[0:08] Just as well. I'm proud to do the chocolate cake or chocolate frosting.

[0:12] Okay. >> Well, call your birthday and ask for a

[0:14] roll call >> here. Here.

[0:19] » Here. >> Here.

[0:20] » Here. >> Here.

[0:23] Join >> the pledge of allegiance.

[0:26] » To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

[0:31] stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

[0:36] for all.

[0:42] » No public hearing or presentations, public comment.

[0:46] Uh consent agenda tonight is the approval of the minutes of the regular

[0:50] meeting of February 16, 2026 and approval of the bills. Move

[0:55] » approval. Second. >> Any questions?

[0:59] Call the roll. >> Cerill.

[1:01] » Yes. >> Yes.

[1:03] » Yes. >> Yes.

[1:05] » Yes. >> Motion passes.

[1:07] » Uh I have three items tonight. Uh the reappoint of Kevin Jones to the zoning

[1:12] board of appeals. His term would be expiring April 30th, 2031.

[1:19] Appointment of Jay Austin to the zoning board of appeals. Expiring term expiring

[1:24] April 30th, 2031. And the re reappoint of Michael Yordy to

[1:29] the planning commission. And his term would also be expiring April 30th, 2031.

[1:36] » Motion. >> Some move.

[1:39] » Second. >> Any questions?

[1:42] Call the RO. >> Celli,

[1:44] » yes. >> Billyard,

[1:45] » yes. >> Yes.

[1:46] » Middle, >> yes.

[1:48] » Yes. Motion passes. >> Village.

[1:50] » Nothing tonight, your honor. >> Village administrator,

[1:52] » I have one item tonight, your honor. Resolution 33:26, which is a resolution

[1:58] authorizing the agreement with Phillips, Somi, and Associates.

[2:04] Do >> you have a motion?

[2:05] » Move to approve resolution 3326. >> Second.

[2:09] This is a a four-year agreement with uh Philip Somi and Associates who have been

[2:15] our auditors for the past four years. This is a three-year agreement, excuse

[2:18] me. They have been our auditors for the past four years. Um with a slightly

[2:24] escalating scale. Um still very reasonable compared to what we had been

[2:28] paying years ago and they do a really great job. So

[2:35] you have any questions? >> Any questions?

[2:40] That bill used to be almost 60,000. So I will give her credit for saying

[2:49] no questions. Call the role. >> Yes.

[2:52] » Yes. >> Yes.

[2:54] » Yes. >> Yes.

[2:59] » Corporation council. >> Nothing tonight, your honor.

[3:01] » Director of fire and emergencies. >> Nothing tonight, your honor.

[3:04] » Director of public works. >> Several items tonight, your honor. First

[3:07] is item A is resolution 34-26. It's a resolution authorizing the execution of

[3:13] an amendment of its gas supply agreement with PIFA Incorporated in connection

[3:17] with the reset of the available discount in PIFA Incorporated's gas prepayment

[3:22] project uh which includes approving the issuance of bonds by FE FIFA and related

[3:28] matters. >> You have a motion.

[3:30] » Move to approve. >> Second.

[3:34] I don't have a whole lot to add here other than the programs been been good

[3:38] for Morton, the discount uh and then also the additional check we get

[3:41] annually to the gas fund. So I don't know if council would like to

[3:46] add anything but this would be just continuation.

[3:51] » I don't have anything to add. >> Any questions for the board?

[3:55] » If not call the roll. >> Yes.

[3:58] » Middle. >> Yes.

[4:00] » Yes. >> Serill.

[4:01] » Yes. >> Yes. Motion pass.

[4:04] » Next, I'd like to include item B and C together since they're dependent on each

[4:08] other. Um, this would be the wave of formal bidding and acceptance of

[4:12] proposal through Sourcewell and from CIT trucks for a new 2027 Kinworth single

[4:17] axle cabin chassis truck in the amount of $136,779.

