The Moline City Council conducted its final regular meeting of 2024 on Dec. 17 and took votes on a range of ordinances and resolutions. Below is a concise list of formal actions the council adopted, advanced or received.

• Ordinance — Remote attendance exception for childcare (8.1): Council added "unexpected childcare obligations" as an allowable reason for remote attendance. Motion passed (voice vote; roll-call not specified).

• Ordinance — Traffic control at 53rd Street & 5th Avenue (8.2): Council approved adding a northbound stop sign on 53rd Street at 5th Avenue on recommendation of the traffic engineering committee (motion by Alderperson Finch, seconded by Alderson Macias). Vote passed by roll call.

• Honorary street designations (8.3 and 8.4): The council approved honorary street designations honoring Daniel Gordon and Robert Vogelbach; motions carried by voice vote.

• Ordinance — Tobacco dealer licenses (8.5): Council created three license categories (Class A primary retailers limited to 5; Class B incidental sellers limited to 36; Class C head shops limited to 5). Council retained a temporary moratorium on new Class A licenses through Dec. 1, 2025 and removed Class C from the moratorium by amendment. An amendment to remove the Class C moratorium passed by roll call 4–3; the ordinance as amended was adopted (final voice vote recorded as passing).

• Resolution — IHDA Homeowner Assistance Fund: Council authorized acceptance of an additional $345,000 in grant funding from the Illinois Housing Development Authority for the homeowner assistance fund home repair program (motion passed).

• Resolution — Enterprise zone consultant IGA (8.7): Council approved an intergovernmental agreement among six governments to contract a consultant for an enterprise zone application (motion passed).

• Resolution — Certified Local Government matching grant application (8.8): Council authorized staff to apply to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for a 70/30 matching grant ($15,000 request with $4,500 local match) for a historic-property survey in the Forest Hill neighborhood (motion passed).

• Resolution — Chemical purchase contracts (8.9): Council approved participation in the Bi-State Regional Commission cooperative purchasing of treatment chemicals for utilities for calendar 2025 (motion passed).

• Resolution — Project Now 2025 grant agreement (8.10 & 18.3): Council authorized the mayor and city clerk to execute a 2025 grant agreement with Project Now Inc. for administration of the LEHI UP program (motion passed by roll call).

• Resolution — RAISE/bollards and multi-jurisdictional items: Council approved an MOU with IDOT, Iowa DOT and Bettendorf concerning removable bollards at the I-74 multi-use path trailheads; council also discussed long-term maintenance responsibilities (motion passed).

• Resolution — Paid parental leave policy (18.4): Council adopted a paid parental leave policy; the final language corrected earlier attachment errors and aligns with FMLA coordination (motion passed by roll call).

• Other procedural actions: Multiple parking and traffic code amendments were advanced to second reading (items 19.1–19.3) and several contract change orders and personnel/benefit items were approved under consent and non-consent agenda items.

Votes and procedure notes: Where the roll call or specific tallies were given in the transcript, those numbers are listed above. Several items were carried by voice vote or roll call without a full tally recorded in the meeting transcript. For items that passed by voice vote, the transcript records the chair’s announcement that the motion passed; where the transcript recorded a roll call, the article denotes the record.

Ending — Staff will implement approved actions through the appropriate departments and return to council with follow-up as needed (permit updates, ordinance codification, grant implementation and public-notice steps).