City Council - Regular Meeting

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I call the July 20, 2026 council meeting to order. Please stand and take off your cap for the pledge.

Aye. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Unmute Zoom.

Okay, thank you for all of you that are in attendance tonight, either in person or virtually. Appreciate you guys tuning in. And we will be moving on to our agenda tonight. We'll start with 1.3 with a roll call.

Rosenberg. Present. Mylord. Here. Lutz.

Here.

Stoffel.

Here.

Carney. Here. Foney.

Here.

Roach. Newcomb. Hudson. Here. Blackburn. Vorce. Here. Campbell. Here. Parchman. Here. Ford. Here.

Thank you. Missing three now. OK, we'll move on to 1.4. Everybody should have had the minutes sent in their packet from July 6, 2026. I need a motion and a second.

Make a motion. Second. Mylert.

We have a second from Mylert. Do we have any questions or discussion on 1.4? Seeing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. We move on to agenda item two, which is public hearings. We do not have any. Agenda item three is city presentations. We do not have any tonight. So we will move on to four, agenda item four, which is public comments. This portion of the city council meeting is reserved for any member of the public wishing to address the council. All remarks should be made to the council as a whole and not to individual members or the audience. The Illinois Open Meetings Act 5 ILCS 120 forward slash 1 mandates no action shall be taken on matters not listed on this agenda. The council may direct staff to address the topic or refer the matter to a committee. Please provide the city clerk with your name, speak into the microphone, limit your presentation to five minutes, and avoid repetitious comments. Thank you. Would anybody like to make public comments at this time? Just please, you just, yes, just approach.

All right, my name is Barney Miller, Ward 2. What I want to talk about is help us cut spending in a way to control spending. In the Air Force, we had a program called the Air Force Suggestion Program. And it was a way for people in the service, active duty or retired, contractors, civilian people, if you saw something at your work, you know, some day-to-day lines one, you put in a suggestion. If, let's say it's worth $1,000, you save that. Is that me?

We're trying to adjust. Would you be able to step closer to the mic? We were trying to turn it up for you. Okay.

Okay. Um, let's say you found a way to say to give a thousand dollars on an annual basis, you would get a reward of 10%, a hundred dollars. And then a friend of mine got a check from a 5,000 in the Philippines. Um, I was looking at some stuff here in the county and we have a budget for O'Fallon of about $108 million. And St. Clair County is right at 293 million. There has to be a way someplace where we can cut some spending. And we had a program goes back to 1973, called the Air Force Suggested Program. It then evolved through the government accounting office into the innovative deployment through employment, innovative development through employee awareness, IDEA, the IDEA program. And through that time, It saved about $200 million in fiscal 85. So this program goes back a ways. And being the government that it is, they had to give another name. So it's now called the API, Airmen Powered by Innovation. And it's steadily saving money. I think if we could put this out within the city employees, They can find a way to say, well, you know, we do things like this, but let's try that and maybe we can save some. That could be a big help. Because we're spending money like it's going out of style. In my own personal life, my taxes were $8,049 last year. That is unsustainable. So I'm trying to help. I can sit here and whine about it, but if you find a problem and don't have a solution, you're a whiner. If you find a problem and identify one viable solution, you're a professional. And I hope this can help. I do have a copy of this for y'all if y'all want them. I can lay them on the desk here.

Please.

Each one is about three pages long. The one page is what I'm talking about and pretty much finished. The last one is about two pages. This is the latest.

Can you please step up to the mic again, sir? So people online can hear you.

The last one, the last two pages, is the last document of the latest date, about 2016. It has some names from Scott. Now, all those people have left, but it does have a couple of websites that you can contact. And they can help us, I do believe. No one's going to get us out of this hole but us. And, you know, it is so bad that the state won't even talk about teacher pension, which is only 42% funded. Something's got to happen. That's it. Y'all have a good day. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Okay, if you would please step up to the mic.

