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would you please stand for the plge of

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allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the Republic

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for which it stands one nation under God
indivisible with liberty and justice for

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all Madam Clark If I could please have a
roll call sure superviser Alex zapen

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here trustey Dean melli here trustee
Greg bcas here truste Karen Johnson

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absent trustee Denise salino here
Highway commissioner Jim Louch here

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collector Jessica caned here attorney
Gary Mueller

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absent thank you so the first agenda we
have to go over tonight is Rod and

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Bridge uh the first topic is regarding
the approval of minutes for the monthly

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meeting of December 12 2023 I will need
a motion to approve the minutes I'll

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make that motion I have a motion by Den
salino second second by Greg vickas any

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questions on the
minutes hearing none all those in favor

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I I all those
opposed motion

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carries uh next topic we have is the
approval of the bills in the amount of

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$768
7542 I will need a motion to pay the

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bills I'll make that motion I have a
motion by Denise

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salino I'll second that motion I have a
second by Dean morali any questions on

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the
bills hearing none Madame clerk I please

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have a roll call saan yes barelli yes
Fus yes Cino yes all right moving on do

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we have any citizens wishing to address
the board

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tonight all right well hearing none
we'll move on to the highway

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commissioner's report commissioner L the
floor is

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yours thank you Mr supervisor uh not
much report other than putting together

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our 2024 Road surface Improvement list
and if any of the Commissioners had any

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input certainly get a hold of me if you
had any thoughts on certain roads let me

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know thank you that's all thank you uh I
have no other business are there any

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final comments or questions from the
trustees before we join the

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meeting all right hearing none can I
entertain a motion to return the meeting

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please I'll make that motion I have a
motion by Den salino second second by

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Greg Vick all those in favor I opposed
all right Road and Bridge fund meeting

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is adjourned moving on to the next
meeting we have the agenda for the Town

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Fund the first topic is the approval of
minutes for the monthly meeting of

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December 12 2023 uh we need a motion to
approve the

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minutes I'll make that motion I have a
motion by Nate

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salino a second I have a second by Dean
morali any questions on the

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minutes hearing none all those in favor
I all those oppos motion

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carries next on the list is approval of
bills in the amount of

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$131,400
hearing none Madam clerk I please have a

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roll call melli yes Zen yes salino yes
FAS yes all right motion carries do we

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have any citizens wishing to address the
board tonight in regards to the Town

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Fund hearing none we'll move on to the
clerk's report Madam clerk the FL is

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yours thank you
supervisor I'd like to wish everyone a

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Happy New Year the 2024 monthly meeting
schedule that was approved at her last

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meeting was published in the Juliet
Herald news on December 15th

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2023 on December 19 2023 once I received
the adjusted tax levy for town I

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electronically filed both tax levies
with the Will County clerk's

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office I submitted the information to
Will County for the statement of

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economic interest for our filers
officials please REM remember to be on

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the lookout for your email to arrive so
you can complete your individual filing

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due by May 1st 2024
a reminder to everyone that any agenda

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item requests for the annual town
meeting agenda must be submitted to the

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clerk's office by March 1st
2024 please refer to the power of

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electors for guidance on all agenda item
requests since our last meeting in 15

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days of working the clerk's office has
had over 56 people visit our office for

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notary services we've also distributed
over 29 diaper bundles to those in need

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Boyer requests have been weekly at at
times and I have set our days and hours

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for early voting for The General primary
election additionally there are eight of

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us attending the Will County Clerk's
early voting training classes over the

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next few weeks we're being introduced to
the new modernized election equipment

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that will be utilized by Will County
going forward early voting will take

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place at the loor township building in
the community room starting Monday March

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4th 2024 and ending Saturday March 16th
2024 lastly preparations are underway

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for the fourth annual Community Fund day
to be held on Saturday May 18th 2024

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from 10:00 a.m. to 2: p.m. here at the
township building please contact the

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clerk's office for details on
participation and that is all thank you

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thank you moving on do we have any
comments or suggestions from the

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trustees hearing then we'll move on to
the building report so uh I do have two

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small updates regarding the building
report so number one is uh you may

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recall from a previous meeting but also
from the email I sent to the board uh

