HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 08/29/1990 - City CouncilREGULAR MEETING
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1990
A Regular Meeting of the McHenry City Council was called to
order by Mayor Busse on Wednesday, August 29, 1990 at 8:00 P.M. at City
Hall. At roll call the following Aldermen were present: Bolger,
Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey, Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta. City
staff in attendance were Attorney Narusis, Clerk Gilpin, City
Administrator Peterson, Building & Zoning Officer Halik, Public Works
Director Batt, Parks Director Merkel, Chief Joyce.
During the ten minute public input session, Scott Dixon of the
McHenry Corporate Center addressed the Council to request permission to
waive the requirement that the Preliminary and Final Plats of Phase II of
the Corporate Center, be each approved at separate meetings before the
Plan Commission and City Council. They were given permission to file
their Preliminary Plat, Final Plat and Final Engineering Plans all at the
same time, once before the Plan Commission and once before the City
Council. This waiver was granted due to the fact that the McHenry
Corporate Center presented a concept plan that was approved at the time
of annexation. (A concept plan is basically identical to a preliminary
plat.)
Motion by Bolger, seconded by Smith, to grant a waiver to the
McHenry Corporate Center and allow them to submit a Preliminary Plat,
Final Plat and Final Engineering Plans for Phase II, all at one meeting
before the Plan Commission and one meeting before the City Council.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Motion by Donahue, seconded by Bolger to approve the Minutes of the
August 6, 1990 and August 8, 1990 Special Meetings as presented.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Motion by Patterson, seconded by Donahue, to authorize the City
Attorney to draft an ordinance for annexing 1.2 acres of property on the
West abutment of the Bull Valley Road Bridge as presented.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta `
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
The agenda item presented for the renaming of Bull Valley Road from
the Bridge access road east to the Fox River was postponed to another
meeting.
Motion by Bolger, seconded by Teta, to pass an ordinance
establishing a 4-way stop intersection at Turnberry Drive and Valley Road
in Brittany Heights Subdivision.
Voting Ayer Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting May: 4 None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Motion by Bolger, seconded by Donahue, to pass an ordinance
establishing a 4-way stop intersection at Lorient Drive and Valley Road
in Brittany Heights Subdivision.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Smith, McClatchey, Serritella
Voting Nay: Teta, Lieder, Patterson
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Motion by Lieder, seconded by Bolger, to pass an ordinance
establishing a stop sign eastbound on Prime Parkway at Illinois State
Route 31.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
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John Green, Vice -President of Home by Hemphill, addressed the
Council to request an amendment to the Engineering Plans for Phase I of
the Oaks of McHenry Subdivision so that sanitary sewer lines could be
placed along the south side of McCullom Lake Road instead of removing
portions of the pavement, curb and gutter in McCullom Lake Road to
install sanitary sewer lines.
Motion by Paterson, seconded by Serritella, to grant the request of
Hone by Hemphill and amend the Engineering Plans for Phase I of the Oaks
of McHenry and authorize the execution of the Plat of Easement as
presented.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried. i
Motion by McClatchey, seconded by Smith, to authorize and approve
payment to Illinois Constructors Corporation as partial payment for work
on the Central Wastewater 7reatment Plant Seawall Replacement Project in
the amount of $151,809.30 as recommended by Baxter & Woodman.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Motion by Patterson, seconded by Lieder, to authorize and approve
payment to Arthur J. Gallagher Company in the amount of $14,493.00 for
the purchase of Public Officials and Employees Liability Insurance as
presented.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: , None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Motion by Smith, seconded by Donahue, to approve the proposal of
Grove Mechanical Contractors, Inc. for the replacement of existing carbon
steel aeration piping in Tank 3 at the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant
at a cost of $38,700.00.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None `
Motion carried.
Alderman Teta, Chairman of the Building, Zoning, Planning &
Development Committee reported on a Committee Meeting held August 22,
1990 at which time changes to the Comprehensive Plan were discussed.
