are interested in this subject. From a procedural point of view, what is submitted to us tonight is simply to send it back to the staff to obtain more information. This allows the staff to examine the file before we vote on any changes. For the media or any person watching online and having seen a media coverage on this subject today, what we are voting on tonight is simply to allow staff to review the examination, then it will be submitted to us again, with, let's hope, a lot of public contribution in the meantime regarding any potential change in night parking in the streets. So I support the approach, but I wanted to clarify the situation for those who might watch this video later. We are simply asking staff to review it for the moment.

Très bien, merci, conseiller municipal. La motion visant à approuver le renvoi est appuyée par le conseiller Presley. D'autres discussions, en l'absence de commentaires, que ceux qui sont pour disent, pour, pour, contre, dites, contre.

Les pour l'emportent, et ce renvoi passe au point 11, qui consiste à approuver la demande du département des travaux publics d'attribuer le contrat PARC 626, phase 2 du développement du chantier naval de Green Bay, à Apillard, pour un montant de 10,8 millions de dollars, sous réserve de l'approbation du conseil municipal pour l'allocation de financement. Et c'était tout à fait direct.

Oui, merci, monsieur le maire. You alluded to it earlier, but there is good news. We have obtained this grant. I will therefore propose a motion to modify this, and I know that Director Ditschnell can add more details, but it is a matter of approving the request of the Department of Public Works to attribute the contract PARC 626, Phase 2 of the redevelopment of the Green Bay naval site, as a more alternative base 1, 2 and 5 to Happening, for a different amount of $ 11,668,826.70. Toujours sous réserve de l'approbation par le Conseil de l'allocation de financement supplémentaire de 750 000 $ comme indiqué dans le point de l'ordre du jour de ce soir concernant la communauté dans son ensemble.

Très bien. Merci, conseiller. Le directeur appuie cet amendement. Appuyé par le conseiller. De Lee, directeur d'Hitcher, pour un peu plus de contexte. Yes, during the INS committee last week, we mentioned the fact that the existing budget was only enough to pay the engineering services that we had already contracted, because it was all the engineering necessary to launch the offer call, then to attribute only the basic offer of the construction contract. And to do this, we still had to obtain an additional allocation of $ 750,000. We have been informed today that we have received $ 2.15 million in subsidies from the EPA for this project. This means that we can now move forward with the entire project as planned. Initially, we were not able to open or assign option number 1, which concerned the construction of the dog park. Now, thanks to this additional subsidy, we can do it. In addition, there was sports lighting and curbs, which corresponded to options 2 and 5, for which we now have the necessary funds. With this subsidy, we also have a reserve of 10% for the unexpected in case of changes in construction. This will also allow us to hire a consultant to ensure the follow-up of the work, because public services do not have enough staff to do so on a project of this magnitude. We still need $ 750,000 even if we have obtained the $ 2.15 million. And the reason why we need it is that it is a counterparty subsidy. In total, we have now received $7.15 million in subsidies for this project, for which we must bring an equivalent amount of $7.15 million. To date, we have allocated, e, the totality of the funds has already been affected, with the exception of $750,000. So, if you approve this on the order of the day of the Plaintiff's Council, if you approve this funding, it will be available, we will have reached our objective of counterparty to fifty-fifth of the subsidy. Thank you, Director, and thank you for all your work on this file, as well as for that of Director-Adjoint Buchanan, who initially allowed to obtain this subsidy several years ago. I also appreciate the efforts of each one on this subject. Other comments on the amendment of Councilor Alderic? n'envoyant aucun, ceux qui sont pour disent, aïe, contre, n'est, les aïes l'emportent, cet amendement est approuvé. Motion d'approbation telle qu'amendée proposée par le conseiller Pressling, appuyée par le conseiller Itabouche. Une discussion à ce sujet, n'envoyant aucune, ceux qui sont pour disent, aïe, contre, n'est, les aïes l'emportent, ce point a été approuvé telle qu'amendée. Passons au comité de protection et de politique.

Motion for approval.

