[0:01] Good evening. It's 6 o'clock and we will call the Carbondale City Council meeting to order. First on the agenda is roll call, please.

[0:09] Council Member Colombo.

[0:12] Present.

[0:12] Council Member Kilman.

[0:14] Present.

[0:15] Council Member Lowes.

[0:17] Present.

[0:19] Council Member Maxwell.

[0:21] Present.

[0:22] Council Member Roberts.

[0:23] Present.

[0:24] Council Member Stanfield.

[0:26] Present.

[0:27] Mayor Harvey.

[0:28] Present.

[0:29] and next on the agenda, citizens comments and questions.

[0:35] City council meetings are deliberative sessions

[0:38] by members of the governing body.

[0:40] Civility and decorum are expected

[0:43] and will be required at all times.

[0:46] Public comment is encouraged at all public meetings,

[0:49] but the primary purpose of the meeting is for the council

[0:52] to discuss and determine public policy for the city.

[0:56] Members of the public may address the city council

[0:58] during the public comment agenda item

[1:01] for only those items that are relevant to city business such as information about city events.

[1:08] Issues that the municipality has the authority to address, previously debated items,

[1:14] and items that the council may consider in the future.

[1:18] The mayor shall strictly restrain comments and questions to matters that are relevant to city business

[1:23] and shall not permit repetitious comments.

[1:26] All other agenda items will also include an opportunity for public comments in accordance

[1:33] with the rules adopted and codified by the city council.

[1:37] Speakers should wait to be recognized before they proceed to the podium and should begin

[1:42] their statement by first stating their name and whether or not they are resident of the

[1:47] city.

[1:48] A speaker who represents an organization or other person must identify the organization

[1:53] or person.

[1:54] Public comments are to be directed to the city council as a whole and not to individual councilmembers or individual city staff.

[2:04] The city council and staff are not required to respond to comments and questions.

[2:09] Speakers may comment up to four minutes per item once per person.

[2:13] No speaker may give their allotted minutes to another person or group.

[2:17] A maximum of 30 minutes will be permitted for public comments and a maximum of 20 minutes

[2:23] per agenda item will be allowed for public comments on all of the items except public hearings.

[2:29] Are there any citizens who wish to comment?

[2:34] Mr. Cooper?

[2:49] My name is James Cooper Jr., Carbondale Citizen.

[2:51] I'm a medical discharge diagnosed with asthma, mental health disorders, disabled, afro-american

[2:54] retic.

[2:55] I want to thank anyone, black, white, brown and others, continuing to stand up

[2:58] for democracy.

[2:59] I have a mixture of a question or two prepped by a brief comment or to what I say is city business first amendment

[3:04] Right freedom speech my speech is well under four minutes allowed for each of the speak

[3:08] This is an update from last 16 city council meetings

[3:12] I've received no summits appearing court from Jackson County court knowing the rest of me regarding the February 22nd 2018

[3:18] Carpenter police report against me saying I'm breaking the law. I dispute it for the wreck for the public TV

[3:24] audience and city council. Simple question. Respectfully, what's the reason why

[3:28] Carminell Black Preachers, Carminell NAACP, say they offer everyone's due process,

[3:32] law rights, equal rights, and against discrimination, haven't demanded slash

[3:37] assisted in writing as I requested that Jackson County court prosecutors and

[3:41] judges to exonerate me or take me a black man to jury trial regarding the

[3:46] 1992 Jackson County wrongful case against me, etc. This is city business.

[3:51] the city council. The FBI

[3:53] headquarters in Washington DC

[3:55] internal revenue service.

[3:57] Jackson County State

[3:57] Attorney Marcia Case, Ohio

[3:58] Carminell City Manager, U.S.

[4:00] Attorney for the Southern

[4:01] District of Illinois. Illinois

[4:02] Governor J.B. Pritzker, Carminell

[4:04] NAACP, Carminell Police Chief,

[4:07] Carminell Postmaster, Jackson

[4:08] County Court Christian Hill,

[4:10] Carminell Black Churches and

[4:11] others are being certified mail

[4:12] from Carminell Post Office

[4:14] for court records and others.

