[0:00] and make any adjustments and then
prepare the
[0:04] capital replacement program for next
fiscal year
[0:08] the capital projects fund 13 is
essentially the city center
[0:13] so right now we have revenues of 2
million 417 160
[0:18] and then expense
projected expenditures of 5 million 367
[0:24] and 300 i'm sorry 5 million 367 360
dollars so that creates a deficit of
[0:31] two million nine hundred and fifty two
hundred thousand or two hundred dollars
[0:37] then we have the tick tiff uh larkin
the tiffer
[0:42] larkin avenue around 30 of revenue of 35
000
[0:47] in expenditures of 35 000.
so as uh
[0:52] lisa pointed out in a memo she provided
the only change we made a slight change
[0:58] here in the in the appropriation because
the
[1:01] the revenues were incorrectly identified
as
[1:05] other revenues
and the revenues for the tif district
[1:09] are actually coming from property taxes
within that tif district
[1:13] so the dollar amounts haven't changed
it's just reflecting the dollars are
[1:16] coming from the actual tif district
property taxes not from other revenues
[1:21] then fund 30 we have the debt service
fund for water and sewer that's balanced
[1:26] as well the revenues and expenditures
are the same
[1:32] general debt service for the city center
same thing here the debt service dollar
[1:36] amounts are the same so it's balanced at
hundred seventy three thousand three
[1:40] hundred fifty dollars
then we have the rest bus plant rehab
[1:45] that's uh balanced as well revenues and
expenditures match at six million a
[1:50] hundred thirty seven thousand dollars
then the fund for garbage pickup
[1:56] the revenue is one million three hundred
seventy three thousand nine hundred and
[1:59] thirty seven dollars
expenditures
[2:03] are a little bit less that creates a
surplus of twenty five thousand four
[2:07] hundred and
twenty three dollars
[2:11] then when we have the police pension
fund uh the dollars for the revenues and
[2:15] expenditures are the same so that's
balanced and then the police special
[2:19] assets um is 8 500 for both revenues and
expenditures
[2:26] so that brings us down to the city-wide
total so all those funds totaled
[2:29] together have revenues of 40 million 482
454 dollars in expenditures of 43
[2:37] million
938
[2:40] 298 dollars
which creates an overall deficit of 3
[2:44] million
455 844 dollars
[2:51] and as we're showing here if you pull
out the police pension fund that gives
[2:55] you a total
without the pension fund
[2:59] and then that has a deficit of the same
amount that i just mentioned three
[3:04] million four hundred and fifty five
thousand eight hundred and forty four
[3:07] dollars so
that deficit is going to be paid for out
[3:11] of the general fund balance
so we have a reserve uh balance in the
[3:16] general fund that will cover that
deficit
[3:23] so that's an overview of all the funds
in the budget
[3:27] the one other item i want to mention was
the
[3:31] memo
that
[3:34] lisa prepared
that identified
[3:37] you know a few changes for
clarifications from the last budget that
[3:42] was presented to you
so that references the one item that i
[3:47] mentioned for the tif district
and then there are two other
[3:53] items in here one is a slight increase
to the information technology
[3:58] budget when this originally was
presented to you we didn't have the
[4:01] final numbers on a couple items
for the antivirus
[4:06] software and the backup system so that
increased slightly about by about twenty
[4:11] thousand dollars
and then we also have in here
[4:15] uh
a cost in capital projects
[4:19] for the entry what uh entry signs the
gateway entry signs
[4:23] um 143 000 that's at the full cost
that's only for budgeting uh
[4:29] some of the gateway signs for this year
because we would do it over multiple
[4:32] years we wouldn't do it all in one year
so that's reflected in in the memo
[4:37] that lisa provided
[4:46] so when we redistributed the budget on
5.2 that those changes he talked about
[4:51] were in that budget that you had your
previous package so nothing changed from
[4:55] five to till now those numbers are the
same
[4:59] can you just good question so people
reserve three million we pulled three
[5:03] million from reserve do we have like
what is the balance of the reserve
[5:08] our reserve was about 10 million dollars
now for the general fund for the general
[5:12] fund 10 okay
[5:16] 3.4
yeah
[5:20] anything else
no that's all i am
[5:26] in general terms yes and in the general
class
[5:30] okay hang on hang on perfect council
question sir first i want to turn over
[5:35] to our treasurer glenn conklin for any
comments you'd like to make in regards
[5:38] to the budget i know you were involved
in the in the process also
[5:42] i think it's been laid out pretty clear
i'd entertain any questions if you
[5:45] haven't
you're you're balanced uh you're gonna
[5:48] be thrown from reserves that was money
that's essentially your savings account
[5:52] so
uh
[5:54] generally that's where you pull capital
projects from and you've been building
[5:57] on that for
a number of years you've actually got
[6:01] more in your
war chest than you probably should have
[6:04] it's hard to say you have too much but
um it should be put to use
[6:09] are you stating that before the
reservable or after
[6:14] well i think
we'll be sitting about 10 11 months in
[6:18] in reserves that's going to knock us
back about four
[6:22] three months would be healthy
six is
[6:27] a little overcharged
you know are or very robust so we've
[6:31] been we're we're still in a really good
financial position
[6:36] better than most by
leaps and bounds
[6:41] and you'll be probably looking at future
projects like roads through that
[6:46] through our uh
i hate to call it circle through our
[6:50] reserves
[6:54] okay thanks len uh ollie will
ask lisa if she has any comments or
[6:59] finance director in regards to the
budget i know you did an awful lot of
[7:01] work in regards to this along with jim
also i just wanted to thank everybody i
[7:06] wanted to thank
the treasurer he's been amazing and
[7:09] council
you guys have provided a great
[7:12] tremendous amount of support to me just
for history and just
[7:16] you know
standing behind me and also the
[7:19] department heads too thank you it's been
an effort we're trying to be as
[7:23] transparent as possible
so
[7:27] working with the treasurer will try to
bring more information to you as as
[7:31] often as you need if you want it
quarterly if you want it monthly it'll
[7:33] be up to you
trying to just again maintain that line
[7:37] of communication and make sure that
you're getting the information you need
[7:41] in a timely manner so i wanted to thank
everybody it's been it's been a great
[7:45] experience for me and thank you mayor
also
[7:49] and i want lisa deserves a lot of credit
too she did a lot of work on this budget
[7:52] this is her first time going through the
fiscal budget my first time as well
[7:57] there's a lot of background she had to
get caught up on she brought a lot of
[8:01] information to me and i think she did a
great job along with the department
[8:04] that's pulling all the information
together for the budget
[8:08] okay uh before we move on to some
comments from the mayor for our
[8:12] residents that are watching on
television also
[8:15] some budget highlights that i have
written down in regards to the 2022-2023
[8:20] budget for city of cresthill the budget
is certainly as we all know the most
[8:25] important document in in the city
for every fiscal year it is a fluid
[8:31] document that constantly changes
throughout the year
[8:35] the the budget was published in the
jolly at herald news
[8:39] we did hold two work sessions one on
april 11 2022 the other one on april
[8:44] 25th
2022 in regards to the budget
[8:50] proposal along with several
of the department heads
[8:56] you have before you a balanced budget in
the general fund that has been presented
[9:00] to city council for approval with a
surplus of 91 000
[9:05] some of the individual highlights from
each of the departments
[9:10] first from the police department
this budget includes the hiring of two
[9:14] additional police officers
and to make our community service
[9:19] officer
to go from part-time to a full-time
[9:23] position
with the cresthill police department
[9:26] also in regards to our police pension
fund our fund our police pension fund is
[9:31] funded at 75.5
percent
[9:34] uh comparing
comparing to other communities
[9:38] surrounding us
75.5 is a fantastic number to have for
[9:44] our police pension fund most of the
communities are far less than that most
[9:49] of them in the 30 and 40 percent
we will continue as a city of cresthill
[9:54] to meet all of our contributions and our
obligations
[9:58] and
with our additional contributions we are
[10:02] scheduled to be fully funded on our
police pension fund by
[10:06] 2038.
