Alderman DeAndre Jackson on the big board we have Alderman Mark Chambers.

Alder Women Moore should be joining us shortly.

Uh we're gonna get started.

It's May 20th, and item number one is 260121.

And this is a substitute resolution declaring the MKE Love Summer Kickoff to be an official city event and reallocating fund from the MKE Community Excellence Fund for that purpose.

Sponsored by the president.

President, you got some comments.

Uh yes, sir.

I appreciate the opportunity to hear this.

Um the emerging youth achievement committee.

Um Project Kindred not only came to present but um through their civic engagement program that they're doing.

Uh we want this to be uh kind of a long-term relationship with the organization as they're working on youth-led initiatives and issues and um in the future they'll be coming down the city hall for not only a scavenger hunt and getting the no city departments and working on the issues, but um the summer kickoff uh we want uh it's gonna happen at uh Casiesco Park and we wanted to make it an official city event in order to uh put our money where our mouth is and support young people.

Um this the entire kickoff is led by young people, for young people, about young people, and so we wanted that to be uh a safe space that we're invested in, and that's why we want to make it a citywide event for it to happen.

Not only happen every year, the kick off and um, but we wanted to support it best we can.

We know we have to raise the matching funds, that will happen, and just look forward to the support and the kickoff and invite everyone to participate on June 13th.

Excellent.

This is a awesome endeavor.

Please add me as a co-sponsor.

I have the pleasure of sitting on the emergency youth advisory council.

I'm very familiar with this group and uh they're doing wonderful things for young people.

Uh Alder Woman.

Um, thank you so much, Mr.

Chairman.

I'd also like to be as co-sponsor and I'd like to move adoption.

Also, so Alderman to the Avich moves for adoption.

Yes, sir.

Uh Mark, are you in on the co-sponsorship?

I know Alderman Moore may be.

That's fine.

Uh I know Alderman Moore will be uh you may want to ask her.

Otherwise we will not.

Oh, there she is.

Alderman Moore.

We are talking about your favorite subject.

We're talking about the favorite subject.

Yes.

Young people.

And we're gonna uh allocate some funds to the MKE Love Summer Kickback program so young people can come down here and experience uh politics and government.

And uh this is just the first of many.

We plan on funding in the board, but we're my point is we're doing a unanimous consent and sponsorship.

Would you like to be a um so thank you so much and so um um President Perez, what are you the or your group is the one that I had some questions about it, so I'm glad I um and forgive me for my tardiness.

Um I just had some questions about it because we were taking funds um from Lit Leaders Igniting Transformation, and so I don't know if it was something that previously um was a project that they put in and we were then transferring funds to this.

So I was just that was one of my biggest concerns that what was lit doing and why are we transferring the money into the this is in lit's transfer.

This is from uh remember the money we had put up for the Caesar Chavez event.

That money was not used because we canceled the event, so we're we allocate reallocated the funds.

And this is one of the allocations.

Gotcha, okay, yeah.

This is reconstituting what was already earmarked for these annual events.

Still a city event, but we just changed it.

It's becoming a city event, then we can pursue the thirty-six hundred dollars.

Yeah.

Okay, no, yeah, please.

Yeah, I I read up on about it, so yeah.

All right.

Well, you have to see me.

Yes.

Yes, uh all the woman all the woman Dimitrivich moved for adoption with unanimous consent here.

No objections, so ordered.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

So you're gonna promote, you're gonna let us know.

She's the C she's executive director, right?

Okay, okay, okay.

All right, thank you.

Alright, number two, two six zero zero four eight communication from the Department of City Development relating to the Milwaukee Arts Board Annual Report.

Hello, hello, welcome.

I need to show me how to do this big enough for y'all, we show them how to make it bigger.

I feel like this is pretty good.

That's pretty good.

Oh, yeah.

Come on up, man.

You you do well at the table.

All right.

We're not gonna have some today, man.

Yeah, you can give me all the questions, and if I need to deflect.

I can look over to Luke if you can join me.

Alright, Saturday, what's you got?

You have the floor.

Yes, thank you.

And uh good afternoon, committee members.

Mr.

Chair, my name is Sally Svetek.

