Judiciary & Legislation Committee - Regular Meeting

Operational. My name is Frank Bach, and I'm the president of the Board of City Service Commissioners. The first item on today's agenda is the call to order. This April 21 meeting of the Board of City Service Commissioners is called to order. The next item is the roll call. Would the executive secretary please call the roll?

Vice president Miller? Present. Commissioner Cleary?

Yes.

Commissioner Smith?

Present.

Commissioner Woodsboro?

Present.

President Buck?

Present. Five present. Thank you. Next item, please.

Item number three, file number 252175. Communication for the approval of the 04/08/2025 CSC meeting minutes.

Commissioners, do you have any comments or questions concerning the proposed minutes? No. No.

That might have been me. I move approval. I second.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the proposed minutes of the April 8 meeting. I'll pull the commissioners. Commissioner Miller? Yes. Commissioner Smith? Yes. Commissioner Cleary?

Yes.

Commissioner Wickesboro?

Yes.

The minutes are approved as submitted. Next item, please.

Item number four, file number 252178. Communication from the Milwaukee Waterworks to extend the temporary appointment for Armando Lopez, water field supervisor for ninety days from 04/26/2026 through 08/01/2026. This is the first extension request.

Commissioners, prior to the meeting, we received a letter from Jane Islow, waterworks administration manager, who explains that the regular incumbent is on injury leave and does not yet have a projected return to return date. They also provided temporary appointment paperwork and a job description. Do commissioners have any comments or questions?

No. No. No. I'm I move with grant approval.

I second. It's been

moved and seconded to approve the request to extend this temporary appointment. I'll pull the commissioners. Commissioner Miller? Yes. Commissioner Smith?

Yes.

Commissioner Cleary? Yes. Commissioner Wickesboro? Yes. The request is approved. Next item, please.

Item five, file number 252180. Communication from the Milwaukee Waterworks to extend the temporary appointments for Richard VanRieper Junior and Timothy Edwards, water field supervisor for ninety days from 04/26/2026 through 08/01/2026. This is the first extension request.

Prior to the meeting, commissioners, we received a letter from Jane Islow, waterworks administration manager, who made this request for the following two reasons. One was to provide adequate supervision of field operations, but also to give these two employees more supervisory experience for possible future promotional opportunities. They provided a temporary appointment paperwork and job description. Do commissioners have any comments or questions? No. No.

I move approval. I second.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the request to extend these two temporary appointments. I'll pull the commissioners. Commissioner Miller? Yes. Commissioner Smith? Yes. Commissioner Cleary?

Yes.

Commissioner. Park?

Yes. The

request is approved. Next item, please.

Item six, file number 252176. Communication for the review of the Department of Employee Relations 2025 annual report of activities.

Commissioners, do you have any comments or questions regarding the, annual report for last year?

No. Other than to say it's a very nice summary of all of the activities, and I appreciate seeing it.

President Buck? Yes. Commissioner.

I was I I hadn't remembered seeing a report like this in the past, but I'm sure I have. But I was interested to see the number of discipline and discharge hearings that we heard on top of the 30 meetings that we held. I thought that was a very interesting perspective to look at. I hadn't done the math to figure it out myself.

Well, someone did a nice job of gathering all of that data, and I appreciated it.

And I'm sure Jackie Carter is using this information very well to advocate on our behalf.

Noted. And and I will say, the credit for putting this together goes to Ms. Moore. We met with president Bach and talked a little bit about, just some some of the things that we wanna see going forward and how we kinda tighten up the way that we operate. And so this was one of the things that came out of that It's a report that, was once before you, and so we're bringing it back.

Absolutely. Thank you.

What's that is, is there a motion to approve the report? So

moved. I second.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the 2025 annual report. I'll pull the commissioners. Commissioner Miller? Yes. Commissioner Smith?

Yes.

Commissioner Cleary? Yes. Commissioner Wickesboro?

Yes.

The report is approved, and staff will follow through to see that it's forwarded in con in conformity with the statute.

Absolutely. The next item, please. Item number seven, file number two 52181. Communication from the office of the city attorney regarding the findings of fact in the Anthony Bass discharge appeal hearing.

Do the other commissioners have any comments or questions concerning the proposed findings of fact?

I have I have no questions. I would move approval.

Second. Okay.

There have no changes were suggested or or questions were raised. So there's been a motion to approve the the findings as submitted. I'll poll the commissioners. Commissioner Miller? Yes. Commissioner Smith?

Yes.

Commissioner Cleary?

Yes.

Commissioner Wickesboro?

Yes.

The findings are approved as submitted based on our commission action. Miss Moore may sign the findings for me. The next item is or or and final item on our agenda is the adjournment. Prior before we consider a motion to adjourn, I'd like to check with you, my fellow commissioners, as well as our executive secretary regarding any announcements that anyone may have. I I looked at the one thing that I just thought I'd I'd mention again for everybody's benefits to make sure we're all on the same page.

One is that our meeting on May 19, We, the plan is to, meet at 02:30, not 01:30. I hope everybody caught that. And, in November, we're having the general election on a Tuesday, which is November 4 that coincides with our intended commissioner meet pardon me. The commission meeting was intended to be or is scheduled for November 3, but we wanna move it to November 4 because of the general election. So that's that's another key administrative issue facing the commission.

So I wanted to remind everybody those two facts. May 19 at 02:30, November 4 instead of November 3. But, Commissioner Cleary, did you have a comment?

Except for beeping my horn. I just wanted to comment. The May 19 meeting, I will be out of town. I'll attempt to but I've already told miss Moore that it may not be possible for me to log in and attend.

Well, do what you can. And that's fine. Thank you for mentioning it to us. Anything else from my fellow commissioners? No. No. Well, then I'm going to ask our executive secretary, Jackie Carter, who's officially the director of employee relations, if she has any comments or information for us.

I do not, president Mark. Thank you.

Okay. In that case, I would accept a motion to adjourn.

Move that we adjourn. I second that motion.

It's been moved and seconded to adjourn. I'll poll the commissioners. Commissioner Miller. Yes. Commissioner Smith?

Yes.

Commissioner Cleary? Yes. Commissioner Wickesboro?

Yes.

We are adjourned. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Right.

Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody.