City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, we're going to call the common council meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Right up first on the agenda is the swearing in of new council members.

Okay. So we are going to do all of the new alder persons first. So all the new elected alder persons please stand. You all should have it in front of you to repeat it but I will read slowly. So right. I state your name. IC who has been elected to the office of alder who has been elected to the office of alder solemnly swear I will that I will support the constitution that I will support the constitution of the United States the United States and the constitution and the constitution of the state of Wisconsin

of the state of Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of set office will faithfully to the best of my ability. To the best of my ability. So God, congratulations. Please proceed. Congratulations. I state your name. I, Mark Carter, who has been elected to the office of mayor who has been elected to the office of mayor, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States of America and the Constitution and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin of the state of Wisconsin.

Will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of set office and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of set office to the best of my ability. to the best of my ability. So help me. So help me God. Thank you.

All right. Roll call has been taken. Correct. Yes. Thank you. Uh motion to adopt the agenda. Make so second. Motion made and seconded. Any further discussion, additions or corrections? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That motion's carried by all. Approval of 317 20226 and 324 2026 common council meeting minutes. Hold the person for Shay. I move to approve the 317 and 32426 common council meeting minutes. Tim Roberts second.

Motion made and seconded. Any further additions or corrections? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. That motion carried by all. Authorizing. Authorization to pay the bills. Mr. Dorsy. Yes, your honor. I make a motion to pay the bills in the amount of 1,489,697.25.

All the person seconds that motion. Motion made and seconded. Any additions or corrections? Hearing none, we'll do a roll call vote. Visaw, yes. Croy, yes. Bashet, yes. Hass, yes. Richie, yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsy, thorough, yes. Dorsy, yes. Roberts, yes. Yes. Bington, yes.

Motion carried by all. Moving right along into public comment. Public comment. One last time, public comment. Hearing none, we're rolling. Organizational meeting items. Um, we'll start off with the election of council president. I'll open up elections or uh nominations.

Richie, you'll make a motion to nominate John Hass second. Motion made and seconded. Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Hearing none, we will close nominations and please cast your ballot. There we go. unanimously. Mr. H. Congratulations.

Thanks everybody. All right. Next on the agenda, these need a motion and a second. Designate New London Press Star as official newspaper. I'll make a motion. Tim Roberts makes a motion to designate the 11 star as official newspaper. Mike Bington second. Motion made and seconded. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. Vis, yes. Croy, yes. Abstain. Hass, yes. Richie, yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsy, yes. Roberts, yes. Mowski, yes. Very good.

Yes. Nine yes and one. Nine yes and one abstension. Uh resolution designating public deposiitories makes that motion. John app second that motion. Motion been made and second and any further discussion hearing none. Roll call vote please. Pisaw. Yes. Croy. Yes. Pay. Yes. Hass. Yes. Richie. Yes. Hutchinson. Yes. Dorsy. Yes. Roberts. Yes. Yes. Darington.

Yes. Motion carried by all. Good. I'm good. Okay. Moving into appointment of committees and commissions and boards. Uh at this time, I'd like to make my mayoral appointments of standing committees. Stand as read in your packet. Uh the next one needs council confirmation of the planning commission appointments. So I need a motion and a second for that. Mike move has second. Motion made and second. Any further discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote please. Esau. Yes. Croy. Yes. Fashe. Yes. Richie. Yes.

Hutchinson. Yes. Dorsy, yes. Roberts, yes. Yes. Bington, yes. Motion carried by all. All right. Up next, Board of Public Works, Mr. Hess. Thank you, your honor. The

