you know i'm just saying
okay
all right good evening ladies and
gentlemen i'd like to call the june 6
2022 crest hill city council meeting to
order if everyone would please rise for
the pledge allegiance to the flag and
please remain standing after the pledge
i pledge
states of allegiance
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation under god
indivisible with the liberty liberty and
justice for all
i believe it'd be appropriate at this
time with all of the violence and
shootings that we've had around our
country for a moment of silence
for all the victims
from buffalo new york for all the
victims from tulsa oklahoma
and i know that this last one tugged at
all of our hearts with all of the school
children from uvalde texas
we ask
for your prayers to help all of the
families through this difficult time of
their grief and their struggles
we ask for peace in our world
and i would ask for a moment of silence
in memory of all those victims of all
the tragedies not only these street but
all the tragedies throughout the united
states that we've had over the years
i would also ask for all the police
officers and health care professionals
that have
that killed
um
senselessly also
um and their families to keep all of
them in their prayers so i would ask for
a moment of silence for all of them
thank you
all right roll call please chris
ray solomon here
glenn conklin
scott dice here john burchett here
darrell jefferson
claudia gazelle here tina oberlin
verizon marks appealing here nate albert
here and joe cabot here
and for the record war ii alderman
jefferson and our city administrator jim
moreno they are both excused for this
evening's meeting
uh you have before you the minutes of
the city council meeting held on may 16
2022
motion would be in order
some move
we have motioned by alderweireld gaza
seconded by all the one vershay for the
approval of the city council
meeting uh minutes held on may 16 2022
questions or comments
roll call please scott dyke yes john
rochet yeah fly gazelle yes you know
berlin yes mark zupiti yes nate albert
yes and joe cool yes motion carry thank
you you also have before you the minutes
of the work session that was held on may
16 2022 motion would be in order
second
we have motion by alderman vershay
seconded by alderman dyke for the
approval of the work session minutes
held on may 16 2022 questions or
comments or roll call please claudia
gazelle yes you know berlin yes mark
zappedy yes nate albert yes joe kubal
yes scott dyke yes and john richard yes
motion carries thank you also have before you the minutes of
the public hearing minutes
of may 16 2022 motion will be in order
some move
we have motioned by elder woman gazal
second by alderman rochet for the
approval of the minutes of the public
hearing held on may 16 2022 questions or
comments
roll call please
tina oberlin yes
uh mark zupiti yes nate albert yes joe
cuball yes scott died yes john richards
yes motion carries thank you
and finally you have the minutes of the
work session held on may 23rd 2022
motion would be in order
some move
second
we have motioned by alderweireld gazelle
second to buy all the money for shay for
them uh approval of the minutes of the
work session held on may 23 2022
questions or comments
roll call please
mark sapidi yes
nate albert yes joe kubal yes
scott tyke yes john richardson yes
claudia's all yes and tina berlin yes
motion carries thank you
okay our business promotion tonight is
miss ali brandolino who is here
representing uh and as chairman
chairwoman of the
um festa italiana for 2022.
so uh ellie the podium is all yours yes
we are hosting our 22nd annual
italiana at the american italian
cultural society
here in crest hill it's a three-day
event it's free admission
friday
will be open from 6 pm to 11 pm
we will be having john elvis lyons along
with one foot in the groove playing that
night that night we'll just have a
limited menu so we'll just have we'll
just be serving pizza and beef
sandwiches
on saturday we have that's august 13th
it'll be from 12 to 11 p.m
we'll have dj music music to start off
the night and then we'll have
um at 2 30 renee hayne and then jack
amico
and horizon
um that night we will have our full menu
which i will go over that in just a
second and then sunday
we will be august 14th from 11am to 9pm
we always have our outdoor mass with our
procession
then we have at 12 15 nino felino
then an accordion concert by
some of our club members
then we'll have a pasta eating contest
which is our tradition
we'll have diva montel and george holmes
and then closing out the night will be
strung out
we will have meatball sandwiches
beef sandwiches um
an italian combo meatballs on a boat or
in a boat massachusetts pizza then we
have fried ravioli gelato cannoli and
tiramisu
we always have children's games we'll
have a face painter
raffles a bake sale so it'll be a fun
event we've had it every year it's
always been so much fun so i hope you
guys can all make it
it's been very well run over all of
these years uh you guys do a fantastic
job with the picnic every year
so um
but certainly if uh city council would
like to make any comments to uh ali
all of diet food i know
well we have salad too i forgot to
mention that
yeah way too much person you can have
that
fat free on popcorn
well good luck with everything it's
always a lot of fun
um music is always great i can hear it
at my house something awesome yeah
you're that close i am there so it's
kind of cool very nice
okay as long as we have ali at the
podium um i would ask for council's
concurrence to deviate to the mayor's
report to the uh three uh uh agenda
items and we could take care of business
here in regards to the american italian
cultural society
let's do these first okay okay all right
i'd like to ask him if they ever got a
hold of him about the police detail yeah
will it'll be at the next meeting i
believe yeah yeah we're i'm going to
bring it to you all okay next meeting
we're just going over there making sure
the dates and times and we have
everything squared all right well good
thank you just want to make sure it's
all getting taken care of thank you i
know that chief's been working with dan
and
the contract will be before you at our
next city council meeting on the 20th
all right okay all right so the first
agenda item for the american italian
cultural society is the approval of a
waiver of a liquor license three-day
liquor license for festa italiana that
would be for friday august 12th
saturday august 13th and sunday august
14th motion would be in order
second
we have motioned by older person
overland seconded by other women gazelle
for the approval of the waiver of the
