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City of Markham City Council met Jan. 3.

Here are the minutes provided by the council:

Mayor, Roger Agpawa called the Regular Meeting of the Markham City Council to order at 7:06p.m. with the Pledge of Allegiance. Prayer led by Ald. McDowell. Roll Call was taken by City Clerk, Leslie Trimuel. 

ROLL CALL: ALDERMAN PRESENT Alderwoman Wanda McDowell Alderman Breana Hampton-Houser Alderman William Barron 

ALDERMAN ABSENT Alderman Joseph Bertrand Jr. 

ALSO PRESENT: Attorney Steven Miller 

City Treasurer, Belinda Richardson City Administrator, Derrick Champion 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING 

December 6, 2023 

Motion to approve minutes by Ald. Barron, seconded by Ald. McDowell Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/1 Absent/0 Abstain-Motion Carried 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING 

December 19, 2023 

Motion to approve minutes by Ald. Barron, seconded by Ald. McDowell 

Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/1 Absent/0 Abstain-Motion Carried 

AUTHORIZATION OF CLAIMS 

Motion by Ald. Hampton-Houser, seconded by Ald. McDowell, to adopt Authorization of Claims and Accounts Bill list, totaling $507,299.22 with manual checks of $41,050.00, for a grand total of $548,349.22. Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/ 1 Absent/0 Abstain-Motion Carried 

SPECIAL PRESENTATION 

We don't have any special presentations tonight, I thought that we would have a larger public audience tonight. If anyone here wants to speak, please sign-up for public comment. We may have some of the public talk about the migrant matter that seems to be an issue in everybody's community. I think that it's getting closer and closer to home. I just wanted to invite anyone for a minute or two to say how they feel or think about it here in Markham. I intend to say what I think about it under my portion of the report tonight. 

MAYOR AGPAWA 

I would like to reserve 10 minutes 15 minutes for executive session and not take any action on the approval of sale. We don't have enough information we need to discuss what this is about and the process and making sure that everybody knows about it before we get here. I just want to talk to the council for about 10 minutes, we probably can solve some other things in respect of property in the future on how we intend to work together to deal with it, attorney with that it would just leave us the one ordinance. 

CITY ATTORNEY REPORT 

WAIVE 48 HOUR READING OF ORDINANCE 

23-0-2382 

Motion by Ald. Barron, seconded by McDowell, to waive 48 hour reading of Ordinance 23-0-2382 An Ordinance of the City of Markham Establishing Regulation for Unscheduled Intercity Buses, and the Discharge of Passengers to Ensure the Health, Safety and Welfare of Residents and Visitors to the City of Markham 

Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/1 Absent/0 Abstain-Motion Carried 

MAYOR AGPAWA 

I have a comment. Not to belabor what I may just do under my report, but this is just kind of formality happening in the region. In some places throughout the state, I would say that definitely in our region to be able to have some means of management in dealing with it if we received a bus and what we should do routing them. We're not a sanctuary city, so we would have to route any visitors to a sanctuary city, instead of Chicago. 

ADOPT ORDINANCE 

23-0-2382 

Motion by Ald. Barron, seconded by Ald. McDowell, to adopt Ordinance 23-0-2382 

An Ordinance of the City of Markham Establishing Regulation for Unscheduled Intercity Buses, and the Discharge of Passengers to Ensure the Health, Safety and Welfare of Residents and Visitors to the City of Markham 

Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/1 Absent/0 Abstain-Motion Carried 

APPROVAL OF SALE 

Approval of Sale of 1453 W. 163rd Street, Markham, IL 60428 

Moved to Executive Session. 

CLERKS REPORT 

No report. 

