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Michelle, if you'd give the invocation, please.

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Lord Jesus we thank you for this time together to make decisions for the City

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of Freeport according to your will for this city. Before this meeting gets

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started I would ask that each one would examine their heart as read in Ephesians

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4 31 through 32 and this comes out in the message version. Let all bitterness,

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wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speakings be put away from you with all malice and

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be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another even as God and

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Christ forgave you, so that what needs to be done and accomplished for the City of Freeport

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can happen through grace, wisdom, love, and forgiveness, through godly wisdom, not through

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our own understanding, not our own understanding, our own will be done for the City of Freeport,

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but the Lord's will be done to glorify Christ Jesus.

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That God would bring the City Council, Mayor, and City Manager together and redeem what

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and more.

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The word says in Philippians 313, Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended,

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but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those

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things which are ahead, transform minds and hearts tonight to unite, bringing Freeport

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to its full potential and destiny in Christ Jesus.

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James 119 it says know this my beloved brothers let every person be quick to

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quick to hear slow to speak and slow to anger in Jesus name amen amen thank you

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in the mayor's absence I'll call this meeting to order at 6 o 1 the mayor will

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be marked absent and Alderpersons present Klemm Monroe aye Simmons here

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Parker, Stacy, Shadle, Sanders is absent, Sellers, and we do have a quorum for our

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meeting. Alderperson Klemm, if you'd lead the pledge and then the meeting is

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yours to chair.

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Thank you. We need to get to amend the agenda and then we need approval of the agenda. Between

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items number 6 and 7, we need to have a presentation for public works employee of the year and

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Public Works, and then we also need to move to second public comment before item number

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14, the closed session. We will return to open session, but we need that, there's no

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sense to draw that out, so could I have a motion to amend the agenda?

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So moved.

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Second.

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Do we need to do a voice or all in favor? All in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye. Motion passes. Approval of minutes of the City Council meeting of the hold

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held on January 13th 2025. Can I get a motion and a second? So moved. Second.

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Who was first, Joy? Thank you, Joy. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Same sign. Public comments? Madam Clerk, do we need to approve the agenda yet? We did the amendment. We approved the amendment. You're correct, Greg. I apologize. We need a motion to vote on the agenda then. We voted on it. Second.

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All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Thank you Alderman

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Shadle for bringing that up. Public comments, there's nobody signed up for

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public comments. So we have, now we have the presentation.

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Thank you. I'd like to ask James Gobe and Randy Kolbauer to come up, please.

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So I would like to start with James. James is the Street Department Employee of the Year.

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He is Classification as a Tree Trimmer 1.

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I'd like to start with a fun fact about James.

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I recently was told that James likes to ride his bike to work on most days, which I think is pretty unique.

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James came to the city with over 20 years of forestry experience.

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Working different operating jobs in forestry positions over his career,

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over his career, he took the opportunity to introduce himself to Pat Ingram while the two-man

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forestry crew was doing some work outside the library one day.

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Not even completing a full year of employment with the city, James likes to stay busy and

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will make sure any task is handled to him and it completed without hesitation manner

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and it will be done correctly and thoroughly.

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and the crew guys enjoy working with James as he will do anything asked of him on a job

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site without question.

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He never hesitates for leadership and asks for explanations if something hasn't been

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done before.

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He comes to work every day with a positive attitude and his infectious attitude melts

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into the people around him.

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He has added a strong work ethic, sound decision making, collaboration and drive to the street

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Department, a crew along with his vast knowledge of his position that he brought with him,

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seemingly quiet, and I heard he didn't want to come tonight.

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He started to come out of his shell and never fails to lighten the mood in a stressful situation

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or day.

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To say he's an asset to our department is an understatement.

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That was something from his peers and we're happy to have him and look forward to many

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Miller, Years of Service with the City of Freeport. James, I'd like to congratulate you with this award.

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Another award we'd like to give tonight, and before I forget, I'd like to thank the Public

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Works Department for coming out and supporting their crews tonight. I really appreciate all

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for all your attendance after hours.

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Again, our second award of the night

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is Utility Department Employee of the Year,

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which this year, Randi Kolbauer was selected,

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and she is our Environmental

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and Regulatory Compliance Officer.

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I'm gonna give you a little fun fact about Randi.

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She's actually got a few.

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Randi is a former police officer.

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She's part of the Rural Fire Department,

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and she's also a Safety Officer at a Firearms Training Center.

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Randy is a self-starter and a dedicated employee

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to the City of Freeport.

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She is a true teammate to all

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and is willing to learn all duties as assigned.

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Randy has helped build the Compliance Department

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and she is considered an equal to the Streets

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and Utility Superintendents.

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Randy's compliant roles involve all areas

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of required utility tracking

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and reporting for state compliance.

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This is an extremely important role

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and the Utility Operations business.

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Her assignments include working with many team members daily,

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including the lab staff,

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the water and wastewater operations staff,

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our significant industrial users, landfill partners,

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timber industries who maintains our woodlot.

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Compliance reporting includes

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annual and monthly water reporting,

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consumer confidence reports,

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and an annual and monthly sanitary sewer reporting.

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Randy's role also performs field visits

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for stormwater compliance, sampling, monitoring,

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and reporting of MS4 stormwater authority requirements.

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Other special duties assigned include iWorks

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streets compliance and right away compliance.

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She issues warning violations and issues right away fines.

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She attends code hearings as the city's representative

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and she does all of the EPA sampling as required

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for the overall compliance system.

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and until recently she did that in her own car.

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Randy never backs down from a challenge.

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She will make sure she's well-informed, educated,

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when something is new presented to her

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and won't take shortcuts to get a quicker result.

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When presented with anything she listens,

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absorbs the information being provided

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and just does not react, she always makes the best decision.

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Act, she always makes the best decision possible in the moment. Also, she humbles herself if

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the decision is wrong. She is by far one of the easiest people on our staff to collaborate

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with and never hesitates to offer help to all others regardless of what she already

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has on our plate. I'd like to sincerely congratulate Randy for her contributions and congratulate

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her as the Utility Employee of the Year for 2024.

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and others.

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Thank you.

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Come on.

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Take it out of the sleeve.

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Oh, hey.

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Hold on.

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James, come back up here.

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I forgot.

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So I asked the utility department to come up with some special awards for these people.

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And the mechanics came through for us today.

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So we have inspired by the NFL touchdown necklaces.

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We have made our crew members their own names.

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And then since Randy, Randy is the Sheriff of the Talbot, he's got her violations, we got you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you again for coming, guys.

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Rob, if I could before the guys head out, hey, on behalf of the council, we really appreciate

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what you guys do.

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It really shows the camaraderie of you guys coming out and supporting your team.

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It's very important to all of you guys and to all of us.

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We're proud of what you guys do. We're kidding around beforehand. We know it looks like we

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got a snowfall coming up. The major thing in that is make sure you guys are safe. It's

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no matter how fast you do it, it's no matter how safe you do it. So thank you guys for

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all your work and gals for all your work. We really, really appreciate it.

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We've put in record that Alderman Sanders was here at 6.06. Item number seven is a

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presentation action plan for Safe Streets for the ALL grant. Questions and

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answers in the presentation and that would be from this gentleman in front of us who I do not have his name in it.

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So I'd like to introduce Matt. He's with ALTA Planning and Design. They were hired to do the Freeport Safety Action Plan. It's part of the SS4A grant.

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Matt and his coworker Lexi are here in town for the next few days. We are also having an open house tomorrow night here at this facility for anybody in the public that wants to participate.

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Matt's probably got about a 15 minute presentation on progress that we've been working for in the last quarter.

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All right, good evening. Again, Matthew Deerdahl out of ALTA Planning and Design.

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Really happy to be here. We got in on Sunday and had a really good day talking to people today.

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And then I got to bike around a bit this afternoon and drove around to kind of check out some of the different areas we've been talking about for safety.

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So I feel like I'm really starting to get to know Freeport and I think his in-person visits are really important.

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Martin. So yeah, I'm going to try to go quick. I may or may not focus on the slides. We'll

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see how close I can stick to it. But I definitely want to talk a little bit about the Safe Systems

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approach, what a safety plan actually is and what we're trying to do here with it. And

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then give just a little bit of an overview and some outcomes that we're hoping for. And

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then I added some slides based on the information that we collected today. So again, I'm the

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Project Manager for ALTA partnering with Fehr Graham

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on this safety action plan.

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And so why pursue safety action plan?

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It starts with the safe system approach

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that the FHWA decided to frame

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because the traditional and maybe older school approach

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to safety is about preventing crashes,

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Improving behavior, individual behavior,

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and then reacting based on where crashes are happening.

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And so the safe system approach, kind of a newer approach,

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starts with the premise that death

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and very serious injuries on our roads are unacceptable,

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and zero is the goal.

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So zero fatal crashes, zero injuries

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that impact somebody's life for the rest of their life.

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So that's the start.

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Also, we know that mistakes are going to happen,

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so you can't engineer away mistakes,

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but what we want is that when those mistakes happen,

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that it doesn't impact people's lives.

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And then there's a variety of other things out there.

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Reducing speed is a big factor in it,

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and then through our safety analysis,

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identifying these risks and preventing them in the future.

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I'm not gonna go over all of these,

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but I just wanted to highlight at the national level,

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the impact of traffic safety, of traffic deaths,

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is staggering at the national level.

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And then some Illinois statistics,

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you can see on the screen there,

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I'll just say about 300,000 crashes

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involving motor vehicles, about 1,100 fatal crashes.

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And then just some bicycle statistics up there as well.

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and then Stevenson County here in Illinois.

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You can see some trends there as well.

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So why is this happening?

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There's a lot of reasons and part of what we're gonna figure

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out in this plan is try to really understand

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what those particular reasons are here in Freeport.

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But big picture, speed is one of the biggest factors.

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When cars are going fast and they hit things,

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bad things happen.

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And part of the reason that motor vehicle speeds

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are an issue, is because of the way streets are historically,

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have been designed for high speeds,

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so wide speeds, wide travel lanes, things like that.

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We know that vehicle size continues to increase,

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both personal vehicles like SUVs and trucks,

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and commercial vehicles and trucks.

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And then land use, so where do people live,

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how dense is development around the city,

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and then what are the connections between those uses,

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and how can people get around.

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So those are some of the big picture reasons

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why it's happening.

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So again, the specific thing that we're working on

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and we'll produce as a part of this

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is a document that'll be a safety action plan.

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And so the elements here on the screen

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are required by the federal government.

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I won't go through each of these in detail,

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but it starts with a leadership commitment

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of wanting to tackle these serious and fatal injuries.

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We have developed a safety committee

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as a part of the project

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through collaboration with the city.

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A systemic level safety analysis

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is a really interesting part of it.

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We'll see a map in a few minutes

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that starts to get at understanding

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where crashes are happening

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and particularly different severity levels.

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And we'll get to that in a second

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because that really starts to help us understand

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where to target to make the most benefit

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through our efforts.

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Engagement is important.

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This is an engagement week.

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We've had several focus groups today and tomorrow.

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We're having our second steering committee

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or TAC, Technical Advisory Committee tomorrow

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and then an open house.

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So I wanna plug that a couple of times.

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We have these cards here that are on the desk over there that will tell you about it.

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And we also have a survey and an interactive map. The interactive map is a really cool

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opportunity to get in in the city that you know and identify. It's very user friendly.

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and others.

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Identify.

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It's very user-friendly.

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Identify areas that you don't feel safe or where you see cars going too fast or not

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yielding to pedestrians or if there's school issues, you can let us know all of that and

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that'll be really important.

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The federal grant requires us to look at equity considerations and basically that's mapping

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a variety of demographic information to help us understand, you know, areas that we can

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and we focus through our priority projects at the end.

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And then as we get into the final stages

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towards the end of this year,

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we'll develop a robust implementation plan

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that identifies short term,

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medium term and long term projects.

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And I think that's probably one of the biggest reasons

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that we're doing the Safety Action Plan

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is it gets Freeport eligible for attractive federal grants

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to implement some of these things.

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and then we'll also at the end we'll have what we call a dashboard that will show the work that we do to be transparent and let you all know and let the community know what's going on, where there are issues and what we plan to do about it.

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Our approach, I think I talked about a lot of this. Let me just double check if there's anything else I really want to highlight. I don't think so, it's probably more of a duplicate.

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So we are here in the second green box from the left, the second TAC meeting.

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We started towards the end of 2024. We're going to wrap up in late fall 2025 with that document.

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And so we're really looking forward to some public engagement.

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We hope people here watching tonight or in the future will participate in the survey, Interactive Map,

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and so on.

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So I think that's the best way to engage if you're interested in this.

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So our TAC that we developed as a part of this project is helping us to find the problem.

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So we're going to have a mapping exercise tomorrow and we started that today as well

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to really understand the context of Freeport and where the issues are across the city.

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And again, the TAC will, towards the end, help shape the solutions and help prioritize.

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I think I've talked about most of the engagement things here. We have the online map, stakeholder meetings. So I'll skip past that. So the fun stuff. This I worked on this afternoon. I hope there aren't any spelling errors in there, but forgive me if there are. But this is what we've heard so far in both the meetings we had today and then the bike ride and the drive around town. We stopped and took a bunch of pictures, which I'll come to in a second.

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One of the things we've noticed so far and heard so far, again, speed of motor vehicles

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was one of the first things that came up.

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Wide streets and there's some particular areas around the city where there's some transitions

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from four lanes, undivided, down to two or three lanes, so just some considerations there.

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Accessibility for pedestrians, both at intersections, so how does it feel, how does it look, what

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What types of curb ramps are available for people to cross the street?

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And then how many lanes are they crossing?

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Those things are really important.

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And then also along the streets.

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So looking at the sidewalk network, you know, is there space for people to walk or are they

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mixing with traffic?

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And then also, interestingly, there's a lot of discussion today about what are the primary

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Routes in town, and then where are some of these cut-through routes that people are taking

00:23:54.280 --> 00:23:58.900
that I think is interesting, and then how does that interact with where people are naturally

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walking and crossing, so where are the schools, where are the businesses, where are people

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working, and then just thinking through, you know, how is that space designed for all of

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those different uses.

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Then also we talked a little bit about behavior, so personal behavior, texting, while driving,

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B. and Distracted, things like that.

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All of these things are important.

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So I have just a couple of slides of pictures.

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Took several, I think 70 or 80, but I have a few to share.

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This slide is just a few samples of pedestrian crossing

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conditions and thinking about accessibility,

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so some better than others.

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The one on the left, South Drive and West Avenue,

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does not have an accessible crossing, just wanted to note that.

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Kiwanis in the middle, Empire, those are some areas

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where there are marked crosswalks

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with different signage present today.

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And then also, so the Empire, there's a school there.

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And then up on Kiwanis, I think it's the community college.

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And then Walnut Road and South Street,

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just kind of sharing a variation of a crossing

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where there's a slip lane there,

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so a free right to separate from the through lane

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and then you can see the kind of the separated crossing

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with the island there.

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And I'm not necessarily sharing these to evaluate

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or make suggestions at this time.

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I think we're really in a phase of trying to gather feedback

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and gather context and understanding.

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So this one, again, I got a bike today

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from Derrick Thompson from Fehr Graham

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and got to bike around and found

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some really interesting paths.

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So Park Ave and Pearl City Road there,

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I thought were fun and they're nice paths.

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Adams Avenue and then near Clark Street,

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those are connected and so there's this nice,

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pretty low stress bike route

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and I found that to be interesting

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and I wanted to take off and see where it went

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to the northwest because it looked like

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and I, there's a lot of green and I thought that would have been fun but didn't have time

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so hopefully tomorrow I can do that.

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And then Stevenson Street is a good example right here and I don't recall the cross street

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but where it transitions from the four lane undivided and pretty wide, no sidewalks, and

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it transitions at the crest of a hill, so sight lines are an interesting issue there

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and then transitions to Tulane to the east.

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And I believe the street width is the same there.

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And I think there's a speed transition

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slowing down as they go eastbound.

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Okay, and then just a couple more examples.

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This is South Street and then Burchard,

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if I'm saying that right, on the right.

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So earlier I mentioned that I think

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and others.

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One of the more interesting aspects will be the data analysis.

00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:12.000
So what we're going to look at is where the crash is happening, where are they most dangerous?

00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:19.560
Again, getting back to the issue of wanting to prevent the most harmful crashes from happening.

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And then what are the countermeasures or solutions that we can apply to what we find happening?

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And so sometimes we'll, like we're going to end up developing crash profiles.

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So we might find that there's a lot of left-turn crashes, we might find that there's a lot

00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:43.520
of rear-end crashes at certain locations, side swipes, maybe lane departure, which I

00:27:43.520 --> 00:27:51.040
don't know that we'll see that in a more urban area, but we'll identify specific counter

00:27:51.040 --> 00:27:56.720
measures that the FHWA has listed as proven counter safety measures, and so that's kind

00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.640
of the value of this in-depth safety analysis.

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So we'll start with just mapping the crashes on the left and there, and again I'm not asking

00:28:07.080 --> 00:28:13.520
and I don't think you can see the level of detail that well here, but the brighter ones

00:28:13.520 --> 00:28:17.760
or the orange is the most serious crashes and they go down in severity from there into

00:28:17.760 --> 00:28:21.200
the blue and green colors.

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And then we start to identify corridors where the severity of those crashes and the concentration

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of them, start to become higher and more concentrated.

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And so what we want to stand out there is the red

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and maybe the orange a little bit.

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And that starts to tell us where the biggest issues are.

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And usually one of the big headlines from this,

00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:46.680
which we don't have yet, we're just diving

00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:50.520
into the safety analysis, will be something along lines

00:28:50.520 --> 00:28:55.120
of 60% of all fatal and serious crashes are happening

00:28:55.120 --> 00:28:57.440
on maybe 10% of the roadways.

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and so that's like, that type of statement,

00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:03.880
we'll see what it is, really helps you identify

00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:06.100
where we should be making the safety improvements

00:29:06.100 --> 00:29:08.480
to get the best safety impact.

00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.760
Again, plug for the open house tomorrow.

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I hope to see you and others there.

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City Hall, right here, from 530 to 730.

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And it'll be fun, like I think it'll be fun

00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:26.120
for most people because we're gonna have a map,

00:29:26.120 --> 00:29:32.320
and a big map and we'll get to just ask people how they feel about safety and comfort when

00:29:32.320 --> 00:29:40.960
they walk, maybe bike or drive around Freeport. And I think that's mostly it. This is the

00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:46.320
same thing that's in my hand right now. I think I've talked about this enough so I'll

00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:51.280
end there and thank you for the time tonight. I really appreciate it. And there's questions.

00:29:51.280 --> 00:30:00.280
Yeah, I'd like to make a quick comment. So something that I wanted to make clear, the card that Matthew has, we will be...

00:30:00.280 --> 00:30:05.960
that Matthew has we will be posting that on Freeport's website so community members have

00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:10.480
access to the QR codes so they'll be able to even if you can't attend the meetings you'll

00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:19.360
be able to make comments go on the interactive max trap you what you want as far as the level

00:30:19.360 --> 00:30:24.240
of items that we're looking at here it's not just vehicles we're also looking at bicycle

00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:30.060
routes pedestrian walkways and we could also lighting could be a safety issue as well so

00:30:30.060 --> 00:30:32.460
so I'm just throwing that out there in general

00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:35.120
that those types of items can be trapped within the plan

00:30:35.120 --> 00:30:38.700
and also be part of the data analysis, correct?

00:30:38.700 --> 00:30:39.700
Yep.

00:30:39.700 --> 00:30:40.940
All right, thank you.

00:30:40.940 --> 00:30:42.980
Darren, could you explain a little bit more

00:30:42.980 --> 00:30:44.140
if you wouldn't take a minute?

00:30:44.140 --> 00:30:44.980
I appreciate it.

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We maybe have some questions for you

00:30:46.540 --> 00:30:49.200
but a little bit more about the grant

00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:50.960
so we know how it works.

00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:51.800
Sure.

00:30:53.140 --> 00:30:58.140
I believe the sitting council went after this grant.

00:30:58.140 --> 00:31:04.380
It is a $500,000 project with a $400,000 grant.

00:31:04.380 --> 00:31:09.500
The grant is through the IDOT chain.

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:12.300
This is called the planning stage of the grant.

00:31:12.300 --> 00:31:16.180
And in order to open Freeport up to implementation money, which

00:31:16.180 --> 00:31:19.620
means construction money, you have to do the planning process.

00:31:19.620 --> 00:31:21.540
You have to have a completed plan.

00:31:21.540 --> 00:31:26.540
it has to meet the FHWA rules, Federal Highway Department

00:31:31.180 --> 00:31:35.520
is actually the main source of the money for this, excuse me.

00:31:37.700 --> 00:31:39.500
It's very important to Freeport.

00:31:39.500 --> 00:31:42.100
You guys have challenged us to find different ways

00:31:42.100 --> 00:31:46.020
to find money to fix safety issues

00:31:46.020 --> 00:31:48.980
and or road problems within Freeport.

00:31:48.980 --> 00:31:51.620
This is one of the biggest funding sources

00:31:51.620 --> 00:31:52.680
that's out there right now.

00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.760
There's billions of dollars within that bipartisan deal

00:31:56.760 --> 00:31:58.940
for this type of funding.

00:31:58.940 --> 00:32:00.780
But again, you had to do the planning grant

00:32:00.780 --> 00:32:02.580
to get to the construction grant.

00:32:02.580 --> 00:32:04.680
And so that's why you'll see we have a timeframe

00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:06.700
of less than a year to get this completed

00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:09.820
so we can be on the next cycle of implementation money.

00:32:09.820 --> 00:32:11.140
Okay. Okay.

00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:16.060
Does anyone have any questions for Matt or for Darren?

00:32:16.060 --> 00:32:17.080
Alderman Stacey.

00:32:17.080 --> 00:32:25.080
Yes, can you tell me who are the members of this safety committee and how they were chosen?

00:32:25.080 --> 00:32:32.080
Yes, so we, I don't have that on me.

00:32:32.080 --> 00:32:35.080
Yeah, okay, gotcha.

00:32:35.080 --> 00:32:44.080
So when we started the project, we met with city staff and then identified key stakeholders in Freeport.

00:32:44.080 --> 00:32:56.080
So I think there's a lot of members of the city itself, so Police, Fire, Greater Freeport Partnership, there's Transit Representative.

00:32:56.080 --> 00:33:03.080
Pretzel City Transit, yeah. Highland Community College, did you say Park District?

00:33:03.080 --> 00:33:05.360
School District.

00:33:05.360 --> 00:33:10.680
We sent invitations out to all the governmental and leadership

00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:13.840
areas of town requesting that they be part of this.

00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:19.720
That's the first, the key, the stakeholders list

00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.440
is all the big partners within Freeport

00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:26.140
to have input from schools and the park systems.

00:33:26.140 --> 00:33:28.240
We even invited some of the, there's

00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.600
a couple of different bike groups within Freeport.

00:33:30.600 --> 00:33:32.840
We invited them as well.

00:33:34.360 --> 00:33:37.420
Again, we've sent out numerous invitations

00:33:37.420 --> 00:33:41.720
and those stakeholders, the tech program

00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:44.800
is what he's talking about, the technical assistance.

00:33:44.800 --> 00:33:49.160
That's really narrowed down to our local officials

00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.720
of Wayne's on there, I'm on there.

00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:55.280
I believe the fire department has a representative,

00:33:55.280 --> 00:33:57.060
the police has a representative.

00:33:57.060 --> 00:34:00.080
It's really our technical advisory committee

00:34:00.080 --> 00:34:02.080
to make sure that we are using

00:34:02.080 --> 00:34:04.200
the most up-to-date safety plans.

00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:09.040
For instance, like the 2025 handicap pro ag standards,

00:34:09.040 --> 00:34:11.660
where those are just standards that the city is making

00:34:11.660 --> 00:34:15.420
to be able to have safe assessments for our streets.

00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:20.940
You'll see those maps that the crash analysis came from.

00:34:20.940 --> 00:34:22.539
That came from a combination

00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:26.100
of the City of Freeport Police Department and also IDOT.

00:34:26.100 --> 00:34:29.980
We worked with those partners to get that data.

00:34:29.980 --> 00:34:32.980
and we also got some data from the county.

00:34:32.980 --> 00:34:33.980
Anyone else?

00:34:33.980 --> 00:34:34.980
Alderman Sanders?

00:34:34.980 --> 00:34:48.180
Yeah, it's very interesting that this is on the agenda meeting for discussion.

00:34:48.180 --> 00:34:56.940
I don't recall that this was even coming into preview at this time and now I'm gonna ask

00:34:56.940 --> 00:35:26.940
and I just want to ask the question, what is the severity of obtaining a grant of this nature and what severity level that this project is to be presented to the City of Freeport and not only that, who's making these recommendations and whether you, I think what I heard was that it was a mandate or something of that sort by the

00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:28.940
and others.

00:35:28.940 --> 00:35:37.940
I'm hearing a lot of information but I have not had time to digest it all just yet.

00:35:37.940 --> 00:35:42.940
I'm just listening to see what jumps out at me.

00:35:42.940 --> 00:35:55.940
And what I'm listening to is whether or not the analysis, the data, the statistics and where all of this data information is coming from

00:35:55.940 --> 00:36:02.380
and when did this project start, who set this up, this program up to start the analysis

00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:10.740
to make sure that we are creating a plan, first of all, to create a plan to start something

00:36:10.740 --> 00:36:16.260
of this nature and where did this come from and how did it start, why haven't the council

00:36:16.260 --> 00:36:23.060
been informed, why haven't we seen any kind of surveys to, I know, I understand you went

00:36:23.060 --> 00:36:28.700
Brown took a few pictures for slides and things of this nature to present to the council, but

00:36:28.700 --> 00:36:34.700
it still doesn't give us enough detailed information how these things came into existence, how

00:36:34.700 --> 00:36:36.940
these projects came into existence.

00:36:36.940 --> 00:36:46.620
I think without us absolutely knowing what the severity of this reporting is, whatever

00:36:46.620 --> 00:36:48.620
and

00:36:49.860 --> 00:36:51.860
John.

00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:56.400
So, whatever it is, we need to see where it stands in the

00:36:56.400 --> 00:37:02.340
priority list of things to do. I love the idea of getting

00:37:02.340 --> 00:37:07.880
grants for projects, programs and things of this nature to

00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:12.800
create safety for the City of Freeport. I love those things. I

00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.540
like that. But what I'm trying to figure out, how does this

00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:23.700
whether this program, these grant proposals been in place for however long?

