Bartlett Board of Trustees met Tuesday, Dec. 20.
Here are the minutes as provided by Bartlett:
VILLAGE OF BARTLETT
BOARD MINUTES
December 20, 2016
1. CALL TO ORDER
President Wallace called the regular meeting of December 6, 2016 of the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Bartlett to order on the above date at 7:03 p.m. in the Council Chambers.
2. ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Trustee Camerer, Carbonaro, Deyne, Hopkins, Reinke, and President Wallace
ABSENT: Trustee Arends
ALSO PRESENT: Village Administrator Valerie Salmons, Assistant Administrator Paula Schumacher, Assistant to the Village Administrator Scott Skrycki, Interim Finance Director Todd Dowden, Community Development Director Jim Plonczynski, Public Works Engineer Bob Allen, Building Director Brian Goralski, Food & Beverage Manager Paul Petersen, Head Golf Professional Phil Lenz, Chief Kent Williams, Deputy Chief Chuck Snider, Village Attorney Bryan Mraz and Village Clerk Lorna Giless.
3. INVOCATION
Pastor Andy Doyle from Christ Community Church did 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 to the Consent Agenda.
Trustee Deyne moved to approve the Consent Agenda and all items therein and that motion was seconded by Trustee Camerer.
ROLL CALL VOTE TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AND ALL ITEMS THEREIN
AYES: Trustees Camerer, Carbonaro, Deyne, Hopkins, Reinke
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Trustee Arends
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
Interim Finance Director, Todd Dowden stated that the Treasurer’s Report for October was included and they will be going over in more detail at the six month review in the Committee of the Whole meeting immediately following. He summarized that the Motor Fuel Tax distribution through September, 2016 totaled $79,032 and Municipal Sales Tax Report through August, 2016 was $209,930 and it represented a slight increase of just under 2%.
Trustee Hopkins asked if the motor fuel tax gets paid back to us from the State from gasoline sales within our Village.
Mr. Dowden stated that motor fuel tax is distributed on a per capita basis based on our population.
9. PRESIDENT’S REPORT
President Wallace stated that Chief Williams has a brief presentation for the National Night Out Award.
Chief Williams stated that it was his humble honor, he has been a police officer for the Village of Bartlett for 32 years and the Chief for 5. About 27 years ago, under the tutelage of Chief Bill McCue, they started a program called National Night Out. At that point it was a news release that asked residents to turn their front porch light on to show their community support for a crime free community. It has grown since then to the point where we are a perennial “go to community” for how you build community interaction and build community partnerships. It’s not science, it’s an art, which ultimately comes down to relationships. They are truly blessed to having the best at spearheading those relationships and a Board that is supportive of those relationships as well as a Village Administrator who has demanded those relationships. He presented a video to the Board highlighting the summer’s event.
Chief Williams stated that thousands of communities put in for an award this year and once again, he was proud to announce that the Village of Bartlett came in at number onein the entire country! He also presented a Certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people simultaneously blowing train whistles is 1,569 achieved by the Village of Bartlett in 2016.
President Wallace presented a Class D liquor license request for St. Peter Damian Catholic Church for February 25, 2017. He stated that they request this license every year and all the paperwork was in order.
Trustee Carbonaro motioned to approve the Class D liquor license and was seconded by Trustee Deyne.
ROLL CALL VOTE TO APPROVE THE CLASS D LIQUOR LICENSE REQUEST FOR ST. PETER DAMIAN
AYES: Trustees Camerer, Carbonaro, Deyne, Hopkins, Reinke
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Trustee Arends
MOTION CARRIED
10. QUESTION/ANSWER: PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES
Trustee Deyne wished the staff, Board members, and the community happy holidays. He stated that he has had a lot of positive feedback on the Christmas decorations within the Village.
Trustee Carbonaro also wished the entire room a Merry Christmas.
11. TOWN HALL
Richard Francke, 945 Auburn Lane
Mr. Francke stated that he has spoken here before over the past few years on the Com Ed plan to install Smart Meters in Bartlett. The future is now. He called attention to the fact that notification has been made to many, including myself, who have attempted to opt out of this installation. He was not opposed to the Smart Grid but that has nothing to do with Smart Meters. As an “opt out” homeowner, he will be charged $21.53 per month additional to not take the Smart Meter. A penalty charge for not doing something.
Just to review, the purpose, as stated by Com Ed, is to eliminate meter readers and provide consumers with real time data about their electric consumption. In so doing, they will transmit use data every few minutes via wireless transmission. Though not stated, this information will then be used in the future to provide variable billing, so that at peak demand periods you will pay higher rates. Count on this. It will happen. Hastening that issue was the recent attempt by Com Ed to decommission two nuclear sites in Illinois.
Only the persistence of Governor Rauner forced them to postpone that for ten years. When these two sites are closed, Illinois will be a virtually a totally fossil driven power grid having closed other nuclear sites previously. If these issues were not enough to raise a red flag, he added a possibly more complex but serious issue. Though you will be told that the 900 megahertz transmission speed is no problem to human beings, which in itself, it isn’t, but it is really only a part of the equation. The pertinent issue is the field intensity or power of the transmission at the meter. It is roughly 10-20 times that of a cell phone when compared to a cell phone conversation versus 8 feet away from a smart meter during transmission. This intensity is much higher closer to the device as it varies at the square of the distance. It has been shown to cause brain issues and nausea in roughly 5% of people.
