[0:00] I'd like to call the August 3rd city of
Monmouth Council meeting to order.
[0:03] You'll please rise and join me in the
pledge to the flag. I pledge allegiance
[0:08] to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for which it
[0:14] stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice
[0:20] for all.
[0:32] If
>> I could have a roll call for attendance,
[0:34] please.
>> Alderman Teal
[0:36] » here.
>> Alderman Bone
[0:37] » here.
>> Alderman Connor
[0:39] » here.
>> Alderman Penedo
[0:40] » here.
>> Alderman Vanfleet
[0:42] » here.
>> Roll call complete.
[0:43] » Thank you. I would entertain a motion
for approval of the July 20th uh council
[0:50] meeting minutes as presented.
>> So move.
[0:53] » Second.
>> I have a motion and a second. Are there
[0:55] any amendments or corrections
hearing? A roll call, please.
[1:00] » Ke,
>> yes.
[1:01] » Bomb,
>> yes.
[1:03] » Connor,
>> yes.
[1:05] » Porned,
>> yes.
[1:06] » Vanley,
>> yes.
[1:07] » Motion carried.
>> Thank you.
[1:11] Under presentations to council, is
anyone who wishes to address council
[1:16] this evening?
[1:20] Hearing none, we will move on.
We have one item on our consent agenda
[1:26] and that is approval of the bills. I'd
entertain a motion for approval.
[1:32] » Second.
>> I have a motion and a second. Are there
[1:34] any items that need to be removed for
further discussion?
[1:40] Hearing none. A roll call, please.
>> Bone,
[1:44] » yes.
>> Connor,
[1:45] » yes.
>> Penedo,
[1:47] » yes.
>> Vanfle,
[1:49] » yes.
>> Teal,
[1:50] » yes.
>> Motion carries.
[1:51] » Thank you.
[1:54] Um, under committee of the whole, um, we
have Jeannie Weber here this evening to
[2:02] talk to you about the Hispanic Heritage
Festival. I believe has a map here with
[2:06] the layout uh, kind of setting
[clears throat] up the uh, the area.
[2:11] » Hi everybody. Um, I am Jeannie Weber and
I'm here on behalf of Ann Tunnel 2. We
[2:18] are partnering this year with BCA on the
Hispanic Heritage Festival and reducing
[2:23] its size quite considerably because we
are anticipating doing Baconfest next
[2:29] year. So, we're uh we don't need to
carry two large events in our office.
[2:34] It's a lot. Um anyway, the map will show
you uh where we would love to have the
[2:40] roads closed off and that would be West
Broadway and South Maine. That's where
[2:44] the vendors are going to be. Um, each
year the team from Abnner's volunteers
[2:50] to run our bar and they want to um try
to be adjacent to their bar so they can
[2:56] have access to ice and those kinds of
things. Um, if anybody has any questions
[3:02] about the map, I can answer them for
you. Otherwise, um, the event is
[3:06] scheduled for September 19th. We are
also making this a little bit more
[3:11] familyfriendly, changing the hours um to
um 4 to 900 p.m.
[3:20] So, we'll be shutting down a lot
earlier.
[3:24] Um Chief, um do you think we need to
block off
[3:30] all four in the 100 blocks so we don't
have traffic trying to enter into
[3:36] » um the area? I don't think we're have to
block off all four of them. North Main
[3:39] Street, East Broadway, I think will be
fine. East Broadway traffic, well, North
[3:44] Main, the one coming south and North
Main will have to be blocked that way.
[3:47] Nothing's going on. East Broadway I
think will be okay going if they go off
[3:52] north off the square, but um we'll
probably have to block three of those
[3:58] main roadways off. They're the one that
>> Yeah. I just think with traffic, it's
[4:03] » just keep people safe.
>> Y
[4:06] » Yeah. We'll work with you on where we'll
put the stage and everything and that
[4:10] can kind of help block as well,
>> right? [clears throat]
[4:13] » Yeah.
>> Okay. Um, council, have any questions
[4:17] for Jeanie?
