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like why was it mo why was that mentioned? Um and not just all of Cook County officials or Cook County offices like why just Cook County treasure is that was that the >> I and Jeff certainly jump in and just think just because that's the function of the treasur's office to ensure that we get um our our our tax um revenues in time. But Jeeoff, if you have any other >> coalition that we're a part of, um, in terms of all the different school districts that have come together, uh, have tried to talk to all Cook County, uh, representatives, they've, um, gone to, uh, different meetings. So, it's not necessarily just the treasur, but it is all Cook County officials that that are, um, responsible for um, this kind of fiasco that that's going on. um the the uh difference between Tyler and Cook County and who's responsible.
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There's no one in the room. So, we will move on to um our public hearings. So, um as I I think the the board should all know, uh Jasmine has and Melissa had been sending out um the continuences. The last three on our agenda, that means everything except Eversource is being continued. We'll get to that when we get to it. But meanwhile, um we can talk about Eversource. And I see that there's several people here from um Eversource. Who is going to be speaking first? >> I will be speaking. >> And we also have is is Becca here. >> We also have Becca Solen, our conservation agent on as well. >> Is she hiding under the No, I see her. Okay. >> I see her. Okay. She's the bee. Got it. >> All right. Let me just share my screen in a bit. >> Oh, sorry, Matthew.
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Um that's kind of what is at the issue here. Um we don't have a contract with Tyler. We don't have any relationship with Tyler, but we do feel that Cook County does have a responsibility to uh make sure that whatever contract they do uh use for uh this service that it is actually benefiting the Cook the taxpayers of of this district. >> Hey, Jeff. Go ahead. >> Hey, while you're up there, could you remind us what was the uh the financial hit that the taxpayers of District 230 ended up getting hit? >> Sure. There were three main components. One of them was interest that was um uh not received because we had to call investments in early. Uh the other was the um lack of interest we could earn on property tax distributions that we received um during the process. And then also there was a cost to issue the TAWS.
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Let me give you permission. Sorry. Give me just a second. >> Thank you. So then we have two there are two separate um >> items here right so one is for maintenance and one is for removal right >> correct >> it it's okay it's okay with me if we talk when appropriate that you talk about those two together uh if if it makes sense I don't think we need to divide it it into two discussions right so because obviously related material >> I think that makes sense I'm planning on talking about the maintenance first just because I don't think that's going to be very controversial, but they don't necessarily need to be separated formally. >> That's fine. Whatever. Whatever is most efficient for you. >> Whenever you're ready to share your screen, Matthew. Sorry. You're ready. You're >> probably There we go. We want you.
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So you take all three of those components, put it together, it was just over 1.3 million. >> 1.3 million. >> Yes. >> So Jeff, my question was we know our amount and I'm sure every other district does and once we get whatever the group will be together, we're going to know a total amount of money that people have lost. Um, is is this suit eventually when it goes down, it would just be this total amount of money that everybody's lost together with the assumption we're not all going to get what we want, but we'll all take a percentage of this or what is the approach you're going to take once it's officially filed? >> Sure. Um, I don't know if those details have been kind of outlined. Uh the coalition is working with a law firm that is um I I think suited to um I think pursue maybe this kind of class action type thing where all the districts sign on um whatever uh amounts are uh at risk or or were at risk.
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>> So, I'm on the tail end of my fourth double shift with the storm response in southeastern mast. I'm a little scatterbrained. Uh can uh you all see the uh the map with the little green marking on it? >> Yes. >> Excellent. So uh this year we have two circuits uh up for removal this year. Um not uh not up for we have two circuits up for maintenance pruning this year. Um the 455H8 and the 274 H2. Um, on both of these circuits are uh six scenic roads. Uh, the one that you see highlighted currently is Franklin Road. And then if I head over to Did the map change for you guys? >> Um, >> so just to clarify, the the dark line is showing the whole circuit, >> correct? >> Right. That you're going to be checking. And the the highlighted lines are the ones that are on scenic roads, which is what this which is what you're here for tonight.
