Roselle Reporter Fall 2019
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The RoselleFall 2019 Village Phone Numbers ...............2 Collaborative Community InVillage This Clerk’s CornerIssue ..................2 In what is likely to be the most extensive Message from the Mayor ............3 publicVisioning engagement processEffort ever undertaken Launching in Roselle in Roselle, community leaders recently joined General News ....................... 4 & 5 forces to create the Envision Roselle Task Force Community Briefs ................ 6 & 7 to identify a desired long-term future for the community. The group will engage residents, Police Department .......................8 business owners, local not-for-profits, and Fire Department ...........................9 other stakeholders to find out what their shared goals and important priorities are, and Community Development .........10 how to make them into a reality that shapes Public Works Department ........ 11 Roselle for the next 30 years. from Lake Park High School District 108, Chamber of Commerce .............12 The Envision Roselle Task Force willReporter gather Medinah School District 11, Roselle School data from stakeholders in a variety of ways District 12, Bloomingdale School District 13, Welcome New Businesses .........12 this fall, including during a public forum on Keeneyville School District 20, Roselle Public November 6, 2019, at Lake Park High School Library District, Roselle Park District, Medinah West Campus, 500 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., Park District, and Bloomingdale Park District. starting at 7:00 p.m. This session will be open All of these partner organizations provide to all members of the community and will direct services to Roselle residents, and their Halloween Trick-or-Treat employ a keypad voting system that allows participation will help ensure that long-term Hours participants to goals best reflect pg 2 provide real- the wants and time feedback. Help shape the future of our community. needs of the Stakeholders will community. also be invited to The Envision provide feedback Roselle Task Force to the task force ENVISION ROSELLE timeline calls for through planned COMMUNITY FORUM citizen feedback focus groups to be gathered and a community LakeNOVEMBER Park High School 6, 7:00 West p.m.Campus 500 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. this fall, followed survey that is by data analysis, currently being and a final report developed for the effort. to the community in March 2020. For more Local Development Initiated by the Village of Roselle as part of its information about this initiative, please visit 2018-2021 strategic plan, the Envision Roselle the Village’s website at www.roselle.il.us/ Updates community visioning project includes partners EnvisionRoselle. pg 10 BudgetThe Village’s Workshopsproposed budget for Scheduled 2020 will be discussed for Novemberduring workshops Board Meetings in November before it is presented to the Village Board for a final vote in December. The budget will be discussed during regularly scheduled Committee of the Whole meetings on November 11 and November 25, immediately following the Village Board meetings on those nights. These meetings are held in the Council Chambers at Village Hall, 31 S. Prospect St., and are open to the public. More information about the budget is available on the Village’s website at www.roselle.il.us/budget. News from the Village of Roselle Village Info All numbers area code (630) Emergency ........................................... 9-1-1 Village Hall ...................................980-2000 Community Development ..........671-2821 Fire (Non-Emergency) ...............980-2043 Village Hall Hours Police (Non-Emergency) ...........980-2025 Village Hall is open Monday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday, 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Public Works ................................980-2020 Mayor’s Office ..............................671-2807 Village Board Meetings Village Board meetings are held in the Council Chambers at Village Hall, 31 S. Prospect St., at Village Clerk ................................. 671-2802 7:00 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of each month. Village Administrator ................. 671-2808 Committee of the Whole (COW) TTY ........................................................ 9-1-1 Committee of the Whole meetings are held in the Council Chambers at Village Hall, Village of Roselle 31 S. Prospect St., immediately following the Village Board Meeting on the second and fourth Monday of each month, and additionally as needed. 