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and

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Father God, thank you for the divine promises you have given to us in your word. Thank you

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that you have not left us to fend for ourselves as we navigate through this sin-filled world,

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but that you have commanded us to ask for wisdom, knowledge, and common sense which

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you will give generously to all and so we do bestow upon the Freeport City Council members

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the ability to conduct themselves in a state-like manner towards Mayor Miller and themselves.

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Give the City Council members skills to apply wisdom, knowledge, and common sense when introducing

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and voting on legislation to create new laws for the city,

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negotiating and approving the city budget,

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ensuring proper allocation of resources,

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monitoring city agencies to ensure they effectively

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serve the community, representing constituents' interests

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and addressing community issues, and collaborating

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with other council members and local officials

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for effective governance.

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and Lord, last but not least, help each city council member effectively execute the positions

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to which they were elected and you installed them by seeking wise counsel and by being

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prepared before council meetings so they can make informed decisions.

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All blessings, honor, glory, and power belong to you.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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Thank you.

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And now we'll officially call this meeting to order.

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Madam Clerk, could you please take the roll?

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Mayor Miller?

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Here.

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Alderpersons, Klemm?

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Here.

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Johnson?

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Here.

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Simmons?

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Here.

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Parker?

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Here.

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Stacy?

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Here.

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Shadle?

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Here.

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I stand for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Alderman Sanders.

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Item number four is the approval of the agenda. Is there such a motion?

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So moved.

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Second.

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We have a motion made by Alderman Shadle, seconded by Alderman Sellers.

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All those in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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That motion passes.

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Item number five is approval of the minutes from the Committee of the Whole meeting held

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on August 11th, 2025.

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Is there such a motion?

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So moved.

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Second.

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We have a motion made by Alderman Shadle, seconded by Alderman Klemm.

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All those in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Opposed?

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That motion passes.

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We have one signed in, Ann, Annette, Mason? I'm not sure. Did you want to speak beforehand?

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Okay. Okay. Thank you. Then we will move on to item number seven, which is the presentation. I'm sorry.

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Oh, did you have something on the agenda you wanted to talk about? Please.

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I'm Ryan Glick. I live in Freeport.

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About last year in July, I found out about this whole supplier issue.

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It took me from July to about December to get everything situated.

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I reached out to the city, Ryan Bridge contacted me.

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I told them the issue when I tried to, I got the paper from Nordic, I called them to cancel it, I got forced back in with the AP when I wanted to go to ComEd, and I finally got back with ComEd on December 17th of last year.

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So, that was a horrible six months I had to deal with, with my combat bill. Being switched

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in it took almost six months to be back where I wanted. And I'm on low income, so, it's

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like, okay. So, I just want to bring that to you guys' attention. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Item number seven is a presentation regarding the maintenance of landscaping at City-owned

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lots.

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Lynette Williams with the Pretzel Gardeners.

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Hello, Council and City of Freeport.

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I found something quite by accident that so perfectly aligns with the reason maybe that we're here today to even discuss community pride and somebody had asked about it on Facebook and this was this gentleman's reply and it fits perfectly.

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Building a sense of civic duty in a community is about inspiring people to feel ownership, responsibility, and pride in the well-being of the place they live.

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It requires a mix of education, engagement, culture building, and opportunities for action.

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That hits our group square on the head.

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You want to dim the light so you can see the pictures that we took.

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I am Lynette Williams. I have lived here 50 years. Mayor Miller called me in July of 24, I think is when we started this, and she was looking to get the area cleaned up around city-owned lots within the community right before Tutti-Baker days.

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and this is what it looked like.

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That might even be good in some instances because we've pulled a lot of stuff.

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Anyway, what happened in 24 was we pulled,

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I gathered this crew, let's see here,

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my senior lady's here,

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behind me and we pulled this whole lot

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or this whole area along the parking lot and we thought oh and you know we come back in 30 days

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and no such luck. It looked just as bad as it had earlier. So when we started out 25

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we were a little bit better prepared. First off we knew that we needed a new plan at least for

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for this specific area.

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And so we gathered in, what was it, February of 25.

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And I knew that we were gonna need to do some deeper cleaning

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at least for our particular area.

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So with the help of the mayor and Greater Free Partnership,

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there were groups of people who were,

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I don't know whether they all volunteered

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or whether you like grabbed him by the neck and said,

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hey, come along type of thing.

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But anyway, it ended up where the Tuddy Crossing sign

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near the Pecatonica River, the city was going to do.

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The Lincoln Douglas Rock at Stevenson and Liberty

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in the parking lot, the master gardeners were going to do.

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I don't have any pictures of these areas.

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The landscape on State Street

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that was North and South borders on Maine

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where Steve Schlump was going to do.

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and his area has been featured this today,

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I think is the post from GFP.

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There was landscaping at the corner of Main and Adams

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near the Raleigh Building that was assigned to the city.

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Walnut and spring landscaping, Trish Vandenberg

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from the Father's House took care of that

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along with anybody from her congregation.

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My pretzel gardeners took this municipal lot

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and then the triangles at Locuston, Maine and Locuston, Lincoln, the Bangsburg Agna kids did.

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Hello.

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So, this was not, it was, it was one of those things you start, you started in on it and it was like,

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oh my gosh, it's just getting worse and worse and worse.

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We ended up, what we ended up doing, here is my crew.

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Simmler is from the Farmers Market, Paula Skanezny is not here, Ann Mason is here, Sharon

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Cook is here, Kathy Perkins is not here. They are my fellow pretzel pickers. Lorenzo Allen

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down there.

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Lorenzo Allen down there at the end he I became acquainted with him and he has

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come along and helped us on various days Robin Dole you have one lone bush that's

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on the city landscaping property I don't know if there was more before but there's

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only one left Robin Dole took that upon herself to do the trimming on it and my

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My friend Dovie Anderson of 40 years also helped us out.

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So anyway, we pulled weeds.

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We had to decide what was good, what we had.

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I am not a gardener.

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I have no idea, you know, it's like, is this a weed, is this not a weed?

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Milkweed.

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Milkweed was a huge discussion.

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Jodi has taken the liberty of sprinkling a lot of milkweed seeds, or either that, or

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we had pods at one point, or birds, or whatever, but we've got a lot of milkweed over there.

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We decided that we would keep anything that was next to the fences, anything that was

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close to the sidewalk, we were going to pull.

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That still left us with a lot of milkweed out there.

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Let me think. Where else am I at on my thought here? What we started doing was we started

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at the corner of Exchange and Van Buren in that corner where the steps come down and

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just started bringing the mulch back. Anyway, we eventually discovered that there's weed

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Fowler.

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And I swear that weed barrier must have been there since Columbus came along because it

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was filled with weeds, which is the reason that we couldn't get any place by just taking

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care of the top layer is because we had to get rid of the weed barrier, which is what

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we've done. We've pulled all that weed barrier up. We've laid down cardboard. We've put

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Maltz on top of that compliments of the city trying to think oh yes we transplanted the corner of at

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Van Buren and Douglas was totally looked like just a grassy knoll and it's huge it's absolutely

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huge we I asked Leslie if these kids would come along and help us between them and us we did it

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in four hours, but they did most of the work, because pulling up the weed barrier was horrible,

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absolutely horrible. Right now in that corner we've got down cardboard and then just mulch

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on top of it. The other corner's got a tree, but of course the tree is having its own ideas

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about how many extra sprouts it wants to come up, so we have to cut those back. We tried

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to replant as much as we could.

