Lincoln, Illinois
November 21, 2011

Minutes of a regular City Council Meeting held in the Council Chambers of City Hall, Lincoln,
IL, on Monday, November 21, 2011.

Mayor Snyder called the regular City Council Meeting to order at 7:00 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, and Fire Chief Miller. Also present were Mayor Snyder, City Treasurer Mr. Conzo,
City Clerk Mrs. Martinek, City Attorney Mr. Bates, and Recording Secretary Mrs. Riggs.

There was a moment of silence for Janet Henrichsmeyer.

Those present recited the Pledge.

Public Participation:

Mayor Snyder congratulated Alderman Tibbs on becoming a great grandmother and to City
Attorney Mr. Bates on becoming a grandpa. He congratulated them both.

New Business/Communications:

Appointment of Fire Inspector Ashley Williams

City Attorney Mr. Bates swore in Ashley Williams as Fire Inspector.

Mayor Snyder called for the Consent Agenda:

Payment of bills
Minutes from the September 6, 2011 and the October 3, 2011 Regular City Council Meetings
Petition by Lincoln Chrysler Dodge Jeep for 2 curb cuts at 140 Taylor Court

Resolution 2011-248 naming December 2011 as Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month

Alderman Anderson moved to approve the Consent Agenda as presented and Alderman Horn
seconded it. Mayor Snyder said 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.

Approval of any items removed from the Consent Agenda

There were no items removed from the Consent Agenda.

Petitions

There were no Petitions to come before the City Council.

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Ordinances and Resolutions

Ordinance 2011-733 Amending Section 1-7-9 of the City Code

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion to take Ordinance 2011-733 Amending Section 1-7-9
of the City Code off the table and Alderman Hoinacki 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 O’Donohue made a motion to accept the Committee’s Recommendation
to approve Ordinance 2011-733 Amending Section 1-7-9 of the City Code and Alderman
Hoinacki 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. Alderman O’Donohue made a motion approve Ordinance 2011-733 Amending Section
1-7-9 of the City Code and Alderman Hoinacki 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.

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

Unfinished Business:
Document of Support for EMA (tabled 11/7/11)

Mayor Snyder said that would be left on the table.

School Crossing Guards (tabled 11/7/11)

Alderman Wilmert moved to remove from the table and Alderman Bacon 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. Mayor Snyder said he would like to have a motion to approve
the solution that we presented to District 27 with regard to the handling of the crossing guards
and he handed out what he sent to the District 27 board and would be happy to explain that.
Alderman Neitzel moved to approve and Alderman Anderson seconded it.

Mayor Snyder said just to run through that briefly what was proposed to District 27 and what he
believes they have tentatively accepted is that the City of Lincoln and District 27 would create a
pool of money out of which they would pay the crossing guards.

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School Crossing Guards (tabled 11/7/11)

Mayor Snyder said the city would contribute $15,000.00 which is the amount that constitutes
the proceeds from our 2 cent property tax levy for school crossing guards. We will contribute
that towards the pool and District 27 would contribute an amount he believed would be in the
$7,000.00 range which would provide roughly $22,000.00 for the cost of the crossing guards. At
a weekly cost of $102.20 which is a five day salary for a crossing guard and that amount would
fund 6 crossing guards for 36 week school year. The location of the crossing guard positions
would be determined by District 27 based on their needs and on pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
We would obviously provide any type of assistance that District 27 might need such as traffic
or accident counts and things like that. The City of Lincoln would assume responsibility for
placing the crossing guards on city payroll and we would also provide annual training for the
crossing guards. They will turn in time sheets to the Clerk’s office as they would have done
previously and they would be paid out of that pool of available funds. District 27 would be
responsible for insuring that each crossing position is appropriately staffed each day with a
variety of means to be able to do that. That is basically the gist of the program. The city and the
school district will share the cost of the program and share administrative responsibilities and
those responsibilities are divided based on the strengths and the skills of each organization. He
said the second and mover if you could amend the motion to specifically reference the letter of
November 16, 2011 so we would have the resolution as proposed in the letter of November 16.

Alderman Neitzel said so moved and Alderman Anderson seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if
there were comments or questions.

Alderman Neitzel said she was glad that it has been resolved and hated to get us and District 27
arguing like that. She said kids are kids and they need supervision lets face it and was glad it
was resolved and thanked them.

Alderman Tibbs thought it sort of passes on a message that these crossing guards take their job
very seriously and in fact even though they were not covered they showed up in their positions
and that really comes from the heart.

Mayor Snyder said he wanted to publicly thank Police Chief Greenslate, Alderman Anderson
and City Attorney Mr. Bates. He thought they had a solution they could work with going
forward and district 27 wants to create an ad hoc committee to look at maybe some criteria for
developing standards where crossing guards would go based on traffic counts and things like that
and they will get representatives appointed to that and to work with them through that as well.
He appreciated their interest and support. He asked if there were any questions or comments.

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School Crossing Guards (tabled 11/7/11)

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.

Reports:

City Treasurer Mr. Conzo gave an oral report for October 2011.

