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[0:13] of the United States of America.
[0:28] Pers here. Kirby Hall here. Vanine.
Evans here. Kerwin here. Clary Hall
[0:35] here. Tutor here. Stutter here. We have
a quorum. Thank you. I declare the
[0:40] regular meeting of the city council on
April 18th, 2017 is now in session. Uh
[0:45] council got approval of minutes from
April 5th. Good morning. May I'll make a
[0:49] motion to reset the minutes for April
5th and placed on a motion by all. We
[0:54] have a second. I second by any
discussion.
[0:59] Tutor, yes. Clary Hall, yes. Pers, yes.
Kerwin, yes. Kirby Hall, yes. Evans,
[1:06] yes. Stutter, yes. All yes. Motion
passed. Thank you. All right. Mayor's
[1:12] report. Dog. The dog ain't in here yet.
We'll wait. Uh but uh
[1:24] we'll do the just I'll make the
announcement. Uh people this Saturday is
[1:27] uh Alex Saturday's Eagle Scout project.
He's having a citywide cleanup. Um
[1:32] stuff's been posted online and
everything else. So if everybody could
[1:35] please attend and help out this week,
Saturday, we greatly appreciate it.
[1:40] Usually when we have a lot of officers
here, it's two things. It's either
[1:45] one or two something very special and
this got something very special. But
[1:52] what I'd like to do is start off by
thanking Jim Rasco, our states attorney,
[1:56] who's here tonight. I started this ball
rolling. Um, we had several donations
[2:01] from our local people in the community.
We had fundraisers for our Bloomington
[2:05] coalition, uh, which really expedited
the, uh, ability to get our K9. We were
[2:12] expecting it for probably 12 to 18
months. I think we did it in six or
[2:16] seven. Uh which is tremendous. Um the uh
amount of people in the community that
[2:21] came together to ensure that we could
get our K9 here to help us as a deterren
[2:25] has been
tremendous. And uh without further ado,
[2:29] I'm going to bring Mr. Hopper and May up
here to be sworn in today.
[2:46] There's too many
[2:51] people. Can you give me a picture of
that, please? Thank you. All right,
[2:56] Chris, can you raise your right hand to
me? Raise your
[3:03] right hand. Hi, Christopher. Hi,
Christopher. for myself and on behalf of
[3:08] K9 mayor for myself on behalf of K9 may
be duly appointed as police officers in
[3:13] the city of Illinois being duly
appointed. We solemnly swear that we
[3:19] will partner
together. We will partner together that
[3:22] we will support, obey, and defend. We
will support, obey, and defend the
[3:25] Constitution of the United States. The
constitution the
[3:30] constitution and basically discharge all
of our
[3:54] duties. Heat. Heat.
[4:16] That's not right.
[4:38] As the mayor mentioned, when we first
started talking about a can, we knew it
[4:41] would be quite a while because of the
expense. We thought we had plenty of
[4:44] time. Also, we got a phone call from Mr.
Alaska's office saying, "Hey, we're
[4:47] going to bite it up." And so, we had
going to to uh fast forward to get
[4:51] things rolling, but we appreciate that.
I think we need it. Here we are later.
[5:04] off running Jeep. Um I think they made a
half a dozen bus already and uh but like
[5:10] we said this is a combination. We've got
a pandemic on our hands with 99 fatal
[5:16] overdoses from you know the heroin
opioid uh prescriptions uh you know
[5:22] fentanyl. uh just 10 years ago we had
10. So I mean that's a 10fold increase
[5:29] while we're doing everything we possibly
can to stop it. And so these guys uh are
[5:35] going to make a huge difference. And uh
you know if you run the the dog through
[5:39] the school number one hope deter kids
from bringing drugs to school. If they
[5:44] do then we'll deal with it and we'll
deal with it on a preventive basis for
[5:50] the most part. Obviously, you're going
to find a key in a
[5:54] locker, but otherwise, we're not trying
to save lives and uh you know, no matter
[6:00] what we do here in county uh to stop the
flow of heroin, the city of Chicago is
[6:05] 40 minutes away, a little farther from
here, but you know what I'm saying? It's
[6:09] just it's a curse. And uh you know, we
have our conference coming up on Friday
[6:13] uh in Romeoville. Anybody that wants to
take a drive up there, it's open to the
[6:17] public. uh we get all the different
agencies together, all the professionals
[6:22] and we brainstorm and uh and stay in
touch so we can be geometrically more
[6:27] effective. But I've never seen anything
like this. In 2012, we had 53 fatalss.
