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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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