00:37:23.700 --> 00:37:28.620
Are we just bringing this to the council at this present time?

00:37:28.620 --> 00:37:35.900
Is it, has it been something that's been in the backup, in the back of the people minds

00:37:35.900 --> 00:37:38.780
who's generating this program for grants?

00:37:38.780 --> 00:37:42.980
How long had this been around, you know, I'd just like to know.

00:37:42.980 --> 00:37:45.860
and I'm quite sure the council members would like to know

00:37:47.580 --> 00:37:49.740
how we got started with all of this.

00:37:51.060 --> 00:37:53.620
So I'm not sure, but I think you had at least 10 questions.

00:37:53.620 --> 00:37:54.460
I know, I did that.

00:37:54.460 --> 00:37:55.980
So I'll try to just stay with the ones I remember.

00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:57.260
I did that on purpose.

00:37:57.260 --> 00:37:59.460
I did that on purpose simply because.

00:37:59.460 --> 00:38:00.980
If you want answers to them, you gotta slow them down.

00:38:00.980 --> 00:38:03.340
I know, but the thing about it is,

00:38:03.340 --> 00:38:07.140
the thing about it is as soon as I stop questioning,

00:38:07.140 --> 00:38:09.940
then I have to run into brick walls

00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:11.420
after I stop questioning.

00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:15.460
Well, this program was approved by this council

00:38:15.460 --> 00:38:16.860
and you voted for it.

00:38:16.860 --> 00:38:17.700
Okay.

00:38:17.700 --> 00:38:20.380
And so this project only started in October

00:38:20.380 --> 00:38:23.700
and this is the first report as we said

00:38:23.700 --> 00:38:26.220
to the council of where we're at.

00:38:26.220 --> 00:38:28.500
This was requested by City Manager Boyer

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:30.580
to come and give a presentation

00:38:30.580 --> 00:38:32.700
of where we're at in the project.

00:38:32.700 --> 00:38:36.620
All the analysis data has come from our safety resources

00:38:36.620 --> 00:38:38.620
which is the Freeport Police,

00:38:38.620 --> 00:38:45.480
and I-DOT, Sheriff, County, all the data is accurate.

00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:48.380
In the grant process, we've already committed to this grant.

00:38:48.380 --> 00:38:52.320
We signed the paperwork when you, when this council approved the resolution.

00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:56.720
So in the priority level, I would say it's pretty high since it was already approved

00:38:56.720 --> 00:38:58.840
to move forward as a project.

00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:04.980
I'm sorry, I don't remember all the other questions, but the data is what it is.

00:39:04.980 --> 00:39:09.420
We're just getting to the actual stakeholders and the survey.

00:39:09.420 --> 00:39:15.680
So over the last quarter, we've been developing the tax, the advisory, giving outlines of

00:39:15.680 --> 00:39:18.740
issues that may or may not be.

00:39:18.740 --> 00:39:23.580
But because we're doing public open houses, and we're doing the stakeholder meetings of

00:39:23.580 --> 00:39:25.980
different people.

00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:30.560
For instance, I did not attend the stakeholder meeting because this is for us to get other

00:39:30.560 --> 00:39:34.920
Well, we're starting to extract future information from people outside of the city staff on what we think.

00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:38.440
The open house tomorrow is to get outside information.

00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:40.200
That was explained at last week's meeting.

00:39:40.200 --> 00:39:44.420
If you want to have a voice, you're more than welcome to come tomorrow and mark down anything

00:39:44.420 --> 00:39:47.880
you want as an issue or opportunity.

00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:52.720
We're also doing the QR codes so people that don't want to come to a meeting can have their

00:39:52.720 --> 00:39:54.560
input as part of the plan.

00:39:54.560 --> 00:39:55.860
It's a citywide plan.

00:39:55.860 --> 00:39:58.820
It has nothing to do with any certain area or not.

00:39:58.820 --> 00:40:00.260
That's why the full map's up there.

00:40:00.260 --> 00:40:05.580
Scott, that's why the full map's up there, and honestly I don't remember what else you

00:40:05.580 --> 00:40:06.580
asked.

00:40:06.580 --> 00:40:16.220
Following up with that, I appreciate all that you just presented to us again, refreshing

00:40:16.220 --> 00:40:20.060
the people's memory about what took place at certain council meetings and things of

00:40:20.060 --> 00:40:26.620
this nature, especially when I didn't realize this was going to be part of the format tonight,

00:40:26.620 --> 00:40:33.700
which is appreciated that we do look at this seriously and I just wanted to make sure that

00:40:33.700 --> 00:40:39.820
we are reiterating the things that we talked about back in October and that I understand

00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:46.660
and understood if I voted for that, that means that there was a higher level of understanding

00:40:46.660 --> 00:40:51.140
of why I did that and this is the reason why I am asking right now at this moment.

00:40:51.140 --> 00:40:52.140
I appreciate you.

00:40:52.140 --> 00:40:55.740
I believe that Matt had, you had something you wanted to add.

00:40:55.740 --> 00:40:57.660
And I just wanted to say, you know,

00:40:57.660 --> 00:41:01.160
this is just the start of this and in your program,

00:41:01.160 --> 00:41:05.200
you mentioned the end of, or later in 2025.

00:41:05.200 --> 00:41:08.540
And I just wanted to ask the question to Darren.

00:41:08.540 --> 00:41:13.540
Darren, is this grant part of or separate

00:41:14.460 --> 00:41:18.440
from the grant for the bike paths, that type of stuff?

00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:35.100
This is independent. This is, I believe that was ITEP was the bicycle grants. This is actually SS4A Safe Streets for All and is more of a broad scoped that can focus on roads.

00:41:35.100 --> 00:41:47.940
For instance, I know, I don't want to speak in very many specifics, but I know a couple intersections that have had a high crash rate that are local streets, which is one of them is Empire and Walnut

00:41:47.940 --> 00:41:49.940
and another one is Greenfield and Stevenson

00:41:49.940 --> 00:41:54.580
that have a high crash rate with multi-issues.

00:41:54.580 --> 00:41:56.420
As you can see from the crash map,

00:41:56.420 --> 00:42:00.420
a lot of our crashes also occur around I-DOT roadways,

00:42:00.420 --> 00:42:02.660
especially traffic signal areas,

00:42:02.660 --> 00:42:05.940
which may mean that our traffic signals

00:42:05.940 --> 00:42:07.740
are very dated, very old.

00:42:12.060 --> 00:42:17.060
Again, the entire point of doing this SS4A assessment

00:42:17.060 --> 00:42:23.580
is to find and and and and find projects that we need to do to make it safer in

00:42:23.580 --> 00:42:28.660
the city of Freeport and that opens you up to implementation money by doing part

00:42:28.660 --> 00:42:32.940
A to get to part B. Appreciate it. Matt, you had something you wanted to ask, I

00:42:32.940 --> 00:42:38.340
appreciate it. Maybe just at a high level where safety has been coming from at the

00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:45.340
federal level and I won't have the exact dates but in the in the 2015s right so

00:42:45.340 --> 00:42:47.100
for that decade.

00:42:47.100 --> 00:42:51.360
Vision Zero was kind of the hot topic across the country.

00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:53.380
So it was mostly at the city level.

00:42:53.380 --> 00:42:58.380
So cities saying, any death on our streets is unacceptable.

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And so cities started developing Vision Zero action plans.

00:43:03.140 --> 00:43:04.540
And then that kind of evolved

00:43:04.540 --> 00:43:08.540
and then became a federal DOT priority.

00:43:08.540 --> 00:43:13.180
And I believe with the Biden administration, the IIJA,

00:43:13.180 --> 00:43:18.020
so the Infrastructure and Jobs Act at the federal level

00:43:18.020 --> 00:43:22.080
created the SS grade program.

00:43:22.080 --> 00:43:25.060
So that's just a little bit of like how it's kind of evolved

00:43:25.060 --> 00:43:26.120
that helps at all.

00:43:27.020 --> 00:43:27.860
Appreciate it.

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Alderman Stacey.

00:43:29.220 --> 00:43:34.220
Yes, can you explain what equity consideration is?

00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:38.940
Yes, so there's a variety of ways

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that we think of equity in this plan.

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One is looking at data, so demographic information.

00:43:46.380 --> 00:43:51.180
So it ends the product of the equity analysis in that regard

00:43:51.180 --> 00:43:55.780
is a map that's sort of a bit of a heat map across the city,

00:43:55.780 --> 00:43:57.380
which we're going to be developing.

00:43:57.380 --> 00:43:59.260
We haven't started that yet.

00:43:59.260 --> 00:44:01.580
But it's looking at a variety of factors,

00:44:01.580 --> 00:44:04.460
such as race, income, availability,

00:44:04.460 --> 00:44:07.940
or like car ownership, things like that.

00:44:07.940 --> 00:44:12.460
and then that gets aggregated, our data people do that,

00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:13.300
I don't, I don't.

00:44:13.300 --> 00:44:14.780
Did you say car ownership?

00:44:14.780 --> 00:44:18.420
Car ownership, yeah, yeah, so like zero vehicle households,

00:44:18.420 --> 00:44:21.300
one vehicle households, things like that.

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:25.740
And then that gets mapped to kind of show areas

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that either have high equity consideration or low

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and it kind of like shades throughout the map.

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And that just gives us a sense,

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along with community engagement and the crash analysis

00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:42.800
of where we may want to prioritize projects.

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And then the second part, so that was data.

00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:49.960
The second part of equity is just talking to people

00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:52.160
and trying to make sure that we do a good job

00:44:52.160 --> 00:44:55.240
connecting with residents in Freeport

00:44:55.240 --> 00:44:58.200
and understanding what people are dealing with

00:44:59.880 --> 00:45:02.580
as they walk, bike, or drive around Freeport.

00:45:02.580 --> 00:45:21.580
Alderman Monroe. Thank you Alderman Klemm. I just want to clarify a couple of things. So you didn't really break down anything directly to Freeport, but you did Stevenson County. What are the dates of the data that wasn't real clear in the slides that you showed?

00:45:21.580 --> 00:45:28.940
Yes, so we start with the most recent 10-year data set through the IDOT data that Darren

00:45:28.940 --> 00:45:34.539
referenced for an overall crash analysis, so really trying to understand trends at a

00:45:34.539 --> 00:45:40.820
high level that are going on, and then as we get deeper into the analysis and look at

00:45:40.820 --> 00:45:46.500
the high injury network, we do the most recent five years, because we think that gives us

00:45:46.500 --> 00:45:47.500
and others.

00:45:47.500 --> 00:45:54.060
So I guess better certainty of the recent crashes because a lot can change in 10 years and roads

00:45:54.060 --> 00:45:56.940
get reconstructed and resurfaced and things like that.

00:45:56.940 --> 00:46:02.340
So five years feels like a better analysis for that.

00:46:02.340 --> 00:46:09.140
The local data that we got, Alderman, Monroe, was a five-year span of crash data or wreck

00:46:09.140 --> 00:46:11.540
data or pedestrian incident data.

00:46:11.540 --> 00:46:12.540
Awesome.

00:46:12.540 --> 00:46:13.540
Thank you.

00:46:13.540 --> 00:46:18.340
and to follow up this more of a comment and this is one of the reasons why I

00:46:18.340 --> 00:46:25.180
initially ran for an alderman seat equity to me is very discouraging to hear

00:46:25.180 --> 00:46:29.260
when it when it comes to this type of a project because we put in a brand new

00:46:29.260 --> 00:46:34.820
sidewalk network on the east side of the city that was in a flood zone we spent

00:46:34.820 --> 00:46:38.660
all of that money and yet some of the streets that are our most dangerous in

00:46:38.660 --> 00:46:44.460
and the City that service our community college still have no sidewalks.

00:46:44.460 --> 00:46:50.420
They're high speeds, there are lots of near misses, there's a lot of incidences of accidents

00:46:50.420 --> 00:46:56.180
and that to me is concerning because when you start throwing money at a problem that's

00:46:56.180 --> 00:47:03.100
perceived based on the color of the skin or the people's financial earnings or whatever

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and

00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:06.200
Governor.

00:47:06.200 --> 00:47:11.000
It misses the broader support for the community as a whole.

00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:18.260
That's very concerning in that sense because we want to create a better free port at the

00:47:18.260 --> 00:47:20.460
end of the day.

00:47:20.460 --> 00:47:21.460
I see roads.

00:47:21.460 --> 00:47:25.980
I think of Kiwanis, I think of Stevenson, I think of Laurel.

00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:32.040
I think of some of these roads that are very, very heavily traveled in the city, have no

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and others.

00:47:33.040 --> 00:47:57.200
I want to make sure that this money is being spent in the most beneficial way to all of

00:47:57.200 --> 00:48:02.000
the citizens in Freeport and not just being put into a certain

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:04.800
Myers, and

00:48:08.740 --> 00:48:10.680
B 기�W,

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l

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That is

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no

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comparison to our

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research.

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We are—

00:48:26.920 --> 00:48:28.860
we are

00:48:28.900 --> 00:48:30.360
Wayne

00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:35.480
towards the equity portion of the projects and people that may or may not need it.

00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:40.840
I thought this project fit Freeport well because some of our diverse areas need the most help.

