1 00:00:03,090 --> 00:00:31,330 Good evening, everyone. It is Tuesday, March 28, 2023. I'd like to call the meeting of the Peoria City Council to order. I'd also like to welcome everyone in our council chambers and everyone who's watching our City Council meeting on WCBU and the audience watching on cable channel 22. 2 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:34,900 Madam Clerk, the 3 00:00:39,340 --> 00:00:47,120 Councilmember Allen. Councilmember Sear. Councilmember Graham. Councilmember Jackson. 4 00:00:47,780 --> 00:00:56,000 Here. Councilmember Jensen. Councilmember Kelly. Here. Councilmember Euler. Councilmember 5 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:02,120 Rickenbach. Councilmember Ruck Riegel. Councilmember Vell Pula. Present. We have a 6 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,200 Corrin present Madam Mayor. 7 00:01:03,460 --> 00:01:04,540 Great, thank you Madam Clerk. 8 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,580 It is with great sadness that we observe 9 00:01:08,580 --> 00:01:11,980 the recent passing of Timothy J. Newland. 10 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,040 Tim replaced then Councilman Ryan Spain 11 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,040 for several months as an appointed member 12 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,680 of the Peoria City Council in 2017. 13 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:28,580 During that time, Tim served passionately and productively. 14 00:01:28,580 --> 00:01:36,360 Tim was an accomplished attorney, a loving husband, a dedicated father and grandfather, 15 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,300 and a devout man of faith. 16 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:47,820 He was also a great friend to many, yours truly included, and a very respected community 17 00:01:47,820 --> 00:01:48,900 volunteer. 18 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:57,000 As we take a moment of silence, I'd like for you to ask, I'd like for you to keep 19 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:03,060 Tim, his wife, Laurie and their family in your thoughts and prayers. 20 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,240 Tim Lulan, take your rest and thank you for your service. 21 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:21,100 Everyone, please join me in stand for a moment of silent prayer or silent reflection 22 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:23,040 followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. 23 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:12,800 I'm 24 00:03:15,460 --> 00:03:22,480 going to save a little bit of my voice and ask for a couple colleagues to help me 25 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:32,260 with the proclamations today, the first proclamation recognizes fair housing month, I'd like 26 00:03:32,260 --> 00:03:40,280 to ask Mrs. Cheryl Boswell, the vice chair of the housing commission to come forth and 27 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,820 for Councilman Sid Ruck-Riegel to share the proclamation. 28 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,560 Boswell, welcome. 29 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:51,680 Thank 30 00:03:57,830 --> 00:03:58,450 you Madam Mayor. 31 00:04:00,370 --> 00:04:05,470 Whereas the month of April has been designated as National Fair Housing Month by the United 32 00:04:05,470 --> 00:04:08,090 States Department of Housing and Urban Development. 33 00:04:09,030 --> 00:04:14,210 And whereas this year commemorates the 55th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing 34 00:04:14,210 --> 00:04:21,890 Act, the landmark civil rights law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968, 35 00:04:22,730 --> 00:04:25,450 making discrimination in housing transactions unlawful. 36 00:04:25,450 --> 00:04:55,050 and whereas the Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, identity, sexual orientation, disability, familial status, national origin, military discharge status, physical or mental disability, and sources of income in all aspects of real-estate transactions, including renting, policing, home sales, mortgage lending, insurance, advertising, 37 00:04:55,050 --> 00:04:58,810 practices such as restrictive covenants and new construction. 38 00:04:59,890 --> 00:05:04,470 And whereas ending housing discrimination and expanding equal access to housing promotes 39 00:05:04,470 --> 00:05:09,990 equity and fairness while contributing towards the economic stability and community health 40 00:05:09,990 --> 00:05:11,370 of Peoria, Illinois. 41 00:05:12,150 --> 00:05:17,630 And whereas our entire community benefits from diversity and integration, acts of housing 42 00:05:17,630 --> 00:05:27,470 discrimination and barriers to equal housing opportunities are unacceptable to a common sense of decency and fairness. 43 00:05:28,250 --> 00:05:37,710 Now, therefore, Rita Ali, Mayor of the City of Piori, Illinois, does hereby proclaim the month of April as National Fair Housing Month in Piori, Illinois. 44 00:05:37,710 --> 00:05:40,550 I dated this 28th day of March, 2023. 45 00:05:41,590 --> 00:05:42,470 Thank you, Mayor. 46 00:05:42,550 --> 00:05:42,930 Thank you. 47 00:05:49,330 --> 00:05:52,630 Merrily, City Council members, City staff. 48 00:05:53,310 --> 00:05:57,430 Thank you very much for recognizing the importance of Fair Housing Month and 49 00:05:57,430 --> 00:05:59,390 my issuing this confirmation. 50 00:06:00,230 --> 00:06:03,610 Again, my name is Cheryl Boswell and I'm Vice Chair of the Housing Commission. 51 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:06,390 And if there are any commission members or 52 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:10,520 say I'm on it. 53 00:06:13,420 --> 00:06:18,520 The Housing Commission changed its name in November 2021 to best reflect the overall housing 54 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:24,700 community and it's these with our discussions and recommendations to the city. Illinois is a 55 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:30,700 fortunate state and Peoria is fortunate to be a city to have so many walks of life protected 56 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:36,060 by its human rights and coordinates. April is the month when we reflect on the highlight 57 00:06:36,060 --> 00:06:41,260 National Fair Housing Month and this month we feel grateful for the Fair Housing Act that was 58 00:06:41,260 --> 00:06:43,520 passed in April 11th, 1968. 59 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,220 The law, as you stated, was designed 60 00:06:47,220 --> 00:06:49,480 to protect Americans from facing discrimination 61 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,160 in selling or buying housing. 62 00:06:52,060 --> 00:06:54,720 Fair housing is a basic human concept. 63 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,840 As a community, we have the right to be free 64 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:00,280 from any form of discrimination. 65 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,520 But the struggle for our community 66 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,720 and across the nation is ongoing outside of the month 67 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:06,200 of April. 68 00:07:07,020 --> 00:07:08,900 The housing commission will be releasing 69 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:14,040 and informational infographics and bulletins throughout the month of April via the City 70 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,600 social media, website, and our Housing Commission page. 71 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:22,980 We invite you to participate in raising awareness of the housing needs within our community. 72 00:07:23,700 --> 00:07:27,840 Again, on behalf of the Housing Commission, we thank you for the proclamation and the 73 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:28,200 reckoning. 74 00:07:28,780 --> 00:07:29,200 Thank you. 75 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:30,500 Thank you, Mrs. Boswell. 76 00:07:40,580 --> 00:07:47,720 Our next proclamation recognizes childhood abuse prevention month, and we have Stephanie 77 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:53,100 Johnny Johnson, the Director of Administrative Operations of the Pediatric Resource Center 78 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:59,920 and Child Abuse Pediatrics, as well as Jason Killian, the PCR Board President. 79 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:00,520 Welcome. 80 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,120 Is Jason also here? 81 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:04,720 Okay. 82 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:05,540 Okay. 83 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:06,660 All right. 84 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:07,300 Thank you. 85 00:08:07,540 --> 00:08:14,160 And I'm going to ask Councilman Andre Allen if he would please share the proclamation. 86 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:23,500 Thank you Madam Mayor, and as a former proud board member of the Pediatric Resource Center I think it's appropriate that I do read this proclamation so thank you for the opportunity. 87 00:08:24,220 --> 00:08:40,080 Whereas, child abuse is a complex community problem and finding solutions depend on involvement among people throughout the community and whereas the effects of child abuse are felt by all communities and therefore need to be addressed by the entire community. 88 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:48,660 And whereas effective child-previewed prevention programs you see because of partnerships created among the courts, 89 00:08:49,020 --> 00:08:57,260 social service agencies, schools, religious organizations, law enforcement agencies, and the business community and private citizens. 90 00:08:57,660 --> 00:09:05,460 And whereas awareness to support families of abuse is heightened in April by the Pediatric Resource Center, 91 00:09:05,460 --> 00:09:13,100 a prevention and medical services program offering positive alternatives to help break the cycle of abuse. 92 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:26,320 The Pediatric Resource Center is sponsoring the 11th annual Kick Abuse 5K Run and Fun Walk at Donovan Park on Saturday, April 15th, from 6.30 to 8.30 a.m. 93 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:33,360 And whereas we call upon all citizens to increase their participation in efforts to prevent child abuse, 94 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,600 thereby strengthening the communities in which we live. 95 00:09:37,260 --> 00:09:42,760 Now, therefore, Rida Ali, Mayor of City of Peoria, Illinois, 96 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:50,340 due by hereby recognized April, 2023, as Child Abuse Prevention Month and Peoria, Illinois, 97 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:56,080 day to this day, the 28th day of March 2023-AD. 98 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,120 Johnson, thank you very much. 99 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,260 I'm the Executive Director of the Pediatric Resource Center. 100 00:10:09,540 --> 00:10:12,880 That's a service program with the University of Illinois College of Medicine. 101 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:18,180 And we're in a unique position when we talk about child abuse prevention 102 00:10:18,180 --> 00:10:21,900 because actually our services are when prevention isn't possible. 103 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,380 We provide medical services to kids from the City of Peoria, 104 00:10:26,380 --> 00:10:28,720 but also 37 counties throughout Illinois. 105 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,520 We have a specialized team of or certified child abuse 106 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,100 pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and social workers 107 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:39,300 who provide outstanding medical services to kids 108 00:10:39,300 --> 00:10:40,760 who may have been abused or neglected. 109 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:44,520 We coordinate care with the Peory Police Department, 110 00:10:45,060 --> 00:10:46,740 Illinois Department of Children and Family Services 111 00:10:46,740 --> 00:10:48,520 and the Peory State's Attorney's Office 112 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,200 to help adjust us for these kids. 113 00:10:51,660 --> 00:10:53,660 Sometimes we're the only ones who are providing 114 00:10:53,660 --> 00:11:00,800 medical information about their complex injuries. We take child abuse prevention month very seriously 115 00:11:01,340 --> 00:11:06,200 and we coordinate with other organizations within the community and I would really like to 116 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:12,320 encourage you to look around in April for all of the different opportunities to highlight child 117 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:18,620 abuse prevention month. Awareness and prevention are possible and I really would encourage each one 118 00:11:18,620 --> 00:11:22,700 of the YouTube to look in our community for those opportunities. I always say 119 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:27,820 child abuse prevention April and always we'd love to work ourselves out of a 120 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:32,820 job too busy. Thank you. Ms. Johnson. Madam 121 00:11:40,730 --> 00:11:43,210 Clerk. We're at approval of the 122 00:11:43,210 --> 00:11:43,570 minutes. 123 00:11:47,570 --> 00:11:50,330 Thank you Madam Chairwoman. I moved to approve the minutes of the 124 00:11:50,330 --> 00:11:55,510 City Council meeting held on March 14th 2023 as printed. Seconded by Council 125 00:11:55,510 --> 00:11:57,470 Assemblymember Allen, any discussion? 126 00:11:58,590 --> 00:11:59,570 Please cash your ballots. 127 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,680 Motion passes unanimously, Madam Clerk. 128 00:12:06,700 --> 00:12:07,980 We are at the consent agenda. 129 00:12:09,540 --> 00:12:13,560 23-088 is a communication from the Mayor and Corporation Council 130 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:17,380 with requests to approve the Declaration of Local State of Emergency. 131 00:12:18,060 --> 00:12:23,660 23-089 is a communication from the City Manager and Director of Human Resources 132 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:36,820 with request to approve and authorize the execution of a contract with resource management associates in the amount of $39,075 to administer the Fire Battalion Chief Promotional Examination. 133 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:55,580 23-090 is a communication with request to approve a professional services agreement with roadway asset services LLC in the amount of $109,778 for the pavement condition index update. 134 00:12:55,580 --> 00:13:04,960 2023 project, 23-091 is a communication with request to approve an intergovernmental agreement 135 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,660 between the City of Peoria and the Greater Peoria Sanitary District and support of 136 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:16,820 Pringle Technologies for the Haven on the Farm Development, 23-092 is a communication 137 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:21,600 with request to approve an intergovernmental agreement between the City of Peoria and 138 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,080 as well County regarding the tri-county multi-jurisdictional 139 00:13:25,490 --> 00:13:26,880 guard rail improvement. 140 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,760 23-093 is a communication with requests to approve 141 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,120 an inter-governmental agreement with the East Peoria Fire 142 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,960 Department for Mechanical Services and Repair Work 143 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:39,240 on fire apparatus. 144 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:44,000 23-094 is a communication from the city manager 145 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,680 and director of community development 146 00:13:46,930 --> 00:13:49,160 with a request concur with recommendation 147 00:13:49,160 --> 00:14:03,800 from the Planning and Zoning Commission and staff, to adopt an ordinance approving a special use in a class R3, single family residential district, for a short term rental for the property located at 3218 North Isabel Avenue. 148 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:16,960 23-095 is a communication with a request to concur with the recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission and staff to adopt an ordinance approving a special use in a class. 149 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:26,760 C2 large-scale commercial district for an assisted living facility for the property located at 2020 West War Memorial Drive. 150 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:37,200 And 23-096 is an appointment by Mayor Lede to the Peoria Public Library Board of Trustees with a request to concur of Christopher Gandhi. 151 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:39,460 And that concludes our consent agenda. 152 00:14:39,980 --> 00:14:40,860 Thank you, Madam Clerk. 153 00:14:41,260 --> 00:14:43,360 Are there items to remove from consent? 154 00:14:43,860 --> 00:14:44,980 Council Member Ruckery-Gill? 155 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,200 Thank you, Madam Mayor. 23-091. 156 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,800 9-1. 9-1. Oh, same one. Okay. 157 00:15:07,090 --> 00:15:08,230 Council Member Sear. 158 00:15:11,110 --> 00:15:24,590 Can I just make a motion for the rest of them? I don't have any. I need to do that. I think there's still items. Okay. I'll come back. Thank you. I'll come back to you. Council Member Jensen. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Item 23-090. Are 159 00:15:32,430 --> 00:15:42,210 there other items to remove? Council Member Sear. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Moved to approve. The balance of the these projects. Seconded by Council Member Ruck-Revel. 160 00:15:42,210 --> 00:15:45,930 in the other discussion? Please cash your ballots. 161 00:15:48,780 --> 00:15:50,680 Motion passes unanimously. 162 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:58,080 Madam Clerk. 23-090 is a communication from the city manager and director of public 163 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:03,560 works with a request to approve a professional services agreement with roadway asset services 164 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:12,640 LLC in the amount of $109,778 for the pavement condition index update 2023 projects. 165 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:41,560 Councilmember Jensen? Thank you Madam Mayor. I have a couple questions about this. It's a very important program so I'm glad we're still utilizing it but my question is whether this is a new company that we're going to use and we've used in the past doesn't say that in the communication and there's no description of the other bitters and no comparison with them like there usually is in the memo. 166 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:49,540 Mr. Manager, thank you. I'll turn it over to Director Powers to answer these questions 167 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:50,140 for you. 168 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,980 I hate that I'm going to have to do the new guy thing here, but I was not here for 169 00:16:53,980 --> 00:16:56,700 the last either, so I'm going to have to defer and get back to you, Councillor. 170 00:16:56,860 --> 00:16:58,120 I do not know if it was there. 171 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,540 I couldn't, I couldn't quite hear you, sorry. 172 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,760 He needs to get back with an answer. 173 00:17:04,860 --> 00:17:08,460 Correct, I'm not sure. I'll actually send a text here shortly and have an answer. 174 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,200 I just don't know if it's the same vendor if we use last time or not. 175 00:17:12,580 --> 00:17:16,280 Because I'm curious why we're using a different vendor if we are. 176 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:21,340 I mean, maybe it's cheaper, but I thought we were satisfied with the prior one. 177 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:27,880 So I'm just curious, who else bid on this and if we are moving on to a different vendor why? 178 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,440 Well, it would have been via the competitive bidding process would be. 179 00:17:33,290 --> 00:17:38,170 Right, but we don't have an analysis of what factors each bid or had. 180 00:17:38,170 --> 00:17:40,750 There's none of that information contained in the memo. 181 00:17:41,270 --> 00:17:45,770 I understand and I will get back to the next meeting council. 182 00:17:45,910 --> 00:17:47,610 Sure, I'll make a motion to defer. 183 00:17:48,290 --> 00:17:51,050 Seconded by councilmember Euler, any other discussion? 184 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:55,940 Move to defer. 185 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:57,960 Please cash your ballots. 186 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,980 Motion passes unanimously. 187 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:04,520 Annemquart. 188 00:18:07,590 --> 00:18:12,830 23-091 is a communication from the City Manager and Director of Public Works with a request 189 00:18:12,830 --> 00:18:17,550 to approve an inter-governmental agreement between the City of Peoria and the Greater Peoria 190 00:18:17,550 --> 00:18:22,350 Sanitary District in support of Pringle Technologies for the Haven on the Farm Development. 191 00:18:23,210 --> 00:18:24,030 Member Recreagle? 192 00:18:24,410 --> 00:18:25,850 Thank you, Madam Mayor. 193 00:18:26,310 --> 00:18:30,570 Please let the record show that I'll be abstaining from this vote due to a conflict of interest. 194 00:18:31,070 --> 00:18:31,210 Okay. 195 00:18:31,870 --> 00:18:32,390 Thank you. 196 00:18:32,550 --> 00:18:33,650 Council Member Valpola? 197 00:18:34,570 --> 00:18:38,870 Madam Mayor, I need to abstain as I am involved with the Pringle Robotics. 198 00:18:39,330 --> 00:18:39,430 Okay. 199 00:18:39,750 --> 00:18:40,450 Thank you. 200 00:18:41,790 --> 00:18:43,070 Council Member Euler. 201 00:18:43,530 --> 00:18:44,450 Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. 202 00:18:44,530 --> 00:18:45,390 I move to approve. 203 00:18:45,910 --> 00:18:47,750 Seconded by Council Member Sear. 204 00:18:48,710 --> 00:18:49,550 Additional discussion. 205 00:18:49,870 --> 00:18:51,010 Council Member Jensen. 206 00:18:51,750 --> 00:18:52,690 Thank you, Madam Mayor. 207 00:18:54,650 --> 00:19:01,610 I'm just curious, it says that the expenditures will be funded from account 4013001. 208 00:19:03,370 --> 00:19:07,250 523655, but it doesn't say what the expenditure will be, what the cost is. 209 00:19:07,250 --> 00:19:10,330 The cost is going to be about $2.6 million. 210 00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:17,010 We do have $2 million of American Rescue Plan funds plus a $600,000 earmark from Senator 211 00:19:17,010 --> 00:19:19,290 Durbin that will be going to support this project. 212 00:19:19,670 --> 00:19:22,210 So we don't think there will be any city costs, is that right? 213 00:19:22,650 --> 00:19:22,810 No. 214 00:19:23,310 --> 00:19:23,550 Okay. 215 00:19:23,930 --> 00:19:24,390 Thank you. 216 00:19:25,110 --> 00:19:27,170 Do you have a motion? 217 00:19:27,650 --> 00:19:28,750 I think one was already made. 218 00:19:28,850 --> 00:19:29,990 No, it's already made, right? 219 00:19:30,650 --> 00:19:32,890 There was another question, is it gone? 220 00:19:34,570 --> 00:19:35,070 Okay. 221 00:19:35,070 --> 00:19:36,990 and we have a motion to approve on the floor. 222 00:19:37,230 --> 00:19:39,010 No more discussion, please cash your ballots. 223 00:19:43,020 --> 00:19:45,380 Motion passes with two abstentions. 224 00:19:45,660 --> 00:19:46,940 Ruck Riggle and Valpula. 225 00:19:49,220 --> 00:19:49,840 Amclerc? 226 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,200 We are at presentations. 227 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:56,620 23-097 is a presentation by members 228 00:19:56,620 --> 00:19:58,580 of the Greater Peoria Leadership Council 229 00:19:58,580 --> 00:20:00,820 regarding talent attraction strategy. 230 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:07,880 I would like to welcome Mr. Doug Oberhelman. 231 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:18,540 He's the chairman of the Gilmore Foundation Board of Directors, probably better known as the former CEO of Cannapillar. 232 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:27,320 We also have Laura Cullen in the President of the Gilmore Foundation and Miss C. Dykema, the principal of Samantha. 233 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,760 So thank you all for being here. Welcome. 234 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:38,620 Thank you Mayor Alley and good evening to you and all the City Council members believe 235 00:20:38,620 --> 00:20:44,660 or not I've lived in Peoria almost 50 years and I've only been in this room one other 236 00:20:44,660 --> 00:20:45,160 time. 237 00:20:45,180 --> 00:20:45,880 Oh my goodness. 238 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:51,820 I'm very happy to be here but I'm especially happy to be here in two roles tonight one 239 00:20:51,820 --> 00:20:56,740 as chairman of the Gilmore Foundation which I'll describe in a minute and the other one is 240 00:20:56,740 --> 00:21:00,600 the chairman of the Greater Peoria Leadership Council which the mayor talked about just a 241 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:08,040 a minute ago. You may not all know Gilmore Foundation or Bob Gilmore, who it's named after. 242 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:15,500 But Bob was one of my early mentors in my caterpillar career, started in the shops in East 243 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:20,740 Peoria, pulled himself up by the bootstraps, became president of the company in the 80s, 244 00:21:20,740 --> 00:21:26,580 which was a very tough time. And as you recall, got us through the influx of the great Japanese 245 00:21:26,580 --> 00:21:32,940 competition of Kamatsu when they first arrived here in the late 70s and early 80s. 246 00:21:33,060 --> 00:21:42,540 Bob was born in the North Valley, lifelong and loving person for Peoria, passed away 247 00:21:42,540 --> 00:21:50,240 a little over two years ago at just over a hundred years old, left a sizable endowment 248 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:56,020 to be used solely in the Peoria area, the Greater Peoria area. 249 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:04,120 So far, as chairman of that group, since it's in, since its formation, the Gilmore Foundation 250 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:12,140 has contributed a little over $12 million, strictly to Peoria causes, not to mention Greater 251 00:22:12,140 --> 00:22:18,500 Peoria, but strictly to Peoria, and I can tell you the corpus of that fund is, will bring 252 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:22,240 a lot more, many more multiples of that to us here in the Peoria area. 253 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:30,520 Bob was a World War II hero, 30 combat missions at a B-17 over the English Channel, and 254 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:36,320 he told stories that would shake you to your roots about how he felt in those days. 255 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:37,380 He was a great storyteller. 256 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,860 He survived all of that, signed up for five humanitarian missions, also known as the Berlin 257 00:22:43,860 --> 00:22:51,960 an airlift and talked about that at length. A true American and Peoria hero that was really 258 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:59,440 only interested in his legacy being to help Peoria and the greater Peoria region. And we 259 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:08,260 on the foundation are very happy to be a part of that and oversee that. Diane and I, 260 00:23:08,260 --> 00:23:11,820 Diane's more well-known in here by far than I ever was. 261 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:18,620 So I was happy to say that she delegated me to become before you tonight. 