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okay

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good evening ladies and gentlemen i
would like to call the february 7th 2022

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crest hill city council meeting to order
at 7pm if everyone would please rise for

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the pledge allegiance to the flag

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i pledge allegiance to the desire of the
united states of america and to the

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republic for which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with

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liberty and justice for all

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roll call please chris
ray solomon here glenn conklin

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scott dyke here john roche here darrell
jefferson here claudia gazelle here tina

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overland perez mark
here nate albert here joe cubel here

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thank you
okay we do not have a business promotion

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this evening so we will go forward with
the agenda items first item on the

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agenda
is the approval of the minutes from the

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city council of january 17 2022 motion
would be in order

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second we have motioned by alderman
jefferson second by alderwoman gosal for

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the approval of the minutes of the
crested city council meeting held on

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january 17th
2022 questions or comments

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roll call please scott guys yes
yes darrell jefferson yes vladimir

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you also have before you the minutes of
the work session held on january 24th

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2022 motion would be in order so move
that's presented second we have motion

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by all the ones to pity second by
alderman jefferson for the approval of

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the work session minutes held on january
24th 2022 questions or comments

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roll call please john mache yes terrell
jefferson yes claudia gaza yes you know

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berlin yes mark the pedi yes nate albert
yes joe poulo yes

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scott yes motion carries thank you
okay moving forward to our city attorney

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our city attorney mike steph good
evening mike good evening mayor and

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council um
i have one matter it's the resolution

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authorizing the settlement of two
cases that were discussed in executive

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session a couple of meetings ago
the

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you should have a
redlined and clean version

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of the uh consent decree for the uh
mr properties case uh it's the

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uh 20 ca or 20 ch
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ch2343

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if the redline version which i think
meets all of the uh

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concerns
uh that were discussed last time

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uh we can go ahead and you can vote on
it otherwise if you feel that there's

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not more discussion necessary we could
go into an executive session which we

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have provided for so
question is you want to

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take it up now as
is

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without comment or if you want to
discuss we should do it in an executive

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session so we i would recommend passing
it if there's a need for the executive

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motion would be in order so moved
motion by alderman dike seconded by

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alderman vershay
for a resolution authorizing settlement

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of will county cases
questions or comments well i did make my

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comments previous to the meeting about
the changes

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yes they're uh village the city yes
there are two typos on the the

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resolution itself uh village instead of
city

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i caught those after the last meeting
but i did not give jim the updated one

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so i apologize for that
but those those have been made and i'll

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submit that to
kent second paragraph you got village

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that's what we're talking about okay

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okay roll call police chris dorell
jefferson uh yes claudia yes tina

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oberlin yes mark zupiti yes nate albert
yes phil pouval yes

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scott died yes john beshead motion
carries resolution 1135.

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[Applause]
i have nothing else other than to ask

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there any questions you guys might have
any questions of our city attorney

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okay thanks mike
moving on city administrator city

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administrator jim moreno good evening
jim good good evening

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first item i have for you tonight
is the

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consulting services agreement this is
between the city and brent hassert

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consulting
we spoke about this at a previous

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meeting at a work session
so this will allow us to continue to

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utilize steve belden
for economic development and land

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consulting services
at a rate hourly rate of 85 dollars and

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he'll work between 20 to 25 hours a week
the agreement goes through july 16th of

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this year
but there's a provision that we can't

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extend the agreement if we wish by a
mutual agreement at that date so moved

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his percentage second
we have motioned by alder person

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overland second by alderman
albert for the approval of the economic

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development consulting services
agreement with brent hazard for the

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hiring of steve golden as our interim
economic development director questions

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or comments
roll call please claudia gazelle yes

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tina oberlin yes mark zappedy yes nate
albert yes joe kubal yes scott dyke yes

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john vashay yes darrell jefferson
yes promotion carries thank you

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resolution
does not say resolution on it

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it'll be
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okay all right the next item i have for
you is creating the position of director

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of
information technology

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this is an item we spoke to you about at
a previous work session

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i won't go into details if you have any
questions i can answer those for you but

