All the meeting to order, Ms. Gibbess, you want to do the roll call? Trustee Ruin. Here. Here. Trustee Wichowski. Trustee Benucci. Here. Trustee, Kalkanis. Here. Trustee Kfern. Present. Trustee Larson. Here. Mayor Goodamus. Here. Thank you. Just for protocol sake, Trustee Kalkanis is joining us via Zoom. If there are no objections from many board members, then we can proceed with her attendance via Zoom. Are there any objections?
from the board as to Trustee Calcana's attending via Zoom.
No. No. No. No. Okay, very good then.
A little bit of housekeeping there I didn't think there would be.
Tonight we have, oh we're going to start with the pledge allegiance.
Let's stand for the pledge please.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God
indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you.
I want to wish everyone a happy new year.
It is 2025, it's amazing to think it's already 2025, but it is, 2024 is in the books.
A lot of good things have happened in playing field over 2024, a lot of hard work has been
put into a lot of projects and things, and we're looking forward to just that much more
if not more in 25.
The next item on the presidential comments, we do have an oath of office for officer
Kelly buddy chief you want to start us out with this one.
Yes thank you. You
guys know we've done this a time or two now how important it is when we have a
new officer that we're swearing in we like to do it in front of the village board
so in front of the crowd as well. So everyone sees so we are very proud of that.
Kelly I can't believe the amount of people who showed up here tonight
you're swearing in. I mean this is I've never seen this many at a swearing in
before so. But I will say Kelly comes to us. She is a cold city born and raised. We kind
of stole her from the Yorkville Police Department. She was there for four years. So she is
now, you know, a part of the Plainfield family. This is the third officer we have gotten
from Yorkville so I don't know it is good it's it's all good so I don't know if we should be driving
through Yorkville but Kelly you know comes to us like I said from the Yorkville Police Department
she's here with her family her husband DJ is a canine officer for the Wilk County Sheriff's Office
so with that said Kelly come on forward for the oath of office.
Having
been appointed to the Office of Police Officer, in the village of Plaintfield, in
Will and Kendall County, Zillenoid, do solemnly swear, that I will support the Constitution
of the United States,
and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithfully
discharge the duties of the office of police officer in the village playing field and will and
Kendall County's Illinois for the best of my ability. Congratulations.
So the other thing we do we have a
little tradition which a lot of police departments do is we have a loved one come up and her husband
and DJ is going to come up and pin the badge on Kelly.
Experience.
Good job, Chief.
Building the team, right?
It's kind of like working through the portal, kind of,
isn't it?
As long as we provide you with enough NIL,
I think we'll be fine, won't we?
Could you use a little book more NIL, but we'll be fine.
Uh-oh.
Money people kind of shake in their heads there.
We do have a proclamation here, which I will read.
We are proclaiming National Catholic Schools Week, whereas the theme Catholic schools communities of faith knowledge and service Catholic schools in Illinois and across the nation are celebrating National Catholic schools week from Sunday, January 26th through Saturday, February 1st, 2025, whereas nearly 38 Catholic schools in the diocese of Joliett provide quality education in the Catholic tradition to over 16,000 students and their families annually.
Whereas the Catholic schools in the state of Illinois have educated many students in preparation for the responsibilities as residents of this state and as members of society, whereas the Catholic schools in the state currently provide students with an education that emphasizes the formation of moral values and committee commitment to community service, and whereas the welfare of the state of Illinois requires that this and future generations of school age children be assured ample opportunity to develop their intellectual capacities to the fullest.
Now, therefore, I, John F. Argadola's president of the village of Plainfield, Illinois, do
hereby proclaim January 26th through February 1st, 2025, as National Catholic Schools week
throughout the village of Plainfield, Illinois, and I commend this observance to all our
citizens.
Is there someone representing the Catholic Schools?
There you are.
Let me come down and I'll present.
If you'd like to say a few words, you're welcome to as well, or no, I just present you
with this.
Very good.
Trustee Cummins.
Congratulations to officer Buddy. I think it speaks volumes to see such a commitment within the family of law enforcement. I know she'll do a great job with the PD. So welcome aboard to her and all of our officers stay absolutely safe in 2025.
And I think we've got some canine stuff coming up pretty soon to so excited those promotions as well.
And I just wanted to say a quick congratulations to Trustee Calcannis, who's not here right now on her new baby, which is the reason why she's not here.
I'm glad everyone's healthy and happy.
She is here. You can hear you.
Doing well at home, I understand, which is good. Any other Trustee comments this evening?
very good now is the time for public comment anybody who would like to make a
comment from the public is welcome to step before the microphone state your name
please and make your comment or ask your question
no no just a little light on
the base of the microphone should be on okay it is on okay speaking of the
microphone please thank you thank you I'll make this short and sweet I'm not a
public speaker so additionally full transparency I do watch the board meeting
It seems a lot, I don't know if there's a good thing or bad thing, so I'm here tonight
to ask the trustees with regards to the industrial land as well as a lot of the homes that
are going up around the village just to maybe take a step back and think about the decision
that might be made tonight.
I don't have any problems with the homes and development, but it just seems like over the
last four years there's just been a lot of a lot of building a lot of the homes
around where I live in the northern part of the of the village are not yet
started or some of them haven't been completed yet so I just feel like there's
gonna be a lot of traffic and with a lot of the things that are that I've seen
with regards to the village board over the last six months a year it just feels
like there's a lot of traffic that's taking place, I commute a lot to the city on a regular basis so
I was telling somebody out in the hallway, sometimes it takes me 20 to 30 minutes to go from 127th
in Higgs to Essings and to get on I-55. So I feel like because of the subdivisions haven't been
completed, I think there's going to be a lot more traffic. And then additionally, if we put in a lot
of industrial land out west. 143rd is obviously going to be a truck route so there's going to be a lot
of truck traffic and so on and so forth so I would all just ask the trustees just if you could
just take a step back wait till things kind of pan out and see where we stand in maybe a year or two
because I'm a little concerned that there's going to be so much traffic just over the holidays
And chief, you might know this over the holidays, 59 and 135 was completely closed because
of a T-bone accident and the traffic was backed up way past Van Dyke.
So just, that's all I'm asking is just take a step back maybe and think and kind of see.
I know there's a comprehensive plan.
We talk about traffic improvements and so on and so forth.
But I think the next six months, you're going to see an uptick in traffic.
And I'm just like I said just asking for it maybe take a step back. Thank you very much.
Danielle, oh yes please step forward sir.
Good evening.
Trustees and President Argadalus. I'm pleased to present myself. I'm Andalib Calgadi. I'm the Superintendent of School District 308.
And I see one of my colleagues here this evening.
then is here from 202 and I want to just invite you and share with you some good news
that we are in the process of engaging a strategic plan. We are proud to serve students from
Plainfield, many of them are Grand Park or Murphy and I'll speak at least high school and
throughout the district because students may participate in various programs across many
of our schools. We're the seventh largest school district in Illinois and we are proud members
of also, and include plaintiffs, we're proud of that history and that connection here.
One of the things that I'm here to share with you is that we've started the last couple
of months engaged in a strategic planning process, and in order to really think about how
we coordinate the supports to support all of our schools.
We have 24 school sites and with all the resources, how do we pace ourselves to ensure that
And every effort is made to ensure that every one of our schools is the best it can be.
We know that effort cannot be left alone to one individual or just a few individuals.
So it's important to me to come out this evening and reach out to you.
Invite you all for your contributions and reflections.
If you go to our website, schooldistrict www.sd308.org, you're going to see a welcoming sign
on there of our story, and we want to invite you to join our story.
and to invite your residents to join in this storytelling
and also more importantly, envisioning our future
so we can have a shared story of the success of our school district.
I have some flyers here for you this evening.
I'll leave them with you here and I'm grateful also
to be joined by a fellow board member who will come up and speak equally.
Thank you.
Other public comment this evening?
Can
I see this one? Okay.
Thank you. Good evening, and happy New Year to everyone. My name is Mary Jo Onemith. I'm actually an Ask We Go resident, but more importantly, I have the privilege of serving as a member of the SD 308 Board of Education. Board of Education. It's hard to do in one breath. I'm going to just kind of piggyback on what Dr. Calgatti said. We are putting the strategic plan together and the goal of the strategic plan is to ensure that our students
when they leave our doors for the last time as students are the most well-rounded,
well-educated, happy, to an extent that they can be.
A fulfilled people that will be ready to answer into society and become
productive members of society. That's a lofty goal, but it's one that we think
that we can at least start to head toward
and make a big dent in, but in order to get that done,
we do need to put this plan together.
And being as large a school district as we are,
we know that every individual has kind of
a different idea of how to get there.
My idea of how to accomplish that
may be a little bit different from yours
based on where you live,
based on how old your children are.
If you have children in the district, if you don't,
I mean, we have such a diverse community,
There's a myriad of things that can kind of change everyone's perception.
We think it doesn't serve the community for all of us, for just the board,
and some of the admin at school to sit together and put a plan together
without any input from the rest of the community, because the community is what makes up our school district.
So again, to kind of piggyback on what Dr. Kelgady was saying,
we are having a number of forums of small group discussions.
we actually just had two of them go on today where people can kind of just give us their input.
We want to be able to get input from as many people in the community as we possibly can
so that we can make sure as I said that we put together the best most diverse plan
that leads us into the future and again ultimately services our kids which in turn services the community.
So SD308.org, as Dr. Kay said, please take a moment to just take a look and again, any input
of yours is welcome, please spread the word.
We welcome everyone's comments.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
As is our long time policy, if you want to go home, you can go home too.
We don't expect people to wait for the whole meeting.
Other public comments, please step forward, state your name.
My name
is Stephan Dubois, I have to be honest, this is my very first Board of Trustees meeting.
I've lived in Plainfield for about a year and a half and my wife and I and my son
and my mother-in-law live in part of the new development so the gentleman that spoke first
I wanted to thank him first for his comment because my wife and I we moved out here planning
to start a family.
My wife was actually pregnant when we moved into our home and the idea was that we are moving
to an area that was very family-oriented and about six months maybe a year after moving
in we noticed a distribution center warehouse was being built literally on our street and
honestly it hurt a lot because my son I love him more than anything and I'm missing
time with him right now to be here to speak with you all because I don't want him growing
up in a neighborhood where we have semi-truck traffic and we've all driven the freeways in
Chicago. I imagine from one time or another we've seen the way that they drive, it's not even
their fault, they're overworked and it's dangerous. I also have a dog, God forbid if he ever got out,
fortunately he's a German shepherd, he won't go anywhere, he's terrified to leave home without me.
But with all of these changes happening, the immense amount of traffic specifically with
semi-trucks, trains are constantly going through traffic aside, it can be dangerous for
kids, especially young kids.
What if my song got out?
I look, I fenced in my yard, but is that enough?
I don't know.
I pray that I do a good job, a good enough job as a father to protect him, to make him aware.
but in my eyes it just seems very concerning to see the type of development being
placed right next to families and I hope you all just take a minute to think
about it and maybe kind of gauge a few things traffic is the infrastructure in
place is it safe those are the types of things I worry about thank you any other
public comment?
That's fine. Just identify both of yourselves and it's probably your last name,
but it's hard to just spell and Smith. Miranda Kinsinger, K-I-N-S-I-N-G-E-R, and Brandon Kinsinger.
So before we move to Plainfield in 2020, we spent so much time in Plainfield because we loved
the community that our family joked we should move here, and in 2020 we did. Right before the pandemic,
And, you know, for such a challenging time playing field was instantly home, and we loved
that.
And since the five years we've been here in Liberty Grove, we've seen hundreds of homes
be constructed near us, and at the end of the day, their homes, they give other people
the same chance to live in the great community that I love.
However, putting an industrial park right next to all of these homes that have been built,
It doesn't seem like this is for the people or the citizens or for our community.
It seems like it has different motives.
I own a business in Plainfield.
Most of my business is commuting.
Over the years, the commute times the traffic has become worse.
