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Yep. It's time.
>> Okay, we're going to call this to order.

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So,
uh, calling the meeting of the Riverside

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Township Board of Trustees to order. Uh,
and Trustee Highland back, would you

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please lead us in the pledge? I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United

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States of America and to the republic
for which it stands. One nation under

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God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.

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» Thank you. I'm sorry. Who's would
somebody want to do the one? Okay. Thank

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you. All righty.
The uh roll call of the board, please.

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Trusty Clark
>> present.

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» Trusty Highland
>> present.

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» Trusty Navaro
>> present.

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» Trusty Dosta
>> present.

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» Clerk Reges is here. Supervisor Wilt
>> present. Thank you. We have a quorum so

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we can get going. Uh the approval of the
minutes of the December 9th board

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meeting. I move to approve. Have a
motion to approve by Trustee Navaro. Do

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I hear a second?
>> Second.

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» Thank you. I have a a second by trustee
Dasula. Are there any additions,

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corrections?
>> I have a correction, Supervisor Will. On

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page three, under mental health board
report,

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uh, Trustee Highland attended the It
should be Brookfield tree lighting.

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» Okay, that was Brookfield. Thank you.

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Any other corrections,
additions? Any notes hearing? None. Then

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I have a motion by trustee Navaro,
seconded by trustee Dasala to approve

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these minutes. And I presume with the
correction is u part of your motion.

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There being no further discussion, all
in favor signify by saying I.

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» I.
>> All oppose. Nay. Motion is carried.

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Thank you.
Next item. Are there any communications?

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» There are no communications. Okay.
Um,

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so we're on to the supervisor's report.
Uh, the food pantry donations were very

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generous this holiday season. The
shelves are full with many deposits of

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shelf stable goods. The extras shelves
are also full. Some items we may have to

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share with other pantries because we
don't go through much baby food or small

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diapers. Um, monetary donations exceeded
$1,800 in December. Utilization was high

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as well. By year end, we had $127
households use our pantry at least once

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during the year. We provided 90 of the
$75 gift cards approved by this board.

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Plus, there were two smaller uh gift
cards given for a couple of people who

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came right before Christmas when we had
run out of the allocated ones. The

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smaller cards were $50 ones that had
been donated to the pantry. So, there

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was one to Riverside Foods and one to uh
Juel.

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Uh the county treasur's office sent two
lumpsum payments each representing quote

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unquote 20% of build taxes at the end of
the year. the two payments of $154,11866

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for a total of $38,237.32

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were much appreciated, but the notice
also indicated that they do not have the

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system for regular payments working yet.
They also said the money dispersed was

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dispersed only to principal taxing
bodies. um that they acknowledged that

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we needed operating funds, but it was
only to the general fund and nothing was

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sent yet to the general assistance fund.
And I understand nothing has gone out

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yet to the mental health fund.
Dispersements reporting system has not

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shown any updates since October 31st, so
I can't even verify if um any anything

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is getting paid. I was supposed to meet
with the architect to go over their

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proposed plans for the restrooms in mid
December, but I got sick and had to stay

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home two days and cancelled that
meeting. We're working on rescheduling.

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Um, as a matter of fact, we are supposed
to meet this week, Thursday. Uh, the

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staff had a small lunchon to celebrate
Fran Sitkowitz's retirement on December

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30th. If you didn't see it on Facebook,
Fran Friends celebrated Fran Sitkcoitz

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Day with a sign in front of her house to
call attention to the day. I sent a

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press release about the retirement and
the day in her honor uh to the RB

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landmark and they reached out to her for
an interview and the front page of the

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paper had the story on her retirement
and her day and her picture with her

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Higgins bowl and trustees Dassel and
Navaro and with myself.

