I like to call this public works committee meeting to order.

I am uh Chairwoman Alderwoman Milay uh A Cogs.

We are joined on the board by Alderman Um Lamont Westmoreland and Vice Chair, uh we are joined here at the table to my right by Alderman uh Robert Ballman, as well as uh DPW infrastructure.

Um to my left, we are joined by staff assistant Kyle and Roman.

To her left, we are joined by Alderman Alex Brouwer, and we will soon be joined by Alderwoman Larissa Taylor.

Item number one, file number two, five zero one eight seven resolution relating to approving the levying of assessments and construction of accessible public improvement projects at various locations and appropriating funds for these purposes.

Good morning, Holly Ruttenback with DPW.

I will be describing the special assessment process and project details.

For those projects approved this morning, a bill will be sent to each property owner sometime after completion of the work.

Within 45 days upon receipt of the bill, the full amount may be paid without interest.

If the bill is not paid within the forty-five-day grace period, a charge of eight point five percent simple interest per year will be added.

If the assessment is at least a hundred and twenty-five dollars, the assessment can be paid over a period of ten years on the tax roll at the eight point five percent interest.

For those projects approved with late billing, a bill will not be sent before January first, two thousand twenty-eight.

This is a third automatic district.

Uh, Otterman Brower.

Yeah, thank you so much, uh, ma'am chair.

Yeah, just want to say, really um grateful to engineering and to have this ready to go for us to be able to do this, I believe.

Um, if we approve this today, we can get this out for bidding and potentially get this done this year.

Am I correct, Holly?

That is correct.

That is really good to hear.

We're excited to get a new alley in the third alder medicine.

Um, and I'm chair, if it's appropriate, I move approval.

The motion by Alderman Brouwer is for adoption.

Are there any um objections to that motion?

Hearing that, soul ordered.

That's the only one today.

Item number two, file number two six zero.

Okay.

Uh Otterman Bauman will move approval of the entire file.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing none, so ordered.

Um item number two, file number two six zero one eight eight resolution determining it necessary to make various accessible public improvements at various locations and appropriating funds for those purposes with the city engineering costs estimated to be $25,000 for total estimated cost of these projects being $200,000.

Good morning.

This is setting up engineering on future accessible paving projects.

Any questions from committee?

Hearing none, Arder Woman Taylor would move adoption.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing none, so order item number three, file number two, six zero one eight nine.

Resolution determining it necessary to make various non-accessible public improvements at various locations and appropriating funds for these purposes with the city engineering costs estimated to be a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a total estimated cost of these projects being 150,000.

Good morning.

This is setting up engineering on future non-accessible paving projects.

Any questions from committee?

Hearing none.

Hearing no objection, so order item number four.

File number two six zero one nine zero resolution approving construction of non-accessible public improvements at various locations and appropriating funds for these purposes with the city construction cost estimated to be 982,000 for a total estimated cost of these projects being 1,216,000.

Members should have a promise of.

Good morning.

This is set for setting up construction funding on non-assessable paving or not accessible various projects.

The change between the sub and the original are just the amounts.

Uh we are setting up some additional funding for street maintenance projects.

Okay.

Are there any questions from council from members of committee?

Hearing none.

Alderman Brower would move approval.

I mean move adoption.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing non-sole ordered.

Item number five.

Substitute resolution assigning the honorary street name Carl E.

Hunt to North 47th Street between West Barlow Street and West Roosevelt Drive in the 7th Automatic District.

Okay, so my name is Cara Hunt.

I'm attending virtually.

Should I speak now?

I know I was supposed to give a statement.

You're the one who nominated?

Correct, yes, as the applicant.

Yeah, you can go ahead, Carl.

Okay.

Thank you, everyone, for having me.

I appreciate it.

Um I'm speaking on behalf of my father, Carl E.

Hunt.

Um, my dad has been a long upstand a long time upstanding member of the Milwaukee community.

He's served the community in several different ways.

Um he was a firefighter for thirteen years, where he delivered multiple babies, um, saved lives until he was injured.

Um, and then he actually pursued his graduate degree at UWM, where he actually ended up teaching as an adjunct professor for nearly two decades.

Um and afterwards, he coached volleyball at Rufus King for seventeen years.

Um during that time, Rufus King's volleyball program wasn't really one that many people had invested into.

Um, but during his time as a coach, he helped multiple students achieve full ride scholarships on athletic scholarships.

Um and we all know that King is already a prestigious school, but he's made significant contributions to the Milwaukee community, and I think that naming these the 47th Street from Burleigh to Roosevelt would be a great way to honor his contributions.

A lot of people in the community have been impacted by him, and he's always made an effort to reach out and uplift the Milwaukee youth.

What's the significance of the street?

Uh we live on 47th Street.

Uh we're the longest standing residents there.

I checked the actually the records, and we've lived there longer than anyone, including the people who built the home.

So I think that there's it would be a huge source of pride for him.

My dad is a very humble man.

Um so he's he's not really one to advocate for himself or seek accolades, but I think that there would be a lot of pride and honor in him being able to drive down a street that has his name on it.

Thank you.

Any questions from committee?

All right, public works.

Uh good morning.

This is Des Bakeller from DPW.

Uh we reviewed the application and meets the ordinance.

Um if passed, the honorary state's name will have uh nine signs along 47th Street.

Um be between West Roosevelt and West Burley Street.

Any questions from committee?

All right.

Anything you had to add?

No, I'm John Bryan with uh DPW also.

Okay.

Do we have a motion?

Move approval.

The motion by Ottawa and Brower is adoption.

Thank you.

Sorry.

Sorry, is adoption?

No problem.

We all do.

Um, hearing no objections so ordered.

Congratulations.

Ums Hunt for your dad.

It's great.

