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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-20-06 City Council Meeting Minutes A regular meeting of the Canton City Council was held on June 20, 2006 in th Council Chambers at 50 North 4 Avenue, Canton, Illinois. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE OPENED THE MEETING FOLLOWED BY THE INVOCATION GIVEN BY CITY CLERK NANCY WHITES. Mayor Heinze asked for roll call at 6:30 p.m. Present – Aldermen Joe Berardi, Jim Hartford, Craig West, Larry Sarff, Kevin Meade, Les Carl, Eric Schenck, Rick Reed. Absent – None. MINUTES OF JUNE 6, 2006 COUNCIL MEETING. Motion and second by Aldermen Jim Hartford/West, the minutes of June 6, 2006 City Council meeting be placed on file. The motion carried by voice vote, and was unanimous. MINUTES OF JUNE 13, 2006 CLERICAL COMMITTEE MEETING. Motion and second by Aldermen Sarff/Carl, the minutes of the Clerical rd Committee meeting held on June 23, 2006 be accepted and placed on file. TREASURER’S REPORT. Motion and second by Alderman Carl/West, to approve the Treasurer’s Report. Voice vote, motion carried unanimously. BUDGET REPORT. City Treasurer Kathy Luker commented that if we pay off the loan on the City Building at 2 North Main by some 26 payments early the estimated savings to the City is $2,163.23. Motion and second by Aldermen Carl/Sarff, to approve the Budget Report, and to pay off the City Building early in the amount of $59,844.11. Discussion. Alderman Berardi mentioned that work needs to be done on the th Dam at the Water Plant, and the sewer repair on 11 and Myrtle is around $100,000. Alderman Berardi wondered if it would be prudent to pay off the City Building loan at the higher rate? Alderman Sarff mentioned that the funds will come from the Water & Sewer funds. City Treasurer Kathy Luker said the Water & Sewer Account has reserve funds that will be used. Alderman Berardi asked what kind of money are we talking about in reserves? Kathy commented around $300,000 in Water & Sewer reserves. Alderman Berardi said the Kilroy Lift Station is being replaced with a new th one, and this will not eliminate the problem at 11 and Myrtle. 1 Council meeting 6-20-06 Alderman Carl said it’s insignificant as he is not going to withdrawn his motion. Alderman Berardi said we need to get Maurer Stutz Inc. to sit down and come up with a plan on how much funding will need on all of the upcoming projects that we are going to have to do. Alderman Schenck said the funding to pay off the City Building loan will come from HHS funds. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Reed, Schenck, Carl, Meade, Sarff, West, Hartford. NAYS – Alderman Berardi. 7 AYES, 1 NAY, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. BILLS FOR MAY. Motion and second by Aldermen West/Reed, the bills for May as presented be approved for payment. Discussion. Kathy Luker said she needed to have direction on two bills she has to pay out of the TIF Account and the Treasurer’s Report shows a balance of $12,631.32. The Motion two bills total $15,250.51. and second by Alderman Sarff/Berardi to exhaust the TIF fund and pay the remaining amount out of the General Fund. Alderman Sarff withdrew his motion and Alderman Berardi withdrew his second. Motion and second by West/Reed, to approve the bills for May as presented, and to approve the added amendment of, to have the City Treasurer pay the $15,250.51 out of the TIF funds and remaining amount to be paid from the General Fund. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Berardi, Hartford, West, Sarff, Meade, Carl, Schenck, Reed. NAYS – None. 8 AYES, 0 NAYS, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. COMMITTEE REPORTS. Finance. Council Action Greenway Trails Plan. Alderman Carl mentioned that the city can give the amounts of $30,000 a year for 5 years, which was recommended by Bill Kuhn, so no action is required. Alderman Berardi said the planning of this trail was done by the former Mayor Jerry Bohler, Maurer Stutz Inc. representative Keith Plavec. Bill 2 Council meeting 6-6-06 Kuhn did not do anything on this. Bill Kuhn took it out of the city’s hands of how the grant funding would be utilized. Bill wants the trail to begin at th Lakeland Park and go to 4 Avenue. The Park District should pay 25% of funding for a total of $37,500 and the City should not pay more than $37,500. The whole thing was a political decision that was really reckless. Alderman Schenck said we committed $150,000 to a $2 million dollar proposal. But received was $481,000. As I see it, we have not made any commitments yet. Alderman Berardi mentioned that one man made that decision. This should have been brought before the council. Alderman Schenck mentioned that the $150,000 could be used toward other priority as a street/road program. Mayor Heinze said we would not have received anything without Bill Kuhn’s assistance. Alderman Meade stated that State Rep. Mike Smith was involved in this also, and very much so. And all of us have seen the map of the planned trail. The Greenway Trails Plan will be sent back to Alderman Carl’s committee meeting next month. Purchase Saw. Motion and second by Aldermen Carl/Sarff, to approve the purchase of a Cutter’s Edge 14” rotary saw from Municipal Emergency Services in the amount of $1,980.00 for the fire department. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Reed, Schenck, Carl, Meade, Sarff, West, Hartford, Berardi. NAYS – None. 8 AYES, 0 NAYS, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. Health Care 2005-2006 deficit. Motion and second by Aldermen Carl/West, the following entities to pay $55,756.92 from City of Canton, $4,435.21 from Park District, $3,168.01 from Parlin-Ingersoll Library, to be used towards the deficit in the Health Care Fund of $77,035.44. Alderman Schenck wanted to know if the funding was part of the Budget? City Treasurer Kathy Luker said it was not, but is part of Contingency or we would have to amend the Budget. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Berardi, Hartford, West, Sarff, Meade, Carl, Schenck, Reed. NAYS – None. 8 AYES, 0 NAYS, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. 