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Council moves consideration of Highland Drive discontinuance until after closed session over Vantage link
Summary
The Port Washington City Council voted to move consideration of Resolution 2025-8, to discontinue part of Highland Drive, to after a closed session citing a potential connection to negotiations over a development agreement with Vantage.
The Port Washington City Council voted to move consideration of Resolution 2025-8, a proposal to discontinue a portion of Highland Drive, to after a closed session so the council could deliberate and negotiate a potential development agreement with Vantage.
The action came after the presiding official (Mayor) requested that agenda item 10B be moved to follow the closed session because “conversations tonight could potentially link those two agenda items as we go into closed session to deliberate and negotiate on the public of the potential development agreement with Vantage,” the presiding official said. A councilmember moved the change; another councilmember seconded it. The motion carried on a voice vote with no opposition recorded.
Nut graf: The council’s procedural change postpones public consideration of a street discontinuance tied in the agenda to pending, confidential negotiation with a developer, meaning formal action on the road closure will wait until after the council’s closed-session deliberations.
In discussion before the motion, a public commenter who identified himself as Rick Felons of 4237 Highland addressed the meeting during public comments. Felons said he expected that if a discontinuance moved forward, “when the road is, it'll stay intact until the last person gets to vacate and the crops are off the field and fall.” The transcript does not show any council debate on the substance of the discontinuance before the motion to reposition the item.
The council then approved the consent agenda (one item) by motion and voice vote with no opposition recorded. Under mayor’s business the mayor announced three appointments to boards and commissions; the transcript records the appointment of Jane Dean to the park and recreation board but does not show a vote or further action on appointments in the excerpt provided.
Ending: The council will reconvene in closed session and return to consider Resolution 2025-8 afterward; the transcript excerpt does not include the closed session discussion or any subsequent vote on the resolution.
