The Plainfield Village Board met Monday, July 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in the Village Boardroom, 24401 W. Lockport Street, Plainfield, Illinois. The board approved its agenda and consent calendar, approved the 2026 Moldova Sports Festival, extended and awarded public works contracts, and authorized a police utility vehicle purchase. The meeting ended with a unanimous vote to enter executive session under the Open Meetings Act to discuss real property, not to reconvene.
But I was not like Thursday later in the Thursday night. Okay, we're gonna call the meeting to order. Um Ms. Gibbus, Roll Call, please. Trusty Paniker, Trusty Bruin. Here, Trusty Sula. Here, Trusty Wojowski, Trusty Knucci, here, Trusty Keefer. Present Mayor Gadellis. Yes, we'll stand for the pledge, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for thank you and welcome everyone. It is our July 20th meeting. Um presidential comments. I will not steal too much of the thunder from some of our trustees here, but I attended Plainfield Fest, and I will tell you, I thought that it was really well done at the new venue. I think the um the band area and the beer garden really worked really well. People were able to bring their sling chairs and hang out in the grass and enjoy the music and everything. Um, so I think that was really well done. We had a lot going on this weekend. We also had our Plainfield players had their production of the dining room, and that went very successfully too. And then yesterday was the Rotary Club's duck drop. So it was a jam-pamped weekend, but I think there was plenty of fun things for people to do. I will say that with the new location for Plainfield Fest, I heard a lot of positive feedback from Lockport Street restaurants. They felt that uh, you know, not being in the downtown helped them have a normal weekend. Sometimes that was one of their concerns they expressed. But um, I'm gonna pass it right on to Ms. Benucci, the head of the Riverfront Foundation. I know she wants to give an update, but from my personal opinion, I think it worked really well. Maybe a couple bugs to work out, but really good for a first effort out there. Well, thank you very much for your kind comments. I I would have to agree we had we had a couple of uh bumps of the road, but we want to focus on the positives. I think um our moving there was great. People are people like, why are you downtown not in downtown anymore? We outgrew it. You got to remember when we were running Plainfield Fest downtown, all these businesses didn't exist, or many of them didn't. So now, if when we're there, we're taking up so much space, so much parking, all the different things, and then spread it out all over. So it really we really want to thank um Carl Capalbo and the board of the park district for giving us a chance out there. Um we we've got a whole report that's gonna be coming, not tonight, but when we get the finalized numbers, but I I just want to say what a group of people and right now I just want to embarrass Tom Rwain because I'll tell you what, if we didn't have Tom Rowane and Dave Shellhammer doing all that they did for this fest, it would not have happened. It's just that simple. I mean, it's very complex, it's not as easy as just saying we're gonna set up some tents or we're gonna do this or hire a band. It was phenomenal, and without their expertise, their hard work, and the whole committee. But Tom is here right now, and I really wanted to focus on him for that because he does the Irish parade as well. And it it just was amazing. But the whole group of people, everybody had a job, everybody figured it out. I don't know how we all figured it out, but really what a great group of people, and we want to thank the community for coming out, supporting us and giving us a chance. Thank you. Well, thank you, Trustee Banucci, and obviously my arm was long enough, so I'd be patting you on the back as well, because we could have not done this without Mrs. Banucci. Uh and more actually almost more importantly, and I she's nodding her head, her grandson and his crew, these teenagers that came and worked all weekend huffing garbage. That's all these kids did. Didn't complain once about it.