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The New Berlin Common Council met on April 28, 2026, at 6:15 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers. During the open session, the council unanimously approved the consent agenda, heard public comment, and then entered a closed session to discuss legal services negotiations with Attorney Mark G. Blum and litigation strategy for Clark vs. City of New Berlin. Reconvening to open session, the council approved an interim contract extension for Attorney Blum and resolved the pending litigation.
Yes. Okay, prior to intercommunal meaning we do have proven floor. Is there anybody in the audience to say if you have a like this because permitted floor? Okay. That's uh rolls of the floor. Um, presentation limit of three minutes. Tributal floor shall last no longer than thirty minutes, unless otherwise deem appropriate whether mayor reconsent for the counter council time limit will be increased by a conference of 15 minutes. Presentation shall be directed to topics subject to the council action related to the city of the ruin. This means the presentations are not limited to those agenda items. Presentation shall not deal in personalities or personal tax members, like council or city employees. Presentations are not to be designed for purposes of engagement. At times this there may be a large number of presidents that would like to speak in an order to provide as many residents the right to speak the mayor or by the consensus of the counter council. They limit the amount of times a person can speak to only once. So there's no rules. Hello, thanks for letting me speak today. Name is Leah Donald, 3480, Southware Road, Berlin. Um I'm here to object to an agenda to an agenda item regarding the long-term appointment contract with attorney Mark Lou. He is a former attorney Thomas Schmitter's past law firm partner. And I believe this is a conflict of interest. Attorney Schmitzer, in my opinion, does not represent or respect the citizens of New Berlin as evidenced by his actions and demeanor regarding the Milwaukee Rescue Mission Project. In past, he has black citizens' rightful attempts to receive pertinent open records regarding Milwaukee rescue mission development. The farm's extreme risk aversion policy regarding a role ball has put our community at risk, in my opinion. We cannot continue down the path of avoiding some legal risk at the expense of everything else, including zoning integrity, code violations, citizen safety, and increases in taxpayer dollars. We uh yet into what I consider an incredible mess because of the personnel columns, often unelected, um appointed officials. New Berlin needs a clean break from some of its current waitmiers. Please consider alternative firms. You previously received an email regarding suggestions, or you can certainly do due diligence in selecting a different firm to lead New Berlin on a new path forward. Um also I support Joe Strival being um elected to the Plan Commission. Um I uh also would prefer not to have another HR position um introduced, because taxes have increased substantially in the last two years for me alone. I believe I'm paying like an extra fifteen hundred dollars or at least a thousand dollars in the last two years in my taxes, and this is just one more thing to increase my taxes. Um is my understanding that most cities have um just one person for that position, and that should be adequate to conserve tax hours. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Is there anyone else which is reconstruction floor? Anyone else? I don't know. Okay, I will go to the floor, and we will call our