Hello, everyone. Welcome to tonight's meeting, the City Council Chambers, November 3rd, 2025. We will begin with a roll call. Ms. Benowitz. Council Member Mangieri. Here. Hunnigan. Here. Miller. Here. White. For the vote. Achera. Here. Saul. Yes. Cheeseman. Here. Mayor Schwartzman. Here. Eight are present, Your Honor. Thank you. We'll stand for the President's Allegiance, and then we'll have an invocation by Reverend Haley. Good evening to all and may God continue to bless us all as we share on this evening. Oh, dear God, we come before you with a prayer for unity and love in our city of Galesburg, Illinois. Help each one of us to recognize the inherent value in every individual. whether they are poor or rich, black or white, and to celebrate the riches of our diverse community. Grant us the wisdom, the knowledge, the understanding to work hand in hand, hard and hard to work toward a brighter future. We all may ask for the divine protection over our city. watch over and keep us safe from harm, strengthens us to walk together, talk together, sing together as we travel up and down our streets here in Galesburg. Bless our policemen and firemen. Bless our veterans, city officials, and citizens of our community. Father, in the name of Jesus, we please. And ask you to heal our wounded spirit. Heal our broken heart. Give us more love for one another. More love for our city. More love for our country. And more love for the world that we live in. We all just want to say now, God, thank you. Thank you for this night. And bless, bless, and bless. In Jesus' name we do pray. Amen. Thank you. We are here to now consider the minutes from the October 20th, 2025 meeting. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Thank you, Mr. White. Second. Thanks, Mr. Chair. Any questions about the minutes? Seeing none, I ask for a vote on the minutes from the October 20th, 2025 meeting. Please call the roll. Manjeri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. We've reached public comment. If you're here for public comment, please step forward. You have three minutes to speak to the dais. And please state your name. Hi there. Illinois Accountability. You know... I guess you can call me an auditor or whatever you want to call me. Go ahead. But some disturbing things. There's this saying, and pardon my language, you don't shit where you sleep. That's why I don't audit in Galesburg, because I love my city. But I put in a handful of FOIA requests, and I get everything except what I want. And the first time I put in a FOIA request... for somebody else, not even me, well, they said they don't exist. And then I appeal that and, oh, well, you weren't a part of the situation. My problem with that, and me as an auditor, I guess, if that's what you want to call me, I don't really have a problem with that. My problem is if Grandma Gertrude or one of these fine citizens behind me goes to pull a FOIA request for something, they're going to get screwed around because they don't understand the law the way that I do. And you know what I did too? I pulled those FOIA requests off of my old lady's email because I knew it would show her name and they're going to think instantly, oh yeah, we're going to easily walk around this chick like circles. Newsflash, her old man's an auditor. Okay, the most... egregious part of this whole thing is I put in another FOIA request, and these citizens behind me are going to be disgusted by this. Guess what I got on that FOIA request? I got nothing that I wanted, but I did get two citizens of Galesburg social security card numbers that didn't get redacted. You just heard that right. That screams lawsuit to me. That's not okay. And then when I get a phone call earlier from somebody that claims, oh, well, I've been doing this for 17 years. Yeah, you've been doing your job for 17 years doing FOIA requests, but I got two people's Social Security card numbers on my phone right now. That's not okay, guys. Not okay at all. Peter, I like you as a mayor. I do like you, and I've got nothing against you, but that cannot happen. We know better than that, guys. Thank you. Okay, anyone else here for public comment, please step forward, state your name. Good evening, everyone. This is Pastor James A. Haley of Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church here in this great city of Galesburg, Illinois. I want to apologize to Kelly for handing out these flyers before the meeting. But, you know, we just jump in and do what we can do. But I want to invite the city to two things. First thing I want to invite you to is for all veterans in the United States of America, you are welcome to come to Allen Chapel 153 East Tompkins Street on Veterans Day, which is November the 11th. And we're going to have a fish fry free for all of the veterans. It will be catfish filet and spaghetti and other sides. Now, if you're not a veteran and you come with your husband or your wife or your children, you will have to give a donation of some type. Amen? Amen. It will be from 11 o'clock to 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the 11th of this month. Also, on the 16th of this month, our church will be celebrating. We are the oldest African-American church in the city. We was established in 1853 and maybe even earlier than that from some of the records. But we will be celebrating our church anniversary on November the 16th at 3 o'clock. And Reverend Antonio Franklin, And the Full Gospel Church, along with others, will be our guests, along with the entire city, getting the invitation to come on that day. God bless and have a good evening. Thank you. Anyone else here for public comment? Seeing none, we'll move on. Thank you for those who spoke. Consent Agenda 2025-21. All matters listed on the consent agenda are considered routine by the city council and will be enacted by one motion. We have four items to consider this evening. The first is 255007. This is municipal compliance report for the Galesburg Firefighters Pension Fund for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2024. 