Lincoln, Illinois
August 16, 2010
Minutes of a regular City Council Meeting held in the Council Chambers of City Hall, Lincoln,
IL, on Tuesday, August 16, 2010.
Mayor Snyder called the regular City Council Meeting to order at 7:15 p.m. City Clerk Mrs.
Martinek 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.
Department Heads present were Police Chief Greenslate, Safety and Building Officer Mr.
Lebegue, Street Superintendent Mr. Jackson, EMC Manager Mr. Tackett, Fire Chief Hulett, and
City Engineer Mr. Mathon. Also present were City Clerk Mrs. Martinek, Mayor Snyder, City
Attorney Mr. Bates, City Treasurer Mr. Conzo, and Recording Secretary Mrs. Riggs.
Those present recited the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag led by Alderman Anderson.
Public Participation:
Mayor Snyder said today is Alderman Horn’s birthday. He said he had a few comments after
they sang happy birthday to Alderman Busby and the comments were along the line of don’t do
that again and it came from the viewing public. He wanted to extend a very happy birthday to
Alderman Horn.
Mayor Snyder said we have up front here some items that are a part of the city’s give away for
the Art and Balloon Festival. There is a Wally hat, Wally light and a little Wally stump thing.
Wally is the clown fish balloon the city is sponsoring. The pilot and owner of the balloon has
graciously sent us a nice package of prizes to give away to the kids.
Mayor Snyder read a letter from Jim White.
Mayor Snyder called for the Consent Agenda by Omnibus Vote:
Approve Minutes of the October 27, 2009 Committee as a Whole Meeting, July 27, 2010
Adjourned Meeting, July 27, 2010 Committee as a Whole meeting, August 2, 2010 Regular City
Council Meeting
Approve payment of bills
Petition by the Lincoln Christian Church to erect a sign for Harvest of Talents on the corner of
Kickapoo and Pekin Streets
Petition by Lincoln Christian Church to have a 5K run for the Harvest of Talents on Saturday,
October 23, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.
Petition from Main Street Lincoln to close the 100 block of S. Kickapoo at 6:00 a.m. on Friday,
August 27, 2010 through the tent removal on the 30th and also for their special event license to
hold the Art of Wine
Alderman Anderson moved to approve the Consent Agenda as presented and Alderman Horn
seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if there was any discussion. Alderman Neitzel asked if
Lincoln Christian Church was aware that the sign could not go up until after Balloon Fest.
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Consent Agenda by Omnibus Vote:
Mayor Snyder said yes. City Clerk Mrs. Martinek 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.
Petitions
Petition by Tim Aper for curb and gutter work on 3rd Street
Alderman Neitzel said after inspecting of the curb and gutter worked made a motion to accept
the petition by Tim Aper for curb and gutter work on 3rd Street subject to discretion of the
Street Superintendent and Alderman Bacon seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if there was
any discussion. City Clerk Mrs. Martinek 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.
Unfinished Business:
Petition by Gene Baker for curb and gutter replacement from corner of Clinton and Chicago
Street down East Clinton Street to alley (tabled 5/17/10)
Alderman Neitzel said she was going to leave it on the table.
Revision of Petition Policy (tabled 6/21/2010)
Mayor Snyder said to leave this on the table.
Finance Policy Changes (tabled July 19, 2010)
Alderman Busby said I move to take this off the table and Alderman Anderson seconded it. City
Clerk Mrs. Martinek 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. Alderman Busby said I move to remove item C Finance Policy changes
from the agenda to a future date when the Council wishes to curb spending and Alderman
Anderson seconded it. Mayor Snyder said it was not saying that they didn’t want to curb
spending now it’s just take it up later, is that correct.
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Alderman Busby whatever you wish to think.
Finance Policy Changes (tabled July 19, 2010)
Clerk Mrs. Martinek 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.
