Will County Gazette

City of Lockport City Council met May 27.

Here is the agenda provided by the council:

NOTICE: MEETING MODIFICATION DUE TO COVID-19

Pursuant to Governor Pritzker Executive Order 2020-07 (extended by Executive Order 2020-033) which suspends the requirement of the Illinois Open Meetings Act requiring in-person attendance by members of a public body during the duration of the Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation, the members of the City Council will be participating in the meeting through a video and audio access using the virtual meeting platform, Zoom. The Mayor, essential members of the City staff, and City of Lockport Media/TV/Livestream Contractor for live televising of the meeting may be physically present in the Board Room, but pursuant to Governor's Executive Order No. 2020-10 as extended by Executive Order 2020-032 and CDC guidelines, no more than 10 people will be allowed in the Board Room at any one time. Anyone in excess of 10 people will be asked to wait in another room with live feed to the meeting until the agenda item for which the person or persons would like to speak on is being discussed or until the open floor for public comments. Pursuant to Executive Order 2020-033, a face-covering of any individual appearing in-person is recommended. Public comments can be emailed in advance of the meeting to bbenson@lockport.org.

A. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

B. ROLL CALL

C. BUSINESS ACTION ITEMS

1. City of Lockport Local Business Re-Opening Safety Guidelines and Temporary Suspension of City Codes for Outdoor Dining/Seating and Closure of Streets

Suggested Action: Approve Resolution No. 20-064 for the City of Lockport Business Re-Opening Safety Guidelines, and Resolution No. 20-065 for the Temporary Suspension of Part of the City Code for Outdoor Dining/Seating and Closure of Streets

D. OPEN FLOOR FOR COMMENTS

(Comments will be heard on items that do not appear on the Agenda. The Public Comment portion of the Agenda shall be subject to a twenty (20) minute limitation. A time limit of five (5) minutes shall be imposed on each Speaker.

The purpose of having Public Comments as an Agenda item is to allow any person to make his/her views known to the City Council upon any subject of general or public interest.

Each person wishing to speak during the Public Comment portion of the Agenda must fill out a Public Comment Speaker Card stating name, and the topic about which he/she wishes to speak as well as a sign-in sheet, and give to the City Clerk at the Meeting itself.

The purpose of the Cards is to obtain the spelling of the name of the Speaker, and provide for efficient meeting administration.

The order of speaking shall be based upon the order of sign-in with first person signing-in speaking first and so forth. If the twenty (20) minutes has elapsed before all Speakers who have signed up are allowed to speak, the City Council may elect to continue the time period.

However, if the City Council elects not to extend the time period those Speakers who signed up but did not speak may if they so choose to be placed on the next Agenda under the Public Comments Section and shall be placed at the top of the Sign-In Sheet in the same order they were in from the previous Sign-In Sheet.

All Speakers shall comply with these rules which shall be posted at the Speaker Sign-In desk and rulings of the City Clerk.)

E. EXECUTIVE SESSION: OPEN MEETINGS EXEMPTIONS

2(c)(1) Appointments, Employment, Compensation, Discipline, Performance or Dismissal of specific Employees.

2(c)(2): Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees.

2(c)(3) Selection of a person to fill a Public Office, including a vacancy in a Public Office.

2(c)(5) Purchase or Lease of real property, including meetings held for the purpose of discussing whether a particular parcel should be acquired.

2(c)(6) The setting of a price for Sale or Lease of property owned by the public body.

2(c)(11) Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting.

2(c)(21) Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under this Act, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as mandated by Section 2.06

F. ADJOURNMENT

http://www.cityoflockport.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272020-1006