{"id":6040,"date":"2023-10-24T20:16:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2023-10-24T20:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:16:16","slug":"continued-city-council-meeting-minutes-october-16-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=6040","title":{"rendered":"CONTINUED CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES &#8212; OCTOBER 16, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINUTES OF THE CONTINUED BENTON CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD MONDAY OCTOBER 16, 2023 AT 8:35 A.M. IN THE BENTON MUNICIPAL BUILDING LOCATED AT 1403 SOUTH MAIN STREET BENTON, ILLINOIS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>COMMISSIONER KAYS CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER.\u00a0 COMMISSIONER GARAVALIA, COMMISSIONER COCKRUM, AND COMMISSIONER KAYS WERE PRESENT FOR ROLL CALL.\u00a0 COMMISSIONER STOREY AND MAYOR MESSERSMITH WERE ABSENT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>COMMISSIONER KAYS MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE BILLS FOR THE AP FUND IN THE AMOUNT OF $337,729.88, MFT IN THE AMOUNT OF $64,902.75, AND OTHER FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $52,648.12 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF BILLS TO BE PAID ON OCTOBER 16, 2023 OF $455,280.75.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>COMMISSIONER KAYS MADE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.\u00a0 SECOND BY COMMISSIONER GARAVALIA.\u00a0 VOTE WAS TAKEN.\u00a0 YEAS:\u00a0 3. COMMISSIONER GARAVALIA, COMMISSIONER COCKRUM, AND COMMISSIONER KAYS.\u00a0 NAYS:\u00a0 0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TIME 8:36 A.M.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINUTES OF THE CONTINUED BENTON CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD MONDAY OCTOBER 16, 2023 AT 8:35 A.M. IN THE BENTON MUNICIPAL BUILDING LOCATED AT 1403 SOUTH MAIN STREET BENTON, ILLINOIS. &nbsp; COMMISSIONER KAYS CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER.\u00a0 COMMISSIONER GARAVALIA, COMMISSIONER &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=6040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]"},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}