Simmons? so you want all projects stopped that's what the motion is first and Stacey everything he's bringing it to me by the 1st of December the first meeting in December so my understanding of the motion is that you wanted My understanding of the motion is that you wanted me, if this motion goes through, it would be to direct me to place a moratorium on all CBGB projects.


That would even include the ones approved prior. Yes, all is all. That's my understanding of the request.


So we get a total understanding on these applicants and how they're really working. I don't, I agree that questions need to be asked if you feel like something is being done incorrectly.


However, the people who did qualify and are getting work done... I'm sorry. No. Parker? No. The motion fails. Three to five. Okay, we'll move on to item number 32, reports from department heads. Finance. Nothing, Your Honor. Thank you. Community Development? Nothing tonight, Madam Mayor. Public Works?


That's one thing. Today we had a public hearing for a CDBG grant. Great topic for sewer lining here in Freeport.


It's a million dollar grant with no match by the city. We're proposing sewer lining in the fourth, third, fifth, and seventh ward due to income levels.


Lines are yet to be determined. The reason I bring this up tonight is there will be a resolution that has to be passed on the December 2nd meeting Leading in order to submit for the grant on December 4th. Again, it's a million dollar grant with no match from the city, something that we've mined up and is a very good opportunity for Freeport.


Fire? Nothing this evening. Police? No report. Library? Nothing tonight. IT? City Manager? I'd just like to compliment the staff on their professionalism.


and I just have a couple of things I just want to thank the city crews for putting installing all the downtown Christmas decorations just in time for Missile to walk which is this Saturday from noon until 8 p.m. Everything from a hot chocolate to s'more station and horse drawn carriage rides and then at 5 o'clock is the lighting of the tree at the courthouse and in line with Christmas decorations mark your calendars and purchase your tickets now for the December 13th at 7 o'clock Rock, is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Tribute Show at the Masonic Temple, and the proceeds from this show will go to purchase Christmas decorations along the Chicago Avenue corridor.


And then also there is still time to drop off items for the 333rd National Guard Care Package. Sixty-two men and women were deployed out of Freeport, and the items that they are and the rest of the community.


We are taking donations through the rest of this month. We move on to Alderman Stacy and Alderman Shadle.


I would just like to say that some things were said earlier in the direction of Community Development Director Duckman that I thoroughly disagree with. He has a level of honesty and integrity that I would put second to none and I feel there is absolutely no reason to doubt anything that he did with those grants. It is not totally the way it was specified by the state. Alderman Sanders? Alderman Sellers?


Alderman Klemm? I just want to mention we have a November 26th neighborhood watch meeting. That's it. Alderman Monroe? Thank you Madam Mayor. I'd like to apologize to David Hayes, item number five, on not suspending the rules and getting that I would encourage everybody to stick around for item number 38 as we come out of Executive Session, should be an interesting conversation, as well as, you know, my disappointment overall in not wanting to look into certain items just because, you know, it doesn't feel comfortable.


and I think it's time that we start investigating some of the things that have been said around the city for many years.


I've been coming to a realization that there are several people in this community who don't have Freeport's best interest in mind and I've started to speak out against it and as you saw here tonight, it's not very comfortable at times but sometimes it's important to bring the uncomfortable up.


So I'd like to thank everybody for tuning in and listening in and more to come.


Alderman Simmons? Just a reminder of our Third War Community Meeting on this Friday coming up November 22nd at 4 o'clock at the library.


Alderman Parker? Just to agree with Alderman Shadle reference, Mr. Duckman here, he's done a great job.


and I'm going to go to number one. Number 136 is public comment. Take one at a time.


So back to speak about number six. I just want you to know that what is on or what was added to the ordinance is even more of a fine than you already have in place of $100 per unit.


You currently have a fine of $100 per unit and others, and I think that's the way it is.


It's not something that you're going to find in your ordinance that you're not collecting on or that nothing has been collected on this year. So the request for it to be the way it was when it was presented to you as the ordinance was something that people were discussed with and agreed upon knowing that it was more than what was already in the ordinance as it stands today.


Thank you. I'm not here to accuse anybody of any wrongdoing. I think that everybody does their best and I don't think that any one person knows everything. But in my experience, every government program that's offering financial help always considers assets.


I've never heard of this. Now I believe that the Community Development Director probably did hand out the applications and he looked at him and to the best of his ability he complied with all the rules.


But what I wanna do, I'm going to research this grant thoroughly and find out actually are they seriously not considering a person's assets?


