Good evening. Evelyn, could you please give the invocation?

Okay. If you want to bow your heads.

Father God, we are meeting again today in these chambers to discuss every important business for the City of Freeport.

The agenda may be small tonight Father, but everything that is going to be discussed is important to us and to you.

Father, you already know what has to happen in order for our city government to run decently and in order.

1 Corinthians 14.40 says, Let all things be done decently and in order. Father, we need resolutions, we need rules and laws to take place according to your will.

Isaiah 22.22 and Revelations 3.7 says, You will open doors that no one can shut, and you will shut doors that no one can open.

Let every council member understand and remember that they are serving every person in this precious city, my hometown. Father God, you're in charge of all governments, but you give man the opportunity to serve well. In Jesus' name, Amen. Thank you Evelyn. Now we'll call this meeting to order. Madam Kirk, please take the roll. Mayor Miller? Here. Alderpersons, Klemm? Here. Johnson? Here.

Simmons, Parker, Stacy, Shadle, Sanders, and Sellers.

And item number three is the Pledge of Allegiance. If you could please stand for that, led by Alderman Sanders.

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

A motion made by Alderman Shadle, seconded by Alderman Sellers. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? That motion passes. Item number five is approval of the minutes from the Committee of the Whole meeting on April 13th, 2026. Is there a motion to approve? So moved.

Second.

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

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

That motion passes.

Item number six is the recognition of the Director of Community and Economic Development, Manager Boyer.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Gertrude Heimerdinger is being recognized for excellent work in supporting a sensitive matter regarding the state of Illinois.

Gertrude, would you mind coming up?

While the details can't be discussed, her attention to detail and quick response helped bring this matter to a timely resolution, so Gertrude's work reflects professionalism, good judgment, and strong commitment to the City of Freeport. We appreciate her diligence and the importance of the role that she played helping keeping this matter taken care of. So tonight I'd like to recognize Community Development Director Gertrude Heimerdinger.

Item number seven is public comment. Darren, can you look and see if anybody signed in?

Thank you. And item number eight is presentation regarding the trash pickup with Honeywell employees and Meal in a Bag event.

Hello. Well, you've seen the pretzel pickers before, but we had a very important collaboration with Honeywell. And I'll let Heather Bush tell you more about that.

On May 2, the Free Fort Honeywell team celebrated Earth Day by continuing our tradition of partnering Together, employees and family members actively work to clean litter along the roads and public areas surrounding Honeywell's main building and other areas in Freeport.

This initiative reflects our land's long-standing commitment to our community in this hands-on way.

We aim to foster a connection to our local ecosystem and promote sustainable practices for a cleaner, greener future.

We had multi generations out working and teaching others the importance of keeping our city clean. In all, 34 bags of trash were collected and employees received a t-shirt designed by one of our own employees. I'm just really grateful that we were able to partner up together. I hope we can do this more and involve families and children to We also want to give a shout out to the City of Freeport for helping us pick up all those bags of trash and disposing of them.

We also found a tire and some terrible carpet and that snake.

That snake was living in the carpet and I picked up that carpet and just got a really good scare.

And then we also, on May 7th, oh there we go, on May 7th we held our third Meal in a and a bag event and what that means is that we assembled shelf stable meals to distribute shelf stables and meals and we put them in a bag and we distribute them to our local food pantries and on May 7th we did our third one and we've given these bags to various pantries and this time we took them to Joseph's Pantry, Amity, Church of the Brethren, Mount Calvary and New Jerusalem pantries.

so we've done about 200 would you say 300 bags here let me see my number here math isn't my thing yeah each bag has everything you need to make a complete meal we put everything in a clear plastic bag and we put the recipe inside to explain how to prepare this meal so that the pantries can just hand them out we We also distributed birthday cake in a bag, so we put in a cake mix, and did you know you can make a birthday cake with a cake mix and a can of soda?

We didn't know this, but it is true.

We also add frosting, birthday candles, a birthday card, and we put everything in, also a disposable baking pan with parchment paper so it doesn't stick, and we put it in a gift We've also distributed cereal with shelf-stable milk, macaroni and cheese cups, and ramen noodles, and we've sent these to other food pantries and the District 145 schools. We want to prevent hunger in our community.

Since the reduction in federal support for SNAP benefits, hunger is a continuing problem in all of our communities, and the pretzel pickers with the help from Mad Men, we do have a representative from Mad Men here, and the YMCA who allows us the space to make this happen because it's quite a process. We've made it a priority to address this because we don't believe anyone in Freeport should go hungry.