3 Council meeting 6-6-06 Kilroy Lift Station Bid Award. Motion and second by Aldermen Carl/Hartford, to approve of the low bid from Leander Construction Inc in the amount of $1,569,002.19 for the Kilroy Lift Station. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Reed, Schenck, Carl, Meade, Sarff, West, Hartford, Berardi. NAYS – None. 8 AYES, 0 NAYS, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. Hoke Ridge Estates moving of storm and sanitary sewer. Alderman Carl said it was referred to the City Attorney Chrissie Peterson and the report will come from the city attorney. Legal & Ordinance. Council Action Farmer’s Market Sponsored by Chamber of Commerce. Motion and second by Aldermen West/Meade, for the city attorney to amend the current ordinance (that reads…to allow the selling of non-farm projects regardless of origin are prohibited at farmers markets,) and to accept the Chamber of Commerce as the sponsor of the Farmers Market around Jones Park. Discussion. Alderman Schenck said it sounds wonderful to him for the selling of jams, jellies. The selling of crafts worries him. He wants to warn the Chamber to be very careful not to take away the food products from the farmers market, as we don’t want this to turn into a flea market. Alderman Sarff said he shares some of those same concerns but wants to try for one season. Mark Rothert the SRPED Director said they will make sure the participants have quality items. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Berardi, Hartford, West, Sarff, Meade, Carl, Schenck, Reed. NAYS – None. 8 AYES, 0 NAYS, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. Community & Industrial Development. Council Action None. Negotiations, Grievance & Personnel. 4 Council meeting 6-6-06 Council Action. None. COMMUNICATIONS FROM MAYOR HEINZE – Right Turn only on North Main and East Birch Street. Motion and second by Aldermen Sarff/Reed, for the city attorney to draft an ordinance for right turn only on North Main and East Birch Street. Discussion. Alderman Sarff said we had talked about the proposal of a right turn only when the Dairy Queen opened up to keep the traffic moving. First night they opened there were a few problems. Voice vote, motion carried unanimously. Custodian for Jones Park. Motion and second by Aldermen Sarff/West, to hire custodian for Jones Park of Carol Kohler and to be paid $500 a year. Discussion. Mayor Heinze said Carol was his secretary and will be doing the custodial work during her regular working hours at City Hall. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Reed, Schenck, Carl, Meade, Sarff, West, Hartford, Berardi. NAYS – None. 8 AYES, 0 NAYS, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. Council Meeting on July 4, 2006. Mayor Heinze mentioned that the city ordinance mentions when a holiday falls on the day of a council meeting, the meeting will be held the next day. The next council meeting will be held on th Wednesday July 5, at 6:30 p.m. OLD BUSINESS: None. NEW BUSINESS: Alderman Carl was asked by Alderman Berardi for a break down of allocated money that was spent on the Cruise-In last Friday. Alderman Carl said the report will come from Mark Rothert and he has not received it yet. 5 Council meeting 6-6-06 Alderman Berardi commented on the Public Informational Meeting that was held on June 13 prior to the Clerical Committee meeting. Two things bothers him and one of them is Larry Hughes from Maurer Stutz Inc. of the Peoria office talked for several minutes so that did not leave much time for making comments. Found some errors in the Maurer Stutz Inc. plan. Alderman Berardi said this is the reason he wants to discuss it. Public Works Director Cliff O’Brien mentioned that after the storm th sewer/sanitary sewer at 11 & Myrtle is tved the city will have to review all of the tapes. There are some things will have to do now, and that is to get rid of CSO. And to do that we will have to separate both sewers. Before we can correct either, we have to get the sanitary sewer up in great shape. And then we can let the storm sewer be just that. Will have to go into a Mr. Little’s yard to correct this, and there is no problem going in there. Alderman Berardi wants this on the agenda next week. Public Works Director Clif O’Brien mentioned about the Lake Dam, Maurer Stutz Inc. has given their report of some hollow spots found that we need to take a look at. Maurer Stutz Inc. do a report every year on the Dam. This same problem occurred in 1998 and we had to do the same thing and that is to pump grout into those hollow spots. ORDINANCE – PROVIDING FOR A WARNING LIGHT ON AVENUE B AND TWO ADDITIONAL STOP SIGNS ON AVENUE B AT THE INTERSECTION OF AVENUE B AND EAST MAPLE STREET. First reading, read by title. EXECUTIVE SESSION – NEGOTIATIONS, GRIEVANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS – PROBABLE OR IMMINENT LITIGATION. Motion and second by Aldermen Sarff/Meade, to go into executive session to discuss probable or imminent litigation. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Berardi, Hartford, West, Sarff, Meade, Carl, Schenck, Reed. NAYS – None. 8 AYES, 0 NAYS, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. The regular session of the Canton City Council meeting convened into executive session at 7:22 p.m. 6 Council meeting 6-6-06 The minutes of the executive session are on file in the office of the City Clerk for review. The regular scheduled Council meeting reconvened into open session at 8:01 p.m. Motion and second by Aldermen Meade/Hartford, to direct the city attorney to draft a letter to all concerned parties auditing health care claims. Roll call. AYES – Aldermen Berardi, Hartford, West, Sarff, Meade, Carl, Schenck, Reed. NAYS – None. 8 AYES, 0 NAYS, 0 ABSENT. Motion carried. Adjournment. Motion and second by Aldermen Hartford/Reed, to adjourn. The motion carried by voice vote, and was unanimous. The regular scheduled council meeting adjourned at 8:05 p.m. ______________________________ Nancy Whites, City Clerk ATTEST: ______________________________, Rodney W. Heinze, Mayor 7