HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/26/1962 VB minutes MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUST~i~S
HELD ON J13NE 28, 1962
President Schlaver opened ~the meeting at 8:18 P.M. with roll roll call
call, with response as follows:
Present: Bickely Bruhl Casterline
"~ Ekren Phillips Absent: Gaw
Trustee Ekren, seconded by Trustee Phillips, moved for approval
of the minutes of June 19th as corrected, minutes
Upon roll call: Ayes: Bickley Bruhl Ekren
Casterline Phillips
Motion carried.
Trustee Bruhl, seconded $y Trustee Casterline, moved for payment
of the bills as follows:
General $1, ?BO. 31 bills
Water oper. 2,358.78
$4,089.0g
Upon roll call: Ayes: Bickley Bruhl Ekren
Casterl'ine Phillips
Motion carried.
Trustee Bruhl, seconded by TrUstee Ekren, moved for acceptance financial
of financial report of May 31, 1962 and th~at it be placed on file for report
'" audit.
Upon roll call: Ayes: Biekley Bruhl Ekren
Casterline Phillips Absent: Gaw
Motion carried.
Trustee Ekren, seconded by Trustee Bickley, moved for passage
of Ordinance ~836: Ord. 836
zoning
AN ORDINANCE GRANTING A USE VARIATION TO PERMIT A
TWO-APARTMENT BI-LEVEL TO BE BUILT ON A LOT ON
SOUTH PINE STREET, SOUTH'OF ~UHST ROAD, IN THE
VILLAGE OF' MOUNT PROSPECT
This ordinance refers to Zoning Case 62-17, Jones.
Upon roll call: Ayes': Bickley Bruhl Ekren
Casterline Phillips
Motim carried.
Trustee Bickley, seconded by Trustee Ekren, moved for the
passage of Ord. ~837: Ord. 837
traffic
AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING ELMHURST and LINCOLN, MAIN and
LINCOLN, and the NORTHEAST CORNER of MEMORY LANE and DALE
AVENUE as STOP INTERSECTIONS, Amendin~ Sec. 18.201 of
Municipal Code and Repealing certain sections of Sec. 18~201
which are superseded by this amendment.
Upon roll call: Ayes: Bickley Bruhl Ekren
Casterline Phillips
Motion carried.
June 26, 1962
Police Dept. Trustee Bickley reported from the Police Committee that
a bicycle theft ring had been broken up on the previous week, and
that young people found with a bike not their own would be treated
as any other thief, that this is considered a serious matter.
S.A. 62 Villag~ Manager Appleby reported the Special ~Assessment
program has Started with construction on Memory Lane, and that wurk
on drain tile on Lancaster is expected to begin soon.
Traffic Matter of possible erection of 2-hour parking signs on
Lincoln Avenue between Edward and Albert Streets was referred to the
Police Committee,~
fence Mr. Appleby read letter from Pirola & Erbach, architects,
St. Raymond's dated June 21st, requesting permission to erect 8-feet galvanized
Church iron or aluminum chain link fence on the west side of property
frcnting on the west side of Elmburst Avenue between Lincoln Street
and Shabonee Trail. This would separate proposed playground and
parking area for St. Raymond's ScHool from adjacent property to the
west, acting as protection for the adJoining property owners from
baseballs, etc. Mr. Appleby also presented signatures from all
nine homeowners whose homes are affected, offering no objection to
erection of this fence. President Schlaver explained there is a
plan to drain this'swampy area into nearby storm sewers of Metro-
politan Sanitary DistrictJ Both exits will be on Elmhurst Avenue.
Trustee Casterline, seconded by Trustee Phillips, moved that
variation of existing fence regulations ~be allowed for erection of
above-mentioned S-foot fence, five feet from property line cn
parking and playground area owned by St. Raymond's Church on the
west side of Elmhurst between Lincoln and Shabonee.
Upon rtl! call: Ayes: Bickley Br~hl Ekren
Phillips Casterline
Absent: Gaw
Motion carried.
Mr. Appleby then read the following letter from the
D~ainage - Metropolitan Sanitary District:
StJRaymond's June 22, 1962
playground DearMr. Appleby:
The Metropolitan Sanitary District has examined the plans
entitled, "DrainageSewer Plan for St. Raymond's Parish Parking and
Play Area, Mount Prospect, Illinois, Pirola and Erbach, E~gineers,
221 N. La Salle Street, Chicago, Illincis, Sheet No. 2 of B, dated
June S, 1962," showing the proposed construction of the St.Raymond's
Parish drainage sewers.
