[0:02] Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the village parlor board
[0:04] meeting for February 17, 2026. I ask
>> Steve Berman
[0:11] » here.
>> Dany
[0:12] » here.
>> Ganzy
[0:13] » here.
>> Hopkins
[0:14] » here.
>> Leaport
[0:16] » here.
>> Swansonsky
[0:17] » here.
>> President Gunstein
[0:18] » here.
[0:22] Pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:28] republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:35] justice for all.
[0:41] » That will take us to our town hall
portion of the meeting. If anybody would
[0:44] like to address the board, please do so
by stepping up to the podium and state
[0:48] your name and address and try to keep
your comments to three minutes or less.
[0:52] Anybody out there?
>> Sure.
[0:54] » Town hall.
>> Town hall.
[0:56] » Yes, sir.
>> Yeah. Uh I was reading uh your agenda
[1:01] and it sounds like you got some really
good
[1:05] companies to come and design a Lake
Street,
[1:10] which is nice. I just have three items
that I hope they consider.
[1:17] and one is bike lanes and a bike path
all the way from Metra to Irving Park
[1:25] Road that'll take working with
Streamwood
[1:29] at least worth considering.
The other thing is that Lake Street is
[1:36] kind of notorious for killing people. A
lot of traffic crashes, a lot of, you
[1:43] know, a lot of tragedy there. So there's
really no stoplight that between Oak
[1:49] Street and Neapville Road.
So the pedal of the metal cars. So one
[1:56] thought maybe to consider is instead of
just having traffic lights, make it a
[2:03] roundabout.
The thing about roundabouts is that they
[2:07] slow cars down
and kind of pace people through the in
[2:13] intersection. So maybe it'll be a while
before they start speeding. So just a
[2:18] thought. Uh and the other thing is I'm
hoping that they put a nice shoulder on
[2:23] Lake Street because it's it'll be a nice
way to get over to Tom's uh when they're
[2:30] open in the summertime. But no rumble
strips, please. Or if they do have
[2:36] rumble strips, you know, space them out
a little bit so you can get across and
[2:41] through them and that. But anyway, just
three ideas for
[2:46] street. Thank you,
>> Terry. Can I just get your address for
[2:49] the record?
>> Your address?
[2:51] » Oh, I'm sorry. Terry Wit, 471
Southwestern Avenue.
[2:56] » Thank you, Terry. Thank you for coming.
Terry, before we release you,
[3:01] have you I I'm just curious if you've
worked with the Streamwood, the city,
[3:06] the village of Streamwood with their
crossover with the bridge and how we're
[3:10] interconnecting with that.
>> Well,
[3:12] » you said to Park and that's the first
thing I thought of was everybody, but
[3:17] » but they did ask me to write a letter to
I do DOT, so I wrote a letter and
[3:21] » Okay.
>> You know, they got three or four
[3:25] grants that were pretty nice. And when
Raja came uh to give out $250,000
[3:32] of grant money, they asked me to show
them how to put a bicycle helmet on. So
[3:38] I put a bicycle helmet on. Raj.
>> All right. Great.
[3:40] » That was kind of fun. And then
although I wasn't able to go to the
[3:45] ribbon cutting cutting, they did give me
a piece of the ribbon. Oh, and a
[3:52] » very cool
>> bicycle hat.
[3:53] » Okay. Cool. All right. Thank you. I
appreciate it.
[3:57] There's anybody else who'd like to
address the board?
[4:01] I don't believe we have anybody online.
All right, that'll close the town hall
[4:05] portion of the meeting. We take us to
our consent agenda. All items listed
[4:08] with asterric will be considered routine
and acted in one motion. There will be
[4:12] no separate discussion for these items
unless board members so request. In
[4:16] which event, the item will be removed
from the general order of business and
[4:18] considered an appropriate point in the
agenda. With that said, is there
[4:21] anything that anybody would like to add
or remove from the agenda? From the
[4:25] consent agenda?
No.
[4:30] That said, can I get a motion to approve
the consent agenda?
[4:34] » So moved.
>> Second.
[4:36] » Moved by Trusty Dany, second by Trusty
Swansky. Clerk, please call the role.
[4:40] » Trusty Dany,
>> yes.
[4:41] » Ganzy,
>> yes.
[4:42] » Hopkins,
>> yes.
