Village Board of Trustees - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everybody. I'd like to call this meeting to order. This is the Village Board of Arlington Heights for the date of July 20th, 2026. And our first order of business is a Pledge of Allegiance. So if you all could please rise and join the board.

Thank you, everybody. Maggie, if you could call the roll, please.

Here. Thanks, Maggie. And we do have a set of minutes to review. and this would be from July 6th of this year, 2026. Are there any corrections or changes from anyone on the board? Is there anyone on the board who has to pass from that meeting for voting? Is there anyone in the audience that has questions or comments on the minutes from that meeting? If not, is there a motion to approve?

I move approval of the minutes from July 6th, 2026. Second.

Motion made by Trustee LeBenz, second by Trustee Dunnington. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. Motion carries. And then we have the approval of accounts payable, and I'll call on Trustee Bertucci.

Thank you, Mayor. I'll move approval of the warrant register for the check date July 15, 2026, in the amount of $3,595,000. I'm sorry, $3,595,273.07. Second.

Motion made by Trustee Bertucci, seconded by Trustee Schwingbeck. Are there any comments or questions from anyone on the board? Is there anyone in the audience that has questions or comments on this accounts payable report? Seeing none, this is a roll call vote.

Yes. Very good. Okay, that is done. Now we're into a little bit of a fun section of our meeting tonight. We have a couple of awards and recognitions to make. And the first is for someone that we call Mrs. Illinois. And Mrs. Illinois happens to live here in Ireland tonight. She's been representing Illinois the entire past 12 months. And we're going to read a proclamation for her. But in doing so, I'm going to come out front. Tracy, could you join me up front?

So if you don't know Tracy and her family, the Dros, they live here in town, been here for a long, long time, and Tracy was nominated and won and became Miss Illinois for the past 12 months, right? Yes, sir. And it just ended?

All right. Well, here we go. In recognition of Tracy Heisler Dros for Mrs. Illinois of America, whereas the The title of Mrs. Illinois America recognizes married women who demonstrate leadership, confidence, service, grace, integrity, and a strong commitment to their families and communities. And whereas Tracy Heisler-Droz was crowned Mrs. Illinois, America 2025 after taking a leap of faith to pursue a new challenge and has represented women across the state of Illinois through her advocacy, character and dedication to making a meaningful difference in the lives of others. And whereas througho

Whereas, as a devoted wife and mother of three, Tracy made it her mission to teach children the importance of empathy, generosity, and community involvement, believing that raising compassionate young people and modeling service can create lasting positive change. And whereas Tracy has used her platform to support Arlingtonites organizations and groups by attending and promoting charitable fundraisers, community celebrations, local events, and civic programs, having become a familiar face throughout the Arlingtonites, throughout Arlingtonites during her reign. And whereas, through her leadersh

Tracy demonstrated courage and determination by stepping outside her comfort zone and pursuing a new challenge, inspiring others to embrace opportunities for personal growth and service. And whereas Tracy Heisler-Droz continues to reflect the values of leadership, compassion, and community pride that strengthen the Village of Arlington Heights and serve as an example to residents throughout the community. So now, therefore, I, James J. Tenaglia, Mayor of the Village of Arlington Heights, along with the entire Arlington Heights Village Board of Trustees, do hereby recognize and commend Tracy He

All right, and before I go back to my chair, The next item of business is surprisingly similar, and it's amazing that we here in RLE's Knights have both of these ladies here to be blessed with. Item B is a recognition of Scarlett McElrath, Miss Teen Illinois USA 2026. Scarlett, come on up. So just a little bit about Scarlett is I just learned that you just graduated from Hersey. Yes. Very good. And you're going on to what school?

Who else went to Arizona State? This is amazing. So Scarlett, in order to earn this title, you had to win a three-day competition and against other girls from around the state. The competition included fitness, interviewing, evening gown, fun fashion competition, and the girls were all judged on these elements, but also on their work ethic and treatment of others around them. Scarlett won the best interview award in addition to winning the overall title. Scarlett will compete on August 26th for the title of Miss Teen USA. In this competition, she'll wear a costume that will represent the state

Mom, dad, family, if you want to come up and take a quick picture, we'll do one together here first.

