Village Board - Regular Meeting

Good evening everybody and welcome to the Mantino Village board meeting for Monday, March the 16th of 2026. If you would please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

And while you're standing, Reverend Jack McCormack is here this evening from the Nazarene Church to do our invocation. Our heavenly father, we come tonight and say thank you for your blessings and thank you for allowing uh this community to go pretty much unscathed in this last storm. We pray that we'll continue to be compassionate people caring about our neighbors. And father, we're thankful for all of those who've already responded uh with helping clean up Aroma Park and Kanka Key and those that have uh donated food and time and effort. So, we just pray that all of those who were affected by that storm directly that they'll receive the help that they need. We're thankful for the way your Holy Spirit can speak to our hearts. Lord, may we always be compassionate people who care for one another. and I pray that you'll bless this meeting tonight and bless all of these trustees and those who speak. Uh may your will be done in our lives. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.

Thank you. Thank you, Jack. Roll call. Barry. Budro here. Van here. Rocket here. Gi here. Zimbleman. All right. The reading of the agenda. Um, is there anything on the agenda that needs to be uh omitted or added or changed?

Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we uh table ordinance 2538. We discussed it earlier at today's committee meeting and um I think all of us were in agreement that prior to voting on this we want to put a few as we called the guidelines behind it before we move forward on it. So I'd like to make that motion that we table that you don't have the motion. If everybody agrees you can just put it on the next. Okay. Are all in favor? I Okay. Reading of the minutes. Are there any changes, corrections, or can I have a motion for approval? I'll make a motion. Motion made by Barry. I'll second. Second by Woodro.

Barry. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Thank you. Public participation. Our first speaker tonight is Diane Sauerbeer. Good evening. There's many things happening here in the village that make me sad and angry, and I know that my friends will be addressing those in a little bit better than I can. But I'd like to circle back to the presentation that was given on behalf of the domestic violence shelter, Harbor House in Ka Key. The facility is being renovated and enlarged. The presenter talked about the number of women that had to be turned away from sheltering and the consequential need to expand the facility. This should never happen, but it does because this is an in an issue that some people choose to ignore. It's a problem that nice people like us aren't affected by. Don't kid yourself. Domestic violence doesn't have a color. It doesn't have a dollar threshold and it doesn't have a zip code. For too long, victims hide because they are truly believing that they the abuse is their fault. Very slowly, the veil is being lifted and we are beginning to know that the abuser is the only one at fault. Who is this victim? Is it your neighbor, the teacher at your child's school, the lector at church? who they never wear a sign that tells you. Sometimes they make an excuse for a bruise or a cut. In reality, that person could be a family member, your daughter, your niece, your grandchild, or maybe your mother, someone that you love. They don't speak out because they're

afraid. About 40 years ago, my ex-husband tried to kill me. I had him arrested. I took my kids and ran. I called my father for help and filed for divorce. I am no longer silent, nor am I afraid. I'm a survivor and I've helped others survive as well. It's very true what Rocky said. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Please consider as a community contributing to Harbor House. And if you as a private citizen, if you can afford to contribute, please do that. Save a person, save a family. Thank you.

Thank you, Diane. Our next speaker is Francine Fatima. Good evening. Tonight it's just um kind of an adlib speech. I look through the agenda for tonight and under these ordinances, there's one that says they'd like a motion to approve an estimate from KPI Electric. Now, this is for $21,967. That's for installing electric on the new pavilion in square on second. That's a C is to approve tonight. an estimate from Glade Plumbing and Piping Company not to exceed 49,410 for the new pavilion which are the bathrooms at the square and second. Now, it's my understanding that in previous action by this board that the pavilion is receiving $300,000 in various types of

work being done. And I just would like to know is this additional 71,000 plus part of that 300,000 or if that's an additional amount. And I don't know if you'll answer me here, but somewhere we want to hear an answer. Okay, that's it tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Francine. The next speaker is Ann Gates.

Good evening. How are you? I find it very interesting, just a quick comment on the previous meeting that you're talking about the town being in debt when you gave Goan a 30-year tax cap. That really I don't know, makes no sense. Anyway, what I didn't get to share at the last meeting, I'd like to do that. And I was also asked if I would bring the picture. I don't have the the enlargement that I had last time, but this is the picture of the people that are working at goan and their faces are redacted. Uh it would be up to them to explain why. If you want to look at it, I'd be glad to show it to you. I gave the big copy to the mayor last meeting. David F of the national security said CCP pref prefers to be close to military and nuclear and government facilities. He explained that the same solar panels contain data collecting capabilities as well as kill switch that can be operated remotely and has the potential to sabotage our electric grill by drawing too much power that would reset that would result in government military resources being compromised and communications being interrupted. As Mr. Patinsky said the CPHAS act under the non-notified program can and will reopen even for a closed transaction based upon intel from citizens and agencies. Interesting that he never mentioned any of this uh new information coming from President Trump's administration but referred only to what took place under the previous administration and Pritskar's non-disclosure agreement.

