SV City Council discusses thatch licenses

SPRING VALLEY — Heated contention per a state thatch law pennyless out Monday night during a Spring Valley City Council meeting, with a city’s mayor and aldermen carrying several opinions on a subject.

According to state law, thatch contractors are compulsory to have a permit in sequence to work. This creates a problem for a city of Spring Valley, whose supervision is not certain how to make this law.

Mayor Cliff Banks does not wish to send a city building examiner around looking for people thatch though licenses, though he told a legislature that if a examiner should occur to see anyone operative on a roof, afterwards they should be asked to yield a correct paperwork. The mayor was transparent that he does not privately determine with a state law, though insisted that he would make it if he had to. He also combined that he has friends who are entirely competent to do thatch work, though can't do so though a licenses.

Alderman Walter Marini disagreed with a mayor, observant that a city should work harder to make a state law. With courtesy to thatch licenses, Marini indicated his support of gripping them.

“I don’t see because it’s a problem,” Marini said. “They can get a license.”

In sequence to get a thatch license, one contingency compensate a $125 price and take an exam, and Marini did not feel that this was too formidable a charge for thatch contractors to undertake.

In addition, Alderman Daniel McFadden wondered either or not a city could face a vast excellent or a lawsuit for not operative harder to make a law.

Also in a meeting, a legislature was addressed by Tom Wall from a Better Fishing Association of Northern Illinois, that is co-sponsoring a 26th annual kid’s fishing contest today, Saturday. This eventuality is free, and will be hold during IM Canal’s Lock 14 in LaSalle. Registration starts during 8 a.m. and fishing will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. Participants should move their possess tackle, along with one stick and one hook, and no synthetic lures. Banks himself is an zealous fisherman and pronounced that this eventuality is really important. The eventuality is being sponsored by a Better Fishing Association of Northern Illinois, a Illinois Department of Natural Resources, a Illinois Valley Sunrise Rotary Club and a LaSalle Rotary Club. The Spring Valley City Council donated $300 to a event.

In other business, a council:

• Discussed a preference to stay with a stream health word devise for city
employees.

• Approved an bidding amending territory 3-10-7 (C) and (D) of a Spring Valley City Code.

• Approved a bid of Brandt Builders for $54,531 for a Greenwood and Pulaski streets spotless cesspool replacement.

• Approved a Prevailing Wage Rate Ordinance.

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