WEBVTT 00:00:04.690 --> 00:00:06.470 May we all stand for the place, please. 00:00:07.870 --> 00:00:19.890 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:20.470 --> 00:00:21.670 Madam Clerk, please call the roll. 00:00:22.930 --> 00:00:23.850 Ted Odendahl. 00:00:24.330 --> 00:00:24.570 Here. 00:00:24.810 --> 00:00:25.550 Kathy Wilkins. 00:00:25.650 --> 00:00:25.830 Here. 00:00:25.970 --> 00:00:26.770 Kathy Altensey. 00:00:26.910 --> 00:00:27.090 Here. 00:00:27.270 --> 00:00:28.170 Kevin McIlwain. 00:00:28.910 --> 00:00:29.850 Patrick Sellers. 00:00:29.910 --> 00:00:30.130 Here. 00:00:30.330 --> 00:00:31.030 We have a quorum. 00:00:31.030 --> 00:01:23.350 We have a quorum. The first order of business is approval of minutes for the April 6, 2026 meeting. Any motion in the second, please? So moved. I'll second it. All right. Motion by obviously seconded by Wilken. Please take a look at the minutes if you haven't done so already. Thank you, Helen. Are there any questions for the minutes of the minutes for last meeting? Seeing that there are none. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. The next order of business is approval of 00:01:23.350 --> 00:02:09.610 Bill's payable. I need a motion and a second, please. So moved. Second. Motion and aye. Altensey, second by McIlwain. Please take a look at the bill's payable if you haven't done so hard enough. There was a charge from trust. Yeah, that was. Yep. Go ahead. I asked him about it. Okay, so I'm suing else for rental property. Yes. All right. It was emergency assistance. Gotcha. So that's the once a year, right? Yes. Okay. Any questions on 00:02:09.610 --> 00:02:16.950 claims and demands, trustees. See, if there are none, mind them first. Please call the roll. 00:02:16.950 --> 00:02:23.950 Wilken. Aye. McIlwain. Aye. Aldensee. Aye. Odendahl. Sellers. I will abstain. 00:02:23.950 --> 00:02:33.900 Oh, you're going to abstain? Yes. Yes, I will abstain. Okay. Let me put that. Just a minute. Don't leave me. Odendahl abstains. Okay. 00:02:33.900 --> 00:02:44.300 Oh, that's right. I did. I did. Patrick Sellers. Oh, okay. Well, aye, then. All right. 00:02:45.300 --> 00:03:04.100 Motion passed. Motion passes. The initial of business is approval of appropriation ordinance T-26-T-001, fiscal year 2026-2027. We've had our motion and our second man. We've had our discussion. Did you guys see the adjustment that Liz made? 00:03:05.500 --> 00:03:06.880 And is that what these tabs are? 00:03:06.880 --> 00:03:07.660 That's what those tabs are. 00:03:07.660 --> 00:03:10.500 Yes. Did you guys know why she did it? 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:11.320 Yeah. 00:03:11.820 --> 00:03:15.060 It was in the email, but it's probably good to go ahead and explain it here. 00:03:15.060 --> 00:03:44.440 Well, we have accounting services payroll fee, which is our QuickBooks fee. She had it for a dollar, but they adjusted the fee and it went up. So she put $999 in it to make sure we have enough to cover. That changed the number on the front page. It changed the number on page two, the bottom number, the 810. 00:03:45.060 --> 00:04:01.760 It changed the number for our general town on page 10, and it changed the general town fund ending balance, the total funds ending balance on page 11. 00:04:02.340 --> 00:04:06.800 So, and everything went up $999 because that's, you know, she had to take it. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.940 I don't have page 2 in here. I have 1, 3. 00:04:09.940 --> 00:04:10.500 I have 3. 00:04:10.860 --> 00:04:11.760 Thank you, Ms. Fru. 00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:12.000 Right. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.960 Those are the changes. 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:43.520 Those are the changes. Those pages, what I was saying was those pages are the ones that have the changes on them. So this is not the full budget, it's just the changes in the budget. Okay. Thank you. All right. You need a motion to amend? No, no. According to this because it was different than the original that we... Motion to amend? Oh, that's true. Yes. That's what we table. It was different. Yep, we'll need a motion to amend 00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:47.660 in order to accept these, this change. 00:04:48.980 --> 00:04:52.360 I'll move to amend to the changes. 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:52.640 I'll second it. 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:53.320 Okay. 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:54.580 So. 00:05:01.090 --> 00:05:01.670 So we. 00:05:02.130 --> 00:05:02.650 Hold on a second. 