[0:20] all right good evening ladies and
gentlemen i'd like to call the january
[0:23] 3rd 2022 cresthill city council meeting
to order if everyone would please rise
[0:28] for the pledge of allegiance to the flag
and please remain standing after the
[0:31] pledge
[0:39] i pledge
[0:42] allegiance of america and to the
republic for which it stands one nation
[0:48] under god indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
[0:54] i am sure that everyone over the last
week was horrified by the tragic events
[0:58] that took place in kankakee and
currently illinois
[1:05] i think we take our police officers for
granted many of the times and
[1:08] unfortunately
the two incidences that were involved is
[1:12] probably every police department deals
with these types of calls on a daily
[1:15] basis
one was just for a barking dog and the
[1:18] other one
was an officer assist on a
[1:22] motorist assist
unfortunately
[1:27] police sergeant marlene ritmannick was
killed in the line of duty
[1:32] bradley police officer sergeant
her partner
[1:37] officer tyler bailey was also shot he is
still in critical condition
[1:45] and unfortunately in wayne county
deputy sean riley
[1:49] was killed in the line of duty while
assisting a motorist
[1:55] so we offer as a city of cresthill our
deepest condolences
[1:59] to the family of sergeant marlene
rickmannick
[2:04] and deputy sean riley
and we also
[2:08] extend our deepest and heartfelt prayers
for office bradley officer tyler bailey
[2:16] for his quick recovery
[2:20] to all the police officers
throughout our entire country
[2:25] i would ask for your prayers to keep
them safe they returned home every night
[2:29] after their
tour of duty
[2:32] with that i would ask for a moment of
silence in the memory of marlene
[2:35] brittmannick
and deputy sean riley
[3:00] thank you
[3:05] roll call please ray solomon here glenn
content present scott guys here john
[3:11] o'shea here darrell jefferson here
here
[3:15] mark here nate albert here here thank
you
[3:19] okay unfortunately we do not have uh the
services of a live television feed this
[3:24] evening there are some technical
difficulties
[3:27] however uh ron romero is taping this and
it will be on youtube
[3:33] as soon as possible
for the audio part of
[3:38] of this meeting
with that
[3:42] you have before you the minutes of the
december 20th 2001 crestdale city
[3:46] council meeting motion would be in order
[3:50] oh don't move mr mayor second we have
motion by alderman jefferson seconded by
[3:55] alderwoman was all for the approval of
the minutes of the december 20th 2021
[4:00] city council meeting
questions or comments
[4:04] roll call please
scott dyke yes
[4:07] john mercedes yes
darrell jefferson yes
[4:10] yes
yes mark zupity yes nate albert yes joe
[4:14] yes thank you
okay our city attorney mike stiff is
[4:17] unable to be here this evening so we
will cast on his report and i'll turn it
[4:22] over to our city administrator mr jim
marino good evening jim thank you well
[4:27] this is my first meeting at this chair
so i just want to start off by saying
[4:31] thank you for the opportunity to serve
the city of press hill
[4:34] i look forward to working with you and
with staff i've been here for a couple
[4:38] weeks now and
have melt several people i'll get around
[4:41] and meet everybody else but uh very
great staff and i look forward to
[4:44] working with everybody
i also want to make a mention of my
[4:48] appreciate appreciation to steve golden
um he's done a great job in the few
[4:53] weeks that i've been here
helped out quite a bit and getting me up
[4:57] to speed on a lot of things
so thank you steve thank you
[5:01] so before you tonight is a a policy for
your consideration a covet policy
[5:07] that memorializes some of the practices
that the city has already had in place
[5:11] for its employees
the four components of this primarily
[5:16] are quarantining and testing for people
that show symptoms of coca-19
[5:23] wearing a mask and the requirements for
wearing masks
[5:27] policy for time off if somebody is
recovering from covid
[5:31] and providing some time off for somebody
that needs to make daycare arrangements
[5:35] the primary difference as indicated in
the memo
[5:38] is the amount of time off given to
employees if they're recovering
[5:42] apparently the practice has been that
employees would get 10 days off while
[5:45] they're recovering from
symptoms of covet
[5:50] that's not required by a federal
government it was uh previously when the
[5:55] pandemic first hit that expired at the
end of
[5:57] uh 2020.
