Mayor and Board of Trustees - Regular Meeting

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e e e good evening welcome to the November 12th 2024 Village of bowling brg board meeting before we proceed if you would like to address the board regarding anything on this evening's agenda or not on this evening's agenda we ask that you fill out a form located in the back of the room or here by our clerk if everyone could please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance which tonight will be left by Jacob Whittington from Troop 131 Jacob please join me to the flag of the United States of America and to the for stands one nation under God indivisible withy and justice for all thank you

Jacob Madam clerk can you call the rooll please yes Madam mayor trustees are right here trusty Cano here trusty Kelly here trusty Lawler here trusty Doris here trusty carpenzano here thank you may please have a motion to approve the minutes of our regular meeting October 22nd 2024 so moved second trustee Lawler second trustee Doris any additions Corrections or deletions seeing none all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries thank you approval of the agenda Mr O are there any changes to this evening's agenda uh no Madam mayor we're good right may I please have a motion to approve the agenda so moved second trusty Cano second trusty Doris all those in favor say I I opposed motion carries thank you next we have uh some approvals of appointments for commissions this evening we are very blessed to have groups of volunteers from our community that want to serve and go above and beyond just being residents and this evening we have the privilege to present for approval to the board two new Commissioners for the beautification commission and two members for the information technology commission who have volunteered to step up into leadership positions first of which is the beautification committee Maria Lopez commissioner for two years Brenda price commissioner for two years may I please have a motion to approve Mar Maria and Brenda for two-year terms terms on the beautification commission so moved second trusty Lawler second trustee Doris all those in favor say I I I opposed all right you're stuck now could you please step up and join us and we also have our chair here we other we have other members of

beautification so come on up and support them you guys know what it feels like do you really know what you're getting into do you know we're combining commissions uhhuh do you know it's going to be a lot of fun MH can't wait that's what she told us I promise this my favorite you want to introduce yourself and the members that you have with you you always L me good evening good evening Madame mayor oh first of all congratulations to Madame mayor she was on the news tonight because she's big wig beautiful beautiful mam so anyways um uh my name is Maria of Alas gley and I am the chair of the beautification commission I added Civic cultural and Affairs parade Commission because for the longest time they were but we are combining and we chose we don't want to give it away it's on the agenda okay it's on the agenda but we chose the name so she will give it away um Madame mayor so but I'm so happy to have such great seriously um great Comm Commissioners that want to devote and dedicate their time to make bowling BG beautiful so right now we have Philip Lions commissioner Philip Lions uh commissioner Keana gley newly appointed U commissioner Chassy Armstrong well Wells Armstrong I'm sorry and soon um Maria Lopez and Brenda price so um I'm going to give you give the mic to Madame mayor so but enough of me she notices like [Music] ready y i state your name I do solemnly swear do solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States to uphold the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the state of Illinois constitution of the state of

Illinois Municipal Code of the village of Bowling Brook Municipal Code of the village ofing and that I will Faithfully discharge my duties as and I will Faithfully discharge my duties beautification commissioner beautification commissioner to the best of my abilities to the best of my abilities in a manner prescribed by law in a manner prescrib by law congratulations I'm going to give you this we're going to take some pictures okay perfect thank you this is your homework this is your certificate okay but you didn't know you were G to get homework homework certificate and then we have Paparazzi here that are going to take our pictures squeeze in which we going this for come in the picture we've got cameras everywhere come on you're part of this sorry hate it for you I showered get closer back okay we're gonna go big camera and then we'll move on [Music] okay wait a minute sparkly phone is next Sparkles thank you two sparkly phones okay one more that one looks sparkly too and Welcome to our world thank you so much I look forward next we have two gentlemen who have volunteered to step up in leadership roles for our it commission information technology and um by the way for those

of you that are at home or watching later online we are transitioning to bowling br.gov so if you go on bowling brook.com and it will immediately uh transition you to bowling br.gov and and thank you to philli our I new it manager director everything uh for getting us into the gov the.gov era so we appreciate you now come on up um we have Conrad zadlo and Mark help me out Mark bar baren so um Conrad for chair for a one-year term and Mark Vice chair for a one-year term may I please have a motion to appoint Conrad and Mark for one-year terms on the it commission so moved second trustee Lawler second trustee cantero all those in favor say I I I opposed motion carries thank you all right that was pretty easy I'm so excited I don't know anything about it come on over here a little bit we'll get these flags um but I know how important it is and we slowly getting into that 21st century I'd like to get into 21st eventually we'll be in 22nd but eventually so uh we're looking forward to working with you and taking us into that and moving us just not too much AI yet slowly it's coming dabble into that I state your name con do solemnly swear do solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States to uphold the Constitution of the United States Constitution of the state of Illinois constitution of the state of Illinois Municipal Code of the village of Bowling Brook Municipal Code of the village of Bowling Brook and that I will Faithfully discharge my duties as and

that I will Faithfully discharge my duties as chair and vice chair chair and vice chair have the Bowling Brook it Commission of the Bowling Brook it commission to the best of my abilities to the best of my abilties in a manner prescribed by law in the manner prescribed by law congratulations thank you mayor and welcome thank you [Applause] have to have your pictures too pictures too you've already done your homework since you're returning you want turn it you want to hold it yourself sure there go see the second time around we learned to share photos thank you again all right presentations this is an exciting one I always love it when that we have so many people here because it makes us feel like uh so many people are actually engaged and and care about everything we have on the agenda not just partic one particular item but then we know they're all going to leave us so it's okay um our Bowling Brook Police Department has an important cause that is near and dear to their hearts each year they raise money to support the Special Olympics you may have seen them you'll see them on the Rooftop at Dunkin Donuts it's kind of fun to watch it's very difficult to come down by the way it's easy to go up don't try to come down I did that um but but something that I totally enjoy is there slip and slide down uh right by Town Center where it started as just tarps and soap and a water hose which was fine and then they started doing

