Taylorville City Council met on Monday evening. All aldermen were present except for Chris Skultety. The council’s first order of business was to honor Mila Gregory. Gregory is a NASCAR Youth Racing champion. She races on the Dirt Tour to race quarter midget drivers across the country, and she just secured her first dirt championship. Taylorville Mayor Bruce Barry honored her at the meeting.
Several motions concerning ordinance passing including a handicapped parking space for the US postal service building, residency requirements for the city, a motion to approve the request for the city to acquire city owned property in the industrial park (5-2 with Aldermen Megan Bryant and Kathy Driskell voting No), and a motion to approve the special events permit on Saturday October 4th for the VFW. The council also approved selling several police vehicles.
A motion concerning the city council to direct the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance to sell the expired tasers and protective equipment to officers for other employment meant heavy discussion. Mayor Barry said he was absolutely opposed to it because he wanted his officers to be safe at all times.
The question of course is whether there would be liability if something would happen to an officer and whether the officers are safe, because if an officer got hurt at a secondary job, the council was concerned about them having the best equipment available and not have expired equipment. After a lengthy discussion, the council voted against selling the tasers and equipment. The motion failed 5-2, with only Aldermen Doug Brown abstaining, and Megan Bryant and Kathy Driskell voting Yes.
Under lake/airport, a motion concerning of project plumbing passed 7-0, a motion concerning taxiway A Phase 2 was tabled, and a motion for replacing the door hanger passed 6-1 with Alderman Steve Dorchinecz voting no.
The Mayor again reiterated that Christian County is currently under a burn ban in his public comments.
The next city council meeting is set for October 6th, 2025.
