Lincoln, Illinois
December 5, 2011

Minutes of a regular City Council Meeting held in the Council Chambers of City Hall, Lincoln,
IL, on Monday, December 5, 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, Street Superintendent Mr. Jackson, EMC Manager Mr. 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.

Those present recited the Pledge.

Public Participation:

Mr. Charles Kodatt

Mr. Charles Kodatt said he was asking a referendum in 1957 was brought out for garbage
collection/trash collection here in the City of Lincoln. It was unbreakable ironclad so said in
1987 when he was up here. They designated that to a person to handle that affair. Is it in the
general fund and is it itemized for that reason and is it being used for that reason. It was on the
referendum. My question can you tell me the general fund itemized for trash collection.

Mayor Snyder said the City does not provide trash collection services.

Mr. Kodatt said they haven’t for some time and it couldn’t be broken and the money was used
one way or another for the ordinance officer or actual collection the last he heard in 1987. He
didn’t know if anyone had been around long enough to remember all of it.

Alderman Armbrust said what he got involved with when you were pricing charges used to
dump the land waste. It was our understanding at that time that tax levy went away and it was
closed as a garbage facility and went to land waste and the levy was stopped.

Alderman Anderson said the City Treasurer had just provided her with a working document on
the levees that they are preparing for next year and there is no levy currently being assessed for
garbage collection. Mr. Kodatt said it was passed by referendum and was made public when it
was ended. Alderman Anderson said she had no idea.

Mr. Kodatt said the same time he was there a man read the constitution verbatim preamble
the whole nine yards and Mr. Armbrust might recall that. He thanked them and said he had
one more comment. Blue Star is also associated with radioactive equipment business highly
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Mr. Pat Moose

Mr. Pat Moose said he was here tonight to address an issue with a residence that resides next a
property that he owns right down the road. It is 1020 Broadway Street and this basically started
8 years ago when the property, hasn’t been lived in, no structure done to it and building structure
to improve the residence for 8 years. My Mom and Dad lived there for over 40 and it is a very
nice neighbor and most of the people that were there 30-40 years ago are still there. What has
happened is the property is deteriorating and he knew he had been up in front of the zoning and
knew Mr. Bates was aware of this and for the last two years has gotten nothing. No help and
asked why this particular property hasn’t been classified under the guidelines you guys wrote
under chapter 9 because it basically meets every one of these code violations. The structure is
falling apart, the roof is falling in, and animals come in and out of the building frequently as all
of the neighbors have seen. It is sad that I am up here because he has tried to go through three of
you guys, city officials to get something just rectified. He has been told the city does not have
the funds to tear down this property and he is not asking for that. He is asking for someone to be
liable for a piece of property that they own in this city and be held responsible for it. He bought
his parents house and he is putting his investment in this home and remodeling it and the whole
inside is basically being totally redone and putting money back into the community and this
piece of property has brought down the value of his home. The assessment on the house was
assessed which he is paying taxes on when we did the appraisal on the home there was a
$14,000.00 difference between the appraisal and the assessment when he paying taxes for the
city. Obviously if the city doesn’t want to help me with this then we should at least go back and
see about my tax assessment because it not my fault the property values are coming down
because what is next to him which you guys aren’t taking care of. Basically he apologized for
coming up here and being somewhat angry about this but this thing could have been avoided
probably 5 years ago when his father was still alive. Obviously it could have been avoided the
last two years and in the last six months he has gotten nothing but we’ll get back to you and no
one has called him back. One person Mr. O’Donohue, he is the only person in the last two years
that has responded to anything that he has requested. It’s amazing I guess what I was told today
there has never been anyone that has looked at the property accordingly or taken pictures. He
did have a couple of pictures that are from just a phone camera which will show you briefly, it is
the roof looking inside and this is basically what is underneath it, this is inside the house.

Alderman Anderson said is the house open so you can go in and out.

Mr. Moose said the house is not open now after a couple of weeks ago coming up here they
did board up a few portions of the house where the animals tried to come into the property.
Obviously that is not going to happen when there are holes in the roof. Actually when my son
went to take the pictures today there were two cats inside the house and obviously we were
hoping to catch them but we did not. I have all the neighbors around him and he knew they had
talked to Mr. Lebegue and they’ve tried to contact Mr. Drake about 5 times about the property
and there is a lien on the property which over values the amount of the home. He guessed he
was there to ask them for their help.

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Mr. Pat Moose

Mr. Moose said this thing is a dangerous home and it does have black mold in and obviously
the health department doesn’t override the city but anytime there is black mold and it states in
your building codes here that anytime it causes a hazardous to somebody’s health is should be
abandoned. He was here to ask for their help. I guess I am kind of running out of time on this
and thought he had been patient for over two years and thought that was enough. He was not
sure and knew in here it says that after the City Council has been notified and you guys have
condemned or showed condemn then supposedly 30 days after there is action to be taken. I have
been waiting here five years and the thirty days is over.

Mayor Snyder said we appreciate you coming and we will pose some questions to Mr. Lebegue
and possibly Mr. Bates. He asked Mr. Lebegue if he wanted to talk about the situation.