floaties and so then we had floaties sliding down the tarp with soap and water and last year they managed to pop floaties coming down but they also decided to do some nice little presentations of which um I see Debbie Watson's here with Angelic kindness the person who had the the most awesome presentation got an extra donation from Ang kindness uh some of them worked out as planned many did not but it was still very hilarious and they do uh an amazing job this past year they raised $2,928 75 for Special Olympics let's give them today Nick Sidell of Action Truck Parts is here to present a check for the Special Olympics on behalf of of the Bowling Brook Police Department attending tonight's presentation from the Bowling Brook Police Department is Chief Mike Roma deputy chief Corin Captain Chris shuby detective Jim block and Officer Nick Higgins can you please join us don't be shy I know you're not we also have some special guests here from Special Olympics I'm going to invite you guys up to join us we have Pete Bal Delo beo I totally butchered that didn't I I just know you as Pete I just know you as Pete George Peterson one of bowling Brook's very own so Pete is president and CEO of Special Olympics George is senior director of development for the law enforcement torch run and a Bowling Brook resident mocon join us please senior director advancement and government mental relations Special

Olympics Illinois we also have from northern Will County Special Recreation Association Rodrigo bouevard Boulevard Vanessa [Applause] Fior Emily olanowski she to it okay so Jackie no and then we have staff Carrie gasone Carrie [Applause] Henry what an amazing group you agree right so I'm gonna let uh Chief rampa take it from here and then I'll let you guys do your conversations and then ni we'll do your so I'm going to kind of Step Aside because there's a lot of you and only one of thank you mayor good evening I would just like to say it's an amazing opportunity and it's an absolute honor for us to partner with Special Olympics the word opportunity comes to mind when it involves these individuals up here in the police department and obviously our athletes given the opportunity to be compete and participate in different Athletics and events is second and none and it's amazing because our police department is actually motivated by the athletes each and every opportunity that we get to come out to participate with Special Olympics Illinois is a is definitely a great opportunity for us to give you a little bit of History here because I don't want to leave some people unnoticed this actually this Foundation was built with administrator

kenle starting this with the torch run and then we and embellished it under and pardon the pun pass the torch to Captain Chris Ruby and now he's embellished this to do several different events throughout the year where we've really capitalized and being able to honor these athletes and raise funding to make them successful but tonight we want to thank Nick Sidell from Action Truck parts for his generous donation to help us put us on the map so to speak it's a goal every year to get on the T-shirt okay yeah and on that back of that T-shirt If bowling book police is on there we're very proud well now we're getting a little greedy and we want to be at the top part of that group so with with Nick's help tonight we are hopefully going to climb that chart and put Bowling Brook on the map like we never have before so thank you again to Nick Sidell for his generous donation tonight and I don't want a shortcut because we have two individuals that are definitely the right and left hand of krap and trouy Detective block officer Higgins take on the load of so many events here and organize these things there's so many officers that come off night shift and go out and just really just work so hard to bring in every penny that they can to give these individuals opportunity and I would like to thank my Command Staff also deputy chief corn Captain woods and Commander Swinton for being here tonight and Captain Mitchum who's in the back hiding so I will I will I will pass the mic now over to uh Nick um I'm actually pretty honored to be here tonight um this is something uh Special Olympics has become near and dear to my heart uh we put a tremendous amount of work uh throughout the year to do our annual golf event which um the last two years we've raised over $70,000 each year for directly to impact the Special Olympics the athletes and their

families so it means a lot to me means a lot to my wife that we here and and being honored in this way but I also want to thank the Police Department for doing everything that you guys do for the community um I know it's not easy uh in the times that we're in right now and everything going on but they still find it time like Chief said to get off night shift and uh get up the next day and do torch run or whatever they can do to support this cause so uh with that I do have a giant check this is the fun part of it the fun part I'm talking about so um we're going to on behalf of action truck parts for the torch run uh we're going to on a check for $110,000 to the Bowling Brook Police Department to directly impact their fundraising for the we want to get some pictures we'll get in the back yeah in the back Poli [Applause] and you get to tell them how to say your last name [Laughter]

correctly George Mo get up here support PE sure come on over again Pete be Delio uh for special olypic uh we are absolutely thrilled to be here Chief uh what you guys do for our athletes is amazing and you're all part of uh you know we talk a lot about sports and sports analogies even though we do a lot with health education and athlete leadership uh but you really are part of our team and uh our vision is to bring more people with and without intellectual disabilities together in the community and the village of Bowling Brook your department uh all of the the local agencies that come together uh do that and uh help us realize I that Vision day in and day out and we're thrilled to be here in the village because the village helps make that happen you give us uh The Forum to support our athletes uh not only on the field but off the field the mayor reaches out uh and extended tickets for the live golf outing and other ways to make us feel at home we were here again for the uh at the golf course for the action uh truck parts golf outing there's so many ways that you find day in and day out to support what we do and we could not be happier with this partnership and everything that it does for our athletes so thank you again I don't know if George or Mo want to add anything got it all all right Vanessa you want to say something I fun with this Police

