all right good evening ladies and gentlemen i'd like to call the march 21
2022 cresthill city council meeting to order at 7 pm for everyone would please
rise and pledge allegiance to the flag
i pledge allegiance to the life of the united states of america and to the
republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and
justice
roll call police chris
ray solomon here glenn haglin president scott here john
mccain
okay our city administrator jim marino was not here today he's a little under
the weather so he is excused for this evening's meeting
we do not have a business promotion this evening so we will go ahead with the
agenda items as they are presented and the first one is for approval of the
minutes of the city council meeting held on march 7th 2022 motion would be in
order
second we have motioned by alderman jefferson seconded by elder woman
dissolved for the approval of the city city council meetings held on march 7
2022 questions or comments roll call please
scott guys yes john yes darrell jefferson yes
yes
okay you also have before you the minutes of the
cresthill work session that was held on march 14 2022
motion would be in order for an approval so move
second we have motioned by alderman's a pity seconded by alderman dyke for the
approval of the work session minutes which meeting was held on march 14 2022
questions or comments
moving on to our city attorney our city attorney mike stiff good evening mike
good evening mayor council i have no agenda items tonight happy to answer any
questions if there are any any questions of our city attorney
okay thanks mike moving on to our city administrator i
will have i will handle uh both of his um
agenda items as presented then the first one is a resolution approving a
separation agreement buying between the city of prestill and renee herbst
uh as council recalls this conversation was held last week in executive session
at our work session
um you have before you a copy of the resolution i'd be asking for emotion
ocean second we have a motion by alderwoman
gazelle seconded by older person overland
for a resolution approving a separation agreement and release of all claims by
and between the city of cresthill and renee herbst questions or comments
roll call please darrell jefferson yes
yes mark
yes nate albert yes joe kubo yes yes
yes resolution 11 47.
[Applause]
okay you also have in your packet informations in regards to a resolution
designating lisa banovitz our finance director as the illinois municipal
retirement fund authorized agent for the city of cresthill
motion would be in order second
we have motion by alder person oberlin seconded by
other women gazelle for the uh
imrf authorized agent appointment of lisa bannon's questions or comments
glenn i i presume that she's good with this
i would presume well she's not here to ask so
i can say that i received the email from her asking that i draft the resolution
so i would take that communion that she can curse thank you very much you're
welcome any other questions comments
roll call please mark sabidi yes nate albert yes joe cool
yes scott dice yes yes darrell jefferson yes
yes
[Music]
okay hopefully jim is back tomorrow and is feeling better uh so we will move on
to our public works department our director of
public works mark seifer good evening good evening mayor and council i have
one agenda item in front of you this evening
last week lane western we called them out when well 12 would not stop failing
electrically after diagnosis i determined the well
which has been in service in slate 2014 has
gone past its useful life
at this point the weld motor will need to be pulled replaced and then
reinstalled with a new motor and pump i am asking uh council to
waive bids and award the con contract to lane western for not to exceed amount of
forty two thousand four hundred twenty four dollars uh to pull
order new and replace a the oil pump and motor as long as all the pipe going down
the hole sumo just presented second all right a motion by alder person
oberlin seconded by alderman albert for a resolution approving an
agreement between the city of cresthill and lane christensen company for the
emergency pump removal inspection of crest hill well
well pumped number 12. and again this was discussed last week at uh our work
session also questions or comments yes i'm just clarifying it says after
diagnosis it was determined that the well had gone van you meant the well
pump the pop no the motor's actually bad yeah not the well itself but correct
yeah i just wanted to make sure the well is still producing water
yeah the wall still produces water it's just the actual motor that moves the
pump thank you you know if at one time we let the
public work directly have up to twenty thousand dollars emergency cut didn't
have to ask nobody gave me the authority to spend that money on a well so
something goes wrong i don't know we've never changed that yet so you know
emergency we had right to spend twenty thousand dollars approval
so if i you might keep that in mind done yeah unfortunately unfortunately this is
twice that much right and that's unfortunately now in today's economy uh
this is about as low as you're gonna get for a well replacement so
uh unfortunately just to pull the well it's probably 25. yeah so i don't think
there'd be anybody here argue about it anyway you need a well you need the well
you know correct thank you well you also need the waiver for the
weighing of this and the waiver of the competitive
bidding is built into the resolution so it just needs to be
so he needed it regardless yes okay roll call please
vladi gaza yes tina oberlin yes mark zucchini yep nate albert yes joe cuba
yes scott dyke yes yes darrell jefferson yes
motion carries thank you resolution 11 49.
