The Moline Committee-of-the-Whole and City Council met at City Hall Council Chambers, 619 16th Street, Moline, Illinois, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The printed agenda and transcript are dated Tuesday, June 9, 2026; this summary uses the supplied meeting date of June 10, 2026. The combined session included a public hearing on two voluntary annexations, a proclamation, two presentations, the 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, 17 committee-of-the-whole agenda items, consent agenda approvals, and non-consent council resolutions.
Good evening, everyone. I'm happy to open our meeting here at 6 p.m. in council chambers. Roll call, please. Alder Person Silas. Present. Mastias. Present. Rosak. Present. Timmy? Present. Finch. Present McNeil. Present. Castro Schmidt. Present. All right. I don't believe we have remote electronic attendance. Is there public comment this evening, Chief? Yeah, George, George. I'm just gonna go to George, sir. All right, you have three minutes. Chief, we're we'll keep track, or I will keep track. Whoever's faster. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, City Council for having us here. My name is George Keresi. I am with uh uh World Relief Qua Cities. Uh we have a funding application uh on the agenda, I believe, today. So thank you for giving me a couple minutes to talk about what Ruelief is and what our mission is. Uh we are a refugee resettlement uh agency. Uh last year we resettled uh close to 200 uh family individual family that uh were seeking a better life uh by coming over to Quad Cities reselling. Uh Lava family uh spent years in uh camps uh waiting to get vetted to get uh all the application complete and done and they come over here legally with all the uh pit work done. The average wait is about seven years in the camp. So uh prior to this year, our numbers are kind of low because prior to this year we we had a presidential order that limited how many people can actually come to the quad cities. Um prior to the 203, we had uh 780 prior year. And so we over the five-year period we have resettled close to 1,500 families who are making their lives here, having a better quality of life for coming here selling here. We'll relieve helps with core value um uh um indicators, things like housing, things like employment skills, uh, things like uh helping children get school back to school school, mental health services. Uh we provide other core value things like uh uh mentorship. Uh we also provide um IOS, which is a legal services for the family. And so we want to do what we can to help make sure all the family have access to resources in the community. And we are happy to say that our that's our core value, but our vision is to have a unified uh citizenship where people are quasians, where they are coming out to celebrate, to educate people about immigration and refugees and the lifestyle and the culture of uh these immigrants and refugees in our community. These are actually qua citians, you know that they're here to root their lives here. They're not here to just to pick it up and go back, uh go somewhere else. So we are serving 1,500 individuals and family that we uh know that put back to the economy. The kids are going to school, um, they're they're going to get jobs, they're paying jobs. We've helped through um some services. We have five five families who bought new houses, put money on houses, 20 cars uh there. So these are all economic indicators that are helping the family to become part of the Kwasians.