Yes, sir. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. I'm Doug Gaines, Ward 7. I come before you not from a partisan perspective, but as a concerned citizen, resident who believes in the foundation of our republic. Free, fair, and transparent elections must be protected for every American citizen. Last week, the federal government released previously classified intelligence assessments, reports, and evidence exposing major election security concerns. These documents confirm what I've communicated to this council and the county board for over three years now. Our electronic voting and ballot counting systems have serious vulnerabilities. U.S. intelligence agencies confirm foreign interference in our elections by adversaries including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others. have indeed compromised U.S. election infrastructure, particularly centralized systems like voter registration databases and tabulation equipment. One assessment notes this poses a cyber threat aimed at the very heart of our republic. The documents reveal that China acquired sensitive data on approximately 220 million American voters. Additionally, Department of Homeland Security review a review identified roughly 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in our federal elections nationwide. These are not theories. They are findings from our own government now being made public by the CIA, FBI, DHS, and others. Independent security analysis reinforces these concerns. Studies, including one by Interos, have found that popular voting machine model, about 20% of the components trace to Chinese suppliers, with nearly 60% of the companies in our supply chain having locations in China. It is well documented that there are foreign-made parts in our voting equipment. The global supply chain for electronics creates real risk of compromise before our machines even reach the polling places. When systems rely heavily on paperless or loosely controlled processes, bad actors, foreign and domestic, can and do exploit them. The solution is straightforward and time-tested, hand-counted paper ballots. Paper ballots create a tangible voter verifiable record. Hand counting performed by trained bipartisan teams of verified American citizens under public observation eliminates reliance on proprietary software or foreign sourced elections that cannot be fully audited by the public. It restores trust because every citizen can see, touch, and verify the count. Combined with same-day voting, strict chain of custody, voter ID, and proof of citizenship, this approach makes large-scale, undetectable fraud nearly impossible. O'Fallon and St. Clair County can lead by example, and I urge this Council to 1. Pass a resolution supporting the transition to hand-counted paper ballots for all municipal elections. Request that St. Clair County Election Authority and or the State Board of Elections champion legislation requiring hand-counted paper ballots. And three, support federal efforts and executive actions on citizenship verification and mail-in ballot security. Our constitutional republic depends on citizens having confidence in their elections and that public servants are elected by the will of the people. Hand-counted paper ballots are the clearest path to that confidence. I strongly encourage this Council, and all citizens for that matter, to review the evidence and documentation available at whitehouse.gov slash election dash integrity as soon as possible, and take action accordingly to secure our elections ASAP. Thank you for your time, and God bless.

Thank you for your comments. Anyone else like to make public comments at this time?

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and City Council. My name is Melissa Hunter. I'm the Practice Manager for HSHS Occupational Health in O'Fallon. On Wednesday, July 16th, we were notified that they would be closing the occupational health service line completely. On the following day, they had emailed all of our clients, letting them know that they had 90 days services would end on October 16th. This is a huge issue for our community as we hold over 20 city contracts within seven cities. and further southern Illinois. We do all of our police pre-employment physicals, all of our firefighters, our EMTs, so on and so forth. One major contract that's a concern for our clinic that we don't necessarily handle, they do more central, is our IDOC contract. Out of nine districts, we service eight. We're looking at ways, Dr. Jacobson and myself, how to come up with a solution using another healthcare system and transitioning services. What I'm requesting from the council today is that you support us in this decision to possibly transition over to another local healthcare system. And I have a petition that we're requesting our chiefs to sign as well as all public officials so that when we go to the table with both healthcare systems, we have proof that our cities are backing us and that on October 16th, this is going to be an underserved service in all of Southern Illinois. We have four clinics. O'Fallon, Springfield, Effingham, and Decatur. All of them are closing. We will no longer provide services, and there is no other occupational health company service line that provides the service that we have. There is Gateway Regional, but they're not going to be around much longer, and Midwest Occupational in Wood River is limiting actually sending the O'Fallon Clinic people and employer groups. Not only do we hold cities service agreements, we also hold ones with Boeing, Army Corps of Engineers. These are services that we just cannot do without. We're gonna be looking at issues with public transportation, school buses, DOT, you name it. So I'm gonna leave these, there's a description on here on this petition. I encourage everyone to take a look at these and sign these, and I'm going to leave my card. So if anyone would like to contact me and talk to Dr. Jacobson and I, I will also be attending Belleville City Council meeting tonight as soon as I leave here. I've already talked to a few different mayors in different cities, and we have their support as well. That's all I have. Okay.