that is the only agenda item i have for you this evening but i would like to
announce uh on may 14th from 11am to 2pm uh the city of cresthill public works
will be hosting a touch a truck in our open house for our new building uh we
were hoping to have this couple of years ago but with cobid we didn't want uh to
have people in the building so we're having to touch a truck from 11am to 2pm
rain or shine uh we'll have some heavy equipment service vehicles games uh some
demonstrations um food fun prizes i will i do have uh handouts for council for
the flyer it's going on facebook tomorrow is an event
um and it will we will have quiet hours from 10 to 11 for those who do need
quiet hours uh for the event
so
any questions of public works how uh we're funding this
uh it's all internal internal yeah
mark
weber uh gate by road near oakland i went by yesterday afternoon i don't know
one o'clock or something like that the gate is still open do we leave that gate
open at during the day from until 3 30. that's where the guys are working out of
i don't think there's no cars around there at all they're probably they may
be in the back or in the garage down oakland there's nothing there all right
i'll talk to those guys but usually during the day if they're running just
from to back back and forth public works they will leave it open um but it's
closed at 3 30. yep
did you say may 14th may 14th and i have flyers for everyone
okay any other questions the public works
all right thanks mark uh city engineer we have no agenda items
this evening uh ron will be here tomorrow if you have
any questions community development our interim
community development director steve goldman good evening steven
thank you mayor on board mayor council we have three items before you this
evening our first item is a
request for landscaping to accept the landscaping proposal from hawthorne
landscaping they were the only received proposal
last year we had rapid landscaping and for the
last couple of years we use rapid landscaping a local property however
they did not submit a proposal this year um hawthorne
is another local company and we did use hawthorne
for several several years in the past
and we've had no issues with them in fact our
staff said rapid and hawthorne both did an excellent job so before you is
accepting a proposal from hawthorne landscaping you can see the pricing
below uh regarding um
different types of lengths of grass 90 130 or 170.
and the bulk of this is uh passed on to the is this for the homeowner ones one
yeah these are for the ones or foreclosed homes or for
nuisances that we can't get corrected immediately
we do go after them either through uh
sending a bill we sent to the bank on a foreclosed home whatever the situation
is is this a one-year contract it's a one-year contract is that
does it have to be only one year um it doesn't have to be but we've done it's
just just the way it's been done we can certainly try to negotiate a longer term
absolutely i mean it would seem like a lot less to have to
go through every year right you're gonna what what i would suggest just because
we have to come back and re-amend the uh this this contract um what i would
suggest is next year when we do it let's look at one in a three-year right yeah
okay yeah we've had we've had both rapid and hawthorne for several years
um here so
motion would be in order for an approval so we'll move this presented
second we have motion by older person overland second by alderwoman gazelle
for the uh vegetation
um proposal to hawthorne landscaping of cresthill
for one year uh of service questions or comments
or roll call please nate albert yes joe kuhwell yes scott dyke yes john beshea
yes darrell jefferson yes tina oberlin yes and mark zlappidi
yes motion carries thank you [Applause]
the second item as discussed in the workshop last week
is a ordinance approving our 2000 adopting our 2000 the 2015 building code
just just one or two small changes not really changes but just kind of an
update for the council there is a link online
so any type of resident and or
contractor can jump online and go right to the link and we will also have a copy
available at the building department the book is about that thick though so um
but we will let them come in and send down in one of the rooms they
can look at if they choose typically what we do is there's a question on a
specific item we'll make copies of those three or
four pages and hand it to the homeowner or resident or
contractor if they had just a specific question on a
code or or whatever regarding building but before you is the consider the
passage of the 2015 building code adoption
so move mayor second motion by alderman albert seconded by
alderman for shay for an ordinance cementing title 15
chapter 15-04 of the code of ordinances of the city of
cresthill illinois this was discussed last
last week march 14th at our work session also questions or comments
roll call please i have a question you this is still this still puts us like
two versions behind what the current state law is it does and again our goal
is to get the 2021 passed before you or at least before you
for consideration within the next six months we want to really go through that
