[0:00] [Music]

[0:45] like to call the city council meeting of

[0:48] March 24th to order roll call

[0:52] please Alin dock here aldin Cameron here

[0:56] Aldren Morgan Adams here aldin Anders

[0:59] here please rise for

[1:05] pledge United States of

[1:08] America

[1:19] stand approval of minutes we need a

[1:21] motion to approve the March 10th 2025

[1:24] city council regular meeting minutes so

[1:26] moov second Cameron we have a motion and

[1:29] a second any questions

[1:32] or roll call please alderin Cameron hi

[1:36] Al Alderman Morgan Adams I Aldrin

[1:38] Anderson I aldin dock I motion

[1:43] passes um number four presentations item

[1:46] a fiscal year 2526 city of prospect ties

[1:49] budget presentation 5-year Capital

[1:52] Improvement plan tourism motor fuel

[1:55] packs water sewer special service areas

[1:58] Solid Waste road construction Debt

[2:01] Service and police pension fund we'll

[2:04] turn this over to

[2:06] Sherry thank you mayor good evening

[2:09] everyone um we are on our second

[2:11] Workshop uh presentation for the budget

[2:13] for fiscal year

[2:19] 26 Patrick could you put it up on the

[2:21] board

[2:25] please here we go okay thank you um so

[2:30] today we're going to be going through

[2:30] all the other funds we hit the general

[2:32] fund pretty hard last meeting um we are

[2:35] going to cover all the other funds as

[2:36] well as our current capital Improvement

[2:39] 5year plan um the fund balance

[2:43] projection we're going to review again

[2:44] it was in last times packet but we're

[2:47] going to now address the other remaining

[2:51] funds let's look over to the uh second

[2:55] to the last column on the right and if

[2:57] we go down that net revenue and expense

[3:00] column that's going to show you what the

[3:02] net revenue per this proposed budget is

[3:05] for each of those

[3:07] funds all of the ones that are uh have a

[3:09] minus sign those are negative um results

[3:13] for the proposed budget and the letter

[3:15] next to each one of those is going to

[3:18] explain why that

[3:23] is so we'll start from the top for the

[3:26] mft um that one is minus1 Mill ion go

[3:31] over here

[3:32] 115 that's because we're spending down

[3:35] the fund balance for the Owen Street

[3:37] flood control project historically we've

[3:39] tried to hold on to those funds until we

[3:41] came up to a big project that we wanted

[3:43] to use the funds for um it's easier and

[3:47] a little bit more efficient submitting

[3:49] to the state one giant project as

[3:51] opposed to many little smaller ones it

[3:54] just multiplies the paperwork that we're

[3:56] required to submit so this year we're

[3:58] going to be spending down that fund

[4:00] balance that's accumulated over the past

[4:02] several years and still having an ending

[4:04] balance of 6.3 million after that

[4:07] project in fiscal

[4:10] 26 the Tiff fund the only one we have

[4:12] currently right now is the Mir point we

[4:15] are collecting property taxes in that

[4:17] Tiff fund last year we collected 23,000

[4:21] we're projecting 25 the

[4:24] $75,000 expense that's included in there

[4:27] is for some um professional fees and

[4:30] we'll get into the details of what's

[4:32] happening with that um Tiff fund later

[4:35] in the

[4:36] presentation tourism is next we're also

[4:39] spending now the fund balance of that

[4:41] one for Capital The Phase 2 Winkleman

[4:43] lighting project is planned for fiscal

[4:45] year

[4:47] 26 DEA is negative historically because

[4:51] according to the program requirements

[4:53] we're not allowed to budget for Revenue

[4:55] that we do receive last year we did not

[4:58] budget Revenue but we received 445,000

[5:01] so that money comes when the state

[5:04] releases it to us after their

[5:06] calculations and investigations and they

[5:09] assign us our percentage that we would

[5:11] be um

[5:14] sharing

[5:16] ssas those funds are there those

[5:19] expenses are there for just in case we

[5:21] need any professional fees or legal fees

[5:23] related to those

[5:24] ssas otherwise the fund balances are

[5:27] building up and and are there for future

[5:30] reserves or maintenance or whatever we

[5:33] need for those SSA

[5:35] areas parking fund this year um we

[5:39] budgeted for the stairway repair for

[5:41] fiscal 25 it didn't happen so that is a

[5:44] cost that is moving into fiscal 26

[5:47] budget that is why we're spending on

[5:49] that fund balance here had a quick

[5:52] question on that one that the the

[5:53] revenue for that um parking is that all

[5:56] in parking fees or is that a general

[5:58] fund transfer general fund transfer has

[6:01] been about 115,000 for the past couple

[6:03] of years there's about 15,000 parking

[6:06] fees yeah okay yeah it's flat those

[6:08] don't seem to be going up or down since

[6:11] covid they've been pretty

[6:14] steady um so that covers up through

[6:16] parking on the the negative fund

[6:18] balances if you look at the rest of the

[6:20] letters here g h i j k those relate to

[6:23] the um bottom table that's showing what

[6:26] our fund balance is anticipated to look

[6:29] like at the end of this budget cycle um

[6:32] non-sp spendables include like uh

[6:35] prepaids and other deposits Public

[6:38] Safety restricted is for seized assets

[6:41] DUI money that we received and

[6:43] narcotics um we have our emergency

[6:45] Reserve according to our fund balance

[6:47] policy is

[6:49] 30% of the budgeted

[6:52] expenses um our $5 million Reserve that

[6:55] we talked about a few months ago in our

[6:58] meeting we um made a resolution to fund

[7:01] that fiveyear plan $1 million per year

[7:04] for five years and then the remaining

[7:06] Balan is

[7:07] unassigned um and you'll notice it's 37%

[7:11] of next year's expenditures which is

[7:13] pretty

[7:15] solid any questions on

[7:19] that

[7:21] okay now we're going to move into the

[7:23] specifics on the other funds starting

[7:25] with motor fuel tax fund I'm going to

[7:27] let Bob take the mic for a little bit

[7:30] thanks Sherry so on the motor fuel tax

[7:33] fund Sher kind of went in a little bit

[7:34] of the expenditures um we had the Owen

[7:36] Street flood control project plus about

[7:38] 400,000 for Street resurfacing we're

[7:42] anticipating or the IML is anticipating

[7:45] projections of about 710,000

[7:48] uh budgeted which is a decrease from

[7:52] last year about 2% decrease IML is

[7:54] projecting there's going to be a

[7:55] decrease in the motor fuel tax funding

[7:58] of that part

[8:00] regarding the mirror Point

[8:02] Tiff what my understanding is there an

[8:04] owner is actively trying to sell the

[8:06] property uh right now and talking about

[8:10] the cost for this to keep it make sure

[8:13] we're uh the cost for the mirror Point

[8:16] tip they about 75,000 is allocated uh

[8:19] those professional fees for potential

[8:21] offers just to make sure on the tourism

[8:25] fund we have a budget decrease in the

[8:28] revenue section about to about 550,000

[8:30] which is about a 21% decrease from uh

[8:33] fiscal

[8:35] 25 majority of this is going to be

[8:37] because right now there's a hotel

[8:38] currently for sale and another is file

[8:40] for bankruptcy so we'll be losing some

[8:42] of the revenue based on

[8:45] that on the expenditure part of it we

[8:48] still have the promotional dispersements

[8:50] we have special events coming out of

[8:52] there Grant dispersements about

[8:54] 114,000 Police

[8:56] Services mowing equipment police

[8:59] Services reimbursement of 161 and

[9:02] Capital Improvements as Sher talked

[9:03] about the winkman street lighting

[9:05] project of about 93,000 coming out the

[9:07] tourism fund for

[9:14] expenditures regarding the DEA fund like

[9:16] you're saying the revenue is hard to

[9:17] project we don't know when the federal

[9:19] government will release funds uh based

[9:22] on the officer out there who works

[9:24] certain cases we don't know when those

[9:26] funds will be released so it's hard to

[9:27] budget for that but on the expenditure

[9:30] side the budgeted items out there is

[9:34] 366,000 of those items would be

[9:36] tactically unit and gang suppression

[9:38] details the flock camera system of

[9:42] 26,000 the body warn cameras that are

[9:45] now State mandated as of I believe

[9:48] January of next year that's at 27,000

[9:52] the tasers are 6,000 and then you got

[9:56] the safety act mandated training the

[9:57] police officers have to go through a

[10:00] 15,000 also uh two police vehicles at

[10:04] 115,000 uh coming out of the Thea

[10:09] fund as for the solid waste fund there's

[10:12] no change in the rates for revenue on

[10:15] this expenses we have service charg to

[10:18] the general fund

[10:19] 105,000 and swing charges are projected

[10:22] to increase 6,000 we just don't know

[10:24] when that is going to happen or I'm

[10:26] sorry 6% not 6,000 when the th000 m

[10:29] right now and then we have an inter fund

[10:31] transfer of 50,000 same as uh as it was

[10:34] in

[10:38] 25 regarding the SSA funds Sher touched

[10:41] on this regarding that there's no

[10:42] significant revenue streams in the SSA

[10:44] funds one through four we have the tax

[10:47] levies totaling 209,000 for funds 5 and8

[10:51] expenditures there's no significant

[10:53] expenditures plan but they do we do put

[10:55] in their budgeted items just in case

[10:57] there needs to be some type of

[10:59] um expenditure or something comes up to

[11:02] pay for certain things like professional

[11:04] fees or legal fees for those

[11:07] funds as for the parking fund we have

[11:10] Revenue budgeted as flat about 1445 for

[11:13] FY 26 in 25 we had about 135 come in and

[11:18] again with the expenditures Sher talked

[11:20] about we have steer whe repair about

[11:23] 52,000 any shortfall on the operating

[11:25] revenue for operations will be funded by

[11:27] the general fund around 15,000 which was

[11:30] the same in fiscal

[11:33] [Applause]

