City of Sandwich City Council met September 23

By Philip Gonzales

Sep 30, 2019

City of Sandwich City Council met Sept. 23.

Here is the agenda provided by the council:

Call to Order

Pledge of Allegiance

Roll Call

Approval of Minutes from the Regular Meeting of September 9, 2019 and the Committee-ofthe-Whole Council Meeting of September 16, 2019.

Approval of September Semi-Monthly Bills

Mayor:

(1) Reminder: Taste of Sandwich on Wednesday, September 25th

(2) Reminder: Monday, September 30th, is the 5th Monday of the month and there will be no meeting. Next meeting will be Monday, October 7th for the Committee-of-the-Whole. Foster, Buick, Conklin & Lundgren Law Group:

City Clerk:

(1) Lisa Mangers has requested to carryover 40 hours of unused vacation time and receive a payout of 100.50 hours of unused time.

(2) Motion to approve the City Clerk to attend the MCI (Municipal Clerks of Illinois) Institute & Academy the week of October 13, 2019, in amount not to exceed $1500.00, excluding meals.

Funding would come from the budgetary line item #001.0005.75.5695

City Treasurer:

Director of Public Works Engineer Horak:

(1) Zoning Board of Appeals regular meeting of Tuesday, September 24, 2019 has been canceled.

(2) Hydrant flushing to begin on Monday, October 7th and last through Friday, October 11th. It is expected that the hydrant flushing will begin by 8:00 a.m. and end by 4:00 p.m. each day.

(3) 2019 Brush Pickup Program: The 2019 Brush Pickup Program ends in October.

The last pickup in each ward is as follows.

Monday, October 7: Ward 1

Monday, October 14: Ward 2

Monday, October 21: Ward 3

Monday, October 28: Ward 4

Chief Bianchi:

EMA:

Alderwoman Chmielewski: Motion to purchase the Cutler Graphtec FC8600-75 30” Cutting Plotter which includes the HSRA 36” air cylinder/bottom rubber coated roller sign making hardware. In addition, this purchase will include the Flexi-sign 19 software upgrade which will upgrade the software from Flexsign 11 and Flexsign 12 to Flexsign 19; and SignCentral MUTCD Sign and Font Library Renewal MUTCD Cloud Library w/ 1year automatic updates. The price accumulative will not exceed $5,540.00

Alderman Dell:

Alderman Kelleher:

Alderwoman Killey: Finance committee will meet immediately following the COW meeting of October 7th, 2019.

Alderman Kreinbrink: Executive Session at the end of the meeting as listed:

(1) Executive Session for personnel under Section 2(c)(1)

(2) Executive Session for pending litigation under Section 2(c)(11)

(3) Executive Session for land acquisition under Section 2(c)(5)

Alderman Redden:

Alderman Robinson:

Alderman Surratt:

New Business:

Audience Comments: