City Council - Regular Meeting

the meeting of the daring city council. Please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Have the roll. Sullivan here. Stampinado here. Shower here. Legansky here. Kenny here. Gustoson here. Belzac here. Seven present.

We have a quorum that takes us to questions, comments, and announcements of a general nature. This is on our agenda to allow anybody in the audience to present something that's non-aggenda related to the city council. At this time, does anybody want to present anything to the city council? If not, we move to approval of the minutes. I'm looking for a motion to approve the minutes of the December 15, 2025 city council. Moved by Alderman Kenny, second by Alderman Bellzac. Any questions or comments? Now on the roll. Kenny. Hi. Belzac. Hi. Stanado. Hi. Legansky. Hi. Sullivan. I Gustoson. Hi. Shower. I.

Seven eyes. The minutes have been approved. Receiving communications. Do any of the alderman have communications they would like to share? Mary.

Thank you. Uh, mayor. I've been uh receiving um several communications from residents in the Waterfall Glenn uh community on the south side of frontage road in Darian. There's um condominium buildings as long along with town homes um expressing continued concern about traffic along South Frontage Road, most especially the intersection at Cassie Avenue and um South Frontage Road. So, um, back in 2024, the DuPage County Department of Transportation conducted a, um, Cass Avenue corridor feasibility study and, um, that's been out there. It's like this thick. Um, but not much has happened with it. Um clearly they're needing cooperation from the Illinois Department of Transportation, but I did reach out to um our state um our district reps uh Lucy Evans and Carrie Galassie and they connected me with the director of DuPage Department of Transportation, Steve Travia. And um we're going to have a conference call this week. Um and um Mayor Marques and um uh Director Gbeck and um even the police department have been engaged in this because there's some um traffic accident data and just the historical aspect of this roadway just to circle back to the study and what might be able to be done. What what what does the future hold? what do we need to do as a community to support our residents and perhaps um engage ID dot? Um you know, we've been successful in the past, but you know, that's always um like rolling the dice, but um I just wanted to, you know, assure the residents in that area that were pursuing this. We've heard them and um we'll be um hopefully reporting back soon.

Anyone else? Kenny. Uh good evening, Mr. Mayor. Um, I received communication that I I forwarded over to you and um, Brian over the weekend. Um, former auxiliary police officer Dwayne Kak wanted to uh, make mention about the the ordinance that we at last budget we disbanded that auxiliary, but it was on the city council's or it's on our our ordinances. So he's saying if well if you're not going to have if you're not going to budget it in and you've got on isn't on your ordinance in the books then you probably should get that off off the ordinances too. So you um I got an email back from you. Brian said you're going to look into it.

I passed in a chief to talk to John. I know we have a meeting tomorrow at um I'm sorry John and I have a meeting at 1:00.

Okay. Well, I have a communication that's more or less a feel-good story. Uh about a week ago, Friday, uh I was here. It was about4 to 6. I was here late that Friday and I noticed I had the red light on my phone and I picked it up and listened to a voicemail and it was from a woman who was 82 years old who uh the windstorm that we had that week knocked down part of her fence and her fence was blocking the sidewalk close to Planefield Road and she asked she said my husband's 92 years old and he can't lift that fence and bring it into our backyard till we could have it fixed. Now I'm sitting there and it's quarter to 6 on Friday afternoon. City hall is empty. No, no one is here. I called my wife. I said, "Kath, can you give me Chris Throm's telephone number?" So she did. She has it. I don't have the mayor doesn't have it, but my wife is. So I called Christopher. And Christopher said, "Uh, Mr. Mayor, I'll get somebody out there right away to pick up that fence and to u put it in her backyard." So, I called her back. I said, "Mrs. ando." I said, "I contacted our public works department. They're going to come out there. They're going to move that." She goes, "Oh, I'm very sorry." She says, "You called uh I after I called you, I called the Darian Police Department." She said, "And I had a very nice officer for the Darian Police Department who came out and he moved that sign that fence for me." And she said, "But I have to tell you something." She said, "Everyone I called responded to my phone call." She said, "The police department, you," she said, "Daren really is wonderful." She said, "My husband never would have been able to move that fence if it wasn't for that police officer coming out." So I called Christopher back and I said, "Christopher, tell him to get back into his comfortable clothes and tell him to stay home. He doesn't

have to go move the fence." But the fact of the matter is on a Friday evening a4 to 6, I had a daring police officer and a public works employee who were willing to go out and move a fence for 82-year-old woman whose husband wouldn't have been able to do it. And that really speaks to our wonderful police department and our wonderful public works department. So kudos to you guys. That's public works training, cross trainining. That's how you get THE CHARGE, DICK. THE MAYOR TO BE THERE on a Friday night. That's Yeah, that's customer service all around. That's the big bucks right there.

All right. Uh that takes us to the mayor's report. We have two items, two really important items on our agenda tonight. And I'm going to read the Maril proclamation regarding the Daring Club's 25th anniversary. And before I read that, I'm going to preface with just a couple remarks. This is probably in my mind one of the fastest growing organizations we've had in the city of Darian. When I became mayor in 2019, it existed, but I don't remember it being as big as it is. We started our Darian action committee meetings on Saturdays. Kathy Street showed up. I became familiar with who the Darian Garden Club was. I had daring garden come people come to my office to give me books about milkweed and things like that. And so I I I learned to be educated with regard to the the uh the garden club. And of course over the years I've seen what they've done at community park decorating for the um for the memorial. Uh I've seen they've shown up at all of our activities at our tree lighting ceremony. Uh this is a wonderful wonderful organization. So I'm very proud to read this proclamation tonight. So whereas the daring garden club is a local non-for-profit organization founded in 2001 to encourage interest in gardening, increase knowledge, promote respect for the natural environment, improve the landscape, and cultivate friendships with those who share life pursuits. And whereas the Durian Garden Club is affiliated with the National Garden Clubs Incorporated and the Garden Clubs of Illinois incorporated, which designated the club as garden club of the year several times. And whereas the Daring Garden Club is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. And whereas since its founding, members of the Daring Garden Club have performed numerous hours of community service and through active fundraising were able to make donations to many organizations and

horicultural scholarships. And whereas the Darian Garden Club's motto, a nice place to grow, still encourages its members to continually grow in talent and ability, as they participate in various endeavors, including designing, planting, and maintaining VFW's Peace Memorial Garden in the Daring Community Park, St. John Lutheran Church butterfly garden, monarch garden, dilly garden, and sprouts learning gardens by planting flowers and trees in Darian's parks, schools in their own garden as local senior residences and the Indian prairie public library, and by preparing monthly garden therapy activities for and working with three local senior residences, organizing monthly DJC sprouts activities with young families, installing in them a love of gardening and nature, partnering with the Indian Prairie Public Library to provide garden and nature related educational events for the community, participating in various community events. And whereas the Darian Garden Club is unique in all that and that all persons who pursue the same goals are welcome to join the club. Now, therefore, I Joseph A. Marques, mayor of the city of Durian, do hereby proclaim the day of January 19th, 2026 as Darian Garden Club Day in the city of Darian. And I congratulate the membership on its 25th anniversary. And I encourage the citizens of our community to recognize and hold in high esteem the efforts and leadership set forth by its outstanding members. Furthermore, I encourage the community's continued financial support of the Darian Garden Club's fundraising efforts. Kathy Street, do you want to come forward?

