[0:00] here Ken here we Hoffman here SL here Zimmerman here

[0:11] stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it

[0:18] stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all

[0:31] okay on your consent agenda you have minutes from November 16th and 30th as

[0:35] well as the Char report questions I

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[1:00] I have one for Mark what's explain to me the five five vehicle

[1:09] seure that's the 350 ordinance Fe for the

[1:15] for money that's due to them they get that money they they we we keep the

[1:19] vehicle but they get they get the 350 this isn't the seizure this is just a

[1:23] 350 impound feance Fe same thing the city of f has

[1:28] but car no no no that's let me grab the pH for you B

[1:37] basic Char what it was he told

[1:43] you so for

[1:47] get50 if we if we take the car over there they get 350 for if we seize the

[1:52] car we get the car

[2:00] us and we give it hey that's the way it was when I came

[2:06] in

[2:10] PR yeah well we're incoming the car we're holding the car here right no

[2:16] they're holding over there most likely it's

[2:20] going that's what

[2:25] I

[2:28] questions not Mo to approve the consent agenda I make motion to approve consent

[2:37] agenda have motion from SL second to approve the consent agenda call

[2:44] Zimmerman yes Norris yes G yes hlon yes kennet yes Weber yes Hoffman yes slel

[2:53] yes no one ready for public comment Mark Frank here Dwayne no

[3:00] okay uh Chief you got you got the chief's

[3:06] report I got a couple things number one we shut off lights the ten out there so

[3:11] somebody say there's NOS that's why that time of year

[3:16] we good and then theion did we get today water came out so Martin probably

[3:26] got shut off all right on the fire side um I have a fire like to go to two

[3:34] actually internet courses with fire one of them is for service

[3:41] operation for 25 hours and the other one is technical rescue awareness for

[3:46] $50 and the Internet it's

[4:23] that okay noris nothing to report at this time

[4:31] Ken Weber nothing hman nothing SL uh the only thing is at the last

[4:38] council meeting we approved the Discover C Illinois fee of 1800 for next year and

[4:47] U the development group is taking a look at that as whether or not the three

[4:52] pages is uh necessary or we can cut it back to

[4:57] two pages and if we do cut it back to Pages that'll be

[5:02] $900 just whatever they decide we' approved up to that yeah if they decide

[5:07] less that's fine I'll okay thank you okay U whole business discussion

[5:15] when bids there's no discussion there's a sample of the it's the one window we

[5:20] had have there's a sample the P window from 4 construction take a look at it

[5:25] it's like the rest of them and then we decide what you want to do with it so

[5:31] uh first item of business here's the schedule for 2017 Mays as before you

[5:38] leave to approve that it's the Planning Commission the

[5:42] city council and the dates city hall

[5:51] Clos second

[5:54] motion second to approve the 2017 schedule call

[6:02] I thought it you who was I'm sorry

[6:07] John yes Weber slel yes Norris hlon yes kennet yes Hoffman yes

[6:17] Zimmerman yes the next item is resol is a

[6:22] resolution regulating control of travel expenses there Nancy knows more about

[6:26] that than I do we come out with new regulations

[6:30] new laws regulating how we administer travel expenses got they set it up a

[6:40] for not really just a mandate that every municipality has to have it pass by June

[6:46] 30th preferably I mean from January 1st until June 30th but preferably by June

[6:51] 1st by January 1st sorry so basically this is something

[6:55] mandated by state law we don't have any control they mandate how much you pay

[7:00] per mile and all that sort of

[7:04] thing discussion it's not optional right no

[7:09] it's not optional it's required it's a new law it's a law they just put in

[7:14] effect I think some of our illustrious guys in Chicago are taking

[7:19] advantage of the system

[7:31] yes I'm move that we accept the resolution

[7:36] motion second ball nor to accept the resolution regulating travel expenses

[7:42] Pursuit Public Act 99-64 call Hoffman yes Norris yes kennet

[7:50] Zimmerman yes hiip yes Weber yes slel yes hlon yes

[8:01] this is the next resolution to point fre of Information Act officer that's also

[8:05] required by law Nancy has been our officer and appoint her so we need

[8:12] to make that appointment to hand information request from the city

[8:20] site motion motion first K second GS to

[8:28] accept the resoltion freedom information act pursu to 5 ilcs 140 3.5a of the ACT

[8:37] Norris yes hlon yes Weber yes SLO yes Zimmerman yes G yes kennet hman yes the

[8:48] next one is to a resolution Point open meetings act compliance officer which is

[8:52] is the same uh do this every year we have to have somebody that's an officer

[8:57] to handle any complaints about the open meetings act and then again this is this