Before you go, Tracy, come on back up here. This is an unusual occasion. I want to take a picture with both of these lovely ladies. I don't know that this will ever happen again in Arlington Heights, so.

All right. I'm going to go back to my chair. All right. Thank you, everybody, for being patient while we get through some of this fun stuff. Next item on the agenda. I have it, is the Historic Preservation Task Force introductions. And while I'll say a couple of brief words on this, I'm going to hand it off afterwards to our village staff because they're the ones really doing the lion's share of work on this. But this was a promise that I made during the campaigns to try very hard to find a way to work on potential ideas and how we can work together for the preservation of the historic neighbo

Very good. So what our hope is, it's a decent swath of different individuals with different perspectives, not just homeowners, not just elected officials. It's a group of different folks that all have something to say and some interest in this subject. So, Trustee LeBenz, would you like to share some thoughts?

I came prepared whether or not, I wasn't sure if I... would be called upon. But I do want to say, as Mayor Tenaglia said, this was something that not only came up during his campaign, but in addition during last year's priority setting workshop, we did identify this as our strategic priority number five, which is to engage stakeholders regarding the resources regarding the historic preservation of residential areas to determine what further regulations and resources should be implemented. And that's why we gathered together a group of individuals that come from different perspectives in this,

Thank you, Trustee LeBez. Trustee Dunnington, was there anything you'd like to add?

I think Robin covered it well. We're looking forward to getting started and getting community input on what would be best for our village.

Excellent. Okay. Well, Manager Reklaus, what more do you need from the board here on this subject?

Is there anyone on the board has questions for any one of us? No? Is there anyone in the audience? I have one blue card here that I believe is in regard to this particular item. Is there anybody else? I'll call on Keith Moons.

Thank you, Mr. Moons. Well, I will respectfully disagree with virtually everything that you just said. If anyone paid attention to anything that we all said a few moments ago, you would know that there are no closed doors, backdooring, any perspectives on this. And it was done all with the direct supervision of our legal counsel. who is Mr. Passman here. Mr. Passman, do you have any rebuttal that you want to make based on some of the allegations that were just made?

Okay. We will not belabor this. I think the idea is clear and the goals are obvious. No actions are going to be taken for quite some time, but we're going to get educated the best we can in the coming months. Correct. So we'll move on to item D. Or was there anyone else on this topic? Before we move on, was there anyone else on this topic that did not fill out a blue card that wanted to address the board on this task force? Okay, seeing none. We'll move on to the next item, which is item D, and that is a police sergeant promotion, which is fabulous and always wonderful in the village. Manager

Here, I'm going to hold the mic so you can be recorded and well. All right. I, Brandon Clabo. Having been appointed to the office of police sergeant.

That I will support the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the State of Illinois. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties.

I believe we're moving on now to a public hearing. And today's public hearing is for the 2026 through 2027 Annual Action Plan for the Community Development Block Grant, CDBG. And in doing so, there's some information I have to read. Opening hearing, I hereby call to order the second public hearing concerning the village's draft 2026 annual action plan and community development block grant budget. Notice of this public hearing has been published in the Daily Herald on July 1st, 2026, in accordance with federal law. And so to open this, I have to ask the clerk to please call the roll, is that ri

HERE. Thank you, Maggie. I hereby declare this public hearing open. The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development requires the local governing body of a municipality to hold two public hearings prior to submission of the 2026 Annual Action Plan and prior to its later adoption and submission to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. On June 8th, 2026, the Village has conducted its first public hearing regarding the 2026 Annual Action Plan, and then Village staff presented the status report for the draft 2026 Annual Action Plan and Community Development Block Grant budget. At

All right. Anyone on the board, questions on where we stand on this? Anyone? Anyone in the audience? Oh, I didn't see a hand. Thank you. I'm sorry, go right ahead. Thank you, Mayor.

