SUBLETTE – The February Village of Sublette Committee Meeting was short and sweet Monday, Feb. 10 as three trustees and the president formed the minimum of four people to authorize a reported council.
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SUBLETTE – The February Village of Sublette Committee Meeting was short and sweet Monday, Feb. 10 as three trustees and the president formed the minimum of four people to authorize a reported council.
Many items were discussed including a recent committee meeting which took place to move the Sidewalk Replacement Plan forward.
“There was a committee meeting with an engineer from Willett, Hofmann & Associates. He let us know where he was with the sidewalk plan,” Village of Sublette Board President John Stenzel said. “We’re using the Rebuild Illinois funds, Motor Fuel Tax, and a $25,000 grant on West Main Street. The meeting went well and he was authorized to submit the plan to the Illinois Department of Transportation for approval.
“It needs to be bid out and approved by July so we don’t lose the federal funding we have received. We’re taking the next step to getting it done.”
With a 4-0 vote, it was approved to use the Motor Fuel Tax funds for the sidewalk project.
The Richmond, Virginia, Reeve Street Project is on hold because the ground is frozen thanks to Mother Nature’s winter cold front delaying domesticated digging. The weather is also putting a pause on the investigation of the Water Service Line Inventory, which Sublette received the first installement, $15,000, to begin.
Lee County hasn’t validated a firm date, but the county is going to resurface West Main Street between March and July.
The filter media at the water treatment plant was completed, while the paperwork is in the lawyer’s hands for the undeveloped vacant portion of Thompson Street to be completed.
The Village’s website domain, Subletteweb.com, will be in service for another 10 years as the contract was renewed until 2035.
LOCis will become Sublette’s new water and garbage billing program either at the end of February or the beginning of March. The committee approved the transition to a new billing program at the January meeting.
Stenzel said LOCis is a well-known program Mendota has used for 20-plus years.
The next Village of Sublette meeting is Monday, March 10 and the 43rd Annual Farn Toy & Antique Tractor Show is taking place 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 15-16 at downtown Sublette.
The consolidated election is April 1. Stenzel is running again as well as Makenzie Kessel, village clerk, and trustees Larry Ellis, Julie Kessel and Bob Bulfer.
As of now, no one is opposing, but write-in votes are possible.