262 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:23,160 But we are also, she's a lifelong resident of Peoria. 263 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:30,100 I'm happy to say I am the only current, or the only caterpillar chairman in CEO to live here. 264 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,200 This is our only home. 265 00:23:32,860 --> 00:23:34,780 We do not have a winter residence. 266 00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:41,540 experience, we don't leave and we're so happy to be here and enjoy what's been a wonderful 267 00:23:41,540 --> 00:23:47,620 experience over my almost 50 years of in and out of Peoria during that period of time. 268 00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:57,000 So some of us thought as part of the business community in the last year or so that Peoria 269 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:04,100 needs to, we all need to punch more than we're punching our weight around the community. 270 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:11,840 and the region. We all know we have so many things to offer. We all know what 271 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,920 the geography is here. We all know the things that have gone on. We've all been 272 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,840 down on ourselves a little bit with the with the departure of Caterpillar, 273 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:28,320 the leadership of Caterpillar. And that's been six years already because I retired 274 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:33,520 six years ago Friday and that announcement was made in my last after I was CEO 275 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:38,360 before I retired which I did not appreciate I did not agree with and I told the 276 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:44,020 board accordingly that and made my feelings known but be that as it may we 277 00:24:44,020 --> 00:24:49,660 needed to move on we need to move on and we've sorted on us in the business 278 00:24:49,660 --> 00:24:56,580 community a malaise maybe in the in the community and we asked some 279 00:24:56,580 --> 00:24:59,460 mantle to do some research and you know what we found out that was one of the most 280 00:24:59,460 --> 00:25:05,720 interesting things was in comparing other communities on the internet, most of the negative 281 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,680 comments about Peoria were from Peoria residents. 282 00:25:12,010 --> 00:25:13,950 I don't know about you, but I and I go to 283 00:25:13,950 --> 00:25:18,910 Rochester, Minnesota often. You arrive there. The first thing you feel is how proud those 284 00:25:18,910 --> 00:25:23,790 people are and what they are in life is to help out the world. They are all on the same page 285 00:25:23,790 --> 00:25:30,190 about what they wanted to do. So the business community, and I'm going to say the proxy 286 00:25:30,190 --> 00:25:35,850 of the business community directly behind me and we've had an amazing group to come together 287 00:25:35,850 --> 00:25:42,290 to say what do we need to do as a business community to step up, make ourselves known, 288 00:25:42,470 --> 00:25:46,930 what we think we can do to help and make greater peoria a better place to be. 289 00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:51,150 I would point out a couple of things here that I think are very significant. 290 00:25:51,890 --> 00:25:58,550 Rick Swan is here from East Peoria representing Mayor John Kyle, who has been very helpful with us 291 00:25:58,550 --> 00:26:02,210 and recognizes that this has to be a regional issue. 292 00:26:02,370 --> 00:26:03,950 And if you draw a large regional boundary, 293 00:26:04,150 --> 00:26:06,170 you get to a million people pretty quickly. 294 00:26:06,770 --> 00:26:10,030 That's a lot different than the Peoria website 295 00:26:10,030 --> 00:26:13,890 that says we're 100,000 people, for example, 296 00:26:14,510 --> 00:26:15,210 among other things. 297 00:26:16,170 --> 00:26:22,970 We have both CEOs from OSF and UnityPoint on our team. 298 00:26:23,890 --> 00:26:26,510 And we've had them in the same room multiple times, 299 00:26:27,170 --> 00:26:32,990 all trying to get to one thing and that's unified our voices and how can we kind 300 00:26:32,990 --> 00:26:40,750 of talk to Peoria and all of you and others on things we can do what we can do to 301 00:26:40,750 --> 00:26:47,550 punch above our way and there's others here the educators are with us just 302 00:26:47,550 --> 00:26:52,330 everyone has really been helpful it's a I'm going to say the vast majority of 303 00:26:52,330 --> 00:26:55,290 private employment in the greater Peoria area, 304 00:26:55,890 --> 00:26:58,790 beacon insurance, East Peoria interests. 305 00:26:59,570 --> 00:27:02,010 So it's a regional aspect we've put together. 306 00:27:02,390 --> 00:27:04,190 And as we sat down and talked about 307 00:27:04,190 --> 00:27:06,490 what we think we really need to do, 308 00:27:06,950 --> 00:27:09,010 thank you for advancing that slide for me. 309 00:27:09,070 --> 00:27:10,190 I guess I've got to click right, 310 00:27:10,910 --> 00:27:12,550 but not a practice on that clicker. 311 00:27:12,650 --> 00:27:13,770 I used to do that for a living. 312 00:27:15,630 --> 00:27:17,970 But what we said that we wanted to do 313 00:27:17,970 --> 00:27:23,510 as we came together, we can concentrate it on three things. 314 00:27:25,230 --> 00:27:29,910 And these are shared by everyone, there's no question, but the number one thing this 315 00:27:29,910 --> 00:27:36,850 group is challenged with today is attracting and retaining talent. 316 00:27:38,130 --> 00:27:44,170 You probably all know, but there are thousands, thousands of white collar job openings in 317 00:27:44,170 --> 00:27:51,350 the Greater Peoria area today. Thousands. The hospitals alone have thousands. You 318 00:27:51,350 --> 00:27:56,270 talk to every one of our CEOs that are here that represent these businesses. They 319 00:27:56,270 --> 00:28:02,210 are challenged every day with attracting talent to come to Peoria. Once they 320 00:28:02,210 --> 00:28:07,650 get here it's a lot easier to keep them and they like it here as we all do. The 321 00:28:07,650 --> 00:28:11,210 second thing we found as we got into it was this thing I mentioned maybe a 322 00:28:11,210 --> 00:28:17,750 bit is our brand needs uplifted. It's a great place to be. 323 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:20,560 And the third 324 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,380 thing was a positive thing that I did mention is a positive puria campaign. So 325 00:28:25,380 --> 00:28:30,560 we all got together, we raised this group and others behind us, raised over a 326 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:36,600 million and a half dollars to this effort. If you'd back up one, Misty, and have 327 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:42,860 incorporated really what I would call the big five groups already involved in 328 00:28:42,860 --> 00:28:47,600 sharing some of these things and doing a lot of this already and they've been 329 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,880 very helpful with this and and are on board and going forward. So what I'm 330 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,480 going to do is turn this over to Missy to give you a little more teaser about the 331 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:04,080 things that we think we can do but the idea being is we think we can do better we've 332 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:14,760 We've got to act quickly, we're competing every day with, not with San Francisco, not with New York, but with Rockford, with Moly, with Champaign, with Bloomington, with Madison, with St. Louis. 333 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:22,700 That's our regional draw, and we've got great things to offer, my God, over Bloomington, Illinois, and others. 334 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:32,540 Let's sell it, and so what we put together with Samantha is a program that will unveil April 20th to the community, and all of you are invited. 335 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:40,020 And I think you'll see kind of what we're talking about to give our employers some help. 336 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:42,920 They can recruit for their company. 337 00:29:42,940 --> 00:29:44,920 They have a heck of a time recruiting for Peoria. 338 00:29:46,340 --> 00:29:48,340 So we can hopefully bridge that gap. 339 00:29:48,740 --> 00:29:53,360 So I'll let Misty talk about that a little bit and share some of those details and then 340 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:54,900 we'll have time for a few questions at the end. 341 00:29:57,870 --> 00:29:58,550 Hello everyone. 342 00:29:58,670 --> 00:29:59,450 My name is Misty Dyke. 343 00:29:59,450 --> 00:29:59,890 My one of the 344 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:28,360 So, we have different principles and owners of semantle. We're a marketing firm here in town. And as Doug mentioned, I've been honored to be at the center of this with all of these great business leaders really driving the future of puria. So what Doug didn't mention is that we have established the greater puria leadership council. You may hear us say GPLC. Many of the members of that group are here today. And the intent of that organization is really just to collaborate with all of the civic organizations that exist today and really lean in from the business community to provide those priorities. 345 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,080 that strategic guidance and that funding. 346 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,380 So it's been a great group to be a part of. 347 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,660 And as mentioned, our primary focus right now 348 00:30:36,660 --> 00:30:40,460 is bringing top level senior executive level talent 349 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:41,100 to the region. 350 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,500 As Doug mentioned, we did a lot of research. 351 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:45,600 We have upwards of 70 positions, 352 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,420 even with the handful of organizations 353 00:30:47,420 --> 00:30:48,720 that we've interviewed today. 354 00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:50,680 We hope more jump on board. 355 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,780 But there was a recognition by the business community 356 00:30:53,780 --> 00:30:56,100 that we have great jobs here, 357 00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:58,380 but we need help selling the power of peoria. 358 00:30:58,860 --> 00:31:01,420 So we're really looking at this as a full-scale initiative. 359 00:31:01,420 --> 00:31:03,140 We're calling Choose Greater Peoria. 360 00:31:03,780 --> 00:31:07,700 We are targeting C-suite and senior professional talent. 361 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,600 If you look at your slides, you can see 362 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,320 that we have some demographics there in terms of salary 363 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:13,940 and age range we're targeting. 364 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,900 But probably more importantly is the research we did 365 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:17,800 about their mindset. 366 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,400 They really want quality of life outside of work. 367 00:31:21,980 --> 00:31:24,900 And that really applies to sort of any generation, right? 368 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:27,540 and we think that we have a ton here in Pioria to offer. 369 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,200 The challenge is the HR leaders themselves are claiming 370 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,560 they can't do it on their own. 371 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,060 There's not enough funding with any individual organization 372 00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:37,740 or not enough resources, but if we all come together 373 00:31:37,740 --> 00:31:42,740 and helps all ship rise, we can really cut down the amount 374 00:31:42,740 --> 00:31:44,600 of time it takes to get that talent here, 375 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,520 the amount of costs that it takes, 376 00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:49,080 and really just sort of fill the pipeline more quickly. 377 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,760 And we believe if we can bring talent here, 378 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,140 we can bring business here. 379 00:31:53,140 --> 00:32:01,720 So we think this is the right place to start and I want to also acknowledge this wouldn't have happened without the efforts of the civic organizations kicking off GP 2030. 380 00:32:02,180 --> 00:32:07,100 We really sort of use that as a pilot and use that as fuel to drive this campaign forward. 381 00:32:07,740 --> 00:32:09,960 The campaign will launch in two phases. 382 00:32:10,220 --> 00:32:13,400 The first phase is what we're calling our live greater awareness campaign. 383 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,320 That will take place in May and through July. 384 00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:21,180 You're going to see a lot of really strong, powerful branding for choose greater Peoria. 385 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,740 And then that will transition into testimonial campaign later in the summer and into the fall. 386 00:32:26,980 --> 00:32:31,160 We're asking leaders in this community to step up and talk about their experience here, 387 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,920 or folks who have moved here to talk about how great that experience has been. 388 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,380 So we're going to be doing videos, we're going to be doing digital media. 389 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,400 We are building a Choose Greater Peoria website. 390 00:32:41,820 --> 00:32:45,440 We've actually sunset some of the websites that weren't functioning as well. 391 00:32:45,860 --> 00:32:49,460 And we've been working with the civic organizations to make sure that's a powerful handoff. 392 00:32:49,460 --> 00:32:53,080 We're also building a nurture campaign to make sure that anybody says that they want 393 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,520 information about Peoria we can keep in touch with them. 394 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:01,880 I'll end by noting that we're really working with HR leaders as our customer, we're providing 395 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,060 them all the tools they need if they get those candidates in the pipeline to communicate 396 00:33:06,060 --> 00:33:07,000 with them effectively. 397 00:33:07,060 --> 00:33:11,060 That will all be available on the website and hand it out on that April 20th date. 398 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,960 And finally, kind of a fun thing, as I mentioned, we're using a series of ambassadors to talk 399 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,480 about Peoria, so we're working right now to actively identify those individuals within 400 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,180 the key industries that we're targeting. 401 00:33:26,670 --> 00:33:27,870 How will we work together? 402 00:33:28,230 --> 00:33:30,090 We really want to underscore this piece. 403 00:33:30,390 --> 00:33:31,770 This is a collaborative effort. 404 00:33:32,050 --> 00:33:33,970 We have the business community collaborating. 405 00:33:34,210 --> 00:33:37,450 We have the civic organizations collaborating and we want to grow the tent. 406 00:33:37,610 --> 00:33:42,230 We want to have as many groups and individuals collaborating here because we need help and 407 00:33:42,230 --> 00:33:43,330 we need a unified front. 408 00:33:44,030 --> 00:33:49,190 We're building a movement here and there's a lot of positive energy behind that. 409 00:33:49,190 --> 00:33:51,030 So we're working with the Peoria area chamber. 410 00:33:51,650 --> 00:33:53,110 That's our main point of contact. 411 00:33:53,730 --> 00:33:55,770 They're helping us make this campaign visible 412 00:33:55,770 --> 00:33:58,350 with over 75 of their annual events. 413 00:33:59,210 --> 00:34:00,970 And they're helping us roll out with their members. 414 00:34:01,330 --> 00:34:03,830 So helping us encourage the adoption of the branding 415 00:34:04,190 --> 00:34:04,830 and message. 416 00:34:05,590 --> 00:34:07,230 Discover Peoria is also a partner. 417 00:34:07,850 --> 00:34:10,370 They're sharing regional content, video and photography. 418 00:34:10,990 --> 00:34:12,770 The EDC is a partner. 419 00:34:13,470 --> 00:34:16,150 And they're working with us on alignment with their jobs board 420 00:34:16,590 --> 00:34:17,950 and on industry clusters. 421 00:34:17,950 --> 00:34:19,150 holding 422 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:26,180 ourselves accountable, like to underscore this piece as well. We've taken 423 00:34:26,180 --> 00:34:30,140 strategy and direction from the business community and the number one thing 424 00:34:30,140 --> 00:34:34,500 that they have we've come up with together is we will hold ourselves accountable. 425 00:34:35,220 --> 00:34:40,380 We have GPLC oversight with regular reports and monthly meetings. We've 426 00:34:40,380 --> 00:34:45,060 developed a KPI scorecard tracking candidate leads and high-level business 427 00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:51,180 outcomes. We have a lead tracker which is a tool for HR professionals to report 428 00:34:51,180 --> 00:34:56,160 candidate status and finally we've built a model which incorporates a lead 429 00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,260 representative and that's an actual human being. That's a person that will live 430 00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:05,340 within semantle and with Gilmore and they'll help HR professionals to maintain 431 00:35:05,340 --> 00:35:09,560 the database and close the feedback loop. I'll give it to Misty to close. 432 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:12,900 So we'll 433 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:17,060 end just quickly summarizing the timeline. We are well underway in asset 434 00:35:17,060 --> 00:35:22,100 development. We are on target to launch our website May 1st. We are going to do a community event 435 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:28,340 on April 20th to make sure that the entire community regional stakeholders are aware, the media, 436 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,280 and everyone get really excited to know how they can get involved and do their part. 437 00:35:32,860 --> 00:35:36,720 And as I mentioned, the phase one will launch through the summer and we'll pick up with that 438 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:41,940 testimonial campaign in the fall. So thank you. We'll open it up for questions. 439 00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:49,300 Well thank you very much. I would like to add that this campaign started as a 440 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:55,900 conversation about six months ago and it's been taking a very aggressive 441 00:35:55,900 --> 00:36:01,760 approach and a very fast timeline so I'm just really pleased to see all the 442 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:07,820 development that has taken place since what was it September of last year and 443 00:36:07,820 --> 00:36:10,300 and have been pleased to be a part of this process. 444 00:36:10,740 --> 00:36:11,240 Thank you, Mayor. 445 00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:14,460 We would recognize that, but we're frustrated 446 00:36:14,460 --> 00:36:15,420 it's taking so long. 447 00:36:17,140 --> 00:36:18,960 We're used to doing things a little quicker, 448 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,900 but we've really worked on consensus 449 00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:24,800 to bring the community together to shape what we're doing 450 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,640 to make sure we've got buy-in from everyone. 451 00:36:27,860 --> 00:36:28,520 And I think we do. 452 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,620 We've really had great success with that. 453 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:31,560 Very happy about that. 454 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,160 I know that there are questions from around the council. 455 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:36,280 I'm just going to kick off with the first one 456 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,120 because I know that you're providing some training 457 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,940 for HR departments throughout the city 458 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:47,820 and even possibly with the city of Peoria, HR department. 459 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:49,420 How's that going? 460 00:36:52,730 --> 00:36:53,490 Thanks for asking. 461 00:36:53,570 --> 00:36:54,950 I just talked to Stacey and she said 462 00:36:54,950 --> 00:36:56,170 she had her meeting today actually. 463 00:36:56,430 --> 00:36:58,590 So we are reaching out almost on an individual basis 464 00:36:58,590 --> 00:37:00,270 for organizations that want to be involved 465 00:37:00,270 --> 00:37:02,070 and making sure that, as Laura mentioned, 466 00:37:02,210 --> 00:37:04,090 that reporting mechanism and that lead funnel 467 00:37:04,090 --> 00:37:06,390 actually works for each individual organization 468 00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:10,770 but also allows us a level of parallelism to report back and meet that ROI. 469 00:37:11,530 --> 00:37:15,230 So those conversations are underway, we will also be meeting with marketing folks 470 00:37:15,230 --> 00:37:19,630 and we want to be able to arm the CEO's to be able to launch this to their organizations 471 00:37:19,630 --> 00:37:23,530 and make sure that all employees who want to talk about the power of puria 472 00:37:23,530 --> 00:37:26,950 have what they need to tell their story in all their social spheres 473 00:37:26,950 --> 00:37:28,210 since we know that's important too. 474 00:37:28,590 --> 00:37:31,630 This campaign will not only reach executives but it will reach well beyond that 475 00:37:31,630 --> 00:37:32,630 so we're excited about it. 476 00:37:32,630 --> 00:37:40,570 Thank you. Council Member Jackson. Thank you Madam Mayor. Well first of all I'd just 477 00:37:40,570 --> 00:37:48,850 like to say thank you everyone for this wonderful presentation and I have to say as the lifelong 478 00:37:48,850 --> 00:37:58,310 peorian growing up I've always had a global mindset and didn't realize until just a few years 479 00:37:58,310 --> 00:38:01,010 ago that Peoria would continue to be my home. 480 00:38:01,010 --> 00:38:06,770 I'm excited that Doug Oberhelmon has chosen and his family to stay in this area. 481 00:38:07,310 --> 00:38:09,950 And we appreciate all of the hard work that you all are doing. 482 00:38:10,590 --> 00:38:15,830 And I'm happy, and I hope my colleagues around the horseshoe, I'm sure they're happy to be 483 00:38:15,830 --> 00:38:17,370 able to help in any way we can. 484 00:38:18,130 --> 00:38:25,890 My first question, as a lifelong Peoria, and as someone who left Peoria for 11 years and 485 00:38:25,890 --> 00:38:34,410 And decided to return, probably about 25 years ago when my mom got sick, I've always wondered 486 00:38:34,410 --> 00:38:41,150 about the lack of people who look like me in corporate positions in and around the city. 487 00:38:41,930 --> 00:38:44,090 And I've met some wonderful people. 488 00:38:44,350 --> 00:38:50,150 I have a diverse group of folks that I work with, but my question is, what are we going 489 00:38:50,150 --> 00:38:58,470 to do to have a real conversation and training around this whole issue of diversity and inclusion 490 00:38:58,470 --> 00:39:05,230 because we are still not where we should be in terms of full inclusion. 491 00:39:06,250 --> 00:39:07,570 Yeah, thank you, Denise. 492 00:39:07,810 --> 00:39:15,190 I can tell you that when I led caterpillar, this was high on our list and I will also tell 493 00:39:15,190 --> 00:39:22,750 you that the first time that rating came out that made Peoria that top one or two worse 494 00:39:22,750 --> 00:39:28,650 people or worse cities for African Americans, I was answering to the board in the next 495 00:39:28,650 --> 00:39:29,010 meeting. 496 00:39:31,030 --> 00:39:38,170 How can that be in Peoria, Illinois or anywhere else? And it's a very good question. 497 00:39:38,590 --> 00:39:44,730 And that is an image problem we have here that we've got to solve. Now our group, we are 498 00:39:45,810 --> 00:39:54,910 We have solicited just about every African American, we're looking at Hispanic restaurant 499 00:39:54,910 --> 00:40:02,750 community, which is large, but it's hard to find CEO's, frankly, to help with us. 500 00:40:03,230 --> 00:40:09,190 And we've worked on that, and mayor for first-feeding encourages us to do this very same thing. 501 00:40:09,530 --> 00:40:14,430 And we have some representation, we have, as you can see, a lot of female representation 502 00:40:14,430 --> 00:40:19,250 which we're proud of, but it is an issue for this commute in many others, but certainly for this one. 503 00:40:19,410 --> 00:40:24,110 But if we could get rid of that ranking, somehow it would help us immensely. 504 00:40:24,410 --> 00:40:30,050 And that might be beyond our scope of ability here, but I agree with you completely. 505 00:40:30,930 --> 00:40:31,350 Thank you. 506 00:40:31,790 --> 00:40:39,510 Just as a follow-up, and we don't have to have a show of hands that it would be interesting. 507 00:40:39,510 --> 00:40:50,330 I was challenged. I'm in a program. I since I left my communications profession. I've been substitute teaching and I am looking to become certified. 508 00:40:50,690 --> 00:40:57,430 But in class last week, my professor challenged us to a bias exam. 509 00:41:00,550 --> 00:41:22,050 I had never taken one, and as I sit here, listen to your comments, it's a question I had never taken one, but I would like to pose a question for everyone in the room how many of us have undergone such training, because a lot of times we have biases that we are not privy to. 510 00:41:22,050 --> 00:41:25,990 And while we say, oh, I'm not this or I'm not that, 511 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:31,130 but sometimes those subconscious biases have become ingrained 512 00:41:31,130 --> 00:41:33,290 into our thinking and our psyche. 513 00:41:33,630 --> 00:41:35,230 So, I had to challenge myself. 514 00:41:35,490 --> 00:41:37,710 And I would like to just throw that question out there 515 00:41:37,710 --> 00:41:42,670 for all of those CEOs and HR department heads 516 00:41:42,670 --> 00:41:47,070 and to do the same, because a lot of times we don't realize 517 00:41:47,070 --> 00:41:55,510 that we're that we're using those biases subconsciously so diversity training. 518 00:41:56,130 --> 00:42:02,070 This is the hottest topic in the nation right now that everyone is working on. 519 00:42:02,630 --> 00:42:06,370 Probably can't do enough and it starts at home, I think that's your point. 520 00:42:06,730 --> 00:42:07,030 Thank you. 521 00:42:07,290 --> 00:42:07,450 Yeah. 522 00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:08,290 Thank you Madam Mayor. 523 00:42:13,110 --> 00:42:14,550 Thank you Madam Mayor. 524 00:42:15,150 --> 00:42:17,630 Thank you for this great presentation and initiative. 525 00:42:17,630 --> 00:42:22,090 I think it's a good news for PORS, talent acquisition and retention. 526 00:42:22,990 --> 00:42:29,650 I really like the idea of attracting the talent, but I also have one suggestion. 527 00:42:32,030 --> 00:42:37,610 You know, I would like to request to consider, you know, making our own talent, growing our own talent. 