all right good evening ladies and gentlemen i'd like to call the january
3rd 2022 cresthill city council meeting to order if everyone would please rise
for the pledge of allegiance to the flag and please remain standing after the
pledge
i pledge
allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all
i am sure that everyone over the last week was horrified by the tragic events
that took place in kankakee and currently illinois
i think we take our police officers for granted many of the times and
unfortunately the two incidences that were involved is
probably every police department deals with these types of calls on a daily
basis one was just for a barking dog and the
other one was an officer assist on a
motorist assist unfortunately
police sergeant marlene ritmannick was killed in the line of duty
bradley police officer sergeant her partner
officer tyler bailey was also shot he is still in critical condition
and unfortunately in wayne county deputy sean riley
was killed in the line of duty while assisting a motorist
so we offer as a city of cresthill our deepest condolences
to the family of sergeant marlene rickmannick
and deputy sean riley and we also
extend our deepest and heartfelt prayers for office bradley officer tyler bailey
for his quick recovery
to all the police officers throughout our entire country
i would ask for your prayers to keep them safe they returned home every night
after their tour of duty
with that i would ask for a moment of silence in the memory of marlene
brittmannick and deputy sean riley
thank you
roll call please ray solomon here glenn content present scott guys here john
o'shea here darrell jefferson here here
mark here nate albert here here thank you
okay unfortunately we do not have uh the services of a live television feed this
evening there are some technical difficulties
however uh ron romero is taping this and it will be on youtube
as soon as possible for the audio part of
of this meeting with that
you have before you the minutes of the december 20th 2001 crestdale city
council meeting motion would be in order
oh don't move mr mayor second we have motion by alderman jefferson seconded by
alderwoman was all for the approval of the minutes of the december 20th 2021
city council meeting questions or comments
roll call please scott dyke yes
john mercedes yes darrell jefferson yes
yes yes mark zupity yes nate albert yes joe
yes thank you okay our city attorney mike stiff is
unable to be here this evening so we will cast on his report and i'll turn it
over to our city administrator mr jim marino good evening jim thank you well
this is my first meeting at this chair so i just want to start off by saying
thank you for the opportunity to serve the city of press hill
i look forward to working with you and with staff i've been here for a couple
weeks now and have melt several people i'll get around
and meet everybody else but uh very great staff and i look forward to
working with everybody i also want to make a mention of my
appreciate appreciation to steve golden um he's done a great job in the few
weeks that i've been here helped out quite a bit and getting me up
to speed on a lot of things so thank you steve thank you
so before you tonight is a a policy for your consideration a covet policy
that memorializes some of the practices that the city has already had in place
for its employees the four components of this primarily
are quarantining and testing for people that show symptoms of coca-19
wearing a mask and the requirements for wearing masks
policy for time off if somebody is recovering from covid
and providing some time off for somebody that needs to make daycare arrangements
the primary difference as indicated in the memo
is the amount of time off given to employees if they're recovering
apparently the practice has been that employees would get 10 days off while
they're recovering from symptoms of covet
that's not required by a federal government it was uh previously when the
pandemic first hit that expired at the end of
uh 2020. so what i'm proposing here is we reduce
the number of days that employee gets paid off from ten to three but then we
sunset that on uh january 28th so then after january 28th
if somebody tests positive they would have to use their sick leave paid sick
leave or other paid time uh while they're recovering from
so that's really the main difference the other item here is if somebody needs to
make their care arrangements because their child's daycare either closes or
their their school closes for a period of time
they can take a sick day to make alternate day care arrangements
so with that i'll answer any questions you have was the sunset supposed to be
february 28th february 23 january did i say january i'm sorry
by february 28th of 2022 february 28th okay
any questions uh in regards to the coveted policy uh yeah
mayor i have uh one thought here uh this is you know for anybody whether they had
the shot or not they're gonna get that type of pay
but you know a lot of times a person gets the shot the day after they're not
feeling good i think we should maybe have in their a
day pay for those that get the shot and if they're not feeling good the next day
they would get paid for that day because they wouldn't went and got the
i shot know how the rest of council feels about that but i know a lot of
people do feel sick after getting the shot so
i would think one day paid just for those that did get the shot
counsel thoughts i'd like to make motion the way it's
presented this evening
i'm sorry can you repeat that i'm sorry i'd like to make a motion the way it's
presented this evening i'll second that
okay we have motion by alderman albert's seconded by other women resolve
questions or comments of the motion as the covet poly as
covet policy as presented
can i ask you a question how would you know they're actually sick
you just want the day off to say i'm sick
they have to provide proof don't they jim huh
they have to work they have to get tested if they're
showing symptoms yeah they have to get tested yeah but i mean no he said if
they're sick the day after if they're vaccinated yeah and they're
getting uh sick as a result of getting the shot
that's a good question there's really no way to approve prove that they are you
know i mean you can eat something and get sick the next day i mean right if we
