City Council - Regular Meeting

If we can have our three scouts lead us in a pledge of allegiance. If you guys come on up stand right there is fine. Right up front. Yeah. Come up. Come on up. We don't We don't bite. We really don't. We don't have our hats though. It's fine. Okay. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Joanne, if you can take care of your work. We're done.

All right. We'll see. We'll see you guys in a little bit. Yeah. Thank you. The roll call. Belzac here. Gustoson here. Kenny here. Legansky here. Shower here. Stampinado here. Sullivan here. Seven present. And in the absence of Mayor Marquees this evening, we need to have a nomination for mayor prom. May I have a motion from the floor? Mr. Stampinado like to nominate Joe Kenny. Do I have a second? Second. That's alderman Shower. And I'll take the role. Stampinado. Hi. Shower. Hi. Sullivan. Hi. Leansky. Hi. Kenny. Hi. Gusson. I. Belzac.

I. Seven eyes. Mayor Prom. Thank you. Uh, all the persons we've looked at made it our approved minutes this evening or modified minutes I should say. Any additions or objections to the minutes this evening? With no uh Can we have the role, please? No, we need a motion. Motion to approve. I'm sorry. Alderwoman Sullivan. Second by Alder Alderman Shower. The roll. Sullivan. I Shower. Hi. Stampinado. I Belzac. Hi. Kenny. I Gustoson. Hi. Leansky. Hi. Seven eyes. I have it.

Mayor Proemp. There was uh community comments and questions and announcements of a general nature that was before.

I apologize on that. Yes, I'm rusty tonight. I apologize. We have three times during our meetings where you anybody can come up and ask a question or have a comment. You have three minutes to talk. It might be about something we have on our agenda this evening that you might not be around to stick around till the entire entirety of the meeting. Well, then we'll have another spot right before the votes come on at the end and then we have another three minutes at the end. So, does anybody have anything that they'd like to bring to the city council at this time? Okay. Thank you, Mary. Do any of the older persons have uh communications this evening?

I do. Although,

yeah, I've got two items. The first is I received various comments from residents that they would like to have known the Halloween decorating winners prior to Halloween so they could go out and see the homes. You know, I recommend that we change our procedure next year to get the list of winners out prior to the Halloween date. Uh the second is I attended the public meeting in Woodridge last week regarding the Ziggfield Troy development. There were approximately 200 people at the meeting. They received a lot of public comment all against the development. The development includes approximately 220 town homes and some retail outlets. I spoke personally and commented on the potential impact to school districts 66 and 99 both of which are in Darien but that's where the students from these town homes would go to. So, I recommended that an impact fee be paid by the developer to the schools to pay for future uh con potential construction costs to expand the schools to deal with the additional students. My concern is that if no impact fee is paid, the schools may have to ask for a referendum to go out to the current taxpayers to ask them to increase their taxes. just the people to keep an eye on what's going on in Woodridge. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you for Thank you for that and we'll make a note for next year. Obviously that the decorating this year was kind of an idea that came on kind of quickly and we'll do a better job next year. Mary,

uh thank you. I've seen some communications going online regarding um an upcoming municipal services meeting next Monday um November 24th at 6 p.m. regarding and requesting for community input on changes to residential vehicle parking restrictions for residential properties. So, they're asking the public to come out for the meeting, municipal services on Monday, November 24th at 6 p.m. Um, I didn't know if there was if Alderman Belzac or um, Director Gbeck had more to add on that.

We're more than happy to expound on that. Thanks for bringing that information uh, forward to us. First of all, uh, this is in reference to a meeting for next Monday night in regards to commercial vehicle parking changes within the code. The municipal services uh committee has been looking at this over the last 6 months and discussing it uh in respect to one of our uh uh final challenges if you want to say is we've identified residents uh residents/ businesses that have commercial vehicles. Well, one of the things that uh the city has problems enforcing is when a person, a resident property owner basically has things such as a uh chipper uh wood chipper if you want to say that sits on the driveway. It's part of a commercial application, you know, maybe it's a Bobcat, maybe it's a uh semi uh and or military vehicles, for example, uh tow trucks and school buses. Those are more or less out of the settings. And so we've identified I'm going to say approximately 40 to 50 um properties at this point and we're looking for input from those properties as well. What we're looking at further doing is let's take um a service vehicle. So, if Joe's plumbing service, he has his own home occupation as a plumber and he has one van with ladder racks and signage on that van that would be allowed uh that it's allowed today, it would be allowed tomorrow depending on the ordinance actions. Uh so that's one example. So no more than one commercial vehicle. Uh the second example is if a snow plow is sitting by itself in the driveway with no vehicle attached to it, that would be a violation. So basically, it's

