Human Resource 2004 12-02-04 United City of Yorkville
Human Resource Commission
Meeting Minutes of December 2, 2004
Location: Police Department Conference Room
Called to order: Sylvia Kurtz called the meeting to order at 6:12 p.m.
Members present were: Ex-officio Members
Tom Zerante Chief H. Martin
Sylvia Kurtz
Dana Jones City Councilperson Rose Spears
Diana Lento-Riedy
Absent: Lorene Frieders, Cecelia Sanders and Wendy Getz
Citizens - Guests: None
Amendments to the Agenda: None
Minutes for Approval: Dana Jones made the first motion and Tom Zerante seconded the
motion.
Committee Reports
City Liai sop Report- - Chief Martin said that Pat McMann and Ray McLausik were back
from training Ray received both a scholastic and a shooting award while at training.
Chief hopes to hire Scott Brozoo by December, that would bring the Police Department up to 23
full time officers.
City Council Report - Rose Spears spoke about Dryer Medical Clinic no longer
accepting any additional Medicare and Medicaid patient due to malpractice suits. Rose was
discussing an Elder Care Friendly Summit in Yorkville. The Summit will focus on all the baby
boomers that will soon be in Yorkville. Rose wants to ensure that all the city departments are
educated to the fullest degree.
The HRC had a lengthy discussion on what we could do to help with the Summit: Rose stated
that she would like to see the HRC really get involved and help put the Summit together.
We then discussed the HRC actually receiving a budget of approximately$1,000.00 for the
projects that we work on such as mailings for the Visitor's Center. Tom Zerante said he would
write the letter and send it to the Chief.
Rose had a second idea for the Historical Street names. She would like to host a picnic to allow
the elderly to come and make suggestions. The picnic could be hosted at the Farmer's Market
Day, The American Legion or The Beecher Center.
Mayor- - Mayor A. Prochaska had to attend a special dinner, so he was not in
attendance.
Parks and Recreation: - None
Library Board• - Referendum passed.
School District: - Waiting for someone to replace Doug as a liaison between the HRC
and the School District.
Old Business: -
#1 Visitor's Center
The HRC is waiting for the Mayor to get the pricing for the tri-colored brochure.
We had another discussion on the letter we would like to be sent to the local businesses.
We discussed giving Molly lists to cross reference so we can make lists and labels to
resend letters to the local businesses. Sylvia and I volunteered to review the letters then we will
stuff and stamp the envelopes.
#2 Street Naming
Sylvia volunteered to call Jennifer Woodrick and ask her to attend our next meeting on her
own time so we can have two additional columns for the Street Naming worksheet.
Rose then nominated John Robert Ament and Jeffrey Dwayne Collman for the Street
Naming process. Since John and Robert have been used for street names,Rose would like to use
John-Robert or Bob for a street name. (Diana motioned 1 st and Dana 2nd to amend that
suggestion because we added Bob.) We would also like Art to contact Jeffrey's family and find
out more about him for the historical street naming.
Rose then said she would approach the City Council and ask them what they think about
making the historical street signs a different color or add something to them to differentiate them
from the other signs.
New Business:
We welcomed Dana to the HRC.
Sylvia then stated she would like everyone to bring all their paperwork and binder to the
next meeting to we can weed through all the paperwork for section 1 and 2.
Our next meeting will be held on January 6, 2005 at 6:00 p.m.
Meeting adjourned: at 7:45 p.m. Diana Lento-Riedy first motion and Tom Zerante had the
second motion.
Minutes submitted by Diana Lento-Riedy