[0:03] we're not going live because we're
having issues with that at the we won't
[0:06] be going
[0:15] liveed all right we'll call the common
council meeting of Monday February 3rd
[0:21] order roll call please Amy Johnson here
Lee dashlet here Casey bore here Wayne
[0:29] SCH here M Swedberg here Scott mean here
John ort Le here Kevin Schmidt will not
[0:37] be in attendance
tonight for pledge
[0:43] pleas I pledge aliance to the flag of
the United States of America and to the
[0:49] repblic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and
[0:55] justice for all
[1:00] could you confirm the meeting in
compliance with the open meeting La yes
[1:04] it is thank
you I would look for a motion to approve
[1:08] or make changes to the agenda so move by
mij second by John all in
[1:17] favor
oppos
[1:20] cares did everyone look at the meeting
minutes from January 6th and any
[1:27] questions or a motion to approve them
[1:35] so by m I'll second second by Amy all in
[1:45] favor is there anybody here tonight for
public
[1:51] comment nobody for public
[1:57] comment and one last time
good thank
[2:03] you and did everybody look at the bills
in credit card payments and any
[2:09] questions I just want to point a
clarification for the public at Jeff
[2:14] sports bar bill for the holid Christmas
party was reimbursed by the employees
[2:18] that attended the party it was not
anything that the city paid for out of
[2:22] tax dollar that is
[2:25] correct just raise one question about uh
the bill for last last down $16,000
[2:34] in seems no um they had not build us for
approximately 3 years and then caught
[2:40] their mistake so that goes back to 2022
all that explain was so high yeah lot of
[2:46] back actually three years
[2:53] of so all that entire bill was ped to
2024 because at least some of it was
[2:58] incurred then none of it is coming out
of the 2025
[3:02] budget it just said underneath your
attorney Fe bills in 2025 yeah and then
[3:07] there's detail you may not see all of
the detail but it's broken out by um
[3:11] which count it goes to and then which
year CU there multiple years
[3:18] being so I know you always said they
don't build us so that explains that but
[3:22] how do they justify going back few years
like a
[3:27] little he came in and talked to me and
said M it's a billing company that works
[3:34] with them that not sure where the
disconnect was but me and Jim had a long
[3:41] talk about it to rectify where it's
supposed to be okay I believe it because
[3:45] you've said many times I've heard you
say we don't get a bell we don't get a
[3:49] bell we sent emails he we want to close
our books can you send something over
[3:54] here okay any other questions
[4:01] a motion to approve
them motion by
[4:07] John I'll second
[4:11] second wedberg yes or
Le yes Wayne Schmid yes Johnson yes
[4:18] dashlet yes mean
yes all the committee
[4:25] reports everyone had a chance to look at
them
[4:30] motion to accept second by Casey to
accept them all I'll second second by
[4:36] Lee all favor I
po
[4:43] cares I don't see any license
applications anything to add nope no
[4:47] license applications thank you old
business are we are these just Place
[4:53] holders m i yeah I just want to touch
base on a couple of things just to let
[4:57] everybody know where it's at myself the
mayor and the fire chief sat down on the
[5:02] fire department and rescue building um
last week and I was hoping to have
[5:07] something here by Friday a a updated set
of plans or a set of plans um with some
[5:14] dimensions on them uh the fire chief
does have a set of plans he got them
[5:19] Friday early afternoon um and has spent
a little bit of time uh waiting for the
[5:25] plants to come um all day today I talked
with Jim th and and the plans um with
[5:32] dimensions on them literally came into
my email as I was sitting down in here
[5:36] so myself and the chief will be going
through those tomorrow um and then
[5:41] report back to how that
goes I will do
[5:46] that so that is all I have at this time
on the fire department building uh
[5:52] libraries you have anything on that uh
Administration police Library building
[5:57] um the department heads police chief uh
the head of the library Cathy myself and
[6:01] Jamie were over there we went through
some things um Friday with band and I'm
[6:08] hoping to have a new set of plans we do
have a pretty good set of plans but
[6:12] there are a couple changes but I was
hoping to have those for you tonight but
[6:16] because of the amount of changes um it's
going to be a little bit yet before I
[6:20] have a set of plans for that and as soon
as I get those to everybody my intent is
[6:26] that we would then send those to their
estimators and get a price on that I'm
[6:31] hoping to have that price of where that