because there's been a lot of changes from the 15 code to the 22 code whereas
from the last code that we've had to now there's
not quite that many changes so we want to go through those changes from the 15
to the 22 and look at exceptions uh that we don't like for example we
talked about last year you know last meeting at the workshop is
in some of these codes they have sprinklers for entire new houses
which which is prohibited from an economic development perspective so so
things like that we want to go through all the different codes and make sure we
have the exceptions uh post they're listed and so you're
aware of the different exceptions thank you i
just personally i want to be um
cognitive that we're not going to drop the ball on this i mean
you know this is probably something that should have been addressed a long time
ago to be on 2015 so six months i'm going to be waiting for
it thank you though yes
okay roll call please joe cool yes scott dyke yes john rocha yes darrell
jefferson yes claudia's all yes yes mark stephenie yes nate albert yes motion
carries ordinance 1898. and the last item before you is a zoning
map update or amendments and typically we do
this every year so this is the 2022 voting map amendments i have maura
rigoni here she will give a brief update on
several changes or amendments that we are requesting or asking for
in the new 2022 zoning map laura thank you
um in accordance with state statute that a municipality is to adopt the official
zoning map by march 31st of every calendar year and this adoption reflects
those map amendments that have occurred from
january to january 1st to december 31st and that's what you have for you today
are the reflections we've had six ordinances that were passed um
in the calendar year of 2021 which resulted in maps amendments and those
are special uses which are reflected by a star on our map as well as then some
rezonings that which is simply just to change from the zoning classifications
that were previously approved by ordinance this does not reflect anything
occurred within the last couple months um those would be run reflected on the
next one now those are a little small i've already talked about getting larger
prints once we have the official adopted date on there
if there's any specific questions that you have regarding any of the rezonings
these are all the ordinances that have been
before us
any questions emotionally
second we're a motion by all the person overland second violin
zoning map changes questions or comments
roll call please john rochet yes darrell jefferson yes
yes yes mark
yes nate albert yes joe probably yes scott yes motion carries resolution
1150. [Applause]
that's all i have i do have just a quick uh update on um
a couple of things uh so what we're going to do at the community development
department is we're going to email the council
uh every week on different um businesses that are planning an opening
uh so today we use your first round since um
beginning of the year for the whitney it was like nine or ten businesses that
have opened uh which is uh very good for cresthill and then
we're trying to sit and coordinate uh grand openings with these businesses so
we have a procedural trump procedure in place so that we can really recognize uh
certain businesses when they open and get good publicity
and let the residents and the development community know that we're
active and we are adding businesses to the city of cresthill and are you
coordinating with the president of the chamber that's on my list to contact um
to see if they're willing to help out
absolutely i know i'm sure he will okay perfect
is stepheny update on the goofy jeeves i see some
uh movement over there with the house coming down
yeah so so yes a demo permit was issued so that's the house is coming down they
did receive their building permits so they are
um ready to go to start building i know i have not
heard anything you know when they plan on pouring concrete or anything but they
do have their permit and they are good to go
so yeah so hopefully over the next six months
we have a grand opening there great thank you thank you
okay thanks steve uh moving on to
our police department our police chief ed clark good evening
sure
[Applause]
didn't have an item on the agenda this evening but i wanted to introduce you to
our new police officer ryan gores ryan was sworn in this morning and he
begins his uh duties as crystal police officer uh he's a local gentleman from
this area had his family here and got to meet his family it was a very nice time
but robert meets the road here in a week when he leaves for the academy so he'll
be our 31st officer replacing a retired officer that we had last year so
with that i'll introduce you to ryan yeah thank you so much i'm uh excited to
be here um excited to be here working for the city
of crest hill i'm very eager to get started um i'm looking forward to it and
won't disappoint all right good welcome welcome boys
it was great to meet your family uh this morning so we want to congratulate you
on your uh new assignments so uh
like i told you this morning you're representing the city of crestdyle on
every call you go on so do it with class and with dignity