00:05:04.190 --> 00:05:09.830 So we're going to do a roll call vote for a motion to amend. 00:05:09.830 --> 00:05:10.050 To amend. 00:05:10.290 --> 00:05:10.530 Right. 00:05:12.290 --> 00:05:12.930 Ready? 00:05:13.210 --> 00:05:13.470 Yes. 00:05:14.470 --> 00:05:14.790 Wilken. 00:05:15.210 --> 00:05:15.490 Aye. 00:05:15.630 --> 00:05:16.190 McIlwain. 00:05:16.310 --> 00:05:16.530 Aye. 00:05:16.630 --> 00:05:17.170 Altensey. 00:05:17.310 --> 00:05:17.530 Aye. 00:05:17.670 --> 00:05:18.190 Odendahl. 00:05:18.390 --> 00:05:18.690 Aye. 00:05:18.810 --> 00:05:19.290 Sellers. 00:05:19.410 --> 00:05:49.390 Aye. Motion passed. Okay. Now, we're going to vote to approve the budget. As amended. As amended. Okay. So, would I need a motion to approve the budget as amended? We just did that. Okay. So, Madam Clerk, this is the motion, this is to approve the budget. As amended. Well, no. I think we do need a motion. We just did. A motion to amend. We amended it. We just did 00:05:49.390 --> 00:06:18.530 the motion to amend it. Michael? But now we need a motion to vote on it. Right. No, no, no. We have the... Mike, do we need a motion to... We did a motion to amend because we had a change to the budget. Now we want to approve the budget. Do we just go for the approval or do we need a motion to approve? No, you need a vote on the approval of the budget as amended. That's right. 00:06:18.530 --> 00:06:48.370 Okay, so we need a vote to approve the budget as amended. Okay? Okay. So, Madam Clerk, call the roll. Wilkins? Aye. McIlwain? Aye. Aldensee? Aye. Odendahl? Aye. Sellers? Aye. Okay. Motion passes. Good job. Hey, Ted, good catch, too. Thank you. Appreciate that. The next on the business is the discussion and approval of the renewal of the service provider agreement 00:06:48.370 --> 00:07:18.870 with Jahari Allen for Operation Jumpstart program. So I need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Motion by R&C, second by McIlwain. Are there any questions about this? I made the adjustment. There was an adjustment on page 13, which we had in there 18 hours per month. It should have been 18 hours per week. So I changed the word from month to week. 00:07:18.870 --> 00:07:27.130 So, that's, that's the change that we had for the service provider agreement, so I made that adjustment. 00:07:28.630 --> 00:07:47.610 The only thing I would say is I think this is an important role, and I think it's a complicated role, having had a little bit to do with working with people in the same kind of background and difficulties, I think. 00:07:48.870 --> 00:08:06.050 I would like, as we go along, if there's any way to keep us kind of in the loop in terms of what the activities are that are going on and how successful that is and such. 00:08:06.050 --> 00:08:18.030 I think there's a danger because it is complicated that it just kind of gets pushed off and it doesn't have, I don't know exactly what kind of oversight it has right now. 00:08:18.030 --> 00:08:50.680 I don't know who who Jahari kind of answers to me when answers okay this is to me as the creator of the program and as the actual program overseer Jahari answers to me directly so I monitor what he's doing he gives his reports to me I provide the reports to the board 00:08:51.680 --> 00:09:14.400 Will you guys get a report every meeting? No. No. But as progress, as we make progress, we will give you those reports. And as you guys can see from the last time I provided a report, the numbers have grown. The success is there. This program is necessary. And if we are going to help our youth, this is one of the ways that we do it. 00:09:14.400 --> 00:09:43.560 Okay? To get them employed, to get them their GED, to get them in college, to get them in the trades. These are the things that we can do to help our youth. Okay? So the importance of this program is just that, the importance of the program. And the importance of the program is to help our youth, as we've been talking about doing. So we've been doing this. So your question is, the oversight, the oversight is me. 00:09:44.400 --> 00:10:00.020 Jahari answers to the supervisor of Freeport Township. Okay? Anybody have any more concerns, questions, comments, concerns? Give them to me. Because tonight is the night we vote to approve. 00:10:00.020 --> 00:10:01.860 Because tonight is the night we vote to approve this contract because I want to keep the program going. 00:10:01.980 --> 00:10:09.660 Yeah, no, I mean, I'll just say, um, God, it's been in existence for two years now? I think it was three years. 00:10:09.740 --> 00:10:10.100 What's that? 00:10:10.380 --> 00:10:10.980 The program. 