VILLAGE OF NORTH AURORA
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2005
7:00 P.M.
CALL TO ORDER
Village-President Hansen called the meeting to order.
ROLL CALL
In attendance: Trustee Shoemaker, Trustee Berman, Trustee Herlihy, Trustee Gaffino, Trustee Herwig, Village-President Hansen.
Not in attendance: Trustee Mitchell
AUDIENCE COMMENTS
Peter Wilson of 2111 Plum Street in Aurora said he was here for the public hearing on the TIF Amendment on behalf of the West Aurora School District.
Bill Park of 9 S. Lincoln Way said that he read in an article in the Chronicle that one of the businesses was granted $50,000 dollars, and he said the way he read the TIF, businesses got $20,000 and then an additional $1,000 for landscaping. He wants to know why he got so much less.
Sue McLaughlin said that Mario Ortega can address TIF questions. Dr. Park was granted a facade grant and what Mr. Novicki fell under was a redevelopment agreement for indoor and outdoor improvements. She said she wanted to know who Dr. Park talked to when he came in a couple years ago. She wanted to know if he can come back and enter into a redevelopment agreement.
Mario Ortega said that it is typically not done. The reimbursement is based when the applicant initially comes forward. It does come down to policy of the village. If the village policy is just for facade improvement and the policy has changed then it falls on whether a redevelopment agreement has fallen on both parties. He said this is getting into more of a legal matter. Normally, it is not done to revisit a redevelopment agreement, but it is possible. As a planner there is a precedent in readdressing an agreement.
Trustee Herlihy said that he would go back to the original plan and look at how they have been reviewed, and see if there is some differential in how it is reviewed.
Trustee Berman said that he assumes they can come back for additional money if they want to. Depending on what it was there for in the beginning, he thinks if they only took part, the other part is there for them to take.
Mario Ortega said that if, for example, the applicant want a further redevelopment agreement they should readdress the agreement. In that case we can take into consideration how much redevelopment has happened on his site since then. TIF money is not ready for site improvement but for already existing structures.
Village-President Hansen said to review whether they need the property to be improved with Mario and then get back to the Board.
Richard Jutan of 105 Sharon Lane said that he wanted the village to do more thinking about correcting the names on Sharon Court. He thinks it is ridiculous he gets calls from the police. He said he will file a lawsuit against the village, and it will be huge.
Village-President Hansen said that since the board had been threatened with litigation they are putting this on executive session.
Mr. Jutan said his property tax bill went from $3000 to $4000 dollars a year. Staff advised him that if his tax bill went up, it was not from village taxes. The Village tax rate went down last year and is expected to go down again this year. Staff suggested his bill possibly went up due to other taxing bodies.
Bill Slaker said that just before the meeting he gave the Village-President a letter he wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the letter. He said it is an item he talked about at the last meeting. What he saw in the packet isn’t what he found in the letter. He pointed out some areas for discussion.
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