We're not in time for uh Father's thing.

Right.

His birthday is on the thirteenth.

Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

Um next item number six.

Um file number two five one five five six substitute resolution assigning the honorary street name, Jose A.

Oliveria Olivery to South Ninth Street between West Minnow Street and West Washington Street in the 12th automatic district.

I don't see an online buttons, uh recommended approval.

I went down with this before without a body being here.

I mean, maybe you want to hold on.

Since there is no nominating nominator here, um I think I wanna um I think I'll ask uh Art Woman Tyler if he'd be willing to make the motion to hold it okay um until our next meeting.

So the motion by Audible and Tyler would be um to haul to the call of the chair.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing now, so ordered item number seven, file number two five one, six eight eight substitute resolution assigning the honorary street name Shirley Smith to North 11th Street from West Green Tree Road to West Daphne Street in the fifth automatic district.

Go ahead and introduce yourself.

My name is Ray Banks, and I'm from the uh Heritage Subdivision, and I was the one that initially made the request to make the honorary street name for Shirley Smith.

We live in the heritage Subdivision, and in my opinion, it's the greatest subdivision in the city of Milwaukee.

It's one of the best kept secrets on the far northwest side of Milwaukee.

Um we're in one of the, I feel one of the safest areas in the city.

There's only one way in and one way out.

If you've been there long enough, you can find a second secret rear entrance.

One of the reasons that our neighborhood is the way that it is, is because of Shirley Smith.

Um I want to talk about the logistics first before I get into what a wonderful woman Shirley Smith was.

Shirley died in September of last year.

111th Street runs one block.

There's absolutely no houses on 11th Street.

There's no displacement of anyone.

There's no changes that anyone would have to make, and there's only two street signs.

Shirley Smith, we refer to her as the matriarch of our subdivision.

We are still suffering because Shirley is gone.

I've been there 26 years.

Shirley came a few years after I did, and you can tell the difference in the neighborhood when she arrived.

And she hasn't been dead a year, and it's not even it's nowhere near the same.

Now I did make some notes about Shirley because there's so many things about Shirley that I want to make sure that I make that you guys are aware of what a wonderful woman she is.

She's that person that the first time you meet her, she's going to automatically remind you of someone.

My grandmother, my sister, somebody in your family she's going to remind you of.

Now she served for years as the president of our neighborhood association.

She served as the chair of the architecture review committee.

She serves as the president of the Granville Heights Neighborhood Association.

She served on the NID number five board, including participation with the board of directors and other board members.

She helped enforce bylaws, rules, regulations required by the Heritage Heights neighborhood to maintain its natural integrity.

Our neighborhood watch.

She acted as a tireless neighborhood watch leader.

Shirley would get into her vehicle, and she would drive through the neighborhood.

Now I served on the Milwaukee Police Department for 28 and a half years.

I retired as the assistant chief of police.

And I can tell you she was the poster child for everything I said.

She certainly exemplified what we want as a nosy neighbor in a good way, not a bad way.

She protected neighbors' packages, kept watch over the subdivision daily.

She openly communicated concerns when something was amiss, ensuring safety and awareness.

She was known for her care and compassion toward neighbors.

She brought flowers to neighbors experiencing loss, celebrated neighbors' achievements and milestones, maintained a consistent, caring presence, and believed deeply in the people who lived in the community.

She gave generously of her time and energy with the goal of making the neighborhood a better place for everyone.

She decorated the neighborhood interest for various holidays, enhancing community pride.

She helped maintain beautify heritage heights through hands-on work and leadership.

She maintained one of the best yards in the neighborhood, setting the standards for excellence.

She practiced what she preached by modeling pride and home and property upkeep, enjoyed gardening with her husband.

Together they earned recognition for having the best yard and line in the subdivision, which by the way, there's well over 200 homes in our subdivision.

She championed projects that enhance the appearance and value of the neighborhood, encourage neighbors to take pride in their surroundings.

She worked diligently to bring people together and to strengthen community bonds.

She fostered a sense of connection through community gatherings, new green spaces, everyday conversations that built trust and understanding.

She helped shape the character and identity of Heritage Heights, leaving the lasting imprint on the community.

Her reputation was impeccable.

Neighbors emphasized the scope of her services was so broad that it would take two people to replace her.

Described as a model community member, tireless, fearless, relentless, and universally respected.

That's not all Shirley did.

She was also a longtime member of the St.

Mark's AME Church on 16th and Atkinson.

She's the voting member and secretary for St.

Mark's AMN Church.

She organized a satellite food pantry through interchange, feeding approximately 400 families each month, donated pantry supplies to new by to nearby schools, extended outreach beyond the church walls.

Recognized for extensive involvement in serving elders and supporting congressional initiatives.

Supported several elected officials through church-based community efforts, widely described by church members as irreplaceable.

She was appointed to the steward board under Robert Dr.

Williams, served faithfully until her passing.

Active member of multiple ministries, including Pastors A, Culinary Miss Ministry, Wedding Ministry, Women's Ministry, Society, Praise Team.

Continuing her ministry in retirement as the servant director of St.

Mark's Food Pantry, donated her time to serving community through food distribution and outreach.

Found joy in meeting people from all walks of life, became a listening ear and praying voice to many who came through the pantry.

Her love for the church was evident in her dedicated service across many ministries.

She earned deep appreciation from both her church family and broader community.

She was remembered as a woman whose service, compassion, and leadership were simply irreplaceable.

Following her passing in September of 25, both the neighborhood and St.

Mark's AMA Church held large memorials in her honor.

I'm sorry to take up so much time, but Shirley was such a wonderful woman.

She deserves this moment.

This is in the 5th Automatic District, Automan Ms.

Moreland.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Banks, for that.

And at the appropriate time, I like to move um adoption.

