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[0:07] » Good evening. Call the Arthur of those board meeting

[0:11] for Monday, August 17th, 2026 to order. Please join me in silent prayer and

[0:15] meditation.

[0:26] All right, thank you. Please join me in pledge of allegiance.

[0:50] Roll call, please. >> Mayor Gavino.

[0:53] » Here. >> Trustee Christensen.

[0:55] » Here. >> Trustee Curtis.

[0:57] » Here. >> Trustee Gately.

[0:58] » Here. >> Trustee Lowry.

[1:00] » Here. >> Trustee Netzband.

[1:02] » Here. >> Trustee Salazar.

[1:03] » Here. >> All right, thank you. Um, are there any

[1:06] comments? Seeing none. Uh, consent agenda, Steve.

[1:11] » Thank you, Mayor. Uh, the consent agenda tonight includes our minutes from our

[1:15] last Village Board and Committee of the Whole meetings, our bills list, and also

[1:19] the annual agreement that we've done with School District 129 for our

[1:23] officer, our school resource officer at Jewel Middle School.

[1:28] » Motion to approve. >> Second.

[1:30] » Discussion. Roll please.

[1:34] » Trustee Lowry. >> Yes.

[1:37] » Trustee Netzband. >> Yes.

[1:39] » Trustee Salazar. >> Yes.

[1:43] » Trustee Christensen. >> Yes.

[1:45] » Trustee Curtis. >> Yes.

[1:47] » Trustee Gately. >> Yes.

[1:48] » Mayor Gavino. >> Yes.

[1:51] » All right, under new business, item one. Steve.

[1:55] » Thank you, Mayor. Item number one tonight is a budget amendment. Um, is

[1:59] going to go through the budget amendments items one and two.

[2:05] » All right, this is an ordinance approving budget amendment number two

[2:08] for fiscal year 25-26 or year ending May 31st, 2026. This is similar to what

[2:14] we've done every year is have our final cleanup before the audit starts. I'm

[2:18] just a few different parts of this amendment. The first part is just budget

[2:21] transfers to between departments. Certain accounts are either under or

[2:25] over budget within the general fund. We kind of move budget funds around. The

[2:29] result of this is it does not increase the total general fund budget, so it's

[2:33] kind of a net zero just between the various accounts. The second part of it

[2:37] is our annual transfer from the general fund to the capital projects fund.

[2:41] We had budgeted $400,000 from the general fund to the capital fund for

[2:45] this year. On top of that, we have about a million

[2:48] dollar surplus within the general fund. So, what we're recommending to do is

[2:51] take $500,000 of that and add that to our capital transfer, leaving the other

[2:56] $500,000 within the general fund. So, that make our total capital transfer

[3:00] $900,000 and the money left in the general fund would allow us to keep our

[3:05] reserve in that 60% range as it's been in most

[3:09] years. The third part of it is increasing the

[3:13] United TIF fund budget $131,510 between the various accounts. Mainly,

[3:19] this is due to the just some properties that were purchased through the years

[3:22] and TIF side grants that were more than expected and then the silo lighting

[3:27] design work from the storm damage. And finally, the last part of it is

[3:31] increasing the public works facility capital projects fund $36,080.

[3:36] And this is just to more work being done during this fiscal year than we

[3:40] originally planned on being done. >> Motion approved.

[3:44] » Second. >> Discussion.

[3:47] » Roll call, please. >> Trustee Salazar.

[3:51] » Yes. >> Trustee Christiansen?

[3:54] » Yes. >> Trustee Curtis?

[3:56] » Yes. >> Trustee Gately?

[3:58] » Yes. >> Trustee Lowry?

[4:00] » Yes. >> Trustee Nejabat?

[4:02] » Yes. >> All right, thank you. Item two, Jason.

[4:04] » All right, thank you, Mayor. Uh this item is

[4:06] um an ordinance for approving your budget amendment number

[4:10] one for fiscal year 2026-2027, so our current fiscal year we're in, ending May

[4:15] 31st, 2027. Um this actually relates to item number four later on down the

[4:20] agenda. Um but originally when we put the budget together, the salt purchase

[4:23] was uh budgeted with the motor fuel tax fund, but since we're not going to be

[4:27] following uh either the state bid or our own bid, and we're going to waive bids,

[4:31] we can't use the motor fuel tax fund, so what we're doing is we're reducing the

[4:34] motor fuel tax salt budget purchase, but then rebudgeting, increasing the budget

[4:38] in the capital projects fund to pay for the salt.