[6:33] We knocked it down to 38. The next year
35 the following year and back up to 53
[6:38] and been going up ever since. Um so
we're not doing it the right way yet.
[6:44] So, the more that we can, the more dogs
we get on the street. And I don't know
[6:47] if you know Bert Badisher from Joliet.
Uh I've been meeting with Bert and he's
[6:52] like the number one trainer. uh every
two weeks he trades about 20 dogs and
[6:57] we've got almost 40 dogs now uh in in
Will County in law enforcement and uh
[7:03] was kitten with uh Bison the
extraordinary league of extraordinary
[7:08] canines and uh and seriously because all
these handlers need to know each other
[7:13] need to work and I you know I I
mentioned to Aaron Kleman who's the
[7:16] chief of Shorewood and he was saying
yeah you know uh we have cities that are
[7:21] adjacent to each other like Shan and on
the show then they coordinate their
[7:25] schedules so they know where the canines
are in each city so they can assist each
[7:29] other across city lines or if there's
you know call on the north side of town
[7:33] and you know whatever you know what I'm
talking about so strategically we could
[7:37] wind up where we have a situation where
there's a dog available almost
[7:40] everywhere in a populated area and the
other thing for interdiction we have all
[7:44] the major highways in in Will County DEA
tells us tens of millions of dollars
[7:50] come out of Chicago go through Will
County back to Mexico. We're not seizing
[7:54] any of those arms. Imagine what a $10
million car can do to to fund law
[7:58] enforcement. So, we unify these dogs. We
can only stop a car for 20 minutes on
[8:04] traffic stop for the Supreme
Court. Uh so, we get the dog there in 20
[8:09] minutes. The dog heads can hold the car
longer, do a search. So, with all those
[8:15] dogs, we have pre-planned. So 3 in the
morning, no matter what geographic
[8:19] quadrant you're in, you know which dog
to call for and that that hammer's
[8:24] willing to jump out of bed and get there
in 20 minutes, be $10 million. So that's
[8:30] a kind of a creative thinking that we're
going to try and do with, you know,
[8:34] strategizing with these dogs. But this
dog is gorgeous. I mean, he came from he
[8:39] didn't just buy him for his bucks.
[8:43] I think we had to drag Chris around.
Yeah.
[8:47] last
$200 me around. That's
[8:53] awesome. So,
[8:57] okay. He's
always the command goes out to the
[9:06] work. We train with him on people. Okay.
We trained with them on cars, buildings,
[9:11] uh open parking lots. So
anything dog articles you know if
[9:17] someone throws a gun in front traffic
stop you can go to find that he does
[9:37] people should have a long way ahead
[9:45] But yeah, we want to deter that and like
you said with your drug court and
[9:48] everything you got going on which is uh
to help those people uh get caught up in
[9:52] that environment to give them an
opportunity that's great I
[9:57] think right and the amazing thing about
the drug court is we have a 95% success
[10:04] rate only 5% of the people graduated
relapse on drugs And when you're talking
[10:10] about heroin eggs, that's
true. But the secret is the is the front
[10:15] end loading on the incarceration where
it's a force dry out. Absolute force. If
[10:21] you're in the private sector, your
parents pay 30 grand for you to go
[10:24] impatient for 30 days. You're coming
right off the high impatient. You come
[10:29] out, you're just thinking where you're
going to get store your next hit. So I
[10:32] don't know how we're going to, you know,
get into the private sector. what this
[10:36] this you know ace that we have by being
able to incarcerate the person uh and
[10:41] that but that's another set of
commentary. In order to help a child I
[10:44] have to arrest them and we don't want to
do that. So uh but ultimately figure
[10:50] something out because we're everybody's
pulling in the right direction.
[11:12] Irish
[11:20] Chinese. Thank you,
[11:25] officer. Heat.
[11:43] Heat.
[12:00] Yeah.
[12:06] Heat.
[12:11] Heat.
[12:21] Heat. Heat.
[12:31] Heat.
Yeah. Heat.
[12:55] Let them kind of be under moving on with
the agenda. Uh citizens comments have
[13:00] any citizens comments
[13:05] tonight. Thank
you. All right.