Motion for approval proposed by the Councilor Profit, supported by the Councilor Inguis. Points here must be treated separately, without hearing any. Those who are for say aye. Aye. Against. Nay. The ayes win. This report is approved. Report of the Green Bay Police Department on the auction of operator licenses. Motion to approve made by Councilor Profi, supported by Councilor Orlowski. Abstentions or points to be treated separately? In the absence of reactions, those who are for say aye. Aye. Against? Nay. The ayes win. This report has been approved. Commission of Urbanism. Motion to approve made by Councilor Presley, supported by Councilor Shelton. Was that the case? Orlowski. E. Points here to be treated separately? 7 and 8. 2.

Others? Very well, not hearing anything else, all those who are in favor of the approval of the rest of the report, manifest it by saying aye.

Aye, against, nay. The ayes win. The report has been approved with the exception of points 2, 7 and 8. On the 2nd, advisor profits.

I just want to point out that there is at least one person here who wants to express himself on this point, so I propose to open the discussion.

Motion to open the discussion made by the councilor Profi, supported by the councilor Enkfi. Those who are for say aye. Aye. Against.

Nay. The ayes win. The discussion is open. It is a question of approving a request for a conditional use permit at 2222 Dechner Avenue, Pâté de Maison 2300 de Newbury Avenue, aiming to create a telecommunications tower, a wireless communication installation in a public institution zone. I think we have Richard Lardinois. Yes, if you want to speak to the council, you can give your name and your address, then you will have three minutes for your testimony. Go ahead.

My name is Richard Lardinois. I live on 316 Blon Avenue. I live about 70 meters from where the South Tower will be located. The new tower will be installed near the two existing towers that were set up, I believe, in 2012. I've been living there for 40 years. 26 years before they installed relay antennas. I was totally opposed to it at the time, which did not change anything. They installed them anyway. I have a few questions for the municipal council. The first is, does anyone in this room know what is the level of RF radiation emitted by these antennas and who monitors these radiations to which the contributors and students of the rebellious high school are exposed 24 hours, 24 and 7J7? Does anyone in the room have comments on this subject? Number 2.

These questions may be a bit rhetorical.

Okay. I want to know who will monitor the radiation emitted by these antennas, and it must be an independent organism, not Celcom. For me, it's like asking a wolf to keep the sheepfold. I want to know what is the safety distance to live near a relay antenna. Everything I read indicates between 100 and 500 meters. 100 meters make 328 feet. 500 meters make 1640 feet. What about it, you know? I live at 230 feet from this crazy thing. I want to know what I am exposed to 24 hours, 24 and 7J, 7. I don't want to be a guinea pig for the relay antenna industry. No one can tell me anything about it. Another thing, what is a fall zone? They will install a 100-foot antenna. It's just next to the road. There is a football training ground over there. There are tennis courts. If this thing falls, it will crash on residential properties. It will fall on children playing on the field, on football fields, tennis courts, spectators, a whole bunch of things. And I would like to know if anyone at the municipal council knows about RFM radiation emitted by relay antennas. I went to the urbanism commission and it was obvious that no one knew anything about RFM radiation emitted by these antennas. However, they approved the conditional permit on July 27. I would like to know how we can approve something we don't know anything about. Cela n'a aucun sens pour moi. Je trouve qu'il y a quelque chose de très étrange dans toute cette histoire. Primo, Selcom se fait un argent fou avec ses antennes relais. Le district scolaire est payé par Selcom, il gagne de l'argent. Le contribuable reçoit des doses de rayonnement RF, et en plus, on perd probablement 20% de la valeur de nos biens pour avoir vécu près d'une antenne. Et eux ? Ce qui était autrefois une belle vue, je marsais ou je conduisais jusqu'au bout de ma rue, je voyais une jolie vue sur la ville chaque fois que je partais. Maintenant, je regarde une antenne relais moche, qui sera bientôt une antenne relais plus grande et encore plus moche. C'est tout ce que j'avais à dire. Merci pour votre témoignage, monsieur. Des questions pour notre invité ? Très bien, merci. Quelqu'un d'autre sur ce sujet ? I am ready to receive a motion. Motion to close the debates. Motion to close the debates proposed by the Councilor Prophet. Supported by Councilor Hutchinson. All those who are for, say for. For. Those who are against, say against. The fors win. The debates are closed. Councilor Hutchinson. Okay. I had asked the staff to focus on these specific questions. And we received an answer from the promoter, which was not one, it was a non-answer. They, what is emitted by these antennas has been approved at the federal level and they are not, they are not. The information is not easily accessible. I will try to obtain this information, but I was told that this project is protected by federal rules. So they didn't want to say anything about the broadcasts. Et je suis d'accord avec vous. Nous sommes sur la même longueur d'onde à ce sujet. En ce qui concerne la chute, la distance, encore une fois, je n'ai pas été satisfait. J'ai travaillé comme ingénieur en structure et ils ont dit, si nous avions les informations structurelles, nous pourrions vous les donner, mais vous avez les informations structurelles. Je veux dire, vous avez la structure. Vous l'avez, c'est déjà planifié. Mais ils ont dit que le maximum serait la hauteur. They therefore said that 100 feet would be the maximum. Because it is designed to collapse on the spot. Once again, I will try to do a follow-up a little more advanced because it has the structural information. It seemed to me to be complete answers. But I will try to focus on the question. Our hands are really linked to the local level. Nous ne pouvons pas dire non à ces projets. Nous ne pouvons tout simplement pas dire non. Nous pouvons lister nos exigences, mais nous ne pouvons pas littéralement refuser ces développements. Je m'en excuse, mais c'est la situation actuelle. Et je comprends parfaitement votre point de vue. La parole est donc close. Sachez simplement que je vais examiner cela. en raison de la préoccupation que vous avez exprimée. D'accord. Cela n'affectera pas celui-ci, mais nous pourrons peut-être obtenir quelques informations. D'accord. D'autres commentaires du Conseil ? Des questions ? J'attends une motion.