[4:41] » Motion to approve. >> Second.

[4:42] » Discussion? Call the roll, please.

[4:46] » Trustee Salazar? >> Yes.

[4:48] » Trustee Christiansen? >> Yes.

[4:50] » Trustee Curtis? >> Yes.

[4:52] » Trustee Gately? Trustee Lowry?

[4:54] » Yes. >> Trustee Nejabat?

[4:56] » Yes. >> All right, thank you. Item three, Steve.

[5:00] » Thank you, Mayor. Item number three is an ordinance to dissolve Route 31 TIF.

[5:04] The board might remember at the last meeting at our Committee of the Whole,

[5:07] we're in the 23rd and final year of the Route 31 TIF, which includes um

[5:12] a a large amount of property south of 88 along Route 31.

[5:17] Uh this is a process that we have to do uh as part of closing out the TIF. We

[5:22] just recently had a joint review board meeting with the taxing districts to let

[5:26] them know of our plans to dissolve the TIF, and tonight is the actual ordinance

[5:31] uh dissolving it by the end of the year. >> Motion to approve.

[5:35] » Second. >> Discussion?

[5:38] Call the roll, please. >> Trustee Gately?

[5:41] » Yes. >> Trustee Lowry?

[5:43] » Yes. >> Trustee Nejabat?

[5:45] » Yes. >> Trustee Salazar?

[5:47] » Yes. >> Trustee Christiansen?

[5:49] » Yes. >> Trustee Curtis?

[5:51] » Yes. >> Great. Thank you. Item four, Brian.

[5:56] » Thank you, Mayor. This item is the purchase of rock salt for the 2026-2027

[6:00] winter season. The village submitted a request to the state to be part of their

[6:03] bidding process in April of this year. Last month, the

[6:07] village received an email stating that we did not receive a bid for salt. Two

[6:11] options were given to us by the state. Find and purchase the salt on our own or

[6:16] elect to stay with a state emergency bid.

[6:19] Staff made the decision to purchase salt on our own and we received five

[6:23] proposals out of the six companies we contacted. Midwest Salt provided the

[6:28] village with the lowest proposal to purchase 2,500 tons of salt. As Jason

[6:32] explained earlier, the [clears throat] money originally was

[6:35] budgeted for out of motor fuel tax fund. However, it will come out of capital

[6:39] funds now as the budget adjustment was just conducted. The staff is seeking

[6:43] approval to waive the bidding process due to the lack of bids that received by

[6:47] the state process and the potential emergency nature of the salt shortage

[6:51] and award the contract to Midwest Salt in the amount of $289,825.

[6:57] » Motion to approve. Discussion.

[7:00] Roll please. >> Trustee Lowry?

[7:04] » Yes. >> Trustee Nedved?

[7:06] » Yes. >> Trustee Salazar?

[7:08] » Yes. >> Trustee Christiansen?

[7:11] » Yes. >> Trustee Curtis?

[7:13] » Yes. >> Trustee Gately?

[7:14] » Yes. >> Mayor Gavena?

[7:16] » Yes. All right. Last item under new business, item five, Steve.

[7:21] » Thank you, Mayor. Item number five is approval to waive bidding purchase,

[7:25] installation, and programming for the Bremen Tower lighting project. Um as you

[7:29] know, the tower got affected by a storm about a year ago or so. Uh we've been

[7:35] going through a process with a engineer and a lighting expert to basically

[7:40] upgrade the lighting to to today's standards for modern LED lighting is.

[7:44] When we built them about 8 years ago or so, uh at the time they were state of

[7:48] the art, but now the LEDs are much better. So,

[7:51] going through that process, making sure we get it right, putting the grounding

[7:54] of the for lightning in the future and things in the tower is all going into

[7:58] this process. The company Protolight, they're the ones

[8:02] who actually program the lighting that's currently on the tower. Uh we're going

[8:06] to them uh directly by waving bids because not

[8:10] only do they have an a knowledge of the program, but they are also one of the

[8:13] few companies that can program this type of lighting. Uh by doing it this way,

[8:18] we just found out from uh the meeting that we had with the development team

[8:22] for this project that this this was going to get delayed again till spring

[8:26] because it's taking that long for them to mock up the lighting.

