City Council Meeting Agenda

CITY OF DES PLAINES
A G E N D A
City Council Meeting
Monday, October 15, 2007 – 6:30 p.m.*
Room 102

* the regular portion of the meeting will begin at approximately 7:00 p.m.

CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL

EXECUTIVE SESSION: Potential Litigation - TO BE SENT UNDER SEPARATE COVER - CANCELLED

PRAYER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

PRESENTATION: Des Plaines Library/New Radio Frequency Identification

RFID Presentation

System and Necessary Renovation

PUBLIC HEARING: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and Additional Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Permits

Public Hearing

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION: (matters not on the Agenda)

ALDERMEN ANNOUNCEMENTS:

EXECUTIVE SESSION ACTION:

1. Potential Litigation/Covenant Media Agreement IF REPORTED OUT

CONSENT AGENDA:

1. Minutes/Executive Session - September 19, 2007 (Committee of the Whole)

2. Minutes/Regular Meeting - October 1, 2007

Item 2 Consent

3. Minutes/Executive Session - October 1, 2007

4. Amend Title 1, Chapter 8 - "Position Classification and Compensation Plan," Section 4A., Schedule VII, of the City Code to delete classification of Assistant to the City Manager, and amend Schedule V-B to add classification of Media Specialist with a salary range of $47,827 - Minimum, $54,117 - Midpoint and $62,234 - Maximum, within the City Manager's Office (recommended by Acting City Manager)

Item 4 Consent

4a. FIRST READING - Ordinance M-64-07/Position Reclassific., Media Specialist

Item 4a Consent

5. Amend Title 1, Chapter 8 - "Position Classification and Compensation Plan" of the City Code as follows:

Item 5 Consent

Delete Sections 1-8-1: C.2 and C.3 - deleting these sections will appropriately incorporate all City positions within the classified service;

Amend Sections 1-8-3:A and delete Section 1-8-3:C - the process described in these two (2) sections has been modified in practice and is currently reflected in the City's revised Personnel Policy Manual;

Delete Section 1-8-4:B - this deletion is consistent with incorporating all City positions within the classified service as describe above; and

Amend Section 1-8-5:A.4 - this will create a range of 5% to 10% or the minimum and allows for flexibility in salary increases resulting from a promotion (recommended by Acting City Manager)

5a. FIRST READING - Ordinance M-65-07/Amendments. Classification & Compen. Plans

Item 5a Consent

6. Concur with recommendation of Des Plaines Zoning Board of Appeals, re Zoning Case 07-51-CU, to grant request for Conditional Use, with conditions, to permit operation of a commercial school to teach esthetics (beauty school) in C-3 General Commercial District on property located at 1651 Elk Boulevard (recommended by Senior Planner)

Item 6 Consent

6a. FIRST READING - Ordinance Z-26-07/Conditional Use, 1651 Elk Boulevard

Item 6a Consent

7. Authorize Mayor and City Clerk to execute "Cost Sharing Agreement" with West Shore Pipe Line Company, 3400 S. Badger Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, to share the cost of repairing the sanitary sewer that serves the Hawaiian Village area bounded by Rand Road on the south, Wolf Road on the west, Polynesian Drive on the north and the Canadian National Railroad on the east; work to be performed by West Shore Pipe Line Company's contractor (Midwestern Contractors); City's share of the cost to be $4,750/Sewer Repair & Maintenance Funds (recommended by Director of Public Works)

Item 7 Consent

7a. RESOLUTION R-139-07/Agreement, Sanitary Sewer Repair, Hawaiian Village

Item 7a consent

8. Consent to the Des Plaines Library's remodeling of the atrium and sorting area of the Staff workroom to incorporate Radio Frequency Identification Technology into the security system; lease agreement requires that the Library not make any significant modifications without the prior consent of the City (recommended by Library Director)

Item 8 Consent

8a. RESOLUTION R-140-07/Des Plaines Library, Radio Frequency Identific. Tech.

Item 8a Consent

9. Approve fifth one-year extension of contract with Four Seasons Display, Inc., 1639 Oak Drive, McHenry, IL 60050 (original bid approved by the City Council on June 10, 2000, one-year extension of three-year contract approved on October 6, 2003, October 18, 2004, October 3, 2005 and October 2, 2006); for 2007 Holiday Decorations in the amount of $43,593.90/TIF #1 Funds; and it would be in the best interest of the City that usual bid procedures be waived (recommended by Director of Public Works)

Item 9 Consent

9a. RESOLUTION R-141-07/2007 Holiday Decorations Contract Exten., Four Seasons

Item 9a Consent

10. Authorize Mayor and City Clerk to execute "Agreement for Enforcement of Municipal Ordinances on Private Property" for police, traffic and parking enforcement for property located at 1925 E. Oakton Street (Deer View Condominium Association) (recommended by City Attorney)

Item 10 Consent

10a. RESOLUTION R-142-07/Vehicle Enforcement Agreement, 1925 E. Oakton Street

Item 10a Consent

11. Grant request for Variation to Section 4-7-11 of the Building Code Amendments to permit construction of a 19' x 13.5' brick paver patio in the rear of property located at 2139 Sprucewood Avenue (recommended by Deputy Director of Community & Economic Development)