three-day liquor license professor
taliana questions or comments
roll call please chris nate albert
abstain
uh joe coogle yes
scott dyke yes john bechet yes claude
exhale yes tina oberlin yes mark supedi
yes motion carries thank you
okay the second agenda item would be for
the american italian culture society
also
for approval of a permit waiver
for all of the associated signage for
festa italiana and also for that week
motion would be in order
second motion by all the person overland
second by alderman pitty for a waiver of
the
signage permit fees for festa italiana
for their festival questions or comments
roll call please joe cool
yes
scott dyke yes john richard yes claudia
gazelle
yes kenoberland yes mark sapidi yes and
nate albert i'm saying
motion carries thank you and the last
agenda item is also for the american
family and cultural society will be the
approval of a road closure
and for the use of one of our police
officers for the parade
uh which will be on sunday after the 11
a.m mass
followed before the short parade
throughout the neighborhood motion would
be in order i thought
he powered up it's going to go in the
work session
that's for the security part this is
just for the parade okay
so move just presented
second we have motion by alder person
all we're in second by alderweim gaza
for the approval of the
uh closure of the roads for the parade
along with the use of one of our police
officers questions or comments
roll call please scott dave yes john
richards yes claudia gasol yes ken
oberlin yes mark zappedy yes nate albert
abstain joe kubo yes motion carries
thank you okay you guys are all set if
you have any problems with the state
liquor license feel free to give us a
ring
you're more than welcome to come back if
you want to the meeting before
the festival the first one in august if
you would like to address city council
for that time also uh just again
for some promotion for your festival that would be on
monday august 1st
okay okay thank you very much all right
you guys have a great night thank you no
one would be mad at you if you had any
samples of anything that night
all right we'll move back to our agenda
uh to our city attorney chris spacious
here this evening good evening chris
good evening
i have nothing to report tonight any
questions of our city attorney good to
see you chris thank you
all right thanks chris
our city administrator jim moreno is
excused for this evening so i will take
over his portion of the meeting for here
you have before you an approval of a
resolution for amendment number two to
the residential electrical aggregation
agreement with mc squared energy
services llc to administer the municipal
electric aggregation program for the
next 24 months you do have all the
information in the contract in your
packet we also have with us dave hoover
from nimek is here so i would invite
dave to come to the
podium and he will walk everyone through
the process here and then certainly
he'll answer any questions that anybody
may have dave thank you thank you good
to be here again um just by way of
background real quick
uh nymec we help you purchase the
electricity for your water pumping
operations for the municipal facilities
and also for your street lighting we do
that in a group bid with about a hundred
other northern illinois municipalities
what we're talking about tonight though
and by the way both of those facilities
are contracted through next year
which is really good because the current
state of the power markets is a little
crazy which we'll get into in a second
what we're talking about tonight is
municipal aggregation and what municipal
aggregation is
in a summary is
once a municipality passes a referendum
then the municipality
can act as a purchasing agent
to see if they can find more favorable
purchasing terms
for their residents home electric bills
okay and you've had the program in place for
a while um and
then residents that are able to take
advantage of those they're notified and
if they have any concerns or
reservations they can opt out of that
program at all
i think you guys were
in the first handful of the first
municipalities in uh in northern
illinois in 2011 who started the
municipal aggregation program and so
kudos to you all for being out front on
that
for the for the uh for a couple years
after we started the program we had very
favorable rates
that we were able to procure
visa via the combat rate and so those
savings accrued directly to the
residents on their own electric bills
we had a couple years where we suspended
the program
and then about in 2018 we started the
program back up
the current program uh just matches the
comed rate for residents so there are no
savings for the residents we match the
combat rate
their cabinet rate actually changes
month to month and so our suppliers
match that on a month-to-month basis so
unfortunately there's no benefit that
approves directly to the residents
but what
we what what our suppliers are able to
do currently
are able to offer 25 of the power which
they purchase for the residents is
renewable power
from renewable sources
and the municipality receives uh 2500
a month
in
renumeration from the supplier back to
the municipality to be used for whatever
you deem inappropriate to be so that's
been going on for
uh for a couple years
um and so we're here to talk about a
renewal because the program is uh coming
up for renewal in
september uh as i said
just
by again unfortunately we're in a
situation where the power markets are a
little out of control
um
natural gas
pricing
and electric pricing are very highly
correlated
and natural gas pricing maybe you all
noticed it last winter
is higher than it has been for quite
some time
i think prices now have tripled from
where they were a year ago
so we are paying somewhere in the
neighborhood of 35 40 cents uh per therm
for gas now gas is over 92 cents per
therm
and i think that the
uh upcoming nikkor rate is it's over a
dollar it's like a dollar twenty per
thermal fortunately we don't use very
much natural gas usage during the spring
in the summer
but the reason i bring that up is that has made the power markets
pretty unfavorable for our suppliers
when they go out to match the program
to renew the program and so we are
enabled are not able to
find renewable rate renewal rates that
are as favorable as what you're
currently currently
enjoying
we have two suppliers that offer this
program and actually one player one
supplier has actually stepped aside we
said we just can't
offer any remorse for any of their
members
fortunately you're with a supplier
called mcsquared and they are offering
renewal
programs
now it's attractive but instead of uh 25