I am a neighborhood business development specialist uh on the commercial corridor team with the Department of City Development, and I also um have the honor of staffing the Milwaukey Arts Board along with my colleague Luke Olsen, who is here uh for support today.

And this is the Arts Board annual report um that I bring each year.

So we will get right into it with uh a screen with a lot of text on it, so you know, no no need to read all of this right now, but I uh I like to put this in the file as a reminder of um the arts board purpose and um you know sort of the creation um of it that the arts board is a 17 member board with members being appointed by the mayor for three-year terms.

Um but I think kind of most importantly, um, and uh increasingly so to the arts board members are this duties and power section.

Um more and more all of the arts board programming is being structured around these sections, and arts board members have um taken a lot of time and attention to make sure that this language matches um you know how um they want to see the arts board impact in Milwaukee.

So I'll just read those three points.

A um the arts board shall promote the development, support, and enjoyment of arts in the city, B promote cultural diversity in the artistic life of the city, and C promote the formation and growth of artistic projects or programs that are administered by in responsive to the needs, cultural history, and experiences of all city residents and the city's artistic community.

Um and so with that, I wanted to also share uh a photo um with uh of the mayor with some of the arts board members.

Um this is from last year's arts celebration, um and you see the four awardees.

So on the farthest left are the two um artists of the year from 2025, Aaron Boyd and Amal Azam, with two arts board members, David Flores and Tim Murphy, and then to uh the right of the mayor, uh you have Symphony Swan Zwadi and um Natasha Roberts Washington, who were the uh friends of the arts, and then um Amy O'Neill on the far right, another Arts Board member.

Woohoo, go ahead.

Yes, so uh all smiling faces, and we'll get into more of the um awards information here.

So um the arts board accepts public nominations for these awards.

Um this is probably maybe the third or fourth year that those nominations have been submitted by the public, and each year we get more nominations and even more um, you know, stronger thorough nominations.

So um it was a tough choice for the arts board this year, um, but they have made a selection that um did go out in a press release for the 2026 Artists of the Year and Friends of the Arts, and we'll we will be celebrating them at the annual arts celebration on June 9th, which will be in the City Hall Rotunda.

Um I've held off sending that invite.

I'll send it right after this, but I wanted to mention it to you all, and I hope that you guys can can make it.

Um it's right at the end of the day downstairs.

So um great.

Um and then just to mention um Artists of the Year and Friends of the Arts should um kind of promote those pieces of the code of ordinance that I mentioned earlier, and the Friends of the Arts specifically should demonstrate exemplary support of the Milwaukee arts community through mentoring, teaching, philanthropy, advocacy, and our community building.

Um and the photos here are um in addition to honoring the um awardees.

We also have different programming.

So um on the top is the Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate uh Alina Ahmed, who was doing a poetry reading during last year's art celebration, um, and then Symphony Swan Zwadi and her son making visibility patches with um some Vision Zero staff um during the celebration last year as well.

Was it in June last year?

Yep, yeah, June 8th, I believe.

Yeah, so like I said, you'll uh you will all be invited, and I'll make sure to send that to your legislative aid as well.

Yeah, I think we are where I have it on my calendar.

So I know I got it from someone.

Not sure where, but awesome.

Well, yes, maybe Arts Board chair, Alderman Cogs was circulating it.

Um that is very possible as well.

So yeah, but you all get another reminder, so um awesome.

So moving on to uh one of the the main um programs that the arts board runs, the sustaining grant program.

Um so the arts board since uh you know 2020-2021, the arts board has operated this um sustaining grant program, which provides operating funds for local arts-based nonprofits.

So they have to have an office in the city of Milwaukee and provide you know exclusively arts based based programming for Milwaukee residents.

Um so this year, um actually just last week, the Arts Board approved the awards.

Um, so 49 organizations are uh were awarded um a total of 267,600, and that funding does come from both the city budget as well as um Osconsin Arts Board regranting um grants.

So we did receive 61 complete and eligible applications this year, those are all reviewed and scored by a panel of um you know artists, arts board members, um arts administrators, and then those recommendations are approved by the arts board.

Um so I have some graphs on the next page, but I did just want to mention, we collect um information about the programs that this fund goes towards in the final report.

