MINUTES OF TOWER LAKES

BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING

Date:        February 18, 2002

Location:   Village Office

Time:                7:10 pm

PLEDGE: President Kuskowski called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of Allegiance. Sign in sheet circulated.

1. ROLL CALL: Present: Village President Kuskowski, Trustees Adams, Cantieri, Filippell, Parro, Rigali (three minutes late), Absent: Aitken. Village Clerk Leitner and Village Treasurer Gidley. Also in attendance: Dorothy Pratt, Deputy Village Clerk and newsletter correspondent.

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Motion by Trustee Cantieri to approve the minutes as amended of the January Village Board Meeting, seconded by Trustee Parro and followed by a Roll Call vote: AYES: Trustees Adams, Cantieri, Parro, Rigali. NAYES: None. ABSTAIN: Filippell. ABSENT: Aitken.

3. PUBLIC COMMENTS: Timberlake residents request Tower Lakes police support.Timberlake Residents Ed Froelich, Rick Williams and Kirsten Carlson are interested in exploring the possibility of Tower Lakes police providing traffic control at certain intersections in their community. Traffic has become heavier and faster, and Lake County cannot/does not provide the level of enforcement to keep this in check. Their three goals are(i) suppress traffic; (ii) reduce flow through of nonresidents; and (iii)respond to pedophile concerns in surrounding areas. Rick Williams discussed budget allocation- $6,000.00 per year. Have discussed options with Kermit Smiddy of Cuba Township, who has said that speed bumps create a snowplowing problem and Stop signs are of limited value.Timberlake is purchasing police protection survey numbers. Looking to present at their upcoming annual meeting; then discuss at homeowner association meeting. Questions from the Tower Lakes Board include: Pres Kuskowski-The best Tower Lakes can do is spot check—what’s the benefit? Tr Cantieri-Is this a bid situation? Tr Filippell-who gets the ticket proceeds? Tower Lakes Resident Greg Valicka -Would reducing the speed limit to 25 help? Tr Cantieri thinks this an interesting idea, but difficult to limit to just traffic enforcement. Police Chief Sinacore believes the Tower Lakes police force can accommodate Timberlake’s request--they respond to nontraffic calls in Timberlake already. Pres Kuskowski suggests Police Chief Sinacore work out fee schedule with Treas Gidley. Tr Rigali sought to discuss through a committee meeting.

4. WATER SYSTEM REPORT: Pres Kuskowski reported that the December and January monthly reports have been received- consumption was normal. Ran Wells 4 and 1 to clean out rust chips by reversing the flow.

DCCA Grant: President Kuskowski reported that the balance of the $250,000 has been spent, but there remains a balance of $4,100.00 in the bank account due to interest accrual. Pres Kuskowski needs to determine whether we can spend the interest we earned, or have to return it to the state.

5. PLAN COMMISSION: Re: Comprehensive Plan—Plan Commission Chair Greg Valicka thanked the Board for its comments, and handed out draft No. 7 of the Comprehensive Plan. Close to being finished—please forward remaining comments. Does this require a public hearing? Should it put on the website? Tom Hannagan is checking cost of publishing this in booklet form, and looking at publishing maps in a clearer form.

Barclay’s Woods: No action this month. Tr Cantieri has many comments to the Annexation Agreement, some of which were mentionned by Tr Cantieri last month, as reflected in last month’s minutes. Lageschulte has not reponded to:

    1. Check with IDOT to see whether ingress from Rte 59 heading north is possible for construction traffic temporarily. Resident Larry Gold will work with Mr. Lageshulte and IDOT on this. Also, consider alternating the construction traffic between Pebble Creek and Rolling Green;
    2. Consider /work with resident Bill Powers to move, berm and/or landscape the Pebble Creek extension;
    3. Consider moving the driveway to Lot 8 from the east to the west side of the lot. (Mr. Lageschulte noted that it is unlikely he will change this due to the slope of the lot on the west side.); and
    4. Have the Village Arborist walk the proposed roadbed to reduce number of mature trees eliminated. Tr Adams suggests having him look at the Elms also. Chair Valicka enquired whether the Village has a reforestation requirement of developers (no).

6. ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS: No Report.

  1. BUILDING AND ZONING: Tr Cantieri presented the report. Two permits wereissued: 305 Warwick and 714 NLSD. Three projects were red-tagged: 102 South Hills; 266 WLSD; and 109 South HillsDrive. Zoning Violation include: 728 NLSD_pop-up trailer was moved to the back yard; 25421 Barsumian Dcorative fence violation. Board determined to send Building Inspector and commence appropriate procedures through Zoning; and Groh residence-trailers still there. Turned matter over to Village Attorney.

