Board of Trustees - Regular Meeting

Welcome to the Indian Head Park Board of Trustees meeting for the October 9th, 2025. Can you please uh say roll please? Trusty Ayanako, Trusty Sana here. Trusty Yak here. Trusty Donnersburgger here. Trusty Satka here. Trusty Gazes here. President Amy Joe Whittenberg here. Can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance to

the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, for liberty and justice for all. Thank you. During my report this evening, I would like to invite the chief to come up and please swear in one of our new, actually, he's not new to us. He's been working part-time in the village of Indian Head Park, but now he will be full-time. And chief, I'll turn it over to you. Thank you.

Also known as Tassel. Tassel is a proud graduate of Maris High School. Another one. So that makes three. Yeah. He's also retired from Westmont PD and he went and got in the family business for a while. Mi miss policing. His good friend and training officer Scott Muska who also works here recommended that he comes and work at any head park. He got here as a part-timer. He liked it. He had a letter interview. We selected him to be a full-time officer. a lot of experience and a lot of knowledge.

On my honor, on my honor, I will never betray my badge. I will never betray my badge. My integrity My integrity for the community I serve. Or the community I serve. I I will always hold myself and others I will always hold myself and others accountable for our actions. accountable for our actions. I will always uphold the Constitution. I will always uphold the Constitution. laws of the state of Illinois. The laws of the state of Illinois and the ordinances of the village of Indian Head Park and the ordinances of the village of Indian Head Park. I will faithfully discharge my duties. I will faithfully discharge my duties. As a police officer for the village of Indiana Park as a police officer for the village of Indian Head Park. To the best of my ability. To the best of my ability.

Thank you. Just real quick, I'd like to thank everybody, the the village, uh, police, fire commissioners, Chief Walsh. Uh, I know they tried to get me here from the day I started, so finally I pulled the trigger. Also, I'd like to thank my family and my wife Sophia, my uh, oldest daughter Stephanie, and my son. I have a daughter that's a senior in Champagne right now. This one just graduated from She's at North Central Graduate School. So, you can see why I had to unretire.

Um, but no, I really appreciate the opportunity. I did miss it. Uh, it's a good department. Uh, a lot smaller than what I came through from Westmont after 22 years. So, I appreciate the opportunity. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome back. And thank you. And it's great to see your family. Thank you for coming this evening. What would the family do?

Good. One, two, three.

Commissioner, the Greek commissioner. Yes,

we do have a big Greek contingent in town. We got to All right, moving. Thank you very much everybody for coming this evening. If um you all

would like to stay for our meeting that would be great or you can leave and go celebrate. Can go celebrate or watch the catch the Cubs game. Thank you. If we can move on to uh item number four, the consent agenda. Can I have a motion, please? Make a motion. Um I move approval of the consent agenda um items A through E. Can I u amend the motion as I stated in my email? Yes.

And um receive and file uh items from October 27, 2020, December 22 of 2020 of uh F the Shen Fence Committee minutes and approve the uh committee minutes of January 21, 2025. I'll second that. I'd also like to have removed a AC ac right on there. Yeah, I made the motion to receive and file two of the items and approve the third one. Yeah, I'd like to separately discuss uh A and C. Okay. So, we're taking them out of the consent agenda. Is that what you're saying? Please.

A and C. Okay. Okay. I'm going to amend my motion to approve items B, D, and E. Receive and file October 27, 2020 and December 22, 2020 committee minutes and approve the January 21, 2025. I think we need to make a correction to that last one, the January 21st one. The 2025 is incorrect. It should be 2021. Okay. Then receive and file all three of them, please. And so it would be receive and file all three of just receive and file all of the committee minutes. I'll second that.

Great. And I do believe that we need a treasurer's report. Is that correct? from our treasurer. Okay. The financial summary for the month ending September 2025. Cash on hand at the beginning of the month August 31st 2025 was 3,31,95687. The payments for September 2025 were $443,93067. The total revenues for September of 2025 were $459,718. Sorry. Making an ending bank balance at September 30th of 2025 of $3,47,72728.

Any other questions on the consent agenda items? Uh, do we have in terms of No, we're going to approve the we have to pull them out. Right. So, we have to wait until they're in your business. Correct. Well, what you would do is proceed on the remaining and then you could consider items A and is this part of the treasures report? It's part of the financial reports that were provided in the packet. Yes. Are we discussing this at this time? I had question. We haven't voted yet.

I think you need to vote on the items that were remaining on the consent agenda. Then we'll get to the ones that you pulled. All righty. Hearing none. Then can we please have a roll call vote for the consent agenda without items A and C? C. Trusty Seldon. I. Trusty Yak. Hi. Trusty Donnersburgger. I. Trusty Zvetka. I. Trusty Gazis. Hi. Motion carries. 5-0. Thank you. Now, can we could be considering item A? Trustee. The minutes. The minutes. Just Just looking for a vote on the minutes. Uh,

can I have a motion, please, to entertain item A, please? Motion to approve. I get a motion. I'm not going to approve it. Move to approve the regular minute um meeting minutes of September 11, 2025. I'll second that. Okay. Discussion on item A.

No discussion on my part other than what I've said previously. They're way too long and uh yeah, you might as well just attach a recording for the minutes. So, I'm I'm not going to approve the minutes. Okay. I I guess well we've already discussed this that this is going to be the new processes that we're going with. So then I guess we'll need to do this every time then. Is that what you're saying? Yes. It'll Okay. I'll I'll ask for that to be uh separated. Yes. You can just vote no. Correct. Without separating the item. Well, I'm I'm voting yes on the other ones. You you can't actually bifrocate your vote without separating them

because it's being approved as part of an or consent agenda. It's a little bit difficult to keep track of the individual votes because the vote is to approve the consent agenda. So if you wanted to desent, you could have that reflected in the minutes, but it wouldn't necessarily reflect that as a vote. So in order to truly reflect a no vote, it would need to be considered as a separate and that's and that's what we've started down this path now. Yeah. Okay. But they're not what I'm saying is the minutes reflect the meeting. So why would you vote no for that? It has nothing to do with whether you agree with the process. It has to do with does it reflect the meeting accurately? Yes or no.

I'm asking you a question. I'm not asking. So so does a recording. uh asking and I'm asking you to improve I am not asking your opinion about the minutes I'm asking you do they reflect the accuracy of the meeting that's what I'm asking you trust neck we're not having a deliberation on the process and we're not having a deliberation on the length of them are they accurate that's the discussion are you going to allow me to vote no that's all I'm going to do you want to you want to further discuss this if yes we're voting means that they're not accurate. Start talking about it's way too long. I'm not asking you that. We are asking that as a public body, are they accurate? Yes or no? Madam President, I have a question.

Yes.

Doesn't separating the items at every single meeting goes against our rules that we put in the consent agenda, the items that are for consent, and therefore we would need a motion to set aside our rules to separate the items to begin with. And that motion can fail if everybody votes against it. And that's it. That solves the problem. So, if I may, um I understand what your question is and uh you should have been a lawyer. You'd be been a good trial uh attorney. Um yeah, I the minutes accurately reflect. I am uncomfortable with doing it this long. I will vote for them because of what, you know, you just pointed out, but um I'm just uncomfortable with them being this long. Okay. So, we understand now we're going to have a vote on the minutes. Then, can we have a roll call vote to approve the minutes?