Um, the report from last year's grants will be due at the end of June, but I do have the numbers from the 2024 final report.

Um, and so with those Arts Board dollars, um, at least you know 3100 artists were engaged, that includes student artists, musicians, actors, um, visual artists, educators, um, and then over 435,000 people were served.

So that's audience members, people who attended gallery shows, um, if it's a virtual event, you know, uh attendees there, um, listeners in the case of you know Radio Milwaukee, um, and there was over 7800 sessions uh of programming offered.

So yeah, so a lot of great work um being you know matched and incentivized by this program.

Um so Alderman Moore, you asked when I was here, I think that was last month, um, to provide these data points.

So um I put together on the left, you can see the dollar amount that was applied for versus awarded.

So the top line is what was applied for from those eligible complete applications, and then the bottom line is what was awarded.

Um, and you can see you know, over since this program started in 2021, um, we have been slightly able to increase the total awarded each year, both based on the Wisconsin Arts Board funds going up, and then also we've been able to um whittle down the cost of some admin um expenses that were coming out of that as well.

So uh yeah, we award every dollar that we can to um to the nonprofits.

Yeah, and then on the right is kind of number of applications received.

So again, those are the eligible complete applications that we've received.

Um, and again, this year we were able to award just a couple more than we have in the past.

All right, and then um kind of going back to the final report.

So I always like to include some photos of those programs.

Um, statistics are helpful, but um I think photos of people engaging in the arts programming is also um great to see.

So on the far left, um, this is submitted by Arts at Large.

Um, it is a photo of a performance by their artist in residence, Damar Walker.

Um, he was reciting a spoken word poem that speaks directly to his father who passed away um two years before this event.

Um, Damar has finished uh dance portion of the show and is now at this point uh of the photo accompanied by a local jazz musician as he um reads his poem.

Uh on the right, we have um two youth programs.

So on the top is a new state, which was formerly called West Side Arts Unlimited.

Um students from their DJ sessions um all learning different, you know, digital DJ skills from 2024-2025 season.

Um, and then bottom right corner is from Walker's Point Center for the Arts.

Um, their guest teaching artist um Beatrice Hart during environmental arts week with some of their uh summer art camp participants.

So lots and lots more programming happen, but this is just a little snippet.

Is that separate than the 7800?

Is that like considered part of the 7800 sessions?

Yep, that's all those are all included in that number.

So yeah, everyone's programs that they report on are different, but we feel like there's always artists involved.

There's always some type of session, and then there's always um people attending and experiencing the programming.

So that's kind of how we ask them to report on it.

All right, and then um the public art conservation fund is another program that the arts board operates.

Um, the arts board sets aside um typically $10,000 a year for uh existing works of public art to be conserved.

And so on the bottom left is a photo of um mural that is um located outside the United Community Center.

Um, it is a Ronaldo Hernandez Muro landmarks, a tribute to a United Community.

Um, this is a before photo.

Um we don't have any after photos yet, but they are completely restoring and applying a protectant to this mural, which wraps around most of the building.

That's also the street right off the highway, right?

Is that one?

It's on it's like right by the Walker Square Park.

You know where that is.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

And they also house Latino Arts in there, which is one of the sustaining grant awardees as well.

Yeah.

And then on the right, last year the Arts Board awarded and this project was completed, funds to restore and resite for planters by local artist Marina Lee.

They used to sit in the five points kind of intersection, which is I believe going to be developed, so they had to be moved, and they have uh at that time they also decided to restore them.

So the photo in the middle is a restored, um, repainted, bright and shining planter um that will be planted in, um, so it'll have you know plants growing um in the center of it, and then on the right is a map of where all of those were moved, um primarily along the beer line trail in the same room.

Yes, where is that?

Um, the design right there.

What is it?

That's a good question.

So they used to be located in the um in the intersection at five points.

Okay, um, but now they are all spread out, and I don't know.

Let's see, empowerment is the little green one, okay.

So, so this where's my mouse here?

Okay.

Is that big?

Is that pretty big?

It's huge.

Yep, it's like yeah, bigger than probably about the size of a human, a little bit bigger.

