The installation of three electric car chargers downtown was discussed at Monday’s Macomb City Council Committee of the Whole meeting.
The low bidder was AMP of Galesburg at $23,485. The second bidder was Cox Electric of Macomb at $44,800. City Administrator Scott Coker recommended that the vehicle chargers be located at the A.L. Kuper city parking lot at the corner of West Jackson and Madison streets, the city lot at East Jackson and Calhoun streets behind Gelsosomo’s Pizza and the City Center bus drop-off across from the Carper Amtrak Station.
In other business, city department heads gave their quarterly reports for November through January. City Attorney Lisa Scalf collected $20,742 fees and fines during the period. She said she has filed $7,703 in liens for those owing delinquent water bills, and $2.885 in liens for those owing delinquent fines for unmown grass. Scalf said Macomb’s number one offense is careless driving and the next highest is minors in taverns. She said that she processed 182 Freedom of Information Act requests, 155 for the police department.
“They continue to rise,” she said, “and are very time-consuming.”
Marketing and Downtown Development Director Savannah Ballard reported that the downtown occupancy rate remains at 90 percent, with seven buildings for sale or rent. She said the five-year investment in the downtown now totals $688,047. Ballard said 957 new events were added to the communitywide calendar during the quarter with 16,000 visits. She said there were 222,159 quarterly views of the Downtown Facebook Page.
