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[0:18] good evening ladies and gentlemen i would like to call the february 7th 2022

[0:22] crest hill city council meeting to order at 7pm if everyone would please rise for

[0:26] the pledge allegiance to the flag

[0:34] i pledge allegiance to the desire of the united states of america and to the

[0:39] republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with

[0:45] liberty and justice for all

[0:52] roll call please chris ray solomon here glenn conklin

[0:56] scott dyke here john roche here darrell jefferson here claudia gazelle here tina

[1:01] overland perez mark here nate albert here joe cubel here

[1:04] thank you okay we do not have a business promotion

[1:07] this evening so we will go forward with the agenda items first item on the

[1:11] agenda is the approval of the minutes from the

[1:14] city council of january 17 2022 motion would be in order

[1:22] second we have motioned by alderman jefferson second by alderwoman gosal for

[1:26] the approval of the minutes of the crested city council meeting held on

[1:29] january 17th 2022 questions or comments

[1:34] roll call please scott guys yes yes darrell jefferson yes vladimir

[1:46] you also have before you the minutes of the work session held on january 24th

[1:50] 2022 motion would be in order so move that's presented second we have motion

[1:56] by all the ones to pity second by alderman jefferson for the approval of

[1:59] the work session minutes held on january 24th 2022 questions or comments

[2:05] roll call please john mache yes terrell jefferson yes claudia gaza yes you know

[2:09] berlin yes mark the pedi yes nate albert yes joe poulo yes

[2:14] scott yes motion carries thank you okay moving forward to our city attorney

[2:20] our city attorney mike steph good evening mike good evening mayor and

[2:23] council um i have one matter it's the resolution

[2:27] authorizing the settlement of two cases that were discussed in executive

[2:31] session a couple of meetings ago the

[2:35] you should have a redlined and clean version

[2:38] of the uh consent decree for the uh mr properties case uh it's the

[2:46] uh 20 ca or 20 ch 23 or

[2:52] ch2343

[2:57] if the redline version which i think meets all of the uh

[3:04] concerns uh that were discussed last time

[3:08] uh we can go ahead and you can vote on it otherwise if you feel that there's

[3:12] not more discussion necessary we could go into an executive session which we

[3:15] have provided for so question is you want to

[3:19] take it up now as is

[3:22] without comment or if you want to discuss we should do it in an executive

[3:26] session so we i would recommend passing it if there's a need for the executive

[3:32] motion would be in order so moved motion by alderman dike seconded by

[3:36] alderman vershay for a resolution authorizing settlement

[3:40] of will county cases questions or comments well i did make my

[3:44] comments previous to the meeting about the changes

[3:47] yes they're uh village the city yes there are two typos on the the

[3:51] resolution itself uh village instead of city

[3:56] i caught those after the last meeting but i did not give jim the updated one

[4:01] so i apologize for that but those those have been made and i'll

[4:05] submit that to kent second paragraph you got village

[4:09] that's what we're talking about okay

[4:14] okay roll call police chris dorell jefferson uh yes claudia yes tina

[4:19] oberlin yes mark zupiti yes nate albert yes phil pouval yes

[4:23] scott died yes john beshead motion carries resolution 1135.

[4:32] [Applause] i have nothing else other than to ask

[4:38] there any questions you guys might have any questions of our city attorney

[4:43] okay thanks mike moving on city administrator city

[4:46] administrator jim moreno good evening jim good good evening

[4:50] first item i have for you tonight is the

[4:53] consulting services agreement this is between the city and brent hassert

[4:58] consulting we spoke about this at a previous

[5:01] meeting at a work session so this will allow us to continue to

[5:05] utilize steve belden for economic development and land

[5:10] consulting services at a rate hourly rate of 85 dollars and

[5:14] he'll work between 20 to 25 hours a week the agreement goes through july 16th of

[5:20] this year but there's a provision that we can't

[5:23] extend the agreement if we wish by a mutual agreement at that date so moved

[5:27] his percentage second we have motioned by alder person

[5:31] overland second by alderman albert for the approval of the economic

[5:36] development consulting services agreement with brent hazard for the

[5:40] hiring of steve golden as our interim economic development director questions

[5:46] or comments roll call please claudia gazelle yes

[5:50] tina oberlin yes mark zappedy yes nate albert yes joe kubal yes scott dyke yes

[5:55] john vashay yes darrell jefferson yes promotion carries thank you

[6:03] resolution does not say resolution on it

[6:09] it'll be 11 36.