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Leslie came and took some irises.

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We took some of the irises and moved them along the edges.

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We had an opportunity to get lilies.

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No, I'm sorry.

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We transplanted the lilies.

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We got irises for free from a community member.

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And so we're trying to make it look the best we can

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with the limited resources we had.

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We discovered that, well, yes, but what's growing that's crazy?

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Morning Glory. Morning Glory.

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Looks beautiful, absolutely beautiful, but it takes over everything, absolutely everything.

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Which is part of the reason for the cardboard being down because we're trying to cut out and kill the weeds underneath it.

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I worked weekly with Pat Ingram from the Street Superintendent. He dropped us mulch. I would tell him how many bags we had. I would tell him that's landscape waste. White bags are trash, because we find people who, you know, the cup, the sucker wrapper, the cigarette, they're using it as an ashtray.

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and oh, for their dogs too. That was the other thing they were using it for, very much so.

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Anyway, I kept track of the hours that my crew did. My crew worked 134 hours on this,

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which is almost four weeks worth of work. Now, we did that in two and three hour increments

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because we're a group of seniors.

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We don't like the heat.

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We don't like the cold.

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But I'm figuring that we have saved the city

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somewhere around $2,700 by doing, by the manual labor.

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Obviously, right now, it takes us maybe an hour

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to go out there every other week

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because we're not fighting with the stuff

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that was underneath.

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I know that the parking lot is going to be improved at some point in the future and, you know, water accessibility, electricity, and maybe just some solid cement.

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You've got a sign in the one corner at the corner of Douglas and Van Buren that's been there since George Galrap was mayor.

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Maybe we don't need that anymore.

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just ideas just thoughts anyway I could not have done it without these people any

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of these people I mean this has just been fantastic I for those people who

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thought they had to give us advice and we look at them and say you want to help

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oh no I don't want to do that but we had a lot of those kinds of people so we

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We tried to, I guess, be diplomatic in our comments and wanted to make sure that the

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City knew what this took. You're talking about your budget, so it would be nice for

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a little bit of money in it, you know, for lawn bags and plants, if you want something

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other than what we can scrounge from neighbors. You know, that's about, that's about what

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we're doing. We're sort of scrounging from neighbors.

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Thank you for your time. I'm done talking. Leslie, would you like to introduce your kids?

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I'm Leslie Price. I'm the Social Worker at Banksburg Agnes Educational Center. We represent

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Freeport School District. We are at the Students in Transitional Education Program, and we're

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a big service education program, so we like to give back to the community. And these are

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only a few of our gentlemen that helped. We had a lot of other students that assisted

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2, Mrs. Jacarion Sanders, Floyd, Floyd Carter, and Christian Segal. Again, we had a lot of

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other students that helped as well, but they worked in that 100 degree weather week that

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we had. I think one day it was raining and we walk every time we go. So I just think

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that they deserve a little bit, a little bit of praise for the hard work that they did

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and so on. Thank you. That's all we have. Well, thank you, Lynette, to you and your

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entire crew. Hopefully your sense of community pride just continues to be catching on with

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other people, so thank you for your service. I would love to see other people doing this.

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and it would be not actually right now it's not too bad and I think that once we got at

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least that particular area tamed that's why it's not so bad right now.

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All right.

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Thank you again.

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Thank you.

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Thank you all.

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Move on to item number eight which is a presentation regarding the 2025 summer reading program.

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and Amanda Myers.

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Good evening.

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Can you hit the lights again so we can see better?

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Thank you.

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My name is Amanda Myers and I'm the Youth Services Administrator

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at the Freeport Public Library.

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So I'm here tonight to tell you a little bit

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about our summer reading club that we had.

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As you can see, our theme this year was Color Our World

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which was a really fun theme to program around and decorate

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and

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Mary.

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We'll start off by talking about the reading part of summer

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reading. I'd like to break it down into two parts, reading and

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programming.

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For the reading part, we had 523 kids who were birth through 6th

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grade sign up for summer reading, which is a 5% increase over

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last year. Of those who signed up, 271 of them successfully

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and I have successfully completed the summer reading program, which consists of reading either 20 hours if they're reading like longer books and independently or reading 60 books if they are being read to or if they're like an early reader and reading shorter books so it's easier to keep track by book for them.

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So our finishing percentage this year was 51%, which is down a little bit from last year, but that's okay. Usually I feel like most libraries are around like 20-25%, so I'm very happy if it's over 50%.

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and I. I'm happy if it's over 50%. So next we'll talk about programming. I feel like Ashley kept telling me like it's okay if it's not better than last year, like it's fine, don't worry. And this year we ended up with 8,232 people at our summer programs. That includes in-house programs, outreach programs, passive programs, and other programs we do throughout the summer field trips that come in. So that was a 36%

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Hicks, and a 25% increase from last year's amount of 6,000.

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And we had 119 programs beginning in June through August 9th.

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And we offer numerous programs each week for children, community groups, outreaches.

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And as you can see, ever since we have come back from COVID, our numbers have just been increasing steadily each year, which I mean, I feel like might possibly, it's going to be hard to beat this year, I feel like definitely.

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But somehow we always do it, so maybe it will happen again next summer.

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These are just a few of the programs we offer every year.

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As you can see, most of them, the numbers went up this year.

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The kickoff party was bigger, slime making was definitely bigger.

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We've been getting bigger Storytime crowds all year, so our average Storytime kiddos

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for Storytime and Debate Square was up to like 37 this year, which for us, as a small library, is a lot.

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and yeah they either stayed the same or generally went up so and now we will talk

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about the fun programs we had this is our summer reading club kickoff party

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which was on June 9th and thankfully this year we had good weather so we

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could have it outside I feel like the beginning of June is kind of hit or miss

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on the weather so we have it inside a lot too but we had 550 kids and adults

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We do like the registration is at like the Douglas Street entrance and this year our line wrapped all the way around to the Chicago Street entrance it was like the longest we had ever seen it and it was very steady the whole time like the line kept moving but it just kept staying that long so that was really good we have lots of different games and activities for them to do we always bring out our sensory table and this year we actually dyed rice to put in since the theme was colors it gave them

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and

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the other one is a little

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ballon

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inside and they wanted to get in

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on the summer reading club

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action too.

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This is our

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collaborative art

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we made for the summer.

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We do a different one

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every year and we try to keep it

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theme related.

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This year we decided to base it

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off the book the dot because

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this girl doesn't know what to

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make and her teacher is like

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everything starts from a dot and

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So we gave them dots at the kickoff party that they could decorate and we actually used like salad spinners and put some paint in them and so they got to like swirl it around and make really cool art so we put those up on the wall and this is one of the things that actually helped our numbers increase a lot we started doing scavenger hunts in the library like last November and they had so much fun that when we didn't have one in December they were like where's the scavenger hunt we want to do a scavenger hunt so starting in January we've been doing it every

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and

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We did over the summer. So there's just 12 little pictures. You can see like the watermelon card there. That's what they're looking for. We had them all over the Youth Services Department, like by our posters on the tree on the shelves, like wherever and they have to find six. And if they find six, they get a prize. So it's pretty simple. Like they just get a sucker or a pencil. It's not like a big prize or anything. But this summer from June 1st to August 9th, we did 1804 scavenger hunts. Like this is

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and so on.

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Like their favorite thing.

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I kid you not.

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Like every time they come in, they were doing it like multiple times a week too, even though

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we hadn't moved the pictures, they were just like, let us scavenger hunt again.