Thank you.

Did you want to add anything?

Well, there's not a lot.

I'm sorry, I'm Eva Toles Roberson and Shirley was my direct neighbor.

I uh I can't say everything that he said because everything is true, but I can say that she also uh she served under several pastors at St.

Mark in the community, and as he said, she's worked on a food pantry.

She was the secretary, she even worked at their polling place.

She prayed for all of you uh when you were running, including Alderman Westmoreland.

Uh and she prayed for the police chiefs when they had uh difficult situations in our subdivision.

I did talk to Chief Norman, and he supports this as well.

I like I said, I I just went to a flower shop the other day that her and I went to together.

82-year-old man said uh where is Miss Shirley and I missed her, and I am the one that had to tell him that she had passed away.

So again, I I don't know what else I can I can say because I'm still I'm still mourning her, but um I appreciate the fact that you as a city uh would consider naming it in her honor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Artman West Morel.

I just wanted to thank you for coming down as well.

Any questions on committee?

Uh the motion has been made by Artoman Westmoreland for adoption.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing that sole order.

Good luck.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Tell your sister I said, hey.

Next up, we have file number 251 689.

Uh, substitute resolution assigning the honorary street name, Mary L.

McCormick to North Prospect Avenue from East State Street to East Mason Street in the Fourth Automatic District.

That's what I'm saying.

Uh Bible, uh speaking about this nomination.

Uh Mary McCormick uh is retiring after 25 years of service as the executive director for the Rotary Club of Milwaukee.

And under her leadership, the Rotary Club of Milwaukee has contributed uh to the fabric of Milwaukee, the uh Milwaukee County, and the state of Wisconsin.

Uh under her leadership, uh, we built and uh created the Milwaukee Rotary Amphitheater at Discovery World.

Uh we started the Live at the Lakefront series that's uh attracts over a thousand people every Wednesday in the summer.

Uh we uh helped under with Mary's direction, we renovated the Brown Street Academy and Johnson's Park Playground and created Alice's Garden.

Uh we also under her direction and help uh created the Milwaukee Rotary Centennial Arboretum at the Urban Ecology Center.

We also helped to build the Mo Milwaukee Urban Stables.

Uh and uh one of the situations most uh or contributions dearest to her heart is uh she helped to create the Rotary Club of Milwaukee's scholarship program uh which gives a full four-year scholarship uh with mentoring uh to those students who are the first in their family to attend college.

Uh so far we have had 50 graduates from that program, and currently we are supporting 27 scholars.

But in addition to her contributions as the leader of the Rotary Club of Milwaukee, which consists of nearly 400 Milwaukee area uh business leaders.

She has also served on the board of the Friends of the Shorewood Nature Preserve, the guest house Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Children's Village, Milwaukee Women Inc.

St.

Anne, St.

A's, excuse me, which is now known as Well Point, St.

Robert School, uh, and she was named the mentor of the year by Tempo, an organization of women business leaders.

Uh Mary McCormick is also a very humble leader.

She does not look for attention.

Uh, but we believe at the Rotary Club of Milwaukee that we want people forevermore, her family, her children, her grandchildren, and their children, and all citizens of Milwaukee to recognize her contributions to the betterment of our city.

Thank you.

Any questions from committee?

Uh Woman Taylor would move approval or move adoption.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing none.

So order.

Thank you.

Madam Chairman.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

This is in the fourth automatic district.

Yes, I'm sorry, uh Ms.

Belaz, you have something to say.

Um did we can't did we pass the Mary McCormick?

Okay.

Um, has to go through the full council, but it's just committee.

Yes, I realized that.

I don't know if this is appropriate or not, but uh I knew Jose Oliveri, uh, whose uh street name application came a few people ago.

Am I able, even though I didn't nominate him, am I able to give you some background on him?

Or is that not appropriate?

It's not before us at the moment.

Um I guess it's to the committee if you want to reconsider it.

But um, well, so we'll I think we're just gonna keep it hail um um put it on the agenda for next time.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We appreciate your support, and this is a tremendous honor for Mary, and uh we're very grateful for your positive reaction.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Um, next up, we have item number nine, file number two five two one four nine.

Substitute resolution assigning the honorary street name.

Mrs.

Uh Cheryl J.

Trotman to West Roosevelt Drive from North Twentieth Street to Long Titania Avenue in the first Automatic District.

And we do have uh Alder Woman Pratt on uh virtually as well.

Can you say it your name for that?

Good morning.

I am Alex Erdman, pastor founder Hope Church.

I want to say good morning to our Madam Chair, uh Malele Coggs, uh Vice Chair with uh Alderman Westmoreland to Alderman uh Taylor, Alderman Brower, Alderman uh Bauman and Alderman Pratt.

It's a joy to be here today to speak on behalf of Mrs.

Cherry J.

Trotman uh as I was preparing to come here today, and just uh the memories were flooding through my mind.

I just don't know an area within this city that Mrs.

Cherry Jeanette Trotman did not reach an impact.

In fact, even many of you on the board today uh are here because of her support, her getting on the phone, encouraging people in your districts to consider you, uh, and I am so glad I am a direct product of her life of her connectivity uh as a 10-year-old attending Garden Homes Elementary in the neighborhood where she lives and was the second black in the early 50s to move into that neighborhood and was the longest living resident and the family continues to own that home and still is the longest owning home uh by her and her family on that uh street that we're uh asking to be uh named in her honor.

She had retired and thought it not robbery, but to volunteer uh in her neighborhood school, and there I was a direct recipient of her connectivity.

In fact, my call to ministry has everything to do with her seeing God in me and inspiring me and pushing me uh to pursue those things.

Uh she literally walked with giants, was a personal friend uh and uh congregant of the late uh Reverend Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

in Montgomery, Alabama, but she is one that did not lose the common touch.

