Meeting Events

Meeting: -ggv_kqj6ig.2026-5-18_freeport_township_meeting

Meeting date: 2026-05-18

Meeting type: township_board

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Decisions and Votes

• Approval of Minutes for May 4th, 2026 Meeting — Passed

  • Summary: The motion to approve minutes passed.
  • Evidence: “All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.”
  • Source timestamp: 01:42

• Pool of Bills Payable — Passed

  • Summary: The motion to approve the pool of bills payable passed.
  • Evidence: “Aye. Altensey? Aye. Odendahl? Aye. Sellers? Aye. Motion passes.”
  • Source timestamp: 03:08

• Adjournment of meeting — Passed

  • Summary: Motion to adjourn the meeting until Monday, June 1, 2026, at 4:30 PM.
  • Evidence: “I have most to adjourn until Monday June 1st 2026 at 4:30 PM”
  • Evidence: “I’ll second it.”
  • Evidence: “All in favor? We’re not going to fight over it. Any vote? Motion carried.”
  • Source timestamp: 08:23

Procedural Actions

• Supervisors’ Report
  • Summary: The speaker scheduled Pastor Fairman to attend the next board meeting.
  • Evidence: “Ok, I will e-mail him and have him at our next meeting which is May, June 1st, which is June 1st.”
  • Source timestamp: 05:49

Presentations and Reports

• Supervisors’ Report

  • Summary: The Boys and Girls Club received funding.
  • Evidence: “I have a new budget. The Boys and Girls Club received their funding and so they were very thankful.”
  • Source timestamp: 03:08

• Assessor’s Report

  • Summary: The assessor will consult with an appraiser for hotels and gas stations this year, as these properties are difficult to break out based on sale prices.
  • Evidence: “So last year I consulted with an appraiser for industrial and strip centers, and this year I am consulting with one for hotels and gas stations. Those are difficult to break out based on sale prices due to personal property that’s involved, business expenses, but they don’t break out on the transfer declarations.”
  • Source timestamp: 06:42

• Assessor’s Report

  • Summary: A bill will come through regarding the assessor’s consultation for hotels and gas stations.
  • Evidence: “So I am going to be consulting with an appraiser on those, and so you will see a bill come through on those like we did last year.”
  • Source timestamp: 07:08

Metrics

• Supervisors’ Report
  • Summary: Operation Jumpstart currently has 21 clients, with no terminations recorded yet.
  • Evidence: “And, if I’m not mistaken, we are at 21 clients. We haven’t had any terminations as of yet,”
  • Source timestamp: 04:30

Discussion

• Approval of Minutes for May 4th, 2026 Meeting

  • Summary: An error was found in the minutes regarding the trustee’s report location.
  • Evidence: “I do want to let you know that I found an error, Kathy found an error, Kathy Wilken, thank you for that, in where it says the trustee’s report. It’s supposed to say YMCA on there, So it was a typo.”
  • Source timestamp: 00:26

• Pool of Bills Payable

  • Summary: The Benning group bills are related to an audit expected on June 15th.
  • Evidence: “So the Benning group bills you after the fiscal year is over with, right? Yeah, well, they are doing our audit… I think, on the 15th of June.”
  • Source timestamp: 02:00

• Supervisors’ Report

  • Summary: The Township discussed potential funding assistance for Rebuilding Together Stephenson County.
  • Evidence: “I got a chance to speak with Rebuilding Together, Stephenson County spokesperson, Pastor Fairman. And we discussed the possibility of Township helping again with funding for their project.”
  • Source timestamp: 04:55

• Assessor’s report on property valuation methods

  • Summary: The assessor consulted with appraisers for industrial and strip centers last year, and will consult this year for hotels and gas stations because these types of properties are difficult to break out based on sale prices due to personal property and business expenses, which are not included in transfer declarations.
  • Evidence: “So last year I consulted with an appraiser for industrial and strip centers, and this year I am consulting with one for hotels and gas stations. Those are difficult to break out based on sale prices due to personal property that’s involved, business expenses, but they don’t break out on the transfer declarations.”
  • Source timestamp: 06:42

• Assessor’s report on property valuation methods

  • Summary: The assessor will consult with an appraiser regarding hotels and gas stations, resulting in a bill similar to last year.
  • Evidence: “So I am going to be consulting with an appraiser on those, and so you will see a bill come through on those like we did last year.”
  • Source timestamp: 07:08

• Trustees report

  • Summary: A discussion occurred regarding an email sent to Barb and a typo in the minutes.
  • Evidence: “Yeah, did you get my email Barb? No. What email? They didn’t want cash. There was a typo in the minutes.”
  • Source timestamp: 08:04

• Trustees report

  • Summary: The speaker corrected a typo in the minutes from ‘W’ to ‘Y’.
  • Evidence: “Yeah, we talked about that before we came. Okay, alright. I fixed it. So I just told everybody that it should be Y instead of W.”
  • Source timestamp: 08:04

Follow-ups

• Supervisors’ Report
  • Summary: The speaker plans to have an agreement ready for discussion at the next board meeting.
  • Evidence: “So my goal is to have some information, not information, an agreement ready for the next board meeting to look at and discuss and all that good stuff.”
  • Source timestamp: 05:26