Ordinances and Resolutions:
Ordinance #2010-715 amending Section 9-5-15 of the City Code of the City of Lincoln
pertaining to parking on Davey Street
Alderman O’Donohue said I move to approve the Committee’s Report and Alderman Hoinacki
seconded it. Clerk Mrs. Martinek 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. Alderman O’Donohue said I move to accept the Ordinance
amending Section 9-5-15 of the City Code of the City of Lincoln pertaining to parking on
Davey Street and Alderman Hoinacki seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if there was any
discussion on this. Mayor Snyder said this is just implementing the Resolution for the decision
the Council made previously to approve this no parking section. Clerk Mrs. Martinek called
the roll call. There were nine yeas (Alderman Anderson, Alderman Bacon, Alderman Busby,
Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue, Alderman
Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), one nay (Alderman Armbrust), and none absent; motion carried.
Ordinance #2010-716 Adding Section 9-7-13 to the City Code of the City of Lincoln pertaining
to a Parking Enforcement volunteer program
Alderman O’Donohue said I move to approve the Committee’s Report in regards to the
ordinance adding section 9-7-13 and Alderman Hoinacki seconded it. Clerk Mrs. Martinek
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. Alderman O’Donohue made a motion to accept the ordinance adding Section 9-7-13 to
the City Code of the City of Lincoln pertaining to a Parking Enforcement volunteer program and
Alderman Hoinacki seconded it.
Mayor Snyder asked if there was any discussion on this. He said there was a question during the
workshop meeting about just what streets the two hour limitation applied to and he passed out a
copy of the ordinance that has the applicable streets there. He asked if there were any questions
or comments.
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Ordinance #2010-716 Adding Section 9-7-13 to the City Code of the City of Lincoln pertaining
to a Parking Enforcement volunteer program
Clerk Mrs. Martinek called the roll call. There were eight yeas (Alderman Anderson, Alderman
Bacon, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue,
Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), two nays (Alderman Armbrust and Alderman Busby),
and none absent; motion carried.
Resolution #2010-226 to Support and Commitment of Funds
Alderman O’Donohue made a motion to accept Resolution #2010-226 and Alderman Hoinacki
seconded it.
Mayor Snyder said this Resolution and the next one he had mentioned at the workshop meeting
that we need to have in place for the application for the downtown grant program which would
cover planning and also rehabilitation and/or demolition and façade improvements. This
Resolution we’ll call 226 is just implementing resolution for our application. We are agreeing
to apply for the grants under the terms of the State of Illinois. He and the City Clerk on behalf
of the City will execute documents necessary. We provide any additional information necessary
if they were to obtain the grant and also we are committing funds from our non home rule
infrastructure sales tax fund in the amount of $100,000.00 for downtown improvement work
if we were to get the grant and the $100,000.00 could be a match for this program as well as
the other program. That $100,000.00 was included in our discussion that we had earlier during
budget time about doing downtown infrastructure. Again, this is that $675,000.00 grant that we
are requesting from DCEO.
Alderman Busby said I’ve got a little bit of a problem voting for this with regard to the
$100,000.00 out of our funds. I think our number one issue in our city is our streets and to
take that $100,000.00 and spend it on the downtown area I think it’s the wrong time to do it.
Mayor Snyder said I know we had discussed this $100,000.00 back in the budget time and the
non home rule infrastructure fund does have $1.5M. He asked if there was any other discussion.
Alderman Neitzel said she saw a commercial on television this last week on Monticello, Illinois
and what they have done to their downtown and to promote their city. I am like Alderman
Busby and I hate to spend the money I really do but we’ve got to do something for our
downtown to get it moving. I think it’s our way to do it.
Mayor Snyder said this amount would be leveraging an additional amount from DCEO to bring
it up to $750,000.00 and asked if there was any further discussion.
Alderman Tibbs said I feel the downtown is the heart of your city and without the downtown a
very unhealthy city.
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Resolution #2010-226 to Support and Commitment of Funds
Alderman Tibbs said I enjoy going to our shops and she sees where she goes on small towns and
goes on tours and have beautiful downtown areas. You have to look at tax money too. She felt it
was very important to have a healthy downtown, beautiful and attractive downtown. I would be
in favor of it.
Clerk Mrs. Martinek called the roll call. There were eight yeas (Alderman Anderson, Alderman
Bacon, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue,
Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), two nays (Alderman Armbrust and Alderman Busby),
and none absent; motion carried.
