City Council Meeting/Strategic Session - Regular Meeting

Roll call.

Furman.

Yeah, I'm here.

Green. Here. Seton. Here. Houseman. Here. Stamen.

Here.

Heavenly Father, once again tonight we thank you for all of your many blessings. God, you are so faithful and merciful. Thank you for this wonderful city and our leadership. We are so blessed. Many of us have more than enough food to eat. Some of us drive more than one car. And we live in houses that the rest of the world can only dream about. Your Bible tells us that whom too much is given, much is required. So help us to respond to all these blessings by being kind to our neighbors. helpful and supportive to those in need and always willing to lift a burden when we can. Bless our city workers, our emergency teams, law enforcement and all city staff. Bless our mayor and city council with wisdom and discernment and discretion to lead this city into even more prosperous days. Bless our homes and city streets with peace, safety, joy, love and laughter. May our businesses prosper. May our families flourish. And may our children build happy memories of growing up in this city. Thank you, God, for hearing our prayers as we live our lives to help your kingdom come and your will to be done in this earth and in this city just as it is in heaven. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

First item.

The first item tonight is the Recognition Collinsville Character Counts Award, Mia Brown.

Okay, tonight we have a very special award to give to a very special young lady. So let me lay a little background of how we got to this point tonight. At Webster School on April 27th, Community Unit 10 had a When I Grow Up job fair for fourth grade students. They brought every fourth grade in Collinsville through that program. And the city staff departments have participated in like three or four years, I believe, Derek? Correct. So here's some pictures of what we do. It's a great program, and it's always exciting to hear some of the comments, hear some of the questions. So one of our staff members saw a Facebook post by Mia Brown's mother, and I'll read the post if I can get through it. Mia had a job fair yesterday at school, and I asked her what her favorite career was. Well, I didn't get to look at all of them because the mayor, he was the older guy. And nobody was talking to him. And it almost made me cry. So I talked to him for a long time, even though I don't ever want to be mayor. So after hearing that, reading that and hearing that, I thought we had to do something to recognize her. And I talked to the city manager, and we really didn't have an award that fit what that was. So, Mia, you're the first one to get the Character Counts Award. And this is something we'll continue to do. So any council member that feels like they have run into a situation like this and want to recognize somebody, this is something we're going to start tonight. But she asked her questions and then just kind of hung around the table. And her mom's post and her comments really stuck with me. How could a fourth grade student have that much awareness and compassion for a lonely old guy? I knew we had to honor her. The recognition for this award also goes to the family that has raised her. and has taught her the thoughtfulness and compassion at home and her parents and extended family should be very proud of the girl they have raised. I also need to recognize unit 10, council district unit 10 for having programs like this and inviting the city to participate. It shows a great relationship between the city and the school district in helping build a vibrant community. Thank you, Brad Skirdish, for that. And I also want to thank her fourth grade teacher, Carrie Jordan, who's also here tonight. So with that said, Mia and your family, will you come up? Her family is here, of course, with her. And that's her mom, Bailey, her dad, John, and brother, Jackson. So we're going to get some pictures over here. So you want to come over here to the center, and you guys can get behind us. Oh, yeah, we'll get your picture first, and you get one just there. So you want to put your hands on the other side of that.

Okay.

Okay. You're fine.

Next item. Presentation of the May 2026 yard of the month award. Okay, Mr. Kim, come up to the front.

14, yeah. Mr. Kim, we have some pictures here of the yard, and I see you're doing a lot to help keep cows from moving.

Keep up the good work, and we'll be entered in. You'll also be eligible for a guard of the year. We have a business certificate for you. We don't have it tonight, but we'll give it to you from Creekside Nursery. And you can spend more money than buying a bottle. So here's your plaque. And thank you for keeping comfortable.

Would you like a photo? I know you were taking pictures earlier. Jeff, would you mic them?

Yeah. Yeah. Come over here so people can hear you.

Thank you, Collinsville. I'm so proud to be in Collinsville since 1972. And this year, beginning of the year, I had a surgery on my gallbladder. Something went wrong, so I was in the hospital first four months. It was in Collinsville. I'm probably not here at this moment. And I was in Barnes. They even sent me home with a feeding tube. They probably didn't realize I'm going to make it. But I was here beginning of April, middle of April. That feeding tube went something wrong. I was having some kind of allergic action. So I called the Collinsville ambulance. I didn't know we had that equipment so updated like that. I was so proud of it. And those two gentlemen really helped me. And when I went to the hospital, and i fought for not to have a feeding tube so they took the feeding tool ball two three days later i discharged i made it here at this moment so i'm really proud of collinsville city of oak okay thank you thank you everybody thank you

Next item.

Next is the recognition of arborist certification for Michael Dowell.

Can we come up and talk about Michael Dowell? Okay.

Mayor Stamen and members of the council, we just wanted to honor one of our staff members in the Parks Department that has taken steps to get his certification as an arborist. So we now have an arborist on staff, which is pretty wonderful. We're very proud of Michael and the drive and the ambition that he took personally to achieve this goal. So we just wanted to honor him tonight.

Thank you. Thank you. Next item.

Next is business prior to public input. Item one is an ordinance revoking special use permit 24-01, previously granted to Studio 420 at 106 West Main Street.

Presentation will be given by Senior Planner Caitlin Rice.

Thank you, Mayor Seaman and members of the council. This first ordinance before you this evening is an ordinance to revoke the special use permit granted to Studio 420 at 106 West Main. A little background about the property. Studio 420 and the owners at Gingher was awarded the special use permit in 2024 for retail sale of tobacco products, smoking accessories, and electronic cigarettes or vapes. e-cigarettes. This operated until 2024 from April 2026 when it was closed due to the state and the investigation on the property. The community development director is requesting revocation as it does deem that this is eligible under our municipal code related to violations of state law related to drug possession of nitrous oxide with the intent to deliver. So the special use permit section of our municipal code does have a replication procedure, and there are some criteria that have to be deemed to be met in order to revoke the special use permit. The two that the community development director finds appropriate in this case is violation of any state or federal law or regulation by the permit holder, agents of the permit holder, or tenants, provided that such violation is related to what the special use permit was granted for. And the second is if the revocation is necessary to preserve public health, safety, and general welfare. The procedure for revocation is a first public hearing under the Planning Commission, which was conducted on May 14th. The Planning Commission did recommend revocation to the City Council, and the final step is majority vote upon the City Council. So a timeline of events to help give some more context. This started back in August 18th, 2025. MEGSI, or the Metropolitan Enforcement Group of Southwest Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, entered 106 West Main and was able to purchase nitrous oxide and with the purpose of getting high. And then they conducted a search, seizing paraphernalia and additional stock of nitrous oxide. Two days later, they came back with a search warrant and obtained more evidence and possession of nitrous oxide with the intent to deliver. As a result of this investigation, Mr. Yeager was charged with violations under state statute of unlawful possession of nitrous oxide with the intent to deliver. fast forward february 2026 yinger and the state of illinois did enter a deferred prosecution agreement this agreement stays the proceeding of charges for 24 months allowing mr junior to comply with terms of that agreement this part of this term was the closure of studio 420 at 106 west main street which closed in april of this year Should Mr. Gingrich comply with all those terms, the charges may be reduced or amended to reckless conduct. However, staff does find that he still violated the state statute and we feel that we still have the legal right to revoke the special use permit under our special use permit conditions. So here are some photos of just some of the evidence that was seized during this investigation from August 18th and August 20th of last year. So again, lots of nitrous oxide in proof of the intent to deliver with the intent of getting high. So staff's recommendation that with this evidence in the MEG-SAI reports that the special use permit is eligible for revocation and is recommending approval of the ordinance to revoke the special use permit based on those two conditions previously established. And staff in the Planning Commission does recommend revocation of the special use permit, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions or comments for Caitlin?

And he could open up something else there, right? Like this doesn't prohibit him from, I don't know, any other type of function?

So revoking the special use permit would not allow another smoke shop to be at this location. And the reason why staff is pursuing a revocation is because special use permits can be transferred from owner to owner. So, you know, trying to avoid that operating again at this site is the reason for pursuing revocation. A new business that's not a smoke shop, if it's permitted in UCD, Uptown Collinsville District could open in this location.

