East Central Reporter

City of Casey City Council met July 2.

Here is the minutes provided by the Council:

Roll Call:

Present: Alderman Dane

Alderman Dennis

Alderman Nichols

Alderman Todd

Alderman Washburn

Alderman Williams

Absent: None

A quorum was declared.

Public Forum:

None

Community Affairs:

None

Meeting Minutes:

Mayor Groothuis looked for approval of the Minutes of the June 18th, 2018 Council Meeting.

Alderman Nichols motioned approval of the June 18th, 2018 Council Meeting Minutes, seconded by Alderman Washburn. Upon roll call the vote was:

Ayes: 6 – Dane, Dennis, Nichols, Todd, Washburn and Williams

Nays: 0 – None

Motion declared carried

Officers Reports

Clerk Mumford requested approval of the June 2018 Bills Paid.

Alderman Dennis motioned approval of the June 2018 Bills Paid totaling $595,489.20, seconded by Alderman Todd. Upon roll call the vote was:

Ayes: 6 – Dane, Dennis, Nichols, Todd, Washburn and Williams

Nays: 0 – None

Motion declared carried

Clerk Mumford presented Change Order #1 for the Waterline Project. This change order has been discussed in the past, just never approved. It dropped the overall cost of the project down by $128,536.35.

Alderman Nichols motioned approval of Change Order #1 for the Waterline Project, seconded by Alderman Dane. Upon roll call the vote was:

Ayes: 6 – Dane, Dennis, Nichols, Todd, Washburn and Williams

Nays: 0 – None

Motion declared carried

Superintendent Biggs reported that he will be doing interviews next week for the street department and will have a recommendation at the next Council Meeting.

Economic Development Director Clark reported on what she has been working on. She has recently attended an Enterprise Zone meeting and in the fall, they will open bids to find an advocate for Clark County for the Enterprise Zone. On July 14th there will be a Volkswagen tour coming to Casey. Recently they had another Coffee with Colleagues, where they had many good discussions. The next Movies in the park will be on July 6th. On July 21st there will be an Illinois South tourism quarterly meeting in Casey. In September there will be a Winnebago meeting at our Park.

EMA Director Brewer reported that he has had several inquiries on the new siren bid.

New Business:

Jon Kuehenhold with Circle K Corporation was present and requested from the Council the ability to sell alcoholic liquor at their location in town. He presented a background of Circle K and also explained the training practices they use at their stores. After some discussion, Alderman Todd said he would get a salary and license committee meeting set for further discussion of this.

Unfinished Business:

Finance Chairman Nichols reported on the meetings held on 6/12, 6/26 and 6/28 where they continued work on FY19 Appropriations. At one of these meetings, they also talked about the donation of money from CIA for new playground equipment and their request for matching funds and they also talked about the Historical Society’s request for matching funds for 2 new historic marker signs. Alderman Nichols reported that he thought they could go forward with the CIA playground request, but not the Historic Marker signs.

Alderman Nichols motioned approval to accept the donation of $13,000 from Casey In Action to be matched by the City of Casey and to be used for new playground equipment at the Park, seconded by Alderman Dane. Upon roll call, the vote was:

Ayes: 6 – Dane, Dennis, Nichols, Todd, Washburn and Williams

Nays: 0 – None

Motion declared carried

Public Utility Chairman Dane reported on the meeting held on 6/25/18 where they were going to meet to discuss Utility Rates, but it was a brief meeting since not everybody was present at the meeting. They will have another Public Utility meeting soon to discuss rates.

Mayor Groothuis brought up the Business registration idea that they tabled at the last Council Meeting. The Downtown Improvement and Economic Development Committee has met about this in the past and would like to see the City Implement a Business registration for all businesses in Casey. After some discussion they decided to send this to the Ordinance Committee to come up with an Ordinance for this.

Mayor Groothuis brought up the possible donation of a building for a Welcome Center for the City. Jim Bolin has offered up a portable building to be used as a Welcome Center. They talked about having volunteers signed up to man this welcome center on the weekends and also talked about possible, placement of the center.

Alderman Todd motioned approval to accept the donation of a building approximately 20x12 from Jim Bolin to be used as a Welcome Center, seconded by Alderman Williams. Upon roll call, the vote was:

Ayes: 5 – Dane, Nichols, Todd, Washburn and Williams

Nays: 0 – None

Abstain: 1 – Dennis

Motion declared carried

Alderman Williams motioned approval to place the Welcome center at the Cities lot on SE 1st street behind Attorney Shoaff’s office, seconded by Alderman Todd. Upon roll call the vote was:

Ayes: 6 – Dane, Dennis, Nichols, Todd, Washburn and Williams

Nays: 0 – None

Motion declared carried

Alderman Reports:

Alderman Dennis mentioned that there was some drainage problems in his ward with this last rain.

Alderman Dane mentioned that there was a new group that was going to do a feasibility study on the splash pad.

Mayor Reports:

Mayor Groothuis reminded everybody about the upcoming 4th of July events.

There was no further Business of the City Council for the July 2nd, 2018 Meeting.

Adjournment:

Alderman Dennis motioned to adjourn, seconded by Alderman Washburn. Upon roll call, the vote was:

Ayes: 6 – Dane, Dennis, Nichols, Todd, Washburn and Williams

Nays: 0 – None

Motion declared carried

Adjournment of the City Council was at 6:57 p.m.

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