No matter who you were in this community, she would support countless young people pushing them to go to college, uh buying them their first suit, putting them in botillions and cotillions, starting uh Girl Scout troops, the Dr.

Martha King Club, so many things this wonderful woman has done to make such a positive difference in our community, and I just think it is so appropriate that this street be named in her honor to celebrate and appreciate her legacy and the countless individuals that she has impacted, and we are literally standing today, so many ministers, pastors uh that she invested in.

She was one of the longest uh uh serving members of St.

Mark Church.

Uh, and I am just grateful for her difference that she has made in the community, and I strongly support uh this street being recognized as such.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Any questions from committee?

Thank you, Alderman Coggs, Alderman Committee.

I'm Dr.

Enid Trotman, and I'm just honored to talk briefly about Mrs.

Trotman.

She came, she was educated in Montgomery, Alabama, Alabama State University, same university her late mother went attended, and our family founded Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in the late 1800s.

They hired young pastor Dr.

Martin Luther King to be their pastor in the 1950s is when she formed a close bond with him and his wife.

And Miss Rosa Parks was the down the street neighbor.

So they're their close friends.

Whenever they would visit Milwaukee back in the 60s, they would come by our house and the journal would interview them, especially Miss Parks on the piano stool in our living room.

So they feeling about community and civil rights is strong in our family, especially with our um our late Mrs.

Trotman.

She started to um be the playground superintendent at Super Seaford Street School in the 1950s, and for Milwaukee, and back in those days, they had organized activities for the children in the summer on the playgrounds.

They could check out games and and toys, and she spent a lot of time mentoring the youth at that time.

She went on to start teaching in Milwaukee Public Schools in the early 1960s, and she taught in 19 um public schools until 1993, and as Reverend Erdman said, then she continued to volunteer over 20 years at um Milwaukee Public Schools.

Um, even though she wasn't on the payroll, she would show up every day.

She started the Martin Luther King Club um in honor of her late friend Dr.

Martin Luther King when he was assassinated in 1968.

And what she wanted to do with Milwaukee children, mind you, the organization is made up of a diverse group of children of all races.

She wanted to instill in the children unity and community service, and they also appeared in the Christmas parade every year, the Fourth of July parade every year, and the Juneteenth Day Parade every year, and their big month is February for the Black History Month, and they would do programs.

Um gentlemen such as Reverend Alex Erdman would portray Dr.

King in one of her programs as a little boy, and teachers saw leadership in him at that age, and you is as evident today.

Um some bishops in town were mentored by her, several pastors, um, individuals here were mentored by her as well.

Then she would also outside of the MPS, she became was recognized by her work with the MPS and was um voted teacher of the year for Milwaukee Public Schools in 1976, and she had her children do a really big um celebration at Palmer School for the bicentennial of the country, and it made the it was um it made the the press and it was a really wonderful time.

She also was the the board of directors for the Girl Scouts of Milwaukee area, and she served on the board of directors for several years and the nominated committee for several years.

She also had two Girl Scout troops in Milwaukee for over two decades and was the cookie chairman for over two decades, which provided thousands of girls with full two-week campuships to go to stay away or we call it sleepaway Girl Scout Camp.

Um the camp is expensive, and they would not have had the opportunity had um without the cookie sales and the funds that were raised.

She was also the charter member of Roosevelt Area Action Group, which is our neighborhood watch group and beautification committee for the Roosevelt area.

Every year they also they decorate very nicely for the holidays.

They have block party, and they also like to invite the aldermen and the mayor at annually to the block party, and you all show up and is it at least when she was alive and was greatly appreciated.

She is also the charter member of the Cradle Business and Professional Woman Chapter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also charter member of the Alabama State Alumni Association, Milwaukee Chapter, which provide annually scholarship for Milwaukee area student to attend Alabama State uh University in Montgomery, Alabama, um, with their fundraising efforts.

She also provided thousands of dollars um raising money for as a charter member of our Lynx organization, um, Cream City Lynx, she raised thousands of dollars that provide scholarship for Milwaukee area students as well.

She also worked closely with the ELCA and August Santa Lutheran Church, providing food baskets for needy people in the community, which she would deliver herself, because she knew she identified need and she knew families for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and when the farmers um had a co op co-op with the ELCA to provide harvest in August, so she would deliver bushels of corn, I'd go with her squash, um, cabbage to needy families.

And if she felt that the food basket was scrawny, even she would deliver food baskets sometime with St.

Mark's um AME church for for decades she would embellish the basket she would add her touch to it like an extra turkey or ham or cake and back to service she didn't want to have students that didn't have proper clothing or or shoes so she would just do it get permission from parents in those days you could take children with permission from parents and just take them shopping she wanted all the children to um be proud of their appearance and she she did that my entire life and um there was always pets in her classroom guinea pigs squirrels not squirrels guinea pigs um hamsters rabbits fish turtles she had a geology section in her her classroom with her rock collection um a reading area for the children with rugs so they could feel comfortable at feel that that was a safe place away from home um and she didn't leave the school at 3 pm Mrs Trotman would usually leave the school around 7 p.m because she'd write her brand new lesson plan every day um that night before old school teacher and old school teachers there's always food in the room as well so no child was hungry you know she would have extra milks in the cup and sandwiches because she knew who didn't have food at home and they could take the food home and to go on and on I have so many people here who can speak on her um look she was nominated by the common council February um twenty eighth two thousand seventeen as a living legend and was bestowed on here here at the city hall um during the Black History celebration so thank you all so much for that recognition but her contributions go on and on and I'll let some other people speak because I could just listeners could go all night long.

Okay I'll I'll step back and let you all speak Attorney Sheila good morning thank you for having us here today and to hear what we had to say about this wonderful person.

