All right, it is six o'clock, so I'm going to uh call this meeting to order.

This is the Tuesday, July 21st, 2026 meeting of the Common Council.

Uh, we'll start with roll call.

Um, and Dale Matthews will not be in attendance today.

Christine here.

Everett.

Wickerson.

Here.

Piper.

Ban Trieste.

Wells.

Manion.

Here.

Moltson.

Here.

Witeska.

Here.

Anderson.

Here.

Helgested.

Here.

Matthews is absent.

Miklitz.

Lemke.

Here.

Camacho.

Yep.

Here.

Excellent.

We do have a quorum.

Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge of the PlayStation.

Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands by nation under ballot.

Individual liberty and justice for all.

All right.

Next up is public comment.

Doesn't look like we have anything in the box.

Is there anyone here for public comment?

I will take that as a no.

So we will move on to the approval of the minutes.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes from our last meeting?

Alderperson Molson.

I move to approve.

Okay.

Is there a second?

I'll send you a thank you.

Alderperson Micklitz.

There are any comments.

No?

All right.

Then please vote when it is before you.

Piper aye.

All right.

That motion does pass 14 to 0.

Uh next up is consent agenda.

Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

All right.

I will take that as a no.

So we will uh assume that the consent agenda is approved.

Uh moving on to new business.

First up, we have uh possible acceptance of donation from GD Process Design LLC.

I believe we have Assistant Chief Plumbing in the audience to uh go over this for us.

Good evening.

Yes, Tim Fleming, Assistant Chief of the Fire Department.

So uh sort of a unique opportunity from GD Process uh reached out with uh a change in their production process and offers uh offered us an opportunity to uh take delivery use of one of their uh tanks that they use for their food processing.

Uh so the tank will be clean, non-hazardous, delivered free of charge, and this is simply just an ask to accept this uh training prop.

Uh they'll be delivering it down to our trading center on Century Drive and afford an opportunity for our special services team to be able to train in a space that's a little bit unique, but also within our community and a realistic uh incident that we may need to respond to.

So a great opportunity at uh zero cost and uh an opportunity to improve our training program.

Excellent.

Uh are there any questions or comments or motions?

Um Alderperson Piper.

Go ahead.

I'll make an I'll make a motion to accept the donation.

Thank you.

Alderperson Mikklitz.

Second.

All right.

Any comments before we vote?

All right, then please vote when this is before you.

Piper aye.

All right, that motion passes 14 to zero.

Thank you very much.

Um moving right along.

Um we have transit commission report.

Alex?

Uh no report.

Uh we do have a meeting scheduled for this Thursday.

Excellent.

Um, Water Utility Commission.

Um, the major thing that we had on our agenda, uh, because um Alder Person Matthews is not here, so I will happily give that report.

Um we got uh an update on our um hiring our new director uh process, so very excited about that and and hopeful to have some updates for you all soon.

Um next up we have IT board um Alder Person Manion.

No meeting, no report.

Okay, uh Landmarks Commission report, Alder Person Christine.

Thank you, Mayor.

Just uh no meeting, no report, but just a reminder of Waukesha unlocked first weekend in October.

Uh the springs will be open house and various other awesome things around the city will be there to view.

Thank you.

Excellent.

Redevelopment authority report, Alder Person Lemke.

No meeting, no report.

Our next meeting is next month on the third Monday.

Excellent.

Parks Recreation and Forestry Board report.

Alder Person Wells.

We met last night and uh approved the fall fee schedule.

We have had some events and programs rescheduled from last week with the uh smoke and air quality.

So check the city website for those updates.

Thank you.

Library board report, Alder Person Helgested.

Thank you.

Uh next meeting is August 13th.

Want to encourage everyone to continue uh taking part in the summer reading program and walkshaw reads info is uh soon approaching.

So and a report.

Thank you.

Uh cemetery commission report.

Alderperson Christine.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh we had no meeting scheduled for the month of July.

The Friends of Prairie Home has worked out with Paella's nursery about uh expanding some uh garden.

Paell is donating the labor Friends of Prairie Home Cemetery, purchase the plants, and it's gonna look really nice.

It's around the veterans area, and that's gonna be a little bit uh probably early fall once the weather cooperates.