So there's some more pictures of us in action. Anyway, thank you for your support and allowing us to let you know about this program.

Thank you, pretzel pickers. Item number nine is the presentation regarding revising purchasing policy. Director Richter.

Thank you. Good evening. I'd like to start maybe with just a little bit of history and what I'm hoping to accomplish over the next six weeks or so with the purchasing policy.

As far as history, our last City of Freeport purchasing policy was written in 2007. It definitely needed an update. It needed a total redo.

So our plan is to develop, it's in process now, a whole new purchasing policy that incorporates, I've looked at other communities' policies, I've spoke to Attorney Zito, and we're gathering all of the necessary components to go into the policy.

How I'd like to move forward with it is I'd like to present to you the topics of the policy, each individual chapters and the subtopics in each chapter.

in each chapter, just to kind of get your feel for it.

I'd like to take your input and make sure those things are addressed in the policy.

My plan then is to bring, for first reading, we're going to be doing this as an ordinance, so it'll require two readings.

I'd like to bring it to first reading in June, the first meeting in June, which would be the sixth, the first, then it's the first for first reading.

Then if we'd like to, there'll be a cow.

If we feel that there's more discussion needed, we'll have another cow in June.

And then second reading then in June.

So we have plenty of time to discuss it, take a look at the document because the document's over 20 pages long.

So I, with no further ado, I'll just kind of get into it.

And I can take questions as they come.

The policy itself, Chapter 1 will just have an introduction and statement of policy.

It's basically a summary of the policy that will say that it's a fluid document that will address amendments from time to time.

It explains that the city has a decentralized, um, purchasing process.

So the city of Freeport does not have a purchasing department.

There isn't a one person who's the purchasing manager that, that, um, purchasing agent kind of falls to me as far as an agent, but each department, Purchases their own supplies and goods and services.

The city, it also addressed that the city will make every effort to purchase local as long as the item is the same quality.

You're talking about the exact same item.

If we had two reams of paper, they're exactly the same.

and the price here from a local place in Freeport is less than someone in another community.

We will take the Freeport one, definitely, but it has to be the same item.

The goal of the policy is to assist our staff with procuring quality goods and services at the lowest possible price in an impartial, consistent manner with the highest standards of public service.

Moving into Chapter 2, which will include the Purchasing Code of Ethics, so there will be a section on ethics.

and included in that section there will be statements such as we will have a the highest level of integrity when we're purchasing items that we will consider cooperative purchasing with other local governments or with the state of Illinois Will not directly or indirectly accept gifts or favors from current or potential suppliers.

It will be, we will purchase without favor or prejudice and without the appearance of favor to any one company or agency.

So that's some language we're using under the purchasing code of ethics.

Police, there'll also be a conflict of interest portion, and so we don't have a conflict of someone, an employee working for a company that you want to buy the same supplies from.

We do not want that. Highest integrity is what we need here. Gifts and gratuities, there'll also be a section on gifts and gratuities.

City personnel should be aware that offers of gratitude from vendors could be designed to compromise objective judgment in product or service selection.

So, just try and keep in the back of your mind that this is a, like I said in the beginning, this is a guideline for each of the departments.

Since it's not just one person or two people buying all the supplies for the city, all these things need to be laid out for every department because they apply to every department making purchases.

One of the important, we have two larger important sections of the policy that I would like some conversation on, if possible, if Council feels.

The first one I'm going to get to is approval of city purchases.

This has to do with the spending level of a department head versus a finance director versus a city manager.

As it stands, I did in my memo, and I'm sorry it's the second graph on the memo, that's why I kind of handed those out as well, purchase authority and dollar limit.

and I'm comparing where it was in 2007 versus what is proposed for this year 2026.

Purchases 5,000 or let me start at the beginning under 500 in the old policy that was the department director between $501 to $5,000. Purchasing agent or City City Council Committee, we have been using the department head currently and then at 10,000, you could see that at the 10,000, 5,000 to 10,000 level, it was City Manager and then above 10,000, it's City Council.

We need City Council approval for a purchase of over 10,000.

If you look at the 2026 column, you'll see that the department director would be eligible to purchase under $5,000. The Department Director and Finance Director have to agree and that limit then would go up to $10,000. And then up to basically $25,000, $24,999.99 would be Department Director, Finance Director, and City Manager. That means all three of of those positions sign off on the purchase order for an item for $24,000.