I'm attorney Sheila Parish Spence and I can put my microphone down there because she can't get it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much thank you.

I'm attorney Sheila Parish Spence and there's so much that I could say about dear Mrs.

Trotman I would like to start with when we moved here from Brooklyn New York she's one of the first people we met and I remember she would say baby now I know that your mom didn't have you wear those shoes you can't wear tennis shoes you have to have pretty shoes well I went by I was seeing all these shoes do you know that up until her 90s she would call people from her drawer and say it's cold outside you don't have a scarf I don't see your gloves and she'd give them some gloves as they're on their way to school or whatever and while we were together we enjoyed being at St.

Mark AME Church on the 16th in Atkinson and the thing is she was on the missionary society we all were because Mrs.

Trotman would say I'm encouraging you all to help me as I help the community we would have all kinds of cakes that we would bring and again clothing books we would bring shopping lists of what she thought they should at least have in the house and it was always a joy people would be lined up saying I want that pie I want that cake can we trade you know uh I had pancreatic cancer surgery in 2017 one day she called and says are you okay yeah, I'm fine.

Do you have your medication?

No.

Someone will bring it tomorrow.

Do you know?

I she was probably eighty-nine.

Doorbell rings.

Mrs.

Chapman drove all the way out to the wall of tall son and said, Here's your medication, baby.

And went back home.

I said, okay.

Thank you.

Also, I think it's important that she was into music.

She says, where you would have all these concerts with the young people, especially the Christmas one.

And everyone would have a part, even if all they had to do was put on some sheep clothing and just stand there for the Christmas pageant.

When it came to the picnics and things that we'd have for the church, she'd always say, Bring someone with you.

And I I could go on and on.

My my dad, Judge Parrish, she says, Oh, so you're gonna run for judge?

She says, Well, who's gonna make the food?

And he says, Well, my wife, she's gonna make chili fairly body, and Mrs.

Chapman said, Oh no, we gotta have something else for this.

You see, but I think one thing, like the importance, she was a living history book.

I went to North Carolina Central University, which is one of the black uh law schools down in North Carolina.

She and I would go back and forth.

Well, did you learn this?

Did you learn that?

Because I hadn't been anywhere but New York and Wisconsin.

So she said, You're gonna learn a whole new culture.

And she had me write a little pamphlet about what I learned.

And I had passed that on to my son so that he would know things that I had not heard of until Miss Trotman brought them up.

But I think more than that, she loved people.

Didn't matter race, creed, color, nothing.

She loved people.

And I think all of us have been touched.

All of us have been blessed and we were always thanking her.

And I I'm not going to hope.

I am saying I it's just too good.

I I lose words sometimes.

Please find it that you can vote on her behalf.

I think it would be great, especially for the young people in the neighborhood who are still not over the fact that she's no longer with us.

She meant something and they knew it.

And they'd be hanging out, you know, on the corner or at the uh gas station where you could get candy and stuff, but they would always say, They saw her, hey Miss Chartman, thank you very much.

All right.

Oh, give me a minute because it's hard to get with the software.

Thank you.

Oh, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Good morning, council members.

My name is Tammy Banks Martin, and I was one of Mrs.

Trotman's fourth grade students in 1967.

I was at her sch uh in her class at Henry L.

Palmer School.

Now Miss Trotman was very particular about her students.

We were like her family, because when Ian and was out of school at the university school up in uh Mekwan, they came in our class.

So she's like one of my students.

I mean one of my co-students, you know, in class.

And she was also my Girl Scout leader, and uh Ina was in the Girl Scouts with us as well.

But to um break it down and summarize Miss Trotman.

She took a group of young girls out to the Jolly Rogers restaurant.

It was like a smoker's board back then, like South 27th in Portland's.

And so she taught us eticacy, what fork to use, what spoon to use, and a lot of us didn't have clothes, you know, because a lot of us were, you know, low income, we're maybe we're in my situation, my father passed away, so we became low income.

We're a single mom with you know, and so she would, you know, individually work on each student.

So she said, Do you have any gloves or a dress?

I said, I I gotta see if my mom can afford it.

She said, um, my mom said, Well, you know, we're on a budget since your dad died.

So she said, Tammy, come here.

I want to show you, see if this will fit you.

So she had a dress for me, she had some shoes for me, she had some gloves for me.

And I'll never forget that.

That was one of the uh the only teacher that I can remember forever, you know.

Um, and like I said, she loved her family because we were a part of her family.

She loved her community.

She had the cream city links and if anything that the kids needed in class, she had them come and support us.

And then as I got older older, I was able to support her.

You know, she'd called me and say, We have enough battalion for the kids and stuff, you know, and here's some tickets and you know, so um if anybody deserves an honorary name is Miss Trottman because she's she's still here and all of us as you can see how we express our feelings and it would be wonderful if that honorary sign could go up on that street.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Any questions from any comment I'll make um so I'm Alderwoman Taylor and just thank you for coming and um you know I guess as I was listening to you guys and just saying 94 years old you know that's um that's to be recognized in itself because many people don't live till 94 um but it's also encouraging to know that all that you can do in a lifetime and when you give back to people and they can say good things about you at the end of your life really is very meaningful and so I appreciate all that you guys are bringing to the forefront to the knowledge of people and I appreciate her being that living legend uh being the history maker that she was um and that um trusted teacher that impact and so we see how teachers uh impact goes a long way and it lives on years and years one of the reasons why I decided to be a teacher um to be able to do just that so um so I didn't get to know her but I feel like I do now from all that you guys have said and so just thank you for being here.

Thank you.

All right.

I'm Gidra Edwards and I had the pleasure of knowing Mrs.

Trotman as long as I can remember first through my godmother um Mrs.