00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:49.800
Right? So again, if we're talking about, just theoretically, if we're talking about a roundabout

00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:57.000
at Empire and Walnut to make that a safer intersection, it's got to be required about

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and

00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.000
Mr.

00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:05.000
Dixon.

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Thank you.

00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.000
Thank you.

00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:14.000
Thank you.

00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:17.000
Thank you.

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Thank you.

00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:23.000
Thank you.

00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:31.560
Item number eight is discussion on a resolution approving a retainer with Nepoli for potential

00:49:31.560 --> 00:49:38.180
litigation for PFAs at Albertus Airport presented by Manager Blair.

00:49:38.180 --> 00:49:41.160
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:49:41.160 --> 00:49:48.340
So forever chemicals, perfluorinated compounds, PFOS, PFOA, these are all the same things.

00:49:48.340 --> 00:49:53.960
for many years starting in the 70s these chemicals were produced, sometimes under the trade name

00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:59.380
of Teflon, various other forever chemicals.

00:49:59.380 --> 00:50:00.220
We are in the process

00:50:00.220 --> 00:50:09.140
We are in the process of replacing our current water, source water, to get away from the

00:50:09.140 --> 00:50:16.060
old treatment plant that had issues in the raw water supply of the perfluorinate compounds.

00:50:16.060 --> 00:50:22.760
And we have worked with Napoleon Shacolnik as our litigator for this process, and we've

00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:28.760
been very successful, and they've been successful in terms of negotiating settlements for the

00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:31.000
and the communities involved in this.

00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:35.840
This is kind of a logical extension of what we've already been engaged in.

00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:43.520
There is a dramatic amount of use of these firefighting foams that's been used at airports

00:50:43.520 --> 00:50:48.480
all over the country and there is residual at those locations.

00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:54.100
So this is essentially a continuation of what we've already been doing with the water supply

00:50:54.100 --> 00:50:59.860
Except going, there's going to be a new lawsuit related to aviation or airports.

00:50:59.860 --> 00:51:08.220
So we're, Napoleon Shaconek is asking us to work with them on the next phase of this program,

00:51:08.220 --> 00:51:10.340
which is airports.

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And so it's my recommendation that we continue to work with them and as we navigate this future

00:51:18.580 --> 00:51:19.580
litigation.

00:51:19.580 --> 00:51:49.580
Just a little, if I could add on that. A few weeks ago, if you noticed in the minutes, in the notes that you had, this was discovered that it was an item at the airport. It wasn't originally thought that, but this company has already worked for us on the other plants with the fire department, I believe, in all the situations, and there has been a major lawsuit that has been won in favor

00:51:49.580 --> 00:52:04.580
of getting monies into the city. So this is basically really a continuation of that to add the airport onto it if we could. So, any discussion, any questions, Alderman Sanders?

00:52:04.580 --> 00:52:33.580
One thing that I do want to know, have everything been conveyed as far as the water? I hear about water. Now I hear about the airport. Now I hear about the polyfoam. All of these things, have they been conveyed to us of all the detailed information and why, now, that these situations are coming up?

00:52:33.580 --> 00:52:39.180
are coming up and that they're almost like mandated. Is it because of the lawsuits that

00:52:39.180 --> 00:52:47.100
has been presented to the city? Are we, we have a mandate, do we have a mandate to put

00:52:47.100 --> 00:52:56.100
everything in perspective? Do we have all of the nuts and bolts of the reasons why we're

00:52:56.100 --> 00:52:57.100
Walker.

00:52:57.100 --> 00:53:02.500
I am just walking into these venture programs, especially out at the airport.

00:53:02.500 --> 00:53:07.460
I am trying to understand the connection with the airport and the water tower and the water

00:53:07.460 --> 00:53:22.440
and the polyfoam and how the city is handling it, how is it that we as the citizens not

00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:23.440
and I.

00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:24.440
And I'm going to talk about the

00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:25.440
whole mechanism of the whole process.

00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:26.440
I'm going to talk about understanding the whole mechanism to everything.

00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:29.840
How is it that these things are beneficial to the city?

00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:32.480
Who does it support the most?

00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:36.200
How much of a debt does that put the city in?

00:53:36.200 --> 00:53:46.640
If the lawsuit is awarded, was there a lawsuit awarded to the city to move forward to take

00:53:46.640 --> 00:53:48.320
care of these types of problems?

00:53:48.320 --> 00:54:00.320
and many other problems and that's one of the, I'm not done but the thing about it is I'm just curious but now I'm surface, I'm doing a little surface test here just to see where we're at.

00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:02.320
I'm sure Manager Boyer can answer all that.

00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:17.320
Absolutely. A lot of these firefighting foams are used in aviation. They're like the one of the few substances you can use and it will snuff out the fires and they have been used for training in the past and I'm sure the Fire Chief could confirm or bring in in just a minute

00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:47.320
in just a minute, any other details he might have. Essentially all this is doing is if there is contamination of this sort at the airport, which I'm not sure that we have, but if there is, we need to be going after whatever revenue is out there because, well, I'm sure we'll be cleaning it up someday. So that's kind of the idea. And Chief, did you have anything you'd like to add on some of these, your experience with some of these? Sure. Well, I'm not familiar with any application of the AFFF foam out at the airport. However,

00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:55.840
We also practice the safe environmental uses of firefighting foam.

00:54:55.840 --> 00:55:05.980
So July 6th of 2023, we engaged a licensed waste hauler to take away the PFA, AFFF foam

00:55:05.980 --> 00:55:08.200
that we were in possession of.

00:55:08.200 --> 00:55:13.660
Instead of us using it in the environment, using it in a fire, having strict guidelines

00:55:13.660 --> 00:55:24.540
to follow when you do use that PFA type foam, filing also with the EPA and the county EMA

00:55:24.540 --> 00:55:31.900
department. We chose just to get riven and now we have an environmentally safe substitute

00:55:31.900 --> 00:55:38.560
foam which is essentially soap suds. It's more expensive, you have to use more, but we're

00:55:38.560 --> 00:55:42.720
We're not exposing our personnel to that type of carcinogen.

00:55:42.720 --> 00:55:45.160
We're not exposing the environment

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to that type of situation.

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So we're 100% PFA free with our forms.

00:55:52.120 --> 00:55:53.880
Manager Boyer, follow up.

00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:54.720
Thank you.

00:55:54.720 --> 00:55:55.760
I'd just like to also add,

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we've kind of gone full circle.

00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:04.000
This started to become pretty prevalent

00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:06.160
or on the radar of a lot of different,

00:56:06.160 --> 00:56:36.160
not only communities, but companies in the mid 2000s, early 2000s. And as time went on, there was testing done. Freeport was one of the pilot communities to have our source water tested. And I believe about 2015, we've been working through and that's why we have the new water plant, Burchard. And that's why we need to finish finish out our redundant capacity with well 12 is coming up. But essentially,

00:56:36.160 --> 00:56:41.000
Essentially this is just a natural aggregation of what's been happening here with this, particularly

00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:46.800
these agents that are toxic and they're also in our environment.

00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:49.800
Alderman, Monroe.

00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:50.800
Thank you, Alderman Klemm.

00:56:50.800 --> 00:57:00.440
Chief, do you know, did we use the AFFF foam at the airport at any point in the past or

00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:05.300
would we have records of that that we could pull up?

00:57:05.300 --> 00:57:09.700
As I indicated, I'm not familiar with any events that took place out at the airport that

00:57:09.700 --> 00:57:13.220
required the AFFF-type foam.

00:57:13.220 --> 00:57:16.460
I'm not sure how far back our records would go to show that.

00:57:16.460 --> 00:57:22.940
I mean, we could do a query for, based on that address and based on that incident type.

00:57:22.940 --> 00:57:27.020
But again, I'm not familiar with any involvement out there.

00:57:27.020 --> 00:57:31.460
I know many years ago, it was permissible to use that for training.

00:57:31.460 --> 00:57:39.960
Actually, to this day, my understanding is AFFF foam is permissible in extreme emergencies only.

00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:47.960
There's some large towns who have a vast quantity of that and they still go ahead and utilize it when appropriate.

00:57:47.960 --> 00:57:54.460
But, again, they're potentially exposing their personnel to carcinogen of PFA.

00:57:54.460 --> 00:57:58.960
They're potentially contaminating the environment and the soil.

00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:13.960
and then the paperwork required to be filed when you do use that type of firefighting foam is pretty rigorous with EPA and also with the county EMA.

00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:15.960
Yes, thank you.

00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:22.280
and so the reason I ask is have we ever tested the ground water at the airport since they

00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:32.640
are on well water to see if prior to your being here, my being here, if it had been

00:58:32.640 --> 00:58:37.960
used and if the ground water was safe and had been tested out there because one of the

00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:42.600
reasons why I'm asking this is we've been trying for years to get water and sewer out

00:58:42.600 --> 00:58:44.600
Davis, Frank, Joe, and John.

00:58:44.600 --> 00:58:52.600
So I think that's a pretty big safety issue, if it is in some way damaged our environment

00:58:52.600 --> 00:58:57.220
out there as well as anybody's wells that may be around that area as well.

00:58:57.220 --> 00:58:59.500
Just thinking out loud.

00:58:59.500 --> 00:59:02.720
Go ahead.

00:59:02.720 --> 00:59:03.720
I'd have to check.

00:59:03.720 --> 00:59:06.120
James, I don't know the answer to the testing question.

00:59:06.120 --> 00:59:12.460
I assume based on all of our testing requirements that the well water out there has been tested,

00:59:12.460 --> 00:59:42.460
I will find out that answer for you. Another reminder I just wanted to say is remember these types of lawsuits are class action suits right and so since Freeport was one of the first 500 municipalities located with PFAS, POFAs it would be natural for us to know that you know at some point some of these chemicals leached into our water fields or we wouldn't have them right so they're just offering us an olive branch to be part of

00:59:42.460 --> 00:59:47.900
of the Class Action Suit based if there is financial monies coming, which we all know

00:59:47.900 --> 00:59:52.900
on the water side there is money coming, that's already been determined.

00:59:52.900 --> 00:59:56.620
What they're doing is holding the makers of these chemicals responsible.

00:59:56.620 --> 01:00:00.260
They knew producing these and putting them out that they were a liability.

01:00:00.260 --> 01:00:03.680
and others, and putting them out that they were a liability to our environment and they

01:00:03.680 --> 01:00:07.380
continued to produce them and sell them without exception.

01:00:07.380 --> 01:00:08.700
Alderman Sanders?

01:00:08.700 --> 01:00:20.260
Yeah, one of the things that I wanted to observe is the study that took place to make these

01:00:20.260 --> 01:00:29.260
determinations whether we should go or whether we should not follow through with it.

01:00:29.260 --> 01:00:37.180
How did we come up with the study to know that there's contamination possibly?

01:00:37.180 --> 01:00:47.340
Because right now everything is at a presumption at this moment and has not been definitively

01:00:47.340 --> 01:00:49.900
been factual at this present time.

01:00:49.900 --> 01:00:55.180
And I'm just trying to figure out where is the presumption of anything that might be

01:00:55.180 --> 01:00:57.180
Walker, and John, I think.

01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:01.060
If you're not aware, the

01:01:01.060 --> 01:01:03.100
city is, a lot of things are happening out at the airport.

01:01:06.260 --> 01:01:08.260
Was there a filing complaint?

01:01:09.660 --> 01:01:11.660
Was a lawsuit taking place to bring this

01:01:12.700 --> 01:01:14.700
complaint to the city?

01:01:16.620 --> 01:01:18.620
And the fact that we're contemplating

01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:21.920
possibly changing things out there at the airport to make

01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:23.800
things right, and what is the, what would it cost, if it's

01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:47.800
Lawsuits that are going to offset the expenses for the chemical, possible chemical well water contaminations that are going on, if there is, because we're still under the presumption, if there is anything going on, where's the study analysis that we can look at, that we can see where these things are coming in at?

01:01:47.800 --> 01:01:58.360
because as far as I am concerned, when I look at this thing, a pre-lit, what was it called,

01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:07.440
a litigation per and poly kind of thing, what was the decision made on whether the defective

01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:14.940
poly foam out there was the reason why we're making changes to bring water, wells and checking

01:02:14.940 --> 01:02:20.500
Waterwells and all these. Who is doing all of these studies? Because this is an expense.

01:02:20.500 --> 01:02:25.900
It is going to be an expense at the end of the road. And I just wanted to see where we

01:02:25.900 --> 01:02:26.900
were at with that.

01:02:26.900 --> 01:02:32.700
Mr. Boyer can answer that. But please remember, you know, all we are asking for at this point

01:02:32.700 --> 01:02:38.420
is a resolution to go with the company that we have. There is no cost to us as part of

01:02:38.420 --> 01:02:44.420
a class action suit. It is a matter of receiving funding back. But go ahead, Manager Boyer.

01:02:44.420 --> 01:02:50.460
If I could address some of your points, sir, Alderman Sanders, as far as I understand,

01:02:50.460 --> 01:02:57.400
so we haven't kind of got to the scope of the issue, so we need to work through that.

01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:02.060
And so to be participating in this part of the process is going to be identifying the

01:03:02.060 --> 01:03:04.180
scope of the issue, if any exists.

01:03:04.180 --> 01:03:06.400
We don't at this time know that there's an issue.

