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Pekin Council passes agreement amendment


Pekin Daily Times
The Pekin City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a construction and maintenance agreement with Tazewell & Peoria Railroad, Inc., during Monday’s meeting. But each member hesitated before voting.
“Has anybody since we’ve been sitting here together heard such long pauses before they cast their vote?” asked Mayor Mark Luft, after about 30 minutes’ discussion on the resolution.
The amendment is for the purpose of installing a large diameter pipe under the railroad tracks on Front Street as part of the city’s combined sewer overflow project, according to City Manager Mark Rothert. The original agreement with the railroad did not specify track outages. City staff and Leander Construction have worked to develop a construction schedule which projects 60 days of railroad track outages. ....

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