Anything above 25,000 needs approval by city council.

So that is the approval of city purchases, that section.

I do want to say that those authority levels are only items in an approved city budget.

So for example at the $10,000 level where the Department Director and Finance Director are that $10,000 needs to be in the budget if we're buying something for $10,000 it has has to be in a board approved budget.

Is there any questions on that before I move forward?

I just want to say I like it because the way of the prices of things that have went up since this time to now, so I think it's something that is needed to do.

Thank you.

Alderman Simmons I'm going to just go ahead right now and say that $25,000 without City Council approval is not a number and I'm glad that you're open to be flexible that I would agree with because that's why we have Council to oversee purchases of this size now I do think it needs to increase from the $10,000 but up to $25,000 Director Richter, where did the amount $25,000 come from?

That state statute.

So it raised, I can't tell you when, sometime between 2007 and now, but that is the state of Illinois level for for competitive bidding right so anything over 25,000 has to be competitively bid only climb I just wanted to use an example was last month I believe it was we approved with a roof repair at the airport for $10,600 or something to that extent, you know, right in there.

To me, that should have been able to be handled in-house without going all the way to council and waiting for payment.

and all the way to council and waiting for payment and all that kind of stuff.

I agree with the mumps like Joy said and also you brought up the fact that 25 may be too much but it needs to change from what it was and it looks like the people that you have involved in it to get all of them to agree to it, it's going to be pretty straightforward.

I just wanted to point out a key point that Michelle said not to gloss over but these budget ratios are for items that are not in the budget so council will have already approved these types of purchases within the budget up to $25,000 and of course that's why it takes the sign-offs because when a department director asks for that type of assessment Spend, Michelle has to sign off on it because it will, she'll be reviewing the budget to make sure it's within the budget before it goes to the City Manager for that type of approval.

So if it is never within the budget, it would have to come back to council anyway.

Anderson. Darren, while you're speaking, I I've been in bid openings for nine years pre-COVID and post-COVID. Could you just pick out two things, concrete, I know concretes through the roof, some of the nuts and bolts that were at well number 12, I don't know, pick out a couple things just just in nine years or if you want to go back to 2007, how costs have gone up? Sure, something I could give you an idea and I think the idea of concrete alone I think went from $100 to about $175 since COVID just in cost of materials. Bolts are somewhere from $3 to $9. I mean, almost all of the water and sewer materials have darn near tripled in price from what it used to be curb stop that is at every house in Freeport used to be around $20 now it's about $90 for just that one part so the cost of Seeing is that a lot of things that are already within the purchasing grasp of each department, and I'll pick water and sewer, especially because their parts and pieces are, you know, we don't know day to day what we need to buy for that we buy based on what's broken, what needs to be fixed, those parts that almost every order that we have now because of the current purchasing policy has to come back through council, which is it's, it's fine that it does that it's just seemingly that we're bringing business back if we if it's needed if it's over if it's like $25,000 and we approve that I mean

it says the City Council has to be on an itemized list of what that money is spent for yeah it'd be the same process that we do now we bring it bring it right back to with with whatever that purchase order is or whatever we're Director, Richter, you can go ahead.

So along with that, on the other side of your memo, going back to the front side of your memo, the graph at the bottom of the page addresses how departments are to solicit prices.

At what dollar amounts are you supposed to get?

One verbal quote, at what dollar amount are you supposed to get three verbal quotes?

At what dollar amount are you supposed to get written quotes from vendors?

And then when you're supposed to go out to bid, 25,000 is when you're required to go out for a bid.

So that is also an important component of the policy, because you can see how with the Ashton Nees to have a list to itemize whatever it is that we're going to get, whether it's 500 or less or over. We need to know what is it, what is the purpose and who is, what department is it for. We might be speaking the same language. I'm just trying to get a much more detailed understanding how this is going to come about and what departments are eligible to make these requests.

So all of the departments will be utilizing this process to buy say, for example, like their office supplies.

But if they're buying, I'm not gonna exaggerate, a desk for, I don't know, $1,000, they need to get three quotes.

they need to look three places and something else that we're instituting with this policy is that that needs to be documented and recorded that those that you have the written quotes or if you did it verbally you're going to need to write it down somewhere.

So we're going to have a form so that can be documented as well.

This all goes towards, you know, being fiscally responsible.

