City Council - Regular Meeting

And I would ask the clerk to please call roll. Cook here. Heap. Henry here. Lockchman here. Oldenettle here. Ruben Dellis here. Scott here. Speed here. Watts here. Williams here. Mayor Ezard here. City Attorney Beard here. You have a quorum. Thank you. Is there a reading of the minutes this evening? Is there a second? Alderman Cook. All those in favor of approving the minutes, please respond by saying I. I. Opposed? Any petitions? No petitions. No communications. And the claims

are in the hands of the alderman. Is there a motion to pay claims this evening? Alderman Lachman, second by Alderman Henry. All those in favor of paying claims, please respond by saying I. I. Opposed, city attorney's report.

Thank you. Uh, first item I have is the first reading of an ordinance the municipal code regarding u the treasuries bond. Is there a motion? Alderman Scott, second by Alderman Watts. Be it ordained that uh the bond of the traer shall be set at $250,000. Any discussion? Seeing none, I would ask the clerk to please call roll. Cook, yes. Henry, yes. Blackman, yes. Olden, yes. Ruben Dellis, yes. Scott, yes. Speed,

yes. Was that yes. Uh, Watts, yes. Williams, yes. Motion carries. U, second item I have is first reading of an ordinance amending the Jacksonville Municipal Code regarding alcoholic beverages adding one license for North Clay Avenue convenience store. Is there a motion? Alman Scott, Alman Henry,

ordained that the Jacksonville Municipal Code Division Chapter 3 alcoholic beverages be amended adding a uh class A license for a convenience store for North Clay convenience store. Any discussion? This would be just beer and wine. Correct. Beer and wine. Any other? Seeing none, I would ask the clerk to please call a roll. Cook, yes. Henry, yes. Lockman, yes. Olden, no. Ruben Delis, yes. Scott, yes. Speed, no. Watts, yes.

Williams, no. Motion carries. And the third item I have is the first reading of an ordinance with the emergency clause approving land acquisition at 101 Cox Street. Is there a first or a motion on the emergency clause? Scott, second by Watts. And I would ask the clerk to please call roll on the emergency clause. Cook, yes. Henry, yes. Lachman, yes. Olden, yes. Ruben Dellis, yes. Scott, yes. Speed, yes. Watts, yes. Williams, yes.

Motion carries. Thank you. City clerk's report this evening. Oh, sorry, the regular. Uh, is there a motion for second reading? Alderman Henry, second by Alderman Cook. Whereas the city of Jacksonville has negotiated uh for the purchase of land at 101 Cox Street title to be held by the city um for the purchase price of $1,500 now be it ordained that the city proceed with the purchase of said property. Any discussion? Seeing none, I would ask the clerk to please call roll. Cook, yes. Henry, yes.

Lman, yes. Ed, yes. Ruben Dellis, yes. Scott, yes. Speed, yes. Watts, yes. Williams, yes. Motion carries. City clerk's report this evening. In your packets, you should have received the community development department report, the city clerk's cash receipts report, and city clerk's general fund budget report and revenue analysis report. All uh for October 31st, 2025. Very good. Any public comment at this time?

Public comment. Seeing none, consent agenda items tonight. Finance, IT, and personnel. Alderman Cook. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have two items tonight. The first is a resolution authorizing payments from the capital improvement fund for certain improvement projects. And the second one is a resolution authorizing payments from the general fund for services rendered. Public protection alderman speed. We have one item tonight. A motion requesting the board of fire and police commissioners to hire one probationary patrolman to the Jacksonville Police Department. And utility Alderman Watts.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have four items tonight. The first is a resolution approving the seventh amendment to the Morgan Scott Morgan Greenwater Cooperative Contract. Number two, resolution authorizing partial pay estimate number 27 to Placer Construction Company for the wastewater treatment plant phase 1 headworks project. Number three, resolution authorizing amendment number one for engineering services with Benton Engineering for the Northwest Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Study, Capital Way Sanitary Sewer Edition Project. And number four, resolution authorizing payments from the Waterworks and Sewage Project Fund for services rendered improvement projects and ISO move.

Is there a second? Alderman Scott, you've heard the items under the consent agenda this evening. Do you wish to is there any you wish to pull for further discussion? Seeing none, I would ask the clerk to please call roll. Cook, yes. Henry, yes. Lockchman, yes. Olden, yes. Ruben Dellis, yes. Scott, yes. Speed, yes. Watts, yes. Williams, yes. Motion carries. Committee reports. Utility Alderman Watts.

Thank you. We have one item and it's the first reading of an ordinance amending the Jacksonville Municipal Code Chapter 26 utilities article number three sewer use and wastewater regulations. I move. Is there a second? Alderman Large Old Nettle being ordained that the Jacksonville Municipal Code be amended deleting chapter 26 article 3 sewer use and wastewater regulations and adopting the new regulations. Any discussion? Seeing none, I would ask the clerk to please call roll. Cook, yes. Henry, yes. Lachman, yes. Oldenettle, yes.

Ruben Dellis, yes. Scott, yes. Speed, yes. Watts, yes. Williams, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. Thank any old business this evening. Old business. Any new business? Chief, sorry, Don or Alderman. Uh, yes. I'd like to call a finance committee meeting at noon on the 17th in the commission room if that's available. If not, then mayor's conference room.

Any other old business or new business? Yes, Joe. I would I was just wondering if the U special committee uh that met tonight if that should be moved to um public protection or one of the other regular committees um at this point or I'm not exactly sure what the procedure is on that. Um no I I don't know it's up kind of the pleasure of the council but yeah I don't know if it makes sense or not. I you know at this point I would say no because we're still trying to investigate and study to see what we need to do. So special studies would be fitting if you ask me. That's my opinion.

Okay. My only thought was that, you know, there are other issues around the unhoused that, you know, are coming up and and uh um I I mean is is the request to have counsel and the public safety perspective at these meetings or is it a No, I mean I I I mean I would think it would stay in special studies for a while. I'm fine with that. I didn't know what the procedure was so Yeah. Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, there's always as long as we get going on this, we'll there will be a lot of things we have to tackle, unfortunately. But I think it was a good start. Uh we could spend hours on this and it's hard. I mean, this we all have a hard job on this. Um because we all have different feelings on this and how do you articulate the feeling that everyone can kind of gravitate towards and that's the trick. So if it takes more time it does but we we're going to try to get it right. So but please don't uh you know look at what other communities are doing. I mean really take a look at that of uh look what a municipal league the um their ordinance their sample ordinance and just visualize what maybe what's good and bad and pluck in some things that maybe that would apply to Jacksonville. You know the you know the vibe of this town more than anybody and what works and what doesn't and uh you know my view might be different than what Darcel is might be different than what Mary's is. So, but I think we all want to we know there's issues and we're going to try to solve them and we'll try to use our talents to do that. So, with that, any other new business? Okay, there's an adjournment. Motion by Don to adjurnn, second by Darcelo. We are adjourned. Thank you.