Lincoln, Illinois
January 17, 2012

Minutes of a regular City Council Meeting held in the Council Chambers of City Hall, Lincoln,
IL, on Tuesday, January 17, 2012.

Mayor Snyder called the regular City Council Meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. City Clerk Mrs.
Gehlbach called the roll. There were ten Aldermen present (Alderman Anderson, Alderman
Armbrust, Alderman Bacon, Alderman Busby, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman
Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue, Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert) and none absent. Also
present were Fire Chief Miller, City Engineer Mr. Mathon, EMC Manager Mr. Palmer, Street
Superintendent Mr. Jackson, Safety and Building Officer Mr. Lebegue, and Deputy Police Chief
Geriets. Also present were City Treasurer Mr. Conzo, City Clerk Mrs. Gehlbach, Mayor Snyder,
City Attorney Mr. Bates, and Recording Secretary Mrs. Riggs.

Those present recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

“Update from Main Street Lincoln by Wanda Rohlfs and Seth Goodman”

Mrs. Rohlfs gave an update on Main Street Lincoln and introduced the new President of the
Board Seth Goodman who is probably the youngest at 24 years of age.

Mayor Snyder announced that the City of Lincoln was the recipient for a significant grant
award from the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for $675,000.00 that
they can use toward the downtown revitalization. They have been working on it for a couple
of years. They just got a copy of the grant agreement that they want the City to sign. It will
be used for three main purposes 1) overall downtown revitalization plan, 2) fund a building
eminent demolition and code compliance work with the downtown area and 3) also use it to
fund façade improvements that are both historically accurate as well as aesthetically pleasing.
It will be a overall umbrella document that will include things such as streetscape design plan
(new sidewalks, lighting, landscaping and other space elements. A façade improvement plan
of various blocks downtown, a strategic plan for the downtown business district which is very
important not only for the design elements but also knowing what they want to have and where
they want to have it within the downtown area, a parking and traffic study (Deputy Chief maybe
we can come up with some good ideas about parking that won’t overtax the police department),
a plan for the creation of a historic preservation ordinance and then also perhaps a downtown
sewer study because there are infrastructure issues downtown. They think they can accomplish
most of that with the planning dollars and it is really an exciting opportunity for us to proactively
plan the future of downtown. Thought everyone knew how important the downtown is to the
heart of our community and is the heart of the community and we are going thrive we will need
that heart to continue to beat strong. There is a three year grant period.

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Reports:
Department Head Reports for December 2011 are on file.

Safety and Building Officer Mr. Lebegue gave a development report. He said building activity
slowed down from October to the end of the year but development activity didn’t. They saw
more progress in the Aldi store and thought it would be the end of the summer or fall when the
construction begin (what he has heard) but does look like things are moving in that direction.
Dollar General Store he has been talking on and off again for more than a year that is moving
ahead on the vacant property to the East of Daphne’s restaurant that is where they would like
to build a stand alone store and would move from the store by Aldi’s and have a new store
on Woodlawn. Hundman Lumber and Alexander Lumber are merging and will be moving
their facility out to the Hundman location and as part of that he met with the representatives
from Alexander last week and it was brought to his attention that they would like to do some
demolition out there on some existing old buildings and to replace those buildings with a large
new warehouse which will be more functional and add on to an existing building that is on the
site to give them greater inventory and more selection for the community and really represents a
great reinvestment in the community. Just last week at the former Quizno’s site by the highway
a Subway restaurant is going to move into that space and they are going to do a quick remodel
of it and new floors and fixtures in the bathrooms and whole new counter system. He said they
have had some vacant property along Keokuk and Woodlawn. One of them is directly east of
the railroad tracks there was an old gas station there and some other type of businesses over the
years and one of our local sewer companies that does a good amount of work in town selected
that site and will be fixing that up. At the corner of Keokuk and North Kickapoo they had two
old homes that were demolished in that area and the demolition is complete.

New Business/Communications:

Approval of curfew extensions for the Lincoln Speedway 2012 Schedule

Alderman Tibbs moved to approve up to three extensions for no more than thirty minutes in
length for their use during the 2012 racing season with the exception of those evenings where
there is a 9:00 curfew and Alderman Horn seconded it.

