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good evening ladies and gentlemen i would like to call the february 7th 2022
crest hill city council meeting to order at 7pm if everyone would please rise for
the pledge allegiance to the flag
i pledge allegiance to the desire of the united states of america and to the
republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with
liberty and justice for all
roll call please chris ray solomon here glenn conklin
scott dyke here john roche here darrell jefferson here claudia gazelle here tina
overland perez mark here nate albert here joe cubel here
thank you okay we do not have a business promotion
this evening so we will go forward with the agenda items first item on the
agenda is the approval of the minutes from the
city council of january 17 2022 motion would be in order
second we have motioned by alderman jefferson second by alderwoman gosal for
the approval of the minutes of the crested city council meeting held on
january 17th 2022 questions or comments
roll call please scott guys yes yes darrell jefferson yes vladimir
you also have before you the minutes of the work session held on january 24th
2022 motion would be in order so move that's presented second we have motion
by all the ones to pity second by alderman jefferson for the approval of
the work session minutes held on january 24th 2022 questions or comments
roll call please john mache yes terrell jefferson yes claudia gaza yes you know
berlin yes mark the pedi yes nate albert yes joe poulo yes
scott yes motion carries thank you okay moving forward to our city attorney
our city attorney mike steph good evening mike good evening mayor and
council um i have one matter it's the resolution
authorizing the settlement of two cases that were discussed in executive
session a couple of meetings ago the
you should have a redlined and clean version
of the uh consent decree for the uh mr properties case uh it's the
uh 20 ca or 20 ch 23 or
ch2343
if the redline version which i think meets all of the uh
concerns uh that were discussed last time
uh we can go ahead and you can vote on it otherwise if you feel that there's
not more discussion necessary we could go into an executive session which we
have provided for so question is you want to
take it up now as is
without comment or if you want to discuss we should do it in an executive
session so we i would recommend passing it if there's a need for the executive
motion would be in order so moved motion by alderman dike seconded by
alderman vershay for a resolution authorizing settlement
of will county cases questions or comments well i did make my
comments previous to the meeting about the changes
yes they're uh village the city yes there are two typos on the the
resolution itself uh village instead of city
i caught those after the last meeting but i did not give jim the updated one
so i apologize for that but those those have been made and i'll
submit that to kent second paragraph you got village
that's what we're talking about okay
okay roll call police chris dorell jefferson uh yes claudia yes tina
oberlin yes mark zupiti yes nate albert yes phil pouval yes
scott died yes john beshead motion carries resolution 1135.
[Applause] i have nothing else other than to ask
there any questions you guys might have any questions of our city attorney
okay thanks mike moving on city administrator city
administrator jim moreno good evening jim good good evening
first item i have for you tonight is the
consulting services agreement this is between the city and brent hassert
consulting we spoke about this at a previous
meeting at a work session so this will allow us to continue to
utilize steve belden for economic development and land
consulting services at a rate hourly rate of 85 dollars and
he'll work between 20 to 25 hours a week the agreement goes through july 16th of
this year but there's a provision that we can't
extend the agreement if we wish by a mutual agreement at that date so moved
his percentage second we have motioned by alder person
overland second by alderman albert for the approval of the economic
development consulting services agreement with brent hazard for the
hiring of steve golden as our interim economic development director questions
or comments roll call please claudia gazelle yes
tina oberlin yes mark zappedy yes nate albert yes joe kubal yes scott dyke yes
john vashay yes darrell jefferson yes promotion carries thank you
resolution does not say resolution on it
it'll be 11 36.
okay all right the next item i have for you is creating the position of director
of information technology
this is an item we spoke to you about at a previous work session
i won't go into details if you have any questions i can answer those for you but
i think it's understood by everybody that this is a position we sorely need
especially to get us moving into the city center as
soon as possible so what you have here is the ordinance
that creates the position and i also attach the job description
so if you have any questions i can answer those for you
so move has presented a second we have motion by alderman elder
seconded by alder woman gazal for an ordinance amending title ii
to add chapter 2.27 including sections 2.27.010
wow there's a whole bunch here two two seven point zero two zero two point two
seven point three zero and two point two seven
zero four zero for the director of information
technology in the city of cresthill questions or comments well i just want
to thank you jim because i think this was very much needed
by the city and i appreciate you getting to this right away and finding somebody
so quickly because we really need to get this going thank you
roll call please peanut oberlin yes
mark zepeda nate albert yes joe cuba yes scott dyke yes john mccain yes darrell
jefferson yes claudia gazelle yes motion carries ordinance 1889.