Mr. Lebegue said well the situation is not unlike dozens that he deals with every day. He has
more homes than he cares to talk about that are in very similar situations like this one. Quite
frankly he is very correct in what he is stating of what the procedures are. Thirty days then the
city has the ability to go to court to seek the demolition then at the city’s expense to tear down
the home. The only problem with that is he has $3,100.00 in nuisance abatement in his budget.
To tear that home down would be in excess of $8,000.00 just for the demolition and not
including the court costs of probably $500.00 to $600.00 at least for all of that and then to place
a lien on it of which we will never see a dime of which is basically deferred to our City Attorney
with regard to that. Given that this situation the individual who owns the property owes the city
in excess of thousands of dollars on numerous properties throughout the city. I am at a loss in
some cases sometimes with what to do because the end result is we don’t have the funds and the
resources to address the home according to our own ordinance we just don’t have it frankly. He
tries to come up with solutions the best he can and he is in the situation where he is trying to
force delinquent property owners to sell the properties to someone to fix them and he has
succeeded in at least two or three of those instances but didn’t believe this would be the case in
this one because as he alluded the house is in such a condition that he didn’t know that it was
reclaimable in any fashion. He didn’t know that the court system the way it is structured right
now that he could get the individual that owns the property into court on an ordinance violation;
it is basically what they would have to do. Get it in an ordinance violation specifically detail
what is wrong and try to get the judge to find in favor of the city and force the owner at his
expense to tear it down. He didn’t know that that would be something they could do he had not
been successful in that route before. As he alluded also the house has been vacant a great
number of years and is not livable and has not bee livable for a great number of years. From that
standpoint he has that situation like he said when he started at least in two dozen homes in
exactly the same situation some of them have been vacant for at least twelve years and
abandoned. He was struggling to come up with a solution and he understood fully this
individual’s frustration and feelings towards this property and he is at a loss a lot of times of
what he can do with what the situation that he is in. That is kind of where he is at and he tries to
address these properties as they come along and try to get them brought into compliance.

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Mr. Pat Moose

Mr. Lebegue said in this circumstance he didn’t know that the court system could compel
this owner to do much of anything because he is more or less walking away from most of his
properties in the city. This property in question already has the taxes purchased at least one
time and didn’t know and the website didn’t go back that far to tell them exactly how many
years have been purchased. At least one year the taxes have been purchased on this property by
someone. That is more or less where he is at with this and he has tried to come up with solutions
for it and quite frankly he is in somewhat of a quandary.

Mayor Snyder said we have not tried the court route.

Mr. Lebegue said we have not tried the court route because the court will basically fall back on
us if he is correct. If this individual will not cooperate and tear it down then the responsibility
will fall back on the city to tear down the structure and then try to recoup our costs.

Mayor Snyder said not if the request of the court is that individual pay for it. Mr. Lebegue said
we could try it that route but I’m just not that certain that we are going to have any success
because he had seen a recent trend with the judgments that are being made.

Alderman Anderson said she needs some clarification here. If we took this to court and agreed
to clean it up at our expense and I am saying if, if we had the money to do that. Then we would
own the property.

Mayor Snyder said no. Alderman Anderson said it would still be. Alderman Busby said it
would be a lien. Mr. Bates said we would have a lien. Mr. Lebegue said if there is a lien on it
currently then that means we are behind that lien if he was correct. Mr. Bates said correct.

Mr. Moose said in response to he guessed what was going on, he guessed he had been dealing
with this for five years. There is a lien on the property and he has talked to Mr. Drake and tried
to purchase the property himself. His neighbor on the other side of it has tried to purchase the
property. He guessed where they were at here is what do we have to do to fix this problem
and obviously none of this is going to get fixed and the reason why we are here it should have
been dealt with five years ago and the reason we are here today is because no one has made him
accountable. He has never been in front of a judge, no one has ever said you have sixty or ninety
days to either make it livable to rent it or sell it and he is not going to move if you don’t get him
in front of a court. Obviously we can sit here and talk like we have been talking for five years
and nothing is going to happen until he is made accountable for what he has done. There is no
other way to pursue this that he knew of other than taking him into a courtroom and saying listen
we understand maybe you invested into the real estate at the wrong time obviously that is not the
city’s fault and it’s not his fault we shouldn’t have to pay for that.

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Mr. Pat Moose

Mr. Moose said he was not sitting up here and saying lets go spend the city’s money but sitting
up here saying this guy is liable for what he has done and he is the one that needs to pay for this
or sell it so someone can purchase it and build it up to a nice site. That is the only thing he is
asking.

Alderman Tibbs said she was just looking at a way that we could recoup too back to something
like Habitat if he would donate the property to Habitat or something like that. She thought
Habitat would go in and clean it up and wasn’t sure but you know this is a way to recouping back
with the city if that is at all possible.

Mr. Bates said that was not possible. Just to clarify, no matter what the judge would do there are
really three avenues. There is one avenue which does not involve a lot of expense to the city and
that is to file an ordinance violation case against him alleging the various violations of the
property under the city code. The result of that would be the judge’s authority in that type of
procedure would be to impose obligations on him to fix. We can never force him to sell and the
judge never has the authority to force him. We have some history with this particular individual
and Mr. Lebegue must have assessed based on prior cases that that is not realistic but that is
avenue number one. The other two involve the city’s attempt to demolish the property one is a
quick process where we give notice and do title searches and it is quicker than the court long
proceeding but the end result of that is that if they don’t do something within a certain period of
time after posting notices on the property and publishing the city can tear it down at the city’s
expense and then the city has a lien on the property for the expenses it incurred in demolishing
and taking the action. If we want to try and get paid and you have to file another lawsuit to
foreclose the lien and it is kind of like a mortgage foreclosure at that point. The third alternative
is the end result is exactly the same and the city seeks through a judicial proceeding to get a
court order allowing us to tear it down and then if we tear it down we pay for it and then we file
a lien and if we want to try and get money we try to file a foreclosure of the lien. At this time
and didn’t know when he was alerted to this today what the status of it was but at this time we
don’t have anything in our office to pursue and he again thought again that Mr. Lebegue knows
what those three alternatives are and it hasn’t ever come to his office for one of those three
alternatives.

Mr. Moose said that was not necessarily true because he has been at Mr. Bates office and Mr.
Lebegue has sent him to Mr. Bates office. Mr. Bates said you never talked to me. Mr. Moose
said he did and had talked to him twice. Mr. Bates said no. Mr. Lebegue said he wanted to
respond to that because what happened was he had Mr. Drake’s property at 1322 and when he
told him it was in error and told him it was 1020 was the individual property and it was not but it
was 1322 was what he had at the attorney’s office in regards to taking him to court to board up a
property.

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Mr. Pat Moose

Mr. Bates said any event those are the three options and his problem has no problem pursuing
any of those. The second and third of those three options are not currently an option for the City
of Lincoln because they don’t have the money to do the demolition processes.

