City Council Meeting/Strategic Session - Regular Meeting

Ready? Yep. Ready? Yep. Okay.

I'd like to call the council city council meeting for 02/24/2026 to order. Roll call.

Seton is absent. Houseman?

Here.

Furman?

Here.

Green? Here. Stamen?

Here. We'll not have an indication tonight, but would everyone please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and Logan McClain, a Boy Scout Thank you, Logan. It's always nice to see our youth participating in these events. So thanks again.

First item tonight is the swearing in ceremony of Isaiah Code as firefighter.

Chief Balo, make the presentation.

Good evening, mayor, members of the council. I'm very happy to introduce our newest member of the fire department, Isaiah Code. He just started with us yesterday, as a matter of fact. It was his first day. So Isaiah comes with us with two years of experience at MedStar Ambulance and three years of volunteer experience with Fairview Heights Fire Protection District. He will be going to the SWCC Fire Academy. If you remember, we donated the fire truck to the SWCC Academy. So he'll get to use that in his training. And we're excited for that at least March 8 and come back May 1 is his graduation. He was one of our students.

We've talked a lot about at times about our students and how we're working with all the different schools, paramedic schools, and he was one of our students. And so he got the experience and mentorship of our highly trained paramedics to get him to to the level that he's at. So with him tonight is his wife, Samantha. They're expecting their first child to do the end of this month. Mayor?

So

mayor, if I could take just one more minute. As you know, we usually do a pinning ceremony. And as a new firefighter, it's one of the memories that will last forever. The first pin that a firefighter gets, first badge, you just don't forget that. So if I can have his wife, Samantha, come up. Gonna pin that badge up.

Right. Next item.

Next item, business prior to public input. Item one is the ordinance rezoning 206 Vandalia from B2 Limited Commercial District to PUCD planned Uptown Commercial District.

The presentation will be given by senior planner, Caitlin Rice.

Thank you, Mayor Seaman and members of the council. This first item before you this evening is rezoning for master auto at 206 Vandalia Street. Some some background about this property. It was a structure that was built in 1960, and all three parcels under consideration have been owned by Starnes Properties LLC since 2018. The northern portion has remained vacant since the demolition of a commercial structure between 2006 and 2012, And Master Auto is seeking to expand their parking lot to meet their growing needs of their business, and that is triggering the rezone request this evening.

With this rezoning and site plan, they are consolidating and rearranging the lots from three to two, adding those 11 new parking spaces and including a dumpster enclosure, storm water detention, and landscaping improvements. The plan district request is being sought this evening to permit a legally nonconforming use of MedStar Auto and therefore also permitting the parking lot expansion. The ordinance this evening will permit the existing automotive use on Lot A only and then of the new subdivision being proposed and any automotive use development on Lot B that is currently undeveloped would require amending that district in the future. So here is the site layout. And, also, you can see the Lot A and Lot B separation there for some context.

So the new lot line is gonna be right down the middle and the other end of the detention basin. All of the improvements here do meet the zoning regulations and the Uptown Collinsville guidelines. We do require a buffer, a fence buffer with broader inner aluminum tubing with brick piers between parking areas and sidewalks, which is proposed on the new parking area here. And the new dumpster enclosure is going where the dumpster currently sits on the site. And anything in the dark gray is just the new pavement.

Nothing else on the site is changing. Landscaping is being included as well for this development. Some key points is the transition buffer between the existing parking spaces and the residents to the east. There is some brush and overgrowth that's currently around this property line that they will be removing and then putting in some evergreen trees to help screen that existing area. There is some landscaping in the detention basin as required by code.

However, the Planning Commission did request some additional landscaping for the detention area to kind of complement the uptown area as well. And then the general tree requirements and some ornamental landscaping around the parking area does meet our regulations. So here is the property. This is just directly where the parking lot's going. It's the north side of the building.

