Economic development committee.

I'm your chairman Alderman Stanford to my right.

Further's right is Alderman Chambers to his left is Order Woman Dimitri Avis.

We've just been joined by Order Woman Moore.

Welcome.

And uh we are here with Alderman Jackson and our trusted assistant, Miss Carmen.

We're gonna get started with number one, two five zero six five nine.

This is a substitute ordinance relating to the membership of the emerging youth achievement advisory council.

We are here joined by the chief of staff for the president, Mr.

Clifton Crump.

Cliff, you want to tell us about this membership.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Committee members, uh Clifton Crump, Policy and Administration Director for President Perez.

I'm gonna read a brief statement uh that he prepared um in relation to this item.

Uh I'm a firm believer that youth must be at the table when they are being discussed to that end on April 21st.

The council approved a partnership with Milwaukee Succeeds that will, amongst other things assist in identifying youth that are interested in seeking board task force or council memberships via Milwaukee Succeeds youth training model for board readiness.

Uh, this legislation proposed is proposed in concert with that resolution as we seek to add two youth members, likely high school graduates, uh, to the emerging youth achievement advisory council.

Uh big picture wise, we collectively need to engage youth uh to hopefully stay in Milwaukee and become more civically engaged.

This is one method to do so.

So we've been talking about doing this for quite some time.

Um had various iterations of it.

Uh we shortened the term to two years just because of the uh young young people tend to move around.

Um, and so that's one of the most recent changes we've made to it.

Um we'll be flexible with the times as well as we uh make future agendas, but again, the purpose is to have uh younger people at the table when we're making decisions about the future.

Excellent.

Yeah, this conversation derived from the few meetings that we've had at the council, and one of the biggest concerns was uh adults not engaging youth for what the youth want or what the youth want to see.

So I support this.

Thank you for your leadership on this, Cliff.

And uh, you've been right with us from the beginning with the emerging uh youth council.

So I'll open it up to my colleagues for any questions or comments.

Yes.

Okay, Alderman uh chambers moves for approval, but we do have comments by Alder Woman Moore.

Right?

Uh yes, yes.

I just had a um comments.

I just want to echo your sentiments as well, Mr.

Chair.

Of course.

Um, this obviously, you know, I love what you said, Cliff.

We cannot have um opportunities for young people without young people being at the table.

Right.

And so um I am hoping that you know, so when we say that, and I hope that we don't say that just as a the just as buzzwords, but it also has to go into action by number one uh making sure that those young people there's some sort of small stipend um that they receive um in addition to making sure that the meetings are convenient, you know, for them depending on the age group or population, you know, um that you're looking to serve, whether it's high school or college age.

Uh, but that you all, you know, that the group really push themselves to make sure that they um um structure you know the the meetings to support um young people's input.

But thank you all so much for moving forward on this.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Yeah, I was just gonna comment and I deal well, and I know all the woman more is very uh involved with the youth council, and I deal well.

This is a this is the next step for them.

That's as they begin to learn more about Roberts' rules and procedures and budgets.

Um so again, it's just that's a it's a pathway, um, it's a start.

Uh we'll seek any method, whether it's private funds or whatever, to pay this board.

This board is not a compensated board, uh, the emergency.

No, just the young people though.

Right.

Yeah.

But you know how things are if you you have certain rules, you have to pay one, you have to pay them all.

But we'll we'll we'll we seek to find ways to um to accommodate that.

Yeah.

Well we'll be here if you need to change the policy on that.

Thank you so much.

What how many members does this put up to uh 13?

Okay, great.

All right, Alderman Chambers moves for passage, hearing no objections to order.

Thank you so much, bro.

Number two, two five one nine fourteen, appointment of Beth Handel to the business improvement district number 51 by the mayor.

Ms.

Handel, are you available?

He's online.

I am right here.

Hi there.

Hey, good afternoon, and thank you for your patience.

This is an appointment for you.

Let us know why you like to serve hi.

Um my name is Bethany Dall, and I am uh business owner in the Harbor District.

My business is Milwaukee Kayak Company, and we offer kayaks, canoes, and stand-up pavilion rentals uh to visitors and our great community here in Milwaukee.

Um, and so I would love to serve um on behalf of the Harbor District and where I spend most of my time.

