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Beloit City Council Regular Meeting - June 15, 2026

Meeting Portal — Monday, June 15, 2026
BodyBeloit, Wisconsin
SessionMeeting Portal
DateMonday, June 15, 2026
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Speaker numbers apply only to this recording.

Speaker 1

2:04

So uh people won't recognize that you need to be celebrating what the findings also for people to buy the time all respect to

Speaker 2

3:08

five working one point.

Speaker 1

8:56

And

Speaker 2

9:01

require now performed here.

Unassigned speaker

9:13

I

Speaker 1

9:14

think we'll be able to do that.

Unassigned speaker

12:28

And

Speaker 1

12:28

then public comment here and October.

13:21

Um all almost all the way up to the back doing happens to other channels and public things.

14:56

Um

Unassigned speaker

19:31

And

Speaker 1

19:31

then when they're being awarded being awarded

Unassigned speaker

19:40

and

Speaker 1

19:40

they look at the time.

Unassigned speaker

20:30

Okay,

Speaker 1

20:46

five is public comments.

22:00

Thank you very much for getting in.

22:03

Um meeting uh both and representative.

22:25

So uh I

Speaker 2

22:26

don't know why

Unassigned speaker

22:27

I

Speaker 2

22:28

couldn't use a school by myself.

22:30

I didn't know anybody, and I left my home because I were reaching time.

22:35

One of the big biggest reasons I like

Speaker 1

22:39

was that my house.

22:45

And that was my hand and trying to get homes and uh easy water phones.

22:52

So one day we all come home from the other time to water don't worry, and you can cover that water anymore.

23:02

Um, then we won.

23:09

But we've got clean water and five potential and home.

23:13

And we won by banking together and ourselves in each other.

23:17

We also work with our local electricity work really close to the uh company.

23:23

We are um state representative by the kind of uncontrolled, and we were uh comparable and so in the clean, and we won.

23:39

Um all being back and take two months more time and help all development of the knowledge and keep them.

23:56

Don't be bullied by the track and local developers who must have mean the five community to run focus and looking like all the time.

24:07

And we're gonna help them, we need to work together.

Speaker 2

24:33

We didn't find um

Unassigned speaker

24:39

uh

Speaker 2

24:39

any folks got no

Speaker 1

24:42

data to not be long-term death, local emergency patterns are not kind of emergency that will happen to be five times.

Unassigned speaker

24:56

And after that, we like the option and this one.

Speaker 2

25:17

So here's two emails.

25:41

Watering pollution, strength and energy systems, and driving that energy rates and light and some position.

26:22

Um I'm a nice and resident to ask you to work in developments and even still significant community because of the impact on local energy equation.

26:38

Why are you using pollution and body and not insulting?

26:44

And that's what you know, yeah, yeah, I can see the high levels of use and how to use the only words by the high levels of uh equation and space.

27:08

So the protection is the thing that's for life and the people uh this uh significant question and uh physical in the case of public uh distance uh emerging things uh consistent such as that would be stuck in advanced time and all that things and a couple of things the economic or uh just because you have a proposal in here and uh engaging with the stats and hoping to make that things before proposed.

Unassigned speaker

28:06

Uh

Speaker 2

28:11

um I think that's because I can develop me.

28:58

If you have access to some water of the air, that's the space to find in the colour, like some development of this first and become one opportunity to ensure we can expect to ask you to ask anyone to make a point and see the work and just provide time to develop the audiences and that necessary studies and doing this one from people from the boy.

Unassigned speaker

29:41

I realize the city hasn't had any direct proposals from the uh specific time and sort of process to the work to make a bigger measure and so that you can consider whether zones that you have to use into account as much larger type of industry zone is in the cover with the stuff that prevention is the best national the exposure proposals that you can find in class and communities.

Unassigned speaker

30:41

Uh

Speaker 2

30:42

and seven can be a coalition and full of time neighbors for responsible training.

30:57

Um, significant environmental community of that information of the library is presentation of the community.

31:13

In the city or two, we'd be using city water.

31:22

How will that impact the impact of the thing?

31:27

How will that impact the infrastructure?

31:30

What is the cost of city results and benefits?

31:33

And there is two weeks.

31:42

What chemicals will be decided?

31:44

Yeah, I think that's a half chemicals and closed.

Discussion Breakdown — Share of Meeting
Miscellaneous██████████████████████████████████34%
Public Engagement█████████████████17%
Water And Wastewater Management████████████████16%
Budget Equity Analysis████████████12%
Procedural████████8%
Environmental Protection███████7%
Affordable Housing██████6%
Summary of Proceedings

Beloit City Council Regular Meeting - June 15, 2026

The Beloit City Council met in regular session at 6:00 PM on Monday, June 15, 2026, at City Hall Forum, 100 State Street, Beloit, WI. The posted agenda covered Juneteenth proclamations, a public hearing on 2027 community development and housing needs, public comments, a consent agenda, alcohol beverage license renewals, appointments, and reports on financial and water-quality compliance. No meeting minutes were available, and the raw transcript is partially garbled; this summary relies on the agenda and the intelligible portions of the transcript.