MAYORS REPORT 

I did want to mention, without belaboring the point that the city is in a new year, I talked with some staff already and with the administrator, if anything shifts in gears of what we're doing, and taking a look at it with staff, I think that there's some places we need to tune up. I don't want anybody to think I'm not the same person, I want them to remember that I'm the same person on how I behave with statutes. I just think the residents deserve us to try to care more about places where we can do a much better job. I'm not going to have you call the police on anybody but I'm going to make sure that we're getting work done and in the new year that's what I want to tell the council and I'm telling the public, we intend to do a better job this year. I think that we've been doing well, I don't think we should get complacent about anything. I told this to a group of mayors as a matter of fact, I was on a call with Mayor Johnson in Chicago along with mayors in this region dealing with the migrant issue. I say if you're in public service, that's what you're here for. Basically, other than your cost of living on your contracts, you're on a fixed income. If you want to get rich, this is not the place for you to get rich, you live well and make a decent salary and take care of your family as you should. Police officers and firemen take risks, and they get paid for that. But then there's a place where that salary stops so if you want to be a millionaire, there's no millionaire firemen and policemen. But if you're here to serve you make a good way to take care of people there are some towns that are this size we all know of different places in this state and around the country, where some of the police, firemen and the people there are overpaid, they can afford for a lot of reasons because of their economic status is in that community. Maybe if we work hard enough and build this up in this booming metropolis here and we can pay people like that. Well, we did a good job, we obviously get paid, but that's not the case now, I'm saying all that because we're going to do a better job this year. I intend to meet with all the staff and will keep you informed of what we're doing and how we're doing it. I know we're going to talk about budget matters. I was watching someone else's meeting; they were making a lot of cuts with their budget already this year. I don't perceive we're going to have to do that. The point was the board was making a lot of cuts because they wanted the administration to stop spending. We don't have that issue; we should be okay. We balanced the budget, we don't have to raise levies and taxes and things like that, we should live within our means. If we have something that requires us to do that, we'll go to the people and tell them why we're going to do that. I wanted to mention under my report, we just passed this ordinance about dealing with migrants. I was on a call with Mayor Johnson and metropolitan mayors, not just the south suburban mayors. I just have an opinion that I don't want to be taken the wrong way, but I think that Chicago got the nickname being called the city of big shoulders or broad shoulders. We just passed this bus ordinance of how we're going to round them up and drop them off. I heard one mayor say we'll do what we can to try and get jobs. Some of those towns have a lot of money and a lot of everything else. I think that they're not going anywhere, they're going to show up here. I was a little disenchanted at first when they made it to Winnetka, Hinsdale, and Woodstock. I don't feel too bad now because it seems like when the projects shut down the south suburbs got hammered with all the people, no one had any recipe or formula for dealing with it. You have people that have lived a certain way, and you must help them out. They didn't know how to operate a lawn mower, you do what you must and try and figure out a way to teach them, or you'll have tall grass and some mad neighbors or homeowners. I've had some other mayors that are talking to me about the formula to change their community, we've had a lot of people that have left here. They left because some things were managed a certain way, we're still going to keep that formula about what we do in code enforcement, building and housing. We won't need Ceasefire to stop by here, we have the right people in town, we won't need much anyway. I want you all to keep working, we just don't need you as much because we're making sure that we do our job up here. You don't have to come visit with those orange vests on, we want to help you just stop by and wave. That's the truth, that's how you do it, we're going to continue our code enforcement by the time you call the police, you'll be calling Ceasefire. That isn't what we want to do, we want to get ahead of this and then we'll have good control so that our fire and police can patrol what we've already made good. I think that I would like to talk with the council about a plan should we get challenged about dealing with migrants and what we're going to do or not do, let's get ahead of it and not wait for somebody to be at the doorstep. That's why I was asking members of the public to come to the podium tonight for a couple of minutes and say what you do and don't like about it here in Markham tell us what you think we'll get some more polling done but you don't have to soapbox like I am but I'm trying to the point out as the leader of the city that we have talked about these things. I would like to hear if someone has something to say about that. Finally, I had a long conversation. I got invited to a meeting with Mayor Ford today. We have the same lobbyists. We have scheduled several visits to Springfield to make sure that we get some funding released. We have several things that we'd like to do, one of the visits that we will make this year we want to take a group of citizens with us. We want the citizens to meet with certain pointed legislators and talk with them, we're going to pick some people out in the community to go with us to Springfield for a day and meet with some of the people that sit on committees to make a difference. This was suggested and it was pretty effective for another community that does something similar, but I and some of the other mayors will be making two trips and I'll let some of the board members of the council know, maybe you might want to go along with us. 

