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Quincy City Council Meeting - September 29, 2025

City CouncilMonday, September 29, 2025
BodyQuincy, Illinois
SessionCity Council
DateMonday, September 29, 2025
StatusFILED
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1:06

Good evening everyone.

1:07

Welcome to tonight's city council meeting.

1:10

I'd like to give a special welcome to our young people that are here in an additional.

1:15

Thank you for being here.

1:17

We're going to get started with care of self-reception covering self-down.

1:22

And to meet us tonight is reverent as far as it'll better agenda for a rule of bad view to this community.

1:49

Open passing for all people who use the work through the can do they keep a justice to our state.

2:31

And the first one is for fire prevention week at Cover 2 through October eleven.

2:47

And whereas fire is a serious public safety concern both locally and nationally and hands at a location where people are stressed from fire.

2:57

And whereas the climate kind of fire prevention we can cloud into file safety, no time iron bottom within the home, reminds everyone to purchase product with a Mac from a master and recognized testing lab, like underwater's laboratory, there's codes that come up the device, file manufacturers inspections and clouds devices on a fire map on up a surface.

5:24

And they can associate with library city and then what they do would that go is live them to provide information that uh location, number questions in the home if you have food if you have got um all the information that that uh that we typically want to know when we add on team, whether it be to a file or the nice file.

5:47

So um hopefully not successful.

5:50

We're gonna try to have five hours out there, we're gonna keep trying to even stand people out by those if uh they state feed so uh case it will be for that, and we'll roll something out with a bit more information in the next day to interpolation for that.

6:05

All of that doesn't impact you now.

6:07

Um we've got a new part and telling the machine that we're gonna do to you so uh 10 days to wait.

6:15

Thank you, thank you.

6:28

Uh before that you have the night button call trade very happy by going to click on Sunday morning, and we have a very celebration on Sunday morning.

6:40

So the second part of the motion is for a buffer assembly of that.

6:44

Whereas Robin Richard and a dog come up a gospel camp at the corner of second work in country on July May 1925 and fair becomes the capacity every night and eight week to phone and whereas the outbreak of this precede with a hundred and seventy-five people who have given their hydrogen justice creating a need for a permanent counts for the smoke rock, and where they received official recognition and parted as an assembly of bad cook in October of 1925, and whereas the German Methodist facility at Class and Caperson was practiced by the congregation on December 1st, 1925, with the time I've seen as the password.

7:28

And as well assembly bad folk has had a real history management on through the city of Princeton over the last 100 years, and we have Becco Assembly of Bad Foot celebrates 100th anniversary with a special centennial celebration on Sunday, October 5th, 2025.

7:48

Now therefore I got the window come out, we have the city of Quinton, on behalf of the city council and the citizens of Princeton, and hereby put on October 5th, October 1 to 325 as Battle Assembly of Bad Cape.

8:04

And so we have our friends from Battle would like to come up and fashion it.

8:15

Thank you so much.

8:16

We appreciate this afternoon.

8:19

I just want to take the opportunity to outdo my good and Paul Clay's words.

8:26

And Sunday morning that we specifically I don't know, celebration today and Sunday morning at 12 opposite.

8:38

I mean the result was coming up.

8:47

And uh my mother bought in May which could be in public to since 1941.

8:52

So it's a rich history was going to to be given food to publicly think of it.

9:10

Thank you very much.

9:11

And now part of meeting to order.

9:36

I like the move to it's been moved in the second any discussion.

9:44

If not, I'm in favor of paying no.

9:51

Yeah.

9:56

It's been moved and seconded.

9:58

Any discussion?

10:00

If not, are in favor I pass name?

10:02

Most interest.

10:03

Thank you very much.

10:04

And I will now check a motion to receive our population.

10:11

In discussion.

10:13

Are those in favor of pair of name?

10:16

No.

10:17

Thank you very much.

10:19

We now move on to our favorite private evening.

10:26

I will remind you you have three minutes and we'll tell you up in the order which we signed up.

10:58

Mr.

10:59

Reads does not appropriate for this point.

11:25

Thank you.

11:26

Thank you.

12:04

Thank you.

12:17

Okay.