This is a view from the other side of Vandalia. And then anything you see in the right picture is the vacant that's proposed to remain mostly vacant as well. Here's some pictures of the existing structure and parking area. Nothing is really changing over here. And then this is basically almost the direct access from East Clay Street looking straight back where the parking lot will be coming off to the right in the dumpster location and where the new landscaping will be going between the residents in this parking lot.

So for land use, this property is Zone B2 and is located in the Uptown Planning Area. So whenever a new development, redevelopment or change of use occurs, we do trigger rezoning to our Uptown Console District or UCD. This is a planned Uptown Console District proposed this evening due to the nonconforming land use. And this is also located in the Market District Of Uptown. So what is a nonconforming land use or a nonconforming structure and why does that matter?

Nonconforming uses or structures are essentially uses or structures that were permitted prior adoption of an ordinance that made them not permitted. So in this case, an automotive use used to be permitted at some point in time prior to the adoption of the Uptown Master Plan in its 2009 zoning ordinance update. So when you have a non performing use or structure, you are legally allowed to remain and continue, do ordinary repair or maintenance. However, if you want to extend, expand, enlarge, or increase intensity, it does trigger compliance with the updated zoning ordinances. There's also a caveat that if the use is abandoned or discontinued for a period of twelve months, the use may not be reestablished.

So with the Uptown Master Plan, they subdivided Uptown into three districts, the Garden, the Central Business District, and the Market. The other side of Vandalia, the East Side, is the Market District where this property is located. And this has a vision of establishing itself as a viable retail, residential mixed use area through an eclectic mix of uses and design approaches. This building was built in 1960 originally for a grocer and then converted not too long after to an automotive repair use. The use became legally nonconforming after updates through that master plan and 2009 zoning ordinance updates that we're seeking to phase out automotive uses in Uptown.

This specific property is designated as suitable for regional retail and including destination personal services that have a emphasis on convenient access for employees or visitors. Staff finds that the use is very long standing. It is shown successful by a need and provides a service that is necessary in this area and the city in general and has with the expansions of the parking to mitigate impacts to neighboring properties. So we'll go into the zoning analysis criteria now. The first one is does it fit the character of the neighborhood?

This is a market district and it is separated from the rest of the town by Route 159 or Vandalia. This area has a mixed use of retail, service, institutional and residential. However, there are some many vacant commercial properties in this area more along the Main Street side highlighted in red on the map on the board. The Sonderk property in use is legally nonconforming, but it was also built and utilized prior to the adoption of the Uptown Master Plan. And staff does find that the proposed use is on that northern edge of the Uptown District.

It's in a unique spot of Budding 159 and provides a convenient service to visitors and residents. And staff finds that the proposed improvements also do fit the character of the neighborhood as well. Next criteria is does this promote health, safety, quality of life, comfort, and general welfare? Staff does find that this is met, primarily not just the improvements that they're proposing to help screen buffer and just generally improve the site in their proposed expansion, But also due to the ordinance, I'm only permitting the automotive use on the part that's existing. That way, if a new development came in, all of them will be zoned PUCD.

However, they will not all have the lobby will not have the right to just walk in and do another automotive use right there. They would have to come back for further consideration and analysis. So I've just find that as consistent with the comprehensive plan and regulations of the city as we described earlier. There is adequate public utilities and other public services at the site and the use under its existing zoning, the B 2 Commercial District. It does permit automotive repair uses but as a planned use.

However, the Uptown Consul District that we're zoning to does not. That's why we have the planned district request. However, that would have been required for a new development in the B 2 anyway. And staff does find that it is compatible with the proposed district classification in nearby properties. Will the zoning amendment affect nearby properties?

Nearby uses include office, retail and residential or institutional. All properties are also looking in the same uptown planning area and the expansion and proposed improvements will reduce pressure on public street parking, include a dumpster enclosure and evergreen trees planted to help screen the use. Overall, staff does find that all the zoning analysis criteria are met with this proposal and is recommending approval from rezoning B2 to PUCD, Planned Uptown Council District. And I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Is there any questions or comments from the council? I don't have any. No. Okay. Being none, we have a motion to approve.

