Peoria approves Verdis Chemical rezoning 10-1 with environmental justice conditions after late negotiations

e e e good evening everyone it is 605 and everyone who's listening at wcbu welcome also to our audience watching on cable channel 22 Madam clerk the council mics are open please call the rooll mayor Ali present council member Allen present council member sear here council member Gordon Young president council member graab here council member Jackson here council member Kelly here council member Oiler here council member riggenbach here council member velpula present council member Vasa you have a quorum present Madame mayor thank you madam clerk everyone please join me and stand for a moment of Silent prayer or silent reflection followed by the Pledge of Allegiance Al flag stands na God indivisible andice all Madam clerk we have a performance this evening the elite holiday choir performance before we do that we're going to have a proclamation okay the proclamation is recognizing Alpha fi Alpha Incorporated Founders Day and 50th anniversary and we have with us Mr Douglas Gillespie president of the Kappa P Lambda chapter of alpha fi Alpha and Dr James Jeff Vice President of the kaaay Lambda chapter of alpha fi Alpha I think the brothers of alpha F Alpha are going to also stand up I'd like to recognize that one of their own is actually a member of the city council councilman Dr Andre Allen whereas Alpha F Alpha Fraternity Incorporated was established on December 4th 1906 at Cornell University becoming the first Intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity for black college students influencing the founding of more than 750 chapters internationally and serving as a catalyst for social and political action in a africanamerican communities and whereas the cap Kaa Pi Lambda alumni chapter of alpha F Alpha Fraternity Incorporated was established on September 20th 1974 in Peoria Illinois and has since provided 50 years of community service and Leadership through his mission of enhancing the lives of the underserved imp Peoria through education empowerment and social awareness initiatives and whereas alpha alpha develops leaders and promotes Brotherhood and academic Excellence while providing service and advocacy for our community go to high school go to college project Alpha and a voteless People is a hopeless people are all prolific National Outreach initiatives that make significant impacts in communities and whereas the mission for the next 100 years is to continue to set the standard for leadership and service the alpha men of kaapi Lambda chapter Proclaim first of all Servants of all we shall transcend all now therefore I R Ali mayor of the city of Poria Illinois do hereby recognize and celebrate the founders day and the 50th anniversary of the Kappa P Lambda chap chapter of alpha alpha Fraternity in Peoria Illinois Mr Gillespie Dr Jeff I'd like to thank humbly the city of Poria for allowing us to serve it is an honor and a privilege for being able to serve the community for over 50 years we look forward to the next 100 Years of serving this community the youth and underprivileged continue to need our service but we also need the community support we thank you thank you thank you very welcome Dr Jeff good evening everybody one of the uh aims of our fraternity you heard our U motto but the aims of manly Deeds scholarship and Love For All Mankind and you look through the city you will see how we do this how we how we impact the city you'll find brother Allen helping reading in the reading to children in the uh schools uh brother Gillespie all these brothers here will uh be in the city you may not recognize them but they're somewhere doing something to help this community so manly Deeds scholarship and Love For All Mankind thank you for leading and building [Applause] character next up are we ready Stacy we have a special treat for everyone tonight joining us is the elite holiday choir uh many of you know the elite program founded by uh Mr Carl Canon and uh now they have a traveling choir that travels all over uh this this holiday choir giving holiday cheer they're not a small group this Mr Bill Cannon standing in the middle out there Mr Canon Mr Carr Carl Canon coming in between the Horseshoe good good evening Mr Canon thank you for joining us I'm turning it over to you than you're welcome commity MERS from different buildings in the city represent 6 through 12 they are Community Choir they have a mission of spreading Spirit Christmas throughout the city that's why they 15 stops 14 more to go before the mid of this mon of De tonight okay let good for [Applause] [Music] let us adore [Music] ad [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you we worship you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] worship [Music] adore glor [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] you you [Music] [Applause] lastu May counil is your name what's your name who do you serve my how do you serve with respect since you know how that works where you going should make some noise on [Applause] that represent the East the south side and the new North Side and7 to colge how do you get paid how do you get PA who can stop you what's your name look at this right and left what's your name what your name what's your name get somebody in the horse you hug [Applause] [Music] and then back in [Music] C what's the word you Merry Christmas you Merry Christmas we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year good tidings we bring to you and good Tiding for Christmas and happy wish you a Merry Christmas wish you a Merry Christmas wish you a merry Christmas Happy New Year [Music] [Applause] thank you to the elite choir thank you for putting us on your stop list and a great way to start our meeting thank [Applause] you for okay Madame clerk we are at the approval of the minutes council member riggenbach thank you madam mayor I move to approve the minutes of The Joint City Council and town board meeting held November 12th 2024 and the minutes of the special city council meeting held on November 19th 2024 as printed seconded by council member grup any comments or questions please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously Madame clerk we have one town item 24- 358 is a request from the town officials to approve the November 2024 actual expenditures and to approve the December 2024 anticipated expenditures for the town of the city of Poria truste graab uh Madam chair I move to approve as out outlined seconded by uh count trustee Jackson any questions or comments please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously Madam clerk we are at the consent agenda 24- 359 is a communication from the city manager with a request to approve the 2025 Poria City Council regul meeting schedule 24- 360 is a communication with request to approve the convening of the abatement review board for consideration of the amendment to the Urban Decay abatement ordinance 24- 361 is a communication with request to approve the allocation of Community Development block grant funds for the rehabilitation of Columbia Park in the amount of $450,000 24- 362 is a communication with request to approve the low bid of nap concrete cont contractor's Inc and award a contract for the sidewalks and Ada ramps in 61605 project in the amount of 1,288 600 I'm sorry in 1,28 8,627 185 with an additional authorization of $31,385 for contingencies for a total amount of $1,420 th000 24-3 63 is a communication with a request to approve a contract with gyx Corporation for the demolition of Residential Properties 24- 364 is a communication with requests for the following a approve the low bid of United contractors Midwest and award a contract for the Moss Avenue from Western Avenue to Sheridan Road Project in the amount of 9,199 12157 with an additional authorization of $46,800 for contingencies for a total amount of 9,660 th000 and B approve an agreement with Illinois American Water Company to pay for the replacement of the water main on Moss Avenue 24- 365 is a communication with request to approve a 5-year lease agreement between the city of Poria and El Mirador in El Rio LLC for the use of 110 Northeast Water Street that's the pow press building 24- 366 is a communication with request to approve a Professional Services agreement with IPS group in an amount not to exceed $500,000 for the smart smart parking system pilot 24- 367 is a communication with request to approve an agreement with Crawford Murphy and Tilly for pre preliminary Engineering Services for Combined sewer in system storage in an amount not to exceed $100,000 24- 368 is a communication with request to approve an agreement with HR green for preliminary Engineering Services for Combined sewer overflow storage in an amount not to exceed 3 $25,000 24- 369 is a communication with re request to approve the following a approve an agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation for the city's participation in D4 Bridge washing 2025 in Poria Marshall Mason and Taswell counties and B approve a funding resolution for the city's cost participation in the D4 Bridge washing 2025 in the amount of $223,000 plus contingencies 24- 370 is a communication with request to approve a resolution for signatory Authority with the Illinois Department of Transportation for authorizing the city manager to sign Federal funding forms and electronic signature forms on behalf of the city 24- 371 is a communication with request to adopt an ordinance leving a special service area real estate tax in the amount of $100,000 for thex tax year 2024 for the West Lake special service area 24- 372 is a communication with request to adopt an ordinance leving a special service area real estate tax in the amount of $6,400 for the tax year 2024 for the Lamont Avenue special service area 24- 373 is a communication with request to adopt an ordinance making a temporary amendment to chapter 18 licenses to reduce fees and allow additional locations in article 17 mobile F food vehicles and to reduce fees in article 12 Street and sidewalk vendors of the code of the city of Poria 24- 374 is a communication with request to concur with a recommendation from the Planning and Zoning commission and staff to adopt an ordinance approving a special use in a class R4 single family residential district for the transfer of property of a legal nonon forming duplex for the property located at 1916 West Proctor Street 24- 375 is a communication with a request to concur with a recommendation from the Planning and Zoning commission and staff to adopt an ordinance admitting an existing special use ordinance number 17978 in a class R4 single family residential district to add three residence to an assisted living facility for the property located at 1621 North Missouri Avenue 24- 376 is a communication with request to concur with a recommendation from the Planning and Zoning commission and staff to adopt an ordinance approving a special use in a class R4 single family residential district for the transfer of property of a legal non-conforming duplex for the property located at 1912 West Proctor Street 24- 377 is a communication with a request to concur with recommendation from the Planning and Zoning commission and staff to adopt an ordinance amending an existing special use ordinance number 13825 in a class R6 multif family District to include two new group living buildings for a supervised Independent Living Program for a children's home for the property located at 2130 North Knoxville Avenue 24- 378 is a communication with a request to concur with a recommendation from the Planning and Zoning commission and staff to adopt an ordinance approving a special use in a class R3 single family residential district for a short-term rental for the property located at 2218 West Reservoir Boulevard 24- 379 is a reappointment by mayor Ali to the East Village growth cell advisory committee with a request to concur of Blake egelston 24- 380 as a reappointment by mayor Ali to the tri County River Valley Development Authority with a request to concur of Patrick urick 24- 381 is a communication with request to approve the site application for a class B restaurant 50% Food liquor license with on-site consumption and retail sale of alcohol for ymps LLC doing business as egg Republic at 535 West Landon way contingent upon the issuance of a certificate of occupancy with recommendation from The Liquor Commission to approve and 24- 382 is a communication with a request to approve the site application for a class K Rental Hall liquor license with on-site consumption and retail sale of alcohol for temple live Peoria LLC doing business as Temple live at 400 Northeast Perry contingent upon the issuance of a certificate of occupancy with a recommendation from The Liquor Commission to approve and that that concludes our consent agenda thank you madam clerk that's it for 2025 are there any items to remove from consent uh council member Kelly uh thank you Madame mayor uh please thank you council member Jackson thank you Madame mayor um item number 24- 362 362 yes ma'am mhm thank you council member grup 361 and 364 please thank you council member sear thank you madam mayor move to approve the balance of this uh agenda seconded by council member Oiler uh we are approving the remaining items that were not pulled please cash your ballots motion passes unanimously Madam Clerk 24- 361 is a communication with a request to approve the allocation of Community Development block grant funds for the rehabilitation of Columbia Park in the amount of $450,000 okay uh we have both council member Kelly and council member grab speaking to this uh council member Kelly you were first thank you Madame mayor um I will support this item but I this is the third now this