[0:04] will be called to order from Maintown.
So, um
[0:10] officially calling to order. May we have
the pledge of allegiance, please.
[0:17] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:22] republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:28] justice for all.
>> Thank you.
[0:33] » Professor Cry
Highway
[0:38] 13 is here. Supervisor Jones.
>> Yes.
[0:41] » Trusty Horvath
>> here.
[0:43] » Trusty Mer here. Trusty Malik and Trusty
Moch.
[0:51] » Okay. Um, first item is approval of the
minutes of July 28, 2026 board meeting.
[1:00] Uh, motion to approve the minutes of the
July 28th, 2026 board meeting.
[1:05] » Second.
[1:08] » Supervisor Jones.
>> Yes.
[1:10] » Trusty Herb.
>> Yes.
[1:11] » Trusty M.
>> Yes.
[1:14] Okay.
Approval of general assistance
[1:18] expenditures.
[1:22] Um uh motion to approve payroll for pay
dates of July 31st, 2026 and August
[1:28] 14th, 2026 AC wire payments and general
assistance checks number 57815 through
[1:35] check number 57850
in the amount of $131,238.38.
[1:43] Uh second.
>> Okay.
[1:46] » Professor Jones.
>> Yes.
[1:47] » Trusty Orb.
>> Yes.
[1:48] » Trusty M.
>> Yes.
[1:50] » Okay. Approval of road district
expenditures.
[1:54] » Um I'll make a motion to approve payroll
for pay dates of July 31st, 2026 and
[1:59] August 14th, 2026. AC wire payments and
road district checks number 25987 to
[2:07] check number 26027
in the amount of $53,77.35.
[2:20] » Supervisor Jones.
>> Yes.
[2:21] » Trusty Herman.
>> Yes.
[2:23] » Trusty Mer. Yes.
>> Okay. Approval of general talent fund
[2:28] expenditures. Uh motion to approve
payroll pay dates to July 31st, 2026 and
[2:34] August 14th, 2026 a wire payments and
town firm checks number 63685
[2:41] through check number 63746
in the amount of $290,5842.
[2:49] » Second
Jones,
[2:52] » yes.
>> Trusty Herb,
[2:54] » yes.
>> Trusty,
[2:55] » yes.
>> All right. And now we have a very
[2:57] exciting introduction.
Our very own Kabini is back home.
[3:04] He was out of town for a while.
[3:10] Welcome back. Very happy to have uh
Candy come back as our um director of
[3:16] general assistance. So they welcome
back.
[3:20] Great. Public participation
[3:27] just
[3:36] um would you please come up to the
>> Okay.
[3:46] » Uh good evening. Uh my name is Elas. Uh
I've been a resident here for like last
[3:51] three four years now. Um I would like to
congratulate all of you and thank you
[3:56] for your services. Uh you've been doing
a good job. Uh recently uh uh my
[4:02] neighborhood it's a bigass neighborhood
and uh the party regulations we have on
[4:06] the streets are little uncomfortable
because uh not everybody can pay the
[4:11] towing charges. Uh recently after the
construction uh my two cars my bike and
[4:18] car got to
pay uh I had to rush. I had a meeting
[4:23] because uh it was uh the clothing team
was removed for some part of the uh
[4:28] construction work period. So uh I forgot
and you know it happened a couple of
[4:34] times before as well. Uh sometimes
Tuesday I I miss I'm a businessman uh I
[4:39] work uh from home and uh sometimes you
know Tuesday and Wednesday is uh similar
[4:44] for me. So I forget to pick my car for
from the streets. So and uh there are so
[4:51] many other neighbors who are suffering
from this. Uh we are we are we are
[4:55] working hard to uh to pay our bills. Uh
and plus this. So the thing is uh uh
[5:01] there is a touring uh regulation as well
as ticketing regulations. So uh this
[5:07] time I got the ticket as well as my cars
were told. So there was too much for me
[5:13] to uh you know bear for this month. So I
was uh requesting you guys to uh look
[5:20] into this regulation and at least remove
the towing part, keep the ticket part.
[5:24] Uh so uh uh we get a warning that we
don't park in that area for that day or
[5:29] something like that. So thank you very
much. What street do you want sir? Sumac
[5:35] road. Yeah. Yeah. We Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
[5:39] » Thank you.
And if you're if there's ever a chance
[5:43] if you're ever running, you know, behind
on something and you know, your car's
[5:47] out there for a few minutes past the
time, make sure to give us a call and
[5:51] and just let us know. We could make sure
that they don't tow your car.
[5:55] » And the reason for this regulation is
the street cleaning.
[5:59] » Not just the street cleaning, just it's
the street cleaning, abandoned vehicles,
[6:03] uh snow plowing, it's a number of
things. But uh the the for a long time
[6:10] now and there's no uh government cars
anymore or anything like that. So it's
[6:15] just the street is remaining and the
streets aren't clean.
[6:18] » Well, we set up the streets sweeper at
least once or twice a week. So So
[6:23] Tuesday and Thursday on the website is
like cleaning is one day a week.
[6:28] » Yeah. A lot of times we'll clean it and
then come back and people throw litter
[6:32] again. And I mean, we do the best we
can, but yeah, it's it's for we have
[6:37] people that call us and tell us that
we're we're not towing enough abandoned
[6:40] vehicles or towing enough cars in
certain streets. So, I mean, we do the
[6:46] best we can to keep the streets clean
and open. But if if there's ever a time
[6:50] that you're going to be late to your
car, make sure to call us and we can
[6:53] make sure that it doesn't get ticketed
or towed for a few, you know, a few
[6:56] extra minutes.
