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the Mokena Messenger | May 4, 2017 | 3<br />
Mokena Village Board<br />
ComEd to return as<br />
electrical power supplier<br />
Jon DePaolis<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Mokena residents enrolled<br />
in the Village’s electrical aggregation<br />
program will soon<br />
notice a change on their bill.<br />
Assistant Village Administrator<br />
Kirk Zoellner gave<br />
an update during the April<br />
24 Village of Mokena Board<br />
of Trustees meeting that the<br />
Village is suspending its<br />
electrical aggregation program<br />
this summer.<br />
Zoellner said the electrical<br />
program was started in<br />
2012, when Mokena residents<br />
approved a referendum<br />
to allow the board to<br />
bid the residents’ and qualified<br />
small businesses’ electrical<br />
power supply on the<br />
open market.<br />
“We have [ridden] that<br />
wave the last five years, and<br />
the average Mokena household<br />
that has been enrolled<br />
in this program for the duration<br />
of it has realized an<br />
average of $418 in savings,”<br />
Zoellner said. “... For the<br />
community as a whole, we<br />
estimate the savings to be<br />
around $2.6 million.”<br />
Zoellner said the experience<br />
with the program has<br />
been good, but times have<br />
changed.<br />
“The power supply market<br />
has corrected itself over time,<br />
and we thought this would<br />
happen when we got into<br />
the program,” Zoellner said.<br />
“What we are now finding is<br />
that ComEd’s power supply<br />
costs are now very competitive<br />
with alternate suppliers.”<br />
Recently, Village Board<br />
members made a decision to<br />
suspend the aggregation program,<br />
beginning with July<br />
meter reads.<br />
“Customers with the aggregation<br />
program will go<br />
Round it up<br />
A brief recap of action and discussion at the April 24<br />
meeting of the Mokena Village Board.<br />
• Mokena trustees also voted 6-0 to approve a twoyear<br />
contract — with a mutual option for renewal<br />
on a third year — with Clarke Environmental, of St.<br />
Charles, for mosquito control. The Village is to spend<br />
$18,714.80 for 2017 mosquito control, and $19,096<br />
in 2018 — for a total of $37,810.80.<br />
• Trustees also voted 6-0 to approve the appointment<br />
of Rob Dauphinais to the Planning Commission.<br />
Dauphinais replaces Richard Cantwell, who resigned<br />
from the commission earlier this year.<br />
• Trustees voted 6-0 to approve a special event<br />
request from the Mokena Baseball/Softball<br />
Association, so the organization may hold its annual<br />
parade on June 4, as well as use the McGovney Street<br />
parking lot.<br />
• Trustees voted to approve a solicitation request from<br />
the Frankfort-Mokena American Legion Post 2000 for<br />
its annual Poppy Days fundraising efforts May 19-20.<br />
back to ComEd for their<br />
power supply at that time,”<br />
Zoellner said.<br />
He said the transition back<br />
to ComEd should be “fairly<br />
seamless,” but added that the<br />
Village Board retains the option<br />
of going back out to bid<br />
for power supply services if<br />
the market changes — as a<br />
result of the referendum vote<br />
from 2012.<br />
Trustees approve revisions<br />
to signage definitions<br />
Also during the meeting,<br />
trustees voted 6-0 to approve<br />
changes to the Village’s signage<br />
ordinance.<br />
Director of Economic<br />
and Community Development<br />
Alan Zordan said the<br />
discussion began last year<br />
after a request from Accelerate<br />
Indoor Speedway for<br />
a freestanding monument<br />
sign along Interstate 80 that<br />
would have “changing images,”<br />
also known as “dynamic<br />
displays.”<br />
Zordan said Village code,<br />
at the time, did not provide<br />
for that, so an ad hoc sign<br />
committee was established.<br />
After several meetings<br />
to determine what types of<br />
signs would be appropriate,<br />
their findings were presented<br />
to the Village Board at an<br />
October 2016 meeting.<br />
“At that time, the Village<br />
Board reached a consensus<br />
that the dynamic display<br />
signs would be acceptable<br />
only along I-80 and only as<br />
special uses on a case-bycase<br />
basis,” Zordan said.<br />
In March, the Planning<br />
Commission also held a<br />
public hearing on the matter<br />
and agreed with the Village<br />
Board’s direction.<br />
“This second sign along<br />
I-80 would be a special use,<br />
because it would typically<br />
be larger than what our ordinance<br />
provides for,” Zordan<br />
said.<br />
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