The Quincy City Council met on Monday, May 18, 2026, at 7:00 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting included proclamations for Arbor Day and Preservation Month, approval of a consent calendar with multiple permits and resolutions, discussion of a special use permit for a parking lot at 3623 State Street, introduction of several ordinances, and announcements from the Mayor.
The following items were approved unanimously without discussion:
Good afternoon, welcome to community country meeting. Uh, because I have two proclamations of that we've said. The first one is for Albert Day, whereas in 1873 to both to the Nebraska Battle Agriculture, and a special day besides the planting of food, and whereas this holiday called Adel Day was first involved with the planting of more than a million trees in Basca and Avon Day is now observed water nation in the world. And there's two produced the invasion of our classic capture by wind and water, that feeding and cooling path mode the temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen, and provide habitat for wildlife, and we'll see our renewable resource to produce paper, red cell phones, flood file houses and countless other wood product. And there's two enough to increase property values, and host the economic locality of business areas and beautiful community, and as the city of country has been recognized as a clear fitting USO for 30 years by the Aden Bay Foundation, and whereas the city of Country has also been in the shipment of a clear sitting left working one from the Adel Bay Foundation. And I owe to all citizens to support efforts and cut that clear and woodland. And we tell us a little bit more about our free commission and after that. And this is Clayton Landback, who is the cleaning of our community. Um committed to employers and commitment to the case of the US program. So you are anyone you know, uh, you think would be a good member, thank you as thank you for this. Uh city speaking inventory. The purpose of doing the street inventory is to get data and both can be five right of the way. It's that space between the code and both sidewan. But it's also clear from the plan for the people. We need to know how many trees we have, what kinds of trees are in a city right of ways, where they are growing, what kind of conducting they are in, and if there's any infrastructure conflicts. The first point is that in those 72 blocks, we have 623 trees passed in the right of wave. The results confirm some things that we already suspected, but we have way too many red maple trees and way too many maples in general. And the cigar maple was the third. So what is all this mean? Why should we pay? The industry standards recommends that most species like red maple should be more than 10% of the trees, and the inventory said that we are 16% with just the red maple. And we have 82% of our street trees is some sort of maple. So what is this matter? If a third of our state trees are of one, of one genus, or decades ago. Since we had free land with beautiful own trees, but when they were placed by Decan disease, they had to be cut down. We have the now removing our trees because of the involved or communities have learned a hard and overplanting many of the same species. In the interest of optimal and top in the urban forests, we will be planting many different kinds of things on our city states so that we never suffer another devastating loss of hundreds of trees of a single species again. One of the things that was surprising was that 75 trees were the USBO first services invasive species list. Worse yet, the ornamental power between bed repair and polar repair was the first most common thing. This clean is so invasive, but communities like Curnable are given people in centers that cut down the ornamental pair. It is causing such an environmental disaster that ONI has banned itself after 2027. It is recommended in the inventory that all of those invasive trees be removed. Each tree is also assessed for conditioning of the 623 trees in the survey. A simple motoring around the creed could have saved it from lawnmower and weed filling damage, which is prevalent in many trees. The inventory also looked at sidewalk concepts with trees. Of the 623 trees surveyed, 33 were feedback in the sidewalk. In our personal observation of biggest inventory, the cause of many of the conflicts was due to a large tree in a right of way that was in the causing the stand but the free roots to protect the sidewalk. There are guidelines of what mature size can go into what work as a right of way, and the city is using that in considering tree types and location. But the inventory, we found that we are way outside the recommendation for aid distribution of trees. The inventory said that we have far too few young trees and overabundance of material trees. So we need to get planning. And we have some great opportunities coming up to get those things in the ground. We are as cool to the USO, we have the opportunity to work with Federal Illinois, a nonprofit revenue who partners with other entities to admit the grant and work with eligible communities to build up the communities. Council is eligible to apply for a grant from the USDA first service for a professional, citywide state grant employee. We also qualify for a grant for pre-removal and planting in the area basically between the weather and trust state. I have had conversations with the police for the INA coordinator to discuss the services they can provide and the steps that the city needs to take the capture these grants. They are very eager to work with us. Another opportunity to get comes into the ground will happen this fall was contacted by the Arab Foundation decided that a business intense the financing of the labor to the area meeting please. Not each state was selected for this food planting event though the exact black have not been hope that this is just the start of many other such business city partnership. We will continue a property banking program with residents can put a decree and have it planted on the right of way in front of their house.