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Now, I welcome uh Mary Joe Miller to her
official capacity as the township

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assessor. Unfortunately, she got sick
this the first week in her role, but I

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see that she's managed to to be here
this evening. Uh I reported to you in

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November that our 14-year-old copy
machine is starting to fail. At the time

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it was out of service, but the part we
needed was found and we were up and

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running for a while, but we were given
no guarantees on whether the next

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problem will be fixable. We requested
and have been waiting for a proposal

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from Canon for a replacement. The
proposal came midday on Monday of this

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week after our agenda had to be posted
late last week. The copier started to

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show some overprint that you can see on
some of the pages in your binders. So,

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the the proposal um I believe you've
been given a copy of the proposal. It's

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um about $9,400
uh to purchase the new machine. The last

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one we purchased lasted us for 14 years.
So, you know, that that's not too bad an

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investment. And um apparently our
service agreement will be less than half

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the price of what we're paying for this
old machine now. So, um, that will only

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be under $500 a year.
So, um, I don't have it on the agenda

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because it started acting up after the
agenda was distributed. Um, but I

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consider this an emergency and we'll
need to go forward with ordering a new

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one even if it's outside
uh, my usual spending limit of 5,000 and

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then you can approve it at the next
meeting. I guess that I mean I I don't

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expect that we're going to be able to go
very long when it's starting to print

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the way it is.
>> Do we not approve it without being on

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the agenda?
>> We're not supposed to.

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» No, we can't take any formal action if
it's not on the agenda.

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» Okay.
>> So anyway, um but I do have authority

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under emergencies to
>> go forward and I think in principle we

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were aware that it was going to be
happening. Okay. Um, other than that, we

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passed a resolution in October of last
year in support of the Illinois America

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250 commemoration with a general plan to
do some kind of a volunteer project.

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Perhaps we can place discussion of such
a project on an agenda for a committee

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of the whole meeting in February if
everyone is going to be available then.

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So although we usually cancel them, I
think we have something to discuss at

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this point. So come to that meeting with
uh your thinking caps on about what we

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could do uh to commemorate the 250th
anniversary of our nation. That's all I

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have, but I'm very happy to answer any
questions you might have.

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» Uh what is the out time on the machine?
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this although it's dated the 9th. We uh
we were waiting for it to come through

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and of course that came over after as
well. Um, so I'm not sure how long on

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that. I mean, we'll hold off if we can,
but uh, by the way, this new machine

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will also print color, which we don't we
have not had before. So,

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» do we have a secondary machine in case
something happens?

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» We have all of our printers that attach
to our uh, individual computers. Okay.

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our printers uh you know they're they're
uh copiers too but they're individual

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sheets and they're they're much slower
so it's not great actually last month

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when we or the month when we were out of
commission because of the part um I

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think we used the assessor's office um
their copier was a little quicker so

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» okay
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will try to hold off and um we probably
wouldn't be doing the spending until

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then anyway Is the is the February 9th
committee of the whole meeting or is

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» it would be the first of the first
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» The second.
>> No. Uh isn't that the third? The

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February 3rd.
>> Is it the third?

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» Yeah. February 3rd.
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» And then our regular meeting would be
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» Thank you.
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» Yes. So
So yeah, let's plan to have that and

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those are usually at 6:30. So all right.
Uh if there's nothing further, then

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we'll go on to the reports of the uh
trustees. Um Trustee Clark, do you have

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something for us?
>> Uh yes. Um

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I want to say um the exercise class is
going well. Uh we had the senior

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Christmas lunch on Monday, December
22nd, and thank you very much to Trusty

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Navaro who helped me with that.
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And um the seniors really really enjoyed
it. I will say that uh TOI lobby day is

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April 15th which is a Wednesday and it
is the day after our annual town

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meeting.
>> Wow.

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» Everybody's town meeting. Right.
>> Everybody's town meeting. Yes. Uhhuh.

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» But
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doesn't start till like noon.
So they figure people can drive down

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that morning.
Um, also the talk board has been trying

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to reinvigorate the trustees division of
the talk board and they had originally

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scheduled um a meeting a trustee meeting
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However, that has been cancelled because
only four people responded. And um

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Jackie Small, who is the president of
the T trustees division, is having a

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really hard time getting this up and
going. So she is she is trying very very

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hard. So um she thinks that she'll
probably try to u do um a trustee

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meeting in April.
And um that is all I have. Thank you

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very much. Trusty Dasa, do you have
anything? Thank you, supervisor. No

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report.
>> Thank you. Uh Trusty Navaro,

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» um only that the lunch, the senior lunch
was lovely and the exercise class. I was

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so glad I went. It was uh well attended
and it's just so nice to see the

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relationships that are formed and people
getting together and sharing resources,

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information, and fellowship. Great. I
hope there's another lunch coming up

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soon that I could help with. I just This
is a lot of fun. Um,

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» probably around St. Patrick's Day.
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a lot of fun.
>> I try to do them once a quarter.

