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This time, I'd like to call to order the bill. It's council meeting from Monday, November 10th, 2025, Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

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Mayor Schronz. Councilman Langer. Councilman Langer. Councilman Langer. Councilman Ms. and Scherf. Councilman Falkenberg.

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Yeah. Councilman Ms. Laskier. Councilman House.

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Yeah. Everyone, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance.

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Excuse me for five. I'd like to be United States of America.

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I first up to see if any motion to approve the minutes of the regular.

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First, I would be motion to approve the minutes from the business finance budget committee special meeting, which is november.

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Number first 2025 and the village council meeting and committee of the home meeting of November

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third 2025.

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I should provide them ZNB.

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Second.

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Motion and second dollars in favor.

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Please signify by saying aye.

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Opposed.

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All right.

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Just real quick some announcements.

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Veteran's day program tomorrow from 11 until 1 this will be at the American air.

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This is the American Legion post 690.

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This will be held over at Cutting Hall.

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Wednesday November 12th, 4 until 7 p.m., partners for our community, POC is having their open house.

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So that's this Wednesday. Thursday November 13th, Councilman, Ms. Lensky, and Falkenberg are

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hosting their district three and four residents meeting here in Village Hall.

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Friday November 21st, 5 until 9, holidays on the town. This is in our downtown business association.

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Saturday November 22nd, 445, the holiday tree lighting ceremony will be having a taking place in town square.

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Finally, the Leaf Collection Report Leaf, the like effects snow is not affected.

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The Leaf Collection Programs zones 5 through 8 are being collected this week as originally scheduled.

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The final scheduled collection for all zones starts next Monday, November 17th, and we'll continue

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throughout the week until all leaves have been collected.

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All zones must have their leaves placed out in the street and ready for pick up by 7 a.m. Monday morning.

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With that all in my report and seek a motion to recess to committee of the hall.

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So moved.

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Motion and second with all those of favor please signify by saying aye.

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All right.

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Opposed?

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We are now committee of the whole first up.

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Police policy and code service committee.

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Council members, let's get Chairman.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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I'd like to call that committee in order.

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We have two items on tonight to agenda our first.

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This is a considerant when it's transferring a special use for it.

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It's to number 0-123-03 to permit the continued operation of a restaurant slash bar at 110 North Brockway Street.

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And this is in district sex.

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Motion to approve.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Mr. Viremerk.

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Thank you, as indicated, the proposed special uses is being transferred.

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It's original approval date to 2003, and the entity that is receiving the special

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use transfer.

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It's personally the CEO of the brewing companies work there for 17 years according to the

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transmittal letter and application.

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I would note that there are no significant hours of operation are remaining unchanged, and it

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was indicated that the menu items and present operation would continue accordingly.

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It's great forward.

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Thank you.

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Any comments from the committee?

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Is there anybody in the audience on this one?

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Seeing none.

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We're ready for a vote.

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All those in favor.

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Police in five by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Chairman Ossovots aye.

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Those opposed.

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This will be put on tonight's consent agenda.

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Our second is the considerant one is granting variations for a driveway expansion.

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And a lot coverage variation at 42 West Robertson Street.

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And this is also a district six.

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The move.

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Second.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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are before you the evening seeking two things, they're seeking a lot coverage variation and they're

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also proposing to provide a two-foot wide paved ribbon that would allow for maneuverability

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and access for the driveway. Obviously this is an older part of the village of Palatine,

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the lots are narrower and substandard, the home has been in place for many years. For logistical

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standpoint, I know there are application materials and they testify of the public hearing.

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They're the driveway with as it reaches kind of a pinch point gets as low as a night and a half feet

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This is a site plan showing the

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The pay of ribbon to be added. So this will provide some flexibility for them to have an approximately

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11 and a half foot wide driveway and they're also

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exceeding their lock coverage, but as noted in their application materials they did remove it portion of a sidewalk and a patio on the rear of the property

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It was was not utilized to its full effect

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staff did not have any concerns and the planning and zone commission held the public hearing and unanimously recommended it's approval I would note that this is a pretty good snapshot of the existing driveway the two-foot ribbon and there's going to be one foot of open space between the property line

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There is an existing landscape area that's directly west of the property which would remain untouched and I would also note that the neighbors to the west

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submitted a letter of consent and support for the proposal as well

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it's important, there's no drainage issues in this area, I don't want to hurt, right?

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Okay, thank you.

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The efforts of removing the stuff in the backyard, we're commendable.

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I don't know if you guys inspired that, but nice work.

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I think we always go through a discussion if there's any areas that are unused,

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but I think they work with the plant, and that is, and so things have been removed prior to that.

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Okay, thank you.

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Any comments from the committee?

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Is there anybody in the audience?

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Done this one, done. We are ready for a vote. All those in favor. Please signify by saying aye, aye, aye.

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There's a post, Chairman Auceville, Si and this will be put on tonight's consent agenda. Does anybody have anything under

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asked submitted, Seeing them as Community Standards adjourned?

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I call the order and administration technology and community health committee. We have one item on tonight's

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public agenda and that's a motion to authorize the Village Manager to enter into an agreement for geographical information

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system services with multiple municipal GIS partners.

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most in your proof. So moved. Second.

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Three years ago we joined into the GIS

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consortium.

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As part of the consortium we contract with MGP or municipal GIS

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partners. Our agreement is up with them at this point in time so we need to do a

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pass a three year framework and the one year for next year's actual engagement

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Anyone on the audience on this matter?

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See, none.

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We're ready for vote.

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All the favour, sigma five.

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I say aye.

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Opposed.

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Chairman also votes aye.

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I'll be on tonight's consent agenda.

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Does anyone have anything on our ass committed?

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See, none we standard.

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At the time of the call, the order of the seedlings business finance and budget committee.

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We have one item on our agenda this evening.

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That is to consider continued discussion of the fiscal year 2026 proposed budget and capital investment plan

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Back in November first we had the opportunity to sit in and at about the

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The proposed budget and this is the opportunity. I think the third opportunity that we have for any feedback or

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Anyone pretending to this matter

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Fair enough to staff

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Thank you. As you indicated it is the third time before you it is a balanced budget

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There's no property tax levying increase within the budget no new fees or taxes being proposed as part of it.

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We will have a public hearing that's required next Monday at the village council meeting and then the adoption of all the ordinances related to the budget and implementation will come on December 1st.

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Thank you.

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Any questions for staff?

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Anyone in the audience on this matter?

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Does anyone have anything under a submitted?

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we stand adjourned.

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At this time like call the word of the community academic development committee, we also have

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enough hand-sized publisher agenda.

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If there is nothing else submitted, we stand adjourned.

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Thank you.

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At this time, we'd like to call the word of the fire policy community information committee.

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There are no items in the post agenda this evening.

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Does anyone have anything under as submitted?

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We stand adjourned.

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Call the word of your infrastructure environmental committee.

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We have nothing on tonight's agenda, nothing as submitted.

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We stand adjourned.

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And then an emotion we can read in the council meeting.

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So I'm moved.

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Second, motion, second all those in favor of posting if I'm by saying aye.

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Polls, right?

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We have three items on the seedlings consent agenda this time, we need a motion to approve.

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Motion to approve items aye through C, the consent agenda with waiver first reading.

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There's a motion, there's a second on the floor, madam clerk will need a roll call for that.

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Constit.

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and Councilman Humphus.

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Consentant on the passes.

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Thank you.

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And a reports of standing committed administration

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Technology and Community Health Committee

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Councilman Langer Chairman.

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The report, Mr. Mayor.

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Business Finance and Budget Committee

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Councilman Falkenberg Chairman.

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No report, Mr. Mayor.

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Community Economic Development Committee

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Councilman Langer and Chairman.

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No report, Mr. Mayor.

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By your policy and Community Information Committee

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Councilman Helms Chairman.

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The report, Mr. Mayor.

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Infrastructure and Environment Committee Councilman

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Cazalsky Chairman.

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Public Policy and Code Service Committee Councilman

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Ms. Lensky Chairman.

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The report, Mr. Mayor.

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Under report, Mr. Bill Jalsky.