Okay.

Um, and then that is um the empowerment planter, and that is located down here, which um I can't tell exactly.

Maybe that's outside, oh yeah, outside Riverworks Development Corporation.

Okay.

So yeah, yes, yeah.

Um, and then they go all the way up to um, it looks like one is at Adams Park Healing Space at 217 West Vienna, and then um the rest are along the beer line trail.

Nice.

Awesome.

All right, um, so then the the last slide that I have is about the public artists and residence program.

So that is the third um major funded program that the arts board operates.

This will be um the second iteration of the pair program, which invites an artist in a city of Milwaukee department to bring an artist's voice, way of thinking, and creative vision to a specific pressing civic issue.

Um it also uh employs local artists.

Um, so for this next iteration, the fire department has been selected as the next host department and an artist and a pair liaison will be working with the fire department and Milwaukee residents to address safe housing, which is a foundational issue impacting all Milwaukee's and all city departments.

Um, and of course, that topic was largely selected to align with um the mayor's 2026 um year of housing.

I did want to mention too, uh I will be back.

Uh you guys are seeing me every month, and I will be back in June hopefully uh if it you know is allowed to be introduced, of course, um, with a communication file uh about the pair program, and I will be able to bring the artists and the liaison to speak directly with you about their hopes for uh the program and hopefully um some fire department staff as well.

We'll bring them, bring them, bring them all.

So is the art created like is it alongside with the fire department?

Is it housed in?

I guess I'm just not understanding that part.

Absolutely.

So the program uh will officially begin July 1st, and it will be 18 months.

So the artist that was selected who were not quite ready to announce it yet.

They are finalizing their contract, but they were really excited to take um you know a longer time period.

We gave kind of 12 to 18 months.

Um the first three months will be uh time for research and embedding within the fire department.

You know, there are uh I should know the number of firehouses across the city, but they are in every single neighborhood, and the artist is really excited to um get into a lot of those firehouses and meet not only um you know the the staff there but also um the communities around them.

So they'll be working to really understand um the scope of the issue of safe housing.

Um, and then after that they'll be proposing um works of public art that will be um they'll be produced um with the fire department and with um the communities that are um you know being addressed with that public art.

So it will it could be a geographically specific work.

Let's say um, you know, it probably won't be a mural, but let's just say that's easy thing to you know understand a mural on um you know a firehouse that is done uh with the community, you know, it will probably be something more involved than that but that's kind of one idea um just to help understand so um yeah so it's it not determined at this point but it will be developed with the fire department okay and the idea is to raise awareness about housing and housing needs okay yeah safe housing specifically is what the fire department wanted to focus on yeah survivable housing yes safe and survivable housing this is not a new program no well this was last time we raised awareness on reckless driving oh gosh yeah so we're still calling it a pilot it's just the second year um but yes hopefully the third year we will remove the word pilot and it will be an official ongoing program.

I personally like and I like that it's um sometimes provocative because provocative does inspire conversations and we need to have conversations about some of these challenges so I'm here for it I'm excited to see what's gonna happen.

Mr.

Church so uh we're in conversation next week.

We will be yeah to I so I know the last time in Reckless to Reckless Driving we ended up getting the the Vision Zero car or the moving city of this um are the same dollars allotted to this particular initiative as well.

Um yes there is a couple more thousand so it went from 43 to 45 thousand for the artist time specifically that will allow them to spread their time out a little bit longer.

But yeah everything's the same and there are still matching funds from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation involved as well.

Got it thank you.

Yeah they got a lot of recognition so yes a lot of attention yeah any other questions or comments all right uh Sally did an excellent job great presentation.

Autumn more thank you Mr.

Chair I thought there were more slides but then I looked I was like wait no quick question in in reference of you know because I think this time around there were 47 uh artists that was I think that if I remember correctly 47 artists that were chosen if residents wanted to work with an artist particularly putting in an application let's say next year for these dollars how do how are how can artists pair up with residents or vice versa because there's some really cool things in you know um my district that it'll be like man this will be a great opportunity for an art project in this particular lot right um so what would you suggest on how that would happen?

Great question.

Anybody okay for both though.