Excellent, excellent.

How long you guys have been in operation over there?

This is gonna be our 14th summer, so a long time.

Congratulations.

Let me see if we have any questions or comments.

Any comments or questions by the committee?

Hearing none, Order Woman Moore moves for your confirmation, Miss Handel.

Hearing no objections to order.

Thank you for your willingness to serve.

Thank you very much.

Have an excellent day.

Number three, two five one nine one six, reappointment of John Rosito to the business improvement district number 51.

He does have perfect attendance, does not need to is he here?

Are you here?

Oh, he's not.

Okay.

No, he does not need to attend.

Order woman Dmitrievich moves for his confirmation, hearing no objections to order.

Thank you.

Number four two five one nine seventeen.

Reappointment of David Steg Stegman to the business improvement district number 51 by the mayor.

Mr.

David Stegman, are you available?

I am.

Thank you for coming today.

Let's see here.

This is a reappointment for you.

How many years have you been on the board in the 14th Automatic District?

Boy, it's been quite a number of years.

It's just been an honor.

Um I'm I'm sitting in my office here at River One.

Uh, you know, uh we've been uh very involved.

Michaels Corporation, my employer, been very involved in in the district, and uh it's just been an honor to serve and hopefully uh creates more growth down here.

Excellent, excellent.

We thank you for that and with your dedication and commitment to the area.

Uh your order woman is here.

She'd like to move approval or say some comments.

Would you order woman?

Oh, thank you so much, um, Chairman Stamper.

Thank you, David, for your continued service.

Um, you you know, your um company's investment there has really started off a chain reaction of positive um energy in that area.

So we thank you for your continued service, and there's going to be continued growth, and um it's essential to have your voice uh be heard there.

Thank you.

Well, thank you.

But that yeah, thank you.

We appreciate it.

So with that, Order Woman Dimitrivich moves for confirmation, hearing no objections, so ordered.

Thank you and have a great day.

Number five.

Yes, sir.

Number five, two five one nine eighteen, reappointment of Colleen Cheney Towinski to the business improvement district number 51 by the mayor, also in the 14th Automatic District.

Miss Colleen Cheney, how are you today?

Yes, doing well, thank you.

Yeah, excellent, excellent.

We share the Citrous Cities Committee today uh.

Yes, we do.

And you do a great job for that.

Do you also do a great job on this bid?

I like to think so, yes.

All right, well, let us know why you would like to continue to serve, Miss Cheney.

Oh, I enjoyed my service um and certainly like to continue the work.

Um, you know, quite involved in the South Side.

I think um my work here in the South Side is a good bridge between the Harbor District and the Lincoln Village.

And there's a lot of shared um commonality between the the two areas and just like to continue the work doing.

Excellent.

We have any questions or comments by anyone?

Order woman?

Yes, thank you.

I mean, you know, these being um cognizant of the committee's time, these are also opportunities to thank these wonderful citizens that continue to provide um this service.

It's not easy, much of it is unpaid.

Um, but Colleen um does provide that was a perfect word of bridge.

She does a lot of work in um President Berez's district and and also mine.

Um, and this is one of many hats, so we truly appreciate your service and thank you for the work that you do, and and never thank anyone on this board that it goes unnoticed.

We know um the folks that are at every meeting and and doing things, so thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

I agree with those comments and order with Dimitri Evitch moves for confirmation, Miss Colling.

Hearing no objections to order.

You have a great day.

Thank you.

Number six, two five two one six six appointment of Aaron Fonsesca to the Milwaukee Arts Board by the mayor.

Miss Aaron Fonsesca, how are you today?

I'm good.

How are you?

Excellent.

This is an appointment for you.

Do you have an arts background?

If so, tell us about it.

I do.

I'm an artist myself.

I was a teacher for many years teaching arts and humanities at a high school level.

I am now the manager of after school arts and humanity programming for Milwaukee Recreation.

I guess yes.

Um my main task is to expand access to arts and humanities programming for generally historically.

Um, you know, students who have limited opportunities within that.

But through that work, I've sort of been able to.

Well, I'm new.

Um, I've been here for a year.

Um, and before that I was a supervisor promoted to manager, but um, yes, I'd love to advance that mission for providing access to arts and humanities programming at a at this board level.