[4:22] Um, this would this does not include in the cost, but we would uh sell truck 52,

[4:27] which is an '09 Kinworth, and that would be sold on GV deals with the approval

[4:32] here. Uh, in addition, the truck body uh accessories, which includes a a plow and

[4:38] a wing plow. I'd like to ask for formal wave formal bidding and acceptance of

[4:42] proposal for mechanic body and equipment for dump body plow wing plow and

[4:47] accessories for this new truck in the amount of $149,298.

[4:53] » Any questions? >> Move to approve.

[4:57] » Second. >> Yeah, just to add um we've got nine of

[5:03] these larger trucks, single axle and tandem in the fleet. Three tandems, six

[5:07] single axles. Um, with the addition of this wing plow, this would be our fifth

[5:12] wing plow. Um, we have we'd have two on the tandemss and three on the single

[5:16] axles. Um, just a little bit about the wing plow. Uh, it's saved us a

[5:20] tremendous amount of time. Um, mainly because we can go, especially in the

[5:25] residential streets that are 34 foot uh, face to face of curb, we can now go down

[5:32] there with one pass with a truck behind us cleaning up to the curb. Uh and then

[5:36] likewise on streets like Courtland, we can actually go three trucks in tandem

[5:40] and clear all of Courtland. So it's been a huge time sa saver. Obviously all the

[5:45] guys support and want the wing plow. Uh originally we had fears of obviously can

[5:50] do a lot of damage too. Um but it's been great uh country roads to be able to

[5:54] push it back further for drifting. Um so again we'd like to add that wing plow um

[6:00] to that. Um, couple of other things just in terms of

[6:06] purchasing this truck. Uh, our average age of those nine trucks right now is 8

[6:11] and a half years. Um, this is an '09 or next oldest is an 11 that we would look

[6:17] towards next year or the following. Um, but with nine of them and going about 17

[6:22] years, we probably should be buying one at least every other year. Uh, and

[6:26] they're in that, you know, 285 300,000. probably not going down in price anytime

[6:31] soon is my guess. Uh obviously there's been an exponential increase over the

[6:35] last five years. Um by purchasing this truck it would reduce our th those nine

[6:41] trucks from eight and a half years to 6.7 which is good. Um, I think once we

[6:46] get in that average of nine, uh, we did have a couple storms this year where

[6:51] basically we had two T trucks down at one time, uh, which can obviously puts a

[6:56] lot of stress on the guys, our mechanic to keep things moving. So, um, as far as

[7:01] this this truck in general, we had almost a year wait before. Um, the

[7:07] reason I'm coming to you now before the budget is there will be a price increase

[7:10] and this will be in the March build. So, if this gets in the March build with

[7:15] CIT, uh it would be uh we might be able to see the truck in four weeks after the

[7:20] build um here in March. So, hopefully we'll see that in a month, which is a

[7:25] lot better than um the year that we've been experiencing. Uh and then Kanig,

[7:31] their work would be September, October time frame. Um so hopefully it would be

[7:36] ready to go for uh next snow season. So, with that, I'd be glad to answer any

[7:41] other questions that any of you might have.

[7:44] » As I sit in my recliner and watch you go by my house with the wing plow, I was

[7:52] curious how that was. I didn't pay that much attention, but I was curious how

[7:57] that was and how much safety that was. But they're staying away from the curb

[8:01] with the wing and cleaning up with the next truck.

[8:03] » The next truck. Yeah. And so this would give us, obviously you got a couple

[8:07] there on the mains, but this would give us now we're three main routes, so

[8:11] north, east, and south. So we would have at least a wing on every route, which

[8:15] would be nice, too.

[8:19] » Not to put you on the spot, can you ballpark that 09? Do you have any idea

[8:22] what you expecting?

[8:26] » I'm just curious. >> 17 years old. I mean, I would I would

[8:29] maybe 20,000 would be my guess. >> Sounds good.

[8:33] » Throwing that out there. the 09 that he's proposing to sell back what what he

[8:36] was ballparking would be this the value >> that you made on that

[8:40] » I guess but he backed me up with that on the 20

[8:43] » we sold another single axle within the last year or so it brought about 12 to

[8:47] 14 or so probably I think it was like maybe an 04

[8:51] » I figured not much but I was just curious

[8:53] » and we will have to bring that back to declare that surplus you will vote on

[8:57] that >> yes and we've been doing that with like

[8:58] a a list of things at one time Zach's usually been bringing that forward

[9:05] All right. Call >> me.