>> No, I just have one of the chief. So,
[4:20] your only your only traffic would just
be off East Broadway off to North Main,
[4:23] right? They can only make the curve
there. Cool.
[4:26] » All right.
>> That'll be some relief.
[4:30] » Yeah.
>> Yeah. We're trying to give some relief
[4:32] to all of this. It's a lot to ask to
close everything down on the square on
[4:38] Saturday night.
[clears throat]
[4:41] » Any other questions?
>> Um, I'd entertain a motion for approval
[4:47] of the u the proposed layout here for
the Hispanic festival on September 19th
[4:55] from 4 to 9:00 p.m. Probably need some
time on either side of that for setting
[5:00] up and tearing down.
Yeah, I'm not sure. Um the stage is
[5:04] going to be smaller and normally they
set it up the night before, but I think
[5:08] this stage is small enough that they'll
be able to bring it in um earlier in the
[5:13] day and set it up at that time.
>> Where's the stage going to be at?
[5:17] » It'll be in front of BCA some way
somehow. Um we also um bought some extra
[5:24] cones last year to protect the
landscaping that's so beautiful. So,
[5:28] we'll um make sure to mark all of that
off and make um ongoing announcements
[5:34] that that asks that people don't step on
the landscaping.
[5:42] » Okay.
Do I see I have a motion, a second,
[5:46] right?
>> No, no motion. No second.
[5:48] » Okay. Entertain motion. Second. Yep.
>> And a second we
[5:54] » second.
>> Okay. All right. So, we have a motion to
[5:56] second. Any other questions or
discussion
[5:59] hearing? None. A roll call, please.
>> Connor,
[6:02] » yes.
>> Tornadoed,
[6:03] » yes.
>> Barry,
[6:04] » yes.
>> Van Fleet,
[6:06] » yes.
>> Teal,
[6:07] » yes.
>> Bone,
[6:08] » yes.
>> Motion carry.
[6:10] » Thank you very much.
>> Thank you.
[6:14] Um, next we have u
Mr. Patel here with us this evening from
[6:20] American
requesting a
[6:25] liquor license. um so that he can have
gaming terminals in his hotel.
[6:32] » Hello everyone, this is Harry Harry
Patel from American. We are the new
[6:37] owner. We purchased last year and this
year we would like to have on premises
[6:43] leaker license where we can sell out on
premises leaker as well as have some
[6:48] video gaming machines like three through
four and they will always stay front of
[6:53] the front desk area where everybody I
mean front desk staff will monitor 247.
[6:58] [clears throat]
[7:00] » We've council has limited those in the
past. I uh I guess I would uh defer to
[7:08] council.
>> So it will bring the more revenue for
[7:11] the city as well
>> and where our guests can enjoy the
[7:16] gaming and little liquor too.
>> Council have any questions for Mr.
[7:22] Patel?
[7:27] » Do we have a
a motion to
[7:31] Is that what we need? A motion to
approve a going to you're either going
[7:34] to make a motion or I'll die for lack of
action. So I guess you guys can discuss
[7:40] it ahead of it or is anybody interested
in moving this item forward
[7:47] doesn't sound like it. So
unfortunately the request is probably
[7:53] not going to happen.
>> No worries. Thank you very much.
[7:57] » Thank you sir.
[8:03] Next we have our building and zoning
July report. Director Clark.
[8:09] [clears throat]
[8:12] Good evening, Mayor Council. Zoning
Department continues to issue permits,
[8:16] complete rental and solar inspections,
as well as send out notices for mowing,
[8:20] junk and debris, unsafe structures, or
houses in need of repair or removal.
[8:25] There is a change. Uh, I missed they we
did send out five unsafe notices, three
[8:32] for demo and then two that we've had
responses back and they're making the
[8:36] needed repairs.
Um, open projects a computer uh Buchanan
[8:42] Center for the Arts, a renovation of the
third floor started and will conclude
[8:46] construction for an elevator as well.
Houston Apartments business renovation
[8:51] at 113 West 1st Avenue. Renovations
continue. uh casing out interior
[8:56] windows, tuck point into the exterior as
well. And then Midwest Pet Foods is
[9:02] getting closed in their new 70x 226.9
ft warehouse storage construction.