Motion to approve.

I'll second it.

Motion by Furman, seconded by Green. Roll call.

Houseman?

Yes.

Furman?

Yes.

Green? Yes. Stamen?

Yes.

Item number two is ordinance rezoning 709 Rose Avenue from r two one and two family residential district to p r two plan one and two family residential district.

Again, Caitlin.

Thank you again, mayor Steenman and members of the council. This item before you here is involving a request to develop a duplex on 709 Rose Avenue. The lot is currently zoned R two, one, and two family residential district and the proposed request is a plan district as is required by our land use table for any new development. The applicants requesting construction of a two unit duplex which each unit having three beds, three baths, and two car garage in their own driveway. And there's one parcel about point four six acres in size.

There previously was developed with a single family home on the spot that was demolished somewhere between 2015 and 2022. Madison County took ownership in 2023 due to delinquent taxes and it was sold to Hunseeker Properties, the applicant in 2025. This area is a mix of mostly single family and some multifamily land uses and districts. So here is a picture of the subject property. It is vacant.

It does have all access to utilities, water is your existing, and it has a direct access off of Rose Avenue, a public street. And to the right is the proposed general site plan and layout. You can see the two car garages for each unit, their own private driveway, and all setbacks and lot coverage requirements are being met. Here's the proposed architectural elevations of the building. It is mostly vinyl with masonry on the front, and it is a one story unit that does have a finished basement.

As you can see, kind of the grade changes require one to have a deck out the back and one to have a walkout on Ground Level. The 1st Floor plan, each unit does contain almost 1,300 square feet of living area. And this 1st Floor will have two beds and two baths, access to the two car garage and a covered front porch for each unit. And the finished basement floor plan ranges about six twenty three to seven fifteen square feet of living area. They each have one bed, one bath, and they have the egress window, which allows it to be as a bedroom and a concrete patio and a deck at the back for access to it.

So the zoning and future land use map show here the subject property is in blue, and it is nestled in a block of existing r two properties as well. There are some other r two properties in the area, and there's also mostly r one or r one a single family. The properties highlighted in red are those that are confirmed to be developed with multifamily land uses. The future land use map on the right, everything in yellow, including this property, is designated as a single family. So some more context of versus zoning map versus what is developed in the area.

The pictures to the left or to the left here are both from the south. We have a single family home and multifamily home across the street from the property. There's a further down the block is another multifamily property. And then adjacent east and west are two single family properties. So getting some history of, you know, it looks kinda weird why is this one block r two and the most of the areas either kinda sporadic r two or r one single family.

So I looked up the old zoning maps and found up to 1986 that this property in the surrounding area was owned r two one and two family residential. The map on the top right there is 1982. It is almost the same specifically in context to this property. The nineteen eighty six one just wasn't as legible. The 2010 map below shows the conditions after several mass vonings after the adoption of the comprehensive plan in 2006.

The most recent was 2019. There is many R2 and R3 parcels were rezoned to R1 single family to match the comprehensive plan of future land use map. The subject property and its surrounding block of R2 were not identified as any of those rezoning phases. And I think typically that was because if they were already developed with something, they were tended to be left alone. But regardless, it has been R2 since 1986 as well as those surrounding properties.

So looking at our zoning analysis criteria, does this fit the character of the neighborhood? The surrounding area is a mix of single family and multifamily residential. The R 2 District is intended for either single family, single family attached or duplex two unit buildings. And it's kind of the medium intensity residential district in between multifamily and single family. These subject property in the Jason ones have been zoned r two since at least 1986.

And there is some multi family in the area so overall staff does find that does meet the character of the neighborhood. Does it promote health safety quality of life comfort in general welfare. The proposal does meet all of our zoning regulations. So there's no concern with that. However, it does have two units with three beds and three baths each.