[9:08] » Yes. >> Terry,

[9:09] » yes. Serilli, >> yes.

[9:12] » Yes. >> Leech,

[9:13] » yes. >> Motion passes.

[9:15] » Lastly is item D. This is ordinance 26-28. This is an ordinance amending the

[9:20] Morton Municipal Code to establish standards for the construction of

[9:23] facilities on the rightway. >> A motion move to approve ordinance 2628.

[9:30] » Second. Yeah, this one I've been working with Pat, Scott Stman, Jamie Bolard, and

[9:36] others for quite some time. Um, Trusty Leech has been involved some too on

[9:40] this. Uh, we've been working on for a while. I think it's time to move it

[9:44] forward. I think this is good for all the citizens in town, including us. Uh,

[9:49] but basically, this would just establish uniform standards for construction,

[9:53] placement, and maintenance of facilities within the rightway. Um obviously with

[9:58] the frontiers Comcast I3s um and and these real this really will

[10:03] help further protect uh public safety preserving our infrastructure which is

[10:09] big. Uh we've had several hits had a water mane hit the other night on

[10:13] Idlewood um and to ensure that the work in the rightway is completed in a safe

[10:17] quarterly and workike manner. So I'm here to tell you it's not going that

[10:21] well out there. So, I do have a meeting with Frontier even tomorrow, but we're

[10:25] going to work with all of them. Frontier, Amaran, I3. Um, this will be a

[10:30] little harder for them obviously on the front end. Um, you know, some of the

[10:35] bigger changes is permits by specific um contractors doing the work. Uh, for

[10:41] instance, with Frontier now, Urban's a contractor, I think we've had 13 subs.

[10:46] Uh, and so it's hard to keep track and keep tabs on them. we make sure they all

[10:51] have insurance, but it's becoming tougher and tougher. So, we're going to

[10:54] try to shrink down that process um and and get a better handle on it. But

[10:59] there's other things in terms of depth, keeping that at a at a depth between I

[11:04] think it's 18 and 42 in to where if they're over uh

[11:10] 40 in I believe it is, um they have to actually do camera work behind. No

[11:15] different than Amarind and the village of Morton. So if those companies are

[11:19] complaining, we're doing no different than they are. So once you get below

[11:22] that four or 5 ft, you get into danger zone. You start and we've had that.

[11:26] We're hitting citizens laterals that aren't marked. Now they're working to

[11:30] fix it, but that's the danger zone. You don't find that till a month, two months

[11:33] later, citizens, you know, basement's backing up with sewage. Um so this will

[11:39] help us really uh get a better control on that. But it's going to be a little

[11:42] harder for all the utility companies. But um I think this is a good thing. Um,

[11:47] we could come back to you in 90 days and make a few amendments as we go forward

[11:50] and find things out, but time is now to get this implemented and my plans to

[11:54] start tomorrow um to start getting a little better control out there in the

[11:59] field. >> Why don't you explain to the trustees

[12:00] the work hours? >> Uh, work hours is another big one in

[12:03] here. This would actually change it to their work hours match our 7:30 to 4.

[12:07] So, too often we're finding them going out after hours when they know it's hard

[12:11] for us to keep up or weekends, whatever. Now, there is a waiver here where we'd

[12:15] wave it. Obviously, we want to work with them um you know on the weekends or

[12:19] something uh if there's an emergency or something like that, but um we're done

[12:23] with trying to help you all week and then you're scrambling after hours

[12:27] because you know we're not going to do uh stuff like that. Blind no more blind

[12:30] boring uh which is prohibited anyway. They're still doing that. Um

[12:36] there's a lot of layers in here. Even at the end is asbuilt information. And

[12:40] that's probably one of the bigger ones is providing that documentation within

[12:43] 90 days of where your facilities are vertical and horizontal. And if they

[12:48] aren't there, then you can remove your facility from the rightway. So, um, it's