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i think it's understood by everybody
that this is a position we sorely need

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especially
to get us moving into the city center as

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soon as possible
so what you have here is the ordinance

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that creates the position and i also
attach the job description

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so if you have any questions i can
answer those for you

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so move has presented a
second we have motion by alderman elder

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seconded by alder woman gazal for an
ordinance amending title ii

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to add chapter 2.27
including sections 2.27.010

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wow there's a whole bunch here two two
seven point zero two zero two point two

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seven point three zero and two point two
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zero four
zero for the director of information

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technology in the city of cresthill
questions or comments well i just want

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to thank you jim because i think this
was very much needed

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by the city and i appreciate you getting
to this right away and finding somebody

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so quickly because we really need to get
this going thank you

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roll call please
peanut oberlin yes

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mark zepeda nate albert yes joe cuba yes
scott dyke yes john mccain yes darrell

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jefferson yes claudia gazelle yes motion
carries ordinance 1889.

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okay the next item i have for you is
amending the

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employee handbook this is something we
discussed at the previous work session

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as well
the

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public works union contract that was
recently approved increased the amount

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of longevity for employees and then it
also added the holiday of presidents day

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and what we typically do is when a union
gets an increase in a benefit like that

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we pass that on to non-union employees
as well so this resolution will amend

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the personnel manual
to grant those additional benefits

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so move
second

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motion by alderman albert seconded by
alderman dike for resolution amending

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section 4.4 longevity incentive and
section 8.1 holidays of the city of

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crestel employee handbook questions or
comments

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roll call please mark the pewdie yes
nate albert yes joe cuball yes scott

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dyke yes john burchetti yes darrell
jefferson yes claudia dissolved yes tina

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oberlin yes
motion carries resolution 11-37

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anything else jim
no not under city administrator uh any

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questions of city administrator
okay thank you

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moving on public works department our
director of public works mark seifer

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good evening mark good evening mayor
council i have one agenda item in front

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of you this evening and then as an
ordinance authorized in the city of

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cresthill will county on the way to
borrow funds from the water pollution

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control low loan program
this is in regards to the east water

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reclamation facility phosphorus
improvements

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uh bids were approved at the last city
council meeting

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this is the
ordinance that allows us to start that

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loan application process
we have just put this out then we'll

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publish this and then it allows any
residents who want to comment that

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opportunity to comment so this would be
uh cows will give us the approval to

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start to borrow funds from the srf uh
for the east phosphorus improvements

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which uh is 4.93 million dollars worth
of improvements plus engineering at the

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low low interest rate of 0.85
uh with

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uh 15 loan forgiveness still moving
second

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we have motion by alderman's petty
seconded by older person overland or an

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ordinance authorizing city of crest hill
will county illinois to borrow funds

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from the water pollution control loan
program questions or comments

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roll call please nate albert yes joe
cuball yes scott dyke yes john beshea

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yes terrell jefferson yes all yes peanut
overland yes mark zupiti yeah motion

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carries orleans
1890.

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that is all i have for this evening i'd
be happy to entertain any questions

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any questions comments of public works
just a quick comment about all your

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facebook uh posts they look so
professional lately i'm loving every

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picture
who goes to who's handling it thank you

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it's definitely we're showing a lot of
class and professionalism i love the way

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they look they're not clear to the point
no problem i'll pass it along thank you

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anybody
else okay thanks mark

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moving on to our city engineer we have
no items

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in the report
and ron will be here tomorrow if you

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have any questions community development
department

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our community development director mr
steve colton good evening steve how are

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you very good how are you council how
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uh before you as this one item
it's a item that we discussed in our

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meetings back in january and december
regarding the hiring of tiff consultant

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as you're aware we're replacing our
former tif consultant

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we are recommending jim and i both met
with

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these individuals kane mckenna
along with julia dave silverman

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to kind of plot a path forward
with the tif district and reestablishing

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our tiffs so i'm recommending that
we hire kay mckenna and associates

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for a fee of not to exceed 50 000
and their scope of services

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[Music]
kind of revolves around

