Oak Brook Board of Trustees Meeting of June 9, 2009

The meeting was called to order at 7:00PM. The video podcast of the entire meeting is available at http://www.oakbrooktv.org/. All Trustees were present. President Craig issued a proclamation supporting the census. Public comment began by noting several residents would comment on the Salt Creek dam later. Frank Trombetta of the Park District Board requested an additional stop sign near the Park District exit. Kathy Manofsky reported the Oak Brook Chamber of Commerce was having another drive around for meeting planners and asked the Village to supply coupons for something related to the Sports Core for the gift bags. Minutes for May 12 were approved. The consent agenda included $13,464 for Seyfarth, Shaw LLP, $16,000 for Croydon sewer project, and a request to seek bids for 35^th St. water main replacement. A referral to planning for a Medical office building at 1802 & 1806 York was postponed at the request of the requestor. The consent agenda was adopted. The next item on Administrative Adjudication Hearings was removed. The next item was the Intergovernmental Agreement with the tollway. This passed. The next item was the DRSCW Review report. This was the recommendation to breach Salt Creek dam. Trustee Wolin presented the issue and moved to have the Village oppose any change to the dam. A lengthy period of prepared presentation from residents who live near the dam followed. Trustee Aktipis proposed amending the motion to include having the village contact all our political representatives and get our lobbyists to help us oppose any modification of the dam. After this passed, Trustee Zannis read from a letter from the Forest Preserve District which owns the dam. This letter indicated that while the District had not yet taken any position on the dam, they were already starting to remove several other dams and it would be several years before they would get to the Salt Creek dam. The next item was Trustee Liaison Assignments and Trustee Carson had one correction. The next item was the Police Pension Fund Board and President Craig recommended Hitesh Patel (recently elected Butler 53 school board member) for a two-year term. The board concurred. Next came an ordinance (which passed) reducing the authorized number of liquor licenses by one because President Craig acting as the Liquor Board revoked a license for violations. Then Trustee Wolin presented a proposal for an engineering design for water main replacement in Timber Trails for $137,720. This passed. Then Trustee Aktipis presented a proposal to create a Citizens’ Financial Advisory Board. This would be an ad hoc 5-member committee composed of residents with expertise in finance who would review the village budget and make recommendations on financial issues. This passed. Then Assistant Manager Wing presented the administration’s recommendation for health, dental & life insurance renewal. The recommendation included increasing employees’ share of the PPO premium from 10% to 12.5% for non-union employees as well as increasing deductibles and co pays. The HMO premium would also increase. A new, high deductible plan, would be offered with the village contributing to employee’s health savings accounts. The expectation would be that the village total insurance cost would be slightly lower than the present year. After extensive discussion, the board agreed to meet on June 15 to continue the insurance discussion. Trustee Carson then presented the agreement authorizing the Highland Games, which passed. Next was a request from staff for authorization to seek improved public entity liability insurance coverage as a change from IRMA that passed. During Trustee comment period, Trustee Carson mentioned that he had had discussions with Tray and DeLeos about DeLeos offering food and beverage service to the soccer fields. Because of the weather, almost no one was coming to the B&T, but hundreds were coming to play soccer. The other trustees agreed this was a great idea and urged an immediate start. The meeting was then adjourned to closed session.