31 S. Prospect Street Roselle, IL 60172 The Roselle Reporter is published quarterly by the Village of Roselle as a public information www.roselle.il.us service for residents. For weekly updates, sign up to receive Roselle E-News at www.roselle.il.us. [email protected] Mayor Andy Maglio HalloweenGhosts and goblins Trick-or-Treat are preparing to haunt Hours Roselle Village Clerk this Halloween – on October 31, between 4:00 Patty Burns and 8:00 p.m. Trustees Halloween is a time for children. With this in Bruce Berkshire mind, Roselle plans its trick-or-treat hours to Patrick Devitt accommodate all of them. This allows some Wayne D. Domke daylight hours for the youngest cowboys and David Pileski princesses, and some time when it is a little darker Heather Pransky for older witches and goblins. Please be careful Lee Trejo while children are out enjoying this time. Village Administrator For more information on Halloween safety, visit the Jeffrey D. O’Dell National Safety Council website at www.nsc.org. Village Clerk’s Corner New Sock Collection for “Socktober” Donations of new socks will be accepted in the “Socktober” bin Every night in the United States an estimated 600,000 people at Village Hall through October 31. live on the streets. Socks are the most needed but least donated article of clothing in homeless shelters. Village Clerk Resources Available Online The Village Clerk’s web page at www.roselle.il.us/clerk has links to This October, the Village Clerk’s Office in the following information: Community Events Sign request form, partnership with Socks & Souls, is joining the election information, voter information, Freedom of Information national “Socktober” movement to prove Request form, liquor license information, solicitation door-to- that even the smallest acts of kindness, like door application, and the rain barrel order form. donating a pair of socks, can make a big www.roselle.il.usCall the Village Clerk’s Office at (630) 671-2802 for more 2 difference in the lives of our neighbors who are The Roselle Reporter homeless. information about any of these services. Mayor’s Message I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks to the Roselle Lions Club for hosting the Taste of Roselle the first weekend in August. The weather was beautiful, the festival was very Village Board well attended, and the Lions Club did a wonderful job Village Board Meeting organizing everything. A lot goes into planning the Taste Recent Accomplishments of Roselle, most of which is done by volunteers. Led by the The following actions were recently approved Lions Club, we also had opening ceremonies with the Roselle by the Village Board. American Legion Post 1084 color guard and the singing of the September 9, 2019: National Anthem by Daniella Crocco, the Roselle Chamber of Commerce A proclamation was & Industry ran the Bingo tent all weekend and co-sponsored the beer tent with issued recognizing September 11 as Patriot the Lions Club, and all of the Taste of Roselle entertainment, both in the Civic Day; payments for the Central Avenue twin- Plaza and in the beer tent, was performed by non-paid volunteers. Thank you to culvert lining project, the Jewel-Ventura everyone who made the Taste of Roselle successful for the 38th consecutive year! Lift Station replacement project, the 2019 Sanitary Manhole Lining Project, and the 2019 It is in the Village Board’s Strategic Plan for 2018-2021 to engage in a long-term Parkway Tree Planting Program were approved; community visioning project. Please join us on November 6 at Lake Park High ordinances were adopted to update zoning and School West Campus to give input as to where you think the Roselle community approve a special use request for the Salerno should be over the next 30 years. Thank you to our partnering agencies for Memorial Gardens at 450 W. Lake St.; IT working on the Envision Roselle project with us: Lake Park High School District network equipment purchases were approved; 108, Medinah School District 11, Roselle School District 12, Bloomingdale School and long-term evidence storage contracts for District 13, Keeneyville Elementary School District 20, Roselle Public Library the Police Department were approved. District, Roselle Park District, Medinah Park District, & Bloomingdale Park District. September 23, 2019: I am very much looking forward to the results of this project, and the action plan Police Officers Gino that will be presented to our community in March 2020. Please visit the Village’s Giovenco and Raymond Braunshausen were website at www.roselle.il.us/EnvisionRoselle for more information about this sworn in; variations for signage requirements important initiative. were approved for Lake Park High School District 108 for new signs for both high school The development and redevelopment of properties to grow our tax base in Roselle campuses; a contract was approved with Teska remains a priority of the Village Board, and I am happy to report that developers and Associates, Inc. for the Village’s Zoning are seeking us out and knocking on our doors here at Village Hall. A new 72-unit Ordinance update; an intergovernmental luxury apartment complex is currently being built just east of the Roselle Metra agreement was approved with Metra for the Station, with leasing expected to begin this winter. This development is in line with train station and commuter lots LED lighting our Comprehensive Plan, which calls for higher density development in and around project; a contract for an emergency generator our Town Center. I am very hopeful that we will have more news to share about replacement at the Roselle Fire Station was redevelopment efforts for our Town Center in the very near future.