Welcome to tonight's meeting. We're at City Council Chambers, Galesburg, Illinois. December 1st, 2025. Welcome, everyone. Ms. Benowitz, can you call the roll, please? Council Member Mangieri. Here. Hunnigan. Here. Miller. Here. White. Present. Achera. Here. Saul. Here. Cheeseman. Here. Mayor Schwartzman. Here. Eight are present, Your Honor. Thank you. I'm going to ask Mr. Saul to lead us in the pledge, and then we'll have a moment of silence. Proclamation on the agenda has been moved to the next meeting so that our awardee can be present. Next item under our agenda is the approval of the minutes from the November 17th, 2025 meeting. I need a motion and a second. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Miller and Mr. Saul. Any questions about those minutes? Seeing none, I'll call for a vote on the minutes of the November 17th, 2025 meeting. Manjari, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Echera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. Excellent. We're now at public comment. If anyone's here for public comment, please step forward. You can have the entire evening to yourself. Seeing no comments, we'll move on. We have the Consent Agenda 2025-23. And note that 23 means we've had 22 previous Consent Agendas, which means you also have one more left before the end of the year. All matters listed under the Consent Agenda are considered routine by the City Council and be enacted by one motion. Before I ask for that motion, let me tell you the two items on the Consent Agenda, 254079 the annual service renewal for streaming and storing public meetings, and 25-0, excuse me, 8022, approval and warrants drawn in the same. Need a motion and a second? Thank you, Mr. Miller. Thank you, Mr. Saul. Any questions about those two items? Seeing none, I call for a vote on the consent agenda 2025-23. Manjeri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. We've reached the passages of ordinances and resolutions. We have two items. One on final reading, that is 25-10-20. This is an ordinance, sale of surplus firearms. On final reading, need a motion and a second. Thank you, Mr. Miller and Ms. Echera. Mr. Hanson, welcome back. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff is recommending approval of a special ordinance authorizing the sale of surplus firearms from the police department. The department has accumulated various firearms over time, including those no longer in use, and confiscated weapons from nonviolent crimes. These firearms, including pistols and rifles, will be sold through a licensed federal firearms dealer. Ensuring all applicable laws and regulations are followed, a list of the firearms to be sold is included in the ordinance, and prices will be set by the FFL dealer. Additionally, officers Officers will have the opportunity to purchase their recently replaced Sig Sauer P320 handguns at an agreed price. With the city receiving a percentage of those sales, the sale is expected to generate approximately $40,000, which will help offset the recent purchase of the Glock 47 firearms for patrol officers. This special ordinance requires two readings by the City Council. Tonight is the final reading, and with your approval, we would move forward. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Anyone have questions about this, Mr. White? Will this sale be open to the public? Yes, I believe through the dealer. Through who? Through the dealer, the federal firearm license dealer. I should say, with the exception, if the officer decides to buy their service revolver, obviously those wouldn't be available to the public, but all the rest of them are available to the public through the dealer, as indicated. Thank you. Anyone else? Seeing none, I call for a vote on 25-10-20. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. The next is 25-10-21. This is another ordinance. Designate stop intersection. at Holton Street and West 2nd Street. First reading, Mr. Hanson. I think your honor staff is recommending approval of an ordinance. Does that designate the intersection of Holton Street and West Second Street is a two way stop, which would be on Holton Street. The request follows pedestrian safety concerns near the new Cook School Park, particularly with the construction of the facilities. A resident suggested adding the stop signs on Holton Street where yield signs currently exist. The Traffic Advisory Committee received and reviewed the proposal and recommended replacing the sides with stop signs to enhance safety. The installation of the stop signs is estimated to cost $150. Funding from the work is available in the city's gas tax fund. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Anyone have questions about this item? Mr. White? Is this first reading? Yeah, no, this isn't a two-reading requirement, so it would actually go in tonight. Okay, thank you. Okay. So this is, well, one reading is sufficient. So we had a motion and a second. Do we need to make another motion? Okay. Can I ask Mr. Hanson a question? Mr. Schwarzman, is some of this here to slow the traffic down? Is that what the intention of this is? I think, as I think I stated in comments before, I think the committee... This is maybe an overabundance of caution, but because there's already some regulation at that intersection and we do expect activity to pick up, that exchanging the stop sign for the yield sign that is there may provide some additional assurance to slow traffic through that area. Other than that, we'll continue to monitor it to see if anything additional is needed in that area once the park is in full use. