Peoria Standard

The Hanna City Village Council met June 27.

Here are the minutes of the meeting as provided by Hanna City:

The Special Council Meeting was called to order Mayor Winterroth at 7:30 p.m. with pledge to the flag and a moment of silence to honor those serving our country. Present: Trustees Pahl, Weaver, Hoopingarner, Johnson & Stear … Attorney Martinelli, Treasurer Braden and Clerk Klatt.

Trustee Weaver made motion to open Public Hearing on a proposed annexation agreement with owners seeking to annex property with tax identification number: PIN 16-02-300-005 and PIN 16-02-100-004, 1223 N. Murphy Road, Hanna City (Easley). … Trustee Hoopingarner seconded … all ayes … hearing opened. With no comments or questions, Pahl made motion to close public hearing at 7:33 p.m.. Weaver seconded … all ayes … hearing closed.

Guests: None present.

Minutes: Trustee Stear made motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting on June 7, 2016 … Seconded by Trustee Pahl … all ayes … motion carried.

Treasurer’s Report: Updated spreadsheet was presented … less than month into new fiscal year. Treasurer's Report reviewed … Hoopingarner made motion to accept Treasurer’s Reports and pay all outstanding bills. Weaver seconded. ROLL CALL VOTE: Hoopingarner: yes, Johnson: yes, Stear: yes, Pahl: yes, Weaver: yes … motion carried.

Engineer's Report (Lott): Engineer not present. Mayor reported that water line to Dollar General has been approved by IEPA … sewer line is in but haven't received report yet. Preparing bids for Main Street project.

Attorney’s Report (Martinelli): Attorney presented Prevailing Wage Resolution. Johnson made motion to approve Resolution No. 2016-06-01 A Resolution regarding the general prevailing rate of hourly wages for Village of Hanna City … Weaver seconded. ROLL CALL VOTE: Johnson: yes, Stear: yes, Pahl: yes, Weaver: yes, Hoopingarner: yes … motion carried. Passage notice will be published in paper and resolution available for public viewing. 

Ordinance 16-06-01: Planning Commission has met and recommends approval … findings of fact available for Council. Hoopingarner made motion to approve Ordinance No. 16-06-01 An Ordinance Authorizing the entry into an Annexation Agreement for the Easley Properties: PINS: 16-02-300-005 and 16-02-100-004 … Johnson seconded. ROLL CALL VOTE: Stear: yes, Pahl: yes, Weaver: yes, Hoopingarner: yes, Johnson: yes … motion carried.

Finance (Hoopingarner): IEPA Permit fee for lagoon expires in July. Hoopingarner made motion to approve payment of $2500.00 fee upon receipt of invoice from State of Illinois … Weaver seconded. ROLL CALL VOTE: Pahl: yes, Weaver: yes, Hoopingarner: yes, Johnson: yes, Stear: yes … motion carried. 

Consensus of Council was to receive paper copies of Deposit Report, Income Statement and General Ledger Activity Report second meeting of each month. With merger of Heritage Bank and Morton Community Bank, Village's MFT checking account is duplicate number and will be issued a new account number.

Sewer (Pahl): Although purchase of push camera to inspect sewers from C&H Repair & Supply at cost of $9,436.30 was approved, Jim Swearingen is willing to have Village spend the money instead on new pumps for Route #116 lift station. After discussion, Pahl made motion to approve $17,393.00 for two 3-phase pumps for Route #116 lift station from Linden & Co. … Johnson seconded. ROLL CALL VOTE: Weaver: yes, Hoopingarner: yes, Johnson: yes, Stear: yes, Pahl: yes … motion carried. 

Only one lift station will still have 1-phase pumps. Dillon is beginning repair of five manholes to help alleviate infiltration problems.

Streets & Alleys (Weaver): MFT Program has been approved by IDOT. Council will be discussing seal coating and spray patching at July 19 meeting.

Police & Planning (Johnson): Received 34 incident reports from last two months. Village received five months of activity reports from Sheriff's Dept.

Water (Hippen): In Hippen's absence, Mayor approved five checks in amount of $240.00 to be paid from water escrow account. Weaver made motion to approve Village's annual membership in Illinois Rural Water Association at cost of $332.92 … Johnson seconded … ROLL CALL VOTE: Johnson: yes, Stear: yes, Pahl: yes, Weaver: yes, Hoopingarner: yes … motion carried. 

Twenty-one shutoff notices were sent out totaling $2,665.94 … one in foreclosure totaling $56.50 … @ gallons of water sold 2,359,391 … bulk water sales for May $511.75.

Buildings & Grounds (Stear): After discussion, Stear made motion to approve Structure & Ground Space Lease agreement with Noize Communications … Pahl seconded … ROLL CALL VOTE: Hoopingarner: yes, Johnson: yes, Stear: yes, Pahl: yes, Weaver: yes … Motion carried. 

Will add parking lot lights repair to agenda for next meeting. Will get prices for blacktopping and/or concrete for aggregate storage units … also ordering new No Trespassing signs. Lights recently installed but not currently working correctly at lagoon and maintenance building have been replaced at no charge by RKE.

Other: Council asked to review Personnel Manuel and get any changes to Mayor by end of this week … for approval at next meeting.

Update on Village property at the corner of Farmington Road & 1st Street was tabled until next meeting.

Correspondence: Mayor has spoken to IEPA and believes response will suffice but waiting for official confirmation.

After discussion, Pahl made motion to approve memorial contribution to St. Jude Midwest Affiliate in amount of $50.00 to be given in memory of Leon Elmer Hutton (Hoopingarner's step-father-in-law) and $50.00 to be given in memory of Gayeanne Pirck (part-time employee, Joel Woerner's, mother) … Johnson seconded … ROLL CALL VOTE: Stear: yes, Pahl: yes, Weaver: yes, Hoopingarner: yes, Johnson: yes … motion carried.

Mayor received resignation letter from Samantha Hippen as Village Trustee since she will be moving out of Hanna City … second meeting in July will be her last meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 8:33 p.m.