12:19

And you're here to speak against the appointment of Bitcoin Library Board.

12:27

I start with the American Library Association founded in 1876, and of which the PC Public Library is a member.

12:58

Mr.

12:58

Reed's working space that he has not followed these rules.

13:01

As an alderman who has spoken out publicly against IGBT events in book.

13:05

He has recently satisfied this book.

13:08

This book is very by June Boston instead of respecting library's job, but it's like that's available to everyone.

13:15

The statements have seen that you write personal beliefs or we write professional responsibilities which is concerned for library board members.

Discussion Breakdown — Share of Meeting
Procedural███████████████████████████27%
Libraries And Community Services████████████████16%
Public Safety███████████████15%
Public Engagement███████████11%
Historic Preservation███████7%
Transportation Safety███████7%
Arts And Culture█████5%
Cannabis Regulation█████5%
Miscellaneous████4%
Summary of Proceedings

Quincy City Council Meeting - September 29, 2025

The Quincy City Council met on Monday, September 29, 2025, at 7:00 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and proclamations for Fire Prevention Week and the 100th anniversary of the Battle Assembly of God Church. The council approved the consent calendar, heard public comments, and discussed several resolutions and ordinances. The meeting concluded with new business announcements.

Consent Calendar

The following items were approved unanimously without being pulled for separate discussion:

  • Special Event Application (8a): Quincy Early Tin Dusters’ Fall Color Run on October 17–18, with street closures (Maine Street, Hamshire Street, and others) and parking restrictions from 4:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturday, October 18, and “o parking” signs on Friday, October 17.
  • Appointments:
    • Quincy Public Library Board: Jake Reed to replace Kelly Mays.
    • Aeronautics Committee: Greg Fletcher to replace Jake Reed.
    • Quincy, Adams County Task Force: Dan Brink (facilitator), Glen Ebbing, Jake Reed, Mike Adkins, plus three additional members from the County Board to be appointed.
  • Resolution 10a: Support for the Ilinois America250 Commission.
  • Resolution 10b: Low bid of $76,500 from Henson Robinson Company (Springfield, IL) for replacement of the roof awning at Quincy Regional Airport Terminal Building.
  • Resolution 10c: Allocation of $229,125.10 in capital funds for the previously approved change order for the Prairie Crossing Pavement and North 36th Street Sidewalk Project.
  • Resolution 10d: Approval of a grant from FEMA totaling $224,945.71 with a required 5% match of $11,247.29 for the future purchase of a fire safety trailer.
  • Resolution 10e: New list of dangerous and unsafe properties under the Fix or Flatten Program for 2025 (16 addresses across Wards 1, 2, 3, 7).

Public Comments & Testimony

  • Opposition to Library Board Appointment: A citizen spoke against the appointment of Jake Reed to the Quincy Public Library Board, arguing that Reed has publicly opposed LGBTQ events and books and that his personal beliefs conflict with professional responsibilities as a library board member. The speaker referenced the American Library Association and stated that a book by June Boston on similar topics already exists in the library.
  • Museum Festival Street Closure Request: A representative of the Quincy County Museum spoke in support of a street closure request for the annual folk festival on Saturday, October 11, 2025 (the museum’s 60th anniversary). The speaker described the festival as family-friendly and a fundraiser that keeps museum education free. (Note: This request was not listed as a separate agenda item; it was raised during public comment.)

Discussion Items

  • Mayor’s Remarks on Library Board Appointment: The mayor explained that he intentionally appoints individuals with diverse viewpoints to boards to ensure all community voices are represented. He stated that Jake Reed committed to attending meetings and engaging in civil discourse, and he encouraged public participation through comment periods.
  • Fix or Flatten Program (Resolution 10e): A council member expressed support for the new property list, noting that the city has successfully managed past programs. The member cautioned that oversight is necessary to prevent the program from expanding out of control and stated, “I think this is needed … our eyes will be open.” The council then voted to approve the resolution.
  • Ordinance 11b – First Reading: The council heard the first presentation of an ordinance amending the LEGUP grant program. The proposal reduces the number of available grants from four to two and sets a maximum grant amount of $10,000, replacing the previous sliding scale. No vote was taken; this was an introductory reading.

