The Board of Trustees of the Village of Stickney met Aug. 1.
Here is the minutes provided by the Board:
Upon the roll call, the following Trustees were present:
Trustees Hrejsa, Kapolnek, Milenkovic, Torres and White
Absent: Trustee Savopoulos
Trustee Milenkovic moved, duly seconded by Trustee White to approve the minutes of the previous Public Hearing Regarding Proposed Annual Budget and Appropriation meeting held on July 18, 2017.
Upon the roll call, the following Trustees voted:
Ayes: Trustee Hrejsa, Kapolnek, Milenkovic, Torres and White
Absent: Trustee Savopoulos
Nays: None
Mayor Walik declared the motion carried.
Trustee White moved, duly seconded by Trustee Hrejsa to approve the minutes of the previous Regular Session meeting held on July 18, 2017.
Upon the roll call, the following Trustees voted:
Ayes: Trustee Hrejsa, Kapolnek, Milenkovic, Torres and White
Absent: Trustee Savopoulos
Nays: None
Mayor Walik declared the motion carried.
Trustee White moved, duly seconded by Trustee Milenkovic that the bills, approved by the various committees of the Board, be approved for payment, and to approve warrants which authorize the Village Treasurer to draw checks to pay the bills, to be signed by the authorized signers, as provided for by the Ordinances of the Village of Stickney.
Upon the roll call, the following Trustees voted:
Ayes: Trustee Hrejsa, Kapolnek, Milenkovic, Torres and White
Absent: Trustee Savopoulos
Nays: None
Mayor Walik declared the motion carried.
Prior to the vote, Treasurer Paul Nosek provided a summary indicating the source of funds used to pay the bills and the totals to be approved.
Corporate Fund: $58,374.32
Motor Fuel Tax Fund: $2,864.99
Badge: $0
Water Fund: $168,318.70
Police Pension Fund: $12,936.74
911 Account: $40.21
1505 Account: $2,699.28
Family Day: $885.00
Police Revenue Sharing $0
Capital Projects Fund: $0
Bond & Interest Fund: $0
Subtotal: $246,119.24
General Fund Payroll: $111,474.89
Water Fund Payroll: $12,019.44
Subtotal: $123,494.33
Total to be approved by Village Trustees: $369,613.57
Trustee Milenkovic moved, duly seconded by Trustee White to Pass and Approve Ordinance 2017-16, “An Ordinance Authorizing and Approving Ordinance 2017-16, “An Ordinance Authorizing and Approving the Purchase of a Kubota Utility Vehicle for the Village of Stickney.”
Prior to the vote, Sam Alonzo the Foreman from Public Works explained that this is a two- seater utility vehicle has a salter on it. It will be used to take care of 39th Street and clean up off street parking, sidewalks, the police department and fire department parking. The Mayor added in that it has an attachment for the brush to get on the sidewalks in certain areas. It can haul things such as chips.
Upon the roll call, the following Trustees voted:
Ayes: Trustee Hrejsa, Kapolnek, Milenkovic, Torres and White
Absent: Trustee Savopoulos
Nays: None
Mayor Walik declared the motion carried.
MAYOR’S REPORT: Mayor Walik told us that we had our music fest on July 22. He thanked everybody who helped. We had approximately 1,300 people there. We parked between 500 to 550 cars. There was not one incident. He continued to announce that our rodent issue as of January 1 to July, we had only eight complaints. Last year at this time we had 16 complaints. He thanked public works, parks and recs and residents that have been keeping up their property. He asked that people should let us know if they see problems around them. He just wrote a letter to the business and apartment owners along Pershing and Harlem to put traps out. Hopefully we could cut that number in half. In addition, the Mayor recognized Treasurer Paul Nosek. When he came here he had no passwords for the computer. He had no contacts with our taxes, with our union contracts and union people. No contacts with our payroll. He couldn’t get into our banks for one month. Paul worked very hard working overtime and starting early. We backed him 100%. We put together our budget with our budget committee made up of Trustee Savopoulos and Trustee White. In this time he has saved us approximately $29,000. He saved $10,000 with auditing and $10,000 with our IT stuff. Savings were found within cleaning and sanitation. The Mayor recognized Paul Nosek for three months on the job.
