This meeting covered a wide range of routine and non-routine city business, including a police sergeant promotion, multiple zoning and traffic ordinance amendments, significant capital project approvals, and informational discussions on lead service line replacement and fireworks enforcement. Nearly all agenda items were approved unanimously.
All right. Good evening, everyone. I'll call this meeting to order at 6 p.m. here in Council Chambers. I'm gonna briefly turn it over to Chief Galtha with some safety information since we're under some significant watches. Yeah, so as you all know, there's uh kind of a storm that's a little bit west of us or the tornado watch. This is probably the strongest pulling in the in the area, so you're very safe in here, but we just if there are sirens go off on the top of the building here, we'll just move to the center of the building away from the glass. But I don't think there's any reason for anybody to flee out of here, you're probably safe for your thank you so much. All right, we do have uh need for remote electronic attendance, Ms. Finch. Um, I would like to make a motion to approve the remote electronic attendance of Alder Person James Patrick Smith at the committee of the whole and city council meeting May 21st, 2024, due to a personal illness. Second. All right, that's um motion by Finch, seconded by Timian. Roll call, please. Alder Person Timian Finch. Aye, McNeil. Aye, Castro, Murphy, Masias, Razak. Aye. All right, that motion passes. Roll call, please. Alder Person Timian. Present. Finch. Present McNeil. Present. Castro. Present. Schmidt. Present. Murphy. Present. Messias. Present. Rizak. Present. All right. Our first item of business is the oath of office for promotional appointment to the rank of sergeant to Cesar Lopez, effective May 19th, 2024. Thank you, Your Honor. I think I've said this before. This is such a fun times for me to be able to stand up here and get a chance to introduce you to officers and certainly promote officers is another honor that I get to have. Uh you know, over the last four or five years. Uh it's been tough times in the police department. We've um we've seen some 45 officers depart for uh various different reasons and uh 225 years of experience left as command staff, and our command staff starts at a sergeant, lieutenant, deputy chief, and of course the chief. So we've lost a lot of experience. We rebuilt that experience, uh made 14 promotions, 14 out of our 20 command staff that I've promoted since I've been the police chief here. And so it's certainly my honor to add another uh individual to the command staff by promoting Cesar Lopez from his current role as a juvenile detective uh to a sergeant. Um so Sergeant Cesar Lopez is a seasoned law enforcement officer serving with the Moline Police Department since 2017 throughout his distinguished career, Sergeant Lopez Lopez has served in various capacities, including patrol officer, field training officer, uh liaison to the Moline High School as a school resource officer, and his current role as a detective in the criminal investigation division juvenile unit. Uh Caesar is also a bilingual, one of our three bilingual supervisors, who I believe all three of them are here today serving our uh Spanish speaking population, and he does that with just a wonderful uh smile on his face every time. Uh he's also very involved in our homeless initiative team. He's been a part of that for several years.