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DeKalb County, Illinois |
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The Executive Committee of the DeKalb
County Board met on Tuesday, May 7, 2002 @ 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, Sue Leifheit, John Dlabal, John
Morreale, Roger Steimel, Ruth Anne Tobias and John Wilson.
Others present were Ray Bockman, Veronica Casella, Dr. Conway, Eileen
Dubin, Gary Hanson and Greg Millburg.
Moved by Mr. Steimel, seconded by Mr. Wilson, and it was carried
unanimously to accept the minutes of the April 9, 2002 meeting.
Chairman Pritchard recommended the following appointments:
DeKalb County Board of Review:
Mr. Holman Hauge, reappointment for a term of 2 years, until April 30,
2004.
Fairdale Street Light
District:
Ms. Elizabeth Johnson, appointment for a term of 3 years, until 6/01/05.
DEVELOPMENT
AGEEMENT – LOT 8B DETENTION
Mr.
Ray Bockman, DeKalb County Administrator, explained that a developer named
Wilkinson owned lots 9 and 10 of DeKalb Market Square and sold them to BioLife
Plasma Services LP. The county owns
the adjacent Lot 8B, which is planned for detention for the northeasterly half
of Lot 12 when it is developed in the future.
That half of Lot 12 has a calculated detention need of approximately
3-acre feet. The BioLife project
will require ½ acre-foot of detention and the maximum capacity of the pond on
Lot 8B is calculated at 4 feet.
The
BioLife site is low and they approached the county as to whether or not they
could take fill from this planned detention area. During the course of discussion, when the engineering was
finally done, it turns out that they need about as much fill as we need a hole.
Therefore, we said if you are going to dig a hole there we don’t want
it part of a detention pond to attract water and mosquitoes.
So, the agreement that we have reached is that they will build this
detention pond. They will finish grading it, put the structures in, put the
pipes it, and they are going to seed it.
The other half acre foot will go for paying the City back what we owe
them from the highway department project which is a total of 1 ½ acre feet.
This
project should work out for everyone’s best interest. We would still plan to
sell that approximate 1-acre lot to the future developers of lot 12 unless they
opt for on-site detention.
Ms.
Leifheit asked Mr. Bockman if this lot is an unbuildable lot?
Mr. Bockman said no, technically it could be built but to do so would
force lot 12 to make unanticipated arrangements for on-site storm water storage.
This could impair the timely development of lot 12.
Mr.
Steimel asked what kind of business does BioLife do? Mr. Morreale said that they are a company that does blood
collection. Mr. Bockman noted that
the Reciprocal Easement Agreement did allow for a percentage of the land in this
deal to be doctor’s offices.
Moved by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr. Steimel, and it was carried
unanimously to forward this development agreement to the full board for
approval.
APPROVAL
OF THE COUNTY BOARD AGENDA
Mr.
Bockman reviewed the county board agenda for the board meeting to be held on May
15, 2002.
Moved by Mr. Hutcheson, seconded by Mr. Wilson, and it was carried
unanimously to accept the county board agenda as presented by Mr. Bockman.
GENERAL
DISCUSSION
Ms. Tobias, chairman of the public policy committee, said that they
picked the winner of the county government week contest.
Mr. Morreale said that he really like that idea and hoped they the county
would continue to do that each year.
Mr. Steimel, chairman of the administrative services committee, said that
there was no meeting last month. He did, however, want to inform members that
there is new activity going on at the landfill site and that it looks like they
are digging another cell.
Ms. Leifheit, chairman of the public services committee, said that her
committee heard the Assessor’s Annual Report, which is very good, and the
Court Services Annual Report whose statistics show that their numbers were down
in 2001. She also said that the
judges had a study done by students at NIU regarding whether or not the
placement program is useful in helping the juvenile problems here in the county.
The study showed that now it isn’t.
Therefore, the judges have added two Intensive Probation Officers to be
hired to the court services department. These officers will be following the
kids in this program around morning, noon and night.
Mr. Pritchard said that the Juvenile Justice Council met and that they
would continue to do so every two months. Right
now they are gathering information and looking at the services that we provide
currently and how we can improve upon them or look at new services.
Mr. Hutcheson, chairman of the planning and regulations committee, said that there might be some controversy at the board meeting next week with regards to ordinance #2002-09, which is the Denial of three separate proposed amendments to the county zoning ordinance and possibly ordinance #2002-10, which is an amendment to the county zoning ordinance to allow radio towers of up to 399 feet in height as a special use in the A-1 District.
Mr.
Morreale asked Mr. Hutcheson him about ordinance #2002-11 regarding the Johansen
Use Variation whereby the county would allow for a vacant 34-acre parcel to be
developed on. He said that not too
long ago the county board turned down a request to build a home on an
approximate 39-acre parcel – what is the difference between the two requests?
Mr. Hutcheson said that it all has to do with certain criteria.
That is, is the land prime farmland?
What are the soil conditions? What
are the tillable conditions? Mr.
Morreale said that we need to ask ourselves if we are setting a precedent for
anyone else under the 40-acre rule? Mr. Hutcheson said that there are very few
of these type parcels left in the county.
Mr. Pritchard asked about ordinance #2002-13, which is the Auten special
use permit request to allow a mobile home for dependent relatives behind their
home, and the rumors that are flying around.
Mr. Hutcheson and Mr. Steimel both said that there was a public hearing
held and the neighbors did attend. At
no time did anyone complain or file an objection to this project, they
continued. It was not until the evening of the planning and regulations
committee meeting that something was brought to their attention.
Mr. Morreale, chairman of the forest preserve committee, said that the
appraisal for Kirkland project has gone to the state.
The state has approved the grant and we are now waiting for the state to
say how much they are going to give us in funds.
The volunteer days are posted on our website and Pierce Township Hall has
been moved to Merritt Prairie by volunteers.
They are relying on donations to fix it up.
Mr. Wilson, chairman of the public infrastructure and development
committee, said that the staff is working diligently on the emergency snow
response policy that they want to implement next winter.
It entails a 10-minute response time to emergency situations starting
next winter.
Chairman Pritchard said that Kane County Economic Development had invited
anyone from our board to attend their meeting on March 15, 2002 from 7:30a.m. to
9:00a.m. at the Mill Creek Golf Club and said that if anyone was interested in
attending to let him know.
He then spoke about the first Regional Planning Commission meeting that
was held last week. He said that
there was full attendance by all appointed members and even two towns that have
not signed on yet, which are Malta and Lee.
Mr. Morreale said that even though he was not in favor of this commission
being formed in the beginning he just wanted to say that all comments that he
has heard from people who attended the meeting were very favorable and that he
has no complaints.
Moved by Mr. Leifheit, seconded by Mr. Wilson, 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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