we wish you nothing but good health and a long future with the city of
crestdelson congratulations and welcome congratulations
all right thanks ryan
well the only just to update city council i know we've talked to a few of
you individually is from monday's incident i i'm not going to comment much
on it other to say the officer is improving he's doing uh much better um
very encouraging by the progress that's been made so we thank everybody for
their kind words and uh prayers for them so everything's going well so far we're
just uh very happy for me as a police chief to
see the condition that the officer's in right now so very good thing so thank
you again for all your support thank you thank you chief
okay any questions of the police chief
okay thanks that moving on to the mayor's report i do not
have any agenda items uh just one comment and i i certainly want to
piggyback on what uh police chief ed clark uh had
commented on that that was a very harrowing experience for our police
officers last monday night i will tell everyone that the assisting
departments from the surrounding communities were unbelievable
um i certainly uh want to let everyone know that i did reach out
to every one of the mayors from joliet
from lockport from romeoville from rockdale from
shorewood from shanahan from naperville
from plainfield
i spoke with each one of the mayors from those communities
letting them know my gratitude for their help and assistance on a very difficult
situation also reached out to the will county sheriff's department
grundy county sheriff's department and the illinois state police
also to the lockport fire department with um
fire chief connor for all of his assistance that
the men of the lockport township fire department gave to us on that evening
want to extend our gratitude to them also
so my final comment would be that i am
going to ask for every resident in the city of
cresthill to
certainly keep in your prayers for a quick recovery for our injured
police officer it's a very dangerous job that the
police officers do today so keep him in your prayers for a very
quick recovery and a return to work with that i again extend my gratitude to
every one of the departments that assisted us
everyone handled themselves in a very professional manner
including the officers of the crest hill police department handled themselves in
a very professional manner during a very difficult time
with that i would uh entertain any questions the city council may have of
the mayor i have a question ma'am well it's not more a question i know it's a
comment but since the city administrator is not here today and you're the mayor
so i would like once again to ask um
tonight um if we can have a meeting um in regard the complete agenda for
staffing for and the new goals and for the news
administrator what his plan is i requested that several minutes ago
i have not granted that wish i see that we are in the process of
hiring um many staff without the council
approval i will not vote on any of these
hiring until we have a meeting i would like to see the whole plan from city
administrator up to all the way to the bottom
so i'm asking that formally tonight since i've asked for it and
it was not granted to me but if you want me to vote i would like to be informed
since you're the mayor if you can relay that message
i um on one of the notes here i see uh we're
gonna hire a human resource
we just eliminated that position and we're gonna hire this position and
we're contacting guf hr without the city council approval
and we don't even know what the cost on that
so if somebody can uh give me those answers i will appreciate
it okay i will pass that along to him
tomorrow he hopefully he will be back tomorrow if you have time maybe you can
stop in also and have a conversation with him also
and i know that he'd be more than glad to fill you in
for the record i um second what she just said
okay anybody else i'll go along with her i agree what she
said
i concur
i agree with that as well i'd like to have a little more information
okay any other questions no but i'll agree
with what everybody else is saying to have a clear plan on where we're going
okay all right
can i just throw some in there just at that vision session that we're going to
have on april 4th um a lot of that will be discussed there
too in that vision session so just i'm just throwing my two cents in there um
however you want to deal with jim on that but that's
something that we can certainly add as a as a clear vision which what's the
vision collect division between the council and administrator i understand
yeah i'll just throw that out no i understand i understand your point but
then we should not hire nobody until that vision then
and it's hardly fair you know it's okay it's hard to have a
collective vision meeting with public being there when we don't know
i i don't think it's fair to us that we're not privy to this prior to that
once again we're going to be thrown out there
without any knowledge of what as at least some of us without any knowledge
there may be some of us up here with knowledge but i am not one of them and
that's not right you know we are elected to represent this city were elected to