Board of Public Works met Monday, April 13th. Meaning is called to order at 5:15. Motion was made to approve the agenda and seconded, carried by all. There was no public input. uh wastewater treatment plants. The wastewater notes enclosed in the packet. Approval of the sanitary cleaning and televising for the 2026 to speedy clean. The bid tabulation for the 2026 sanitary sewer television program televising program was reviewed by the board. This is an annual program and part of a sanitary sewer budget. Director Garcy recommended the agreement to speedy clean with a low bid of $48,350. Motion made and second and cared by all. Approved to recommend to the agreement with outagami county for cost share of mil beacon project. Director karsski reviewed the agreement proposed by gaming county for the future mill street and beacon street project. Some elements were preliminary probable cost and show the items are a 50/50 split and any utility work are responsibility of the city. Motion made and seconded for the agreement with Algami County to cost share from Mil Beacon Street. Motion was carried by all. Approve recommend McMahon proposed for design on Mil Beacon project. Diretory Garski presented to the committee the man proposal to design Mill Street and Beacon Avenue project. Proposal was reviewed and approved by the Piggy County. This design will be for the roadway, curbon, gutter, and sidewalks would complement uh pedestrian ramps. The cost of elements will be at a 50/50 cost share. There is also design of the new sanitary system that will cost will be 100% new London responsibility. Motion made to recommend McMahon proposal for design on mil beacon project carried by all.

Recommend improved green dot sidewalk project to fish Jim Fischer for the amount of $44,975. Director Garski reviewed the bid tabulation for the project. Four four bids were received this year and Jim Fischer Incorporated came in with the lowest bid at $44,975. Motion made and seconded to approve the Green Dot sidewalk project to Jim Fischer in amount of $44,975. Motion carried by all. Next, approve and recommend agreement for Robert E. Lee and Associates for County Sandfill Monitoring Services. The proposal for the landfill monitoring has increased over the last several years. Request a request for proposals was sent out. Two bids were received and Robert E. Lee and Associates came as the lowest bid of 16,400. Tim Roberts asked for a clarification for the need of monitoring. This is requirement by the DNR and it requires semiannual to monitor the groundwater at the landfill. Motion made in second to recommend the agreement with Robert E. Lee and Associates for County Sandfill Monitoring Service. Motion carried 70. Director's report included a packets reviewed by the board anniversary Julie Gon custodian eight years of service Roman much wastewater operator two three years of service water main repairs required to low pressure on Oshkot Street and PDS PTS contractors came out to make the repairs that required a patch of the road to be cut out keeping up with the sandbags and Sanford residents future agenda items for the wastewater treatment plan updates Date and time for the next meeting board of public meeting will be May 4th at 5:15. No further action. Meeting was adjourned at 6:00.

Like to make a motion considering a contractor speedy clean for sanitary sewer cleaning and teleing. Motion made. Dave Dorsy. Second. Second by Dave Dorsy. Any further discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote, please. Pisaw, yes. Croy, yes. Shay, yes. Hass, yes. Richie, yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsy, yes. Roberts, yes. Redski, yes. Bington, yes. Motion carried by all. Make a motion consider approval of the agreement with outagami county department for cost share on the mill beacon street reconstruction project. Verington second.

Motion made second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote please. Yes. Croy. Yes. Yes. Has yes. Hutchinson. Yes. Dorsy. Yes. Roberts. Yes. Yes. and bearing. Yes. Motion carried by all. Next, I'd like to make a motion to consider approval of the agreement with McMahon for design services for the male beacon street reconstruction project. Motion second. Motion made and second by Mr. Richie. Any further discussion hearing? None. Roll call vote, please. Yes. Croy,

yes. Yes. Has Richie? Yes. Hutchinson. Yes. Dorsy, yes. Roberts, yes. Yes. Yes. Motion's also carried by all. Yes. Like to make motion considering waring a contract to Jim Fischer in the amount of $44,975 for the sidewalk replacements. Second. Motion made and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. Dis. Yes. Croy, yes. Bashet, hi. Pass, yes. Richie, yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsy, yes.

Roberts, yes. Yes. Bington, yes. Motion also carried by. Next, I make a motion consider approval of the agreement with Robert E. Lee and Associates for County S Landfill Monitoring Services. You saw a second. Motion made and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. Pisaw, yes. Croy, yes. Hi. Yes. Yes. Richie, yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsy, yes. Roberts, yes. Yes. Harington. Yes. Carried by all. That's all I have. Your honor. Thank you, Mr. R. Finance and Personnel. Mr. Dorsey.

