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Live at St. Joseph Village Board, Oct. 27, 2026

We are live at St. Joseph Village Board.

The biggest news of the year. The Halloween proclamation. Trick or Treating is Oct. 31 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The mayor is urging people to pay attention to traffic and safety rules and to have parents accompany them.

Jayne DeLuce is here from Experience C-U.
She is here to give a brief update. She’s talking about how visitors to CU is connecing to St. Joseph.

Now they are discussing the burn boss. So they can burn our brush. #weneedthis

They are making a motion to buy it. They bought it. #Brushpickupwillcontinue #thankthelord

Discussing Solar at the Waste Water treatment plant. So they are ending the agreement with the previous company. Ending that contract was approved.

Now they are discussing entering into a new contract. The village will have no out of pocket cost. This company will purchase materials from the village then they have a price for the panels, ect. Then they will assist in selling the surplus product. The company maintains the solar. “They are the responsible party for maintance and anything that happens in accordance with the agreement. We are basically just purchasing power at a discounted rate,” Joe said.
They are entering into an agreement with this company.

They are discussing changing the liquor licenses to expand hours on Class R licenses.

Discussing start parking within a certain proximity to a stop sign. Basically, near the middle school and high school people are parking close to stop signs. They are going to reach out of the people who brought the complaint to ask them to come to a meeting and discuss it further. Issue is tabled.

They are discussing some zoning board stuff- basically they are continuing a bunch of things until November when the board meets.

Personel policy updates will be discussed at the next meeting. They need to switch to a bi-weekly system.

Matt Wolfersberger has submitted his resignation. The resignation is effective on Nov. 10. Mark King will be submitted as a nominee at the Nov. 10 meeting. This means he will have to run in the December caucus and then the April election.

Meeting adjourned.

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