state law is to be
[10:11] funded at 90 percent by
2040 so we are in a very strong position
[10:17] with our police pension fund
and we're in a much better position than
[10:22] several of the other communities within
the state of illinois so we as a city of
[10:28] crystal we as a city council should be
very proud of these accomplishments that
[10:32] we've been working on for the last
15 years in regards to the police
[10:37] pension fund
for the public works
[10:41] the mft monies
this year
[10:44] will be used for road rehabilitation on
arbor arbor lane
[10:50] on rock run drive and on bicentennial
drive
[10:54] we will also be
doing design engineering will be done
[10:59] this year
for the five blocks of center street and
[11:03] cheyney avenue
and the
[11:07] road project will be started in 2023
at an approximate cost of 1.7 million
[11:15] dollars
in regards to our water and sewer
[11:18] department
this budget includes upgrades to our
[11:22] scada system
it includes lining of the water main on
[11:27] route 30 from susanna drive
to six corners
[11:32] since 2011 as everybody knows we have
had 29 water main breaks in this area
[11:39] this is going to be a 1.9 million dollar
project to line this water main and
[11:44] hopefully
decrease
[11:47] and stop stop the number of water main
breaks on that
[11:51] roadway so that's long overdue
in regards to well number 14
[11:57] uh the new well um
near the backside of
[12:03] new city center
that well is needed to be constructed
[12:08] for our lake michigan allocation
i certainly want to send out my
[12:15] thanks to our state representative
natalie manley she has
[12:20] promised us four hundred thousand
dollars in a state grant to go towards
[12:23] the installation of well number 14.
we are also in this budget planning on
[12:29] constructing start construction of our
new west swords treatment plant
[12:34] which again is long overdue which was
built in 1968
[12:38] and upgraded in 1993 i believe it was
so uh that again is long overdue for the
[12:44] city of cresthill at the west treatment
plant on gaylord route
[12:49] it also includes hiring a wastewater
lead operator and a project manager for
[12:55] the lake michigan water transition
to help us with compliance of lake
[13:00] michigan allocation and the
sustainability
[13:04] of lake michigan water and again this is
going to be a 65 million dollar project
[13:08] for the city of crest hill
um
[13:11] but i believe that when we look at the
long range of the lake michigan water
[13:16] it's going to be a
great move for the city of cresthill
[13:19] which will be sustainability for the
next 100 years for several generations
[13:24] to come in the city of cresthill
those are the budget highlights that i
[13:28] have written down
that are included in this budget i
[13:33] certainly want to extend my personal
thanks
[13:36] to our city treasurer glenn conklin
to our city staff mostly
[13:41] jim marino our city administrator and to
lisa banovitz our finance director i i
[13:46] can't tell you how many hours they put
into this budget i appreciate all the
[13:50] hard work that all three of you have
given for this city and uh and working
[13:56] on this budget it's been some changes
over the past so
[13:59] i certainly want to extend my gratitude
to all three of you i also want to
[14:03] extend my um
gratitude to all of our department heads
[14:07] our police chief ed clark our public
works director mark seifert and our
[14:11] building department uh kirk wilkins for
all their hard work when their help in
[14:17] going forward with this budget also
i also want to thank the city council
[14:22] that's sitting here for their
cooperation during this budget process
[14:27] it's always difficult but like i said
it's the most important document that
[14:31] this city has
um every year
[14:34] to our residents
i want to say to our residents you
[14:38] should be confident
that we are being fiscally responsible
[14:41] with uh
with your money to provide the same
[14:45] level of service that our residents have
come to expect and to improve the
[14:48] quality of your life
so with that being said that are the
[14:53] comments
from the mayor in regards to the 2022
[14:58] budget
with that i would ask if there is any
[15:03] public comment
please step to the podium state your
[15:07] name for the record your address is
optional
[15:10] for any public comment in regards to
this public hearing and the 2022-2023
[15:16] fiscal year budget
[15:19] let the records show that no one has
approached
[15:22] the podium for public comment
with that being said i will turn the uh
[15:28] agenda over to the city council for
comments i'll let that
[15:33] let let it be known that this is the
time and the place for city council to
[15:38] ask any questions to make any comments
you would like to make in regards to the
[15:42] presentation of the
2022-2023 fiscal year budget
[15:48] after this we will be moving into our
city council meeting at that time it
[15:52] will be the vote on the
on um
[15:56] on the budget so if council has any
comments or questions of any of city
[16:01] staff please feel free to ask at this
time
[16:06] well i um
i want to thank everyone for um
[16:11] the time that they put into this
but to me every time there's um
[16:18] when you dig into reserve to me it's
like
[16:23] it's like a red flag to me
maybe not to most of you
[16:28] um
[16:33] i'm
i am okay that is not in deficit but
[16:37] again we're tapping into a reserve
and i have hard time when our streets
[16:43] are crumbling we keep saying we have a
healthy
[16:46] budget
but when we only have
[16:50] we're only able to do three or four
streets a year if that
[16:54] so that's my point of view
i feel like
[16:58] we should be able to take care of the
our roads
[17:02] a lot more than than that so
we can sit and say we have a healthy
[17:07] budget but do we have the money to do
streets we don't
[17:11] that's the way i see it
i asked the question of
[17:16] lisa our um finance director when we're
hiding doing all this hiring if we able
[17:21] to sustain these
this hiring and i didn't get a yes or no
[17:27] answer i got
hopefully
[17:31] am i right
so
[17:33] that's the only concern that i have um i
think there's a major concerns but
[17:38] that's the way i feel
anybody
[17:45] well i've else to my two cents to i
agree with the majority of what she said
[17:49] i
i think we should be very cautiously
[17:52] optimistic at this point but i think we
have a lot of things to keep our eye on
[17:58] and i think she's made a lot of those
points i won't reiterate them but i do
[18:02] agree with her
[18:05] wholeheartedly
[18:08] last call for city council
you know mayor i think you know at the
[18:13] end of the day this is a
tough uh
[18:17] just a tough job all together to decide
what takes priority and what type of
[18:21] work needs to to get done
uh i agree that there are road
[18:25] improvements that
you know i'd like to see um
[18:29] with some of the big
infrastructure work that we are starting
[18:33] and and and having to do with the lake
michigan water and
[18:37] you know
the wall projects and stuff like that
[18:41] i'm very
pleased with
[18:44] how lisa and glenn and jim
have developed this budget and
[18:51] our treasurer is saying that
you know our
[18:54] reserve fund yeah we are tapping into it
but that that is what it's there for and
[19:00] we've been saving for some of these big
capital projects and
[19:03] i'm just glad to see uh some of these
things coming
[19:08] coming to a completion
that's all mayor thank you
[19:15] okay with that um
i will be closing the public hearing for
[19:22] the 2022-2000
fiscal year budget
[19:26] at 7 44 p.m
[19:59] ready chris just one second let me do
this
[20:09] okay
good evening ladies and gentlemen i
[20:12] would like to call the city count the
crestville city council meeting of may