okay the next item i have for you is amending the
employee handbook this is something we discussed at the previous work session
as well the
public works union contract that was recently approved increased the amount
of longevity for employees and then it also added the holiday of presidents day
and what we typically do is when a union gets an increase in a benefit like that
we pass that on to non-union employees as well so this resolution will amend
the personnel manual to grant those additional benefits
so move second
motion by alderman albert seconded by alderman dike for resolution amending
section 4.4 longevity incentive and section 8.1 holidays of the city of
crestel employee handbook questions or comments
roll call please mark the pewdie yes nate albert yes joe cuball yes scott
dyke yes john burchetti yes darrell jefferson yes claudia dissolved yes tina
oberlin yes motion carries resolution 11-37
[Applause]
anything else jim no not under city administrator uh any
questions of city administrator okay thank you
moving on public works department our director of public works mark seifer
good evening mark good evening mayor council i have one agenda item in front
of you this evening and then as an ordinance authorized in the city of
cresthill will county on the way to borrow funds from the water pollution
control low loan program this is in regards to the east water
reclamation facility phosphorus improvements
uh bids were approved at the last city council meeting
this is the ordinance that allows us to start that
loan application process we have just put this out then we'll
publish this and then it allows any residents who want to comment that
opportunity to comment so this would be uh cows will give us the approval to
start to borrow funds from the srf uh for the east phosphorus improvements
which uh is 4.93 million dollars worth of improvements plus engineering at the
low low interest rate of 0.85 uh with
uh 15 loan forgiveness still moving second
we have motion by alderman's petty seconded by older person overland or an
ordinance authorizing city of crest hill will county illinois to borrow funds
from the water pollution control loan program questions or comments
roll call please nate albert yes joe cuball yes scott dyke yes john beshea
yes terrell jefferson yes all yes peanut overland yes mark zupiti yeah motion
carries orleans 1890.
that is all i have for this evening i'd be happy to entertain any questions
any questions comments of public works just a quick comment about all your
facebook uh posts they look so professional lately i'm loving every
picture who goes to who's handling it thank you
it's definitely we're showing a lot of class and professionalism i love the way
they look they're not clear to the point no problem i'll pass it along thank you
anybody else okay thanks mark
moving on to our city engineer we have no items
in the report and ron will be here tomorrow if you
have any questions community development department
our community development director mr steve colton good evening steve how are
you very good how are you council how are you
uh before you as this one item it's a item that we discussed in our
meetings back in january and december regarding the hiring of tiff consultant
as you're aware we're replacing our former tif consultant
we are recommending jim and i both met with
these individuals kane mckenna along with julia dave silverman
to kind of plot a path forward with the tif district and reestablishing
our tiffs so i'm recommending that we hire kay mckenna and associates
for a fee of not to exceed 50 000 and their scope of services
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looking at the existing tiff and doing the tiff analysis starting kind of from
the beginning because of the supreme court ruling so um they will do the
eligibility studies they will do from step one all the way to
getting us to creating a tiff
some move this presented second emotionally there was a resolution along
with this that was kind of late added to this to the schedule so that should be
yeah i know it's not listed as a resolution
motion by alderman albert seconded by alderman dyke was it no it was me older
person i felt close for a resolution approving a professional service
agreement buying between the city of cresthill will county illinois and kane
mckenna and associates incorporating questions or comments
roll call please joe cool yes
scott dyke yes john berchay yes gerald jefferson yes
claude gassol yes tinoberlin yes mark the pd yes
yes motion carries it'll be resolution 1138.
