Board - Regular Meeting

All right, good evening everyone.

At this time, I'll call to order the regularly scheduled board meeting for the Village Mallozian Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 at 7 PM. Roll call please, Clerk Moskowitz. Trustee Burbette?

Here.

Trustee Crowley?

Here.

Trustee Hilley? Here. Trustee Jen?

Here.

Trustee Johnson? Here. Trustee Killaly? Here. Mayor Luehr?

Here. You have a quorum. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for a moment of silence for our fallen veteran. for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right, before we get on to public comment, we have several throwing in. being sworn in as a full-time deputy chief of police?

Let's raise your right hand and repeat after me. Aye. Aye. State your name. Keith Sullivan. Having been appointed. Having been appointed. To the position of deputy chief. To the position of deputy chief. In the village of Midlothian. In the village of Midlothian. Police department. Police department. In the county of Cook. In the county of Cook. Before said, we solemnly swear. I solemnly swear. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. I will support the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the State of Illinois. The Constitution of the State of Illinois. And the ordinances of the Village of Midlothian. And the ordinances of the Village of Midlothian. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties. I will faithfully discharge my duties. Of the position of Deputy Chief of Police. Of the position of Deputy Chief of Police. According to the best of my ability. According to the best of my ability. Congratulations.

we have something more important to do. Allie, can you please come up?

Someone take a picture of this? Would you like to bend? Oh, sure. Sorry, I guess the chief should get down. I didn't memorize all the names. Congratulations, Keith. Welcome aboard. We're glad to have you.

Let's see. Unfortunately, Chief Reedus. Look at that. Perfect timing. Wow. You smell like smoke? All right. If I could have Ian Woodworth step forward. He's sworn in as a full-time probationary firefighter paramedic.

Raise your right hand and repeat after me. Aye. Aye. State your name. Ian Woodward. Having been appointed. Having been appointed. To the position. To the position. A full-time probationary firefighter paramedic. A full-time probationary firefighter paramedic. In the village of Midlothian. In the village of Midlothian. In the county of Cook. And the county of Cook. Aforesa do solemnly swear. Aforesa do solemnly swear. That I will support the constitution of the United States. That I will support the constitution of the United States. The constitution of the state of Illinois. The constitution of the state of Illinois. And the ordinances of the village of Midlothian. And the ordinances of the village of Midlothian. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties. Of the position. Of the position. Of probationary full-time firefighter paramedic. probationary full-time firefighter for a medic according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability thank you yes my mother

Down here? Yeah, that's right. Good? That's bad.

Thank you.

Congratulations. Congratulations, Ian. Welcome aboard. If I could have Joseph Neiman come up front. He's sworn as a full-time firefighter and paramedic.

Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I. I. State your name. Joseph Nevin. Having been appointed. Having been appointed. To the position. To the position. A full-time probationary firefighter paramedic. A full-time probationary firefighter paramedic. In the village of Midlothian. In the village of Midlothian. In the county of Cook. In the county of Cook. Aforesaid do solemnly swear. Aforesaid do solemnly swear. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the State of Illinois. The Constitution of the State of Illinois. And the ordinances of the village of Midlothian. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties. Of the position. Of the position. Of probationary full-time firefighter paramedic. Of probationary full-time firefighter paramedic. According to the best of my ability. According to the best of my ability.

Yeah, my father. All right.

Right through it.

Okay.

Here we go. Here we go.

You're making art for me. I'm going to go through you. All right. I'm going to have a hard time here. There we go. There we go. Come on. There we go.

Thank you.

All right, last we have Drew Venkamp. If you come up forward, you scored a full-time probation and wire credit EMP.

Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. Aye. Aye. State your name. Drew Mandicam. Having been appointed. Having been appointed. To the position. To the position. A full-time probationary firefighter EMT. A full-time probationary firefighter EMT. In the village of Midlothian. In the village of Midlothian. In the county of Cook. In the county of Cook. Aforesaid do solemnly swear. Aforesaid do solemnly swear. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. That I will support the Constitution of the United States. The constitution of the state of Illinois. The constitution of the state of Illinois. And the ordinances of the village of Midlothian. And the ordinances of the village of Midlothian. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties. And that I will faithfully discharge the duties. Of the position. Of the position. Of probationary full-time firefighter EMT. Of probationary full-time firefighter EMT. According to the best of my ability. According to the best of my ability. Congratulations.

Congratulations. Do you have someone? I do.