The City Clerk’s Report for October 2011 is on file. City Clerk Mrs. Martinek said they had
gotten the final audit copies last week and this is the second year we have not had a finding
which means all the findings that came from 2009 have been corrected and they will be making
that available on the website.

The written reports of Department Heads are on file (Sewer Department, Police Department and
Fire Department).

Frequently Asked Questions for November

New Business/Communications:

Approval of agreement with Blue Star

Alderman Horn moved to approve the agreement with Blue Star Energy and Alderman Wilmert
seconded it. Mayor Snyder said discussion on this. Alderman Neitzel said she would like to
think more about it and wish they would consider tabling it for right now until we get a little
more information.

Alderman Busby said he would have preferred it been tabled but he knew when he and Mr.
Kitzmiller worked on this for the sewer plant we contacted 8 or 10 different companies and they
are all different and have different things to offer. He was not sure yet about how this opt in and
opt out works. He has read different reports on it and what he can figure out right now is opt out.

Alderman Tibbs said she would be in favor of tabling it also. She didn’t think they had
everything in line.

Alderman Wilmert said we run up against a deadline or is that just getting on the referendum. If
we table it now we will miss the deadline to have it on February or March.

Alderman O’Donohue said that is separate. Mayor Snyder said this is the agreement with
Blue Star but there is a deadline for the referendum you are correct about that. Mr. Conzo said
January 4th.

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Approval of agreement with Blue Star

Mayor Snyder said this newsletter that Alderman Busby passed out has a date of January 12,

2012 and believe they told us when they were here that they needed to have it passed by the end
of the year but they were right in order to get it on the referendum on the March 20th election.
He asked if there were any more comments or suggestions. He asked if they would like to
proceed with the vote.

Alderman Horn said if people want to table it she would table it but none of these other
companies have come forward and contacted anyone that she knew that wanted to come and talk
to us.

Alderman Wilmert said he didn’t understand the concern and asked what it was they were
exactly committing to if we go ahead and approve the agreement. I guess without going through
the whole thing again.

Alderman O’Donohue said as he understood it if we commit to the agreement with Blue Star
then we are saying that if we pass the referendum or even before that if there is going to be a
referendum then Blue Star would handle the marketing and Blue Star would handle all the build
up in exchange Blue Star is guaranteed to have the contract to be the one that contracts with the
providers of which they will get paid. That is how he understood it.

Alderman Wilmert said that makes others uncomfortable because maybe they want some other
people involved. He understood Alderman Horn’s point and to his knowledge there is no one
else on the table to use and he didn’t have a problem proceeding.

Alderman Busby said kind of how this works is by kilowatt hours. The more kilowatt hours
you have the cheaper electricity you can get. Now the reason that this is coming up now is you
couldn’t do it before and in fact the sewer plant was very close to the line where we didn’t have
enough kilowatt hours so the state changed the law a little bit and they didn’t have to have that
much kilowatt hours which helped us out. We’ve saved a lot of money by going with it and was
not opposed and giving the opportunity to the town’s people.

Alderman Neitzel said we were talking about tabling it but if they are going to put it on the
referendum then Blue Star is going to handle all the advertising and the expense for it. It doesn’t
seem feasible to have one without the other. We don’t have anybody else that’s going to and you
and I can’t go out do the advertising for it. They are better equipped.

Alderman O’Donohue said because my building downtown is a commercial building when the
Chamber was doing something very similar or the businesses in the community because he
got on that list he is able to bid his building when the contract expires and he does this every
two years for his building downtown and you can get substantial savings even for smaller size
buildings.

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Approval of agreement with Blue Star

Alderman O’Donohue said he did go through Blue Star and a couple others and a lot of
companies have their own marketing and Ameren has their own marketing department. Direct
Energy is another company that does this. There are other companies out there that are going to
do it. Service was important to him and he would say he did not go with Blue Star as far as that
went. They were not the most responsive. He was just saying that his experience hasn’t been
negative really but it hasn’t been positive.

Mr. Bates said one of the things from a strictly legal standpoint and maybe we should have
talked about this last week when they were here. They have made some changes in the contract
where conceptually and legally he was comfortable with the contract except they have never
filled in a term of how long this agreement is. The last version they sent after they made the
revisions that he requested is still blank. He didn’t recall them telling us how long a term this
was. He asked Alderman Horn if he said that to her.

Alderman Horn said she did not recall. Mr. Bates said he did not know what that is so if it is to
be approved or voted on it would need to be subject to what the appropriate term is meaning the
duration of the agreement. Alderman O’Donohue said it usually come in 2, 3, 4 year and that
is what he usually sees. Mr. Bates said he did not recall them saying what they were asking.

Alderman Wilmert said they need to approve it subject to and if we didn’t like the term we aren’t
obligated and asked if that was correct. Mr. Bates said he just called it to their attention so you
could make this on condition of getting an agreeable term of duration.

