City of West Frankfort City Council met October 24.
Here is the minutes provided by the Council:
1. Mayor Jordan Called The Meeting To Order At 7:00 p.m. Requesting A roll Call. All Commissioners Were In Attendance, Along With The City Attorney And City Clerk.
2. Mayor Jordan asked For Approval Of The Minutes From The October 10, 2017 Regular Council Meeting Commissioner Harkins Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
3. Mayor Jordan Next Asked For Approval To Pay City Bills And Payroll in The Amount Of $291,282.49. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
4. The Next Item was Discussion, With Possible Action, Regarding Approval Of A Liquor License Application From Nifty Swifty. The Mayor Stated Dennis Is Here On Behalf Of Them With some Plans. Dennis Stated Was Here 60 Days Ago And I Am back again To Ask for A Pour Liquor License. We Have A Two Part Deal We Proposed To Tear Down The Existing Facility At The Nifty Swifty And We Will Rebuild A New Structure And Invest Around $500,000.00- $600,000.00 In The New Building With A Cash Investment Like That We Will Need Video Gaming To Help Pay Off That Investment And That Is Our Purpose For Asking For The Pour License. We Have A Set Of Plans Drawn up That I Am Going To Leave With You So You Can See It's Going To Be A nice Building With A Brick front Hopefully This Can Be A nice Addition To The Community. Commissioner Chambers Stated How Will You Organize Parking 2 Dennis Stated Think It Will Be On The Left Side, Around 6-8 Spots That Could Be Used For Parking. The Mayor Stated Can We Make The Liquor License Begin Whenever Your Construction Is Over Or Will You Need That Before So You Can Get The License From The Stated Dennis Stated We Would Ask To Have The License Prior To The Opening To Give Us Time To Work With The Illinois Gaming Board The Mayor Stated There Wouldn't Be Any Gaming Going On At The Current Site Until The New Structure Is Built2 Dennis Stated Correct Commissioner Simpson Made A Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
The Mayor Stated Ed Hammonds Will he Need To Get A Demolition Permit Before He Starts? Ed Stated Yes, And He Will Need A Building Permit And Sign Permit.
The Mayor Stated I Am Willing To Meet With All The Applicants, I Am The Liquor Commissioner. Last Council Meeting we Had Some Discussion About Expanding The Licenses. We Would Like To See An Investment That Will Benefit The Community And Not Just Gaming
5. The Next Item Was Approval To Accept Bids And Award Janitorial Service For City Hall And The West Frankfort Police Department. The Mayor Stated It Has Been A While Since We Have Put This Out For Bids. We Had Three Bids For A Two Year Contract Raymond Kettleman's Bid Was $748.00a Month, Branden Loeh Was $800.00 A month And Clean as a Whistle Was $3,069.00amonthfor The First Year And $3,130.38 A Month For The Second Year. Commissioner Blades Stated Didn't We Have Ray Kettleman Clean For Us Before2 The Mayor Stated Yes We Did An Audience Member Stated Are These All Local People The Mayor Stated Clean as a Whistle Isn't From Town But The Other Two Are. Commissioner Blades Stated Branden Loeh Is Who We Use Now, They Just Had a Brand New Baby And Would Hate To Take This Away From Them. Commissioner Harkins Stated Will Make A Motion To Accept The Lowest Bid He Is Very Good At Doing A lot Of Different Jobs. Commissioner Simpson Stated Why Did We Get Rid Of Ray Kettlemen The First Time He Cleaned For Us? The Mayor Stated A Former Employee Don't Get Along With Him and She Is No Longer Here, It went Out For Bid And He Lost The Bid. Commissioner Harkins Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: Commissioner Harkins, Commissioner Simpson, Commissioner Chambers And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Commissioner Blades Voted No. Motion Carried.
