Quincy City Council
QUINCY — Before Monday’s Quincy City Council meeting started, Mayor Mike Troup thanked the Quincy Police Department for its work in the recently completed Tim Bliefnick case. A jury of six men and six women found Bliefnick guilty last Wednesday on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of home invasion in the Feb.…
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QUINCY — After hearing the general managers of two Quincy hotels and a Quincy restaurant laud the benefits of the Bring Entertainment to Quincy (BET on Q) program, the Quincy City Council voted 8-4 during its Tuesday night meeting to give the program $100,000 for the 2023-24 fiscal year. Aldermen also approved by a 7-5…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council recommended approval Tuesday night to go into a contract with Banner Fire Equipment from Roxana to spend $1.182 million on two 2025 E-One fire trucks that the department won’t receive for two years. The Quincy Fire Department operates five trucks in “front line” status. However, Engine No. 7 is…
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QUINCY — Quincy City Hall will be closed on Monday, May 29 in observation of Memorial Day and will reopen for regular business hours on Tuesday, May 30. The Quincy City Council will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 30, in City Hall Council Chambers. Central Services will be closed on Monday, May 29,…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council voted to execute a grant agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Illinois Department of Transportation for $12,971,382 as part of fourth phase of Quincy Regional Airport’s runway reconstruction project. U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced last week that $14.2 million in federal funding…
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QUINCY — Five people who have participated in the city’s downtown rental rehabilitation program thanked aldermen during Monday night’s Quincy City Council meeting. Funds from the city’s Tax Increment Finance program are set aside as a financial incentive to the owner(s) of existing buildings in the downtown TIF Districts for the renovation of market-rate residential…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup has created an ad hoc committee that has been tasked with reducing the number of committees. The Quincy City Council approved Monday the appointments of five aldermen — Greg Fletcher (R-1), Dave Bauer (D-2), Kelly Mays (R-3), Mike Farha (R-4) and Ben Uzelac (D-7) — as well as Director…
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QUINCY — City Treasurer Linda Moore told members of the Quincy City Council on Monday night that the city’s police and firefighters pension funds have lost a combined $7 million since a state mandate forced the city to invest in statewide investment funds. Moore’s report for the fiscal year ending April 30 showed the Quincy…
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QUINCY — Quincy’s two newest aldermen said their focus is on “learning the process” after they completed their first meeting Monday night as members of the Quincy City Council. City Clerk Laura Oakman swore in Glen Ebbing (R-5) and Jake Reed (R-6) before Monday’s meeting, officially giving Republicans a 10-4 advantage. Ebbing replaces John Mast,…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup says he has no intention of asking 4th Ward alderman Mike Farha to rejoin the two committees he resigned from earlier this week, saying “his time’s up.” “He showed his true colors,” Troup said after Thursday’s special meeting of the Quincy City Council, during which aldermen passed a $50.29 million…
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QUINCY — Two flipped votes turned a potentially contentious debate over the city’s budget into much ado about nothing. Richie Reis and Patty Maples, Democratic aldermen in Quincy’s 6th Ward, were among seven aldermen at Monday night’s Quincy City Council meeting who voted not to approve a $50.29 million budget for the 2024 fiscal year. However, at a…
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QUINCY — The senior alderman on the Quincy City Council called Mayor Mike Troup “tyrannical,” believes the public is “fed up” and says the “best thing for our community” is for him to resign immediately as a deadline to pass a city budget looms. Mike Farha, a Republican alderman in the 4th Ward since his…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council approved Monday night a petition for a revocable permit allowing for the encroachment of the city right-of-way with temporary memorials. However, Stacie Sparks, who first brought the issue to aldermen on April 17, still isn’t happy. The petition was created by Assistant Corporation Counsel Bruce Alford and submitted to aldermen…
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QUINCY — Asked why they were among the seven aldermen who voted Monday night not to approve a $50.29 million budget for the 2024 fiscal year, Richie Reis (D-6) and Greg Fletcher (R-1) echoed their answer. “Communication,” they said. After three weeks of public meetings (before Quincy City Council meetings) discussing the city budget, aldermen…
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QUINCY — Stacie Sparks says she’s received “hundreds” of compliments from Quincy Cleaners customers when she visits the memorial she created two years ago for her son, who died in a car accident at the northeast corner of 30th and Maine. “Every time I’m out there changing it, somebody stops me and says it’s beautiful,” Sparks…
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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,…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council held its first public hearing and reading of the FY 2024 budget ordinance Monday night. Aldermen will hear the third reading and voted on the $52.7 general fund spending plan on April 24. In a memo to the aldermen, Director of Administrative Services Jeff Mays said revenues of $50.2…
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QUINCY — No chads are hanging, no Brooks Brothers are rioting and the Supreme Court won’t get involved (we hope). The Adams County Clerk’s office began Thursday the process of sorting out the votes still arriving via the U.S. Mail, as long as they have been postmarked by Election Day, April 4. Three election judges…
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QUINCY — The purchase of the City Hall Annex building by the Quincy Township inched closer to a conclusion Monday night. Quincy Mayor Mike Troup then proposed spending township money to help solve some of the city’s housing issues. Before the weekly Quincy City Council meeting, aldermen first handled business as the Quincy Township board.…
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QUINCY — The aldermen in Quincy’s 7th Ward announced during Monday night’s meeting of the Quincy City Council that bids to complete work on four blocks of Payson Avenue have come in under projections. “Jack (Holtschlag) and I have some really awesome news to report tonight,” Ben Uzelac, D-7, told aldermen. “A project that we’ve been…
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I’m writing this letter in support of Ben Uzelac for 7th Ward alderman. Uzelac has championed change in the 7th Ward with his vote and his own dollars. His passion for Quincy is unrivaled in this year’s 7th Ward race. Uzelac has one trait above the rest: his passion for Quincy. Professionally, Uzelac is a…
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Elections have consequences. As a former business owner who operated a business in the 7th Ward for more than 30 years and continues to invest in the ward, I ask 7th Ward voters to vote for Tim Siemer as your alderman. During the past four years, voters in the 7th Ward have faced many issues,…
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I am writing this letter in support of Tim Siemer for 7th Ward alderman. After the last 4 years it’s very clear that we need a new face in the 7th Ward. We need an alderman that is attentive to the needs of that ward and just as importantly attentive to the needs of the…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Government is complex. Sometimes, more complex than it really should be. Take, for example, the case of the City of Quincy and Quincy Township debating the future of the City Hall Annex building. The City of Quincy owns the building at 706 Maine, just across the parking lot to the west of City…
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QUINCY — Mayor Mike Troup provided the majority vote needed to provide $100,000 in Downtown Rental Rehabilitation TIF funding to Terrell and Vicky Dempsey for renovations of four upper-story apartments at 234-236 North Sixth. The Dempsey’s law office is on the first floor of the building. They are also putting in $159,740 of private financing…
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