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Reporting to the Major.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Last week, we heard from a number of our residents and others regarding concerns of federal law enforcement activity within our community and the Chicago land area as a whole.

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I want to thank everybody first of all for taking the time to address the village as they've done in other communities as well, and I'm sure you've read about it in the papers.

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One item that was presented last week was a request to adopt an ordinance related to federal immigration enforcement within the village.

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Since last Monday nights meeting, staff and our attorneys were able to complete a review

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of the ordinance, and at a high level, the ordinance is basically a recitation of the

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trust act as well as some other state provisions, all of which we already follow and are

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obligated to follow.

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There are also provisions in the ordinance that we create legal uncertainty in our opinion

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would either be illegal or unenforceable.

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Proof of the ordinance, which as a law, could even result in an allegation of official misconduct

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for not enforcing the ordinance provisions, or someone could potentially be criminal liable

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for trying to enforce an illegal ordinance or provision, for example, based upon obstruction.

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In my opinion, this is not a practical solution to the concerns raised last week.

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Please know that this isn't just Palatine staff or attorneys that have come to this conclusion.

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We've spoken with others, and we're aware of legal opinions coming from a variety of communities such as Addison,

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to page county, bowling, Brook, Elgin, and the list goes on,

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regarded the affordability of an ordinance

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such as this or even the ice-free zone.

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All other opinions indicating they're also not enforceable.

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In Palatine, we don't know a lot.

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A doubt laws just to send a message.

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We adapt laws to enforce laws.

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I'm concerned that what has been lost in the discussions,

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all the positive that has been done over the years

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to develop and strengthen the relationships

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between the village and all of our residents.

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Allotine is all about providing a safe place for all people to live work and visit.

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Whether it's the emergency response when you call 911 for a medical or fiery emergency.

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Having safe streets to drive on, having safe water to drink, or having a fast and professional response from the police department when you call 911,

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we're here for the residents no matter who they are.

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Last week we heard speakers talking about building or rebuilding trust, talking about how we need to show our residents we care.

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I want to take a moment just to talk about our actions and make sure that everyone understands

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what we've done and continue to do and how we do care.

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When you ever go to the Village Council, it was presented with a budget that created a new division

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in the Police Department.

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It was the community of the National Police Department.

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We're the first that I'm aware of in the area to create an entire division within the

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Police Department by a deputy chief, the focus on engaging in the community.

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The Council enthusiastically supported this initiative as did people in the public,

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allocated significant dollars to make it a reality.

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The new division coordinates an expands community outreach.

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It enhances communications between the Department and public while promoting proactive engagement

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with long-term partnerships.

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The Department partners with partners for our community for the collaboration of local government

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schools and social service agencies dedicated to providing education and power

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and essential resources to families and individuals in the community.

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In fact, our deputy chief is presently on their board of directors, a position I held over

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20 years ago.

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Participate in the annual summer camp program for residents primarily in the northeast

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section of our community.

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Our involvement in this program goes back nearly 30 years.

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Our officers are engaging with youth through mentorship, sports, and leadership development.

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The camp emphasizes positive police interaction with community, unity, reinforcing mutual

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trust from an early age.

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Palatine held her inaugural national night out this past summer with over 2,500 people attending the great community-based event, fostering connections and promoting shared responsibility for neighborhood safety.

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We run one of the largest toys for Tots program anywhere in the area through efforts of police and fire. The event in fact is funded through our own village employees.

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Resulting and gifts to hundreds of people. We have a shop with a cop program that provides a safe and fun environment for youth in the community. We've been involved with and conducted code drives to benefit members of the community.

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To get to know people on a more localized basis in enhanced relationships, we conducted neighborhood beat meetings this past year throughout the community.

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Allotine police is one of the few if not the only department in the area with a regular walking

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beat program.

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In our downtown area and the high density residential neighborhoods, this puts the police

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officers in one-on-one situations to interact and get to know the residents and children

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and, again, build long-term relationships.

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We have a strong and proud history of working with and supporting all members of the community.

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This is something all 330 employees of the village and elected officials believe in.

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Later this week, Chief Northern Iowa will be meeting with several of our state elected officials

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to discuss what's going on in our community and the area.

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There are things that the state could do to help address the situation we all find ourselves

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in and we look forward to this discussion with them.

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Having heard the comments last week and in the days that followed, we acknowledge that there's

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more to be done.

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I have asked our community engagement and planning division to facilitate a meeting with community

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leaders and advocates to further the discussion of what we can do to help people feel safe

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continue to build the relationships educating each other is important. I will also give credit

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to Arlington Heights as they develop some guidelines for non-law enforcement personnel within

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their village on how to address the situations that are occurring in all of our communities.

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Our staff has already started the process of stealing their concepts in Arlington Heights and doing

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something similar in Palatine that we hope to have developed within the next several days.

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I again want to say that we appreciate the comments and passion that we've heard and seen.

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We also want Palatine to continue to be a safe community where community that complies with the multitude of laws that exist and not one that has a hollow message that can't be enforced.

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That only leads to a false sense of security and confusion.

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The stress the recent federal actions has caused in our community is unfortunate.

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The tactics used are not something to be condoned.

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We will continue to build relationships within our community and protect our residents within the limits of the laws.

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I hope that this summary this evening might help some understand what our commitment has been and will continue to be.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate we appreciate everything with regards to the welcoming village ordinance that came forward late Monday evening staff was able to jump on that review it.

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I know they were in discussion with other municipalities to find out what has been done different municipalities.

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as kind of how villages work, we reach out to our counterparts and see what it is that's being

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done in the field, what's working, what maybe isn't working, in addition to whatever everything

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you did today operations. I thought you'd do a really nice job of summarizing what it is we

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can't do where hands are tied by state and federal law. So, appreciate that. I think

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all of us up here agree that the tactics that are being utilized in the field by federal leaders,

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We don't condone. I think we said that last week was said again this evening

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As far as we're here to do tonight, I think

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This is how government should work. We are the most accessible form of government

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So you will not get the opportunity to speak in front of the state legislature down in Springfield

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You won't get that opportunity in Washington. You'll have the opportunity here

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This is recognition of audience. We'll ask that whoever wants to come forward.

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If somebody before you is already stated what you want to state, maybe just you want to

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expound on that or just say I agree with the other speakers regarding this, this and this.

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We ask that you keep your comments the three minutes so we can make sure everybody has an

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opportunity to speak this evening.

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This is not an opportunity for debate.

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We're not going to have a vote at the end of this with whatever comes forward.

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This is where we take feedback like we did last week and we find ways that if we can implement

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them or we can create solutions that's what we're going to come back with. So this is how

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the process works. So with that, this is the recognition of audience. So is there anybody

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in the audience who wishes to come forward in an item that was not on the published agenda at this

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point? Please come forward at this time. If you could just join a complete, we have the attorneys

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report. I'm sorry, Ford. I'll just figure out about the most important people here. Report

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or a village clerk.

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We're looking out for our partner, Mr. Mayor.

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We're going to have a couple of those.

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Now we're going to report and no request for closed session.

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Thank you.

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Now we're recognition of audience.

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So, how many people are interested in coming forward and speaking this evening?

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Excellent.

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So again, we just asked that when you come forward to please take your name and address for the

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clubs we can have it for the record, again, keep your comments to three minutes or less

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and speak on village business.

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And please keep it single as we are all here kind of as one community.

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So thank you very much, first person, come on up.

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I am my name is Jerry Slavic, I live at 515 South Fenton.

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I do appreciate actions that have been taking in the past and we've done in the past

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and that we are trying to be an inclusive community, but this is new.

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We have our neighbors, business owners being kidnapped on the street by masked anonymous

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gunman.

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And they're threatening all of us, so I do believe we can do more, and we need to do more

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to let our immigrant neighbors know that we are standing with them.

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It's not enough to say, well, you know, there's not much we can do.

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So I appreciate the thought that's gone into it.

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And I hope that we will continue to see what other municipalities are doing.

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And we will do more to protect them.

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Thank you, George.

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My name is Andrew Nemovic.

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I live at 699 North Benton Street here in Palatine.