It is kind of discussed a lot in the national needs of the market and residential development is looking for three bed and two plus baths or more units. Well, it's not single family. It does provide two options for residents or future residents living in Collinsville that meets that need in an appropriate existing zoning district. Is it consistent with the comprehensive plan and regulations? So staff's research into the comprehensive plan does find that it does meet the intent of the comprehensive plan as it does call for the development of quality infill homes between 900 to 1,200 square feet.

Each unit is over that amount of area. It does restrict multi family residential to the Western Bluff region and near Main Street. This is within 0.5 miles of Main Street and 0.3 from Willowbee Farm. And staff opinion that the proposed use is consistent with the conference of planning regulations however does conflict with the future land use map so should the city council city council agree with staffs interpretation that future land use map should adjusted as such. There are adequate public utilities and services at this location.

It is the proposed use is suitable under the existing zoning district. It's been since 1986. And as well as the adjacent parcels that are zoned R two. It is compatible with the proposed district classification with the nearby properties. The four directly adjacent R. R. 2. There's a sprinkle of R. 2 in the area and there is a lot of single family zoning in the area as well. But overall, staff does find that the proposed zoning amendment will not detrimentally in fact affect nearby property and there's no disproportionate loss to the landowners and overall as a public gain with the two new housing units. With that staff does recommend approval of the rezoning request from R2 to PR2 planned one and two family residential district for 709 Rose. And I'd happy to answer any questions.

Any questions or comments from the council regarding this? Caitlin, I'm having a hard time telling exactly where that's. So it is East Of Summit Avenue?

Yes. I can't see the map very well. But yes, it is this is better. Yeah. So it's here Summit, and it is east.

Okay. Alright. I'm familiar with that lot over there. Okay. Alright. Any other comments or questions from the council? Nope. Or for Caitlin? Okay, being none, a motion to approve. Motion.

Second.

Motion by Houseman, second by Furman. Roll call.

Houseman?

Yes.

Furman?

Yes.

Green? Yes. Stamen?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next item is speakers from the floor.

Speakers may address the council under the terms of ardentous number 4765. Time is limited to four minutes per speaker. Please refer to the last page of the agenda for our specific rules governing input. Is there anyone on my left side of the room that would like to speak? Anyone on the right side? If so, go to the podium and state your name.

My name is Peter Stamen. I live at 5 Doe Run Trail, which for those of you maybe not familiar with the Sugarloaf Road area. Relevant to this, I've retired as fire chief in this community after about twenty eight years and thirty five years of fire service experience total. I want to speak to you tonight about the new fire station construction which was approved last meeting. And I wanna say thank you to this council.

Thank you to the city manager, Derek Jackson, fire chief, John Balo, and the former chief, Kevin Ed, for their efforts. Thank you for making this station finally come to fruition. Thank you for making this first, and I say first step, in improving response times to underserved areas of the city. The new building's fine. The newer facilities is fine.

But the key thing to keep your eye on here in this whole process is we're trying to better serve the residents with the response times for the fire department. I recognize this need when I became chief nearly twenty years ago as the Chief Edmond and Chief Balow. So I appreciate the fact that we now have a council that also appreciates the scope of this problem and taking the action to deal with it. I know the $7,000,000 price tag seems high, but you, know, we're all we're all paying the piper for this project that's been kicked like a can down the road for someone else to deal with for more than twenty years. That's the fact of the matter.

I heard knew from previous meetings there were some council questions that perhaps the station was being overbuilt. I don't I believe those concerns are unfounded. During my time with the city, I've seen councils direct building of a police department in 2000 that was basically the department had outgrown before they ever occupied the building. In 2006, fire station one was built, which was both too small and ill located to provide adequate coverage to its first two area of the city. We can have the best fire department in the world, and I believe we've got a very darn good one.