[4:15] My October 27, 2025 declaration

[4:18] after David that I, James

[4:19] James Cooper, Jr. was told by a library resource that various white

[4:22] thoughts told Carmelette NWSP, Carmelette Black Preachers, being

[4:26] intimidated and scared to shut up, don't talk against white

[4:29] authorities to continue allowing me, black men, to be

[4:33] persecuted by authorities and if they're being together and

[4:36] assist the man in writing as I requested to Jackson County

[4:40] Court prosecutors and judges to immediately summons me to

[4:43] Jackson County Court and design them or take me to the

[4:46] jury trial regarding the 1992 Jackson County Rome for

[4:48] excuse me, case number 92 CF-85.

[4:51] The file, Carminell Police Report,

[4:52] they would kill them too.

[4:55] This is a copy of that affidavit.

[5:01] Also included with my October 27th affidavit

[5:04] for records for the FBI, Carminell, NAACP,

[5:07] all Carminell Black Churches, Carminell,

[5:08] City Mans, Carminell Police, the courts

[5:10] and others are copies of the Jackson County Court

[5:12] Dock Sheet Entrance, case number 92 CF-85

[5:15] as follows, 926 Docket Entry,

[5:18] my September 22nd, 2025 Declaration Affidavit.

[5:21] that some Jackson County court judge and prosecutors U.S. Attorney for some just

[5:24] Illinois Stephen White winehole a racist and others operate like they include

[5:29] clubs plan still trying to frame me James Cooper junior for any felony to

[5:33] keep hitting the mask cover-up of me by the director and assistant director the

[5:37] 1992 Jackson County room for conviction against me case number 92 CF 85

[5:42] involvement process to a misunderstanding this copy of that

[5:45] Dr. Sheet. And the 715.2025 Dr. Sheet entrance to my June 21st, 2025 declaration of affidavit that

[5:56] U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen Wynnehoff and other

[5:59] authorities have several Carmeldale Post Office employees and others in on the

[6:03] corruption against me who are submitting statements for an affidavit for

[6:05] search warrant although no crime to try to justify to a judge to issue an

[6:09] illegal search warrant on my resident and go on a fishing exhibition for the

[6:13] right violation and my June 23rd 2025 decorations that I told the FBI, Illinois

[6:19] State Police and other authorities their confidential informants in on

[6:23] corruption and others that my fifth amendment right is invoked at all times

[6:26] maybe me being subject to the state and federal prosecution slash

[6:30] persecution since for any felony including tax evasion these copy of

[6:35] those doc doc sheet entries question

[6:40] didn't some authorities go all around

[6:42] Complaining making a big shout now see it work it out. That's county juror trial or is on rate me immediately

[6:49] All glory goes God. Thank you.

[6:55] Anyone else?

[6:56] Yes,

[7:00] no, no, no in the back

[7:08] Hello, I'm Jennifer Lampkins. I am a resident of carbonyl and today I'm representing carbonyl United

[7:13] We are having a free day drive

[7:17] And we are collecting items from now until November 10th such things as hats and gloves hand warmers

[7:23] hand sanitizer, duffel bags, blankets, sleeping bags,

[7:26] clothing, shoes and boots, tents, small furniture,

[7:29] toiletries, coats and jackets, household items and toys.

[7:32] This will be for our free community day,

[7:35] which will be Saturday, November 15th

[7:37] at the Collaboration Center in Carbondale.

[7:40] Homeless services will be from 11 to one

[7:42] and that will include a hot meal, warm clothes,

[7:45] hygiene kits, resources and referrals,

[7:47] support and compassion.

[7:49] Community services will be from one to four

[7:51] for free groceries, community resources, raffle prizes, winter items and local

[7:56] agencies and vendors. Let us come together and uplift our community. Thank you.

[8:01] Okay, now Erika.