But uh please uh you can consider not
[7:02] going
route and uh it takes a lot of money and
[7:06] it's like once all the documents and you
just have to go to the appointment take
[7:11] a taxi and get to that area where we
post the car. It's too far away from
[7:16] this place and uh there are issues you
know with my neighbors because there are
[7:23] women old women people who get uh uh
annoyed with this whole thing.
[7:29] » What time what time was your 9:30
>> were you ticketed?
[7:33] » Yes I have tickets
you want 9:30 I can both of them
[7:41] this last box. So, uh, it's not just for
me, but my neighbors that we think
[7:47] they're going like
>> Well, we could maybe I mean, Supervisor
[7:52] Jones made we could consider waving the
tickets
[7:56] » possibly, right?
>> I mean, if you if you'd like to speak to
[8:01] our code enforcement officer
from Nash.
[8:06] » Yeah. He he mess.
[8:18] » Oh, we don't.
>> Yeah, I know. You don't make money.
[8:21] You're not making money.
[8:27] » Well, that was smart. If there's
extenduating circumstances, you told
[8:30] mayor he was willing to work with you.
So, that's good.
[8:33] » That's good. Some municipalities won't
work with you, but at least he did. So,
[8:36] that's good. Thank you. That's possible.
Thank you. Okay.
[8:41] » All right. Thank you for coming in
today.
[8:44] It's too
international overdose awareness day.
[8:50] Marnection
is speak.
[8:54] » Okay.
[9:01] » Uh good evening everyone. um thanks for
uh inviting us out today. Um just really
[9:07] fast before I I go in that Kathy is back
and it it just was um something that
[9:14] lately in the last few months just
talking to other staff here um seeing
[9:18] the random places. I I just want to
commend Supervisor Jones and Vicki and
[9:22] the I guess the the staff here,
everybody is really happy at Township
[9:27] and it's been a long time coming. Uh I
just hear it all throughout the whole
[9:32] building. So I want to commend uh you
Supervisor Jones and Vicki um for what
[9:39] you guys have have done here cuz it's
been it's been a tremendous change and
[9:42] the people that work here are so nice.
So I'm happy that they're they're happy
[9:45] to work uh for the change. Um anyway, on
to uh unfortunately overdose awareness
[9:51] month um which is overdose awareness day
is August 31st which is next Monday. And
[9:59] um throughout the nation and the world,
people light buildings or monuments
[10:03] purple. So like the Eiffel Tower um and
more locally the lean tower looks I
[10:09] think also um merchandise mark um other
buildings throughout the country go
[10:15] purple. I'm very happy that this main
township in this way will will light
[10:20] something purple thanks to Mike finding
light bulbs and all that other stuff.
[10:25] Um, but the the other side of this is,
you know, the good news is that opioid
[10:30] deaths throughout the country are down.
They're also down in Cook County. And a
[10:35] lot of that is due to what we've been
doing here in M Township. We do have uh
[10:39] an NAM machine here that has been
distributing Nan to people to help them
[10:45] uh reverse overdoses. And when an
overdose is reversed, they have a chance
[10:50] to come and connect with Nick and I and
the world of recovery, which um
[10:57] thankfully um you know, again, Main
Township has been um on the forefront
[11:03] of. We've been doing this stuff here
since 2015. Um, in the last few years,
[11:10] there's been these massive lawsuits
throughout the country, federal
[11:13] lawsuits, where for the next 15 years,
no, I'm sorry, the next 18 years,
[11:19] billions of dollars are funneling into
communities all over the country, and
[11:23] they they have to do like 12 core things
that they could spend this money on. And
[11:29] I'm very proud to say that we do
probably eight of those 12 things
[11:34] already. And we've been doing them for a
long time. And again, that was with the
[11:37] great support of of Supervisor Jones and
Pete when he was a the trustee and Susie
[11:44] Moland. Um, so a lot of those things
that we started many years ago are now
[11:50] um the country is really asking other
communities to go out and do it. So I
[11:55] want to thank you guys for the
tremendous support that we had here. I
[11:59] and I, you know, I just want to say
there was some some tough times here
[12:02] where um people were not for this. And I
recently was in a restaurant. I saw
[12:07] somebody who really wasn't very
supportive of the work we were doing.
[12:10] And um and it just was kind of they're
like, "Oh, this is great." And I I I was
[12:15] like, "Gosh, you know, would it have
been so hard to just support people cuz
[12:19] I've seen a lot of people um get
better." The sad part is we also see
[12:24] people die. That still happens. And
that's heartbreaking um because of the
[12:28] families and the stigma. Um I always go
back to I probably tell this all the
[12:32] time. There's a woman who comes to some
of the other programs here um whose son
[12:38] has got some problems and uh she's come
to me numerous times and I've talked to
[12:42] this son numerous times and her the
stigma part is she said please whatever
[12:46] you do do not tell Marie that this is
going on in my family and I said that's
[12:51] nothing to be ashamed of there's
absolutely nothing but that's still a
[12:54] thing out in the world but the good news
is whenever we are doing what we're
[12:58] doing here um when we do the mainly news
or whenever Whenever we promote this, I
[13:04] get phone calls because the sad reality
is every day there's people coming into
[13:09] the world of addiction and they're
getting sober or they are unfortunately
[13:14] passing away or going to jail. Um, but
the good part, the people that Nate and
[13:19] I get to see who are um they're coming
to our events, they're sober, they're
[13:24] happy, and they rebuild their lives. So,
that's that's the great part of what I I
[13:28] get to see. Uh Nick, did you want to say
anything?
