The Elgin City Council held a combined Committee of the Whole and regular meeting on May 13, 2026, at 6:00 PM and 7:05 PM respectively. The council approved multiple resolutions, grant acceptances, and contracts, including funding for historic rehabilitation, youth programs, infrastructure projects, and public safety enhancements. Several proclamations were issued, and public testimony was heard from youth participants in the Youth Empowerment Program.
We'll call the uh regular meeting for the Elgin City Council for the committee of the whole for May 13th, 2026 to order. Court, please call the rule. Council members of our own here. Dixon? Present. Good. Here. Martinez? Here. Ortiz. Powell. Stefan? Here. Thorne? Here. Mayor Captain. Here. Approval of minutes of the previous meeting of April 22nd, 2026. So moved. Second. Moved and second for approval. Any correction or additions. Hearing none, Court, please call the room. Council members of our own? Yes. Dixon? Yes. Good? Yes. Martinez? Yes. Stefan? Yes. Thorne? Yes. Mr. Captain. Yes. The motions approved seven zero. Uh, we have uh no public comments this evening, so we'll move on to the initiatives. Mr. Manager. Thank you, Mayor. The first item this evening is the historic architectural rehabilitation grant resolution, approving recipients for the twenty twenty-six program and the historic paint grant resolution approving recipients for that twenty twenty-six program. The rehab grant program provides incentives to owners of residential properties to offset their costs for exterior rehabilitation work. The fifty fifty component of the program covers half the cost of the exterior work done to eligible properties, up to twenty thousand dollars. The seventy-five twenty-five component covers seventy-five percent of the costs for work up to twenty thousand dollars for low to moderate income households. The city received nine historic architectural rehab applications, and three of those are under the fifty-fifty component of the program, other five being under the seventy-five twenty-five component. Five of the eight are owner-occupied homes. The historic uh paint grant program is in its second year, and this provides grants of up to fifteen thousand dollars to owner-occupied low to moderate income property owners to paint their homes within the Elgin National Watch Historic District.