Quincy City Council Meeting - August 24, 2026
City Council Meeting - August 24, 2026
The Quincy City Council met on August 24, 2026, at 7:00 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting included a presentation on the proposed Quincy Indoor Sports Complex, approval of consent agenda items, second readings of multiple ordinances, and a mayoral appointment. The transcript was partially garbled, limiting detail on public comments and discussion.
Presentations
- Police Officer Swearing In: Officer Olivia Peters was sworn in.
- Quincy Indoor Sports Complex: A presentation detailed the proposed sports facility, projecting 750,000 to 1 million annual visits. The facility would capture 25% of visitors for on-site food and beverage to cover operating expenses, while the remaining 75% would benefit local businesses. The estimated economic impact is $25-30 million annually, generating 30,000 room nights. The presentation emphasized the facility's self-sustainability and tax increment generation.
Prayer/Self-Reflection and Pledge of Allegiance
- Reverend Brett led the prayer and self-reflection, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
Consent Agenda
- The consent agenda included approval of minutes from August 17, 2026, and several items:
- Firework display permit for J & M Displays Inc. at Quincy Country Club on September 5, 2026.
- Special event applications for Septemberfest (Blessed Sacrament Parish), Unity in the Community Labor Day Bash (First Baptist Church), and Quincy Christmas Parade (Rotary of Quincy After Dark).
- Waiver of peddler's license fee for Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary.
- Approval of quote for purchase of a 2026 Cronkhite trailer from Luby Equipment for $13,000.
- All consent agenda items were approved.
Regular Agenda (Second Presentation of Ordinances)
- Ordinance 10a: Special use permit for a 3.0 MWac commercial solar energy facility north of 928 Nieders Lane.
- Ordinance 10b: Special use permit for a 5.0 MWac commercial solar energy facility in the same area.
- Ordinance 10c: Zoning change from RU1 to C2 at 6411 and 6421 Broadway.
- Ordinance 10d: Vacating easements at multiple Marx Drive addresses.
- Ordinance 10e: Amendments to floodplain regulations in Title XV.
- Ordinance 10f: First presentation of an ordinance changing Plan Commission composition.
- Ordinance 10g: First presentation of an ordinance removing Arts Quincy seat and adding a fourth at-large seat.
Mayor's Appointment
- Teri Zanger was appointed to the Oakley-Lindsay Board of Directors to fill the unexpired term of Deb Carsten (September 2026 to April 2028).
Key Outcomes
- All consent agenda items were approved.
- The second presentations of ordinances 10a-10e were heard; further action may be taken at a future meeting.
- The first presentations of ordinances 10f and 10g were introduced.
- The Mayor's appointment was approved.
Note: The meeting transcript was partially garbled, limiting the detail available for public comment and discussion.
Meeting Transcript
Yeah. This is what you would need that would be part of this project, but what you find with what you would find out the sports community for the library discussions about the possible uh sports bank blocking what we don't need to buy in the whole indoor games and outdoor and equipment, what we need to do is work in local athletic program, but any more community of the community uh indoor sports and uh sports and not a further sport and how many stills would be more like the complex building and all that role on the ball with one of the sports help identify the ball and forth other than uh uh sports community identified the doctor forty uh the community. In the upper corner purple, there's green bottom while there's a lot of uh those are going to be displayed why is that recommended? But uh is the fourth year to like how the sports comments are gonna do that. Uh being looking at the fact that we'll put the program on the remote. So on that one. Thank you, Jason. So the dome piece of the equation is what drives the traffic. Um we're projecting that this sports facility can generate about 750,000 visits um on the low side and up to a million visits. So in doing that, you have to provide um certain amenities to draw in those types of tournaments and those types of programs. We understand that the quantity of people that come in there are going to be such that we can't serve everybody. And we've seen the trend to be about 25% of the people that come in, we capture in food and beverage and entertainment. The sports facility needs the food and beverage and entertainment for two main reasons. One, um, just for the overall experience of the tournaments, you need circulation, obviously, clean bathrooms, enough bathrooms for that traffic. And if anybody's ever been to a volleyball tournament, you're there all day, and you need places to sit and to spread out and um and camp. So we also need to be self-sustainable, and you have to generate the dollars to be able to pay for the operating expenses. So with a facility like this, bringing in 750,000 to a million visits and only capturing 25%, the other 75% of the traffic is served by the community, which is the whole point of building a facility like this is to drive that economic impact into the community and the other businesses. And so the city's done a really good job of aligning us to make sure that we're not competing with the businesses that are in the community, and we're doing a good job of navigating that navigating that and listening to all the different stakeholders. Uh and but even if we had exactly what was in the community, we wouldn't be able to serve all of it. There's going to be three times as many people going into the community and using the entertainment and food and beverage there than we would ever be able to serve out of the venue. But that's how we'll make sure that we're paying our own bills and that we're not needing any subsidy to operate. So what if the room operates relevant really 45 minutes or 8,005 or without the field lots of 500, 25, 25, 30, 44 and 14 with me about the leverage time for the remote with the industry needed for the time this is what it's to be remote property and 94 million dollars? Yeah, so um really the what we're doing here is we're bringing in traffic through programs, and then those programs, like we said um earlier when we're talking about amenities, we're bringing them in and they're spending money in your restaurants and you're they're spending money in your hotels. Um it's gonna cost you fifty or a hundred dollars to participate in that soccer tournament. But as a family, you're going to spend closer to five hundred and s to seven hundred dollars between lodging, entertainment, food, um, gas, and such. And so currently most of that activity leaves Quincy um and goes to other activities, and when you build this facility, now all of the room nights, all of the the um food and tax generation happens inside of Quincy. And so if you take this just use for a round number of a million visits, uh usually somewhere around uh um about thirty-five to fifty percent of those are gonna come from what we would consider out of town over a hundred miles and they're gonna stay in. So that's when and you know, we'll calculate with the with the tourism, the um in the area of what the average daily spend is, but bringing that quantity of people is gonna generate the tax increment that is gonna more than pay for the investment um and start to um fill the coffers um on your food and beverage and your lodging tax. And so uh as we uh we're capturing the uh twenty-five percent to take care of the operating expenses, but we also pay the food and beverage taxes as well, and all of the lodging still happens. And then you have this overflow of another five hundred thousand people, six hundred thousand peop um visits that happen throughout the community, and that's that ripple effect that generates the tax increment that can go to to um you know, all the different needs in the city and the priorities, the pensions, things like that. So the economic impact of a facility like this is usually generating about 25 to 30 million dollars of economic impact, uh, and somewhere around thirty thousand room nights um in a year. And most of the numbers that have been delivered have been conservative numbers um just to make sure that uh you know, there's room for upside. Thank you very much. Um I'd like to take just a brief moment. We have two days back and back with us tonight. I'm like who are uh here representing the Canada, the airport right at that point, which is the speedy and we can take that and custom up to two clips to be right now. So let me do them to bring this to 12 club as well for 12 minutes. Um requirements like this. I would ask Reverend Brett to lead us in prayer and after that automatically. And one day which is not only two and walking back to the back and building people to be able to have the things that we need to talk about. I think we'll do something like that. I think I can do things by also. I did work together. But we have to do it. We have to do all of that thing. So you're going to have to do a lot of parts. We need to go to all the way to have a five. I think it's very bad to do the public. What do you think of the two? I think that the ball and people make a big part of the five things.
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