Thank you.

k would anybody else like to make public comments at this time uh... vernal or war three uh... pre-shared mister miller brought out back there but i couldn't hear him talk about anybody else Whatever information he had, I had no concept of, but hopefully you will follow some examples of whatever he brought up to show you, because I couldn't hear what he said. I know the man maybe doesn't talk loud like I do, or I don't know. I'm not putting him down, but I just couldn't understand what he said. Now on to another point, which deals with your corrections for you. Item 6.2, for an example, O'Fallon District, O'Fallon Downtown District Nights, August 14th of this year. Correction, it's not on a Friday, far as I know, it's a Thursday, the 9th of August. You might want to correct and check your books on that one. 6th of August. Excuse me?

The date is the August 6th is District Nights.

Well, then you got it wrong on the 14th, so I got it wrong too, so whatever. At least I brought it to your attention. I was closer than you were. So anyway, moving on to 6.3. Evidently, I didn't know O'Fallon local. 2817-1 represented the laborers or whatever they are here that you have that you furnish as far as laborers. I was under the impression that it was controlled by Local 100 out of East St. Louis. Evidently not. And I was wondering when the new local come about and where they are located in O'Fallon. You might make that in your comments tonight so I can find out that one. Now, moving on to your... Oh, I'm going to run out of time. You saw I'm going to make it a little short tonight. Instead of reading through all the notes. For example, you have three... Well, I've got one from focal point... You're redesigning or redoing, relocating the two sites pavers. Evidently, there was no contract. You just worn it outright. Don't worry, my notes are stapled, so I don't have to worry about that. Gonzaga and... Horner and Schiffwing, and Millennium, and Two Foot Away Merchant. Those are all three design companies, or four of them, excuse me, four design companies. I don't know why you can't get a package deal or something with these that you don't get nailed every two weeks for designs and stuff that needs to be done. And then another one, you've got Ameren Direct Energy Systems, Home field pick one you know that you're gonna deal with maybe you can cut a better deal than all three of them I have three different areas that you have to get electricity through Well, then we I haven't checked it yet, but I'll look around we spending eighteen thousand dollars nine or twenty two dollars seventy cents for cleaning this past system and Munich Outdoors, you spent $20,000 this month for cutting grass. Oh, and here's a real nice one I really like. Perfect Mound. You're buying pitching mounds for $17,168. Gee whiz, when I was in the JCs and whatever, we were just grateful to have dirt to pitch on top of a mound. I don't know where we're making professional ballplayers around here that they gotta have a real important mound like they're doing in the major leagues. I mean, if we're developing major leagues ballplayers, well, that's a new one to me. Roots was making your first payment for $70,000 for improvements on Booster Road. Bought some more copper for $30,000 for, I guess, to take care of the water lines and the meters that's going to be put in. You're spending $9 million on that. $61,305 for fencing around the soccer fields. And... I'll have to wait to the second portion. Thank you.

Okay, thank you for your comments. Would anyone else like to make public comments at this time? Seeing none, we will close public comments. We will move on to agenda item five, the clerk's report.

Mayor, thank you. I have no report tonight.

Thank you. We'll move on to agenda item six, the mayor's report. First one, 6.1, Serena Sparkle's Hooping Show, July 21, 2026, from 10.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. at the amphitheater. And as we just discussed, it is correct. We have O'Fallon District Nights, and it is August 6th from 5 to 9 p.m. I do want to let everybody know that we will be going into executive session tonight to discuss personnel, sale or purchase of land, and legal. We will be coming out of executive session and voting on 7.1 and 7.3. And that is all I have. For tonight's, we'll move on to resolutions. 7.1. Mr. Myler, please.

Nope.

7.1.

7.1 should be after. That's right.

Thank you. Yep. 7.2 will be Mrs. Watts.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that we approve a resolution authorizing the city administrator to execute the agreement with PGAV for zoning code and design update. Second. Myler.

We have a motion and a second from Mr. Myler. Do we have any discussion or comments on 7.2?

I do just have a question. Usually the motion is to authorize the mayor to execute an agreement, so I'm curious why this one is the city administrator.