Mr. Moose asked what his options were because obviously your obligation is to uphold what
you’ve written. Maybe they don’t fit your options but that’s not my fault. If this was addressed
when the ordinance, when this became an issue 6, 7, 8 years ago it wouldn’t be my problem
today but today it is his problem. He did expect them to do their job and he is paying city taxes
and you guys are basically paid through that. This is not a Pat Moose problem this is your
problem. He was up here trying to say let’s come up with a solution not sitting up here pointing
fingers today. This is your problem.

Mr. Bates said the only solution the city has at this point is the ordinance violation case then it is
up to the Judge to tell Mr. Drake what he has to do or what he doesn’t have to do under the city
code.

Mayor Snyder said the pictures that were here tonight I mean show obvious violations of the
building code. Just looking in the front window you can see there is no floor.

Alderman O’Donohue said looking through the front window. Mr. Moose said that is looking in
through the front window down at the floor. Alderman O’Donohue was that the ceiling as well.
Mr. Moose said yes. Mayor Snyder said he thought there were opportunities there to go examine
the property to find probably multiple violations.

Mr. Lebegue said he could not walk on the property and said he does not physically walk onto
the property unless he is given authority to do so. I don’t walk up and look in a window and take
photos.

Mr. Moose said when you have a violation I have asked for two years why someone hasn’t
went up there and taken pictures and done something obviously if nobody’s going to look at it
or examine it, it is never going to get anywhere. This is similar to what he’s heard the last two
years can’t do nothing, can’t go on the property, can’t do this, can’t, can’t, can’t. I’, not listening
to that anymore why can’t we. It’s a violation that you guys wrote all three of these are broken.
Why can’t you do something?

Mayor Snyder asked Mr. Lebegue what authorization did he need to go on the property. Mr.
Lebegue said he would have to get the authority of the property owner, if he would not grant that
then he would have to go to court to get that ability to go on the property. Mayor Snyder said he
thought it looked like that needed to be done.

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Mr. Pat Moose

Mr. Bates said he thought they could get enough pictures of the property and he didn’t need to
go on the property. You can get enough pictures for that property from the street or sidewalk
and thought he could get all the evidence they would need in the court from the sidewalk. We’ll
discuss whether you need authority to go on a property later.

Alderman O’Donohue said he had been by the building twice now since he had started talking
to Mr. Moose about it and he walked on the sidewalk and he didn’t think they would have any
problem violating this guy 10-20 different ways.

Mr. Moose said he was trying to find ways to avoid spending the taxpayers’ money. He asked
what the problem would be to calling him into a side conference with city officials and just
laying down what is going on here and getting him here is what is going to happen if you don’t
release this property or sell it and here is what is going to happen to you. This do something
to put some type of pressure or make this guy liable for what he’s got. I mean we haven’t tried
anything I mean we can’t get any results if we are doing the same thing everyday. Is that an
option to call him in?

Mr. Bates said really don’t need to do that I mean all we have to do. He asked Mr. Lebegue if he
had already issued a notice of violations to him.

Mr. Moose said no. Mr. Lebegue said he hadn’t. Mr. Bates said all we have to do is issue a
notice of violation and then if it’s not fixed we’ll file an ordinance violation case. Alderman
Busby said he owns about 8-10 different properties. Mr. Moose said he was aware of that.
Alderman Busby said on every one of them he owes the city. Mr. Moose said he was fully aware
of that. Alderman Busby said do you think we can him and ask him to come in.

Mr. Moose said he called him and he answered his phone call and he was willing to sell the
property obviously there is an $18,000.00 lien on it and the property is not worth that plus
what he would have to put into destroying it and hauling it off. He said he was trying and his
neighbors were trying.

Alderman Busby said he thought he knew where they were coming from.

Mr. Moose said he guessed it was time to pursue you guys’ actions farther because he is not
going away and he is putting money back in this property of his. He was sorry to say this but
it is not his problem and they needed to uphold what your city ordinances say. He is trying to
deal with it the best he can. He thought he had been very civil for the past two years and he has
reached the boiling point now.

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Mr. Pat Moose

Alderman O’Donohue said his concern that puts this and why he wanted Mr. Moose to come up
here and do this instead of continuing dealing with him and everything. Here is an example of
not just a building that’s greatly in need of being gotten rid of but they are willing. If it could
go another way they are willing to buy it and it is not just someone complaining about it this is
someone willing to do something about it. He understood the rules and stuff like that.

Mr. Bates said unfortunately we can’t ever get in a position where we can help Mr. Moose or the
neighbors in terms of buying it because we can’t make the lien holder.

Alderman O’Donohue said that was my point that it doesn’t seem that we have done everything
that we should be doing for this. I don’t disagree with what you are saying Mr. Lebegue and he
talked with him and agree with everything but at some point we have to suck it up and say we
need to take this and at some point just have to suck it up and do it. I understand completely but
at least get the guy in front of a Judge.

Mr. Bates said that can be done with an ordinance violation case and that doesn’t involve the
expenditure of demolition.

Alderman O’Donohue said he agrees there is accountability that we are not holding this guy to
and we need to hold it. Even if it is a waste of time or not he thought it needed to be done.

Mr. Moose said wouldn’t the State’s Attorney be there. Mr. Bates said no it is the City
Attorney’s office. Mr. Moose said would you be able to tell him what the next step would be.

Mr. Bates said the only next step of an ordinance violation case, hopefully, would be if Judge
Funk goes along with us. The only steps are 1) he is fined and 2) he is ordered to bring the
property into compliance with the code. That is the only thing we can get out of an ordinance
case opposed to a demolition case. Then it is up to, at that point if he doesn’t do what he has
been told to do by the Judge it depends at that point how firm the Judge will be on him for not
doing what he was supposed to do or how much time he’ll give him to do what he told him to do.

