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AGENDA
Meeting Location: Meeting Date and Time:
Mount Prospect Senior Center Tuesday, October 11, 1994
50 South Emerson Street 7:30 P.M.
I. CALL TO ORDER - ROLL CALL
II. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 27, 1994
III. CITIZENS TO BE HEARD
IV. TAXI CAB RATE DEREGULATION
At the August 23, 1994 Committee of the Whole meeting, the Mount Prospect Village
Board held a Public Hearing to consider a rate increase request from American Taxi.
At that time, several Trustees expressed a desire to review the regulatory scheme with
an eye on deregulating the rate-making and rate-approval process while still
maintaining appropriate controls over the Senior/Disabled Discount Taxicab Program
and controls over providing the public with sufficient public notice of future rate
increases.
Appropriate staff will be in attendance to facilitate discussion.
V. CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR DISCUSSION
This topic comes from the Deferred Items list and was originally brought up by Trustee
Hendricks. Other than the City of Chicago and the Village of Lincolnwood, no other
municipality within the membership of the Northwest Municipal Conference currently
has an Ordinance which requires Carbon Monoxide Detectors in residential or
commercial buildings. The information package includes a staff memorandum outlining
different issues that need to be considered by the Village Board prior to adoption of an
Ordinance along with background material regarding the state of current technology as
well as what the appropriate Village response should be to a call of an activated alarm.
Other Policy-related questions that need to be addressed are the level of active
enforcement to ensure compliance, the phase-in period and the need to consider a
purchase assistance program for those persons who would find the $150-$250
expense a financial burden.
Appropriate staff will be in attendance to facilitate discussion.
VI. PERSONNEL CHANGES
Some current vacancies in a number of staff positions along with shifting priorities and
workloads have created an opportunity to structure the work force to better meet our
immediate needs. The Village Manager will propose reclassifying and combining three
current positions to provide better service in the Human Services Department,
Manager's office and Communications Division. The overall result will not change the
number of full-time equivalent positions currently authorized in the budget and the
overall cost impact will be somewhat less than the current salaries for the affected
positions.
In an effort to supplement the work of the Environmental Health Division of the
Department of Inspection Services, the Village Manager would like to explore the
possibility of creating an additional part-time Inspector's position which could be used to
focus on restaurant and other sanitation inspections while core Environmental Health
staff continues to focus on Property Maintenance issues as its number one priority.
Many communities have enhanced their enforcement capabilities by hiring registered
Sanitarians (RS) from other communities to conduct inspections on evenings and
weekends. The additional position would be authorized through the end of the year
after which an evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of the program would be reviewed.
Funding for the balance of this year is available due to salaries saved by existing
position vacancies.
Appropriate staff will be in attendance to discuss the proposed changes.
VII. MANAGER'S REPORT
VIII. ANY OTHER BUSINESS
IX. ADJOURNMENT