528 00:42:38,330 --> 00:42:42,870 We are more focused on getting people to move to PORS. 529 00:42:42,870 --> 00:42:47,650 But what I was working was to how do we retain talent in the area. 530 00:42:48,570 --> 00:42:53,430 So that is one of the initiatives that, you know, a prototype, I have a couple of stakeholders 531 00:42:53,430 --> 00:43:00,190 in this room, Dr. Iyer and Dr. Bailey, we've been working on a prototype which is more 532 00:43:00,190 --> 00:43:04,730 to retain talent by creating a talent workforce in the medical community. 533 00:43:05,430 --> 00:43:10,530 But I believe that that could be taken to the next level in the manufacturing or any community, 534 00:43:10,530 --> 00:43:17,550 Any job force that you like, the suggestion that I wanted to make is to make sure that 535 00:43:17,550 --> 00:43:24,610 we don't miss our own people that wanted to stay in Peoria and besides bringing the 536 00:43:24,610 --> 00:43:25,330 talent to Peoria. 537 00:43:26,430 --> 00:43:27,270 Thank you. 538 00:43:27,810 --> 00:43:29,450 If I could make an editorial comment. 539 00:43:30,810 --> 00:43:38,710 We have one of the, I think, nearly unparalleled jewels in this community and that's Illinois Central 540 00:43:38,710 --> 00:43:45,010 College, that Diane and I have had personal knowledge with. 541 00:43:45,610 --> 00:43:48,810 We backed the Diesel Training Program over there for years. 542 00:43:49,030 --> 00:43:50,330 It's a hundred percent placement. 543 00:43:51,670 --> 00:43:59,130 And I've also learned as a part of this process, which I did not know, that the jewel we all 544 00:43:59,130 --> 00:44:03,070 talk so badly about is right under our noses and that's District 150. 545 00:44:04,190 --> 00:44:09,750 to hear Steve Standifer, the president of Bradley University, talk about his experience 546 00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:14,310 with his two daughters in District 150 will bring tears to your eyes. 547 00:44:16,620 --> 00:44:17,340 And we don't hear 548 00:44:17,340 --> 00:44:26,160 that part at all. And why is that I don't know? But we need to, that's part of the image 549 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:32,520 I think that we have to work on. And to have Steve talk about, to have Chris Riddles talk 550 00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:38,700 about it who moved here with children that absolutely loved 150 and some of the programs 551 00:44:38,700 --> 00:44:43,560 they have would 150 I'm sure has all kinds of problems but these are the things we 552 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:48,300 need to talk about. The bad things will get talked about. The good things need focus. 553 00:44:49,580 --> 00:44:54,560 So I couldn't agree more with you and I think over time if that could happen a lot of talent 554 00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,680 would stay here because there's like I say thousands of job openings today that we need 555 00:44:59,680 --> 00:44:59,940 to fill. 556 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,860 So, this group behind me needs to fill out others. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Allen. Thank you, Madam Mayor. This is just an excellent example of collaboration over competition. As we move forward to achieve this goal of talent acquisition and attraction for our region. When you look around the cities in America that are growing, they're doing this well, so we appreciate the investment that is happening here. As a board member of the Pure Area Chamber of Commerce, I witnessed the 557 00:45:29,860 --> 00:45:40,760 of this work as we launched the GP 2030 initiative about a year ago with the Chamber and the EDC and the CEO Council and various other community partners here in our area. 558 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,880 And I remember that sunny day in April, we were all at the Pure Riverfront Museum and it was a great day. 559 00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:52,400 The weather was beautiful, but we were humble and realistic because I believe the seed money we had at that time was $75,000. 560 00:45:52,820 --> 00:45:56,760 And we knew that that was going to be like throwing a rock in a notion and it wasn't going to do a lot. 561 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:02,400 And then there was some recent investment, the Chamber was able to leverage $500,000 per 562 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:06,320 leader, state representative Jahangor and Booth in the fall, and we were excited. 563 00:46:06,940 --> 00:46:08,960 But then we also knew that that wasn't sustainable. 564 00:46:09,660 --> 00:46:14,820 And now that we have the amazing Gilmore Foundation, part of this initiative, other business partners 565 00:46:14,820 --> 00:46:19,780 that have joined this initiative, this is amazing, this will take Peoria and the right step. 566 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,180 So no questions, but just comments of excitement. 567 00:46:24,940 --> 00:46:25,800 I'm like you. 568 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:31,520 I'm excited. I'm ready to get to work. I wish it didn't take as much, but sometimes a good thing takes a little while 569 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:40,060 So thank you all so much for your effort and we look forward to seeing what great talent comes to Peoria and then also to how we can retain talent as well 570 00:46:40,060 --> 00:46:46,080 Thank you. Our vision really is one of the Gilmore Foundation being the catalyst 571 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:51,100 with the business community and in the civic groups and 572 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:58,280 And I hope within a fairly short time disappear because it gets its own wings and takes off. 573 00:46:59,060 --> 00:47:02,660 And at that time we will know where we're where we want to be. 574 00:47:02,860 --> 00:47:08,440 So that's sort of the end game for Gilmore of the beginning maybe of the good things to come. 575 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:15,280 But this group behind me and our leadership council couldn't be more loud and more aggressive on this point. 576 00:47:17,380 --> 00:47:24,160 Councilmember Riggum-Bock? Thank you Madam Mayor and a big thank you to Doug 577 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:29,100 and Diane and Laura and Misty and all of all of the leaders here in this room 578 00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:34,700 this is so exciting to see and for so many of us who live here and raise our 579 00:47:34,700 --> 00:47:42,040 families here to see you locking arms in this common cause it's really really 580 00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:47,520 exciting to see and I love the thing great or live great or choose greater you 581 00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:52,600 know so there's a lot of synergy there that I think we can we can grab hold of 582 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:58,180 we talked a lot about economic development and to see this targeting the 583 00:47:58,180 --> 00:48:03,200 senior professionals in CC weeds I think is really the sweet spot that oftentimes 584 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:09,960 gets overlooked so I'm excited to see what's gonna happen on April 20th as this 585 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:16,600 gets unveiled and I would also say that I had the privilege of meeting Bob Gilmore about 586 00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:21,720 10 years ago when we were doing some work in the East Bluff, some homes, new homes we 587 00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:28,240 were building and he was a generous benefactor of that so I'm sure he's smiling as he's 588 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:28,360 looking. 589 00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:29,740 He was only about 90 then. 590 00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:40,180 So, and I see several Peoria Public School families represented, even in the gallery there 591 00:48:40,180 --> 00:48:44,440 whether we're talking about the Gulf of Rich, which is high school, Mr. Hammerton, or 592 00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:51,720 the jazz ensemble that my son's involved in, there's a lot of good things here, and we 593 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:58,120 help you write that list of those secrets of district 150 in Peoria Public Schools that 594 00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,740 but remarkable things really are happening there as well. 595 00:49:02,020 --> 00:49:05,400 So thanks again and we'll look forward to seeing 596 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,520 how this unfolds in the spring. 597 00:49:08,260 --> 00:49:09,180 Great, thank you, Tim. 598 00:49:10,780 --> 00:49:11,720 Councilmember Euler. 599 00:49:12,420 --> 00:49:13,620 Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. 600 00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:17,060 I don't have any questions, I want to say thank you. 601 00:49:17,780 --> 00:49:19,780 You and your team for doing something 602 00:49:19,780 --> 00:49:21,900 that's incredibly necessary and important 603 00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:24,200 for our community, you know, Doug, 604 00:49:24,380 --> 00:49:26,000 when you and I departed Caterpillar 605 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:33,460 about the same time over similar future visions of where our community needed to go and where the company was going. 606 00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:39,860 We've had a number of discussions about the vacuum that's been left in our community and the talent challenges and 607 00:49:39,860 --> 00:49:46,480 the vision challenges and the narrative challenges that we've tried to fight our way through the vacuum that's come since then. 608 00:49:46,980 --> 00:49:51,040 And I think this is exactly what we need to put us on a different direction. 609 00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:55,660 And I recall a conversation I had with former State Representative David Leach a couple 610 00:49:55,660 --> 00:50:00,840 years ago, and he was reminiscing about his time in Springfield and the differences between 611 00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:06,600 the community then and the community today, and he went through example after example 612 00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:11,560 of the CEOs in our community that were engaged in our community and all of the different things 613 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:15,880 that they were doing, and he was asking me where are they now and what are they doing now. 614 00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:43,500 Now, this is completely what we've been waiting for, it's what we need, it's what got me partially into public service is wanting to drive this community somewhere to see action happen, to see us grow our business community so that we can turn ourselves back into an economic engine, so thank you and your team for the millions of dollars that this is going to bring to our community in the long time commitment that the CEOs will give us in the future, thank you. 615 00:50:43,500 --> 00:50:48,860 Yeah, thank you Zad. I'm going to just take a minute if I may may or I'm coming a little bit more about catapillar 616 00:50:50,300 --> 00:50:55,540 On our committee is Henry Vickery who is probably the jewel 617 00:50:56,340 --> 00:51:01,120 Between us and and the company. I have good relations with my successor at 618 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:08,140 Catapillar, but Henry's the glue here that holds it together and he's been part parcel with us all the way through 619 00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:18,420 While caterpillar moved its headquarters twice in the last six years, there are still 12 620 00:51:18,420 --> 00:51:24,140 or 13,000 people in this community that do great things every day. 621 00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:34,660 And these are scientists, these are PhDs, these are lawyers, these are CPAs, foundry workers 622 00:51:34,660 --> 00:51:41,720 and maple to make it go on and on, but there's 12,000 families still employed here that have been 623 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:49,660 untouched by the move of the headquarters. And everywhere I go on every civic organization or 624 00:51:49,660 --> 00:51:56,340 charitable organization there are some great caterpillar people pulling their weight. And sometimes I 625 00:51:56,340 --> 00:52:04,120 think the baby got thrown out with the bathwater. The baby went to Chicago and then Texas and the 626 00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:09,160 The math water here is still rising so nicely with all the good talent that are still with 627 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,460 us doing great things with our charitable organization. 628 00:52:11,900 --> 00:52:18,600 So I want to recognize that I especially want to recognize Henry, who's obviously in 629 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:23,860 the first couple of years had a pretty rough goal putting his finger in all the holes in 630 00:52:23,860 --> 00:52:24,120 a die. 631 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:29,300 But he's been so great with us in representing caterpillar as you would expect a caterpillar 632 00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:30,300 executive to do. 633 00:52:31,140 --> 00:52:31,800 Thank you, Zach. 634 00:52:36,460 --> 00:52:44,160 Thank you, Madam Mayor, I just want to thank you Doug and it's just awesome to see all of you here and to have this report. 635 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:51,340 You know, I'm not a native purine but I moved here 28 years ago and I've loved being here. I love puria. 636 00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,800 Your focus on the quality of life issues is so important. 637 00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:59,600 I mean, moving here is a 25-year-old in my husband's from Michigan, not from here. 638 00:52:59,700 --> 00:53:04,380 We bought an old house on Mars Avenue that we never would have been able to afford, and 639 00:53:04,380 --> 00:53:05,180 we're still there. 640 00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:09,020 It's been an incredible place to raise our two sons. 641 00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:10,760 We were both busy lawyers. 642 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,180 I was on the city council, but I never missed a soccer game. 643 00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:20,360 I never missed a, you know, a scholastic bowl tournament or a violin concert, because you 644 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,980 We can do that in puria and work full time and be involved in the community. 645 00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:31,560 I think that it's so important to focus on that, and that's what people in their mid to late 20s, that's what they start to realize. 646 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:40,980 So I've always said maybe we should do a little campaign, come back to puria, to also all those kids, you know, that leave, go away to college, do some things. 647 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,600 But when they're ready to raise a family, this is the best place to do it. 648 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,760 So, it's good to hear that already enforced. 649 00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,620 I'll put another good word for pure public schools. 650 00:53:51,060 --> 00:53:53,940 Both our boys are graduates of Richwood's High School. 651 00:53:54,060 --> 00:53:55,880 The IB program is fantastic. 652 00:53:56,460 --> 00:54:00,300 And it's such an asset for Peoria, where the only down state, 653 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:05,860 I think city in Illinois, the only city outside of Chicago 654 00:54:05,860 --> 00:54:09,340 that has a program, an IB program in its high school. 655 00:54:09,820 --> 00:54:11,640 And when kids are applying to colleges, 656 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,920 It's very good for them to have been in an IV program. 657 00:54:15,260 --> 00:54:19,120 So my kids are thriving in college, and I thank Peoria Public Schools for that. 658 00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:24,860 And one other thing, don't forget the arts community, because that's thriving here. 659 00:54:25,500 --> 00:54:30,180 I see one of my neighbors here on Masa Avenue, and he knows we've had a lot of people just 660 00:54:30,180 --> 00:54:33,840 in the last three or four years move to our neighborhood that aren't from Peoria. 661 00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,100 They're artists, and they've heard that this is a good place. 662 00:54:37,100 --> 00:54:43,480 You can actually afford to live and be an artist and not do another job and it's a thriving community 663 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:49,260 And I'm just so excited that you guys are here to help push this forward. So thank you. Thank you 664 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:56,920 I know that Dr. Karat listens to all these council meetings so she's smiling here and all the good things about pure public schools 665 00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:01,000 And she's a part of this initiative as well council member 666 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:01,900 Recreagle 667 00:55:02,620 --> 00:55:05,040 Thank you Madam Mayor and 668 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,960 Doug, thank you for here in Diane's involvement. 669 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:09,980 Thank you to the Gilmore Foundation 670 00:55:09,980 --> 00:55:13,140 and thank you for the Greater Peoria Leadership Council 671 00:55:13,140 --> 00:55:14,400 on bringing this all together. 672 00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,140 A couple of things that you said really stuck out. 673 00:55:18,300 --> 00:55:19,620 One thing I've spent a lot of time in Rochester 674 00:55:20,220 --> 00:55:22,460 and I know that feeling you're talking about. 675 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,760 They all, whether it be the person 676 00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,140 who is running the Uber cab, 677 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,140 to the person at the restaurant or the hotel or the hospital, 678 00:55:31,540 --> 00:55:33,980 they are all know that they're part of a system to welcome you. 679 00:55:33,980 --> 00:55:36,920 same things that happens in Charlotte, North Carolina. 680 00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:38,500 It seems like every time you're there, 681 00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:39,800 you're feeling that same feel. 682 00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,240 And we have just as great of things 683 00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:43,600 to be able to tell about here. 684 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:45,860 Recently talking to somebody 685 00:55:46,540 --> 00:55:47,920 over the past couple of months 686 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:49,700 about why their business should be here 687 00:55:50,620 --> 00:55:52,860 versus where they were looking at, 688 00:55:53,340 --> 00:55:55,720 we could talk a lot about the numbers 689 00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:57,760 because we know the housing prices are better here. 690 00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,220 We know that there are so many things 691 00:56:01,220 --> 00:56:02,360 that we could put on a piece of paper. 692 00:56:03,100 --> 00:56:06,520 And then when we started talking about the feeling of what it is a pure, what 693 00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:10,920 peoria can offer, that I think is what really could seal the deal and he felt 694 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:16,700 that as well. One of the things that Peoria gives, and you know this, your family 695 00:56:16,700 --> 00:56:22,660 knows this, is that in a town like Peoria, in a community like Peoria, and that 696 00:56:22,660 --> 00:56:29,140 whether it be the city or the region, whether you are from here or whether you 697 00:56:29,140 --> 00:56:33,860 move here, you can actually find a place to be able to make a difference and to be able to 698 00:56:33,860 --> 00:56:39,800 call this home very, very quickly. And that is something that I would challenge any other community 699 00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:46,600 to be able to find that welcome that you can actually feel a part of the fabric. So around 700 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:50,880 council, you've got some people who grew up here, some people who haven't, and yet each and every 701 00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:56,020 person is a peorian. I've got a hundred questions, but most of them are just because I'm so excited 702 00:56:56,020 --> 00:57:00,620 about what I'm hearing and I'm going to wait until April 20th for that, but one of the 703 00:57:00,620 --> 00:57:04,940 things that I really like about what is being presented here, what will be fully presented 704 00:57:04,940 --> 00:57:12,120 to the community on April 20th, used to be where if you got a job, that was what kept you 705 00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:12,720 in a community. 706 00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,220 And now people have choices. 707 00:57:16,260 --> 00:57:22,740 And just like we're attracting to here, people have a choice once they're here whether they 708 00:57:22,740 --> 00:57:28,280 keep that job, whether they'll talk to their friends who may be in other areas, or for 709 00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,920 those that are growing up here who have the opportunity for a job here somewhere else 710 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:33,860 to be able to decide to stay here. 711 00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:40,280 And everything that I'm hearing that you're pulling together, all of our advocates that 712 00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:45,780 are going to be out there talking about why they choose Peoria, all lend for those people 713 00:57:45,780 --> 00:57:48,400 to be able to decide to make this their home. 714 00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:49,660 And I think that's fantastic. 715 00:57:49,660 --> 00:57:54,020 look forward to seeing great progress on this. Congratulations to each and every person involved. 716 00:57:54,880 --> 00:58:00,100 Thank you. Councilmember Kelly. Thank you, Madam Mayor. 717 00:58:01,340 --> 00:58:12,540 And thank all of you. I am very, very excited about this initiative, especially about the innovation, 718 00:58:12,540 --> 00:58:17,920 the creativity of the ideas coming forth. 719 00:58:18,620 --> 00:58:25,000 We have often, I think, looked a little bit like many other in our marketing, 720 00:58:25,940 --> 00:58:30,800 like many other smaller to mid-sized cities. 721 00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:35,360 I think this initiative stands out. 722 00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,100 This is such a great community. 723 00:58:38,100 --> 00:58:47,180 I spent my entire career working for companies whose headquarters were in New York, and of 724 00:58:47,180 --> 00:58:49,500 course we'd have people come out every now and then. 725 00:58:49,780 --> 00:58:54,800 And they always knew that they were coming to someplace like Youngstown, Ohio. 726 00:58:55,540 --> 00:59:05,060 They knew they were coming to Smokestack City, and they were universally amazed at what 727 00:59:05,060 --> 00:59:13,660 this city had and just just rather naturally and we're we're all very used to it we're you know but 728 00:59:13,660 --> 00:59:22,100 they they were just they were just amazed and I've never forgotten it we can always do better 729 00:59:22,100 --> 00:59:28,620 of course but I am I'm just thrilled with the direction we're going I'm thrilled with the 730 00:59:28,620 --> 00:59:34,680 leadership, I think great things are going to come out of this and thank you very much. 731 00:59:35,300 --> 00:59:41,300 Thank you. Well, this, this team behind me is just first rate in and together. And as I 732 00:59:41,300 --> 00:59:46,560 often said, if we can get this group and this group and the other million people around 733 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:51,580 is pulling on the rope at the same time, imagine what happens. And that's the challenge we 734 00:59:51,580 --> 00:59:57,020 have and if we pull that off and get 80% of them pulling, we'll feel pretty good about 735 00:59:59,530 --> 00:59:59,970 Counts a minute. 736 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,460 Thank 737 01:00:03,570 --> 01:00:22,270 you very much for the presentation. I think that the city of Peria is already in a renaissance. And I think we are so close to the trees that we can't see the forest. One of my heroes is Steve Spain. 738 01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:33,880 He has done so much to recruit members of the creative class professionals here to this community. 739 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:41,900 community. He's been, yes, I'll use the term, not pejoratively, a cheerleader. And I 740 01:00:41,900 --> 01:00:47,420 remember when I got here in 1995 and sat over there where Denny Sirius and Dave 741 01:00:47,420 --> 01:00:53,520 Kailer was on my right. We had a mayor. His name was Jim Maloof. You will remember 742 01:00:53,520 --> 01:01:01,300 him, Diane. That's for sure. And many of you in the chamber. And being a new candidate 743 01:01:01,300 --> 01:01:07,660 it for office. Sometimes I thought, well, maybe Jim Maloof is going overboard with this 744 01:01:07,660 --> 01:01:16,140 cheerleader role. He's cheerleading for Peoria all the time. And I can remember nights when 745 01:01:16,140 --> 01:01:21,940 people would be providing negative critiques in some cases they were deserved, but he would 746 01:01:21,940 --> 01:01:29,120 have it as fingertips. All the great park programs we have, school program, and he'd go right 747 01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:35,960 down the line and he'd have it right there. We're ready to go. And through time, I 748 01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:43,820 developed such a respect for him. And this manager, this city manager knows that there's 749 01:01:43,820 --> 01:01:50,120 a whole lot going on right now, but we need to tell the story. It's to the point where 750 01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:57,340 I'm somewhat overwhelmed with the redistricting to be able to tell the story of all the things 751 01:01:57,340 --> 01:02:04,220 that are happening just in the part of District 2 that's downtown to where I ask City Manager 752 01:02:04,220 --> 01:02:10,020 Yuri, hey, will you help me? Because I got a list here that's a mile long and he's 753 01:02:10,020 --> 01:02:18,140 filling in other things. So we are in a rebirth. We are in a renaissance. Our best days are 754 01:02:18,140 --> 01:02:23,180 ahead. Puray will never look like it did when Eisenhower was present, when I was a little 755 01:02:23,180 --> 01:02:29,040 kids shopping at block and calls. That's now the OSF Ministry headquarters. That's not bad. 756 01:02:29,460 --> 01:02:36,340 We're changing. We're changing as a community. And what were we talking about in the mid 90s? 757 01:02:36,900 --> 01:02:40,580 Well, we were worried. We were nervous about our dependence on heavy manufacturing. 758 01:02:41,700 --> 01:02:50,900 And so we set about the business of diversifying as much as we could without discounting the importance 759 01:02:50,900 --> 01:02:55,660 of heavy manufacturing or manufacturing in general, to diversify this economy, 760 01:02:56,160 --> 01:03:02,160 professional, technical, health care, just a stone stroke from where we are right now, 761 01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:05,360 over $3 billion is spent just by our hospitals. 762 01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:09,820 We have a cancer center that's going to have the proton beam that's going to increase 763 01:03:09,820 --> 01:03:16,020 cure rates for cancer. Peoria is moving forward, but we've got to get the message to 764 01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:25,600 everybody out there. Now when I go out into my district as I listen and believe me, I do listen. 