[20:16] 16
2022 to order at 7 45 pm
[20:21] i would ask for everyone to please rise
for the pledge of allegiance to the flat
[20:36] i pledge allegiance to the fight
of the united states of america
[20:42] for which it stands
[20:53] okay roll call please chris
ray solomon here
[20:59] glenn conklin president
scott tyke here champion you're terrell
[21:04] jefferson yeah claudia's all right here
tina oberlin president marx the pity
[21:09] here nate albert here and joe here
motion carries okay we do not have a uh
[21:16] business promotion this evening so we
will proceed with the agenda items
[21:21] first is the approval of the city
council meeting held on may 2nd 2022
[21:27] motion will be in order
some move
[21:32] so
we have motion by alderweireld gaza
[21:34] seconded by alderman jefferson for the
approval of the
[21:38] minutes of the
city council meeting held on may 2nd
[21:42] 2022 questions or comments
roll call please scott died yes john
[21:47] shea yes darrell jefferson yes claudia
gaza yes you know yes mark stephen yes
[21:52] nate albert yes giacomo yes
thank you
[21:56] you also have before you the minutes of
the work session held on may 9th 2022
[22:01] motion would be in order to move
second we have motioned by alderman
[22:05] albert second by alderwoman gazelle for
the approval of the work session minutes
[22:09] held on may 9th 2022 questions or
comments
[22:13] roll call please john richard yes
darrell jefferson yes freddie gaza yes
[22:18] you know yes mark zappedy yes nate
albert yes joe kubal yes and scott dyke
[22:23] yes promotion carries thank you
okay moving on to our city attorney mike
[22:27] steph good evening mike good evening
marion coyotzel i do not have any agenda
[22:31] items of course i would answer any
questions if you have them any questions
[22:35] of our city attorney
okay thanks mike moving on to our city
[22:40] administrator jim moreno good evening
jim good evening
[22:44] good evening mayor and council i've got
four items for you the first item is a
[22:49] lease with dell technologies a 48-month
lease agreement for computer equipment
[22:54] in the amount of twenty nine thousand
eight hundred and seventy six dollars
[22:57] and twenty eight cents
this includes equipment uh
[23:02] for the police department we currently
have twenty desktop community desktop
[23:05] computers in the police department
that are five years old and incompatible
[23:10] with the current version of microsoft
windows
[23:13] those need to be replaced with laptops
we also need some micro computers these
[23:17] are computers
that are smaller computers that
[23:21] would be used in the new city center and
police department
[23:24] in the
conference rooms in some of the meeting
[23:27] rooms
and then also a new tower computer that
[23:31] we would use for the public access
channel to replace the one that we
[23:34] currently have we can purchase these
computers outright at a cost of about
[23:38] thirty one thousand dollars but it's a
little bit less to uh lease them at
[23:42] about twenty nine thousand dollars
uh one benefit of leasing is that uh
[23:48] every four years or so we would replace
all those computers with new ones
[23:52] so we would get an update to the
hardware and the software and instead of
[23:57] replacing compute computers piecemeal we
would replace them with a new lease
[24:02] every four years and then we'd have a
consistent and standardized amount of
[24:07] computers and hardware
okay motion would be in order to approve
[24:12] a 48 month lease agreement with dell
technologies for computer equipment in
[24:16] the amount of twenty nine thousand eight
hundred seventy six dollars and twenty
[24:19] eight cents so move this presented
second we have motioned by our other
[24:23] person overland seconded by alderman
albert questions or comments in regards
[24:27] to the motion or roll call please
darrell jefferson
[24:32] yeah
claudia's all yes ken oberlin yes mark
[24:35] zappedy yes nate albert yes joe kubal
yes scott dyke yes john richard yes
[24:41] motion carries thank you
[24:46] the next item is the approval of a
purchase of computer network back backup
[24:51] hardware in a three-year backup service
plan from shi international corp
[24:57] in the amount of forty two thousand
eight hundred and
[25:00] seventy dollars
this backup system would replace what
[25:04] was provided by vertec uh we were paying
vertec um
[25:08] it was about twenty four thousand
dollars a year
[25:12] uh
to manage
[25:14] our backups uh this new system with unit
trends would save us about twenty nine
[25:19] thousand dollars it would cost forty two
thousand eight hundred and seventy
[25:23] dollars over three years
um with this we would have a
[25:27] comprehensive computer backup system
that includes two high-end computers to
[25:31] replicate the backup with the with the
associated software and recovery service
[25:36] this system will have an effective
disaster recovery process that will
[25:40] allow the business continuity with
minimal recovery time
[25:46] i talked with tim stinnett he evaluated
all the different options for backup
[25:49] systems and says this one best meets our
needs provides us
[25:54] more than adequate backup and recovery
and allows him to
[25:59] manage the backup system which we did
not have previously with vertec they
[26:04] basically had full control of the system
now with tim here he'll be able to
[26:08] manage and monitor the backups on a
level of what we need for everything we
[26:15] have in our uh in our system and we are
saving like 10 grand like that right
[26:19] right in the long term
right
[26:22] and how long if we approve this before
we implement this
[26:28] that would be um by the end of the month
so once
[26:31] tim is tim's got everything lined up to
place the order and get everything up
[26:35] and running stop spending money on
vertex correct
[26:40] right
[26:44] so moved is presented second
we have a motion by elder person over
[26:49] the second by alderman albert for the
approval of the purchase of computer
[26:52] network backup hardware with a
three-year backup service plan from shi
[26:57] international corporation
in the amount of forty two thousand
[27:00] eight hundred seventy dollars questions
or comments
[27:03] roll call
please claudia gazelle yes
[27:08] ken oberlin yes mark zappedy yes nate
eller yes joe kubo yes scott dyke yes
[27:13] john roche and darrell jefferson
yes motion carries thank you
[27:20] the next two items i have pertain to the
the budget and the appropriations which
[27:25] we've already discussed at the work
sessions and the public hearing we just
[27:28] had so the first item is an ordinance
making appropriations for
[27:34] the fiscal year beginning may 1st 2022
and ending april 30th 2023
[27:41] motion would be in order so move
[27:46] second
we have motion by
[27:49] alderman albert seconded by
the alderman kubal
[27:53] for an ordinance making appropriations
for all corporate purposes for the
[27:58] fiscal year beginning may 1st 2022
through april 30th 2023 for the city of
[28:04] cresthill
questions or comments
[28:08] roll call please express possible
when you say appropriations for all
[28:12] corporate purposes
give me a little
[28:16] detail of what that includes
that's the entire that's all the funds
[28:21] that i went through so it's all the
funds
[28:24] um
that i reviewed during the public
[28:26] hearing those are all the corporate
purposes that we're budgeting for and
[28:30] appropriating
to this for the corporate year that
[28:34] would be specifically what we talked
about right and that's all
[28:38] compiled in the ordinance that's being
adopted
[28:43] roll call please chris
keane oberlin yes
[28:47] marcus the pitty yes mate albert yes joe
coobel yes scott dyke yes john bechet
[28:53] yes darrell jefferson yes claudia
gazelle yes motion carries ordinance
[28:58] 1902.