Trusty Sana I. Trusty E. No. Trusty Dberger. I. Trusty Svetka. I. Trusty Gazis. I. Motion carries 41. All righty. Moving on to item C. Trusty act. You had a question on the approval of prelim. We need to have a motion to approve the preliminary financial report. Please. Do we have to have a motion to Oh, yes. Cuz you separated it. Yeah. Move for approving C, which is the uh financial report for September 30th. So, I'm uh moving that it be approved. Want to second that. Second.

All right. Any questions?

Yeah, there was a 10 p 10page report with financial detail on there. And I just want to ask a question on the first uh page. Uh this covers the period uh from uh May through September which is five months. That's roughly 41% of the year. And if we look at the first page uh which represents revenue, it shows uh 3,546 and change 33% and I would expect something around 41% uh given that it's 5 months and the difference because uh that number appears to be understated. I would say that a large portion of that is due to the fact that we have not received the second installment of taxes, property taxes. Um the bills have not gone out from Cook County yet to taxpayers. So we we await that. Uh the latest I've heard is they'll be uh the bills will be going out in late December with a due date of January of 26. So

is it's possible that somebody from the county knows more about that due date and that it's further not January 26.

They go out on December 1st January 1st of 2026. Thank you. All righty. That's all I have. Any other All righty. Can we please have a roll call vote to approve the financial report? Trusty Zeldana. I. Trusty EC. I. Trusty Donnersburgger. I. Trusty Fetka. I. Trusty Gazes. Hi. 5-0. Motion carries. Thank you. Moving on to new business. Can we please have Madam President, may I ask a question before we move on? Um, sorry. And this is

directed to board member EK. Um, I noticed that the financial report was 10 pages long and our board meeting minutes are 15 pages. So, like, where do we draw the line? Is it 12 pages? I mean, I I'm just I'm sorry to dwell on this, but as someone who who lives in data every day, 15 pages is is nothing. and I would rather have all of the data. So, I just confused that I'm I'm thrilled that you took the time to read through the 10 pages of numbers. Can you read through the 15 pages of words? I mean, I'm sorry, but could we consider that for next time so we can all be a little bit more quick in going through things? Thank you for your observation.

Thank you, sir. Thank you, trustee. We will now move on to new business item G. Uh, Madame President, I move approval of resolution 2025-29 approving the landscape management services agreement with Berry Landscaping. Second that. Any questions on the agreement with Barry Landscaping?

I do have a question. Uh, 30 seconds or less, Joe. What exactly what areas are Barry covering in the village? Well, not having a map in hand to tell every spot, but they do our parks, they do our building here, they do the village hall building. Uh there's a couple of strips and stretches of area that are in our scope behind the pump house. Um just off the top of my head, it's basically our properties. Uh the the point playing field and wolfit center

heritage center. Yeah. Yep. Second. We correct. Correct. Yep. I can get you a detailed map if you'd like. You sure? Okay. And I was looking in there. I believe on in the uh attachment there's a more detailed um explanation of the exact areas, but there's not a map. I can get you whatever you need. And for the record, they did keep pricing from last year.

I I did notice that they did keep pricing, and I do think uh I would agree with public works. I I brought attention to it because I do believe that that is a more than fair rate for the coverage that they provide in all those areas. Um some of us that do have landscaping services in the community and I'm sure Charlie can opine as well as Eileen regarding associations. I think for $25,000 for eight months even the the spring cleanup, the fall cleanup, etc., etc. Seems like we're getting a good bang for our buck on that contract

and they're going above and beyond. I mean, I can tell you they just do this and that, but they're they they ask us, is there anything else we could do to help you out and if we need something from them, an extra cut or something like that, they'd be more than happy to do it. All righty. Any other questions on the Barry uh contract for landscape management services? Hearing none. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Trusty Sana. I. Trusty Ek I. Trusty Donnersburgger. Hi. Trustes Vetka. I. Trusty Ges. I. 5-0. The motion carries.

Okay, great. Thank you. Can we move along to the next item, please? Next item. Madam President, I move approval of ordinance 2025-9, which sets the time and date of the public hearing for the Triangle Area Redevelopment Plan, the Chief District. I'll second that.

Great. Thank you. And I will turn this over to Mr. Gavin Morgan who has a presentation. Before you all uh discuss and vote on the the ordinance setting the time and date of the uh public hearing for the tiff district, I just wanted to give a brief overview of the triangle area tiff district. And just to make clear, this is not a decision on whether to establish the tiff district or not. This is just a decision on whether on when uh and where to schedule the public hearing after which the board will consider um whether or not to establish the triangle area tiff district. And I also see this as a kickoff of the uh public education campaign portion of the uh tiff district, establishing a tiff district so that we're uh giving the uh public an opportunity to hear what the tiff district is all about and to uh give us feedback and to ask any questions. I know there are a lot of questions out there. Um, but through this presentation, I'm going to lay out the uh purpose and the mechanics of the proposed TIFF district in the triangle. And um as I've stated before, our or has been stated before both by our consultants and by our staff, our goal is to provide uh transparency, invite informed community decision, and create the type of development at this in this area that will be most beneficial to the village and to the community as a whole. Um as I said, our purpose tonight Let me you've got before you the ordinance uh under consideration to set the public

hearing date. Um this is the beginning of the education campaign and u I will address common questions such as what is a tiff district? So tiff or tax increment financing is a tool used across Illinois to fund redevelopment. It works by freezing the tax base and capturing future growth in property value known as the increment which can then be used to reinvest in public infra improvements within the district. This does not raise property taxes for the district or for the community as a whole. It does not it it's also not a development plan in itself. the tiff plan. It has some goals of reaching a certain level of value at the end of the tiff district, but it's not a plan necessarily for how we're going to get from where it is today, which is a value of an equalized assessed value of all the properties in this district in the proposed district is currently 5.1 million as of the last uh known data. And the goal is after 23 years that this area will be worth 45 million. That's going to depend on a lot of factors including how aggressively um and how completely we uh encourage development in that area. So what it what tiff really is at at the bottom line is it's a financial mechanism that the village can use to stimulate and guide redevelopment that aligns with the community's goals. And that's it. That's a very important piece of it. It's going to whatever we do there, we're going to go through a deliberate and intentional process to make sure that it aligns with the goals that this board has um based on what

your understanding of the community's needs and wants and priorities are. Um as you all know, the uh the triangle has seen redevelopment attempts over the years. I think some of the members of our economic development committee have come to meetings before this board and said, "We've tried a lot of things. They haven't worked. Let's try the tiff." Um, despite interest over the years, over the two years I've been here, there's been a couple of parties interested in doing development there. Progress has has pretty much stalled, I'd say. Mhm.

