Jeff Bergman
April 23, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — A long-awaited vote on an ordinance approving a tax increment financing plan on Quincy’s south side was delayed for two more weeks on Monday night. The heads of the Great River Economic Development Foundation, Quincy Area Chamber of Commerce and The District made their cases for the city’s third designated TIF zone during…
Read Full Article April 23, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — After defeating an amendment that would have trimmed the city’s subsidy to the Quincy Public Library, the Quincy City Council voted Monday night to adopt a $61.3 million budget that goes into effect May 1. Before aldermen voted on the budget ordinance, they discussed a proposed amendment from Jeff Bergman (R-2) calling to…
Read Full Article March 26, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Finance Committee sent two issues about what could be Quincy’s first roundabout to the full City Council to be debated next week. However, the debate got underway in earnest near the conclusion of Monday night’s City Council meeting. The city has been asked to commit $2.6 million to the roundabout project at…
Read Full Article March 26, 2024 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Director of Public Works Jeffrey Conte has two weeks to prepare different options to pay for $30 million worth of improvements to Quincy’s water system. The creation of an ordinance to increase water and sewer rates was on the agenda for Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting. The average monthly cost to the consumer…
Read Full Article February 13, 2024 | By J. Robert Gough, Publisher
QUINCY — Citing that it is not a “requirement” but a “preference” for property owners to rebuild on land they purchase under the city’s Fix of Flatten program, the Quincy City Council pulled back four properties they had intended to turn over to the Two Rivers Regional Land Bank Authority. At Monday’s City Council meeting,…
Read Full Article December 12, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Votes on a report and a resolution that have attracted great interest during recent meetings of the Quincy City Council both were tabled for a second time Monday night. A report from Springfield attorney Rick Stewart about an internal complaint filed during the hiring process for the chief of the Quincy Police Department…
Read Full Article October 11, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — After hearing more than two hours of speakers speak respectfully on both sides of the sanctuary city for the unborn ordinance, debate among members of the Quincy City Council got a little heated Monday night before they voted 7-5 against it. The issue attracted an overflow crowd that filled City Council chambers and…
Read Full Article September 12, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Quincy City Council tabled a resolution during Monday’s meeting to buy secondary insurance from American Public Life for the last half of 2023. Aldermen requested more information from Quincy Mayor Mike Troup about the cost of the insurance before voting on it. However, several aldermen made it clear they no longer want…
Read Full Article August 29, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — A resolution for the city to adopt a pledge of civility was tabled indefinitely during Monday night’s Quincy City Council meeting after three of the 10 aldermen in attendance said they couldn’t support it. The resolution put forth said the Illinois Municipal League has adopted a civility pledge which states, “In the interest of…
Read Full Article August 15, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — After nearly 45 minutes of debate, the Quincy City Council voted Monday night to approve a resolution that relaxes and extended residency requirements for officers with the Quincy Police Department. The Police Benevolent and Protective Association Unit 12, which represents the officers and supervisors with the Quincy Police Department, and the City of Quincy have a…
Read Full Article July 9, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Both Greg Fletcher and Richie Reis know Monday’s vote regarding their confidence in Mike Troup as the mayor of Quincy is only symbolic. Regardless of the vote totals, Troup will still be the mayor at end of Monday’s meeting of the Quincy City Council. However, both aldermen believe their vote signifies something else.…
Read Full Article July 3, 2023 | By J. Robert Gough, Publisher
QUINCY – As the Quincy City Council voted 9-4 to approve spending up to $40,000 to study the possibility of establishing a new tax increment financing (TIF) district in the State and Eighth/Calftown/Dick Brothers Brewery area, aldermen didn’t really seem excited about expanding TIF in the city. Some of the discussion at Monday night’s meeting…
Read Full Article June 19, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Two aldermen had sharp words for Mayor Mike Troup when an invoice from a Chicago law firm for collective bargaining negotiations was discussed at Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting. Before a vote by aldermen on a resolution to pay $8,412.15 to Ancel Glink, P.C., Richie Reis (D-6) asked for Troup to provide a…