Department you want to say today want to say anything what's your favorite part about Special Olympics next swimming swimming all favorite is that what one of your uh gold medals is for yeah all right fantastic and what's your favorite sport tennis all right May really appreciate it so much thank you thank you very much that's my favorite part I love that it's my favorite part too don't forget Vanessa 10% goes to me depart thank you I'm that was awesome makes it all worthwhile public comments is there anyone here this evening that wishes to make comments on any items that's on this evening's agenda anybody that wants to comment regarding anything on this evening's agenda come on up Elena up all right you can come right there and I'll bring you the [Music] Bic yeah you want to face the camera is this good I don't know can we hear me yeah they can hear you there can you hear me is this good yeah hello awesome um my name is Elena humph I'm at 329 clarage Circle uh good evening mayor Alexander Basta and Bowling Brook Village trustees as the chair of Bowling Brook Pride I want to thank the village for this impending update to our

ordinances and policy booklet tonight to mirror the Illinois Human Rights Act and I commend you for recognizing the importance of including sexual orientation as a protected class this update is a strong affirmation of our commitment to all residents and I am proud to see Bowling Brook taking this step forward it's worth noting that on the state level the definition of sexual orientation also includes gender identity and I hope this will continue to be a meaningful safeguard for a gender expansive Community here in Bowling Brook however I also encourage you to amend the agenda this evening to include the updated language that will take effect on January 1st 2025 in the update reproductive Health decisions was added to the Human Rights Act by Public Act 103-85 this Edition is an important component of comprehensive protection for our residents and reflects our dedication to keeping current with the state standards thank you again for your efforts in updating our policies and for The Village's continuing commitment to make Bowling Brook a safe inclusive place for all I look forward to seeing us build on this foundation in the future thank you very much thank you [Music] is there anyone else here joining us this evening that wishes to address the board regarding anything on this evening's agenda all right we're going to move along to Bill approval Bill listing a 1,189 $17.11 bill listing B 2,530 626 31 for a total of 3,720 44342 are there any questions from the

trustees may please have a motion to approve the bill listing so moved trusty Lawler second trusty Doris roll call vote please yes mayor trusty Lawler yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Kelly yes trusty Zarate yes Rusty Doris yes trusty cantero yes thank you motion carries next we have our resolutions first resolution up this evening 24r d112 approving the lowest responsible bid from Shambo and Suns LP for a fire sprinkler retrofitting at fire station number two located at 375 Lily cash Lane the lowest bed number 24-13 has been selected for the project retrofitting the spr sprinkler system will enhance the safety for our firefighters the engineering division has reviewed the proposal and recommended adding $20,000 to an extra work contingency the total cost for the project is $ 24,750 funding will come from Capital outlay fund along with a Federal grant of $999,999 that's a lot of nines um that has been approved approved this has been reviewed and approved by Public Safety Committee are there any questions from the trustees may I please have a motion to approve so moved second trusty Kelly second trusty cantero roll call vote please mayor trusty Cano yes trusty Doris yes trusty Zarate yes trusty Kelly yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Lawler yes thank you motion carries next resolution 24 r-113 approving purchase of 1225 5 Ford utility Interceptor from Curry Motors through the Suburban purchasing Cooperative the police department is

replacing a total loss vehicle with a new one the insurance company has reimbursed the village for the loss total cost of the village including equipment striping and installation is $ 59,90 2 cents this has been reviewed and approved by our Public Safety Committee are there any questions from the trustees may I please have a motion to approve mov second trustee Kelly second trustee Zarate roll call vote please yes mayor trusty kenzano yes trusty Zarate yes trusty Kelly yes trusty Lawler yes trusty Doris yes trusty cantero yes thank you motion carries next resolution 24 r-114 authorizing the purchase of two new police vehicles and equipment from local dealerships using State forfeiture funds the current vehicles are aged and no longer operable the new vehicles will be purchased through the local dealerships using Federal forfeiture funds which means there will be no impact on the current budget or the taxpayers the total cost for the vehicles is $80,000 reviewed and approved by Public Safety Committee any questions from the trustees may I please have a motion to approve so moved second truste cantero second and truste zerat roll call vote please this mayor trusty Kelly yes trusty Lawler yes trusty cantero yes trusty Zarate yes trusty carbano yes trusty Doris yes motion carries next resolution 24 r-115 approving proposal from Lakeside consultants for thirdparty plan review and inspection services the current staff level is insufficient to accommodate plan review and inspection needs in a timely manner additional support support will be provided to assist with plan review and inspection during the busy construction season the

total cost for this support is $50,000 which was previously approved for the same amount under resolution 24r d53 this has been reviewed and approved by public services committee are there any questions from the trustees may please have a motion to approve so moved second trustee Lawler second trustee k roll call vote please yes mayor trusty carpenzano yes trusty Doris yes trusty Lawler yes trusty cantero yes trusty Kelly yes Zar yes thank you motion carries next resolution 24r d116 approving purchase of a new fuel tank for bowling Brook's Cloud International Airport from petroleum Technologies equipment the new tank will be used for regular octane gas which the airport currently does not have this will enable the airport to safely Supply newer planes that require regular octane fuel the total cost for the tank is $54,000 this has been reviewed and approved by public services committee any questions from the trustees may please have a motion to approve move second trustey Doris second trusty Lawler roll call vote please yes mayor trusty Zarate yes trusty Kelly yes trusty Lawler yes trusty Cano yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Doris yes thank you motion carries next resolution 24 r-117 authorizing the optional Redemption of the outstanding principal balance of the 57 milon 45,000 Village of Bowling Brook General obligation refunding bonds series 2014a and authorizing the transfer of funds from the General Corporate fund to

