We reported the $4.1M transformer award was tabled. The minutes show it passed 8-0 (M-1). Our error. A resident asked Council to table the item until the electric utility’s finances are clarified, but no motion to table was made and no vote on tabling was taken. The award went to WEG Transformer USA LLC, with one member absent. Naperville’s own minutes are inconsistent on the bid number: the item header reads Bid 26-124, which is also the number on the agenda, and the motion text reads 26-1242 once.
We also had the kratom testimony backwards. We described testimony about deaths from synthetic kratom. The written comment we were describing said the opposite: it came from the mother of a 22-year-old whose death was ruled the toxic effects of mitragynine, the primary alkaloid that occurs naturally in the kratom leaf, and she told Council her son did not ingest 7-OH or semi-synthetic derivatives. She asked Council to ban all forms of kratom. We also called the testimony local. The record does not identify her as a Naperville resident.
Two vote counts we corrected earlier this month are now confirmed against the city’s published minutes. The $8.3M citywide camera contract with SDI Presence LLC failed 6-2 (M-2), with Mayor Wehrli and Councilman Holzhauer the two yes votes. The Willow Road storm sewer recapture agreement failed 1-7 (I-9), with Mayor Wehrli the lone yes.
Statements we cut
These statements in the published issue are not in the city’s record, so they are gone from the corrected version.
There was no floor amendment on the Willow Road recapture agreement (I-9) and no interest rate anywhere in the minutes. The record says only that Council discussed impacts on the homeowners and interest charges. Two residents, Richard Phillips and Patricia Pfister, are recorded asking Council to deny the agreement.
No dollar figure for the storm sewer extension appears in the minutes. The cost we printed for it has no source in the record.
The minutes name no consultant and no needs assessment in the camera item (M-2). We attributed the project to one.
The resident who asked to table was speaking to the transformer award (M-1), over electric utility finances, not to the cameras. On the camera contract the minutes record him discussing transparency and questioning the need for more cameras.
The minutes attribute no reason to any member for the lone no vote on the August 18 minutes (I-1). We gave one.
Three more details went with them. The minutes do not describe Candace Parker’s career, and they do not record the plat vote authorizing a street named for her. What they do record, under J-1 rather than J-4, is City Manager Krieger saying that the street name doesn’t fit the city’s naming conventions, that the exception must be included in the motion, and that its inclusion in the plat is sufficient to approve it with the motion. We wrote that Council spent more than half an hour on the camera contract; the only clock times in that stretch are the public hearing closing at 9:25 PM and adjournment at 10:14 PM, covering J-2 through M-2. And we called the happy hour ordinance the city’s first legal happy hour in years, which rests on an aside in one written comment, not on the record.
Statements we corrected
The happy hour ordinance (I-12) kept three existing provisions, not two, and they were part of the motion as made, not restored to it: licensees must post their prices, no discount greater than 50% of a drink’s scheduled price, and no serving two or more drinks of alcoholic liquor to one person at the same time, except wine by the bottle or carafe. We described that last one as a limit of one discounted drink, and we wrote “posted” price where the record says “scheduled” price.
On the kratom ban (I-11), it was Police Chief Arres, not several council members, who told Council that lab testing cannot distinguish natural kratom from synthetic, and he said it about testing for criminal investigations, not testing at the point of sale.
The public hearing on NorthGate of Naperville (J-1) closed on a unanimous voice vote. The minutes record no roll call and no counts for it, so it isn’t an 8-0 the way the other NorthGate votes that night were.
Every line above traces to the City of Naperville’s Final minutes for the September 1, 2026 City Council meeting, published September 16. The corrected issue is posted at its original link.
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