Yeah, sure is our new president. Come on, everybody. Come on. That's why I told them all the comments. Everybody get in there. We have to get people behind. I love your swag. Let's get you all in here. The largest.

This is only our, you know, onethird maybe of our club. I think it was the fastest growing club. You guys are grow are growing more than the plants. I'm growing right now in front. You're sure. I'm here. I'm here. It's fine. I can get you in the back. Or you want to go down there? Okay. Oh, that's a good idea. Okay. Yeah. If you don't want to be my And then you're going to sit over next to Heather sake.

Thank you guys. Thanks. Oh yeah. Don't forget him. Oh yeah. David gets in. One, two, three. One, two, three. Okay. I'm going to have you just scoot a little bit more. Don't move after great. One, two, three. Okay. Okay. And I got Kathy's camera. Hold on.

Awesome.

Official photographer. My bad. I'm done. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you so much. That was wonderful. Thank you. Nice place. That's what I hear on your sign and everything.

Very nice. Wow. This is great. Okay. McCartney council. Oh, really? Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor and City Council for this honor tonight. Um, I'm one of the OG. I've been with this group for 25 years. We've started out with 10 of us. We're at 115 and we have a great new president here. And we have a WHOLE We do. We we It's a busy year.

Yes, we have a lot of things planned. Uh the premier thing we're doing is uh a speaker event called um Spring Gardening Inspiration where we're going to have three speakers. We're going to have raffles. We're going to have lunch at Chucks here in Darian. So um if you're interested at all, if you're interested in the environment at all, the speakers are geared towards that. So that would be a good thing to come and see us in action. But you'll see us around town like um Joe said, we do things with youth. We do things with seniors. We have kids who are two and members that are in their late 80s. So, um it's a group for everybody. And I think that um what do you guys say?

It's a good place to grow. Learn how to grow. Thank you for this. Thank you. Thank you. No. And I I passed out the card for our year, so check that out. We got a lot of stuff going on. Oh, one other thing that's really big on there is we're going to um have a blue star memorial dedicated at the BFW um peace memorial. And that is uh um May 16th. May 16th. And that will honor the veterans there. And that was our first service project. We've been in there since 2002. So, we're really proud of that. And we take a lot of care at that um area in that garden. So if you ever walk by there, you know we we've been in there. So Kathy, is David Dur here tonight?

Pardon me. David Dur. Yes, he is here. Where's David? David's our photographer. He's our official He's also our VIP this year. He's going to be your He's going to be honored at our guest of the year banquet tonight. He's a GREAT SO, thank you. Thank you. You're very welcome. Thank you. We're all out of here now.

115.

Yeah. Crazy. They're so active. There's they do so much stuff around so much. Well, Bonnie Bonnie is here and Bonnie I know but Bonnie is here because we are going to find out who our citizen of the year is this year and as many of you I used to say when I ran this committee it was like planning a wedding except you got to pick the bride

six week wedding or groom. Yeah. And Mary's our leazison and Mary's going to read the uh nomination letter. Mary.

Great. Well, it's my honor to do so. Um, as with many of our past nominees, our nominees response was, "There are so many people who do more." Actually, our nominee asked first if they were a finalist. When we responded, "No, you are the committee's pick." There was silence. Our nominee noted that she was googling Bonnie Cacera to make sure it was legitimate. When the name was associated with the city, the conversation was restarted and our choice responded yes. Therefore, it is with great pleasure to nominate to the city council the name of Deborah Uler as our choice the committee of citizen of the year committee's choice for 2026 citizen of the year. The extent of our nominees activities goes beyond the city making our nominee not only a shining star in Darian but surrounding areas. Deborah is not only noted for the remarkable longevity of her volunteer service, but for her selfless, generous, and immediate response to any person or organization in need. Volunteering is not something Deb seeks recognition for. It is simply part of who she is. Deb has a long and consistent history of volunteering both within the city of Derenne and in the surrounding communities, always with the focus on improving the well-being and quality of life of others. Some of her volunteer services are 10 plus years with the Girl Scouts as a chaperone and adult volunteer for all activities, 25 plus years with Meals on Wheels, delivering meals to the elderly and homebound residents, very often serving perhaps as the only vital point of human connection with the recipient. She has served as a dosent and greeter for over five years with the Chicago Architectural Society openhouse event. For many years, Deborah has assisted the

American Cancer Society providing transportation for seniors to and from medical appointments. As an employee at Mercy Hospital, she was a volunteer for over 15 years that delivered food baskets annually during the Christmas season to seniors. and in conjunction with Syracuse University represented the university at local high school college nights. Deborah is and continues to be an active member of the Darian Women's Club. For over 10 years, Deb was the organizer and manager of the clothing resale event, a signature community service for many years. Her responsibilities included securing a location, coordinating vendors, scheduling volunteers, and managing finances. Unfortunately, CO ended this tremendous service to the community. For over 5 years, Deb headed up the environmental committee promoting local environmental initiatives and personally still does collect and deliver recyclables materials to local recycling events. A little further outside of Darion, Deb volunteers at the little store at Burgess Square. For over five plus years, she has assisted with shopping and store operations. She is a 14 plus year regular at the Darian Fest, checking IDs and selling tickets in collaboration with the Darian Lions Club. For the last two years, Deb just relisted in participating in Darian's trunk or Treat citywide event, decorating vehicles and distributing candy. We can thank her for volunteering for over five years with the IDOT highway cleanup group, keeping Darian's roadways clean. The list showcases not only the remarkable diversity of Deb's volunteer service, but also the extraordinary depth and longevity of her commitment. What is not fully captured in a list of volunteer roles is Deb's readiness to step in whenever help is

needed. Her volunteer work is deeply personal to her, giving time to so many as she may be the only outside contact they have. This is a rare gift for making people feel comfortable, valued, and truly seen. This unwavering compassion combined with decades of dedicated service has made a profound and lasting difference in the well-being, dignity, and daily lives of countless individuals. Deborah and her husband George have raised their family in Darien. Grown children Rachel, Abigail, and Eric all attended District 61 schools. When Deborah worked for district 61 as a teachers aid, she was an instrumental part of coordinating virtually the annual school's art fair, a district highlight event that was interrupted by co. The family has participated in Darian Park district programs and were heavily involved in the Darian youth club sports. Darien is not just where Deb lives. It is where she has poured her heart, her time, and her values into the fabric of the community. Her husband and son regularly assisted with the long intensive setup and tear down of clothing racks for the Darian Women's Club clothing resale. And Deb often brought her young children with her while delivering meals on wheels. In doing so, she modeled for her children the importance of service and instilled these values in the next generation. Through countless acts of kindness, both acknowledged and silent, Deb has helped create a culture of care, generosity, and connection. Her spirit of service has strengthened the community and helped make Darien not just a place to live, but a place where people truly look at out for one another. where and when Deb finds time, she enjoys the Park District Zumba classes, enjoys the company of her book club friends, and Joy enjoys just