so what i'm proposing here is we reduce
[6:02] the number of days that employee gets
paid off from ten to three but then we
[6:06] sunset that on uh
january 28th so then after january 28th
[6:12] if somebody tests positive they would
have to use their sick leave paid sick
[6:16] leave or other paid time uh while
they're recovering from
[6:19] so that's really the main difference the
other item here is if somebody needs to
[6:23] make their care arrangements because
their child's daycare either closes or
[6:27] their
their school closes for a period of time
[6:30] they can take a sick day to make
alternate day care arrangements
[6:34] so with that i'll answer any questions
you have was the sunset supposed to be
[6:37] february 28th february 23 january did i
say january i'm sorry
[6:42] by february 28th of 2022
february 28th okay
[6:47] any questions uh
in regards to the coveted policy uh yeah
[6:51] mayor i have uh one thought here uh this
is you know for anybody whether they had
[6:56] the shot or not they're gonna get that
type of pay
[6:59] but you know a lot of times a person
gets the shot the day after they're not
[7:03] feeling good
i think we should maybe have in their a
[7:07] day pay for those that get the shot and
if they're not feeling good the next day
[7:11] they would get paid for that day because
they wouldn't went and got the
[7:15] i shot know how the rest of council
feels about that but i know a lot of
[7:19] people do feel sick after getting the
shot so
[7:22] i would think one day paid
just for those that did get the shot
[7:28] counsel thoughts
i'd like to make motion the way it's
[7:31] presented this evening
[7:35] i'm sorry can you repeat that i'm sorry
i'd like to make a motion the way it's
[7:38] presented this evening
i'll second that
[7:44] okay we have motion by alderman albert's
seconded by other women resolve
[7:48] questions or comments of the motion as
the covet poly as
[7:53] covet policy as presented
[7:59] can i ask you a question how would you
know they're actually sick
[8:01] you just want the day off to say i'm
sick
[8:06] they have to provide proof don't they
jim huh
[8:09] they have to work
they have to get tested if they're
[8:13] showing symptoms yeah they have to get
tested yeah but i mean no he said if
[8:16] they're sick the day after
if they're vaccinated yeah and they're
[8:21] getting uh sick as a result of getting
the shot
[8:24] that's a good question there's really no
way to approve prove that they are you
[8:28] know i mean you can eat something and
get sick the next day i mean right if we
[8:31] have to make policy for everything we're
never going to end right
[8:34] right
[8:38] okay that's all okay roll call please
chris jerrell jefferson yes
[8:44] claudia's all yeah you know overland yes
mark zucchini yes nate albert yes girl
[8:49] cooball yes
scott dyke i know i feel that we should
[8:52] add that extra day of pay for those
getting vaccinated they're sick
[8:56] are you saying no yeah thank you john
shea yes
[9:00] motion carries resolution 1129
[9:11] okay anything else jim no that's it
okay any questions of city administrator
[9:20] no i just want to say welcome again
okay thanks jim uh moving on public
[9:25] works department our public works
director mark stevens
[9:29] good evening mayor council the only
agenda
[9:32] for you this evening
is the approval to purchase uh the two
[9:37] new vehicles for the public works
department
[9:40] uh in the
2122 budget we had per budget two f-350s
[9:47] with tailgates and lights and everything
those
[9:51] vehicles currently are would be a cost
of 37 000 a piece with a delivery time
[9:56] unknown
um due to current uh
[10:00] you know time delays
recently with the city council approving
[10:04] the building maintenance division um we
did a re-evaluation of our fleet
[10:10] and it was determined that the building
and maintenance division won't need uh
[10:14] such heavy-duty vehicles that we have in