Approval motion.

Approval motion by Councilor Proffi. Supported by Councilor Presley. Other discussions? If no one asks for a word, only those in favour say for. For. Those who are against? Against. Against. Those for win. This point has been approved. Let's move on to point 7.2, which consists of approving a request for amendment to the Global Plan Go Big Green Bay 2050 for the 715. Parcel 6-425, ILO 700 on Irvington Street. Une motion à ce sujet ?

Conseiller R. J'ai retiré les points 7 et 8. Ils vont ensemble. J'ai travaillé avec Léa Wicker, directrice exécutive du Military Avenue Business District, pour rédiger une déclaration à ce sujet. I would like to briefly talk about the zoning project of the east-oriented plots on Irvington Street, commercial areas C1 to residential areas of office OR, and the conditional use permit for existing houses. Let's be very clear, my priority is to encourage responsible redevelopment in this patch of houses. I support a thoughtful investment that reinforces Militari Avenue and brings in new businesses, jobs and services in our neighborhood. L'objectif du zonage proposé est de créer un cadre qui équilibre les réalités à court terme avec le potentiel de réaménagement à long terme et non de bloquer le développement. En même temps, nous devons être pragmatiques concernant la transition. La ville dispose d'outils pour guider le réaménagement tout en minimisant les perturbations inutiles. Requiring a conditional use permit for existing housing aims to offer a clear and predictable process to the owners as well as to the developers, while preserving the flexibility necessary to examine the proposal of redevelopment according to the objectives of the corridor. If a developer or owner has a viable plan for mixed-use, commercial or residential redevelopment that supports the revitalization of Military Avenue, I want to hear it. We must evaluate the proposals according to their merit and their contribution to economic vitality, to walkability and to the long-term tax plate of the corridor. In short, I do not choose the owners at the expense of development, nor the development at the expense of the owners. I am looking for a fair practical environment, a zoning approach that ensures predictability for current residents, preserves the capacity of the city to encourage redevelopment and welcomes the proposals that will strengthen Militariavenue. J'encourage les développeurs, les propriétaires et les membres de la communauté à présenter des propositions. La ville devrait les évaluer dans le contexte des objectifs de revitalisation du corridor et des investissements déjà en cours. Merci.

Merci, conseiller.

Et je fais la motion d'approuver les deux.

Très bien.

Ou le 7.

D'accord. Une motion pour approuver le point 7 a été proposée par le conseiller Hack, appuyée par le conseiller Profi. D'autres commentaires ? N'en voyons aucun. Ceux qui sont pour disent aïe. Ceux qui sont contre ? Les aïes l'emportent et ce point a été approuvé. Passons au 8.

Mes commentaires restent valables pour les deux. Donc, je propose une motion pour approuver.

