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of the United States of America.

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Pers here. Kirby Hall here. Vanine.
Evans here. Kerwin here. Clary Hall

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here. Tutor here. Stutter here. We have
a quorum. Thank you. I declare the

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regular meeting of the city council on
April 18th, 2017 is now in session. Uh

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council got approval of minutes from
April 5th. Good morning. May I'll make a

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motion to reset the minutes for April
5th and placed on a motion by all. We

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have a second. I second by any
discussion.

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Tutor, yes. Clary Hall, yes. Pers, yes.
Kerwin, yes. Kirby Hall, yes. Evans,

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yes. Stutter, yes. All yes. Motion
passed. Thank you. All right. Mayor's

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report. Dog. The dog ain't in here yet.
We'll wait. Uh but uh

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we'll do the just I'll make the
announcement. Uh people this Saturday is

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uh Alex Saturday's Eagle Scout project.
He's having a citywide cleanup. Um

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stuff's been posted online and
everything else. So if everybody could

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please attend and help out this week,
Saturday, we greatly appreciate it.

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Usually when we have a lot of officers
here, it's two things. It's either

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one or two something very special and
this got something very special. But

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what I'd like to do is start off by
thanking Jim Rasco, our states attorney,

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who's here tonight. I started this ball
rolling. Um, we had several donations

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from our local people in the community.
We had fundraisers for our Bloomington

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coalition, uh, which really expedited
the, uh, ability to get our K9. We were

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expecting it for probably 12 to 18
months. I think we did it in six or

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seven. Uh which is tremendous. Um the uh
amount of people in the community that

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came together to ensure that we could
get our K9 here to help us as a deterren

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has been
tremendous. And uh without further ado,

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I'm going to bring Mr. Hopper and May up
here to be sworn in today.

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There's too many

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people. Can you give me a picture of
that, please? Thank you. All right,

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Chris, can you raise your right hand to
me? Raise your

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right hand. Hi, Christopher. Hi,
Christopher. for myself and on behalf of

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K9 mayor for myself on behalf of K9 may
be duly appointed as police officers in

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the city of Illinois being duly
appointed. We solemnly swear that we

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will partner
together. We will partner together that

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we will support, obey, and defend. We
will support, obey, and defend the

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Constitution of the United States. The
constitution the

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constitution and basically discharge all
of our

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duties. Heat. Heat.

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That's not right.

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As the mayor mentioned, when we first
started talking about a can, we knew it

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would be quite a while because of the
expense. We thought we had plenty of

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time. Also, we got a phone call from Mr.
Alaska's office saying, "Hey, we're

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going to bite it up." And so, we had
going to to uh fast forward to get

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things rolling, but we appreciate that.
I think we need it. Here we are later.

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off running Jeep. Um I think they made a
half a dozen bus already and uh but like

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we said this is a combination. We've got
a pandemic on our hands with 99 fatal

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overdoses from you know the heroin
opioid uh prescriptions uh you know

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fentanyl. uh just 10 years ago we had
10. So I mean that's a 10fold increase

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while we're doing everything we possibly
can to stop it. And so these guys uh are

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going to make a huge difference. And uh
you know if you run the the dog through

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the school number one hope deter kids
from bringing drugs to school. If they

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do then we'll deal with it and we'll
deal with it on a preventive basis for

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the most part. Obviously, you're going
to find a key in a

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locker, but otherwise, we're not trying
to save lives and uh you know, no matter

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what we do here in county uh to stop the
flow of heroin, the city of Chicago is

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40 minutes away, a little farther from
here, but you know what I'm saying? It's

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just it's a curse. And uh you know, we
have our conference coming up on Friday

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uh in Romeoville. Anybody that wants to
take a drive up there, it's open to the

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public. uh we get all the different
agencies together, all the professionals

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and we brainstorm and uh and stay in
touch so we can be geometrically more

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effective. But I've never seen anything
like this. In 2012, we had 53 fatalss.

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We knocked it down to 38. The next year
35 the following year and back up to 53

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and been going up ever since. Um so
we're not doing it the right way yet.