walking the area with George and her sometimes family. Um, they also love to go to their home in northern Wisconsin just near the Michigan border. Deb's service is profoundly personal. She gives her time face to face, one person at a time, offering presence, kindness, and dignity. dignity to those she serves. She willingly rearranges her life to honor the commitments she makes, always giving more than is asked and doing so with a genuine joy. Through her selflessness, consistency, and quiet leadership, Deb has made a lasting difference in countless lives and has strengthened the very fabric of the daring community. The heart of a volunteer is not measured in size but in but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference in the lives of others. Deborah Uler's tireless tireless commitment, efforts, and positive influence makes her an exemplary choice for this prestigious recognition. Indeed, Deborah is and will continue to be one of the many shining stars in Darien, making Darien a nice place to live. By city ordinance, our guidelines for selecting the citizen of the year are diversity of activities, length of service, degree of involvement in the community, and impact to the city. With the noted qualifications of Deborah, these requirements have been satisied. City of council, I present to you Deborah Uler as our choice for the Darien 2026 Citizen of the Year. respectfully submitted 2026 citizen of the year committee.

We need a motion to accept the nomination almanado. Second by Alman Shower. Any comments anybody like to add? I know Deb and her husband I think it's George used to be George used to be in the Lions Club from what I remember before my time. All right. So the role Stampinado Hi. Shower. Hi. Sullivan. I Belzac. Hi. Gustoson. Hi. Kenny. Hi. Leansky. Hi. Seven eyes. I have additional stuff too. Is that okay? Yes. Go ahead.

Okay. Um, so in addition to honoring uh Deb Uler at the citizen of the year um dinner dance, we are also um as in the past several couple years um honoring outstanding um club members and service and organization honores at that event on March 6. 2026 service and organization honores are Darian youth club Mike Behringer Darien Women's Club Marian Kpika Darien Lions Club Mike Felco Darien Garden Club Dave Dure Darian Rotary Club Reverend Eli Voit Darian Business Alliance James Burke on Tuesday February 17th at 7:30 p.m. During the city council meeting, a resolution will be presented to Deborah Uler and the mayor and the city council will recognize the service and organization honores for their service. All participants and club members are encouraged to attend. Additionally, our citizen of the year service and organization honores dinner dance is on February Mar I'm sorry on Friday March 6th 2026. Alpine Banquetss as it we know it's at the corner of Cass and North Frontage Road. The time of the event on March 6th is 6 to 11 p.m. The cost is $52 a person. This includes family style of chicken, roast sirloin of beef, pasta, soup, salad, vegetable, and dessert. Open bar and music and dancing. For reservations, they will begin on Monday, January 26. That is one week from today. Call Diane Novarini at 630-8528102 at city hall. Cash check made out to the city of Darien or credit card can be used for securing your reservation. The

deadline is Thursday, February 26th to make your reservation without payment. Reservations cannot be confirmed. Checker cash can also be dropped off in the secure box in the city's vestibule and that vestibule is open 24 hours. City Hall, if you want to come in and make your payment to Diane or someone at the front desk, is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 5:00 pm. If you have a group you would like to sit with, please note that when you make your reservation. So, I highly encourage um elected officials, community members, service organization members to come out and celebrate these amazing um honores and our 2026 citizen of the year um by coming to city hall on February 17th at the city council meeting and attending the banquet on March 6th um at Alpine Banquetss.

Thank you, Mary. Lonnie, thank you very much. What great choice. Great choice. Okay. Uh that we move on to our city course report. Joanne, no report this evening. Mayor, our city administrative report. Brian, uh no report, ma'am.

Department had information and questions and uh I believe Dan has his presentation for us tonight. Give me a second here to get uh situated. Well, good evening, mayor, city council, and our viewing residents at home. And Bonnie, thank you for staying. I seen the garden club had already left. I thought they were all here for my report this evening. Um, with that said, tonight I would like to present a report regarding the city's water man infrastructure. Several months ago, Alderman Belzac requested of a department to provide an analysis of the city's water main infrastructure in respect to water main breaks, existing conditions, and future planning of replacing water manes. To begin, the report consists of two components. The first one, which is on your slide here this evening, is data from the University of Utah from 2023. That's probably one of the most current reports and very detailed without boring you with the rest of the details, but I'll get into that in a minute. The second part of this is it's data from a department based on five years of

incidents of water main breaks for each subdivision and roadway. Not included with the report is approximately up to 20 miles of water mane that are situated in unincorporated areas. So again that's all of that inventory is being compiled looked at archives and will be inserted into a future report here for this additional 20 miles. So but to begin water main breaks how does the city of Darian compare? First of all again the data is from the University of State University of Utah and this is the Utah water research laboratory. Let's see how I'll bear one second. I'm trying to get to the second slide here and it's not going on the screen. the challenges of live TV. I tell you All right, here we go. First of all,

study is based on 400,000 miles of water mane in the United States and Canada. Municip municipalities and the people they serve depend on obviously this type of network for safe drinking. Most importantly, overall the assessment of water infrastructure throughout the United States and Canada is not good. There's 260,000 pipe failures annually. 20% of pipes do need to be replaced. In 2009, the American Society of Civil Engineers issued a Dminus to drinking water infrastructure. In 2021, the ACCE issued a C minus to drinking water infrastructure. Utilities across the nation are currently losing 11% of their water to leakage. Pipe life estimates of 75 to 100 years contrast with an average replacement of about 200 years. Keep that in mind uh for the future slide here. So what is this data based on? The data is for almost 400,000 miles of pipe. The survey that the University of Utah conducted was basically 802 survey respondents of almost 400,000 miles of water mane which represents 17% of the estimated total lengths in the United States and Canada. Water main breaks in water main break information comes from 7 about 780 participants who provided data over a 12-month period covering about 363,000 miles of Maine. Additional information based on the

surveys and participants included 690 participants that provided main break data over a five-year period. Again, that's covering approximately 318,000 miles. Utilities providing data serve 30% of the total population of the United States and Canada. So, kind of gives you an idea of what the overall surveys was based on. So, again, there's 260,000 pipe failures annually. The national average is 11 to 27 breaks per 100 miles. What are the city of Darian stats? Currently, we have approximately 75 miles of water main. Again, not including the unincorporated areas of which we had 185 breaks between 2020 and 2025. So that's approximately 37 breaks annually between that period 20 to 2025. At this 37 breaks were a little bit above the national average. Let's go back for a minute. What are water manes made of? There's four types of material that make up 90% of the water manes in the US and Canada. PVC is at 29%. Ductal iron is 27%. Ductal iron is more commonly used today as well as PVC. Cast iron is at 23%. Asbestous cement 11%. We do not have any asbestous cement in the system. Uh remaining materials each represent less than 3% and there's probably still wooden water manes out there. What does the city of Darian have for its infrastructure? The water manes

