The Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) met on Monday, July 6, 2026, at 3:00 PM in City Hall, Room 301-B, with Chair Jordan Morales presiding. All seven members were present (Ald. Bauman arrived at 3:04 PM). The meeting addressed 10 agenda items, a consent calendar of 17 staff-approved Certificates of Appropriateness (COAs), a bylaw amendment, and updates. The meeting adjourned at 4:42 PM.
As a department every year where we get to these type of, you know, we we tell our folks to take more breaks, extended lunches. Um fortunately we have air conditioning a lot of our vehicles. I mean, that is the priority for to make sure that no one does overheat. I mean we're walking out there. Extra water we provide. Um we actually have electrolytes that we're doing. Our safety crews and supervisors and managers are constantly monitoring folks could, you know, when they're out there, especially all day long. I mean, that's this is where the production's gonna go down these couple of days. They're still out there doing their job. Um, but it is we might have a daily and hourly basis because it is dangerous right now. Reminding them not to drink soda. That is that is a big one, yes. This is why we continually promote water and electrolytes and this is why we provide some of those packets to get put into water bottles because it is very important to stay hydrated. Okay, I'm sure. Yeah, uh a resident. I I was gonna say I'm doing that this morning. Just posted about their recycling parts and how I had to We had an incident yesterday. Yes, correct. That overheated. Uh ended up going to the hospital overheated based on um the conditions yesterday. Um is in good condition right now. I don't have an update like as of this morning, but um was doing much better and had a lot of IVs and fluids. Cramped up and kind of was sitting there. So and luckily the public did come out and assist and help. It was which was good, yes. Do we do anything on hot day for employees that we know are out there? Yeah, I mean, like we said, we provide we dealt we tell them to make more breaks. We do start shifts earlier. Um so like our sanitation workers are gonna start an hour earlier to get off earlier. Um if it gets too extreme, some crews will shut off and and we'll have them work six hour days. It depends on how it each crew is a little different in exp exactly what they're doing. But that's the conversation, and each group does a things a little bit different. But we had a conversation just on Monday of like what's coming up for the heat, what is everyone doing, and so we talk to each and single group of how do we make sure employees are safe out there. If they have to come into one of the buildings that we have, just cool down, that is fine as well. Okay, thank you. Otherman um Brouer. Yeah, thank you so much. Um and actually uh Alderman Bauman, thank you so much for putting this uh file on here today. I really I really do appreciate it. I appreciate you guys being willing to give you know more of these updates because it's something our constituents are you know really concerned about. And I just want to also echo just the appreciation that I have for all the city work. I mean, right now we're sitting in air conditioning and the city workers are out there uh sweating away, filling potholes, picking up garbage. I just I really appreciate all the all the work that they're doing. I just want to um, you know, a concluding thought I had regarding this that I wanted to share is that we have such a huge task in front of us to win more funding from the state legislature when the new legislature convenes um in January of 2027. Uh we have an opportunity, I mean, pretty much I'm knock on wood, but you know, you could run as a you could uh a sardine sandwich, you know, you could run a sardine sandwich as a Democrat and they're probably gonna win this fall. Um and so we are uh, you know, we're poised to have a friendlier legislature in Madison, and I I am I'm committed anyway to you know, meeting with members of the legislature, fighting for more by explaining here in the Milwaukee, there's a lot of unique circumstances that this isn't just some, you know, like like you know, the right wing trope of some uh you know grossly mismanaged behemoth urban center that they're trying to portray every single city as across this country. This is this is a city where we have a lot of dedicated workforce. We need more resource to make the quality of life better um for everybody here in the city of Milwaukee. Um and that's how that's how we're gonna do it. So I'm I'm fully committed to that, uh to that fight in winning more funding in the budget that introduced by whoever wins the governor's mansion um in the fall, and it'll be fought in next spring's budget fight at the state capitol.