Our infrastructure already isn't supporting all that Plainfield's already grown, let alone
to add more in semis.
On 143rd there are children that play.
We walked to the little cheesecake shop and what used to be a family video, but
You know the semi-traffic there isn't safe that this isn't the spot for this
So I just wanted to come today and express that and
Basically the same comment for me
Sorry, let me raise this up a little bit here
Now, we had the goal of coming up here because we liked playing fields very much when we
were kids and so we did end up moving up here, as my wife had said, we're going to start
a family.
Other things came.
There's neither here nor there.
Basically, what I'd like to get to is I understand the expansion of designation on 143rd to move
the truck traffic through.
I was looking through it, it seems very good on paper, but I'm not quite understanding
exactly how that fully connects the traffic into 55.
Are they bringing the traffic back into 126 on the east side of 59?
One thing I would advise you and anybody else interested, they're on our website, the plans
for 143rd or laid out, but just briefly, it's going to be extended east when it dead ends on 59th,
it's being extended, it's under construction now, so it'll be extended east to present day 126.
So the traffic route 126 will be swapped out with Lockport Street, 126 will be 143rd Street.
That plan is one that's been in the works for maybe 15 or 18 years, and that's coming to fruition.
So it will connect up to the existing route 126 and 143rd Street will be route 126 probably in 2026.
Okay. Okay.
Well there's more information on the website. So anybody who's interested in the details please check out the website, the Village website.
Gotcha. Understood.
The ending comment I would have to that would be could we just see how that expansion works before we zone out more industrial park?
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Any other public comments?
Very good. We'll move on with the business meeting. Is it? Oh, okay. Please step forward.
I would.
Deity Quinn.
I have three basic comments. I'm going to start with. I don't appreciate being censored by you, Mayor Arvidales.
And it's illegal, and I would appreciate being put back on the public page.
You were caught and lies at the last meeting, and that's why you censored me.
That's number one.
Number two, I'm going to get into the brunt of this.
I'd be happy to explain it to you, if you'd like, after the meeting.
The East traffic is going right into another part of your forgotten plane field that you don't
really care about.
it's going into other residents. If you look at this village plan, all of the
purple here,
which is most of this page, is now becoming industrial. Industrial,
this is the north part of our village, industrial. They took away almost 500
acres and turned it into industrial.
And I don't understand why you are
agreeing to that. I want to know how you keep on saying it's a benefit to the village, how is
this going to alleviate our tax bill? You say it's a benefit to us. How is this alleviating our
tax bill? Our tax bill. My tax bill keeps going up higher and higher and higher since I've moved
here in early 20s. In fact, early 2000s, 2001, my tax bill is more than doubled. I haven't seen it
paper. You haven't spelled it out to us. You haven't said this is how it's going to alleviate. Where
is the dollars? Where and when are places like Woodmans, Portillo's, all of these valuable assets
to our community. How and when is that going to alleviate our tax bill? How is the truck route? How
How is this specifically, these seven warehouses going to alleviate our tax bill?
There's no end customers to these seven warehouses.
How is that going to alleviate our tax bill, you're going to spend our money, who's going
to pay the taxes to alleviate our tax bill?
We're paying for, we are paying for that.
We're paying for all of this infrastructure.
Where is that money coming from to pay us back?
Let me also ask this question.
We're approving this east side concrete,
I keep calling it concrete, it's warehouses.
I know that recently there was a, or sorry, the west side, there was an east side industrial
that was next.
It was where the quarry was going to be put in, and I know it was Bowlingbrook, but we were
part of nixing that because it was next to Liberty schools. Liberty. Why was that
nix and everyone agreed to nix that? Everyone agreed to it and we're not nixing
all way down on the west side where there's schools, there's residents. Everyone
here seems to be against it. I'm on Facebook all over the place. There aren't
residents and this is rhetorical now. I'm not explaining. I'm not asking you to
solution I'd say or agree and disagree. Why was that one nixed and the west side is
all open and everyone's like let's go for it. We're all gung ho on it and all these
taxing bodies are gung ho on it. So why is that? So those taxing bodies that are saying oh yeah
that's all we're gung ho on it. We're great for it and I'm wondering my district 308 is out here
asking for it too. So bottom line is we keep talking for 20 years we've been
talking about the infrastructure. We're saying we got problems for the last 20
years that I know up. We got problems with the infrastructure. Where is the
the infrastructure plan in here? Where's the infrastructure plan? We've been as
residents as a community, we've been saying there's a problem with infrastructure. Trains,
streets, trucks, we've been saying it's been taken. Who said 27 minutes to get from, you
know, one side of the bill is the other. No, no, no, it's 27 minutes to get from 59 to 55.
Where's the infrastructure plan?
That's where to come before this.
Okay, is there any other public comment this evening?
Please date and spell your last name, please.
I'm on top of what everybody has already said.
My biggest question is why are we going to move forward with this industrial plan when
we have no businesses that have even expressed interest in it?
So we're going to put up concrete buildings that are going to help our taxpayers, but nobody's
interested at this point and said, yes, build these because we're going to move in.
That's what I just want to add to the previous comments.
Okay.
Thank you.
Any other public comment?
Hello, Nora Dalton, D-A-L-T-O-N. I've been a Plainfield resident for 20 plus years.
I also have a unique experience in national real estate for the past 20 years, including
a lot of industrial.
I also have worked in transportation specifically for roadway, which is FedEx company.
So I know uniquely what lots of trucks do to a community and the issues that come with that.
Support what the previous citizens have set up here. And to be honest, I think the best word that I can say is that this is a detrimental plan to Plainfield. If I wanted to live in Romeoville and Juliet, with lots of industrial, that was shiny and new at one point, I would have gone there. We all know what eventually happens there. And I think Plainfield has the opportunity to look and take a pause.
because, as I understand it, like Kathleen said, we don't have anybody clamoring for this.
So, these jobs, there are no jobs, there's nobody supporting anything.
My real issue is, I am very involved with the community.
I don't know anybody who wants this.
I'm in lots of organizations, I have not met a single person who says, yes.
And it is an ICE world, but they're right across from that new subdivision.
So, somebody wants this.
and my question is, who is that and what are their motives and they should be checked.
Thank you. That's it. Got all the notes? Appreciate it.
Thank you. Any other public comments, Sydney? Very good. We'll move on to our business meetings.
Their motion to approve the agenda.
The motion's been made and seconded to approve the agenda. Trustee Brune?
Yes.
Trustee Wajowski?
Yes.
Trustee Winnerti?
Yes.
Trustee Kalkanis?
Yes.
Trustee Kiefer?
Yes.
Trustee Larson.
Yes.
Thank you.
Motion carries.
Ms. Gives, please proceed with number two.
The consent agenda.
We're seeking board consideration of a motion to approve the consent agenda to include
minutes at the board meeting, held on December 16th.
Bill's paid and bill's payable report for January 6th.
Approval of the reduction of the MI homes, Lockley Park, bond number, ending in 1847.
remaining bond balance of $67,259 and $5.00 approval of the reduction of the MI Homes Riverstone bond ending in 0381
remaining bond balance of $4,558,691.78 and reduction in bond ending in 0383 as remaining bond balance of
of $2,760,257 and 25 cents.
Ordnance number 3701, increasing the number of class
F liquor licenses to 26 for Cooper's talk
to be located at 163, 44 South Boulevard Place
and Mulgreens to be located at 137,17 South Route 30,
Suite A and Authorized Village President
to execute an intergovernmental agreement
with Kendall County providing for an annual contribution
of $7,220, pursuant to the agreement to the Kendall area transportation program,
expiring on December 31st, 2027.
So moved.
Second.
Motion's been made.
And seconded to Providence A through F under the consent agenda.
Trustee Bueing?
Yes.
Trustee Wajawski?
Yes.
Trustee Benucci?
Yes.
Trustee Kielkannis?
Trustee Kiefer?
Yes.
Trustee Larson?
Yes.
Thank you, that motion carries.
Ms. Gives, please proceed with item three.
Next item on the agenda is Tracy Johnson and Wilson.
We're seeking board consideration of a motion to authorize payments to Tracy Johnson and Wilson.
The amount of $3,502 and 25 cents.
The motion's been made and seconded.
Are there any comments or questions on this item?
Hearing none, I'll proceed with the role.
Trustee Brewery.
Yes.
Trustee Wajowski.
Yes.
Trustee Benucci.
Yes.
Trustee Kielcannis.
Yes.
Trustee Kiefer.
Yes.
Trustee Larson.
Yes, thank you, the motion carries.
Please proceed with item 4, Ms. Gibbous.
Next item on the attendance, Equal Williams and Provin Zalley.
We're seeking for consideration of the motion to authorize payment to Equal Williams and Provin Zalley in the amount of $1,612 and $0.50.
So moved.
The motion's been made and seconded.
Are there any comments or questions on this item?
I have a question.
Given the judgment happened in 2023, and this is more for Mr. Vogel than anybody else
and this involves the mayor's legal case, knowing that this went to the appellate level
and was denied by three justices, and then the denial went came through within days for
a reconsideration.
Last I knew we were in 2025, and after the first of the year, we worked to start a collections
process.
So when are we starting that collections process?
Yes.
I mean, I think that's a question I would probably direct to the Equal Provenz-Olly firm
because I've not represented the village in this to any extent whatsoever.
Okay.
So we've spent over $120,000 from a lawsuit from 2018 that has been extended out, that
has been lost in the courts up through the appellate level.
So I'll reach out to Mr. Terry Equals, which will cost the taxpayers more money as we attempt
to recoup nearly $50,000, $60,000 at 9% interest against the mayor's judgment.
Thank you.
Any other comments on this matter?
Ms. Gibbous?
The motion was made in seconded to authorize payment to Equal Williams and Provenzallion, the amount of $1,612.50.
Trustee Ruin?
Yes.
Trustee Wajamski?
Yes.
Trustee Benouti?
Yes.
Trustee Kale-Kannis?
Yes.
Trustee Kiefer?
Yes.
Trustee Larson?
Yes.
Thank you, that motion carries.
Ms. Gibbs, you want to proceed with 5A?
Next item on the agenda is TCC Plainfield.
We're seeking board consideration of motion to open a public hearing regarding the proposed
annexation agreement for the development known as TCC Plainfield located generally south
of 143rd Street and west of Steiner Road.
That motion has been made and seconded all in favor.
All opposed.
Thank you.
That motion carries.
Mr. Rosenova, I don't know if you want to say anything during
in this time and Mr. Pru.
So thank you, Mary.
Good evening.
Trustee Ziff, I may just offer a few staff comments as an introduction before he hand things
over to the development team and I called the public hearing as well.
This project was first introduced, the committee of the whole on November 25th.
So just before Thanksgiving, I just wanted to set the stage for where we are procedurally.
This is the first formal meeting for consideration at the village board level.
So what we're hoping to accomplish tonight is to hold a public hearing on the proposed annexation agreement.
And then we're also asking the village board to direct our village attorney to prepare the necessary ordinances for a project approval.
Those ordinances would come back at a subsequent meeting currently it will be anticipated at the February 3rd village board meeting for approval of annexation by annexation agreement for approval of special use for planned development.
a rezoning of the property in a preliminary and final plan.
So, procedurally we're holding public hearing and we're looking for a direction to prepare
ordinances, but there would be no request for project approval at tonight's meeting.
Just a few staff comments I didn't have an opportunity to point out at the committee of the
whole meeting, just to take a step back, not specific to this location, but I think it's
It's important to recognize that the village of Cleanfield is very fortunate to have a developer of the quality of Tramble Crow looking to invest literally hundreds of millions of dollars here in the village, and I don't think there's a community in the Chicago and area or the state of Illinois for that matter that would not want to welcome that opportunity to to consider a proposed project. So we're certainly fortunate to have Tramble Crow here interested in investing in the village of Cleanfield.
I know we talk a lot about the importance of having infrastructure to support development.
And I think it's worth noting for this project at this location that the villager point field has already completed three significant road improvements that support this development kind of sequentially.
The villager point field is the entity that improved 143rd Street where the ones who built 143rd Street west of Medellin out to Steiner Road, which did not exist.
then the village completed the extension of Steiner Road north of Blackbird Street at Route 126 up to 143rd Street.
That was accomplished with the assistance of the property owner that's the current property owner of the subject property here who donated the right away for Steiner Road with the understanding that the village would cooperate with future development that's was compatible with the village's comprehensive plan.
And then thirdly and most recently, the village extended 143rd Street west of Steiner Road
out to Ridge Road.
So that's the ribbon cutting we just held out in late December.
So I think this is an excellent example of the village investing in infrastructure that
supports future growth.
I think we're familiar with the project, but just a brief description, it's located west
of sign-of-road between 143rd Street and the north side and Lockport Street around 126 on the south side.
And it compasses approximately 340 acres.
The current site plan proposes up to seven buildings that would total approximately 5 million square feet of overall development.
That would be accomplished in phases likely over many years, several years.
The proposed warehouse distribution development is entirely compatible with the trend of development we see in the area really started with the Diazio Warehouse and Distribution Center that was approved in 2018 and then the DHL project, which was approved in 2022 as well as the Stuart Farmer Plainfield Business Center project, which is also approved in late 2022.
As you can see, we're just now seeing the first of those buildings in the Plainfield
Business Center near completion of the construction here in 2025.
So, even as these projects are approved, it takes several years to go through the closing
and acquisition of the property, the final engineering, the marketing and finding end users.
So, it's not an overnight impact to the community, it certainly takes several years for these
projects to be implemented. But again, to the trend of development, certainly what's
being proposed is consistent with the trend of development with the area. And more over
the applicant applied in April of 2024. And one of the reasons we're just now getting
to consider this in early 2025 is that it was necessary to complete the bill of comprehensive
of plan brand new comprehensive plan.
It's not an update, a new comprehensive plan process.
Our applicant was very patient with the village,
understanding that they didn't want
and we didn't want a specific development proposal
to drive the village's comprehensive planning efforts.
So as the village approved or adopted,
our new comprehensive plan on October of 2024,
that allowed this project now to come forward.
And the project is entirely compatible
and consistent with the comprehensive plan that the village approved last October.
In terms of some of the project benefits, certainly it would have substantial financial benefits
during construction in terms of temporary construction impacts but weren't over the long-term
employment benefits over 3,600 permanent employees and estimated $6 million in annual tax
revenues to all of our local units of government per year, so over a 10-year period that's $60 million, $60 million of property tax revenue to our local community, and that's, you know, annually in perpetuity.
I will note a few things. The project was considered by the Plane Commission in July of 2024.
for the Planning Commission held a public hearing.
There was one comment I believe the representative
of an adjoining property owner had some concerns
about compatibility and I believe our comprehensive plan
addressed those concerns I would defer
to that property owner should he choose to speak,
but certainly staff's perception that any concerns
that were raised at that planning commission
public hearing have been addressed beyond that.
There were no other public comments into staff's knowledge.
there have been no comments, phone calls, or emails relative to the project in support
or opposition, or I should say in support, we do have communication support but no phone
calls or emails in opposition to the project outside of that plan commission public hearing.
In terms of the annexation agreement, which is a subject to the public hearing this evening,
It identifies some financial benefits to the village as we have negotiated for each of the industrial projects that have come through and in fact this project is the most generous or most substantial in terms of the dollar value of public contributions and not just the total dollar value at approximately $6.4 million but also on our just a per square foot basis, which is a calculation we use to make sure that the projects are consistent and some of the compatible from project to project.
So this project would provide a benefit to the village of our approximately $1.28 per square foot, whereas some of the other projects have ranged from $0.75 to $1 per square foot, so this is really the most generous or most substantial benefit.
Now, where do those six point for four million dollars go?
The agreement has been drafted to give the village board flexibility to identify how the funds are spent but staff has proposed certain projects that will be priorities based on our comprehensive plan and the transportation plan.
Some of those projects could include a feasibility study for a great separation on 143rd Street east of Bandaiq Road for a phase one study for widening of 143rd Street between Steiner Road and Wallen Drive to fund construction of future improvements to that section of Wallen Drive to provide financial contributions to implement our water and sanitary sewer master plan in this area which has been a challenge
So that funding would really allow the village to take the lead in implementing some of the regional infrastructure utility projects that are needed and there's also been suggestions for
Thank you.
A contribution to fund improvements within the riverfront and other improvements. Lastly, I'll just note, the project does propose constructing county line road through to through the development. That's a transportation improvement that's in our current transportation plan. The developers not seeking any financial contributions for that. There is a provision in the in the station agreement that would allow the developer to get credit for cost for the
intersection of county line road and route 126 which would have to be reconfigured
potentially with road rate of way involved.
And then the last thing I'll note, I know this is in your packet.
There is a letter of support, a unified letter of support from all five
units of government here and I see many representatives in the audience to my knowledge.
May 20 plus years here at the village of Plainfield. This is the first time for a development
my proposal that we've had all of our peer units of government recommending approval.
I don't want to speak for them, but I know they're deferential to the village that this is a land use decision.
But I think it underscores the magnitude of the project and the importance to our local community.
So with that, it's just some staff commentary.
I'd like to turn it down and hand things over to Vince Rosanova, but there was no further than Whitaker for any further presentation.
Mr. Pru, thank you for that very thorough overview of things.
I know we've had this in our committee of the holes, and we've learned a lot about this project.
But thank you for summarizing all the key points again.
Mr. Rosenova, welcome this evening.
Good evening, Mayor.
podium jurors, sir.
These for the record.
I'm back
this evening on behalf of the petitioner, which is Travel Crow Company.
With me this evening, we have Joshua Hoffman and Matt Frytag, both with Travel Crow,
as well as our entire design team happy to answer any questions.
At our last meeting, we gave the long version of the overview, so for tonight,
our plan is to first introduce Josh Voodle Hoffman, who will give some additional background on Trammel Crow,
as well as their vision for the Plainfield Business Center,
at which point then I'll introduce Rory Fanceler, who will give an overview of her traffic study,
and then I'll wrap it up with a summary of the economic benefits to the village
and accounting. As always we're more than happy to answer any questions so if
any of those come up along the way let us know and we'll do our best to get
those answered.
Good evening and happy new year everybody. Thank you Mr. Mayor,
trustees and staff for the time this evening and the consideration of our
application of Tremor Crow Company for the expansion of Plainfield Business
Center. As Vince mentioned we went into a more in-depth presentation during the
committee of the whole meeting so I'll endeavor to be a bit more brief this
Evening, although, remedies not always my top skill set.
So I'll try to launch in here quickly.
As Mr. Peru was so kind to enumerate
in some of his opening remarks, I do have the good fortune
to be with Tramble Crow Company.
We've been recognized by many organizations
throughout the United States as one of the largest
and most active developers in the country.
Specifically, over the last 11 years,
we've actually developed the most square footage from all product types across the United States.
We've now entered into the European markets. What a lot of folks also don't know is we're actually
a wholly owned subsidiary of CBRE. CBRE is a brand that many folks are more familiar with in
Tramble Crow Company. Why that's meaningful is it actually allows us to be a division of the
largest real estate company in the world by a factor of several. We're currently ranked I think
about 126 on the Fortune 500 companies list.
That gives us access into capital markets,
into debt markets, and perhaps most important
to the group in this room.
It gives us access to the largest employers in the world.
In many, many cases, the brokers that we work
with to help represent our buildings
are actually the brokers also representing these tenants.
And I'm going to touch on a couple of examples of that
as we go through the presentation here this evening.
A couple of numbers for the group here in the room.
Currently, we have $19 billion of projects under active development in the United States,
with an additional $13 billion of projects actively in the pipeline.
For example, the Rusyn Ellis property would be in our pipeline in terms of that calculation.
Diling in that aperture here in the Midwest, I have the good fortune to lead our industrial
team for the upper Midwest.
We cover about eight states with a priority focus on Chicago, given its overall scale,
and really significant importance in the overall logistics
within the United States of America.
We currently have about three-quarters
of a billion dollars of active industrial projects
under construction in the Midwest
and have completed about 600 million
over the last four or five years.
Again, maybe dialing into what's most important
to the folks in this room.
These are the groups that we do business with
on a day-end and day-out basis.
Every logo that you see on this page,
we have built buildings for,
we have done that,
Where we are the owner we have done that where we are the feed developer for them. They represent thousands of jobs across the our
various markets that we do business them
Perhaps bringing some of that to a more
Relevant representation that that will be meaningful to this group
We've had the great fortune to be in in business with the city of decalb for nearly 15 years now
Chicago West Business Center is out at I 88 piece for those of you have made me not been out west that way in a while
Well, this started in 2012.
We've currently developed about 1,000 acres out there.
It took us, I think, five years to stick our first shovel on the ground.
When we started that process, we had exactly zero tenants.
And up and until we had a site that was ready for development, we had really zero significantly
interested tenants.
There's a saying in my business, no land, no deal.
We've been working on this site that we're before you tonight to consider for two and
a half years.
There is nary attendants in the world that has the ability to plan their distribution
facilities four plus years out.
You might be surprised even the most sophisticated in the firms in the country will come to us and
say, we're out of time, we need to be in in six months. To wit, we've recently broke
round on a building as many of you know, and actually you'll be seeing some really
significant progress next week. We're going to start lifting our crane panels up for
the exterior of that building. We broke ground. I believe it was, if I recall correctly, like
October 15th, October 22nd. We have three proposals out on that building already. There is significant
interest in industrial space in the village of Plainfield.
I can assure you and I feel confident that our firm,
maybe more than anybody, is placing a big bet on the demand that exists for them.
But the reality is we simply cannot be successful
if we don't have land that we can go out and confidently propose to these end users.
Again, I'll draw you to the screen in front of you.
What you're looking at represents about $2 billion of investments since 2018.
It would not have happened if we did not have that land approved for development.
And on top of that, we had a phenomenal relationship with the city of Decal.
Bill Nicholas, I'll call out specifically as the city manager.
He's been an absolute champion of Tramble Crow and our partners at Krizenski Construction.
I'll also give a shout out to the Decal County EDC that went and put some significant incentives
in place.
We're not seeking that in this location, but they went out and proactively put that together
and made this vision come to reality alongside Tramble Crow.
We consider them our partners.
As I mentioned, we've been here since 2012 in the city of Decalve.
We are very fortunate as Tramble Crow Company
to have access to a tremendous depth of capital.
The only way these well-thought-out master plan
industrial communities come to reality
is to have large developers with significant capital resources
put up the risk capital, as we call it,
to get the, to de-risk the opportunity,
to create the opportunity for the ultimate user.
Ferrari Candy would not have considered this facility
if we didn't have that land zone and approved.
Amazon, which is the BTS on this site plan
that you're looking at, this is actually an old site plan,
so I apologize, would not have considered this location.
The half a billion dollar facility
were currently under construction for
with Kraftine Food Corporation absolutely
would not have considered this.
if we had not progressed this improvement.
We also have a billion dollar Facebook met a data center campus.
What you're not seeing on here is that 900 acres of additional land we are currently
working through and getting zone and approved to the south and to the west of this.
These take tremendous amounts of time and tremendous amounts of capital.
To it, Rousson Ellis, I'll stand up here and say it because I have to answer this question
on a weekly basis.
We're almost a million dollars into this.
and we still obviously don't know what the outcome is.
That's our problem.
We're not asking for any sympathy for that.
But the opportunities developed several hundred acres
at once does not happen without a thoughtful engagement,
with obviously the village in this instance,
as well as a investor and developer
that will work through the process
in a thoughtful and meaningful way.
And then be there.
We've been into Cal for 12 plus years.
I have another example in KC.
