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Carbondale council adopts consent agenda, approves warrants and authorizes executive session
Summary
Council approved consent agenda items including a $1.3 million warrant, consultant contracts and several resolutions; it later voted to enter executive session to discuss purchase or lease of real property under the Illinois Open Meetings Act.
The Carbondale City Council approved its consent agenda and several individual items at its March meeting, including a warrant for FY2025 totaling $1,302,114.66 and multiple resolutions and agreements identified on the consent calendar.
Items approved on the consent agenda included: approval of council meeting minutes from Feb. 25, 2025; warrant number 1506 for $1,302,114.66; a resolution authorizing submission of a DCEO grant application (7.3) which was pulled for separate consideration and subsequently approved; authorization for the city manager to execute up to five-year engineering consultant contracts with TWM (Tevano, Wade and Morcin) for federally funded projects with amounts not to exceed $1,000,000 each; purchase of rock salt through the State of Illinois joint purchasing program for FY2026; naming the State Route 13 West multiuse pathway the Saluki Greenway; initiating discussions on a 1.5-mile zoning boundary for the 2025 comprehensive plan; and amendments and agreements related to tax increment financing for properties at 200 West Elm Street and 218 West Freeman Street.
The council voted on a motion to enter executive session under the Illinois Open Meetings Act to discuss the purchase or lease of real property for the use of the public body (5 ILCS 120/2(c)(5)). The motion to go into executive session passed unanimously on roll call.
Roll-call votes on the consent agenda and executive session motion were recorded as unanimous among present council members (Councilmembers Lowes, Maxwell, Roy Sanders, Doherty, Killman and Mayor Harvey), except where noted in separate votes on pulled items.