[29:01] the next item is an ordinance adopting a
city-wide budget for the
[29:05] 2022-2023 fiscal year
so move
[29:10] second
motion by alderman albert seconded by
[29:13] alderman kubal
for an ordinance adopting a city-wide
[29:16] budget for 2022 2023
fiscal year questions or comments
[29:23] roll call please chris marks the petty
yes
[29:27] nate albert yes joe kubo yes scott dyke
yes camera shay yes darrell jefferson
[29:33] yes claudia gazelle yes and tina oberlin
yes motion carries ordinance 1903.
[29:48] [Applause]
[29:54] okay anything else jim uh just a couple
items i have the final version of the
[29:59] vision report that we put together
during the visioning session so i will
[30:03] send it out to you
via email and then i can also provide
[30:07] paper copies
and the other item i have is just i want
[30:10] to commend uh and thank public works for
putting on a great event this past
[30:15] weekend with the touch of truck
they did a marvelous job
[30:20] kids seem to enjoy it very much
okay any questions of city administrator
[30:24] any update any new updates i should say
on the
[30:29] the water
damage
[30:31] yes so um
they are still assessing the repairs
[30:35] that need to be done they removed all
the flooring that they needed to
[30:39] everything's been dried out
the claims adjuster from the insurance
[30:44] company is supposed to be up tomorrow
to look at the situation um in the
[30:50] damage and what repairs need to be made
we took photographs of everything and
[30:54] those have already submit been submitted
to the insurance company so they'll
[30:58] start the process of
you know
[31:01] evaluating the extent of the damage and
what repairs need to be made in the
[31:05] cover the cost that they will cover for
that i noticed that the facade was like
[31:10] moved as well
from where we sit
[31:14] the
the whole front of it oh at the dais
[31:17] yeah yes so there was some damage to the
front of the dais
[31:23] and also to the platform
behind the dais so they had to remove
[31:28] some of the flooring there that's going
to have to be
[31:31] looked at and rebuilt as well
do we have an estimate time of
[31:36] when all this will be
no no not yet so harvard contractors is
[31:42] working on reaching out to the
contractors
[31:44] the subcontractors that did the flooring
and did some of the other work to we're
[31:49] going to have to order new flooring new
carpeting and then schedule the work for
[31:53] them to do the replacement so they're in
the process of putting that together now
[31:56] i don't have a specific timeline but
i'll keep you updated as i get more
[32:00] information
is the timeline
[32:03] heavily impacted by
insurance i would assume
[32:07] um it can be i'll find out more after i
talk to the adjuster and get more
[32:11] information they haven't done their full
assessment yet because they haven't been
[32:14] on site as i said we provided them with
some of the information they
[32:18] know we already have the photographs and
some of the other information but as we
[32:22] get the remainder of the information
they need the contracts uh cost
[32:26] estimates they'll compile all that
information and let us know you know how
[32:30] we can proceed from there i have one
more question who is doing this
[32:33] investigation like
how this happened well i'm going to
[32:37] start with the insurance company and see
how involved they do how involved they
[32:42] get i don't know to what extent they do
the investigation it appears to be a
[32:47] faulty um
sprinkler head
[32:50] we do have that sprinkler head so the
insurance company is going to want to
[32:54] take that sprinkler head and they may
talk to the manufacturer i'm not sure
[32:58] exactly what their process is but we're
going to start with that and see where
[33:01] the insurance company takes us
[33:05] is there any way to know
with that sprinkler head if maybe there
[33:08] was a recall or if there was
you know any other
[33:12] possibility of any of the other
sprinklers that were installed at that
[33:16] time along with that one the possibility
of them being defective or causing
[33:21] damage in the future is there any way to
we'll be looking into that we'll be
[33:24] talking with we already had an initial
conversation with the company that
[33:27] installed the sprinkler system but we'll
talk with them some more and i know the
[33:31] insurance company is going to want to
talk to them themselves directly
[33:35] and they'll get answers to that as well
is there any possibility that they will
[33:38] cover some of that cost since was their
sprinkler system it's possible yes yeah
[33:43] i think it'll be good something to look
into
[33:46] the other thing i find out that the air
conditioning is not working it is
[33:50] working now it is working now so it's
kind of disappointing for a construction
[33:53] company that is in charge they're not
monitoring
[33:57] these things that just
i have to go out there we need to hold
[34:00] these people accountable i mean you
can't keep doing the same mistakes over
[34:03] and over
you know part of being
[34:06] in this field you know you check if the
temperatures
[34:10] it's warm weather which has been hard
for
[34:13] 90 something the last couple
day a week whatever
[34:18] how is it possible we don't have air
conditioning on and if their condition
[34:21] was bad why would we not notify what
why was it fixed at this point you know
[34:27] well the air conditioning wasn't bad it
just wasn't turned on for the season and
[34:31] i don't know exactly you know what the
schedule is i have a hard time
[34:34] understanding this you know because i
used to run spec homes and specs home in
[34:37] the winter we turned the heat on
constantly we checked them on a daily
[34:41] basis
verse versus summer you turn the air
[34:44] condition you monitor the temperature on
a daily basis for spec homes
[34:49] for a construction company that's
handling millions of dollar job
[34:55] i'm having a hard time and who is
overseeing these people like who is
[34:58] overseeing their work at this point like
is he our building commissioner
[35:02] overseeing this or who who's who's
managing this company i mean
[35:06] harbor yeah who's managing them who's
who's watching over them
[35:10] well because my understanding will pull
kirk our building commissioner out of
[35:14] this
who is proving everything that they're
[35:17] doing
well i've been working with them and
[35:20] overseeing i've been pulling in the
police department for everything related
[35:23] to the police department side of the
building that harbor contractors is
[35:27] working on as well as public works so
we're working on it together
[35:32] collectively with harbor contractors
and
[35:36] there's i think what may have happened
is that during this transition
[35:39] from from kirk to harbor
some things didn't get handed off
[35:43] properly and that may be where the
problem was and why the air conditioning
[35:48] system wasn't turned on at the time i
have to agree with you with that because
[35:53] we pulled kirk and bryant like this
instead of doing a transition there's a
[35:57] transition where you pass something to
the next person just like right now we
[36:01] have a new kind of development and
steve's still working with him because
[36:05] there's a transition and that's my
opinion that's how it will shut down