is the third Park belonging to Pi Park District that we are the primary fun for for rehabilitation of the park Pur Park District is a uh a public entity they collect taxes they're supposed to manage their books they're supposed to take care of their assets and here for the third time uh I don't I don't know what the whole story is but here we are uh rehabilitating another park for them which is their job um I'm worried that we're going to continue to do this from time to time uh we might consider a policy session on just how we support other tax taxing bodies if the airport Authority needs some money or IC needs some money or the school district needs some money I don't think we should be um you know they they need to go to their own sources and if they can't uh uh get money that way then they're they have to change what they're doing we have more projects more needs in our city than we can pay for and yet we're we're now kind of on a regular basis uh shipping money off to the park district um I don't think this should be done uh I would like to request a policy session on these kinds of things Madame mayor uh but uh for the moment I will uh defer to uh councilman grab's comments and I suspect he will make the motion so thank you Madame mayor you're welcome and I just want to respond by saying it's called collaboration council member Kelly and you know sometimes we have to work together for the benefit of our neighborhoods and that's what this is about that type of collaboration Madame mayor it only goes one way no doesn't go one way I don't see any money coming from the park district there's a lot of other resources that may not be in a monetary form but they're they're still resources council member gret um thank you very much and I appreciate your comments um councilman Kelly uh however we have four parks that have been languishing for some time and uh tree wind Park Morton Square Park Logan Park now Columbia Park needs some help collaboration is the name of the game because there's a little more to the Columbia Park uh Rehabilitation uh than meets the ey one of the things that we want to leverage as much as possible is the addition of some more land that will be where the new playground equipment in Pavilion will go which they've been dreaming about as councilman Oiler knows for many many years he lives in that neighborhood he's an at large that's been my district for almost 12 years now and without the Community Development block grant funds uh going for the renovation Rehabilitation of these Parks I suspect they would continue to be on hold and status quo and not doing a whole lot for the neighborhood if you can picture Columbia Park we have the almost Norman Rockwell Branch McLure Branch Library there and we have one very important district 150 facility which will be reopened um for the 2526 school year that building is being revitalized just as the former Quest building on University is being revitalized ized and we have dreamed for some time that we would be able to expand that Columbia Park to perhaps bring in uh some of the 150 land that they're maintaining that's just Green Space and blend it in collaboration again School District Park District City to make that really an outstanding stabilizing influence uh in our city um if someone could identify some other better utilization of these funds for what's three districts now represented by these Parks I would probably say yes but uh I think this is a wise use and I think it will continue to stabilize the neighborhoods in the heart of our city and I'm so sorry you're up here to speak and you go right ahead no thank you councilman I was just here to answer any questions in case they came up uh as Director D and isn't here tonight how are we doing with our discussion with 150 on that land that we can blend in with this uh yes councilman I know we were uh on a call before Thanksgiving uh with the school district and the park district uh regarding the transfer of the land uh they are still kind of going through their legalities um but looking forward to moving forward on that part of the project keep us posted I know the center Bluff neighborhood association people are excited about it and um thank you madam mayor move to approve okay is there a second second to by council member riggenbach council member riggenbach thank you Madame mayor I was a little apprehensive when the first um I think it was arpa money we were using for tree when Park came forward and then um Morton Square Park of course being in my district you look at things a little bit differently that wave but I think um Katherine Murphy thank you very much for those comments and the fact that the school district the park district and now the city are all collaborating is something that we we can actually be proud of because I don't know about you but I get phone calls many times from people complaining about things that I have no direct control over as a council member but I'm able to help them navigate to the right source for that and I think councilman Kell your request for a policy session is probably appropriate because we don't want to do this without being thoughtful and um just seeing the results of Morton Square Park and the impact that has had in the North Valley I I'm going to support this and think it's a great use of the CBG funds thank you madam mayor you're welcome council member Allan uh thank you madam mayor I was going to ask uh Miss Murphy if you could return to the mic and not to put you on the spot but just for those who are tuning in if maybe you can provide Clarity on the origin of uh Community block development grants and the eligibility to pass those funding through the city of peor to other taxing bodies just for those who may not be aware of this funding source and how these other taxing bodies are eligible for these funds yes thank you councilman um so we received this funding directly from the Department of Housing and Urban Development as we are what's in called entitlement Community um and with that as it is a block grant uh it is up to us as a local community how we would like to spend that money as long as it is an eligible activity under the funding and so one of the eligible activities with this funding is public facilities which includes outdoor parks and and areas for recreation especially located in our low-income areas and so that allows us the flexibility to pass it on to those organizations that are constructing those Parks so even if it is another uh government entity in this case we're partnering with them to ensure that that Park gets completed thank you for the the clarity uh I think it's good to you know just provide guidance on you know the processes here and then also too yesterday uh peor public school has just named uh the former Quest Middle School it's going to be their new dual language learner academy uh my two oldest kids will be enrolling in their next year and so that's going to be close proximity to this park as well too so I think that this is just per perfect timing to to support this project with the new dual language learner Academy coming to the old Quest Middle School which is going to be a game changer for pror public schools so I'll be supporting thank you madam mayor good good point Thank You council member Kelly thank you Madame mayor uh I am aware that uh uh we can do this I'm aware that this is legal uh that was not my point uh my point is that we have a park district they're taxing Authority we don't have any policy in place that addresses this sort of thing I'm sure that the idea of cdbg funds was that the city would use them for City purposes not for the purposes of other taxing bodies I I may be the only one who um feels that way but I think that uh you know if if we are to name other things that we could use this money for we could certainly put in more sidewalks in district one I mean there are multitudinous things we could put this money toward um I just would like to see us establish a policy on giving money to other taxing bodies if the you know the park this is a Park District entity and they are talking with 150 because they're making a deal between the two of them I guess that's collaboration uh we're just there to supply money I you know I don't see it as as quite the same and Others May disagree but if we uh uh could establish a policy session so or have a policy session so that we could establish a policy on things like this I think it would serve uh this body and it would serve the city not thank thank you Madame mayor noted yes you're welcome we have a motion on the floor to approve it's been seconded there's no more comments please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously Madam Clerk 24- excuse me 24- 362 is a communication from the city manager and director of public works with a request to approve the low bid of nap concrete con Contractors Inc and award a contract for the sidewalks and adaa ramps in 61605 project in the amount of 1,288 62785 with an additional authorization of 131,00 $ 7215 for contingencies for a total amount of $1,420 th000 council member Jackson thank you uh Madame mayor well I uh first of all just want to thank former congresswoman Sher buos in her effort to uh secure these federal dollars uh much needed federal dollars in 61605 uh my uh question is regards to clarification um Madame mayor I think I'm about 100 % certain initially when she approached us she thought it would be a million she came back and said I I can get more and that amount was 2 million and I maybe my math is off a little bit I I just kind of wanted to find out if uh the final amount amount of the federal dollars was it 1 million or you know we've got here 1.4 um and um you know uh um when you talk about uh concrete work it is very expensive and the need is so great um you know I would want to if if we can if if the amount was $2 million I I would hope that we would um um be able to secure it and use it uh because it won't go very far uh but but if uh like I said I will support this but is there some way we could uh check we I just don't remember the exact amount uh director Powers I believe the am I'm sorry I believe the amount in the council communication was the the award excuse me the directed amount that's what the bid went out for was for the congressionally directed amount which was what sir two million or 1 million 1.42 or 1.5 probably would have been about 1.5 so that was the actual allocation they released to us correct because we would have put the bid out for an amount because we could have added sidewalk based on the amount okay all right well I'm sorry what was the difference between the 1.5 and then what we see here is 1.42 the bid the bid amount came in oh okay that was the if you look the biders below okay basically you had us anywhere in between that area so we were willing we took the low bid for what we had brought into the project okay okay well um we're happy to get whatever we can thank you uh director Powers with that Madame mayor I'd like to go ahead and make a motion uh this item would be approved 24-3 62 as noted seconded by council member Allan any questions or comments please cast your ballots motion pass passes unanimously Madam clerk 24- 364 is a communication from the city manager and director of public works with a request for the following a approve the low bid of United contractors Midwest and award a contract for the Moss Avenue from Western Avenue to Sheridan Road Project in the amount of 9,1 199,50 with an additional authorization of 46,8 87843 for for contingencies for a total amount of 9,660 and B approve an agreement with Illinois American Water Company to pay for the replacement of the water main on Moss Avenue and we need separate motions on each please council member grup thank you mayor um this is another one of these Legacy projects that we have been able to execute here in our city uh with the funds that we have received part of the infrastructure act rebuild America infrastructure act and I would just say that the water pipes there uh in that particular area on Moss Avenue from Sheridan to Western are probably about as old as the ones that broke at Main and University about eight years ago if you drive along Moss Avenue after a good rain you it would appear to be uh Moss Avenue Lake one block after the next standing water you name it and ongoing pipe leaks that seem to go on forever not being repaired I think uh ccor Jackson and I are thrilled that this project is going to be uh uh underway in Earnest in the spring and I know we've been doing a lot of work with the property owners along that stre stretch of moss Avenue from uh Western to uh Sheridan to ensure that we have the RightWay access and director if I could just editorialize for a minute your staff and I'm thinking not only this project but Glenn and others that we've completed MacArthur Highway Etc all over the city projects Wisconsin Go Right Down the Line I think it's been a huge challenge for your staff to uh uh execute with all of these projects and this is almost a historic time to rebuild our city we haven't had money like this uh in certainly my lifetime to rebuild the city and believe me if it's in my lifetime it's been quite a while so director I want to thank you and your staff and the engineering companies that we've been uh hiring to do these projects on getting the money uh spent so that we don't lose it could you make some comments to the council about this not just Moss could be all of our projects absolutely it's um talking about my staff on a good note is easy counsel and thank you that water M by the way is almost 100 years old so it's due to be relocated um again if you look at our our capital in fact I was just talking to director cratty right before the meeting I don't think