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And I'm like, okay.

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It's easy for them.

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Well, it's fun for them.

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It's easy for us.

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So these are some of our pictures at Storytime at Debate Square.

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I love summer because we get to do outside programming and Wednesdays actually though

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this year were very hit or miss on the weather.

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Fowler.

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Some of them were very rainy and some of them were very nice.

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But we had good crowds all summer and everybody just kind of brings their blankets and they

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bring picnics and we just kind of go outside and have a good time.

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We usually do like the sensory table or some sort of dance party or bubbles or things like

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that.

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And this summer, since our theme was colors, I kind of broke out of my usual summer themes

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and we did a different color every week, which was really fun and actually different to do.

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So it was very fun.

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And you can't have a good summer reading program without making slime a few times, which is

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on our monthly program cycle anyway, but in the summer it gets really, really big.

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We made some disco ball slime and firecracker slime using pop rocks, which actually make

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your slime pop and fizz and stuff.

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And then we also made some orange creamsicle slime to finish out the summer.

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and this year we had 493 people including kids and adults at our three slime days.

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So the popularity of slime is not slowing down at all.

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And these next few pictures are from our Make It Monday programs.

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I love Make It Monday because the kids just get to be, they get to do whatever they want

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and be as creative as they want.

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So this week we made cardboard birds and as you can see they all had a different take

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on it.

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We have a cardboard bird that was pre-cut and a white canvas and this is what happened and the little girl on the right she was finger painting and like blending her colors like nobody's business and we were all just like oh what's that gonna look like when it was done because it was kind of this weird greenish grayish for a while but it actually looks really good with her bird that's yellow and it just kind of looks like a darker sky and here we have our button art day we gave them the choice

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of having a pre like drawn out template so like the hearts and rainbows that you

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see those were all templates that we had drawn out for them or we just like gave

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them a canvas and they could make whatever and as you can see some of them

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even made very cool 3d sculptures with their buttons and this was from our last

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Make It Monday which was melted crayon art which I will fully admit did not

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and so on.

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We had a really good time.

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They all finished their artwork.

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It turns out no matter how big your building is, you can't plug in multiple hair dryers

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at a time.

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It just kind of overloads all the outlets.

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Lesson learned there.

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We let them all hot glue them and we were like, you know, you can just take it home

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and dry it.

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But actually, we had two hair dryers that were still working by the end and most of

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them actually stayed and dried them there.

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they were in no rush to leave because they were picking out books, they were scavenger hunting while they waited, it was fine, and as you can see, the girl on the left, she's very excited to have her picture taken, so, I mean, it turned out fine, and people were fine with it, even though it just didn't happen quite right, this is from our messy art day, which I will say was very, very messy, but you can't have a summer about color without having messy art, so we did like squeegee painting, we rigged up a pendulum that they could push back and forth,

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Johnson, and I feel like Aaron, my librarian assistant, and I spent probably more time

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cleaning the patio that day than our actual program was, which was an hour, but the patio

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is all nice and spotless now.

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And this is from our Bluey bash.

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If you're not familiar with Bluey, he is a cartoon dog that's very, very popular with

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the littles.

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We had decided to have a bluey party this summer and he appeals to kids of all ages.

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As you can see we have little littles and then we have bigger kids and we had 283 kids

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come that day.

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They played games like heebie yuppy which is the balloon game and dressing up like grannies

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which is apparently a bluey thing that you have to do and they made some magic asparagus

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which turns adults into animals.

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This is one of our presentations this summer.

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It was fantastic foam and more from Absolute Science.

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And the kids loved it because they got to be a part

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of the show and they made the exploding foam at the end

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and everybody just had a really good time.

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We also had an animal presenter come this year.

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It was Incredible Bats.

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And they presented their Animals Around the World program.

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And they must've brought like 15 different animals with them.

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and they told us like a few facts about each animal.

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So they went through all of them in an hour

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and then the parents helped hold the animals at the end

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and then the kids got to pen them.

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So there was like a snake and a rabbit and an armadillo

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and a fox, authentic fox and a spider.

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There also was a bat, which I feel like everybody

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was a little bit afraid was gonna get

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like to start flying all over, but that was fine.

00:29:24.019 --> 00:29:28.100
and we had over 130 people at both of those shows.

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So those were both really exciting.

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We also hosted an outside library field day this year.

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Last year we did our first outside like kind of game day.

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We had like 25 kids.

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So I didn't know what to expect.

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And then this year we ended up with 68 kids.

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So that was very excellent.

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They ran relay, relay races.

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You can see they did water balloon catching

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and they did the limbo.

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and about halfway through we divided up the littles and the bigs because we had a lot of teens too.

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So the teens played capture the flag.

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So the teens played capture the flag and then the little kids played hot potato and tag.

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And this summer we had a really fun new partnership with Mac Camp, which is through Hope wins.

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And we've kind of always they've kind of always come to programs sometimes when they could.

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But this year they have a home based location.

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So we decided that it would be easiest if I just went to them because they have like

00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:28.100
50 kids pretty much all summer.

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So each week I went and took some books and a craft or a project. As you can see, we made

00:30:34.660 --> 00:30:40.500
slime. They actually came to the art plaza and we did tie-dye with them because everybody

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loves to do tie-dye. And we talked about things like Juneteenth and we did service dogs when

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they had the police dogs come. So that was really, really fun. And that girl making her

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slime there, she was so excited that day. She was like, are we making slime today? And

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I'm like, yeah, and she like freaked out with excitement.

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She was so happy.

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And we also have a partnership kind of going on

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with the Stevenson County Fair.

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Usually I just go do story time, but this year we

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were asked to do Glow Bingo.

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And so Ashley and I went and did that,

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and it was really fun, a couple hours playing

00:31:15.800 --> 00:31:18.640
bingo with teens, adults, kids.

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Everybody mostly was super competitive about it,

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but they all also went home a winner.

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So that was really fun.

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And these are some pictures of our end of the summer party.

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Our attendance for the end of the summer party

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was down just a little bit.

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But it was a very, very, very hot afternoon.

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And usually people will stay the whole three hours.

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But I noticed this year there was a lot of people coming

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and people going because it was just really hot.

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But they all enjoyed their ice cream.

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They did the bouncy houses.

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They played games.

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They got to dunk library staff in the dunk tank.

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they got to play games, and they just overall had a really good time.

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So next year, I'm sure you're thinking, what is going to happen?

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Next year we are doing dinosaurs.

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The theme is Unearth a Story.

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So I am super excited, I already have my list going.

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I actually already have my first performer booked.

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We have dinosaur people coming, so we're super excited about that.

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and so that was our summer at the library.

00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:34.519
Thank you, Amanda.

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We will move on to item number nine, which is the discussion regarding municipal electrical

00:32:39.320 --> 00:32:46.320
Lacklaw Aggregation Program, Mike Mudge.

00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:59.400
Okay, we're going to do the Lacklaw Aggregation.

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I just want to make sure I didn't give away my only sheet.

00:34:06.320 --> 00:34:16.320
I have a question after that last presentation. Who would like to go back and be kids again? It looks like there's a lot of good stuff to do in the community.

00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:30.320
I got a lot of good questions from Councilman Johnson. Thank you. And I'll address those questions.

00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:36.680
Two topics, we're doing item nine right now, and that's the electrical bids that we got

00:34:36.680 --> 00:34:39.360
for municipal aggregation.

