Good evening. We're starting the meeting. It's September 16th, 2024. City Council meeting. And I ask Ms. Benowitz to call the roll, please. Council Member Hicks. Here. Dennis. Here. Miller. Here. White. Present. Achera. Here. Davis. Here. Cheeseman. Here. Mayor Schwartzman. Here. Ader present, Your Honor. I'll ask Mr. Miller to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. First action is the approval of the minutes from the September 3rd, 2024 meeting. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Thank you, Mr. White. Any discussion? Seeing none, I ask for roll call on the minutes from the September 3rd, 2024 meeting. Hicks, yes. Dennis, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Davis, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you very much. We have reached the public comment period. Is anyone here for public comment? Please step forward. Doesn't appear so. Thank you. We do have members here in attendance. I appreciate you coming. Next item is the consent agenda 2024-15. All matters listed under the consent agenda are considered routine by the City Council and will be enacted by one motion. I need a motion for these seven items. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Mr. Dennis. Any questions about any of these items? Mr. White. Yes. The technical service agreement with WIRC for grants, application, and administration of the CDBG-VC Health, Healthy House Grant. Can you explain that and what's the difference between that grant and the other WRC grant that's actually in the fourth ward. Great. Thank you for that, Mr. White. I'll actually ask Mr. Gugliotta. I think he can give a brief but informative description on the subject. Thank you. Thank you. So I'll start with the grant that we currently have that's been awarded. That's the DCO Single Family Owner Occupied Grant. that is in the fourth ward, as you mentioned. The purpose of that grant is for housing rehab for approximately 10 single-family, owner-occupied, low-income homes in what DCO refers to as kind of a targeted area. They have some criteria set, which is how we ended up selecting that area, which is located generally in the southwest portion of the city. bounded by both sides of Tompkins Street to the north, South Henderson Street to the west, Fifth Street on the south, and the railroad tracks on the east. Eligible activities for this grant would include improvements to plumbing, electrical, roofing, structural work to a foundation, siding, painting, energy efficiency, lead remediation, or accessibility. We applied for this grant back in January of this year. The governor did announce at the end of April that we received that grant. BUT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STEPS THAT WE HAVE TO GET THROUGH BEFORE WE CAN START ACTUALLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS. SOME OF THOSE INCLUDED THERE WAS A NOTICE OF STATE AWARD FINALIST THAT CAME OUT, A NOSAF THEY CALL IT, THAT INDICATED A NUMBER OF STEPS THAT WE HAD TO TAKE IN ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD. SOME OF THAT INCLUDED DOING AN ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD REVIEW, AN INTERNAL CONTROL QUESTIONAIRE. WE HAD TO SUBMIT A FORMAL LETTER STATING THAT THE CITY, YOU KNOW, WOULD FOLLOW PROPER PROCUREMENT LABOR STANDARDS. WE ALSO HAD TO PROVIDE COPIES OF LETTERS THAT WE HAD SENT TO THE U.S. SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES TALKING ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND THANKING THEM FOR THE PROGRAM. WE ALSO HAD TO PROVIDE THEM A COPY OF OUR CONTRACT WITH WIRC. THAT'S OUR CONSULTANT THAT WILL ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM. A COPY OF OUR PROPOSED BUDGET. ALL THESE DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND SUBMITTED AND APPROVED BY DCEO. And then we also had to set up a separate bank account, which is required by DCO for this specific grant, which we have done that also. We were also required to submit a public notice, which we did at the end of May in a local newspaper, indicating our intent to submit a request to DCO to release the funds that they granted to us. Once that was published and the time period ended, then in beginning of June, we actually submitted the formal request to DCO to release the funds. So that has also been completed. TOWARDS THE END OF AUGUST, THE STATE DID ISSUE A NOTICE OF STATE AWARD, OR NOSA, THAT WE HAD TO FORMALLY SIGN A RETURN, WHICH WE'VE ALSO DONE THAT. SO WE ARE NOW AT THE NEXT STEP, WHICH MEANS DCO IS GOING TO SUBMIT TO US A GRANT AGREEMENT, WHICH WE'LL HAVE BEFORE YOU AT SOME POINT WHEN WE GET IT TO FORMALLY APPROVE, SIGN, AND SEND BACK TO THEM. ONCE THAT HAPPENS, THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC MEETING THAT IS SET UP. And of course, we'll publicize that. WIRC will be in attendance to talk about, in general, the overview of the program, what to expect. And then they will also, at that public meeting, explain how to set up application intakes. A member of WIRC is present at the application intake to help people through the process. There are guidelines through DCO, of course, on how to rank those applications. They have to also be approved through DCO and the Historic Preservation Office. Once they're approved, then WIRC actually goes into the