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Beardstown council approves minutes, files reports, buys $87,661 Stryker ambulance cots and OKs union MOU
Summary
At a five-minute special session Feb. 24, 2025, the Beardstown City Council unanimously approved minutes and routine reports, authorized purchase of two Stryker ambulance power cots for $87,661.28, and approved a memorandum of understanding with UFCW Local 431 covering Public Works and City Hall employees.
The Beardstown City Council met in special session on Feb. 24, 2025, and unanimously approved routine business and two substantive items: the purchase of ambulance equipment and a labor memorandum of understanding.
Alderperson Eric Harbin moved, and Alderperson Mary Davis seconded, that the reading of the minutes from the Feb. 4, 2025 meeting be dispensed with and that the minutes be approved as published. The motion passed unanimously by voice vote. Alderperson Dawn Seward then moved, seconded by Harbin, that the routine reports on the agenda be approved and filed under the omnibus vote designation; that motion also passed unanimously by roll call.
In the meeting’s principal action, Alderperson Mary Davis moved, seconded by Alderperson Shawn Taylor, "To waive the bid process and approve a proposal from Stryker in the amount of $87,661.28 for the purchase of two Ambulance power cots for the Ambulance Department." The Council approved the purchase by a 7–0 roll call vote (Yeas: Buhlig, Culves, Davis, Harbin, Schramm, Seward, Taylor; Absent: Baer). The Stryker purchase authorizes expenditure of $87,661.28; specifics about funding source for the purchase were listed in the consent agenda financial reports but not restated verbally in the meeting record.
The Council also approved a labor agreement: Alderperson Dawn Seward moved, seconded by Alderperson Eric Harbin, that a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Beardstown and UFCW Local 431, representing Public Works and City Hall employees, be approved. That motion passed 7–0 by roll call (Yeas: Buhlig, Culves, Davis, Harbin, Schramm, Seward, Taylor; Absent: Baer). The meeting minutes record the MOU approval but do not enumerate wage, term, or implementation details in the verbal record.
City Clerk Brian Ruch and the City Treasurer presented routine financial reports for January 2025, showing May 1–April cash receipts of $789,797.30 and cash disbursements of $897,885.21 for the period, and combined fund balances including a General Fund balance of $3,069,589.14 and an ARPA grant balance of $520,590.64. The ambulance service reports for January listed 62 calls in Beardstown with charges of $61,036.00 and collections of $27,914.27; a separate Virginia ambulance report listed 38 calls.
There were no public comments. The Council adjourned at 5:05 p.m. after Alderperson Mary Davis moved and Alderperson Dawn Seward seconded the motion to adjourn.
The official minutes, financial schedules, and the full text of the MOU and Stryker contract proposal are filed with the City Clerk’s office and were approved under the consent agenda.