stock
[10:17] so our the decision was made to move the
two two of the f-150s to the building
[10:23] and maintenance division to pull lawn
mowers and small tools uh and then
[10:27] getting administration into more of a
suv which is better on fuel mileage and
[10:32] items like that and also the biggest
item is they would be a savings of 13
[10:37] 300
these would be purchased off the state
[10:40] bid through the will county governmental
league um and so it will be the
[10:45] resolution is waving the bid process of
allowing the staff to stay purchasing
[10:49] co-op to acquire a 2022 ford escape and
a 2022 ford explorer
[10:55] second
[10:57] we have motion by alderman city seconded
by all the first in overland or the
[11:03] purchase of the vehicles through state
bid
[11:06] questions or comments of the motions
roll call please
[11:10] nate albert yes
uh joe cuball yes
[11:15] scott guy yes travis yes gerald
jefferson yes
[11:19] yes
overland
[11:21] yes
yes
[11:24] motion carries resolution 11
30. that is all i have in front of you
[11:29] this evening and i would like to have
you entertain any questions
[11:33] any questions of public works
[11:39] okay just uh congratulations on a job
well done for the first um major
[11:44] snowfall of the year um
was that new year's day
[11:48] um i i think with the
new employees that we had after uh
[11:53] several retirements over
the summer of 2021 they did a fantastic
[11:58] job
so hats off to them on job well done
[12:04] city engineer we have no report this
evening moving on to the community
[12:08] development department we have no report
this evening
[12:11] uh police department we have our deputy
chief ryan dobscheck here this evening
[12:14] good evening ryan good evening mayor
council i have uh our two week police
[12:19] activity reports in the packet for your
review i do have an item on the agenda
[12:24] for your consideration tonight um
we are looking to have an approval for a
[12:29] contract with the blue line professional
consultants contract i know it's already
[12:34] been discussed in a work session about
last year with the safety act that was
[12:40] passed state of illinois is requiring
police departments to have mandatory
[12:44] health evaluations for its members
that starts this year so we found a
[12:48] company
blue line professional consultants llc
[12:52] um the numbers are there for you
and so um
[12:57] this is a again a program that's been
certified by the illinois law
[13:00] enforcement training and standards board
so i'm formally asking your approval to
[13:05] enter the contract tonight so move it
we have motioned by alderman albert
[13:10] seconded by alderman vershay for the
approval of the blue blind professional
[13:13] consultants llc contract questions or
comments
[13:17] roll call
please claudia gazelle yes keen oberlin
[13:21] yeah mark yes nate albert yes y'all kubo
yes scott dyke yes
[13:26] yes darrell jefferson yes motion carries
resolution resolution 1131.
[13:36] uh that's all the only
agenda item that i have i wouldn't have
[13:40] to entertain any questions if anybody
has it
[13:43] any questions of the police department
no i just have a quick uh comment i
[13:47] reach out to um
to the chief
[13:50] because i've noticed a lot of cars were
not ticketed and i know you guys go
[13:54] above and beyond and emergencies are
more important but
[13:58] can we make sure that we start
checking so we can make public works you
[14:03] know plows
work just on board it was like over 30
[14:08] cars parked and you can see the pile of
snow around them and above them so
[14:12] if we can concentrate
a little bit more on that next time sure
[14:17] absolutely i'll meet with the chief and
we'll
[14:19] make sure that gets discussed thank you
okay thanks ryan
[14:25] uh moving on to the mayor's report you
have a donation request from lockport
[14:28] township high school for late night
2022.