Yes, your honor. Finance personnel committee met Wednesday on April 8th. Teams called the order at 5:15. Approve the meeting minutes from March 11th. There's no public comment. Administrator presented an amendment to the for a 2026 extension to the maintenance assessment contract. Motion was made to carry that. Council finance director brought forth a resolution declaring the official intent to reimburse expenditures for proceeds of future borrowing. purpose of this resolution is to allow the city to reverse itself for costs associated with projects and equipment up to the time of future borrowing. Currently, the fire department is looking to begin the bidding process for the purchase of fire pumper. Those results are then brought into future capital products meeting where the discussion and decision on that purchase would be decided. Motion made to bring that to council. Finance director reports are reviewed. Right. Director report was discussed and the meeting was no further business. We attended the meeting. Make a motion for to consider the approval of a contract amendment with survey group and company extending the accessor maintenance services for 2026 in the amount of $20,400.

Second. Motion made and second and any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. Yes. Croy, yes. Hi. H, yes. Muchie, yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsey, yes. Roberts, yes. Yes. Bington, yes. Motion carried by all. A motion to consider the approval of the resolution declaring official attempt to reimburse expenditures from proceeds of borrowing. Robert second. Motion made and seconded. Any further discussion? Hearing none, please cast your ballots. Bisoft, yes. Croy, yes. Hi.

H, yes. Yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsey, yes. Roberts, yes. Yes. Harington, yes. Motion carry 100. A motion to consider approval of a monthly license that's recommended for approval by the police department. Robert second. Motion made and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried by all. That is all I have, your honor. Thank you, Mr. Dorsy. Park and recreation, Mr. Vis.

Thank you, your honor. Park Committee met on Monday, April 6th, 5:45. Meeting was called to order at 5:15. Motion was made to approve the agenda. Motion carried by all. Motion 2nd to February 3rd meeting minutes. Motion is carried by all. Public input. There is none. Consider approval submitting request to DNR for swap of stewardship land in New London Nature's Area. Director Soul noted that the city has received a swap request to swap a portion of the London nature area for adjacent private land. Swap involves 11.26 acres in a total 94 acre parkland. developers representing requests wish to join the two private properties into one. Doing this would allow for a more efficient use of land for access and meeting any emergency requirements for development. Motion was made and second to consider approving the submitting request for DNR swap stewardship plant in the London nature area. Motion was carried 12 to1 art league sculpture request and agreement. Director Saul brought to committee a sculpture request agreement from the wolf river art. Kelly Pollson the organization was introduced and presented to address any questions. Sculpture does follow the guidelines that have been set along as being a natural nature subject. Final placement has not been determined but a couple of locations are being considered. Motion was made and seconded to approve the wolfer league sculpture request. Motion carried 130. Discussion the sled location options. Director Soul presented to the committee standard site brief requests considerations for a good location and what we have available within the city that may accommodate the needs for this sled. preference site voiced by the members of Hatton Park is determined to get some

further information from the historical society as the probability of being able to then proceed there or to have to designate another location. No motion or vote was made. Consider approval resolution authorizing application submitted vibrant grants space. This application would be applied for funding to renovate and upgrade front patios space of the Hatton Pavilion. Upgrades would include asphalt removal, concrete placement, installation of propane fire pits, and overhead lighting. This would allow for an extended hours for use during the fall season. Motion was made to consider to approval a resolution authorizing the application submitt of the WEDC vibrant grant. Motion was carried 130. Director's report was in the agenda packet and was reviewed by the committee. Additional comments as follows. Staff recognization. Lori Schneider, seven years senior program and transit service supervisor retiring soon. Renewal of Tree City and Bird City designed designations. Meeting with the NLGSA and Lions Club related to concessions at N Memorial Park. NLG YSA withdrawing upgrade bathroom project for Memorial Park. Continue working on future projects such as the Pearl Street and Riverside Trail easement. Thank you to the New London youth for a donation of equipment to the aquatic and fitness center. Chairman's report was done. Future agenda items in the sled wiper park sturgeon agreement. The next park and rec committee meeting be on May 5th at 5:15. Being no further things to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 6:21. Motion was carried by all. Look for a

consider approval a resolution authorizing the submitt of the WC vibrant space grant. Appreciate any seconds. Motion made and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. Yes. Croy, yes. Hi. Has yes. Richie, yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsy, yes. Roberts, yes. Yes. Clearington, yes. Motion's carry 100. We need to consider the approval submitting task for WDNR for swap stewardship land.

