Remarks by Jim Tinaglia
329 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 14
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Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“All right, very good. Ernie, would you please come up to the podium here? I'm going to read this to you.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“On behalf of the Village of Arlington Knights, this proclamation recognize Ernest or Ernie R. Blomquist III, whereas Ernie Blomquist III has honorably and with great distinction served as the prosecutor for the Village of Arlington Knights since 1977, establishing a legacy of dedicated public service and legal excellence spanning nearly five decades. And whereas raised in Mount Prospect, Ernie attended Prospect High School and Western Illinois University and taught at Lincoln Junior High School and attended law school at Chicago-Kent College of Law. And whereas Ernie was inspired to pursue a…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“If anyone would like to address it, please raise your hand. I'll call on you. In the meantime, I know there's a couple board members that would like to speak. Trustee Bertucci.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Anyone else on the board? There is one more person I want to hear from, and that is Chief Pecora, who absolutely works with Ernie probably the most out of anyone in this room. And Chief is so eloquent with how he speaks. I know he'll have at least one good story for us.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Very good. Greg, anything? Anybody else? I don't want to put you on the spot, but if there's anyone else, please. I want to say one thing. Please stand up and introduce yourself. Stand up. I recognize you. Is it Sam?”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“All right. Anyone else? If not, we're going to move on. Thank you everyone for coming and helping us celebrate a wonderful career and obviously a wonderful human being. So thank you, Ernie, for all that you've done. Appreciate it. Our best to you. So on to less exciting stuff. And if you want, we'll take a quick break here for anyone who needs to leave. The next item on the agenda is citizens to be heard. And I do have four or five cards here. If you're planning to speak on citizens to be heard, this is for items not on the agenda. And we do our best to keep it at three minutes or less for…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Very well. Thank you. And I know that Chief Harris was part of that expedition that went out there to take care of it. So thank you, Chief, for handling that.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Trustee Zik, you were there at the meeting.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Anyone else? Okay. Another blue card here is Rob Brodecki.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Very good. Thank you. All right. We'll move on then to Thomas Bucaneri. Did I say that right?”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Well, I'll suggest you do this. Our village manager, Randy Recklaus, is your perfect contact for trying to get to the next level.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Yeah, I don't disagree with you. Let's get some more information out and share your information with village manager Recklaus. Thank you. Thank you, Thomas. All right, that's it for the blue cards that I have on citizens to be heard, which are, again, items not on the agenda. If you're here for an item that's on the agenda, just hold until that item comes up. Is there anyone else that wants to speak about something else that's not on the agenda?”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thomas, before you leave, I think you left your phone behind. All right. Are we set to move on? All right, we're going to move on then to the next item, which is our consent agenda. And the consent agenda is a list of items from A through H. They're posted here that will all be taken care of by one vote. Is there anyone on the village board that would like one of the items to be removed or would like to vote no or pass on any of these items on the consent agenda? Seeing none on the village board, is there anyone in the audience that would like to ask a village board member to remove one of…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Motion made by Trustee Libeds, seconded by Trustee Bertucci. Any final comments from anyone? If not, this is a roll call vote, Maggie.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Yes. All right, motion carries. Those items are all passed. So if you're here for one of those items, that has been taken care of. The last two items on our agenda tonight are under new business. And the first one is I think why everyone's here, and that's the appointment of Bridget Krause to the Performing Arts at the Metropolis Board of Directors. Maybe I mistook that a little bit, I'm not sure. Bridget, could you come on up to the podium? And I'll call on Trustee Dunnington.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Second. Okay, motion is made by Trustee Donington and seconded by Trustee Schwingbeck. Is there any further discussion by anyone on the board? Anyone in the audience? What this is is an appointment to our Metropolis board and I know that we do have some board members here and our president, Sue, would you want to stand up and introduce the board members that are here and the director and so on? Yes, go right ahead. Well, you know what, Sue, come on up to the microphone with Bridget. I want to give you some air time here.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Wonderful. Thank you, Sue. Bridget, is there anything you want to share real quick?”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Wonderful, great. Well, let's go ahead and make this official. Do we, is just a voice vote all okay on this? Okay, so the motion was made by Trustee Dunnington and seconded by Trustee Schwingbeck. Any further discussion at all? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. It's official. You are now board members. So thank you for stepping up and volunteering for us.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Very well. Thank you, Manager Ricklaus. And just to try and reinforce that, it is an expensive, time-consuming task to go through this process of formal review. You go through staff review. for a long period of time asking for recommendations and commentary on your drawings and your concept your design then you go to the plan commission which is a public hearing then you go to the design commission which is another public hearing ultimately you land here at this village board after recommendations are made from the other commissions and the public is invited and well informed on all of those…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026