765 01:03:27,380 --> 01:03:32,140 Basically everybody's happy with where they live and they're thrilled with the fact that for 766 01:03:32,140 --> 01:03:39,360 the first time merely we actually have some money to do some things to rebuild this terrible 767 01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:45,640 infrastructure that you and I dug up talked about when you go to other countries kind of disgraceful 768 01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:49,180 the way some of our airports are and some of the infrastructure in this country. 769 01:03:49,700 --> 01:03:52,320 And we're beginning to reinvest in this country. 770 01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:54,240 Drs. 771 01:03:54,620 --> 01:03:56,360 Absolutely nothing wrong with construction cones. 772 01:03:56,540 --> 01:03:57,280 Let me tell you that. 773 01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:01,340 That's right. 774 01:04:01,500 --> 01:04:07,540 And we actually have money to hopefully rebuild our control tower out at the Greater 775 01:04:07,540 --> 01:04:08,540 Curie International Airport. 776 01:04:08,820 --> 01:04:14,400 There are so many different things but we've got to tell the story and that's why your presentation 777 01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:19,720 night is so crucial, and so pivotal toward our future progress. 778 01:04:19,980 --> 01:04:20,820 Thank you very much. 779 01:04:21,700 --> 01:04:26,020 Thank you, and lastly, we have council members here. 780 01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:28,840 Thank you Madam Mayor, Mr. Manager. 781 01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:33,040 Now that I know that Chuck's used to sit here, I need a new chair, but next meeting please. 782 01:04:34,260 --> 01:04:38,020 I thought this one was kind of full air, I'm just teasing you, just teasing you Chuck. 783 01:04:39,500 --> 01:04:42,120 Doug and Diane, thank you very much for being here tonight and 784 01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:49,460 Thank you for I got to recognize some of my friends over there from PNC Bank and the Venocans and in Henry and and the hospital 785 01:04:49,460 --> 01:04:53,760 Thank you very much for being part of this great team. We need you guys very much 786 01:04:54,280 --> 01:05:00,080 Just one question for Doug or Misty about some of the partners we have right here 787 01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:01,960 And maybe I'm missing it in the presentation 788 01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,800 It would will the Peoria area of missing 789 01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:11,900 Convention Bureau and civics and would be part of this partnership to talk about the quality of life and people 790 01:05:11,900 --> 01:05:12,860 Who is the first one, Dennis? 791 01:05:13,220 --> 01:05:14,900 The PACVB Convention Bureau. 792 01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:16,920 Oh, yeah, I'll definitely, I missed you. 793 01:05:21,020 --> 01:05:22,240 The part of it, we haven't talked 794 01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:23,360 to the Civic Center directly, 795 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:26,000 but we are opening up conversations 796 01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,280 to stakeholders all around the region. 797 01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:30,240 We're talking to the Morton Chamber of Commerce, 798 01:05:31,180 --> 01:05:32,720 East Peoria, Pekin. 799 01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:36,340 So absolutely, we'll put the Civic Center front and center 800 01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:37,800 that we are working with. 801 01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:38,640 And the Convention Bureau, okay. 802 01:05:39,140 --> 01:05:40,620 Thank you very much, answering this question. 803 01:05:40,780 --> 01:05:43,420 And again, I know you're all very, very busy. 804 01:05:43,580 --> 01:05:45,340 Thank you very much, taking some of your time 805 01:05:45,340 --> 01:05:51,140 to come and talk to us tonight. This is great. Obviously, we're all very, very exciting and looking 806 01:05:51,140 --> 01:05:57,800 forward to the debut in June. Thank you very much. Thank you. The Greater Peoria Leadership Council 807 01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:04,900 recognizes that our people are our greatest assets and we need more. We need to track more. We need 808 01:06:04,900 --> 01:06:10,260 to retain more, but we can do anything through collaboration and that's what we have right here. 809 01:06:10,260 --> 01:06:14,460 a strong collaboration and a growing collaboration. We thank you for your 810 01:06:14,460 --> 01:06:20,720 presentation, very well received. You said it's been your second time in council 811 01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:27,260 chambers, so Doug we're going to invite you to come back for third time. Maybe 812 01:06:27,260 --> 01:06:32,360 give us an update in a few months how things are going. That would be 813 01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:39,600 wonderful. Just kind of on that point Madam Mayor collaboration it's really 814 01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:45,000 going to take that it's going to take the help of everyone in this room and many other 815 01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:52,340 rooms around the region to really make this go. I bench park off Rochester, Minnesota and 816 01:06:52,340 --> 01:06:59,000 that community up there has it together in terms of how they welcome people and the strategy 817 01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:03,680 they use for the community. We've got to get there because others around us are doing it 818 01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:08,860 every day but we need everybody and it's all hands on deck for that so we really appreciate 819 01:07:08,860 --> 01:07:15,080 the time here and the reception that we've received and we'll need you're all 820 01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,480 help as well. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you very much. 821 01:07:25,620 --> 01:07:27,060 We are going to ask for a 822 01:07:27,060 --> 01:07:32,840 motion to receive in file but because it's rare that we get so many CEOs in our 823 01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:38,300 council chambers for a meeting like this if if you have time I think our next 824 01:07:38,300 --> 01:07:42,900 presentation is scheduled for 20 or 30 minutes. If you have time the next 825 01:07:42,900 --> 01:07:48,820 This presentation is equally as important in terms of talking about racial justice and equity. 826 01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:51,080 Our commission will make a presentation. 827 01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:55,880 If you're able to stay, we invite you to stay and to hear part of that presentation. 828 01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:56,800 Thank you. 829 01:07:58,700 --> 01:08:06,140 Move to receiving file by Councilmember Rick Ruckrigle, seconded by Councilmember Jensen. 830 01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:07,140 Did you have your hand up? 831 01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:08,320 Councilmember Jensen. 832 01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:09,020 Any discussion? 833 01:08:09,780 --> 01:08:10,640 Please cast your balance. 834 01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:10,840 It's 835 01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,740 motion passes unanimously. 836 01:08:19,890 --> 01:08:29,290 Our next presentation is a presentation of the racial justice and equity annual report. 837 01:08:29,710 --> 01:08:37,470 It is presented by the co-chairs of that commission, Mr. Tim Birchie and Mrs. Mary Peterson. 838 01:08:38,230 --> 01:08:42,250 This is a biggest commission that we've ever had. 839 01:08:42,250 --> 01:08:50,550 And it's a joint commission with Peoria County that was established now about year a little 840 01:08:50,550 --> 01:08:55,170 bit over a year, a little bit over a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago. 841 01:08:58,020 --> 01:08:58,400 All yours. 842 01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:03,360 Good evening. 843 01:09:03,580 --> 01:09:03,980 Thank you. 844 01:09:04,380 --> 01:09:05,040 And thank you. 845 01:09:07,100 --> 01:09:12,120 It's well in what we're talking about here this evening and making Peoria and the county 846 01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:17,280 of Peoria be the best place that we can be for all citizens, all residents. 847 01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:23,660 my name is Mary Peterson I am the co-chair of the Joint Commission on Racial 848 01:09:23,660 --> 01:09:30,420 Justice and Equity with me here Tim Berger who's the other co-chair and we thank 849 01:09:30,420 --> 01:09:34,260 you for this opportunity this evening to speak with you about the Joint 850 01:09:34,260 --> 01:09:42,080 Commission on Racial Justice and Equity in our report out of our findings. As Mayor 851 01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:48,500 said about a year and a half ago, you, the city council, along with the county board came 852 01:09:48,500 --> 01:09:55,420 together and approved this commission to look at the mission was to accelerate efforts 853 01:09:55,660 --> 01:10:01,000 to institutionalize racial justice and equity within the county and the city government. 854 01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:11,300 Equity, equity was defined as in the charter as fair and just opportunities and outcomes 855 01:10:11,300 --> 01:10:20,100 for all people. We took that mission, it presented a challenge to us, question was whether 856 01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:28,620 today's racial disparity and that it impacts the justice and equity in our community. 857 01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:37,240 Does it impact our community? We began our work and we asked the question again, are the 858 01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:41,040 material disparities between the races and our community. 859 01:10:41,460 --> 01:10:42,880 If so, how large? 860 01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:46,480 Can we find data that supports this? 861 01:10:46,980 --> 01:10:50,040 And not just antidotes, but hard facts, data. 862 01:10:50,900 --> 01:10:51,300 And we did. 863 01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,520 And we will talk about that this evening. 864 01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:56,000 What we found is also in the report 865 01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:59,240 that you have that you should receive in your packet. 866 01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:01,920 We're just going to highlight a few things this evening. 867 01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:02,920 You have this. 868 01:11:03,820 --> 01:11:05,960 And so we'll give you, after you highlight 869 01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:07,300 we can give you an opportunity to. 870 01:11:10,180 --> 01:11:14,380 We did find that there are many disparities in our community. 871 01:11:15,020 --> 01:11:20,440 There is no exception in the various areas that we looked into that there is significance 872 01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:30,120 disparities between white people and people of color. Every area that we examine shows that there is 873 01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:35,680 large gap in terms of the races in our communities. 874 01:11:39,670 --> 01:11:42,650 Differences are substantial and like cultural. 875 01:11:44,010 --> 01:11:48,910 Tim, would you walk us through our next stages of our report? 876 01:12:00,100 --> 01:12:00,740 Good evening. 877 01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:05,360 So as we went about our work, that you assigned us 878 01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:07,200 through the charter of the commission. 879 01:12:08,140 --> 01:12:09,480 One of the first questions we addressed 880 01:12:09,480 --> 01:12:12,420 was, how are we going to address all of the issues, 881 01:12:12,420 --> 01:12:14,540 which you've challenged us with. 882 01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:17,640 And we adopted a four-stage work plan, 883 01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,220 and we're here tonight to talk to you about present to you 884 01:12:20,220 --> 01:12:22,380 the results of the first stage of our work plan. 885 01:12:22,900 --> 01:12:24,920 That four-stage work plan is essentially this, 886 01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:26,860 and it's really for anyone who's in business, 887 01:12:26,860 --> 01:12:29,080 it's a very common sense approach 888 01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:30,040 that we all think in business. 889 01:12:30,660 --> 01:12:34,060 Number one, to create a baseline of where we stand 890 01:12:34,060 --> 01:12:36,520 as a community in respect to racial disparity. 891 01:12:36,900 --> 01:12:37,580 Does it exist? 892 01:12:38,340 --> 01:12:39,260 How does it exist? 893 01:12:39,260 --> 01:12:41,980 and into what extent does it exist. 894 01:12:43,180 --> 01:12:46,040 And in fact, some of you challenged us in a recent meeting to say, 895 01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:47,920 is there really disparity in this community? 896 01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:52,380 Tell us about that disparity, and this report addresses that. 897 01:12:53,340 --> 01:12:58,080 Item two, phase two, is to develop strategic plans that address areas of 898 01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,880 material disparity in races in our community. 899 01:13:02,020 --> 01:13:07,040 The third phase is to create implementation plans around those strategic plans. 900 01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:12,800 and then fourth of course is to implement those implementation plans and to 901 01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:18,280 monitor their success and to refine them as might be necessary. So we haven't 902 01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:22,740 set a time frame for each of these. The first phase took us about a year and a 903 01:13:22,740 --> 01:13:28,600 half. Our goal is to address the strategic plans. We're here again tonight to talk 904 01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:35,480 about this first phase, the creation of the baseline. Now it would be easy for us to 905 01:13:35,480 --> 01:13:41,400 go out and take anecdotes from the community about this or that. And those anecdotes are 906 01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:46,960 important because they reflect life experiences. But by the same token, we were told repeatedly 907 01:13:47,440 --> 01:13:52,040 by some of the people in this room, by people nationally who have been involved in this process 908 01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:58,320 in the past. And by those who are involved with grantmaking, should we go down that run, 909 01:13:59,060 --> 01:14:07,820 data that data is essential, reliable trust-worthy data is essential to showing our case and improving 910 01:14:07,820 --> 01:14:11,680 the situation that we're in and showing the progress in fact as being made. 911 01:14:12,740 --> 01:14:17,380 And then one after, then one can after that's done, supplement that with the life experience 912 01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:18,820 information. 913 01:14:20,300 --> 01:14:26,220 And then add to that the experience of other communities, what are the best practices for 914 01:14:26,220 --> 01:14:29,220 of those other communities that have adopted similar plans 915 01:14:29,220 --> 01:14:29,700 to ours. 916 01:14:30,440 --> 01:14:32,580 And there are many communities that have done that. 917 01:14:32,740 --> 01:14:35,520 Perhaps most noteworthy is Seattle King County, 918 01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:41,720 which I think is thought as the leader in developing 919 01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:42,940 racial equity plans. 920 01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:46,880 Now, Seattle's not the only community. 921 01:14:47,060 --> 01:14:48,560 There are other large communities that do this. 922 01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:51,500 Washington, DC, St. Louis, et cetera. 923 01:14:51,940 --> 01:14:53,660 But there are communities as small as say 924 01:14:53,660 --> 01:14:55,760 to Bugaiwa that do this as well. 925 01:14:56,660 --> 01:14:59,920 So one of our goals in this second phase is to take the experience. 926 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:28,020 There is the best practices of other communities and meld them to the other information that we have. Now, back to phase one, which again is in our report tonight. The baseline is a compilation of data that we have obtained. One might say, well, is that data reliable and trustworthy? And here are the sources of our data. And they're all foot noted at the end of our report. The U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois State Board of Education, 927 01:15:28,020 --> 01:15:34,360 the USEPA, Puria City and County Police Records and the Puria County Health Department. 928 01:15:34,860 --> 01:15:40,060 Those who are our primary data sources, the reliable sources that you can rely upon as 929 01:15:40,060 --> 01:15:40,980 you read this report. 930 01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:47,840 Now you'll see that in a number of cases, we do not have data for the Hispanic and Latin 931 01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:49,960 X population of our community. 932 01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:54,760 And if you don't see that, it's not because we didn't include that data. 933 01:15:55,440 --> 01:16:02,000 Sadly, in many cases, data for this VANA community is simply not available, where it is available, 934 01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:02,920 it is in the report. 935 01:16:03,540 --> 01:16:08,180 In fact, I think we were quite surprised as we went through the available data that there 936 01:16:08,180 --> 01:16:13,780 was a lack of information about some of our distinct populations in this community as one 937 01:16:13,780 --> 01:16:17,200 of those issues I think that we'll need to deal with as we go forward. 938 01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:24,300 Now our commission itself is divided into nine groups and each of those nine groups was responsible 939 01:16:24,300 --> 01:16:31,020 For obtaining the data you're going to see this evening or that you've already read hopefully and the reports are provided to you. 940 01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:36,560 Mary's going to talk about the steering committee and the eight subcommittees and begin to walk us through the data. 941 01:16:39,780 --> 01:16:42,980 There are eight subcommittees in the steering committee. 942 01:16:43,660 --> 01:16:53,860 Child and youth development, economic development and jobs, environment and climate, health and human services, housing, information and technology, 943 01:16:53,860 --> 01:17:02,120 justice, transportation, and mobility, and a lot of this has already been talked about in the presentation earlier. 944 01:17:04,410 --> 01:17:17,640 As the steering committee, our charge was to steer this commission to provide direction, to write processes, and to just to steer them. 945 01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:22,820 As the steering committee, we looked at some indicators of disparity ourselves. 946 01:17:22,820 --> 01:17:35,100 For example, the life expectancy of a black person compared to the life expectancy of a white person is a 15-year difference. 947 01:17:37,580 --> 01:17:46,100 79 for a white person and 64 for a white person, I'm sorry, 79 for a white person and 64 for a black person. 948 01:17:46,100 --> 01:17:54,800 The medium house value for a black owner is 59% less of that of a white owner. 949 01:17:56,040 --> 01:18:03,700 Hispanic owner, the home medium value is 74% less of that of a white owner. 950 01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:11,500 Elevated lead levels found in the black community and black children is 10.1% 951 01:18:11,500 --> 01:18:15,520 compared to 6.3% for white children. 952 01:18:20,290 --> 01:18:23,230 And yes, I am a product of Peoria Public Schools 953 01:18:23,770 --> 01:18:27,230 and Peoria Public School is a great school system. 954 01:18:27,990 --> 01:18:29,550 We do still have some challenges. 955 01:18:30,270 --> 01:18:32,410 When we look at kindergarten readiness, 956 01:18:33,110 --> 01:18:35,270 and kindergarten readiness, when we talk about kindergarten, 957 01:18:35,970 --> 01:18:39,450 it's five year, the students, the children are five years of age. 958 01:18:40,370 --> 01:18:44,010 There are a number of developmental domains 959 01:18:44,010 --> 01:18:46,810 which determine when you say ready for kindergarten, 960 01:18:47,450 --> 01:18:49,270 there's a number of domains that you look at 961 01:18:49,650 --> 01:18:52,370 that contribute to a child's ability to adapt 962 01:18:52,370 --> 01:18:53,550 to the classroom. 963 01:18:54,370 --> 01:18:57,290 Some of those domains are physical, social, 964 01:18:57,890 --> 01:19:02,130 emotional, language, math, and cognitive skills. 965 01:19:03,790 --> 01:19:07,310 64.7% of our children are not ready, 966 01:19:07,690 --> 01:19:08,910 are not kindergarten ready. 967 01:19:09,950 --> 01:19:11,510 And if you're not kindergarten ready, 968 01:19:11,690 --> 01:19:13,270 and you don't have some of those skills, 969 01:19:13,270 --> 01:19:20,590 And if it's not then being enhanced, then when you start to look at third grade, and 970 01:19:20,590 --> 01:19:26,130 you look at the English proficiency, the numbers decrease in terms of readiness. 971 01:19:26,810 --> 01:19:31,270 Then you go to eighth grade, and you look at math, the numbers continue to decrease, and 972 01:19:31,270 --> 01:19:33,430 some aspects increase in others. 973 01:19:33,970 --> 01:19:38,530 When we think about math and English, we know that that is the cornerstone when you talk 974 01:19:38,530 --> 01:19:41,130 about education and in terms of being successful. 975 01:19:42,190 --> 01:19:51,510 High school terms, truancy, 24.3 for white students, 59.2 for black students, and 40.9 976 01:19:51,850 --> 01:19:53,630 for Latino students. 977 01:19:53,930 --> 01:19:59,510 Is that because they just don't want to go to school, or are they not feeling what 978 01:20:00,310 --> 01:20:04,830 they belong, or they're welcome, or they're not getting what it is that they need? 979 01:20:08,260 --> 01:20:09,980 Economic development and jobs. 980 01:20:10,700 --> 01:20:26,600 When we talk about medium household income, when you start to look at wages and we just talked about the wages of women, when you look at wages, black men make 87 cents on the dollar compared to white men. 981 01:20:27,420 --> 01:20:36,260 Latino men make 90 cents on the dollar compared to white men. White women make 82 cents on the dollar. 982 01:20:37,540 --> 01:20:44,960 Black women make 63 cents on the dollar, and Latin X women make 58 cents on the dollar. 983 01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:52,920 So when you start to talk about medium, household income, and you see the difference in the 984 01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:59,600 three, the black community, the Hispanic community is less than the white community by large numbers. 985 01:21:00,700 --> 01:21:05,320 Unemployment rate, and then families who live in power, those are all there. 986 01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:06,520 economic 987 01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:12,240 environment and climate, and you might say environment, what does that have? 988 01:21:12,700 --> 01:21:17,060 When we talk about environment, we're talking about environmental justice index. 989 01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:25,880 Environmental justice index are a national place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative 990 01:21:26,410 --> 01:21:31,740 impact of the environment burdens through the lens of human health and human equity. 991 01:21:31,740 --> 01:21:42,280 There are 12 environmental justice index and are zero zip codes, 6162, 0305. 992 01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:49,760 They are 90% of the national percentile, 11 out of the 12. 993 01:21:56,010 --> 01:21:58,590 Human services, health and human services, 994 01:22:01,480 --> 01:22:09,040 3.25 black babies, more babies died than their 995 01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:17,420 white counterparts. More black people die from cancer and heart disease. Is it for the 996 01:22:17,420 --> 01:22:25,640 lack of medical facilities or medical treatment? Housing, and we just had, we talked about 997 01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:32,820 housing here. It's fair housing in the month of April, fair housing, and affordable housing 998 01:22:32,820 --> 01:22:33,880 in quality housing. 999 01:22:35,480 --> 01:22:42,280 When you talk about the ownership rate, 76.7 whites on homes, 1000 01:22:43,180 --> 01:22:51,640 33.2 African-Americans, blacks on homes, and 64.9 on home ownership. 1001 01:22:52,180 --> 01:22:55,840 But we talked earlier about the value of those homes being less. 1002 01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:00,500 When we talk about rent, if you talk about budgeting, 1003 01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:08,480 Everything will tell you that 30% your home, what you pay for either rent or mortgage, 1004 01:23:08,980 --> 01:23:12,540 should only be 30% of your income. 1005 01:23:13,440 --> 01:23:20,160 What we have percentages that are higher, that are 50%, the whites that their income is 50, 1006 01:23:20,460 --> 01:23:26,600 their rental or their home ownership is 50% of their income is only 19.7. 1007 01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:33,340 for blacks is 28.1 and for Hispanics, Latinos, it is 32.3. 1008 01:23:35,650 --> 01:23:41,310 Tim's going to talk about the other four areas, the other four subcommittees. 1009 01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:47,640 So, the next area that we looked at was information and technology. 1010 01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:55,760 Now, some folks may say, well, you know, the real issues here are life expectancy, 1011 01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:59,380 issues of housing cost, housing value, etc. 1012 01:24:00,660 --> 01:24:02,760 And we're here to say that that's not totally the case. 1013 01:24:03,540 --> 01:24:07,060 In fact, information technology and existence in the digital world 1014 01:24:07,300 --> 01:24:08,740 is an essential today. 1015 01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:12,780 And if students and families aren't connected to the digital world, 1016 01:24:12,980 --> 01:24:15,660 it impacts in a very material way, 1017 01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,360 their jobs, their education. 1018 01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:22,060 And what we found was that in puria, 1019 01:24:22,060 --> 01:24:24,720 there is a strong correlation between 1020 01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:28,080 between digital inequity, between census tracks, 1021 01:24:28,660 --> 01:24:31,780 with higher populations of people in color of color. 1022 01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:33,540 So let me explain what we're saying here. 1023 01:24:34,540 --> 01:24:37,260 We don't have data, I don't think anybody has data anywhere, 1024 01:24:37,440 --> 01:24:40,180 which says, which looks at this from the standpoint 1025 01:24:40,180 --> 01:24:43,000 of people of color per se. 1026 01:24:45,260 --> 01:24:48,180 So what we did was to say, what proxy can we put in 1027 01:24:48,180 --> 01:24:51,020 to take a look at this and make an analysis of this? 1028 01:24:51,700 --> 01:24:55,140 So what we looked at was if code 20305, 1029 01:24:55,140 --> 01:25:00,920 which are areas primarily where people of color live, far away, people of color reside, 1030 01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:07,100 impaired white people, and those pop in those areas. And what we found was that in those areas, 1031 01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:14,020 a lack of digital technology or availability of technology or the cost, the expensive technology 1032 01:25:14,020 --> 01:25:21,140 was marked. And therefore students are suffering. And those with jobs are suffering as well. Imagine 1033 01:25:21,140 --> 01:25:26,320 for any of us trying to get through the pandemic and not having access to the digital world. 