The Debt Service fund to facilitate such Redemption early payment of bond will save the village 8,744 th000 so we're not taking out a bond we're not incurring more debt we're actually Bringing Down the debt and trying to save some money not trying we will be to the tune of 8,744 thank you we're very excited this has been reviewed and approved by all relevant personnel and officials including the attorneys who have looked at it 20 times go for it this this is uh this is really a government in action and really staying at top of things with uh with Rosa and with uh with Lucas and with our our financial consultants and with our our offices uh anytime you can save $18 million in this day and age you're you're doing a great job so your staff is to be uh uh credited for the savings and for uh um putting the homework in to bring this to fruition today thank you yes so we we're approving the transfer of funds now as required and this bond is scheduled to be paid off in January of 2025 which is why the approval has to take place now yeah the interesting part for those who may not understand government financing this is the equivalent of paying off your a a a loan personal loan or home loan or car loan early saving lots of money by paying it down so that's how government uh issues bonds and and raises funds from that take it as a loan and pays it off over time that's the equivalent to the person not involved in government Finance we're very excited any other questions or comments from the trustees may I please

have a motion to approve so move second trusty Doris second trusty Zarate roll call vote please yes mayor trusty Kelly yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Lawler yes trusty cantero yes trusty Doris yes trusty Zarate yes thank you motion carries next resolution 24r d118 approving a second change order for the Royce Road Bridge Project with terara engineering the Roy Royce Road Bridge over the east branch of the DuPage river is addressed in the original resolution 22 r- 048 and the first change order resolution 23r d061 change order is in the amount not to exceed $ 4,425 this has been reviewed and approved by public services committee any questions from the trustees may please have a motion to approve so move second truste Kelly second trustee Zarate roll call vote please yes mayor trusty Doris yes trusty Lawler yes trusty cantero yes trusty Kelly yes trusty Zarate yes trusty carpenzano yes thank you next resolution 24r d119 approving proposal from cgro Central LLC to empty and clean the East digestor number one of treatment plant number two I had to educate myself on this a little bit this was like what what are we doing so the inability to empty the digestor is causing issues with the digestion digestion process preventing solids from being properly removed and leading to odor problems so Andrea has kind of dumbed this down for me because that's what I needed so I have a tank it's supposed to empty it's not emptying all the way so things are stacking up and we

need to empty out this junk that's stacking up so that it could continue to carry more of this water that needs to be dumped out and that comes from homes and businesses that junk it does but that's what we need we need to clean the junk that's stacking up so that more junk and more water can go and be stacked up yeah kind of sort of well he used different terminology and stuff that and and and you probably don't want the visual that he gave me so I'm just giving you the clean version thank you for cleaning let the imagination doesn't have to travel too far to figure out yeah I'm trying uh so the total cost to address these issues to not cause solids and Hauling and smells is 120,000 this has been reviewed and approved by our Public Services committee any questions from the trustees about the not a one no motion to approve please so moved trusty Lawler second trustey Doris and roll call vote please mayor trusty Zarate yes trusty Doris yesy Cano yes trusty Lawler yesy carpenzano yes JY Kelly yes thank you next resolution 24r -120 approving purchase of rock salt through the state of Illinois joint purchasing 2024 2025 bulk rock salt contract hopefully we won't need any of this salt but just in case we do the purchasing includes 2,5 520 tons of salt at a cost of 65 $666 per ton from can you guys guess where Morton Sal Salt Company Morton salts Morton salt one of my favor this purchase is made through the Illinois joint purchasing program total cost is within the budgeted amount of

$400,000 which is 2 32,42 Under budget now I want you guys to think about this a little bit 2520 tons that's just what we're purchasing this year not including what we have that didn't get used from previous years $666 per ton $400,000 just like to think about that when people say why don't we do the sidewalks why don't we do the driveways why don't we do the apron you know money right we could do anything we want to do as long as everyone's willing to pay for it any questions from the trustees just a comment I and this was discussed during the committee meeting um good question came up our our staff and and you know we've built facilities to store the salt in the off seon so this is not we didn't run out in past years we have some left over and it continues as long as it doesn't get wet and they've taken care to minimize that um we're being responsible with the expenditure to get the salt and then use it from year to year between that and the beet juice that smells amazing I think that smells better but yeah long as you don't put it on your shoes and walk in your house on carpet you're fine motion to approve so moved second truste Lawler second trustee Kelly roll call vote please mayor trusty Kelly yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Lawler yes trusty cantero yes trusty Doris yes Zer yes thank you motion carries next resolution 24 r-121 approving proposal for removal of current worn out floor coating leveling and sealing cracks and coating the entire fleet shop floor including the bayw wash with three layers of protected

epoxy Public Works building located at 299 Canterbury Lane last time we did the flooring was 23 years ago it's 23 years old the new flooring will protect against damage from chemicals water and heavy equipment while also extending the longevity of the concrete and preventing cracking and chipping but it's also a safety hazard when you have cracks and chips and people can trip and we don't want that we need everybody to be safe secure and ready for the snow plows or not total cost of the flooring replacement is $3,250 coming in for $ 4,194 60 under budget reviewed and approved by public services any questions from the trustees motion to approve please so moved second trustee cantero second trustee Kelly BR call vote please yes mayor trusty Lawler yes trusty cantero yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Zarate yes Doris yes KY yes thank you motion carries next resolution 2 4 r-122 approving proposal from Rob Incorporated for tuck pointing of three buildings at 2080 Reagan Boulevard 221 briercliff Road and 1,000 West Fountain Road the repairs are planned for treatment plant number two at 1,000 West B Road Plant number three at 2080 Reagan bullevard and the pumping station at 221 West Brier Cliff the work will include tuck point ing door repairs and door replacement the buildings have aged leading to leaks and the doors are experiencing hardware issues everybody know what tuck pointing is anybody here know what tuck pointing is you do okay

great do you want to share it with people on TV Lucas uh so basically you go in and fix the grout in the bricks walls you might have to cut it out remove the brick and you know put it back in but basically redoing the gra it's almost like that silicone around your sinks and your bathtub you know at some point in time you got to take it out and put new this one is the the grout needs to be refilled total cost for the repairs is 300 I'm sorry 3,143 191 it's 99,8 56 and9 cents under budget this has been re reviewed and approved by Public Services Commission any questions from the trustees may I please have a motion to approve so move second truste Doris second trusty Kelly roll call vote please yes mayor trusty Lawler yes trusty cantero yes trusty Doris yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Kelly yes trusty Zer yes thank you motion carries next resolution 24 r-123 approving proposals from Alliant insurance services for renewal of insurance and administrative contracts medical premiums will increase by 10.5% from our current plan year with the medical fixed cost decreasing by 4.5% to 1,475 74326 estimated claims are projected to increase by 99.8% resulting in and a total annual medical fixed cost and expected claim liability of 11 milon 68742