Goan has a green field of business. What else was included? Non-disclosure agreement. Is there a data center coming soon as well, which will not only add to the water problem, but to the electricity problem? I took the photo of the people working at Goan so that you could all see it. I enlarged it and and the mayor has a copy. Um, it's been a busy couple of weeks. Within the last week and a half, there was a fire in Matson. Behind the Menards, there's a Chinese-owned battery facility. They had one of their pallets start to go into thermal runoff and was offging. They had one of their employees take a forklift, remove the pallet, and drive it to a dump pond in an attempt to cool the runoff. Interestingly enough, from the time that he put the forklift in and it went to the pond, which is not a lot of distance to go, the man began vomiting. He became laded and he became unconscious. Could I have one more minute?

One more.

And my friend, who is a paramedic up there said they transported the man unconscious to the hospital. when he gained consciousness, he did not remember anything. And he sustained um respiratory damage and he's not he's still not in in good shape. And that was just one pallet of batteries and they got there before it went into full thermal runoff. That was just off gasing. This past week with the storm, one of the panels in the field over here started a fire. Can Key Sheriff's B police uh sheriff's put out a message on Facebook for first responders, that would be you guys, as well as paramedics and firefighters to be cautious when approaching the area because of the toxics that were being released in that field. Now, they're planning on having one over there that is going to go a real long way. And we all know and saw pictures of what happened to the one just east of Mon. I have two friends that were going to buy a house in this town and they told me Sunday that if Goan wasn't here, they would be moving here. It's a beautiful town.

Thank you. It's not the people, it's Goan. And one last thing, um, for my friend that likes to follow me, I appreciate when you showed up at my church the last two weeks. I hope you got something out of this sermon. Thank you. Thank you very much. The next speaker is Karen Brazeki. Did I pronounce that correctly?

Yeah, close. Um I just had um three comments. Um one was um something that had been talked about over the last couple different board meetings. Unfortunately, I was able I wasn't able to make those. um was we were talking about the ordinance that you tabled tonight was um the remote access ordinance. I have some concerns about remote access ordinances. Um I was a firefighter for almost 30 years. Um because of my job, I was diagnosed with cancer, went through chemo. Um unfortunately, it forced me out of that profession. There are times when your responsibilities become un you are unable to meet the burden of your responsibility. I don't believe it is my opinion that a remote access um member is appropriate for this village. When the person was appointed not voted in appointed to that position it was with the understanding that that person would be coming to the meeting and be present and be able to fulfill their responsibilities. If we are going and when this person was appointed the previous person, it was also my understanding that they were replaced because of health issues. So it would seem a little bit hypocritical if we offer a remote access for the person that we were appointed for the person who had health issues. So my opinion is that remote access to a board meeting should not be something that we be we should be considering that if you are not able to meet the burden of your responsibility to come to a board meeting then maybe we should put someone in there that would be able to access the meeting or be here and be present. Um the other part is that there is nothing in our ordinances. There is nothing currently saying how many meetings we're supposed to attend, ethics, code of code

code of conduct, nothing. This is something that we should probably visit after all of this is taken care of to um assure that we have what we need or if there is a problem that we can remove people from office if they are not able to meet the responsibilities. Um I'm sorry I lost my train of thought and I'm on the third one. I guess I'll have to do it the next board meeting. Okay, that's all I had was was my concern of uh remote access. um to the meeting. I feel like if you take the job, you accept the responsibility that you should be at the meeting.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Emily Herman. Hello, my name is Emily Herman. approaching on the same topic. Um, I would like you all to keep in mind two words when discussing the permission of board members zooming in for meetings tonight. Those two words being reasonable accommodation. Could you speak a little louder, please?

