VILLAGE OF STANFORD

100 W. Boundary

Stanford, IL 61774

PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Thursday,	August 17, 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: 5 - Trustees Bob Beaty, Eric Geurts, Jim Sharp,

Holly Wendland, Matt Wendland.

Absent: 1 - Trustee Nichole Wallarab

Also Present: President Campbell

Attorney Mark McGrath

2.	APPOINTMENTS:

A.	Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee Sharp, to approve President

Campbell's appointment of Matt Wendland to the Zoning Board.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland, M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

B.	President Campbell appointed Trustee Holly Wendland to the

Health, Beautification & Welfare Chair.

3.	POLICE:

A.	Chief Copeland spoke of the progress on the demolition of the empty house belonging to William Burger on W. Main. The house should be demolished by

next spring.

B.	Chief Copeland showed photos and spoke of the investigation of 431 W. Main.

The building is considered to be a danger to the public because of the lack of security to the doors and windows, improper roofing allowing water to come in, dry rot, trash, animal feces, and infestation of bugs and possibly rodents.

4.	APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to approve the July 20, 2006 regular meeting minutes as presented. Motion carried.

5.	RESOLUTION FOR REVIEW OF EXECUTIVE SESSION MINUTES:

Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee M. Wendland, to release the following

executive session minutes listed and keep all other executive session minutes

confidential. Minutes released were: September 18, 2003, March 21, 2002,

June 28, 2001, and May 17, 2001.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland, M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

6.	TREASURER'S REPORT:

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

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

7.	MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT:

Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee Sharp, to approve the monthly Financial

Report.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

8.	MONTHLY DISBURSEMENT APPROVAL:

Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Beaty, to approve the payment of both the June and July monthly bills with the addition of Gasvoda & Associates for $1,470.00 and METCOM for Starcom21 annual user fee of $300.00 and authorized the Treasurer to pay them.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

9.	COMMITTEE REPORTS:

A.	Streets:

1.	Trustee Geurts motioned, seconded by Trustee M. Wendland, to keep fence proposal on agenda but to table the discussion until after the new

water main costs is known.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland, M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

2.	The consensus of the board was to table the discussion of decompression brakes until the September 21st meeting.

B.	Drainage: Trustee Beaty reported for drainage.

C.	Water:

1.	Trustee Sharp motioned, seconded by Trustee M. Wendland, to allow

Attorney Mark McGrath to prepare an ordinance on water meter reading

requirements and disconnection of service if no reading is received from

a resident for 4 consecutive months.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland, M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

2.	Trustee Sharp motioned, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to table the discussion of water rate charge for high usage until the September 21st

meeting.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland, M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

3.	Trustee H. Wendland moved, seconded by Trustee M. Wendland, to authorize Trustee Sharp to speak with Steve Myers of Farnsworth Group

in reference to bulk water rate.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland, M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

D.	Health, Beautification & Welfare:

Trustee H. Wendland reported for Health, Beautification & Welfare.

She discussed her ideas for the Veteran's Memorial Park Project.

It was the consensus of the board to allow the display of advertisement of businesses who have donated to the project for a period of two weeks.

E.	Community Development:

Trustee Matt Wendland reported for Community Development.

He spoke of his talks with the FS representative in coming to Stanford.

F.	Legal:

Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee H. Wendland, to have Attorney

Mark McGrath prepare a dangerous building notice to 431 W. Main, including the apartments and garage.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

10.	NEW BUSINESS:

A.	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to approve ord 09-06: an

ordinance amending the village of stanford municipal code lifting a moratorium for issuance of building permits, authorizing limited livestock on larger tracts of	property, setbacks of accessory buildings and setbacks in industrial district, with the corrections made to Sec. 151.14(D).

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

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

Res 02-06: a resolution authorizing the modification of an agreement for

development of a subdivision.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 1 - Trustee Wallarab

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

C.	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee H. Wendland, to approve the

resignation of Trustee Nichole Wallarab.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 5 Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp, H. Wendland and M. Wendland.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 5 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

D.	The discussion of Ord 10-06: an ordinance amending the village of stanford municipal code to provide amendments relating to planting of vegetation on public right of way, is tabled until the September 21st meeting.

E.	The discussion of revisions to the existing animal code has been

tabled until the September 21st meeting.

F.	The change of web service to Mediacom is tabled until the September 21st

meeting pending further investigation into whether it will effect the

chatterbox.

G.	Trustee Sharp has a sink/cabinet to donate to the Village Hall as a replacement

to the one that is currently in the bathroom.

11.	ADJOURNMENT @ 9:13PM

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

Trustee Sharp, to adjourn. Motion carried.

Kara M. Streenz

Village Clerk/Collector