[8:10] I'm Eric Bukers. I live here in Carbondale and I am speaking

[8:15] today on behalf of the homeless community within Carbondale. Could you

[8:19] adjust the mic please? Is that better? Okay, I'm speaking today on behalf of the

[8:25] homeless community in Carbondale here. The first thing I'd like to address is

[8:29] the recent escalation and aggression toward the homeless that has been going

[8:35] on with city workers and the police. I've witnessed the systematic dehumanization

[8:42] of the most vulnerable social strata of our society. My own home that I've been

[8:49] living in since March was Bulldozed just last week and I don't even know

[8:54] how many others were along with it.

[9:00] We're told this is due to the refuse that accumulated,

[9:03] but the truth of the matter is the garbage they came to clean

[9:07] out was us.

[9:09] We were the trash that those bulldozers were meant to clear.

[9:15] And

[9:17] despite all of that, we still continue to exist.

[9:21] We're here.

[9:22] Nothing has changed.

[9:24] The only thing that changes is that we are now

[9:27] scattered and dislodged from any sense of safety. So we come back to the same

[9:35] question that I've been asking all year. Where do we go?

[9:42] It's amazing how this

[9:44] simple little question often stymies and stumps those that I ask. It doesn't

[9:52] It doesn't seem like it should be that complicated, but I've even heard a member of the Carbondale

[9:59] Police Force bluntly respond to it, not Carbondale.

[10:04] That's deplorable.

[10:06] It's disgusting and shameful in my mind.

[10:13] I've been threatened to be banned from all city property simply for asking for some

[10:21] documentation. This is ridiculous.

[10:26] Anyone I ask this question to that actually tries

[10:29] to give a reasonable answer gives me one of four or four basic answers to this. There's

[10:37] good Sam, good Samaritan task, the warming center and the coalition for the homeless.

[10:44] Now don't get me wrong these are all valuable resources and I'm not saying that there's

[10:50] anything necessarily wrong with them, but they are not a complete safety net and plenty of

[10:55] people fall through the cracks of these services. Good Sam is nearly always at full capacity.

[11:06] Task and the coalition are helpful, but slow at best and often wind up coming to dead

[11:15] ends anyway. And the warming center, we don't even know when or in what kind of capacity

[11:22] it's going to open up. So there's a lot of brick work that we're running into trying

[11:31] to find these services that help. So again, I'm pleading, trying out to anyone with

[11:39] authority to do anything, where do we go? How much taxpayer money is wasted every year

[11:46] in the asinine harassment and dislodging of unhoused people? Also, let's not even begin

[11:53] to discuss how incredibly unconstitutional this all becomes when you consider the BRHA

[11:59] or the IHRA, the Bill of Rights for the Homeless Act and the Illinois Human Rights

[12:04] But alas, I'm not here bringing attorneys to sue for damages.

[12:10] No, I'm here asking for basic human dignity and decency to not be persecuted simply for being unhoused.

[12:21] The right to merely exist.

[12:24] Every faith on earth preaches kindness to the poor.

[12:30] Is yours any different?

[12:33] There are thousands of ways.

[12:37] If you agree with what was said, could you please stand?

[12:46] Thank you.

[12:47] Thank you for your time.

[12:51] Anyone else?

[12:53] Okay.

[13:00] Hello.

[13:01] My name is Victor Ludwig.

[13:02] I'm not a resident, but I am your neighbor.

[13:07] There's not much more to say than that other than this.

[13:10] No more encampment sweeps.

[13:12] It solves nothing.

[13:13] It achieves nothing.

[13:14] It hurts.

[13:15] It damages.

[13:16] is a clause at the sole of all involved.

[13:19] So that's all I'm going to say.

[13:21] No more encampment sweeps, because in the lack

[13:26] of a comprehensive plan, we can at least

[13:28] have comprehensive compassion.

[13:30] Thank you.

[13:31] Anyone else?

[13:32] Oh, wait, please don't clap.

[13:35] If you agree with what Victor said, please stand.

[13:37] Clapping is not a difference.

[13:40] Thank you so much.

[13:43] OK, anyone else?

[13:45] Okay. Next on the agenda. Council comments, general announcements and proclamations. Let's

[13:53] start on my right, Ms. Kielman.