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I believe if a settlement or some sort of financial uh payment were to be made, we'd all have a proration of that based on what we um were due for those uh tax distributions. So, so I think whatever share it is, we would get our our fair share. Um obviously, like I I mentioned uh on Monday, this is not anything that's going to happen soon. This is going to take quite a while. Uh we still have about 9% left of our 24 distribution left to be received. tax bills will go out next week for the first payment of the 25 levy uh which are due in April. Uh so we would anticipate some additional distributions um to close out 24 and get 25, but again this is not not over by any means. >> Thank you. >> Do we know if there's any future delays coming?
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Is that correct? >> Correct. Okay. >> Yes. So these all uh each circuit gets pruned every four to five years. Uh trending more towards five these days. Um um so the whole circuit's getting pruned. These are just the scenic road aspects uh or portions of them. Um on the screen you should see now it actually does show that it runs along House Street. uh that part of the circuit is not being pruned this year because there are two circuits present on that road and the other circuit was pruned last year. There's no need to prune it again so soon. Uh they haven't even gotten a growing season into since the last time they've been pruned. So this one is Franklin Street and then the other four are Myrtle Street, Main Street, Winter Street, High Street, and Conquer Street. Um which are highlighted on this map.
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>> Yes. About the future? >> Well, if I had that answer, that would be uh that would be good. Um we like I said we received our first automated payment earlier this week was a which was a good sign. Any of the payments we had received prior to that were um manual in the terms of of uh the county. Uh so we're seeing a step in the right direction. Um I'm hopeful we get the rest of our 24 before we start getting our 25. That would be nice to close that out. Plus I think it would be strange if we start receiving 25 distributions when 24 is still outstanding. Uh, I don't think the county would want to uh to to take that on. So, uh, I'm hopeful that that we're going to receive what we should. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Any more comments, questions?
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Um, and our clearance is around our clearance is 10 feet by 10 feet by 15 feet around the top wires, what we call the primary wires. >> One question. >> Yep. Go ahead. >> Do you have a map that has the names of the streets or any of the streets on these so I can figure out where they are? >> We can get into the tiles, but I uh I did not highlight those. Um, so this one in the uh if you look at the the overview map, uh the one in the the long one in the middle is Myrtle Street. Uh the short one to the right of that line is Conquered Street. Um the top left one is Winter Street and the bottom left one is High Street. If that makes sense. >> Like I know some of those streets. I I don't know where we physically are on the map, but it's all right.
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At least I think you could take the role. >> Member, >> yes. >> Kelly, >> yes. >> Member, yes. >> Member, >> yes. >> Member, >> yes. >> Member Jer, >> yes. >> Member Cedar. >> Yes. May I have a motion for a resolution offering authorizing the emergency expenditure of funds? >> I recommend. Yes, the school board approved the resolution authorizing the emergency expenditure of funds and the approval of and the and the approval of an amendment to the transportation services agreement with safeway transportation services corp. >> Second. >> Okay. Any comments or questions? If >> I could just interact. I'm sorry. >> No, go ahead. >> Yes.
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I'll figure it out. >> It would be easier like any major streets were listed on here. Um, yes, it would be. Uh, as a good point. Um, yeah, if I scroll down here, um, so it's not highlighted, but the central artery running through the middle of the the page is Myrtle Street. Uh, to the left, uh, the blue the blue line to the left is Winter Street. We got h we got High Street on the bottom. Um, the these are labeled, but the words are kind of small um, for what you guys are seeing. Um, so we got Winter Street at the top. We got High Street uh to the bottom left. Keep scrolling down. Uh this orange line coming in from the top middle is Myrtle Street. Uh and then it turns into Main Street past the pond or the the water body there as it goes uh to the bottom right diagonally.
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Just really quick, just for the board's awareness, because this is a little bit unusual, uh, this will require six affirmative votes to to pass a motion as it is an emergency vote, but I'll answer any questions you have, but I just want to make sure the board's aware. >> So, um, I Safeways, we're not renewing. Safeway is not coming back. This will be the last three months with them. >> So, we're in the process of, uh, working through renewals, uh, with all with all of our vendors for next year. So, uh, I know Mr. Egan is still in preliminary conversation, so we haven't made any final determinations. Uh, but we would have an option to renew with current vendors. Um, and we're looking at all options at this point in time. Uh, but Safeway is um obviously we have some some concerns based on where we're at today.