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And I'll just do a recap while the sheets are going to be coming up.

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We had a three-year contract that we secured last spring with, or last fall, with Nordic

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:54.300
Energy.

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and what happened was the capacity, we can go to the bottom part of that sheet, that'd

00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:19.019
be great. There, that's perfect. Part of our energy rates comes from when we have an all-in

00:35:19.019 --> 00:35:27.260
and Ray. I'll just use 9 cents as the all in rate. About a fourth of that was used for

00:35:27.260 --> 00:35:34.099
capacity and what capacity is, thank you, what capacity is, is the money that's collected

00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:42.700
by ComEd and given to generators. And we're part of the PJM grid which goes from our area,

00:35:42.700 --> 00:35:48.300
ComEd area, all the way out to the East Coast and down to like Washington, D.C. It's the

00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:52.140
the largest grid that operates in the country.

00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:57.860
FERC realized that, FERC is a federal agency

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that controls all the grid operators,

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that we weren't building enough generation plants

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across the country and they delayed PGM Zoom auctions.

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We used to have an auction every year

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and it would be a third for this year,

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and the third for the next year, third for the year afterwards.

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So suppliers always knew kinda what their costs were.

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If you look at the second to the right bar chart there,

00:36:26.180 --> 00:36:31.180
we went from 2024 to 2025, a very low capacity rate

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that was given to the generators to maintain their plants,

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but also encourage them to build new plants

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to meet our demand.

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Why is our demand goin' out of sight since 20,

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2012 to 2020, our energy prices were flat.

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And our prices kept going down.

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Every time we did aggregation, we would get a lower rate.

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And that was due to conservation.

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More generation, that was supply and demand.

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In 2021, we started increasing our growth.

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More and more electric vehicles, but also data centers

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started increasing the load,

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and we weren't adding any new generation to speak of.

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Yes, we were adding solar, adding some wind, but not, not.

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And the other thing we were doing, we were retiring,

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we were retiring coal-fired generating stations

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at an accelerated pace

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because the markets weren't supporting them.

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And as soon as they shut them down,

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they pretty well flattened them

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to seek out from underneath a cost, the tax cost on them.

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So what happened, supply and demand again, when they opened up the bid, PGM was like two years behind getting the bids out.

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In July of 2024, we got the bids for this. This was after we had secured a rate with Nordic Energy.

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and they reneged on it, not only with the City of Freeport, but also with Joe Davies County and Riverwoods and Berett Township.

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We had four communities that they had the low bid, they won the bids.

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So, saying all that, that's kind of the background of what happened to our market.

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ComEd's rate jumped up about 3 cents a kilowatt-hour also, which started in June.

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Not only did we have a lot of heat, we had ComEd rates going up, plus their delivery rates themselves went up.

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So this summer we started seeing some huge electric bills because of the weather,

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because of the capacity factors kicking in, and so on and so forth.

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But what we decided to do, I think as a consensus, was to have everyone go back to ComEd until we knew what the new ComEd rate was.

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That didn't happen until May. But then we decided to hold off on this a little while and see what happened.

00:39:06.740 --> 00:39:15.740
So now we're bringing the bids back to the Board, to the Council, to see if you're interested in securing a new rate.

00:39:15.740 --> 00:39:23.820
Wright. So if we could go back up to the top a little bit. Oh, one thing before we move,

00:39:23.820 --> 00:39:30.860
the new capacity rates for the following year from June 26 to 27 are even higher. So some

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of our bids are taking in that effect. So if we go back up to the top, these are the

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The three bids that we have, and the ComEd rate we have on there is 10.229 cents. If you'll get your summer bill, you'll see it says 10.028 cents. That's for the four summer months. The eight winter months is a little bit higher, so the average...

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is a little bit higher, so the average of the 12 months is 10.229 as it stands today.

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The two bills that we have from MC Squared, they make sense. We're not saving a lot of

00:40:16.620 --> 00:40:21.780
money. We're not saving two, three, four cents like we had in the past, but that's about

00:40:21.780 --> 00:40:26.780
but a penny, a half a cent, and if that chart's right,

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it may add another half a cent, you know,

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if we go with the two-year rate.

00:40:35.060 --> 00:40:40.060
One of the questions that Mrs. Johnson had was,

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let me see, what does the average person,

00:40:48.940 --> 00:40:50.900
what would the average person save?

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If you move this forward to the Council, I'll have fresh bids for you because these bids were on August 26th and we'll know then.

00:41:02.780 --> 00:41:15.780
The average customer at 634 kilowatt hours would save at half a cent, .005, $3.17 a month.

00:41:15.780 --> 00:41:18.780
Is that worthwhile?

00:41:18.780 --> 00:41:28.780
Well, if you look about, if you have 3,000 residents, that's about $9,500 a month, it stays in the community.

00:41:28.780 --> 00:41:38.780
And I just threw that $3,000 out, because at times we've had a lot more people in the program than that.

00:41:38.780 --> 00:41:47.780
If it goes to a penny, then it's double that, about $6.25 or so savings.

00:41:47.780 --> 00:41:54.780
The key on the aggregation program is people can opt out anytime they want.

00:41:54.780 --> 00:41:58.780
There's no termination charge.

00:41:58.780 --> 00:42:03.780
When we roll out a program, if we decide to lock in a program,

00:42:03.780 --> 00:42:08.780
everyone gets sent a letter from the supplier at the supplier's expense.

00:42:08.780 --> 00:42:13.780
On the city letterhead side, here's what the community rate's going to be.

00:42:13.780 --> 00:42:24.780
After our decision was made on the contract, it's then their decision to decide, do I want to be on the community rate or do I want to go back to ComEd?

00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:26.780
They can make a choice then.

00:42:26.780 --> 00:42:29.780
Next up is the second choice.

00:42:29.780 --> 00:42:35.780
ComEd will send out a letter saying you're going to be switched to this supplier on such and such a date.

00:42:35.780 --> 00:42:44.260
If you don't want to, call this number or call the supplier number and ask to get out.

00:42:44.260 --> 00:42:47.820
So that's the way the program's been since the start.

00:42:47.820 --> 00:42:52.260
Sometimes we get somebody that kind of gets caught in or they didn't get mail or a different

00:42:52.260 --> 00:42:53.980
address or something like that.

00:42:53.980 --> 00:43:01.860
We're always open to taking the calls and helping customers out to find out, express

00:43:01.860 --> 00:43:10.340
what the program is and what their choices are and let them know their choice.

00:43:10.340 --> 00:43:19.260
So ComEd's floating rate, if the Illinois Power Agency purchases the power for ComEd

00:43:19.260 --> 00:43:25.260
and Amron, the downstate utility, and they go through their costs and they set their

00:43:25.260 --> 00:43:31.660
rate, ComEd does not make any money on the power that they sell and they break even on

00:43:31.660 --> 00:43:38.260
and I. What ComEd makes their money is on their delivery fees. That's the middle part

00:43:38.260 --> 00:43:46.400
of the bill. And at the bottom of the bill is taxes and fees. Part of that on the fees

00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:53.740
is a cost of a half a cent per kilowatt hour. I'll talk about that when we talk about community

00:43:53.740 --> 00:43:54.740
Johnson.

00:43:54.740 --> 00:44:10.840
Yeah, I just want to read the questions that I gave you so people know what I gave you.

00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:16.660
What is the rate that the city and most residents are paying now for electricity per kilowatt

00:44:16.660 --> 00:44:17.660
hour?