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I appreciate the council's and the villages consideration of the ordinance that was proposed

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last week by Mr. O'Rourke.

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I'm disappointed to see that it seems to have come to a conclusion, but I'm hoping that

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this is not the end, I hope that the village and the village council pursues something

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that you can do to show that you don't condone it instead of just saying that you don't

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us to say that what's happening is awful and horrible, but it is much harder to stop up and

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take action upon it. And I understand that there are limitations, legal limitations that you have,

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but I also believe that there are steps that can be taken to further protect our community.

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Please note yesterday, put it very succinctly, the actions that they're having create of public safety hazard.

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They were getting reports in other communities that they're using chemical weapons, even when children are around.

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They're reports of unsafe traffic or vehicles.

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And I really, really cannot stress how important it is that not just myself, but I think we all feel a bit unsafe with federal agents speeding around using chemical weapons in our neighborhoods.

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And I really hope that you guys can find something to help us feel more safe.

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My name is Jenny Lusso, I live at 257 North Fremont and I'd like to start by acknowledging

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the good work for the Palatine Police Department does in keeping this community safe and

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I fully recognize the contributions they make to the community and as a parent who has

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sent three kids through Palatine High School, I am particularly grateful for the great work

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they do with the High School to keep our kids safe. I recognize they are in a difficult position

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right now. And I recognize there are limitations to what we can do. But I will tell you as a

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long time Palatine resident, I have never felt unsafe in our community until today. Today at

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130 pm, I was driving home. I was driving down Qualfax and I saw an ice vehicle driven up into

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neighbors yard on her personal property, and two massed men with guns were violently detaining

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a man. They were hurting him. He was not resisting. He was terrified. But he was not resisting.

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He was in physical pain. And once they got him into their vehicle, I could hear them tazing

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him. This was one block from my house. This is on the corner of Colfax and Shiller. You live

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Here you know exactly where I'm talking about. It is one block from Sandborn Elementary.

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This is at 130 in the afternoon. If you watched the video I took a bit today, there is a school bus driving behind the Ice Agents.

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This is approaching the time when these children, my neighbor's small children walk home alone from school.

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And this is what they almost stumbled upon. I stumbled upon it and I got out and I filmed it.

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We are not safe, with masked men, with guns running around our neighborhoods.

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My daughter could have been out walking the dogs.

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My neighbors children could have been walking home from school.

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And this man that they had wrestled to the ground, he was no threat to my neighbors.

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At most, maybe he had a civil offense.

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Maybe he didn't have the right papers.

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He was a threat to nobody.

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But the 20 plus ice agents that showed up, 20 plus ice agents with guns and face masks,

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walking around co-fax, shiller, they're a threat to my community, they're a threat to my safety,

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they're a threat to your safety, they're a threat to your safety,

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they're a threat to your safety.

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They pull the neighbor out of his car and detained him, they took the landscape,

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for who works for Gabriel's landscaping, by the way, a Palatine institution, a local business owner,

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is having his workers kidnapped off the streets. And how do we explain to our children, honey,

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I don't know if you can walk home from school today. I don't know if I feel safe with that anymore.

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Don't tell me there's nothing the Palatine Police Department can do.

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I don't want to hear it. Your job is to keep the community safe. I am worried about our

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all of our white project neighbors who now have to deal with mass men running around our neighborhoods

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with guns. And while this was happening, several a power time police officers showed up.

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And I know there are limitations to what they can do. I know they do not have the authority

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to stop these federal agents. But to watch them stand there, as the neighbors who were coming out

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to watch what was happening, we are terrified of what's happening. And to watch the

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Palatine police officers, who normally I value and respect, they shrubbed at me.

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And I'm in tears, think, can you do anything?

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And it crossed his arms, and he shrubbed his shoulders, and he said,

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What do you want me to do about it?

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I don't believe there's nothing that can be done.

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As a Palatine resident, when I have masked men with guns invading my neighborhood,

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I am less safe.

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And when I call the Palatine Police Department to come help,

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what is reasonable to expect?

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That's all.

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Thank you, Jenny.

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My name is Bob Shaw, I live at 523 North Easy Street.

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I first want to thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to be actually come up here and talk to my local constituents.

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I just want to say I agree with everything that she said.

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I applaud her for taking that video tape and actually asking questions and doing her first amendment right of saying what she needs to.

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I do have a couple of comments just more of it as a concern citizen.

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As you might notice, some of in the American descent, I'm born in this country.

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I've lived here all my life and this is the first time I feel afraid of walking around these neighborhoods in Peloton.

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I've lived here for eight years.

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Like she said, po effects and shiller, I walk around her streets all the time.

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Seeing that house are a good friend's actually live at that house.

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It is the first time I feel unsafe walking around Peloton.

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And especially with this, I'm wondering, do I got to wear my ID with me wherever I go now?

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The few questions that I do have is what tracking is being done by Palatine so that we

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are made aware and events like this are transparent.

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I see text messages, I see videos but all through friends, I haven't seen any official anything

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from Palatine.

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I just want to know what's being done to track these events so that citizens can look

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at that and see how many of these types of events are actually happening.

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You guys say that you don't condone it, I don't know if words meet anything until there's

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action.

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So I'd like to see what specifically the Palatine Police Department is doing in terms of

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working with ICO that they're federal agents, but the fact that they can wear masks be armed

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and not show any ID, there's got to be something being done around that.

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And then the last and final comment I'll say is I just want to also understand what's being

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done about public property, private property, what is

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Palatine police doing about any stops or anything like that?

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That might be happening on Palatine property and that includes

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schools.

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I got two twins or eight year olds at Sandborn.

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So there's got to be something more that's done than just saying we

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don't condone what's being done by these agents.

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There's got to be more action and less words.

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Thank you, Bob.

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Hello, my name is Sherry Styer.

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I live at 1445 North Tank Award Affidoo.

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What I want to know from you?

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And you can answer me now or not. Why? Won't you vote on the ordinance? Why are you waiting to see what else is going on? You see what it is. I mean unless you're driving around with your eyes closed and your ears. And you're not listening to us. You are not listening to us. Why won't you vote on this ordinance?

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We elected you into these positions in my correct, so our tax dollars are what, paying your salaries, correct?

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Yet every single one of you are refusing to protect all of the citizens in your township, and that pisses me off.

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what to know and,

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and if this piss you off as much as it does me and it scares you as much as it does all of us

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then do something about it. There you go.

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Good evening. My name is Cecilia Farfan. I live in

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1513. It's Silver Strand Circle. I apologize I'm at a good public speaker. I have been a

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ten years. I decided to move here to be closed to my sister and her family. Soon

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after my cousin's followed. I have enjoyed my time here and I was always

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proud to say I live in Palatine.

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I apologize. And the most recent months

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weeks this has started to change.

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I used to feel welcome and safe. Now

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has changed as well. In one of our neighboring towns, the village board has formally prohibited

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the use of villice property for civil immigration enforcement staging or operations.

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We'll have some pellet time done the same.

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You are supposed to be our voice, and I do not have

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you heard.

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Last week my brother-in-law was detained,

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and pellet time while he was working. He has his

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only escaping company, and us all he was doing was working. I promise you he is not a criminal.

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He has a productive text, a member of this community, a hard worker and a loving

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husband and father.

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I have to tell my niece.

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The image of her collapsing on the floor crying will never leave my heart.

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You can help make this harder for other families to go through.

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We deserve to be here just as much as you do.

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And with this,

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my name's Lauren Zudahl. I live at 255 North Schiller Street. As you heard today, the events that have folded on my street around 130, my neighbors witnessed what appeared to be federal officers detaining individuals on the corner of Colfax and Schiller.

456
00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:32,480
The officers drove their vehicles onto my neighbor's lawn, use a taser, move through my neighborhood with guns and masks just before my son's elementary school was about to get out.

457
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:38,900
No warrants were shown to bystanders, no information was provided to residents, and the individuals

458
00:34:38,900 --> 00:34:42,080
that were taken away, one of their vehicles was left on the street.

459
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:47,780
A bus of students passed through the area as this was happening.

460
00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:52,280
I understand that the village cannot interfere with federal operations.

