Common Council - Regular Meeting

It's a shut up, mayor. All right. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Apologize for the delayed start this evening. We will call the meeting to order and I will ask the clerk to take a roll call. Other persons. Halverson here, Keen Novak here, Noling. Ro here. Turner here. Wigel here. Gisham here. Gro here. H here. 10 present.

Thank you. We have a quorum. Um please rise if you are able and join us in the pledge of allegiance which will be led this evening by Alderman Halverson. Thank you. We're going to move on to part D on our agenda is public hearings. We have uh five public hearings this evening. I am going to ask the clerk to read out public hearing number one and then we'll turn it right over to staff.

I think I'm good. Conditional use permit for Turos Sports Complex, a proposed indoor recreation event space, 5,000 or more square feet, and restaurant use at 6014 West Madison Street.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks, Mayor. Our first um hearing involves a property at 60th and Madison Street. This is just north of Greenfield Avenue in a former St. Mary's uh Catholic Church, gym um on the corner of Madison and 60th Street. Uh the current owner um is uh Toro Sports Complex and they are interested in in operating an event space, an indoor recreational space within the former than the former gym. Uh the gym has been maintained and is actually still in use. Um there is a nearby school um Victory uh Christian School that uses it on a daily basis and will continue to do so um under the new ownership. Uh this is a proposed multi-use uh facility offering indoor recreation uh space as well as event space. It does have uh both a sort of a split level design with a lower level and the upper level. The gym is on the upper level and then there's a an assembly hall down below that along with um some other uses. We'll get into the floor plan in a second. The property is zoned commercial C2. It does allow for indoor uh recreation andor event space types of uses with a conditional use permit. So that's the purpose of our public hearing this evening. Uh the event space hours of operation um primarily Monday through Friday uh 10:00 a.m. to midnight and then Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. closed on Sundays. Um there's the indoor recreational portion of it being primarily Monday through Saturday from 8 to midnight. Um so they're they're interested in operating with a number of different um different local uh leagues and organizations. they will um it's not typically just open to the public to just walk in and and play, but you would need an appointment. You would need to schedule uh your time slot uh for for space within this gym. And it's uh the space like this is definitely sought after, not only within the community, but within the region. So, there are um

two properties involved here. The the the gym property on the corner of 60th and Madison, and then there's a a duplex, a grass lot, and then a parking lot. The parking lot features 25 parking spaces that again is owned by the same owner as is the grass lot. Um and um so that that is the subject this evening. So the uh existing site plan is on has been on file since about 2013. It is it has been landscaped and will be maintained. It features a ornamental fence along 60th street and then some bicycle racks were recommended as part of the uh the overall use by the city's planning commission. and it sort of goes on to say the same thing, but the um there is um while there is off- streetet parking for 25 parking stalls on on the site under the control of the owner, uh the plan commission did encourage um the the applicant to pursue other off- streetet parking within the immediate area. And if you're familiar with this area in the first district, there is a Wells Fargo Bank on 62nd and National Avenue um between Madison and National Avenue that has a a wealth of parking in that area. The the applicant, the owner has reached out to uh Wells Fargo and is in negotiations with them on a possible whether it be a a lease or purchase or some kind of arrangement for off- streetet parking on um some of that that land there near Madison Street uh behind Wells Fargo Bank. Uh in addition, there is street parking within the area. This was, you know, um a former church and uh you know, elementary school. It still is today. Um but um it it had um a number of um you know, relied heavily on street parking um previously as um and um that is also an option for u for this use. Getting into the floor plans, the uh the upper floor plan um includes fairly simple layout with the main entry being

on the southwest corner. That's that yellow square on the on the bottom left. And then entering into a a lobby area. Then you have to the larger gymnasium and then a stage up in front. It's very similar to many maybe gyms that you growing up seeing. Um but you know, reminds me of my grade school gym. Um but uh very similar with some bleachers and gymnasium area. The stage up in front uh which will be continues to be utilized today by the school nearby across the alley. Um but this is what they hope to to utilize for different events uh within the community. Um whether it be weddings, uh cultural events um or parties. Then the lower level uh includes an assembly hall with a stage, office space, um a mechanical area. There's a a full kitchen downstairs as well as uh lock rooms on the eastern side of the building. Just some images of of what that looks like. It's been very well maintained as it has been used over the years. Um it hasn't been completely vacant or idle. Just another picture of the kitchen area. So plan commission has recommended approval. Um this has been published and and neighbors notified within 200 feet. We've received one concern to date um from a nearby business just concerned with availability of parking um in the neighborhood now and what this would mean for for their business um and other businesses within the neighborhood. Um the applicant is here this evening. They've informed us that the typical um you know typical event uh is going to be about 100 to 120 uh people. Um that would be a typical event. There certainly could be smaller events as well. Um but um you know they are they are here this evening uh should there be any questions from the neighborhood. That concludes my presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you Mr. Chair for the presentation. Are there any questions from the members of the county council? Mayor Divine Alman Keane and um for event space what are we talking birthday parties weddings? Are they during the day? Are they at night? Are they going to be applying for a liquor license at some point? What kind of events are we referring to here?

Um the u the owner is um a soccer player and I think a lot of the events could be you know using the gymnasium for whether it's football, soccer, basketball, but you know sporting events but that you know could also include weddings, birthday parties within this facility. It is um you know is a it is a large enough space to accommodate that. Um, and they're they're indicating, you know, typically it could be 100 to 120 people, you know, for for some of their larger events. Uh, the hours uh for the event space, they're looking at uh late morning, 10:00 a.m. to um midnight Monday through Friday, and then on the weekends uh a bit later on on Saturdays till 1:00 a.m. It'd be closed on Sundays. And then the recreational events um are 8 a.m. to a little bit earlier for for you know whether it's basketball or indoor sports um 8 to midnight. They are interested in a um a liquor license for this location. I think in the um in the title we may have addressed it wrong. I think it said restaurant in the title of the public hearing notice and at the time when we were publishing this there was some misunderstanding. It won't be a restaurant. They will be serving food, but the food that they're serving is going to directly serve people that are leasing the space out or the people that are occupying the space. It's not going to be again, it's not going to be an open to the public. Come on in and play basketball type of thing. It's it's space for, you know, whether it be organized teams or um groups that the that the owner um is familiar with. Um organized events, uh whether it be cultural events, birthday parties, weddings, and then sports. Mayor Divine Gisham.

Uh Steve, just to be clear, you you just spoke of the restaurant use part of it. So is the events are going to be catered is what you're saying, or they're going to prepare food at the site. They will. Yeah, that is their intent to prepare food at the site. Thank you. Any other questions from the common council? Mayor Divine. Alderman Wagel. Um I have several questions. We've heard this 100 to 120 people. What's the maximum legal capacity for the space? When it was a a gymnasium for the um uh school, it had about 700 people. However, for this use, they're cutting that in half and it's not going to be more than I think it's 300 300 people.

So, so the sign above the door will say maximum capacity 300. They will they are agreeing to change that to to a lower number with respect to this conditional use and that would be the this would be the point where we pick that number right today. Correct. Okay. Um, uh, would there be any live concert type events there where a promoter say books the space, hires a band, and then sells tickets? Because there had been problems several years ago with Tanner Paul that do you understand what I'm saying? So like a third party operator in there would would book the space. Live music would be allowed, I assume. Correct. I mean, there's a there's a

Yeah. I mean, the the the events that they're talking about would include, you know, a band could come in for a wedding or a party. I understand a wedding or a party is diff in my mind at least is different than a popular band in there and suddenly even at a capacity of say just 300 that would be quite an impact on the neighbors. Yeah. Yeah. And then it's that that hasn't been indicated to to us as part of the application process and um we can certainly address that at at recess with the the applicants which are who are here this evening um and sort of dive deeper into that question. Okay. And you said the applicant currently owns the building. Correct. Yeah. And when did this purchase occur? Uh took place last year.

Okay. Yeah. But and has he been doing events there already or is it the only use going on there right now is related to the school primarily been related to the school? But it's my understanding there may have been an event or two, you know, just using the space for sports within the building. Okay. And I guess this would be a question for the applicant in committee. How important is the liquor license to his business model? Because that's not a guaranteed item. Correct. Right. But he already owns the property.

They Yeah, they own the property. um they they've been making some improvements uh through the building code enforcement department um pursuing an occupancy permit and in the I guess as we better understood the the overall use of this um um you required a conditional use permit to come before you know city council um just for full transparency and involving the neighborhood with this decision. So um but yeah they they are aware that the liquor license is a separate process and it's not part of this meeting this evening. Um, that's a whole that's a that's a license issue, not a zoning issue. Right. Um, and forgive I'm not that familiar with that street there anymore.

What is the status? You mentioned on street parking. What's the parking availability on 60th Street? I know that's currently a very high volume traffic street. I also know that after the freeway the freeway reconstruction, it's going to be a different traffic volumes there. Do you know is it is it no parking during rush hour? Do you happen to know? off and Marty, I apologize. I don't have that info, but I can certainly get it for you. I'm just trying to see where how much available on street parking there really is. Thank you. Sure. Thank you, Alderman Wagel. Any other questions from the members of the council?

Seeing none, are there any questions on public hearing number one from the members of the audience? And if there are questions, I see a hand. Please come up to the podium and um activate the microphone and then please give us your name and address for our record. Just push that button. There it goes.

Um my name is Michelle. I live at 1308 South 61st. And my question is though, I do support new business. Um, parking's a concern, especially if Wells Fargo denies them using that big open lot. So, I guess I'm wondering what they're going to do with possibly 300 cars on our streets for events like that, where they're all going to go. Well, if there's 300 cars, I mean, that's or 120 or 100.