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looking at the existing tiff and doing
the tiff analysis starting kind of from

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the beginning because of the supreme
court ruling so um they will do the

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eligibility studies they will do from
step one all the way to

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getting us to creating a tiff

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some move this presented second
emotionally there was a resolution along

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with this that was kind of late added to
this to the schedule so that should be

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yeah
i know it's not listed as a resolution

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motion by alderman albert seconded by
alderman dyke was it no it was me older

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person i felt close for a resolution
approving a professional service

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agreement buying between the city of
cresthill will county illinois and kane

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mckenna and associates incorporating
questions or comments

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roll call please
joe cool yes

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scott dyke yes
john berchay yes gerald jefferson yes

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claude gassol yes tinoberlin yes mark
the pd yes

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yes motion carries it'll be resolution
1138.

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and just two other quick items in your
board packet zoe rogers

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our administrative clerk for the
building department submitted a

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january code enforcement update as well
as a january

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permit fee report update
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they're in your in your packets and then
the last thing

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is we did receive
jim did receive one proposal

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for the purchase of this property it is
to the edgemark

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uh brokers and gw properties the
companies that we brought before you i

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believe they're the only proposal
correct that we received

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and we'll be opening up the proposal and
uh it should be for the amount that uh

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the 1.8 million that we discussed
and uh we will be presenting it to the

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council in two weeks
that's all i have

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okay any questions of economic
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thank you steve
uh moving on to our police department

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our police chief ed clark good evening
again evening mayor council

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i have before you this evening
special parking ordinance with two

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sections prohibiting parking one uh
section will prohibit parking on

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our new city center boulevard and presto
drive around our facility

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the other section of this will also
prohibit parking of semi tractors trucks

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any trailers or fox trucks
on bryan drive so they're special to

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those those locations
we discussed this at the work session

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i believe on the 24th and uh i'll
entertain any questions so move as

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presented mayor second
motion by alderman albert second by

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alderwoman gazelle
or an ordinance amending the parking

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regulations
questions or comments

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roll call please scott dyke yes john
richard yes carl jefferson yeah

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yes you know oberlin yes marks yes nate
albert yes joe kubo yes motion carries

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ordinance 1891.
thank you uh i have the two-week record

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in the packet and i'll entertain any
questions

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questions of the police department can
you tell us publicly how many tickets

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you wrote so everyone is aware that we
do write tickets 77. thank you

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okay thanks ed thank you moving on to
the mayor's report i have two agenda

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items first one
would be for a donation to crest still

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pony baseball for their yearbook ad for
the 2022 baseball season so move

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awesome that's okay we have motion by
alderman albert seconded by alderman

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kubal for the approval of a
65 ad for the crest still pony baseball

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yearbook ad questions or comments
and roll call please john roche yes

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darrell jefferson yeah claudia gazelle
yes ken overland yes mark zupiti yes

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nate albert yes kell tubal yes
yes motion carries thank you

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and the second agenda item um with the
creation of the position of director of

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information technology
would be for the appointment of a

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director of information technology you
have information in your packet

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it is my recommendation
that we

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appoint
mr timothy stinette as our information

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technology service director for the city
of cresthill

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in your packet you have a copy of his
resume

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i will tell you that i was very
impressed with the

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resume that was provided i was more
impressed during the

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interview with tim
for his amount of knowledge that he has

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in this field
much much much more than what i have

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um
and his his experience that he is going

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to bring forward to the city of
cresthill

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and i do agree also that this is a
position that is long overdue in the

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city of cresthill but i think it's going
to be a tremendous benefit

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for us going forward especially with the
new building and everything else that we

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have going on so it was my
recommendation to appoint mr tim

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stinette
at a starting salary of 120 000 3 weeks

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vacation and all of the other
benefits accorded to all other employees

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in the city of crest television
second

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we have motion by alder person overland
seconded by alderman

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dyke for an approval of mr tim stanette
as our i.t director questions or

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comments
roll call please darrell jefferson yes

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claude gazelle yes tina overland yes
marthapedi yes nate albert yes joe cuba

