City of West Frankfort City Council met November 14.
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 12, 2017 Special Council Meeting And October 24, 2017 Regular Council Meeting Commissioner Harkins Made a Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. 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 $325,528.40 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 Expanding The Number Of Class "A" Liquor Licenses. The Mayor Stated Today At 2:00 P.M. We Had a Special Council Meeting Which Gave Time For Seven People To Bring Before The Council To Speak To Us About Their Liquor License Applications. We Have Those Applications Included In Our Packet For Tonight’s Meeting The Council Doesn't Take This Lightly And Being The Liquor Commissioner i Feel It Is Important That I Talk To The Applicants The City Council Sometimes Doesn't Have The Ability To Ask Them Questions And That Was The Intention Of The Meeting Today At This Time Would Like To Give Anybody On The Council an Opportunity To Talk a little About The Special Meeting And Then Will Pose A question About What We Want To Do as Far As Expanding The Licenses Or Approving Applications Commissioner Harkins Stated Appreciated Sitting In And Listening To Them All Talk. Commissioner Simpson Stated At The Meeting Today Not Only Were We Informed What Their Plans were, But Think They All Had a Concern For The Betterment Of West Frankfort and Believe That Is What we Have To Look at. Commissioner Chambers Stated It Was Helpful To Break Down What Everyone's Plans were How many People Can Potentially Be Employed And The Investment That Is Coming Back To The Community. The Mayor Stated The Council May Need More Time To Decide Because It Is A Big Decision. I Don't Want To Place And Pressure On The Council To Make A Decision Tonight, I do Think We need To Discuss When We Will Do This If They Aren't Ready We Can Have A Special Meeting This Week Or we Can Bring It Up At The Next Council Meeting. I Wanted To Make Sure These Items Were On The Agenda Because If They Aren't On The Agenda we Can Take No Action. Since They Are On The Agenda we Can Postpone Them or Delay Them In Order To do Anything But Discuss Them They Have To Be On The Agenda. Commissioner Simpson Stated In My Opinion We need To Discuss Item Number Three Before We Move On, There Were Seven Applicants And Thought They Were All Worthy Applicants, We Only Have Three Licenses And I Don't Know When Will Be Ready To Make The Decision To Eliminate People From Consideration For The Three Licenses: The Mayor Stated Let's Have Some Discussion About Expanding The Number Of Class a Licenses. Class A license Is A Pour License And That Will Give You The Ability To Apply To The State For A Gaming License. Without The Pour License You Cannot Have Gaming We Have Expanded The Number Of Licenses To Ten Recently And Have Issued One License Tonifty Swifty So That Leaves Us Three Available Licenses Are We Going To Issue Three Licenses Out Of Seven Applications Or Is The Council Inclined To Increase The Number Commissioner Chambers Stated Was Reluctant To Support So Many Licenses Without Having Any DEA Personally Of What Everybody Was Intending To Use Them For Today's Meeting Was Super Informative And Helpful In That Regard So Do feel Better About Expanding The Number To Open Up For Some Of These Possibilities Where We Are Seeing A lot Of Kick Back To Our Community. The Development Of New Businesses And Expansions Of Existing Businesses Things To Me That Rectify The Need Commissioner Simpson Stated Was In Favor Of Expanding Them Before And I Haven't Changed My Opinion. Commissioner Blades Stated Will Make A Motion To Expand The Number Of Class "C" Licenses To Fifteen. The Mayor Stated That Doesn't Mean That Everybody That Applies For The License Will Get It What It Do essay Is That We Are Willing To Consider The Fifteen Licenses For The City Of West Frankfort. Commissioner Blades Made a Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
5. The Next Item Was Discussion, With Possible Action, Regarding Approval Of Liquor License Applications:
A. The First Application Was From Circle K. The Mayor Stated This Is The Gas Station Out Towards The Interstate They Talked About The Fact They Will Add 2-3 Employees And Will Spend Around $40,000.00 - $50,000.00 Making Upgrades To Their Facility. Commissioner Harkins Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
B. The Next Application Was From Richard Glodich The Mayor Stated Richard Glodich Want's To Buy Property And Build A New Structure Investing Over $150,000.00 In The Building. That Building Would Bea Multi Use Facility With A Craft Store And The Other Side Would Be For Gaming Mr. Glodich Spoke About The Fact He Is A Hometown Guy And Has Lived Here Forever His Money Will Stay Here And Be invested Here. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
