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Home My WebLink About10/13/2001 CWC minutes MINUTES VILLAGE OF MOUNT PROSPECT COFFEE WITH COUNCIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2001 9:00 A.M. 2na Floor Conference Room Village Hall The Coffee wl[h Cotmefl Meeting started at 9 00a m at the Village Hall Present Trustee Mmhaele Skowron, Chairperson Trustee Irvana Wflks Trustee Mmhael Zadel Assistant Village Manager Dave Strahl Chief of Pohce Pdchard Edd~ngton Merrill & Mane Cotten Carol Tortorello Nleole Byme Dawd Schem Memll and Mane Cotten appeared at Coffee w~th Cotmcfl w~th two specific concerns The first being the Bums & McDonald surveying contract Memll Cotten ~s of the oplmon that the second porhon of the contract should have had a lower per tm~t price He felt that the start up costs m the lmtml b~d should have resulted ~n a lower per unit cost for the second port~on of the work Mernl Cotten's second topm was the Ordinance regarding the Commumty Relations Commission He felt that ~t m~ght have impacts on several other commissions (zomng, hquor and busmess hcenses) He was concerned that ~ndlwduals would get two b~tes at the apple Further, he expressed a concern regarding quorum and resolution issues, that ~f a super ma. lorlty was needed to pass a resolution, ~t should be labeled as such Trustee Zadel commented that in th~s matter we had a tendency to overlook the posat~ve m~ss~on of the commission to promote the d~vers~ty m the Commumty Trustee Skowron wanted the spemfic ~ssues rinsed by Cotten addressed, and to emphasize the goal of the commission was to proxade a forum to d~splay the positive wrtues of d~verslty in the Commtm~ty Memll Cotten then was concerned that there was no specffic authority or mandate as to who would conduct mvest~gatlons Further, that the gag order prowslons (Page 10, Item 3c) would be extremely d~fficult to enfome Lastly, a request for further clarification of the appropriate role for an attorney representing an employee would need to be defined Page 1 of 3 Nlcole Byrne appeared before Coffee with Council Ms Byme is the chmrman of the Youth Commlsslon She expressed a concern about the new Village Hall design Specifically, that the needs of youth were not being addressed Nlcole made a plea to establish an area where kids could "hang out" m a supermsed, but loosely structured enwronment This sparked an exchange of ideas and interaction amongst all parties at the table, with a commitment to include Nlcole Bryne in future mmhngs regarding discussions of the Village Hall It was determmed that with the change in chmrmanshtps of the Youth commission, when the former chairman went away to college perhaps the notfficat~on had become misplaced At ttus time the meeting was adjoumed and moved to Robert Frost School Coffee with Council at Robert Frost School The meeting was reconvened at 10 30a m at Robert Frost School by Trustee Skowron Pubhc Works Director Glen Andler, who setup the meeting room, joined the Village representatives The following coillmunlty members were present John Hummel Michael Keefe Hmo Mansubhanl David Scheln John Hummel acted as spokesman for the group on the most pressing ~ssue, which was Palwaukee Airport Mr Hummel complemented Dave Strahl on his cooperation and hard work in the past From that point a wide range of discussion of Palwaukee related issues, both past and present ensued From that discussion Chairman Skowron reduced the discussion to the following objectives' The four ~tems requested for Village Board consideration 1 Flight Restrictions a Weekday operations hmlted to the period between 6 00a m and 9 00p m b Weekend operations limited to the period between 9 00a m and 9 00p m 2 The clarification of the flight path take-off route over mdustnal areas and forest preserve Th~s will reqmre some work with the forest preserve regarding their rule of not to remove any trees 3 Place Mount Prospect on the list for portable noise momtor, even though this may take up to a year 4 Develop a Village Board position regarding nome impacts of Palwaukee A~rport that can be disseminated and d~scussed with the municipal decision-makers who own Palwaukee (Wheehng & Prospect Heights) In addition to the airport issue two other issues concerned Mr Hummel, Mr Keefe and Mr Mansubhanl They were after school pmkup from Robert Frost There is up to triple parking and other additional problems that need to be addressed This matter will be referred to one of the Page 2 of 3 roblem solving officers for a wew of the traffic pattern and an attempt to sohmt cooperahon from the school on tins matter Tangential to the school pick up was the ~ssue of a one way street There was some concern that only a minority of residents reahzed the ~mportance of the meetings ~n the past regarding the one way street prior to its establishment The trustees did mention the standard Village practice of surveying area residents when a traffic pattern change ~s considered Lastly, they expressed a concern regarding Aspen Trad Park that ~t was becoming a hang out for an undesirable element Tins will be addressed via a consultation with the park d~stnct to determme ~f any hghtlng ~s econommally feasible and adcht~onal pohce patrols A drag racing problem by the youths hanging out at the park was also mentioned The meeting was concluded at apprommately 11 45a m R~ubnutted~~_.~ Pdchard Edd~ngton Cinef of Pohce RE dr Page 3 of 3