make decisions and set policy and that's very difficult to do when your hands are
tied and you don't know what's going on so i agree with everything she said and
i will support that and i will not vote for anything either until we have a
group discussion and i do mean group as a collective council not individually
okay moving on city clerks reporter city clerk christine vershay hall
thank you i just have one announcement
our first citywide garage sale for 2022 will be held
may 19 through may 22nd the fee for the garage
sale permit is five dollars and can be purchased through the city clerk's
office the deadline to submit your application
or pick up your permit to have your address put on a list will be may 17th
if you have any questions please contact the clerk's office at 815-741-5100
and that's all i have to report any questions of city clerk when i'm gonna
post that on the website and facebook we'll get that off to the um
departments tomorrow thank you thank you
okay thanks chris uh unfinished business we have nothing on the agenda anyone
well i missed i missed our treasurer glenn conklin good evening glenn well i
missed you too right stand up
all right kids so uh
i'd like to report regular overtime payroll from february 28 2022
through march 13th of 2022 in the amount of 225 thousand 279 dollars and 17 cents
i think i seek a motion for approval
on our list of bills which in that same period totals 362 thousand 322 dollars
and one quarter last second still move just presented second
we have motion by all the person overland seconded by alderman zipiti for
the approval of the list of bills questions or comments
roll call please darrell jefferson yes
claudia gasol yes tina oberlin yes mark the pewdiepie yeah albert yes joe cool
yes scott dyke yes yes
i thank you all take any questions if you have them questions of city treasure
thank you and good night hey thanks glenn all right now on to unfinished
business we have nothing on the agenda anyone
new business we do have a plan commission
recommendation uh you have before you
case s-u-22-1-2-1
the request of jim cervantes for the property at 1716 thomas court
for a special uh for a
change in zoning from m1 to m1 special use
so with that i will ask our planner maura ragoni to give us some
information background information in regards to this request
thank you mayor um james cervantes he first appeared
before uh council back in january 10th of 2022
looking to propose a special use for automobiles and vehicle sales
in on tomas court's 1716 tomah's court unit b this is zone m1 all auto sales or
any vehicle sales in the city presto require a special use this is a little
unique as it's internet based so in speaking to the applicant that
everything will be done in in interior to the building uh that it would be the
anyone interested in a vehicle would see it online contact the applicant and then
everything would be done by appointment this was a point of discussion as if
you've been out to tomorrow's court there's a lot not a lot of parking for
the patrons as well as then for vehicles to be stored there so that centered a
lot of the discussion that we had at the planned commission meeting that was
period both february 9th and then was also continued to march 9. a lot of
discussion the plan commission did outline conditions to ensure
those were identifying as customer parking only operations must be
conducted within the building no outdoor display of vehicles or any
product of material for sale no outdoor storage of vehicles products or
materials no display of any temporary signs and so forth that which we would
see at a traditional auto auto slot and then hours of operation
was discussion at the plan commission at that time and
working with the applicant hours of operation limited to 9 00 a.m to 9 p.m
monday through friday and 9 a.m to 5 p.m on saturday a lot that's centered around
with the discussion of test drives and so forth and that so
with this um we are looking for a special use for
automobile and vehicle sales as the applicant has indicated that there may
be some automobiles there may be some vehicles some trucks um as well as
potential the occasional semi as well as on other recreational vehicles but again
all of that would be required based on the conditions outlined and proposed by
the plan commission to be all within the building and
nothing outside the building as well so there is an ordinance
before you this evening all of the conditions that were just discussed are
outlined as as attached to section three of this ordinance
okay are there any questions tomorrow more i have one can i ask you a question
okay see has somebody wants to buy a vehicle the only time they can get down
on a sunday can you go down or take care of the business on a sunday
for the people no my understanding isn't that the applicant can speak more to it
that there are outside of our rules that we've placed here is that there's
specific rules that he must adhere to and comply with the state
such as no vehicle sales on sunday um so there's certain regulations by having
this type of operation um compared to like a
conventional sales lot that he must adhere and comply with the trigger is is
that and i've got i've learned a lot about auto sales in the state of