Peoria has seen a CIP in the tune of $100 million that you may have before I was here but nowhere close to that since I've been here and that's where we were this year next year we'll be close to 80 million and then of course we'll start to come down but to that point just the The Testament of that engineering staff the model that we put in place quite frankly we wouldn't have delivered it if we didn't have the model we have and Kudos because our contract employees and that's how we look at these firms that we've hired they wear our t-shirt shirts they come to our functions they have City emails you've all met them and uh in fact I'd be remiss not to call Andrea out Andrea C Clen Steiner city engineer deputy director engineering the uh assistant city engineer paa uh Mendes I can never get her last name snoli excuse me our transportation program manager Cindy Los Mandy muber our construction program manager Eric Hansen who I think is sitting here stormwater Greg myth overseeing CSO um Josh Gabbert instrumental in what we did with the landfill and solid waste with fo uh Julie Schmidt overseeing our drainage efforts all of those people are contract employees with various engineering firms throughout the city of Poria that do those things on our behalf and do it with pride and this year alone again I'll just run the list it's it's December if if I may indulge the council I mean I was a little shocked at what we did this year too with as little Interruption to traffic as we did Glenn just being one we actually got complimented more than we got any complaints I think we had one throughout the entire project but just in 24 what we've completed Wisconsin Avenue reconstruction Nebraska Avenue McClure uh to McClure Avenue Glenn Avenue reconstruction War to University MacArthur Highway reconstruction ml to Moss Reservoir pedestrian safety Ronald excuse me Ronald Road drainage Improvement project Donald Street drainage Improvement project Lamont Millan overlay CSO year 2 Glenn Glenn Oak Avenue Mill and overlay concrete repairs sidewalk in a close to a mile that we did an operation of cban gutter in the storm water utility Glen Oak Avenue Millan overlay further concrete repairs throughout the city down downtown wave finding Steel Coating at part of our pavement preservation the riverfront um entrances on ongoing projects are Adams oneway to two-way conversion which you get weekly updates on we're wrapping up year one we'll go into year two next year with a focus on the bump outs for year one and next year we'll go Jefferson Avenue bump outs Nebraska Avenue reconstruction project I74 overpass to Sterling uh reconstruct from Park Avenue to I74 overpass wrapping up by the end of the month and then in year two stages three and four reconstruct the lanes from Park Avenue to Sterling Avenue Pioneer Parkway and University the Street intersection construction project year one will focus on the Reconstruction of Pioneer Parkway Lanes and year two will be reconstruction University Street Lanes Depot Street construction year one will be stage one of course that's a two-year project actually I think a two year threeyear project um CSO year three will take place which is a full year project in of itself Adam Street lighting the concrete pole system replacement Prospect lighting our micros surfacing payement preservation storm water lining repairs which is again an annual process that we go through storm sewer cleaning and inspection again ongoing um storm to our annual repair native plants at Orange Prairie we did a pilot at Dre so if you when to come next spring it's all dead now please come next spring and look at the native Prairie that we planted at Drees and then on a facility sorry starting next year Moss Avenue and then the sidewalks in 61605 which we just talked about and if I could just from the facility side if you've been to our facility I think I mentioned this we just moved into our new offices if if you come over there now one you'll get lost so get somebody to give you a tour but um Jason Meeks did a outstanding job in overseeing the project for the remodel of our offices at Dre Lane and what we're doing with Native Prairie as a pilot um it just it looks fantastic so next spring come see it when the plants come back and the bees are back and beyond that we actually have an award-winning design for Riverfront Park so we find money for that we we're looking great so thank you councelor for bringing it up I was prepared uh the the engineering division has really knocked it out of the park this year and I think they'll do the same next year again they delivered close to 100 million this year 80 next year should be no problem well I've been here for 23 years and this is historic the rebuild of our city and I think we should all take uh Pride absolutely in what we've been doing that we've touched almost every part of our city and you know as being a District Council in the past 12 years when we have that all important meeting with the neighbors before we begin a project it's always nice to have Mandy mberry there when they ask questions and they seem so nervous and the muber rule is articulated this ain't our first rodeo and you know I thought we'd have a lot of complaints during the Glenn Avenue reconstruction the only complaint I got was can't you get the police out there to slow those those motorists down because those U those uh workers out there need to have more safety so you've done a lot and you've done it almost seamlessly I know it's not but because of the professionalism you've done an outstanding job director and I don't know when you sleep but mayor thank you and and I would like to make a motion yes please uh to approve a the low bid of United contractors Midwest and award the contract for Moss from Western to Sheron Road in the amount of 9,1 199,200 1878 43 that's 5% for contingencies for a total amount of 9.66 Million seconded by council member velpula any additional comments or questions please cash your ballots item eight passes unanimously council member Grant uh yes and I move to approve that agreement with Illinois American Water Company to pay for the replacement of the water main on Moss Avenue uh seconded by council member Val Pula okay uh any questions or comments please pass your ballots Item B passes unanimously thank you mayor thank you counselors you were ready thank you director Powers Madam clerk we are on to the regular agenda 24- 383 is a communication from the city manager and director of public works with a request to approve the Soul Source purchase of a retrofit and modernization upgrade for the paint truck with Mark W lines Equipment Company Inc in the amount of $375,000 and this item requires 2third vote of council members voting no less than six votes Madam manager here um director P back at this Podium to discuss this item if you can please director thank you ma'am thank you again mayor councel I believe this is for the paint truck I was walking away thinking I was done and realized it regular um this is easy a new paint truck in today's world is between 1.1 and $1.5 million we are going to take our paint truck deliver it to the manufacturer in Montana have it upfitted to last last probably another 15 years for 375,000 we'll get Electronics a lot more reliability out of this chassis a lot of years and not hit the capital budget the other side is we have a really good director in our finance department who is uh going to encumber our operational funds from this year to pay for it so we don't carry this $375,000 expense in next year because they are taking delivery of the truck as soon as you approve this which I hope is tonight we will set up transportation to have the truck delivered so I hope to have your support for this thank you thank you director uh council member Rach thank you madam mayor when Public Works holds their open house every spring when I I remember taking my boys out to see this striping truck and um that is just such a critical piece of equipment that often goes overlooked so I'm happy to move for the approval this item sir second seconded by council member Val Pula uh oh okay council member Kelly you were going to do the same thing I take it okay alrighty any other discussion or questions please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously Madam clerk 24 - 384 is a communication from the city manager and director of public works with a request to approve the sole source purchase of traffic signal detection systems from traffic control products in the amount of $39,500 and this item requires a two-thirds vote of council members voting no less than six votes director Powers again this is the culmination of a study that we began uh here and actually that you requested us to do relative to parking throughout the city and modernize our parking system this would be a pilot that would basically study our parking environment regarding what they could do with remote parking um apps available parking using license plate readers for violations uh the full Gambit of what we might be able to get through using technology to leverage our parking system throughout the city any questions from director powers or can I get a motion council member Gordon young I move to approve item 384 is there a second seconded by council member Allen any questions or comments please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously thank you again mayor thank you counil thank you director Powers 24- 385 is a communication from the city manager and chief of police release with a request to approve the soul Source purchase of drone sents the Drone management subscription platform and approve an agreement with unmanned vehicle Technologies for 5 years of service in the amount of $124,900 that's $24,988 per year and this item requires a 2third vote of council members voting no less than six votes Madam manager item good evening uh thank you Council um so drone sense is how we um use our drones and utilize them outside of the operator um I I have the subject matter expert here that you've uh uh discussed with before Sergeant Stenson if you have specific questions but essentially we've been using drone sents for free to manage our drone Fleet um and for the end user for me it allows everybody to see what the Drone sees outside of the operator so um we can cast it to a phone we can cast it to an iPad everybody can see it that we want to see it um for sergeant Stenson and his team um it's maintenance it tracks the uh uh path of the Flight of the Drone um and and that's all on our transparency page we don't hide any of it um it's it's all available but it's um essentially what is happening is drone sense has changed their fee structure so we asked them to go out as far as they could so we can secure pricing um it is changing in 25 it uh is going to go up over five years we're going to save $34,000 but that's not we don't believe that's the actual number because we believe the fee structure is going to keep changing because that's what they're telling us so um what we're doing essentially is forecasting known costs for the next five years and those costs We Believe are going to be going up exponentially and we can't determine what they're going to be so um we have locked in this rate for 5 years that's as far as they would go out um and we believe it's a um um a fair price for what what we're getting and um after 25 we won't be able to control those prices so that's the summary on drone sense thank you Chief Dixon good to see you Sergeant Stinson council member grup uh thank you very much um Chief you or Stenson um will these drones be um positioned where we have hotspot areas um could be might not even be the territory uh where we have shotspotter wherever the action is they're ready to go so um yes we have and and how many operators do we have do we have 21 licensed operators you have to be licensed um there's a part 107 um so we have established an actual drone team um the the current state statute you have to it has to be a dispatch call we can't just put them up in the air but um the way we are deploying the drones is the operators have them throughout the city constantly um and and anytime there's an incident that the drones go up in the air and and they'll at night they use the thermals it's it's an incredible tool for us um but we don't have a drone as a first responder program yet where they're strategically positioned and then they they go up with a shot spotter but um they are positioned in each district with our licensed operators now those licensed operators may or may not be per of police Personnel they're all currently police Personnel they're all police other than the fire department has some as well um we look to expand that um for other units in the city that may need to use the drones thank you very much thank you wel do you have a motion yes move to approve has outlined seconded by council member Kelly please pass your ballots motion passes unanimously stick around Chief uh Madam clerk 24- 386 is a communication from the city manager and chief of police with a request to approve the soul Source purchase of one police can9 with a specialty in explosives DET detection and Patrol function from Southern Police K9 Incorporated located in Spring Hope North Carolina in the amount of $177,000 and this item requires a two-thirds vote of council members voting no less than six votes Chief Dixon all right thank you again so uh this is uh specifically about Kines we um in January we have four canines total we have one bomb dog and three narcotics dogs um with that's their specialty they're all dual purpose so they can all do searches they can all do um um um there's a there's a Litany of things they all do but their Specialties is either narcotics or or um bomb squad uh or bomb type indication