I'd like to call the order the planning and development committee meeting for Monday, August 10th, 2026.

We'll first start with our invocation tonight, and we just ask that you step up to the mic here at State Your Prayer, and then we'll follow that with a Pledge of Allegiance.

We just ask that you step up to the mic, make your comments.

That being said, our first speaker tonight is John Tech Brentley.

Good evening, Mayor McIntyre, our citizen of Rockville, Illinois.

I'm gonna get a shout-out first of all, talking to uh Mayor McIntyre.

When Mayor McIntyre ran for office, um uh uh uh Maurice West is running against him.

John McIntyre came to me and asked me to back the back of his son.

Back during the 80s, they said uh McInare, John McName, and and and and Charles Box said after they get you doing East State Street, they was gonna come back and do West State Street.

Put business on West J Street.

But instead of putting business on West State Street, they turned West J Street into a green zone.

Now I want to go back to the fact that we got 18,000 registered black voters here in Rockford.

We only had 3,445 of our registered voters to vote.

And then on top of that, too, my reach deal is kind of set with me for uh voting for uh Tom Knacken there.

I put Tom Knock in there because I thought he was gonna finish what his father has started to do, but he did he did not accomplish that.

My other thing I'm coming before you is that I'm tickle pink because when I found out that they wanted to put the data center on our holy ground on Camp Grant, we had over 4,000 Buffalo soldiers that got sickle that got the Spanish flu, one thousand of them passed away.

I had a meeting with the UAW veteran uh board.

They are 100% behind us putting a memorial out there at at the at the uh like the circle at the front gate at Kishwalkie, where the roundabout is.

We gotta find out if it's owned by the city or the state, but we can put a monument there.

Uh park district is one, thank you, Park District, 100% behind.

They taking the lead.

They also gonna use their escrow account.

I talked with Tom Nakamair, he makes it to me that uh at the uh national night out 15,000 and 30,000 for to uh for a monument.

Really?

That's chump change.

We was promised 40 acres and a new and 100 dollars.

Where's our restitution at for the way they treated our Buffalo soldiers at Camp Grant?

It's a no-brainer.

It's also uh uh it's also a a place, it's a sanctuary.

How will you dare want to build a data center on our sanctuary on our holy ground?

What if we take that data center and put it on Tom McInna family members' graveyard?

How would you like that?

And what not?

That that's not acceptable about putting a data center on our on Camp Grant on our on our holy ground.

And with that being said, I'm the end of my conversation.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Alyssa Waples.

As we can start this moment, our Mark resident, and more importantly, a mother, I'm urging you to cancel the Monarch project, the AI data center.

According to a My Stateline article written in May of 2026, Commend was going to have another increase in energy cost to the residents of Northern Illinois by at least 12%, mostly because of a huge increase in energy demand from the from these AI data centers.

And the article, AI data center Frenzy is pushing up your electric bell.

Here's why.

It says forecast the demand has fueled the need for new infrastructure like power lines, substations, and power plants.

The costs of which companies at least partly pass onto residential consumers, said quiggly of UPen.

In other words, households are partially subsidizing the AI data center expansion.

Another 2026 article states aer noise and water pollution from data centers can come with health problems for humans according to a study published in February.

Long-term impacts may include increased risk of respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, mental health struggles, stroke diabetes, and adverse reproductive outcomes like miscarriage and still birth.

The article continues because these data centers operate 24-7, they generate persistent background noise and chronic exposure to environmental noise has been associated with sleep disturbance, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and even stress-related outcomes.

Noise pollution can be especially harmful to children, as has been linked to poor cognition, decreased learning, and lower reading comprehension.

In an article titled Analyzing Air Pollution Health Economic Risks from AI data centers, Dr.

Michael Cork, who is a PhD from Harvard and analyzes these health risks, has said what I think is getting less attention right now is not that this is just an energy or a climate issue, it's also a public health issue because of the dangers of fine particular matter.

Fine particular matter is estimated to drive nearly 90% of health impacts from air pollution and is often not captured in traditional energy or climate assessments or incorporated into infrastructure planning decisions.

Dr.

Michael Cork analyzed the vantage data center in the densely populated Virginia and found that these emissions from this facility would cost between 53 and 99 million dollars a year in health damages.

Further, since it's not been disclosed as to which AI data center we might have, I want to point out that these AI companies aren't exactly following their own company policies.

For example, there's an article titled Meta ran ads that contained AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery.

And that was on April 5th of last week.

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or threads according to Meta's ad library data.

Some ran as recently as this week.

Another article states these ads made no effort to mask the images or hide what they were promoting.

TTP director Katie Paul told Wired, it's important to point out that this is not content posted by third parties on Facebook or Instagram.