Director Rodman, I was just asking if you could please explain just the different budgets that we have insofar as public services being capped at 15% and the different kind of limits of the funding.

anyone in the audience with questions on this topic. Manager Raklaus, is there further debate, discussion that needs to take place? Oh, there is a hand. I am sorry. Come on up. Can you come up to the podium and please use the microphone? Tell us who you are.

Is that it? Thank you. Okay. Mr. Moots, come on up.

Thank you. Thanks, Mr. Moon. I would suggest this, that if the board has an interest in doing something like that, we can bring that up on an agenda item. different night it can always be added money can be moved around and different things can be done but it's not a topic of on the agenda here tonight so that's something that staff can take a note of and if somebody wants to bring that up another time during committee the whole meeting we could certainly do that any other comments from the audience and I agree with you both that you spoke all those organizations are fabulous fantastic organiz

I move that we close the public hearing.

Motion made by Trustee LeBetz, seconded by Trustee Bertucci. Any further questions or comments from anyone in the room? Seeing none, is this a roll call vote? You can do voice vote if you'd like, Matt. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. Okay, so there's a motion to form made, and we are now closed with the public hearing. So, now we can move on to Citizens to be Heard, correct? Citizens to be Heard, I have one blue card here, maybe two, but we'll start with one. And I have Susan Garcia. Susan, come on up. And for those who don't know, Citizens to be Heard is for items not on

You've timed it. All right. We're ready.

Can I stop you? Take your time. Take your time. I'll let you go past it. I'll let you go past it. Take your time and breathe.

Okay, you breathe now. Okay, so I'm going to ask our village manager if you have a comment that can help.

Susan, let me interrupt you. Did I hear you correctly? They're on all night?

I heard you, I heard you, we all heard you.

It's a condo association, right? Stonebridge? It's an apartment. It's an apartment. So is it a single ownership? It's not condos where there's no condo board?

So there has to be a way to negotiate this.

Well, you're here, and it's on TV right now, and I think what's good is that something is bound to cook up here a little bit.

All right, well, thank you for coming tonight.

Is there anyone else in the audience that wants to address the board under citizens to be heard, which is items that are not on the agenda? Anyone raise a hand? I see none. Okay. Then I think what we're going to do is go on to the consent agenda. And... consent agenda lists items a through H which are a number of items that will be voted on moved motioned and voted on with one vote is there any trustee on the board here that would like to vote no or pass on any of these items a through H trustee the beds I would like to vote no on item H item H trustee the beds will be registered as a no anyon

I would also like to register a no vote on item H. Okay, so Trustee Manganiello and Trustee LeBeds will vote no on item H. Any other questions, comments, anything else? Does anyone need to have anything pulled off of this consent agenda? Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to have a trustee remove an item on the consent agenda? Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

Mayor, excuse me. Mayor, I'll move approval of the consent agenda.

Second. Motion made by Trustee Bertucci, seconded by Trustee Schwingbeck. Any last discussion or comments from anyone in the room? Seeing none, this is a roll call vote.

Aye, with the exception of item H. Trustee LeBetz?

Yes. Okay, motion carries through the items. And that moves us to new business. We have two items to discuss tonight under new business. The first is a discussion of the Liquor Commissioner's proposed amendments to Chapter 13 of the Municipal Code regarding alcohol regulations and classifications. Now, just as a quick setup, I'm the Liquor Commissioner in Arlington Heights, as Tom Hayes was before, and Arlene before him. And liquor rules and programming gets set up by the liquor commissioner and then reviewed and approved by the village board. So tonight, there are a number of items that we're

Yeah, let's hit all four of them, and then come back one by one.

Thank you, Ms. McCullough and Jack. So a couple of quick points that I want to make sure everybody knows, everybody in the room, anybody listening at home. This does not change anything about where these sales can take place. Currently, we do not allow alcoholic beverage to be sold at gas stations, right?