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So, the more that we can, the more dogs
we get on the street. And I don't know

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if you know Bert Badisher from Joliet.
Uh I've been meeting with Bert and he's

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like the number one trainer. uh every
two weeks he trades about 20 dogs and

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we've got almost 40 dogs now uh in in
Will County in law enforcement and uh

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was kitten with uh Bison the
extraordinary league of extraordinary

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canines and uh and seriously because all
these handlers need to know each other

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need to work and I you know I I
mentioned to Aaron Kleman who's the

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chief of Shorewood and he was saying
yeah you know uh we have cities that are

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adjacent to each other like Shan and on
the show then they coordinate their

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schedules so they know where the canines
are in each city so they can assist each

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other across city lines or if there's
you know call on the north side of town

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and you know whatever you know what I'm
talking about so strategically we could

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wind up where we have a situation where
there's a dog available almost

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everywhere in a populated area and the
other thing for interdiction we have all

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the major highways in in Will County DEA
tells us tens of millions of dollars

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come out of Chicago go through Will
County back to Mexico. We're not seizing

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any of those arms. Imagine what a $10
million car can do to to fund law

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enforcement. So, we unify these dogs. We
can only stop a car for 20 minutes on

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traffic stop for the Supreme
Court. Uh so, we get the dog there in 20

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minutes. The dog heads can hold the car
longer, do a search. So, with all those

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dogs, we have pre-planned. So 3 in the
morning, no matter what geographic

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quadrant you're in, you know which dog
to call for and that that hammer's

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willing to jump out of bed and get there
in 20 minutes, be $10 million. So that's

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a kind of a creative thinking that we're
going to try and do with, you know,

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strategizing with these dogs. But this
dog is gorgeous. I mean, he came from he

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didn't just buy him for his bucks.

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I think we had to drag Chris around.
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last
$200 me around. That's

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awesome. So,

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okay. He's
always the command goes out to the

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work. We train with him on people. Okay.
We trained with them on cars, buildings,

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uh open parking lots. So
anything dog articles you know if

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someone throws a gun in front traffic
stop you can go to find that he does

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people should have a long way ahead

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But yeah, we want to deter that and like
you said with your drug court and

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everything you got going on which is uh
to help those people uh get caught up in

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that environment to give them an
opportunity that's great I

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think right and the amazing thing about
the drug court is we have a 95% success

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rate only 5% of the people graduated
relapse on drugs And when you're talking

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about heroin eggs, that's
true. But the secret is the is the front

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end loading on the incarceration where
it's a force dry out. Absolute force. If

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you're in the private sector, your
parents pay 30 grand for you to go

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impatient for 30 days. You're coming
right off the high impatient. You come

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out, you're just thinking where you're
going to get store your next hit. So I

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don't know how we're going to, you know,
get into the private sector. what this

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this you know ace that we have by being
able to incarcerate the person uh and

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that but that's another set of
commentary. In order to help a child I

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have to arrest them and we don't want to
do that. So uh but ultimately figure

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something out because we're everybody's
pulling in the right direction.

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Irish

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Chinese. Thank you,

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officer. Heat.

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Heat.

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Yeah.

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Heat.

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Heat.

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Heat. Heat.

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Heat.
Yeah. Heat.

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Let them kind of be under moving on with
the agenda. Uh citizens comments have

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any citizens comments

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tonight. Thank
you. All right.

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We know where the setup point is, but
that's clean up by chance. They're

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meeting.
You know what? I don't know.

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Okay. All right. Committee reports.
Building ground parks, health and

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safety first mayor. Next schedule
meeting is Wednesday, May 9th 17 at 9:30

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p.m. Water speaks
alley. Next schedule meeting is

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Wednesday, May 9th, 2017 at 6 p.m. Thank
you. Please announce the alderman

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stutter. Alter our next schedule meeting
is Tuesday, May 2017 at 5:30

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p.m. Finance Administration and Land
Acquisition Tut.

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I move to approve the accounts payable
report dated April 18th, 2017 in the

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amount of

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1,128,257.70 and the March 31st, 2017
collector's report in the amount of

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$76,16 as presented by the city of a
motion by Tudtor. We have a second.

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Second by Alman Percy. Any discussion?
Roll call. Tutor. Yes. Persie. Yes.

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Kerwin. Yes. Larry Hall. Yes. Kirby
Hall. Yes. Evans? Yes. Stutter? Yes. All

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yes. Motion passed. I move to approve
ordinance number

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17-04-18-01. An ordinance providing for
supplemental appropriation and line item

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transfers for the fiscal year beginning
May 1st, 2016 and ending April 30th,

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2017. A motion by Alman J. We have a
second.

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Second by Alman Evans. Any discussion?

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Tutor. Yes. Evans. Stutter. Yes. Kirby
Hall. Yes. Larry Hall. Yes. Herwin. Yes.

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Pers. Yes. All yes. Motion pass.
Mr. Mayor, I move to approve the proceed

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at your own risk agreement by and
between Adar Bridgeport Industrial

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Partners LLC and the city of a motion by
Alan Steut. We have a

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second by Al.
Any discussion?