[9:02] and the verbage are mandated by the state so we have a lot of

[9:16] choice have motion for from Al can second by Al hofman to

[9:21] approve approve the res the resolution Appo open meetings act compliance

[9:27] officer roll call Zimmerman yes ctis yes Weber yes Norris yes SLO yes hon yes

[9:36] Hoffman yes KET yes uh you have a we have a request from

[9:43] uh people out on on North Jackson that corner and that's the corner of the 900

[9:49] Road and the park and it is kind of dark they like the street light but uh you

[9:55] also have the paper work changing the paper from the power company they want

[10:00] $6,550 put up the street which I think I I for granted the

[10:06] the corner is a little dark as far as I know we haven't had a big accident

[10:10] problem out there 6,000 bucks inot

[10:15] Street put a park near the intersection yeah from Park that would probably that

[10:23] probably better solution to look into because this is a a pole and a light and

[10:26] they want it used to be we p so much for light and they put the light in the pole

[10:31] in well several years ago they started charging and just what they're doing is

[10:35] they they're getting the fees up high enough to where it's prohibited they're

[10:40] getting high enough we still pay monthly too well yeah that that's it's $9 to $10

[10:45] a month for the light once it's put up but they've done they they progressively

[10:50] jacked that charge up to discourage you from putting lights

[10:53] up that would be something to look into with electrician see if we could pull

[10:58] off one of those and put up some sort of a a light on that corner it is a dark

[11:03] corner I I can't see spend

[11:08] 6550 00 900 is a County Road that's that's

[11:14] 900 is the one that runs along the side of the park and then Jackson tees into

[11:18] it and that corner is it is a dark corner

[11:22] just yeah it's very dark it's very dark but I agree the cost

[11:31] but every other area of city has got lights so if we can find some

[11:37] alternative that's let's look for an alternative I don't have a problem

[11:41] putting the light up I just have 6,500 bucks yeah I mean I mean let's put this

[11:47] way we could we could hire an electrician have him sink the post and

[11:50] put a light up and hook it to our Park lights and probably for a third of that

[11:56] so I think that's what we need to explore wouldn't be bad to have for the

[12:00] park

[12:03] either so we will table that and explore explore options

[12:09] on one of one of the wanted to put on here consideration donation

[12:23] G what's it it's it hasn't been as much as it has been I think it's down what

[12:27] 15700 month it's not as high as it used to

[12:31] be yeah

[12:35] last that's about what it's been around the

[12:38] 16700

[12:44] on I just at

[12:48] last 9000 I yeah that well see there's there's one time wer pay anything

[12:55] 000 I was catching up from last year well in the last year we didn't do

[13:01] anything year before we gave what we we year before we did me so we're just

[13:08] giving it to them for one month so whatever you gentlemen want to

[13:12] do first start we done month we we did and

[13:19] December yeah last year we didn't do anything so it's what October uh the

[13:24] month of October was $2,349 we receive

[13:31] 1800 I'd say it's been averaging that

[13:35] 167 nobody knows what's in the

[13:40] F question for we received 14,000 some dollars so far the year dat through

[13:46] October we had budgeted 16,000 we' already

[13:49] 14,700 something so way

[13:55] over I think we should do

[14:02] that so the amount is going to be how much if you want to last time we just

[14:09] said we got that month if you want to set a amount 1,600 or whatever you want

[14:13] to set then she can just cut it and do it it's whatever we going to do because

[14:16] we won't actually know what we took in for December until next month months

[14:21] behind we should have probably got our heads together and did something like

[14:25] young kids and you know coats or something

[14:30] they got some organizations that do do a lot of that I

[14:35] know well they just had a thing I saw children in some picture on the internet

[14:40] they Ro shopping for the kids there's organizations that do

[14:45] that so what would you like to do with this you want to set out or

[14:52] $1,800 you guys $1800 i' said recommend $1800 I

[14:59] okay a motion the floor from Al kenet second from donate $1,800 out of the

[15:05] gambling

[15:09] funde made ite made Mo second to pay the 1,800 out of the

[15:18] gambling fund to the food pantry Norris yes kennet yes Zimmerman

[15:27] yes Curtis yes SLO no hlon yes Weber yes hofman

[15:38] yes next item business is ordinance amending chapter 5 Municipal Code that

[15:43] was

[15:50] water

[15:53] meeting I believe the recommendation was to approve the changes on the

[16:04] amended Chang changing the disconnect everybody's got a copy that ordinance

[16:10] any questions or I will make a motion to approve that ordinance as printed which