C. The Next Application Was From Heights Market. The Mayor Stated Kelly Kirkrunsa Wonderful Little Place Up in The Height's Called The Height's Market, It Isa Del And She Recently Added Package Liquor One Of The Things Wanted To Talk about Is The Fact That We Can Accommodate You With A Restaurant License For Alcohol And That Would Give You The Ability To Serve And Pour Alcohol In Your Establishment. Kelly Stated That Causes A Problem Not Being Able To Sell Packaged Liquor. The Mayor Stated Have No Objection To Giving You A Class "A" License Was Just Trying To See If That Would Accommodate You Commissioner Simpson Stated We Will Have To Look At The Ordinance And See If They Could Sell Package Liquor Under That License. The Mayor Stated Her application Is For A Class "A" Liquor License So What It The Councils Pleasure Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
D. The Next Application Was From Roc-One. The Mayor Stated Leon Russell From Russell oil Company Has Spent Some Money Recently Putting In New Tanks. They Have Asked For A Class "A" License Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
E. The Next Application Was From Roll-N-Up. The Mayor Stated This Is A Packaged Liquor Store That Also Sells Cigarettes And Cigars Over On South Logan Street. He Came To Us About 18 Months Ago And Asked Us To Give Him Consideration For Gaming They Have A lot Of Square Footage Inside Their Facility And A Place That Will Accommodate This. They Currently Have Gaming In four Locations Of Their Thirteen Locations In Illinois. Commissioner Harkins Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
F. The Next Application Was From Casey's West. This Is Out By The Interstate And Would Be The First Facility In Illinois That Casey's Has Gaming In. One Of The Things Found Interesting Today During The Discussion Was The Fact That They Are Wanting To Remodel And Upgrade Their Store. They Think They Do This It May Help Them Gain That Mach1 S Building A Brand New Gas Station Across From demand in order For The Playing Field To Be Level They Need To Have The Opportunity To Have The Same Thing That Mach 1 Has. Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
G. The Next Application Was From Vault87. The Mayor Stated This Application Is From Brianne Davis For A wape Shop Next To Ricks Barber Shop And The Old Coffee House They Turned Their application In Today And They Talked About The Fact They Would Like To Have Gaming And Turn it Into A Small Dave And Busters. They Rent The Facility They Are In Now And Working With David Schmitt Who S Going To do The Gaming For Them. Commissioner Chambers Stated All Of The Other applications We Talked About And Considered Were Owner Occupied And This One Isn’t. I Don't Know How That Works And If Grasped That Earlier The Mayor Stated What Is The Council's Pleasure We Have Two licenses Left. Commissioner Chambers Stated I said All Along Didn't Like The Stand Alone Gaming Parlors Which We Talked About Earlier Just Feel Like I Have A Problem With A Stand Alone That Isn't Attached To Anything Or Part Of Another Business. I do like Downtown Renovations To Buildings, But Your's Is The Hardest For Me To Make Sense Of In My Head For Those Reasons. Like The DEA Of Somebody Buying A Downtown Building And Fixing It Up And It Not Being Empty. I Don't Like Stand Alone Gaming Parlors And We Have Voted Against Them In The Past And I Don't Have Any Second Thoughts About That Decision We Made Then Either The Mayor Stated The Fact That You Are Renting A Piece Of Property The People We Talked About So far Have Been Here, Established Businesses And Made A Significant Investment. We turned Down A gaming Parlor That Was Going To Rent Some Space In The Kmart Plaza And We Don't Think That Had a Good Feel So That Is Why We Made That Decision This Council Is Evolving, We Are Very Conservative And Eighteen Months Ago We Told Everybody No, What Happened When We Did That Was We Opened The Door For Just A little Bit And It Left Some People Out So we Are Trying To Make That Up. My Personal Opinion Is Maybe This Isn't The Right Time For You. Commissioner Simpson Stated Think What We would Like To See Is Something More Tangiele Than What You Proposed Dong With The Place The Representative For wault 87 Stated We Are Talking About An Entertainment Venue, There Isnt A Lot Of That Here And It's Got To Start Somewhere Our Position Is Basically, Give Us A Chance And See What We Can Do The Mayor Stated I Am Just Trying To Give You The Evolution Of This. We Started Out With Mach 1 They Came In And Sad If We bring In 5 Million Dollars And Put In A Big Gas Station In Here Will You Give Us Gaming, We Said Yes. It Evolved To Huck's Who Have Been Here Twenty Five Years And Support Our Fire And Police Department's They Proposed To Buy The Property next To Them, Do Renovations And Upgrade Their Store So we Said Yes. Then We Had Nifty Swifty Which Is A Gas Station In The Heights, They Are Going To Invest $750,000.00 Build A New Building And Tear The Old One Down They Are Going To Have A Convenience Store And Gaming So We Agreed To Give Them One. Then We Had All These Other Businesses Come To Us Who Had applications On File And Asked To Be Considered. We Have Evolved And There Is Nothing Illegal about This. Am Comfortable With The Decisions We Have Made The Representative From Vault 87 Stated The Reasons Why They Need The License And The Name If Approved Will Be Bosco Pete's Gold Mine, No Vote Was Taken.