[6:21] okay all right the next item i have for you is creating the position of director

[6:25] of information technology

[6:29] this is an item we spoke to you about at a previous work session

[6:33] i won't go into details if you have any questions i can answer those for you but

[6:37] i think it's understood by everybody that this is a position we sorely need

[6:42] especially to get us moving into the city center as

[6:47] soon as possible so what you have here is the ordinance

[6:50] that creates the position and i also attach the job description

[6:55] so if you have any questions i can answer those for you

[6:59] so move has presented a second we have motion by alderman elder

[7:03] seconded by alder woman gazal for an ordinance amending title ii

[7:09] to add chapter 2.27 including sections 2.27.010

[7:19] wow there's a whole bunch here two two seven point zero two zero two point two

[7:23] seven point three zero and two point two seven

[7:27] zero four zero for the director of information

[7:31] technology in the city of cresthill questions or comments well i just want

[7:35] to thank you jim because i think this was very much needed

[7:38] by the city and i appreciate you getting to this right away and finding somebody

[7:43] so quickly because we really need to get this going thank you

[7:48] roll call please peanut oberlin yes

[7:52] mark zepeda nate albert yes joe cuba yes scott dyke yes john mccain yes darrell

[7:58] jefferson yes claudia gazelle yes motion carries ordinance 1889.

[8:07] okay the next item i have for you is amending the

[8:11] employee handbook this is something we discussed at the previous work session

[8:14] as well the

[8:17] public works union contract that was recently approved increased the amount

[8:21] of longevity for employees and then it also added the holiday of presidents day

[8:27] and what we typically do is when a union gets an increase in a benefit like that

[8:32] we pass that on to non-union employees as well so this resolution will amend

[8:37] the personnel manual to grant those additional benefits

[8:41] so move second

[8:43] motion by alderman albert seconded by alderman dike for resolution amending

[8:46] section 4.4 longevity incentive and section 8.1 holidays of the city of

[8:51] crestel employee handbook questions or comments

[8:55] roll call please mark the pewdie yes nate albert yes joe cuball yes scott

[8:59] dyke yes john burchetti yes darrell jefferson yes claudia dissolved yes tina

[9:04] oberlin yes motion carries resolution 11-37

[9:13] [Applause]

[9:24] anything else jim no not under city administrator uh any

[9:29] questions of city administrator okay thank you

[9:34] moving on public works department our director of public works mark seifer

[9:37] good evening mark good evening mayor council i have one agenda item in front

[9:40] of you this evening and then as an ordinance authorized in the city of

[9:43] cresthill will county on the way to borrow funds from the water pollution

[9:46] control low loan program this is in regards to the east water

[9:50] reclamation facility phosphorus improvements

[9:52] uh bids were approved at the last city council meeting

[9:56] this is the ordinance that allows us to start that

[10:00] loan application process we have just put this out then we'll

[10:05] publish this and then it allows any residents who want to comment that

[10:09] opportunity to comment so this would be uh cows will give us the approval to

[10:13] start to borrow funds from the srf uh for the east phosphorus improvements

[10:19] which uh is 4.93 million dollars worth of improvements plus engineering at the

[10:24] low low interest rate of 0.85 uh with

[10:27] uh 15 loan forgiveness still moving second

[10:31] we have motion by alderman's petty seconded by older person overland or an

[10:35] ordinance authorizing city of crest hill will county illinois to borrow funds

[10:38] from the water pollution control loan program questions or comments

[10:43] roll call please nate albert yes joe cuball yes scott dyke yes john beshea

[10:48] yes terrell jefferson yes all yes peanut overland yes mark zupiti yeah motion

[10:53] carries orleans 1890.

