Village leaders on Oct. 7 described ramping up emergency-preparedness planning to address worst-case scenarios such as prolonged power losses and regionalized cyber incidents.

The village president said the municipality is assembling an "expansive group" including police, fire and a local hospital to study whether the village needs backup generation, battery or solar solutions to protect critical services including water systems. "We are really kind of ratcheting up our emergency preparedness and contingency planning," the president said, noting the village will involve the whole community and regional partners to make any plan enforceable.

Chief Hanselman, who attended the meeting, and trustees also discussed public-safety concerns about electric scooters. The president said legislation under consideration statewide references scooters that go 10 miles per hour but observed many scooters exceed that speed and that communities need uniform rules and enforcement. "The whole goal is to get this figured out and come up with some enforcement and some education for parents and kids," the president said, adding the objective is to prevent serious injuries.

Trustees also received routine public-safety updates, including a reminder from a trustee to be vigilant about package thefts targeting deliveries left on porches.

No formal board action or ordinance was proposed during the recorded discussion; the remarks were presented as committee and staff updates and as coordination between the village and regional partners.