Awesome.

Well, congratulations on all your advancement.

This is uh an appointment.

So do we have any questions or comments?

Hearing none, Orderman Jackson moves for your confirmation, hearing no objections to order.

Hearing no objections to order.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

All right, moving on to number seven, two five two one six seven appointment of Melissa Mueller to the Milwaukee Arts Board as well.

How are you today?

I'm great.

How are you?

Good, good.

Do you also have an arts background or let us know why you're interested?

I do.

I've worked for artists uh and arts organizations, nonprofits uh throughout my entire career.

I'm also an artist.

I'm uh fund development consultant by day, and then um in all of my waking hours I work towards Washington Park Wednesdays and the free concert series.

So I'm deeply rooted in the community of arts and making sure that artists get paid a livable wage in the city.

Awesome, awesome.

Do we have a good lineup set for this year for Washington?

Oh my god, we do, yes.

Well, uh, I know I'll be there.

I don't know all the women more will be there, so but we invite the entire city.

Uh they've been successful, and we appreciate you keeping that park active.

Uh let me see if we have any comments by the committee.

Yes, older women more.

Thank you.

I'm so thank you so much.

I'm so honored um that Melissa uh was appointed um to this position.

I've we I was doing the sitting here, Melissa doing the math, and I was like, oh my gosh, I've known her for almost almost 20 years.

Our children um started off at Highland Community School, so they were just in, you know, probably K three, um, K three together and went um went throughout.

So I've known Melissa for quite some time and just her passion um for community and the work that she does um is just uh I'm we're I'm grateful, grateful to have you um not only in community but to also serve on the arts board.

So um I move approval when the time comes for confirmation.

Excellent, excellent.

So thank you so much.

It's great to hear great things about you, Miss Melissa.

So with that, all the women yeah, all the women more moves for your confirmation, hearing no objections to order.

You have a great day.

Thank you.

All right, number eight, two five two one six nine appointment of Marisa Marita, you girl to the emerging youth achievement advisory council by the mayor.

Uh this is Emerging Youth Achievement Advisory Council.

Cliff left.

So uh let's see here.

Does anybody's not here you should hold it?

Okay.

Alternate chambers moves to hold at the call of the chair, hearing no objections to order.

Uh number nine, number nine, two five two two oh nine resolution related to the acceptance and funding of a U.S.

Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Marketing Service Regional Food System Partnership Program Grant.

With us joined today is our director, Mr.

Mario Higgins.

How are you doing today, Mr.

Higgins?

Uh good morning, um Chairman, and good afternoon.

Is it morning?

Mario, what you want to do, brother?

Good afternoon.

Uh Chairman and committee members, uh Mario Higgins, um, director of community development grants administration.

Uh today we um there was a really long uh name and title for this particular grant.

True.

Um the USDA regional food system uh partnership program.

Yeah, so that's what we can do with that.

Yeah, so we uh we applied for this grant um last June.

Okay.

So if the timing of it is actually really good, uh considering all the work that the council has done, uh especially members of this committee has done around food systems, so this gives us another tool to be able to really uh get some work done on infrastructure type stuff and coordinating.

Um so the um this particular grant uh seeks to develop a replicable model uh for regional food system uh transformation that will improve food access and strengthen economic opportunity in Milwaukee and across the state.

So it is a regional grant, so we're working with uh Dane County and Brown County.

Um everybody be the coordinators and they have their own coordinators in their um in their areas.

Um it's a three-year grant.

Um so I think that's probably um that we'll be working on this.

Uh the city will uh work with local local partners and expanded partnerships with Dane and Brown Counties.

Um partly, I think our our ideas that this is gonna increase um sort of feed and K and just broaden it's uh so we want to use that base um in order to implement this grant and not create something new.

Okay, um so work on that uh initiative to increase uh local food system infrastructure and capacity, provide technical assistance to food enterprises and distressed communities, establish infrastructure for food recovery and composting.