I don't have a slide but a Kansas City logistics park which sits on the land next to KCI airport. We've been working on since 2008
We are in this for the long haul and we want to be community partners with the village of Plainfield
Just like we are the city of Decal and
we can talk about that a little bit in this instance
Mr. Prue mentioned we submitted our initial application for what's being considered tonight in April of 2024. That's accurate
We submitted a previous application, though, in the spring of 2023.
Unfortunately, our industry competitor, C-Free, were not able to move forward on their
project directly to our north on what's known as the Stuart Farmland.
We saw this as an opportunity, so we paused our pursuit, which was not an easy decision
for us, given the amount of money and time that we had invested into the Rusyn Ellis Land.
However, it did a lot of critical things.
We already had DSV waiting to see if they could get into the community of plan field.
We didn't, I shouldn't say, we couldn't confidently tell them when we were going to be approved,
but we knew we could solve it on the land to the north because it was already approved.
That allowed us to put that transaction together in 90 days.
That only happens because the land is zoned and ready to go.
We've also broken ground as I mentioned on the speculative project directly on the north
side.
that represents about an $80 million investment just on the building.
Probably another 25 to 50 percent of that total will be invested inside that
building with racking material, handling equipment, office build out, etc.
The number of jobs that go along with that could vary widely depending on what
goes in there and what user.
There is no one in this room that would like to know
every single user we're going to put in these buildings more than me. My job would
be so much easier. We have to go out and convince our investors and our debt
partners that we understand the marketplace and we understand the demand
drivers that are out there. We take a tremendous amount of risk when we don't
have a tenant. But again, no land, no deal, no building, no tenant. Good parks have
a combination of both speculative projects and build the suits. And to that end, if
we are fortunate enough to get approved, we currently have three different users,
all of which are names that this group would recognize that have suggested they
are interested, but they will not let us submit a formal proposal until they
know we have the ability to do so. So I assure you that the demand exists in
the marketplace for this to be here.
I won't belabor the site plan that that's
here in front of you just because I think Mr. Prude did such a great job of
talking about it. I know it's been in your board packets and I know my colleagues
and partners at Kim Lee Horne and Mr. Rosenova will go through in great detail.
Let's hear. We think this represents a good illustration of what will likely end up here,
but obviously, as I've mentioned, the marketplace will help us determine that.
We do have one group that would actually potentially take two-thirds of this land.
Will we land that tenant or that occupier? We don't know yet,
but we don't yet have the tools to find out if the answer is yes or no,
and we're hopeful to achieve that with this group.
A couple of important things on the site plan, though, that may be Mr. Prudent touch on.
We've been working with the fire district now for several months, and as part of our developer contributions,
we would actually like to provide the land, padwriting for their development within the park.
Not only does this provide a clear and measurable benefit to the community here in Plainfield,
but frankly it provides a clear and measurable benefit to us.
This allows us to confidently tell our tenants that we have one of the best fire production
districts at their doorstep.
Many, many users find this very important.
You may not realize this, but different product that goes into these buildings has different
fire classifications, which requires different sprinkler systems, it allows them to stack
to a certain height, or not to a certain height.
Having that adjacency of a potential firehouse right next to that is a tremendous benefit
for us to.
So we are absolutely aligned and how much this could mean for not only Plainfield Business Center
but the village of Plainfield and we're actually thrilled that we're able to potentially have this
be part of our development.
Maybe most importantly what we were able to accomplish by pivoting
in the fall of 2024 I'm sorry the fall of 2023 was to acquire the 200 acres to our North
that was owned by the Stuart Farms. That allowed us to create something that no one else could do.
The previous entitlement actually restricted access off of this site, so you would not have been able to access it to the Roussinalis Farmland, but there are 340 acres.
It would have to bend from other roadways, either Stein or 126.
We came in, we put the DSV deal together, and we have a permanent easement now that we've put in place for our benefit, as well as anyone else that would ever own this land beside...
The utilities in the roadway now are granted in perpetuity to provide access to this site. That allows us to take all truck traffic and remove it from Steiner. Does it allow us to remove truck traffic from the entire community? Of course not. Just like houses, there's no way to eliminate the car traffic that's associated with those. I'll be the first to admit. My father was a truck driver, so maybe I have a softer spot. My heart for trucks. Mother was a hairstylist. I didn't get the hair gene, but there is a lot of really good statistics.
around the jobs that we put into the facilities and believe it or not there's
actually a lot of supporting evidence as to the less impactful traffic impacts
that that truck traffic has versus residential development which Roy will
touch on in her presentation. But I think it is important to note that this
allows us to have essentially a 550 acre fully coordinated development plan
that'll be universal in its architectural theme or I should say complimentary I
know my architect would correct me if I said universal because that's not good
architecture. It allows us to master plan all the engineering, utilities, access
points, roadway connections. That can only be done with a thoughtful and advanced
comprehensive plan, and that can only be done certainly with other folks than
Tramble Crow Company, but we think Tramble Crow Company does it the best,
impartial, but it requires a significant upfront investment. So we really hope
that there'll be strong consideration for what we're trying to do and hopefully
our malleability and openness to work with and incorporate the priorities that have been
shared with us that we're able to.
Thank you.
Good evening.
My name is Rory Fienzler-Split with Kimberly Horn.
I'm going to walk through high level a couple of key elements of the traffic impact study
that was prepared for the proposed development.
The traffic impact study was prepared pursuant to IDOT and village standards.
I want to quickly touch on some of the comments that were made earlier.
The traffic study does take a step back.
It looks at your 2034 traffic projections.
It evaluates existing conditions as well as future your 2034 traffic projections.
The 2034 traffic projections were developed using an ambient compounded growth rate of
So that includes buildings and units that may not be constructed yet, that may not be occupied, but that we expect to be online by 2034, that traffic is contemplated in the traffic impact study.
And based on the analysis, we identified a number of improvements to the area roadway network, which are highlighted on the screen before you.
As was mentioned earlier, county line road would be connected to 143rd Street, just touched on that.
Again, all trucks would be, all site generated trucks would be directed to the 143rd Street access point under phase one.
In addition, to facilitate car access to the southbound right turn lane would be installed on Steiner road at the north driveway.
At both the north and south driveways on Steiner road, the existing pavement would be re-striped to provide a northbound left turn lane to facilitate inbound left turn movements for cars accessing the site.
Similarly, the existing pavement on Steiner would be re-striped to provide for southbound left turn lanes to green briar.
Under phase two, the existing intersection of route 126 in county line road would be improved.
That would include modifications to the south leg of the intersection to provide through movements north,
again providing connectivity to 143rd.
This also includes extension of the existing storage lane on the westbound left turn movement,
installation of an e-span lectern lane and traffic signal modifications for phase two the intersection of route 126 and county line road would facilitate site generated truck traffic for trucks approaching the site from the south and the west.
Again trucks would also have the option to use the 143rd street west extension access.
The traffic impact study also contemplates the infrastructure plan defined by the village
in Kendall County.
This includes the recently completed 143rd Street West Extension and associated signal
and geometric improvements at Ridge Road.
The traffic study is also consistent with the village plans, as was mentioned earlier for
the swap or jurisdictional transfer of 143rd Street to Idaught to establish a designated class to truck route to interstate 55.
And then 126 from Ridge Road east through downtown will be jurisdictionally transferred to the village from Idaught.
This is consistent with the village's long term vision to establish 143rd Street as a truck route and
Lockport Street through downtown would provide access for local traffic only.
With the jurisdictional traffic and established designated truck route along 143rd Street trucks would no longer travel through downtown, site generated truck traffic would not travel through downtown.
The traffic impacts study also contemplates the plan traffic signal at the intersection of 143rd and Steiner Road, as well as Kendall County's plans to widen Ridge Road to a four lane cross section.
which is included in the Long Range Transportation Plan, as well as the county's five-year surface transportation program.
Again, just to emphasize this point, the truck routing under Phase 1 would direct all site generated trucks to the 143rd Street West Extension only.
This provides truck access to I-55 via the 143rd Street East Extension, which is underway, and access to I-80 via Ridge Road.
Site-generated trucks will not be permitted on Steiner Road and the driveways will be designed to limit truck churning movements in addition to education and enforcement.
Under phase two, the same applies to 143rd Street West Extension that will continue to facilitate truck traffic to and from the site in addition at the South Access at the intersection of Route 126 Lockport County Line Road.
trucks would be directed to and from the west to Ridge Road.
There would be signage posted, no trucks, no left turn.
And then trucks traveling to and from I-80 would use Ridge Road and Lockport Street,
west of County Line Road only as well as 143rd Street.
Tracks traveling to and from I-55 would use 143rd Street.
Again, this is consistent with the village's long-term vision to establish a hundred and forty-third street and remove truck traffic through downtown.
The traffic study in addition to evaluating intersections, the traffic study also evaluated roadway segments using again the 2034 traffic projections based on this analysis, all roadway segments and the vicinity of the site would have access capacity to support the site generated traffic as well as planned and approved development.
in the area. One exception was noted on Ridge Road South of 126. However, this is based
on the existing geometry with the planned for-link cross-section improvement programmed
by Kendall County. There would be excess capacity to support your 2034 traffic projections.
A supplemental analysis was prepared outside the traffic impact study to compare site-generated
traffic to that of a residential development, this was mentioned by Josh a few minutes ago.
For purposes of this comparison, we assumed three units, three single family units per
acre, which results in just over a thousand units.
As shown, residential trip generation is about 54% higher in the morning peak hour and 78%
higher in the evening peak hour as compared to the proposed development.
development. Therefore, a residential development would increase delay and queues of the study
intersections as compared to the proposed development.
And with that, let's turn it over to Vince.
Just to wrap up our overview, I'd just like to hit upon some of the significant economic
benefits of this project brings not only to the village but also to Will County as well
as our intergovernmental partners. Question came up, we heard from one of the speakers
this evening is what is the financial benefit associated with this project. To put it as
succinctly as I can, this would mark the most significant financial investment in the
village in its history. As part of our submittal, we had the economist firm of Gru and Gru and
Associates, a very well-respected Chicago-based firm prepare a extensive fiscal impact study
which was submitted to the village, discloses those financial benefits to the village as
as well as Will County.
Some of the key highlights include
that permanent jobs upon stabilization,
completion of this development,
there's anticipated to be 3,600 jobs approximately.
57% of this employment is expected
to occur in the plain field community.
Why this is important?
I know I said it at the last meeting,
but I'm going to say it again
because it's very important.
Is data coming out of Will County tells us
that 72% of village residents have to leave not only the village, but also have to leave
the county for employment more times than not Cook County.
That's evident of the fact that although there's beautiful residential homes throughout
the village, there's just not enough industrial enough commercial and there's not enough jobs.
Developments like this help to move the needle.
So those 3,600 jobs, those speak to permanent jobs throughout the dependency of development,
which is anticipated to be five to ten years.
There will be considerable construction jobs throughout all levels of the trades,
lasting up to ten years from excavation utilities all the way up to the ultimately the finish work.
In addition to the massive job creation, there's other substantial revenues that will be generated.
John alluded to the one-time contribution that Tremel Crowe was making voluntarily to the tune of $6.4 million,
dollars which could be allocated to achieve strategic objectives of this board pursuant to the
potential guidelines in the annexation agreement. There will also be increased local spending
that's oftentimes hard to quantify but that's very real. For instance, 3,600 folks working in
the community on a daily basis they're visiting the downtown merchants, they're shopping along 59
they're buying cars here locally, they're supporting all businesses in the playing field community.
Equally important is when you spend dollars in the playing field community that comes back to the community as part of the state retailers occupation tax
So certainly those additional dollars from sales tax will be realized through local spending the village also has a utility tax ordinance
applies to electric rates as well as gas rates
Ultimately, those will come back as additional revenues to the village
substantial. Those utility taxes coupled with the annual reoccurring property taxes is estimated
to generate over $500,000 to the village alone just with the three utility tax, gas tax, real estate
property tax. But perhaps most importantly, this development continues to achieve the village's
strategic objective of taking the tax burden off of the residents of the village and placing that
more by incubating industry and commercial within the community.
