VILLAGE OF STANFORD

100 W. Boundary

Stanford, IL 61774

PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Thursday, July 20, 2006

REGULAR MEETING MINUTES

Minutes of the regular meeting of the president and board of trustees of the Village of Stanford, held at the Stanford Village Hall at 7:00 P.M.

President Margaret Campbell called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M. It was a regularly scheduled meeting.

1.	ROLL CALL: Present: 6 - Trustees Bob Beaty, Eric Geurts, Jim Sharp, Nikki Wallarab

Holly Wendland and Matt Wendland.

Also Present: President Campbell

Attorney Mark McGrath

2.	POLICE REPORT:

A.	Chief Copeland gave a progress report on 400 W. Main, nuisance violation.

The Chief stated that the most dangerous portion of the dead tree has been cut

down. The trunk and a limb are still standing and if they were to fall they would

fall on top of the house.

B.	A progress report was given by Chief Copeland on the progress of a nuisance

violation at 319 W. Boundary.

C.	A progress report was given by Chief Copeland on the nuisance violation at

407 W. Boundary. Home owner, Vicki Bieri spoke of her plans to rebuild the

fence and the cost of it. She requested a variance for the fence line.

This will go before the zoning board at the August 14th meeting.

3.	PUBLIC CONCERNS:

Raymond Green of 207 W. Boundary had questions about the zoning board not allowing

any building permits to be issued at this time. He started plans for a garage in

December and now is ready to build one. His concern will be addressed at the

August 14th zoning board meeting.

4.	APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to approve both the June 15th

regularly scheduled board meeting minutes and the June 19th special board meeting

minutes.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

5.	TREASURER'S REPORT:

Trustee Sharp moved seconded by Trustee Wallarab to approve the Treasurer's Report.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

6.	TREASURER'S QUARTERLY INVESTMENT REPORT:

Trustee Wallarab moved, seconded by Trustee Matt Wendland, to approve the

Treasurer's Quarterly Investment Report.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

7.	MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT:

Trustee Wallarab moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to approve the Monthly

Financial Report.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS:0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

8.	MONTHLY DISBURSEMENT APPROVAL:

A.	Treasurer is absent, no report of bills for approval was received.

B.	Trustee Sharp moved to approve, seconded by Trustee Wallarab, to authorize

the Treasurer to pay all regularly occurring bills that could incur a penalty fee

until further action is made.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and

M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

9.	COMMITTEE REPORTS:

A.	Streets:

1.	The board re-examined the bids for a fence for the Village stock pile site.

Trustee Geurts will contact all of the fence companies that submitted a

proposal and advise them of ORD 06-06: prevailing rate of wages.

Further discussion was tabled until the August 17th meeting.

2.	Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee Sharp, to approve the Motor

Fuel Tax Bid award to: 1.) Midwest Asphalt for seal coat aggregate CA-

16 and crack filling Sections 06-00000-02 GM and 06-00000-03 GM. 2.)

Rowe Construction for chip seal (gravel) Section 06-00000-01-GM.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and

M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

3.	Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee M. Wendland, to approve to

request Attorney Mark McGrath to prepare an ordinance to ban any

planting of trees/landscape on Village right-of-way. Any planting of

flowers would need a permit.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and

M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

4.	Trustee Wallarab moved, seconded by Trustee H. Wendland, to approve

the Treasurer to pay B&W Tree Removal $625.00 for tree/brush removal

with the condition that this will be approved next time before any work

is performed.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and

M. Wendland

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

B.	Drain: Trustee Beaty reported for drainage.

C.	Water:

Trustee Sharp reported for Water.

A lengthy discussion on meter readings was tabled until the August 17th meeting.

D.	Health, Beautification & Welfare:

1.	Trustee H. Wendland's request for reimbursement of funds that was spent on flowers was denied. The board stated that a grant for $250 was just given to the Red Hat Society for the same purpose. Also, any purchase needs to come before the Board for approval.

2.	Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee Sharp, to approve the concept of the veteran's park project and granted $500 to start the project, pending no utilities or septic lines are found in this area.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and

M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

E.	Community Development:

Trustee Matt Wendland reported for Community Development.

F.	Police:

Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee M. Wendland, to approve a 3%

raise for the entire police force, retroactive to the first full pay period in July.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and

M. Wendland

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

10.	NEW BUSINESS:

A.	Trustee Wallarab advised the board that this would be her last meeting. She will

send a letter of resignation to be approved for the August 17th meeting.

B.	The Board requested Chief Copeland to start a investigation into two properties

that are a nuisance and possibly a health hazard to the public.

C.	Trustee Sharp informed the Board that the date of the next Zoning Board meeting will be August 14th at 7:00pm.

D.	Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee Sharp, to approve ORD 05-60:an ordinance making appropriations for the corporate purposes of the village of stanford, illinois for the fiscal year beginning may 1, 2006 and

ending April 30, 2007.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland, and

M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

E.	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Beaty, to approve to remove the temporary reduction in board stipend effective July 20, 2006.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland, and

M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

F.	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to approve the reduction of the Village's mowing bill for Jonathon Smith 100 S. Lewis, to $200.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, Wallarab, H. Wendland and

M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

G.	The consensus of the board was to table the review of the animal ordinance until the August 17th meeting.

11.	ADJOURNMENT @ 8:25PM

There being no further business to discuss President Campbell moved, seconded by

Trustee Wallarab, to adjourn. Motion carried.

Kara M. Streenz

Village Clerk/Collector