1034 01:25:26,740 --> 01:25:30,920 But that's the life of many of the folks living in that area. It's a critical issue. 1035 01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:36,320 And again, simply by looking at geography here, we know that there's inequities in that area. 1036 01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:43,040 Next is a topic area that is naturally of great interest to me as an attorney. 1037 01:25:43,580 --> 01:25:49,260 And that is justice. And the problem with looking at the justice system is it is such a huge area 1038 01:25:49,260 --> 01:25:55,780 that there are any number of statistics that we could look at in this particular arena. 1039 01:25:57,650 --> 01:26:04,790 We took a particular approach to this and that was to look at traffic stops and also to look at 1040 01:26:04,790 --> 01:26:12,850 juvenile detention. And figures really are shocking. Take a look at the first bullet point here. 1041 01:26:12,850 --> 01:26:20,510 The population of Puree County Juvenile Detention Center is 79 percent black, 16 percent white, 1042 01:26:20,790 --> 01:26:21,950 5 percent other. 1043 01:26:22,250 --> 01:26:28,010 What that means is that for every five people sent to the Juvenile Detention Center, 1044 01:26:29,070 --> 01:26:31,510 four of them are black. 1045 01:26:32,330 --> 01:26:36,490 Think what that means for their future and think what that means for our communities future. 1046 01:26:37,390 --> 01:26:40,330 80 percent are African-American. 1047 01:26:40,330 --> 01:26:47,850 And you look at the 3rd bullet point, in 2021 period police arrested 387 black juveniles 1048 01:26:47,850 --> 01:26:54,310 and 35 white juveniles, disparity in our community. 1049 01:26:55,150 --> 01:27:00,550 And then the middle point, black drivers comprise 61% of the traffic stops in the city of 1050 01:27:00,550 --> 01:27:04,650 puria, despite blacks being only 27% of the population. 1051 01:27:04,650 --> 01:27:14,670 Now you could say if that number was last comprised 58% of the population, well 61% it's pretty close or 63%. 1052 01:27:15,610 --> 01:27:22,910 No, it's 61% of the population, excuse me, 61% of the arrests and 27% of the population. 1053 01:27:23,130 --> 01:27:28,410 That is not a coincidence. That is an instance of disparity that is clear. 1054 01:27:29,190 --> 01:27:32,750 And as I said, we could go on in the justice system with a lot of other statistics. 1055 01:27:33,470 --> 01:27:35,530 Let's move to transportation and mobility. 1056 01:27:36,950 --> 01:27:41,730 Again, an issue that we might not think of at the top of our heads is an issue that is 1057 01:27:41,730 --> 01:27:44,850 important to the standpoint of disparity, but it clearly is. 1058 01:27:45,550 --> 01:27:47,950 I encourage you to look at the third bullet point first. 1059 01:27:48,590 --> 01:27:51,770 About 15% of pure households do not own an automobile. 1060 01:27:52,730 --> 01:27:57,910 The most prevalent areas of zero vehicle households are overwhelmingly in zip codes, 1061 01:27:57,910 --> 01:27:59,330 it's 020305. 1062 01:27:59,330 --> 01:28:05,710 Again, we don't have data that is black versus white here, 1063 01:28:05,850 --> 01:28:08,770 but we could look at it again using a geographical proxy 1064 01:28:09,350 --> 01:28:11,290 because we can tell who has automobiles 1065 01:28:11,290 --> 01:28:12,470 and what particular zip code. 1066 01:28:12,630 --> 01:28:15,830 So 020305, again, overwhelmingly non-white. 1067 01:28:17,190 --> 01:28:21,650 15% and 15% here, households don't know 1068 01:28:21,650 --> 01:28:24,070 the automobiles primarily located in that area. 1069 01:28:24,070 --> 01:28:28,570 looked then at the top of the 2021 Greater Peer and Mass Transit District. 1070 01:28:29,130 --> 01:28:34,570 Micro-transit study shows graphically that ZIP codes are 20305 are very underserved by 1071 01:28:34,570 --> 01:28:38,090 grocery storage, drug storage, and other retail outlets, and the next point 1072 01:28:38,090 --> 01:28:42,750 lacks more likely to depend upon public transportation than why it's both to get 1073 01:28:42,750 --> 01:28:49,270 to work in general commuting. What that says to us is that the black 1074 01:28:49,270 --> 01:28:55,010 population in Puria is underserved with owning an automobile and because of that 1075 01:28:55,010 --> 01:28:59,450 they can't get to grocery stores because they're not in their immediate area 1076 01:28:59,450 --> 01:29:03,270 drug stores because they're not in their immediate area retail outlets because 1077 01:29:03,270 --> 01:29:06,230 they're not in their exact area and they have troubles getting to work and have 1078 01:29:06,230 --> 01:29:10,990 to use public transportation. This is another issue of disparity and somebody might 1079 01:29:10,990 --> 01:29:19,250 say well again what's the connection here what you know what's significant but I 1080 01:29:19,250 --> 01:29:22,910 If you don't have transportation, you can't get to work. 1081 01:29:23,470 --> 01:29:25,410 If you can't get to work, you don't have an income. 1082 01:29:26,050 --> 01:29:29,490 If you don't have income, it's because you don't have 1083 01:29:29,490 --> 01:29:31,410 job or education. 1084 01:29:32,150 --> 01:29:36,710 And if you can't, if you don't have a car, 1085 01:29:37,130 --> 01:29:40,890 you can't get to the education, which is the basis of all this. 1086 01:29:41,190 --> 01:29:44,430 So there are connections throughout all of the factors 1087 01:29:44,430 --> 01:29:45,810 that we've talked about here today. 1088 01:29:45,810 --> 01:29:51,790 And, you know, again, it doesn't take me to tell all of you that I know, I know enough 1089 01:29:51,790 --> 01:29:56,050 of you have known you for a long time to know that you can, you can understand the connections 1090 01:29:56,050 --> 01:29:57,290 I'm talking about you. 1091 01:29:58,210 --> 01:29:59,430 There we plead. 1092 01:29:59,430 --> 01:29:59,970 Thank you. 1093 01:30:00,180 --> 01:30:19,100 Our report and frankly, as we've gotten into this, we've realized even more how interconnected all of these issues are and the holistic approach that we'll need to address these issues. So as we look forward to next year, Mary's going to talk a bit about our next steps for 2023. 1094 01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:33,100 We have created the baseline. We are showing the picture. There are many individuals here in Peoria, Peoria County and is browned in various areas. 1095 01:30:33,100 --> 01:30:38,860 places they ask the question, is there racial disparity? We have the data. 1096 01:30:42,610 --> 01:30:43,390 We're not the first, 1097 01:30:43,710 --> 01:30:48,270 this commission is not the first to look at racial issues in Peoria and Peoria County. 1098 01:30:49,390 --> 01:30:55,790 So we're going to, and we're in the process of trying to uncover all of those various reports, 1099 01:30:56,410 --> 01:31:01,870 other commissions, other tasks, other organizations who are tasked to look at that, 1100 01:31:01,870 --> 01:31:10,950 And we're going to compile all of that information and make sure that it's on our website so that people will know those who participated before. 1101 01:31:11,610 --> 01:31:17,650 Those who are participating now will know that they were heard and that that information is there. 1102 01:31:18,190 --> 01:31:24,310 And as I said earlier, we can't know how to move forward if we don't know where we're coming from. 1103 01:31:24,310 --> 01:31:28,790 We have to look back in order to move forward, that's Ann Kofa. 1104 01:31:30,010 --> 01:31:33,010 So that will be a part of our website that's under construction. 1105 01:31:34,390 --> 01:31:44,270 Looking again at the REIA which is the racial equity impact assessment tool that we are 1106 01:31:44,270 --> 01:31:45,270 looking at. 1107 01:31:45,730 --> 01:31:51,550 Peoria City and Peoria County to take a look at it's a tool that the city and the county 1108 01:31:51,550 --> 01:31:58,450 can use to be intentional when they are making changes, whether it's budgetary, policy changes, 1109 01:31:59,050 --> 01:32:05,010 to find out what is the impact on the entire Peoria and County. 1110 01:32:05,450 --> 01:32:10,750 What's the impact on all individuals and not just a few that we represent. 1111 01:32:12,070 --> 01:32:16,250 And then next we are going to Tim talked about and I've mentioned it. 1112 01:32:16,510 --> 01:32:19,590 We're going to go into the community and we're going to ask the community. 1113 01:32:19,590 --> 01:32:26,850 we have compiled data. This is what the data says. Now, from your lens, is this 1114 01:32:26,850 --> 01:32:35,490 factual? Is this true? And if not, then what is? And how do we go about solving 1115 01:32:35,490 --> 01:32:39,570 it? Because it's going to take all of us to solve. 1116 01:32:41,690 --> 01:32:43,590 Tim, let's go talk about the 1117 01:32:43,590 --> 01:32:44,770 next steps. 1118 01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:56,070 We have only allies in this community, no enemies. By that what I 1119 01:32:56,070 --> 01:33:00,590 mean is that it's important to us to reach out and hold hands with all the 1120 01:33:00,590 --> 01:33:03,710 other people in this community who are addressing these issues and there are 1121 01:33:03,710 --> 01:33:09,490 many. We recognize that we will only be successful by joining in alliances with 1122 01:33:09,490 --> 01:33:17,130 other people who are engaged in this process. We have no ego. We have no sense 1123 01:33:17,130 --> 01:33:22,550 that we need to be the leading organization working on this. We want to work 1124 01:33:22,550 --> 01:33:27,250 together with the community in accomplishing this and we've already begun to reach out to 1125 01:33:27,250 --> 01:33:33,030 other groups from the United Way, to Carver Center, to Friendship House, etc. And we will continue 1126 01:33:33,030 --> 01:33:39,190 to work with them to present a collaborative effort to the city and to you as one of our chartering 1127 01:33:39,190 --> 01:33:39,730 agencies. 1128 01:33:41,900 --> 01:33:45,900 I mentioned earlier that we're going to reach out to other communities to see what they've 1129 01:33:45,900 --> 01:33:52,940 done to address these issues. Again, that process has begun and looking at best practices. And from these 1130 01:33:52,940 --> 01:33:56,980 is in 2023, our goal will be then to develop high level 1131 01:33:56,980 --> 01:33:57,960 strategic plans. 1132 01:33:58,120 --> 01:34:00,400 And we hope that that will be accomplished by the end 1133 01:34:00,400 --> 01:34:00,880 of the year. 1134 01:34:01,220 --> 01:34:03,900 If you were to ask me today, what is that plan? 1135 01:34:04,240 --> 01:34:05,600 I would say that I don't know. 1136 01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:09,080 That is not my thing to say. 1137 01:34:09,220 --> 01:34:10,820 That is our community's thing to say. 1138 01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:13,340 That is our commissions thing to say. 1139 01:34:13,960 --> 01:34:16,460 And again, as I said, this is a collaborative effort 1140 01:34:16,460 --> 01:34:19,360 that we will bring to you so we can all work together 1141 01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:21,460 on what we're trying to accomplish. 1142 01:34:22,440 --> 01:34:25,980 In closing, I'd like to make just a couple comments or both Mary and myself. 1143 01:34:27,040 --> 01:34:31,620 We'd like to, first of all, thank our commission members, some of whom could be here tonight. 1144 01:34:32,100 --> 01:34:33,820 They're all listed at the back of our report. 1145 01:34:34,260 --> 01:34:36,360 Could you raise your hand if you're on our commission? 1146 01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:44,880 So first of all, thank you to them for their hard work during the last year and a half 1147 01:34:44,880 --> 01:34:48,900 and our expectations of them in the next couple of years. 1148 01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:56,080 Secondly, I'd like to thank the city and county staff for their strong support throughout 1149 01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:56,880 this process. 1150 01:34:57,660 --> 01:35:03,300 You know, to marshal information like this isn't easy, but we have found working with 1151 01:35:03,300 --> 01:35:08,880 Patrick and his staff and with Scott Surrell and his staff at the county that that road has 1152 01:35:08,880 --> 01:35:10,080 been made much easier. 1153 01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:15,280 Frankly, there to be singled out and given great thanks for the work that they've done. 1154 01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:20,960 Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Melody Green, your DEI officer, Andre over at 1155 01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:24,760 the county, and the work that you've provided to us too. 1156 01:35:27,310 --> 01:35:32,510 Today we met earlier with the county board executive committee, and I said something 1157 01:35:32,510 --> 01:35:36,190 then that I want to say to each of you as city council members, and it's simply this. 1158 01:35:36,890 --> 01:35:38,150 We want to thank you too. 1159 01:35:39,650 --> 01:35:44,890 You know, a report like this is not particularly flattering about our community. 1160 01:35:44,890 --> 01:35:51,210 When you see the statistics and have time to read through it, you'll see that it's not particularly flattering about our community. 1161 01:35:52,890 --> 01:35:55,650 And there are other communities who 1162 01:35:57,730 --> 01:36:01,150 would never embark upon the path that you took a year and a half ago. 1163 01:36:02,370 --> 01:36:07,610 And if they did, they would have hidden the information. They would have hushed the information up. 1164 01:36:08,330 --> 01:36:09,950 They would never have made it public. 1165 01:36:11,070 --> 01:36:16,710 and yet when we put together a draft report and shared it with the city and 1166 01:36:16,710 --> 01:36:23,310 county. Not one voice spoke up to say change this change that don't say this 1167 01:36:23,310 --> 01:36:24,230 don't say that. 1168 01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:31,740 As I said other communities would do this differently but we are 1169 01:36:31,740 --> 01:36:42,020 not other communities. All of you believe that to solve problems you have to 1170 01:36:42,020 --> 01:36:48,280 you accept that they're there, you have to study them, and you have to be transparent 1171 01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,140 about what those problems are so that you can resolve them. 1172 01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:58,060 And as I was sitting here tonight listening to Mr. Oberhelman and his group make their 1173 01:36:58,060 --> 01:37:01,840 presentation, I thought, oh gee, I've got to get up now and talk about bad things about 1174 01:37:01,840 --> 01:37:02,480 our community. 1175 01:37:02,800 --> 01:37:06,220 And I kind of smiled at Mary when we both were thinking the same thing. 1176 01:37:06,980 --> 01:37:09,460 But the more I thought about, the more this came to me. 1177 01:37:11,120 --> 01:37:15,640 They're addressing a problem too, and they've come up with solutions to deal with that 1178 01:37:15,640 --> 01:37:16,040 problem. 1179 01:37:16,180 --> 01:37:19,660 And frankly, the problem that they talk about is embarrassing your community too. 1180 01:37:20,220 --> 01:37:27,080 The loss of young people, or the refuse about the discouragement of people to come to 1181 01:37:27,080 --> 01:37:27,760 this community, 1182 01:37:29,880 --> 01:37:31,160 that's a problem. 1183 01:37:32,220 --> 01:37:33,520 They've come up with solutions. 1184 01:37:34,700 --> 01:37:38,420 We have problems too in the racial justice and equity area, ladies and gentlemen. 1185 01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:39,300 We all know it. 1186 01:37:39,300 --> 01:37:49,000 this report shows it. It's not unique to this community, but it is our problem. So what we're 1187 01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:56,940 saying is together let's join hands now and solve this problem. You took an amazing step as a 1188 01:37:56,940 --> 01:38:03,460 community to say let's put everything out there when you created this commission. We're here to say 1189 01:38:03,460 --> 01:38:04,100 tonight to you. 1190 01:38:04,300 --> 01:38:08,340 Thank you for your support and we appreciate 1191 01:38:08,340 --> 01:38:09,440 your ongoing support. 1192 01:38:21,500 --> 01:38:25,400 Tim, thank you for your leadership for the past year 1193 01:38:25,400 --> 01:38:26,060 and a half. 1194 01:38:26,480 --> 01:38:30,120 You've been volunteers, blood, sweat and tears. 1195 01:38:30,420 --> 01:38:35,380 You've given so much of your time in co-chairing this 100-plus 1196 01:38:35,380 --> 01:38:39,500 member committee, the steering, leading the steering committee, 1197 01:38:40,420 --> 01:38:43,660 leading the eight focus committees. 1198 01:38:43,660 --> 01:38:47,240 We thank the co-chairs of those focus committees. 1199 01:38:47,540 --> 01:38:48,960 We thank the steering committee. 1200 01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:53,140 You know, this really exceeded my expectations. 1201 01:38:53,360 --> 01:38:59,820 It's the hard truth, data driven, but it tells us where we are. 1202 01:39:00,340 --> 01:39:01,840 And we have to know where we are 1203 01:39:01,840 --> 01:39:04,400 before we can begin to get better. 1204 01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:06,620 And so I thank you for this. 1205 01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:08,820 It's very professionally done. 1206 01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:12,080 It's only going to help us to move forward. 1207 01:39:12,080 --> 01:39:25,300 So, I thank you on behalf of the Peoria City Council, and we look forward to joining hands with the entire community in making Peoria a better place for everybody. 1208 01:39:28,110 --> 01:39:28,490 Rowan? 1209 01:39:29,170 --> 01:39:34,810 Thank you Madam Mayor. I too would like to express my sincere gratitude to our co-chairs Miss Mary and Tim. 1210 01:39:36,750 --> 01:39:44,450 Also, appreciation to the 160 members that are part of this joint commission, given up their time, talent, and expertise to this important work. 1211 01:39:45,230 --> 01:39:51,130 The two reports that we received tonight are interconnected to the growth and success of our region. 1212 01:39:51,690 --> 01:39:59,770 When you talk about trying to attract and retain talent here in our region, we have to address inequities that exist. 1213 01:40:00,810 --> 01:40:09,870 As Mr. Oberhelm in referenced in his report, the 24-7 Wall Street isn't the billboard material that we want for our city. 1214 01:40:10,570 --> 01:40:24,110 But I think those who will consider coming to our city when they see that we have a joint commission on racial justice and equity to address the issue that we're owning our problems and realizing that we're going to put solutions in place in order to address them. 1215 01:40:24,310 --> 01:40:28,470 I think that's an exciting thing and maybe they will want to be a part of those solutions. 1216 01:40:29,190 --> 01:40:35,470 It's essential that we recognize that we have community members that don't have the same social 1217 01:40:35,470 --> 01:40:37,790 advantages and opportunities as others. 1218 01:40:38,810 --> 01:40:43,230 We've got to become comfortable having some uncomfortable conversations. 1219 01:40:43,970 --> 01:40:45,150 And this is some pretty heavy stuff. 1220 01:40:45,310 --> 01:40:45,950 It really is. 1221 01:40:46,030 --> 01:40:52,610 But as we continue to have the conversations, continue to collaborate, continue to work together 1222 01:40:52,610 --> 01:40:55,370 as synergy, we can really do some great things in this city. 1223 01:40:55,370 --> 01:41:00,930 in this county as well too so I applaud the efforts of you all I look forward to 1224 01:41:00,930 --> 01:41:05,930 being a continued resource and champion for this work I'm excited for again 1225 01:41:05,930 --> 01:41:09,830 both reports that we had today because it demonstrates that we are taking 1226 01:41:09,830 --> 01:41:14,510 control of our region we realize that we have work to do but we're not sitting on 1227 01:41:14,510 --> 01:41:17,970 the sidelines we check it in a game so thank you to everyone for being present 1228 01:41:17,970 --> 01:41:22,290 today and I look forward to a better tomorrow for our city and our county thank you 1229 01:41:22,290 --> 01:41:33,270 You council member Regan back. Thank you Madam Mayor and thank you to our chair of the committee and all the members of the subcommittees and 1230 01:41:33,270 --> 01:41:51,330 groups working groups that have made this report possible. Very sobering data, very sobering reading but as a guy who likes to see things in clear, understandable manner, you did a wonderful job 1231 01:41:51,330 --> 01:41:56,370 and presenting this and providing us with a baseline, as you mentioned, multiple times 1232 01:41:56,370 --> 01:42:04,350 through that, because as we work through this and look to the future for addressing these 1233 01:42:04,350 --> 01:42:08,430 issues, if we don't know where we're starting, it's going to be impossible to measure how far 1234 01:42:08,430 --> 01:42:14,930 we've come, so I really appreciate that and I think this 1235 01:42:17,490 --> 01:42:20,910 might be a little, I think this 1236 01:42:20,910 --> 01:42:31,030 This work needs to have that same outreach and regional appeal that our previous last 1237 01:42:31,910 --> 01:42:37,630 presentation had because this clearly isn't something just that's a puria issue or puria 1238 01:42:37,630 --> 01:42:43,610 accounting but this is something that affects the whole greater puria area and I would just 1239 01:42:44,490 --> 01:42:50,070 challenge my colleagues and the other communities to take a look at what's been done here and 1240 01:42:50,070 --> 01:42:55,850 I need to see how this can be replicated in their communities for the cause. 1241 01:42:57,230 --> 01:43:06,230 And regarding the racial equity impact assessment, I also think it's important that we include our not just the city and 1242 01:43:06,230 --> 01:43:18,430 county but look at our education partners in Peoria and recreation partners and that this is something that we embrace as a whole. 1243 01:43:18,430 --> 01:43:27,530 because just having one segment handle it isn't going to take care of the overarching problem. 1244 01:43:27,870 --> 01:43:35,110 So, again, thank you so much for the work and the dedication of all the folks who helped contribute to this. 1245 01:43:37,150 --> 01:43:45,430 Hopefully we can all take this and look at that data-driven information and see how we can work 1246 01:43:45,430 --> 01:43:48,950 to address those things head on. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Mayor. 1247 01:43:49,430 --> 01:43:57,730 Absolutely. Councilmember Kelly. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you for all the work 1248 01:43:57,730 --> 01:44:07,210 you have done. I think you've established in most cases a very good baseline. Some 1249 01:44:07,210 --> 01:44:12,590 of those areas where you don't have data, I encourage you to try to get data. 1250 01:44:12,590 --> 01:44:24,460 But of course, we need to move forward, but what we see is a picture of what is. 1251 01:44:24,840 --> 01:44:26,540 We do not see a picture of why. 1252 01:44:29,400 --> 01:44:36,280 I think a good work for the commission is to examine the causes. 1253 01:44:38,410 --> 01:44:44,680 We can go out and try to solve something, but if we don't know the cause of the problem, 1254 01:44:46,160 --> 01:44:47,900 We're walking around in the dark. 1255 01:44:48,200 --> 01:44:49,760 You know, it's like somebody's got a high fever. 1256 01:44:50,600 --> 01:44:52,700 You can put them in a bathtub full of ice, 1257 01:44:52,860 --> 01:44:54,240 I guess, and bring the fever down. 1258 01:44:54,760 --> 01:44:58,120 But the reason for the fever is that infection, 1259 01:44:59,240 --> 01:44:59,980 which has nothing- 1260 01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,440 There's nothing to do with ICE, you know, doesn't really get you anywhere. So I would urge you to try to get in there and identify some. I don't know that we can know all of the causes. But to identify some of those causes, because that's the key to solving a lot of these really disturbing data points we have. 1261 01:45:30,440 --> 01:45:32,580 Thank you. Thank you Madam Mayor. 1262 01:45:32,740 --> 01:45:33,080 You're welcome. 1263 01:45:35,810 --> 01:45:36,850 Council member Graham. 1264 01:45:38,190 --> 01:45:39,970 I look at this a little bit differently. 1265 01:45:41,150 --> 01:45:48,210 I would like to see some concrete suggestions that this commission would make to our teachers 1266 01:45:48,210 --> 01:45:55,950 and principals who are working with our children every single day. Every single day. 1267 01:45:57,270 --> 01:46:03,330 And also some concrete suggestions to our police officers who are out there on the front 1268 01:46:03,330 --> 01:46:09,210 line working to protect all of us every single day. 1269 01:46:10,570 --> 01:46:15,830 Because as Paul Harvey said, we need to hear the rest of the story. 1270 01:46:16,730 --> 01:46:21,390 And believe me, you go out and you provide this data. 1271 01:46:21,390 --> 01:46:24,910 You'll get a reaction from the teachers. 1272 01:46:25,410 --> 01:46:27,870 You'll get a reaction from the police officers. 1273 01:46:28,410 --> 01:46:30,010 And it won't be ethereal anymore. 1274 01:46:33,950 --> 01:46:38,190 And then I think you're going to hear about four words spoken. 1275 01:46:38,850 --> 01:46:41,090 Where are the parents in this community? 1276 01:46:44,010 --> 01:46:47,170 I better lock off the in our community prepositional phrase. 1277 01:46:47,370 --> 01:46:48,170 Where are the parents? 1278 01:46:52,260 --> 01:46:53,480 Help us address that. 1279 01:46:55,080 --> 01:46:58,740 I remember when we had a police chief, his name was Arthur Kelly, 1280 01:46:58,740 --> 01:47:05,680 the third. And we were very alarmed during his tenure as police superintendent. It wasn't 1281 01:47:05,680 --> 01:47:13,580 a long tenure about the number of students who were truant out on the city streets when 1282 01:47:13,580 --> 01:47:15,980 they should be in the school learning. 1283 01:47:18,650 --> 01:47:21,790 And for a while, we were on kind of a kick to 1284 01:47:21,790 --> 01:47:26,290 make every police officer in the city a truant officer. 1285 01:47:29,470 --> 01:47:31,270 Well, that didn't go very far because 1286 01:47:31,270 --> 01:47:38,890 because even then we didn't have enough police to properly police our city. 1287 01:47:39,910 --> 01:47:45,790 So we talk about a number of black youths who are in our juvenile detention facility. 1288 01:47:47,470 --> 01:47:49,610 How did they end up there? 1289 01:47:50,710 --> 01:47:55,050 How did we end up with eight juvenile deaths in one year in this community? 1290 01:47:55,050 --> 01:48:01,590 Do we want to withdraw the police from those neighborhoods where this carnage is occurring? 1291 01:48:04,010 --> 01:48:07,990 See, the data gives us only part of the story. 1292 01:48:08,450 --> 01:48:12,790 Tim, I look forward to having coffee with you because we'll have an interesting exchange, 1293 01:48:13,070 --> 01:48:18,010 and I would also invite some of you to go out into the neighborhoods and present this to 1294 01:48:18,010 --> 01:48:20,090 the people and neighborhoods all over this city. 1295 01:48:20,590 --> 01:48:23,810 First district, second district, third district, fourth and fifth. 1296 01:48:23,810 --> 01:48:29,870 and you'll hear what I hear because they might have some ideas on how we can 1297 01:48:29,870 --> 01:48:38,040 better address these problems. We want to, we want to be cheerleaders for this 1298 01:48:38,040 --> 01:48:45,100 community but we need to be mindful cheerleaders and we need to have real 1299 01:48:45,100 --> 01:48:54,300 solutions to real problems. This data probably is not that much different than what 1300 01:48:54,300 --> 01:48:58,600 could have been cold together 15, 20 years ago. 1301 01:49:01,810 --> 01:49:04,090 So again, and this is one of the reasons 1302 01:49:04,090 --> 01:49:09,530 we have the PSAs on television. We're asking parents, it's 10 o'clock, do you know where 1303 01:49:09,530 --> 01:49:17,930 your child is? Now that may seem superficial. But trust me, if every parent knew where his 1304 01:49:17,930 --> 01:49:25,010 or her child was at 10 o'clock, we'd be a lot better off. And frankly, there are larger 1305 01:49:25,010 --> 01:49:26,790 issues that go beyond puria. 