The Monroe Common Council met on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at 6:30 PM at City Hall Council Chambers. All members except Alderman Dave Mosher were present. The meeting included a presentation from Green County Development Corporation, multiple proclamations, two public hearings, and unanimous approval of several resolutions and ordinances. A closed session was held to discuss a police contract extension.
Okay, we are back into open salary and personnel committee. Uh your honorable mayor of a resolution ratifying a one-year extension to the 2024-2026 agreement with Wisconsin Professional Police Association, uh be it resolved by the common council of the city of Monroe that the an extension of the labor agreement between the city of Monroe and the Wisconsin Professional Police Association for the period of January 1st, 2024 through December 31st of 2026. Be hereby ratified to extend the agreement to December 31st, 2027, with the exception of a proposed wage increase of 4.5 on the salary schedule displayed below. Be it further resolved that the mayor and city clerk be here by authorized to execute said labor agreement extension on behalf of the city of Monroe dated the eighth day of September 2026. And I motion for its approval. I second have a motion and second to approve the extension of the police con uh contract. Any more discussion? If not, clerk call a roll, please. Alder Tolman. Aye. Alder True Hart. Aye. Alder Whartonweiler. Aye. Older Schaefer. Aye. Older Frankie. Alder McGuire. Aye. Older Vestine. Aye. And Alder Volkley. Aye. And that gets approved. Hope that helps you out, Chief Holtz. Okay. Business presented by older person, special committee report outside. Um I don't want to be redundant. I mentioned before about ATVs. Um my manager. Um she we keep track of where our business comes. And said this year, the business we normally get from ATV traffic was down quite a bit, although last weekend it looked pretty good. Um so it just I don't know if there's what we can do, or we just need to be thinking ahead because it don't it it affects everybody, restaurants and shops and everybody if they're not coming here because of the bridge closed. So I don't know what the solution is, but I guess we got to be thinking about if there's some way we can get that trail back running better. So Chief Foltz and I have discussed the ordinances that we've got for UTVs and golf carts and stuff, and we're gonna be looking at it some more, and that'll be coming into committees to see if we could update it, make it more more uh make it Monroe a more friendly community. Any other comments, Alders? If not, business presented by the department heads. And for some of the public as we enter into that budget season, and um I did print a hard copy and also what I sent uh digital copy on Friday. Um the hard copies are in your mailbox, but just kind of the the spotlight from forward analytics on how um net new construction is losing ground with inflation and how it it highlights over the last 13 of the 16 years between 2010 and 2025, and that the net new construction exceeded the rate of inflation. Um, and so much to the point where since 2010 the the the amount that the levy was able to grow, and this is per lake the state amount was 24.1 percent based on that net that levy limit in the the net new construction when inflation and that same rate has gone up 49.9 percent. So it's a gap of 25 percent in the last 15 years or 16 years. Um so kind of a cut and it's also compounding as you obviously if the levy increases only so much, even if that increases it doesn't, and interest is compounding at a greater rate. Green County um was highlighted the gap isn't as big, that was state as a average, but the green county itself was at 19.7 um kind of gap between that as well. So just kind of highlighting and as we're we're entering into that really high inflationary wages insurance and all those things of trying to balance that within the constraints that are currently in place and um wanted to make that just kind of highlight that for everybody as we enter into that over the next month. Okay. Um moving on. Thank you, Brittany. Uh business presented by the press. They usually check our videos and go from there. One more thing.