I've always been told in the world of economic development – a municipality should look
to develop with no more than 70 percent residential, with 30 percent or more if you could get
it in the commercial – the industry bracket.
I believe that Plainfield, as a result of being an absolutely wonderful place to live, has
has developed with 85% residential and very little commercial industrial, about 15%
that lowers the EAV and that puts the corresponding tax burden on the residents and not industry
and commercial where it should be.
Ultimately this concept hasn't been missed by anybody.
The Comprehensive Plan consultant wrote this numerous times in the Comprehensive Plan,
Language to the effect that the village should seek to identify areas as industrial and commercial so that they can create more of a healthy mix of the underlying equalized assess value to release that burden, reduce that burden on the residents of the village and prevent against rising tax bills, rising tax rates certainly developments like this continue to move that needle.
And I know I showed this exhibit at our last meeting, I showed again because I do feel
that this is very important.
So here I'm just taking, as an example, a $500,000 house in Plainfield School District
202 versus a $500,000 house in Naperville School District 203.
So very much apples to apples.
School District 203 in Naperville has about a 30 to 35% tax base of commercial as well
as industrial, so as a result, they have a higher EAV.
The corresponding effect is they have a reduced tax rate,
whereas Plainfield School District 202 has more residential,
85% less commercial and industrial,
that combined tax rate for all districts
approaches 7.8.
So ultimately, what happens is on a year-in, year-out basis,
the Plainfield resident in District 202
could expect to pay 20% more in taxes annually
on an Apple's to Apple's $500,000 house, which is real dollars.
It's over $2,000 a year that that person, that family, has to pay for the same house.
They can get in a jurisdiction within a different school district with a higher percentage
of commercial and industrial tax base.
with regard to the overall text generation.
Right now, the property is agricultural. It's subject to an agricultural exemption. It's under performing. It contributes very little to the surrounding area, despite the comprehensive plan designating it as an appropriate area for industrial. But if we look at what grew and grew and anticipates the full tax bill will be upon stabilization $6 million. It's John pointed out over a 10-year period that's $60 million. That's more than real dollars. So the first line
is perhaps the most important school district 202.
They're gonna realize on an annual basis $3.8 million.
I would venture to say that that would be
the biggest uptick school district 202
has ever seen in real estate tax game in their history.
Not to mention when they do typically see increases
in their tax generation, it comes with offsetting students
because more times than not,
it's a large scale residential development.
Plainfield Fire Protection District, 682,000 a year,
Wheel County, 415,000,
Village of Plainfield, Justin Textes alone,
345,000, not even including all the other benefits.
Community College District 525, 212,000,
Plainfield Park District, 183,000.
Once again, without the population generation
or the burden library district,
$133,000 right down the line to a grand total of $6 million,
which is in stark contrast to what exists today.
So right now with the 340 acres with the agricultural exemption,
a total of $26,000 is generated from this property.
So I wish I was up here talking of delta between $5,000 or $5,000,000
and $6,000,000.
And it was $1,000,000 delta.
I'm talking about a delta of almost $6 million here
that this property could be realized in consistency
with the village's objective to diversify the tax base.
This hits that nail right on the head.
So I'm not going to believe at this point,
I thought John did a really nice job.
This is the one time financial contribution
to $6.4 million to be allocated any way
the village trustees see fit
to meet those strategic objectives
in excess of what the prior developers
that have come along have been willing to do.
and also just in closing I'd like to thank each of you trustees and the mayor for your time and
consideration. I know we've been up here for extended periods of time so we appreciate you for
your consideration and your patience and we also appreciate all the support we've realized throughout
the community from the park district school district fire district township library district right
down the line amongst many many others so we're available for questions and thank you for your time.
Thank you. I think it's certainly, you know, it's been said before by all the members of this board that your presentation has been so thorough and to have professional reports on traffic, professional reports on tax generation.
These are important things for us to consider that these are government organizations and businesses that you've employed that are professionals in giving us this data so we can make a good decision for Plainfield.
So thank you for presenting all of that to us.
I know that this is a public hearing.
So if there's anybody from the public who hasn't spoke,
who still wants to speak on this matter, on this matter,
not the generalized public hearing we had earlier,
but anybody from the public want to step up,
this is your opportunity.
Please step to the podium and speak in the microphone.
Thank you.
Was the traffic study done from end to end?
And I don't know what you call it, 12643.
third was it done from I-55 all the way to the warehouses?
The traffic impact study evaluated eight intersections in close proximity to the site.
It does not evaluate intersections immediately adjacent to I-55.
The concept of our traffic study is to evaluate the intersections closest to the site because
those are the intersections that are most impacted.
as the traffic is, uh, travels throughout the roadway network, it's dispersed, and so
intersections that are more than a mile, half mile away, generally are less
impacted than those in the immediate vicinity. This is consistent with Ida and
village practices. Specifically, and I made, maybe I've read it wrong, but Route 59 and 143rd Street,
that was included. That was included. Okay. And there's no road east of there at this point. Yeah, I'm sorry, I missed it.
Yeah, we did not and evaluate the future east extension. So it went east to the existing route 59 143rd Street intersection correct. So it circled around it ended at 59 and went around to the
warehouses
correct west west
And I just want to say I highly disagree that it would
You know not impact any neighborhoods where track where people are trying to get out onto the road
I already have a difficult time getting out of my subdivision on to
126 I can't in the morning. I can't and get back in and leaving or out in the evening
Okay, is there any other public comment? This is our public hearing
chief
I think we can spell your name
Please please state it for the record though
Chief Fido binamo at the Plainfield Fire District, and I'm also a resident of the village of Plainfield.
So I'm here to express the fire district support for this project, not only for the what Tremel Crow contributes or will contribute for the infrastructure improvements for the village, but also for the financial benefits and low impact on services to the taxing bodies.
We too as a fire district have a vested interest in how this community develops so that we can plan for our expansion of fire, EMS, and rescue services to the community as it grows.
The fire district's main source of revenue for those that don't know to provide these services is through the collection of property taxes.
These services are not funded or performed by the village of Plainfield. This is done through the Plainfield Fire Protection District.
The fire district is questioning, though, as to what is the vision of the village board for future development along the 143rd Street corridor that is zoned industrial and what it's going to be?
The area in which this development is requesting for annexation and development is zoned industrial according to the comprehensive plan as that's been stated.
You know, according to the village as a competence of plan, this is a community
of vision involving residents, businesses, and workers in the process of crafting the
community vision for Plainfield's future.
This was done through workshops with the village officials, stakeholders including the fire
district, and community members through workshops and I think, as a matter of fact, this was actually
approved by the Village Appointing Field, and as we expanded after the fact.
So the comprehensive plan does identify this area for industrial development.
So I've heard a lot of a comparison between residential and industrial, and
I want to express this on how this relates to the fire district.
This project is slated to generate $682,559 a year to the fire district through the building
through the construction of the seven buildings.
The projected impact fees for the fire district
are over $700,000.
If we were to try to equate that to residential development
using the 2023 tax rate for the fire district,
that would equate to about 691 residential units
that would need to be constructed.
And that's based on, I used a conservative number,
$330,000 value paying approximately $988
in property taxes to the fire district.
Again, that's going to bring 1750 plus new residents to the community, and that's going
to bring 1265 vehicles using the Federal Highway Administration 1.83 cars per household
number to the roadways within our community.
As far as the impacts for service for the community, in 2024 the fire districts responded
to 5,677 incidents within our fire district.
of that, 3,052 incidents were in residential occupancies.
In additional, a 691 residential units will have a potential increase of 3% on our overall call volume.
If I compare this to a building that is currently on a 143rd Street industrial building,
the Diagia warehouse, in 2024 we responded to eight incidents at that location.
Granted, we're proposing seven buildings here.
If we use eight as the number for each unit, that's 56 calls, which would increase our call volume potentially by less than 1%.
The 143rd Street extension was funded in part by some of the taxing or by the taxing bodies, which will provide $7.5 million over 10 years to help reimburse the village for the extension of the road.
In 2025, this year, the Fire District will write a check to the village for $91,762.50 and in 10 years, the total amount of $861,546.
We agreed to funding this roadway project with the anticipation of a return on investment with future industrial growth, the extension would provide, and to see diage will remain in town and expand their abilities to serve the community.
If you see the letter that was sent to the taxing bodies by the Village Administrator
Josh Blakemore, in the letter it stated that the 143rd Street West Extension was critical
in securing the construction of the Diazio Warehouse and for future industrial development.
If this project isn't approved, 143rd Street will still be a recognized truck route and traffic
will be eventually rerouted from 126 to 143rd Street as identified within the
Plainfield's 143rd Street Court or a website. This area, you know, including
other surrounding neighboring communities, are a prime area for industrial
development as Vince has stated. If projects like this are not approved, these
companies will move to neighboring communities and the trucks will still use
This is a 143rd Street to gain access to truck routes in the area and access I-55 and other truck routes and we will receive nothing for it.
Probably the biggest benefit to this development is the future fire station that we're proposing within the development.
With the help of Tramocro we truly appreciate it because as we know land within this community to try and develop anything is hard to do especially for a fire station.
So we appreciate Ramacrow working with us to provide land and potential funding for a future fire station within the development.
This will help to reduce response times as the village continues to expand out west.
This will increase our response capabilities, providing additional staffing and apparatus to respond to emergencies.
And will help to maintain our ISO-1 rating, which is your insurance rating for fire protection, saving homeowners and businesses money.
and their fire insurance premiums.
I want to thank you for allowing me the opportunity to talk.
I hope you guys consider this development and approve it
because there are definite benefits
for the taxing bodies along with the fire district for it,
so thank you.
I don't know, I haven't mentioned it before,
but I don't mean to surprise you with questions.
That's fine.
There's a lot of numbers being thrown around
from everybody in this,
and my question is, I don't know
what a new fire station is going to cost.
Okay, and I know you're fully dependent on on taxpayer dollars. So
That in what is a standard ladder truck cost?
More of those I know that when we expand you're probably two or three
I don't know which is staff your house or that but to build a new firehouse
We need new fire equipment and what's the
Roundabout figure I'm not asking for a direct quote and I hope your board doesn't hold you to it. No, no, that's fine
We're actually going through this now because obviously we're planning on building additional fire stations
We needed as our fire district grows and it's harder, definitely to get around this town with truck traffic and cars and just the growth in town in general.
I'm a little biased as well truck driver, family, family, own trucking company.
Father was a truck driver, so we wouldn't get our goods and services if it wasn't for the trucks.
However, a fire station is about 550 dollars a square foot to construct.
So typically fire stations are stations now around 12,000, the satellite stations that we would create are about 10,000 square feet, so roughly 5.5 million for just the fire station.
A fire apparatus, so a fire engine right now is about 1.2 million dollars for just a fire engine that's not the equipment that goes on to the fire engine and ambulance is over $400,000 right now, just to give you some context.
The Cardiac Monitor for the ambulance alone is $50,000 for one.
We've got five ambulances, and we have ALS fire apparatus that have paramedics on it.
So we have a Cardiac Monitor on each fire engine.
SCBA, our breathing apparatus, that's $6,000 to outfit one firefighter, over $6,000 for
our turnout gear, to hire a firefighter right now to put a new firefighter on all in right now.
starting is probably $130,000 to $140,000 a person.
We minimally staff at minimum staffing right now,
we're at about 20 firefighters a day out
of our four fire stations and full staffing
we're at 25, so it's very expensive for personnel.
The latter truck that we bought two years ago
was $1.4 million at same tower ladder
that ladder truck right now is over $2 million
for that ladder truck.
So things are continuing to get more and more expensive.
And you have like we run into problems here when we buy big equipment that there's a lead time. It's sometimes a year two years down the road before it's even ready.
I wish it was the money for that. I just don't know if yours is. Yeah, no, I wish it was a year right now lead times for fire apparatus are four years.
And we have had an ambulance on order for almost three years and it will be delivered this month. So we have a
We have a long delay for getting apparatus. So as we talk about planning for future stations. Yeah, it's nice to have the land, but we can build the station and not have the
people to hire because fire service is struggling.
