Crest Hill council approves 14-item consent agenda including engineering contracts, water-system work and payroll

The Crest Hill City Council voted Dec. 1 to approve a 14-item consent agenda that included ordinances, resolutions, professional-services agreements and payroll and payable-bills authorizations.

On the consent agenda the council approved an ordinance to levy and assess taxes for the fiscal year beginning May 1, 2026, abatements tied to general-obligation refunding bonds, and the final plat and special-use approvals for a subdivision project at Stanley Gustafson Park. The council also approved professional-services agreements, including a design-engineering contract for the Theodore retaining-wall replacement (Christopher B. Burke Engineering Limited for $39,690), a water audits and non-revenue water-reduction consultation (Engineering Enterprises Inc., $29,000), a maintenance-access road installation agreement (John R. Russ and Company Inc., $28,001), and a four-year water-system generator replacement design contract (Strand and Associates Inc., $202,000). The council also approved Wonderware and Dell SCADA support renewals ($24,090.27) and regular and overtime payroll totaling $289,758.82. Treasurer Jamie Malait reported bills of $1,865,059.85 through Dec. 2.

A motion to approve the consent items (with previously discussed clerical corrections to items 6a–6c) was made and seconded; the roll-call vote carried. The clerk read ordinance and resolution numbers into the record after the vote.

The approvals on the consent agenda were routine and processed without public comment. The council assigned ordinance and resolution identifiers for record-keeping as read into the minutes; some of those numeric references in the live record were difficult to hear and are recorded in the official minutes.