beings it's 530 you call the meeting to order madam clerk if you could call the
roll please Mayor Miller here Alderpersons Klemm here Johnson here Simmons is
absent Parker here Stacy is absent Shadle here Sanders and Sellers are absent but
Alright, we're down to approval of the agenda.
Got a motion by Klemm, second by Johnson. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? That's approved in public comments on agenda items. There was nothing listed, nothing there, and we'll move to discussion of the capital improvement plan by Manager Boyer and Director Richter.
Yes, sir.
All righty.
So many of these projects we've talked about and you have knowledge of, but I'm just going
to hit the major ones. So as you all know, Hancock Bridge Deck is one of our major projects
for next year. We need to get the guardrail and the bridge deck replaced. So we've budgeted
for that in the capital plan as well as the viaduct. They go hand-in-hand. Viaduct should
would have been done already, but due to various delays, whether it was some of our outside
shareholders permit reviews and working with other utilities, it's taken some time, but
we're getting together on the viaduct, but we've included that. There's work left to
do in 26 for the viaduct. So once the viaduct's done, then we'll start work on the Hancock
Bridge. Also, we've listed funds in here for crack sealing and repair work and hot mix.
So this is one of the items we want to make sure we protect that investment that we've made in our transportation system
The street maintenance plan obviously we've discussed that this is the 1%
Transportation tax that we currently collect on on sales of items except for food and medicine and medical equipment
We've got the municipal lot that is included in this year's capital plan
Mann, so that's a mill and overlay of the municipal lot. It's been needing it for quite
a few years, so we'll get that done early next year. And then we've included the police
department alley. This has been an item that's needed to be addressed for a very long time,
and right now, this would be the time to get that done in 26. Also, you'll see the sidewalk
Park Project, South and West, with ADA ramps. That one is funded through a HISP grant, $2.4
million that were outside funding, but we won't be working on that until 27, but we
wanted it reflected here in the capital plan. Walnut as well, Walnut from South to Empire,
that's approximately going to be a two-year project, and we're working with IDOT STU funding
for that project. Stevenson, Locust to Sunset, we're planning two years there, $750,000
for 26 and 27. That is also using STU iDOT money. And we're also looking at Lincoln
Street, Locust to West, about $800,000 in two years, but in 26 we'll be utilizing about
We've got $400,000 next year and that will also be STU funding through IDOT.
We've got South Street programmed.
We've added $250,000 here for our design work and that, but we have approximately anywhere
between $4 and $7 million.
I'm not entirely sure the total amount, but this was through John Cabello, who oversees
IDOT, who IDOT had come to him and said, hey, we don't have enough people to deploy all
and all the funds. And he said, well, I've got some communities that could deploy the funds themselves. Why don't you just give them the funds? And that is how South Street, we will begin work on South Street next year.
Walnut, Empire to Maine, we've put that out there at year 28. That's going to be a fairly expensive realignment and a lot of right-of-way work because the road itself is narrow, too narrow for modern day standards, I-DOT standards.
Sanders, so we're going to be working on that in 28.
As well, we have Galena in here listed.
We put some funding in here for various engineering that we might need, but this is an IDOT project.
It's in the five-year plan, and next year they should start the project.
It would be resurfacing Galena from Clark to Park, which is a pretty significant undertaking.
Again, they'll be working on ramps next year and then paving surfaces, potentially next
and then the following years. And then we've also had a West Galena to Empire that we've
added here. Essentially, we just wanted an item to track it here in the capital plan
moving forward. So, that's everything on the road projects. Do you have any questions
on the road projects so far? Now, this includes the five-year plan. So, when we go to the
We see the 5-year plan down at the bottom of the page.
Those are our local roads that we'll be doing and those are accounted for under the Street
Maintenance Plan.
So just so you know, just because you don't see the streets from the 5-year plan for next
year on here, they are included in this.
Under Buildings, Police Department Facility, continuing to keep that top of mind.
That one is a fairly expensive challenge after some research.
We came up with that it's going to be pretty expensive.
So we're tracking that in the capital plan with the intention of getting things together
and getting outside funding to help us with that.
We've also included about $100,000 for Tuck Pointing City Hall this year.
We had originally planned to do that this year, but we went ahead and did storm windows
Mendes instead due to the fact that single pane, it's very cold in the wintertime in
Northern Illinois, the building has a hard time keeping up with heat, and storm windows
would have the most impact there.
So we've kicked the tuck pointing to 26, and this won't be the entire thing.
This will be probably just a portion of City Hall.
Moving down here a little further for 26, we've got renovations budgeted for Island
Good Avenue. If you haven't been down there recently, the building itself is just fully
depreciated and in need of just some maintenance and some cleanup down there. In addition, we've
got the $800,000 in for the salt sheds. We've talked about this at various times, but just
open it up tonight. We have two large salt sheds that are a pole construction and both
capacity of our salt sheds. So that's planned for next year. We've got the airport terminal building.