DERRICK CHAMPION CITY ADMINISTRATOR 

Mayor, thank you, first for your leadership. I'm glad that you put the parameters in place for the migrant bus situation. As you know, some of these towns have been experiencing an overload. I think by at least establishing some parameters, just to hold the buses accountable, that's a big deal. We can all use them in the Southland. I want to start off by saying the City of Markham last year. We received a lot of grant funding and some unprecedented funding, in 2024 we're not going to stop. We are really excited about the direction that the city is going in. A lot of the work that we've been putting in the last couple of years. we're going to finally see some of the formation take place. There will be a lot of shovels on the ground and a lot of transformations and changes in Markham this year. I'm really excited about that, I know you mentioned, you talked with the lobbyists today, I had an opportunity to speak with him as well and we're continuing to be in pursuit of grants. I'm in constant contact with the Dept of Commerce about funding opportunities that could benefit our municipality. I'm really, really excited about that. We have coming up next week, with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. They have close to a million dollars that they want to spend in Markham, we want to make sure that we have some projects that they can focus on to continue focusing on our failing infrastructure and turn it into a smart city and solar and charging stations. I'm really excited about that the Council members have a map of some of the projects that will be going on in the city of Markham pertaining to our infrastructure. You will be seeing a lot of earth work happening and water main replacements, also sewer infrastructure being dealt with so there will be a lot of work happening in Markham. One last thing I know that people have been asking all last year, we will be establishing a Housing Redevelopment Program very soon. 

ALDERMANIC REPORTS 

ALD, BARRON 

Good evening, Happy New Year everyone. We didn't have a lot of police activity, unfortunately we had a couple of fires, fortunately there was no loss of life, two were vacant, I want to thank our first responders for everything that they've done this past year. Just kind of wrapping up 2023 and 2022, I think the mayor and the city council have made tremendous strides in improving this community. In 2022, we probably did an unprecedented amount of street repairs, we've been very fortunate that we've had companies that we could work with and were able to afford. This year I think we did an unprecedent amount of tree trimming and tree removal. We've also been very fortunate; I believe we've torn down five or six homes that were on my list 10 years ago. I'm very happy to report that. I would be really happy if we could get something going recirculating these houses and get them back in the community. I probably should have said something when I introduced the ordinance on the unscheduled bus stops, I spoke to at least 15 or 16 of my residents and had at least 10 phone calls in the last two weeks. Someone wanted to know what we're going to do, I told him that we were in the process of drafting an ordinance like the other communities around us, I didn't have anybody objecting. I don't blame these immigrants for trying to get to this country, because there's not another country anywhere in the world like ours, there's also a point where we're absolutely clogging all of our resources. Probably 10 to 25% of these people are arriving and need immediate medical attention. Who's going to pay for that, enough is enough. It's nice to say the Statue of Liberty stands for the freedom of this country all that's going to do for us is to drive up healthcare costs somebody has to pay and unfortunately, it's going to come down to the taxpayers and I don't know anybody that I've met in the last 20 years are happy with their tax bill, or drives the expenses of everything going up. I hate to say, I'd hate to be the one to just say no, that we're not going to take any more, but Markham doesn't have any facility. We're still trying to catch up from 2006, 2007, and 2008, with the mortgage crisis. We wound up with well over 400 vacant houses and that's 400 houses that nobody was paying real estate tax, which means that money came, it was siphoned off our city budget. The Treasurer's Office does their best to estimate what we're going to take in, we're working on a budget for next year, they have to make an estimate of what they think we're going to collect in property tax. But if we have a bunch of vacant homes, and nobody's paying those tax bills, we don't have that money to spend, that's important, because that's how police, fire and public works get paid. We've been very fortunate up to this point, but we have to be careful. We are paying our bills and we're doing fine, but that's only because the budget is closely monitored. But I am going to say to the City Treasurer and the rest of the city council that there's no electronic billboard in this budget. I've always been asking for that, I've seen a lot of projects come and go electronic, since we don't have a community newspaper, I think it's important that we have something out here in front of City Hall, at least people can look and see when our when our community meetings are, or anything is happening in the community. If we get good at it, maybe we star sharing and we promote our business once a month, tell people go to Fairplay, etc. I just want to start something so we have a way of sharing, not everybody has cable, we can't count on the local government channel to get the message out. I didn't tell the mayor this past Saturday that I will not be sponsoring any new endeavors until we get something going. With that, I am looking forward to this year, moving forward, I think the past two years and I've lived here since 1959, I can honestly tell you that I have not seen the kind of improvements that we've seen in the last three or four years ever in this community. I will give the lion's share of credit at this point to Mayor Agpawa. 

MAYOR AGPAWA 

I have to do the same thing next January. 

