Remarks by Greg Zyck
31 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I move approval of the minutes for 9-22-26.”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Trustee LeBetz. Anyone else? Trustee Zik. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, everybody, for coming here tonight. Thank you for St. Vita for the presentation. Thank you for all of you citizens that have come out here, too, and all the emails that you sent, too. I've read every one of them. I've tried to reply back to all of them. If I haven't, I apologize. But thank you for everything you sent. This is an interesting... conversation for us to have, because one, you've got two groups here. You've got one, an institution that's been here for a long time, for 65 years, providing something to…”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
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“A lot of the comments from the emails and people that I've talked to, and I'm sure if I get this wrong, you'll correct me, but it seems like the tone of most of the things I heard that people that were concerned with this wasn't so much that they wanted to say, don't do anything, but to tone it down. And the word intensity of the project is something too that I think is concerning a lot of people. It sounds like the people in the neighborhood want to work with St. Vita to help you accomplish the goals that you're trying to do, but how can we turn down the intensity of what's going on there?…”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
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“Actually, I do, thank you. Something that Trustee Santa Maria said kind of sparked a question in my mind. First of all, yeah, thank you everybody for all your comments, and thank you for proving me right. I had earlier made a comment that it seemed like most of the emails that we had received, it was concerns. were not that you didn't want something to be developed here and for St. Vita to approve. It was just the intensity and what was going down there. But talking about the lighting, Director Rodman, in the pack of the information you gave us, talked about the lighting, Just real quick, a…”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
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“Okay, thank you, Mayor. This actually has to do with A, which was the International Code adoption to the 2024 edition as approved by the Building Code Review Board. And all I really want to do right now is, I was honored to be a part of this particular board when we went over these items. And when we first went into this meeting, there were 45 items. on there for for for us to review um i just wanted to to to call out and and thank and just tell you how fantastic this board was they did not there was not one that was rubber stamped you know you've got alex king and rob weber here who who were…”
Village Board of Trustees · Sep 22, 2026
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“Done? Okay. Trustee Zik? Okay. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, everybody that did work on these fees, thank you very much. I mean, modernizing them getting them you know up to date and all that you know because what a lot of this is is that these expenses are here when for the village when we're doing this permitting and if we don't do the if we don't keep these fees current to what especially other villages are doing that goes on to the property taxpayers back to be able to pay for these. So all we're doing is we're just trying to make sure that the majority of these costs are not going…”
Village Board of Trustees · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, it was. Really, just what I want to say is, it's kind of what Susan was saying. You know, when Randy found out about this particular issue that was going on with this neighborhood, He jumped on it, him and Chief Harris. They did some great work. They came out after hours to see exactly what was going on. Now, a lot of people get to see Randy and Chief Harris, you know, just maybe on TV or in the newspaper or things like that, don't really understand what they're doing behind the scenes. This was a clear example of how hard they work and how much they care about this village. to get this…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MAYOR. Overall, when I first saw this, I loved the idea. Obviously, it's one of our strategic priorities, and you look at affordable housing from a couple different areas, you know, trying to make it, you know, inexpensive enough or affordable enough that those starting out in their life can move in, and those that are at the opposite end, you know, that are on fixed incomes that need something like this. So, I think it hits those priorities. Got a lot of thoughts here. Here's the thing, obviously this is a preliminary thing and there's a lot of areas that have to be figured out…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Okay, all right, thank you very much. And then the last thing I'll just say, oh, actually two things, I apologize. You know, we were talking about the parking. I think Trustee Dunnington, I think you said, you know, the last parking issue that we had with the other church, it was the same thing. They're not all there at one point and it's kind of coming and going. If all of a sudden you guys get a real uptick And more people, I'm sure you can put in more masses, more services, and be able to kind of work it out that way. So I think that's something that can be doable. It's interesting to me,…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“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?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“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?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“Okay. And that includes grocery stores also that sell liquor, that they would be able to do that also?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“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…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“Okay, all right, so that stays the same.”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“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…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“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?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“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…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Chairman, yeah, thank you very much. This is exactly the type of thing that we've been talking about for a while, trying to make it much easier for businesses and their community to be able to move forward a lot quicker with certain things. And this is right along that line. And also, I'm sure for, I'm guessing for your team, too, it makes it a lot easier. We don't have to keep going back and forth also. So I think this is one of those. proverbial win-wins for a lot of people. Two questions that I do ask, and one of them is picky, I get it. But the first one, all the…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 6, 2026
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“Okay. But then as far as the menu signs and the lighting and all that kind of stuff going to the message signs, that they don't have to come as long as they're meeting those?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 6, 2026
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“A lot of those probably didn't even need to come here. It wouldn't have to come here.”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 6, 2026
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“Okay, good. It's great to hear. And then the last one. When I saw the formula, you know, for the operational standards for wanting to know the lumens, the foot candles, you know, and everything I saw on that. I'm guessing, though, and that's the concern that I think probably somebody would have is saying, oh, my gosh, are we going to be allowing, like, all these signs, all these bright signs in here? That seems like a really good formula, but this is probably something that... that the only time that we're probably going to have to even challenge this is somebody's going to have to make a…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 6, 2026
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“But I'm guessing this is the type of information when it comes to the design commission. when they look at it to your team, or it actually wouldn't go to the design commission, to your team, they would look at it and say, okay, it's within this range. It's within the correct measurements.”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 6, 2026
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“Yes, okay. I didn't word that right, but that's where I was getting to. Thank you. Anyone else?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 6, 2026
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“Others, Trustee Zik. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Could you go to the recommendations slide? Okay, so all we're really, and I agree with everything that's been said here, only thing we're really voting out of this change is the POD is really the variation to waive the requirement for parking analysis. That's ultimately what it's coming down to. The other items, like the five shade trees, I think you said that that was already in our code, that when we remove the one tree, we have to go up to the, they have to be replaced with five. Is that correct?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 6, 2026
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“So we're ultimately, we're ultimately not, they're asking to put more swings in, and we're, deciding whether or not to allow that to put more swings in?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 6, 2026