Resolution #2010-227 for Blighted Structures
Alderman O’Donohue said I move to accept Resolution #2010-227 and Alderman Hoinacki
seconded it.
Mayor Snyder said this is the Resolution that I believe Lisa Kramer mentioned or we talked
about it at a workshop meeting. Because these funds are earmarked for blighted areas we need
to pass some type of definition at least some portion of our downtown development area would
be could considered blighted. The federal definition as is referenced here in the resolution says
that if at least 25% of the properties throughout the area experience one or more of the following
conditions it would be considered blighted. The conditions would be physical deterioration
of buildings or improvements, abandonment of properties, chronic high occupancy turn over
rates or chronic high vacancy rates in commercial or industrial buildings, significant declines
in property values or abnormally low property values, known or suspected environmental
contamination or the second reason would be public improvements in the area are in general in
state of deterioration. This Resolution just declares that the downtown streetscape planning area
which would be Logan Street, Decatur Street, Hamilton Street, and Delavan Street that there
would be at least one of these two conditions met. We would need to have this in place to apply
for the grant funds as well. He asked if there were any questions.
Clerk Mrs. Martinek 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.
Written Reports:
City Treasurer Mr. Conzo gave an oral report of the Treasurer’s Report for July, 2010 and it is on
file also.
City Clerk’s Report for July, 2010 is on file.
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Written Reports:
Statement of Conditions at State Bank of Lincoln as of June 30, 2010 is on file.
Special Reports:
The written reports from Department Heads are on file (City Engineer, Sewer Department, Street
Department, Police Department, and Fire Department. Mayor Snyder said that Fire Chief Hulett
had passed on that the Safer Grant funding which would allow us to hire three new firefighters
was denied.
New Business/Communications:
IDOT Joint Agreement for Federal Participation
Alderman Neitzel made a motion to approve IDOT Joint Agreement for Federal Participation in
the amount of $69,878.00 and Alderman Bacon seconded it.
Mr. Mathon said that amount ($69,878.00 is the amount) of the federal funds that we are
committing towards this and there is also a local agency participation that will be required for
the total portion that this is going to cover. The total figure is $275,000.00 and the local agency
portion is $205,122.00.
Alderman Wilmert said this is for the 5th Street build out right. Mayor Snyder said yes
and then said to Mr. Mathon the local portion here that is a not a new commitment.
Mr. Mathon said that is an amount that, yes it is in terms of being able to use the remainder of
the ARA funds. This is the balance of the amount to make up for that parcel that was in question
for acquisition.
Mayor Snyder said we have the local funds were there. I thought we were just removing our
stimulus funding for one project.
Mr. Mathon said we are moving the stimulus funding from one project to another. The amount
that is remaining of the stimulus funds is a portion of what is required.
Alderman O’Donohue said for the $69,878.00 we have to spend $205,122.00. Mr. Mathon
said yes. Alderman O’Donohue said that is not money that was planned on being used. Mr.
Mathon said it was not previously budgeted to the point that this year’s budget was put together.
Alderman Wilmert said and again it goes to purchase that, help with what exactly it is this
is going to do. Mr. Mathon said this is the right of way acquisition that we had previously
contacted Boelker and Associates to do the appraisal and relocation plan. Alderman Wilmert
said for 5th Street and out that way. Mr. Mathon said that is correct. Alderman Wilmert said it is
necessary step for that. Mr. Mathon said correct.
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IDOT Joint Agreement for Federal Participation
Alderman Neitzel said the $205,122.00 what fund are we taking that out of. Mr. Mathon said
that could come out of either from the city’s motor fuel tax fund or from a future allotment of the
non home rule. Alderman Anderson said when is this going to take place. Mr. Mathon said for
a specific time frame, I do not have a specific time frame. Alderman Anderson said this could be
in this fiscal year or next fiscal year. Mr. Mathon said that is correct. Alderman Anderson said
do we have the funds in the motor fuel tax to do this.
Mr. Mathon said yes that account has been utilized for general maintenance items for the past
several years and the smaller incidental projects that require a little match and that fund has been
building. There is over $1.2M in the motor fuel tax fund.