461
00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:00,320
However, my question is whether Pelotine is willing to allow federal agents to damage private

462
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:05,980
property, conduct dangerous armed operations and residential neighborhoods, and engage

463
00:35:05,980 --> 00:35:10,640
with community members without any inquiry, accountability, or communication.

464
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,600
Is this something that the village intends to affirm publicly?

465
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:20,580
Today it happened on Shiller Street, and tomorrow it may be on any Palatine residence front

466
00:35:20,580 --> 00:35:23,480
lawn with no local protections in place.

467
00:35:24,740 --> 00:35:30,660
When an ice rate occurs, within close proximity to a school, especially in this downtown

468
00:35:30,660 --> 00:35:33,400
area, there's about three schools right here.

469
00:35:34,020 --> 00:35:37,240
Kids are outside playing recess, kids are getting ready to walk home.

470
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:42,360
At what point does it become the responsibility of the village and the Palatine Police Department

471
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,120
to notify the schools of when this is happening?

472
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:52,140
These federal agents are reckless and an endanger to the safety of our entire community.

473
00:35:58,540 --> 00:36:09,800
In a last week, the welcoming ordinance was proposed, I strongly that everyone here reconsider what that means.

474
00:36:10,340 --> 00:36:19,520
We need to protect our residents and establish clear expectations for how outside agencies are operating within our community.

475
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:24,800
This community where we live, what more needs to happen.

476
00:36:25,660 --> 00:36:32,560
Events like today are terrorizing and traumatizing our community and it has been going on for months.

477
00:36:33,620 --> 00:36:40,960
You know, for the past 11 years, the corner of Shiller and Colfax has been a special place for my friends and family.

478
00:36:41,420 --> 00:36:47,540
Every third of the July we gather on that corner we watch the fireworks at home townfest.

479
00:36:47,540 --> 00:36:54,900
And you know what? After today, Cole-Fex and Schiller, my home, my street, my neighborhood,

480
00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:59,840
where I've chosen to raise my family, no longer feels like a safe place.

481
00:37:07,550 --> 00:37:17,710
I'm a resident of 445 East Providence Road, here in Palatine, my husband and I have lived there for 36 years,

482
00:37:17,710 --> 00:37:22,570
more than 36 years and raised our family and dogs there, and I'll speak also to recent

483
00:37:22,570 --> 00:37:28,550
ICE or CBP or DHS activity, whoever they are because we can't identify them.

484
00:37:28,730 --> 00:37:29,970
First of all, my name is...

485
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:36,680
But is public Greek? It's a slice of Americana, like most of Palatines. It's neighbors looking

486
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:43,100
out for each other. We have cork out, Santa with the kids. Leave the Marya, needy family

487
00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:48,640
fund, the neighborhood's very very generous. We have a block party with visits from the police

488
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:54,640
and from firemen, and the kids are crawling all over their equipment. It's designed to generate

489
00:37:54,640 --> 00:38:01,640
goodwill and trust between the community and law enforcement, well there have been two incidents

490
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:07,540
in the past week that have shaken this trust in our neighborhood on my street, on

491
00:38:07,540 --> 00:38:14,560
on Providence, and they are seemingly targeting Latinos. First of all, but one of my neighbors

492
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:20,680
and I'm quoting from a text thread that went around the neighborhood. I saw a large wide SUV

493
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:29,040
He filled with mask men in free military gear they got out chased the young man through my yard and into the bike path.

494
00:38:29,460 --> 00:38:35,520
The SUV followed him down the bike path and I'm not sure and my neighbor's not sure how that one ended.

495
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:45,340
The other incident involved Neighbor Tunger's down from me and he wrote my four-year-old son saw the one's Saturday.

496
00:38:45,780 --> 00:38:51,280
He came in screaming to call the police, those guys and masks trying to take someone.

497
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,440
Well, it ended up being his landscaper.

498
00:38:54,980 --> 00:39:04,160
Fortunately, in that case, the landscaper after being pursued and terrorized, produced documents, proving his identity, and he was let go.

499
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:10,680
But this is all unacceptable at behavior, as we've heard, in the other neighbors who are

500
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,180
sharing their experiences.

501
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,960
In Palatine, this is unacceptable, it's unacceptable anywhere in America.

502
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:23,360
It seems that people who are being chased are just working, they're working hard, doing

503
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,260
their best, doing their jobs, trying to support their families.

504
00:39:26,780 --> 00:39:28,340
They are not criminals.

505
00:39:28,340 --> 00:39:30,160
We look,

506
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,400
we terrorize young children, trust is eroded.

507
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:44,020
The trust and goodwill that Pebble Creek tries to generate in its block party, for example,

508
00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:47,780
between citizens and law enforcement, this is all in jeopardy.

509
00:39:48,420 --> 00:39:54,320
Something I would tell everybody is that if you have an incident, if you witness an incident,

510
00:39:54,820 --> 00:40:01,200
you can call the ICIR, the Illinois Coalition on Immigrants and Refugee rights.

511
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:13,920
They have a map and the Sun Times produces this and publicizes it and their number is 85-5-435-7693.

512
00:40:14,420 --> 00:40:16,960
I looked at the map today, there was nothing in Palatine.

513
00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:19,940
So it's I.C.I.R. are the name of the organization.

514
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,780
So please report the incidents that you witnessed.

515
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:23,960
Thank you.

516
00:40:23,980 --> 00:40:25,600
Thank you.

517
00:40:35,730 --> 00:40:37,050
My name is Tracy Bangerano.

518
00:40:37,050 --> 00:40:41,310
I've lived in Palatine for 22 years in Hunting Ridge.

519
00:40:42,170 --> 00:40:43,990
So we're on the other side of Palatine.

520
00:40:44,990 --> 00:40:47,450
Most of my neighbors know what's going on

521
00:40:47,450 --> 00:40:51,090
and we daily take rides throughout our Palatine

522
00:40:51,090 --> 00:40:55,810
to make sure that ice is not terrorizing children and families.

523
00:40:56,250 --> 00:41:00,030
We are all trying to help what I'm missing on your side

524
00:41:00,030 --> 00:41:02,050
is the outrage and the leadership.

525
00:41:02,630 --> 00:41:04,030
Where is it?

526
00:41:04,030 --> 00:41:05,230
Where is it?

527
00:41:09,650 --> 00:41:16,390
Justin O'Rourke was here last week, and he's the one who introduced an ordinance for you to adopt

528
00:41:16,390 --> 00:41:24,570
for you to consider. You didn't bring it to us. We brought it to you. Why? Where's the Daniel Biss in this group?

529
00:41:24,970 --> 00:41:31,170
He's out there screaming about what's going on in Evanston, and here we are acting like nothing's going on.

530
00:41:31,450 --> 00:41:39,510
Today was a horrible day in Palatine. It was horrible, and thanks to Jenny and her video, it has gone everywhere.

531
00:41:39,510 --> 00:41:46,850
It is gone everywhere, and is a realtor in this neighborhood, in this town, I'm embarrassed right now.

532
00:41:47,050 --> 00:41:48,510
I'm embarrassed to sell homes.

533
00:41:48,630 --> 00:41:55,650
I'm embarrassed to say, Pelotine is doing jack squat on immigrants and what's going on with them.

534
00:41:55,650 --> 00:41:56,530
And that's shameful.

535
00:41:56,750 --> 00:41:58,450
That's shameful for all of you.

536
00:41:58,610 --> 00:42:02,270
Find some leadership, adopt an ordinance, do something.

537
00:42:02,630 --> 00:42:07,290
And as far as the Pelotine police go, they're damned if they do, damned if they don't.

538
00:42:07,290 --> 00:42:11,930
because there's no leadership. They don't know what they're supposed to do. Last week, they

539
00:42:11,930 --> 00:42:16,570
intervened because it was a split second decision. They didn't know what to do. This week

540
00:42:16,570 --> 00:42:22,010
they're standing there smug if you watch the video, the guy yells at Jenny for yelling

541
00:42:22,010 --> 00:42:27,690
at him. She's petrified of what's going on. And instead of the cops standing there and saying,

542
00:42:28,050 --> 00:42:33,510
I'm sorry, this sucks. What's he say to her? He said, what do you want me to do? What

543
00:42:33,510 --> 00:42:39,650
Yeah, y'all let me about! Really? That's not leadership. We need some leadership. Thank you.