Um the tiff provides us with a dedicated funding mechanism to support necessary infrastructure and uh attract reinvestment in that area without raising taxes. It also gives us more control to guide development and that development that is consistent with community values. So how does TIFF work? Um here's the ba basic mechanism. the base EAV is frozen in the year the TIFF is created. So, as I said, that would be 5.1 million approximately by the time this gets established because we're looking at a date of January um 8th at the January 8th board meeting, actually having the board vote on whether or not to establish the TIFF. That's of the year 2026. Um, so it will be frozen at at the EAV, the 2025 EAV. Any growth above that base is captured and then set aside in a special fund. That fund is used to pay for improvements inside the TIF district. Uh, things like roads, utilities, or site work needed to attract development. what the tiff does not do. Um, there are a lot of myths about tiffs. You've probably heard some of them. And it's important to be clear that tiff does not raise property taxes. I think there was comment when when it was discussed at the business when you were approving the business development district. Uh, the comment on from the audience was that this will raise property taxes. that would that would did not raise property taxes. That was focused on sales taxes. And the tiff district also will not raise property taxes. Um it doesn't take away money from schools or parks. The ex the existing revenue is protected. schools will still be able to levy the amount that they need to operate and they will still

receive that amount from through Cook County and the collection of property taxes assuming that Cook County is able to get the property tax bills out. But um the the point is that it doesn't take away money from from the school districts, doesn't take away money from the park district, fire protection district, or any of the other taxing bodies. Their revenue is protected. Um it doesn't eliminate any transparency requirements. Everything that is done in the tiff, we have to report out on whether that's to the state comproller or there's an annual um uh joint review board al called a JRB that um reviews everything that has happened in the uh tiff district for the past year. We're also required also tonight you'll be considering an ordinance to establish an interested parties registry and anybody that signs up for that any updates or any information about things happening in the tiff district we have to send to those who have signed up on the interested parties list but we will also do everything in our power to make sure that anything that's being considered or or talked about in the tiff district gets um u the word gets out u through our website through our Facebook page through any channels that we have. It will be discussed at board meetings. Any I think one of the questions trustee asked at a previous meeting was would any developments or money that's being spent there have to come before the board again? And yes, it would. We wouldn't be able to just randomly spend the tiff dollars without um bringing that to the board. Um it does not uh it also doesn't guarantee funding going to any one party or any private entity. Um it's often people will say well this

is just a corporate handout and it is far from that. The only things that can be spent on are public improvements. um we can use some of the funds to incentivize private development or we could establish a private public partnership. There are a lot of ways that we can go about uh doing uh creating development or in in in uh getting development to happen, inspiring development. But um in the end, the village and the board still have full control of the funding. It is still public funding. It is it's not a corporate handout. Some of the eligible uses of TIFF funds. TIFF funds can be used for a range of eligible public purposes uh including planning and engineering studies, uh marketing studies, uh infrastructure improvements, environmental cleanup, site preparation, um purchase of property. Those are all eligible for for TIFF funds. And these are exactly the kinds of of efforts that we need in order to unlock the development potential at this site. So um the we will use these to the extent that we we can um a variety of of strategies um allowed by uh the law for spending these funds on um as I said earlier about oversight, transparency and accountability. The law requires annual financial reporting. It requires a public hearing to establish the tiff. Um and it'll uh requires the creation of a joint review board which is made up of representatives from the local taxing bodies like schools, park districts, the fire protection district, the county, the college of duage,

uh the mosquito abatement district is also part of that. Um and it's a public meeting. The public will be notified of the meeting and and the location and is welcome to attend. U TIFF spending is limited to the projects and goals identified in the red redevelopment plan which must be adopted by ordinance and and again that's what you're doing tonight is approving the uh the ordinance setting the date and time of uh the public hearing which will be December 11th uh 2025 and then the we anticipate the board uh voting on the tiff district at the January 8th meeting. Um, again by ordinance the um I want to get into a little bit of the scenarios that I've included in the presentation. I'm going to show charts with three different projections for how much TIFF revenue could be generated by the TIFF district. Um, we're going to have a baseline, a conservative, and an aggressive uh scenario. These are not forecasts. Um what you see here does not guarantee the performance of the tiff. Um they are scenarios to help us plan under different assumptions. Um and I want to note that that chasing the highest tiff revenue isn't necessarily the point of these. Um the point is to understand the range of possibilities and plan accordingly. I want to first talk about the assumptions behind the scenarios. All the scenarios are based on the same assumptions. A starting EAV of 5.1 million that I mentioned, a tax rate of 7% which is typical for for us and for Cook County.

Um, and by 7% I mean the total tax bill. So when you add up all of the taxing bodies that uh a property owner is paying to, it's about 7%. Um, another assumption is the full buildout over the 233 year lifespan of the TIFF. The main variable in the difference between these three uh tables is how quickly development happens and at what scale development happens. Again, these these scenarios are tools for decision-making, not promises, not predictions. And I want to emphasize that the goal ultimately is to encourage the right development for the village based on the board's overall goals and priorities. So here in the first scenario um in all of these scenarios the gray portion is represents 5.1 million. So the current EAV of of that and then the blue bars above that rep represent the increment which grows over time. as the value of the equalized assessed value of the properties in the in the tiff district increases because of the reinvestment and the and the development. Um so you see it it goes up and the increment gets greater and all of those funds represented in the blue portion of the lines goes into the tiff fund to to finance further development. excuse me. And those are funds that can be reinvested. And this just helps contextualize the how performance may vary. Um, so that first one was kind of a steady investment starting with year one and building up over time. This is a second scenario where it takes a little time to

get things off the ground. Um, this it which is entirely possible. Uh we're looking at not a lot of growth for the first 10 years and then it ramps up over time and then there's a more um aggressive version where we're um hitting investment early on and it just grows over time. And you see the difference uh between the three. uh the the most aggressive version would see a total over the 23 years of 30 almost $40 million of uh tiff funds revenue. Uh the least aggressive uh version would show 23 million. So there there is quite a range and again um it all depends on how aggressively it develops and how successful we are and how early we are successful in developing it. Any questions at this point? I've got a few more slides to go. Oh, the numbers have confused me and uh you and I have had some conversations and I want to share one conversation uh as well is if you look at the list of properties that total that 5,116,000 uh that list came from the last report that we had from the uh uh people that did the first uh tiff report for and it lists the uh properties and the PIN numbers. And when you look at the assessor's record, on the assessor's record is a value, but it's not an EAV value. It's it's a what they say is the

the market value. How how is there a difference between what you see on the assessor's page versus what a EAV is?

So, the assessor starts with with the assessed value as you said. and and let's say that was $100,000. Um they then in Cook County um if it is a vacant property or a residential property, it's the assessed value is then 10% of that. If it's a commercial property, it's 25%. So let's take that 100,000, say it's a residential property, or let's just say it's a vacant property because we're going to redevelop that. And um it its value is 100,000. The assessed value is 10% of that. So 10,000. And then they apply the equalizer or the multiplier which is usually around three uh three. And they multiply the 10,000 by three and get 30,000. And that is the equalized assessed value. And that that number comes from the state. the equalizer every year and the goal the purpose of the equalizer is to make sure that because Cook County uh the assessed value is so low 10% in that case um in order to kind of equalize it across the whole state they multiply it by three

thank you so that that results in the the EAV and that's how we get to 5.1 million even though those properties market values are are higher than that. It's actually 109 in the assessor's record if you add each one about double or more than double fact that any that number has no bearing on this situation. So we only use EAV. Right. Right. Yeah. Any other questions?