Every program I'm familiar with, health care, housing, every government program, they want to know what your assets are. These people shouldn't have even been handed an application.


So I would like to know, I'd like to come to the office of the Community Development Director and find out, you know, bring my notes, exactly what the name of the program is. If you've got a notebook, I'd like to just borrow it and look at it. I could sit Thank you Mayor Miller. Nealey Erickson with Illinois Real Tours. So I want to thank Alderman Klemm for bringing up some history about the registration fee because the City Council had removed the registration fee because they realized that it impacted compliant property owners and so the real focus about the registration was to go after the and John compliant and so that's why the registration fee was removed by that City Council also I want to bring back to your attention the overall rental registration ordinance because it's a larger animal and after the definitions the immediate first implication on your ordinance is required registration property owners landlords in your community cannot rent to tenants unless their properties are registered and so we recognize


that there are no. We recognize that there are non-compliant individuals, and when we were discussing the fee structure, we designed the fee structure to ensure compliance and protect your contendence exactly from what you said, Alderwoman Sellers, Sanders, and that we wanted to make sure that they did not take the brunt of the overall burdensome of that fee, because you have to remember, if the property owner can't pay the fee, they then cannot register the property, and what is the tenant supposed to do?


And so that is the reason why the fee is designed in order to encourage compliance without extreme penalization of that individual and the tenant.


and so Ashley and I, Ashley is with the Landlord Association, I am with the Realtor Association and so when we worked on this proposal back and forth with the City Manager and with the City, we wanted to make sure that the implications were minimal and that it focused on the problem property owners in your community and that is what the core goal of this ordinance is that was in front of you today.


So we hope that you see that in the next couple of weeks that you remember these words, it and so forth.


We want to make sure that we have the right to the city, not just to focus on problem property owners, but to protect your tenants in your community because they bring value here too.


And we don't think that you don't think that they do, but we always have to remember how it trickles down.


And we also want to make sure it's perfectly clear that throughout this, we have brought ideas to the city outside of the rental registration system.


E. Z. to create another document that says at the signing table, letting that person know who's purchasing the property, that if you're going to rent this property, there is a registration system with the City of Freeport and you are obligated to follow it.


And at that point in time, they know also with the water bills, the tenant is responsible to sign up for the water to ask a simple question, are you a tenant or not?


Necklin, you can update about beef, but wozade. Wozade is right, Tommy? Yeah. My question is, what is the difference between beef and wozade?


I think the difference is that the beef is the same as the beef. The beef is the same as the beef.


The beef is the same as the beef. The beef is the same as the beef.


My understanding is that a restaurant is submitting their permits, a good restaurant that you will probably enjoy.


Anyone told Jodi Miller that she gets a good job to meet with people and go Packers?


Go Packers. Are there any other public comments? I'll make this very very quick. I really enjoyed the debate especially on the landlord situation and I don't want to pick on this poor man but it's not totally working properly. When they came in investigated some garages in my neighborhood that were bad which I kind of pointed to the fact rather than repair of the Garages, they tore them down.


All of a sudden, my property values are less, not more. That property value is less, not more.


So we need to think, like the people that just pointed out, what we do, we are destroying more than we're creating.


We're demolishing more than we're rebuilding. And I think we've got to get on that track.


We're trying to hold our property taxes down. I put something in there and I would have liked to kept the level the same, which would have increased to another $18,000.


I don't care about the $18,000, but if we can get our property taxes up in my neighborhood, it should reduce the property taxes in the other areas as well.


So we need to manage our property as well as we can. Anyway, the job on the budget has been pretty remarkable.


A lot of work went into it. I know Michelle went through hell. I went through hell, looked at the numbers.


They come out halfway decent. There are some things that you shouldn't take notice of.


Most of you got my documentation. Look forward to solving those few problems, and I think we'll be in very, very good shape.


The capital budget project that he put together is a doable thing. Goodbye. Are there any other public comments?


Okay, we'll move on to item number 37. Could you please read this? Pursuant to 5 ILCS 122C2, collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees.


Is there a motion to enter into executive session? So moved. Do we have a second?


We're waiting on Klemm. Do we have a second? Yeah, we're waiting on Klemm. Okay, so we've got a motion made by Alderman Shadle, seconded by Alderman Parker.


Madam Clerk, could you please take the roll? Stacy? Aye. Shadle? Aye. Sanders? Aye. Sellers?


Klemm, Monroe, Simmons, Parker, Motion passes 6 to 2 Can you leave the door open?