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so this was a second reading, I suppose. Only one reading was necessary. So we're going to go to vote. Unless anybody has another question, please call the roll. Thank you. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven to vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. We have one item under bid 253048. This is a fuel farm at airport. Need a motion and a second. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Cheeseman and Mr. Miller. Mr. Hanson. Got to turn that on. I think I'd be used to this by now. Staff recommended approval of a $1,392,000 bid from Brandt Construction Company for the replacement of the airport fuel farm. The project is funded in part by the Rebuild Illinois Capital Funds, which prioritized aeronautical facility improvements. The existing underground fuel tanks at the airport are deteriorating and need replacement. The proposal includes two above-ground storage tanks, electrical service to the new site, and removal of the old BRANT CONSTRUCTION BID INCLUDES $1,380,000 FOR THE BASEWORK, $12,000 FOR ELECTRICAL, AND $182,000 FOR TANK REMOVAL. ALTHOUGH THE BID IS 8% HIGHER THAN THE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE, STAFF BELIEVE REBIDDING IS UNLIKELY TO LOWER COST. THE TOTAL COST WILL BE SPLIT WITH $791,449.20 COVERED BY THE REBUILD ILLINOIS FUNDS AND THE CITY'S LOCAL SHARE OF $600,550.80 PAID FROM THE UTILITY TAX FUND WITH REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE GRANTS FUND, FUND 13. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Hanson. Any questions about this item? Mr. Saul? Is there a reason why they decided to go above ground instead of below ground? Yeah, the above ground is just more typical now. Without them being underground, they're easier to maintain. I think pretty much everybody at airports is going to above ground. And so on the advice of our consultants and what was available, that was the best option for here. Anyone else? Mr. White? The only one that I was interested in is the environmental site assessment, the removal of two 12,000-gallon tanks. And if I'm correct, it's 102% over what we bidded? but we were wanting to spend for it. Could you repeat the question? It's on, I guess I want to say page 50, 55. It says phase two environmental site assessments. It's $22,000. Removal of two 12,000 gallon underground storage tanks $160,000. At the bottom of the page, it's $182,000. And in red, it says 102%. Can you explain to me what that 102% is? So that's the difference between the engineer's opinion of cost. But that is for the removal of the tanks, which we're not recommending to include in the award. We're recommending to do that in a separate contract, so we're not recommending to award the removal of the existing. So we're not going to do this part? Correct. Okay, thank you. Anyone else? Mr. Gavin, these are how old the tanks are out there presently? Yeah, I think they've been on the ground for 50, 60 years and are having a lot of issues passing tests that they have to pass to continue to operate due to their age. Thank you. Yeah, just to Mr. White's question. So in this particular bid, the $1,392,000 is for the construction and the electrical. The removal is separate. We believe we can do that separate. The reason it's written in the report that way is the tanks are still going to be removed. They're just not going to be removed as part of this particular bid. We believe we can get that piece closer to the engineer estimate. Correct. Yeah, so just want to be clear about what you're voting on tonight, which is the tanks and the electrical. The old tanks still have to be removed. We're just going to do that separately, and we believe we'll be at a lower cost. That's what I did in the Navy. I work with jet fuels, and we had a lot of above ground, so I understand that they don't put them underground anymore. If they can help it, I ran them. 10,000 gallon above ground in Vietnam, so it's pretty commonplace. Okay, thank you, folks. Looks like we're ready to vote on 25, 30, 48. Ms. Benowitz, please call the roll. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. Mr. Hanson, we've reached the city manager's report. Anything to add? Just one, obviously, I want to point out in the packet is the Traffic Advisory Committee report summary for your and the public's viewing. I want to call attention to an interview this morning with Chief Hovind. on the smoke alarm detector program that's still available. It's a tremendous opportunity and program for those who may qualify and are in need and would encourage folks to take advantage of that and appreciate the Chief's work and his staff on that particular program and then obviously acknowledge It's a little early to be getting seven, eight, nine inches of snow, but here we are. So to the crews on a holiday weekend when it was just 70 degrees a couple weeks ago, I give them a lot of credit. I think they did a great job and we're ready for the long haul for the winter. But hopefully, you know, Mother Nature gets us out of our system early and we get back to a more customary winter going forward, but to the staff, I just want to acknowledge their efforts this weekend. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Hanson. Any questions for Mr. Hanson? Seeing none, we'll move on. Under miscellaneous business, we have four items to consider. The first is 254080, the 2026 budget with classification and salary schedule. I need a motion and a second. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Second. Thank you, Mr. Saul. Mr. Hanson. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff recommend approval of the 2026 budget and the 2026... salary classification schedule for city employees. The city manager prepares and recommends the budget, but the city council makes the final decision on resource allocation. A public hearing for the budget was held on November 17, 2025, and that the budget has been available for review at the Galesburg Public Library, city clerk's office, and on the city's website. The attached classification salary schedule includes a 4% cost of living adjustment for the AFSCME, IFF, PSCO, and exempt employees' classification contracts, along with creation of new positions for public works operation manager and park foreman. Additionally, the transit dispatcher and water meter shop foreman positions have been reclassified. All changes are accounted for within the 2026 budget, which sets the legal spending limits for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. before the discussion, just want to acknowledge Ms. O'Hearn and Ms. Billiter and the Finance Department for their excellent work. Obviously, the budget is a multi-month process involving not only the finance team, but the department heads, the budget team, and obviously the council. Appreciate all your dialogue and work towards this endeavor. Obviously, as we've discussed before, you know, there's a number of things that are included in the budget from infrastructure to public safety improvements, IT upgrades, communication upgrades for public safety, the completion of the lake story path, amongst a number of other things that are included. And also to point out... As I discussed this morning briefly, we were able to move forward with what we anticipate being another property tax rate reduction, but also gets lost in this come January 1st. We are one of the few communities in the region that did not extend the grocery tax. which also will then sunset December 31st here in the city. So my hat's off to the council for your guidance, my sincere appreciation to the staff for all their work, and we look forward to seeing what we can accomplish in 2026 with the spending plan. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Any questions on the budget? I have a question. Mr. Hunnegut. We chose not to continue the grocery tax. I'm told we'll lose $600,000 or more. Roughly, yeah. How are we going to fill that hole in our revenue? Part of that is just obviously there's... not as many projects that we're going to complete obviously uh... but there but there are trade-offs uh... the city had uh... in the last several years uh... been in salad financial position as we discussed as our auditor pointed out uh... with revenues extending expenditures and so some of it is coming with surplus funds as i've discussed with council there are trade-offs to that because the economy does ebb and flow but something that uh... based on your guidance was something you didn't want to extend, and we certainly were able to account for that in the spending plan, at least, you know, in this particular fiscal year. So you feel that it's not going to affect city operations in a significant way? Let me put it that way. This year, no. I mean, I feel like we have a good... spending plan in front of council that addresses a number of priorities. I can't predict the future, but I'm not certain that even if we were going down a different discussion that this would be the appropriate revenue source in the future if we had to have that discussion, if that makes sense. But I am comfortable with the budget that's been presented and the revenue streams that are in it. Thank you. Okay, I call for a vote on 25-40-80. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes. Your Honor? Thank you. I just want to, you know, reiterate, we just voted unanimously on this budget, and I do appreciate all the work that's gone into it. It's not something that you do overnight. It takes many months and much strategy and conversation with the council. So thank you. 254081 is the AF... SCME, also known as ASME, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Memorandum of Agreement. Need a motion and a second? Thank you, Mr. Chair and Mr. White. Mr. Hanson. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff recommend approval of the memorandum of agreement with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, which has been negotiated over the past year and a half. The MOA includes provisions for a trial period of eight months for a 12-hour work schedule for dispatchers, similar to the Pittman schedule used by the police officers. The agreement also resolves pending grievances. The implementation of the 12-hour schedule will require an increase in scheduled overtime, which is currently being budgeted in 2026. This was an extension. We approved an ask-me agreement, I guess, about a year and a half ago now, but we agreed to continue working through the potential transition of a 12-hour shift for the dispatch center to match the current shift schedule for police officers. There's a lot of moving parts to that, but I think we've come to a good resolution with the bargaining unit, and obviously with passage tonight, that would allow us to move forward. I'm happy to answer any additional questions, but that was the main crux of this particular MOA. Thank you. Any questions about this? Seeing none, I call for a vote on 254081. Van Jerry, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. Next item, 254082, International Association of Firefighters, IAFF contract. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Cheeseman and Mr. Saul. Mr. Hanson. Thank you, Your Honor. Staff recommend approval of this successor collective bargaining agreement and side letter with the IAFF. previous agreement expired in December of 23, and the new three-year agreement has been negotiated. It includes 4% cost of living adjustments for 24, 25, and 26, consistent with the other agreements. The budget impact is consistent and has been accounted for in those budget years and is also included in the 2026 spending plan. Obviously, we worked through a few issues with the bargaining unit, but have reached consensus and appreciate their efforts to allow us to move forward. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. We've already made, come to contract with the police union. Yeah, this is the last one. So primarily on this one, We were working through issues related to health insurance as well as there was some operational time trading things that were of concern to both parties that took some time to work through. Everything else was kind of status quo, and I think it's a testament to both sides of the table that even though it took a long time to work through the issues, they continued to work well and perform as expected, and it just took us time to work through some technical issues within the contract, but by and large reached agreement with where both parties wanted to be and are moving forward. Thank you, Mr. Hanson. Seeing no questions about this item, I call for a vote on 254082. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. The last item under miscellaneous business, 25483, workers' compensation agreement. Need a motion and a second? So moved. Second. Thank you, Ms. Achera and Mr. Saul. Mr. Hanson. Thank you. Staff is recommending approval of a settlement agreement for a pending workers' comp case related to an injury sustained in May of 2024. In exchange for a release of claims, the injured party will receive $32,000. The payment will be covered by funds available in the Risk Management Fund, Fund 78. This is, as you know, and for the public, we are self-funded workers' comp, which is why these come before you as a negotiated settlement. Happy to answer any questions to the extent I can. Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, I call for vote on 254083. And Jerry, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Cherry, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. We need a motion to sit as a town board. Dwight? Okay, we have a first and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We are cities and a town board. Town business. We have four items under town business. And before we begin, I'll note that township supervisor is in the audience if anybody has any questions. First item under town business is 259028. This is the township budget and appropriation ordinance. It's on final reading. I need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Thank you, Ms. Echera and Mr. Saul. Any questions about this item? Mr. Hunnigan. I would like to ask the supervisor to tell us a little bit about what are some of the key elements of your budget for the next year. State your question. What are some of the key elements of your budget for the upcoming year? Our budget is pretty much standard. We deal with payroll and operating expenses. And the only additional change that we've made is to allocate funding for our charity, which would be the V&A. And your budget, total budget is? I didn't bring my phone. I'm sorry. I'm thinking 1.2 or something like that. That's our total funding amount, funds that we have available, but it's not our actual, what we spend each year. That's just our reserve. And that's $1 million. Hold on a second. my assessor by the assessor all right thank you Laura 1 million 184 185 that's what we have okay thank you mr. again anything else no thank you any other questions seeing none I'll call for vote on 25 9 0 2 8 Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. Next item is 259029. This is a tax levy ordinance, also on final reading. I will ask for a motion and a second. Mr. Miller and Mr. White, thank you. Any questions about this item? Seeing none, I call for vote on 259029. Manjari, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Acharya, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Next item is 259031. This is a contract for legal services. Need a motion and a second? Mr. White? And Mr. Cheeseman, thank you. Any questions about this item? Seeing none, I call for a vote. 25-9-0-3-1. Mangieri, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Achera, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. And