[0:01] So September 22nd, the Sustainability and Natural Resource Committee will now come to order at 7.30 p.m.

[0:12] So first order of business is roll call, best. Here. The Healer. Present.

[0:20] Here.

[0:22] Here.

[0:23] And Fenwick.

[0:23] Here.

[0:24] And Tim White is here.

[0:27] Pavela Bitch and Salsa is this absent.

[0:33] So move on to public participation.

[0:38] Participation.

[0:39] And we'll see that we have any.

[0:42] So let's go down to the consent agenda and consideration of August 25, 2026.

[0:50] So if we've had a chance to review those, I'd entertain a motion to approve.

[0:56] I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

[1:00] And a second?

[1:01] A second.

[1:02] So all in favor say aye.

[1:05] Aye.

[1:06] Opposed?

[1:07] Motion passes.

[1:08] Okay, we have no presentations.

[1:12] In the packet, you had a chair report.

[1:15] So if you had a chance to look at that, and also a green team report,

[1:22] so getting right

[1:24] down to the action items, consideration of 2027, capital improvement projects.

[1:34] So Gabe, do you want to handle this for a key recommendation for the store?

[1:42] You've already made the recommendation.

[1:45] Yeah.

[1:46] No, no, go ahead.

[1:46] So, there's two items that have been presented to the Finance Committee.

[1:56] What happened to the senior, but they're not what we actually recommended.

[2:01] You were rendered for the municipal center, municipal building and the community center.

[2:04] Correct, but the data doesn't state that in the packet.

[2:08] No, because you, I wasn't recommending a motion, I, if you look at the finance, but agenda for them all, it's all there.

[2:15] I saw that, I saw that, just this didn't get updated from last time, so I wasn't sure.

[2:20] Yeah, yeah, I have not I didn't I just use the same documents. Gotcha

[2:25] Is there nobody else has seen that financial information? Yeah, I'm a pro-Tanipore though. Oh, you're a fine

[2:39] You guys

[2:40] Can we ask them not to see if she can shut the you can shut the door. No, it's open door

[2:46] Well, that's true. Yeah, then you can't shut up, but you can tell them to. Yeah, you can ask them to whisper. Yeah, because thank you Aaron. That'll be funny coming.

[2:55] Yeah, right.

[2:59] So in.

[3:02] Thanks Aaron.

[3:05] The capital budget discussion for tomorrow from finance.

[3:09] and you have the two solar projects on there.

[3:14] Municipal building and community center,

[3:16] I think recommending the municipal building

[3:18] because I think there's unknown

[3:19] it's about the roof of the community center.

[3:22] Cause what?

[3:23] There's unknowns about the roof of the community center

[3:25] of Hollywood.

[3:26] Like unknown issues.

[3:27] Yeah, just, we need to replace it soon.

[3:28] What's the long term longevity of it?

[3:31] All of that.

[3:32] So, and Jeff and I have not been able to have that

[3:34] a little conversation about it.

[3:36] so I think municipal buildings are probably our best bet but is it possible I

[3:43] mean after the hearing and it's been decided that if in fact the roof is a good

[3:52] bet we could go back to the community center you could yeah if you budget for

[3:57] the municipal building you could go to the community center but you couldn't go

[4:02] So we have two projects listed on this.

[4:08] Is it possible they get both projects across the line?

[4:13] Probably not.

[4:14] Probably.

[4:15] Right.

[4:16] We talked about that last time that we proposed to.

[4:18] Right.

[4:19] Knowing that we can probably get one right.

[4:20] Right.

[4:21] But you still are in prison.

[4:22] I'm sure the reason is to.

[4:24] Yep.

[4:24] Kind of.

[4:26] But then my hat as your wrap.

[4:29] I'm presenting to my head.

[4:30] is the finance person. I will be recommending one.

[4:45] They may push me to lay a year. Who knows?

[4:49] Right now you have two as the ask and then finance will do what finance does.

[4:56] So assuming we do get one across, how do we handle getting some getting bids because it's

[5:04] be competitive beds. Yep, so you would do that started in January. Yep, and generally

[5:13] for a project this size, how many you would want? You would want to open it up the RP,

[5:19] send it to 10-ish people. That's always what I do, unless there's not 10 people who could

[5:26] do this work. And then it doesn't matter the mountain that you get back. You could get

[5:32] one back you can get five back that part doesn't matter in fact it's just the

[5:37] fact that it was opened up and people could apply for it. Should this go

[5:41] through like Jeff like how does this work like I mean we're not. Jeff and

[5:47] Jordy would be very much involved and if you do it at the building here then

[5:52] really just me if it's at the community center then Jill and Jill as the

[5:58] department heads in that building would also need to play a role. But as far as

[6:01] project management goals. I mean, we're not project management for construction sites.

