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COMMUNITY RELATIONS COMMISSION
2nd Floor Conference Room, Village Hall
Thursday, November 7, 2002
7:00 p.m.
The meeting of the Community Relations Commission (CRC) of the Village of Mount Prospect was held on
Thursday, November 7, 2002, in the second floor conferenee room of Village Hall, 100 South Emerson Street,
Mount Prospect, Illinois.
CALL TO ORDER
Chairman John Brennan called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m. Commissioners Barbara Muench, Judi
Muniz (arrived at 7:20) and Pankaj Parikh were present. Commissioner Anthony Tolbert was absent.
Also present were staff liaison Lisa Angell and Bill Cooney, Director of Community Development.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
There were no minutes for approval
OLD BUSINESS
FY 2003 CDBG Budget and Action Plan
Chairman Brennan asked each of the commission members to summarize the five requests that they were
assigned at the previous meeting. Each member provided a brief summary of their respective requests and
offered insights on the particular requests. Once all of the requests were summarized, Chairman Brennan
suggested that the Commission take each request one by one and determine if the Commission wished to
modify the preliminary staff funding recommendation.
The commission members indicated that they were generally in support of the preliminary recommendation,
especially since they were not very familiar with many of the programs and that each of the programs were
certainly worthy of full funding. After a lengthy discussion of each request, the Commission determined that
they would recommend that the preliminary recommendation be modified to increase funding for the
Suburban Primary Health Care Program to $11,000 and to decrease the Club RecPlex Program to $2,500 and
the Special Leisure Services Program to $2,000. The consensus was that the two publicly run programs had
other revenues sources to tap into while the Suburban Primary Health Care provided a very important service
to low -income individuals that do not have access to health insurance.
Chairman Brennan asked for a motion to approve the CRC's recommendation to the Village Board.
Commissioner Muench made a motion to approve the FY 2003 Action Plan and CDBG budget as amended
and to forward the recommendation to the Village Board for their review and consideration. Commissioner
Muniz seconded the motion and it was approved unanimously. The attached spreadsheet reflects the CRC's
recommendation.
NEW BUSINESS
The Commission briefly discussed what their next steps should be. Chairman Brennan suggested that the
commission members review their bylaws, specifically the goals and objectives that were stipulated by the
Village Board when they created the CRC, and to be prepared to discuss what topics the CRC should pursue
during the upcoming year.
CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
Chairman Brennan had no additional comments.
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ADJOURNMENT
The Commissioners agreed the next meeting would be held on Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 7:00 p.m.
at the Public Safety Building, 112 ]E. Northwest Highway. The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
William J. Cooney, Jr., AICP
Director of Community Development
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