Yeah. So, I mean, what they're proposing, I guess, what they've indicated in their I guess application to us was that um you know, given the the let's just say a typical event at 100 people,

um they have 25 off- streetet parking stalls right now um on their site and they're they're indicating, you know, car pooling um you know, groups of whether it be teams or organized team events, whatever it may be, uh coming together rather than separate individual vehicles. um is that you know it's certainly something to you know consider uh but at the same time um there is definitely going to be a reliance I believe on on some street parking I don't think the 25 parking off streetet parking stalls are going to solve you know if they have 100 people will everyone park there it'll probably get parked up and then the overflow um you know if you figure four you know four people per car I mean sure that could fit in 25 25 parking stalls but if you have two people per car. You know, some of that's going to overflow into the neighborhood and um along, you know, public public street parking along um you know, the side streets of whether it be Madison or 61st or 62nd as it would in the past as St. Mary's.

They were that gym was closed for quite a few years. I don't recall seeing the type of parking that there has been in the last year. With that being said, will you guys be adding, I don't know, new signage? Is there any different kind of parking regulations? Um, our alley is no outlet. So, instead of people that don't know coming up and down and trying to turn around, we have that already. Is there something you're going to look at? Yeah, I mean we can we can um explore that with our engineering department about um perhaps some signage um taking a look at the flow um whether it's the alleys or down streets. Um working with the applicants here this evening to uh to talk about that very issue if it's a if it's you know an issue that's creating a problem to access your your garage or your your lot.

Yeah. I mean because technically it's a residential area. It was never like an event center area. So this is a big change. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Anybody else have questions? Please come on up.

Is that ready to go? Yeah.

Um, my name is Raymond Eerando and I actually had owned the property um back in 2012. I purchased the property that I sold to um El Torto or his organization. So um I used it from 2013 to 2025 when I sold it to Mr. um Durivio. But anyways um we used it for various events back then. We used it for a gym. It's it's been open since then. Um fully operational, lower, upper. Um we've held events there, basketball events, just different things. there's never been an issue um with parking. There's a parking lot that's there as well as there's always been plenty of off street parking. Um so we've never had any complaints with the city. Um we've never had any problems, anything like that. So it was it ran pretty smoothly and I would think that it would continue to run um that way. Um and we had a capacity I believe the capacity was 240 people sitting down downstairs and over 500 people um capacity for the gymnasium as well. So, I just wanted to make mention of that. Then I also still own a home that's over there too as well, right adjacent to the gymnasium. So, thank you. Any other questions or comments from the members of the audience on public hearing number one? All right, seeing none, we will close our first public hearing and we will move on to item two. And I will ask the clerk to read out public hearing number two.

Conditional use permit for Bond Me Corner, a proposed restaurant use at 6780 West Greenfield Avenue. Sure. Sure.

Thanks, Mayor. Um, this restaurant uh is looking to occupy a currently empty unoccupied space in the West Alice Town Center. Um the town center has seen um quite a resurgence over the uh recent years with uh Panasia grocery store um Lasazuelas uh restaurant among others and uh this is another addition to that uh to that busy uh shopping shopping center at 70th and Greenfield Avenue. Um the proposed or the zoning is C3. Commercial and uh restaurants uh over 2,000 square feet do require a conditional use permit um which requires a public hearing. Uh they intend to open in March and the hours of operation are 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. um every day, 7 days a week except well six days a week except Tuesday. Um and then the uh the overall uh master plan for the site does include a um an approved site landscaping plan. That really isn't changing. However, there's some there is some freshening up that the restaurant does uh is going to pursue behind the building. Uh you know, maintaining the uh the refuge enclosure behind the building, making sure that's screened from view as well as any landscaping um would be covered by the property ownership. Uh as this is a uh owned by a REIT, uh the um the floor plan uh includes 32 indoor seats uh for patrons which would be up in the front of the building, restroom facilities behind um further back behind the kitchen area and um it would also include some storage room. So the menu um this isn't the uh the fancy uh finished menu yet, but they are working towards that. Um, so it just gives you a listing of some of the different things that they hope to uh to offer at this facility. Again, a welcome addition to the town center and to West Dallas. Uh, plan commission has recommended approval and it's been

published and notified and we've received no objections to date. Thanks. Thank you very much. Are there any questions from the comment council on public hearing number two? Seeing none, are there any questions from the members of the audience on public hearing number two? Thanks for the clarity. I'm not seeing anyone else move. So, um we will close uh public hearing number two and I will ask the clerk to read out public hearing number three. Conditional use permit for cars RS2 a proposed light motor vehicle sales use at 10920 West Lincoln Avenue.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks, Mayor. Uh this is the site of the former Sullivan Shine uh dental office and warehouse. Um it was uh more recently purchased by a group of Birchwood Landscaping um who occupies a a portion a third of the building. The remainder is being leased out to different um tenants within the um within the community in the region. Um, Cars R Us is a wholesale automotive dealer. Um, it is zoned, the property overall is zoned I1 industrial. Um, car dealerships do require, I guess no matter how large or small the operation in this case, um, they do require a uh, conditional use permit to come before the city planning commission and council. Their hours are uh Monday through Saturday from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. And this the difference here is that this is not going to be, you know, while we we've outlined the property here, the extent of the overall property, they're going to be occupying just a very small space within the building. Um and then this being a wholesale car dealership, um like some other recent ones we've had, this is just purely an office. This is not going to be a display lot with hundreds of cars. They're not going to be doing maintenance or any service. um they're purely just purchasing vehicles from auctions or public markets uh and reselling elsewhere to you know I guess from in an office environment to other licensed dealers. Um again they're not they're not selling um with the uh you know to to customers. Customer aren't coming here to purchase a vehicle. So it's primarily just office based. Uh no interior or exterior changes are proposed. uh two parking stalls uh for employees are designated on the site plan and then this is the uh the yellow spot is the uh you know the very small office space within the larger building. Um and uh plan commission has recommended approval. Uh just with the clarity here that you know this business as part of the conditional use permit this business shall be limited to the use of a maximum of two parking stalls

for employee related purposes with no mechanical work on site. Cars are us will not sell vehicles to the general public and will not maintain an outdoor vehicle lot, a no maintenance, storage or staging of vehicles on the site. Um, so we've we've received one objection today just with a concern that this is going to turn into a you know a massive car dealership and uh notably that's that's not the case. So I mean our publications that go out are very general so I can see where that confusion could be can come about. So thank you.

Thank you Mr. Chair. Do we have any questions on public hearing number three from the members of the council? I'll let this guy get back to his seat before I go to the audience. All right. Do we have any members of the audience that have questions or comments on public hearing three? Okay. Please can you turn on the push the button? Oh, our attorney will help you there. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

My name is Lydia Santiago. I live on 2203 South 110th Street. Okay. We were informed about this. We thought it was going to be a auto place. Who we That was our concern. My concern is why didn't we receive any letter when they first the other plant that they have there with all the noise and everything. We hear it right in our house. Steve, do you want to answer that? Sure. Yeah. The um the other So, was it the landscaping company you have? Right. We were never informed.

So, it's a I guess the type of use um in this case um a landscaping company um is considered a light industrial use, which is considered a a permitted or limited use within that neighborhood. So, as long as they meet the basic criteria of that of the zoning ordinance, it does not require a public hearing. Um the difference being with the car dealership, you know, even though it's a very small um lease space, um that does require conditional use p permit. And then all as part of that process, a public hearing, you know, notice goes up.

So what is the neighborhood supposed to do when like this morning at 6:00 this morning, I could hear all the sounds and uh so what are we supposed to do as for our neighbors? Um you can you may you may contact your elder persons or which we have you can talk you can contact uh the planning department as well or you know just let let us know and we'd be happy to um you know understand you know what's going on and take you know pay a visit and talk to the ownership. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Any other questions or comments from the members of the audience on public hearing number three? All right, seeing none, we will close our third public hearing and I will ask the clerk to read out public hearing number four. Final resolution authorizing public improvement of concrete construction, concrete reconstruction, and asphalt resurfacing at West National Avenue from West Lincoln Avenue to South 108th Street and levying special assessments against benefited properties. Thank you. And when you're ready, I'll turn it over to our city engineers.