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Stutter, yes. Percwin,
yes. Larry Hall, yes. Kirby Hall, yes.

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Tutor, yes. Evans, yes. All yes. Motion
passed.

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Next schedule meeting is Tuesday, May
16th, 2017 at 6

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p.m. license. Alderman Kirby
Hall meeting is Tuesday, May 8, 2017 at

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6:00 p.m.
First Larry

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Hall at this time. city

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engine started with IT rail project out
there on bridge. Um basically all there

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you see out there mostly is a lot of
tree rule by home tree service. Um IC

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ICC has removing a lot of railroad ties
on those crossings and rail works is out

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there uh moving the existing
track 53. Um majority of what you've

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seen out there is a lot of p roadway
removal uh in front of Angelos's nothing

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really moving forward. They're doing a
lot of layout

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stuff

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forward. Yeah. I first I got on my list

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tomorrow. Um going to the uh economic
development report. uh talk ement uh the

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rightway property line uh location still
need to be defined and worked out with

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BS up trying to schedule down to get a
paperwork on the

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actual land description of where the
where this line actually exist trying to

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coordinate something with them that
hasn't uh it hasn't kind of was that

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project um project hot dog and as you
can See most of the wall panels are are

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being installed out
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building and uh basically contractors
out there relocating the water sewer

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main that were part of the expansion of
that building itself.

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Um Charlie uh basically they're out
there storm

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tour going on

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project questions or anything.
Can we just have um I came through there

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at strip line and 53. There seems to be
right at the entrance. I think it's

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either right in front of the circle K
there. There's a hole that everybody

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seems to be avoiding and they're going
into the oncoming link. Can we maybe

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have somebody look at it to get that
patched? Thank

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you. You reported on the uh the work
that's going on at Arsenal 53. Is P

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going to start? How long are we at with
that? Frank and I are still trying to

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schedule a meeting with that to discuss
the dollar what money we've used over

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the years and what money still remain.

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Yeah, they obviously need to be
wishywashy on those EDP funds. So we can

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utilize EDP funds from
Arsenal. Well, now we're not for sure.

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Yes, we can. And it's it's been back and
forth for I don't know how long, right?

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And that's that's what we're trying to
get them to show us show us on paper how

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much money been used over years. I mean,
how much money is actually better?

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Because every time we look at it, it's
something different. Kim and I sat down

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for four or five hours in a day trying
to go through this whole thing and every

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time you look at it, it's something
different. It's just ESI provided some

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numbers. We've done our own. We're
trying to get something directly from

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saying, "Hey, show us what it is." We
have a little bit better, right? Yes.

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And it's still being held by

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Austin. Anything else

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from the administrative department? Mr.
Kaylor is not getting into the packet.

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Uh last couple weeks have had a meet and
greet with Denmark interactive with

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daywood. Uh been active with the
advisory committee uh with the jo county

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center for economic development for uh
met with the B county forest preserve

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district to see if we get collaboration
with them perway plan uh for Wilmington.

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um had a webinar on it. Seems like it's
long way out of the census 2020 which

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will be upon us pretty soon. You know,
we'll start having to go through some

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documents and verifying addresses and
what have you to make sure we have the

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proper headcount. I'll be meeting Billy.
Next few days I'll be down in

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Springfield with the Illinois tax
financing association for spring

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conference. I'll be one of the panels
talking about business development

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districts and how they can interact with
communities. Um I'll be in Kansas City

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next week taking a look at the BNSF BNSF
facility their uh logistics park Kansas

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City what that operation is and how that
operates. So taking a look at that uh on

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the 25th logistics summit in Bowling
Brook. It's an annual program put on by

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the W County Center for Economic
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this year they've got is so I want to
thank them for that. working with CAP to

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host a regional meeting on the 2050 uh
regional plan. Uh we're looking towards

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the end of May to have that. Uh I'll be
attending the workshop on theirs on May

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16th uh for the local technical
assistance. Right now that grant's

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paying for the the downtown plan uh and
we'll see what other opportunities there

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may be as we see funding here in
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Thank you,
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Thank you, Mayor. I have nothing to
report tonight. Thank you. Uh before uh

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we
adjourn my

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turn. 20 years ago, I decided to uh take
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at the town that I live studies.