so two of our narcotics dogs are retiring in January so that will take us down to two we're asking to fill one of those spots we'll bring us up to three and the specialty of the dog would be um bomb um or EOD and work with our bomb unit so most of our deployments um in the city most of the utilizations are for um bomb purposes so if you think of some of the venues that come to Peoria they have to have um dog sweeps for the venues to come here or they won't come here so we get a lot of utilizations we use them at our events downtown we use them um Saturday mornings um downtown so we do a lot lot of sweeps with the dog we get a lot of requests for the dog we get a lot of um um it's the number one requested dog for on that specific purpose so at this time we're going to replace a second dog for um EOD which is our explosive ordinance division um so it'll be essentially be a bomb dog um and then as our Personnel increases we'd like to um come back and and chat about the um narcotics dog thank you any questions for chief Dixon can I get a motion moved by council member Gordon Young seconded by council member Seer please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously thank you Chief Dixon Sergeant Stenson Madam Clark 24- 387 is a communication from the city manager and fire chief with a request to approve the low bid from Poria Metro construction and award a contract for the Demolition and construction of fire station number 16 located at 2105 West northmore Road in the amount of$ 4,238 526 with an with up to an additional $150,000 for contingencies metal manager have Chief Solberg here to give you more about this item long a long journey to get here so I'm excit to hear what you have to say Yes um good evening Madame mayor distinguished councel and um Madam manager um we've been working on this project since 2023 I do have to give flowers where they're due um city manager urick worked extremely hard to secure these State Grant funds and then he put uh Jason Meeks our facility maintenance manager and myself to work in this is where we're at today um this has been a long awaited project to start so we're excited to have this in front of you tonight thank you council member Allan uh thank you madam mayor uh Capital Improvements make me excited especially when they're in District 4 uh appreciate everyone who's been involved to help Land This Plane um I believe Senator Kaylor helped secure the funds uh for the uh the station and so we're very excited about this this is one of the oldest if I think believe is the oldest in the city of Poria so this is going to be great for that area Chief can you talk a little bit about timeline from potential breaking ground and then possible any type of interruptions on northmore road for the listening audience please yes um so what we have been working on behind the scenes knowing that we already know who the contract was going to be um secured with Metro so we've had the ability to kind of start working on that timeline so once this passes tonight hopefully um we've already been been working with Metro right now so the anticipation is once we can secure those permits we can start work the 1 of January and then be in the fire station um by the the last quarter of 2025 we've been guaranteed up to this point that there'll be no lane closures on northmore even though we do have a demolition you know that will happen in January and February with that being said obviously there'll be increased traffic flow once we have that timeline established and what that looks like from Metro then we're going to circulate CC C at that to the surrounding neighborhoods and can you speak to uh cost for service currently how they're being directed with this U fire station not currently um being utilized yeah and while that's not ideal at all um that fire station houses engine 16 and truck 14 engine 16 is currently located at station 19 and truck 14 is responding out of Station 15 which is on deweer uh but what we do challenge our crws is that with working a 24-hour shift during that 1200 a.m.

period those resources are trying to stay in that Rolling Acres area so that they can keep response times where they should be thank you Chief I appreciate it and again thank you everyone uh for working for this and uh IID like to make a motion for approval Thank You seconded by council member Oiler any other questions or comments please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously thank you Chief thank you Madam clerk 24- 388 is a communication from the city manager and director of of emergency Communication Center with a request to approve a three-year contract with Tyler Technologies to replace the computer AED dispatch and police records management system with the option to renew for a four for four additional oneyear terms Madam manager thank you again I am excited about this project as well a multi-year planning project that's ready for implementation we have here our ECC director blay uh to give you more details of this project and also funding sources for this as well thank you Madame mayor council Madam manager our current computer A dispatch system and Records management system has been in place since the mid1 1980s uh served us well for many years but we did feel like it was time to explore all available options to ensure that we had the cad and RMS software that best meets the needs for all of Peoria's First Responders although the system is one of the main components of our emergency telecommunicators job functions it's also an integral part of both our police and fire departments as well as one of the most important pieces of software that our information system supports in the spring of 2022 we began the RFP process with the help of Delta works there a public safety consultant that specializes in CAD and RMS systems after a thorough review of all the responses uh to the the RFP Tyler Technologies was selected as our top top ranked proposer we did work with Jenny the uh grants coordinator with the p Police Department to secure some federal funding through the cops technology Grant which will cover the software fees and any implementation fees that are due in 2025 while Pur police and Pur fire are by far the biggest utilizers of the system we are working with the user agencies on cost sharing structure for 2026 and Beyond thank you any questions thank you DOR can I get a motion to approve moved by council member Kelly seconded by council member velpula council member grup uh director blay U could you tell us um about the cops technology Grant uh and to what extent it's going to help pay for this yeah so the uh amount that we received from that was $2 million and so that will cover uh the entirety of the software fees that are due for 2025 should this be approved and any implementation fees in 2025 and then some of those fees in 26 as well so this is not anything that we would U need to contribute for anyone would need to until 2026 this is not a luxury purchase um what would happen if we continued to allow this technology to decline and possibly be prayed upon by those who don't wish our city well what would happen if we just let it go as it is yeah the the current system that we are in does have an end of life so uh the support would cease um it would propose it would you know have some security risks with that and um the software system that it's on the operating system is at its end of life as well so um that's the kind of the biggest thing that we can see but we also see a degradation of service that um both police and fire would receive um because of the lack of integration with a lot of the technologies that they're utilizing today thank you very much okay welcome council member Gordon yet thank you Madame mayor um as someone who formerly worked with you in dispatch first of all I want to thank you for your leadership and just the way that you've navigated this space but then also um just an appreciation I want to recognize for the fact that dispatch is the artery the artery of emergency communications and for this type of advancement to come before us I'm very very proud to support something like this thank you for all you do thank you yeah we're very excited yes thank you madam mayor thank you uh we have a motion and a second on the floor please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously thank you director thank you madam clerk 24- 389 is a communication from the city manager and Corporation Council with a request for the following a approved the retention and authorized a city manager to enter into an agreement with Innovation Capital LLC for investment banking services relating to the PO potential landbased Casino in the city of Poria and B approved the retention engagement letter with John Elias Elias M mcginness and S STI PC for Legal Services relating to the potential landbased Casino in the city of Poria and we'll need separate votes on each please okay Corporation Council Hayes thank you madam mayor welcome so there's been quite a bit of coverage about why we're retaining these firms and I just want to give a brief explanation in March of this year the gaming board held a hearing where Boyd uh gaming appeared they are the operators and licensed operator of uh the Paradise Casino there's an exchange between Boyd and the gaming board administrator that led the city to believe that Boyd and the gaming board were discussing landbased casinos as part of a facilities expansion by Boyd Gaming the city has uh previously met with Boyd way back in 2020 to express the issues that the city felt surrounded any shift of the present Casino operations to landbased uh operations um as the council may know the initial intergovernmental agreement that U provided for the location of the riverbat on the East Poria side of the river and the revenue split that both East Poria and por has enjoyed for many years um uh contemplated that if there was ever landbased Casino operations it would be within the city of Poria state law also Echoes that sentiment the current license that's authorized in statute for operations of a river boat in East Poria States right after that and with board approval B based operations within the city of Poria so both our intergovernmental agreement and state law gave respect to the initial uh agreement of the parties that serve the parties well for many years and our hope is that it'll serve the parties well into the future that said a major Casino expansion is a significant financial undertaking and in order to approach Boyd with the best team and and uh scenarios possible um we felt it very important to retain uh an industry-leading uh Investment Banking firm to help us with the financial advice to make sure that if we were making proposals on land acquisition buildout uh other facilities um significant financial operations that take quite a bit of experience that we would have a team partner that knew exactly what it was doing and that would Express to Boyd that we were taking this opportunity seriously and want it to be successful for all involved so with that we we suggested the retention of innovation Capital LLC they've been involved in a number of uh gaming industry uh Financial um transactions throughout the nation including a couple notable ones within the uh state of Illinois um they were the lead financial adviser for the Jumers um um Casino in the Quad Cities and they were also a financial advisor to the major transaction for the Chicago Casino um that I'm sure you're all aware of um we'd also like to add to that team um John Elias U from the Elias Law Firm um John was actually one of the critical lawyers involved in the Jumers uh Casino project up in the Quad Cities he's uh been working in gaming law for many years we've done a number of projects both with John and John on the other side of the table he knows what he's doing he has a lot of credibility and Acumen and makes our team rounds out our team in a way that I think would be compelling for Boyd for its considerations of the options within the city of Poria with that we'd ask for your consideration and approval both the retention of uh Innovation Capital as well as um with John allias I'm happy uh to answer any questions you may have thank you thank you Council the original agreement between East and Poria uh wasn't attached to this but we can certainly uh send it out to all the council members but speaking to that Council Hayes would you agree that it's very explicit in that agreement that any landbased casino in this area between Peoria and East Peoria shall be in the city of Poria yes those CL are not opaque or confusing they're quite simple direct and straightforward so simply stated that is the bargain that was struck back in the early 90s thank you honor thank you council member rbot thank you madam mayor I just wanted to thank you for your leadership on this and tenacity and in making sure that the intergovernmental agreement from 1991 and the state statute thank you Council Hayes for that is honored and respected so with that I will move for approval Thank You seconded by council member Gula council member Allan uh thank you Madame mayor uh Corporation Council Hayes I just had a a question regarding um the retainer fee of of $10,000 um that we will uh be paying as we are in this agreement with this U legal resource here is there a a tentative timeline or or Sunset possibly where we would get to a certain point where if we don't get an agreement done we would fold fold it or is the goal just to continue to keep billing until we we reach an agreement optimistically uh thank you councilman Allen the the U agreement speaks to an initial six-month term we anticipate the retention will remain in place until we achieve Clarity whether we're going to have a transaction or not there's