2021-05-26 - Commission for Residents with Disabilities - Minutes RICK KAHEN COMMISSION FOR RESIDENTS WITH
C'A N DISABILITIES
" y Wednesday, May 26, 2021
7:00pm call to order via Zoom:
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I. Welcome & Call to Order at 7:05pm
• Motion: Marty Sussman
• Second: Mark Weiner
II. Roll Call
• Members Present: Lexi Robinson, Mark Weiner, Marty Sussman, Dean
Klassman, Debbie Verson, Judy Samuels, Jack Shapiro, Beth Shapiro
• Members Absent: Leo Njongmeta, Larry Sweica, Donna Garfield, David Morton
• Trustee Liaisons Present: Les Ottenheimer, Andy Stein
• Also Present: Staff Liaison Evan Michel
• Guests Present: Candi Kahen, Allie Zalay
III. Chair Vote to allow Judy Samuels to be acting chair until officially approved by
Village Board
• Motion: Debbie Verson
• Second: Mark Weiner
• In Favor: All
• Opposed: None
• Motion approved
IV. Approval of Minutes: 03/22/2021 (special meeting)
• Motion: Marty Sussman
• Second: Mark Weiner
• In Favor: All
• Opposed: None
• Motion approved
V. Chair Report
• Welcome back to the Commission Andy and Les!
• Feel free to reach out to Judy with anything we may need, please refrain from
calling late at night, Judy also checks email regularly (but not hourly, please be
patient when waiting for a reply)
• First official meeting as the newly renamed Rick Kahen Commission for
Residents with Disabilities!
VI. Trustee(s) report
• Andy- back and excited to be a part of the Commission!
• Les - excited to be back, thank you to Judy for stepping up to be our Chair!
VII. Staff Liaison report
Vill. Sub-Committee report
• Buffalo Grove Days - Debbie Verson
• Details are changing rapidly
• 3 main components = carnival, entertainment, and fireworks
• Only event at the current venue is the carnival
■ Spreadout, taking over the area where the food tents are
■ No tables, no chairs, no where to eat
■ Carnival is 5 days (Thursday-Monday)- it is in the contract that we
have 1.5 hours donated by the carnival for Fun & Food event
■ There will be no tent
■ There will be bathrooms (including accessible bathrooms) - there
is talk of potentially adding additional cleaning people
• Food trucks are questionable
• Entertainment may be at Willow Stream Park, but it may not be - this is
still up in the air, could possibly be at Mike Rylko park
• No golf carts have currently been ordered
• For Fun & Food - we are responsible for set up and take down, $0 budget
■ Recommended no DJ for the event as no other entertainment will
be available at that venue
■ Any food we get will need to be donated, there won't be a set up
for us to utilize
■ Could we do a snack bag at check-in rather than a meal?
• Is the carnival taking extra precautions for COVID?
■ Evan is reaching out to check
• Do we still want to host the Fun & Food event?
■ Motion for a vote on having only the carnival with no food and no
Buddy Baseball:
• Motion: Lexi Robinson
• Second: Marty Sussman
• In Favor: Mark, Debbie (with waiver), Lexi, Jack, Dean,
Beth, Judy
Opposed: Marty
Abstain: None
Motion approved; we will have 1.5 hour of Fun (no food, no
additional entertainment) and no Buddy Baseball
• Will we need to do registration and do a waiver regarding COVID?
■ We can keep people in their cars and do registration from cars
■ Les will follow up with Dane regarding this and Evan will follow up
with legal counsel
• Courtesy Shuttles (there will be no buses this year)
■ Should we have courtesy shuttles this year? - currently none have
been ordered
■ Motion to table Courtesy Shuttle discussion until June meeting
• Motion: Debbie Verson
• Second: Dean Klassman
• In Favor: All
• Opposed: None
• Motion approved
• Fitness Center will have a mix of handicap parking and general parking
• Buddy Baseball - Dean Klassman
• Park District Event to dedicate the park to Rick Drazner
• Dean wants to also dedicate the game to Rick Drazner, Rick Kahen, and
Jacob Grossman on Sunday, July 10, 2021 @ 11:30am is the dedication,
game to begin 12pm - Dean has already reached out to Lou Malnati's
about donating pizza
■ We can serve pizza to participants while they are socially
distanced
■ Debbie will reach out to Culver's about donating individual ice
creams for the game
■ Mark will work with Walgreens to get donations of bottled water for
the baseball game and for the Fun carnival event (500 water
bottles for both events)
■ Motion to have the game co-sponsoring by the CRD
Motion: Jack Shapiro
• Second: Lexi Robinson
• In Favor: Judy, Marty, Mark, Lexi, Jack, Beth, Dean
• Opposed: None
Abstain: Debbie
• Motion approved
o Could we also get shirts?
