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ALERT! Feb. 5 Special Meeting REVISED Agenda ALERT!

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  1. spatny
    Member

    Here is the agenda for Mon. night. I urge all to read it carefully - very carefully.

    SPECIAL VILLAGE
    BOARD MEETING

    The Riverside Village Board of Trustees has scheduled a Special Public meeting to discuss Ordinance Authorizing Advisory Question Of Public Policy To Be Placed On Ballot Whether To Reconsider Central Business District Zoning and Eliminate Commercial Space,

    Ordinance Authorizing Advisory Question Of Public Policy Be Placed On Ballot Whether A Special Service Area Tax Should Be Established To Support Central Business District Improvements,

    Ordinance Authorizing Advisory Question Of Public Policy To Be Placed On Ballot Whether A Property Tax Rate Increase Should Be Proposed To Support Central Business District Improvements

    and An Ordinance Providing For And Requiring The Submission Of The Proposition Of Issuing General
    Obligation Bonds To The Voters Of The Village Of Riverside, Cook County, Illinois At The General Election To Be Held On The 17th Day of April, 2007. The meeting will be held on Monday, February 5, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 4 of the Town Hall.

    __________________________
    Kathleen F. Rush
    Village Manager

    REVISED AGENDA
    1. Call to Order

    2. Roll Call
    President
    Harold J. Wiaduck
    Village Trustees
    Cindy Gustafson William Scanlon
    Candice Grace John Scully
    Thomas Shields Kevin Smith

    3. Ordinance Authorizing Advisory Question Of Public Policy To Be Placed On Ballot Whether To
    Reconsider Central Business District Zoning And Eliminate Commercial Space.

    4. Ordinance Authorizing Advisory Question Of Public Policy to Be Placed On Ballot Whether A Special
    Service Area Tax Should Be Established To Support Central Business District Improvements

    5. Ordinance Authorizing Advisory Question Of Public Policy To Be Placed On Ballot Whether A Property Tax Rate Increase Should Be Proposed To Support Central Business District Improvements

    6. An Ordinance Providing For And Requiring The Submission Of The Proposition Of Issuing General
    Obligation Bonds To The Voters Of The Village Of Riverside, Cook County, Illinois At The General
    Election To Be Held On The 17th Day of April, 2007.

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 20:52 #

  2. Catherine
    Member

    Whether To Reconsider Central Business District Zoning And Eliminate Commercial Space.

    Anyone care to translate?

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 21:20 #

  3. Catherine
    Member

    Kim J: Who was the person at the Illinois Attorney General's office you emailed to get the last opinion from them about compliance with the Open Meetings Act? Do you have the contact name? Thanks.

    By the way, if one subscribes to Board Meeting alerts, should this not come from the village by email, even if a 4:59:59pm?

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 21:21 #

  4. ChrisHajer
    Member

    Catherine, I am obviously not KimJ, but here is the contact info from the "quorum on the forum" thread:

    Terry Mutchler
    Public Access Counselor
    Assistant Attorney General

    "Public Access Counselor Terry Mutchler can be reached at 217-524-1503, or by writing to her at the Attorney General's Springfield office at 500 S. Second Street, Springfield, IL 62705. She can also be reached by fax at 217-785-2551."

    Also, I noted in your previous post:

    OK, thanks. spatny, I see the Open Meetings Act requires 48 hours notice AND notice in each news medium that has filed a request for such notice. Are these Special Meetings noticed in the papers?

    So, the Landmark will get a copy, but it can only be online, not in the paper, before meeting time. I wonder if it will make it in the Suburban Life tomorrow morning?

    Also, this PDF on the village site was created at 4:22 PM today, FYI.

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 21:25 #

  5. Catherine
    Member

    Chris, yes, it will be in the local paper tomorrow. That's the way they did it last time. Thanks for the contact. I don't know what this pdf view is, but I know I did not get an email about this meeting, or about the regular board meeting on the 3d Monday of Jan.

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 21:27 #

  6. ChrisHajer
    Member

    The PDF view I showed just has the time the document was created, in case it's important. That's all. Not sure when it made it onto the website.

    update: it was posted on the website at 4:22:45 today

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Cache-Control: max-age=3600
    Content-Length: 21388
    Content-Type: application/pdf
    Last-Modified: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:22:45 GMT

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 21:28 #

  7. Catherine
    Member

    Yes, right, I got you Chris. I just emailed the Attorney General's Office. It is time for this nonsense to stop.

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 21:34 #

  8. corbi328
    Member

    Mr. Spatny,

    I have read this very carefully, Now what? I think it is pretty obvious what this means. I am curious, what do you think it means?

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 22:58 #

  9. MikeT
    Member

    corbi328 -

    You said you know what it means. Please clarify it for me. No joke. In the spirit of the forum of trying to tease out the underlying meaning, please clarify. I don't know what it means.

    It seems confusing. If this is their intent, they might be successful. That is a bad thing if they are intentionally trying to confuse the electorate, those that are ABOVE THEM according to THEIR OWN ORG CHART. Imagine if I tried to deliberately tried to confuse my boss at work. It is something like wd be done in a Desplaines, Rosemont, or Chicago Hts., or Cicero.

    The referendum question that has been proposed on this website is simply one that is a logical response to the TIF proposal that the village started.

    to wit...

    1.) Village admin: Issues a TIF proposal

    2.) Electorate: advisory vote on the TIF proposal

    seems reasonable

    .
    3.) now we have these other questions about SSA, eliminating the cbd, and something about a tax increase to fund cbd improvements.

    what ssa?
    what improvements?
    eliminating the cbd?
    huh? Where did they come from? I have not seen them presented.

    (1) and (2) were understandable. (3) is surreal - there were never details on these items. Why don't they add another question on whether to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day?

    thanks for any clarification.

    miket

    Posted Friday Feb 2, 2007 23:40 #

  10. corbi328
    Member

    MikeT,

    With all due respect, I think the referendum question that was put on the ballot through the petition process is terrible. Ignoring the fact that this issue can't be done justice through one question, the wording on the question that was proposed is so generic and lacks even the bare minimum of specificity necessary to get even the slightest sense of how Village residents feel about the proposal on the table. As far as the topics on the agenda for the special meeting are concerned, I think it is safe to say that the agenda gives you an indication of the type of advisory questions the Village is thinking about submitting. Remember, when this special meeting was being discussed at the last Board meeting, it was clearly stated that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss alternative questions that could be put on the ballot. I think the agenda topics outline alternatives to the TIF that the Board would like residents to consider.

    I suspect Mr. Spatny's antenna went up because of the last item on the agenda which is the most interestingly worded question.

    Posted Saturday Feb 3, 2007 07:30 #

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