The Metropolitan Sanitary District has no objection to the
construction of said drainage sewers, provided they are to receive
storm and surface waters cnly,~and provided sanitary seweage and/or
industrial water are not discharged therein.
Very truly yours,
Norval E. Anderson ·
Acting Chief Engineer
s/ L.L. Bradish,
Engr. of Sower Control
J. W..Towne, : '
Engr. of Sewer Design · '
Trustee Ekren, seconded by Trustee Bruht, moved that the Village
Manager be instructed to sign the application to the Sanitary Dist~ct
for the storm drainage on property belonging to St. Raymond's Church.
This motion carried by acclamation.
June 26, 1962
Village Manager Appleby read aloud revised agreement Easement for
coverim~ the granting of the water lines and fire hydrants to wa~er - Mount
the Village of Mount Prospect as situated on the Mount Prospect Prospect Plaza
Plaza Shopping Center land and easement for same, signed by David
and Ruth Bermant and David and Irene Schwartz.
Trmstee Ekren, seconded by Trustee Bickley, moved to accept the
agreement and easement described above, and this motion passed by
acclamation.
President Schlaver read letter from Mayor Behrel of Des Northwest
Plaines, who is President of the Northwest Municipal Conference, Municipal
asking if Mount Prospect cared to participate as members of this Conference
conference in Chicago's 120th anniversary celebration August 24th,
perhaps contributing toward a float. The Board indicated willingness
to so do, if the other villages do, and Mr. Keefer of'the Chamber of
Commerce stated that his organization would be willing to help.
Attorney Nnfert reported that tax exemptions on Village Tax exemptions on
property have been filed with the County, and that the owners Village property,
of the Shoppers World building are going ahead with arrangements & Shoppers World
for sprinkler system as they agreed to do.
President Schlaver gave the following statement regarding
the budget:
Yearly
Preparing a working budget for a municipality is at best a difficult budget
task. It involves working with an unknown which can vary - - your
anticipated revenue - - balanced against a known quantity which is
service, which the residents of the village have a right to expect.
Thus for many weeks your village manager and your village board and
department heads have added and subtracted., have tried to be realistic
in their thinking and remain in the black during this difficult fiscal
year starting May 1 and ending May BO in 196B.
I say it is difficult because we are working on taxes now being collected,
not next year's, when the assessed valuation willbe better. Furthermore,
we will get none of the anticipated large sales tax revenue from Randhurst
until about next January, and that will give us about five months instead
of 12 months revenue from that source. At the same time we will have to
provide service for around 10 months of the shopping center's operation.
Annexations will have a lag betwee~ the time when we will get a tax
benefit and other larger revenues, as compared to the period when services
are needed.
Much of the increase in this year's budget, which is a tight one, comes
through the addition of policemen and firemen. This is necessary because
the expansion of population demands that we go into a paid fire department
to augment our volunteers in order that we can maintain our favorable
fire insurance rates. To lose such an advantage would be costly to every
home owner and business~mn. It is necessary that our police department
be expanded to cope with increased traffic, increased population and more
miles of streets to patrol.
Taking all these things into account, plus the need to purchase needed
equipment for municipal housekeeping, which includes everything from snow
removal to street sweeping to street signs to street marking, this budget
has been carefully done. It includes '~ cost of living increase for employees.
We have good emp~loyees and we want to keep them in competition with private
industry. Likewise, we are forced to pay more for municipal supplies Just
as every homeowner finds his household expenses mounting.
Sitting for long hours past midnight for many nights, we have cut and
slashed at the budget. A week ago it .looked like 'there would be a deficit
of around $B$,000 even with economies. But last night these items were
lopped off the budget'.
June 26, 1962
ontinued Painting of the street garage (Onion Shed) $2,000
Painting of village hall exterior 19000
Police delma~tment personnel expansion 4,000
One electric typewriter 401
Newchairs for court and community room 1,000
Police department autos 2,000
Group hospitalization 1,500
Tree trimming B,O00
End lcader fer~street department 1B,O00
Street sweeper (to.be leased instead) 5,000
One truck for street department 4~500 :~
Garbage collection (will go on tax rolls
starting May 1, 1962) 3,000
Sewer construction B,O00
One secretary for Several uffices,
including manager B,900
Drinking fountain in lower hall 400
De-icers for eaves at Village Hall 800
Btacktspping 500
Audit ..... 500
Water'meters 5,000
Other water department expenditure 3,000
The grand total reduction is $51,001 in the general fund and
$8000 in the wa~er fund.