So we currently have some estimates out here, about 1.8 million total, but our match would be
about 190,000. We budgeted for the match, and this would be built out largely with FAA money
and state money with a 5% match from the city. We're also budgeting for the PAPI lighting system.
that's the approach light or some of the approach lights again that's been in the
capital plan for the airport for a number of years next year we'll be
completing that we've also budgeted for 400,000 for the fire department for new
windows and just we have several different items there on the fire budget
for ensuing years you can look at those if you have any questions on those
Thomas, please let me know. If we could move on to water infrastructure. So the first one
there is water main, water main replacements. So that's essentially whenever we do a road
program we evaluate the water main. If it needs to be replaced then we replace that
water main. It also gives us an opportunity to budget for that and that's reflected here
and
serviceline replacement program which is our final phase and we should be completing that
hopefully in 2026. So very excited about that. Again, the lead service line is 100% loan
forgiveness to the EPA. Water structures, Phase 3, which is Well 12. We've talked about
it many times. And Well 12, we've recently drilled the test well down to I think about
but we have over 1,800 feet, 1,300 feet and taken a sample and so those are being evaluated
now, if all goes well we should be moving forward on construction there.
With the two years of $15 million we've secured I think at least $13 million of this in forgivable
loans, emerging contaminants, and also some outside, congressionally directed money.
We're hoping to get the rest of it covered but we do not have an announcement this time
but we should have soon.
Also you'll see here we've got water main phase four, phase five, that's just us keeping
track of as we go through and do the road program that we have enough money here to
do the water main.
Obviously if we don't replace the water main, we don't want to invest in the transportation
infrastructure and then have the water main ruin it.
So we do have about 60% of our city is comprised of this low-grade spun-cast water main, which
is notoriously weak and is old and is in many cases corroded.
So every time we do those roads, we're going to evaluate that, make sure the water main
is quality.
And if it is, we'll leave it.
If it's not, we'll replace it.
Backup generator for Carroll, that's in the plan for next year.
As we've discussed, I have certain utility infrastructure remote sites like Carroll that
provide, I think in this case, about 1.7 million gallons per day of water to the city, but
there is no backup capacity there.
We essentially have one large towable generator that we would in an emergency, maybe an ice
storm, have to take around to each of all of our remote sites, and to me that's inherently
unsafe and not a great plan.
So we are slowly but surely upgrading our remote sites with backup generation capacity.
If you skip down to cold storage Brick Street, that's an extension to the Brick Street storage
shed that is necessary.
We've consolidated due to the work at the wastewater treatment plant.
We've had to move equipment up to Brick Street.
With that, we need an extension on that building so that we can keep our cold storage materials
Undercover and then lastly here on the water side we have the Willow Tank Rehab. We're budgeting
about a million dollars for the Willow Tank. It's a ground level storage tank that runs off
of booster pumps when it was originally purchased and installed. The appropriate man hatches and
things that are required for maintenance were not put in at the time so the only hatch in it is at
at the very top and we need to upgrade that so that it's safe for our personnel to get
inside and do the appropriate maintenance that it will require over the years.
Any questions on the water infrastructure side?
Yes.
The airport water main extension, what is that?
Well one of the challenges out here is for anything to happen at the airport, we need
to supply water to the airport and sufficient volume and flow for fire suppression.
So one of the things we're hoping to work on here moving forward in the ensuing years
is getting water from the utility out to the airport so that we have sufficient volume
and flow for fire suppression in the hangar buildings.
As we go along, fire code is becoming more and more restrictive, and if we hope to make
the airport into a regional maintenance facility, then we need to have sufficient volume and
flow of water for those fire suppression systems.
And you've already set aside money for this?
Well this is the capital plan, this is what we're looking to do, and every year beyond
26 will change slightly depending on the facts on the ground so this this could
move out a year this could happen it depends on the other priorities at that
time. Okay so is this capital plan four million? Right now yes we put four
million dollars in the capital plan for the water main extension to the airport.
and when do you plan on doing this? Well we have it programmed for 2027 and I'm
available if you have any other questions on that we can we can definitely talk
about that. But in the interest of time, I'd like to move on to wastewater infrastructure.
We're coming to the end of phase one, which is the SEP system, the headworks, the UV disinfection,
the new lab and offices at Hancock. As you'll see there, we need to start planning for future
point-of-mouth presentation is that we have just started doing another half a year's work,
and we're just building new streets that are going to be completed during the next few years
related to phase two, which is going to be sludge handling, and nutrient removal.
So those are some things that we'll talk about a little later during the council meeting.