[13:30] We know where the setup point is, but
that's clean up by chance. They're
[13:33] meeting.
You know what? I don't know.
[13:40] Okay. All right. Committee reports.
Building ground parks, health and
[13:45] safety first mayor. Next schedule
meeting is Wednesday, May 9th 17 at 9:30
[13:52] p.m. Water speaks
alley. Next schedule meeting is
[13:58] Wednesday, May 9th, 2017 at 6 p.m. Thank
you. Please announce the alderman
[14:03] stutter. Alter our next schedule meeting
is Tuesday, May 2017 at 5:30
[14:10] p.m. Finance Administration and Land
Acquisition Tut.
[14:15] I move to approve the accounts payable
report dated April 18th, 2017 in the
[14:19] amount of
[14:22] 1,128,257.70 and the March 31st, 2017
collector's report in the amount of
[14:27] $76,16 as presented by the city of a
motion by Tudtor. We have a second.
[14:34] Second by Alman Percy. Any discussion?
Roll call. Tutor. Yes. Persie. Yes.
[14:41] Kerwin. Yes. Larry Hall. Yes. Kirby
Hall. Yes. Evans? Yes. Stutter? Yes. All
[14:47] yes. Motion passed. I move to approve
ordinance number
[14:52] 17-04-18-01. An ordinance providing for
supplemental appropriation and line item
[14:57] transfers for the fiscal year beginning
May 1st, 2016 and ending April 30th,
[15:02] 2017. A motion by Alman J. We have a
second.
[15:08] Second by Alman Evans. Any discussion?
[15:13] Tutor. Yes. Evans. Stutter. Yes. Kirby
Hall. Yes. Larry Hall. Yes. Herwin. Yes.
[15:20] Pers. Yes. All yes. Motion pass.
Mr. Mayor, I move to approve the proceed
[15:27] at your own risk agreement by and
between Adar Bridgeport Industrial
[15:31] Partners LLC and the city of a motion by
Alan Steut. We have a
[15:37] second by Al.
Any discussion?
[15:44] Stutter, yes. Percwin,
yes. Larry Hall, yes. Kirby Hall, yes.
[15:50] Tutor, yes. Evans, yes. All yes. Motion
passed.
[15:55] Next schedule meeting is Tuesday, May
16th, 2017 at 6
[16:00] p.m. license. Alderman Kirby
Hall meeting is Tuesday, May 8, 2017 at
[16:08] 6:00 p.m.
First Larry
[16:14] Hall at this time. city
[16:20] engine started with IT rail project out
there on bridge. Um basically all there
[16:27] you see out there mostly is a lot of
tree rule by home tree service. Um IC
[16:32] ICC has removing a lot of railroad ties
on those crossings and rail works is out
[16:37] there uh moving the existing
track 53. Um majority of what you've
[16:44] seen out there is a lot of p roadway
removal uh in front of Angelos's nothing
[16:50] really moving forward. They're doing a
lot of layout
[16:54] stuff
[17:04] forward. Yeah. I first I got on my list
[17:12] tomorrow. Um going to the uh economic
development report. uh talk ement uh the
[17:21] rightway property line uh location still
need to be defined and worked out with
[17:25] BS up trying to schedule down to get a
paperwork on the
[17:34] actual land description of where the
where this line actually exist trying to
[17:39] coordinate something with them that
hasn't uh it hasn't kind of was that
[17:44] project um project hot dog and as you
can See most of the wall panels are are
[17:49] being installed out
there
[17:53] building and uh basically contractors
out there relocating the water sewer
[17:58] main that were part of the expansion of
that building itself.
[18:04] Um Charlie uh basically they're out
there storm
[18:10] tour going on
[18:18] project questions or anything.
Can we just have um I came through there
[18:24] at strip line and 53. There seems to be
right at the entrance. I think it's
[18:30] either right in front of the circle K
there. There's a hole that everybody
[18:35] seems to be avoiding and they're going
into the oncoming link. Can we maybe
[18:38] have somebody look at it to get that
patched? Thank
[18:45] you. You reported on the uh the work
that's going on at Arsenal 53. Is P
[18:53] going to start? How long are we at with
that? Frank and I are still trying to
[18:56] schedule a meeting with that to discuss
the dollar what money we've used over
[19:01] the years and what money still remain.