[36:08] instead of pulling them right away and
there's other people trying to figure
[36:12] out what's going on
there was a transition yeah we didn't
[36:15] pull them kirk kirk was kirk's brian
stayed on for a week
[36:20] and then kirk stayed on for at least two
weeks if not more and was on site with
[36:25] harbor
for two week periods
[36:28] and nobody could catch an air
conditioner
[36:31] i i had a few concerns myself
one of them being an issue that's really
[36:38] uh of alarming to me that i i really
hope we're going to check to the nth
[36:44] degree for us
we do not want any mold in that facility
[36:48] we do not want any mold in the sheet
rock we don't want any mold on the
[36:51] concrete on the because that is just
going to
[36:55] be an issue ongoing that we do not want
to deal with so are we going to have an
[36:59] inspection of to make sure that that
place is free of mold before we put new
[37:04] flowering down new carpeting down knew
that because when something gets flooded
[37:08] the sheetrock lots of times you have to
go up and cut it at a certain height and
[37:11] replace that as well because it gets wet
and i the last thing i want is to build
[37:15] a multi-million dollar building and move
into it six months later black molds all
[37:19] over it so that that's really a big
concern of mine right and i hope we're
[37:23] addressing that
yes the insurance well the insurance
[37:27] company will address that because i did
speak with the claims adjuster on friday
[37:30] and he told me that is one of the
components of their assessment and
[37:33] evaluation is they will bring somebody
out to do an assessment to make sure
[37:38] there's no mold the last thing i want to
see is our employees going to work in a
[37:41] building
that could potentially be filled with
[37:44] mold that's the last thing i want to see
right i don't
[37:47] expect that will be an issue and but
we're going to have it tested the
[37:50] insurance companies are going to require
that to be tested to make sure there
[37:54] isn't an issue i think that one thing
that's good for us is
[37:58] the on-site supervisor for harbor was
the one that discovered the sprinkler
[38:02] system was activated and he shut it off
immediately and he called the
[38:06] restoration company immediately and
before i even got out there this morning
[38:10] they were already in the process of
cleaning it up drying it out so they got
[38:14] on top of it immediately
and they removed the flooring and uh
[38:19] they even uh cut some holes in the
drywall to improve the airflow to dry it
[38:23] out as quickly as possible so it's not
like the the water hadn't been sitting
[38:27] there for days and days
they were on top of it right away so
[38:32] when you say immediately how long is
this sprinkler head running i heard it
[38:35] was running like 15 hours four
about four hours it's a lot of water
[38:39] though i know
four hours is a lot of water
[38:44] when the sprinkler went off how come
your landing go off we're looking into
[38:47] that as well that's a good question i
don't know another one of my questions i
[38:51] didn't get finished answering but that's
okay
[38:55] well and that is another one of my
concerns is why
[38:58] why an alarm didn't go off why nobody
knew this why we were getting all this
[39:02] water and
as he said i would want to make sure
[39:05] that these other sprinkler heads do not
have the same
[39:08] failure because
wow
[39:11] what a mess that could be
is the alarm system fully
[39:15] installed and functional
it's
[39:19] jason we talked about this earlier today
so it's installed but we have to make
[39:23] the final connection to wescom is that
correct uh yeah just before this meeting
[39:29] got off the phone with uh director
wescon
[39:34] told him about the incident and
asked how soon we could get the radio
[39:39] that
transmits over from the alarm that was
[39:42] never set up so
um that will be set up
[39:46] they are going to put a rush on it for
us so um i'm waiting on the paperwork to
[39:50] get over to us we will fill it out and
i'm hoping that'll be done tomorrow
[39:55] morning
literally about an hour before this
[39:58] meeting was on the phone call all day to
handle it so
[40:01] that should be functioning
sooner than later
[40:05] based on that so westcom was very
accommodating to us
[40:08] saying that they will get on it right
away
[40:13] it's a small connection fee
so i'll get that full amount for
[40:17] everybody but i
talk a couple hundred bucks to get a
[40:20] connection fee well i appreciate that
but unfortunately here's another thing
[40:23] that was overlooked he said
so we have a series of things that were
[40:28] overlooked that you know are biting us
yeah
[40:32] so it wasn't a matter of the
alarm system being defective it just
[40:36] wasn't connected
function
[40:40] with
for a
[40:42] signal for an alert to go out yeah the
tie-in between the building and wescom
[40:47] was not made and i
don't know why we'll be looking into
[40:52] that as well i think
the um the contractor that installed the
[40:56] alarm system
typically makes that final connection
[41:00] and does the final testing
with wescom to make sure everything's
[41:04] working properly but we have to look
into why that didn't happen
[41:09] yeah unfortunately there's a lot of
unanswered questions that need to be
[41:12] investigated so so will this impact
the budget
[41:18] of this building
or this is going to be
[41:24] um
an insurance claim that we hope that's
[41:27] covered 100
it'll be an insurance claim yeah okay
[41:30] and with the hope of it being covered
100 percent not finding
[41:34] uh
you know man-made error or something
[41:38] right and our deductible is five
thousand dollars so that
[41:41] should be the only cost we incur
and they'll make us whole and they'll go
[41:46] selling everybody they need to to make
themselves effective
[41:52] okay thanks jim
uh moving on i'm sorry are we doing this
[41:56] insurance since we still
um so the policy goes through you're
[42:00] talking about the bridge policy that we
have right now so it goes through june
[42:04] i'll be reinstating that we will until
um
[42:08] we have occupancy because our current
provider will not provide that unless we
[42:13] have the certificate of occupancy so
we need to speak with berkeley marine is
[42:18] who we currently have it through so
we'll speak with them about that
[42:24] but there's also a couple other options
we could go with who could bridge it for
[42:28] us
yeah we're going to extend it we're
[42:32] going to have a bridge we have to we're
going to be fully insured until through
[42:36] the the bridge insurance until we take
occupancy then our regular insurance
[42:41] carrier will take over from there
thank you that we need to pay an annual
[42:46] premium and i get
pro rated rebate after
[42:51] i can change that
okay moving on to our public works
[42:55] director mark seifer good morning we
have
[43:01] can we have a motion oh no
this is going to be you
[43:06] i'm sorry
all right that was voted on
[43:10] my items yeah we voted on all right um
good evening mayor council uh
[43:17] the first agenda i have before you
tonight is the design contract with
[43:20] robinson engineering for not to exceed
dollar amount of 106 000
[43:24] to design the lining of route 30 water
main uh this has been talked about many
