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Commission meeting 515 p.m. Monday March 3rd 2025 first item on the agenda will be the uh do the roll call so should we just go around the room go around I make sure I got them okay
so we've got the Kathleen backer we've got Tony berick got Larry Mack John vorick we got Jane mday we have Ron winegar
so item three will be uh election of officers and uh our past chair uh resigned uh at the end of 2024 to serve as a counselor for Ward
three so do we want to take any action on that tonight to elect a chair or we would like to wait till we have more of a members pres make a motion that we postpone until we have a full attendance okay second so we have a motion and a
second to to table the chair position till the next meeting all in favor signify i i i i i opposed motion carried all right item four will be approval of the minutes from the
February 3rd 2025 sister cities commission meeting has everybody had a chance to review the meeting minutes any questions or comments uh in regards to the minutes if if nothing else on it I'll
look for a motion I move we accept the motion or the minutes as submitted okay do we have a second I second so we have a motion and a second to approve the minutes as
presented any further discuss discuss I'll signify by I I opposed motion approved item five would be the financial report 5.1 approve the financial report for the date ending
February 28 2025 sister cities uh uh 22825 General budget and looks like uh our expenses were $440
for our annual U 2025 uh International membership and that's all we I see unless anybody else see something different but looks like we've got a strong account yet anybody else have any
comments in regards to the financials we look to approve the financial report make a motion that we accept the financial report for March okay we have
a motion I'll second that so we have a motion and a seconded to approve the uh February 28 2025 uh financial report all in favor I I opposed motion
carried item six would be the Hans joose a cult cultural Exchange program and 6.1 would be out bone hans's intern and the interviews were held February 5th
2025 by Larry Mack John vori and Jane mie [Music] and should I say my comments first or and then or do you two want to say your comments and then let's see if you say them first oh Jee okay well I'm just
going to say first of all we were lucky we had three good candidates and it's always a challenge especially to find it in our hometown it seems to be but we're also very fortunate that we have the college that uh has had some great students that have have had an interest and had the German
background so in my eyes I felt that the Martha blog stood out the best with all of her German language and she teaches it every day in the school and she's still hasn't in interested in this and
she applied in 2020 previously and um you know 20120 we didn't do anything because of Co you know and I felt that she stood out the best in my personal opinion um the next
one I felt that stood out was the the Isaiah uh Butner and he's a German student up at the college he's 20 years old I think I think he's a little young I think I think I'd like to encourage him to come back in another year and
then uh the Zach hget he came to New Alm uh during his high school years um another good candidate but I think he would be my third choice uh and after we did interviews I got an email from Zach
that he was going to be with thrwing his application because it wasn't going to work with his employe current employer and when we uh were asking him questions about getting away from potentially up to three months you know he was going to be working with his employer but after
discussing it with his employer whether it would be a month to three months it was going to be challenging for so that puts us down the two candidates that's that's my take on it I'll John or Jane do you have some comments no I just I didn't get the last name what was the
the Zach no of the Martha Martha blog blog yeah BG and she's a newal native and uh attended U mlc college and then she's a
and she did a um couple German internships and she's got what was it like seven years of German and then she's uh highly qualified for it in that aspect the Zack helate didn't speak any Germans so that's why kind of was
lacking you know that's where I kind of personally rate it at the lower end but of it but I thought Martha's at that one of them at that age that uh she's working full-time you know her school will work with her on scheduling to come
enthusiastic and I think that uh there wouldn't probably be too many more years before you know she might get off and married and Sh a family and opportunities you know that's just where I look at it but we'll let uh well she was very enthusiastic about new
and and promoting new WM and knew a lot about our history in new and that she was very enthusiastic so I agree anybody have any questions or in
regards to you know I did uh email Lisa and she did a screenshot that she sent it to Kathleen and John and Jane you know that what we would share tonight but so I
guess we're in agreements uh we'll look for a motion to uh that way we can get her on the discussions with Lisa and uh they can schedule some uh times I make a motion that we move
forward with Martha blog as our um candidate to represent us in the hunam so we have a motion for Martha blog for our outbound H intern do
we have a second I'd like to second that motion so we have a motion and a second any uh further discussion all in favor signified by i i i opposed motion
carried now we got the inbound on Jo's intern so there were three applications that were in our February uh 2 or third meeting I don't know if everybody had a chance to look at those applicants in
last month's uh agenda and what we discussed in our February meeting was you know so we had uh three good applicants but um myself and
Kathleen backer we're going to ask uh some possible employers you know so we were going to kind of what I took from the meeting what we were going to try and see if there' be employment opportunities for these students so I reached out to Ted Marty uh with AA
shell Brewing Company and they've been gracious to host a couple of our students in the past but we had a special one here where one of the students uh wants to be a brew master and he currently works at the brewery in Al Germany gold hon so I asked Ted and I
sent him a copy of the resume and he said that uh Dave Berg his brew master would be willing to work with him if that's something we would decide that's what I have to report back from one of the employers that I
contacted that got back to me Kathleen um I contacted a staff person from The Brown County Social Services uh she indicated that they have done internships in the past uh this would be different and that the person would be
coming from Germany she did ask questions about liability insurance and exposure who's responsible for that um I did uh share with her uh it's called a memorandum of understanding that the
