Common Council - Regular Meeting

Oops. There we go. Call to order the meeting of our common council for Tuesday, November 18th. Clerk. Thank you, honor. We have 10 members present in civic clerk. Alders Galvin and Stevens are attending remotely and is excused and I believe we await. All right. Thank you, clerk. Now, please rise for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing. Actually, you can be seated for invocation. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation, indivisible for all. All right. And we will just do a moment of quiet contemplation. All right. Thank you. On to approval of the agenda. Motion to approve made by Alder Profett. Second by Alder Presley. Any changes? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Nay. The eyes have it. The agenda is approved. report by the mayor. Um just very quickly echoing some of the thoughts that I shared at the last meeting. Just really appreciate all the work from our finance team from director Ellen Becker and assistant director Jose um and all of our senior staff and and staff across the board, the alders who have taken the time to dig into the document, especially our um personnel and finance committees uh chair grant for the the meeting that was the run and questions posed by alders. So thanks all around. We just appreciate approval on our budget uh announcements. All right, seeing none, we'll go one by one on the report of the Joint Finance Personnel Committee from Yeah, go ahead. Um, thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to

remind everybody that the the um holiday parade is this Saturday and um the Green Bay neighborhoods is looking for more people to walk with. I'd say their float, but it's really a it's a truck. But anyway, dressed like Rudolph, but anyway, you know, so more the marrier. Thank you. Yeah, a few of us will will be there, including uh Chris Kringle. So, it'll be fun. Uh report of the Joint Finance Personnel Committee from November 13th, 2025. One is to approve the request for new positions in 2026 and reclassifications. Motion to approve by Alder Profett, seconded by Alder Presley. Discussion here seeing none. All in favor say I. Oppos. The eyes have it. And that item has been approved. Item two is to approve the mayor's recommended 2026 budget as proposed. Motion to approve made by Alder Profett. Seconded by Alder Hinkis. Discussion on that. Thank you. Um before we uh pass this or discuss it further, um Attorney Colchart reminds me that uh that we do need a public hearing on this item. So just to make it clear, uh if anybody would like to address the council on the budget, um that now would be your time to do that. So feel free to to let us know. Is anyone here to speak to this item? Anyone here to speak to this item? All right. Nobody here. Clerk, would you let the record reflect that? Thanks for the reminder, attorney. Need a mute there. Um, any discussion on item two, Alder Grant? And I apologize, not necessarily discussion, but just a note. Um, something dawned on me after our meeting when we approved the increase in

licensing fees. I did have a discussion with John Leroy and I just wanted to state it. I was concerned that um after we had amended the zoning which in many instances reduced the number of cups and puds needed those fees had doubled in the adjustment. So I did confirm with John that some things that prior did not require those now do. So he is comfortable with the proposed increased fees that the offset of the items that no longer need a cup and beauty would be made up for by the things that now require it if that makes sense. But with doubling that fee and that being a larger chunk, I wanted to make sure that that was accurately projected in the budget. So that's all. Thank you. No, great point. Thanks for making it. Any others, Johnson? Right. I issued the challenge to Alder Grant that she couldn't beat the record of 20 minutes. I'm going to filibuster if there's no stretch here. No. And and maybe I would just make a comment because it doesn't sound like there's any amendments forthcoming, but I don't want to presume, but it just uh I I do think this is a very responsible budget. It it not only, you know, keeps us in pace with with where we need to be with some of the adjustments in our cost, but um it's a very bare bones thing. there's there's not a lot of flash here and I know the mayor said that in his um description and I think that long term we've got to continue to have some of those real serious conversations about our over reliance on property taxes. Uh so I think uh many of us if not most of us are in alignment with the mayor on on that as well and it's a different form to address that. But I just wanted to thank the mayor and the staff for uh once again putting together what what I think is a very responsible budget that serves the best interests of the residents but also um puts high quality services at at the front of that uh priority list. So thank you.