Alderman Anderson said she did not have a chance to look but would we have to do a revision to
appropriations for this. Mr. Mathon said yes there would be. Alderman Busby said to Alderman
Anderson that they would have to worry too much about the monies because we have put a lump
sum in for the appropriation for 5th Street Road ($2.5M). Mayor Snyder said did we not get an
allocation for somewhere around $300,000.00 in the deal with Representative Brauer last year
and asked if we got that allocation. Mr. Mathon said my understanding is that we did. Mayor
Snyder said that money should be out there. Mr. Mathon said in the mix of things. Mayor
Snyder said there was $1M he believed from Representative Mitchell that was committed that
is out of the state capital program which obviously we are still waiting for money from our
roof from the sate capital program but that should be money that is coming as well and that is
$1.3M. Mayor Snyder said that $205,000.00 could come out of either one of those. Mr. Mathon
said yes. Alderman Wilmert said don’t know what is going to happen with item c but it would
seem if we put off Broadway Street at $500,000.00 it might pay for infrastructure that is part
of our long term strategy so if anyone is concerned we might put one off and do the other two.
Clerk Mrs. Martinek called the roll call. There were eight yeas (Alderman Anderson, Alderman
Bacon, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue,
Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman Wilmert), one nay (Alderman Armbrust), one abstention
(Alderman Busby), and none absent; motion carried.
Approve parking spaces on Broadway Street
Mayor Snyder said he believed that City Engineer Mr. Mathon, Fire Chief Hulett and Street
Superintendent Mr. Jackson got together and looked at that issue and whichever one would like
to report on that. Mr. Mathon said the fire department was very helpful in investigating this
and they brought the ladder truck around and helped us run through what their turning motion is
coming out of their bay. Mr. Mathon said the short version is that the rig is long enough that the
turning radius is such there is no room to get a legally parked vehicle next to the post office to
allow the room they need for a continuation right hand turn on McLean Street.
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Mayor Snyder said there needs to be you said 20 feet.
Mr. Mathon said there is a 20 foot no parking area that is adjacent to the two crosswalks and then
a 22 foot parking place that starts there running towards the alley is within too close for comfort,
he would say, of where the front bumper swings through. If a car were to park there in the over
the line or 2 feet away from the curb line there would be a conflict and they would be unable to
complete the turn.
Alderman Neitzel made a motion to remove the approve parking spaces on Broadway Street
off the agenda and Alderman Bacon 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.
Rescind vote on bid for the Broadway overlay project
Mr. Bates said a couple of things since we looked at this and it was brought up last week. From
what I can tell on the motion to rescind since it was announced at the workshop meeting last
week that this would be on the agenda this week the vote required to pass this is not the 2/3rds
that I mentioned last week it is a majority. Had it not been on the agenda and not put it on the
agenda last week and brought it up at the voting meeting it would have had to been 2/3rds. At
the request of the Council both my son and I have done some research on this issue. The
operative legal question in my mind that is presented in the attempt to rescind the motion is
whether or not the action taken by the City Council on August 2nd when a motion was made to
award and I quote "a motion made to award of the 2010 Broadway Overlay to P.H. Broughton in
the amount of $538,970.82" which was seconded following discussion it was voted on
unanimously in favor. The operative legal question then being whether there is a contractual
obligation that now exists between the City of Lincoln and P.H. Broughton as a result of that
vote. My best judgment is that there is not a contractual obligation at this point because in the
documents that were published one of the items of proposal that was submitted by all bidders
after the public notice to bid the successful bidder if there be one would execute the contract for
the work and present the same to the owner within 10 days of receipt of notice of award. He said
Mr. Mathon tells me no notice of award has been issued by his office or as far as he knows
anyone in the city to the low bidder. There has not been a notice of award. Since there has not
been a notice of award issued there has not been a contract issued and part of the documents
included in this bid package was a written contract to be executed by the parties that has not been
signed. My best judgment on short notice without the opportunity to do extensive research is that
there is not an actual binding agreement between the city and the low bidder at this point. That is
not to say by any stretch of the imagination and there are quite a few cases that we looked at and
read and each case turns on its own and there have in fact been several cases where a low bidder
has brought suit to enforce contractual rights once the low bidder was accepted.
