I call the two thousand four hundred and forty-fourth meeting of the Milwaukee City Council to order.

This meeting is start over.

This meeting is being held in person at City Hall and by video conference.

And we're having some feedback in the room for those of you who may be trying to watch us and wondering what the heck is going on.

Um the public may particip.

Okay.

The public may participate in this meeting by coming to City Hall or joining the Zoom webinar.

The meeting is being broadcast live on the city's YouTube channel and Comcast Cable Channel Thirty in City Limits.

If you are interested in speaking, please let staff know by filling out a yellow comment card for those at City Hall or emailing OCR at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov for those on Zoom.

When it is time to take public comments, staff will monitor the comment cards, email inbox, and zoom participant lists and chat.gov.

We ask that all Zoom participants who intend to speak label their Zoom user name to show their first and last names for the record.

Oh, and so we do have a slide coming up about how to request meeting translation services, which are we do ask that you request uh forty-eight hours in advance of the meeting if you uh need meeting translation services, but we are happy to provide those.

One nation under the indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

The City of Milwaukee respectfully acknowledges that our community is located on the ancestral homeland of the Clackamas people.

In 1855, the surviving members of the Clackamas signed the Willamette Valley Treaty, also known as the Kalapuya, etc.

Treaty with the federal government in good faith.

We offer our respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this land.

And I'm happy to say some of our announcements this uh this week have to do with the indigenous people of this land and specifically the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde.

Join a community talk with David Harrelson, the Cultural Resources Manager of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde this Thursday, March 5th, from 6 to 7 p.m.

at Letting Library.

David will share about the tribe's history, lessons about naming spaces, and the importance of placekeeping.

Sign up for Johnson Creek Watershed Council's Unified Restoration Event this Saturday, March 7th from 8 45 a.m.

to noon.

Volunteers will spread out to eight simultaneous work parties, and you will get a free lunch at the end of the event.

Learn more and register on the Johnson Creek Watershed Council website.

Please join the North Clackamas Watershed Council to main trails and remove invasive species along Kellogg Creek this Saturday, March 7th from 9 a.m.

to noon.

Volunteers will be working in the Milwaukee Presbyterian Church outdoor sanctuary, just a five minute walk from downtown.

Learn more and RSVP to volunteer on the North Clackamas Watershed Council's website.

The city will continue to accept applications for all boards and committees until March 15th.

There we go.

If you are interested in serving on any of the city's boards or committees, please visit the city website where you can find the application materials.

Kate Schatz, author, educator, speaker, and author of the Rad Woman book series will speak at Letting Library on Wednesday, March 18th at 6 30 p.m.

All are welcome to attend.

The city's 2026 Earth Day event is scheduled for Saturday, April 25th.

So this is kind of just the whole date thing, because that's a ways away, uh, from 9 30 a.m.

to 12 30 and will take place at Scott Park.

Also on uh Saturday March 14th.

It's the second Saturday, so that means we'll uh the Milwaukee Parks Foundation and Wetlands Conservancy will be working in Minthorne Springs, so come join us there between 9 30 and noon.

For more information about each of these events and others, please visit the city's homepage at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov or call 503-786-7555.

And I thought that Councillor Stavan Jordan might have an event on Sunday she would like to announce.

I sure do.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, in partnership with other female-owned businesses downtown and female-owned wineries across uh Portland Metro and state of Oregon.

Um, we are participating in a wine walk.

Um, it's called Wine Walkie for those of you who are playing along at home.

Um there are a number of businesses that will have stops along the way.

There's a walking map that has been developed, and from 1 to 5 p.m., you can stop in at local businesses downtown and visit with uh wineries, sample some of their wares.

Um there will be bottles for purchase, and um there are uh other sort of add-on fun things like um you know different snacks and hors d'oeuvres at various at each of the locations that are catered locally, and then um their word on the street is that there will also be Girl Scouts set up.

So if you need cookies, um it's not our troop.

Um but there will be Girl Scouts and a few other local businesses that are also women-owned who will be participating.

So want to appreciate the um organizing power behind the business of Milwaukee, and um super excited for this kickoff event.

Right, awesome.

And so we have a haiku.

I think this one was written by uh by a member of the staff here in Milwaukee, Emma Fish, and she called it the Bay Park, a honk on the wind, wings tipped toward Golden Sun, slosh, the Gee Sall Land.

It's a nice one.

Yeah, yeah.

All right.

So with that, we will move on to our proclamation for this week, which is Women's History Month.

And it is being presented by Linda Carr alone, huh?

We had more people with you in our script, but welcome.

It's just me today.

I'm here representing the Milwaukee Historical Society, reading the proclamation for the women's history month.

Whereas each year since 1987, the United States observes Women's History Month, a month-long celebration every March to acknowledge the struggles and contributions of women of every race, class, and ethnic background.

And whereas women have played and continue to play critical economic, cultural, and social roles in every sphere of society by constituting a significant significant portion of the labor force in unpaid labor working inside and outside the home, and whereas women courageously make up a majority of our essential workforce in several occupations, including health care, education, agricultural, social and administrative services.

And whereas Milwaukee women have played a unique role throughout the history of the city by providing most of the volunteer labor force of the city, serving our country in the national and state armed forces and the establishment of early charitable philanthropic and cultural institutions, and whereas women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movements, and especially the peace movement.

And whereas despite these contributions, the role of women in Milwaukee, Oregon and their national histories have been overlooked and undervalued.

Now, therefore, I, Lisa Beatty, mayor of the City of Milwaukee, a municipal corporation in the county of Clackamas in the state of Oregon, and with the full support and sponsorship of the Milwaukee Historical Society, do hereby proclaim March 2026 to be women's history month in Milwaukee and do recommend its observance with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

So one of those appropriate activities would be the wine walk on Sunday.

There you go.

But also visiting the Milwaukee Museum, which is open on Saturdays from 11 to 4.

That's that correct.

And it doesn't cost you a dime.

They would uh love to have donations on, I know, but uh it does not cost you a dime to go in.

Um I know the exhibit now is about the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence.

That's correct, yes.

Um is there any part of it that's women focused at all?

Not at the particular moment in time, however, we do have a book there, Women of Milwaukee.

It's still available.

Um and if we run out of them, we can always order more.

Okay, great.

Great.

Well, um, thank you for coming and joining us tonight and reading the proclamation.

Mayor Baby, may I may I make a quick uh historical pitch for women's history month as well.

Um I talk about folks who served in my position quite a bit.

Uh, but one of the names that I I love to talk about a lot is Nell Martin, who was our last elected city recorder.

She was elected in 40, 1940.

The charter changed in 1944, and she became the first appointed, and she served uh in this role until the day she died in 1966, which was in March 14th, 1966, which is 60 years ago in about a week.

Uh so thank you to all the the women who served Milwaukee historically and to this point today, uh, and uh thinking about you today and next week.

No, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, so we will move on to our 2025 volunteer of the year selection, and I'll invite up community engagement coordinator Jason Wax to walk us all through our assignment on this one before we get around to voting.

Oh, we need our laptops for this.

Remember, you're gonna need your ballot.

No, I mean, not a ride this minute, but you will comment.

Okay, notice you're not go right ahead.

Whenever you're all right, good evening, everybody.

Um I think this is like the 11th time I've been here to help guide you through the volunteer of the year.

So been doing this for a while.

So I'm just gonna go about a little bit of the background of the volunteer of the year, the past winners, the criteria, so everyone at home, and by watching and council understands where that is, and then we'll we'll go through and do the vote online and announce the winner.

All right.

So the volunteer of the year award began in 2012.

As I said, I've been a part of by I think 11 of those.

Um I think this is the 12th one.

Um we have a volunteer of the year actually here with us tonight, David Ashenbrenner in 2015.

Good to see you, Dave.

Um yeah, so last year's winner was Pam Denim.

We've actually, we know, and in speaking um to women leaders in our community.

Uh the last three winners have actually been women, and uh, I think in terms of like total total of all of them, um the majority have uh have been women over the years.

So that's great.

The criteria uh is pretty simple.

Um anyone who resides in Milwaukee or is a member of a nonprofit organization or business that serves the community um can be nominated.

Uh we look at longevity of service to the community, some contribution of service in 2025 within the total uh volunteer efforts, uh service within the city limits is important, and then a lot of times um uh some contribution to the city and some sort of activity that the city leads, like a border committee or a neighbor district association, but that's not necessarily required.

But a lot of our winners in the past have had that contribution as well.

And that's really the the basic uh, you know.

I know these are always tough decisions, and the and uh it's very uh open in terms of who can be nominated.

So, but I know councils uh liked it that way over the years, so we've kept it that way.

Any questions on the criteria or the history or anything like that?

All right, okay, thanks.

So the nomination process this year began on November 24th, 2025.

It ended on February 11th, 2026.

Um, we did it once again on Engage Milwaukee.

And I believe we had 12 um individuals nominated.

There is one this year that was nominated as a team, and we have had two of the years.

We have had uh two people who have won.

Um so that is also a possibility.

Um, definitely.

We haven't um limited it to just individuals um over the years.

One of the nominees is was the volunteer of the year in 2017 as well, but we also have never put a rule in that says you couldn't win twice.

We just haven't had that happen up to this point.

Um I know I assigned um each each uh each counselor uh a volunteer or two or three um to highlight this year.

Um I did want to mention um that David Potts was accidentally included in the nominees.

He actually meant to nominate uh Colleen Rockwell.

So he's not one of the he's not one of the nominees, but he he uh so he was uh removed from that.

And if if he's watching or anybody or with anyone else, um I apologize for including that in the staff report, but it's um being corrected now.

Um so I guess if the council would like to start in terms of uh well, shall we go with the way you have them listed?

Are they assigned?

They I believe I assigned them from left to right, um, starting with counselor Stavinger and moving that direction.

Okay.

I think they should be in that that order.

I do apologize that some of some counselors have more to highlight than others because since I removed one, it got a little bit imbalanced.

So yeah, and just for the record, um, this is a new practice we started a couple years ago because we used to just vote uh based on written things, but I think it it's it's a valuable practice to just spend a minute or two uh talking about each person and and the activities for which they were nominated, so that other people in the community also know about them and their contribution to the city, and it's not just us who got the benefit of seeing all the nominees nominations.

So with that, I will turn it over to Counselor Savan Jordan.

Thank you.

Um it was um a joy again to read through the nominations, and I really appreciate the time that has gone into this.

But you know, folks putting forward the nominations but also compiling the process.

Much appreciated.

Um so let me get to my new just one moment.

The first um the first one that I have is um actually a team, and it's Allie Callos Spencer and Linda Hedges.

Um this team has provided extraordinary service to the Milwaukee community through their leadership of uh the community emergency response team, CERT.

And in 2025 alone, they each volunteered an estimated 12 to 15 hours per week coordinating trainings, organizing emergency response drills, supporting community preparedness around the city.

Um they helped to lead monthly CERT meetings, uh, spring and fall training courses, outreach efforts at community events like the umbrella parade, um, which was huge this year, and the farmers market, the Juneteenth celebration, the Sustainability Fair, and Operation Santa.

Um their leadership also helped expand Milwaukee's CERT program from 38 to 53 active volunteers, significantly strengthening our city's ability to respond to emergencies and support neighbors through times of crisis.

Um 2025 was also a major milestone for the CERT program as it formally transitioned under the city of Milwaukee.

Allie and Linda played a key role in supporting that transition and continue to work closely with the city's emergency management and resilience coordinator.

Um they uh let's see.

Um their leadership commitment and care for their neighbors is um is remarkable.

Um Allie and Linda have strengthened Milwaukee's resilience and community spirit, making them truly deserving um with this recognition of nomination for volunteer of the year.

That is our first our first act to follow.

Um, and then um the second nomination is one that brings a smile to my face because um I know this uh person personally, and she is uh deserving of every word in the nomination statements that we received.

So Lisa Gunyon Ranker is um our second nominee.

Lisa is the type of volunteer that every community hopes for.

She shows up consistently, lends a hand wherever it's needed, and helps make Milwaukee a more connected and vibrant place to live.

Um Milwaukee um Lisa was nominated um because of her service, continued service to the Milwaukee Parks Foundation, and um the volunteer service that she provides regularly in some of the city's most treasured natural spaces, including Minthorn Springs, Elk Rock Island Park, um, and through stewardship that requires hands-on uh involvement, like weeding, mulching, and maintaining these areas.

She helps ensure that these parks remain beautiful and welcoming for everyone in the community.

Lisa is also an active member and officer in the Ardenwald Johnson Creek Neighborhood Association, where she contributes her time and energy to neighborhood events and activities.

She supports community traditions like the Christmas ships and solstice events, um, helps organize neighborhood gatherings, bringing residents together.

She also lends her support to the beloved transition or local traditions like uh Dave's Halloween activities at the Davis Graveyard.

Um participates in city events such as the community um recycling efforts.

Um for the last eight years, um, at least eight years, Lisa has been a familiar and dependable presence in Milwaukee's volunteer community, whether caring for parks, supporting neighborhood events, or sharing her love of nature with others, and she brings enthusiasm, generosity, and a true spirit of community service.

Um she was nominated twice, I believe.

Um two different entries, and um Lisa, I can see Lisa's smile right now as she is undoubtedly uh not listening to this, but rather planning some community event.

So um it's with my honor to bring forth the second nominee, Lisa Gunyanranker.

Did you need more time?

No, no, no, I'm good.

I just I was just thought you were the love, you were the one that got too.

Yeah.

Um, so I had the pleasure of having the next three, uh Nick Hess, Tom Hogan, and Amanda McAdams.

Um of the three who I know personally as I've had discussions in one way or another with them.

Uh first one, Nick Hess.

I just took some some points that I thought were particularly noticeable from the submissions.

Um that stood out is is NIC HAS's exceptional commitment to the city through civic leadership, youth mentorship, community event creation, and hands-on volunteer.

Uh, I think we all can uh agree with that.

Uh he was actually born in Milwaukee, has deep roots here, uh, and immediately made an impact upon moving back to Milwaukee.

And in my in my conversations personally, um I I've I've seen firsthand of the care and commitment that he has to to our city.

Uh every conversation that I've had with him.

Um the centerpiece was what's what's best for Milwaukee, how can we do better for the residents?

So I appreciate Nick very much.

Uh next is Mr.

Tom Hogan, who I've also had the pleasure of working with.

Um, for those that don't know, which I'm sure most of you do, um, Tom Hogan is the founder and president of the Milwaukee Poetry Series.

Uh, and he created that.

Um, and I've had the pleasure and the honor of being able to uh present at a couple of those events um uh through invite uh with Mr.

Hogan, and I can't say enough how much not only do I appreciate it, but I know everybody who participates or who has been around to uh see that has appreciated that as well because the poetry has been unique, it's been incredible, and it's an art form that brings people together.

So I do appreciate Mr.

Hogan.

A couple of things on him, as I mentioned, founder and president of Milwaukee Poetry Um series.

Uh his the whole thing I read about him was that bringing people together is is Tom's theme.

Uh and on top of that, also uh he did serve uh on or he is serving on the Letting Library Foundation as well and was uh played a key role uh in a lot of the the a lot of what you see now in terms of the Letting Library.

Uh so I appreciate Mr.

Hogan as well.

Looking forward to the next poetry series.

And third, uh last but not least is Amanda McAdams.

Um Amanda spearheaded the Milwaukee passport.

Uh that's incredible because that's been a pretty pretty big deal, uh pretty hot thing.

We we actually ran out of the passports for a while.

Um she was she's a member of Dam and poured her time into not just the success of the passport, but from design to outreach to distribution.

So kudos, sir, for that.

I know that was a probably a huge undertaking and takes a lot of time.

Um Amanda also has a social media presence that has given so much life to the communication channels between businesses and residents, which I think is very key.