01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:13.060
We just presume that there may be due to the fact that these foams were used quite extensively

01:03:13.060 --> 01:03:20.340
at airports in general. We don't really know if they were used at Albertus. However, we're

01:03:20.340 --> 01:03:25.860
going to, you know, it would be great to work with Napoleon Shaconek in case we run up and

01:03:25.860 --> 01:03:30.060
find that we do have some issues there. So essentially all this is doing is kind of lining

01:03:30.060 --> 01:03:37.140
us up as the kind of second step on getting remunerated for these types of contamination.

01:03:37.140 --> 01:03:38.020
and

01:03:38.020 --> 01:03:39.020
Thank you.

01:03:39.020 --> 01:03:49.860
Any questions? We need a motion and a second to move this forward to the next meeting.

01:03:49.860 --> 01:03:51.540
I make a motion to move it forward.

01:03:51.540 --> 01:04:03.460
You need a voice or a motion to move it forward. All in favor signify by saying aye.

01:04:03.460 --> 01:04:04.460
Aye.

01:04:04.460 --> 01:04:05.460
Opposed, same sign.

01:04:05.460 --> 01:04:18.460
Motion passes. Item number nine regarding ESRI Municipal and County Enterprise Agreement for GIS by Director Sutman.

01:04:18.460 --> 01:04:19.460
Hello.

01:04:19.460 --> 01:04:22.460
Why is there?

01:04:22.460 --> 01:04:26.460
I'll first just kind of go through basically what's in the memo that you guys all got.

01:04:26.460 --> 01:04:34.460
We've got the background. In 2011, the city, I kind of built the GIS for the city, the water and sewer system.

01:04:34.460 --> 01:04:45.460
At first, it was just on my computer. It wasn't super useful. Over the years, we started kind of handing it out to more and more of the water curves, to the point where now a few are using it.

01:04:45.460 --> 01:04:54.460
Kind of a big part of this enterprise agreement is we want to put it in even more people's hands and increase that functionality even more.

01:04:54.460 --> 01:05:01.460
and I, GIS is Geographic Information System, and I'm going to explain in a minute here what that is.

01:05:06.460 --> 01:05:13.460
One of the biggest places we think this agreement will help is with, definitely with Water & Sewer and kind of the field crews.

01:05:13.460 --> 01:05:19.460
The idea is to put all the information they would need day to day directly in our hands on a tablet,

01:05:19.460 --> 01:05:20.460
and others.

01:05:20.460 --> 01:05:24.920
They're not having to go back to the office necessarily and look through paper records.

01:05:24.920 --> 01:05:29.860
It's kind of a two-fold advantage because then also they can add data in the field and

01:05:29.860 --> 01:05:33.500
doesn't have to wait and go to drafting and touch a lot of hands to get into the real

01:05:33.500 --> 01:05:36.620
time system.

01:05:36.620 --> 01:05:46.539
The financial aspect of this is it's a little over 30 grand a year and this is a three-year

01:05:46.539 --> 01:05:47.539
agreement.

01:05:47.540 --> 01:05:54.100
for the 2025 budget and it will probably be split out about 21,000 modern sewer and 9,000

01:05:54.100 --> 01:06:00.340
city funds will be the breakout. Aaron does this have to be approved or is it just informational?

01:06:02.660 --> 01:06:06.900
Ultimately you would need a motion at the committee level, motion second,

01:06:06.900 --> 01:06:12.420
a vote in favor to then get it on to the council agenda. So that's our intention tonight is to

01:06:12.420 --> 01:06:16.580
give you a lot of information and hopefully get it moved on to the next meeting for approval.

01:06:17.540 --> 01:06:25.540
And as I state in the memo, I do believe it hits every, basically every strategic vision we have, this would benefit.

01:06:25.540 --> 01:06:32.540
Now as far as what GIS is, when I was just getting into GIS, people would say it's AutoCAD with data attached.

01:06:32.540 --> 01:06:36.540
And I didn't really know what that meant until I saw it.

01:06:36.540 --> 01:06:42.540
So on the screen here you have a map.

01:06:42.540 --> 01:06:49.540
Yeah. So this is our data. This is storm sewers, sanitary sewers, and water main.

01:06:49.540 --> 01:06:54.540
And right now it looks just like lines. So that's not a lot different than a paper map.

01:06:54.540 --> 01:06:58.540
But if you zoom in, you can actually click on these.

01:06:58.540 --> 01:07:03.540
When it refreshes here, go click on one, and you can kind of see the data attached.

01:07:03.540 --> 01:07:11.540
So that one there, it's a 24-inch clay pipe. So you know that just by clicking on it.

01:07:11.540 --> 01:07:17.540
It's not terribly useful to go around and click on it, but you can also go ask GIS questions.

01:07:17.540 --> 01:07:21.540
Not like you'd ask an AI, you know, you can write queries.

01:07:21.540 --> 01:07:27.540
But you could say, so when we're out in the field and we gather data on these, which is a little data at this point,

01:07:27.540 --> 01:07:32.540
you know, we rated them. You know, inlets with blocks falling out of them, or

01:07:32.540 --> 01:07:36.540
a sanitary manhole looked like they were backed up.

01:07:36.540 --> 01:07:40.540
For project season, you could go and maybe ask questions like, how many do we have backed up?

01:07:40.540 --> 01:07:43.940
You know how many linear feet so it's a it's a great planning tool as well

01:07:46.060 --> 01:07:49.580
I do have a little presentation. I don't know if we need to go through it, but

01:07:50.860 --> 01:07:52.500
Yeah

01:07:52.500 --> 01:07:54.500
When you brought up the GIS

01:07:56.620 --> 01:07:58.620
Study

01:07:59.140 --> 01:08:01.140
Have we already had that

01:08:03.860 --> 01:08:09.340
Mechanism for the city yeah, we have at one time and who was governing it then

01:08:09.340 --> 01:08:20.820
Men, who was supervising that GIS study, who was doing the supervising of that particular

01:08:20.820 --> 01:08:26.100
because what the data that you are demonstrating right now is pretty much was data that was

01:08:26.100 --> 01:08:33.180
already accumulated back when, I don't know when, but I am just trying to figure out what

01:08:33.180 --> 01:08:34.180
and others.

01:08:34.180 --> 01:08:42.739
So that firm or company was supervising those particular studies, those GIS studies.

01:08:42.739 --> 01:08:54.699
And if that is the same study, can we also use that data as well, I mean, to increase

01:08:54.699 --> 01:08:57.140
what it is that is going on within the city?

01:08:57.140 --> 01:09:02.860
So this GIS you're looking at, let's frame it as the water and sewer system.

01:09:02.860 --> 01:09:09.220
That was created by me between, let's say, 2011 and 2017, and that was done through a

01:09:09.220 --> 01:09:13.140
combination of the paper records down at Water & Sewer, which those guys did an amazing job

01:09:13.140 --> 01:09:17.619
for the last 100 years, digitizing those into the computer, and then also went out in the

01:09:17.619 --> 01:09:24.220
field and hand-verified depths, condition, things like that.

01:09:24.220 --> 01:09:28.659
My supervisor at the time would have been the City Engineer throughout that.

01:09:28.659 --> 01:09:30.900
But this data will go into the new one.

01:09:30.900 --> 01:09:33.360
it's always keeps accumulating on top of itself.

01:09:33.360 --> 01:09:35.340
What this is, it almost,

01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:39.180
the value here is the deployment to others.

01:09:39.180 --> 01:09:41.140
It's putting in the hands of staff

01:09:43.460 --> 01:09:46.260
to make their everyday tasks faster, easier, better.

01:09:51.140 --> 01:09:51.980
For...

01:09:51.980 --> 01:09:53.980
Well, there's a lot of problems, I think,

01:09:53.980 --> 01:09:58.380
that are important, but one of the maps we have pulled up,

01:09:58.380 --> 01:10:00.380
So this is, this is how we

01:10:00.380 --> 01:10:23.380
So this is a couple of things we have on our website. So a citizen can go to a pull up their address and see the, for example, they can see how their property is owned, pull up a link to that zoning ordinance and see if there's anything to do with their property, pull up data from the assessor, things like that.

01:10:23.380 --> 01:10:38.380
Some of that is easily made public. Other parts of the data is a little more difficult to make public simply because of informational requirements in the state, things like that, personally identified information on that.

01:10:38.380 --> 01:10:51.380
So being able to share some of the data with vendors and things like that is really difficult right now. The idea being with additional licensing we'd be able to share some of that information with.

01:10:51.380 --> 01:10:56.380
For example, the Safe Street folks who were just here, some of that data came from me.

01:10:56.380 --> 01:11:09.380
Ideally, it would be that we could share that data with them in a more usable sense than copying it and sending it to them at a U.S.E. drive.

01:11:09.380 --> 01:11:12.380
If I could, Kurt.

01:11:12.380 --> 01:11:21.380
First of all, I want to thank you and congratulate you, because you've been around a while, and I know how hard you've worked with us over the years.

01:11:21.380 --> 01:11:29.380
Congratulations to you guys, as Kurt said, for keeping the records that they have for 100 years on it.

01:11:29.380 --> 01:11:39.380
City of Freeport, fortunately, is very far ahead of other communities on this, as far as what's recorded,

01:11:39.380 --> 01:11:46.420
as far as any breakage, anything they need to know, they know instantly, which is worth

01:11:46.420 --> 01:11:51.900
the fortune as far as, number one, how do you fix it, where is it at, what is affected

01:11:51.900 --> 01:12:00.340
by this. So this is really good, and the GIS to be able to get that and pass it on without

01:12:00.340 --> 01:12:05.300
a doubt would be helpful, whether it be a developer, whether it be anything, you know

01:12:05.300 --> 01:12:09.020
what you have in the area so you can draw from.

01:12:09.020 --> 01:12:15.420
So I appreciate what you've done so far in this and look forward to doing this, you know,

01:12:15.420 --> 01:12:17.539
but thank you guys for what you've done.

01:12:17.539 --> 01:12:18.539
Alderman Sanders?

01:12:18.539 --> 01:12:31.539
Yeah, the accumulation of the data that is being retrieved without going into great detail.

01:12:31.539 --> 01:12:44.340
What I'm concerned about is when this program start, when you start implementing this study,

01:12:44.340 --> 01:12:53.000
how much feed data that you have, where have you not been, where's the demographic areas

01:12:53.000 --> 01:13:00.840
that you have not been to do studies and then we still need to accumulate more data to put

01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:02.560
and

01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:03.640
other

01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:05.180
people who are

01:13:05.180 --> 01:13:06.180
working

01:13:06.180 --> 01:13:07.180
in the

01:13:07.180 --> 01:13:08.180
City

01:13:08.180 --> 01:13:09.180
Department

01:13:09.180 --> 01:13:10.180
and

01:13:10.180 --> 01:13:11.180
being

01:13:11.180 --> 01:13:12.180
able

01:13:12.180 --> 01:13:13.180
to

01:13:13.180 --> 01:13:14.180
have

01:13:14.180 --> 01:13:15.180
a

01:13:15.180 --> 01:13:16.180
public

01:13:16.180 --> 01:13:17.180
office

01:13:17.180 --> 01:13:18.180
and

01:13:18.180 --> 01:13:19.180
a

01:13:19.180 --> 01:13:20.180
public

01:13:20.180 --> 01:13:21.180
office

01:13:21.180 --> 01:13:22.180
and

01:13:22.180 --> 01:13:23.180
to

01:13:23.180 --> 01:13:24.180
have

01:13:24.180 --> 01:13:25.180
a

01:13:25.180 --> 01:13:26.180
public

01:13:26.180 --> 01:13:27.180
office

01:13:27.180 --> 01:13:28.180
and

01:13:28.180 --> 01:13:29.180
a

01:13:29.180 --> 01:13:30.180
public

01:13:30.180 --> 01:14:00.180
and I were able to evaluate that throughout GIS studies and that that information has to be part of the situation, that you are able to go back, that far back and look at what was the structural linings and things of this nature with the piping, the water lines and all of these kinds of things. You would need a history count of everything that has been going on throughout the city over decades.

01:14:00.180 --> 01:14:02.180
and

01:14:03.260 --> 01:14:05.260
the rest of the city.

01:14:06.460 --> 01:14:08.460
So, I'm just wondering, what is the

01:14:09.579 --> 01:14:17.579
point of the process that would help you to understand what you're up against when you approach any project problem or whatever the case is?

01:14:17.579 --> 01:14:22.779
I just want us to understand that this is where you're headed. This is what you're continuing to develop.

01:14:22.779 --> 01:14:29.779
This is what you want to put into your program and that we can spit it out at the other end when you do your assessment studies.

01:14:30.180 --> 01:14:48.260
Wond, but that's right there is the main goal. This is a living document. Yeah. Okay. So it's all the history. And we do have some of the guys through the draft and now they've been here a long time. And that's part of the one of the reasons we want to do it now too, is to make sure we get that institutional knowledge kind of baked into it. Yeah.

01:14:48.260 --> 01:15:18.260
So I'm supporting Kurt on this. The utility really needs an upgrade to this system. One of the Kurt and I discussed this earlier today. We still have people that are drafting on my LARS down at the wastewater treatment plant regularly for updates that we make. It's very antiquated. It's very time consuming. We calculated some numbers today that we believe this system will pay for itself.