ALD. BARRON 

The mayor and don't agree on everything and never will, but some of the ideas he had I believe could flow very well. I will be the first one to admit, I'm not the smartest, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I'm in the drawer, that ends my report. 

MAYOR AGPAWA 

Thank you, you know when you talked about the migrant matter, you made me think that if we didn't have a council agenda and something posted on the door to show that we have some kind of plan here, I wouldn't want to be here. There has to be some structure and some order. I do agree with you, there's nothing wrong in my opinion, at this point to say you have to shut the border down. It's not saying you can't open it again; it's just saying right now we're choking, what do you do? Just doesn't make good sense, now you have people sick and everything else. If we didn't have order here, we'd have an agenda. We're going down the agenda right now, we have a plan here, thank you for making me think about it. Spoke with Ald. McDowell, I do implore us to have some type of special meeting where the public is welcome to come but we need some time together to deal with this. One of the things I said to the police department privately today about my concerns on different things that we're dealing with, in the wards, there's overtone to even what's going on with possibility of civil unrest and other things that come from that. We have to be intelligent about it. There are some things I want to talk about for the security in this region. We have six border communities. I keep them cognizant of who the leaders are, who the police and fire are in each town around us. I know what their capabilities are. 

ALD. HAMPTON-HOUSER 

I want to start off by saying Happy New Years to everyone. I recall my first meeting with you, mayor, about six years ago, in this meeting you and I discussed vision in reference to where we would like to see our city move forward. I have to say when we revisited the our economic plan Markham plan for our city, we have diligently been pursuing and making changes within our city via the infrastructure, our lighting, ordinances, and housing. We recognize that all these things were important in order to truly save our city. Not speaking on the past administration but recognizing and realizing that the past cannot be bought back to the future of where we are now. We have to focus on the future, I recognize that moving forward which I have also shared information with my constituents in Ward 1 or whomever I come across and speak with, on how they should be very alert and very aware because big, major changes are coming in 2024 and moving forward. As we always say, if it's uncomfortable for you to actually live in our community while we're making major and drastic changes, it's okay to make a decision to stay or move. One thing we do recognize and realize is that the ball will not stop rolling. In reference to the migrants, I want to say that as I say to my students as well, everything that takes place never just affects you, it has a domino effect. With the borders being open, the domino effect was the governor of Texas had to make some decisions. It had to transfer to the other states as well. From receiving his decisions to the states, and local governments here to intubate and make decisions, we are at a pivot point in the city of Markham, the City of Chicago and throughout the United States, on what we will be doing, or what solutions or concerns or possibilities that we have in reference to the migrants. I have to say as well, as Ald. Baron stated, my heart, and my spirit go out to the migrants. We weren't prepared, the City Chicago, and other states were not prepared. I thank God for you, Mayor because this is the pivot point where we don't want to get caught with our pants down as the old saying goes, we want to make sure that we have a plan in place that we can move forward and know exactly what we need to do at this time. Thank you for bringing that up, I do feel that it is important that we do meet as soon as possible to make sure because we don't know what time it might be our turn. I want to say that we need to move forward. I just want to speak regarding Ward 1 on how we're moving forward, I think that we have done a fantastic job mayor, as far as easements, cutting down trees, and demolition of homes in our community. We're making major changes this upcoming season. I would like an opportunity to sit down with you and address what I think that we need to do moving forward. I just want to say to my constituents, Alderpersons, City Clerk, Treasurer, and City Administrator, I appreciate everything that everyone does. It takes a team for us to get anything accomplished, then of course with the input from our residents, and taking them into consideration on how we can move forward and improve. I want to thank everyone for this opportunity to sit in this particular seat and become an asset to our city. 