Mr. Moose said he would appreciate you trying to get the ball rolling he meant it would make
him feel better that you are at least trying to pursue something and that is where he stood with it.
Alderman O’Donohue said he didn’t and believe he gets all the city arguments and understands
them all but if we do nothing and just sit around and do nothing he thought that was worse than
at least doing the ordinance thing you are talking about and it is not going to cost us a lot of
money in the short term. He said maybe putting the pressure on this guy to agree to sell it to Mr.
Moose at some point.

Mr. Moose said he knew there were two neighbors, he called Mr. Drake and offered to buy it and
he knew the neighbor next to him and done it also.
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Mr. Pat Moose

Mayor Snyder said they appreciate Mr. Moose coming up here and they have a sense of his
frustration. He asked Mr. Lebegue to go to the property and from whatever vantage point he
needed assess all the ordinance violations that are evident and proceed with those. He thought
there would be several.

Mr. Lebegue said our code is not general and is very broad. I don’t cite the building code he
cites the city code so there are at least two sections he could use.

Mayor Snyder said that would at least get the ball rolling. He recommended Mr. Moose check
back with them.

Mr. Moose said O’Donohue would keep him up to date. He wanted to thank Alderman
O’Donohue and said he has been the only one that seemed to at least return a phone call or say
Mr. Moose let me at least get you some answers or get you in front of here. He appreciated that
Alderman O’Donohue, Mayor Snyder, Mr. Bates, Mr. Lebegue and the rest of the City Council
and appreciated them letting him be here and asking for some help.

Mayor Snyder said he appreciated him coming and if for no other reason your house is important
to me because it was your dad’s. Your dad was probably the best mailman there ever was.

Alderman O’Donohue left the Council Chambers.

Mayor Snyder called for the Consent Agenda:
Payment of bills
Approve 2012 holiday schedule
Approve cancellation of the December 27, 2011 City Council meeting

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 nine yeas (Alderman Anderson, Alderman Armbrust, Alderman Bacon, Alderman
Busby, Alderman Hoinacki, Alderman Horn, Alderman Neitzel, Alderman Tibbs, and Alderman
Wilmert), zero nays, and one absent (Alderman O’Donohue); 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.

Alderman O’Donohue returned to the Council Chambers.

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

Alderman Horn made a motion to take it 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.

Mr. Dan Fulscher said he went ahead and did some graphs on the landlines and what used to be
landlines and how cellular has reversed that. He was just asking for them to have consideration
and wasn’t going to talk long because they had all the information in front of them and were just
asking for a document of support. He also spent Saturday afternoon with Alderman O’Donohue,
the Mayor and several other Aldermen as we talked and any questions you have he would be
happy to answer. He would appreciate the document of support so they could get started with
the ball rolling.

Mayor Snyder asked if there were any questions for Mr. Fulscher. They have discussed this
previously and asked if there were any questions about the information he showed them. You
see the number of phones by year and the landlines are decreasing and cell phones going up
as is revenue from landlines going down, revenue from cell phones going up but obviously at
a different rate then also the graph of showing the 911 systems yearly income and how that is
trending down.

Alderman Horn asked Mr. Fulscher if he had something about what it would probably increase to
at our last meeting.

Mr. Fulscher said they have been told they will be lucky if the legislators first continue the 73
cents and probably 90 cents is what they are telling them. Their opinion was they felt it was the
same as the landlines but that would be a pie in the sky theory. Right now there is no legislation
on the docket and nothing out there that they want to or that they are even considering and that
will probably be this year. This being an election year the chances of them getting something
passed is going to be phenomenal at best. They are just going to start the process of saying here
is our problem and please listen to us.

Alderman O’Donohue said he is the one that has the greatest problem with this. His issue is
that he has a difficult time sending a document of support giving the legislature carte blanche do
whatever they want with Logan County taxpayer money. I didn’t doubt Mr. Fulscher’s numbers
and they had met several times together and didn’t doubt any of them. He also has issues that
they have discussed the number of cell phones per family vs. landlines per family. If they could
amend it somehow to say let it be a local issue instead. We went to let the local citizens decide
how much to pay on a surcharge than giving them carte blanche that we are supporting each type
of raise they want.

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December 5, 2011; Page 11

Document of Support for EMA (tabled 11/7/11)

Mr. Fulscher said he could totally support that. Alderman O’Donohue said he realized that Mr.
Fulscher didn’t think they would get anything but anytime you tell the state officials to raise
money however you want to he didn’t want to be part of that. Mayor Snyder said it sounds like
you don’t trust them. Alderman O’Donohue said he would say it on the record “I do not trust
them”. Alderman Neitzel said if we are going to let the legislature decide how much anyway
what difference does it make if give a support letter or not because they are going to give us
whatever they want. Mr. Fulscher said at least we would show as a community that we’re
supporting the 911 system and would like for them to considerate it and there is talk of doing
away with the 73 cents but what we are asking is to just consider the funding.

Mr. Bates said when Mr. Fulscher was here the first time he talked about having this issue
brought to the voters of Logan County in a referendum. This endorsement is basically carte
blanche we want you to charge whatever you want to charge and we want to keep the money
you’ve got and it doesn’t say anything about a local referendum and doesn’t say anything about
you’re going to deny the issue but it’s going to say that Mr. Fulscher has your endorsement to get
them to raise it as high as you can get it to raise it. That’s what it says.

Mr. Fulscher said he would have no problem with them saying that we endorse this and as he
and Alderman O’Donohue talked about was at some point please consider it coming back to
a local government body board for it allowed to be as the landlines we did local referendums.
You could say that you support this in allowing it to come back to government bodies or local
referendum. We are totally in support of that. Our taxpayers in Lincoln/Logan County have
done it twice and they have been able to understand it they know exactly what so we would be in
total support of that.

Mayor Snyder said he thought they could revise, if you have the document of support in front
of you, even the first paragraph and then make the corresponding choices throughout just to
say the City of Lincoln hereby supports legislation to retain the current wireless 911 surcharge
and to afford local governments and your local voters the option to increase the amount at their
discretion and that is what Alderman O’Donohue is talking about.

