Village of Lombard Legistar System

Andy Draus questioned if this award is intended for grade school kids? Trustee

Fitzpatrick asked if he has a problem with it being her father who made the nomination?

Draus also asked if the committee wanted to collect nominations and have it be more of

a bigger deal? Could we get a referral letter from the PADS place? He would prefer to

get an independent verification for the award. Staff will call Mr. Melton and ask for

further verification for the award nomination.

Zachary Wilson wants to have a "Youth Fair" to get people together to recognize the

young people of the community. Pam Bedard suggested that especially the youth need

to get recognized and that we should get the word out to the schools, churches, etc. so

more people know about the award.

Staff will follow up and bring this back to the committee with verification for further

consideration.

Sixth to eighth grade students, are doing a community project to raise $60,000 to build a

playground at the school at York Center. Trustee Fitzpatrick explained that they will be

asking for corporate sponsors and holding various events to raise money. Usually kids

are raising money for kids they'll never see and this is a very community-minded project

for kids to be doing this in their own community.

Zachary Wilson commented that this is a fantastic idea and we should recognize the

entire school. Laura Fitzpatrick pointed out that by giving it right away it will give more

PR for the event.

Trustee Fitzpatrick directed the committee to go back to the subject areas and she

would like the committee to look at each of these categories and look over them, get

some goals, a project or a service project and do them one at a time. The committee

suggested that a great deal of work had been done with seniors in mind and now we'll

pick which of the other categories we want to go with and set priorities.

Zachary Wilson talked about at the last meeting bringing all the governmental units

together and see what we already have. Whether that's under Intergovernmental or

Social Services, let's learn what we have so that we can move forward with a plan.

Trustee Fitzpatrick suggested that all of these things work out to be intergovernmental

because they cross over.

Zachary Wilson suggested that we should know what we offer and what we don't offer,

we can move forward. He also questioned whether or not we want a representative

from each board to work together on a project such as a public forum. Andy Draus

agreed that this would be good so that the public can come together to work out ideas

together, with all boards-library, park district and Village-all together.

Zachary Wilson asked if the committee could sponsor a public forum with

representatives from each governmental entity so that people could ask questions.

Andy Draus said that he could envision it more so that people could come forward and

ask questions of each group.

Zachary Wilson asked if we want to have a meeting with each one first so that we could

have an understanding of what each one does?

Andy Draus said that he could see it with questions being done ahead of time so that we

are not waiting for people to get questions….don't want to blindside the participants.

Trustee Fitzpatrick suggested that it might have to be a leadership forum so that people

would be represented. They might not have one person be able to represent the entire

body. Perhaps each group could send a representative.

Pam Bedard agreed that it would be good.

Lisa Biegalski said that she thought it would clear up a lot of misinformation.

Moon Khan said that he thinks it is a great idea but it will more or less be listening to

them. He doesn't think anyone will show up. Expectations are that we would be the

only ones that listen to them. Maybe they will send their executive directors. The

meeting should be open to the public-ready to show up so that we will listen to them.

Questions could be emailed to staff if people can't show up.

Trustee Fitzpatrick suggested that maybe it could be more like a fair---where people can

be in a more relaxed atmosphere. People are stressed when they are at a mike.

Zachary Wilson said that we could ask each group to speak with a positive emphasis.

Trustee Fitzpatrick asked how long would it take? Maybe too long.

Moon Khan asked would there be any members of the Village Board that feel the

committee shouldn't do this and that they should? Should have someone from the

Village of Lombard also there as a representative.

LIBRARY/PARK/BOARD-Laura Fitzpatrick suggested they invite members from each of

these to the next meeting so that we can talk about how to do this. At the February

meeting the committee will get the event more organized and then invite the groups the

month after.

Next meeting---plan the Intergovernmental Forum-include on agenda to discuss. Have

this on the agenda to discuss.

Each body could have five minutes for a positive opening statement and then questions

would be answered. Could have questions submitted on the internet so that we would

require the questions ahead of time so that they can have them prepared for the

meeting.

Moon Khan suggested the committee organize a Village picnic once a year. He has

seen this done in several Villages such as Glendale Heights. It is a great event with lots

of residents and a full day program or couple of hours in the afternoon. International

Day/Human Relations Day…not sure what they call it.

Multi-Cultural Day---Downers Grove---Trustee Fitzpatrick-food and entertainment on

different days.

Schaumburg also does this -500 or 600 people show up, all various ethnic groups. Staff

will contact PR person at Glendale Heights to see what they do.

Zachary Wilson added that he thinks that diversity should be incorporated into all other

things not just celebrating diversity on one day. Diversity in religion is the real reason in

diversity. He thinks it should be mixed in with everything else.

Moon Khan suggested that it could be organized on July 4th and have a parade and

then go to the Taste of Lombard. Andy Draus suggested that perhaps could have a

Zachary Wilson said that this group has a lot of responsibility to the community and to

each other to be here for the committee. He commented that it is unfair and

discourteous not to be there so that items can be discussed and voted on. They need

quorums for voting.

Pam Bedard and Gerri Kuehl stated they would be appreciative of better communication

such as the meeting time change for this meeting. Trustee Fitzpatrick explained that

she changed the time to 7:30 p.m. to make it easier for people to get to the meeting on

time.

Staff asked about the future meeting times and the email communication. A vote was

taken and majority voted for a change to 7:30 p.m. for the meeting. It was also agreed

to keep the email communication.

Staff suggested that if someone is unable to make the meeting to please contact either

Trustee Fitzpatrick or staff so that we can tell if we have a quorum or not. The next

meeting will be Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m.