H. The Next Request Was From Robert Stubblefield. The Mayor Stated He Came In During The Meeting Today And Handed me His Application Think He Has A Laundry Mat And He Is Interested In A Liquor License. I Don't Know Anything about This So Wouldn't Recommend That We Take Any Action On This Tonight Because He Didn't Get To Present. No vote Was Taken.
6. The Next Item Was Discussion, With Possible Action, Regarding Approval Of A facade Improvement Grant. The Mayor Stated This Is From Jule Short Blankenship For Lacy Rose Boutique At 328 E. Man Street. This Is The Building That We Have Forriss. How Muchare They Asking Fort | Don't See Any Amount On Here Or Any Pictures. The City Clerk Stated It Is For A Sign And A Sign Permit, I am sorry There Isn't A Picture Attached Commissioner Simpson Stated We Don't Know What It Is Costing The Mayor Stated Would Like To See a little More Information On This What She Is Going To do With It, What It's Going To Cost And Include. Can We ask Her To Give Us More Information? This Matter Was Tabled.
7. The Next Item Was Approval Of The Council's Resolution Of Support Regarding The Illinois transportation Enhancement Program application The Mayor Stated We Had A Public Hearing At 6:00 P.M. Tonight In Which We Discussed Applying For A Grant And This Is For Approval To Apply. Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
8. The Next Item Was Approval Of A Resolution For The C.A.R.E. Association To Sponsor The Fantasy Of Lights Parade To Be Held November 21, 2017 At 6:00 P.M. 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 A Proclamation Declaring November 16, 2017 "Caregiver Awareness Day" By Frankfort Helia Healthcare The Mayor Read The Proclamation. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
10.The Next Item Was Approval Of A Proclamation Declaring November 28, 2017 “Giving Tuesday” By Spero Family Services. The Representative From Spero Family Services Gave A Brief Description Of The "Giving Tuesday". Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Harkins, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
11. The Next Item Was Approval For Payment Of A Local Agency Cost Plus Fixed Fee Invoice From Illinois Department Of Transportation In The Amount Of S23,365.98 Regarding The St. Louis Street Project. Mike Roberts Stated This Project Is Avery Large Project And This Is For A Substantial Amount Of Work That Was Done. Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried
12. The Next Item Was Approval Of Change Order #5 For An Increase Of $44,636.40 For The Contract Price Regarding The Sewer Treatment Plant Retrofit Project. The Mayor Stated There Are Additional Costs Within The Line Of What We Expected The Costs To Be When We Started The Project. The Mayor Then Explained The Reason For This. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
13. The Next Item Was Approval Of A Request Authorizing An Extension Of An Existent Lake Shore lease For The Purpose Of Mortgage Financing The Mayor Stated This Is For The Mccoy's And Richards. Commissioner Chambers Made A Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
14. The Next Item Was Approval For Payment Of An Invoice From Brown And Roberts Inc. In The Amount Of $1,867.78 Regarding The Poplar Street survey. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
15. The Next Item Was Approval For Payment Of An Invoice From Brown And Roberts Inc. In The Amount Of $9,692.16 Regarding The 2017 Motor fueltax Program. Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
16. The Next Item Was Approval For Payment Of An Invoice From Vandevanter Engineering In The Amount Of $5,256.00 Regarding An Annual Maintenance Service Contract Regarding The Flood Levee Station For The Street Department. The Mayor Stated Last Council Meeting We Had A Maintenance Service Contract Approved For The Generator And This Request Is For The Pumps, Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
17. The Next Item Was Approval For Payment Of An Invoice From Mcvicker Excavating Inc. In The Amount Of S1880.00 Regarding Additional Charges For The Demolition On Emma Street. The Mayor Stated There Were Some Serious Issues That Arose During The Demolition On Another Building That We Had To Take Care Of Commissioner Simpson Stated As We Were Tearing Down The Building We became Aware That The Supporting Wall Between The Building That We Were Taking Down And Day Insurance Was Moving To The North So we Had To Stop Demolition And Secure It so The Rest Of The Building On That Block would Not Come Down The Mayor Stated If We Didn't Do This Then The Building Wall Would Have Come Down. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried,
18.The Next Item Was Approval For Payment Of An invoice From Sandner electric Company Inc. In The Amount Of $2,271.75 Regarding Repair Of The Jet Aerator For The Sewer Department. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Harkins, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
19. The Next Item Was Approval For Payment Of An Invoice From F.E. Moran Inc. In The Amount Of $3,360.00 Regarding Installation Of Additional Sprinkler Heads In Suite 111 Bat The West Frankfort Outlet Mall The Mayor Stated Country Companies Is Building A Office Out At The Mall.
