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HomeMy WebLinkAboutVILLAGE BOARD - 02/26/2019 - Village Board Minutes Page 1 of 4 7 MINUTES REGULAR VILLAGE BOARD MEETING February 26, 2019 1. CALL TO ORDER – 7:12 P.M. PRESENT: Mayor Craig B. Johnson, Trustees Nancy J. Czarnik, Patton L. Feichter, Jeffrey C. Franke, Samuel L. Lissner, James P. Petri, and Christine K. Prochno ABSENT: None. A Quorum was present. Also Present: Village Manager Raymond R. Rummel, Village Attorney George B. Knickerbocker, Village Clerk Loretta M. Murphy 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE INVOCATION – Pastor Steve Okpisz, Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF FEBRUARY 12, 2019 – Motion to approve the Minutes of the Regular Village Board Meeting held on February 12, 2019 as submitted and dispense with the reading. Moved by Trustee Petri Seconded by Trustee Czarnik VOICE VOTE MOTION CARRIED 4. MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ REPORT Mayor Johnson - Vacant Retail Space - Dollar Tree is coming to the Mallard Crossing Shopping Center in the space between Ross Dress For Less and the new Aldi store. The owner of the Elk Grove Town Center is close to filling up the space near Planet Fitness. Public Works – We appreciate all the work that the plow drivers are doing this winter. All Village plows have GPS on them to enable us to track where and when a part of the Village is being plowed. Bahamas Bowl – An announcement on the Bahamas Bowl will be under the Regular Agenda. Elk Grove Park District and Elk Grove Public Library – Thank you to the Park District and the Library for the variety of programs that are offered to the residents. Oaths of Office – Wojciech Simik and George Trunek were sworn in as Firefighter/Paramedics; and Kevin Spejcher, Daniel Lim, Daniel Leja and Colton Jeralds were sworn in as Police Officers for the Village. Trustee Prochno – Thank you to Helen Leski for inviting the Trustees to the Hattendorf Center this morning to share what the Trustees do for the community as well as answer questions. It was a nice exchange and we appreciate the opportunity. The Sister City Program will be sending the Elk Grove High School exchange students to Termini Imerese in Sicily to stay with their counterpart families at the end of March. This will be the 9th trip for the exchange. The students from Sicily visited Elk Grove over the Thanksgiving holiday. Trustee Feichter – Thank you Helen Leski for inviting us to the senior center today. The most common complaint was about the Post Office here in Elk Grove which is something that we cannot control. We encourage residents to contact their Congressman who has the power to do something about it. The Carnival of Exceptional Character was on Saturday with an impressive amount of representation from community groups. There were over 1,000 people in attendance. The Meet Chicago Northwest annual Restaurant Week is going on right now. There are 45 restaurants in the northwest suburban area participating and are offering special menus for lunch and dinner. Five of the restaurants in Elk Grove Village are participating - Tapalpa, Sweet Baby Ray’s, Real Time Sports, Jimmy’s Charhouse, and the W-Bar at the Wyndham. The trip to Bulgaria went well and a presentation will be given at an upcoming meeting to show some pictures of the visit. Trustee Czarnik – Thank you for the invitation to the senior center but I returned from Australia and New Zealand this morning which made it difficult to attend the meeting. The Frank J. Czarnik scholarship program has six $1,000 scholarships available this year for students residing in Elk Grove Village that are continuing to Page 2 of 4 a college or trade school. Applications are available on the Village website or at Czarnikgolf.com. Trustee Petri – Attended the senior meeting at the Al Hattendorf Center this morning. The weather was bad enough for the Public Works crews but yesterday they really earned their money working when I saw them working on the sewer on Tonne Road. Thank you, Colby, and please thank the crews for their perseverance and fortitude to get the job done during these really cold temperatures. Trustee Lissner – Thank you to Helen and Bob Leski for inviting us to the senior meeting. There is a Joint Action Water Agency meeting scheduled for tomorrow to talk about the 2020 fiscal year budget. Mayor Larson has been chairing this committee for a long time and will not be running for re-election so this will be his last meeting. The CCC did a nice job coordinating the event on Saturday. The day at the Carnival of Exceptional Character was gloomy but the children that attended were having a great time. Trustee Franke – Thank you for the invitation to the senior center but unfortunately, I had to work. 5. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE WARRANT: Motion to authorize payment of invoices as shown on the February 26, 2019 Accounts Payable Warrant in the amount of $1,734,293.57. Moved by Trustee Petri Seconded by Trustee Czarnik AYES: Trustees Feichter, Franke, Lissner, Petri, Prochno, Czarnik NAYS: None MOTION CARRIED 6. CONSENT AGENDA a. Authorization to award a purchase contract to CDW, Inc. of Vernon Hills, IL to provide the Village Microsoft Windows Server Data Center Licenses in an amount not to exceed $26,656.70. b. Authorization to renew a professional service contract to Lauterbach & Amen, LLP of Naperville, IL to perform the Village's annual audit in an amount not to exceed $35,400. c. Authorization of a request to renew a landscape services contract to Fleck's Landscaping of Wheeling, IL for the 2019 Turf and Landscape Bed Maintenance - Business Park contract in the amount of $99,497.85 from the Business Leaders Fund. d. Authorization to award a professional service contract with Civiltech Engineering of Itasca, IL to provide the necessary construction engineering services for various infrastructure improvements throughout the Village for the remaining 2019 Fiscal Year in the amount of $118,666 from the Water/Sewer and BLF Fund. e. Authorization of a request to renew a landscape services contract to Sebert Landscaping of Elk Grove Village, IL for the 2019 Turf and Landscape Bed Maintenance - Residential contract in the amount of $175,491.48. f. Authorization of a request to hold a Public Hearing for the Plan Commission to consider the petition submitted by CA Industrial to resubdivide the property at 552-586 E Devon from one lot to two lots, to rezone the new Lot 1 from B-1 to I-1, and associated variations. g. Authorization to adopt Ordinance No. 3591 entitled, “ORDINANCE NO. 3591 GRANTING A SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO GERBER COLLISION AND GLASS TO OPERATE AN AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR CENTER IN AN I-2 INDUSTRIAL ZONED DISTRICT (2450 S. ELMHURST ROAD).” h. Authorization to adopt Ordinance No. 3592 entitled, “ORDINANCE NO. 3592 GRANTING A VARIATION OF SECTION 3-7:D(2) OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE AS IT PERTAINS TO SIZE REQUIREMENTS FOR DETACHED ACCESSORY STRUCTURES TO PERMIT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A THIRTY FEET (30') BY TWENTY-FIVE FEET (25') DETACHED GARAGE TOTALING SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY SQUARE FEET (750) ON PROPERTY LOCATED AT 932 VICTORIA LANE (BOHLMAN).” i. Authorization to adopt Ordinance No. 3593 entitled, “AN ORDINANCE GRANTING A VARIATION OF SECTION 7E-9(A) OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE TO PERMIT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR FEET (4') HIGH, OPEN BLACK FENCE TO EXTEND APPROXIMATELY FORTY-NINE FEET (49') BEYOND THE FRONT CORNER OF THE PRINCIPAL STRUCTURE AND WHICH IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY TWO FEET (2') FROM THE DRIVE AISLE TO THE NORTH, FOUR FEET (4') FROM THE DRIVE AISLE TO THE EAST, AND FOUR FEET (4') FROM THE SIDEWALK TO THE NORTH- EAST FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 106 GARLISCH DRIVE, ELK GROVE VILLAGE (OHI LLC).” j. Authorization to adopt Ordinance No. 3594 entitled, “AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 5-3-1 AND 5-3-2 OF THE ELK GROVE VILLAGE CODE AS THEY PERTAIN TO ADOPTING THE 2012 EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE AND PROVIDING FOR ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO BY AMENDING SECTION 901.6.2 OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE RELATING TO RECORDS OF INSPECTIONS.” k. Authorization to adopt Ordinance No. 3595 entitled, “AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 4-2-2: SPECIFIC NUISANCES ENUMERATED AND SECTION 4-4-6: COMPOSTING OF THE VILLAGE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF ELK GROVE VILLAGE.” Page 