consist of 34% ductal, 57% cast iron and 9% PVC. The recommended pipe for Darian and the Midwest area is typically ductal, although there's been more developments with PVC that we are currently looking at. So, this chart is basically a pie of what the various water man installations were from the 1950s and 2017. There's no way I could put this up on a board here that you're going to really be able to read without looking at with a microscope. This is just an idea of all the different segments of water mane that have been incorporated into the city of Darian over the last since 1950. Again, this is another graph that basically shows how much water mane was put in in any given area. So, back in the 1950s, we basically had uh 10 miles. um the 1980s uh for those of you that recall between 79 and probably 8284 there was a lot of grants out there that were basically loanfree grants. Um so a lot of municipalities took uh took on that and you can see for example 1981 uh the city of Darian basically almost put in 32 miles of water man. So again, just some interesting statistics in the latest uh the latest water mane 2017 uh was only uh back up here approximately four three three to four miles worth. Again in 2009 the American uh Society of Civil Engineers issued that report card of a Dminus to drinking water

infrastructure. In 2017, the grade improved to a D. In 2021, it was raised to a C minus. Again, there's not a municipality out there that's above the curve, if you want to say it. Utilities across the United States also are losing approximately 11% of their water due to leakage. That's known as unaccounted for water. What's unaccounted for water? It's typically uh high pressure leaks. uh leaks that are basically uh go through the seals on a joint. Uh there may be some uh minor or minute cracks within some of these pipes. Although with the systems that we have now in place, those minute cracks will be found sooner than later. What is the city of Darian's accounted for unaccounted for water? Our water unaccounted for is approximately 9.6% 6% or approximately 63 million gallons over this 5-year period. So from an EPA standard, we are within the norm of being below the 11%. Let's go into pipe life. Pipe life estimates are of approximately from 75 to 100 years in contrast with an average replacement schedule of about 200 years. That doesn't mean that every municipality is waiting that 200 years, but these are just some uh you know hard facts and examples. And in this case, the city of dairy and water main infrastructure comprises of water manes from the 1950s and 2025. based on pipe life estimates and again based on the previous slide in the 2017 ASC

uh water mane replacement schedule should be followed as 75 to 100year guide. So in other words, water manes that are installed in the 60s should adhere to a replacement schedule of 2035 to 2060 and water manes installed in the '9s, for example, should adhere to a replacement schedule of 2060 to 2090. So you can see there's a there's forecasting for the future here. What's the reality? The reality is that utilities are averaging approximately 200 years prior to pipe replacement. Such scenarios would mean that water manes installed in ours for in the 60s wouldn't be replaced till year 2160 and water manes installed in the '9s wouldn't be replaced till 2190. I heard that Mike consequences of a broken water man. I think we all know, but I would want to reiterate this because this is something very important. Uh they're major inconveniences. They always happen when that person's in the shower and sure enough the water goes off. Uh but we're very proactive from not notification so on so forth. There's economic impacts. There's also local flooding, interruption of water delivery, damage to roads and private property. So water main brakes are the most important way to measure failing underground pipelines. The study from Utah suggests that the failure rate for replacement again is 11 to 27 brakes per 100 uh per 100 miles per year. The city's philosophy for consistent main breaks has been to replace a limited amount of water mane for more than five main breaks within a year

within a city block. And we have replaced water mane on a smaller scale of anywhere from 20 to 50 feet which obviously means again prolonged service disruption. you know, we have the equipment, we have the infrastructure, materials required, always on site. So, again, we have everything that we need in order to get back in service. Uh, keep in mind larger replacements, for those of you that recall, uh, we had projects completed within the last 5 years along Planefield Road, basically between Claren Hills Road and Lyman Avenue. And those were basically 12-in pipes. Uh in those pipes back then over the course of the years we had investments of approximately $2 million. City of water main breaks for the period of 2020 to 2025. Total bay breaks again for us 73 miles of water mane 185 annual average over five years 37 annual breaks per uh ASC standards is 0.5 so this does puts this puts us ahead of above that curve that the ASCE recommends so the number of breaks over five years is 64 and then I'm sorry let Let me back up a second. So right here we've got Hinsbrook. With Hinsbrook, we have number of breaks discounted from Hinsbrook would be 64. The annual average without Hinsbrook again would be about 13 and total breaks without Hinsbrook would be 24.20. So that basically states that annual breaks per year per standards would

be.33 based on our 75 miles and that is slightly above the national average. Uh the decimal again equates to1 to 27 based on the 73 or based on the 100 miles. Also want to make sure we were doing a comparison of 100 to the 73 in a fraction format. The highest occurrences of main breaks are occurring in Hinsbrook. If Hinsbrook if Hinsbrook again was removed from the equation, the city average would equate to 30 uh.33 per mile. And why is that? Why are we're going to we're going to get why is Hensbrook so high?

We're going to get to that. Okay. Cuz I live there.

2023 report highlights of the study. break rates of all pipe materials remain consistent when compared to other previous studies. So we do have a database that's basically consistent. The current study received a wide distribution of responses across uh utility sizes on the water means uh it's a little history in the past five years total miles of asbestous cement and cast iron pipes have been reduced drastically most likely being replaced with materials such as ductal iron and PVC whole different animal uh ductal iron basically started to come in in the 80s along with plastic and plastic is basically used in uh the geographical areas to the south. The Midwest area has always been accustomed to using ductal iron. PVC is something that the Midwest is starting to break into for various reasons. Again, the replacement of asbestous cement and cast pipe has obviously uh gone to a different predominant pipe materials. Now again, ductal and plastic uh pipe enforment pipe performance is impacted by soil corrosivity. Again, Eric, that's to your point there why there's water mane breaks more so in Hinsbrook than anywhere else. Uh there's that significant correlation between water mane breaks, pipe materials, the diameter as well as the soil conditions. We have not taken soil uh soil borings if you want to say that's something I plan on doing in the future doing some soil borings here to basically tell us how corrosive is this soil how does soil get corrosive some of its

natural elements um the other ones are there's bleed off what they call from uh cathotic protection or lack of cathotic protection from gas manes for example so it's the electrolysis that has the opportunity to eat at the water man, especially on cast iron, which Hinsbrook is basically comprised of. Um, whether it's electric, excuse me, Nike, uh, gas and or electric, electric lines also have that ability to cause that corrosiveness in the soil. our chart here and I'm I'm not gonna get into this 100% but uh we have on file let me see if I can get to this

is Hinsbrook the oldest section in Darian uh yes well Hinsbrook and Brook Havenrook Marian Hills this thing Marian Hills over yeah but Marian Hills a lot of it wasn't put in until the late 70s early 80s cuz some of these they didn't have the water manes in there, whereas certain subdivisions that were built under unincorporated had the opportunity to have well water at the time. Um, our water tower over here at Planefield Road, for example, was privately owned along with certain infrastructure that was put in over the years, but I'm going to get into that uh in a second as well.