So that's uh a great partnership with the friends of Prairie Home.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um Housing Authority report, Alder Person Piper.

Meetings actually tomorrow at the at the Housing Authority on Arcadian Avenue at 9 a.m.

All are welcome to attend.

End of report.

Thank you.

Uh community development block grant uh committee report.

Uh Maria, anything?

All right.

Um public art committee report.

Alder Person Molson, no report.

Thank you.

Um Plan Commission, did you have anything to report?

No report, just the next meeting is tomorrow.

Yes, thank you.

Uh Finance Committee report, Alder Person Piper.

No report this evening, but I'll take an opportunity to remind the council and the public of the show and tell as the budget kicks off on August 25th.

That's Tuesday, 6 o'clock at the City Garage on Century Drive.

Look forward to seeing a lot of you there.

And as always, members of the public are always invited and encouraged to attend.

End report.

The best finance committee meeting of the year.

Uh all right, building and grounds report, Alderperson Molson.

All items on consent.

Thank you.

Um ordinance and licensing committee report.

Alder Person Watesca.

It looks like we have one item for a second or third reading, correct?

Yes, this is the third reading of a proposed amendment to municipal code 9.115 to allow temporary extension of premises onto municipal lot 13.

Uh it's a third reading.

This was a uh referral by Alderperson Evert.

Um anyone who wasn't here last time, I guess, or or whatever.

Um we currently allow this in the the clock tower lot so that uh I always forget the name, can have their their St.

Patrick's Day Festival.

Um Maddie's has requested that we also allow it in municipal lot 13 so that they can do the same.

Um it's it's my personal opinion that it's unfair to allow one uh operator to be able to close a lot for their own you know purposes and not allow another.

So um with that, I'll make a motion to approve the amendment as proposed.

I'll second.

All right, we have a motion uh from Alderperson Witesca and a second from Alderperson Camacho.

Um I know that Alderperson Evert might want to say a few words.

Would you like to say anything?

I'd just like to say thank you for allowing this.

It's at the end of the day, it's only fair, but thank you.

Thanks.

Is there uh any other comments or questions regarding uh this item?

All right, then please vote when it is before you.

All right.

Uh that uh motion does pass 14 to 0.

Um, and again, that is to allow temporary extensions of premises onto municipal lot 13.

Uh next up we have the human resources committee report.

Alderperson Anderson, I understand you were not present.

Uh so you are passing that over to Alderperson Christine.

Correct.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, all items were on consent with the exception of the um item 04035, the action on review of the HR policy E2 motor vehicle use formally the vehicle collision control and accident reporting.

And the only difference is we wanted clarification on what the um the city of Waukeshaw, their risk uh risk assessment uh that they ran this through, and basically I'll read it.

Please uh honor this.

But this is basically we wanted it read for you guys tonight.

Uh it is only individuals authorized by the city and may operate city-owned vehicles.

Authorization is limited to city employees in approved city volunteers who have successfully completed all requirement background checks, motor vehicle record reviews, training, and any other requirements uh established by the city of Waukeshaw.

All other individuals are prohibited from operating city-owned vehicles.

The wording was very close, but it was advised to change some of the words around so it flowed a lot better.

So uh I'm I'll make a motion and I can answer any questions after that.

So make a motion to approve 04035.

Excellent.

So we have a motion um and we have a second.

I'll second uh from Alderperson Witesca.

Are there any comments or questions?

Alder Person Wateska?

Yeah, just one.

I didn't catch if Alder Person Christine said this.

The only reason this was not unanimous at HR was because Dale actually wanted to see, and I'm speaking on his behalf, even though he's not here, which might not be fair, but um what he had said was he just actually wanted to see it written out, right?

We had this was exactly the language we discussed.

He just wanted to actually see it in the text when we voted on it as a counsel.

So that was his only concern for not approving it at HR.

So I'd encourage everybody to support it.

And I did not receive any concerns from him, just you know, for full disclosure.

Are there any uh additional comments or questions regarding this item?

All right, then we do have a motion and a second regarding HR policy E2 motor vehicle use.

Please vote when it is before you.

All right, that motion passes 14 to zero.

Uh moving on, Board of Public Works report.