[9:09] Monmouth College at 9003 East Broad
continues for additional student housing
[9:14] with electrical, plumbing, and sprinkler
system roughing inspection completed.
[9:20] And then Mammoth College, the demolition
of the frat house, the student
[9:23] fraternity complex. Uh they are still
removing concrete footings out of the
[9:30] base of that area. Uh they're hoping to
be done by the mid next week on that
[9:35] project.
And then u the Robins [clears throat]
[9:39] Maple City warehouse 9496 public square.
the application one and two uh the
[9:45] masonary and structural has been
completed and they're in the process of
[9:49] application three the wind window
installations uh they are down to I
[9:55] believe eight windows these are the ones
that have brick above the windows they
[9:59] will be removing all of that as well uh
and putting full windows back into that
[10:05] building and then Jameson center rehab
rehab houses uh this is where they
[10:11] partnered with Jameson Center and a
local nonprofit
[10:16] uh to uh buy h find houses, purchase
them, and renovate them for for the
[10:22] living need. And it's been going over
quite well. I think it's a little over
[10:26] the budget that they anticipated. So,
they're refining some of that. So,
[10:30] they've kind of slowed down a little bit
on that. Uh but that's uh definitely a a
[10:35] plus for the community. And then the
zoning board of appeals was scheduled to
[10:39] meet on Wednesday, July 8th at 5:30 p.m.
to review a request for a setback
[10:44] variance due to no quorum. It was
rescheduled for Wednesday, August 12th.
[10:52] And that'll be coming back to you that
following cons uh council providing we
[10:58] have a quorum for that. Any questions?
>> Joe, I don't know if I missed that or
[11:04] » um can you go back to RP Lumber? Oh,
yes. You know what? I guess I did miss
[11:09] that. I do.
>> Do you have an estimate of when they
[11:12] plan to be completed opening?
>> Well, they were hoping to be done like
[11:17] 30 days ago and they they had some
overruns in some other areas, other
[11:22] locations. They have one builder that
does all their building for all their
[11:25] stores and so they had issues at another
location. So, I am thinking they should
[11:32] be done within the next 30 days, but I
will I will get a final timeline on that
[11:37] for you tomorrow and reach back out and
let you let everybody know.
[11:42] » Thank you.
>> Okay.
[11:42] » Are they putting up any more buildings?
Just
[11:44] » No, that's just that one's for wood
storage.
[11:46] » Okay.
>> Yeah.
[11:48] Not at this time. They haven't came
forward with anything else.
[11:51] » That's fine. Uh are they putting another
one back up Mama College where they're
[11:54] turning the frat house in? kind of
they're rebuilding a new frat house or
[11:57] » um so they haven't they haven't gave any
information on that as of yet. It has
[12:03] not crossed my desk yet what they're
going to do exactly there.
[12:07] » Okay.
>> If I hear of anything I'll let you know.
[12:13] » Thank you Jill.
>> Thank you. Next we have the Wooder and
[12:16] Curran Junior report director,
[12:29] Mayor and Council,
Advanced Plumbing has begun working on
[12:34] phase two of our lead service line
replacement project.
[12:37] Uh planning efforts are continuing on
several of our capital projects
[12:42] including the South Main Street sanitary
sewer lining project which will go
[12:46] underneath uh where the new streetscape
is going. Uh we plan on seeing that
[12:50] starting here in the coming months be uh
some new manholes and some sewer lining
[12:54] down there. Our north main water man
replacement project which again will be
[12:58] underneath the streetscaped area which
is coming up. Uh bid documents are
[13:03] currently being put together and we'll
have a bid coming out here soon. Uh both
[13:08] these projects of course need to be
completed before that 200 block of Main
[13:11] Street streetscape begins. Uh public
works employees have also been working
[13:16] closely with our order and current
funding team to pursue uh CDBG and USDA
[13:21] funding opportunities for some of our
future projects we've been looking into.