ALD. MCDOWELL 

Good evening, mayor and city council and residents that are present this evening. First of all, I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year, I hope that your holiday season was a blessing to you and your family. It has really been a pleasure to sit on this diocese, under this mayor and our council. I have been on this diocese for four years going on the 5th year, I have seen the city grow tremendously, under our mayor, it has truly been a blessing to sit on the council where we may not always agree, but when we come here, we handle the business of the city and we make sure that the job is done. I watch my colleagues in other towns with bill cutting, making the budgets and the spending, I can truly say our mayor is behind what we do here to make sure that our city is run properly. I thank you; I thank our attorney who sits giving us guidance on this council, our city clerk who operates in class and dignity, our Treasurer and our administrator, thank you all for being part of the council. On behalf of myself, you guys put me in the office, I thank each one of you for a second term. We're looking for a lot of new things to come to the 2nd Ward, you will be getting information on that. I want to push the 2nd Ward to call the police when things are going on in the ward. You will receive a notice in the 2nd Ward to call the police with the phone number and the fire department number. I want people to start picking the phone up and calling before you call me, it is very important especially with some of our rental properties. When you call the police, we have a paper trail it helps us to move a little bit faster. Also, the mayor and I had a long conversation today about immigrants and yes, I am really waiting for that meeting. Chicago had no plan; it is unfair to the entire city to have people living outside in tents. That's so unfair to the people, I don't want the City of Markham to get caught. I believe in our people here because someone has to pick up the slack and it's going to fall on the taxpayers because the government is not giving the money. So, there are some plans that need to be put into place. So, Mayor, as soon as possible we can have that meeting. 

MAYOR AGPAWA 

Yes, I agree. We need to convene; the public will be welcome. We have a luxury that some people don't have, we tend to forget that. Why we're talking that way, what I mean is that we've got something that's valuable that everybody wants, not just freedom. It's just the beauty of what we have, we probably have more clothes than we can change into. When you think about it from a selfish standpoint, it's kind of normal for us because we have something that we're trying to protect. I would like to think that there would be something in this world we can do for somebody because a lot of us need that, but unless they are doing something at the federal level to stop the nonsense of this madness. They need to shut the border down. I think that we can have a good plan for Markham. 

MOTION TO OPEN FLOOR TO PUBLIC 

Motion by Ald. Barron, seconded by Ald. McDowell, to Open Floor to Public. 

Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/1 Absent-Motion Carried 

MEHLANIE SPEARS 

I moved to Markham in 1971, I've been in the same house since that time. I love Markham I think it is throughout the various administrations, it still has survived and function because of residents, I like the present administration, number one because it does recognize the seniors and it does do a lot of things for the seniors. I don't know who initiated it but I would like to say to the mayor and the Alderpersons, the City Administrator manager, Miss Richardson, Ms. Trimuel and the attorney that Markham in my opinion has been a fantastic community. I've seen this administration do a lot more than previous administrations. I do not have specific recommendations at this time, but I would like to address the immigrant situation. Also, my light is still not working on the street, we're going into four months. 

DERRICK CHAMPION 

We did reach out to ComEd Miss Parker escalated it. 

MEHLANIE SPEARS 

Because again, that is such a dangerous curve, I want ComEd out of my pocket. I was the only one with floodlights. One of the things about the immigrant situation I've heard and been dismayed about we don't want them in our neighborhood. It really bothers me when I hear church people say that from the standpoint and people of color when it was us before. Unless you are Native American, we are all immigrants, or descendants of immigrants, that's the bottom line. What really shook me up after we have my church, Daniel Chapel AME Zion, adopted an immigrant family was to find out how much the prohibitive cost is for them to get work permits and fingerprinting. It's over $400, this is for people that are trying to get work, who will be able to rent or purchase in our neighborhoods. I can't speak for everybody, my neighbors across the street are Hispanic and are excellent neighbors. They keep their lawns and their property looking beautiful. I see the mother walking down Oxford meeting her children at the bus stop, these are young children. I know for high school the bus stops almost right at the end of my driveway. I don't understand the situation with the buses, why the stops are so far away for young children. I don't know if we can address this issue about seeing if there can't be a less prohibitive cost for getting these work permits, and fingerprinting done so that these people can go into the workforce and are not on our tax dollars. They are contributing to the tax base and increasing, by buying in the neighborhood. I've heard in the council meetings; a lot of people are coming here with businesses. I love that. I encourage people that I know to shop in your neighborhood stop helping to pay the taxes in Orland and other communities where people run to before it was Matteson. Last but not least, my pastor stated, and I think this goes to what you said mayor, we're rich compared to some of these other countries. The family we adopted walked from Venezuela, the mother was pregnant. Her niece is four, her daughter is 14. She has made it possible for her brother and his wife and little Elizabeth to stay with her and her husband and that way they are able to rent a house and be productive. The husband just got his work permit. When you meet, please address some of these things, they want to work. They're very good workers. I've had several do work on my house, these are my concerns and suggestions. Thank you. 