Yeah, Caitlin, I think that's what the question was from David, is can he do a different type of use in there? Oh, yes. And the answer is anything under the UCD he'd be able to.

Okay, where are we with the sign?

So signs are when the business is closed and is inactive for over 30 days, it is clarified as abandoned. And per our code, after that 30 days of being classified as abandoned, they are put on notice for removal of the sign within 30 days, so 60 days total.

So we're in that, they've been notified because we're past the 30 days since it's closed, correct?

Correct, yeah, so they'll have 30 days to remove it from, I don't know the exact date of April it was removed, but the community development director has it marked down.

So in addition, the ordinance that we passed after the two smoke shops on Main Street will prohibit another smoke shop opening anyway, because they were grandfathered in, but it's one for every 5,000 residents, so we can have four or five as a max, and we're still at six or seven at least, right? Correct, yeah.

Is he putting up any fight with this or does he just.

So the community development director did, um, speak to Mr. Senior directly, uh, because there is an option for the permit holder to relinquish the special needs permit. Uh, he did not want to go that route. So we did publish public notice on the building. He's notified and he did not attend the public hearing. Um, no one from the public attended the meeting for that hearing.

Any other questions or comments? Being none, I have a motion to approve the recommendation.

Motion to approve.

I'll second it.

Motion by Furman, second by Green. Roll call.

Furman. Yes. Green. Yes. Seton. Yes.

Houseman. Yes.

Stamen.

Yes.

Item number two, ordinance repealing and replacing ordinance number 2619 to allow for rezoning of property on East Johnson Street from B2 Limited Commercial to PUCD, Planned Uptown Collinsville District.

Presentation will be by Caitlin Rice again.

Thank you, Mayor Sim and the members of the council. This item is in regards to, let's see, I think we got these out of order. So this is for East Johnson Street property. This was previously a city-owned parcel that was recently transferred to Starnes Properties LLC, or Masters Auto, as they own the adjacent property to the north of their business. This property and parcel itself is about 0.14 acres, and it's historically vacant. There's been no development that we are aware of on this lot. It's a very small kind of triangular lot that is very difficult to develop on its own. Hence the transfer to the adjacent property owner with the help with the hope that they will consolidate and be more marketable for development in our uptown in the future. The request specifically this evening is to amend the existing a planned district ordinance ordinance number 26 dash 19 adopted early this year prior to the transfer of this parcel to uh starms properties to incorporate this new parcel into their zoning district so it's the same zoning district and will be incorporated into the other parcel and make it more marketable so we'll be repealing and replacing with adding this new parcel in Here is an aerial of the subject property and in relation to a snapshot of the subdivision plat, first arms properties. This is the subdivision of their lot with their building and preparing for their future parking lot expansion to the north. And then lot B, which this parcel would be consolidated into. will remain undeveloped. It is not permitted to be in automotive use as the planned district is currently situated, but it will be marketable for any appropriate use in the Uptown Collinsville District as permitted. Here's some photos of the property. It mostly has some trees on there. It does have a grade as it goes down and is primarily accessed off the alley. So by being able to incorporate this parcel into the adjacent will allow potentially alley access for any future user at the site. The property is zone B2 and located within our uptown Collinsville planning area and in our central business district of our future land use map. You can see Master Auto is in the striped blue planned UCD designation. This property would be incorporated if this ordinance was passed, leaving almost the block and the same zoning district except for one residential property to the south that is privately owned. Staff finds that the proposed request does meet the zoning analysis criteria and furthers our comprehensive plan and meets the regulations of the city. And staff in the Planning Commission is recommending approval and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Questions or comments for Caleb? Being none, motion to approve? So moved. Second. Motion by Seaton, second by Houseman, roll call.

Furman. Yes. Green. Yes. Seton. Yes. Houseman. Yes. Stamen.

Yes.

Item number three, ordinance rezoning property at 415 North Asperia from R3 multifamily residential to PR1 planned single family residential.

Looks like you got them all here.

You're going to get a little tired of me.

Yeah. Caitlin writes.

All right. Thank you again, Mayor Seaman and members of the Council. This item before you is an ordinance to rezone 415 North Hesperia to a planned single family district. This property is a vacant, nonconforming commercial property. Some of you may remember right way for an auto repair operating and auto repair service at this location. We have business license records of them from 2007 to 2021. Once they closed, since this property is our three multi-family zoning district now, is a legal non-conforming structure, once that business closed, they lost their non-conforming status after one year of closure, and any new automotive use or basically any use that wasn't residential would trigger a rezoning of this property. the site has about a 1500 square foot metal service garage that was built around 1969 has three service bay doors and 13 parking spaces in the front the structure is very far set back from the roadway you can see on the aerial it is to the very rear of the property with the parking in the front and there's only a man door access from the alley the surrounding area is primarily single family and multi-family residential the request before each night is it's a new property owner who purchased in 2025 one is to store personal vehicles inside the structure so they have personal classic cars that they want to store in a secure location and they purchase a property with that intent storage as a primary use is not permitted in our residential districts triggering a rezoning request to a planned district to allow for this property Here's kind of a street layout of the property. You can see it's fairly close to uptown Collinsville. And with some context of some of the homes in the surrounding area, you can also see how far back the garage is from the street. And closer in aerial of the property itself, there's about 13 parking spaces on that site. The owner does not have any intent to use any of that space. They are not intending to store any vehicles outdoors, no materials. equipment or any nature and the plan district ordinance is proposed to not allow any outdoor storage of any material or vehicles so they would be restricted specifically to storage of the inside of the structure as proposed So this property is zoned R3 multifamily residential. It is located in with a single family land use category of our feature land use map, hence the request to rezone to a planned single family district to bring the property closer into conformance with our future land use map. Predominantly, the land uses are single family in this area with the multifamily apartment complex directly to the east. when we're looking at zoning district amendments we have those set criteria the big question with this one is this use appropriate for the character of the surrounding area and the site itself so staff does find in the planning commission agrees that it does fit the character of the neighborhood as personal storage of vehicles is it a standard accessory use the key difference is this does not have a primary residential use however it's very common for people to store their vehicles in their personal garages the proposed use is less impactful than a commercial use at this property it is a challenging site it has been vacant for five years we have had interest in the property from people seeking to open another automotive business at this location however none took the opportunity to apply for the rezoning at this site so this is a least impactful and adaptive use other than full redevelopment of the lot The proposed district change to our one does bring it closer into compliance with the comprehensive plan and the future land use map. So these other criteria primarily focusing on disproportionate loss to nearby landowners versus public gain will be occupying and having maintenance of a fairly long vacant property, about five years. Then the proposed plan district does have conditions in place for the use to help protect the character of the neighborhood. Specifically, this is permitting indoor personal storage of passenger vehicles as a primary use on the site. So it is restricted to inside the structure. With two conditions, no outdoor storage of vehicles or equipment or materials is permitted, and no commercial occupation can happen at this site with this ordinance. So no storage of vehicles for commercial use, no leasing, renting out the space, and no commercial repair of vehicles is permitted, again, to keep the intent of a traditional neighborhood. With that, staff and the Planning Commission are recommending approval of this rezoning request, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions or comments for Caitlin?

So are there any concerns with the current neighbors?

We didn't have any public input for this request from the neighbors.

Is the sign for the automotive shop still out there?

believe it i was just out there i believe it is it is abandoned so that is on our list to have it removed which i don't think the property owner is concerned about yeah just from google earth it just looks like there's a little bit like junk behind it and then the sign out there i mean that'd be ideal to see that cleaned up if we're approving this yeah absolutely yeah i'll do another site inspection and verify how it looks today if there's anything we can cite

And I assume that the current owner is amenable to this?

Correct, yeah, they have no issues with the conditions. They're very adamant that they have no commercial intentions. They're just seeking a safe place to store their vehicles.

We have several similar situations like this in different areas of town, so this probably won't be the last time I see something like that. So yeah, it's a building that's not worth tearing down for that, so that's a good use. Any more questions or comments? If not, a motion to approve.

So moved.

Second.

Motion by Green, second by Furman. Roll call.

