[0:00] would you please stand for the plge of
[0:03] allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the Republic
[0:09] for which it stands one nation under God
indivisible with liberty and justice for
[0:20] all Madam Clark If I could please have a
roll call sure superviser Alex zapen
[0:25] here trustey Dean melli here trustee
Greg bcas here truste Karen Johnson
[0:30] absent trustee Denise salino here
Highway commissioner Jim Louch here
[0:35] collector Jessica caned here attorney
Gary Mueller
[0:39] absent thank you so the first agenda we
have to go over tonight is Rod and
[0:44] Bridge uh the first topic is regarding
the approval of minutes for the monthly
[0:48] meeting of December 12 2023 I will need
a motion to approve the minutes I'll
[0:52] make that motion I have a motion by Den
salino second second by Greg vickas any
[0:57] questions on the
minutes hearing none all those in favor
[1:01] I I all those
opposed motion
[1:05] carries uh next topic we have is the
approval of the bills in the amount of
[1:11] $768
7542 I will need a motion to pay the
[1:16] bills I'll make that motion I have a
motion by Denise
[1:20] salino I'll second that motion I have a
second by Dean morali any questions on
[1:24] the
bills hearing none Madame clerk I please
[1:29] have a roll call saan yes barelli yes
Fus yes Cino yes all right moving on do
[1:36] we have any citizens wishing to address
the board
[1:45] tonight all right well hearing none
we'll move on to the highway
[1:48] commissioner's report commissioner L the
floor is
[1:51] yours thank you Mr supervisor uh not
much report other than putting together
[1:57] our 2024 Road surface Improvement list
and if any of the Commissioners had any
[2:05] input certainly get a hold of me if you
had any thoughts on certain roads let me
[2:11] know thank you that's all thank you uh I
have no other business are there any
[2:17] final comments or questions from the
trustees before we join the
[2:21] meeting all right hearing none can I
entertain a motion to return the meeting
[2:25] please I'll make that motion I have a
motion by Den salino second second by
[2:29] Greg Vick all those in favor I opposed
all right Road and Bridge fund meeting
[2:34] is adjourned moving on to the next
meeting we have the agenda for the Town
[2:40] Fund the first topic is the approval of
minutes for the monthly meeting of
[2:44] December 12 2023 uh we need a motion to
approve the
[2:49] minutes I'll make that motion I have a
motion by Nate
[2:52] salino a second I have a second by Dean
morali any questions on the
[2:57] minutes hearing none all those in favor
I all those oppos motion
[3:04] carries next on the list is approval of
bills in the amount of
[3:28] $131,400
hearing none Madam clerk I please have a
[3:32] roll call melli yes Zen yes salino yes
FAS yes all right motion carries do we
[3:40] have any citizens wishing to address the
board tonight in regards to the Town
[3:48] Fund hearing none we'll move on to the
clerk's report Madam clerk the FL is
[3:52] yours thank you
supervisor I'd like to wish everyone a
[3:56] Happy New Year the 2024 monthly meeting
schedule that was approved at her last
[4:02] meeting was published in the Juliet
Herald news on December 15th
[4:05] 2023 on December 19 2023 once I received
the adjusted tax levy for town I
[4:12] electronically filed both tax levies
with the Will County clerk's
[4:16] office I submitted the information to
Will County for the statement of
[4:19] economic interest for our filers
officials please REM remember to be on
[4:23] the lookout for your email to arrive so
you can complete your individual filing
[4:27] due by May 1st 2024
a reminder to everyone that any agenda
[4:33] item requests for the annual town
meeting agenda must be submitted to the
[4:37] clerk's office by March 1st
2024 please refer to the power of
[4:41] electors for guidance on all agenda item
requests since our last meeting in 15
[4:47] days of working the clerk's office has
had over 56 people visit our office for
[4:52] notary services we've also distributed
over 29 diaper bundles to those in need
[4:58] Boyer requests have been weekly at at
times and I have set our days and hours
[5:02] for early voting for The General primary
election additionally there are eight of
[5:06] us attending the Will County Clerk's
early voting training classes over the
[5:10] next few weeks we're being introduced to
the new modernized election equipment
[5:14] that will be utilized by Will County
going forward early voting will take
[5:19] place at the loor township building in
the community room starting Monday March
[5:23] 4th 2024 and ending Saturday March 16th
2024 lastly preparations are underway