255008 is a municipal compliance report for the Galesburg Police Pension Fund for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2024. 255009 is a quarterly investment schedule. And 258020 is approval and warrants drawn in payment of same. Do I have a motion for that consent agenda? Thank you, Ms. Mangieri. Second. Thank you, Mr. Cheeseman. Any questions about any of those items? Seeing none, I ask the vote on the consent agenda 2025-21. And Jerry, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes. Your Honor. Thank you. We move to passages of ordinances and resolutions. We have five items to consider. The first three are ordinances. The first is on final reading. The next two are on first reading. To start off with 251017. This is a revenue adjustments on final reading. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Thank you. Mr. Saul? Second. And Ms. Mangieri seconds. Ms. St. George, please fill us in. Thank you, Your Honor. STAC recommends approval of various rate and fee adjustments as part of the fiscal year 2026 budget process. These changes are in line with the City Council's goals to evaluate rates and fees to ensure cost recovery while avoiding barriers to access. The recommended adjustments include increases to various licenses, recreation fees, refuse fees, with all changes being typical and customary. If approved, these changes will take effect on January 1st, 2026. This is the final reading of this agenda item, which was previously brought to the council on October 20th. There's no immediate budget impact as the rates and fees will be reflected in the fiscal year 2026 budget. Thank you for that. Anyone have questions about this item? Seeing none, I call for a vote on 251017. Manjeri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. The next is 251018. This is 2025 property tax levy. It's on first reading. Ms. St. George, can you fill us in? Thank you. Yes, Your Honor. Staff recommend the city council approve the 2025 property tax levy ordinance, which establishes a levy request of 10,871,732. This represents a decrease in the tax rate and an increase of 4% in the total dollars collected compared to the 2024 tax levy extension. The 4% change in dollars collected stems from the increase in the estimated assessed value or the EAV of the properties within the city. The city's proposed tax rate is approximately $2.35 per $100 of EAV. This is a decrease of approximately 4 cents from the prior year's tax rate. This is actually the lowest city tax rate since 2008, with the tax for the last three years coming in at 238, 244, and 245. The levy is used to support critical city operations, including the General Fund, Parks and Recreation Fund, and IMRF obligations. A large percentage is dedicated to police and fire pensions, as well as 18.6% going to the Galesburg Public Library. It will be collected in 2026 with the majority of the funds received in June and September. This is on first reading and we'll come back to you at the next meeting for a vote. Thank you. Any questions about this levy? Okay, we'll move on to the next item. 251019, 2025 Special Service Area. property tax levy. This is also on first reading. Ms. St. George, please fill us in. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff recommend approval of the special service area tax levy ordinance for 2025. This levy was established in 1975 and originally set a flat rate of $1 per $100 of equalized assessed value to fund maintenance services in the downtown area. In 1995, the Downtown Council requested a replacement tax of $1.50 per $100 of equal assessed value to cover operational expenses, which was approved and levied for a period of 10 years. In 2013, the City Council extended the levy for another 10 years, and again in 2023. The levy must be approved before being filed with the Knox County Clerk by the last Tuesday in December 2025. This one is also on first reading and will come back to you for a vote at the next meeting. Thank you. Any questions about this item? Seeing none, let's move on. We have two resolutions to consider this evening. One is 252033, purchase of 566 Hawthorne Court from Knox County Trustee. Need a motion and a second? So moved. Thank you, Mr. Saul. Thanks, Mr. Chair. Ms. St. George? Thank you, Your Honor. Staff recommend approval of a resolution authorizing the purchase of property located at 566 Hawthorne Court from the Knox County Trustee for $813. The property acquired by the trustee through the tax liquidation program is abandoned and in disrepair. There's been no water service since 2008 and unpaid taxes for four years. Structural issues and evidence of rodent and weather entry. The city is seeking a demolition order through the Knox County Circuit Court for the property, and purchasing the property will allow the city to expedite the demolition process and then later offer the property for sale as surplus. It will be funded through the Redevelopment Fund, Fund 23. Thank you. Do we have a question or comment on this particular item? Seeing none, I call for a vote on 252033. Manjeri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. Next item and last item here is 252034, purchase of 1217 South Pearl Street. We need a motion and a second. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Second. Mr. White. Ms. St. George. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff recommend approval of a resolution to purchase the property located at 1217 South Pearl Street for $10,000. The property is located at the southeast corner of East 5th Street and South Pearl Street adjacent to H.T. Custer Park and approximately 4.4 acres of city-owned land. The previous owner vacated the property in 2024 and since then has experienced several nuisance issues. Acquiring the property will support the city's effort to stabilize and enhance the neighborhood. The city plans to demolish the structure to eliminate blight, improve public safety, and create a more functional site. The $10,000 acquisition cost will be funded through the Economic Development Fund. Thank you. Ms. Miller, you have a question? I'm just going to comment. Okay, please. It's your turn. This property is in my ward and I've had numerous, numerous complaints on this. Went and tried to help everybody out. This is a property that definitely needs to come down. Hoping to incorporate it or we can do some more updating on the south side of town. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Mr. Cheeseman. And that's in a location, as Mr. Miller said, that there's a lot of things that could be opened up from that property, which is in disrepair, being removed there, and it would allow more development of whatever we wanted to do down there, whether it be more to H.T. Custer Park or that whole area. That's a strategic area for doing things like that. So that's a good development. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, folks, I'll ask for a vote on 252034. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. We don't have anything under bids, petitions, and communications, so we move to the city manager's report. Ms. St. George, anything to add? Thank you, Your Honor. We have two items. The completed 2026 budget in its entirety will be provided to the council and available for inspection beginning on November 6th. It will be able to be viewed online on the city's website as well as available at the city clerk's office or the public library. And the budget is tentatively scheduled to be approved at the first or provided for your approval at the first meeting in December. We also have a CIP update planned. As discussed in the prior budget work session, the 2026 budget does include funds dedicated to capital projects, large-scale projects outside of the daily operations needed to appropriately maintain and improve infrastructure, buildings, and equipment. A few of those investments in the coming year will include the Starcom radios previously approved by Council, updates to technology and equipment, masonry repairs, galvanized water line replacement in the public safety building, Bunker Lean Cart Pass and Roadway Drainage, Water Main, and Water Main Rehabilitation Projects. Those are just a few of the examples of the items that should be included in that CIP. Thank you. Any further updates, questions from the Council? You got your homework cut out for you. Okay, we'll move to Miscellaneous Business, which we don't have anything there either. Wait until next week. So I ask for a motion to be... in the town board. So moved. Thank you. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We are sitting in the town board. We have three items. We have 299025, minutes from the October 14th, 2025 special meeting. We need a motion. So moved. Thank you. Mr. White. Second. Thank you, Mr. Saul. I guess we'll see if there's any questions for related to that meeting. I was in attendance. Several of us were there. Without seeing questions, I'll ask for a vote on the minutes 259025. Manjari, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, abstains. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Six yes, one abstention, Your Honor. Thank you. Next is 259026. This is a resolution determined tax levy. Need a motion and a second. Thank you, Mr. White. Thank you, Mr. Chair. We do, I notice now we have the township supervisor in the audience. So if there's any questions, I'm sure she can answer them. Any questions on this item? Seeing none, I'll call for vote on 259026. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. Last item under town business are the bills, 259027. Any motion for the bills? So moved. Thank you, Ms. Chara and Ms. Mangieri. Any questions about the bills? I'll call for a vote on 259027. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. We need a motion to resume as a city council. So moved. Thank you. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We are now sitting as a city council. We have reached closing comments. Who wants to lead off tonight? Mr. Miller, thank you. We finished harvest tonight at 4.30, so I ran home, took a shower, made it. I'm glad I'm back. Our mayor came out, rode in the combine with me a little bit, kind of brought me up to date on some things that I had missed out on. So I'm back in my chair and ready to get back to work. Thank you. Glad you have your back. Mr. White. I just, first of all, I want to thank the city for getting some attention to the corner of Tompkins and Henderson Street. It's been long overdue. We finally got around to it, and I just want to thank you for the hard work you're doing there. And as November 11th is Veterans Day, I'm a veteran, a Vietnam veteran at that. And I think that there's no veteran that ever has to go out. A young man, he's usually between 18 and 25. If they have to go to a combat situation, they never come back the same. Watch them, take care of them. Some of them end up homeless. Some of them end up struggling with their lives. And not because it's a choice of their own. It's a choice of the circumstances. They volunteer to... to fight for their country. And then when they come back home, it's up to us to take care of them. Watch over them, help them in any way that you can see, because they need you. They all come back with some form of PTSD. All of them. I don't care who they are. They all come back with it. But take care and honor your veterans. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. White. Thank you for your service. Ms. Chair. Thank you, Mr. White. I echo that, and I think that if you're an employer, you should definitely consider hiring a vet. A lot of times they have difficulty getting back into sort of the non-military world, and they have very transferable skills. I want to talk a little bit about just to revisit where we're at with our solar project. I want to remind people of all the efforts that the city took in order to help the neighbors that were complaining about the one particular development to help avoid some of their concerns. Just to restate, we imposed a moratorium on developments and then we passed a new renewable energy ordinance to help strengthen local oversight. We had our legal counsel look at all the different options that we might have in order to restrict that particular project. This project was delayed for over six months and we tried to work with the developer to correct the site plan while meeting the state requirements. And we also contacted state legislators and the state authority that is over the solar project permits. We didn't receive any indication that they would intervene in any way. Now I want to point out to you what has happened at the late night veto session. On Halloween, our state legislature passed... A couple of different laws that are they haven't been signed yet by the governor, but they will probably on the 6th. They really do sort of hurt us downstate in terms of our own authority over, you know, over our hometown. This particular Senate bill, which has some good points in terms of, you know, helping helping with really certain energy restrictions. It also. has imposed a number of extra fees and basically makes it more difficult for municipalities to slow down. any type of energy-related developments, be it solar or these new storage facilities. So essentially, governments only have 60 days to act on certain renewable energy permits, and then automatic renewal will, or approval rather, will apply. So this really makes it harder for cities to really have control over their own municipality. And I just want to point that out that As a city, we did everything we could, and we will continue to really look out for our citizens. But many issues happen at a state level, and it really is important, if you're concerned about this, to act. Contact your legislators. Contact the governor. Another one that I really want to point out is the motor fuel tax and transit redistribution that occurred. We all hear complaints about... Our roads and the fuel tax is supposed to go towards maintaining the roads, but they pass again at a late night session, a rule that's basically going to redistribute our funds that should be going towards our roads. of that is going to go to Chicago, to the Chicago Transit Authority. And this is approximate. So it's approximately 85% will go to Chicago metro area and only 15% for the rest of downstate. They also raised our toll taxes quite a bit. You might think, oh, well, that will go into the roads. Nope, that's going to go into, let me see here, what other things was that going to go into? Online, I'm sorry, that's not it. I missed. Anyway, it's pensions. It'll go into pensions, but not towards the road. So, again, I just want to point out that we do everything we can. I love it. People come here, hold us accountable. But there's so much that happens at the state level that we don't have control over. So if you're interested, reach out to your legislators. Demand transparency from IDOT and the Illinois Toll Authority. Oftentimes they'll have times for public comment. And consider... forming an organization, a regional organization, or creating one in order to advocate for downstate. So thank you for the opportunity to share these with you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Zoll? I only have a couple of things. So first off, kudos to my colleague, Wendell Hennigan, and all the volunteers who have been working out at Cook School. It's coming together. It's quite beautiful out there. Good job. Yeah. And Mayor Schwartzman also. Yeah. My second thing is Veterans Day is November 11th. I went to a celebration the other day, yesterday afternoon, for a veteran who didn't come home. It was Kyle Worley's 20th anniversary of not coming home. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Saul. Mr. Cheeseman? A couple of things as well. Thank you. to Miss St. George for stepping in and doing such a great job tonight in a sort of a last minute type of situation. Thank you very much for that. Again, we can never say enough or talk enough about the credit and the admiration that we have for all of those that have served our country. And our country, even with all of its problems, we sure have a lot of things to be grateful for. I talked to someone the other day that spent some time on a missionary trip. in South America and when she came back she just felt how much we have here and how much we offer and a great deal of that is for all those men and women since the beginning of our country serving to help fight for our freedoms and I certainly want to thank Mr. White for his service and so many others and my father at home who I don't know if he's the oldest veteran in Galesburg but he's got to be close at 96 just missed World War II and served in Korea, so I appreciate him and a number of other relatives doing that as well. Again, we're in a tough time in our country and our city with food shortages and food insecurity, but I've seen so many folks step up, whether it be organizations, restaurants, grocery stores, our local food pantries. folks looking out for human beings that are in need of help and you never know when you're gonna be in need of help and this is a time to really step up and it's always a time to step up to do that and appreciate all that and we've got to continue to do that, all of us. We also have, and I don't have this in front of me right now, but we've put a number of different grants in in our city to help folks with their housing. especially those that are looking to get low-interest loans or grants to fix up their homes. Please take a look at that if that's something you're interested in as well. I think Mrs. Achera said what she said so very, very well. It's good, and we work really well here together, and we respect each other's views, and we all have different views on a variety of things, but we work to try to reach a consensus, and most of us have the same types of feelings about those things that come up, or at least work to get there with that. And we feel like that we do the best job with the input of our city and experts and our city folks here to make decisions for what's best for our city. But we know that there are other groups of government that are higher. And certainly the description of what she said is so true. And I was part of that with the solar project. None of us are against solar. but we'd sure like to be able to see how we can best make it work in our town and to see some of those things happen that don't take into consideration some of the local types of challenges we have. It's disheartening and I know we've had that kind of thing in schools over the years where the best decisions can come from the people that are right there in the trenches. And finally, again, we'll be voting on this soon, but you can see we continue to be very aware of taxes in our town and our property tax thing that affects so many. lowering it over 10 cents in the last couple of years and at the lowest rate since 2008 shows a respect that we have for our citizens thank you thank you mr. Cheeseman miss Mangieri I only had two things I wanted to go over one of them is that I did take the bus ride last week I actually am going to do a couple more trips so because there's more than one line and I want to see what it feels like to transfer and whatnot with all of your groceries, with your items and whatnot. So, but so far so good. And the bus driver that I had answered all of my questions very professionally. She knew exactly how to answer it. I didn't even get any, I don't know answers, you know, so she was very helpful. The second thing I want to go over is that when I am not a council member, I am working on a grassroots initiative called Community Grow, and our focus is on fighting food insecurity in Galesburg. So I have been very aware of the SNAP benefit pauses and listening to what the other organizations in our town are looking to do together. I'm encouraging everyone to find an organization to either donate to, whether that's donating food, donating funds, or donating your time. Time is actually incredibly helpful because there will be an influx of people going to these food banks and feeding programs, and they're gonna need more bodies to make sure that it's a smooth process. So if you can do one day a week, or once a month, that's wonderful. That's one more helping hand that we're all helping each other. And I also will encourage everybody to reach out to me. You're welcome to email me and ask me where you should like to go. Because I can definitely recommend many of the organizations that might fit your personality or things that you're more interested in, in terms of helping. So I will take... Any help that will be given, and I know that so will all of the other organizations. So thank you in advance. Thank you. Mr. Hunnigan. I have lived in Galesburg for over 50 years, but I've never, ever ridden on a public transit bus until last week. Several of us on the city council thought we needed to know more about the state of public transportation in a city of 30,000. Is it reliable? Is it fast and comfortable? How do we compare with other communities of comparable size? A woman from my church who uses our buses almost daily invited me to take a four-hour tour with her to explore bus riding in Galesburg, Illinois. We started near Galesburg High School. We arrived at Target and Carl Sandburg College. We traveled to Walmart, traveled downtown where we ate lunch at 156 East Main, good food, and shopped at Wordsmith Bookshop, a true downtown jewel. After securing