Read Full Article April 18, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Quincy City Council voted Monday night not to pay $4,000 to the Quincy Area Convention and Visitors Bureau for a hotel market study that was presented in February. The City of Quincy, the Oakley-Lindsay Center and the Quincy Area Convention and Visitors Bureau commissioned Core Distinction Group, a Wisconsin hospitality consulting firm,…
Read Full Article March 6, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Angela Caldwell gave her appointment to the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners one more try. “I had already decided that if it didn’t happen tonight, that was it,” she said. The third time turned out to be the charm. The Quincy City Council voted 7-6 to approve Mayor Mike Troup’s appointment of…
Read Full Article December 13, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Quincy City Council’s unanimous vote on Monday night to approve a $7.112 million annual property tax levy ordinance, creating a tax rate around 96 cents per $100 of assessed value, was called “historic” by Mayor Mike Troup. The levy is approximately $588,000 less than was collected this year. Last year’s rate was…
Read Full Article December 6, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Quincy City Council will vote next week on a $7.112 million annual property tax levy ordinance that would create a tax rate around 96 cents per $100 of assessed value. “Property taxes paid next year are going to basically be less than they were this year by about seven percent, maybe eight…
Read Full Article November 29, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Aldermen voted last week to make three changes to an ordinance to adopt the 2018 series of the International Code Council model code for the city’s building code. They voted to remove mandated sprinkler systems, mandated installation of sheetrock underneath the basement mandated installation of a self-closing door from the garage to the…
Read Full Article August 30, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The popular citywide cleanup, typically scheduled for the last Saturday in September, now will become a five-day weekday event during the last week in September. Jeffrey Conte, director of public works, says Republic Services is having problems with drivers, and they typically would need 10 to 15 drivers for a single-day citywide cleanup.…
Read Full Article June 14, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — A resolution to authorize incentives for new residential constructions west of 12th Street between Harrison and Locust was approved during Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting. However, an amendment to that resolution that would also have offered those incentives to residential constructions east of 12th Street did not. The resolution called for waiving water…
Read Full Article April 12, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Aldermen voted Monday night to authorize another $250,000 for the Quincy Workforce Relocation Assistance Program (Q-WRAP), but it was clear some aldermen aren’t convinced of the program’s effectiveness. The program aims to incentivize out-of-town employees to move to Quincy by offering $5,000 in property tax relief for those buying a house or $3,500…
Read Full Article November 2, 2021 | By J. Robert Gough, Publisher
When the Quincy City Council first approved the Quincy Workforce Relocation Assistance Program (Q-WRAP) in August, Quincy Mayor Mike Troup said he hoped the program would be so successful that he would be back before the Council to ask for more funding. At Monday night’s City Council meeting, the mayor asked and the aldermen answered.…
Read Full Article October 26, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Quincy City Council approved Monday spending $973,171 for the city’s 2021 concrete repair project that consists of the patching of concrete pavement, fire hydrant replacement and new sewer manholes at six locations throughout the city. Jeffrey Conte, director of utilities and engineering, specifically mentioned the intersection of 27th and Cedar. Most of…
Read Full Article June 15, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — It took the Traffic Commission about 30 minutes of brainstorming on Monday night to come up with a few adjustments to the plan to build a second Carter’s Coffee Bar in the city, with this one going at the northwest corner of Seventh and Broadway. With the Traffic Commission’s blessing, the Quincy City…
Read Full Article June 8, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Michael Seaver, director of inspection and enforcement for the City of Quincy, brought Monday night to the Quincy City Council a proposed ordinance to establish a residential rental registration program. It wasn’t met with open arms. Mike Farha and Tony Sassen, 4th Ward alderman, both said they couldn’t support the proposal. Jeff Bergman,…
Read Full Article June 1, 2021 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Jeff Bergman believes the city only has one chance to get it right. That’s why he says he and fellow 2nd Ward alderman Dave Bauer plan to propose at Monday night’s Quincy City Council meeting to table a request by Ciara Weese to build a second Carter’s Coffee Bar in Quincy, this time…
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