Furman. Yes. Green. Yes. Seton. Yes. Houseman. Yes. Stamen.

Yes.

Item four is ordinance amending Title 17 zoning as it relates to metal building materials.

Okay, and then again.

All right. Thank you, Mayor Simon and members of the council. We are almost there. Not quite. But so this ordinance would is focused on exterior metal building materials and evaluating their permissibility through our various zoning districts. So Some background of how we got here tonight. Staff initiated the discussion of permissibility of metal with the Planning Commission starting in February of this year due to having several requests and some approved planned district rezonings to permit metal building materials at various projects in the city, such as Vermeer Midwest, Lurch Headquarters off North Bluff, and a residential property on Sugarloaf with approved a variance, and Dayton Freight on McDonald Lake Road. So we have had commercial and residential properties shown interest in various types of metal, citing affordability, durability, energy efficiency, and flexibility in design. And staff recognizes that metal building materials have adapted over many decades, like many materials, it's ever changing. situation where we're improving durability and appearance and having a lot of different options and methods for folks to utilize these materials so over several public hearings from march to may the commission reviewed varying metal panel profiles different types of metal finishes concealed fasteners first exposed or through fasteners and their appropriateness and use in various zoning districts So there's some terms here that I wanted to just address. I've been living in this for a few months, so now I know a lot about metal panels. So there's the corrugated metal panel, which is typically prohibited in most communities, including Collinsville. It's kind of that original style of vermetal sheeting came from. It's that kind of wavy profile and pretty standard. So we and our ordinance are proposing to still not permit the waived profile in any of our districts, and we call it waived because corrugated has evolved to mean many different types of ribbing, different variations of fluting.

To make it clear, we specifically addressed the profile.

Through a fastener or exposed fastener is a very common type of metal panel you'll see in building packages or available easily accessible at your hardware stores or home improvement stores. They're often used for garages, farm buildings, storage sheds. We've seen them used a lot. We do permit these right now as a roofing material. So they are used for like sheds, patios, gazebos, those types of uses. These have a little bit more risk with weathering as the fasteners are exposed to the elements, and if they're not properly sealed or maintained over time, they could lead to corrosion or rust. Concealed fasteners, they are hidden fasteners that are just with interlocking panels, and so you cannot see them. They create a smooth finish. These are what we see often in our larger commercial projects for modern offices and hospitality, medical offices, et cetera. These are more expensive and have a longer installation time, but they are deemed the highest quality panel. So I'm going to give a brief summary of the proposed amendments before you get into the language and some photos just to help kind of set the stage of where we're going. But essentially, we are looking to permit metal panels with concealed fasteners as a primary and secondary material for all non-residential structures in the city except UCD, Uptown Collinsville District. Development in our higher intensity industrial districts like BP3, BP4, and M1 are proposed to have more flexibility due to their nature of their uses and their location in the city where any other district or general commercial hospitality office would need to mimic traditional building materials either in their profile or their finish and ultimately the goal is to complement the development in the surrounding area. Residential is proposed to permit metal panels with concealed fasteners as primary material for roofing and siding and it must have at least two varying materials and complement or mimic traditional building materials as well. Residential garages and carports are pretty much the same as primary residential structure except they only have to have two materials if the primary structure has it. Garages and carports already need to match or complement the primary structure and roof pitch material and colors. So this just plays into that with metal instead. the residential sheds and other accessory structures like a gazebo or a patio cover so sheds under 200 square feet and those others may be hybrid metal panels with exposed fasteners again this is the most easily accessible metal panel and currently used and approved today so with our smaller projects our DIY projects is having some flexibility and less burden for smaller structures that have less impact in the community if it has a garage door or is over 200 square feet, it would have to meet the garage requirements and have that higher standard. So here's the difference between exposed fastener and concealed fasteners. So standing seam is traditionally used on a lot of commercial roofs. It's what we have on our fire building. you just can't see those fasteners and then the exposed fasteners i have seen in like park pavilions again smaller projects they are used widely but as a planning commission's goal that they wanted the highest quality metal to be permitted for our larger projects so those high ribbed exposed fasteners would only be allowed for small residential garage sheds or incidental accessory structures So going into the specific amendments in more detail, the commercial section or non-residential buildings, this is broken into several different types of design requirements, but the big one we're talking about is building materials. We do break down building materials into primary, secondary, and accent. Primary building materials are more leaning towards masonry, or if you have a stucco or cementitious finish that kind of mimics masonry or that sort of aesthetic, those are permitted to be 75% or more of the facade. the proposed amendment would allow metal panels with some additional requirements at the bottom which is that our industrial districts bp3 bp4 and m1 may utilize ribbed or smooth insulated metal panels with concealed fasteners these are heavier industrial districts they would get more leeway where they don't have to do a cementitious finish and can have a profile that matches their preference except for the waved All other zoning districts, except for UCD, may utilize metal panels with concealed fasteners, again, that they mimic traditional building materials. This part is highlighted in red as this ordinance looks a little different. This section itself looks a little different than what Planning Commission saw and recommended. However, staff finds that the intent is still the same. We tweaked the language, and what the Planning Commission saw was it specifically called out every other commercial zoning district, all RBs, HP1s, However, it kind of left a blind spot when we have non-residential buildings built in residential districts, which is permitted in our land use table. We see that with parks, buildings, schools, religious organizations, fire department, public buildings are non-residential structures that can be built in residential districts. So by changing this language, we are still meeting the intent, but kind of capturing that gap. The second part is we're adding metal panels for secondary materials. It was the commission's goal adding as a secondary material where the metal could still be metal. So allowing folks, even if you're in a general commercial district, you're not in your industrial districts, they'd be allowed to have that kind of secondary up to 25% just raw metal panel as a design choice for architecture reasons. Otherwise, all buildings still will be required to have three visible materials. So we're still keeping our standards. We're just adding in some flexibility for newer types of building materials. So here are some examples of what those can look like. Dutch Bros is one that came up recently. This kind of deeply ridged fluted metal panel would be permitted as a primary material in our industrial districts and a secondary material in all of our other commercial districts. And those smooth panels would be allowed in our industrial districts by right. There's a wide variety of different types of fluting, the depths of the ridges that allow some flexibility for designers. Here's some real life examples. We have Vermeer Midwest, who was a plan through a plant district in 2022 for just smooth metal insulated panels. This project is the Lurch headquarters up on North Bluff Road. They have the more traditional like high rib metal panel you would see often for roofing or siding. This would only be permitted in our industrial districts if it had concealed fasteners with this ordinance. So here is some examples of what, when we say the metal panels have to mimic traditional building materials, what does that even look like? There's different types of finishes that they can apply on the manufacturing of the panels to mimic wood, stucco, put a cementous finish on top to match any of those other types of materials. So these would be acceptable as a primary material in our general commercial or residential districts, provided it meets the intent. So for residential, we are proposing to permit metal buildings as a primary material. They have to be concealed fasteners. It could be and mimic traditional building materials in either their profile or finish, either or. And so some of those profiles we see are like they can do Dutch lap siding, board and batten, stucco masonry or something similar. they would be required if you're doing a new home construction to have two minimum varying materials so you couldn't just do full metal you'd have to incorporate something else typically seen as a weight scope on the bottom of the structure currently we don't have any other material guidelines for single family or one and two family residential districts this is only infill design guidelines so this ordinance is proposed to be set in there with the specific material allowance all other traditional building materials would be still permitted So here are some examples of what those can look like. These are all steel metal panels with different type of profile styles to mimic traditional building materials, Dutch lap siding, board and batten style, plank giving a wood look, and they even have shake style steel shingles or standing seam concealed fastener roofs would be allowed as well. So bottom millions have been asked over time quite a bit from staff. So these styles of homes could potentially be built as long as they meet, they kind of meet the infill of their neighboring properties. They meet the two minimum materials and their metal finishes meet the requirements. For garages or carports, it's pretty much the same as a residential structure. Concealed fasteners has to mimic traditional building materials, and they do have to match the pitch, materials, and colors of the primary structure. So they are held to quite a higher standard as an accessory structure, as they're a much larger component of the property. So we currently allow the high rib through fastener metal panels for roofing. This ordinance would not allow those for garages anymore. So that is something that was discussed at length with the planning commission. What would this impact be to property owners? However, they opted for the flexibility on the sheds rather than the larger accessory structures. So here's some examples of what those garages or carports could look like. Metal carports are a lot harder to meet that requirement, but if it matched the roof pitch and it matched the concealed fasteners, in theory they could be permitted, but garages you see a lot more often meeting these requirements with metal. Here are some examples of metal structures that would not be allowed with this ordinance. It's either due to the exposed fastener panel, the profile or finish of the panel not matching the roof pitch of the primary structure. For sheds, they get a lot more flexibility. If you are under 200 square feet, you could do pretty much the typical exposed fastener metal siding that you can get at your hardware store, home improvement store, or you can get those prefab metal sheds. from any of those places. These have the most flexibility and they still could have the option to do the higher quality metal if desired. But if you're under 200 square feet and you don't have a garage door or can't be interpreted as a garage, you could have that flexibility. So here are some examples of what those kind of sheds would look like. The one on the left is about a 10 by 20 shed, so that's about the size we would be looking at. And here are some examples of the carports and garages that I've seen in the area that would not meet these requirements or be permitted today or with this ordinance, but those two small sheds could be with this ordinance. Staff and the Planning Commission did find that the proposed amendments does meet our zoning analysis criteria, and we're recommending approval of the ordinance. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Pretty extensive.

