VILLAGE OF
Date: May 19, 2008
Time: 7:39
Location: Village Hall
1.) Roll
Call, Pledge and Sign In:
Attendance; President Leitner; Trustees Merkle, Parro, deVries, Bolger,
Building Inspector Cantieri, Village Clerk Peterson, Treasurer Rolfs, Police
Chief Sinacore, Absent; Tr. Baggett, Fitzgibbons.
2.) Public Comments: None
3.) Approval
of Minutes: A motion to approve
minutes by Tr. Bolger seconded by Tr. Merkle,
and followed by a unanimous voice vote.
4.)
Building and
Zoning: (i)
Plan Commission will meet on 6/12 for public hearing regarding zoning
ordinance amendment. (ii) Building
Inspector’s report is on file.
5.)
Treasurer’s
Report: A motion by Tr. Merkle, seconded by Tr. Bolger,
to approve the monthly expenditures as presented with the addition of $400.67
to Bob Brown for Plan Commission reimbursement from the Carry Over Fund
followed by a roll call vote: Yeas; Tr.
Bolger, Tr. Merkle, Tr. Parro, Tr. deVries, Nays; None, Absent; Tr.
Fitzgibbons, Tr. Baggett.
6.)
Budget &
Finance: (i) Treasurer Rolfs will transfer $36,000 to
General Reserve as per the fiscal 2008 budget. (ii) Discussion pertaining to current franchise
agreement with utilities. (iii) Tr. Merkle proposed the village allocate funds
to landscape and maintain village property at the monument entrances and
traffic islands.
7.)
Police and
Public Safety: (i) No Report, (ii) Monthly report on
file. (ii) Chief Sinacore presented an
Ordinance for the sale of a vehicle. Tr.
Parro motioned seconded by Merkle followed by a roll call vote: Yeas:Tr. Parro, deVries, Tr. Bolger, Tr. Merkle, Nays; None; Absent;
Tr. Fitzgibbons, Tr. Baggett. (iii) As reported last month, there are
bicycles unclaimed by the police department.
If these bikes are not claimed they will be auctioned off.
8.)
Emergency
Management: (i) Working closely with Wauconda Emergency
Management including sharing resources, training sessions. Involved with the
9.)
Utilities
Management: (i) Manhard as been in the community mapping
the water system. As part of this
process, please do not remove any blue flags or blue paint you may see. Currently they are 50% completed with this
project. (ii) Moving forward with plans to renovate well
number three.
10.)
Road &
Right of Way: (i) Spring Brush Picked up on May 8th. There will be a fall brush pick up. (ii)
There are 4 Priority areas for road repaving in 2008. The price of asphalt has gone up 50% from
2007 which will limit the amount of paving projects that will be completed in
2008. (iii) The streets of
11.)
Grounds: The mowing
program began with SK.
12.)
Stormwater
Management: (I)Tr. Bolger met with
Tom Gooch to review projects for 2008 and
13.)
Health &
Sanitation: No Report
14.)
Urban
Forestry: (i) Arbor Day was a great success. A Big
Thank you to Tom Spicer! Tree
Commissioner, Tom Hannigan, arranged to have all the trees available. (ii)
President Leitner is appointing Mel Ott and Patrick Hannigan to the Tree
Commission, bringing the total members to 5.
(iii) The tree committee will be working on preparing the tree
ordinances.
15.)
Administration/Legal/Outside: (i) Pres. Leitner informed the board a CN Letter indicated their impact study will
project out to 2015.
16.)
Old Business: An offer
was submitted Friday, May 16th.
At this time Pres. Leitner is awaiting a response.
17.)
New Business: Pres.
Leitner introduced the idea of a Tower Lakes Drain Project . Would like TLIA and the Village to commit to
working together to control what is flowing into
Motion to adjourn the
meeting was made at by Tr. Merkle,
seconded by Tr. Bolger and followed by a
unanimous voice vote.
Respectfully Submitted,
Gale Peterson
Village Clerk