also a transaction fee to the financial advisor firm of $250,000 and so it's it's our view that this matter should take somewhere between six months to a year to determine the outcome it may take longer uh but that's the best estimate we can provide today one reason that we know that most of that activity will take place during 2025 is that the uh Boyd and the gaming board have indicated that their facilities expansion plan is due in March of 2026 so we should have some clarity during the calendar year 2025 about whether we're proceeding with the transaction with Boyd or not and can you speak to where we're funding uh this transaction out of initially the funds uh particularly for the monthly retainers will come from the legal department outside Council fund that that's doesn't require a budget amendment we keep an eye on those expenses and other matters that may affect that that uh portion of the budget so we may need an adjustment over time but initially that's how we're able to do that and offer that opportunity for the council without an adjustment to the budget today thank you sir thank you Madame mayor you're welcome and this is item a that were um that was moved upon and and second it please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously council member renbu move Item B uh seconded by council member velpula please cast your ballots motion passes unanimously mam clerk 24- 390 is a communication from the city manager and director of Community Development with a request to concur with recommendation from the Planning and Zoning commission and staff to adopt an ordinance rezoning property from a class I2 railroad Warehouse industrial district to a class I3 General industrial district and to obtain a special use in a class I3 General industrial district for chemical processing for the properties located at Edmund Street North Cedar Street parcel identification number 18- 17277 d006 1 Edmund Street and 1320 southwest monarch Street all in Poria Illinois and on your desk there is a handout on yellow paper of a revised ordinance Madam manager thank you I'm going to first give the floor to Corporation Council Hayes but we also have here assistant Allison scheme development direct assistant director here as well to answer any zoning questions I'm always happy to have assistant director uh here because she helps me out when I Heir so hopefully uh she can help with some of the technical zoning questions that might come up we have a tremendous opportunity uh that's been presented um verdis chemical of Columbus Nebraska was awarded um the green chemistry challenge small business of the Year award in October of this year from the US EPA because if it's industry-leading um environmentally sensitive production process um for um ethylacetate which is a solvent that's widely used in many products many consumer products um that you would be familiar with so uh nail polish removal remover comes to mind because it's one thing that I'm familiar with for my household so most of us use that quite often and this process is um quite Advanced and has a level of environmental sensitivity uh that leads the industry they use uh for the one of their main uh production Pro uh products what they need to develop their product is produced now at the bioa plant so bioa has approached the city with a zoning request to expand their facility to the north on an area that isn't presently zoned for but would be if Council approved zone for chemical processing so we have an industry-leading awardwinning uh producer willing to disassemble their award-winning plant in Columbus Nebraska and reassemble it here if we Grant this zoning request and allow for that Council might recall that when we uh put together the um disy Tiff there was interaction between the city and Advocates um for the um environmental justice area there on the south side of Poria um because of that interest and concern um The Joint Commission on racial Justice and Equity U approached the city and have been negotiating terms that would be conditions of this zoning I want to indicate to council that through late afternoon today we were negotiating those terms and I want to thank uh the the chair of the committee uh Tim birie who had a number of calls with me today Council for bioer Council for verdis chemical uh we worked together to come up with a set of conditions that's acceptable now to all involved that addresses the environmental concerns and that will allow us to proceed with this with some level of certainty that we're going to understand what's going on in that factory we're going to understand what their um status is with regard to the Illinois EPA and the US EPA that they're in compliance with their environmental requirements and then if there are any compliance issues that arise we'll be aware of them and then we can make a determination or whether or if to take any enforcement action as it relates to your zoning approval so this is a forward-looking agreement it's got elements of uh participation from a very concerned citizens group we're addressing the environmental concerns um and by all indications this as an industrial expansion is sensitive to the environment Leading Edge technology and the type of material that will or the type of advancement that we can use to build business build jobs build the southside of Poria back as an industrial U manufacturing center but in an environmentally sensitive way thank you for hearing me out and we hope you consider approv appr yes I appreciate those negotiations I I am going to ask if there's no objections uh for attorney uh Tim birie if you would approach and U let us know where things stand from your perspective yeah thank you very much excuse me and um Patrick did a wonderful uh explanation of what's been going on uh in our work on this over the past uh uh few days um I'm happy to say that we have reached an agreement and I'm here to support the addition uh to the special addition to the to the zoning through the special conditions which I think has been provided to you now I don't know what the procedure is and some will have to figure that out how how that what the motion would be I I don't know exactly what that would be but um I do I do want to make a just a few comments I want to say um as kind as Patrick was uh making comments about me the city uh really stepped up here uh and to involve uh our group um our in particular our environmental justice uh work group um in their efforts to make sure that we achieved some degree of protection for the community that went beyond just what zoning uh zoning ordinance would provide for and um you know I think we accomplished that I don't know we got all that we would have wanted but frankly we got a lot and we got what I would hope would be a template for the future as we go forward with projects uh of this nature and it it was I thought um uh very promising too that by our urge have participated in this and verus participated in this and so we have a win-win as we said all parties came together and and found an agreement that we uh can live with so um I'm happy to answer any questions about that but I would like to introduce uh one of the co-chairs of our environmental work group and that's Cecilia elad who has just a few comments about uh I know we're going to be we don't want to run late but I'd like Cecilia to make a few comments if she could mayor yes say thank you Tim and uh I hope you'll for you'll forgive my formality um I prepared a brief statement um that I'd like to read uh my name is Cecilia elhadad and I am a co-chair of the environment and climate workg group of the Poria Joint Commission on racial Justice and equity and I live in the Hamilton Park neighborhood of Poria in uh councilwoman Jackson's District I come before you to speak about the proposed zoning change that would allow Veris a chemical Processing Company to establish a new plant on Poria Southside before I begin I would like to thank city manager Patrick urick for bringing this issue to the attention of my work group and also Tim birie for all of his heart hard work negotiating and collaborating tonight the city council will vote on an ordinance that would rezone the proposed area for virus's new plant given that the south side of Poria is designated as an environmental justice impacted area I request that the that special conditions be added to the ordinance to ensure that the South Side shares in the benefits of this New Economic Opportunity and is pro protected from further environmental harm the US Environmental Protection Agency defines in environmental justice as the as quote the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race color national origin or income with respect to the development implementation and enforcement of environmental laws regulations and policies end quote meaningful in involvement requires quote providing notice of and engaging in Outreach to communities or groups of people who are potentially affected end quot the conditions proposed ensure that bioer and fearness provide notice of pollution that affects the Southside Community by publishing compliance reports to an easily searchable location they also ensure the Southside is provided notice of virus' emergency plan given that the residents of the Southside Community will be negatively impacted by the pollution generated by the new verus site and the continuing pollution of biera and other companies in The Distillery to footprint the environment and climate work group feels the Southside Community should also benefit from the economic opportunities it has to offer when when beus collaborates with the Southside Community organizations mentioned in the conditions it will meet the criteria of meaningful involvement described earlier the conditions will improve the transparency and build trust with the Southside Community and address the legacy of structural racism that has affected the Southside Community the special conditions recommended by the jcj environment and climate workg group will better enable the commission and our workg group to meet the commission's responsibilities thank you for your for the opportunity to speak and I hope you will consider adding the special conditions to the ordinance on which you will vote shortly thank you if I could just one final comment um we we talked about uh the commission I'm very proud of obviously the racial Justice and equated Commission because we negotiated on this uh this afternoon until um four o'clock something like that obviously we haven't had time to uh have a meeting to actually have the whole commission vote on this we'll vote on it to ratify by what we've done here uh in about a week I think we have a meeting a week from Thursday but um uh I have no doubt that uh we will approve uh and we ask you to approve this evening thank you very much I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has thank you very much Mr bur and just uh the special conditions agreed upon on the very back page of the yellow sheet council member Jackson thank you Madame mayor um I I just want to commend everybody for uh the collaboration that took place on all sides and uh if I could um I just want to share just a few comments I uh shared with uh Ro Mr Gillian one of the leaders uh at biia this afternoon in a text message and I and it was just that uh the fact that I hope this this collaboration is the impetus for bridging a gap uh and creating a positive relationship and an opportunity to educate our community about bio eria and its uh hopefully efforts to bring forth more transparency in the future so again I just want to congratulate everybody for uh collaborating so well together and uh Mr birie if I heard you correctly you said something about a meeting but one last point I would like to see um and the city manager and I talked about this uh at some point opportunities for public meetings so that all the folks in the first district including the Southside can get to know uh these relatively new business owners and find out a little bit more about all of the things they're doing over there and so uh going forward I hope we're able to do that and I hope to be a a part of what will be one of many public meetings between the community and biia as we move forward to not only create more jobs bring more jobs but environmentally sensitive uh measures in place as we help to redevelop and and rebuild our community on the south side so I appreciate everybody's effort thank you Mr Hayes and and City staff and everybody and with that Madame mayor can I go ahead and make this motion uh that that we approve item number uh 24- 390 if there was um any other comments I uh that that we do that we do need to make I think there if I could privilege go ahead and make your motion okay okay I'm going to go ahead and make my motion that we approve item number 24- 390 seconded by council member Kelly okay any other discussion uh council member grup thank you uh um assistant director Allison um when the Planning and Zoning commission heard about this particular proposal did they have benefit or knowledge of what was worked out at 11:59 p.m are you referring to the today no these these negotiations were after the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting held in uh last week in the first week of December Itor nov seems to me that um it's a disservice to our Planning and Zoning commission to bring information to them that's incomplete they're completely unaware about unaware of some of the initiatives that have been taken today we may not have had one dissenting vote it just seems like it's been done in a backward fashion um I I just think it's wrong we we mayor we appoint Planning and Zoning commission members to give it their best shot to evaluate projects like this they then make a