[12:52] it's a nononsense, but I think it's good. I mean, I think people expect when

[12:55] they come to Morton, um, I think Nate could attest in the in the world he's

[12:59] in, too, that when you come to Morton, people know we expect you, you know,

[13:03] when you submit a plan, you build it for the plans. So, to me, this is no

[13:06] different and it's time to stay on top of that. I think most importantly, I I'm

[13:11] glad we're here tonight to support our public works guys, uh, the Blake de

[13:15] Armans, the Aaron Alers that are working tirelessly as locators to keep up with

[13:20] this work when we're getting exhausted with Julie tickets and and stuff like

[13:24] that. Um, you know, the other thing, uh, if I could add, even with Julie, the

[13:29] Julie laws change, it's tougher for all of us. There's times right now that uh

[13:34] other communities have so many Julies that Julie Laws changed it to where they

[13:39] can submit a code and they don't have to locate ours. We are experiencing that

[13:43] when our guys send in to locate. We can't even do the work in 48 hours

[13:47] because they sent in a code that they couldn't locate because they don't have

[13:50] time. Why? Because these utility companies are exhausting the system with

[13:54] Julie. So, while Julie's making new laws, it's the contractors in the field,

[13:58] in my opinion, that really are hurting us uh with that. There's not enough

[14:02] people to locate. So, again, we'll be able to control that by permits and

[14:06] stuff like that, and shrink it down so that we're protecting our facilities.

[14:10] So, protecting people's front yards, too, uh aesthetically, even with

[14:14] pedestals, stuff like that. Not that we might not upset a citizen that it needs

[14:18] to be there, but sometimes we'll get unsightly um pedestals or real huge.

[14:24] This has got some uh codified some language in there to give us a little

[14:28] bit more uh as it has to do with aesthetics and some of those things uh

[14:32] which I think is very important. So anyway, I'd be glad to answer any other

[14:37] questions. Obviously, I'm very passionate about this and glad this is

[14:40] in front of us here tonight. >> Any questions?

[14:44] » So, how are we going to make them do it? I was called out on one. They made a big

[14:51] mess in the guy's backyard. Yeah, >> it's been months and there's

[14:56] » no >> they still haven't been by.

[14:59] » Yeah. So, there's a nice thing in here on that issue. Uh, basically my my goal

[15:04] is the plans will come into our office there at Village Hall. We'll review

[15:07] them. They're going to do a lot more work on the front end now, too. It's

[15:09] always hard in the utility business. You go out there and you find when you

[15:12] locate, you got other utilities and uh unfortunately the rightways are littered

[15:17] sometimes due to laws that we have that allow anybody to come. Um, but we don't

[15:22] have a lot of room left, hence, you know, having to get another factory

[15:26] truck, stuff like that. Um, but the way this is is we'll get the plans, uh,

[15:30] we'll review those. Once that permit goes out and they do the work and we

[15:34] monitor that, once that work's complete, they will have 10 days to complete that.

[15:38] So, honestly, to answer your question specifically, we just won't grant them

[15:43] another permit till they go back and do that. So, we're working with staff,

[15:46] Zach, Benlight, some of those in the office to try to put people in those

[15:50] positions that, you know, once that permit's done, they're notified, our

[15:55] staff is to follow up. And I have another guy that will circle through to

[15:58] make sure everything's cleaned up. Otherwise, we just won't grant another

[16:01] permit. So, does that answer your question?

[16:03] » So, you're going to not be not going to be issuing permits for a while because

[16:08] they got a bunch of crap. >> So, that'll be how we get it done is

[16:12] either you fix it or you know what I mean. Another question I was is uh

[16:18] across the street from me. It was a Friday night and the village truck pulls

[16:23] up. It was about six o'clock at night and he's out there locating and putting

[16:28] flags in and here comes the the some I don't remember who flag or and they put

[16:35] all these flags up and that was last fall. Those flags are still there.

[16:40] » Yeah. I thought, "Oh my gosh, there must be a

[16:43] gas problem at >> Yeah.