[19:06] Yeah, they obviously need to be
wishywashy on those EDP funds. So we can
[19:09] utilize EDP funds from
Arsenal. Well, now we're not for sure.
[19:13] Yes, we can. And it's it's been back and
forth for I don't know how long, right?
[19:17] And that's that's what we're trying to
get them to show us show us on paper how
[19:21] much money been used over years. I mean,
how much money is actually better?
[19:25] Because every time we look at it, it's
something different. Kim and I sat down
[19:29] for four or five hours in a day trying
to go through this whole thing and every
[19:33] time you look at it, it's something
different. It's just ESI provided some
[19:37] numbers. We've done our own. We're
trying to get something directly from
[19:40] saying, "Hey, show us what it is." We
have a little bit better, right? Yes.
[19:44] And it's still being held by
[19:50] Austin. Anything else
[19:54] from the administrative department? Mr.
Kaylor is not getting into the packet.
[20:00] Uh last couple weeks have had a meet and
greet with Denmark interactive with
[20:04] daywood. Uh been active with the
advisory committee uh with the jo county
[20:09] center for economic development for uh
met with the B county forest preserve
[20:13] district to see if we get collaboration
with them perway plan uh for Wilmington.
[20:19] um had a webinar on it. Seems like it's
long way out of the census 2020 which
[20:24] will be upon us pretty soon. You know,
we'll start having to go through some
[20:27] documents and verifying addresses and
what have you to make sure we have the
[20:31] proper headcount. I'll be meeting Billy.
Next few days I'll be down in
[20:36] Springfield with the Illinois tax
financing association for spring
[20:39] conference. I'll be one of the panels
talking about business development
[20:42] districts and how they can interact with
communities. Um I'll be in Kansas City
[20:47] next week taking a look at the BNSF BNSF
facility their uh logistics park Kansas
[20:54] City what that operation is and how that
operates. So taking a look at that uh on
[21:00] the 25th logistics summit in Bowling
Brook. It's an annual program put on by
[21:04] the W County Center for Economic
Development. One of the premier sponsors
[21:08] this year they've got is so I want to
thank them for that. working with CAP to
[21:13] host a regional meeting on the 2050 uh
regional plan. Uh we're looking towards
[21:19] the end of May to have that. Uh I'll be
attending the workshop on theirs on May
[21:24] 16th uh for the local technical
assistance. Right now that grant's
[21:28] paying for the the downtown plan uh and
we'll see what other opportunities there
[21:32] may be as we see funding here in
Lington. So that's about it so far.
[21:39] Thank you,
Mr.
[21:42] Thank you, Mayor. I have nothing to
report tonight. Thank you. Uh before uh
[21:47] we
adjourn my
[21:52] turn. 20 years ago, I decided to uh take
a chance
[21:58] at the town that I live studies.
[22:05] I've met some incredible
people throughout my 20 years and I
[22:11] continue to meet those people. I've had
a tremendous amount of time working with
[22:14] everybody. Um, even my days as a parkour
commissioner, my days as an alderman in
[22:19] my last 8 years as mayor. It's been
tremendous amount of fun. It's also been
[22:24] very challenging at the same time. But
I've been lucky enough to work around a
[22:29] tremendous amount of staff, good staff
people and more
[22:33] importantly been understood of the
importance and movement our talent world
[22:38] and I'm hoping that
continues. But at this this time to me
[22:43] now is the time for me to speak not at
the next meeting. The next meeting is a
[22:46] time for transition and
change. I wish everybody the best and
[22:50] thank all you guys for being part of my
[23:05] comments or something.
You were outside. Can I have a read on
[23:11] that? I want to address what you said.
Is that okay? You're fine. Go ahead. I
[23:17] just want to let people know uh about
Marty that they might not know. and the
[23:24] city council
too. Martin York called me a few years
[23:28] ago and he asked me to be his police
commissioner if you recall that that was
[23:32] your dad. But uh
so I said um before I I decided that can
[23:39] I sit down and talk to you and I came
into your office if you recall and
[23:44] uh and I'll make my point clear in a
minute. So I sat down. I said party is
[23:50] can I I I'll accept his position uh with
my love for politics
[23:55] uh if I can do it without political
interference. Do you recall that
[24:00] conversation?