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» Okay, perfect. And then I did my FOYA
open meeting act with the Illinois

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Attorney General's Office. It took me a
while because the the password was not I

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don't know if any I I was trying for
like a month and I finally got a hold of

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somebody there and was able to complete
the training. So, yay. Yeah.

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» But they don't make it easy. I'll tell
you how. No, it was hard to get the

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password.
>> Thank [clears throat] you. Uh Trusty

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Highland.
>> Hi, good evening everyone. Uh the mental

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health board, I told you that we uh
postponed our uh our presentation that

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we're going to do for the TV uh in
January. We have rescheduled that for

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February 21st and it'll be filmed here
at at the auditorium. Uh we also uh have

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partnered with the Riverside uh police
director Buckley and I have talked and I

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I know he's talked to Dr. Tratiani
uh he's got some ideas. I know we are

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going to include AI in that since it's
AI is uh real hot right now and I mean

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it's great but there are some really bad
things out there on that and the name of

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the program is the kids aren't okay. Uh
so um that's that. Uh we are also going

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to do refresher courses for the uh CIT
trained officers and our partnership uh

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communities.
U we will get a couple of dates on those

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but we have to wait until um the county
decides to release our funds and uh we

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will get those dates together. I will
let you know when those are as soon as I

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know when they are. And that concl Oh,
our next meeting is next Wednesday.

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It'll be at the way back in which is in
uh their office in Oak Park. And that

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concludes my report.
>> Thank you very much. Any questions for

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anybody?
If not, then we will move along.

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» Uh Supervisor Wil, does the assessor
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» I'm sorry. That would be nice to Yes. I
skipped right over.

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» Hi, I'm Mary Miller. I'm the new
professor. Um, I just want to report

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that so far, except for myself getting
sick. Um, we've had a smooth transition

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into the office. Um, I would like to say
that my staff assistant Barbara Legan is

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staying on and she's doing great
covering for us. Also, on Friday,

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although I was not in attendance, I was
voted to the Cook County Township

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Assessors Association board and so I
>> Congratulations [laughter] member of the

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board.
>> That's what you get for not showing up.

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» Yeah. Uh I was actually slated back in
September, but they [clears throat] took

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the vote because that was the first time
they've had another inerson meeting. And

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so that our December meeting got pushed
to January because of the late tax bill.

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So I'm now part of that board. And the
only other thing I would say I have to

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announce is that um we are still waiting
on any we did not get a lot of

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information from the county at that
meeting. Um there's a big hold up with

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refunds for taxpayers that had
certificates of error. So that's um

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something and some um other exemption
corrections. There's a lot of they're

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still really slow. The the technology
that went is a big hold up in the

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treasur's office, but they're doing the
best they can. As you can see, they're

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trying to get out funds to the
communities. Um and lastly, the senior

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tax deferral. Um the deadline is March
1st. That's a state program. We saw a

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lot of people struggling to pay their
tax bills this year and I think we've

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had a a little bit of participation in
that in the in the past. I think we're

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going to see a lot more but it is a
state-run program. Um and those the due

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date for that is March 1st. So I'll
probably post something and possibly

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post something on the township website.
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» To get people because that's a deadline
by the state. It's not flexible at all.

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» Right. Okay.
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» Thank you. Any questions?
>> Congratulations, Mary.

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» You do a great job.
>> Okay. Um then now we're on to new

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business and we have some requests for
uh rentals that include alcohol. So,

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first item is for Saturday, January
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Um these are relatives so I am going to
uh abstain on this but we have it's a uh

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family first birthday party uh for
Saturday the 31st of January

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and uh they are aware as soon as this is
approved they will uh provide the

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insurance
and um they are looking for the

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auditorium and the

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What is your pleasure?
>> I make a motion that we approve the will

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family's first birthday party on um
January 31st was it?

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» Yes,
>> January 31st.

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» I'll second it.
>> I have a motion by Trustee Clark,

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seconded by Trustee Highland to approve
the request of the Wilt family. Um any

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discussion? Hearing
none, then would you please call the

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role?
>> Trusty Clark,

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» yes.
>> Trusty Highland,

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» yes.
>> Trusty Navaro,

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» yes.
>> Trusty Dosta,

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» yes.
>> Supervisor Wilt,

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» abstain.
>> Motion is carried. Uh, next one is for

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the 20th of February for a PTA
fundraiser for Ames School

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and that is a Friday
and they also um it requires board

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approval because they're requesting
alcohol also utilizing the just the

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auditorium apparently no kitchen.
They're just going to use that. I I

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strongly suspect they'll come. Oh, okay.
Good. Okay.