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:12.360 No, this is the first year? 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:12.580 Last year. 00:10:14.220 --> 00:10:16.280 This is the second half of the first year. 00:10:16.280 --> 00:10:16.420 Yeah. 00:10:16.540 --> 00:10:16.740 Yeah. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:17.240 Yeah. 00:10:17.520 --> 00:10:21.280 Because it was a six-month program, more of a trial and error. 00:10:21.760 --> 00:10:23.160 And then we extended it to the end of the year. 00:10:23.780 --> 00:10:26.160 Which is April 31st? 00:10:26.160 --> 00:10:26.940 Or 30. 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:31.940 And then we did an amendment to extend it to the end of the year. 00:10:31.940 --> 00:10:32.940 In the year. 00:10:32.940 --> 00:10:33.940 Yes. 00:10:33.940 --> 00:10:34.940 The fiscal year? 00:10:34.940 --> 00:10:37.940 So we voted on this twice. 00:10:37.940 --> 00:10:38.940 Right. 00:10:38.940 --> 00:10:41.940 We voted for the actual contract and then we voted on the amendment to extend the contract. 00:10:41.940 --> 00:10:42.940 That's where I was thinking. 00:10:42.940 --> 00:10:43.940 Yes. 00:10:43.940 --> 00:10:46.940 But actually two times, we voted on it twice within the past year. 00:10:46.940 --> 00:10:47.940 Right. 00:10:47.940 --> 00:10:48.940 Got it. 00:10:48.940 --> 00:10:49.940 Right. 00:10:49.940 --> 00:10:57.380 And in that time, well the one thing is, this isn't just like funding, 00:10:57.380 --> 00:11:04.170 Funding an independent person or organization that has no accountability. 00:11:06.290 --> 00:11:12.950 In this case, again, Jahari does report basically directly to Patrick because his checks come directly from township. 00:11:12.950 --> 00:11:17.750 And the checks are basically bi-weekly. 00:11:18.510 --> 00:11:24.670 So there is a firm set of controls there to monitor what's going on. 00:11:24.670 --> 00:11:53.690 And in the past two cycles, you know, we've had progress reports. We had the one that was done a couple months ago, then we also had an initial one shortly after it started. So I'm comfortable with the controls that are in place. Don't want to see where the complication comes in at because the mission of the program is pretty straightforward. 00:11:58.570 --> 00:12:05.690 Yeah, so, I guess, so, like, so you mentioned complications, like, what complication are you referring to? 00:12:05.690 --> 00:12:08.410 I'm saying the work is complicated. 00:12:09.330 --> 00:12:18.370 Working with people with the kind of backgrounds and problems that most clients have is complicated. 00:12:18.510 --> 00:12:19.870 It's complicated work. 00:12:22.990 --> 00:12:27.210 I'm not, I'm not criticizing the program in any way. 00:12:28.010 --> 00:12:29.770 I'm saying it's complicated work. 00:12:29.870 --> 00:12:30.930 It's important work. 00:12:31.070 --> 00:12:53.070 All I'm saying is I think it's all it's there's in part because it is there's a danger that it it kind of becomes left over there because it's you know because you don't want to everybody try to get in and understand everything that's going on and such. 00:12:53.070 --> 00:13:11.870 So I'm just saying it's good to have periodic reviews and make sure and that's why I was asking the questions about accountability. So it wasn't a criticism. It was a question of kind of the lay of the land and a statement to support that this is important work. 00:13:12.670 --> 00:13:21.630 May this help clear things up. There are different mechanisms in the program. There are different gears that all these different nuances inside the program. 00:13:21.630 --> 00:13:50.790 But please understand that I wrote those nuances. I created those gears. So I know every piece that's working in this program, how it's supposed to be working. And Jahari reports to me directly all the time and I'm keeping close tabs on numbers. I want to see progress. Now I know there's going to come a point in time where the program is going to plateau. Every program does that. Okay. And that's when we sit down and we kind of reinvent the program to make sure it keeps progressing. We haven't reached our plateau yet. Not even close. 00:13:50.790 --> 00:14:19.430 We are getting more and more people calling to join the Jumpstart program. Actually, we had a gentleman call from Rockford who wanted to be a part of the Jumpstart program. Unfortunately, you're not from Freeport, so we can't assist you. But the program is starting to get well known, it's starting to get big, but the controls are in place. The controls are definitely in place. 