01:15:18.260 --> 01:15:25.940
Duff in Modern Upgrades. Also, when we do project work, and I'll pick Adams Avenue,

01:15:25.940 --> 01:15:30.779
for example, the way we track our systems and the way we build them, we will be able

01:15:30.779 --> 01:15:35.180
to actually port that information to Kurt's team, and he'll be able to drop it right

01:15:35.180 --> 01:15:40.779
in there, and the new data will all appear magically as we do the construction inspections.

01:15:40.779 --> 01:15:46.760
We track everything now with our GPS equipment, and that will continuously update the system

01:15:46.760 --> 01:15:49.940
as construction updates are made throughout the city.

01:15:49.940 --> 01:15:51.640
The system that we currently have,

01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:55.360
that's not capable of doing and the upgrades are tough.

01:15:55.360 --> 01:15:58.720
And another point that we have is that we're probably using

01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:01.720
the system that we have right now beyond our means

01:16:01.720 --> 01:16:04.319
because we don't have as many licenses

01:16:04.319 --> 01:16:05.600
as we need to actually use it.

01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:09.020
So we're kind of cheating the system a little bit right now,

01:16:09.020 --> 01:16:10.560
just trying to make it work,

01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:12.180
knowing that we would get to an upgrade

01:16:12.180 --> 01:16:14.260
that would be budgeted for this year.

01:16:14.260 --> 01:16:15.100
Absolutely.

01:16:15.100 --> 01:16:19.100
Do we need a motion to move this forward? I'll make the motion to move this forward.

01:16:19.100 --> 01:16:37.300
Okay, Alderman Parker. Do we need a voice vote? Okay. All in favor signify by saying

01:16:37.300 --> 01:16:43.260
aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign.

01:16:43.260 --> 01:16:56.159
Did I understand you to say that it's going to cost about $30,000 a year and it's in three-year

01:16:56.159 --> 01:16:57.159
terms?

01:16:57.159 --> 01:17:01.180
Yes, it's a three-year term, so it's $30,000 every year.

01:17:01.180 --> 01:17:05.980
And that it was budgeted for the 2025?

01:17:05.980 --> 01:17:06.980
Yes.

01:17:06.980 --> 01:17:13.980
Okay. So if we budget it for it, hasn't it already been approved?

01:17:13.980 --> 01:17:22.980
Not the agreement. The funds are allocated, but the agreement to enter a contract with ESRI hasn't. That's what this is.

01:17:22.980 --> 01:17:24.980
Okay.

01:17:24.980 --> 01:17:35.980
I just wanted to add, if I could, until we move to the next one, I'd really like to thank also, I thank Eric and Kirk for all the work they did,

01:17:35.980 --> 01:17:46.980
and also Tom Glendening. As we know, Tom Glendening put his heart into this to really start to move it forward, but thanks to all the people involved at this point.

01:17:46.980 --> 01:17:49.980
Next item is item number 10.

01:17:49.980 --> 01:17:54.980
Tom, you actually got to take the vote. So you got to do all those in favor, still.

01:17:54.980 --> 01:17:56.980
All in favor.

01:17:56.980 --> 01:18:00.980
You got to take the vote now. You got a motion and you second?

01:18:00.980 --> 01:18:01.980
No.

01:18:01.980 --> 01:18:02.980
You had a...

01:18:02.980 --> 01:18:03.980
I think completed.

01:18:03.980 --> 01:18:04.980
No, because I had a question.

01:18:04.980 --> 01:18:15.020
Question. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. You take the vote. Okay.

01:18:15.020 --> 01:18:19.500
Item number 10 regarding resolution adopting Northwest Illinois Safety

01:18:19.500 --> 01:18:25.940
Action Plan as part of participating in Steveson County's

01:18:25.940 --> 01:18:30.760
application to the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Safe

01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:34.760
Street Scrims, and this will be presented by Darren.

01:18:34.760 --> 01:18:43.199
Yeah, so not to confuse the subject because we talked about the City of Freeport's program.

01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:50.119
We are also part of a small piece of the Stevenson County SS4A plan because we're part of the

01:18:50.119 --> 01:18:51.119
county.

01:18:51.119 --> 01:18:57.319
Their configuration includes, I believe, five other counties, so it's a much larger broad

01:18:57.319 --> 01:18:59.760
base program.

01:18:59.760 --> 01:19:03.199
We started that program, I believe, just over a year ago.

01:19:03.199 --> 01:19:11.440
They're getting towards their finality of it, and as part of their plan, they're asking

01:19:11.440 --> 01:19:20.840
us to have a resolution stating that we are a part of their plan, and if they go to implementation,

01:19:20.840 --> 01:19:26.720
which would be the final reporting, that we're just signifying that we're part of the plan.

01:19:26.720 --> 01:19:32.360
We have been from the start. City Manager Boyer sits on their TAC team and has represented

01:19:32.360 --> 01:19:38.199
the city. Again, the reason we did two different programs, not to confuse it, is there's a

01:19:38.199 --> 01:19:46.440
much broad-based program that's covering six counties. Freeport is just covering Freeport.

01:19:46.440 --> 01:19:51.760
This is, as Darren explained, this is no cost to us or anything else. It's just being part

01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:55.159
of the county's program. Do I have a motion to move forward?

01:19:55.159 --> 01:19:56.159
So moved.

01:19:56.159 --> 01:19:58.159
Kemp,

01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:13.239
All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign. Motion carries. Item

01:20:13.239 --> 01:20:19.639
number 11. Discussion regarding distress communities grant funding presented by

01:20:19.639 --> 01:20:32.559
Alderman, Stacy, Monroe. Good evening. I wanted to bring this to the council to gather a little

01:20:32.559 --> 01:20:42.760
more understanding on this distressed grant program. City Manager Boyer, can you tell

01:20:42.760 --> 01:20:50.079
Tell me how many times and when we have received it?

01:20:50.079 --> 01:20:58.800
We received it one time and I believe it was the end of 2021 and I, yeah, so.

01:20:58.800 --> 01:21:01.639
One time in 2021.

01:21:01.639 --> 01:21:05.920
Can you tell me how much we received?

01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:18.199
Off the top of my head, I think it was about $81,000 Okay, because that number is much,

01:21:18.199 --> 01:21:24.000
much lower than what it was when you and I spoke the other day.

01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:27.039
And I also mentioned that I didn't have it on top of my head, but I thought it was a

01:21:27.039 --> 01:21:32.680
certain range, but since then, we've got the actual documents and you have a copy of it

01:21:32.680 --> 01:21:33.680
now.

01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:45.720
I have, I didn't know if the document that I have received was partial to the money that

01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:47.880
was received.

01:21:47.880 --> 01:21:53.039
I believe that was the whole thing, however, the money never came through the city, it

01:21:53.039 --> 01:21:58.239
went directly from ComEd to the contractor, so I don't know if that included any discounts

01:21:58.239 --> 01:22:12.920
and others on light fixtures or whatever. So, but that was the information that I had.

01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:18.239
So Manager Boyer, kind of moving forward, I know there was a lot of discussion about

01:22:18.239 --> 01:22:25.260
the Distressed Community Grant funding and, you know, the actual title of Distressed Communities.

01:22:25.260 --> 01:22:30.059
Do you see that as being a negative for the City of Freeport as we move forward to be

01:22:30.059 --> 01:22:35.739
titled that and to have that as kind of a slogan almost?

01:22:35.739 --> 01:22:42.300
I don't have an opinion on it for getting funding from ComEd to do lighting.

01:22:42.300 --> 01:22:45.979
I'm not really in a position to tell them what to call their grant funding, but I understand

01:22:45.979 --> 01:22:51.439
it's now called the Select Communities Grant and it looks like we have a representative

01:22:51.439 --> 01:23:09.639
here that might have some more information on that okay for all the right oh it's fine with me George yeah George would you like to speak on this please and since it's a comment and we thank you for coming and while he's you're

01:23:09.639 --> 01:23:14.059
welcome George Golarap citizens Freeport Illinois employed his external affairs

01:23:14.059 --> 01:23:20.659
manager for ComEd we no longer have the distress community program it's now

01:23:50.659 --> 01:23:53.460
to receive either discounts off.

01:23:53.460 --> 01:23:56.819
So Freeport is a member of the select community.

01:23:56.819 --> 01:24:00.139
So when they go and buy light fixtures

01:24:00.139 --> 01:24:03.000
that are assembled or produced in Illinois,

01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:05.979
there's a 10% reduction in the cost.

01:24:05.979 --> 01:24:08.720
And we have many other reductions in costs

01:24:08.720 --> 01:24:10.539
and all these are stackable,

01:24:10.539 --> 01:24:13.220
which means you don't get 10% only.

01:24:13.220 --> 01:24:18.099
You can go through the program and stack these up to 100%.

01:24:18.099 --> 01:24:20.059
It's a great program.

01:24:20.059 --> 01:24:27.460
It's listed for communities that do struggle. Out of 400 communities that ComEd serves,

01:24:27.460 --> 01:24:35.180
there's 125 communities on this list. I mean, 25 percent. I mean, it's a lot. I mean, northern

01:24:35.180 --> 01:24:41.300
Illinois does have a lot of issues. And with your support and with your administration

01:24:41.300 --> 01:24:47.380
support, you can dig out of this. And it can be much better for the city itself. So I have

01:24:47.380 --> 01:24:54.100
I've been working with Rob Boyer and Mayor Miller since August, July of last year I believe,

01:24:54.100 --> 01:25:02.180
to try to move things forward and make sure that you are eligible for these stackable discounts.

01:25:02.180 --> 01:25:08.819
I'm just a little...

01:25:08.819 --> 01:25:17.319
Last week we were told, well, why didn't we know it was select and not distressed?

01:25:17.319 --> 01:25:33.199
First of all, second of all, why did we not know that we're on this select community grant?

01:25:33.199 --> 01:25:37.880
I found out about it last week in an internal staff meeting.

01:25:37.880 --> 01:25:43.600
I was very excited about this and as soon as I found out about it, I communicated this

01:25:43.599 --> 01:25:51.199
with Manager Boyer, but he said he had already seen the letter from ComEd earlier that Freeport

01:25:51.199 --> 01:25:56.619
was eligible. But they're still under the old name, not the new name. So if you want

01:25:56.619 --> 01:25:59.920
to blame anybody, you can blame me for not knowing earlier than last week.

01:25:59.920 --> 01:26:00.920
No.

01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:05.239
But we had an internal meeting and I was really grateful to find out that Freeport was on

01:26:05.239 --> 01:26:07.599
this list and is eligible.

01:26:07.599 --> 01:26:25.599
It's not about blaming anyone, Mr. Gorab. It's about understanding what we have and what we're able to do with what we have.

01:26:25.599 --> 01:26:34.199
Yes, and you're also working with a group called the Will Group. They're the ones that provided the city with an application,

01:26:34.199 --> 01:26:37.920
and we're trying to make sure that that application is acceptable.

01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:43.559
There were some mistakes put on there by the World Group inadvertently that Mr. Boyer pointed

01:26:43.559 --> 01:26:46.399
out so those have been corrected.

01:26:46.399 --> 01:26:53.920
I'm working with two outreach people, Ian McAdams and Eric Hennessy to make sure the

01:26:53.920 --> 01:27:00.880
application does get accepted and that's step one on the first set of discounts on the project.

01:27:00.880 --> 01:27:04.519
So we're still at the application level though.

01:27:04.519 --> 01:27:08.920
It's completed. It had to be by January 30th and it was. We're just making some corrections

01:27:08.920 --> 01:27:15.639
and as we go on you become more eligible for more and more discounts along the way.

01:27:15.639 --> 01:27:22.359
So some of the discounts. What ComEd wants you to do is be energy efficient. So they

01:27:22.359 --> 01:27:28.519
want you to take the old high pressure sodium lights or whatever lights you may have and

01:27:28.519 --> 01:27:43.920
and I believe for every watt you reduce, it's $1. So if you take a 400 watt light and you

01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:52.079
reduce it down to a 60 watt light, you have $340 of credit on each light that you do.

01:27:52.079 --> 01:27:54.279
And that adds up rather quickly.

01:27:54.279 --> 01:27:57.239
Darren, do you have any other?

01:27:57.239 --> 01:28:26.639
Yeah. So I want to clarify something to the council. So George and myself and City Manager have been working for over a year, actually probably two years now, on getting the select community, distressed community, whatever we're calling that, it's ComEd's designations, not the City of Freeport's designation, trying to get back on that list.

01:28:26.639 --> 01:28:56.639
We were on it in 2021. Somehow we we were off the list. We were trying to move forward with lighting projects, but the cost was not acceptable to us knowing that we we qualified for these larger rebates. So George is the Northern Illinois Affairs Manager for ComEd. So we contacted George. We also contacted our congressman. We also contacted our area reps and we sent letters down

01:28:56.639 --> 01:29:00.139
and the rest of the county and all of our community.

01:29:00.139 --> 01:29:02.380
I think that the state is not the only party

01:29:02.380 --> 01:29:03.979
that has to agree to put us on this list.

01:29:03.979 --> 01:29:06.300
The State of Illinois also has to allow to it.

01:29:06.300 --> 01:29:09.260
By evaluating the list, we saw that there were communities

01:29:09.260 --> 01:29:12.180
in much better shape than were already on the list.