Alderman O’Donohue said he was saying yeah if we are going to send a document of support
that we sign and send saying let us make the decision locally and not you guys. Mr. Fulscher
said he totally agreed. Mayor Snyder asked if there were any further questions. If you would
like to proceed with that understanding we would need a motion with the saying document of
support. Alderman Busby said this is not on the price and asked Mr. Fulscher if they could
locate a person with a cell phone.

Mr. Fulscher said right now what makes it so difficult; don’t keep your landline because now the
cell phone we can show usually within a 6-10 foot area. There are sometimes that it is within a
block or two.

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Mr. Fulscher said it is pretty hard to say to keep your landline when your cell phone can tell you
are driving down the street in your car and what is going on. That is just a fact of it. There is an
exception with trak phones.

Alderman O’Donohue said he had no problem with making a motion that the letter of support be
one of telling the state legislature that we want local control to bring it back to local control for
referendum or something along those lines. They could word that however it works.

Alderman Wilmert said we’re going to need a rewritten letter is that correct. Alderman
O’Donohue said basically. Mayor Snyder said if you like you could make a motion that that
be included in this document of support and he could redo it. Mr. Fulscher asked if Alderman
O’Donohue could help write it.

Mayor Snyder said certainly. He said they could take it off the table approve it and rewrite it.

Alderman O’Donohue said they could approve it pending the rewrite that we talked about.
Mayor Snyder said um hum. Alderman O’Donohue said subject to rewriting it.

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion that they approve the letter of support subject to the
changes that they discussed here tonight and Alderman Horn seconded it. Mayor Snyder said
is everyone clear on that those changes would be any increase in the wireless 911 surcharge be
either determined by either local governments or local referendums and asked if there were any
further questions. 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.

Police Chief Greenslate thanked Mr. Fulscher for his help in getting new portable radios through
EMA which is his other hat and wanted to thank him publicly. He said Mr. Fulscher more than
matched the purchase of the new portable radios for them.

Public Participation:

Mayor Snyder said they had asked Mr. Maniscalco, Steve Smith and Aaron Rasty who is the
President of Blue Star to be here but he could not. He said Mr. Kitzmiller is going to see if he
can get the gentleman that he knows but he could not so Mr. Maniscalco and Mr. Smith are here
to discuss the issue.

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Mr. Maniscalco thanked Mayor Snyder and said he just wanted to get back to them and to say
that from the partnership’s perspective they thought the utility aggregation is a great opportunity
for our community’s (county as well as City of Lincoln) we have been talking with a lot of
different city’s in the county as well as the county. So far he believed that Atlanta was going
forward with utility aggregation, Emden and Middletown are going forward with it, believed Mt.
Pulaski would be voting on it in the next couple of days. He thought by putting the referendum
on the ballot he thought is the first and foremost important part of this because it will give the
people of Lincoln the opportunity for choice. He thought it was really important the people of
Lincoln to have that opportunity. What you decide to do for a consultant is a different story
and he would leave that open for them to make that decision. As the partnership did go out and
look at some different consultants and there are some things they saw in Blue Star that were a
good fit and potentially offered some pluses. He turned it over to Steve Smith to talk about that
portion of things. He said they were there to answer any questions they might have about utility
aggregation, opt in, opt out or going with a consultant.

Alderman O’Donohue said he wanted a clarification from the Council. They have already voted
to have it on the referendum haven’t we?

Mr. Bates said no that is on the agenda for tonight.

Alderman O’Donohue said it is on the ballot tonight to vote to put it on the referendum. The
issue with us has been the consultant and they have actually voted for that too.

Mr. Smith said that was all he was here tonight for. He said Mr. Rasty apologized for not being
able to but what they are doing they are all over the state and he was already on the agenda
up by Chicago and couldn’t be here. When he talked to him today he has said Mr. Smith you
are capable of answering most of the questions. If you ask a question that he doesn’t know
or feel comfortable with he would certainly tell them that and get that question to Mr. Rasty
through Attorney Mr. Bates or Mayor Snyder or however you would want to do that. One of
the things that he wanted to clarify that came out in the newspaper. He thought this was just a
misconception. It said that Mr. Rasty said well sign the contract and we’ll tell you what’s in it
and thought it was misconstrued a little bit and that wasn’t exactly how it was put and no matter
who you have for educator to move forward they can’t tell you at this point in time what the cost
of that electricity is going to be. That’s where the newspaper made it sound like well it’s kind
of like a former speaker of the house said the Medicare bill just do it and we’ll tell you later and
that is not true. The aggregator in utility aggregation that works for the city or the county or
whoever it is they are going to go out and ask for bids for, in Blue Star’s case, 17-19 different
people. At that point in time those bids come back in and they are going to sit down with your
committee or whoever you would appoint to say which ones the best for the city. That is what he
wanted to get cleared up and it has a lot to do with moving forward. They can’t tell you what it
costs for that electricity is.

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Ms. Smith said in the first phase of aggregation that electric company who gets the bid pays for,
whether it is Blue Star or any other aggregator their going to be pinning for that bill. All the city
is doing is managing how their expectations are with your aggregator.

Mayor Snyder said let him make a few comments here. He said he and Mr. Maniscalco was on
a conference call with Aaron Rasty today for about 45 minutes. He wanted to hit some of the
highlights with that and Mr. Smith if he misspeaks because he didn’t know all the technicalities
correct him. One thing Mr. Rasty said right off the bat is that they’d love to work with the city
but they want it to be a positive experience. They feel like they have as much transparency
and candor as they can have. They know that obviously they may not always be the answer
for every municipality but they want to be as open and transparent as they can be. There is a
question about if local citizens had questions about the situation that they would end up calling
the city and he clarified that is not the case or would not be the case with them they are there to
be basically the front line staff with the city on this issue. They make educational materials to
anybody on the city staff that would like but we would always be welcome to refer people to
Blue Star if they had questions and he said they are there to be the folks that folks talk to. They
are to be the front line folks. He made a comment about the rates there was an illusion made at
the last meeting that we should only do a one year contract and he said that really nobody knows
at this point whether it should be one year or what it should be because we would be going to
bid next spring after the referendum passed. We have to examine the market at that point. He
made a point to say that if it helps in thinking there is a difference between one year adjustable
mortgage rate and a long term fixed rate. He said you may be able to get an adjustable rate on a
lower percentage but you may want to lock in for a longer term at a slightly higher rate because
in the long term it might be better for you. Those are all the things that have to be considered
at that point. That was just an analogy that he was making him to understand. We talked about
could we wait until November, obviously we certainly could but it’s important to realize if that
happens there is probably a year to eight months worth of potential electrical savings that our
residents would lose out on. He also made the point that there are other municipalities already in
Logan County that have approved this. He told Mr. Maniscalco to correct him if he had the list
wrong he said Emden, Atlanta, Middletown and Mt. Pulaski.