[5:31] for the fourth annual Community Fund day
to be held on Saturday May 18th 2024
[5:36] from 10:00 a.m. to 2: p.m. here at the
township building please contact the
[5:41] clerk's office for details on
participation and that is all thank you
[5:46] thank you moving on do we have any
comments or suggestions from the
[5:52] trustees hearing then we'll move on to
the building report so uh I do have two
[5:58] small updates regarding the building
report so number one is uh you may
[6:03] recall from a previous meeting but also
from the email I sent to the board uh
[6:07] back in November regarding installing a
light pole near the entrance of the
[6:11] parking lot here at the township and so
quick update there was as expected uh a
[6:17] slight delay due to the weather and
holiday season uh but uh we hope to
[6:21] receive a final installation date uh by
end of this week and we have a tentative
[6:26] installation date for end of January so
it'll still be during
[6:30] uh still be during
winter next update is regarding the new
[6:35] garage building uh so I I mentioned this
at our last Township meeting in December
[6:41] that I had received a proposal from
United Architects and I forwarded that
[6:45] to the board as well I didn't receive
any questions or comments from the board
[6:50] uh so I let the architect know that we
don't have any changes at this time uh
[6:54] the architect did let me know that we're
he's waiting to hear back from the
[6:58] mechanical engineer and those updates
should be finalized by end of early next
[7:02] by early next week and that the final
step in the process is for the architect
[7:07] to come them to our office and meet with
me to go over any final details uh and
[7:12] then we should uh this should likely go
out to bid by end of January if not
[7:16] early February so I have no meeting on
the books with them yet uh again that'll
[7:20] happen sometime later this month uh if
anyone here is interested in joining
[7:25] that meeting with me uh I believe the
open meetings act allows just but if
[7:29] there's anyone that would like to join
me for that meeting uh please let me
[7:32] know I strongly encourage it U just let
me know so we can coordinate
[7:38] schedules moving on to new business uh
we have no approvals for tonight but we
[7:43] I do have a few updates so number one I
want to remind everyone regarding our
[7:48] budget review meeting that will be on
January 22nd at
[7:52] 3M um I would like to make a formal
request to the board tonight that if
[7:58] anyone would like to have anyone would
like for me to include any
[8:02] considerations uh that we can discuss on
the 22nd so for example I know in the
[8:06] past uh or in our current budget we
support several organizations for
[8:11] example like the lock Women's Club and
we have specific vems in the budget if
[8:15] there's anyone that has ideas that would
like to include so we include it in the
[8:19] budget proposal I'm all ears if not we
can also discuss it on the
[8:25] 22nd next item on the agenda is the flag
design contest so a couple months back
[8:30] we as a board approved a contest from
Township residents to design our new
[8:35] Township flag um I am I would like to
extend the deadline until next until
[8:41] February uh as the deadline was
technically today and I feel like we by
[8:46] by expanding or moving the deadline
we'll be able to receive more
[8:49] submissions and then we'll be able to
receive you receive more submissions and
[8:53] go them as a board hopefully next month
will we sending out like reminders to
[8:57] the schools about the um
contest and such yes we are sending
[9:01] reminders to the schools and I think
we're going to do another social media
[9:04] push is the deadline please February
what date um when when is our next
[9:10] Township meeting
February 13th we can do February
[9:18] 13th thank you
perfect next item on the agenda is a
[9:25] Township handyman idea so uh a little
bit of context is that Soo and I
[9:30] discussed um late last week uh we
received feedback from residents and
[9:34] also took inspiration from programs that
other government entities have but
[9:38] there's a special service that some
other government entities provide where
[9:44] um senior residents uh may require some
handyman services in their house for
[9:48] example you know assistance changing a
light bulb or unclogging a sink you know
[9:53] making any fixes to their bathroom
something that just a minor handyman
[9:58] could do
um and so there is we do have it in the
[10:03] budget but we also have the possibility
of us creating a similar program so if a
[10:09] resident would need help with some minor
fixes they could call the township and