[13:26] In addition to project planning and
construction activities, water and
[13:31] street department employees responded to
and repaired several water mane breaks
[13:35] throughout the month while continuing
their usual responsibilities.
[13:40] Uh, one thing I'd like to have a short
report, but one thing I'd like to uh
[13:45] give notice of is initially with our
West Harlem water treatment plant, we
[13:50] were planning on rehabbing the well,
well 7 with the construction of the
[13:55] plant. Uh, at the time with that
planning, the well was currently
[13:58] functional. Now, the well pump has
failed on that well on well seven, which
[14:04] is one of our six, and it's pretty
critical to get that back up and
[14:07] running. Um, that all being said, we are
working on removing the rehab of that
[14:13] well from the West Harlem water
treatment plant bid and trying to get
[14:17] that replaced sooner as opposed to
waiting for that bid to come out and
[14:21] having to wait for a contractor and the
plant to be built. Uh that all being
[14:25] said, for phase one of that repair, we
were able to go out for bids. Uh I took
[14:30] three bids for that work. One from
Cahooy Well and Pump, who I believe is
[14:35] down near Springfield, one from Brock
Key Well and Pump, who's a Missouri
[14:39] based company, and one from Municipal
Well and Pump, who's up from the Quad
[14:43] Cities. Uh we were able to collect three
bids, and the low bidder was for
[14:48] Municipal Well and Pump. And I guess I
just wanted to inform you all that they
[14:52] will be starting work on that here soon.
They were under $10,000 to uh remove the
[14:57] current well pump, do an alignment test,
and generally get it prepared for
[15:02] installing the new one. Um just to
inform council. So beyond that, I think
[15:08] I can answer any questions if anybody
has any.
[15:12] » I wanted to thank you and Joe for taking
care of that that I talked to you guys
[15:15] about last week or two weeks ago at the
meeting.
[15:18] » Yep. But I'm [snorts] still concerned
with how the curbs and stuff look. I
[15:22] mean,
>> okay,
[15:24] » they're looking better, but I know
people are responsible for that
[15:27] themselves. It's really bad on
Southside, and that's We have a lot of
[15:31] businesses that
>> some do good, some don't do good taking
[15:34] care of their their stuff. I know we
can't
[15:37] » we don't want to force people to take
care of their things, but I know a lot
[15:39] of businesses uptown are small business.
They don't have weed wags, they don't
[15:42] have mowers, and we get weeds growing up
through the cracks.
[15:46] I I wish you could look into it or I
hope you look into it and see if there's
[15:49] a way we can get somebody that can once
a month go up Main Street because that's
[15:53] where most our traffic from out of towns
and clean up the curbs.
[15:56] » Yep.
>> A little bit. You know, it's it's
[15:58] looking better. I think it got cleaned
up for the car show, but
[16:01] » Yep. Yeah. We had the guys run up and
down north and south uh and they cleaned
[16:05] up. It would have been in front of the
curbs like in the roadway itself, you
[16:08] know,
>> and I did notice that and like I I
[16:11] already talked to Joe, but I appreciate
you guys taking care of that. I just
[16:14] wish people would, you know, and as the
city, we put a lot of money out here
[16:18] lately to beautify the downtown. I I
think we need to stretch that out a
[16:22] little farther and with the help of,
[clears throat] you know, some of your
[16:25] crews, it could at least look a little
cleaner.
[16:27] » Okay.
>> On Main Street.
[16:29] » Thank you.
>> I kind of I'm hesitant how to word this.
[16:36] We had a memo at our last meeting about
a wastewater issue.
[16:40] » Okay. Y
>> um
[16:43] Are we resolved on that or
>> uh we're getting pretty close to
[16:46] resolution. Um so of our processes out
there, you've got an anorobic lagoon and
[16:51] then you have two aerobic lagoons and
they all work in series to treat the
[16:55] water. Um the industrial producer has
made some extra extraordinarily positive
[17:02] steps towards helping us out
>> and uh we're seeing some clear water
[17:07] coming out of that plant now and I think
we're just about we're getting pretty
[17:11] close to where we were before. So, I
think there's been some great strides.
