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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/22/1965 VB minutes MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES' MEETING HELD JUNE. 22~ 1965 Presiden= Congreve opened the meeting at 8:27 P.M. The Clerk called the roll with the following members Roll call p~esent: Bergen Bruhl Colfer Grittani Teichert Absent: Ekren TrusTee Grittani gave the invocation. Trustee Teichert, seconded by T~ustee Grittani, moved for the approval of the minutes of June 15th as corrected, minutes Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Colfer Grittani Teichert Pass: B~uhl Absent: Ek~en Motion carried. Trustee Grittanij seconded by Trustee Bruhl~ moved for bills the approval of the following bills: General $35,945.98 Parking System Revenue 44.42 Library 2,948.58 Public Works Bldg. Constr. 1964 18.00 Waterworks & Sewerage Fund 4~214.11 $43,171.09 Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen B~uhl Colfer Grittani Teichert Absent: Ekren Motion carried. Trustee Bergen, seconded by T~ustee Grittani, moved for the passage of Ord. 1063: Ord. 1063 AN ORDINANCE GRANTING A SPECIAL USE PERMIT special use St. John Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen B~uhl Colfer pool Gri~tani Teichert Absent: Ekren Motion carried. This ordinance gran%s special use for swimming pool at St. John's Apartments, Case 65-11. June 22, 196~ Trustee Bergen, seconded by Trustee Colfer, moved for the passage of Ord. 1064: Ord. 106~ 808 810 $. Albert AN ORDINANCE VARYING THE SIDE YARD REQUIREMENTS FOR LOTS LOCATED AT 808 and 810 SOUTH ALBERT STREET IN MOUNT PROSPECT, ILLINOIS Upon roll call:Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Colfer Grittani Teichert Absent: Ekren Motion carried. This o~dinance perffnits'construction of single-family resi- dence with side yard on south side of Lot 60 of not less than 4'8" and on the north side of Lot 61 of not less than 4~8'', Case 65-10. The proposed ordinance on water rate increase was postponed until next meeting to give Committee time to read Finance Director King's report. Trustee Bergen, seconded by Trustee Teichert~ moved to return bid checks to Heek~r ~ Co. and Knott & Mielly, Inc. bid checks Hecker & Co. received the bid on the traffic signal at Gregory and Main. Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Colfer Grittani Teichert Motion carried, Trustee Teichert, seconded by T~ustee Grittani, Barrington moved to approve the business license application of Barrington Trucking Trucking for commercial and industrial scavenger. Upon roll call: , Ayes: Bergen Bruhl Colfer Grittani Teichert Motion carried. Trustee Colfer re~d the following report from the Building Committee regarding variation from swi~ing pool oPdi- REQUEST: Petition for variation f~om Swimming Pool ordinance. Swim pool variation Mr. Kenneth Zell 310 N, School S10 North School Street Variation: Construct fence around the yard instead of around po~l as prescribed. RECOMMENDATION: That request be denied. 2-0 Trustee Colfer, seconded by Trustee Bergen~ moved to concur with the Building Committee to deny request for petition for variation to construct fence a~ound yard instead of around pool as prescribed. Upon roll call: Ayes: B~rgen Bruhl Colfer Grittani Teichert Absent: Ek~en Motion ca,tied. June 22. 1965 TrusTee Colfer read The following report fmom The BFilding Committee regarding petition for vamiation from fencm variat ioz fence o~dinancs: REQUEST: Petition for variation from fence ordinance. Mr. William J. McGui~e ~cGuire 102 S. Edward STreet 102 S. Edward Variation:Construct 5 foot high redwood fence -- ordinance specifies 42 inch maximum. kECO~MENDATION: Tha~ request be granted. 2-0 Trustee Colfer, seconded by T~ustee Bergen, moved To concur with The Building Committee To gran= petition for variation from fence ordinance to construct 5' redwood fence, Upon roll call: Ayes: Bergen Colfer GriTTani TeicherT Nays: Bruhi Absent: EkDen Motion carried. TmusTee Colfer read the following report from The Building Committee regarding flooding of lots in The 900 f~goding block of South Edwar~l: S. Edward Village Manager, and Engineer viewed property with build~, Mr. Barney Hoffman~ on Saturday morning, June 19. 1965. Build,Pi has agreed to review The problem with C. T. A. and his plumbing conTrac=or and give The Village his answer by the end of This week. Building CoF~itTee will review this item again a~ next meeting. Presiden~ Congreve l~ferred this back To Committee and asked That it be placed on The agenda for The next meeting. T~usTee Colfer read the following suggested addition to The Mt. P~ospecT Building Code: "Chapter VI - Paragraph 23.2 Accessory buildings or sheds used for the purpose of storing garden and lawn Tools~ children's Toys and bicycles a~e pDohibiTed unless attached To the x-ear of a garage o~ main building. When so attached, The accessory building shall be secumely bolted to a masonry flooD, no~ less Than four inches Accessory bldgs in Thickness. All such buildings shall be approved by The Building Superintendent upon submission of the permit applica- Tion, ~11 such buildings in existence not conforming to The above regulations shall be considered non,conforming and shall be ~emoved within the period of two years or changed to meet The above regulations." PresideD= Congreve referred this back To Committee. T~usTee TeicherT was invited To attend The next Building Committee meet- ing. P~esident Congreve ~eferred The refund of electrical permit fees and plumbing permit fees to The Building Committee. June 22, 1~%5 P~esident Congreve referred Mr. Staff's letter Westgate Rd. garding