Dupage Policy Journal

The city council of Addison recognized some local youth for their artistic talent.

“As a parent myself, I carry my kid's art everywhere, so I know how proud you must be that your child's pictures and photographs and everything else will be displayed in the village for everybody to see,” Marko Lazik, an officer for the Addison City Police Department, said during the meeting. “As I'm actually wearing some of my kid's work right now on me, so it's a great pleasure for me to be able to come out here and be the one giving your children a certificate and being able to help hang up the art that will be in our lobby and everything else.”

The council uploaded a livestream of its public meeting to the village’s website channel.

The Addison police department recently started an initiative with the local elementary schools to have students draw pictures relating to police in the community. They did this in order to increase community relations, particularly between the youth and law enforcement, and also to have some artwork to decorate the city’s police station.

The council also discussed a resolution of an amendment to the solid waste collection and disposal agreement with Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC.

One of the officers from the department, Lazik, presented some of the artists to the city council and issued them certificates commemorating their contribution to the police department. Students of the fifth grade DARE program submitted their designs, and the chosen winners had their art hung in the police department lobby.

The council will meet again at 7 p.m. on Monday at 1 Friendship Plaza.

Officer Lazik and the council recognized Cara Barkhou, Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Helinski, Daniel Ramirez, and Rilee Solesky, from Stone School; and Cecilia Fisher, Shihab Morina, Alayna O'Donnell, Liani Rodriguez, and Nina Ungaro, from Wesley School. They were brought up before the council and got to take pictures with the board members. The police department proudly posted pictures of their artwork a few days later, hung up on the lobby wall.