At the Finance Committee, city staff summarized a proposed 2026 collective bargaining agreement with the dispatchers and clerical union, Local 503. Jesse (city staff) told the committee that Act 10 limits bargaining for this unit to wages tied to the Consumer Price Index and described the agreement: a 2.64 percent CPI adjustment for the clerical unit and a simplification of dispatcher pay grades combined with a 2 percent cost-of-living adjustment for dispatchers, producing a new base dispatcher wage of $31.44 per hour if ratified, with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2026.

Committee members confirmed the cost was built into the 2026 budget; the finance committee moved and approved the agreement. At the full council meeting the agreement was placed on the consent agenda and approved by voice vote.

Later in the meeting city staff reviewed 2026 budgets for the city’s Tax Increment Districts (TIDs). Staff provided anticipated revenue and expense estimates and expected remaining balances to utilities and the general fund for numerous districts (TID 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16) and noted that TID 7 is in the process of closing. Staff also said TIDs 17 and 18 have no increment expected until 2027 and that budgets for those districts would be presented next December. The council moved, seconded, and approved the TID budgets by voice vote.

Toward the end of the meeting the chair read two motions to adjourn into closed session under Wisconsin Statute 19.85(1)(e) to deliberate terms for potential development agreements: one for TID 17 (an industrial development east of 18th Avenue and south/east of Corporate Center Drive) and one for TID 18 (a proposed residential and industrial development east of Main Street and south of Rusco Road). Both motions passed on recorded roll-call votes with aldermen recorded as voting “Aye,” and the council adjourned its public meeting into closed session.

The council provided no further public details about the developer terms in open session. Any formal development agreements or public actions would be addressed in subsequent meetings.