[16:15] is basically reducing the Fe from1 to2

[16:22] second have motion floor from al la second Al Kenne to approve ordinance

[16:27] amending chapter 5 Cod City feary in relation to water rates and charges roll

[16:32] call hlon yes Zimmerman yes Norris yes Weber yes gtis yes kennet yes Hoffman

[16:42] yes SLO yes uh the next one is that's pretty much cut and dry Paul has

[16:47] provided us with a copy of the ly we worked through it we've looked at the

[16:51] numbers and there's not a lot of changing this basic property tax if we

[16:56] don't get this in like I can't one of the municipalities that few years ago

[17:02] without this you don't get your property tax number back PA's work through it

[17:07] these are the basically as they say the numbers there not a lot of conjecture so

[17:12] we need to get it fast so we can for to the county

[17:18] CL we need our money so I'll make

[17:23] motion motion FL from excuse me G is hi second B zmer to

[17:32] approve the ordinance for Levy and assessment of tax for fiscal year ending

[17:35] April 30th 2017 Weber yes hlon yes slel yes Norris

[17:43] yes G yes Zimmerman yes Hoffman yes kennet yes the other is a letter

[17:51] received e University that Nancy has earned 32 hours out of possible 32 hours

[17:59] requirement for the certified Institute she was at and she's gotten a

[18:05] scholarship she's got one year to

[18:14] go have the overtime report real quick there yeah on the the

[18:22] ly ordinance worth noting that the uh bond for the fire department was not

[18:30] what not didn't charge no it's not nope it's not

[18:39] L take your shevy to the levy and yeah okay you got the

[18:51] overtime got for the two weeks of 38 well the one thing I worry about is if I

[18:57] was working 43 hours

[19:01] that's two weeks two weeks two weeks and he's covering because we

[19:07] got you got remember to until April we're

[19:11] still yeah it's he worked 43 hours between November

[19:16] 4th and November 18th which is 14 days which is two weeks well that's just the

[19:20] highest I've ever

[19:24] seen stood out one thing that's uh come in since

[19:29] the agenda doesn't really amount anything it's a certified letter from

[19:32] mediaon that surprise surprise are going to raise Lo for station broadcast SE

[19:36] charge1 15 cents a month Regional Sports by 24 cents and the family TV by two

[19:42] bucks affected January 3rd well January 3rd 2016 year

[19:50] behind basically if somebody asks we did get it

[19:54] and it's going to go up about $339

[20:07] do we have any public comment must have missed this but who was appointed the

[20:13] open

[20:23] meeting it's the city clerked both I have a question regarding when you go

[20:28] into executive session there was a um meeting a committee meeting you had

[20:34] regarding the windows where I attended and at the end of that meeting you went

[20:39] into executive session personel now how is that publicly

[20:44] disclosed I mean you you can go you can go into executive session can I finish

[20:49] my question go ahead um because I think Nancy G ship took the notes and usually

[20:54] at the end of notes there would be something that says they went into EX

[20:58] session but there's nothing that says that you went into ex executive session

[21:02] that night I know that you you know it's privileged you can't know what was said

[21:07] but just the fact that you went in Tak it was probably missed because we didn't

[21:11] have n Nancy gets the recording and then she takes it off there since it was an

[21:16] open session we didn't record we recorded that but she probably didn't

[21:19] get put on minutes it was it it was involving

[21:23] personnel and we're going to go into one just a little bit for personnel and for

[21:27] acquisition and do you know what the date is I can

[21:31] look into that and one the one that we

[21:44] uh sorry what neither John D was there it was like the 16th or something when I

[21:50] [Music]

[21:54] was was if it was a committee meeting I probably would

[22:03] I would imagine bet i' say whoever was writing committee notes just that's what

[22:09] happens we take our own we've got a for we've got a for in

[22:22] here back discussing Bruce brought a window in oh that's been that was last

[22:30] month I made a report my report had nothing to do

[22:37] with do you remember what committee it was I can look

[22:42] back I'll check I'll check check Tom

[22:48] call okay a public comment other than that if not we need to go into executive

[22:55] session for personel employee hire hiring or firing and for acquisition

[23:00] property

[23:05] call yes here Norris Kenn yes

[23:12] slel yes

[23:19] H um Weber yes hman yes Zimmerman yes we didn't really have a motion to we

[23:28] nobody made a motion yeah I was sorting paperwork nobody made

[23:34] the motion okay so must

[23:44] beather we have a motion floor in a second to go into executive session Ru

[23:49] call again youris yes Curtis hips yes hlon

[23:56] yes kennet yes yes hman yes Zimmerman yes

Fairbury Illinois City Council Meeting December 7, 2016

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