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DeKalb County, Illinois |
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The
Executive Committee of the DeKalb County Board met on Tuesday, September 11,
2001 @ 7:00 p.m. at the Administration Building=s
Conference Room East. Chairman
Robert Pritchard called the meeting to order.
Members present were Robert Hutcheson, John Morreale, Roger Steimel, Ruth
Anne Tobias and John Wilson. Ms.
Leifheit arrived at 7:12p.m. Others
present were Ray Bockman, Gary Hanson, Greg Millburg, Julie Morreale and John
Dlabal.
Mr. Wilson amended the minutes to reflect another appointment under the
Squaw Grove Drainage District of Mr. Don Willrett.
Documentation for this nominee was not received until after the Executive
Committee met and it was recommended and approved at the County Board Meeting. Moved by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr. Steimel, and it was
carried unanimously to accept the minutes of the August 7, 2001 meeting.
Mr.
Bockman asked to amend the agenda to reflect item #4a. – County Farm
Development. Moved by Mr. Wilson,
seconded by Mr. Steimel, and it was carried unanimously to approve the amended
agenda.
Chairman Pritchard recommended the following appointments:
DeKalb
County Public Building Commission: Ms. Ellen Barker, reappointment for a term of 5 years, until
10/01/2006.
Community
Mental Health Board: Ms.
Patricia E. Terry, appointment for a term of 4 years, until 10/01/2005.
Moved by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr. Hutcheson, and it was carried
unanimously to approve the appointments as presented by Chairman Pritchard, and
to forward them onto the full board for approval.
COUNTY
FARM DEVELOPMENT RESOLUTION – Provides terms of an agreement between the
County and a private developer to make certain infrastructure improvements
on/and adjacent to the DeKalb County Farm Property.
Chairman Pritchard stated that a letter was sent to the committee members
recently outlining the development going on at Greenwood Acres.
Before the members this evening is a resolution regarding this item.
Mr. Bockman stated that the developer is intending to extend the road to
the new extension of Dresser Road at their expense on our property. Costs for
future extensions from that point to the railroad right of way will be shared
equally. This includes an agreement on their part to help realign the road.
Part of the alignment of that road will be on property owned by the
County and planned to be dedicated for public road purposes and part of it will
be on property owned by the developers and planned to be sold as a commercial
development. The developer has also
agreed to extend the sanitary/sewer lines at their expense and provide two
connections to the adjacent County property.
Mr. Bockman also said that the resolution authorizes the chairman to act
once the elements are fulfilled and in recordable form.
Mr. Steimel said that in the locator map it shows that Dresser Road
curves up and is coming up to meet Greenwood Acres Drive, does that mean that
Dresser Road will not be extended out to meet Peace Road?
Mr. Bockman said that Dresser will not but as you see there is a “Y”
road coming off of there, that road they do plan to extend to Peace Road.
That would line up to the road by Encoat, he further explained.
Mr. Bockman stated that we are approving only the approximately 700’
extension of Greenwood Acres Road. The
Dresser Road alignment is within the City of DeKalb’s jurisdiction.
Mr. Morreale asked Mr. Bockman if the City of DeKalb knows about this?
Mr. Bockman said yes, that they have been working this with the developer
for a while. We have only recently
been involved in this because of the extension of Greenwood Acres Drive that
would be on part of County owned property.
Mr. Steimel asked if the appropriate County staff could work with the
City regarding Dresser Road? Mr. Bockman said that he would be happy to talk to
the City on behalf of the board.
Moved
by Ms. Leifheit, seconded by Mr. Wilson, and it was carried unanimously to
recommend the County Farm Development Resolution with John Clare Ltd., and to
forward this recommendation on to the full board for approval.
Mr. Bockman presented the County Board Agenda for the meeting to be held
on September 19, 2001. Chairman
Pritchard asked Ms. Tobias if there were any speakers that would be addressing
the county board this month? Ms.
