Village of Bartlett Village Board met Sept. 1.
Here is the minutes provided by the board:
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Trustees Carbonaro, Deyne, Gandsey, Hopkins, Reinke and President Wallace
ABSENT: Trustee Gabrenya
ALSO PRESENT: Village Administrator Paula Schumacher, Assistant Village Administrator Scott Skrycki, Sr. Management Analyst Sam Hughes, Management Analyst Joey Dienberg, Finance Director Todd Dowden, Director of Public Works Dan Dinges, Planning & Development Director Roberta Grill, Building Director Brian Goralski, Grounds Superintendent Kevin DeRoo, Police Chief Patrick Ullrich, Deputy Chief Geoff Pretkelis, Village Attorney Bryan Mraz and Village Clerk Lorna Giless.
3. INVOCATION
Father Christopher Ciomek of St. Peter Damian Catholic Church gave the invocation.
4. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
5. CONSENT AGENDA
President Wallace stated that all items marked with an asterisk on the Agenda are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion. He further stated that there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Board member so requests, in which event, that item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered at the appropriate point on the Agenda. He asked if there were any items a Board member wished to remove from the Consent Agenda, or any items a Board member wished to add to the Consent Agenda.
There were no additions or deletions to the Consent Agenda.
President Wallace then recited each item that was on the Consent Agenda, including the nature of the matters being considered and other information to inform the public of matters being voted upon. He then stated that he would entertain a motion to approve the Consent Agenda, and the items designated to be approved by consent therein.
Trustee Deyne moved to approve the Consent Agenda and that motion was seconded by Trustee Hopkins.
ROLL CALL VOTE TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AND CONSENT ITEMS THEREIN
AYES: Trustees Carbonaro, Deyne, Gandsey, Hopkins, Reinke
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Trustee Gabrenya
MOTION CARRIED
6. MINUTES – Covered and approved under the Consent Agenda.
7. BILL LIST – Covered and approved under the Consent Agenda.
8. TREASURER’S REPORT-None
9. PRESIDENT’S REPORT - None
10.QUESTION/ANSWER: PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES
Trustee Gandsey thanked the Mayor for assigning her to the Board. She gave her sympathies to Trustee Camerer’s family and colleagues. She didn’t know Trustee Camerer very well but one thing they had in common is a love for service and leadership. She stated that she was excited to serve with the Mayor and this Board and all the professionals the Village of Bartlett as well as the community. In the past few weeks she has heard more and more stories about Dr. Camerer and everything he loved about this community. She wants to emulate that service leadership. She thanked everyone for the opportunity and looked forward to being part of caring for our community.
11. TOWN HALL
Janet Susskind, 1933 Sundrop Court
Ms. Susskind stated that a bunch of residents met at the Plan Commission meeting only to find out that it was the wrong one. She thought that they were being punished because they live on the west end of Bartlett. They don’t want or need another gas station that is really not a gas station. When asked if the liquor sales were not included, would they still build a gas station? They said “no, it’s not profitable”. When asked if they didn’t have the gambling would it be built? They said “no, it’s not profitable”. Basically, the gas station is a shell to have gambling and liquor sales to establish it. The biggest problem is that there is only one lane of traffic in any direction around there. You have a perfectly good industrial park with a minimum of two lanes in each direction. Why wouldn’t we steer this establishment to something like that instead of putting it in a place with no infrastructure. We don’t need one single more truck on West Bartlett Road. She stated that at the Plan Commission meeting, the audience was full and nobody wants it. It’s not worth the tax break to add all that extra traffic. They already have a hard time with traffic and feels like they are being treated like the red-headed stepchild. They put all kinds of crap that they don’t want on the west side. She didn’t feel like the board fought the train issue very hard. When residents on the west side try to get to the east side of town on West Bartlett, they have had to sit and wait and wait. There is one lane in each direction and nowhere for these people to go to get to work because the board did not fight it. She suggested putting in housing or stores that are wanted, restaurants, fast food establishments, etc. The people do not want another liquor store or gambling establishment or another gas station. She goes to South Elgin or Bloomingdale to do her shopping. She can’t do it in Bartlett because there is nothing here. This is how people feel.
12. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. BUILDING & ZONING COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN REINKE
Trustee Reinke stated that there was no report.
B. COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN GANDSEY
Trustee Gandsey stated that there was no report.