We're planning about $500,000 for sewer lining. Again, when we do the street, we want to make
sure that those sewers are lined so that if there's a material breach of the sewer lateral,
it doesn't cause degradation to the road. We also have some manhole rehab there, and
then we're looking as we move forward, we're going to be needing to upgrade and update
our final clarifiers at the wastewater treatment plant. So you have flocculation, sedimentation,
and those clarifiers perform that work as it ends the treatment process and they haven't
been updated in many years and we're going to be moving forward with some upgrades to
those in ensuing years.
We've also got lift stations remodeled, so we've got approximately $2 million programmed
for the park in Galena lift station.
There's new drivers, motors, and pumps that need to be replaced at three of these next
year.
So we're working on that now.
Coming to the end here, again, Walnut Loaf Station is in here, 2.7 million, so this would
also be upgrades, necessary upgrades and updates to the Walnut Loaf Station.
And then we have the blower boiler room piping at the wastewater treatment plant.
I believe we've got issues there in terms of the heat exchangers, the things that keep
the sludge digesters working properly, so we've accounted for some upgrades there.
And then we have $1.2 million budgeted for the Meadowbrook sewer expansion, so that is
from La Cresta and then connecting, going north and south along Meadowbrook and then
and potentially connecting into Oak Hill.
So we had been waiting on outside funding for this, but we've been waiting for five
years and at this point the road is degraded to a sufficient point where we really just
need to get the gravity sewer done and then we can resurface that road.
And the same thing, we've got West Demeter, that needs a sewer upgrade as well.
I just want to know how many lift stations do we actually have in?
I want to say seven.
Nine.
Nine, okay.
And how often do they need this type of repair?
Well these are the bigger ones, Joy, so probably every twenty years.
Yep.
So.
Yep, go ahead.
So the stations that we're upgrading this year, Park and Laurel were built in 1967 and we've done
some small mechanical work now and then but this will be the first major overhaul of these since
their inception so they've lasted quite a long time. And I will comment that a lot of these remote
sites, they generally function pretty well during normal operation. The challenge comes in when we
We have heavy rains and we have I&I making its way into the wastewater plant. It can cause a serious backup in a large section of a drainage shed pretty quickly. So when we are spending some money upgrading these, what we are doing here is ensuring that folks with basements, floor drains, net will be much more capable, able to handle any kind of storm surge in out in the collection system. A couple other things
Moving on to stormwater. We have a handful.
We have a handful of projects here. We've got the storm inlet replacements. We're
planning to do, how many was that? Was that about 30? About 30 this year or 26? Yeah,
okay. Obviously all around town and I think Alderman Parker noted one just
over by him that had a bed, a field grate. We have a lot of brick structures out
there that a mortar gets eroded away, the bricks fall in and then what you have is
Debris
We've been, for years, we've been planning on a downtown storm water upgrade that includes repairing of the large, I guess it's a viaduct. It's a big, a large storm way down at Benton and Jackson. It's made out of wood and the wood is getting old. And I would not want that structure to create a problem for drainage during a heavy storm. So that's been on the plan for probably five years.
Moving into some street vehicles, we've currently, in 26, we're not planning to purchase any new 10 or 5 yards, at least out of the street department.
We are going to be purchasing two dump bodies for the hook lift trucks. As everybody remembers, we ordered two hook lift trucks back in 2019, I believe.
We then take delivery to like 2021 and those were only outfitted with salt boxes so they basically sit in the shed for most of the year.
This year we're going to install or we're going to order dump bodies so we can use them in construction projects.
Also, we're planning to purchase a new roller. We need an additional roller for the street department.
And so that's included here. Any questions on street vehicles?
So, it's like a dump truck, except these two trucks, their chassis is fitted with like
a hydraulic hook. And you back up to the, let's say the salt, you know, the spreader
and the salt box. It just reaches up under there, hooks it and then pulls it up on the
chassis and then locks it down. So whenever you buy any kind of it, so these trucks are
Great because they're flexible. They could do salt in the wintertime with a V box
splitter and a spreader. Then you take that off, you put the leaf box on, and you
use them for leaf, you know, removal. And then in the construction season, you put
the construction or a large 10-yard box on them, and they can haul rock and that
kind of thing.
What did you say about the two that were sitting?
Yeah, we ordered two new trucks in 2019. We received them in, I think, 21. And because they only have the salt, they have the V-Box and the salt spreader and then a leaf box, we'll use them for a few months every year. So by getting these two dump bodies, we'll be able to utilize them all year.
How much did we pay for those that we are not even using?
Well, I mean, they're about $225,000 or so each. And, and like I said, we use them in the winter and we use them in the fall. But by getting these two boxes, we'll be using them all year.
Okay, but what are we going to do with the equipment we have setting? Is this something we could get some money back on or?
Actually, this would be adding to, so we'd be making adding to the capabilities of these two trucks.