No, we're just getting the information about that. So if that comes to fruition that we can do it then that'll come back for consideration. So an agreement would have to be approved before that would be finalized. I guess that's all I have for Thank you, Mr. Visaw. Planning Commission. Mr. Richie, there was no March meeting, your honor. Thank you, Mr. Richie. Economic Development Committee, Miss Croy.

Thank you, your honor. The New London Economic Development Committee meeting was on Wednesday, March 24th, and was called to order at 5:15. The minutes from February 24th were reviewed and approved by all. There was no public comment. Croy led a discussion on a Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation state of downtown report. The document referenced 41 communities in Wisconsin and placed their downtowns in one of three types of community classifications, emerging, growing, or established. Each classification provided insight on analyzing stages stages of downtown growth. The report talked about the importance of downtown h housing, vibrancy, resilience, placemaking, and overall economy. The committee talked about how New London relates in some of the categories, the great events being bringing in visitors and recent beautifification efforts. Committee members were asked to think about future opportunities for the downtown. Parks and Recreation Director Soul asked about an implementation study proposal provided by heirs and associates which could continue planning starting from the Spark placemaking report. The proposal talked about steps for planning, public input, cost estimates and design. Formal design plans and cost estimates would be needed for grant opportunities. The committee discussed the benefits publishing an request for proposals document versus just hiring heirs and associates to continue the work. The motion was made to obtain an agreement for consideration from heirs and associates based on the

implementation study proposal for the city's property located south of the Wolfford. That motion carried 14 to one. No chamber report was provided for the month. Administrator Hearth reported that he and community development director Dibs were invited to a meeting with the Realators Association of Northeast Wisconsin to talk about developments and opportunities in New London. It was a positive conversation with connections made with local developers. SA Swederski is planning a ribbon cutting event for their new downtown development on June 9th. Future agenda items were reviewed. The next meeting is anticipated to be held on April 28th. The um meeting motion was made to adjourn the meeting at 6:23 p.m. And that motion carried 150.

And that is all I have your honor.

Thank you, Miss Troy. Minutes and reports will stand as read in your packet. Moving along to reports of officers and recent events and announcements to the public. Uh we're mayor is up first. I have a couple things to read tonight. Uh starting with the municipal disaster proclamation. Whereas a disaster namely namely severe flooding from melting snow and recent heavy rains is impacting the city of New London, Wisconsin and out and Waka counties starting April 13th, 2026. Whereas because of such emergency conditions, the common council is unable to meet with promptness. Now therefore, be it resolved, pursuant to Wisconsin State Statute 323.14, subsection 4, subsection B2, as chief elected official of the city of New London, I do hereby proclaim a state of emergency in effect until further notice. In testimony whereof, I have here onto set my hand gone at 11:00 a.m. this 15th day of April, 2026. Next, we have a curfew order. On April 15, 2026, the mayor of city of New London issued an emergency proclamation. Pursuant to such authority, the mayor has the ability to do all that is necessary to protect the welfare and property of the community. Pursuant to section 323.14 subsection 4 subsection 8, the mayor has been advised by chief of police of the need to declare a curfew to provide such protection in specific areas of the city. I have determined such information to be accurate and reliable. I specifically find that a curfew restricting access to various areas within the city of New London is

required and is best implemented by the sworn officers of the city. Therefore, I, Marker, mayor of the city of New London, do hereby authorize and delegate to Josh Wilson, chief of police of the city of New London, the the specific authority to determine and specify the location and duration of any curfews and to provide reasonable notice of such restrictions. This grant shall have the force of law subject to arrest, fines, and forth bridger. This authority shall be liberally cons construed to effectu effectuate the protection of the community. This authority shall extend during the time period of the emergency declaration or until modified by the undersign. Right. The 34th annual stamp out hunger book. Oh, yeah. Got it.

All right. Yep. I skipped over them. Consider approval of municipal disaster resolution. Keith, do you want to kind of explain the whole process? Sure. This why we're doing this.