They Are Putting A lowered Ceiling In And Build Walls. In Order For This To Happen They Must Add Additional Sprinkler Heads. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
20.The Next Item Was Approval For Payment Of An Invoice From Coe Equipment In The Amount Of $2,995.Oo Regarding Purchase Of A 6" Soil Surgeon For The Sewer And Water Departments. The Mayor Stated Half Of This Will Be Paid Out Of Water And Half Out Of Sewer Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
21. The Next Item Approval For Hucks To Hold Their Annual Caring For kids Fundraisers roadblocks On Friday, November 17, 2017 From 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. And Saturday, November 18, 2017 From 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. *** And * Friday, December 1, 2017 From 1:00 p.m. To 4:00 p.m. And Saturday, December 2, 2017 From 8:00 a.m. To 2:00 p.m. At The Intersection Of Route 149 And Highway 37. Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
22. Officer Reports:
Chief Allen Read The Fire Department's Report.
Chef Irwin Read The Police Department's Report.
Codes Officer, Ed Hammonds, Was Absent.
23. Building And Sign Permits:
The First Request Was A Building Permit From Calvary Baptist Church. They Will Be Building A 40 X 75 Ft Building With 16ft Sidewalls. It Will Be Used For Church Mission And Outreach They Have A request To Waive The Permit Fee Being That They Are A Church. Commissioner Harkins Stated Would Like To Make A Motion To Wave That.
Commissioner Harkins Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
The Next Request Was A Portable Building Permit From John Tybern At 722 N. Horn Street, Everything Looks Good And The Total Cost Is $5,000.00. Commissioner Harkins Made A Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
The Next Request Was a Sign Permit From Crown Line Boats. They Are Putting Up A New Sign on Rt. 37 And Everything Looks Good Commissioner Harkins Made A Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.
24. Mayors Comments:
The Mayor Stated Would Like To Thank This Council And
The Community, We Try To Be Open And Talk about Things So Everybody Understands Where We Are Coming From. Thought It Would Take Longer To Make The Decisions That We Made Tonight. I Am Happy With our Choices And It Isa Pleasure To Serve With You People.
25. Commissioner Comments:
Commissioner Harkins Stated Enjoyed Sitting In On That Meeting And I Appreciate The Mayor For Inviting Us To Listen Toit. We Have Two Of The Finest Chiefs In The Business, The Police And Fire Departments Are Dong Great.
Commissioner Simpson Stated Enjoyed The Meeting Today And I Am Happy With The Results.
Commissioner Chambers Stated I Have Had All Of The Video Gaming Talk I Can Stand For One Day So Am Going To Talk About Christmas Want To Thank The Council, Again For Our Tree It Is Stunning And Compliments Our Christmas Town, It Takes A Lot Of Work And There Trucks Full Of Greenery All Over Town Today. Want To Thank The Go Forth Family Who Did a lot Of Things To Pick Up And Keep The Pieces Going, Christy Has Big Shoes To Feel With Jamie Not Being With Us Any Longer As Hard As It Is For Them To Put On The Parade And Keep It Going In Our Community, She Has Done It. This Isa Huge Thing In Our Town So we Should All Thank her For Dong This
26. Audience Questions Or Comments:
Darla Sloan Stated I Am Here For Candy Cane Lane. Jim and I Have Sold Corn And Done All kinds Of Other Things To Raise Money We Raised A little Of $1,100.00 And You Will See It Going Up Ina Week Or So For The Entrance Of Candy Cane Lane Would Ask To Be Put On The Agenda So The Council Can Vote On A donation For Candy Cane Lane. What The City Pay's For Will Not Go On And Private Property It Will Stay On The City Blvd And Man Street Property
Rick Henson Stated Last Year I turned In An Application For A Faqade Improvement Grant And Was Approved. Idid Not Have The Ability To Dot Yet So My Question Is When I Have The Funds To Dot Am Still Approved For The Grant That Was Previously Approved Fort The Mayor Stated The Way Those Things Work Is You Do The Work And We Reimburse You Half The Price Up To $2,500.00.
Andrea glodch Stated She Wanted To Publicly Thank The Police Department For The Opportunity To Ride Along.
An Audience Member Stated We Want To Thank The City For Cleaning Out Our Ditchon Charles Street.
27. Mayor Jordan asked For Approval To Go Into Executive Session To Discuss Contract Negotiations, Personnel, Land Acquisition And/Or Pending Litigation, With Possible Action. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Harkins, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners Along With The Mayor Voted Yes. Motion Carried The Council Went Into executive Session At 8:10 p.m.
28. The Council Returned To Open Session At 8:47 p.m. On A
Motion By Commissioner Harkins, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners Along With Mayor Jordan Voted To Return To Open Session. Motion Carried.
29. With No Further Business To Be Discussed, The Meeting Was Adjourned On A Motion By Commissioner Harkins At 8:48 p.m.
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