358 Dental premiums will raise by 2.1% from current plan year with a fixed cost of 23,7 42.72 and Total Dental claim liability to 400 $ 67,0 7840 the vision plan's estimated annual premium remains unchanged at $2,712 from the current year the Dearborn National Life and AD and premium will increase 4.8% totaling 6,392 22 while the Dearborn National STD and dependent will remain unchanged at 8,000 46760 FSA dependent care will decrease by 12.1% for an estimated annual premium of 3,000 6386 and always an and Cobra and Hippa premiums will remain the same at 4,1 6232 this has been reviewed and approved by members of the finance committee are there any questions from the trustees I know that was a lot of information but I know you've had time to to review it may I please have a motion to approve so moved truste cont second trustee zerat roll call vote please yes mayor trusty carpenzano yes trusty Doris yes trusty Lawler yes trusty Zarate yes

trusty Kelly yes trusty cantero yes motion carries that was it for the resolutions we're going to the ordinances normally we don't have this many but we also normally have two meetings a month so this month and next month because of the holidays we only have one meeting so we got work to do all right ordinance 24-48 amending the municipal code of the village of Bowling Brook chapter 2 Administration Article 5 boards commissions and similar bodies to combine certain commissions to create a village special events commission [Music] Tada changes have been made to Municipal Code division 3 special events Commission Section 2 2- 281 to 2- 285 and division 5 Civic and cultural Affairs and parade commission sections 2- 335 to 2- 239 these changes combine the beautification commission and the Civic and cultural Affairs parade commission into one single entity called the special events commission with one chairperson and one Vice chairperson total membership will consist of 50 which is the combination of two all of whom must retain residency within the village this has been reviewed and approved by all relevant personnel and officials so uh one commission was doing a lot All Summer Long the other commission was doing some things sporadically so now they get to join forces and do a lot what two Vice

chairs one chair and two Vice chairs I don't care about secretaries you figured that out can we amend that to two Vice chairs yes okay we're amending it to two Vice chairs motion to amend please motion by truste Lawler second second truste cantero thing you waited a Voice vote we need a Voice vote all those in favor I opposed you have your second VP thank you ma'am okay now motion to approve the ordinance as amended as amended as amended as amended yes so move second trusty Kelly second trusty Doris roll call vote please yes mayor trusty Kelly yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Lawler yes trusty Zarate yes trusty Doris yes trusty cantero yes motion carries congratulations Madam chair ordinance 24- 049 amending the municipal code of the village of bowling BG chapter 22 Fire Protection Article 5 ambulances to reflect the Illinois Human Rights Act 775 I CS5 Article 1 the location in the municipal code is chapter 22 Article 5 Section 22-29 which addresses discrimination the language in this section is being updated this has been reviewed by all relevant personnel and officials are there any questions from from the trustees may I please have a motion to

approve so moved second trusty Lawler second trusty Kelly roll call vote please trusty Doris yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Lawler yes trusty cantero yes trusty Zarate yes trusty Kelly yes motion carries next ordinance is 24-50 amending the municipal code of the village of Bowling Brook chapter 28 human relations and Social Services to reflect the Illinois Human Rights Act 775 IL CS5 Article 1 the location in the municipal code is chapter 28 section 28-28 which prohibits discrimination in real estate transactions the language in this section is being updated Additionally the villager's Personnel manual will include this information in a inment with the Illinois Human Rights Act this has been reviewed and approved by all relevant personnel and officials are there any questions from the trustees motion to approve so moved second trustee Lawler second trustee Zarate roll call vote please yes mayor trustee carpenzano yes truste Doris yes truste Lawler yes trusty Zer yes trusty Kelly yes trusty Cano yes motion carries next ordinance 24- 051 amending the Personnel policy Manual of the village of Bowling Brook subject to attorney approval the updates of the language align with the terminology used in the Illinois Human Rights Act and ensure compliance with newly implemented state and federal statutes including FMLA Family Leave military pay and others Additionally the revision streamlined procedural language to better align with negotiated agreements

this has been reviewed and approved by all relevant personnel and officials any comments or questions from the trustees um Madame mayor I think as was requested by u l hrees earlier to include U reproductive Health decisions in this particular ordinance this is probably the place to put it as it will be part of um taking in effect on January 1st 2025 I'll make a motion to amend Personnel policy manual The Village ofing all right motion second second second trustee zerat all those in favor I I opposed all right so may I please have a motion to approve amended ordinance 24- 051 so moved Trust trust Cano second second trusty Lawler roll call vote please mayor trusty Cano yes trusty Doris yes Zarate yes Kelly yes carpano yes Lawler yes very good motion motion carries ordinance 24- 052 amending chapter six of the Bowling Brook Village code decreasing class d8 bingo hall from 1 to zero veterans premier charity raffle located at 481 West Fountain Road the organization has decided not to renew and per our Municipal Code the liquor license must be rescinded this has been reviewed by all relevant personnel and officials any questions from the trustees motion to approve so moved second trusty Lawler second trusty Doris roll call vote please yes mayor trusty Kelly yes carpenzano yes try

