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good evening ladies and gentlemen i'd like to call the april 18 2022 cresthill
city council meeting to order if everyone would please rise for the
pledge of allegiance to the flag
i pledge
states of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all
roll call please chris here
president scott doug here jefferson here
here you know here nate albert here
here okay you have before you for approval
the minutes from the city council meeting held on april 4th 2022 motion
would be in order so move second we have motion by alderman albert
seconded by alderwoman gazelle for the approval of the city council meetings of
april 4 2022 questions or comments roll call please
scott yes
yes
and you also have before you the minutes of the work session
held on april 5th 2022.
motion would be in order so move second motion by all the maneuvers second to
buy all the mitsukiti for the approval of the work session minutes of april 5th
2022. questions or comments roll call please
john shea yes
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yes yes
you also have before you the minutes of the work session held on april 11th 2022
motion would be in order second we have motioned by alderman
albert seconded by alderwoman resolved for the approval of the work session
minutes of april 11 2022 questions or comments roll call please
jefferson yes
yes yes
abstain yes
thank you
and you have before you the minutes of the work session held on april 12th 2022
motion would be in order second we have motion by alderman albert
seconded by alderman dyke for the approval of the work session minutes
held on april 12 2022 questions or comments
roll call please claudia yes yes mark graffiti yes
yes
okay we were to have here uh the gentleman from super catfish which is
located at 20641 renwick road uh the grand opening was on
march 31st uh this is their second uh business in the city of cresthill
they have uh the first catfish is on caton farm road and this was the opening
of super catfish with the same type of
food they were supposed to be here tonight for our business promotion
but uh they are not here yet if they do come in
we will certainly let them approach the podium
with that uh let's move on to our city attorney mike stiff good evening mike
good evening mayor and council i do not have any agenda items this evening happy
to answer any questions of course any questions of our city attorney
okay thanks mike uh moving on to our city administrator jim marino good
evening jim good evening mayor council you have before your resolution
approving a proposal with lvs and avi
this is for the audio visual equipment at the new city center this was
discussed at last week's work session
i also sent you earlier today and you had in front of your dais just an
updated uh agreement proposal from abi mike stiff had asked for correction on a
couple items which they did however mike is still reviewing uh the language on
indemnification um i'll have that done tomorrow so
uh if you would approve this with subject to final approval by uh the city
attorney
motion would be in order with uh the
the avi agreement to be subject to the attorney
approval
motion by all the woman gazelle seconded by alderman jefferson
for the approval of a resolution awarding certain work for the audio
visual project the low voltage solutions incorporated and awarding certain work
for the city center audio visual project to avi systems
incorporated subject to the attorney approval questions or comments
roll call please you know overland yes mark
yes nate albert yes yes
scott dyke yes yes
yes
resolution 11 52.
anything else jim no any questions of city administrator no
just a quick uh comment uh
with the last email you sent about the 14 candidates for academic development
when it comes to the end can the council be part of
not the questioning but to listen to the uh candidate the final two or three
candidates listen to
their presentation or uh well i don't know if we're having a
presentation yet so i'm not sure
well right now i'm planning on having at least two rounds of interviews correct
but in the end when you come down to like the the the final two or three
candidates uh is the council going to be involved
uh that wasn't my plan no um i think we have to find a way i'm not
i'm not asking that we have to ask questions i think all the candidates
should be asked the same questions but i think we need to be involved in a
decision at this point just because of the track record that we
had in the past um i would like to see the final
two candidates well it is the council's decision to make the appointment but we
will only bring us one person and how can we make a decision on one
person i would like to see the final two or
three candidates well what's the practice been
mayor i mean i understand it was and two rounds of interviews that was done by
staff bringing the top candidate to city
council
i think that's maybe part of alderwoman gazelle's question is the
concern of that process possibly
of not being involved before the appointment is that
is that what i'm hearing you say
yes i just i just want to see the last two
candidates i mean just like the way when we interviewed
for your position we were involved in the whole process i'm not asking to ask
the minimum like all these questions obviously
you're going to have a format of questions that are going to be asked for
everybody right so the last two candidates your top two
candidates it would be nice to for all of us to be
involved in listening to
their vision and their goals and who they come from instead of bringing one
person say okay this is who you have to vote so are you saying you want to do