Yes. I'm sorry I'm wearing a mask. I'm trying. Um, for the sake of having limited time up here myself, I'll let your lawyer explain the nitty-gritty details of what that means and instead share my experience on the topic. Um, all I'm saying is help yourself out now, help yourself out in the future, and help out future board members. If you are facing a health concern or injury, why should the only options be to show up or quit? I feel like a little more clarity on the board's plan of action on the topic would be beneficial. Whether you are a believer or not, this reminds me of the story of the paralyzed man found in Luke 5:17-19. On one of those days while he Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and also from Jer Jerusalem. And the Lord's power to heal was in him. Just then some men came carrying a man on a mat who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before him. Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the mat through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before Jesus. If friends can lift up friends to see Jesus, then friends can lift up friends to change their communities for the better. Let's not forget grace and compassion in times where disagreement feels easier. Um, I'm a cancer fighter myself. I'm still going through chemo. Just had another round a couple days ago. And being the president of a nonprofit almost 501c3, we have a board. We oversee the support of about 300 people with an online reach of 3.5 million. So teamwork is obviously needed. Um before I even formed my board, I had to create a list of rules and regulations to help us run smoothly. Never once did it cross my mind to not allow a board member to participate if it came down to something I could help them with. a ride allowing Zoom participation

um or meeting them where they are at because I could very well be the one needing that accommodation and I have needed them in the past given my circumstances. Um I have even asked my dad to speak here on my behalf before. Obviously, this isn't a black and white issue. It's a no-brainer. This should not be loosely a loosely regulated way to participate. for the sake of just not feeling like showing up or being on vacation isn't a reason. I hope everyone understands that's what I'm trying to say. Um, but when it comes down to meeting each other where we're at, I just wanted to share my perspective on things to consider. Um, as a cancer patient myself, um, obviously I have limitations, but not once has anyone ever told me that due to my circumstances I shouldn't be able to do something and I can't. Can I have like a minute?

Take an extra minute. Thank you. I know not everyone agrees with me. Not everyone has been through what I have um to have this other perspective, but that's why I'm here. This can be applied to a lot of situations where we can show compassion more, and that's what I'm all about. The amount of people who asked me not to share my perspective tonight was a little disappointing, but I'll leave it at that. I'm here because I care. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next speaker is David Bergd Doll. Good evening. Couple topics for tonight. First, I don't have any deep rooted concerns about remote attendance. Sometimes you need to have that option. But as you discussed in your committee here meeting earlier, the ordinance that was initially passed out doesn't cover but one of the questions that arises out of that issue. Doesn't doesn't deal with rules and regulations. It doesn't deal with you guys get paid for meetings. Are you going to get paid if you're remote? Do you get paid the same? Um, interesting probably purely legal question. Is this currently apply or is this only apply to future boards? Question for Mr. Canar to con consider. Again, I'm not opposed to the concept. The legal profession is adapted to this somewhat well, but I see the problems of it every day when I go to the courthouse and you have people that just never bother to show up because they do everything by Zoom. Secondly, last meeting I had discussion about your chamber position and your village marketing position. I'm still of the opinion you probably need to sit down with the chamber and consider whether you want to divide those positions, one village, one chamber, rather than

having them both be dual roles. In committee earlier, it was commented about how much money is being spent on community events, whether those are chamber expenses or village expenses. Those are the kinds of questions that need to be asked and dealt with because again you can't deal with part of the question without dealing with the whole. And finally, people think planning processes are boring. They're lengthy and kind of pointless. I sat through a whole lot of emergency planning meetings when the county was going through their emergency planning program coming up with the county plan twice actually. And you don't realize the benefit of those studies until you have a week like last week. All those grants and things that potentially are coming from the feds are all a result of all the time and money and effort put into those emergency planning plans by the county, adopted by the village, supported by the municipalities. Without those plans, Aoma Park would be in big trouble. Thank you.

Thank you, Dave. Next speaker is Sandy Chis. Hello. So, I have these notes from the March 11th, 2026 planning and zoning committee meeting regarding remote Zoom meetings. Trusty Gatsky suggested that this board struggles to have a quorum present at several meetings because people have schedule conflicts. Pursuant to the Illinois Open Meetings Act, a quorum must be physically present at the meeting location in order to conduct business. So, if a quorum isn't physically present, Zoom attendance is ineffective. Trusty Crockett stated a similar situation where he was out of town for work and contacted as to where he was and why he was missing a meeting because there wasn't a quorum. He said that if Zoom had been available, he could have participated. But as we know, without a quorum physically present, his attendance would also have been ineffective. Clearly, in a perfect world, things work fine. In a not so perfect world, they don't. Other issues that were brought up were the reasons for being unable to attend meetings, a tournament, school, work. However, would any of these situations provide an hour or more of time to watch a telephone or computer meeting and give that meeting your undivided attention? Zoom meetings are not becoming an issue at this time because of Trusty Zimbleman's absences. Right. But you have to admit the timing is rather suspicious when you consider that in Trusty Crockett's 16 years and Trusty Gatsky's 20 plus years, Zoom meetings have not been brought up. Not even during CO when these types of meetings were everywhere. Certainly, you can understand our concerns. I guess it