Alderman Horn said Steve Smith was here last week and he has known Steve for a long time
and serves on the Economic Development board and she respects his opinion and he worked for
Cilco himself so he does know what he is talking about and he respects the guys from Blue Star.
She didn’t think he would ever point us in the wrong direction.

Alderman Wilmert said he thought the presentation last week was informative and it was the
President himself that came down here and talked to us. As far as responsiveness that impressed
him and didn’t think they were committing to anything revocable if they approve subject to date
and didn’t know why they would delay it.

Mr. Bates said they would need to change the motion to be contingent upon determining what an
agreeable duration of the agreement is. Alderman Horn moved and Alderman Wilmert seconded
it. Mayor Snyder asked if there was any other discussion.

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

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Approval of putting Blue Star referendum on the March 2012 ballot

Alderman Horn moved to approve putting the Blue Star referendum on the March 2012 ballot.
Mr. Bates said before there is a second we are not really putting the Blue Star, the question
on the referendum is that we aggregate electric service. Alderman Horn said she changed her
motion to that and Alderman Wilmert 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. Mayor
Snyder said according to Mr. Bates we will have to have an Ordinance certifying the question
to the county so we will take that as authorization for the Ordinance and will follow up with the
Ordinance at the appropriate time.

Accept LESO grant for 3 Humvees

Alderman Hoinacki moved to accept LESO grant for 3 Humvees for Lincoln Police Department
and Alderman Tibbs seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if there was any discussion on this.
Alderman Tibbs said if we have anything like we did last year they will be mighty handy and
from what she understood they are not going to be used daily and she guessed it was a free
extravagance vehicle given to us. Alderman Neitzel said Peoria is going to have private snow
removal to reduce overtime. Alderman Hoinacki said the Chief pointed out to him before the
meeting that he hasn’t confirmed yet but these are property of the U. S. Government.

Police Chief Greenslate said they cannot be removed and disposed of without their permission
and these things usually have a so many year agreement that you can’t get rid of them or do
anything with them or use for alternative purposes or give to other agencies. Usually when you
get past that three year they might have some acceptances where they dispose of them in certain
ways but when we get done with them we call them up and ask them what they want us to do

with them. It might be a scrap order or tell them to come pick them up.

Mayor Snyder asked if there was any other discussion.

Alderman Armbrust said he could not believe in any way that these are economical to operate or
maintain. He said if the snow is deep it might be nice but anything the government is involved
with is expensive whatever you do to it.

Mayor Snyder said Chief Greenslate has arranged for the maintenance on those to be handled by
the Automotive Class at the High School.

Police Chief Greenslate said that is correct and the reason why they are getting three of them
and one of them will be for parts as he understands so if they start having expensive parts go out
it will be a case of we will pull parts off of one donor vehicle. He is not putting any money in
them and will put some cheap lights on ($100 lights) just so they can navigate through traffic.

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Accept LESO grant for 3 Humvees

Police Chief Greenslate said they also might get some cheap primer to cover up the camo paint.
Alderman Wilmert said will you have to insure 2 of the 3.

Police Chief Greenslate said he is going to license all three until we get to where one of them is
not operating any more then he would only insure two. He would only license and insure the
ones they are operating. If they get down to where there is just one running that would be all
that he would license and operate and insure. The insurance is $173.00 per year per vehicle for
liability only.

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.

Mayor Snyder said you remember that some of us had contacted ICC about the railroad crossing
out on 5th Street Road and he had gotten an email from the Illinois Commerce Commission
on October 21 that told him that they were advised by the Union Pacific that repairs would be
scheduled by the end of October. If you have been out 5th Street Road you would know there
have been no repairs made. He emailed yesterday ICC and said they still had not made any
improvements and asked if there was a time table for them to take action. He got an email this
morning from the rail safety program administrator. He said this is what he said Union Pacific
has guaranteed that this crossing will be fixed by December 15, 2011.

Mayor Snyder said he passed out at our workshop and it says preliminary structure cost estimate.
A potential developer here in town had done some work on what the cost would be for a
development of about 70 residential homes here in Lincoln. There is some property that may
be available and this developer was looking at the potential of that. This estimate here they
got together with some engineers and they did an estimate of what they thought a conservative
cost estimate would be to develop that property. There is land acquisition cost of $450,000.00,
earthwork of $75,000.00, roadway work for streets that would be required for the subdivision
of $475,000.00, curb and gutter $200,000.00, storm sewers $300,000.00 and so on and so
forth, sanitary sewer $500,000.00. By the time you add everything up the total development
cost is $3.1M to do a development with 70 residential home lots and they would be about 1/3rd
acre lot. The developers comment to him was that the market probably would bear for a plain
residential lot $33,000.00 for a building lot so if you had 70 of those that comes up to $2.1M so
the developer is not pursuing.

Alderman Neitzel asked if the developer was thinking TIF. Mayor Snyder said no and this was
just information but economically it is probably not possible at this point.

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Police Chief Greenslate said Lincoln Police Department is accepting applications for crossing

guards and for volunteers for downtown parking enforcement.

Alderman Busby made a motion 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 7:46 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted By:

Risa Riggs, Recording Secretary