And this will stay exactly the same. What the goal here is to try to adjust some of the licenses to be a little bit more affordable, the timing to be a little bit more sympathetic. What I've heard again and again and again and again is that it is extremely expensive and sometimes fruitless to have a kitchen chef and all of their equipment operational past you know nine or ten o'clock and no one's ordering food just so that they can have their bar open to serve alcohol so instead of carrying it on on a limited menu after 11 This proposal is to reduce it so you can actually shut it down after 10

Thank you, and thank you Mayor Tenaglia and staff for working on bringing, making things more modern, more like other communities and so on. I do appreciate that. I just have a couple questions. One is for recommendation number three, the single one If you can go back there. Okay, so when I look at that, I just wondered, was there any thought to making the Class B $3,000? Which is, you know, the BB plus the BBB, which is the same thing, and then it's $3,000 rather than 3,700. So I don't know if there's any thought for that?

Well, that would be a suggestion that I would consider. I don't know if anyone else would agree, but that's kind of my thought. I have to admit, when I first got on the board, or ever since I've been on the board and had been approving liquor licenses, I always thought, wow, these things are expensive. And especially for these packaged liquor stores that... You know, our, you know, mom and pop businesses, well like our restaurants are pretty much, you know, mom and pop style things too. So that would be a thought that I had. Then for number four, when I first read the description of it with th

Okay, and by delivery, you mean like your Grubhub delivery and that sort?

Okay. All right. Thank you for the clarification. I didn't know how that fit into all this. So thank you. That's it. That's my questions.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Liquor Commissioner. I mean, I'm so excited and I just can't hide it. What can I say? As a former liquor license holder, I think that these changes are going to be very welcome. They're If it were seven years ago, I'd have been out in the audience championing for these as a business owner and liquor license holder. And going through some of these things, some of the things that jump out at me that are great is we're catching up. These are things that are happening in the towns around us, and we're trying to help our business owners. We're giving them more opportunity,

Very good. Trustee Zik? Thank you, Mayor. Okay. So I'm going to go through all four of these real quick here. I'm going to start at the end here. So item four, single-serve alcohol sales. I just want to make sure that on the same page here, this is not saying, let's say we decide not to do this today. And restaurants already right now, you can just get one beer. You know, while you're sitting there, this is intended for somebody that was actually removing a alcoholic beverage from the premises? Or are we saying that what all the restaurants were doing, have been doing, was against the rules?

Okay, so with the new sip and stroll regulations that we have going out here, if they go into one of the restaurants that are there in that area and they want to buy, this allows them to buy one beer and take it and walk around?

Okay. And that includes grocery stores also that sell liquor, that they would be able to do that also?

Okay, all right. I just want to make sure that, that's what I thought it was. I just want to make sure that that was out there. As far as number three, the license, I like the idea of having another license. I'm not quite sure on the reducing the cost, but I'll go along with that one. The alcohol sale on village property, I just want to make sure we're also talking about this too. This is talking about just village property. Because I know what's going to happen, somebody's going to say, okay, Park District Library, they still have to come to us for approval if they want to have an event on on

Okay, all right, so that stays the same.

All right, now the last one about the food service requirement hours. This is the one that my insides are kind of jumping up and down about because I keep thinking to myself, you know, Establishments that are open until 1, 2 in the morning and they're continuing to serve alcohol, food is good, you know, because it absorbs the alcohol, it helps the person, you know, not to be over the limit. I'm sure there's a lot of people that want to throw some scientific things at me or some studies or something on that, but that's what my instincts are telling me, and it seems like we're getting away from

And I get the pro-business part of it, and I understand completely why some of these facilities want to do that and don't want to have the cost in there. I totally get that. It's the right way for them to be thinking. I just want to make sure that we're not putting something out there that could actually reduce public safety by allowing this type of thing to go through. And that's the main concern that I'm having right now. Thank you. Trustee Manganiello?