Absolutely yeah so the sustaining grant program the funds actually go to 501c3 nonprofits in Milwaukee.

But you know the benefit of that is that they already have the structure in place to work directly with artists.

All of them you know employ and work directly with artists whether they're staff or um contracted um and so you know I would encourage folks to um take a look on our on the Artsport website um which I'll go back to that other slide again.

There's a list of all of the grantees each year.

I often point people to that list because it is um you know there's uh it's a list of you know a lot of the best arts nonprofits in the city those who um the panel felt deserved the funding and so um they could consider then working directly with those nonprofits um to you know propose different programs or works of art there thank you absolutely yeah and then I'll go back to this last slide here where I had um the Arts Board website is Mwaki.gov slash M A B and um Luke and I can be reached at Artsport at Milwaukee.gov um if folks have questions um if they're watching this stream um we're always happy to yeah work with them on any ideas or questions they have.

So this is pretty popular but I'm not really in the art community so do you guys do promotion or you just kind of gotta be in the art community.

Um for for like all of that information a lot of work that's being done so you know that's a lot of activity.

Yeah.

So I mean do you have to be in the art industry?

I mean, how are you promoting?

Like how do people know about that?

We um so the Artsport does have a Facebook page.

We try and get information about Artsport activities there um as well as on the website.

Um we do, you know that that's a really good question.

We do have like a contact list that we send um press releases out to and different event information, but it is largely arts nonprofits and like you know, specific people who have asked to be on that.

Um we also have an e-notify list that meeting information is sent to.

Um, if you're absolutely yes, and you know, I would add two um people do reach out to our email and I have met and and spoken with many um you know local artists, whether they're established or emerging about their ideas, and you know, I'm uh connector, I love to find opportunities for people to um plug in, whether it's working with a local business on you know a mural on their building or um connecting with uh one of both nonprofits for programming.

Um so I really do encourage people to to reach out and I'm happy to to work with them.

Excellent.

Last question.

So I don't remember.

Did you did you have any playgrounds up there?

Um I didn't share any pictures of playgrounds.

Um, for any playground work.

There has been some.

Um, I think maybe in the annual report last year, there was a photo of um now I'm gonna try and guess there was uh an artist in residence program working to put public art on the pavement of some um school yards.

But yeah, I mean absolutely the you know many of the programs involve students and um a trade of play.

Really quick, I'm sorry.

Take your time.

No, no, this is uh no, because art and having spaces for public art is so critically important.

Um, you know, when you think about our schools, how a lot of those um extracurricular and not even extra just in school, they're being taken out of and it is such just even the brain science and all that that goes with making sure that um we're engaged in and having those sorts of um spaces um in our community.

I just wanted to highlight um that we have organizations and spaces now that are incorporating art within um their their services, so uplifting mansion, which rents out their space, but they have an artist in residency program, and you know you're able to go in and see the amazing art that is you know that is created by these artists and residents as well as um uh what is it called third place, third space collective that's located right in my district as well on 29th and Clydeborne that they redevelop the space and it oh my gosh, uh a beautiful opportunity to incorporate artists and you know the work that people are doing, and so and I know that these spaces are all um throughout um throughout the city, but I just wanted to you know say thank you so much for the work that you all continue to do, and I hope that we continue to provide resources, you know, for the engagement of nonprofit organizations as well as community um to be involved.

So thank you so much.

Yeah, the Arts Board is is looking at you know lots of different ideas and would always be interested in in growing and and providing more direct resources to those type of spaces.

I love it.

I love it.

In my role on the commercial corridor team, we have an opportunity to work with businesses who are doing that sort of work as well.

So it's it's a good place to be kind of providing resources for nonprofits with Arts Board and then creative businesses that are for profit um with the commercial corridor funding as well.

I love it.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

All right, so keep up the good work.

Thank you for the presentation, and I'll see you next cycle.

Yeah.

All right, we're going to all the women do it.

We're in objections to order number three, two five two, one zero two, uh substitute ordinance relating to the residential preference program requirements for construction contracts.

I am the sponsor, but we do have our new director, Miss Mary Reed.

How are you?

Excellent.

How are you doing today?

So, good, thank you.