[43:28] times we talked about during the budget
cycle um so as soon as council approves
[43:32] this contract we'll give this over
robinson hopefully they can design this
[43:35] uh pretty quickly get our permits and
hopefully go out to bid this year so
[43:39] move is presented
get this done long overdue yep
[43:45] all right i heard a lot of first and
seconds he said first license motion by
[43:49] alderman albert's seconded by other one
other person
[43:54] overland
for the approval
[43:57] with robinson engineering to perform
professional
[44:00] engineering services related to water
main landing along plainfield road
[44:04] questions or comments
roll call please
[44:07] joe cool
yes
[44:09] scott dyke yes john rochet yeah darrell
jefferson
[44:13] yes claudia gazelle yes you know
overland yes mark cepedy yes
[44:18] yes motion carries thank you the next
agenda item i have before you is an
[44:23] implementation and project plan with
strand associates
[44:26] since we made the decision to go to lake
michigan water in 2030 one of the first
[44:30] steps is how to implement the changes
that will happen to our water supply
[44:33] system
strand when they did the water supply or
[44:37] the alternate water supply they were
just looking at which water supply is
[44:41] the most cost effective and efficient
for the city for the future
[44:44] the next part is how do we get there how
do we do it what's the implementation
[44:48] so strain will now work on the process
of what exact internal improvements
[44:52] conceptual site plans for delivery
stations including tanks and sizes
[44:56] conceptual transition plans
converting our wells to emergency
[45:01] backups along with opinion of probable
cost for all of us
[45:05] also
strand will start working on a project
[45:07] plan
which is the first step for iepa loans
[45:12] low interest loans you have to have a
project plan submitted to them and
[45:15] approved
the other items included with the
[45:18] project plan
uh in addition to everything with the
[45:21] alternative water supply would be the
lining of broadway theodore and the
[45:26] remainder of plainfield road uh those
are three main thoroughfares that we do
[45:30] not want to be digging up uh so we'd be
looking at aligning those potentially in
[45:34] the future so getting the project plan
approved to get that epa funding in
[45:38] place right now so i'm not i'm
recommending a not to exceed contract
[45:42] with australian associates for 119 000
this includes 70 000 for implementation
[45:48] 10 000 for on-call support for the
switch
[45:50] and water regional water source outside
of the plan and 39 000 for project plan
[45:54] so moved is presented second
we have a motion by other person
[45:58] overland seconded by alderwoman gazal
for a an agreement with strand
[46:04] engineering on an alternative water
supply implement implementation plan and
[46:09] project plan
not to exceed 119 thousand dollars
[46:13] questions or comments
roll call please nate albert yes joe
[46:18] kubal yes scott dyke yes john burchett
yes darrell jefferson yes claudia
[46:23] gazelle yes ken oberlin yes marcus a
pity yes
[46:27] motion carries thank you
the next two contracts i have are very
[46:32] similar one is with strand and one is
with cornwell in a cornwell
[46:37] engineering
the first one was the strand
[46:40] for the occt
that is
[46:44] the optimum corrosion control treatment
desktop study this is so when we switch
[46:50] to lake michigan water
the lake michigan water does not
[46:53] interact with our current water and our
pipes to create harmful reactions to
[46:58] have
any sort of metal or lead flake off
[47:02] and hurt our residents this is uh this
is directly to prevent another flint
[47:07] michigan where they switched water
supplies they
[47:10] didn't react well together
so this is a process that everyone in
[47:14] the regional water commission is going
through right now
[47:17] strand is handling the
city specific stuff and then cornwall
[47:21] engineering is a nationally known firm
out of virginia who the epa looks to for
[47:27] guidance in this area so they will be
doing the lake michigan portion and then
[47:31] once we go into the where this is just
for the desktop study
[47:35] once we actually start getting into the
live study we'll be shipping containers
[47:39] of
crest till water and lake michigan water
[47:42] to virginia for them to run through our
pipes that will ship out there
[47:47] so this is the desktops portion to come
up with a plan on how to run the study
[47:51] and get it approved through the iepa so
i'd be looking for two approvals one
[47:55] with strand and then one with cornwell
for the occt desktop study the strand is
[48:00] not to exceed of 23.3 and the cornwell
is not to exceed at 22 000. all right
[48:06] let's take a strand first let's take the
strand one first
[48:10] for uh motion would be in order to move
second
[48:14] motion by alderman albert seconded by
alderman dyke for the agreement
[48:18] with stranded associates in the occt
contract not to exceed twenty three
[48:24] thousand three hundred dollars questions
or comments
[48:28] roll call please john richard yes
terrell jefferson yes buddy gaza yes
[48:33] yes mark stephen yes
yes joe
[48:36] yes and scott dyke yes motion carries
thank you
[48:40] okay then a motion for a contract with
cornwell on the occt
[48:45] uh for an amount not to exceed 22 000
um cal cornwell engineering
[48:52] is presented second
motion by older person overall and
[48:56] seconded by alderwoman gazelle
for an approval with cornwell
[49:01] engineering group questions or comments
we'll roll call please scott dive yes
[49:06] john richard yes darrell jefferson yes
claudia gazelle yes keen oberlin yes
[49:11] mark zappedy yes nate albert yes and joe
cabell yes motion carries thank you
[49:16] i have no further agenda so i want to
thank all the council
[49:20] members who were in attendance on
saturday for all those who supported us
[49:24] uh in our open house and touch a truck
our final count was around 250
[49:29] people that came through
uh it was a great event i did not hear
[49:34] a single complaint and if they did
didn't get back to me so it's even
[49:37] better
but i appreciate all the the help from
[49:41] surrounding staff from the
from the utility building office from
[49:44] the police department let us borrow a
vehicle
[49:47] um
i think it was a great day was great
[49:50] weather uh i know there's a lot of great
pictures that i've gotten sent to me and
[49:54] it really was
truly an awesome experience that we hope
[49:57] to have a touch of truck every year now
because it really did bring the
[50:01] community together and let kids come and
see what we do it's a great kickoff for
[50:04] us for public works week so
that'll take any questions are you going
[50:08] to call it retouch a truck
any questions of public works no i just
[50:14] have a comment you basically exceed my
expectation i knew it was going to be
[50:19] good but i didn't know it was going to
be that good like you and your team did
[50:24] an above and beyond amazing job for
being the first time
[50:28] it was
excellent like
[50:32] 100 percent
good i mean
[50:35] even how clean the trucks were like
shiny brand new my dad was like these
[50:39] new trucks i'm like no they use them i
mean they were like shiny everything
[50:43] the whole public works looks clean i