[13:59] Yeah. No. Ms. Maxwell? Ms. Roberts? No.

[14:06] I don't want

[14:07] to come back, but okay. Mr. Colombo. I'll be brief. I set my business cards out there

[14:14] on the chairs this evening so that if you have ideas, if you have concerns, if you have

[14:20] any feelings in general around how we are engaging with our homeless population in Carbondale,

[14:25] I'd love to hear from you.

[14:27] In just the past couple days, I've had an opportunity to engage our city manager, mayor,

[14:31] and a couple of other staff regarding what a comprehensive homelessness action plan

[14:36] might look like for Carbondale, and that includes your input and your contributions.

[14:43] So please be in contact. I appreciate your time.

[14:48] Mr. Loth.

[14:50] Can we get an update from staff about what actually happened with respect to the encampment and who.

[15:02] Was manning the bulldozers, staffing the bulldozers?

[15:06] If they're referring to the relocation that occurred a couple weeks ago, that was a direct

[15:12] result of private property owners who decided that they wanted to clean out their privately

[15:18] owned property. And the police department was contacted as a result of they were bringing

[15:23] in equipment to execute their plans to clean that up. And there were people that

[15:27] refused to allow them to bring their equipment onto their own privately owned land. So the

[15:32] The police department went, assisted them with getting onto their property, and was forced

[15:38] to provide warnings to individuals that if they did not leave, they could be subject

[15:41] to arrest for trespassing.

[15:45] And just so I'm clear, there was no sweep by city staff of anything?

[15:50] City did not initiate the removal of anyone.

[15:56] The city provided notice so that everyone had an ample opportunity to know that the

[16:01] The property owners were coming in there to do that work and they decided based on the

[16:07] conditions of their property that that's the response they wanted to have.

[16:12] Thank you.

[16:13] I know that those things do happen with some cities, some places, but not here.

[16:18] And I do also appreciate how much some people enjoy cosplay and LARPing, but this is not

[16:27] the place for it.

[16:28] I

[16:37] don't encourage that behavior, and

[16:43] you know it's great and it's wonderful that we sit and

[16:52] listen to you, but you cannot stay and listen to us.

[16:56] No comments, please.

[16:59] Mr. Los, were you done?

[17:01] Yes, I was actually done.

[17:03] Mr. Sandfield.

[17:06] No.

[17:07] Okay.

[17:08] Oh, I'm sorry, Ms. Roberts.

[17:10] even though everybody just left.

[17:13] I still want to say this, and I'm sorry that people decided to leave

[17:18] instead of sticking around to have good conversations around this

[17:23] because there are good conversations happening around this issue.

[17:28] And I want to begin by recognizing the difficult and complex conversations

[17:32] that our community has had around homelessness and housing, obviously.

[17:36] These discussions have shown just how deeply

[17:39] Carbondale residents care about helping those in crisis

[17:43] while also preserving safe and livable neighborhoods.

[17:47] It's important that we take what we've learned

[17:49] from everything we've all been through

[17:51] and channel this energy into solutions

[17:54] that are realistic, transparent, and effective.

[17:59] Homelessness remains a serious challenge,

[18:02] not only in Carbondale but throughout Southern Illinois,

[18:05] well, I mean really throughout the nation, but in our vicinity throughout the region.

[18:11] And it requires a coordinated regional response.

[18:15] A lot of that work is already happening.

[18:18] Organizations such as BOOTS, SI, a coalition of more than 30 Southern Illinois nonprofits

[18:24] that are focused on housing insecurity, Take Action Today, which recently convened

[18:29] a regional homelessness summit in West Frankfurt, the Southern Illinois Coalition for the

[18:34] homeless and veterans focused organizations such as Project Die Hard are already developing

[18:41] partnerships that a regional task force would require. Our goal should be to build on these

[18:48] efforts and strengthen collaboration across city and county lines. Homelessness doesn't

[18:55] stop at borders and neither should our compassion and our planning. The engagement I've seen

[19:01] shows how deeply people care about helping others

[19:05] and also about maintaining safe, livable neighborhoods.