the second round interview i don't want to do the second round
interview i just want to be part of it if the
council can't hear
the candidates so we can have a better view of what
they're looking for what their goals what their
accomplishment i mean if you're gonna bring me just one
obviously i have to go on right because we've been like for two years almost
with no economic development what i'm asking is bring us two or three people
that we can say okay this one is
better than this one or this is what's this guy is missing or this
person is missing or why why are you choosing this last person you know
okay can we talk about it later because i just have to yeah but i just want to
make sure that it's something that we that we'll think about and
then we should be part of the process okay
you know i just wanna make sure we're going to
pick the right kind this time
any other questions no thank you
okay thanks jim uh moving on to public works department our director of public
works mark seifer good evening mark good evening council i have no agenda items
this evening but i do want to remind all of council and all the residents
that starting tonight at 9 00 pm we will start hydrogen flushing
tonight through the 29th we'll just have saturday saturday night
off so we'll have 10
10 out of 11 nights we'll be hydro flushing from 9 00 pm
to 6 a.m if you have any questions we have an faq
page on the city's website under the water wastewater tab just for hydrogen
flushing with a map of the city what zone the residents are in and if they
have any further questions or follow-up or any actions needed please feel free
to call public works at 815-741-5108
and we'll be happy to answer any of their questions once again we are
starting hydrogen flushing this week we have signs up social media posts
there's been flyers at city hall so
every every morning we will have a facebook post letting them know what got
completed what zone where we're going to be the next night along with an internal
email so anybody who's answering the phones inside of city hall has that
information as well so thank you any questions
questions of public works all right thanks mark
um city engineer our city engineer ron wiedemann good evening ron thank you
mayor two items for you tonight the first senator looking for a motion to
approve the mayor and the city clerk to execute
the 2022-23 mft resolution
mft maintenance engineering agreement and the mft general maintenance program
as presented at april 11 2022 budget presentation the only change that i did
make from that last monday was i added division street
as an additional street for patching with cheney and kate
so no move is presented second we have motion for the approval of the
2022 mfd general maintenance program by elder
person overland seconded by alderman albert questions or comments of the
motion this was discussed last week at the work session
roll call please mark the pd yes yes joe cuball yes
scott dyke yes yes darrell jefferson yes
yes yes
resolution 11 53.
second item that i have is to authorize the mayor to execute a professional
services agreement for d3 companies for a not to see an amount of one hundred
and seven thousand two hundred and thirty three dollars to prepare plans
specification and bid documents for the chaney and center water main replacement
and roadway rehabilitation contract um um this is actually the american
rescue fund project that was presented back uh march 14th where v3 was the
highest selected consultant
so move is presented we have motioned by alderman albert
seconded by alderman dyke for the approval of
the american rescue funds chaining center water main improvement
professional service agreement with v3 questions or comments
roll call please yes
yes
yes mark yes
thank you
and that is all i have anybody has any questions any questions of city
engineering okay thanks for watching
uh community development department uh steve is not here this evening he'll be
back in tomorrow if there's any questions please give him a call police
department our deputy police chief ryan dobschicks here good evening ryan good
evening mayor and council your two week activity report is in the
packet i do not have any agenda items tonight
i'd be happy to answer any questions that you or the council may have
any questions of the police department
okay thanks ryan moving on to the mayor's
report first we have an ordinance amending the code of ordinances for the
city of cresthill regarding alcoholic beverages
this license is for the old pueblo grocery and food store which is located
at 2222 plainfield road unit a um
elizabeth dominguez is uh requesting a package liquor license in the city of
cresthill we went through the entire process
everything is in order uh however a new uh package liquor license class e
needs to be created by city council you have before you the ordinance for an
ordinance amending the code of organs is for the city of cresthill regarding
alcoholic beverages this would raise the number of class e
which is packaged liquor licenses from nine to ten so move mayor second we have
motioned by alderman albert second by other person overland questions or
comments of the motion for the um the raising of the class e-liquor
license call please scott dyke yes john
perchette yes darrell jefferson yes yes tina oberlin yes mark zucchini yeah
nate albert yes and joe kubal yes motion carries ordinance 1901.
okay thank you for that uh next on the agenda are uh
three um reappointments to uh two boards within the city of cresthill the first
one will be for the civil service commission
frank blaskey who has served for the past three years on that board has
agreed to another three-year term on the civil service commission which will
expire on may 1st 2025.