Thank you. I would just like to rephrase one of Trustee Gilbert's comments as a question. Why is 10 o'clock the magic number? What was the decision-making thought behind that?

So that was definitely a business consensus rather than a... I'm not sure if compromise is quite the right word, but trying to balance what Trustee Zik was saying with letting businesses close their kitchens when their business slows down.

Is that it? Thank you. Okay. Trustee Bertucci.

Thank you. Whoever has control of the slides, can we have number three again, please? Okay, I had written a note also, so Robin, I am on the same page you are, Trustee LeBetz, on this. So, Diana, does triple B and double B equal B? I'm not talking about dollars, but what I can do, if I have a triple B license and I have a double B license, do I basically have all the authority of a B?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it almost doesn't make sense. I mean, I don't know if it's possible to get two licenses, but, I mean, in effect, they could say save $700 by saying give me a triple B and give me a double B. So I'm for everything that's here, but I mean, I would almost throw in a, you know, I would approve everything and then almost say with an amendment to reduce B also to 3,000. Is there any reason why we wouldn't want to do that?

Okay, which I understand. But I think by putting this out there, it almost makes us look foolish. So that's why I say, I mean, I know you've got more to do, but I would almost say let's fix this now while we're here and focusing on this and reduce that to $3,000. if we're looking to approve the two, you know, the triple B and the double B as is. Collin, am I missing anything from a previous liquor store owner?

I agree, it seems kind of foolish to have it set up like that.

Okay, so Mayor, but I'll let everything, you know, I'm for everything and then whether it's Trustee LaBette or Gilbert or myself, I think we, you know, either that or whoever makes the motion just makes it with the $3,000, so.

Thank you, Mayor. I think a lot of these changes make a good sense for the community. I've heard from several businesses requesting many of these items. I know that there's a local restaurant that would really like to sell some of their specialized bourbon, but they're not able to do that right now. I know that a lot of residents are interested in the single service option. So I think this is a good move. I do think that we should look at the fees in totality to make sure that they make sense overall. So I would prefer to wait. And so I would make a motion for this ordinance as it is.

Are we saying for number three or for all of them, like this recommendation?

So it looks like there's a recommendation for everything. I would do that, okay. So staff recommends that the Village Board direct staff to draft an ordinance to be considered at a future Village Board meeting that concurs with Liquor Commissioner Tenaglia's recommendations regarding food service requirement hours, alcohol sales on village property, new package liquor license options, and single service alcohol sales.

Second. Okay. We have a motion by Trustee Dunnington and a second by, I heard the first over there, Trustee Schwingbeck, is that right?

Mayor before we vote on that and I know you're gonna want to hear from everybody for the rest of them But at some point in time, I'd like to make an amendment to that and see if it flies.

Sure All right And just it could you go back to that slide again really quick before we continue dialogue The same slide that we had a minute ago with the $1,500 So this one difference between I think what trustee Bertucci was imagining here is that class B for $3,700 is is a liquor store that's gonna sell everything right correct but these two ideas here are for a restaurant so that they don't have to spend another $3,700 or $2,700 just to sell some specialty bourbons or specialty tequilas or something in a bottle that they're doing that a liquor store down the road maybe doesn't carry becaus

So just to get clarification of that, then, so what I was asking you initially, though, are you saying that triple B plus double B does not equal B? Okay, so there is difference. If I put double B and triple B together, there is a difference. Yes.

Okay, so can a liquor store say, I want a triple B and a double B, Instead of a B. Well, they're intending to sell spirits. All three? All three.

So they couldn't say, okay. You know what I mean?

Okay. And then, so if, how soon do you think this will come about? I mean, I don't want, you know, three years from now, this still hanging out on the books. Yes.

Okay. Okay. All right. Well, then I'll just, why don't we just go with this and then I'll just let it roll. And Trustee LaBette is shaking her head. No, I'm fine with that.