So, you talk about the soil. How about like the trees and the roots? Does that have any impact at all? No.

Trees have no impact at all. Yep. I'd like to get this uh well, it's not going to come. Let me uh come to it at the end. We have a catalog. It's basically along the philosophy of our water uh road catalog that basically has every street, every subdivision, the number of breaks, and it's on in a separate Excel. Um so I'll get to that at the end of the report here. Bottom line is where do we go from here? First thing that we need to do or further look into is an enhancement of the city's water uh asset management plan. This provides a document of inventory, assess, maintain, replace, and fund the water infrastructure over time. Currently, we do all that. The magnitude is approximately 200,000 for let's let's call it a water main infrastructure uh replacement. Our maintenance programs are top-notch. We have monitoring controls in place. Um, another thing with the water asset management plan, the EPA is going to be mandating, I believe it's next year, uh, where every municipality needs to come back to the EPA with this asset management plan. So, basically, that means all your infrastructure, what you're going to do with it, what you're going to do with it, how you're going to replace it, how you're going to potentially fund it, and what is the program over the next uh, 3 to 5 years. Again, a lot of this information is already on file and we have it all collaborated. Also consists of condition assess

assessments. We evaluate our assets currently, age versus expected useful life, the brake history, inspection results, customer complaints or leaks. Our customer complaints in regards to water pressure, for example, are none. So, our biggest complaints are when we do have a water mane break, what it does or when's it going to get repaired or the restoration that comes along with it. The condition ratings that we're to evaluate are three of them. Good, fair, poor, or critical, I should say. Four, excuse me. Level of service. We all know that water pressure standards is not an issue. Fireflow requirements are not an issue. Water quality compliance is not an issue. And the maximum acceptable outages of brakes is the real question. Again, as we go from here, again, risk assessment, we prior to prioritize the risks and the likelihood times the consequence of failure. So again, I won't go into all these again, but basically it includes uh service outages, property damage, traffic disruption, uh public health risk, and repair costs. the life cycle management plans. How do you manage as these assets over time? Preventive maintenance, repair versus replace decisions, rehabilitation. Now, this is an interesting one because the rehabilitation there's what they call trenchless lining. Um, which again is is something where the basically the water mane is live and you're putting a coating in there. Um, it's it's got its pros and cons in my opinion. I think is I I don't see that being susceptible on smaller mains, larger mains potentially. There's a capital improvement plan the

forecast uh forecasting replacement and upgrade cost. There's a 5year, 10 year, 20 year planning horizons. Uh what's the cost per mile of water man? So the annual replacement targets based on today's dollars is approximately 900,000 or a million per mile. Again, we have 73 miles. Um so if we look at certain formulas based on when do you replace the water man? Um you could be it's very expensive. Uh so again a million dollars basically per mile. How do we plan for that? Well, user rates, impact fees, grants, or loans. Just to go over some accomplishments, basically since 2005, um we removed an existing, for those of you remember again, we removed an existing 200galon uh multi-legged water tower, and it's the one on Planefield Road. We replaced it with a 1.5 milliongal tank and a unique design with some bragging rights that we won the tank of the year nationally. Um security enhancements with fencing, altitude valving. That's another internal project that we did was to control the level of water at three different water towers. Uh we used to have concerns where you fill this tank, tank B would overflow. if tank B was using too much water and then tank C would overflow. So with these altitude valves basically balances the system to work in harmony and there's no more overflowing. Literally water would be spewing out of what's referred to as the over the drain pipe, the overflow pipe. And I'm talking, you know, probably

close to 500 gallons a minute. Tank painting William and Lamont Road I think was uh done uh approximately 7 years ago if I'm not mistaken. Uh two booster pumps. Uh we installed booster pumps at the 75th Street station which is run located right by Home Depot. Again, that helped again with pressures that were a concern uh probably about 15 years ago. Chlorination, we went from gas to liquid. That's a major that's a major change over. Uh for those of you that don't know, gas chlorine is a very dangerous toxic type of um chemical that basically if it gets airborne and you're not exposed with the or you don't have the proper uh PPE, you basically drown from the inside out. We got chlorinet chlorine analyzer upgrades. Those basically tell us what the constant residual is through several uh points throughout town which provides with the optimal uh chlorine levels within the water. Skada system updates. We've done a lot of uh uh a lot of skater system updates and tele telemetry uh with advanced operator notifications. What does that basically mean? Basically it means you have a chlorine leak. You have not enough chlorine going into uh the water. um p pump pump that fails um something's not communicating with another tank. All of that is referred to as SCADA and telemetry controls to which there's pro the program that we have complac basically calls us up via telephone and says alarm alarm. So again, it's it's something that we're very proactive with. Uh and obviously, I think the city sees that uh we continue to uh monitor pump motor and pump pump overhauls with early motor pump

maintenance. Uh one interesting thing, we have these uh new sensor we're going to be introducing some more at budget time is it's a company called Grunfick. Uh, and basically what they do is they have these monitors that you put on the pumps and the motors. And what they'll do is they'll signal imbalances that are above a curve. And then that basically means bearings could be failing. Uh, the electric for whatever reason may not be uh providing enough amperage. So, it's an early alarm to tell us, hey, shut this motor off and get it fixed or replaced. We do have a standby motor in the in these types of situations. Again, that's some of the behind the scenes that no one really sees. Uh, one thing I was referring to earlier is about cracks. We have that citywide leak monitoring devices for early detection of water main break. Water mane breaks. What a great asset. Uh, it's all I can say. We're able to pick up leaks. Uh, for example, if a resident is out of town for an extended period of time, we've been able to pick up leaks in that house due to frost, go over there, try to knock on the door, try to make contact, can't make contact. We shut off the water, give them a notice, and leave a note on the door or call the fire department, depends how drastic it is. Um, in which case, you know, we're able to save property values of inside the home property assets. GIS water atlas planning that's still ongoing. That's something we've been really working over the last couple years. Basically, that means compiling compiling compiling all the water main atlases through plans as build plans and basically we're putting them on a GIS that tells us what size water mane is here, where does it go, fire hydrant, so on and so forth.

So, with that said, questions, uh, comments, um, and I can refer back to that spreadsheet if anybody would like me to do that. Jan, when we put in the stoplight at Bailey and Planefield Road, we did the water main there, correct? That was a segment of it. Yes, it was a it was a half a million. How long was that pipeline? Was it a half a mile? not not even uh basically went from the city hall here up to uh just short of um um not Leonard Drive um Lester Lester Lane. Okay.

