Village of Sheffield

Board Meeting Minutes

Dec 8, 2009

The Sheffield Village Board met Monday, December 8, 2009 at the Sheffield Community Center.

Present: Mayor Rosenow, Trustees Bromme, Barton, Ries, Cernovich, Bertetto, and VanderMeersch. Treasurer Cranford and Clerk Stier. Engineer Jeff Snyder

Board approved

• minutes from the Nov 16, 2009 meeting with correction of changing the hiring of Luke Lanxon from the end of the month to the end of the pay period.
• bills and treasurers report
• to lay off Harry Petersen and to continue paying for his health care until spring

Committee meetings scheduled:

• None scheduled

Engineer

• Engineer Jeff Snyder reported on the proposed infrastructure projects and the engineering services. There was a Board census of agreement to go ahead with the engineering projects. A formal vote will be held at the next meeting.

Buildings and Grounds -

• Mayor Rosenow noted that he had delivered the letter to the Bureau Valley School District.
• Rosenow will take a couple of pictures of the Parsons building and will file the appropriate papers to have it removed from the tax roll.
• Trustee Cernovich questioned as to whether the village attorney had contacted Rosenow on the status of the Williams properties, as they may be in contempt of court for not having completed the repairs by the date set by the agreement.

Cemetery –

Finance/Band –

• Wilcoxson and Associates, village auditors, will be at the next meeting.

Ordinance and Resolutions –

• The auditors will have the tax levy ordinance. The tax abatement ordinance pertaining to abating the 1996 alternate revenue bond will need to be passed at the next meeting. Both ordinances need to be filed with the county by the last Tuesday of the December.

Complaint –

• There have been complaints of cat colonies within the village. Nothing can be done, unless there is a local ordinance. Some communities have ordinances that cats have to be on a leash or they are considered to be strays. Letters will be written to some residents expressing the health hazards of having too many cats and that they need to be kept contained. A notice will be put in The Focus encouraging citizens NOT to feed feral/stray cats.

Police–

• Police report was passed out.

Streets and Alleys –

• Trustee Bromme commended the village crew on cleaning the leaves from downtown and other parts of town.

Water -

Garbage & Sewer –

Personnel -

• Superintendent Porter recommended to lay-off employee Petersen until spring. There is no need for 3 full time employees during the winter months and Petersen is in approval. Board made the motion to lay Petersen off until spring and to continue to pay for his health insurance during the lay-off. (Barton, VanderMeersch, Bertetto voted aye, Ries, Cernovich voted nay, Bromme abstained). Porter will continue to use Luke Lanxon on a part-time basis during the winter months.

The next board meeting will be held on Monday, December 21, 2009 at the Sheffield Community Center.

Respectfully submitted, Pat Stier