green they can do five percent green
uh for all the residents in your program
and instead of twenty five hundred
dollars a month is uh compensation back
to the municipality
they can offer a thousand dollars a
month uh so they total 24 000
for the two year period
and so that's what uh we are presenting
for renewal we're actually pleased that
we have something to offer
um because again we've gone to a few
municipalities already and just said we
have nothing to offer and we have to
suspend the program
um so i think that speaks to the
favorability of your residence and load
profile the way you all use your power
it's still attractive to um
to mc squared
so that's the that's the most that's the
proposal we have before you to renew for
two years
uh and a thousand dollar a month civic
payment and then uh there'll be five
percent green energy included in the
program again to the residents
uh we just matched the comment rate
well i understand the change in the
financial power but i the world is
deeming that but i guess i just don't
understand why the green aspect would go
down so much yeah so um it's it's just a
financial it's just a pure financial uh
decision
supplier to do green energy has to go
out and purchase the renewable energy
certificates there's an open market for
those and they just have to compensate
for those
and so
um they said we wanted
their proposal was they wanted to have
some component of green energy because
we know that it's somewhat important to
you
and so kind of the minimum is five
percent and then they were able to
still offer some additional cash so it's
just a it's just a financial uh
calculation yeah that's kind of the
disappointing part to me i know you
can't help it but we need to get greener
not less green
yep
can we agree with you
when you travel
through all these towns you
represent do you find there more people
putting solar panels under roofs now
because of that
um they have been putting solar panels
on their roofs that has been uh pretty
active over the last two years
and i think primarily because of the
subsidies state of illinois offered yeah
unfortunately those subsided those
stopped
and so that's pretty much ground
everything to a halt
once we put this program in place
we'll probably come back to you in the late summer or fall
we have another program that we can add
on top of this and uh it's called
community solar
and it's where your residents can take
advantage of solar panels
that they don't have to put on their
homes
there are small solar farms and then
they can sign up for a portion of that
that's an opt-in program
and
what we'll ask you at that point in time
is if this is important to you
do you want to endorse the program
uh we'll tell you more about it as we
get closer and uh might be something
that might be of interest to you it's
funny you mentioned that when i was at
my doctor last week dr sun he was spent
15 minutes talking to me about solar
panels and he was talking about
something very similar to that i'm sure
he'll be thrilled to hear that
possibility yeah yeah and again you
don't have to put solar panels
underneath there are small there's small
farms solar farms that would be in
northern illinois
and basically your residents that they
sign up
would you know alec would take the load
off of about two or four panels let's
just say and then that would have proved
to them and so it's it's a good program
and there might even be some actual
savings usually there's a premium for
that uh so actually it might be a little
reduction in their cost and they can
still support that
well there was somebody going around our
neighborhood several people signed up
for my neighbor across the street just
got them put on their roof and
i guess they had a pretty interesting
program she's going to go over and tell
me about it because i'm very interested
in it
and you don't have to pay for it she
said you just lease it for a fee
right which is kind of cool yeah there
have been folks going door to door um
obviously none of our suppliers do that
right and so
they've kind of gone through phase one
they've built all those out so we're
waiting for new production to be built
and we're in contact with
some of those suppliers as they build
those and we'll we'll make them work
thank you know under this program would the
residents be able to opt out
or
in the program that we're talking about
tonight that we yeah with mc squared
absolutely
yes any resident in any aggregation
program can opt out at any at any time
for any reason and there's no charge so
if they don't aren't aware of the opting
out do they have to if they don't
say they want to opt out are they
automatically in correct they'll be noted they'll be notified by
mail
thank you and and just to be clear on me
if i can just
get into the weeds here a little bit but
our supplier doesn't serve 100 of your
residents in the program
what every every uh resident
has their own individual load shape and
profile and they all have a different
cost to serve from our suppliers point
of view
so what they do is they pick the
favorable ones and the and the ones that
aren't as favorable they leave at comed
now i know that having two different
groups of residents in town is
problematic but let me just make it's
very very clear
it doesn't matter what group you're in
because you're both going to get your bill from
comment and you're going to be billed at
the identical rate okay one will come
from our supplier and she squared the
other beef supply by combat and so
that's what that's the way they're able
to offer this program so just to be
clear not 100 of your residents will
receive letters on this renewal only
those who are uh involved
with their accounts or rates are squared
and those rates if comments rates
fluctuate and these fluctuate also along
with yeah and then and there's because i
tell you the power markets are a little
crazy the current comed rate well
until last week for the year previous
around 7.8 cents per kilowatt hour and
starting this month that's going up to
9.8 cents
so
yeah so not only is gas kind of
crazy but electric follows and
prices are going up right now
and but to your point
if there's any change in the combat rate
in which they do change everything we we
mirror that every single month
well i think that the the residents were
getting
very favorable rebates back in 11 12 and
13 yeah when the market was kind of
whack yep and that's when the savings
were really
evident
now the market has really evened out
we always test it just to be clear we
every time we do any sort of renewal we
always test to see if there are more
favorable rates
fixed rates available to the residents