Westgate Road dedication to the Judiciary Cc~mittee. dedication Jerry Chez will attend the Judiciary meeting on June 28th. .. ~ President Congreve referred the item of deposits dep°sits~fOr for repai~ and cleaning of streets to the JudiCiary.Committee. repair - streets President Congreve stated~ he had received a call Saturday night, June 19th, at 7:15 P.M. that Elk Ridge Villa Elk Grove Villa was out of water. He and T~ustee Bergen visited area and in Citizen's Utility checking found that the valve at the Citizen's Utility Well on Well Linneman Road had been closed, all but 2 turns. He was in- fo~med that Mr. Di Mucci had not lived up to oontract. Mr. Lee Perry, Manager of Citizents Utility Co., advised President Congreve that in case of fire the Company would open valve. Chap. 21, Art. I, Sect. 21.102 of the Municipal Code reads as follows: It shall be unlawful to occupy or use any building or structure in the village which, Health Code because of its condition, constitutes a fire or health hazard to the occupants or to the public. No building or structure shall be used as a residence, or for business where persons are employed or where the public is invited or permitted, unless it is equipped with adequate plumbing, water supply, and proper sewage disposal facilities.~ P~ovided this shall not apply to premises used solely for storage or similar purposes where no one is on the pr~mises for regular hours of work or occupation nor to buildings used for business purposes where such facilities are available in adjacent structure on the same p~emises occupied by the same person or firm P~esident Congreve stated he had directed the Village Manager to instruct the Building Superintendent not to issue any building permits or certificates of occupancy for this area until he (President Congreve) was suns of water supply. President Congreve directed the Village Attorney to Sign VTW issue, in writing, an opinion on. the legality of sign at VFW. Trustee Bruhl read the following statement regarding the Klein "The people of We-Go Park, and myself as a board member, are appreciative of the alert and informative reporting of Mr. William Swinford in last week'sHerald regarding the Klein property. Without Mr. Swinford's article neither the people Klein property of We-Go Park nor myself would have known that a committee of this board had a closed door meeting with the attonney repre- senting Mr. Klein ~egarding the Klein property~ In addition, we ~ree with Mr. Swinford that this is a zoning case, and tha~ any such hearings Or meetings on such a subject should be open to the public. As a mattem of history, the Kleins have been trying since 1956 to change the zoning on ap- proximately 17 acres of land in We-Go rank without success. In their original petition for annexation this zoning was fused by the Village Board at that time; all subsequent appeals June 22, 1965 n their part has had a negative public decision by both the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Village Board. The case is now in court and the Kleins are trying to prove that some public official in the past had promised the business zoning. Up to.this no ~ ~ point such promise has been proven. As a mat- ter of public record the Kleins have not up to this point been able to cleave to any "behind the door" meetings. Ail meetings have been public and subject to public record. The Kleins' rezoning represents a tremendous potential prop- erty value loss to hundreds of We-Go Park residents and to Klein property this point the subject has been handled hy prior boards with (cont'd.) tender care. Having no prior commitments to Klein the prior We-GpePark Boards have rest~icted their comments to public meetings and zoning hoards opinions. For a group of this hoard, without full direction from the entire board, to conduct a"Behind the door meeting" with Mr. Klein's Attorney on a matter presently in court without .~$al counsel is unexplainable. The interim attorney, Mr. Siegel, was the Klein's Attorney in this very case. Ob- viously his counsel could not he considered. Inasmuch as we have no$ yet employed an attorney it would seem that this case has been approached in a reverse sequence. Good judge- merit would indicate that theVillage Attorney's counsel he sought before conferences with the adversary in court proceedings. It would appear that if this conference was held for the purpose of determining the status of the court case that one would not review the background with the adversaries, particularly without the counsel of the Village Attorney. I have not as yet received a report of this meeting. I don't know what was said, and I and the people of We-Go Park certainly hope that this case has not been damaged by this conference. I believe such conferences should be a matter of board policy; therefore I move that any conferences with opponents involved in legal promeedings should be held only after a majority vote by the board and certainly open to the public." Mr. William Swinford, reporter for Paddock Publican&ohs, stated, from the floor, that he did not report that the meeting was secret. Both Trustee Bergen and Trustee Teichert stated that it was not a secret or closed door meeting and that the press was invited to attend. The Manager's secretary has list of meetings and anyone can receive information on them. Trustee Bergen stated the meeting was for purpose of orientation and that the Board will not do anything that is detrimental to people of We-Go Park. Trustee Bruhl£s motion failed for lack of a second. Adjournment Adjournment by acclamation at 9:46 P.M. Respectfully submitted, Richard H. Monroe, Clerk June 22, 1965