[13:32] » Uh I don't know, not too much, but uh
just we're grateful for the opportunity
[13:36] to be able to serve the community. Uh a
lot of the events that we've done, uh
[13:41] seeing families come together, get an
opportunity to bring their moms, their
[13:46] nephews, and stuff and rebuild those
relationships. It's really nice to see,
[13:50] and I'm sure you guys have come to a few
of the events. I know Jim had but you
[13:55] could just see those relationships get
rebuilt and then the thank yous that we
[13:59] get and I mean I know Marty's probably
going to send it to you but I mean very
[14:03] grateful very happy at the opportunity
that they get because a lot of the time
[14:07] they don't get to get the opportunity to
go golf work out baseball game whatever
[14:11] it's just stuff that they haven't done
sober to have the community that people
[14:16] are together to go do those things it
really helps cuz I mean you know a lot
[14:20] of these guys if they go by themselves
that could lead to trouble But just
[14:24] really grateful that this is, you know,
something we get to do. Um, we got great
[14:29] speakers, great food. I mean, it's just
a great program. I know a lot of places
[14:34] would kill to have this cuz I mean, it
is, you know, it's just something
[14:38] different and it is great and I'm very
grateful for it. Thank you.
[14:42] » Well, I I just want to add to that.
We're very grateful to have you here. As
[14:46] the artist said, I was here at the
inception when Marty brought the concept
[14:51] to us and always thought from the very
beginning, from the first time I heard
[14:55] it, I was all for it. I was full on and
I still am. And I, you know, just want
[15:01] to remind people that um addiction goes
there's excuse me, there's no
[15:07] stereotype. It it it crosses all all u
barriers. Every social um class um
[15:18] financial um segment is affected by it.
And if it it doesn't matter if you're
[15:25] poor, rich, have a good family, didn't
have good family, it doesn't matter.
[15:29] Addiction can affect you in some way or
another. And even if you're not the
[15:34] person suffering from addiction, a
family member might. And it's and
[15:38] painful thing to, you know, not just to
be in an addiction, but also to watch
[15:44] someone you love be addicted. And um so
we love having you here.
[15:51] » Thank you.
>> And um we're grateful for all you do and
[15:54] I'm excited that we're going to light
the township purple and um are we we're
[16:00] going to have the marquee, right? We're
going to have another marquee on the
[16:03] 31st. So that um and then on that day as
well, we will have it
[16:08] We're going to try back light purple and
then we have spotlights. We were going
[16:11] to take a picture right now, but it's
still too bright on the spotlights.
[16:14] Don't really look good. So, we'll post
something else or maybe if we're still
[16:18] here when it's dark out, we can do
something. But um the other thing too we
[16:21] want to say is that u thanks to the
amazing support of um Senator Laura
[16:26] Murphy. We have received in the past
couple weeks over $17,000 in grant funds
[16:31] for the recovery connection program. the
awesome team at DHS is trying to really
[16:36] push to help us get some rollover funds
from some money that we weren't able to
[16:40] get um prior to last year. They're
working on getting helping us recapture
[16:44] those funds. And we also received a um
pre-application for $40,000 in funds for
[16:50] fiscal year 2027 to support program
connection. So, it's really exciting
[16:54] that thanks to the support of Senator
Murphy and our team over at DHS who are
[16:59] really I mean absolutely wonderful
health care program, we're able to
[17:03] offset some of those awesome things and
really um enhance the program. So,
[17:08] » yeah, good stuff. Thank you so much for
sticking in there. I mean, the
[17:12] bureaucracy of that blows my mind.
We're we're training Danny, so
[17:21] » it's okay. It'll be worse.
>> You seem to relish this challenge of
[17:24] answering these questions 50 different
times. So, bless you for for for doing
[17:29] that and helping us out and uh I really
appreciate it.
[17:33] » Best day ever.
>> Don't you want to mention the uh the uh
[17:38] grant money you covered as well? I'm
glad that you brought that up.
[17:44] » That's what it is. Yeah. is I was going
to say that Marty and Nick have been in
[17:48] the past and finding these recovery I
mean these grants and these funds that
[17:52] are available to us not just for their
program but for all the programs in the
[17:56] township and Marty is great at it of
course and remember you mentioned these
[18:01] list of activities that are receiving
funds so it's exactly how licky's line
[18:06] of finding these monies that will help
these give more improvement to the great
[18:11] job you've already done yes again it's
great
[18:14] support from people here and um it just
makes everything a lot easier. So again,
[18:19] very we're very grateful for everybody
here. So thank you.
[18:23] » Great. It's a two-way street. Thank you.
>> Thank you.
[18:26] » All right.
[18:29] » All right. Next item discussion possible
to approve memorandum
[18:35] between East Main School District 63 and
Maine Township main's youth and family
[18:42] services.
[18:47] Thank you everyone.
Just a brief bit of history before we
[18:51] discuss the details. We began a pilot
program back in 2022 with Apollo
[18:59] Elementary School in district 63 to
provide inschool counseling services for
[19:04] students that had identified barriers to
receiving services in our office. So
[19:09] these are students whose parents might
not be able to bring their students or
[19:14] they may came from come from a um
particularly chaotic family that wasn't
[19:19] able to arrange appointments or kind of
handle the logistical aspects of that.
[19:24] So that program was very successful and
so in the next year in 2023 we expanded
[19:31] to um two additional elementary schools
within the district. And so we um have
[19:39] been signing the same MOA um since 2022.