student or the intern does sign when they come over and it clarifies different um issues related to insurance and um not holding anybody here responsible in case something would happen during their employment or during their trip
here and also forwarded the um resume uh the issue is that their group doesn't meet until tomorrow uh to make a decision uh so um at this point it would be pending yeah
so yeah it's uh you know and I also uh sent a u half dozen emails out and or some phone calls for discussions with you know the trying to find some host families also potentially whether it would be a male and or a female whether
families would take that but I didn't know a timeline but uh I just told them you know potentially this summer into fall but I would uh again we have to as a commission you know try to still it's always a challenge to try to find
welcoming host families you know potentially to some sometime I think it'll be easier once we know correct y think so so so we could uh you know you know we can table this another month or we could
see if U you know we have one potential job offer and or a interested party do we want to act on that or do want to that's that's pushing it off pretty far I know I know cuz then we get it we we'd ow to
them to make a decision yeah I would agree now I got to ask did we always choose the inbound no no no how come we are doing that now well they gave us
three they gave us three candidates usually we didn't have usually we only get one candidate oh I see okay and that's where when we were in February's meeting the discussion was which one do you choose you know you got
three great candidates but then also you know we have to try to find jobs and um I think there was one of the Commissioners that wrote would be really unique if we could uh do a brew Masters you know and so I thought
that commissioner wasn't here I think it was Dick SE booth and I thought well I can at least reach out to Ted and ask and give them a few weeks and see what uh they decide out there if they have a potential interest you know I feel it's important we got to try to have jobs of
related interest to the students you know to keep their enthusiasm well my opinion um is that the brew master is something really specialized compared to the other applicants and if we have a locally as shells willing to take on that
opportunity and to train give somebody exposure in the United States and how we go about business here in that specialized area I would support that over the other two I would too because there the opportunity for him maybe in the future won't be there I mean things
can change we're we have somebody that's willing to do it right now well we have an applicant that wants to learn from a a company that literally based out of New Alm that's
part of New Alm that you know we take and we hold dear to ourselves you know as as a brewery um that sounds like that's a perfect fit you I mean to me I agree well what I'm hearing is we might
may have a applicant to I would I would put that in the form of a motion to accept Okay so his name is Samuel koops Sam Samuel koops I I make that motion that we uh accept uh Samuel
koops I have to go back o o PS yeah so we have a motion we have a second I'll second that okay we have motion and a second um for Samuel CPS any further
discussion all in FV favor signify by I I oppos looks like we've got Samuel for our inborn Hans Joseph intern and we'll get the the this s to Lisa and Lisa can
start working on lining updates so and then um item seven would be old business we're going to recognition award John borick Brian philson so reception is scheduled for Monday
April 7th at the kickle club and looks like the regular meeting will be held here at the council chambers following that we will go to the kle club I know that was brought up in January about how if you could be mobile
to go out to the kigle now Brian was asking about that philson in January but uh he's not here to report back how we would get uh you know it filmed or recorded So I guess at this point in time way I'm
reading have to we'll we we'll come here April 7th at 5:15 and shoot to be out to the kickle club by around 6 o' that's s good is
it no takes uh seven days so John's working on the plaque so that was item two for for the old business and then uh I'm assuming the Kel will have the usual you know pop and
um appetizers that we've typically done in the past and then maybe we remind Lisa to email out for the friends of the sister cities commission to attend as well and spouses
okay 7.2 would be the German language day camp for for 2025 we've got uh Carolyn Marty Smith and Ellie Sweeney and Jane M and you give a well we had some
discussion on it but in talking with the teacher from the high school he didn't think that it would work out this summer for him so the dates we just really got to work on those dates and Carolyn will be back
next month so we'll get together and so will Ellie and we'll sit down and make a determination if we're going to move forward this year or if it has to be put off for another year I know we want to do it this year but we have to if he
can't help us you know um and there's a few other things um that we want to talk about as well so can we we'll report back next month and then I think if at the end of 2024 Tom Schmidt's yes commiss past commissioner and council
member now he had a family member that was going to be traveling here from Germany in potentially July or August wasn't it we just didn't get a chance to meet before everybody left for the winter and left me here in the cold okay okay
so it hasn't been that bad so 7.2 will be tabled till further for another month yeah and then uh yeah an item eight so then we have a an addendum here too so we've got to
work on so we'll have to suspend the rules for the addendum uh for our meeting and that is to for new business for 2025 broad stand and so in the past it says here consider holding broad stand fundraiser
for 2025 schedule brand dates for one or two days and appoint to commissioner member to contact Cashwise for available dates and complete Cashwise broad standand form Mr chair you need a motion I guess to
suspend yeah so we'll need a motion here to suspend the rules for the addendum I make a motion that we suspend the rules for the AC of the addendum got a motion do we have a second second and
we have a motion and a second all in favor signify by i i i opposed motion carried so now we will go for the discussion here on the so Jane mday is I'm hearing is going
to contact Cashwise for dates and to bring back possible dates for future meeting or Cashwise and commissioner is fine with one or two days for the summer see what we can get yep we should
be able to do that pretty soon I think in March we can start with that if I remember right well thank you Jane for volunteering for that and uh no further business meeting would be adjourned for