We are planning to find people to take jobs, nowadays, and we also have apparatus that take four years to receive. So it takes a long time to plan for this. Thank you for the education. No problem. Thank you, Chief. Any other public comment? Dr. Wood, thank you.
Good evening. Happy New Year. My name is Glenn Wood. I'm Superintendent of the Plan Fools School District 202. I'm representing District 202 here, but also grateful we do have some representatives from the district that are here.
Board President, Mr. Rod Westfall, Steve Jepson, Association of Planned Fuel Teachers, Representative, Mr. Rick Instrom.
He's our Assistant Superintendent of Business and Operations, and Mr. Elias Clances, he's one of our board members as well.
And so you've heard a lot tonight, and so just want to maybe mention a few things and have not been brought up.
Obviously, the letter that's posted here and shared just highlights the importance to the taxing bodies of this development that are there.
where, you know, in Illinois, it was touched on briefly, but local villages, you know,
you received money through several tax revenue streams.
You know, property taxes, sales taxes, utility, gasoline taxes, licenses, permits, there's
items on the agenda this evening that we don't receive revenue from, but the village does.
All our taxing bodies, we received money through property taxes and impact fees.
That's it.
And so as we had mentioned, this tax structure explains why many villages are doing exactly what you did within your comprehensive plan, which is to come up with to reduce the tax burden and have a balanced tax burden between commercial and residential.
As you know, our tax base is primarily residential.
It puts a significant tax burden as Mr. Rose and Nova had shared.
I will say that the slides on the taxes between 202 and April 203, those taxes are not all
202.
That's all the taxing bodies added up.
So you saw that seven point or whatever.
That is not District 202's tax rate.
Our tax rate has actually gone down 12 years in a row.
So I know your tax bill has gone up, and that's because of your home value has gone up.
The tax rate of District 202 has gone down, and I know that takes a lot to take, particularly
when you see this, but any community members would like to walk through that, we can walk
through that for you.
But as you had seen, currently the taxes are 26,000 as well we received from the project, as
you had seen that that's all the taxing bodies, all five taxing bodies 26,000 a year.
If this development comes in a place you saw that it was $6 million a year for all the
taxing bodies.
This money would be used for capital projects, it would be used for day-to-day operations,
it would be used for personnel and equipment as well.
And even though the new development we are hoping it's coming, this does not provide immediate
money or immediate growth. We're years down the road as you had seen that but I
will tell you yet in 2018 these taxing bodies really put together a
proposal and partnership with the village that the taxing bodies committed
over the next 10 years $7.5 million for that road. So for 143rd extension the five
taxing bodies committed over 10 years, $7.5 million. District 202 and over the next 10
years will pay $5 million for that road that we're there. We're not seeing any immediate
financial benefit at this point. You know, really it's in hope of moving forward. We will
write a check to the village for 500,000 and the next really very quickly is a part of
that promise. And really, this, you know, I think the promise of the village, the promise
of the taxing bodies working together for that road, it wasn't just about improving traffic
flow. The reason I think that we submitted that sign the air government agreements was really
the promise and hope for industrial development aligned to the comprehensive plan, aligned
to conversations that we had had moving forward. And we will, I do believe, and I think we
We all do that the investment in that road right now has kept Diagio on 143rd, it's kept
BP Chill on 143rd and DHL Supply Chain as well, in addition to attracting businesses
like Tremel Crowe.
The stark difference between the residential and commercial demands and the benefit to
the taxing bodies was outlined very well by Chief Bonimo, I would say, and just to add
to that is, you know, if we were going to have to tie it in, if we were going to try
to get equivalent revenue, that's 6 million from a residential development. As Chief had
indicated, it would really, about 600, about 700 homes is what would happen. And so to achieve
equivalent revenue for the taxing bodies would, that would, the village would have to build another
color farms and you would have to build another bronch estates, about 75% of bronch estates.
That those amount of residents would give the taxing bodies the same amount of revenue
but as indicated by the chief the amount of services is substantial as we go through
that.
So I would say this and as you know the residential would give a significant burden to
those groups.
So there's been a lot of projects throughout the years that we the taxing bodies want to partner together with and partner with the village some things we can do some we can't based on timelines based on money based on certain other goals.
But we urge you to approve this project.
We believe it will provide immediate additional revenue to our taxing bodies that will diversify the tax base.
There's limited impact on our services, and then it'll allow us to support our current facilities,
support our schools,
diversify our tax bases mentioned, and to continue to ensure the high-quality services that all our
taxing bodies provide. Thank you for your time. I know this is a tough decision for you.
Hope you have a good 2025. Dr. Wood, I had one question for you and following up on that. I know that
But people have moved to Plainfield over the years, over my lifetime, always, number one
thing is always the quality schools, and the good schools that Plainfield has.
I do know that one particular issue you're working hard on is teacher retention and making
sure we're competitive on a salary basis, and you didn't mention it specifically, you said
generally personnel, but you could confirm that this would be a great help towards that end
in retaining quality teachers in Plainfield.
Now,
as you know, within the village, you know, the fast growth of the village had 20 years
ago, we built a lot of schools.
And so now all the roofs need to be repaired.
Now all the roads need to be repaired.
So in addition to personnel, but there's just a day-to-day operations.
We're getting a landslide of things we need to fix at the same time.
And then as you've seen those other developments, I mentioned color farms, I mentioned Brock
We expect over 800 kids from those developments as well.
And so, prospectively, other capital projects down the road, this could fund that for new buildings and such.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks for being here.
Any other public comment this evening?
Very good.
There's a motion to close public comment.
I guess motion's been made and seconded to close public hearing and
returned to the regular business meeting on favor.
Aye.
All opposed.
Thank you.
That motion carries.
Ms. Gibbous, would you read 5c, please?
We're seeking board consideration of a motion to adopt the findings of fact of the Plan
Commission as the findings of fact of the Board of Trustees and furthermore to direct the
bill's attorney to prepare the necessary ordinances for approval of the requested annexation agreement,
annexation, nap amendment and special use for plan development for the project known as
TCC Plainfield.
So, I'm all second.
Motion's been made and seconded.
Are there any comments or questions on item?
I do, I just want to, for points of clarity,
this is not an approval tonight for the project.
It's just directing the attorney, the bill of attorney,
to draft up the necessary ordinances.
And this, looking at this, it's a letter
and it's all condensed into one paragraph.
Now traditionally, I think what I'm assuming
is going to happen, he's going to draft the ordinances
if this passes tonight and it will be outlined as one the annexation agreement there will be a separate
vote on that the map amendment a separate vote on that a special use a separate vote on that
all in one under one topic now I for one one to see what's in there and I'm hoping that if this does
passes that the the the six and a half million dollars that they are promising that will be in the
annexation agreement will be properly outlined because a lot of times what
happens is yes these things come through and we learn this with Diagio we it was
300,000 at the time that we secured for those at least some trees along the
pathway and for those two neighborhoods it was small by today's standards but at
the time we had never done that before and that's kind of what started this and
now as stated earlier in the presentation I believe it was what 75 cents a
a square foot now it's up to I think $1.28 square foot that this company is looking to contribute.
I would like to see if this passes, at least from my perspective, I want to see an outline of
exactly how this will be spent or to narrow it down rather than just a vague, oh, we'll move money
from column A to column B. And then the whole site gets, or the whole premise of this six and a half
million dollars is lost within two years. And a new board comes, it says, well, you know what?
Yeah, that board passed it, but you know what, times are different now. So we need this project,
We're going to put it over this streetlight over here I'd like to be specific is specific can be I understand there needs to be wiggle room
Because times do change
But I think if this passes I just ask that it'd be very very specific and then
The public can look at all of these ordinances that are coming up
To they may say yeah, we like the annexation, but now we don't like the site plan or we like the site plan
But we don't really like the annexation because we want it to be unincorporated land
So I think it needs to be thorough and to be clear it's not a vote to approve this project tonight
It's just to have them draft the ordinances so everybody can read them. It'll be out there now look
They come out on Thursday you have a short window to read this big packet. He's gonna draft
so
Another the second question is is to when if this passes when would you have this done a what
Projected meeting with this come up in so the public can be aware to say okay
We know that there is a before the Monday. This is gonna come out at least give the public some time to
digest it to read through it. You may like what you see. You may not. And then you can come back
at the next meeting whenever this is and say, hey, look, we like this. We don't like this. You know
what part of this project was good. Maybe it changed my mind. Maybe Mr. Vogel is an excellent drafter
and the negative people here will be like, well, it's okay. He did a good job. Maybe they won't. But
I just think everybody should be informed. And oftentimes projects are found out after they've
have already been voted on, right?
So the Thursday before at 5 p.m.,
let's give this, we'll put out the agenda.
It's like that every week.
Every week we have a meeting
and that is what's coming up the next Monday.
So you have a few days to read and digest.
So if you have the date, if you have any idea,
I'm sure you've discussed with them
what their timeline looks like
and I don't know how long it's gonna take
Mr. Vogel to do so.
Yeah, so to answer your first question,
yes, procedurally tonight is not the final vote.
There will be another set of ordinances
as you correctly outlined, there would be at least three specific, the annexation agreement,
annexation itself, zoning upon annexation, and then whatever the special use that's required,
as part of it, that would all be voted on individually as part of a future board agenda.
As to the timing, we have had discussions with Tramble Crow on that.
Even the numbers you see tonight, there are being baked in as kind of the meat and potatoes of
the annexation agreement, because to your point, yeah, we do want to call out specifically where these
funds will go or how those funds may be used, as does Tramble as well. We've talked about this
a bit. There can be some flexibility built in, but this is something we've talked with Josh and
his team about, right? They have to answer to the people that pay for these projects who would like
to know where their funds are going as well. We will discuss with them what the timing of it will be.
We would do not have a meeting two weeks from tonight, our early scheduled board meeting in light
of the holiday, so we may have a special meeting, one of the two January workshops or potentially
the first February board meetings, so I don't know. I'll work with them, the staff will have
to work with them a bit. I don't know exactly what their thoughts are. We're getting close to having
all the details ironed out of what we need to on the annexation agreement, so they have timelines
as well from their seller, so we want to be respectful of that, but I would anticipate
probably a special in January or one of the February meetings and looking at
at least at a head nod that that looks agreeable to them so they can go on the
website go to the village playing field click the government village board go
down to agendas and you'll see all of the agendas leave you published on the
Thursday before and you'll be able to pull it up so check on Thursday that five
yeah and it just to add to administer Blake Morris outline regarding the
schedule that just to provide specific dates if we're to have a special
meeting as part of our committee of the whole workshop on January 27th the
agenda would come out on January 22nd for looking to circle dates or if it's
the next regularly scheduled meeting of the bill's board on February 3rd the
agenda would come out to Thursday prior January 30th so those would be two
late two dates to circle to check the bill's website you're always welcome to
contact the planning department we could fill you in on our understanding of the
schedule as well.
Any other comments or questions?
I've got three pages of notes so I want to try to get through this as quickly as possible.
This one is a bit hard to digest. A lot of strong beliefs across the room and across the
community of people reaching out saying I'm not coming to a board meeting to sit there for
hours on end the night before school starts. So apologies to a lot of people who I've seen
in love the room and people who every...
I've got to get up and go to work and the kids are going back. So in regards to Tramble Crow, fantastic presentation, as always. You're a top group. I expect nothing less. The business partners that you have involved that are from the Calb project. I drive past that almost every weekend to go up to the lake. There's not a single residential home around that.
If you pull that screen back up, it's nothing but farm field around it.
I look to my left every time along I 88 and I see all the warehouses on a state single subdivision home.
So that is something that is impressive as it is.
It doesn't resonate with playing field for me.
To your attorney, I have very few favorite attorneys that come before this board.
Trust me on that.
You're one of my favorite because you are extremely candid, transparent, honest,
and you communicate extremely well with our administrator.