mean it was just like you guys start up
[50:49] every detail the only thing i think was
missing was like a bar for like the
[50:52] adult
like happy time uh besides
[50:55] i'm just saying i don't know
no i mean it was just above and beyond
[51:00] like i can't even thank you enough and
yeah i saw it like in the faces of the
[51:04] kids the uh
the
[51:07] uh it was
[51:10] good job the bar will not be in the
future plans
[51:14] oh because the liquor commission we're
not gonna allow it so let me just say to
[51:18] you mark as director of public works to
uh blaine klein
[51:24] as the assistant director of public
works to all of your staff to the police
[51:28] department
the
[51:31] clerk's office the treasurer's office
the cresthill alliance club everybody
[51:35] that participated in that event
it did exceed my expectations also it
[51:41] was long overdue because of covid when
we had to hold off for two years before
[51:45] we did it but a compliments to you and
your staff for how well organized
[51:49] everything was you know i was expecting
two or three trucks and i i think you
[51:54] had probably close to a dozen trucks for
the kids to climb on and beat the horns
[51:58] and everything else so i thought that
the quiet hour
[52:02] for our special needs residents was a
fantastic idea because there was quite a
[52:06] few of them that went through also
uh for their quiet time which was
[52:10] another
another um
[52:13] positive i heard nothing but positive
comments about the touch of truck
[52:19] i also heard a lot of positive comments
about the public works facility
[52:23] and
you know hopefully next year it can even
[52:26] be bigger and better so thank you for
everything that you did also for this
[52:31] any other questions or comments of
public works yeah i'll reiterate what
[52:35] everybody else has said um you know my
my wife and i brought the three my three
[52:40] kids and we had a great time mark you
could see the smiles on their faces and
[52:44] like claudia said the rest of the kids
um the activities they had a couple of
[52:48] baseball games that they had to get to
but they actually didn't want to leave
[52:50] because they kept playing the game so um
yeah thanks i was i was quite pleasantly
[52:55] surprised to see
uh the representation of all the uh
[52:59] staff and employees too it's great to
kind of come together as as one and have
[53:03] a great great event so thank you
and you know what touched me the most
[53:08] that flag the huge flag in the middle on
the top that was like
[53:13] i was like wow
pretty good
[53:16] thank you mark um i had to work on
saturday so unfortunately i i could not
[53:20] attend the event but
just everything i've heard
[53:24] sounds like it was a huge success
people had a great time coming out
[53:29] um thank you to your you and your staff
for putting it on great job thank you
[53:34] thank you
okay moving on to our city engineer ron
[53:37] wedeman good evening ron thank you mayor
i just have one item tonight um you're
[53:42] looking for a motion to approve the
award and execution of the contract
[53:45] documents
by the mayor with jay and janual
[53:49] concrete contractors for the 2022
concrete flat work contract
[53:55] this bit this contract is for all the
concrete repairs i'm required due to
[54:00] repairs of underground infrastructure by
public works i.e curb gutter driveways
[54:06] things like that
contract was set up this year in order
[54:10] to lock in our prices it's a 12-month
contract with a one-year extension
[54:15] so we have that in there as uh new um we
had six local contractors pick up um but
[54:20] only one actually dropped off a bid was
the same one that we had last year
[54:25] he kind of specializes in this type of
work so
[54:28] um he said good results there jane j
newell it's a 40 226
[54:34] 226 um dollars was his total bid and
that's just a single unit price contract
[54:40] obviously the final numbers would be
based on the number of repairs that they
[54:43] they do
um
[54:46] so that's that's all i have right here
in your package should we attach a bid
[54:49] tab and i also referenced in
a comparison of prices from last year
[54:55] so um
right now that's what i'm looking for is
[54:58] a motion to approve the award and
execution of these documents
[55:02] so move
second
[55:06] we have motioned by alderman albert
seconded by all the person overland for
[55:10] the approval to j j newell and company
concrete contractors um
[55:16] yeah we've had them for a few years now
and they're they actually are doing very
[55:20] good work so any amount of 40 226
dollars questions or comments roll call
[55:26] please
terrell jefferson
[55:29] yes claude exalt yes tina oberlin yes
mark cepedy yes nate albert yes joe
[55:34] kubal yes scott dyke yes and john
richard yes motion carries thank you
[55:39] and that's all i have unless any
additional questions any questions of
[55:43] city engineer
all right thanks ron
[55:46] moving on to community and economic
development director uh tony budzikowski
[55:51] good evening
good evening mayor and council i have
[55:53] nothing new on the agenda this evening
but i do want to thank you and uh city
[55:58] staff for the warm welcome this past
week i appreciate it looking forward to
[56:02] working with you all
thank you
[56:04] any questions of tony
all right thanks tony uh police
[56:09] department we have with us this evening
deputy chief jason opio good evening
[56:13] jason good evening everyone i have
nothing on the agenda uh the police
[56:16] report is in your packets just want to
remind everyone we will be doing our
[56:20] memorial day enforcement uh we set that
on social media where we're focusing on
[56:24] occupant protection again this is
through an idoc grant so this comes in
[56:28] no
additional costs to the city
[56:30] to put extra officers out on the roads
to try to enforce
[56:33] seat belt violations
i'll be there to entertain any questions
[56:37] if you have any any questions of the
police department
[56:41] thanks jason moving on to the mayor's
report we i have no agenda items this
[56:45] evening but i do have some uh
comments that i i would like to make
[56:50] first of all we had our
um
[56:56] veterans and police memorial garden
cleanup last friday on may 13th
[57:02] to get ready for our memorial day
program i certainly would like to extend
[57:06] my gratitude and thanks to the following
individuals who helped us
[57:11] our city treasurer glenn conklin
elder woman of war ii claudia gazal
[57:17] our alderman award for nate albert
also trent albert
[57:23] bill gallagher
rod
[57:30] nick parks
vicky solomon
[57:33] and also to matt doletsky
and to the crest of public works for all
[57:39] the supplies that they
gave us to work with on that day so with
[57:44] without those volunteers
we would certainly not have made the
[57:47] garden look as nice
as it is
[57:50] and we did everything to set it up for
our memorial day program
[57:55] for
2022
[57:57] so to all our residents and those
watching us on television please join us
[58:02] for our 34th annual memorial day
ceremony which will be held on monday
[58:07] may 30th at 2 p.m
at our veterans and police memorial
[58:12] garden which will be located right here
at 1610 plainfield road
[58:18] the brac
frankfurt brass band will be performing
[58:21] a pre-concert starting at about 1 40.
