We'll call this regular city council
meeting to order on July 21st,
2025 at 6:05 p.m. Roll call, please.
>> Mr. Anderson,
>> present.
>> Mr. Baitman,
>> present.
>> Mr. Sanders,
>> present.
>> Mr. McCullen,
>> present.
>> Mr. Parrot,
>> present.
>> Mr. D,
>> present.
>> Mr. Clemens
>> present.
>> Mrs. Odoni
>> present.
>> Please stand for the pledge of
allegiance
to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for which it
stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all.
It's okay. Um Okay. First up is public
participation. Is there anybody'd like
to speak under public participation this
evening?
Okay, for the record, there is no public
participation.
I'm going to before we do the consent
agenda, I am going to move up item 9 C
to the top of the list. Um, Mr. McCoy
has another engagement that he needs to
get to, so we're going to move him up to
accelerate it. So, we'll start with item
9 C, approval of the city of Lincoln,
Illinois Tourism Department logo.
Thank you, mayor. Oh, we have to have a
motion.
>> Okay.
>> Is there a motion?
>> Motion to approve. Alman DS made the
motion. Alman Parrot second. Now, Mr.
McCoy, the floor is yours.
>> Sorry. Thank you. And good evening all.
On your desk in front of you is another
printout with uh some alterations of the
logo with feedback. We had a lot of good
feedback. A lot of it was very positive.
Some of it was negative. you know,
everybody has an opinion and that's
great. We wanted the community
involvement and your involvement. So,
that's uh uh it's a good thing in the
long run. It's a good thing. So, the the
biggest question that anybody had was
with the the Lincoln figure itself. Um
they a lot of people just thought it
maybe shouldn't be quite so quote
unquote cartoonish uh and be more
realistic, I guess, for lack of a better
term. So, we created new artwork uh and
uh created this new style of a logo.
There's slight variations and then of
course you asked for some color options,
so we we gave you those as well. This is
a little bit more of a
uh it's not generic by any means, but
it's a little more
standard for a logo for the office. Uh
it does. The difficult part here is if
you
with Lincoln, you don't want to exclude
him because the town is named after
Lincoln and it's it's Lincoln. So
somehow he probably needs to be in there
one way or the other. And um then of
course Route 66 since that's going to be
your primary draw for tourism. Uh so
including those two in the logo and
making it work is always a difficult
task. So that's where we started with
the first version of it where it was
around the 66 shield and then we popped
Lincoln kind of on the on the front of
it there from other marketing materials
that we're working on. So here we we
came back and uh you know made it made
him less prominent. It's a little more
realistic as far as a uh a drawing goes.
And then of course you can see the
different kind of color options and so
forth there. So any questions?
for Mr. McCoy.
>> Mr. Parrot.
>> Yeah, I sent Scott an email and I just I
asked I go, you know, is the draw going
to be to Lincoln um 66 or is it going to
be more Lincoln? And obviously it's
going to be Route 66. And so, um, I I do
like the the change. And my preference
is is is that one right there because it
looks also kind of like a watermelon
seeds going around on the outside of of
the uh of the the emblem. So, I like
that one.
>> And just for the record, he's pointing
to this bottom center one with the red
kind of around the inside of it on the
outside area. Okay. Thank you,
>> Mr. Sanders.
>> Yeah, I like that one, too. But I also
like the green one. But
>> so overall though, is everybody okay
with the design itself? The colors I
think it's been set up this way so that
the colors can be modified based on the
marketing materials. Correct.
>> That's correct. Some will have, you
know, more color, fewer color. Some will
be line art only and have no color. Um
but if you like that style, then we can,
you know, work around those colors and
not anything add anything else. Mr. DS.
>> So, I just had one person reach out to
me over this uh logo
thing here and uh the only
recommendation was they were not sure if
you should have a beard. So, I'm not
saying if I mean I just need to pass
that information along is all I'm trying
to say.
>> We we got that as well and the hat. So,
we in sitting at this and looking at it,
I decided well we'll keep the beard but
lose the hat. And the reason is is you
can't see much of the hat in this style
in this area. The beard does make it
Lincoln. When we removed it, it looked
like the mayor, you know? I mean, it
looked like any one of you guys. So,
it's it was really not defined. And so,
the that's so we did kind of one and the
other and and uh everybody loved the one
with the mayor, but
>> he said no.
>> You're trying to run a successful
marketing program, right?