Yes, ma'am. So, um I just want to clarify that the assumption that the property tax bill will not go up is a little bit deceiving. The VA the the property tax bill is calculated and every 3 years the assessor recalculates the value of the properties. So the property tax bill then goes through the process of creating the EAB and then multiplied by the rate based on what Indian Head Park and all of the taxing entities are requesting. What the TIF does is that we capture the difference

as the village and but the bill will still every trienal the assessor is going to reassess. they're going to go through the normal process and so the way the property taxes would have grown normally will continue growing normally and we capture the difference. So yes, the tiff does not impact that calculation by adding more to it but also it does not reduce it we capture the difference. I I do think it's important to clarify that I'm not saying that property taxes aren't going to go up aren't going to go up. They're going to go up. I will never say that. But not because of the tiff. They're not going to go up because of the tiff.

They're going to go up regardless of whether we have a tiff district or not. Just wanted to clarify because you said, you know, taxes are not going to go up. No, it's a good They're not going to go up because of the tiff. Exactly. Thank you. I would pile on to that. If the tiff is really successful, we would expect that the property values would go up. Therefore, the EAV would go up. Therefore, we would capture in your aggressive scenario, you know, if your taxes are going up, the value of property is going up and it's being reinvested right back to you, back to the district, which again, if we do it correctly, not that you ever want your taxes to go up, but a successful tiff, exactly

would result in property values increasing. But those but also those property values in a commercial area are increasing the sales are increasing the income to the owners of those businesses. So the point is to bring more business and more sales and more tourism and more everything. So everybody benefits. That's the point. And ultimately studies show that if as these areas develop and get more valuable, the surrounding areas also will become more valuable. So I'm sorry, but if this is successful, your property taxes will go up too.

May go up. May so be but not because of the not because of what we're doing necessarily but because the value of your property goes up and the calculation you're you're bless you the tax rate is calculated by dividing um all of the levies of all of the taxing bodies by the total EAV of of the area that being taxed. Well, and additionally, the taxing bodies that are worried about losing taxes because they're frozen, in fact, they may be losing them if we don't do anything because the area is so bladed the taxes could go down.

Exactly. That's correct. And in this scenario, in all of these scenarios, you know, one question comes up, what if the what if it goes the wrong direction and the value of the uh district actually decreases in EAV? If that is the case, the tax the prop the taxing bodies will still get whatever they levy. They will still get that from from this taxing district. What won't happen is there won't be anything added to the uh TIFF fund. There won't be an increment. So, notably what? Right. So, all we're voting on now is is uh the December meeting. Yes.

Okay. Correct. Um just wanted to talk about a few more points real quick. So, over time, uh we have options throughout the life of the TIFF. If the district performs better than expected, the village can declare a surplus of funds in the tiff district and distribute those uh to schools and to the other taxing bodies. Um we could also end the tiff district early if our goals are met. U we can also amend the plan if any priorities change. Um if there is an let's say for example uh we build housing there and there's a big impact on on schools because a lot of students move into the housing um we could uh make an arrangement where we distribute some funds to counter that to if you um do distribute uh any of the excess funds to any of the taxing bodies you have to distribute it to all the taxing bodies. So it would be distributed in in a proportional manner. So if your uh your percentage of the tax bill is 30% um you'll get 30% of whatever is dispersed. If your portion of the tax bill is 2 and a half% you'll get 2 and a half%. uh the taxing district will. Um so one things some of the things that we can do to ensure that the tiff achieves its goal and does go up in value over the 23 years um is take a strategic pro approach as as has been talked about before past efforts didn't yield the results we would hope for. Uh now we have a chance to engage uh professionals, consultants to help us with the planning, phasing and implementation of a redevelopment plan. Uh TIFF funds can be used for this kind of upfront analysis. Uh helping the village make smart decisions so that we can line things up and and and create an

environment where this kind of development will happen uh effectively. One of those things that we would do, one of those first steps we would take is look at the 2018 vision that was created and approved by the board uh several years ago in 2018. Um that laid an important foundation, but conditions of course have changed since then. Um we'll be updating that vision in collaboration with the community and with support from uh planning uh professionals and market analysis professionals um and the economic development committee which is a very strong here. It's a good resource, good help uh for these efforts. Um the updated vision will guide what kinds of development we prioritize and how we use the TIFF resources to support it. Um what happens after the TIF expires? So once the TIF expires, whether that's 23 years from now or earlier, um all new property value is returned to the regular tax roles benefiting schools, parks, and and all of the taxing bodies. um it would be considered new property in that first year that it comes off the tax roles. Um and under the state's uh tax cap law, they would be able all of those districts would be able to capture that new value um that tiff value as new value. So they could increase their levy uh above uh what they normally would be capped at um because it's new growth and that doesn't fall under the tax cap. Any unused tiff funds at the end of the tiff would be distributed again on a proportional basis to all of the taxing bodies. Um so next steps as I mentioned tonight the board will consider the set setting the public hearing date and also

establishing the interested parties uh list registry. Um we expect the joint review board to meet in October followed by the public hearing in December and a final decision by the board in January. Uh throughout this process we'll continue uh with community engagement, listening sessions and fact sharing. We will put up a lot of information on our website and make sure that people are aware of that. Um, I've met this week with the superintendent and finance folks at district 204 and at district 107. Uh, next week I'm meeting with the fire protection district and the park district. um just to talk about to hear some of their concerns and to address some of those and to uh make sure that uh they know the schedule of things and and what we're trying to accomplish with the TIF district and uh what our goals are and President Whittenberg has been reaching out to her counterparts at the taxing bodies as well. So, thanks for your time and for your questions. Um, and I look forward to getting any feedback. Um, again, uh, we'll have a couple of months um, after tonight to uh, have more conversations around this and I'm sure we'll get some questions from the public. And that's all. If there's any other questions,

Madam President, when do we start uh, promoting the hearing? Are we ready to start promoting it right away? Yes, we actually will get out um we've already gotten the notice out to the paper and uh it'll be published as legal notice, but we'll be sending out notices at the joint review board to all the taxing bodies as soon as tomorrow. Thank you. Very busy, very busy couple weeks. There's a detailed schedule that Andreas has and has to keep up with with all of the filing and notices that have to go out. Any questions?

And this presentation will be up on our website tomorrow. Roll call vote. Can we please, if there are no other questions, can we please have a roll call vote for item H, please? Trusty Sana. I. Trusty Ek. Hi. Trusty Donnersburgger. Hi. Trusty Seta. Hi. Trusty Ges. Hi. 5 Z. The motion carries. Thank you. That's the schedule that's in your package there for the public. Can we move on now to item I, please? Consideration of ordinance 202520. Move approval of ordinance 2025-20, the registry of interested parties, which is an item related to the previous item.

Second. So, this will be, as I explained in the presentation, this will be um for anybody who is interested in getting updates about the TIFF district um including all of the taxing bodies um residents. We will also send out um notices to um any residential addresses within 750 ft of the triangle property. Um I'm not sure if that includes the folks living at the cemetery or not but um that is within 750 ft but but um and then all the taxing bodies who whom and the those u property owners within the district anybody I'm not thinking of that needs will be notified.

Any questions on item I hearing? None. Can we have a roll call vote? Trusty Salana. Hi. Trusty Yak. Hi. Trusty Donnersburgger. Hi. Trusty Zetka. Hi. Trusty Gazes. Hi. 5 Z. Motion carries. Moving right along to item J. U. Consideration and approval of ordinance 202521 for our one-day liquor license. Move. Approval of ordinance 2025-21 which is grants a one-day liquor license for our event coming up.