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Mr. Bates said some of those turn on the very specific facts of each case. One in particular was
decided in favor of the city because the public notice itself said it could be no binding agreement
between the parties until so such time as contract was signed. We do not have that fact here
we don't have anything that specifically states there is no binding agreement so I am not going
to be near naïve enough to indicate to you that there is not going to be some repercussion there
very well may be. This bidder may decide that based on their legal view or their attorney's
review of the case law that exists out there that they have rights they care to try and enforce.
If they do we will be wrapped up in litigation and we will defend that and fight that and the
people that get paid the big bucks to wear the black robes will decide that, not me not you. Is
there potential litigation over this issue, yes it is my belief at this juncture based on the facts
that he has before him at this time that there is probably not binding agreements between the
bidder and the city. That is my opinion and I don’t have the luxury of making the final decision.
Alderman Neitzel said when the project was brought up when we had discussion before the bid
and all that I think that whoever had whatever they wanted to say should have said it then. The
second thing is we already know we have some work to do on Broadway, part of it and we may
pay part of it in legal fees.
Alderman Wilmert said I would like to make a motion to continue to rescind the vote that we
took awarding the bid to the lowest for the lowest bid on the Broadway Street Overlay Project
and Alderman O’Donohue said he would second it for discussion sake. Mayor Snyder said now
discussion.
Alderman Wilmert said for discussion sake I made the motion. I don’t dispute that we could use
a little work on Broadway. I did run it again to check and there are some areas like from Limit
to Foley (I believe it is) I understand there can be legal repercussions and I also understand these
are a lot of what ifs. What if they decide to enforce something they haven’t been rewarded in
and if they do we can cave in at any time if we had to without having to go through without any
legal rigmarole. I just don’t want us to be scared by that and scared into spending something
that we may not have to. I think we should move forward with that and at least reconsider it.
The low bidder might decide they want to or if we have future projects or if we decided to do
just a portion of Broadway we could be able to ask the same bidder to do that if we decide to
go forward with it. I don’t know if they would necessarily want to especially in light of that we
could go to them and say well we’ve decided not to do this project and maybe go with a smaller
one would you like to do that one. He thought there were a lot of options here if we would
consider it. We could use the money for other projects as well.
Alderman Anderson said I am not opposed to have having further discussion on this but she was
a little reluctant with respect to saying that there are other projects since these funds are limited
in terms of what they can be used for. We are always going to have the discussion of what street
is worse to use the funds for.
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Alderman Anderson said I guess if it is a matter of not following through on this bid just to be
able to reallocate those dollars to other projects within the city I don’t think I can be in favor
of that. If it is just purely from the standpoint of having cash flow then that is a different story
and the fact of the matter is that at the end of the fiscal year even if we use those dollars for cash
flow the money has to be back there. I am a little bit torn about the whole issue to be honest.
Alderman Busby said you have to remember the street is not going to get any better. It is a
heavily traveled route and it is a truck route and nothing tears streets up more than a truck does.
Now, we might have a lot of streets that are a lot worse in town and I think we should all get
together and figure out what streets should be repaired by usage not by anything else but by
usage and go from there.
Alderman O’Donohue said I am tremendously excited by what Alderman Busby just said. I
have another question. Some of the road needs repaired I mean that is what we discussed not
all of it or some of it. I am confused on how much of the road needs repair regardless of that.
Mr. Jackson said from Limit to Miller that is the worst section of roadway. From Elliott
to Beason the seams are gapped open and taking water in and freezing and thawing so that
section is going to go this winter or next winter. The Sheridan intersection and Sherman
intersection both of those hold water back and drainage issues there. There are two blocks that
are actually in real good shape but the rest of it in his opinion he thought needed to be done.
Alderman Anderson said with regard to this list of streets. I thought somewhere along the line I
had seen a list of streets but I don’t know where the input came from but don’t you have a list of
things that have a priority of streets.
Mr. Jackson said a couple of years ago I had the Council give me a list of streets in their wards
and then we went from there. Then Last year we took that same list and put together a list and
turned it to the Council and then to the Mayor from there. At Broadway also at the time we were
talking about a bicycle path.
