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Beardstown City Council backs bike-path grant application, approves four TIF awards and tables IAFF contract
Summary
At its Sept. 17 meeting, the Beardstown City Council authorized a resolution supporting an ITEP bike-path grant application, approved four TIF grant awards to local businesses totaling $88,998.98 in maximum amounts, approved routine minutes and consent items, and voted to table a tentative IAFF Local 3155 agreement.
Beardstown City Council on Sept. 17 voted to support a state grant application for a city bike path, approved multiple tax-increment-financing (TIF) awards to local businesses and tabled a tentative labor agreement with the fire-and-ambulance union.
Alderperson Dawn Seward moved and Alderperson Mary Davis seconded adoption of a resolution supporting an application to the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program (ITEP) for construction and associated engineering of a bike path; the resolution passed by a 7-0 roll call vote with Alderpersons Lisa Buhlig, Ron Culves, Mary Davis, Eric Harbin, Keith Schramm, Dawn Seward and Shawn Taylor voting yea and Chris Baer absent. The resolution authorizes the city to pursue the ITEP grant; the transcript records approval of the resolution but does not specify the precise project budget or local match amount.
The council also…
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