Called the things there we go.

Call to order the meeting of our common council for Tuesday, November 18th.

Clerk.

Thank you, Your Honor.

We have 10 members.

Um present and civic clerk.

Uh Alders Galvin and Stevens are attending remotely.

And Alder Delete is excused.

And I believe we await Alder Ritter.

All right.

Thank you, Clerk.

Now please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing.

Actually, you can be seated for invocation.

I pledge allegiance to the United States, America and to the Republic for which you stand.

One nation under the all right.

And we will just do uh a moment of quiet contemplation.

All right, thank you.

On to approval of the agenda.

Motion to approve maybe Alder Prophet.

Second by Alder Presley.

Any changes?

Seeing none, all in favor say aye.

The ayes have it.

The agenda is approved.

Report by the mayor.

Um, just very quickly, uh, echoing some of the thoughts that I shared at the last meeting, just really appreciate all the work from our finance team from Director Allenbecker and assistant director Jose um and all of our senior staff and and staff across the board, the Alders who have taken the time to dig into the document, especially our um personnel and finance committees uh chair grant for the meeting that was the run and questions posed by Alder.

So thanks all around.

We'll just appreciate approval on our budget.

Uh announcements.

All right, seeing none, we'll go one by one on the report of the joint finance personnel committee from.

Yeah, go ahead.

Um, thank you, Mayor.

I just wanted to remind everybody that uh the um holiday parade is this Saturday, and um the Green Bay neighborhoods looking for more people to walk with.

I'd say they're float, but it's really a it's a truck.

But anyway, dressed like Rudolph, but anyway, you know, so more of the mayor.

Thank you.

Yeah, a few of us will be there, including um Chris Kringle.

So that'll be fun.

Uh report of the joint finance personnel committee from November 13th, 2025.

One is to approve the request for new positions in 2026 and reclassifications.

Motion to approve maybe Alder Prophet.

Seconded by Alder Presley.

Discussion here.

Seeing none, all in favor say aye.

Yeah, I have it, and that item has been approved.

Item two is to approve the mayor's recommended 2026 budget as proposed.

Motion to approve made by Alder Profit.

Second by Alder Hinckfus.

Discussion on that.

Thank you.

Um, before we uh pass this or discuss it further, um, attorney co chart reminds me that uh that we do need a public hearing on this item.

So just to make it clear, uh, if anybody would like to address the council on the budget, um, that now would be your time to do that.

So feel free to let us know.

Is anyone here to speak to this item?

Anyone here to speak to this item.

All right.

Nobody here.

Clerk, would you let the record reflect that?

Thanks for the reminder, attorney.

Oh, maybe it's gonna be altering.

There um any discussion on item two.

Alder Grant.

And I apologize, not necessarily discussion, but just a note.

Um, something dawned on me after our meeting when we approved the increase in licensing fees.

I did have a discussion with John Le Ryan, I just wanted to state it.

I was concerned that um after we had amended the zoning, which in many instances reduced the number of CUPs and PUDs needed, those fees had doubled in the adjustment.

So I did confirm with John that some things that prior did not require those, now do, so he is comfortable with the proposed increased fees that the offset of the items that no longer need a CUP impute would be made up for by the things that now require it, if that makes sense.

But with doubling that fee and that being a larger chunk, I wanted to make sure that that was accurately projected in the budget.

So that's all.

Thank you.

Oh, great point.

Thanks for making it.

Any others.

Johnson, all right.

I issued the challenge to Alder Grant that she couldn't beat the record of 20 minutes.

I'm gonna filibuster if there's no things.

No, and and maybe I would just make a comment because it doesn't sound like there's any amendments forthcoming, but I don't want to presume.

But it just uh I do think this is a very responsible budget.

It it not only you know keeps us in pace with with where we need to be with some of the adjustments in our cost, but um it's a very bare bones thing.

There's there's not a lot of flash air, and I know the mayor said that in his um description, and I think that long term we've got to continue to have some of those real serious conversations about our over reliance on property taxes.

Uh so I think uh many of us, if not most of us, are in alignment with the mayor on on that as well, and it's a different form to address that.

But I just wanted to thank the mayor and the staff for uh once again putting together what what I think is a very responsible budget that serves the best interests of the residents, but also um puts high quality services at at the front of that uh priority list.

So thank you.

Thanks, Alder.

Any other comments?

Seeing none, all in favor will say aye.

The ayes have it.

That item has been approved.

Item three to approve the 2026 borrow request as amended.

Motion to approve made by Alder Presley, seconded by Alder Prophet discussion here.

Seeing none, all in favor will say aye.

Aye.

The ayes have it.

That item has been approved forward to approve the 2026-2030 capital improvement plan.

