The Moline City Council met on July 18, 2025, beginning at 6 p.m. in council chambers for a Committee of the Whole session followed by the regular council meeting. The committee heard public comment, swore in a new utilities director, accepted a water award, reviewed the Moline High School internship program and agency funding recommendations, adopted a Parks and Recreation Month proclamation, and considered multiple resolutions. The regular meeting approved the consent agenda, approved non-consent items, advanced first-reading ordinances, and entered executive session.
Good evening, everyone. I'll call this meeting to order at 6 p.m. here in council chambers. Roll call, please. Alder Person Murphy. Present. Messias. President. Rosal. President. Timmy and President. Finch. McNeil. Present. Castro. Schmidt. Present. I don't believe we have any remote electronic attendance, so we'll move to public comment. Chief, is there public comment? Yeah, we'll go over. Okay. You have three minutes. All right. Hi there. Thank you for listening to me. I've lived on Fifth Avenue for since 1997. And I've had four automobiles demolished, three on Fifth Avenue and one on Third Street. Just slightly about three weeks ago. The last one was hit, and I'm buying automobiles because nobody seems to have insurance to take care of me. And so uh, and I know I've got to go to traffic, so but I would like to see a stop sign with the blinking put on Fifth Avenue right there at second and third street because they think it's a speedway, the raceway, they'll go 60 mile an hour, and they've gone around an S curve down there. And the last one that hit me could have if children would have been there, what if they went into that and ran through that fence and ran into a child, you know, and that's what I'm seeing is if the police officer could stay down there, like not when it's traffic, but I'm saying when it's later on in the evening, I mean, because they think it's the speedway, and um, I would like to see a bump up put out for me, and I probably gotta have that also because I'm disabled and I have a handicap to walk up to my house, and I have a handicap sticker and stuff, and I can't afford to keep buying these automobiles, you know. I mean, it's just killing me. I mean, I'm a single person trying to take care of myself. I still work and I'm 75 years old, and I can't walk up on a hill halfway up the hill in the winter. I work for the Robert Young Center, and I would like to, you know, be able to have a bump out something that they have done on First Street for somebody else. I would like to see that done for me, and I just would appreciate you guys' help. I would love to show you all the videos of the two crashes I have on my camera, but the police, I sent it to the police, and they took care of it, you know what I'm saying. But nobody has insurance to take care of me. I mean, my insurance, sooner or later they're gonna say, Hey, you're done. You know, we're gonna say we're not paying for you no more, you know. And I mean, and it's not even my fault, you know. So that's where I'm at. I'm hoping that to tell me what to do, to follow through, you know, because I think it's stop sign right there at second and third street is gonna help immensely because, like I said, 60, 70 miles an hour, and you stay there at seven, eight o'clock at night express, but on the weekends. I mean, one was at uh 103 and one was 12 something, and I mean one demolished three automobiles, she did. Didn't get a ticket other than for two fast for conditions, you know. She wasn't paying attention. She could have gone over and hit that fence, you know, and instead of demolishing three automobiles. Same way with the one that you know wrapped up. The third the one that just hit me, somebody hit him coming across, uh, third, second and third, right there, going across Fifth Avenue, hit him first, and then he come over and back and then hit me, demolish my car. So that's where I'm at, and I'm just hoping something can be done about it.