Lawler yesy Cano yesy Doris yes yes motion carries next ordinance 24- 053 approving amendments to the rules and regulations of the board of fire and police commissioners of the village of bowling BR fire department Article 1 to7 and amending the municipal code of the village of Bowling Brook chapter 2 Administration Article 5 boards commissions and similar bodies the updates includes revisions to the language in all articles Arles these changes are located in the municipal code specifically chapter 2 Administration Article 5 boards commissions and similar bodies Division 9 section 2- 457 to 2- 461 this has been reviewed by all relevant personnel and officials any questions from the trustees motion to approve so move second trusty Doris second trusty Kelly roll call vot please yes mayor trusty Lawler yes trusty carpenzano yes trusty Kelly yes trusty Zarate yes trusty Doris yes Cano yes motion carries next ordinance 24-54 approving amendments to the rules and regulations of the board of fire and police Commissioners the village of Bowling Brook Police Department Article 1 to7 and amending the municipal code of the village of Bowling Brook chapter 2 Administration Article 5 five boards commissions and similar bodies this is now for the police side of what we just approved for fire the language is being updated in all articles these changes are located in the municipal code chapter 2 Administration Article 5 boards commissions and similar bodies Division 9 section 2457 to 2461 reviewed and approved by all

relevant personnel and officials any questions from the trustees motion to approve please so moved second trusty Cantera second second truste Kelly roll call vote please yes mayor trusty cantero yes trusty Doris yes trusty Zarate yes trusty Kelly yes trusty carpano yes CHR Lawler yes motion carries and our final ordinance for the evening 24-55 approving an intergovernmental agreement between the village of bowling br and the county of Will Will County will upgrade the signal controls to itss all concerns of the village have been addressed by Well County and the village will continue to hold maintenance responsibility this has been reviewed and approved by public services committee are there any questions from the trustees motion to approve please so moved second trusty Lawler second trusty zarat roll call vote please yes mayor trusty Kelly yes trusty carp yes trusty Lawler yes trusty Cano yes trusty Doris yes trusty Zarate yes thank you motion carries all right next we have public comments regarding anything that has not on this evening's agenda is there anyone here that wishes to address the board we have three here we have three all right you can call them up all right so we will call uh Linda Ellis first good evening my name is Linda Ellis I live at 37 pach Street Court here in

Bowling Brook I am a 30y year resident a 20-year resident of Town Center Park and mayor and board I'd like to thank you for for your wonderful work in um being financially responsible to the taxpayers here my comments are um focused on the food pantry that wishes to build at canterburry and briercliffe and my opposition to that in the fact that I'm not opposed to a food pantry which we have a working food pantry here in Bowling Brook or not here in Bowling Brook but Romeoville area but um to support and revise that area would be wonderful I do feel like it could be a very strong um cost-saving and uh beneficial to Romeoville why should we take away something that has been there for such a long period of time to rebuild in a very small location and congested location here in Bowling Brook my second point is also uh it did pass on on the recent referendum about internet um gambling I was really disappointed with that and the fact that I feel that it is really um enabling people who have addiction or possible addictive Tendencies and the fact of not being financially responsible that this encourages more um difficulty in their lives I would like to see more support given in that area and again I do feel that there are other ways to look at raising money or um incorporating a financial benefit for Bowling Brook than gambling so thank you so much for your consideration I appreciate the time thank

you next we'll have Sally Gilbo pass pass okay and Diane cler good evening good evening hi everybody my name is Dian ker I live at 561 Redwood Road in historic beautiful Bowling Brook I want to thank you mayor Board of Trustees for putting a referendum of advisory status on the ballot the way it should be simple question yes or no not tricky wording not using taxpayer dollars uh of more than $50,000 to send out mailers without complete information uh the recent other advisory referendum for for the food pantry um they don't have the money they spent more money on their mailings than theyve spent on food for the Pantry in the last year and I am still concerned that this has been remanded back to uh building and Zoning for over a year and they still have not asked answered the required questions that the village wants them to answer this is a first of its kind project built from the ground up in the state of Illinois this is going to set the groundwork for every project like it that comes after it no one is a I don't do I have a horse in this race no do I care where they build it not really is traffic already not great over there kind of um according to the Township's food pantry landing page they have 40,000 individual visits per year and they are open less than eight hours a week that comes to 135 is visits per hour that they're open I don't think the facility can accommodate that much car traffic I don't know if the intersection can accommodate that much influx and this is just with the hours they have now I don't know what's going to happen if

they decide to expand hours uh but I am concerned about that intersection and why the township won't answer the questions that Planning and Zoning has asked to be answered thank you thank you um just just for Clarity yes the two questions on the November ballot were advisory questions um no action is currently on the agenda for any of those but all that being said the process of getting a special use is the process of getting a special use whether it's a special use for a gas station whether it's a special use for Matt help me out here what all do we need special late hours drive late hours drive through there's a a plethora of uh businesses that want to come into the village that require special use liquor store tobacco store all of these have to be approved and there are certain requirements so I don't want anyone you know you kind of look at social media and you try not to because you hope that that our residents pay more attention to what's going on and have a better understanding and if they don't then they ask the questions but it's a process it's a you know we meet with developers all the time and we tell them these are the requirements and they either say we're willing to go with the requirements or sorry maybe we need to go somewhere else we can't build it doesn't make sense for us it's not financially conducive yes there are sometimes when we have variances um but the variances are you know an extra parking spot or a few or or a parking spot less or uh the medians or planting I they're they're things that don't have major impact on the facility the operation or