So uh but there was a combination that we did from Lester up to the city hall here. There was there was some additional pipe that was put in from uh almost the water tower on Playfield Road up to Darian Point there. Uh that ended up getting replaced as well. little parts of Cass uh with that segment. And then uh from 75th and Planefield almost up to Claren Hills Road, we did a major replacement years ago. Again, that was a water man that was just constantly failing. Uh so it it was meeting that philosophy of more than call it close to five water mane breaks a year. Is that a science to five? No, it doesn't seem to work out. I've used that for the last probably 30 35 years. So again, while there might not be a science to it, do we need to start replacing waterme? The answer in my opinion is no. Do we need to take, you know, currently monitor monitor it? Hinsbrook is probably the one we need to monitor a little more. So Hinsbrook, we're probably going to look at doing some soil samples. Um, is the ground corrosive there? The water mane is cast iron. Yes, we know that it's not the best quality by no means. there's other cast iron throughout town that we don't have problems with. Um so it's a balancing act at best. And whereas now if we find that the cor uh we have such high soil corrosivity uh we would then look at the road program and say okay this road's getting paved in 2030 whatever we should look at replacing that water man for that segment on that block. So we can basically capture two things at once and have an economy of scale doing a water mane and a roadway all at the same time. Uh because that it is a mess. And again all the water man in the future would end up going in the roadways because if

we go into parkways keep in mind we have trees and we're not going to be spending monies to bore 12-in water. May it be very costly. Number one and I'm using 12 in. could be 6 in, 8 in, regardless the cost to bore water mane of that uh of that magnitude on a block under trees is pretty significant. What is the difference between ductile iron and cast iron and is ductile better to the extent the ground is corrosive?

The part of the answer is yes. Ductal iron is a lot more uh has more flexibility than cast iron is probably the best way to put it. Um ductal iron as years ago uh when they first started introducing ductal iron you get brakes on ductal iron but when you get brakes on ductal iron basically it's a baseball hole uh in the water man. And that basically was happened from the manufacturer when they were basically spinning the pipe that during breaks or an extended period of time they would shut down machine part of the machine and basically the spinning effect got cold and hot. So basically weakening some of the main in some points. Obviously they don't do that anymore. Again this is going back to the uh early early 80s if not late 70s. Uh so they come a long way. PVC the the theory on PVC here for the Midwest was uh there was always a problem with locating it. Now in by today's means they have what they call locating wire. So basically it's a wire that's wrapped around the pipe or concealed with the pipe. So you have that ability to locate it. So that's no longer an issue. um plastic pipe in earlier stages of it and when it broke it cracked. It was a lateral crack. So when you have lateral cracks versus circum circumference cracks, you have to basically cut out that mean because there's not enough water main uh clamps to be able to clamp it and uh basically conceal that leak. Uh so plastic wars always in this area became a big no no because due to the potential maintenance and the potential uh water main breaks that it was catastrophic. That philosophy has changed especially in the Midwest now in comparison uh to the south. You go down Florida for example, you'll see water

manes that are sticking out of the ground. Um so and they use plastic. Um also um with the plastic there was this you know with services and I won't get into the services part because it's some more technical stuff. Um and I think the other p uh problem with or concern with the plastic water man was the PVC. It was all the hype and and hysteria of oh we're going to be drinking the plastic contaminants that are generated within the from the pipe within the water. That's not the case. I mean you got some pros and cons and the majority of it is there's no cause and effect uh with plastic pipe on these types you know for that cause or that concern of VC's does I mean in Chicago we have a high one time of 106° and a low of 25 below does that make PVC brittle or not really

doesn't really affect the PVC what it affects is the cast iron more so than any other pipe the cast iron is more susceptible to temperature changes than like I said the other p any other pipe. For example, right now uh the water in the actual water towers is probably about 40 40° maybe a little more. But we basically take that water and we're done. You know, we're basically dropping it 30 ft or whatever. Otherwise, the tanks do have an opportunity to freeze. And if they freeze, the tanks will basically blow up um or rupture if you want to say it. So with that said, we're always doing that change, but what's the water coming in from Lake Michigan back into So the water basically starts out at what they refer to as cribs. There's these stations out at Lake Michigan, and that water is drawn in taken to the Jardine water plant. from the Jardine water plant. It basically travels 72 in uh water manesh or various sizes from there to uh help me out Brian. Where's that? Ben, not Benville. Elmer, thank you. Um so from Elmherst then it's basically uh put underground and their storage tanks from their storage tanks and it gets distributed via uh DUP page water commission mains and branches off to all the act all the different municipalities uh within the area. Um, so that water starting at Lake Michigan today it may be 30° by tomorrow by the time it comes out here it might be 50° 40° so you do get that fluctuation in temperatures and that's what causes majority of the water makers.

You said earlier when like your first couple of slides that darian is higher on the on the curve than than we are on the national level. Yes. Is that a fair is that a fair assessment because you do like we said we to show point you got 106 degrees you got 25 degrees here in the mid in the Midwest you just talked about Florida being down where you got water manes that are you know you can actually see them is that is that is that fair or do they take into account the the different materials that are placed throughout the country so you know what I'm saying so you can't really say well you know we're you know we're higher than everybody well we got we got in we got environmental Who are we comparing to?

Yeah. Who we comparing to? What you know? It's Is that That's not a fair That's not really a fair assessment. Well, from that perspective, there's different pipes. Okay. Different pipes. If I was to go and classify each one, it's still somewhat of a national average. Whether it's ductal, whether it's cast iron, whether it's plastic, you know. So, majority of, you got to remember that majority of these um surveyed had cast iron. Didn't come from me. um had cast iron and or this asbestous uh type of pipe. So again, we do not have any asbestous type of pipe by no means. Does that make sense, Joe? So Dan, um I'm sorry, Joe. Um

so Dan, when you said uh that one slide you had about the unaccounted for water, right? Was it 63 million or 36 million gallons, whatever it was? I can't wait to see the spreadsheet, but is that that was for how many years? Five years. I thought you said that was Yes. So is it or annually? It was annually but that was based on the five years. So it's an average of 9.6%. I believe it's 9.6. So per year just on that number, are we getting worse? Are we staying about the same? Are we getting better? I mean, to me, that's kind of like a good gauge to know how we're doing.

We're getting better. We got better. We've had we've had rates on accounting for flow up to 14 uh 14%. And that 14% was probably in the if I was to guess 2000 probably 2010 as late as as late as 2010 20 2015. So we are tracking that per year. Oh yeah that's that's a requirement. It's a reporting requirement. Okay. Okay. Uh what they refer to as LMO uh as part of the Illinois natural resources to the state that we all have to everyone has to report to that did that bond issuance a few years ago to replace all the meters if you recall. Yes. Correct. Oh yeah. Okay. That that helped that

that helped you know where you're losing it. Mhm. Yeah. Meters run slow eventually as they get old. So you are that's unaccounted for Dan. That's part of the force. You have a meter that's reading slow. That's also part of the unaccounted for. Yeah, Dan, you we have 73 miles. If you were to give a mile number right now that's critical, what would it be in there? Yeah, I'm putting you on the spot.

You know, putting me on the spot and it's fine. I guess one thing that I would have to take a look at is I'd really have to take a look at the road program that we have scheduled for the next I'll call it two to three years. take a look again at the number of breaks within a single roadway and then go back and take that information and assign a number to it because if we're going to do it, it's got to be quadrant. Is that quadrant a block? Is that quadrant two blocks? Or is that quadrant half a mile?

