Public Works Committee

PUBLIC SERVICES MAYOR TRUSTEES Andrew Przybylo George D. Alpogianis John C. Jekot VILLAGE MANAGER Joe LoVerde Steven C. Vinezeano Denise McCreery VILLAGE CLERK Dean Strzelecki Marlene J. Victorine PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES September 24, 2018 Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 10:30 am. Roll call was taken and Danette O’Donovan Matyas, Fred Braun, and Tony Dati were present. Dan Belzano was absent. Also in attendance, Mike Haws. Approval of Meeting Summery/ Minutes Fred Braun, Danette Matyas and Tony Dati approved July meeting summery. Old Business 9101 Greenwood: Fred Braun showed a photo the committee photos of the demolition at 9101 Greenwood. The project is going as planned. Fred mentioned that the Mayor had requested the group to discuss calling Public Works, Public Works & Transit Authority. They mayor wants to make sure we are getting all the credit we deserve and to show the importance of the busses. It will be on next month’s agenda. New Business Item One: Financing of pumper truck, third round of squads, and a dump truck Mike Haws, Fleet Superintendent was asked to join the meeting to give us some more information. The village will be financing all of these vehicles. 197,550.08 6849 W Touhy Avenue Niles, IL 60714 Phone (847) 588-7900 Fax (847) 588-7950 WWW.VNILES.COM For the conversion of police cars. 420,051.84 For the purchase of new police cars. 480,000.00 For the purchase of a new fire truck. 249,097.00 For the purchase of a dump truck. Mike mentioned that we are will be paying a lower interest rate and financing these vehicles over the next 5 years. Their is also 200,000.00 budgeted for new computers in the police cars. Item Two: Sidewalk Maintenance Policy Tom Powers joined the meeting. After meeting with the engineering staff it was determined based on legal recommendations to not have an official sidewalk maintenance policy. Item Three: Private Utility Line Insurance – American Water Recourses Tom Power & Bob Pilat joined us to discuss AWR & National League of Cities. NLC has a 30 day waiting period to make a claim. It is less expense, but the benefits are less. AWR- Rates do not go up if you make a claim. They have an opt in program. Home owner only pays a monthly fee. You have a 1 year contract. Costs help cover partial restoration. Driveways are not covered. They also offer to replace lead services when they run into them. We are not sure if NLC offers that. We need to revisit this at the next meeting. Item Four: 8240 Oketo Ave No Parking Sign The committee recommends not placing a No Parking Sign at 8240 Oketo Ave. at this time. Item 5: Village Monument Sign Tony, Fred, and Chuck met about placement of the signs. First spot is Marcheski Park. Electric and water is already installed. We are waiting for conformation if it will be a digital sign or not. The committee also discussed two other locations. Cumberland & Dempster, and Milwaukee & Greenwood. Item 6: Updating Tree Ordinance to include Mulberry trees as a nuisance tree. The committee discussed adding Mulberry trees to the restricted planting list, having an education initiative with recommendations to have them removed, and looking for other ways to address nuisance trees on private property. Aye – 3, Nay – 0 Item 7: No Left Turn Sign on Nordica at Oakton It is hard for buses to turn on Nordica from Oakton due to cars backed up on Nordica waiting to make a left turn. The school proposed restricting left turns for 1 hour in the morning 7:30 am – 8:30 am. 1 hour in the afternoon 2:30 pm – 3:30 Page 2 pm. Public Works will come up with a design for the sign and discuss placement. Public Works will come up with a sign for the board meeting. Aye – 3, Nay - 0 Public Comments No public comments Adjournment A motion was made to adjourn and seconded at 12:09 pm. Aye – 3, Nay – 0 Page 3