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Calumet City Council approves minutes, financials, tax abatement package and enters executive session
Summary
At its meeting the council approved minutes and multiple financial and permitting items, approved a package of resolutions and ordinances including tax-abatement items, amended an account number for a line item, and voted to convene an executive session on litigation, real estate and personnel.
The Calumet City Council voted to approve routine items and a package of resolutions and ordinances and then moved into a brief executive session.
Council members approved the minutes of the March 13 meeting, accepted informational items, approved vendor payments and financial items, accepted new-business permits for residential privacy fences, and approved resolutions and ordinances numbered 1 through 6. Those resolutions were recorded as approved by a 6–0 vote. The meeting also included a motion to convene an executive session to discuss potential and pending litigation, real estate, potential insurance matters and employee discipline.
Alderman Smith moved and Alderman Williams seconded the motions to approve the minutes and to accept informational items; roll calls for both motions were recorded as affirmative. Alderman Gardner moved to approve business action item 7.1 with a secondary instruction that public works add house numbers for residents; Alderman Patton seconded that addition and the motion passed on roll call.
Under financial matters, the council considered items 1 through 30. Mayor Pro Tem offered an amendment to item 25 to add account number 01099-52727 (the Sixth Ward neighborhood line item); the amendment was incorporated before the council approved the financial package on a recorded roll call.
During discussion of abatement items, Treasurer John Kasper was referenced as having sent an explanatory email to aldermen regarding items 2 through 6. Aldermen discussed state-level proposals to increase TIF reporting and a Cook County ordinance that also requires municipalities to report more TIF details; the council noted the city was preparing to comply with enhanced reporting standards though one speaker said the state bill had not yet emerged from committee.
The council then voted to go into executive session at 6:23 p.m. on a motion by Alderman Williams, seconded by Alderman Smith; the vote was recorded in the meeting minutes. The council reconvened later and adjourned at 7:01 p.m.