6. The Next Item Was Approval Of An ordinance Authorizing The Leasing Of A Specific area Of The West Frankfort Outlet Mall The Mayor Stated This Is A lease That We Are Entering Into With Country Companies. This Is A Three Year Lease For S600.Ooper Month. We Will Put In An Entrance At The South end Of The Mall To Give Them Access. They Will Do Some Build Out Inside That Area They A releasing. Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
7. The Next Item Was Approval Of An ordinance Accepting The Donation Of Real Estate At 303 And 305 East Poplar Street, West Frankfort, Il. The Mayor Stated It Will Be The Brick House And The Lot Next To T and The Lot Across The Alley. This Is A Property That Belongs To Bill Alexander And Hes Donating This On Behalf Of His Family To The City. The Mayor Stated We Could Use Some Extra Parking Over There And I Am not Opposed To Making An area Over There For A Park Type Thing T Gives Us Some Options For What We Could Use It For. City Attorney Mike Riva Stated The Alexanders Are Going To Provide The City With A Title Insurance Policy On It. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
8. The Next Item was Discussion, With Possible Action, Regarding Illinois transportation Enhancement Program Application. The Mayor Stated This Is A Grant That We Applied For Last Year. Mike Roberts Stated We Weren’t Selected Last Year So This Is Another round We Applied For The Downtown Street Scape Last Year And They Are Doing It Again This Year. Applications Are Due December 1 So we Need To Schedule A meeting Pretty Quickly And Get It Going Commissioner Chambers Stated Do We Get To Choose What We Want It Fort Mike Stated There Are Numerous Categories. Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Harkins, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
9. The Next Item Was Approval Of An ordinance Authorizing The West Frankfort Water Department To Obtain Financing For The 2018 Case Backhoe And The Mayor And City Clerk To Authorize The Paperwork. The Mayor Stated The Council Authorized The City To Purchase A backhoe A Few Meetings Back And This Is For That Commissioner Blades Stated Was Asked By The Comptroller That The Next Time We Want To Purchase Something Like This To Include It In The Budget, Commissioner Simpson Stated She Did mention That To Me Also. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
10. The Next Item Was Discussion, With Possible Action, Regarding The Purchase Of The Annual Maintenance Agreement In The Amount Of $2,777.30 From Cummins Midsouth Regarding The Power gen Generator System At The Storm Water Pump Station The Mayor Stated This Is Our Maintenance Program That we Have On Our Emergency Generator That Runs The Pumps Incase We Don't Have Any Power, They Come Every Three Months. The Reason This Is Necessary Is Because When You Need That Thing To Go, It Needs To Be Ready. They Have Found Several Things Over The Last Several Years. Commissioner Chambers Made A Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
11. The Next Item was Discussion, With Possible Action, Regarding Approval Of A Donation Of $2,000.00 To Casa From The Video Gaming Fund The Mayor Stated I Am very Pleased To Have Cathy Minton Here Cathy Minton Stated I Am The Vice President, We Appreciate The Donation. We Are Working On A Visitation Room For Our Children So They Can Have Visitation With Their Parents. I Would Like To Introduce My Director Thank You So Much For Your Donation Last Year. It Has Helped Us To Buy a Bulk Of Stuff And Get This Started. We Are Located In Benton But We Work all Over Franklin County And 47% Of Our Children Are From west Frankfort. Our Goals To Get An Advocate For each Child, What We Are Dong And Seeing The Impact It Has On These Children Is Amazing. We Are Really Trying To Be that Voice For These Children When nobody Else Is There To Be That Voice. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
12.The Next Item Was Approval Of Payment Of An Invoice From Darnellhtg & Cooling Inc. In The Amount Of $1,695.00 Regarding Repairs To The Rooftop Unit For The West Frankfort Police Department Commissioner Harkins Made A Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried
13. The Next Item Was Approval Of Payment Of An invoice From Complete Equity Markets Inc. In The Amount Of S10,640.00 Regarding The City Of West Frankfort's 2018 Unemployment Compensation Insurance Premium. The Mayor Stated This Is Insurance That We buy For Our Work Related Insurance For Unemployment Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