Item 11 Consent

12. Authorize purchase of Rock Salt, through the State of Illinois Bid Program, Contract PSD 4014343, from Morton International, Inc., Morton Salt Division, 123 N. Wacker Driver, Chicago, IL 60606, at a cost of $38.79 per ton/MFT Funds (recommended by Director of Public Works)

Item 12 Consent

13. Award bid for Roof Replacement at Des Plaines Police Station to the lowest bidder, Singles Roofing Company, Inc., 345 S. Willard Avenue, Elgin, IL 60121, in the total bid amount of $37,515/Budgeted Funds (recommended by Director of Public Works)

Consent Item 13

14. Award bid for 2007 CIP Rear Yard Drainage Improvements - Contract B to the lowest bidder, Martam Construction, Inc., 1200 Gasket Drive, Elgin, IL 60120, in the total bid amount of $429,615/Capital Projects Funds (recommended by Director of Engineering)

Item 14 Consent

15. SECOND READING - Ordinance M-61-07/Prohibit Potable Groundwater, 1222 Lee

END OF CONSENT AGENDA

APPOINTMENTS: - (no action required)

Appointments

YOUTH COMMISSION - Lisa C. Pigat (replacing Kelly Guthrie-Hecker)

ARCHITECTURAL COMMISSION - James Gould (replacing Peter Theodore)

(final action on these matters under Consent Agenda on November 5, 2007)

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE:

1. FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION - Alderman Smith, Chair

*Warrant Register – Resolution R-143-07

Item 1 COtW

2. ENGINEERING - Alderman Walsten, Chair

*Stormwater Master Plan - REFERRED BACK TO STAFF FOR FURTHER REVIEW AND THEN TO ENGINEERING COMMITTEE - 9/4/07

Item 2 COtW

3. PUBLIC SAFETY - Alderman Beauvais, Chair

*a. Voluntary Crime Free Multi-Unit Housing Program - Ordinance M-32-07 POSTPONED ON 6/25/07 UNTIL A PUBLIC HEARING IS HELD WITH OWNERS OF RENTAL PROPERTY

*b. Chronic Nuisance Abatement - Ordinance M-33-07 - As Amended APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL - 6/25/07 PLACED ON PENDING PER JB - 7/3/07

Item 3b COtW

* IF NO ACTION IS TAKEN UNDER NEW BUSINESS, THIS ITEM WILL APPEAR ON NOVEMBER 5, 2007 CONSENT AGENDA OR UNFINISHED BUSINESS. IF IT IS NECESSARY TO TAKE ACTION ON ANY OF THESE ITEMS THIS EVENING, THEY MUST BE REPORTED OUT BY THE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN UNDER "NEW BUSINESS"

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

1. *Concur with recommendation of Des Plaines Plan Commission to approve Final Plat for Drozdowicz-Smith Subdivision and Subdivision Regulations Variation to permit proposed lot depths of 122.50' instead of required 125' for property located at 2942 Curtis Street; and Mayor and City Clerk be authorized to execute same (recommended by Development Planner)

Item 1 Unfinished Business

1a. *RESOLUTION R-111-07/Final Plat and Variation, 2942 Curtis Street

Item 1a Unfinished Business

2. **Approve Final Planned Unit Development (PUD) and Permitted PUD Bulk Exceptions, re Zoning Case 05-31-PUD-A, for development of 120 townhouses on property located at 254 Laurel Avenue, in R-4 Central Core Residential District (Lexington Homes, LLC); and further recommend to approve Final Plat for Lexington Park Subdivision, 254 Laurel Avenue, and Mayor and City Clerk be authorized to execute same (recommended by Senior Planner)

Item 2 Unfinished Business

2a.**First Reading - Ordinance Z-25-07/Final PUD & Exceptions, 254 Laurel Ave.

Item 2a Unfinished Business

2b.**RESOLUTION R-134-07/Final Plat, 254 Laurel Avenue

Item 2b Unfinished Business

3. **Approve Flood 2007 purchases and services to Bolder Contractors, 440 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, IL 60015, for generators, pumps and manpower for flood control in the amount of $75,675.48/General Fund (recom. by Dir of Engrg.)

Item 3 Unfinished Business

4.***SECOND READING - Ordinance Z-24-07/Final PUD, 2811-2845 Mannheim Road

* POSTPONED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON 8/6/07, 8/20/07 and 9/4/07

** POSTPONED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 1, 2007

*** APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 1, 2007

NEW BUSINESS:

1. RESOLUTION R-143-07/Warrant Register IF REPORTED OUT BY COMMITTEE

2. Stormwater Master Plan IF REPORTED OUT BY COMMITTEE

3. FIRST READING - Ordinance M-32-07/Crime Free Multi-Unit Housing Program

IF REPORTED OUT BY COMMITTEE

4. FIRST READING - Ordinance M-33-07/Chronic Nuisance Abatement

IF REPORTED OUT BY COMMITTEE

MANAGER’S REPORT

ALDERMEN COMMENTS

MAYORAL COMMENTS

ADJOURNMENT

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