Uh but this year there are a few changes
[19:46] and I just want to highlight those from
the um the document that we have been
[19:50] signing annually. So because of some
increased needs in the community, the
[19:56] hours have increased. Previously the MLA
specified we had a maximum of 10 hours
[20:00] available per week to devote to seeing
students in the schools. that has the
[20:05] district has agreed to increase that to
15. So we're able to meet the challenge
[20:10] of that capacity. And then the other
difference in this MOA versions is that
[20:16] we added the family resource center next
door as a location um because sometimes
[20:22] for those families are able to get
students there or there are already
[20:25] programs there and we can see students
from district 63 uh at that location
[20:30] instead. So, it just expands uh another
location to us where we're able to serve
[20:35] clients in need. And then the third
change uh from the previous MOAS is that
[20:42] the build amount was previously
specified as $500 a week. Um but it's
[20:48] changed to $50 per hour, which is
essentially the same rate. So, I have
[20:52] actually been billing the district um at
a rate of $50 an hour since we started
[20:57] because the hours vary from month to
month. Plus, in the summer, the hours
[21:01] fall off significantly because of
students not being in school. We still
[21:05] serve some students, but not nearly as
many just because they're not able to
[21:08] get here during the summer. So, that
simply codifies a change that we've been
[21:13] in practice following for the past uh
four years since 20 or 3 years since
[21:19] 2023.
So, um any questions about the ML?
[21:26] » I think this is great.
[21:30] It's been wonderful. Tons of great
stories that have come out of it. So,
[21:34] we're we're happy to continue it and
expand the uh hours even further to
[21:39] serve more families.
>> Wonderful. Thank you.
[21:42] » Sure. Quick question. Yeah, we're going
to go on this contract. Yes.
[21:47] » Okay. I just had a quick question. Um it
looks like we're going to hire a a
[21:51] person to work full-time here and but
also part-time at the school, right?
[21:56] That's is that 55 hours a week?
>> Oh, no. So, we're not going to hire
[21:59] anybody new for the role. Um, okay.
Summer Zumbro is our family therapist
[22:05] who's been here for the past 4 years. We
had the the job split up between two
[22:11] different family therapists previously.
Summer covered some of the schools. Um
[22:15] Aaron covered um other schools, but um
with Aaron's departure in the spring, um
[22:22] Summer uh volunteer to handle all of the
schools. So she's actually going to be
[22:26] at Washington, Mouser, and Apollo. Um so
that'll be part of her job in addition
[22:31] to the groups and clients that she sees
here in the building.
[22:35] » Okay. So she'll be in the full-time
consent therapist position.
[22:38] » Yes, that's referring her. Yeah. So it's
an existing position. We're just
[22:43] allocating some of her time for the
district and the district reimbures us
[22:47] for the time that she spends working
with students there.
[22:49] » Okay. And then the two are just legal
questions for our attorney. Is that
[22:52] going to cause us any possible union
problems as a part-time worker at the
[22:56] school district? I'm not sure if the
employees there are unionized or whether
[22:59] that did cause us a problem.
>> I can actually I can actually address
[23:03] that.
>> Okay.
[23:04] » Yeah. So they are and we have very
strict guidelines that differentiate
[23:09] between what the social workers in the
school do and what our inschool
[23:15] therapist does. So for example
um IP hours doing social emotional
[23:21] learning help educational required uh
issues that's all something the social
[23:26] workers do. So we don't do any of that
to avoid those issues. As I mentioned,
[23:31] » we will focus on mental health concerns,
anxiety, depression,
[23:37] uh, family concerns, substance use
issues, um, and any other things that we
[23:42] would normally kind of address in the
office. So, we're not doing any there's
[23:46] no overlap between what we're doing and
what the school social workers were
[23:49] doing. Okay. And then the final
question, as far page two, paragraph 8
[23:54] has a force measure provision, which
I've never seen in a contract like this.
[23:58] I think that means an unexpected
cat catastrophic event. You see them
[24:03] sometimes in lease agreements where
there's a flood or a a house burns,
[24:08] building burns down or something like
that. I don't know why that provisions
[24:10] in the contract. It says that anyone can
say force they can say they're unable to
[24:15] perform. So I don't know why that's in
there. That's my question.
[24:20] » Yeah. So
>> I delete I don't think it's necessary.
[24:22] » You know what? So we actually uh have
not received this agreement. So we did
[24:25] not review it prior to tonight. If the
collect would like, we can uh the board
[24:30] can approve it subject to final township
attorney review and approval and and we
[24:37] can definitely look into that just from
like a quick glance cuz we did look over
[24:40] it. That would probably be more for like
payment for example cuz I I see your
[24:45] point of like what act would the
universe Yeah. prevent if there was, you
[24:51] know, some banking crisis where they
could have perhaps pay the township in a
[24:55] timely manner that might apply, but we
can definitely take a look at that. Uh,
[24:59] I think you said paragraph 8
in its entirety though.
[25:04] » That's understand.
[25:08] But I can vote on it just subject. Yeah,
you can do it that way.
[25:24] » So, you have to vote on it in advance
without approving it.
[25:28] » No. So, you So, the board can vote to
approve it. It will just be subject to
[25:32] final attorney review. So, we will we'll
take look take a look at it. Any
[25:38] revisions, we'll send it back, but it
can be approved.
[25:44] I have a motion.
[25:50] » Um,
>> I'll do it.
[25:52] » Why don't you do it?
>> All right. I will make a motion to
[25:56] approve a memorandum of agreement
between East Main School District 63 and
[26:01] Main Township's Main State Youth Family
Services pursuant to the form contract
[26:07] three pages long pending our termin.
[26:14] » Yes.
>> Trusty.
[26:15] » Yes.
>> Trusty. Yes.
[26:17] » Okay. Not the most difficult agenda
item. Discussion of possible vote to
[26:24] establish and approve the 2027
office close schedule. So this is for
[26:30] holidays. So we're establishing the days
off by holidays
[26:34] for 20 27. As you recall, we do this
every year.
[26:41] Um I have a question. Okay. Do and I
don't know what we've done in the past.