Motion to approve, made by Alder Presley, seconded by Elder Prophet, Alder Johnson.

Uh so at the finance committee had made a motion to amend uh regarding the Adams Street, Washington Street reconstruction projects.

Mayor and I spoke afterwards, uh, suggested that perhaps dropping in engineering costs the year prior to the proposed work could make sense in terms of balancing out really the the two-step process that would be involved there.

Uh what I realized when looking at the amount that we had put into the CIP of 2.35-ish million is that did include engineering costs.

So I'm gonna just make a motion to amend to split that.

I believe we put at finance meeting, we put the 2.35, actually, we rounded it to 2.4, right?

Uh, we put that in year 28, and so I would just leave that there, but I would the the amendment would be to reduce that to 2.4 and then put 400,000 dollars for engineering costs in 2027.

Reduce it to two or I'm sorry, reduce it to two million and then the uh yes, so two million in 28 and then 400,000 in 27.

Got it.

Is there a second for the amendment?

Seconded by Elder Prophet.

Any more discussion on that?

Alder reference on here where because there's a lot of attachments.

I'm just trying to find where you're referring to.

Is there a specific spot?

So I don't know if staff had an opportunity to update the document.

Looks like um director's nodding.

Would there be still someplace to it's not updated?

Okay, good.

Yeah, director Allenbecker.

Yep, sure.

I know there's 1118.

Street oh, I found it, Director.

No five, that's a problem.

That's one place to find it.

Is it in the summary 95?

We put 2.4 million in 2026.

In this one, you're talking about nope.

The full um council packet, you do not have a paper copy of the CIP book in front of you.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, so if you're under the within the packet, if you hit the three CIP summary 26, 2030, 1118, 25, and then it would be on page seven, and it's under TIF.

There's currently 2.4 million under 28.

So I'm proposing to amend that to two million and then 400,000 under 27.

Okay.

A lot of numbers.

All right.

That amendment had a second.

Any further discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor say aye.

I aye.

Aye.

The ayes have it.

That item has been amended.

Motion to approve is amended by Alder Prophet.

Seconded by Alder Hinkfis.

Discussion on that.

Seeing none, all paper say aye.

Aye.

The ayes have it, and that item has been approved as amended.

Resolutions.

We will take up both items with one vote.

Alder Johnson makes a motion to suspend the rules, take up these items with one roll call vote.

Seconded by Elder Eck.

Any discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

The ayes have the rules suspended.

Motion to adopt me by Elder Presley.

Seconded by Elder Prophet.

Any discussion?

Seeing none, we'll use the board.

Oh, sorry.

Thank you.

Alder uh Stevens.

That was Stevens.

Yes, Alvin.

I would be a yes also.

Thank you.

All right.

And those items are adopted unanimously.

Committee of the whole for consideration possible action on a request from Moskey Corporation to consent to the collateral assignment of development agreement 2025-04 to associate bank for 1116 Hobart Drive Multifamily Development.

Motion to approvement by Alder Johnson.

Any discussion on that?

Seeing none, all the papers say aye.

Item two for consideration possible action on general ordinance 34-25 relating to animals prohibited in city parks and farmers market locations.

Yeah, Alder Prophet on that.

Um this just looks a little different, I feel like, um, from what we typically see, and I just want to ensure if it needs to go through a second reading that I would like to propose a first and final.

Is this something that would require a second reading at a later date?

Because I know they're they're rearing and ready to go, and I have a neighborhood to answer to that's been begging for this for a while.

So I'd like to get it approved tonight if possible.

Yeah, so we could definitely do a first and final with suspension of the rules.

Um and just for for um those who are wondering why this is before us.

Um the good great news is we have a brand new dog park in the city of Green Bay, and so generally speaking, animals are prohibited from our parks, but we need exceptions for our dog parks.

Uh Whitney is the the only one existing.

Uh um, so we're adding that exception for Meyer Park here.

Um, so any additional comments from either attorney cochard or director ditch.

Make a motion to suspend the rules then take it up as the one first and final reading.

Alder Prophet makes motion to suspend the rules and do a first and final reading on this ordinance, seconded by Alder Johnson.

Discussion on that.

All in favor will say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

You guys have it.

The rules are suspended.

Motion to adopt made by Elder Prophet.

Second by Alder Johnson.

Discussion here.

See none, we'll use the board.

And Alder Stevens.

Yes.

Thank you.

Yes, for Galvin.

Thank you.

All right, that's unanimous.

10-0 petitions and communications.

Adjournment.

Motion to adjourn, made by Elder Prophet.

Seconded by Elder Presley.

All in favor say aye.

The ayes have it.

We're adjourned.

Thanks, everyone.

And a late start.