544
00:42:39,690 --> 00:42:40,170
Thank you.

545
00:42:40,530 --> 00:42:40,550
Hello

546
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:54,140
Mayor Schwartz, Council, and Fellow Community members. I'm a Palatine resident as is my

547
00:42:54,140 --> 00:43:01,460
immigrant mother. She came, she eagerly came here to this country at age 21. As quickly as allowed,

548
00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:06,480
she became a naturalized citizen and loves this country far more than her native friends.

549
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:13,440
Much of the political speech I hear these days insist that politicians should be fighting each other.

550
00:43:13,980 --> 00:43:21,140
As a result, our state now has laws in direct conflict with the goal of federal operations.

551
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:28,280
While the historical debate over whether our government should do more or less could both be reasonable,

552
00:43:29,060 --> 00:43:34,740
it's rather illogical to have our federal and local governments working at cross purposes.

553
00:43:34,740 --> 00:43:41,440
I believe that our immigration system is in dire need of reforms which will make our country

554
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,820
more welcoming to immigrants once again.

555
00:43:44,460 --> 00:43:48,060
However, we understand this is outside your scope of responsibilities.

556
00:43:49,140 --> 00:43:53,580
I ask the council to avoid contributing to conflicting governments.

557
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:59,880
Please don't make federal immigration enforcement any more difficult than it already is.

558
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:05,540
risk the urge to do something, which ends up being counterproductive.

559
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:06,700
Thank you.

560
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,100
Hi, my name is Maria Gallo.

561
00:44:17,460 --> 00:44:21,500
I'm the, I live at 117 North Cedar Street in Palatine.

562
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,500
I've lived there since 1996.

563
00:44:24,860 --> 00:44:29,280
One of the other things that happened today is that in the Chicago Tribune there was a full page ad,

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00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:37,300
placed by a large number of business owners and CEOs and community leaders, and part of what

565
00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:44,080
they said in the ad is that when enforcement actions target people based on a parent's rather than

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00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:49,920
evidence, when they happen at schools and workplaces without regard for due process or other

567
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:56,760
proper legal procedure, our entire community suffers. These tactics are not American justice.

568
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,480
These tactics don't make us safer.

569
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:25,880
These tactics weaken the very fabric of our community. And some of the people who signed this, as I, when I scroll down, I can see that there's Ashley Joyce, the chair of Duchess Ward Capital Management and Craig Duchess Ward, chair emeritus of Duchess Ward Capital Management for people in the audience who may not know that Duchess Ward family ran and operated to waste track.

570
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:32,920
they were a long time decades of foundational members of the community. If they have the courage

571
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:38,480
to stand up and say in a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribbing that they are against these policies,

572
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,880
I think that the Palatine Bridge Council should be able to do so too. Thank you.

573
00:45:44,020 --> 00:45:45,200
Thank you.

574
00:45:54,930 --> 00:45:58,730
Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Teperite, our 927 South Baton Street.

575
00:45:59,230 --> 00:46:04,530
My husband and I have been residents in Palatine for over 15 years. About 10 years ago,

576
00:46:04,530 --> 00:46:11,050
and I went on two mission trips to the Arizona Mexico border to understand more about immigration,

577
00:46:11,670 --> 00:46:17,710
what's happening in our country. Why was all this political rhetoric happening? Right? It feels

578
00:46:17,710 --> 00:46:22,850
like a really long time ago. Now, when we went there, we were challenged. Not, they said we don't

579
00:46:22,850 --> 00:46:26,570
need more people doing soup kitchens here. We don't need more people giving us stuff that's

580
00:46:26,570 --> 00:46:31,310
wonderful, but we need people to go back to their communities and speak out and make a difference

581
00:46:31,310 --> 00:46:37,530
in their own communities. And 10 years ago, I thought, what can I do? Right? So I started learning

582
00:46:37,530 --> 00:46:42,610
more. I started doing a little bit. Now I work in advocate for asylum seekers, asylum

583
00:46:42,610 --> 00:46:48,510
seekers in and near our communities who are scared to go to school, who are scared to go to work,

584
00:46:48,870 --> 00:46:54,470
who are here legally and are scared to go out because they don't know what may be the fall of them.

585
00:46:54,470 --> 00:47:04,650
We live in an amazing community. I didn't know when I moved to Palestine, the privilege that it is to live in such a diverse community here.

586
00:47:04,710 --> 00:47:10,650
I grew up in the diverse community in New York, Skoki, Illinois. I did not realize we had that in the Northwest suburbs.

587
00:47:11,210 --> 00:47:16,370
There are amazing amazing things here, but with that, all those wonderful things comes a responsibility.

588
00:47:17,690 --> 00:47:23,230
And with everything we've done, everything we heard about tonight that's been done in the past, the climate has changed.

589
00:47:23,230 --> 00:47:26,630
This isn't the country that it was even a year ago.

590
00:47:26,990 --> 00:47:29,910
It certainly isn't the country it was 10 years ago.

591
00:47:31,070 --> 00:47:34,750
We have a responsibility to be leaders in the Northwest suburbs,

592
00:47:35,190 --> 00:47:37,430
not to simply follow what others are doing,

593
00:47:37,750 --> 00:47:41,810
but to stand up to go beyond saying we comply with the Trusts Act.

594
00:47:41,990 --> 00:47:47,510
It's not about complying it's an obligation we have to affirm we know our community.

595
00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:50,310
We see you, you are valued,

596
00:47:50,310 --> 00:47:55,410
especially you who people have said are at risk today. I didn't know that this happened.

597
00:47:55,450 --> 00:48:00,550
I don't live in downtown Palatine and I didn't even know about it, so I'm grateful I was here tonight to learn.

598
00:48:01,130 --> 00:48:04,830
We have a real opportunity to strengthen the trust in our community.

599
00:48:05,370 --> 00:48:10,410
And there were many excellent suggestions made last week about ways to support businesses and individuals.

600
00:48:11,390 --> 00:48:18,030
We need to adopt measures like these in solidarity with those at risk who make Palatine a unique home we love

601
00:48:18,030 --> 00:48:23,010
and we have to act quickly because ICE is not reading. Thank you.

602
00:48:23,070 --> 00:48:23,590
Thank you, sir.

603
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,820
My name is Emily and I go to St. Theresa School and I live here in Palatine.

604
00:48:39,340 --> 00:48:41,780
I wanted to speak up for my grandparents and family.

605
00:48:42,340 --> 00:48:50,000
I want to say how much ICE has impacted my family and how scared they are and they don't even feel safe to be outside their apartments.

606
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:57,560
One day we had a family reunion and I heard my seven year old sister and eight year old cousin talking about ICE

607
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,600
and how children are now currently living without their parents.

608
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,700
It breaks my heart to hear them talking about that at such a young age.

609
00:49:06,460 --> 00:49:11,560
My grandpa sells chocolate schools every year, but this year he hasn't got it much sold.

610
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:16,180
Since he is so scared to leave his house, me and my mom go help him whenever we can.

611
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,960
My uncle was detained by them a month ago.

612
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:23,680
He was just working and when he turned around, two ice agents were behind him.

613
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:31,440
I hope my mom patrol here in Tata time whenever I whenever she can and I look for these

614
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,960
ice agents so please help us and keep us safe.

615
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:35,700
Thank you, my.

616
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,920
Dora Hernandez, 2100 base I drive.

617
00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:56,220
So I was here last week and today is my birthday and I decided to cancel my dinner to

618
00:49:56,220 --> 00:50:00,140
be here to make sure all the community is heard today.

619
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:09,220
What happened this morning, it happened with, you know, let's say, to be clear on the

620
00:50:09,220 --> 00:50:16,520
white side of the town, so imagine how bad it will happen in the Hispanic community.

621
00:50:24,580 --> 00:50:30,060
Since last week, I was thinking about how you guys were saying, or the police were saying,

622
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,620
that they were able to identify this agents.

623
00:50:34,620 --> 00:50:40,960
I wonder what time this happened because I saw the video and I don't see proof of that.

