Meeting Events

Meeting: uwomcohmg6s.public_hearing_appropriation_ordinance_12_1_2025

Meeting date: 2025-12-01

Meeting type: city_council

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Procedural Actions

• Public Hearing Opening

  • Summary: The public hearing was officially opened for the proposed 2026 appropriation ordinance.
  • Evidence: “Um, we’ll officially open the public hearing on the proposed 2026 appropriation ordinance for the city of Freeport.”
  • Source timestamp: 00:00

• Adjournment Request

  • Summary: A request was made for the meeting to be adjourned until council has official meetings about governing and legislation.
  • Evidence: “This meeting should be adjourned. It should never come up again unless council has official meetings about governing and legislation.”
  • Source timestamp: 05:10

• Warning on Speaking Order

  • Summary: The chair warned Alderman Sanders that his comments were outside the scope of public comment concerning the appropriation ordinance.
  • Evidence: “And that right there, what you just said, other public comments concerning the appropriation ordinance for 2026. You don’t have the official duty to do that.”
  • Source timestamp: 05:38

• Closing Public Hearing

  • Summary: The hearing was closed because no further public comments were received.
  • Evidence: “Seeing none, since there’s no public here and no public comment, we will close this hearing at 536.”
  • Source timestamp: 05:58

Presentations and Reports

• Notice of Public Hearing Details

  • Summary: The notice stated that a public hearing was held on December 1st, 2025, at 5:30 PM at Freeport City Hall regarding the Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriation Ordinance.
  • Evidence: “Notice is hereby given that on December 1st, 2025, at 5:30 PM, a public hearing will be held at Freeport City Hall 314 West Stephenson Street, Freeport, Illinois, for the purpose of considering the Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriation Ordinance for the City of Freeport, Illinois.”
  • Source timestamp: 00:30

• Public Comment Availability

  • Summary: Interested parties have the right to present oral and written comments on the proposed appropriation ordinance.
  • Evidence: “All interested parties may appear at said public hearing and shall have the right to present oral and written comments on the proposed appropriation ordinance as permitted and required by law.”
  • Source timestamp: 00:46

• Ordinance Availability

  • Summary: The proposed appropriation ordinance is available for public inspection during regular business hours at the Office of the City Clerk.
  • Evidence: “Notice is further given that the proposed appropriation ordinance is on file and available for public inspection during regular business hours at the Office of the City Clerk, Freeport City Hall 314 West Stephenson Street, Freeport, Illinois.”
  • Source timestamp: 00:56

Discussion

• Public Comment Status Check

  • Summary: The clerk confirmed that no written correspondence or public comment was received.
  • Evidence: “Madam Clerk, did you get any written correspondence? I did not. And is there any public comment at this time? Seeing that we have no public.”
  • Source timestamp: 01:12

• Alderman Sanders’ Address on Governing Process

  • Summary: Alderman Sanders addressed the council regarding the need to revise their thinking process of governing, stating they are not practicing what they preach and that the meeting was out of order.
  • Evidence: “I just want you guys to know that because we’re not practicing it, it is something that needs to be refined and put into order, we are totally out of We’re out of order.”
  • Source timestamp: 02:48

• Mayor’s Role in Council Business

  • Summary: A point was raised stating that the mayor does not conduct council business.
  • Evidence: “The matter is the mayor does not conduct council business. Let me make that straight to you.”
  • Source timestamp: 02:48

• Concerns Regarding Integrity of Governance

  • Summary: Speakers expressed concern about the lack of integrity in how the city was conducting itself regarding governance and legislation.
  • Evidence: “We are not going to continue to be pretending in the year 2026 that we’re doing ethical things the right way in the city of Freeport pertaining to the citizens of the taxpayers of this city, the way we are conducting ourselves as supposed to be governing bodies, We are just going along with it, being manipulated, being transformed into something that we should not be, and the people of this community can see the lack of integrity that we carry before of the Council.”
  • Source timestamp: 02:48