wasn't an issue when Nent decided how everyone should vote. Wouldn't it make more sense though that your first priority would be to establish an attendance ordinance? there's none in place as was discussed at the March 11th meeting. Wouldn't it be prudent to establish attendance guidelines first before suggesting substitute attendance options? In addition, there should be a list a limitation on the number of absences a trustee can have before their position is considered abandoned. Trustee Budro said that if a trustee misses five or six meetings, they lose the ability to vote on subjects discussed at those missed meetings. Where does it say that? I found nothing with that limitation. But Trusty Gets seemed to believe that everyone could or anyone could vote so long as they stay up to date on meetings by YouTube and emails. How that's confirmed, I don't know. If a remote attendance ordinance is enacted, how are we to know the capacity of the remote attendee? Face to face, we can evaluate whether someone has sufficient capacity to understand what they are voting for and why, even if we disagree with their vote, particularly in a medical situation. Remotely, we do not know if that person is under the influence of drugs or treatments that render them incapable of making a rational informed decision.

I just have one more point. Finally, the ordinance for trustee payment section 1-6-6 compensation states that compensation shall be paid for each meeting actually attended. What does actually attended mean? It seems to suggest physically present. So that ordinance would also have to be addressed. For all these reasons, I think the remote ordinance should be rejected. Thank you.

Our final speaker tonight is George Riker. So I understand the village had about $30 million and I think the first thing we sold was the water and it's it's anytime you can get a lump sum of money it's nice. I mean, I took a lump sum on my pension and I did very well. So, I mean, it's nice having a lump sum. I mean, I'm not sure if the water was not drinkable here or we just wanted the cash in our hand or what. And the next thing it went was the sewer plant. And I just feel like we squandered that money away over the years. I don't think it was spent financially responsibly. I don't think it was. I mean, I look at some of the things, you know, I hear being I mean, I look at I mean, nothing against Jim, but did we really need a building like that over there? I mean, my nephew's in charge of Romeoville, and I brought him down here and showed him that. He couldn't believe it, you know. And uh I don't just other things. He hears how much the fishing pond cost. I guess it wasn't a whole village, but and then the pickle balls and my phil It's easy to spend somebody else's money when it's not yours. And that's what's happened to this town, you know, instead of thinking of the future. Okay, let's let's, you know, not do this. Let's not do this. I mean, I mean, I look at all the hours spent on them Christmas tree lights out there. Those are nice, but how many guys we got working for the village? 12. I I don't know how many we got, but they seem to have to spend a lot of time worrying about them Christmas tree lights. And I mean, it's it's a waste of money. They could be

doing other things in the town, you know? So, I just feel like I don't know, maybe it's too late now, but even with the garbage service, I have a daughter lives in Burban A and if it's not in the garbage can, they don't take it. And I look at Mantino, I ride around, we got people got their garbage spread all the way up and down the street. And these guys have to stop and get out of their vehicles, pick it up, and put it in a truck. And that's not the way it's supposed to work. They're supposed to drive down the street, pick it up, dump it, and that's it. We're We're making them guys use too many manh hours to pick up all our garbage in this town. So, I don't know who negotiates with the garbage in this town, but it would be nice if maybe they could sit down and say, "Okay, look, we're going to be coming to a screeching halt here. What could we do to stretch out our garbage service? Could we only do garbage scans only or what? But uh I don't know, maybe it's too late for this village. Thank you.

Thank you, George. That completes the public uh participation and I thank everybody who participated. Uh the village president's report. First of all, since we had the tornado come through Cani County, Jim and I spent some time on the phone. I called a couple mayors. He had also made connections with the county and we volunteered to help in any way we could. Jim, can you give a report on what what has happened?

Uh, yeah. We uh sent a crew down to um Waldron Road there on the south side of Kinky Ki into A Roma Park uh through the Kinki County. Um they kind of facilitated this. So we sent out uh three dump trucks, a couple guys with chain chainsaws and a backhoe to load up uh the debris. Uh it's an unbelievable amount. Um I think they got through about three or four houses of just the amount of tree and limbs and just an absolute mess. So they're hauling that all off to a uh a dump site and I think they're going to process that in there. So uh they plan on going out tomorrow at least. Uh I don't see how this is going to get cleaned up anytime soon. So, uh, we might have to see if interested in sending the guys down one day or two days a week based on our workload. Um, something we could try to help out.

It's an ongoing process. It's going to be a long time.