illinois than anything that triggers once you sell five vehicles you must
have a dealer's license and so to go to an auction and buy more than five
vehicles in a calendar you need to have such license which triggers the state to
look for compliance here which then says that we have the special
use in line so there are outside of the regulations that we placed here there
are still state regulations like no sales a vehicle on sunday
if the car's paid for and everything he can't give it to him that day that i
would have the applicant speak to it but the hours of operation are monday
through friday and saturday so he has not had indicated any hours of operation
on sunday okay okay whatever
yeah i know you can't sell a car on sunday anyway
it's been around too long yes it is more was there any uh stipulation on how
many vehicles up to up to no there was not only
because it we we felt that it was indoors and that there was nothing that
he that could that would that was the restricting
factor um mr sanchez that um would be able to speak
more to that uh he was restricting that possibly
what was it like five five about five only because since they are indoors that
there's also state requirements to be able to move around the move around the
vehicles as well while in there he was noting at the public hearing that
there's strict inspections that will be done through
the state that that restrict that as well so a five is about all you could
comfortably fit here okay hang on hang on hang on ask the
questions tomorrow right now so five
five minutes inside five was what was limited inside um
there was discussion i believe at the plant commission about do we restrict
that number but being inside and knowing that that's why we were very
pointed on saying nothing outside so depending on the size of the vehicles
that he had you know if there was that you know occasional stomach that that
might take up that it may not be be that oh okay thank you
maura i just wanted to say thank you and to the the plan commissioners for coming
up with these uh these list of stipulations i know that
when we met as a council we would want to have some of those so it's in place
thank you okay any other questions of maura
okay thanks maura thank you jim cervantes to the podium please
anything maybe you can answer the two questions that were out there first jim
and then anything else you'd like to add in regards to this request
yeah as far as sunday it it still is a law you can't do it and
i believe part of that rule is even delivery of a vehicle you can't do it um
besides that i got a wife and young kids i don't even want to do it so i'm
perfectly happy with that
and that's why it's also going to be by appointment only there there
there may be days or weeks that go by where nobody comes
you know and um so it works better for me by making an appointment only that it
has to work for the buyers and me you know so it comes together and
i wanted to limit it um
you know like nine to five on on saturday so it isn't you know if
somebody can't come until six o'clock sorry you gotta abide by the rules you
know make another time okay
as far as the the amount it depends on at the time
we are limited to and what the state requires is that
they it has to also um besides the storage of
the vehicle inside it has to act like a showroom also so there has to be room
for the people um that make the appointment to come in walk around check
the car you know look all around and stuff so you can't
jam pack everything in there and have no walking or movement of it
um but like i said maybe one day go to an auction and there's a great deal on a
semi um the the just the tractor that could
limit that'll take up two spots so until that vehicle is brought in and
sold that might limit it down to three vehicles inside the shop you know or
um say i pick up three motorcycles that that takes up one parking spot you know
so there's not an exact number on it but we are limited to what we could have
inside or you could get six clown cars yeah
yeah it'd be great if they came with the clowns too
you know okay anything else you'd like to add
to this conversation no pretty much everything's covered
okay does anybody else have any questions for jim you will be able to
fit a semi inside just just uh just the track
right yeah just uh threatening and and that it's going to
have to be a real good deal for something like that i've already i've
already went down that path and been burned with semi so it's it's just
an option you know um if something fantastic comes
along that i think i can make a great dollar on then it's possible but
chances are slim okay thank you anybody else for jeff
and just and just for the record there wasn't any resonance at either of the
two meetings to speak for or against this
is that correct moment
jim stay there stay there for him that is correct there were no residents who
did appear i did have um two phone calls one was from the forest preserve uh
because they're adjacent to not this particular property but the development
in general and had some questions due to some things that were happening
there so we had them in contact we did have one call from a resident um i