[17:15] » Good job.
>> Yeah, it's Bill Hart and all his guys.
[17:18] He's uh been putting a lot of hours in
and they do a great job. So,
[17:22] » we appreciate that.
>> Yep. For sure.
[17:26] » Thank you. Any other questions for
Braden?
[17:30] » Since you're up there.
>> Yep.
[17:33] » I think we have a we had budgeted for
some uh purchasing some new water meters
[17:39] and
>> Yep. And uh I I think we can try to get
[17:42] those put in.
>> Yeah. So uh last year uh was a little
[17:47] bit earlier than year than this year,
but uh last year we purchased some water
[17:51] meters from Midwest Meter. Uh we're kind
of starting up a program of replacing
[17:56] these meters as we go, trying to reduce
our water loss and update our system,
[18:00] become more efficient. Uh last year we
bought about 225 of them. Uh we're going
[18:06] for a similar number this year. The
prices have unfortunately gone up a
[18:09] little bit like everything. Um, but I'm
looking for council approval to purchase
[18:14] uh approximately 190 meters from Midwest
Meter for $57,030.
[18:23] » Thank you. That should help us with uh
resolving some dead meters and loss uh
[18:29] revenue that way.
>> Yeah. And uh the numbers I can kind of
[18:32] speak to on that. Last year we had uh
almost 300 dead meters and of course
[18:37] you've got new ones popping up all the
time. Um but those dead meters are lost
[18:42] revenues for the city. Uh you know
giving away free water in some
[18:45] circumstance, not free but reduced price
water um when you don't have a proper
[18:50] way to calculate usage. Um that being
said, our number of dead meters this
[18:55] year has been reduced to approximately
125. Uh, so we are making progress and
[19:00] hopefully this will help us get to a
pretty good level.
[19:04] » I said it was included in our budget. So
>> I would entertain
[19:10] a motion for um approval of the purchase
of the water meters.
[19:17] » Motion approved.
>> Second.
[19:19] » I have a motion and a second. Any other
questions?
[19:23] » Hearing none. Roll call, please.
>> Barry.
[19:26] » Yes. Van Fleet,
>> yes.
[19:27] » Seal,
>> yes.
[19:28] » Bone,
>> yes.
[19:30] » Connor,
>> yes.
[19:31] » Penedo,
>> yes.
[19:33] » Motion carry.
>> Thank you.
[19:35] » Thank you.
[19:39] » Okay. Under ordinances, um we have u
three ordinances pertaining to the um
[19:47] approving and setting up the
redevelopment plan for the east side
[19:53] tiff district which was for the u
purchase of the Diane Brown property. Um
[20:00] and uh the first ordinance is the
annexation of the Diane Brown property.
[20:07] That's the first step. I think these are
presented in order. The next is for the
[20:12] um
um
[20:18] approves the redevelopment plan for the
tiff which includes public
[20:21] infrastructure improvements for the
residential subdivision along with
[20:26] miscellaneous street and drainage
improvements. The second uh designates
[20:31] the redevelopment project area which
we've had our tiff boundary map with all
[20:36] of our materials. And the third
ordinance adopts the tax increment
[20:40] allocation which directs future
incremental property tax revenues to be
[20:44] used to pay for the public
infrastructure improvement costs to
[20:49] support the the private residential
development.
[20:54] So I would entertain a motion for
approval of annexation of the Diane
[20:59] Brown property.
>> So move.
[21:03] » I have a motion and
>> second
[21:05] » and a second. Are there any questions?
[21:11] » Hearing none. A roll call, please.
>> Bley,
[21:13] » yes.
>> Seal,
[21:15] » yes.
>> Bone,
[21:16] » yes.
>> Connor,
[21:17] » yes.
>> Pedo,
[21:19] » yes.
>> Barry,
[21:20] » yes.
>> Motion carried.
[21:22] » Thank you. And then we have the three
ordinances again, uh, establishing the
[21:29] redevelopment plan for the single family
housing project. the uh designating the
[21:36] area which is we have in our map and
then the uh allocation of the financing
[21:43] of the east side using the tiff
increment to pay for the the bonds that
[21:49] will be issued to pay for the
infrastructure.
