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City of Pinckneyville City Council met June 24.

Here is the agenda provided by the council:

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

GUIDELINES FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AT CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS

Members of the public are welcome at City Council meetings and may address the Council during Public Comment. To have a specific matter placed on the meeting agenda, a member of the public requesting an addition to the agenda should contact the City Clerk at least five (5) days prior to the Council meeting and provide the City Clerk with sufficient information to allow the City Clerk to determine the nature of the agenda item. The Council requests that members of the public avoid repetitive appearances before the Council with the same issue. Comments should be limited to approximately five (5) minutes. Groups who wish to address the Council on the same or similar issues should select a spokesman to present the concerns of the group members.

CORRESPONDENCE

COMMISSIONER HICKS

1. American Thresherman Association, Inc., requests permission to close Ballpark Road during the 2024 August ATA Show Monday, August 12, 2024, and reopen it on Monday, August 19, 2024. They also request to have the Opening Power of Parade travel through town on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., following the Mardi Gras Parade route. Please see attached.

2. American Thresherman Association, Inc., requests $1,500 donation from the hotel/motel tax fund to help offset some of the 2024 advertising costs. Please see attached.

3. First Baptist Church requests to close West St. Louis Street between the church building and parking lot Friday, July 26th, from 5-9 p.m. and Friday, August 9th, from 5-9 p.m. for their Kidz Faith Camp. Please see attached.

4. Request approval to increase volunteer firefighter wages from $15.00 per hour to $20.00 per hour. 5. Resolution No. R-2024-28, a resolution to be placed on file, authorizing an intergovernmental agreement between the City of Pinckneyville, Perry County, Illinois, and the Pinckneyville Rural Fire Protection District. Please see attached.

6. Resolution No. R-2024-29, a resolution to be placed on file, authorizing the City of Pinckneyville, Perry County, Illinois, to enter into an employment contract for a part time fire chief – Curtis Miller. Please see attached.

COMMISSIONER KUHNERT

1. Accept resignation from Michael Spence effective July 5, 2024.

COMMISSIONER PERADOTTA

1. Resolution No. R-2024-26, a resolution to be placed on file, supporting the development of Streetscape enhancement for three city blocks of South Walnut Street in the City of Pinckneyville, Illinois bound to the North by Water Street (Illinois State Route 154) and to the South by West Randolph Street and authorizing the submission of an application for a grant therefore. Please see attached.

2. Request approval to hire Carly Heisner for the City Cemetery Board to update the city cemetery maps. 3. Reminder: Streets between Sronce Automotive to Blue Bunting Road East of the prison to the North, St. Bruno and Columbian Club Hall area to the North edge of City Limits/Waterworks Road will be oiled and chipped July 9, 10, and 11, weather permitting. Illini Asphalt has been contracted to do the work.

COMMISSIONER STOTLAR

MAYOR SPENCER

1. Resolution No. R-2024-27, a resolution to be placed on file, to approve a Highway Authority Agreement with Southern FS, Inc. for remediation activities affecting South Duckworth Street. Please see attached.

2. Permission to approve attendance at IML 111th Annual Conference September 19-21, 2024.

3. Executive Session for the discussion of Section 2 (c) (2) Collective negotiating matters or deliberations concerning salary schedules.

4. Executive Session for the discussion of Section 2 (c) (11) Litigation, pending or probable.

5. Public comment

6. Adjournment

Executive Session for the discussion of:

Section 2 (c) (1) Appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of an employee.

Section 2 (c) (2) Collective negotiating matters or deliberations concerning salary schedules.

Section 2 (c) (5) Purchase or lease of real property for the use of the public body.

Section 2 (c) (6) Setting of a price for the sale or lease of property owned by the public body.

Section 2 (c) (8) Security procedures, school building safety and security, and use of personnel and equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees, students, staff, the public, or public property.

Section 2 (c) (11) Litigation, pending or probable.

Section 2 (c) (21) Review and discussion of minutes of executive session.

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