C. FINANCE & GOLF COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN DEYNE
Trustee Deyne presented Ordinance 2020-81, an Ordinance of the Village of Bartlett, Cook, DuPage and Kane Counties, Illinois, Providing for the Issuance of a not to exceed $3,000,000 Taxable Subordinate Lien Tax Increment Revenue Note, Series 2020 (Bartlett Quarry Redevelopment Project), and Pledging Certain Incremental Property Tax Revenues to the Payment Thereof.
Trustee Deyne moved to approve Ordinance 2020-81, an Ordinance of the Village of Bartlett, Cook, DuPage and Kane Counties, Illinois, Providing for the Issuance of a not to exceed $3,000,000 Taxable Subordinate Lien Tax Increment Revenue Note, Series 2020 (Bartlett Quarry Redevelopment Project), and Pledging Certain Incremental Property Tax Revenues to the Payment Thereof.and that motion was seconded by Trustee Carbonaro.
Trustee Gandsey asked what the risks were on this.
Finance Director Todd Dowden stated that there is no obligation from the village. The property tax increment is collected to pay the developer note and if there is not enough increment, the village has no liability to pay the note.
ROLL CALL VOTE TO APPROVE ORDINANCE 2020-81, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE NOT TO EXCEED $3,000,000 TAXABLE SUBORDINATE LIEN TAX INCREMENT FOR BARTLETT QUARRY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
AYES: Trustees Carbonaro, Deyne, Gandsey, Hopkins, Reinke, President Wallace
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Trustee Gabrenya
MOTION CARRIED
D. LICENSE & ORDINANCE COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN HOPKINS
Trustee Hopkins stated that there was no report.
E. POLICE & HEALTH COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN CARBONARO
Trustee Carbonaro stated that Resolution 2020-82-R, a Resolution Approving of the Law Enforcement Agreement and Order No. 1 Between the Village of Bartlett and Lexisnexis Coplogic Solutions Inc. and Resolution 2020-83-R, a Resolution Approving the Intergovernmental and Subrecipient Agreement for Coronavirus Relief Funds Between the County of Cook and the Village of Bartlett were covered and approved under the Consent Agenda.
F. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN GABRENYA
President Wallace stated that Trustee Gabrenya had an emergency and could not be here. He stated that there was no report.
13. NEW BUSINESS
President Wallace stated that one of the things he mentioned in the past was to have a truck impact study done. There has already been a Brewster Creek traffic study done when it was first established. He felt the Board should highly encourage staff to find some experts to do a thorough truck traffic impact study as these larger buildings come to completion and to see the options available to ease the truck traffic as much as possible. You don’t have a commercial business park without a bunch of trucks. He hoped to get ahead of it so they are not trying to play “catch-up” when it comes to improvements in intersections. If the Board agrees, he would instruct staff to look into this study. This would be an overlay on top of the existing study when Brewster Creek was first established.
Village Administrator Paula Schumacher stated that they can certainly do that. They requested that Chicago Elmhurst Stone complete a traffic directional study for the remaining buildout of the park. This was a direction from the Board earlier this year. The study was delayed because of Covid and the traffic numbers were down. Staff has asked them to take up that task again. They will overlay that study on top of the original study to get a comprehensive look at all the truck traffic generated. Looking over the plan for Brewster Creek when it was being built, the terminating date was 2020. Some of the improvements recommended in that plan are just coming to fruition right now. These included intersection improvements at Route 59 and Stearns Road. A number of those things take a long time to come to reality but they have to start setting the table now for them.
President Wallace spoke about West Bartlett Road, where the end of it is Kane County and the rest is Cook County and IDOT. Three entities that must meet at the same table once the study is complete and have a solid plan in place.
Trustee Reinke stated that the product of this study would be the intent that the product would be helpful in dealing with Cook County ignoring us about Naperville Road and other areas, also. South Bartlett and West Bartlett Roads are not under the Village’s jurisdiction and when we press the case with these other units of local government, they basically blow us off.
Trustee Carbonaro asked if there was any discussion to further the traffic flow on Route 25 since that does not belong to the village either. Do they have any intention of developing it further?
President Wallace indicated that it would be a part of this study.
14. ADJOURN TO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING
President Wallace stated that the Board would be going directly into the Committee of the Whole meeting following adjournment.
There being no further business to discuss, Trustee Deyne moved to adjourn the regular Board meeting and that motion was seconded by Trustee Hopkins.
ROLL CALL VOTE TO ADJOURN
AYES: Trustees Carbonaro, Deyne, Gandsey, Hopkins, Reinke
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Trustee Gabrenya
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was adjourned at 7:19 p.m.
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