Odessa Robinson and then she took me under her wing when I returned from Spelman college came back home to Milwaukee and she had a special love for HBCU graduate.

So um she made sure I got involved right away with things in the community I had the um the sheer pleasure of working with her with cream city Wisconsin links as well as top ladies of distinction Milwaukee chapter and the teens that we mentor top teams that we mentor and I think she felt like her life was all about giving back and especially to youth that was her number one priority all of her focus whether it was her being the number one ticket seller for organizations we belonged to it was because she knew those dollars were going to go to support young people in the community who might not if we were not providing scholarships might not have been able to attend uh school so that was always important to her higher education and it was important to her also to make sure that she encouraged others to give back to the community you know this she always stressed that especially with Milwaukee natives this is our home you know we may have our flaws we may have things we need to work on and improve but this is where we are now and as a native Milwaukee and I always appreciated her um in her really encouragement for no matter what you did that you always strive to do more whether it was working in the food pantry or working at the clothing bank um it just that was her whole mission in life and then when I became president of the um Girl Scouts of Milwaukee she came back and continued to support me um and I was very proud of that because I was the first African American to serve as Girl Scout Board president here in Milwaukee and she wanted to make sure that I knew that she had my back throughout that process.

So I know we've all been rather long-winded, so I'll end now, but I strongly support the uh naming of the street after Mrs.

Jerry Trotman thank you thank you.

Thank you.

I think this would be happening.

And then how they said that they uh behind us, they would be going to say please.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Uh, this is in the first automatic district, Alder Woman Prime.

Uh thank you uh Chairwoman Cox and committee.

Um, I also have a lot of Ms.

Trotman stories.

Um she has been in the first district my entire life and um has been a family friend and uh her daughter was my doctor at one time.

Um joined the links with her granddaughter, um, and she was my link's sister.

If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have been able to sell all those dental diamond tickets that I was charged with selling.

Um but just an awesome supporter um and an awesome person all around.

Um I will tell you that I intended to come here to ask the committee to hold this because um as I talked with talked before about things streets in Rufus King that there are often many people trying to name streets um in this particular street.

Dr.

Harold Rose also lived on this street, um, as well as Bobby Weber, have several people who've reached out about the streets.

So um neighbors were did reach out to me and they were upset a lot of elderly neighbors who didn't know and didn't know how to get in contact and and express um you know their what they what they were feeling.

Um but they did talk to me, so I did want to make sure I called in and let them know.

I won't want to ask the family to reach out to their former neighbors on Roosevelt.

I uh Miss Trotman loved Roosevelt um and she loved her neighborhood, and I I know you all aren't in the Aver area anymore, but I think it's so important that you love what she loved, and that was Roosevelt um Drive.

And and she cared so much for it.

And I asked, especially now with this street, potentially being named after her, that you all everyone there who spoke um so highly of her that you pay honor and homage to the place that she loves so much, which was Roosevelt Drive.

Um thank you so much for um putting this forward, and Mr.

Benson will talk about the process in Rufus King.

Um I just we go through a process where I do ask people at least speak to the Rufus King Neighborhood Association and um because people are are um leery of when streets are named and it's so much history in this neighborhood, so many streets that could be named after so many people that it's it often gets contentious and it shouldn't be because it's a celebration.

So I'm happy um to celebrate Miss Trotman today with this, and I'll leave it up to the committee to decide um what they do.

But uh I am uh supportive and I believe Miss Trotman was an amazing woman, thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Any questions from committee?

We have a motion.

Go ahead.

Uh actually, I do have a question.

What so the local older would like us to hold the file.

No, oh, never mind.

Okay.

She said she intended to come here and say that, but she uh is uh opting to leave it to us.

I will say this.

Um this is a publicly noticed meeting.

Um so just as people have a right to come and support, if people truly object, they also have that right.

Um, yeah, I just so members uh should keep that in mind as well.

And I will and I'll and I'll say this so that we can keep this on a celebration level, not just for your district order woman prep, but just period.

Um what I'll start doing as I work with um Carmen is uh make sure that uh the local order is aware um and so that we can know ahead of time if they might want to have meetings or whatever they might want to do so that when we get here, it's all about you know celebrating the person who um is given the is trying to be um named after.

So at this point, um, yeah, I definitely I don't I'm sorry, I know your committee, I don't want to put a damper on it.

I really don't want to make that clear and just to say that I am supportive, and I love Ms.

Trotman and and her family and all that she did for for the area for the district for for Roosevelt Drive, um, for the links for everybody for everything she touched, you know, really.

Um I don't want it to I don't want to be a damper on the on all that she did.

For sure.

I was just gonna say that you know, as we think about this and remember Alder Woman Pratt has a very historic uh whole neighborhood, so and there's so many people that are deserving over there that if she wants to continue to think about ways that we could um you know be very creative and bringing recognition to all of them.

I'm more than happy to help and support that.

Definitely.

So do we have a motion?

I'll I'll move for adoption.

The motion by order woman Taylor is adoption.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Uh hearing none, so ordered congratulations.

We still have a family house there.

Okay.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

Next on the agenda, uh item number 10.

File number two six zero one three two.

Uh an ordinance relating to state requirements.

Okay.

Um state requirements for recycling and other purposes, and I believe we have a sub.

That's correct.

Do we have it in front of us?

Is that this?

I don't know.

Are there any objections to that?

Hearing nine, so ordered.

Um the committee may remember this file appeared uh before you at the last session uh and the recommendation was for uh passage of the ordinance at that time.

Um it was um requested by the uh city attorney's office that uh we hold that file and and return it to committee for some technical changes uh to make sure that it was uh legal and enforceable and you know to the letter of uh the law as far as the state statutes uh uh are concerned.