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yes scott dyke yes john richard yes
motion carry thank you

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tim is here tonight with his wife tina
tim if you'd like to say anything please

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to the podium

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[Applause]
hello everyone

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just like to thank the mayor and council
for creating this position and thank you

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for trusting me with it i'm excited to
be working with the city of cresthill

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and uh just really looking forward to
moving forward and uh

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uh bringing bringing us into the future
and uh

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thank you very
much first you gotta get us to the

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present tim and then you can
okay

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got a lot of lots to do
that's good anybody else

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just congratulations and you came very
highly recommended so we look forward to

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work with you and see what you're going
to do for us

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welcome thank you very much

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welcome
welcome aboard thanks a lot appreciate

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it welcome my board tim
and your lovely wife tina

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okay just a couple of uh items uh first
one is our team connection program that

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was started by mayor chernovic
unfortunately we do not have any

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teenagers or
individuals

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listed on file
so i am asking if any teenager

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out there would like to
sign up for the team team connection

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program
which would involve shoveling snow for

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anyone elderly or disabled individuals
throughout the city

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cutting grass raking leaves
we collect the names and then when

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somebody calls and asks if we have
anybody that they could contact and work

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out a contract with you uh we would then
give them your name so if you'd like to

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sign up please go to our website you can
sign up that way uh or call city hall

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here at 815-741-5123

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and we can put your name on the list
because we are getting phone calls

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especially with the snow
for some help and assistance to people

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that need it the next one is in regards
to the snowstorm that we had last week i

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believe it was almost 11 inches of snow
that we had throughout our city it was

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probably the largest snowfall that we've
had in the last several years

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i would certainly like to extend my
gratitude to public works

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for the job that the men and women of
public works did there was a long event

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that took place
the good news is it was not as long as

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was predicted uh by all of the weather
stations for our area but it was still a

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a uh
a long long

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period of time that the
the men and ladies were out there uh

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plowing the snow
and uh unfortunately we had a very

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serious water main break during the
snowstorm also

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so that had to be attended to also but
uh hats off to the uh to public works

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and also to the police department i know
it's not easy for the police officers to

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maneuver in that snowstorm i'm sure
there were a lot of calls for assistance

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that they helped with
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and in addition to the normal calls that
were out there i do want to say to the

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people that did stay home that day that
was very well appreciated because it

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made cleanup services a little bit
easier for everybody during that

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duration
uh the next thing that i want to make a

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comment is in regards to the garbage
pickup i know that we had a lot of phone

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calls here at city hall in regards to
the wednesday and thursday garbage

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that was not picked up because of the
snowstorm that was not our that was not

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the decision of the city of cresthill
that was the decision of republic

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services
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they made the decision based on safety
needs of their employees and on some i'm

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sure some staff shortages that were out
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so again i know it's an inconvenience
for those people that had wednesday and

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thursday garbage pickup it will be
picked up this week on your regular day

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of wednesday or thursday
i apologize as the city of cresthill for

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any inconvenience that it causes you but
sometimes with the act of nature um we

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have to adjust
and um it will be picked up and so i

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just thank you for your patience in that
situation the last thing that i have is

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for the veterans and police memorial i
would ask for a meeting this next

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thursday february 17th at 1 pm in city
council chambers this will be to discuss

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our 2022
memorial day ceremony um

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more than likely the ceremony will be
held here on this property this year

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uh hopefully that will be the last year
and then next year we can have a

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rededication at new city hall so anybody
who would like to join us it's strictly

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a volunteer basis
we accept any and all volunteers so if

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you'd like to be part of
the planning process for this year

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please join us on thursday february 17th
at 1 pm that is it for the mayor unless

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there are any questions i will certainly
try to answer them just a quick comment

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in regard your team connection
is there a way you can send some

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information to the schools because often
times uh a lot of parents reach out if

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they're looking for their kids to make
some

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hours
uh that will be good thing for them to

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know that sure i will have maribel take
care of that yeah just the younger

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generation they don't watch our cable tv
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it will be good thing to
advertise it that way