[19:08] I hope that those seeking to help the unhoused

[19:11] can also shift their energy now

[19:13] towards regional cooperation and solutions.

[19:17] Thank you.

[19:18] Ms. Kielman.

[19:21] So as we all know, SNAP and link benefits

[19:23] are not going to be dispersed on November one.

[19:26] That's an impending perspective reality

[19:29] that is harrowing to so many in our community and a few days ago I asked the city manager

[19:34] to look into what means were available legal or otherwise for us to engage with this impending

[19:42] issue and he was very thorough in his response tracking down all sorts of lines of inquiry

[19:51] into specifically something that I'd asked is whether or not we could maybe mandate

[19:57] that grocers provide out of date or soon to be expired foods directly into the

[20:03] hands of food banks prior to disposal. And it looks like a number of our

[20:09] grocers are already doing that. Kroger and Schnooks currently donate to their

[20:14] food pantries and other food pantries on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. On

[20:19] Fridays, Walmart also makes good donations to the Good Samaritan and

[20:23] and Victory Dream Center,

[20:26] there are grocery stores that we could work on, that we should

[20:32] encourage as a community to make donations of their soon to be expired food.

[20:38] Food insecurity is going to be an ever more pressing issue, especially as things get colder,

[20:44] as more people are off work due to the federal shutdown, as economic conditions deteriorate,

[20:51] And as we continue to work on but not achieve solving problems like poverty and homelessness,

[20:59] which we obviously have a very, very complicated but necessary to engage with situation.

[21:06] And so I wanted to brief you all that I am working on it.

[21:12] I will be reaching out and touching base with all of my colleagues on it over the

[21:16] coming weeks. But I did want to keep the community informed that that is a line of thought that

[21:21] we're pursuing at the city.

[21:28] Next on the agenda, Consent Agenda please, Mr. Reno.

[21:33] Item 3.1 is approval of City Council meeting minutes from October 14, 2025. Item 3.2 is

[21:39] approval of a warrant for period ending October 10, 2025 for FY26, warrant number 1522 and

[21:45] the total amount of $2,670,669.48.

[21:50] Item 3.3 is an approval of Wells Fargo warrant for the period

[21:54] ending September 30th, 25 for FY26 warrant number

[21:57] 09, 2025 in the amount of $172,361.26.

[22:03] Item 3.4 are appointments and reappointments

[22:06] to boards and commissions.

[22:07] Item 3.5 is a resolution authorizing the city manager

[22:10] to execute an engineering agreement with TWM,

[22:13] Incorporated of Swansea, Illinois,

[22:14] in the amount of $58,251 for the design of Phase 2 Northwest Bike Trail from New Arrow

[22:21] Road to East Airport Road.

[22:23] Item 3.6 is an ordinance approving a budget adjustment to increase the CIP Local Improvement

[22:28] Fund budget, adding CIP PB2602, furnishing and installing a new RTU at the Police Department

[22:35] and award of purchase and installation of a new rooftop AC unit RTU at the Police

[22:40] Department to Southern Illinois piping contractors of Carbondale in the amount of

[22:44] one hundred twenty four thousand five hundred fifty dollars item three point

[22:47] seven is approval of the listed consent agenda items thank you is there an item

[22:54] that any council member has a question about or needs pool okay is there a

[23:01] motion for consent agenda yes miss Gilman I move that we approve all

[23:07] consent agenda items. Ms. Roberts. I second that. Any questions from council or discussion?

[23:15] Questions or discussion from citizens? Roll call please.

[23:23] Councilmember Colombo. Yes.

[23:27] Councilmember Kilman. Yes. Councilmember Lowe. Yes. Councilmember Maxwell. Yes.

[23:37] Councilmember

[23:38] Mr. Stanfield.

[23:39] Yes.

[23:41] Mayor Harvey.

[23:42] Yes, and that motion passes.

[23:44] Next, we have General Beasness of the City Council.

[23:47] Item 4.1, please.

[23:49] Item 4.1 is in ordinance adopting a new comprehensive plan

[23:52] for the City of Carbondale.