Um so I want to give uh special uh recognition and thanks to Andrea Fowler of the City Attorney's Office and also uh Rick Myers and his colleague Laura Stevens uh at uh the Department of Public Works Sanitation for working with me right up to the wire uh to uh revise uh the ordinance and this proposed substitute to make sure that it is legal and enforceable.

Um and uh and I'm happy to take any questions on any sort of changes that that we made, but again, um these are you know highly technical changes that were uh requested and and required by uh state statute, so any questions from committee.

Hearing none, Ottoman Bowman would move passage.

You give it a uh Otterman Bauman move passage.

Are there any objections um to that motion?

Hearing nine, so ordered the question.

Um item number eleven, file number two, six zero zero five one resolution authorizing an easement with the Wisconsin Electric Power Company on City of Milwaukee property at 823 South 4th Street in the 12th Automatic District.

Good morning uh committee members.

Rosita Ross with Department of City Development.

Um, here to authorize the resolution with the committee for uh the MPS building at 823 South Fourth Street in the 12th automatic district.

This is a uh we energies uh easement.

Um the Wisconsin Power Company uh currently is doing uh gas relocation uh near that building and it's being undertaken uh solely because of the DOT they are doing some work on that uh road roadway and the gas line needs to be relocated.

Um the um Wisconsin um energy company will be compensating uh MPS uh for the ease met uh because it does benefit um wisconsin electric um the alder person for the district does support this uh if you guys have any other questions regarding this i'm here to answer those are they paying us yes they are compensating uh ps uh the easement um we energies uh is compensating for that relocation is one thousand one hundred and forty five dollars um we did uh negotiate that price with them it was lower but we felt that uh that price should be a little higher so they we did agree to that uh current amount okay thank you any questions from committee um honor woman taylor would move uh adoption are there any objections to that motion so order item number 12 file number two 60174 resolution authorizing an easement with Wisconsin electric power company on city of Milwaukee property at 340 what's by the Avenue of the 15th automatic district Rosita Rosquid DCD um this is another uh MPS building uh the recenter there is being redeveloped um we energies will be uh laying a new uh electrical line uh within the property line along uh minaky avenue um the alder person in the 15 district does support this the price there is no price due to this is a benefit for MPS for that um power line to be uh relocated so we energies will not be charging MPS to assist them with their new development at this location are there any questions from committee hearing none of Westmoreland would move adoption are there any objections to that motion hearing none so ordered thank you thank you item number 13 file number two 60150 resolution directing the commission on public works to execute state municipal agreements for a state led highway project with the Wisconsin Department of Transaction for the construction of IH43 um airport freeway 92nd Street bridge and to set up funds for construction at an estimated total cost of 9,650 with an estimated city share of 5,500 and a grantor share of nine million six hundred forty five thousand four hundred dollars.

Good morning committee members Josh Iwan Milwaukee Waterworks water engineering um this is going to be the first of three resolutions but this one is for a to get city signatures on a state municipal agreement in order to get 90% state funding for water alterations as part of this project.

Any questions from committee here and I'm emballing would move adoption any objections to that motion here in that so ordered thank you next up item 14 file number 260156 resolution authorizing the proper city officials to execute state municipal agreements with the Wisconsin department of transportation for the city Milwaukee utility alterations in conjunction with the I94 East West Early Grading Monomy River 32nd Street reconstruction project at a total estimated cost of 45,600 um 65,200 with a estimated grantor share of 45 million forty seven thousand six hundred and estimated city share of 17,600.

Yes, uh Josh Iwan, Milwaukee Waterworks, Water Engineering again.

Uh, same same agreement.

This is a state municipal agreement with city signatures.

This allows us to qualify for ninety percent state funding and 10% water works funding in order to do required water works alterations at this DOT project site.

Any questions on committee?

No.

Alderman Brower would move adoption.

Hearing no objections.

So order item 15.

File number 260158.

Resolution authorizing the Commission of Public Works and Comptroller to execute utility agreements with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for work on city facilities in conjunction with the I-94 East West Early Grading Mami River 32nd Street Contract Work.

The total estimated cost of 12 million 720 dollars with the estimated grantor share of 11,448 dollars and estimated city share of 1,272.

Yes, uh Josh Iowa and Waterworks and this is the same project as file number 14, except for this one.

This project also qualifies for a uh 10% 90% split with uh that the state will pay 90% of our staffing costs for things such as material inspection and construction inspection.

So this qualifies for additional funding, and we need the uh we need this utility agreement signed in order to get 90% state funding for water works staff costs.

Any questions from committee?

Uh, Westmoreland would move adoption.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing that, so order item number sixteen.

You're welcome.

Uh file number two, six zero one nine one, resolution directing the commission on public works executed document title second revision state municipal agreement for a state-led highway project with the content department of transportation for the programming design, real estate acquisition and construction of West Fondelac Avenue, STH Web 405.

From North 19th Street to North 12th Street, and to set up additional funds for design engineering at an estimated total cost of 620,000 with an estimated city share of 1,000 155,000 and a grantor share of 465,000.

Good morning, David Tappy, a major project's manager.

So this files is just setting up additional design funds to move us from the final scope uh through preliminary and final design.

Any questions on committee?

Autumn Ballman will move adoption.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing now, so order uh item 17, file 260195.

Resolution directing the commissioner of public works to execute a document titled first revision state municipal agreement for a state led STP urban project with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the programming design and construction of East West Locust Street, North 7th Street to North Halton Street.

David Tabby, Major Project Manager.

Uh this file uh just allows us to use uh they had some what they call legacy funds um left over, so uh they're allowing us to use that on an already constructed project.

Are there um any questions from committee?

Uh Alderman Brouwer would move adoption here, no objections.

So, order.

Item number 18, file number two six zero two zero zero resolution directing the commission of public works to execute a document title, third revision state municipal agreement for a state local bridge project with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the Programming Design and Construction of West Grange Avenue B4050 over Canadian Pacific Railway.