00:44:17.660 --> 00:44:29.300
10.028 until October and October through May, it's a little bit higher than the 10.2 cents that I mentioned.

00:44:29.300 --> 00:44:36.740
Okay. And also the, I'm not sure how you pronounce that, is it Dynogy?

00:44:36.740 --> 00:44:47.140
And the direct energy have a renewable green option which is, which the green option would be the purchasing of electricity generated from renewable energy sources like wind or solar.

00:44:47.140 --> 00:44:49.820
Why are those rates higher?

00:44:49.820 --> 00:44:51.740
I'm just going to read all the questions

00:44:51.740 --> 00:44:53.140
and then you can answer them.

00:44:53.140 --> 00:44:57.039
And you explained a little bit what the floating rate means

00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.900
that how ComEd gets the money from that.

00:44:59.900 --> 00:45:02.860
Does ComEd still receive monies from the electric bills?

00:45:02.860 --> 00:45:05.240
That would be the rate that you were talking about,

00:45:05.240 --> 00:45:07.580
even though we have a different supplier.

00:45:07.580 --> 00:45:13.780
And then you explained the last one based on 634 kilowatt a month,

00:45:13.780 --> 00:45:17.620
which is an average give an example of what a bill would cost and you kind of

00:45:17.620 --> 00:45:20.420
explain that how many cents higher that would be.

00:45:20.420 --> 00:45:24.980
So I guess the answer I'd like to number two,

00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:29.300
the dynagy and direct energy have renewable green options so why are those

00:45:29.300 --> 00:45:33.380
rates higher if we do if we go with a green option?

00:45:33.380 --> 00:45:37.380
Because the cost to build the the solar even with the subsidies and everything

00:45:37.380 --> 00:45:40.980
is a little more expensive and the wind is a little more expensive.

00:45:40.980 --> 00:45:49.460
A one megawatt wind tower, windmill, costs like a million dollars, so, without the subsidies

00:45:49.460 --> 00:45:50.460
net.

00:45:50.460 --> 00:45:51.460
So it's a little higher.

00:45:51.460 --> 00:45:56.900
Now, some communities along the Chicago area, suburban area, they want to be a hundred percent

00:45:56.900 --> 00:45:57.900
green community.

00:45:57.900 --> 00:46:03.580
Out here, our communities as a whole pretty much want the lowest price.

00:46:03.580 --> 00:46:06.600
So what we do is we get lowest price.

00:46:06.600 --> 00:46:12.600
We do get that option from suppliers. If somebody wants to be 100% green, they can opt in and

00:46:12.600 --> 00:46:21.600
have that option. So, if we go with MC2, they don't offer that option.

00:46:21.600 --> 00:46:23.600
Okay. Thank you.

00:46:23.600 --> 00:46:27.600
Hopefully, I addressed the rest for you. Okay.

00:46:27.600 --> 00:46:33.600
Any other discussion, Council? Manager Boyer?

00:46:33.600 --> 00:46:41.160
So, Council, just at this time, we're scheduled to bring this before you next Monday for the

00:46:41.160 --> 00:46:43.160
aggregation contract for the community.

00:46:43.160 --> 00:46:48.560
So this is your time to ask any questions related to this and make some indication that

00:46:48.560 --> 00:46:52.160
you do want me to bring this aggregation contract next week.

00:46:52.160 --> 00:46:55.160
So just wanted to point that out.

00:46:55.160 --> 00:46:56.160
Okay.

00:46:56.160 --> 00:47:01.080
Alderman Johnson, do you have something else?

00:47:01.080 --> 00:47:02.080
Can I ask Manager Boyer?

00:47:02.080 --> 00:47:03.080
Sure.

00:47:03.080 --> 00:47:22.080
Okay. So the lowest price on here is from MC squared, which one year is 9.65 kilowatt per kilowatt hour and two years is 9.85 per kilowatt hour. So that is lower than what ComEd would cost us if we just stay with straight ComEd. Is that correct?

00:47:22.080 --> 00:47:28.840
that's correct thank you but I want to know I was going to add next week we're

00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:36.000
gonna have different bids so this is an example of today Monday when we come

00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:41.120
back to approve the aggregation contract if that's what council's desire is those

00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:46.160
numbers will change based upon the conditions in the market at that time

00:47:46.160 --> 00:47:54.980
Thank you. Alderman Klemm. I'd just like to add that I've known Mr. Mudge for many

00:47:54.980 --> 00:48:02.160
years in the trade and also before being on the council and he's very knowledgeable

00:48:02.160 --> 00:48:07.480
about this and if you have any questions please ask him because I mean he'll tell

00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:14.120
you I know some of us went through some terrific electric bills this year and

00:48:14.120 --> 00:48:16.800
and the way it looks in the future,

00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:18.800
it isn't gonna be any better.

00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:20.960
But where I was really surprised

00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:22.760
when I got looking into the bills

00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:27.680
was not necessarily how much per kilowatt hour you paid,

00:48:27.680 --> 00:48:30.780
it was some of the delivery fees and the taxes

00:48:30.780 --> 00:48:33.619
and the so on and so forth that you went into it.

00:48:33.619 --> 00:48:35.840
But you're gonna pay what it is,

00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:40.840
but thank you for your work on this, Mike, we appreciate it.

00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:46.840
City Manager, you don't need a motion to move that to the next meeting, right? It's all good? Okay.

00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:55.840
Well then, we will move on to item number 10, which is discussing regarding community solar with Illinois Shines. Mike?

00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:03.840
Okay. What we're looking at on community solar, and that's a long list of questions,

00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:13.840
But I'm pleased that people are looking at this and going through the Community Solar of Illinois Shines program.

00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:29.840
Community Solar. So what is Community Solar and why am I bringing it to your attention?

00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:40.680
Community Solar is solar farms that are built out in different areas where it's been able

00:49:40.680 --> 00:49:48.600
to be connected to the grid at a lower cost with ComEd, but also it's land that the developer

00:49:48.600 --> 00:49:53.640
works with the owner and secures a long-term agreement.

00:49:53.640 --> 00:49:59.800
In Illinois, I mentioned that we're all paying .005 or a half a cent per kilowatt or every

00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:00.800
and others.

00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:01.800
And that's it for this week.

00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:02.800
Thank you for watching.

00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:02.820
We'll see you next week.

00:50:02.820 --> 00:50:09.820
K. Lottar, every rate payer is paying in to the state solar fund. And our governor,

00:50:09.820 --> 00:50:16.820
he wants to build more and more green power. This is the way that they're doing this.

00:50:20.500 --> 00:50:27.500
When the CJ Act was passed, that was the bill that pretty much kept Byron Station and the

00:50:27.500 --> 00:50:33.580
Fiering Station and addressing nuclear stations online and continuing to produce power for

00:50:33.580 --> 00:50:39.860
us. For me, that was very, very important because in extreme weather, whether it's hot

00:50:39.860 --> 00:50:44.340
or extremely cold, the nuclear plants just sit there and run, and they're our base load.

00:50:44.340 --> 00:50:49.780
When the sun's not shining, when there's natural gas restrictions for gas generation,

00:50:49.780 --> 00:50:54.980
to keep homes from that, it's not that we don't have a lot of natural gas, it's just

00:50:54.980 --> 00:50:59.240
getting it to where it's needed on those critical days.

00:50:59.240 --> 00:51:02.120
And coal piles freeze up, things like that.

00:51:02.120 --> 00:51:07.120
So nuclear in my mind, we needed it basically as a survival.