Um, so it's a very difficult question. And I mean, I can tell you it's a million dollars per mile. I mean, uh, yeah, mile. Yeah, it's probably even more than that. I mean, we did a what what 8 years ago for Planefield that was a half a mill and it wasn't even close to half a mile. Correct. Then we had the one in front of basically McDonald's around uh up there. I think that was 1.1 1.2 if I recall. Yeah. Uh, correctly.

Dan, you mentioned the um system in unincorporated. So there's what you're talking about water manes that really are darians that we might be serving unincorporated residents intuitively or you know not not by records but how is that system compared? Do you have any idea yet or you got to wait till you get the data? Well, I I think I could fairly say that the amount of water main breaks that we've had in in the unincorporated areas are um at least they're not as significant as what we have here. So, if I was to take the entire system and base it on 100 miles, would I feel confident that we will be coming into that accepted range? Probably. Yes. But not to overemphasize or you know again that inventory is something what's been referred to as the surf system that we took over years ago through an agreements IGA and uh you know again the city of Darian cannot nor any other municipality can hold water as a hostage. So, in other words, if there's an unincorporated area and a municipality has the opportunity to serve it that they can't say no to that subdivision or hold them hostage, if you want to say, by making them annex. So, that's something that's been challenged in the courts uh years ago now. So, we do have those situations and you know, they're not Red Darian residents. They're uninccorporated, but we do serve them water. And Dan, I've had obviously the benefit of working with you here a long time and you talked about many of the improvements that have happened and you're talking about it, but you know, I got a chance to see those systematically planned. You know, you have to do this before you do this and there was so much that you did and the water department did, the city funded. Um, that was important to put up there so residents do know how we've been invested in the system. But one thing if you can give a

a just a minute commercial the surf project you kind of you know you talked about real quick that was one of the biggest projects I think the city undertook both to work with the county and service more residents have an impact on rates. So maybe you could let everybody know because not everybody was here for that project.

Right. Right. Um what that basically is it was was an agreement with DuPage uh the county of DuPage and the county of DuPage was basically uh given water through wells. Okay. So those of you that are familiar with wellwater, it's not the best tasting water. It causes a lot of discoloration unless you have elaborate systems um that allow you to filter whether it's osmosis uh softening methodologies. Uh the actual plant that they have is located on Nantucket uh just north of uh uh South Vernage Road there. That's an underground see all that open area that's an underground storage tank. So with that, we had the ability basically uh from uh through Bailey Road, I believe it was at Bailey, we set up a metering station. So basically what that meant was that the certain water that flowed through these mains was now going to flow from the city of Darian and supply and I forgot the total number of residents but it was a good quadrant that we basically through an agreement made it work. We did uh water modeling studies. So there's a meter that's in place on Bailey Road and we monitor that uh that water obviously DuPage water uh excuse me uh DuPage County pays us back on a every two months there's a full detailed report on accounting for water flow too and fortunately unfortunately that system is is really mixed because it also involves some of our Darian residents just the way the everything was built incorporated, unincorporated. Um, so it the system that we look at today is really a unique system,

centralized. Uh, works very well. D, wasn't that primarily the Courage Greens area? That that was a different one. That's uh Yes, that's another segment that we took over that DuPage County was Dupage County gave us. Yeah. Yeah. because you were talking about over there about looping it.

Correct. Yeah. The looping did not at the time and I'm probably still on the same uh philosophy that the looping while it will fortify the system. Why are we fortifying it? Number one. So, Hensbrook is about 60 or 65 years old roughly. Are are we seeing an increase in the number in the like what I what I'd like to know is how many we've had in the last 10 years and how many we had each year. Is it going to 10 this year, 11 next, 12, 30? Is there is there a a scale where it's showing that it's going up? And and I know we spent a lot of money on detecting leaks. Is there any way of is is there and and I think you've kind of talked about it, but the problem is preventing the leaks. Um, and besides replacing, is there anything that can be done uh to sharp that that area of town? I guess by starting the soil borings first of all, taking a look again at the road program uh maintenance schedule and kind of collaborating the two together and see what the concerns are, you know, whether it's uh X Street, Y Street, you know, and and I think we've been pretty good with it. Um whereas you know if we get in the total number of breaks that we're going to bring it to somebody's attention or if it's that 20 to 50 ft that we're going to go ahead remove and replace it and many times it's just the uh residents that are affected we'll give them notifications and all that. Why? Because it's something that we can do. We have it in house. We have the ability and the capability. I'm trying to see Tom.

So are we going to get the spreadsheet Dan? Yeah. And it's uh pretty detailed. I could do whoever wants it. I can be more than happy to share it. And I'm looking. So, what's the average cost for us to repair a break? I mean, there's got to be, you know, restoration and replacing all that work, you know, right? Anywhere. I mean, yeah. Anywhere from $2,000 to $7,000 depends on, right? Where was it? How much? 5,000 wouldn't be too far off. I mean, in the middle. Oh, yeah. No, you know, sometimes we'll get a simple service leak, you know, in and out. Um, so

I mean, so for you, even your for you, Tom, I mean, 64 brakes times five grand, I mean, it adds up pretty quick. It also still not a million dollars, though. No, I understand it, but it's still I I know you got you got to wait. I understand, but it's still depends on what time you know what time of the day or um the weekend. Sure. Because if you got if you got a water man break at say 9:00 in the morning and these guys are out there and you get it done at say 8 hours, you're paying them 8 hours. But if it if that water main break hits like on a holiday at 11:00 at night, now you're paying now you're paying the overtime scale to go with it. And there's been water main breaks where uh we've been on them for 12 hours,

right? The most recent one was up on 75th Street. uh what started out to be a leak here even with the um I'll call it pinpointing it. It basically was off by about 5 ft. Well, that 5T from an area that's grass to a roadway now just made it more complex because now we need to break out the pavement and the cement, you know, pavement consists of asphalt and cement typically on county roadways. Um, so any roadway is a not a struggle, but again, it's more time because you're moving from a grassy a grassy turf area uh and and you're moving into an area that needs more attention and certain back fill.

Okay, I'm trying to see if uh I know what's on here. It is. So if I was to look at Hinsbrook, they're all about threeear average is 20 uh 20 per year, four year average 17, one year average uh two, two-year average six. So, we while we've got different averages, the question becomes, is it going up per year? Um, let me see where he's got this. Well, that just appears to be 2020 and 2021.

Yeah, I got to move it over here. Tom, not to waste the council's time. answer that more um in detail cuz the spreadsheets it's a long spreadsheet so I can't

I mean I I mean and and the individual who started me down this path lives on Tamarak and it and just looking at that it seemed like there was an overwhelming number for Tamarak over the last I mean like seven in the last three years which seems it's not a long street either no it's and so is there something you know in the pipe is there something that when they you know is that an area where you Wow, we got so many more than we should have in that stretch. Is that something where we need to look at the entire

and and that's that's a good example. Does that mean let's see I'm coming up with four, five, six for Tamarak itself. I've got two that were in 2020. And I got one in 2021. 2022 that doesn't count. Um, yeah. Actually, there's only been two. We've had some fire hydrants and other types of leak. Oh, I see. These are Okay.

