Administrative Services Board Meeting Report - November 8, 2016

Administrative Services Board Meeting Report

Director Sherry Jasinski
November 8, 2016



Liens filed between April 2016 through October 31, 2016

• There were 139 equaling = $194,672.37
• To date 26 have been paid in full and equaling = $39,096.41
• Grand total stilled owed to the village = $155,575.96

The remainder of the liens will be required to be paid before occupancy or ownership takes place and a water account established.

Night Court Totals for the November 3, 2016 Hearing

Total tickets on the call 201

• 12  - Found guilty
• 6 - Found not guilty
• 1 - Received a continuous
• 182 - Found guilty for failure to appear and the finds wee doubled

The Village Hall will be closed on November 24 and 25 for the Thanksgiving Holiday

This concludes my report

Sauk Village Administrative Services Report - September 13, 2016

Sauk Village Administrative Services Report

by: Director Sherry Jasinski
September 13, 2016

Code Enforcement Court call for September:

• 153 Tickets on the court docket
• 4 were found not guilty
• 7 were found guilty
• 142 were found guilty for failing to appear in court and fines were doubled
• 16 new liens have been turned over to the Law Firm for liens to be filed equaling $24,238.29

There is a new Owner taking over the Sauk Village Café. The new owner came in today for the application for a new business license.

New cell phone business opening soon and will be located at 1715 Sauk Trail. They just recently completed the fire inspection and only needed to pay for the business license.

This concludes my report.

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report - August 23, 2016

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report

by Director Sherry Jasinski

August 23, 2016

I would like to update the Board on Liens:

As of today we have filed three more liens equaling $13,998.56

I have sent out this week 24 Lien letters equaling $ 35,867.79. They have 14 days to respond, if they fail to do so liens will be placed.

Update on the Noise and Safety Mitigation Grant:

Two sets of letters went out along with the applications, as of today we have a total of 13 that applied and have been approved.

2 permits are ready to be picked up (window replacements)

11 applicants have to still turn in Plat’s of Surveys (Fencing) and the Contractor that they choose has to obtain a Contractor’s license with the Village, once that happens permits will be issued.

Village Hall is closed on September 5 in observation of Labor Day

This concludes my report

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report - August 9, 2016

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report

August 9, 2016 

By: Director Sherry Jasinski


August 4, 2016 Court call was a total of 178 tickets

• 3 were found not guilty
• 8 were found guilty
• 167 were found in default for failing to appear and fines were doubled

June 1 thru Aug 8, 2016 the fines that were paid for J-Tickets equal $12,055.00

Approximate Village sticker sales from May to August 6, 2016 are as follows:

• 2720 passenger
• Trucks 276
• Motorcycle 29

The current count on the houses we have that do not have water accounts and have people swatting in them is down to 16. When we first started the program we had 99. We keep monitoring the vacant list and making the necessary updates.

Sauk Village Administrative Services Report - July 26, 2016

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report

July 26, 2016 

By: Director Sherry Jasinski

The Code Enforcement night court call for July was 324 tickets

7 were found not guilty

• 15 were found guilty
• 10 were paid prior to court
• 292 were found guilty for failing to appear and fines were doubled

I have placed night court procedures on the web page so everyone is clear on the process and time of court

The part time employee for the administrative office started on July 11, 2016 she has been working on entering Village Stickers and filing them, helping answer the phones and is observing the cash register procedure.

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report - June 14, 2016

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report

June 14, 2016 

By: Director Sherry Jasinski

Village Stickers are on Sale they must be displayed by July 1,2016

Cost of Sticker

• $30.00 for a passenger plate


• $30.00 Motorcycles
• $48.00 for Truck
• One senior discount per household of $20.00
• July 1, 2016 Village Stickers fee will be doubled

June 2, 2016 Court Call

• 87 tickets on the court docket


• 3 tickets were found guilty
• 84 were found liable and fines were doubled for failure to appear