And we have a software program that we can, for those departments that choose, some departments are going to want to keep all that information because maybe next year they're going out for a desk and they want to know who they bought it from.

You know, that'll be good information for the departments to keep.

It'll also be good information to put into our software system along with the final invoice and saying that we did our job and we checked for the lowest price, does that help?

Yes, somewhat. Who's going to manage all of this movement in the departments to make sure everybody is coordinated and everybody is on point with what is required of them?

While the department heads will all be responsible for signing off that they receive the new policy once it's done, they have to sign off that they've received it and they'll be responsible to push this information down to the appropriate personnel in their department so that they follow all the guidelines as well.

So this is kind of a kind of a road map for them a way to get their purchases made so they can follow a procedure on how to get it done.

Okay, okay. Thank you for that.

Just a comment, there's very few people within departments that have the ability to make these purchases.

It's very limited right now and still will be limited within the departments.

So purchases over $25,000 will go to Council as an individual item, but just like we do now, anything under that will still be on the Consent Agenda every time, correct? You can still find the list of purchases at the lower amounts.

I'll move on. The next section is buying local. I kind of referred to that already on the previous slide. But all items being equal. The item is exactly the same. We definitely will purchase from the vendor in Freeport at the lower price. But we need to be fiscally responsible.

We need to make sure everything is on a similar playing field. We need the same item.

Waiver of competitive bidding. We bring to council when we have sole source procurements.

So that's when we're waiving competitive bidding so we can buy it from the sole source and we have that come up quite often where there's only one person we can get that particular piece of equipment or item and we do bring those to council.

The policy would say if it's a sole source item under $25,000 as it's written now, the City Manager would allow a sole source procurement under $25,000.

Under 25,000. However, over 25,000 would have to come to council. That dollar value still holds. Council still has to approve it, even if it is a sole source procurement.

We call it waiving the competitive bid process because you don't have to go out for bids if there's only one place that makes that.

We have an emergency purchases policy within the document.

We've brought those to council before.

who would be at the $25,000 threshold.

Sole source purchasing, there's some items outlined in the policy.

Sole source also applies to utility services, things that you don't have a choice, the cost of a stamp.

You don't have a choice of what those types of things are.

There's also items in here where there's Compatibility Issues, that would also be considered a sole source purchase.

Alderman Stacy?

Yes.

You said if there was only one person selling a product, like, in what situation would there be one person?

I might refer to Darren a little bit.

actually Aaron Zeta was gonna oh I'm sorry that's one example The next section I have competitive bidding exemption and solicitation of competitive quotes.

There is a section in here, so what if you buy, I'm going to use Curt as an example, he buys, you know, his quota in his budget of laptops for the year in January and he finds out in December he still has budget so he's going to buy a few more, but that That puts him over the 25, it's 25,000.

So you buy some at the beginning of the year and you buy some at the end of the year.

You didn't know you'd need more.

There is a statement in here that the city manager can determine whether it is a issue to do that.

However, there is also a statement in here that you cannot purposely buy things in two separate purchases to go over $25,000 to avoid bringing it to council or bringing it up through the through the purchasing process.

That is a violation that is it says strictly that is a violation of the policy.

You cannot buy two different orders for the same thing two different times to keep the price below $25,000.

Joint Purchasing. We've talked about this one before. We've talked about, I'm going to say source well. We talk about source well a lot. That's the place that they already go out and determine the lowest price for certain equipment.

and others, that SourceWell and the state of Illinois has, I believe, their own purchasing program that also goes out and determines the lowest cost of an item.

So those are also reasons why you'd waive the competitive bidding process.

Someone else has already done it for us.

So we're able to use SourceWell and we use, like I said, we use those places a lot for for some of our equipment purchases.

There's a section specifically, adherence to budget.

So you cannot purchase items unless they're in an approved budget.

If it is not in the budget, you need to come to council and ask for a budget amendment to make sure that there's funds in the budget to make that purchase.

There are exclusions.

There's a section on exclusions to competitive purchasing process.

And like I said, those, I kind of referred to it a little earlier.

Those are the things that we do not have, uh, you can't go out and ask for, um, competitive prices on dues and memberships, advertising in a newspaper, um, subscriptions Other Periodicals, Postage, Property, Utility Services or Copyrighted Materials, Electrical Services, that type of thing.

So there's a little section in on that.

Chapter 3 has some miscellaneous purchasing policies and guidelines.

Section, and we're still working on this one, I think, disposal of city property.

And it's kind of odd to think, why is it in your purchasing policy?

