Cicero Approves Permits From Organizations and Receives Grant Money for Lead Service and New Equipment for the Fire Department
The Town of Cicero trustees present a certificate of recognition to representatives of local community organizations during their bi-weekly board meeting on Tuesday, October 08, 2024. April Alonso/Cicero Independiente
By Melina Pineda Aguilar
The Town of Cicero Board of Trustees and President Larry Dominick met twice in October 2024 to discuss various ordinances and resolutions.
In October, Cicero passed various permits for organizations to give back to the community throughout November and December, and recognized the hard work and dedication of several groups and organizations, including The Boys Club of Cicero and Cicero Community Collaborative, that have worked hard to provide services to the community throughout the years. The board received a $50,000 grant from the state to fund the Town's lead service pipe inventory. They proposed resolutions to implement vehicle tag software with Third Millennium Associates and upgrade the Town’s Real Time Crime Center with Constant Technologies.
You can access the documents shown in this recap by clicking on these links: October 8 and October 22. For live streams of these meetings, visit our Facebook page.
Permits
The Town passed several permits in October, including for El Valor, who will be tabling to provide information on early childhood education on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 pm-6 pm beginning October 21st through the end of the year. Our Lady, the Mystical Rose, requested permits and street closures for a Day of the Dead event on November 2nd from 12 pm to 11 pm. The Salvation Army will conduct a Red Kettle campaign Monday through Saturday from November 1st through December 24th. SGA Youth and Family Services will be tabling outside their business office, 5620 W. Cermak Road, through the end of the year to provide free clothes, shoes, diapers, and other essentials.
Resolutions
The Town began by setting a 2025 calendar for all the holidays recognized as days off throughout the year. 4,500 gift cards worth $15 were purchased from Tony’s Finer Foods to be handed out to Cicero residents to pay for Thanksgiving meals. The total purchase cost was $54,000. They also approved an invoice worth $21,099.61 to repair a fire truck from Legacy Fire Apparatus. They also renewed the Town’s $25,450.07 membership dues for the West Central Municipal Conference.
The Town also proposed a resolution that would grant Chick-fil-A the ability to add business wall signs and parking stalls at 3035 South Cicero Ave. A new revised biweekly schedule list for the upcoming 2025 Town Hall Meetings was also proposed, detailing the dates for future meetings. The terms of various members of different positions, boards, commissions and/or committees within the Town were extended from October 31 of 2024, to November 30 of 2024. Specific terms of members were not detailed in the October 22 agenda.
The Town also proposed a resolution to work with Third Millennium Associates to provide software and related services to assist the Town and its employees in issuing and organizing pet and vehicle tags. They also propose working with Constant Technologies to upgrade the Town’s Real Time Crime Center and alert messaging systems from Rave Wireless, Inc. The upgrade will cost $271,513.07, according to the October 22 town board meeting agenda. An invoice from the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Academy in the amount of $26,000 was also approved, as it was used to train eight trainees.
The Town approved a $150,000 grant agreement from the State of Illinois to pay for new breathing apparatus for the Cicero Fire Department. The Town requested a $50,000 grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to perform a lead service line inventory with the assistance of the funds provided, and it was approved.
Ordinances
The Town passed an ordinance for adding a stop sign to the intersection of 34th Street and 58th Avenue both east and westbound. There was an ordinance to amend Chapter 22, Section 22-284 of the Town Code, which would state that any person transferring real property within the corporate boundaries of the Town will need to apply to the building commissioner for an inspection of the property being sold and make sure that it is in full compliance of the inspection. According to the agenda, if any violations are found during the inspection, the purchaser must apply for an affidavit to state that they will comply with the necessary repairs.
Citizen Comments
During the October 8 Town Board Meeting, Daniela Ortiz from the Cicero Community Collaborative ended the meeting by thanking the Town of Cicero for the recognition and acknowledged the hard work of all the other organizations and groups that received the same recognition.
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