Congratulations. I should have brought my glasses. There you go. Cool.

a sworn in tonight. Welcome aboard. We're very pleased to have you. Godspeed. As always, if you only came here for the swearing in, now would be the appropriate time to leave. You're welcome to stay.

It's very riveting. Thank you.

Thank you.

all right uh then at this time i'll open a florida public comment is there any public comment tonight okay there's no public comment i'll close the florida public comment move on to tonight's consent agenda number one resolution two six zero five two seven a a resolution for improvement under illinois highway code section number fourteen zero zero zero two eight zero zero sw appropriating one hundred and seventy six thousand dollars in Huh? For a lighting project on 147. For a lighting project on 147. Okay, thank you. All right, number two, a resolution 260527B, a resolution for maintenance under Illinois Highway Code, section number 17000000GM, appropriating $65,000 for the maintaining streets. Number three, approval of Approval of maintenance engineering to be performed by consulting engineer section number two, 170000GM. Can you explain that one too?

I'd like to be a little bit more specific. So, what it is is basically functionally an agreement for a lot of paperwork associated

Number four, resolution 260527C, a resolution for maintenance under Illinois Highway Code, section number 18-0000-00-GM, appropriating $60,000 for maintaining streets. Number five, approval of maintenance engineering to be formed by our consultant engineer, David Plater, for Robinson Engineering, section number 18-0000-00-GM. Number six, resolution number 260527D, a resolution for maintenance under Illinois Highway Code section number 19-00, appropriating $71,000 for maintaining streets. Number seven, I approve a maintenance engineering to be formed by our consultant engineer, David Plater, from Robinson Engineering, section number 19-0000-00-GM. Number eight, a resolution number 260527E, a resolution for maintenance under Illinois Highway Code section number 20-0000-00-GM, appropriating $125,000 for maintaining streets. Maintenance engineering to be performed by consulting engineer, David Plain from Robins Engineering under section number 20-0000-00-GM. Number 10, approval of cash receipt policy. Number 11, approval of the administration department's April 2026 month report. Number 12, approval of the building department's April 2026 month report. Number 13, approval of the fire department's April 2026 month report. Number 17, approval of the May 6, 2026 committee meeting minutes. Number 18, approval of the May 6, 2026 closed session meeting minutes. Number 19, approval of the May 13, 2026 board meeting minutes. And number 20, approval of a list of bills. Is there any item, any trustee would like to offer tonight to such agenda? If there's no dissension, I'm looking for a motion to approve tonight. Any discussion? Roll call please.

Trustee Crowley?

Aye.

Trustee Johnson?

Aye.

Trustee Burbank?

Aye. Trustee Hilley? Aye. Trustee Judd? Aye. Trustee Killaly? Aye. Motion carries. Thank you.

That was a lot. All right. Do each of these come with a large booklet of paper? Good. All right, thank you. Moving on to Trustee Business, Trustee Johnson.

Thank you, Mayor. I have nothing tonight.

Thank you, ma'am. Trustee Burbett.

Our sign software has hit end of life, so we're looking for an approval for, I'm sorry, I want to make a motion to approve purchase of Banner VXT Migration Project software in the amount of $2,583.10. This is a three-year agreement for a new software to replace that.

I'll second it.

Is it for our electronic sign-off front? Mm-hmm.

Okay, perfect. Any discussion?

roll call please clerk Moscow trustee Burbank aye trustee Crowley aye trustee Hilly aye trustee Jett aye trustee Johnson aye trustee Killley aye motion carries that sir is all I have thank you sir trustee Hilly I have nothing tonight sir thank you ma'am trustee Killley thank you sir trustee Crowley

Just one thing tonight, sir. We have submitted the U.S. Department of Transportation Safe Streets and Roads for All grant. It was successfully submitted on Tuesday, and we're looking forward to having a positive outcome with that grant. That's all I have, sir.

Thank you, sir. I want to thank the Village Board personally for their ongoing support of our fire department's mission and commitment to maintaining our staffing levels and allows us to provide the best possible service to our residents. We shared on Facebook that with the help of Deputy Chief John Kacharski and our grant company that we use, The OSFM Small Equipment Grant Award of $24,363.67 was awarded to the Milothian Fire Department for the purchase of a Lucas mechanical CPR chest compression device. This equipment will enable consistent high quality chest compressions, allowing first responders to focus on other critical life saving interventions. So we're really excited to get that in service. I was able to find a buyer in South Carolina for our squad 2717. They're going to be up here this Friday. We're grateful for its years of service to our community and proud that it will be continuing to serve another community in South Carolina. We have successfully... passed the Illinois Department of Public Health ALS Ambulance State License Inspection that happened earlier this week. Special thanks to EMS coordinator, Lieutenant Bulima, and all of our staff for making sure our ambulances were all set to go for the inspection. So I appreciate them for that. And then our B-Alarm smoke detector program, again, it's eligible to residents in Midlothian. Single-family homes, one detector per floor. Just contact Julie at Station 1 during the week, and we'll get you guys scheduled, and we'll come out and install them. And that's all I have, sir.