[16:44] » at his house." And >> the flags are still there. And there are

[16:49] flags. >> I'm not complaining about flags, but

[16:54] there are flags all over this town that have been there forever.

[16:59] » And I don't understand it. >> Yeah. And that's a tough um There is

[17:03] responsibility for that person to go pick up those flags, too. But that's

[17:06] kind of a Julie thing. Um >> you never did anything there. Yeah. So

[17:11] again, I think this will help control some of that on this side of the work. I

[17:15] can't promise that for other contractors and their work. I will say uh March,

[17:18] April, May is probably your year that, you know, the part of the year you're

[17:21] going to see the most as work gets started. Um but this will help us too to

[17:25] kind of shrink them down because probably our biggest issue is is when

[17:29] they call in the, you know, 10 Julies at one time at 5:00. I usually get a call

[17:34] from Zach like, "Hey, we just got a slug of 10." And those might be, you know,

[17:39] multiple blocks. I mean, it might be a mile. Um, so it's sloppiness on the

[17:43] contractor. They should be meeting with us, white line the job, and then call

[17:48] the Julies in with the permits. Um, so hopefully we can control that some more.

[17:52] Another big one with that too that they're going to be required to do is

[17:57] homeowner notification, which I think homeowners will appreciate, whether

[18:00] that's door hangers or what. And to make sure they do it, they're going to have

[18:03] to give a certification after of the addresses they sent them to. and what

[18:07] they said at least follow back up with us. So that's another big one, too.

[18:11] » Well, they came out on a Friday night just to keep up with their low workload,

[18:15] not because of some >> Oh, yeah. If you see people putting

[18:18] flags in, we're just keeping up with whoever called the Julie. I mean, if

[18:22] somebody calls one in, you know, if any one of us call tonight within 48 hours,

[18:26] you're going to get somebody marking that. You know what I mean? So when you

[18:29] get these contractors doing fiber and it's miles at a time, some of them want

[18:33] to call in miles at a time, which uh honestly is shameful. They should be

[18:38] called in to Julie. It's not right. Uh because all it does is make things

[18:42] unsafe because people are focusing on things they instead of what they should

[18:45] be focusing on. And so that's happening to our guys. Our guys are overloaded

[18:49] right now. Um trying to just keep up with locating. So, I'm very pleased with

[18:55] this and I think it will take care of some of the problems I've seen. I have

[18:58] very similar problems. In fact, my backyard, it's been marked six times

[19:01] now. Work's not done. It's been six months. Flags are still out there. It

[19:06] keeps getting remarked about every month. Keeps getting remarked, still not

[19:09] done. >> And but I think like getting a permit

[19:13] has be done 10 days. And just like that, well, that's you know, they've had six

[19:19] Julies. Well, that's five more than they needed to have. Well, that's five times

[19:23] more work for for everybody. And that's just one one specific job that you know

[19:29] about. So imagine that, you know, I'm sure you deal with across the board.

[19:33] Yeah. >> If you can cut that down to,

[19:35] » okay, >> just do this section because that's all

[19:38] you're going to get to in the next 10 days.

[19:40] » And they're scrambling. I know they got a lot of work to whatever their reasons.

[19:43] Even Frontier trying to hurry. I mean, I think Verizon's buying them out or

[19:48] something. So, I'm sure there's things in there on why they're trying to hurry,

[19:51] but they will go over here and then go over here. We're still getting permits

[19:54] from them, but it's time to get back to the basics here and work on something.

[19:58] And if you don't want to work on that and you go to this, then we're going to

[20:01] revoke with them, revoke or suspend this permit, and we'll go work on this with

[20:06] you. But if you're not going to work and just have all these located and be able

[20:08] to pick and choose what you want to go do just because of what's easy or you

[20:13] know you you bring in the you know the contractor that's the cheapest that can

[20:17] get the most done and damage the most at the same time and you're chasing them

[20:20] around. Um >> this this looks like

[20:26] this ordinance will put a whole bunch more work on you than what you ever had

[20:30] before. >> Well, I think that's where I'm relying

[20:33] on the guys. Um, we're still doing this, but I Zach and Ben are working with I

