Adams County Board
QUINCY – Bret Austin was elected as the new chairman of the Adams County Board Tuesday night. Austin, who has been on the board since 2016 and has served as vice-chairman and chairman of the board’s finance committee, was elected by a 15-0 vote, with four members voting present and two members absent. Board members…
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QUINCY — After nearly 22 years on the Adams County Board, Kent Snider presided over his final meeting as the governing body’s chair. Snider, who has been chairman for six years, was praised by his colleagues as well as Veterans Assistance Commission Superintendent Paul Havermale and former Adams County Board Chairman Mike McLaughlin who all…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Board will vote in its 2025 fiscal year budget in November and it is expected to be 3 to 4 percent higher than the current year’s spending plan. Finance Committee Chairman Bret Austin told the board at Tuesday night’s meeting the committee and staff have compiled the expected revenues and…
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Have you ever noticed the bike path along Columbus Road and Cannonball Road, running each side of Wismann Lane? Did you know it has a name? It is the Erin East Memorial Bike Path. Erin was a 13-year-old, seventh-grade student at Quincy Junior High School. The weather in November 1988 reached the high 60s. …
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QUINCY — The issue of the roundabout about 48th and State still can’t find the right exit. After Adams County reached out to the City of Quincy with multiple options to transfer the property, the Quincy City Council on Monday tabled a resolution regarding a counteroffer to the County. Alderman Eric Entrup (R-1st Ward) said…
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QUINCY — Adams County Board member Steve McQueen (R-District 4) was wearing two hats at Tuesday’s board meeting. McQueen, the plant manager for Huber Engineered Materials, has been working on a project to repair and reinforce the South Quincy Levee, which keeps flood waters out of Quincy’s riverfront industrial base. Huber is one of those…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Board has approved the first grant allocations from the $1 million set aside for housing out of American Rescue Plan Act dollars. There were 21 applicants for the Growing Residential Opportunities County-Wide (GROW) program and 17 were awarded funds totaling $740,000. The Great River Economic Development Foundation (GREDF) vetted the…
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QUINCY — Corporation Counsel Bruce Alford told the Finance Committee during its Monday meeting at the Quincy Public Library that Adams County wants the City of Quincy to take jurisdiction of the intersection of 48thand State after aldermen voted on April 1 not to contribute $2.6 million to build a roundabout at the intersection. “That’s going…
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QUINCY — On Tuesday, the Transportation, Building and Technology Committee recommended and the Adams County Board tabbed Architechnics of Quincy to design a new heating and air conditioning (HVAC) system for the courthouse. Architechnics $625,000 bid was higher than the $597,000 bid from RTM Engineering from St. Louis but, after input from local contractors and…
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QUINCY — Bret Austin says the Adams County Board is “three-quarters of a mile into a mile race” when it comes to solving the replacement of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system in the Adams County Courthouse. The board tabled for one month a motion to vote to select an engineering firm that would…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Board unanimously approved an expansion of the Quincy Adams Brown Enterprise zone to accommodate the construction of a $40 million facility for United Alloy. United Alloy’s current Quincy location is a 24,000 square foot weld-only facility in the Ellington Road industrial park that opened in April 2023. The new site is…
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Bret Austin is the owner of Austin Properties, a locally-owned property commercial and residential development company in Quincy. However, he may be best known for his work on the Adams County Board and as the chairman of the Finance Committee. In recent months, he’s also getting attention for his views on a possible third designated…
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QUINCY — Prescription opioids were involved in more than 263,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. from 1999 to 2020. Opioid manufacturers and distributors offered a “master settlement” in 2021 to resolve lawsuits brought against them for false marketing and commercial distribution as non-habit-forming medicines. The total opioid settlement funds obligated to states, counties and cities…
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QUINCY — In the spirit of the Easter season, the Adams County Board played Pontius Pilate Wednesday night and washed its hands of the responsibility of maintaining the intersection of 48th and State. Although it could be argued the Quincy City Council beat them to the basin. The Sanhedrin, or in 2024 terms, the courts,…
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QUINCY — The Adams County Board heard a report from the firm who conducted the study on replacing the HVAC system in the courthouse, some of which has been in place since the building was constructed in 1947. Thomas Buchheit with RTM Engineering presented the study to the Board at a special meeting Tuesday night.…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council voted 9-5 on Monday night not to enter into an agreement with Adams County to build a roundabout at the intersection of 48th and State. Moments after the conclusion of the meeting, Kent Snider knew what the Adams County Board’s next move would be when it meets April 9. “Hand…
Read Full Article QUINCY – Three incumbent Republican members of the Adams County Board who had contested races in Tuesday’s primary each came away with wins. In County Board District 2, incumbent Mark Sorenson defeated Douglas Kendrick 281-167. In District 3, incumbent Dave Bellis held off a challenge by James Fisher 425-377. In District 7, incumbent Brent Fischer…
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QUINCY – Dave Bellis was the bearer of bad news at Tuesday’s Adams County Board meeting. The Transportation, Building and Technology Committee chairman said the courthouse’s HVAC system, which is supported by a boiler from the 1950’s and other parts from the building’s last major remodel in 1990, has long exceeded its expected life and…
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QUINCY — Beginning in February, Adams County Board meetings will be livestreamed. Ryan Hinkamper (R-District 2) made the motion at Tuesday night’s Board meeting. He said that in the Transportation, Building and Technology committee meeting earlier Tuesday evening, the committee had voted to take the request to the full Board. Hinkamper said when the new…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Adams County Board unanimously passed its 2024 million budget at its meeting Tuesday night. The overall budget of $61,472,277 includes $21.9 million in the county’s general fund, which makes up a majority of salaries and day-to-day operations, and $39.5 million in other funds, including county highway, health and ambulance budgets. The budget…
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QUINCY — Chairman Tieraney Craig says the Quincy Riverfront Development Corporation’s plan to bury power lines along the riverfront is officially “on hold.” The corporation, which met Wednesday at the Quincy Boat Club, continues to wait to see if three taxing bodies — the Quincy City Council, the Adams County Board and the Quincy Park…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Adams County Board tabled a decision to commit $350,000 toward burying Ameren power lines at Clat Adams Park. At Tuesday night’s County Board meeting, Riverfront Development Corporation member Duane Venvertloh, a former Adams County Board member and Finance Committee chairman, asked his former colleagues for an additional $150,000 on top of the…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Riverfront Development Corporation already has $750,000 pledged for the burial of power lines along the Quincy riverfront. Corporation members now plan to go to three governing bodies in Quincy in early October to ask for $650,000 more. The $1.18 million project calls for the lines to be buried in Clat Adams…
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QUINCY — A group of Adams County veterans has been pushing for the establishment of Veterans Assistance Commission (VAC) in the county for more than a year. State law requires that if a group of veterans makes the request of an Illinois county to establish a commission and follows all of the proper steps, the…
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QUINCY — Great River Economonic Development Foundation President/CEO Kyle Moore presented a draft copy of the housing needs assessment for Adams County and Quincy to the Adams County Board Tuesday night. Moore gave County Board members a full 250 page report and an executive summary and offered a brief summary of some of the study’s…
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