Mr. Maniscalco said Mt. Pulaski hopefully tonight.

Mayor Snyder said there are at least; assuming Mt. Pulaski does it there are four other
municipalities in Logan County that are going to approve working with Blue Star and putting
it on the referendum. There are several safety nets with regard to the local resident. 1) Voter
approval, so there is a referendum and people can vote for it or against it. 2) If they got out to
market and the rates are higher than what they are now then nothing happens, if the rates they
find on the open market (Ameren beats everybody if you will) then everyone stays with Ameren
so you don’t have to go to a higher level.

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Mayor Snyder said if the first two happens approve the referendum approve the lower rates
possible even at that point if you opt out you have the option to go into the retail market.
You can market yourself as an individual so you can do something similar to what Alderman
O’Donohue has done. There are those options for people moving through. We also talked about
consultants, outside consultants who can come and do some work maybe if you will alternatives
possibly and you have copies at your place there of two documents that Blue Star provided to
us. One is a one page PDF and the other is a front and back question answer document but it
is questions to ask with regard to consultants that you may engage in doing this process. That
information is available to you. He said to Mr. Smith that he knew he had made a comment, at
least at the partnership board meeting about Blue Star and what value you felt they brought. He
asked if he would repeat that here.

Mr. Smith said number 1 is Blue Star worked with and agree that he doesn’t trust a lot of
politicians in Springfield but Blue Star because of their background in the electric utility business
helped the state write the aggregation laws as to how it goes out. Whether it is Blue Star or not
they were awfully fair when you are looking at no matter who you are. Number 2 is that they
come from the utility background they are not just marketers a lot of your people that are out
there you’re going to find out are marketers. They have to him what is relatively important is
local representation. You can pick up the phone and call Peoria and they have an office none
of these other aggregators come in are going to have that ability. Quite frankly their chief
competitor in the business in Illinois right now is Good Energy. They are in New York and they
have no other offices and send someone from New York to Illinois to market to the community.
Those are the three most important things from his perspective. Aggregation, one of the things
he could tell them and whether you want to accept it or not is the utility business is at the bottom
unless this country really goes south the electric rates are right there now and if you choose to
wait until next November that is a little bit of a risk as he saw it. He didn’t think they were going
to find probably any lower rates than what you are going to find in the spring or what is out there
right now.

Alderman Wilmert said it was interesting that he brought up Good Energy. He’s had a couple
of people approach him about not so much aggregation but the consultant selection process.
They are asking him why are we getting ourselves into Blue Star aren’t there others out there
maybe we should slow down and maybe we should delay and they gave me a list of a couple
of energy providers or consultants rather and one of them was Good Energy and the first thing
he thought of was they are in New York and he hadn’t seen them three times like he had Blue
Star. He couldn’t understand what the big concern was or what we thought we were locking
ourselves into it seems to him that if we do act now we get a consultant that would help us with
the referendum that would be a good thing.

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Alderman Wilmert said we could jump on board with the other communities already in Logan
County that have jumped on this that we can get the benefit of being bundled with them for
better rates and they are going to help us with the education of the referendum which he thought
was very important because if we are having a hard time grasping it he didn’t know how they
would convey it to the citizens without some help with a consultant and it seems to him that
you need that ahead of time rather than after. He didn’t really understand his point and really
didn’t know and he had a list here of a couple in Illinois. The Northern Illinois Municipal
Electric Collaborative and Rock River Energy and he didn’t know if Mr. Smith was familiar
with them and maybe they are ones that came to you or approached you as well as Blue Star.
The most activity that he has heard is from Blue Star and he didn’t see anything that makes him
uncomfortable with them and he didn’t know these other people or heard from them.

Mr. Smith said he had to be very careful how he words this. Two are those are 1 person
each that have experience in the utility industry some way or another who have their own
company that are out there marketing. He didn’t mean it negatively. Good Energy some of the
business and he couldn’t say that they would not bid as a power marketer even if they were the
aggregator. He did know in some locations they are the aggregator and they are also bidding on
the market. One thing that Blue Star they stood here and at every meeting they have been to with
them they will not be bidding on power. They are the aggregator they see their future down the
road as being able to help businesses, residents, on site management as Ameren comes along and
you have all seen it in the papers the smart meters. Ameren actually has some things you can
sign up for that gives you a little bit of vision of how you utilize your utility usage over the day
the month and the week. That is what is coming in utility business. That is where they see the
future they don’t see it necessarily in bidding that power supply.

Alderman Wilmert said he was just curious who the other players were and if it was worth
delaying and possibly missing out on this just to hear from other individuals. Mr. Smith said that
was a decision the Council would have to make.

Alderman O’Donohue said first of all he understands the process and understands aggregation
but his issue isn’t whether or not that aggregation should happen or not but the voters are going
to decide that and that is the way it should be. He has no issues with that. His issue is that of
course Blue Star has been here three times you support the Economic Development Council
and of course they appear you were the ones that brought them in the door. His question is and
has been since this started what were the other options besides Blue Star and the City Council
and the taxpayers weren’t given other options and were told Blue Star is the one you should be
going with. Maybe it was but what were the other options and what was the process used by you
guys that they appear to eliminate the other options and what was the process, why should I as a
representative of the voters say this is who we have to go with because.