And I appreciate that.
Your group overall tonight in presentation,
top notch, wouldn't expect anything less.
So this isn't personal regarding your project,
your proposal, what you have, what you,
and you know that.
You've already talked to Blake Moore, I'm aware.
And you know where I stand, I've run into you before.
So this is not something I've been in favor of.
The traffic implications of this project are still uncertain.
As fantastic and highly regarded as Kimmy Horn is, with I-55 and 143rd Connect, we have
no clue what that's going to look like when it starts coming into town.
So to say we can't go past about a mile out from the project site, I don't know when your
27 minute commutes to get from 127 down to 55 is going to look like and everything that
happens on the east side of this town is impacting the west and everything that happens
on the west side of this town is impacting the east.
There's three industrial buildings on 100 third that remain incomplete and they're not
yet operational, they're not yet, we don't have the revenue generated from that.
So the traffic patterns coming in and out of that, the traffic patterns we have are projections
usually based upon who we think the end user might be in the number of parking
stalls. But we don't know what the roadways are going to look like. And I
remember this, it a phone called District 202. Out of 680 homes in our
neighborhood, pick up. So they had to redo the bus route. What does that tell me?
Out of 680 homes, either I'm a crappy bonus parent and put my get on the bus
Or that means parents are involved and they want to get their kids to school themselves
or they have the financial means to be home, either in a remote role,
or not working outside of the home to get their kids to school.
That means that's more willing cars on the road every single day.
That's the community we're in in Plainfield by choice.
The industrial park that is being proposed is larger,
They're substantially larger than the industrial zoning project that's been ongoing on 135th Street that impacts the Lakelands neighborhood and a local elementary school.
Notably, the village of Plainfield, the village of Bowlingbrook and the school district opposed that project in writing and
showing up to the Will County District zoning meeting I myself went along with Trustee Benucci saying that we were opposed to the industrial zoning.
that we were concerned over the change in industrial,
what that use could bring and the truck traffic
near those residential homes
and what the end user of an industrial zoning
could bring, specifically for that neighborhood blasting.
In consistency is the part that I struggle with.
I have residents in Liberty Grove,
day filled, and newer subdivisions along 126
Yes, down throughout the whole community that are asking why Lincoln Elementary along 143rd that the kids are going to be crossing is not as important as that neighborhoods, why say no to industrial there, but not to these neighborhoods.
roads. Plainfield South is adjacent, directly adjacent on Ridge Road. These trucks will be
routed along Ridge Road. That is a school of several thousand kids that will be impacted
of kids that don't know how to drive, which is beyond us about it. They've got a year
or two under their belt at best coming out of there, or they're riding with friends and
cars and getting on to Ridge Road, and these semis will be going down those streets.
even if we sat here and said, yep, I'm going to say 50 bucks here in my property tax bill.
Let's just say it happened.
What's the adverse burden?
What's the in to the yang?
What do I have to sacrifice to save that 50 bucks?
Maybe it's 500.
I don't know.
Let's get creative here and say it's going to be huge.
What's the burden?
Because I'm talking to parents who are saying it's already a nightmare
are because we use one bus service to get to three different schools in the morning.
I already talked to parents that tell me that they can't get from one side of the town
to the other.
It's residents who keep showing up every Monday night or saying they can't even turn
out of their neighborhood, but that intersection is not included in this traffic study.
When 55 unloads onto the new 143rd, it will dramatically change the dynamics of this community.
We don't know those impacts yet.
The sheer scale of the development, 5 million square feet.
It's incompatible with the character and the needs of the surrounding neighborhoods.
Take a look at that impressive project along I-88.
There's no neighborhoods. I drive past it. There's a cute little farmhouse and he's got a little RV sitting out there.
It's on the right side of the road, not the left.
When Lockley Park was built, and I may be incorrect with this,
But it's a lot cleaner green briar, shame on me in real estate, but I confuse this you all the time.
The village required the builder to disclose that a hundred and forty-third was set to be a new major roadway and a designated truck route.
That was a conversation between the village and the developer.
So when you sign on the dotted line, you're going to go buy this brand new house.
They were supposed to give you a sheet, tell you something on the disclosure that that's a major truck route.
Did the village notify Green Briar, though, because that's the one I think that came in
second.
And I could be wrong about that, but 400 acres at the time was not approved when Green
Briar was approved.
400 acres was not approved in the comprehensive plan until October of 2024.
We didn't have this much industrial and our comprehensive plan whatsoever.
However, the industrial development was a long 143rd.
It didn't come out this far west towards 126.
So those homeowners may have never known what was going to be going in across the street.
So I wish that we had had more transparency in regards to the process of those homeowners.
Because some of them truly may not have known.
The comp plan was not changed adding industrial of over 400 additional acres until October of 2024.
And on top of that, an extra 80 acres was changed on the spot in this boardroom on the hard corner of 126 in Steiner at the request of the landowner.
Rightfully so that property was going to be surrounded by industrial, they wish to be designated industrial as well.
Hard corners industrial usually never tend to flow great.
We usually wanted to see them reserved for commercial.
On a whim that night, the board made the decision to go ahead and wrap it in.
When it comes to 143rd, I do take full accountability and responsibility for approving the 143rd truck route and what its intentions were as a resident of Liberty Grove trust me, those person very hard conversations,
the intention was to alleviate the congestion, we had talked about the metrics to take 12 minutes off of each person's commute on the directions and the downtown area coming off of 126 and 55 area.
It was to introduce a nominal tax diversification that we were missing and to retain our number one private employer
I appreciate the fire departments and other taxing bodies assistance with ensuring a hundred and forty-third get completed to achieve these goals
But there are still additional buildings that haven't even had their doors open their walls aren't even up
So if they're not even finished, we're not even generating the tax revenue off of them
No board members that I know that set on the board at that time
We're looking to have this type of impact of industrial in this community.
But Nuchi and Wajawski, we had really hard conversations.
Really late night, 11 p.m. being yelled at and then going to our cars wondering what the
heck doing was this the right thing to do.
Private conversations saying, my heart hurts to do this.
I got neighbors screaming at me about kids safety and trucks.
We've already hurt two neighborhoods enough.
Now we're doing it to at least four on the west end.
We took the verbal abuse.
Some of it was some pretty disgusting hate mail.
It is what it is.
It's part of the job.
And I don't disrespect anybody in this room who disagrees with me this evening.
You're representing your taxing bodies and doing what you think is best as well.
It's a hard seat to be in and I appreciate it.
We've been lectured though and we've been preached at.
We've been degraded that we don't understand the market.
some of us up here who are opposed to this and we must strike when the iron is hot.
Seafried made promises that they couldn't deliver.
I warned this board and what they came back said was they couldn't finish financing and funding their building.
They built a spec, they wholesaled it out.
We had no control over who that end user was going to be.
Now we have no control over who these seven end users will be.
You saw the list of corporations up there.
Amazon's on that list and I have no idea or doubt that there's not a big corporate
big box player that's chomping at the bit for this. What that does to a
hundred and forty third to put possibly a thousand to two thousand more
semis on it is going to push the residential traffic onto 126 into your
downtown area, down Rennwick, down Caiton Farm, which isn't part of our area but
But I know everybody out that west comes down our roads to hit to 55 because they don't have an easy access
135th is going to be hit hard ridge roads are going to become a nightmare and you're 127th area is going to get flag 2
Where the trucks are the cars will avoid so your side roads are going to become your main roads
We don't have the full impact of what this is going to do the community between the trucks the noise the light pollution and the potential for
There are 24 seven operations that will fundamentally at odds,
going to be completely opposite of what residential living is like on two lane roads.
Again, not to Cal, but I 88.
Plainfield and all taxing bodies have yet to receive the full scope of revenue from the buildings that aren't even complete.
Yet taxing bodies are not coming on the doors with their hands out.
I don't blame you.
We spent years saving from the necessary funding through very rough cyclic processes of economic ups and
down. We got to $9 million in capital in order to prove how fiscally responsible we were
to get millions of dollars in grants to make $143 happen. With this project, and to turn
around and flood $143,000 to $2,000 more semis, you're making a promise to every plaintful
resident here tonight that the traffic will get worse before it ever gets better. If that's
plan to prove how bad you can make it in order to get the $80 million needed for the
rail grid separation of $143 to get an overpass port, so you actually get it done, pay your
on the right path, but I can't support it. Those east of town in regards to the Lakelands
area and other neighborhoods, 135th residential traffic will get increasingly worse. How do you
You jump on to 55, 143rd is now overburdened, especially with the lovely railroad that you
just can't seem to ever get around when you're just trying to get up to the store, but
now it's your main fare to get to 55.
You're worried about the East industrial projects, but what happens when the West will always
fall to the East.
I come from Truck Driver Families 2, and I don't know a single truck driver that has a spouse
as an over-the-road truck driver, and that's what we're talking about, usually with these warehouses.
Somebody over the road making a good 90 to 120,000 a year, who's at home?
You don't have to truck drivers in the household, it's extremely rare.
I don't know any person in myself.
Planefield and the village revenue has to make the majority of all police, water, sewer, and roadway infrastructures work with just $5.6 on the dollar, not 12%, not 67% just a little over a nickel.
and there's $150 million in four upcoming roadway projects that we need to do.
$80 million alone in 143rd for the railroad grade separation.
If we get stuck with the bypass project for Lockport Street,
stop those semis from wrecking the downtown area,
that Bowling, Brook, and Romeo, they'll want to shove at us.
And then you've got to deal with 135th,
which is deemed the most failing intersection in our community.
and then you've got to do another 119th improvement.
That's $150 million. We've got to find.
So I understand and say, hey, go find the money
and this sounds advantageous.
But again, what burden, what sacrifice do we make
on our town in order to get to that?
We are at political odds with the feds.
It has completely shifted. Illinois and Plainfield received
a ton of federal grants.
I've had the conversation with staff on multiple levels that we will become the red headed step child for infrastructure funding period between the states and the feds not getting along.
I don't expect them to see our name anytime soon as favorable between Illinois and the feds.
The adverse effects will ripple beyond the immediate area affecting traffic flow safety and the quality of life for families and neighboring communities.
Ridge Road is not equipped to handle the anticipated increase in industrial traffic, and the long-term
The strain on infrastructure will likely necessitate costly upgrades funded by taxpayers. So what you say I'm getting and savings, I'm just whipping back out, $354,000 off of seven industrial buildings. What is that even pay for? I mean phase one engineering for a traffic light is half a million dollars. So $354,000, what am I supposed to do on the village level? And I got to somehow fund traffic lights and come up with the $150,000.
We should not rush into decisions that will fundamentally alter the character of a community
and compromise the safety, health, and environmental integrity of our town.
The Greenbelt Project will become a laughing joke.
Let's advertise that families and seniors can come walk and ride your bikes and stroll through
the Greenbelt as you get a picturesque view of all the large concrete cast buildings that
all the semis keep backing up to.
So enjoy your cycling as you're in between industrial concrete buildings, and you hear B, B, B, B, B, that's your Greenbelt Project.
Don't get me started on the trail project that's supposed to go from Route 34 that's been in the multiple camps.
I got that.
That's the, nobody's gonna want to,
I'm calling on the,
some of the same resident
who stood in this room in November of 2023
when Wall and Woods residents begged
that the village not approve about 150 apartments
and commercial space because they were worried
about low income runners, $1,600 a month
for a 600 square foot bedroom studio,
were worried about traffic.
Yet, some of those same residents
and standard profit from this development as land owners of the farm field.
I don't see anybody up here with tears tonight over this and concerns about traffic.
I don't blame you for wanting to profit off of your land, but you don't get to have one
and have the other.
Plain fill needs to stop listening to petty sales pitches and trendy and vibing productions
mass as campaign sales pitches.
Your property taxes are not going to get lower.
They are not going to maintain.
Everybody here tonight has told you they have their hand out because they need work to be done.
They have projects to do, there is a substantial amount of growth that this community hit 20 years ago.