kind of falls into place for finance and
[6:37] personnel and that's not going out to
bed that would be just getting a kind of
[6:41] a placeholder dollar amount so and there
a library decided to come this uh that's
[6:48] still a conversation um there's lots
lots to go before that decision is made
[6:59] other questions for
[7:03] M move on new business resolution 128
2025 mayor salary increase effective
[7:12] four of
2026
[7:19] uh that's the resolution that was passed
uh for the mayor um that it is clear
[7:25] that it would not take place till after
the mayor's election which would not be
[7:30] this April it would be next April of
2026 so also Mo second move by way
[7:37] second by
John please
[7:41] mean yes Wayne Schmidt yes Johnson yes
dashlet yes B no Swedberg yes bortle yes
[7:53] motion
[7:57] carries resolution 12 19 2025 the
Wisconsin Humane Society Animal Services
[8:05] agreement I was brought to the city
council as part of finance and Personnel
[8:11] um to work with the Wisconsin Humane
Society um I don't see there's been
[8:16] nothing that's changed uh the police
chief doesn't have a problem with it
[8:20] more or less this gives us an outlet uh
a place to where we can bring animals um
[8:26] that no longer suit our shelter after
that grace period time is lapsed so we
[8:32] deliver the ad uh we deliver or there's
the pause for cause that's came spoke to
[8:37] everybody right they would be willing to
work with us as well um for some
[8:42] transport okay if if needed
yeah and do these animals then go to
[8:48] Luxembourg is that where they go I see
that lady there here
[8:52] from is that where the animals go or do
they kind of go to different shelters
[8:57] they'll go to the Wisconsin Human
Society either Brown County or D County
[9:01] oh okay thank you yes there there is not
a Wisconsin me a shelter in kumman
[9:07] County so they would either go up north
to county or into Brown County okay
[9:12] thank you they have done a lot of work
on this and have made it as easy for the
[9:16] city as they put it phenomenal so I
appreciate that make a motion to approve
[9:23] second motion by case second by name all
in favor I'm sorry take please dashlet
[9:30] yes for Le yes for yes Johnson yes way
Schmid yes Swedberg yes mean yes thank
[9:39] you and then the creation of an ad hoc
committee for the admid library
[9:45] building the Bank building you want to
start with yeah so this would be school
[9:50] district Aloma School District um
obviously has some interest of when we
[9:57] get there what we part with this
property here um so they started the
[10:03] conversation the school district has
formed an ad hoc committee where they
[10:07] are um have a couple of their school
board members and asked if we would put
[10:11] a couple together to kind of start the
conversation um this isn't making any
[10:16] decisions this is to Simply have a
conversation of what the city's intent
[10:23] will be when we get there of what we
will do with this property here
[10:28] obviously the school school has a lot of
interest we own more or less right up to
[10:32] the ELA School District's property um
and this third of the block per se or
[10:39] two twoth thirds of the block um that is
kind of the start of this they would
[10:44] like to meet tomorrow morning at 4 or
sorry tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in the
[10:49] afternoon um to kind of start the the
looks at this building and and where it
[10:55] goes from there
[10:59] uh the appointment says two council
members uh the school has five members
[11:03] on their part of the ad hoc committee uh
so I made that three council members uh
[11:10] myself Matt I asked Scott and John and
Wayne if they would be a part of this ad
[11:16] hoc committee so there are question is
this always going to meet on the first
[11:21] Tuesday of the month it is I think
that's something we will talk about
[11:25] tomorrow at 4:30 about when these
meetings would will not be able to
[11:29] attend the first meeting first Tuesday
the month I at 4:30 I have trustees from
[11:35] okay if that's going to present a
problem then I don't think
[11:45] it okay that's fine is there any
objections I guess to those three
[11:51] members being on this Comm do we have to
like because there's two points here
[11:55] right before the the appointment the the
creation of that is that I mean is that
[11:58] an actual thing first and then the
appointments we have to establish the
[12:03] that that we're going to have an ad hoc
committee first correct correct yes I I
[12:08] think we should take them the creation
of the ad hoc committee as one and then
[12:13] the three appointees if that's what
we're going to have that's fine I was
[12:16] going top them
together so I gu for a motion I'll make
[12:23] a motion to approve the creation of the
ad