storage of materials. In this case, construction materials that are just not allowed. It's no different than the accumulation of I'll refer to it as trash for simple terminology here. Um, also, you know, school buses, we have we've had complaints where school buses are on driveways, uh, overnight, so on and so forth. Obviously, it's not a business, a home business. So, those are the type of things that we're looking at. Further regulation and parking along the some residents have the opportunity to park alongside the garage or side of their house. Um, so it's no different than an RV. Not to confuse this with the RV, but there's commercial type of vehicles, for example, dump trailers again that are parked against the sides of the home. Those would not be allowed. Um, the only way that you would have more opportunity is if you had a 6ft fence, per se, and you were able to put these types of construction vehicles or construction equipment behind that fence. If the city cannot see it from the right ofway roadway, we have no right to basically f um you know send out any type of notice of violation. But at the same time, if a neighbor calls and identifies this and city staff has the right per that resident's permission to go and actually, you know, get the photo or the residents can send us the photo. So there's a little couple different types of actions there. Again, we're very friendly with code enforcement. We want to make sure we ask people comply. At the same time, this has been driven from other residents uh throughout the city.

Thank you. And again, let me just uh reiterate that meeting. As Mary said, this is next Monday, November 24th at 6:00 p.m. down here at the city uh council chambers. Thank you.

Open. I I met with Commissioner Spiros from the park district last week. We reviewed some of the events that the city did over the summer at the parks. Doesn't seem to be any real issues or red flags that we talked about. We're looking forward to meeting in January. We had set up last June um that we would do a six-month touchpoint meeting. We're going to put that together for the beginning of January. Um we're working on agenda items now. If there's anything that the anybody on the council or through staff would like to see on the agenda, please email that to me, I'm going to meet with uh Commissioner Spiros and then she's also going to meet with her board just to put a a agenda together looking forward to the next year.

Do you do we have a a date set for that? The meeting is January 12th. January 12th. Okay. Thank you. and we'll send that agenda and notice out um ahead of time. Any other communications this evening? Okay. With with that, we will go to the mayor's report and our first item on the mayor's report is regarding the 2025 Halloween home decorating contest. Leslie Sweeney, I believe you are going to say a few words on that tonight. You and your staff, you and your your group. We're here to announce the winner.

Jump right in. And I'm sorry, what's the other lady's name? I I apologize. Melody Jenowski. Hi, Melody. Thank you very much.

So, I guess we're just jumping right in here. So, um we are going to start in reverse order. Um so, our fifth place winner is uh Nelson and Nicole uh De Jesus, and they are at 7210 Whittier. Uh Nicole and Nelson have lived in the Darian area for the last eight years. They have three dogs. They did name them Puddle, Gizmo, and Mo Mochi, I think. Um they like to decorate. Their house was beautiful. They did have a um uh Oh, I I apologize. Um so they said that when they first moved here about 8 years ago, they had 5 to 10 kids that would stop by. And every year they decorate because they have noticed that the more they decorate, the more children that come to the neighborhood. Uh they the the display had signs of haunted forests and turned back. Uh there were scary pumpkins, jacko'lanterns, um bats, monsters, uh gargoyle mounted columns in the front yard, uh to the entryway, and it kind of led into a pathway up to the front door, which was really kind of neat. Um they had electronics on the uh garage that lit up a giant moon and a werewolf. So that was our fifth place winner. If you want, do you know if they if they have the awards for presenting?

Oh, okay. If you want to go up there and do it. Yeah, we'll just do it right away.

There you go. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. We'll just do one quick picture of the everybody. Brett was his family moved to de 2024 and have left. He said he used to live end of a dead end street larger and more decorated. A lot of pumpkins. I got a little spider web.

Thanks for having me. CONGRATULATIONS. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Awesome. Thank you.

Is that wrong? characters in the window and a spider web. That was very cool. It takes two full days. The house was amazing. Amazing. Spooky. Yay.

Congratulations. Can we give this to you? Do you want Do you want this? There you go.

