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Big Bend board approves bills, Townline Road payment and $2 dog-license increase
Summary
The Big Bend Village Board approved bills and a village share payment for the Townline Road project, confirmed operator-license renewals for two applicants and voted to raise dog-license fees by $2 for 2025; motions carried during the regular meeting.
The Big Bend Village Board approved several routine financial and licensing items and agreed to pay the village’s portion of a road project at its meeting. The board approved the minutes, accepted accounts payable, authorized payment toward the Townline Road project and approved operator licenses and a $2 increase in dog-license fees for 2025.
The board first dispensed with the reading of the minutes and then approved the minutes with a correction for Trustee Long. The motion to approve bills included discussion of multiple line items; S1 moved to approve the bills and referenced a final payment figure of $188,535.06 after adjustments. The motion carried following an aye vote.
On the Townline Road project, S1 said the project originally carried an estimated village share of about $121,471.25 but that an email from Bridget revised the village portion to $75,002.70. During discussion S1 moved to approve paying the village’s annual portion (S1 stated the motion amount as $75,270.17); the motion carried. S1 also said the payment would come from the village’s Local Government Investment Pool (LGIP) account.
S1 also moved to approve two operator-license applications: Club Shamrock applicant Billy Drewa and Blue Heron applicant Jade Peterson. S1 said background checks were completed and there were no issues; the board approved both licenses.
On licensing fees, the board adopted a $2-per-license increase for dog licenses in 2025 to align with a change referenced in a county clerk’s email. S1 said the board will amend the village ordinance to add the $2 and that the change will take effect Jan. 2025.
The meeting record contains some inconsistent figure references during bill-approval discussion; the board’s recorded motions (minutes approval, bills, Townline Road payment, operator licenses and the dog-license fee increase) all carried by voice votes. The board did not attach named roll-call tallies for those motions in the transcript.
What comes next: the approved payments will be processed through the village accounting system and the ordinance amendment to add the dog-fee increase will be drafted for the village code as described in the meeting.