01:29:12.180 --> 01:29:15.939
And so that's what we've been trying to do

01:29:15.939 --> 01:29:19.059
and we've been waiting to get this select status.

01:29:19.059 --> 01:29:21.279
We actually had a project in the queue,

01:29:21.279 --> 01:29:24.579
which was to remove the high pressure sodium lights

01:29:24.579 --> 01:29:28.539
down the IDOT corridors because they're all older lighting.

01:29:28.539 --> 01:29:31.319
And so that's the program that we had been working on

01:29:31.319 --> 01:29:34.319
when we started talking about the safer areas

01:29:37.460 --> 01:29:40.439
that Chief Shenberger had applied for, right?

01:29:40.439 --> 01:29:43.899
So we just found out, Rob actually texted me

01:29:43.899 --> 01:29:47.699
from the city manager's conference

01:29:47.699 --> 01:29:50.699
that we were selected as a select community.

01:29:50.699 --> 01:29:52.000
And that's how we found out.

01:29:52.000 --> 01:29:56.319
and we spent a lot of time last week fixing the paperwork

01:29:56.319 --> 01:29:58.239
to get it in in time to...

01:29:58.239 --> 01:30:07.659
to get it in in time to qualify for the IDOT corridor lighting. So when this

01:30:07.659 --> 01:30:15.599
money cometh, I'm gonna speak it into existence. It's not money, it's credit.

01:30:15.599 --> 01:30:24.479
It's credit, cometh. Discounts? Discount, cometh, yes. Is it gonna be limited to a

01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:29.599
and George, and I'm going to be reading the information that George gave us.

01:30:29.599 --> 01:30:32.840
It's a community function.

01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:36.880
It's just we have to remember what he said earlier.

01:30:36.880 --> 01:30:41.479
If you're reducing wattage, there's more of an incentive than increasing wattage.

01:30:41.479 --> 01:30:46.920
So in the areas of our safe streets, we will be looking to increase wattage, which will

01:30:46.920 --> 01:30:51.000
reduce some of the energy that we're using to increase the wattage.

01:30:51.000 --> 01:30:58.079
We will be looking to increase wattage, which will reduce some of the stackable credits, but there's still other credits, correct?

01:30:58.079 --> 01:31:09.199
So we might not get as deep of a discount, but we'll still be able to stack other items like made in Illinois or or other designations there.

01:31:09.199 --> 01:31:12.399
I won't say that the application isn't kind of confusing because it is.

01:31:12.399 --> 01:31:14.239
There's a lot of different information on it.

01:31:14.239 --> 01:31:44.239
So, Alderman, Stacy, if you would like, I'm not for sure the next City Council meeting or the one after that, what I'll do is I'll get all the discounts and we'll put examples in if you qualify for all these, what the total cost would be at the end of the day, I'll work with City Manager and also with Darren to get that and we'll put it in easy form to figure out, because a lot of times things from ComEd aren't in easy form to figure out, but we will simplify and get back to that.

01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:58.619
I just want something that's going to affect all of Freeport and just not a certain area.

01:31:58.619 --> 01:32:10.159
Because to my understanding, the last distress slash select grant we received, all that funding

01:32:10.159 --> 01:32:21.000
went downtown. I can answer why that is. Okay. Because the downtown lighting was our number

01:32:21.000 --> 01:32:26.920
one bill for the city of Freeport. It was a huge expense because those were all incandescents.

01:32:26.920 --> 01:32:33.559
By switching them to LED, City Manager Boyer reduced the cost of the city greatly in the

01:32:33.559 --> 01:32:38.000
amount that it takes to light the downtown regularly. So that was the whole purpose and

01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:45.679
mission behind that project. Okay. That was City Manager Bucus. Bucus, but City Manager

01:32:45.679 --> 01:32:55.719
Boyer was the Public Works Director at that time. Because we had 150 wattage and that

01:32:55.719 --> 01:33:16.719
I was traded out with LEDs at about 32% lighting and that was one of the biggest mistakes made by the city when it come to lightning our city.

01:33:16.719 --> 01:33:19.719
Are you saying the lights downtown are less bright?

01:33:19.719 --> 01:33:21.719
No, I'm not talking about downtown.

01:33:21.719 --> 01:33:31.719
Downtown is lit up, I could go down there at two o'clock in the morning and walk my three miles with no fear.

01:33:31.719 --> 01:33:46.719
I'm just saying that these other concerned areas that we must and will start working on has got to get better.

01:33:46.719 --> 01:34:05.719
I want to thank you for what you did do on Salon Park. I respect that and I acknowledge that. It still was not enough but thank you for your efforts.

01:34:05.719 --> 01:34:23.719
Well, the intersection is well lit. Salon Park is not. But again, Salon Park is private property, and it would be pretty tough to use taxpayer dollars to light a private property. So whoever owns that, is the one that needs to put the light in.

01:34:23.719 --> 01:34:47.719
Okay. Thank you. But one thing, I did receive some bad news. I mean, Oak Street was sprayed with gang symbols on the utility poles. I think Rob Boyer and the Public Works Department, they went out and painted over those and at the same time we discovered a light over on Elk and Cherry that wasn't there.

01:34:47.719 --> 01:35:12.460
and

01:35:12.460 --> 01:35:19.539
and can you thank you once again just give the number out if you have a

01:35:19.539 --> 01:35:24.500
streetlight out that they can call our citizens can call you directly yeah so

01:35:24.500 --> 01:35:33.479
the number you want is 1-800-334-7661 so it's the edit 1-800-Edison-1 if you want

01:35:33.479 --> 01:35:38.579
to contact me directly they would have to go through the mayor city council

01:35:38.579 --> 01:35:43.939
member, Public Works or City Administrator and they can contact me. But the easiest

01:35:43.939 --> 01:35:56.139
way is a straight line. Agreed. Thank you. You can also do call Public Works because I've called those and they call them in right away and get it done too if you call Public Works.

01:35:56.139 --> 01:36:08.059
Or you can call Alderman Sellers because she has my phone number. Thank you. Thank you, Jodi. Appreciate it. Item number 12, discussion regarding fundraising money

01:36:08.059 --> 01:36:15.579
& Company, Collected for Downtown Decorations, presented by Alderman Stacey & Monroe.

01:36:15.579 --> 01:36:26.300
Well, I had hoped to discuss this tonight. However, the person that could probably answer

01:36:26.300 --> 01:36:34.819
my questions, for whatever reason, is not here. And so, I would just like to carry this

01:36:34.819 --> 01:36:44.779
matter to the next council meeting the 18th of February since I was the second

01:36:44.779 --> 01:36:51.340
I would agree to that as well is this the is this 13 item number 12 well okay

01:36:51.340 --> 01:37:03.019
move to the third meeting of the month please the 18th of February okay we got

01:37:03.019 --> 01:37:18.219
Stacy, Monroe. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Same sign. Aye.

01:37:18.219 --> 01:37:34.699
Okay, so that will be up on next week's agenda. Item number 13, Discuss Potential $2 million

01:37:34.699 --> 01:37:41.340
Illinois Department of Transportation Surface Transportation Program Urban STU Funding for

01:37:41.340 --> 01:38:10.340
St., by Darren. You're a popular guy tonight, Darren. That's okay.

01:38:10.340 --> 01:38:17.300
that I didn't have adequate time to get a map on the agenda. I have been working

01:38:17.300 --> 01:38:25.760
for probably the last three months with IDOT working on trying to find an avenue

01:38:25.760 --> 01:38:32.380
to find more transportation money for Freeport. This map that I handed out,

01:38:32.380 --> 01:38:38.500
Surface Transportation Program, so we were hoping to present a program that

01:38:38.500 --> 01:38:49.139
could still be pulled off in 2025. I found out from IDOT last week that even the modest plans

01:38:49.139 --> 01:38:55.859
that we want to do for these roads will require an ESR, which is an environmental survey report,

01:38:55.859 --> 01:39:04.340
which takes nine months to complete. So to give, you know, not belabor it, I've been working,

01:39:04.340 --> 01:39:12.420
we have an STU fund I've asked IDOT to contribute two and a half million dollars towards this project

01:39:13.139 --> 01:39:20.340
they will agree a Freeport will support the engineering cost so the just so the audience

01:39:20.340 --> 01:39:27.460
knows the streets that we're looking to do these will be mill and overlays only with ADA ramp

01:39:27.460 --> 01:39:34.659
We would do Walnut Avenue from Empire to South.

01:39:34.659 --> 01:39:42.099
I would love to keep going on that project, but the north side is in too far of a disarray

01:39:42.099 --> 01:39:46.180
to be able to just do a mill and overlay that needs to be a full reconstruct.

01:39:46.180 --> 01:39:51.939
I would also like to finish the Adams Avenue project that we started this year.

01:39:51.939 --> 01:39:57.899
We were not able to pave completely from Float Street down to Exchange.

01:39:57.899 --> 01:39:58.399
Davis.

01:39:58.399 --> 01:39:59.399
and others.

01:39:59.399 --> 01:40:06.000
This would suggest that we would mill and overlay the rest of the road to make that

01:40:06.000 --> 01:40:09.759
project finally a new the entire length.

01:40:09.759 --> 01:40:16.239
Also in my travels, Lincoln Boulevard from West Avenue to Locust Avenue.

01:40:16.239 --> 01:40:19.159
I'm proposing to fix that section.

01:40:19.159 --> 01:40:23.319
That street probably had the most lead service lines that we replaced on one street.

01:40:23.319 --> 01:40:53.319
I believe there was 25 in that little section was almost every house and the streets turned into a roller coaster and wasn't on any current list for replacement again I would just suggest based on the information that we looked at as a mill and overlay and a few ADA ramps on that and then another section of concern that I saw was Stevenson Street from Locust Street to basically Park is starting

01:40:53.319 --> 01:40:55.039
to fall apart pretty heavily.

01:40:57.319 --> 01:41:00.319
It is saveable yet without a full reconstruction.

01:41:00.319 --> 01:41:01.920
I believe we could mill and overlay

01:41:01.920 --> 01:41:03.879
three to four inches on that street,

01:41:03.879 --> 01:41:06.039
replace the remaining ADA ramps.

01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:10.539
We would also stay out of the west intersection.

01:41:11.960 --> 01:41:13.079
That's IDOT right away.

01:41:13.079 --> 01:41:16.920
So we'd stop short of each one of those areas.

01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:19.639
And again, it would just be a mill and overlay.

01:41:19.639 --> 01:41:20.479
Alderman, Susan.

01:41:20.479 --> 01:41:24.279
Did you say Stevenson, Locust too?

01:41:24.279 --> 01:41:26.920
On the sheet, we put sunset

01:41:26.920 --> 01:41:29.759
because we're already doing a project in 2025

01:41:29.759 --> 01:41:32.519
that's the intersection of park.

01:41:32.519 --> 01:41:35.479
And so this would just butt up to that end of that project.

01:41:35.479 --> 01:41:37.799
We were just hoping to finish that

01:41:37.799 --> 01:41:40.639
on the 2025 streets program already.

01:41:40.639 --> 01:41:44.599
We have the park and Stevenson intersection being done

01:41:44.599 --> 01:41:46.879
where it's all falling apart with the rail tracks

01:41:46.879 --> 01:41:49.519
and sinking, just that intersection is getting redone.

01:41:49.519 --> 01:41:51.479
and so this project would bud to that.

01:41:53.719 --> 01:41:56.639
As you can see from the map that I gave you,

01:41:56.639 --> 01:41:59.000
I'm trying to attack streets

01:41:59.000 --> 01:42:03.500
where we have some of our heavier traffic corridors,

01:42:03.500 --> 01:42:05.879
trying to finish projects and connect projects

01:42:05.879 --> 01:42:07.639
that we've already done.

01:42:07.639 --> 01:42:10.819
Again, the city of Freeport, just for some understanding,

01:42:10.819 --> 01:42:15.119
we have a list of, they're called FAU routes

01:42:15.119 --> 01:42:18.819
and IDOT established this list many years ago,

01:42:18.819 --> 01:42:21.219
this surface transportation funding

01:42:21.219 --> 01:42:24.099
can only be used on those streets.

01:42:24.099 --> 01:42:29.099
And so we can't just take this to Kiwanis Drive

01:42:30.219 --> 01:42:33.699
or Catherine Street or Santa Fe

01:42:33.699 --> 01:42:35.279
or any street we wanna pick.

01:42:35.279 --> 01:42:38.579
It has to stay on the federal urban assistant routes

01:42:38.579 --> 01:42:40.579
that I'd established many years ago.

01:42:40.579 --> 01:42:45.579
So anyway, the reason I'm bringing it to you guys tonight

01:42:45.579 --> 01:43:05.579
is I would like some kind of direction as a council, whether we want to move forward and have a contract brought forward to try to capture this money and do a program for 2026 with this funding, or if we don't want to do it, I don't want to spend any more energy or resources on it.

01:43:05.579 --> 01:43:18.079
A quick question, if you would, what's engineering costs on it? Engineering costs are what we have to pay for it to get to $2 million.

01:43:18.079 --> 01:43:26.079
Correct. On these type of mill and overlay projects, you could probably expect 7 to 8% for engineering costs to get it permitted and approved.

01:43:26.079 --> 01:43:34.579
These service transportation funds are federal funds, not state funds, so there's more requirements to do federal funds.

