The Joliet City Council met on September 15, 2026, at 6:30 PM in Council Chambers. Mayor Terry D'Arcy presided; Councilman Cesar Cardenas was absent. The meeting featured proclamations, appointments, committee reports, consent agenda, insurance renewals, several special use permits, a budget amendment for a legal settlement, right-of-way dedications, and public comments on development, water infrastructure, and code enforcement.
fifteenth twenty twenty six at six thirty in council chambers the honorable Terry Darcy our Mayor Terry Darcy presiding we will have our invocation by Pastor Laura Barclay of Grace United Methodist Church at 1718 Avalon Avenue after which she will lead us in the pledge of allegiance let us pray God of wisdom and compassion we gather with gratitude for this community for those that call it home we are mindful of the responsibility entrusted to these leaders here who have been called to public service and for those that have called it home forever and for those that have been here for a short time God as we gather in this time we ask that it would be respectful conversation that it would be a time that we seek to listen to one another that we'll be mindful that the decisions that are made will affect the lives of those that we have been entrusted into our community God we ask that you'd help us to listen well to have good discernment and to remember our responsibility to care for all of those who call Joliet their home God be with us this night may it reflect your glory here on earth in Jesus' name we pray we pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice for all things we'll begin with roll call mayor darcy councilman cardeness is absent he did let me know he would not be in attendance this evening councilman Clemens councilman hugs here councilman of here councilman moreno here councilman modern here councilman quilman here councilwoman burden here under mayor are two proclamations first is a proclamation recognizing Constitution week presented by councilman Modern whereas the Constitution of the United States of America the guardian of our liberties bodies the principles of limited government in a republic dedicated to rule by law and whereas September fifteenth twenty twenty six marks the two hundredth and thirty ninth anniversary of the framing of the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional Convention and whereas it is fitting and proper according to officials recognize in the magnificent document and its memorial anniversary and the patriot celebration will it communicate it and whereas public law 915 guarantees the issue of the proclamation each year by the President of the United States of America designating September 17 through the 23rd as Constitutional week. Now, whereas I, Terry Darcy, Mayor of the City of Joeyet, Illinois, on behalf of the City Council, do hereby the week of September 16th through September 23rd as constitutional week. In Joyet, and ask our citizens to reframe ideals of the framers of the Constitution. And in 1787, by visually protecting the freedom granted to us through the guardian of our liberties. Date is September 15, 2026, signed by Terry Darcy, the Mayor. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Darcy and members of the uh Board of Joliet. Thank you for allowing us to come before you this evening to receive the proclamation to promote Constitution Week from September 17th through the 23rd in your city of Joliet. I'm Pat Decker, and this is my friend and colleague, Pauline Herpy. We're from the Louis Joliet chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution. And the purpose of the mission of the Daughters of the American Revolution is to perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the men and women who achieved American independence in 1776 to 250 years ago. To that end, we promote the education of the Constitution in our schools, libraries, and city halls. As Abraham Lincoln said at the end of the Civil War, our safety, our liberty depends on preserving the Constitution of the United States, as our fathers made it inviolate. Our people, the people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts. Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution. And I would like uh Pauline is going to share with you some of the items we present to the local schools for the students who are studying the Constitution. The public schools teach the Constitution in the eighth grade. St. Raymond's Catholic School, some of you may know that you don't have to know yet. They study it in seventh grade. So we go over there to the school in late January, early February, uh, to promote the Constitution, and we give out these little bags with Constitution goodies in them. Now we try to plan it right before their exam. Their Constitution exam. So we give them a U.S. Constitution booklet that has the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in it, and some uh questions and answers about the Constitution. They should look at that. And also some interesting um points about some of our forefathers and our founding fathers and founding mothers, the history of them. There's also a bookmark that we include with important dates that go back to 1607, Jamestown. Remember when we studied that? And then so we have the American flag altogether. Thank you. All the together, I think we have six things in here. We have a patriotic pen. And we have a patriotic puzzle. Puzzle for them to fill out. This is all before the exam, so they really need to uh to uh pay attention to this. It's a uh fill-in-blank kind of yeah, fun, it's fun, it's a fun thing. And then last but not least, we have the literature liberty belt. So this is what the DAR does for our students to help them with their Constitution exam and to promote promote uh not only the Constitution but also the Declaration of Independence and American history and the importance of it. Very good. Thank you so much, Pat. Oh, very good, yes, thank you. Would you mind? Yes, thank you. Oh, up here, up here. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.