[23:54] Plan Carbondale was recommended to be adopted

[23:56] as Carbondale's comprehensive plan

[23:57] by the Planning Commission at their August 13, 2025 meeting.

[24:01] The plan was then presented to the City Council

[24:03] on August 26, 2025.

[24:05] The attached edits and additions

[24:06] have been made to the plan in response to comments and requests for more information from council.

[24:11] Information that has been added includes the city's most recent interest in the dark skies initiative,

[24:16] more detail on park land acreage, and appendix referencing other city plans and data sources that inform the plan document.

[24:23] All changes have been deemed by staff to be in keeping with the overarching goals and intent of the plan,

[24:30] so as not to require another public hearing and review by the planning commission.

[24:34] The plan can be found online at plancarbondale.com and there are attachments with the revised

[24:39] plan.

[24:41] The recommended action.

[24:45] The recommended action is to approve an ordinance adopting a new comprehensive plan for the

[24:49] City of Carbondale.

[24:50] Is there a motion from Council?

[24:52] Mr. Colombo.

[24:54] I would move that we approve an ordinance adopting a new comprehensive plan for the

[24:58] City of Carbondale.

[24:59] Is there a second?

[25:00] Mr. Stanfield.

[25:01] I'll second that.

[25:03] Any discussion from Council?

[25:04] So, Mr. Roberts.

[25:06] I was lucky enough to be on the committee for this,

[25:09] and working with Molly Maxwell,

[25:13] I don't know how to officially address you,

[25:17] but for spearheading this enormous project

[25:20] was an excellent experience for me,

[25:24] and I think that the group came up

[25:27] and the committee ended up with a really excellent

[25:36] Plan so I am glad that we are here. Thank you for all the work you've done and I appreciate you adding on all the extras

[25:43] I requested other comments from council on this side

[25:51] Comments or questions from citizens roll call, please

[25:56] Councilmember Colombo

[25:58] Yes

[26:00] Councilmember Killman. Yes

[26:02] Councilmember Lowes. Yes

[26:05] Councilmember Maxwell

[26:08] Council Member Roberts. Yes. Council Member Stanfield. Yes. Mayor Harvey. Yes, and that

[26:18] motion passes. Next is item 4.2. Mr. Reno. Item 4.2 is an ordinance establishing a portion

[26:25] of the east side of North Robert A. Stahl's Avenue from the Sycamore Street to East Large

[26:29] Street as a no parking zone. The community development staff is proposing that the

[26:34] block of Robert A. Stahl's Avenue between East Sycamore Street and East

[26:38] Large Street be designated as a no parking zone. Staff receive several

[26:41] complaints concerning traffic being restricted on this block to one lane

[26:45] due to people parking on both sides of North Robert A. Stahl's. The width of the

[26:49] pavement in this area is approximately 30 feet. By the time a car

[26:52] parks on the east and west sides of the street in this block, the usable

[26:56] width of the road is reduced to less than 15 feet. Drivers do not feel safe

[27:00] using the road for two-way traffic when such parking is present. The

[27:03] The inability for two cars to pass has led to traffic congestion at times and complaints

[27:07] from motorists to city staff.

[27:09] Other parts of Robert Estall's have signage designating no parking or have no issues due

[27:13] to residents as having sufficient off-street parking.

[27:16] This section of road is well-traveled with New Zion Church located in the adjacent block

[27:20] to the south in the Irma Hayes Community Center in the next block south.

[27:24] Numerous residents are in the neighborhood as well, including several Jackson County

[27:28] Housing Authority residents.

[27:30] I think that is not a true street which has the condition this particular block staff

[27:35] is trying to rectify the situation by speaking with residents about the parking habits there

[27:40] in an opera vehicles and commercial vehicles being parked there.

[27:43] His attempt is not always been successful.

[27:45] Therefore staff request the designation of a no parking zone order to facilitate safe

[27:50] to a traffic.

[27:52] The city code also addresses this issue in section seventeen dash eight dash three

[27:56] in relation to pavement with parking.