Absolutely, because this is a contract for services, professional services, so typically the mayor has the authority to buy or improve road projects, but this is actually a professional services one.

So the city administrator always signs those professional services ones?

Not always, but certainly can.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay, do we have any other questions or comments on 7.2? Okay, seeing none, roll call, please.

Mylord. Yes.

Lotz.

Yes.

Stoffel.

Yes.

Carney. Yes. Thony.

Yes.

Roach. Yes. Hudson. Yes. Wurst. Yes. Campbell? Yes. Parchman? Yes. Ford? Yes. Rosenberg? Affirmative.

OK, thank you. Motion carries. As we mentioned, 7.3 will be voted on after executive session. We don't have any other resolutions tonight, so we'll move on to agenda item eight, which is ordinances first reading. We do not have any. So moving on to agenda item nine, ordinances second reading, and that is 9.1, Mrs. Lotz, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that we approve on second reading an ordinance amending title 11, chapter 110, business registrations.

Second, Campbell.

Okay, we have a motion and a second from Mr. Campbell. Do we have any comments or discussion on 9.1? Seeing none, roll call, please.

Lotz.

Yes.

Stoffel.

Yes.

Carney.

Yes. Foney.

Yes.

Roach. Yes. Hudson. Yes. Vorce. Yes. Campbell.

Yes.

Parchman. Yes. Ford. Yes. Rosenberg. Affirmative. Mylar. Yes.

Okay, thank you. Motion carries. Moving on to 9.2. Mrs. Lotz, please.

I move that we approve on second reading a mixed-use development for Central Park Phase 2.

Second, Vorce. We have a motion and we have a second for Mr. Vorce. Do we have any comments or discussions on 9.2? Seeing none, roll call, please.

Stoffel?

Yes.

Carney? Yes. Thony?

Yes.

Roach? Yes. Hudson? Yes. Wurst? Yes. Campbell?

Yes.

Parchman? Yes. Ford? Yes. Rosenberg? Affirmative. Mylar? Yes.

Lutz?

Yes.

Thank you, motion carries. Moving on to 9.3, Mrs. Lotz, please.

Thank you, I move that we approve on second reading an ordinance annexing certain territory containing approximately 40.02 acres at the existing Windsor Creek subdivision, O'Fallon, Illinois.

Second.

We have a motion, we have a second from Mr. Rosenberg. Do we have any comments or discussions on 9.3? Seeing none, roll call, please. Carney.

Yes. Froney.

Yes.

Roach. Yes. Hudson. Yes. Wurst. Yes. Campbell. Yes. Parchman. Yes. Ford. Yes. Rosenberg. Affirmative. Mylard. Yes. Lotz.

Yes.

Stoffel.

Yes.

Okay, thank you. Motion carries. Moving on to 9.4. Mrs. Lotz, please.

Thank you. I move that we approve on second reading an ordinance amending the O'Fallon future use, I'm sorry, future land use map for 1.01 acres located at 115 Orchard Street.

Second. Vorce.

We have a motion. We have a second for Mr. Vorce. Do we have any comments or discussion on 9.4? Seeing none, roll call, please. Foley.

Yes.

Roach? Yes. Hudson? Yes. Horst? Yes. Campbell?

Yes.

Parchman? Yes. Ford? Yes. Rosenberg? Affirmative. Mylar? Yes. Lotz?

Yes.

Stoffel?

Yes.

Carney?

Yes.

Okay, thank you. Motion carries. Moving on to 9.5, Mrs. Lotz, please.

Thank you. I move that we approve on second reading a single-family residence dwelling district at 115 Orchard Street.

Second, Vorce. We have a motion. We have a second for Mr. Vorce. Do we have any comments or questions on 9.5? Seeing none, roll call, please.

Roach. Yes. Hudson. Yes. Vorce. Yes. Campbell. Yes. Parchman. Yes. Ford. Yes. Rosenberg. Affirmative. Mylar. Yes. Lotz.

Yes.

Stoffel.

Yes.

Cardin. Yes. Boney.

Yes.

Okay, thank you. Motion carries. Moving on to 9.6. Mrs. Lotz, please.