Good night! He directed all of that work. He did all of it. He went out and told the counter counter, go do this, and then he called us and said I told him to do that. It's work for work. I know that man. Adam Holder was one of my best friends.


Oh, is he getting ready? I asked Scott if he was in there. I asked Scott if he was in there. He was like, I'm leaving. And he just left. I was like, okay.


and many more. The lights are off upstairs. I hope she didn't go home. The lights are off upstairs.


Oh here she comes. She went downstairs. and more. Smashing, Alderslash, Larry, Chief Manager, R.M.G., from Milwaukee came down here to give $9 million to the program.


They had to hire a person to write it up. They were still paying for it.


It's a good thing. Every time there's a new community, if you think it's going to be changed twice, just get your first person.


I have not heard of any of these. My reputation is that they have no reason not to trust me with what I do.


I don't think they all want the same thing. The person that's important to me, I don't have to deal with things here.


just ask your questions. Here's my answer to all of you. You may know it.


I'm 247 over the world. I answer every call. Everybody I call, I answer your question.


Everybody. There are people who are most comfortable with the phone. Do you want to do it?


Do it. Everybody. I know I do. Great. But I'm going to do it. I just don't want to have to answer your questions because I don't know how long this is going to take.


and so forth, and so what you're going to get is everybody's going to get a phone call, Do you know what a simple thing it was?


I think it's something to do with student, because it's all he's supposed to do. And actually, obviously, he had an essay, and our one did, so it was separate parties, so it wasn't for the one who did. They checked the bars, and said, oh, it's better to say it to a student.


8, 12, 10, but that's what I was going to tell you. I just want to say that's probably how it's happening.


and others. So that's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is.


I mean, their pocket is going into the company's pocket. I mean, that's exactly what I'm saying.


That's exactly what I'm saying. Well, I hate to say it, but this is going to sound sick, but you can't blame people for playing the moves that they're good at.


Right? You can't blame them. Well, right. I mean, seriously, they're just playing the game.


If they check the boxes, right? Right. Now, the next question is, does it mean they just need to change the rules for that?


The answer is no. Okay, so the next question is just where we are now.


Is there something we can look into? The only thing that you can't do is you might have to stop the program.


I'm sure you've heard about some of our guys before. Hey, we both told them.


Is that part of that? Yeah. All right. I feel like this is going to happen.


and Al, because just to get your company to show up and do it, I don't know.


But everything I can do, I'll do it. I just want to know that they were...


I don't have an appreciation for being in a sort of game right from the last night.


Yeah, yeah. So that's... Oh, yeah. We're going to go back to your question. Where's the money? Where's the money? That's what I want to know.


Oops, I'm sorry, sister. You're fine. Okay. All right. We're recording. It is, it is 1056. Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll in returning to open session?


Madam Mayor, Alderpersons, Klemm, Monroe, Simmons. Sanders, Parker, Stacy, Shadle, Sanders, Sellers. Item number 38 is adoption of resolution R2024.119.


Could you please read this? Resolution ratifying collective bargaining agreement with the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council, local number 884.


Thank you. Manager Boyer. Thank you, Your Honor. Just before the Council tonight is the negotiated contract with the Fraternal Order of Police.


It includes a three-year contract with three step increases at eight for 2025, seven for 2026, and seven for 2027.


7. It also includes a Uniform Allowance Increase totaling approximately $11,000 in total impact and a bilingual bonus. It also removes language related to the PEP medical plan, which is valued at about 1.5%. Thank you.


Is there a motion to adopt? So moved. Second. We have a motion made by Alderman Sellers, seconded by Alderman Shadle.


Discussion on the resolution. Alderman Monroe. City Manager Boyer, what is the total impact on the city for this, if this were to go through this room?


Approximately a million and a half dollars. Any other discussion? And we still have yet how many more contracts to discuss?


We don't have any this year. but what contracts how many contracts do we have coming up? Well we have AFSCME coming up and then fire following that. Any other discussion? Madam Clerk please take the role.


Oh I'm sorry I didn't see you, Alderman Klemm, sorry. I don't think we can afford this either way but I'll say aye. Simmons? Aye. Parker? Aye.


Stacey? No. Shadle? Aye. Sanders? No. Sellers? Aye. Klemm? Aye. Monroe? I don't I don't think we can afford this, either way, but I'll say aye.


Simmons? Aye. Parker? Aye. The resolution is adopted, 6-8, 6-2 for a total of 8.


It's late. Okay, since it is 11 o'clock, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Second.


Motion made by Alderman Sellers, seconded by Alderman Shadle. All those in favor signify by saying aye.