14. The Next Item Was Approval Of Payment Of A Contractor's Partial Pay estimate #17 To Midwest Petroleum & Excavating Inc. In The Amount Of $227,739.88 Regarding The Sewer Treatment Plant Retrofit Project Commissioner Blades Stated We Are Winding These Down Slowly, We’re Almost There Was At The Benton Hospital about Six Months Ago And Saw Where They Had To Buy Fourteen Million Dollars To Build Their Sewer Plant So Every Time See This Think Of Mayor Warren the Mayor Stated Agree With You, That Was A wonderful Thing They Did. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
15. The Next Item Was Approval Of Payment Of A Construction Engineering Bill #18 For Brown & Roberts Inc. In The Amount Of $24,965.33 Regarding The Sewer Treatment Plant Retrofit Project Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
16. The Next Item Was Approval Of A Repair estimate From Xylem In The Amount Of $4,647.7o Regarding The Godwin Cd15ompump For The Sewer Department. This Was Originally Authorized For $2,897.70, But Additional Repairs Needed To Be Made Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
17. The Next Item Was Approval For The VFW To Hold Their Annual Fundraiser Roadblock On Friday, November 3, 2017 From 8:00 a.m. To 4:00 p.m. And Saturday, November 4, 2017 From 8:00 a.m. To 2:00 p.m. At The Intersection Of Route 149 And Highway 37. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
18. The Next Item Was Approval To Transfer Lake lot Lease #2, Sportsman Addition From Mike A review And Kristenal. Litner-A review To Robin M. Richards And Bryant S. Mccoy. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
19. Building And Sign Permits:
There Was No Building Or Sign Permits
20. Mayors Comments:
The Mayor Stated Guess Everybody Has Noticed That There Is A Lot Of Work Going On At The Old Bellas My Wife Is Ecstatic That The Dollar General is Going To Be Down There Had an Opportunity To Talk With The Workers There And They Were Very Nice And Seemed Committed To Get That Done. I Am Happy For The Council And All The Work That Was Done On Getting That Mach 1 Has Made The Purchase Of The Property And Look Forward To Them Coming. Just Want To Say That Hopefully With The Nifty Swifty Construction We Will See Some New Development, New Developments Great But There Are People Who Have Made Considerable Investments In Our Community For Years, We Want To Make Sure We Remember That And Appreciate The Council. This Jobs Very Rewarding And Challenging At Times And Just Want To Thank Everybody. Think We All Work With The Same Attitude And Heart.
21. Commissioner Comments:
Commissioner Harkins Stated The Police And Fire Department Are Dong A Good Job as Always | Am proud To Have Them.
Commissioner Simpson Stated The Auditor Is Here It's Been Busy. They Are Making Sure Everything Is Being Kept Correctly. The Staff is All Helping Out Trying To Get This Audit Done As Quickly As Possible
Commissioner Chambers Stated I Had The Opportunity Last Week To Speak With A Lady Who Wanted To Start A business In Town. She Wasn't Sure What we Had To Offer And What Buildings Were Available So Spent a Day Going Over Them With Her.With our Facade Improvement Grants And Some Other Things We Have To Offer She Has Secured A Building Downtown And She Will Be Opening A New Business Here On Man Street. St.Louis Street Is Looking Good In A Messy Kind Of Way. Mike Roberts Stated Think Ameren Made A Good Decision To Relocate Their Utilities All They Are Going To Do This Year Is Start Their Storm Sewer work And Hopefully Get That Completed During The Winter Time They Are Scheduled To Start Next Monday. Commissioner Chambers Stated It Is Going To Look Very Nice Once It's Completed.
22. Audience Questions Or Comments:
Don Reedle stated I Thought We Had a Real. Nice Time Out at The Outlet Mall For The Chamber Meeting Lafiesta Catered It And There Were nice Chairs And Tables.
The Mayor Stated We Are Looking Into Purchasing a Commercial Fridge So we Will Have That There For People To Keep Things N. We Will Work Out Some Sort Of Lease Agreement Where You Can Rent That Out For Birthday Parties Or Conferences
23. With No Further Business To Be Discussed, The Meeting Was Adjourned On A Motion By Commissioner Harkins At 7:45 p.m.
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