[21:53] I would entertain a motion for approval
of those three ordinances together.
[21:59] » Motion to approve.
>> Second.
[22:01] » I have a motion and I have a second. Are
there any questions?
[22:06] [cough]
>> Hearing none. Roll call, please.
[22:09] » Teal,
>> yes.
[22:10] » Bone,
>> yes.
[22:11] » Connard,
>> yes.
[22:13] » Penedo,
>> yes.
[22:14] » Barry,
>> yes.
[22:15] » Vanfleet,
>> yes.
[22:16] » Motion carried.
>> Thank you.
[22:20] Um, our next ordinance uh amends the
uh liquor ordinance on the number of
[22:29] of uh ordinances we have for selling
package liquor. I think an individual
[22:35] came before council and requested that
um the city considered that they
[22:41] directed um our attorney to draft the
ordinance. Mark them with anything
[22:47] there.
>> It just provides for the additional
[22:51] package liquor ordinance. So
>> this is not a poor license. So there's
[22:56] no gaming involved.
>> The recipient of this license will not
[23:00] be able to do gaming.
>> Okay.
[23:04] » So I would entertain a motion for
>> know the location. Pardon me.
[23:08] » Did we know the location on that?
>> Well, he didn't have one at the time.
[23:12] » He did not have one. Another individual
came in and said that he had a lease for
[23:20] a property on South or on North Main
Street.
[23:25] Different individual wanted to put in a
package and had a had a lease uh secured
[23:32] on North Main. So,
>> first come first.
[23:34] » I guess it's a matter of uh
>> first come first.
[23:38] » I would say that's probably the answer.
you have to pass the background check
[23:44] and all that. So,
>> there's a lot of requirements before we
[23:47] can and get through this through all of
the these that the police do and
[23:53] fingerprinting and and then the state
approves. And so, this is a kind of a
[23:58] step, but if you approve this that we
will have one package liquor available
[24:04] for anyone who meets the requirements.
Sorry. Random like Mark, are you good
[24:11] with this
>> the ordinance?
[24:13] » Yeah.
>> Yeah.
[24:15] » Okay.
>> Why policy issues?
[24:19] » No question.
>> No, just
[24:22] » I mean, yeah, in the in the past council
has questioned how many
[24:26] » how many liquor ordinance or how many
liquor license does our city need? I
[24:30] » I mean,
>> that's why I'm asking.
[24:32] » I would say that the market will take
care of it at some point, right? I mean,
[24:36] » if everybody has a license Well, and I
think that's the discussion is, you
[24:40] know, we have some
folks who've been around a long time, it
[24:44] looks like to me, and I would hate to
see
[24:49] folks who've been long-term residents
here with their businesses.
[24:52] Um,
>> I honestly I don't think it's going to
[24:55] push anybody out.
>> Yeah.
[24:57] » I really don't.
>> If there's one thing that'll keep going
[25:00] in town, it's just my opinion. liquor
stores and churches and and and
[25:06] » we need the churches
>> offset maybe
[25:11] on Sunday.
>> So, all right.
[25:14] » So, we have a motion and a second for
this or not yet.
[25:20] » I'm sorry.
>> I'm sorry.
[25:22] » Didn't mean to get ahead of us.
>> You're fine.
[25:24] » I'll make that motion.
>> You You will make a motion. Do we have a
[25:27] second?
>> I'll second.
[25:29] » You have a second. Any other discussion?
Hearing none. A roll call, please.
[25:36] » Bone,
>> yes.
[25:39] » Connor,
>> yes.
[25:40] » Penedo,
>> yes.
[25:42] » Barry,
>> yes.
[25:43] » Vanfleet,
>> yes.
[25:45] » Teal,
>> yes.
[25:46] » Motion carry.
>> Thank you. Um, I would entertain a
[25:50] motion for adjournment.
>> Second.
[25:53] » I have a motion second. All those in
favor say I.
[25:56] » I.
>> All oppose, same sign. We are.