That's a uh uh typically a communication gap that you normally see.

Um so uh Amanda has has helped close that gap just through her social media presence.

And I thought this was really neat.

Um she's a member of Dan, but she's not a business owner, but she exemplifies the concept of caring.

So I I think to to put in that much time to see the business community, not just the residents, but the business community want to uh succeed and to not be a business owner owner yourself, but know that you play a vital role in this community in the success of these businesses.

That's that's a pretty big undertaking, and I have to give her uh a ton of credit for that.

So congratulations to all three of these nominees.

Thank you.

Um I have two nominees.

Um, and they're kind of uh I have Howie Oakes, who is a longtime uh uh nominee, and I have Lynn Porta, who is a is a newer person to engagement in Milwaukee, but both have made some great contributions to our city.

So Howie Oaks um has several claims to fame.

He was on our comp plan advisory committee back in the day.

He is the uh he is the leader and organizer of the concert series in the Louelling in the Ball Michelle Park for the Louelling NDA.

He is the Louelling NDA treasurer, and the focus of a lot of uh of the nominations, he got several nominations, was about his work on the solstice event.

Um so the I I'm gonna assume most people watching have been to the solstice event.

It's a big event on our waterfront in December, um, around the Christmas ships.

It didn't it existed before Mr.

Oaks moved to Milwaukee, but when he came to Milwaukee and to the Lewelling NDA, they had they had kind of uh under a previous NDA chair, they had the monopoly on selling um refreshments at the um solstice event.

And they used to just sell like hot chocolate and desserts and you know, uh, and he decided it was time to up their game and bring on the chili and the hot dogs, and he fig he masterminded how to cook and serve hundreds of hot dogs and gallons of chili, both vegetarian and meat, um, on both uh on both sides, and he um he even stores all the equipment that they use at his uh house but between events.

Um so a lot of the uh a lot of the nominations were really focused on how much work the solstice event has been, and he and his wife have led it for a number of years, probably a decade or more.

Um a few other things were said about him.

Um, one is that people don't know is he he's a big contributor to our uh our climate work in Milwaukee because he has built two homes himself.

He was the general contractor and did a lot of the labor himself on Stanley Avenue that are both built to passive house standards.

Um he is really, I mean, if I want to know something about a green building option or something I'm upgrading in my house, he's who I call to get advice.

Um and one of his neighbors who uh who moved near to him, moved across Johnson Creek from him uh a few years ago, uh, said that you know that he's a very quiet, self-effacing guy, but he brings new people to the NDA.

He really is always about reaching out to neighbors and encouraging people to get involved in the NDA.

Uh and and I wanted to quote from her.

She said, our neighborhood is warmer, stronger, and more connected because of Howie.

So that's Howie Oaks.

And then Lynn Porta is a member of Dam.

And she uh really came uh to my intent.

I met her this past year when she was organizing the um Halloween decorating contest in downtown.

And um, and I understand she also uh worked on the holiday, the Christmas holiday decorating contest in downtown, and even um spotlighted the need for some of the uh windows that are under construction or under, you know, uh are not currently occupied by businesses and trying to help them have some kind of holiday presence.

And she did some kids' art and some snowflakes, and she she brought people together to make our downtown more festive, both for Halloween and for the December holidays.

Um she's also a member of the Historic Milwaukee NDA, and she has a pollinator pathway project on the corner in front of Duffy's.

So that's Lynn Porta.

Um so my honor to uh recognize them both.

I have just one person to bring forward.

Um her name is Colleen Rockwell.

And before you get on my case for just having one person, I want to point out that a third of the packet is dedicated to nominations of Colleen Rockwell.

So many people wrote in.

Um so I did do a heck of a lot of work reading through all of them.

And uh I have to say, okay.

Um Colleen, I know you are uh assuming you're watching uh a little bit outside of this.

Um, and it's just been so fun to get to see all of these different perspectives of people who've worked with Colleen over the years to all of her different venues of working in the city.

I feel like I found out 10 different things about you from reading through this.

Um I know you are a part of Rotary.

You're the chair of the environmental committee, environmentalism is really a theme throughout all of Colleen's work.

Um I'm particularly fond of her work doing native plant gardens, our main street bump out, um, is something that was planted because Colleen really advocated for that.

And I think our downtown is a great example of how you can have native plants woven in with like an urban fabric.

Um, and Colleen has really been the person pushing for that integration.

She's helped with pollinator pathways throughout the city and really helping trying to build those pollinator gardens in a lot of different homes.

Um and I know that as we talk about wanting more and more green space and more habitat for folks.

Um Colleen is on the ground doing that work in our community.

So I think that that was just really awesome to read about.

And I have to say it all culminated this last year when we did B City USA.

She was really pushing for us to get that um dedication nomination, officiation, whatever you call it.

Um Colleen was a huge part in that movement to get us recognized as BC USA.

Um apart from all of this, um, on top of all of this work, she's with the Lake Road NDA as one of the co-chairs.

So she I've seen this in a lot of the Lake Road NDA meetings that I go to, does a really good job of bringing new people in.

I mean, these NDA meetings are quite large, and the NDA is going through a real point of transition right now.

They can't meet at Milwaukee Floral anymore, so they're trying to find their new home.

Um throughout all of that, I've seen Colleen just do a great job of welcoming new people in, changing meeting locations, keeping the group together.

It's a hard transition.

Um, but I think that her work there has really been instrumental in helping keep that group tight-knit.

So across all the work that you're doing, Colleen, really impressive.

I'm so grateful that I get to bring your name forward for this nomination.

Well, the uh the nominees that I have are three.

And the first of that those three are is Lane Rollins.

And uh Lane uh for several years has managed the Ardwall neighborhood's August concerts, and he does everything from um booking the bands to arranging the sound systems to provide great entertainment on those Thursday nights in August.

And even before all of that uh hands-on work, he does a lot of fundraising with the business and everyone like that to underwrite the events.

It's kind of the highlight of the Ardenwall uh year uh with these events.

He's also the arts representative on the Ardenwell Hall District uh neighborhood association.

And uh basically without Lane uh these these projects would not go forward because he has the connections to the musical acts, he has the fundraising acumen.

It's a skill that not many of us have going and asking strangers for money.

And uh he has the organizational ability to pull it all together.

So uh Lane has done a lot of great things for that uh seminal event in the um in the Ardenwell neighborhood.

Um my second nominee is uh Christina Thomas.

We always comment when we have uh the uh Milwaukee High School uh uh uh students of the month come forward and all that they do.

This is kind of like reading one of those.

Uh Christina, I don't know you know how many days she has in her how many hours she has in her day, but you know, she's got more than I do.

Um she's the uh chair of the library foundation.

Um and she's uh uh been involved in the Linwood uh PTA as her children have gone through the school system where and she's been a you know a fundraiser for the Milwaukee Mustangs, and she's been um you know a chaperone for all the Linwood, the Row Middle, and Milwaukee High School events.

Uh she's active in the Linwood NDA Community Development Committee.

Um she supports the youth and safety of Milwaukee uh with an un uh wavering devotion to the city for the betterment of the community.

She's been doing this for over a decade.

You know, Christina just regularly volunteers at all things Milwaukee, including Milwaukee Pride, June T Juneteenth celebration and other citywide uh events.

Uh she even organizes the games at the Lynwood uh Barbecue Association.

She values the community in her daily life, engaging wherever the community needs her.

So uh I know Christine uh uh uh a great person and a great volunteer for the city.

The last of our nominees is Nancy Whitting.

Uh Nancy was uh was uh uh city staffer for a long time, uh working in the library, and when she retired from that, she immediately went to become the chair of the uh friends of the library.

And I've uh uh spoken to you often in this uh this dais about uh all the money that uh she spearheads raising for uh uh the outreach program, specifically the children's outreach programs uh at the library.

And she's done that for I don't know, I think she's going on about five years.

Uh she's also on the library board.

Um and uh the the work that they do, they've raised a lot of money that just makes so many of the library programs possible.

Um and um uh I work with her on the quarterly book sale and um and that kind of thing.

I have a lot of respect for her, and it's uh really kind of encouraging to see you know volunteers across multi-generations because Nancy's father is Ed Sumwall.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, that wraps up our nominees.

Do you have further guidance for us?

Um the next step.

First of all, I just want to apologize for the imbalance.

Next year I will give Councillor Anderson four.

Um, yeah, well that was my mistake, so I I apologize for that again.

Um yeah, I think it's just time to to do the vote um using the online ballot that was created.

Um if everybody's ready.

I know this is six to vote for six.

Yeah, so we have you can vote up to six in terms of um it's ranked choice, so um the system will let you do less, but this year I decided uh we just limit it to six, make it a little bit easier instead of ranking all of them.

Um that should still give us a winner.

Um while you're voting, Josh thinks he tuned the mic, so I'm gonna turn the speakers back on.

But I'll have my hand over the button of muted in case we get feedback.

Okay.

Really?

Uh oh.

We have a problem with elections.

Good.

I've heard vote early and often, but I didn't actually do it this time.

It does show that there was one vote.

That was me.

Okay.

That's odd.

Okay.

Maybe you didn't vote for the right people.

Well, I just clicked on the link that was in the email.

So if you clicked on it and voted first, then maybe that link shows that it's already been used.

Or is this the share with everyone?

Should be share with everyone.

I'll try and open it again.

It took my vote.

I just voted and it took my vote.

So I think it's maybe just give it a try one more time.

Have you already voted?

Yes, okay.

I think I have four.

Thank you.

Well, it looks bad, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It may not make a difference.

It's not working.

Well, while she's while she's figuring out her vote, I will just say that this is always a hard choice.

Um even picking six was hard.

Um and if your candidate does not get selected, um please uh feel free to nominate them again next year.

It should not be seen uh seen as that they're not deserving.

It's just um this year is going to someone else.

It's interesting, it's only showing us the top two, it's not showing us the whole however many we voted on.

I thought last year it showed us like everyone, but that's okay.

Did it submit?

Okay.

Hopefully, no hanging chats.

Okay, so I will refresh then because I'm only seeing four votes.

Five votes cast.

Okay.

So uh yes.

Um the winner of the 2025 Milwaukee Volunteer of the Year is Colleen Rockwell.

So congratulations, Colleen.

I know that Jason will bring you back at another meeting, and then this summer we will have our volunteer.

Oh, here, we've got the details.

So I'll let Jason Yeah.

So um the way we thank the winner, um, I'll definitely reach out to Colleen um tomorrow.

Um the dinner this year is on June 4th.

Um, I think we're looking to have it at the Elks Lodge, but we haven't actually like finalized that yet.

Oh, not a picnic this year.

Um, we were trying to mix it up a little bit.

So do something a little different, but we're not finalized yet.

So I'll let everyone know as soon as we do.

Um featured in the pilot newsletter in June, likely, um, as you can see, our other past winners there.

Um, some social media posts.

Um, yeah, and then I'll be back on May 5th to uh introduce Colleen.

Hopefully she can make it.

Um, if not maybe we'll move it to when she can.

But yeah, I'll be back, and then at that point we can uh you you all can say thanks and we'll take some nice pictures and all of that fun stuff.

So okay.

Thank you for going through this process again with me, and I'm glad this worked.

I'm always a little bit nervous that it's not going to.

So I do think the ranked choice voting is better than the old paper ballots where we often had to go through two or three uh two or three rounds of voting.

So I agree.

Yeah, definitely.

Yeah.

So thank you, Jason.

Thank you.

Yeah.

All right.

So community comments.

This is the part of the agenda during which the council will hear community comments on city business that is not on the agenda.

Before we begin, is there follow-up from the February 17th comments, Mr.

Brillio?

Yeah, thanks, Mayor.

Um, there's no comments from the last meeting.

Sorry, I'm just testing the feedback here.

Sounds like it's it's heating up.

Um, no comments directly from last meeting.

However, there's been tons of correspondence, I feel like over the last week or two.

I'm happy to address some of those if it's all the aluminum I wear.

Um I'm happy to address some of those comments if you want me to, Mayor.

Okay, great.

Um, so for those keeping track, there's some of this is in your packet.

Uh I believe hopefully all of it by now, but uh we received some correspondence from Katie Schultz over in Lynwood neighborhood about Merle in opposition to Merle.

And I just wanted to remind anyone out there that's interested in Merle.

We're having that discussion at council regular session on March 17th.

So there'll be more to come then.

We had some folks write in about their concern question, opposition to the processing fee.

Uh staff has followed up with most of them.

Uh obviously Joanne Byrd uh also commented, she's previously commented too about uh the need for eChack option for those utility payments.

But we did follow up with Paul Meeter and Brandon Malone.

So those conversations are taking place between staff right now.

Um we did receive some comments from Ed Williams of Harmony Park Apartments, and he had a concern or a frustration about the utility payment or the utility statements and how they're they're showing up now versus how they showed up uh several months ago.

So the issue there is a what you see today is it's not as detailed as it would it once was.

And part of the reason behind that is because the cities had two systems to work with utility um processing payments.

We had a system called BMS and a system called we have a system called BMS and a system called Tyler Tech.

And previously it's required our utility payers to use two systems and two platforms.

So you'd have to use one BMS to sign in and look and view your statement, and then you have to go over to Tyler Tech to actually pay for your statement.

So it's kind of a frustration we heard um quite a bit.

So in order to consolidate that issue, we moved everything over to Tyler Tech because that's integrated with our accounting system.

Um unfortunately, Tyler Technologies doesn't provide the same level of detail on those statements.

That's it provides detail.

Um we have no possibility to meet as I am we can ask more.

I as I understand it's been pretty hard to help them design it.

But um I did talk to our finance director, and if council wanted to talk more about that issue specifically around utility statements, then he's happy to come with the utility um uh uh billing assistant uh administrator Amy and and have a chat.

But that's the reason behind it.

Uh and they've also followed up with Mr.

Williams, and he has some his primary issue, as I understand, is also because he's got an apartment building, so it's a little bit more difficult to understand the breakdown uh per unit breakdown.

So they've been helping him with that.

So I guess my feeling is it would be valuable to have a conversation around that.

I mean, we did so on the on the complaint about the inability to use checks or to do payments from bank accounts.

Um we had uh we were told that they were investigating more about what that would cost and and would come back to us.

So at whatever point uh the finance team is coming back on that.

Let's talk about both.

Smash those together.

Yeah, that sounds good.

Yeah.

We'll do.

Uh continuing right along, Teresa Breesall.

Uh she wrote in just uh some comments about NCPRD.

Uh we can talk about that later, but no real reply as of right now from staff.

Uh Todd Wiedman also provided some feedback on your council statement that just went out uh this this month.

Um no no comment from staff about that.

But that's that's the quick update from correspondence we've received.

Okay, and I um I also was hoping you could give a little update on an incident that happened on Harvey Street.

Yes, I have that in my notes, Mayor.

I was gonna um wait for our emergency agenda item or or for the council um reports at the end, just something that goes a little outside this.

That's fine.

That's fine.

Great.

Um we do have a yellow card.

So um for those in person who wish to speak, please submit a yellow comment card found on the table back there.

If you are on Zoom, use the raise hand reaction to alert staff that you wish to speak.

And when instructed to do so, click the microphone button to unmute yourself.

If you are telephoning in through Zoom and would like to make a comment, dial star nine to raise your hand.

You may also submit a comment via email to OCR at Milwaukee, Oregon.gov.

Before you make your comments, please state your name and city of record residence for the record.

If you would like the city to follow up with you, please submit your contact information.

As council has other business items on the agenda, speakers will be limited to three minutes each.

Because information provided during community comments may be new.

This is not the time for discussion.

The city manager will respond at the next meeting to comments that require follow-up.

So the only yellow card I have is Mr.

David Ashenbrenner.

I'm gonna try to unmute the mics again.

Okay.

So hit the button so you get the red light.