Thank you, mayor. Um, my name is Melinda Daskki and I'm the city engineer for West Dallas. With me tonight is Rob Hutter, assistant city engineer. And uh our first uh engineering public hearing is for the West National Avenue reconstruction project from um almost West Lincoln Avenue to uh 108th Street. Uh here's our contact information. Um we'll also have a slide at the end with our contact information. Um so for a roadway public hearing procedure, uh we we'll start off by discussing kind of the scope of the project. um some of the costs involved in in the road reconstruction project. We'll talk about uh the different special assessment rates and how special assessments are paid. Uh we will then um turn it back over to the mayor, take comments and questions from the common council and the citizens. Then uh the public hearing gets closed and the matter goes to the uh recess uh board of public works committee um meeting. they have a discussion and they vote and then make a recommendation back to the common council who reconvenes at the end and um makes a decision on whether the project moves forward or not. Um I do want to note that if uh you have if anybody has questions specifically about their individual property, it's a little hard to address those in this large forum. Um, but the engineering department, Rob, myself, and any of our staff would be more than happy to discuss individual property concerns either after the meeting. Um, try to make an appointment with you to discuss over the phone or meet in person and, uh, discuss those specific property questions. So, um, so for National Avenue, um, this is a street. These um this slide shows some of the condition of National

Avenue, but National Avenue is a um a Wisconsin Department of Transportation project. It's being run by uh WISDOT uh similar to the Lincoln and National Intersection Project. um with this National Avenue project, it schedule has been kind of all over the board and and I it wasn't the city's um scheduling. It's was that scheduling. Uh the last three years this project has been scheduled for 2026, 2028, 2029. It's been kind of all over the place. So, um late in about mid 2025, they finally landed on 2026. So there has been a lot of um compression in the normal process that is followed for this project. Um normally we would send out um letters if we need to acquire property rights for to relocate a sidewalk or relocate the road or we need an easement for either temporary easement so that we can get something built and stand on someone's property to do so or a permanent easement. So, a sewer can go through the the land. Um, normally that happens a year to two years ahead of the special assessment and the public hearing process that we're in today because of the DO's shifting of the schedule of this project. These two things have dovetailed together and are happening at the exact same time. uh we have received a number of con uh comments and concerns and maybe some misunderstanding of the two processes. So I wanted to just try to address that upfront um before we got into some more of the specifics about the road project. the acquisition process or the the um

to to acquire property or get an easement for the construction of the roadway is a DOT process that is followed. So it is a they um have an appraisal and they have very specific guidelines that need to be followed to do that process. And uh the city uh uses a firm called Single Source. They are property appraisers. they uh help uh determine the value of the land and that is a separate process then and that is just to get everything set so that the roads and the sidewalks and the sewers and the water can all be constructed. Then there's a separate process which is a city process which is the special assessment process. That process is what we do um as a city to help pay our portion of the cost of the project. So we um It's it's a city ordinance. It's a state statute where we can try to recover a portion of those costs by uh charging the abuing property owners um a portion of the cost. And the city does that um we implement this process because uh for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons is that that we can special assess tax exemp properties. the state of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, state fair park, any road project that we do, we are able to assess those types of properties. So, um, but that is a wholly separate process from the property acquisition process from DOT. The numbers don't match. Your special assessment is calculated on a completely different basis than the value of the property that DOT wants to needs to requ acquire for the roadway project. So I just wanted to kind of cover that before we got into the the meat of the slide presentation and everything so that hopefully people will understand that

they are two very separate processes. Um so going going back this is you can see just from a couple slides here uh National Avenue is not in great condition. Um we have uh cracking and joint cracking and uh just general pavement deterioration. Uh in addition uh under National Avenue we have of course sanitary sewer water and storm sewer. Um our water manes in National Avenue are from uh the 1950s and they're being replaced because we've had numerous breaks in those. Um there are only copper laterals on this project. So there's no service lead service lateral requirements on this project. Um there will be new storm sewer on National Avenue uh with storm sewer laterals extended to the property lines. Um, and then also we'll be installing new sanitary sewers. Uh, the existing sanitary sewers range from 1940 to the 1960s. And again, new sanitary sewer laterals will be installed as part of this project. Um, our underground utilities are paid for through a sanitary our storm or our water utilities. Um, so this is the cost of the National Avenue project. The the top part is the city portion as you can see. Uh the city's portion of this project is 7 million771,720. WISDOT's portion is uh almost 11,000 $11 million. So the project the construction total is approximately $18 million. Here's a pie chart kind of breaking down uh the funding sources for the project. as we kind of talked about um you know it's our it's the sanitary utility utility funds uh the special assessments the water utility funds storm water whisd which is the bulk of the project and then uh anything not covered by the

special assessments is come and the utilities comes from uh the property taxes. So special assessments have been used in West Dallas for over 110 years. Um and it has gone it has the the amount of special assessment has changed. Um but it's been up to 100% of the cost of the project in the past. Um and again we do this because uh the properties enjoy a benefit from the improvement. Um, on this project specifically, uh, the city will collect about $725,000 in special assessments or 3.9% of the total project of the $18 million. Uh, it the special assessments cover about 9.3% of the city's portion of this project. The assessment rate is $71.76 per foot for all the residential properties. Um, and that doesn't matter what the bid prices are. This is the rate that the city sets annually. Uh our commercial and manufacturing rates are $89.70 and $17.64 per foot, respectively. Again, state law has allowed the city to do this for well over 110 years. And as I covered before, special assessments um uh we are able to um charge tax exempt properties uh a portion of the project. Um we have West Alice has over 400 uh tax exempt properties in it. So we are fairly and equitably spreading the cost of the road project across everybody who abut the roadway. Um, this is a kind of an example of how uh we calculate the special assessment. Uh, if your lot width is 60 feet, the assessment rate of $71.76, your cost would be $4,35.60.

Then we uh also have a $8.96 cent per square foot um for concrete driveway approaches. if it if the driveway approach is being replaced. This project national avenue because it's such a long uh project is about a mile long project. Um we uh intend to bill in two phases. The east half basically from the freeway to Lincoln Avenue we would intend to uh bill in March of 2027 because they're going to construct that part the majority of that part in 2026. And then the west side from the freeway to highway 100 uh will be uh constructed in 2027. Um and uh then we would mail the special the final bill uh in 2028. Um the a note while they're going to focus on constructing the the east half of the National Avenue in 2026, there will be parts in of the west half that are done in 2026. The storm sewers for National Avenue are very large up to 108 inches in diameter. So, they will be working on some of those in 2026 to try to get some of that done ahead of time to allow uh the roadway construction to move forward a little uh more efficiently in 2027. Um, the other thing you should know is that the estimate letter that you received, that is the maximum amount that the city can special assess without either having a new public hearing or obtaining a waiver from the property owner uh to increase that cost. We can't just uh raise it without getting your permission to do so. and we would have to tell you how much we want uh needed to raise it if something changed on the

property. Um and additional work needed to be done. So this is the maximum that that uh estimate would be. Um there are several payment options that we have. Uh it's a lump sum payment, a five or 10 year installment and the installment plans have a 4% interest. Um, so at the bottom of the slide here kind of gives you a range of what your uh payments are going to be. Um, and then uh on the side here we have uh just so everybody understands the city isn't making a profit or or collecting money above uh what we're assessing because when we go to uh fund a road project, we have to borrow funds to pay for it. So, we're charging an interest rate that is comparable to what we borrow at. So, we're we're not making a profit or anything like that on our project. Um, we kind of went over the construction schedule. Again, this is going to be a long uh project, a two-year project. Um, we there there will be notices uh mailed to your properties as well as um sometimes uh uh quicker notices needed. So, we'll do door hangers or sometimes we'll put a little notice like kind of between the screen door and the front door or tape something to the front door. So, um there's a number of ways we try to keep everyone in informed. Um a couple things uh people ask a lot about during uh the con street construction. Trash pickup is always important and is incredibly important. So, uh, as the construction moves along, uh, the contractor will coordinate with the engineering department and we'll coordinate with DPW about trash collection and try to get that all squared away and get everybody information about how that's going to work. Uh, parking, uh, when street

parking is not accessible, you'll be able to park on adjacent streets without obtaining a parking permit. We work with our police department to let them know that there's a road project going on. we have this radius. Please don't ticket people that would normally live on the street. Um, again, we send letters out during the construction and we try to do door hangers or letters in uh at the front door. And then um if you have specific questions um again, please contact the engineering department, Rob, myself, any of our staff so we can sit down and talk about those uh in detail. Uh lastly, another great way to stay informed is we do a construction in progress report every week, sometimes more if that's needed. Um you can sign up on on the city's website to get that information and we that try to keep everybody up to date as best as we can. Um with that, I conclude my presentation and then here's our contact information.

Thanks for the presentation. Are there any questions from the council members on public hearing four alderman wrote are they going to have on the east leg two-way traffic there was discussion about having just westbound two lanes each direction and then switch I I believe that's actually what they're going they're going to have to close one side and move traffic to the the other side and then flip-flop

thank you Alderman, any other questions from the common council on public hearing number four? Seeing none. Okay. Are there any questions or comments from the members of the audience on public hearing number four?

Again, if please give us your name and address. Sure. Thanks. Well, hello. My name is Lena Elbadawi and I'm a home owner going to be affected from uh this project and honestly what I'm going to say it it's going to be wrap up from concerns negative impact and some uh questions maybe regarding for you all the member counselor with respect and the engineering. So, I'm not going to take long. So, I hope you're going to be patient with me and excuse me and I'm a little bit um nervous. You're good.

