City Council - Regular Meeting

Clerk Redpath, can you please call the roll?

Thank you. Can I get a motion for Alderman? Second. We have a motion and a second for Alderman Cox to join by phone. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Those opposed, nay. The ayes have it. Welcome, Alderman Cox.

You're welcome. The civility pledge in the interest of civility, I pledge to promote civility by listening, being respectful of others. acknowledging that we are all striving to support and improve our community, and understanding that we each may have different ideas for achieving that objective. This evening we have a couple presentations, so I'm going to come down to the podium, and I'm going to ask, we're going to recognize tonight the Yule Flip team from the Special Olympics gymnastics team, and I'm going to ask Coach Ann Wells to come up with me for a quick second before we bring the tea

So tonight we are joined by the Yule Flip gymnastics team, which competed in the Special Olympics for the state of Illinois. This is their coach, and I would like Coach Wells to give you a little bit of background on what the team did. Coach, if you would, please.

Now we would like to invite the Olympians to come up and join us at the podium. Can the Olympians come up and join us? I promise I won't ask you to speak. Good evening. This is Hannah. Hi Hannah. So I have Hannah, and then who's next to Hannah?

Andrea. I'm going to put them, because I have more certificates than Olympians, so I'm going to get these out. What's your name, sweetheart? Princess. Not sweetheart, but princess. Got it. And your name? Marissa. Marissa?

So this evening, we're going to acknowledge the Olympians that were able to join us here this evening. And when I say your name, if you could raise it so the crowd knows that it's you. Hannah Anderson, Andrea Hirano, Princess Duckworth, Clarissa Ferry, Marissa Deheave, and Lexi Blank are joined with us here this evening. And tonight, the mayor and the city council who will have come down and stand with you for a photo in a minute, want to recognize you for your hard work, your determination and your perseverance. You each earned one or more gold medals, qualifying you for the 2026 Special Olym

Some amazing work there Now I would like to ask chief sumo to come up chief sumo is going to Have a little presentation about the events of last week chief sumo from the fire department, please Good evening everyone good evening chief

Before I call on Alderman Donlan, Alderman Gregory, to your point that you just made about citizens that you may know of that aren't in housing or take our shelter for like helping hands. If you have an address of places that you know people are choosing to just hang out under a roof or something. If you would get those to us, because we could send public work zone managers out quickly to check on them if something does happen. If you don't mind getting those addressed to us, that would be great for any alder person. Thank you. Alderman Donlan.