But yes, we we did have that that
feedback. Uh as well as there were some
that were actually upset that the quote
unquote cartoonish we you know were
doing something that wasn't the the
cartoon because they really liked that.
So it's everybody's got a you know a
view and and that's fine. But this was a
compromise with no hat and a beard. Mr.
Baitman,
>> I got the same thing. But as I stated
last week, the world knows him with a
beard and a top hat. And for those of us
that participated in the most Abraham
Lincoln we look like or whatever a few
years ago, what was the criteria? A
beard, no mustache.
>> So, you know, e even the Guinness Book
of World Records recognized it as a
beard, no mustache. So I I I know he's
who named the town and stuff, but if you ask the people around the world
to close their eyes and picture Abraham
Lincoln, this is what they're seeing. So
I think I think we need to draw people
from afar.
Okay. Any other comments or questions
for Mr. McCoy?
Okay. If there is not, thank you for
your time, Mr. McCoy.
>> Thank you.
>> And I will uh ask the clerk to call the
role. Please
» approve.
>> Wait, we're this here.
>> The the item just says approval of the
logo. It doesn't specify which one. So,
no amendment required. The attorney can
weigh in if he'd like.
No, no amendment required, but it it
probably be relevant to know which one
of these you're voting on, right?
>> Well, I think
>> just the overall
>> it's the overall design, right?
>> Yes.
>> That's correct. The it the top one is
the design element itself. The rest of
them are just variations primarily in
color.
>> Right. Okay. for for clarification.
Uh for those people that may follow us
years from now that wonder how we got to
this logo, can someone make a
>> motion
>> amended motion to accept the logo that's
been presented this evening?
>> I'll make that motion to a vote on the
logo that is presented tonight.
>> Second.
>> Mr. Baitman made the amended motion. Mr.
Clemens Mr. Clemens second. Further
discussion on the amended motion.
>> Okay. Roll call on the amended motion,
please.
>> Mr. Clemens.
>> Yes.
>> Mrs. Odonu.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Anderson.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Baitman?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Sanders?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. McCullen?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Parrot?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. D?
>> Yes. Okay. And now roll call on the on
item 9C as amended. Please.
>> Mr. Parrot.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. DS. Yes,
>> Mr. Clemens.
>> Yes,
>> Mrs. Wanu.
>> Yes,
>> Mr. Anderson.
>> Yes,
>> Mr. Baitman.
>> Yes,
>> Mr. Sanders.
>> Yes,
>> Mr. Parrot.
>> Yes.
>> Oh, I'm sorry. That's okay.
>> Twice.
>> Miss McCauley.
>> Sorry.
>> Yes. And yes.
>> Thank you for your work on this, Mr.
McCoy. Appreciate you taking the
community feedback into consideration.
Okay. Next item. We'll come back up to
the consent agenda this evening. It
consists of payment of bills
>> to approve.
>> Second.
>> Alderwoman O'Donnis
discussion.
>> Roll call, please.
>> Mr. DS,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Clemens,
>> yes.
>> Mrs. Odonu,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Anderson,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Baitman,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Sanders,
>> yes.
>> Mrs. McCullen,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Parrot,
>> yes. Next item is item 6A, ordinance
implementing a municipal grocery
retailers occupation tax
and a municipal grocery service
occupation tax for the city of Lincoln,
Illinois.
>> Move to approve.
>> Second. Alderman Sanders made the
motion. Alderman down second.
Discussion. Mr. Baitman. For
clarification, this is not a increase of
any kind. It is simply the exact same
tax that
um people have been paying. Mr. Sanders
thinks since the Nixon era. Um so I just
want to clarify the city isn't getting
ready to vote on any brand new tax. It's
just the way it's collected.
» Mr. Barrett,
>> I heard it was from 1990.
So, but at either rate, it's 35 years in
that we've been we've been paying. So,
» any other any other discussion?
>> Roll call, please.
>> Mr. DS?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Clemens?
>> No.
>> Mrs. O'Donnu?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Anderson?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Baitman?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Sanders?
>> Yes.
>> Mrs. McCullen?
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Parrot? Yes.
>> Next item is 6B. Ordinance appropriating
funds for all corporate purposes for
fiscal year 2025 2026.
>> Move to approve.
Is
>> there a second?
>> Second.
>> Alderwoman Odoni made the motion.
Alderwoman Mlen second. Discussion.
