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Council previews levy renewal, approves late-year bills and introduces time-sensitive grant filing
Summary
Council introduced Resolution 2024-53 (a renewal levy), discussed a $3,745 then-and-now purchase order (Resolution 2024-54) and moved to authorize a grant application under Resolution 2024-55; the council also approved routine motions including paying late-year bills and allowed an Eagle Scout sign project to proceed.
At the meeting the council previewed and introduced several year-end items: a levy renewal the administration plans to place on the spring ballot, a then-and-now purchase order to pay for an emergency sewer repair, and an emergency declaration to file a time-sensitive grant application.
A council member said Resolution 2024-53 is a renewal levy (from 1995) based on older property values that brings in roughly $60,000 per year against current general-fund expenses of about $68,000; she said she would ask the council to waive three readings and pass the renewal that night in order to meet an early-February board of elections deadline. The transcript records the introduction and the request to waive readings but does not include a recorded vote on Resolution 2024-53.
The council also discussed Resolution 2024-54, a then-and-now purchase order to William Alberts for $3,745 to repair a sewer line and restore an alley behind village administration. The speaker said the work was completed earlier in the year and a bill was received in late November; the council discussed waiving readings to process payment this year.
A council member introduced Resolution 2024-55 to authorize the council president and Environmental Design Group (Amy) to file an application to the Great Lakes Environmental Justice Thriving Communities program and declared an emergency because the grant deadline is Jan. 31. Staff said the grant draft should be mostly finished within days.
Votes and other routine approvals at the meeting included approving the Dec. 9 meeting minutes, approving the appointment of the police chief and allowing two Eagle Scout sign-entry projects to proceed; the council also approved a motion to permit payment of bills that may arrive between the meeting and the next business day so the administration could close out the fiscal year.
Votes at a glance: the motions to approve the minutes, to appoint Morgan Eckleberry as police chief, to allow the Eagle Scout sign projects to proceed, and to permit payment of late-year bills were recorded in the transcript as approved by the members present. The transcript does not record final votes on Resolutions 2024-53, 2024-54 or 2024-55 within the provided segments.
