Recovery Anonymous seeking to locate halfway house on North Eighth Street

QUINCY — The Quincy City Council has received a special permit and rezoning request from Recovery Anonymous to locate a sober living facility on the city’s west end.

At Monday’s Council meeting, City Planner Chuck Bevelheimer said a special permit is needed for the facility to be located at their desired spot at 1111 N. Eighth because it will border a residential property. The special permit conditions must meet distancing requirements from churches, schools and daycare facilities.

Recovery Anonymous is seeking $200,000 in American Rescue Act funding from Adams County to put toward the project. That has yet to be approved by the Adams County Board.

Aldermen sent the issue to the Plan Commission.

Quincy Police and Fire Commissioner Barry Cheyne spoke to the Council and updated the search for Quincy’s next police chief, which was detailed in a Muddy River News report posted Monday morning. The Police Aldermanic Committee met before Monday’s Council meeting and Cheyne thanked the committee for its support of the funding request and said the search will be a “sound process that involves the city.”

In other action, Aldermen approved:

• An invoice from Midwest Meter, Inc., of Edinburg, IL in the amount of 14,484.75 for an 8 inch
  water meter to replace an aging meter on an industrial water service.
• The low bid from Laverdiere Construction of Macomb, IL in the amount of $272,492 for the repair of two collapsed sanitary sewers.
• An invoice from Hydro-Kinetics Corporation of St. Louis, MO in the amount of $11,482.64 for
  replacement pumps and valves for the N. 42nd Street lift station.
• A down payment of $68,167.75 and nine monthly payments of $22,722.58 (totaling $272,671).
• An invoice from JULIE, Inc. of Bedford Park, IL in the amount of $7,802.46 for notification of
  utility locating requests.
• An invoice from Klingner and Associates in the amount of $18,314.18 for payment on the Water
  Supply Improvement Project Phase 2 which includes the rehabilitation of filters 1-6,
  replacement of the filter backwash fill system, and structural repairs to the Water Treatment
  Plant building.
• The purchase of ancillary ARFF equipment from Sentinel Emergency Solutions, St. Louis, for
  $34,159.00; Municipal Emergency Services, Deer Creek, Ill. for $25,641.00; MacQueen
  Emergency, Eureka, Mo. for $36,209.00, A.E.C. Fire & Safety, Springfield, Ill. for $33,660.00
  for a total cost of $129,669.00.
• The low bid from United Contractors Midwest, Springfield, Ill. for the Phase 2 reconstruction of Runway 4/22 in the amount of $6,711,739.56 to be funded 100 percent by an airport improvement program grant.
• An agreement with Crawford, Murphy, and Tilly Inc. for engineering and planning services for the construction of a new T-Hangar site at the Quincy Regional Airport, in the amount of $204,600.00 to be funded 90% by a Rebuild Illinois Grant and 10% by the City of Quincy.
• An Ordinance of the Municipal Code to repeal the massage therapist ordinance.