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Mount Vernon City Council approves redevelopment deal for trampoline park, authorizes sale of six police vehicles
Summary
The City Council approved a redevelopment agreement selling five acres in Chelsey Industrial Park to Fritz Krampe Enterprises LLC to build The Arena Trampoline Park with $471,550 in TIF assistance, and authorized sale of six police vehicles; council also approved multiple resolutions including parade/road-closure permissions and an ITEP engineering agreement.
Mount Vernon City Council on April 6 approved a redevelopment agreement to sell five acres in the Chelsey Industrial Park to Fritz Krampe Enterprises LLC for $25,000 so the company can build The Arena Trampoline Park, and authorized $471,550 in TIF assistance to help finance the project.
City Manager Nathan McKenna described the proposal, saying the TIF assistance represents roughly 15% of the project cost and will be paid out over the remaining life of the TIF district, which expires in December 2034. The sale and redevelopment agreement were advanced as Ordinance #2026-16 after Council Member Donte Moore moved to suspend the rules; Council Member Mike Young seconded. The motion passed with Council Members Joe Gliosci, Donte Moore, Jay Tate and Mike Young voting yes; Mayor John Lewis was absent.
The council also approved Ordinance #2026-15 authorizing the sale of six vehicles formerly used by the Police Department (five squad cars and an unmarked detective truck). That motion was moved by Donte Moore, seconded by Mike Young, and approved by the same vote tally.
In related business the council approved three resolutions: Resolution No. 2026-14, a request to IDOT to temporarily close State Route 37 on June 20, 2026 from 1:00–2:00 p.m. for the Juneteenth Parade; Resolution No. 2026-15, a Letter of Understanding allowing IDOT to use Veterans Memorial Drive as a marked detour while it patches ramps on I-64; and Resolution No. 2026-16, an engineering agreement with Oats and Associates for work on a grant-funded sidewalk/multi-use path linking Lincoln Park to Veterans Park (engineering estimate $234,639). All three resolutions passed on motions by council members with the same recorded vote (Gliosci, Moore, Tate, Young; absent: Lewis).
Council also approved the Consolidated Vouchers for Accounts Payable totaling $2,366,672.74 and accepted the reappointment of Greg Martin to the Airport Authority.
Mayor Pro Tem Joe Gliosci called an executive session under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(21) to review executive session minutes; the council recessed and reconvened before adjourning at 7:26 p.m.
The redevelopment agreement now moves into the implementation stage under the terms of the ordinance; the TIF payments will be distributed over the life of the TIF district. No additional public hearing or further council action on the sale was recorded at this meeting.