00:51:07.539 --> 00:51:11.539
Electricity's very important when it's below zero on that.

00:51:13.300 --> 00:51:16.560
But going back to community solar,

00:51:16.560 --> 00:51:19.340
why are we talking about that?

00:51:21.860 --> 00:51:23.920
I think I'll start into your questions.

00:51:24.980 --> 00:51:31.100
The community solar, to be able to build, be able to build them, the developers need

00:51:31.100 --> 00:51:37.019
money to finance them. What they do, once they get these agreements and they think they

00:51:37.019 --> 00:51:42.740
want to build a field, the next step is to go out and get subscribers. And the way the

00:51:42.740 --> 00:51:51.740
state statute set this up was, your big companies like your hospitals, like OSF and things like

00:51:51.740 --> 00:52:07.740
and others like that, they're called anchor tennis, Walmart, they can lock in a certain amount of power and then the state says well 40, 45% have to be kept for, sold for all, which means residents and stuff.

00:52:07.740 --> 00:52:13.740
So a certain amount of power on those fields are set aside for residents.

00:52:13.740 --> 00:52:17.539
what we have is a small sliver in the middle

00:52:17.539 --> 00:52:20.780
which means our smaller commercial accounts

00:52:20.780 --> 00:52:25.100
not all of our accounts here in the city of Freeport

00:52:25.100 --> 00:52:27.900
I'm talking about the municipal owned accounts

00:52:27.900 --> 00:52:33.100
that are not free service, the ordinance from ComEd

00:52:33.100 --> 00:52:38.500
so we look at the water treatment facilities, the wells, things like that

00:52:38.500 --> 00:52:42.780
what accounts will fit under the guidelines

00:52:42.780 --> 00:52:44.539
So that's what I'm looking at.

00:52:44.539 --> 00:52:48.500
If we can carve off a few dollars here or there,

00:52:48.500 --> 00:52:51.019
there's no investment on the city's part at all.

00:52:51.900 --> 00:52:54.220
These are plants that are out there being built

00:52:54.220 --> 00:52:56.019
and coming online.

00:52:57.140 --> 00:52:59.260
They're not built, the ones that are already built

00:52:59.260 --> 00:53:01.440
are already fully subscribed.

00:53:02.780 --> 00:53:07.100
So we're trying, we got one coming online in October,

00:53:07.100 --> 00:53:09.980
we got one coming online in January.

00:53:09.980 --> 00:53:15.780
I'm trying to get as many municipal accounts in there as possible.

00:53:15.780 --> 00:53:23.420
Community solar usually gives 10 percent credits for the large customers in that.

00:53:23.420 --> 00:53:30.380
Since municipal accounts are investment grade, when these developers go out and borrow money

00:53:30.380 --> 00:53:39.380
from the market, they like to have good subscribers and that lowers their borrowing cost.

00:53:39.380 --> 00:53:46.940
West, just like going for a mortgage on a home, the better your subscribers are, the better

00:53:46.940 --> 00:53:51.579
the tenants are, the better your rates are going to be.

00:53:51.579 --> 00:53:54.700
So it's important for them to pick up municipal accounts.

00:53:54.700 --> 00:54:00.500
So what I'm doing is I'm shotgunning out all of our communities and saying, who's interested

00:54:00.500 --> 00:54:01.500
in community solar?

00:54:01.500 --> 00:54:08.980
So tonight, I've got six of them doing presentations, but I'm here because I've been talking with

00:54:08.980 --> 00:54:13.860
with Rob for this since kind of last spring.

00:54:13.860 --> 00:54:16.380
And that's when we were involved in all the Muni Ag stuff

00:54:16.380 --> 00:54:17.660
and that was all blowing up and he said,

00:54:17.660 --> 00:54:22.200
Mike, just put it on the back table for a while.

00:54:22.200 --> 00:54:25.019
So now it's our time on this.

00:54:27.460 --> 00:54:30.280
Subscription costs zero.

00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:31.120
That's your question.

00:54:31.120 --> 00:54:31.940
What'd you say?

00:54:31.940 --> 00:54:33.060
Caused what?

00:54:33.060 --> 00:54:36.820
Does energy come from solar farms that are already established?

00:54:36.820 --> 00:54:39.700
No, those are already fully subscribed out

00:54:39.700 --> 00:54:41.660
and serving their customers.

00:54:41.660 --> 00:54:44.060
We are on a waiting list,

00:54:44.060 --> 00:54:46.579
and right now I got a short waiting list,

00:54:46.579 --> 00:54:51.579
and we're able to renegotiate it up to get 15% credit

00:54:51.780 --> 00:54:53.400
instead of the standard 10.

00:54:55.260 --> 00:54:57.140
Where does this credit go?

00:54:57.140 --> 00:55:00.880
It goes to the accounts that are assigned.

00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:03.760
So I'm just gonna say, well, number three,

00:55:04.680 --> 00:55:06.480
uses a certain amount of power.

00:55:06.820 --> 00:55:12.400
Fowler. That's got its own ComEd account. Whatever those panels that are assigned to

00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:19.280
that account produce, that's the solar credits that's going to show up on the ComEd bill

00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:26.280
for that specific account. So what we're doing right now isn't for the residents and it's

00:55:26.280 --> 00:55:32.500
not for the communities that sign up like Community Egg. This is just strictly the city

00:55:32.500 --> 00:55:37.900
and the City accounts that we can get into the program, the City-owned accounts, if you

00:55:37.900 --> 00:55:42.380
will.

00:55:42.380 --> 00:55:50.180
And I took off without my savings estimate sheet, but Rob, do you remember about how

00:55:50.180 --> 00:55:55.780
much I estimated the savings was?

00:55:55.780 --> 00:56:00.420
Could be maybe, I'm thinking $6,000 a year.

00:56:00.420 --> 00:56:06.660
Miller. It's not a lot of money, but we're kind of, in my terms, these are my terms,

00:56:06.660 --> 00:56:15.660
we're clawing back some of that RPS charges that we're all paying in, clawing some of

00:56:15.660 --> 00:56:22.620
it back and putting it back into the water and sewer fund, you might say, keeping those

00:56:22.620 --> 00:56:25.580
costs a little bit lower.

00:56:25.579 --> 00:56:34.140
Is that $6,000 estimate, whatever, nothing we're holding you to, is that per account?

00:56:34.140 --> 00:56:35.700
Can we have multiple accounts on there?

00:56:35.700 --> 00:56:41.420
Can we have multiple wells, multiple wastewater treatment plants, four or five accounts?

00:56:41.420 --> 00:56:49.060
They gotta be in the ComEd 0 to 100 KW classification and that's the total of all the counts that

00:56:49.060 --> 00:56:52.140
I was able to get.

00:56:52.140 --> 00:56:56.140
I think the treatment plant, if you didn't already have solar there, it would be too big.

00:56:56.140 --> 00:57:01.140
City of Rockford just signed theirs last week.

00:57:01.140 --> 00:57:08.140
They have like 40 some accounts and I think I got 17 of them in there.

00:57:08.140 --> 00:57:17.140
So, yeah, it went through their finance committee and their council says, yes, let's do it.

00:57:17.140 --> 00:57:24.180
and I might have missed it but I didn't hear you say the term which I think I've seen at

00:57:24.180 --> 00:57:25.180
other presentations.