[26:47] When a holiday falls on weekend
Christmas falls on Saturday or Sunday,
[26:52] do you do anything? Have you in the past
done anything extra? We follow. So if it
[26:58] falls on the weekend, we follow the uh
we actually get the the template from
[27:03] the um CMS state calendar. So if it
falls on weekend, we just observed date
[27:09] of the state. So 4th of July this year
it was a Friday but it'll be a Monday.
[27:19] Okay. So then but they're not but
they're only getting
[27:22] do they normally have usually
okay just making sure they were not less
[27:30] time which sometimes is like the least
productive day
[27:36] sometimes
like
[27:40] I don't know how much
actual like
[27:46] open
I
[27:50] wanted to make sure people probably
[27:54] schedule so and setting dates. I would
ask them be respectful part time people
[28:01] sometimes when the holidays happen the
full-time people are completely off but
[28:04] a parttime person has to work but you
know there's no compensation for that.
[28:10] I mean, I don't know if that's possible
to to pick days and be respected. I
[28:14] found in the past, but that was one of
the issues I know should be a little
[28:18] better for our parttime people since
it's such a significant percentage of
[28:21] our employees, our part- timerrs to give
them some breaks on holidays as well. To
[28:27] the extent that's possible, especially
leaving early on, for example,
[28:31] full-timers, the early on the day before
commencer.
[28:38] So, that's awesome.
to the extent that
[28:41] when I was part
[28:47] I would just make up the hours I'd be
missing
[28:51] from
[28:55] » you actually make up
because I'm not my salary
[29:02] you know so I would just like stay if
they needed me on Monday off Friday for
[29:07] holiday
You know what I mean? You didn't
[29:10] actually get any days off.
>> No, I did.
[29:15] I think you had to make up those hours.
So reality, you actually didn't get any
[29:19] time off.
I thought your point was
[29:25] on
[29:28] my terrible. I made my point terrible. I
think the part time should not be
[29:34] punished because they're parttime in
certain cases when full-time
[29:38] get the parts
I don't think I think should be polite
[29:43] to you occasionally you may opportunity
benefits of some sort
[29:51] I just I don't know about this job
it does depend on how many hours you
[29:57] work so if you're like under 18 hours
you don't you know so I know that is a
[30:01] factor as well um as far as like what
days but if you're but the way that we
[30:07] would always do it is if you're if the
holiday falls out your schedule work you
[30:11] were not expecting those hours
that's good that was my give them like
[30:19] just
[30:23] I I just show
them all the time
[30:28] done.
>> Okay. So, so the days that we're
[30:35] discussing would be New Year's holiday,
which would be Friday, January 1st,
[30:40] 2027.
Martin Luther King Day, which is Monday,
[30:44] January 18th, 2027. Funeral.
President's Day, Monday, February 15th.
[30:51] Memorial Day, Monday, May 31st, Junth.
Friday, June 18th. Independence Day,
[30:57] Monday, July 5th. Labor Day, Monday,
September 6th, Columbus Day, Monday,
[31:03] October 11th, Veterans Day, Thursday,
November 11th. And then on Thanksgiving,
[31:09] the office office closes at 100 p.m. on
Wednesday. So, the day before
[31:16] Thanksgiving to give the employees some
time to um you know, help prepare or
[31:22] travel or just spend extra time with the
family. And then also they're on
[31:27] Thursday and Friday, November 25th and
26th. And then Christmas um Christmas
[31:33] Eve, which is Friday, December 24th,
and then the office closes at 1:00 p.m.
[31:41] Friday, December 31st.
So usually Christmas you have it closed
[31:49] for Christmas Day. So doing this way,
you lose.
[31:53] So you could close another half day
usually half day
[32:00] or so
we don't have national consider have you
[32:07] ever done anything so
when we have a situation where it's like
[32:13] falls on weekend
full-time staff since they're basically
[32:18] missing a day they would have a day in
that page period that they take on their
[32:24] own, but they would have been approved
ahead of time, but they would say,
[32:27] "Yeah, I'm going to take off on that
Monday. I'm going to take off that
[32:29] Friday." And so that way we also have
taken off on the same day like
[32:34] so. So they would get a comp day. Um,
and I mean, you could in theory do like
[32:39] a couple hours or do something, but I
don't know if that's something to
[32:43] consider. I don't that would be up to
the department as to see if that is
[32:47] feasible.
I'm
[32:50] expected to also be with you, not just,
you know, I'm not sure.
[32:56] I hope you schedule.
[33:00] » Yeah, I'm fine. Okay.
I think because it's Friday, it's
[33:07] Christmas Eve and Saturday and Sunday.
[33:17] I lost my list of dates, so I I don't
count that now. Yeah, whatever is
[33:21] flexible. I just wanted to make that
count for part times.
[33:25] » Okay.
>> Okay.
[33:31] Okay. We have a motion.
Um motion to approve the 2027 uh office
[33:40] clos.
[33:44] » Yes.
>> Trusty or
[33:46] » yes.
>> Trusty Mor.
[33:47] » Yes.
>> Okay. The next item of new business
[33:50] which is discussion of vote to approve
the special town meeting of electors on
[33:56] October 1st 2026. We're going to move
that down on the agenda after we come
[34:02] back to close from close session. So
at this time um we're at business which
[34:11] is discussion and pest control
litigation efforts for uninorporated.
[34:25] » All right. So the past couple months
we've had some residents with some
[34:29] concerns um about pest control
specifically in the unincorporated area.