Congratulations. Second place. faces. Such a frightful one. YAY. OKAY, our first place winners were Adam uh Lesk and and Andrea uh Bettin Court. Uh the house is at for uh 4107 Street. And when you think Halloween, this is the house you think of. Um Andrea and Adam both grew up in the area. As a matter of fact, Andrea's parents uh was four houses away where Andrea grew up. Uh wanting to move to the area and having a connection to the block made this house on 71st Street perfect for them. A neighbor a couple of doors over had a big Halloween display that was up every year and it piqu their interest and was the catalyst to their home display. Uh this is their third year decorating. Their display is an amazing haunted graveyard that even boasted a tribute to the late Azie. Uh Andrea and Adam started the display in they start the display in mid September. It is no small feat. The whole family gets involved and many of the decorations are built by the homeowners in including two large columns at the entrance of the graveyard. From creepy monsters, skeleton, werewolves, and witches, the homeowners have both tall and short decorations for their zombie graveyard. They decorated both sides of their front yard, uh the porch, and even the upper

balcony and use lighting, cobwebs, and even pyrochnics to create a wonderful display to scare. They love seeing the kids and the family stop by their display and mentioned it is in the hundreds every year. They had 150 trick-or-treaters uh stop this year. I don't think number I don't think they made it. I know they were on vacation last week. So, and just so you guys have an idea, we do actually put a a display together. Um, and this is all the winners. Okay. Why don't everybody who won come up to the front and you guys can hold the display and we'll get a picture for Direct Connect. Come on everybody in the middle.

The whole family go from the middle. Go all the way up here.

She was stealing the show. You guys go in the middle then hold it. Oh, wait. This is great. One, two, three. One, two, three. And then I'm going to do one this way. My husband got

Great. Congratulations. The next item we have this evening is a mayor proclamation regarding Arbor Day 2025 which was back in April. There's I'm sure there's plenty of logic behind that. We just we're not going to get into it tonight. By the way, folk any of the Boy Scouts um

never mind. I'll get to that later. Whereas trees can reduce the erosion of our precious top soil by wind and water, lower our heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean air, produce oxygen, and provide habitat for wildlife. And whereas tree are renewable resources, giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires, and countless other wood products. And where is trees in our city increase property values, enhance the econ economic vitality of business areas and beautify our community. And where is trees wherever they are planted are a source of joy and spiritual renewal. And where is the city of Darian and Armor Day volunteer group continues to produce continuous Arbor Day celebrations and the city of Darian which have beautiful which have beautified our parks and parkways remembering our loved ones and educated our school children and promoting canopy cover and where is the celebration of Arbor Day was held on April 25th 2025 in the Darian parks and at Hinsdale South High School commemorating the lives of Darian residents and contribut Butors. Now therefore, Joseph Marquez, our mayor of the city of Darian, proclaimed April 25th, 2025 as Arbor Day. Anything else? Awesome. All right. Our next item on the agenda here is that tonight we have an opportunity to honor three young men who have achieved the highest level of scouting, Eagle Scout. As her corporate sponsor John Pearson has said stated, what these three scouts have achieved this last year is a wonderful accompl accomplishment and culmination of many years of scouting and hard work. Tonight, we honor them for this wonderful achievement. I would like to introduce John or John Pearson, part of the Darian Lions Club, who will introduce each scout and share with us

the project that led to this achievement. John, what's this?

I was under the impression you were you were lead you were leading a charge. No. No. Well, then guess what, John? I'm going to I'm going to let I'm going to let you off the hook. No. I I'm I'm John. uh Airlines Club charter organization rep, but these are our scouts and Mark and Cros is our crew master and Pin Chong is our uh committee chair and then Justin Connley is our uh main Hey, John. Why don't you Why don't Why don't you read my sheet? There you go. I didn't hear everything. You good? You got it. Oh, no. Oh, as far as you can read for

Yeah, I I just heard my name, so our first recip, our first Eagle Scout is 17-year-old Ken Sweeney, a senior at Down Grove South High School, and his project was dug up benches for the DYC. The project consisted of planning, drawing, and constructing four 12-oot wooden and composite dugout benches for two baseball fields owned by the by DYC. They were made to remove safety hazards that were prevalent with the previous benches and now benefit every baseball and softball player who ever plays at the field. OUR next Eagle Scout is 17-year-old Jaden Villa, a senior at Hinsdale South High School. His project were benches and picnic table. The project consisted of constructing two Leupold benches, a kids picnic table, and a flower stand for the Darian Garden Club. The benches and the kids table were able to provide more seating, not just for adults. The Sprouts youth group also had more seating available. The flower stand aided the DGC and displaying their works for art for the public to see. Acts of kindness like this go a long way, especially for a nonfor-profit organization like DFC. CONGRATULATIONS, And last but not least, 18-year-old Will Phthalo, senior at Donis Grove South