[6:05] So, like, would someone else handle it for us in the village?

[6:09] You guys would kind of oversee it, I guess, I would run it with Jordy and Jeff.

[6:13] I'm not just curious.

[6:16] Okay, well, if it's the village, the municipal building, how much do you, I mean, this was

[6:25] prepared a year and a half ago? How much do we look at for inflation?

[6:36] I don't know

[6:36] 3% each year probably 4% a year. Okay. What was the question and an

[6:42] understanding? Just as far as we've got our costs from when he prepared it was

[6:48] just wondering about inflation. Oh understood okay. I put it into the budget for

[6:54] tomorrow 91,100 and 90,500. So I use the numbers that was probably the document.

[7:01] Okay.

[7:07] Well, any other discussion on those? I just like can't read the line items there,

[7:13] but we had worked with the Public Works Committee to get the pedestrian bicycle safety items into

[7:22] there and is it still? Yeah okay. Was it 65? Yeah and there's also the thousand

[7:33] dollars which will have to operate next year for this committee. Yeah as of

[7:39] right now in the operating budget. Again subject to looking at how the budget rolls

[7:44] but that is as the moment. Okay.

[7:50] Okay. Any other discussion about us?

[7:56] The

[7:56] interested to do a 10 tomorrow. It'll be a good one. Okay, consideration of

[8:02] participating in the Madison Group by Promotion and

[8:09] a little bit of

[8:09] background. I was going to try to connect with Madison to see if they have a

[8:14] prepared flyer and call three times and have yet to get a reply. But I'll keep

[8:22] trying. And if they have something like that, I mean, pretty

[8:29] down that all we'd have to do is put out a logo or something.

[8:33] I think that would serve the purpose. And I was wondering too,

[8:42] we can't participate as a municipality in the group by, but we

[8:47] can use those three contractors, I would think, right? I mean,

[8:51] it's not a group by, but we know that these are established contractors for the group by.

[9:00] What's the group by, I guess, or what are you hoping to do?

[9:06] With the solar project that we have to our solar project, to have them in the bidding process,

[9:14] it's pretty different to our project. This is separate. You're talking about homes for

[9:21] participating in a group by.

[9:25] Yes. But who are the three

[9:28] contractors? I don't know. These three? Yeah. The arc solar.

[9:33] Midwest and the arch. I don't think there'd be anything stopping us from asking

[9:40] them to quote on those other things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[9:51] So any other

[9:54] discussion on the group by I don't really have. I thought I'd bring something

[9:58] to the meeting tonight, but I didn't work out.

[10:04] So any other thoughts on that though?

[10:06] I think just understanding the parameters,

[10:08] like how you present it to the community,

[10:12] timetables, just things like that.

[10:14] And I think you probably probably should go

[10:15] in front of the utilities commission as well.

[10:18] Yeah, for that, yeah.

[10:21] For coordination with.

[10:22] We have a history of using that for inserts.

[10:27] So last, what we did was on idling reduction.

[10:33] So,

[10:38] moving down to C, we received a progress update on the village's bike friendly community

[10:47] designation.

[10:48] So the survey, community survey closed shortly after the Labor Day.

[10:55] So now they're working on compiling our report and I expect this, I think in the email

[11:00] and I said like in November, we would find out how we did

[11:04] and if we got it as a nation or not.

[11:07] So really, we're kind of in a holding pattern right now

[11:10] until that happens and then the 27 budget money,

[11:14] we can start planning on how to implement the plan next year.

[11:21] So, curious, when they give us feedback

[11:25] because they give us our marching orders, what we need?

[11:28] If we don't, yeah, it'll be a full report of why we, where we fall short and where we

[11:35] need to improve.

[11:36] And I think, I don't think you can apply every year.

[11:40] I think it'd be the, we'd have maybe every two, three years that you can apply to try

[11:46] it in.

[11:47] So, yeah, they'll give us a full report of, well, and right and wrong.

[11:53] To be fair, what we don't know that yet.

[11:55] We'll find out in November.

[11:56] Okay.

[11:56] Gotcha.

[11:56] after November 3rd.

[11:59] We'll cut.

[12:01] Thanks.

[12:04] Okay.

[12:05] Thank you Scott.

[12:07] Yeah.

[12:08] Just a side note on that.

[12:11] The last night was a safety commission and.

[12:17] And they discussed the.

[12:21] The crosswalk.

[12:23] And figuring out the best crosswalks.