Payments received for J-tickets from 05/01/16-6/13/16 =$8,155.00

Liens paid to date =$19,026.62 since filing started in April 2016

Village Hall will be closed July 4, 2016

This concludes my report

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report - May 24, 2016

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report

May 24, 2016 

By: Director Sherry Jasinski

• Village Hall is closed on Monday May 30 for Memorial Day

• Village Stickers are on sale and must be displayed by June 30/July 1 by Midnight

• Passenger Plate is $30.00

• Truck Plate is $48.00

• One senior discount per household of $20.00

• Animal Licenses have been on sale since April 1

• Spayed or neutered is $10.00

• Not spayed or neuter is $25.00

• The second set of liens will be filed within the next week totaling $61,961.32 (32)

• Grass Tickets since April 25 thru May 24, 2016 total 299

***Please note***

If a vacant property has an owner or bank listed and the grass is not being cut they have and will continue to receive tickets. Unfortunately there are several homes that we have no information on and the Cook County Tax Assessor page is not current making it impossible to find out who has ownership on the property. A title search for each property would cost on a low end $125.00 plus Attorney fee’s The Village doesn’t have funds or man power to search for hours on a single home.

This concludes my report

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report - May 10, 2016

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report

May 10, 2016 

By: Director Sherry Jasinski

Night Court

• There were 138 "J" Tickets on the May 5, 2016 court docket
• 131 Found Guilty and fines doubled for failure to appear
• 7 Found Guilty

Leans Update

• 28 Liens were filed in the First phase equaling $61,242.39
• 4 liens from the first round have been paid =$7,806.22
• 36 Lien letters in phase two went out in the Last couple of days equaling $69,038.46 after the 14 day notice expires the lien will be placed on the properties

Property Maintenance


Warning letter went out to the property owner for the land between Walgreens and the Daycare Plaza- They indicated they would have everything cleaned up by May 30, 2016

Village Stickers - Now On Sale

Sticker fees:

• Cars, motorcycle, motorbike, recreation vehicle        -  $30.00
• Motor buses                                                                - $40.00
• Trucks- fees based on State license registration-
  • B Plates    - $48.00
  • C Plates    - $47.50 and up
    Note: Any person 62 years old or over or any person who is permanently disabled may receive a $20.00 discount however only one (1) discount per household per year.

Department Heads please make sure you fill out and complete the applications for the current Village Stickers for your fleet

Sauk Village Administrative Services Report - April 12, 2016

Sauk Village Administrative Services Board Meeting Report - April 12, 2016 

By: Director Sherry Jasinski

• April Night Court call:

• 99 tickets on the court docket

• 5 Not Guilty

• 3 Liable

• 91 found guilty for default and fines are double

• I renewed my yearly certification for Foia Officer  on March 29, 2016

• Business License Renewals are in the process for this year’s license period

• I mailed out 190 renewal letters for contractor’s license that expire 4-30-16

 

Sauk Village Administrative Services Report - March 22, 2016

Board Meeting Report for March 22, 2016 

By: Director Sherry Jasinski

 

• 30 New Water service in the month of February
• 235 On the current shut off list as of March 16 south side = $105,146.77
• 51 squatters living in homes without service has been reduces to 41 for a two week period
• Tickets for the month of January through March 22, 2016 are as follows:
• Failure to abate Nuisance- 26
• Failure to maintain Property-4
• Garbage Service-13
• Inoperable auto -23
• No Occupancy – 48
• No Parking on garbage day-107
• Parking Commercial vehicles in residential- 5
• Parking on Non hard surface-9
• Property Maintenance - 4
• Snow Parking- 30
• Water Service Required – 95

Business License renewal letters went out on March 18, 2016 for the new license period

On April 11, 2016 the renewal letters for the Contractor Licenses will be going out

This concludes my report

 

Sauk Village Administrative Services Report - March 8, 2016

Board Meeting Report for March 8, 2016 

by: Director Sherry Jasinski

Code Enforcement court call for March 3, 2016

• 104 Tickets on the court docket
• 5 Found Guilty
• 99 Failure to appear and fines are doubled

28 Letters went out to the last known owner for house’s  that have terminated water service and have a balance owed on their account, giving them 14 days to pay the outstanding debt or liens will be placed on the properties totaling $56,950.65.