1306 01:49:27,650 --> 01:49:34,510 I see statistics that say 90% of Republicans and Democrats and parents think children should 1307 01:49:34,510 --> 01:49:37,750 not be having all these apps on their phones. 1308 01:49:39,150 --> 01:49:46,710 In such a proliferation of phones since 2017, I hear from the police department that children 1309 01:49:46,710 --> 01:49:50,910 are getting into tussles on Facebook and other social apps. 1310 01:49:55,210 --> 01:49:57,830 So this is being discussed in Washington too. 1311 01:49:57,830 --> 01:50:07,110 There are a lot of things we can do, but no, I also appreciate the work that you've done bringing this data together, but let's come up with an action plan. 1312 01:50:07,350 --> 01:50:07,690 Thank you. 1313 01:50:09,680 --> 01:50:10,640 Anyone else? 1314 01:50:12,800 --> 01:50:21,760 I have a motion to receive and file, moved by Councilmember Kelly, seconded by Councilmember Graebb, any other discussion? 1315 01:50:24,130 --> 01:50:25,710 Please cast your ballots. 1316 01:50:33,540 --> 01:50:34,800 Motion passes unanimous. 1317 01:50:34,900 --> 01:50:35,900 Thank you very much. 1318 01:50:35,900 --> 01:50:36,860 We 1319 01:50:47,070 --> 01:51:06,970 are at regular business, 23-099 is a communication from the City Manager and Director of Community Development with a request to approve the allocation of community development block grant funds for the rehabilitation of Logan Park and Morton Square Park in the combined amount of $875,000. 1320 01:51:06,970 --> 01:51:07,710 Mr. Manager. 1321 01:51:08,970 --> 01:51:20,610 Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'd like to turn it over to Community Development Director Joe Dolan to talk about this item, and I know that we also have with us, Emily K. Health, the executive director of the Peoria Park District. 1322 01:51:21,890 --> 01:51:31,990 Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Manager. Thank you, Council. The item in front of you tonight is a continuation in the partnership that we've developed with the Park District on some park upgrades in our community. 1323 01:51:32,810 --> 01:51:37,410 during the start of COVID I think one of the things that as we progress through 1324 01:51:37,410 --> 01:51:42,930 COVID we started to quickly realize is the importance and value of quality 1325 01:51:42,930 --> 01:51:46,430 green space in our neighborhoods and what we can do to get more people out 1326 01:51:46,430 --> 01:51:49,890 and about in our community. I think this item is very fitting for this evening with 1327 01:51:49,890 --> 01:51:53,770 the last two presentations that we received about quality of life and 1328 01:51:53,770 --> 01:51:59,610 investment or older neighborhoods. This item takes some of our CDBG funds that 1329 01:51:59,610 --> 01:52:07,070 the city receives through the HUD every year upgrading parks in neighborhoods in our 1330 01:52:07,070 --> 01:52:11,910 community as an eligible expense. We had a lot of success with the park district in 1331 01:52:11,910 --> 01:52:16,810 the upgrades to tree wind park that just wrapped up and will be able to be used this year. 1332 01:52:17,330 --> 01:52:22,950 So we approached them with some ideas of other park upgrades that were on their future list 1333 01:52:22,950 --> 01:52:27,990 that if they had some additional funding they could move up and we identified Logan Park 1334 01:52:27,990 --> 01:52:30,990 in Morton Square Park for some upgrades to the facilities, 1335 01:52:31,470 --> 01:52:33,450 pavilions, make it more accessible, 1336 01:52:33,870 --> 01:52:35,650 more playground equipment, and things like that. 1337 01:52:36,230 --> 01:52:37,870 If you have any specific questions, 1338 01:52:37,870 --> 01:52:39,330 or are my ask director, Kale, 1339 01:52:39,930 --> 01:52:42,070 come up and say a few words if that would be okay, Mayor. 1340 01:52:42,890 --> 01:52:43,250 Absolutely. 1341 01:52:57,030 --> 01:52:57,890 Hi, good evening. 1342 01:52:58,450 --> 01:53:00,690 I just want to say thank you on behalf of the park district. 1343 01:53:01,750 --> 01:53:04,370 This is, to me, I've had people ask me about this, 1344 01:53:04,450 --> 01:53:05,130 why is this happening? 1345 01:53:05,590 --> 01:53:08,730 And it is a wonderful collaboration as far as I'm concerned. 1346 01:53:08,730 --> 01:53:12,350 and we certainly appreciate the trust that you put in us 1347 01:53:12,350 --> 01:53:14,970 with the dollars that have been invested in tree wind park 1348 01:53:14,970 --> 01:53:17,130 we look forward to celebrating those together 1349 01:53:17,690 --> 01:53:19,610 with a ribbon cutting on April 10th. 1350 01:53:19,610 --> 01:53:22,390 I think it is an amazing thing that we have been able to do. 1351 01:53:22,810 --> 01:53:24,290 Certainly that sense of collaboration 1352 01:53:24,290 --> 01:53:27,330 and the impact that we can show our community 1353 01:53:27,330 --> 01:53:30,010 when we work together is embodied there 1354 01:53:30,010 --> 01:53:32,550 in that park and we look forward to meeting your expectations 1355 01:53:32,550 --> 01:53:34,970 in Logan and Morton Square Park as well. 1356 01:53:35,530 --> 01:53:37,270 We certainly appreciate those opportunities 1357 01:53:37,270 --> 01:53:42,770 Just like you, we have a capital improvement plan that is longer than the dollars are available to us 1358 01:53:42,770 --> 01:53:48,130 And so anytime we can work together to make improvements happen faster and with more impact 1359 01:53:48,130 --> 01:53:55,930 We are so excited to be able to do that and we appreciate your trust in us and your willingness to collaborate again to support our community 1360 01:53:55,930 --> 01:54:03,170 I do have the I brought the spreadsheets just in case you have questions about any specific items that are planned for either 1361 01:54:03,170 --> 01:54:05,310 Park is part of those improvement lists 1362 01:54:05,310 --> 01:54:07,350 and I would be happy to answer questions if you have them. 1363 01:54:07,650 --> 01:54:08,590 Thank you, Ms. Kayle. 1364 01:54:09,250 --> 01:54:10,370 Council Member Graham. 1365 01:54:10,970 --> 01:54:13,970 Do you have with our park district, 1366 01:54:14,210 --> 01:54:16,630 one of the finest park districts in the entire country, 1367 01:54:16,710 --> 01:54:17,270 in my opinion? 1368 01:54:17,610 --> 01:54:17,930 Thank you. 1369 01:54:20,030 --> 01:54:22,550 And not just me saying that because I'm a 1370 01:54:22,550 --> 01:54:26,290 pure city councilman, do you have activities for our youth? 1371 01:54:28,340 --> 01:54:29,640 Without a question, we certainly do. 1372 01:54:29,720 --> 01:54:32,820 We have lots of things available for our youth and our families. 1373 01:54:33,220 --> 01:54:35,940 And certainly, summertime is a time when we are able to 1374 01:54:35,940 --> 01:54:39,820 with the collaboration and support of the State of Illinois and Representative 1375 01:54:39,820 --> 01:54:43,660 Johan Gordon Booth. We are able actually to offer free access to many of our 1376 01:54:43,660 --> 01:54:48,700 facilities to include Peoria Zoo, Peoria Playhouse Children's Museum, the 1377 01:54:48,700 --> 01:54:52,720 Gwen Family Aquatic Center and our Golf Learning Center. Those are all available 1378 01:54:52,720 --> 01:54:57,380 for Peoria Public Schools families to participate in for free with the summer of 1379 01:54:57,380 --> 01:55:01,340 fun past that we're able to offer. That is just one example of the kinds of 1380 01:55:01,340 --> 01:55:05,360 access that we're able to offer to ongoing programming that is certainly very 1381 01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:08,760 positive and that engages lots of kids and families across our community. 1382 01:55:09,200 --> 01:55:16,980 Director Kay Hill, when the basketball hoops, I see on this site here, Perry Evans. 1383 01:55:17,980 --> 01:55:22,760 When the basketball hoops get bent, we just take him down and the kids can't play basketball. 1384 01:55:23,220 --> 01:55:24,780 That's what was happening a few years ago. 1385 01:55:25,360 --> 01:55:27,640 We have copious supply basketball hoops. 1386 01:55:27,640 --> 01:55:32,200 Actually, we took the hoops down during COVID in order to keep you from gathering and get 1387 01:55:32,200 --> 01:55:33,000 each other sick. 1388 01:55:33,000 --> 01:55:38,600 we have a supply of basketball hoops as well and we do replace them very regularly to make sure 1389 01:55:38,600 --> 01:55:42,500 that they are good quality. We certainly ask the community to let us know if there's a hoop 1390 01:55:42,500 --> 01:55:48,040 that is in disrepair but our maintenance and repair team is certainly on the call to make those 1391 01:55:48,040 --> 01:55:52,800 changes anytime a hoop needs to be replaced. We have some of the best basketball you can find in 1392 01:55:52,800 --> 01:55:57,760 the city and some of our locations especially at Gwynn Park certainly that's a place where if you 1393 01:55:57,760 --> 01:56:02,340 want a competitive game that's the place to go Logan also has a really great place to play basketball. 1394 01:56:02,340 --> 01:56:09,580 Constructive youth activities and do we have pools to serve the youth of this community it will be open this 1395 01:56:09,580 --> 01:56:15,840 Pools our pools will be open. I just was in a meeting earlier today with a tied-to-life-carb recruitment 1396 01:56:15,840 --> 01:56:22,900 Are we anticipate having when Family Aquatic Center and Proctor Recreation pool both open at the same levels that they were last year? 1397 01:56:23,200 --> 01:56:29,860 Again, that is when Family Aquatic Center is one of the locations that's available for free access for pure public schools families 1398 01:56:29,860 --> 01:56:32,400 So we certainly encourage people to be a part of that. 1399 01:56:32,760 --> 01:56:37,360 As you may have seen in the news recently, we did receive a grant from the state of Illinois 1400 01:56:37,360 --> 01:56:41,580 to bring a large-scale splash pad to Lakeview Park. 1401 01:56:41,800 --> 01:56:44,220 That is a replacement for Lakeview Family Aquatic Center. 1402 01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:49,140 Splashpad is a great alternative to a pool when we are able to do that because it doesn't 1403 01:56:49,140 --> 01:56:50,180 require lifeguards. 1404 01:56:50,540 --> 01:56:53,100 Maybe more importantly, it offers a longer season. 1405 01:56:53,820 --> 01:56:58,420 Swim season outdoors in Peoria, as you know, is no more than 10 weeks. 1406 01:56:58,420 --> 01:57:21,480 It's generally about eight weeks, and if you have a splash pad, you're able to extend that recreational experience to 12 to 15 weeks, so that's certainly direction that we are headed because it is something that is available to be open to families on a more regular basis than a pool is, but certainly we see the value especially living in a river city of offering those swim opportunities for our kids and families. 1407 01:57:21,480 --> 01:57:23,920 Do I call you director? 1408 01:57:24,700 --> 01:57:26,460 You can call me Emily if you want. 1409 01:57:27,240 --> 01:57:28,380 Thank you director Kiel. 1410 01:57:29,180 --> 01:57:30,360 And you know what council? 1411 01:57:30,540 --> 01:57:33,940 I'm going to be drawing our attention to some of these expenditures that we're going 1412 01:57:33,940 --> 01:57:35,200 to make going forward. 1413 01:57:36,200 --> 01:57:39,660 All the money that we're spending to help kids. 1414 01:57:40,380 --> 01:57:43,160 I'm going to remind you every single time we approve one of these. 1415 01:57:43,840 --> 01:57:44,420 Thank you. 1416 01:57:44,800 --> 01:57:45,500 Thank you. 1417 01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:48,100 Council Member Jensen? 1418 01:57:48,900 --> 01:57:49,100 Yes. 1419 01:57:49,300 --> 01:57:49,700 Thank you. 1420 01:57:49,920 --> 01:57:50,400 Madam Mayor. 1421 01:57:50,400 --> 01:58:01,400 I just I had a question because it wasn't clear or is the CDBG funding the the sole source of funding for the projects or would the park district be kicking and some money too? 1422 01:58:02,060 --> 01:58:06,740 For these particular upgrades, it's the CDBG covers the cost of all the upgrades. 1423 01:58:07,280 --> 01:58:10,580 Okay, I wasn't clear on that. Okay, thank you. 1424 01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:17,560 Council member make you feel better. I'll tell you that they are accompanied with for example, we are about to 1425 01:58:18,260 --> 01:58:24,600 Begin the process of a million dollar upgrade to our glant park playground to make that fully inclusive 1426 01:58:24,600 --> 01:58:31,680 So these are being matched throughout the city with a park district that has 54 different locations as far as parks or 1427 01:58:31,680 --> 01:58:39,100 Recreation centers. This is the best way to maximize our dollars and we certainly appreciate the opportunity to work together to reach more places 1428 01:58:39,100 --> 01:58:41,260 is more quickly than we could on our own. 1429 01:58:43,150 --> 01:58:44,670 Council member Al Regan-Batt. 1430 01:58:45,110 --> 01:58:45,970 Thank you, Madam Mayor. 1431 01:58:47,110 --> 01:58:50,470 I think we all remember hearing many times 1432 01:58:50,470 --> 01:58:53,030 how many levels of government Illinois has 1433 01:58:53,030 --> 01:58:56,050 and we have the largest number of 1434 01:58:56,610 --> 01:59:00,210 disparate government units and blah, blah, blah. 1435 01:59:00,610 --> 01:59:03,330 While I think this shows our constituents, 1436 01:59:03,330 --> 01:59:08,030 our taxpayers, how two distinct government entities 1437 01:59:08,030 --> 01:59:14,330 can work together for a common cause. We had quite a robust discussion in the fall about the 1438 01:59:14,330 --> 01:59:19,870 tree wind project and using some city funds to help the park district and I think again, 1439 01:59:20,050 --> 01:59:26,410 as Director Cahill pointed out how impactful that is for that neighborhood and I'm particularly thrilled 1440 01:59:26,410 --> 01:59:32,450 about the more than square improvements and having a chance for the neighborhood to weigh in on 1441 01:59:32,450 --> 01:59:41,510 exactly how this new shelter will look and not just a picnic shelter, but perhaps more 1442 01:59:41,510 --> 01:59:43,130 of a stage type presence. 1443 01:59:43,370 --> 01:59:49,770 But whatever it is, it's good to get our kids out in an active and constructive manner. 1444 01:59:50,050 --> 01:59:55,490 So I appreciate the spirit of cooperation that you're instilling up Director K. Hill, 1445 01:59:55,610 --> 01:59:56,390 Director Dullin. 1446 01:59:56,550 --> 01:59:59,550 Thank you so much for your work and the two of you. 1447 02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:28,600 We're finding ways to show the governments and Illinois can work together. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Absolutely. Councilmember Allen. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Councilman Grave, I will share your bias. This is one of the finest part districts in the country, and I am proud to say that, and I can't help but just the PORME. So I agree with you on that assessment. Tonight's theme has definitely been collaboration, and we saw that with our previous two presentations. 1448 02:00:28,600 --> 02:00:32,960 and now this, so I definitely appreciate you coming forth with this. 1449 02:00:33,380 --> 02:00:40,220 Just a clarification question, have the design been completed as far as what you plan on doing with these funds? 1450 02:00:40,720 --> 02:00:47,680 And if so, or if not, will there be opportunities for the communities that these parks are in to be able to provide some feedback or suggestions? 1451 02:00:48,740 --> 02:00:54,480 So, just as with the tree wind project, we define the scope for approval by the City Council 1452 02:00:54,480 --> 02:01:00,040 for allocation of those CDB, that's hard to say, CDBG dollars. 1453 02:01:00,880 --> 02:01:06,120 But what we intend to do then is to take those ideas, build out some opportunities for 1454 02:01:06,120 --> 02:01:06,840 public input. 1455 02:01:07,200 --> 02:01:17,660 So, as Councilman Rigenbach referenced, the picnic shelter at Morton Square Park, we have 1456 02:01:17,660 --> 02:01:20,900 that will allow them to do community gathering events, 1457 02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:23,360 whether that's a movie in the park or a concert 1458 02:01:23,360 --> 02:01:25,220 that can support the farmers market 1459 02:01:25,220 --> 02:01:26,820 and some of the other vibrant activities 1460 02:01:26,820 --> 02:01:27,880 that are happening there. 1461 02:01:28,080 --> 02:01:29,900 So we will be working with local residents 1462 02:01:29,900 --> 02:01:32,720 to make sure that the size and scale 1463 02:01:32,720 --> 02:01:35,900 and scope of that shelter meets their needs as well as ours. 1464 02:01:36,540 --> 02:01:38,360 Likewise, just as we do with most 1465 02:01:38,360 --> 02:01:40,780 of our other playground projects at this point, 1466 02:01:40,880 --> 02:01:42,760 we will get public input from residents 1467 02:01:42,760 --> 02:01:44,720 about what they want to see at Logan. 1468 02:01:45,280 --> 02:01:52,640 We are excited to be able to bring swings for most of you who grew up when I grew up swings were just like a thing 1469 02:01:52,640 --> 02:01:59,160 You took for granted that is not the case anymore because of the the fall radiuses and things that have to come with swings 1470 02:01:59,160 --> 02:02:02,780 They are not a part of our general new playground installation 1471 02:02:02,780 --> 02:02:06,620 So be able to be able to bring those to Logan is of special 1472 02:02:07,100 --> 02:02:14,440 Certainly it means a lot to us and for your support to be able to do that is significant and so we look forward to engaging the 1473 02:02:14,440 --> 02:02:32,980 the public in the specific design, but we certainly know the scope and we rely on the experts that we have working for the Peary Park District to help to make sure that what we offer them are safe, equitable, accessible opportunities and what they, you know, the colors that they are and the way that they're configured we look forward to engaging the public to help to select that. 1474 02:02:33,440 --> 02:02:36,560 Yeah, thank you for elaborating on that executive director Cahill. 1475 02:02:36,700 --> 02:02:39,140 I think it's very important that our community has feedback. 1476 02:02:39,540 --> 02:02:42,100 So that way they can have a true ownership of these projects. 1477 02:02:42,460 --> 02:02:43,780 So I'm very excited about that. 1478 02:02:43,780 --> 02:02:44,960 But they're their parts, just their York Parks. 1479 02:02:45,080 --> 02:02:48,340 They belong to our community and we look forward to representing their ones and 1480 02:02:48,340 --> 02:02:49,660 needs in those public spaces. 1481 02:02:50,360 --> 02:02:51,380 Well, thank you for all you do. 1482 02:02:51,540 --> 02:02:52,200 Thank you, Madame Mayor. 1483 02:02:52,220 --> 02:02:53,080 Thank you, welcome. 1484 02:02:53,900 --> 02:02:54,600 Councilmember Jackson. 1485 02:02:55,340 --> 02:02:56,520 Thank you, Madame Mayor. 1486 02:02:56,740 --> 02:03:00,460 Well, my comments are just, my comments are just in the way statements. 1487 02:03:01,320 --> 02:03:14,120 I have noticed since the tree went park renovations, and I don't have hard numbers, but I do know there's much more activity over there, and people are getting a lot of use much more out of the pavilion than they had in the past. 1488 02:03:14,560 --> 02:03:21,640 So, those dollars have gone to very good use, and I think it has resulted in increased traffic there. 1489 02:03:21,640 --> 02:03:26,380 I was there Sunday when the 309 market was there, 1490 02:03:26,380 --> 02:03:30,040 and I missed the crowd because the market starts at, 1491 02:03:30,520 --> 02:03:33,700 I wanna say about 11.30, but I could not find a park 1492 02:03:33,700 --> 02:03:37,080 around the parking spot, around the perimeter of the park. 1493 02:03:37,160 --> 02:03:39,700 It was just packed, including the parking lot. 1494 02:03:40,280 --> 02:03:44,480 So thank you, the park is getting lots more use, 1495 02:03:44,820 --> 02:03:48,740 and I do appreciate fact Logan is getting much needed attention. 1496 02:03:48,860 --> 02:03:51,020 I know I don't know how long they've been doing it, 1497 02:03:51,020 --> 02:03:55,860 But there have been soccer teams over there on Sunday, Hispanic, soccer teams. 1498 02:03:56,060 --> 02:04:00,240 And so they have been utilizing that park big time. 1499 02:04:00,240 --> 02:04:04,800 So I just appreciate the fact that we were able to tap into these dollars. 1500 02:04:04,840 --> 02:04:07,080 And I think this is money well spent. 1501 02:04:07,080 --> 02:04:11,780 And it will certainly be used and appreciated by the residents in those communities. 1502 02:04:11,780 --> 02:04:13,340 So thank you, Director Cahill. 1503 02:04:13,380 --> 02:04:13,740 Thank you. 1504 02:04:13,960 --> 02:04:20,100 So tonight is about public partnership, the two things that Councilwoman Jackson just referenced 1505 02:04:20,100 --> 02:04:22,420 and our public-private partnership that we're very proud of. 1506 02:04:22,900 --> 02:04:26,860 Being able to offer the tree-wind pavilion as the hub for 1507 02:04:26,860 --> 02:04:31,300 Peoria Grown and for their Market 309 efforts is something that we're very proud of 1508 02:04:31,300 --> 02:04:33,380 and something that has recently happened there. 1509 02:04:33,460 --> 02:04:36,600 But that is a permanent spot now for them to maintain their produce, 1510 02:04:37,060 --> 02:04:39,780 which allows them to buy more produce at a lower cost, 1511 02:04:39,980 --> 02:04:41,940 which means they can support and reach more people. 1512 02:04:42,380 --> 02:04:46,160 So that's a great opportunity and you reference the soccer league on Sundays. 1513 02:04:46,640 --> 02:04:47,920 That's absolutely one of our favorites. 1514 02:04:47,920 --> 02:05:01,800 We're host to about a 16 week league and on any given Sunday you can come down there and see between five and seven hundred people having the time of their life in that park and that's what our parks are for. So thanks for identifying those two partnerships that we're very proud of. 1515 02:05:01,880 --> 02:05:02,980 Thank you very much. 1516 02:05:03,020 --> 02:05:03,400 Thank you. 1517 02:05:03,720 --> 02:05:04,460 Thank you. 1518 02:05:05,620 --> 02:05:06,500 Remember Kelly. 1519 02:05:07,740 --> 02:05:08,820 Thank you, Madam Mayor. 1520 02:05:08,820 --> 02:05:17,780 I also am very, very proud of our park district and all the wonderful things that it does, 1521 02:05:18,160 --> 02:05:23,120 the extensive amounts of land we have, the things that we do with them. 1522 02:05:24,080 --> 02:05:35,500 But I would like to ask a question of our manager, was our donation to the true win rebuild 1523 02:05:35,500 --> 02:05:45,860 and renewal. Was that the first time we've ever, you know, a substantial piece of 1524 02:05:45,860 --> 02:05:50,240 money and delivered it over to the park district as far as you know. 1525 02:05:52,990 --> 02:05:53,450 It was the 1526 02:05:53,450 --> 02:05:59,190 first time that we use CDBG dollars directly and for the purpose of improving a 1527 02:05:59,190 --> 02:06:05,390 park. I'd have to go back and look at past actions that we may have taken in the 1528 02:06:05,390 --> 02:06:10,810 passed with the park district where we've shared cooperatively in different efforts. 1529 02:06:11,150 --> 02:06:17,810 But I think as we started to look at the use of the CDBG COVID dollars, we knew that 1530 02:06:17,810 --> 02:06:20,230 we needed to use those to get people outdoors. 1531 02:06:20,810 --> 02:06:23,350 And this was a good way to put those dollars to use. 1532 02:06:24,830 --> 02:06:30,010 And parks are an allowable expense under the community development grant program. 1533 02:06:30,130 --> 02:06:34,430 And this is a great way for us to move those dollars out into the community to get the community 1534 02:06:34,430 --> 02:06:40,350 active in around those. Thank you and Director Cahill are you aware of an answer 1535 02:06:40,350 --> 02:06:46,450 to that question of mine. I can tell you from my so I've been with the park 1536 02:06:46,450 --> 02:06:52,010 districts in 2011 the one project I can think about that is a similar size and 1537 02:06:52,010 --> 02:06:58,390 scope would be the MLK park playground renovation that was done that would have 1538 02:06:58,390 --> 02:07:06,370 been 2012, 2013, that's the one that looks like the fire, it's all fire themes, it matches 1539 02:07:06,370 --> 02:07:13,850 the fire department, firehouse there next door. But certainly I appreciate these opportunities, 1540 02:07:15,150 --> 02:07:22,010 especially given the presentations that I've heard tonight, as we think about our work to 1541 02:07:22,010 --> 02:07:26,390 to recruit and retain and get people to come to our community. 1542 02:07:26,930 --> 02:07:31,490 One of the talking points that we share in almost every public presentation that we give, 1543 02:07:31,750 --> 02:07:34,650 it's certainly nice for everyone to say, if you have a great park district, 1544 02:07:35,130 --> 02:07:39,750 the reality is that we have a park district unlike communities of our size anywhere in the country. 1545 02:07:40,290 --> 02:07:45,990 So when you look at the kinds of things that we're able to offer both from a land inventory and a programming perspective, 1546 02:07:45,990 --> 02:07:50,990 The kinds of things that we offer here in Imperialia are comparable to what Park Districts 1547 02:07:50,990 --> 02:07:58,950 or Park and Rec agencies in cities like Tampa, Florida, San Diego, California, Charleston, 1548 02:07:59,110 --> 02:07:59,750 South Carolina. 1549 02:08:00,390 --> 02:08:01,550 Those are comparables. 1550 02:08:02,150 --> 02:08:05,690 And so if you think about populations, those are not comparables. 1551 02:08:06,150 --> 02:08:10,730 So it is something that that shared investment in these public spaces to make them things 1552 02:08:10,730 --> 02:08:15,310 that support our residents and the people who visit here is absolutely essential to our 1553 02:08:15,310 --> 02:08:20,150 future, so we are so appreciative of the partnership opportunity and we look forward 1554 02:08:20,150 --> 02:08:24,290 to continuing to be good partners for the public benefit, because that's why we're all 1555 02:08:24,290 --> 02:08:24,490 here. 1556 02:08:25,510 --> 02:08:26,150 Thank you. 1557 02:08:26,610 --> 02:08:26,690 Yeah. 1558 02:08:26,990 --> 02:08:31,870 Councilman, I do want to follow up, you know, racking in my brain. 1559 02:08:33,320 --> 02:08:39,670 We do collect on new housing developments, particularly in Northwest Peoria. 1560 02:08:39,670 --> 02:08:43,910 we collect developer impact fees that were used for parks. 1561 02:08:44,270 --> 02:08:48,230 And so that was collected and as we built out that area 1562 02:08:48,230 --> 02:08:51,170 that was utilized for parks, predominantly 1563 02:08:51,170 --> 02:08:52,830 for the Peoria Park District. 1564 02:08:53,230 --> 02:09:00,830 In addition, as part of the LawCon process where the River 1565 02:09:00,830 --> 02:09:05,850 Plex was built, we acquired the Rocky Glen Park, which 1566 02:09:05,850 --> 02:09:12,190 which is in West Peoria as part of the LawCon program and then transfer that over to the park district. 1567 02:09:12,690 --> 02:09:19,430 So that was, again, dollars that the city utilized and that purchase that went to the park district but now they have an active park going as well. 1568 02:09:19,870 --> 02:09:21,130 Okay, thank you. 1569 02:09:22,610 --> 02:09:33,010 My point in asking is that we, we seem to be doing this a little bit more of the park district, I love the city. 1570 02:09:33,010 --> 02:09:42,710 We have two governments that generally don't have enough money to do all the things that we would like to do. 1571 02:09:43,050 --> 02:09:46,490 Our district does not have enough, we don't have enough. 1572 02:09:49,080 --> 02:10:03,960 I would like the council to consider having a policy session at some time just to see where we are on supporting other tax 1573 02:10:03,960 --> 02:10:12,200 tax generating entities within our city everyone loves I certainly love the 1574 02:10:12,200 --> 02:10:19,080 park district everyone I hope loves the city but there's a reason that they're 1575 02:10:19,080 --> 02:10:26,360 separate and we it hasn't become a rush yet but you know these are not 1576 02:10:26,360 --> 02:10:41,300 extraordinary expenditures. These are typical normal park district expenditures. I think that we 1577 02:10:41,300 --> 02:10:51,640 should be careful in that we can always use CDBG funds. We can always do more of what our 1578 02:10:51,640 --> 02:10:59,620 mission is, which might be more down payment assistance or rehab assistance, that sort 1579 02:10:59,620 --> 02:11:09,880 of thing. I just hate to be Debbie Downer here, but I, you know, I think we have to be careful 1580 02:11:09,880 --> 02:11:17,120 with the money that we that we are entrusted with. Thank you, Madam Mayor. 