[11:36] 25 regarding the water fund there was um

[11:40] we did an analysis and a calculation

[11:42] regarding the water rate this year and

[11:44] there was a water rate increase of a do

[11:48] six which 96 96 cents of that is fixed

[11:53] cost due to the increase in expenditures

[11:57] to uh maintain the oper operating the

[11:59] water system and a 10cent increase in

[12:04] the variable cost which is per th

[12:06] gallons which is a 1.2% increase and

[12:10] we've seen that from the Illinois

[12:11] American water on the bills they charge

[12:14] us so there's a re

[12:16] recommended today and in the agenda

[12:19] there's going to be an ordinance a first

[12:21] read for the recommended water rate of

[12:26] $61.95 which is a do six increase from

[12:29] last year's water

[12:33] rate regarding the debt service funds

[12:36] the property taxes for the 24 tax L

[12:39] request is budgeted at 1.5 million

[12:42] that's to cover the debt service

[12:43] requirements for FY

[12:45] 26 the expenditures is just The Debt

[12:47] Service payments for those

[12:51] requirements under the sewer fund

[12:53] revenue is flat at 810,000

[12:57] no plan increase in the sewer rates at

[13:00] this time we are also in the process

[13:04] with our collection agency going um

[13:07] trying to recapture some of

[13:10] the outstanding balances that have not

[13:13] been paid over the prior year so they're

[13:15] still with the collection agency on that

[13:17] right now the expenditures we're looking

[13:20] at 796 th000 which includes 328 for

[13:23] ongoing system improvements these are

[13:26] included in the proposed CIP plan that

[13:28] will be over later and overall cost

[13:31] increases due to

[13:38] inflation on to the police pension fund

[13:45] contribution we have an annual tax levy

[13:47] which is capped at a 5% annual increase

[13:50] can't go any above that contribution

[13:53] from the J fund continues to increase as

[13:55] pension costs rise at a rate greater

[13:57] than the 5% tax

[14:00] levy the required contribution for

[14:02] pension fund actu from the ACT pension

[14:04] fund actuary is 1.5 85

[14:08] million with the minimum State

[14:10] requirement of 627,000

[14:12] the FY

[14:14] 26 proposed budget includes 100% of the

[14:17] requirement which is the tax levy at 496

[14:20] 750 and the general fund contribution of

[14:24] 1.88 million that would be that proposed

[14:29] Ed would be over 23% of the required

[14:33] State contribution

[14:37] amount if you look at the next

[14:40] slide this shows the funding

[14:43] status as of FY 24 of 71% in this graph

[14:48] or in this uh picture here shows where

[14:51] we where we rank with surrounding communities we're at

[14:55] 71% we want to

[14:58] probably top three looks like out of all

[15:01] these in the 70% range a lot of that is

[15:04] because of the $2 million City

[15:07] contribution that the city gave last

[15:08] year which helped increase this funding

[15:11] level and also we had some nice market

[15:13] returns last year because of that too

[15:16] and again the market also plays a big

[15:17] part in the funding percentage part and

[15:20] hopefully uh we'll see some better

[15:23] returns as we look at the market

[15:25] currently right now which will hopefully

[15:27] will'll get a little better

[15:31] so the recommended for the city pension

[15:33] fund is the 100% the actual area of 1.5

[15:36] 885 million to fund the pension

[15:43] fund is there any questions regarding

[15:46] the the

[15:47] funds or the

[15:50] pension no okay so we're going to turn

[15:53] it over now to the capital Improvement

[15:54] plan over to Mark who will go into more

[15:56] detail on the Capital Improvements that

[15:59] they

[16:01] have I'm just going to jump in a little

[16:03] bit here just to go over the numbers

[16:05] before Mark pick joins us with the

[16:07] projects much

[16:09] appreciated okay so here's our plan 26

[16:12] through 30 that's our fiveyear plan um

[16:16] our total expenditures based on the

[16:19] projects that we've identified in the 5

[16:21] years are 42

[16:23] m931 th000 and then we have future

[16:27] projects of 11,000 614 already

[16:31] identified the second table below that

[16:33] shows where the funding sources are

[16:35] going to be for those 42 million in

[16:38] projects um the first one is highlighted

[16:41] in red to be

[16:43] determined um funding from referendum

[16:45] and or grants those um numbers across

[16:49] the five years relate to specific

[16:51] projects that we have planned in the um

[16:53] package totaling 29 million over the

[16:56] next 5 years um all the funds are

[16:59] contributing for their specific projects

[17:01] where they can Capital fund mft tourism

[17:05] DEA water fund and Sewer they're all um

[17:09] assigned certain projects that we're

[17:10] going to plan to focus on over the next

[17:12] five

[17:15] years the next slide shows the grants

[17:17] we've already been awarded to date

[17:19] that's pretty current um Peter put this

[17:22] together for us thank you Peter um we

[17:24] already have those monies awarded but um

[17:27] depending on the timing the project is

[17:29] when we'll receive the actual monies uh

[17:33] based on costs incurred and then that we

[17:35] get

[17:36] reimbursed so summary of the costs and

[17:39] the money that we have on hand is at the

[17:41] bottom right our projected cost for the

[17:44] five years is the 42 million at the end

[17:47] of 25 we anticipate a fund balance in

[17:50] the capital fund of 11 million and then

[17:54] more funds coming in over the next 5

[17:56] years our general fund transfers of a

[17:59] million dollar a year and we're

[18:01] estimating and projecting uh from the

[18:04] solid waste fund $50,000 a year besides

[18:09] that we have grants already awarded to

[18:11] the city6 million and then we have the

[18:14] 23 million of to be

[18:16] determined so our costs of 42 million 9

[18:20] minus project sources of 46 million4

[18:24] will leave us a fund balance at the end

[18:26] of April 2030 of 3.5 million our future

[18:30] costs as of right now are identified as

[18:33] 11 million but as we know as the next 5

[18:36] years um happen there'll be more

[18:38] projects added to our list as we go

[18:41] forward Sherry a quick question on the

[18:43] previous page about the proposed

[18:46] funding uh the first L I don't

[18:50] understand

[18:52] Sor should mind her own

[18:55] attention um the four the 400 the 4,436

[19:01] 490 is that grants related to Willow

[19:04] Road and um Owen because it it yes

[19:08] that's not referendum money that's money

[19:10] we have everything after that is

[19:12] referendum correct we're going to go

[19:14] into the details as Mark goes through

[19:15] the categories but Owen is the first one

[19:18] for fiscal 26 ow Street um and then the

[19:22] referendum money will pick up uh in 27

[19:25] 28 29 so we'll see that on one of the

[19:28] upcoming

[19:29] slides all right thank you so we're

[19:33] going to start with Street resurfacing

[19:35] and I will turn it over to

[19:37] mark all right stick this out from front

[19:39] of

[19:40] here thank you I'll do off that good

[19:44] afternoon um Street

[19:46] resurfacing um as we've talked about we

[19:49] had a referendum years back and um our

[19:52] streets were mostly repaved at that time

[19:54] and we're looking for

[19:57] um re educating our residents about what

[20:00] a referendum is in the years in the next

[20:02] year to follow here um as we work

[20:05] through that looking at the numbers here

[20:07] we're imagining that this is going to be

[20:08] about a $16 million project uh fiscal

[20:11] years 26 27 28 29 um would be about 4

[20:15] million a year we've just in the process

[20:18] of completing the 25 or the

[20:21] 2025 um Road

[20:23] evaluation um it's not prepared yet for

[20:27] us to look at but um all the field work

[20:30] has been done and uh it's looking like

[20:33] this is exactly the pl path we're going

[20:35] to be on so more to follow on the street

[20:37] resurfacing project as we get a little

[20:40] more details on it but this is a a

[20:42] nugget for everyone to start

[20:44] understanding that we're headed

[20:47] towards um looking at this a map of the

[20:50] city um pretty basic engineer put this

[20:53] together um pavement assessment is going

[20:55] to be completed and then the design

[20:57] engineering is the first first step of

[21:00] it um the big nugget of what we have

[21:03] tonight is storm water projects

[21:07] um we have a variety of things going on

[21:10] um highlighting it uh the flood control

[21:14] project for Willow Road we're also

[21:16] talking we talk about Owen it's the same

[21:19] project we just split it originally

[21:21] Willow Road was going to be raised we

[21:23] had Owen to raise and we split that to

[21:28] ra Owen and do the compensatory storage

[21:30] ahead of time while we're still trying

[21:33] to get the design and Engineering proper

[21:36] for raising Willow Road so we're moving

[21:38] forward with Owen and the compensatory

[21:41] storage uh we're happy that uh a bid was

[21:45] received multiple bids we came in with a

[21:47] good contractor and that's going to get

[21:49] started um in the next couple months

[21:52] we're looking at so very pleased at that

[21:54] project moving forward uh the financials

[21:56] are on here we've been talking about

[21:57] this one for

[21:59] ever um so it's nice that we're finally

[22:01] moving forward with

[22:02] it uh next one down on here is the Hill

[22:05] Crest relief um let me uh you guys are

[22:08] looking at that I want to kind of give

[22:10] you pictures here as we talk about this

[22:13] um I'm sure everyone's seen but this is

[22:15] Owen and this is what happens every time

[22:17] we get a good rain we have half a dozen

[22:19] homes that have no access to their

[22:21] property they have to park a block or so

[22:24] away walk through neighbors yards and

[22:27] just to get to their homes

[22:29] um so that's the area I'm sure you're

[22:31] all familiar with it it's on the north

[22:32] side of Hill Crest

[22:35] Lake the next project we're talking

[22:37] about on here is the Hillcrest storm

[22:39] relief

[22:41] project we have seen time and time again

[22:44] after major events in the city with uh

[22:47] High ground level saturation and then

[22:49] incoming rain when Owen Court floods

[22:51] Willow Road Crest over and when the

[22:55] Willow Road crests over the lake swells

[22:57] and it flows East through people's yards

[23:01] um and disrupts their lifestyle and hits

[23:03] their window wells this project has been

[23:06] talked about for years it's installing a

[23:08] pipe at the North End of Hill Crest Lake

[23:11] that will take the Overflow and run it

[23:14] North up to the creek um I use a

[23:18] different phrase but I'll use the O the

[23:20] phrase the O crap pipe that once it gets

[23:23] to a certain flow level we need to keep

[23:25] it from uh destroying people's property

[23:27] so that's this project we're very

[23:30] fortunate um we're working on a good

[23:32] funding source for this um and it's

[23:36] marked as 2B determin but we're we're

[23:38] getting closer to that so that's a a

[23:41] very positive project for

[23:44] everything

[23:46] um Elmhurst Road Culver this is just

[23:49] located about 5 800 feet North of city

[23:52] hall here um at the same time when our Town our city swells from the

[23:57] flooding we have had multiple times

[23:59] where we've had to close Elmhurst Road

[24:02] there's a small diameter pipe that runs

[24:04] from the West to the east um it can only

[24:08] take so much once it's charged uh the

[24:11] sides of the road fill up and then it

[24:13] overflows overtops elmurst Road and

[24:18] unfortunately um our staff is tasked

[24:20] with closing the road with barricades

[24:22] Police Department Public Works we've had

[24:25] Elmhurst closed for days at a time back

[24:27] in 2017 18 um it's been dry these Last 5

[24:31] Years um a lot of folks forget that

[24:34] we've had issues like this um but it's

[24:36] real um we had cars get uh ruined people

[24:40] trying to drive through the water um we

[24:42] had

[24:44] homeowners who have had waves slap

[24:47] against their house because of somebody

[24:48] driving through the water um and as you

[24:50] all know 83 is a major route through

[24:52] town um it's hard to divert traffic

[24:55] around it there's not an easy uh bypass

[24:58] so

[24:58] this is a great project um just want to

[25:01] keep you guys aware that it's still

[25:02] moving

[25:04] forward

[25:06] um Elm Street COV replacement this is

[25:09] happening right now we're very pleased

[25:12] uh this went through the bidding process

[25:13] we came in with uh some great bids um a

[25:16] contractor that's done work for us in

[25:17] the past actually was the low bidder um

[25:20] this project started last Monday um this

[25:23] is located over by the library and the

[25:24] morava center and it's putting in an

[25:27] overflow pipe um so when everything is

[25:30] charged the water does not top Elm

[25:33] Street and take out the ball fields um

[25:36] if most of you were around in 2017 18 um

[25:40] the park district lost use of their

[25:42] fields repeatedly and once that road

[25:44] over tops the fields get washed out they

[25:48] have A50 $60,000 cost to redo the fields

[25:52] and on top of that as Joe has put

[25:55] eloquently many times it's not just

[25:57] replacing the field

[25:58] they lose an entire season of ball um

[26:01] it's a it's a community impact um they

[26:04] have to rearrange schedules try to move

[26:06] things around and it's this is our

[26:08] hometown Fields so we don't like that to

[26:11] happen uh so this project is um

[26:14] excitedly it's it's moving forward it's

[26:16] happening right now um the timing was

[26:19] orchestrated between the libraries needs

[26:21] the park District's needs and the city

[26:23] trying to get the project done to not

[26:25] Impact summer programs at those

[26:27] locations

[26:29] um so that is in the progress right

[26:32] now our Levy wall um we've talked about

[26:37] this for a couple years uh there was a

[26:39] uh accident at the intersection of river

[26:41] and Milwaukee Avenue um a crash by

[26:45] uh suicide by car crash that occurred

[26:48] there is probably the best way to say it

[26:50] unfortunately we've been working um

[26:53] we're very fortunate to get funding to

[26:55] take care of the replacement of this um

[26:58] we've had delays through permitting

[27:00] through the design and Engineering

[27:02] through the contractor we had to do this

[27:05] um we are hopefully going to get this

[27:10] project moving this year it is still in