624
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:47,200
I don't see the papers that says that they were looking for this man.

625
00:50:48,140 --> 00:50:49,720
He kept telling that he had a permit.

626
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,720
So, they're not after criminals, they're after you skin color.

627
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:03,120
And I truly believe that just because all of you guys don't have my skin color,

628
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:14,920
you guys don't understand the fear we all feel right now and we're making it so angry because I came to the United States for a better life

629
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,460
I didn't come here to see what happened years and years ago

630
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:24,460
It's not about a party or the other party. It's about doing what's right for people

631
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,280
Thank you

632
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:27,700
Thank you

633
00:51:27,700 --> 00:51:28,400
Good

634
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:43,780
evening

635
00:51:43,780 --> 00:51:45,000
My name is John LePres

636
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,120
I live at 110 North Oak Street

637
00:51:48,220 --> 00:51:53,260
Thank you. I live at 110 North Oak Street. My name is John the Praise. I've been in the

638
00:51:53,260 --> 00:51:58,700
male communication with all of you on and off for the past couple of weeks. Last week I was

639
00:51:58,700 --> 00:52:02,660
really furious. I'm still really furious but I've written a few things so I won't sort of

640
00:52:02,660 --> 00:52:10,520
like go off at the handle. One, Manish wants, saying you don't condone these actions is not a

641
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,240
It's washing your hands of the issue.

642
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:29,680
I appreciate the village managers' comments, but he's sitting here watching years of not decades of work building trust and government go up in smoke right in front of them.

643
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:37,600
Nothing he's doing is helping him. Finally, I want to acknowledge a legal advice that's been provided on proposed ordinance.

644
00:52:38,340 --> 00:52:43,120
I have no issue that, you know, the lawyers think that it's not a good move moving forward.

645
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:49,440
But quite frankly, it sounds like you just did the minimum possible to protect yourselves.

646
00:52:51,710 --> 00:52:59,650
30 minutes of online research would have yielded a wealth of ordinances in the Cook County area.

647
00:53:00,290 --> 00:53:06,570
So the one by other cities in this area, who presumably had their own legal counsel,

648
00:53:07,330 --> 00:53:09,790
that had through both Cook County and the state.

649
00:53:10,830 --> 00:53:17,690
So these are all like easy lifts, but you chose one ordinance that came up verbally in the last

650
00:53:17,690 --> 00:53:19,710
I mean, that's the only thing you did.

651
00:53:20,650 --> 00:53:21,490
You did nothing.

652
00:53:21,930 --> 00:53:24,330
I worked as a day and endless for a living

653
00:53:24,330 --> 00:53:26,430
and I'm a professional researcher.

654
00:53:26,950 --> 00:53:29,630
I can do better than 30 minutes and you did in a week.

655
00:53:30,170 --> 00:53:31,690
What the heck are you people doing?

656
00:53:31,990 --> 00:53:33,170
Or what are you not doing?

657
00:53:34,590 --> 00:53:36,690
It looks like you just sat on your hands.

658
00:53:37,710 --> 00:53:39,210
You did nothing in the past week.

659
00:53:39,430 --> 00:53:41,670
And we have like this whole crowd of people

660
00:53:41,670 --> 00:53:43,450
and a crowd of people last week

661
00:53:43,450 --> 00:53:45,110
who are angry at the same thing.

662
00:53:45,290 --> 00:53:46,350
And it's been getting worse.

663
00:53:46,350 --> 00:53:53,890
And you're doing absolutely nothing! Nothing! What good are you? Yeah, it's great we can come up here and talk to you.

664
00:53:54,050 --> 00:53:59,630
But if you do nothing it's just empty words. Just empty words. That's all you're giving us.

665
00:54:00,350 --> 00:54:04,390
And right now you're just against pointing stairs in silence. We would like action, please.

666
00:54:05,790 --> 00:54:06,150
Thank you, John.

667
00:54:15,220 --> 00:54:21,000
John Gardner, 1413 North Parks for Lane. I came here tonight with my friend

668
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:26,060
with no intention of speaking, but then I heard about what happened at Cole Vax, and about the

669
00:54:26,060 --> 00:54:33,320
bike path. And I thought to myself, why are these guys, why are ice above our laws?

670
00:54:34,380 --> 00:54:38,600
And so I just wanted to read a little bit, and this is just from a quick Google search,

671
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,000
a letter recently published by a Georgetown Law Professor.

672
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:56,420
So, secrecy clause immunity does not categorically insulate federal officers from local or state prosecutions for any actions undertaken in the conduct of their duties.

673
00:54:57,220 --> 00:55:04,500
Goes on to state, and a 10th circuit case from 2006, Judge Michael McConnell stated,

674
00:55:04,500 --> 00:55:24,560
A federal officer is not entitled to supremacy, clause immunity, unless in the course of performing an act which he is authorized to do under federal law, the agent has an objectively reasonable and well-founded basis to believe that his actions were necessary to fulfill his duties.

675
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:31,380
And my question is this, were these ICE agents who drove onto the over-curve, presumably,

676
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:37,600
onto someone's lawn, was that something that they did that they believed was objectively

677
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:43,680
reasonable in order to, they couldn't just pull up and park and get this guy for the ICE

678
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:45,800
agents who drove down the bike lane?

679
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,540
Was that objectively reasonable on their part?

680
00:55:51,100 --> 00:56:00,140
If I were to drive down the bike lane in my car or over the curb on to the grass of someone's

681
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:05,540
lawn purposefully, would I be arrested by Palatine police?

682
00:56:07,240 --> 00:56:19,520
If I would be arrested for violating that lawn, putting people in danger, these eye

683
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:31,520
The village attorney to look into this and to advise the police, the police, you know, officers, as to what exactly they can do.

684
00:56:32,900 --> 00:56:39,460
And to what extent that they, and also with respect to the officers just sitting there and watching everything.

685
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:49,500
I would hope that they had their body cameras on number one. Number two, I would think that they at the very least should be instructed to go up and get the names and identification of each of these agents.

686
00:56:52,580 --> 00:57:02,360
I could go out, go to, you know, Cabela's and buy some camo and show up and just kidnaps

687
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:07,060
on one off the street. And no one would know any difference. As long as I have my mask on

688
00:57:07,060 --> 00:57:11,540
of course because then no one would be able to recognize me. What's to distinguish these

689
00:57:11,540 --> 00:57:19,880
guys from any random person? They need to be identified, not only because we need to know

690
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:32,400
But also because they are violating people's constitutional rights and these people need to know who they can sue when it comes time, because the time will come.

691
00:57:33,300 --> 00:57:47,340
So I urge the village attorney to look into these matters and figure out to what extent our police can protect our citizens, not just immigrants, every citizen,

692
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:54,520
From these people doing illegal actions, I mean next, what's going to happen is someone

693
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:58,780
going to get one over by our car next time, some kid going to, is that, is that what's

694
00:57:58,780 --> 00:58:06,840
going to provoke action on this to get people, someone to make these people accountable for

695
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:07,680
what they're doing?

696
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:09,040
Thank you, Bill.

697
00:58:20,370 --> 00:58:21,730
Hello, my name is Crystal Gonzalez.

698
00:58:21,890 --> 00:58:24,150
I live in 1923, North Paleos Avenue.

699
00:58:24,370 --> 00:58:26,410
I have lived in Palatines since 1999.

700
00:58:26,410 --> 00:58:30,970
At the 10th of Lake Louise Elementary School, Winston campus junior high in Palatown High School.

701
00:58:31,450 --> 00:58:35,810
This is a community I have always felt safe. Unfortunately, I can no longer say that.

702
00:58:36,070 --> 00:58:38,170
Being Hispanic in the US right now is heavy.

703
00:58:38,710 --> 00:58:41,350
It doesn't matter if you're documented or not.

704
00:58:41,750 --> 00:58:44,390
We all feel the fear, the anger, the weight.

705
00:58:44,830 --> 00:58:47,270
This is no longer politics, this is personal.

706
00:58:47,710 --> 00:58:50,510
It's 2025, and I should not have to go around.

