Okay. Well, welcome to uh the second meeting in our new building. Um April 30th, 2025, 6:30 p.m. Um like to call the meeting to
order. Roll call. Um, uh, members present, we have Ben Peters, Michael Garary, Bill Lois, myself, acting mayor Craig Schulty. We
have our city uh, attorney Chris Hood and Patrick Knight. And who and Kim is present also. I see someone I want to zoom in. Kim is present. Is that anybody else zooming in? Just that's everybody.
Okay. Yep. Yep. All right. Okay. Um open forum. Do we have anybody uh present for open forum? Here for the North Point uh street
closure. Did you want to speak to it or just here in support of it? Here in support of it. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you for coming. you'll be on our uh next item I guess after we uh talk
about the consent agenda. Do we have a uh any discussion on the consent agenda? Um as far as payment of bills uh the other item on the consent agenda that would be passing along with all of this would be the Cook County Pride sidewalk
permit request that has been filled um filled. It should be in your packet, I guess. So with those with those four items, any discussion on any of those? I would put a motion to approve the
consent agenda. I have a second. Okay. Motion was uh made by Bank Peters and by Michael. Um all in favor uh Stan I.
Bill. Michael. Hi. And I'm an I as well. Um, next item on the agenda is the speed closure uh in front of the North Point for
um prom. Um there's a let's see I got pictures in here too. There's pictures in the al the uh application is in your packet. also pictures um of what the closure is going to look
like and also um a list of uh recent businesses who have signed up and that are in support um of this closure. Um
closure would be um Let's see. I get to that address here. May 3rd from 8 until midnight. Is that what I'm Is that what three hours May 3rd? Um they're going to And uh I
believe they're going to be setting up on May 2nd and then uh the next day on the 4th will be taking the tent down. They're setting up a tent in front of North Point. Um and all we ask from the city is that
we provide uh blockage of that street on the Highway 61 side and the other side uh adjacent to the alley that runs between Joint and the the bargain
shop there. Point point of clarity. I think my understanding of of the timeline is that they're going to be setting up the tent on that Friday, May 2nd. uh so that the kids can decorate um right the venue. Uh it would be up. Uh
so pres would assume then that the street would remain closed all the way from Friday evening all the way until Sunday midm morning. Correct. Even though the application doesn't it says it's a three-hour event. Did Did you
guys Right. Right. Yep. Hi, thank you for considering us. Um, sorry I didn't put that on that application. I put it in the letter saying the timeline. So, I'm sorry about that mishap. So, um, the kids are coming after school on Friday. We were hoping
to set up the tent and have it all there and then it would be there all day Saturday and the businesses all supported every single one on the block. And then we could are going to try and take the tent down actually Saturday night. So then it would be away and
would be clear to take down the barriers um by 8:00 a.m. on Sunday. So before the businesses open if that helps with the clarity. Great. Well, I appreciate that all the business owners uh adjacent and up and down the street were consulted and and asked for
support. I think that's that's meaningful. And the ones behind us, too. I love it. Yeah, why not get them all? We just got them all. They were very, very kind. So, and we've got the kids here kind of who've been organizing it, too. So, awesome.
Thank you. Thank you. Um, yep. Any other discussion on that? I I think the city uh street department will be notified for getting the barricades set up for you that uh Friday.
Um, do we have a motion to approve the application? I would move to approve that application. Okay. Uh, is there a second? I'll second it. Okay. Bill seconds it. Michael makes a motion to approve. Bill
seconds the application. Uh, we have a vote. Uh, Ben, I I Michael. Bill. I Okay. And I am I'm I'm an I as well. Thank
you. Um so that uh that carries. Thank you. Let's see. Let Thank you. Good idea. I'm glad you're helping out and supporting in support of the kids. It's a great thing to see in
Grammar after for sure. Have a great night. Yep. Uh, next on the agenda would be uh council and staff reports unless there's uh anybody anything else that any other
discussion anybody has? Okay. Um, who wants to go first? I haven't had any meetings. So, so you'll go first. Okay. I just my Okay. Ben, you have nothing. Uh, Bill,
do you have anything? Yeah, we had a meeting with the Arrowhead Animal Rescue and they wanted to get together with Mike and myself and go through the agreement and and finalize that. So, we're planning to get together on May 8th and hammer that out,
go through it. So that's about all I got. Okay, Michael. Yeah, I had a Yeah, thanks, Greg. Um, yeah, I had a library meeting and we um continued our
discussion about uh a safety door for an exit or a new exit door there. Um, we did get all of the bids that we were expecting to get, but they're all pretty high. So, we're putting that on the back
burner for now. Um, we also talked about u, you know, setting up there's no cameras there. And we we had talked about last time getting like a professional service and all this kind of thing. And then we were thinking about using um Sundue, seeing if that,
you know, that would be a better better deal. Um and they were all just pretty darn expensive. So in the end, we decided to go with just um and I don't remember which one it was, but we decided to just go with one like, you know, ring or something like that,
something affordable for us. Um, and uh, just considering our scale, it's not huge. You know, there's more manual labor to it, but it's vastly cheaper and it's something we can do right now. Like it's we we've got the money in the bank
and we can we can do it. So, we'll just do that. And you know and we did also discuss about um you know it always looks like we have money but so much of that is tied up you know and things that we can't spend on like we can't spend it on the door we can't spend it on the
cameras that kind of thing. So that was good for everybody to hear like yeah we've got the these funds but we can't use them for just anything. Can you elaborate like do you why are they you can't be Yeah. Well, some of them are um I mean I guess they're spoken for and actually Kim
could well and I don't want to interrupt it. I remember we had talked about it during last year's budget cycle about the restricted funds. Yeah. But that we discovered in that process that it restricted is sort of a name only like it's not entirely accurate to say they
can't be used except for specific. Well, I think we were looking at like the one like the fund that we could actually access and I was thinking it's the is it the 515, Kim? Is that 215? 215. It's close. Um but can can you speak to that?