That's it. Good job, Captain. D.C. D.C., yeah. Great job. Thanks. Keep it up. Everybody helps. And you said that machine is...

We're all really excited to get it. Yes, it's going to really make a difference.

Chief Lane. Yes, sir. Just a reminder that on June 6th from 11 to 1, we'll be hosting our third annual pet safety event at the New Police Department. We're going to be providing food. and supplies to any residents that are in need for their dogs and cats. All the way up until June 5th, we are accepting donations from any of the residents or anybody that would like to donate to the event. And anything that is donated will be redistributed to the residents in need. Anybody that donates will receive a voucher from the Cook County, South Suburban. Thank you, Jesus. to receive an ID tag, microchip, or a vaccination for their pet. So we're excited, and we'll see you out there for the third annual event.

Yes, sir. Just one thing. I'd like to read a little expert from a letter from Republic Services sent to us. We're going to put these in all the... Water bill is also on our website. Effective immediately, plastic bags of any kind, including clear bags, are not permitted inside recycling containers. All recycled materials must be placed loose in the container. And the reason for this is plastic bags create significant operational issues at recycling centers. Bags become tangled in sorting equipment, causing shutdowns, safety concerns, and processing delays. Even clear bags interfere with automated sorting systems and cannot be processed properly. So unfortunately, you can't put any plastic bags now into the recycling.

They can go and recycle a jewel. Just take them out and bring in the jewel.

There you go.

thank you and that's it thank you uh thank you mayor i had nine items on the consent agenda so i'll give a brief explanation um so none of this is new spending this is all for funds that were spent in the past mostly on salt and cold patch and were budgeted and appropriated through the village's normal system The reason that I had to do all this is because IDOT is auditing the MFT accounts and they like to see it in a very particular format and they like to see particular forms filled out associated with each type of spending. So just to clarify that the board did vote on spending those funds at the time that they were spent. This is just to catch us up on paperwork, and I think the reason that I have to go back and do these old ones from before my time is because there was a thought that perhaps IDOP would accept the resolutions of the budgets in the past, and those were sent to them, and they're not accepting them now, so I needed to fill out these new resolutions appropriating old funds, basically. I hope that explains it as best as possible. Anytime you fund MFT funds, there's some amount of paperwork associated with it. Anytime you mention IDOT, we understand. Yeah, that's the bottom line. And that's all I have for my report.

Deputy Clerk Harris. I have nothing to say next time. Commandment of Director Redmond. No, that's not excited. Commandment of Attorney Moore. No report. Thank you, ma'am. All right, let's get to this long report.

of appointments i'll read through it and ask for a motion to approve afterwards so uh board of trustees diana judge will be the still building department um i guess i should say trustee diane dead building department trustee sandra crowley will be police department especially anthony burbats will be public works David Johnson will be finance department, trustee Jack Hilly will be fire department, and trustee Sandra Crowley will be mayor of the town. Door to heads, Mark Rita will be our fire chief. Daniel Delaney will be our police chief. Ty Swanson will be our public works superintendent. David Plater will be our village engineer. Michael Castaldo, or his most often designee, Anthony Moore, who is on to the law, will be our village attorney. Yvonne Redmond, our finance director, and Jacqueline Harris, our deputy coordinator. Fire department, we're also appointing John Kaczarski as deputy chief and Steve Korski as captain. Police department, as you heard tonight, Keith Sullivan will be our deputy chief. In public works, Andy Bidnarski will be our assistant superintendent still. Trustee Corrales will be the liaison, Patricia Bonk, Don Killley, Frank Chihoyne, Vincent Harlston, Veronica Garza, Diana Harris-Jedd, and Rich Sennert. Okay. Trustee Crowley, liaison. Vincent Harleston, Sandy Cortez, Gene Bartecchi, and Marty Witten. Oh, that's for the traffic safety. I'm sorry. Community Policing Safety Subcommittee Traffic Safety. Zoning Board. Jerry Gillis Sr. will be the chairperson. We'll have Ted Engler, Tom...