1581 02:11:17,120 --> 02:11:20,730 Council Member Regan-Butt. 1582 02:11:21,210 --> 02:11:22,470 Thank you again, Madam Mayor. 1583 02:11:22,890 --> 02:11:24,770 I just saw in the back of the room 1584 02:11:24,770 --> 02:11:27,070 our grants coordinator, Catherine Murphy. 1585 02:11:27,370 --> 02:11:29,370 And I think oftentimes, 1586 02:11:30,030 --> 02:11:32,590 Catherine and her team go underappreciated 1587 02:11:32,590 --> 02:11:34,110 for the work they do in 1588 02:11:34,790 --> 02:11:36,710 administrating these dollars that we get 1589 02:11:36,710 --> 02:11:39,410 whether it's CDBG or the ARPA programs 1590 02:11:39,410 --> 02:11:40,470 that we put into place. 1591 02:11:40,790 --> 02:11:43,130 So I'm just kudos to Catherine. 1592 02:11:43,270 --> 02:11:44,550 We appreciate what you're doing. 1593 02:11:49,580 --> 02:11:50,400 You why are you there? 1594 02:11:50,520 --> 02:11:51,360 Do you have a motion? 1595 02:11:51,360 --> 02:11:59,040 I will have a motion, but I just want to say one other thing that I personally don't think we need a policy session on on this topic 1596 02:11:59,040 --> 02:12:07,540 I think we need to look at this case by case and every every situation is different and I was very apprehensive to support the tree wind project 1597 02:12:07,540 --> 02:12:17,040 As many of you probably recall last fall during the budget cycle, but as I met with the park district representatives and as we discussed it amongst ourselves 1598 02:12:17,040 --> 02:12:32,260 I got that comfort level to do that, so I think we want to be careful about setting precedent, but we also want to be careful about cutting off potential cooperation, so with that, I would move for approval. 1599 02:12:32,700 --> 02:12:37,060 Seconded by Council Member Jackson. Any other discussion? Council Member Euler? 1600 02:12:37,660 --> 02:12:46,940 Thank you Madam Chairwoman. I would like to agree with Council Member Kelly. I do think we need to have a discussion on how we want to allocate dollars, especially when they're going to other government. 1601 02:12:46,940 --> 02:12:52,460 taxing bodies if that's some kind of you know an assessment or a checklist or 1602 02:12:52,460 --> 02:12:57,360 criteria something that says that this makes sense to me and I fully support 1603 02:12:57,360 --> 02:13:01,260 what we're doing here and have no issue with it but I do think that you know 1604 02:13:01,260 --> 02:13:05,680 it kind of crosses some boundaries if we're not talking about why we're doing it 1605 02:13:05,680 --> 02:13:10,340 and we're stepping in and giving money to do exactly what that taxing body's 1606 02:13:10,340 --> 02:13:15,260 role is. Thank you. You're welcome we can explore that. We have a motion and a 1607 02:13:15,260 --> 02:13:16,680 Second, any other discussion? 1608 02:13:17,340 --> 02:13:18,480 Please cash your ballots. 1609 02:13:20,940 --> 02:13:22,500 Motion passes unanimously. 1610 02:13:23,700 --> 02:13:24,340 Thank you, Ms. K. 1611 02:13:24,340 --> 02:13:25,340 Thank you. 1612 02:13:31,380 --> 02:13:36,560 23-100 is a communication from the City Manager and Director of Public Works 1613 02:13:36,560 --> 02:13:42,520 with a request to approve a professional services agreement with Cloud Point Geospatial Inc. 1614 02:13:43,040 --> 02:13:50,800 In the amount of $78,700 for 2023, $130,400 for 2024. 1615 02:13:50,800 --> 02:13:54,520 and $13,200 for 2025. 1616 02:13:55,100 --> 02:13:55,700 Mr. Manager. 1617 02:13:56,920 --> 02:13:57,800 Thank you Madam Mayor. 1618 02:13:57,940 --> 02:14:03,220 I'd like to turn the floor over to Public Works Director Powers to talk about this item. 1619 02:14:04,020 --> 02:14:04,860 Thank you Mr. Manager. 1620 02:14:05,000 --> 02:14:05,960 Thank you Mayor Counselors. 1621 02:14:06,520 --> 02:14:11,040 I hope, I know it's been along that already, but I kind of think this is, 1622 02:14:13,160 --> 02:14:14,160 and 1623 02:14:21,770 --> 02:14:24,570 this is that heavy lift that Councillor Rigidbach talked about. 1624 02:14:24,570 --> 02:14:30,710 I think he referred to it as a herculean effort that we wanted to undertake during the budget cycle. 1625 02:14:31,250 --> 02:14:40,490 I wish this was already in place having worth of $70 million being directed toward the CIP and our infrastructure. 1626 02:14:41,470 --> 02:14:43,570 This year, unfortunately, it's not. 1627 02:14:44,550 --> 02:14:49,470 Say that because if you look at the accounts communication as a pretty exhaustive list, you say infrastructure. 1628 02:14:49,470 --> 02:14:56,530 And then I'll go to an acronym that you know relatively well, PCI, which was a pavement 1629 02:14:56,530 --> 02:14:59,870 condition index which really reflects a piece of data 1630 02:15:01,940 --> 02:15:31,280 Because when you talk about infrastructure, you talk about roadways, pretty exhaustive list here, sidewalks, curves and gutters, storms, sewers, combined sewers, facilities, traffic signals, street lights, signs, roadway markings, urban forests and fleet, public works. You don't even think that when you think public works most of the time. PCI has to do with one piece of that infrastructure and only one rating relative to that piece, meaning a roadway. And we don't condition rate all roadways. 1631 02:15:32,160 --> 02:15:37,740 An asset management system or a holistic asset management system considers the effect 1632 02:15:37,740 --> 02:15:42,860 of each of these components of infrastructure upon the other, and as you're budgeting 1633 02:15:42,860 --> 02:15:48,680 how you expend those budget and how we project to you in a geospatial way, because we now 1634 02:15:48,680 --> 02:15:53,520 live in that environment, every time you get into your car you think GPS, one of the backgrounds 1635 02:15:53,520 --> 02:15:59,380 that the IS is running, meaning you're being triangulated on a map, it is just simply moving 1636 02:15:59,380 --> 02:16:04,360 you on a map. And we have gotten really good, especially in government, at putting pens 1637 02:16:04,360 --> 02:16:10,940 on maps, or putting data in a system that is geospatial related, that also has dollars 1638 02:16:10,940 --> 02:16:16,440 attached to it, that also has project related to it, that has any number of things related 1639 02:16:16,440 --> 02:16:22,480 to it. But the data is there and contained in a centralized location, but not being used 1640 02:16:22,480 --> 02:16:28,840 as a tool to make decisions. And I would say that in the department and before this council, 1641 02:16:29,300 --> 02:16:34,460 because I can assure you if I could show you data in a different way where it's 1642 02:16:34,460 --> 02:16:38,760 holistically presented, you would make different decisions because you would 1643 02:16:38,760 --> 02:16:43,080 see it geospatially, you see a picture, we're all good at looking at picture books and I 1644 02:16:43,080 --> 02:16:47,300 hate to boil it down to that but that is really what it comes down to. When you look 1645 02:16:47,300 --> 02:16:53,160 at a geospatial centric asset management system and I move dollars off of a 1646 02:16:53,160 --> 02:16:57,240 project, say from one project to another, just from sheer budget, say some of the 1647 02:16:57,240 --> 02:17:00,080 things we did creatively this year with Mellon overlays. 1648 02:17:00,480 --> 02:17:02,820 We moved money off of projects to another, 1649 02:17:03,520 --> 02:17:06,280 but I had to go to the finance director 1650 02:17:06,820 --> 02:17:08,840 to move those dollars into this day 1651 02:17:08,840 --> 02:17:10,820 would have to go back to say where are those dollars 1652 02:17:10,820 --> 02:17:12,220 or talk to our finance manager 1653 02:17:12,220 --> 02:17:13,760 to say where those dollars moved from 1654 02:17:13,760 --> 02:17:16,800 and follow a track if you are an audit trail 1655 02:17:16,800 --> 02:17:19,680 for those dollars, whereas if we had a holistic 1656 02:17:19,680 --> 02:17:22,740 asset management system, we would see those dollars 1657 02:17:23,320 --> 02:17:26,060 and that audit trail in a geospatial environment 1658 02:17:26,060 --> 02:17:32,520 that was attached on a dot or a point on a map and you could follow the money and the project. 1659 02:17:32,940 --> 02:17:37,740 You could follow the road conditions. You could follow what's buried under the road. You could 1660 02:17:37,740 --> 02:17:42,640 follow the map or the lighting and the lighting conditions, the sidewalk conditions, all of those 1661 02:17:42,640 --> 02:17:46,440 things which we're doing now and by the way I've already expended hundreds of thousands of dollars 1662 02:17:46,440 --> 02:17:54,060 on mapping again, mapping our storm sewer system and conditioning. Meeting even discovering where it 1663 02:17:54,060 --> 02:17:59,940 is to this day. We're still discovering where our storm sewers are and mapping it, but we're 1664 02:17:59,940 --> 02:18:06,540 putting data in. We're not making decisions with it. We're not bringing those things together and 1665 02:18:06,540 --> 02:18:13,740 concatenating them in a way. Did it tell us a story to us as a department? We are not the most robust 1666 02:18:13,740 --> 02:18:18,340 user in our own department, which is the first part of the proposal we'll bring into you, and I would 1667 02:18:18,340 --> 02:18:22,180 Proposes is sole source for a reason because we've had a parade of 1668 02:18:23,020 --> 02:18:29,740 Several vendors come through our office who have tried to sell us a solution and I have I have learned in government or 1669 02:18:29,740 --> 02:18:33,520 My many years in it that I do not see the force for the trees 1670 02:18:34,160 --> 02:18:34,680 meaning 1671 02:18:34,680 --> 02:18:39,660 As even as many times as I've gone through implementations with systems and so on 1672 02:18:39,660 --> 02:18:48,670 Have since someone being objective and not selling me a product use the example because they're the biggest asery and GIS 1673 02:18:48,670 --> 02:18:57,450 Yes, everyone is heard of, as we, but as we also will try to sell you a solution, so in order 1674 02:18:57,450 --> 02:19:03,470 to be unbiased and objective, we went out and sought the consultant that doesn't own 1675 02:19:03,470 --> 02:19:04,430 any of us. 1676 02:19:04,470 --> 02:19:10,190 But as the ability to assess all of them, some of them even work for us, frankly, locally, 1677 02:19:10,670 --> 02:19:16,830 that would pitch us a solution, but we don't know, frankly, I'll just say from a point of 1678 02:19:16,830 --> 02:19:21,330 public works to this minute which of our disparate systems we have a system 1679 02:19:21,330 --> 02:19:26,050 that we built a bunch of with every unit's a third-party system we have a system 1680 02:19:26,050 --> 02:19:31,430 that we use for paid conditioning that is used throughout the area we have you 1681 02:19:31,430 --> 02:19:36,310 think of front desk we have land-used information this geospatial leaf used 1682 02:19:36,310 --> 02:19:40,510 that we use and making decisions but we don't go to one place or as close to one 1683 02:19:40,510 --> 02:19:45,050 place we'll probably never get to one place but I want to get as close to one place 1684 02:19:45,050 --> 02:19:51,670 that I can and come here during the budget preparation season and tell a story 1685 02:19:51,670 --> 02:19:58,810 about infrastructure that includes that list all of it and one of its impact on 1686 02:19:58,810 --> 02:20:05,870 the other and show it to you in a picture and show you again red is bad green is 1687 02:20:05,870 --> 02:20:11,110 good and you just kind of look at it and see what the impact of stormwater is upon 1688 02:20:11,110 --> 02:20:18,150 paper or see what lighting costs are relative to pavement cost and project cost and you see it 1689 02:20:18,150 --> 02:20:18,490 and of 1690 02:20:21,310 --> 02:20:26,610 me trying to throw data at you and again I'm not trying to discount the value of PCI 1691 02:20:26,610 --> 02:20:32,130 because again we just had an item earlier we deferred it is valuable information we do use it to make 1692 02:20:32,130 --> 02:20:38,970 decision but that is one point of data that's one point of data it does not consider politics it doesn't 1693 02:20:38,970 --> 02:20:45,310 consider the amount of money we have. It doesn't consider the effect of one winter or even one storm 1694 02:20:46,370 --> 02:20:50,950 that could have on what we've rated. In other words, I could give you a condition rating on 1695 02:20:50,950 --> 02:20:57,170 pavement and have a week of sub-zero weather and have a road that wasn't even rated as bad below 1696 02:20:57,170 --> 02:21:03,510 up and it comes to the top of the list. So again, you have these anomalies that take place that even 1697 02:21:03,510 --> 02:21:09,330 can be in this instance plotted in this way in an asset management system, or a holistic 1698 02:21:09,330 --> 02:21:14,350 asset management system that will tell us that story and can help us make that decision 1699 02:21:14,350 --> 02:21:19,230 because we'll see it, because we'll enter the data, and then the data will enter it to 1700 02:21:19,230 --> 02:21:23,050 an algorithm that brings it to the top for us, and we can show it to you. 1701 02:21:23,830 --> 02:21:29,370 So that said, I will say Jonathan Houdell and Aaron Strickler are here from Cloud Point, 1702 02:21:29,370 --> 02:21:35,130 geospatial and again the reason we are putting them forward is the sole source vendor is because they 1703 02:21:35,130 --> 02:21:42,010 do not have a product to sell us. They have the expertise and just plug a few of the cities are 1704 02:21:42,010 --> 02:21:47,910 working with Bloomington, Peakin, and this is for Councillor Ruckery and I, Jasper, Indiana, 1705 02:21:48,990 --> 02:21:55,370 along with Western Springs. So they are working with communities around us. They have a great 1706 02:21:55,370 --> 02:21:58,670 deal of experience and again they are here and I just wanted to make sure that I 1707 02:21:58,670 --> 02:22:02,830 introduce them even if you don't ask some questions but believe it or not this 1708 02:22:02,830 --> 02:22:06,990 is one that I've done in a lot of places that I've worked so I doubt that you'll 1709 02:22:06,990 --> 02:22:12,810 ask me a question I can't answer even maybe for them. This is the beginning I 1710 02:22:12,810 --> 02:22:18,110 think of something really really great for Peory and we our plan is to train 1711 02:22:18,110 --> 02:22:22,190 throughout this year to determine what we need to know about geosubacial 1712 02:22:22,190 --> 02:22:27,250 environments, and then to have them take on the role of writing the requirements document. 1713 02:22:28,010 --> 02:22:33,110 In other words, coming and asking all of us interdepartmentally, asking finance, asking 1714 02:22:33,110 --> 02:22:39,510 IS, asking economic development, asking the manager, asking us, asking the mayor, asking 1715 02:22:39,510 --> 02:22:46,670 you objectively what would you like to see to make a decision that involves infrastructure 1716 02:22:46,670 --> 02:22:48,310 and your expertise. 1717 02:22:50,030 --> 02:22:51,210 Anything to do with public work. 1718 02:22:52,190 --> 02:22:57,210 But we can show you a geospatial image or a desktop or an executive dashboard 1719 02:22:57,790 --> 02:23:02,170 that comes to fruition throughout next year, which is where we will use them 1720 02:23:02,170 --> 02:23:08,170 to actually write the RFP, score the RFP, and actually acquire the software and do the implementation. 1721 02:23:08,830 --> 02:23:12,250 So we are looking as I say often, concept to concrete. 1722 02:23:12,770 --> 02:23:17,110 We want them on board with us and helping us get through each of those processes 1723 02:23:17,110 --> 02:23:21,050 Because, again, I'm just going to say it, we aren't the best at this. 1724 02:23:23,160 --> 02:23:25,540 We generally, we get linear. 1725 02:23:26,420 --> 02:23:31,980 We get in our lanes and we make decisions sometimes to forget to ask the right questions, the right people. 1726 02:23:32,380 --> 02:23:33,600 And I think this is the right room. 1727 02:23:33,780 --> 02:23:36,000 So I'll leave it there and see if there are any questions. 1728 02:23:36,480 --> 02:23:38,480 Director, thank you for bringing this forward. 1729 02:23:38,580 --> 02:23:40,860 I'm always interested in technology. 1730 02:23:41,080 --> 02:23:45,080 They can make us more efficient, potentially save costs, 1731 02:23:45,080 --> 02:23:49,980 and certainly make us a smarter city. 1732 02:23:50,380 --> 02:23:52,500 And I would like to ask the representative 1733 02:23:52,500 --> 02:23:54,520 from Cloud Point to come forward. 1734 02:23:54,860 --> 02:23:56,740 Jordan, they're both here, actually would do that. 1735 02:23:56,840 --> 02:23:57,380 To, okay. 1736 02:23:58,740 --> 02:24:00,960 It is Jonathan, Hodell, and Aaron Strickler. 1737 02:24:05,360 --> 02:24:06,460 Hey, introduce yourselves. 1738 02:24:08,020 --> 02:24:10,180 Good evening, Madam Mayor, councilmembers. 1739 02:24:10,380 --> 02:24:12,780 Thank you for this opportunity to be here this evening. 1740 02:24:12,900 --> 02:24:15,460 I'm John Holt, principal of Cloud Point Geospatial. 1741 02:24:16,060 --> 02:24:18,420 I'm joined by our director of services, Aaron Strickler. 1742 02:24:19,080 --> 02:24:27,800 We are both licensed professional engineers, but we are a GIS consultant focused in the area of public work specifically. 1743 02:24:28,520 --> 02:24:33,900 We also work with transportation utilities, but that's really our area of focus. 1744 02:24:34,580 --> 02:24:39,520 We are headquartered here in central Illinois in Roanoke of 30 minutes from here. 1745 02:24:40,360 --> 02:24:48,020 As we heard the discussions earlier of the attracting top talent that is also a situation where we battle that on a regular basis. 1746 02:24:48,020 --> 02:24:50,700 is always looking for top talent to attract the area. 1747 02:24:51,500 --> 02:24:52,620 But we're glad to be here tonight 1748 02:24:52,620 --> 02:24:55,540 and would be happy to address any questions 1749 02:24:55,540 --> 02:24:56,920 with this particular project. 1750 02:24:57,580 --> 02:24:58,100 Thank you. 1751 02:24:58,620 --> 02:25:01,540 Director Powers mentioned some local areas, 1752 02:25:02,100 --> 02:25:02,480 Bloomington, 1753 02:25:04,780 --> 02:25:06,100 Peakin, Illinois. 1754 02:25:06,660 --> 02:25:09,500 What are some other perhaps larger cities 1755 02:25:09,500 --> 02:25:12,300 in the United States that use this technology? 1756 02:25:13,200 --> 02:25:17,040 Sure, so the technology, as Director Powers mentioned, 1757 02:25:17,040 --> 02:25:23,560 is Ezri, the software is called ArcGIS, which you have some of that software already, 1758 02:25:23,660 --> 02:25:28,440 and that is what the majority of your cities and counties are using in their GIS. 1759 02:25:29,380 --> 02:25:33,120 Specifically, some of the other, as you mentioned, some of the cities we're working with, 1760 02:25:33,620 --> 02:25:38,720 we are primary focus, we do work throughout the Midwest, we've done projects across the 1761 02:25:38,720 --> 02:25:43,280 country, but our primary focus is in Illinois and the surrounding states, again in that 1762 02:25:43,280 --> 02:25:49,880 public works environment. Now this technology can be used by other departments and it certainly 1763 02:25:49,880 --> 02:25:56,040 would be in this situation with the city and you are using it in other departments. However, 1764 02:25:56,240 --> 02:26:03,080 we find that typically the greatest, really the driving force is the public works need because it's 1765 02:26:03,080 --> 02:26:10,200 so infrastructure asset heavy. And how much training, how many training hours does it take before 1766 02:26:10,200 --> 02:26:13,660 or an employee could start using the technology. 1767 02:26:15,560 --> 02:26:18,440 That really depends on what the application would be. 1768 02:26:18,780 --> 02:26:21,460 There's a desktop software component to it. 1769 02:26:21,840 --> 02:26:23,400 There's also a web component. 1770 02:26:23,980 --> 02:26:28,720 So what we see more and more as the technology increases its 1771 02:26:28,720 --> 02:26:32,980 capabilities is we see more people taking advantage of the web. 1772 02:26:33,600 --> 02:26:38,800 What that allows us to do is roll out GIS applications for 1773 02:26:38,800 --> 02:26:44,380 more of an everyday user, not having to be a GIS professional sitting behind a real 1774 02:26:44,380 --> 02:26:46,600 powerful GIS software if it makes sense. 1775 02:26:49,410 --> 02:26:52,110 So how much training might it take on average? 1776 02:26:52,830 --> 02:26:57,290 Is there a range depending on the user? 1777 02:26:59,310 --> 02:27:00,110 It's going to vary. 1778 02:27:00,330 --> 02:27:06,110 It's going to depend on, first of all, what the department would be, what their needs are 1779 02:27:06,110 --> 02:27:13,550 going to be oftentimes the training two would depend on what the final deliverable they're 1780 02:27:13,550 --> 02:27:18,850 looking for. For example, if they're just looking for printed maps, say PDFs that they 1781 02:27:18,850 --> 02:27:25,810 want to print out, that training may be less the number of hours to train somebody up 1782 02:27:25,810 --> 02:27:32,650 to speed on that. As opposed to if they're trying to develop more of the web GIS maps and 1783 02:27:32,650 --> 02:27:36,950 applications over the web, of course, that would be, you know, more involved with that training. 1784 02:27:37,970 --> 02:27:43,450 Oftentimes, depending on the department, they may have more what we call data layers, 1785 02:27:43,670 --> 02:27:49,410 GIS layers, depending on their needs in that department. And typically, you would see, like in the case 1786 02:27:49,410 --> 02:27:55,430 of public works, they would have more layers of infrastructure assets as someone mentioned earlier, 1787 02:27:55,710 --> 02:28:00,870 maybe than some of the other departments. But other common use cases, you know, the police department 1788 02:28:00,870 --> 02:28:07,090 with crime analysis and, you know, I'm sure you probably are familiar with some of those use cases for this department as well. 1789 02:28:07,850 --> 02:28:11,730 So I can't give you an exact number of hours for specific training. 1790 02:28:12,530 --> 02:28:24,050 It really is going to depend, but that's part of our contract would be to assist the public works department with improving training and have knowledge transfer as a part of that. 1791 02:28:29,580 --> 02:28:55,760 Thank you Madam Mayor, I think not necessarily a question I guess just a couple of thoughts and some comments and a nice shout out to Jasper and Deanna by the way, that happens to be my hometown, so you're doing some work down there as well I think that they are doing their town square and doing some complete streets through your service and I've got to think about 1792 02:28:57,220 --> 02:29:00,660 And this is way long before Director Powers was here, 1793 02:29:00,900 --> 02:29:02,120 before a city manager was here, 1794 02:29:02,580 --> 02:29:04,360 before any of us around the council were. 1795 02:29:05,900 --> 02:29:07,920 And when I moved into my neighborhood, 1796 02:29:08,280 --> 02:29:10,660 one of the first things we took when I went on the board 1797 02:29:10,660 --> 02:29:12,700 was to be able to upgrade the lighting, 1798 02:29:12,840 --> 02:29:15,180 because the lighting had not been upgraded the bulbs 1799 02:29:16,800 --> 02:29:18,040 within the street lights. 1800 02:29:18,900 --> 02:29:20,440 And as we got into that project, 1801 02:29:20,460 --> 02:29:22,880 and we're able to do that along in the neighborhood, 1802 02:29:23,840 --> 02:29:25,780 one of the things that was quickly pointed out to us 1803 02:29:25,780 --> 02:29:30,180 was the number of proliferation of signs that had taken over every single poll. 1804 02:29:30,340 --> 02:29:35,940 Many of them actually sang opposite of what the one above or below them did 1805 02:29:35,940 --> 02:29:38,440 because everybody knew how to put a sign up. 1806 02:29:39,560 --> 02:29:44,300 Nobody knew how to take a sign down, and that wasn't somehow just, 1807 02:29:44,440 --> 02:29:47,940 and it wasn't through anybody's necklaces, it just didn't have it. 1808 02:29:50,700 --> 02:29:55,260 And I think that that's a perfect example of when systems don't talk. 1809 02:29:55,780 --> 02:29:59,940 And technology is not one of those things. It makes the front page paper. 1810 02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,820 And everybody goes, yeah, wow, what a great thing. But it's one of the necessary things. It's why we're so excited about launching an app for Peoria Cares to be able to have that communication piece. I see a lot of utility in this, you know, I remember in a couple, I think it was not in the two distant past when council member Graham was talking about when we do a street, why we aren't looking at all the infrastructure underneath there, while we have it open to be able to save future 1811 02:30:30,700 --> 02:30:39,780 And that's exactly what this can really help because when we're doing one project, we can actually look forward to figure out if we can actually save some extra dollars. 1812 02:30:41,260 --> 02:30:58,880 Nice work on bringing this forward to us. I'm excited to see this and while this may not be the thing that makes the front page of the newspaper or makes the headline of the news story at 10 o'clock, I think this is important as we invest all of those dollars that we have 1813 02:30:58,880 --> 02:31:02,860 that are going to go into making our city a much better place to live. 1814 02:31:03,140 --> 02:31:03,460 Thank you. 1815 02:31:03,720 --> 02:31:04,460 Thank you, Councillor. 1816 02:31:04,620 --> 02:31:08,440 And I think it will tell a story because again, we can make this public face it. 1817 02:31:10,140 --> 02:31:15,020 So citizens will be able to see the conditions of the same infrastructure if we choose to. 1818 02:31:17,130 --> 02:31:18,190 Councillor Member Vellpula. 1819 02:31:19,330 --> 02:31:20,370 Thank you, Madam Mayor. 1820 02:31:21,190 --> 02:31:22,890 Just have a clarification question. 1821 02:31:25,830 --> 02:31:31,690 It says that this is a two-year contract with an option to extend for a one-year. 1822 02:31:32,830 --> 02:31:37,950 And I see there is a bell curve with the amount of dollars that are allocated. 1823 02:31:38,210 --> 02:31:43,350 We have a 78,000 and 130,000, then 13,000. 1824 02:31:43,810 --> 02:31:44,750 Could you explain me? 1825 02:31:45,710 --> 02:31:49,790 Sure. The differences in the first year will be primarily training centric 1826 02:31:49,790 --> 02:31:52,050 and then developing the requirements document. 1827 02:31:52,490 --> 02:31:54,690 Next year, we'll be going into the acquisition 1828 02:31:55,310 --> 02:31:56,990 of the actual asset management. 1829 02:32:00,560 --> 02:32:02,640 Right, the requirements document are, excuse me, 1830 02:32:02,880 --> 02:32:05,200 will execute the RFP, make an acquisition 1831 02:32:05,200 --> 02:32:06,520 of an asset management system. 1832 02:32:08,840 --> 02:32:11,140 Then in the third year, we'll drop back into more 1833 02:32:11,140 --> 02:32:15,720 of a general geospatial GIS management level. 1834 02:32:15,920 --> 02:32:17,560 So the dollar amount drops back down, 1835 02:32:19,380 --> 02:32:21,780 where we would exercise the option 1836 02:32:21,780 --> 02:32:23,220 to determine if we could take it, 1837 02:32:23,500 --> 02:32:24,580 or we still need your service. 1838 02:32:24,580 --> 02:32:28,800 So, what exactly would be the value of the software? 1839 02:32:29,280 --> 02:32:29,840 Correct. 1840 02:32:30,380 --> 02:32:35,100 What exactly would be the cost of the software for us to acquire that? 1841 02:32:35,220 --> 02:32:40,360 Now, creating the requirements document and putting together an RFP 1842 02:32:40,360 --> 02:32:43,080 and then we'll get bids that will basically then 1843 02:32:50,920 --> 02:32:51,720 I made earlier accounts. 1844 02:32:51,860 --> 02:32:59,460 We've been pitched many solutions, but we don't know what the solution is. 1845 02:32:59,460 --> 02:32:59,920 we need 1846 02:33:02,640 --> 02:33:08,060 astronomically high or we can buy something vanilla in a box that you go to a store and buy. 1847 02:33:08,300 --> 02:33:14,660 We know we don't need either. What we hope the RFP process does and guiding us takes us to that 1848 02:33:14,660 --> 02:33:20,280 point that we come to you during a budget build and we say we need this amount of money to acquire 1849 02:33:20,280 --> 02:33:28,080 the software. How much will it cost for us to lease it? How much will it cost for us to lease it 1850 02:33:28,080 --> 02:33:32,340 have been by that we don't know that again and I don't know that there's a 1851 02:33:32,340 --> 02:33:36,040 solution you can lease you could there are solutions you can pay licensing fees 1852 02:33:36,040 --> 02:33:41,160 for any but anything that you had had that you would say holistically that is 1853 02:33:41,160 --> 02:33:48,770 asset management asset management judge it not just GIS because we have GIS and we 1854 02:33:48,770 --> 02:33:55,030 can continue to plot information asset management systems overlay particular data 1855 02:33:55,030 --> 02:33:59,890 that is decision driven and then you put it out to users so they can make decisions. 