Council mayor.

I came down here for the proclamation, and I figured I need to do one other thing while I was here.

And I am the vice president of the Milwaukee Historical Society.

And I want to thank you folks for the grant that we got from you to redo the sighting in the windows of the museum.

If you had not been out to the museum since we've done this, you need to come.

It is so much better, so much safer.

It looks great.

Thanks to you and the people that have donated their time and their service.

Um our contractor donated a lot of stuff.

The vendors provided a lot of discounts.

I never thought we would get this done.

I even the past, also a past president of the society.

I've looked at those old windows for so long, and I just go.

How do we get this fixed?

And we were able to do it.

We managed to pull all the strings with the contractors and everything else, and your folks providing the money that you've provided to us in the grant really helped us get over that lump.

And I wanted to thank you very much.

And if you haven't been out to the museum, Saturdays, 11 to 4.

Come on in, take a look around.

We're doing the 250 anniversary of the country.

So it's an interesting display that we put together.

And once again, that's all I have to say.

So thanks for aren't you gonna channel Greg Hamer and say the world's largest museum dedicated to the history of Milwaukee?

You're much better at doing that than I am.

Greg uh, I think just left town.

So uh, but yeah, it's it is, and it's a it's the great little museum.

We're always looking for people that want to be involved.

We got projects to do.

You'll see us out at the community doing booths and stuff at the different events.

But uh it's it's always fun to come by and bring the kids.

It's it's an interesting little display we've got going on right now, and and I've been doing this for a number of years for the society, and it is it's once again it's really a big thank you to be able to get the siding replaced and the windows replaced.

We've got one more project, major project coming down the line, and that's the roof, and we're starting to work on the details on that.

But uh once again, thank you guys very much for the grant that we got from the city.

Great, thank you.

Okay, next we have the consent.

Oh, do we have anybody online, Mr.

Stoffer?

We do have a Zoom audience, but uh no hands raised.

No hands raised.

Okay.

Uh so we go on to the consent agenda.

Tonight's consent agenda includes minutes of the city council February 3rd, 2026 work session and February 3rd, 2026 regular session.

A resolution opting in to recreational liability limitations established in Oregon revised statute 105.668.

A resolution acting as the local contract review board authorizing a contract with Century West Engineering Corporation for Wastewater Collections in Engineering Services, a resolution acting as the local contract review board reinstating a personal service agreement with FCS Group, a Bowman company for transportation system development charges or SDC study services.

Does any council member wish to remove a consent agenda item?

Seeing none, I would entertain a motion.

I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

I second.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda as presented.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no.

The consent agenda is approved unanimously.

And we come to our first hearing of the night, or our first, I guess it's not technically a hearing.

Uh, an adoption of revised public contracting rules, a resolution uh presented by our accounting and contract specialist Kelly Tucker.

Uh good evening.

I'm Kelly Tucker, accounting and contrast uh specialist out of the city's finance department.

Uh so as you mentioned, I am here tonight to request adoption of revised public contracting rules.

Uh a couple weeks back, I met with with you, City Council uh at the February 17th work session to discuss the proposed changes being made to the public city's public contracting rules.

So I'm just back tonight.

We had a good discussion then on certain points, but ultimately no changes were recommended at that time.

So I wanted to recap tonight just very briefly what we discussed then as far as the significant changes being made.

And then I'll open the floor back up for questions as well.

So the city has all for a long time has opted out of following the Department of Justice's model rules.

And we actually choose and elect to develop in our own public contracting rules.

Our public contracting rules are a hybrid of Oregon revised statutes, specifically chapters 279 ABNC, as well as the model rules from Department of Justice.

So we get this nice hybrid that's customized that fits our organization.

But with that, as changes in state law are made, we are then also required to update our public contracting rules so that we're compliant.

It's been a few years since we last updated the public contracting rules that was last done in July of 2023.

Since that time, several laws have been changed, modified, adopted.

So I am here before you tonight so that we can update our public contracting rules and make sure that we're staying in compliance.

Um and just provide some clarity for staff might read through the rules and try to make sense of them.

So again, just looking at kind of the significant changes at this point for general updates and thresholds.

We're just looking to do some general housekeeping, which one's easier to look at.

Um and remove some repetitive references throughout the rules.

So again, just some cleanup stuff.

As far as thresholds go, we're looking to increase the intermediate procurement threshold from 150,000 to 250,000.

This is an informal competitive process that we do.

We're looking to increase the federal micro-purchase threshold, micro-purchases and non-competitive federal award from 10,000 up to 15,000.

Proposing to increase the federal small purchase uh procurement method uh threshold, excuse me, from 150 to 250,000.

And the small purchase for federal is equivalent to our intermediate.

It's an informal competitive process.

Uh also proposing to increase, increase the authorization threshold for directors to authorize surplusing personal property.

So this would be city-owned equipment, vehicles, materials, furniture, et cetera, uh, from 1,000 to 10,000.

And this is purely to provide some administrative ease off the city or acting city manager who ultimately uh authorizes all surplus at this point due to that low threshold.

We are also proposing to remove a five-year limitation that we currently have on any purchase of goods or services that are made off of price agreements.

This removing this limitation will go a long way, especially with our information technology department, who you uh relies on price agreements to purchase a lot of citywide software.

Uh but it will we'll still be able to purchase off price agreements.

We just won't be limited to five years uh anymore, which is where we're currently at, and it makes it a little difficult to have to go find either another price agreement or do our own competitive process for the formal competitive process for public improvements.

We're really just looking to clean up and restructure the process steps and requirements between goods and services and public improvements.

It's a little bit of a mix-up now, they're all kind of blended together.

So the restructure will be done by creating separate rules in separate sections that detail the procurement requirements, one for goods and services and the other for public improvements.

So staff can go to one rule and know exactly what they need to do without having to bounce around.

We will also uh we would also remove the general conditions for construction.

That's currently our exhibit B in our public contracting rules, uh, and that would essentially be taken out and created into a standalone document that we would incorporate with solicitations and contracts, because ultimately what's in there is contract terms.

Uh also with public improvements, there were some state law changes and some clarifications that we needed on our end and within our rules around retainage withheld uh on public improvement or construction projects.

And that's going to include the removal of interest-bearing escrow accounts, which are all nearly impossible to secure.

But then also ensuring that a contractor receives any applicable accrued interest on cash retainage that's withheld.

And that should only happen if we as staff don't do our obligations timely.

And that means releasing payments that are owed to the contractor within 30 days.

For equity and public improvement, we are proposing to add a requirement to invite at least one contractor who is certified with the state of Oregon's office for business inclusion and diversity, also known as COVID.

And this would be on intermediate solicitations.

So right now with intermediate solicitations, we are required to invite at least three qualified sources or contractors to bid or propose on our solicitation.

We're asking that when one of those are requiring, not asking, requiring them that one of those contractors be a COVID business.

Now, with that, there might be instances where there is no COVID certified contractor that either provides that good that we're looking for or provides that service.

So we would also implement a process where staff could, after doing some due diligence, could request an exemption from this requirement that keeps us compliant with our rules.

And then finally, uh electronic processes and then just miscellaneous.

So we're proposing to just clarify throughout the rules the use of the current use of the city's electronic procurement system.

We use bonfire.

That's where we post our competitive solicitations, both intermediate and formal, as well as how we receive questions and submissions from contractors.

We would also propose to add an option to publish advertisements electronically rather than in a printed newspaper.

This will help staff move some projects along a little quicker.

Sometimes we're waiting a few days before we can publish because we had to wait to meet a timeline of a printed publication.

I think it's also a way that contractors are more likely to get the information and the notices of our solicitations.

And that's it for kind of the significant changes, the other many minor modifications that were made throughout the red line version.

I think it's attachment one of the public contracting rules.

That just provides for additional compliance with statute, some clarification or just administrative ease throughout.

So I just open the floor back up to city council who acts as our local contract review board.

If you have any other questions or clarifications I can offer.

Any questions for Kelly?

Just appreciations.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was easier.

It was a lot to dive through.

I did want to ask one clarifying question.

So the thing where we're removing the five years limitation on the way that we buy.

Can you describe what that purchase activity is like?

Yeah, absolutely.

So price agreements or permissive agreements.

They it's allowed under state statute for us to purchase off of them.

Usually what they are is the state of Oregon or another cooperative organization, like I know all the acronyms.

I don't know if I know.

Like NASPO or TIPS or Omnia Partners, um, Source Well is another cooperative organization.

Uh they, as the organization will publish in partnership, they'll usually find like a lead agency, a lead public agency to post a competitive solicitation for goods or services.

Then for us like City of Milwaukee, if we're members of that cooperative organization, like we are a member of the Oregon purchasing program through the state of Oregon, we're members of all those other cooperative organizations.

As members, we can then enter into our own contract without our own subsequent procurement process with whomever was whichever contractor was awarded off the competitive price agreement or off the competitive solicitation that was done by that organization.

So it just gives us uh a resource to kind of immediately find and um contract with a contractor for goods or services without us having to do our own competitive process, but yet a competitive process was still done to enter into that award.

And right now, in our public contracting rules, we have a limitation of five years.

And I think I mentioned in the work session, it is the city of Milwaukee and the city of Westlin who continue to have this five year restriction.

It's not state law.

And I don't know the history of why it was put there.

So is the five years like you say the state comes out with this, has done its solicitation and it publishes this list and you could buy you know whatever software.

Um is the five years the limit from the day they list it, or it's the limit for when we buy it or something.

So usually they'll when it's awarded when the cooperative awards the contract, it'll be for a five-year term.

That's pretty standard.

That's that's usually what we see.

For us, when we go to purchase it, if like software, for example, we can purchase as long as we're not going beyond when the end of the price agreement is.

Um, so we sometimes run into that too.

Maybe we can only get two years, even though it's maybe gonna be in place for two and a half years.

Um if it's goods, that's not as much of an issue because it's kind of a one and done, right?

We make the purchase, we get our goods, and we've paid them and we're and it's over.

Um, but yeah, software services.

Um the consultant that we use for um our records management system is off of a price agreement, and we are running into kind of a brick wall with that too, right?

Like we had to find a kind of a creative way around it, um, which is not ideal, but it's this limitation that's that's holding us back.

And and really what it is too is if, like, especially for the case of software, um we can always go find another price agreement um and purchase off of that.

But for IT, the the bouncing around and the the research and and working with somebody new, even if it's like a pass-through purchase to like a third-party reseller to purchase software through.

It's a lot of work on staff to just because then if not, then I'm hounding them, right?

To make sure that we're compliant.

So does that help a little bit?

That helps that helps clarify.

Thank you.

All right.

If no more questions for Kelly, I would entertain a motion.

A move to approve the resolution acting as the local contract review board repealing existing public contracting rules and adopting revised public contracting rules.

A second.

It's been moved.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the resolution acting as the local contract review board, repealing existing public contracting rules, and adopting revised public contracting rules.

All those in favor say aye.

Opposed say no.

It passes unanimously.

Thank you, Kelly.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

All right.

Next item, emergency management and resilience framework.

Presented by our climate and natural resources manager, Katie Guevara and emergency management and resiliency coordinator, Marta Patenty.

Yeah, hey Mayor, I'm gonna jump in real quick as they get set up.

Um let me get in between council members right now.

No, thank you.

Um we're talking emergency management resilience frame resiliency framework in a second.

I just think it's it's a good time to note that just a few days ago, so last week on Wednesday, we had a little bit of an emergency in the city.

And I apologize for not getting this information to you until now.

Um, there was a gas line that was hit as part of the Harvey um street project between Harvey and 36.

And there was so the gas gas was going.

They had to do emergency shutdown, didn't need evacuation.

By the time we received information from the county, kind of order been cleaned up.

So it been pretty quick as far as the wrap up.

Um, but we've learned a few things, and obviously, Katie and Marta, feel free to jump in or Peter if I miss anything.

Um we're learning a few things.

First is how we coordinate with our partners and the Clackmasfire district as well as the county, as well as we internally.

Well, and our contractor, right?

It was our contractor.

Exactly.

Oh, sure.

Yes, you beat me to it.

Yeah, yeah.

And so also the internal communications, especially when there's our contractor on site.

So we have a meeting um in the near future to kind of talk through some of those.

But what I'm excited about for tonight is, you know, Martha's here, Buenos Aires.

It's good to see you.

It's first meeting.

Um and the muscle that she provides, as well as Katie, um, the leadership they provided, and uh Peter, shout out to you as well.

We're creating more of a muscle around resiliency and emergency management.

We didn't we didn't have this.

So I'll tell you the good news is that they were the first people to receive the notice.

So the system is kind of working, but it certainly can work better.

So we're learning.

This is part of the conversation.

Um if I miss anything, feel free to jump in.

But glad you're here tonight.

Look forward to hearing it.

Thank you.

I don't have much to add.

It was very quick.

Um, it's about 40 minutes from start to finish.

And um by the time we heard about it and were able to pass on the information, it was all it was all resolved.

And so um, I do think we're continuing to um improve that communication.

Uh just like Joseph said, with with the county.

They they provide the direct communication um through to all the folks in that 300 foot vacuation radius.

And so the county sends that out through um their Everbridge communication um platform, and those are uh pre-dialed messaging, very short that tells it's like the ready set go framework.

And so they had that message programmed.

Um, and then that was that was sent out.

Um so that communication happened immediately.

Um, and uh we're we're working internally of like how do we how do we um not only improve the communication when it's happening, but also um how do we improve the the community um public education after the event and how do we talk about that?

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, I got asked about this on Sunday, and I had no idea.

I was like, what?

Um because there was also an issue apparently with the contractor or someone sending people who were trying to evacuate into a cul-de-sac where they were stuck.

So yeah.

Um okay, thank you.

So please, your question.

Oh, sure.

Um Do we know what happened?

I mean, did the contractor not use the the locating service or was it or is it was it just a mistake uh in the in the excavation?

Do we know what happened?

That is a good question.

I don't know exactly what happened.

Um and I know that our engineering project manager um uh does know and we can follow up with that information, unless Joseph computer you know specifically.

No, I mean uh I don't have all the details as part of the the communication.

So well, just for those who don't know, um when you do these kinds of uh uh operations, uh typically uh a contractor will use a subcontractor or locations and they mark it, you know, so that uh these lines aren't hit.

Um it usually works pretty well, but sometimes uh either the location service is not used or not called in, or you know, the the you know, the you know, the locations of the of the lines are not correct or something like that, and and these kind of things can happen.

So that's just the reason for my question.

Appreciate that.

We'll get more details.

Just to follow up, like we we we've been trying to schedule like an internal like after action review of this, and we've just had some challenges with schedules.

So uh we've we've had to like do some multiple rescheduling of of this internal meeting with our engineering team and and uh and our emergency management staff to sort of work out like what happened, what can we do better next time, and how can we communicate with the public?

But I I I will say by the time that we got notice from from the county, it was and and saw the email, it was already done, right?

So uh it was it was done.

They that you know there was an evacuation notice sent out, uh, and then it had been resolved and all clear was already uh noticed to to the affected parties.

So um it was really quick.

Uh fortunately nothing nothing serious, and you know, uh it's really good that uh the contractor, uh as you were saying, Counselor Massey, you know, they they do good, they are responsible to do the locates.

The locates are actually the responsibility of when when they're called in, it's the responsibility of the utility to make sure that they're marked correctly.

Uh and sometimes it's a challenge to make sure things are are marked, you know, when you're looking at underground things, there's it can be a challenge.

You know, we often I won't say often, but we we do have issues with uh with our internal utilities from time to time that are that are mismarked uh and we will will get damaged during construction.

So uh it it it can be a challenge to locate underground utilities from time to time for sure.

Counselor.

Yeah, sorry, not to have questions so far, but we're just now I didn't know we're just now hearing about this.