Motion pour approuver par le conseiller Hack. Appuyé par le conseiller Enkfi. Discussion sur ce point. N'envoyant aucun. Ceux qui sont pour disent aïe. Ceux qui sont contre, les aïe l'emportent et ce point a également été approuvé. Passons au rapport du comité des finances. Motion to approve made by Councilor Presley. Supported by Councilor Shelton. Are there points to be treated separately here? Not hearing any. Those who are for will say Aye. Opposed? Say Nay. The Ayes win. This report has been approved. Park Committee. Motion to approve made by Councilor Deley. Supported by Councilor Baker. Are there points to be treated separately here? Of course. That suits me. Point 4. Others? Not to mention others, those who are in favor of the approval of the rest of the report will signify it by saying, Aye. Opposed? Nay. The ayes win. The report has been approved with the exception of point 4. E. It has been withdrawn by the Board of Directors.

Well, you mentioned this consideration, so I was wondering what you thought.

Yes. E. We would certainly refer to the advisor. But I was thinking either of the MacArthur family park, or, you know, we could just keep the name of MacArthur Park, but by specifying in the archives of the Department of Parks that it refers to Arthur Junior. And Douglas MacArthur. E. It's something in this genre that I was considering.

Okay. So, uh, it's something that was proposed by the MacArthur Heights neighborhood association, uh, after the open day, there was a lot of discussion and the president of the neighborhood association was there. He was educated there. Uh, so, after you mentioned it, I sent him a text because I don't want to do something he doesn't want, because we talked about it at their meeting. Ils ont eu différentes réunions et il a dit qu'il serait d'accord avec le parc de la famille MacArthur.

D'accord.

Alors, c'est une proposition. Je propose d'approuver le parc de la famille MacArthur.

D'accord, très bien. Merci, conseiller. Y a-t-il une seconde pour cela ? Appuyé par le conseiller Nkfi. D'autres discussions à ce sujet. N'en voyant aucune, ceux qui sont en faveur diront Aïe.

Aïe.

Les opposants diront Né. Les Aïes l'emportent. Cet amendement est approuvé. Councilor Hutchinson proposes to approve as ordered. Supported by Councilor Riley. All those who are in favor signify their agreement by Aye. Aye. Opponents by Nay. The Ayes win. And this point has been approved as ordered. Staff Committee. Approval motion made by Councilor Shelton. Supported by Councilor Orlovsky. Points to be treated separately here. N'envoyant aucun, tous ceux qui sont en faveur signifient leur accord par aille. Les opposants par nez. Les ailles l'emportent. Ce rapport a été approuvé. Commission de la circulation, des vélos et des piétons. Motion d'approbation faite par le conseiller de l'I. Appuyé par le conseiller Presley. Des points à traiter séparément ici. None. All those who are in favor signify their agreement by saying, ouch, ouch. The opponents, nay, the ouches win. And this report has been approved. We have a few points of information. One is simply the July 2026 construction report. The next is the electoral update of 2026. And on this point, I give the floor to the lawyer.