00:14:19.430 --> 00:14:52.290 So can other townships duplicate? Absolutely, if they would like. Okay. Absolutely, if they would like. And I would encourage other townships to duplicate. So, what do you guys think? All fair? Any more questions, comments, concerns? We're good? Yep. Madam Krupp, please follow the roll. Odendahl. Yes. Altensey. Aye. McIlwain. Aye. Wilken. Aye. Sellers. Aye. Motion passes. Motion passes. 00:14:52.290 --> 00:14:57.290 I'm not going to bore you guys to death with a whole bunch of thought. 00:14:57.290 --> 00:14:59.290 Thank you, Jesus. 00:14:59.290 --> 00:15:01.290 Wow. 00:15:01.290 --> 00:15:02.290 Wow. 00:15:02.290 --> 00:15:05.290 I must talk too much. 00:15:05.290 --> 00:15:06.290 Okay. 00:15:06.290 --> 00:15:09.290 I'm going to hand out the expense of the budget report. 00:15:09.290 --> 00:15:15.290 I think this might be the last one for the fiscal year. 00:15:15.290 --> 00:15:20.400 If I'm not mistaken. 00:15:20.400 --> 00:15:36.440 And so I really don't have a whole lot to discuss. I mean, I can think of something and have a barbed before I write it, but I'm not going to do that. I wouldn't do that. 00:15:36.660 --> 00:15:38.120 And then do it in a different language. 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:39.140 Yeah, do it in a different language. 00:15:39.140 --> 00:16:09.120 Well, just to make a comment, just to point out to something that hopefully kind of, there's a question that kind of came when we were talking about the budget in terms of how, is the way we project our ending balances kind of on the surface looks like we're digging into reserves, but essentially, I mean, minus a week, this essentially is pretty much, I mean, I'm speaking correctly, this pretty much is where we're landing at the end of this fiscal year. 00:16:09.140 --> 00:16:34.900 here. And you see we're 72% of what was budgeted. So that's kind of, this is kind of a good way to kind of show on paper the conversation when you said that typically we end up less than what we budgeted. Yeah, so clearly we're ending 18% below what the budget was. 00:16:34.900 --> 00:17:23.380 So even though there is an ending balance that on the surface you may think it may look higher, in reality, based on our past experience, it's going to be higher than what was approved because we were budgeted for $1.5 million and we're coming in at $1.1 million. So that's all, I just want to point that out. 00:17:23.380 --> 00:17:55.260 You know what? So we should probably be returning maybe like maybe 400 something thousand the way the way it's looking. But, you know, we we'll we'll we'll gauge that once the once the fiscal year actually ends and then we'll go back and take a look at how things end. But as you can see, we are under budget. Yeah, no problem with being under budget and no problem with that turns into a surplus. That's fine because 00:17:55.780 --> 00:18:09.470 it's good to have reserves in place because you never know what may come up right absolutely absolutely all right the next order of business is the assessors report okay 00:18:11.390 --> 00:18:20.300 next on the business is the trustee report trustee anything next on the business is public commenting public comments 00:18:20.300 --> 00:18:43.360 Yeah, I'm Steve Carroll, and at the last board meeting, Mr. Orlope spoke about, oh, school year is ending, kids are going to be out, and he can talk about undercurrent, and these kids will be spilling into our neighborhoods. Two days later, I saw exactly what he was talking about. 00:18:43.360 --> 00:19:08.900 Across the street, right in front of my house, 12 to 15 kids, ages from probably 16 down to about 14, 13, were confronting individuals that lived across the street, who were part of the back and forth. The police were called, they cleared the streets, and there's been an ongoing problem that's getting worse. There's some individuals who moved into the neighborhood several months ago and brought their problems with them. 00:19:08.900 --> 00:19:38.880 The cities, I got the call log and everything, sent it to everybody on the city council, of course you don't hear back from them, but this is going to be a problem, and I'm so afraid that it is going to escalate from words to something much worse, so this could be a very bad year, and the city is on total lockdown as to what's really going on, and I think we all know that. 00:19:38.900 --> 00:19:58.020 So, it's happening and it's real. Thank you. Any more public comments? Seeing that there aren't any other business coming for the town. Okay, I intend to adjourn until Monday, May 4th, 2026 at 4.30 p.m. 00:19:58.020 --> 00:20:12.090 26 at 4.30 p.m. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you all for coming.