So my question is why did it when did this happen?

Last Wednesday.

And why are why is the council only hearing about it now?

Yeah, that's that's my fault.

Okay, yeah.

I like you, Joseph.

Yeah.

I know.

But yeah, that that's a big deal.

Yep.

Um well, if nothing else on that, we will turn it over to Katie and Marta to for the main reason that they're here today.

All right.

Well, thank you, Mayor, Council President, Council members, um for having us here tonight.

Um I before Marta gets into all the fun stuff.

I wanted to back up.

Um, I think Joseph provided kind of the um really great framework for um kind of how the city has continued to prioritize our emergency management over the last year.

And Martha joined us uh six months ago, um, and she joined the climate natural resources division located in public works.

Um, and this helped strengthen not only our emergency response protocols, um, especially as we uh experience um increasing uh impacts from climate change in addition to um other emergencies that come up, but it also helps us really center and prioritize the preparedness and resiliency that's um embedded into our climate action plan and some of the actions there, and so helping us really um dive into those those actions and strategies.

Um I'm gonna turn it over to Marta to walk us through kind of the work that she's done to compile all of the different goals and um priorities that the city has set and uh kind of package it into this framework.

Thank you, Katie.

Hi, everybody.

Um really excited to be here tonight.

And uh as Katie was mentioning, uh the hope for the evening is see if this works.

Scott.

Thank you.

Just this should I use the okay.

Sorry about that.

Okay.

Um yes, the goal for tonight is to be able to establish a shared understanding of the city emergency management structure.

And specifically, uh, we would love to have you review and discuss uh uh the emergency management framework that I'm gonna show you all in a few minutes.

Uh, and also focusing uh on the key goal key goals uh and key um action items and define priorities and then potentially identifying gaps.

So the graphics that you see here uh on the screen and also printed here, it's kind of the work that I've been doing uh in a lot of the past six months.

It has been about uh reviewing the existing documents and plans that the city had and kind of organizing all this information and resources.

So at the core uh of this graphic uh there is uh the city of Milwaukee's uh community vision that comes from the um comprehensive plan.

Um and uh the uh the diagram is organized uh in three concentric concentric circles.

Uh the first one being about resiliency goals.

So um we will dive uh in more details in just a little bit uh uh but that's kind of like the goals we're aiming for.

We then have a second circle that is currently focusing on current status, which means identifying gaps and opportunities uh for those specific goals.

And then the last circles, the one in orange, is about uh future actions.

So kind of like where we are heading, and the hope is that they can spread the uh kind of like branches of a tree.

Um these circles are also split in four main quadrants, as you can see that follow the emergency management uh uh cycle.

So we do have uh mitigation preparedness, response, and recovery.

So in this way I've been trying to basically organize all the information that I was finding, and it really helped me visualize and understand the where the gaps uh were.

So you're welcome then to come closer to the to the word two and read more.

There's a lot.

Um but what we're gonna go through now is basically like uh the key goals and key priorities uh um that we are focusing now in relation to emergency management.

And so here we go.

So uh specifically around the mitigation, uh goal one is really focused on uh the ensuring that the city built environment and infrastructure are adequately uh prepared for natural disasters.

Um I also wanted to mention that many of these goals and many of these actions are not just being drafted out of nowhere, but it really comes from uh existing plans like the natural hazard mitigation plan, the comprehensive plan, uh, and and all the other plans that we have, and I've just been like going through them and making sure the language was aligned and we were able to condense and compact all the information in this framework.

And so with this goal in mind, um one of the action items is, for example, to uh track progress of existing natural hazard mitigation uh plan action items and also designing new solutions that focus on hazard mitigation.

Um, and then the second one would be also to um further develop community resilience hub, and we are in the process of defining what that means, but the library, the Ledding Library is a good example.

So it could be, for example, it could mean to add like a generator or a battery storage for solar to be able to enhance the capacity of uh that uh facility to work as an emergency resilience hub.

Another uh core goal about mitigation has been to uh coordinate uh uh uh the natural hazard related climate change action items through the Milwaukee Climate Action Plan.

So, in terms of action, that means uh aligning uh the climate uh resilience and uh the disaster goals together, identifying synergies and conflicts, and specifically for that, we have been also looking at the grant opportunities.

So uh working closely with Katie and the team to see where that overlap might be, and that includes like uh um green infrastructures, uh, natural-based solutions, but also talking about like electrification and building decarbonizations and so on.

Um as we move from mitigation to preparedness, um, one big goal has been uh focus, focusing on increasing outreach and education for hazard awareness and natural disaster preparedness with a focus on vulnerable populations.

And again, you can see here when there is the asterisk is that this goal comes from uh the natural hazard mitigation plan, but is also mentioned in mentioned in the uh momentum strategic plan.

Um, and as part of that goal, as a core action we currently have is um to expand the search recruitment uh training and coordination, and also increase uh city outreach and disaster preparedness education for low-income um elderly, non-English speaking and other vulnerable populations.

Um a lot of this has been also working closely with um the CERT team that has been grown a lot, and now we have 51 members, and really making sure that their effort in disaster preparedness uh is um targeting those vulnerable groups.

So, for example, when they do tabling events, uh when they do outreach, making sure that uh they are focusing on those populations and also we're able to document and get that demographic uh information.

Um we're also focusing uh um to develop in on developing a GIS emergency response plan that can have all those different layers that look at um social vulnerabilities, but then also um hazard uh risk across the different types of hazards and then um emergency response.

So, for example, the CERT team has what they call the um routes of responsibilities, which will be identified path through Milwaukee to be able to reach and reach neighbors and check on them.

And so we're making sure that those routes uh specifically um address the needs of um like um retirement homes and other vulnerable um facilities.

Um another goal within the preparedness uh sector is about establishing regular emergency response drills and trainings for city staff.

Um as an action under that goal, we have uh identifying key employees designated to support the city emergency response and documenting their skills and trainings and certifications.

And I think this type of um work closely uh is now closely um aligned with the creation of uh standard operating procedures for uh different types of hazards.

So we are looking at creating like a contact list and making sure that we have um the information of stuff that will be um called in case uh of an emergency.

Um these also uh closely tied to the uh emergency operation plan that uh it's pretty outdated, it's from 2012, the current one.

But the hope is to uh review these and um make sure that with that update that we also have a set of trainings that come for all city stuff.

As we move from preparedness to response, um goal four is about uh outlining the city emergency response framework across different type of uh types and scales of emergency situations.

So uh a big part of my work has been to formalize um incident level activation thresholds and escalation protocols.

And in just a few seconds, we will talk about what are those levels and what are those thresholds.

Um also, as I was saying, um focusing on updating and uh um yeah, modernize the city uh emergency operation plan that is pretty outdated, um, focusing on creating uh an SOP for winter winter's weather um response.

Uh and uh yeah, making sure that uh not only public work, but also different folks across different departments are included in uh these SOPs because we know that we might need at one point IT to potentially uh support, or we might need uh folks at the library also play such a big role uh during emergency response.

So just making sure this is a citywide type of conversation.

And then we are also in the process of updating the uh water emergency response plan.

So there is just like a lot of updates that are coming, a lot of documents that actually needs to be updated every four or five years.

So we're taking that as an opportunity to have these conversations across departments.

And feel free to interrupt me at any point, ask questions, and this is this can be a lot.

Okay.

So this is just a very quick uh overview of that um emergence emergency uh framework that I was talking about, and how we are currently talking about incident levels and thresholds.

So we use the um national incident management system and uh its levels, and uh there are three main levels.

So I added level zero, which is technically a non-emergency.

So this is the case when the public works director considers the event just routine for the department, and that could be like uh um like light snow or something that can be very well handled within the public works department.

Uh from there we escalate to level one, which is a routine crisis management, and that's when uh different folks and different departments uh at the city might be activated, but we're still gonna be able to handle the incident internally.

Level two, it's uh when we start to need assistance from outside agencies, and so that might be the county, might be the Red Cross, but basically the event has escalated and we can't handle with our resources and capacity anymore.

And then level three uh would be just a major uh incident.

We can think about the Cascadia Earthquake, for example, and then at that point we will have like a unified command structure with the county, and it would be just a very different uh type of emergency to deal with.

Uh but basically now as we talk about um uh the atmospheric rivers, uh, the gas lake, we always refer to these incident levels, and we talk internally about uh activation and uh making sure that everybody is also across the city is up to speed on what decision has been made and what does that mean, basically.

Right.

Uh talking about response, uh also uh we have this goal, which is about uh improving and obtaining resources and equipment essential for responding to and recovering from disasters.

Again, this uh goal also is coming from the natural hazard mitigation plan, and this really focuses on identifying and distributing resources throughout the city for responding to different types of uh hazards.

Uh, it also means to coordinate with Clackamas County, uh, other cities and other relevant partners, um, different resources and sharing of equipment.

We have uh uh uh string that the worker agreement signed with the county, which means that we might be able also to borrow and land uh workers if uh uh there is like a fraud uh disruption.

Um so it just focuses on that type of uh um resource sharing basically.

And then uh um thinking about recovery and also at intersection with response.

Um as a goal uh number six, we have to develop a continuity of governance plan for the city and also looking at developing or in this case updating uh continuity of operations, a co-op plan uh for businesses.

We do have a co-op document, but that's also from 2012.

So we are looking at uh um updating that as well.

Okay.

So this was kind of all the um, yeah, a little summary of the work that's been done so far and some of the uh priorities that we have been focusing on and yeah, actions that we are looking uh towards you end here with six, but up there you have a seven.

Yes, sorry, and that's because number seven is actually um here.

Uh it's still in the mitigation, but it kind of it kinds of closes the loop of emergency management.

Uh so uh I think it works better in this type of diagram where it's a circular.

Uh so I just call it out there, but it's still within the mitigation section of the of the diagram.

Okay.

Okay, thank you.

Uh I think uh councillor body was up first.

Thank you.

I appreciate the presentation.

Um my question is is you know, applying it, right?

Um like kind of seeing how that would that work in and let's take a recent example.

I won't use the gas line because that was like a 30-minute thing.

I'll use the atmospheric rivers, right?

Um, because there were some level two uh notifications that were sent out by the county.

How are we getting this information to our residents?

Are we depending solely on the county to get this information out?

And those the level one, two, three, is that an internal thing for staff to recognize, or is that something that we're gonna be letting residents know, hey, we're at level two?

Yes.

So to answer your first question around communication, um, a lot of the communication does come from the county, and we rely a lot on the county for messaging, uh, opting messages, uh uh what Katie was talking about that how's happened with the gas, it's all done through the county.

And they also coordinate with the national weather system, the national weather service about like TV, uh radio and that type of communication.

So what they do is basically they send us a draft message and they have a very time sensitive uh uh they need a very time sensitive response uh to that, and we approve it or not approve it.

What we do, um, which has been really uh exciting internally has been more working on um social media.

So as the city, but also PD specifically, they have their own channels.

So we've been able to share there and share on the on the website.

Uh so I think there are these multiple levels uh uh of communication that has been um that been kind of like complementing each other.

But yes, the main uh messaging I would say comes from the county.

So I guess um I appreciate that.

Uh I don't know if this is too much to ask, but could we kind of run through what that would look like in the atmospheric river as an example from the response?

Like what is the response look like?

Like let's say we're at that level two and it's like get ready and what's the city's response?

Yes.

Uh so let's say we get the notification from the county.

We will be monitoring uh internally the weather for sure, and we will uh we've been attending the National Weather Service uh briefings, but then the county will say we are activating level two, and uh we are sending out this information to these residents that are in the floating area.

Um they send the drafted message.

Uh Emma and Katie and Peter review it, and we say yes.

And so then we know that message is out.

Um and then at that point is when we also internally we share information across departments uh um and say we are internally at this level.

So for example, for the atmospheric river, uh the county was activated at a level two, but we were ultimately activated at level one.

The state was activate activated at level three.

Uh so it's more, I think, internal, depending on which uh organizations or which agency um is uh is managing the event at their at their scale.

Um and so then yes, we share that information um internally, basically.

And we did not share with residents, I don't think it's ever shared with them uh which level we are at, just because there is additional knowledge I think that you need to have about what are the incident levels, what do they mean to be able to provide that uh that level of detail, if that makes sense.

Yeah, and and then uh at what point, like so is assistance with evacuation a response that the city is going to provide or no?

Uh potentially, okay.

I mean, it potentially could be, but I I I think I think the you know the framework that that Marta and Katie have been talking about, the preparedness response and recovery mitigation, that sort of factors into how we also react uh with our staff, you know, as as we get notice, like with the atmospheric river base.

We start to go out and prepare to like we mitigate some of the things ahead of time by you know going out and cleaning catch basins and things like that.

You know, our stormwater crew will go out there and do that and clear off catch basins and make sure that you know we don't have anything that's gonna further exacerbate flooding on streets.

You know, we'll set up our sandbag station, make sure that it's fully stocked and and and send those notices out to our uh public information officer to make sure those things get on the website.

And then, you know, the response when it actually does happen, you know.

I I think the last time, you know, we were fortunate there was some minor flooding, but we had staff on call staff that you know responded to closed streets when you know, on a couple where the bridge was getting uh um the water was getting to the level where it could impacted the impact of the bridge.

Uh actually the county made it out there, but we had on call staff that was available and we're out.

Was that on Johnson Creek for Talking?

On Johnson Creek, and I I think it was on 55th, actually, is what the the county ended up shutting that bridge down.

Uh but we had staff going out there and and and and monitoring the situation and looking and um and you know, we we pre we pre-position equipment in case of a power how did you know generators at our pump stations and we have crews out there monitoring uh those pump stations, our our wastewater pump stations, because when you have uh additional wet weather that impacts our collection system, we're pumping a lot more water, and we want to make sure that we're able to handle it.

Um so we we we were out there responding to those types of things.

So when you I just want to ask a follow-up and then I'll go back to you.

Um you say the county was at two and we were at one, is that because I mean in this case, it could be different because of different levels of of the waterways, like we know in Esticada, they had quite more serious situation than we had.

Is that why that there would be a difference there?

They're correct.

That yeah, that's correct.

They were just um managing uh different cities uh type of emergencies, and there was just uh uh a higher level for them to manage then and expect it.

So they decided to escalate to level two, and they had the EOC, the emergency operations center activated the and so they decided to uh I think for a couple of days they were level two and then they went back to level one.

Okay.

And I do just want to say for anybody watching this and going, oh my God, um, am I on this list?

The police department's website has emergency alerts and tell tells you how to sign up for Clackmas County public alerts.

So um, if you're not signed up, every once in a while the police department or the city does some uh, you know, some promoting of that for people to get signed up, but definitely sign up if you're not signed up already.

Yeah, and the reason I asked with the and thanks for asking about the levels, that's a good one.

The reason I asked about the assistance and evacuation is because a lot of times the first one when they do tell you to go, the first community members that are the ones going are the ones with disabilities or mobility issues.

They're the ones that get the go like the head start.

What do we do?

What is the city like how are they getting out?

Are we providing that?

Is the county providing that?

Like, how are those individuals that have those issues?

Is that something that this is gonna focus on?

Is like how are we gonna evacuate the people that need to do that?

I think that's that's certainly something that we're gonna look to to make improvements on.

I I do know with the atmospheric river events that happened in December, there was some specific concern around houseless communities that were along the Johnson Creek uh corridor.

And we, you know, I think there were some additional efforts that were made to try to go out and and check to see if you know, people that were out there were aware that that flooding was coming, right?

So uh both the county and and our our police department uh participated in that in that effort.

Thank you.

Counselor Steven Jordan.

Thank you.

Um I have a couple questions that are just grouped in three topics.

And I'm gonna try and make them fast.

Um the first one has to do with resilience hubs.

You had mentioned um using existing infrastructure and adding some resilience um equipment to that.