recommendation and then as I said at 11:59 all of a sudden today we we have something that supposedly is going to elay our anxieties about this development down there it doesn't elay my anxiety and I note that this if it's approved tonight is subject to the issuance the appropriate building permits and coordination with Perry fire department for a fire andh hasmat emergency response plan with the appropriate training and equipment that hasn't been done yet not yet but that would be a part of if a approved what we would follow through at a later time when this actually comes to if it comes to fruition then we would ensure that that condition is met would it appear that that's just all ministerial and perfunctory and there won't be any hangup putting together a hasmat emergency response plan I did talk to the fire chief today about it and is that your impression that there's not going to be any problem providing the necessary safeguards for this neighborhood near our downtown we will work very closely to make sure that that's adequately met with the fire department's blessing on that yes more and more frequently when we have developments occurring down by the river here in this city we need to be very very careful because our downtown is filled with people we're going to have about 6,600 people living in our downtown Warehouse District within the a year year and a half we already have thousands of people everything must be done with an eye to safety and uh you know the Illinois River is such a huge asset for us we're a city by a river and so when we do things at the last minute that helps to ensure safety for our citizens it bothers me I don't think things should be done at the last minute um so I I'm going to um support it reluctantly but I hope that we'll have a better normally I'm not a processed person but this is so critical what we're doing in our downtown area with all the money that's been invested all the people living down there the souls that live down there and the importance to their health and nothing goes wrong that I am going to be a processed person on this but I'm going to be nice and I'm going to vote for it but I think that it should be done different next time anything we're going to do along that River and our downtown should be really looked over carefully and shouldn't be left the last minute council member jackon uh thank you madam mayor well I appreciate your uh concerns uh council member graab um this is um what I liked what I appreciate about this process I was on the as well today and what it said to me that all sides were willing to uh continue to talk and I even as we move forward to approve this tonight uh your very concerns and others about safety I believe will continue to move forward sir and so it it it for me it's the first step in uh trying to build trust with uh these companies that obviously have decided to do things a little bit differently to protect our environment environment so there's there's been a give and take on both sides and I I appreciate we we talked about deferring this but but I believe that even as we move to approve this tonight that whole process with regards to safety and everything that you have brought forward will continue to move forward and be uh in put in place as we move forward to see this project go forward and with that Madame mayor if I could uh could I just uh have privilege of the floor for just uh uh one person to come forward uh Mr Antonio lisam uh who had also um been in ingal in um the collaboration thank you what's the name again Antonio Lum okay hello our dear mayor and City counc CC persons thank you for allowing us to have a word concerning this matter uh my name is Antonio libum and I stand on behalf of Southside Community United for change Martha Ross was not able to attend tonight uh but we appreciate the opportunity she appreciates the opportunity to meet with uh Mr Corell the chief uh M what's his name here McConnell Chief McConnell um last night and we appreciate that opportunity to meet with him and um we look forward to building a collaboration relationship with fista in the future Southside United for change endorses the special conditions uh we do want to point out the fact that we would like uh to have the opportunity to be a part of the hiring process for those uh people that would be working in that plant we do have a concern uh with the environment we met of course with the environmental um group of Peoria joined the commission Joint Commission on racial Justice and Equity to encourage the city to add to the section two zoning change ordinance the provision of allowing the South side United for change to have the opportunity again to be a part of the hiring process for a student for of course we have students but residents that would be in the area on the south end um we want to be reassured the South End shares in the economic benefit of this new plant we urge the city council to add special conditions presented in section two of the zoning change ordinance to include again the Southside United for change to participate in the hiring of those that would be working in this plan thank you mayor council member Jackson OH mayor council sorry Council Hayes I didn't do a very good job describing the special conditions that were added as attachment D to the ordinance that's why you have a yellow sheet in front of you and the public doesn't have this unless they have the updated version of the agenda which is available online now but um I would just point out specific to this speaker's query is that um verdis who will be the new employer there will prioritize employment opportunities for Southside residents it will actively engage with Southside Community to create a recruitment pipeline specifically targeting organizations such as Southside Community United for change Tri count Urban League jobs Partnerships Southside Mission and the impia City County Joint Commission on racial Justice and Equity there are a number of other Provisions in those conditions I'd make a request of a friendly suggestion to the motion that councilwoman Allen or that councilwoman Jackson made to um make sure that includes adding um attachment d as additional conditions and I want to apologize to council if we've offended in any way with regard to the late hour of this Edition we've been at um this issue with the Distillery Tiff and the Southside social justice issues you may recall that when we presented the opportunities for The Distillery Tiff we sort of took that whole project timeline offline for a while while to sit down with uh this the committee members and work through how we would integrate that into the economic development agreements that we might do in that tip this is different because this is not an economic development agreement this is this is a zoning matter but we don't quite have a great process down and I think councilman grab's point was an excellent one and thank you for that we'll do better going forward with this new set of issues that we're trying to take in count as we try to modernize our southide with sensitivity towards the residents there and I just want to apologize for any offense by how we're doing things we're doing our best we're trying to keep things moving and we apologize for the late addition to your agenda and uh we'll make sure that next time we line things up so the zoning uh Planning and Zoning commission their approval encompasses this type of information thank you your honor thank you Council uh council member Jackson are you do you have more uh no thank you um Council Hayes uh for sharing that um it it sounds like this has been a learning process for everybody involved and so um I am just uh still elated that everybody has uh been willing to share their concerns and uh council member gra uh uh they will not go um unmet so uh appreci apprciate that you're welcome council member Bela thank you Madame mayor I just have couple of Cl uh clarification questions so I've I've I've uh went on internet to see what kind of uh company is this and how many such kind of companies are there I did not find an answer so can anybody tell me how many compan like that exist and where they are you want to come forth thank you council member Eric Lawrence a fear is chemical um thanks for having me um to your question there's only one in the entire us that has this technology that takes uh ethanol to make ethyl acetate um normally it's done by oilbased products and we are the first one to develop something of this nature so you you are using con based is that right we're using Catalyst to to do the reaction okay can you tell me what was the reason for you to choose puia um we were adjacent to a facility that was another ethanol facility um unfortunately the ethanol is not uh does not play nicely with our Catalyst um we have been taking ethanol from Peoria for the last two years and so it made sense to to move next to your uh supplier to improve the business process just for the sake of clarity for people listening can you tell me what is the toxicity of ital state that's a great question I don't know that off the top of my head um it's not toxic it is it is flammable um so it it's similar to ethanol similar to putting fuel on your vehicle so if you're saying similar to ethanol it is a fire hazard there there is a flammability to it that is correct okay do you know it solubility I do not not off the top of my head I'm sorry so actually Madame mayor this this kind of brings back to what councilman graab said we wanted to we we rush on things not knowing where we are going to these are very simple things that we need to know because even Tylenol before it gets to the patient we we actually do the dmpk study so that means we understand what it does what kind of side effects it gives where it it gets affected and and how do you clean it up environmental cleanup is the most Costless thing and are we prepared for that zoning you go there for zoning and and and Zoning people say that okay this is a good opportunity but did we do enough research to really see is it we jumping off the gun saying oh this is a good opportunity for Southside I really don't know what kind of jobs and how many jobs they're going to provide that's that's my first question the second question is really when it's not a typical car company you can just say oh it's a car company we know how it operates you are dealing with something which is a chemical I I've have I've done probably 20 years of my career in that field I understand every part of that we don't know we don't know how it works we don't know what it brings are we so the bottom line is are the risks outweighing the reward or are we not so I I just I'm not I'm not so convinced about I understand that it brings more jobs I understand we need to bring more businesses I do understand that it is very imperative to to kind of help the south side to commercialize but at the same time we also need to do some basic research before it comes none of the people knows what is itate it's easy to say it's a uh what do you call the nail nail paint remore no it's not the way it should be addressed so I'm not convinced I I like the I like the proposal but I would have approved it or I would have supported if I had more background on what this company does what kind of jobs does it bring what kind of uh uh regulations do we need to approve so this this is my my personal thought on it and I at this moment I'm not supporting it okay thank you thank you councilman and you know the special I I realized that the uh Planning and Zoning commission did not see these additional um special conditions uh as it related to to the the zoning change but to be honest these don't have anything to do with the type of company how many people are being I mean well I guess how many people are being hired what types of jobs but information about the company what type of um product they have how it affects the environment to my understanding that information was relay to the Planning and Zoning commission I know you kind of disappeared Mr lson but um if there's any additional information that you can provide to this Council to help to Al the concerns of council member velpula relative to the chemical I think it's mainly is it the chemical aspect of your business I think that would be helpful yes Madam mayor thank you um to answer some of your questions um I you know kind of caught me off the right field with the solvent to give you an idea um it does absorb about um in water up to 30% and then it does separate um we do no cleanup activities I know some of the questions were around um building a uh emergency plan with the fire system we currently have one in Columbus and obviously the facility is going to be built and before we can fully develop a plan we have to build a facility and finalize those plans and so that is something we we love to work with um the city as well as any emergency response teams to build those plans because you know I have a family as well and I want to go home at the end of the day and I expect the same for everyone that works at that facility so we want that plan to be right and we do work with as I said with the fire chief in Columbus currently and they do annual training every year and so we we take a very large commitment to safety um at our facility um as as far as employment um we do we will be hiring 16 operators as well as five lap technicians um we will be hiring maintenance stff I don't have that number right now it just depends on how that facility operates um the plan is usually to have two um there are a few of us that are planning to re relocate so we do have experienced engineers and experienced man mechanical um I'm the plant manager I've been with the facility since the original construction and so I'm planning