Key Outcomes

  • The consent calendar was approved unanimously.
  • Resolution 10e (Fix or Flatten Program) was approved.
  • Ordinance 11a (special use permit for a maternity house at 1603 Center Avenue) was listed for adoption on the agenda; no discussion was captured in the transcript.
  • The first reading of Ordinance 11b (LEGUP grant changes) was completed; further action will be taken at a future meeting.

Other Agenda Items

  • Proclamations: Fire Prevention Week (October 2–11) and the 100th anniversary of the Battle Assembly of God Church (celebration on Sunday, October5) were formally recognized.
  • New Business: Announcements included Fire Safety Month events (press conference on Wednesday), and the upcoming Manhill and Girl Fair (Friday and Saturday).

Note: The transcript contained significant garbled or unintelible portions. This summary reflects the best available interpretation of the meeting based on the agenda and transcription.

Meeting Transcript

Good evening everyone. Welcome to tonight's city council meeting. I'd like to give a special welcome to our young people that are here in an additional. Thank you for being here. We're going to get started with care of self-reception covering self-down. And to meet us tonight is reverent as far as it'll better agenda for a rule of bad view to this community. Open passing for all people who use the work through the can do they keep a justice to our state. And the first one is for fire prevention week at Cover 2 through October eleven. And whereas fire is a serious public safety concern both locally and nationally and hands at a location where people are stressed from fire. And whereas the climate kind of fire prevention we can cloud into file safety, no time iron bottom within the home, reminds everyone to purchase product with a Mac from a master and recognized testing lab, like underwater's laboratory, there's codes that come up the device, file manufacturers inspections and clouds devices on a fire map on up a surface. And they can associate with library city and then what they do would that go is live them to provide information that uh location, number questions in the home if you have food if you have got um all the information that that uh that we typically want to know when we add on team, whether it be to a file or the nice file. So um hopefully not successful. We're gonna try to have five hours out there, we're gonna keep trying to even stand people out by those if uh they state feed so uh case it will be for that, and we'll roll something out with a bit more information in the next day to interpolation for that. All of that doesn't impact you now. Um we've got a new part and telling the machine that we're gonna do to you so uh 10 days to wait. Thank you, thank you. Uh before that you have the night button call trade very happy by going to click on Sunday morning, and we have a very celebration on Sunday morning. So the second part of the motion is for a buffer assembly of that. Whereas Robin Richard and a dog come up a gospel camp at the corner of second work in country on July May 1925 and fair becomes the capacity every night and eight week to phone and whereas the outbreak of this precede with a hundred and seventy-five people who have given their hydrogen justice creating a need for a permanent counts for the smoke rock, and where they received official recognition and parted as an assembly of bad cook in October of 1925, and whereas the German Methodist facility at Class and Caperson was practiced by the congregation on December 1st, 1925, with the time I've seen as the password. And as well assembly bad folk has had a real history management on through the city of Princeton over the last 100 years, and we have Becco Assembly of Bad Foot celebrates 100th anniversary with a special centennial celebration on Sunday, October 5th, 2025. Now therefore I got the window come out, we have the city of Quinton, on behalf of the city council and the citizens of Princeton, and hereby put on October 5th, October 1 to 325 as Battle Assembly of Bad Cape. And so we have our friends from Battle would like to come up and fashion it. Thank you so much. We appreciate this afternoon. I just want to take the opportunity to outdo my good and Paul Clay's words. And Sunday morning that we specifically I don't know, celebration today and Sunday morning at 12 opposite. I mean the result was coming up. And uh my mother bought in May which could be in public to since 1941. So it's a rich history was going to to be given food to publicly think of it. Thank you very much. And now part of meeting to order. I like the move to it's been moved in the second any discussion. If not, I'm in favor of paying no. Yeah. It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, are in favor I pass name? Most interest. Thank you very much. And I will now check a motion to receive our population. In discussion. Are those in favor of pair of name? No. Thank you very much. We now move on to our favorite private evening. I will remind you you have three minutes and we'll tell you up in the order which we signed up. Mr. Reads does not appropriate for this point. Thank you. Thank you.

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