I wonder if you are also considering some of the services and programming for vulnerable populations that need to be layered onto those spaces.

So, like at the library, they have existing services that happen regularly for houseless individuals or unhoused individuals.

And um, and I think that in addition to planning for generator or you know, grid support that we should be looking at some of that safety net support and what we can mobilize.

Um just friendly suggestion on that one.

And you may already be thinking of this, so apologies if you are.

Um that's not really a question.

Yes.

Okay, wonderful.

And thank you.

Yeah, for sure.

And we I think again, going back to the vulnerable populations, we're really focusing on making sure we approach all these different efforts through equity lens and making sure those mostly need our prioritizing this type of thinking and implementation of these ideas.

Yeah.

Wonderful.

I think that the thinking around resilience hubs and what they consist of has really evolved, um, especially in the last couple of years.

And um, so I think I we I think that well positions us at the forefront of that thought.

Um and I don't know if there's support funding still available at the state level, but there were some grants at one point for resilience hubs.

And so if there is additional funding, then I would recommend that we try and reach out for that.

Um the other thing that came to mind was um uh training and what sort of training is provided to um responding staff um to to be specialized in um some of these responses that we might be able to assist with.

Yes, uh different type of trainings I will say that is for sure like the um basic uh FEMA intro level that can just provide like knowledge uh and an understanding of uh, for example, what are the incident levels and what does it mean when we activate them?

And then I think as we look more specifically at different type of uh hazards or or different type of emergencies like water emergencies, we have a staff that is specifically trained in like SCADA, I believe is the system that they use, so they know um, yeah, they've very specialized in that.

And so there would be training uh for those types of emergencies that won't be covered by all stuff, but just and then I assume that when the county does um you know activation trainings that our staff would be included in that at not just a jurisdictional level of like how do we communicate out to cities, but rather what that integrated response looks like.

Yes, we are actually gonna be participating in the Month Great Escape exercise in May.

That is looking at um, it's a two-day uh tabletop exercise where there is this is a simulated scenario of uh the wildfire spreading.

Um, and so we are uh yeah, looking at how we can start to build that muscles and what does it mean for us internally, but also then how we are gonna be coordinating with the county and thinking about evacuation uh routes and all of that.

And then there is also an exercise actually next week uh with the consortium and the county focused on the uh water.

So also in that case, that we will be simulating um water pollution uh incident, basically, and thinking about that response.

Okay.

So wonderful.

There are great opportunities, yes, at the county and state level for that.

Um a long time ago, um, when I worked for Clackamas County, I got to coordinate the um the emergency response center uh connection with ham radio operators.

And I know that there are a lot of those in our community who are already connected through CERT, but when we're in a situation of um, you know, a major event where cell phones are unreliable, um, it's I think it's really helpful training for us to be thinking about how we activate those amateur radio um users and their information dissemination out into neighborhoods.

Um the county may not always like build that into their tabletop exercises, but I think it should be something that's on our mind, given how close to the fault line we are.

Um, speed round last series, last little grouping of questions.

Um if we so I'm this question focuses around the shared response activations that we have and and when we activate staff to respond to an emergency, and what the after-action reimbursement looks like, um whether that is a FEMA event, because the reimbursement timeline for that can take a really long time.

Um, and and there may be um cost implications for us to kind of float that in the in the short term.

Um but for for smaller events or in the event that Clackamas County does not um does not apply for reimbursement, um, then how are we planning for that resource um, you know, like to refill that resource locally?

And I'm thinking to not this the last batch of ice storms, but the really, really bad batch before that, where there were trees down everywhere.

And um, and you know that was devastating to a number of communities on a number of levels.

But in that instance, Clackmas County made a political statement to say that they would not seek reimbursement from the state for assistance for that emergency response.

Um and so I think that had we activated to assist in situations, you know, in our community and in other areas of the county um where trees were down and people needed resources.

Um we would have been left out on a limb, not being able to access that reimbursement because the pathway for that is the county through an application with the state.

So I'm just wondering if that's part of the question or the conversation in the concentric circles, and if not, can we include that?

Yes, it is part.

And um, we haven't fleshed that out yet, but I think it's such an important point to um to raise as we talk about the um yeah, after action um activities and what does it look like from a funding perspective for sure.

Thank you.

Counselor Massey.

Thank you for this.

I think this is long overdue that we've uh starting to get um really serious about this.

But I gotta tell you, that chart scares me.

Um and really it it scares me because uh it it it has the potential for building um an administrative framework that you know could collapse on itself.

And I'll just take the training issue that um uh counselor Stavanger just mentioned.

And you know, you say just say just take the 50 members of CERT, and there's uh 20 potential trainings that we have.

Well, that's a thousand individual, you know, learning elements, you know, that people would go to if you said everybody's gonna get got to go through it.

And so I would caution against overtraining and over-certification.

I think that you have to have some level of flexibility and backup in case someone's not around uh to fulfill a position.

But you can't have 50 people trained to be the incident commander.

Uh and so I just urge you to, you know, approach that, you know, um uh with some caution because you can you can build in uh a system that's just unwieldy that you just can't keep up with.

Uh and so uh that's just a cautionary note because I've seen this before, and uh uh you just have to be careful.

The other thing I'll I'll we really haven't talked about it, but it's kind of in the back of everybody's mind is the big one, you know.

The uh, you know, the Cascadia event, you know, that uh when the New Yorker article came out in 2015, it scared everybody to death, uh, and for good reason, you know.

Uh but at the same time, I don't think there's a realization about um uh what the projections are throughout the state.

And you know, if you look at the coast, it's gonna be like a disaster movie, okay.

Um, you know, uh, you know, all of those uh worst case scenarios are possible on the coast.

But as you move inland, it becomes attenuated.

And the state actually has what's called a shake map.

It's publicly available, and uh, you know, it's color-coded, you know, as you go from the ocean inward, and uh, you know, there's bands.

And it tells you what you can actually expect in each one of those bands, you know, about you know tsunami, building collapse, et cetera, et cetera.

Once you get over to our area, it actually says furniture may um screwed across the floor, uh, window frames may fall off the the off the wall, but you know, chimneys aren't collapsing, roofs are c falling in.

I and so I just think that there's uh I think there's a lack of knowledge about what you know the real projections are in our area, because you know, they read the New Yorker article or whatever, and they think uh, you know, it's gonna be Armageddon.

It's gonna be bad, but uh it's not gonna be certainly as bad as the coast.

That's just an aside that I throw in that I think that there just needs to be some reality thrown into this about what we can expect in these various scenarios.

I think actually the wildfire uh situation is our worst case scenario.

Um do you wanna you have anything you want to um I was looking over the staff packet before this, and it said provide council recommendation on prioritization.

I think you've got a lot of stuff there.

Frankly, I think um I'll take your direction on where you think we should prioritize our efforts.

But I um see Councillor Massey's point.

There's a lot of work here that you're taking on.

Um, and I'm glad that we've got someone to be able to take point on all of this.

It's gonna be heavy lift.

Um I really think that as you're doing this, engaging with our cert teams locally will be really important.

They're excited about this work, wanting to be a part of the table, and I appreciate the extent to what you've already done, some of that incorporation.

So I will say I am super excited by this whole conversation because in the 11 years of being on this council, we haven't really seriously taken this on.

I mean, we had some uh activity in 2020 around the wildfires that year.

There is, I think, an after action report from that that if you haven't seen it, uh, that the county did, that might be useful to look at.

Um, but it's really great to have someone doing this uh as really their focus.

Um I look forward to what I can learn in this because unlike Councillor Massey, I've heard all about the liquefaction zone along the Willamette River, and I'm not sure it's just shaking furniture and fire.

I I mean I happen to live along the Willamette River, so I uh I I do look forward to learning more about what where our risks are in the city as you dive further into this.

Um I had two other things I just want to make sure you knew, which is when you're talking about resilience hubs.

Uh this new Spring Creek um early learning center on Monroe at 224 has uh gotten PGE funding for a resilience hub there.

So they're gonna have solar and battery storage um to support the families, and I think their hope is to support you know the community on a br in a broader way, so you definitely want to have conversations with them.

And uh when you're talking about the mapping of um vulnerable populations and stuff.

The um North Clackamas Parks and Rec District just um finished up their system plan, and in the course of that work, their consultants did a fair amount of that kind of mapping.

Um and if you look at the system plan itself, what it shows you is not very fine-grained, but there might be in there's like 200 pages of uh appendices documents, and there might be in those appendices some more uh useful fine-grained mapping, and if not, maybe they would actually get give it to us even if it's not online.

So uh I just want to recommend those two um pieces of uh potential uh help with your work.

And um otherwise, awesome.

Super I I am scared by that as well.

And I'm glad you didn't put it in here because I would have gone crazy trying to read it on the screen.

Um but uh it's it's great that you're doing, I mean, that you've really kind of diving in in a deep way.

So it's very exciting.

Uh anything else from anybody else?

Okay.

Well, thank you.

Mayor, if I may, uh just to forego that the self-inflicted wet blanket that started this agenda item.

I do want to just give the shout-out because they uh this team has been doing incredible things.

Um just I think Marta has been here for two and a half months, maybe.

Six months.

It's been I mean, two and a half plus four.

It feels like it hasn't been that long.

Um I know you have a little one, so I just am impressed by what we've been able to accomplish and giving us a frame for framework to look through.

But I do take your uh Counselor Massey's your your comments to heart, because I think the city of Milwaukee does we have a tendency to to you know, we punch up our way.

We like to say we we take a big bite off of um the apple, however you want to phrase it.

So right sizing this or just making it realistic for us is well taken.

So just excellent work.

Just thank you for what you've done.

Thank you all.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

And with that, we will take a break before we go to the we don't have anything else before the TSP, right?

We go right in.

Yeah.

So we're gonna pardon?

It's just powerful.

Nope, we're taking a break.

We're taking a break.

Come back at uh 25 till, I guess, by that clock up there.

Yeah.

All right, we are back on the record for the main event tonight, the adoption of the updated transportation systems plan.

Two years in the making.

The public hearing on the proposed updated TSP adoption is called to order.

The purpose of this hearing is to hear the staff report, take public comments, deliberate, and consider adopting the updated TSP.

Does any council member wish to announce actual or potential conflicts of interest?

Seeing none, does any council member wish to report any ex parte contacts regarding this hearing action?

I'm just curious as a legal matter.

I didn't think ex parte contacts mattered when it's a type five thing, right?

Okay.

Okay.

So with that, I will turn it over to uh community development director, Laura Weigel, City Engineer Jennifer Garley, and senior planner Ryan Dyer.

Hello, thank you all so much.

Um, and also I'd like to just introduce you've met them before.

We've got Matt Hugard and Amy Griffin from Kittleson who have been our consultants on the project throughout this.

Um, and I just want to say, yes, two years in the making, but I was looking back over my notes, and the first time I came to council for this was when we were talking about applying for the grant.

That was in May of 2021.

So we are five years into this.

So I am hoping we we've done a lot of work.

You all have done a lot of work.

You've sat up here on the dice and gone through all of this information with us.

And so I'm really happy to be here tonight.

And I feel like we've all come to a good place, and there's been a lot of engagement, a lot of involvement with the planning commission with you all with the community, so I'm really happy to be here tonight.

Um I think uh thank ODOT for being a partner that made me just go back to when we got a grant from them for $350,000 to start this project off.

And so they are still they've been a major part of our planning team throughout the process.

Um with that, we'll just go through kind of an overview of where we are, how we got here, so that anybody who has is listening there that's um can get kind of exposed to what this plan is all about and the process that we went through to get here tonight.

It's very exciting.

Okay.

Okay, so we're gonna talk about um the community engagement that we did, a little bit about how the plan was developed, um, looking at exposing uh expounding exploding, whatever it is.

Expanding the modal classifications above and beyond just vehicle classifications, looking at the transportation investments, uh, our plan for what we want to try to build over the next 20 years, and how we'll um measure our progress in the future, and then a little bit about some of the other development code um that we needed to change and update as part of this process to make sure that our standards are in a line with our new TSP.

So, how did we get here?

How did we develop this plan?

So basically, we started out and we had the project team with the um our consultants, and then we developed every single thing, like you've got the appendix, you see the appendix, appendices, it's quite large.

Um we developed this throughout the two years that we worked with our project management team, and all of these appendices went to the technical committee, and they went to the advisory committee, and they went out to the community, um, they went to planning commission, and then they went to city council.

And so everything that's been here has been vetted through kind of a process, making sure that we're talking to everybody all along the way about what's in the plan.

And then we had let's uh we've got the TSP and uh advisory committee that was very intentionally formed at the beginning of this project.

We had uh 19 people on the committee and a kind of a different range of different backgrounds and interests and experience uh related to transportation.

Uh we had folks from the public safety advisory committee, we had folks from every neighborhood, the planning commission, the equity steering committee, uh the comprehensive plan um implementation committee, and the business and freight communic uh community.

So we had a wide representation um throughout the two years that we worked with that group of going through all of this um materials together as a team and talking through all of the um talking through all of the information and helping everybody understand what we were trying to help them shape what we were trying to do with the transportation system plan.

Um we also had a technical committee that's very important part of this process as well.

So, like I said, we had um uh the Oregon Department of Transportation, we had the Department of Land Conservation and Development on the team, Metro, Clackamas County, TriMed, Clackhamus Fire, North Clackama School District, and uh Portland General Electric.

They also saw all of the same materials and provided uh information back to us about what they were doing with their own um jurisdiction or their organization and kind of feeding that into our update.

Um, and then we took all of the same information out to the um public, and we did that kind of at very specific times because so much of the so much of the work is pretty highly technical.

So we tried to have um really useful times to talk to the public and give them things that they could understand and process and get their teeth into.

Um we really did focus to one of the biggest things um on throughout this process was to look at the underserved populations.

And so we did a series of focus groups at the Wichesaw Wichita Center, uh Hillside Manor, and we did um a session with the BIPOC and Spanish uh group uh and also the equity steering committee.

Um we also did a lot of tabling events to try to get people interested in the TSP and guiding them to um looking at our materials and participating in the project when there were opportunities that arrived.

So we we sat at some tables um across the couple of years that they were out there.

We also had a really robust engaged Milwaukee page that had a lot of information on it.

Uh, we ran articles in the pilot and we also did a bunch of social media posts, and we also attended some NDA meetings.

So we really wanted to ensure that we had everybody that this TSP impacted at some point at the table to weigh in and talk about what was important to them.

And I do think that um we were successful in talking to a lot of people and having really robust uh feedback from folks.

And with that, I will hand it over to Ryan to talk about the framework.

Hello, everyone.

Um yeah, so Laura was talking about just sort of the public engagement that we did through the process and also that uh that core framework of review of producing materials and then um vetting it.

Uh so I'm gonna talk a little bit about um Matt is and Amy are gonna talk a little bit about project development, which is obviously that sort of core key outcome of the transportation system plan.

The most exciting part is what should we be building or improving in our transportation system.

Uh and I'm gonna talk about sort of the uh you know, the analytical or process that we use to come up with those projects.

Uh so just wanted to start by pointing out that we are not planning in a vacuum.

Um there are uh rules at the state level, um, at the regional level.

Uh we have uh neighboring jurisdictions that um also make transportation decisions that influence uh how transportation happens in our jurisdiction.

Um so as we were going through the process, I just wanted to point out that um, you know, we were uh constantly sort of um vigilant about um those uh other jurisdictions and in their efforts, and as Laura said, um, you know, those jurisdictions were represented on our uh technical committee.

Um, so constantly engaging with those folks.

And I guess before moving on from the slide, just most notably um and impactful for our project uh was the and I know I've I've um you know in various capacities talked about this before, um, this body before, but the the state updated its transportation planning rule um recently.

Uh so through the um the climate-friendly equitable communities rulemaking process.