And I know in the very beginning they were asking people not to come out there because they had too many people there all at once and it was chaotic. So the day we originally were going to go, I think it was Thursday or Friday, commed and the county were working and they really didn't want anybody else to be there while they were trying to get all the, you know, utilities hooked up or turned off or whatever they did. So, I want to thank everybody in Mantino who has donated and I don't know about all the donations, but I can tell you that Burkott donated water. The Mantino food pantry sent food down there and Anonymous Faceless Love on on Main Street is a not forprofit and she called me and she was taking items there too. So, things were going to the church there where people could collect food and items that they needed to survive. So, thank you to everybody who has helped and thank you for all the prayers. And it's going to be going on for weeks and possibly months. And I can tell you that if anybody likes to walk around on golf courses, the Elks is looking for people just to go out there and help pick up sticks. So, if you'd like, if you'd like to do that, contact the Elks and they'd love to have you. Um, congratulations to the seventh grade girls volleyball team. They recently just got second place at state over the weekend and I did watch those games on TV. They were pretty exciting. And also this last weekend, the middle school and the high school had Special Olympics kids who were participating and came home with some medals. So congratulations to all the Special Olympics kids. And tonight at six o'clock, um the eighth graders, girls are also playing volleyball at state. Oh, no. If they win, they get to go to state. are playing to go to state. So you can find those games on TV on YouTube if you do streaming. So congratulations to all the kids involved in all these wonderful events. That's really all I have for my report. So I'm going to turn it over to Chris Lorac.

I just want to give an update. Uh today was the last day to accept uh applications for the uh community uh marketing director position that we have open with Jacob Knox's departure. We did receive 20 applications as of 4:30 when I left Village Hall. And we also received 12 applications for the three public works seasonal positions. So, we'll be going through those uh applications in the next couple days and then setting up some interviews hopefully yet this week to work on getting replacements for those positions. That's all I have. Thank you. Committee reports. Finance. Trusty Barry.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, old business on the agenda, none. New business on the agenda, authorized payment of bills, $161,5369 includes TIFF number three, $0. Bills authorized and paid between board cycle 0. Uh, the next finance committee meeting will be uh four April 20th uh 2026 at 5:00 p.m. the village boardroom. Thank you. We're gonna uh your next finance committee meeting you're actually going to have one you we had said on our first meeting the 6th April 6th. April 6th before the the regular meeting we'll have a committee to hold to discuss the budget. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Planning and zoning trustee. Thank you mayor. Uh no old or new business tonight on the agenda. Uh our next planning and zoning committee meeting will be on Wednesday, April 8th at 7 a.m. in the village boardroom. We do have a planning commission meeting uh in April. It'll be on Tuesday 4:14 at 6:00 here. Uh we have two items I know of so far. There's a special use permit that's going to be discussed about a new business on division and then a discussion on the growth of Mantino and kind of looking at options from their their standpoint um going forward. And that is all I have. Mayor, thank you. Thank you. Public safety and health trustee von.

Okay. Um I have no old or new business this evening. Uh public safety committee report will be given by Jeremy Spangler. Joshua. Oh Joshua. Sorry. Sorry. That was close. Okay. Would you like to give your report, please? Oh, you're ready. Yes. I just I thought you were just talking. My bad. My bad. Well, you're fine.

Yeah. Good evening, everybody. mayor, board, uh, residents. How are you? Nice to see you all. Um, tonight I just want to briefly highlight, um, Mantino Police Department's partnership with the Blue Envelope Program. So, it's an initiative designed, uh, to improve interactions between law enforcement and drivers who are on the autism spectrum or have other communication related disabilities. So, the blue envelope program is simple, but it's very effective. So, participants receive the envelope. Inside here, they can place their driver's license, registration information, insurance information. Um, and then on the outside is instructions for not only to the police officer kind of how to act, just, hey, keep still, hands on the wheel, just be patient. And also for us, the officer, what they might be dealing with, how they communicate. It kind of helps us understand why they might have responses that they have or don't have responses that they have. Um it also provides them to give us a contact in case it's something we have never encountered before um with a phone number and their relationship with them. And so uh a lot of times with those types of things, autism or some type of communication related uh disability, you know, the effects could be something as simple as eye eye contact or fidgeting which you know officers can take as something different. So, if we have this, it kind of helps us be like, "Okay, we're going in a different direction." Also, inside the envelope is another pamphlet. And there's also a sticker. So, you can place a sticker on the rear windshield. Um, that way on our approach, we understand what's going on. And it might give something to, hey, we might realize we need to turn our our lights off. Maybe flashing lights, sirens of that nature. Anything that might further help us help them. So, um, it helps to ensure that the

interaction remains calm, respectful, and that it's safe for everybody who's involved. And then the residents who want to participate in this. All right. You can pick these up at our station. We have a bunch of them. Saw the chief has brought some for tonight. If in case you know anybody that might need it, might be helpful. It's not just Mantino. I know some other agencies are also involved with it. So, it's a good thing to try to pass along if you know somebody maybe who doesn't live in our city or if they pass through our city. Um, it's always something good to have just so they have it on them. So, the program though, what I like about it is it strengthens the trust and understanding between our police department and the community. So, it helps our officers do their jobs more effectively while ensuring the individuals with the special needs feel safer, more comfortable during a police encounter. That's that's what we're striving for in the end. Uh we're very happy to participate in this program and we're look we're we're going to continue to work toward a community where everyone feels supported and respected

which is what we want to do. So thank you. If you need anything I'm here all night. Okay. Thank you. Thank you officer. Uh Chief, do we have any report? Um, we sent the officers down to um, St. An. I didn't catch part first part of that. We sent some of our officers as well to St. An to help out.