Yeah, it's a lot.

And I know we've heard a lot about this in the past, so I'm glad to see these changes. One thing that on the commercial side, you talked about primary and secondary materials, because for years there used to be like, it was over 50%, say it was over 50%, and the balance could be metal. Is there anything on percentages, or how do you determine that?

Yeah, so we do it on the percentage of the facade. So we have three tiers. Primary has to be 75% or greater. Secondary can be up to 25% in accents or 10% of the facade. So as this is proposed, someone could come in and develop with 75% or greater metal panels, as long as they're still meeting all of our other design requirements, such as design features, which treatments of the same material or paint colors don't count as design features so they already have to incorporate other materials in and they're required to have three regardless so we do have those types of stop gaps but as proposed they could do 75 percent or greater

Yeah, the review time has got to be pretty extensive, but I like that it's allowing some of these variations because they're very common. Any other comments or questions?

So I might have misunderstood. So like a Dutch Bros, that would be permitted. That would work?

No. No, okay. So this type of fluting and type of metal panel, since these uses are typically seen in our less intense general commercial districts, so when Dutch Boroughs came to Planning Commission, they proposed a full metal building and it was actually denied. They were told to meet the design requirements. This would only be allowed to be 25% of the facade with this type of metal, but if it was a structure in an industrial district, BP3, BP4, M1, they could have a building similar.

What was their building like in Eddardsville that they put up, do you know?

So they have a couple different designs. Some of them have EFIS, which I think the Edwardsville and Fairview one is, where they have EFIS mixed in with maybe a little bit of metal, and some of them are this full metal prototype.

Okay, and then one other question. You mentioned Barnum Mediums. I could be completely wrong, but I think in Madison County, those are not allowed. So would that supersede if we allowed them, where people still wouldn't be able to do them in Collinsville because of the county?

No, so we would have our own zoning ordinance and home rule authority on those matters. So if they were to come into our city limits, they would have to follow our guidelines and the county's designs wouldn't affect ours.

Okay, thank you.

Any other comments or questions for Caitlin?

Thank you for your hard work. Oh, yeah, of course. This was very good. Oh, thank you.

I have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Motion by Houseman, second by Seton. Roll call.

Furman? Yes. Green? Yes. Seton? Yes. Houseman? Yes. Stamen? Yes. Item number five is an ordinance amending Title 17 zoning as it relates to outdoor storage as an accessory use.

Caitlin again.

Last time, I promise. So this ordinance before you is for outdoor storage as an accessory use. We are looking at the land use table and our existing supplementary regulations for outdoor storage. This is a staff initiated request due to noticing some barriers for businesses to utilize outdoor storage, again, as an accessory use. and even if they comply with our supplementary regulations. So in our current ordinance, outdoor storage is a planned use, except for in the M1 industrial district, which is not a lot of commercial properties. It's pretty much restricted down along Lebanon Road, and it's not permitted at all in any of our general B commercial districts where we see uses like farmers markets or small contractors that might have a need for outdoor storage. They currently do not have a path. So even if you have the planned use designation, it requires a planned district rezoning, which creates a unique ordinance to your property. as it requires a public hearing and a 45 to day 60 review process, regardless if your application meets the supplementary regulations. This causes uncertainty and delays to new development, especially in our areas where we have notice of general need and almost when new developers are coming in and north of Horseshoe Lake Road, McDonnell Lake Road, and along Eastport Plaza, where it's almost a need that they know they need before even building the structure. So Planning Commission heard amendments under public hearing under April and May Commission meetings and is recommending approval of the ordinance before you this evening. So I'm going to start with the land use table. We are proposing to amend the permissibility for each district in some manner, except for our M1 and UCD and residential. So the table in red is our current permissibility and the table below is highlighting the different changes for each district. So the proposed amendments would permit outdoor storage use as an accessory use by right in our higher intensity districts such as CP2, which is our auto mall district where Laura Buick, our Volvo is located within and our BP3, BP4 and M1 districts. We're proposing to change the planned district requirement for office, hospitality, and larger retail commercial to a special use permit instead of a planned district rezoning and expand permissibility to our general commercial districts B2, B3, and B4 with a special use permit as an option. So any properties that are located within the uptown planning area are held to the UCD standards, which prohibits permanent or long-term outdoor display or storage and is not proposed to be permitted with a part of this amendment. That is a summary of the changes in the land use table. The reason we're looking at moving from planned districts to special use permits is the planned districts have a rezoning specific to the property that is illegal rezoning and it carries in perpetuity as properties transfer special use permits can be revoked as we saw this evening they could also be transferred with conditions but they have a couple different avenues in place with a bit of a different process So here are some maps of highlighting the different zoning districts just to get a visual idea. The left is districts proposed for outdoor storage as a by right use. So again, we have our higher intensity warehousing distribution uses north of Horseshoe Lake Road, along McDonnell Lake Road, and along portions of Eastport. And then all other commercial districts on the right, except for UCD, anything in Uptown Collinsville, could have the option through a special use permit. The second part of this proposed amendment is our supplementary regulations, mainly trying to clarify these requirements, make it a bit clearer, and also add a little bit more flexibility for our higher intensity use districts. So the first is just clarifying the difference of screening requirements between merchandise or product for sale or rent to the public versus materials or equipment used by a business not for access to the public like a contractor. If it is not used for the public, it has to be fully screened, minimum six foot high fence, and be restricted to the rear or side yards. If it is for a display of merchandise for sale or rent, we do have area requirements. Currently, for any use or district, it is a maximum of 25% of the area of the front or side or rear yard not exclusive of any setback. So if you have your buildings 100 feet away from the road, you have a 50 foot required setback. You only get 25% of 50 foot area of any of those yards. So we're proposing to keep that for all of the districts except for our CP2, BP3, BP4, and M1 districts. As these uses are in a higher intensity, different land use contexts. And we also seen that they are typically approved those deviations through the planned district process, even at higher rates than 50%, but also only allowing 50% in the side or rear yard. So they would still be restricted to 25 in the front yard, like any other commercial use. The screening for merchandise display, we are not proposing to change too much. The current requirement is that you have to screen with fencing or landscaping to create a 75% opacity. So again, material not available for the public, 100% merchandise or display is 75%. The landscaping, we just added some language to clarify what you can use. So long-lived material, trees or shrubs, grasses of those nature with fencing to create at least 75%. The other changes is adding that provision that outdoor storage or display that does not meet the requirements may request a special use permit to get deviations based off the specific context of their site and separating out, clearly separating out temporary storage that is provided under our seasonal temporary use regulations. Here's a table kind of showing my rough estimate of what percent of yards are used by some of our outdoor storage properties. On the screen is ABC Supply Co. to the left and Rural Keene to the right. ABC Supply Co. is a planned BP3 district. They have 33% of one of their side yards and 70% of their rear yard. for outdoor storage. And rural keying is about 29% front yard and side yard 25% or so. So I'll just give some context of kind of what we're looking at. All of these, many of them are exceeding the 25% current standard in some fashion. Again, if you have to go through a planned district, you're probably gonna ask for more. It doesn't leave you much incentive to follow the regulations. but most of them are over in some manner so adding a little bit flexibility for those higher intensity districts will hopefully reduce some of those requests overall staff and the Planning Commission did find that the proposed amendments meet our criteria for amendments to text and I'd be happy to answer any questions

Um, one of the questions I always ask when we're doing these kind of things is how do we stack up to other communities? And I know you do a lot of research to see what other communities you can add anything to that.