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back in November regarding installing a
light pole near the entrance of the

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parking lot here at the township and so
quick update there was as expected uh a

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slight delay due to the weather and
holiday season uh but uh we hope to

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receive a final installation date uh by
end of this week and we have a tentative

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installation date for end of January so
it'll still be during

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uh still be during
winter next update is regarding the new

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garage building uh so I I mentioned this
at our last Township meeting in December

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that I had received a proposal from
United Architects and I forwarded that

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to the board as well I didn't receive
any questions or comments from the board

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uh so I let the architect know that we
don't have any changes at this time uh

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the architect did let me know that we're
he's waiting to hear back from the

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mechanical engineer and those updates
should be finalized by end of early next

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by early next week and that the final
step in the process is for the architect

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to come them to our office and meet with
me to go over any final details uh and

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then we should uh this should likely go
out to bid by end of January if not

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early February so I have no meeting on
the books with them yet uh again that'll

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happen sometime later this month uh if
anyone here is interested in joining

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that meeting with me uh I believe the
open meetings act allows just but if

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there's anyone that would like to join
me for that meeting uh please let me

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know I strongly encourage it U just let
me know so we can coordinate

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schedules moving on to new business uh
we have no approvals for tonight but we

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I do have a few updates so number one I
want to remind everyone regarding our

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budget review meeting that will be on
January 22nd at

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3M um I would like to make a formal
request to the board tonight that if

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anyone would like to have anyone would
like for me to include any

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considerations uh that we can discuss on
the 22nd so for example I know in the

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past uh or in our current budget we
support several organizations for

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example like the lock Women's Club and
we have specific vems in the budget if

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there's anyone that has ideas that would
like to include so we include it in the

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budget proposal I'm all ears if not we
can also discuss it on the

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22nd next item on the agenda is the flag
design contest so a couple months back

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we as a board approved a contest from
Township residents to design our new

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Township flag um I am I would like to
extend the deadline until next until

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February uh as the deadline was
technically today and I feel like we by

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by expanding or moving the deadline
we'll be able to receive more

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submissions and then we'll be able to
receive you receive more submissions and

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go them as a board hopefully next month
will we sending out like reminders to

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the schools about the um
contest and such yes we are sending

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reminders to the schools and I think
we're going to do another social media

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push is the deadline please February
what date um when when is our next

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Township meeting
February 13th we can do February

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13th thank you
perfect next item on the agenda is a

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Township handyman idea so uh a little
bit of context is that Soo and I

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discussed um late last week uh we
received feedback from residents and

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also took inspiration from programs that
other government entities have but

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there's a special service that some
other government entities provide where

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um senior residents uh may require some
handyman services in their house for

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example you know assistance changing a
light bulb or unclogging a sink you know

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making any fixes to their bathroom
something that just a minor handyman

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could do
um and so there is we do have it in the

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budget but we also have the possibility
of us creating a similar program so if a

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resident would need help with some minor
fixes they could call the township and

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then we could have some handyman out
call um where we could then schedule an

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appointment and have that handyman go
over to the senior um and then we would

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pay the handyman out of our pocket we'd
likely ask the senior for a small

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contribution uh just to control the
volume um you know we could work with

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contractors but I think the easiest
thing might be just to use our own

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handyman in house so we do have a
full-time maintenance person a parttime

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A's person we have a little bit of
bandwidth but likely we might have to

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put out a job description for two folks
and just say hey can you commit five

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hours a week or something and then we'll
work with everyone's schedules um I want

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to go up to the board for discussion
before we move forward or do any sort of

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uh take any actions but also want to um
toss you trusty Salo if you had anything

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I reached out to or I have some
information from Proviso Township run

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something similar where they uh the
seniors pay $5 per visit there's pretty

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much a a little sample list of things
that they can fix they expect the visits

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not to last more than 45 minutes to an
hour so you're talking your change a

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shower head change a light bulb curtain
rods hang some pictures some kind of

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simple things that either their family's
too far away to come help them or you

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hear all the time about the poor seniors
getting scammed by you know neighborhood

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people um another thing uh another
thought was to also maybe look at some

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veterans in our area and try and connect
some of our veterans who um we know they

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like to talk to people they have great
skill sets and they might be interested