Alderman Tibbs said the Speedway did a very wonderful job for us last year and had everything
in order and their times and are really nice people to work with and what we are doing here is
approving she hoped with the vote with the support of the other Aldermen to leave the door open
to them in case they should have something pop up and we had that discussion. They could
come forward if they needed ample time.

Alderman Neitzel said do they need that in the motion. Alderman Anderson said no, they can
come up anytime and ask.

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Approval of curfew extensions for the Lincoln Speedway 2012 Schedule

City Clerk Mrs. Gehlbach called the roll call. There were ten yeas (Alderman Anderson,
Alderman Armbrust, Alderman Bacon, Alderman Busby, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn,
Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue, Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), zero nays,
and none absent; motion carried.

Public Participation:
There was no Public Participation to come before the City Council.

Mayor Snyder called for the Consent Agenda by Omnibus Vote:

Payment of bills
Approve the minutes of the December 5, 2011 and December 19, 2011 Regular City Council Meetings
Resolution 2012-248 for Catholic Schools Week 2012
Resolution 2012-249 for National Marriage Week 2012

Alderman Anderson made a motion to approve the Consent Agenda as presented and Alderman
Horn seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if there was any discussion. City Clerk Mrs. Gehlbach
called the roll call. There were ten yeas (Alderman Anderson, Alderman Armbrust, Alderman
Bacon, Alderman Busby, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman
O’Donohue, Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), zero nays, and none absent; motion
carried.

Approval of any items removed from the Consent Agenda
There were no items removed from the Consent Agenda.

Ordinances and Resolutions
There were no Ordinances or Resolutions to come before the City Council.

Bids:
There were Bids to come before the City Council.
Unfinished Business:
There was no Unfinished Business to come before the City Council.

Reports:
City Treasurer Mr. Conzo gave an oral report for December 2011.

City Clerk’s Report for December 2011 is on file. City Clerk Mrs. Gehlbach said they should all
have the sewer report. They sent out letters to 10 properties and they would be doing that again
this week. Statement of Economic Interest needs to be turned in to either City Treasurer or her.

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Reports:

Department Head Reports for December 2011 are on file.

New Business/Communications:

Approval of hiring a new Fire Fighter

Alderman Horn moved to approve hiring a new firefighter and Alderman Busby seconded it.
Mayor Snyder asked Fire Chief Miller the reason for this.

Fire Chief Miller said he had a firefighter, Bo Friday, was hired with the Springfield Fire
Department. They wished him well. He said they were doing the background checks on the next
couple of guys on the list.

Alderman Horn said it would help keep the overtime down.

City Clerk Mrs. Gehlbach called the roll call. There were ten yeas (Alderman Anderson,
Alderman Armbrust, Alderman Bacon, Alderman Busby, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn,
Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue, Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), zero nays,
and none absent; motion carried.

Announcements

Mayor Snyder said they had received a letter from Comcast and they have been trying to get an
agreeable date for them to come to the meeting.

Mayor Snyder said they each had a packet of information on the electric aggregation issue. We
had a meeting prior to tonight which he was going to indulge them and change the time and
location of our workshop meeting next week to accommodate some things we talked about.
The packet of information that you have before you contains several different things. There
is a news release from American Electric Power (AEP) that is the company that acquired Blue
Star Energy. Blue Star was the firm that we had a contract with to do the consulting work on
electric aggregation and is just information on the acquisition on Blue Star by AEP. They also
have a copy of a letter that was dated January 16 that Aaron Rasty the President of Blue Star sent
the Mayor’s and Logan County that had approved electric aggregation contracts with them. It
basically goes through the announcement on the acquisition of Blue Star by AEP then has some
additional information about what they recommend if we were to choose to have a different
consultant. If we want AEP to be able to bid on our electrical contracts we would not want Blue
Star to be our consultant since our contract with Blue Star states that they would not in any way
be bidding on electricity and would only be our consultant.