■ CRD has $300 budgeted this year from the Village, we also have
$2700 in the 501 C3
■ Motion to spend up to $300 on shirts for the event
• Motion: Mark Weiner
• Second: Marty Sussman
In Favor: All
• Opposed: None
Abstain: None
Motion approved
■ 75 shirts, roughly $3 a shirt
■ Evan will look into if we have a relationship with a shirt vendor to
get bids
■ Lexi will ask her husband about being the DJ at the game
o No buddy baseball game the Thursday of BG Days this year
• Bowling with Buddies - Mark Weiner
• 6-8pm on October 21, 2021
• Partner with Rotary again
• Halloween theme, come in costumes for bowling
• Email to previous bowling participants and schools/organizations sooner
rather than later with a Save the Date
• August 21, 2021 set it up online and email invitations to everyone
■ Include waiver for participating and for photos
• Wristbands for players to get shoes and balls
• $5 fee for other individuals wanted to buy food
• Bowlero will give us all 32 lanes
• In the past we have had chicken fingers, pizza, soda (do we want to do
this?)
• In the past each Rotary and CRD each donated $500 to host the event
• Do we want sponsors for the event? Who would they make the check out
to?
■ Checks made out to the Buffalo Grove Community Foundation in
memo put in "For Bowling with Buddies" (the 501C3) - Evan will
help manage this process
• Motion to participate and contribute $500 to Bowling with Buddies
■ Motion: Jack Shapiro
■ Second: Marty Sussman
■ In Favor: All
■ Opposed: None
■ Abstain: None
■ Motion approved
o Motion to vote on a $100 minimum for sponsorship, setup a sponsors
table, sponsor a lane "name the lane" after the sponsor with a sign (Evan
will work with the sign shop to get the details on pricing), and allow
solicitation of sponsors
■ Motion: Jack Shapiro
■ Second: Dean Klassman
■ In Favor: All
■ Opposed: None
■ Abstain: None
■ Motion approved
IX. Commissioner Reports
• None
X. Unfinished Business
• Review 3 brochures designed for distribution at our events: (Buddy Baseball, Fun
& Food, Bowling w/Buddies)
o We have printed some brochures in the past, Brain Sheehan was looking
for them
o We need to make a few changes and modifications
■ Logo, member list
XI. New Business
• Update our Commission Logo to reflect our new name
o Motion to keep the same logo and update to reflect the name Rick Kahen
Commission for Residents with Disabilities
■ Motion: Mark Weiner
■ Second: Lexi Robinson
■ In Favor: All
■ Opposed: None
■ Abstain: None
■ Motion approved
• Vice Chair
o Marty showed interest in being Vice Chair
o Motion to approve a Vice Chair
■ Motion: Mark Weiner
■ Second: Debbie Verson
■ In Favor: All
■ Opposed: None
■ Abstain: None
■ Motion approved
o Motion to approve Marty Sussman as Vice Chair
■ Motion: Dean Klassman
■ Second: Beth Shapiro
■ In Favor: All
■ Opposed: None
■ Abstain: None
■ Motion approved
• Future meeting dates for 2021
o Ideally the fourth Wednesday of the month
o Consider: should we have a meeting in November and December? Or
should we meet earlier in those months?
o Motion to table discussion for the next meeting
■ Motion: Marty Sussman
■ Second: Beth Shapiro
■ In Favor: All
■ Opposed: None
■ Abstain: None
■ Motion approved
XII. Good and Welfare
• None
XIII. Adjournment at 8:53pm
• Motion: Dean Klassman
• Second: Beth Shapiro
• In Favor: All
• Opposed: None
• Motion approved
Next Meeting June 23, 2021
The Village of Buffalo Grove, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, requests that
persons with disabilities, who require certain accommodations to allow them to observe and/or
participate in this meeting or have questions about the accessibility of the meeting or facilities, contact
the ADA Coordinator at(847) -459-2525 to allow the Village to make reasonable accommodations for
those persons.