>> Roll call, please.
>> Mrs. Mcclullen.
>> Yes. Mr. Parrot. Yes,
>> Mr. DS.
>> Yes,
>> Mr. Clemens.
>> Yes,
>> Mrs. Donnu.
>> Yes,
>> Mr. Anderson.
>> Yes,
>> Mr. Baitman.
>> My consistent. No,
>> Mr. Sanders.
>> Yes.
» Okay. Next item is item number seven,
approval of request for bids for the
2025 MFTt scarification oil and chip
contract.
» Move to approve.
Second.
>> Alderman Sanders made the motion.
Alderman D. Second. Discussion. Mr.
Baitman.
>> So, after my statement last week, I put
a questionnaire out there on my alderman
page and I actually did a survey monkey.
Um,
I I would really like for us to start
looking into
more scarification
and much less down to nearly zero if we
can of the oil and chip. This was by far
the suggestion from the citizens. Um, I
clarified several times during that post
that this would mean that less streets
would be repaired annually, but they
would be repaired better. Um, I had
people reach out to me and explain the
difference between scarification and oil
and chip. uh explaining to them that if it was anything like Campus View
Drive was, they they go in and they
actually grind up the old oil and chip
base, regrade it, make it smooth with a
crown in it, and then seal it on top of
that. The big difference is we're not
putting lipstick on a pig. The the
potholes are fixed, the divots are
fixed, the ruts are fixed because they
grind it all up, relevel it, work it
down, pack it down, several layers of of
oil and rock is put on top of it. And
it's a far superior product than just
going through and running the street
sweeper down the road, making a couple
minor changes, and then putting the same
coating over the same crappy road. So,
I'm I'm hoping we can start working on
that. It seems to be that's what the
citizens want instead of spending money
just to cover the same old street. So
everybody understands it's going to take
much longer to get the streets done, but
um the feedback was also it was
ridiculous that we ground up out by
Walmart on a street that was probably
one of the better streets in town to put
down another layer of asphalt. Um
and people reached out to me that live
on Elm Street that got brand new
asphalt. There's hardly any homes out
there and they know for a fact that
their road will be nice for decades to
come. So, it was just a matter of
quality verse quantity. And I think we
can either form a committee or something
and start the process of trying to look
at a different way to repair our streets
so that they are nicer streets when we
get done and they will last longer.
>> Mr. Landers.
>> Yes. Um, when you look at the list of
roads, there's there's A1 and A2. A1 is
the oil and chip. A2 is where they
scarify the road. The reason the A1's
are A1's is because they're not in that
bad a shape. We can spray patch them,
take the bumps out the best we can, and
then resurface it and not have to spend
the extra extra money to scarify those
streets and get it sealed up.
uh some cost comparisons that that I
have um
for a millon overlay, which is basically
what we're doing on these the streets
now that's going with the work that's
going on is that it's about uh $76 per linear foot. So I just based it on
350 ft. So if you do 350 ft of streets,
it's $26,000
for that. And that's not including
additional fees or additional costs for
sidewalks, utility adjustments, and
things like that. A2 is about $12,600
for that same 350 ft. And the A1 is
$5,600.
Um, and again, the A2s, the the
scarification streets are that way
because they're they need to be ground
up. They're in bad enough shape that we
can't patch and and seal over the top of
it. And that's why they're that way. and
then you can get the life out of those
streets with a a decent driving surface.
So, um, as far as the streets that got
milled up out by Walmart, if anybody
needs or has questions about that,
please have them contact me because I
can explain exactly why we did it.
So, if there's questions, council
members have questions why they were
done or if they're citizens, please
direct them to me and I'll talk to them
about it and explain why they were.
>> Mr. Mr. Baitman and then Mr. Anderson.
>> So I I know why they were it was a
choice from the engineers and stuff on
trying to take a heavily traveled road
and before it got any worse uh make it
brand new again. But then again it's the same amount of traffic as they
were before. So if that's the case
within 10 years they're going to be need
milled up again. But Mr. and Landers
answered my question.
Scarification is half the price of of
mill and overlay. I never once said I
wanted every street in town milled and
overlaid. I wanted a better process than
tar and chip. So if we can do
scarification on most of these streets
that were taring and chipping then they
would last a lot longer. It would make
the citizens happy because the all the
lumps are taken out of the the road is
made true again. The drainage is
correct. Anybody that drove through
Lincoln this weekend knows that we have
serious drainage problems in this town.