[4:43] » Leaport,
>> yes.
[4:45] » Sawansky,
>> yes.
[4:46] » Batterman,
>> carries. All right. Next up is our
[4:50] treasures report. Mr. Treasurer,
>> thank you, Mayor. Treasures report
[4:54] included in the board packet is for the
month of December 2025.
[4:59] Sales tax collected in December was for
the month of September and totaled
[5:03] $716,168,
[5:07] which was up $121,392
[5:12] or 20% from last year.
Motor fuel tax allotments for December
[5:18] totaled $166,412
[5:22] which is up $12,59
or 8% from the prior year.
[5:29] And income taxes received in December
were $415,168
[5:36] which is up $55,174
or 15% from the prior year. Overall
[5:42] income tax is up $268,821
for the year. That's it for the
[5:49] treasur's report unless there's any
questions. Any questions for the
[5:52] treasur?
>> All right, that'll take us to our
[5:55] president's report and tonight I have an
appointment uh commission appointment
[6:00] for the community and economic affairs
commission. This is a two-year term.
[6:04] With the advice and consent of the
village board, I appoint Jeff Peters to
[6:08] serve two-year term on the comm
community and economic affairs
[6:11] commission beginning February 17, 2026
and expiring February 17, 2028.
[6:19] I get a motion to concur the appointment
of Jeff Peters to serve a two-year term
[6:23] on the community and economic affairs
beginning February 17, 2026 and expiring
[6:29] February 17, 2028.
>> So moved. Second
[6:33] » by trusty Dany. Second by Trusty
Leaport. Clerk, please call the RO.
[6:37] » Trusty Ganzy.
>> Yes.
[6:38] » Hopkins.
>> Yes.
[6:39] » Leaport.
>> Yes.
[6:40] » Swansky.
>> Yes.
[6:42] » Better.
>> Yes.
[6:43] » Dany.
>> Yes.
[6:44] » That motion carries. Thank you, Jeff,
for your willingness to serve the
[6:48] community. Look forward to uh seeing you
on that committee. So,
[6:52] » thank you for Trusty Ganzy. We'll have
plenty of work for you to do over there.
[6:57] So, thank you. All right. That'll take
us to our stand questions and answers.
[7:03] Anybody have any questions?
>> That
[7:07] » no question.
>> I have a question.
[7:08] » Oh, go ahead.
>> Sorry.
[7:09] » Go ahead.
>> Uh, I noticed with the Runnel, it's a
[7:13] very light blue.
I think it would look better like a
[7:16] little darker, like more natural like is
there a way that we can get that
[7:20] darkened to be more of like a natural
stream color?
[7:30] We can take a look and see. We didn't
want to go real dark because just the I
[7:35] don't know if natural looking at how
natural it's going to look, but um we
[7:39] can take a look at it, but I'm not sure
if we can change without redoing the
[7:42] coating. So,
>> okay.
[7:47] » Is like a pool blue.
>> The the river.
[7:50] » Oh,
>> the river. If we do change it, we
[7:53] probably want to change it before we
have to fill it and operate it. Correct.
[7:56] Yeah,
>> look at that.
[8:01] » Uh, can
>> we uh can we get a like a visuals of
[8:05] like what other communities do with
their rivers or rentals that they do?
[8:12] » I'm not sure how many other rentals are
out there, but yeah, we can take a look
[8:16] and see what's out there.
>> Yeah, it'll probably need to be
[8:19] repainted every year or two, right? So
maybe we can
[8:25] » it'll need to be repainted. Hopefully it
lasts longer than that because it's
[8:29] quite the epoxy coating.
[8:33] » Thank you.
>> Then uh
[8:36] » questions.
>> Yeah, I've got a u a commissioner I'd
[8:40] like to recognize as year service on EDC
which is uh changing now but it's Bruce
[8:47] suffering. So thank you for your
service. And believe it or not, Mr.
[8:52] Bannerman was sitting on the end. John
Bannerman, according to my list, you
[8:55] would you would have had one year in the
planning and and zoning committee. So
[9:01] » So you moved up in the ranks.
>> I did. I'm going to put three years, I
[9:05] think.
>> Yeah.
[9:06] » Three years ago.
>> Well, this is data 25. So whatever. So
[9:12] » I served for two years. So yeah,
>> I don't have anything years ago.