I was thinking that I would, you know, because Diana says that this is going to be looked at and reviewed and that I'm fine with doing that. And it makes sense because we're in the middle of the liquor licenses issue. And we wouldn't want to change things in the middle of, in midstream, if you will. But I guess one thing that was coming up that I, someone said this has to do with restaurants, but this is just packaged liquor stores. Because when I look at the list of, and the Jewel and the Marianos and things like that, when I look at the list that was provided to us online of Class B, it's no

But Diana, that second license, they're paying the full $2,700 to do it. Yeah, they sure are. So that was the goal here.

Okay, we were going down this direction. Anybody else down here? No, no one?

Okay, yes, Trustee Gilbert. Just to talk about the food service aspect of this. I mean, and correct me if I'm wrong, staff, but we have, A bar in town that has no food service requirement, correct? They are allowed to bring food in, but they don't even have a kitchen.

So I don't believe that when we granted them that liquor license, we created some sort of a public safety moral hazard. And I don't believe that, you know, scaling back the hours that food has to be available at some of the other restaurants is creating any sort of a hazard. If anything, we're just allowing them to be operational within the constraints of what their customers are asking for and what their, you know, potential budgets for, for staff allow. Um, and, and that's how I look at this. You know, we, we, we're looking at something, if we scaled this back to nine or to eight, you know,

fine if we scaled it back to eight or to nine then if the demand was still there they could stay open but if not they've got that option to to close up so that's all i have fair enough and i would concur that an added perspective there is there are business owners right now that are choosing to ignore the 11 o'clock uh requirement and they're just shutting down at nine o'clock or ten o'clock and um they're taking their chances and so that's why we decided to discuss this it's either we're going to start working hard on compliance for an old existing code or we're going to change the code to do

There's a couple of places, and yours is one of them, that we've discussed in the past that maybe there are times when a certain bottle of wine or types of wine or certain types of tequila or bourbon or whatever, and at these restaurants that have the regular alcohol sales, what is that one called, Diana, the main one? Full package?

Either an A, a double A, or an E. Okay, so if you have that in your restaurant now and you just want to be able to sell some very specific special items, wines, beers, or tequilas, whatever, instead of paying $2,700 a year to do that, we're suggesting that it's $1,500. Okay.

So then let me ask you, because we're just talking here and all of us are learning. What should the number be in your opinion? I think $100.

Understood. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. You bet. I have no other blue cards in regard to this, but if there's someone in the audience that wants to weigh in, please raise your hand, I'll call on you. Seeing none, we'll come back to the board. Trustee Santa Maria?

You could look at it that way. I can tell you that places like Cortland's who are open until, what are they, 1 o'clock or past 1?

Yeah, they would like to stop selling food at 9. So that would be, you know, five hours. Sure.

I'll be honest with you. When we talked about this, Diane and I struggled with this number, this 10 p.m., because I know that there are some folks who would like to stop at 9. We have been so strong with our position that you have to have a full menu until 11. And then after that, it still has to be a limited menu to the time you close the door at the end of the night. So shutting everything down at some specific time was like, okay, well, 10 is kind of like in the middle there. But if this board says 9 o'clock is the right time, then that is fine with me. Mayor?

Pardon me, sir. It's liquor commissioner to you, sir. Liquor Commissioner, I'd like to make an amendment. All right.

There's a motion on the floor right now from Trustee Dunnington and seconded by Trustee Schwingbeck to accept all four of these as they are. And if I have that correct, now you're suggesting that you make an amendment to that motion. Correct. I would like to make an amendment that food service stop at 8 p.m. At 8 p.m. Okay, is there a second on the APS? Yes, second. Second from Trustee Manganiello. So I'm going to amendment Gilbert and Manganiello. All right, let's have discussion on that. for the eight o'clock change from 10 o'clock. It's just affecting the one category that allows kitchens t

Just a question. in the past our rule has been that there's a late night menu. And so would it make sense for like eight to 10 be kind of a late night menu and then 10 is the end?