Yeah, sorry. I didn't provide the table and the slides. Um, but we were, a little more restrictive than other communities. Some of them are very just open in general. We do allow it in more districts, but we also have a lot of zoning districts. For example, Edwardsville requires just a minimum six foot tall fence screening in their general commercial district for any outdoor storage. And then if you wanted to do something different, you'd have to get a special use permit. Most cases we were fairly on par, but we go into a lot more depth than what I could find in any other community. There was one other community who also restricted it to about 25% of any yard area as well.

but there is that escape valve where they can request more.

Yes, that's why we built in with the special use permit. If you don't meet the supplementary regulations, you can go through the avenue of a special use permit to have those deviations.

Okay.

Any other questions or comments? Seeing none, have a motion to approve?

So moved.

Motion by Seaton, seconded by Green. Roll call.

Furman? Yes. Green? Yes. Seton? Yes. Houseman? Yes. Stamen? Yes.

Thank you.

Next item is Great Rivers and Routes 2025-2026 Annual Report.

Well, presentation will be given by City Manager Derek Jackson.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor, members of the Council. I'd like to introduce Corey Jobe. He's with us this evening. Corey is the President and CEO of Rivers and Rounds. As the Council knows, Rivers and Rounds is our Tourism Bureau partner. They did a fantastic job for us, and Corey's here this evening to talk about the 2025 and 2026 annual report. So with that, Corey, I'll turn it over to you, sir.

hi good evening everyone thank you mayor council members am i using this as the yes sir okay great uh it's always a pleasure to be back at city council once a year we only do this once a year maybe we should do this a few times no no okay great i i was just telling grace we might want to give a little update after the great race it happens but um it's always a pleasure to give this is a report from uh april 2025 to april 2026 i believe in your package you have our report and i just wanted to go through some of the highlights of that i know we have i'm going to walk through this and then just cover some other highlights on the next slides but to go through we try to break our reports down in terms of paid earned shared owned strategy but then also some of the special projects that we've worked on behalf of the city over the past year overall as an investment partner I like to break down investment partners are a part of our overall brand awareness strategy, where the mother road meets the river road, and then we also do one-off tactics at various events, such as Horse Radish Festival, Italian Fest, other things throughout the year. But our overall brand message, we served over 24 million impressions with Where the Mother Road Meets the River Road. That was nearly 200,000 website conversions, which is fantastic. And that means that people are on our site diving deeper into the content related to the campaign that we're running. We also ran several brand awareness strategy, tactics, and print advertising, not only here in the United States, somewhat Midwest, but around the globe as well. With the centennial year of Route 66, we're in the centennial year of Route 66 finally, we've been doing quite a bit of advertising in international markets in the UK and Germany with our relationships of Brand USA and the US Travel Association and our partnership with the Illinois Office of Tourism. But some of our domestic publications, Root Magazine, St. Louis Magazine, Chicago Magazine, Bus Tour Magazine, Group Travel Leader with our bus tour opportunities within the region, and then you can see the list onward. I'm proud to say that we're continuing those partnerships and relationships in this next fiscal year. On the paid social media front, not only are you included in our monthly organic content calendar, but this is also paid down to a zip code. We can target various zip codes with various activities and events. Some of the things we included this year was the first Thursdays in Uptown Collinsville, the Collinsville Memorial Day celebration, and the robust calendar events that happened at Gateway Convention Center. That was just a sampling. Those paid social media ads, we served nearly a little over 5.2 million impressions. In addition, we ran more robust campaigns for festivals and events such as Horseradish Festival and Italian Festival. Those were very popular. We've also partnered with influencer marketing, St. Louis Bucket List. We're continuing all these again into the new year. But St. Louis Bucket List, one of our biggest, our most, I would say most viewed and most, what was the word I want to use, interactions with, was Sporitos. Am I saying Sporitos right? Yeah. That had some big conversions with the followers of the St. Louis Bucket List. And St. Louis is one of our top. markets that we like to promote and attract. So we like to showcase some of the unique business owners that are in the region and we're gonna continue that this year. We continue to do a lot of earned media, so anytime that we're asked to partner on press releases or distribute press releases, we are here to do that. We focused heavily on our Route 66 attractions, Kokia Mounds, the Ketchup Bottle, et cetera. Last June, so almost this time last year, We brought a hundred of the top travel writers and tour operators from around the world into the region. I know we partnered with Donna at Uptown Scoops. We partnered with Old Herald. We brought various groups from Chicago to St. Louis and St. Louis to Chicago and then along the Great River Road. But 100 of the top tour operators and travel riders from countries from the UK, Germany, Canada, Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, and India were in the region. Not only did they visit small business owners and visit the ketchup bottle, but they also overnighted at the Doubletree here in Collinsville. And I keep sharing from time to time articles that have been written because of those visits with Jessica and Derek Some of them we can read, some of them are in English, but most of those are in different languages, but it's really exciting to see that hard work pay off of us hosting those travel writers back in June. And we continue to host FAMS. Our partnership, since we're the certified destination marketing organization for the city, we get various opportunities with the Illinois Office of Tourism, and we'll be presenting more of those in the coming fiscal year after the state's fiscal year of July 1. The website and the Collinsville landing page continues to drive strong conversion and awareness. Top page views again were the things to do in Collinsville. The Collinsville Italian Fest was very strong. And then we also had a couple of businesses participate in our region wide events. We have our annual Java Palooza event which is our coffee lovers event which is going to be expanding. It went from two months this past year It'll be going to three months, and then our craft beverage festival that takes place. We, of course, support efforts with our own channels with e-newsletter distribution, and then our Go Guide. Our Go Guide is now up to, the fall-winter was at 40,000 copies, but this spring, summer, and fall-winter, we're at 100,000. I've always thought about getting rid of the Go Guide. I'm wondering if really print is necessary. But the visitor economy loves print. They love their maps. They love their guides. They love inspiration when they're in market. One thing that I want to highlight on that is that we're continuing our distribution partnership with Schnucks, St. Louis area Schnucks and Dearburgs. We're targeting those in certain higher end zip codes in the St. Louis market. In terms of lodging, Overall, from that 12-month period, it was a little over 60% hotel occupancy with an average daily rate of $108, and hotel revenue generated was almost $19 million from Collinsville Hotels. On the group travel front, we hosted 57 day groups totaling over 2,000 people, three overnight groups booked with 110 people. We're continuing to work with the Gateway Convention Center and others uh to talk about sports and meetings and those unique mice markets the meetings incentive market and how we can work collectively together to continue to grow that as you probably know or if you don't know the great race is happening we brought that last year we are providing an incentive grant of up to thirty thousand dollars to cover the cost of the great race Maybe we can come back and give a recap after the fact, but the great race. We've got 300 room nights booked. It'll be really exciting, obviously, in conjunction with the Ketchup Bottle Festival on June 20th. And then we also awarded a $100,000 grant through the annual Route 66 project grant from the state of Illinois through the Illinois Office of Tourism. And we're excited to see those art installations take place later in June. There's a couple of promo items, obviously a lot happening. The big year of Route 66, there's a lot of eyes on many communities in the country. But Illinois has really stood out. I think over the past four years, the state of Illinois has provided destination marketing organizations more than $20 million in project grant funds and marketing dollars. And so we've been the beneficiary of nearly 4.5 million in project grant funds. As you know, we represent the last 100 miles of Route 66 from Macoupin County here into Madison County. And the project grant funds will be available again this year. And so if you have any ideas for Route 66 projects, let Jessica or Derek or I know. We'd love to submit something for Collinsville on that. This is just a few highlights, as I've already mentioned in the report that I shared. Again, listing some of the great things that we're working on on behalf of all of you. A couple things I want to note toward the bottom. Just last week we hosted the Illinois Office of Tourism Sports Huddle. We worked very closely with the Gateway Convention Center. We had rave reviews from Jamie and her team at the Gateway Convention Center from not only the rights holders, we had 20 different rights holders from around the country, but we had 18 of our fellow destination marketing organizations. We bid to host that conference this year and they said it was one of the best. And so I want to commend the leadership team at the Gateway Convention Center. They all thought the food service was great. The customer service was outstanding. And then all the hotel room nights were at the Doubletree. I also just want to point out too that the Great Race, oops sorry, the Great Race that's coming up, we're doing a lot of advertising just today. It still might be on there. We hosted a takeover of KMOV Channel 4's entire website. So that's exciting and then tomorrow I know Grace and Jessica will be making their morning debut on Fox 2 and they'll be doing an interview about the Great Race and the Ketchup Bottle Festival. And then just one other note, some one-off things that we bring as value add, it's not built into our contract, are some of these travel riders and unique opportunities. And later this month, later in June, the CBS travel editor, Peter Greenberg, probably most people have heard of Peter Greenberg, he's doing a national syndicated show on Route 66, and he wants to highlight the ketchup bottle, horseradish, and Cochia Mounds, which is our UNESCO World Heritage Site. So we'll be following up with more of those things there as well. I also just want to point out that on top of all the paid, earned, shared, all the opportunities that we bring, we are also representing you at major trade shows and group tour shows. We attend five of those shows a year on your behalf. And then also we have seven full-time staff, Grace Zachary being one of those who's with me this evening. I know she's very involved in the community here with the chamber and the two events that we have coming up. And so just some of our strategic goals. As you know, two years ago, we passed and created a new 10-year tourism master plan for the region. We're continuing to execute those goals, continuing to realign the staff and making sure our priorities are aligned with our paid and earned strategies. and continue to expand our outreach opportunities with tournament rights holders. We're right here in the middle of America, and we have such great access from interstate and an international airport over in St. Louis, so the opportunity to figure out to bring more meeting and rights holders to the region. Again, working hard on our owned and shared media channels, and always identifying new funding sources. We're always got our nose in Springfield. I didn't think we'd get the Route 66 money again, and when the governor's budget address came out, there was another $2 million. So we wanna make sure we try to bring as much of that back to Collinsville in our region. And with that, oops, I will turn it back to Derek.