Thank you, me too.

Um Mr.

Chair, uh, yeah, Chris, legislative reference bureau.

We do have a proposed substitute, so if we could just um, that before we get rolling, it's almost identical to the one that is already on the file.

Um it's just we added a slight bit of clarification language to part five that that I'm sure that I'm Mr.

Canada.

So let me get a proposal.

Uh since you're the author, I'll move to have that before us.

Excellent.

All the women do we do everything moves to have it before us here in objections.

So order, Mary, you have the floor.

I would discuss this, but you're better at articulating this than I am, so you have the floor.

I would love yes, thank you.

Mary Reed, uh director of the Department of Compliance and Engagement.

Thank you all for hearing uh this file today.

Uh today we bring uh forward language, proposed language for ordinances three zero nine and three five five that govern uh public and private development uh construction projects.

Uh so uh earlier this year I'd like to give a bit of a backstory to explain how we got here today.

So uh as you all may be aware, every the three years the legislative reference bureau uh looks at zip codes and census tracks within those zip codes to determine which ones are high poverty and which ones should be considered SIA or special impact areas for uh the bonus category for RPP participation.

Yes.

Uh when we received that memo uh for 2026, we were concerned that some zip codes fell off of that listing.

Uh and so we said, well, you know, what's going on here?

Uh in particular five three two one five, we know that uh a great bulk of our RPP workforce comes from five three two one five.

Now let me uh just clarify that it doesn't mean that individuals from those zip codes won't qualify for RPP.

It means that they no longer qualify for that bonus SIA category, right?

So they could potentially be looked at as less desirable for hiring in those zip codes by developers.

Mary, in our discussion, I don't remember what did we determine a rationale?

Did the area in the did the area grow or something?

What do we what happened?

Yeah, so uh so I can speak to it very briefly.

Um the the way that the ordinance is currently written, um it says that this individuals must come from high poverty areas.

It does not define high poverty, it leaves that up to the city clerk's office.

The way we have been doing it since the laws first passed, is um it has been based on looking at a zip code.

Are there three census tracts that have at le a poverty rate of at least 40%?

Okay, and that is the standard we have been using.

Um, and so any little shift in any of those census tracts is results in what happened this year.

Which one is just falling off even though there's only really a small change.

I understand that.

I just don't understand.

What is the 40% you're quoting to as far as household money?

Yeah, so it's based off of the uh American community survey five year estimates is the one that we use.

Um, so it's just um how do we have a like how much money is that?

And um, I'm gonna have to look that up actually.

I'm not sure about it.

Forty percent is pretty is it's quite high.

Okay, so but um I I could look that up for you if you like.

I can get that.

I'm interested.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um I happen to represent five three two one five.

Okay.

So now just I can take this back to my constituents.

This means that five three two one five is back in the mix.

Right.

Okay, I was like, I don't make sure I understand.

Right.

Um, because we do it out because uh, forward or whatever.

Five three two one five is a growing area though.

That's like that's Creso Corridor, like which that's the western side of my district, like you know, off of um anywhere from 13th in Oklahoma.

Um, we have a growing population, we have a growing Rohingya community in that area.

Um and so a lot of RPP participation.

Yeah, so that's why, right?

We have a very diverse, you know, Latino flourishing community.

So actually that whole area, I don't know how this affected things has seen more dense population as well.

Um, so but just for my takeaway, we got bumped out, which is unfortunate, but the the matter is with this substitute we're back in so that let me just say it right so I got right.

So people living in my district in the five three two one five could be considered to complete RPP supported work.

Just like you're not so everyone in the city of Milwaukee would be considered under the RPP umbrella.

This is specifically for a special impact area.

So it's more credit.

They get like a higher priority and I know we're trying to use it for it.

Okay, oh good, good, good.

Okay.

If RPP hours exceed 25% of uh 25% in special impact areas, any hour in excess of that 25% would be considered for a bonus category.

Oh, great.

Right.

Okay, and and then just uh, I think it's fair.

No, I think it's wonderful.

And if you need continued outreach in the community, please see me as a resource.

I above that area with um Scott Spiker and President Bennett.

Yeah.

Well that's interesting because LRB did a good job with this.