So, yeah. So, any spelling stuff? So, just ignore it. Okay. Okay. Dear member of the common council and engineering department, I am writing I'm here to say formally object to the pro uh to the proposed specially assessment related to the reconstruction of West National Avenue 10205 West National Avenue that is affecting my property in West Alice. While we acknowledged that the special assessment for the street construction and the accusation of use of private property I'm talking about my case sir estimate or land taking are legally treated as separated matter as impacted home owners my husband and I we're talking about our case we must empathize that the real life impact of this project is commulative positive and a little bit ne negative. This project directly affect our property through the taking or use of a portion of our land and will result in several serious concerns including reduced safety for our children. I have three kids 9, 8, 12. They love soccer and they play bicycle and a lot of scooter. So busy. So construction activity as long as term roadway changes. Second, increased noise and disrupt disruption both during the construction and permanently after complet uh completion with uh demonish our quality

of life. A decrease in overall property value as the home will be closed to a large and bizarre roadway. A permanent reduction is enable land area which directly impact resale value and marketability should should we decided to sell it might if we going to decide to sell the property in future in the context imposing a special assessment is not only unreasonable but an uncountable particularly when the project does not represent a true benefit to the home owners, but rather than a loss. Additionally, we are deeply concerned about the compressed and unfair timeline imposing our property owner. As a property owners, we are being asked to consider and potentially sign a cricket of documents related to the property use or acquisition by February 12. Today we are 10. So there is no timeline to think or taken even advance from any agent to

do the appraisal. So we have two days while the public hearing instead of home owner Oh appreciate you. Thank you. While the public hearing instead of for home owner impact is scheduled for February 10th. We are here today. the timing place under pressure on on home owners and admire the spirit of magnif magnificical public participation in informed consent. As a home owner, we already carry a significant significant financial obligation. Not only me, all of us, including property taxes, utility bills, mortgage payment, other uncountable household expenses. We are family with kids. Requiring requiring additional payment through a special assessment under these circumstances create an ex excessive financial burden and fail to account for the negative impact imposed on the property. For these reasons, we formally object to the proposed specially assense and respectfully respect from the city. Mr. Meyer eliminate this assessment entirely for our property. We already negative our land has been going to been taken or sustainably reduce the amount to the reflect the document negative impact and reconsider the current timeline to allow home owners. educate time to review, respond and see council before

using required to sign any documents which is we did. So I can bring the the appraisal for you guys but it going to takes three weeks and most of them ask for this paper $200 $250 $300. This objection is submitted to formally perceive our rights and to ensure that our concerns are fully considered prior and to any finan final determination finally for you. Please ensure that my objection is fully entired into the official record and appreciate your time for me and I'm sorry for any

You did great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Does anybody else wish to address the council under public hearing number four? Good evening, members of the council. Uh my name is Heather Schwasinger and this is my husband, Jeff Schwasinger, and we own the property at 2410 South 99th Street in West Dallas. Um we are here to formally object to the proposed special assessment specifically for our property of $7,500 um due to this reconstruction project. We're going to echo a lot of the same sentiments that the prior speaker talked about. Um, a city may only level levy special assessments if the project confers a special benefit on the property. Wisconsin courts define this as an uncommon advantage that is not shared by the general public. This reconstruction project primarily serves the general public safety and the city's overall infrastructure standards. Our property value is not uniquely increased by $7,500 simply because the city is replacing aging public infrastructure that it has a duty to maintain. Excuse me. The primary beneficiaries of this work are pedestrians, delivery drivers, and the broader community who use these public rightaways and bus stops. Because the benefit is general in nature, benefiting everyone in West Dallas who utilizes our streets, the cost should be shared by the entire community through the general fund rather than being concentrated on a handful of individual homeowners like ourselves. It's also our understanding that other suburbs already handle it this way. A $7,500 charge is an extreme financial burden that does not reflect a proportional increase in our property's market value.

We respectfully ask the council to rescend the assessment against our property. Reallocate these costs to the city's general capital improvement budget. Alternatively, a provide a sign significantly reduced rate that accurately reflects only the special portion of the benefit received. So, in summary, we're not against this project, but this is a community-based benefit. This is not a benefit to just these property owners. And it sounds like what's being improved is not actually being improved. it's actually in a state of disrepair and needs to be improved to be at a level that's um usable for the community. So unless we're receiving some type of improvement in our daily, you know, use of our properties that I'm not aware of, I'm just wondering why this isn't a community shared um

expense. Obviously, we heard it's been done this way for 110 years, but why are we doing it this way? Other other benefits or other um areas in Milwaukee County do not do it this way. They treat it as a community expense. So, why is it that West Dallas chooses to do it this way?

I I I will I can try to address some parts of it. Um U West Alice has adopted this method. The state allows West Alice to adopt this method. So that is the engineering uh department carries forward what the city has decided uh to to do and so we we as the engineering department have the obligation to move forward. Um the conferring of benefits in the legal terms um that's not my expertise. I'm the engineer. So um we've implemented what the city has uh put forward as the methodology a uh portion is being picked up by the general taxes. So it is not 100% tax uh special assessment. There are communities in Milwaukee County that do levy 100% of the project to the property owners. Um I know that for a fact because I worked for one. So um was being uh I think um the their methodology is different than other communities. Each community gets to decide how to implement a special assessment policy. So, West Alice has chosen this one where the burden is shared not only by the budding property owners which have a um a a um a benefit because it act it's the access to their property but it's also shared by the general tax levy. Um anything beyond that is um not an engineering answer. So then should the question be directed to the council as to why is it West Dallas's preference to share the cost? Why isn't it why isn't this 110 year precedent of assessing it to individual property owners? Why is there not a willingness to do it

differently if again other areas are doing it that way? Each each community gets to do it their way. West Alice feels that this is the best way to equally uh treat all the properties that but the roadway because of the ability to special assess um tax exempt properties in addition to all the other things we just talked about. And I think we understand that you have that ability to do so, but you've got a community here that's not happy about it. And we're asking why is there not a willingness to change your stance on how this is assessed? Is there is there a willingness to change it after 100 in 10 years? is there I

if I I was just well you kind of touched on the one of the big things I think I don't want to speak for all 10 of us but that we appreciate about this project is that the county parks which use all of our municipal services that the religious institutions that use all our municipal services um state fair park which uses a lot of our you know great amenity in the community uses a lot of our resources this gets them to contribute ute to this those services basically through the special assessment. One of the problems too is if we change it is everyone who's been assessed is then going to be upset. Now I'm not saying I mean we can argue whether

that's great but those are businesses. We're not businesses. It's just a different

Well, they are but they also are using services that we're all paying for and they're not contributing. um that's that's just the reality of it. So if there's a medical emergency at a church, we're going to respond. If there's a a crime or a break-in at a church, we're going to respond. But they're tax exempt, so they're not making any contribution towards the services that they're receiving. So that that's one of the big benefits. I mean, any anybody in this room can contact their older persons and ask about making a change or even shifting the breakdown. um that obviously most likely will not affect this project. And again, I don't want to speak for all 10 other persons because some may have differing opinions than me, but that's just a couple points that I wanted to add.

Okay. I think it's just very subjective that it's adding value to our property just because we live adjacent to the work that's happening. Yes. When in fact, our neighbors down the street would still use the sidewalk to go for a walk around the block that and it's actually going to create a burden throughout the construction of this work for us and we look at it the complete opposite way as many of us do. You can. Thank you.

Yeah. And I I just you know I my street was done about 12 years ago and aside from my kid thinking the dump trucks were really cool. It was a nuisance and and we did the 10-year payment plan and you know just finished paying that off a couple years ago. But I I hear you. I do hear you. I think Alderwoman Keane wanted to

Yeah, I just wanted to add um with why not changing it at some point every road in the city is going to be done. They get reassessed and graded at a certain point. So at some point that will be done. Um if we changed it to where everyone pays kind of the mayor Divine's uh statement is I lived in a house and we I the street got done the year we sold it. I paid for it. I moved three years later. That street got picked. I paid it again. Um, so I have paid for a street that I lived on for six weeks,

moved to a new one, paying for that. I did the 10-year plan as well. Actually, our payments was done, it was done in 2019. Our payments started in 2020. Um, so at some point now whether or not that person lives in that house, a street is going to be done and those neighbors are going to pay for that street at some point. Whether you live in the house when that street gets done, I'm not sure, but it does get reassessed all throughout the city of West Dallas of how they grade it. So, I just wanted to add that little bit of comment in. Thank you.

Thank you. Anybody else have questions, comments on public hearing number four? Hi, my name is Mike Levski. I have a property uh I got a special assessment from you. There's one problem with that. I don't live on National. I live on Cleveland. Could you explain why I got it? Sure. Um there are some properties um along National Avenue. Part of the project is going on Cleveland um somewhat west and somewhat east of National Avenue. Oh, so you're going to be ripping the road up on Cleveland, too?

Uh a little bit. Yes. Um what's your what's your address? Uh 10213. 10213. Yeah. Um we're just trying to Yeah. Yes. Yes. We'll be going past up into that property. just past that property um to blend. It's kind of flat there, so they need to go back a little further to get the proper match into the intersection. Are you going to be doing the laterals, too? Um if the if we're doing the sanitary sewer in that area, we would be doing the laterals as well. Oh, okay. Thank you. Sure.

Thank you. Any other questions on public hearing number four? Seeing none, then we will move on to public hearing number five. And I'll ask the clerk to read out that item. Final resolution authorizing public improvement in of major asphalt resurfacing and replacement of private side lead water service laterals in various locations and leving special assessments against benefited properties.

Thank you. I'll turn it over to engineering staff when you're ready. Bear with me for just a moment. Sorry. I hope so. apologize. There we go. It's it's really the same size, just different streets. Um so uh this public hearing is about uh the resurfacing of uh South 75th Street from West Bo to West Arthur Avenue, South 90th Street from West Greenfield Avenue to West uh Schlinger Avenue, West Washington Street from South 89th Street to South 90th Street, and South 94th Street from West Orchard to uh the Dead End. Uh the the procedure is essentially the same as what we talked about before. Um uh for these projects, we're doing what's called a major resurfacing where we're not uh reconstructing the entire

roadway. Uh they are in disrepair there. There's cracking in there, but it hasn't reached to the point where we need to do a full re replacement. The curb and gutter is um still in um there there will be spot places for curb and gutter spot sidewalk replacements, but uh the pavement is is um what's deteriorating the most. So they are eligible for what's called a major resurface where um the process is um we'll mill off the asphalt after we'll take a step back. We'll do any underground utility repair first. Then we will mill off the asphalt or the and any concrete that may be underneath it um to adept to allow a new surface of asphalt to be placed. So, it's different than a full reconstruction project uh where we rip everything out and and redo it from from the start. Uh in these streets, we do uh have sanitary sewer and water and storm sewer. Um, some streets uh will have uh new water mane um because there are some that are from the 50s with some breaks. Uh there are some streets that do have lead laterals in this on on these streets. So if the uh the we believe the property to have a lead service lateral, uh we included the $2,000 uh special assessment that uh we have for those. So that's included with this bill. So, it's an all-in cost. We're not going to do a separate public hearing later for that. Um, some streets will get a new storm sewer, some streets will get a new sanitary sewer with their laterals. So, it it kind of depends on each street, uh, what's happening. Uh, we have the approximate cost for each project. Uh, for South 75th Street, uh, the total project cost is about $120,000.