[9:17] » Thank you, Ray.
I like to observe uh yesterday's
[9:22] President's Day. Um I know we did some
really great things with the historic U
[9:29] Facebook page going back to uh obviously
we're recognizing all of the presidents,
[9:34] but uh it's a good opportunity to
uh think about our local leadership. So
[9:41] uh they went back 50 years and uh
remarked on one of the presidents there.
[9:46] I think his name was Belk at the time.
But I just like to thank our president
[9:50] Gunstein for his uh leadership and the
motivation and um the drive for getting
[9:56] us uh our village to progress that you
have. So thank you.
[10:02] » Yeah. Um anybody else?
I want to thank staff
[10:08] um and I want to thank our local
stakeholders uh Raja Krish and all the
[10:15] parties that played a big part in our $1
million grant we received for the
[10:20] infrastructure and intersection
enhancement at Route 25 and West Park
[10:26] Road. That is a huge achievement and I
understand it took a long time to get
[10:29] that process approved. So great job for
everybody involved. So, thank you guys.
[10:35] So, it's a big uh it's a big step for
that intersection out there. So, all
[10:42] right, nobody has anything else. Uh we
will go to standing committee reports.
[10:47] We'll just go right down to finance and
committee. Chairman Leaport,
[10:52] » you caught me off guard. Hang on.
>> I need a minute.
[10:57] » Thank you, Mr. President. Uh the item on
our agenda this evening is
[11:06] Lauderbach and Almond LLP auditor
extension. The village of Bartlett's
[11:10] three-year contract with our current
auditors Lauderbach and Almond LLP
[11:14] expired with the completion of the April
30, 2025 audit. At the February 3rd
[11:20] board meeting, staff recommended
extending the engagement with our
[11:24] current auditors for another three
years. After some discussion, finance
[11:28] committee chair trustee Leaport
suggested village staff request a
[11:31] one-year contract proposal for our
current auditors, Lauderbach and Almond
[11:35] LLP, with the intention of doing a
formal RFP the following year. Attached
[11:41] is a proposal from our auditing firm
Lauderbach and Almond LLP to extend
[11:45] their contract one additional year uh
fiscal year ended April 30, 2026 in the
[11:50] amount of $46,050.
[11:55] I motion to move that the village award
a one-year contract extension to
[12:00] Lauderbach and Almond LLP at a total
cost of $46,000 $50 for annual financial
[12:06] audit services.
>> Second that
[12:09] » there's any questions or comments? Let's
discuss those. Now
[12:13] » I have a quick question. I know when the
auditor was here asked about like
[12:18] different kinds of audits. Is there like
something the village like a different
[12:22] performance audit that we'd like to to
have done since that it's their final
[12:26] year like something a little different
that they could offer?
[12:32] » I don't know if um they do offer that.
We can certainly ask them. Um you um
[12:40] is there like an overall do you mean
like like what was what kind of scope
[12:46] are you looking at? Are you looking at a
particular operation or
[12:51] every department? You know, we did
something similar um with our IT a few
[12:56] years ago where we worked with Northern
and the uh Northern Illinois University
[13:01] and the Center for Governmental Studies
who came and did a review of all our
[13:06] technology uses. Um but that was several
months. Um and they gave us
[13:12] recommendations for you know improving
our efficiency with that. So I would
[13:17] just look for some um guard rails on
what we would be asking them.
[13:22] » Yeah. So with my limited knowledge of
all the different kinds of things that
[13:26] they could look at, I just wondering if
there was something like with Yeah. all
[13:30] the operations or even I know we talked
about like golf course like we're trying
[13:34] to improve there like maybe there's an
opportunity to like dive deeper and kind
[13:38] of get some benchmarks from them in that
regard. We have a recommendation coming
[13:43] to the board next board meeting um for
the folks that are looking at the golf
[13:49] course, the food and beverage operation.
Um we can um look at what maybe some
[13:56] other um communities have done for
operational audits and you know the
[14:01] depth of those and the costs of those
and the time frame.
[14:05] » Okay, thank you.
>> Any other questions? Lauderback would
[14:10] not be doing this. You you were
anticipating someone else doing this
[14:13] audit or ladderback doing it?
