VILLAGE OF STANFORD

100 W. Boundary

Stanford, IL 61774

PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Thursday,	November 2, 2006

SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES

Minutes of the Special 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 special meeting called to hear the business for the month of October. There was no regular scheduled meeting for the month of October due to a lack of a quorum.

1.	ROLL CALL: Present: 5 - Trustees Bob Beaty, Eric Geurts, Jim Sharp,

Absent: 2 - Trustees Holly Wendland and Matt Wendland.

Also Present: President Campbell

Attorney Mark McGrath

2.	RESIGNATION OF TRUSTEES:

Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Beaty, to approve the resignation of

Trustee Holly Wendland and Trustee Matt Wendland.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 4 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp and President Campbell.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:0

There being 4 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

3.	APPOINTMENTS:

A.)	Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee Sharp, to accept President Campbell's appointment of Dea Anderson to the position of Trustee expiring in 2009.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 4 - Trustees Beaty, Geurts, Sharp and President Campbell.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 4 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

B.)	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to accept President Campbell's appointment of Jake Knobloch to position of Trustee expiring in

2007.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 4 - Trustee Beaty, Geurts, Sharp and President Campbell.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 4 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

C.)	Trustee Beaty moved, seconded, by Trustee Sharp, to accept President Campbell's appointment of George Singley to position of Trustee expiring in

2009.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 4 - Trustee Beaty, Geurts, Sharp and President Campbell.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 4 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

D.)	The newly appointed Trustees took and subscribed the Oath of office as listed in

the Illinois Municipal Handbook. The Oath was taken before Clerk Streenz who

is a Notary Public.

E.)	President Campbell made appointments to the following Committees:

Dea Anderson, Chair	Health/Beautification/Welfare.

George Singley, Chair	Community Development

Jake Knobloch, Chair	Police

Jake Knobloch	Internal Auditor

4.	APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to approve the Board minutes for the regular scheduled board meeting on September 21st and the minutes for the September 25th Special Board Meeting.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

5.	TREASURER'S REPORT:

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

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

6.	TREASURER'S QUARTERLY INVESTMENT REPORT:

Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Beaty, to accept the Treasurer's Quarterly Investment Report.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

7.	MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT:

Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee Sharp, to accept the Monthly Financial Report.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES:6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

8.	MONTHLY DISPURSMENT REPORT:

A.)	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to approve bills and have the

Treasurer pay them.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

B.)	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Anderson, to approve the Treasurer to pay the mortgage for the 80 acres of land the Village owns. However, the payment can not exceed $11,534.88.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

9.	COMMITTEE REPORTS:

A.	Streets:

1.	Trustee Geurts spoke of the decision by McLean County Highway Department not to put up a "No Decompression Brake" sign at either end

of Division street stating with the reduction of the speed limit to 30mph

there would be no use for the signs.

2.	Trustee Geurts is still speaking with the Director of the Olympia Transportation Department about the bus stop at Boundary/Division.

The Mclean County Highway Department will not put up a School

Crossing sign at this intersection due to there being no school in the

area or crossing guard or street crossing at this intersection.

3.	Attorney Mark McGrath has spoke with Brad Glenn, developer of the Subdivision and spoke of the findings of the engineering firm that was hired to survey the land for the Subdivision. The firm thinks the best way for the water line to be laid is through the Kyra Houston property located

on the north side of Stringtown road. Attorney McGrath has prepared an

Easement Agreement between Kyra Houston and the Village and asked

that it be put on the November 16th agenda.

4.	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Beaty, to have B&W Tree Service remove 2 trees and stumps and 2 other trees on Village right of way at 427 W. Boundary for the quoted price of $1,335.00.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and

Singley.

NAYS:0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

B.	Drainage:

Trustee Beaty reported for Drainage.

C.	Water:

1.	Trustee Sharp spoke of an award the Water Department received

from the IL Dept of Public Health for achieving the highest

standard of compliance in accordance with the Illinois Fluoridation

Act.

2.	President Campbell asked about Village practice of charging a higher rate for water usage for residence of the Township who have city water. It was the consensus of the board to keep the

practice in place stating: we have had a lot of annexations to the

Village because of this practice and other villages in the area

have the same practice.

D.	Health, Beautification & Welfare:

Trustee Geurts motioned, seconded by Trustee Beaty, to reimburse Holly

Holly Wendland $30.01 from the Veteran's Memorial Park fund, for gasoline

she had used when she went to pick up items for the park.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

E.	Community Development:

Trustee Geurts stated that the MAPPING Program has been started.

F.	Legal:

431 W. Main will stay on the agenda until we can speak with the owner

to see if their plans have changed for the address. Chief Copeland stated

the property is semi-secure and tires were placed on the back side of the garage

area of the property. The garage is being rented out by someone at this time.

This matter will stay on the agenda for November 16th.

10.	NEW BUSINESS:

D.	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Geurts, to authorize the Clerk to attend the LOCIS User Group Meeting held in Springfield on October 27th and

reimburse the Clerk for miles @ 44.5 cents per mile.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

E.	Trustee Sharp motioned, seconded by Trustee Anderson, to deny a request to make ground floor apartments at 114 W. Main siting the Municipal Code Section

151.13: District E Regulations: Business.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

F.	Trustee Sharp moved, seconded by Trustee Beaty to have Matt Wendland

Removed from check signing.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

G.	Trustee Geurts moved, seconded by Trustee Singley, to approve President Campbell's appointment of Jake Knobloch as Internal Auditor.

On roll call the vote was:

AYES: 6 - Trustees Anderson, Beaty, Geurts, Knobloch, Sharp and Singley.

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: 0

There being 6 affirmative votes, the motion carried.

11.	ADJOURNMENT @ 8:26PM

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

Trustee Sharp, to adjourn. Motion carried.

Kara M. Streenz

Village Clerk/Collector