Um and so that that did a lot of things, but um one of the core things it did is it it changed how jurisdictions do transportation planning.

Uh so that was um you know that that happened uh sort of after or as we were writing the scope for this project.

And so that was uh there were a lot of uncertainties and we're one of the first jurisdictions to sort of go through um a major transportation system plan update under that new framework.

So we appreciate that you were all patient with us um and that the community was patient with us as we were trying to understand um exactly what all the implications were of those new rules.

Next slide um so yeah in in developing um that list of projects that we ultimately um developed and you all uh considered and and prioritized uh the the the sort of starting um point was to uh identify what the goals were for this project um and if you can remember back the way that we did that is we looked across the various plans that the city had already put together and um we identified uh transportation goals um policies priorities uh in those plans and sort of used those as the a starting point um we then uh refined those again through that process that Laura um provided an overview of you know the project management team took a first cut at it uh we took it to the advisory committee the technical committee we held a uh public open house in this room to talk about uh those goals and policies and then the planning commission and you all had an opportunity to weigh in on those we also posted um there was an online um sort of version of that open house as well for folks um who couldn't make it to the in-person open house to be able to provide their feedback on those goals and policies uh so these were um yeah a guiding sort of light throughout the process it's what we're trying to do or achieve with our transportation system next slide there is unsurprising to a lot of you I'm sure uh there's a lot of need uh transportation needs in the city um and limited funds to meet those needs and so uh knowing that going in um Matt and his team were smart to sort of say before we do any of this oftentimes you'll develop a list of projects and then develop the budget um or do a financial forecast and realize that you uh you know might not have the funds to to meet all those needs uh they were like we should do that financial forecast up front um to sort of uh help set the stage and understand what we can actually do uh so yeah we we did that we realized there's not a ton of money to do projects in Milwaukee and so we needed a sort of um a way to focus our attention um and what these maps are showing uh is the the sort of outcome of that um that focused attention uh these were created um these show our what we what we ended up referring to as our priority focus areas um and these were created by first identifying key destinations in Milwaukee uh so that's things places like schools parks um retail grocery stores uh common destinations that most Milwaukeeans are probably going to be visiting um in the course of their uh daily responsibilities so um we we took those key destinations and then we uh drew uh quarter mile uh uh buffers around all of those key destinations in the areas that you see that are darker blue on these maps that's where you see overlapping in key destinations so that's that's where you can this helped us uh focus in on these are areas in the city the darker blue areas are areas in the city where there are a lot of key destinations there's a lot of opportunity um for people to be traveling to these places we then looked at the transportation facilities uh within those areas and we identified facilities that were not meeting our standards they um weren't sufficient so uh the red um is showing those uh facilities that um are not uh you know we would like to do better in those areas um and this was uh a way to say okay here are the gaps here are the major needs um in Milwaukee that we could we could focus on in this planning process and then next slide um and then we eventually developed project for those facilities one other sort of um important part of our project development process was to identify for a long time we have had a roadway functional classification um and which is just a uh fancy way that we say uh a sort of a network map um with a that has a a hierarchy of which facilities are are sort of intended to accommodate the largest volumes of traffic we've had that for roadways um I think at least dating back probably to the 60s or 70s um we had never uh

One other sort of um important part of our project development process was to identify for a long time we have had a roadway functional classification, um, and which is just uh uh fancy way that we say uh a sort of a network map um with uh that has a hierarchy of which facilities are are sort of intended to accommodate the largest volumes of traffic.

We've had that for roadways, um, I think at least dating back probably to the 60s or 70s.

Um we had never um had that for other modes of transportation.

And so a uh key part of our process was to develop those network maps with those hierarchies for our other types of transportation.

Uh so our pedestrian system, our vehicle or our um bicycle system, our freight system, our transit system, uh, to bring the same level of intentionality that we're we were bringing or we have brought to the vehicle transportation system to these other ways that people navigate uh the city.

Um so we developed that right here.

You're seeing um the uh pedestrian functional classification.

Uh if we go to the next slide, um, along with a map, the other core component of that functional classification system is the description of those classifications.

So this is um you need to tie the two together to really get value out of it.

Um the map tells you which facilities are most important, and then the descriptions uh offer uh characteristics of those facilities.

So for a major city walkway, um, you know, these are facilities that are providing safe, convenient, and attractive pedestrian accommodations along major streets and trails with the highest level of pedestrian activity supported by current and planned uh land uses.

So we give examples of what those are in Milwaukee.

We talk about the land uses that one would expect to find along those facilities, or that those facilities could help support.

Um we characterize what improvements would look like uh on those facilities.

Um so this is core as you know, Jen and her team in uh CIP are designing projects.

It's core in the development review process that we can identify like what is the intended function of this road.

Um is this a road that's really important for cyclists to get around?

Um, if so, what types of improvements might we expect to find or want on those facilities?

Um so this was another sort of uh key outcome of the the sort of analytical technical process.

Next slide.

And we did that for all of the modes of transportation, like I said.

And now I'm going to pass it over to Matt.

Hi, good evening.

So this slide here is just a kind of a sneak preview of of how we broke our projects down by mode.

And I'm putting it up here just to kind of give everyone an idea of of where we put a lot of the energy and time into this project.

I'd say this is a multimodally focused TSP, in the essence that a lot of the project energy and focus went into improving the bicycle pedestrian and transit um network so that uh you know, we have a more of a balanced um system.

Your previous TSPs have all hit upon all of the modes, um, but I think in this particular effort, we really tried to put focus on proving the transportation system for bicycle and pedestrian in particular.

And you can see that on the chart here.

So for our financially constrained projects, those are the projects that the the city can reasonably expect to have money and funding for about uh well, more than 79-ish percent of those projects are in that bicycle and pedestrian category.

So um it kind of re-emphasizes um what we've tried to accomplish for this DSP and make sure that it really is true truly trying to serve um travel modes for all Milwaukee's.

Um this next map is really just a kind of a proxy for all of the project maps that we have showing the pedestrian projects.

Uh they're all numbered and labeled on the map.

Um, you've all seen this before, but for the people watch watching online, um, this is uh just a preview of the different types of projects we have identified for the pedestrian system.

We also have projects for the bike transit, freight, and roadway and intersections.

Um we won't share them on the screen here, right here and now, but we are prepared when we have if and when we have questions.

Next slide.

Um along with each of the maps is a detailed project table, which talks about the the project, uh, where it's located, the start and stop um extents of the project, uh a detailed description of what the project would entail, and then an approximate cost estimate for for that project in 2025.

I think we went the wrong way.

Oh, here we go.

Yep.

Okay, so um last slide here is um slide about measuring our progress.

So uh the new transportation planning rules that Ryan noted earlier.

Um, the state requires uh communities um within the Portland metro area, uh Milwaukee being one of them to develop new performance standards uh for the project.

And the city of Milwaukee identified the pedestrian level of traffic stress and bicycle level of traffic stress performance performance standards.

So a lot of the TSP and the pro uh projects that we shared earlier are rooted in trying to identify projects that would help the city achieve a basic um pedestrian level bicycle stress or pedestrian bicycle or pedestrian level of traffic stress.

Um we set thresholds uh for those new performance standards.

So uh PLTS of minimum of two or better um or a BLTS of one.

So each of those thresholds um became kind of the standard for how we developed and sized projects.

And then um one of the things that the new requirements also require is uh for the city to track its progress uh towards uh achieving those those new um those standards.

So um we developed uh kind of a way of tracking that called uh the system completeness.

So we have one for pedestrian and one for bicycle.

So these two charts here on the screen show um uh what we consider to be the baseline level of completeness for the for the pedestrian system and the bicycle system for broken down into different types of streets.

So we got the major city walkways, the city walkways, and neighborhood walkways.

So if you look at the chart, the baseline uh represents the percent complete um of all of your facilities under that category.

So if you're talking about the major city walkways, you're roughly at about 53% complete today.

Um if you were to uh implement all of the tier one financially constrained projects that were developed into this TSP, that percentage will go from 53 to 65 percent.

And then if you improved all of your facilities via all the projects in the TSP, regardless of whether they're on financially constrained or unconstrained list, that uh improvement level will go up to 81%.

So you might be asking yourself, why aren't we at 100%?

Well, um, there's certain roadways in town.

Let's give railroad for example.

Um, in that particular case, um, we're only identifying and planning for projects on one side of the roadway, not the railroad side.

So um that's where that 19% examples like that.

That's where that 19% of of missing um percentage comes from.

Just kind of recognizes that not all streets and not all roadways in the city are having um both sides or all roads have some kind of planned project.

And in most cases, that's strategic and and sometimes not necessary.

So that's a quick overview of how the city is going to track its progress over time, and I'll pass it back to Ryan.

Great.

So um Laura mentioned uh along with the uh repeal and replacement of the existing TSP, uh, this project involves, and this application involves some code amendments uh to the zoning code.

Uh so we those are primarily um sort of fall into two camps, those amendments.

One is uh the transportation planning rule that I mentioned, uh required jurisdictions whenever they were doing a major update to their TSP to also amend uh some of their zoning standards to help uh support some of the primary goals of those administrative rules, um, primarily related to making it easier and safer for people to um get around by other modes of transportation, walking, biking, transit.

Uh so the code amendments that you would find in uh the attachment are related to those, so are part of them are uh so they are related to uh largely standards that we already had in some locations, like our downtown zone or our neighborhood mixed use zone.

Um they but extend those to some of our um sort of older commercial zones, um, our general commercial zone, um, our community shopping center uh zone.

The the rules basically say that um all sort of commercial uh zones in your city need to have some basic uh minimum standards for new development or redevelopment that will help support again uh people's ability to uh walk or bike or take transit to those locations.

So it includes items like uh stand having standards for building entrances, making sure that those entrances are sort of street facing, um, accessible by um pedestrian pathways that are connected to you know public sidewalks.

It includes uh standards for where parking can be located on site.

So requiring that parking is located um behind or on the side of buildings rather than in front of buildings, um, which is important for again for pedestrians to be able to sort of easily access that site and not have to navigate through um uh you know a large parking lot um to get to their location uh and it includes uh standards for um for drive-throughs, basically where those drive-throughs can be located.

Um so the other, so that's one bucket is sort of um land use amendments related to those uh transportation planning rule requirements, making sure that we are in in compliance with what the what the state is requiring.

Uh and then another set is basically just references to um our old TSP.

Our code is riddled with references to the old TSP to figures, uh, and the code amendments also update all of those uh references to ensure that our our code is is talking um in to our new TSP and pointing people to the appropriate sections of our new TSP.

Uh so it includes uh things like incorporating those uh performance standards that Matt was just mentioning, the bicycle and pedestrian level of traffic stress, incorporating those into our zoning code so that you know, for example, if a um a builder is uh required to do a uh transportation study uh for their for their project that um they're also required to um look at if appropriate those uh new performance standards that we've adopted.

Next slide, please yeah.

We also, as Laura mentioned, this is a lot of this is just a repackaging of things that you've already seen uh before.

Um, but there are a couple of exceptions to that.

Um that sort of um outcome of the uh performance standards and uh system-wide analysis is a bit newer, but also uh there's some language that we added to chapter seven of the of the proposed TSP that talks about transportation options planning.

Uh and then in addition to that, um, we identified a couple of new projects that were not present when we brought the list to you all for review and prioritization, the list of projects.

So they those were two projects um in the Linwood neighborhood that address connectivity concerns if those properties are to redevelop.

Um and so you see here uh there's um uh the three uh roadway extensions, local road extension projects, um, and one sort of pedestrian bicycle um pathway uh connection project.

And those are um, yeah, again, largely uh probably contingent on redevelopment in this area, but this is the the sort of uh the the network that um is envisioned, and we wanted to make sure that these projects were reflected in the TSP.

Next slide decision.

So that was a really fast overview of two years of work.

But do you all have been through with this uh with us through all of this?

So we try to keep it condensed.

Um and so tonight we've got um decision options.

You can approve the application with the recommended findings and support.

Um, approve it with modifications, continue the hearing or deny the application.

I will um let you all know that the planning commission um unanimously recommended approval of the TSP to two of you also.

And with that, we're open for questions.

So um, thank you.

Uh have we received any additional correspondence on the topic?

So I did forward one piece today uh that came in uh midday um from Kelly Hudson.

Have we otherwise received any correspondence?

One more time.

Oh yeah, yeah.

That came in this afternoon.

Yeah.

Uh is that it?

That's it.

Okay.

So this script jumps to public comment.

Do you want our questions first, or do you want public comment first?

Or I don't know.

I I thought our questions would go first.

But I I also don't want to make a public comment or sit through a long time.

If we have one public commenter here.

Yeah.

And he's from ODOT.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I think it's just a matter of process.

If it's we can go either way.

He's from ODOT, so he can sit here.

Is that what I'm just saying?

He's from ODOT on our project team and he wants to he wants to have you support him.

Okay.

No.

Okay.

All right.

Well, then I think we should go with our question.

Do we have anybody online wanting to testify?

We have no Zoom audience.

No Zoom audience.

Okay, perfect.

So let's do our questions first.

So I'll go to Councilor Massie.

Laura, this is more of a process uh sort of question.

Um so uh correct me if I'm wrong, but uh on adoption, this actually becomes part of the comprehensive plan.

Yeah, it's it's adopted as an ancillary.

Oh, sorry, it's adopted as an ancillary document to the comprehensive plan and the goals and policies that are included also go into the actual comprehensive plan.

Okay, so is there will there be an actual uh uh amendment amendment or uh our uh amendment to the comprehensive plan?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, it's included in the package.

Okay, that's that's kind of what I wanted to hear.

Uh I will tell you that I um you know there was you know a good bit of discussion during the comprehensive plan about um uh excluding the TSP from the comprehensive plan.

I think that uh that was the right decision at the time uh for a couple of reasons.

One, I think the comprehensive plan is uh by and large uh much more aspirational.

This is got a much more level of concrete detail and that kind of thing.

And I think if we had insisted upon uh putting the TSP in the comprehensive plan, then the comprehensive plan would have been delayed four years or whatever it was, you know.

Um so we took a little bit of heat for that, but we got over that.

And so I think that that was the right decision.

Uh and um I was a little bit concerned because it seemed like uh the TSP was having a failure to launch initially.

And so I was uh pleased when we finally got it up and running and everything like that.

And it's just so much work that went into it that uh uh I'm just really pleased and um uh with the work that's been done and how comprehensive it is and and uh that kind of thing really gives us a real roadmap.

And uh like you said, it's the constrained, unconstrained.

Um, you know, we will be dealing with that every biennium about what we can really do and that kind of thing.

So uh but it's a it's a roadmap where we can follow and and and make decisions uh uh accordingly on what what what we can uh what we can afford to do.

Yeah.

So thank you.

Um Counselor Costrobati.

Yeah, I'm not sure if you're gonna address this, but I actually just wanted to touch on one of the testimony emails we got that had to do with um semi-trucks on Linwood and with the width and all the everything that was already done on Linwood.

Can you kind of just explain that right now?

Because our semi-trucks, I don't see a lot on Linwood, but I'm assuming that they do have access to it currently.

Yeah, they do have access, and it's it's been a freight route for a long time, but no one really looks up to say I'm gonna use this as a freight route.

It's more, it's in our system because it's been that it's been a freight route for a long time, and it's also um it's uh it's really the only connection through on that side of town that goes all the way along.

So you do see some freight through there, but even now that it's gotten the street has gotten so much more limited.

I think you see people that are not going down Lynn Wood and Freight, but it is one of the designations, and it's been that way for a long time, and it's not directing anyone to go there, and I don't think anyone looks it up, so it's it's not there's not gonna be more freight traffic on Linwood because it's designated as a freight route in the transportation system plan.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

I think I just wanted to have that clarify because it sounded like in the email that they were under the assumption that that was a new designation from what it sounded like.