explained the process um and is noting that they were all indoors and the
restriction would be that they said that they did not have any concerns great
thank you okay jim um
i have six questions for you okay and just because we are the meeting is being
taped we're live on television i think that everybody here wants to certainly
secure the uh
the integrity of the neighborhood so i'm going to ask you six questions okay
do you agree with the stipulation of on-site
customers by appointment only yes sir number two do you agree with the
stipulation of operations must be conducted within the building yes
number three do you agree with the stipulation no
outdoor display of vehicles or any product material for sale yes sir
number four do you agree with no outdoor storage of vehicles products or material
yes sir number five do you agree with the
stipulation no display of temporary signs used to
advertise the sale of vehicles or products sold on the premises yes sir
and number six do you agree with the hours of operation limited to nine am to
nine pm monday through friday and nine a.m to five pm on saturday yes sir okay
for the record the applicant has agreed with all six stipulations in regards to
the request thank you jim thank you all right
if there's anyone in the audience that would like to speak for or against the
request of mr jim cervantes
for the property located at 1716 thomas court
for a type of request as a special use in an
m1 zoning so you're looking for a zoning change from m1 to m1 special use for the
use or for the ability to sell internet automobile sales need to come to the
podium state your name for the record your address is optional
for the record second time anyone would like to speak for against
case su-22-1-2-1
the request of jim cervantes of 1716 thomas court for a zoning change of m1
to m1 special use for internet automobile sales please step to the
podium state your name for the record your address is optional and for the
third time for the record if anyone would like to speak for or against case
su-22-1-2
the applicant jim cervantes the address 1716 tomic court the request is a zoning
change from m1 to m1 special use for the automobile sales of internet
through the internet please step to the podium state your name for the record
your address is optional let the records show that no one has approached the
podium to speak for or against the request therefore to the city council
all questions have been answered you have before you an an ordinance granting
a special use permit to the cresthill zoning ordinance with respect to certain
real property the petition of james cervantes
um the tomic court special use social investment mayor second we have motion
by alderman albert seconded by alderman jefferson questions or comments regards
to the motion rule call please claudia gazelle yes
tina oberlin yes marcus pedi yes nate albert yes joe kubo yes scott dyke yes
darrell jefferson yes motion carries ordinance
1899. okay
congratulations jim uh good luck i hope you're very successful in
in what you're planning to do there and uh
um again thanks for your cooperation and congratulations also so welcome to the
city of preston thank you thank you okay anything else under new business
hearing none we'll go on to committee liaison reports anyone
next is city council comments these are positive city council comments anything
you'd like to share with your constituents
we'll begin with ward 4 this evening alderman
nothing to add at this time mayor alderman albert uh yes mayor excited to
announce that the cresto alliance club uh free community easter egg hunt is
returning this year uh this year it'll be held on saturday
april 16th at 12 o'clock noon sharp at richland
school we usually host it on the
west side of the of the school and the open field there
it may be relocated if comet is still working in that area or nightcore is
working in that area so we'll play that by year but it's on saturday april 16th
at noon we because there was a couple of years
that was missed we upped the ages from uh used to be newborn to eight years old
and it's newborn to ten years old so if you come on out
free candy balloons and a visit from the easter bunny
thank you okay
ward three alderman sippity uh just want to welcome jim to the city and i want to
uh wish you much luck in your your new uh business
all the person overland i i i second that as well and welcome to our new
officer ryan and best wishes and prayers to
our other officer thanks or two other women gazelle
welcome ryan we look forward working with you and seeing you patrolling in
the city wishing you the best of luck
and prayers to our officer continue to pray for all the
police officers because today's world is very dangerous so keep them in your
thoughts and prayers uh alderman jefferson
i'd like to just say uh congratulations on uh for jim with the
business and welcome ryan the
crest hill police department um take my hat off to all officers that
serve this city and you know pray for their protection and
well-being and that's it
ward one alderman for shay uh congratulations new officer and
congratulations on jim new business in the city
thank you i'll even die i just want to concur with what everyone said