00:57:25.180 --> 00:57:31.300
If you sign up and you get in these things, they want to make sure you stay in it at least

00:57:31.300 --> 00:57:38.180
five years. If for some reason you want to pull out, something better comes along or

00:57:38.180 --> 00:57:43.260
something like that, you have to make up that subscription unless we find somebody that

00:57:43.260 --> 00:57:45.060
that wants to backfill in.

00:57:45.060 --> 00:57:48.620
When I say we, we or the solar developer

00:57:48.620 --> 00:57:50.740
wants to backfill that in.

00:57:50.740 --> 00:57:55.019
But this 15% goes on until the life of the plant,

00:57:55.019 --> 00:57:56.620
which is up to 20 years.

00:57:57.900 --> 00:58:00.460
Comrade rates, and it's not on our rate.

00:58:00.460 --> 00:58:04.360
Our rate for our power, you know,

00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:06.620
like six, seven cents a kilowatt hour.

00:58:07.740 --> 00:58:10.900
Comrade rate is like 10 cents.

00:58:10.900 --> 00:58:12.660
So we're doing well on the accounts

00:58:12.660 --> 00:58:16.000
but we have under contract with the city.

00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:19.080
But this will come back on your budget.

00:58:20.580 --> 00:58:23.580
And I'll have all the specifics next week

00:58:23.580 --> 00:58:27.740
if you move this on to the board, the council, I mean.

00:58:36.780 --> 00:58:38.579
The information on the fires we are giving

00:58:38.579 --> 00:58:44.500
Bush, Illinois Shines that is administered by Energy Solutions on behalf of the Illinois

00:58:44.500 --> 00:58:48.340
Power Agency, Independent Government Agency.

00:58:48.340 --> 00:58:53.860
Illinois Power Agency, as I mentioned earlier, buys the power for ComEd and AMRUN, puts it

00:58:53.860 --> 00:58:56.940
out there, and does the contracts and the agreements.

00:58:56.940 --> 00:59:01.420
So they're established to do that.

00:59:01.420 --> 00:59:07.619
Then the Illinois Shines program came underneath their jurisdiction also.

00:59:07.619 --> 00:59:08.619
and others.

00:59:08.619 --> 00:59:10.980
They say they're an independent agency.

00:59:10.980 --> 00:59:19.340
The legislator wrote the laws and that under the State Utility Act.

00:59:19.340 --> 00:59:20.340
What?

00:59:20.340 --> 00:59:22.800
The IPA administers it.

00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:28.360
There's a lot of paperwork with it, but go ahead.

00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:29.360
Okay.

00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:34.340
So, it says it's independent, but if it's a state government agency, it's not really

00:59:34.340 --> 00:59:36.280
independent.

00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:40.740
What does the State Government benefit from this program? Does the State Government regulate

00:59:40.740 --> 00:59:45.060
this program? What are the rules, policies, procedures from the government that regulate

00:59:45.060 --> 00:59:50.100
it? Does the government set the fees, the amount of credit a person can receive, etc.?

00:59:50.100 --> 00:59:54.420
Who determines how much a person saves if they save anything? So those are all the questions

00:59:54.420 --> 00:59:57.700
under there. It is government-related somehow, right?

00:59:57.700 --> 01:00:02.539
Right. Illinois Power Agency was created because ComEd

01:00:02.539 --> 01:00:19.539
because ComEd was evolving where they didn't own any generation anymore. So they had to have an agency that says, okay, we got to go out and purchase power on the grid or wherever from the generators to furnish to ComEd so people have power.

01:00:19.539 --> 01:00:28.539
That happened in the later, late 1990s and early 2000s when all that developed. That's how the Illinois Power Agency created.

01:00:28.539 --> 01:00:37.539
They run it, they got to run it underneath the law, but the legislators and no other agencies have a hand in it.

01:00:37.539 --> 01:00:43.539
And anything beyond that is over my head.

01:00:43.539 --> 01:00:48.539
Did that help? Did that answer?

01:00:48.539 --> 01:00:50.539
Sort of.

01:00:50.539 --> 01:01:01.579
Who determines how much a person saves if they save anything?

01:01:01.579 --> 01:01:07.500
If an individual person wants to sign up for Community Solar, they can.

01:01:07.500 --> 01:01:13.139
My next step is once we get everything else, to evolve that so we can get subscriptions

01:01:13.139 --> 01:01:15.980
of individuals if they want.

01:01:15.980 --> 01:01:24.739
If the subscription rate is 10% they will get 10% credit, solar credit on the ComEd bill.

01:01:24.739 --> 01:01:32.380
The reason this didn't happen before was you could not be on third party supply and then

01:01:32.380 --> 01:01:35.340
turn around and have community solar.

01:01:35.340 --> 01:01:38.900
They changed that when they changed the CJA law.

01:01:38.900 --> 01:01:43.300
The other thing is you had to get billed from a third party for your subscription.

01:01:43.300 --> 01:01:53.099
If ComEd gave you $100 credit from what was produced on the field, then if you're getting

01:01:53.099 --> 01:01:59.219
15%, you would get an $85 bill from a third party supplier.

01:01:59.219 --> 01:02:05.300
In June, ComEd started to set up, so they now bill it, so you're going to see that credit

01:02:05.300 --> 01:02:06.860
right on the ComEd bill.

01:02:06.860 --> 01:02:21.860
Now I put my son on this solar thing, community solar, three years ago, because I actually have solar at my house because I wanted to go through that process so I could explain that to people, our home office.

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And it works. But I wanted to try it because I wasn't going to go out and advocate something that didn't work.

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We'll get into the individual stuff possibly next year if the City and the City Council wants to have a program and that would mean I can opt in, not an opt out program.

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What does Energy Solutions Illinois Power Agency gain from this?

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Illinois Power Agency is tasked with doing the program.

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And again, the governor wants to build solar up in the state.

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And this is the way of doing it.

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The legislation says, are we going to pay for it?

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for it, they all need to determine it. So we're all paying, like I said, we're all

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paying into this fund. I wrote down on my notes here, as I after the questions, it

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encourages solar development and we are adding more power to the grid. More power

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We're adding to the grid, our overall costs are going to be kept down. Again, we're going to supply more supply, more demand.

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Just a matter of point, about 50% of our power is generated by natural gas in our PGM grid.

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About 19% from nuclear, coal's getting down to around 10%. Wind and solar is producing about 1% in the PGM grid.

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So, it's growing, but not at the rate that the demand is.

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Who owns and controls the solar farms and electricity they generate?

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The developers, the ones we're working with is U.S. Solar.

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One of the reasons we're working with them is because they are building a site about three miles from my home.

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They have multiple sites. They had five this year. Three of them are full now. They've got one coming in on October and one in January and then later on next year.

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I like them because they're a vertical company. They find the ground, they get the permits, then the next thing they do is they go out and they get the subscribers, they get the financiers signed up, they get the subscribers, they bring it all together.

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Miller, they operate the fields. It's not to say that they may not sell it, but the subscriptions

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are part of that field. In other words, if you have a subscription, you're going to be

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on that until that field is finally closed or whatever.

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I'm kind of skipping around on your questions here. Does everyone have to buy into this

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and the Mayor.

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So, I'm going to go ahead and start with the community solar.

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I'm going to start with the community solar in order for it to work.

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No.

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What we're talking about tonight is strictly the city counts.

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And do you have to put something on your house connected to community solar?

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No.

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But that brings up another topic.

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The only way to claw back some of our money from the state is put solar in to your home.

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That's not metering.

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You will get S-Rex back.

