we could either do one thing he could give you the tire you can give him the
shirt
we'll move that over
all right good evening ladies and gentlemen i would like to call the april
4th 2022 city council city council meeting to order at 7 00 pm if everyone
would please rise for the pledge of allegiance and please remain standing
after the pledge
i pledge
allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all
unfortunately over the past couple weeks the city of cresthill has lost
two very well-known and prominent individuals from the city of cresthill
first mr donald hoffman
93 years old passed away on march 16 2022.
don hoffman was instrumental in the incorporation of the city of
cresthill back in 1960 he was also one of the original eight
aldermen that were elected
to the city or chosen to be on the city council in 1960
january 22nd of 1960 and then he ran for the position in 1961
was elected to a four-year term and served another four years for the
city of christil he lived was which is now in ward 4.
he was again a well-known and prominent individual for the city of prestill he
did a lot of wonderful things for the city of cresthill
we certainly as a city we wish to
add our condolences extend our gratitude for his years of service to the city of
crest hill to his family
and thank him for making the city of crestille a better place to live
we also lost another well-known and prominent individual from the city of
cresthill mr jim troja just passed away a few days ago on march
30th 2022 i believe he was 82 years old
jim one of was jim was an accountant by trade
and actually served on our police pension board for 30 years
so he gave a lot of time to the city of cresthill also as did mr hoffman
we certainly wish to extend our condolences to his wife carol
and their children on the loss of their husband and their
father we certainly want to extend our gratitude for the commitment the
dedication and the loyalty that he gave to the city of cresthill for 30 years on
the police pension board he again improved the quality of life
for the for the residents and for the police officers of the city of cresthill
so i would ask for a moment moment of silence in memory of mr donald hoffman
and mr james trojan
thank you
roll call please chris ray solomon here glenn conklin
scott dyke here jon reshade darrell jefferson here claudia gaza here you
know blind president mark zupiti here nate albert here from joe cool
thank you okay we do not have a business promotion
this evening so we'll continue with the agenda items first is the approval of
the minutes from the city council meeting held on march 21st 2022 motion
would be in order some move oh second we have motioned by other
women gaza seconded by alderman jefferson for the approval of the city
council minutes of march 21st 2022 questions or comments
roll call please scott dyke yes john richard yes darrell jefferson yes bobby
gazelle yes you know yes mark zupity yes yes
yes motion carries thank you you also have before you the minutes of the uh
work session held on march 28 2022 motion will be in order tomorrow just
presented second we have motion by all other
person overland seconded by author woman gaza for the approval of the work
session minutes of march 28 2022 questions or comments
roll call please jon reshade yes darrell jefferson yes
yes yes mark yes nate albert abstain joe
cuba yes in scotland yes
motion carries thank you okay moving on to our city attorney mike steph good
evening mike
any questions over city attorney okay thanks mike uh our city
administrator jim marino good evening mayor council you have in
front of you a change order from kd landscaping
out of rockdale this is a change order to the memorial garden this was
discussed at the last work session what it does it is it adds to the design
of the memorial garden a centerpiece of three columns
you have renderings in the packet and this was reviewed by
the owner of kd landscaping last week so the change order is
in the amount of
forty thousand seven hundred and eighty five dollars so that includes the basalt
columns and the brick work around it it will add
to what's already been designed for the memorial garden
question came up at the work session as to whether or not the columns will be
lit and they will be lit but the question was also asked that the
lighting would be colored lighting and kd landscape is not putting in the
lighting that's being done by the electrical contractor so last week i
asked kirk wilkins to find out if it's going to be colored
lighting and he's checking with the contractor and hasn't heard back yet but
i'll let you know once i find out and if the current
specs don't call for colored lighting i will ask them to change that if they can
and include colored lighting for the columns
answer any questions you may have motion would be in order
some second we have motioned by alderwoman
gazelle seconded by alderman dyke for the approval of the change order number
two for the memorial garden questions or comments
roll call please darrell jefferson yes yes
yes mark yes nate albert yes joe cuba yes scott
dyke yes john rochet yes motion carries resolution 1151
okay anything else jim nothing else any questions of our city administrator yeah
one question uh you look for assistant manager one of
the people are they charging us anything for
that for an assistant manager yeah we're not
advertising for a system manager right now because i've seen anybody say the
