From: Adam N. Payne

Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:36 AM

To: Perez, Mayor

Cc: William C. Goehring; Jim J. Graf

Subject: RE:N. 23rd Street Site

Good Morning Mayor,

I'm curious to know your thoughts on the meeting last night? Overall, I thought it went ok, though Mark Winkel's brief remarks and Alderman Burgs motion were a surprise.

A few comments and suggestions for your consideration:

Jim Graf mentioned to me yesterday that he believes members of the Police Department are lobbying

your consultant to downgrade the N. 23^rd Street Site. If you haven't already, I encourage you to share with your consultant that the County (Chairman Goehring, with the support of the Executive and Transportation Committees) have offered to transfer the 4-acre parcel to the City with no dollars exchanged. As was discussed last night, the $300,000 could be put into a Shared Services Capital Improvement Account, and perhaps you and Chairman Goehring, and/or the County Law Committee and City Building Use Committee, could be designated to determine how the money would be spent (shooting range, evidence storage, joint data systems, etc).

Secondly, though I appreciate Alderman Burgs interest to reopen negotiations with the County, I think there is a better approach. Once the Common Council determines what site is the most cost-effective

and provides the best opportunity to share services (which to date appears to be the N. 23^rd street site), I would rather see the full Common Council vote on the offer that the County Board has on the table. As we have discussed, if they offer a few refinements including that the $300,000 should be put in a trust fund, and that the City be able to fulfill its parking lot contract until it expires with your current tenants, I think that would be just fine. Frankly, to mess around with a few thousand dollars here or there, I don't think is worth the time and political wrangling, - especially so if the balance is to go into a fund applied to shared service capital improvements anyway.

As you know, Jim said that he is aware of seven alderpersons to date who support the N. 23^rd Street site. If the City Council simply supported the rationale in the 2002 Smbenrauch/Kimme report that City taxpayers paid for, which states, "If site #2 A (Sheridan Park) is ultimately judged to be unacceptable by the city, the consultant (and 15 of Chief Kirk's appointments) would recommend site #4, the Imperial Motel location as the second best option." The Chief also sent a letter to the Vollrath Company

requesting property, and negotiated with us over a year on the N. 23^rd Street site. Land all within 100 yards of the Imperial Motel. Frankly, I can't believe the Common Council isn't holding the Department accountable and challenging them more when some Police Department representatives now say the N.

23^r Street site is unacceptable. Again, I hope you have taken steps to ensure your consultant isn't going to allow this bullshit to influence them or surface in the next report your are waiting for. As you know, the independent study that what done also has helpful and supportive information.

FYI, as I was writing this, Joe Gulig just called from the Press. He is preparing an editorial, again, in support of the City following through on the recommendations of studies to date and the agreement that was previously negotiated with the County. Juan, I hope you and Jim are able to pull this together soon. I think the citizens of Sheboygan are getting pretty tired of it all.

Hope to talk with you soon. Best wishes, Adam

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