[27:12] ot's hands for a final round of permit

[27:16] approval

[27:18] um so when that occurs um a lot of you

[27:22] folks remember the Mount Prospect Levy

[27:24] project that took out of L of traffic

[27:26] for quite a long time just south of this

[27:30] uh Milwaukee Avenue will be reduced down

[27:31] to one lane during the process of this

[27:34] replacement um it should be a few months

[27:38] of of an impact unfortunately the

[27:40] traffic signals need to come down and

[27:41] there will be Jersey blocks along the

[27:43] roadway but Milwaukee being what it is I

[27:46] don't think it's going to be that

[27:47] detrimental to traffic flow because it's

[27:49] pretty fast um and

[27:52] it's um will be well marked so that's

[27:56] coming up uh this year

[28:00] the levy SLO gate project this is the

[28:03] last piece of the puzzle to get

[28:06] um the area remapped through FEMA for

[28:09] all of our residents and business owners

[28:11] on the east side of town um this has

[28:14] been a very long

[28:17] uh project to get everything lined up uh

[28:21] every time all of our folks our

[28:23] Engineers our designers the Army Corps

[28:25] IDR have things in place um we hit a

[28:28] snag um whether it be in um cooperation

[28:34] with other agencies or funding um now

[28:37] the snag is um we sent it out to bid in

[28:40] January we're all excited only one bid

[28:43] came in it came in double what we

[28:45] expected uh we rejected that bid we

[28:48] looked at the plans we re-engineered uh

[28:50] to make a more palatable project at a

[28:52] better cost um and uh one of our

[28:57] partners I dot um determined that our

[29:00] intergovernmental agreement was expiring

[29:02] too soon for us to rebid it um at this

[29:07] time so even though we have a better

[29:09] project in place that we're going to be

[29:11] able to fund uh we're going to be

[29:12] stalled out waiting for an

[29:14] intergovernmental agreement um at the

[29:17] city's end and the village of M Prospect

[29:20] we are fast forward getting things

[29:22] signed unfortunately it has to go

[29:24] through other agencies um IDR is

[29:27] exceptional they're we going to work

[29:28] through it quick Army Corp of Engineers

[29:30] has a fast-paced plan um idot does not

[29:34] um idot has their pace and we're going

[29:36] to Once everybody's signed we're going

[29:38] to work on helping try to encourage them

[29:41] to uh help us move along a little faster

[29:44] hope that's the polite way of saying

[29:48] it this is a very important piece this

[29:52] gets done um on a parallel track we have

[29:56] an engineering company that we've hired

[29:58] with the village of M Prospect working

[30:00] together to get all the necessary

[30:02] paperwork and project uh prints together

[30:06] in parallel for the clomar the lar the

[30:09] revisiting the remapping to be done as

[30:12] soon as the last piece of the pie is in

[30:14] place so we're very pleased that we're

[30:16] at least running in

[30:20] parallel same neighborhood uh just west

[30:23] of the wall we've been working with a a

[30:26] joint project with the park district um

[30:28] who uses this space in the willow Trails

[30:30] Park area um as a major project it's the

[30:35] biggest flood management project on the

[30:37] east side aside from the levy wall this

[30:40] is going to give us more detention it's

[30:42] going to help out our multif family

[30:44] homes that have have taken water many

[30:46] times over there we got a nice spot to

[30:48] put water in a property that we own and

[30:50] we work together with uh the park

[30:53] district they uh do um events and they M

[30:57] they maintain the property even though

[30:59] it's owned by the city um we have

[31:02] everything figured out for the Park area

[31:04] and through the back of will Willow

[31:05] Woods or Willow trails and to Willow

[31:07] Woods currently our Engineers are

[31:10] working with the padc cor ownership on

[31:13] the final piece of the pipe where it's

[31:15] going to run it's not on this uh picture

[31:17] we're showing because there's been a

[31:19] couple different ideas of how it's going

[31:21] to make its way from Plaza Drive out to

[31:24] the River Road which is going to go into

[31:26] our Levy pump system um exciting um and

[31:30] this even though we don't show it on

[31:32] here with the final design once the

[31:34] easement Acquisitions are all set we'll

[31:36] be able to really show what our plan is

[31:38] and going to get it bit out later on

[31:40] this

[31:40] year um big big project for this side of

[31:44] town um it incorporates some changes

[31:47] into the park that River Trails has been

[31:49] working on for these last couple years

[31:51] to improve this area that up until the

[31:54] last few years has been kind of a ey

[31:56] sore um and the park really stepped up

[31:59] on this portion and um are making it

[32:01] nice and working with us on it so we're

[32:04] very

[32:05] pleased um this moves us to a wish list

[32:10] item in our Capital

[32:11] plan it's called East Arlington

[32:14] Countryside the other phrase that I

[32:15] should have put on this slide was the

[32:17] door set area um it was originally

[32:20] called East Arlington country side and

[32:22] we've morphed it into the door set area

[32:25] plan this print that we're looking at

[32:28] here was originally uh compiled back in

[32:31] 2018 and 2019 so we're still moving for

[32:35] forward trying to come up with funding a

[32:38] better plan and a source to uh take care

[32:41] of this depressional bow area of town um

[32:44] to throw numbers out here that aren't on

[32:46] the paper back in 2019 this was listed

[32:49] as an $8 million

[32:51] project so obviously there's changes

[32:53] pipe pipe diameter um land usage that

[32:58] may raise or lower that and obviously

[33:00] there's been inflation a little bit

[33:02] since

[33:05] then that takes us from storm water to

[33:08] sidewalks before I jump right to

[33:11] sidewalk um Everybody comfortable with

[33:14] what we talked about for storm water I

[33:16] just figured instead of at the end all

[33:18] of a sudden going back five

[33:20] steps all right we got a lot going on I

[33:23] mean there's there's a lot of pieces in

[33:25] the a lot of irons in the fire um

[33:28] nothing's fast but when it's done it's

[33:29] done right all right sidewalks we have

[33:33] multiples to talk about here we're going

[33:34] to make it through these a little

[33:35] quicker we got C McDonald Road Elmer

[33:38] Road North uh Waterman and burning

[33:42] bush C McDonald Road we are currently

[33:45] still in the engineering phase of this

[33:49] um let me get to my money slide here

[33:53] real quick please me a second

[33:58] sorry about that um we're still in the

[34:01] design engineering phase of this we were

[34:04] notified just about a week and a half

[34:06] ago that Mount Prospect is looking at

[34:09] doing some work for sidewalks east of

[34:11] Wolf Road in the Mount Prospect

[34:13] jurisdiction area uh they have inquired

[34:17] about

[34:17] extending a basically a pedestrian

[34:20] multi-use path from their border which

[34:24] is mandal which is one block east of

[34:26] wolf over to where the Prospect Heights

[34:29] bike path connects to what's going to be

[34:31] our future sidewalk so our proposal is

[34:34] the orange line on the print um working

[34:37] with Mount Prospect there might be a

[34:39] little change over at that intersection

[34:41] over there as they work towards their

[34:43] goal um and if I could say it twice um

[34:48] we're having a very good relationship

[34:50] working with Mount Prospect on different

[34:51] projects and getting to the right answer

[34:53] for everybody so um we're pleased that

[34:55] they came to us and and expressed their

[34:57] interest in trying to extend uh a

[35:00] pedestrian use path along there more to

[35:04] follow um and it we'll back up real

[35:07] quick and

[35:08] obviously this section of Camp McDonald

[35:10] Road goes from Wheeling Road off to Wolf

[35:13] to our new sidewalk which connects to

[35:15] Metra we do not currently have a plan

[35:18] from Wheeling Road West even though we

[35:21] have it on paper that we'd like to put

[35:23] something in there we're not in any

[35:25] design or engineering phase of that at

[35:26] this moment we're working towards um

[35:30] it'll probably be talked about next year

[35:32] but it's still years off these don't

[35:34] happen very quickly because of the

[35:37] engineering the design and the funding

[35:39] which uh we've been very fortunate on

[35:42] the funding side to get grants and uh uh Representatives helping us

[35:48] out and to show how far out it goes

[35:51] Willow isn't even on here yet right that

[35:53] was one we just talked about so correct

[35:55] right that's absolutely so that's 5

[35:58] years away this on out there one that uh

[36:02] we've been doing really well with uh

[36:04] we've got uh funding for the design and

[36:06] Engineering of the sidewalk for elmur

[36:08] Road North when we say that this is the

[36:11] area just south of hin Road um from

[36:14] hence down to our city limits which is

[36:17] the north edge of the Forum apartments

[36:19] that are owned by Wheeling um along this

[36:22] stretch there's a couple lots that are

[36:24] Wheeling jurisdiction that have

[36:26] sidewalks the rest of is all ours um

[36:30] engineering continues on this and

[36:32] funding is in process this has great

[36:36] opportunity for funding because it's

[36:38] right next to the high school um so

[36:41] that's why this project was chosen and

[36:42] it's a small bite of an area that uh is

[36:46] des desperately in need of better

[36:48] surface Transportation being that close

[36:51] to the high school we see school kids

[36:53] and just regular pedestrians walking

[36:55] along the edge of the road all the time

[37:01] there I think this one's a favorite from

[37:03] a few people up on the Das this is the

[37:05] Waterman sidewalk we had hery high

[37:08] school Engineering Group get with us

[37:09] last year a bunch of kids excited about

[37:12] doing a project uh they proposed this

[37:14] they did some preliminary engineering uh

[37:16] we committed that this was a good

[37:18] project through city land um it's the

[37:21] right of way uh for Waterman Avenue if

[37:24] it was to continue straight through

[37:26] that's where the road would be proposed

[37:28] and it's uh like I said the city right

[37:30] away um the advantage to this one is

[37:33] it's not a very long project and

[37:36] permitting wise we only have to get a

[37:37] permit from Cook County for a for the

[37:40] work on their RightWay other than that

[37:42] it's all ours these are projects that

[37:44] are nice they go a lot quicker we only

[37:46] have one other governmental agency to

[37:47] work with and Cook County has already in

[37:52] the past marked this roadway as a

[37:54] Crossing location there's a sidewalk as

[37:57] you can barely see on the print that

[37:59] already touches it and on the south side

[38:00] of West Willow Road there's already a

[38:04] crosswalk sign and a marked delineation

[38:06] area so um I don't want to say it's a

[38:09] slam dunk but this is these are the the

[38:12] projects that are easy to get these are

[38:15] the ones in the Express checkout

[38:19] line every once in a while you have to

[38:20] have a popper that you get in there um

[38:24] burning bush this one is on the plans to

[38:27] do uh we do not have funding for this

[38:29] one set up yet this is about

[38:32] $125,000 total cost this connects Piper

[38:36] Lane with Apple Drive this is on the

[38:38] northwest edge of the willow Trails

[38:41] Park on the East side

[38:45] this is the missing link for folks that

[38:48] are walking down from Wolf Road to the

[38:51] park or east from there there is no

[38:54] sidewalk along burning brush at this

[38:56] point there's two I call them mule paths

[38:59] on the edge of the road where people

[39:00] have walked through um and the school

[39:03] kids right at the corner of burning bush

[39:05] and Piper every morning at around 8:00

[39:07] a.m. there's at least 70 kids that get

[39:09] on a bus so any of you have driven

[39:12] through here in the morning you know the path of what people are walking

[39:16] through here um kids get off the bus a

[39:18] lot of them walk down to the park after

[39:20] school so in the winter time they're on

[39:23] the road in the summertime they're on

[39:25] the road um it's just a project we need

[39:28] to come up with funding for but it's a

[39:31] uh feasible I don't want to say a simple

[39:34] project there's some Utilities in way

[39:35] but that's why it puts it at the

[39:37] $125,000 Mark um you think if I'm

[39:40] putting in a sidewalk for a couple

[39:41] hundred feet it shouldn't be that much

[39:43] but

[39:44] unfortunately there's things that make

[39:46] it cost money um great project a lot of

[39:49] endorsement from residents in the area

[39:51] um we've had uh residents in the piper

[39:54] and Apple Lane stop over at public works

[39:56] over the years asking us when we're

[39:58] going to get it in place so we have

[40:00] Community buying and we know we have a

[40:01] need so that's kind of where we're at

[40:04] with the sidewalks that are currently in

[40:05] the mix or on the on this chart um we

[40:09] have talked about the Willow Road

[40:11] Project between show andbe and

[40:15] 83 um and as we dive more into the

[40:18] details and some preliminary engineering

[40:21] um it'll be on our radar um again that's

[40:25] an area that needs funding um um and

[40:28] there's a lot of storm water involved in

[40:29] that we had a preliminary show of it

[40:31] during our um strategic meeting and

[40:34] we'll get along with

[40:36] that um so sidewalk wise that's

[40:40] currently where we're at uh I'll come

[40:42] back to any other real questions on

[40:45] sidewalks at this

[40:49] point all

[40:51] right we'll go on to

[40:53] sewers it's always a highlight

[40:59] um we want everything to flow downhill

[41:03] that's why we spend our money um when it

[41:05] doesn't um we have a lot of problems um

[41:08] I'm very happy that um our last year

[41:12] since we've taken over the system uh we

[41:15] make great improvements every year that

[41:17] are unknown to

[41:19] anybody um residents continue to flush

[41:22] the toilet and they have no idea what

[41:25] goes on in the background you know build

[41:27] a building we build a road uh we put

[41:29] trees in it's it's stuff that everyone

[41:32] sees this sewer work is

[41:34] invisible

[41:36] um we've had residents talk to us that

[41:38] have troubles in the past um and after

[41:40] we do a project um they've had years of great well no issues I guess best way

