VILLAGE OF NORTH AURORA
VILLAGE BOARD MEETING
AUGUST 28, 2006
CALL TO ORDER
Village President Hansen called the meeting to order 7:00 p.m.
ROLL CALL
In attendance: Village President John Hansen, Trustees Dale Berman, Linda Mitchell, Mark Gaffino, Max Herwig and Mike Herlihy. Not in attendance: Trustee Paul Shoemaker.
Staff in attendance: Atty. Kevin Drendel, Sue McLaughlin, Bill Hannah, DeWayne Williams, Mike Glock, Tom Fetzer and Mark Bozik.
Village President Hansen introduced Kevin Harris from the Boy Scouts of America’s Three Fires Council. Harris addressed the Board on how the Boy Scouts and the Village could partner together. Harris said there are over 2000 scouts within the Fox Fire area (school districts 129 and 131) and three Cub Scout packs in North Aurora. Village President Hansen mentioned that Harris might also want to speak with some of the larger organizations in town such as the Mothers Club, North Aurora Firemens Assocation and the Lions Club. Trustee Herlihy mentioned that volunteers are always needed for North Aurora Days in August. Trustee Herwig said he has been working with Troop 159 and would like to get information on how to get a Boy Scout Troop started in North Aurora. Harris said he would keep in contact with Trustee Herwig.
Liquor License Approval of the 7-11 Store for Prasenjeet Majumdar for 7-11 Store – Majumdar will be the new owner of the 7-11 store at Butterfield & Mitchell Roads. The liquor license will remain a Class D license. Majumdar noted that all employees are required to take the liquor sales training through the 7-11 Corporation. Motion made by Trustee Berman and seconded by Trustee Herlihy to approve the Village President’s recommendation for approval of a liquor license. Roll Call Vote: Berman- yes, Mitchell – yes, Herlihy – yes, Gaffino – yes, Herwig – yes. Motion approved.
AUDIENCE COMMENTS
Ron Grommes, 38W766 Seavey Road – Mr. Grommes lives on Seavey Road and is the adjacent landowner to the Grace Valley Church Property. Mr. Grommes’ concern was traffic. Grommes said the proposal will put a road connecting to the existing south subdivision. Grommes added that Seavey Road is an old township road with a 60-foot easement and was built for light traffic. Mr. Grommes proposed several ideas to address the traffic issues: 1. eliminate connection into southern part of subdivision, 2. widen easement on south side of road, 3. improve road to a standard that will withhold the traffic.
Village Engineer Jim Bibby said that the proposed church has come through the Village on a conceptual level and there has been no formal petition for annexation at this time. The issues on Seavey relative to the necessary reconstruction improvement were clearly shown on the preliminary engineering that came through the concept. Road cores are necessary as to the structural reconstruction requirement on Seavey Road. This was passed thru to Sue McLaughlin’s attention several weeks ago which clearly outlined that there will be a major reconstruction. Relative to traffic, from the inception planning of Tanner Trails, there were a number of access points that were planned to the total circulation and total access. Bibby noted that Seavey Road’s traffic is approximately 600 or 700 cars a day. At its build-out of Tanner Trails, 8 or 9% of the trip generation will use Seavey Road, amounting to an additional 400 or 500 cars a day.
Grommes said that in reference to the access onto Seavey Road, when Tanner Trails was proposed, access was denied to Seavey Road and a retention pond put in its place with the assumption that they would not break ground into Seavey Road and that traffic would go in the other direction. Grommes said that now the Village Engineer has stated that there were plans to come in through the five acre parcel. Bibby said that Mr. Grommes was misunderstanding the information. Bibby said Grommes is recalling the cul-de-sac that was terminated with the large north lake against Mr. Richmond’s property whereby that was never going to immediately connect to Seavey Road. However, the east/west local street that comes off of that always had a right-of-way pointing straight north several parcels over to provide the interconnection onto Seavey Road.
PROCLAMATION DECLARING SEPTEMBER AS SAVE A LIFE MONTH
Village President Hansen read a proclamation declaring September as Save a Life Month.
CONSENT AGENDA
A.