uh frank plasky was appointed in 2018 and this will be a second term i would
ask for your concurrence in his reappointment so move mayor
second we have motioned by alderman albert seconded by alderman dyke for the
approval of frank blaskey to the civil service commission for a three-year term
questions or comments roll call please jon reshade yes
jefferson yes
yes thank you
second is for the reappointment of mr john stanton to the plan commission
john has served since 2000 and um this is his fourth term i believe was 2009
when he was appointed to the plan commission so this will be his fourth
term which will expire on um
may 1st 2025 thank you i would ask for his reappointment and emotions so move
this percentage second we're motioned by all the person in oberlin seconded by
alderman berche for the reappointment of john stanton for another three year term
to the crest hill plan commission questions or comments
roll call please nate albert yes
joe cuball yes scott dyke yes john richard yes darrell jefferson yes
yes yes and mark zucchini
and the last appointment is for uh mr jeff peterson to be appointed uh
reappointed to the presta plan commission
he has served one year for an unexpired term of the previous
commissioner on that board um so he is up for a three-year reappointment he has
agreed to serve for three years which will expire on may may 1st 2025 i would
ask for your concurrence some move we have motion by all our goes all
second by alderman groche for the reappointment of jeff peterson to the
plant commission the term will expire may 1st 2025
questions or comments we're all talk please darrell jefferson
yes claude gazelle yes yes mark zappedy yes nate albert yes joe
coogle yes scott dyke yes yes
thank you and the uh the last uh board um is the
police pension board roger cramps served for the last two years on the police
pension board he has to step down for personal reasons
there is an opening for the police pension board it is a non-paying
position on the police pension board i would ask that if anyone is interested
in serving on the police pension board to please fill out an application send
in your resume to myself and we will certainly go through the
applicants for possible candidates to come before the
city council for approval this board meets four times a year uh quarterly
and again it's for a non-paying position
on the police pension board and the meetings are during the daytime hours so
if anybody's interested or if anybody from council has any recommendations
please let me know that's
uh everything for the agenda items for the mayor's office the only other thing
that i'd like to make make mention of is for our 2022 memorial day program
it will be held at this property at 1610 plainfield road for one more year
uh due to the fact that the city center will is not uh available to be open yet
so we will do our last program here this year
um very proud to say that we will have the
the frankfurt brass band again our guest speakers
actually are going to be two world war ii veterans who live in the city of
cresthill uh mr don lawler and mr chester bozek uh they are both in their
mid-90s there are very few world war ii veterans
that are still with us today so we're proud to have those two
gentlemen uh in our city of crest hill that have served um
in world war ii and in the korean war also for one gentleman he served in both
so they will be our guest speakers it will be on monday may 30th at 2 p.m here
right outside in the memorial garden we will honor our
veterans who have passed away and we will also honor our two slain police
officers officer james naked and sergeant tim simonson
who were killed in the line of duty in the line of duty over the past 60 years
in the city of crest hill so please join us there will be refreshments after
light refreshments after the the memorial ceremony it usually lasts
between 45 minutes and one hour that is it for the mayor's report
um if there is any questions i'll certainly
try to entertain them hearing none we'll move on to our city
clerk's report our city clerk christine berche hall good evening chris good
evening um i just have one thing to report that
our citywide garage sale will be held thursday may 19 through sunday may 22nd
the fee to register for the garage sale is five
dollars the deadline to submit your application for your address to be
included on a list it's may 17th permits can be picked up in the clerk's
office monday through friday from 8 a.m to 4 30 p.m and if you have any
questions please give us a call at 815 741
5100 and i like to say that if anybody's
available to come out april 30th to lewis airport and help
support not only the crest hill um and all the other teams that will be
pulling an airplane whoa
um it starts at noon on it
so we appreciate you coming out and supporting all the uh teams and this is
for special olympics of illinois can you send us a design and
well certainly certainly and that's all i have to
report any questions at the clerk
all right thanks chris moving on city treasurer's report our treasurer glenn
conklin good evening glenn good evening mayor and council i'd like to report
regular time payroll from march 28 2022 through april 10th of
2022 in the amount of 231 26.65
i seek a motion to approve our list of bills which total in the same time
period 940 164.75
second we have motion by all the person in
overland second by alderman's pity for the approval of the list of bills
questions or comments roll call police
claude exhale yes kanina oberlin yeah mark the petey yes nate albert yes joe
cruel yes scott dyke yes john richard yes
jefferson yes caution carries thank you entertain any questions if you have any
questions of our treasurer thank you good night thanks glenn
unfinished business we have nothing anyone
new business anybody committee liaison reports anyone
city council comments positive city council comments anything you'd like to
share with uh your constituents we'll begin with ward one this evening
alderman day oh thank you mayor uh nothing at this time alderman for shay
uh nothing at this time ward two alderman jefferson nothing at this time
other woman gazelle i just want to wish the richland
symphonic band they will be competing this saturday
it will be the ig sma state competition so wish them luck
i promised them i was going to announce it tonight so
let's hope they win that's it man or three older person overland yes the uh
czech republic is going to be holding a park cleanup at ladies park
on sunday may 22nd at 11 o'clock a.m so all of you ambitious gardeners and
handy people and any children may be looking for some
community service hours this will be a great opportunity bring
your your weeders your shovels your whatever
and meet us at the park at 11 a.m on sunday may 22nd
all their months of pity nothing at this time there ward 4 alderman albert
nothing at this time man and alderman cooper nothing to add
okay um public comment
anyone like to address any council please step to the podium say your name
for the record your address is optional let the record show that no one has
approached the podium uh to our city attorney mike stiff mike
is there a need for an executive session motions or jury second we have a motion
for an adjournment by all means seconded by alderman
questions or comments the role called police
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