[20:38] work right now. We don't want to bog down our permit software, but we've met

[20:42] over the last couple years even with him. So, we'll probably have another

[20:45] module on I work that'll help us. The beauty of that is it'll be at everyone's

[20:49] fingertips. We put the maps in there. All the guys will have it. That'll be

[20:52] the first big step. And then really, it's just become more efficient on our

[20:56] end on who's responsible for what. And if I can get one guy to do this and

[21:02] Jamie not be bogged down. Jamie Bullard's really helped us on this, but

[21:06] him not get as much ball down in the beginning and the coordination and

[21:09] really more on the guts of the planning with me. I think it's going to create

[21:14] more work, but I think it's I mean I don't think it's going to be that crazy.

[21:18] Um, if the utility companies buy in, it'll make it even easier.

[21:24] » So, and I think they will. I don't think the utility people will be the ones

[21:28] that, you know, the the contacts for the frontiers or the ams. I think they'll be

[21:33] fine. It's the contractors and hope hopefully this will lead I mean I don't

[21:38] know if I'm supposed to say this Pat, but I I hope this ordinance leads to

[21:41] where if we get 12 different subs coming here, I like the top end coming here,

[21:45] right? We've already experienced that. When I3 came, they had excellent

[21:48] contractors, one throughout the entire job. We're not dealing with that

[21:51] anymore. We're dealing with 12, 13, you know what I mean, different subs, and

[21:55] it's exhausting. So, I'm not saying we're going to change that. They can

[21:58] still do 12 or 13. My hope is this ordinance makes a little tougher that

[22:01] the the good contractor probably can keep tabs on this and be efficient with

[22:05] this. The bad contractor probably not because they're going to have some

[22:09] responsibilities in here. So, >> what about

[22:13] transformers that they moved and the dirt settled and they're sitting like

[22:17] this? >> You're now going on to hammer and that's

[22:20] a I don't know if I can ever fix that one, but we tried.

[22:23] » Is that part of this? >> That's not Well, I should say and

[22:27] there's a hole there and the thing wanting to talk. I mean, I think I think

[22:31] this could help us with that going forward

[22:33] » with Amron's one of the more complex parties to deal with simply because we

[22:38] have franchise agreement limitations as well. They are subject to the extent the

[22:42] regulation regulations you're adopting are not inconsistent with the provision

[22:46] there franchise agreement. Um, they're bound by the terms of our ordinance, but

[22:50] we always have to keep in mind too that those franchise agreements are written

[22:53] by Amarind, generally favor Amron, and do have some limitations on some of

[22:58] these issues. I think the question though is is what if one of these uh

[23:03] other utility companies does something that causes a amaran transformer or

[23:09] whatever to settle? Uh yeah. Are we supposed to do something to resolve that

[23:15] issue? Are they supposed to or just ignore it?

[23:19] » Well, within the conference ordinance, we have

[23:25] regulations on things like how they approach back fills. So if it's damage

[23:29] done to other infrastructure by reason of what the contractor is doing, um the

[23:33] contractor be responsible to the extent they don't comply with terms of

[23:35] ordinance. Beyond that, if it's a lasting, you know, it was installed per

[23:40] our requirements and the condition of it degrades over time, I'd need to think

[23:46] more about that to be honest with you before being able to appine as to how

[23:49] the ordinance addresses. >> But nothing drives us crazy more. So we

[23:52] do try to stay on top of that. I hope in the last 10 years you've seen better.

[23:57] you know what I mean in terms of that. But that's probably always going to be a

[24:00] little bit of a fight. >> One I looked at Cameron moved the

[24:04] transformer. >> So it's a recent one.

[24:06] » That was a recent one. >> Yeah.

[24:08] » Dirt settled and it's sitting like this and it's out by the street

[24:12] » and I looked at you know that that >> the uh it was

[24:18] » Yep. >> there was no dirt underneath part of it.

[24:21] It was actually and >> and I think if

[24:26] » happy >> yeah ones like those and homeowners I

[24:28] would encourage you to contact us myself and we are glad to follow up with Amaran

[24:32] and I can assure you Amaran's like us you know at their levels and they don't

[24:37] want that they don't want those complaints. So I I think those are ones

[24:41] that they would address. >> I would think so too with Amaran. I mean

[24:44] I've never had any issues with them for me but I'm just curious.