Um, South 90th Street is approximately $856,000. West Washington is $881,000 and uh 94 Street is approximately, excuse me, $616,000. So, here's the cost breakdown of that. Again, the sanitary, the storm water, storm sewer, and the water are all paid for out of those utility funds. Um the road work is then uh has a portion paid for by special assessment and then the balance is paid for um through property taxes. Um in for this project uh we have collect about $528,000 which is approximately 32.7% of the total city cost of this project. For a major asphalt resurface the assess the assessment rate is $59.80 80 cents per foot for residential properties uh with uh commercial and um manufacturing being $74.75 or $89.70 uh respectively. Um again, this is the bill that you received, the estimate that you received is the maximum amount that we the city will assess. we can't change that without conversation with you and um and you agreeing to uh additional the cost for the additional work. Um and lastly, as we kind of covered, um the city, uh utilizes special assessments, um to treat all pre properties equally because, uh the special assessment method allows tax exempt properties to uh receive a special assessment for the road work. Um and again, 400 properties that do not pay property taxes. Uh here is an example of um a special assessment. If your lot with was 60

feet, but your assessment rate in this case is $59.80, your cost would be $3,588. Again, plus the cost for a driveway if that was applicable to your property. Uh this p these streets will all be done in 2026. So any uh final bills will be mailed out uh no sooner than March of 2027. Um again, we're borrowing uh we're charging an interest rate if you choose a payment plan uh essentially at what we borrow uh the money for the projects what that costs the city. Uh the reconstruction schedule uh we've u been doing the design over the winter here. the the these projects will be going out to bid in the next couple weeks. Uh we will pick a contractor once the bids are open, bring that to council for approval if the project if the project is deemed to move forward. Um and then uh once uh weather uh allows uh we'll get a schedule together for construction from the contractor. Uh we'll send notices out to all the property owners um as with a a project schedule and then um we'll again we have may have to do some door hangers or uh notices on the front doors as to um different uh like if we have to saw concrete or do do anything overnight or something changes uh rapidly, we'll put that notice right on your door. Um, similar to National Avenue, trash pickup again is coordinated. Um, parking will will uh cover that in specifically in the letter, but we coordinate that with the police department. Um, we provide uh information. And again, if you have specific questions, uh, you can either talk with us afterwards or make an appointment, you know, email us a

question or we'll and we'll try to make an appointment or try to talk over the phone to try to get your specific property questions addressed. Um, I can't stress enough. This is a great place to construction progress report to get uh weekly information or more often as needed um on the progress of the project. It's something that we do and you can um sign up on the city website for that. And with that, that concludes my presentation. And again, this is our contact information.

Thank you. Any questions from the council on public hearing number five or comments? All right. Are there any questions or comments from the members of the audience on public hearing number five? Please come up to the podium and give us name and address. Uh, Amanda Gonzalez, 934 South 90th Street. My husband, Corey Gonzalez. Um, did you guys can I give this to you guys for you to look at? Pictures of what happens to my house, my yard every time it rains.

Hand it to the city attorney and he'll he'll get it to us.

Yeah. So, our street floods in front of my house, my next door neighbor's house, the two houses across the street. It floods ridiculously all the way up over the curb strip. Every single time it rains because it is pitched down from each end of the street, it goes like this. It's like a valley. Um, it's horrible. And ever since the flooding in August, our vehicles have been infested with these spiders. We didn't know where they were coming from. I had two exterminators come out and they looked and guess where they're coming from? They're coming from the tree at the curb strip because everybody's brush and yard waste washes down the street. But the street sweepers never come. They never come. So, it all just sits there in front of my house in front of the sewer drain and the spiders live there. And then when it rains and the street floods, the spiders go up the tree. And if you look at the tree in the sunlight, it is just encased in webs. And then they rain down and they're destroying our property. Destroying our property. How much bug spray, chemicals, uh, cabin filters, air filters, car washes, detailing. It's insane because these spiders bite. And this infestation is terrible. I'm scared of spiders. I can't live like this. We pay through the nose for property taxes. Our taxes have gone up 73% in four years. Four years. We're just We have kids. Like we just we want to we want to live too. We want to live too. We want to give our kids good opportunities, which is why they don't even go to school here. We want to just survive. We want to be able to pay our bills. And you are taxing us out. You are bleeding us dry. You're squeezing us to death. We can't afford to live. We cannot afford to live like this. You raise our taxes every single year. Where are they going? What is it for? And then we have our lot that our house is on. And then we have this

second lot right next door and that's our yard. Okay. But it's zoned institutional that I just found out. And institutional lots are meant for like nonprofits and they're supposed to be uh tax exempt. But we get charged residential tax every year for it, but it just goes up and up and up right along with our house taxes. And you say like this street work is going to benefit our property. How is it going to benefit our property? Because in September, I contacted the city about the flooding and the spiders and the infestation and how hard it is to live like this and why are we paying all these taxes and this is becoming a health hazard at this point for our family and our children and our pets. And the city came out and they looked and they said they were going to do something about it that oh this whole street's going to be done and we're going to dig it up and it's not going to flood anymore. But online, like you go and you read like the the public uh inspection report and it's just like minor asphalt resurfacing, but then you have to come here to this meeting in order to hear all these things. And then it says on there, well, some houses they'll have the driveway done. Some houses will have this done. Some houses which houses? Like why is it not more detailed? It's so open-ended and vague. There's so much gray area to just take everybody's money. Nobody can afford to live like this. Nobody can afford to live like this. It's out of control. I also I have an old um there's a neighbor across the street. He can't come. He has questions, too. Uh he wants to know what federal andor state funding is going towards this project. any

I just I don't know like where where do you think all this money is gonna come from? Like you're just gonna keep raising it every single year on us? Like what are we supposed to do? Does anybody have an answer? Like when does it end? I mean, you want to all this affordable housing and these cardboard box apartments that you're building everywhere and all the liquor licenses and bars and restaurants and everything like that, but like when do we matter? Like just the the middle class property owners, when do we count? Do you want to have just answers now or do you want to

Yeah. Well, for starters, building housing is bringing people to the community, and those people are going to They don't pay taxes.

Please, I let you finish. They do pay taxes. The property pays taxes. And when it does pay taxes, they are also a higher shopping base. And then you have a couple hundred new residents versus, you know, four. Or if you build a single family home, you have 20, 30, $60 million in taxable value versus one or two. Then you have the shoppers that are going to be walking to vacant buildings in the neighborhood which will hoping hoping are going to be filled with coffee shops, restaurants, bakeries, things like that, which will then increase the taxable value on those properties, which will contribute more to the property tax pie. If we want to really get into the weeds on municipal financing, this is a soap box I will never get off of. The state now is sitting on a five billion with a B dollar surplus. Shared revenue is a program that was put in place in 1971. That was supposed to be all the tax money paid in this community goes to Madison and was supposed to be sent back to the cities and the communities where that money was spent. Up until last two years ago, that amount had not been increased for 20 years. Well, the state is sitting on a $5 million surplus. The other factor is Wisconsin is very, very heavily dependent on the property tax where we have a lower sales tax than every neighbor around us. That's Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois. Illinois also pays for things through tolls. They pay through things for sales tax. I've had conversations with people that talk about so- and so lives in Arizona and their property taxes are $1,200, but they also have to pay 500, $600, $700 a year to register their car. So, the money in other places comes from somewhere. It's just not property taxes. And the the system that the state of Wisconsin forces communities to abide by is the most restrictive and the most

antiquated. And I'm hoping with a new governor and new districts in the assembly and senate next year that there will be a serious conversation about funding. Um just as an example, we are allowed to go the year two years ago when everybody really got hit by a residential reassessment. Our tax collection at the city was actually less money. It was $1,700 less than the prior year in taxes collected. And that is because the residential value shot up and the commercial value dropped. So when office space was dropping still as a result of COVID and people working from home and not as much demand for office space, all the office buildings you see on National Avenue, Highway 100 were going down in value and the taxes on homes was going up. So when you see you have to tax per $1,000. We set that rate. So when you the the analogy I've used is if we're sharing a pizza and the first time the homeowners paying for six slices of that pizza and the businesses are paying for four, the next year because that residential value went up so much it was like the owners are pay seven slices of that pizza while commercial properties were only paying for three. Now, I'm sure that's probably a lot more depth than you wanted this evening, but it's a broken system. Two years ago, we were allowed to go up, this was three years ago, $28,000 on a 30 plus million budget just for the union contracts of our police department and our fire department, who I'm not saying are not worth this, but that was over $800,000. So, we're starting at $780,000. So, that's just a surface quick snapshot that I wasn't really prepared to go into tonight, but I've obviously been seeing

it quite a bit because it's been driving me crazy. Are you done? Are you guys going to fix the flooding? How do you plan to do that? That's on tonight's agenda, the report. Yeah, there's a flooding report, but on No, no, just not from the state fair flooding. Not from the where it happened everywhere. Our street floods every time it rains. I I believe so you what's your address on 934 South 90th Street. Okay. So there is a spot on 90th Street. It is what we call a dead low. Both sides of the street come down and that's probably right where you

My yard is sinking. Yeah. So we uh have looked at that and we're going to add some additional catch basins there. the grates that you see in the street to collect the water quicker and get it into the storm sewer faster so it doesn't pull on the street. We know that there's not enough in that area. So, we're going to add some there. So, and then also just for my peace of mind, myself, my next door neighbor, and then the guy across the street, we are also wondering if you're going to be taking any of this money off for our labor that we've been doing for years when we keep like rakes and sticks and shovels by our porches and we go out and we clear the street every time it rains and you guys don't do anything or send a street sweeper or anything like that.