[34:34] Um so our first concern was trying to
figure out you know who has jurisdiction
[34:38] over it to make sure that yes you know
township when people call here we're
[34:42] giving out the correct information. So
one thing that was actually really
[34:45] helpful about all this is we realized
that some of the information we were
[34:47] giving out wasn't exactly the right way
to direct people. So we found out that
[34:52] um Cook County actually doesn't really
doesn't really have jurisdiction in
[34:57] terms of providing any remediation on
their own. They don't provide pest
[35:02] control. animal control doesn't go out
and handle it. Um the Department of
[35:06] Public Health kind of keeps a list of
where problem areas are, but then
[35:09] they're referring people back to the
township. So, previously what we were
[35:13] doing was um people will call here. We
were giving them the number to public
[35:17] health. Public health was telling them
to call back here. So, we one way that
[35:21] we've kind of effectively handled this
is we've eliminated that extra step for
[35:24] people who call. When people call here,
we're keeping track of the problem
[35:27] areas. Danny's keeping a list. The other
thing that um kind of included in the
[35:32] work packet as well and something after
talking to the department of public
[35:36] health animal control and our local um
county commissioner is really just
[35:41] encouraging people that this is
something that starts at home. This is
[35:44] something that starts in your block. So
if you look at your packet, there's some
[35:47] remediation efforts people can make.
Making sure that their garbage cans are
[35:51] their garbage is brought out on time the
right day that they have lids. There's
[35:55] not holes in it. making sure that you
don't have piles of stuff in your yard,
[35:59] your front or backyard. Um perhaps, you
know, neighbors can get together and
[36:03] even call local pest control for their
own property. But one thing we can do as
[36:07] a township is if there are homes that
are not wellmaintained and it's within
[36:12] our jurisdiction with code enforcement,
they can reach out to Nater and let them
[36:16] know that there's maybe a property that
could use some help that might be
[36:19] causing a problem. Um so again, ways
that we were able to help is just that
[36:23] we're not sending residents now here,
here, here, here. and we're letting them
[36:26] know, okay, here's where your options,
here's some ways you can remediate at
[36:29] this time. Um, whether or not something
that, you know, based on what we've
[36:33] heard from the county, whether or not
something that the township, I don't
[36:36] know how we even begin to offer services
ourselves or control, I don't think
[36:40] that's something we really could do or
have the means really to do. But the
[36:44] main thing just kind of starts with some
different habits at home, in your
[36:47] neighborhood, and then like we said,
when code enforcement can help, we'll
[36:50] send them out what we have um
jurisdiction over. So,
[36:55] if there's anything else you recommend
or would like us to do here at town
[36:58] hall. We're open to trying to kind of do
a little bit more research um as well.
[37:03] So that's just kind of what we came up
with in the past.
[37:05] » We're the main type getting complaints
on
[37:09] » Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So it's it is a that
that's really it. Um we did look into
[37:14] some things. It's funny cuz we had
talked about a few different options
[37:18] such as introducing you know feral cats
into the neighborhood. We found out that
[37:22] actually becomes a bigger problem
because a lot of times when you
[37:24] introduce cats, people aren't feeding
the cats. The cats don't hunt. So now
[37:28] you have rats and cats. Um we looked
into if we were to introduce uh other
[37:34] like you know like poison control or
poison or other kinds of methods. You
[37:38] have a big liability too of you know
people's pets and other things. So it
[37:43] does it is one of those kind of issues
that we can sort of just encourage
[37:47] people to see what they can do on their
individual blocks first. That probably
[37:51] is the best.
>> Yeah. Usually, you know, on the property
[37:55] management side of things, what I
usually would tell people, they call and
[37:58] complain, I'm like, well, like you said,
we can't really do anything on public uh
[38:04] areas because of potential liability,
but you as a homeowner certainly can put
[38:08] out bay boxes. we have poisoned it to
keep the rats off of your own property
[38:14] or to help control.
>> And the other thing that we've really
[38:17] learned, okay, is, you know, a lot of
times people have, you know, if you have
[38:20] a bird feeder, clean up that bird
feeder, keep an eye on that. Make sure
[38:23] stuff's not spilling all over. If you're
feeding, you know, when you're feeding
[38:26] the cute little animals in your yard and
the gym and squirrels and all the cute
[38:30] stuff, the rats don't know it's not for
them. So, just being really mindful of
[38:35] what you put out. Um, you know, maybe
educate your neighbors about what you
[38:39] put out. let them know that as much as
you know that's something everybody who
[38:42] doesn't want to feed the feed the the
kids but you just got to remember that
[38:46] it's feeding everything if you're doing
that and encouraging that in your
[38:49] neighborhood too. So
>> I know the population in the northwest
[38:54] suburbs just cuz I've dealt with it in
other areas too is really exploded the
[38:58] rat population.
um
[39:02] most of the time the only the most
effective treatments are treating the
[39:06] burrows themselves and contraceptives.
So obviously the townships have to get
[39:12] involved in either of those, but some
villages and cities do. Um but I think
[39:18] educating the public on what to look out
for in the burrows and stuff like that
[39:21] is the best way to just kind of educate
them. you know, they can bring in
[39:26] passive remediation experts to resolve
the problem. Some of those electronic
[39:31] devices that you
don't really work well
[39:38] doesn't work.
>> It's an electronic device that really
[39:41] bothers me sensations of the the rat
propels and doesn't hurt anybody else.
[39:46] So, I found that I've heard that be
successful. Also removing dog uh feces
[39:54] is a big problem. Rats
live off take your take care your dog
[40:00] get feces off the grass. You know I
think people who live close to
[40:04] businesses do large dumpsters with food.
You know people who live close to
[40:08] restaurants
[40:12] source of food in need them all close in
vicinity. If you don't keep those all
[40:17] close vicinity, you know, do a lot to
prevent that. Keep your garbage cans
[40:22] away from any water source like a sewer,
train pile, and keep your lids covered.