Okay. So, the mayor as chief elected officer has the ability when the council is not available due to a timeline to uh make a proclamation. And that's what he did. Okay. So he makes that proclamation now and then under that proclamation he authorized the chief to have specific authority then to issue the curfew as one of the orders. He could have spent money could have done whatever needed to done be done during that proclamation time which is still in existence. He has the ability to do everything that needs to be done. Now it comes to you to essentially ratify or change it. Nothing you can do though can overturn a decision. So let's just say the mayor said, "I'm going to spend X dollars because I have to do something to protect the building." If he does that, that's not a decision that the council can overturn because he did what he had to do under his emergency declaration or proclamation, excuse me. Now what this does is essentially hopefully ratifies what was done just from a belts and suspenders things. That's what the statute provides and then continues the declaration essentially making now a declaration of the uh council and also specifically authorizing the mayor to continue to do what needs to be done in the interim.

Thank you. And then part of that is because having these declarations in in force hopefully will give us the opportunity if there's any external funding available for disaster relief because these are in place allows us to apply for those if they become available. We needed to put those in place to hopefully set ourselves up if things become available. And really to authorize a big one is the curfew is that without that we didn't have the legal authority to give Chief Wilson the ability to do what he had to do. Dave Garc motion first. I got to make a motion. Yeah.

Dave Garcio will make a motion to approve a municipal disaster resolution. So second motion made and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call vote, please. Fisoft, yes. Croy, absolutely. Fashe, yes. Richie, yes. Hutchinson, yes. Dorsy, yes. Roberts, yes. Yes. Bington, yes.

Motion carried 100. Thank you. Now, get some official proclamation of the 34th annual letter carrier stamp out hunger food drive. Whereas hunger affects millions of people nationwide, including children, seniors, and military veterans. And whereas food insecurity remains an important concern for our community, our state, and our nation. And whereas food pantry shelves filled from winter holiday giving are often bare in late spring. And whereas many school meal programs end in the summertime, leaving families of schoolage children needing to find alternate sources of food. And whereas on the second Saturday of each year, second Saturday of May in each year, letter carriers across the country collect non-p perishable food items and donate the items to local food banks as part of the nation's largest one-day food drive. And whereas we recognize all letter carriers for their hard work and their commitment to their communities, the letter carriers stamp out hunger food drive is just one example of how letter carriers work to make a difference in the lives of those they serve. Whereas since the pilot drive was held in 1991, more than 1.94 billion pounds of food have been collected and all food collection collected in our community stays in our community. We support letter carriers efforts to help those in need in our community. And now therefore, I, the mayor of the city of New London, Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me, do hereby proclaim the 9th day of May 2026 as letter carriers food drive day in the city of New London. And further, I encourage the citizens of our community to support the food drive by placing

non-p perishable food items in or near your mail b mailbox on food drive day. Your letter carrier and their designated volunteers will pick up the donations while delivering the mail and together we can help stamp out hunger in our communities. Sign this 21st day of April, 2026. And with that, I've I've uh given our recent events. I've prepared a little um note as well. As we continue through this historic flooding event in New London, I want to extend my deepest gratitude to our incredible community. The outpouring the outpouring of support, volunteers, donations, and neighbors helping neighbors has shown the true strength of our city. Thank you to our city staff, emergency responders, public work crews, and all agencies working long hours, difficult conditions to protect lives, property, and critical services. Your dedication does not go unnoticed. My heart is also with the families, residents, and business owners who have been impacted impacted by this flood. We recognize the hardship, stress, and uncertainty many are facing right now. New London has always been a resilient community and together we will continue to support one another, recover and move forward stronger than before. New London strong. That is all I have. With that, we will move on to the city administrator, Mr. Herd.

Thank you, honor. I'm going to piggyback off the mayor's comments regarding our recent flooding event. Um, I'm just going to take a lot of opportunity to say thank you. Um, I'm probably going to miss a bunch because this community really came together stronger than we've ever seen before. First off, our staff. Normally on a day-to-day basis, we are definitely short staff. Throw in a record-breaking natural disaster that easily could have been backbreaking for us. I'm extremely proud to say our staff stepped up and probably gave more than they ever have before. Um, there were some long hours um since we've been working last Wednesday. Some of our staff worked 24 hours watch pumps to ensure public facilities were not flooding. police and fire department employees working extra shifts for public safety. Wastewater treatment plant um employees holding the plant together with record um sewage flows. I don't know if it was duct tape or zip ties or what, but that that place was um it was it was there. So, they did a great job plant. Um other staff taking the lead in on a massive sandbag production process. countless hours providing dozens and dozens of announcements on social media and our website to keep people up to speed. I know I'm missing um staff, but our staff stepped up big time and I want to thank them for what they've done. Um but unfortunately, we still have a lot of work ahead of us and it's going to be a long recovery. Um I also want to say thank you to other agencies, both the sheriff's department, both counties, the county health department, the DNR, the state patrol, Waki County Emergency Management. We had many resources come to our community and city in our incident command center u helping us with the situation and assist with rescues if they came in. Um the school district were allowing us to use their administration building for our incident command center. Um as the municipal building the police departments were not accessible. We had businesses like Shamrock Heights and Pac Automotive allow us to take over some of their spaces and we had to split our emergency response resources on both sides of the

