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then I will call the meeting of the
Riverside Township Board of Trustees to

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order please rise join me in the pledge
of allegiance iedge of aliance to the

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flag of the United States of America and
to the Republic for which it stands one

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nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all please

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remain standing for a moment of silence
for uh late President Jimmy

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Carter may he rest in
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peace
do clerk Rees would you please call the

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role sure uh truste clerk trusty henok
present trusty deosta present trusty

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Carrol present clerk Reus is here super
visor Wilt present everyone's here we

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have a quorum and we may begin first
order business is the minutes of the

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December 10th board meeting what is your
pleasure make a motion to accept the

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minutes of the December 10th 2024 board
meeting I have a motion do I hear a

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second I'll second it I have a motion by
trusty deasa seconded by trusty Highland

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Bach to approve the minutes of disc
December 10th Riverside Township Board

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of Trustees meeting are there any
additions

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Corrections

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comments hearing none then all in favor
of approving these minutes please

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signify by saying I I I all oppos nay
motion is carried thank

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you uh next we have
communications we have two

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Communications supervisor will the first
is a thank you letter from feds plus uh

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chief executive director Tina rounds who
thanks the board for uh the their

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support of the program and particular of
the

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$5,000 uh contribution to the
organization uh in addition we received

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a nice note from miss Patricia henbu uh
thanking um the township for their

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support uh on the passing of their
mother thank you very much um

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supervisor's
report um fortunately the various

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viruses circulating during the holidays
all seem to find me so I don't have much

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to report tonight I managed to meet with
all the assistant assistance clients

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though during the healthy days uh the
food pantry gift cards came out exactly

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as needed 70 total were given out 35
each from Aldi and uh and Riverside

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Foods for a total of
$3,500 everyone who received them was

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very grateful uh by the way I did a
quick count late in the year and we had

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served exactly 100 families at one point
or another during the course of

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2024 uh numerous groups were also very
generous to The Pantry this holiday

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season the Riverside Foods filled the
truck event reportedly brought us 67

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$6,700 worth of items the village of
North Riverside delivered a load of

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donations as did
starbuds uh various groups and

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individuals also dropped off items
without us necessarily knowing who they

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were for example we received several
large donations of what I would call a

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birthday party kit cake mixes frostings
cake decorations aluminum pans candles

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party napkins plates etc those items we
place on a shelving unit for the food

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pantry clients to take as needed um we
don't put them into the the regular tote

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bags many recipients did help themselves
to these extra treats

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uh we also received almost $800 in
monetary donations including from

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individuals and groups like The
Wednesday bridge players who meet here

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and the Riverside investment Club this
is a big thank you to the community who

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has shown such generosity at the
holidays um I have received a quote for

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an appraisal on our building for
insurance purposes it's been quite some

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time since we had the last one and um
this is an experienced reputable firm

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that is quoted under 2,000 for the
project which is within my SP spending

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limit so I will be engaging them
ironically I found them through a state

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CMS but by Contracting directly I can
save onethird of the cost of what it

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would be through the CMS so hopefully um
I can I'll be getting some more quotes

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on some of the building improvements
that we've talked about in the near

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future now that I'm feeling better so if
you have any questions I may have missed

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something because I'm still in a bit of
a

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fog okay if not then how about the
assessor we have some news good evening

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good evening ran citz the Township
Assessor and um we're off to a good

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start for the year um tomorrow we'll be
sending out a constant contact email

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address emailed going out to probably
about 2,000 people of our our

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taxpayers um second installment property
tax bills will be out on time people

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should be receiving them the first
couple days of February they'll be due

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March 4th um the our exemption
applications are a little delayed by the

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assessor's office they're going through
another transition or the continuing the

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transition um that they're making to a
new system um we probably will not get

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the senior renewal applications out till
mid late February uh so we'll we'll be

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getting a lot of calls about that I'm
sure and um and then also in the email

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we'll have a reminder for our taxpayers
that the treasurer's office does

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administer a program called the senior
tax deferral it is not the senior freeze

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it is a loan program for people who are
struggling to be able to pay up to

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$7,500 of their property taxes through
this loan program so um it's a quick uh

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quick deadline the March there's a March
1 deadline it's always offered this time

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of year by the treasurer's office so uh
that'll be going out tomorrow I'm sure

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that'll generate a lot of phone calls so
be prepared be you usually get them too

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we do too and probably we should warn
the um the CRC because I'm sure Sean

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will be getting those questions if it's
for seniors yes yes um and then Andy

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said he'll post the information on the
website as well very good okay so that's

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what's going on right now thank you so
FR for the senior free that's after you

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turn 65 is that yes okay yes so you have
to turn 65 in the tax year so right now

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we're working with the 2024 tax year so
anyone who's turned 65 um there's

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actually two senior exemptions a senior
exemption you're 65 you live in the home

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you're paying the taxes you get that
exemption but then there's a senior

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freeze so with the senior freeze all
those requirements and the additional

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your income has to be $65,000 or less to
receive the

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freeze so um there the assessor's office
is now calling it or actually it was

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originally legislated to be called the
lowincome senior citizens tax deferral

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everyone got in the habit of calling at
the senior free so we're going back to

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what it was originally called
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on that for probably about eight years
now so I know that people have been

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talking about um legislating an
adjustment on that but so far we haven't

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seen anything
happening okay thank you any questions