Yeah, the fire the fire hydrant leaks are not included in this. Fire hydrants are just part of maintenance. They go on. It's like a valve at home. Works today. Turn it off. turn it back on, it won't shut off. So, you know, a lot of fire hydrants are back from the 50s as well, which case we do have a maintenance program on the fire hydrants. Plus, we have uh, you know, we do flushing every year. And as soon as a fire hydrant is identified that it's not working, it's basically um captain and bagged and repaired within 24 hours. That's something critical.

Tom, I will share that. I'll send everybody a copy out this way. You can go and take a look at your awards. It's almost the same as the road maintenance program and it all dubtales and you know we're going to look into it further. Question at this point as a director for the city I do not see a sense of urgency or alarm by no means. Okay. All right. Great job. Thank you. Very nice.

Okay. Thank you, Kevin. You're welcome. We move on to our treasures report. Mike, uh, this evening, I'm requesting council's approval of warrant number 252617, the amount of 204,248.88 cents from the listed funds payroll for the period ended December 25th in the amount of $348,38528. Total be approved $552,63416. Motion to approve also.

Belzac. I Kenny. Hi. Sullivan. Hi. Shower. Hi. Gustoson. Hi. Legansky. Hi. Stampinado. Hi. Seven eyes. War has been approved. The next one. Michael. Requesting council's approval of war number 252618 in the amount of $1,346,937.81 from the listed funds. Payroll for the period ended January the 8th in the amount of $420,185.15. Total be approved $1,767,122.96. Motion to approve Alman shower. Second by Alman Stampinado. Questions or comments? Shower. Hi. Stampinado. Hi. Sullivan. Hi. Leansky.

Hi. Kenny. Hi. Gustoson. Hi. Belac. Hi.

Seven eyes. Okay. Revenue and expenditure report for the 8 months ended December 31st, 2025. General fund year-to- date revenue 14,51,32. Expenses of 11,440,199. Current balance 7,161,88. Water and water depreciation fund. Year-to- date revenue 5,872,263. Expenses 5,686,498. Current balance $3,395,833. Motor fuel tax funded today revenue $613,923. Expenses $498,682. Current balance $715,197 and capital improvement fund. Year-to- date revenue $710,291 expenses of $2,854,751. Current balance $21,325,471. Thank you, Mike. Any questions on the monthly report for Mike? If not, we'll move on to scanning committee reports. Do the chairman have any reports on those?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, next municipal services committee meeting will be a week from today, uh, Monday, January 26th at 6 p.m. in council chambers. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um the police committee meeting for that was scheduled for this evening was canceled due to lack of agenda items. Our next meeting will take place Monday, February 16th, 6 p.m. across the parking lot in the police training room. Bill,

the next admin finance committee meeting will take place on Monday, February 2nd at 6:00 p.m. in the um meeting room upstairs in city hall. And then we will be um starting our um committee of a whole EB in finance in preparation and review of the 2026 2027 budget. Um the budget the draft budget will be distributed to the council on February 11th with our first committee of the whole happening on Wednesday, February 18th. And then the following Wednesday, the 25th, if um more time is needed, we will meet and discuss during the city council meeting on March 2nd. And um then if we need another meeting, it'll happen that next Wednesday. But um hoping to make it all um happen in two meetings. Um hoping everyone um can take the time to go through, do their homework, um ask questions ahead of time, um meet with people if needed, um so that we can have a a very productive um meeting and um all these meetings start at 6:30 p.m. in council chambers. Um the city council along with the Darian Park District Commission met last Monday for a sixmonth kind of touch base had a productive meeting and those minutes will be available for one of our February meetings.

Thank you. Those uh you know I I hear from my wife on those meetings and she said they really are excellent meetings. Very productive. Mayor, I'm sorry Joe. Did you mention the 16th? I'm sorry if I misheard you for your next committee meeting. I think 16th is the money, is it? Yeah, that's the president's day. So, we are closed that day and usually and we'll have the council meeting that Tuesday and the budget meeting following. So, I'm You'll probably follow that. 17th calendar. 17th. Okay. Yeah, our meeting start our meetings typically start at 6. That would be That would be 6:30 and you know, a lot of times we're done by then. So, yeah, won't be a problem. Well, wouldn't your police meeting be before the city council meeting? That's what I'm saying. That would be on Tuesday, right? Okay. Y right. at six o'clock.

Okay. Yeah. I just thought you had said the day before. That's I did. Well, because I wasn't thinking president. Yeah. I was thinking just, you know, Monday. Monday. Dand, did you have something? Yes, Mayor. Just to echo off of Alderman Bellac's uh meeting for Monday on a public works committee or municipal services committee. We have one topic that's going to be continued again in respect to commercial uh commercial parking of vehicles. So again, we had a um a rather well turnout, real a heavy turnout if you want to say I believe was uh a month ago or two months ago, something uh two

two months ago. Um so again uh you know for all residents that want to hear things on the commercial vehicles and the new updated changes coming, please come 6:00 here um at the uh municipal city of Darian. That's the 26th. Yes,

I know. I know it's about a month off, but the daring action committee is scheduled to meet on Saturday, February 28th from um 9:00 to about 11:00 and it'll be here in the chamber. That's like a that's a month off. All right. Um questions and comments agenda related. I think I could skip this. There's nobody here to bring up questions or comments. Old business, there being none, we move to the consent agenda. Two items. First item, consideration of motion to purchase ammunition from Keysler's Police Supply in allow $18,87648. Item B, consideration of motion to approve an ordinance authorizing the sale of personal property owned by the city of Dearan, primarily the police department. Motion to approve. Alderman Belzac, second by Alderman Stampinado. And the roll.

Belzac. Hi. Stampinado. Hi. Penny. Hi. Shower. I Gustoson. Hi, Mcansky. Hi, Sullivan. I seven eyes.

The consent agenda has been approved. Uh there be no new business move to questions and comments and announcements of a general nature. I'll I just wanted to add uh as woman Sullivan mentioned, we have the citizen of the year banquet coming up on March 6th. It's a Friday evening. It's a wonderful event. So I would advise people to get their tickets. They can go online tickets. We have on February 6, just a month before that, we have our dancing chamber of stars at the Ashton place that's coming up. Tickets are available for that as well. The money raised for that will go to the Cancer Smashers organization. Um so we have a lot of events coming up. We're being quite busy for a while. Uh it's it's kind of a push. You know, one month you're buying tickets for one, next month you're buying tickets for the other. But um they're both great activities. So I would urge people to uh purchase those tickets as soon as they can. Uh anyone else have anything to add? If not, I need a motion to adjourn the shower. Second by all in favor. We are adjourned. That's 8:59.