[10:14] then we could have some handyman out
call um where we could then schedule an
[10:18] appointment and have that handyman go
over to the senior um and then we would
[10:21] pay the handyman out of our pocket we'd
likely ask the senior for a small
[10:26] contribution uh just to control the
volume um you know we could work with
[10:30] contractors but I think the easiest
thing might be just to use our own
[10:33] handyman in house so we do have a
full-time maintenance person a parttime
[10:37] A's person we have a little bit of
bandwidth but likely we might have to
[10:41] put out a job description for two folks
and just say hey can you commit five
[10:45] hours a week or something and then we'll
work with everyone's schedules um I want
[10:49] to go up to the board for discussion
before we move forward or do any sort of
[10:54] uh take any actions but also want to um
toss you trusty Salo if you had anything
[10:59] I reached out to or I have some
information from Proviso Township run
[11:03] something similar where they uh the
seniors pay $5 per visit there's pretty
[11:09] much a a little sample list of things
that they can fix they expect the visits
[11:14] not to last more than 45 minutes to an
hour so you're talking your change a
[11:19] shower head change a light bulb curtain
rods hang some pictures some kind of
[11:24] simple things that either their family's
too far away to come help them or you
[11:29] hear all the time about the poor seniors
getting scammed by you know neighborhood
[11:33] people um another thing uh another
thought was to also maybe look at some
[11:39] veterans in our area and try and connect
some of our veterans who um we know they
[11:44] like to talk to people they have great
skill sets and they might be interested
[11:50] in helping or assisting or being those
part-time people um that we hire um and
[11:55] then if seniors do have a large program
maybe we even have vetted contractor's
[12:00] list where they could feel comfortable
reaching out to someone instead of just
[12:05] trying to call someone that they see on
Facebook or someone that just shows up
[12:08] at their door um but I think it could be
a really um valued service that we can
[12:14] provide to our
seniors that's not do we have any
[12:18] thoughts from the board um if you're
reaching out to the veterans we could
[12:22] probably I know we had a list of emails
when we were when we had the veterans
[12:27] dinner we could probably send an email
out to that group of veterans see if we
[12:32] got any any parties that are interested
in helping out with the program yeah
[12:37] that's a good
[12:41] idea have you talked to Senior Services
about how their service works is are you
[12:47] familiar with that yes and that's
actually
[12:52] what we took inspiration from so
originally when I discussed with them I
[12:57] thought it was originally thought it was
almost like identical to what we
[13:02] discussed uh and when I reached out for
partnership and I received a proposal it
[13:07] turns out that the projects they work on
are much larger in scale and so the
[13:11] proposal I received is hey for about
$770,000 we can help out 20 residents
[13:17] with projects on average of
$3,500 and so while that is helpful I
[13:21] feel that we could if we do this in
house we could help a lot more residents
[13:25] rather than just
20 right
[13:30] yeah because I I even find with my own
Teenage Sons like a lot of neighbors
[13:34] will be like hey can they just you know
carry the salt down to the basement and
[13:38] do this you know and change these light
buls while they're down there and like
[13:42] you said it's it's a nice minor service
that would be available and you've got
[13:46] the list and you can do you know the
checks and everybody if they I think
[13:51] it's great yeah they couldn't work
out yeah and I think there's some other
[13:56] area I know do paage Township they have
aor services that does the same sort of
[14:00] thing so we can definitely and I'm happy
to reach out to some of the other areas
[14:04] to kind of find out what their Baseline
is and how they kind of orchestrate it
[14:09] and then we can go from there but I
think it would be really beneficial to
[14:13] our yeah constituents I did have a
resident um send me a private message
[14:18] asking about if there was any known you
know like the snow angels there was a
[14:23] post and I I said well I know there was
a city in has what they call the snow
[14:29] snow angels um that's a city
thingst and then so she asked me if they
[14:35] we had anything like that and then I
know the high school used to have
[14:38] something a long time ago but that was
more like