[12:28] committees Scot second
[12:33] John it's up to
[Music]
[12:36] you
Johnson I'm going to
[12:40] have dashlet yeah Wayne Schmid yes mean
yes Swedberg yes or yes or Le yes thank
[12:51] you and then the appointments that I
mentioned uh there are no objection I
[12:57] just need a clarification so your
appointing got Wayne and John correct
[13:01] but you and Matt are also going to be on
correct there'll be five of us so that
[13:05] that's I was just I got confused as we
went from 3 to 5 so all right thank you
[13:12] y I'll make a motion to approve the
council
[13:18] members by second by
Le I guess all in favor that three of
[13:25] them are on there so all in favor
[13:31] thank you and then the letter of support
to the Kiani County for
[13:36] Broadband yes this is something that uh
the county has reached out to ask if
[13:41] they are applying for some more Grant
assistance to continue broad Broadband
[13:46] throughout the county um the county has
uh kind of vetted a process and decided
[13:52] to work um with this company be to try
to continue to put the backbone
[13:58] infrastructure and throughout the county
um this grant theoretically will not
[14:03] help the city at all um it's our rural
areas um part of the grant though is if
[14:09] they get the cities and Villages I think
they get two or three points for every
[14:14] municipality that would support or send
a letter of support in this um the towns
[14:19] I think they only get one port uh one
point for so they're asking for the city
[14:24] for to sign a letter of support um if we
would be in favor of them it they're
[14:31] applying for it they're up against a lot
of other uh counties to receive this but
[14:37] it would be a letter of support for the
county to work to try to expand um
[14:42] Broadband out into the rural communities
outside of the city here in the
[14:47] countywide rural areas clarify for me
the two points per City for per
[14:54] recommendation per per letter of support
from a municip
[15:00] it has to be it has to be adopted here
at the city council level so if anybody
[15:05] just sends a letter of support it
doesn't count for
[15:08] anything your letter is essentially this
letter here um with the okay from the
[15:15] city council so I just want to make
sure send eight separate letters on no
[15:23] are they no longer working with bu
tussle this this would be a separate
[15:27] grant that would bug tussle would still
be doing the the work for say this is to
[15:34] get some grant funding to help pay for
that so bug tussle would still be the
[15:41] the provider of the installation and Bug
tussle would still be the one that you
[15:46] would be getting your internet services
from well the only reason I asked that
[15:51] because in this when you read this it
shows um you know and I'm wondering well
[15:59] then they must be going to run this up
to the person's house or whatever if you
[16:04] look under there thought monthly fiber
subscription rates so then the
[16:10] individuals would be contracting with
them to get the
[16:17] Broadband that is a great
question and the answer is
[16:23] yes okay yes it is the answer is it is
it is that this company are
[16:29] this is a federal deal y there's grant
money available and they have certain
[16:34] time frames to get their application in
to get the grant money MH and that's why
[16:39] they want our support the county was
very very big was
[16:43] unanimous to go to go with these guys
because what they were saying is there's
[16:48] no outlay from the county or any of the
cities to get this done and every person
[16:53] in our County will get access to the
internet through this system yes they
[16:59] will pay a fee and it will it will all
it will cover the whole County and every
[17:02] home in the county will have access to
the internet through this system the
[17:07] quicker we get this approved the quicker
the county uh uh can add this onto their
[17:14] list which will help them get the money
to get this all done and hopefully when
[17:18] it's all done it won't cost the county
anything they do have to provide some um
[17:24] land here and there for the uh
uh I Communications part of this uh and
[17:32] they've agreed to do that but there's no
outlay of money so they were very
[17:35] excited that they could get internet to
everybody and not have to lay out in me
[17:39] well then what happened to all the money
that they invested in this bug tussle
[17:43] what did what did they get well they
still they're still going on and they
[17:46] will still they they're still they have
their services they're they're putting
[17:50] the infrastructure in so so bug tle is
putting everything down every street
[17:56] down every road okay they're putting the
fight
[17:59] backb in now the way I'm understanding
it now in talking listening to John is