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» Good. Thank you.
>> Great.

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» We don't intend to use the kitchen
because we are bringing all the catering

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in. So, we're bringing everything in in
addition to two bartenders. So, we're

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asking a that we're able to have
alcohol. Um we did provide the

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certificate of insurance in hopes that
you would say yes this evening. So,

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Andrew already has that. Um and also if
you would consider waving the fee since

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it's a fundraiser for a local elementary
school.

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Um,
>> are you charging for your alcohol?

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» We are not. Well, you we're not charging
individually for the alcohol. There's

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it's a ticketed event, so you're paying
for the ticket to attend.

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» Any other questions?
>> So, the request is for the approval and

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for the waiver of fees,
>> correct?

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» Generally, what we do on this is we do
ask for the deposit at least.

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» Yes.
>> Um, just in case,

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» of course. So, what is your pleasure?
>> Um, just one thing. I don't think we

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have high tops.
>> No, we Yes, we do. Oh, you're renting

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them.
>> You have four? We have four.

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» I think you have four. And then we're
renting an additional

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» two of them are typically down here in
the hall. Actually, [laughter]

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» I didn't know that this could be moved.
Okay.

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» We're renting a dozen. Also,
>> I I have no problem. It's a It's a our

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local one of our local schools and
waving the uh the fee. the auditorium

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fee for for this group.
>> So, I'll make a motion to wave the fee.

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» Second and and approve the event
>> and improve the event.

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» I have a motion by trustee
>> to [laughter]

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approval to approve the event and to
wave the fee. Uh, do I hear a second?

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» Second.
>> Seconded by trustee Navaro. Any

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discussion?
>> Then would you please call the role?

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» Trustee Clark. Yes.
>> Trusty Highland.

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» Yes.
>> Trusty Navaro.

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» Yes.
>> Trusty Dosta.

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» Yes.
>> Supervisor Wilt.

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» Yes.
>> Is carried.

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» Thank you. Okay. Uh, next one is for
a baby shower on Saturday, March 7th.

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And once again, this is for the
auditorium and a security deposit.

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um and
alcohol will be served. So once again,

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this requires board approval and their
insurance.

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What is your pleasure?
I move to approve the special use for

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the Vala baby shower on March 7th.
Okay, I have a motion. Do I hear a

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second?
>> Second. I have a motion by trusty

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Navaro, seconded by trustee Dasala to
approve the uh use of the building with

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including alcohol um for Saturday, March
the 7th for the V Va family. Any

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discussion
and hearing none, would you please call

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the role?
>> Trustee Clark,

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» yes.
>> Trusty Highland,

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» yes.
>> Trusty Navaro,

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» yes.
>> Trusty Dula,

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» yes. Supervisor Wilt.
>> Yes. Motion is carried. Thank you.

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Okay. Um preliminary discussion of the
township budget. Right now, um I'm

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making notes, copious notes as to things
that I expect we'll need to fund in the

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coming year. If you have any thoughts on
on something that we should look into,

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don't know what the estimate is for the
bathrooms yet. Don't know if we'll be

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able to afford it. Um I'm I just got a
notice today from the county about some

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uh funding opportunities. Don't know if
we'll qualify for them because many of

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them come with the small print proviso
of and community with in need. So we'll

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see. Um, but uh I did see in there uh
things like roofs would be uh a

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potential thing, but I don't know that
we're ready to to take that plunge yet.

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Um, and so far we've been fortunate.
So, um, but if if you have observed

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things that really need to be done or
you would like to see us expand in some

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direction, uh, hopefully we're going to
continue to get some tax funds soon and

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we can deal accordingly.
>> Professor, um, tomorrow I'm listening to

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a webinar put on by TOI on community
block grants,

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» right? So, I don't know if that will
help us at all, but I will um listen to

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that and see if
>> Yes, I if I can, I'm going to get on

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that, but I'm not sure that I will be
able to.

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» Um,
and

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supervisor, yes, I had a um community
member ask me about the clock face.