[12:27] And then also the having signage downtown for e-bikes that you would have to walk your bike

[12:38] on sidewalks downtown.

[12:41] And so we have an actual signage so people know that.

[12:44] And that applies to both e-bike and regular bikes.

[12:47] And scooters.

[12:52] So at Stewart, you know, after we had the issues with Yvikes and Stewart, what Dane County

[12:57] Park did was put up two signs.

[12:59] One of them says no bicycles, and there's like a, you know, the slash Stewart, you know,

[13:06] the bicycle image.

[13:07] And then right underneath that, it says no motorized vehicles, so that's how they covered

[13:12] it.

[13:13] Whoa, there's some problem.

[13:15] Yvikes and Stewart.

[13:16] Uh-huh.

[13:16] just on the trails. Oh, and almost like running people over. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I think also

[13:26] pertinent to the bike friendly community is we a lot of you saw a part of that was the trails

[13:34] trails presentation that Mike Healy gave and I think that would be a good thing for us to

[13:40] to have and so Mike said we he could do that next month so can I make a request

[13:47] that he just sends us the presentation and we review it rather than sit

[13:53] through all that I didn't cut that career I said can I request that he just

[13:57] sends us the presentation he just sends that to the committee and we review it

[14:02] rather than sit through everything that yeah we just sat through yeah okay yeah

[14:08] Yeah, rather than yeah, I think time to ask questions and discuss things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[14:17] Any other discussions on bike friendly community?

[14:22] Otherwise, we'll move right along to her city, Proclamation.

[14:29] Can you pull stuff up here? Please. Thank you.

[14:36] I sent a bunch of, I think,

[14:41] six different.

[14:41] So, this is just the proclamation.

[14:44] Right.

[14:45] But yeah.

[14:48] The idea is to proclaim October,

[14:53] 2026 as bird city in Mount Hurrah.

[14:56] And so, it's just a proclamation saying,

[14:58] We

[15:00] We think birds are great, basically, and, you know, it's like we're now part of the bird city network. And I mean I could read this, but I can't see it that we've heard proclamations. Right. And it's just, it's just kind of, you know, it's like a fun thing to essentially say, hey, you know, this is October. It's migration time. Let's enjoy the birds. And it's, it would be an easy thing and a fun thing for the village board to pass. So hopefully y'all read this. And the SNR would make

[15:29] a recommendation to the village board that they proclaim October 26th as bird city month or

[15:37] as bird month. I'll make a recommendation that we propose to declare October as bird city,

[15:45] bird month, for Mount Hart. I'll second. Thank you. Okay, we have a motion in a second. All in

[15:56] favorite say hi. Hi. Hi. Question? Um, is this okay as a draft? And then you gave

[16:04] take it and put it into the. Yeah, but you make it pretty. I'll make it pretty.

[16:08] Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then Ryan officially signs it as

[16:13] village president. So he'll read it and sign it. Oh, the question I had was, um, perhaps having a

[16:20] if we can put this in the paper as a news story to have a photograph of, um,

[16:26] Um, I don't know, maybe giving a carry-up population.

[16:31] Yeah.

[16:32] If you want to reach out, we can have that paper.

[16:35] Yeah, I'm off for it.

[16:36] I think it'd be cool to, well, I mean, figure out how we can get, like, um,

[16:40] QR code or something to all this stuff you've made in the paper.

[16:45] That would be amazing.

[16:47] Like, wherever the accessibility of your next stuff you're going to present.

[16:51] So that would be awesome.

[16:54] Okay.

[16:54] Okay. Is this going to live on our website?

[16:58] So that will be on the agenda for week from tomorrow.

[17:04] What date is the village organ?

[17:05] 7th.

[17:10] Okay.

[17:10] A consideration of 2026 October or bird city activities and events.

[17:18] So carry out.

[17:19] If you do not need to vote on all of these, it's just these with the things that carry created.

[17:25] your motion can just be the items presented.

[17:29] You do not have to have any virtual votes.

[17:31] Just make it that clear.

[17:33] Okay.