I know we have a number of bids.

Uh I'll throw it over to you, Alex.

Thank you very much.

Uh, the first bid uh was received on June 26th was for the Luke Avenue Bourne Place and Walton Avenue Utility and Street Improvement Project.

Uh the board recommended moving forward with a little bid from Moss and Brothers in the amount of 1,418,655.50 to be awarded.

Okay, Alder Person Piper.

So moved.

Alder Person Witeska.

Second.

Are there any questions?

All right, please vote when it is before you.

All right, that motion passes 14 to 0.

Next bid is for the Greenway Terrace Playground Resilience Surface.

Um we received two bids on this.

Uh the board recommended moving forward with the little bid from Blue Mills in the amount of 112,800.

That's the base bid only.

Excellent.

Alderperson Piper.

So moved.

Uh Alder Person Witeska.

Second.

All right.

Are there any questions or comments?

All right, then please vote when it is before you.

That motion passes 14 to 0.

Right.

The next bid and final bid would be the Greedy Park irrigation installation project.

Um, so this was brought to the Board of Public Works.

Um, it did come in over budget.

Um, and it was recommended to be approved uh pending additional funding being uh discovered from the Waukesha Community Foundation.

Um after some additional discussions internally with administration and Park Rec Forestry Department, uh, we're actually recommending rejecting the bid um at this time and uh revisiting reworking that project back to like the beginning of it a little bit and reimagining and rescoping, etc.

So I don't know if there's anything else to add to that, Tony, but uh that's no, I would just reiterate what Alex said after discussing it considering the condition of the memorial right now and where we are at in the season.

Uh it seems more appropriate at this time for both public works and PRF to go back and redesign the project to figure out if we can adjust the scope of it and then also get out the gate a little bit earlier in the season, so hopefully January, February, so we give favorable pricing.

So that's why at this time we're requesting that it the bid be rejected.

Okay, Alder Person Piper.

I'll make a motion to reject the bid.

Okay.

Uh Alder Person Camacho.

I'll second.

All right.

Are there any questions or comments?

All right.

Um, so the motion is to reject the bid.

So if you vote yes, that is to reject the bid.

Uh please vote when it is before you.

Oh, um, can you make sure that's reflected in the minutes that it's reject?

All right, so that motion does pass 13 to 0 to reject, and we will make sure that that is properly reflected in the minutes.

Um, 13-1, sorry, thank you.

Um, and we'll make sure it's reflected in the minutes appropriately.

Thank you.

Um, all right, director of public works report.

Um, I'll just say uh thank you to the elders that uh came and visited the clean water plant today.

Uh we had a nice tour.

Uh Dan Ryder and uh other staff at the Clean Water Plant gave a very nice tour.

So thanks to Dan, Zach, and Hunter uh for providing that uh tour to the group here.

So thank you all for coming.

Yes, thank you all for being very engaged.

That's always wonderful.

Uh city attorney's report.

Nothing.

Uh city administrators report.

I'll keep with the theme for this evening, no report.

Uh I'm gonna mess it up then.

Um I do have uh a resolution um for uh to honor the life of David Stearns.

Um and I'm just gonna read this out uh in its entirety because I feel like he deserves that respect from us.

Um so whereas Death has taken from our midst David Stearns, and whereas David Stearns served the city of Waukeshaw as alderperson, chair of the Waukeshaw Redevelopment Authority, and president of the Waukesha Public Library Board of Trustees.

And whereas David Stearns further served the broader community through his work with the South Side Business Council, Waukesha Lions Club, Waukesha Rotary Club, and his role as president of the Waukesha area of chamber commerce.

And whereas David Stearns will be remembered and live on through his beloved family, his wife Connie, his children Amy, Scott, Craig, and Sarah, numerous grandchildren and siblings, as well as the endless people he touched through his dedication to his community.

And whereas the city of Waukeshaw wants to remember and thank David Stearns for his service towards his community.

Now, therefore, be it known that this resolution be contained in the permanent records of the city of Waukesha, and that a copy thereof, duly certified by the mayor and the city clerk will be transmitted to the Stearns family.

All right, are there any referrals?

Wow.

All right.

Um, seeing none, unless there are any objections, we are adjourned.