3 of 4 Mayor asked if there were any questions or comments from the Village Board or audience on the Consent Agenda items. Motion to approve Consent Agenda items a. through k. Moved by Trustee Czarnik Seconded by Trustee Franke VOICE VOTE MOTION CARRIED 7. REGULAR AGENDA – a. Authorization to hold a second reading to adopt Ordinance No. 3588 annexing certain property to the Village of Elk Grove Village and rezoning same in accordance with the Village's Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map (Property along Higgins Road). The Village Attorney recommends this item to be moved to Unfinished Business for action at a future meeting. With no objection from the Village Board, this item will be moved to Item 26. Unfinished Business. b. Authorization to renew a contract option with ESPN for sponsorship of the 2019 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl in the amount of $300,000. Item 7-b authorizes the Village to renew the contract for another year at the same price of $300,000. We make no pre-conceived beliefs that we will get the same kind of coverage that we did last year. We are trying to continue to build Elk Grove as a brand name in the eyes of the business world. The first year was beyond belief and we want to continue to grow upon name recognition, branding recognition and identify Elk Grove as a place to do business. Many have read stories about the restaurant owner from Indianapolis that is looking to expand or the manufacturing company in Texas that is very serious about looking to move to Elk Grove. It won’t happen overnight and may take six months to a year to come to fruition. To have people looking at and talking about Elk Grove has never happened before, especially nationally. We’ve advertised during the local news channels but that is a regional approach in Northern Illinois, Southern Wisconsin, Eastern Iowa and Northwestern Indiana. This is more national with the number of hits from Florida, California, Texas, New York and throughout the country. That was the vision when we started and we are hoping it will continue into next year. If we vote tonight to do it again it will be the same package as last year with the same commercials, same name branding, on-field name branding, and mentions on the ESPN Sports Center. The Village Board was asked to express comments or concerns prior to taking a vote. Trustee Prochno – I have no concerns or comments. Trustee Franke – As the Board knows I’ve been back and forth on this a few times. We’ve discussed different reasons and I thank the Mayor for helping with some things that I asked him to look at. He did come back and solve the problems and I do appreciate that. I’m hoping that we continue to get the bang for the buck that we did last year. I think it’s going to be worth us to do this for one more year. It works for the Village, so I will vote yes. Trustee Feichter – I had some of the same questions that Trustee Franke had and those have been answered. I also feel that realistically we are not going to have as much publicity or as many people across the country talking about it as we did the last time. Elk Grove Village took pride in having this bowl game and it was great to see the turnout at Real Time with everyone cheering during the commercials of the football game. So yes, I think we should give it another shot and do it again this year. Trustee Lissner – We have been visiting businesses and while some may not have been excited about the bowl game others were very excited and we like to continue to keep the business park full. It would be nice to get new businesses from other parts of the country or out of state and not take them from neighboring communities. I think that we are on the right track and we should take another try so you have my support. Trustee Czarnik – Trustee Lissner said a lot of what I feel. The key of what we got with the first advertising was the unusual aspect of a Village that was not tourism bound to do something like this. What we have seen with the regional and even national inquiries and the hits through social media is something that you have to continue to make sure that our name is out there. I do feel that it is something that we should try again and see the response we get now, and in the future, to make sure that the name brand is there. Trustee Petri – I agree and I think that more and