City Council - Regular Meeting

I opposed petitions. No petitions and no communications. And the claims are in the hands of the alderman. Is there a motion to pay claims this seat? Evening, Alderman Cook, second by Alderman Lachman. All those in favor of paying claims, please respond by saying I. I.

Opposed. Under the mayor's report, the first item is reappoint of Vicky Scott to the cemetery board. Term to expire January 1st, 2031. Voice vote. All those in favor of reappointing Vicki. Vicky Scott, please respond by saying I. I.

Opposed. Item number two, reappointment of Diane Hollander and Laura Marx and Lisa Hall to the Jacksonville Area Museum Board. term to expire January 1st, 2030. Voice vote. All those in favor of approving Diane, Laura, and Lisa to the museum board, please respond by saying I. I.

Opposed. And item number three is the resolution authorizing execution of the Rice Grant Rise Grant application. I knew I was going to do that. including a 20% match by the city of Jacksonville. Is there a motion for this grant? Alderman Speed second by Alderman Ruben Delis. It resolved uh that the city of Jacksonville here was here by does approve execution and acceptance of the rise grant uh for affordable housing in Jacksonville including the 20% match on behalf of the city.

Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, I would ask the clerk to please call roll. Cook, yes. Heath, yes. Henry, yes. Lockchman, yes. Pollic, yes. Ruben Dellis, yes. Scott, yes. Speed, yes. Motion carries. I may add, we will now proceed with the purchase of that ground, but it's kind of on the time frame that the seller wants to set because he will most likely 1031 exchange where he sells this property and reinvest. So, he's got to find some more purchase, but certainly it'll be coming up pretty quick.

Thank you. Um, city clerk's report tonight. Thank you. Uh, you should have received the community development department report, city clerk's cash receipts report, city clerk's general fund budget report, and revenue analysis report. All four month ending December 31st, 2025. Uh, if you have any questions, let me know.

Thank Thank you. Uh, any public comment at this time? Seeing none, consent agenda items. And before we go, we'll pull item number or the first part of planning and public works, the 300 Northeast Street. That'll be pulled off that. So Aaron, if you can just read. Okay. Consent agenda items tonight. Finance, IT, and personnel. Alderman Cook. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have three two items tonight. First one is a resolution authorizing payment from the capital improvement fund for certain improvement projects. And the second item is a resolution authorizing payments from the general fund for services rendered.

Thank you. Planning and public works. Alderman Scott. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have one item. It's the resolution authorizing assignment of lean for 500 Caldwell Street to the Two Rivers Land Bank. Public Protection Arman Speed. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have one item resolution. Resolution authorizing intergovernmental agreement with the central west central joint emergency telephone system board regarding a countywide radio system.

Thank you. Utility alderman Paul Thank you. Is there a second? Alderman Scott, you've heard the items under the consent agenda this evening. Is there any you wish to pull for further discussion? Seeing none, I would ask the clerk to please call roll. Cook, yes. Keith, yes. Henry, yes. Lachman, yes. Pollock, yes. Ruben Dellis,

yes. Scott, yes. speed. Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Any old business tonight? Old business. I have one thing, Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir.

Um, you all got a copy of the revised uh proposal for the no camping ordinance. Uh, if you know, rather than going through it all, uh, the things that have changed were the fines were lowered as we requested as as the social service agencies requested. Um, and it's in a rolling 12-month period. So, that's uh that's good. They're also able to work off they would also be able to work off their fines uh through um community service. So, that's outlined in in the proposed ordinance. The other thing is that um there there's still a little bit of an issue with where we're going to store goods if they should get arrested, but uh chief felt pretty confident that that we can come to some kind of consensus on that. So, we'll call a um a special committee meeting before the next uh workshop and see if we can't hopefully we'll make a recommendation uh from that and we can maybe have first reading of the ordinance on the next meeting.

Thank you. Very good. Thank you, Joe. Any other old business tonight? Any new business? Just a reminder of the Jacksonville NAACP living the dream Martin Luther King celebration that is going to take place on January the 19th. Um a 10 o'clock caravan for Mount Emory Baptist Church u to the community center and the program at the community center begins at 11 o'clock and this is on January the 19th. Okay. And it is free and open to the public. Very good. Thank you Darcel. Okay. Motion to adjurnn.

Alderman Cook. We have a motion by Alderman Cook to adjurnn. Second by Alderman Pollock. We are adjourned.