I'm just here to talk about the I just don't know what my taxes are for. I I I I am only speaking to the special assessments. I can't speak to So, we don't get a discount for being an employee. Okay. I can only speak to the special assessments. Okay.

No. Did you see the pictures? My yard is sinking. Our properties are getting infested with spiders. I know, but like a storm drain is a storm drain, but not nobody else's stuff is just being destroyed every time it rains. Thank you. Any other questions or comments on public hearing number five?

Hi, my partner and I have a house on 90th Street, 1112 South 90th Street. Um, couple questions. I'd like to start with what legislature are you are you citing that you're basing this project off of? It's it's Wisconsin state statute. I maybe Kale can tell me the specific number, but

section 66.0703. Thank you. Uh couple other questions. What are what are you guys basing your calculation off of? National Standards has asphalt between 20 and $25 a square foot. You guys are calculating asphalt at $56 a linear foot.

We're we're calculating an all-in cost. So, it's the cost of the um pavement of the roadway, the gravel that if we need gravel, any concrete um sidewalk is included in that $59 rate. Curbon gutters included in that $59 rate. the uh we have a separate rate for the driveway approach. So it's it's all inclusive. It's not a specific cost of a specific construction material. Sounds unfair to the individual homeowners, though. You're setting a fixed rate

to each individual house when you don't know what materials you're going to use in their section of the property. Well, we the whole street is going to be resurfaced in asphalt and all the curb and gutter is always concrete and sidewalk is always concrete. Okay. So, the concrete isn't on the letter you guys sent. You guys only put there that you guys were doing asphalt. It's included if we're doing a spot repair of curb and gutter or spot repair of sidewalk. It's included in that rate. We we call it a major asphalt rec resurface. It includes those elements within that project. So, you're averaging both rates.

We're we're averaging we're including the cost of any concrete uh for curbon gutter and sidewalk. Uh any gravel that we may need uh with the curbon gutter and the sidewalk and um the cost of the asphalt, any sawing that we may need to do, any milling we do. I mean, it's a whole it's the construction process that is built into that rate. Okay. Well, I have a few other questions. Um, I'd like to know where you guys came up with the rate, the 4% if they decide to do a 10-year payment plan. What's the What's the county's rate that you're getting to borrow this these funds? Uh, I don't think we borrow from the county.

It's pay. Um, I'm not sure. It's it I'm not the financial person, but from what I understand it, that's the cost for us to borrow the money to allow you to pay over 10 years. So, we don't profit on that, but it's the whatever bank or whatever rate we borrow from, that's the that's the increase or the interest rather that we pay. If attorney Decker, did you have anything to add?

Sure. So, it's traditionally it's funded through bonding city bonds at a certain rate. money comes in contractor. So, there's a big municipality that uses our streets, uh, city of Milwaukee owned state fair or the county, the state. Okay. So, are they taking on any of the burden of these costs given that they use our our roads constantly and a lot of the damage that is caused is because of the incoming traffic for these events that they're hosting at these at this location.

There's a payment for municipal services payment that the city gets that does not make us whole. And that's another thing we've been lobbying the state for for years to try to make that more equitable. Alderman Halverson, you have I'm actually working on that right now with the our state representative to get that oversight fix because it we do run a deficit every year trying to cover costs for state fair. But but in addition uh when we uh pave a road around state fair,

we special assess them. That's the part of the purpose of this process is so that we can special assess them because if it was just in the tax role and the tax levy, they wouldn't pay anything. So, uh, we repaved 77th Street last year, two years ago, we special assessed them $50,000, their fair share of the road construction. So, that's kind of that it's kind of the point of the process. Well, I have a lot of concerns as a homeowner given that I've lived at this property going on 10 years. There has been very minimal repairs to this asphalt that's been there in the time that I've been there. And you guys want to replace it with a a material that isn't known for longevity. Why are we not doing concrete? The south south of 90th Street uh got concrete maybe three, four years ago. Why are we going with asphalt?

Sir, I'm gonna kind of echo what Alderwoman Nolling said because you do seem to have a lot of questions, which I totally understand. I live on a corner, so when assessments come, it's both sides. We get hit. It might be beneficial to set up a meeting or a phone call with the engineering office because they might be able to in a private setting answer a lot of your questions that you I mean, I think a lot of the public wants to know this, too. We we've have trouble with asphalt on our 5 10 20 questions. It might be worth setting up a meeting with them directly. Are you guys going to make the plans public because we can't find any of the plans online on what this proposed project is?

We're we're still in the design phase. Um, so, uh, we can certainly, um, if we can get your contact information once we have them to a point where they are, uh, designed enough that we can show you and share, we can certainly do that. So, do you guys have a company in mind that you guys are going to hire for this? We have to publicly bid. So, we have to go through the public bidding process. So, it sounds like you guys are pre-charging every single person that lives on this without having a set a set price. How are you assessing this?

It the city uh sets um a per lineal foot price every year based on um all the the items that I've listed. And then uh it's it's done per lineal foot um and applied to uh the projects those uh each type of project. So we have a reconstruction rate, major asphalt rate um if we did a minor resurface, a minor uh resurface rate. And so that's determined each year, presented to the common council and approved. Is this public information? Because it's not based off national standards.

I'm not sure what national standards you're referring to. again for concrete national standards is 35 to to $46 per square foot. You're doing a calculation per linear foot that the this municipality decides to to assess however they want. I'd like to know how you guys are assessing this this average. Again, we took all the components, came up with a a unit rate per lineal foot of what it would So, um, if we It starts to get into the weeds a little bit. Um, and

by property I'm just trying to they they would take the the total total cost of several different projects of uh reconstruction asphalt resurfaces. The do two different kinds. um take um an average over time and then um come up with the average lineal foot and then um come up with the unit rate that included all those components. So, um that's as I guess as broadly as I can try to describe it.

I I'd like to know those rates though, so hopefully I can get you guys' information. attorney. So you're talking about a lineal foot versus a square foot, correct? Yeah. So the street's probably 20 to 24 ft wide there, I'd assume. Maybe even 28. So we'll say we'll say 12 feet. So your half of the street is actually 12 feet wide. So a lineal foot is technically 12 square feet, whereas you're talking about a square foot rate. A lineal foot is not a square foot. So they they're measuring it by the your lot line. Correct. So the amount of pavement and asphalt that's being used is more like 12 square feet. It's not 12 lineal feet will be 12 feet. 12 square feet would be a little bigger.

So a linear foot is a straight line and a square foot is a is a two dimensional. I think we should talk about this afterwards. Yeah, that that's what I was trying to get to. I guess Sure. I' I'd like to know how you guys are coming up with this this rate because you guys set a a fixed amount for just under 3,000 for my property. I'm sure a lot of these uh other homeowners would like to know how you guys decided to add this cost to their property. So I I mean I would really like some details on how you guys are coming up with this cost

and that's something we can discuss offline after the I've tried to do it a couple times and I'm not evidently expressing myself clearly. So

I just wanted to say I'm not opposed to you know 90th Street getting fixed. I just want a more permanent fix because a lot of people have been you know saying that there's flooding. there was flooding in August. So, obviously there there is a fix. But if I'm going to be paying out of my pocket with interest um because I don't have $3,000 to just come up, then I would rather have a more permanent fix that is going to address some of these issues that a lot of the people are coming up here and saying that they have with the street. Um and it might be a little premature. You know, if there's funds that you guys can allocate towards some of this stuff, it'd be great. so that it could relieve some of what we're paying that we obviously a lot of people have been saying can't afford. So that's just some things to consider on some of these projects.

Okay. Thank you. Does anybody else have questions or comments under public hearing number five? Go ahead.

My name is Gavin. I live on a 102 South 90th neighbors to Amanda and the flooding is a problem, but that's not what I'm here. I have simple questions. Um, what is the expected lif span of asphaltting a road? Like, how long is it going to last for? Is it even going to last the 10 years that it's going to be financed out? Typical asphalt roads um last anywhere 20 years. I don't think I've ever seen one that lasts 20 years. So that's up to their credit. We need a more permanent solution. Okay.