Thank you. I move that we approve on second reading a residential subdivision for Windsor Creek Phase 6.

Second, Campbell.

We have a motion, a second from Mr. Campbell. Do we have any comments or discussion on 9.6? Seeing none, roll call, please.

Hudson? Yes. Vorce? Yes. Campbell? Yes. Parchman? Yes. Ford? Yes. Rosenberg? Affirmative. Mylar? Yes. Lotz?

Yes.

Stoffel?

Yes.

Carney? Yes. Phoning?

Yes.

Roach? Yes.

Okay, thank you, motion carries. Moving on to 9.7, Mrs. Lotz, please.

Thank you, I move that we approve on second reading and ordinance amending chapters 30, 31, and 32 of the O'Fallon City Code of Ordinances.

Second.

We have a motion and a second from Mr. Rosenberg. Do we have any comments or discussion on 9.7? Seeing none, roll call, please.

Force. Yes. Campbell. Yes. Parchment. Yes. Ford. Yes. Rosenberg. Affirmative. Mylar. Yes. Lotz.

Yes.

Stoffel.

Yes.

Carney. Yes. Floney.

Yes.

Roach. Yes.

Okay. Thank you. Motion carries.

Hudson. I got you. I got you. Okay.

Okay, thank you. Motion carries. We do not have any other ordinances for second reading, so we will move on to agenda item 10, which is our second session of public comments. I'm not going to reread the instructions, but they still do apply. So would anybody like to make public comments at this time? If you would like, you can. After Mr. Miller, did you... Okay, yeah, if you would just step up to the microphone, maybe adjust it a little bit.

It just sounded like I was stunned, but that's why I backed off.

Is this okay now? Yeah. Okay, all right. My name is Barney Miller, second ward under Ms. Lotz and Ms. Toffel. The subject is a way to cut spending with the Air Force Suggestion Program, and we can apply that here. Our county has a budget of $108 million, St. City. The county's budget is $293 million. So there's got to be someplace where we can save money. We had a program from 1973 called the Air Force Suggestion Program. And that has since been moved into the IDEA program. And then the federal government can't leave anything alone, so they changed it to the API. And that is... airman power by innovation and the party is if you find some way to viable cost savings was a four thousand dollars you would get a check for 10 percent a hundred dollars and be can I should be born I did have a friend who had a savings in the philippines for fifty thousand he got a check for five thousand so after a while it can be impressive as a way to save money i have all the references on here for things and in my packet back at my desk and the other two pages after this are the last docket for 1921 2021. And it talks about Scott Air Force Base. It does name some names and a website. Now, those people have since gone. But you've got a few things there, and the Department of Public Affairs can steer you to the right people as well. I know one for me, when I was in the service, the fiscal year was October 1st. Well, the last six weeks of the fiscal year was August 15th to October 1st. And you just had this use or lose mindset about everything. They would make us fly our planes. If you were scheduled four and a half hours, you had to fly 4.5 hours. Because if they lost that fuel this year, they don't get it next year. And we had a printer with paper. You'd sign this many original, this many copies. Same thing. If you do not use that paper, standard bond paper, By the end of the fiscal year, we didn't get the same amount the next year. And a friend of mine did stand up to that, and he got an all expense paid trip to the commander's office, so good for him. He learned. But stuff like that where people can help save some money around here, because no one's going to help us but us. The last two pages, again, that's the one here at Scott. I have the other documented stuff at my desk and in the packets. And have at it. Seriously, if everybody can hear me, I'm done.

Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Would anybody else like to make public comments?