I think part of the problem is administration of all of this. I think if you talk to staff, it's really hard. I mean, even right now, if you go downtown Arlington Heights Thursday night, Friday night, whatever, you're going to find restaurateurs that are just not following the ordinance. And how do you... Are you gonna take them all to adjudication hearings and force them to start doing things the way we want them to do it? So I would say my initial thought is let's make this as simple as we can so that it can be administered as easily as it can. And that doesn't mean we can't ever change it.

I think that it also has to do with the staffing and needing, you know, you take that, I know it's only a couple hours maybe, but a couple hours each day, each weekend or whatever off the payroll can make a difference. I was thinking Trustee Gilbert would throw out 9 o'clock, and then he went for all of it. He just 8 o'clock. I'm going to support 8 o'clock just because of two things. Number one, I think it's being asked for not only by current restaurant owners, but previous and now a trustee, Trustee Gilbert. But also what I heard Randy say, and I agree, and he said the market will do what it

People will find the food if they... I can't tell you how many times I've tried to go eat something at 9.30 or 10 o'clock after an appointment, after a meeting, and there may be just one restaurant downtown that's still serving food. Okay, further discussion from anyone else?

Trustee LaBette? I too thought Trustee Gilbert was going to say 9, but I am going to support the 8 o'clock. And I think part of the reason we're struggling is that every day of the week is different. We're trying to regulate from Monday through Sunday, and different days of the week are you know, we're trying to do a blanket thing for every day, whereas Tuesday night might not be so hopping downtown, or Monday night is as the mayor has experienced. But Thursday, when we were leaving sounds of summer the other night, last week, there were a lot of people eating at restaurants at 839 o'clock. An

Anyone else? Trustee Zik. Thank you, Mayor. You know, based on what I said before, I'm still having some concerns. issues with all this. I don't agree with the premise that it couldn't potentially cause some type of other issues if we're taking away from them. But I'm going to vote for the amendment and I'm going to vote for it for this one particular reason. I trust our business owners. I'm going to say that they're going to make the right decision on what they need to do, because I want them to be as profitable as they are, because obviously if they're profitable for themselves, it's good fo

Okay, anyone else? All right, we have a motion, a second, an amendment, and a second. The amendment, as I understand it, is to change the 10 p.m. food service shutdown to 8 p.m. at the will of that restaurateur to decide. So that's the first vote. And is this a voice vote, or how do you understand it? Let's do a roll call vote on the 8 p.m. first.

Made by Trustee Gilbert, seconded by Trustee Manganiello.

Gosh, I can't say no to that. That's wonderful. All unanimous to make it eight o'clock. Okay, we're all on the same page with that. Now we'll go to the main motion. And the main motion was Trustee Dunnington and then seconded by Trustee Schwengbeck. And that is to accept all four of these as read on the page right now in front of you. And of course amended by the motion to eight o'clock. Yes, adjusted by the motion to eight o'clock.

YES. ALL RIGHT, WONDERFUL. THANK YOU, EVERYONE. THAT WENT BETTER THAN I COULD HAVE HOPED IT COULD GO. I WAS VERY HAPPY TO SEE ALL THIS. I THINK WE ONLY HAVE ONE MORE ITEM ON THE AGENDA RIGHT NOW, AND THAT'S ITEM B FOR NEW BUSINESS AND ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUDICATION. AND I CAN TELL that we have the police force here ready to present.

Well, it's certainly more personal, that's for sure. Are you convinced that the fees that you're proposing here are adequate or appropriate?

All right, very good. All right, we'll throw it to the board here. Questions for anybody on this side? Trustee Schwingbeck.

Prevailing penalties of the surrounding communities second second okay motion made by a trustee showing back second by trustee Santa Maria Further discussion from the board trustee Bertucci I

Just for curiosity's sake, and first of all, I totally am going to support this, but adjudication officers, is that the proper word, adjudication?

Okay. So a hearing officer needs to be an attorney? Is that a requirement? Yes.

