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REGULAR MEETING VILLAGE
BOARD OF THE VILLAGE OF CALL TO
ORDER: The Regular
Meeting of the Village Board of the Village of Lake Villa was called to order
at SALUTE THE FLAG: The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Mayor Loffredo. ROLL CALL: Roll call indicated
the following present: Mayor Loffredo;
Clerk Brownlee; Attorney Bateman; Trustees Dykstra, Effinger, Hall, Harms,
McDonald and Trkla. With a quorum
present the meeting was called to order. MINUTES: It
was moved by Tr. Effinger and seconded by Tr. McDonald to approve the minutes
of the ROLL
CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED MAYOR: Executive Session/Pending Litigation / Probable or Eminent Litigation It was moved by Tr. Hall and seconded by Tr. Effinger to go into Executive Session for the purpose of Pending Litigation/Probable or Eminent Litigation following a brief recess after Citizens Wishing to Address the Board. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED Class “F”
Liquor License It was moved by
Tr. McDonald and seconded by Tr. Harms to approve a Class “F” Liquor License
for the Cross Town Classic that will take place on Saturday, ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED FINANCE: Resolution 2008-08-02 It was moved by Tr. Effinger and seconded by Tr. Harms to adopt Resolution 2007-08-02 approving the reduction in value of a performance guarantee and authorizing the substitution of an irrevocable letter of credit Re: The Pines Phase I Subdivision to the amount of $190,019.53 from State Bank of the Lakes to Nor States Bank. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 5 PRESENT: 1(Tr. Dykstra) MOTION CARRIED WATER & SEWER: Pay Request
#5 Well It was moved by Tr. Harms and seconded by Tr. Dykstra to approve Pay Request #5 (final) from Seater Construction for the Belmont Well House Completion project, per the Engineer’s recommendation, in the amount of $32,150.30 to be paid from the water accumulation fund. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED Well #5 Rehab Project It was moved by Tr. Harms and seconded by Tr. McDonald to authorize the engineer to prepare plans and go out for bids for the Well #5 Rehab project. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED Pay Request #1 – Oak Knoll Water Main Project It was moved by Tr. Harms and seconded by Tr. McDonald to approve Pay Request #1 from Elmwood Enterprises for the Oak Knoll Water Main project, per the Engineer’s recommendation, in the amount of $287,145.00 to be paid from the bond issue proceeds. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED Pay Request #1 – Water ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED ComEd
Service Agreement It was moved by
Tr. Harms and seconded by Tr. Effinger to authorize the Mayor to sign the
Electric Facilities Service Agreement from Com Ed and issue a check in the
amount of $15,933.28 to cover costs for the installation of underground
facilities for the ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED ROADS & STREETS: Award Improvement Projects It was moved by Tr. Effinger and seconded by Tr. Harms to award the CDBG Road Improvement project to the lowest bidder, Payne and Dolan, in the amount of $233,905.00 as recommended by the engineer. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED PLANNING, PROPERTY & PARKS: Purchase Pole Barn at ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED Disk Golf Baskets It was moved by Tr. McDonald and seconded by Tr. Effinger to approve the expenditure for disk golf baskets not to exceed $4,000.00. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 PRESENT: 1(Tr. Dykstra) MOTION CARRIED PUBLIC SAFETY: Hire part time police officer It was moved by Tr. McDonald and seconded by Tr. Effinger to authorize Chief Visconti to hire Ron Roth as a part time police officer at $15.00 per hour effective immediately. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED ORDINANCE & LICENSES: Raffle License Ordinance It was moved by Tr. Trkla and seconded by Tr. McDonald to direct Attorney Bateman to draft a Raffle License Ordinance. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED BUILDING & ZONING: Business Signs It was moved by Tr. Hall and seconded by Tr. McDonald to authorize Mayor Loffredo to sign two business sign requests (1) Mary’s Hair & Nail and (2) Sammies Burgers and Gyros to be forwarded to the Architectural Review Board. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION CARRIED CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: Joyce Frayer of 50 Oak Knoll asked for the explanation of a Disk Golf Basket. Mrs. Frayer also inquired about the name of the newly hired police officer. RECONVENE: It
was moved by Tr. Effinger and seconded by Tr. Hall to reconvene the Village
Board meeting at ROLL
CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION
CARRIED Resolution 2007-08-03 It was moved by Tr. Trkla and seconded by Tr. Effinger to adopt Resolution 2007-08-03, Granting Preliminary Approval For The Sherwood – Johnston Planned Unit Development. ROLL CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 5 NAY: 1 (Tr. Dykstra) MOTION
CARRIED Citizens Comments: Fred Nielsen of Nancy
Cook of 248 W. Grand was concerned with the continued purity of
ADJOURNMENT: It was moved by Tr. Effinger and seconded by
Tr. Dykstra to adjourn the regular meeting of the Village Board at ROLL
CALL VOTE WAS: AYES: 6 MOTION
CARRIED APPROVED BY
ME THIS______________________DAY OF__________________________,2007 ____________________________________________ FRANK M.
LOFFREDO, MAYOR
__________________________________________ ALICE
K. BROWNLEE, VILLAGE CLERK |