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I've met some incredible
people throughout my 20 years and I

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continue to meet those people. I've had
a tremendous amount of time working with

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everybody. Um, even my days as a parkour
commissioner, my days as an alderman in

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my last 8 years as mayor. It's been
tremendous amount of fun. It's also been

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very challenging at the same time. But
I've been lucky enough to work around a

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tremendous amount of staff, good staff
people and more

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importantly been understood of the
importance and movement our talent world

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and I'm hoping that
continues. But at this this time to me

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now is the time for me to speak not at
the next meeting. The next meeting is a

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time for transition and
change. I wish everybody the best and

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thank all you guys for being part of my

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comments or something.
You were outside. Can I have a read on

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that? I want to address what you said.
Is that okay? You're fine. Go ahead. I

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just want to let people know uh about
Marty that they might not know. and the

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city council
too. Martin York called me a few years

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ago and he asked me to be his police
commissioner if you recall that that was

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your dad. But uh
so I said um before I I decided that can

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I sit down and talk to you and I came
into your office if you recall and

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uh and I'll make my point clear in a
minute. So I sat down. I said party is

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can I I I'll accept his position uh with
my love for politics

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uh if I can do it without political
interference. Do you recall that

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conversation?
So you put me in a position

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anyway and we had our disagreements. We
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disagree. And if we didn't do that, I
would have been your political

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puppet. And you didn't need that. that
and for the rest of you people up there,

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you I guess you voted on it. Did Did it
not go for vote? Yes. So you put

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somebody in that was totally I feel
like I was totally I'm nobody owed me or

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whatever and and we agreed that you
would allow me to run that position

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uh as I seen fit. And for people here
that don't know me, I retired 34 years

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in law enforcement. So I have kind of a
good idea how that works. Um, Englewood,

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Boston, Chicago. That was my I was out
there so often. I was going to buy

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property here. But, uh, point being is
we agreed to

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disagree. Now, Barry came up to me one
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um, why do you send these guys north to
fire uh, police uh, fire and training

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camp? Do you remember that? He said, why
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And my reply to Margaret was, "It is not
my job to make this uh process easy on

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the candidates. It's their job to show
me how bad they want this position and

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to show the citizens and the
taxpayers." So my my thing on that was

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if I can't get them to take one day to
go up north and do that, what what is

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their street performance going to be
once they're hired? Are you going to

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produce for uh for the city of
Wilmington, the citizens, the taxpayers

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for 20 years if I can get one day out of
them? So, you and I disagreed on that,

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but I did it my way
anyway. Um, not only did I do that, I

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leave by
exam. So, I went down there, took the

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test with
him, which no uh maybe I had to respect,

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maybe I didn't, but I thought that if it
was up, if I told him to do something, I

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should be able to do it. Old military.
Am I right, Matt? Yes, you are. So,

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um I guess what I'm what I'm trying to
say here is is uh you gave me free reign

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and and and you said that I made it hard
on these guys, and I did. I made it as

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hard as the law would allow because the
taxpayers deserve that or give these

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people a lot of money or a lot of power,
I should say. But I want everybody to

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know, you know, politics is politics.
Well, you're police commissioner, so you

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must know so and so and so and so. It
wasn't the case. I didn't know you guys,

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and I don't think you guys knew me. And
if you did, I apologize. But anyway, it

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wasn't a hookup. Wasn't political move.
So that speaks in your favor. So, I'm a

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true believer in leading by example. And
I'm going to say this, I don't talk

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behind people's backs. I like to talk
before attack. So, I get the credit for

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the remarks I make. But I know
uh so is it official right now that

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Strong won this election? Very close.
But let me say this if I'm hoping it

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isn't that way cuz normally people say,
"Well, who'd you vote for after the

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election? How you going for the winner?"
Okay, that's not the case here. I'll

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never never fall I'm sorry for that. But
if you walk out of here lose an

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election, you're not walking out here as
a loser. You left the city for 8 years

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and I got no political gain here. I'm
telling you how I feel and all of you

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guys. Uh you make me do the political
hatings for that

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position. And if you would, I would have
to do. So when you walk out here for if

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you walk out here without without being
a mayor, you're not a loser. You walk

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out here as a winner with your head high
because I respect you for that. I hate

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politics. No secret. And and you didn't
let me do that. So you walk out as a

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winner. You had to say you're getting
beat up for uh the things that happened

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prior to you taking office of mayor. You
going to pay for it now because the

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people in Wilmington, they're
everywhere. have a very short memory. So

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when you walk out of here on that after
that final meeting, you walk out, you

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lead by example. You won't sit there,
you won't name call, you won't stand

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your
feet and and criticize the

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winner. So you lead by example because
you'll teach that person how to be

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accept defeat. And we all know what I'm
talking about. So you walk out of here,

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no matter how how it how it works out.
That's all I got to say.

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That being said, I'll take a motion to
move. Second. Second. All in favor. All

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right.

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