We've taken them from a leaf machine or a salt box to a utility box where we can haul rock and
things for the construction. Okay, the equipment that is sitting, will we ever use it? Yes,
we use it every year. But when we get these two that you're wanting,
Will we use that other equipment?
Yes.
These are dump bodies.
So in the summer we can have dump trucks out of these trucks and it gets to the winter.
They'll take the dump box off and put the salt spreader box on.
Yes.
And then we'll use that.
I understand that part.
I just don't understand the two from 2021 sitting.
and introduce you to the vehicles and maybe we can go for a ride.
With that, we're itemizing, as you can see in the capital plan, we're breaking this out.
We're being more thorough about what's in it.
So we've broken out the utility vehicles this year.
That's kind of a change from previous years.
So we're budgeting for a 10-yard dump truck for the water and sewer department for 26.
also a mulching head for our mini excavator that helps us keep right of ways clear from
trees and bushes and things that grow up.
And then the crew cab truck, we've got two service trucks that are in the budget for
the utility this year.
So any questions on any of that?
Obviously, the next one here is police vehicles.
So we've itemized four police vehicles.
That's kind of a standard every year we need to replace four.
Then we've added a golf cart for the police because when they do events and things, this
is so they can get around and be more effective in their patrols.
We've also added a live video camera trailer and radar trailer, as well as 20 additional
운 what is a live videocamera trailer and radar trailer?
So this is a trailer where you park, crank up the boom, and it's got multiple cameras on, and so if you're having a particular issue with high crime area, you can deploy this, and you can kind of maintain surveillance on the area.
We already have this? Yeah. Is that what's on Galena right now by?
That I couldn't answer that. By the store?
Yeah, so with this we are actually getting a couple of different things. One is a trailer that's like a speed trailer and an LPR and the other one is a surveillance trailer where we would also use it for major events, study Baker days, things like cruise night where you can monitor a crowd from one point so that we can see what's going on.
Okay, well I'm speaking about this trailer looking thing that's on Galena as I speak with a blue light.
Okay, and then moving on to fire, and that should wrap it up for this evening's capital plan.
We've got a budgeted VHF radio network, replacing hose nozzle appliances, firefighter turnout gear, that's the more expensive item.
Some of the turnout gear for the firemen contain forever chemicals. So we want to retire the
turnout gear that that has those chemicals and replace it with the
one new new designs that don't and
then the other items, you know, we've got an ambulance some chair for your ambulance and
In some environmentally friendly firefighting foam
So that pretty much covers the capital plan for 26
So any other questions on that?
I had a question.
On the first page
Terminal,
Airport Terminal
Updates. Yes. Something about
5% matchable
from the city. What does that mean? So we're budgeting 1.8 million for the terminal building
update. So the building is there. The interior needs to be built out. Our estimates based
on Crawford Murphy Tilly, who's our airport engineers, they're estimating it's going to
be about 1.8 total. 90% of this 1.8 will come from the FAA itself. And then 5% will come
from the state and then 5% would be a city match and that would come out to around $190,000.
And so where do this 5% come from? Texas? Yes. Okay, so that's 5% for the airport and
and others.
Thank you.
and 4.94% for the library.
Well, that's, those aren't connected.
5% of that project.
Yeah.
The project total, it's 5% of that.
And when do we plan on doing this?
Next year.
So we're gonna put water
and an additional terminal work all at the airport.
Well, the terminal needs to be finished and yes, we're going to do that.
And we're budgeting for 2027 for water to go out to the airport, not for the terminal specifically,
but for basically for fire suppression needs at the airport in general.
We haven't had it in all these years. Now, all of a sudden, we need water at the airport.
Well, I have actually been working on that for a number of years.
So, can I clarify something? So, the number that's put in for 2027, if you look at the note, we're just researching grant opportunities for that water through
the aviation mechanisms or other programs that's not specific money that's coming
I know you talked about the Police Department and you said that's going to be a pretty big budget. Is that what's on, what are we all looking for for the Police Department? Are we looking new, are we looking fix up, or what is all that going to be?
So that would be more than doubling what we have now in square footage. Part of the
reason for that is policing techniques, the way things are set up, this is the
way things are done today and have been for many years. So we've been kind of
making do since the 70s, but when we move, when we take it to the next level,
we're gonna bring things up to speed to where they need to be, what modern
policing requires today. Did I answer your question, Joy?
Just wondering if you are, you know, looking at new, are you looking at reconstruction, what are we?
I think we're looking at the most feasible thing to do, and it's probably gonna be retrofitting an existing structure.
That'd probably be the most likely. However, it's completely dependent upon funding and where that funding comes from.
If tomorrow we get congressionally directed funding for something, it might change the whole thing.
Okay. Thank you.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you. We'll move on. Any public comments, agenda or non-agenda items?
Seeing none, I would take a motion for adjournment. Motion by Seller, second by Johnson. All in favor?
Aye. Opposed? Thank you.