river because we were cut off from the flooding. and to the community. You came together like you've never had before. Hundreds of volunteers helped us produce over 55,000 sandbags to help our neighbors um and downtown businesses. All the people in the businesses that donate food has donated food. No one went hungry. I mean, there was a massive amount of food that came in. A massive amount of people volunteered. Um and I used this word before. This was a massive undertaking and this community stepped up. New London has a long road ahead of us. We have had hundreds of people who have had major damage to their homes and we still need people to step up in the upcoming weeks and months. So, please be patient with us as we get in this transition and recovery and help us provide assistance to those that are needed. I'm also very proud of our staff and the communication we provided during this event. It was phenomenal. I think we've done a great job and Katie spent so much time putting out information and just getting the word out. Um, we've now created a web page specifically on our city's website to provide a ton of addition additional information for recovery purposes. In the in the past, we were in the past couple of days, we've been just doing social media, but now since we're going from um incident and recovery to incident and recovery to um helping people with their resources, we're going to start putting that on the website. So, that information is a one-stop shop. So, check out our um web page for that on the city's website. Um, but keep an eye on things. We're going to be comm we're going to be coming out with updates on sandbag removal. That's questions that people had on social media. Uh, debris disposal. We've got a lot of homes that are going to have some damages that they want to get rid of. We're making a plan to help them with dumpsters with that. And obviously the Wii Energy's natural gas restoration. A lot of questions. We'll continue to pump out information as we get to that. For those who have been displaced and need assistance, um,

please start by calling 211. That is your one-stop shop for getting everything that you need. They put you on a ticket and they help you out with that. So, call 211 if you need it. Um, if you need any assistance. That's all I have. Thank you, Mr. H. Chief of Police. Uh, Chief Wilson.

Thank you, your honor. Going to echo a little bit uh what you guys have said. Uh, the easy one, Luke Curtis. Congratulations. He's uh eight years in the department now. So, I want to acknowledge that. So, ask for everybody's patience with the road closures. We are just as excited as everybody else to start opening the roads. Uh, you'll notice that we Energies is out driving around on the closed roads. That priority is to get the gas hooked up on the houses. So, that's why you see those vehicles out with special permission through the barricaded areas. That's not for civilian traffic. We're working hard with Robert and his staff to get the roads open when appropriate. Uh, and then I just have uh the thank yous as well. Um, Jinger with the sand making effort. That was pretty incredible for those of you who were able to able to volunteer with that or see that undertaking going on, the amount of volunteers, sand, and the equipment that went with that. So, uh, thank you, uh, Katie working through this, getting the information out, uh, live. It was very beneficial. probably mayor attest to and Katie being part of these meetings and as events unfolded getting this information out accurately and quickly. Uh so it was very beneficial. She did outstanding job. Robert, your crew with the help with the barricades, bobs, uh things to block out traffic, keeping it safe for everybody as well as the flood waters as they increase and decrease adjusting things on the fly. Um, look for tomorrow the re-entry plan into the flooded area we know is the fifth ward behind the police department west of Shyakton Street. So, look for that to come out tomorrow. Katie and I are going to work on the map and the information for that. Probably missed a few, but a special shout out to Zach Vanas. He's the emergency management director for Waka County. He hit it out

of the park for us arranging all these resources for us from DNR, sheriff's departments, um, whatever he needed. He was the guy. So that your honor, that's all I have. Thank you, Chief. Director of public works, Mr. Garski.