Thus cur working budget in the general fund is now $?09~952
and in the water fund is newS282,512
Discussion regarding the budget follows:
Trustee Phillips
Our committee bas discussed the need for plans for a
new fire house, we would like to add in the budget the. cost of
drawing up these plans. We deducted $2000 for plans for garage - -
perhaps we could integrate this cost and have them done at the
same
Treasurer James King
I do not see any allotment for fuel for heating the muni-
cipal building. Last week you approved a bill for payment of gas
for heating - - $140.16 - - so we do get bills. Under cur frmuchise
with Northern. Illinois Gas we are allowed 19,000 therms freefer
municipal purposes, and we have already used up our allotment for the
calendar year.
~resident Schlaver ~
Well, we are not going without heat in the Municipal
Building. It shalt~be added in, thank you, Mr. King.
W. F. Wilson, West Central Hcmeowners Association
I wish to commend the trustees on their attention to the
budget. However, I would like to suggest that you take under advise-
ment in the '63 and '64 budget the substitution of the term "cost of
lying" for "merit increases"~ Industry is not being panicked ~y the'
term"cost of living
today you have got to shew performance;I think it would be within"the
power of the ~rastees to reward merit toany individual emploYee of
the Village.
President Schlaver
If you Will notice, in my opening .remarks I referred to
"cost of living"; I did 5et Use the term "merit". at all. Howeve~
some cf the raises were based on merit, which was entered into more
than ever before. You need a very select, organized method uf
determining merit; you cannot apply that as a blanket in every case.
June 26, 1962
rustee Bruhl Discussion
on budget
It might be well if we put into, perhaps a form of motion, for fiscal
some type of measurement for Job performance, so that we have some year
standard to go by.
Trustee Bickley
It is a possibility that the Police Department might come
under what you are suggesting. We have reached a point where you cannot
keep adding §% every year, year after year; so we now have a spread where
it means something to be promoted. Nextyear merit will be the only con-
sideration. I don't see how we can go any higher in salary and still
maintain the spread between the~ranks - - maybe shorter hours or larger
uniform allowance.
President Sshlaver
Maybe next year we will have different evaluations in order to
keep the employees that we feel merit increases. It has been a long and
continuous climb to get to the point where we are today; we have a fine
group of employees now.
Trustee Bruhl
I am encouraged to see in the audience a membe~of our newest
organization, Roy Kosinski from Hatlen Heights. Roy, would you like to
say a few words?
Roy Eosinski
I am very impressed with your Board meeting; we in Hatlen Heights
are very Mappy to be part of Mount Prospect.
Mr. Michael Mokate
I discovered in the last week that I am to spend $~50 on my
house, SB§O for sewer repair and $100 to correct electrical deficiencies.
My building, which I purchased lately, was constructed in 19~4. I realize
that we did not then have a qualified building inspectinn set up such as
I think we have now. I notice there was $2?,500 collected in fees in last
year's statement, of which the Building Department spent $20,000. What
service does the Building Department render forthis amount? In the case
of my sewer, it was improperly installed. It makes me unhappy to lay out
the money; I'd rather donate these monies to the Village than ts expend
them for renewing installations.
I am speaking now of lackadaisical inspectors - - I wonder if
the philosophy is to make money for the Village. Is it not wise to beef
up your service even if you raise the building fee to do it?
Attorney Hofert
In regard to the Building Department, we have been working to
improve our service. The Electrical Commission has rendered to the
Building Department suggestions as to the adoption of the Chicago Electric~
Code, and we are now in the process of drafting rules and regulations
governing the installation of electrical wiring which will supplement the
control of the building inspection. The recommendation of the Electrical
Cemmission was that the Chicago Code be adopted.
President Schlaver:
I would like to add to that, that we send our Building Inspectors
..
to special schools of instruction, in that way they are always up to date
with the latest in their field.
~ If there are no more remarks, I will entertain a motion to
adjourn this public hearing.
June 26, 1962
The meeting was adjourned by acclamation at 9:44 P.M.,
with agreement to hold executive committee meeting on July 5th,
the next meeting to be on July 10th.
Respectfully submitted,
Ruth C. Wilson, Village Clerk
June 26, 1962