Um, not only is the the drains plugged
with debris, but they the water just
doesn't flow. Third Friday was a perfect
example. Um, once we let the water out
of the pools, the water flowed in a
different direction than toward the
drain and made a lot of people mad. But
I I'm just asking that we look at
scarification
over tar and chip and try to do more
scarified streets
than just tar and chipping.
>> Mr. Anderson,
>> Walt, I appreciate the information you
gave on the cost between each one of
those. Would you share those numbers one
more time again, please?
» I'll just give you the per foot cost.
>> Yes, that's fine.
>> Per linear foot. an HMA, which is the
milling overlay,
milling one and a half inches and
applying two inches back on top of it is
$76 a square foot or I'm sorry, a linear
foot.
The A2, which is the scarification that
Mr. Baitman's talking about, is uh $36
per foot, linear foot. To explain the
scarification process a little better,
they till the road up and like Mr.
Baitman said they regrade it. They roll
it, pack it, get it lined up. They put a
coat of primer on it. Then they put a
coat of oil and chip with a larger
aggregate. And then they put a surface
aggregate oil and chip with a smaller a
smaller aggregate. That's that process.
A1 is just basically the oil and then
the one layer of rock chip.
So that just gives you a better idea of
what those processes are.
What was the cost on that one?
>> The A1 is $16 a line foot. A2 is $36 a
line foot.
» Thank you.
» Any other questions for Walt?
Okay. So, I'm going to share my feedback
on this because I've done this research
before a couple years ago. As a matter
of fact, just to be clear,
I don't disagree with Mr. debatement
that we need to have nice roads, but I
think we need to understand exactly how
far our limited budget goes for roads.
Couple years ago, um, with a million
dollar budget,
I think we were able to do what, wal
about three miles of road.
>> It was somewhere close to that. Yes.
>> And we have 190 miles of road in town.
>> Uh, there's
>> approximately
>> there's a
170
center line miles.
>> Okay,
>> which center line is basically just the
length of the road. That's not included
multiple lane roads and and the extra
wide roads. That's just going down the
center line of the road. There's about
170 miles.
>> Yeah. So, so the point is that we're
currently at a at a situation where it
takes us decades to get a road addressed
already. And if we want to keep up with
the current pace of providing roads,
then we have to find more money.
Otherwise, what's going to happen is a
road that a process that was going to
take 30 years to touch every road in
town will now take 40 to 50 years. Some
of us will be gone by the time our roads
are addressed. And so, um, there are
ways to go around this. I think Mr.
Baitman's suggestion is great. Let's put
a group together, do some analysis on
it, and see where we come up with. But
at the end of the day,
um, higher quality means less roads.
takes more time. People will
get frustrated. Um, I actually just saw
a comment online today from an
individual that was extremely excited
that their road was getting asphalted.
Well, there will be fewer and fewer
excited people if we if we go down that
road. Um, no pun intended.
So, yeah. So, I'm just saying let's
think about this before we um totally
abandon oil and chip. I know it's not a
long-term permanent solution. And
contrary to what somebody shared online
this week, I've to the best of my
knowledge never advocated for every road
in town being oil and chipped. I don't
even know where that came from.
» Is oil and chip not rock.
>> I was on that thread. They they said
that you told them that every road
should be rock.
>> Yeah.
>> So that that was uh and and I agree.
Again, we we have to do I'm just asking
for something to be put together as an
exploratory thing. I could be totally
wrong, but I don't think it hurts to to
look outside the box once in a while.
>> I I don't disagree with you. Okay. We'll put some people together.
Okay. Anything else on item seven,
Mr. Landers?
>> Yes. I would I would really encourage
any alderman or a citizen, anybody that
wants to talk about this. I'll sit down
with anybody and explain and not
persuade, just to explain the processes
and how we go about choosing these
roads. You know, there's a lot of people
that think they know a lot about this
that they don't. and if we can sit down
and discuss the whole process,
you know, and I can explain the the
other things that they don't understand
and then maybe the people could have a
better understanding.
>> So, okay. All right. If there's nothing
else, roll call, please.
>> Mr. DS,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Clemens,
>> yes.
>> Mrs. O'Donn,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Anderson,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Baitman,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Sanders,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Mr. McCullen.