we always test that before we go to our
program this
matching program
and the comment um excuse me mc square
of his offer was 11.3 cents
compared to 9.8 cents wow so that'll
just tell you um
how kind of crazy the market is right
now
do you have any information about
residence energy they were out in crest
hill last week the name is residence i
think it was residence energy resident
energy
they were out knocking door to door
um do you have any information like i
don't know because they asked like
they should go that route but do you
compare to them or nothing like that
um there's a listing uh on the internet
uh
for if you
of a lot of the different public
offerings uh it's at pluginillinois.org
the icc puts that out there and then
they and suppliers will put their
offerings there
okay just as a rule of thumb
um
as a rule of thumb we don't find offers
there that are more favorable than the
continent rate
um
they may have a teaser rate for three
months or six months
a friend of mine sent me his mother's
bill the other and they were at 14 and a
half cents
and that's when the comment rate was 7.8
okay so
unfortunately
this is you know not i'll make a generic
statement across the world but i think
a number of suppliers
take advantage of folks who don't pay
attention
sign up give them a good rate for two
months and then just escalate the rate
and actually in this particular case the
right was 14 and have never gone to 59
next month so
i
you know
i would just encourage my mom lives in
illinois i tell her stay in the comment
rate
okay yeah you have to read the fine
print yeah and i'm not saying that
they're i'm not saying there's nobody
who offers a good rate i'm just saying
we just haven't seen any we check those
uh offerings you know pretty regularly
and you said we go on website it's
called it's called
www.plugin illinois
no spaces plug in illinois.org
and then there will be
a place that says compare offers now
and you pick count med and then
they'll give you a laundry list of
offers there okay thank you because
that's really important because they do lie at the door and they tell
them
you know i i can tell you stories and
i'm sure there's some good ones but
i would
not and dave is that one of those things
where they they got an introductory rate
for say six months and then it just goes
to a high rate and stays there
for the length i've seen i've seen that
often i can't say that everybody's that
way um but i do know that the less
scrupulous ones
will do that i think they're theory as
people pay attention for a month or two
after they get their their bills
and then after about six months they
quit paying attention and yeah and
that's where we've seen them
um you know 14 15 cents
is almost double the comment rate yeah thank you
well that resident energy i was trying
to tell that's the one we got the email
about
yeah people were complaining
but when they come to my door the first
thing i ask them is for their permit
yeah oh well my boss says well did you
know that you can't come to the door
without one anybody out there has to
have it so
you have two options here you go get
your permit your copy or i'll just let
the local police know you're out here
without a permit you never see people
run so far for their trucks because
they're trying to mess with the there's
a lot of elderly people out there you
know who listen and what they say
because i get the phone calls they said
they could do this don't listen they
stood there with the city don't listen
to him
so it's really kind of sad i always do
that i put the fair god into him ahead
every time
yeah we put something out on facebook
i heard a community that you know police
actually went out there and told him you
can't do this
and later that day they were on the
other side of town yeah
so
i'm not here i'm not saying no i know i
mean yeah i i would suggest if you don't be part of
the program if you have concerns of our
program let's go to combat and
that's where we recommend it's the
safest place to be
yes another question
about five six years ago maybe longer
they had wind power all this windmill
what happened to that product now you
don't hear about that anymore is that is
that a
not bad subject to talk about now or
something or what happened no they're
still building they're still building
wind and they're still building
windmills um uh they're yeah and they
obviously haven't gone away um they may
just not be advertising and i know the
big expansion right now is offshore on
the east and west coast coast that's
where it's really uh going but
um
but yeah the cost of wind power has come
down
and they're still people are still
building wind power you know the
pritzker wants to be
i think 100 green by 2050
is what his target is so
i'll be building more
because the only one ever saw was down
around
odell or something down there in a big
field down there oh yeah yeah and then
indiana northwest northeast india
northwest india has a lot of wisconsin
has a lot of them too i think i think
iowa is one of the top in the country so
um when it must blow in iowa i just
thought maybe if they did it now it's
done it's over with them something else
no that's still it's still going it's
still big they're uh they're trying you
know the whole
uh the whole country is trying to phase
out fossil fuels
and get to uh
to more renewable sources so
yeah
okay thank you
anyway we'll move forward we need to we
need to
finalize some things tomorrow i'll talk
to jim about this and uh
i think you've had a chance did have you
seen the actual amendment i don't know
if jim said that too okay so that's
pretty straightforward yeah that's very
straightforward yeah and i will say dave
we've been together now for 11 years
yeah and i will tell you you are a very
uh honest
reputable company with nymec
and you have not steered us in the wrong
direction over 11 years so we really
appreciate that we all value your advice
you know more
uh about the electricity and the rates
and everything in your little finger
than i had knowing my whole body so well
it's good to be a big fish in a small
pond yeah yeah
anyway we appreciate the relationship
and uh our theory is let's do what's
right for the customer correct and we'll
have a customer for a long time
so i would ask for a motion from city
council resolution
second
what
move yes motion by alderman albert
second by all alderman's pity for
resolution approving amendment number
two to residential electric aggregation
agreement with mc squared energy
services llc
questions or comments roll call please
chris camera shave yes
claudia gaza yes ken oberlin yes mark
supedi yes yes joe kubal yes scott dyke
yes motion carries the resolution 11 54.
