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Votes at a glance: South Beloit council approves budget transfers, contracts, pay increases and settlements
Summary
A roundup of motions and votes from the Dec. 9 South Beloit City Council meeting, including adoption of a supplemental budget, transfers, professional services contracts, employee pay increases, a settlement agreement and other routine approvals.
Key outcomes from the South Beloit City Council meeting on Dec. 9 (motions approved unless stated):
- Ordinance 2831: Adopted the 2024 combined supplemental budget and budget transfer ordinance (motion carried). Staff said two supplemental items included $500,000 in the capital projects fund and a $74,100 increase related to the Carden Park TIF increment.
- Resolution 6578: Approved transfers from the general fund to other funds to meet local-match requirements and capital project needs; staff confirmed projected general-fund balances support the transfers.
- Resolution 6579: Approved an MOU with Rockton Fire Protection District to share radio frequency use and split dispatch equipment/fee responsibilities (see separate article).
- Resolution 6580: Approved Fairgram professional services proposal to provide civil engineering design services for the neighborhood park parking-lot project (first-phase design, floodplain permitting and hydraulic modeling required).
- Resolution 6581: Approved a professional-services agreement with Fairgram for general engineering services for 2025 (the council discussed Roscoe’s concurrent procurement and agreed to retain Fairgram as a contingency to avoid a service gap). The agreement contains termination language allowing end of services with notice; staff said the city can terminate if Roscoe’s contract changes and then re-evaluate.
- Resolution 6582: Approved contracting Fairgram to assist in the IEPA loan application for the lift station and force-main project (see separate article). Staff said completing a sewer-rate study will be required by the IEPA and that rate changes are likely if the city pursues state loan funding.
- Resolution 6583: Awarded a contract to Geocon Professional Service LLC for pavement cores on Manchester Road to inform a potential rehabilitation project funded by Rebuild Illinois (city staff said the project needs a contract in place by June to use the funds and the full RBI allotment is about $560,000).
- Resolution 6584: Approved pay increases for certain employees and an across-the-board 4% increase for non‑represented staff; council also approved revised offer letters and salary adjustments for specific employees discussed in the packet.
- Settlement agreement: Council approved a settlement with property owners Mary Cruz Paseke and Maria Ellis Munoz related to two properties (731 Wheeler Street and 532 Hemingway Place). The owners already paid $20,000 and agreed to a second $20,000 payment; city to dismiss foreclosure actions if enumerated repairs and permit corrections are completed within specified timeframes.
Other routine approvals: consent agenda and minutes were approved, and council scheduled a committee-of-the-whole meeting to discuss fire operations on Jan. 21 (6:30 p.m.). Several administrative items (garden hotel demolition update, public works equipment purchases, and reports) were noted during staff reports.
Votes: All listed resolutions and the settlement were approved on recorded roll-call votes during the meeting.