High School. His project was two plywood puzzles. Will's Eagle Scout project involved making two plywood puzzles that become standing mammoth skeletons when assembled. One is in Fullersburg Woods Nature Center, and the other is a backup in case any pieces of the original are damaged. Both puzzles were stained white to look like bones and stand around 2 and 1/2 ft tall when assembled. The nature center has a real mammoth skeleton inside and the puzzle allows visitors to make their own mammoth without putting the real skeleton at risk. CONGRATULATIONS.

Photographer would like to take your picture. You go to the front.

Okay. No problem. Wonderful gentlemen. One, two, three. One, two, three. I'm going to do one this way. Great. Stay right there. Hold on.

All right. THANKS, like to write. Would we like to move to city clerk's report?

If you love local government, you can stick around. If you've seen enough with your scouts and you want to go home and do homework and stuff, you're free to go without any guilt. Is that good? Is that fair? Right. Congratulations. Take this now. Can somebody get Yeah, I'll tell you what. Bring it upstairs. We'll bring it upstairs. Yeah. Up in the lobby. Yep. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you very much.

You're welcome. Thank you. Great job. Pacific local government lovers. I was going to eat. That would have been a good one.

All right. And here we go. our city clerk's report. Joanne Reona, please. Um,

previously we had the we had spoken at our October 20th meeting regarding the vehicle sticker lottery. We had no um people no organizations that came forward stating that they would like to do that. Uh there the mayor, I believe, reached out to different organizations and the Indian Prairie Public Library has stepped forward and said that they would like to do the vehicle sticker. I'd like to read what the three provisions are that they must follow for this sticker. The funds from the vehicle sticker donations must be used for community related functions and the winner in one year will not be eligible for the lottery for a 2-year period after winning and the city reserves the right to withdraw this lottery due to budget constraints. Uh there were oh numerous organizations that were asked to participate and luckily the Indian Prairie Public Library did step forward and they will let us know where they will be offering the vehicle stickers for purchase for residents.

Okay. Thank you. City administrators report. Uh just one item that uh we'll be looking to cancel the December 1st council meeting. We have no agenda items but I'll confirm that tomorrow and email to everybody. Beautiful. So that means no finance. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Uh department head information requests or questions and answers. Uh chief, your monthly report uh on there other than statistical. So if anybody has any questions, I'll do my best to answer.

What do we know? I know it was on it was in the news regarding the suspect was picked up in Willow Brook and Hansdale. um and daring for um sexual uh abuse of wh uh women in that community that I mean how many I mean I I I first heard about it was in his later on that I heard that we were involved

um yeah heck charge on and single indictment then multiple indictments. So, it's their case. Okay. Did Did we have did we have a lot of cases here in town or just one? One. Okay.

All right. Uh municipal services. Mr. You got you got anything quick? Yes. calls during the fall and unfortunately one week in all locations, believe it or not. road. Um, so again, want to make sure that residents are patient out there while we're coming and please feel free to call us at the same time. And let me, we do not have the city of Darian does not have leaf pickup in the roadways. So, please do not rake your leaves into the roads. It is a code violation. So, thank you.

Is each street done once then? You don't do streets multiple times, do you? We'll do streets multiple times. Yes. Yes. For example, again, there might be a maple here. There might be a red oak over here. There might be an ash down the, you know, further down the block. They're not going to all fall at the same time. Okay. And then, oh, I'm sorry, uh, Dan. And then what's the protocol for like sewers? Do you do you do you try to do every one or just only people call or I mean, what's

storm source? Yes. You know, we always watch the weather events. So, if there's a rain a forecast of rain coming, we're going to we're going to get out there and clear the path as much as possible. You know, if we also have an adopt a storm sore program, um, and a couple people have taken opportunities where they go out there and they're proactive and they basically break the leaves, put them off to the side, give us a call, we'll come out there and pick them up. Um, and and let's face it, we can clean them an hour from now, within 2 hours, depending on the winds, depending on the rain event, it'll they'll be back over those storm sewers. So, there's no good fine answer. But on storm events of any type of significance, we're already out there. Do you do anything with the leaves that have gotten down in the sewers too?

