Town Council - Regular Meeting

Je déclare ouverte la réunion du conseil municipal de Normale pour ce mardi 8 septembre 2026. We have no public comment before the meeting. However, we have some speakers scheduled at the end of the session. We will therefore go directly to the order of the global day, which brings together points of similar nature, considered as routine. They will be voted in one motion, unless the members of the Council wish to withdraw them. I already see hands up.

J'aimerais retirer le point E et je souhaite également être dispensé de voter sur toute facture liée à mon récent voyage.

J'ai une motion.

Point à l'examen. Approval of the Verbal Procedure of the Ordinary Meeting of the Council of August 17, 2026. Here it is on the screen. Thank you. Please report. Receive and classify the expenses of the city of Normal to be paid on September 2, 2026. A resolution dispensing of the formal call for offer procedure and approving the acquisition of a Ford F-150 from Sam Lehmann Ford for a total cost of $ 43,478.63. A resolution authorizing the execution of an intergovernmental agreement with the Université d'État de l'Illinois concerning the protection services against fires. An ordinance setting the date and place of a public hearing for the redevelopment plan and the project area of the financing district by tax increase of Business 51 and RABRODE. We proceed with the application.

M. Preston M. Mallory M. Bayer M. Robert M. Smith M. McCarthy These points are adopted.

Let's move on to point E, a resolution to accept the offers and assign a contract to Stark Excavating Incorporated for the Linen Street pedestrian project for a total of 192,854.90 $.

I would like to remove this particular point because there is a lot of traffic on this road. Je comprends par le dossier que les travaux ne commenceront pas avant l'an prochain, mais j'avais des questions sur la déviation des personnes souhaitant utiliser le sentier. Et je demanderai au directeur s'il pouvait nous expliquer comment la circulation sera gérée pendant les travaux. I would simply say that as we approach the work, we will inform the users of the track and will disseminate the information via social networks, our newsletters and our websites so that everyone is informed. I believe that the traffic will be deviated during the construction phase from Grandview to Vernon, or excuse me, from Grandview to Jersey, then to Virginia. I am thinking of the exact route from Grandview to the south to Jersey, then Virginia, and then there is the Camelback Bridge. It will therefore be a nuisance during the work phase. But the final result will be a much better and more pleasant bridge that will be worth it. Let's hope so. And I noticed that the file mentioned that the bridge is designed to support not only pedestrians and bicycles, but also traffic. Can you tell us about the type of changes planned in the future regarding the use of the bridge? Je pense que lorsque vous parlez de camions, vous faites référence aux véhicules du service des parcs et loisirs, les équipes d'entretien qui empruntent la piste pour travailler. Le nouveau pont pourra supporter ce type de trafic. Mais pour l'instant, les équipes d'entretien utilisent généralement des véhicules plus petits sur la piste. C'est tout ce que j'avais à dire. Merci.

En l'absence d'autres commentaires, veuillez procéder à la question.

M. Bayer. M. Nelsny. M. Preston. M. M. McCarthy.

The motion is adopted. We have no point in the general order or in the news, but we have some public interventions.

Let's go.

I simply recall our rules. After that, you have three minutes. You may decline your identity for the moment. let's go to david sandal any microphone in front of you should work

My name is Dave Sandal. I come from Saint-Louis. I own a company called iNeighborhoods. We build smart digital cities, district by district. In 2012, Google Fiber arrived in Kansas City. Google was going to invest about 3 billion dollars on this market to deploy Google Fiber's capacity throughout the community. Because of my work, I knew that the city would have no idea of the way to manage such an investment at that time. I therefore took the direction of Kansas City without wasting time. I was very interested in the idea of ​​implaining myself, especially from a historical point of view, because what was happening had never happened before. I therefore began to invest in various community engagement activities, attend meetings and learn more about what was going on. I began to participate in a meeting called the team of the mayor's multinational innovation. They had eight months to develop a plan to concretize the economic impact of the development of Google Fiber on the economy. As I attended the meetings every month, the enthusiasm in the room decreased month after month. Everyone was enthusiastic, but no one knew what to do. It was so new. During this period, I learned to know everyone, the mayors, the regional council of the Midwest, and the leaders of the multinational economic development team. During the last three weeks, they came to see me and told me, can you help us? We don't know what to do. We have to come up with a plan in three weeks. So, with a man named Darren Deacon, we wrote the manual for Google Fiber in Kansas City, entitled Winning at America's Crossroads. Today, this manual has become a reference for communities based on fiber optics around the world. Today, we are in a similar situation, but of much greater importance, which concerns data centers. What happens is that the planning of traditional economic development begins to meet the planning of digital economic development. They are starting to get to know each other, but traditional actors don't yet know how to execute a strategy against the digital economy. This is why I have gathered this time a team of digital economic development, a team of elites, of people who understand everything about the economy of a community, real estate promotion, transport districts, public safety, primary and secondary schools, innovation, entrepreneurship and innovation districts. What we can do is work with your community to evaluate the whole project, how to assemble all these parts to optimize the economic impact and provide you with a step-by-step plan on how to negotiate with your data center supplier in order to create an economic impact much higher than what you hear about in the newspapers today. I have to take a train in about 20 minutes. But I want to say this. I've been coming here for years and I work in my coworking space because I like to go out of St. Louis. Between everything you have cool here and the amazing things happening in Bloomington with the revitalization, you are in a phenomenal position to negotiate an excellent result.

Then we have M, Chadder.