okay dave uh jim will be back tomorrow
so
i'm sure thank you all right thank you very much
okay um
moving on to our public works department
our director of public works mark safer
good evening good evening mayor council
the only agenda item i have before you
this evening is
uh one we discussed two weeks ago now
for an emergency well pull and motor
pump replacement for well seven uh this
would be with lane western for a not to
exceed amount of forty six thousand and
twenty seven dollars uh once they pull
the pump and see the actual
uh damage of the pump and motor if there
is a change order that would come before
you but at this point it is for not to
exceed amount of forty six thousand
dollars and twenty cents so move this
second
we have motion by our other person over
let's second by alderman albert for the
emergency wealth pull and motor pump
replacement to lane western not to
exceed forty six thousand twenty seven
dollars for well seven questions or
comments
this is elrose correct that is correct
questions or comments
roll call please claudic assault yes
tinoberlin yes mark zupiti yes nate
albert yes
joe cuball yes
scott dyke yes and john burchette yes
motion carries thank you that is all i
have for you this evening i'll be happy
to entertain any questions that you may
have any questions of public works
all right thanks mark uh moving on our
city engineer ron wedeman good evening
ron thank you mayor i have two items for
you for council tonight uh the first one
is to approve an ordinance for the
establishment of a pond self-inspection
program which will amend sections uh
several sections of chapter 15.20
motion would be in order
we have motioned by another one would be
solved second by alderman or shea for an
ordinance amending
section 15-20-170
much discussion was held on this at the
work session two weeks ago so just ask
if there's any more questions or
comments in regards to the garbage
so ron is are we
anticipating having these
this july first
i have to talk to mark um
i'd like to get one round out this year
at least i don't know if we'll get the
second you know whoever doesn't comply
the first time probably won't but yeah
we gotta we'll have to get one round out
um
okay
roll call please mark sapidi yes nate
albert yes joe kuala yes scott dyke yes
john beshea yes claudia gaza yes and
tina overland yes motion carries
ordinance 1904
second item i have for the council
tonight is to approve an engineering
agreement
um i'm sorry to approve that the mayor
executed a proposal for design
engineering services as discussed above
with christian burke for not sigma 28
590 this would be for designing a two of
the three walls
out on theodore these walls need to be
designed by a structural engineer one of
them i did in-house already but this is
actually money that we're going to get
reimbursed back from the state
second where motion by alderman dykes
second available their woman resolved
for the approval of the
uh theodore wall design at highland and
cora uh to christopher burke engineering
not to exceed 28 590 dollars questions
or comments well i'm just glad they're doing like poured ones now right
yeah we're going to do poured ones
they're actually going to be a little bit
different than the ones that we just set
up we're going to actually have an
imprint on there of something a
limestone or but we haven't figured out
what the imprint is going to be yet but
something give it a little more visual
look to it um and obviously there's two
walls that we're short on the goal will
be next year to try to tackle one and
then maybe the next one because those
walls are gonna be about a hundred grand
you know so but at least let's get some
of these done since we got the
reimbursement coming
did you say we're gonna get reimbursed
back to that yes this is part of the
rebuild illinois uh the city put money
in for this 65 000
back in 2018 or 19 when the request was
made i'm not
um
i don't have all the privileges of the
details if they were specific walls or
not we just know that there was a long
theater so um i know that the city has
already changed a couple out
and we're going to actually
the one that i designed right you're
going to eliminate all together and
grade it out we're just going to move a
comed pull back that way you'll have to
worry about any maintenance of that wall
in the future the other two we can't
eliminate but again we're going to
replace those with a
be a tea concrete wall with some type of
limestone or some type of finish on the
outside that's in front of the homes yes
yeah that one from 2018 that was uh when
dave vanderville yes here um with
christopher parks so
it does look much better with the solid
wall than all the blacks because yeah
the blacks like pop out
exactly you can see it right now exactly
what it looks like when you have a
standing retaining one when they put
those walls up they put the glue between
the bricks
between the stones with the state the
ones that are up there now yeah um
probably
when we put this new one up we're going
to put the glue to glue them together
we're doing a solid concrete wall
it will not be a stacked retaining wall
it'll be a solid concrete wall
they're going to put the weep holes in
them too right yes we'll have there'll
be there'll be a drain tile behind it we
poles down at the bottom so it'll
properly drain sidewalks in the front
will have to be replaced you know to the
back of the curb
wouldn't it wouldn't the stone wall look
nicer than a brick wall or a concrete
wall well it's going to be a concrete
wall with an imprint of a stone or a
limestone type look to it it's not going
to be stamped concrete right stamp
concrete not like they you know the
walls weren't as tall so it was kind of
the ones that they did before really
couldn't stamp those but these are so
tall that just to have just a slab of
concrete and get some texture on there
some look
okay all right roll call please chris
nate albert yes
joe cuball yes scott dyke yes john