Houses that have squatter’s in them are down to 54 these houses will be turned over to the Police Department for further investigation and then will be turned over to Public Works to make sure they have no water on.

We have a meeting with Republic Garbage on Thursday at 10 with Ernie Lopez to recalculate the number of homes that the Village is charged for.  I have supplied them a copy of the vacant not eligible list and have been updating them as needed when homes become eligible.  The homes that are not being picked up that have garbage on the parkway have been receiving tickets.

The Sauk Village Café has received their Business License and is scheduled to open on March 14; they will be opened for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

This will conclude my report

Sauk Village Administrative Services Report - February 9, 2016

Board Meeting Report for 1-26-15

by: Director Sherry Jasinski

The Village Hall will be closed on February 15, 2016 for Presidents Day

Court Call for February 4, 2016

• 99 Found Guilty and Defaulted fines are double
• 7 Not Guilty
• 3 Liable

Sauk Village Café Restaurant on Sauk Trail and 394 should be opening soon. Owners are waiting to receive the Heath Inspection and Fire report then Business License will be issued.

Lola’s Daycare will be opening soon she had a delay with the State, which she states has been resolved

We continue to monitor the vacant houses, we are waiting for the approval of the letter that the Police Department will be posting on the 88 homes that we have squatters living in, once that happens they will be given a 5 day time frame to get in touch with me so I can explain to them what needs to take place for water service and occupancy.Failure to contact me will result in the homes being turned over to Public Works for termination of services which will include jets and digs.

Republic Services was provided a letter along with the vacant list for houses that are not eligible for service at this time the total is 425. The Village will be saving a total amount of $85,425.00. Per year with supplying them the list. As people qualify for service I will be providing them with updates. The houses that should be vacant that have squatters in them has been reduced from 85 to 60

Sauk Village Director of Administrative Services Report - January 12, 2016

The Village Hall will be closed Monday 1-18-16 for Martin Luther King Day

Court Call for January 2016: Code had 58 Tickets on the court docket- 2 were found Liable- 1 not guilty and 56 were found guilty for failure to appear and fines are double

In regards to the Blue Print Program all the vacant houses have been stickered. There are 89 homes that have people living/squatting in them. We will be having a meeting shortly in regards to the next phase, the plan is to have a letter that the Police Department will deliver to the homes giving them a certain amount of time to contact me and complete what they need to do so they can legally live in the home. Failure to do so will result in tickets and all properties that fail to comply will be turned over to Public Works for verification of water, if water cannot be turned off they will do whatever they need to get the water off.

We roughly had about 13 water service accounts established from the vacant list that have complied, there were several homes that are in the process of receiving back bills from the last reading on record and will be receiving back bills that will be high depending on the usage plus garbage service, sewer charges and taxes.

We are in the process of sending the garbage company the vacant list to stop the Village for being charged for garbage service on those houses that should not be provided services. Estimate saving would be $97,083 per year.  I will be providing the turn on and turn offs to the garbage company on an as needed basis. Currently we have 483 vacant homes -garbage bills are $33.50 six times a year which equals =$201.00 dollars a year per house hold - times 483 = $97,083.00 savings.

This concludes my report.

Sherry Jasinski

Fighting “BLIGHT”

In a previous post, I pointed out the disastrous effects that “Blight” has on our community. Thanks to the efforts of the Sauk Village Housing Commission, Sauk Village Police Department, Sauk Village Fire Department, Sauk Village Code, Cook County Board and the Cook County Sheriff’s office blighted areas in Sauk Village will start to disappear. 

Crews from Cook County SWAP were in Sauk Village this week cleaning blighted areas and the Cook County Sheriff's Office started removing blighted homes this morning in Sauk Village (see pictures below).

These are all steps towards reducing crime in these areas and the work you see being done is possible due to the efforts of a joint collaboration of village Departments, Commissions and Cook County agencies working together.

There are so many to thank and I'm sure to miss someone if I were to start naming individuals by name. So, to everyone that had a part of making this happen......A special Thank You! from a grateful Mayor and community.