[18:05] they this will get you from the street
up to your house so it's like a a
[18:10] charter or a spect
[18:14] yes a question in the the letter because
I assume that's the form letter that we
[18:18] would or mayor would sign the fourth
paragraph found it says uh seeking be
[18:23] funding to expand Broadband services in
the city of ela of Kiani County but
[18:27] that's not the case we already have it
we don't really call a FY um it's really
[18:33] hard to count um but if you look at the
map it's all in black and white um the
[18:39] eligible areas don't line up in the city
of Vela at all sure it's all a rural
[18:45] outside of the city sure should the
verbiage not be included in there then a
[18:49] form letter this is a form letter that
they sent ask for this asking for
[18:53] support that's a cookie cutter that we
used and more or less put it on our
[18:57] letter head
[Applause]
[19:07] so you're just looking for a motion to
support if that is something that the
[19:10] city would like to do I'd be looking for
a motion any more I'll make a motion to
[19:16] to I'll second that second by John sorry
uh is any more conversation so we can
[19:23] only send one letter to municipality we
can only send one letter yeah moral
[19:28] points get the more money they will get
to do this correct that's the idea all
[19:34] in favor of the
[19:41] motion
[19:44] report is um just a couple of things um
I've been covering kind of a bulk of it
[19:50] with the fire department and the uh
thing on placeholders on the agenda but
[19:54] just a reminder again here uh November
1st through April first when it snows um
[20:00] tomorrow morning Crews will be out make
sure your vehicles are off the street uh
[20:04] just a reminder for everybody keep
paying attention to the uh police
[20:08] department's Facebook page uh that Chief
keep you updated kind of of where that's
[20:12] going and then the next thing I'm just
going to turn it over to Aon because it
[20:16] seems like three weeks went by but we're
back to election season all right thanks
[20:21] Matt upcoming 2025 election dates um
February 18th 2025 is the spring primary
[20:27] the polls open at 7:00 and they close at
8 absentee ballots have been mailed out
[20:31] to those with a valid request on file
early inperson voting begins tomorrow
[20:36] Tuesday February 4th and concludes
Friday February 14th voting takes place
[20:40] in the clerk's office during normal
business
[20:43] hours what is actually on the ballot
besides the Supreme Court that is it I
[20:48] think it's just the state superintendent
there's one thing on the
[20:52] ballot um I do have one thing to add
that's not an election um don't forget
[20:56] to get your dog t um dog licenses are
due by March
[21:05] 31st all right that is if nobody has any
questions that's all I
[21:11] have Good's got her she's got her shot
now last
[21:16] week the
van all right we move on uh we had our
[21:23] casual conversations uh Matt and I went
down John came the chief uh fire chief
[21:28] came down appreciate that uh we had a
pretty good turnout to start with for
[21:33] about an hour and actually very good
conversation very respectful
[21:38] conversation even with
concerns um and then it kind of petered
[21:42] out after that so uh next meeting to be
determined maybe listen to see what
[21:49] people say about the meeting we had
should have done this could have been at
[21:53] this time whatever uh or we make some
progress in our projects and then we
[21:57] report that
um so the next meeting probably just to
[22:01] be uh determined uh again the people
that did show up I really appreciate it
[22:07] there was a lot of good conversation to
start with uh for about an hour I would
[22:12] say and then uh we moved on we brought a
table full of information uh everything
[22:18] that we have going on I think got it all
and then uh a lot of history uh things
[22:24] they could look at tax information
budget information it was all there
[22:28] someone wanted to look at
it so I feel like went good even though
[22:35] I wish we would
had anything I
[22:40] don't it's very good had a good turnout
it's good question I got a lot of it was
[22:45] usual questions dogs garbage in
somebody's yard you know stuff like that
[22:50] but they got around to the bigger issues
too
[22:52] so I think everybody appreciated that
that you were willing to stand up there
[22:57] and do that that's great
was good and appreciate the work you're
[23:01] doing as well Tommy answered a couple of
questions and tried to answer a couple
[23:05] of questions and
I so thank
[23:10] you and that's all I have on that any
agenda items for the next
[23:15] meeting Aaron or Jamie our next meeting
is Monday March 3rd at
[23:23] 5:00 toj
[23:29] second second by Lee all in
favor
[23:34] oppos carries we