The City Council held a work session on December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM in the Common Council Chamber. The agenda included nine items plus an executive session. The meeting began with a presentation on the city's insurance renewal, followed by discussions on election canvassing, a tax map maintenance contract, several fire department donations and grants, budget adjustments, and an update on the 710 Washington Street special permit. Council members also gave liaison reports. Most items were slated for formal adoption at the mini council meeting the following week.
Of the whole meeting for today, December 15th, 2025. We have an agenda of about nine items and then an executive session forever matters, discussion of matters concerning the medical, financial credit, or employment history of a particular person, persons, or corporation, or matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, or removal of a particular person, persons, or corporation, and discussions of matters concerning pending litigation involving tax matters. So at this time I'll turn it over to our city manager. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. Uh I uh have to ask if it's okay to add a presentation at the beginning of this um agenda. We did receive our insurance um quote at uh five o'clock on Friday. We will also bring this back to you in the mini cow, but this gives you the whole week of information before we vote on it, and we'll follow the right procedure with the mini cow by having it listed on the mini cow uh as we have done many times before. And um Tony Tracy is here with John Riley from Alliant, and Alliant has been our broker for about three years now, and they uh helped us out last year at a big way. Uh John is going to um explain the quote to you and uh talk to us about what our options are for 2026. Hello, council members, thank you for your time. John Riley with the Lion Insurance Services. I am your broker for your property and casualty uh insurance. There we go. Thank you, Matt. Um last year we had a very challenging renewal, and uh the team here and I decided to remarket the whole program during the spring, and we were able to achieve um something that was very beneficial for the city with a new carrier, and then we also were able to do a two-year rate lock, which kind of alleviated us from having to deal with the marketplace for this most recent renewal on all lines of coverage or on most of the lines of coverage. We still had to renew our cyber, we still had to renew our property program, but everything else is in this two-year package. So I'm not sure if everybody can see the screen or has the information in front of them, but essentially uh the renewal premium is expiring at 962-367, and for the upcoming term, you're gonna be looking at a renewal premium of 97176. So it's about just under a ten thousand dollar increase. Some of that is driven by the property, a little bit driven by the cyber, um, and then some is driven by the flood policy. So overall is a very favorable result for the city. Uh this is a two-year rate locks, it will expire at the end of this year, so we will bring it back out to market. And we have been buttoning up a lot of the previous claims history and trying to clean everything up prior to getting it out to market at uh October of next year. So the loss run didn't play into this for the past last year, or so it's because you're in that two-year rate lock that we didn't really have to bring it out to the marketplace, show any updated loss history currently, correct? Okay. That's a good thing. Yeah. Council, any questions? Fantastic. Some money. It's good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. It was good. Thank you for your time, everybody. Thank you. Okay. And so we'll go uh we'll follow the regular agenda since we did that as a presentation. And we'll bring Tony will bring this back to you on the mini-co next week. Okay, so I also have in the regular agenda uh the clerk gave us the certification of general election by forwarding us that certific that um the statement of the county board of canvassers attached, and so we would like to bring this back in terms of a uh resolution presented next week indicating that uh Beverly Chang Darren uh excuse me, Beverly, excuse me, Charlie DeGruccio, Beverly Chang, and Darren Rigger were selected by the voters as attached, along with uh Mayor Vivian McKenzie, if that's okay to bring back in the resolution. Absolutely. Okay. Um we have uh so we have been fighting different illnesses throughout, and Bob is out. Uh he left today, and so he is interested in the tax map maintenance contract being renewed for 2026. Uh CAI was used last year. He budgeted uh he he's bringing them back to us with a 2500 dollar decrease over last year because that was a setup fee. And so uh he had inadvertently included the 2500 dollars in the budget. Uh so if the council is okay with that, we'd like to bring that back.