Second. I can. So on uh I was mentioning it to our our uh visitors tonight. We are having a ghouls and goblins event at Blackhawk Park which is right in back here for our children and our residents and adults um that will also want to enjoy a drink, a beer or wine at the event as and food. We're having pizza and Mexican food truck is coming to visit us. Uh we're going to have a jumpy and a couple of different options for the children to play. We're hoping that the chief will lead our Halloween parade if he's available or one of one of our officers. And have a great day. Hopefully it'll be great weather and we can enjoy being together as a community. We will have some of our businesses setting up tables to also give treats to the children and provide any little incentives to our community or let them know about their businesses. So, we're really looking forward to that. It's going to be hopefully a beautiful day. So, that's why we're doing this one day liquor license. Any questions? Hearing none. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Trusty Sana.

Hi. Trusty G. Sorry, excuse. Hi. Trusty. Sorry, I was reading my thing. You should call me Trusty A. I sorry just to be clear. Trusty Donnersburgger. Hi. Trustyka. Hi. Trusty Gazes. Hi. You a motion carries. Thank you. Now we're moving on to public comments. Uh would anybody like to come to the podium and make any public comments? Would you? Okay. Amy,

this is really just kind of question. Um, I know talked about a franchise for garbage services. Can we get an update on where that process is? That will happen during the manager's report. Thank you. What was the question?

Would did you want to take a moment and Thank you. Hi, my name is Mark Brasher. Uh my wife Sandra Brasher is here and this is Randy Spears. The three of us are going to be partners on we're buying the Willow Hill and we're going to rename it to the Golden Century Cafe. We're going to put new awnings on the outside. We're painting the entire inside and we're taking up the the nasty carpet that's down there and we're putting a nice floor in there. Um if you've ever seen that carpeting and uh we plan to um change the menu a little bit. Not a lot, just a couple of things. And then uh we're looking forward to getting it going. But we close on the 20th. Uh we're going to we're going to close for a week and then we're going to open after we've get everything ready, get it all ready, all the repairs done and everything that we want to do. And uh then we plan to have a week where we will run and then we plan to do right now a grand opening a week after that

and we'll have a percent um we're going to give free coffee and pop for for five week days that that grand opening. Nice. So and also any uh police officers that show up at the restaurant in uniform we give a 30% discount to and a donut. So, and we do plan we're going to join the chamber of commerce and everything else along with it. We plan to be definitely a part of the community and you'll like the look of the restaurant. It's going to be really sharp, really nice. Oh, good. Can I ask you a question just for those who are newer to the community? Where is it located?

It's right on Juliet Road at U um I don't know what street Tony's Tony's grocery store is right across the street. We're in the plaza on this side. Yes. Next to the Yeah. Walgreens right there where the UPS is. Yes. If you give us the information, perhaps we can put it online on um our website too that you're opening there and what all the details of the uh grand opening and all. Oh, yeah. Welcome. We're happy to have you. Thank you. And bring flyers at the October 25th golds and goblins because you're going to open right after. Okay.

Yeah. So, no problem. Yeah. People will know. I had already planned on it. As soon as we heard it, my wife was telling we're going to be doing that. I said, "Okay, quick comment. Um, my family and I used to go there and eat like at least once a week, probably twice a week prior to the last management change." Yeah. In the last three years. Super happy to hear that you guys are coming in and going to refurb it. My family loved going there. So, it'll be a beautiful restaurant inside when you see it. I'm very excited to hear that. So, welcome. Uh, it's going to have even new plates, new silverware, new cups, everything, glasses, the whole shot. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you.

Just going to uh speak briefly. I'm the restaurant entrepreneur. I'm the one that's been in this business in restaurant business for 44 years. Okay. Right now, I'm in the I have a total of three restaurants. I got two restaurants in a banquet hall I'm building. Um, and Mark and Sandra are my customers. They're very, very valued people and become very good friends. U, we're coming in and like you said with the TIFF district and with the um with the uh businesses in the area, I own a restaurant on 2843 West 63rd Street. It's a pizzeria. It's a 17,000 square foot pizzeria and it's the third largest in the nation back in 2003 as an independent. But unfortunately, like with businesses, without businesses in the neighborhood, the neighborhood is done. Right now, I'm sitting on two blocks, two each side of each block is 30 lots in the city of Chicago, which is 60 lots, and the only one left is my business, which I'm on seven lots. So, we're coming into, you know, one thing excited me about this area and this neighborhood was it it is it's like Melotheian. When I moved into Meloian 17 years ago, it was basically what we have right now at the Willow restaurant. Uh not very it was a not maintained, not it was just a horrible eyesore for the city of Midlotheian. Today we have Bellamia, we have Bellamy Banquet Hall which is probably around over a million dollars invested and we have built Burkotch which is right next door which is a $5.5 million investment. So bringing people into the community, strong businesses into the community like you said in the tiff district you touched on it. It only adds to the area around it. okay around something that is prosperous bringing two 300 400 500 600

people a day into the area then the other businesses around it want to gravitate towards that location okay and uh that's very very important to me I will be coming to the city with some issues that we have that I have and Mark has with the area to where I'll need your support because I can only do so much as a business owner and if company or someone or some neighbor is not uh holding up to their uh their standards of this neighborhood should be then I would hope that the city would help me with that. Okay. There's a lot of times the city just says well that's not nothing we can do about it. Well that's not the case. Okay. Um, and we will be coming to you and saying as as all of us work together as a team, um, we can be very, and believe me, this restaurant, I don't know if anyone's ever heard of Bellamy, but Bellamy is the the largest independent, excuse me, the largest Italian restaurant in the South Suburbs. It's the number one restaurant. Go online to Open Tables and you'll see a 4.9 stars. That's what we're bringing to this restaurant here. I personally have no um I mean these are my good friends. These are their lives. They're going to be there. And like I told this gentleman here, when you have when you have businesses in the area that are not maintained by the owners and they're absentee owners, you got a problem. And and my dear friends here will be there. I'll only be there two days a week, Tuesdays and Sundays. and we walk the tables, we shake the hands, we buy the coffee, we take care of the seniors, we bring them in, and if you ever go to Bellamia, you'll see we run outside and pick up the seniors. Seniors are our past and our and our future is like you're doing with the kids, okay? We support that also. Okay? So, if there's anything that we can do with donations, with fundraising, we because we close at

3:00. So, it's always good thing to do that. And our doors, Mark and Sandra doors are always open. My door is always open. If you have any questions or you want you want to know anything about us, just please let us know because we're excited. I was uh one of the founders of Bourbon Street. Uh I uh myself and three other partners built Bourbon Street. And the one of the reasons we were so successful and B I'm no longer involved in it but because it was a neighborhood a small community and a small community really really appreciates like Melothian a a company that comes in and invests quite a bit of money into the community. Okay. Because it can only make the community better. And when you have a lot when you have a lot of taxes coming in from revenue from businesses it can only help your property taxes. Okay. When you don't have any revenue coming in from businesses, well, we all know what property taxes will do. They have to get the money from somewhere and unfortunately it's usually the seniors or the the people that are are living from day to day. Okay. So, we are a family and we are a business and we are very very community orientated. That's so important that you have to understand that whatever you need, you know, my door and and Mark and Sandra doors are open and whatever for the kids, for the for the Christmas parade, for the I I asked the gentleman like Gavin, if you have something like this and he uh not so much right now. Okay. So, you know, I'm excited. They're excited. And uh we're going to put a lot of money into that restaurant. And the restaurant Mark, what is the name of the restaurant down the street that we you you took me to? Oh, Honey Jam.