Thank you.

What do you say? You say it quick, right? Yeah. Karen Pringle, Lisa Olson, Jacob Conway, and Vincent Harleston, trustee dead, will be the liaison. Historical Museum, Village Clerk Moscow is the liaison. Marsha Gibelman is the chair and also the curator, I guess we're going to call it curator. We also have Sandy Ferreira, Terry Becker, Lakeisha Robinson, and Sydney Gibelman. Fire Police Commission, Trustee Crowley, liaison. We'll have Joe Jones, Michael Callahan, Joseph Pertuzzo, Jr. Emergency Management Agency, Trustee Crowley, liaison. We have Dave Krell, Rich Sennert, Tom Suska, and Mark Van Clay. Midmark Water Commission. We still have Jerry Gillis, Sr. as our commissioner for Midlothian. Plan Commission under Trustee Jett as a liaison. We have Sue Suria, which... We weren't sure?

Yeah, I got all of them. Okay, good.

Yes, we're good. Okay, good. Jennifer Conway, Vincent Harleston, Maureen. Maureen and Walt. Unification Committee, Trustee Kittley, liaison. We have Barbara Kittley, Sandra Olson, Deborah Ratliff, Gene Bartecchi, and Connie Grimes. Sandy, right, not Sandra? Sandy. Sandy, Sandra Cortez. Rita Sarney and Joanne Cano. And finally, under economic development. And we have as residents, Kathleen Caveney and Kelly Moskal. Under businesses, we have Christopher Barlini, Tom Margaris, and Joey Nigro. And from our Chamber of Commerce, honorary Mary Tracy and Susan Cox. So at this time, I am looking for a motion to approve the list of our annual appointments as read. I'll make the motion. We'll second. Any discussion?

Sorry, was that Trustee Burratt? Second? Trustee Hilley. Trustee Hilley, sorry. Thank you. Trustee Johnson?

Aye.

Trustee Hilley?

Aye.

Trustee Burratt?

Aye.

Trustee Crowley?

Aye.

Trustee Judd?

Aye.

Trustee Killaly?

Aye.

Motion carries.

Thank you, sir. On behalf of myself and the entire board, everyone that was right off on this list, thank you for everything you do. continue to do for this village of Milwaukee and as great as this town is, you guys keep making it better. So thank you all. Keep up the great work and look forward to another year. Lastly, obviously you noticed that the item I asked to have on the agenda this week regarding our building superintendent got pulled from the agenda. Information came out and we thought it was wise to go in a different direction. So that's exactly what we're doing. We have posted the positions. We're hoping that we'll have some great applicants and we're going to move on this as quick as possible because as we all know, this is a very important position and we need to get it filled as soon as possible. So hopefully soon. So we'll let you know. Anything else? Is that good enough? All right.

I just have one item this evening. I do have a statement from Mrs. Marcia Giggleman, who is the chairperson of our historical museum and the curator that I'd like to read. I was here in the beginning when our old library was turned into the historical society building and I appreciated the fact that I could restore it to its glory. This will be my last year. I will be leaving in June of 2027. I am asking if you love history, come and see us and maybe you could volunteer to help. During the month of June, we will be handing out miniature 250th anniversary flags until our supply runs out. At this time, I would like to thank the mayor and the village board for all of their support in reopening the old historical society, which is now classified as a museum, so we are able to apply for grants. Also, a special thanks to our wonderful public works department, especially Andy and Nick for all of the hard work inside. Also, for the rest of the men and the crew for snow plowing and taking care of all of the maintenance items. So I would like to thank Mrs. Giggleman. She and her crew have done a fantastic job over the last, I think, just about six years in really making the historical museum a beautiful facility and keeping it clean and updated and having inventory done. They've taken a lot of pride in it, and it really shows. So thank you to all the folks on that committee and all the folks who have helped do that. And also my thanks to Public Works, because I know they get a lot of calls from us throughout the year

help with things so thank you all right one last thing uh superintendent swanson can you come up forward you're not in trouble On behalf of Marcia Gilgerman, the Midlothian Historical Museum's curator and chairperson, she wanted me to give this to you, the certificate of appreciation to the Midlothian Public Works for outstanding work performed at the Midlothian Historical Museum and this day, 27th of May, 2026. Thank you. Thanks. All right.

That was a fun night.

Okay. Let's see who's going for the business computer board. I'm looking for a motion to adjourn.

I'll make the motion. I'll second.

All in favor? Aye.

All opposed?