And then when was that cost per linear foot calculated? Because asphalt is mainly oil. Oil prices change. So say that that bid comes under way less what you charged all of us. Where's all that money going to go? Again, this is a a rate that is set uh annually by the common council. So, um, but say your bid comes under way less than what you already charged all of us. Where's that money going to go? It the cost of the road, the special assessment cover just small portion of the cost of the road,

right? The cost of the road, as we showed in the previous slide, the assessments are only covering 33% of the cost of the project. So the project is expected to cost way more than the special assessment. So the unit cost is not covering the entire cost of the project. So that we'll be spending more than what we assess you. So 20 years on asphalt. Cool. Thanks.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments on the fifth public hearing? Go ahead. Hello, I'm Dennis Whiselman. I live at 723 South 90th Street. A few years ago, I was a little surprised to find out that I owned half the road in front of my property. And uh this year, I'm I was a little surprised to find out that I own half of the alley adjacent to my property. And uh and I'm paying for that stretch, you know, another seven lineal feet. And this is all peanuts, but I'm a frugal person. I like my peanuts. Uh anyways, uh but there's a dozen other residences that use that alley and uh should that not be a portion to those properties as well that I shouldn't have to pay for the full seven feet. I think this is a policy uh type Oh, excuse me. policy type of issue. Uh

what is the policy on that? I'm not sure I quite understand. Um we're not 13 residences use that alley and yet I'm the one that pays for for that uh stretch. But the So you said you lived on 90th Street, right? Yes. I live on 90th Street. So the adjacent to an alley. Okay. Okay. So I'm being told because I measured it out that I own half of that alley and so I'm paying for the roadway in front of that alley.

Oh. Uh okay. I I think I get what you're asking and I apologize. Um, and I'm trying to look at Google Maps while we're talking to get a kind of a visual and you you see all the residences and it's a tea alley and and all these people are using that alley and even though I keep keep it clean for them so that they can get out. Uh I I I assume that the city is not going to allow me to set up a toll booth to charge, you know, recover some of the revenue. Set up a toll booth, right?

Or or I'm not allowed to uh issue uh parking permits in front of my house and and the like. So So I don't have total control, but Okay. So the the special assessment is for the street for 90th Street, right? The alley portion, the driveway approach of the alley portion is a city cost. Well, so that approaches the city cost. You're charging me for it. I don't I I don't I only have 30 feet of frontage and I'm getting uh charged for 37 feet.

Okay. Well, I think um if we can get your contact information because I don't have that right in front of me, we'll have to I'll have to see where the discrepancy is. All righty. Okay. Should I just call you during the week? Yes, please. Okay, that would be great. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else under public hearing number five?

Thank you, Mayor Divine. Richard Bolivia from 807 South 90th Street. I'm going to primarily address my questions to the engineering department. Um, our road happens to have a lot of traffic on it that is being used as a bypass between Greenfield and Schlinger to avoid the 84th Street inter interchange intersection and also the 92nd Street road as well. Several of the residents I have talked to um and they wanted me to bring this up is what kind of flow mitigation procedures are going to be used on the street to a limit speeds and b to basically eliminate the through truck traffic that we get. Even though there are signs posted both at Greenfield and 90th and Schlinger at 90th that the street is to have no traffic for trucks, but we get it all the time.

Okay. I was wondering if the city was looking at adding mitigation measures to help alleviate that. Uh this on 90th Street specifically, we are adding uh some bumpouts along the way. I believe it's four uh bumpouts that we're planning strategically along the street to create I like to call it awe, but it's more technically a chicane um to cause traffic to weave in and out, which makes traffic go slower. So, that is our traffic calming strategy for South 90th Street.

Um the trucking is a is a little it's kind of an interesting issue. Um, and I if a truck has a purpose on the road, it can be on the road. Now, I think you're probably talking more about trucks that cut through. Correct. And that's really a police matter. Uh, engineering can't but m can't we can't design a road that doesn't allow trucks.

Agreed. But hopefully the chicane will because a truck driver that's trying to make a time limit, an Amazon guy or a a beer truck guy trying to cut cut down the street, they're not going to want to weave in and out. They're going to want the straightest street. So hopefully um the chicane will work uh to have them try to use the more thorough affairs that we have around the area. Okay. My ne my last question would be is when is the the completed engineering document expected to be put up online? Um we haven't put our plans online before. Okay.

Um but we can certainly uh get your contact information and and send it out. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments on our fifth public hearing? Mayor Divine. Alderwoman Christian, I just want to thank uh Melinda and Rob and everyone else here who has uh showed up to express themselves. Um we're alers of district 3, Dana and I. So um some of these issues that I've heard personally u tonight I've not been called on. So I encourage you if there is any additional problems, please feel free to call us. Thank you.

Thank you. Go ahead. Hey guys, Chris Arnowski, 1025 South 90th. I share a lot of same sentiments that everybody else does. Um, so I won't go through any of that. I really just have two questions. Uh, first question being throughout this process as they're fixing the road and the sidewalks and anything, will there be any damage to the property or ground or anything that's going to need to be backfilled or anything that the residents will be responsible for? No, the contractor and will have if like we take a sidewalk slab out which is in um next to your private property, the contractor would fill that in with soil, top soil and sod.

Okay. You may have to do a little watering, but other than that, no. Okay. Um lastly would be if the project hypothetically was to go over budget, would there be another assessment imposed on us? Absolutely not.

Okay. Unless the common council wants to do this all again, which I I'm not going to volunteer for it. If you guys want to do it, you know, we'll send Rob in there instead. Um but no, we cannot uh raise your special assessment without having um either another public hearing or if it's specific to your property. Let's say uh we had planned to replace two sidewalk squares, but you want a third sidewalk square to be replaced. That would be an additional cost. we would contact you. We would tell you that additional cost and you would sign what we call a waiver um waving your right to a new public hearing and agreeing to pay the cost but you would be in full knowledge of what that cost is ahead of time and you would get to make that decision. We would give you that estimate and you could say nope that's too much and you wouldn't even have to sign the waiver and we wouldn't do the work. So we cannot make it more than what we have told you.

Excellent. Thanks. Thank you. Any other comments, questions on public hearing number five?

My name is Susan Peterson and I live on 1354 South 90th and I've listened to everybody and I agree with them on the cost. Um I am 61 years old. I bought my house five years ago. It keeps going up. If it keeps going up like this, I will not be able to afford to live there. And that alone, it makes me very sad because after 61 years and looking towards retirement, I don't want to have to move. I I don't want to have to start all over again. And it just I have a very good job, but everything keeps going up. And that's that honestly is a fear of mine. So, I mean, whatever we can do to try to keep things down, I don't know what it is, but it it worries me. Thank you. Anyone else with questions, comments on public hearing number five. Got one more coming up behind you and then you can go.

Hi, my name is Edwin. I'm a local business owner here in West Dallas and I just want to express my business mindset. So I see the biggest concern here is that the increase of a payment tax uh the property tax you know pretty much and also I'm a um a house owner here in West Dallas and I see the increase of the the taxes and the property which is it's fine as long as it's used within the community. Um but as business mindset I was doing some numbers here and the point is that people don't like when the taxes increase because it puts some risk on you know on the property or their mental health or things like that uh the peace of mind. So I was doing some math here and I just want to share this math. It might not be the the ideal form of collecting $11 million in order to pay this bill, but between businesses, nonprofit, and churches, we have about 1,293 um how can I say businesses that produce money in West Dallas. So if I divide the $11 million and I put the 4% annually increase that, you know, the the interest that they charge because of their bonds. Now, now I see their bonds. So, if I do the math, um it's just $87 per business owner that we have to pay into this um collective fund in order to fund the $11 million. Um now, if I get a letter as a business owner saying that I have to pay $87 per month in order to collect this $11 million, but as long as I know that it's not increasing the taxes of my clients, at the end of the day, it's my clients. So I would say just with a really good marketing campaign where we keep the money within West Dallas which is like all right let's participate with within

the businesses in West Dallas I mean $87 is penis it's nothing I think between all business owners churches nonprofit organization with I mean they have to share some part you know they have to take some risk sometimes um I think it's just a good way to collect this money and not affect actually the the homeowners because Um, I think it's a it's a good way, you know, like we can participate, we can uh it's like we increasing the sales tax at the end of the day. And as long as we got a really good campaign where we educate people of Westies to participate in order to fund these projects because this is not going to stop. We're going to have to fix all the streets. I can see that. Um, but my numbers are my numbers. Like I I kind of know about businesses. I've been in business for mostly 20 years. So I just want to share that with you guys. I think it's a solution that we can actually collect this money within the businesses and not actually increasing the taxes uh on the people. That's all. Thank you guys.

Thank you.

Any other questions on public hearing number five? Um, honestly, I have a question regarding my case. So, I want to ask, um, can you explain how a property that permanently lost and usable land and experience increased noise and safety risks and reduced market ability and considered to have uh received a direct benefit that legally justified a specialist statement? And I'm saying that because sir, this bank is my land gonna been taken. This purple one, the construction worker and their equipment going to be there 6 months or so. I don't know how going to take maybe less, maybe more. They pay 400 for this. 600 to sit on this for six months. That's a $1,000. And then we receive this estimate. We have to pay $1,966 22 cents because we are having benefits for a new as a homeowner. Piece of my land taken. Some of the construction workers and equipment going to stay on my land. My land going to be ruined. How that going to benefit me? So,

should I pay put money in here? And they I have to pay 1,966 for you guys. How's that? Maybe the money they going to give us to us in here, the $1,000 or the appraisal they give it to us. We're going to put another 966 so we can pay it for you guys. What is the benefits? my land taken some of it ruined no privacy and I gonna pay above these I have these paper I'm sorry I didn't grab the all of it because it's sensitive document I have to sign it and we have to sign it after two days I'm here because I need answers my husband he's on mortgage and all these stuff we cannot afford this honestly we cannot afford it we buy the house A year ago, we spent 10 years saving money to have our own house, not being taken by the landlord trolls or there is no privacy. 10 years, guys, saving money to have a house. Please just put yourself in my shoe. I'm a mom. I'm a substitute teacher. Better professional special education. I love my community. I love the kids. I love special needs kids. I love them. I help them. When I see these infected on them, I'm not talking because I'm just a homeowner who's losing something. No, my kids doesn't have the rights. My husband works so hard. And I believe this community need a beautiful project but not above our our rights at least. So please give me an answer so I can back to my husband

tell him what's going on in here and he's overro driver because he take about our safety and everything. He couldn't have the chance to come in here with respectfully. I just carry all his um questions, but he gave all the respect for you guys. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. If I may, go ahead. I'm actually your representative along with Alderman Route, and if you'd like, I can set up to talk to you after. Please. Um I don't know that we'll get all of your questions answered tonight, but between myself and the engineering, I'm sure we can get you in the right direction. Okay. Please. Appreciate you. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other questions on our final public hearing? These people are fin. Thank you,

Mayor Divine. Um, Alderoman Kee,

just on that note, we get it. We've been there. I've paid for a street twice. Um, I don't have boatloads of money sitting up here. We don't get paid a lot. Trust us, we don't do this for the paycheck. Um, so like we get the financial burden of it. We get the disruption of it. Um some of us have gone through it once, twice, sometimes three times, none. Um so just like I just want to reiterate that we do completely understand that we are citizens too that also pay taxes that also pay for the streets that also you know go through all the same stuff that that you as citizens do. So I just kind of wanted to call that out that we completely understand that point.