Yep. Um, you know, I've talked about ELAS several times in different committee meetings. It's a statewide mutual aid uh, system. Uh, and I don't remember who was talking about it earlier, but you know, we train for a lot of these events with hopefully never come, but when they do come, that training is crucial. Uh, and so we have several officers participate in. They were called out that night. So, we sent, I think, three officers down to do search and rescue that night, which is dangerous work. You got down trees, down power lines, uh, people trapped in their homes, glass everywhere. It was a real mess. So, yeah, they went down and assisted. It's good. and we have five the next day.

Okay, our next public safety and health committee meeting is going to be April 20th at 5:00 pm at the village board room. Thank you. Thank you. Public works and utilities Trustee Crackett. Uh thank you. I don't have anything on the agenda this evening. Our next public works meeting is scheduled for March 24th, 7 a.m. here in the village boardroom. Uh Jim, I just wanted to refer to you if you've got anything you any updates, anything you want to throw out there.

Uh yeah, couple things just to hit on. Uh doing some work over in the square. Um got the concrete foundation work uh for the uh for the bathrooms and and the P pavilion. Uh the dugouts and the soccer shed at Heritage. Uh we've demoed the dugouts. We're looking at getting the fence installed and starting the soccer shed. Uh we're looking to start swapping out the uh banners around town from the snowmen to the military tribute ones. Although did snow today, so maybe we'll keep them up for a little longer, but uh we're going to start swapping those out. Uh Easter egg hunt is March 28th. Of course, I don't have an exact time. I think this is in the morning. There's a couple Facebook posts on that. Uh we've gone around uh cold patching. Uh it's t the season after snow plowing, freeze thaw. Um, if you see any uh any standing water in areas uh in neighborhoods or running water, uh probably uh water main breaks probably going to start happening as well with the warming of the ground. Uh did an MFT uh uh drive around with uh Nick with HR Green getting our MFT list finalized and figured out for this coming season. And uh yeah, just mentioning the the weather, you know, from tornadoes to blizzards. We've we've had a mix here. We were out this morning throwing some salt and keeping the roads going. So hopefully get through this week and that'll be it.

Sounds good. Thanks uh thanks for that update and that's all I have for this evening. I'd like to bring up the hometown heroes banners, Chris. Don't we have until the end of March if anybody would like to purchase a hometown hero banner? And we're still taking applications for that till the end of March. And it's for anybody from Mantino who has served in any of the military who has roots here in Mantino or is connected some type of connection. Yes. So if you want to get a hometown hero banner, stop in at the village hall. I believe they're $100. Is that correct? And check with one of the secretaries there, but do it by the 31st of this month. Okay. Properties and recreation. Trusty Gesky.

Thank you, mayor. I have no action items on this evening's agenda. Uh we do have a parks committee meeting scheduled for uh the 8th of April at 7 a.m. And during that time um we're going to go through the park summary that uh Trusty Vaughn submitted to all the village board members earlier today. So we'll kind of go through park by park and have some conversation discussion about things that we want to see happen or how we want to proceed with the maintenance of them. So that's all I have from the parks perspective uh standpoint and take general government. Would you like to do that please?

Um there's no action items on there. The next committee meeting scheduled for the 24th of this month at 7 a.m. which will be in uh conjunction with Trusty Crockett's meeting. So that's all. All right. Thank you. Under new business, consideration regarding a motion to approve an estimate from KPI Electric in the amount of $21,967 to furnish and install electric for the new pavilion at the square on second. I'm looking for a motion to approve. I'll make that motion. I'll second. Motion by by Todd and second by CJ Bedro. I have a question.