But it is worth but it's worth is greatly diminished if the stations are not within the desired response. A window of about four minutes is what we're shooting for our chief. Four and a half. And that's basically in time to save a cardiac arrest victim or contain a fire to its room of origin. This brings me to the final point.

I want to remind the console that this station is the first step in providing proper response times to the underserved areas of in the corners of the city. When the station opens in a year or so from now the response time to my home which is not good now I unofficially seven to eight minutes I think the response time to my home will get even worse. But I am not complaining. I'm not complaining in the slightest because I know this is the first step in fixing the station location issue. It is a multi part solution.

I know that response time will temporarily get worse in the Northwest corner of the city, but you're fixing the response time issue in the Northeast corner of the city, the Collinwood area. So I appreciate what the city has already acquired land on United Drive for Station 3 and that will certainly better serve the Sugarloaf area when that station is done. Please don't delay in the planning for that station. As you know, it can theoretically be smaller than the Station 2 And you've already got a finished lot to work on. So there's a lot going for you in that direction.

Please don't kick the can down the road after the first lap of this two lap race. Again, thank you for dealing with this complex and costly but also life saving issue. Thank you.

Thank you. Good timing. Anyone else on the side room? Okay, being none, next item.

Comments and announcements from the mayor?

Yeah, I would like to bring to attention something we attended the other day. It was the ribbon cutting for Tech Lab on United Drive. In fact, right next to the property that the city purchased for the future station number three. This is a big expansion from the building they had on Harsue Lake Road. 30 something 36,000 feet I believe.

But it's a $10,000,000 investment in the community adding another 40 jobs. And we're just thrilled to see that not only have they started in Collinsville in 1982, They've moved to the building they're in currently and now moved into this. That shows their commitment to Collinsville and their investment they've made. And this was made possible by several different government entities. Of course, the city worked with them, the Madison County Economic Development Group, the State of Illinois, DCO, Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

So it's a collective effort of a lot of government agencies to help them and of course the Reilly family to make this happen. So it was a great thing to see for Collinsville. And of course, I like to tell people to visit or patronize that. It's a pretty specialized business, it serves a lot of communities and a lot of businesses and analyzing like our water for instance. We have water samples taken there and sewer samples and things. So anyway, just a shout out to the Reilly family for the commitment to stay in Collensville and build that facility. That's all I have.

Comments and announcements from council members?

Anyone? Okay. Next time.

Texas City Staff.

Thank you, mayor, members of the council. We have two quick announcements for you this evening. First can I have Kimberly Corn our parks and rec director come up and talk about some programming in the parks and rec department?

Mayor Seaman and members of the council have a couple programs to highlight tonight. One of which is our upcoming Shamrock, the Park program. This is where we encourage people to paint rocks and put them out in our park to help beautify our park and then use it as kind of a scavenger hunt. It's a free program. We have kits that can be picked up at the activity center And then a broad announcement to say that the programming for the aqua park is registration is open now. So that will be junior guard and all the swim lessons and water aerobics and even the river walk. So all that can be found on our website and or by calling or visiting us at the activity center. Thank you.

Great. Thanks, Kimberly. Next, have Troy Turner. Troy is our public works director. Counsel, as you know, one of our big capital improvement projects for this year is Summit Avenue. Troy is going to give a overview of the project and talk about the timetable for construction coming up in the months to come.

Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Just kind of want to go over this project. We've had it on the books for quite a long time. The first phase, we got funded in 2019. The second phase, funded in 2022.

Right after we got that, IDAU allowed us to combine them so we wouldn't have a construction project. And then a couple of couple of years later, construct right next to it, kind of give us a little bit more scale as well. Going through the project, we opened we received recently a $1,300,000 grant from the state, which greatly helped cover our costs on this project. Keller Construction was a low bid at $2,200,000 And this kind of just lays out the funding that we've gotten for this. And so we are expecting all of the funding that we've gotten to cover the complete cost of this project minus the original preliminary engineering.

