Please remember to vote April 17, 2007.

 

The following residents are running for office: President-Kathleen Leitner; Trustees- Dave Parro, Rich Baggett, Scott Merkle.

 

Note: TOWER LAKES VILLAGE HALL WILL NO LONGER BE A POLLING PLACE—LAKE COUNTY HAS CONSOLIDATED US WITH THE LAKE BARRINGTON VILLAGE HALL. All Tower Lakes residents will vote at the Lake Barrington Village Hall.

 

 

VILLAGE OF TOWER LAKES BOARD MEETING

 

Date: March 19, 2007

Time: 7:35pm

Location: Village Hall

 

1) Roll Call, Pledge and Sign In:  Attendance: Pres Pro Tem Bolger, Trustees Parro, 

deVries, Baggett,  Building Inspector Cantieri, Village Clerk Peterson,  Treasurer Rolfs. Absent: Pres Gidley, Trustee Fitzgibbons.

 

2) Minutes Approval: Motion to approve the February minutes as amended made by Tr Baggett, seconded by Tr Parro and followed by a Voice vote: Ayes: , Bolger, Parro, Baggett, deVries.

 

3) Police Report: Monthly activities report on file at the village office. 

(i) Tr Baggett participated in a Disaster Prep Web cast and will report at April’s Meeting.

 

4) BACOG Report:  No Report

 

5) ZBA: Met March 8th, meeting minutes on file at the village office. A recommendation was made to the village board that variances to zoning ordinance section 10-1-2 (B,C & D) and zoning ordinance section 10-6-3 to allow for garage construction on lot size of 16,450 sq. ft., and allow for garage construction that would increase the lot coverage ratio to 18.7% with regards to a variance request from Thomas and Annalisa Barrie located at 503 East Lake Shore Drive, Tower Lakes, IL  A motion by Tr Parro to approve the variance as requested, seconded by Tr deVries, followed by a roll call vote: Ayes -  Parro, deVries, Baggett, Pres Pro Tem Bolger.

 

6) Plan Commission-  (i) Motion by Tr Parro to re-approve zoning variation recommendation and ordinance with the text modifications as originally adopted at the February 19, 2007 meeting, seconded by Tr Baggett.  Ayes:  Parro, deVries, Baggett, Pres Pro Tem Bolger

 

 

 

7) Storm water Management:

Met with Cuba Township  to prioritize projects for 2007.   Projects will begin next week.

 

8) Treasurer’s Report:  Motion made to pay the bills made by Tr  di Vries seconded by Tr Parro and followed by a Roll Call vote:  Parro, diVries,  Baggett, Bolger. All Ayes.

Discussion regarding combining telephone calls to village attorney to keep costs down. 

 

9) Building and Zoning: Report of permits on file at the village office. There were no new permits issued in February.

 

10) Finance Report:  No report.

 

11) New Business: No new business.

 

12) Old Business :  No update available on DCEO Grant extension application.

 

13)ROADS:  No Report

 

14) UTILITIES:   (i)Discussion initiated by  Bob Brown regarding the feasibility of improving the water supply by developing a 2nd water system.  Engineering firms to analyze feasibility of current wells and pumps and installing new well.  Suggested by Pres. Pro Tem Bolger let the hired professional engineers tell us what is best within our parameters and  not to steering them.  2 Recommendations; Change the main sizes to 8 and add a secondary supply.  The four final engineering firms selected will present their bids for the water project only.  (ii) The lights in South Hills were installed,  West Lake Shore Drive had problems with photo cell and is now fixed.  Problems remain at Circle Drive in North Lake,  will have the trench and put in new meters.  The time table is based on ComEd’s schedule and a completion date is unknown.  (iii) Hydrant flushing is the week of April 2 – 6th, Aqua will post signs.

 

15) URBAN FORESTRY Moving forward with tree program.

 

 

Motion to adjourn at 8:55pm made by Tr Baggett seconded by Tr deVries and followed by a voice vote.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

Gale Peterson

Village Clerk