minute you talked to somebody they told you go down the side and get your own
we are advertising for a community and economic development director is that
what you're referring to assistant manager sit down
no we're not advertising for that okay well anyway uh
the person is going to start in two weeks
no i think he's talking about that one email that you sent out
like it's on my telephone at home there's something supposed to start i
thought it was an assistant manager that was starting two weeks
that well what i had mentioned in that report was considering bringing out an
interim temporary person yeah but no i'm not going to do that
that's being put on hold right oh okay because i just wonder because i think
the council of the voters for that and i just wondered about that right no
nothing's moving forward on that oh okay all right then
anybody else this won't work anyway that works
i just want to follow up on the memorial garden just if there's any confusion out
there all of the stones that are currently
there which we have almost 1175 names on all of the stones that are out there
that will all be transported and transferred from its present location
here at 1610 plainfield road to the new location
um at city on city center boulevard at new city hall um
when the time is appropriate which we're hoping it's probably going to probably
be in june um we are unsure at this time but
everything's kind of pointing to the strong possibility that we're going
we're going to need to have one more memorial day ceremony here at our
present location it just makes a lot of sense to have it here uh with still some
of the construction and the equipment that's going on at the new city center
so we'll have a i'll have an announcement here at the next council
meeting we do have um we do have
guest speakers that are lined up for uh this memorial day we actually have two
world war ii veterans um
that live in the city of cresthill who are going to be our guest speakers so i
have more information on all of that in two weeks but for right now strong
possibility that we will be having the ceremony here at 1610 plainfield road
for one more year okay
moving on to public works department our director of public works mr mark c for
quitting the market good evening mayor and council the only thing i had before
this evening is an ordinance authorizing the issuance of water works and sewerage
revenue bonds for the city of cresthill in an aggregate principle amount not to
exceed 49 million five thousand uh as we spoke about last week uh the forty nine
million five thousand five hundred mark 500 sorry 49 million
500 000. um is intended to cover engineering
legal and anticipated construction costs with the improvement
uh the latest opinion of probable cost is 39 million 984 uh which has gone up
since october 2.5 percent um
this will only be used for the scope of this project any change orders will come
back before council um the city is in a good position to
receive up to five million dollars in principal forgiveness with a loan
interest rate as low as 0.65
bids should go out mid-may and come back in mid-july
and we'll take advantage of best funding available
currently available for the city so moved is presented second
we have motioned by all the person overland seconded by alderman
jefferson for an ordinance authorizing the issuance of water works and sewage
revenue bonds of the city of crest hill will county illinois and an aggregate
principal amount not to exceed 49 49 million five hundred thousand dollars
questions or comments roll call please
cloud exalt yes tina oberlin yes yes nate albert abstain
joe kubo yes
scott died yes john verstappen yes and darrell jefferson yes motion carries
ordinance 1900 uh
we are dodging raindrops trying to fill potholes as best as possible and we're
getting bad out there we were on division street on friday gaylord on
friday caton farm was today finished caton farm
finished caton farm tomorrow getting some of the interiors i know we're
getting a lot of calls in the public works we're trying to get around as fast
as possible but unfortunately with the weather we're currently getting uh
you don't you don't patch in the rain um so but we're getting out there trying
to do as much as possible done and we we see it every day too so we're out there
without any questions questions of public works yeah how about
that stop sign on uh getting found by that business that was determined uh ron
weedman looked into that that was determined that was a private
drive so that would be their responsibility to
put that up i thought ron said that was our street
now i like to i'll check with him when he told me it was that was a private
drive uh because it's it's just an easement to
go back there so
okay maybe gotta have to repeat them open up themselves yeah that'd be up to
them if they do want to put something there they're not regulated to but if
they we could ask them to okay any other questions no just uh just
remember the telephone
um the comed
polls the gilroy or all of them on weber they cut down
yes remember they disconnected everything last year finally they
haven't taken them down any update on that i can keep pushing them that i know
they're going around replacing telephone poles right now so
they have crews in the area so i could make another call uh we've been
obviously you know we've been fighting that right now and everybody's every