Merci à tous de me recevoir ce soir devant vous et de m'accorder le temps de parler aux maires, aux conseils, aux directeurs municipaux et aux adjoints juridiques. Je m'appelle Chad Burr. J'habite ici en 1906. J'y vis depuis maintenant 20 ans. Je suis un ancien combattant, handicapé, expert en cybersécurité, instructeur de self-défense en jiu-jitsu ici en ville. Père, époux et... I am here only to report to the public about the intervention of the police of Normale and the safety of the case. I do not ask this advice to pursue anyone. On Friday, August 28, 2026, I called the police of Normale about a neighbor in Ironwood named James Dewey. I told the agent that I had an order of protection against this man. The agent carried out a search in a system at his disposal called CommitDoc on the site. He did not find any ordinance. The result of the search was incorrect with regard to the judicial file here in the county of McLean. I obtained this ordinance initially in December. It was renewed on October 4. Two different judges signed these two ordinances. Fortunately, I had the original copy of the paper. After the agent called the centre-ville of the county of McLean, the personnel in charge of the files was able to locate the original copies himself and he was able to integrate the order into the IDDS database so that the agents could find it again during future research. An order that the police can't find when they are in my way is not an order that protects anyone. This is not a closed file from 2020. On May 17, 2022, James DeWitt stabbed me 19 times in my own garden. While my wife and my three sons entered through an open door. I was then arrested. He was not charged for this knife attack. A special prosecutor subsequently abandoned all charges that had been held against me. I was present at this last hearing. The judge then apologized for the incorrect application of the law. The neighbors of Ironwood gathered at this hearing and the judge was moved. Continuing, the neighbors of Ironwood, including Ironwood Gardens Kijux Ironwood, a home at 509 recently, over the last two weeks, documented and recorded the prohibition of intrusion and also met a vehicle driven by James, making him disembark and forcing him to get out of the road, barely two weeks ago. I wrote to the municipal director, I'm sorry, I wrote to MacMilloran very recently, an email on August 31 and again on September 3. I also wrote to the state prosecutor, to the sheriff, to the court judge, to all legislators and to the police of the state of Ligny, many times. Ce que ce Conseil peut faire à cet égard est très limité. Je le comprends et je respecte cela totalement. Vous n'entrez pas les ordonnances dans le système Leeds. Vous ne portez pas d'accusations de harcèlement. Cependant, vous supervisez bien le département de police de Normandie. I simply ask for three things in return. First, that this comment be received and submitted to the prosecution. Secondly, that the municipal director and the chief of police make a report written to the council and myself on the matter of knowing If the land terminals of NORMAL question the LEEDS system for the protection orders, because NORMAL has precedents where the protection orders were just pieces of paper. Sir, you have greatly exceeded your... I understand, sir, but this... I'm almost done. I appreciate it. And this has been fatal for these families. I don't want to be one of these families. I especially don't want my family to die. If my August 28 report and my invocation of the order are in the city's CAD or RMS system, what is the written policy that an agent follows when a resident presents a signed order that doesn't appear on the screen? Finally, that the city treats Ironwood as a current public security problem and not as a classified case as long as these answers do not exist. I am not here to debate a case in progress. Finally, I am here so that the next agent who will be in my office can see that the ordinance is in force. The last thing I want to say is that Nous en durons cela depuis cinq ans et que cet homme harcelé continuellement, non seulement moi, mais mes voisins, ma communauté à Ironwood, normal, et pas seulement... J'ai supplié, supplié. Oui, je comprends.

Désolé. Mais personne ne m'a aidé.

Et je sais que vous êtes les mecs. Mais nous vous suppliez. Nous devons quitter cette communauté.

Et je ne veux pas. Nous aimons s'attendre.

So if there is anything that can be done. Just remember that I have been stabbed 19 times.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Before we examine the update motion, do we have any comments?

Sorry to be the community display table for a minute, but this coming weekend, we have a lot of events planned around Normal, including the Oktoberfest at Distil this weekend. Le Centre d'Horticulture de l'Issue organise également son festival d'automne ce week-end, ainsi qu'une pièce de théâtre au Children's Discovery Museum samedi. Et je voulais souligner un événement en particulier, en raison de sa signification particulière, ce vendredi marquant le 25e anniversaire des attentats du 11 septembre. Il y aura la bataille des insignes Gernkrieg au camp. The firefighters and the police will face each other during a friendly baseball game on this very historic day and we encourage everyone to come and support our first intervenants.

Thank you.

Also in recognition of this 25th anniversary, at the main seat of the firefighters of Normal, on the edge of the campus, Une cérémonie débutera à 8h46 vendredi matin pour tous ceux qui souhaitent y assister. Par ailleurs, l'AEUR, ville de Normale, a annoncé un programme pour fournir des arbres indigènes au prix de 30 dollars au lieu de leur valeur réelle de 100 dollars. Il y a une limite de deux arbres par foyer pouvant être commandés. Ils ne doivent pas être plantés sur les emprises de la ville de Normal situées entre le trottoir et la rue. Les inscriptions sont ouvertes jusqu'au vendredi 9 octobre ou jusqu'à épuisement des stocks et le retrait se fera plus tard les 24 ou 25 octobre à Champion Fields. I know that several places have lost trees and it would be a way to start because the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago. The second best time is today.

Thank you.

Anyone?

I propose a motion to raise the session.

I would like to ask you to raise your hand.

La séance est levée.