This is kind of a take timetable. I talked to Keller. They are planning on mobilizing on April 1, but this is the schedule they've given me. They're gonna start doing some stormwater and some excavation at the May. They'll have detours set up and all the traffic control up.

The goal is they're going to be working around the school bus route schedule to try to limit impacts. So they're gonna try to make sure they're not doing a lot of work that'll mess with the road when they're we're working working with the road. And working of the reason it's going to take so long is it's kind of a tight corridor through there right now and they've got some retaining walls they have to build. And so building those and keeping workers safe and keeping traffic moving is going it's be a lot of work for them especially with making sure the houses stay safe as well. So I just want to give you guys an update, let you know where we were.

If there's any items you guys are concerned about, I'd be happy to talk about them.

Any other questions or comments for Troy? To see it Thanks. We just got through talking about Tech Lab and the grants they received, help they received. It's really important on all these projects to see what those grants mean. I mean, to know that we're getting this done with very little output from the city, our money from the city is great. Tremendous effort to get those state funds. And that goes for the staff that's made that effort to do that. So thank you all. So glad to see it going. Thank you.

That's all we have for staff

comments. Okay. Next item.

Next is the consent agenda. Item one, motion to approve payment of bills for the period ending 02/13/2026 in the amount of $1,529,332.56. Item two, motion to approve payroll for the period ending 01/30/2026 in the amount of $884,298.53. Item three, motion to approve minutes of the 02/10/2026 council meeting. And item number four is the ordinance authorizing the mayor or city manager to enter into an Illinois workers compensation settlement agreement for David Scott.

Is there any items in the consent agenda that the council would like to remove and vote on separately? If not, have motion to approve.

So moved. Second.

Motion by Green, second by Furman. Roll call.

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

Yes.

Next under new business, item one is an ordinance authorizing the execution of collective bargaining agreement between the city of Helensville and FOP Lodge one zero three.

Presentation be given by police chief Brett Borham.

Thank you, mayor Stamen, members of city council. Before you this evening is an ordinance authorizing the execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the city of Collinsville and the Collinsville Lodge one zero three of the fraternal order of police. So as you guys know, the current collective bargaining agreement between the city and the FOP expired on 12/31/2025 After what I would describe to be contentious negotiations in 2022, I think both parties entered this negotiating process eager to get a deal done quickly. After two negotiating sessions, a tentative deal was struck on 12/05/2025 on a three year agreement, which was ratified by the union on the January 24 and is now subject to your approval tonight. Just to provide a few highlights of of significant changes, We agreed on a wage package in 2026 of three and a half percent.

And then like similar language you've seen in previous contracts, in 2027 and 2028, we agreed upon some CPI language with a 3% floor and a ceiling of 4%. We agreed on an increase in field training officer compensation from sixteen hours to twenty four hours for every step that the trainer is training a new employee. Detectives will receive one eight hour, what we call a Kelly day. It's essentially comp time for each month that they're on call. And then we made some changes or agreed to some changes with the vacation schedule From from the tenth anniversary of the employee to the fifteenth anniversary, they get a hundred and sixty hours of vacation time that had previously been tenth anniversary to the nineteenth anniversary.

Sixteenth anniversary to 19 is now a hundred and eighty hours. And at their twentieth anniversary, it's two hundred and forty hours. And this kind of puts it in line with other other municipalities in the area and their vacation schedule. And then finally, from the management point of view, we changed or I I asked for changes in the requirement of having six months requirement to post schedule changes. It's been a bone of contention for us for a very long time.

There's some obstacles when it comes to scheduling training days. So with the current contract requires six months. I asked for for thirty days. I didn't quite get there, but we did agree on three months. And we will continue to work on that in in future negotiating sessions. So and before I ask for approval, I would just like to take a minute to commend the FOP. They were very reasonable in their approach this time around. They have a history of being very reasonable when it comes to collective bargaining and recognizing some of the financial challenges that the city does experience. And I do just wanna commend them for being good partners this time around. So with that said, staff recommends approval and I'd

be happy to take any questions.