[41:47] to put it so sewer work is definitely

[41:50] the invisible uh project um we did

[41:54] televising in 16 17 18 and and follow up

[41:58] in 19 we're getting ready to go back

[42:00] into another round of that um 8 years

[42:03] later we did our triage when we first

[42:05] took the system over we fixed a lot of

[42:08] problems we've reigned every year some

[42:10] sections a couple hundred, worth um and

[42:14] now we're back to looking towards the

[42:16] future of another televised event of all

[42:18] the pipes and a new triage list because

[42:22] a pipe that we looked at s years ago

[42:23] that had a crack in it may now be at a a

[42:26] critical point of failure um other lines

[42:30] that we looked at that had cracks they

[42:31] were candidates for either a digging and

[42:34] fixing or relining um a lot can change

[42:38] over the years um we found pipes that

[42:41] have had new fence post pounded through

[42:43] them um directional BS from the gas

[42:46] company or from a utility um Power or

[42:49] cable TV um so when we do these

[42:53] televising events we really get a lot of

[42:56] good data and again our residents don't

[43:00] see the end result they just flush the

[43:02] toilet and know it works so um I wish it

[43:05] was a like a road paving job where

[43:08] everybody goes they finally did it um

[43:11] again this is invisible work

[43:14] yeah um water

[43:20] system we're very pleased um I should

[43:23] have put a water system map in the uh list here but I did not um

[43:32] Water Systems the the best way to have a

[43:34] water system is to have a ring uh A

[43:36] system that if you have a failure in one

[43:39] point you can shut valves off and keep

[43:41] as many residents back in connected and

[43:44] getting positive pressure as you can uh

[43:47] the way our system is designed we don't

[43:49] have that uh for a good section of

[43:51] it Wheeling uh reached out to us a

[43:54] couple years ago about doing an

[43:55] interconnect between their water system

[43:57] and ours um originally the proposal by

[44:00] Wheeling was to Aid them in case they

[44:03] had a loss of of positive water pressure

[44:06] from their provider um and then the

[44:09] conversation morphed into well boy this

[44:11] will help both of us so we've gone back

[44:13] and forth with this I know I've

[44:14] presented this to council a couple times

[44:17] and this project is finally moving

[44:18] forward where we'll have an interconnect

[44:21] um project the interconnect would be

[44:24] roughly near where St alonsus is it's

[44:26] the end of the Wheeling system and it's

[44:28] the end of our system that goes up

[44:29] Wheeling Road um the advantage to us and

[44:33] to them is if we have a disruption we

[44:35] have a fresh source of water we do have

[44:37] another interconnect U over near Fairway

[44:39] Estates that comes off of Illinois

[44:41] American but Illinois American is our

[44:44] feed on this side of town

[44:47] so there is a possibility that ELO

[44:50] Americans their water feed could stop

[44:54] this would give us another source um

[44:57] so it's a great project we do have a

[44:59] couple other water projects that we're

[45:01] going to talk about here so this will

[45:03] give us the ability to keep water

[45:05] pressure to an area in case we have a

[45:07] water main disruption by either a break

[45:09] or by losing El American

[45:13] feed cauldron I apologize this map is

[45:17] orientated um to the side North is to

[45:21] the right um as you'll see Camp McDonald

[45:24] Road on the left is the east west a

[45:27] water main going north up cauldron drive

[45:29] would connect us up to Newcastle which

[45:31] is the back of the lake CLA subdivision

[45:34] this would give our system a ring of

[45:36] itself of its own for the lake CLA and

[45:39] St Al's area um this has been a wish

[45:43] list item for years uh unfortunately the

[45:46] price of this keeps going up um we

[45:49] project this to be about $950,000

[45:51] this is in the fiscal year

[45:54] 2728 it's down the road uh the

[45:57] engineering for a project like this

[45:59] would take 6 to 9 months um at this

[46:04] point we're not doing engineering we

[46:05] just it's a wish list of something that

[46:08] would definitely benefit our

[46:09] infrastructure in the Water World um

[46:12] it's just the funding part of it we'd

[46:13] have to work out but just so you guys

[46:15] know that there just because what we

[46:17] have in the ground now doesn't mean it's

[46:20] ideal um that is that covers sewer water

[46:26] um

[46:27] if I go back here a little bit real

[46:29] quick sorry on this original we had

[46:33] the the water main we had the

[46:35] interconnect um we also have things

[46:38] pushed out in the future here for 26 27 28 um to start doing design

[46:45] and uh proposals for in the robroy area

[46:50] um for doing water main replacement um

[46:53] getting a design getting some um

[46:55] troubleshooting done of some pipes in

[46:57] there we've had some failures um it's an

[47:00] original system that was put in when Rob

[47:02] Roy was developed it originally was fed

[47:04] off the deep well which is now our Pump

[47:07] Station and and

[47:08] reservoirs um those pipes were all

[47:11] installed they did have well water

[47:12] running through them for years um and

[47:15] they're all ductile iron so there have

[47:17] been failures and we need to start

[47:19] thinking about what our failure rate is

[47:21] going to be and what choices we have

[47:24] before we have failures um with a design

[47:27] there's companies out there that are

[47:29] doing a great job now with actually

[47:32] lining water lines like you do a sewer

[47:34] line um instead of having to dig up and

[47:37] disrupt the whole neighborhood there's

[47:39] less holes and it's a fairly um I don't

[47:45] want to say easy install but it's it's a

[47:47] better than it's less invasive than

[47:49] digging up the whole neighborhood so as

[47:51] we start getting into that um later this

[47:53] year we're going to talk more um about

[47:56] it and then for the following fiscal

[47:58] year we'll have a basic plan in place

[48:00] that we'll present to

[48:01] council

[48:04] um and then also passed on there is a

[48:06] Camp McDonald water main extension um as

[48:10] we worry about our Water Resources we

[48:13] have conversations about where can we

[48:16] connect we have a great agreement right

[48:18] now with Mount Prospect for water at the

[48:21] Camp McDonald and 83 area City Hall

[48:24] Police Department Walgreens right around

[48:26] here and a couple other their customers

[48:28] um if we could put a water M from here

[48:31] down to Wheeling Road the same path we

[48:34] were talking about a sidewalk um we

[48:37] would have the opportunity to purchase

[48:39] water from Mount Prospect or Illinois

[48:40] American or have another interconnect um

[48:44] we'd have options obviously any option

[48:46] we talk about is a million bucks um so

[48:49] we already have a high water rate for

[48:51] our water service customers so we're

[48:53] cognizant of that um we don't want to

[48:56] triple or quadruple our rate for a

[48:58] resident we do want to have the ability

[49:00] to provide a good quality product and

[49:03] keep them in their homes so we have to

[49:05] balance those things out but it's on the

[49:08] list just in case everybody is wondering

[49:10] what happens if this is what we're

[49:12] talking about so those two projects um

[49:15] the sidewalk and that water line are

[49:18] they on the same side of the street or

[49:20] what I'm getting at is could they be

[49:22] done together to save some money overall

[49:25] I probably not they just two separate

[49:28] projects probably not um the initial

[49:31] view of the water M as we look through

[49:33] the other utilities uh there's fwrd

[49:36] interceptors there's some sewer lines in

[49:37] there um but for a water M putting it in

[49:41] the roadway is a pretty sometimes a

[49:44] better plan you can dig a pit you can a

[49:48] directional drill and push the water m

[49:50] to the next pit kind of like the way

[49:51] Arington Countryside was done um you

[49:54] already have the real estate you're not

[49:55] messing up anything so it even though

[49:58] it's the same path it might be not done

[50:01] in the same Turf so where but when we

[50:04] talk about storm water it has to go hand

[50:07] inand because you're at that elevation

[50:09] and it's all about the pitch and the

[50:11] grade

[50:12] so but we're those are a couple things

[50:15] that are out there that uh we're working

[50:16] towards the Camp McDonald water M may be

[50:20] kicked a few more years in a few more

[50:22] years we've been talking about it for a

[50:23] while but it's still part of the overall

[50:25] process that as a community we'd like to

[50:29] have I think that's it for water and

[50:33] sewer stuff anybody uh all good keep

[50:38] recapping a little bit

[50:40] sorry all right Sherry this is all you

[50:43] no I'm just kidding um other

[50:46] improvements vehicle equipment part of

[50:47] our Capital plan um we work with the NRC

[50:51] on Hillcrest Lake

[50:53] stabilization um we're doing some work

[50:55] that we for fored last year over at the

[50:58] Public Works property for expanding the

[51:00] back area U it got delayed due to some

[51:04] mwrd um standards of watershed um there

[51:08] was a process that we were following uh

[51:11] that they told us to hold off with that

[51:13] there was going to be a change and um it didn't change so we're back to plan A

[51:18] uh this is uh lowering the back area to

[51:22] increase I don't have a picture on here

[51:24] I don't

[51:25] believe uh

[51:28] there it is the back area um expanding

[51:31] the back parking lot area uh for more

[51:34] equipment storage U our parking lot is

[51:38] kind of like City Hall where it's a

[51:39] little tight uh we have semis come in

[51:42] for delivery Salt Rock sand they pull in

[51:45] the back they get land locked in there

[51:48] opening up this back area would give us

[51:50] the ability to have trucks turn around

[51:51] and give us more room we are also

[51:54] talking about eventually putting in some

[51:55] type of structure back here um whether

[51:58] it be a pole barn type thing or a

[52:00] two-car

[52:01] garage we're constantly short on Space

[52:06] um for the needs of the public works and

[52:09] the police department um we store

[52:12] multiple vehicles and a golf cart and

[52:14] equipment for the police department and

[52:16] the Public Works office um this may give

[52:20] us a a opportunity to put a building

[52:22] back there to meet more of our

[52:25] needs so so the first step is getting

[52:27] the land uh to the right level and the

[52:30] proper drainage and making sure mwrd is

[52:32] happy with what our procedure is um I'll

[52:35] go back

[52:37] here to this um equipment uh we're

[52:42] purchasing a small excavator this year

[52:45] um for a lot of water sewer and and um

[52:49] storm water repairs uh that's coming out

[52:52] of multiple funds the water the sewer

[52:54] and a little bit out of the city fund um

[52:57] we have projected a pump replacement at

[53:00] the wellhouse for the next fiscal year

[53:03] we'll talk about more about that as we

[53:05] go down the road um our pumps are

[53:07] currently running we just have one that

[53:09] is meeting its life expectancy uh it's

[53:11] been in place for 15 years running

[53:15] um the uh flail head mower we talked

[53:18] about the tourism District um part of

[53:19] that mini excavator is going to be able

[53:21] to have a Flail Mower which is a big 4

[53:25] foot head

[53:27] that uh cuts grass basically Cuts trees

[53:30] it's a it's a I call a a um a

[53:34] deconstructs uh

[53:36] forestry we'll be able to use that along

[53:39] the tourism area to keep the side of the

[53:40] shoulder cleared uh right now it's a

[53:43] very uh

[53:44] Labor uh High labor use for us to lift

[53:48] up machines over the guard rail and

[53:50] block traffic uh this machine we bu a to

[53:53] with the flail head with safety behind

[53:57] us drive along and clear the side of the

[53:58] shoulder we've all seen it on the

[54:00] highways we have a big arm and a m a a

[54:03] head that cuts the grass um we'll also

[54:07] be able to use this for our Levy 37 area

[54:10] we have a requirement by the Army Corps

[54:11] to keep a certain distance back of all

[54:13] of our walls um again we spent a lot of

[54:16] time and effort so we're this is a

[54:20] multi-use um piece of equipment we're

[54:22] very excited about it um

[54:26] winman street light project street light

[54:28] project um that project will start in

[54:30] the next uh I'm assuming month or so our

[54:33] contractor hasn't given us a start date

[54:35] yet this is adding lighting um along the

[54:38] corridor between the Hilton and the

[54:40] Crown Plaza um this project came to

[54:44] light six years ago when we did the

[54:47] roadway um but we couldn't get it done

[54:50] in time it got pushed back now with

[54:52] funding from the tourism District this

[54:54] project is good to go um we have on here

[54:58] the Apple Street lighting project which

[54:59] has pushed back a couple

[55:01] years it's based in the tourism area um

[55:05] we've been kind of holding off on this

[55:07] one we really forecasted a change to the

[55:11] pabc cor property once the levy was

[55:14] certified that there might be some

[55:15] changes in that property so we're kind

[55:17] of trying to line things up a little bit

[55:20] so we're going to continue to kind of

[55:21] push the apple one down a little bit as

[55:24] we see how our Levy 37 certification

[55:26] happens um there's already lighting

[55:28] along that area it's just not the

[55:30] greatest the river Trails uh units have

[55:34] lighting the strip mall or the the

[55:37] pabcor property has lighting but it's

[55:38] not street light and as soon as our Park

[55:42] starts we have street lights so that is

[55:45] it's on the mix it's or it's excuse me

[55:48] it's on the list of things that we need

[55:49] to get

[55:53] done uh Monument sign um on here North

[55:57] by the airport as the Sky Harbor rata

[56:01] project moves along um we're going to

[56:04] work on having a sign installed that

[56:06] says welcome to the city of Prospect

[56:08] Heights it'll be viewed from motorists

[56:10] going Southbound down Milwaukee Avenue

[56:13] we currently have one on shenck and

[56:16] paltin we have on 83 at uid by the Chase

[56:19] Bank

[56:21] and hopefully within the next two months

[56:24] our third sign which is going to be on

[56:26] North Milwaukee Avenue over near prizer

[56:28] animal will be installed we're waiting

[56:31] on an OT permit for that

[56:36] um sorry um did we F that

[56:41] Mark a little while ago um Perhaps last summer yes yes it's it got

[56:49] verbally approved in December let's put

[56:52] it that way um but that's going to get

[56:54] in place and our contractor is is

[56:56] excited to have warmer weather too to

[56:57] put the sign in so we weren't going to

[56:59] be digging in in January and February

[57:01] anyway so their delay really didn't hurt

[57:03] us that

[57:06] bad just in case they're watching um so

[57:10] we have that um we move on into the

[57:12] capital we have uh Vehicles here um for

[57:16] this next fiscal year a new vehicle for

[57:17] the building department um the building

[57:21] department and City Hall are the bottom

[57:23] of the barrel when it comes to Vehicles

[57:25] they get the leftover vehicles that come

[57:27] out of the Police Department Squad cars

[57:29] that have been retired due to high

[57:31] mileage or or usage um and that's what

[57:36] they get um it's really what it is um

[57:40] all the cars here are ex police

[57:42] vehicles the building department um and

[57:46] City Hall staff don't use the vehicles

[57:49] as much as the police department um

[57:50] their cars are a tool they're on they're

[57:52] turned on every day and they're driving

[57:54] around um when we get them they need

[57:56] some work um Dan and his team have had

[58:01] vehicle issues this last few years um we

[58:03] do our best to keep them up and running

[58:05] uh luckily they're not driving out of

[58:07] town that often so we can uh fix them in

[58:09] the field but um at some point um the

[58:13] right thing to do is to get them a more

[58:15] reliable Fleet um if we get them a

[58:18] vehicle this year and and the next

[58:20] couple years um they're going to have

[58:22] those for 10 years or longer um

[58:26] currently he has a 20 we have three

[58:30] 2013's that are still in service and 127

[58:35] car out of the four that are here at

[58:36] City Hall so um and they all have 100 th

[58:39] well three of them have 100,000 miles on

[58:41] them so one's less so um that's for that

[58:46] um we have two police squad cars on here

[58:48] which is Milo's Department um coming out

[58:51] of the DEA fund uh there was a couple

[58:54] years that we didn't

[58:56] um purchased new vehicles uh Co some

[58:59] other things the renovations at C at the

[59:01] police department last year um again the

[59:04] police vehicles are tools and they're

[59:07] driven every day and they're driven hard

[59:09] when needed um and a reliable vehicle is

[59:13] very important um just a few months a or

[59:17] six months ago there was an issue uh

[59:20] they had to try to catch up to somebody

[59:22] and the vehicle failed on them

[59:27] it nothing more embarrassing than not

[59:28] getting the bad guy is that you have to

[59:30] get towed back um so um the good news is

[59:34] we're going to get back on track with

[59:36] proper

[59:37] um replacement for police vehicles uh

[59:41] the sewer truck on here we are currently

[59:43] driving a

[59:44] 1999 Sterling vacon sewer rig um it is

[59:50] the most expensive vehicle Public Works

[59:52] will ever buy it's like buying a fire

[59:54] truck ours is currently in

[59:56] 1999 we do not use it every day it's

[59:59] used for emergencies and for regular

[1:00:01] routine maintenance um it's half a

[1:00:05] million dollars for a base model um as

[1:00:09] the council has seen this has been on

[1:00:10] our list for years and we just keep

[1:00:13] pushing it off a little farther um we

[1:00:15] have it pushed off a few more years

[1:00:17] they're not getting any cheaper but um

[1:00:20] we're still using what we have it's

[1:00:22] still running um we're not in a critical

[1:00:25] condition with it

[1:00:26] and we've had a few occurrences this

[1:00:28] last couple years that our vehicle just

[1:00:31] isn't strong enough to handle the

[1:00:33] projects that we have and we call on a

[1:00:35] contractor with a million dollar piece

[1:00:38] of equipment to do the work so we do

[1:00:40] have a backup plan um because we don't

[1:00:42] have a brand new in our hand today isn't

[1:00:44] stopping us from doing what we need to

[1:00:46] do but down the road um ours will just

[1:00:50] be past it's just it's not going to be

[1:00:53] serviceable anymore it's a sterling if

[1:00:55] anybody's even heard of Sterling they're

[1:00:57] not really made that much anymore so um

[1:01:00] does it have antique

[1:01:03] plates antique plates would be a great

[1:01:05] idea

[1:01:09] um um something we're working on in the background here it's been a lot