RON THATCH 

Thank you, happy New Year, I am Ronald Thatch, I have known Markham in the past from the skating rink and the County Courthouse as a juror. I moved here in 2005, retired from Nabisco in 2019. We purchased in Markham; I had nothing to do. I would come to City Council meetings to listen, I introduced myself to everyone on board. I think all businesses live from the top down, there is a vision, our mayor has a vision, a very good one. I was looking for something to, the mayor made me the Police and Fire Commissioner. I think he does a wonderful job. When I first started the job, the fire was fine, however the police need a little work. We worked at it with the City Council giving me all the support needed. We cleaned the Police Department up, the fire department is one of the best in the state, the police dept. is next to the best in the state. From department to department, Public Works has our city beautiful, it is clean. Some of my friends come over who live in Olympia Fields and Matteson. I always tell them to take a look at Markham. There's no paper on the ground, it's clean and organized. That comes from a vision that our mayor has. I want to thank the Council for all you do, the City Administrator, Treasurer and Clerks. I know I'm preaching to the choir, I sit in that chair and restrained from coming up here, but I must do due diligence for what I see in the City of Markham. We're doing very well; we have Amazon with many things that came behind the scenes. Areas are being cleaned up for new businesses. I see growth in Markham which is a good thing. On behalf of the immigrants, it is truly unfortunate, I believe the effect of some of that will come out in the election of 2024, I know from my eyes the flood gates are open, like someone said earlier, we're choking the situation. We need to slow down; nothing works without a plan. I applaud what you are doing with a plan in case the bus pulls up on 159th with 150 people. Any plan is better than no plan at all, I'm happy we have one. Thank you. 

ANNIE REED 

I'm very thankful for my eyes to see the things that have taken place with our mayor and council working together to make the changes that are necessary for our city to continue to grow. I want to thank the mayor and city workers I see when I'm out, they work hard. I always blow my horn to let them know they are appreciated. I see the difference they are making. They always say talk to the mayor to give us a raise. (lol) Sometimes When the Lord places it on my heart give them money to buy lunch. I am very appreciative of all the changes that have taken place and are going to take place. I know God has great things in store for the City of Markham. I also have a few concerns about things happening on my block. There is a resident that thinks their house is a garage, I have spoken with them. They stated it is my property and they can do what they want. I spoke with my Alder lady and informed her it seems as if they want to hide it from the resident. They have tow trucks bring cars to their driveway. They are aware of the ordinance against this because it is a residential street and should not be working on cars in the garage. I have contacted the police several times. I love my Alder lady; she gets on the job immediately and does not wait until two weeks from now. I'm hoping this will cease as the house is right across from me. Also, regarding the migrant's situation and possible coming to our city or nearby, my church in the city of Chicago has taken in 30 family members. My church previously had a Christian school, there are three floors no longer in use. They are now in our building, we have put in showers to accommodate them, we have a big kitchen. We separated males from females God is blessing us doing this. They are very appreciative and are finding jobs and getting work permits which are being taken care of by the church. God will bless you if you reach out to those in need, he tells us if you do it to the least of these you've done it unto me. We cannot be selfish. I have a lot of clothes in my closet and would like to give them to someone in need. If it does come our way to take in immigrants, then you will already have a plan in place. It was an unexpected incident you will have a plan in place. 

MAYOR AGPAWA 

You have given us a lot to think about, I think everybody on the council is conscious and cognizant of tax dollars and the decisions we'll be making. Maybe Mr. Champion can get with some business or the state people to assist with work permits and offsetting the costs. 

MOTION TO CLOSE FLOOR TO PUBLIC 

Motion by Ald. Barron, seconded by Ald. McDowell, to Close Floor to Public 

Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/1 Absent-Motion Carried 

MOTION TO MOVE TO EXECUTIVE SESSION 

Motion by Ald. Barron, seconded by Ald. McDowell, to move to Executive Session to discuss Approval of Sale of 1453 W. 163rd Street, Markham, Illinois 

Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/1 Absent-Motion Carried 

REGULAR SESSION 

Motion by Ald. Barron, seconded by Ald. Bertrand Jr. to return to regular session. 

Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/1 Absent-Motion Carried 

ADJOURNMENT 

Motion by Ald. Hampton-Houser seconded by Ald. McDowell to adjourn at 9:15p.m. 

Roll Call: 3 Yes/0 No/ 1 Absent-Motion Carried 

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