Doesn't that really doesn't make a difference? Okay. No. No. Eventually, they just disintegrate and get washed out. So, Okay. Yes,

I did see the sweepers in Carriageway West today when I was walking the dog and they're definitely like I I walk different paths and I'm out usually walking every day that some storm sewers seem to be just because maybe the pitch of the road seem to be motor hot spots and I've pointed that out to municipal services so they always make sure to check them. But I mean as homeowners um I know everyone has I mean I'm on a curve. I have a long, you know, so there's like literally like a long two different storm sewers than across the street. If we are able to, we're you know, physically able to, you know, kind of pull them up ourselves, that that makes a huge difference um on the way the water flows. So, if we could be pro proactive ourselves, I think it really helps.

So, again, if there's, you know, residents that identify something and are not capable of, you know, taking care of it, give us a call. That's what we're here for. Dan, with the fall starting kind of later with the leaves coming down later, I mean was was 70 degrees on Saturday. What is there how long will they pick up leaf leaf pickup? Will it like will extend or when will it end? It may last till our goal is always to have it completed by the first week of December, right? Is it possible that we'll be out till Christmas? Yes. Is the the yards the yards closed up? Is that what the reason behind it the dump?

Well, we have contracts with uh in this case it's LRS, right? We take all the dump. We take all the loads, okay? All the debris that comes in there. It's special waste, okay? Because there's more than leaves in there. There's grindings, road grindings which contain oil sometime. So when the sweeper is out there, it's no longer a recyclable product per se. So it is considered when in the business a hazardous waste if you want to say. So there is special handling. So so leaf but we leaf pickup could go later into December. Yes. We will store it at our public works facility and then when there's the opportunity of where it's going then it'll be shipped out. All right.

LRS only does it till the second week in December though. There's a difference I think between what talking about. You're about to say thank you Michael. I'm referring only to leave pickup. Okay. In the road. Yeah. I'm talking I'm talking about the the neighbors you all of us who are putting our leaves at the curb. That's for that's LRS. That's as Mike said till the second week of December. Okay. Those regard regardless of how much how much falls until correct. Those must be in bags and or the actual compost bins or uh cans the wheels from that or regular garbage cans. regular. I know.

Okay. Dump them. Um, are all the trees planted on the program for like the parkways? I know that Clarin Hills Road, they came I think last week and got the trees in. We have probably about uh close to 200 trees if not more than what we're going to be planting. I believe we're at approximately 50% done if not 75. I have not gotten an update. uh is coming back and you expect that to be done this year? Yes. Yes. The programs uh Morton Arboritum's been put out uh looking at the trees that have been planted and making sure that we have their approval uh obviously with the grant and it's moving okay along very well. Great. Thank you,

Dan. Any word on the shell station rehab or the uh it's a letter of credit that's being processed right now through Chase Bank and we anticipate that they're going to be starting construction in the spring. Okay, that's fine. Okay. Treasur. Thank you. Uh requesting council's approval of warrant number 252613 the amount of $369,456.78 from listed funds. Payroll for the period ended uh October 30th. The amount of $332,276.98. Total will be approved $71,733.76.

Okay. Motion to approve. Alderman Stampinado. Second by Alder. Second by Alderman Belzac. Roll please. Stampinado. I Belzac. Hi. Leansky. Hi. Sullivan. I. Gustoson. Hi. Kenny. Hi. Shower. I seven eyes. Nice to have it.

Next, requesting approval of warrant number 252614 in the amount of $662,7641 from the listed funds. Payroll for the period ended November 13th, the amount of $318,942.85. Total be approved $981,7726. Do I have a motion to approve? Alman Shower, seconded by Alderwoman Sullivan. The the vote please. Shower. Hi. Sullivan. Hi. Belzac. Hi. Leansky. Hi. Stampinado. Hi. Gustoson. Hi. Kenny. I. Seven eyes. Okay.

The revenue and expenditure report for the 6 months through October 31st reflects general fund year-to- date revenue 11,963,943. Expenses of $9,564,521. Current balance $6,499,48. Water and water depreciation funds year-to- date revenue $2,729,481. Expenses $3,797,76. Current balance $2,142,473. Motor fuel tax fund to date revenue $439,746. Expenses of $365,298. Current balance $674,44. Capital improvement fund $416,796. Year-to- date revenue expenses of $2,863,338. Current balance 21,23,389.