more people know who and what Elk Grove Village is and I think that the bowl game really put us out there. I think that we should go again. Mayor Johnson – Although I’m not running for re-election this year, I am out knocking on doors helping people and there are three things that people are talking about in the community 1) They are happy that we no longer have vehicle stickers; 2) They talk about the Summer Concerts; and 3) They talk about the bowl game. It’s amazing how man y people remember it and know it. People took pride in and were proud to see Elk Grove in such a positive story and in a positive light. Some people may be upset about it but people are talking about it. We want people talking about the Makers Wanted Elk Grove. Realistically the numbers won’t be what they were last year. Motion to approve Regular Agenda item b. Moved by Trustee Lissner Seconded by Trustee Petri AYES: Trustees Franke, Lissner, Petri, Prochno, Czarnik, Feichter NAYS: None Page 4 of 4 MOTION CARRIED 8. PLAN COMMISSION - Village Manager Rummel – There were no items under Plan Commission. 9. ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS - Village Manager Rummel – There were no items under the Zoning Board of Appeals. 10. YOUTH COMMITTEE – Trustee Franke – Seven (7) $1,000 scholarships are available to high school seniors that are Elk Grove residents and planning to attend a college or trade school. The applications are available on the Village and Park District websites and the deadline is May 3, 2019. Special thanks to Mikerphone Brewery for hosting a fundraiser to contribute funds for this program. 11. BUSINESS LEADERS FORUM - Trustee Lissner – Visiting Performance Lighting at 395 Kent Street tomorrow as part of the Ambassador Program. On March 26, Enclave will provide an update to the Village Board at a Committee of the Whole Meeting. 12. CABLE TELEVISION COMMITTEE - Trustee Lissner – The Cable Franchise Meeting on February 20th was cancelled due to the weather. 13. HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES - Trustee Czarnik – No Report. 14. INFORMATION COMMITTEE - Trustee Lissner – No Report. 15. RECYCLING & WASTE COMMITTEE – Trustee Feichter – Christmas lights will be accepted at Village Hall until the end of March for recycling. 16. PARADE COMMITTEE - Trustee Czarnik – The Parade will be at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 21, in conjunction with the Elk Grove Oktoberfest. The next meeting will be April 1. 17. PERSONNEL COMMITTEE – Trustee Franke – No Report. 18. JUDICIARY, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMITTEE – Trustee Prochno – Please add Parking Regulations in the Industrial Park as an item under the JPZ. A meeting will be scheduled at a later date. 19. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS COMMITTEE - Trustee Czarnik – No Report. 20. AIRPORT UPDATE – Mayor Johnson – JDA did a great presentation in front of the ONCC. They are working on a Rotation Plan that will be brought to SOC in the next few weeks. It will then go to the ONCC in April to hopefully be adopted when the new runway is completed. Elk Grove will have some impact when they lengthen the one runway and build a new one but the plan will only work during the Fly Quiet hours from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. 21. MID-SUMMER CLASSICS CONCERT SERIES UPDATE - Mayor Johnson – July 4 – Melissa Etheridge (Rotary Green); July 9 – Boz Scaggs (Town Center); July 16 – The Commodores (Town Center); July 23 – Wynona and The Big Noise (Town Center); July 30 – Night Ranger (Town Center) 22. SPECIAL EVENTS - Mayor Johnson – Memorial Day will be the next special event. 23. LIQUOR COMMISSION - Mayor Johnson – No Report. 24. REPORT FROM VILLAGE MANAGER – No Report. 25. REPORT FROM VILLAGE CLERK – Early Voting will begin March 18 through April 1 at Village Hall. The hours are posted on the website. Please contact the Village Clerk’s Office if you have any questions. 26. UNFINISHED BUSINESS – No Report. 27. NEW BUSINESS – No Report. 28. PUBLIC COMMENT – 8:11 P.M. – There were no comments this evening. 29. ADJOURNMENT - Motion to adjourn the Village Board meeting at 8:12 p.m. Moved by Trustee Czarnik Seconded by Trustee Franke AYES: Trustees Lissner, Petri, Prochno, Czarnik, Feichter, Franke NAYS: None. MOTION CARRIED Loretta M. Murphy, Village Clerk Mayor Craig B. Johnson