Village of Sheffield

 

Board Meeting Minutes

Sept 21, 2009

 

The Sheffield Village Board met Monday, September 21, 2009 at the Sheffield Community Center. 

 

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

 

Board approved

  • minutes from the Sept 8, 2009 meeting
  • bills and treasurers report
  • loan from water fund to the sewer fund
  • conducting a public survey to qualify for CDAP grants
  • elimination of one parking spot at the top of Main St on the south/west side

 

Committee meetings scheduled:

  • None scheduled

 

Engineer-

  • Jeff Synder reported that we would hear directly from the Governors Office regarding the state Capital Development monies.

 

Buildings and Grounds -

  • Trustees questioned whether the siding had been done on our metal building in the alley.  Mayor noted that it had not.  Camey Construction has until the end of September to complete the project.

 

Cemetery Committee -

  • Village employees are working hard on catching up with mowing and trimming the cemetery.

 

Finance/Band Committee –

  • Clerk and Treasurer noted that the sewer fund was short $10,000 for paying a loan payment and requested that the board borrow the money from the water fund to be paid back at the end of October, after the water bills have been collected.  Motion carried.
  • The board voted to conduct a survey through NCICG (North Central Illinois Council of Governments).  Trustees and Mayor will distribute the one page survey door to door and return to collect them.  The survey is to show whether we are eligible for certain grant monies.   The survey is good for 5 years.

 

Complaint Committee –

  • Trustee VanderMeersch pointed out that it is difficult when crossing Main St on Atkinson St. to see oncoming traffic to the north due to the parked cars.  It was thought that eliminating one parking spot would help to eliminate this problem.  Motion was carried to eliminate the top parking spot on the northwest side of Main St.

 

Police Committee –

  • Officer Todd Marquez gave the police department report. He noted that not everything happens overnight and that some ordinance issues take some time to be resolved and that he prefers to work with the people.

 

Streets and Alleys Committee –

  • Clean up day will be in October.

 

Public – Jeff Sudakov

  • Approached the board requesting if he could have the village employees remove a tent spike.  Mayor granted
  • Would like to make 3 parking spots between the trees on the Mason St side of his property. Superintend Porter is to look at this.
  • Noted to the board that there is a bee or hornet nest in the tree across the street

 

The next board meeting will be held on Monday, October 05, 2009 at the Sheffield Community Center.

 

Respectfully submitted

Pat Stier