Okay. Two reports. Yeah. Did I miss something? Did I miss one? Oh, he hasn't done October yet. September and October. I just did the October on my game tonight. Standing committee reports. We kind of talked about that already tonight, but again, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, from April 10. Um, the next municipal services committee meeting, excuse me, will be a week from today, uh, Monday, November the 24th at 6 p.m. in council chambers. Thank you. Woman Sullivan.

Um there is a admin finance meeting that should be taking place on Monday, December 1st, but um if the city council meeting does not take place um then the next meeting will be um in January. Um we do have our um meetings coming up, our budget meetings um for the next fiscal year for 2026. Um the draft budget will be distributed um around February 11th with the first committee of a whole taking place on Wednesday, February 18th. Um the second one taking place on Wednesday, February 25th, and um the third one will be added on to the city council agenda on Monday, March 2nd, and then other meetings as needed. But um it is the hope that the um public hearing on the budget um will be presented on Monday, April 6th. Um the citizen of the year committee is very excited to announce that nominations are open and that um there's a new online uh way this year that makes things a little more streamlined. But um the um now the the form allows unlimited input um into each section. If nominators just want to answer the question on a separate piece of paper and drop off at city hall if you're more of a paper and pencil or a printout kind of person, please do so. The deadline for the um citizen of the year um submissions are January 6th. Um and that the um event to honor the citizen of the year and other um um serviceorientated individuals in Darien from our service club is scheduled for Friday, March 6th at Alpine Banquetss between 6:00 and 11. The cost will be

$52 per person. So the key right now is to get nominations in. And you know, it just I can't stress enough that, you know, if you feel like for a moment that someone is worthy, please go online. It's on the city website. It's on the direct connect, nominate an individual. Um my email is listed on the city website. If you have any questions um about how the process goes, please do not hesitate to reach out for me because um you know, it's one of the greatest things we do is to honor um key people in our our community.

Thank you very much. The police committee was supposed to meet to this evening. It was canceled due to lack of a agenda items. Our next meeting will be slated for Monday, December 15th at 6 p.m. across the parking lot and police training room pending agenda items. And that leads us now to do we have any questions or from the audience? We do not. Leads us to old business. Item A is a motion to approve an ordinance amending previously adopted ordinance number O-33-25 PCC 2024-09/ Chestnut Court Darian Illinois LLC 75011 Lamont Road. Do I have a motion to approve? Alderman Felzac second by Alderman Shower. Discussion. No discussion. and the and the role, please.

Elzac, hi. Shower. Hi, Gustoson. Hi. Um, I have an old sheet. Bear with the one minute. I have the wrong names on the sheet. I'm sorry. Um, Kenny, I Stampinado. Hi Shower. Hi. Oh, I already got you. Sorry. Sullivan. Hi. And who did I Leansky? Sorry. That's right. I I have seven eyes.

Okay. I guess we get a little drink of water here. We got We got a lot of stuff to call tonight. You move to our consent agenda. Item item A, motion to approve an ordinance authorizing the sale of personal property owned by the city of Darren. Item B, motion to approve the exponent expenditure of cannabis funds to purchase a DJI M4TD drone for an amount not to exceed $13,500. Item C, motion to approve the exponential expenditure of cannabis funds for the purchase of a 2026 Dodge Durango Pursuit AWD sports utility vehicle from Napleton Fleet Group in the amount of $41,324. Item D, motion to approve an ordinance approving a variation from the Darian zoning ordinance PZC 2025-17 for 1535 frontage road. Item E, a motion to authorize the purchase of an alternative liquid deicer and anti-icing products from K-tech Specialty Coatings Incorporated in an amote not to exceed $110,000. Item F, a motion to authorize the extension of a proposal from JC Landscaping and Tree Service at the proposal schedule of prices for the yard air drainage and assistance program for the period of May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2027. Item G, a motion authorizing the extension of a proposal from Vulcan Construction Materials LLC for the purchase and delivery of stone for public works projects for a period of May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2027. Item H, a motion authorizing the extension of a proposal from JC Landscaping and Tree Service at the scheduled price for the placement of top soil and for the purchase and placement of fertilizer and sod for landscape