homes, they assess the homes, they write up work specifications, which again have to be approved by DCO, and then they can be bid out and the work can be done. I know it does take a long time to get this process going, but this is the typical process with DCO. For example, we got a grant in May of 2017 that was announced and we didn't start taking applications until June of 2018. We have typically two years from the grant signing to complete this grant. So that was the grant that we currently have. The one we're gonna talk about tonight, we haven't applied for yet. But the purpose of this grant that we're talking about is to assist eligible landlords, property owners with the replacement of partial or total HVAC systems to low to moderate income qualified rental units. Properties must have six or less units and be located within the corporate limits of the municipality. All projects funded through this program must benefit at least 51% low moderate income tenants as determined by HUD. The city will be requesting a grant in the amount of $300,000. There's no match technically required by DCEO, but this is a very competitive grant. So it would be to our benefit to provide a match, which we intend on doing a $10,000 match which will come to council at a later time, October 7th, I believe, for approval of that. We anticipate with this funding, if we get it, to assist 20 to 25 different properties, obviously depending on the amount of work that needs to be done in each one of them for the HVAC. There will be a public hearing held on October 7th for this grant at 5.30 prior to the council meeting. in the council chambers here. WRC will be present, and again, they'll provide a general overview of the program and what to expect. Applications for this are due on November 6th. If approved, the grant would typically, again, be about two years to complete once we get that grant signed eventually. And the only other thing I'll add is information is available on the City of Galesburg website on the current grants that we have. under the Community Development Department, we have a housing grants page. The other thing people can do is if they're interested, they can sign up to receive e-alerts when new information is posted on the city website. To get there, you go from the main page, the main City of Galesburg website page, scroll down to the bottom, you'll see a get notified option, click on that. And from there, there's actually several categories people can choose to get information on. One of them is the housing grants so that You can either get a text or an email, whatever you choose to sign up for, and then every time we modify or add items to that section of the website, they'll get a notification. Thank you very much. It'll help. I can tell constituents to watch this, and then I'll help them guide them through the process. I appreciate the information. Thank you very much. Thank you for that thorough explanation. Any other questions on the consent agenda? Seeing none, I call for a vote on consent agenda 2024-15. Hicks, yes. Dennis, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Davis, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes. Sharon? Thank you. We have reached passages of ordinance and resolutions. We have one item to consider this evening, 24-2022. This is a resolution of support for a railroad crossing elimination program application to the Federal Railroad Administration. We need a motion and a second. Thank you, Mr. Dennis and Mr. White. And Mr. Hanson, please explicate. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff is recommending approval of a resolution of support and commitment of local funds for a railroad crossing elimination program application to the Federal Rail Administration. It is planned to apply for funds for the planning phase of a project that would make safety and mobility improvements at the South Street Railroad underpass and the Mulberry Street at-grade railroad crossing. The potential changes that will be part of the planning study include closing the Mulberry Street crossing and replacing the South Street underpass with a new underpass that does not have a height restriction. It would also evaluate straightening the underpass to be in line with the current South Street alignment and make changes to the intersection with Seminary Street, both of which would improve safety. The City is partnering with BNSF to complete the application for the planning project. BNSF has agreed to use their engineering consulting firm at their cost to complete and submit the application. The total estimated cost of the planning phase of this study is $1,683,980. If awarded, the program would cover 80% of that cost, and the city and BNSF would split the 20% local match. of which that cost would be $168,399. Obviously, the city was technically responsible for all 20% of the local match, but BNSF has graciously agreed to pay even half of that in addition to all the cost with submitting the application and proposal to the Federal Rail Administration. And we appreciate their cooperation and support and recommend approval of this item. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions by the council? Mr. Cheeseman? No questions, just a comment. I think that this is good news on so many fronts, and if we're able to do this, it will add a great deal to that area in terms of safety, aesthetics, things like that, and update things immensely. So thank you. Mr. Miller. Do they have a timeline for this to get in the application process, finish it, everything? Yeah, we're actually submitting the application. Assuming your approval tonight, we're submitting it a week from tonight. So we would hope to hear this fall. And then obviously... This is just the first of a multi-phase, multi-year process, but getting a grant award at this phase to get started on planning is kind of the key first step. So we're cautiously optimistic. BNSF has been very helpful. We've gotten support from a number of different folks legislatively and or other civic and business groups. We're hopeful we put together a good package that will qualify and receive funds. Mr. Hansen, in addition, I mean, this is the planning phase. If the project is approved, whatever, we don't know what the scope of that is at this point. What would be the city's responsibility or expectation for the cost of that improvement? Yeah, so that's part of what this process is. Right now, our one commitment is the $163,000. That would give us a preliminary cost estimate. Obviously, we'd have to look at then what the matching cost is. But again, this is also being at least in part driven by BNSF and their desire to clean up this corridor. Obviously, there's a tremendous amount of train traffic that goes through this area in and out of the yard along with Amtrak. And so I wouldn't sit here and tell you that we have no additional commitment, but I can't give you a number until after we get through, hopefully, this process, and then we'll evaluate next steps and how we proceed. Thank you. Very helpful. Don't see any other questions. I'll ask for a vote on this. This is 242022. Hicks, yes. Dennis, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Davis, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes. Your Honor? Excellent. I almost said choo-choo instead of two-two, but that would have been pretty funny, but it's late. We don't have anything on our bids, petitions, communications, so we're now at the city manager's report. Anything to add, Mr. Hanson? Obviously, the TAC report is in there. If you have any questions, obviously available to the council and to the public. You can kind of see where we're going there. I didn't know this when I went to MPA school, but one of my functions apparently is to tell everybody when trick-or-treat hours are. So I've done this multiple times, and it's, I guess, one of my favorite pastimes. But nonetheless, October 31st, Thursday, 5 to 8. Um, you know, always hope for great weather and great candy for all. So, uh, enjoy, uh, anything else. I'd be happy to answer any questions if council has them. Have you picked out a costume yet? Um, some would say I wear one every day. Um, pretty scary at times, but, uh, uh, I would, I would probably go as, as something related to the fighting a lot. I sensor three and oh, so I'm, you know, it's not very, very often that happens. Okay. Nass College is 2-0, so that's pretty good. That's pretty unusual as well. Okay, miscellaneous business. We have three items. First is 24-4060. It is the joint funding agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation for the South Lake Story Road Multi-Use Path Project. That's a mouthful. Anyone need a motion? Thank you, Mr. White. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Hanson. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff is recommending approval of the joint funding agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation for the construction of the Lake Story multi-use path project. The subject funding agreement with IDOT will provide Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program funds in the amount of $1,794,975, as well as an additional $117,943 in state-only funds for the construction phase of the project. The City is responsible for the balance of the project for the construction phase, which is estimated at approximately $230,000. It is anticipated this project will be bid out later this year, I think, on the IDOT November letting. For those not as familiar, this is the project that will complete the trail loop around all of Lake Story Park, making roughly a four and a half, between four and a half and five mile long trail through that area. Tremendous enhancement and very fortunate to receive ITEP funds and recommend approval. Thank you, Mr. Hanson. Anyone on this? Ms. Davis. I just want to voice the excitement from myself personally and from the community overall. I think that's one of those items that I haven't heard about it in a minute, but I've heard a lot of comments since the day that I moved to Galesburg and noticed it myself while out walking the Lake Story trails. It's really exciting to be on council at a time when we are getting to keep moving forward with this project. And I hope that I speak for a lot of the community when I say thank you to everyone who's put their hard work into this. Thank you. Mr. Cheeseman. Yeah, same thing here. I know a lot of folks have spoken to all of us and certainly to me about this project. I know we got stalled a little bit with some red tape here and there. But to see this now finally come to fruition and what it will add, a lot of really good things here tonight that we'll add to our community. And this is one that is really exciting. And we'll add another enhancement, as Mr. Hansen said, to the recreational area that is Lake Story. Very well. Echo those same thoughts. Not seeing any other comments, I ask for a vote on 24-4060. Hicks, yes. Dennis, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Davis, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes. Your Honor. Thank you. On a related note, 244061, Intergovernmental Agreement with the Knox County for Construction and Maintenance of the South Lake Story Road Multi-Use Path. We need a motion and a second. Thank you, Ms. Davis and Ms. Achera. Mr. Hanson. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff recommends approval of the intergovernmental agreement with Knox County for the Lake Story multi-use path. The city was awarded federal transportation funds, ITEP funds in the amount of $2 million for the project to construct the multi-use path along, in part, South Lake Story Road from West Lake Story Road to Woodblock Road just west of US 150. The proposed path is being constructed along South Lake Story Road, which is under the jurisdiction of Knox County. Under this agreement, the City will be responsible for the entire cost of the construction of the path. Knox County will continue to maintain in jurisdiction responsibility over South Lake Story Road, including the guardrails, culverts, and aggregate shoulders along the roadway. The City agrees to maintain at its own expense the new multi-use path and some of the items constructed in conjunction with the path, such as aggregate shoulders along the path, path markings, bollards, and signage. The city will also clear some vegetation that will obstruct the path. The project is scheduled for an IDOT letting in November. The county was very cooperative in working with us. It was kind of the last piece of the puzzle that allows us to move forward with the construction of the path, and we thank the county for their cooperation on this project. I'd be happy to answer any additional questions. Thank you, Mr. Hanson. Seeing no thoughts, questions on this, I ask for a vote on 244061. Hicks, yes. Dennis, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Davis, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. Last item in this part of the meeting is 244062, the purchase of five 22-passenger buses. from the State of Illinois Consolidated Vehicle Procurement Program. We need a motion and a second. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Ms. Davis, Mr. Hanson. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff is recommending approval of waiving the normal purchasing policy and approving the purchase of five 22-passenger super medium-duty buses from Midwest Transit Equipment utilizing IDOT's Consolidated Vehicle Procurement Program for a total cost of $904,260. With City Council's approval of this purchase and concurrence from IDOT, the City will be able to issue a purchase order to Midwest Transit Equipment, securing our place in line for the purchase of the buses. Sufficient funds are available for this purchase, with $900,000 paid from the active federal grant and the remaining $4,260 paid from the public transportation fund. I'll just add, as Council is aware, We've had substantial challenges post-pandemic getting specifically transit-related equipment, buses and so forth. I will tell you that even with this action tonight, it could be six months to two years even on this particular proposal, which is why getting in line is so important. But would do want to give a shout out to Craig Boyden at Transit for working with IDOT to at least allow us to get to this place tonight and hopefully get some much needed equipment sooner than later. It's been a real challenge post, like I said, post the pandemic and staff has done a great job trying to keep everything in order despite some very challenging fleet conditions. So happy to answer any additional questions. Thank you, Mr. Hanson. Anyone have any questions? Seeing none, I'll ask for a vote on 244062. Hicks, yes. Dennis, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Davis, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. And I would just echo the comments Mr. Hansen said regarding this. The department went over above its normal call of duty to ensure this was done and all hats off to them. I hear from many constituents related to this matter and I can tell you the The staff here are really working overtime to ensure that we have the best service possible. And it has been extremely challenging time. So thank you for that. And thanks for the council's support on this. I will move. I need a motion to sit as the town board. Thank you, Mr. Miller and Mr. Chair. All those in favor say aye. Anyone opposed? We are now sitting as the town board for town business. The only item are the bills this time, 249019. I need a motion for the bills. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Second. Thanks, Mr. Chair. Any questions about the bills? Seeing none, I ask the clerk to call the roll on the bills, 24-9-0-1-9. Hicks, yes. Dennis, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Davis, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you so much. I need a motion to resume as the City Council. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Mr. Chair, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We are now sitting as a city council. We come to closing comments. Since the baseball season is coming to a close, anyone ready to come out of AAA and hit first? Mr. White, you ready? Come on. Hey, bada, bada, bada. Hey. Swing, bada, bada, bada. I just want to again thank Mr. Guglielmo for that great explanation. A lot of times the citizens really don't understand and now they've got a couple of different ways to be able to even listen to you. We can point them to the city council meeting and they can actually sit down and listen and hear and you get a couple of explanations on how they can get information. through get notified and that's a great, great, great help. I just want to say thank you again for that. I spent a lot of time today meeting with our city manager, but after I got done, I went and visited our new grocery store. I please ask everybody to visit it. And with that, I'm finished. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. White. Mr. Chair. Thank you. I had a lot of fun in the city today. It's nice to be here for the weekend. Walked around quite a bit on Friday, went downtown, and I did not go inside to the area where a band was playing because I'd had a very long work day, but it was fun to see a lot of people there. And then on Saturday, went to the art center and enjoyed trivia. It was fantastic. It was a lot of fun. So that was a nice fundraiser. And I think the Art Center, as I've said before, is really beautiful. We had our son's wedding reception there, and it was really lovely. So it was nice to experience that. I also want to sort of shout out to one of our partners, if you will, in public works, and that's... the sanitation department. There were some concerns. There's some very old, very old pipes that need to be replaced along Broad Street. And there were businesses that were concerned as they had not been notified. And their leader, you know, took responsibility, said, hey, I'm sorry, I didn't communicate that. You know, I'll try better. And just, it's really nice. And to anybody that sees that work going on, it's really important that we get it done. This is a very, very old system and we don't want it to have it cave in. So anyway, I just appreciated that individual being very forthright and communicating and it's nice to see this work getting done. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ms. Davis. Thank you for that update. I think I'd heard about that. Well, and had to drive around the roadblock myself today too. So it's good to hear people take responsibility and acknowledge that sometimes we miss the mark with our communication. and you know just move forward from there i'm excited to hear that these pipes are getting replaced before something major happens that would be a lot more tragic and expensive and i just wanted to say as we move into the upcoming fall season i hope that Everyone enjoys the weather, the decorations, and the trick-or-treat hours that are from 5 to 8 on Thursday on Halloween. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Davis. Mr. Cheeseman. Their work with both the buses and this particular grant, the one thing that I think, and anyone just listening here tonight, sees how complicated all that is. And for our folks to be able to break that down into a manageable way for our citizens is really important and appreciated. Because without that, I think a lot of folks give up and that's not what we want. We want these things to be able to use. I want to also acknowledge and wish all of those a happy Hispanic Heritage Month that started yesterday through the middle of October. And finally, again, Mrs. Achera mentioned this, we have organized groups, groups that... are, quote, not an organized kind of thing, at least on a permanent basis, that are doing things all the time in our community to raise awareness of something, to honor something. Last Tuesday morning, September 11th, of course, and a day that we know is just one of the worst days in American history, our care group at Galesburg High School, led by Mrs. Gray, our fire department and Chief Hoven and our police department with Chief Idle, and a number of citizens in Galesburg and a number of students went out and this was also organized by the school police liaison, Mr. Olinger, Todd Olinger, to have an event where we ran the stairs at Van Dyke Field to remember the stair climb that those firefighters made on September 11th in the World Trade Center. And it was a powerful event and one that was well attended and one that I thought really hit the mark on what it was supposed to do. A number of our firefighters were dressed in their gear, 100-pound gear, and what that had to be like going up those stairs that day is beyond what any of us could ever understand. And I know other departments did that. My son, a firefighter in Peoria, did his thing on a Stairmaster that morning as well. So thanks to all involved with that to always help us remember. And one of the cool things, those students that participated, none of those were born. during that time and they were certainly to keep this kind of thing that you never forget this kind of stuff and learn from it and pass it on to one generation to the next is certainly one of the objectives. So thank you to all of those. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Cheeseman, thank you for sharing that story with us. I'm very appreciative. Mr. Higg. Thank you, Mayor. Just like to say thank you to Mike and his staff and to Aaron, our city engineer. I've heard from several of my constituents in the area that they've improved their infrastructure and where they've put down the new roads. And everyone that has contacted me is very, very pleased. And they like the way that you worked with them because obviously when you're putting in new roads or you're resurfacing new roads, it's hard to get around that. particular time frame while that's going on. But everybody was very, very happy. And then just a shout out to my brother in Texas who's watching. I'm not sure why he's watching, but Kevin, hello. And my little sister Kelly, it's her birthday. Happy birthday. Okay. Mr. Dennis. I'm going to pass. Thank you very much. It's a tough act to follow, I realize. After him and him, I'm done. I know, I know. I don't have much to say myself. Mr. Miller. Well, as everybody knows, I work on a farm. We are probably next week we'll be starting harvest. We will be out on the roads. We have slow-moving equipment. We don't like to be out there any more than you like us out there because it's not fun with a half-million-dollar combine and vehicles trying to go around you and ditches and that type of thing. Please be aware that we need safety just as much as you all do. We want to come home to our families. So farming's big in my heart. I was born and raised on a farm in Iowa, and I get the opportunity to continue that till the day that I retire. So it's very enjoyable. I will be missing probably a meeting here and there because of farming. I don't like it, but it's how I make my living folks. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Yes, there was so much going on this summer and it went so fast. Since our last meeting, the 53rd annual Stearman event occurred and I apparently went really, really well. I was out there as well for the breakfast. I know Mr. Hicks and some others on the council were volunteering out there, and that was just exceptional. And I spoke to some of the folks who came in. I think there were 78 planes that came in over the course of the week, and those folks are coming in from – somebody even flew in from Alaska this year. So that's a very significant thing for our community and wonderful. And I just can't thank enough the hospitality – team that kind of consists of so many different people in Galesburg. To that end, so this past weekend I participated in the first, or actually the first two actual rated Scrabble tournaments in the city of Galesburg's history. And 34 people came on Saturday from all over the place. I think the furthest was from Arizona. They were treated like dignitaries. Everywhere they went, all the restaurants that supported this project, I hope some of those, I mean, I have a sense that some of those folks may even move to Galesburg. They were so impressed. Sometimes you live here and you kind of take it for granted. The folks that came here found our downtown and our hotel and some of the historical sites just fascinating. And nothing but compliments about everything about it. I wish I could have captured some of their closing thoughts on camera, but it was very impressive. And we hope to have it as an annual event. To that end, I want to thank... Darla Cressy, who's here in the audience. I mean, she really pulled, she helped me pull this off. And, you know, she was the one really commanding the ship in terms of making it very hospitable for all its guests. And I couldn't thank her enough. And frankly, I know Halloween is 1031, which is my father's birthday. But we can celebrate Halloween before that because of Darla Kretze. So we're going to have the Haunted Trails event that you guys voted on today in the early portion of the meeting. And this starts on the – it's all weekends, Friday and Saturday of the month of October out at our beautiful Lake Story Park. So check it out. If you haven't seen it, if you haven't been to it, you're missing out because it's a great event. And thank you to the city for supporting it. and maybe a few counselors and Mr. Hanson can get out there and be scared. Because it's a real scare. You never know what's going to pop out from behind a tree. Could even be the mayor. You never know. Okay. No, it's just there was an outdoor concert this week that was so well attended. I guess there was a car show this week. I mean, it was so impressive. Again, the people coming in are thinking, Galesburg's on the map. And they were really impressed by everything we have to offer. And it's not just the events, right? It's the people that they run into. The servers, the people walking downtown. It was such a pleasant event for these folks. And it really reminded me of just how special this city is. And so with that, we'll ask for an adjournment of the meeting. Thank you, Mr. Dennis. Second. Mr. White. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We are adjourned at 636.