[27:58] Parking section 3 of that reads if the current average daily traffic count at the time of

[28:03] the completion of the improvement on a local street consists of 1000 vehicles per day or

[28:08] less and parallel parking is allowed on both sides of the street the minimum width for such

[28:12] street must be 34 feet which width shall be determined as set forth in section a

[28:17] one of the section of the code while that particular code section addresses rebuilt

[28:22] or repaired street staff feels it is a good measure of the proper street width for streets

[28:25] with parallel parking. Feedback from members of the neighborhood and the New Zion Church

[28:29] Pastors indicates support for this modification to the on-street parking. The recommended

[28:34] action is to approve an ordinance establishing a portion of the east side of North Robert

[28:38] Estall's Avenue from East Sycamore Street to East Large Street as a no parking zone.

[28:42] Is there a motion?

[28:46] Ms. Kilman.

[28:47] I move we approve an ordinance establishing a portion of the east side of North Robert

[28:51] Estall's Avenue from East Sycamore Street to East Large Street as a no parking

[28:56] the parking zone. Thank you. Is there a second? Mr. Maxwell. I second that. In a discussion

[29:02] from council, Mr. Stanfield. Yeah, why is that particular spot designated for no parking

[29:10] happen? Why is that particular spot a problem? It really relates to the on street parking

[29:17] that exists there for some particular residents that have more vehicles than they have parking

[29:22] allowed for it. They're personal residences. So we've just received a lot of feedback from

[29:28] community members there that especially when it's dark and when there's busier times, Sundays,

[29:34] for church and things, it's very difficult for two-way traffic to move through there.

[29:40] Thank you.

[29:41] Mr. Colombo.

[29:43] And this is kind of a follow-up question to that. When I travel through there, it

[29:48] seems that there's kind of one particular set of vehicles that may belong to just

[29:52] a single individual or a company or something like that, trailers and other items seemed

[29:56] like that was causing some of this congestion. Is that relatively accurate?

[30:00] Is it accurate that this is kind of an impact of one or two individuals, not abundance of

[30:04] folks that would use that for parking?

[30:06] Yes, and those individuals have been addressed about specific violations that may be observed,

[30:11] but overall, there's nothing that restricts the vehicles from being there.

[30:15] It's just that given the design of the roadway and the amount of traffic moving through

[30:19] there, it just doesn't allow for safe movement of two-way traffic with vehicles parked there.

[30:28] Questions or comments from citizens?

[30:35] Council Member Colombo. Yes. Council Member Kilman. Yes. Council Member Lowe's. Yes.

[30:43] Council Member Maxwell. Yes. Council Member Roberts. Yes. Council Member Stanfield. Yes.

[30:51] Mayor Harvey. Yes, and that motion passes. Next on the agenda, Item 5, Executive Session.

[31:00] item five point one is a motion to enter into executive session to discuss the

[31:03] setting of a price for the sale or lease of property owned by the public body

[31:07] discussion by the public body and executive session of the below listed

[31:10] exceptions is permitted by the Illinois Open Meetings Act in the event that

[31:13] any action is to be taken as a result of the discussions held in the

[31:17] executive session final action will be taken only upon return to open

[31:20] session and will be preceded by a public recital of the nature of the

[31:23] matter being considered and other information that will inform the

[31:26] public of the business being conducted. The exception here is according to Illinois statute

[31:32] six, the setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the public body. The recommended

[31:37] action is to enter into executive session to discuss the setting of a price for the

[31:41] sale or lease of property owned by the public body in accordance with Illinois Meetings

[31:44] Act with the appropriate section cited. Thank you. Is there a motion to enter into

[31:51] executive session? Ms. Kielman. I move that we enter into executive session to

[31:55] to discuss the setting of the price for the sale or lease of property owned by the public body is there a second.

[32:03] Mr. Roberts second that with the court with the clerk call the role please.

[32:10] Council Member Colombo. Yes. Council Member Kilman. Yes. Council Member Lowes.

[32:17] Yes. Council Member Maxwell. Yes. Council Member Roberts. Yes. Council Member Stanfield. Yes.

[32:24] You're Harvey.

[32:26] Yes.

Oct 28, 2025 City Council

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