Thank you. So, it is in the order of the day as an electoral update. I will avoid talking about the election that has just taken place to let Secretary Manquet express himself on the files that we have treated with the electoral commission of Wisconsin, which was, I believe, the object of the initial communication of the councilor. So, in your file, to refer to the documents, you have a few elements. One is an answer to the WEC dated July 31 and the other on August 14, and I will specify in a moment like this one, precisely. This relates to my comments here. I will therefore start by talking about the general election of spring. The general election of spring, especially in March, is what we would qualify as the first incident of a double ballot. But before we get there, I just want to address or explain some points. When we talk about the initial votes of ballot by correspondence, which I will refer to a few times, we are talking about them, request for voting by correspondence received before the deadline. These are generally indefinite and regular voters, divided into lots because this is how they are integrated in the system where they vote. The secretary's office examines them, approves them, creates a lot, then the labels are printed from there. As I mentioned, these are indefinite and regular voters, which is important for us because I will refer to these lots later. Ces lots sont limités à 5000, eux, demandes, ce qui est important car au printemps nous en avions un peu moins de 5000, mais en juin, nous parlerons de plus de 5000 demandes. I will also mention the packets of votes by correspondence, and it is important to understand that they include the bulletin, the certificate, known under the name of L122, the internal return envelope with a label, the bulletin itself, the uniform instructions provided to municipalities for voters by correspondence, and the expedition envelope, an L120 also labeled. And these two envelopes are completed. In March, there were about 4,728 requests for votes by correspondence. Nous avons reçu les bulletins du comté le 13 mars et la date limite pour traiter ces bulletins, ceux des lots initiaux dont je parle, étaient le 17 mars. L'hôtel de ville étant fermé le 16 mars, tous les bulletins par correspondance de ces lots initiaux ont été traités le 17 mars. The lottery created on March 15 mainly concerned the weekend. And our answers to the VC say this. It is the lottery of Friday, Saturday and Sunday that we call the March 15 lottery. It is this lottery that we have, you know, discovered later that it had been duplicated. It is 152 voters. We had already provided this information to the VC a while ago. It was 152 ballots and we knew exactly how many because it was all this weekend lottery that was created on Monday. The duplication of these labels was caused by a double printing by a person from the engraver's office. And later, as we have indicated in our responses provided to the AVC, very recently, we identified that the former engraver Jeffreys had processed the printing of these double labels because it was not clearly indicated that they had already been printed. Once again, this concerns only the 15th of March. I go into the details of this subject in our answers. This lot was printed in the morning, then duplicated later. Hum, once again, because the information indicating that it had already been printed was not clear. We received a communication from a member of the public or public communications as of March 23 and a confirmation was made by the clerk on March 26 concerning the double bulletins. We immediately set up a process to identify or sort out the incoming bulletins in order to spot any double bulletin. The general election obviously took place on April 7. On April 6, or the day before, we received a complaint on this subject. Once again, these are things we have been working on for several months, so I think they are well known to the public. It was filed on April 6 and we responded to this complaint on April 23. So, no other measure of the WEC or other has taken place during this period of May-June. Regarding the correspondence ballot, here are most of my comments on April and if we have any questions, we can come back to them. Let's move on to the primary doubt, the primary partisan doubt that we have just had, the first batches of correspondence ballot that I spoke about for March were expected for June 25. We started to deal with correspondence ballot on Monday, June 22, because it was at this time that we received the ballot from the county. There were about 5,202 of them. Once again, I have a note here, but it was more than 5,000. But again, these are indefinite and regular voters. We therefore processed all these bulletins. They were posted before the deadline of June 25. On Saturday, a voter informed the count by email, and I believe also by SMS, as I indicated in my response, that he had received a double vote. J'ai reçu cette notification ce jour-là, tout comme le maire, comme mentionné dans la réponse, et nous nous sommes immédiatement mis au travail pour déterminer combien de bulletins avaient été dupliqués. Contrairement au mois de mars, il ne s'agissait pas d'un lot complet. J'ai donc signalé à la WEC cette semaine-là qu'il s'agissait de 244 bulletins. This figure was identified by a process consisting of examining the full lot, where the voter who initially reported it, located in district 47, and by eliminating voters who had not received a double bulletin. In my communication, which is linked to your response to the WEC, we noted, out of extra caution, that the number could reach 390, due to the number of printed leaflets. But we were reasonably certain at the time, and we remain so by responding to this, that it was 244. It was the voters notified and, throughout this election, we received no notification from anyone outside this list of 244 voters indicating having received a double. So, once again, I responded to the WEC the following week and a process was put in place, similar to that of March, but I would say better due to the problem of doubling and the fact that we did