[14:41] reliefs yeah I don't know if they
collection does anybody know anything
[14:45] about anything around here that has
[14:49] started okay I I didn't think so I told
her she could kind of touch briefly on
[14:54] that too because that was another part
of their proposal for the ovation CER
[14:59] was partnering with them in snow removal
and again it's a basis of Will County
[15:05] and our Township seniors and a lot of
our Township seniors live in the gated
[15:10] communities that handle there but we
still have a lot of seniors that don't
[15:14] that need some assistance and again
getting taken advantage of by people on
[15:19] the street
[15:23] or I think it's a good idea um obviously
uh depending on the and um like you said
[15:31] we have a full-time and a part-time guy
that I believe are pretty handy
[15:35] depending on with job is know maybe
using them first then having like a list
[15:41] of contractors or somebody else that we
rely or trust that we can send out but
[15:48] you know use our guys first yeah if
possible if they're not tied up you know
[15:53] what I'm say yeah I I know for our
full-time minut person um they have
[15:57] occasion
it's not necessarily something we
[16:00] promote to bandwidth for our parttime
there is bandwidth mainly because they
[16:05] are they are part time they're here in
the evening but they have some
[16:08] flexibility during the day right right
that could be something you know
[16:11] depending on how schedule is you know be
willing to you know might have time to
[16:19] do something like that yeah yeah so just
one consider too if we are sending uh or
[16:25] taking down with years or people that
want
[16:27] to get the vetted as far as getting
security clearance not security
[16:31] clearance but background check oh for
sure yeah for sure and I know the flyer
[16:36] Proviso had that even had like probably
a legal disclaimer that Gary could help
[16:40] with of just especially person falls in
your house or you know kinds of right I
[16:48] mean
Insurance that's a good point um yeah
[16:54] yes definitely we can't just hey you
yeah I'll work with I I'll I'll work
[17:01] with our current maintenance folks um
see what capacity we have and then
[17:08] potentially draft up some sort of
posting um and then of course work with
[17:12] Gary for a legal
diser changing light bulbs and furnace
[17:17] filters is different than changing a
water oh for
[17:21] sure we got well this provisor flyer
pretty much listed like a lot of the
[17:28] things and and it was kind of nice
because it gave them a a guideline of
[17:33] and and it was basically $5 for a visit
and then I think they paid for the cost
[17:38] of you know if you had to go get a new
ball and chain to for their toilet you
[17:41] know do do you have a copy or a digital
copy of the pamphlet or anything I'll
[17:46] have to look I know I had it at home I
I'll look for it CU any if we could even
[17:50] just piggy back or kind of just emulate
we townships about oh for sure for sure
[17:54] thank you yeah it's good to not recreate
the wheel and already working
[17:59] on awesome all right moving on to um
another topic um it's not on the agenda
[18:07] but I did want to provide an update so
it's regarding our mental the mental
[18:10] health project we set up with the fire
district a few months back so at the
[18:14] last time meeting I did indicate that
there was a slight delay and they would
[18:18] go live on December 18th uh that is true
the program did indeed go live on
[18:22] December 18th so if uh anyone you know
in the township that would like to rece
[18:27] mental assistance um the link and the QR
code and the phone number are live so
[18:33] you could uh find assistance um for next
steps is the fire department guy or the
[18:40] Fire Department chief and I will be
meeting with our new account manager at
[18:43] thw Works to discuss next steps about
spreading the word because as of now
[18:47] it's just kind of word of mouth and
anyone that the fire department kind
[18:51] kind of comes into contact with uh so
I'll be meeting with we'll be meeting
[18:54] with our account manager to see how we
can spread the word specifically at
[18:57] school so that school counselors uh can
refer students and families uh Whenever
[19:02] there is a
[19:07] need um one more topic I would like to
bring up that I didn't get a chance to
[19:11] add to the agenda um but it is I had an
idea and I also discussed with a few
[19:18] residents uh this topic so uh as you all
may remember from our last Township
[19:23] meeting in December but we did
experience the loss of George mushro who
[19:28] was someone that was a well-known figure