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thank you thank you very much welcome
trustees uh trusty Carol you have

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anything nothing today Madam supervisor
trusty deasa uh thank you nothing

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tonight okay uh truste clerk uh thank
you supervisor um I

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um uh got a notice uh that that uh the
township officials of Illinois their

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scholarship program is open and um they
offer um$ $2,000

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scholarships and uh the requirements for
that are um write a

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500w plus essay on Township government
you need two

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recommendations and interview a Township
official and your application is on the

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toi website
to.org and it has to reach the toi

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offices by March
1st um I uh asked the seniors if they

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would like to learn to play maang
because that seems to be all the rage

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right now and I had eight to 10 hands
saying yes they would like to do that

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and so I am looking for a majan
instructor uh because I don't know how

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to apply
it uh

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were you one of the eight or
10 no I wasn't but when I did post that

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I was looking for a Maan instructor on
the uh Riverside Facebook page uh four

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or five people said hey I I don't know
how to play but I would like to learn

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also and just this is a big rage now on
college

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campuses uh you know you can go to the
bars at night and play

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MAA you may have to go to Chinatown to
find somebody to teach I think it's kind

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of an AS
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you know how to play you want to te the

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seniors teaching but I did have a friend
who GRE up as her she'd be interested

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that's F that' be fun and then hopefully
after they learn um you know they you

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know twice a month or something we can
have a little Maan play get together

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maybe on a Tuesday morning or Tuesday
afternoon we'll have to invest in some

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isn't it a set of tiles that they use
it's a set of tiles so we would probably

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you know invest in a few games of it
yeah we would invest in three or four

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games which I can't imagine would be
more than1 or $150 sure for that um so

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I'm I'm hoping we can get that off the
ground and then uh the exercise class

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has consistently having between 24 to 30
people in it uh with the exception of

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Last Friday when we had that snowy slick
weather we only had 10 yeah and that

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concludes my report thank you very much
any

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questions all right and trusty Highland
Bach um just briefly uh we had no

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meeting in December the uh but we did
have a meeting last night uh we're

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trying we've got an engagement committee
that we're going to be working you know

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trying to get the word out for the
mental health you know that were out

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there that were available for them um
we've got a lot of bullet points and

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ideas um QR
codes um the one thing that I believe

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that we are definitely going to do is
start putting our board notes or minutes

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on the website and and the reason is is
that not only for

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transparency but Joan does such a good
job with those notes that it actually

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shows a lot also uh Dr TR iani uh posts
some really nice articles good articles

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and we'd like to get those up on the
website too so I those are two things

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we're going to do uh we meet uh back for
January's meeting which will be at the

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way back in and that will be tomorrow at
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Maywood that concludes my report thank
you very much any

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questions and let's move along new
business the only thing um it's a

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preliminary discussion of the 2025 26
Township budget you have a copy of the

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2025 uh fiscal year budget in your
packets um take a look at it see where

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you think uh we we might need to expand
we and I would recommend that we not

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cancel our scheduled meeting for the
first Tuesday in February and hold a um

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a budget meeting for our committee of
the hall

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I don't believe I got that
copy it should be under new business in

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your in your

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packet it was empty here take this one
trusty clerk you want to I H I can take

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Theus thank youen I'm sure you didn't
miss Point well I'll double check on

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that that could always be a possibility
it may be in there but uh not to worry

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uh we we can always print more and then
then I would also um reference as you

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look at that uh look at your uh monthly
statement of Revenue and expenditures

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that will pretty well follow the budget
in terms of line items so you can see

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where we have been spending and have not
spent yet this year um and that'll give

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you some idea it think about the
priorities of what we need to do in the

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building uh I certainly want to give
this place a bit of a facelift uh as

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best that we can so let's figure out
where the priorities need to be and um

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and be prepared to discuss some some
budget Direction at our meeting any

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discussion any questions on

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that then the next order of business is
the approval of

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warrants I make a
motion uh that the board authorized and

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ratified payments of the bill identified
on the general warrant January 2025 in

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the amount of

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$1,661 thank you do I hear a second
second I have a motion by truste Clark

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seconded by trusty deasa to approve the
general warrants for January 2025 in the

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total amount of

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$1,661 even any
discussion then clerk Reyes would you

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please call the role sure truste clerk
yes trusty hbot yes trusty dla yes

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trusty Caroll yes supervisor Wilt yes
motion is

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carried oh uh I'd like

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to I'd like to make a motion that the
board ratify an authorize payment of the

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amounts indicated on the following
warrants uh utility warrant uh

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17678 payroll warrant in the amount of

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9,332
197 Health warrant in the amount of

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3, uh
$370 10 cents general assistance warrant

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uh in the amount of 9
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2989 Township radio players warranted in
the amount of

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9.78 and the food pantry warrant in the
amount of $398.00

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of
$1,767 182 payroll warrant in the amount

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of

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$1,329 the health warrant in the amount
of

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$3,371 the general assistance warrant in
the amount of

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9,298 the radio the township radio
players warrant in the amount of

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$900. 78 and the food pantry warrant in
the amount of $398.00

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comments hearing nothing then I will
entertain a motion to adjourn motion to

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adjourn do I hear a second second motion
by truste Clark seconded by trustee

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deasa to adjourn this meeting any
discussion hearing none all in favor say

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I I I all oppose nay motion is carried
thank you

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