[1:01:13] of conversation is the fire department's

[1:01:16] expansion um they came out to us and uh

[1:01:20] talked about the need for additional

[1:01:22] parking and storm water control we've

[1:01:24] had some great

[1:01:26] conversations with the fire department

[1:01:28] and our Natural Resource Commission we

[1:01:31] had the projects slated we called the uh

[1:01:34] Commons the public service Commons for

[1:01:36] the area between these two buildings um

[1:01:39] after conversations with the fire

[1:01:41] department we've kind of morphed things

[1:01:43] around a little bit on the need for

[1:01:45] parking and what we could do for storm

[1:01:47] water management in this area

[1:01:51] um this proposal that we're moving

[1:01:54] forward with is the best

[1:01:56] design uh for this area originally we

[1:01:59] had a a meeting space in the middle we

[1:02:02] had a little path uh a lot more Greenery

[1:02:05] a lot more natural plantings

[1:02:08] um but as the needs for this location

[1:02:12] changed uh the fire department will

[1:02:14] benefit with the additional spaces the

[1:02:16] police department is benefiting because

[1:02:18] there'll be additional

[1:02:19] spaces uh we're going to be able to

[1:02:21] rework the back area into having secured

[1:02:23] parking in the back of the police

[1:02:25] department

[1:02:26] um this change is based on the needs for

[1:02:29] the fire department so for their project

[1:02:31] to be fruitful um they have an

[1:02:34] investment into work on our property to

[1:02:37] benefit them and us so this comes out as

[1:02:41] a I I'll say a zero cost to the city in

[1:02:44] the big picture of improvements that we

[1:02:47] would not have funded um we scraped to

[1:02:51] get $20,000 together to do the commons

[1:02:54] project um that is still happening but

[1:02:56] it's just kind of the turf is changing a

[1:02:58] little bit um this has been a lot of

[1:03:01] Labor between their Engineers our

[1:03:04] Engineers City staff um Peter Joe Dan

[1:03:07] and I and our engineer Dan Stan sitting

[1:03:10] together trying to come up with the best

[1:03:12] plan um it benefits us we have the fire

[1:03:15] department investing in our property

[1:03:18] which we own um which we'll have an

[1:03:21] agreement with them for parking um it

[1:03:23] really it took a lot to get to this

[1:03:25] point point that I'm really pleased that

[1:03:27] it's going to move forward so that's

[1:03:29] this what you guys will see um the

[1:03:31] Natural Resource Commission obviously

[1:03:33] lost some of their original plan um but

[1:03:36] they're excited to move forward with

[1:03:39] working on the southern end I'll call it

[1:03:42] of the uh Commons area um they're going

[1:03:44] to put a small pad in for a table um the

[1:03:48] memorial trees will stay in place um

[1:03:50] we'll have detention volume control and

[1:03:53] there'll be some prairie plantings over

[1:03:54] on the maple side in the parkway um that

[1:03:58] will not affect future plans if we do

[1:04:00] need to expand the police department um

[1:04:03] our storm water worries at that point

[1:04:05] will all have already been covered and

[1:04:07] compensated for so if in the future we

[1:04:09] have the opportunity to expand the

[1:04:11] police department we won't be worried

[1:04:13] about storm

[1:04:14] water so it really coming together as a

[1:04:18] great

[1:04:19] project um we talked about that one that

[1:04:22] was it I I think that wrap

[1:04:26] up my portion of tonight's event any

[1:04:30] questions Joan hi Mark I have a question

[1:04:33] he the mini escavator how many hours do

[1:04:36] you think we would be using something

[1:04:38] like that in a year's

[1:04:45] time I hard for me to put numbers on it

[1:04:48] I mean uh 100 a couple hundred hours I

[1:04:52] have five projects already that I know

[1:04:55] that we need to do um we've talked about

[1:04:57] renting a machine like this in the past

[1:05:00] um we've talked about leasing them and

[1:05:03] we've stayed away from leasing equipment

[1:05:06] we've done very good at purchasing and

[1:05:07] then maintaining them um for the amount

[1:05:10] of use that we get and obviously we have

[1:05:12] a a vacon that's a 1999 good thing we'd

[1:05:14] never lease that because we'd still be

[1:05:16] paying for it have we ever have we ever

[1:05:18] rented them we've rented equipment um on

[1:05:21] some project not a mini excavator

[1:05:24] typically we've had other projects where

[1:05:26] we've had to contract it out to get the

[1:05:27] work done um we've rented chippers we've

[1:05:31] rented brush Hogs things like that and

[1:05:33] we ended up buying our own eventually

[1:05:35] yeah it is rentable just it is rentable

[1:05:37] yes um but for all the different factors

[1:05:40] that we have um it's the timing of it

[1:05:44] too is we can do a project and not have

[1:05:46] to send guys to go get a machine and and

[1:05:48] rent it at 7:00 a.m. we're digging a

[1:05:50] hole or at 2 a.m. um we're not waiting

[1:05:53] for someone to show up to do a project

[1:05:55] if we have a water main break this will

[1:05:57] be the preferred method so we have a few

[1:06:01] areas where our water main runs tight

[1:06:03] between some buildings um this having a

[1:06:07] rotating head and a Sidetrack ability we

[1:06:09] could get in there and pull M material

[1:06:11] out our back ho will do it in some cases

[1:06:14] we'll use that based on depth and

[1:06:16] location but this they call it a track

[1:06:19] ho or a mini excavator um have become

[1:06:22] very Universal um and even just the

[1:06:26] forestry aspect of it the clearing the

[1:06:29] mile of Lake um Milwaukee Avenue that we

[1:06:33] do behind the wall and stuff like that

[1:06:35] so we did talk about it um but it just

[1:06:39] having the ability to have it in our

[1:06:41] hands and use it for any occurrence even

[1:06:43] if it's just a covert pipe um where we

[1:06:46] have traffic concerns we did a project

[1:06:48] on Elm this last year and we had to take

[1:06:51] the road out because our back ho with

[1:06:53] the Boom in the bucket we blocked the

[1:06:55] road to get our digging in the right

[1:06:57] place with a machine like this we could

[1:06:59] be rid in one lane of traffic and keep

[1:07:01] everything flowing and not we had buses

[1:07:04] and stuff backed up it was an emergency

[1:07:07] that we get it done because the road had

[1:07:08] failed but it's nice if we have

[1:07:11] something that's little more

[1:07:11] maneuverable so yeah I didn't know that

[1:07:13] we had to use it that often so it was

[1:07:15] just curious yeah it um we had like I

[1:07:18] said we have about five projects that

[1:07:19] were just we don't want to contract out

[1:07:21] cuz we can do it ourselves okay so yeah

[1:07:24] thank you any other questions

[1:07:28] I don't have any what's the um what's

[1:07:31] next on the timeline for budget so this

[1:07:33] was the our second presentation now

[1:07:35] we're looking ahead to the next meeting

[1:07:37] which is Tuesday April 15th that'll be

[1:07:39] the first read um between now and then

[1:07:42] if anybody has any questions wants more

[1:07:44] detail wishes to discuss reach out to

[1:07:47] anyone on the team Joe Peter Mark Dan

[1:07:50] Milo myself Bob we're happy to get you

[1:07:53] whatever information you'd like so first read on Tuesday April 15th and

[1:07:57] then final approval we're looking for

[1:07:59] April 28th the second meeting in April

[1:08:03] the 15th is also our public hearing I

[1:08:05] believe isn't it

[1:08:06] yes 6 o'cl yes okay

[1:08:10] Tuesday I'm sorry the the 16th we're off a bit because of the holiday

[1:08:16] so we've got a Tuesday meeting instead

[1:08:17] of Monday

[1:08:20] okay thank you

[1:08:27] we'll continue here item fiveo we have

[1:08:29] no appointments confirmations or

[1:08:32] proclamations um item six public

[1:08:34] comments on agenda matters do we have

[1:08:36] any filled out yes yes we have these

[1:08:39] three gentlemen um I isai would you

[1:08:42] likea Isa sorry

[1:08:46] okay yes uh their topic is about

[1:08:53] THC I have some packets to give out as

[1:08:56] well please state your name and and um

[1:08:58] your address yeah so um my name is isber

[1:09:03] and I'm going to be a potential business

[1:09:05] owner um in Prospect Heights do you mind

[1:09:09] if I give

[1:09:11] out enough for every

[1:09:13] other sharing apologize for that what is

[1:09:17] the topic of the

[1:09:18] uh okay

[1:09:36] ask thank

[1:09:40] you okay no that's all

[1:09:44] right that's all right you that's

[1:09:48] okay thank you is everyone

[1:09:53] ready you extra one this

[1:09:57] one that's all right no worries okay so

[1:10:00] today I'm going to be talking about um

[1:10:03] obviously not restricting Delta products

[1:10:06] in Prospect Heights Illinois as you can

[1:10:10] see here uh we are going to be

[1:10:11] potentially a business owner um in

[1:10:14] Prospect Heights as you can see here

[1:10:16] with the potential um Delta ban it would

[1:10:19] be a

[1:10:20] $300,000 decrease in our Revenue um we

[1:10:24] have owned a bunch of businesses uh in

[1:10:27] our lives and it's it makes up around

[1:10:30] 50% of our revenue and as you can see

[1:10:33] here it translates to

[1:10:35] $30,000 in uh tax revenue as well over

[1:10:39] the course of 5 years um it will be

[1:10:42] around

[1:10:44] $136,000 in tax

[1:10:46] revenue if you would like to go on the

[1:10:48] next

[1:10:50] page so here are some uh key advantages

[1:10:53] um for the policy revision as you can

[1:10:56] see here um it will be around

[1:10:58] $30,000 um in the first year in tax

[1:11:02] revenue it will also um increase foot

[1:11:06] traffic as well because if if uh

[1:11:09] customers are coming in and they they

[1:11:10] know there's Delta products uh they come

[1:11:14] in the store and also the surrounding

[1:11:15] businesses as well and as you can see

[1:11:19] here um there will be a

[1:11:22] $300,000 uh annual increase um in the

[1:11:25] stored as well um with the pro with the

[1:11:28] product available as you can see here um

[1:11:31] we do take our product very seriously um

[1:11:34] all of our products are lab tested as

[1:11:37] well to make sure it's the highest

[1:11:39] quality now you can see here uh quality

[1:11:42] manufacturing as well we know where it's

[1:11:45] uh coming from as well and uh we have

[1:11:48] all the ingredients as well for each of

[1:11:50] the products and then also we have

[1:11:53] professional packaging as well so if a

[1:11:56] child is able um to hold on to it

[1:11:58] they're unable to um to open up the

[1:12:02] packaging because of is

[1:12:05] childproof and then we also have a

[1:12:08] strict age verification as well as you

[1:12:10] can see here um all of our stores have

[1:12:13] um ID verification so it will check if

[1:12:17] there's any uh fake IDs and also they

[1:12:20] have to be up age so 21 and over we have

[1:12:23] a zero uh uh policy as well um if you

[1:12:27] are under 21 and then we have a clear

[1:12:30] signage as well for every single store

[1:12:33] and then some of the kind of

[1:12:34] consequences for um restricting Delta um

[1:12:39] kind of that loss of tax revenue over

[1:12:42] $136,000 in loss tax revenue um if

[1:12:45] customers are unable um to get the

[1:12:49] products in Prospect Heights they would

[1:12:51] just go to neighboring um cities as well

[1:12:55] to retrieve the products as well so

[1:12:57] instead of restricting the product maybe

[1:13:00] have um maybe higher like age rication

[1:13:05] and also U make sure the product is very

[1:13:08] high quality as

[1:13:12] well that is all I have for today does

[1:13:16] anyone have any questions where are you

[1:13:18] looking to uh to purchase property or to

[1:13:21] purchase purchase business so the

[1:13:23] business is they right next door it's

[1:13:26] that kind of that Plaza over by City

[1:13:29] Hall it's that Plaza like right next

[1:13:31] door um for your information they're

[1:13:34] proposing looking at four North Elmhurst

[1:13:37] Road at the uh State Farm property

[1:13:40] correct is that the one you're looking

[1:13:41] at yes yes thank you and what kind of

[1:13:43] business is this this is going to be a

[1:13:45] vape store a vape store

[1:13:47] mhm

[1:13:53] okay any other questions

[1:13:55] and what else what else are you going to

[1:13:57] sell besides Delta products uh big

[1:14:00] products um so like nicotine products

[1:14:03] and then also like Delta products as

[1:14:06] well and when you say you're you're a

[1:14:09] perspective purchaser what have you done

[1:14:11] so far to so I've talked to uh the

[1:14:14] landlord already I've met with him and

[1:14:17] stuff like that he he made us aware

[1:14:19] about the potential band for the Delta

[1:14:21] product so we came here today and kind

[1:14:23] of discussed like kind of our thought

[1:14:25] and kind of like our past experience

[1:14:27] with it as well so we have looked at

[1:14:31] potential properties uh in the area we

[1:14:33] also have almost after this meeting I

[1:14:36] mean if it gets on banned we're going to

[1:14:38] be signing the lease

[1:14:41] so where where are you located otherwise

[1:14:45] so we have a couple locations in

[1:14:48] Wisconsin and then we have a location in

[1:14:50] Ron Lake as

[1:14:54] well and you sell Delta products in

[1:14:56] Round Lake yep and in Wisconsin

[1:15:00] yeah your issue is just the Delta not

[1:15:03] the catom what was it just the Delta

[1:15:06] product not crom

[1:15:12] yeah yeah thank you for for for coming

[1:15:16] here but um you know what you'd be asking it

[1:15:22] would be very difficult to to segregate

[1:15:23] the one person you know if if if it's

[1:15:26] not addressed as a whole it's hard to do

[1:15:28] it store by store right you can't say

[1:15:30] you can do it but you can't right right

[1:15:32] so it's a decision that the council has

[1:15:34] to make to say that we just don't want

[1:15:35] it at all um or would just have to be

[1:15:38] available to everybody I mean that's where we're at right now what is the difference between the Delta