the program will begin at 2 and they
[58:26] will be performing patriotic music
during the program
[58:31] our guest speakers will be two crest
hill residents who are both world war ii
[58:36] veterans
mr don lawler who is a u.s air force
[58:41] world war ii veteran and mr chester
bozek
[58:45] who is a united states navy world war ii
veteran and then got redrafted two years
[58:51] later
and joined the us army and was enlisted
[58:55] with the
army in the korean war
[58:58] so please join us as we honor remember
both our veterans and our police
[59:03] officers who were killed in the line of
duty
[59:06] it is the sacrifices of these
individuals that we enjoy the freedoms
[59:09] that we have today
so please uh please attend there will be
[59:13] some light refreshments served following
the program the event will take about
[59:17] one hour
uh
[59:20] in in total
also my wife vicki and i attended the
[59:25] lockport township fire department awards
and banquet dinner at prairie bluff
[59:30] um
golf course
[59:33] on may 6th that was their first time
that they gathered back together so they
[59:38] did three years of awards to the fire
department
[59:43] individuals over three years for
exemplary exemplary service uh several
[59:49] of those calls were in the city of
cresthill
[59:53] so
many thanks to
[59:56] fire chief john connor for the
invitation it was a wonderful program to
[1:00:01] recognize all of the men and women of
our fire department for the hard work
[1:00:05] that they do
and the service that they provide to our
[1:00:08] citizens both with ambulance calls and
with the fire calls
[1:00:13] also last
tuesday on may 11th
[1:00:17] i was at cheney monge school for their
fifth grade graduation of the dare
[1:00:23] program
there were a total of 46 students there
[1:00:27] and again the staff ms saratella
and mrs goulet ms goulis do a fantastic
[1:00:34] job with the fifth grade students with
there
[1:00:37] this afternoon my wife vicki and i
attended the carillon lakes peace
[1:00:42] officer memorial day ceremony which they
had at 2 p.m
[1:00:46] in honor of
all the police officers in the city of
[1:00:50] cresthill in will county and
in the illinois state police um
[1:00:57] to
memorialize them in those individuals
[1:01:01] who were killed in the line of duty it
was actually a very solemn and well put
[1:01:05] together
program by the carolina lakes veterans
[1:01:09] group led by bill thomas
there were
[1:01:13] honor guards there from will county and
also the
[1:01:15] um the bagpiper was there also so that
was a very solemn
[1:01:20] occasion there also
thanks to caroline lakes veterans
[1:01:24] tomorrow night i will be at richland
grade school their fourth graders will
[1:01:28] have their graduation they have about
120 students there
[1:01:33] um and again all the teachers at
richland do a fantastic job with the
[1:01:37] with the fourth graders we try to lay
the foundation we've been doing it for
[1:01:41] 30 years as a city with their programs
speaking about graduates i certainly
[1:01:45] want to extend my
congratulations to all of the graduates
[1:01:49] from all of the schools grade school
kindergarten their graduation
[1:01:53] high school
college master's programs everybody that
[1:01:57] graduated this
this month of may
[1:02:01] congratulations to all of you i hope
that all of your hopes and dreams
[1:02:05] come to fruition in the future
with that i'll try to answer any
[1:02:10] questions that you may have of the mayor
hearing none we'll move on to our city
[1:02:15] clerk's report our city clerk christine
burchenhall chris
[1:02:19] thank you
um the only thing i have is the final
[1:02:22] notification of our citywide garage sale
that starts this thursday may 19 through
[1:02:28] sunday may 22nd
permits are available
[1:02:33] in the clerk's office for five dollars
and can be um
[1:02:38] purchased between 8 a.m and 4 30 p.m if
you have any questions please give the
[1:02:43] clerk's office a call
at 815-741-5100
[1:02:48] and that's all i have to say and good
luck to all the garage salers
[1:02:51] any questions of the city clerk
okay thanks chris moving on to our city
[1:02:57] treasurer glenn conklin good evening
glenn
[1:02:59] good evening mayor and council i'd like
to report our regular overtime payroll
[1:03:03] from 425 2022
through 5 8 of 2022 in the amount of 245
[1:03:10] 000 51 and 50 cents
the only item i seek action on is i look
[1:03:15] for your uh
a motion to approve our list of bills
[1:03:18] which in that same time period total one
million two hundred seventy thousand
[1:03:23] four hundred sixty two dollars and
seventy five cents
[1:03:28] we have motion by all the person over on
second and by alderman jefferson for the
[1:03:32] approval of the list of bills questions
or comments
[1:03:35] roll call please claudia
yes ken oberlin yeah mark zappedy yes
[1:03:39] nate albert yes joe cool yes scott dyke
yes chad rasheed yes darrell jefferson
[1:03:44] yes motion carries thank you
i thank you all take questions if you
[1:03:48] have them questions of the city
treasurer
[1:03:52] thanks a bunch thanks glenn um
unfinished business we have nothing
[1:03:55] anyone
new business anybody committee liaison
[1:03:59] reports anyone
[1:04:02] city council comments
positive city council comments anything
[1:04:06] that the city council would like to
share with any of their constituents
[1:04:10] uh
anybody will begin with ward
[1:04:13] uh three other person overlap
well i want to remind everybody that
[1:04:17] we're going to have a cleanup at the
ladies memorial park
[1:04:22] sunday may 22nd it's right around the
corner bring your tools all your
[1:04:27] gardening ideas we want to see that park
look really spiffy for the 80th and i'm
[1:04:32] really depending on some volunteers to
help us accomplish that
[1:04:37] and then it's 11 o'clock sunday may 22nd
and then remind everybody the 80th
[1:04:42] memorial of ladies will be sunday june
12th at 11 o'clock am
[1:04:48] and that will be a very big milestone 80
years and with the tempest of our world
[1:04:53] today i think it's really
important that we honor this and
[1:04:58] understand what it's all about so i hope
to see a lot of people there thank you
[1:05:02] alderman petty um i too would like to
congratulate all the graduates
[1:05:08] this year all your hard work and
dedication
[1:05:12] has really paid off no matter what level
you're graduating from
[1:05:16] and i especially want to
send a special congratulations to my son
[1:05:20] thomas who's graduate graduating from
lockport township high school love you
[1:05:25] buddy
ward 4 alderman albert
[1:05:29] uh nothing at this time here holly
mcball nothing at this time mayor ward
[1:05:34] one alderman dyke yeah just uh hope
everyone takes time to remember the vets
[1:05:39] this year in memorial day and if you see
any vets out there give them a thank you
[1:05:43] thank you for their service past and
present
[1:05:49] alderman vershaye
42 alderman jefferson
[1:05:53] nothing at this time that's rare elder
woman goes out
[1:05:58] i want to congratulate the um richland
band
[1:06:02] um they did an amazing job we went to um
to state and they got superior
[1:06:12] the sad part is the eighth graders are
no longer will be playing uh last it was
[1:06:17] the last time playing um these kids did
an amazing amazing amazing job
[1:06:23] and um i want to wish them the best of
luck at lochbert i hope you continue
[1:06:29] i'm enjoying the band
we do gonna miss them next year because
[1:06:35] for two years these kids didn't play
music and for them
[1:06:39] to go all the way to state and get
superior that tells you a lot the
[1:06:42] seventh graders and the eighth graders
so good job y'all and i look forward to
[1:06:46] see you graduation next week
thank you mayor
[1:06:50] okay public comment anyone like to
address city council please step to the
[1:06:53] podium state your name for the record
your address is optional
[1:06:57] let the record show that no one has
approached the podium uh to our city
[1:07:01] attorney mike stiff is there a need for
an executive session mike there is not
[1:07:05] motion to adjourn
we have a motion
[1:07:08] for an adjournment by alderman dykes
seconded by aldermen overshade
[1:07:12] uh roll call please
[1:07:19] tina overland that's where i'm going to
work marcus judy yes
[1:07:22] yes joe yes
scott guy yes sean
[1:07:26] terrell jefferson yeah yes motion
carries thank you okay meeting is
[1:07:30] adjourned at 8 32 p.m i thank you and
good evening
[1:07:50] you