have to make policy for everything we're never going to end right
right
okay that's all okay roll call please chris jerrell jefferson yes
claudia's all yeah you know overland yes mark zucchini yes nate albert yes girl
cooball yes scott dyke i know i feel that we should
add that extra day of pay for those getting vaccinated they're sick
are you saying no yeah thank you john shea yes
motion carries resolution 1129
okay anything else jim no that's it okay any questions of city administrator
no i just want to say welcome again okay thanks jim uh moving on public
works department our public works director mark stevens
good evening mayor council the only agenda
for you this evening is the approval to purchase uh the two
new vehicles for the public works department
uh in the 2122 budget we had per budget two f-350s
with tailgates and lights and everything those
vehicles currently are would be a cost of 37 000 a piece with a delivery time
unknown um due to current uh
you know time delays recently with the city council approving
the building maintenance division um we did a re-evaluation of our fleet
and it was determined that the building and maintenance division won't need uh
such heavy-duty vehicles that we have in stock
so our the decision was made to move the two two of the f-150s to the building
and maintenance division to pull lawn mowers and small tools uh and then
getting administration into more of a suv which is better on fuel mileage and
items like that and also the biggest item is they would be a savings of 13
300 these would be purchased off the state
bid through the will county governmental league um and so it will be the
resolution is waving the bid process of allowing the staff to stay purchasing
co-op to acquire a 2022 ford escape and a 2022 ford explorer
second
we have motion by alderman city seconded by all the first in overland or the
purchase of the vehicles through state bid
questions or comments of the motions roll call please
nate albert yes uh joe cuball yes
scott guy yes travis yes gerald jefferson yes
yes overland
yes yes
motion carries resolution 11 30. that is all i have in front of you
this evening and i would like to have you entertain any questions
any questions of public works
okay just uh congratulations on a job well done for the first um major
snowfall of the year um was that new year's day
um i i think with the new employees that we had after uh
several retirements over the summer of 2021 they did a fantastic
job so hats off to them on job well done
city engineer we have no report this evening moving on to the community
development department we have no report this evening
uh police department we have our deputy chief ryan dobscheck here this evening
good evening ryan good evening mayor council i have uh our two week police
activity reports in the packet for your review i do have an item on the agenda
for your consideration tonight um we are looking to have an approval for a
contract with the blue line professional consultants contract i know it's already
been discussed in a work session about last year with the safety act that was
passed state of illinois is requiring police departments to have mandatory
health evaluations for its members that starts this year so we found a
company blue line professional consultants llc
um the numbers are there for you and so um
this is a again a program that's been certified by the illinois law
enforcement training and standards board so i'm formally asking your approval to
enter the contract tonight so move it we have motioned by alderman albert
seconded by alderman vershay for the approval of the blue blind professional
consultants llc contract questions or comments
roll call please claudia gazelle yes keen oberlin
yeah mark yes nate albert yes y'all kubo yes scott dyke yes
yes darrell jefferson yes motion carries resolution resolution 1131.
uh that's all the only agenda item that i have i wouldn't have
to entertain any questions if anybody has it
any questions of the police department no i just have a quick uh comment i
reach out to um to the chief
because i've noticed a lot of cars were not ticketed and i know you guys go
above and beyond and emergencies are more important but
can we make sure that we start checking so we can make public works you
know plows work just on board it was like over 30
cars parked and you can see the pile of snow around them and above them so
if we can concentrate a little bit more on that next time sure
absolutely i'll meet with the chief and we'll
make sure that gets discussed thank you okay thanks ryan
uh moving on to the mayor's report you have a donation request from lockport
township high school for late night 2022.
uh this this actually came in right after our last city council meeting um
however was without contents so i when i did receive it without having that work
session last week just decided to put it into your packet
we've been doing this for our our new alderman cepedia and jefferson we've
been doing this for several years it's a safe night for the graduates of the high
school they're all housed inside the building
and uh under a lot of parental supervision so uh
i would recommend our typical 100 donation to this uh event so move mayor
second we have motioned by alderman albert seconded by elder
jefferson for a 100 donation to lockwood township high school for late night 2022
questions or comments roll call please
joe kubo yes scott dyke yes
john richard yes darrell jefferson yes yes you know berlin yes mark zappedy yes
yes motion carries thank you okay that's all the agenda items for me
uh just to give you a little update for the 2022 liquor licenses actually we
have uh we have
three more than last year so we are now at a total of 40 liquor licenses uh in
the city of crest hill uh we did lose in 2021 we lost one
liquor license which was the shell gas station
on 20 at 2350 plainfield road they sold their property to another
individual and that in the the new owner did not wish to have alcohol at his
establishment so the new businesses that were added
for liquor licenses in 2022 uh beggar's pizza right on plainfield
road which i believe opened up today burger rebellion who was opened last
year but just got their
state license for 2022. betsy's bistro
on uh renwick road um and el chivo down on broadway street
where the four new ones that were added for 2022.