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Mr. Smith said he couldn’t tell him that because it was a decision that they brought what they
considered from the partnership. Alderman O’Donohue said you just said you looked at other
options.

Mr. Maniscalco said he would answer that. He said to be honest they did their due diligence
in some of their research. Did they do a bidding process or something like that no but what
he would tell them that they did they did do some research. They looked at who is out there
publishing articles on the utility aggregation, who is out there that helped create the law, who is
out there that also is local, who is out there who is actually willing to come down and talk with
us or who is willing talk to us in the first place. He thought some of those things are the things
that really helped us kind of say you know Blue Star seems like an upfront group that is willing
to come in and talk with us and is upfront and open about how this process works, who is willing
to actually sit down with a small non-profit because it is going to bring in no money to their table
at all and say this is actually how this works.

Alderman O’Donohue said that is fine but don’t you think that if you are asking us to support
Blue Star that that due diligence should have been relayed to us, that what you did to choose
Blue Star. Mayor Snyder said he thought it was and thought there was a meeting that Alderman
Horn was at that all the municipalities were invited to and he was unable to go that night because
of something else going on. Alderman Horn said it was when you had the thing at the park
where you were planting in Mayfair. Alderman O’Donohue said it was brought back here and
discussed as a Council. Mayor Snyder said not the details of the due diligence. Alderman Horn
said Blue Star was at the Municipal League and had a booth and you could stand and talk to any
of the guys that were there and didn’t believe anybody else was there that had anything to say
about it. Mr. Smith said at that invite you could talk to Blue Star and there were representatives
from Atlanta, Emden, Middletown and Mt. Pulaski and was just saying that they reached out and
invited the Council.

Alderman Wilmert said at some point he had to go with a recommendation of the people that
are surrounding this day in and day out. He didn’t know that he would have time to do all the
due diligence and replicate everything they have done. He personally didn’t feel uncomfortable
at this point with Blue Star. He really wanted someone that had a head count or some company
that has something behind it that is able to help us educate the public on a referendum. He didn’t
know how many other companies they looked at and if they were as big as Blue Star is.

Mr. Smith said that Blue Star is one of the biggest companies out there for the marketing
perspective and was their choice. Alderman Wilmert said he was not looking for someone to
come from New York to run their referendum. Alderman Busby said would the Council if there
was road work to be done have the first contractor that walked through the door and accept them
for the planning and then accept his bid on it without getting anything else and that is what you
are doing with Blue Star.

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Alderman Busby asked what the hurry was. Alderman Wilmert said that it was not that analogy
as a whole. Alderman Busby said what is the hurry?

Alderman Wilmert said there are other municipalities in Logan County that have jumped on
board. If we do this now with them we may get more favorable rates because we would be
bundled with those communities and that is at least one reason. The other is we want to do it
before the referendum to get their consulting services to help educate people.

Alderman Busby asked if they were going to hire Blue Star as a consultant put it in the motion
that way he would vote for it.

Mr. Bates asked Alderman Busby when you said accept their bid what bid are you talking about.
They are not going to bid on power.

Alderman Busby wanted to know how they would make their money. Mr. Smith said their
contract clearly states that their marketing fee will be paid by the winning company.

Mr. Bates said that was one of the things that he visited with Mr. Rasty about. After last meeting
because Alderman Busby expressed serious concerns about that process and Mr. Rasty told him
in no uncertain terms that that is in fact the industry standard. Whatever person you hire be it
Blue Star, Good Energy or one of these others when it comes to obtaining bids from utilities for
the electricity the successful bid when the city accepts one that company will pay Blue Star. He
said just as they would pay any other company that is involved in that process and that is the
industry standard at this point. Blue Star is not bidding electricity for the city they acquiring
the bids on our behalf. He thought Mr. Smith just mentioned that at least in some cases Good
Energy is your aggregator but also a bidder and he would think they would want to run away
from that as far as you could.

Mr. Smith said understand that that contract, it very specifically states that Blue Star is not going
to participate in that process. They are not going to be a supplier.

Mr. Bates said they had a couple of levels of the contract so it gets a little confusing. Step 1 is a
contract with Blue Star to provide consulting and bidding services and that is the only agreement
you have on the table with Blue Star. If, in fact, we go to bid and if, in fact, you accept a bid for
electricity we would then have as a city a contract with that electric company that sets the rates
for the term of that agreement but Blue Star is not a party to that. That is between the City of
Lincoln and Joe Blow Power.

Mayor Snyder said Blue Star provided them with three examples of contracts that have been put
in place in the common market where they have contracts. Mr. Bates said he had sent that to
everybody.

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Mayor Snyder said he has skimmed through them and Mr. Bates has looked them over and there
are some interesting things in those contracts because of the leverage the whole bid process that
affords municipalities. He didn’t remember which contract it was but there was language that
provided for senior citizen discount rates.

Mr. Smith said senior citizen discount if you chose to use renewable energy as part of the
package you can do that.

Mayor Snyder said there are revenue sources and one of them there is a revenue source for the
municipality and he didn’t say they would do that in theirs but Mr. Rasty made the comment in
the phone call today that if it passes in referendum and if they decide to go with them whoever
we decide to go with we need to decide what we want to have in that contract. That is up to our
own committee and imagination.

Mr. Bates said one of them that he read actually had a one time payment to the municipality. Mr.
Smith said remember they come from up north.

Mr. Bates said he wanted to make a point of information, if you want to call it that. You have
on your agenda the passage of the ordinance placing the aggregation issue on the ballot and
he really don’t think they should pass that unless you are going to have an agreement with
a consultant. We do not have the time or the expertise to run a referendum. If you pass the
ordinance to put it on the agenda that places it squarely on us to try and figure out how we are
going to promote and get that referendum passed. That is the first part of what someone like
Blue Star would do for you is to ramrod that part of it.

Alderman Wilmert said we have already passed the agreement with them subject to approval of
a time frame and they came back with three years and he didn’t know maybe it takes three years
using the Mayor’s mortgage example but if we went with something a little lower like 2 what
would happen as far as how much time is really needed.