Thank you, your honor. Um, go back to the duct tape comment. There was actually a incident in lift station number four where one of the pipes started malfunctioning. They ran up to Walmart, got some Flex Seal, and it did work. Kept the water flow off that float and that pump could function properly. Um, with all the thank yous and everything, and everybody covered everything and and and a shout out to to all the crews. Um, I want to focus on um, one, the wastewater element. Um, we did not have to do any emergency dump. There was not an overflow as uh reported by somebody that called in to the DNR. Um, it ran um it ran at 100% for 5 days. It is still running at 100%. And what that means is we have four pumps at the head of the plant. And these four pumps um usually function one pump at 30% and they cycle on a 5h hour increment. All four of those pumps are running at 100% to keep up, which equals anywhere between 6.1 and I think uh two days ago we almost recorded 8 million gallons going through that plant. Um the effort the staff put in uh wastewater staff running to these lift stations. Having hard access to the lift stations and trying to figure out how to get to them to keep those functioning properly was an undertaking in itself and they did a

phenomenal job. Um, like I said, no reportable violations at the plant and as long as those pumps keep running, we should be okay as it's starting to recede a little bit. Um, as far as bridge inspections go. Um, tomorrow Waka County will be in here inspecting the northern bridge that kind of goes over that canal on Shauno Street. Um I'm hoping that they'll be able to provide good news and that will be one that will pass and that will further uh the entry effort to get this uh north south traffic going. Um there's still a lot of road inspections in areas that are covered with water. That'll take a little bit of time. the bridge inspection out at East North Water Street. That one will be done tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully, we have water levels low enough that they can do the proper inspection on that bridge. Um the uh East North Water Street is starting to peek out kind of towards Pearl Street. So, I will be out there this uh early tomorrow morning to check out that roadway. Um it is beat up pretty bad. um with all the cracks and uh the open seams in that area and that ground saturation. It's kind of compared to if you were to receive like a inch and a half in a farm field and you go to walk through it uh two hours later and how you squish through it. But if you give it two days, you can walk across it once it's dried up. We're not going to

wait till it gets to that level, but we have to get it to the point where any vehicle traffic that goes over it doesn't immediately start to um wheel rut and start to push up the asphalt. So, um hopefully we can get a good eye on that tomorrow morning and and that will help with the effort too as far as traffic to and from the north south side. Um, I also want to give a a big shout out to the PD as far as um helping us out. I mean, they were there instantly to to give us that support, to give us that coverage so we could get our barricading done. Um, the communication back and forth, the opportunity to kind of see their side of things, too. Um, over the last four or five days has been outstanding. It's it's it's great to see the effort that they put in. So, and the and the public works staff um facility staff uh the hours they put in to to keep city- owned property um not so much dry, but as much effort they could to keep as much area dry as possible and the work they put in. Um, yeah. I I know I'm missing a ton, too, but just just a huge thanks. So, that's all I have for tonight, your honor.

Thank you, Mr. Garski. Director of park and wreck, Miss Soul.

Thank you, your honor. I may sound like a broken record at this point, but I just want to specifically highlight the number of volunteers that showed up um to work the sandbagging operations, the companies that paid their staff to come and work, the school district that allowed the students to come for weightlifting classes, the families that came together, and the older generation that said, "I can't just sit at home and not do something when knowing that they could come down and help the best that they ood. It was during the most heartbreaking time in the community and yet the most heartwarming time in the community. And I just want to thank anybody and everybody that showed up, whether it was the little old lady that came with a bag full of sandwiches that she made, you know, and just said I had to do something. So, I just want to thank them all for coming. Um, that was really spectacular thing to see. Um in the parks department, uh Feifer Memorial Park were both greatly affected by the flood waters and will be closed until further notice. Um you have to remember that these P parks were both built on um dump sites. So there's going to be a lot of settling after the weight of that water comes off of that turf. Um I was down to Fifer today and my foot went down. I couldn't touch the bottom of the hole. So, you just have to we're going to have to see what that looks like once the water comes down. Um, Katton Park is we've as we've mentioned is currently used by the Wii Energies as their staging zone for recovery work. They have requested that it is closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic. So, we ask that the public does stay away from Hatton Park. There will be a lot of traffic. Um, just remember this as well when dropping off and picking up children from the schools. That's a

pretty busy zone over there. Um, and then recreation programming and the aquatic and fitness center will be closed until further notice. We do hope to get back to um, business as usual as soon as the staff is able to travel safely to work. So, that's kind of what we're basing that on. So, other than that, just that's it. Thank you, Miss S. Thank you, director of community development, Mr. Dee.