[10:57] that is all i have for this evening i'd be happy to entertain any questions

[11:01] any questions comments of public works just a quick comment about all your

[11:06] facebook uh posts they look so professional lately i'm loving every

[11:10] picture who goes to who's handling it thank you

[11:14] it's definitely we're showing a lot of class and professionalism i love the way

[11:19] they look they're not clear to the point no problem i'll pass it along thank you

[11:25] anybody else okay thanks mark

[11:29] moving on to our city engineer we have no items

[11:36] in the report and ron will be here tomorrow if you

[11:40] have any questions community development department

[11:44] our community development director mr steve colton good evening steve how are

[11:48] you very good how are you council how are you

[11:51] uh before you as this one item it's a item that we discussed in our

[11:56] meetings back in january and december regarding the hiring of tiff consultant

[12:01] as you're aware we're replacing our former tif consultant

[12:06] we are recommending jim and i both met with

[12:08] these individuals kane mckenna along with julia dave silverman

[12:13] to kind of plot a path forward with the tif district and reestablishing

[12:18] our tiffs so i'm recommending that we hire kay mckenna and associates

[12:24] for a fee of not to exceed 50 000 and their scope of services

[12:30] [Music] kind of revolves around

[12:34] looking at the existing tiff and doing the tiff analysis starting kind of from

[12:38] the beginning because of the supreme court ruling so um they will do the

[12:42] eligibility studies they will do from step one all the way to

[12:46] getting us to creating a tiff

[12:50] some move this presented second emotionally there was a resolution along

[12:55] with this that was kind of late added to this to the schedule so that should be

[12:59] yeah i know it's not listed as a resolution

[13:04] motion by alderman albert seconded by alderman dyke was it no it was me older

[13:10] person i felt close for a resolution approving a professional service

[13:14] agreement buying between the city of cresthill will county illinois and kane

[13:18] mckenna and associates incorporating questions or comments

[13:22] roll call please joe cool yes

[13:27] scott dyke yes john berchay yes gerald jefferson yes

[13:31] claude gassol yes tinoberlin yes mark the pd yes

[13:35] yes motion carries it'll be resolution 1138.

[13:41] and just two other quick items in your board packet zoe rogers

[13:45] our administrative clerk for the building department submitted a

[13:48] january code enforcement update as well as a january

[13:52] permit fee report update um

[13:55] they're in your in your packets and then the last thing

[13:59] is we did receive jim did receive one proposal

[14:04] for the purchase of this property it is to the edgemark

[14:06] uh brokers and gw properties the companies that we brought before you i

[14:11] believe they're the only proposal correct that we received

[14:14] and we'll be opening up the proposal and uh it should be for the amount that uh

[14:19] the 1.8 million that we discussed and uh we will be presenting it to the

[14:23] council in two weeks that's all i have

[14:27] okay any questions of economic development

[14:32] thank you steve uh moving on to our police department

[14:35] our police chief ed clark good evening again evening mayor council

[14:39] i have before you this evening special parking ordinance with two

[14:44] sections prohibiting parking one uh section will prohibit parking on

[14:50] our new city center boulevard and presto drive around our facility

[14:55] the other section of this will also prohibit parking of semi tractors trucks

[15:00] any trailers or fox trucks on bryan drive so they're special to

[15:05] those those locations we discussed this at the work session

[15:10] i believe on the 24th and uh i'll entertain any questions so move as

[15:14] presented mayor second motion by alderman albert second by

[15:18] alderwoman gazelle or an ordinance amending the parking

[15:23] regulations questions or comments

[15:27] roll call please scott dyke yes john richard yes carl jefferson yeah

[15:31] yes you know oberlin yes marks yes nate albert yes joe kubo yes motion carries