Thank you, Corey. Appreciate the overview. And yeah, with that, Council, welcome any questions or comments you might have. I definitely appreciate the work that Corey and his team does bringing business to Collinsville and events. And done a great job over the past few years when it comes to murals. We're excited for these 3D sculptures. They'll be going up. So with that, I'll open up to Council for any questions or comments you might have.

comment that I noticed that is that horseradish fest got more impressions than Italian fest?

It did. People love that. That's one of our biggest, that horseradish, there are two big things on our just overall website. You know, at greatroversandouts.com we get over 2 million unique users a year. That's a lot of people spending almost a minute and page views digging. The two, horseradish and Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man in all. Those are two

That is interesting.

Something very unique. And you know, it's interesting. When we travel abroad, they love the story of horseradish because it's something ownable and unique. And then we talk about the horseradish spirit that Old Herald Brewery and Distillery, and they're all fascinated by that. And so we have partnered with Derek. We actually take a, he's manufactured a travel size horseradish spirit for us. And we've taken that all over the world with us and people go crazy about it. We were just at a show last week with IPW that was hosted in Chicago. Last year, where we brought the postfams, that conference was last week in Florida. We took 40 bottles with us and met with travel riders and tour operators. They get a kick out of it. Something ownable and unique to this city. And we've also got a partnership, while I'm on spirits, we also have a partnership with Old Herald and Mississippi Culture, the brewery in Staunton, where we're launching a new centennial beer called Kix. You'll be seeing that. He's serving it now here in Collinsville, but that'll be distributed all across the region, I think in three weeks. That'll be out in bars and restaurants.

All right. Thank you, Corey. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks, Corey.

Appreciate it.

Next item.

Next, speakers from the floor.

Speakers may address the council under the terms of ordinance number 4765. Time is 11 to 4 minutes per speaker. Please refer to the last page of the agenda for our specific rules governing input. Anyone? I guess nobody. Anybody on this side of the room that would like to speak? Okay, being done, next item.

Comments and absence from the mayor?

Yeah, the only comment I would like to do, I'd just like to comment about our Memorial Day fireworks celebration that was Sunday. We lucked out on the weather. It didn't look good in the morning, but it was a beautiful day, beautiful evening, and it was a great time. I think this year was a little special because it is the kickoff. of the many events that council's gonna have this summer in the Celebrate 250, Celebrate Collinsville. There's a brochure, and I forgot to ask, where is that available at? On the website, Art?

Not on the website, no, we haven't actually distribute them.

We don't have enough to go around yet. There will be a lot of information out there about the activities. Of course, one of the biggest ones is, like Corey said, the Route 66, the Great Race thing, June 20th. That information will be available. All through the summer, there's going to be different things that we can do. Anyway, keep checking on things and we'll let... It'd be very interesting. And one of the things I would encourage, I'm kind of a big history buff that there's so much history in Collinsville. So, and I'd like to see the people that have children like tonight with me and at the, encourage your children to learn some of the history of Collinsville. And it's interesting to see how deep we go with the Italian heritage, the mining, the horse race. There's so much here. So dig into some of that history. That's all.

Comments, announcements from council members?

Can I just reflect on something? Please. As we're sitting here tonight and see how this meeting started with acknowledging Mia, which was fabulous, the older guy there. Fabulous. and recognizing Yard of the Month and recognizing Michael for the work that he's doing within the city, but then to have that turnaround on us when Mr. Kim gets up and shares his story about our first responders. What a great way to start a meeting that we get to, that, you know, here we are just thanking our residents and then boom, it comes back on one of our departments. Just thought it was really neat. that he took that time when he's getting accolades to thank the city.

So it was good.

Very cool.

Anyone? Oh, anyone else? Okay. Next time.

Comments and announcements from city staff.

Thank you, Mayor, members of the council. A couple of updates for the council this evening. First, have Troy Turner, our public works director, come up. He's going to give an update on the Clay Street pedestrian improvements that are actively going on.

Thank you. So with all the things we've got going on this summer, we've also got construction going on this summer. Hanks has started work on Clay Street to do the bump outs. I just want to make everyone well assured that we will not be losing any parking because of the project and we will not be losing any lanes. It will stay a two lane road. They'll both be 11 feet wide right now. It's impacted and really narrowed because of the construction going on because they have to over dig for putting these in. So this is just kind of showing you some of the construction on what's been going on. So work has begun. You can see the areas where they've been doing removals. north side of Seminary, Clinton, north side of Morrison, and then the south sides of Seminary and Center along Clay. And you can see it's starting to look a little different when they've done some of the concrete work. They've done the curbs on Seminary and Clinton on the north sides, and then they have also done the sidewalks on the north side of Seminary and Clinton. um they have run into a few delays one of them is some of the storm structures were supposed to have already been in and they've had some delays on the storm structures and also there's some grates that they have to put in so for these bump outs to keep the water draining they had to make troughs through the sidewalk and they had to put these grates on that are ada compatible to allow people to walk over it and the water to still flow through so this just kind of gives you an idea of what it's looking like right now versus what it looked like before And this is just an idea of where they have been working. So the green ones are substantially done. I say that there's one that's kind of dotted. It is substantially done. They've done a lot of the curb work, but they're starting to work on the sidewalk portion. The red ones are where they've done removals. On Clinton, that one corner is red because, um, AT&T assured us that they had the structure already created for a large vault. They have, um, they said that if they had to relocate the vault, it was going to be a 12 to 24 month delay on the project. Um, and it was going to cost them 600,000 to $1 million. So they had a special structure that they had ordered and they said they ordered it back in January. So they've ordered it now and we're supposed to have it in three weeks. And they cannot finalize all the curb work until that structure comes in from AT&T. But to prevent Hanks from having delays, we've allowed them to work in other areas without finishing that one up. But right now they're currently working over there on Center Street with demolition as they're forming up and finishing up on the seminary. So as I said, there is a delay for some of the storm structures and the grates. They're all supposed to be coming in. The storm structures are supposed to come in either sometime late today. They were supposed to come in over early tomorrow so they can finish up some of those intersections. We're waiting on AT&T for their structure. And then the grates are supposed to be coming in towards the end of the week. Hanks expects to be done by July 1st, so for this project, done means all the punch lists, all the striping, and then all the concrete work. They said they're not sure if they'll be able to get all of the work done before the Horseradish Festival. They know they won't be able to before the Horseradish Festival, but also for the Great Race on Juneteenth. but they do plan to have the concrete work in a walkable usable shape by that time period and have a temporary surface where they've got the cutouts right now. For the horseradish festival, they won't have all the concrete open, but they'll have most of it open. We'll have the intersections open and we will have it usable. So they will put in a temporary surface board inside the road. If there's any questions or anything, I'd be happy. Yeah.

