Votes at a glance: Berwyn council approves contracts, ordinances, hires and accounts
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Summary
At a regularly scheduled meeting the council approved a series of consent and regular-agenda items, including a lead-service-line replacement contract, park field work, fire-department ordinance changes, an engineering agreement and audit contract.
The Berwyn City Council approved a slate of consent and listed-agenda items by roll call, including infrastructure contracts, amendments to fire-department ordinances, an audit agreement and several administrative authorizations.
Key votes included awarding a lead-service-line replacement contract to Miller Pipelines, approving park-field work to accommodate youth leagues, adopting amendments reclassifying titles in the Fire Department and authorizing an engineering agreement for Phase 3 construction work. The council conducted roll calls for each item; all recorded votes on the consent/finance/administration items listed below passed on the meeting’s call.
Lead service lines: The council concurred with Public Works Director Schiller’s recommendation to award the year-one lead service line replacement contract to Miller Pipelines in the amount of $2,338,478.70 plus a 3% contingency. Motion to approve was moved and seconded on the record; the roll call vote was eight ayes.
Softball fields: The council waived competitive bidding for two softball fields at the west end of Genero Park and awarded the work to Team Real Inc. for $35,141, the lowest quote received. The motion passed by roll call, eight ayes.
Fire-department ordinances: Councilmembers voted to adopt two ordinance amendments affecting the Fire Department: (1) an amendment to section 234.001 outlining departmental composition and (2) an amendment to section 242.03(b) reclassifying appointed titles. Both ordinance motions passed by roll call vote, each recorded as eight ayes.
Other administrative actions approved: denial of two handicap-parking applications (applications 1524 and 1519) as informational follow-up; authorization to settle case 23CV17084 for $6,500 as recommended by the city attorney; concurrence with an intergovernmental agreement with the Brookfield Zoo Police Department; authorization to hire one probationary police officer from the current eligibility list to fill a retirement vacancy; informational approval for the North Berwyn Park District’s Easter parade on April 19 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.; approval to open a government money market account with Wintrust Community Bank for city fund reserves; approval of an agreement with GW and Associates PC to perform the 2024 audit for $95,000; and approval of an engineering agreement with CBBEL for Phase 3 construction not to exceed $1,757,230.
The council approved the full consent agenda and closed the meeting following the listed votes. No recorded no-votes or abstentions were entered on the motions reported in the minutes that were read into the record during the meeting.