Alderoman Nolan you turn your mic on. It's not the light's not on.

I'll be Chad. Hey, also just want to add in um Dan's TED talk about municipal funding was pretty great. Um but it really is important that you are reaching out to your state officials, your representatives, because they have far more control over how we can fund things at a municipal level than what we do. We're given the framework and then told good luck work within it. Um, but we've all I have a corner lot and got taxed two years back to back. So, I understand it. It's not fun. Thank you. Last call for public hearing number five. Okay, we will close our final public hearing. Thank you everybody and we will move on to part E, which is public participation. This is where the council can receive information from members of the public during this 30-inut period. We ask that you again sign in and give us your name and address at the podium and limit your comments to one statement of no longer than five minutes. Does anybody wish to address the council under public participation this evening? Seeing none, we will close public participation and we will move to item F, which is our standing committees. They will be meeting during recess. Uh if you are here for business of a permit or a license or something along those lines, um please feel free to grab one of us when we break for recess to make sure that we get you into the right committee room. Um moving on to the mayor's report item G. I just I have a couple things today. Um I kind of want to start with some sad news. As a lot of you may be aware, we had two very um prominent members of our community pass away recently. One of them is Pat Wolf, who a lot of you know from her work on the historical

society. She was one of the founders of Candy Cane Lane. She was a member of the women's club. She played Mrs. Claus along with Santa in our parade um many years. she really was just a stalwart of the community and she passed away uh just over a week ago. And also I want to just announce that um we lost a phenomenal employee who passed away, Karen Writtenhouse, who worked in our water department and she just passed away this past weekend. So, if you are someone who prays, uh, please keep these families in your prayers. And I just want to mention that we are very appreciative of the contributions they have both made to our community, both within city government and in the West Atlas community as a whole. Um, moving on to just congratulate um, over the weekend friends of Lfallet Park had their empty bowls event and it was a big food drive for our local pantries and I want to thank them for putting that together as well as the bread peddlers and all the other um, restaurants in our community that donated soup for the fundraiser. I'm not going to try to name them, but there were about seven and they all donated soup for this event. I also just want to talk briefly about um it is February and we are recognizing Black History Month and I want to give a shout out once again to all the blackowned businesses that are in West Dallas. We are appreciative of them chasing their dreams while being part of our community. Um as a community, as long as I'm sitting in this chair, we are going to embrace our diversity and we are going to strive to be a welcoming city for everyone. And just for one uh piece of information, I just want to talk very briefly about Marian Anderson who is on my lapel who was a singer and I want to give a brief even though we've been here for a while. I I apologize, but I want to give a brief bio of her

just so everybody knows who I'm wearing. Uh she was six years old when she became a choir member at the Union Baptist Church in Philadelphia where they nicked her nicknamed her baby contralto. Her father was a coal and ice dealer who was supportive of her musical interests. When she was eight, they bought her a piano, but could not afford lessons, so she was self-taught. The church choir was so impressed by her talent and motivation that they got together to raise money for her to study with a respected voice teacher. While she was studying, she entered a contest by the New York Philarmonic and won a chance to sing at Lewis Stadium in New York. In 20 1928, she performed at Carnegie Hall for the first time and received a scholarship that took her to Europe. By the late 1930s, she was well known on both sides of the Atlantic. She was invited by President Roosevelt and Eleanor to perform at the White House. She became the first African-American to receive this honor. In 1939, her manager tried to arrange a performance for her at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. The owners of the hall, the daughters of the American Revolution, told Anderson and her manager that no dates were available. However, the real reason for turning Anderson away was a policy established that restricted the use of hall to white performers. When word got out there was a public uproar which led was led in part by Elanor Roosevelt, who ended up resigning from her position on the Daughters of the American Revolution. She invited Anderson instead to perform at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in front of a crowd of more than 75,000 and she gave a moving performance that was broadcast live to millions of radio listeners. So, happy Black History Month everybody. That concludes the mayor's report. Do we have any older person's reports?

Alderwoman Nolan here. Dang it. Sorry. I'm still going to be Chad. Um, just wanted to let folks know that, uh, District 2 is going to be holding office hours again this month. It will be at Storykeeper Books on the 26th from 6 to 7:30 p.m. And thank you to everybody that came out to our office hours at Station 6. Uh, was really well attended and we're looking forward to that continued community engagement.

Thank you. You just reminded me we have coffee with the mayor coming up next Thursday in District 1. 10 o'clock Thursday at peace of love on 68th in Lincoln. You're all invited. Any other older person's reports now that I backpedal into the mayor's report again? Alderman Havson, West Alles Arts Collective is uh hosting an event at OP on February 22nd, art in the heart of West Alice. Join us for a vibrant afternoon of local talent and community spirit. Um it starts at 12, goes till 6:00. It is free to attend. It's at Oak Brewing Company. All ages are welcome. Bring your dogs. Thank you. Any other reports from the older persons?

Mayor Divine. Alderman Hos. I move for approval of the January 20th, 2026 common council minutes. Second. There's a motion and a second. Is there any um discussion on corrections or changes or omissions? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Minutes are approved. Standing committee reports, we have none. We will move right to the consent agenda. Alderman Hos. Thank you, Mayor Divine. Do any council members wish for separate action on any of the items in our consent agenda?

Like to uh postpone number seven to our next meeting on the 24th. Okay. Is there any objection to postponing? If not, I believe I can just say so ordered and it's done. Done. So ordered. All right. Any other requests for separate action? Then seeing none, I move or none others. Uh no others, I move for approval of item K, the consent agenda minus item seven. Second. There is a motion. There is a second. Is there any discussion on that? If not, I'll ask the clerk to call the role. Alder person. Halverson. I. Keane. Hi. Novak. I. Noling I wrote I Turner I Wel I Gisham

I Ro I H I 10 in favor zero opposed that item carries and Mayor Divine

Alderman Hos before we go to recess regarding item number 31 the report by the engineering department related to the August 2025 flooding event there's uh been a request and uh Alderman wrote as the chair of the public works committee has agreed that that item will be discussed at the conclusion of the economic development committee meeting. So all council members will have the ability to be present for the public works committee discussion on item 31. And then with that, I move that the council stand in recess until the conclusion of our committee meetings.

There's a motion. There's a second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? We are in recess.

Good evening. Let's call the council back to order and I will ask our clerk to call the role. Other person Hverson here, Keen here, Novak here, Nolan here, Ro here, Turner here, Wigel here, Gisham here, Gro here, Hos here, 10 present. We have a quorum. Let's start with the administration committee has nothing. What's that? It's been that long. We have to do the pledge again. Um, we will go right to the public works committee and I will ask the clerk to read out that report.

The public works committee recommends placing on file of item 31, passing of item 32, adoption of items 33, 34, and 35. Mayor Divine, I move in accordance of the committee report. Thank you, alderman. Is there any discussion? If not, I will ask the clerk to call the role. Other person Halverson I Keane I Novak I Nolan I Roi I Turner hi Wel Gisham hi Gro I 10 in favor zero opposed motion carries thank you let's go to the economic development committee

all right this is a mouthful the economic development committee recommends granting of item 36 postponement of items 37 and 38 until the February 24th ating denial of item 39, granting of item 40 with hours maxed at midnight, a total occupancy of 249 persons, invited guests only, no public promotions, approval for one year to see if it's a good fit for the neighborhood. Granting of item 41. Granting of item 42. Adoption of items 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, and 48.

Boom. Mayor Divine, I move in accordance with the committee report. Thank you, Alderwoman. Any discussion? If not, I will ask the clerk to call the role. Alder person Hverson. I keen. Hi Novak Nolene. Hi Roach. Hi Turner. Hi Wigel. Hi Gisham. Hi Gro. Hi. Hi. 10 in favor. Zero opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. We'll do the public safety committee. The public safety committee recommends denial of item 49 due to non-appearance and background check. Thank you. Mayor Divine. I move for approval of the public safety committee report.

Any questions, discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Any opposed? The eyes have it. The item is the denial is approved. Mayor Dine, Alderman Hos, I move that the council stand adjourned until our next scheduled meeting, Tuesday, February 24th, 2026. Second. There's a motion. There's a second. All in favor? We're adjourned.