[1:15:44] products and the other products that

[1:15:45] we're talking about

[1:15:47] banning which which other products

[1:15:49] create them creating them that is it's

[1:15:52] like a whole different level I mean it's

[1:15:54] more of

[1:15:56] um the Del we don't we don't even touch

[1:15:59] that stuff I mean it's it's not

[1:16:01] regulated and some places I know some

[1:16:04] places are trying to propose a band on

[1:16:06] it but Delta is obviously a lot safer

[1:16:08] than

[1:16:10] that why aren't you just looking to do a

[1:16:13] dispensary well dispensaries I mean if

[1:16:17] you really think about it it's it's

[1:16:18] super hard to obviously get a license

[1:16:20] and stuff like that and it's like

[1:16:22] millions of dollars to start up one as

[1:16:24] well

[1:16:26] obviously is that a more logical place

[1:16:28] for it well if you look at dispensaries

[1:16:31] and stuff like that I mean obviously

[1:16:33] it's legal now in Illinois and most of the dispensaries top

[1:16:39] dispensaries are selling Delta as well

[1:16:41] so they're obviously if you get a

[1:16:44] medical card I mean you're able to get

[1:16:46] it and even without a medical card

[1:16:48] you're able to get it as well and they

[1:16:50] are selling that Delta as well even at

[1:16:53] these very top level level dispensaries

[1:16:56] so kind of my my proposal is like

[1:16:59] instead of just like Banning it like we should have like higher as well

[1:17:04] exactly absolutely I mean instead of

[1:17:07] like like they can literally go to any

[1:17:10] neighboring um places around here and

[1:17:13] grab it as well oh we have a dispensary

[1:17:15] in town so ex yeah

[1:17:18] MH

[1:17:20] okay any other

[1:17:22] questions no do we have I have a

[1:17:26] question do we have any other Vape

[1:17:28] locations in Prospect Heights

[1:17:33] one yes so um we have one on Rand Road

[1:17:37] we have uh one on Rand Road we've got um

[1:17:42] one in the east side at the Plaza

[1:17:45] Center we have a couple of convenient

[1:17:47] stores that also uh sell Vape products

[1:17:50] and other products currently those

[1:17:53] products are not prohibited through our

[1:17:55] zoning Corridor building code I think

[1:17:58] the numberers about seven facilities

[1:18:00] right now currently sell that

[1:18:03] information Chief am I correct on that

[1:18:05] that's

[1:18:12] correct is there any more information we

[1:18:15] can get on these Delta products that you

[1:18:17] could provide or yes if you want a list

[1:18:20] after this meeting I'm more than happy

[1:18:22] to send it over okay

[1:18:25] yeah we like that do you do this volume

[1:18:27] in your other

[1:18:29] stores you being very conservative yeah

[1:18:33] but I mean you've got this data here

[1:18:35] where did that come from this is this is

[1:18:37] just from like years of experience and

[1:18:39] stuff like that like we we have family

[1:18:42] members we have ours ourselves so we're

[1:18:44] able to like estimate pretty well how

[1:18:47] much we're going to be making in tax

[1:18:48] revenue and and obviously our tax

[1:18:51] revenue and our sales revenue as well do

[1:18:54] that doesn't reflect than what you're

[1:18:55] making in your store in R Lake we're

[1:18:57] making over a million

[1:19:01] Lake come up come up to the microphone

[1:19:03] because no you can come up come on up

[1:19:06] you're part of his uh request so

[1:19:09] rounding actually does more Revenue than

[1:19:13] this I just I just wanted to say this is

[1:19:16] round like a is round like a bigger

[1:19:18] store or about same size uh it's a bit

[1:19:20] bigger um but there's it's also a bigger

[1:19:24] uh population over there so yeah what

[1:19:27] about your Wisconsin stores are there

[1:19:28] same size as the one you're looking at

[1:19:31] purchasing the location I'm looking at

[1:19:32] yeah um some of them are about the same

[1:19:35] size but a lot of them are bigger than

[1:19:37] that well how many locations you have in

[1:19:39] Wisconsin we have four you have four we

[1:19:41] in

[1:19:45] Wisconsin Country Gentlemen please

[1:19:48] introduce yourself for the record about

[1:19:51] that I'm Mohammad AB the Jabber

[1:19:55] hi my name is Adam Assad so we have four

[1:19:58] locations in Wisconsin we have also the

[1:20:01] kind of location in Round Lake uh all of

[1:20:04] them are all about the same size they do

[1:20:06] roughly about the same thing in sales

[1:20:09] with Delta and kind of V some of them

[1:20:12] more Delta some of them more vape but

[1:20:14] that's kind of the paper that we gave

[1:20:16] you guys is kind of like a average of we

[1:20:19] kind of like added up together kind of

[1:20:21] like like divided that by the the

[1:20:25] locations that we have and kind of came

[1:20:27] up with that usually that's like our

[1:20:30] average kind of business we have some of

[1:20:32] them that do a lot more sales in Delta

[1:20:34] and some of them

[1:20:36] less um and that's how we kind of came

[1:20:39] up with those

[1:20:43] numbers how how come you

[1:20:46] not where are you guys from Lon Hurst

[1:20:49] you live up yeah how come you don't have

[1:20:51] other stores in this area in this area

[1:20:54] or in that this area to be honest when

[1:20:57] we found that location that was our

[1:20:58] first time coming to M Prospect and

[1:21:00] Prospect heghts like this area uh we

[1:21:03] always own like a lot of businesses and

[1:21:06] we're like more kind of like focused on

[1:21:09] our businesses so we work in our

[1:21:11] businesses we work a lot of hours you

[1:21:13] know um cuz we go back to like the

[1:21:17] underage

[1:21:18] stuff

[1:21:20] um a lot of underage people as you guys

[1:21:22] know Tred to purchase alcohol or they

[1:21:25] try to purchase vape and stuff like that

[1:21:27] you have to make sure that in your

[1:21:29] business you have somebody that's

[1:21:30] responsible and nobody does your job

[1:21:32] like nobody takes care of your business

[1:21:34] like you should so we kind of more hours

[1:21:37] so we we have we have a lot of

[1:21:39] franchises in like North suburbs like on

[1:21:41] the border and we like to be in our

[1:21:43] businesses so we never really our whole

[1:21:46] life kind of we lived like in the G in

[1:21:48] like Lake County and we're just like

[1:21:51] planning on expanding we expanded to

[1:21:53] Wisconsin trying to expand a little bit

[1:21:55] more towards like the city of Chicago

[1:21:57] aren't you worried the state's going to

[1:21:59] kill this what do you mean like and this

[1:22:02] whole Delta issue I mean that's true a

[1:22:05] lot of villages are trying to ban I'm

[1:22:08] talking about the state don't worry

[1:22:09] about the villages they'll do what they

[1:22:11] want but the state could end it on their

[1:22:13] own and and it just go

[1:22:15] away yeah we kind of kind of see that I

[1:22:19] don't know if it's going to be anytime

[1:22:21] soon um I mean everything has a peak in

[1:22:25] life you know um you haven't hit that

[1:22:27] yet you don't think it's hit that yet no

[1:22:29] I don't think so yeah I mean if

[1:22:32] you like I said everything has a peak

[1:22:35] you know um everything trends at a time

[1:22:38] I feel like um tobacco shops are

[1:22:41] trending right now uh a lot of people

[1:22:44] move from cigarettes to vape you know

[1:22:48] and they're just like kind of like

[1:22:50] getting more and more popular now so I

[1:22:52] don't think that they kind of like

[1:22:53] peaked yet for them to like ban Delta

[1:22:56] and I kind of feel like U there's like a

[1:22:59] lot of different stuff that goes with

[1:23:01] Delta you know there's like thca which

[1:23:02] is also legal it has uh the state's um

[1:23:07] THC level like the low THC level with

[1:23:10] like a higher thca level and that's what

[1:23:13] dispensaries sell so I feel like if they

[1:23:14] baned in the state they'll kind kind of

[1:23:17] like affect dispensaries too I don't

[1:23:19] think they would want to affect

[1:23:21] dispensaries if you look at but but but

[1:23:25] you brought up the dispensaries if

[1:23:27] you to me the only angle on this thing

[1:23:30] is the underage part right if you're 21

[1:23:32] years old you drive you know less than a

[1:23:34] mile to go to a dispensary and get

[1:23:35] whatever you want you know low medium

[1:23:37] and high potency right I'm sure

[1:23:40] yeah I I I'm not sure how you guys are

[1:23:43] able to I mean survive based on having

[1:23:46] these dispensaries near you unless there

[1:23:48] is that underage angle to it you know

[1:23:51] cuz there's no requirement that for

[1:23:53] Illinois that you have to be 21 to buy

[1:23:55] this Delta right 100% so you have to be

[1:23:57] 21 to buy um I mean people are going

[1:24:01] to like underage is going to be underage

[1:24:03] we were all young and kids at one point

[1:24:06] and if you smoked cigarettes or if you

[1:24:08] drank alcohol as a kid you're going to

[1:24:10] try regardless as long as the people

[1:24:12] that are inside the business are doing

[1:24:14] their job properly and not selling to

[1:24:16] underage that's how we can prevent kids

[1:24:18] from having Vape Delta or whatever it is

[1:24:22] that you have to be over 21 you

[1:24:26] know to be able to get their hands on

[1:24:29] something like

[1:24:31] that well so you have four stores in

[1:24:33] Wisconsin correct okay and I know she

[1:24:36] asked what where in Wisconsin and are

[1:24:38] you getting any Kickback from the state

[1:24:39] of Wisconsin you know with opening any

[1:24:42] vape stores or are you able to open up

[1:24:45] is there any restrictions in Wisconsin

[1:24:47] no just uh like two months ago two and a

[1:24:51] half months ago we opened two more

[1:24:53] locations

[1:24:55] Wisconsin they don't have any

[1:24:56] restrictions yet I know katum is banned

[1:24:59] in Wisconsin it's always I think been

[1:25:02] banned but for Delta it's not banned we

[1:25:05] are able to sell it freely as long as

[1:25:08] whoever is buying it is 21 with like a

[1:25:10] valid

[1:25:11] ID um are you right over the Border then

[1:25:14] are you right over the border so we have

[1:25:16] a few locations so one of our locations

[1:25:18] in Burlington Wisconsin the other one is

[1:25:20] in Hills Corner one of them is in bore

[1:25:24] and and the other one's in Wind Lake

[1:25:27] Wisconsin they're all kind of like a

[1:25:30] couple of them are um right over the

[1:25:32] border so they're closer to kind of like

[1:25:34] between Lake Geneva and

[1:25:36] anoch and the other one is on the other

[1:25:40] side of like downtown Milwaukee it's

[1:25:42] like 15 minutes away from downtown

[1:25:43] Milwaukee okay and one of them is I

[1:25:45] don't know if you guys are familiar with

[1:25:47] like Southridge

[1:25:48] Mall uh like Highway 100 Milwaukee it's

[1:25:53] I don't know it's this small it's small

[1:25:54] like Village called Hills

[1:25:56] corner and we sell Delta product in all

[1:25:59] of those locations okay and then uh

[1:26:02] Round Lake is the only location in

[1:26:04] Illinois yeah and if you tried to um get

[1:26:08] into any other CI I think that was a

[1:26:10] question that was asked besides Ro

[1:26:13] Lake we have our family owns a lot of

[1:26:16] different vape shops a lot of different

[1:26:18] locations that's our problem is our

[1:26:20] family is really big like when I tell

[1:26:22] you huge like

[1:26:24] Middle Easterns don't have one and two

[1:26:26] kids they have like I'm I'm one of nine

[1:26:29] you know so with our kind of issue is we

[1:26:34] don't like to be our family's

[1:26:36] competitors you know we have a lot of

[1:26:39] smoke shops in Round Lake W North

[1:26:41] Chicago Zion

[1:26:44] gney um you know there's like we have

[1:26:46] like a lot of businesses over there so

[1:26:48] and all those Villages are very small

[1:26:50] and they're I don't know if they the

[1:26:53] population difference between here and

[1:26:55] there but I feel like over here there's

[1:26:56] more like the population is bigger like

[1:26:59] the closer you get to the city the

[1:27:01] bigger the population that's we in a

[1:27:03] prospect tits we only have 16,000 people

[1:27:05] compared to over

[1:27:08] 30,000 find this kind of prospect height

[1:27:11] and M Prospect kind of you know what I

[1:27:14] mean so we kind of like thought about it

[1:27:15] where we can have people from Prospect

[1:27:17] height and Mount Prospect so we kind of

[1:27:20] like adding two populations together um

[1:27:24] so our problem is the reason why like

[1:27:27] other reasons why we're coming over here

[1:27:28] is because kind of like the traffic like

[1:27:31] a mile down from over here there's like

[1:27:33] all the bigger stores and stuff like

[1:27:35] that and the traffic that we see over

[1:27:36] here so there's like more it's like more

[1:27:39] alive over here our issu is over there

[1:27:42] is wherever we go we're going to be our

[1:27:45] family's competition and that's not good

[1:27:47] what time to move what is it tell them

[1:27:49] to move I know I wish I could that's why

[1:27:51] they're moving you know with us it's

[1:27:53] kind of like

[1:27:56] uh we're very like um respectful you

[1:28:01] know I mean we like follow the rules we

[1:28:03] like to you know family comes first

[1:28:05] before anything you know yeah so we

[1:28:07] don't want to like bother them and we

[1:28:09] don't want them to bother us you know if

[1:28:11] I may provide some uh feedback uh and some opinion to the council I I

[1:28:17] respect your uh your pitch here but in

[1:28:20] my sinere belief the reason they're

[1:28:21] targeting Prospect Heights is because

[1:28:23] every community Community around us has

[1:28:25] banned these products and so we're the

[1:28:27] last community that doesn't have an

[1:28:29] ordinance Banning the sale of these

[1:28:31] products that is my belief is why

[1:28:34] they're here and looking to open up a

[1:28:36] shop and Prospect

[1:28:37] Heights I just wanted to flesh out the

[1:28:39] whole business model here anyway just to hear about it but he he is right I