Tobias stated that Senator Bradley Burzynski will be addressing the board in
October and that Representative Wirsing is out of town at the present time.
Moved by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr. Steimel, and it was carried
unanimously to accept the county board agenda as presented by Mr. Bockman.
Mr.
Steimel, Chairman of the Administrative Services Committee, stated that the
regional planning included in the budget is for the next two years.
He further stated that he felt that this is becoming more and more an
important issue than ever before.
Ms.
Leifheit, Chairman of the Public Services Committee, stated that at her
committee meeting last evening she felt that it was an outstanding way of
handling it because the members were just seeing the workbooks for the first
time since most of them received them last evening.
So, instead of making decisions, we went over the budget recommendations
that directly affected our committee and then there were two department heads
that had filed appeals and told us why they did.
Because of this the committee decided to hold another budget meeting at
the end of the month of September to make a more educated decision, Ms. Leifheit
further stated.
Ms.
Tobias, Chairman of the Public Policy Committee, stated that her committee would
shortly be sending out invitations to public officials to attend their October
committee meeting in Genoa.
Mr.
Morreale, Chairman of the Forest Preserve Committee, stated that there was
nothing new to report at this time. He
appeared before the City Council in Kirkland to talk about the project going on
in their community. The Plan B for the developer is to put in a gravel pit, he
said. So Kirkland will have to see if they would like to have the
developer come back to the plan commission with a plan that states if it
doesn’t become a park then he could put in a gravel pit.
The developer’s promise to them is to pay royalties to the City of
Kirkland, he further stated.
Mr.
Wilson, Chairman of the Public Infrastructure and Development Committee, stated
that the blacktop is going down now at the new highway facility and will finish
either tomorrow or the next day. They
then will do the landscaping after the blacktopping is finished.
Mr.
Wilson then asked permission of the committee if members of the Kiwanis Club
that he belongs to in Sycamore could sell peanuts at the corner of Bethany and
Peace Roads? He stated that he
asked Mr. Lorence and he said that he should ask the committee and that if the
committee agreed to it then he would allow it.
The reason he is asking for this is because of the construction work
going on now in downtown Sycamore that makes it difficult for them to sell their
peanuts. He further stated that
this would only be for this year and it would be done on the last Friday in
September.
The
committee agreed that they would allow the Kiwanis to sell peanuts at the
intersection of Bethany and Peace Roads for this year only.
Before going into executive session Chairman Pritchard announced that he
would be holding a Harvest Open House at his home in Hinckley for all county
board members and their guest. It
will be the last Sunday in September and that invitations will be going out
shortly. He also mentioned the Open
House that will be held on October 4, 2001 at the new Highway Facility.
The committee said that in light of what has happened in our nation today
they would like to have Chairman Pritchard make an announcement under his
“comments” section regarding the blood drive for the victims in New York and
announce the Red Cross local phone numbers that the public can get in touch
with.
Moved by Ms. Leifheit, seconded by Mr. Morreale, and it was carried
unanimously to move into closed session to discuss Exempt Employee Evaluations.
Moved
by Mr. Steimel, seconded by Mr. Morreale, and it was carried unanimously to
return to open session. Moved by
Mr. Steimel, seconded by Mr. Morreale, and it was carried unanimously to set
merit increases at 0 – 2% for FY2002. Such
merit increases to be in addition to the 3.4% Cost of Living increase included
in the FY2002 budget. Total
increases for FY2002 are designated as: Margaret
Whitwell – 5.4%, Mary Olson – 5.4%, Ray Bockman – 5.4%, William Lorence
– 5.0%, Gary Hanson – 5.4%, Kenneth Campbell – 5.4%, Joan Berkes-Hanson
– 5.4%, Paul Miller – 5.4%, Terry Hannan – 5.4%.
Moved by Ms. Steimel, seconded by Ms. Leifheit, and it was voted
unanimously to adjourn the meeting.
Respectfully
submitted,
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Robert W. Pritchard, Chairman
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Mary C. Supple, Secretary
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