City Council Meeting - Regular Meeting

Okay, good evening everyone, and Ruth Staroff, and just so you know, you have to listen to every single proclamation. I'm going to read one proclamation, and then after that I'm going to call each family up after that to give them their awards. So, we will start with, whereas since 2015, the Neighborhood Hero Award Program has recognized residents who take pride in their property. Neighborhood Hero Award honorees have outstanding yards that include maintained lawns with flowers, shrubs, and decorative trees. Neighborhood Hero honorees have labored intensely to create visual beauty at their pro

Pantera's family, 816 Dawes. Yay! The Lopez family, 1101 Black Road. Okay, but we did stop by and get a picture with them. Oh, here we are.

Councilman Marino and myself. We did that Saturday before the parade. The Angenet family, 3571 Buck Avenue. Okay. Probably should have taken attendance at the beginning, huh? Okay. The Nielsen family, 521 Town Lane. The Roju family, 700 Woodlawn Avenue. Because I had no practice on that one. Rougeau. Rougeau, okay.

They cannot be here tonight. Councilwoman Sherry, did you want to get this? I'll take it. You'll take it? Okay, I'll just bring it. Thank you. Okay, the Stoyer family, 865 Angelica Circle. Uterus family, 551 Herkimer Street. Okay, Sandoval family, 559 Herkimer Street. Down the street from Tara's family. Are you here? No, we can't drop it off, okay. Summers family, 350 Whitney Avenue. And thank you and congratulations. The Hyde family, 1212 Nicholson Street. Contreras family, 342 South Ottawa Street. Beatriz Carrasco, 907 Fisk Avenue. Beatrice Carrasco. I got it. Suoli Family, 335 Wheeler Avenu

Unlike my mom, I do not have eyes in the back of my head. The Chavez family, 10 South Williams Street. Okay, and last but not least, the Ringo family at 722 West Marion Street. they were supposed to get it last year but no one told them to be here so I said well you didn't come this year to make it right so thanks to all our neighbors and friends and keep up the good work and keep our neighborhoods beautiful that concludes my part

Councilman, can you turn your mic on, please?

Thank you. You know, Todd, I kind of want to vote for these since it's money back to the taxpayer. Just kidding. I'm going to abstain.

Yeah, I just want to say thank you to everyone that took part in organizing the Black Joy Parade. It was a great event. I'm happy to be able to be in the parade. After so many years, I wasn't here for X reasons. So it was a great event. A lot of council members were there. It was a good time for my kids and myself. Even though one of my kids was mad, I took a photo with him. And then my aunt's like, hey, why is he mad? I don't know, they're just kids. You got to tell them to smile sometimes. But anyways, it was a great event. Looking forward to the Mexican Independence Parade. It's coming up s

My turn. Well, I'd like to say my little nephew is three years old, and he's watching at home in Elk Grove Village. He's streaming it, and he was three years old yesterday, so he was waiting for... Auntie Janice, say happy birthday to him. So happy birthday to Bryce on your third birthday, and it doesn't seem that long already because it was just yesterday. We were waiting for you to be born. So love you, little guy, and hope you're recovering from Santa's village the other day. I have another comment that I'd like to make. I'm very disappointed in finding out that... Our St. Joe's Hospital is