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City council approves consent agenda including MFT street rehab, multiple code-compliance TIFs and materials contracts
Summary
Carbondale City Council approved its consent agenda, including a $655,482.11 motor fuel tax appropriation for street rehabilitation, awards for street-maintenance materials, several code-compliance tax increment financing (TIF) agreements and ordinances for a street vacation and easement; the consent agenda passed unanimously by roll call.
The Carbondale City Council on Monday approved its consent agenda by unanimous roll call, authorizing a motor fuel tax appropriation for street rehabilitation, awarding contracts and approving several code-compliance tax increment financing (TIF) agreements and related ordinances.
Council approved a resolution appropriating $655,482.11 in motor fuel tax (MFT) funds for the construction contract for CIP project ST2503, described as rehabilitation of North Marion and Old West Main to E.T. Simons Construction Company of Carbondale, Illinois. The council also approved a warrant for the period ending May 23, 2025, with a total amount identified in the packet as $4,462,692.28.
The council conditionally awarded purchases of motor-fuel-tax-funded street-maintenance materials pending Illinois Department of Transportation concurrence: groups A, C, E and G to Russell Forbey Trucking of Macanda, Illinois for $28,926 and group F to Illini Asphalt of Denton, Illinois for $16,720. The purchase of non-MFT maintenance materials was approved to Russell Forbey Trucking for groups B and D in the amount of $33,220.
The consent agenda included a resolution declaring a 2009 international recycling truck surplus to be used as a trade-in, and a resolution to appoint members to the Library Board of Trustees.
Council authorized multiple code-compliance TIF agreements for redevelopment projects: Hangar 9 LLC (511 S. Illinois Ave.), Miami Organization Inc. (100 E. Jackson St.), Raheem's Beauty Supply (110 E. Oak St.) and Sandra Mason (108 E. Oak St.). The council also approved an ordinance to vacate a portion of Walnut Street and an ordinance approving an easement for Green Path East Walnut Street Land Company LLC to construct an access road within an easement held by the city.
Council member Kilman moved to approve all consent items not pulled; the motion passed on a unanimous roll-call vote: Council member Lowes, Council member Maxwell, Council member Roberts, Council member Stanfield, Council member Colombo, Council member Kilman and Mayor Carolyn Harvey recorded “yes.” The meeting was adjourned at 6:44 p.m.
Items that were listed on the consent agenda but not discussed in detail at the meeting include several redevelopment TIFs and property-related ordinances; staff materials attached to the agenda packet provide location maps and supporting documentation for those items.