Honey Jam. Okay. Um, don't get me wrong, a beautiful restaurant, but they're not going to have anything on uh the Golden Century Cafe. And we're going to bring people into the neighborhood. We're going to bring people into the mall, and we're going to bring people to this wonderful city. Hopefully, it's a wonderful city. We don't know. I don't know. I can only look at what I see in front of me today. Um, but I've been in Mlotheian for 17 years. And when I came into Meloian, it was, you know, a little bit uh tough. You know, we had a blood bath bar that I took over. We had St. Vincent Depal, which is a wonderful charity. And we had a uh grocery store that was on its last leg and Mr. Burkhots came in to me and said, "Randy, what do you plan on doing here? We're not going to put all this money in this mall if you plan on leaving." And then we got another bar here that's absentee owners that's going to have trouble, fighting, shootings, and all that. We don't want that. We don't want that stuff. No, I'm here for good, you know. So, I took over two stalls. I got uh I got 16 uh about about 17,000 square foot of the banquet hall in the restaurant and Burkott has got about 65,000 square foot and we bring a lot of people into the neighborhood. So I'm excited and I don't know and Mark and Sandra they're they're wonderful people else I wouldn't be standing here in front of you because I God only knows I don't need another restaurant you know I got enough on my plate right now but they're going to be your family and I'm going to be their family. Well, I'm really familiar with Bourbon Street, so if you can replicate that kind of business here, you it'll be great.

It would be. I mean, I would love to, but it obviously it's like a woman shoe store men's shoe store. They're two differently totally different businesses. Yeah, they are. Yeah,

we do have um Burgy does a lot. Um we will have a lot with charity events because we close at 3:00. So you know somebody has cancer or something like that they're looking for a place for their event and I'm sure Mar will agree with me our door will always be we are you can call the mayor of mayor of Sydney Park but if you don't want to call that there's a lot of uh and I'm I'm definitely serious but we are a familyowned and operated business we're not an absentee owner. And I told Gal,

I told him right when I stood in front of him, I said, "When you got a business that's an absentee owner and it's a bar or a restaurant, you got a problem because nobody at that front door cares more about that business than you and I'm at Bellamea. This is actually unusual for me not to be there. I'm sure there's a few people looking for me right now

because I'm there from 7:00 in the morning till 8 at night and they're going to be there from 7 in the morning till probably 4:00 or 5 in the afternoon and they're going to watch the business and they're going to watch and they're going to clean we're going to clean the mall. We're going to make sure the garbage I mean we went to three weeks ago and the garbage was overflowing overflowing garbage all over the ground. And I asked the gentleman, very nice man, I says, "Sir, why would you allow the garbage? What's going on with the garbage in the front?" And his response to me, "Well, well, every once in a while, I have the bus to go out and clean it up." Thankfully every once in a while, I said, "There's 75 ash bucks in the top of this garbage can. When I'm walking, like you said, uh I can't see your name, but the lovely lady out there, she used to go there all the time. It's a great area. It's a wonderful area and I guarantee you within six months we'll have a line out the door because we're going to know how to operate it. We're going to be generally concerned and we're going to clean the parking lot up. If the if the landlord doesn't want to clean the parking lot or fix the sidewalks, we'll fix it. We'll take it out of it. Just we're not going to argue. We're not the sidewalk in front of their sand.

When you walk into the restaurant, it's all busted up. Okay. Now, when a a senior walks in with a walker and tries to go over that, well, that's a lawsuit for me. That's a lawsuit for the landlord. Very well lawsuit for the city. We don't need that. We need that fixed period. That's just that should be the first thing to fix for somebody to fall and hurt themselves. You know, it's just ignored. It's not going to be ignored without us.

So, um thank you for all of that. We really appreciate your feedback this evening and your um energy of bringing the business into Indian Head Park. So, thank you. Passion, energy, all of that. Um, we appreciate that. And any or all issues that you have, please feel free to to talk to Gavin Morgan and Andre's Mark.

Um, I certainly uh can identify with some of your comments about the sidewalk and the garbage. I've recently been there and thought the exact same thing. So hopefully we can work through the issues that we can control and help you prod and poke other people for other issues and make sure that we have a great environment for business in Indian Head Park. The key word we all have to work together. Yes.

But it's going to be in the future just like the just take a ride over there one day and look at the beautiful flowers out front. Just hundreds of flowers. Beautiful flowers over in front of this restaurant. The dandelion dandelions in the flower beds. I mean, look at that. I mean, this is just, you know, I I called I called Mark up one night. I said, I'm not interested in it. Look at the garbage 14. I mean, seven garbage can overflowing. This is horrible. This disgusting. And he said he's going to handle it. And we called that landlord up and so it's a it's a it's a it's a we. Like I told the mayor, Barry, I said it's a we. It's not me, you know. I'm not there for the money. They're worth this. I mean, they make a living. I make a difference.

So, the interesting thing about the mall right now, just so you know, and I think I mentioned this to you uh when we were talking, uh there's a new business, Chucks Auto Body, that just came within the last month or two. Great people, family business. Yes.

Yeah. Very nice people. Um super energetic and passionate. Very similar to your feelings. And then the new owners of Milana Despa, again, family-owned business. So, I um I think it'd be be proactive um yourselves. I I think I mentioned to you guys if when you have the chance to go introduce yourselves and I believe um Chucks is coming to the Ghouls and Goblins Fest. I'm not sure about Milano Despa. So, you know, whatever we can do to uh um you know, help facilitate. We do have some events in our business um economic development committee where we get people together. We've had two such events this last year talking about social media. We had a little um party here at Village Hall to get our business owners together. We'll be doing that this fall, I'm hoping. So, we will include you and you can meet uh usually we have four five or six people show up. It's not a huge group. So, usually we get about uh a third of the business owners to come. Many are very busy and busy during the dinner time. So maybe we can do a breakfast at your new place and have it there and then invite everybody to come and you can meet the um the owners that are both at your uh retail area and then down at uh Juliet and Wolf.

I get a question your relation relevant to me but it's irrelevant to business. What is the license time? I guess it wasn't really. What is the time? The hours the hours of operation has been in your department. Andreas, do you want to You did change it a couple years ago. So, I don't want to There aren't any set hours on them. It's usually what's in the district. And oftent times when we provide a uh a liquor license, it is to the hours that the business is currently operating. So, it's it's not specific, but it's more tailored to each business. You don't have a 4:00 license.

Some of you don't have a 4:00. No, but that's the reason I asked that is we don't later the problems, you know, and No, we agree. Something that, you know, that's very important to me. So, I'm excited. I think you know Mark and Sandra are wonderful people. I wouldn't be sitting there if they weren't. And uh you'll see and they'll walk the court shake their and everything. Do you have to? No, no, no. This is just public comments. So, we're going to move on to our reports. So, thank you very much all of you. Um, trustees, Jim, do you have a report?

Planning and zoning commission did meet. I'll let Andre cover that in his clerk's report since he got short changed last month. Danielle, I will second what Jim said and no other additional report. Eileen

the e first of all I want to thank they're not here but I want to acknowledge the members of the economic development uh committee who have worked so hard on um getting the tiff to the point where it's at now u because they really have and I'd like to um as uh the mayor indicated we have meetings once in a while with the businesses and I'd like for you maybe to be a talker there because you your enthusiasm it needs to be captured and spread to our other business owners. So, if you do that for us, I'd appreciate it. Anything in the Okay. Anything that helps the area would be, you know, it's we're very Thank you.