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» That's several. Yes. So, the clock face
and that Yes. Uh obviously it's not

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something we're going to do in dead of
winter, but yes, it's a project that I

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would like to take on and the family who
funded the clock to begin with has

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offered the Jes family has offered to
>> um to get us some funding for that. So

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um
but yes, I will make a note of that for

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the um [clears throat]
for the coming budget as well.

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Any other thoughts now? um
open to them and we will have further

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discussion. I hope that I'll have some
preliminary thoughts next month so that

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we can pass a budget as soon as
possible. Again, I'm waiting to see how

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the tax money starts coming into.
Apparently, they they don't have the

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system for paying it out. That the
treasur's office has indicated that

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that's why they were sending these they
called in an approximate 20% on each of

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those payments of what had been build.
>> Is there a deadline to where they have

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to put the money out?
>> I think we're way past it. I mean, yeah,

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they're supposed to. Sure. Yeah.
>> I mean, we are looking at almost a month

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since the tax bills were due.
>> Okay. They were due to be paid on the

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15th.
>> I presume that most people did pay them

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because they were they were sitting on
the money and the all the mortgage

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houses are going to pay them as soon as
they can. Um but I I just I don't even

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know what to with to make of it anymore.
It's it's a hot mess. So

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all right. Um, so that's really all I
have in terms of discussion on the

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budget at this point, but we usually
start thinking about it in January. So

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again, if you have other thoughts on it,
just let me know so that I can work it

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into the uh the individual line items.
So far, we're doing okay on our current

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budget um with very little, you know,
deviation from what was expected.

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All right. Um, just for your
information, uh, I already shared this

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with Riverside Brookfield High School.
Um, and the, uh, college advisors are

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aware of it, but the township officials
of Illinois do present scholarships each

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year. And so the application is here. If
you know of anyone who perhaps doesn't

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go to um RB and might be interested in
applying for this scholarship, please

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feel free to share it or let me know and
I will share it um there as well.

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Okay.
The approval of warrants.

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Trusty Highland moves that the board
authorize and ratify payments in the

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bills identified on the general warrant
for January 2026 in the amount of

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$14,73629

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as presented to the board this 13th day
of January 2026.

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» Thank
you. I have a motion by trustee

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Highland, seconded by Trustee Clark to
approve the general warrant for January

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2026 in the total amount of $14,73629.

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Is there any discussion or any
questions?

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Hearing none, would you please call the
role?

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» Trustee DSLA,
>> yes.

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» Trusty Davaro,
>> yes.

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» Trustee Highland,
>> yes.

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» Trustee Clark,
>> yes.

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» Supervisor Weld,
>> yes. Motion is carried.

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» Motion by trustee Highland that the
board ratify and authorize payment of

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the amounts indicated on the following
warrants. The utility warrant for

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January 2026 in the amount of $2,2615.

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The payroll warrant for January of 2026
in the amount of $20,49320.

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The health warrant for January of 2026
in the amount of $3,656.

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General assistance warrant for January
2026 in the amount of $10,200.

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The township radio players warrant for
January 2026 in the amount of $180.

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And the food pantry warrant for January
2026 in the amount of $34,581.

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All of the above as presented to the
board this 13th day of January 2026.

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» Thank you. Do I hear a second?
>> Second.

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» Motion by trustee Highland. Seconded by
trustee Dassula to approve the following

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warrants for January 2026. Utility
warrant in the amount of 20 $2,2615.

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The payroll warrant
in the amount of $20,49320.

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The health warrant in the amount of
$3656.

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Even the general assistance warrant in
the amount of $10,200.

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The township radio players warrant in
the amount of $180.

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And the food pantry warrant in the
amount of $345.81.

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Is there any discussion? Any questions?

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Hearing none, would you please call the
role?

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» Trustee Clark,
>> yes.

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» Trusty Highland,
>> yes.

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» Trusty Navaro,
>> yes.

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» Trusty Dosta,
>> yes.

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» Supervisor Wil,
>> yes. Motion is carried.

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» Are there any public comments?
Hearing none, then I will entertain a

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motion to adjurnn.
>> So moved.

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» Harris. I have a motion by trustee
Dasla, seconded by trustee Clark to um

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adjourn this meeting. Is there any
discussion?

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Hearing none. All in favor say I. I.
>> All oppose? Nay. Motion is carried.

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Thank you.