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in helping or assisting or being those
part-time people um that we hire um and

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then if seniors do have a large program
maybe we even have vetted contractor's

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list where they could feel comfortable
reaching out to someone instead of just

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trying to call someone that they see on
Facebook or someone that just shows up

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at their door um but I think it could be
a really um valued service that we can

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provide to our
seniors that's not do we have any

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thoughts from the board um if you're
reaching out to the veterans we could

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probably I know we had a list of emails
when we were when we had the veterans

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dinner we could probably send an email
out to that group of veterans see if we

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got any any parties that are interested
in helping out with the program yeah

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that's a good

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idea have you talked to Senior Services
about how their service works is are you

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familiar with that yes and that's
actually

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what we took inspiration from so
originally when I discussed with them I

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thought it was originally thought it was
almost like identical to what we

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discussed uh and when I reached out for
partnership and I received a proposal it

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turns out that the projects they work on
are much larger in scale and so the

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proposal I received is hey for about
$770,000 we can help out 20 residents

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with projects on average of
$3,500 and so while that is helpful I

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feel that we could if we do this in
house we could help a lot more residents

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rather than just
20 right

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yeah because I I even find with my own
Teenage Sons like a lot of neighbors

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will be like hey can they just you know
carry the salt down to the basement and

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do this you know and change these light
buls while they're down there and like

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you said it's it's a nice minor service
that would be available and you've got

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the list and you can do you know the
checks and everybody if they I think

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it's great yeah they couldn't work
out yeah and I think there's some other

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area I know do paage Township they have
aor services that does the same sort of

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thing so we can definitely and I'm happy
to reach out to some of the other areas

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to kind of find out what their Baseline
is and how they kind of orchestrate it

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and then we can go from there but I
think it would be really beneficial to

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our yeah constituents I did have a
resident um send me a private message

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asking about if there was any known you
know like the snow angels there was a

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post and I I said well I know there was
a city in has what they call the snow

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snow angels um that's a city
thingst and then so she asked me if they

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we had anything like that and then I
know the high school used to have

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something a long time ago but that was
more like

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reliefs yeah I don't know if they
collection does anybody know anything

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about anything around here that has

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started okay I I didn't think so I told
her she could kind of touch briefly on

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that too because that was another part
of their proposal for the ovation CER

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was partnering with them in snow removal
and again it's a basis of Will County

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and our Township seniors and a lot of
our Township seniors live in the gated

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communities that handle there but we
still have a lot of seniors that don't

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that need some assistance and again
getting taken advantage of by people on

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the street

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or I think it's a good idea um obviously
uh depending on the and um like you said

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we have a full-time and a part-time guy
that I believe are pretty handy

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depending on with job is know maybe
using them first then having like a list

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of contractors or somebody else that we
rely or trust that we can send out but

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you know use our guys first yeah if
possible if they're not tied up you know

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what I'm say yeah I I know for our
full-time minut person um they have

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occasion
it's not necessarily something we

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promote to bandwidth for our parttime
there is bandwidth mainly because they

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are they are part time they're here in
the evening but they have some

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flexibility during the day right right
that could be something you know

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depending on how schedule is you know be
willing to you know might have time to

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do something like that yeah yeah so just
one consider too if we are sending uh or

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taking down with years or people that
want

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to get the vetted as far as getting
security clearance not security

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clearance but background check oh for
sure yeah for sure and I know the flyer

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Proviso had that even had like probably
a legal disclaimer that Gary could help

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with of just especially person falls in
your house or you know kinds of right I

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mean
Insurance that's a good point um yeah

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yes definitely we can't just hey you
yeah I'll work with I I'll I'll work

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with our current maintenance folks um
see what capacity we have and then

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potentially draft up some sort of
posting um and then of course work with

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Gary for a legal
diser changing light bulbs and furnace

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filters is different than changing a
water oh for

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sure we got well this provisor flyer
pretty much listed like a lot of the

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things and and it was kind of nice
because it gave them a a guideline of

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and and it was basically $5 for a visit
and then I think they paid for the cost

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of you know if you had to go get a new
ball and chain to for their toilet you

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know do do you have a copy or a digital
copy of the pamphlet or anything I'll

