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Smith questioned if the members of the BID Board lived within the Business District. His interpretation of ‘occupy’meant to live within the district, not just represent a business.Mark Craig 804 Adams Street explained and clarified many of the questions of the composition of the BID Board.Also, he said that all of the BID Board meetings have been published and are open to the public and anyone thatwants to come to the meetings can. He also explained that he is a representative for a company within the BIDdistrict and has been for the last 17 years. ‘Occupy” doesn’t mean that someone has to live within the district, butrepresent businesses within the district. Additionally, Craig said that this is the first increase in 13 years.Jacobson read from the statutes that the members can be owners or representative of the BID businesses, thusclarifying the issue of the term ‘occupy.’Motion to approve by Gehin, second by Kellbach to approve the recommendation. Passed 5-0.7) Discussion and possible action regarding the 2018 Room Tax Budget and Continuing appropriationRequest.Groat explained that the city could fulfill these requests up to 88%. Also, the budget that was submitted didn’tinclude the request from the Friends of Wausau Hockey. Groat recommended pushing this request off to thecommission for their consideration and not having any of the funds that the city gets to keep going to that activity.So that would remain unfunded until the room tax commission looked at establishing a budget for 2018, which theyhave not done yet.Note: There was a correction in the staff memo of the room tax request from the Friends of Wausau Hockey hascorrected from 80,000 to 8000.Motion by Nutting, second by Gehin to approve these appropriation requests as presented. Motion approved 5-0.8) Discussion and possible action regarding 2017 Debt Series C, D, and EGroat shared that the council already approved the initial resolutions back in July for the revenue bonds for theutility and for doing this bond anticipation note. There have been some changes. Due to the fact that the city willnot need to borrow 1,000,000 that was targeted for Micon and based on communications with Wausau Chemicalsince those funds will not be needed until 2018 the thought was to delay issuance until closer to the time that weneeded those funds. Now we are in need of the 6.6 million related to economic development projects for thebusiness campus expansion. If we issue the bond anticipation notes, which the preliminary resolution has alreadybeen approved, we would pay interest only and in five years refinance that.Groat wants to know if the council would like to contemplate one more time if that is the right thing to do or shouldwe issue GO. The benefit of issuing General Obligation Bond would be that we would lock in our interest rate.There are some predictions in the future that interest rates could rise. This would lock us in for a 20 year period atthat interest rate. The percentage of our GO would be a little bit higher.If we would go the route of the taxable anticipation note, our legal debt margin would be at 50.47% at the end of2017 and 49.88% at the end of 2018. If we issue went with the General Obligation debt we would be at 55.25%debt at the end of 2017 and 54.56% at the end of 2018.Rasmussen voiced her concern of being above the 50% mark. There are future projects coming that will needcapitalNo action was needed on this item. Council has already adopted a preliminary resolution and the council agreed tocontinue on as proposed in the preliminary resolutions. The final resolutions and the sale will be brought back onNovember 14, 2017.9) Discussion and possible action regarding the 2018 budget and 2018 fee schedulePostponed until October 17, 2017 at 5:15 pm.Page 2 of 3

10) Discussion and possible action on parking agreement with UMR for the period 2018 to 2027.Consensus was to direct staff to draft a resolution to beginning negotiating a parking contract.Motion by Gehin, second by Nutting to direct staff to draft a resolution, striking item E on the proposal from UMRand to begin negotiating on a parking agreement. Motion passed 5-0.AdjournMotion by, Nutting, second by Gehin to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried unanimously. Meeting adjourned at7:00 pm.Page 3 of 3

