http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ Discussion Forum for Riverside Illinois en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:47:24 +0000 http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled/page/2#post-5010 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:07:50 +0000 MikeT 5010@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>Does anyone know why this meeting was cancelled and-or rescheduled to a later date?</p> <p>Are we still doing the TIF?</p> <p>My friend in town just came in from two weeks away and was bubbling, saying 'congratulations', and 'all politics is local', and 'it just shows that if you keep telling the truth and shining the light and--'</p> <p>Mike: Rick, they're talking about still doing the TIF.</p> <p>Rick: Huh? </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled/page/2#post-5008 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:37:32 +0000 spatny 5008@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>I am told by a reliable source that the meeting of the Dist. 96 school board (to discuss the TIF) which was scheduled for tonight is off. It looks as though the plan is to push it past the May 7th meeting. If the Board goes ahead and approves more money for McKenna on the 7th then we must be wary of a "Special" meeting be called with some speech-stifling rules before the new Trustees are seated. People in town need to know how this is being pushed forward below their horizon. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled/page/2#post-5007 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:31:54 +0000 spatny 5007@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>Bob Uphues had a lady there taking notes - he was covering an event in Brookfield. I assume he will have coverage of this in the next edition. As I posted somewhere else, I was told the people on the Dist. 96 schoolboard thought the issue "was moot" and all over. Surprise! This thing is like a vampire, it rises from the grave when you bury it with votes. Kinda like the tunnel, which is also kicking around. See, this is an unusual Village in more ways than just being an Olmsted Village. Here votes don't count - only egos. Time to get to work folks and spread the word that all is not what it seems... </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled/page/2#post-5003 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:02:07 +0000 Catherine 5003@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>Most people in town may think the TIF matter is over with the referendum result because the Landmark, strangely, had no coverage of the 4/23 meeting. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled/page/2#post-5000 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:43:54 +0000 spatny 5000@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>Unless things change they will do this in one form or another. This is the time to stop this nonsense. And where are the numbers they were going to bring to the schoolboard way back before the election, when Mr. McKenna became ill? Why aren't those being divulged. You can believe what these people say if you want to, but i honestly don't think even ALL the trustees know what is going on. Some appear to be more equal than others. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled/page/2#post-4999 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:00:49 +0000 MikeT 4999@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>How can they ask for $30,000 for Mckenna, which is a company that furthers the TIF, and the Village electorate resoundingly expressed its will that a TIF is not what Riverside should follow?</p> <p>Oh, I see you said that they are going to <em>pass</em> a resolution for this.</p> <p>Let's take this in slow motion.</p> <p>There might be a resolution put forward to the board requesting to allocate $30,000 for McKenna.</p> <p>THEN there would have to be a VOTE by the board for this to pass.</p> <p>If they do this on 5/7, I THINK it would be the last such vote by the current board.+</p> <p>If this is true, I sure hope the Trustees leaving and the Trustees staying keep what is best for Riverside foremost in their minds, and not some misguided quarter baked initiative that the Riverside electorate was quite smart enough to fathom and which it spoke out clearly against.</p> <p>People, since there is apparently a possibility that such an allocation of money might be asked for the TIF, please send a note to our trustees telling them why you think they should not grant more money to the TIF now, and, of course, why they should not vote to do the next step, or in any more steps, in the TIF process.</p> <p>Here are some emails</p> <p><a href="http://www.riversideinfo.org/contact-trustees/" rel="nofollow">http://www.riversideinfo.org/contact-trustees/</a></p> <p>[edited by admin]<br /> .<br /> .</p> <p>+<br /> <a href="http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic.php?id=306&#38;page&#38;replies=6#post-4567" rel="nofollow">http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic.php?id=306&#38;page&#38;replies=6#post-4567</a> </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled#post-4996 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:45:55 +0000 MikeT 4996@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>spatny, did you mean, 'I think, or I fear that they are going to pass a resolution up to $30k for Mckenna...'? </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled#post-4995 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:48:05 +0000 spatny 4995@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>They are going to pass a resolution for up to $30K for McKenna to bring the reduced TIF map up to speeed, cull the numbers, etc. and so that poor Katy can call him again and bat the breeze. Theis senseless waste has got to stop. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled#post-4993 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:43:49 +0000 MikeT 4993@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>I thought I heard Ms Rush say at the 4-23 meeting that the rescheduling of the school meeting will depend on the feedback of the 4-23 meeting. It was hard to hear. Any other people see it on the tele or who were there? Anyone care? If they were looking for loud feedback after they threw out the trial balloon of wanting to go to he JRB step (implied is the vote to turn on the TIF process), I think they did not get it.</p> <p>I agree, everyone on the street comes up to me and says 'congratulations' (the war is over). This is why it is hard to believe what spatny said above that the board is intending to ask for more money to give to Mckenna.</p> <p>McKenna is TIF</p> <p>People said they do not want TIF.</p> <p>The work right now is to try to sit down and really figure out what the people want, and how to get it in a manner that the people want.</p> <p>All we know it is not the way that has been proposed thus far, TOD funded by a TIF, or at least the priorities stated by the TOD.</p> <p>Now let's start working, and not continue to give more money to a TIF consultant.</p> <p>If I had no money in my household, the first thing to do is a moratorium on all but the essentials. </p> http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/district-96-meeting-rescheduled#post-4989 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:30:30 +0000 Catherine 4989@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <p>At the end of the meeting on April 23, Katie Rush said, "I don't know what this does to the meeting on the 30th with the School Board." This was said after the consensus was taken that there would be no up or down vote on the TIF on May 7 and therefore no JRB convened. So, I assumed from that comment that there always was a meeting with the school board planned. </p>