707
00:58:51,010 --> 00:58:53,210
The community carrying my US passport.

708
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:01,000
I fear being targeted because of the color of my skin.

709
00:59:02,500 --> 00:59:06,660
My parents are immigrants, and they came to this country to give us the better future.

710
00:59:07,020 --> 00:59:08,420
I was born in Kansas.

711
00:59:09,060 --> 00:59:14,520
I am not an immigrant, but that does not matter, because I'm still being targeted because of the color of my skin.

712
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,980
I understand you feel your hands are tied.

713
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:23,480
But a pervenous ordinance makes it harder for ICE agents to target people of color within our community.

714
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:28,320
They are no longer going only after criminals, they're going after anybody of color.

715
00:59:28,780 --> 00:59:34,300
A couple weeks ago in Brown Lake Beach, a landscaper, who has legal status, was targeted

716
00:59:34,300 --> 00:59:38,740
about four times while working within that same area by ICE agents.

717
00:59:39,260 --> 00:59:44,960
If you approve this ordinance, it will definitely make it harder for these thugs as we may call

718
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,120
to supposedly perform their work.

719
00:59:47,380 --> 00:59:47,720
Thank you.

720
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:48,500
Thank you, Crystal.

721
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:09,500
Melissa Ortega, and I'm a resident of Palatine, I live on South Korea, the street. I like to take a moment and ask all my sisters and brothers of

722
01:00:09,500 --> 01:00:15,600
color to come stand up here with me so we can all be seen. And so we can all be heard.

723
01:00:41,390 --> 01:00:54,790
This is an emotional time for all of us. We leave our homes. We're looking over our shoulders. We are scared. I was here last meeting to plead, to protect those of us in

724
01:00:54,790 --> 01:01:01,370
community. Now do you see us? Do you see how we show up in person? What will

725
01:01:01,370 --> 01:01:04,390
Palatine do to protect us?

726
01:01:05,030 --> 01:01:05,630
Thank you everyone.

727
01:01:20,610 --> 01:01:27,250
Hi. My name is Irene Shaw and I live here for 40 years. We

728
01:01:27,250 --> 01:01:32,050
love Palatine. We moved here just to get our foot in the door our first house and

729
01:01:32,050 --> 01:01:36,970
we never left because we loved it. We live right here on Mozart Street. I didn't

730
01:01:36,970 --> 01:01:44,610
everything that was going on today, but I saw it on Facebook. So that's why I'm here because it

731
01:01:44,610 --> 01:01:52,190
really bothers me that I am Spanish, but I was born here, and then I'm thinking if my mom

732
01:01:52,190 --> 01:01:56,470
again was still alive, what would happen to them?

733
01:01:58,530 --> 01:02:00,550
I don't know I come from a big family, there's

734
01:02:00,550 --> 01:02:08,410
my mother had 20 kids, I'm 19 of 20, and I only have myself and two sisters left, but

735
01:02:08,410 --> 01:02:12,150
all my brothers were well-to-do, they were hard workers,

736
01:02:14,530 --> 01:02:16,450
and you know what hurts me the most

737
01:02:17,650 --> 01:02:23,770
is all these Spanish people, I had working people. Do you see anybody doing the dirty jobs

738
01:02:23,770 --> 01:02:30,170
if they do, no. You know, you see, when I was growing up, my mother worked in the fields

739
01:02:30,170 --> 01:02:36,230
and I remember helping them in the fields and our hands and knees, picking tomatoes, strawberries,

740
01:02:36,670 --> 01:02:44,890
and all that. But we've come a long, long way, my sisters and I say, very long way. But I can't

741
01:02:44,890 --> 01:02:50,290
stay and what's going on now. It never happened before. I don't understand what happened.

742
01:02:50,290 --> 01:02:57,750
Who did this? There's bad in everybody, not just the Spanish people. There's their hard-working

743
01:02:57,750 --> 01:03:09,090
people. I don't know. We need superheroes or something, somebody to help the Spanish people.

744
01:03:09,130 --> 01:03:16,810
The lands. I mean, I don't know what's going to happen. You know, I hate to see the news every

745
01:03:16,810 --> 01:03:23,070
And I tell my husband, my husband, my husband's Polish and Irish, and I tell him, I don't know what's going on.

746
01:03:24,030 --> 01:03:30,030
You know, I have my daughter, has the blonde hair, with blonde, two kids.

747
01:03:30,550 --> 01:03:34,310
My son has the dark hair, dark complex, the little boys.

748
01:03:34,810 --> 01:03:39,710
And they keep telling me, there's seven years old, they want to be landscapeers when they grow up.

749
01:03:40,050 --> 01:03:41,850
You know, I mean, they want to have their own business.

750
01:03:41,850 --> 01:03:46,390
So I, you know, it's terrible, it's just terrible.

751
01:03:47,150 --> 01:03:51,450
I got emotional back there because I, I don't know.

752
01:03:51,990 --> 01:03:53,750
You know, it's, I don't know.

753
01:03:54,250 --> 01:03:56,990
Something has to be done by you guys.

754
01:03:58,550 --> 01:03:59,290
So anyway.

755
01:04:00,110 --> 01:04:00,710
Thank you very much.

756
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:08,420
Sorry if I get emotional.

757
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:09,940
My name is Kathleen Hill.

758
01:04:10,180 --> 01:04:12,060
I live at 222 East School Facts.

759
01:04:12,180 --> 01:04:14,540
My yard was where the incidents took place today.

760
01:04:15,500 --> 01:04:20,900
I don't want to have an ask, really, I wasn't even going to talk tonight, I wasn't even going to come tonight.

761
01:04:22,980 --> 01:04:28,940
But I need you to know how scared I felt, and I'm a white woman with white children.

762
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:38,820
I've lived in Atlanta for a long time and had my home broken into, while I was inside, and I did not feel as scared as I felt today.

763
01:04:40,060 --> 01:04:45,420
My yard is where many people in this room's children have played, where I let my puppy

764
01:04:45,420 --> 01:04:50,800
out in the morning without a leash, where a lot of people in this room have sat and watched

765
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:51,560
fireworks.

766
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:59,240
And now, I looked out my window to truck tracks running through my yard, the same yard

767
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:04,700
my kids played in yesterday, and we're so excited about the snow, and this is not what's

768
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:17,680
I don't want to make this about me, it's not about me, but I need you to look me and everyone in this room in the face and tell us that you hear us and that you will do something.

769
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:32,000
I am astonished, I'm lost for words, and I don't have an ask, I just need you to know that what I saw today, I wasn't even supposed to be home, I came home from work early because I had a stomach ache.

770
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,620
and I pulled them to my driveway to see this.

771
01:05:36,460 --> 01:05:40,380
What I also saw was the Ice Agents' fist bumping each other.

772
01:05:41,220 --> 01:05:44,920
What I also heard was them saying we got him and laughing.

773
01:05:45,980 --> 01:05:47,920
When I asked them to please get off my yard,

774
01:05:48,340 --> 01:05:50,740
they ripped out of my grass and destroyed my grass.

775
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:55,920
What I also saw was 20 plus cars speeding down Colfax.

776
01:05:56,340 --> 01:06:00,340
An hour before my son rides his bike independently home from Sanborn

777
01:06:00,340 --> 01:06:01,680
was due to come home.

778
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:03,200
I was terrified.

779
01:06:05,700 --> 01:06:07,640
I just need you to know that.

780
01:06:07,700 --> 01:06:08,260
Thank you, California.

781
01:06:14,830 --> 01:06:18,490
How many of us Megan Skolnick at 1-5-1 South Elmud Avenue?

782
01:06:19,530 --> 01:06:22,030
I've only lived in Palatine a few years.

783
01:06:22,590 --> 01:06:25,910
But I moved here actually specifically because though I look like this,

784
01:06:26,570 --> 01:06:27,990
I've very much value diversity.

785
01:06:28,670 --> 01:06:32,370
And I've been, I was a dual language educator for 10 years in another county.

786
01:06:32,710 --> 01:06:36,210
Non-profit leader founded an entire organization that was immigrant serving.

787
01:06:36,210 --> 01:06:39,630
I think the most, I think all the statements are very powerful.