[24:47] » Yeah. So, I think if any homeowners got that question or sees one, let us know

[24:50] and I'm follow up on them. >> Thank you.

[24:53] » Y >> no more questions. Let's call the RO.

[24:59] » Yes. >> Yes.

[25:02] » Yes. >> Yes.

[25:04] » Yes. >> Motion passes.

[25:05] » It's all I have tonight, your honor. >> Thank goodness.

[25:10] » I have three items tonight, your honor. First being item A, petition number

[25:14] 26-01ZA. A petition by the village of Morton in

[25:18] support of the property owner to reszone the property subject property from E3 to

[25:22] RS. >> Would you have a motion?

[25:24] » So move. >> Second.

[25:28] » Included in your packet tonight is a map showing the proposed zoning change of a

[25:32] parcel owned by the Topper family. Currently that parcel is zoned B3. With

[25:37] support from the Tooffer family, the village of Morton petitioned for the

[25:40] parcel to be reszoned from B3 to RS at this month's plan commission meeting.

[25:44] The plan commission gave this petition a favorable recommendation to be approved

[25:48] and is staff supported. Also included in your packet is an exhibit showing the

[25:52] proposed configuration of the surrounding parcels if the amendment is

[25:55] granted. This is to be completed via plow survey outside of the plan

[25:59] commission village board processes. As of tonight, the village of Morton has

[26:03] not received any site or architectural plans to share with you all. And when

[26:07] plans are submitted, and as required with all projects, we will review,

[26:10] permit, and inspect any construction proposals in coordination with Morton

[26:13] Fire. This plan would clean up some zoning issues and allow for the Topper

[26:17] family property to be preserved while allowing for a new development fitting

[26:21] the RF zoning. >> Any questions?

[26:29] » If not, call the RO. >> Serill,

[26:32] » yes. >> Hillyard,

[26:34] » yes. >> Le,

[26:35] » yes. No. >> Yes.

[26:36] » Eric. >> Yes.

[26:39] » Second item tonight, your honor, is petition 26-02

[26:42] SP, special use in B2, Massage Parlor Service. Subject property is located at

[26:48] 208 South Avenue, Sweet M, currently zoned B2. Requested zoning change from

[26:52] B2 with a special use. >> Motion, please.

[26:58] » To approve. >> Second.

[27:01] Included in your packet tonight is the public is the application for a special

[27:04] use to provide massage services at 208 South First A. Also included are the

[27:09] transcripts from this month's plan commission meeting where the petition

[27:12] was given a favorable recommendation for approval. The petitioner provided all

[27:16] requested details of her operation to the plan commission. Jasmine provided

[27:20] enough detail to where conversations were limited and no I see no issue with

[27:24] granting the special use. >> Any questions?

[27:31] Serelli, >> yes.

[27:33] » Yes. >> Yes.

[27:35] » Medley, >> yes.

[27:36] » Yes. Motion passes. >> Last item tonight is a recommended

[27:40] zoning for 26 07 West Jackson Street annexation. There's an upcoming

[27:45] annexation of a parcel into the village of Morton's corporate boundaries. This

[27:49] parcel is located at 2607 West Jackson and the village of Morton request

[27:53] recommendation for the zoning the zoning classification from the plan commission.

[27:58] I might suggest we table this and approve this concurrently with the

[28:02] pre-an with the pre-anexation agreement and the annexation agreement which we'll

[28:05] come back to in future meetings. U motion

[28:11] second. Any questions?

[28:14] Call the roll. >> Hillyard.

[28:16] » Yes. >> Leech.

[28:17] » Yes. >> Yes.

[28:19] » Yes. >> Yes. Motion's taken.

[28:26] » Yes, sir. >> Uh any trustees have anything tonight?

[28:31] If not, can we have a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved.

[28:35] » Second. >> All those in favor?

Morton, IL Village Board Meeting - March 2nd, 2026

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