Any questions or comments for Chief? I have a motion to approve. So moved. I'll second it. Motion by Houseman, second by Furman, I would say.

Houseman?

Yes.

Furman?

Yes.

Green? Yes. Stamen?

Yes. Next time.

Item number two is the ordinance authorized the mayor to execute one a standard form agreement between owner and the construction manager as constructor and item number two is an AIA document exhibit a guaranteed price amendment between the city of Collinsville and Holland Construction Services with regards to the Park and recreation maintenance building.

Presentation be given by parks director Kimberly Corin.

Easy for you to say, Kim. Fair statement of members of council. We are here tonight to hopefully approve this ordinance setting forth an agreement affirm with formal relationship between the city and Holland Construction for the construction services for the parks maintenance facility plan to be in Woodland Park. The agreement establishes a guaranteed maximum price of $96,478 to include the preliminary design building design, me and then the preconstruction fee of 52,000. The total project cost for this is estimated to be at $1,000,000 and that's what it is budgeted for in

the

current TIP. And let's see. This is a first step in a two step process here where we need to get the design work done first and then it will go out to bid and then bids will come back to City Council to proceed with the construction of project. This is probably the greatest need in the parks department right now with the lease of the Greatway Fund Park for a purpose that is better suited for what the Gateway Fund Park is. The Parks Department is without a home and so we need to establish a primary location for them and a safe place for their equipment as well.

I would be happy to answer any questions and we also have Greg, he just told me his last name, Getti? Yes, from Holland here if there's a question that's above my knowledge and or Derek's knowledge.

Any other questions or

So the location is where the previous facility was?

In that general area. Not a highly used area of the park. There are maybe one or two disc golf pools over there which we'll try to work around. And there are some great changes there so that might depending on how the design works out will either incorporate those great changes or work to level it out so that there's a better spot for the shop. But yes, that part will be worked out in the design but tucked away in that corner kind of out of public view but still in that highly used park.

One of the things that I think we were looking for on this is being able to capitalize on the fact that Holland Construction is doing fire department. This is a stone's throw away from that project and hopefully we realize some savings or benefit from that. So these will be going on concurrently. This

will

be a little behind of course but it's not near the building. So any other questions? Being none, have a motion to approve.

So moved.

I'll second it.

Motion by Furman, seconded by Green. Roll call.

Kaufman?

Yes.

Furman?

Yes.

Green? Yes. Stamen?

Yes. Thank you.

Item number three is a resolution appointing a member to the Planning Commission, Alex Dow.

Presentation by committee of all director, Travis Taylor.

Thank you, mayor and members of council. Tonight, I bring forward a an appointment to the Planning Commission. Gentleman is Alex Dow. He's a lifelong born and raised Collinsville resident. He is looking to get involved with the community. Mayor and I met with mister Dow a month or so ago, and we are happy to recommend his appointment this evening. This would bring our planning commission back up to seven seated members. We still have two vacancies and if appointed this evening Mr. Dow would be appointed for a three year term concluding in 2029. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions, comments? No questions, but thank you for participating. Very much appreciated. Yes, thanks, Alex and Bud. We need volunteers for the other two positions. So hopefully somebody, there's a couple other people out there that want to be involved just like Alex did.

Please invite anybody who's interested to contact me directly and we can talk about the position and the commission itself.

Okay.

Motion to approve. So move.

I'll second it.

Motion by House and second by Green. Roll call.

Houseman.

Yes.

Furman.

Yes.

Green. Yes. Stamen.

Yes.

Last is adjourned.

To adjourn.

So moved.

Second.

Motion by Green, second by Furman. Roll call.

Houseman.

Yes.

Furman.

Yes.

Green. Yes. Stamen.

Yes. City council meeting for January, 02/24/2026 adjourned.