Village Board and Staff — Minutes

MISHICOT VILLAGE BOARD Regular Meeting June 17, 2025 The Mishicot Village Board meeting was called to order by President Samz at 6:00 PM at the Mishicot Village Hall. Roll call indicated Trustees Becker, Beranek, Boettcher, Ferry, Franz, Rezek and Samz were present. Clerk Stiefvater, Chief Granger, John Tulachka, Kyle Junk, Mike Stafford, Elba Sanchez, Anabel Nieto, Hope & Derick Hagenow, Lorelai Rezek, Dean LeCaptain, Viktoria Mitlyng, Christine Bressler, John Foss (Sen. Ron Johnson office), Andy Breunig, and Andrea Novak were also present. President Samz led everyone in attendance in the Pledge of Allegiance. A motion was made by Trustee Becker to approve the June 3rd, 2025 meeting minutes as presented, seconded by Trustee Beranek. All in favor, motion was carried. Mike Stafford, Senior Resident Inspector for Point Beach Nuclear Plant gave a PowerPoint presentation on the overall inspection results for Point Beach in 2024. Kyle Junk expressed concerns/issues of the pull track on behalf of FFA Alumni. He noted the FFA Alumni tractor pull was a success by raising about $13,500 for 172 FFA students. He explained that the pull track is not in the shape it needs to be to hold events and the bleachers are not high enough to see the track. He asked the board if the FFA Alumni could do a fundraiser to raise money to fix the pull track. After further discussion between Mishicot Thunder, FFA Alumni and the board it was decided that Mishicot Thunder & FFA Alumni to work together to come up with a solution for the pull track. Christine Bressler from the MBA informed the board they have created a committee to start working on updating the village signs. Discussion was held; the committee will be working on designs/ideas to bring back to the village board. Chief Granger updated the board on police department activities. He gave an update on the municipal cases; Sippel case that was challenging the Village’s sex offender ordinance on sex offender registry restrictions has been found guilty so the Village won that case and Sippel no longer is residing in the Village, Weiler case regarding the snakes has a trial set for July 15th and the Wilhelm case challenging the sex offender ordinance has a trial set for August 20th. He also noted the Cadet Fundraiser is Saturday, June 21st starting at 9:00am until they run out of food at the Cenex. DPW John Tulachka informed the board that he has a meeting tomorrow with the WI DOT and engineer to discuss the Main St water & sewer project. He has a meeting on July 1st with the Manitowoc, Two Rivers, Mishicot Sewer Service Area to discuss updates on the sewer service area plan. He also noted there is a hold on the street for Woodland Properties development, waiting on approval from Two Rivers for acceptance of additional flow for sewer extension. Trustee Rezek noted he spoke Owen and should have the dirt pile gone within the month. Trustee Ferry noted the benches at the VFW are really worn and old, she will work on raising money to get new benches. President Samz asked the board if he would get a laptop, it would be the village’s laptop for the president position for emails, teams meetings, etc. He noted he currently doing it on his phone and it would be much easier on a laptop. Clerk Stiefvater will reach out to CyberTechs for a quote. Clerk Stiefvater presented the alcohol and tobacco license applications for the 2025-2026 licensing year. A motion was made by Trustee Becker to approve the tobacco license applications #1-3, Class B beer & liquor licenses #BLB-1-2025 to #BLB-10-2025, Class A beer & liquor licenses #ALB-1-2025 to #ALB-3-2025, and operator’s licenses #2025-1 to #2025-50, #2025-52 to #2025-89 as presented on the attached list, seconded by Trustee Ferry. All in favor, motion carried. President Samz introduced general fund claims in the amount of $35,484.93, water utility fund claims in the amount of $3,582.56 and sewer utility fund claims in the amount of $57,674.89 for board action. A motion was made by Trustee Ferry to accept the claims as presented and posted, seconded by Trustee Rezek that claims totaling $96,742.38 to be approved and the treasurer be authorized the same. Roll call indicated as follows: Ayes-7; Nays-0; Absent-0, motion carried. President Samz opened the public hearing and informed the public the hearing is for approval of a resolution to discontinue Kennedy Court and Trillium Court in the Village of Mishicot. The resolution was introduced at the May 20th board meeting. There were no public questions or concerns. A motion was made by Trustee Becker to approve Resolution 2025-02, a resolution to discontinue Kennedy Court and Trillium Court in the Village of Mishicot, seconded by Trustee Beranek. Roll call indicated as follows: Ayes-7; Nays-0; Absent-0, motion carried. The 2024 CMAR report was presented. A motion was made by Trustee Becker to approve Resolution 2025- 04 CMAR Report, seconded by Trustee Boettcher. Roll call indicated as follows: Ayes-7; Nays-0; Absent-0, motion carried. Clerk Stiefvater informed the board that CivicsPlus, village website host, is requiring the village to update the website to a new platform. The new platform annual fee will be $4,288.75 in 2026 and increase for future years; the current annual website fee is $2,734.95. Discussion was held, Clerk Stiefvater will look into other website hosts for quotes. At 7:05pm, a motion was made by Trustee Boettcher, seconded by Trustee Beranek to go into closed session pursuant to WI Statutes 19.85(1)(c) to consider employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation of public employees over with the Village of Mishicot exercises responsibility. Roll call indicated as follows: Ayes-7, Nays-0, Absent-0, motion carried. At 7:26pm, a motion was made Trustee Ferry, seconded by Trustee Rezek to reconvene into open session pursuant to WI Statutes 19.82(2) for possible action. Roll call indicated as follows: Ayes-7. Nays-0, Absent-0, motion carried. No action taken. A motion was made by Trustee Ferry, seconded by Trustee Boettcher to adjourn at 7:26pm until the next meeting on July 1, 2025. All in favor, motion carried. Respectfully Submitted by: Stephanie Stiefvater, Clerk-Treasurer