Motion by Teta, seconded by Serritella, to amend the language on
page 7 of the Comprehensive Plan, paragraph F.1 to reflect page 1 of the
Agricultural and Conservancy Overlay as prepared by John Gann on May 5,
1986; create a map overlay and add to paragraph 7 of page 16 of the
Comprehensive Plan "the Map shows general locations that need to be field
verified"; and refer Conservancy Overlay to the Zoning Board of Appeals
for'a zoning amendment.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
The second matter discussed at the Committee Meeting was how to
designate school sites on the Comprehensive Plan. It was decided that
Mayor Busse will contact the School Districts and ask that they submit
general locations as to where they might want school sites in the future.
The third matter discussed was the Appearance Codes. It was the
recommendation of the Committee that Appearance Codes not be a part of
the Comprehensive Plan and it asked that the Plan Commission prepare a
proposed ordinance which could be submitted to the Council for adoption
at a future date.
The fourth matter discussed was definitions as shown on the John
Gann memorandum of August 14, 1990.
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Motion by Teta, seconded by Patterson, to incorporate amendments to
the definitions in the Comprehensive Plan for the following: (1) Rural
Residential; (2) Urban Residential; (3) Business Parks; (4) Office; (5)
Commercial Hub; (6) Other Commercial; (7) Open Space/Conservation; as
outlined in the Building, Zoning, Planning & Development Committee Report
of August 22, 1990.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
The fifth matter discussed was to establish a minimum lot size for
"RS-2" Single Family Residential Zoning Districts. It was a
recommendation of the Committee to eliminate the "RS-3" and "RS-4" Zoning
Districts except for City lots that have already been platted and to have
the Council decide on whether to have 10,000 square feet or 10,890 square
feet as a minimum lot size requirement for "RS-2".
Motion by Patterson, seconded by Teta, to instruct the City Attorney
to draft a Petition for presentation before the Zoning Board of Appeals
to change the minimum lot size in "RS-2" Single Family District from
10,000 square feet to 10,890 square feet, which was the recommendation of
the McHenry Plan Commission.
Voting Aye: Teta, Lieder, McClatchey, Patterson,
Voting Nay: Bolger, Donahue, Smith, Serritella
Absent: None
There being a tie vote, Mayor Busse cast an aye vote and declared the
motion carried.
The sixth matter discussed was the area on the Comprehensive Plan
Map along Illinois Route 31. No changes were recommended by the
Committee.
Mayor Busse suggested that the above amendments be incorporated into
the Comprehensive Plan text and Map and that it be presented to the
Council for approval at the September 5, 1990 Regular Council Meeting.
A proposal from the Illinois Department of Agriculture concerning a
Facility Planning Area (FPA) change was presented to the Council for
discussion. The City had requested that 600 acres of land bounded by
Crystal Lake Road on the west, Chicago & North Western Railroad tracks on
the east, Bull Valley Road on the north and existing farm buildings on
the south be included in the McHenry Facility Planning Areal. This is
known as Section 9 of Nunda Township. The compromise suggested by IDOA
is to allow inclusion of Section 9 of Nunda Township into the McHenry
Facility Planning Area but to remove McHenry Township's Sections 9, 10
and 11 from the City of McHenry's existing FPA. This compromise was not
acceptable to the Council.
Motion by Bolger, seconded by Donahue, to authorize the Mayor and
staff to re -negotiate the proposal as presented by the Illinois
Department of Agriculture. ,
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motfon carried.
Discussion was iflheld on a proposal by the Anden Group to annex
approximately 80 acres of the King Farm on the south side of McCullom
Lake Road east of Peterson Park. A major point of concern regarding this
proposed annexation is the availability of two wastewater lift stations,
a sewer line and the wastewater treatment plant capacity to serve the
property. The wastewater lift stations and lines would need to be
improved to accomodate that property and the developer, Anden Group,
expressed a willingness to upgrade these facilities to serve the proposed
development. They inquired if the City would participate in the
upgrading. According to Director of Public Works Fred Batt, the City
needs to make certain system improvements to serve both current needs and
the additional flows anticipated from the proposed development. A policy
decision was needed by the Council as to whether the limited Central
Plant capacity should be reserved for property already annexed into the
City or whether the availability of plant capacity will be on a
first -cane first -served basis.
