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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/20/1964 VB minutes MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES MELD OCTOBER 20, 196% P~esidenT Schlaver called the meeting To order aT 8:05 P.M. with the following members presnet: roll call Phillips Busse Ekren Casterline Bruhl Bergen T~usTee Ekren, seconded by Trustee Casterline~ moved.for the approval of the minutes of October 13th as sub- mitted, minutes Upon roll call: Ayes': Bergen Bruhl Casterline Ekren Pass: Busse Phillips Motion carried. Trustee Bruhl, seconded by Trustee Phillips, moved for approval of the following bills: bills General $22,397.35 ' Parking SysTem Revenue 71.88 Library~ 1~379.77 Public Works Bldg. Constr.1964 38~983.25 Waterworks & Sewerage Fund 4~731.75 Waterworks & Sewerage Acquis. & Constr. 160.07 $67s72~.07 ' Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Casterline Ek~en Phillips Busse Motion carried. Trustee Phillips, seconded by Trustee Bruhl, moved Public Works Bld to open bids offering To purchase water tank presently at gasoline storage Well #8, as it had been decided previously at meeting of tank October 6th to sell the old wa~er Tank and install new tank for gaeoline aT the Pine STreet garage. This motion carried by acclamation. J. P. Miller Co. One 10,000 gal. tank $ 600.00 One 20,000 gal. tank 1500.00 Removed within ten days. Tower Lakes Water Co. One 10,000 gal. tank $ 460.00 One 20,000 gal. tank 600.00 Removed within 30 days. Trustee Phillips, seconded by Trustee Busse, moved to accept the J. P. Miller bid in the sum of $2300 for the two water Tanks. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Busse Casterline Phillips Ekren Motion carried. October 20, 1964 . A. 63 Attorney Hofert read the following report: Kenilworth Ave. October iS, 1964 KENILWORTH AVENUE STATUS There is pending in the County Court of Cook County, Special Assessment NQ. 63. This is set for hear- ing at 10:30 A.M. on October 29. Pursuant to authorization heretofore given, Owen Price, special counsel, has prepared a suppli~mental special assessment roll~ which roll grants a $6100 public benefit to be accorded Messrs. DiMueei and I~miger on a 40-60 basis. This supplemental roll is pre- pared in accordance with the thinking given the board by Ray Wright, real estate appraiser, at a prior meeting. It may be recalled that both Messrs. DiMucci and I~miger were informed of the public benefit to be given and at the time indicated that they would still object to Special Assessment No. 63 and would do all that they could to prevent the oonfirmationof such special assessment. There is also pending before the Judiciary Com- mittee, Zoning Board Case 64-2, which is an application of Salvatore DiMucci to rezone Lots 1 thru 6 in the 1st Addition to Centralwood, which lots lie between the railroad tracks on the north and the north side of Thayer Street on the south. This application was filed in January and was for a change of cllassification from R-~ to R-4. In Feb- ruary of,1964, subsequent to this application, the R-~ was up-graded from 1~00 sq..ft, to 2000 sq. ft. per dwelling unit. In the original application the request was for 36 apartment units, which application was denied by the Zoning Board 5-0, mostly on the basis of tmaffic and the basis of objec~oms. At the request of the Judiciary Committee, I have conferred with Messrs. DiMucci and Irmigem to ascertain whether or not theme is any common ground for a solution. The following pmoposition has been discussed as a manner of settlement. 1 - That Special Assessment 63 would be pem- mitred to go through with the $6100 benefit suggested by Ray Wright, appraiser. 2 - That the alleys would be vacated. That Mm. I~migem would give a letter to the ef- fect that the alleys vacated in his block would not be used by him to increase the ~ number of apartment units which he would be pez~mitted to build in said block. 3 - Mm. DiMucci would be permitted to build ~ive 5-flats or a total of 25 units mather than 36 units he applied for on the propem- ty designated as Lots 1 thru 5~ incl. In essence, this would amount tO an R-3 zonin~ with a vamiation to permit two additional units. If the foregoing solution is satisfactory to the Village Board as a method of disposin~ of the Kenilworth situation, please advise. Sincerely, Edward C. Hofert October 20, 1964 Discussion followed between members of the Board and home- S.A. 63 owners in Centralwood Sub.: Messrs. DiMucci and IrmiEer were Kenilworth Av~ not present, although both had been invited. The homeowners requested that the case for special assessment be pursued separately from zoning hearing pending in the same area. The Village Attorney stated that at the request and direction of the Judiciary Committee and with the thought of preventing costly litigation he had