This regular meeting of the Woodstock City Council took place on December 17, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. The meeting included presentations, a community survey review, public comments, consent agenda approvals (with several items pulled for separate discussion), and financial reports. The council debated and ultimately approved a settlement agreement with MobCraft Beer, Inc., a public art project agreement, and a professional services agreement for the Recreation Center Phase 1 design services, among other items. The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:46 p.m.
Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to welcome you to this evening's meeting of the uh Woodstock City Council. A few brief announcements before we get started. The agenda this evening uh will be shown on the uh monitors in the room. There's an uh opportunity for public comment uh two times or two opportunities for public comment during the meeting. The first being at the start of the meeting during uh floor discussion. There's an opportunity for members of the public to come forward to the podium in the middle of the room. If you're willing to do so, state your name and address for purpose of the record, and feel free to make comments to the Woodstock City Council on any items not on this evening's agenda. Second opportunity for public comment will be uh before items for action this evening. Members of public will have an opportunity to address uh the council on those items. Uh the city of Woodstock operates under what's called a consent uh format. Consent format meetings means that all items for action this evening will be considered under a single motion and a single vote. If a member of the city count uh of the city council wishes to have an item separately considered and voted upon, they may request an item to be separately removed uh for separate consideration. Uh members of the public may also request an item to be removed for separate separate consideration and voting, and if agreed to by a member of the Woodstock City Council, that item also will be removed for separate consideration and voting. Any questions on those announcements before we get started? All right, hearing none, I will go ahead and and call to or uh officially call to order this uh December 17th uh 2024 meeting of the Woodstock City Council to order and ask Jane to please call the roll. Councilman Flynn. Here. Councilwoman McMahon. Here, Councilman Nearman. Here. Councilman Seegers? Here. Councilman Thibault, Councilwoman Zemba? Here. Mayor Turner. Here. Let the record reflect that six of the seven members of the Woodstock City Council are present in chambers this evening. Jane, would you please confirm that the agenda this evening is the same as the true and published agenda? Yes, it is. Thank you, Jane. That being the case, ladies and gentlemen, the council, the people's business is duly inappropriately before us. First item on our agenda this evening is floor discussion. And under floor discussion, uh we have two uh two items. The first being a presentation uh from friends of the old courthouse who um a number of their members are joining us this evening, including Jill Julie Miller, who's the president. Julie, I'd like you to join me on the side here. My pleasure. They were supposed to come with you? Yeah. Should I call them up? We're coming now. They're coming now. My team. Your team. It's good to have the team up here with you. We will be going in front for the outcome of this presentation. So the uh uh the Friends of the Old Courthouse uh is a uh is a fantastic group here in the city of Woodstock that is uh supportive of all the efforts that uh we do to uh preserve and maintain and uh also decorate and uh and make a you know just a great uh you know a great representation of our of our courthouse that uh we've spent a great deal of money um on and is a uh centerpiece to uh to the downtown. So the work that the work that you do, the work that uh your entire team does. I'll have you introduce them uh in just a moment when you're making your rec uh making your remarks, but you've got something to provide to us tonight that uh we're excited to get. So Julie, I'll turn it over to you.