and just two other quick items in your board packet zoe rogers
our administrative clerk for the building department submitted a
january code enforcement update as well as a january
permit fee report update um
they're in your in your packets and then the last thing
is we did receive jim did receive one proposal
for the purchase of this property it is to the edgemark
uh brokers and gw properties the companies that we brought before you i
believe they're the only proposal correct that we received
and we'll be opening up the proposal and uh it should be for the amount that uh
the 1.8 million that we discussed and uh we will be presenting it to the
council in two weeks that's all i have
okay any questions of economic development
thank you steve uh moving on to our police department
our police chief ed clark good evening again evening mayor council
i have before you this evening special parking ordinance with two
sections prohibiting parking one uh section will prohibit parking on
our new city center boulevard and presto drive around our facility
the other section of this will also prohibit parking of semi tractors trucks
any trailers or fox trucks on bryan drive so they're special to
those those locations we discussed this at the work session
i believe on the 24th and uh i'll entertain any questions so move as
presented mayor second motion by alderman albert second by
alderwoman gazelle or an ordinance amending the parking
regulations questions or comments
roll call please scott dyke yes john richard yes carl jefferson yeah
yes you know oberlin yes marks yes nate albert yes joe kubo yes motion carries
ordinance 1891. thank you uh i have the two-week record
in the packet and i'll entertain any questions
questions of the police department can you tell us publicly how many tickets
you wrote so everyone is aware that we do write tickets 77. thank you
okay thanks ed thank you moving on to the mayor's report i have two agenda
items first one would be for a donation to crest still
pony baseball for their yearbook ad for the 2022 baseball season so move
awesome that's okay we have motion by alderman albert seconded by alderman
kubal for the approval of a 65 ad for the crest still pony baseball
yearbook ad questions or comments and roll call please john roche yes
darrell jefferson yeah claudia gazelle yes ken overland yes mark zupiti yes
nate albert yes kell tubal yes yes motion carries thank you
and the second agenda item um with the creation of the position of director of
information technology would be for the appointment of a
director of information technology you have information in your packet
it is my recommendation that we
appoint mr timothy stinette as our information
technology service director for the city of cresthill
in your packet you have a copy of his resume
i will tell you that i was very impressed with the
resume that was provided i was more impressed during the
interview with tim for his amount of knowledge that he has
in this field much much much more than what i have
um and his his experience that he is going
to bring forward to the city of cresthill
and i do agree also that this is a position that is long overdue in the
city of cresthill but i think it's going to be a tremendous benefit
for us going forward especially with the new building and everything else that we
have going on so it was my recommendation to appoint mr tim
stinette at a starting salary of 120 000 3 weeks
vacation and all of the other benefits accorded to all other employees
in the city of crest television second
we have motion by alder person overland seconded by alderman
dyke for an approval of mr tim stanette as our i.t director questions or
comments roll call please darrell jefferson yes
claude gazelle yes tina overland yes marthapedi yes nate albert yes joe cuba
yes scott dyke yes john richard yes motion carry thank you
tim is here tonight with his wife tina tim if you'd like to say anything please
to the podium
[Applause] hello everyone
just like to thank the mayor and council for creating this position and thank you
for trusting me with it i'm excited to be working with the city of cresthill
and uh just really looking forward to moving forward and uh
uh bringing bringing us into the future and uh
thank you very much first you gotta get us to the
present tim and then you can okay
got a lot of lots to do that's good anybody else
just congratulations and you came very highly recommended so we look forward to
work with you and see what you're going to do for us
welcome thank you very much
welcome welcome aboard thanks a lot appreciate
it welcome my board tim and your lovely wife tina
okay just a couple of uh items uh first one is our team connection program that
was started by mayor chernovic unfortunately we do not have any
teenagers or individuals
listed on file so i am asking if any teenager
out there would like to sign up for the team team connection
program which would involve shoveling snow for
anyone elderly or disabled individuals throughout the city
cutting grass raking leaves we collect the names and then when
somebody calls and asks if we have anybody that they could contact and work
out a contract with you uh we would then give them your name so if you'd like to
sign up please go to our website you can sign up that way uh or call city hall
here at 815-741-5123
and we can put your name on the list because we are getting phone calls
especially with the snow for some help and assistance to people
that need it the next one is in regards to the snowstorm that we had last week i
believe it was almost 11 inches of snow that we had throughout our city it was
probably the largest snowfall that we've had in the last several years
i would certainly like to extend my gratitude to public works
for the job that the men and women of public works did there was a long event
that took place the good news is it was not as long as
was predicted uh by all of the weather stations for our area but it was still a
a uh a long long
period of time that the the men and ladies were out there uh
plowing the snow and uh unfortunately we had a very
serious water main break during the snowstorm also
so that had to be attended to also but uh hats off to the uh to public works
and also to the police department i know it's not easy for the police officers to
maneuver in that snowstorm i'm sure there were a lot of calls for assistance
that they helped with um
and in addition to the normal calls that were out there i do want to say to the
people that did stay home that day that was very well appreciated because it
made cleanup services a little bit easier for everybody during that