richard yes flooding is all yes and mark zucchini yes motion carries
thank you
and that's all i have unless there's any
questions for me okay any questions uh
city engineer
just quick are we doing any sidewalk
repairs this year uh yes bids were open
last week i will evaluate them this week
we'll probably have those on the agenda
at the next council meeting for to
approve that contract j j newell was a
little bet a little bitter
obviously prices are very high so i have
to take a look at our mft program to see
if i can
do what was originally programmed if i
need to make a cut but that's what i'll
be doing this week
thank you
and then hopefully that work will start
sometime middle of july carry through
september early october
okay thanks ron uh moving on community
development department there are no
agendas items this evening uh our
economic and community development
director tony
who was ill today he'll be back in a few
days
uh the reports are in your packet
moving on to the police department our
police chief ed clark good evening mayor council i have one agenda
i have an item this evening
it is the addition of no parking
prohibitions for enterprise boulevard
trinovic drive the east parkway
we discussed this issue at the may 23rd
work session
and as we discussed uh we'll be placing
that to help with the
trucks that have been parking there
we've had a lot of garbage that were
thrown in the uh in the cul-de-sac
yeah just the the general backup due to
the parking
we will be monitoring the best we can
and try to
alleviate any issues with parking in
other locations
but if you see any please let me know
and we'll try to adjust accordingly
so i'm formally asking for approval so
move this presentation second
we're motion by our other person
overland seconded by alderman albert for
the uh no no parking ordinance on
enterprise ladies and gentleman claims
questions or comments
roll call please joe cool yes scott dave
yes john richard yes
gazelle yes tina berlin yes mark sapidi
yes and nate albert yes motion carries
ordinance 1905.
chief just curious um let's say we put
the signs up and we put an effect and
they continue to do this and i know it's
hard to have somebody sit there all day
is there a way to maybe put cameras out
there
uh we definitely could put cameras on
here um
i mean even like a wireless in a camera
yeah it would have to be like a solar
type camera or a battery powered i'm
just wondering because if it gets if it
keeps going on even after the signs are
off
um
i think i think after a few uh well
we'll see two reminders that tends to
yeah it's just kind of out there you
know it's not like it's right around
yeah you got to purposely go through
that yeah yeah i agree
i do yeah i i we something we consider
also the property as cameras as well i
mean they could
some of the some of the business owners
are very welcoming to this okay good so
tell them to turn their cameras out yeah
they'll definitely help us out
thank you thank
you any other questions
all right thanks chief thank you moving
on to the mayor's report we took care of
all the agenda items just some updates
uh i had the privilege in honor of
attending the will county police
memorial on may 19th along with chief
clark and deputy chiefs
opiola and
dabshak and officer fenoglio was there
representing crystal also very well done
memorial ceremony
for all the
police officers in will county that lost
their uh lost their lives in the line of
duty uh also attended the cheney mangy
graduation on may 24th there i believe
there was 69
graduates from cheyney mongi
uh again well-run program
from cheney mangy and then then on may
26th attended the richland graduation it
was about 89 students there from
richland grade school
they both had beautiful nights so
congratulations to all the graduates
um at all levels throughout the city of
cresthill um congratulations and good
luck with all your future endeavors and
then had the opportunity to be in the
carillon lakes uh veterans day or
memorial day parade that was put on by the carolina lakes veterans committee that
was on may 28th again they do a
fantastic job with a lot of
participation
for that parade and then finally our
memorial day ceremony was held on monday
may 30th uh one week ago today it was a
little bit on the warm side it was very windy but we made it through
um so i certainly want to thank
everybody that participated in the
program
our two guest speakers don lawler and
chester bozek were both world war ii
veterans
so thank you to them for their words of
wisdom the frankfurt brass band again
they are
very well for the musical entertainment
for the program
i certainly want to thank
members of the city council that were
there
our treasurer glenn conklin
older woman claudia gazelle alderman
nate albert and alderman joe kubal were
there so i thank them for their uh
presence in being there again i believe
it was a very solemn ceremony for all of
our veterans who have passed away and
naturally for our two police officers
tim simonson and jim nink who were
killed in the line of duty in the city
of crest hill
so
again we
i believe it was very solemn ceremony uh
to honor all of these individuals we
certainly don't want to forget any of
them because it was because of them that
we have the freedoms that we enjoy today
so
my final comment it would be for
father's day coming up here in a couple
weeks i wish all of the fathers all of
the grandfathers um
congratulations and i hope that you have
a wonderful day with your family and
friends with that i will answer any
questions that anybody may have i
mean
since um our city administrator is not
here i would like to address you
personally
about a major concern that i have
that it's been happening for a while
right now
and
you're probably guys wondering why i'm
bringing this to a console me so all the
console be aware and so we can be on the
same page since we can't
it's a quorum if we speak
individually or
i think we have touched on the subject