in Lockport uh both in government but
[19:32] also outside of government uh he was
someone that worked at the township for
[19:36] almost 20 decades and had a great effect
on public service and he was especially
[19:40] known for advocating for bipartisan
support um but at the same time we also
[19:46] know that we have experienced losses
from other Township officials uh in the
[19:50] past couple of decades and currently
upstairs in the waiting room um in the
[19:55] waiting area that is for the assessors
and the supervisor's office we do have a
[20:00] few framed pictures of Township
officials that passed away in office uh
[20:04] for example Highway commissioner
seninsky and also supervisor heartley
[20:08] now we do have those frame pictures but
there's no names or descriptions or
[20:12] anything for anyone to even really know
what those are
[20:16] about so what I was thinking and again I
discussed few residents also brought
[20:20] this up to me is if we could uh bring
down those frame pictures and possibly
[20:27] dedicate wall uh in either this room or
the executive session room and kind of
[20:32] just add a plaque uh near near the door
that kind of indicates that it's like
[20:37] hey this you know is informally but
honorably the dedication room for for
[20:43] Township officials uh and I was thinking
that given that George mushro is the
[20:47] most most recent person we could call it
like the mushro and Remembrance room you
[20:51] know we could Wordsmith the name a
little bit uh but just so we could have
[20:56] George mushro but of course all the
other offals that have passed and then
[21:00] any that may pass in the future we could
just add them to the law uh but of
[21:04] course again before I took any action I
wanted to hear some some thoughts from
[21:09] the board I'm open to making any
[21:17] changes I don't think it's a bad idea um
to identify who those subjects are um
[21:25] you know some type of name plaque and
years of service I mean it's all elected
[21:30] officials
um put them together in a separate room
[21:36] or
[21:40] whatever it's fine it's like recording
history right I mean like I said brought
[21:46] up I mean I think George was here for 20
plus years and an elected official I
[21:51] know the others that have
served quite some time high with
[21:55] Commissioners and such that are
that honoring them as Township elected
[22:02] officials I don't have a problem with
that
[22:07] okay all right um so I think what I'll
do is I'll start with having my staff
[22:14] look for like a clack and then we'll get
all the Frank pictures moved down here
[22:18] I'm hoping sometime the next several
weeks I'll of course let the board know
[22:22] I'll find a date maybe we could have
like a little like unveiling ceremony or
[22:26] something um then open it of course to
the public and again we I'll let you all
[22:31] know but I think we'll we'll start with
that but if anyone has any thoughts or
[22:35] suggestions from now until a couple of
weeks again you could always please let
[22:38] me
know okay well that's all I have for new
[22:43] business uh for old business and past
events uh we did have the children's
[22:47] winter event on Wednesday December 13th
here at the township uh here at the
[22:51] township building I think most of us
were were there and I think you went
[22:55] very well as always so looking forward
to the one next
[23:00] we I have no meetings and
corresponden do we have any final
[23:05] thoughts or questions from the
[23:09] board all right hearing none can I
entertain a motion to adjourn the town
[23:13] meeting please I'll make that motion
motion by Denise
[23:17] alino second second by Greg Vias all
those in
[23:21] favor
oppos all right count Mee
[23:26] jour
[23:31] moving on now to the general assistance
meeting uh first topic is the approval
[23:36] of the minutes for the monthly meeting
of December 12 2023 I will need a motion
[23:40] to approve the minutes I'll make that
motion I have a motion by V alino second
[23:44] second by Greg victas any questions on
the
[23:48] minutes hearing none all those in favor
all those
[23:52] opposed motion
carries next topic on the agenda is the
[23:57] approval of bills
in the amount of $
[24:00] 4,573
49 I will need a motion to pay the bills
[24:05] I'll make that motion motion by Den
salino second second by Greg bckas any
[24:11] questions on the bills this
month hearing none Madam cler I please
[24:16] have a roll call salino yes FAS yes
melli yes sapan yes all right moving on
[24:23] do we have any citizens wishing to
address the board
[24:26] tonight
hearing none we'll move on to the ga
[24:30] report and new business so uh first