duration uh the next thing that i want to make a
comment is in regards to the garbage pickup i know that we had a lot of phone
calls here at city hall in regards to the wednesday and thursday garbage
that was not picked up because of the snowstorm that was not our that was not
the decision of the city of cresthill that was the decision of republic
services and
they made the decision based on safety needs of their employees and on some i'm
sure some staff shortages that were out there
so again i know it's an inconvenience for those people that had wednesday and
thursday garbage pickup it will be picked up this week on your regular day
of wednesday or thursday i apologize as the city of cresthill for
any inconvenience that it causes you but sometimes with the act of nature um we
have to adjust and um it will be picked up and so i
just thank you for your patience in that situation the last thing that i have is
for the veterans and police memorial i would ask for a meeting this next
thursday february 17th at 1 pm in city council chambers this will be to discuss
our 2022 memorial day ceremony um
more than likely the ceremony will be held here on this property this year
uh hopefully that will be the last year and then next year we can have a
rededication at new city hall so anybody who would like to join us it's strictly
a volunteer basis we accept any and all volunteers so if
you'd like to be part of the planning process for this year
please join us on thursday february 17th at 1 pm that is it for the mayor unless
there are any questions i will certainly try to answer them just a quick comment
in regard your team connection is there a way you can send some
information to the schools because often times uh a lot of parents reach out if
they're looking for their kids to make some
hours uh that will be good thing for them to
know that sure i will have maribel take care of that yeah just the younger
generation they don't watch our cable tv so
it will be good thing to advertise it that way
i'm sorry
is that something that can qualify for community service hours for the
teenagers uh unfortunately the way it's set up is
that the individual team would work out a
negotiated contract with the homeowner for payment for services rendered the
city just provides the names of the individuals
that call here that they can then reach out to them
but there still may be some at the schools that would like to take
advantage of that for a little extra cash on hand
again for shoveling snow cutting grass raking leaves
but that is strictly between for liability it's between the homeowner
their insurance and the individual
okay moving on to our city clerk's report our city clerk
christine berche hall thank you good evening um just a little reminder to the
council and the public that the next council meeting will be held on tuesday
february 22nd due to monday being president's day
and i also like to thank mark seifert for taking the time out wednesday in the
snowstorm to go pick up
lori thrasher from the clerk's office so she come in the office and man the
phones so thank you mark and thank you lori for
what you did last wednesday and that's all i had to report okay any
questions uh city clerk
thanks chris um city treasurer's report our treasurer
glenn conklin good evening glenn good evening mayor and council i'd like to
report regular overtime payroll from january 3rd
2022 through january 16th 2022 in the amount of 247
261 and 98 cents
i seek your approval on our list of bills which in that same time frame
totaled 324
412.79 some move just presented can i get a second
second we have motion by all the person
overland second by alderman jefferson for the approval of the list of bills
questions or comments roll call please flooding is gazelle yes
tina oberlin yes yes nate albert yes joe kubal yes
scott dyke yes john richard yes darrell jefferson yes
thank you motion carries thank you i'll take some questions if
you haven't any questions of city treasure
thank you good night uh unfinished business we have nothing
anyone [Applause]
new business anyone uh committee liaison reports anybody
city council comments positive city council comments anything you'd like to
share with any of your constituents we will begin with ward one this evening
alderman dike oh thank you mayor just want to
say thanks to public works and the police department for all they did
during the last snow how they took care of that and made our
roads safe uh also welcomed him to the city of
crest hill hopefully you're here a long time with us and like tina said you'll
get us first to the present and we can go to the future thank you and happy
valentine's day to everybody don't forget your sweetheart out there
alderman broshet uh congratulations tim glad to have you board thank you glad to
be here we're to alderman jefferson uh nothing
at this time all the roman gazelle um i just want to wish our cable man ron
romero happy bladed birthday was his birthday so
he doesn't get many compliments in here thank you ron for everything you do
and i also want to announce our second year uh papa food pantry will be held on
saturday march 5th at the library parking lot
we're hoping by the fall will be at city hall for that
and that's a collaboration with our food pantry calvary church and city of
preston uh 10 a.m to 12 p.m
spread the word thank you mayor ward three other person
overlapping well i want to wish everybody out there happy valentine's
day look out for cupid's quiver welcome aboard tim and tina as well
and thank you to everybody who contributed to
all the things we had during this massive snowstorm thank you all
aldermancy pitty uh thank you to uh mark seifert and his
crew at the all the snow and water main breaks and all that appreciate all your
hard work um and welcome tim we look forward to working with you
please here word for all them and albert uh nothing
at this time here and ultimate cobalt i'm uh nothing at this time either
okay public comment if anyone would like to address city
council please stop to the podium state your name for the record your address is
optional we'll let the records show that no one
has approached the podium uh to our s um city attorney um mike is
there a need for an executive session
motion to adjourn there we have motion for an adjournment by
alderman dyke seconded by alderman for shay questions or comments
roll call please nate albert yes joe cuball yes
scott dyke yeah john richard yes darrell jefferson claudia gazelle yes dean
overland yes mark zupiti yes motion carries thank you meeting is adjourned
at 7 30 pm i thank you and good evening
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