many times so far
since jim was hired
we've had
vision meeting we have iml um personnel
that came here and did a presentation
for us
and um
i'm very upset i'm very upset very
disappointed and very discomfort with
the communication level that it's
happening right now
i think we have some of the best
department heads
we
sat here many times over and over saying
they are the professionals let them do
their job and they are the professionals
i think they have proof
all these years how professional how
quick they work
how quick they answer their phone calls
and
we are
presenting the resident
and we work for the resident so if i
call public work director he gets on
something right away i don't feel the
need
that any department heads has to get
permission to speak to an elected
official it is my job and my duty as an
elected official to represent the
resident
and i think it's their job and duty as
well
to respond to the council
and to do the job for the residents
i mean i don't know if any of you are
happy about this but i'm not comfortable
with the situation i'm not comfortable
especially what happened today i don't
need to wait when i when my resident
from my word
contact me
about something i don't feel the need
that i have to
keep
pushing and searching and asking for
information because i'm waiting for our
semester which he was off today some
things that need to be handled they need
to be handled right away
are we not trusting the the professionals are we not trusting
the elected official elected by the
people
i mean if something is not broken why
are we going to fix it
i understand we all need to be informed
i understand he's a city manager he
needs to be informed i'm not saying that
but everybody is so busy they have their
handful you think they have time to like
let me contact this person to get
permission to answer a counsel person
i mean you're okay with that
i am we were all same conference we are
going to discuss this at a future work
session
it will be addressed and we will come to
an agreement on it if anybody else would
like to make any other comments we have
discussed this over and over i think you
said everything no i didn't say i didn't
say yet you can't shut me up
no you can't i'm in charge of this
meeting and we are going to move forward
your comments are well taken they're in
the record we will discuss it at a work
session coming up here and we will
so now we have a new rule that when you
shut people off i have the floor and i
have the right to speak all right we're
going to move on as anybody else have a
question for them once again well how
unprofessional i i just want to say that
i do agree that
um i don't believe it's right to tell
people that
we we hire that our employees that they
can't communicate with the council
that's big brother george orwell
knocking on the door so i will agree
with all of that okay point we'll take
it all right we're going to move on to
the city clerk's report christopher shea
hall good evening chris
good evening um i only have one item on
the agenda we have a resident on lock
lane that is requesting a block party
slash movie night on friday june 10th
from 7 p.m to 10 p.m they're requesting
to close off lock lane to abbey and abby
to prestwick council
your
approval soul move is presented
second we have motion by alderman albert
seconded by alderman kubal for the
block party on
lock lane questions or comments
roll call please scott dyke yes john
richard yes claude saul yes you know
oberlin yes mark zappedy yes nate albert
yes and joe cabot yes martian carries
thank you and that's all i have tonight
any questions of city clerk yes
christine what's happening with the
hiring
do we start the process yet for your
office um i plan on next council meeting
to have a
memo in the packet to go ahead and move
forward on hiring somebody from a civil
service list
because the employee right now it's
about six to seven months out before
they retire
so we need to get somebody trained we
need to get somebody in there
and everything so at the next meeting i
am expecting to
have council's concurrence on
hiring another person from the civil
service list
to fulfill the vacancies
coming up with the retirement correct is
that the only shortness you have well
i'm short a half a person when
the secretary moved to the deputy
so but first i need to get the full time
before i get to part time
and that's all i have to report
okay thank you thank you moving on to
our city treasurer's report glenn cockle
good evening mayor and council i'd like
to report regular overtime payroll from
may 9 through the through may 22nd in
the amount of 247 thousand six hundred
forty five dollars and forty nine cents
i seek a motion to approve our list of
bills which during that same time period
total one million seven hundred thirty
five thousand
five hundred and eighteen dollars and
thirty nine cents so moved is presented
we have motion by all the person over
the second to buy all of them for shape
with a list of bills questions or
comments roll call please
claudia gazelle yes you know berlin yes
mark zucchini yes nate albert yes joe
kubal yes scott dyke yes john richard
yes motion carries thank you i'd like to mention again that
i'd like to have a uh
an upcoming work session or city council
session that we have a recap on our
expenses on the public works building if
council would like to like to have that
shared with them as well as some
progress report on our our new city hall
yes
and with that i'll entertain any
questions any questions of city
treasurer
okay thanks lynn thank you i'm moving on
to new business we have nothing on the
agenda anyone
old business
anyone
mayor i have one question sorry
um
i don't know if this is to go to glenn
or
during the budget meeting where we
approve the budget going forward
lisa banovitz said that it would be
possible to get
regular updates on the status of the
budget
for the council's information i was
wondering how we could get that