[14:32] uh this this actually came in right
after our last city council meeting um
[14:36] however was without contents so i when i
did receive it without having that work
[14:41] session last week
just decided to put it into your packet
[14:45] we've been doing this for our our new
alderman cepedia and jefferson we've
[14:49] been doing this for several years it's a
safe night for the graduates of the high
[14:55] school
they're all housed inside the building
[14:58] and uh under a lot of parental
supervision so uh
[15:02] i would recommend our typical 100
donation to this uh event so move mayor
[15:08] second we have motioned by alderman
albert seconded by elder
[15:14] jefferson for a 100 donation to lockwood
township high school for late night 2022
[15:19] questions or comments
roll call please
[15:23] joe kubo yes
scott dyke yes
[15:27] john richard yes darrell jefferson yes
yes you know berlin yes mark zappedy yes
[15:33] yes motion carries thank you
okay that's all the agenda items for me
[15:37] uh just to give you a little update for
the 2022 liquor licenses actually we
[15:42] have uh
we have
[15:44] three more than last year so we are now
at a total of 40 liquor licenses uh in
[15:50] the city of crest hill
uh we did lose in 2021 we lost one
[15:55] liquor license which was the shell gas
station
[16:00] on 20 at 2350 plainfield road
they sold their property to another
[16:06] individual and that in the the new owner
did not wish to have alcohol at his
[16:12] establishment
so the new businesses that were added
[16:15] for liquor licenses in 2022
uh beggar's pizza right on plainfield
[16:20] road which i believe opened up today
burger rebellion who was opened last
[16:26] year but just got their
[16:30] state license for 2022.
betsy's bistro
[16:35] on uh renwick road
um and el chivo down on broadway street
[16:40] where the four new ones that were added
for 2022.
[16:44] uh the additional video gaming salons
that we have now we have a total of 19
[16:50] compared to 17 last year
and the two new establishments that now
[16:54] have the video gaming for 2022 is
naturally betsy's bistro
[17:00] and the chicago style grill so we'll
have a report put together maribel just
[17:05] came back from vacation today so we'll
have a report put together for the work
[17:08] session next monday night for everybody
to have
[17:12] uh with that any questions of the mayor
i'll certainly try to answer them mayor
[17:16] uh just for clarification were those all
uh restaurant liquor license the new
[17:20] ones that were added um
[17:24] well betty's bistro is our new is our
new
[17:27] bistro license
burger rebellion is a restaurant beggars
[17:31] was a restaurant and el chivo's arrested
okay great thanks
[17:37] okay moving on to our city clerk's
report our city claire christine berche
[17:41] hall good evening chris good evening i
have no report but i just want to
[17:45] congratulate
deputy clerk jan cerda who will be
[17:49] retiring this friday on january 7th
she will be greatly missed
[17:54] and wishing her all the best in our
future endeavors
[17:58] and that's all i have to report
any questions of city clerk
[18:06] okay thanks chris
um
[18:09] city treasurer's report our treasurer
glenn conklin at evening glenn good
[18:12] evening mayor and council i'd like to
report regular overtime payroll from
[18:15] december 6 2021 through december 19 2021
in the amount of 228 095 dollars and
[18:23] nine cents
i uh request uh a motion for approval of
[18:28] our list of bills which in that same
time period total 259 thousand
[18:33] eighty-seven dollars and 52 cents
second
[18:38] we have motion by our other person over
on second by alderman dyke for the
[18:41] approval of the list of bills questions
or comments
[18:44] roll call please
mark cipd yes nate albert yes joe cuba
[18:48] yes
scott dyke yes chad richey yes darrell
[18:51] jefferson yes buddy gaza yes and tina
overland motion carries thank you
[18:57] i thank you all and happy new year and
i'll entertain any questions any
[19:00] questions of city treasurer
[19:04] okay thanks thank you good evening uh
unfinished business we have nothing on
[19:07] the agenda anyone
new business we do not have anything
[19:12] under new business anyone
committee liaison reports anybody
[19:20] city council comments positive city
council comments anything you'd like to
[19:23] share with your constituents
anybody wish to go first tonight
