There’s another new trustee with the Village of Crossville. Leaders welcomed Heather Guinn Tuesday evening to the fray. She takes over for long time Crossville Trustee Bruce Morlock who resigned due to health issues at the September 24th meeting. Morlock had served the village for 18 years. Guinn is the second appointee to join the board since the April election following Jim Smith’s appointment following the death of Wes Trout. Smith was absent Tuesday evening.
Leaders spent 90 minutes in regular session talking city business before deciding against an executive session due to Smith’s absence. During the hour and a half meeting, council members heard a presentation from Rob Wielt from Affordable Gas & Electric and chose an 18 month agreement for commercial use. The company works with more than 100 municipalities between Illinois and Ohio to build a de facto buying group so those communities can improve their purchasing power. In June, they inked a new deal with Grayville.
The new rate is up by 4/10th of a cent per kilowatt hour. The village has 9 accounts that qualify as commercial use. Over the past 12 months, the village has used 163,597 kWh. Based on the same usage over the next 12 months beginning in December, the village can expect to pay about $636.40 more.
The village also agreed to spend $2,225 to PC Doctors to get the cameras up and running at the village hall and Tiger Park. More cameras can be added later. David Burrows expects to have those cameras up and running along with a monitor in village hall in 2-3 weeks.
Leaders agreed to allow Brown and Roberts to begin work on attempting to attain a 60/40 grant/loan for manhole rehabilitation in town. If they get it, the million dollar plus project would be paid for at 60% through a grant with the remaining 40% offered through a low interest 1% loan.
Crossville will get new concrete forms at a cost of $1,020. The 12 forms come at a cost of $85 each.
Leaders also wrestled with putting in a no parking zone across from the fire station at Doug’s due to difficulty getting fire apparatus out of the building in an emergency when minutes matter. Doug’s uses that area for deliveries and the police chief worried about enforcement as it’s only a problem when it’s a problem. Ultimately, the trustees voted to make the section a no parking zone. It will take some time to mark it.
Leaders also set Trick or Treat hours for 4 – 6:30 on both Friday and Saturday, October 31st and November 1st.
Finally, a building permit was granted for resident Debbie Respondek at 608 West Main. Her property has become highly trafficked and she asked to extend her privacy fence to re-route folks. It was approved unanimously.