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have to look I know I had it at home I
I'll look for it CU any if we could even

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just piggy back or kind of just emulate
we townships about oh for sure for sure

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thank you yeah it's good to not recreate
the wheel and already working

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on awesome all right moving on to um
another topic um it's not on the agenda

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but I did want to provide an update so
it's regarding our mental the mental

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health project we set up with the fire
district a few months back so at the

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last time meeting I did indicate that
there was a slight delay and they would

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go live on December 18th uh that is true
the program did indeed go live on

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December 18th so if uh anyone you know
in the township that would like to rece

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mental assistance um the link and the QR
code and the phone number are live so

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you could uh find assistance um for next
steps is the fire department guy or the

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Fire Department chief and I will be
meeting with our new account manager at

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thw Works to discuss next steps about
spreading the word because as of now

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it's just kind of word of mouth and
anyone that the fire department kind

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kind of comes into contact with uh so
I'll be meeting with we'll be meeting

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with our account manager to see how we
can spread the word specifically at

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school so that school counselors uh can
refer students and families uh Whenever

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there is a

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need um one more topic I would like to
bring up that I didn't get a chance to

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add to the agenda um but it is I had an
idea and I also discussed with a few

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residents uh this topic so uh as you all
may remember from our last Township

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meeting in December but we did
experience the loss of George mushro who

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was someone that was a well-known figure
in Lockport uh both in government but

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also outside of government uh he was
someone that worked at the township for

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almost 20 decades and had a great effect
on public service and he was especially

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known for advocating for bipartisan
support um but at the same time we also

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know that we have experienced losses
from other Township officials uh in the

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past couple of decades and currently
upstairs in the waiting room um in the

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waiting area that is for the assessors
and the supervisor's office we do have a

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few framed pictures of Township
officials that passed away in office uh

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for example Highway commissioner
seninsky and also supervisor heartley

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now we do have those frame pictures but
there's no names or descriptions or

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anything for anyone to even really know
what those are

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about so what I was thinking and again I
discussed few residents also brought

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this up to me is if we could uh bring
down those frame pictures and possibly

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dedicate wall uh in either this room or
the executive session room and kind of

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just add a plaque uh near near the door
that kind of indicates that it's like

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hey this you know is informally but
honorably the dedication room for for

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Township officials uh and I was thinking
that given that George mushro is the

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most most recent person we could call it
like the mushro and Remembrance room you

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know we could Wordsmith the name a
little bit uh but just so we could have

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George mushro but of course all the
other offals that have passed and then

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any that may pass in the future we could
just add them to the law uh but of

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course again before I took any action I
wanted to hear some some thoughts from

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the board I'm open to making any

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changes I don't think it's a bad idea um
to identify who those subjects are um

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you know some type of name plaque and
years of service I mean it's all elected

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officials
um put them together in a separate room

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or

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whatever it's fine it's like recording
history right I mean like I said brought

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up I mean I think George was here for 20
plus years and an elected official I

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know the others that have
served quite some time high with

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Commissioners and such that are
that honoring them as Township elected

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officials I don't have a problem with
that

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okay all right um so I think what I'll
do is I'll start with having my staff

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look for like a clack and then we'll get
all the Frank pictures moved down here

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I'm hoping sometime the next several
weeks I'll of course let the board know

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I'll find a date maybe we could have
like a little like unveiling ceremony or

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something um then open it of course to
the public and again we I'll let you all

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know but I think we'll we'll start with
that but if anyone has any thoughts or

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suggestions from now until a couple of
weeks again you could always please let

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me
know okay well that's all I have for new

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business uh for old business and past
events uh we did have the children's

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winter event on Wednesday December 13th
here at the township uh here at the

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township building I think most of us
were were there and I think you went

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very well as always so looking forward
to the one next

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we I have no meetings and
corresponden do we have any final

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thoughts or questions from the

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board all right hearing none can I
entertain a motion to adjourn the town

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meeting please I'll make that motion
motion by Denise

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alino second second by Greg Vias all
those in

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favor
oppos all right count Mee

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jour

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moving on now to the general assistance
meeting uh first topic is the approval

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of the minutes for the monthly meeting
of December 12 2023 I will need a motion