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Moore, Subscribe to a Community Solar Garden and that's how we get, other people can get

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money back. Your non-for-profits, your public entities, if you look at solar leases, I personally

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don't recommend a lease for anyone. I've not seen where it doesn't cost people. In my opinion,

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it costs people more. They say free solar will come to your house, put free solar in.

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if you look at what that cost so much it might be negative

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and if common red rates keep going up in the future

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you may start to see savings down the road

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but not right now so

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did I miss anything that you want me to look at?

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The one, where does all the electricity go that is generated by the solar farms right now?

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Where does all the electricity go that's generated by the solar farms that are here right now?

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It's going into the grid and ComEd is absorbing this power to distribute it out to other customers.

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For the customers that have a third party supplier.

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And that was the hardest thing for me to kind of get my arms around like,

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Lammett, we're getting power from a third party supplier and we're going to get power from the solar farm, but we're only paying one bill and we're getting a discount. How does it work?

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Well, Darren?

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I have a question, Mike.

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So the city's been approached by one of the solar developers that's putting the system on the south landfill and a very similar program although it wasn't named quite the same but they're as well offering credit rebates from that site is that different than the comment sites or just one of the facilities that they haven't brought on yet and how does that affect the city's ability on this program

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Graham. Each developer has their own program and their own cost and fee structure. Typically

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they're not going to move off of 10 percent. But you could ask them, and I'd be very interested

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in that, and I'm looking, I'm going to run out of capacity. We're getting tight now, finished

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not this year. I want to find more. So I would like to talk to them and find out what we

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I guess my question is can we do both. Right Mike so my question was the exact same thing

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Darren in the sense that we have certain city owned sites like for example our landfill or

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our wastewater treatment plant that all have solar panels the solar fields there that we

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We then have an agreement with that particular solar developer that put those solar panels

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on those specific sites to which we, you know, are given a certain rate, you know, there.

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Can we, through this program, piggyback onto that or is that an account that then can't

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be on this community solar program?

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Say, hey, you guys are already part of a different program.

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You can't piggyback onto this community solar program with Illinois Shines then, so you

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We can't have two programs running for the same account, so to speak.

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There can be, there can be, if I run out of room, and we're going to put so many qualified

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accounts on, yes, you can put the other qualified accounts on that, it just depends when.

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They have the same criteria that they have to meet.

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The Anchor Tennis, that's prime. If they don't get their Anchor Tennis, they don't move.

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if they don't get their anchor tenants they don't move forward and some of these

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projects are a little bit smaller it's it that's why now they wanted to do like

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five megawatts which takes about 30 acres 25 or 30 acres so um you can you

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can you can look at this you're not obligated tonight even if you pass the

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Resolution next week that gives you authority to go forward and get the best

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deal that you can don't have to be through me but then it's gonna be up to

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Rob or the mayor or someone or yourself. Manager Boyer was there something you

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We'll move on to item number 10 which is the discussion regarding the implementation of

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and Kim, Joe, Eddie, Semineria,

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John, Bob, John, John, Troy,

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and Jacinta, and then two of the other

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of the members of this group,

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very good colleagues,

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who will present the presentation

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of live video cameras, et cetera.

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Chief Shenberger?

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Is that in love it?

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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Freeport Police Department has utilized

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vigilant Motorola LPR cameras

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of various locations in the City of Freeport

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and sound thinking gunshot detection sensors.

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The use of LPR cameras and sound thinking

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LPR cameras have also benefited the PD staff with investigating other crimes such as recovery of stolen vehicles, serious felonies, and retail thefts.

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In early 2025, staff conducted a presentation on FLOC technology at a COW meeting.

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Later in the year, staff applied for an organized retail crime grant, an ORC grant,

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and also worked with the lobbyists to request Congressional funding to enhance the Department's technological resources.

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Staff learned the City of Freeport was awarded $9,000 in ORC grant from the Office of the Attorney General Kwame Raul

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and $630,000 in fiscal year appropriations from U.S. Senator Dick Durbin's office.

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The requests for the appropriations were to purchase the following equipment.

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$200,000 to fund two existing Sound Thinking shot spotter coverage areas for two years.

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$60,000 to purchase Sound Thinking's Resource Router Program for two years.

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$69,200 to lease a live video camera trailer and a radar trailer equipped with an LPR.

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$28,988 to purchase 20 additional body-worn cameras.

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and others, $9,309.90 to purchase two additional Squad video cameras and DVRs, $30,000 to

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purchase a Skydio X10 drone, $100,000 to lease additional OPRs for two years, and $130,000

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for mobile command trailer.

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Staff has been working with representatives from FLOC with potentially expanding our technological

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Flock presented a quote utilizing $9,000 from the ORC grant and the $169,200 from the fiscal year 26 appropriations to add more LPR cameras, live video cameras, and trailer cameras.

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The funding for this project will be covered by the ORC grant and the fiscal year 26 appropriations.

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The agreement with FLOC would be contingent upon the passage of the appropriations bill.

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So this is just something that, you know, I'm gonna bring forward next week for a resolution.

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Like I said, it would cover two years of adding additional LPRs along with live video cameras

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and Trailer Cameras to help us out, to help us do our job better.

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So any questions?

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Chief, but this is really contingent

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upon the 26 appropriations passing.

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So how do you bring that forward now

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when that hasn't happened yet?

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Well, the reason why we're bringing it forward now

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is because they would like to have,

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FLOC would like to have a resolution passed

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by the end of the month so they can start with everything

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We're just trying to get ahead of the game.

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Correct. I just want to get the ball rolling so then we can get started as soon as we can.

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Any other questions for Chief?

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If it doesn't pass, then how will it be paid for?

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If the appropriations bill does not pass, then we're not

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subject to anything. We'll have $9,000

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to utilize, which will give us about two cameras.

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The first payments due December 1st, the $9,000 payment. If the appropriations bill, and I think was that sometime in December, I don't, I have no idea. If that, if that does not pass, I mean, I would say that it's going to, I mean, I would think that it's going to, but if it doesn't, then we haven't, we're out of nothing. Then that was in the contract.

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No, no, that the contracts contingent upon the Appropriations Bill passing.

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City Manager, do you have something, oh, okay.

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Alright, thanks Chief.

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Thank you.

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Which will move us on to item number 12, which is public comment.

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Is there any public comments?

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Chief, you did a good job working in that police station.

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And Jodi Miller, you did a good job with Mayor.

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We saw you at final house on Saturday.

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Is there any other public comments this evening?

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Seeing none, I will entertain a motion for adjournment.

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As we open in prayer I'd like to close in prayer. Father God in the name of Jesus, your word

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in Second Chronicles 714 says, if my people who are called by my name would humble themselves

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and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven

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and will forgive their sins and heal their lands.

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and also in James 1 and 12, blesses the man who remains steadfast under trial. For when

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he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life which God has promised to those

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who love him. So Father God, I continue to seek your face on the matters, concerns and

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I continue to trust in you and your word that you will do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think according to your riches and glory.

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Continue to lead us and guide us, Father God.

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Take control over this, your city.

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that we may reap the benefits that you have intended for us, that victory is ours in Jesus name. Amen.

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Ms. Leininger, did you leave a letter here?

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No, no, no, that was that was from Alderman Parker. Yeah. Okay. That's not to be read into public comment. No, that was just Alderman Parker. Okay, so we have a motion on the table for Alderman Shadle seconded by Alderman Sellers for adjournment all those in