Thank you, your honor. Uh wanted to take one last opportunity to just express how thoroughly amazed uh I was with this community being someone that was um newer here um still learning uh still learning what is all about. Um it really really cool to see this community come together. Um as Jinger touched on, whether people were filling sand sandbags or simply coming and bringing food for our volunteers, it was really really cool to see that. Um, and I'm excited and proud to say that I work for a community like this. So, um, with the events of last week, I also want to take an opportunity to talk about, um, some things that we're going to see coming forward here as we move into recovery and cleanup, um, and what it means for some of our property owners that were affected by the floods. Uh, first off, and Chad kind of touched on this a little bit, um, for people that are without gas service at this time, um, the energies to hopefully, um, get service back to those people affected. Um but people that were affected by floods um will need to look at uh whether their appliances were affected and look at getting a a license HVAC technician to sign off on that before we enter school. More information on that is coming. Um keep an eye on the city social media and any communication from the energies but want to put that out there that that may be a requirement for some people. Um, next up, as many of you have seen, with the extent of the flood waters in the city, uh, we have a lot of properties that are located within Fort within our city limits. Um, with that, uh, comes rules and regulations for getting these properties cleaned up and fixed. Um, for these properties located within the foot plane, um, many of them are what we consider non-conforming. And what that means when it comes to float plane and footpoint zoning is that these properties were legally established, placed legally at the time, footpoint regulations came in after that. Um these properties are legally there, able to be maintained, um able to be there. However, um when issues happen like this where floods come in, disasters come in,

um repairs need to occur, there's something that applies called the 50% rule. And this 50% rule comes from state statutes and local ordinances um which essentially places the limits on how much these non-conforming structures can be prepared. Um I didn't want to go too far into tonight because it's it's a detailed and technical standard that has a lot of different uh nuances to it. Um but essentially what it means is that um properties that are considered non-performing in nature within a flood plane to low or lower than the original flood elevation um essentially are only able to improve their value up to 50% of what they assessed at and equalize assessed value. So, as we move forward and people are looking to restore um these homes that were affected, uh rebuild, renovate, um I encourage people to reach out to our department um for information and we'll be putting out some information as well. Um but, uh you know, there there will be rules and regulations that we need to look at doing from city staff. It's important to educate our community members on the community can do uh going forward. We're here to help. So, uh, on a lighter notes, uh, community development issued 19 permits in March. Uh, we're up to 51, uh, for the year through March, and we already issued a couple permits this month for single family homes. So, development is still happening. Um, ask any questions, please.

Thank you, Mr. Dee. Utilities manager, Mr. Besset.

Thank you, your honor. A couple outages to back up and report on April 2nd. Around 10 a.m. we had 130 customers see a breaker operation out of main sub. 30 customers were out for a period when crews had to repair some primary that had gone down. Uh due to that ice storm we also had a broken pole affecting a couple meters and then a handful about 10 services that needed electricians for restoration. Uh we also had an outage on 411 affecting approximately 360 customers. Greger 82 at Warner sub operated at 11:41. We restored power at 10:08 p.m. and a squirrel was the cause of that outage. Uh, last, I'd like to report that we had zero outages during our flood event. We disconnected 29 meters at the request of our customers. We had one call for a tree on a wire, but crews removed the branch and the customer never seen an outage. Our shop came within one inch of flooding, but we remained dry throughout the event. I'd like to sincerely thank the city and the police department for the communication and the constant updating through this ordeal. Uh I'm extremely proud to be the manager of a great group of employees that have built and maintained a water and electric system that um through total service to our customers during a 100red-year flood event experience. We maintained that service through that 100red-year flood event. Um and last, I'd like to recognize Matt Abba for six years of service this month to the utilities. That's all I have.

Thank you, Mr. Besset. And that's an outstanding effort as well. Thank you. All right. With that, we move on to a motion of adjournment. Motion made and seconded. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carried. We are adjourned. Good job.