welcome congratulations thank you
okay public comment anyone like to address city council please stop to the
podium say your name for the record your address is optional i think theo you
were on the agenda for speaking
my name is theodore bellows i've been a resident for like 30 some years at the
city of crest hill i'm very proud to be a citizen here
uh my son did his eagle project here at the
cresthill library and this is a question of
human equation and lack of communication it's already a done deal i have my date
in court at the city of joliet
they kind of fib they told me that it was here because since it wasn't a
moving violation well it wasn't true so now i gotta waste the court system
for something so my new and all i did my homework
um it was uh i got a ticket and i'm usually compliant
99.9 i watched the news the uh
snow was an inch and a half to two inches in the chicagoland area so i felt
pretty safe you know
got two tickets and i was a scout master i always taught my
boys if you were wrong you got to man up to it but if you're right you better
stick to your guns nobody else will so
i i call the national weather bureau it's in
for our region it's in romeoville and i forgot the names of the
gentleman's over there in my books
i said how much snow did cresthill er receive if i'm wrong i'm gonna pay the
fine he says well we got a prop
we don't know ah well
okay you don't know he says all the other cities have
a weather watcher except crest hill if you want to become one you get online
you're certified and you call it it and then we'll know
charlotte has one all the surrounding areas
so wow well i got a ticket he said well you know do your homework
and maybe you can resolve it so i
i went to the powers of command i talked to the sergeant i forgot his name
he says i really don't want to take the ticket
off because it's unfair to the officer that wrote it i was leaving
that next day to for a seminar in arizona
i said i'll keep my phone on well the officer i think was officer brown didn't
contact me for like a week so i came back after the seminar and
went to the city hall and
talked to him and he says well i says since we don't have a weather watcher
and and the weather bureau really didn't know how much snow we got
you know can you give me a warning or whatever because well
i put my ruler on the ground
i said but you can't do that you know he said well he did it and well we got two
inches well again
i got my thing over there my wife told me not to bring anybody
you know you can't do it on the ground you know you have to have a weather
board and let me just get this here
i got to bring all this to the state's attorney
i'm embarrassed to even show up there
there's more problems in the world than this but it's a matter of principle this
is what here i have to have this back that you
have to measure the snow every six hours and you have to have a weather board you
have to have two of them has to be in white and you really shouldn't have a
ruler you could but they prefer a specialized stick for it it's an
instrument that they make special for that
it's already done deal but i just wanted to make it
you know known that you don't have a weather watcher i talked to mark
and he said he went out there and he has a
weatherboard and it was two inches but he didn't call
it and you have to call in and make it more official
you know do you really have to probably not
but it's going to come a case like mine again if i was wrong if we had four
inches i'm willing to pay but you know don't
you know um
but i'll have my day in court now it's i go um may 5th and
again i probably have a jury to try one it's
really silly but all the officer had to do is say you
know since we don't have a weather watcher official one i'll give you a
warning and i'll do it again but he wouldn't do nothing about it but
you know so that's just my case you know but okay well thank you
thank you for your comments uh it sounds like you know you've got everything in
line i did my homework you know and i even want to be a weather
watcher so i talked to um brian he's the um head guy up at the bureau and he's
gotta go online and take a little test and
you know and so i might be more for the senior chris yeah so all i will say to
you is you'll have your day in court and if the judge rules in your favor
uh we will say i'm embarrassed to go let me finish please if the judge rules in
your favor we'll certainly abide by it i would suggest that maybe if you want to
stick around till the end of the meeting you have a private conversation with our
police chief that may be helpful to you also
thank you okay thank you anybody else like to address city
council please step to the podium state your
name for the record your address is optional let the records show that no
one has approached the podium uh to our city attorney mike stiff mike is there a
need for an executive session there is not motion to journal
we have a motion for an adjournment by all the mechanics seconded by alderman
for shay questions or comments roll call please pin overland yes mark
the pd yes nate albert yes yes scott dyke yes
yes jefferson yes yes motion carries thank you okay
meeting is adjourned at 7 51 pm i thank you