As a point of comparison, think in terms of a radar installation. You do not go in front of radar set in operation. It will immediately destroy your eye retinas at a minimum. Likewise, microwave ovens would be very dangerous if it weren’t for the fact they are internally shielded to minimize RF exposure to humans. These are just extreme comparisons, but to make a point, if this were happening once a month like a normal meter reader it wouldn’t be a problem, and likely if it even happened once a day it wouldn’t be a problem. This transmission will happen every few minutes combined with local area network communication between other meters at 2.4 gigahertz. Add to that in a multifamily building where there are as many as 20 of these meters transmitting, the danger to people living close to those meters is exponentially greater. The transmissions are virtually nonstop 24/7.
Many communities and states have taken independent action on this issue including Naperville and Burr Ridge. He recommend the Village of Bartlett do their “due diligence“ and contact them and review the web site “Take Back Your Power”. There are cases discussed that will give pause to proceeding. In my opinion, there is no sound reason that these devices need to transmit data more than once a day. At the transmission speeds we are talking about the entire daily power usage minute by minute can be transmitted in less than 3 seconds.
Charlie Deveaux, 111 Tatge Avenue
Mr. Deveaux wished the Board a Merry Christmas.
12. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN REINKE
President Wallace stated that Trustee Reinke would like to recuse himself from any of the RLE property corporation items and requested that Trustee Hopkins chair that portion of the Planning & Zoning Committee.
Trustee Deyne also asked to recuse himself from RLE discussions.
Village Attorney Mraz stated that the Ordinance Approving the Annexation Agreement requires five votes in favor, which will not be possible this evening due to an absence and the fact that two Trustees have recused themselves from discussing or voting on the RLE matters. While there would be sufficient votes for some of the other RLE ordinances, resolutions and agreements, they all follow the Annexation Agreement which needs to be adopted first.
Trustee Hopkins moved to Table items 1-6 under the Planning & Zoning Committee portion of the Agenda until the first meeting in January, 2017 and that motion was seconded by Trustee Camerer.
1. Ordinance Approving RLE Property Corporation Annexation Agreement
2. Ordinance Annexing the RLE Property Corporation 2.055+/- Acre Parcel
3. Ordinance Rezoning the 6.475+/- Acre RLE Property to B-3, Granting a Special Use Permit and Site Plan Approval for RLE Property Corporation
4. Resolution Approving Intergovernmental Agreement Between the Village of Streamwood, RLE Property Corporation and the Village of Bartlett
5. Resolution Approving RLE Property Corporation Public Improvements Completion Agreement
6. Resolution Approving Ala Carte Entertainment, L.P. Easement Agreement
ROLL CALL VOTE TO TABLE ITEMS 1-6 ON THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE
AYES: Trustees Camerer, Carbonaro, Hopkins, President Wallace
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Trustee Arends
RECUSED: Trustees Deyne, Reinke
MOTION CARRIED
B. BUILDING COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN HOPKINS
Trustee Hopkins stated that there was no report.
C. FINANCE & GOLF COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN DEYNE
Trustee Deyne presented Resolution 2016-97-R, A Resolution Adopting the 2017-2021 Capital Improvements Program.
Administrator Salmons stated that this is the Resolution to approve that budget. One of the reasons that we do it separately from the Operating Budget in the Spring is that they are able to plan out any bids for roadwork and be able to get into the market more quickly while saving money. There was one project that Trustee Camerer questioned relative to the parking lot at Ruzicka. She indicated that they have left that in the budget but they are putting some information together about the different options that they looked at and the Board can make a decision later.
Trustee Deyne moved to approve Resolution 2016-97-R, a Resolution Adopting the 2017 - 2021 Capital Improvements Program, and that motion was seconded by Trustee Hopkins.
Trustee Hopkins asked when they bid projects out, do they also bid out the engineering work.
Administrator Salmons stated that they bid that separately.
Attorney Mraz stated that sometimes the Village will do an RFP for professional services. It does not actually bid it. Depending on the size of the project, and whether or not there is an engineering firm the Village is working with that may have familiarity with the engineering issues, there may not be an RFQ/RFP process. Generally, however, the Village follows an RFQ/RFP process if time allows.
Trustee Hopkins wanted to make sure that they were not only going with the lowest bidder when it comes to the project.
Public Works Engineer Bob Allen stated that it would depend on what kind of project it was. For example, the MFT projects, the engineering is done in-house. Some of the other projects in the capital budget require outside help and they will generally use the RFP process.
Trustee Hopkins stated that he would like them to utilize every opportunity to save money.
ROLL CALL VOTE TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 2016-97-R ADOPTING THE 2017- 2021 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM
AYES: Trustees Camerer, Carbonaro, Deyne, Hopkins, Reinke
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Trustee Arends
MOTION CARRIED
D. LICENSE & ORDINANCE COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN ARENDS
Trustee Arends stated that there was no report.
E. POLICE & HEALTH COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN CARBONARO
Trustee Carbonaro stated that there was no report.
F. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE, CHAIRMAN CAMERER
Trustee Camerer stated that there was no report.
13. NEW BUSINESS - None
14. QUESTION/ANSWER: PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES
President Wallace wished everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
15. ADJOURNMENT
President Wallace stated that the Board will be going into the Committee of the Whole meeting immediately following the close of this meeting and then into Executive Session to discuss Personnel pursuant to Section 2(c)1 of the Open Meetings Act.
There being no further business to discuss, Trustee Carbonaro moved to adjourn the regular Board meeting and that motion was seconded by Trustee Hopkins.
ROLL CALL VOTE TO ADJOURN
AYES: Trustees Camerer, Carbonaro, Deyne, Hopkins, Reinke
NAYS: None
ABSENT: Trustee Arends
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was adjourned at 7:38 p.m.
Lorna Giless, Village Clerk
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