Yes. on these bids that we got for this. How many bids did we get? Just two. Yeah, we talked about in the last committee meeting. Two two for electric and then two for uh HBAC and plumbing. Are we not supposed to anything over $10,000 get three bids? Is that correct? No. What is the limit? 30 3,000. But there's no limit on the amount. If you put it if you put it out for bid, you can get one. You can get seven. There's no No, I just thought we had to get three. No. So, you can just get one and that's You can't control You can't control the contractors to bid on it. Oh, true. But

did we advertise that or did we just invite those people to bid? Yeah, we approached the contractors. That's all I did. I did go out for bid. How many did you approach? Uh, five total. So, yeah. So, we didn't put it out in the paper. We just approached the contractors. Is that correct? Yep. Okay. Thank you, Jim. Any other questions? There's a motion on the floor and a second. We'll call. Yes. Budro? Yes. Mary, yes. one.

Are you going to vote? No. No. Jessi, yes. Motion pass. Motion carries. All right. Under ordinance 2538. Earlier this evening, Trustee Gesky asked to have this removed from the agenda for tonight because we want to have more discussion on it and make more plans, right? Yes. All right. C. Consideration regarding a motion to approve an estimate from Glatty Plumbing and Piping Company not to exceed $49,410 for the new pavilion at the square. On second. I need a motion. I'll make that motion. Motion by Crockett. I'll second.

Second by Budro. I have a quick question and this was asked by a resident just to clarify. So our estimated costs when we were doing that is this included in our estimated cost? Yeah, it's included in the estimated cost. Yeah. Uh I got utility work and then all the MEP. Sure. Yeah. What was the estimated cost? I don't remember.

Uh I think we were three 300,000 when it was all said and done. So um to just get keep the conversation going. the public works doing all the concrete work, the actual construction of the building. Uh I looked into what we paid for fees was close to $100,000 for a building that's exactly half the size. So we've got some cost savings built in this project as well. So just to clarify too, uh one more quick thing. Um is there any other additional cost after this that we'll have to like go contract out or what would be the after plumbing electric? Uh we got a plumbing, electric, yes. Um possibly the roof.

I had my list in front of me, but it's it's pretty limited after that. But that's all that again is considered under cost that we've already projected out. Correct. Correct. Okay. Okay. There is a motion on the floor. Motion by GKY. Second by Budro Gi. Crockett, I'm sorry. Crockett. Yes. Budro? Yes. Mary, yes. Von, no. Gi. Yes. Motion carries. Motion carries. All right. And finally, consideration regarding a motion to approve payment of the bills in the amount of $161,536.69 including TIF number three at $0. I'll make a motion. Motion by Barry.

Second. Second by GI. Barry. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Von, yes. Crockett, yes. All right. Now we come to the comments. Todd, how would you like to start tonight? Uh, we'll let Joel start. Okay. Okay. Um, we usually go in order, right? Doesn't matter.

I guess Mayor, you stole the congratulations to seventh and eighth grade girls volleyball, so I'm going to piggyback on what you had to say there. Go ahead. Um, as far as uh, anything else? I I'll kind of leave it. Um, quick question. Do we have an update on the forensic audit? Last time, our last meeting, we had expected to have some results. The last update I have is that by the end of this week, we should have something. Okay. So, next board meeting, will they come present them to us? I don't know what date we're going to present it, but that'll be decided and we'll let everybody know. Okay. So, we'll we'll have we should be seeing something in our emails on at the end of this week, you think?

Hopefully. That's the plan. Great. That's all I have. Thank you, Todd. Uh my comment is more of a question uh for Chris. Chris, in regards to the audit, I know originally we talked about the audit being hopefully completed sometime in January. Obviously, we're in March, middle of March. April's right around the corner. As this audit continues to keep dragging out and dragging out, are are we paying are we still going to pay this fixed cost of 168,000 or because it's going out further? Is it going to cost the village more? I'm just curious whether you know is the clock ticking or it's a it's a solid number.

I believe it's a solid number, isn't it, Chris? I've never been made aware of any changes. They told me it's a solid number. They never expected it to take this long because they didn't know that we had so many bank accounts. Good. That was my only question. That's it. Thank you, Peggy. Really don't have much to say that I'm just feel sorry for St. An and everybody that's going through what they're going through. It's just absolutely terrible and that I just hope that our town is prepared and I it's awful. It's and I'm glad that you know we can help out and stuff and you know we have good people in this community.

Thank you in that. So thank you CJ.

