The Silvis City Council met Nov. 15 to discuss economic development.
Here is the meeting's agenda, as provided by the council:
SILVIS CITY COUNCIL
15 November 2016 – 6:30 p.m.
1) Pledge of Allegiance
2) Roll Call
3) Proclamations: Lyle Lohse
4) Guest Speaker: Carpentier Mitchel & Goddard
5) Public Comment:
7) Approve any items removed from the Consent Agenda
8) Special Non-Consent:
A) Finance
Item 1) Audit for Fiscal Year ending 30 April 2016
Motion to approve Audit for fiscal year ending 30 April 2016
B) Economic Development
Item 1) Ordinance 2016-59
Motion to adopt Ordinance 2016-59 an ordinance to affirm the Establishment of an Enterprise Zone within the
County of Rock Island, Illinois.
9) Mayor's Report:
10) Attorney's Report
11) City Administrator's Report
12) City Treasurer’s Report
13) City Engineer's Report
14) City Clerk's Report
15) Call for adjournment from Regular Meeting
6) CONSENT AGENDA BY OMNIBUS VOTE:
(All items under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine in nature and will be enacted by a single
motion and subsequent roll call vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless an Alderman
so requests; in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as the first item
after approval of the Consent Agenda.)
A) Public Safety Motion to approve renewal of the “I am Responding” software at a cost of $3,137 for
5 year renewal period
B) Parks, Building & Grounds
Motion to approve the Christmas in Silvis event sponsored by Silvis Main Street be held on 3 December
2016 from 4:30pm until 7:30pm
C) Finance
Motion to approve funding for the Planters on 1st Avenue not to exceed $2,500 to come from Tourism
D) Approve payrolls for 10 November in the amount of $112,167.70
E) Approve Minutes from 1 November 2016 Regular Meetings and Committee of the Whole
F) Approve all bills bearing proper signatures.
G) Resolutions
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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE 15 November 2016
16) Call Committee of the Whole to Order & Roll Call
17) Comments from the Audience
18) Agenda items for discussion:
A) Public Safety
Item 1) Telecommunicators consortium
Discuss moving forward to join the Telecommunication Consortium with Milan, Moline, and East Moline.
Motion to place a Resolution to have Silvis Telecommunicators join the Telecommunication Consortium with
Milan, Moline, and East Moline on the 6 December 2016 agenda for approval.
B) Economic Development
Item 1) Ordinance 2016-58 Rescinding Ordinance 2016-21
Discuss rescinding Ordinance 2016-21 an ordinance approving and authorizing the execution of a
redevelopment agreement by and between the City of Silvis and Morton Drive Partners LLC.
Motion to place rescinding Ordinance 2016-21 an ordinance approving and authorizing the execution of a
redevelopment agreement by and between the City of Silvis and Morton Drive Partners LLC on the 6 December
2016 agenda for approval.
Item 2) Ordinance 2016-57
Discuss Ordinance 2016-57 an ordinance approving and authorizing the execution of a First amendment to the
TIF Redevelopment agreement by and between the City of Silvis and Brian A. Wells.
Motion to place Ordinance 2016-57 an ordinance approving and authorizing the execution of a First amendment
to the TIF Redevelopment agreement by and between the City of Silvis and Brian A. Wells on the 6 December
2016 agenda for approval.
19) City Staff Reports
A) Fire Department
B) Inspections Department
C) Police Department
D) Public Works & Parks
20) Comments from the Alderpersons
21) Executive/Closed Session *** if needed
22) Adjournment
*** How to convene a Closed Session:
Specific steps must be taken so that convening a Closed Meeting is legally accomplished as outlined in 5ILCS 120/2(a)
sets down two conditions for holding a Closed Meeting. The first step is substantive: the meeting must fall into one of
the exceptions listed in Section 2(c). These exceptions must be “strictly construed against Closed Meetings” 5 ILCS
120/1 (2). The second step is procedural: the public body must close the meetings “in accordance with Section 2(a)” 5
ILCS 120/2 (a) requires the public body to a roll call vote on whether to close the meeting to the public (the meeting need
not be closed, even if it falls into one of the exceptions in Section 2(c). 5 ILCS 120/2(a).
Following is a list of exceptions:
1) Meetings on collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives, or
deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees;
2) Meetings where the purchase or lease of real property for the use of the public body is being considered, including
meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired;
3) Meetings where the setting of the price for sale or lease of real estate owned by the public body is being considered;
4) Meetings held to discuss litigations “when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has
been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public body finds that an action is
probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the
closed meeting”;
5) Meetings held to discuss the appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of
specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a
complaint lodged against an employee or legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity;
6) Meetings to consider the discipline, performance or removal of the occupant of a public office, when the public body
has the power to remove the occupant under the law or ordinance;
7) Meetings to consider the selection of a person to fill a public office, including a vacancy in a public office, when the
public body is given power to appoint under law or ordinance;
8) Meetings to consider professional ethics or performance when considered by an advisory body appointed to advise a
licensing or regulatory agency on matters germane to the advisory body’s field of competence;
9) Meetings for the conciliation of complaints of discrimination in the sale or rental of housing, when closed meetings
are authorized by law or ordinance prescribing fair housing practices and creating a commission or administrative
agency for their enforcement;
10) Meetings to establish reserves or settle claims as provided in the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees
Tort Immunity Act, if otherwise the disposition of a claim or potential claim might be prejudiced, or to review or
discuss claims, loss or risk management information, records, data, advice, or communications from or with respect to
any insurer of the local public entity or any intergovernmental risk management association or self-insurance pool of
which the local government is a member;
11) Meetings to consider the sale or purchase of securities, investments or investment contracts;
12) Meetings to consider security procedures and the use of personnel and equipment to respond to an actual, a
threatened, or a reasonably potential danger to the safety of employees, students, staff, the public or public property;
13) Meetings to consider informant sources, the hiring or assignment of undercover personnel or equipment, or ongoing,
prior or future criminal investigations, when discussed by a public body with criminal investigatory responsibilities;
14) Meetings to consider evidence or testimony presented in open hearing, or in closed hearing where specifically
authorized by law, to a quasi-adjudicative body (which means an administrative body charged by law or ordinance
with the responsibility to conduct hearings, receive evidence or testimony and make determinations based thereon, but
does not include local electoral boards when such bodies are considering petition challenges), provided that the body
prepares and makes available for public inspection a written decision setting forth its determinative reasoning;
15) Meetings to consider self-evaluation, practices and procedures or professional ethics, when meeting with a
representative of a statewide association of which the public body is a member;
16) Meetings for the discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under the Act either for purposes of approval by
the body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as required by the Act;
17) Meetings to discuss the operation by a municipality of a municipal utility or the operation of a municipal power
agency or a municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves (i) contracts relating to the purchase, sale or
deliver of electricity or natural gas or (ii) the results or conclusions of load forecast studies.
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