SPECIAL FINANCE COMMITTEE – BUDGET SESSION #4Date and Time: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 @ 5:30 pm., Council ChambersMembers Present: Rasmussen (C), Smith, Kellbach, Nutting, GehinOthers Present: Groat, Kujawa, Mielke, Lindman, Seubert, Vanderboom, Splinter, Peckham, Gisselman, Abitz, andGoede.Budget Modifications Police DepartmentRasmussen stated the Police Department submitted a request to transfer money between funds that are already intheir budget for some travel expenses to bring a witness back from California.Motion by Gehin, second by Kellbach to approve the budget modification for travel expenses as requested. Motioncarried 5-0.Groat stated there was a second request of the Police Department dated October 26, 2016 for 49,200 for guns andammo. She explained they asked for the budget modification late in the year in 2016 and issued the purchase order,but it was not fulfilled, so they didn’t spend the money and they would like this done for 2017.Motion by Gehin, second by Kellbach to approve the budget modification for range operating supplies. Motioncarried 5-0.Discussion and possible action regarding 2018 Employee Health and Dental Insurance BenefitToni Vanderboom indicated the Human Resources Committee discussed and approved these changes. Sheexplained it involves changing carriers from WPS and Aspirus Arise and moving to Anthem Blue Cross BlueShield. This nets a 2.5% savings for the city and the employees. The network under Blue Cross Blue ShieldNarrow Plan is expanding so that employees would have access to some providers and locations that they don’tcurrently have access to.Vanderboom stated they are also recommending eliminating the Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA). Sheexplained under the current plan employees pay a certain amount and then the HRA kicks in to cover a certainamount and then the employees begin paying again. This has been confusing to the employees and is quite difficultto explain. Also, because we are self-funded, we are paying a 12,000 administrative fee for the benefit of payingthose amounts. We would remove the HRA and adjust the deductibles and out-of-pockets accordingly, so there isno added expense to the employee.Vanderboom pointed out the new plan requires a 75% spread between the narrow network and the broad network, sowe are recommending an 8% increase in premiums for the narrow network of Blue Priority. This is increase is inpart to cover added expenses (a 3.5% increase to go to the new plan) and also to help us build a reserve. At thispoint our health insurance plan does not have a reserve built in and this would start getting us where we need to be.Vanderboom noted the current plan has offered a reimbursement for gym memberships but that is not something thatwould be available with the new plan, however, she was investigating the cost to continue it as a stand-aloneprogram. If feasible, this would come before Finance Committee separately. Rasmussen suggested looking into ahealth & wellness plan as the police and fire departments are testing as pilot programs.Motion by Nutting, second by Gehin to approve the 2018 Employee Health and Dental Insurance Benefits aspresented. Motion carried 5-0.Discussion and possible action regarding the 2018 budget and 2018 fee scheduleGroat referred to the “2018 Budget Analysis - Levy Dependent Funds” in their packets. She stated she updated allof the changes the committee considered regarding Supplemental Request funding and added in the new healthinsurance plan. She noted some people might migrate from the broad network to the narrow network because of thecost differential, but she did not make that assumption in this report, so there could be some additional savings ifthat happens.Page 1 of 2

Groat stated we received our notification from the Department of Transportation (also included in the packet)indicating our net in Transportation Aids is 2,686,000 and the General Transportation Aids when up approximately 192,000 more than she had predicted. She also provided documentation of how they compute what our aids shouldbe. Based on the adjustments made to date, it would be a 26.5 cent increase in the assessed tax rate, using anestimated assessed value that offers less than a 1% increase from the prior year. The remaining unknown is ourmanufacturing values that are determined by the state.Groat stated we had two thresholds to meet, the levy limit and expenditure restraint. She noted the expenditurerestraint is to qualify for an approximately 900,000 grant we get each year. She indicated she received a tentativeCIP number from the state. She reviewed the worksheet showing they needed a reduction of about 55,000 anddetailed some budget realignment they could implement to meet the expenditure restraint guidelines.Smith questioned if we would want to wait for all the numbers to be in before publishing the budget. Groatexplained the state law requires that we publish the budget at least 15 days prior to the public hearing. Law alsodictates what needs to be included in that publication. It gives notice to the taxpayer that we are proposing a levyincrease so that they can decide if they would like to attend the budget hearing. (The budget hearing will be duringthe November 14, 2017 Council meeting.) Rasmussen commented the public can give us feedback at the hearingand changes can still be made before the budget is actually adopted by the Council.Motion by Nutting, second by Gehin to publish the budget as proposed and based on all the recommended changesto expenditure restraint, supplemental requests, CIP, and the health insurance plan. Motion carrie

Oct 24, 2017 · plumbing inspection services contract with Village of Weston . Dave Johnson, 3125 N. 9th Street representing Janke Bookstore, opposes how the process works and the lack of representation of the makeup of the BID Board. He said th