utility is pointing the finger at another to another utility right now
comrades pointed to att pointing to verizon pointing back to combat so
uh that one on my government it's very
dangerous because it's blocking the view it's all of them they're doubled up near
any of the intersections that one is horrible so yeah i'll i get complains
about it um we will put out another uh another phone call and an email to our
contacts
thank you okay thanks mark uh city engineer we have nothing on the agenda
community development you have reports in your packet
but there are no agenda items we will move on to the police department our
police chief ed clark good evening on evening mayor council i do not have
anything on the agenda this evening you did get your two-week informational
packet and i'd be willing to answer any questions
any questions or police chief
okay thanks dad thank you um mayor's report
agenda item proclamation celebrating national dare day in the city of
cresthill uh we'll begin uh with the reading of the proclamation
and we'll begin with alderman dice thank you
a proclamation recognizing dare's birthday whereas their drug abuse
resistance education teaches young people opioid and vaping preventative
teen health suicide prevention and internet and social media safety and
whereas their targets young people when they are most vulnerable to
tremendous peer pressures and teaches the skills
to make safe and responsible decisions and whereas there is taught in many more
than 300 000 classrooms in all 50 states and 54 countries around the world and
whereas over 36 million kindergarten through 12th grade students are
positively impacted by dare each year and whereas the dare program is taught
by specially trained police officers who have directed who have direct experience
with criminals whose lives have been ruined by substance abuse and
whereas each police officer who teaches the dare program completes an intensive
80 hours training course that includes instruction in teaching
tech techniques officer school relationship development
and self-esteem child development and communication skills and
whereas the deer curricula helps students recognize and successfully
manage stress evaluate risk-taking behaviors resist
gang pressure apply effective decision making skills and evaluate the
consequences of the choices available to them end
whereas the dare program has achieved outstanding success teaching positive
and effective approaches to some of the most difficult problems
facing our young people today substance abuse violence gangs
and bullying and whereas this day serves as a celebration
for all past and present students that have graduated from the drug abuse
resistance education program now therefore raymond r solomon by
virtue of the authority vested in him as the mayor of the city of cresthill do
hereby proclaim april 21st 2022 be observed as their day in the city of
cresthill and encourages residents to observe that day with appropriate
activities including where wearing a dare shirt to show your support to the
program given under his hand in the corporate
seal of the city of crest hill this fourth day of april 2022 raymond r
solomon mayor city of preston so moved his
we have a motion by all the person overland seconded by alderman albert for
the approval of the proclamation questions or comments roll call please
mark sapidi yes
nate albert yes joe kubal yes scott dyke yes john yes shirelle jefferson yes and
claudia gaza yes yes
we have the honor and privilege of having our current their offer
officer hayden outlaw with us i will say that
for the last 30 years dare has been an important product of
the city of cresthill and we've taken an active role in helping
hundreds probably thousands of students over the last 30 years
i just want to read off some of the names
that have served as their officers for the city of crestel
first our first their officer i believe was from someone from will
county sheriff's department if i remember correctly and then it was
followed by our own tom evanoff
who rose to the rank of sergeant and is now retired
our second air officer was officer brad hertzman
who wrote rose to the rank of deputy chief of administration and is now
retired our third officer that was
our dare officer was officer ryan dobstick
who is currently still with us and he has now been most recently
promoted to the rank of deputy chief of
administration joe lacoste
was our fourth there officer over the last 30 years
who has now risen to the ranks of sergeants in investigations
and our final officer that i believe since 2014
is officer heidi outlaw and is now our community service officer also correct
i will tell you that all of these officers i have been at ceremonies
graduations that they have handled so i speak highly of all of them
i can tell you since for the last seven years now officer heidi outlaw
has done a tremendous job also the way she interacts with the students
she teaches the fourth grade students at richland grade school and she teaches
the fifth grade students at cheney mangy school about 150 students each year
coming out of both schools you know it's a difficult task in the
environment and the social climate that we live in today but i will tell you
that heidi has touched many many
hearts of these young children i'll i believe she'll be the first to
tell you that she has not touched everybody
but i will tell you that
the hearts
but i will tell you it's a very difficult job it's a very difficult job