uh the additional video gaming salons that we have now we have a total of 19
compared to 17 last year and the two new establishments that now
have the video gaming for 2022 is naturally betsy's bistro
and the chicago style grill so we'll have a report put together maribel just
came back from vacation today so we'll have a report put together for the work
session next monday night for everybody to have
uh with that any questions of the mayor i'll certainly try to answer them mayor
uh just for clarification were those all uh restaurant liquor license the new
ones that were added um
well betty's bistro is our new is our new
bistro license burger rebellion is a restaurant beggars
was a restaurant and el chivo's arrested okay great thanks
okay moving on to our city clerk's report our city claire christine berche
hall good evening chris good evening i have no report but i just want to
congratulate deputy clerk jan cerda who will be
retiring this friday on january 7th she will be greatly missed
and wishing her all the best in our future endeavors
and that's all i have to report any questions of city clerk
okay thanks chris um
city treasurer's report our treasurer glenn conklin at evening glenn good
evening mayor and council i'd like to report regular overtime payroll from
december 6 2021 through december 19 2021 in the amount of 228 095 dollars and
nine cents i uh request uh a motion for approval of
our list of bills which in that same time period total 259 thousand
eighty-seven dollars and 52 cents second
we have motion by our other person over on second by alderman dyke for the
approval of the list of bills questions or comments
roll call please mark cipd yes nate albert yes joe cuba
yes scott dyke yes chad richey yes darrell
jefferson yes buddy gaza yes and tina overland motion carries thank you
i thank you all and happy new year and i'll entertain any questions any
questions of city treasurer
okay thanks thank you good evening uh unfinished business we have nothing on
the agenda anyone new business we do not have anything
under new business anyone committee liaison reports anybody
city council comments positive city council comments anything you'd like to
share with your constituents anybody wish to go first tonight
we'll begin with ward 1 alderman dyke thank you mayor i just want to echo what
chris said about jan i want to congratulate her on her retirement this
friday she's been with the city a long time and i know she's going to be missed
in that office when you have someone who's worked for
any job for that many years what all they've done
will be missed so i want to thank her and congratulate her and hopefully
everyone will have a happy new year all the membership i wish everyone a
happy and prosperous and a healthy new year
and congratulations to jan she put on our traveling shoes now now she can
travel and i hope she has a good time for many many years you know
congratulations jen ward to alderman jefferson oh yes i'd
just like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year
want to say congratulations to jan job well done and reward well received
like to also commend our public works department and
our police department for the great work they're doing in our community
elder or woman goes out just wanna go there what's been said so far
congratulations jen you'll be missed uh very much in here
thank you for all your service and your dedication
and i want to wish all the residents and everyone i'm here happy new year and
come to blessings 4-3 elder first in overland
well i want to wish everyone a happy new year of course and keep in mind
that as horrific as everything we've been
through has been it takes its toll on everyone so in the
in the coming year as i said before
try to spread a little kindness and love and understand that everybody's having
issues everybody's having problems everybody's going through the second
year covet and all the related tragedies that go along with it
i'd also like to say welcome to jim formally
and i do want to congratulate jane cerda um
to say she will be missed is a gross understatement
in the whole time my whole life coming here that she's been the deputy clerk
i have never once had anybody say anything cross about her anything
negative about her ever complain about her
anything you ever asked of her she was there to do it the most dedicated and
giving person you could just ever imagine
so to say she would be missed is a huge understatement but
god bless her and have a great retirement jane you're one in a million
other mensa petty i just want to wish everybody happy new year
um and also congratulate jan and thank her
for all the years of service to the city of cresthill thank you
ward 4 alderman albert yeah i'll just piggyback off what everybody else has
said you know jan turned into a friend over all these years and she's been a
great asset to this community you know a proud crest hill resident as
well so congrats jan good all around cuba
uh thank you jan and congratulations uh just really enjoy your
your retirement and uh best wishes to everybody here for a happy new year
and happy new year to all our residents and uh to jan thank you for your
commitment your dedication your loyalty to the city of crestdyle for 36 years
it's very rare nowadays that somebody stays
that long in one position but you have served that position very
well you have some gigantic shoes to fill
you will be sorely missed but i will tell you that retirement is great so you
will enjoy it and enjoy every minute that you have of your retirement
public comment if anyone would like to address city council please step to the
podium state your name for the record your address is optional
let the record show that no one has approached the podium to our city
administrator jim marino is there a need for an executive session jim no
promotion to adjourn mayor we have a motion for an adjournment by
alderman dyke seconded by alderman for shay questions or comments of the motion
roll call please darrell jefferson yes claudia gazelle yes keen oberlin yes
mark zuckedy yes nate albert yes joe cuba yes scott dykes yes
yes thank you motion carries meeting is adjourned at 7 24 p.m i thank you and
good evening
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