Village of Lombard Legistar System

It was moved by Preins, seconded by Hallbeck, approve the minutes of the

October 14, 1997, meeting with the following corrections. Gordon Hallbeck noted

that on page 2, item 970229, par. 5, Robert Lewis' name is misspelled; page 3,

item 7.0, last sentence, "it was decided to discussed" is not correct grammar;

page 4, item 970225, last sentence was not complete, should read "County will

maintain it for at least 15 years". John Meyer also noted that on page 1, item 3.0,

par. 2 should read "the committee had a discussion subsequent to the

representatives of Clark Dietz leaving the meeting"; page 3, item 7.0, there was no

vote taken.. The motion carried by a voice vote

Stan Rickard reviewed the memo (summary of changes from 1st draft) and 2nd draft for

the 99-08 CIP.

Stephen Preins asked if Westmore Woods is only tentative. Stan Rickard responded

that staff has presented the project to the Park District and the comments were

favorable. Staff is currently working on an Intergovernmental Agreement with them and

final engineering is underway. Staff is quite confident that we will have a project later

this year. Gordon Hallbeck asked if there would be connections from the north side of

St. Charles involved with the project. Stan Rickard explained 1st phase of the project

will be the detention pond, the 2nd phase will coincide with the St. Charles Road

reconstruction, installation of a storm sewer underneath St. Charles. The 3rd phase will

be putting in the storm sewers on Chase, Ahrens and Highland.

Stephen Preins stated that he still has a problem with the bike paths. The village should

not be spending money on bike paths when people still have water in their basements.

Stan Rickard informed the committee that one of the bike path on 22nd is still funded

with federal money. We are trying to use federal money when it is appropriate and

beneficial to the village. Stephen Preins felt that if Finley Road Bike Path is being built

with local funds, it should not be in the CIP. John Meyers agreed that until the flooding

issues are taken care of, the village should not be doing anything that is not absolutely

necessary. Robert Lewis explained that part of the reason bike paths are on there is the

funding. Some money is earmarked for transportation only. The plan for the path was

to put it on the east side of the street from Roosevelt to Oak Creek and then have it

cross over at the traffic signal and be on the west side from Oak Creek to 22nd. At this

point a motion was made to strike the Finley Road Bike Path from the CIP. See the 2nd

motion below for the vote results.

John Meyer asked if funds were identified in the CIP for the Overhead Sewer

Reimbursement Program. Stan Rickard responded that they are not in there yet. If the

committee recommends approval of the program then the funds will be put in the CIP.

John Meyer inquired as to why we are suddenly being allowed to install a sidewalk on

Roosevelt Road when IDOT was opposed to before. Robert Lewis explained that part

of the reason is because there has been quite a personnel change at IDOT. Also, IDOT

is looking to get more cooperation from municipalities regarding their Strategic Arterial

Program, therefore it is in their best interest to also cooperate with local projects.

Gordon Hallbeck asked if it would be possible to move the Ash Street up to be done at

the same time as SA209. After some discussion Staff agreed to look at it.

Stan Rickard talked to the committee about the Village using MFT for operations rather

than capital improvements. The Committee was comfortable with that change in policy.

A motion was made to recommend approval of this item with the stipulation that a line

item be added and money be budgeted for the Overhead Sewer Program.