It kind of seems like it's not a place where you'd think this would be.

But the instance I'd like to bring up is turning in a used vehicle or swapping out police vehicles.

If you are doing a trade-in for a vehicle worth $10,000 and your new one is now only going to cost 15 because you're doing a trade-in, you still have to bring it to counsel for the full value of the item that you're trying to purchase.

So that's kind of why this is in here.

I think we're also checking with Attorney Zito on, you know, is there a nominal value of items that we can dispose of without coming to council. So like $200 or $500. I don't know if that's something we can do or not. We're still investigating that. And the only things I'm thinking of is an office chair. You know, we've had a broken office chair sitting around, you know, in our office because we haven't, you know, finance doesn't have a lot of stuff to surplus. So is there a nominal value that council would be comfortable with to get rid of items with very smaller values.

We have a section on purchases near the end of the fiscal year.

This is really for the department directors.

Department directors shall be responsible for ensuring that they are expensing against and others, the fiscal year in which the goods or services are received.

So this is kind of up to the department heads or their designee or office staff that helps us with accounts payable.

If you buy something, you receive it in December, you receive it December 31st, that bill goes to December 31st.

You can't take that bill and push it into next year, I'm afraid.

So that's just put into the purchasing policy.

A section on use of the city's sales tax exemption number, very important for all the departments to use our tax exempt number as we don't pay Illinois sales tax.

So that is in here.

There's a section on department director acknowledgement. Like I mentioned before, all the department directors will need to sign off that they received the policy.

We've added a change order policy.

We have a couple tweaks going to it, but change orders, these are more for our bigger, maybe construction projects, or it could even be for a vehicle purchase.

I'm thinking of maybe an engine.

There could be a change order to the end of the production of something like an engine that we needed to add on some equipment or something like that.

And this is outlining a dollar amounts that those need to come back to council.

So if council has already approved one hundred thousand dollars to purchase an ambulance, which isn't right, it's about two fifty, right, four fifty.

So if there is we have we're working on percentages and dollar amounts to, if it goes over a certain percentage of what council was told, it has to come back to council again to approve that change order.

So that is also a significant section of the policy.

There is also in here, City Council shall be notified of a change order if there's an We need to know if there's an increase or decrease in either the cost of a contract by a total of 25,000 or more, or if the time of completion extends more than 180 days.

So if a project is taken a little bit longer, we need to let you know that it's going to take more than 180 days.

Also in here is our purchasing card policy.

The city does already use credit cards. A lot of cities call them purchasing cards.

Purchasing Cards, kinda interchangeable, purchasing cards, credit cards.

Some cities use them to a higher extent than we use them.

We generally use our credit cards only for like a travel related thing, a hotel thing, you know, hotel and meals while you're gone, or maybe an emergency purchase that's a lower threshold on the credit cards.

The City Manager approves all credit cards that are issued.

Right now, it's, this is just FYI, not in the policy, but Department Directors have them and a few designated staff that have to deal with purchasing items.

And there are strict rules when we get those statements in that all, everything has to have a receipt unless we have an affidavit of waiver of why that receipt is missing and an explanation on that.

Something a little bit new in the policy is issuance of purchase orders.

So right now, Public Works generally issues the most purchase orders.

They have it as a tracking mechanism for their department and it works well.

What I'm proposing is anything over $5,000 will have a purchase order.

Since we looked at those purchasing levels a little bit ago, if there's a purchase order for anything between $5,000 and $10,000, it's going to need the department director and me.

Anything over that is going to need department director, me, and Rob for all departments.

Because we don't have a purchasing department, purchase orders were not used very heavily, but I'd like them to be started for anything $5,000 and above.

We have a section on new vendors. It just says new vendors to the City of Freeport are required to provide a W-9 form.

that just tells me the business status and whether I have to send them IRS documents at the end of the year and helps us get them set up in our computer system. Chapter 4 is all about bidding, competitive bidding, and this is a guideline for the departments on bidding. Not every department does a lot of and here for the draft the copy when we vote on it in June.

I think we're in the homestretch.

It also designates bid opening requirements.

Who has to be there when a bid is opened?

When does a bid, what's the timing of that?

What has to be documented when bids are opened?

What happens if we get a bid and it's not sealed?

What happens if we get a bid and it's after the deadline?

That's going to be all outlined in the policy and procedure.

Council would receive a draft of those documents.

Yes. You'll have the whole thing of what the policy will hold.

