Representatives from the Elmhurst Park District, City of Elmhurst, and School District 205 were in attendance in addition to the engineers from Burke Engineering and V3 Engineering.
The group reviewed and discussed the City Council’s July 28 approval of its Stormwater Project Prioritization and the subsequent formal requests, dated August 14, that were sent to both the Park District and School District which included a requested approval date by each respective board of September 30, 2014.
Discussion then took place concerning a number of points related to York Commons. The first was the necessity of the east lobe given its relatively minor impact in helping to provide protection. A second was the possibility of providing an inlet to the detention basin from the east of Cayuga, in addition to the inlet from the west end. Finally, discussion took place concerning the proposed overflow for the basin and how it might function. The City then expressed their desire, pending approval, to undertake further engineering over the next six months and begin construction in spring 2015. Park District staff noted that, if an agreement were to be reached, construction would not be able to begin until September after the completion of the pool season because it would not be possible to undertake a major construction project with hundreds of patrons entering and exiting the park and parking lot each day in the summer, nor would the Park District be able to close the pool for the entire summer.