[15:37] ordinance 1891. thank you uh i have the two-week record

[15:44] in the packet and i'll entertain any questions

[15:48] questions of the police department can you tell us publicly how many tickets

[15:52] you wrote so everyone is aware that we do write tickets 77. thank you

[16:00] okay thanks ed thank you moving on to the mayor's report i have two agenda

[16:04] items first one would be for a donation to crest still

[16:08] pony baseball for their yearbook ad for the 2022 baseball season so move

[16:13] awesome that's okay we have motion by alderman albert seconded by alderman

[16:17] kubal for the approval of a 65 ad for the crest still pony baseball

[16:23] yearbook ad questions or comments and roll call please john roche yes

[16:28] darrell jefferson yeah claudia gazelle yes ken overland yes mark zupiti yes

[16:32] nate albert yes kell tubal yes yes motion carries thank you

[16:38] and the second agenda item um with the creation of the position of director of

[16:43] information technology would be for the appointment of a

[16:47] director of information technology you have information in your packet

[16:52] it is my recommendation that we

[16:56] appoint mr timothy stinette as our information

[17:00] technology service director for the city of cresthill

[17:04] in your packet you have a copy of his resume

[17:08] i will tell you that i was very impressed with the

[17:12] resume that was provided i was more impressed during the

[17:17] interview with tim for his amount of knowledge that he has

[17:21] in this field much much much more than what i have

[17:25] um and his his experience that he is going

[17:29] to bring forward to the city of cresthill

[17:33] and i do agree also that this is a position that is long overdue in the

[17:36] city of cresthill but i think it's going to be a tremendous benefit

[17:40] for us going forward especially with the new building and everything else that we

[17:46] have going on so it was my recommendation to appoint mr tim

[17:49] stinette at a starting salary of 120 000 3 weeks

[17:54] vacation and all of the other benefits accorded to all other employees

[18:00] in the city of crest television second

[18:03] we have motion by alder person overland seconded by alderman

[18:06] dyke for an approval of mr tim stanette as our i.t director questions or

[18:11] comments roll call please darrell jefferson yes

[18:15] claude gazelle yes tina overland yes marthapedi yes nate albert yes joe cuba

[18:20] yes scott dyke yes john richard yes motion carry thank you

[18:24] tim is here tonight with his wife tina tim if you'd like to say anything please

[18:27] to the podium

[18:32] [Applause] hello everyone

[18:36] just like to thank the mayor and council for creating this position and thank you

[18:40] for trusting me with it i'm excited to be working with the city of cresthill

[18:44] and uh just really looking forward to moving forward and uh

[18:49] uh bringing bringing us into the future and uh

[18:53] thank you very much first you gotta get us to the

[18:56] present tim and then you can okay

[19:00] got a lot of lots to do that's good anybody else

[19:05] just congratulations and you came very highly recommended so we look forward to

[19:09] work with you and see what you're going to do for us

[19:13] welcome thank you very much

[19:17] welcome welcome aboard thanks a lot appreciate

[19:20] it welcome my board tim and your lovely wife tina

[19:26] okay just a couple of uh items uh first one is our team connection program that

[19:31] was started by mayor chernovic unfortunately we do not have any

[19:37] teenagers or individuals

[19:40] listed on file so i am asking if any teenager

[19:46] out there would like to sign up for the team team connection

[19:50] program which would involve shoveling snow for

[19:54] anyone elderly or disabled individuals throughout the city

[19:58] cutting grass raking leaves we collect the names and then when

[20:02] somebody calls and asks if we have anybody that they could contact and work

[20:06] out a contract with you uh we would then give them your name so if you'd like to

[20:11] sign up please go to our website you can sign up that way uh or call city hall