[1:28:43] mean we didn't we didn't ban this

[1:28:46] because uh we're not looking to ban it

[1:28:48] for any other reason than it's something

[1:28:51] we don't want in in town so I mean we

[1:28:53] have a we we have a we have one

[1:28:55] dispensary highly regulated and

[1:28:57] controlled cameras out the woo in there

[1:28:59] regulated by the state this is the wild

[1:29:01] west and and as regulated as you guys

[1:29:04] might make it for your

[1:29:06] location not everybody would be like

[1:29:08] that so I I have to error on the side to

[1:29:10] say I wouldn't want that to happen or it

[1:29:12] just explodes here and and and and we

[1:29:14] can't control it so um that's why this

[1:29:17] is before us now um so that we

[1:29:22] appreciate you coming by but I think I

[1:29:26] think

[1:29:27] um unless there's anything else you want

[1:29:29] to present we we would move on I would

[1:29:32] like to get some more information about

[1:29:33] these Delta products because I'm kind of

[1:29:35] on the fence here I mean I'm not saying

[1:29:37] that um I mean the cadium I understand

[1:29:41] but I mean you know it's revenue of the

[1:29:44] city I would be you know it's an issue

[1:29:46] it's not the revenue in just just to be

[1:29:49] clear on your model here you show a 10%

[1:29:51] income we're like a point and a half

[1:29:53] because the rest rest of that goes to

[1:29:55] RTA state of Illinois Cook County as far

[1:29:58] as sales tax goes where do you get this

[1:30:00] 10% coming to the city we got we looked

[1:30:03] at the sales ta that's not all ours you

[1:30:05] know that right yeah it was just it's

[1:30:08] very hard to 102 Grand not $60,000 a

[1:30:12] year so that's a big difference then we

[1:30:14] have to regulate it then we have to make

[1:30:16] sure that we're making sure that they're

[1:30:17] doing what they say they're going to do

[1:30:19] there's just no there's no upside to it

[1:30:20] for us I I would agree with you if it

[1:30:22] was $60,000 and we could strongly

[1:30:25] regulate it and make sure it's working

[1:30:27] maybe but you know so it's not getting

[1:30:28] in the hands of kids but you just can't

[1:30:31] you're going to add a burden to the to the city to regulate this and

[1:30:34] make sure that what are we regulating

[1:30:36] except not to sell it's under age right

[1:30:39] that's what we're that's the only thing

[1:30:40] we're regulating right for for 10 to

[1:30:42] 122,000 a year is not a to me it's not a

[1:30:45] not something we should even be contla

[1:30:47] but it's still r i mean I don't I don't

[1:30:49] know but can't just be R I do want to

[1:30:52] mention that like these numbers are very

[1:30:54] conservative as well um I know some of

[1:30:56] our businesses are over hitting that $1

[1:30:59] million threshold so I just and also

[1:31:02] like you could use that same analogy for

[1:31:04] alcohol and tobacco products as well I

[1:31:06] mean obviously all these stuff is very

[1:31:08] regulated as well I mean we could use

[1:31:11] that same principle for the Delta

[1:31:13] products as well I mean why fight this

[1:31:15] issue or we could just make it just more

[1:31:19] restrictions that makes

[1:31:21] sense but with alcohol and tobacco

[1:31:24] that's federally regulated State

[1:31:26] regulated County regulated we don't have

[1:31:28] to really worry about that right I mean

[1:31:30] it's done for us this we would be owning

[1:31:33] our own you know our own regulation we

[1:31:35] would be on our own with it and for the

[1:31:37] small return that's there it's just not

[1:31:39] worth it we have plenty to do I don't

[1:31:41] want to task our Police Department with

[1:31:42] having to stop by these places

[1:31:44] constantly for 12 Grand a year even

[1:31:46] let's say you doubled your amount went

[1:31:48] to a million dollars let's say 20 grand

[1:31:50] a year I it just to me it's not it's

[1:31:53] just not worth it like we we have so

[1:31:55] much experience with owning you do but I

[1:31:59] can't we can't write this ordinance to

[1:32:00] say you can do it nobody else can that's

[1:32:03] the

[1:32:04] problem I agree with you you you're

[1:32:07] really good at what what you you do it

[1:32:09] sounds like you have it down but that's

[1:32:10] you that's not the guy who sees you do

[1:32:12] it and wants to open the place up down

[1:32:14] the street and do the same thing and say

[1:32:16] well I'm going to beat him because I'm

[1:32:17] going to go chiny on my security and I'm

[1:32:19] not going to uh worry about IDs right

[1:32:22] and the state's not there to help us

[1:32:23] Count's not there to help us you know

[1:32:25] we're on our own and and

[1:32:27] for I I I don't want to be known as a

[1:32:30] Delta City because we let one in and now

[1:32:33] everybody can come in even though they

[1:32:35] do a good job but we don't have any we

[1:32:37] don't have a lot of vape shops it's not

[1:32:38] like we have like five or six or 10 Bap

[1:32:41] shops yeah it looks like there's it's

[1:32:43] going to be probably us and two other

[1:32:44] people so right until you to to till

[1:32:48] they see that we're allowing it

[1:32:50] then Katie bar the door I I would like

[1:32:52] to table our V on this I mean I you know

[1:32:57] cadium was one thing but I'd like to

[1:32:58] table or go till I get more information

[1:33:00] on Delta

[1:33:02] products if I may provide a little bit

[1:33:04] of um feedback uh katum just like any

[1:33:07] other THC product but um both products

[1:33:10] they they they they have um addictive

[1:33:13] and dependence um um an Essence to them

[1:33:17] they can be harmful to various parts of

[1:33:20] the body um well so can THC I mean sure

[1:33:23] and I'm talking about THC and katum and the issue that this creates is

[1:33:27] because many of the communities around

[1:33:29] us have banned both THC and Crum product

[1:33:33] it would draw such a such an attention

[1:33:35] and an eye to Prospect Heights in a very

[1:33:37] negative way um one it would be that a

[1:33:40] lot of individuals would look to open

[1:33:42] stores and sell THC uh katum Delta

[1:33:46] product uh in Prospect Heights it would

[1:33:48] draw uh the attention of many consumers

[1:33:52] uh thus creating as the mayor pointed

[1:33:54] out a lot of work for uh the police

[1:33:56] department and also code enforcement to

[1:33:58] help and try to regulate this um I I

[1:34:01] don't really see a benefit to our

[1:34:03] community um or or or to residents of

[1:34:06] Prospect Heights to become the Delta

[1:34:08] Crum THC City when everyone around us

[1:34:11] has decided to ban this there is no um

[1:34:14] benefit or upside to allowing the sale

[1:34:17] of these products and Prospect Heights

[1:34:19] essentially none I see your point about

[1:34:21] the cadium but I'm not necessarily

[1:34:23] seeing your point about the Delta so I

[1:34:25] still would like to table this and get

[1:34:26] more information on Delta before we take

[1:34:28] a vote we're also missing one Alderman

[1:34:30] here so I would like to table it I can

[1:34:34] make a motion to table

[1:34:37] this just made

[1:34:40] ation yeah the the ordinance is not up

[1:34:44] right now to make the motion on this

[1:34:45] we're still in uh public comment all

[1:34:48] right we'll wait till we get

[1:34:50] there but thank you very much thank you

[1:34:52] so much

[1:34:57] is there anybody else clerk any other uh

[1:35:01] no no all right um item seven consent

[1:35:04] agenda we have uh item a resolution r214

[1:35:08] staff memo and resolution establishing

[1:35:10] an ad hoc 50th anniversary celebration

[1:35:13] committee for the city of Prospect

[1:35:15] Heights um this is just to uh set up a

[1:35:18] committee uh we can fill the committee

[1:35:21] don't do that right now but it we'll do

[1:35:23] that over over time here but it's just

[1:35:25] to set up a committee to kind of

[1:35:27] organize um any kind of special events

[1:35:30] we might do for our 50th

[1:35:32] Anniversary I that's right I would I

[1:35:34] would sub move second we have a motion

[1:35:37] and

[1:35:38] second

[1:35:40] questions roll call please Alderman

[1:35:43] Cameron I Alderman dck I Alderman

[1:35:47] Anderson I Aldren Morgan Adams I motion

[1:35:51] passes item eight old business ordinance

[1:35:55] 02504 staff memo and ordinance amending

[1:35:58] title 2 chapter 6 of the prospecti city

[1:36:00] code regarding products containing Tetra

[1:36:03] Hydro canab

[1:36:05] canabo canabidol

[1:36:07] THC and that that's the second reading

[1:36:10] yeah and I would like to table

[1:36:13] that I have a motion to

[1:36:16] table hearing no

[1:36:19] second motion

[1:36:22] fails so any a motion to

[1:36:25] approve so move

[1:36:28] Cameron we have a motion is there a

[1:36:30] second second okay have a motion and a

[1:36:34] second um we we can have discussion

[1:36:37] again again I mean I would like some

[1:36:39] information more information on Delta as

[1:36:41] opposed to the Crum I don't have a

[1:36:43] problem with Banning the Crum I do have

[1:36:47] issues regarding the Delta I understand

[1:36:49] what you're all saying but I'm not yet

[1:36:52] convinced we should ban the Delta

[1:36:56] products so I'd like to get more

[1:36:58] information on it I I don't have a whole

[1:37:01] lot of information on it and there's

[1:37:02] none been provided to any of the council

[1:37:04] members so I'd like to I'd like to get a

[1:37:07] better understanding of of what we're

[1:37:08] dealing

[1:37:09] with yeah we can you can we can get more

[1:37:12] information on it and uh if if the

[1:37:15] council changes our mind we can always

[1:37:16] undo an ordinance or well I'd rather not

[1:37:18] vote until I have enough information I

[1:37:20] mean I I can't vote my vote is not going

[1:37:23] to be

[1:37:24] a yes vote I can tell you that without

[1:37:26] knowing more about what this is about

[1:37:30] this product and what it does and where

[1:37:32] it's sold and where it's not sold and

[1:37:34] what the deal is with this and I

[1:37:35] understand your position on it but we

[1:37:37] haven't had a lot of discussion on it we

[1:37:39] have a lot of we don't know much about

[1:37:41] the other products so I'd like to have

[1:37:43] some more information okay so is there

[1:37:46] any other comments or questions on it is

[1:37:49] Delta

[1:37:50] THC it's it's it's quity synthetic no

[1:37:54] it's synthetic made it's not from the

[1:37:57] plant itself

[1:37:59] correct it's it's lab made made in the

[1:38:03] laboratory well the the products that

[1:38:06] are being sold they're packaged as as

[1:38:08] edible uh THC infus drinks various

[1:38:11] products and so it's not regulated by

[1:38:15] any governing body state or federal how

[1:38:17] this THC is being infused into these

[1:38:20] products and that's really one of the

[1:38:22] major concerns now did talk about

[1:38:24] professional packaging and everything of

[1:38:26] that sort uh that is the big that that

[1:38:28] is one of the concerns on the city now

[1:38:31] THC is the chemical that's found in

[1:38:33] cannabis and a lot of these other

[1:38:35] products but it's when it comes to Delta

[1:38:37] that the levels are um the amount of

[1:38:40] Delta and the amount of THC that's in

[1:38:43] these products but specifically the

[1:38:45] products that are infused uh with the

[1:38:47] with this substance is that is not

[1:38:50] overly regulated um it's it's it's it's

[1:38:55] a big big taboo subject for me if you

[1:38:57] will uh it's not very well known and

[1:39:00] that is really the reason why a lot of

[1:39:02] the suburbs around us have decided to

[1:39:04] put an ordinance in place because the

[1:39:06] state hasn't uh or D FDA hasn't really

[1:39:09] regulated this product very well so when

[1:39:12] they talk about professional packaging

[1:39:13] then what do you guys mean I mean it's

[1:39:16] not regulated and we don't I mean I'm

[1:39:17] not saying it's federally regulated we

[1:39:19] know it's not but what does the

[1:39:20] professional packaging do I mean what is that uh what what kind of uh uh