Uh same concept uh legacy funds left over that uh we're able to utilize.

Any questions from committee?

Uh, woman Taylor will move adoption, hearing objections, so order.

Item 19, file number 260196 resolution relating to application, acceptance, and execution of funding of a green solution grant for MMSD for the installation of eight green alleys to be constructed as part of the city's 2026 alley.

Reconstruction program and authorizing entry into a post-installation maintenance covenant with MMSD in the second, third, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 15th automatic district.

Good morning, Solomon Beckler from DPW Environmental Section.

This resolution allows us to accept uh grant funding from MMC to install the funding with papers and alleys throughout the city.

Any questions from committee?

Auditor and Westmoreland would move adoption, hearing objections.

So order item 20, file number 260199.

Resolution directed in the city com travel with a set of funds to a previously executed document titled Grant Agreement under the fiscal year 2022 safe streets and roads for all grant program with the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration for the Programming Design and Construction of Pedestrian Accessibility and Safety Improvements at up to 26 intersections citywide on West Capitol Drive, West Accent Avenue, South 16th Street, West Greenfield Avenue, and West Forest Home Avenue for a final design right-of-way and utility coordination at an estimated total cost of 550,000 with an estimated city share of 110,000 and a grantor share of 440,000.

And we're supposed to have a proposed substitute.

So ordered on the sub.

Did you want to speak?

Good morning, David Tappia, Major Project's manager.

So this is to um set up the second phase of that grant uh that we uh were awarded years ago uh that'll allow us to move from preliminary into final design and account for any real estate acquisition that's necessary.

The substitute addresses one of the paragraphs had was written in such a way it sounded like it was to also give the commissioner authority to sign the agreement that that had already been done in the first one, so the language just was revised to indicate that.

Any questions from committee?

Order Warman Taylor would move adoption of the substitute of the file as substitute.

Um are there any objections to that motion hearing?

So order item number 21 substitute resolution denying the honor denying the honorary street name of FM Eason.

Of FM Easton to North Palmer Street from West Townsend Street to West Concordia Avenue in the 7th Automatic District.

This is straight.

Did they show up to the committee?

No, she did it virtually because she's in um Arkansas, and then I think that it's questioning the citizen advisory committee.

Say no, even then, it's up to advice to accept the recommendation to deny.

She was supposed to um come but she didn't know it.

All the information application.

Questions on committee?

What's this about?

We somebody why is this even before us?

If somebody wants to withdraw their nomination, um they went to the citizen advisory of the naming street committee.

Yeah.

Of the first, and the committee denied reviewed the application, and decided that uh they wanted to recommend to the public work committee to deny the application because they felt that the application, did not meet the standards.

Okay.

Any other questions?

Um committee.

Um.

Well, the recommendation from the citizen committee is to um not do it.

Deny, and there is nobody to defend that.

To defend to um to argue against it.

Um D DW, are you just here to talk about the signs and all that?

Or did you have some um I'm here to answer any questions?

I was I was assuming the applicant was gonna show up.

Right.

Do I was hoping they didn't show up with the citizens' advisory committee, so they did their defense?

They are in a very brutal area of Arkansas and she's having a lot of problems with the internet.

She's taking care of her sister, it's all past cancer.

Can we move to hold it?

Did she notify you of anything?

I did talk to her yesterday, she was gonna try to log in.

Oh.

You uh woman, is that the motion you would like to make?

Yeah, I don't mind moving to hold it.

The motion by the moment, as the whole to the call of the chair.

Are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing the so order.

Umber twenty twenty two.

Before we do that last one, can I do a uh just I had a quick question about number sixty.

Can I do a reconsideration of number sixty?

You can make the motion.

The motion by Ottawa, reconsideration.

For item sixteen, are there any objections to that motion?

Hearing the soul order.

Okay.

So I just had a quick question because I um I was looking at this and it it looks like so that this will be a reconstruction from nineteenth all the way to twelfth street.

That is correct.

Yeah, and because this is such a major highway and I just didn't want um and it's so heavily traveled every single day.

Um if we were considering when it would be possible to do the reconstruction from because it goes from about sixtieth all the way down to twelfth street.

So um and it's just constant complaints about that road every single day.

Um, so just wondering if we were looking at plans for reconstruction of the entire Fondal Act.

Yeah.

Uh David Tappia, major project manager.

So I'm working with the Department of Transportation, and currently we have two projects, one from 19th to Capital, which will be what they call a payment replacement, so it's a reconstruction, and then from capital to 68th, which as of right now is just being programmed as a resurfacing, but we'll go through the final scoping process with the department to better determine if that needs to change, um, depending on what years out the construction would occur.

Mm-hmm.

So so it may be a while, but you are considering it and looking at um that.

Correct.

Okay.

Yeah.

Just um, because it would just, you know, I just think about the travel that people are doing coming from so many places.

Um, but that is just one of those main roads that they are traveling, and you just hear those complaints every single day.

So I just didn't want to um have the public look and think, uh, they're only concerned about 19th to 12th street when I'm constantly getting potholes at the potholes or um or we're constantly just patching patching patching um that when that entire reconstruction would be done.

So thank you so much for hanging back and taking the time to answer that.

I have the first obligations to have our do not okay that's all I have.

I don't know if I can have obligations.

Any other questions from committee?

All right honorable Tyler would move uh adoption I hear no objection so order um item 22 final two four zero one six nine resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute project agreements titled State Municipal Agreement for Transportation Alternatives program project with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for two projects this is noticeed to be placed on file.

So the motion by Ottawa Smorland would be to place it on file.

Are there any objections to that motion hearing us so order with that we have no further business we are adjourned.