I have a question for you, Troy. Is there any signage on Vandalia indicating that all that construction that's happening there on clay? Because people come off there pretty quickly. Is there anything that gives them a heads up in cautioning them to slow down?

I'd have to check again. I don't remember seeing any.

There's not. I'm just I mean, there's the signage I can think of done is kind of right around here, but that's the lone one. We could explore getting something for Southbound traffic. Yeah, we can look at it right now.

You know, the people heading north see the construction from that stoplight but the people heading south turning onto clay don't necessarily and it'd be a good training because they're going to have to slow down anyway when all this is done so we might as well start training them now yeah it's going to take a while people coming south they're moving a whole lot quicker than the folks going north waiting for the lights to change the turn yeah so could we check on that yeah we can get something put up thank you yeah no problem

It sounds like you've already covered it or already mentioned it, but my only concern was that Hanks is not out there like the week before. the fib or the heart's ratio tearing up another intersection so if they like a week ahead if they don't have something tore up don't tear up anymore yeah and that's my hope that's what we've been instructing them okay okay another question and this is about communication um i'm really shocked at the passion about these bump ups that that are coming my way the people that are

really upset about them. And I take some time to explain to them the value in them. They're all convinced that you have to drive like this to get through the bump outs. But I'm wondering if we could do some communication again to the why. We have maybe a nice Facebook post about the value in them, how much safer it is to cross the street there. That the lanes are plenty wide enough for vehicles, two vehicles, and maybe just do another communication.

Yeah, that's not a problem. We can get another communication out there and explain. Because a lot of times, Like the point you made, it's staying within the lines and all that too. Yeah, it does feel tight, but that's by design. That's basically the slow down traffic. And kind of what we're alluding to, a lot of people going Clay Street are going over the speed limit quite often, unfortunately. Also too, Troy, do you want to kind of talk about when it comes to getting federal funds and local and state funds, when it comes to having bump outs and pedestrian paths, how that really scores higher for a lot of these different projects, which helps us when it comes to financing?

and this one specifically is a highway safety improvement program. And so to get this grant, you have to have safety issues. Um, this one was pedestrians being hit and, uh, and it's, it was pedestrians mostly, uh, is pedestrian safety. And, The bump outs are in federal highways. They have countermeasures that are acceptable and usable. And so that's what we picked. And that was, according to them, the most acceptable and usable for this area. So that's what scored us up high enough to actually get the grant for the project.

Yeah. And so I just think if we communicate, it would help people right now.

I would say the two things that I keep hearing are that it's gonna be one line, which is not, and then we're taking parking spots, which are not, I think we're gonna communicate anything. Those are the two things that communicate. Yeah. Okay. We can do that.

Well, yeah. And I say, what, the reason why the bump house, what was that?

When I, when I got the first complaints, uh, you know, I heard the same thing. Um, of course I did the same thing. St. Louis road. I took my tape measure on my, one of my bike rides. The lanes are not any narrower. The bump outs are not any narrow. They're not any narrower than where the parking would be. So if there's a car parked there, they're not going to be out any farther. So it's really no change except the visual.

The visual.

Yeah, and the visual, the idea is to, yeah, slow that down. But if people say, well, they're not, all the misinformation out there is killing them.

Exactly, exactly.

All right. Thank you, Troy.

Okay, next can I have Kimberly Corn come up, our Parks and Rec Director, to talk about some upcoming events and programming in the Parks Department.

I feel like all my thunder was already stolen. But yes, we've been talking about the Great Rays. Mayor, statement members of the council, thank you for letting me speak tonight, but we are doing the world's largest ketchup bottle festival in coordination with the Great Race on June 20th in the uptown area of Collinsville. So we just had a meeting again today. We're working on getting everything taken care of. I have a few of you locked in as celebrity taste test judges for ketchup. I'm looking at...

Good, just checking.

So the rest of you are invited. We would love to have you there and participating in that part of the festival, but it should be five hours of some old-fashioned family fun.

Is it on a spoon or on a french fry?

On a french fry. You don't have to just eat ketchup.

Just don't take Corey Jobe's lead on which one, the brooks. I learned that two years ago.

Corey is already signed up to be a judge as well. So we've roped in as many people as we can. So yes, you can get those bump outs done in front of the old Herald in the square before that event.

Right, Troy? Excellent. Thank you, sir.

Um, and then of course the great race again with the ketchup bottle festival, of course, and aqua park open this weekend. So come and visit. We are open regular hours, all weather pending at this point. I will warn you that the water is not warm, um, but it will warm up as that sun comes up. I think, Oh, nope. We've got fishing workshops. The IDNR is going to provide a month long, um, fishing workshop at, um, Woodland Park, there are two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. All the poles are provided, all the bait is provided, instruction is provided, and we just ask that you sign up ahead of time with us by giving us a call and getting on a list. And then Barnyard Buddies is a rebranded version of our horse care program out at the farm because we're working with all of the animals. We have the couple of pigs, the other equine out there, as well as the bunnies and some of the chickens as well. So those are all classes that you can sign up for online or by calling the office or the farm in the farm's case. I think that's it.

I think so. And Mayor, it dawned on me, we did not include a slide in for Horseradish Festival, so I'll go ahead and plug that real quick. That will be Friday, June 5th, and then Saturday, June 6th. So we're not going to have it in our next council meeting. That will be over, so make sure people have that date for that festival coming up. That's all we have for staff comments.

Next item.

Next is the consent agenda. Item one, motion to approve payment of bills for the period ending May 15th, 2026 in the amount of $1,143,924.20. Item two, motion to approve payroll for the period ending May 8th, 2026 in the amount of $1,047,923.59. Item three, motion to approve minutes of the May 12th, 2026 council meeting. Item four is an ordinance authorizing the mayor or city manager to enter into an Illinois workers' compensation settlement agreement for Russ Friedrich. And item five, ordinance authorizing the mayor or city manager to enter into an Illinois workers' compensation settlement for Zane Ladd.

Is there any items that anyone would like to remove from the consent agenda and vote on separately? Being none, motion to approve. So moved. Motion by Seaton, second by Green. Roll call.

Furman? Yes. Green? Yes. Seaton? Yes. Houseman? Yes. Stamen?

Yes.

Next is new business. Item number one, ordinance increasing the 2026 expenditure budget in the general fund, motor fuel tax, capital projects fund, and hospitality fund.

Given the presentation, it will be Finance Director Tim Lambert. Bill?

Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor, City Council members. Before you this evening, I have an ordinance increasing 2026 expenditure budgets related to the general fund, forfeited seized fund, motor fuel tax fund, capital projects investment fund, and the hospitality fund. It sounds like a lot. There are five appropriations, but there's really three actions here, and there are two pairs of movement between funds, and I'll walk you through each of them. First of all, we are moving the grant fund expense and corresponding funds of $70,000 approved two city councils ago out of the forfeited seize fund and into the general fund. This is an administrative realignment to line up our budget as we build out this summer. Second, with the motor fuel tax fund, we are appropriating $416,162.36 from fund balance to cover the final expense that we received on the 2019 Spring Street project from IDOT, so that's just closing one out of Troy's. Third, the capital improvement fund expenditure budget will see a net increase of 21,000, reflecting an increase of $30,000 into the fund for the Horseshoe Lake project and a movement of the $9,000 bond that the council approved two councils back out of the capital improvement fund and into the hospitality fund to reflect where the parks and rec expenditure should be. In total, the ordinance appropriates $446,162.36 across these five funds. Again, these expenditures are supported. You have seen several of them before and are consistent with operational objectives and mission assurance for all the departments involved. Staff is recommending approval of this ordinance and I stand by to answer any questions you might have.

