[0:12] oops
[0:14] okay
[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