the area around it not to say anything this is still in the process it's still being reviewed by plan commission um by our Buildings Department it will go in front of the plan commission again after which they will make a recommendation to the board um as I had indicated earlier we only have one meeting for the board in the month of December and um so I'm not exactly sure what timeline and planning and when that will come again in front of the board but I can assure you that the staff does due diligence asks questions tries to work with any developer on making sure that their needs and the requirements are both approved prior to coming to the plan commission meeting sometimes uh developers don't want to wait that long and that's totally fine too and that's when we give them the opportunity and the option to go straight to the plan commission with whatever they want to propose and let the Commissioners look at it review it and ask questions at that time so that is the process for anyone and and everyone uh and we plan on following it with any development including the food pantry obviously we we want to work with our C colleagues and other governing bodies or taxing bodies we have worked with the township we did make make some um variances in regards to the parking lot expansion that was being built so we do work with other governing bodies I mean that's that's what it's all about is doing what's in the best interest of the residents both fiscally and uh responsibly so you know we'll we'll see it's there's no decisions that have been made again advisory question same thing goes with the uh video gambling um video gambling has

been we have been told that video gambling could help some businesses survive will the village make money some will the state make money more but more importantly will the business make money yes um now the question then Becomes of if we grant that then what are these businesses going to do with that extra money are they going to invest it in their business are they going going to expand and and make their business more appealing that's that's the questions that we really have to look at is what are you going to do are you going to put it in your pocket or you going to use it back to the community are you going to support more nonprofits you know what what is it because in my opinion if you need something like this certain people say I need this to survive then something's wrong with your business model if you need one thing to survive as having been a previous business owner something's wrong with your business model um but again if you're willing to reinvest in the community and your business then that's something that we'll look at that's in terms of the advisory referendum questions uh both of them passed but again advisory so we'll see where the board decides to go with that anybody else questions anybody have questions or comments now that we've kind of dialogued a little bit no all right well we're going to move it to truste comments I want to thank everyone who was involved yesterday in uh delivering the U Veterans Day ceremony uh for those of you who couldn't make it uh every year it's the 11th Hour the 11th day of the 11th month in front of Village Hall at our Memorial um thanks to bber community television for recording it for replay I would encourage veterans who are not part of

we have W post 5917 and American Legion Post 1288 to consider joining them to do a lot of great work in the community and um they I'll be blunt they uh they need some younger veterans involved to keep things going but I would encourage you to go also look at the video look at the speeches there's very important information uh very uh important work being done by the veterans assistance Commission s into paage County and Will County had the opportunity to meet representatives from both of those organizations their only goal is to make sure the veterans get all the services that they are entitled to and they are missing contact with veterans just to be real about it they they need to contact all the veterans that um have served our country honorably and and so need some support and uh so there's an ongoing effort I would encourage you if you know a veteran encourage them to get involved with the BFW and American Legion and also um check in with the veterans assistant commission depending on which county you're in Bowling Brick is in P Will County thanks again to everyone who was there uh they deserve as was mentioned very well the veterans deserve our thanks each and every day and their families thank you thank you thank you uh Deputy Mayor I would like to thank everyone a uh Happy Thanksgiving I know it's a little soon but um I would just like everyone to uh reach out to somebody that you know that may not have a meal um and uh you could do that by dropping off something at food banks and you know are volunteering some time uh so um you know a lot of us are struggling right now with the world

being the way that it is and you know we hope that maybe you could you know help out a little bit because for them they may not have it we're lucky enough we're able to put a meal on the table so if you could just volunteer an hour two hours um and make you know help somebody uh have a nice Thanksgiving uh meal thank you very much thanks trusty Zarate right after Thanksgiving uh we're here to remind you to shop small on small business Saturday uh November 30th uh this year uh always the Saturday after uh Thanksgiving before uh the incredible cyber monday deals you can support your local economy by supporting your local small businesses please do on November 30th uh there'll be more details to come on some fun initiatives and then before our next board meeting um I think I mentioned this here before but if not uh Tuesday December 3rd uh at the bber community center there's a great event uh that is happening it's a bystander training um for cardiac events uh frankly for uh even uh stroke warning signs um it's going to be a really neat event I encourage you to learn more at Lifesaver 2024 eventbrite.com again it's Tuesday December 3rd 6 o'clock at the blyberg community center all our welcome completely free educational event thank you all right um in continuation of uh Veterans Day tomorrow at Bowen Brook High School will be the evening of Honor uh the evening of honor is a musical and symphonic band event so you'll have win Symphonies uh classic band and concert band performing patriotic uh selections um in respect to our First Responders current military and Veterans again this is at bber high school held

at the Roger and Pat CLA family Auditorium 365 ridway 7:30 start and general admission is $5 also congratulations to uh everyone who was sworn in tonight thank you for participating volunteering and becoming a member of some great groups in Bowling Brook so say thank you thank you I just want to welcome all our new Commissioners tonight and wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving thank you um congratulations to all our new uh Commissioners Commissioners thank you for stepping up uh to serve and welcome to the uh B family also just want to remind everybody I believe uh truste Doris you're going to be a special conductor for the evening of Honor I make an appearance yeah come out and uh support uh uh trustee uh Doris um no announcements that's all thank you um well before you talk because I want to you're gonna talk serious and I want to talk fun that's great um our holiday tree lighting behind Town Center will be on on December the 7th we're very excited we're working very hard on uh some improvements thank you to Matt and clay and our community development team because they guarantee me that the path will be done so pray that we get no rain tonight because we're supposed to pave tomorrow right Matt that's all right very good see that he's under pressure but anyway we're gonna have an amazing event behind Town Santo Santa will be here for pictures uh our new special events Commission we'll be doing some awesome things um throughout the month of December but the official switch will be lit on uh December the 7th so please be on the lookout for times and fun exciting stuff that will be taking place December the 7th and then from my family to yours have a Happy

