East Central Reporter

City of Flora City Council met May 7.

Here is the agenda as provided by the council:

                                                            Opening Ceremonies

Call to Order

Roll Call

Pledge of Allegiance

Invocation

Citizens Request to Address Council – Mary Mccollough, Kids Fishing Derby

Appointment of Commissioner – Department of Accounts and Finances (Mike Genthe)

                                                             Approval of Agenda

Approve Agenda for the May 7, 2018 Flora City Council Regular Meeting

                                                              Consent Agenda

· Approve Minutes of City Council Regular Meeting of April 16, 2018

· Approve Public Hearing Minutes of April 16, 2018

· Approve Schedule of Bills for Period Ending May 3, 2018

· Approve Request from Clay County Cruisers Car Club to Use Charley

  Brown Park on July 29, 2019 for the 14th Annual Car/Truck Show

· Pass Ordinance No. 18-2980, An Ordinance Approving The Contract For

  Cleaning Services of the City of Flora City Hall, Public Works, Police

  Department and Fire Department with Paula Frutiger D/B/A Frutiger’s

  Cleaning

                                                              Regular Business

Comments/Statements:

  Mayor Stanford

     1) Appoint Commissioner of Department of Streets and Public Improvements as Mayor Pro

         Tem for the remainder of Mayoral Term (Ed McCormick)

     2) Appoint Kaci O’Dell as Deputy Clerk for the remainder of Mayoral Term

     3) Appoint Chris Thompson to the Tourism Board (term expiring May 7, 2020)

     4) Appoint Kim Adair to the Industrial Commission (term expiring December 31, 2021)

     5) Reappoint Robert Marley, Rebecca Stocke and Karen Briscoe to the Flora Public Library

Board (3 year term expiring May 1, 2021)

 Commissioner Wiley – PASS ORDINANCE NO. 18-2981, AN ORDINANCE APPROVING

     A TOURISM AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

 Commissioner McCormick

 Commissioner Slaughter

 Commissioner Genthe

 Supt. Public Works Rinehart

 Dir. Public Works & Bldg./Zoning Official Bayles

     1) Approve Payment of $5,244.00 to Charleston Engineering for Surveying and Staking

         Elmwood Cemetery Plots (Northside Addition)

     2) PASS A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE PERRY RAY JOHNSON REAL ESTATE

          AS UNSAFE AND DANGEROUS (743 W. 6th St.)

 Econ. Development Director Sulsberger

 Police Chief Nicholson – Approve Purchase of Used Police Vehicle

 Fire Chief Dickey

 City Attorney Coble

 City Treasurer McGehee

     1) Approve 2018-2019 Health Insurance Rates

     2) Approve Covering Smoking Cessation Products Under Shur Well Benefits and Regular

         Major Medical Benefits Under the Health Insurance Plan

     3) Approve Kaci O’Dell as Authorized Signature on all City Bank Accounts

 City Clerk Burgess

                                                                     Closed Session

5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity.

5 ILCS 120/2(c)(2) Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees.

5 ILCS 120/2(c)(3) The selection of a person to fill a public office, as defined in this Act, including a vacancy in a public office, when the public body is given power to appoint under law or ordinance, or the discipline, performance or removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public body is given power to remove the occupant under law or ordinance.

5 ILCS 120/2(c)(5) The purchase or lease of real property for the use of the public body, including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired.

5 ILCS 120/2(c)(6) The setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the public body.

5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting.

                                                                   Open Session

Any Action Required from Closed Session

                                                                        Adjourn

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