>> No, I was saying like for this year if
[14:16] we kind of I know we have to do the one
for compliance purposes, but could we if
[14:22] we added on something with it with for
their final year because after this we
[14:26] will be changing
>> to I guess to everyone to administrator
[14:32] Schumanker's point um if we already have
a consulting group coming in to look at
[14:37] the golf course. Is that right?
>> Right.
[14:39] » So, we're paying that group. Do we want
to be paying
[14:43] » I was even just saying for just the golf
course. I was just trying to say like
[14:46] overall if there's like an operational
efficiency just to get some more
[14:50] information that would help the village
>> efficiency or financial like is that
[14:57] » well like financial I think efficiency.
And
[15:00] » if I'm hearing you correctly, it's kind
of like they're passing the baton off
[15:04] and you're trying you just want to make
sure that the the final audit that they
[15:08] do is thorough.
>> I I'm at
[15:12] » Yeah. So, I know when she was here, she
said there was like more in-depth. I
[15:15] think we were like one time we were
throwing out the term um
[15:20] uh what were we throwing out here?
>> Forensic. Did you talked about
[15:25] » forensic? Forensic. I think those audits
are usually done if there's like a
[15:29] reason to
>> a problem. Right.
[15:31] » Fraud. Yeah.
>> Right. But I was thinking more like if
[15:34] there was something like looking over
like every contract we have and how the
[15:37] money is being spent and just kind of
giving us like some more in-depth like
[15:42] you know here's where we're heavy on
spend for for this versus benchmarking
[15:47] against other communities.
>> Just from my experience I've heard of
[15:51] performance audits being done at the
state level. I haven't really heard it.
[15:55] » Okay.
>> Done much at the local municipality
[15:58] level.
>> Okay.
[16:00] » But that's just from my knowledge. I
don't know. I'd have to re
[16:03] » Could we ask them what other kind audits
would they would do for our village that
[16:08] they would recommend to be helpful?
>> Yeah.
[16:13] » Matt, I was really happy to see they
didn't increase the price. was is there
[16:18] going to be an increase possibly for
second and third year based on what they
[16:25] uh quoted us last board meeting or
>> uh there's a chance so we would go to a
[16:30] full RFP next year and
>> yeah there's a chance
[16:34] » this the offer we reviewed last time is
probably off the table now right
[16:39] » correct
>> the alternative
[16:41] » for a three-year contract
>> offers can we ask can we make a point to
[16:47] to have that rebid
process started earlier this year so
[16:53] that we're not kind of feeling pushed
like we are this year to
[16:57] » Yeah, that's the plan.
>> One year, you know, contract.
[16:59] » I'll start as soon as our audit's over.
So, that'd be November.
[17:02] » Right. Thank you.
>> Thanks, ma'am.
[17:05] » All right. If there's no further
questions, that's all I've got.
[17:08] » Motion second.
>> Motion.
[17:11] » Yeah, I second it.
>> Motion by Trusty Leort, second by Trusty
[17:14] Dating. Clerk, please call the role.
>> Trusty Hopkins,
[17:17] » no.
>> Leaport,
[17:18] » yes.
>> Sawansky,
[17:20] » yes.
>> Badman,
[17:21] » yes.
>> Dany,
[17:22] » yes.
>> Ganzy,
[17:23] » yes.
>> Motion carries.
[17:25] » All right. Takes us to uh Well, that
completes our standing committee
[17:29] reports. Takes us to new business.
Anybody have any new business or
[17:32] questions
or trustees?
[17:37] » I just have a suggestion. And I don't
know whether it's technically new
[17:41] business or not, but when the clock
cameras come up for
[17:47] rebid or negotiation or renewal, I
really would like to spend some time on
[17:53] looking at that contract and talk about
it. I know there's a lot of issues
[17:59] swirling around Flock and their cameras
and what they do with the data and
[18:04] everything like that. So, um I would
like to take a look at that.
[18:17] » That's it.
>> Okay.
[18:18] » All right. Can I get a motion to
adjurnn?
[18:20] » So moved.
>> Moved by Trusty Dy.
[18:21] » Second.
>> Seconded by Trusty Swansky. Clerk,
[18:25] please call the role.
>> Trusty Betterman.
[18:27] » Yes.
>> Dany,
[18:28] » yes.
>> Gany,
[18:29] » yes.
>> Hopkins,
[18:30] » yes.
>> Court,
[18:31] » yes.
>> Swansky,
[18:32] » yes.