>> Yes. Mr. Per.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. Next item up is item 8A, city
treasures report for June 2025. Treasure
Conso.
>> Thank you, Mayor. I think you've all
received copies of the report. You'll
notice we're in a little bit better uh
position than we were a month ago with
the general fund, which we like to see,
and that that is uh improved
substantially. Keep in mind though that does include a one-time payment
which is described on the second page of
the report which is the with the state
uh receipts and reimbursements and
grants. You see there's uh a police
department hiring retention grant that
the chief spoke about uh some time back
a couple of meetings back and we did
receive that and that's $152,1
175 all of which would be paid out in uh
in the form of grants for uh uh
retaining police officers. So, but
overall even aside from that, we are in
a better position than we were uh a
month ago, although not not quite as
good as we were last year at this time.
So, we need to to try to build up the
balance in that fund.
Won't go into great detail on it. I
think it speaks for itself. There's uh
you see the pension funds there, too. I
have you have noticed with the
improvements in the uh in the stock
market in the last couple of months, we
we're starting to see that reflected
here. I don't yet have the consolidated
fireman's pension fund yet. Uh the final
report which we get from that fund uh
should have it very soon because it be
for the month ending in June. Do have it
for the police pension fund and you can
see there that that improved
considerably over what it was a year
ago.
uh at the end of June.
The attachments that you see there, we
you know, you're used to seeing how
these go up and down. We have seen the
reason that you see a greater balance in
the general fund is year to date
calendar year to date uh as these
reports are set up. We we have seen
increases in the state income tax. The
month that just ended, it was a little
down a little bit from what it was a
year ago, but it was up considerably in
April, which more than offset that. And
I think that's a lot of that has to do
with when people file their tax returns
and thus when they pay their taxes.
Municipal sales tax, use tax, just about
uh monthtomonth, March liability month
with last year's month of liability, the
same. were up a little bit year to date
by about $39,757.
And similar things with the non-home
rule sales tax. Uh we did have
considerable increase in it last month.
Year to date, we're up $28,140
for those three months. And motor fuel
tax, you know, it just went up again. Uh
we're not seeing a great increase in the
proceeds from it. I've said this before
here. Uh, you know, President Reagan
said if you want more of something, tax
it less. Well, state did not get the
memo, I guess. And so that they that
keeps going up every year, which I think
it's probably excessive.
We are up year to date about $10,810
there. And then finally, you see the uh
video gaming tax. Slight increase there
year to date. Uh $2,46
over where we were a year ago. There any
questions? I'd be happy to take those.
>> Mr. Payman,
a while back, we voted to give the part
of the proceeds to the cannabis tax to
the DARE organization. Um, I've had a
lot of great comments about our our DARE
organization and and people telling me
that their children are are involved in
the things that Mrs. Fier does.
Obviously, the state of Illinois um saw
to it because she just won the award for
outstanding dare officer. Can you
explain or just add another one of your
many numbers in your overexed numbers of
numbers you give us? what what is uh
what did she receive last month from
>> I
>> her portion of the cannabis
>> I don't have that uh in front of me if
>> yeah it was a little over 700 but and it
has been consistently that but I don't
have the exact exact number for you if
you're talking about we take part of
that and put it in the fire fireman's
pension fund part of it in the police
pension fund and then part of what
remains in the general fund we've we've
put into the DARE program and and the
city clerk is correct. It's run right it
depending on how much we get in in any
given month uh runs right around $650 to
$750.
>> Did she get anything from the city
monthly before we voted that? So it's a
significant bump in our DARE program.
>> Yeah.
>> So
>> yeah,
>> congratulations to everybody that voted
for that. That's a money well spent.
Okay. Anything else, Mr. Conso?
>> No, that's all I have unless there's any
other questions.
>> Okay. Thank you. Next up is item 8B,
city clerk's report for June 2025. Miss
Baitman,
>> in the month of June, we received
$251,214.11
for sewer receipts, which um $26,71148
came from both prisons.
That's it.
>> Okay. Questions for Miss Baitman.
Okay. Thank you. Next is 8 C department
head reports for June 2025. Those are
either already on the city website or
will be shortly.
Okay. The next item is 9A, approval of
M&R reconciliation for fiscal year 2024
2025 for the wastewater treatment plant
from the sewer O andM fund in an amount
not to exceed 6,98452.
» Move to approve.
>> Second.
>> Alderman Sanders made the motion.