Thank you, Mayor. I agree with what Trustee Schwingbeck shared. I think that this is a good change for both residents and the police department. The only thing I wanted to ask about was the change in fees for overnight parking. I know that many communities allow overnight parking, and so I'm just wondering why Arlington Heights does not allow overnight parking. Personally, I would... I don't see an issue with overnight parking.

Anyone else down here? This way, anybody? Trustee Gilbert? No.

Sorry, so help me get my head around this a little bit. Again, I've danced around in some criminal courtrooms, you know, defending the high profile family member speeding ticket in my day because I was the only lawyer in the family. So I know just enough. So like if somebody gets a speeding ticket in town, right, we're saying they don't have to go to Rolling Meadows now. They can just come into here, correct? And so how involved is the Secretary of State or what would be the civil ramifications from a finding of guilty in an adjudication hearing versus a guilty finding over in Rolling Meadows?

I mean for like speeding. For like speeding.

So it's above it, but you're not, so you're essentially, what we're doing is allowing our officers to have that little bit stiffer penalty before they get into court. Hart, maybe you can refresh my memory on this, but the way that I understand it is if you get three moving violations in a year, your license is subject to suspension by the Secretary of State.

Something like that, right? So what I'm thinking here is, are we trying to usurp something that has been in play for a reason. You know, theoretically, someone could get five moving by five speeding tickets and be given these administrative tickets versus an actual ticket and then sort of negate the penalties, the civil penalties that go along with that by the Secretary of State because they're not appearing over in Cook County. And to that effect, are we going to allow just a regular attorney to be able to make these decisions as opposed to the judges that have been elected or appointed and h

That would be my thing. So if we have somebody in an adjudication hearing and they've racked up three, you know, adjudication violations in a year, And all of a sudden that hits the secretary of state and their license gets suspended or some version of that. But we've essentially taken them out of a courtroom and we've, you know, basically given ourselves the right to take their license away for a year. You know, there's a lack of education out there in terms of people when they, when they come into a room is to be like, yeah, guilty, fine. Just get me out of here. You know, whereas I feel lik

Yeah. I mean, that's my only real concern with this. And I'm not saying that I would vote against it as a result of that, but there is a process here and there is due process. People allow their time in court. And I don't want people to be confused to think that this isn't court when it might have the same ramifications of court.

Anyone else down this way? Trustee Manganiello?

Thank you. D.C. Cernecki, thank you for the presentation and excuse me. making this all i think quite clear i have had the chance to go through a couple of the department's training courses over the last year one thing i really internalized is that for the department the point of enforcement is safety and i like that this gives the officers another tool to determine um i'll see the intent of the driver trustee gilbert's comments are well taken that was one of my questions about serial offenders and I think you have addressed that and I think when it comes to people like super speeders who are

Okay, is there anyone in the audience that would like to address this particular topic? Yes, sir, stand up, introduce yourself.

It would not. No, these are lower level situations that we're talking about.

Anyone else in the audience? Okay, seeing none, we'll be back to the board. We have a motion from Trustee Schwingbeck, seconded by Trustee Santamaria. Any further discussion? And I think this is a roll call vote.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WRAPS UP OUR GENERAL AGENDA WE DO HAVE A CLOSED SESSION PLAN I THINK ON THE AGENDA IT SAYS ADJOURNMENT FIRST BUT THAT'S NOT ACCURATE RIGHT CORRECT WE GOT TO FLIP THESE WE SHOULD FLIP THEM DID I CATCH THAT THAT WAS A GOOD CATCH I DID CATCH THAT DIDN'T I ALL RIGHT SO UM We're not going to adjourn right now. We're looking for a motion, right? Manager Recklaus, do you want to explain?

Okay, so do we have such a motion? So move. Motion made by Trustee LeBed, seconded by who? Trustee Zick. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Is it a roll call vote? I blew it after all, didn't I? MAGGIE, PLEASE, HELP US OUT HERE.

YES. THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. WE WILL BE MOVING INTO CLOSED SESSION AND NOT REPORTING OUT. THANK YOU, EVERYONE, FOR TUNING IN.