TRUSTEE REPORTS:
Trustee Hrejsa provided the Blight Report: 2081 Number of Houses, buildings; 179 On- going watch list; 50 Houses with missing, defaced of defective front addresses; 119 Garages with missing, defaced or defective alley addresses; 228 Garages needing repair, paint or replace; 37 Fences needing repair, paint or replace; 158 Number of sidewalk tiles needing work (partial); 177 Write ups notices (worthy of stop to further review). 5 Stickney Local Ordinance Citations; In addition, we were told about a Kids Night coming up on August 11, located at the Pavilion. There will be a DJ starting at 7:00 and a movie will start at dusk. There will be treats provided. There will be water balloons. Bring blankets and chairs. There will be a free raffle. Culver’s coupons will be given out. There will be a Family Day coming up. The Mayor commended Blight Inspector Ed Bartunek. He has given more warnings than tickets.
Trustee Kapolnek gave the Fire Report for January through the month of June: Ambulance calls: 330; Mutual Aid Calls: 80 Service Calls: 19; Fire Calls: 83; Hazardous Condition Calls: 8; Motor Vehicle Accidents: 31; Working Fires: 1; Brush/Trash Fire Calls: 3; Car Fires: 1; Outside Equipment Fires: 0; Total calls for the month of: Total calls for 2017: 557.
Trustee Torres provided the Police Total Activity Report for January 1 to June 30, 2017: Total number of calls for service; 9,051: Total number of E911 calls received; 2,420: Arrest by type: Traffic: 596; Village Ordinance Offences: 149; Warrants and Complaints: 40; Parking violations: 1,626; Total number of arrests/citations issued: 2,411; Total number of squad miles: 57,222; Total amount of gasoline used: 7,021.2 gallons; Average gas mileage/squad: 8.15 mpg.
Semi-Annual Activity Report January-June, 2017: CALLS FOR SERVICE; Total calls for service: 9,051; Incidents generated: 1,644; INDEX CRIMES OFFENSES; Homicides Number 0, Arrests 0: Rape Number 0, Arrests 0: Robbery Number 5, Arrests 4: Aggravated Assault & Battery Number 0, Arrests 0: Burglary Number 3, Arrests 0: Theft Number 31. Arrests 15: Motor Vehicle Theft Number 6, Arrests 0: Arson Number 0. Arrests 0: Human Trafficking Number 0, Arrest 0.
Funds Collected: Admin Reports: $780.00, Tow Releases: $22,190.00: Citation: $50.00, Ordinance: $7,811.13, Parking, $54,940.61 TOTAL: $85,771.74
Ordinance Activity Ordinance Control Total Activity Report for the months of January - June 2017. Ordinance Investigations: 1,750; Business License Investigations: 46; Violation Notices Issued: 68; Miscellaneous Details: 1,089; S.L.O. Tickets: 10; Parking Citations Issued: 430; Tow tags placed: 3;
Trustee Milenkovic attended the Midway Noise Compatibility Commission for the second quarter. The complaints for all hours were eight. The number of complainants was five. The night time complaints from between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. were five. The number of complainants was five. Our average quarterly noise level for the second quarter of 2017 was 55.5 decibels. It is 65 decibels to qualify for the sound insulation program.
Trustee White informed us that during the last few months the village has issued four new businesses licenses. A day care center closed up and someone new has taken it over. On Cicero Avenue a scrapping company opened up. There was a home business license issued for a heating and air conditioning business. There is another day care business that is renting out a portion of St. Pius for The Children’s Center of Cicero/ Berwyn. We have received a Freedom of Information on the Tabu Lounge and the Dollar Store. We are going to try to be proactive by calling the FOIA requestors to see how serious they are.