Alderman O’Donohue said the list that we just talked about is that list based on usage or what is
that list based on. He understood the Aldermen turned in a list.
Mr. Jackson thought it was on usage or whichever had a major drainage issue. Alderman
O’Donohue said he knew they had voted earlier in the year on Omaha Street and that came from
this list we are talking about. Mr. Jackson said that was actually done a year or two years ago.
Alderman O’Donohue said that was that list.
Alderman Horn said this money is coming from the stimulus package. Alderman Wilmert said it
was their own money and that is why he brought it up.
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Mr. Bates said it was moved to the non home rule infrastructure sales tax money.
Mayor Snyder said State and College were part of FY 2010 which was approved last fiscal year
as was the work on Sherman Street and that is ongoing now and they are laying curb and gutter
just one block and the streets are between Delavan and Tremont on Sherman but it is the Omaha
Street project which is from Logan to Rutledge and then it was the Broadway Street project from
Hamilton to Limit and that was all FY 2010. The things that we had talked about for this fiscal
year this was the list of the projects which were Pulaski Street, Lincoln Avenue, 6th Street, curb
and gutter Sherman, Oglesby, Kankakee and Burlington. Those were among the projects. They
were to be taken care of as funds were available.
Alderman Wilmert said just a closing remark we have a legal opinion all be it with some caveats
that were at least on terms of their not being an existing contract, you need to consider that. I
just wanted to give everyone a chance to reconsider this, that’s all and to go on record with it.
City Clerk Mrs. Martinek called the roll call. There was one yea (Alderman Wilmert), nine
nays (Alderman Anderson, Alderman Armbrust, Alderman Bacon, Alderman Busby, Alderman
Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman O’Donohue, and Alderman Tibbs), and
none absent; motion failed.
Public Announcements
Mayor Snyder said he had a few announcements. He announced that the Master Gardeners
were accepting applications for training for people who want to be master gardeners. That is
obviously a good thing as they are looking to spruce up the community. They need 15 people
to sign up and they have five so they need ten more. It starts September 22 and runs through
December 1 and the classes are on Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Mayor Snyder said Balloon Fest is less than a couple of weeks away. He told them he would be
issuing a Proclamation and forgot to get it on the agenda. He will be proclaiming August 27 as
Max Mitchell Day in Lincoln. He is a balloon pilot and has piloted the Logan County Title and
is the only pilot that has piloted all 22 Balloon Festivals. The Chamber has asked Mr. & Mrs.
Mitchell to be the Grand Marshall for the parade.
Mayor Snyder said a couple of things with regard to grants. He said he had passed out to them
a letter he received from Dolan Dalpoas that he received about the hospital project. He said
they had to make a slight change in the grant application and Mr. Mathon has been working
closely with the hospital on that. He wanted to thank Mr. Mathon publicly for all his help on
that. Because of the letting schedule for that grant program if they were to get the grant for the
hospital the letting schedule is such that it would force them to push back the opening of the
hospital.
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Public Announcements:
Mayor Snyder said everything would be done and they would have to push back the open house
to wait for this IDOT letting process. What the hospital has proposed and he thought it was a
good idea. The hospital will fund the construction of the Route 66 Lincoln Parkway traffic
light intersection road so the hospital could be opened as planned in the spring of 2011 and
they will move forward with the TIGER Grant but that will be used to construct the ring road.
The access road all the way back to Taylor Court so it would connect up to Illinois Route 10
and Woodlawn Road out there and it was necessitated because of the IDOT letting process and
timeline.
Mayor Snyder said they got word today that the County is putting together a grant application for
this TIGER 2 program to actually fund 5th Street road from Lincoln Parkway out to New Holland
blacktop. He will write a letter of support but he said he would have to say our first priority is
the hospital grant and if that would be awarded and there would be some funds still available the
next priority would be this.
Mayor Snyder said next Tuesday just before our workshop meeting at 6:00 p.m. They
have the Comcast evaluation session. Would certainly like to invite people to attend
and if anyone has written comments they would accept those at the City Clerk’s office.
Alderman Busby made a motion to adjourn the meeting and Alderman Armbrust seconded
the motion. 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 8:10 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted By:
Risa Riggs
Recording Secretary
City of Lincoln