a bus transfer, we returned to Target. Here's my grade card. Reliable and frequent, yes. Fast and comfortable, yes. Affordable, 60 cents a ride. Performance of staff and employees, they were professionals. One, more than one bus driver helped a disabled passenger on a walker to get in the bus. The four buses I rode appeared well-maintained and clean, and the drivers had strong driving skills, adhered to safety law, and were courteous to passengers. The next day, I scheduled an appointment with the city bus manager of Galesburg. His name is Craig Boynton. He has held this position since August 2021. and it's responsible for managing the daily operations of the City Transit Division. Some quick facts about the City of Galesburg Transportation. There are 35 employees, 20 of them full-time. Their budget is $3 million. There's been no rate increase for passengers since the 1990s. 104,000 people use this service and it's been an increase since 2024. I also learned that our buses are getting old and cost a lot to maintain. It cost $800,000 to purchase a bus. Our bus system needs more financial assistance from the state of Illinois and from the federal government. The number of agencies the bus system serves has increased tremendously over the past 10 years. I had one burning question during my interview with Mr. Boynton. Are passengers allowed to bring or carry more than two bags on a bus? I was told that passengers can bring as many bags as they want. However, they are allowed only to make only one trip from the door with their boxes when they get on the bus. My grade for the municipal bus system is A minus. Please invite Mr. Boynton to the city council meeting so we can ask him more questions. Thank you. Thank you for that thorough description. Thank you to the council. Again, I think closing comments have really become very, very informative. And I think that's a statement to just the strength of our the cooperation that we have building over time. I want to speak to the community on a few things. Obviously, it's Veterans Day in a few days. Veterans are very important to us and need to be highlighted, not just on November 11th, but every day of the year. We have many, many veterans in our community, as Mr. White pointed out, who are struggling. And much of that struggle comes from service they may have had overseas. And it's incumbent upon us to care for them, just like we would anyone. Both of my grandfathers, I had two, and they both served in war, one in World War I, believe it or not, and one in World War II. I learned a lot from both of them, and I'm very thankful to them, and I respect them with great admiration for their service. Both of them volunteered to serve in the military. There's going to be a great event coming up on November 11th. There's lots of great events. We talk about this fish fry at AME. That's fantastic. There's also going to be a ceremony at Walmart, I believe, starting at 9 a.m. And if you haven't been out there for that event, it's really a really touching event in our community. Regarding the concerns around food, I attended an event on Friday. A local church minister called a meeting of concerned parties and parties related, you know, connected to this issue over time. We have many, many nonprofits that are concerned about food security in Galesburg. I've been a part of some of those things even long before I was elected. There is a tremendous amount of effort paid by our community, especially on a volunteer basis, to make sure that everyone is fed. The school district has taken on a tremendous amount of responsibility to do their best to ensure that children that go to schools in Galesburg get fed. I don't know if you know, but there is basically free lunch and free breakfast for all children in our public school system. That's not true everywhere, and there's great effort made by our school board to ensure that's the case. But of course, school isn't 24-7, 365. There are breaks in school, and there's one of those breaks coming up soon. And so it is, we need to redouble our efforts. Each one of us, as Ms. Mangieri made very clear, can spend maybe a day a week, an hour a week, an hour a month, contributing to this issue. And if we put our hands together, we can ensure that that no one goes hungry. So I am working with those individuals, and I believe there may be some new programming coming out, new opportunities to serve, and I hope that you guys can partake. I see some new students here. I see students that came back for a second meeting. That's pretty unusual, okay? But I thank you so much, and you guys are always welcome not only to be at these meetings, but also to have your hands in the dirt. in our community. And I wanna specifically thank, if you look at the city's website, I just noticed there's a photograph now in the background, just put up today from an event that happened Saturday to put trees in at Cook School Park. And that was, I wasn't able to attend, I was out of town, but I was really touching to see so many young people out there early, early on Saturday morning, planting trees the day after Halloween. and students know what I'm talking about. So on the last bit, I gotta tell you, there's a real dilemma in Galesburg right now. It's I don't have my gavel, so how are we gonna end this meeting? And if that's the biggest challenge we have in Galesburg, we're doing pretty well, folks. So with that, I'll ask for an adjournment of the meeting. So moved. Second. All those in favor, say. Aye. We are adjourned.