Thanksgiving a bit of on a serious note uh you'll remember the uh Illinois American water has opposed a big increases in charges uh the village of Bowling Brook and champagne and two other small downstate communities are the only municipalities to fight the uh increase uh along with us was Cub the citizens Utility Board and the Attorney General uh the uh proposed increase by I was a a very substantial increase uh we have filed briefs we made arguments and partnered with the attorney general andb to oppose the increases the administrative law judge has recommended some of the increase but not all that was proposed uh I was on behalf of Bowling Brook I was granted oral argument before the elite Commerce Commission on November 20th that doesn't happen very often piggy backed on to uh our request for oral argument was the city of champagne and the uh attorney general an CB the uh Illinois Commerce Commission Commissioners after hearing oral argument uh will make a decision sometime after November 20th in the early part of December as far as the recommendation of the administrative law judge and the recommendation of us and uh cub and the Attorney General so I uh I don't have a bright picture I have a a a fairly uh happier picture than was originally given to us uh it was it was something like a a $150 million increase

that has been chopped substantially uh and then we're going to I'm asking that it be chopped Al together um uh I I have to be honest with you I'm taking a different posture than uh the Smart Guys the uh the uh with all the statistics and uh what I aw is doing or wants to do with the money and that is purchase more uh pipes and fix other pipes uh but not ours and so I I have made a practical argument before the administrative law judge and we'll make a practical argument before the ICC that uh it just doesn't make any sense to raise the already high rates in order to put more profits in their pockets and to purchase more water lines in Other M municipalities on the backs of the citizens of Bowling Brook so I want to thank uh the mayor and the board for allowing us to proceed we have made Headway in in cutting it back and we'll see how the ICC Commission ERS themselves U take the arguments we're making so you know I think we we see comments every time though you know when the water bills have come in the mail because that's when Facebook picks up and that's when my emails increase of what are you doing about this at the end of the day it's a for-profit company we have no jurisdiction over them that's the ICC and and they get to do whatever they get to do our options are to build a new line because they own the line so we bring down the water rates similar to kind of what Joliet and that commission is doing they'll they'll get a water rate that's down but they have to pay for all the infrastructure from Joliet

to Lake Michigan that's a lot of infrastructure that's a lot of pipes and so you're going to bond out you're going to get money to pay that so maybe your taxes go up I don't know but then on top of it you now have to maintain that so when you build your own you have to maintain it you have to take care of it that requires staff that requires equipment that requires a lot of things so you might fix one thing or lower one thing but then you take on something else now is it Apples to Apples I don't know but all I can tell you is we the village of Bowling Brook have absolutely no control of the rates of water all we can do is try to fight them and they could say yes they could say no but they own the pipe so our own only option and if if the residents of maybe that should be a referendum question so the residents of Bowling Brook want us to explore the cost of putting in infrastructure to get water straight from Lake Michigan because that's what we would have to do uh and then we would have to make sure that we Lucas you could talk more about this we would have to make sure that it's cleaned and chemical and we went and toured like it's it's a process it's not just water in water out it's it's a proc process Every Which Way and then you have that lost water that gets lost between point A to point B who pays for that and you would still have to buy it from uh Chicago so it's not like you're going to get it free because it's out of Lake Michigan so it's a very big process it's very complex but we all pay the water bill I pay the water bill just like everyone else and all of us here pay that same water bill so we know we see it we feel it just like everybody else does but the problem is is we have no control over it so please don't hate us too much because we really don't have any control know I mentioned this the

last time about this topic people say why don't you dig a well and the reason Lake Michigan water was brought from Bedford Park that was uh because we don't have any water in the water table to be able to pump water out of the crow now you mentioned jolet but um this is the the pipeline that's being built from Chicago affects Romeoville Jolette all the way to Manuka and Shanahan and points in between think about that geography they don't have the water table the water supply in the ground anymore so we are at the mercy of someone who will you know make the investment to build that infrastructure and maintain it that's that's how serious it is and that's where the it's the minimal options we have true administrator tle Well mine's a little lighter than that conversation that's what you get for listening to an attorney should went before now I'm going to wake everyone up so if I can expound on something um Miss Maria our chair of the new special events commission uh kind of made a a comment about the mayor was on television today so this afternoon um she was invited down by Maria papis Co County Treasurer and I as the mayor's guest went with uh to unveil in um Arabic language video and brochure for um residents of Cook County that wanted to come in and utilize her office well there were also 20 other Arab American leaders that were in the room that were given uh leadership awards through the uh the office uh in Co County and mayor bosta was one of them along with a

good 20ish or so a very distinguished uh Business Leaders and U non-for-profits and doctors and um the entire time we were there she was promoting Bowling Brook she was uh asking for business cards she was um you know hustling and I was kind of amazed so uh hopefully that pans out and we might get some some new uh new business restaurants and new activity here in the village of bber but uh but it was on television it was on NBC I believe and um we might go back to NBC and see what's on there but U it was a u it was an honor to be down there and to represent Bowling Brook and to see the respect that we do have not only here within you know Will County D page and our little you know corner of the world but even in cook founding I mean people were coming up to us asking us uh you know do you have do you have this what do you have that you know they were really interested so we are we are we are out there and thanks to uh mayor bosta and it was it was very interesting to see her at work you don't see me at work every day not I see your work but oh your shyness I thought it was only us people in the head doing anyone else have anything else no all right there is no executive session I will entertain a motion to adjourn so moved second truste Cano second truste Zarate all those in favor say I I I opposed we stand a Jour thank you and good night everyone

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