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City of West Frankfort City Council met November 28.

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 November 14, 2017 Regular Council Meeting And November 14, 2017 Special 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 S164,288.90. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Harkins, Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.

4. The Next Item Was Approval Of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Proposal Of Insurance For The City Of West Frankfort, Effective December 1, 2017 To December 1, 2018, Regarding Property And Liability Insurance. The Mayor Stated We Have An Increase, Last Year The Premium was $246,816.00 And It is Going To Increase To $268,729.00. There Is A Cover Sheet That States At The Time Of The Quote Out Incurred Losses Were Up 48%. From Last Year. There Was A 5% Increase In The Budget And 16% In Auto Value. We Have Some Personnel That Have Been On Workmen's Compensation The Increase Is Around 11% And We Were Ht With A Lot Of Claims This Year. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.

5. The Next Item Was Approval Of A Resolution Of Support For A Community Development Block Grant Program For Crosswalk Community Action Program. The Mayor Stated This Is The Block Grant For Rehab Owner Occupied. We Have Had Two Public Hearings On This Al Ready And The City Is

Applying For A State Of Illinois For This Grant It Is Necessary For Us To Apply And Enter Into An Agreement With The State Of Illinois Commissioner Chambers 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 Payment Of A Contractor's Partial Pay estimate #19 To Midwest Petroleum & Excavating Inc. In The Amount Of $305,079.13 Regarding The Sewer Treatment Plant Retrofit Project. Matt Tosh Stated We Have Road Repair Left Which Will Take Place In The Late Spring. Commissioner Blades Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Chambers. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.

7. The Next Item Was Approval Of Payment Of A Construction Engineering Bill #19 For Brown & Roberts Inc. In The Amount Of $24,238.50 Regarding The Sewer Treatment Plant Retrofit Project 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 Approval Of Payment Of A Contractor's Pay estimate #7 To Skuta Construction Inc. Regarding The Taft Street Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Program. Matt Tosh Stated This Is A Final Pay Estimate On The Taft Street Project The Amount Was $11,850.80. Commissioner Simpson Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.

9. The Next Item Was Approval Of Change Order #2 Regarding The Taft Street Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Program. Matt Tosh Stated This Is The Final Adjustment For The Quantities For That Project, It Isa Decrease Of $35,300.06 A Large Part Of That Decrease Was As We Were Trying To Line An Extra Portion And It Turned Out It Was Not Align able So We Had To Delete That Out Of The 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.

10. The Next Item Was Approval Of A Design Engineering Bill #2/ Final To Brown And Roberts Engineering Inc. In The Amount Of $2,193.71 Regarding The Taft Street Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation 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.

11. The Next Item Was Approval Of An Invoice From Municode In The Amount Of $2,678.92 Regarding Codification Of The Code And Ordinances. The Mayor Stated This Is Something We Began Whenever We Came In Office To Codify The Codes as We Make Ordinance And Make Changes To The Codes. This Is Available Online To Look At All Our Codes And Ordinances. Commissioner Simpson Made Amotion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Harkns. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.

12. Building And Sign Permits:

The First Request Is From The Ibew For A Building Permit To Put Up A New Training Center Building Out On Country Club Road. It Will Be An 80 X 100 Building And They Have Estimated Their Costs at about $800,000.00. This Will Bea Training Facility For Any And All Electricians No Matter What Company They Come From. Commissioner Harkins Made A Motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.

The Next Request Was From Russell oil Corporation Which Is The Roc Gas Station On West Main Street. They Are Requesting A Building Permit To Put An Addition On The Back Of Their Building A 12 X 16 Which Will Be For Their Gaming Commissioner Chambers Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Blades. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners And Mayor Jordan Voted To Approve Motion Carried.

13.Mayors Report:

We Had A Wonderful Fantasy Of Lights Parade. Want To Thank Everybody For All Their Hard Work. There Are So Many things That Go On In Our Community That I am so Thankful For. We Have A Great Staff, We Try To Thank Everybody And It Really Is Hard To Because People Go Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty So Many Times That it is Really Amazing. When We Lit The Christmas Tree Was Amazed At How Pretty It Looked Want To Thank The Street Department And Sparkling Arrangements For Decorating The Tree And Strand Park and Everyone Who Was Involved. The Winners Of The Parade Were Gandy's Body Shop For The Most Original Tim Murphy Won The Mayors Choice, Braxart Was The Grand Marshal Choice And The Best Walking Group Was The Daindeer.

14. Commissioner Comments:

Commissioner Chambers Stated The Parade Was Wonderful We Had 37 Entries This Year Which Was Up From Our 28 Last Year With Ten Or more Than Last Year Was Really Special For Jame Voorhees Family. The Tree Was amazing And I Have Had Constant People Saying T Reminds Them Of The Giant Tree Up in The Heights Years Ago The Mall Had a Lot Of Things Going On This Past Weekend, We Had about 250 People Show Up To The Drive-In Movie And The Vendor Show Was Going On Inside The Mall Sandy's Flowers Decorated The Tree Inside The Mall And It Looks Wonderful Think Everything Wit hour Goal To Become Christmas Towns Going Very Well.

Commissioner Harkins Stated With The Drive-In And Parade Going On Appreciate The Fact The Police Helped Out A Lot And They Did A great Job.

Commissioner Simpson Stated Think It Is A Beautiful Tree, I Went By There And It Was Lit Up Very Nice.

Audience Questions Or Comments:

15. 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 Harkins Made A motion To Approve, Seconded By Commissioner Simpson Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners along With The Mayor Voted Yes. Motion Carried The Council Went Into Executive Session At 7:26 p.m.

16. The Council Returned To Open Session At 8:01 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.

17.With No Further Business To Be Discussed, The Meeting Was Adjourned On A Motion By Commissioner Harkins At 8:01 p.m.

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