in today's climate but she does a fantastic job and she's
earned their respect and she's gained many friends and you know if she can
change uh several several lives and keep people off of drugs and alcohol then the
program is worth it and it's worth it the city of crestville sponsors
sponsors this and also the cresthill alliance club has
been sponsoring the their graduations probably for
25 of those last 30 years so it is my honor and privilege on
behalf of everybody all the students that went through the dare program at
the city of cresthill all the past officers
and all the future students and future officers that will that will continue to
do their program in the city of cresttel we certainly want to extend their
gratitude for their commitment their dedication and loyalty to this program
and it is my honor and privilege on behalf of the entire city of crystal to
present a copy of this proclamation to officer
obama
mayor council i want to say thank you very much on behalf of myself as the
dare officer for the city of cresthill obviously i've followed a very
distinguished line of officers here that have taught dare so i hope to follow in
their footsteps it's been an honor to teach
these kids it's been a lot of fun it's been
difficult it's been stressful and it's been amazing it's been
i've met amazing kids amazing parents and i work
with some of the best teachers on the planet at both cheney and richland i
couldn't do this without them i couldn't do this without you guys and i certainly
couldn't do it without this amazing guy standing behind me without the support
of our deputy chiefs and our chief i wouldn't be able to do this so again
thank you very much i really appreciate this on behalf of all of the dare
officers we've ever had i want to thank you guys and the mayor for giving us the
proclamation for dare day thank you
this is uh obviously a program we've had for many years
you know i've seen firsthand uh how they interact with their instructors even
years later i've seen our past deputy chief who could talk to the kids knew
them and they would share information they
were they were free to talk to the officer so this is just one more program
that provides that outreach to our community
and you know our goal is to keep improving and making more progress in
expanding our outreach to the community so thank you city council for allowing
us to have this program it's done a lot of good in our community and we want to
continue it so thank you and thank you to officer outlaw
i'll open up for any comments from city council well i think you have to get
kids when they're young if you want to make an impact
and this is one of the areas that i think is really really critical to make
an impact at a young age because there is so much pressure out there to kids i
mean even when my son was that agent he went through the program it was a
different world than it is today and um you know with cyber crimes and
all these other things going on so i really applaud you for your work heidi
thank you so very much and thank you ed i certainly have so much to tell you you
know how i feel about you so as ed knows
my daughter was one of the girls that took the their program and all the kids
at the school they love you i mean when you come to our committee outreach that
we do every year you are gifted like you have done so much
for the committee from my word for for the kids the parents love you
everybody loves you i've seen you how you interact with them and it just you
are gifted i mean ed
we've talked about this before you chose the right person for the job it's uh i
can't thank you enough for everything that you do the patient that you have i
haven't seen as a police officer you have a lot of time you let the kids
touch the car go inside do everything i mean i just like love to watch you doing
this and i want to thank you personally for helping me
with those committee outreach thank you again from the bottom of my heart thank
you anybody else yep
thanks heidi to you and all the officers before you the officers all over the
world that do this if you save one person that is a good job
and that's how you look to save one congratulations
and i hope you say too
i want to thank you heidi for all you do for the community the schools the
children for everything the time that you put into it
your dedication to it and thanks that for continuing the program and
i know that you know hopefully being around a while you can't retire anytime
soon like the others
thanks again
mayor if i could uh i can remember you know being in dare myself
in grade school over at holy family it was a joliet officer that was there
but i think one thing that's important
to note of the program too is that kids at a young age look at authority
differently and when an officer can come in there and
relate to the kids like their their teachers do or like other
adults do they they realize that they're real people and then when they see you
on the street they can you know treat you with respect
that's one of the big takeaways of the program that's not you know mentioned as
much but you cert we've certainly had a great
group of men and women leading this program and i appreciate all you do just
like everybody else has said heidi for the for the program and the police
department thank you
thank you for your service heidi
having three kids that offer that all went through the dare program and