[20:15] here at 815-741-5123

[20:18] and we can put your name on the list because we are getting phone calls

[20:21] especially with the snow for some help and assistance to people

[20:25] that need it the next one is in regards to the snowstorm that we had last week i

[20:29] believe it was almost 11 inches of snow that we had throughout our city it was

[20:33] probably the largest snowfall that we've had in the last several years

[20:37] i would certainly like to extend my gratitude to public works

[20:42] for the job that the men and women of public works did there was a long event

[20:47] that took place the good news is it was not as long as

[20:50] was predicted uh by all of the weather stations for our area but it was still a

[20:55] a uh a long long

[20:58] period of time that the the men and ladies were out there uh

[21:03] plowing the snow and uh unfortunately we had a very

[21:07] serious water main break during the snowstorm also

[21:11] so that had to be attended to also but uh hats off to the uh to public works

[21:16] and also to the police department i know it's not easy for the police officers to

[21:20] maneuver in that snowstorm i'm sure there were a lot of calls for assistance

[21:24] that they helped with um

[21:26] and in addition to the normal calls that were out there i do want to say to the

[21:32] people that did stay home that day that was very well appreciated because it

[21:36] made cleanup services a little bit easier for everybody during that

[21:40] duration uh the next thing that i want to make a

[21:43] comment is in regards to the garbage pickup i know that we had a lot of phone

[21:46] calls here at city hall in regards to the wednesday and thursday garbage

[21:51] that was not picked up because of the snowstorm that was not our that was not

[21:56] the decision of the city of cresthill that was the decision of republic

[21:59] services and

[22:02] they made the decision based on safety needs of their employees and on some i'm

[22:07] sure some staff shortages that were out there

[22:10] so again i know it's an inconvenience for those people that had wednesday and

[22:15] thursday garbage pickup it will be picked up this week on your regular day

[22:20] of wednesday or thursday i apologize as the city of cresthill for

[22:25] any inconvenience that it causes you but sometimes with the act of nature um we

[22:32] have to adjust and um it will be picked up and so i

[22:36] just thank you for your patience in that situation the last thing that i have is

[22:41] for the veterans and police memorial i would ask for a meeting this next

[22:46] thursday february 17th at 1 pm in city council chambers this will be to discuss

[22:53] our 2022 memorial day ceremony um

[22:59] more than likely the ceremony will be held here on this property this year

[23:04] uh hopefully that will be the last year and then next year we can have a

[23:08] rededication at new city hall so anybody who would like to join us it's strictly

[23:13] a volunteer basis we accept any and all volunteers so if

[23:19] you'd like to be part of the planning process for this year

[23:24] please join us on thursday february 17th at 1 pm that is it for the mayor unless

[23:30] there are any questions i will certainly try to answer them just a quick comment

[23:34] in regard your team connection is there a way you can send some

[23:38] information to the schools because often times uh a lot of parents reach out if

[23:42] they're looking for their kids to make some

[23:45] hours uh that will be good thing for them to

[23:48] know that sure i will have maribel take care of that yeah just the younger

[23:53] generation they don't watch our cable tv so

[23:56] it will be good thing to advertise it that way

[24:01] i'm sorry

[24:06] is that something that can qualify for community service hours for the

[24:10] teenagers uh unfortunately the way it's set up is

[24:15] that the individual team would work out a

[24:20] negotiated contract with the homeowner for payment for services rendered the

[24:27] city just provides the names of the individuals

[24:31] that call here that they can then reach out to them

[24:36] but there still may be some at the schools that would like to take

[24:39] advantage of that for a little extra cash on hand

[24:45] again for shoveling snow cutting grass raking leaves

[24:50] but that is strictly between for liability it's between the homeowner

[24:54] their insurance and the individual

[24:58] okay moving on to our city clerk's report our city clerk

[25:02] christine berche hall thank you good evening um just a little reminder to the

[25:07] council and the public that the next council meeting will be held on tuesday