not have an exact list of voters. So it was the end of June. During the meeting of the WEC on July 9, they were planning to examine our spring complaint and this answer, and because of this double bulletin case, they decided to add one point to the agenda. They launched an administrative inquiry. We also received these questions on July 9. Very quickly, allow me to go back because I have the impression that I have skipped the part on the printing, I apologize. The double-printed bulletins in June, during the week from June 22 to 25, concerned only one part of the regular voter's bulletins by correspondence. If we say that it is only one part, it is because the former countess, Mrs. Jeffries, printed a part of this lot from the end because she thought it was missing. My response to this subject long details the labels, all of them, you know, more than 10,000 labels, because as I mentioned earlier, there are two labels per request. When she checked these boxes of labels, she opened one in which she thought that some labels were missing, and it turned out that it was the end of the line, didn't it? So, from the very last request in one of our divided neighborhoods, which is at the end of our list, because our labels are all printed in order by neighborhood and by alphabetical order. The secretary told us at that time that she had printed them and, as I said before, she got to work to determine the size. Let's go back to where I was when I talked about the answers to the WEC. We received questions from them. They asked us to explain in detail how the double bulletins were produced in March and June. We did it by responding on July 31. They also asked for this procedure that I had talked about before. They asked for a copy of the procedure. This is the information file that is provided to you here in the answer from July 31 to the WEC. You will see my answers to questions 3C and 3A. We will address question 3B in a moment because the deadline was August 14. And then, the return procedure of the voting envelopes by correspondence that I mentioned is joined. All these things are at your disposal, provided for you. Question 3B, which concerns the procedure for the upcoming election, on which I will give you some information again and send it back to Secretary Menck to talk about it. Voting documents by correspondence, believe it or not, for the November election must be sent on September 17. So, this procedure, which is also included here, is in place now and will be implemented for the November election with the documents that will be sent in a month. We have discussed this procedure for a long time internally, we have put it in place and, as I said, we have provided it to WEC. Je n'ai reçu aucune réponse à aucune de nos demandes, mais ce n'est pas inattendu. La WEC se réunira à nouveau plus tard ce mois-ci et en octobre, mais il n'y a pas de date limite pour qu'ils répondent à nos plaintes ou aux plaintes, à nos réponses, ou qu'ils prennent toute autre mesure. Eux, je souhaite également souligner que la procédure en place dont j'ai parlé précédemment a rempli son objectif, car aucun bulletin en double, tant en mars comme nous l'avons dit, que lors de la primaire qui vient d'avoir lieu, n'a été transmis au comptage central pour traitement. This is a testimony of the work done by the office of the count, of course, but also by all the staff in the implementation of this procedure that we had, as I said, already put in place earlier and also in June. I would simply like to highlight a few other points before passing the floor to Count Bencky. I mentioned the deadline of September 17 for the correspondence ballot. E. Our process is extremely robust and I would say that it exceeds what most municipalities have set up, but it is important given that double ballots have been sent. The only problem that resulted from the printing of these double ballots by the former count, We solve it by demanding a process in several stages for all re-printing, so that it is followed and that no one, whatever their position at the office of the engraver, can re-print only one label. In fact, this process does not really exist. It is not a process documented anywhere. We have therefore created and added it to our correspondence voting policy which, as I said, will be in force for the fall. Je pense que c'est tout ce que j'ai à dire. Souhaitez-vous ajouter quelque chose concernant avril ou août? Oui, merci, maître. Je vais simplement donner un aperçu général de l'élection d'août. I think it went very well and that a lot of people contributed to it. A lot of people behind the scenes. Not only the staff of the gaffer, but also many electoral agents and chief inspectors on the ground. Our technicians who take care of the entire installation, dismantling and disassembling the machines on the day of the screening. Sorry, the department of the gaffer, the legal service, the facilities. We have therefore had a lot of help here. The merit therefore comes back to many people here. We had a higher participation rate for this August election than in 2024. We had 19,547 ballots against 18,566 in 2024. So, the numbers are increasing. Once again, as mentioned by McColl-Zarod, no double ballot has been received at the central counter, so a good process is in place. The USB keys containing the results were delivered to the county of Brown shortly after 9 p.m. I think it was at 9 p.m. Nous préparons les bulletins pour envoi le 17 septembre. Nous encourageons donc les gens à soumettre leurs demandes, notamment leurs demandes de vote par correspondance, ainsi que leurs bulletins, le plus tôt possible. Nous avons effectivement reçu, après cette élection, des bulletins qui nous sont parvenus après la date limite. Nous voulons donc nous assurer que cela ne se reproduise plus. Nous allons proposer quatre sites équipés d'iPad pour novembre, afin d'offrir plus d'opportunités aux citoyens d'aller voter. Et nous en étions à environ 263 agents électoraux pour l'élection d'août. E. Nous allons devoir porter ce nombre à près de 500 pour novembre. Donc, E. Nous sommes toujours à la recherche de personnes.