Uh I'm going to pick it back to is obviously working in the school. Seventh grade team. It's awesome. Got second. Eighth grade's looking good. I don't know what the score is, but based on their record this year, I'm optimistic they can go on. Uh, you mentioned two Special Olympics. I want to shout out one of our students. We have, Giani, you got first place in basketball, the second year in a row, so it's awesome. He's always one of the more motivative ones. So, it's excited to see um what's that? Um, again, yes, uh, there's a lot of resources out there for this tornado. Again, it it was five 10 miles away from us. So, I feel like we need to view that as we can do our part and hopefully build that good ju guuju out to the universe so that uh with that kind of stuff, there's a lot of opportunities. You mentioned the Elks golf course. There's any kind of donations you can give. Obviously, I know times are tough, but anything is great um with it. I think we got really fortunate to not miss the hail too. My uh family lives in Bradley. Their cars were totaled as probably a lot of cars were. Um so again anything at all to help look to give um things again our PD and public works and our residents already doing it which is great to see again this is a community we love this I think why we all love to be here with that small town atmosphere um was it too um another thing I just want to mention as a civics teacher there is a primary election tomorrow um so for those that want to have their voice heard voting is the most powerful way to do that primary election look to have that out uh there's good resource out there too obviously we got competitive races on both sides of the aisle Well, um was that um just just to put some numbers on where this payment of bills are going to 62,000 for garbage fees. Uh we bought that uh public works car that we've uh approved while before. Uh we had 18,000 in legal fees and then 13,000 for engineering to HR Green. Um then finally, just one comment um about spending. And I get it. I I really do and I tried to say this in the committee meeting

also. Um, whenever I try and I have to approve spending the money of the village, I try to put it back in the town as best as possible and things. Um, and I think a big thing that I've learned is that just because it doesn't affect me doesn't mean it's not good for the town. Um, I never would have played pickle ball, I don't think, in my life if we didn't put the courts in, but now they're full. Uh, the pass are used all the time. uh equipment we have public works and PD again hopefully we won't have to touch those for decades to come um with it and again giving back um with these public tax uh or the p uh property tax rebates and the garbage has been amazing and has saved our village and our residents thousands of dollars in the long run. But um again, this is why I'm trying to push that growth idea unless we can find new ones, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be coming this year. Um we got to be smart financially. And again, you guys elected us to make these tough choices for you so that if opportunities do arise, we can still have some funds to use that. We do not want to tax you any more than you have to be. Um we need to spend our money smartly, I think, too. So um whenever you see your question decision just know again you can always reach out to all of us. Obviously my email is on the village website too but just know that I am trying to put money if I am spending towards the village usage for our town. That's all I have to say. Thank you mayor.

Thank you Mike.

Thank you mayor. Um couple things. Uh I I'm pretty sure everybody received a postcard in their mailbox. Uh, it's kind of interesting that the postcard was never stamped with the postal thing except for stamp. Uh, once again, like CJ said, I mean, every I think we're open books here. You got a question, you can call me on the phone. Uh, send in a postcard on there. If you have a concern, I'm a big boy. I can answer your questions, good or bad. Uh, secondly, I think that, uh, on Thursday, we went and had another meeting, myself and the mayor. Uh Joel wasn't able to attend this one. Um with goan, we did get on top of what what's going on over there. So we are aware. Uh I think going forward is that we have to look at when we bring new businesses into town that we don't give away the house

cuz I think it's really hurting us now. So um hopefully it works out. I'll be optimistic. Uh other than that, I appreciate it. Uh congratulations to the girls. Uh sports sports is Mantino's always got good teams. Um so look forward to seeing everybody out around town. Any questions or concerns, please reach out to us. Thank you. Annette, I have one more thing. Um did we give an area where they can drop off donations and we can take somebody can take them. Could we use the village for that? Yes, there's somewhere the food pantry is doing it, right? Sounds like. So, could we use them or Yeah, I think there's more places around town. We can have them drop off at the village hall, right?

Yeah. If they want to drop it out there, we'll make sure it gets to somewhere it needs to go. Yep. Yeah. There were some notices up on social media that right now a lot of people are not accepting donations because there was so much that came before we start. I'm sorry. I know. That's okay. This was actually just came up today. So, um, Grace Church out in Park has stopped taking donations, too. So, um, if we do something like that, I would suggest that we look into what they're looking for is a huge issue.

So, that was what was brought up today. So, thank you. No, I didn't see that. So, Chris bring that up. So, I we all would love to help. We would love to do something, but I would like to do what is most Chris. Maybe we can contact the county and talk to Mike Downey and find out about spec specific donations and what we should do about that. Sure. And then we can put it on our on our website for the village of Mantino. We'll work on that tomorrow. Thank you. Um the only comment I have is that in total transparency, I want to tell you that I have been approached by somebody who wants to put in a data center. So, I'm not going to say make any comments on that at all, just to let you know that somebody is asking.

Somebody has asked to talk to me about a data center and I know other communities in our county are also being asked. So, we will keep breast a company or No, I don't know anything yet. Okay. But I will share it when it happens and you will know about it ahead of time. That's all I have. Can I have a motion, please, to adjurnn? I like the I'll second. Motion by Peggy Vaughn, second by CJ Budro. All in favor? Good night everybody. Thank you.