restoration services for a period of May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2027. Item I, a motion authorizing the extension of a proposal from Vulcan Construction Materials LLC for the purchase and pickup of stone for public works projects for a period of May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2027. Item J, a consideration of motion consideration of a motion authorizing the extension of a proposal from JC Landscaping and Tree Service at the schedule of prices for the ditch landscaping maintenance program for the period of May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2027. Item K, a motion authorizing the extension of a proposal from Shreve Services Incorporated for top soil at a specified unit prices for various public works projects for a period of May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2027. Item L, a motion to approve an ordinance authorizing the sale of personal property owned by the city of Darren. Item M, a motion authorizing the mayor to enter into an engineering agreement with Christopher B. Burke Engineering LTD for the 2026 street maintenance program contract bid booklet in an amount not to exceed 36,925. Item N, a motion authorizing the mayor to enter into an engineering agreement with Christopher B. Burke engineering LTD for pavement cing for the proposed 2026 street maintenance program and amount not to exceed 14,000 $14,000. Do I have a motion to approve? I got

read them again. Sure. I have a first by Alderman Shower, a second by Alderman Stampinado. The roll, please. Shower. I Stampinado. Hi. Sullivan. I Leansky. Hi. Kenny. I Gusson. Hi. Belzac. I. Seven eyes.

And we move on to new business. Item A, a motion to approve an ordinance leving taxes for general and special corporate purposes for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of May 2025 and ending on the 30th day of April 2026 for the city of Darian, Illinois. Do I have a motion to approve? Alder person Sullivan, do I have a second? Alderman Shower. Discussion. Brian, do you want to say something or do you

uh Sure. the the city council uh annually uh has a has a couple different things relating to the tax levy. Um a couple meetings ago there was a um similar motion here, but it was a tax levy determination. This follows along the lines of the tax levy determination. Um the city has not raised its property tax levy for many many years. I don't I think it was 2015, Mike, do you remember? I thought it was 2009 or

maybe I think it was Yeah, I think it was in the um in the agenda memo. I'm just not seeing it now. And uh historically that was able the tax levy was able to take care of the full police pension fund. And the last few years we've been running into a situation where the tax levy as as approved by the city council was not enough to fully pay the police pension fund. So last year this the city council started uh was the first year approving a tax levy equal to the uh police pension amount that the city would need to contribute. And during the budget process, the city council took a look at that number again and based on some uh discussions and direction in the budget, the city council was able to abate taxes so it maintained the levy from the previous year. And this is really going to be the same procedure. So, we'll file this with the county clerk and then during the budget, uh there'll be discussion about how to move forward. Also, on goal setting, there's a discussion on this uh item. Also,

um just to reinforce, yes, 2009 was the last time the city uh raised the property tax levy. And as Brian sort of could be redundant, but um because of the timing with the county and the protocol that needs to take place, there's steps that have to be put in place with October and now with us um doing a final tax levy ordinance um tonight. Um, and then once we go into goal setting, um, obviously this Wednesday at 6:30 in the police training room and then our budget meetings of the whole going into February, I've already announced those dates. We'll have a better handle on where we stand financially and what we might want to do. But um this gives our opens leaves our options open to us um in terms of um a tax levy if need be increasing it um and also gives us the opportunity to still abate it and not have it happen like we did this current year.

Okay. Item B. Oh, wait. We got to we got to vote. Yeah, we got to vote. We got to vote. We got to Sullivan. Hi. Shower. Hi. Belac. Hi. Kenny. Hi. Stampinado. Hi. Leansky. I Gossibson I seven eyes.

Motion's approved. Item B, a motion to approve an ordinance for the levy and assessment of taxes for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of May 2025 and ending on the 13th day of April 2026 and and for the city of Darian special service area number one known as Terara Hill. Do I do I have a motion to approve? Alderman Belzac, second by Alderman Lugansky. discussion or you want to add to that?

Sure. This is a separate property tax levy for just the area known as Terra Hill. The u the actual legal descriptions are part of the ordinance, but that's been about $5,000 a year the city levies and it only goes to those properties that are identified in in or near Terra Hill and is specifically to maintain uh the detention basins in that area in the wetlands. Yeah, in the wetlands. Yeah, that's me. So, um, yeah, and I just I'll talk to you offline, Dan, just about the the plan because it seems like it's been a long time since the wetlands on, uh, Dunnigal have been have been a burn or anything like that has happened. So, okay. Yeah, it's a long time since any wetlands been burned.

Mhm. I wouldn't say that. I mean, they not by mean hasn't been 20 years. The city, what the city owns, we do burns. Yeah. City's got to buy the ones by me then. Well, that's for budget, Eric. And the role, please. Belzac, hi. Leansky, hi. Gustoson. Hi, Kenny. Hi, Shawer. I Stampinado. I Sullivan, I. Seven eyes.