So I just wanted to make sure that it's already on that it's on the record, it's already been one.

And if you haven't noticed trucks going down it, it's probably because not a lot of them do.

So that's that's a good thing.

Um thank you.

I appreciate the clarification.

Oh, I'm sorry.

In addition, it means people are slowing down because it is narrower, and that is a benefit to make sure people aren't driving as fast.

This is a school on Linway, and we want them to slow down.

So there's a purpose by narrowing that road down.

It was purposely done that way, but it is an arterial.

We didn't classify that.

It was already classified as an arterial.

Yeah.

So kind of related question.

Um the map shows uh Johnson Creek Boulevard.

Parts of it are weight restricted.

So this idea that a truck driver says, uh, this is a freight route versus this isn't a freight route, it does seem like I doubt that they're actually looking at our maps to decide if we designated a trade freight route.

Um, but those on Johnson Creek Boulevard, I do see some trucks.

And does anyone enforce the weight restriction?

How are trucks how is that handled?

I'm not sure how PD does that, but the tricky part about Johnson Creek is it's actually in certain spots a collector, not an arterial.

Oh, and that is because of it's partially Portland.

We've Portland standards, it's a collector.

We would probably look at as an arterial, but it's actually identified as a collector.

Collectors have they can put weight restrictions on a collector street.

If it was an arterial, there would be a little bit different because that's what the purpose of arterial means is to have freight on there.

So that section that you're talking about that I know I drive it all the time to go pick up my daughter, it is a collector.

And is it posted?

Is the weight restriction posted there?

I don't remember.

Okay.

That I think it's posted in Portland, not in Milwaukee.

So I don't think we actually so PD probably doesn't enforce that.

It would be a Portland restriction.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Other questions.

Uh thank you.

I have uh two questions.

One is on one of your slides as you were talking about some of the infrastructure uh code changes.

Um you referenced drive-throughs.

And I'm trying to find that in the actual document, like reference to that.

I don't know.

Does that refer to like maybe limiting the number of drive-throughs to existing drive-throughs and not creating new ones?

Or can you speak to that?

Yeah, it's not about um whether the use is allowed or not um or r restricting new uh drive-throughs.

It's um about how drive-throughs that would be proposed are designed, basically.

Um it's sort of limiting um it's trying to orient the drive-through um lane itself um away from the public sidewalk uh and more towards the interior of the lot.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it's more about sort of safety for pedestrians than it is about um setting any policy about whether or not we want drive-throughs.

Okay, thank you.

That's great.

Where can people do drive-throughs?

I mean, they can't do them.

We we don't allow them downtown now, correct?

Yeah, we correct.

We don't allow them downtown.

Um, I believe in other commercial uh zones that they are allowed, new drive-throughs would be allowed.

Um, I could um, yeah, I but I would want to take a more holistic um review to get you a final answer on that.

But I believe it it's just downtown where they're restricted.

Okay, and then my second question refers to um goal nine economic development.

And I'm looking through the um the policies that are outlined here.

Um and I'm just I'm kind of wondering like if you were to put it kind of in an elevator speech, why like how could you explain to local businesses?

You know, we passed this plan and it connects to economic development.

How would you what would you like us to communicate to local businesses?

I mean, I have some ideas, but I want to know what you what your talking points would be.

And it it doesn't have to be a respond on the spot kind of thing.

It can absolutely be a follow-up afterward.

It's not a first reading like time sensitive thing.

It's a deep cut back to back to the goals and policy.

So I appreciate it.

I've been thinking about economic development a lot because I have some things that we're bringing back to council and and we just heard the results of the business survey, and I I want to make sure that we're tying, you know, all of these threads together.

Um so yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to like throw you, you know, that deep a line.

But yeah uh I'm curious because you know, I'll I'm working with Sierra on what our um what our feedback, you know, response of a summary to the business survey would look like.

And I'd really love to be able to include, you know, some pieces around this, but I don't want to go too deep.

I want to just kind of hit like the main points that would pertain to them.

Yeah, yeah, I think it's um I can start.

Yeah, I I think it's uh it's actually taking me back to some of those conversations that we had with the advisory committee and uh planning commission um and you all.

And I I think if I'm remembering this conversations correctly and just looking again at the policies under um economic vitality, I I mean I think it's diverse.

I think it's everything from sort of the importance of uh maintaining uh uh you know functioning uh freight system, uh, so that you know our um you know freight can access our our industrial areas, the business industrial zone um along 224 and international way, the North Milwaukee Innovation Area, uh, the manufacturing zone um on Johnson Creek, that we have a functioning freight system in those areas, um, but also thinking about it more broadly and thinking about like what is active transportation, for example, or um the introduction of of light rail and transit service, what is that doing for our our core commercial areas like downtown?

How is that bringing people um into the city uh on their you know their Sunday bike ride?

Um so I I think it's yeah, I think that the conversations really covered um a lot of ground um from yeah, basic core services to uh sort of how how do you um yeah, some of these other modes of transportation help help support some of our low, especially small local businesses.

Yeah.

Well, and uh it makes me also think about the neighborhood hubs and the projects that are located around the neighborhood hubs, increasing the walkability and bikeability within those neighborhoods while also kind of building a more compact economic footprint for those neighborhoods.

So I I would love to work with you on some messaging um so that we can kind of layer that in, you know, around this conversation and and you know, get them to kind of tune in to this conversation as well as some of the business response stuff.

Absolutely.

I would just add that you know, the heart of this TSP is really how do we get people to be able to get out of their cars and bike and walk safely to businesses and stores and the parks and schools.

Yeah.

Okay.

Amazing.

Thank you.

And I should have led with thank you.

Um has been a really long process.

Um I remember talking about this at a neighborhood level before even becoming a counselor.

And um, yeah, this this is this is a slog.

Um this is really an exciting point.

And thank you so much for all the work that you've put into it.

Um I talked to Adam before the meeting, and there's one amendment that we wanted to bring forward on page D67.

Um, I'm kidding.

Uh I really appreciate all the work that you all have done in this process.

Um, yeah sorry, Laura.

Okay, here we go again.

So well, this is the problem.

We've had a lot of amendments and tweaks and changes.

Um, and I really thank you for bearing with us all to it.

Yeah.

Don't try to make that.

I had to bring someone, it had to be plausible.

Please.

Well, and I will say the council president was a part of the TSPAC, right?

And so he has he has a finer grasp of it than probably the rest of Stu.

And I do have about a dozen questions that I do want to take up.

So uh I gave you head heads up about a couple of them.

One is um at page 54, uh level of service for vehicles.

We we have all these descriptions about the pedestrian level of stress and the uh uh cyclist level of stress, but we then we just say, and we have a level of service for vehicles.

I feel like we need to cross-reference or explain what that is.

Yeah, I think we're gonna pass that over to that side to that table.

Sure.

I'll take intersections.

So um the LOS level of service standard is a vehicular-based performance standard.

Um it's got a long history.

Um it's to boil it down, it measures vehicle delay or the amount of delay that a person experiences in a car at a stop sign at a traffic signal.

Um, so it's in essence, it's a very specific um performance measure tied and rooted in getting vehicles through your system.

There are any number of other performance standards that cities use.

And ODOT uses the volume to capacity ratio.

Other jurisdictions use that as well.

And it's a different measure, but it's again very rooted in the vehicular network.

And it measures the theoretical capacity of an intersection and the ability for the vehicular demand to get through that intersection or that roadway signal.

So they're very rooted in these vehicular-based measures.

And I think one of the things that we really tried to do, and I noted this earlier is kind of shift this transportation system plan away from the vehicular modes.

It's not that we don't find them important and want the system to have a functioning roadway network, but we wanted more of a much more of a balanced system.

So a lot of the performance standards that we came up with, and the new ones that we're come up with as required in the transportation planning rule requirements is to come up with new standards that allow your city to um monitor and track its progress towards the non-motorized forms of transportation.

That's where the BLTS and the PLTS standards came from.

So I think in all in essence, um, because we had so much more of a focus on those non-motorized vehicle modes, um, we just decided that it was best to keep the level of service um as the standard and not try and integrate in a new or more complicated system of vehicular-based measures.

And that's the short answer.

Uh I can keep going, but I we'll see how you respond to that.

So is level of service what we're used to hearing when we hear like this is a D intersection, this is performing a D.

Okay.

So all I'm asking for is where does that come from?

Is there a is that an ashto?

Is that a whatever standard?

And shouldn't we say that in here?

Because we've we've defined the others.

If we're not going to define this one, then let's cross-reference where it comes from.

Well, the so the yeah, the level of service um A through F that you're familiar with.

Yeah, it's it's a it doesn't come from Ashto.

It's it's really um, to be honest, I'm putting on the spot.

Um I don't know this exact ordinance, but it probably comes from a number of different uh transportation engineering uh programs like the highway capacity manual and others.

Um and those are well established and well known um sources for for this type of of uh uh analysis and documentation.

So I don't think we have to go back and route it back to those um to those standards.

Your existing TSP, the new TSP identifies what the city of Milwaukee considers to be its acceptable, minimum acceptable level of service.

It's noted a few times within the TSP, it's also noted within your TIS guidelines, transportation impact study guidelines.

So point me to one of the places.

I'm sorry.

Can you point me to one of the places it's noted in here?

Oh uh yes, actually I did write that down.

Um I believe it's on page.

Well, I found it was a 55, put it in my email to you, Ryan.

Um 55 or 56.

Sorry, the question is where is level of service noted?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it is, it's on it's on page 55.

It's uh part of um table uh five-one.

So it's Milwaukee performance standards and thresholds.

And this uh, you know, this chapter and this subsection is really um is focused on uh the new performance standards that we're adapting.

Um the table, it's included here in this table just as reference that this is the sort of complete list of um performance standards that the city has.

Uh and but I think we didn't um we didn't go too deeply into what level of service is.

I think in part, again, because the focus of this subsection was about what are we doing differently from what we've done before.

And then in addition, it was, you know, I think just understood to be a common measure um in uh the engineering and transportation planning world.

Um and so we we we didn't go too deeply into it.

I think we we could.

Um, I'm I'm not I'm not really suggesting any long description, but like on 54, you have a footnote for something else saying methodology is found in this ODOT manual.

Is there not any methodology for LOS is found here?

There probably is.

I think that it would have been, I think, yeah, we could probably point to the, I'm sure ODOT, um, maybe Kenny can help us here, uh, but outlines the uh ODOT's preferred approach to uh calculating um level of service.

And I think we included this specific footnote just because these were more unknown um performance standards, and we wanted to for anybody, and I think there are different approaches to to calculating bicycle and level or in pedestrian level of traffic stress, and we just wanted to be clear to any readers that um for for Milwaukee, the way that we are approaching that methodology is is ODOT's um analysis and procedures manual.

And we just wanted to be clear to any readers that um for for Milwaukee, the way that we are approaching that methodology is is ODOT's um analysis and procedures manual.

This so pointing people, we thought it was really important to to point people and be clear because they are new standards.

Um But I do understand what you're saying.

Mare Badia is that we needed to add a line.

We need to add a footload footnote because we don't say anything about what LOSD is in this table level service.

We explain the other stuff, we don't say anything about it.

So if you don't know what that is, you're not gonna have any understanding.

So we will that could be one thing that we will fix before we publish it, finalize it.

It we can we can add a footnote.

We can add a footnote that leads people to the place where they can learn more about that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Um they can take many forms, shared streets, um, and woundarfs, which I think I think winners are shared streets, but um uh sidewalks.

I guess uh my little my worry out of here is um this seems to imply that every neighborhood street will have a sidewalk.

Uh will either be a a shared street or have a sidewalk.

And while that would be lovely, I don't think that's a realistic, and I don't think that's um I mean it's even with what in your presentation you pointed out, we wouldn't get to 100% with uh the you know all the money in the world.

Um so I guess I don't know that I'm I guess I'm that's my worry.

I don't know that I have a specific uh suggestion there, but I do feel like uh we're creating this expectation that everything will either be a shared street, have an uh multi-use path, or have a sidewalk.

Um I'm not sure how realistic that is.

And that is for just so for clarifying um is that just in the local service walkway description?

Well, just compare it.

I compared the neighborhood and the local, and then looked at the map and I realized the local is every street.

Right.

It's all the other streets that aren't designated something else, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I guess it really is about the local service, yeah.

Yeah, so we could add something that would say, you know, something clarifying that because I do understand your concern is that you're setting it, we're setting an expectation that something's gonna be there.

Yeah.

But I would argue that a shared road is existing now, even if you don't have a sidewalk, right?

You are sharing that road with people that bike, walk and drive on that street.

But haven't we set standards for what a shared road is?

I mean, it might need some improvements, but it's still a shared road, you know, in the sense.

So it's I mean, it eventually could get, you know, some treatments that make it even safer, but it's still a shared road.

I mean, well, that bothers me even more because I thought when we talk about shared roads, we're talking about what you did in Hardenwald North.

That's one version.

One type.

So we're just saying every street in Milwaukee is a shared road.

Every street that doesn't have a sidewalk road.

It does mean that they still need improv, they could need improvements from a safety standpoint, right?

Yeah.

Um, as far as that goes.

So do you walk on a street even if it doesn't have a sidewalk?

You probably will.

Do you bike on it?

No, but that if we have a goal of what a shared, if we've a definition of what a shared road is, then use it for every undeveloped road.

We could get to eventually having safe streets in Milwaukee as a goal.

Like that is my goal.

So work throughout the you know, entire network.

Right.

But we know we have have limited funds, right?

So it's gonna take a you know a long time to get there as far as that goes.

Maybe if we added some sort of language, I I see Jen's point, but maybe it's um something shared streetslash um, what is the terminology you just use?

Well, I think we're not using the the sort of term here in a technical sense.

We're just saying uh a sh a street where facilities are shared by multiple modes of transportation.

Um so, you know, uh, yeah, people are there's not dedicated sidewalks necessarily or dedicated bike lanes, um, vehicles, pedestrians, uh, cyclists are all using the same facility.

Um we're not referring to any specific design.

Um just that the way that the street functions is as a shared space by all modes.

And we're not so we're not committing to anything specific, I think here.

Okay.

Okay.

So you're comfortable with it the way it is.

Is your comment on this?

Yeah, but if this is where we've landed, I think that's fine.

Okay.

Uh page 44.

Oh, regional transit way.

I was trying to uh I was trying to uh whatever you call it, reconcile the map on 5.4 and then the transit maps later in the transit sections.

Are they uh 54 is the figure 5.4 and then like I didn't I I was surprised to see railroad, that's what jumped out at me was Railroad Avenue shown as a regional transit way, I guess.

I don't I didn't know we had very much transit on there, and so I need to go back to is it it's toward the back the transit chapter?

It's showing I think the it's that designation is not applied to railroad avenue itself, but to the um the rail line, the freight um facilities to and I think the planning commission wanted that reflected or thought it was important that that was reflected um just to uh signal a possible future of um uh high capacity um rail transit um through along that facility of passenger railroads.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, okay, okay.

Well that's interesting.

Okay.

I mean we could be aspirational for sure.

Okay.

Yes, this, yeah, this functional classification maps are definitely um living in both the uh present and future.

Yeah, okay.

Um well while we're talking about transit, um, it looks like you updated the transit map at um page one oh seven, the main transit project to reflect the trimet cuts that we we had trimet here at the work session today, talking about the proposed cuts.

And and uh when you guys talked at the planning commission, uh there was some we wouldn't know for sure what the cuts were gonna be, but uh it looks to me like you changed this map to reflect TriMets cuts.

No, okay, okay.

Okay.

Um, so for right now, I think we have a bus that goes down Lake Road.

This T7.

Um well, anyway, uh I mean that's all gonna change, so I don't I don't know that we need to belabor that, but um yeah.