Karen appuie cette demande. Well, thank you to Prosecutor Kochard and Puk Menki for preparing this report, but especially for the excellent work done during the recent election and for the answer to the double bulletin problems. I really appreciate everything that you and your respective teams have done to put the city in a good situation here, and to emphasize that, you know, our elections are free, equitable and secure in the city of Green Bay. And despite, you know, some of these administrative errors that have actually taken place, This has never been questioned or endangered. But I really appreciate all the work that has been summarized here. Questions on behalf of the Council. Councilor Ritter-Bush. I just want to thank the former Celestine Jeffries for her services. You know, everyone makes mistakes. You know, we have to. Since she has been in this position, someone has been demanding her head and I sincerely thank her for her services. So, now, let's all vote. Thank you. I appreciate that, Mr. Councilor. Anything else? Inkster and Grant.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The only question I have and that I have not heard about, and I do not think I have read, there was a statement via the WEEC saying that we could not reprint the labels. Do we know if this is true or not? And has it been treated?

Yes, I don't know if the pharmacist Miquet wants to talk a little about the system and its real functioning.

Of course. So, unfortunately, you can print a label as many times as necessary. You create lots, and a lot cannot be created twice. So, if your name is in a lot, it will not appear in the next lot. However, this label can be reprinted, and there are several reasons why we sometimes have to reprint a label. You know, if it is placed and torn, or if the barcode is damaged. We must therefore have the possibility to reprint them. Moreover, the manual encourages you to register a PDF to be able to re-print it. So, once again, the names will not appear more than once in a lot, but this lot can be re-printed or individual labels can be. Thank you very much for this clarification. Aldegrande. Thank you. Do you know what led him to believe that some labels were missing during the June incident? Were the supplies exhausted? Were there any letters missing? I know you mentioned that it was in alphabetical order. What alerted him? Of course, I appreciate your question. As I came back to this point earlier, I may not have been complete enough. The labels, as we said, the lot had more than 5,000 requests, they were printed by the document center, and I apologize, I spoke earlier about the printing house. This entity exists right here at the Hôtel de Ville, as you all know. This is our staff from the Document Center, which we often call the printing house. These labels are printed on sheets and everything was generated from the PDF mentioned by Kirk Manley, then delivered here in boxes, which are essentially the original boxes. They were delivered to the office of the engraver. When they were examined, she opened the boxes, boxes 1, 2, 3 and 4. It was a fourth box, so the end of the lot. It appeared that some of the labels were missing in the box. I think I mentioned in my answers that at that time, these labels were already in the process of treatment. Although they were missing in the box, they were not absent from the process. But she didn't know it and re-printed these labels. Okay.

Thank you, MHM. Councilor Shelton, I just want to reiterate what Councilor Ritterbush said to support our former treasurer Celestine Jeffries, who has done a remarkable job in administering elections in very difficult conditions in recent years. I just want to remind everyone that there is absolutely no proof of irregularity that has influenced the results of our elections. You know, free and equitable elections are the cornerstone of American democracy. I would like to ask a question, perhaps to the attention of lawyer Koch or our new secretary. Could you reassure everyone, because I know this is the case, but I want everyone to be certain that none of these double correspondence ballot boxes have been counted twice and explain the procedures in place to guarantee this. Allez-y!

Pouvez-vous les peler? Oui, donc, il n'y a eu aucun bulletin en double reçu au centre de dépouillement et nous suivons un processus assez rigoureux. Les bulletins reçus quotidiennement étaient classés par ordre alphabétique chaque jour et placés dans des bacs par circonscription. Ils étaient ensuite vérifiés par rapport aux bulletins placés juste avant et juste après eux. Ainsi, à mesure que nous classions les bulletins par ordre alphabétique, nous vérifions ceux qui les précédaient et les suivaient. We then had a process in two stages where the person carrying out the first verification made sure that the certificate was compliant, that is to say that it met all the conditions. Another person then scanned it in our system, also ensuring that these conditions were respected. Then, they were again classified. Then, I printed a report every day to indicate the number of ballots received and check if this number corresponded to what was happening. In addition, we still have a day of preparation before the day of the election. This has always been the case. We print the list of all the bulletins that we should have and we check manually, name by name, circumscription by circumscription, to ensure that we have only one bulletin per person. In addition, at the polling station, a number is assigned to each voter in the electoral register and no second number can be delivered to him if we find a second bulletin, which has not happened.

