Note: The agenda listed the meeting date as Tuesday, December 3, 2024, but the user has specified the meeting took place on 2024-12-04 12:00:00+00:00. This summary uses the date provided by the user.
The combined Committee-of-the-Whole and City Council meeting covered a presentation on stormwater ordinance updates, a draft ordinance to bifurcate tobacco dealer licenses and impose a moratorium on new vape/tobacco shop licenses, approval of several traffic and administrative items, and the adoption of the FY 2025 budget. All votes were unanimous (8-0).
Good evening, everyone. I'll call our meeting to order here at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers. Roll call, please. Howmer person Murphy? Present. Masias. Present. Razak. Present. Timmy and Present. Finch, present. McNeil. Present. Castro. Present. Schmidt. All right. I do not believe we have any remote electronic attendance. So we'll move to board appointments. I'm reappointing mayor's reappointment of Angela Rule to the Citizens Advisory Council on Urban Planning, the CACUP board for a three-year term to expire July 31, 2027. There's no questions, we'll move to our presentation. Stormwater ordinance updates. Andy Parr. Scott, Ms. Splinter, and Charlie Brown. Sorry. I'm just reading the paper. So kind of the big picture here. A couple years ago, we partnered with CMT to overhaul our stormwater management program. And as part of that, you've seen our plans for capital improvement projects, and you've seen that it would be wise to fund those in our rates. And so the big picture is remember we're trying to have a two-fold effect on this. One is, of course, we want to protect the property of the residents in the city of Moline. And equally important, we also want to protect the health of the river. That plays a vital role in our community. So while we've looked at our capital improvement projects that'll be done, we're financially ready to do it. What we're going to be presenting today is kind of a background though where we're going to be tweaking our ordinance a little bit. The big idea of this is we're going to bring up the science up to date. The science that we've been going on was a little behind. And also to do a little bit of the best management practices on how other communities are doing it and what looks best for the protection of the stormwater flood protection in the city. So with that, I will hand it over to Andy and Scott Displinder from CMT. Good evening. Charlie took really all my good talking points, so I'm trying to have a blank right now. But as you mentioned, for the past couple years, we've been reviewing our stormwater master plan. We've been budgeting for projects, equipment. We've made huge strides that we never have before. And the one of the last pieces to this puzzle is making some ordinance changes to bring it up to date to be a little more responsible with our stormwater. And so Scott Displiner from CMT will be giving a very you know brief presentation tonight. They've been a great partner throughout this endeavor, and we've really appreciated them. So I'll just introduce Scott right now.