1856 02:34:00,390 --> 02:34:04,070 That's what there are a lot of vendors out there right now looking at. 1857 02:34:04,630 --> 02:34:08,090 It's kind of a new frontier to a degree still. 1858 02:34:08,350 --> 02:34:12,170 It's been around for a while, but there are a lot of people that have a lot of ideas 1859 02:34:12,170 --> 02:34:15,210 that think they know what we need to include us. 1860 02:34:16,210 --> 02:34:16,650 We don't. 1861 02:34:17,230 --> 02:34:20,510 That's what they are going to tell us. That's why through their interviews, 1862 02:34:20,830 --> 02:34:22,430 the requirements document is key. 1863 02:34:22,430 --> 02:34:29,290 I learned a long time ago from the worry wise individual that if we know our requirements we know what to build 1864 02:34:29,290 --> 02:34:33,330 We know what we need to buy but absent that document even the RFP 1865 02:34:33,950 --> 02:34:36,630 So a lot of their time in that second year 1866 02:34:38,490 --> 02:34:45,370 In until the end of this year we have three quarters left is to develop what we need a statement the states 1867 02:34:45,370 --> 02:34:47,370 This is the city of Piorius 1868 02:34:47,370 --> 02:34:53,750 need which will translate it into the RFP, which will translate to me coming to you with 1869 02:34:53,750 --> 02:34:58,470 a budget I ask you for what it's going to cost the rest to buy based on the responses 1870 02:34:58,470 --> 02:34:59,070 to the RFP. 1871 02:35:00,920 --> 02:35:01,880 Thank you for the clarification. 1872 02:35:02,420 --> 02:35:03,080 Thank you Madam Mayor. 1873 02:35:03,280 --> 02:35:03,600 Welcome. 1874 02:35:04,680 --> 02:35:05,800 Any additional questions? 1875 02:35:06,460 --> 02:35:07,700 Council Member Reganbot? 1876 02:35:08,300 --> 02:35:09,200 Thank you Madam Mayor. 1877 02:35:10,460 --> 02:35:11,420 I'm Director Poes. 1878 02:35:11,540 --> 02:35:12,760 Thank you for bringing this forward. 1879 02:35:12,940 --> 02:35:18,720 I know this is something you've talked about off and on for a number of years and as we 1880 02:35:18,720 --> 02:35:23,600 We talk about the value we've seen in PCI, I think this will just take that to the next 1881 02:35:23,600 --> 02:35:29,900 level, including sidewalks, curbs, gutters, storms, the whole shabang, as they say. 1882 02:35:30,480 --> 02:35:37,460 So I'm looking forward to seeing where we go from here and how we can explain to our constituents 1883 02:35:37,460 --> 02:35:38,640 in that different level. 1884 02:35:38,860 --> 02:35:44,600 The reason this works being done is because of the condition of X, Y, Z, and reason this 1885 02:35:44,600 --> 02:35:47,020 is put off until next year is because of that. 1886 02:35:47,020 --> 02:35:57,780 So I think there's a lot of value in this for us to prioritize things and for you as the professionals to to give us that guidance. So thank you, thank you. 1887 02:35:57,820 --> 02:35:58,200 Welcome. 1888 02:36:00,670 --> 02:36:02,550 Can I get a motion to approve? 1889 02:36:03,170 --> 02:36:04,710 Moved by Councilmember Sears. 1890 02:36:05,130 --> 02:36:06,790 Seconded by Councilmember Kelly. 1891 02:36:07,870 --> 02:36:10,370 Any other discussion? Please catch your ballots. 1892 02:36:10,370 --> 02:36:10,570 That's 1893 02:36:13,390 --> 02:36:15,810 motion passes unanimously. 1894 02:36:17,330 --> 02:36:18,710 Thank you very much. 1895 02:36:20,510 --> 02:36:21,630 Madam Clerk. 1896 02:36:23,670 --> 02:36:43,050 23-101 is a communication from the City Manager and Corporation Council with request to adopt an ordinance to make temporary amendments to Chapter 18 licenses reducing fees, allowing additional locations in article 17 mobile food vehicles and reducing fees in article 12. 1897 02:36:43,050 --> 02:36:46,010 Street and sidewalk vendors of the Code of the City of Peoria. 1898 02:36:46,970 --> 02:36:47,990 Mr. Manager. 1899 02:36:48,770 --> 02:36:49,830 Thank you Madam Mayor. 1900 02:36:50,090 --> 02:36:55,730 This item really is coming to us from a request from the Arts and 1901 02:36:55,730 --> 02:36:59,070 Law in Education celebration at the Peoria County Courthouse. 1902 02:37:00,230 --> 02:37:04,090 They currently park all of their buses along Hamilton Street. 1903 02:37:04,650 --> 02:37:12,770 And if they're ever to get any food vendors, they would really need the stretch of Adam Street to be able to have any food vendors that would operate. 1904 02:37:12,770 --> 02:37:37,030 Right, there are no food carts that have applied, so what we wanted to bring forward was what we did last year, which is to basically allow the food carts or allow food trucks, excuse me, to operate along both the courthouse square block of Hamilton and on Adams during 2023, and then also wave the fees to try and encourage the food trucks to operate at those locations. 1905 02:37:37,030 --> 02:37:50,930 the only other location that they would be able to operate in downtown is right out here on Jefferson by the Civic Center where there's the bus pulloff section of that. So those would be the three locations in downtown that the food carts would operate. 1906 02:37:51,370 --> 02:37:53,030 What would the time period be? 1907 02:37:53,430 --> 02:38:00,550 The time period is for this full calendar year. So it would be through the rest of 2023 that we would do that. 1908 02:38:00,550 --> 02:38:20,200 But we did get a letter today that I'll be happy to share with Council from the county administrator that said at a minimum, I think they'd like to see April and May having that ability during the arts and education celebration discussion questions for the manager councilmember Jensen. 1909 02:38:20,720 --> 02:38:24,140 Thank you, Madam Mayor. Just wanted to thank you for bringing this forward. 1910 02:38:25,160 --> 02:38:31,480 This is something I would think Councilman Riggum back and I both had brought up before 1911 02:38:31,480 --> 02:38:35,440 during discussions on the Council floor to get more people downtown and get more businesses 1912 02:38:35,440 --> 02:38:39,380 downtown. So this is great and with that I move to approve. 1913 02:38:39,840 --> 02:38:43,280 Is there a second? Seconded by Council Member Valpula. 1914 02:38:45,710 --> 02:38:46,550 Council Member Euler. 1915 02:38:46,910 --> 02:38:51,290 Thank you Madam Chairwoman. Consistent with my opinion last year when this came up in my 1916 02:38:51,290 --> 02:38:56,230 no vote. I'll be opposing this again. I think it sends the wrong message to our restaurants 1917 02:38:56,230 --> 02:39:02,490 in downtown and it basically last year the only thing we accomplished was saying that we don't care 1918 02:39:02,490 --> 02:39:09,690 about you. We did not have one single license apply to put a food cart downtown but we told the 1919 02:39:09,690 --> 02:39:15,010 businesses who stuck it out through COVID that you need to pay your full property tax and stormwater 1920 02:39:15,010 --> 02:39:20,550 fee bill and parcel pension fee bill. I enjoy going to the food carts and the food trucks and I think 1921 02:39:20,550 --> 02:39:25,450 any of the owners that are here locally know that I frequent them but the 1922 02:39:25,450 --> 02:39:29,470 location that these go and saying that you don't have to pay but you have to 1923 02:39:29,470 --> 02:39:34,590 pay property taxes and stormwater fees is completely unfair and sends a bad 1924 02:39:34,590 --> 02:39:39,270 message when they are hanging on waiting for civic center events and the days 1925 02:39:39,270 --> 02:39:43,950 that OSF and caterpillar actually have employees in the office to survive. I go 1926 02:39:43,950 --> 02:39:48,890 in them every day downtown I have these discussions with all of the owners and 1927 02:39:48,890 --> 02:39:50,730 And they are very concerned about this. 1928 02:39:51,030 --> 02:40:03,370 I've had some of them even say that once there's enough people down here back to work and events going on, then you're welcome to plug the food truck into my front door if we've got enough business to go around. 1929 02:40:03,570 --> 02:40:10,070 But I assure you if you spend time down there, you will know there's not enough business going on, so I will be opposing it. 1930 02:40:10,250 --> 02:40:10,570 Thank you. 1931 02:40:10,570 --> 02:40:11,970 You're welcome and 1932 02:40:15,580 --> 02:40:20,820 there's no more discussion. We have a motion to approve and a second. Please catch your ballots. 1933 02:40:25,040 --> 02:40:29,120 Motion passes with three nays. Sear. Oiler. Recreate. 1934 02:40:32,750 --> 02:40:33,630 Madam clerk. 1935 02:40:35,920 --> 02:40:40,160 We are at unfinished business. We do not have any items under unfinished. 1936 02:40:43,200 --> 02:40:47,220 Okay, so then we are at new business. Is there any new business 1937 02:40:49,240 --> 02:40:51,020 councilmember Reganbach? 1938 02:40:51,020 --> 02:41:03,620 Madam Mayor, I just wanted to give special recognition to longtime East Bluff resident Ed McGraw for his induction in the greater purious sports hall of fame on Saturday night. 1939 02:41:04,180 --> 02:41:17,100 Ed McGraw was a civic teacher at Central Junior High when I was in eighth grade and he's the one that actually I guess he could say is responsible for me being here today in this and around this forest. 1940 02:41:17,100 --> 02:41:40,640 He made civics and and public service really come alive, so I'm sure some of you probably think less of him because of that of my being here, but he was a great teacher then and a great community leader and it's one of the founders of the steamboat classic, which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this June, so just congratulations to Mr. McGraw. 1941 02:41:41,160 --> 02:41:41,480 Thank you. 1942 02:41:45,260 --> 02:41:50,940 Thank you Madam Mayor, well just kind of following up a little bit on what Director Kay 1943 02:41:50,940 --> 02:41:51,840 will talk about. 1944 02:41:52,160 --> 02:41:58,720 There will be a ribbon cutting hosted by the city at Treewind Park on Monday, April 10th. 1945 02:41:58,720 --> 02:42:04,960 At 1030, it's part of the national community development week and it's a partnership between 1946 02:42:04,960 --> 02:42:06,900 the park district and the city of Peoria. 1947 02:42:06,900 --> 02:42:15,520 Again, using those CDBG, CV funds, to fund park improvements at this, what's become 1948 02:42:15,520 --> 02:42:17,740 a vital park in our community. 1949 02:42:18,980 --> 02:42:27,020 The improvements are a new ADA accessible playground equipment, a new pavilion, new walking 1950 02:42:27,020 --> 02:42:32,000 pants, and a new basketball court to allow for outdoor activity. 1951 02:42:32,000 --> 02:42:46,620 So just to shout out to everybody who made this project possible and we hope to see a lot of people as well as my colleagues here joining me on April 10th for their ribbon cutting at Tree-Win Park. 1952 02:42:47,980 --> 02:42:49,140 Thank you Madam Mayor. 1953 02:42:49,240 --> 02:42:51,600 You're very welcome. Councilmember Jensen. 1954 02:42:52,280 --> 02:42:53,540 Thank you Madam Mayor. 1955 02:42:53,540 --> 02:43:16,600 I have a request to see if staff would bring forward either maybe a resolution regarding the proposed carbon dioxide pipeline that's going to go through 616-605, you know, the Sierra Club was here about a month ago, a meeting or two ago talking about it. 1956 02:43:16,600 --> 02:43:20,060 I think we've all been received emails about it. 1957 02:43:20,200 --> 02:43:23,480 I've read a lot about it, and I am concerned about it. 1958 02:43:23,600 --> 02:43:26,500 And I'd like to see that this council take some action, 1959 02:43:26,680 --> 02:43:29,520 at least take or make an adaptive resolution 1960 02:43:29,520 --> 02:43:33,460 stating that we're against having that expand here 1961 02:43:33,460 --> 02:43:41,200 or concerned and perhaps endure some moratorium 1962 02:43:41,200 --> 02:43:43,820 until we have more information about it. 1963 02:43:46,630 --> 02:43:47,550 Okay, thank you. 1964 02:43:47,550 --> 02:43:48,310 Council 1965 02:43:51,440 --> 02:43:52,020 Member Graham. 1966 02:43:53,440 --> 02:43:53,880 Thank you. 1967 02:43:54,040 --> 02:44:01,020 Director Powers and Manager Yuri, do we have a strategy to get that lane that's blocked 1968 02:44:01,440 --> 02:44:05,640 on Northbound Knoxville, just south in Nebraska back open. 1969 02:44:05,640 --> 02:44:08,460 It's been closed for a long time. 1970 02:44:09,160 --> 02:44:12,780 It's a hazard, it's potential accident causing hazard. 1971 02:44:13,280 --> 02:44:14,040 What's the plan? 1972 02:44:19,550 --> 02:44:22,910 Council Member, my understanding is it's a it's a water company issue, but we'll certainly 1973 02:44:22,910 --> 02:44:27,490 talk with them and see what we can do to get a status and an update on what's 1974 02:44:27,490 --> 02:44:29,250 going on with that and respond back. 1975 02:44:32,160 --> 02:44:34,140 Did you want to respond director powers? 1976 02:44:34,540 --> 02:44:35,200 Okay. I 1977 02:44:38,880 --> 02:44:43,820 think you're referring to the sinkhole. As we are working with I dot right 1978 02:44:43,820 --> 02:44:50,100 now in regard to what exactly the responsibilities are there with the issue. We 1979 02:44:50,100 --> 02:44:54,080 know the issue is a separation of some type possible separation of storm. 1980 02:44:58,500 --> 02:44:59,060 We're 1981 02:44:59,060 --> 02:44:59,720 for a surface. 1982 02:45:00,980 --> 02:45:30,860 For roads, manholes and structures, they're in lies the point. The agreement we have says we basically would take care of the manhole, the surface and a riser, whatever coming to that point. I doubt as of the belief that we would also maintain the sewer structure underneath. We do not believe that to be the case and they're in lies the point. We're trying to resolve that with them now. We need to get a result because our constituents are not being well served. 1983 02:45:30,860 --> 02:45:36,240 it's an accident creator and it's not that it's been a few days you know we've 1984 02:45:36,240 --> 02:45:43,380 had these discussions as relates to how we interact with the water company 1985 02:45:43,380 --> 02:45:51,180 and other entities i. Mr. Riggenbach, Councilman Riggenbach we we have to work 1986 02:45:51,180 --> 02:45:57,980 with other government entities and when we get to an impasse we need to have a 1987 02:45:57,980 --> 02:46:04,920 meeting. Otherwise, we see this stuff on next door with our constituents very frustrated 1988 02:46:05,340 --> 02:46:11,100 and they're sending emails out. Here's the thing. We're the elected officials here. 1989 02:46:11,600 --> 02:46:18,520 We expect our employees not only in the city of purity because they have full confidence 1990 02:46:18,520 --> 02:46:26,300 in you, but to get this resolved with who needs to be spoken to, I guess it's I dot. 1991 02:46:26,300 --> 02:46:32,860 that is correct and we are meeting with them and we do have the agreement and we're looking for the older agreement now to 1992 02:46:32,860 --> 02:46:38,920 determine if it's a matter if we determine it's us we'd already be there we just don't believe it is us 1993 02:46:38,920 --> 02:46:49,660 thank you director thank you councilmember sear thank you madam mayor next Tuesday we have an 1994 02:46:49,660 --> 02:46:56,920 election and I'd like to be the first one to number one say a big thank you to a couple of my 1995 02:46:56,920 --> 02:47:03,000 my colleagues, Councilwoman Beth Janssen and Councilman Sid Rockrigo for years of service 1996 02:47:03,000 --> 02:47:03,920 around the horseshoe. 1997 02:47:04,060 --> 02:47:10,320 Thank you very much for all you've done, it was a pleasure to serve with you guys and 1998 02:47:10,320 --> 02:47:16,320 I'd like to wish good luck to Dr. Valpula and my Councilman fellow here Mr. Kelly and also 1999 02:47:16,320 --> 02:47:22,880 Mr. Orler will be running again, wish you guys good luck and very soon we'll have a new 2000 02:47:22,880 --> 02:47:23,300 horseshoe. 2001 02:47:23,300 --> 02:47:28,200 So I wanted to encourage all our constituent to vote next Tuesday, so thank you very much 2002 02:47:28,200 --> 02:47:31,660 for both of you and good luck to everybody else, and we'll be back soon. 2003 02:47:32,080 --> 02:47:32,360 Welcome. 2004 02:47:32,740 --> 02:47:36,240 They've still got some more meetings to go, so go away. 2005 02:47:37,940 --> 02:47:38,800 Councilmember Jackson. 2006 02:47:39,400 --> 02:47:41,160 Thank you, Madam Mayor. 2007 02:47:41,400 --> 02:47:48,420 Just to follow up, thank you, Councilwoman Jensen, for the request for a resolution on the 2008 02:47:48,420 --> 02:47:51,820 carbon dioxide, proposed carbon dioxide pipeline. 2009 02:47:53,020 --> 02:47:55,180 I guess I'll go ahead and put it out there. 2010 02:47:55,300 --> 02:47:57,340 I've been kind of doing a little bit of research 2011 02:47:57,340 --> 02:48:00,680 and fact-finding and meeting with individuals about this. 2012 02:48:01,040 --> 02:48:06,940 And I too am opposed to this project for a variety of reasons, 2013 02:48:06,940 --> 02:48:09,660 some of which I'm still researching. 2014 02:48:10,340 --> 02:48:13,960 But I would like to, for those of you who are interested, 2015 02:48:14,180 --> 02:48:15,860 I'm going to have a news conference this coming 2016 02:48:15,860 --> 02:48:22,780 Thursday, day after tomorrow at 10.30 at Lincoln Branch Library, along with the Sierra Club. 2017 02:48:23,000 --> 02:48:28,680 And I would just like to invite as many people as possible to come out because I have some 2018 02:48:28,680 --> 02:48:29,360 great concerns. 2019 02:48:29,360 --> 02:48:38,460 It's not just the south side, but this project like this with the potential for any type 2020 02:48:38,460 --> 02:48:44,760 of problems could affect not only the south side, but we've got East Peoria. 2021 02:48:44,760 --> 02:48:49,780 Yeah, we've got we've got downtown Peory just a principle on the weather and things of that nature 2022 02:48:49,780 --> 02:48:55,220 So I have reached out to some of the companies and I'm still waiting to hear back 2023 02:48:55,220 --> 02:49:00,900 But I will continue to do my due diligence and gathering information, but for the record 2024 02:49:00,900 --> 02:49:07,920 I would like to see a moratorium of some sort until we're able to get a meeting and more information 2025 02:49:08,600 --> 02:49:12,220 from the parties involved. So again 2026 02:49:12,220 --> 02:49:15,720 And for those of you who are interested, I'm going to have a news conference on Thursday 2027 02:49:15,720 --> 02:49:21,640 at Lincoln Branch Light, Breary, to just talk a little bit more about it and to raise awareness. 2028 02:49:22,200 --> 02:49:25,840 Because there are many people who don't know about this. 2029 02:49:26,400 --> 02:49:33,620 And as the first district representative, it's my job to do my homework to raise awareness 2030 02:49:33,620 --> 02:49:40,040 and to inform, not only the residents, but the businesses, the schools, the churches, 2031 02:49:40,860 --> 02:49:46,820 and all of the non-profits and agencies that exist in and around that area of 2032 02:49:46,820 --> 02:49:51,660 town. So thank you. I hope that we'll get an opportunity to get more 2033 02:49:51,660 --> 02:49:56,700 information. And as I do hopefully I'll be able to bring that to the Council 2034 02:49:56,700 --> 02:50:00,800 and share that with you all as we look forward to maybe getting a resolution 2035 02:50:00,800 --> 02:50:06,220 and a moratorium of some sort until we're able to get more information about this. 2036 02:50:06,220 --> 02:50:06,940 Thank you, 2037 02:50:08,960 --> 02:50:15,100 councilmember Graham. Yes piggybacking off that one of the things 2038 02:50:15,100 --> 02:50:20,540 that is somewhat concerning to me is that we 2039 02:50:22,840 --> 02:50:26,280 don't have a city position or 2040 02:50:26,280 --> 02:50:33,660 recommendation on something that we are getting tutorials on from entities like 2041 02:50:33,660 --> 02:50:40,380 the Sierra Club and other environmental groups we know this is coming and 2042 02:50:40,380 --> 02:50:48,640 manager does our administration have a position on this no the administration 2043 02:50:48,640 --> 02:50:53,280 quite frankly hasn't taken a position yet on it because we don't have that much 2044 02:50:53,280 --> 02:50:58,080 and we've we've only got a little bit of information that's been presented by 2045 02:50:58,080 --> 02:51:02,920 the companies themselves to us so we don't have a lot of information yet to 2046 02:51:02,920 --> 02:51:08,120 make an informed decision, but we'll be happy to put some information together for council. 2047 02:51:08,620 --> 02:51:14,420 And that informed decision is important because some of these things could, if they could 2048 02:51:14,420 --> 02:51:21,840 be potential health problems, you know what, toxic fumes, whatever discharge of gas does 2049 02:51:21,840 --> 02:51:23,880 not respect district boundary lines. 2050 02:51:24,880 --> 02:51:32,680 So you know, it's all of us here and so thank you councilor Jackson for bringing this up 2051 02:51:32,680 --> 02:51:35,400 because I love our Sierra Club 2052 02:51:35,400 --> 02:51:38,360 and I love the people who represent various other groups 2053 02:51:38,360 --> 02:51:41,140 in this community who are concerned about our environment. 2054 02:51:41,480 --> 02:51:45,340 But you're saying we basically just don't have enough information. 2055 02:51:45,640 --> 02:51:48,100 So Councilor Jackson, I'll see if I can join you as well 2056 02:51:48,100 --> 02:51:51,340 because we need to start developing a body of information. 2057 02:51:51,880 --> 02:51:55,280 We just recently have seen what can happen down 2058 02:51:55,280 --> 02:52:01,380 with the bioerge of mess and the potential problem is there. 2059 02:52:01,380 --> 02:52:10,220 and I think this has to be front and center and I think I think that I want to 2060 02:52:10,220 --> 02:52:15,200 learn more about it. But thank you for telling us that we're on it, but we just 2061 02:52:15,200 --> 02:52:21,500 don't have sufficient amount of information to bring to the council yet. Thank 2062 02:52:21,500 --> 02:52:24,020 you. You're welcome. Madam Clerk. 2063 02:52:27,770 --> 02:52:28,530 We are at Citizens 2064 02:52:28,530 --> 02:52:35,710 It's an opportunity to address the City Council, we have not received any cards, so then we're on to executive session. 2065 02:52:36,530 --> 02:52:39,330 And I would like to, okay, 2066 02:52:47,900 --> 02:52:50,780 come on, you can come on, you can come up, 2067 02:53:01,840 --> 02:53:02,860 it's five minutes. 2068 02:53:03,260 --> 02:53:05,200 Okay, my name is Eric Smith. 2069 02:53:05,460 --> 02:53:10,080 I live at 511 west tea time with my wife Sherry on the corner of Mont-Holly. 2070 02:53:10,080 --> 02:53:15,600 We've been there since July 2020, and since being there, we've noticed that there's 2071 02:53:15,600 --> 02:53:17,940 general fast-driving on Mont-Holly. 2072 02:53:18,700 --> 02:53:22,480 It's especially bad at night and during the morning commute. 2073 02:53:23,220 --> 02:53:28,940 The speed limit is 35, but I have routinely followed cars going 50 and due to the width 2074 02:53:28,940 --> 02:53:33,960 of that road, it is quite easy to go 40 and not even feel like you are speeding. 2075 02:53:33,960 --> 02:53:42,000 Now, Mont-Holly is a feeder for all of, and this, quite frankly, might play in a little 2076 02:53:42,000 --> 02:53:42,600 bit too. 2077 02:53:42,840 --> 02:53:48,720 Your ability to work with, excuse me, the Joint Commission on Racial Justice and Equality, 2078 02:53:49,060 --> 02:53:51,820 and evening out your speeding ticket admissions. 2079 02:53:53,020 --> 02:53:57,720 This road feeds, Holly Hills. 2080 02:53:58,200 --> 02:53:59,900 It feeds Edge Wilde. 2081 02:53:59,900 --> 02:54:01,700 It feeds Fox Point. 2082 02:54:01,700 --> 02:54:05,480 and it gets a fair amount of traffic and I would presume that most of the traffic 2083 02:54:05,480 --> 02:54:11,700 comes from those neighborhoods where homes can cost in two commas millions of 2084 02:54:11,700 --> 02:54:17,220 dollars and I propose that we generally slow that traffic on the road now the 2085 02:54:17,220 --> 02:54:22,160 first iteration I think Beth you wrote to me today perhaps that we can get a 2086 02:54:22,160 --> 02:54:27,120 trailer monitor trailer mounted speed monitor there I do not know if those keep 2087 02:54:27,120 --> 02:54:36,340 data, if they just simply point a speed at anybody, but I would be interested if there were more metrics than mine. 2088 02:54:37,100 --> 02:54:43,080 The second iteration may be to have permanent mounted speed limit monitoring signs. 2089 02:54:43,080 --> 02:54:52,240 If you can put those up, I know there's one on Northgate Road, which is on Holly Hills, but Mont-Holly needs one in both directions. 2090 02:54:52,240 --> 02:54:57,740 I would defer to the city engineers or whomever I can work with to best place them. 2091 02:54:58,320 --> 02:55:03,160 And the third iteration of this could be as when road resurfacing is needed, 2092 02:55:03,160 --> 02:55:07,620 that we install some type of speed, calming, device, traffic, or whatever. 2093 02:55:08,520 --> 02:55:11,960 There have been emails going around the city council. 2094 02:55:11,960 --> 02:55:22,920 I talked to, I've emailed all the, excuse me, Mr. Sear and all of our city-wide representatives. 2095 02:55:23,780 --> 02:55:29,580 And there's talk about perhaps that there are speed monitoring cameras, legislation that could be put past. 2096 02:55:29,720 --> 02:55:37,000 I know they have that in Iowa because I got a ticket for Iowa while I was at the hardware store. 2097 02:55:40,920 --> 02:55:46,480 but the speed's on Mont-Holly, so what I did is I measured between two telephone poles 2098 02:55:46,480 --> 02:55:51,980 on Mont-Holly across from my house. They are 170 something feet. I measured the amount 2099 02:55:51,980 --> 02:55:58,660 to 180 feet and using the basic high school math of a public education system of puria. 2100 02:55:58,860 --> 02:56:05,780 I came up with a factor of 122.7 if you divide 122.7 divided by the number of seconds it takes 2101 02:56:05,780 --> 02:56:12,400 for a car to pass that distance. You will come up with 50, 37, 34, 34, 43, 48, 37, 2102 02:56:12,600 --> 02:56:22,220 40, 35, 41, 47, 33, 36, 48, 38, 46, and that is an average of 40 on my first five minute 2103 02:56:22,220 --> 02:56:26,400 break. That is an average of five minutes speeding. The next car that came by came by at 58 2104 02:56:26,400 --> 02:56:34,320 miles an hour still accelerating, 33, 50, 43, 46, 50, 38, 49, 57 miles an hour, 44 miles an 2105 02:56:34,320 --> 02:56:36,940 now are 42 miles, now are 58 miles an hour. 2106 02:56:37,440 --> 02:56:46,180 43 miles an hour, 46 miles an hour, 46, 41, 39, 41, 47, 39, 52 miles an hour, 45, 2107 02:56:46,440 --> 02:56:49,660 45, 45, 64 miles an hour. 2108 02:56:51,720 --> 02:57:00,480 44 miles an hour, 48, 45, 44, 38, 38, 50 miles an hour, 38, 43, 33, 47, 44, 38. 2109 02:57:00,840 --> 02:57:05,460 This is a residential street if you would like me to run 64 miles an hour down your 2110 02:57:05,460 --> 02:57:11,640 Street I'll go look you up and we'll do it. Now that's my time and I have seen 2111 02:57:11,640 --> 02:57:15,540 positive traction the last couple days with the council members so I appreciate 2112 02:57:15,540 --> 02:57:22,600 that but I know there was a there was hopefully a city police presence there 2113 02:57:24,360 --> 02:57:29,040 and you know but we'd like to see this move done traffic is moving much too 2114 02:57:29,040 --> 02:57:33,960 fast there and like I said if you want racial injustice and equality I think we 2115 02:57:33,960 --> 02:57:38,260 We can pretty safely say that it's not Black people's meeting down that road. 2116 02:57:38,960 --> 02:57:39,340 Thank you. 2117 02:57:39,860 --> 02:57:40,900 Thank you, Mr. Smith. 2118 02:57:44,410 --> 02:57:50,370 And I would like to invite a motion to adjourn and to convene in closed session immediately 2119 02:57:50,370 --> 02:58:00,590 following adjournment of the City Council meeting pursuant to the Open Meeting Zach 5-I-L-C-S-120-4-2-2-C-1 2120 02:58:00,590 --> 02:58:03,670 to discuss the performance of a specific employee 2121 02:58:03,670 --> 02:58:05,370 pursuant to the Open Meetings Act, 2122 02:58:05,370 --> 02:58:12,930 and pursuant to the Open Meetings Act 5-ILS-120-4-2-C-21-4-approval 2123 02:58:12,930 --> 02:58:16,810 by the body of closed session minutes. 2124 02:58:18,530 --> 02:58:20,530 Move by Councilman Kelly, 2125 02:58:20,830 --> 02:58:23,230 seconded by Councilman Velpula. 2126 02:58:23,850 --> 02:58:24,870 Please cast your ballots. 2127 02:58:29,600 --> 02:58:30,740 Councilman Velpula. 2128 02:58:30,740 --> 02:58:33,800 Can you councilman Valpula? Can you vote? 2129 02:58:35,910 --> 02:58:38,750 Motion passes unanimous. Thank you for your service.