I appreciate your information. Hopefully I can get a copy of that to take a look at. I understand what he's saying about saving bucks in the service. Unfortunately, I work for the government, too, and I understand how it's dollar here, dollar there. And you can get awards from the government saving money. I got a couple of them. And whatever, I mean, I received a, whatever it's worth, a hammer award, because I hammered out a bunch of stuff that needed to be done, and I got some money for that. So it can be done possibly, I don't know why it can't be done citywide. In reference to, well, I always bring up the point about your... Every two weeks, spending over a million bucks and whatever. Only you're down this month, this week, these two weeks, only down to $1,200,000. But Durkin Equipment hauled away some sludge for you for $7,800. Getty, I guess how you pronounce it, G-E-L, whatever. He did some pavement work and turf work for you out of the park for $7,800. $361,779 and change. Of course, I brought up about the architectural firms. Excuse me, I yell. All those that do that, and I don't know why you don't do a package deal. You got 18,000 you spent on Horner and Schifflin on the Greenmont Road. I don't understand why we can't get a package deal on doing the things that need to be done instead of keep paying out the nose. Millennium the same way, $22,205. TWM. for drawings that they did for you, $26,786.46. So this is the amount of money they tagged you this month for the drawings they're doing. I don't understand why you can't get a package deal, X number of dollars for the drawings and you get no more. And then... Wagner install did some installing work for you at the waste treatment facility waste wastewater treatment facility for just under I guess the 2500 budget because you could just deal it out to them for install and installation of whatever they did and And then you had the warning lights and signals and sirens and everything else paid out $17,532.10. Just a list of items. I know I'm gonna get rebuked on some of them from the pulpit up there, but that's fine. I'm just trying to bring out to the public, to the public who always sees the back of our heads, Welcome, public. I'm out here trying to show you where the money's being spent. And evidently, a lot of you don't care, or we're just status quo.

Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Would anybody else like to make comments at this time?

Carolyn Miller, Ward 3. I don't know if any of you realized it, but when the second reading ordinances were read, 9.4 was read twice and 9.5 was not read at all.

Yeah.

I'm not seeing them. The duplication.

9.4 item was made a motion by Jessica Lotz, seconded by Tom Vorce with a vote of 12 to 0, 9 to 5. Same motion, same second, same result.

Can the city clerk, can you confirm that?

Yeah.

Is that what you have? If I made a mistake, I'm happy to fix it. I just don't know. The number was set.

You said 9.5, but when you read it, it was 9.4 again.

Oh, okay.

So you're saying 9.4, 9.5 are duplicated? 9.5.

Yeah, she's suggesting that we should do 9.5 with the wording on 9.5, which I'm happy to do.

I thought we did that.

It's fine.

Okay.

Okay, since we have no more additional comments, we'll move on to agenda item 11, staff and council member comments. And we will turn it over to our city administrator, Mr. Littiken.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. A few notes today. So our budget is not an appropriation budget, similar to the federal government. So every year we budget according to our operations, and we do not operate in a manner where if we don't spend the money by the end of the year, it's not there next year. We do well to save for capital projects and put it in cash on hand and reserves, so we Can save for a rainy day and a major catastrophe There was a comment about 103 million dollar budget mind you that we do have enterprise services water and sewer which make up a significant amount of that budget We discussed District Knights the labor contract to be voted on tonight is with the AFSCME Local that is EMS and our paramedics the local laborers Which used to be located in O'Fallon is now local 100 out of East st. Louis that happened a number of years ago but again the contract we're reviewing tonight is with the AFSCME Union which is our EMS and paramedics and The perfect mounds expenditure of $17,000 are the mounds that go on the new turf fields, both replacement and new. We are not able to build dirt mounds on top of turf fields. There was a comment that the water meter replacement was nine million dollars. That's a gross overestimate Mr. Jeff Taylor presented to the council before we began that project with an estimated value of about three million. You will see in the bills paid last week that we again made 2,000 more purchases of the water meters and our crews are out replacing them every single day. We spoke about engineers. We use a number of engineers because most engineers have specialties. TWM engineers typically are road design. Horn and Schifrin is civil design. Gonzales Engineering is usually our water and Sewer Services and Millennium does a lot of storm water. There are two bills that appear to be both for electrical services with Ameren and Home Field. Home Field is who we buy power from. Ameren is who we pay for the streetlights. So while they both seem to be electric purchases, they are different services. Mr. Mayor, that is all I have tonight.

Okay. Does anyone on the leadership team have anything they would like to add tonight? Okay. Any of our council members?

