Current Public Notices

The City has scheduled the curbside collection of live Christmas trees to begin Wednesday, January 3rd and 4th 2025. All live trees needing to be picked up must be placed on the city boulevard by 7 a.m. Wednesday, January 3, 2025. The Public Works Department will make one tour of the city to collect the live trees set out on the boulevard. Trees must be free of ornaments, lights, stand and plastic bags as the trees will be taken to the City’s yard waste facility and ground into mulch. The City’s yard waste facility, located on Logan Street, is also open daily during daylight hours for those residents wishing to dispose of trees themselves. We ask that residents unload their trees at the large limb pile.

Odd Fellow Road – Dec 6 UPDATE 2

Recent fiber optic repairs have to be made before reopening Odd Fellow Road in Mattoon just north of Country Club Road.  Therefore, Odd Fellow Road will remain closed until next Tuesday, December 10, 2024, when those repairs are properly completed, and the road can be patched.   Every effort is being made to reopen the road as soon as possible.  Thank you everyone for your continued patience!

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Odd Fellow Road – Dec 6 UPDATE 1

Due recent weather conditions and unforeseen utility adjustments Odd Fellow Road in Mattoon just north of Country Club Road will remain closed until Saturday AM.   It is the goal to keep the road closure time to a minimum and it will be reopened as soon as possible.

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Odd Fellow Road – Dec 2, 2024

Today, December 3, 2024, Odd Fellow Road will now be reduced to one-way traffic starting around 12:00 PM (Noon) until approximately 4:00 PM between Country Club Road and Cresent Drive to facilitate the location of existing utilities prior to making the road crossing for the new sanitary sewer.  Crews will pothole for existing utilities at the crossing location.  Odd Fellow Road will reopen when this work is completed to two-way traffic today.

On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, Odd Fellow Road will close completely to traffic beginning around 7:00 AM to facilitate the sanitary sewer construction across the road.  Odd Fellow Road will remain closed overnight Wednesday and all-day Thursday.  The road will then reopen Friday, December 6, 2024, around 7:00 AM weather permitting.  It is the goal to keep the road closure time to a minimum.

On Thursday, December 5, 2024, the City of Mattoon will be opening more roads in the Emerald Acres (Mattoon Sports Complex) development.  There will also be some changes in the intersection control at Swords Drive and Remington Road.  See the announcement for each below.

Emerald Acres (Mattoon Sports Complex) Road Openings

On Thursday, December 5, 2024, the City of Mattoon will be fully opening Swords Drive south of Remington Road and Wooddell Way east of Dettro Drive to traffic.  At that time motorist will be able to completely use both roads to access the new Indoor Sports Facility and the Sarah Bush Clinic at Emerald Acres.  In the meantime, if you need to access these facilities, please use Wooddell Way at Dettro Drive and then enter through the parking lot south of Wooddell Way.

Swords Drive and Remington Road Intersection

On Thursday, December 5, 2024, the intersection operations at Swords Drive and Remington Road will be changing.  Remington Road will convert to a STOP condition for both east and west bound traffic.  Swords Drive will convert to a through movement and will no longer have to YIELD to Remington traffic.  All changes will be in place by 9:00 AM Thursday morning.

The City of Mattoon has a consultant performing pavement condition ratings through out the city starting Tuesday, December 3, 2024, through Thursday, December 5, 2024.  The crew will be driving slowly over every street under the City of Mattoon’s jurisdiction to evaluate the pavement condition of each city street.

For those who are unable to attend, recordings of any virtual City Council Meetings will be posted to our YouTube Channel.

Cisco WebEx hosts the virtual Council Chamber.  Join the meetings using the information shown below.

Visit the City Council Meeting page to view the agenda for upcoming meetings.

A City Council meeting is scheduled for 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

July 23, 2024, Virtual Meeting Details:
Special City Council Meeting

At no sooner than 7:20 am, visit the Cisco WebEx meeting site by clicking the link below.

https://bit.ly/MattoonCC072324

Meeting number (access code): 2550 445 2960
Meeting password: 20819

Additional Instructions

Join meetings by telephone by dialing 415-655-0001 and use the meeting number and password shown above.

Please click here to see the proposed Remington Road Revelopment plan.

The City of Mattoon is hereby informing residents of an upcoming public hearing for discussion and a resolution of support regarding the City of Mattoon’s application to the IDNR Boat Access Area Development (BAAD) grant program, which would fund the creation of an ADA Accessible Kayak launch to be installed at Lake Mattoon.

The public hearing where the resolution will be presented, and discussion will occur is at the May 2nd City Council meeting at City Hall (208 N 19th Street, Mattoon IL, 61938) during the regular City Council meeting at 6:30 pm

CITY OF MATTOON, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASE

November 29, 2022

The City of Mattoon has been bidding the electric supply for our residents since 2013. We have saved each of our residents and average of $900.00 during that time. Unfortunately, our current bid is expiring. There are no good offers in the electric supply market right now to compete with Ameren’s standard rate.

The residents in our program will all be automatically moving to Ameren for 1 year. We intend to re-bid electric supply next fall if market conditions are more favorable.

Ameren has mailed the attached notice to the residents in our program. Residents have the option to select another supplier in the next 60 days if they wish. Residents are not required to do so. There is no action required in order to stay in our program. Residents are cautioned to study any offers that they receive carefully. The cost of electricity is at an all-time high. We have decided not to accept any long-term contracts for that reason.

Thank you,
Dean Barber
Public Works Director
City of Mattoon

To see a PDF copy of this press release, which includes a copy of the attached notice. Click here.

PRESS RELEASE

Several area cities and counties have been working together to bid electric supply for our residents. The cities of Charleston, Effingham, Mattoon, and Paris along with Coles County are nearing the end of a contract with a rate of 4.19 cents per kilowatt hour.  This rate will be expiring with the meter readings in December 2022.

Recently the buying group, along with our consultant Good Energy, worked to solicit new electric supply bids for our residents. We were unable to secure an offer with a satisfactory combination of price and duration due to the current volatility in the market. The group has decided to pause the aggregation program and to revert back to Ameren as the electrical supplier for our communities. The group intends to consider competitive offers again for our electrical supply in the fall of 2023.

Ameren’s current electric supply rate is 12.24 cents per kilowatt hour. Electricity bills in January will reflect the change of supply rates from 4.19 cents to 12.24 cents per kilowatt hour.

Residents and businesses in our electrical aggregation programs will be automatically switched to Ameren following the conclusion of our contract with Energy Harbor in December 2022.

Is important to note that no action is needed from our residents! No forms are required, and no one will contact residents to make the change. There are companies that may contact citizens offering electric contracts but they are not associated with the buying group.  Please use caution before entering contracts as sometimes the offers appear favorable but are actually more costly than Ameren rates.

Municipal Electric Aggregation was approved by voters in November 2012 as a way to buy electricity for our residents and small businesses at wholesale prices. Until now, each contract has been able to produce savings for program participants.  After almost 10 years, it is estimated that municipal electric aggregation has saved the residents of our communities over $800.00 per household.

Anyone who may need help with their monthly energy bills can find a list of township offices and not-for-profit organizations offering assistance programs on Ameren’s website. Qualifying households can take part in the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which is the federally-funded program that provides monetary relief for energy bills.  More information can be obtained by calling 1-877-411-9276 or visiting www.ameren.com/illinois/residentail/energy-assistance/liheap. Ameren also has energy saving tips and billing options available online.