Human Resource 2004 02-05-04 APPROVED BY THE
COMM"EE19OARD
United City of Yorkville ON:
Human Resource Commission
Meeting Minutes of February-5,2004
Location: Police Department Conference Room
Called to order. Chairman Doug Trumble called the meeting to order at 6 Q7 p.m.
Members present were: Ex-officio Members
Doug Trumble Chief Harold-Martin
Sylvia Kurtz Superintendent Sue Swithin
Lorene-Frieders City CeuncilpersonRose Spears
Diana Lento-Riedy Mayor Art Prochaska (joined late in the meeting)
s nt;_ - Elden Madden-and-Kay Engler
Citizens - Guests: Jackie Miischewski
Amendments tothe Agenda: None
Minutes for Approval: Sylvia made the first motion, Lorene seconded the motion.
Committee Reports
City Liaison Report: - Chief Martin said the that Yorkville will be hiring Andrew
Jelenewski, Dan Pleckman is back working, he will be having surgery in March. Officer
Patricia Cernika had a baby boy.
City Council Report- - Rose Spears said the City Council joint meeting with
School Board on 3/8/04 @ 7:00 p.m. at the school's facility. Development on all the new
sub-divisions are moving right along. Street naming in the City's hands. They've asked
the developers how many names they'll need when doing a PUD (Planned Unit
Development). Kane County doing transportation study on the elderly-how can the city
help these people?
Mayor- - none
Parks and Recreation• - Sue stated that the new Spring catalog is out and it's
bigger and better. Parks has a Winter Fun Day planned for 1/31/04. Two on two
basketball will happen on 2/13/04. Nine years and up are eligible to participate at the
YMCA. Last year 60 people participated. Yorkville High School started a Teen Council,
along with a Dance Resolution and a Mid Evil Combat Club. There are approximately 15
-20 people participating in the Mid Evil Combat Club. For the upcoming Summer months
Parks is planning a Music Under the Stars, and a City Golf Outing. There is to be a new
Program Supervisor coming on board. Sue also wants to begin conducting Exit Surveys
for those employees that leave. The surveys should ideally help the City to evaluate those
positions, and to see satisfaction levels.
Library Board• - There still is no money. However, the plans are quite large, and
will most likely need a referendum to get the funds.
School District - Doug said that the new intermediate school should be done in
August. Bristol Grade School's addition will be ready to begin when the weather breaks.
Old Business - Jackie Milschewski is present to discuss Yorkville's Street
Naming and the Visitor's Center. Jackie asked a lot of questions with regards to our
format on street naming. She wanted to know the criteria for a street name. The
Commission discussed this with Jackie and tried to be as clear as possible. Rose Spears
suggested that we publish information on the Public Access Channel to make people
aware of the importance of nominations. Chief Martin is going to get a list of current
names of streets for Yorkville, so there will be no duplications. We then discussed what is
a significant contribution to the city in order to be nominated and have the nomination
follow through. We questioned ourselves to see if our criteria is too specific? We spent
a great deal of time discussing our criteria and the process it follows. Mayor Prochaska
then discussed what he thought the criteria should be for nominees, He thought a person
should be accepted if he/she helped to expand the city or helped to keep it going in some
way. He/She also needed to be upstanding citizens. It was also questioned if it would be
possible for Kathy Farren to do a search on names. We need to find out as much as
possible about the nominees, and this has been a bone of contention from the beginning.
We then discussed a nominees and some additional information given and decided it would
be okay to approve Charles Baird the nominee. Diana motioned to approve Charles Baird
and Lorene seconded the motion. No additional names were nominated. Part of the
standstill has been communication, so we thought it would be helpful to put a divider in
the need more information folder. Doug then handed out a letter that was written about
the Visitor's Center and a list of businesses he thought would benefit from the center.
Classy is still continuing to benefit those that are able to utilize the program.
New Business; Mayor Art Prochaska then began asking if the HRC would be interested
in working with the Library Board on its future growth? ]Doug then suggested that
someone attend our next meeting to discuss our future involvement.
Additional Business- -We will discuss joint activities with Parks and Recreation at our
next meeting on 3/4/04.
Meeting adjourned: Lorene Freiders/Sylvia Kurtz at 7;35 p.m.
Next meeting date is 3/5/04
Minutes submitted by Diana Lento-Riedy