last but not least, 25-9-0-3-2, the bills. Need a motion for the bills? Mr. Saul, thank you. Mr. Miller seconds. Any questions about the bills? Call for a vote on 259032. Manjari, yes. Hunnigan, yes. Miller, yes. White, yes. Acharya, yes. Saul, yes. Cheeseman, yes. Seven vote yes, Your Honor. Thank you. We need to resume as a city council. Need a motion? So moved. Thank you. Second. Mr. White seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? We are now sitting as a city council. We've come to closing comments. Who wants to lead off to this evening? Mr. Miller will. Thank you. I don't have much to report, but I do want to commend our city streets. fire and police for the weekend weather that we had. I feel that our streets are fantastic. I don't think anybody around here probably did as good a job as the city did. They were out there four o'clock this morning cleaning Main Street up. So the whole staff of the city, They work so well together, whether it's fire police, streets, parks. So I just want to commend all city employees for a fantastic job. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. White. I just want to say it's December the 1st is Rosa Parks Day. A woman that did a lot to advance the struggle. and I take my hat off to her. And I want to thank the city for taking care of a sidewalk and the people called me up and act like I did it, but you guys, you did a great job. And I had to go along with my colleague here about the streets. I think we do a great job. Those guys work really hard. I got to talk with one of them. He was plowing and You guys, you do a great job out there. So keep it up. Happy Thanksgiving. It's gone, but we all had great turkeys. And Grandma Ma had her picture all over the place with her children, grandchildren. And so just a good day and smiled. So we did great. We had a good time. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Chair? yes it seems like we snapped our fingers and suddenly it's the holiday season so I just like to remind everybody to consider shopping local I know our shopping local Saturday it was sort of poor weather and a lot of the folks downtown didn't get a lot of activity so just think about when you spend your dollars here it stays in the community it strengthens our community so consider that and consider enjoying some of the festive activities that are happening all around town we've got the festival of trees at Discovery Depot the Christmas show at the Orpheum lots of things going on check the the local resources about that and just have a safe holiday season thanks mr. chair mr. Saul I have to agree with my colleague mr. Miller that the streets look wonderful out there sings is how I started doing this recently and take care of Westport I know how hard of a job that is so I I commend you. You do a great job, the streets, the police, the fire department, everyone. So thank you very much for all the hard work that you do. Thank you. Mr. Saul, Mr. Cheeseman. Echo those same comments. Again, a very difficult and challenging job and situation you're in and just executed in flying colors. I want to also compliment Ms. O'Hearn and Ms. Billiter and all the staff, all the staff that does such tremendous work and difficult work with the budget and to come out with the things that really make our city work over a course of a year. Thank you for that very difficult job. I wanna also, and again, as we've done this, we've kept the tax rate, we've lowered it, and also not using a grocery tax like many others have and making it work within our budget and not raising our, and that would be adding a tax to our city, something that I'm certainly against. Those are really, really, really nice, nice accomplishments on behalf of our business folks and those folks in that department. I also want to compliment Mr. Hanson in Mayor Schwartzman's absence as he was traveling doing the State of the State address there at the Chamber of Commerce Thanksgiving luncheon. It was very informative, did a great job with it, and I think he paints a picture of our city that is a good one, a promising one, one that we can look forward to with great hope and anticipation that good things will continue to happen. as a result of lots and lots of people working together. And we are going in the right direction. And that doesn't mean we don't have challenges, but those challenges that are ahead of us, I think that we all are eager to take them on and continue to try to make this the best possible place to live in and work in that we can. And finally, a couple of young ladies, and this has been in the news a couple of times over the years, but it needs to be certainly mentioned again, and there are many, many people like this that do so much to give of themselves and go outside of themselves to help others out. Two sisters, Bailey and Harper Mayfield, Galesburg Christian students, have raised, I don't know how many thousands of dollars, but at least $10,000 this year by selling scrap in Just for Jingles. And their goal is to get enough money to buy presents, spending $100 per child, off of the Salvation Angel tree. And these kids have not been prompted to do this. They've done it out of the goodness of their heart. When you listen to them interviewed, they are truly, truly young people to be admired. And there are many, many people like that. And finally, again, an excellent point made by Mr. White about Rosa Parks. A person that gave them themselves, again, to stand up for something in a nonviolent way is a great example for us to stand up for what's right. And I believe she is the only or the only person that's a civilian that's ever lightened state in the United States Capitol building. And an honor that certainly should have been bestowed on her, and that was true. Again, a great American hero. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Cheeseman. Ms. Mangieri. So I don't have anything to speak long on about, but I did want to mention that the city's website does host the resource information for warming centers. So please take the time to go look that up, but then also share it. So share it as many times as you can across all social media platforms that you use, because now we're in the thick of the snow and the temps are a lot lower. So, you know, help your neighbors out. Share that information. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Hunnigan. I'm going to use my time to pay tribute to a Galesburg citizen that nobody knows. And it begins this way. He was a shining star that burned out too soon. A young man from Galesburg died Sunday. November 16th, from complications of cancer. His name was Tristan Wallace, 37 years of age. When his disease was fully diagnosed as stage four cancer, he was told he might have six months to live. He was immediately placed in hospice, lived three weeks, and was laid to rest at East Linwood Cemetery. He was truly one of the kindest individuals I ever met. For those who did not know Tristan, he became a fixture on the Galesburg scene. Physically, he was five foot eight and probably weighed 300 pounds. He was diagnosed early in life by school psychologists as a student with autism. This meant he was often, but not always, assigned to special education classes. Tristan loved school and was rarely absent. He graduated from GHS in 2006. We remember Tristan because he became an icon on the corner of Henderson and Dayton Street. He carried a sign for a company we all know, Little Caesars. He walked up and down the sidewalk in front of Little Caesars restaurant for 17 years. no matter what the weather or temperature outside might be. Nobody, but nobody knows how many miles he may have walked over a 17-year period. He must have done a good job because the company is still in business in Galesburg. And in fact, his employer sent 17 pizzas after the funeral service to the church to honor his service to the company. To me, Tristan was the standard of goodness and righteousness. I never heard Tristan use a cuss word. He went out of his way to help others, even if it meant giving others money, knowing fully it would not be repaid. He loved helping the needy. He participated in the River Bend Food Distribution Project for the past two years. Tristan did not smoke, drink, or use drugs. He had no enemies that I'm aware of, although I think he was bullied. from time to time. His fifth grade teacher, Mr. Jim Jacobs, said he had no demerits in school from his teachers. He was a joy to have in the classroom. He had nearly perfect attendance in school. He was the kind of person we would desire to have as a friend, trustworthy, reliable, and supportive, showing up for you in good and bad times. He was honest, respectful, and empathetic. Someone with autism said, know me for my abilities, not my disability. Tristan did not allow a disability to control his life. Recognizing and respecting differences in others and treating everyone the way you want to be treated will help make our world a better place for everyone. Did you hear me, Mr. Trump? Tristan's motto, care, be your best. Tristan was different, but everybody is different. Goodbye, Tristan. It was a pleasure to know you as my friend, and go, the Chicago Bears. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Trump, again, for that tribute. I love this job. Did you know Tristan? He loved his job. He loved his job. Thank you for that. Keep my comments brief. Obviously, it's snowing out there still. Be safe. The roads are well kept by our employees. They do a fantastic job. But nature has been challenging. and will continue to be over the next few months. So heed caution when you drive, recognize that there are people who do not have cars and they'll be walking sometimes in the street because the sidewalks may not have been plowed properly. So be very cautious and alert, particularly at night when many people are much more difficult to see. If you're looking for some entertainment, some low cost or free entertainment in our community over the next few months, We have some fabulous basketball teams in our community. We have the Carl Sandburg College teams, male and female. We have the Knox College male and female teams. And we also have our wonderful Galesburg Silver Streaks teams that I see Mr. Cheeseman is wearing the colors proudly. But some fantastic basketball to be played in our community. If you haven't been out to see any of these teams play, it's a treat. Again, low-cost entertainment, and you can support your community at the same time. So with that, I will ask for a closure of the meeting. Need a motion and a second. Mr. Miller, I heard. Second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. We are adjourned. Be safe on your way home.