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Following discussion, it was the concensus that priority should be
given to property already annexed into the City and that any future
annexation proposals should be addressed on a case -by -case basis as to
the availability of sewer service.
Mayor Busse called for a recess at 9:40 P.M. The meeting reconvened
at 9:50 P.M. with everyone still in attendance.
Motion by McClatchey, seconded by Serritella, to approve issuance of
the picnic beer permits as presented.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
A Parks & Recreation Committee Meeting was scfeduled for Wednesday,
September 5, 1990 at 7:30 P.M. to discuss renting or ,leasing commercial
space for Parks & Recreation Department programs.
A Special Meeting was scheduled for Thursday, September 27, 1990 at
7:30 P.M. for a presentation on the results of the Attitude and Interest
Survey done this summer for the Parks & Recreation Department.
A Special Meeting was scheduled for Monday, September 10, 1990 at
6:00 P.M. at the Dobyns House Restaurant for the purpose of meeting with
the City Administrator to discuss organizational structuring.
Three proposals were presented from landscape designers at a Special
Meeting on August 27, 1990. The design plans presented were for
landscaping of the new City Hall building.
Motion by Bolger, seconded by Donahue, to award the contract for
Landscape Design of the new City Hall building to Hoffstetter Corporation
at the proposa] price presented of $92,164.71 with final plans and
materials to be discussed at a later date.
Motion -'by Lieder, seconded by Teta, to table the motion.
Voting Aye: Teta, Lieder, Patterson
Voting Nay: Bolger, Donahue, Smith, McClatchey, Serritella
Absent: None
Motion did not carry.
Discussion continued.
Motion by Serritella, seconded by Donahue, to call the question and
close debate.
Voting lye: Bolger, Donahue, Smith, McClatchey, Serritella.
Voting Nay: Teta, Lieder, Patterson
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Voting on the
original motion.
Voting Aye:
Bolger, Donahue,
Voting Nay:
Teta, Lieder
Abstaining:
Patterson
Absent:
None
Motion carried.
Smith, McClatchey, Serritella.
Motion by Patterson, seconded by Teta, to approve the request of the
Water Division Superintendent and approve the attendance of Michael
Palmer at a training class for obtaining a Class "C" and "D" Water
Operator's License at a cost of $99.30.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
A bid -opening was held Monday August 27, 1990 at 11:00 A.M. in City
Hall for the furnishing and installation of a passenger elevator for the
new City Hall building and for finishing hardware bids. Robert
Hammortree, Project Superintendent of Prime Development Corp., reported
that the two elevator bids received did not meet specifications.
Wednesday, August 29, 1990
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Motion by Patterson, seconded by Smith, to reject
submitted by Automatic Elevator of Niles and Univer
Chicago and to authorize the Mayor to seek price
passenger elevator to meet specifications.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
the elevator bids
sal Elevator of
proposals for a
Motion by McClatchey, seconded by Patterson, to have the City of
McHenry contribute $300 to the disaster fund for Plainfield, Illinois
which was devasted by a tornado on August 28, 1990, with payment to be
made from the general contingency fund.
Voting Aye: Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey, Patterson
Voting Nay: Bolger, Teta, Smith, Serritella
There being a tie vote, Mayor Busse cast a Nay vote and declared the
motion did not carry.
Motion by Patterson, seconded by McClatchey, to go into executive
session at 11:03 P.M. to discuss pending litigation.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Motion by Patterson, seconded by McClatchey, to go back into open
session at 11:30 P.M.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Motion by Smith, seconded by McClatchey, to adjourn.
Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, McClatchey,
Patterson, Serritella, Smith, Teta
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Motion carried.
Meeting
adjourned at 11:20 P.M.
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