Great. Great. Thank you. The heritage the heritage committee has uh taken sort of a spatical for a few um weeks, but we're going to start up again now that the other park is done. Do you have a meeting date that you've put on the calendar or No, not yet. We did, but because we we got to a point where we were waiting to talk to um the uh contractor. Okay. Uh about possibilities. So, we couldn't go any further without talking to him. And he was caught up in I can't say the name of the park. Zeia. Yeah. Okay.

Zeiaak. Oh, can I mention one more thing? Um, Monday is Indigenous People Day. We're Indian Head Park. So, I'd sort of like I think we should acknowledge the fact that our roots came from the people who were peoples who were here way before we were and um thank them for what they did and acknowledge how good they are. Thank you, Eileen, for bringing that up, Charlie.

Yes. Uh thank you. The uh finance committee is working on the uh budget for the coming year. Uh our September 29th meeting uh we worked on the police budget. Our next uh meeting is October 29th. We'll be working on public works uh budget for the coming year. Uh it is an open meeting and uh I also want to acknowledge that staff put together a very good uh schedule for the coming year um as we go through the various steps for a budget. And so, uh, uh, what we have in terms of, uh, uh, what we're going to be working on in the coming months has been laid out, uh, by staff's budget. So, thank you for that,

Christina. I have no report, but I want to acknowledge the volunteers that are working on, uh, making the ghouls and goblins the success it's going to be, and they're here. Thank you. Moving right along to the village treasure. Do you have anything else in village before we do clerk? How about the clerk tonight? This evening I want to miss that this evening.

I was worried there for a second. Um so just to kind of touch on uh what I Eileen said about it. Um Monday is Indigenous People's Day. So that we will be closed on Monday. So don't look for us here. We're going to be um closed. Uh the other point as Jim had brought up was that uh on Tuesday, two days ago, we had uh planning and zoning committee uh we are continuing to work through fences and the fence uh examining the fence regulations as the board has directed to us. We have uh our key part of discussion besides looking at uh comparative data for other communities in the area and what their fence regulations were and then also historical analysis of discussions for the village. The key point was the survey that is going to go out to all the residents in Indian head park. We are going to be sending a paper survey to every household. Um we had looked at doing it in a digital format uh but the options out there were for free options were not very useful and then in further discussion we realized that about 2/3 of our village still pays their water bill by either check or cash and so if that is the case then they might that we might uh be missing some input from uh some of our residents. We didn't want to do that. Um also it will be a much broader sampling of the since we have a basically sampling the entire community. We'll be uh very very uh likely to get a representative sample back that we can then base decisions on. Um they reviewed it. they made some minor suggestions on um on the survey just kind of a little bit more informative clarifying some things and so uh we will be now be stuffing those surveys um in the coming well next few days to get them out as soon as possible so they can get out to the community. We'll be putting a the

current plan is to put a um self-addressed return envelope in there as well. So, you can just put so residents will be able to just put them back in the envelopes and send them back into us or drop them in the box or something of the sort like that. And then we'll do analysis. And at our next November 4th PCC meeting, planning zoning committee commission meeting, um we'll be doing analysis of the uh we'll be doing analysis of the um survey as well as having a more openhouse discussion to hear from the community as well and um rather than looking over massive amounts of reports that the village staff has been putting together. So that is my current report. Great. And just a reminder um on the website, Andre had some great data up um that he presented last evening which included a matrix for our neighboring I believe 13 or 14 uh municipalities and their fence regulations and what they're using with fences and what they support in their fence ordinances. So if you haven't had a chance to look at that, I believe it's online or will be online very soon.

Yeah, it's going to be online very soon. We were reviewing it a little bit just to there was a couple of notes formatting things. Yeah. Formatting things that were that were put on there. Um thank you for reminding me. I apologize to anyone who tuned in live. Uh there was something with YouTube wasn't on our end. It was something on their end that um you know our uh our tech staff tried to to do make it work. It didn't work. But the entirety is now on YouTube for anyone to view if they want. So I apologize if I cut your Tuesday night entertainment short.

Well, yeah. I was able to replay the whole meeting. It was it was very well done. Thank you very much for all of that feed the information you've all been putting together. And Brandon Fleer, our intern from NIU, has been also doing a lot of work. So, we want to thank him. Um, but please, if you guys haven't seen the data on the board, please take a moment to go look at that when we have it up. And I'm assuming we'll be reposting some of that on Facebook to to let the public know that it's there. Also, I remind everyone the meetings for planning and zoning are being recorded on YouTube. So, please take a look at those and if you are confused about how to get YouTube playbacks or you need assistance with that, we can help you. If you do want to uh replay those meetings, they're very um it was a very good meeting and I think it'll bring everyone up to speed on the information that's been collated on fences in Indian Head Park. Thank you. Anything else, Andre? Moving along to the village administrator.

I didn't want to be forgotten because I promised somebody I'd talk about waste hauling. Um the RFP we're hoping to get out on the street tomorrow published and um it will be due November 7th and reviewed throughout November and December. There may be an interview of the firms that uh submit proposals and we're hoping to award that bring it to the board with a recommendation uh to the December 11th meeting uh which will give us time if it is a new vendor to transition to a new v vendor before the current agreement expires in April at the end of April 2026. We extended it. Um the so within that we aren't looking to change uh our current service drastically. So the the the agreement that is part of the request for proposals is based on a cleaned up version of our current contract. Um there the our consultant with uh the solid waste agency did a lot of work to to clean up what we have in place right now. Um, but we didn't change how uh drastically. Like I said, um, we didn't change it really at all. It's still what we're asking people to bid on is the same type of program we have today. So, um, that would include, uh, service on one day for most of the community. It it's a different day for the Ashbrook town homes,

right? And um it's modeled on that. But we have also asked people uh respondents to give us an alternate bid that would have all of the village on the same day. And my purpose in setting it up that way is to find out if there really is a price difference or not. If we have uh multiple days or not. The um another alternate we've asked for is you can for them to also give a price to do uh those HOAs that have dumpster service um to so that we would know you know if we can realize some kind of benefit uh pricing wise from from that. Um, we are also going to ask that they give us uh whether they can do composting or not, offer composting. Not that the village is going to pay for composting, but it would be an option for those residents who are interested in paying for composting themselves. And then we're asking to separate out the leaf vacuuming uh proposal because uh right now SBC does leaf vacuuming. Uh there's only a couple of vendors that have a leaf that own a leaf leaf vacuuming equipment. Um but we want to see what the pricing is with and without uh leaf vacuuming. Um we are going to include uh participation in the RDP the regional disposal program which our consultant came and presented on that and that really won't change from from the perspective of residents. It won't change how your garbage is picked up or anything. It just changes where it's taken to. But the whole purpose of the regional disposal uh program is to strengthen numbers and and buying power uh get a better price. So it will reflect hopefully in the bills

uh in the cost for residents to to participate in that. And that's what I have to say about waste hauling. Anything else?

