MINUTES FROM VILLAGE BOARD MEETING OF JUNE 11, 2008

The President and Board of Trustees met in regular session on June 11, 2008.  Roll call was taken.  Present were Mayor Ketter, Trustees Acuncius, Brown, Pletsch, Presthus, Trone and Treasurer Ehrhardt.    Absent were Trustee Lenkaitis and Clerk Harrison. 

The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as sent by Presthus, seconded by Brown.  Motion carried.

Treasurer's report was given.  Brown made a motion to accept the May 31^st financial report, seconded by Presthus.  Motion Carried. 

Bills were presented for payment.  Brown made a motion to approve for payment.  Seconded by Presthus.  Motion carried.

 LEGAL

 Bob Steele presented the board a copy of the appropriation ordinance for the second reading.  It was decided to change the wording of a couple of items and to add a line in the administrative expenses for possible cost of codifying the zoning ordinances at a future date.  This cost will be approximately $22,000, payable over a 3 year period.  We will have our third and final reading at the July meeting.

 Bob Steele also presented the board with the new prevailing wage ordinance that the village must pass by June 30^th.  This pertains to all contractors, not employees of the village.  The ordinance was discussed and approved by the board.  Pletsch made a motion to pass this ordinance, seconded by Trone.  Motion carried, all ayes, no nayes. 

 The dog ordinance and stop sign ordinance will be discussed in detail further at the July meeting.

 Bob Steele has also drafted a letter to the owner of the Bumgartner building on the south edge of town to inform them that they will have 30 days to make repairs to the building, or the village will condem the building and proceed.

 The building owned by John Wayne LLC that burned was cleaned up. The Village did not have to send the letter requesting the cleanup take place.

 ENGINEERING

 Jack Kusek reported on progress of our sewer grant.  He reported that the person that worked for the EPA that was handling the grant had retired and now there is one person doing all the grants, so he is not sure when we will hear any results.  He will  inform us as soon as they contact him.

 Kusek also received a letter from the railroad pertaining to the permission of running the sewer pipes under the railroad.  They responded with a one time fee of $19,000.00 which Kusek reported was extremely high.  He responded back to them that he felt $1,500 - $3,000 was a more appropriate fee and we would be willing to pay that.  They returned with a counter offer of $16,000.  Kusek will keep working with them to get the fee down to a reasonable amount.

 MAINTENANCE

 Presthus reported that there has been complaints of sewer backup in Jay Debates building and south.  There might be possible tile break along that area.  Bob Mekely is going to check things out to rectify this problem.

 Dan Trone brought to the boards’ attention that a couple of posts holding up the shelter at the park are rotting out and needs to be replaced.  Water runs through the shelter when it rains from the south, to the north side.  The 2 posts are on the north side.  Presthus said that he will get an estimate from Ed Zeman, who is repairing the baseball stand for this and report back.  Trone also reported that he got 1 estimate for gutters for the shelter, which might  help the problem.  He is to get another estimate and we will discuss more at a future meeting.

 Discussed maintenance of village signs.  Mekely is looking into possible sanding them down and painting or staining.  Lettering to be done by Lenkaitis, Ehrhardt & Harrison.

 Weeds between buildings on main street and street needs to be sprayed.

 Various places in village need to be trimmed with weed eater or round up.

 Gravel to be hauled in to fill various holes. ( In alley behind Lynn Sipes property and along main street near Jack’s Gas.)

 Bob Mekely reported that Rick Munson has agreed to paint the roof of the Coleman Park Shelter this summer.

 The Coleman Park sign is need of repair or replaced.  Discussion was tabled until the July meeting.

 COMMUNICATIONS 

•         Thank you from the fire department for donation

•         Thank you from the Ambulance Department for donation

•         2008 Julie Golf Outing

•      PC After School Program. – $500 donation will be sent

BASEBALL

 Presthus requested $200.00 from the baseball fund to take the team to a Chief’s game in Peoria.  Payment for this was approved by the board.

 Will look into getting trophies made a Graphic Electronics in Spring Valley.

 Need to find a replacement for Joy Weide who manages the concession stand as she will be retiring after this year.

 Movie in the Park will be the last Friday in July at dusk.  The movie that will be playing is “Over The Hedge”.  Refreshments will be complimentary from the Village.

 There was no further business.  Next meeting will be July 9.  Motion to adjourn was made by Presthus, seconded by Trone. Motion carried and meeting Adjourned.

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