Yeah. So, there's a couple different funds and the library board set um one of the funds to be spent on things that are not in the normal budget for the library and the other one
they set more as an endowment to use the interest of it, not the whole pocket of money. Mhm. And um we've used pretty much of the can use it for training or other other
things. That bucket of money has gotten used up over time. So, and so it's the is it the 215 that is the one we use the interest from? Is it that one? They're they are
both in 215. But one is considered Hazel Matthews and the other is other endowments. So these funds only really get replenished if somebody in their will says I want to will this much of my
estate to the library. And always they say not for ordinary operating expenses. Um, and and so I mean I I guess I didn't have the conversation, but since we're here and we're talking and the public's
here, so the the door doesn't follow fall under that, I assume. Well, the deductible when the flood was used, the restricted funds were used to satisfy the deductible and that's not normal operating either, right? So yeah,
argument could be made that Yeah. And and we didn't make uh the determination we were told. Yeah, but Kim, are you saying different? Are you saying this? Well, I wasn't included in that discussion. Okay. Okay. I thought that
uh I I misunderstood. I thought that um Amanda had had spoken you guys about that. A lot of that money was used for your airsource heat pumps and right and all of that improvements that were made over there. Okay. Wouldn't the door be
along the lines of like building uh It's not really building upkeep, but it is definitely proving the building. Yeah. You know, and I haven't seen the bids for the doors. Okay. My personal opinion
is if that's for safety, you're going to run from somebody. you are running out where all the windows are and they can see where you're going where the other exits that are existing. You could run in
multiple hiding places once you exit that building. Yeah. So, is that that door just to add another exit other than the Well, you have a main you have a main entry then you have an exit on the sidewalk side or the street side. Yeah.
And you haveit on the on the alley on the east side as well. Oh, there's another exit on the east side. Okay. So, there's currently three exits now. An entry. Yeah. With an entry. Okay. Yeah. When So, when they
did a safety audit, this was recommended by two of the places that that looked at our building. They said, you know, here's what we recommend. You know, having an egress of some kind. and they looked at a window like could we just get a punch out window or something like that that would you know satisfy that
and it they went through all that and when they looked at actually they would have to to make the window big enough because those windows are kind of small um big enough they were kind of like you've spent all this money you might as well put in a door which would be much more effective if people just want to
pop out rather than you know if they're older or younger and trying to climb out and that kind of thing. So that's why the door was kind of brought up as the thing that we should do. Um are there any interior modifications that could be made to make those other two doors maybe
more accessible for that emergency scenario or is that um we we did look at that. Um and they're kind of the like the one I mean the one is a straightaway so it is available um you know in terms of going out on the
on the east side you know going towards the cola blanker and that kind of thing. Um so that one is totally available for people to go out. This was just an an additional one that they thought maybe would be the thing to use. Yeah. So they also put in a door between the front
desk and the staff area. Yeah. So that staff could enter in there and be able to close that door and then there's only one to the Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Going back
west. To the west. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But um Yeah. So I don't know. Maybe maybe we can talk a little bit more about what's available to be used, right? Okay. Anyway, that that was what I got, but obviously we can have more of a
conversation about that, but the the cameras did get done because we did have that from Nice. from our fun. Okay. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Okay. I don't have anything yet. Next week I will I guess for the park board.
Um, so with that, if there's any more business from anybody, I don't see anything. Uh, I guess we can adjourn the meeting. All right. All right. Thanks, Greg. Have a great night. Good job, Greg. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Have a Have a good
night, everybody. Yeah. Thank you. Hey, Chris.