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Another GREDA Public Member Could Pull Funding
The only other city to be a member of the Galesburg Regional Economic Development Association could be done after Monday night.

The Knoxville City Council is scheduled to consider a request by Mayor Phil Myers to terminate the city's contract for economic development services with GREDA. Myers, who has long opposed GREDA, received an annual letter for funding from GREDA earlier in the month.

Knoxville pays GREDA $7,500 a year for economic development work with GREDA, and the city has been a member since the development of Logistics Park Galesburg several years ago.

Part of the logistics park lies in Knoxville, and plans had been in the works at one time for Knoxville to provide water and sewer service to at least part of the park.

The Galesburg City Council voted in December to terminate its $75,000 annual contract with GREDA effective in March.

Knoxville aldermen will also discuss what logo will be on the city's wheel tax stickers this year. The 2008 stickers commemorated Abraham Lincoln with the slogan "Abraham Lincoln Slept Here" -- recognizing that Lincoln spent the night there before the historic Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

The Knoxville City Council meets at 7:00 tonight at the Cottage Medical Group building on East Main Street.

City Councils in Galesburg, Abingdon, and Monmouth -- who normally would meet on Monday night -- have postponed those meetings until Tuesday due to the Martin Luther King Day holiday. Knoxville, however, did not.
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