[17:34] I just want to give a recognition to Liz Grabby

[17:40] for green team president and chamber of commerce executive

[17:44] director, Alison Plummer, who helped create all of this

[17:47] because without the two of them donating their time

[17:51] energy and creativity these would not have happened so I just want to make sure

[17:57] that you know we acknowledge their input and assistance. That's great. So we got

[18:04] the proclamation John. So if you want to go back to the bird bingo and then I

[18:13] send some text information of how we could do bird bingo as well and it's just

[18:18] it, you know, fun, right? The month of October, and so the idea is to have those bird images,

[18:26] like the red tailed hawk, the red headed woodpecker, the, if you go back to the pretty pictures,

[18:32] there you go, perfect. So each one of those pictures is going to be in a business window,

[18:38] like right around Main Street, and so like if Scott says with his, with his, you know,

[18:43] family visiting, hey, you want to play bird bingo, and so they each get a bingo card

[18:47] from the Chamber of Commerce and they just go to the different businesses and let's say you know

[18:52] let's say sifton winnow has got the red tailed hawk number eight picture in their window you walk

[18:57] in and then you get that stamped once you fill out your bingo card you go to the Chamber of Commerce

[19:03] and you get a free prize bird city sticker those are the prizes so that's the idea just for the whole

[19:10] month of October again just for something fun to do and Allison's going to have some of these

[19:16] available as well as the kids table for that not-whore-to-fall festival.

[19:23] So I'm requesting officially that the SNR

[19:28] gives the Chamber of Commerce $125 to help print these.

[19:35] She's got a contract, you know, with a printer already.

[19:38] So the front side and then the back side where, you know, it says

[19:43] who the different birds are and where you can find them, there you go, perfect.

[19:50] And obviously this is a draft, right? So like six, seven, eight, ten, it's going to be six, seven, eight, nine, right?

[19:57] You know, but we want to get these two folks. And with each brief descriptor, there's a location of where

[20:03] you can go and see actual birds of these types in the Mount Horbaria. So that's one thing that would be

[20:10] printed on not just paper but like a decent card stock, you know so you can walk

[20:15] around with it about the size of your cell phone so you know it's easy to

[20:19] transport and then the next thing would be gave what I sent that image of

[20:26] what we're calling the bird education information not this yeah that one

[20:33] perfect, perfect. And this is what Liz Grabby created. No AI, 100% human content. And this is going

[20:45] to be posted in different areas in Mount Horob. In addition to the businesses, we're going to ask if

[20:51] they want to put this up, if they don't, that's fine. But we're calling it the bird education poster

[20:57] because it's going to be posted in different places. So like the library, triple-sisterium,

[21:03] That's just the second view is just miscellaneous where we just need to focus on that one where all the logos and all the different organizations that are participated in this and again given their time for doing this and it's just more education.

[21:22] So in terms of public outreach and education, this is how we're going to be reaching the community for that.

[21:29] And so that printing, and then the bird bingo, Allison from the Chamber of Commerce would do that printing in coordination with her print contractor.

[21:39] So if we could give the chamber $125 to help with those printing costs, that would be fantastic.

[21:48] Yeah, I think it may, I'm sorry, we're thinking maybe 12 of those posters, those bird education posters in strategic locations.

[21:58] Yeah, I would just make a submission to Denise and we still have money in the budget for doing that.

[22:07] Do we have to vote on that?

[22:09] I don't know.

[22:10] Do we need to vote on that?

[22:15] Yeah.

[22:16] Yeah, let's have a motion.

[22:21] The chamber is going to be splitting that cost with us, so it's not like we're doing all of that cost.

[22:30] So no here emotion for $25 for printing cost or bird city information emotion is just

[22:42] discussed.

[22:46] What do you say?

[22:47] Oh, emotion as you described.

[22:49] Yes.

[22:52] Second.

[22:52] I'll second.

[22:53] I can't.

[22:55] All in favor say aye.

[22:56] Aye.

[22:57] Opposed?

[22:58] Motion passes.

[22:59] Awesome.

[23:00] Thank you, guys.

[23:00] Thank you.

[23:02] And then, oops, Gabe, I want to go back to that one for the library.

[23:07] And then all of these are on line two.

[23:09] Yeah, attachment.

[23:11] So, yes.

[23:12] Oh.

[23:13] Yes.

[23:14] They're in the agenda packet.

[23:15] Yes.

[23:15] Thank you.

[23:18] That poster, that one, perfect.

[23:21] On the 5th of October, the Monhar Public Library and SNR is co-sponsoring co-hosting presentations.

[23:29] presentation called the mystery of my version.

[23:32] It's at one o'clock in the afternoon,

[23:34] which isn't the ideal time,

[23:36] but we're hoping people will come

[23:38] because there's gonna be snacks.

[23:40] So, there you go.

[23:41] And I think it's an early release as well.

[23:44] So, that's kind of, right?

[23:45] I think it's an early one.

[23:46] No, it's the week after,

[23:47] because I'm termed Madison on the 12th, so.

[23:50] Oh, well.

[23:51] Well, you know, you could come sneak out.

[23:54] As a school activity for an hour, right?

[23:57] Free snacks, anyway.