to relocate as well to the facility so I have set years experience as well um does this help answer any questions that I can I think so will you be working with our fire department yes we have reached out Madame mayor um to the fire department to um ask what they would like in our plans um we have put together a rough draft of our emergency plan for construction and then we'll move that into finalizing that for the operating facility so attaching where we're going to put in our fire monitoring system how we will put in our phone system to um fight fires as well as um Evacuate the system and then let the community know um of any issues okay coun just to your point if a compound is not soluble in water it's the best thing to kind of purify if you say it's 30% soluble there's no way to say no way to separate it out so basically it it highlights a risk of you know your Aquatic Life which is close to the river so it's I'm not I'm not going to go deeper into the scientific aspect of it but the point is if it is soluble it's very hard to kind of separate it out how much alcohol is mixed ethy acetate is mixed into the water 30% solubility is still dangerous but I understand that the the the overall picture overall side effects are not so toxic unless it is spilled and it is it is exposed in a larger quantities just for the clarity purpose yeah thank you council member and we do um have uh spill containment that is equivalent to our largest facility or holding facility so if there is a spill that is contained within our uh process making sure it doesn't make it into the river thank you mam you're welcome thank you Mr lson we have our our fire leadership back there thank you Manor thank you council member Allan May uh my question was uh regarding the number of jobs and and Mr Larson answered those based off of councilman V ping that up so appreciate that thank you okay you're welcome council member Gordon young thank you Madame mayor Mr Larson I had a question you may as well just stay at the podium um I know you said that the product was flammable um have you had fire at the plant in Columbus we have never had a fire at our facility okay all right that was all I needed to knowk M so I as can I say one more thing abut um we do take safety as very great um verus chemical has been there for four years I can thankfully say that we've had one minor ooser recordable in those four years and it was unfortunately a shovel fell down and hit somebody the leg and they had to have one stitch um but it is we take safety very as a priority so I'm I'm GL I will take all the questions about safety thank you thank you thank you Madame mayor thank you we have uh a motion on the floor and a second i' ask that you please cash your ballots motion passes with one n velpula Madam clerk 24- 391 is a communication from the city manager and finance director com controller with request to receive and file the month ended October 31 2024 un audited financial report you madam manager well Paul walks away and I can't operate I have here our director director to speak on the um report report uh be as uh brief as I the report uh this is the report that ended for the month ended October 31st 20 uh 24 um revenues in the general fund are down about 3.8% um if you go deeper into the package uh a lot of the explanation behind why we're seeing those numbers be slightly below um is our pprt receipts which we reported to Council on numerous occasions are falling behind um Trend um the good news is we are seeing increases in all in both sources of our sales tax as well as our income tax receipts um so what's going to happen over kind of the remaining months we have still about five months of collections of those taxes um is those increases will eat in and will continue to eat into that really that lower number that we have um so we'll be at the end of the year still in line with what we had communicated to council during the budget process um from uh where we're going to end the year on the expense side um we're down about 1.2% uh year-over-year uh we anticipate that that will still stay in line as we kind of get towards year end um we'll still be in line with the the budget that was laid out to council um and with that I'm available if Council has any other specific questions on the report um but that was General highlights of where we are in the general fund uh through October council member SE thank you Madame mayor director CR thank you for your time again I'm gonna we didn't have any conversation to you and I today but so might be a little unfair question I just want to make a point tonight to earlier conversation that this uh this uh my colleagues had tell us a little bit about HRA tax Hotel restaurant Amusement how much revenue do we generate from HRA tax uh we are anticipated to bring in close to somewhere between 11 and a half and probably 12 million this year I think we're anticipating that number to tick up a little bit to maybe about 12.1 12.2 million next year so tell us a little bit about home rule sales tax what do you think our revenues will be this year uh so we're anticipating our home rule sales tax number to be close to 29 million um we do have about a 2% uh inflationary Factor assumed next year based off of uh what I think the general consensus around consumer spending looks like for next year so that number will be closer to 30 million for 25 so I heard the word uh many times over the last eight years I've been here but a few times tonight the word collaboration um so I know there's not really an answer to my question maybe you do maybe you can surprise me and no uh but I'm very proud of our uh Park District um how much revenue you think they they generate for all their operations from to the HRA and to the uh home rurual sales tax you are correct in saying I do not have that off the top of my head I I'm absolutely more than what more than happy to look into it and get a report back no I know I just I just want to make my point is there is collaboration between some of these entities and the city and and when we make investment I mean they don't get the the uh the credit they should get sometime but they are part of generate revenues of the city of p through HRA and sales tax and I correct in saying that you are correct thank you very much that's all I needed to know can I get a you want to make a motion uh councilman see okay seconded by council member Gordon young please cash your balance this is a receiving file okay thank motion passes unanimously Madam clerk there's no more unfinished business if there's no unfinished business we are at new business yes new business council member riggenbach thank you madam mayor I got three quick items tonight first of all I want to recognize the CEO of Children's Home Scurry Miller who's patiently sat through the meeting even after we approved the agenda item on on consent um Mr Miller has been working diligently since his arrival here a couple years ago to find a transitional housing for um young people who are transitioning out of foster care and it's been a bit of a challenge but he's come up with an amazing plan that will build two structures on the existing Children's Home campus and um I I'm personally excited about that it's in the third District it's going to be very compatible to the other building and and that neighborhood so thank you for for your leadership in getting children's home to that point and we're excited to see what those finished products will look like down the road an second item that we approved on consent was a liquor license for temple live and for those of you that aren't familiar with temple live that's the group that is um leasing the Scot rights Cathedral so that's another great addition to our downtown area and they'll be doing shows there hopefully starting in early Springtime so exciting the the third thing as your representative the Housing Commission I work with Nicole marrow um quite a bit on staff and director duelan has appointed her as kind of the point person on the homeless issue and just so you the whole whole Council knows Council um director Duan did send an email on Friday but the Continuum of Care has been meeting on a regular basis with um the stakeholders and that includes pathway fin pathway Ministries I always say pathway Financial pathway Ministries Phoenix jol Lula Salvation Army and Dream Center as well as our staff and they put together a plan that the street team team which is made up and I have I want to recognize these ladies for their diligence Molly alen or Pilgrim excuse me and Leanne Daniels from Phoenix and Kishi Bernard from Lula they've been meeting with Nicole twice a week since the ordinance was passed and they have secured housing for 23 people that have been in the encampments so I think that's that shows not to overuse the word collaboration but when we really do work together we're able to accomplish some things and um the work's not done by any means and and a couple things that are being thrown out as possibilities is something that Kate green Broach to me just in passing one day and it's something Alton Illinois doesn't it's owls overnight warming locations and when we have these cold snaps we open up the fire stations the police stations the library but those folks aren't allowed to spend the night there so owls would be a way that if we can find the appropriate provider whether it's Salvation Army or or who whoever it could be that they would open up a gym and and we could possibly help Supply Cuts you know that we would have another option available on the those cold winter nights um having some discussion with pathway Ministries they they have really um stepped up to the plate in their commitment to not turning people away so um something else I want to throw out to counil that Andy King from Dream Center approached me about was tiny homes and this is a concept that other cities have utilized and that's something that this working group of Kate greens is looking at also so um keep your ears tuned to discussion on tiny homes as as a possibility of something that we could engage in so a a lot of movement there a lot of hard work yet to be done but I just wanted to make sure everybody was aware that work is being done thank you Madame mayor you're welcome council member Jackson thank you uh Madame mayor um that was certainly good news to hear uh council member rigan Bach I have just uh two items I wanted to bring up I'll start with the Positive um and I I I drive all over the city I uh happened to be on Adam Street the other day and drove I had to stop at the intersection I think of uh Adams and Folton and I looked over to the left at The Distillery lab and Madam mayor I thought I was looking at a building in Chicago I mean it was it was I was like whoa this is it was beautiful it's absolutely beautiful uh and I I just want to say um three years ago when that was part of my district and we were allocating funds for arpa funds and and then we gave them $100,000 and um I can say from looking at the structure the impressive structure I can see that it was money well spent uh and at some point I'm not sure if they've been up in operational full year yet uh but I've heard about some of the things going on and I uh look forward to uh maybe a report back I mean I was just really impressed that we had a building looking like that in downtown Peoria very impressive very impressive so uh thank you to everybody uh who was involved in that that wonderful project and I'm sure uh they won't have a problem um getting tenants and then developing economic um development work jobs inside that building um the second item um I want to talk about I I haven't spoken much publicly about it but mayor after an incident last night I I uh just I'm I'm I feel compelled to to talk publicly about it and I I don't like to pick on um properties uh property management companies but I have become affiliate ated with uh wall properties well well uh since 2006 and uh a relative lives there and then it had when I got elected to the council it became a part of my Council District I did voter registration down there I did campaigning down there so I have built relationships with uh folks down there and uh I go down there I continue to on a day-to-day basis and and and I appreciate the fact that the city uh I brought some items to their attention back in uh earlier part of this year um uh items that I deemed criminal activity and and then you know we met with wallik back in July and uh things have happened I've watched the building go from an older structure that was upgraded they put millions of dollars into it probably about eight years ago and one of the comments are I remembered uh one of the residents saying boy this looks like the par Marquette you know it went from a dark building to each hallway the bottom it was yellow and and the second floor was green and white um you know uh Woodworks and the third floor is blue but at any rate it it went from being a beautiful structure uh wallak has in subsequent years purchased additional properties and so now instead of just having to uh they have I I want to say upwards of about five but as a result I've noticed um I I don't I mean I I amount it to neglect on on their part because right now there's no staff there's no general manager there's no housekeeping there's no maintenance and most importantly they no longer have security which they had had about eight years ago uh so I've noticed as I go there on a regular basis increase in drug sales prostitution in and around the property robbery of elderly residents uh assault of Staff over the summer daily trespassing people who don't live there sleeping in the stairwells um uh uh trash cans I was there Monday morning uh before I went to work between 6:30 and 700 a.m.