Yes. Um we we're um planning now. We've already started planning. Uh Rob Verber is is the chief force behind uh the National Night Out. Uh has been for the three years that we've done it. Um we're going to take a team effort. We're all here in support of Rob and getting getting it planned out uh this year and we've already started meeting and we've got some of our great community volunteers who are also already been thanked for their work on ghouls and goblins, but uh Amy Eckert and Kathy Lynn Meyers are helping with uh that planning. And then finally, we're working on uh with the Secretary of State's office and Third Millennium, who does our water billing, sends out our water bills, produces our water bills, uh to um make sure that we are getting the word out to all of the vehicles owners who have vehicles registered in Indian Head Park that they need to get a sticker. Um, and then with the uh data from the Secretary of State, we'll be able to know what vehicles that are registered here have not gotten a sticker. So, we will be pursuing that. And that's my report.

Village attorney, no report. And now, let's move on to department heads. Joe,

thank you. Um, well, most obvious, you probably noticed when you came in, we're doing seal coating on the Village Hall Police Department parking lot. They did half of it. Uh, and they're going to do the second half of it on Sunday. Uh, we wanted to make sure that we could keep business operational here. So, they're going to come in on Sunday to do that and also seal coat the um uh the water tank in the back of the pump house. Um, as far as the pump house goes, the roof was completed under budget. Uh, they did a great job on that. Um, the chlorine uh, switch from gas to liquid project is moving along. Uh, Strand uh, brought in on Tuesday. The permit for me to sign to send to the IEPA and we're um, their wait period to get the permit back to us is usually between 24 and 60 days. Uh being as it's a smaller project, um Strand seemed to think that we'd probably be on the uh lower end of that. Get that back and then we'll get that moving forward and getting out to bid and and uh move forward with that project. Um tree planting program uh with the grant and so forth uh is moving forward. Uh our trees have been picked out uh planting locations. Uh they will be planted at the end of this month. We have a nursery picked out um and we're getting some pretty good costs on that so we can uh make sure that we're spending all of the funds to get the matching grant uh in the spring. So, uh this will be a good test to see what we come in at um for the fall planting. Um the tree and landscape advisory board meeting, the next one we're going to have, which is do we have a date on that one? November, right? So, when we have that meeting, uh Thomas Brennan is going to come in and present our uh our program for uh for

our trees and um trimming and so forth. He'll have some pretty good information. So, we'll be going by that uh going forward. Uh in house, we did some storm repairs in various areas of of the town. Uh we also at the village sold a 2015 Ford Explorer ammunition bid. Uh they came and uh took care of that yesterday. Um we have also obviously mentioned the Halloween event. Uh Brian over at public works was able to find 100 small pumpkins for 100 bucks. So uh they they were delivered today. Uh so we have um we have 100 small pumpkins for decorating. That's kind of one of the booths we were talking about setting up. We just need to order the paint pens and we'll be set to go with that portion of it. And then uh on staff note um Bobby Hernandez uh just uh had his first year anniversary with us and uh he's doing a great job. So that's my report.

The tree and landscaping committee is November 19th and I think ID will be there. I we need to confirm that but they will be there. They have been invited and said they're coming. Great. Chief. Well, I'm uh extremely excited about hearing about the restaurant and who's owning it because I have been to Bellamia on several occasions. Uh I try to go to when Richie Doyle's not there, but uh it's it's a nice place. It's a beautiful place. If you haven't been, it it is really really nice. Uh

Burkott's next door sells really good pork steaks in case anyone needs some food from there. Uh but the the the bar that you're talking about that Sullivan's was a nice place and then the absentee owner bought it and then they had a lot of riff raff in there up to including a shooting. So you worked with the I remember you worked with the chief of police and the mayor and got that closed down which was a great thing because it's really really nice what you've done there. So I hope we do the same here. I was owner of Sullivans and and it's a familyowned operate business and did a wonderful job and it was just at that point I had seven restaurants just to cheers and they were absentee owners once again once you get an absentee owner business and liquor establishment you just begging for

that was a problem. Yeah, they had the late license. Anyhow, it's been it's you did a great job with it and I highly recommend I'm glad that you're you're good part of this too because it it'll be nice. It's anywhere as nice as Bellamia. It'll be really nice place. Um, real quick, I just uh talked to Gavin about getting a grant writer. Uh, we're going to work on that. We're going to get some gas masks. We have them, but we got to get them fit tested. They've never fit tested them here. So, if we're going to be in if it keeps civil unrest keeps going, we're going to need to be able to make sure that the masks properly sealed if we do have to deploy, which we haven't. We haven't been asked to, but just in case. Um, we're getting the vehicle repaired, the the squad that got totaled. We got the new one getting worked on. Hopefully, it'll be ready soon. I still got to get it striped. The speed cameras, we re relocated one for it was uh on Pontiac southbound. We moved it to northbound to get some more data. Had the request of some of the citizens. Well, it's going to get done. We requested to get it. I think you just requested today, right?

Yeah. So, we'll get that relocated. We'll get some data there. The other ones are are still in service and and there's some some data that but basically it's the same at any time. You got to go from 7:30 to 9 and from about 5 to 6:37 is when you're going to get the main amount of speeders. people going to work and coming from work. So, we we'll do our best to get officers in those areas because there's several areas. Uh we're also going to look at the bus stop because there's uh uh I was talking to a citizen and my pet peeve is when people go around a stop sign that's put out for uh on the buses when kids are loading and unloading. So, we monitor that every morning and every afternoon and we're going to keep monitoring it for for the whole year. Uh shift picks are in place for next year. It's all scheduled out. Uh the flat cameras, one's at Blackhawk Park, the live fixed one. One is a pan tilt zoom. We just need to get electric to it. Sacia Park has the fixed camera. It's in place. And the 7-Eleven has the pan tilt zoom. That's all I got.

Chief, can I ask you a question, please? Um, with regards to the lit crosswalk on Wolf Road that's in between Hayawwa and Saka Jawia, what's the policy on if someone pushes that button because they wish to cross the street and cars continue to drive through? The policy is that if if we're there, they should be cited. Okay? Because the pedestrians have the right of way and it's lit. And that's at all all times, right? Like that's not just a school time crossing. That's 24-hour crossing. Okay. Does it happen a lot? Do you think it happens? I mean, I I used it four times yesterday between 6:00 and 7:30 p.m. And three of those times, cars continued to go through.

Um, there was an officer sitting at the Heritage Center lot at that time and no one was It was a little unnerving. The cars were flying through and I was trying to cross with my dog. Um, someone did finally stop, but it happens. It happens quite frequently. Um, so I just think that if maybe we could ask if there's an officer there if they could maybe be extra aware of when someone's crossing so they should do something. Yeah. And I mean it's a great opportunity to ticket people and make them be like, "Hey, please pay attention. Educate them. Educate them." Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be awesome. Thank you.

Yes. And that was Mr. one of Mr. Chris's comments in that email. It was that light. Yeah. I didn't hear a bus comment because there's only the o there's only one district that has buses and that's the high school district. Highlands doesn't have any buses. Well, when I spoke to him, he was concerned about the kids crossing and then the buses and the the signs. We talked we had a nice conversation. It might not happen there, but that was one of his concerns as well. Okay. Thank you for doing that. Um, anything else, Chief, for you? That's all I have. All righty. Well, hearing that there is no more uh department head information, I would like a motion for adjournment, please.

I'll second. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you.