Okay.

I think when it's the dollars pardon?

Yeah, they go go to the change again next year.

And then they're gonna change again.

Yeah.

I think what we tried to do with the transit maps is is set them up to recognize and and allow the public to recognize that Milwaukee supports the future expansion of transit in the region.

Those projects were the ones that were identified at the time, and they may come back.

So keeping them on the the project maps makes sense, at least from my my perspective.

Well, and and that is what we heard today, too.

Uh is you know, they're they hope that in five years we'll be back to you know, kind of where we are now.

Um so uh the funding, and I almost asked this at the beginning since Ryan started out talking about how you started on funding.

So on 71 table 7.1, you list funding sources.

No STCs.

Do we not consider STCs?

Do we not are we not able to?

I know we we actually had an item earlier tonight where we uh are uh having a consultant for SDC transportation SDCs.

We can use SDCs on these projects.

Um we still have to go through our methodology of how we're going to be able to apply that.

Um so that's another step that we'll be working with FCS.

Um and they will identify how much of the project can be paid by SDC.

And it's based off of a growth, it's based off of a capacity, all of those things.

What will change is I'm hoping we'll have more pedestrian and bike usage on some of those projects that we could use it on as well, because that's a lot that we have in tier one.

And so that will be still coming.

So are SDCs actually an invisible subset of one of these funding sources you have linked here, or we actually think we'll have more money.

I don't think so.

I'm kind of I'm believing it's included in the charges for services and fees where you think it's there.

Okay.

Yeah.

And Amy can probably Amy's the number cruncher.

Okay.

Okay, great.

Great.

And then I just was curious on 105, table seven, eight.

The numbers of things are out of numerical order.

So does that mean they're they're in some priority order that was different than how they originally got numbered for the map.

And um and I guess I wanted to clarify TriMets work on TriMets already working with you on a bus upgrade.

And is that the King Road or is that the 32nd?

Uh no, this is um uh we have a well, we have two two projects that we're working on with them.

One is on Harrison, um, right by the church between 224 and um the max rail.

Um we're gonna uh reduce that down to one stop, and they're gonna um update that uh with bike lanes and a median crossing right at the church.

Okay.

So you're gonna remove those um bus stops that are right at 224, which is great because that is some congestion that's happening.

Pull those back and then um eliminate the other one because it'll be so close.

So that's one project.

The second project is the potential of uh line 33 being a fast track, right?

Right.

That's that's the second one that we're still working on with them.

Um yeah.

So that's T5 on this list, right?

Coordinate with TriMet to help support and implement new bus rapid transit express service.

Okay.

Um, and yet this list lists uh a project uh for bus rapid transit going north, which is the 32nd Avenue.

Yes, as a higher priority.

Oh, I don't that I guess that's my question.

Are are these in some priority order?

Why are they not in numerical order?

I think that's oversight on our part.

I think we just need to rearrange the numbers.

Okay, yeah.

We've noted it, we'll fix it.

There was an initial, I think, attempt to keep them in some kind of an order based on how they were scored.

Uh-huh.

Um, and uh at the end of the day on the transit project, it probably just makes sense to renumber them in a sumerical order so you don't have to ask questions like that.

Okay.

Okay.

So they're not necessarily any priority to them.

Okay.

Okay.

And then truck freight.

So you talked a little bit about truck freight and in answer to the question about economic development, but I guess I'm just um thinking back to the 2007 TSP when I was on planning commission.

And um, we had a lot of actual NMIA businesses um wanting these improvements.

I know this time we it was harder to get freight operators involved in the TSPAC, but um, I was a little disappointed to see none of these making the uh the funded list.

Um I just want to know sort of what you've heard from the business community from um from you know what you've heard.

I and I was curious as to whether we heard anything in the survey that's here did this year about that.

Well, I would start by saying the list is y'all's list, so if you want something to go up into the tiers, then we can put it in the tiers, but then sometimes it come out, right?

Like that was the conversation that you all had, so something needs to come up.

Um, I think that we did really try to have the freight community involved in this process.

We had three different people that we had on our committee at various times, and they um did not participate very much in the process because I think that they saw from the very beginning that it was much more of a focus on the um pedestrians and bikes, and I also think that we did bring all of the NMIA projects forward.

So all of the projects that were identified are still in the plan.

So I feel like we and we didn't hear hear from anyone um about potential new projects, and I don't believe that anything came out of the business survey that indicated no one brought that up.

We talked to Sierra today, and and no one brought anything up.

So well, fair enough.

If they're not uh expressing concerns about it.

If they do, we could look at a grant to possibly move those forward, right?

So they're in the TSP.

We could always, you know, if they if a grant comes up or you know, helping rate that grant or you know, anything like that, that's a way we can also move it forward.

The next way is we do, you know, take out some debt to bring it forward.

Like that's you know, another option.

So it just because it's in an other tier doesn't mean it can't be done in the next 20 years.

Right.

Well, and I guess uh look at Joseph and in your prior role as CD director.

Did you ever hear from businesses that express concern about transit about truck access or problems?

Like free movement, good move good movement in general.

Yeah.

Not really.

Not really.

Yeah, okay.

And we obviously have some big employers in international.

There are more concerns.

We're just parking in street condition primarily, not necessarily more than that.

Um just yeah, I just wanted a point of clarification.

Was there a specific recommendation that you saw at some point in the plan that you wanted to see promoted?

Or are you just wondering about feedback through the process?

Yeah, I just wanted about feedback through the process because I don't know.

I mean, I I have no, I have no way of knowing as uh what uh what what's the challenge to a truck truck moving?

Um I drive a small car.

And then I guess like a small follow-up to the team, um, even though you didn't have really consistent participation, I'm sure I'm assuming that they remained on the email list and had an opportunity to weigh in given various phases of this project.

And did you hear anything?

Okay.

So then I mean, I've I guess I mean, this was an area that I was interested in as well.

And we had worked together to get Titan Freight participating um for a while actively.

And um, you know, I think that no communication probably means that they're okay with the projects that did move forward.

Well, I do, I mean, again, I think the uh most of the all of these, I think, are on the NMIA side.

So I don't know if Titan, you know, would have been that keyed into them.

And and I do distinctly recall, you know, three or four businesses that participated in 2007.

So it's it's just but you know, yeah, it's been out there for the public.

They've had a chance to uh to participate.

Um the last page, vehicle miles traveled per capita.

Um we started with the COVID year.

We started with our baseline is 2020.

That doesn't seem like a very good place to have a baseline.

Yeah, it's it's as numbers are produced via the metro travel demand model, and they've got different base years and forecast years that they utilize.

And just because it says 2020 doesn't mean it's reflective of traffic conditions.

It's a model and it's based on probably multiple years of traffic counts and other things building up to that point.

Okay, but it's not a snapshot in time of April.

April or May of 2020.

Um that's good question, but yeah, no concerns there.

Okay, fair enough.

Fair enough.

Then just one other thing, which is a comment, um, which is not something that belongs here, but I want to I want to kind of think about where it does belong.

Is I noticed on um Engaged Milwaukee that there were some comments about uh uh parking needing to restrict parking close to intersections and particularly where uh you know neighborhood streets come into an arterial or a collector that's going by.

And I share that concern.

I do think we have visibility and turning problems at some certain intersections.

So is that something that's in the public work standards that are out now for comment, or is that something that the T the Peace Act would discuss, or where would you have that discussion?

Yeah, we are currently having it in PSAC as we've received um a couple spot proposals.

Um because people are concerned and they're parking too close to the intersection.

Um, so we're working on some solutions for that because you don't want to just sign everywhere in the city, right?

That's a lot of signage to do.

So we're kind of looking at, you know, one way I solve it is I put in bull bouts, right?

So the bull out forces you to move away from the intersection.

We can't do that everywhere either, right?

Because that's expensive.

Um, so we're looking at possible thermoplastic, delineators, um, education.

So you're gonna start seeing a little bit more education that's gonna come out of like, hey, you shouldn't be parking in front of a fire hydrate.

Intersections, like there is gonna be things in the pilot article we're gonna start putting out.

So it is a PSAC initiative that we're working on.

And um, I hope to grow it and yeah, I'll have more to tell you as it happens and it evolves.

Okay, great.

Well, thank you.

Um, that's all of my questions.

If no other questions from anybody else, we will then go on to public comment.

Uh the council will take public testimony on the updated TSP.

Uh I feel like since we've been told that there's no one online, and since we only have one commenter in the room, I don't really have to read the rest of the script.

So uh we like people to keep to three minutes, but we'll let you have five.

Oh, so our commenter is Kenny Worth from ODOT.

Uh yeah, thank you.

Um I don't have uh I won't go on longer than three minutes for sure.

Um yeah, like you said, my name is Kenny Wirth.

I am an associate planner with the Oregon Department of Transportation.

I'm here on behalf of the state of Oregon's transportation growth management program.

TGM is a joint program of ODA and the Department of Land Conservation and Development, working to create thriving livable places with diverse transportation choices.

We provide grants to cities, counties, and special districts to plan for streets and land uses that lead to more livable, sustainable, and economically vital communities.

We are proud to have supported and worked with the city of Milwaukee on its transportation system plan.

As uh previously mentioned, while the city was in the process of developing its work plan, DLC was updating the state laws that govern TSPs.

The new rules aim to increase opportunities for transit, walking, and bicycling, and supporting housing and new development.

This TSP is the first in the state to put those new rules into action.

Your staff and the consultants have plowed new ground through this process.

These efforts will help your community members thrive, and we have already been sharing their new discoveries and techniques with other communities around the state.

I'd like to close with congratulations on your new plan and thank you for a great partnership.

Great.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

Does staff have any response to the testimony?

Um Thank you, Oda.

Thank you, Kenny and Glenn, for being such good partners and being at all of our meetings and being on this long journey with us.

Okay.

Does council have any questions for staff?

Uh if there are no more questions, I will entertain a motion to close the public comment part of the hearing.

I move to close the public comment part of the updated TSP adoption hearing.

Second.

It's been moved and seconded to close the public comment part of the updated TSP adoption hearing.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no.

The public comment part of the hearing is closed.

Is there any further discussion?

Well, nice job.

I know it's been a long road.

Uh and I really I mean, you know, we had um we had all material.

You know, the plan, if somebody looks at the plan, it looks modest.

You know, it looks small, but there's like 900 pages of of attachments.

And I mean, very detailed stuff.

The the comp plan amendments, the code amendments, metros, RTP amendments.

It's it's a very dense package.

It was a lot, a lot of work.

Um, so good job.

Um ready to pass the sucker.

Yep.

All right.

I move for the first and second readings by title only, and adoption of the ordinance adopting a transportation system plan as an ancillary document to the Milwaukee Comprehensive Plan and amending related policies and development regulations.

File number CPA-2025-001.

I second.

It's been moved and seconded for the first and second readings by title only, and adoption of the ordinance adopting adopting a transportation system plan as an ancillary document to the Milwaukee Comprehensive Plan and amending related policies and development regulations.

File number CPA 2025-001.

Is there any further discussion?

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed say no.

Hip hat.

Oh.

Uh Mr Brillio, would you read the ordinance two times by title only?

Probably.

An ordinance of the city of Milwaukee, Oregon adopting a transportation system plan as an ancillary document to the Milwaukee Comprehensive Plan in amending related policies and development regulations.

File number CPA 202501.

An ordinance of the City of Milwaukee, Oregon, adopting a transportation system plan TSP as an ancillary document to the Milwaukee Comprehensive Plan in amending related policies and development regulations.

File number CPA 202501.

All right, Mr.

Stoffer, would you please pull the council?

Council President Anderson.

Aye.

Councilor Stavan Jordan.

Aye.

Council Costrobati.

Aye.

Councilor Massey.

Aye.

Mayor Beatty.

Aye.

Motion carried five to zero ordinance two two six two.

Yay.

Okay.

Way to go team.

Way to go.

Do we want an encore discussion?

Oh.

Congratulations.

Yes.

Thank you all for our sign.

Thank you.

Okay.

We have council reports and legislative update.

Scott and uh and our council president can probably tag team with Scott.

Uh, because he came is fresh from Salem today.

Yeah, indeed.

Uh the end is nigh.

Uh we are anyway.

I bet they never say that in Salem.

Uh yeah, they got a week to go.

Uh the bills are tracking.

I think we got the six that I was aware of.

These four I'll have recommended pass, and I saw some emails trickle in over the afternoon that they were moving the second hearing, second readings, and and things like that.

So it seems like these four may be on their way, unless uh other people know anything else.

Council president, you think 4177 is gonna go?

I think so, despite all the coverage in the Oregonian.

Oh, okay.

Okay, awesome.

I like it.

Some some changes to public meeting laws in response to that.

And uh the affordable housing revolving loan program looks like it was moving too.

4037.

Uh, and then the two that may not be as lucky, 4007 and 1541.

Um hadn't had much.

Yeah, I heard from uh member, yeah.

I heard from somebody last week uh who's involved in advocating for 1541 that he was throwing in the towel, so I gather it's yeah, I don't think that was on the ways and means list.

4007, I think is going to pass, but the provisions about uh safe safe routes to school in 5030 20 or not included in the bill.

Oh, so that's good news.

Okay, okay, awesome.

Okay.

Uh and then letters.

Uh there really weren't any council letters sent, although I just noted that three council members sent letters in support of Dev Northwest.

Um and then the mayor sent a thank you to Representative Bynam for being coming to chambers the other day.

Yeah.

And I did submit some online.

Um, I didn't do formal letters because it was typically on the weekend, but I did submit my own and not on, I didn't submit anything on behalf of the city or the council, but I did submit my own views on a couple of bills, including one that Rep Gamba has talked me out of since then.

So um anyway.

Uh that's all I got.

Council President, any big news?

What happened with the uh measure 114 firearms thing?

That one is in the Senate, stalled for now.

Um, but we've got a few days left.

Did it pass the house?

Passed the house.

Passed the house.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

And what happened with the movement of the transportation package to the May ballot?

That passed the House.

That was just signed by the governor actually today.

Oh, it was.

Yeah.

So okay.

Passed both House and Senate.

Okay.

Okay.

Interesting.

All right.

Uh, any other legislative, well, yeah, I mean, any other legislative things first.

No, okay.

Any other council reports?

I'll do my next one.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Joseph.

I I just have one thing I've heard from all of you regarding uh using some of your budget for the Wichita purchase.

So 67 $750 from you all.

You will see a consent item likely next uh next council meeting, just sitting that much, and then we'll have to obviously work with Wichita to get it invoiced and and figured out.

But um after that, you can put it on social media.

We can challenge happy valley.

You need to yeah.

Oh, are you?

Okay.

Awesome.

As of yesterday I heard from all of you, so we'll get it in process.

Awesome.

Yeah.

Um well while we're talking about council budgets, uh council president and I are giving a part of ours for the historic homes inventory project.

We have been making progress on that with the Milwaukee Museum and our planning commission chair, and um we should have a little more detail to share, you know, end of the month or early next month.

Okay.

And uh I just might note uh it'll happen before the next council meeting on m March 16th will be the the dedication ceremony of the first three first fish hair and artworks in Milwaukee Bay Park, and they want to keep it a little bit on the down low, uh not a huge crowd, not a not a huge extensive program, but uh but yeah, we've we've kind of spread the word and the word is kind of getting out there about it.

So yeah, March 16th, 11 a.m.

You know, there's quite a discussion on the chit chat about what the posts are.

I first we know it's really good.

Oh yeah.

It's 10, so I moved to adjourn.

Okay.

Uh we it's been moved.

It's a little rude.

Well it's this side of it.

The motion came from there.

Okay.

It's been moved and seconded to adjourn.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Uh more guys.

Oh, yeah.

I need yes.

All right, we are adjourned.

Good night, everyone.