I do, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to... share a little something from the weekend. Councilmember Hudson and I went out to different community events on Saturday. It was a very, very busy day. And I just wanted to share how inspiring it is to go out into our community and see so many groups, so many people. Reverend Brown over at the Faith Church, Hope House, sorry, the wonderful Historical Society, including Mr. Miller and Brian Keller and Carolyn doing all they do for the rededication of the We also saw the most decorated cheer team in O'Fallon fundraising for their next competition, the Cariel Cheer Team. But most impressively, I think we were caught off guard when Erin and I came across a young lady that was in need of some serious help. and we just wanted to thank Officer Bates for his kindness and compassion that he showed. I think we all know how lucky we are, but when we see those small moments in 106-degree feel-like temperatures, it was very touching. So please extend to him how thankful we are for his service to our community.

Okay. Thank you for your comments. Does anyone else have any comments they would like to make?

Just like to make comment on the road work that's going on over on Booster Road. There is now a cul-de-sac at the end of the road so that emergency vehicles can turn around when responding to events over on that side of town. The other thing is that the work on Pierce Boulevard, although it's hit some rough spots, the crews are keeping traffic flowing most days, and that's working out very well. So thank you for that.

Okay, Mr. Campbell, thank you for your comments. Does anyone else have anything they would like to add? I will just, as we've said in other meetings, one of the first things we do at the start of our meetings is we vote on the minutes. And every time we put our agenda out, we have the full warrant, every single expenditure during that period. So if anybody online wants to see everything that was spent during that period of time, we do include the full warrant on our agenda. So it's always there. That's all I have. So we will move on to agenda item number 12, which is the Community Development Report. Mrs. Lotz, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The committee did meet last week on July 13th. The draft minutes are attached, and we are scheduled to meet next Monday. We usually meet at 6 p.m., but sometimes it's at 5.30, so check the website to see if there are any updates. And we have addressed everything from committees that needed council action, so that's all I have.

Thank you. Moving on to agenda item 13, that's public works report. Mr. Rosenberg, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have not met since the last full city council meeting. Our next meeting is scheduled for next Monday, scheduled for 7 p.m., but as Jessica said, check the website. Times do change.

Okay, thank you. Agenda item 14 is public safety. Mr. Mylert, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The July 13th meeting was canceled due to lack of business. Next scheduled meeting, August 10th at 630. Check the website.

Okay, thank you. Let's move on to agenda item 15, parks and environment. Mr. Vorce, please.

Thank you, sir.

We have not met since the last council meeting, so the next scheduled meeting is August the 10th. Check the website for details.

Okay, thank you. Agenda item 16, Finance and Administration. Mr. Parchman, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have not met since the last meeting. Our next meeting should be next Monday as long as we have business at 530. Check the website for changes. We do have one item for approval, which would be 16.1, the warrant approval. So I'd like to make a motion to approve warrant number 587 in the amount of $1,294,841.04. Second, Campbell.

Okay, we have a motion and a second from Mr. Campbell. Do we have any comments or questions on 16.1?

Yes, Mr. Mayor. As an Ameren employee, I do consent to all items listed with the exception of the multiple Ameren payments on page two. And for that reason, I am abstaining from this vote.

Okay, thank you. Okay, seeing no other questions or comments, roll call, please. Hudson. Hudson.

Yes. Wurst? Yes. Campbell? Yes. Parchman? Yes. Ford? Yes. Rosenberg? Affirmative. Lallard? Yes. Lotz? Yes. Stoffel? Yes. Carney? Yes. Boney?

Abstain.

Roach? Yes.

Okay, motion carries. Thank you. As I mentioned in the mayor's report, we are going to executive session. For those online, when we do go to executive session, we close down the Zoom link. We do not reestablish it when we come out of executive session to vote on the two items we talked about earlier. So at this point, can I get a motion to go into executive session? Oh, yes, I'm sorry. Litigation, property, and personnel will be what we're going into executive session for tonight. So moved. We have a motion from Mr. Rosenberg and a second from Mrs. Lotz. Roll call, please. Morse. Yes. Campbell.

Yes.

Parchman. Yes. Ford. Yes. Rosenberg. Affirmative. Mylar. Yes. Lotz.

Yes.

Stoffel?

Yes.

Carney? Yes. Foney?

Yes.

Roach? Yes. Hudson? Yes.

Okay, thank you. Motion carries at this time.