Department Reports:
Fire Chief Boyajian presented a lengthy list of Fire Department personnel who have been presented with their service awards. The Chief announced a grant they received from FEMA. It was in the amount of $45,000 for year 2016. The Villages share is $2,275.00. It is to be used for power cots. They will reduce the strain on the backs. A few weeks ago he and Deputy Chief Acosta meet with our FEMA representative in Forest Park. The representative told them that the FEMA grant is funded through the year 2017. Their fiscal year begins in October. We will continue to apply for grants for different equipment as long as they allow us to do that.
Deputy Police Chief Rich Jaczak informed us that there will be another Police Report in January, 2018 that will encompass the months of July through December. There will also be the full annual report that is approximately 21 pages in length. It is much more detailed. He felt that the numbers given today were not entirely fair because it was not able to be compared due to the fact that the first six months of the year we were decimated by manpower. Tickets and things were low. He assured us that the funds collected will see a 50% increase by the end of the year. He then referred to actual numbers in the report given today. We are now just about fully staffed.
Police Chief Dan Babich provided us with a report on the Music Fest. There were no incidents considering the amount of people that we had there. We had enough manpower on the scene to handle anything. The parking all the way to the event and the end of the event went smoothly. We have only one officer left in training. He will be done in the middle of August. Three have already been assigned shifts. One of our projects will be evidence and eventually doing a joint communication dispatch to form a central dispatch. It could join three or four communities. It is being forced upon us by the state. We are researching at this time. We are putting prices together. It will be a decision by the board based on economics. We are looking into the best options for our community. We should know something by the end of the year. After the first of the year we could start implementing it. The Mayor stated that this is being forced on us. The Chief agreed. The state is looking at what each municipality gets. If we get $60,000 in 911 funds and if they could get three or four municipalities working together at a central dispatch then that means that all that money goes to one. Then they (the state) cuts just check to those four municipalities. That is their way of controlling. We do not have a choice. We will try to make the best decision for our community. We will have to work through it.
Treasurer Paul Nosek thanked the Mayor for the recognition. He couldn’t have done it without the rest of the team. We got the budget done. We will be starting on the audit. We are going to start on the next budget in November or December. We are going to consolidate our computers. There will be new software for the building department. We have a lot of automation coming up.
The Mayor held a discussion with Assistant Public Works Supervisor Sam Alonzo about the street sweeper cleaning the alleys. It appears that the alleys on the east side were so dirty that the sweeper had to go through several times. Residents were mentioning it at Music in the Park. Public Works Supervisor Alonzo also spoke about the streets along Harlem Avenue being blocked to east bound traffic. The mayor reminded people that this is temporary until the construction is finished.
Trustee White moved, duly seconded by Trustee Milenkovic to adjourn to Closed Session at 7:40 p.m.
a. “Discussion regarding the semi-annual review of the minutes of meetings lawfully closed under the Open Meetings Act (Consideration of This Matter Held In Closed Meeting/ Executive Session Pursuant to 5 ILCS 120/2 (C)(21)(2017).”
Upon the roll call, the following Trustees voted:
Ayes: Trustee Hrejsa, Kapolnek, Milenkovic, Torres and White
Absent: Trustee Savopoulos
Nays: None
Mayor Walik declared the motion carried.
Trustee Milenkovic moved, duly seconded by Trustee White to reconvene the Regular Meeting at 8:15 p.m.
Upon the roll call, the following Trustees voted:
Ayes: Trustee Hrejsa, Kapolnek, Milenkovic, Torres and White
Absent: Trustee Savopoulos
Nays: None
Mayor Walik declared the motion carried.
Trustee White moved, duly seconded by Trustee Milenkovic to ask the attorney to draft a resolution so we could release the executive session minutes.
Upon the roll call, the following Trustees voted:
Ayes: Trustee Hrejsa, Kapolnek, Milenkovic, Torres and White
Absent: Trustee Savopoulos
Nays: None
Mayor Walik declared the motion carried.
There being no further business, Trustee White moved, duly seconded by Trustee Milenkovic that the meeting be adjourned. Upon which the Board adopted the motion at 8:16 p.m.
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