788
01:06:40,130 --> 01:06:46,130
I think we really, really need to look at how families and children are being targeted based

789
01:06:46,130 --> 01:06:48,130
on the color of their skin.

790
01:06:48,430 --> 01:06:51,310
My daughter has black hair, very dark skin.

791
01:06:51,570 --> 01:06:52,410
She has left me now.

792
01:06:52,550 --> 01:06:58,350
I've been informed in the school since January of her legal status because I am an immigration

793
01:06:58,350 --> 01:06:58,850
attorney.

794
01:06:59,470 --> 01:07:04,750
So, others are just now seeing the horrors that we have been witnessing since January.

795
01:07:04,750 --> 01:07:16,750
And I really, I don't know how to convey the things that children that look like my child had been telling to us since January, and it is escalating.

796
01:07:17,510 --> 01:07:24,210
As there's something that the city can do, there's got to be something that the village can do, there's got to be something that, no, Palestine police department can do.

797
01:07:24,210 --> 01:07:29,970
For example, if they are seen a child, probably with brown skin, I mean, you know.

798
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:37,820
Roll into the ground and handcuffed by masked people, because those are the things that children, my clients, are telling us, have happened to them.

799
01:07:38,140 --> 01:07:45,860
Certainly, somebody can intervene if a child is being abused. We need to think about this. Children are being separated from their families.

800
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:58,120
Firstly, it's extremely dangerous. All of a sudden the children are alone. Like, are we prepared to handle that here in Palestine? Were the police stand there?

801
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:01,800
if that happens or will they do something at that point?

802
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:07,260
somebody's being actively harmed, physically harmed, children are being harmed.

803
01:08:07,540 --> 01:08:10,360
Please, please think about this. Please do something. Thank you.

804
01:08:10,500 --> 01:08:10,980
Thank you, madam.

805
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:29,760
My name is Rosa Perez, and I'm the manager of a local grocery store.

806
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:31,720
I'll see that fresh market here in Palestine.

807
01:08:34,430 --> 01:08:37,990
I'm here tonight because our business and the community around it

808
01:08:37,990 --> 01:08:40,890
has been affected by recent immigration and custom enforcement

809
01:08:40,890 --> 01:08:42,310
an activity near our location.

810
01:08:43,370 --> 01:08:49,230
In the past weeks, federal agents have been seen in our in and near our parking lot.

811
01:08:49,690 --> 01:08:52,890
As our results, many of our customers are afraid to come shop.

812
01:08:53,450 --> 01:08:57,170
Some families have told us directly that they're avoiding the area because they're worried

813
01:08:57,170 --> 01:08:58,950
about being questioned or detained.

814
01:08:59,510 --> 01:09:03,770
These are hardworking residents who contribute to our local economy and who deserve to

815
01:09:03,770 --> 01:09:06,410
feel safe doing something as simple as buying groceries.

816
01:09:07,390 --> 01:09:12,670
The impact has been real. We've seen a noticeable drop in customer traffic and the fear has

817
01:09:12,670 --> 01:09:17,470
spread throughout the neighborhood. I'm asking the consult, please consider ways to help.

818
01:09:18,370 --> 01:09:21,270
So the local families and businesses can feel safe and stable again.

819
01:09:23,630 --> 01:09:24,150
Good

820
01:09:33,500 --> 01:09:39,780
evening. My name is Nicole Grunky. I live at 257 North Hale, just one block from the incident

821
01:09:39,780 --> 01:09:44,780
that occurred today. The abduction that occurred today. I've been a nurse at China's Children's

822
01:09:44,780 --> 01:09:50,060
park for over 10 years and it's a proud hospital that serves immigrants throughout our community.

823
01:09:51,180 --> 01:09:58,360
I do that work every day because I care. I moved to Palestine because of like many people in the

824
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:07,420
service have already said our communities dedication to diversity and being inclusive of all.

825
01:10:07,780 --> 01:10:12,880
I heard the response today to the proposed ordinance and only heard the we can't

826
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:17,100
or the sentiments about things being illegal, however,

827
01:10:17,820 --> 01:10:21,320
when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

828
01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:29,350
That was time to stress them, not me, thank you.

829
01:10:30,910 --> 01:10:34,490
We have seen police and civilian activity stop ice

830
01:10:34,490 --> 01:10:36,550
raids throughout the country.

831
01:10:37,150 --> 01:10:40,310
So don't tell me that power time police cannot stop this.

832
01:10:45,070 --> 01:10:50,390
They can and must protect us by asking for identification and warrants.

833
01:10:50,390 --> 01:10:51,530
Okay,

834
01:10:54,820 --> 01:10:57,080
don't tell me this government cannot do anything.

835
01:10:57,420 --> 01:11:03,940
We ring, Oak Park, Elgin, Carpentriesville, all local communities have created ice

836
01:11:03,940 --> 01:11:04,820
free zones.

837
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:08,000
Right, we can do that, we can start there.

838
01:11:08,820 --> 01:11:10,480
You can do that for us.

839
01:11:12,490 --> 01:11:18,350
When the power time police does not intervene and shrugs their shoulders at Jenny, they put

840
01:11:18,350 --> 01:11:19,010
us in danger.

841
01:11:19,130 --> 01:11:20,330
How do they do that?

842
01:11:20,730 --> 01:11:23,150
Because when they want to act, we will.

843
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:31,980
If the Palantine Police, when the Palantine Police will not protect our community, the citizens

844
01:11:31,980 --> 01:11:34,220
will, and you will have to answer to us.

845
01:11:35,460 --> 01:11:35,740
Thank you.

846
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:36,000
Thank you.

847
01:11:36,500 --> 01:11:36,500
You're

848
01:11:42,220 --> 01:11:45,100
anybody else who wishes to come forward this evening?

849
01:11:49,370 --> 01:11:51,890
Seeing none with that, we need a motion to adjourn.

850
01:11:52,470 --> 01:11:53,210
Yes, sir.

851
01:11:54,330 --> 01:11:54,730
Sure.

852
01:12:02,820 --> 01:12:04,280
There we go, microphones on.

853
01:12:04,660 --> 01:12:06,360
I want all of you to know that you are heard.

854
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:14,540
and everyone that is upset about what's going on, we are just as upset, okay, we may not

855
01:12:14,540 --> 01:12:16,060
show it because

856
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:24,720
we're here to listen and we want to figure out a way that we could

857
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:36,700
somehow intervene and keep you safe. Issues that we have is the law, is the trust act that

858
01:12:36,700 --> 01:12:41,840
was kind of put under I guess it was under the microscope or but or I'm sorry under the

859
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:46,250
radar in 2017 that

860
01:12:49,580 --> 01:12:56,420
federal government and the local governments can no longer communicate.

861
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:03,020
So this trust act that we are now running into where the

862
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:08,580
local government can't even find

863
01:13:08,580 --> 01:13:14,180
out what the feds are going to be doing. A lot of you have asked, well why aren't they checking

864
01:13:14,180 --> 01:13:21,120
in to see whether or not whether going to be, who are they going to, why are they going

865
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:27,280
after this person, so on and so forth, but there's no communication. You have people out there

866
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:38,560
that are committing crimes that may be illegal, but you have these ice agents coming in from

867
01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:44,360
So there's a lot of things that we want to do, but we can't.

868
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:47,600
So I just want you to, I just want you to know it's not a debate.

869
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:53,840
I just want you to know that you are heard, and that we want to do what we can.

870
01:13:53,980 --> 01:13:58,020
Whether it be a resolution, at least a resolution that says,

871
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:01,220
Thank you all.

872
01:14:02,720 --> 01:14:03,600
Thank you.

873
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:05,160
Anybody else?

874
01:14:05,860 --> 01:14:06,120
Okay.

875
01:14:06,260 --> 01:14:08,320
With that we need a motion to adjourn the meeting.

876
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:10,900
Second.

877
01:14:10,900 --> 01:14:15,100
Motion and seconded all those in favor. Please sing if I'm saying aye. Aye.

878
01:14:15,500 --> 01:14:15,920
Opposed?

879
01:14:15,980 --> 01:14:16,240
Roger.