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ClTY OF
WEST CHICAGO
WHERE HISTORY & PROGRESS MEET
MEETING MINUTES
Approved 10/16/2024
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION
August 21, 2024, 7:00 P.M.
1. Call to Order Establish a Quorum
a. Chair Nazree Williams called the meeting to order at 7:01 P.M.
b. Roll call found Chair Nazree Williams, Co-Chair Thomas Cherrington, Commissioner
Bob Blaus, Commissioner Tyler Kesler, Commissioner Victoria Burris, and
Commissioner Allen Rodriguez present.
c. Aldermanic liaison present included Alderman Christopher Swiatek.
d. Staff liaison present included Assistant Director of Public Works, Dave Shah.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Environmental Commission Meeting Minutes of July 17, 2024
i. Blaus made a motion, seconded by Rodriguez, to approve the Meeting
Minutes.
1. Voting Yea: Williams, Cherrington, Burris, Kesler
2. Voting Nay: None
b. Environmental Commission Special Meeting Minutes of August 16, 2024
i. Rodriguez made a motion, seconded by Blaus, to approve the Meeting
Minutes.
1. Voting Yea: Williams, Cherrington, Burris, Kesler
2. Voting Nay: None
3. Public Participation/Presentations
a. None
4. Items for Consent
a. None
5. Review and Discuss the Commission Priority List
a. Current List
i. Discussion: Kesler preferred to add the Sustainability Plan to the
Commission’s Priority List where monthly updates can be provided.
b. New Additions
i. Pumpkin Composting — November 2, 2024
1. Location: New Hope United Methodist Church, 643 E. Washington
St., West Chicago
ii. Holiday Lights Recycling Event - November 29, 2024 to January 17, 2025
1. Location: City Hall, New Hope United Methodist Church, Murphy Ace
Hardware, Water Treatment Plant, Library, The ARC Center
6. Other Business
a. Recap of Groot facility tour on August 16, 2024
i. Discussion: Commissioners had a general discussion on the Groot, Inc.
facility tour and found the experience very educational and useful.
Commissioners requested pictures from the tour to be posted on the City’s
outreach platforms.
b. Adopt-A-Highway route section — Attachment
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West Chicago, Ilind&age 1 Of (230) 293-3028 Ruben Pineda Michael L. Guttman
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i. Discussion: Shah provided a map of the current section of IL-64 currently
adopted by the Commission for the clean-up event. The Commission was
interested in completing a cleanup along Hawthorne Lane, west of the
railroad tracks to Powis Road. The Commission tentatively selected to have
an event on September 18, 2024, from 4pm to 6pm and hold the regularly
scheduled Environmental Commission meeting at 6pm at the Water
Treatment Plant.
c. Commission email addresses request follow-up
i. Discussion: Shah discussed that Staff is reviewing City’s email policies as
part of the shift to Office 365 we decided against providing email addresses
to commissions. Factors that led to this decision included licensing
requirements, security, and accountability. At the time it was determined that
any communications that required the City’s name directly attached would be
handled by the staff liaison. Commissioners requested a general email for the
commission. Shah recommended the use of the Public Works general email
address. Shah will further follow up on this request.
Electronic Recycling flyer follow-up - Attachment
Commission's FY 2025 budget request
i. Discussion: Shah discussed the timeline and the budget process for the FY
2025 Budget with the Commission and requested a formal budget request
from the Commission Chair to be submitted to Shah by September 6, 2024.
The Commissioners discussed budget items such as smoke detector
collection boxes, sustainability plan, special event coordination, canopy tents,
lunches, dinners, tables, chairs, and skirts.
f. Other discussions:
i. Kesler discussed with the Commission that he and Willams met with City
staff to go over the Residential Solid Waste, Recycling, and Yard Waste
Collection Contract and found the meeting to be useful. Kesler provided the
summary of the meeting such as staff responsibility, building relationships,
potential orientation for new commissioners, and funding for projects.
li. Kesler requested monthly reports from Groot for waste and recycling
collection in the City.
iii. Rodriguez was interested in the Commission’s engagement with the City’s
Special Events Coordinator and Marketing & Communications Manager in
relation to promoting and enhancing the Commission’s events and projects.
iv. Cherrington & Burris discussed potentially promoting fall events such as
suburban lawn, monarch migration, educational materials, etc. along with the
Pumpkin Composting event. It was further discussed that this could be
explored in FY 2025.
v. Kesler briefly discussed the Greenest Region Compact based on his
research.
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7. Adjournment
a. At 8:27 P.M., Cherrington made a motion to adjourn and Blaus seconded the motion.
The motion was unanimously approved by voice vote.
Respectfully,
Dave Shah, PE
Assistant Director of Public Works
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