Alderwoman Mlen second. Discussion.
>> Roll call, please.
>> Miss Mcclullen.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Parrot.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Mr. DS.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Clemens.
>> Yes.
>> Mrs. Odonu.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Anderson.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Baitman.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. Sanders.
>> Yes.
» Next item is 9B. Approval of RAZ FBD
replacement for the operation of the
wastewater treatment plant from the
sewer on&m fund in an amount not to
exceed $55,100.
Motion.
>> Second. Alwoman Odon made the motion.
Alderman DS second. Discussion.
Roll call, please.
>> Mr. DS,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Clemens,
>> yes.
>> Mrs. Odonu,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Anderson,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Baitman,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Sanders,
>> yes.
>> Mrs. McClullen,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Perry,
>> yes.
Next up is item 9D, approval of donation
agreement between John and Darlene Rue
and the city of Lincoln for the donation
of John R's route 66 model train
exhibit.
>> Move to approve.
>> Second.
>> Alderman Sanders made the motion.
Alderman Parrot second. Discussion.
Roll call, please.
>> Mr. Parrot,
>> yes.
>> Mr. DS,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Clemens,
>> yes.
>> Mrs. Odon,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Anderson,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Baitman,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Sanders.
>> Yes.
>> Mr. McClullen.
>> Yes.
>> Next is 9E. Approval of master service
agreement for a compensation study
between MGT Impact Solutions LLC and the
city of Lincoln in an amount not to
exceed $11,470.
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> Alderman Parrot made the motion.
Alderwoman Mlullen second. Discussion.
» Roll call, please.
>> Mrs. Mlen.
>> Yes. Mr. Mr. Perro,
>> yes.
>> Mr. DS,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Clemens,
>> yes.
>> Mrs. Odon,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Anderson,
>> yes.
>> Baitman,
>> yes.
>> Mr. Sanders,
>> yes.
>> That brings us down to announcements.
Um, I would just like to
thank the third Friday committee for all
of their work this season. This past
Friday was our last third Friday. Um,
really great turnout. It looked like
everybody had fun. um you know, it just
went off well and and um can't say
enough good things about it. So, thank
you to the committee. It's a lot of hard
work to do that. Um even outside of the
event, we we we meet monthly. There's a
lot of work. Miss Baitman especially
does a lot for us. And um the committee,
those members are down there from like
4:00 all the way until 10 or so, 11:00.
And so it makes for a long day, but well
worth it. So I'm glad everybody enjoyed
it.
That's all I have. Um any other
announcements, Mr. Baitman?
>> So next week I'm going to put on the cow
uh for consideration a possible
modification to the street closure for
the downtown portion of the Bloons Over
66 festival. This festival is getting
extremely popular. Um, again, uh, the
fourth year coming out of COVID, we have
people that would like to be involved,
but we we just don't have the street
space to put them. Um, churches and and
other things. and I will bring forth a
try to do the best I can to bring forth
a um map showing where everything is
going because there's a lot of
suggestions
that are being tossed out there on on
things we could do differently. But
logistically,
I don't know how we could change it. Uh
those of you that are on the third
Friday committee understand part of that
with the electrical requirements and
such. Um we have people that need
certain kinds of electricity and people
that need water and and stuff, but um
the art fair is actually um grown ex
quite a bit this year um to the point
where they have used up all the space
that was uh given them and they have
asked um that they would like to not
shut off registrations.
if we can get a little extra street
space, they would like to still add
other art vendors. Um, and there's just
a couple other things that that
according to our committee uh would be very beneficial to the crowds
that's that's going to come down. And uh
I just want to explain again that this
is different from back in the past. Um
each group has their own committee and
we talk constantly and then once a month
representatives from each group meet and
discuss it as a festival as a whole. Um
even Chief Meister has attended one of
those meetings so we can try to work on
traffic and tr crowd control and stuff
to make sure everything goes smoothly.
So, I I hope uh you guys are open to our
suggestion next week and I will try to
make it as detailed as I possibly can
because we're coming up on 30 days and
um I think it's going to be one of the
biggest festivals ever this year.
Okay. Any other announcements this
evening?
There are no other announcements. I'll
entertain a motion to adjurnn. Motion to
adjurnn.
Alderman
DS made the motion. Alderman Clemens
second. All in favor say I. I.
>> All oppose. Same sign. This meeting is
adjourned at 6:41 p.m.