Increase um sort of feed MK and just broaden it's uh so we want to use that base um in order to implement this grant and not create something new um so we work on that uh initiative to increase uh local food system infrastructure and capacity provide technical assistance to food enterprises and distressed communities establish infrastructure for food recovery and composting uh the grant supports and we'll work in collaboration with the mayor common council uh Milwaukee Health Department and others to address uh so to address access to fresh food in Milwaukee distressed communities uh there's four key activities um for the grant that we'll be working on that'll be convening and coordinating so the grant we do have um sort of distressed communities that were identified by the grant um from an index that they use so but it's five three two oh five okay uh five three two oh six and five three two oh eight so those are the targeted uh areas that we have to work on um yeah what's up calls sixteen sixteen a little bit of team they have 16 it did not have 16 included I mean however a lot of our work is still would be broader regionally but it's just those uh three zip calls that we had to that the grant required us to have to when you guys were writing the grants in collaboration with the other counties were we facing or was it imminent the the grocery store departures that are happening in the community is that part of this grant or no sort of I mean because it it's helping you try to get to the to the bigger systems of uh of grocery and foods food providers okay um you know distribution um look at some marketing development all types of resources in order to to uh to attack sort of the downline stuff before they're even grocers and providing them uh technical assistance and things like that so you're trying to build this infrastructure out sort of I mean sort of when you think about us giving out the the the funds that um that you just allocated right before you even get to that stage so trying to develop new partnerships and new uh grocery store systems or systems that they can walk into and have some basic infrastructure to increase their rate of uh survival in the long term so that's this this is the add added component to what we did correct okay it's uh you know the timing is really good when when one applies for some of the stuff we did will they be knowledgeable they have this option as well or is this coming from the city side I'm sorry repeat that again so when agencies or or farmers or whoever wants to need help with their grocery store and they apply for our the current stuff is this available or is this coming just from the city and us reaching out to people that need help so we so a stronger component is the convening and coordinating we do have to work with uh the local partners whether it's grocery stores nonprofits um to to help build the systems and to do all of that uh outreach um to them so um the other part of it's it is what's the connection with Dane County it had to be a regional um uh regional well we call it regional obviously Dane County or Brown County are technically what we would consider regional but they they too had indexes um zip codes in their areas that they were working on so that's you know so it was a regional grant so we had to partner with uh multiple partners in order to get to be eligible for the grant Mr.

Chair sure uh is Dan County not Dan County Madison Dan County Madison yes okay so no Milwaukee County suburbs no not in this grant okay so just for clarity um just along those lines um yeah we're I don't know we're um we're partnering to administer this grant uh but it will it will support our community here correct right they have they would have their own coordinators in in their in their districts are uh we will be working with them on sort of reporting out on the total grant but we have our own section of this grant so based on the number that we have here I know this is over three years am I breaking this down divided by three then uh what portion is this also goes to another community or um what would what would be our portion like per year I think I think the whole portion is ours we do have to I do have to hire a um we'll be doing an RP for a for a project coordinator okay that coordinator would be the ones um working with Dane and Brown County and so there may be small portions of resources that go to them we think about how that works and Kim probably can answer that a little bit that would be great marketing and outreach and some technical assistance but the the largest portion of the dollars do stay here.

Good afternoon Kimberly Create afternoon.

Um as far as actual dollars going to either the Dane County or Brown County partners, that's primarily in um sort of shared resources.

So there's some equipment for cold storage and and helping set up um you know sort of free access type um food areas and so providing them with some equipment for that.

So that's the kind of um resources um basically we'll be developing primarily informational resources.

So we'll be um developing training and um uh toolkits on how to replicate um kind of what has happened in Milwaukee and sort of build that out in Dane and Brown counties.

So a lot of the assistance is is really more from a um collaboration and and guidance and technical assistance.

So it's it's not so much monetary assistance.

So most of that budget is the city of Milwaukee is city of Milwaukee.

So am I correct with the 1.3 million?

The grant itself is uh just short of a million dollars, and then uh there's a match that uh the city has to provide that um working with the health department on Mr.

Chair, yes, you have the floor.

And all of the match stays here.

Okay, no, that that's great.

So an example, so like the project coordinator, if I'm looking at the figures correctly, the the two called it 290.

I would that would go over that's for a period of three years.

Correct.

Does it also include I'm assuming that it may include benefits because I I don't think we're paying our project coordinator ninety-six thousand dollars.

It would well that's uh that's a contract anyway, so it wouldn't be uh a staffer.

Oh it's a contract.