[8:29] By going away from having to go specs and go right to a company we know can

[8:33] install them and design them and do all the programming, we can knock a few

[8:37] months off that timeline. That's our goal. Um Protolight is one of the few

[8:41] companies that we know is qualified and they were the qualified company last

[8:44] time, so we want to go directly through them.

[8:47] » Motion to approve. Discussion.

[8:50] Roll call, please.

[8:54] » Trustee Lowry. >> Yes.

[8:56] » Trustee Nedved. >> Yes.

[8:58] » Trustee Salazar. >> Yes.

[9:00] » Trustee Christiansen. >> Yes.

[9:02] » Trustee Curtis. Trustee Gately.

[9:04] » Yes. >> Mayor Guffey.

[9:06] » Yes. We'll close our new business on the air

[9:09] village. >> Credit department, you have nothing.

[9:11] Trustee comments.

[9:14] See none. Administrator report. >> Thank you, Mayor. Just a few notes.

[9:19] Uh first, just want to remind everybody that we're having August 29th is our

[9:23] redo of Independence Day fireworks show, so it's here at the park. Uh we have a

[9:27] band playing from 6:00 to 9:00, fireworks at 9:30.

[9:30] Um so, hopefully the weather is better and we don't have uh all the rain that

[9:34] we've had the last few weeks. Um second of all, I wanted to uh address

[9:39] the salt purchase tonight. Uh just really good work by everybody

[9:43] involved. When we found out that the state doesn't really give you a lot of

[9:46] notice. When we got the notice that they had no bidders, it was only a couple

[9:50] days before the agenda that we normally put the uh salt purchase on.

[9:55] Um, Todd Murphy, our street superintendent, and Brian uh both worked

[9:59] diligently to try to locate salt. Typically, the way it works since

[10:03] there's three main salt providers uh through the state contract. One of them,

[10:08] rumors are that they may not provide salt in the future. Another one uh chose

[10:12] not to bid most or if not all the contracts, and the other one didn't bid

[10:16] any contract. So, there was only a handful of towns that

[10:19] got uh salt through this. I think 260 municipalities were left without a bid.

[10:24] And some of the ones that did have salt also got it um only half their bid or a

[10:29] portion of their bid filled by a company. So,

[10:32] um it's really kind of looked at how we're going to do salt in the future.

[10:35] Um, these types of variations are unusual, uh but the flexibility we have

[10:39] financially and and what we've been able to do with our capital funding made it

[10:43] real easy. And And the way that we'll do this in the future is Jason and I and

[10:47] Brian will look at our road program next year, for instance, and we'll look to

[10:51] maybe then balance what we used out of capital for salt. We might use more MFT

[10:55] funding for road program next year. So, this way it ends up being a wash after

[11:00] uh the funds in those two accounts. So, I just want to give an update. They did

[11:03] a really nice job. They were on the phone for days trying to hound people on

[11:07] where they can find salt. And we had to have it on this board meeting because

[11:10] the people that had it weren't going to hold it very long.

[11:13] Uh that and then village hall just a quick update. We actually did get the uh

[11:17] appraiser finally out here today. So, uh they walked with Brandon, our public

[11:21] works assistant director, uh through the building today, looked at the damage,

[11:25] and they are um ready to make the report to the insurance company on what they'll

[11:29] cover, uh which we're waiting for that the report. But as of right now we've

[11:33] been getting everything lined up, so I think we're we're moving in the right

[11:38] direction. Our goal is to have some staff We're trying to have staff in as

[11:43] early as August 24th and reopen a portion of the building.

[11:47] We're doing some things inside the building beforehand, so we we're not

[11:50] sure it's going to wrap up in time, but what we'd like to do is if not the

[11:54] 24th, soon after, but our goal is to at least get this building up and running

[11:58] on on the side that's not damaged so that people can pay water bills and

[12:02] stuff here. >> All right, thanks.

[12:05] » For reports. Anybody?

[12:08] Seeing none. Adjourn for the evening.

[12:12] » So moved. >> Second.

[12:13] » All in favor say aye. >> Aye.

[12:15] » Aye. >> Same. All right, have a good night

[12:16] everyone.

Village of North Aurora Village Board Meeting 8-17-2026

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