Any questions or comments for Tampa? The only one I had, Tim, and Troy might have to jump in on this, because this was before you got here, before a lot of us got here. The Spring Street 2019, I know we've heard that before, but can you just give a quick brief thing about how we're just seeing a final bill for that thing?

Yeah. So we got funding for Spring Street in 2007. The project completed in 2009. IDOT accepted materials sometime after that, but the final completion came out in 2026. So that's when they did their final audit and accepted everything and sent us the final bill.

Okay, so that was all on IDOT getting that stuff too.

Yeah, so I guess they had some stuff going on and they made some changes, but we're starting to finally getting some of these bills that are 16 years old.

Okay, thank you. Any other comments or questions? Motion to approve. So moved. Second. A motion by Houseman, second by Seaton. Roll call.

Furman. Yes. Green. Yes. Seaton.

Yes. Houseman. Yes.

Stamen.

Yes.

Item number two, the ordinance authorizing agreement between the City of Collinsville and Great Rivers and Routes Tourism Bureau.

Presentation by Assistant City Manager Jessica Short.

Thank you Mayor Stammen, members of the council. This ordinance is the agreement for the May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2027 services with Great Rivers and Routes. We've been partnered with Great Rivers and Routes since 2018. The cost for this year of service is $75,000. And it includes a wide range of services, which Corey Jobe has already spoken to perfectly, and I cannot top that. So at this time, staff is recommending approval, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Questions or comments for Jessica? Seeing none, motion to approve.

Second.

Motion by Green, second by Furman. Roll call.

Furman?

Yes.

Green? Yes. Seton? Yes. Houseman? Yes. Stamen? Yes.

Yes.

Item number three, ordinance authorizing intergovernmental agreement between Madison County Emergency Telephone System Board, the Village of Glen Carbon, and the City of Collinsville for the relocation of certain AIS equipment in relation to the public safety answering points.

Presentation will be given by IT Director Sean Secler. Thank you, Mayor and members of the council.

Before you tonight are two ordinances that are representing a collaborative effort between the Madison County Emergency Telephone System Board, the City of Collinsville, and in one case, the Village of Glencarven. This represents collaborative work dating back to about June of last year. Staff was approached by Madison County Emergency Telephone System Board. This is the executive body of Madison County 911 operations and they were seeking some cost savings measures to offset really high dollar infrastructure costs that they were looking at to provide a new backup solution for their radio and 911 data. This ordinance would approve this agreement, first of two, between Madison County ETSB, Village of Glen Carbon, and Collinsville for the relocation of Motorola AIS equipment from Glen Carbon to Collinsville. That equipment allows for the data that we're trying to back up to be stored in a storage repository that we'll cover in the second ordinance here. For this first ordinance, ETSB will assume ownership of the equipment as it transfers from Glen Carbon to Collinsville's location. Collinsville will provide the necessary space, data connection, power, environmental conditions, and access for support for this equipment. This collaborative effort will save ETSB and its supported PSAPs, the 911 communication centers in Madison County, hundreds of thousands of dollars in infrastructure costs. This agreement has a five-year initial term, and both parties will begin renegotiation in January of 2030 to look at what a future iteration of this agreement could look like. I'm happy to address any concerns or questions that you have and provide any additional information you might need.

Any questions or comments for Mayor?

Sean, just a point of clarification. The equipment we're moving, that's in the police department. Is that correct? Correct.

And is there going to... Is it data kind of information or equipment? Yes.

Or is there much physical? So there's two pieces to this. The first ordinance that we're looking at here is gonna provide the equipment that will allow the data to come across the connection that Collinsville already has. This is the cost savings measure essentially. Collinsville already has this type of connection that ETSB requires. We are the only other location in the county other than one of ETSB's other locations to already have this type of connection, and to pay for it would cost hundreds of thousands with Motorola, so we're trying to avoid those infrastructure costs there. The second agreement is for the data repository for the 911 and radio information coming across that connection onto this equipment that we're taking from Glen Carbon.

All right, any other questions or comments?

Seeing none, motion to approve.

So moved.

Second.

Motion by Furman, second by Hausman. Roll call.

Furman?

Yes.

Green? Yes. Seton? Yes. Hausman? Yes. Stamen? Yes. Item number four, the ordinance authorizing the intergovernmental agreement between Madison County Emergency Telephone System Board and the City of Collinsville in relation to the location and maintenance of the backup recorder for emergency services.

Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, Mayors and Council. So again, this is the second part of this two-part collaborative effort to save the county PSAPs a lot of infrastructure costs. This ordinance approves an agreement between Madison County ETSB and Collinsville for the use of some existing recording solution that Collinsville has that will now serve as the backup recorder for county radio 911 data. Collinsville will retain ownership of that equipment and we will just provide the necessary access to Madison County and a vendor to support the equipment over time. ETSB will fund necessary equipment upgrades and ongoing vendor support for up to eight years on this equipment. This is another benefit to the city. We're currently paying roughly 6,000 a year for the maintenance costs on this equipment. And part of the deal here in terms of taking on this burden of bringing the equipment into our environment, the pro for us is they're willing to take on the cost for the maintenance agreement. And over the term of that eight years, that'll save us approximately $50,000. The terms of the agreement also allow us to replace the equipment if that becomes necessary and ETSB will continue to reimburse the maintenance costs up to the amount they're paying at the time of the replacement. So this is the second part of this collaborative effort to save county PSAPs hundreds of thousands of dollars. First ordinance provides the connection and the necessary equipment to get the data across the connection. This ordinance provides the data repository for the data coming across that connection. This term for this ordinance ends November 30th of 2023. And again, as in the first ordinance agreement, both parties have agreed to engage in renegotiation beginning in January of 2030 to look at what the future version of this agreement might look like.

Okay. Any questions or comments on this section? Seeing none, motion to approve. So moved.

Second.

Motion by Furman, second by Green. Roll call.

Furman. Yes. Green. Yes. Seton. Yes. Houseman. Yes. Statement.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Next item, item number five, ordinance amending section 9.16.092, license required for video gaming of the Collinsville Municipal Code with regards to permitting video gaming.

presentation to be given by city clerk, Kim Wasser.

Mayor, council, good evening. This ordinance would amend the city's current video gaming ordinance, which was originally established in 2012. The proposed amendment would define where video gaming is prohibited, listing specific establishments such as gas stations, service stations, convenience stores, co-branded establishments, so at the same location. So an example would be a convenience store that has food services and small-scale truck stops. The amendment would also allow for and add language to allow for video gaming at licensed large-scale truck stops, also known as travel centers. This is in accordance with state statute. So those are defined as provided that the location is within three road miles of a freeway interchange, monthly average sales of at least 50,000 gallons of diesel fuel, separate diesel islands, The establishment is also minimum size of three acres and also allows for parking of semis. So for an example would be maybe a fly in Jays or a pilot travel center. We've seen those when we've been out traveling. So that was, even though we don't have those types of establishments here in Collinsville just yet, we don't have anything that meets the guidelines. We want to align our code with state statute. I'll be happy to answering questions you might have.

Any comments for Kim?

I'm glad to see this in place.

Okay, motion to approve.

So moved.

Second.

Motion by Seton, second by Houseman. Roll call.

Furman. Yes. Green. Yes. Seton. Yes. Houseman. Yes. Stanton.

Yes.

Last is adjournment.

Motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Motion by Seaton, second by House, and roll call.

Furman? Yes. Green? Yes. Seaton? Yes. Houseman? Yes. Stamen?

Yes. City Council meeting for May 26, Council City Council meeting for May 26, 2026 is adjourned.