Webbs Norman Resigns from Civil Service Commission

By Margaret Downing, REPORTER

 After serving a number of years on the Loves Park Civil Service Commission, Webbs Norman has resigned. At the Oct. 24 Loves Park City Council meeting, Mayor Darryl Lindberg presented former Police Chief Jim Puckett’s name to the Council as a replacement effective Oct. 24, which was approved. Puckett will serve out Norman’s term, which ends Dec. 31 of next year. A resolution was passed authorizing the City Treasurer “to execute an agreement with Security Benefit Advisors (of Boston) to meet IRS required changes for 457 Plan and Trust agreements” effective May 1. Another resolution – authorizing negotiated bids for a door replacement at Well No. 5 was okayed. A resolution authorizing the Mayor to hire Bertel Peterson Co. “to demo the existing men’s restroom partitions and provide new partitions with installation in the GPAC senior area” of the City Hall building was okayed at a cost of $2,750 (negotiated bid) plus labor.

Alderman Clint Little gave the weekly Police Activity Report for the week of Oct. 16 – 22. There were 516 calls for service, 105 arrests (includes warnings and tickets), and 10 accidents reported. On the weekly Fire Department Report, dated Oct. 23, two fire calls, two fire alarm calls, one public service call, one carbon monoxide or gas leak call, two extrication calls, and one smoke or odor investigation call were logged. Aldermen approved payment of $25,637.07 in water fund bills, and $155,208.62 in general fund and all other bills, as presented Oct. 17.

City Clerk Bob Burden reported that the City had received $46,021.28 in Motor Fuel Tax funds from the Illinois Department of Transportation for the month of September. Alderman John Pruitt gave the Building Report for the month of September. A total of 73 permits were issued and the City collected fees amounting to $4,704. Mayor Darryl Lindberg once again stated that leaf pick-up, the start of which began Oct. 24, had begun for all of Loves Park and from Oct. 31-Nov. 4 work would continue west of N. Second St. He also said the Fifteenth Annual Loves Park Fireman’s Association’s “All You Can Eat” Pancake Breakfast would be held Sunday, Nov. 6 from 7 a.m. to noon in the Richard O. Brinker Community Room in the City Hall complex. Charge per person is $6 and children five and under eat free. The annual patriotic “Tribute to Veterans” event is set for the City Hall complex gymnasium on Nov. 10 starting at 10 a.m.

Two ordinances, first reading, were approved. One is for a Class E (packaged beer and wine) for Phillips 66 in the 6400 block of E. Riverside Blvd. – the other is for the City to “enter into a redevelopment agreement with DYN Kishwaukee, LLC, for the southwest corner of E. Riverside Blvd and Forest Hills Road.”