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Mayor Snyder said he has 2 pieces of information from two consultants assuming we would
want to hire a consultant to guide us through the process of the referendum in March which
we have approved and have on the ballot and then getting the bidding in place for the electric
aggregation. There are two pieces of information from ICCAN, Illinois Community Choice
Aggregation Network and two pieces of information from a firm called Good Energy. The
county has looked at Good Energy as a consultant. Before our meeting tonight Alderman
O’Donohue, Alderman Wilmert and I along with Mike Maniscalco met with three members of
the county board to see if there might perhaps be a way, the goal of the meeting was that the city
and county could work together on the issue of electric aggregation. We met this evening and
the game plan was to meet next Tuesday, the 24th at our workshop meeting we would invite both
Good Energy as well as ICCAN to come make presentations. For some there was a concern
when we went with Blue Star that that was the only entity that was here for us to talk to. We will
now have two entities to talk about it. The county’s insurance and legislative committee would
like to meet with us at the same time so we could hear from both consultants (City and County
would meet jointly) and would necessitate us moving out of here. We would need a bigger space
to meet and they had talked about either the Park District or the hospital next Tuesday. They
will do the electric aggregate part first allowing time for each consultant to make a presentation
to city and county board committee then there would be an opportunity for questions and
answers and then they would bring in the other consultant. The two consultants will not be in the
room at the same time so nobody has an advantage over the other. After that we would schedule
a vote on which consultant you would like to go with at our February 6th meeting. To try to
reach this goal they thought the group that got together this evening would then get together on
the 25th and discuss jointly our feelings and how they thought it went. They will need to meet at
6:00 p.m. on Tuesday evening the 24th and they will have to let them know what they get worked
out.

Fire Chief Miller said last week at our workshop a Logan County EMA representative Alana
Sorentino was here and talked a little bit about the earthquake drill. He has worked with her last
week and today on their emergency preparedness plan for the city in their manuals for the fire
department and City Hall employees. If any other departments would like a plan for their facility
we can modify what we have and any of the department heads that want to participate in the
February 7th drill that we can use for training for Department of Labor and other agencies inspect
us and they will get the departments registered and plans in place.

Alderman Anderson said she wanted everyone to know that they did hand out to department
heads this evening a form that Treasurer Conzo developed for us to inventory not only our
vehicles but our equipment and hopefully moving forward every year as we go through the
budget process this will be something included with the department heads budgets showing not
only each piece of equipment and vehicle but also when the estimated replacement date might
be or any other information that might be pertinent to that piece of equipment. We are hoping as
we move forward and start looking at having a city administrator that will be working with our
department heads and it will be a vital piece of information in terms of developing some sort of a
plan to deal not only with vehicles but our equipment as we have ongoing issues.

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Alderman Anderson thanked Mr. Conzo and that he had done a great job on this.

Mrs. Rohlfs thanked the Street Department for taking all the wreaths down and carried them to
the basement for her and she appreciated it.

Alderman Anderson said I move to go into Executive Session under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) to
discuss personnel and Alderman Horn seconded it. City Clerk Mrs. Gehlbach called the roll call.
There were ten yeas (Alderman Anderson, Alderman Armbrust, Alderman Bacon, Alderman
Busby, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue,
Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), zero nays, and none absent; motion carried. The
meeting adjourned to Executive Session at 7:46 p.m.

The meeting returned to regular Session at 8:05 p.m. City Clerk Mrs. Gehlbach called the
roll call. There were ten present (Alderman Anderson, Alderman Armbrust, Alderman
Bacon, Alderman Busby, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman
O’Donohue, Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), zero nays, and none absent; motion
carried. Also present were City Attorney Mr. Bates, Mayor Snyder, City Treasurer Mr. Conzo,
City Clerk Mrs. Gehlbach, and Recording Secretary Mrs. Riggs.

Alderman Busby moved to adjourn and Alderman Neitzel seconded it. There were ten yeas
(Alderman Anderson, Alderman Armbrust, Alderman Bacon, Alderman Busby, Alderman
Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue, Alderman Tibbs, and
Alderman Wilmert), zero nays, and none absent; motion carried.

The City Council Meeting was adjourned at 8:09 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted By:
Risa Riggs
Recording Secretary