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Votes at a glance: Freeport council approves ordinances, contracts and budget items
Summary
The Freeport City Council approved a consent agenda and a slate of ordinances and resolutions, including a budget reappropriation, auditor engagement, insurance renewals and multiple Fairgram contracts; several items passed by unanimous or strong margins.
The Freeport City Council took votes on a package of routine and substantive items in its final 2025 meeting. Key outcomes:
- Agenda approval (with item 10 removed): recorded as 7–1 after Clerk roll call; Alderman Sanders voted No (see procedural dispute noted separately).
- Consent agenda (minutes, commission reports, 2026 meeting schedule, building and fire reports, ratification of emergency HVAC, stormwater basin repairs, water main repairs; finance bills payable $6,591,414.39; payroll $677,032.29): approved 7–1 (Sanders No).
- Reappointment: Taina Canova to the Arts and Culture Commission through 10/31/2028 — approved 7–1 (Sanders No).
- Ordinance 2025-78 (amend chapter 10.20.13 — signage on public ways): passed 8–0.
- Ordinance 2025-79 (fiscal year 2025 reappropriation/supplemental appropriation): passed 7–1.
- Ordinance 2025-80 (adopting revised hangar lease form): passed 6–2.
- Ordinance 2025-81 (amend code to allow a firm to serve as public works director/city engineer): motion to suspend rules initially failed; final passage recorded 7–1.
- Resolution 2025-155: Engagement letter with Lauterbach & Ammons (auditing services for 2025 audit) — fee $45,430; adopted 7–1.
- Resolution 2025-156: City property, general liability and workers comp insurance renewals — approved 8–0; Manager Boyer noted a modest overall increase and a safety grant of about $16,244.
- Resolution 2025-157: Approve payment to Mobile Electronics to upfit district chief vehicle — total $13,972.92 from Fire CIP — adopted 8–0.
- Resolutions 2025-158 and 2025-159: Fairgram master services agreements (general and Public Works MSA) — both adopted 7–1 amid discussion about procurement and oversight.
Where roll call votes were recorded, the clerk read members by name and registered their votes; when an alderman objected to a procedure, the attorney later read applicable code language and the council proceeded.
The council adjourned with its next meeting scheduled for Jan. 5, 2026.
