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Votes at a glance: Kenosha Public Works Committee, April 28, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal votes recorded at the April 28 Public Works Committee meeting, including sidewalk assessments, event permits, contract awards, project acceptances, and committee officer elections.
This summary lists the formal actions taken by the City of Kenosha Public Works Committee on April 28, 2025, as recorded in the meeting transcript. Where the transcript recorded only a voice vote, individual roll-call counts are not specified.
- Items 3 & 4 — Resolutions ordering the cost of public sidewalk and/or driveway approach construction or replacement to be specially assessed for resurfacing projects (project 24‑104460 Seventh Street & 25‑104870 Third Street): Passed (voice vote). No citizen comments were recorded for these two items.
- Items 5–10 — Property use agreements and event permits including a range of community uses (Friends of Bernie Sanders rally at Celebration Place on 05/11/2025; Lakeshore Business Improvement District chalk drawings and sidewalk sales; Watershed Initiative planting event; Kenosha Mammoths Harborfest parking; Kenosha Area Chamber pop-up beer garden at Celebration Place; Mary Lou and Arthur Eth Mahone Foundation events): The committee approved items 5 through 10 after hearing public comments. One committee member recorded a specific objection to item 5 (the Friends of Bernie Sanders application appeared to lack event-level details and a standard special-event application), but the motion carried.
- Item 11 — Award of contract for Project 24‑1045 Eighth Avenue Reconstruction: Contract award recommended to Cornerstone (staff recommendation). Motion to approve passed (voice vote).
- Item 12 — Acceptance of Project 22‑1424 Southport Beach House interior renovations, phase 4 by Berglund Construction Company: Final contract amount recorded as $408,616.11. Committee moved to accept; motion passed (voice vote).
- Item 13 — Acceptance of Project 23‑14204 Southwood Beach House exterior renovations, phase 5 by Berglund Construction Company: Final contract amount recorded as $504,865.87. Committee moved to accept; motion passed (voice vote).
- Item 15 — SciFi / fiber project update: Committee voted to receive the file and directed staff to obtain and circulate GIS/coverage maps and to coordinate downtown restoration oversight with SciFi; motion to receive the file passed (voice vote).
- Item 16 — CIP project status update: Committee moved to receive the file; motion passed (voice vote).
- Committee officer elections: The committee elected Chairperson Jack Rose to continue as chair for the 2025–26 term and elected Vice Chair Tony Ruffalo; motions passed by voice vote.
Notes on votes and procedure: Most actions were recorded as voice votes; the transcript does not include formal roll-call vote tallies for most items. Where public comment raised concerns (notably the Friends of Bernie Sanders property-use agreement and SciFi downtown cleanup), the committee discussed follow-up coordination but approved the related agenda items. The transcript indicates that, when an item raised substantial unresolved cost or infrastructure implications for homeowners (two sump-pump appeals), the committee deferred action for three months to gather further information and cost estimates.
Sources: City of Kenosha Public Works Committee meeting transcript, April 28, 2025.