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i'm sorry

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is that something that can qualify for
community service hours for the

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teenagers uh
unfortunately the way it's set up is

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that
the individual team would work out a

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negotiated contract with the homeowner
for payment for services rendered the

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city just provides the names
of the individuals

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that call here that they can then reach
out to them

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but there still may be some at the
schools that would like to take

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advantage of that for a little extra
cash on hand

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again for shoveling snow cutting grass
raking leaves

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but that is strictly between for
liability it's between the homeowner

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their insurance and the individual

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okay moving on to
our city clerk's report our city clerk

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christine berche hall thank you good
evening um just a little reminder to the

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council and the public that the next
council meeting will be held on tuesday

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february 22nd
due to monday being president's day

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and i also like to thank mark seifert
for taking the time out wednesday in the

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snowstorm
to go pick up

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lori thrasher from the clerk's office so
she come in the office and man the

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phones
so thank you mark and thank you lori for

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what you did last wednesday
and that's all i had to report okay any

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questions uh city clerk

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thanks chris
um city treasurer's report our treasurer

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glenn conklin good evening glenn good
evening mayor and council i'd like to

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report regular overtime payroll from
january 3rd

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2022 through january 16th
2022 in the amount of 247

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261
and 98 cents

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i seek your approval on our list of
bills which in that same time frame

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totaled 324

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412.79 some move just presented
can i get a second

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second
we have motion by all the person

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overland second by alderman jefferson
for the approval of the list of bills

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questions or comments
roll call please flooding is gazelle yes

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tina oberlin yes
yes nate albert yes joe kubal yes

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scott dyke yes john richard yes darrell
jefferson yes

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thank you motion carries
thank you i'll take some questions if

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you haven't any questions of city
treasure

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thank you good night
uh unfinished business we have nothing

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anyone
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new business anyone
uh committee liaison reports anybody

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city council comments positive city
council comments anything you'd like to

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share with any of your constituents
we will begin with ward one this evening

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alderman dike oh thank you mayor just
want to

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say thanks to public works and the
police department for all they did

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during the last snow
how they took care of that and made our

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roads safe
uh also welcomed him to the city of

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crest hill hopefully you're here a long
time with us and like tina said you'll

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get us first to the present and we can
go to the future thank you and happy

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valentine's day to everybody don't
forget your sweetheart out there

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alderman broshet uh congratulations tim
glad to have you board thank you glad to

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be here
we're to alderman jefferson uh nothing

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at this time all the roman gazelle
um i just want to wish our cable man ron

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romero happy bladed birthday was his
birthday so

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he doesn't get many compliments in here
thank you ron for everything you do

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and i also want to announce our second
year uh papa food pantry will be held on

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saturday march 5th at the
library parking lot

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we're hoping by the fall will be at city
hall for that

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and that's a collaboration with our food
pantry calvary church and city of

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preston
uh 10 a.m to 12 p.m

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spread the word
thank you mayor ward three other person

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overlapping well i want to wish
everybody out there happy valentine's

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day look out for cupid's quiver
welcome aboard tim and tina as well

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and thank you to everybody who
contributed to

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all the things we had during this
massive snowstorm thank you all

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aldermancy pitty
uh thank you to uh mark seifert and his

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crew at the all the snow and water main
breaks and all that appreciate all your

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hard work um and welcome tim
we look forward to working with you

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please here
word for all them and albert uh nothing

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at this time here and ultimate cobalt
i'm uh nothing at this time either

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okay public comment
if anyone would like to address city

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council please stop to the podium state
your name for the record your address is

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optional
we'll let the records show that no one

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has approached the podium
uh to our s um city attorney um mike is

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there a need for an executive session

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motion to adjourn there
we have motion for an adjournment by

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alderman dyke seconded by alderman for
shay questions or comments

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roll call please nate albert yes joe
cuball yes

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scott dyke yeah john richard yes darrell
jefferson claudia gazelle yes dean

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overland yes mark zupiti yes motion
carries thank you meeting is adjourned

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at 7 30 pm i thank you and good evening

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you