Motion. Motion's approved. Item C. A motion approving a license and hold harmless agreement between high school district 86 and the city of Darian for the use of certain property owned by the district located generally at 7401 Claron Hills Road for purpose of hosting the annual Durian Fest. Do I have a motion to approve? Again, I'm always motioned by Alder Sullivan, second by Alvin Stapanado. Discussion. I'm just grateful that we have a place we can be next year since Westwood Park will be under construction and um I think it's it's a great location. Um and I thank District 86 for allowing us to partner with them. Okay. And the vote Sullivan

I Stampinado I Shower I Leansky I Kenny I Gustoson I Belzac I seven eyes. The motion passes. Item D, a motion authorizing staff to enter into agreements with the band's south company and staging company to perform at Darianfest. Do I have a motion to approve? Alderman shower. Second by Alderman Belzac. Discussion. And the roll, please. Shower. Izzac, Iansky. Hi. Gusson, hi. Sullivan. Hi, Kenny. Hi. Stampinado. Hi, Seven. Eyes.

The eyes have it. Item E, motion to accept a proposal from Surfp Pro of Woodridge Bowling Brook for the city hall lower floor flood restoration in an amount not to exceed $17,94244. Do I have a motion to approve? First by Alderman Stapanado, second by Alder person Sullivan. Discussion and the role, please. Stampinado. I. Sullivan. I. Shower. I. Belac. I. Gusson I Kenny I Leansky I seven I's

the eyes have it. Item F. A motion to authorize the mayor to sign a contract with Ashton Place dated October 24th, 2025 to provide a dinner venue for the Dancing with the Daring Stars for a minimum of 100 attendees and to set the ticket price for $85 per person. Do I have a motion to approve? Alderman Shower. Do I have a second? Alman Belzac has a second discussion. Is it true dance dancing this year? I didn't hear that. Sounds like you just did. Just have one question about it. Uh we're guaranteeing a 100 person minimum. If we don't hit that minimum, we're still we're responsible for the balance.

Yes. The April has done this before with the chamber and they're really anticipating 150 people. That's the goal. So, we did make it for less, but yeah, you're on the hook for the 100. Yes. Good luck. And the roll. Shower. Hi, Belzac. Hi, Sullivan. Hi, Leansski. Hi, Stampinado. Hi, Kenny. Hi, Dustson. Hi. Seven eyes.

The eyes have it. Item G. Motion to authorize the mayor to sign an agreement with my dance hub to provide professional dance services for the dancing with the stars with the Darian stars event and authorizes an amount not to exceed $4,500 as a contribution to the fixed costs. Do I have a motion to approve? Alderman Belzac second by Alderman Shower. Discussion and the roll please. Belzac. Hi. Shower. Hi. Sullivan. I Leansski. I Gusson. I Stampinado. I Kenny. I Seven eyes.

Item H. Consideration of a motion to approve awarding a contract to Yellowstone Landscape at an amount not to exceed $187,500 for the city's 202526 tree trimming and removal program. Do I have a motion to approve? Alderwoman Sullivan. Second by Alderman Stapanado. Discussion. None. The roll, please. Sullivan. Hi. Stampinado. Hi. Belzac. Hi. Showerard. Hi. Gustoson. I. Kenny. I. Leansky. Hi. Seven. I's. Uh, eyes have it. Do we have any questions, comments, and announcements of a general nature for this evening? All the Solomon.

Yeah. Just a reminder that we do have goal setting on Wednesday night and I think also people have signed up for head shot um prior to that but um I think it's important I know the packet went out last week and there's a lot of great information in there. It's going to take a moment. I think it'll help us in our discussions that evening if everyone's had an opportunity to read through the survey comments and just, you know, educate ourselves going into the meeting so that we can have a really constructive um conversation because I think we've got a pretty um you know, aggressive, lofty agenda that night. Pretty meaty. So um probably more so than we've had in at least the time I've been on council. So I'm excited to sit down and talk with everybody. But um yeah, just uh read through your packet before the meeting and um bring your smiles for your picture.

Anybody have anything else for the good of a cause? Do we have a motion to adjourn? Aldman showers. Do I have a second? Look like we're about to stay where we're staying tonight. And the roll and all in favor. Nice having it. Good job, Joe.