I thought maybe you wouldn't want me to read through it all.

Let's see. There is a section on, I'm going to kind of skip through the end, through the bid process. It ends here with rebidding. You know, sometimes there are cases where you have to rebid, you didn't get any bids, nobody submitted, and you have to rebid. So there's a section on that.

There is a section on requests for professional services, and we've kind of talked about this one quite a bit.

Professional services by their nature are not adapted to award by competitive bidding.

And so there's a whole, there's a paragraph on that explaining about professional services.

And then I think the last couple sections are about contracts and that they need to be reviewed by legal counsel.

And then we have a section at the end, Chapter 5 is just a glossary of terms.

So what do we mean by alternate bid, an award, a bid, a bid bond, a bid bond check, who is a bidder, bid documents.

Smiths. So some of these aren't normal terms to everyone, and so we just included a glossary at the end. And then I don't have them done yet, but I want to also develop the standard purchase order format. So the format we're using for purchase orders look exactly the I'll also attach a copy of our tax-exempt form and a document for the departments to use to record their verbal quotes or their written quotes, record those when they have to get those verbal quotes, they can write down the words that they want to use to record those.

Record those when they're they have to get those verbal quotes they can write down what vendors they contacted and how much sign and date and it'll be documented and that's really all the components of it but like I said I wanted to present it so you have plenty of time to start thinking about the document and like I said that we'll get the document out as soon as the drafts done so then it can be on the agenda hopefully for the first meeting in June.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Very good.

Aaron.

Yeah, I just wanted to make a note on chapter four which was the competitive bidding.

So I know Larry asked a question during that section.

By and large, we follow that format and the notes that we're adding are actually in addition to the draft of things that we do every day.

So our bid process between who's at the bids, who opens the bids, how we record the bids, all that is superior to even most communities that do it.

So we just basically enhance that section to mirror what we're already doing.

Thank you. Move on to item number 10, which is public comment.

Tommy. Jodi, my birthday is coming up June.

June 2nd is your birthday. You're going to be 63.

Yeah. And Darin, how's that, that, that Queen move?

It's going down brick by brick.

so they got it it's a down that can ground it's right down to the face in the face I have the face of the building left any other public comments this evening you could please state your name my name is Christopher Parker I live at 937 East Clinton Street which is at the corner of Clinton Street and Clinton's Place. Directly across from the former Frontier Building. Well, the reason I'm addressing this council is I really feel like something needs to be done. On Friday at four o'clock in the afternoon, a semi truck rolled down through the street and ripped my electrical supply line off the wall of my house. And I am still currently without power due to that. And in the last two years since I I have lived at said address, this is the fourth time.

I had to do it when I first bought the house and I have had to do it two other times and then now, and I'm also getting, not that it's the council's fault, but I'm also getting the run around from said trucking company about whether or not they're gonna pay for the damages.

The other three times I've had to do this out of my own pocket, I'm getting tired of it.

Something needs to happen.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

and I don't know why a semi truck is sitting at that intersection trying to get to modern plating off a Hancock.

I don't understand why he wouldn't just come off a state highway 75 and turn on Hancock and be done with it.

I'm a truck driver myself.

I park at my house and I've never torn anybody's power line down.

I don't understand why it's so hard.

I guess I'm speaking frankly and I'm trying I'm speaking frankly and I'm trying very, very hard not to cuss because I do cuss like a sailor.

Truck drivers typically do. I'm trying to be very professional here. I don't know if I've succeeded or not, but this is unacceptable. Something needs to happen. A sign that says no trucks passed, like the the business revamp is down the street from my house. The trucks could turn around in there because I'm like the right there by revamp and the old original Adam Street snack king that's just down the street from my house i don't understand because where he's at where he what he was trying to do was turn from clinton place on the clinton street go down the alley to Shawnee and then turn under that railroad overpass uh at Shawnee and Hancock that's been under construction for a while that underpass i don't know if it's if it's been being changed due to the construction but it was 11 foot six a semi truck with a van trailer is not going to go under that anyway Standard Trailer is 13 foot 6 inches tall.

So what in the world was he trying to do in the first place?

And this is, like I said, the fourth time this has happened in two years.

I'm getting tired of spending money that I shouldn't have to spend to do the same thing I've already done three times.

Thank you. Any other public comments this evening?

Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion for adjournment.

So move.

Motion made by Alderman Sellers, seconded by Shadle, Alderman Shadle.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.