[40:28] Don't let the the squirrels destroy your
garbage cans. Let the squirrels take the
[40:33] food out on the right
side. Squirrels are just bad. It's just,
[40:38] you know, breaking yard. And then that's
another thing too enforcement. someone
[40:43] notices that there's a problem in their
yard. If there's a restaurant that seems
[40:46] like they don't have practices that are
handling their garbage and their waste
[40:49] properly, you can let you know then the
proper county can handle those types of
[40:54] things. So, that's where we're at right
now. Well, we're kind of reaching out to
[40:57] some other townships as well. Um, and
kind of just, you know, something that
[41:01] we we are considering. I said Danny's
done a great job of handling those call.
[41:05] Have you noticed increase or decrease as
some as the rain? We haven't had as much
[41:08] rain right now. Have you noticed a
decrease? Yeah. I recall last week just
[41:13] waiting out. Yeah.
>> So it seems like heavy rain seems to be
[41:17] an indicator of more calls in the
township too. So
[41:20] » especially mosquitoes coming too.
>> Yeah. Yeah. We have an district at
[41:26] least.
>> How they say they don't have to take
[41:28] care of rents, but they do take care of
mosquitoes. That just makes no sense.
[41:32] The county says the department of public
health says they will. That's just
[41:37] » if there was a problem, they would get
away with that.
[41:43] Right.
[41:47] » Thank you. Thank you.
>> We're on to official reports.
[41:55] » Sure. I'll be quick. Um, Trusty Malik is
not here, but I just wanted to uh say
[42:01] that, you know, he had a really good
showing uh for the cultural day this
[42:05] past weekend. Um, a lot of people were
were brought up on stage. Um, I don't
[42:10] know how we did it in such a short
period of time. Um, but it was very well
[42:14] attended. Um, I wanted to say congrats
to Kathy and welcome back.
[42:19] Um, as far as our projects, we've
completed most of our large scale
[42:23] constru construction projects for the
year. Uh we do have one more
[42:28] um fairly large project we're looking to
get done going out to bid in the next
[42:32] month or so from a main north um area
project that's going to be um that was
[42:40] with the uh state of Illinois and the
IGA that we signed with them to uh
[42:44] provide a retention area for the the
homes to the north. So we will be going
[42:50] into phase one um in the next month or
so going after that. So that's it.
[42:54] Thanks.
[42:57] Yeah, it was a very busy month. A lot of
different events. Uh, thank you to
[43:01] everybody that came to National Night
Out, help make it such a success. Thank
[43:04] you to uh, Commander Bushy and Cook
County Sheriff's, uh, attending the
[43:09] helicopter landing. I think was by far
the highlight of the evening. Everybody
[43:14] really got a kick out of that one. So,
that was that was a nice surprise for
[43:17] everybody. Um yes, also attended
Pakistani cultural uh event which like
[43:23] you said was very well attended. Lots of
people had a park about a half a mile
[43:27] away. Um but was a was definitely a very
good time and u thanking everybody for
[43:35] helping with national.
[43:41] Um I am excited for the community garage
sale coming out. Do we still have spots
[43:46] left for there's still spots that people
can get? So that's on the 19th.
[43:52] Um and I did also enjoy attending the
national day out there
[43:58] was the coolest thing. Um I mean all the
dogs
[44:04] but yeah
chicken
[44:13] you set the bar kind of high. So next
year they actually
[44:26] I can understand why
[44:35] every year in our
[44:56] Good day. I wanted to uh congratulate
our supervisor, Kimberly Joints. uh
[45:02] she's about to receive or has received
the award for community college. Um so
[45:09] uh I don't know anyone who's more
deserving awards and never seems to get
[45:13] them in Jones. I've been working with
HIM
[45:20] I've been working with Kim now for five
or six years and it's been nothing but a
[45:24] pleasure as a trustee and now as a
supervisor and she's just absolutely
[45:28] great and she's not only does she give
back to the community as a public
[45:32] servant but also she gives glowing
recommendations from the uh community
[45:36] college system which is our community
college in Wayne Township. We're very
[45:41] proud. So congratulations. You deserve
it and I'm glad I heard about it and was
[45:46] able to mention it.
[45:53] » Somehow they're they're awarding four
four um alumni. Somehow I got picked
[46:00] along with a NASA engineer.
>> I don't know. That's pretty awesome. It
[46:07] was awesome.
So when you feel free to go by and look
[46:10] at her lovely picture on the walls be on
the wall of fame. I'm sure very soon.
[46:16] » All right. Thank you J.
>> Very welcome. The last thing I wanted to
[46:20] commend
dog 90.
[46:25] I've been going there since I was a kid.
We used to play football and drive on
[46:29] bikes for miles to go have a super dog
which is still the best hot dog I think
[46:33] I've ever had. We still pray them. And
not only is it a great restaurant, but
[46:38] it's close to office, really famous,
outstanding litigation attorney. Forget
[46:43] his last name starts on
[46:50] this guy really.
[46:57] » All right.
>> All right. Thank you. Um, just in case
[47:03] anybody missed the nuance of that, it
was James Maur that he was talking
[47:08] about, which is right there.
He's a good one.
[47:14] So, all right. Thank you. So, um, I also
attended the National Night Out, which
[47:21] was exceptional. And I agree with Kelly
and, um, James and her. It gets better
[47:28] and better. And the the helicopter was
just like amazing. They I I don't know
[47:33] how many people came up and said they
never saw a helicopter that close up.
[47:38] And then the kids, we didn't get the
kids away from it. I think last year,
[47:42] next year, the trustees be brought in a
helicopter.
[47:47] » Back to work on that. That be cool.
That's a great idea.
[47:53] Get some lesson
on top of All
[47:59] right. I like it. Yeah.
[48:04] All right. I like it. Yeah.