Special Orders & Announcements

  • Proclamation 2026-016 recognized Juneteenth and Rising Queens (Adama).
  • Proclamation 2026-017 recognized Juneteenth and The Elite Ladies of Beloit (Adama).

Public Hearing

  • The council conducted a public hearing to solicit input on public housing, community development, housing, and homeless needs in the City of Beloit for inclusion in the 2027 Annual Plan. No specific testimony from this hearing was clearly captured in the available transcript.

Public Comments & Testimony

  • A resident described a previous community effort that successfully secured clean water by organizing neighbors, working with the local electric utility, and partnering with a state representative. The speaker urged the community to work together and not be intimidated by developers.
  • A resident raised concerns about the impact of a proposed development on local pollution, energy rates, and the environment. They asked the city to study effects on infrastructure, city water usage, costs and benefits, and chemicals used, and asked for time for studies before any proposal advances. The speaker also asked the council to consider zoning for larger-scale industrial uses and referenced neighbors forming a coalition for responsible development.

Consent Calendar

  • The consent agenda was presented for one motion with no separate discussion unless requested. Items listed included:
    • Approval of the regular meeting minutes of June 1, 2026.
    • Approval of the special meeting minutes of June 1, 2026.
    • Resolution 2026-086 approving applicants for Alcohol Beverage Operator's (Bartender's) Licenses for 2025-2027.
    • Referral to the Plan Commission of the extraterritorial final subdivision plat of Riverstone Subdivision Plat 4 in the Town of Beloit.

Licenses

  • Resolution 2026-083 was on the agenda to approve renewals of Alcohol Beverage Licenses for the July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027 license period.
  • Resolution 2026-084 was on the agenda to approve late renewals of Alcohol Beverage Licenses for the same license period.

Appointments

  • Nominations for city board, committee, and commission seats were on the agenda for confirmation by one motion unless a council member requested separate consideration.

Discussion Items & Reports

  • 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Statement Presentation (Miller): A presentation was delivered. The transcript contains garbled references to budget levels, revenue, borrowing, and a figure described as "155," but exact figures could not be verified from the audio.
  • Resolution 2026-085, 2025 Compliance Maintenance Annual Report (Frisbee): Discussion appeared to address water-quality cleaning, maintenance profiles, staffing/operators, and work with partners. No final vote was captured.
  • Resolution 2026-087, authorizing an application for the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Grant Program (Farley): Listed on the agenda; no substantive discussion was captured in the transcript.

Key Outcomes

  • The record shows the Juneteenth proclamations were presented and public comments were received.
  • Input from the public hearing was intended to inform the 2027 Annual Plan.
  • Final votes and adopted resolutions could not be independently confirmed because meeting minutes were not available and the transcript does not clearly capture motions or roll-call outcomes.

Meeting Transcript

So uh people won't recognize that you need to be celebrating what the findings also for people to buy the time all respect to five working one point. And require now performed here. I think we'll be able to do that. And then public comment here and October. Um all almost all the way up to the back doing happens to other channels and public things. Um And then when they're being awarded being awarded and they look at the time. Okay, five is public comments. Thank you very much for getting in. Um meeting uh both and representative. So uh I don't know why I couldn't use a school by myself. I didn't know anybody, and I left my home because I were reaching time. One of the big biggest reasons I like was that my house. And that was my hand and trying to get homes and uh easy water phones. So one day we all come home from the other time to water don't worry, and you can cover that water anymore. Um, then we won. But we've got clean water and five potential and home. And we won by banking together and ourselves in each other. We also work with our local electricity work really close to the uh company. We are um state representative by the kind of uncontrolled, and we were uh comparable and so in the clean, and we won. Um all being back and take two months more time and help all development of the knowledge and keep them. Don't be bullied by the track and local developers who must have mean the five community to run focus and looking like all the time. And we're gonna help them, we need to work together. We didn't find um uh any folks got no data to not be long-term death, local emergency patterns are not kind of emergency that will happen to be five times. And after that, we like the option and this one. So here's two emails. Watering pollution, strength and energy systems, and driving that energy rates and light and some position. Um I'm a nice and resident to ask you to work in developments and even still significant community because of the impact on local energy equation. Why are you using pollution and body and not insulting? And that's what you know, yeah, yeah, I can see the high levels of use and how to use the only words by the high levels of uh equation and space. So the protection is the thing that's for life and the people uh this uh significant question and uh physical in the case of public uh distance uh emerging things uh consistent such as that would be stuck in advanced time and all that things and a couple of things the economic or uh just because you have a proposal in here and uh engaging with the stats and hoping to make that things before proposed. Uh um I think that's because I can develop me. If you have access to some water of the air, that's the space to find in the colour, like some development of this first and become one opportunity to ensure we can expect to ask you to ask anyone to make a point and see the work and just provide time to develop the audiences and that necessary studies and doing this one from people from the boy. I realize the city hasn't had any direct proposals from the uh specific time and sort of process to the work to make a bigger measure and so that you can consider whether zones that you have to use into account as much larger type of industry zone is in the cover with the stuff that prevention is the best national the exposure proposals that you can find in class and communities.

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