to be
you know if anyone else
would be in favor of that just to get
updates every few months on the budget
like
revenues are compared to
expenditures what
we that was mentioned something about
quarterly
i think she said she mentioned monthly or quarterly just
as as council's pleasure on timing of it
i think and it would be your pleasure
with uh
and and the request to get it on the
agenda on a regular basis
so what what is your what's your
appetite you want to do in a quarter or
on a quarterly or monthly exam
um well
monthly possible but if it's too much
quarterly it would be fine i don't know
the rest of the council
feels about it yeah i would like that
one i would like that as well okay
collect the quarterly though quarterly
yeah
sounds like the bulk is quarterly yep
would be able to get one um
say in august the first one
you should be able to get one at the end
of june that's six months well the
budget just got budget absolutely
real quickly though yeah everybody has
to realize that the only thing that i
would caution you on is that we have a
uh
just it's it's cyclic in in nature so
there are uh like the cops they come
right out of the gates and they spend a
bunch of money in it
sister nature um and then we have
certain certain times that we we receive
income uh like the uh
the tax levy so that comes in
twice a year so there's a lot of things
that are ins and outs that come at
different times but um
i'll talk with lisa on
how best maybe to present that
and whether she needs to be in
attendance or whether you like just uh
a reporting your in your council packet
and her to report personally on a
quarterly basis maybe that would be a
good way to go and we just kind of throw
out a couple of exceptions so like maybe
we're flush on the income side because
of the release of the tax levy and we're
or we're long on the expense side
because these so we'll we'll try and
float a couple things in and out of
there to give you a a true idea of where
we're at
in income and expenses relative to
when those who knows occur is that good
yes that's great okay thank you thank
you
okay committee liaison reports anybody
city council comments anything anybody
would like to share with their
constituents
we'll begin with alderman uh dyke this
evening uh nothing at this time here
uh ottoman rochester
or two other women
like to uh announce that at june 15
um we will be holding the uh let's meet
at the park
um it's going to be a good one this time
gonna have a touch of truck giveaways
police department fire department
public works director we're going to
have hot dogs for the kids and the
parents so join us at the
park the fields of london meadow park is
located on coventry and boreo on june
16th at 6 pm
look forward to see
most of you if it's not all of you
were three other person
well this is my last time to remind you
about the 80th annual ladies memorial
which will be this sunday june 12th at
11 o'clock
at libby's memorial park
it's really um i really hope to see a
lot of you out there because we haven't
had it for two years due to covid
and we've worked really hard to get the
park in shape for this and i want to
thank all the people we had over 20
people come out and help us um
work on the park which was really nice a
lot of the people from the czech
republic came down and um
my employee that didn't work last time
martha she came out again so it was nice
to get a lot of people out there to weed
and prune things
and um
i was on the radio
friday talking about it and i had just
found an article that that talked about
how
after the massacre the one thing that is
still there
that was there prior to that is one pear
tree in a row of three pear trees and
it's like a historical thing now this
pear tree over there
and so um i found that out and when i
was on the radio show i was talking
about i said now i'm on a mission to get
a pear tree over there in our memorial
and before the show was over
a group juliet pride
and i want to thank them that was so
kind of them they offered to fund the
tree
they're gonna they're gonna pay for the
tree i'm looking into what type of tree
it is but i was so happy when i shared
all this with everybody um
yesterday they they they weren't aware
of it either so they were giddy about it
getting this pear tree
because of the meaning behind it so um
that that's my next big win so thank you
again to joliet pride for that and on a
personal note
i have to give a big 90th birthday happy
birthday out there to
our own cresthill uh historian little
miss cresthill jeannie jurissic
yesterday was her 90th birthday
and i went over there and visited with
her and stuff but i i still wanted to
wish her that so happy birthday miss
presto thank you
all i mentioned
nothing at this time here for four
alderman albert another thing mayor
just uh one real quick
request to
crest hill residents the park district
is still looking for feedback
online online
their their website
for memorial park
uh we talked about it here a couple two
three weeks ago they had a meeting out
there not too many of the residents uh
were able to make that meeting i think
only about 10 folks but they're they
want to uh improve that park and they
want to add some amenities out there and
they're looking for feedback so anybody
that visits memorial park that lives
near memorial park should go online uh
the park district and put some stuff on
there that you'd like to see in that
park
that's it right okay thank you
public comment anyone like to address
city council please step to the podium
say your name for the record address is
optional
let the records show that no one has
approached the podium to our city
attorney chris spacia is there a need
for an executive session chris i i don't
believe there is i think jim said he
wanted to put that over to the correct
to the next uh city council meeting
motion
questions or comments
or a roll call please tina oberlin yes
mark speedy yeah
yes
is adjourned at 7 59 p.m thank you