Finance and Administration Committee approves village bills, authorizes utility payments and raises election worker pay

The Finance and Administration Committee on Nov. 18 approved the village's reported bills and transfers, authorized payments to the municipality's utilities and set a $1-per-hour increase for election workers.

Minutes record that a presenter identified in the transcript as "Kristof" reviewed the village's year-to-date expenses and the reporting of bills, claims and transfers, including fire department bills. A motion to approve the village expenses was recorded (mover recorded as Eboit, second recorded as Marting); the minutes show the total approved as $25,155.01.

The committee also considered new-business items related to election staffing. According to the minutes, Knistof suggested a pay range "between $10.25" and an additional $1.00-an-hour increase; a motion by Martinez to budget a $1.00-per-hour raise for election workers was recorded and approved. The committee separately approved a motion to provide meals for election workers, with the minutes noting the village "has a history of buying meals for [the] workers." The motion to provide meals was recorded as made by Ebot and seconded by Martiwez and was approved.

Carroll presented reports for the utilities. The transcript records an electric total formatted as "1178,166.73," a water total formatted as "5 5064.52," and a sewer total recorded as "(34678.92"; motions to pay the electric, water and sewer bills were recorded and approved (motions and seconders are noted in the minutes but vote tallies are not specified). The meeting closed with a motion to adjourn at 5:41 p.m.

The minutes do not include detailed vote tallies or formal roll-call results for the motions reported, and several numeric totals appear with uncertain formatting in the transcript; those figures are reported here as recorded in the committee minutes.