[23:58] But yeah, so that has all been coordinated by the library.

[24:03] So thank you very much, Melissa Roe-Elle for doing all of that work.

[24:09] And the last thing about bird October month, 2026 is this draft that I put together

[24:19] as a story for the Mountain Horror Mail.

[24:21] And in there, we're going to stick the QR code for our public page.

[24:24] And so I hope y'all had a chance to look at this.

[24:29] It's a little over 800 and 80 words or something.

[24:34] Matt has always asked us to keep it between 6 and 800.

[24:37] But I think he'll be okay with that.

[24:40] If you guys don't have any glaring edits or, you know,

[24:45] changes that you want to see to this.

[24:47] After I get permission, hopefully from the committee tonight,

[24:51] I'll send this to Matt Geiger and it can go in.

[24:53] the month or mail soon so that people can be aware of that 5th of October event at the library.

[25:01] One thing I did in that, I think you referenced that the board has passed the proclamation.

[25:07] So just want to get the timing right if board meeting happens, what is that on the 7th?

[25:13] On the 7th, okay, I am.

[25:14] You might have a make sure to delay that and so it's after it.

[25:19] Or not delay it and just say proclamation has been submitted.

[25:23] We'll be, yeah, you know, reviewed or whatever I can word smith that but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wrote it in bands thinking

[25:31] Of course they're good. I mean the likelihood of not passing this film obviously that no, I like that. It's true.

[25:37] The SNR recommended to the villager. Thank you. Thank you.

[25:41] All right. I will make those edits. The other thing is with the bird bingo. Is there any chance that

[25:47] I don't know if that could be included as like a fun

[25:50] Um, um, I don't know, printed in Monhar mail without work, too, so that it would be super

[25:57] cute.

[25:57] We need to look at kids.

[25:58] Kids pay.

[25:59] I can ask.

[26:00] Yeah.

[26:01] Yeah.

[26:01] I mean, it's that.

[26:02] And it's promoting businesses in town, too, with them snapping there.

[26:06] So because by that time, I'll have the businesses lined up.

[26:10] So yeah, I mean, you could do a little smaller snapshot, right?

[26:13] And then say where to go get it.

[26:15] Yeah.

[26:16] That'd be cool.

[26:17] Carrie, if you think about that suggestion, thank you.

[26:20] I can, I mean, I can say, I can, yeah.

[26:23] So I would go over what you think you need for posters,

[26:28] because they do disappear sometimes

[26:32] and they want to print extra.

[26:36] For an extra?

[26:37] And if you're gonna have the bingo, bingo,

[26:40] done another time in the village,

[26:42] you'd probably get a text or an act.

[26:45] to probably get a price break on quantity.

[26:50] Right, I'm leaving that up to Alison and her connections.

[26:53] You know what I mean?

[26:54] But that's what we said,

[26:55] we're thinking 300 to start with,

[26:58] and we'll just see how it goes with the bingo cards.

[27:00] You know, we may have a run, well, first day.

[27:03] You know what I mean?

[27:04] Or they may sit for half a month,

[27:06] so that seemed reasonable to start with 300.

[27:11] Okay, cool.

[27:12] Thanks, you guys.

[27:13] That's that's yeah. No, thank you. It's awesome. Work and organization

[27:19] I told you we're gonna do stuff in our cover. You were right

[27:23] Hey, we ended we ended up we started late and we're gonna finish up early, so

[27:30] Last order of business is adjourned, but do I hear a

[27:37] Let me just say not to do those we are not allowed to do those because they're not on the agenda

[27:42] So if you have any future gen items, I reach out to Tim and I and we can add them

[27:46] But we cannot discuss future gen items because they're not on the agenda

[27:51] We changed anything that's a look anything that's if it's not strictly posted on the agenda

[27:56] You're now allowed to discuss it. So future gen items since it's too broad. It's it's technically not a lot

[28:05] You've been skating by for years. I know. I'm like, this is new. Okay. Um, so

[28:10] So how much lead time do you need Gabe and Tim to include an item on the agenda?

[28:20] It would be good if we had a week before the meeting, rather than a day before.

[28:27] A week before the meeting would be great.

[28:29] It would be perfectly fine.

[28:32] Yeah, a week before the meeting.

[28:34] And that's for all committees.

[28:39] Perfect.

[28:42] I'll make a motion to adjourn.

[28:44] Second.

[28:45] Second.

[28:46] It was going twice.

[28:48] All right, they were saying aye.

[28:49] Aye.

[28:50] Opposed?

[28:51] Motion passes.

[28:52] Sneeding adjourned.

[28:54] They can be moving.

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