8. TREASURER’S REPORT: Treas. Gidley presented profit/loss statement, monthly expenditures statement, year-to-date budget, bank statements, and itemized expenditures. Treas. Gidley requested all coding requests come directly to him, not the Office Manager, so he can properly allocate funds and expenditures. For reporting in next fiscal year, Brian will enter the budget first, so monthly reports will show where expenditures arein relation to budget. Reimbursables must be accounted for for two years before being released. Going forward, Treas Gidley recommends setting up separte accounts for reimburseables.

Monthly Bills: Motion to approve the bills was made by Trustee Adams and seconded by Trustee Cantieri. VOTE: AYES: Trustees Adams, Cantieri, Filippell, Parro, Rigali. NAYES: None. Absent: Aitken

9. FINANCE REPORT:Tr Filippell discussed presentation of monthly budget. Treas Gidley followed through on the ISDN service disconnection notice progress is being made.

10. POLICE REPORT: The monthly activities report is on file at the Village office.

Police Chief Sinacore reported that two residents have volunteered to donate a PT Cruiser to the village police department, which is more friendly, like the bicycles. Wine and Serge said there will be no additional insurance expense. All police equipment for this car has been donated. Police Committee will meet and discuss.

11. STORM WATER MANAGEMENT: Trustee Rigali reported no new issues. Meeting with Tom Kubala to develop priorities and begin bidding process, as necessary.

12. ROADS: Tr Parro making a map of road requiring shoulders. Would like to work with Tr Rigali and coordinate projects. Tr Rigali asked whether Bays Place has generated complaints. Vehicle Sticker scofflaws are all paid. Signs—all installed.

OverWeight Road Bonds Proposal submitted by Office Manager Debra Baggett seeks to revise the procedure for charging overweight bond fees. Discussion produced suggestions, including: checking with adjacent communities to coordinate with them; getting copy of driver’s active insurance, possibly name the Village as additional insured.

TRS Parro and Cantieri will coordinate and work with Village Attorney Bateman.

13. HEALTH AND SANITATION: SWALCO- Tr Rigali –Highland Park has "back yard"pick up and Waste Management was found to be throwing away the recycling. Lawsuits, bids out, etc. Highland Park suggested SWALCO become a recycling company. SWALCO will not pursue.

Tower Lakes residents’ leaf-burning petition should be pursued, keeping in mind that Lake County will be recommending this course in the future. Also, North Barrington is interested in doing something about leaf pickup. Garbage Consortium is looking at this.

The Health and Sanitation Committee will hold a special meeting to discuss leaf burning strategies and the H and S budget on Thursday, 02-28-02 at 7:00pm.

14. UTILITIES: ATT Broadband- New representative. Com Ed House Bill 1776—tree trimming program invites municipality participation. Looking to make a standard tree trimming policy. Pres Kuskowski will discuss at BACOG. BACOG meets here Tuesday 26 February at 7:30pm.

Tr Adams reported that as of Jan 1, 2003 Tower Lakes need to become a JULIE member costing approximately $193/annually. Because we own a utility, a representative of the water co must come and mark each site JULIE gets called to.

Tr Parro brought up utilities underpaying franchise fees, suggests demanding a list of Tower Lakes residents per utility.Tr Parro also recalled the telecommunications infrastructre maintenace fee Ordinanceand suggests reviewing it—even wireless operations. Pres Kuskowski discussed new unified taxes and franchise fees. Illinois Legislature passed and signed…?

15. URBAN FORESTRY: No report.

16. OLD BUSINESS:

Codification: Hard copies available. Please complete review by end of February and get comments to Village Clerk Leitner.

17. NEW BUSINESS: Mannina has a temporary C/O, so it’s time to include the property in the SSA . Motion to include the Mannina property in SSA was made by Trustee Cantieri and seconded by Trustee Rigali. VOTE: AYES: Trustees Adams, Cantieri, Filippell, Parro, Rigali. NAYES: None. Absent: Aitken

BACOG Impact Fees Committee-Tony Cantieri and Brian Gidley will be our representatives.

Asthma Awareness Day—proclomation due from Pres Kuskowski.

BACOA—asking for $250.00 donation. Pres K would like to decide which groups to support.

BAGIS meeting-Tr Parro will nominate OM Baggett to be TL representative.

MEETING ADJOURNED: Motion to adjourn the Board meeting made at 10:27 pm by Tr Adams and seconded by Tr Rigali and followed by unanimous voice vote.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

 

 

Kathleen Leitner

Village Clerk

02-19-02