[25:11] february 22nd due to monday being president's day

[25:17] and i also like to thank mark seifert for taking the time out wednesday in the

[25:21] snowstorm to go pick up

[25:24] lori thrasher from the clerk's office so she come in the office and man the

[25:28] phones so thank you mark and thank you lori for

[25:31] what you did last wednesday and that's all i had to report okay any

[25:35] questions uh city clerk

[25:39] thanks chris um city treasurer's report our treasurer

[25:42] glenn conklin good evening glenn good evening mayor and council i'd like to

[25:45] report regular overtime payroll from january 3rd

[25:49] 2022 through january 16th 2022 in the amount of 247

[25:56] 261 and 98 cents

[26:00] i seek your approval on our list of bills which in that same time frame

[26:04] totaled 324

[26:07] 412.79 some move just presented can i get a second

[26:13] second we have motion by all the person

[26:15] overland second by alderman jefferson for the approval of the list of bills

[26:19] questions or comments roll call please flooding is gazelle yes

[26:24] tina oberlin yes yes nate albert yes joe kubal yes

[26:28] scott dyke yes john richard yes darrell jefferson yes

[26:32] thank you motion carries thank you i'll take some questions if

[26:36] you haven't any questions of city treasure

[26:39] thank you good night uh unfinished business we have nothing

[26:43] anyone [Applause]

[26:45] new business anyone uh committee liaison reports anybody

[26:54] city council comments positive city council comments anything you'd like to

[26:57] share with any of your constituents we will begin with ward one this evening

[27:02] alderman dike oh thank you mayor just want to

[27:06] say thanks to public works and the police department for all they did

[27:09] during the last snow how they took care of that and made our

[27:12] roads safe uh also welcomed him to the city of

[27:16] crest hill hopefully you're here a long time with us and like tina said you'll

[27:20] get us first to the present and we can go to the future thank you and happy

[27:24] valentine's day to everybody don't forget your sweetheart out there

[27:29] alderman broshet uh congratulations tim glad to have you board thank you glad to

[27:33] be here we're to alderman jefferson uh nothing

[27:37] at this time all the roman gazelle um i just want to wish our cable man ron

[27:43] romero happy bladed birthday was his birthday so

[27:46] he doesn't get many compliments in here thank you ron for everything you do

[27:51] and i also want to announce our second year uh papa food pantry will be held on

[27:58] saturday march 5th at the library parking lot

[28:03] we're hoping by the fall will be at city hall for that

[28:08] and that's a collaboration with our food pantry calvary church and city of

[28:12] preston uh 10 a.m to 12 p.m

[28:18] spread the word thank you mayor ward three other person

[28:23] overlapping well i want to wish everybody out there happy valentine's

[28:26] day look out for cupid's quiver welcome aboard tim and tina as well

[28:32] and thank you to everybody who contributed to

[28:35] all the things we had during this massive snowstorm thank you all

[28:40] aldermancy pitty uh thank you to uh mark seifert and his

[28:44] crew at the all the snow and water main breaks and all that appreciate all your

[28:48] hard work um and welcome tim we look forward to working with you

[28:52] please here word for all them and albert uh nothing

[28:55] at this time here and ultimate cobalt i'm uh nothing at this time either

[29:02] okay public comment if anyone would like to address city

[29:05] council please stop to the podium state your name for the record your address is

[29:08] optional we'll let the records show that no one

[29:11] has approached the podium uh to our s um city attorney um mike is

[29:18] there a need for an executive session

[29:21] motion to adjourn there we have motion for an adjournment by

[29:24] alderman dyke seconded by alderman for shay questions or comments

[29:29] roll call please nate albert yes joe cuball yes

[29:32] scott dyke yeah john richard yes darrell jefferson claudia gazelle yes dean

[29:37] overland yes mark zupiti yes motion carries thank you meeting is adjourned

[29:41] at 7 30 pm i thank you and good evening

[29:59] you

02-07-22 Crest Hill City Council

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