[1:39:27] you know regulation does that provide at

[1:39:30] all well I think when they spoke about

[1:39:32] professional packaging it was more for

[1:39:34] uh child resistance so an underage

[1:39:37] individual or child could not tear open

[1:39:39] the package and and get into the

[1:39:41] contents of it am I correct in saying

[1:39:43] that yes and this includes Edibles and

[1:39:46] drinks and all kinds of product well not

[1:39:48] it's it's obviously harder to P because

[1:39:50] you can just screw it on but with and

[1:39:53] stuff like that it's professionally

[1:39:55] package all them hard for a child to

[1:39:59] obiously open

[1:40:00] them certainly an 18-year-old could open

[1:40:04] it and they're underage

[1:40:07] right but you can't buy it if you're AG

[1:40:09] you can use that same

[1:40:14] con um anyways I don't we so and you can

[1:40:19] buy these products at the um are the

[1:40:24] dispensaries yeah correct that's correct

[1:40:27] we only have one dispensary I believe in

[1:40:29] Prospect he that is correct that's we

[1:40:31] agreed

[1:40:34] upon um just just for clarification if

[1:40:37] we do vote on this a yes vote is a yes

[1:40:39] on Banning it correct yes on passing the

[1:40:43] ordinance which bans I just want to make

[1:40:45] sure we're all on the same page correct

[1:40:48] okay correct thank you you're approving

[1:40:50] the ordinance yes

[1:40:54] okay so we have a first and a second

[1:40:56] roll call please Alderman Morgan Adams

[1:41:00] nay Alderman Anderson I I aldin dock I

[1:41:05] aldin Cameron

[1:41:07] I okay motion

[1:41:12] passes thank

[1:41:14] you um item nine new

[1:41:20] business um a is our AR um resolution

[1:41:24] r216 staff memo and resolution approving

[1:41:27] local funding commitment for motor fuel

[1:41:29] tax funds for various Street resurfacing

[1:41:32] projects not to exceed

[1:41:35] $326,000

[1:41:37] 38 need a motion to

[1:41:40] approve so

[1:41:42] move second Cameron have a motion and a

[1:41:45] second any

[1:41:47] questions I have a quick question this

[1:41:50] is this this is a different motor fuel

[1:41:52] tax money then

[1:41:55] um I I noticed that there was an

[1:41:57] explanation that it was like some kind

[1:41:58] of super motor fuel tax money versus

[1:42:00] just the regular so is this included in

[1:42:03] our balance of our motor fuel

[1:42:05] tax these are RBI funds okay which is

[1:42:09] different which is which is rebuild

[1:42:10] Illinois funds which are motor fuel tax

[1:42:13] but those those are the ones that have

[1:42:14] the uh the expiration date of July to be

[1:42:17] spent and this is the amount that's

[1:42:19] expiring is that why we're approving

[1:42:20] this amount or is this the project

[1:42:22] amount that is the O that is the uh

[1:42:24] leftover amount uh from the Owen Street

[1:42:28] project okay and we will be able to get it spent

[1:42:34] before we need to before we lose it l it

[1:42:37] yes yeah okay all right so we have a

[1:42:40] motion and a second roll call please

[1:42:43] Alderman dock hi Alderman Cameron hi

[1:42:46] Alderman Morgan Adams hi aldman Anderson

[1:42:49] hi motion

[1:42:51] passes Item B resolution r219 staff memo

[1:42:55] and resolution approving amendment

[1:42:57] number four to the intergovernmental

[1:42:59] agreement between the state of Illinois

[1:43:01] Department of Natural Resources and the

[1:43:03] state of Illinois Department of

[1:43:05] Transportation and the City of prospect

[1:43:07] ties and the Village of Mount Prospect

[1:43:09] for the upper displays River Road damage

[1:43:12] reduction project element Levy

[1:43:16] 37a we need a motion to approve so moov

[1:43:19] Anderson

[1:43:21] second we have a motion and a second and just for the

[1:43:25] record I signed one of these uh

[1:43:27] extensions or amendments 17 years

[1:43:31] ago that's very scary terrible very

[1:43:35] scary uh so this is I think the fourth

[1:43:37] amendment to it fourth or fth yes sir

[1:43:40] fourth so we have a motion and a

[1:43:43] second roll call please aldin Cameron I

[1:43:47] Alderman Morgan Adams hi Alderman

[1:43:49] Anderson hi Alderman dock I

[1:43:53] motion's

[1:43:55] approve uh item C resolution r220 staff

[1:43:58] memo and resolution approving an

[1:44:00] amendment to the license for use

[1:44:02] temporary construction easement and

[1:44:04] Perpetual access maintenance agreement

[1:44:06] with Our Redeemer Lutheran

[1:44:09] Church so move Morgan

[1:44:11] Adams motion we have a second second any

[1:44:17] questions no I read it roll call please

[1:44:20] Alder Morgan Adams I Alderman Anderson

[1:44:23] hi alderin dock hi aldin Cameron I

[1:44:27] motions

[1:44:28] approved um item D ordinance 0255 staff

[1:44:32] memo and ordinance establishing water

[1:44:34] rates for fiscal year 2526 this is a

[1:44:37] first reading so no action is required

[1:44:40] if you have any questions um give Joe a

[1:44:44] call and um this will be our next

[1:44:47] meeting on April 16th 16th Tuesday okay

[1:44:51] 15 15

[1:44:53] that's right 14th Monday right okay

[1:44:58] please get us a

[1:45:01] calendar item 10 staff and elected

[1:45:03] officials and commission reports

[1:45:05] February financial report be presented

[1:45:08] by assistant Finance director tanah Hill

[1:45:10] y thank you mayor and city council

[1:45:12] present the February financial report

[1:45:14] for the which covers the last 10 months

[1:45:16] we're 83% of the Year our city total

[1:45:19] revenues represent 72% of the budget

[1:45:22] while our expenses reflect 59% of the

[1:45:24] budget some highlights and I say maybe

[1:45:27] low lights but revenues for the tourism

[1:45:30] District like we talked about in the

[1:45:31] present uh budget presentation are below

[1:45:35] budget expectations again because of the

[1:45:38] one hotel that's closing and the other

[1:45:39] one going in uh filing for bankruptcy so

[1:45:43] far this year we received is February we

[1:45:45] received

[1:45:46] $265,000 in vehicle sticker Revenue we

[1:45:49] are still people are still coming in uh

[1:45:52] over the last last week and a half we've

[1:45:53] seen an influx of people coming in and

[1:45:55] buying their sticker just so residents

[1:45:57] know the deadline is March 31st which is

[1:46:00] Monday to purchase your sticker at the

[1:46:03] price uh at the regular price after

[1:46:06] March 31st the prices will go up uh for

[1:46:09] late fees charged on that all the other

[1:46:12] revenues that we see are are within line

[1:46:15] of budget

[1:46:17] expectations um also interest income is

[1:46:19] again at um showing strong as compared

[1:46:24] to budgets and our place for eating tax

[1:46:26] is at about 98% of the budget so far

[1:46:29] this year which is a good thing we still

[1:46:31] have two more months uh of this budget

[1:46:33] so we're hoping to see place for eating

[1:46:35] tax above our budget expectations on

[1:46:38] there uh water and sewer are again are

[1:46:41] within the budget and other than that uh

[1:46:45] if you have any questions try to answer

[1:46:47] them for

[1:46:48] you do we know why the phone utility tax

[1:46:51] is so high there there was a um a

[1:46:54] payment that was made on the phone

[1:46:55] utility tax that when I called the ill

[1:46:58] Department of Revenue they checked into

[1:47:00] it too we got an extra payment uh from

[1:47:02] one of the utilities and that was within

[1:47:06] line they couldn't give me a lot of

[1:47:07] explanation on why but they said it's

[1:47:10] we're supposed to get it okay so it was

[1:47:12] an extra I believe

[1:47:16] $60,000 they came in and they held it

[1:47:19] for a while and then they once they got

[1:47:21] clarification they said it's our M

[1:47:23] talking to him

[1:47:25] so all right thank

[1:47:28] you um we'll start on the right with

[1:47:31] staff reports Peter uh thank you sir

[1:47:34] nothing but I nothing but serious but I

[1:47:37] real quick I just want to emphasize uh

[1:47:40] that we are in the final stretch of

[1:47:42] vehicle stickers so please uh buy

[1:47:45] vehicle stickers uh because I know I

[1:47:47] want to be at the front desk April 1st

[1:47:49] when somebody comes in and says oh I

[1:47:51] forgot and we will be charging laate

[1:47:53] fees on April 1st there is no there is

[1:47:56] no reason why you can't get in here this

[1:47:58] week or even Monday so please come in

[1:48:00] and buy your stickers everyone else is

[1:48:03] doing it please be compliant with the

[1:48:05] city's regulations thank you very

[1:48:07] much sure no report Mark uh just to

[1:48:11] remind residents that yard was started

[1:48:13] last Friday and uh make sure you look at

[1:48:16] Flood Brothers website to make sure

[1:48:17] you're putting it out properly that's it

[1:48:20] thank you sir I've had enough time

[1:48:21] tonight

[1:48:24] uh thank you very much mayor councel uh

[1:48:27] just quick reminder to everyone it's uh

[1:48:30] starting into spring construction season

[1:48:33] uh if you're planning those remodeling

[1:48:35] Projects Home Improvement projects or

[1:48:37] any of those please um get your plans in

[1:48:39] early allow time for reviews and proper

[1:48:44] um permit issuances and remember to

[1:48:47] contact us for your required inspections

[1:48:51] additionally I am going to do the

[1:48:52] reminder again please keep your eyes out

[1:48:55] for fraudulent contractors um they will

[1:48:59] be coming up starting door too um when

[1:49:02] the weather breaks they'll be offering

[1:49:04] you incre incredible offers please know

[1:49:07] that if you didn't call them that

[1:49:10] they're

[1:49:11] out trying to course you into doing

[1:49:14] something you may not have budgeted for

[1:49:17] we can always call the city hall to make

[1:49:18] sure that the contractors are registered

[1:49:20] with us you can make sure that the

[1:49:23] project they're saying doesn't require a

[1:49:25] permit whether it really does or doesn't

[1:49:27] and 90% of the time those projects do

[1:49:29] require permits those are telltale signs

[1:49:32] of someone trying to commit a fraudulent

[1:49:35] act so thank you very much that's all I

[1:49:37] have tonight thank you Joe no

[1:49:41] report uh who else

[1:49:43] Lloyd Chief thank you mayor uh two quick

[1:49:47] things I'd like to highlight that this

[1:49:49] Friday March 28th at 400 p.m right here

[1:49:52] at City Hall we will be hosting a

[1:49:54] swearing in ceremony for officer Ryan

[1:49:56] Hart it will be transitioning from

[1:49:58] part-time to full-time and lastly I'd

[1:50:01] like to highlight uh a very big

[1:50:03] achievement of our C program and police

[1:50:07] volunteer members C program Community

[1:50:09] Emergency Response Team a program the

[1:50:12] police department has put on in

[1:50:13] collaboration with the fire district um

[1:50:16] training um our police volunteers for

[1:50:19] emergency preparedness it just happened

[1:50:21] to be on March 22nd that um uh two of

[1:50:25] our police volunteers members of The Sur

[1:50:27] program were out in community policing

[1:50:29] Marsha gendres and Angelo petratos when

[1:50:33] they heard a call of a missing juvenile

[1:50:35] endangered juvenile that had ran away

[1:50:37] from home they decided to continue

[1:50:39] patrolling and ended up locating the

[1:50:41] juvenile alerted the police and um gave

[1:50:44] him the proper medical assistance that

[1:50:47] he needed so we just want to uh

[1:50:49] recognize them for their outstanding

[1:50:51] service and Alderman doik is um a

[1:50:55] successful graduate of the CCH program

[1:50:57] this

[1:50:59] Saturday thank

[1:51:01] you um elected officials on my left

[1:51:05] anybody no thank you on my right I was

[1:51:08] just going to say uh I've noticed and

[1:51:10] appreciated the the electronic signage

[1:51:12] that's been floating around town

[1:51:13] reminding people of their uh need to get

[1:51:16] their city stickers so uh no one has an

[1:51:19] excuse but I appreciate all of that uh

[1:51:22] that's all I have say thank you sir okay

[1:51:24] just one thing there was an interesting

[1:51:25] thing in the paper about a a lawsuit

[1:51:28] between Arington Heights and I think it

[1:51:30] was Rolling Meadows um that went to the

[1:51:32] Illinois Supreme Court and it had to do

[1:51:34] with sales tax that's going to the wrong

[1:51:37] towns so it doesn't just happen to us it

[1:51:39] happens to a lot of people and I guess

[1:51:41] the long and short was is the Arington

[1:51:44] Heights lost out because they should

[1:51:46] have known better basically was the the

[1:51:48] answer I guess because they were able to

[1:51:50] see on their when they issued the

[1:51:52] permits for work or whatever they would

[1:51:53] have known they were going to get it and

[1:51:54] if they didn't see it coming they

[1:51:56] weren't entitled to it and and Rolling

[1:51:58] Meadows was having nothing to do with

[1:52:00] giving back any money so it was

[1:52:03] interesting decision there that was it

[1:52:07] for me uh approval of warrants will

[1:52:10] clerk read the um the warrants in The

[1:52:12] Wire payments yes thank you mayor uh the

[1:52:15] total of the wire I total of the

[1:52:17] expenditures was $673,500

[1:52:23] we had a wire payment on March 7th uh

[1:52:26] payroll

[1:52:28] $182,300

[1:52:30] we also had an imrf payment in February

[1:52:36] amounting to $

[1:52:39] 17,245 the total warrant then being

[1:52:42] $873,000

[1:52:52] D second have a motion and a second any

[1:52:56] questions roll call please aldman dock I

[1:52:59] aldman camon hi Alderman Morgan Adams hi

[1:53:02] Alderman Anderson

[1:53:04] hi motion

[1:53:06] passes uh any public comment on

[1:53:09] non-agenda

[1:53:10] items no uh we have no executive session

[1:53:13] so there's no action on that executive

[1:53:15] session that didn't happen so I look for

[1:53:18] a motion to adjourn so move

[1:53:20] Anderson second we have a motion and a

[1:53:23] second all those in favor say I I oppos

[1:53:26] I or adjourn

[1:53:29] [Music]

March 24, 205 City of Prospect Heights - City Council Meeting

Agenda

Transcript