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Board approves consent agenda and engineering agreements; reappointments pass amid split vote on appointment timing
Summary
Trustees approved the consent agenda, plats of easement for Jackson Pond improvements, a zoning variance for 749 N. Harvard, and several engineering agreements for street and drainage projects. Reappointments to commissions were approved by majority vote after debate about waiting until the new board takes office.
At its April 14 meeting the Village of Villa Park Board of Trustees approved the consent agenda and several routine ordinances and resolutions, including plats of easement for the Jackson Pond stormwater improvements, zoning variations for a property at 749 North Harvard, and engineering agreements for roadway and sidewalk projects.
Consent agenda items approved included the weekly bill listings and minutes from the March 24 meeting. The board approved an ordinance accepting plats of easement related to the Jackson Pond stormwater management project; public works staff recommended acceptance of easements for the Jackson area project. Trustees also approved a variation (PZ 2,503) allowing reduced interior and street-side setbacks at 749 North Harvard after the Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval.
Resolutions authorizing engineering services were approved for several projects: Park Boulevard improvements (Civiltech Engineering, up to $77,344), Highland Avenue phase 2 resurfacing (Transystems Corporation, up to $56,744), and design authorization for Park Boulevard and other smaller project engineering work. Each resolution passed on majority voice vote with clerks recording each trustee’s yea or nay as part of the roll calls.
The board also considered reappointments to commissions for terms through April 30, 2028 (and the Police Pension Fund appointment through April 30, 2027). That item generated debate on whether reappointments should be made by the outgoing board or deferred until the new board is sworn in. Trustee Cozart and others argued the incoming board should make appointments; Trustee Kumar and other trustees spoke in favor of reappointing the existing volunteers. The motion to postpone appointments to May 19 failed on roll call; the board then approved the reappointments by majority vote. Staff clarified that commissioners remain in office until a replacement is appointed, so vacancies would not immediately remove members before May 19 if the village delayed reappointments.
The board also reaffirmed prior vacating of rights-of-way previously approved by ordinance numbers 4465 and 4467 after a supermajority vote was required due to earlier insufficient attendance at the vote that originally approved those vacations.