Very well. Thank you very much for this detailed explanation, and thank you to you, to the lawyer Koch, and to all the municipal staff who, I know, have devoted a lot of time to ensure an appropriate response to the city. Really, thank you. Thank you, councillor. Other questions? Councilor Presley. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would also like to echo what Councilors Scudderbush and Shelton said to support former Secretary Jeffries. Hum, tout ce que j'apprends sur les élections à Green Bay me convainc, eux, de leur sûreté et de leur sécurité. La première fois que je me suis présenté, j'ai dû passer par une procédure de recontage et, rien qu'en voyant tous ces mécanismes, c'est tellement précis. Hum, il y a tellement de systèmes de sécurité. Le fait que nous l'ayons su si rapidement, hum, et, eux, comme vous nous l'avez assuré, eux, qu'il n'y a pas eu de double comptage de voix ou quoi que ce soit, je pense que cela devrait nous donner beaucoup de, hum, beaucoup d'assurance quant à la sécurité et à la bonne gestion de nos élections. Donc, eux, vous savez, la secrétaire Jeffries est au service de la ville depuis longtemps, hum, et a vraiment mis tout son cœur et son âme dans cette ville. They, and so, you know, taking a step back was, I think, his choice, and it made sense at the time. But I do not want this choice to be interpreted in any way, hum, as a confession of guilt, or as questioning our elections, except for the fact that they are safe, secure, free and equitable. So, here, I support Secretary Jeffries and our electoral process. Thank you. Anything else on the part of the Council? Very well, for that reason, we move on to the Complaint Committee, which consists of examining and potentially approving $ 750,000 additional in the area of tax increase number 22 for financing the attribution of the construction market of shipyard 2. Approval motion made by Councilor Delay, supported by Councilor Rutherbush. Any discussions on this? Fault de quoi ? Ceux qui sont pour diront pour. Pour. Les opposants. Contre. Les pour l'emportent. Et ce point est approuvé. Passons aux résolutions. Motion pour. Suspendre le règlement et traiter ces points par un seul vote par appel nominal, faite par le conseiller Profi, appuyé par la conseillère Delay. Des discussions là-dessus. Fault de quoi ? Ceux qui sont pour diront pour. Ceux qui sont contre. Les pour l'emportent. Le règlement est suspendu. Motion pour adopter. Motion pour adopter faite par le conseiller Profi, appuyé par la conseillère Delay. Des discussions là-dessus. For this reason, we will use the display panel. Very well, they are adopted unanimously, 4 to 0. Let's move on to the first reading of the orders.

Je propose de suspendre le règlement pour les points 1, 2, oh pardon. Je propose de suspendre le règlement pour les points 1, 2, puis de 4 à 6.

Très bien. Motion pour suspendre le règlement et examiner toutes les ordonnances à l'exception de 3.

Oui.

E. Cela est proposé par l'adjointe au maire Pruitt, secondé par l'adjoint Enkels. Tous ceux qui sont pour, veuillez manifester en disant pour, pour, contre, dites, contre. Les pour l'emportent. Le règlement est suspendu.

Motion pour faire avancer.

Motion to advance these ordinances, proposed by the adjointe Homère-Pruitt and seconded by the adjointe de Lys. A discussion on this, if no one asks for the word, all those who are for, say for, for, against, say against, the for take it. And these ordinances are passed to a second and last reading on the number 3. Je souhaite modifier l'ordonnance de zonage numéro 09-26 dans la section 1 du terme « zonage résidentiel à faible densité R1 » en « zonage résidentiel de bureau or ». E. C'est une erreur de plume. Nous devons juste changer l'ordonnance elle-même pour qu'elle corresponde à ce que nous voulions. D'accord. Y a-t-il un second pour cet amendement ? Secondé. Secondé par le conseiller prophète. Une discussion, si aucune, tous ceux qui sont pour, dites, pour, pour, contre, contre. Les pour l'emportent. Ce point a été modifié.

Motion pour avancer tel qu'amendé.

Motion pour avancer tel qu'amendé, proposée par le conseiller prophète. Secondé par le conseiller Henkels. D'autres discussions, si aucune, tous ceux qui sont pour, dites, pour, pour, contre, contre. Thank you all.