So you put me in a position
[24:04] anyway and we had our disagreements. We
agreed to
[24:09] disagree. And if we didn't do that, I
would have been your political
[24:14] puppet. And you didn't need that. that
and for the rest of you people up there,
[24:19] you I guess you voted on it. Did Did it
not go for vote? Yes. So you put
[24:25] somebody in that was totally I feel
like I was totally I'm nobody owed me or
[24:30] whatever and and we agreed that you
would allow me to run that position
[24:37] uh as I seen fit. And for people here
that don't know me, I retired 34 years
[24:43] in law enforcement. So I have kind of a
good idea how that works. Um, Englewood,
[24:48] Boston, Chicago. That was my I was out
there so often. I was going to buy
[24:52] property here. But, uh, point being is
we agreed to
[24:57] disagree. Now, Barry came up to me one
day and he said,
[25:02] um, why do you send these guys north to
fire uh, police uh, fire and training
[25:07] camp? Do you remember that? He said, why
you going to send them over here to JKC?
[25:12] And my reply to Margaret was, "It is not
my job to make this uh process easy on
[25:18] the candidates. It's their job to show
me how bad they want this position and
[25:23] to show the citizens and the
taxpayers." So my my thing on that was
[25:28] if I can't get them to take one day to
go up north and do that, what what is
[25:35] their street performance going to be
once they're hired? Are you going to
[25:38] produce for uh for the city of
Wilmington, the citizens, the taxpayers
[25:43] for 20 years if I can get one day out of
them? So, you and I disagreed on that,
[25:49] but I did it my way
anyway. Um, not only did I do that, I
[25:55] leave by
exam. So, I went down there, took the
[25:58] test with
him, which no uh maybe I had to respect,
[26:03] maybe I didn't, but I thought that if it
was up, if I told him to do something, I
[26:08] should be able to do it. Old military.
Am I right, Matt? Yes, you are. So,
[26:14] um I guess what I'm what I'm trying to
say here is is uh you gave me free reign
[26:20] and and and you said that I made it hard
on these guys, and I did. I made it as
[26:25] hard as the law would allow because the
taxpayers deserve that or give these
[26:29] people a lot of money or a lot of power,
I should say. But I want everybody to
[26:34] know, you know, politics is politics.
Well, you're police commissioner, so you
[26:37] must know so and so and so and so. It
wasn't the case. I didn't know you guys,
[26:42] and I don't think you guys knew me. And
if you did, I apologize. But anyway, it
[26:48] wasn't a hookup. Wasn't political move.
So that speaks in your favor. So, I'm a
[26:54] true believer in leading by example. And
I'm going to say this, I don't talk
[26:57] behind people's backs. I like to talk
before attack. So, I get the credit for
[27:02] the remarks I make. But I know
uh so is it official right now that
[27:10] Strong won this election? Very close.
But let me say this if I'm hoping it
[27:16] isn't that way cuz normally people say,
"Well, who'd you vote for after the
[27:20] election? How you going for the winner?"
Okay, that's not the case here. I'll
[27:24] never never fall I'm sorry for that. But
if you walk out of here lose an
[27:28] election, you're not walking out here as
a loser. You left the city for 8 years
[27:33] and I got no political gain here. I'm
telling you how I feel and all of you
[27:39] guys. Uh you make me do the political
hatings for that
[27:43] position. And if you would, I would have
to do. So when you walk out here for if
[27:48] you walk out here without without being
a mayor, you're not a loser. You walk
[27:53] out here as a winner with your head high
because I respect you for that. I hate
[27:57] politics. No secret. And and you didn't
let me do that. So you walk out as a
[28:03] winner. You had to say you're getting
beat up for uh the things that happened
[28:07] prior to you taking office of mayor. You
going to pay for it now because the
[28:13] people in Wilmington, they're
everywhere. have a very short memory. So
[28:17] when you walk out of here on that after
that final meeting, you walk out, you
[28:21] lead by example. You won't sit there,
you won't name call, you won't stand
[28:24] your
feet and and criticize the
[28:28] winner. So you lead by example because
you'll teach that person how to be
[28:34] accept defeat. And we all know what I'm
talking about. So you walk out of here,
[28:41] no matter how how it how it works out.
That's all I got to say.
[29:03] That being said, I'll take a motion to
move. Second. Second. All in favor. All
[29:08] right.
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