Um anyway, it was it was great. So,
[48:10] thank you for Jill and every all the
volunteers and employees that helping
[48:16] every evening and and county sheriff of
course that was excellent. And then um
[48:22] as of trustee us Nick his outstanding
night on Sunday was unbelievable. I I
[48:29] agree. I don't know how he does it. And
the weather was perfect, but he he has
[48:34] so many dignitaries and he brings so
many people to the community together
[48:41] and it's it's amazing and um I think
it's great for our community to
[48:48] um so I was a really nice evening. I
also uh went with and Danny to the
[48:57] museum,
[49:00] » the National Ser, which is also in our
community, which is I really had never
[49:05] heard of it. But it's also an amazing
place in your world where um they honor
[49:12] servants from all over from Jane Goodall
to Moni to um Martin Luther. um to
[49:23] Audrey Pepper for her UN work um and
Frank I mean the list is on and on and
[49:30] it's really cool because not only do
they have do they have this amazing
[49:35] museum which they curated themselves but
they also have pictures well a lot of
[49:41] them have the actual um person's actual
um signature authentic signature which
[49:48] is amazing but they And they also have
it connected to a daycare. So when the
[49:53] kids come through and they look at the
pictures, they, you know, they learn
[49:58] this kind of by osmosis who these
readers are sort of like instilling in
[50:04] them that this little
um you know because they're absorbing it
[50:11] every day as they're in daycare. So it
is it's a really amazing place. I did
[50:17] not know about it and um we were very
impressed. So I want to thank them for
[50:22] inviting us and hopefully we'll be
working with them on other things and
[50:27] initiatives. So that concludes my
report. Oh except for I want to remind
[50:33] people that neighborhood watch is coming
up next Wednesday,
[50:38] September 2nd, 7:00. We of course want
to invite the neighborhood anybody who
[50:44] would like to come. We have August 27th
electricity saving sign up days um our
[50:50] community garage sale which was already
mentioned which is awesome such a
[50:55] popular event and it um
helps fund our summer camp for
[51:00] underprivileged kids. So it's an
important event not just a fun event.
[51:04] And then October 8th is vision and
hearing testing and vaccine clinic. So
[51:09] just want to remind everybody that
they're welcome to join us at those um
[51:13] on those four dates and we hope that
they do. Now we would like to go to
[51:18] close session and this is long
pursuant to section 2C1 of the open
[51:25] meetings act discussing the appointment
employment compensation discipline
[51:30] performance or dismissal of specific
employees and pursuant to section 2C5
[51:36] meeting act meetings act to discuss the
purchase or lease of real property for
[51:41] sale
for the use of the public body including
[51:46] including meetings held for the purpose
of discussing whether a particular
[51:50] parcel should be acquired and pursuant
to section 2C6 of the open meetings act,
[51:56] the setting of a price for the sale or
lease of property owned by public body
[52:02] and pursuant to section 2C11 of the
convenings act litigation when an action
[52:07] against affecting or on behalf of the
particular public body has been filed
[52:13] and is pending before a court or
administrative through tribunal or when
[52:17] the public body finds that action or
probable or imminent in which case the
[52:23] basis for the finding shall be recorded
and entered into the minutes of the
[52:27] closed meeting. Illinois compiled
statutes 5120-2.06
[52:33] 06 pursuant to section 2C1 of the
remaining eggs review and approval of
[52:39] close session minutes compiled section
525-1
[52:45] 120-2.06
six. So
[52:49] » that might take longer than the actual
close session.
[52:56] » Yeah.
>> So we have a motion session to go into
[53:01] close session.
>> Second
[53:04] supervisor Jones.
>> Yes.
[53:06] » Yes.
>> Yes.
[53:08] » So um you're all welcome to stay. I'm
not sure if we'll be facing a vote. I
[53:13] think we will be um regarding
discussion of possible vote to approve a
[53:19] special town meeting of electors on
October 1st, 2026
[53:25] and the establishment of an agenda for
specific meeting elective. So that will
[53:29] be the item up for vote when we come
back. So, you're welcome to stay, but if
[53:34] you don't want to, have a good evening.
[53:44] » Okay. Can we get a motion to
>> We can just roll call.
[53:49] » Just roll call.
>> Yep. To make sure everyone's staying.
[53:55] » Every time it sometimes get me.
>> Okay. Supervisor Jones.
[54:00] » Yes.
>> Trusty Harvath. Yes.
[54:02] » Trusty.
>> Still here. Yes.
[54:10] » Yeah. Okay. Uh I would like to make a
motion to approve a special town meeting
[54:14] of electors. uh and finding it necessary
for the best interest of the township
[54:19] that we hold such a such a special town
meeting on the first day of October 2026
[54:25] at 7 p.m. at 1700 Ballard Road, Park
Ridge, Illinois 60068
[54:31] for the electors to act on the following
agenda. One, call to order. Two, pledge
[54:36] of allegiance. Three, selection of
moderator and parliamentarian.
[54:40] Four, introductory remarks regarding
purpose of meeting. Five, public
[54:44] participation.
Six, consideration of an action on a
[54:48] resolution authorizing the conveyance of
1387 Reneker Road displays to Main
[54:55] Township Road Bridge. Seven,
consideration of an action on a
[54:59] resolution authorizing the declaration
of certain property as surplus and
[55:03] approving methods for public sale or
disposal. Eight, approval of resolution
[55:08] for compensation moderator. and nine
adjournments.
[55:15] » Second.
>> Supervisor Jones.
[55:18] » Yes.
>> Trusty Horvadan.
[55:19] » Yes.
>> Trusty Monter.
[55:21] » Yes.
[55:26] » Motion to second.
>> Supervisor Jones.
[55:30] » Yes.
>> Trusty Orbin.
[55:31] » Yes.
>> And trusty.
[55:33] » Yes sir. very sold for that medium.