[19:28] we'll begin with ward 1 alderman dyke
thank you mayor i just want to echo what
[19:34] chris said about jan i want to
congratulate her on her retirement this
[19:38] friday she's been with the city a long
time and i know she's going to be missed
[19:42] in that office
when you have someone who's worked for
[19:45] any job for that many years what all
they've done
[19:49] will be missed so i want to thank her
and congratulate her and hopefully
[19:53] everyone will have a happy new year
all the membership i wish everyone a
[19:58] happy and prosperous and a healthy new
year
[20:01] and congratulations to jan she put on
our traveling shoes now now she can
[20:04] travel and i hope she has a good time
for many many years you know
[20:10] congratulations jen
ward to alderman jefferson oh yes i'd
[20:14] just like to wish everyone a happy and
prosperous new year
[20:18] want to say congratulations to jan
job well done and reward well received
[20:25] like to also
commend our public works department and
[20:30] our police department for the great work
they're doing in our community
[20:35] elder or woman goes out just wanna go
there what's been said so far
[20:40] congratulations jen you'll be missed uh
very much in here
[20:44] thank you for all your service and your
dedication
[20:47] and i want to wish all the residents and
everyone i'm here happy new year and
[20:53] come to blessings
4-3 elder first in overland
[20:58] well i want to wish everyone a happy new
year of course and keep in mind
[21:02] that as
horrific as everything we've been
[21:05] through has been
it takes its toll on everyone so in the
[21:10] in the coming year
as i said before
[21:13] try to spread a little kindness and love
and understand that everybody's having
[21:17] issues everybody's having problems
everybody's going through the second
[21:20] year covet and all the related tragedies
that go along with it
[21:25] i'd also like to say welcome to jim
formally
[21:28] and i do want to congratulate jane cerda
um
[21:31] to say she will be missed is a gross
understatement
[21:35] in the whole time my whole life coming
here that she's been the deputy clerk
[21:39] i have never once had anybody say
anything cross about her anything
[21:44] negative about her ever complain about
her
[21:47] anything you ever asked of her she was
there to do it the most dedicated and
[21:53] giving
person you could just ever imagine
[21:56] so to say she would be missed is a huge
understatement but
[22:00] god bless her and have a great
retirement jane you're one in a million
[22:04] other mensa petty i just want to wish
everybody happy new year
[22:08] um and also congratulate jan
and thank her
[22:12] for all the years of service to the city
of cresthill thank you
[22:17] ward 4 alderman albert yeah i'll just
piggyback off what everybody else has
[22:20] said you know jan turned into a friend
over all these years and she's been a
[22:25] great asset to this community
you know a proud crest hill resident as
[22:29] well so congrats jan good
all around cuba
[22:34] uh thank you jan and congratulations uh
just really enjoy your
[22:40] your retirement and uh best wishes to
everybody here for a happy new year
[22:47] and happy new year to all our residents
and uh to jan thank you for your
[22:52] commitment your dedication your loyalty
to the city of crestdyle for 36 years
[22:55] it's
very rare nowadays that somebody stays
[22:58] that long in one position
but you have served that position very
[23:03] well
you have some gigantic shoes to fill
[23:07] you will be sorely missed but i will
tell you that retirement is great so you
[23:11] will enjoy it and enjoy every minute
that you have of your retirement
[23:18] public comment if anyone would like to
address city council please step to the
[23:22] podium state your name for the record
your address is optional
[23:26] let the record show that no one has
approached the podium to our city
[23:30] administrator jim marino is there a need
for an executive session jim no
[23:34] promotion to adjourn mayor
we have a motion for an adjournment by
[23:37] alderman dyke seconded by alderman for
shay questions or comments of the motion
[23:42] roll call please darrell jefferson yes
claudia gazelle yes keen oberlin yes
[23:47] mark zuckedy yes nate albert yes joe
cuba yes scott dykes yes
[23:52] yes thank you motion carries meeting is
adjourned at 7 24 p.m i thank you and
[23:57] good evening
[24:16] you