we'll look at the ga report so there is
[24:37] a ga uh report in your packet just a
quick little summary we had 10 total
[24:43] cases for the month of December uh five
of them were approved five of them were
[24:48] not approved of the five cases that were
approved um we had uh two that were
[24:55] approved for assistance in water U Bill
and then three for rent uh bringing our
[25:00] total relief for this month for
$3,173
[25:06] 21 any any questions on the G
[25:11] report uh I wanted to give a quick
visual GA update so uh you may all have
[25:16] noticed but uh we didn't have it we had
uh almost no administrative cost to GA
[25:22] this month uh and that is because we
were moving now forward with our new
[25:26] process in G where I indicated that be
spending no more uh than about $700 G
[25:31] because that is what we calculated using
the operational flow now we have not yet
[25:35] paid for visual GA um I did mention that
we will be installing it unfortunately
[25:42] um there again was a delay and that has
to do mainly with our it uh support but
[25:47] they're in the process of installing a
new server and that was supposed to
[25:50] happen in early December unfortunately
there was a delay uh due to supply chain
[25:55] issues and so uh we couldn't install
visual GA until we received a new server
[26:00] else we'd have to reinstall it once we
receed the new server and so the current
[26:04] update that I have is that the new
server is currently being installed it
[26:08] should be finalized by end of next week
um and so we will see an invoice for
[26:12] visual GA hopefully in February as
that's when we will be installing it and
[26:17] we'll be paying for it
[26:23] that that's um that is all I have
for general assistance this month I have
[26:29] no old business any final questions from
the
[26:35] board hearing none can I entertain a
motion to adjourn the general assistance
[26:38] meeting I'll make that motion live
meeting by Vinnie salino second second
[26:43] by Greg pickus all those in
favor oppos all right general assistance
[26:49] speak is
[26:55] CH uh last meeting person tonight is
regarding the senior fund first topic is
[27:01] the approval of minutes for the monthly
meeting of December 12 2023 I will need
[27:05] a motion to approve the minutes I'll
make that motion I have a motion by Den
[27:08] salino second second by Greg vickas any
questions on the
[27:14] minutes hearing none all those in
favor
[27:19] opposed motion carries moving on to the
bills I do have approval of bills in the
[27:25] amount of
$1,384
[27:28] 4 I will need a motion to pay the bills
I'll make that motion I have a motion by
[27:33] Denny salino second second by Greg
vickas any questions on the
[27:40] bills all right hearing none Madam clerk
I please have a roll Calli yes FAS yes
[27:45] Cino yes zpan yes motion carries moving
on do we have any citizens wishing to
[27:51] address the board tonight in regards to
the senior
[27:56] fund hearing none we'll move on to the
bus report and new
[28:01] business so you all should have a copy
of the bus report in your packet so as
[28:06] we can tell for the month of December we
had a total of 467 trips uh for and
[28:12] there was 19 uh business days where the
buses were available and this is this
[28:18] brings our average RS per day to
24.6 now if we look at exhibit B or the
[28:23] graph below uh we will see that this
brings our average rides per month to
[28:28] 500 which is a slight decrease from
previous month I will say that though
[28:33] our our buses are back and uh fully
functional the reason we did receive a
[28:39] decrease in amount of trips um is
actually we just we we really just saw a
[28:44] decrease in am of days worked because
there's 19 as opposed to other months
[28:47] where we see closer to 21 or 23 our
average rites per day was still closer
[28:51] to the 24 range um we did we did uh we
were in Need for some bus repairs uh
[28:58] this month I know last month I mentioned
that in November one of our buses was
[29:02] out for almost over two weeks du to the
uh fix in the driver's seat this month
[29:07] our second bus uh needed some some
repairs one of those for the step light
[29:13] that was not operable the other was the
rear brake lights need replacement uh so
[29:18] those were two more repairs that were
need for the second
[29:22] bus and that is all I have for a senior
fund I have no old business
[29:27] uh do we have any final questions or
comments or anything from the
[29:35] board hearing none I'll entertain a
motion to adjourn the meeting I'll make
[29:39] that motion motion BYO second second
byus all those in favor I oppos meeting
[29:48] with the chair thank you
[29:56] everyone