Oh okay, so that's contracting.

Because they would have to travel to Madison or Brown County.

We didn't want to have a staffer do that.

Gotcha.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

No problem.

And do we need a project coordinator?

We don't have anybody can who's gonna administer all those other programs?

Well, we're gonna do an RP for this.

You can site 300.

Y'all don't have no way they can do that.

I think there's numbers.

I think there's concern with uh the the travel the travel um from the I think we sort of talked to the city attorney about it.

I think there's just concern with all the travel having to go back and forth uh to Madison and Dane.

Do we have a contractor already in place for it or not yet?

What's the concern?

Cipher off some gas money.

Um we can still take a look at it.

I just uh is anybody interested in your I don't know we don't know yet.

Before you RFP see somebody interested, keep that 300.

Well remember too, it's you know, when we do that, I think you put people on the I mean the other types of benefits that we have to provide.

It's temporary, so it might this might be better in the long run versus putting somebody on the city payroll.

But then you also have to do with mileage and everything.

But you know, we'll we can still look at revisiting and I'll I'll let you know what we come up with.

Uh well I'm open to it, but I just thought I don't know if you don't know if it's the same.

We won't so we can't reallocate the money the way we want work here.

Um it's a it's a pretty strict grant, but I don't know that it's it would matter whether uh it may not matter that we did a staff or to the grant itself, whether it was a staffer or or someone outside, I think the money is still we spent.

Okay, gotcha.

All right.

Of course.

Uh we got old on the Drake which is the ultimate job.

So the grant compliance manager, 40%, is that a city employee?

That's the city employee.

Yes.

So still have to make sure that we're getting all of the required documentation from that coordinator.

Um it's only partial time for over the three years.

That's what okay.

So the 157 is over three years.

Correct.

And who which employee is that?

Right now, you know, it would be Matt Balishari.

Matt, you want both of them?

Triple look, man.

Is that normal though?

40% like that?

Like Yeah, that's not yeah, yeah.

It's just it it'll I mean that was what we estimated at the uh actual workload.

Um that mean that obviously could change a little bit by workload.

Yeah, she raised a good point.

Right.

Yeah, open up.

Um on the mini grants of $300,000.

Who's getting the mini grants?

Those are those would be um allocated out or um RP, but they're but they're yeah, they'll be yet to be issued.

Correct.

Correct.

And those would be many grants to the court to organizations locally.

And I'm gonna have a hundred dollars per year.

Correct.

Correct.

Oh, yes, yeah.

Breaking it down.

Well, we just want to make sure we help them out with our advertisement of what's available from the city.

So easily be a part.

Tell us what we can talk about versus what we keep what we can promote versus what we can't.

We mean if I call uh if I call Sherman Park uh Mo and say, Mo, we got some money, what what can I tell them?

This particular grant, well we we'll start doing some outreach in order to bring all of those partners together and so developing um all of the type of um community outreach that we'll be doing now part of part of that would be Matt's position okay and working with especially working with the uh the coordinator on the outlying areas but for for locally here as well.

Well is there time to come back, Maria when you guys when we can have a little bit more detail.

Sure, yeah, we get we'll get to work on this.

I know it's just approving of that, but before you I guess when you when it's time to launch, can you just let me know you can come back to and talk to us?

You guys will be uh very involved in all of that because of cool the outreach portion of it uh compared to what we would be able to do with the other programs that you're already set up is gonna be really important.

So thank you.

This is good news.

Uh on our relationship with Dane and Brown County, but do they have zip codes like 52206 and 5205?

Of course not.

But uh what they got some type of expertise.

They only have one each in their particular.

One grocery store?

No, no, no, just one.

I don't know about the that with the one zip code in in their areas.

Okay, gotcha.

All right, uh chamber says to let me see, uh adopt me adoption.

I forgot.

Yeah, honorable chairman moves for adoption.

You're no judges of order, good job.

Thank you for uh your presentation today.

We need as much resources as possible.

So congratulations to your office for receiving this grant for the city.

Appreciate that, especially around grocery store.

I'm really appreciative of that.

And everybody, thank you so much for coming today.

Uh as usual, we had a nice quick, succinct I love it, and efficient.

And efficient.

Y'all have a good day.

Meeting adjourned.