And if we approve annexation agreements, like we did 20 years ago, that we hold on, industrial, what if they don't build, we're stuck with it.
Just like we were with all this residential development.
Plainfield needs to be smart, needs to balance the growth and then the 20 year annexation agreements.
Plainfield needs to preserve what makes Plainfield and its surrounding areas a desirable place to live, work, raise your families.
5 million square feet of industrial is not what I know Plainfield wants.
I haven't talked to a single person that says that this is a fantastic idea, unless they stand and have a financial benefit to it.
Residents didn't want the Diagio building, residents didn't want GP Transco, which wasn't even in our own community.
They had the news crews here.
They didn't want the roadway and we've done enough damage for the better good.
So I genuinely believe that that is not the best playing field, that is not the future
playing field.
And if you think it is, I think you're fooling yourself.
We cannot see here saying that what has been accomplished is not enough.
We need to finish what we started, we need to be smart with our tax dollars, we need to
put our families first.
Any other comments or questions?
Ms. Gibb has called the question.
The motion was made and seconded to direct the village attorney to prepare the necessary ordinances.
Trustee Ruin? Yes. Trustee Wajowski? Yes. Trustee Guinucci? Yes.
Trustee Kielkannis?
Trustee Kiefer? Yes. Trustee Larson? No. That motion carries 4-2.
Thank you and following our usual policy all of those who don't have any other thing to listen to here tonight
If you want to go ahead and go home. It's a late night. We're fine with that. We're not insulted
So thanks everyone for being here. We will move on to item number six Ms. Gibbish, you want to read out six a
Next item on the agenda is video game licenses. We're seeking for consideration of emotion to prove ordinance number
13702, amending chapter 4, article 15, section 4-525A, increasing the number of class A1 video gaming licenses to 1, for black dog vinyl cafe located at 16208, South profile 59, suite 112, so moved second motion's been made and seconded, are there any comments or questions on this item?
Hearing none, I'll proceed with the roll.
Trustee Boulin?
Yes.
Trustee Wajowski?
No.
Trustee Benucci?
Yes.
Trustee Kalkanis?
Trustee Kiefer?
Yes.
Trustee Larson?
No.
Mayor Argadalis?
Yes.
That motion carries 403.
Please continue on 6B.
We're seeking board consideration of a motion to approve
ordinance number 3303,
mending chapter 4, article 15, section 4, dash 5258,
increasing the number of class M video gaming licenses to one for GL club billiards and bar located at 123 37 South
Rock 59 unit 107
Summall
So I got motion been made and seconded. Are there any comments or questions on this item?
Hearing none. I proceeded with the role Trustee Ruin. Yes, Trustee Wajowski. No, Trustee Benucci. Yes, Trustee Kalkanis.
Yes.
Trustee Kiefer.
Yes.
Trustee Morrison.
No.
Mayor Argadalus.
Yes.
Motion carries.
Thank you.
Before we go on to the next item, I'd like to take a five minute break and then we'll come back
and finish the meeting here tonight.
Thank you.
Do you have a report?
One thing I actually, and I did have it on my nose to talk about this anyway, I know Ms.
Quinn had brought it up.
The quarry in unincorporated Wil County next to Bowlingbrook has not been nixed so just to clarify that
It actually did receive a favorable recommendation from the Wil County
planning
Commission
By a vote of three to two and it will go now to the full Wil County board
I believe on January 16th 16th. Yeah
We had a meeting with Bowlingbrook this morning on a separate matter
So I was talking with their administrator about it a bit as well
I know they were a little disappointed in the plan commission vote or the planning committee vote
And encouraged as I would do the same
Contact contact county board members particularly those in our district
To discuss that as well as I mentioned no meeting on January 20th
Next week are our formal public
Budget process will begin I believe we start with water and sewer next week. So not to issue a spoiler there, but
But that's where we will begin next week.
We have a lot to talk about in terms of water and sewer improvements for the air and
plants for the air and just the overall budget for the air so we're looking forward to starting
that.
That's all I have tonight.
Thank you.
Management Services report.
No report tonight.
Thank you.
Engineers report.
No report.
Planning Department report.
No report.
Building Department report.
Ditto.
No report.
Did you warm up yet, Mr. Spires?
I am finally warmed up after that exciting two hours all right public works mr.
Three what you have some things to say tonight. Thank you mayor and good evening board
We have actually three items underneath the public works report tonight, and they are related to two projects that are in the village's
Adopted transportation plan the first two items are related to the 127th Street and Plainfield, Naperville Road
intersection improvement
This project's been
And going through engineering for a number of years now, we're actually on the January 17th
eye dot letting.
So at that point, I dot will open the bids on behalf of the, on the village and we will
know who the low bid contractor is at that point.
To facilitate that work, I dot does require an agreement with them essentially establishing
the parameters of the contract and how the village will be paying for their share of the project.
The overall project costs around $4.8 million with $2.5 million in federal funds being
already secured for the project.
In addition to the $2.5 million in federal funds, we also have an IGA with Bowlingbrook
and Wil County to fund their legs of the intersection.
The North leg is actually under the jurisdiction of Wil County and the East leg is under the
jurisdiction of Bowlingbrook.
So of that $4.8 million, a significant cost, a significant
portion of that cost is being paid by either the federal
government or bowling brook and Wil County.
So with that, if there are any questions, the first item
is related, like I said, to the agreement with IDAT
and I can answer questions on the second item.
I have a question, Mr. Threewitt.
Any updates on timing of both when you anticipate it could
start and how long the project would the duration would be I know a lot of
residents ask that question you know because they're thinking about their
commute as well through that area. So I'll start with the timing of when the
project would begin with the January 17th letting with I'd at typically they
have 60 days to award the contract and from what we've been seeing lately with
them they take a good pilot 60 days so essentially two months after after that
January 17th date, the contractor would have a notice to proceed with that. They would
look for all the utilities to be cleared before they start work and actually administer
your Blake Word. We had a meeting with Bullying for to talk about some of the utility relocations
on their legs. Realistically, we anticipate the project starting around May 1st and lasting
all the way through the 2025 construction season.
So, completed in 25, though.
That would be the goal.
Most likely, yeah, gotcha.
No guarantees ever.
All right, thank you.
Are there any other questions for Mr. Threewood
on this particular item?
Ms. Gibbis?
We're seeking board consideration of a motion
to authorize the bill to President
to execute the local public agency agreement
for federal participation.
BLR05310C and approve corresponding resolution number 1855
as to utilize the federal funds along with the local funds for the 127th Street slash Plainfield
Mayperville Road intersection that motion's been made and seconded Trustee Ruling.
Yes.
Trustee Wichowski.
Yes.
Trustee Penucine.
Yes.
Trustee Kielkannis.
Yes.
Trustee Kiefer.
Yes.
Trustee Larson.
Yes.
Thank you.
and motion carries.
Mr. Threwett, please proceed.
Thank you.
The next item is also related to the same project,
127th Street and Plainfield-Napier-Bull Road intersection.
For the construction, we do typically hire a consultant
to oversee what we refer to as phase three portion
of the project, construction oversight.
Staff did put out a request for qualifications
through our quality-based selection process
us and did rank the firms that did submit to the village based on the ranking criteria
trans systems was viewed as the most qualified consultant by village staff and then we did
after that we didn't negotiate with them on scope and fee for the project and with that
we would be looking for the board's concurrence on executing a contract with trans systems
for the phase three engineering.
Mr. Threewood, even though I dot has a role in this, they didn't have a role in this aspect of the project that was solely our call.
That is correct. Any other questions from Mr. Threewood?
I will add, they do not have a say in the selection process, but the engineering agreement that is used is a standard I dot engineering agreement, but they did not have a say in the selection.
So, yeah, I would take that to believe that or take that to mean that they had to kind of be up to speed for I dot standards and sign that I dot contract with the terms that are typically in there, but we they didn't I dot do not select. We selected on that. That's how I read your report. Thank you.
and amount not to exceed $381,928 and to authorize the VILGE President to execute the local public agency
and deniering services agreement for the 127th Street Slash Plain Field Neighborhood Road Intersection Project.
Almost.
Second.
Motion's been made.
And seconded.
Trustee Boehme.
Yes.
Trustee Charles Key.
Yes.
Trustee Boehme.
Yes.
Trustee Kelcannis.
Trustee Kiefer.
Yes.
Trustee Larson.
Yes.
Thank you, the motion carries.
Mr. Threewitt. Thank you. And finishing this off here in the Public Works report. So I
mentioned that the two projects are both in our transportation plan. This next project
here is actually pedestrian improvement project. It's in the Benson, Central Elementary and
St. Mary School. When we did go through the transportation plan, one of the top priority
For pedestrian improvements was the addition of sidewalks in this area.
With that staff did move forward with a submittal for the Safe Routes to School program.
As part of that submittal the board did pass a resolution that if the village did get
selected to receive funds through this program that the village would contribute their proportion
with that. We did receive that grant. I think it was a $250,000 grant. So we are looking to advance the engineering work for this project.
Since Safe Process School is a federal program, it does require engineering through the I-DOT engineering phase one phase two process.
So we'd be looking to go through the process within this budget season and then the funding for the sidewalk through the,
Through the federal funding program wouldn't be available until potentially
2026 to do the construction so the actual construction funding you'll see in future budget presentations
Any questions for Mr. Threewood on this item
Ms. Gives we're seeking for consideration of emotion to offer ice-village president eggs
Mr. Kuth, engineering services agreement with Baxman-Wubin, for Central Elementary and St. Mary-Mackelet Parish School, sidewalks, phase one, engineering services, and mountain autopsy at $108,000.
So moved. Motion's been made, and seconded. Trustee Buehne? Yes. Trustee Towsky? Yes. Trustee Benucci? Yes. Trustee Kale-Kannis? Yes. Trustee Kiefer? Yes. Trustee Larson? Yes. Thank you, that motion carries. Thank you. Mr. Threewitt, Mr. Chief Miller, you're next up. Yes, thank you.
Thank you, I just have a couple of quick things here, vehicle donations.
First off, I have, after conferring with our fleet manager, we have, we're looking to donate two surplus and
inoperable vehicles to the Plainfield Fire Protection District for training purposes.
Are there any questions for the chief on this item?
Ms. Gibbis?
We're seeking board consideration of motion to approve ordinance number 30704, authorizing the donation of two surplus vehicles to the Plainfield Fire Protection District.
Some move.
Second.
Motion's been made.
And seconded.
Trustee Brewing.
Yes.
Trustee Wajowski.
Trustee Benuchin.
Yes.
Trustee Kielcannis.
Yes.
Trustee Kiefer.
Yes.
Trustee Larson.
Yes.
Thank you there, motion carries.
Chief.
Next is, we are looking to donate a 25-year-old vehicle.
It's a 2004 transit van to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.
there's no longer a purposeful use for the van and like I said it's about 25
years old we did have it listed at one time for several months with no
offers for it and with the amount of equipment in it when I was purchased it
was purchased for a mass arrest situation and I was told that literally
hasn't been used in probably 20 years. Any questions for the chief? Ms. Gibbous?
We're seeking for consideration of a motion to approve ordinance number 30705 authorizing the donation of a
2004 van to the Franklin County Illinois Sheriff's Department
Target motions been made and seconded trustee ruin. Yes, trustee, which I was keen. Yes, trustee Benucci. Yes, trustee kill canis
Trustee keeper. Yes, trustee Larson. Yes. Thank you. That motion carries
Mr. Vogel. Thank you, Mr. Chief Mr. Vogel
Thank you a few reminders plan commission tomorrow evening is cancelled coffee with the mayor is 9 a.m. January 8th this Wednesday at the village hall here
January 9th historic preservation commission is cancelled January 13th is our next meeting of this board. It's our committee the whole workshop
January 20th the offices are closed remark with their king day and February 3rd is our next regularly scheduled village business meeting at 7 p.m. Here is their emotion to adjourn
Some of second motion's been made in seconded to adjourn all in favor aye all opposed thank you that motion can thank y'all