CITY OF ROCK ISLAND

February 16, 2009

CITY COUNCIL MEETING        

6:45 pm

 

NOTE:  No Study Session.  An Executive Session discussing Personnel will be held following the Regular Meeting. The Regular Meeting will be held at 6:45 p.m. in Council Chambers.   

 

 

AGENDA

 

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1. Mayor Schwiebert will call the meeting to Order.

 

2. Roll Call.

 

3. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.

 

4. Invocation by Alderwoman Mejia-Caraballo.

 

5. Minutes of the Meeting of February 9, 2009. (Motion whether or not to approve the Minutes as printed.)

 

6. Update Rock Island By Mayor Schwiebert.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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7. Presentation of the fourth (4) quarter Employee Recognition Award to Julie Sullivan from the Rock Island Police Department.  

 

8. Presentation of the 2009-2010 Budget by City Manager John Phillips.

 

9. Proclamation declaring February 22, 2009 as NAACP Religious Affairs Community Day.

 

10. A Special Ordinance amending a Special Ordinance establishing removal of the residential parking restriction on both sides of 15th Avenue between 5th and 6th Street. (Motion whether or not to consider, suspend the rules and pass the Ordinance.)

 

11. A Special Ordinance declaring the current City-owned 1978 Chevy Pickup, Fleet #2357 as surplus and allowing for disposal. (Motion whether or not to consider, suspend the rules and pass the Ordinance.)

 

12. A Special Ordinance amending a Special Ordinance establishing seven (7) 30 minute parking spaces without meters on the west side of 17th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue, and establishing one additional handicapped parking space on the east side of 16 ½ Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue. (Motion whether or not to consider, suspend the rules and pass the Ordinance.)

 

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13. CLAIMS

 

a.     Report from the Public Works Department regarding payment in the amount of $16,307.77 to USALCO for the January purchase of Liquid Aluminum Sulfate. (049)

 

b.     Report from the Public Works Department regarding payment in the amount of $3,025.08 to Itron, Inc. for the annual maintenance for Water Meter Services handheld computer. (051)

 

c.      Report from the Personnel Department regarding payment in the amount of $19,968.33 to Attorney David Goldberg (Crawford & Company) for Worker’s Compensation settlement for Christian Mark.

 

(Motion whether or not to accept the reports and authorize payments as recommended.)

 

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14. Claims for the week of February 6 through February 12 in the amount of $692,136.06. (Motion whether or not to allow the claims.)

 

15. Payroll for the weeks of January 26 through February 8 in the amount of $1,119,554.12. (Motion whether or not to allow the payroll.)

 

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16. Report from the Public Works Department regarding the purchase of parts for the pot hole patching machine from Schwarze Industries, Inc. in the amount of $4,306.27. (Motion whether or not to approve the purchase as recommended.) (047)

 

17. Report from the Public Works Department regarding bids for the purchase of traveling screen repair parts, recommending the bid be awarded to Screening System International, Inc. in the amount of $13,513.00. (Motion whether or not to award the bid as recommended and authorize purchase.) (048)

 

18. Report from the Martin Luther King Center regarding a contract with Estes Construction for Construction Management Services for the renovation and expansion of the Martin Luther King Center. (Motion whether or not to approve the agreement as recommended, and authorize the City Manager to execute the contract documents.)

 

Note: Please refer to the City Manager for the contract documents for Agenda #18.

 

19. Report from the Community and Economic Development Department regarding a development agreement with Catherine and Dr. John Viren for the Schriver House at 1029 3rd Avenue. (Motion whether or not to approve the development agreement as recommended, and authorize the City Manager to execute the contract documents.)

 

20. Report from the Community and Economic Development Department regarding an agreement with Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation to support the Jackson Square development project. (Motion whether or not to approve the agreement as recommended, and authorize the City Manager to execute the contract documents.)

 

21. Report from the Community and Economic Development Department regarding an addendum to an existing contract with EnviroNet, Inc. for environmental cleanup of four (4) properties at 3rd Avenue and 24th Street. (Motion whether or not to approve the addendum as recommended, and authorize the City Manager to execute the contract documents.)

 

22. Report from the Community and Economic Development Department regarding a First Amendment to the development agreement with Columbia Park LLC for extending the closing deadline to March 16, 2009. (Motion whether or not to approve the First Amendment as recommended, and authorize the City Manager to execute the contract documents.)

 

23. Report from the Community and Economic Development Department regarding a   development, purchase and escrow agreement with MetroLink and an Ordinance for the sale of land to MetroLink. (Motion whether or not to approve the agreements as recommended, approve the Ordinance (next item) and authorize the City Manager to execute the contract documents.)

 

24. A Special Ordinance providing for the sale of City-owned property to the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District. (Motion whether or not to consider, suspend the rules and pass the Ordinance.)

 

25. Report from the Finance Department regarding uncollectible loans. (Motion whether or not to approve the write-off of balances for uncollectible loans and corresponding allowance as recommended.)

 

26. Report from the Finance Department regarding the issuance of Series 2009 General Obligation Bonds for fiscal year 2010 capital improvements.  (Motion whether or not to authorize staff to proceed with the March 23, 2009 sale of General Obligation Bonds as recommended.)

 

27. Report from the Community and Economic Development Department regarding organizational appointments to Neighborhood Partners, recommending Highland Park Historic Neighborhood Association, Rock Island County Area Project and YouthBuild Quad Cities as constituent members of Neighborhood Partners.  (Motion whether or not to approve the appointments as recommended.)

 

28. Report from the City Clerk regarding the Plaza Events to be scheduled for the coming season, a Resolution for the American Heart Association’s Start! Heart Walk and the Quad Cities Criterium, requesting a waiver of application and event fees for the District’s two Gallery Hops, Red, White and Boom and the Summer Lunch on the Plaza Series, and a waiver of event fees for the Fifth Annual Labor Day Ride for Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma sponsored by the Daiquiri Factory. (Motion whether or not to approve the events and the waiver of fees as recommended and adopt the two Resolutions.) 

 

 

29. Items from the City Manager’s Memorandum Packet.

 

30. Other Business.

 

31. Executive Session on Personnel.

 

32. Motion to recess to 8:00 a.m., Saturday, February 28, 2009.

 

 

This Agenda may be obtained in accessible formats by qualified persons with a disability by making appropriate arrangements with Aleisha Patchin, City Clerk, 1528 Third Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois, 61201, - Telephone (309) 732-2010 - during regular business hours Monday through Friday.