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And then Conquered Street is on the right side or is it Conquered Street is in the middle uh of this tile um with two blue uh two blue colored pieces on each end if that makes sense. So I'm going back to the overview. Um, so our clearance is 10 feet by 10 feet by 15 feet around the top the wires at the top of the pole. Uh, what we call the primary wires. These are our high voltage lines. Uh, several thousand volts instead of the 120 that comes out of your outlet. Um, we prune to this clearance because not only do we have to break contact immediately, uh, for safety reasons and reliability reasons, we also have to have enough clearance that this, uh, circuit can go another four to five years. Um, since that's going to be the next time that we prune it again.
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Uh but we haven't necessarily um ended um any future relationships at this point in time >> because I know the at the at the past committee meeting we were talking about you know the extra cost that was going to cost the district and I was pulling up all the numbers for the past four years and say we were they were actually our lowest amount that the district had to um pay for all um bus companies. So you know I'm more like do we have to amend the budget at all for next year? Um do we have to amend the budget for next year? >> Yeah. So these are all going to this additional expense that you're approving tonight will come out of this year's budget. Right. >> The transportation fund had about a $350,000 surplus. So, we're looking for an additional um uh cost here of 321,000 uh that you're kind of approving if if you kind of calculate the the additional cost over the bus transportation routes between February and May.
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>> Yeah. So, and Matthew, just to clarify, so it's 10 feet on the bottom, 10 feet to the right and left of the wire, and 15 feet to the top. Is that right? >> That's correct. >> Okay. >> Long from last time. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh that's actually that's a great segue. Um the circuits are on a cycle. The all the trees that we're going to be pruning will have been pruned the same way before multiple times. It's nothing that the trees aren't used to at this point. Um and um while that can't be a large clearance in and of itself, um we do prune to um what are known as ANIE standards and those are arboricultural uh standards for healthy tree pruning um that are industrywide. They're not utility specific. Um but we do use them. Um and when you prune to these standards, uh it is not harmful to the trees.
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Uh so, we budgetarily do have room for this. Uh our transportation costs are running a little hot right now. Um that's a a function of a lot of things. We have special ed and other transportation um costs that are are not known in uh September when we approve the the budget. Um kids move in, kids move out, things like that. Uh but technically we do have room within the budget to um to uh support this. Um as Dr. Noling said, we are at the end of our threeyear contract with all of our transportation providers. We have the option to have a a one or two-year renewal beyond that. Um I anticipate as you've you've seen in these these figures we are going to have increased rates for those next one or two years. Uh so we will have to build uh a little more room in our our transportation budget and move some things around whether it's some state funding to to put in versus the education fund we put in transportation.
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Um it is incorporating their natural healing processes to heal over the the pruning cuts. Um and part of the ANC standards is while we do have that 15t above um the top wires which cuts into the canopy of a lot of these trees. um we don't usually tend to take uh significant leaders uh because of these ANIE standards. Um so, uh while we do want to try to uh while they're young prune trees around our wires in a way that le uh makes a nice U shape, um we're not we're not we tend to not be taking out established canopy with these projects. Um if there's a if there's a if there's a very large limb that I do want to take, it would be something that I would be asking Becca about specifically. In those cases, it would be something like it's touching the electrical wires or there's a crack in it or something that makes me think it's going to fail.
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Uh we can adjust the levy a little bit but those are all finite uh revenue sources. If I put more in transportation another fund is going to get uh slighted. So, um, you know, to answer your question, this is a a current year budget issue, >> Jeff, is as we look towards next year and obviously with Safeway having all these problems and as we talked on Monday night, some schools have already abandoned them and look for other vendors. So, and we know there's a limited number of bus driving companies in the state and in the area. Um, have we reached out to our current other vendors about picking up the Andrew routes next year so that we don't get in a situation where there may not be anybody available to pick those routes and we may have no choice but to potentially have to go back to Safeway?
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Um, the timing for this is flexible and right now I'm planning on the fall. Um, but it's a lot of moving parts uh depending on um what the contractor's timeline is. Uh if I do change that timeline and want to do it earlier, uh it's something I would communicate with Becca. Um as well as uh we would give residents in the Butters um electronic notification that we will be in town uh doing this work. Um anyone who has a customer account that is tied in with these circuits gets an email. Um if they don't have an email, they get a physical letter um with that. and uh where this process is explained to them. If they have concerns uh about uh what we may be doing to their trees, um they the customer service number is included on those documents.
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