as I went in uh a man who did not live there walked in behind me and I I I said something to him and I you know talked about the cameras and there's cameras on the premises unfortunately uh they haven't been working but but trash goes days on in without being emptied the dumpster in the back has Furniture everywhere and last nightmare as I went over to check on a relative uh community room was full folks were having a great time I noticed water on the floor the doorway and I said what how what happened they said we don't know I turned my back to go down the hallway and I noticed um sewage I thought it was water it was it was sewage a three feet three three feet wide in the there was a vent obviously it was spewing out looked further down and then in the second vent and so I looked to the right and the doorway that you approach the other Hall and there was a water spot developing there I got on the phone and called the assistant chief and told him and I had been on the phone with him in the morning about a similar incident and so he started making phone calls and so make a long story short before I left I ended up calling the fire chief who sent down the fire truck this is the probably the fourth incident that happened after outside of business hours uh there was a fire uh one on one night at about between 8 9 and 10 and and nobody management Nobody's around during the summer there was a power outage on Sunday I stopped over 8:30 they they said we've been without power since before midnight last night last night was another example and I shared that with the assistant chief who who did everything in his power to get city staff down there wallak on the phone in Indiana but to make a long story short when I left there I was overly concerned because I wasn't sure that the folks on the first floor would be able to stay in the place last night there was so much sewage coming up out of the the the vents and so I um if I could um Mr uh Corporation counsel Mr Hayes I I would like to uh convene another meeting at some point similar to what we did in July um at that time you talked about options and you gave them a deadline sir we the city did and while they have done some things um they haven't done enough because um in my estimation the standard of living has just declined and folks are left on their own and it seems like incidents like what I observed last night tend to happen uh during a time when there's nobody around around uh it's it's after 5:00 p.m.

but it it I was just appalled at what I observed last night and so uh one of the things the city had shared with them in the meeting we had in July was that if that they had a deadline they they needed to put together a viable plan of operations or else the city could take control of the building and so with there not being staffed there working staff full-time staff at all right now I'm just concerned about safety I'm concerned about the standard of living we're talking about seniors we're talking about deil amputees we are talking about folks who don't have anybody to Advocate on their behalf so if we could um Mr Hayes um and and I don't know if Director D duelan is around I would like to have another uh follow-up emergency meeting because after what I observed last night um I'm just concerned I'm very concerned uh not just for the folks that I know but everybody in the building we're talking about three stories and 70 plus residents and so um if we could sir uh uh because I I'm not sure what uh fully transpired I know the city sent uh it's folks down there and told them they had so many minutes to get a contractor down there uh but I I I've never seen anything uh so bad in my life and to not uh have uh adquate response from uh the property management company is just very very disturbing to me thank you thank you mam mayor thank you councilwoman we'll make sure to reach out to Wallock and insist on a followup meeting similar to the last one to see what they've done what they haven't done and try to plan to move forward thank you one other thing I heard come up tonight and I I'm not sure uh somebody talked about policy sessions with regards to this was on another topic and I'd even be willing to look at I don't know what the city's ordinance says with regards to property management company companies but I do know there are others in the city that have wonderful um properties people are safe uh I talked to a woman back in the summer at another facility she spent over an hour and um I was just convinced that if they saw it as a viable investment security uh the things that they were doing I couldn't understand why a company as large as wallik could not see uh the value in a similar plan for all of its facilities considering the amount of money they have spent on rehabilitating this facility so policy session might be something we could uh possibly explore as an option thank you Madame mayor any other new business okay I would like to invite a motion to adjourn and to convene and close session immediately following the adjournment of the city council meeting pursuant to the open meetings Act five Madame mayor if I may I believe we have a couple of Citizen comments I'm sorry I believe we have a couple of Citizen cards who want to speak oh I'm so sorry that's okay we have two comments thank you for interrupting me uh we have two cards for public comment sorry to Jump Ahead Madam clerk uh first speaker is Randall Swinson uh I live at 3516 West Elmwood court it's in the Golden Acres subdivision which is in District 4 uh this summer Amon hired a uh contractor called intercon to put new uh gas Services gas lines and gas services in the subdivision and to do this they would dig a pit in front of each house and they would push the gas line from pit to pit and then use the pit to push the service up to the house and then back fill the pit and uh patch the street and our subdivision there's no curbing gutter or storm it's just very shallow ditches and when they dug the pit by my house um about 10 ft away in the neighbor's property there's a uh Culvert that goes underneath the street and they dug the pit and they buried the cart and then when they went across the street for the neighbor's house they dug a pit and buried the other end of the Culver and every opportunity I had pointed out to the contractors employees that there's a cul under here that's buried and they always said well we'll tell the foreman when we see but nothing ever happened finally complaining to the city sarin's been very helpful with contacting the contractor and the U and hamron the contractor showed up they dug out the end of the culvert and um discovered that it's been plugged and they said they would be back on Monday to repair it that was three months ago I would say and represented from amr's been out there at least three times to um look at the situation and they say they're they're going to take care of it and they never have so with this plugged CT every time we have a nice rain the entire front of my house is a lake and I would have to put on boots even to get to the mailbox um s maroon done all he can Amy's promising they're going to fix it and they don't fix it and I shared it earlier before the meeting here with councilman Allen and he's going to go to work on it but I just like to see this problem get get fixed thank you sir we'll we'll work with council member Allan to follow up with you thank you okay uh jessemine Hill Jess good evening everybody there's two things I wanted to bring forward number one the idea to either fine and or arrest homeless people just for being homeless so how are you going to get the money from a homeless person to pay a fine for being homeless you're going to take their panhandling money or you're going to strip them naked and sell all the clothes off their back including their material possessions and what good would it be to send them to Jail who's going to put the bill on them the taxpayer and worse than that you go to jail now you got pox on your record how are they going to get housing how are they going to get resources how about when they exit from homelessness and they want to get a house and now they can't because oh sorry you've been to jail can't take you and I understand that there are homeless folks out there where you can't help them because they don't want to be helped say uh psychiatrists doctors friends family law enforcement social workers they have exhausted every effort to help the individual and they can't be helped and second of all I want to also speak about that chicken proposal which y all sent to the Purgatory during the summertime I don't know maybe it has something to do with uh your term being up next year mayor or the other folks here who are going to be running for mayor next year but I think it was a mistake to get rid of that proposal I mean send it to the Purgatory that proposal was important think about the folks living south of Forest seill Avenue who don't have a full service grocery store I thought we were a liberal Progressive City and black lives matter especially in the neighborhoods where we had to live off of hot chips and color sugar water I mean raising chickens would be beneficial and I've driven around town and I've seen a couple of U would it be illegal chicken coops certain streets so what are we going to do you going to send uh animal control over gather up all those chickens and kill them and feed them to the dogs and cats waiting for homes and especially don't let the media scare you about the bird flu we haven't heard about that lately probably because it's an election year and that's all I wanted to bring forward thank you okay let me find my note all right wait a wait just a minute I got to find my little note here do with it no mayor it's oh do you have it I would like to invite a motion to adjourn and to convene and close session immediately following adjournment of the city council meeting pursuant to the open meetings act 5 iil cs1 1202 C11 to discuss pending litigation and pursuant to open meetings act 5 L c1202 c21 for approval by the body of closed session minutes moved by council member C are seconded by council member Oiler please cast your ballots we are adjourned thank you last meeting of the year