July 7, 2014

Call to order at 7:00 pm by President Knoup.

 Members answering roll call: President Knoup, Mat Diehl, Bob Asche, Jim Westaby, Will Backus, Dave Dixon, Larry Johnson, Jamie Melville and Cheryl Liebenstein.

 The minutes from the June meeting were reviewed and accepted without dissent by Jim. Second by Bob. Motion Carried.

 The Committee made a motion to pay all bills as presented, with additions and corrections added. Second by Dave. Motion carried.

 Motion to approve the treasurer report as presented, by Jim.

Second by Bob. Motion carried.

 No transfer of fund needed

 Financial Report

 Mat presented the board with the Appropriation Ordinance.  The Waste Water project is not listed.  Mat will add the appropriate figures to cover the project.

Motion was made by Dave to accept the Appropriations as presented with additional amounts added to cover the cost of the Waste Water project.  Motion second by Jim. Roll Call vote as follows: Bob-yes, Mat-yes, Jim-yes, Will-yes, Dave-yes, Larry-yes.  Let the record show 6-yes, 0-no and 0-absent.

 Visitors

Fehr-Graham, Adam, was present to review several ongoing projects. 

 FEMA Buy-Out – No changes will be made to the FEMA draft contract.  The Village attorney has reviewed both contracts. Adam noted that the Village will be required to do an audit on the Buy-Out and may be audited again. Any disallowed expenditures will need to be paid back.  The Village will have recurrent inspections of the properties every three years after the close out of the project.

Demolition will be done by the same contract for each property. An asbestos inspection will need to be done prior to demolition for each home.  IEMA needs to make changes with several lot numbers in their contract.

The Board will hold a public meeting for review of the contracts and have representatives from IDNR and FEMA available for questions.

The board may need to look at the contracts and pull any homes/business out before the final vote.

A special Public meeting will be held in two weeks on July 22nd. The public may view contracts from 5-7 with the meeting to start at 7 pm.  The board will vote on the contracts at the August meeting.

 Phat and Sylvia were present to inform the board that they plan to buy Yellow Creek Inn.  The board had to apply for a new the contract with the Illinois State Police for background checks.  This process may take up to 45 days. After the background check the board will vote to allow a new liquor license for the business.

 Adam noted that they had the walk through with Kelsey Excavating for the Waste Water project.  Kelsey will start in August and project should be completed by fall.

 Maintenance Report

Streets & Alleys

 Jim attended the Park District board meeting and requested a copy of the minutes with the approval from them to change the parking near the Park and School and Summit St.  The Park District approved the project and will give the Village $1000.00 for lighting.

Jim made a motion to spend $19,000.00 for angle parking on Summit St next to the Park/School.  The project will need to be completed by the start of school.  Motion second by Mat.  Motion carried.

 WATER & SEWER

 Nothing more to report

 CEMETERY

Will will have another tree taken down at the cemetery.  The committee will plan to meet and look at lot price increases.

 BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Repair work will begin on the salt shed.

The committee gave Rob permission to purchase a new weed whip.

Bob requested that several lights be looked at in the sub division.  They seem to be really dim compared to the others.

 Police

The officers will now be handing out Ordinance violations as they see them or as they are reported.

Will will speak with Fred regarding the computer issues and getting the Ordinances available to them on the laptop.

The officers may need to have new radios that do not run off the towers. The County and State have already switched their radios to Star Com.

Liquor

President Knoup requested that the board look at requiring a police officer on duty at any beer garden of premises of the business holding the license.

Board members wanted to check with insurance to see if there was any liability on our streets for beer gardens or outside bands.

 Old Business

 Harry Bowen will get back to the board with a copy of Lena’s Ordinance for a liquor license for an establishment that has gambling machines.

Dave made a motion to change the ordinance for Sunday liquor sales to regular week day liquor hours.  Motion second by Will.  Motion carried.

 New Business

 Joel Kempel, Boulevard Bash, is requesting a beer garden with Little John’s to run it.  Motion by Mat to allow a beer garden at the Boulevard Bash, Motion second by Will.  Motion carried.

The Lions club has requested a donation to help cover cost of entertainment at the Boulevard Bash.

Motion by Larry to not give a donation to the lions club for the Bash.  Motion second by Bob.  Motion carried.

 Motion by Dave to accept the Ordinance as written by the TIF lawyers which will remove Jim Westaby’s house and Will Backus house from the TIF district.  Motion second by Larry.  Motion carried.

 Motion to adjourn at 9:00 pm by Bob

Second by Larry.

Motion carried.

 Attest:

Cheryl Liebenstein

Village Clerk