um you were instrumental in um
in making them aware of all the risks that
are out there and they all all three of them just spoke really highly of you and
just wanted to let you know how much that's appreciated
thank you
okay thank you heidi and thanks for all you
do for uh for the young children of our community
okay um that is it for the agenda items for the
mayor i just like to uh remind all of our residents that yard
waste pickup uh started actually today so uh your yard waste can be put out on
your regular collection day from now until the end of november
and the only other thing is with easter right around the corner here i certainly
want to wish all of our residents
a blessed and happy easter to you and to your families this easter
season with that i will entertain any questions that anybody may have no just
a quick uh comment mary we can have the next
work session or so just a clarification about
what the meaning of a committee is i would appreciate it just a refresher to
all of us all right just a little bit more details of what we do what we're
not supposed to do i would appreciate that i i didn't get that plenty of which
is that sorry update on what committee
yeah just an update about what the duties were committed
yeah a committee in general okay
okay moving on to our city clerk's reporter city clerk christine berche
hall good evening chris good evening thank you um i just want to announce our
citywide garage sale will be held thursday may 19 through sunday may
22nd the fee for the garage sale permit is five dollars and can be picked up in
the clerk's office monday through friday from 8 a.m to 4 30
p.m um the deadline to submit your application for your address to be on
the list is may 17th and if you have any questions please give us a call at
815-741-5100
and that's all i have to report tonight any questions of city clerk
all right thanks chris uh our treasurer glenn conklin good evening glenn
good evening mayor and council i'd like to report regular overt overtime payroll
from 314 22 through
327.22 in the amount of 238 278.83
i seek a motion for approval for a list of bills which during that same time
frame totaled 517
830 dollars and 20 cents so moved is presented one second
we have motion by all the first in overland seconded by ellen jefferson for
the approval of the list of bills questions or comments
roll call please nate albert yes joe cuball yes scott dyke yes john
richard yes darrell jefferson yes claudia gaza yes you know overland yes
and mark zappedy yes and carries thank you
i thank you all take any questions if you have them questions of city
treasurer okay thanks glenn
thanks unfinished business we have nothing on the agenda anyone
new business anybody
committee liaison reports anyone city council comments positive city
council comments anything you'd like to share with any of your constituents
anybody first we'll begin with ward three other person overlapping
um the czech republic wanted me to let everyone know that this year it's going
to be the 80th anniversary of the ladies memorial program it's going to be held
on sunday june 12th at 11 a.m at the ladies memorial park it's going
to be quite quite quite an event this year
because it's 80 years and it's very hard to believe it's been 80 years
since that atrocity but it has been
alderman 11 a.m
i'd like to acknowledge the richland boys bowling team and as well as two
individual girl bowlers that all qualified for the state finals
um i believe they'll be bowling in the state finals this friday so i want to
congratulate all of them and wish them luck
and i also want to congratulate uh mr hopkins and all the bowlers on a
terrific season thank you lord farro alderman albert uh yeah mayor
one last plug for the uh crestal lions club easter egg hunt at richland school
on saturday april 16th starts promptly at noon
ages 0 through 10 are invited this year so
that'll be saturday april 16th at richland school on the
west side of the building um in the comed easement area
thank you alderman kubal nothing to add at this time mayor ward
one alderaan dyke i just want to wish everyone a happy and blessed easter
alderman for shay uh nothing at this time or two alderman jefferson i think
that's this time older woman gazelle i just want to
announce that the richland music booster fundraiser for uh i'm one of the board
members and asking um the resident and anyone the
council here would like to buy papa nicholas coffee for part of the
fundraising for us we appreciate it if you can go on the
richland website and you can order you have till friday to order some coffee
it's delicious and also they offer tea and i also want to wish all the
residents city council all the staff and departments
a very blessed easter remember what is the reason
for easter thank you mayor okay public comment anyone like to funny question
is that coffee is it is it do they have the pods and stuff
too or just beans or how are they they have the pods
thank you public comment anyone 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 to our city attorney mike stiff is there a need for
an executive session mike no motion to adjourn there second we have motion for
an adjournment by alderman dyke seconded by alderman jefferson questions or
comments roll call please joe cuball yes scott
dive yes yes darrell jefferson yes claudia
gazelle yes berlin yeah yes
yes promotion thank you okay meeting is adjourned at 7
33 p.m i thank you and good evening
you