01:43:34.579 --> 01:43:49.579
Some of the most expensive costs will be ADA ramps and under federal program you have to design them in whole back 15 feet in every direction so that survey time and the design portion of that is quite labor intensive.

01:43:49.579 --> 01:43:50.579
Alderman Stacey.

01:43:50.579 --> 01:43:55.579
So again, what are we looking at cost wise to accept this?

01:43:55.579 --> 01:44:05.379
So, if we accept this, we would be accepting the engineering responsibility for the design and the construction engineering.

01:44:05.379 --> 01:44:14.579
The construction cost itself, based on my estimates, would pretty much wholly be covered by this program, just for mill and overlays only.

01:44:14.579 --> 01:44:22.579
So I know a lot of people have asked me before, you're not replacing the curb on my street, you're not, you know, doing this and that.

01:44:22.579 --> 01:44:26.659
This would just be patching in areas enough to mill and overlay the street.

01:44:26.659 --> 01:44:29.019
We're trying to treat everybody the same.

01:44:29.019 --> 01:44:33.819
I know there's areas of these streets that, you know, the curb's not perfect.

01:44:33.819 --> 01:44:35.579
I know it's not overlaid perfect.

01:44:35.579 --> 01:44:40.659
If we don't attack something on this area of Stevenson Street soon,

01:44:40.659 --> 01:44:46.420
that section will turn into a total reconstruct as the intersections are falling apart.

01:44:46.420 --> 01:44:50.319
Again, our goal was always to finish the Adams Avenue project.

01:44:50.319 --> 01:44:52.979
We just didn't have enough money to resurface it

01:44:52.979 --> 01:44:54.679
all the way to exchange.

01:44:54.679 --> 01:44:56.719
Walnut Street, we know is a problem.

01:44:56.719 --> 01:45:00.279
And I think North Walnut will be our next largest project

01:45:00.279 --> 01:45:03.439
in the city of Freeport because that is a full reconstruct.

01:45:03.439 --> 01:45:07.199
And Lincoln used to be a heavy, thorough way through there

01:45:07.199 --> 01:45:10.039
until the street really got topsy-turvy

01:45:10.039 --> 01:45:12.079
with the lead service line, so.

01:45:13.239 --> 01:45:14.079
Anyway.

01:45:14.079 --> 01:45:15.679
I think you misunderstood my question.

01:45:15.679 --> 01:45:16.899
Okay.

01:45:16.899 --> 01:45:25.939
what is it going to cost us to go after this money? So far it has only cost you my public works time.

01:45:26.739 --> 01:45:34.259
I have this all it's just a paperwork process at this time probably a thousand dollars in paperwork

01:45:34.259 --> 01:45:39.779
to secure the money for these projects for 2026 and then we have to do the design which would be

01:45:39.779 --> 01:45:44.739
about seven or eight percent of the cost of the project which is two and a half million dollars

01:45:44.739 --> 01:45:48.739
That's a pretty standard for engineering fees on a new one overly.

01:45:48.739 --> 01:45:50.739
Yes.

01:45:50.739 --> 01:45:52.739
I think what you're getting at is the dollars.

01:45:52.739 --> 01:45:53.739
Yes.

01:45:53.739 --> 01:45:59.739
Seven to eight percent, as he mentioned, and a two million dollar, that would be $140,000 to $160,000.

01:45:59.739 --> 01:46:02.739
Just to do the paperwork, the nine months.

01:46:02.739 --> 01:46:06.739
Get it designed, get it approved by the federal government.

01:46:06.739 --> 01:46:10.739
Seven and a half percent is $187,500.

01:46:10.739 --> 01:46:13.579
and I'm here to do this.

01:46:13.579 --> 01:46:18.579
It's actually closer to $200,000 down to $160,000 if you go $2.5 million.

01:46:18.579 --> 01:46:20.659
$2 million it says.

01:46:20.659 --> 01:46:21.659
$2 million.

01:46:21.659 --> 01:46:22.699
He just said $2.5.

01:46:22.699 --> 01:46:23.699
Yes.

01:46:23.699 --> 01:46:26.379
So listen to the man.

01:46:26.379 --> 01:46:27.379
Yeah.

01:46:27.379 --> 01:46:32.960
The sheet, the agenda tonight did say $2 million because I hadn't got the cost estimate fully

01:46:32.960 --> 01:46:34.340
ran.

01:46:34.340 --> 01:46:40.420
And you also have to remember when we do cost estimates is a very high level.

01:46:40.420 --> 01:46:43.619
We're not spending hours with our teams digging into this.

01:46:43.619 --> 01:46:45.019
We use some averages.

01:46:45.019 --> 01:46:47.019
So I'm saying around two and a half.

01:46:47.019 --> 01:46:50.460
It might be 2.3, it might be 2.6.

01:46:50.460 --> 01:46:53.619
I can tell we actually dig into the engineering.

01:46:53.619 --> 01:46:56.539
I'm not gonna be able to come up with an exact cost.

01:46:56.539 --> 01:47:00.659
But I think it's rough to say that in my estimation,

01:47:00.659 --> 01:47:03.299
187 to get two and a half million.

01:47:03.299 --> 01:47:05.939
And yes, we would have the construction is a no brainer.

01:47:05.939 --> 01:47:07.659
Anybody that wants to trade me that money,

01:47:07.659 --> 01:47:09.099
I'll do it any day.

01:47:09.099 --> 01:47:20.099
I guess that's what I was going to say, Darren, if we could get four streets done for $200,000, it's well worth it.

01:47:20.099 --> 01:47:27.099
Yeah, I just want to be clear, you know, we are really working hard in the background to try to address the infrastructure.

01:47:27.099 --> 01:47:35.099
I'm trying to be creative with what we come, and again I want citizens to know that, you know, Stevenson Street,

01:47:35.099 --> 01:47:38.799
I would say is one of our heaviest local traffic streets in Freeport.

01:47:38.799 --> 01:47:41.379
We're treating it just the same as we've done every other street.

01:47:41.379 --> 01:47:42.960
It's a mill and overlay project.

01:47:42.960 --> 01:47:46.460
It's not all new curbs, not all new sidewalk.

01:47:46.460 --> 01:47:49.539
I've said this numerous times at the council floor.

01:47:49.539 --> 01:47:54.899
The citizens of Freeport, I know that's what we deserve, but that's not what we can afford.

01:47:54.899 --> 01:47:58.139
Alderman Station.

01:47:58.139 --> 01:48:09.059
So these four streets that you mentioned is in addition to our five-year plan streets?

01:48:09.059 --> 01:48:18.059
Yes. Yes. What we would do is we would stack these on top of next year's program, but we

01:48:18.059 --> 01:48:23.819
got it. I don't want to say we got it. That's not a good statement. I want to say if we

01:48:23.819 --> 01:48:29.659
We really want to do it next year, we have to get a contract signed because the environmental

01:48:29.659 --> 01:48:34.819
requirements from IDOT are a minimum of nine months and if we don't go through that process

01:48:34.819 --> 01:48:40.559
it just will push it another year and that is their new federal process and it's making

01:48:40.559 --> 01:48:46.420
the projects drag out longer and farther and you asked me to start trying to bring stuff

01:48:46.420 --> 01:48:50.939
to the couch so we could discuss it and entertain it so instead of just bringing a contract

01:48:50.939 --> 01:48:52.539
to the next meeting.

01:48:52.539 --> 01:48:54.979
I wanted to have a discussion whether we want to move forward

01:48:54.979 --> 01:48:56.420
this as a group.

01:48:56.420 --> 01:48:58.459
And I think it's a good decision,

01:48:58.459 --> 01:49:01.979
but it's ultimately your decision.

01:49:01.979 --> 01:49:03.619
Do we have a motion to move it forward?

01:49:03.619 --> 01:49:04.739
So moved.

01:49:04.739 --> 01:49:05.219
Second.

01:49:18.219 --> 01:49:19.339
Chair.

01:49:19.339 --> 01:49:19.839
Yes.

01:49:19.840 --> 01:49:25.439
so you'll you'll have an agreement we're moving forward an agreement at the next

01:49:25.439 --> 01:49:30.159
meeting so we can start the process okay thank you so we went more than a voice

01:49:30.159 --> 01:49:36.439
vote on this considering dollars and cents no it's not necessary okay all in

01:49:36.439 --> 01:49:45.599
favor signify by saying aye aye opposed same sign motion passes item number 14

01:49:45.599 --> 01:49:53.599
Public Comment. Yes, Mr. Tate. Please state your name and your address and we'd appreciate it.

01:49:53.599 --> 01:49:57.599
Not address. Name. Name, please. Name. Okay. Sorry.

01:49:57.599 --> 01:50:10.159
I do apologize for bothering you this evening. My name is John Staben, 1070 North Canyon

01:50:10.159 --> 01:50:17.919
Drive. I was once a member of the Freeport Airport Commission, and I was comfortably

01:50:17.919 --> 01:50:23.679
sitting at home when the discussion came up regarding the firefighting foam that may have

01:50:23.679 --> 01:50:25.679
and

01:50:26.679 --> 01:50:28.679
Mr.

01:50:29.679 --> 01:50:45.679
Daryl Jensen brought it to the attention of the commission. At that time, it was publicly known that it was hazardous material. The commission immediately decided to get rid of it. There was a small trailer with, I don't know, six, eight, five

01:50:45.679 --> 01:50:53.159
Kans, and we called up the Freeport Fire Department. I have no idea where it went or what they

01:50:53.159 --> 01:50:57.839
did with it, but the Freeport Fire Department disposed of it, and that was about 12 years

01:50:57.839 --> 01:51:03.399
ago. So before that, to my knowledge and since, I don't know that foam has ever been used

01:51:03.399 --> 01:51:10.599
at the airport, but there was foam there just in case, and it was disposed of about 12 years

01:51:10.599 --> 01:51:11.599
ago. Thank you.

01:51:11.599 --> 01:51:12.599
Thank you.

01:51:12.599 --> 01:51:13.599
Thank you.

01:51:13.599 --> 01:51:14.599
Thank you.

01:51:14.599 --> 01:51:15.599
Anybody else?

01:51:15.599 --> 01:51:16.599
Tommy?

01:51:16.599 --> 01:51:27.399
I want to ask you to do a good job with public library.

01:51:27.399 --> 01:51:28.399
Thank you, Tommy.

01:51:28.399 --> 01:51:32.839
And Travis Davis, you do a good job with the police department.

01:51:32.839 --> 01:51:33.839
Thank you, sir.

01:51:33.839 --> 01:51:52.799
Dickman. What's this about? Holiday Inn is closed. Stay away. Don't make any reservations.

01:51:52.799 --> 01:51:57.759
Don't make any reservations. And we are working on getting rid of or demolishing it.

01:51:57.759 --> 01:51:59.759
and

01:52:02.319 --> 01:52:04.319
No, go ahead

01:52:04.479 --> 01:52:11.039
Thank you Alderman Klemm. I just want to remind everybody if you missed the previous I pass on demand

01:52:11.719 --> 01:52:14.359
Opportunity there's another one coming up February 21st

01:52:15.039 --> 01:52:17.039
830 a.m. To 6 p.m.

01:52:17.359 --> 01:52:18.999
at

01:52:18.999 --> 01:52:21.139
314 West Stevenson Street if you don't know where that is

01:52:21.919 --> 01:52:23.919
It's real close to this spot

01:52:23.919 --> 01:52:29.639
and you know it's it's a really good program otherwise you've got to go I

01:52:29.639 --> 01:52:35.479
think the closest place now is the Belvedere Oasis and that is a pain so if

01:52:35.479 --> 01:52:40.359
you want to replace your eyepass come here to City Hall and they will help you

01:52:40.359 --> 01:52:50.999
on the 21st of February. Any other public comments? I would like it then we'll talk

01:52:50.999 --> 01:53:01.819
Talk about going into Executive Session pursuant to 5ILCS120-C-C-15 for the purchase or lease

01:53:01.819 --> 01:53:07.759
of rental property, real property, for the use of public body, including meetings held

01:53:07.759 --> 01:53:13.799
on for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired.

01:53:13.799 --> 01:53:17.999
We need a motion and a second to move forward.

01:53:17.999 --> 01:53:20.419
I'll move.

01:53:20.419 --> 01:53:20.919
Second.

01:53:27.839 --> 01:53:30.879
Klemm, aye.

01:53:30.879 --> 01:53:33.079
Monroe?

01:53:33.079 --> 01:53:33.579
Aye.

01:53:33.579 --> 01:53:34.359
Are you going to count?

01:53:34.359 --> 01:53:36.039
Aye.

01:53:36.039 --> 01:53:36.959
Doesn't matter to me.

01:53:36.959 --> 01:53:37.919
No, I'll do it.

01:53:37.919 --> 01:53:39.399
Simmons?

01:53:39.399 --> 01:53:40.439
Aye.

01:53:40.439 --> 01:53:41.119
Parker?

01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:42.319
Aye.

01:53:42.319 --> 01:53:43.439
Stacy?

01:53:43.439 --> 01:53:44.279
Aye.

01:53:44.279 --> 01:53:44.959
Shadle?

01:53:44.959 --> 01:53:45.999
Aye.

01:53:45.999 --> 01:53:47.399
Sellers?

01:53:47.399 --> 01:53:47.879
Aye.

01:53:47.879 --> 01:53:54.879
Sanders, and we have Sellers to return to regular session.