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to approve the minutes I'll make that
motion I have a motion by V alino second

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second by Greg victas any questions on
the

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minutes hearing none all those in favor
all those

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opposed motion
carries next topic on the agenda is the

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approval of bills
in the amount of $

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4,573
49 I will need a motion to pay the bills

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I'll make that motion motion by Den
salino second second by Greg bckas any

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questions on the bills this
month hearing none Madam cler I please

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have a roll call salino yes FAS yes
melli yes sapan yes all right moving on

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do we have any citizens wishing to
address the board

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tonight
hearing none we'll move on to the ga

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report and new business so uh first
we'll look at the ga report so there is

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a ga uh report in your packet just a
quick little summary we had 10 total

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cases for the month of December uh five
of them were approved five of them were

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not approved of the five cases that were
approved um we had uh two that were

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approved for assistance in water U Bill
and then three for rent uh bringing our

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total relief for this month for
$3,173

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21 any any questions on the G

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report uh I wanted to give a quick
visual GA update so uh you may all have

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noticed but uh we didn't have it we had
uh almost no administrative cost to GA

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this month uh and that is because we
were moving now forward with our new

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process in G where I indicated that be
spending no more uh than about $700 G

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because that is what we calculated using
the operational flow now we have not yet

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paid for visual GA um I did mention that
we will be installing it unfortunately

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um there again was a delay and that has
to do mainly with our it uh support but

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they're in the process of installing a
new server and that was supposed to

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happen in early December unfortunately
there was a delay uh due to supply chain

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issues and so uh we couldn't install
visual GA until we received a new server

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else we'd have to reinstall it once we
receed the new server and so the current

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update that I have is that the new
server is currently being installed it

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should be finalized by end of next week
um and so we will see an invoice for

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visual GA hopefully in February as
that's when we will be installing it and

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we'll be paying for it

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that that's um that is all I have
for general assistance this month I have

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no old business any final questions from
the

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board hearing none can I entertain a
motion to adjourn the general assistance

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meeting I'll make that motion live
meeting by Vinnie salino second second

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by Greg pickus all those in
favor oppos all right general assistance

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speak is

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CH uh last meeting person tonight is
regarding the senior fund first topic is

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the approval of minutes for the monthly
meeting of December 12 2023 I will need

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a motion to approve the minutes I'll
make that motion I have a motion by Den

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salino second second by Greg vickas any
questions on the

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minutes hearing none all those in
favor

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opposed motion carries moving on to the
bills I do have approval of bills in the

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amount of
$1,384

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4 I will need a motion to pay the bills
I'll make that motion I have a motion by

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Denny salino second second by Greg
vickas any questions on the

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bills all right hearing none Madam clerk
I please have a roll Calli yes FAS yes

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Cino yes zpan yes motion carries moving
on do we have any citizens wishing to

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address the board tonight in regards to
the senior

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fund hearing none we'll move on to the
bus report and new

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business so you all should have a copy
of the bus report in your packet so as

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we can tell for the month of December we
had a total of 467 trips uh for and

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there was 19 uh business days where the
buses were available and this is this

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brings our average RS per day to
24.6 now if we look at exhibit B or the

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graph below uh we will see that this
brings our average rides per month to

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500 which is a slight decrease from
previous month I will say that though

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our our buses are back and uh fully
functional the reason we did receive a

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decrease in amount of trips um is
actually we just we we really just saw a

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decrease in am of days worked because
there's 19 as opposed to other months

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where we see closer to 21 or 23 our
average rites per day was still closer

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to the 24 range um we did we did uh we
were in Need for some bus repairs uh

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this month I know last month I mentioned
that in November one of our buses was

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out for almost over two weeks du to the
uh fix in the driver's seat this month

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our second bus uh needed some some
repairs one of those for the step light

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that was not operable the other was the
rear brake lights need replacement uh so

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those were two more repairs that were
need for the second

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bus and that is all I have for a senior
fund I have no old business

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uh do we have any final questions or
comments or anything from the

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board hearing none I'll entertain a
motion to adjourn the meeting I'll make

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that motion motion BYO second second
byus all those in favor I oppos meeting

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with the chair thank you

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everyone