Mr. Smith said if you make the assumption that you move forward with putting the aggregation
on the ballot and you move forward with Blue Star as your consultant right after the first of the
year once you put it on the ballot you are going to have to have your committee come together.
Whether it is three years or two years they are going to start working to sell to and educate the
general public starting in January up to the election for the yes or no vote. The decision of when
to purchase whether you pull the trigger or stay with Ameren happens after June 1 when Ameren
releases their next twelve month rate so after it passes in the primary then they are going to put it
out there to those bidders, get the bid back in and meet with your group and decide who you are
going to choose but they won’t put that purchase out there until Ameren rates are published in
June.

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Mr. Bates said Mr. Rasty did come back and respond to his expressed concern about three years
and suggested a term that would coordinate with the term of the contract with the successful
bidder of the electricity. He said he sent it to everyone and had the revised term in it. The only
way the City of Lincoln is going to have to pay anything to Blue Star is if you retain them to
perform any of additional energy services delineated in paragraph b of the contract. He did not
see in the Blue Star contract where they will not be a bidder of electricity supply.

Mr. Smith said they will not be a bidder and would go back and check that.

Ordinances and Resolutions
Ordinance 2011-734 Amending Ordinances which established an enterprise zone encompassing
contiguous portions of the City of Lincoln, the County of Logan, the County of Sangamon, the
County of DeWitt, the Village of Elkhart, the Village of Hartsburg, the City of Atlanta and the
Village of New Holland

Ordinance 2011-735 amending ordinances which established an enterprise zone encompassing
contiguous portions of the City of Lincoln, the County of Logan, the County of Sangamon, the
County of DeWitt, the Village of Elkhart, the Village of Hartsburg, the City of Atlanta and the
Village of New Holland

Ordinance 2011-736 providing for the submission of the electors of the City of Lincoln, Logan
County, Illinois, the question of whether the City of Lincoln should have the authority under
Public Act 096-0176 to arrange for the supply of electricity for its residential and small
commercial retail customers who have not opted out of such program

Ordinance 2011-737 amending the landscape waste burning regulations of the City of Lincoln

Ordinance 2011-738 abating the tax levied on $510,000.00 taxable General Obligation Bonds

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion to accept the Committee’s Recommendation for
Ordinance 2011-734, Ordinance 2011-735, Ordinance 2011-736, Ordinance 2011-737, and
Ordinance 2011-738 and Alderman Anderson 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.

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Ordinance 2011-734, Ordinance 2011-735, Ordinance 2011-736, Ordinance 2011-737, and
Ordinance 2011-738 Approval

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion approve Ordinance 2011-734 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.

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion approve Ordinance 2011-735 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.

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion approve Ordinance 2011-736 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.

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion approve Ordinance 2011-737 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.

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion approve Ordinance 2011-738 and Alderman Hoinacki
seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if there was any discussion. City Treasurer Mr. Conzo said
this is something they have done since 2004 and these are alternate revenue bonds which is why
we abate the taxes on it and it comes from another source and that is in the amount of $64,530.00
and will only have to do this one more time. 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.

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New Business/Communications:
Authorize the Mayor to enter into a contract with the Farnsworth Group

Alderman O’Donohue moved and Alderman Anderson seconded it. Mayor Snyder said the
only thing they will work out on it is getting the timeline in there so they have clear delineation
when it will be completed. 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 Arthur Gallagher and Company for insurance purposes

Alderman Bacon moved and Alderman O’Donohue seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if there
was any discussion on that. Alderman O’Donohue said they were just changing the brokers from
our current broker to Arthur J. Gallagher. 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 Anderson said I move to go into Executive Session under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) to
discuss personnel and 120/2(c)(5) purchase or lease of real estate and Alderman Horn 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. The meeting adjourned to Executive Session at 8:25 p.m.

The meeting returned to regular Session at 9:36 p.m. 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. Also present were City Attorney Mr. Bates, Mayor Snyder, City Clerk Mrs. Martinek,
City Treasurer Mr. Conzo, and Recording Secretary Mrs. Riggs. Also present was Fire Chief
Miller.

Approval of letter of interest in acquiring Sangamon Street property

Alderman O’Donohue made a motion to approve and authorize the Mayor to sign and send it
and Alderman Neitzel 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.

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Request from Doris Anderson

Mayor Snyder said they needed a motion from December 12 to the end of the calendar year of
2011 per the. Mr. Bates said the terms are there will be no precedent of any kind to be signed
off by the union of both Street and Alley and Clerical to be unpaid from December 12-31 the
city will pay her health insurance during that time and she will be entitled to family medical
leave beginning January 1, 2012 and she will not have paid benefits such as vacation, sick leave
or personal days beginning January 1, 2012 until such time that she comes back to work full
time, at that time she will get a pro-rated share of her paid benefits to be determined by the date
she returns to full time work as compared to the full calendar year and we did discuss that she
will have full time position in the clerk’s office but not necessarily the same duties that she had.
Alderman Neitzel moved and Alderman Anderson seconded it. Mayor Snyder asked if there
was any discussion. Mr. Bates said that will be subject to a letter of understanding between
the city and the union which he guessed maybe the motion should give the Mayor authority to
sign. Alderman Neitzel moved 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.

Mayor Snyder said they had a letter from IDOT with regard to high speed rail recommendations.
What they approved last spring they will include in their tier 1 environmental impact study.

Mayor Snyder said he passed out to them the summaries that the department heads put together
for the City Administrator interviews over the weekend and thought they were very well done
and wanted them to have them.

Alderman Anderson said they had a drawing showing folks how they should have their
driveways prepared so they don’t get plowed in when we get a big snow.

Alderman Busby said Mr. Kitzmiller asked him to say that the tiff between you and him and he
apologized it wasn’t his fault so he was apologizing too and said it was something that he asked
Mr. Kitzmiller to do.

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 9:41 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted By:
Risa Riggs, Recording Secretary