City Council Minutes 2016 10-29-16 special meeting MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE KENDALL COUNTY ILLINOIS
HELD IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS,
800 GAME FARM ROAD ON
SATURDAY,OCTOBER 29,2016
Mayor Golinski called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. and led the Council in the Pledge of Allegiance.
City Clerk Warren called the roll.
Ward I Koch Present
Colosimo Present
Ward II Milschewski Present(Arrived at 10:13)
Kot Present
Ward III Frieders Present
Funkhouser Present
Ward IV Tarulis Present
Teeling Absent
Also present: City Clerk Warren,City Administrator Olson,Police Chief Hart,Public Works Director
Dhuse,Finance Director Fredrickson,EEI Engineer Sanderson, Community Development Director
Barksdale-Noble,Building Code Official Ratos, Director of Parks and Recreation Evans,Deputy Clerk
Pickering,Assistant City Administrator Willrett,Administrative Intem Kathman
QUORUM
A quorum was established.
CITIZEN COMMENTS
None.
BUSINESS—Goal Setting Session
City Administrator Olson stated that there are existing goals on the table. The y are listed below.
The 2015/2016 goals were then discussed among the aldermen:
1.Downtown Planning
2. South Side Development-
3.Municipal Building Needs and Planning
4. Capital Improvement Plan
5. Manufacturing and Industrial Development
6. Vehicle Replacement
7. Riverfront Park Development
8. Revenue Growth
9.Modernize City Code
10. Staffing
11.YBSD
12.Automation and Technology
13. Strategic Planning
14. Flat Property Taxes
15. Sidewalks and Trail Funding and Planning
16. Filling Storefronts
17. Build Program to general fund
18. Decreased Property Taxes
19. Employee Salary Survey
20. Committee Restructure
21.Public Relations and Outreach
22. Consolidation and Shared Services
23. Special Events Planning
24. AACVB Marketing
City Administrator Olson stated that the City has accomplished the following four goals.
Capital improvement funding
Automation and Technology
Flat Property Taxes
Decreased Property Taxes
City Administrator Olson stated that for next year the recommendations were to remove several of the
following goals.He wants to remove flat property taxes and decreased property taxes because this has to
be discussed next year.He also recommended removing the BUILD Program and general fund simply
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because the City doesn't recommend it. He would like to remove committee restructure because he feels
the City has talked about this enough in special events planning. There were two goals that he
recommended go up. The first is staffing. He has seen that there are very large projects that the City has
been working on.Due to this reason,the City is going to need more people working on these. The other
goal is consolidation and shared services.The City is meeting once a month every other month with
Oswego and Montgomery. The only goal that should go down is capital improvement plan. The City
knows what the issues are and talk about it every year. It is a matter of basically funding it. City
Administrator Olson doesn't believe it necessarily needs to be a focus.
Alderman Colosimo would like to keep the South Side Development goal high up on the list.He feels a
grocery store on the South Side is the pinnacle feeling like the South Side is growing. Mayor Golinski
would like the goal of downtown planning stay high on the list,also. Alderman Frieders stated as far as
the downtown is concerned he would like to address the East Alley.
Several new ideas came up for discussion.
Parks and Recreation programming building
Traffic Patrol
Water Planning
Water Conservation Plan
Community Entrance Signage and Way Finding
The 2016/2017 goals were then discussed among the aldermen:
It was decided that rating the priorities like last year using the 5, 4, 3,2, 1 plan was a good idea.
1. Downtown Planning 1
2. South Side Development 2
3.Municipal Building Needs and Planning 7
4. Capital Improvement Plan 14
5.Manufacturing and Industrial Development 4
6. Vehicle Replacement 5
7. Riverfront Park Development 8
8.Revenue Growth 9
9.Modernize City Code 19
10. Staffing 3
^ 11. YBSD No
12. Automation and Technology 17
13. Strategic Planning No
14. Employee Salary Survey 16
15. Public Relations and Outreach 18
16. Shared Services 11
17.Parks&Programming Building 13
18.Traffic Patrol 10
19. Water Planning 6
20. Water Conservation Plan 15
21. Community Entrance Signage+Way finding 12
ADJOURNMENT
Mayor Golinski stated meeting adjourned.
Meeting adjourned at 10:35 a.m.
Minutes submitted by:
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Beth Warren,
City Clerk, City of Yorkville, Illinois