Uh yeah, notifying.

I mean, no, no noticing this.

Uh but I'm curious.

Anybody calling about it like, hey, do we give anybody we didn't give anybody enough time, do we?

No, so I will nobody no complaints, do we?

No.

Uh well, I I I heard that some contractors were reaching out saying, Hey, this could potentially hurt our hurt our participation.

And that's true.

But as of that point, we were saying, well, this is the these are the rules right now, but also knowing that we're working in the background to try to get that.

Oh, and then my question would be how long has this been in place then?

Is this all started January first, 2026?

Okay.

But we're gonna uh the plan is to retroactive this so that uh those hours from those zip codes can still count for this year.

Uh so what happens was we got that memo, we noticed that some zip codes were off and some zip codes that we felt should have been on that list were not.

So uh myself and DOA's uh data analyst, Kate Poisera, we did some research, we did some digging into uh the uh US Census Bureau data HUD uh income data, and we found that other zip codes within the city of Milwaukee fall either under the high poverty category, meaning twenty percent or more poverty rate, or the extreme poverty category forty percent or more poverty rate.

Yeah.

So those also were um removed out the the the current ordinance.

So uh I will say that was just five three two one five was removed.

Uh-huh.

We worked to get that back.

We work with LRB to get that back on the list.

But just as another example, there are others, but just as one example, fire three two one nine was not on the list and we feel strongly that it should be, right?

Because that is a very economically uh disadvantaged system.

Yeah, I say we're saying the same thing.

Uh yes, we are.

No, I got one five.

We got one nine.

Oh oh nine.

Oh nine.

Oh, so I don't know what a one nine.

Uh like.

Oh no, I'm sorry.

Okay.

Okay, very excellent, keep going.

Yeah, so uh this language makes it so that we can uh accurately identify all the zip codes within the city of Milwaukee that either fall under high or extreme poverty, add them to the special impact area listing and give credit to those uh projects that exceed in hiring in those economically disadvantaged zip codes.

That makes that makes those workers in those zip codes more desirable.

It actually gives credit to developers, makes the RPP program a lot more appealing, and it makes it gives another avenue for developers to meet or exceed in RPP participation.

So in my opinion, this is a plus and a bonus all around.

It helps the worker, it helps the developer, it helps the contractors, it helps overall projects and it looks good on the RPP program for the city.

It does recognizing these.

Uh in addition to that, um, because I don't want to give tremendous credit to uh the department for because they were the ones who brought this to us.

Okay.

This really doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense.

Yeah.

Well we put together now with them, this is way more rational and a lot simpler for calculating who qualifies.

In addition to that, we've also now broadened the horizon from three years to five years.

Okay.

Um so now there's less of a chance of things really suddenly changing from one assessment to the night.

A little broader timeline.

It sounds like the change is indefinite.

It won't it sounds like you're in the most.

No, well, we said it where you're in it.

Now you should be in it.

If you're in the uh a distressed neighborhood, you should be in it.

Oh but we just have to recalculate every five years.

Because obviously, you know, the the census bureau comes out with you.

Yeah, I got you.

So we do need to re- periodically recalculate, but but now it's a much longer time line.

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

Excellent.

Okay.

Questions by the committee.

Motion for adoption then.

Let's do it.

All the woman did you ever move for passage.

Did she pass all of them?

Uh we already had three.

I think my vice chairman should be.

Yes, sir.

Uh, Jackson would like to be a co-sponsor, please.

Oh no, uh, this improves the RPP program, and the developers should be happy.

So next time they come, we say, Hey, we opened it up for you.

All right.

Uh yeah, yes, yes.

Also, please.

Let's get unanimous, please.

That's how this committee right.

Thank you.

Very.

Excellent job.

Excellent job, LRB.

Uh, move adoption, hearing no objection, so ordered.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So that can let me.

Okay, this file, the following file may be placed on file as no longer needed.

Number four, two four one nine two nine.

An ordinance of the membership of the emergent youth achievement advisory council.

That is dismissed.

Uh order women more moves to be placed on file as no longer needed.

Thank you all for coming today.

Meeting is adjourned.

Have a beautiful day.