Thanks Alder. Any other comments? Seeing none. All in favor will say I. Oppos? Nay. The eyes have it. That item has been approved. Item three to approve the 2026 borrow request as amended. Motion to approve made by Alder Presley, seconded by Alder Profett. Discussion here. Seeing none. All in favor will say I. I. Post nay. The eyes have it. That item has been approved. Four to the 2026 2030 capital improvement plan. Motion to approve made by Alder Presley. Seconded by Alder Profit, Alder Johnson. Uh so the finance committee had made a motion to amend uh regarding the Adam Street, Washington Street reconstruction projects. Mayor and I spoke afterwards uh suggested that perhaps dropping in engineering costs the year prior to the proposed work could make sense in terms of balancing out really the the two-step process that would be involved there. Uh what I realized when looking at the amount that we had put into the CIP of 2.35ish million is that did include engineering costs. So I'm going to just make a motion to amend to split that. I believe we put at finance meeting we put the 2.35 actually we rounded it to 2.4 right uh we put that in year 28 and so I would just leave that there but I would the the amendment would be to reduce that to 2.4 four and then put $400,000 for engineering costs in 2027. Reduce it to two or I'm sorry, reduce it to 2 million and then the uh Yes. So 2 million in 28 and then 400,000 in 27. Got it. Is there a second for that amendment?

Seconded by Elder Profit. Any more discussion on that? reference on here where there's a lot of attachments. Just trying to find where you're referring to. Is there a specific spot? So, I don't know if staff had an opportunity to update the document. Looks like um director's nodding. Would there be still some place to update? Okay. Yeah. Director Alen Becker. Sure. There's 118 Oh, I found it. Director, that's one place to find it. In this one, Num council packet, you do not have a paper copy of the CIP book in front of you. Oh, okay. So if you're under the within the packet if you hit the three CIP summary 26 2030 11825 and then it would be on page seven and it's under tiff. There's currently 2.4 million under 28. So I'm proposing to amend that to 2 million and then 400,000 under 27. Okay. A lot of numbers. That amendment had a a second. Any

further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Nay. The eyes have it. That item has been amended. Motion to approve as amended by Alder Profett. Seconded by Alder Hankfist. Discussion on that? Seeing none. All in favor say I. I. Post. Nay. The eyes have it. And that item has been approved as amended. Resolutions. Alder Johnson makes a motion to suspend the rules, take up these items with one roll call vote. Is there second by Alder E. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Post nay. You guys have the rules suspended. Motion to adopt me by Alder Presley, second by Alder Profett. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll use the board. Jeff, I'll be a yes. That was Steven. I would be a yes also. All right. And those items are adopted unanimously. Committee of the whole for consideration possible action on a request from Moski Corporation to consent of the collateral assignment of development agreement 2025-04 to Associated Bank for 1116 Hobart Drive multif family development motion to

approvement by Alder Johnson seconded by Alder Hankfist. Any discussion on that? Seeing none. All in favor say I. Opposate. The eyes have it. Uh item two for consideration possible action on general ordinance 34-25 relating to animals prohibited in city parks and farmers market locations. Um yeah, Alder profit on that. Um this just looks a little different I feel like um from what we typically see and I just want to ensure if it needs to go through a second reading that I would like to propose a first and final. Is this something that would require a second reading at a later date? cuz I know they're they're rearing and ready to go and I have a neighborhood to answer to that's been begging for this for a while. So, I'd like to get it approved tonight if possible. Yeah. So, we could definitely do a first and final suspension of the rules. Um and just for for um those who are wondering why this is before us. Um the good great news is we have a brand new dog park in the city of Green Bay and so generally speaking, animals are prohibited from our parks, but we need exceptions for our dog parks. Uh Whitney is the the only one existing. Um, so we're adding that exception for Meer Park here. Um, so any additional comments from either Attorney Kart or Director Ditchite? I'd make a motion to suspend the rules then take it up as one first and final reading. Alder profit makes a motion to suspend the rules and do a first and final reading on this ordinance as seconded by Alder Johnson. Discussion on that. All in favor will say I. I post nay. You guys have it. The rules are suspended. Motion to adopt made by Alder Profett. Second by Alder Johnson. Discussion here. Seeing none, we'll use the board.

Yes. Thank you. Yes. For Galvin. Thank you. All right. That's unanimous. 10. Petitions and communications. Journment. Motion to adjurnn. Made by Alder Profett. Second by Alder Presley. All in favor say I. Post. Nay. The eyes have it. We're adjourned. Thanks everyone. You got it. extra and a late start. I was going to stop and ask about the