contacted DiMucci and Irmiger, which contact resulted in the above report. Mr. Schlaver indicated that since the homeowners were against .combining thematters and since there was 'a prior directive to the attorney to proceed with the Special Assessment no further action in this regard was necessary and the matters would be treated separately. Mr. Keefer read a letter from Mr. Erickson of 101 N. Kenilworth, an appraiser, to the effect that the highest and best use of the property owned by DiMucci was single family residence and not multi-family. Trustee Busse disputed the opinion given and stated that it would be difficult to defend single family residence zoning next to a railroad and because of nearby in- dustrial and multi-family zoning. Mr. Gene Thompson of 102 N. Waverly brought to the attention of the Board an error in the description of location of property sought by Sal DiMueci for rezoninE to R-4 in Case 64-2, in the publication of the hearing notice. Mr. Hofert's opinion was that this called for repub- lishing and a newhearing~ Trustee Ekren, seconded by Trustee Busse, moved that ZoRinE Case Zoning Case 64-2 be referred back to the Zoning Board for a re-hearing. 64-2 UPon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Busse ' ~ Cas~erline Ekren Phillips Motion carried. The re-hearing as a matter of course calls for re-publishing. Mrs. Holm~fram.GregorFSchool~PT~ suggested use of Traffic portable flasher at Gregory and Main Streets crossing until stoplight approved by the State can be installed. The Board suggested that perhaps Traffic Planner Gross or Engineer Ben Her.meter might try to effect this proposal. Trustee Busse~ seconded by Trustee Bruhl, moved to Police cars accept bid from Geo. C. Pool for police cars,+3 - 1965 Ford Custom 4-dr.~ for $4500 and trade-in of 2 cars. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen. B~Uhl Busse Casterline Ekren Phillips Motion carried. Trustee Ekren displayed petition signed by Arthur Annexations and Emma Li~eman~which had been:filed with the Village Clerk, Linneman and moved,'secondedby 'Trustee Busse, that the Village Attorney property draft Ordinance to allow annexation of property on east side of Cypress Drive across from the~B~ert Frost School, 533 feet west of Linneman Road. Upon roll call: ,Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Busse Casterline Ekren Phillips Motion carried. October 20, 1964 /,zo 5- TrusTee Bergen, seconded by TrusTee CasTerline, Ord. 1002 moved for passage of Qrd. 1002~. Plumbing C6de AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A PLUMBING CODE FOR THE VILLAGE Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Busse CasTerline Ekren Phillips Motion carried. Trees Trustee CasTeriine, seconded by Trustee Bergen, Spraying moved That The bid of Johnson Tree Service at $1.~3 per tree for tree spraying be approved. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Busse Casterline Ekren Phillips Nays: Bruhl Motion carried. Trustee Bruhl, seconded by Trustee Casterline, moved to ap- Finance prove Financial Report for The month of September pending fiscal audit. This motion carried by acclamation. Safety Trustee Bruhl reported that he had met with Chief WhiTtenberg and a representative of The National Safety Council; Mount Prospect had raised Their standards in The past year from 53 rated points To 63; if $0 points are reached, The Village may be eligible for a National Award. President Schlaver asked for recommendations from The Board members for persons who might be named To The Traffic Safety Committee, stating That he had a good choice in mind for The head. Mr. Appleby read The folbwing memo from Engineer Parking lot HemmeTer: Village owned Subject: Paving of Parking Lot - SW corner of Main g Busse I have received Three bids for the following pro- jecT as follows: Arrow Road Construction Co. $2,700.50 Milburn Bros. Inc. 2,631.15 J. C. Blacktop Co., Inc. 2,055.15 I recommend That we accept The low bid of $2,055.15 from J. C. Blacktop Co., Inc. Trustee Bruhl, seconded by Trustee ERmen, moved to accept the bid of J. C. Blacktop Co., Inc. for $2,055.15 to pave parking lot on the southwest corner of Main and Busse. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Busse Ekren Casterline Phillips Motion carried. Attorney Pat O'Brien, representing The MT. Prospect Rural Fire Distr. Rural Fire Protection District, offered original and carbon Mt. Prospect copies of certain articles of agreement furnishing fire pro- tection for the District by the Village, for the Village's consideration. This matter was referred to the Fire & Water Committee. October 20, 1964 President Schlaver read memo from Village Bluett Sub. Manager regarding Bluett Subdivision shown below: Memo to: President & Baord of Trustees Subject: Bluett Fatrview Gardens From: Village Manager Date: OCtober 19, 1964 This memo is intended to give all the Trustees a brief report on the ~informal discussions that have been going on for several months. Bluett Fairview Gardens is a single family resi- dential develo~mt of substantial homes lying north of Central Road, west of Wolf Road, south of Northern Illinois Gas Co. and east of C. A. Goltz Prospect Gardens which is along the east side of Westgate Road. St. Emily's Church is in the southwest corner of this subdivision. The Village President and the administrative staff have held several infozlnal discussions with the de- velopert representatives of the home owners' association and Father McLorraine in regard to the annexation and pos- sible purchase of the sewer and water systems in the area. Following the last meeting, the Fairview Gardens Civic As- sociation prepared a fine presentation of the facts in regard to the proposed annexation and purchase of the utility company and 4istributed it to the 194 h.om~owners in the area. 174 responded in the postcard poll. The result was 88% in favor of annexation to Mount Prospect provided the ¥illage would purchase the sewer and water s~pany. Robert Bluett representing the utility company has offered, verbally, to sell the company to the Village for $150,000. Messrs. Creamer, Hemmeter~ and Haberkemp have in- spected the facilities and report they are in excellent con- dition. Sewer and water were put in by Rossetti and pavement and sidewalks by Milhurn. There are potentially about 300 users--about 200 homes are now built and occupied. Mr. King has learned that the valuation of the Fairview Utility Cempany according to Illinois Commerce Com- mission records on 1/Sl/63 was $200,073.15. He has determined that with no major repair work and using present Village rates, the system will amortize itself in 14 yea~s. , If the utility is purchased by the Village, it should ultimately be connected to the rest of the Village's water system. It is our verbal understanding from Mr. Hofert that the Village may purchase utilities of this nature on a lease purchase arrangement without issuing revenue bonds. If this is done, the agreement should contain an option to prepay at any timeif the Village should proceed with a large revenue bond issue to cover the purchase and/or other obligations or improvements at some future date. Mr. King has discussed this financing with the local banks and has given me the following memo dated 10/16/64: "I have discussed financing arrangements in refer- ence to the purchase of the above named company, with the Mount P~ospect State Bank and the First National Bank of Mount P~ospect based on periods ranging from 5 to 15 years. Both banks have stated that they would finanse this purchase at any time the Village acquires the company. October 20, 1964 I Bluett S~b. "Various methods of financing have been dis- cussed aKd.~t .is understood by the banks tha~ the method and the interest rate most advantageous to the Village will be used." - The proposed annexation would include at least a corridor th~u Goltz's Prospect Gamden~ to provide con- tiguity. The civic association's committee felt that it would p~obably give all the property owners along the east side of Westgate Road an opportunity to join the petition if they want to. Fathe~ McLorraine has. asked tha.t a crossing guard be provided by the Village for the~corner of Rand add Central if the area .is annexed. ~This request seems reasonable since it is reported that Des Plaines.provides a gu'iard for ~orne~ and Central. The informal discussions have now progressed to the point where the Village Board will have :o decide if: a.the annexation is desirable under the proposed conditions. b.the utility company can and should be purchased. Mr. Robert Bluet: arose and stated he was willing :o sell ~-~ his water company to the Village for $150,000; however, he had another bona fide buyer for :his property and was no: willing To wait Too long. Upon being asked why he desired te sell, Mr. Bluet: replied~ because he .is not in the water business, and had already previously sold another utility to ~itizens. Mr. Henry Maughamian of 117 North Hornet Lane, as spokesman for the residents of Bluettts Fai~view Gardens, informed the Board that they were desirous of annexazion of the area; Mr. Bluett gave the Board Two weeks To consider his offer. T~ustee Bruhl, seconded by T~ustee Phillips, moved that the fi~m of Greeley & Hansen be employed to evaluate the Bluett Water Co. a: rate on the same basis as p~evious work done by them for the Village on appraisal. Upon roll call: Ayes; Bergen Bruhl Busse Casterline Phillips Ekren Motion carried. Mr. King informed the Board that it is necesssa~y To have this information anyway in order To get any loans fr~ the Banks. Adjournment by acclamation aT 11:00 P.M. ~ Respectfully submitted, Ruth C. Wilson, Clerk October 20, 1964