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Trustee TIF Workshops

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  1. spatny
    Member

    The Trustees will have workshops on April 14 & 28 to discuss the TIF. I am requesting under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act a copy of their "packets" so that we, as concerned residents of the Village, will be able to know what documentation they are using to reach whatever decison they may come to. (Copy of request below, which was placed in the Village mailbox today.)

    April 9, 2007

    Ms. Kathleen Rush
    Village Manager
    Village of Riverside
    Riverside, Illinois 60546

    Dear Ms. Rush:

    This is a request for information under the State of Illinois' Freedom of Information Act.

    1) Please provide a copy of all documents, summaries and other papers intended for the Village Trustees to use in their deliberations at their TIF Workshops scheduled for April 14 and 28, 2007. (Essentially a copy of their “packet— for each of these meetings.)

    Since this material is intended for the education of the public as to how the results of these meetings are arrived at I request that these papers be supplied at no charge. Also, please advise what the format of these meetings will be, if the public is invited and if there will be any opportunity for public participation. Thank you.

    Please let me know when the documents will be available and feel free to call me with any questions.

    Sincerely,

    Donald Spatny

    Posted Saturday Apr 7, 2007 13:41 #

  2. MikeT
    Member

    I know my name will now appear on the last poster line, but I am going to say it is worth it to say

    Thank you, Donald Spatny, for asking for this info and, in general, for sticking up, like a Nail, to ask those questions. It is hard and time consuming to not only to keep track of the details, but to stand up and ask hard questions of those in authority.

    It is always nicer and easier to be liked.

    Posted Saturday Apr 7, 2007 14:06 #

  3. spatny
    Member

    My wife and I drove down Pine today and she asked me where you lived. I pointed out your home and she said it looked like a happy place and perfectly Riverside. Are you listening, Feathers?

    Posted Saturday Apr 7, 2007 19:12 #

  4. MikeT
    Member

    spatny, please let us know when you get the info packets.

    Posted Monday Apr 9, 2007 00:00 #

  5. spatny
    Member

    I expect that will be Friday late, if I get them at all.

    Posted Monday Apr 9, 2007 11:31 #

  6. Catherine
    Member

    These workshops are open to the public, are they not? Once I did not go to the "taxing bodies" workshop, thinking it was private to them, only to find out that members of the public were there.

    So I imagine this would be open to the public under the Open Meetings Act. Someone will advise me if calling something a workshop gives it special status.

    These would, I believe, be the Board discussions regarding the TIF that I have been wondering why we have not yet heard, considering the great length of our discussions.

    I have written to Ms Rush inquiring of the time and location of these meetings, as I do not see them on the board calendar.

    Spatny, how did you find out about them? I am sure we would all want to listen to the discussions with great interest.

    Posted Monday Apr 9, 2007 12:19 #

  7. Catherine
    Member

    Spatny, I made a new thread about this so visitors - and we - will have the dates and times indelibly impressed in our minds!

    Posted Monday Apr 9, 2007 13:52 #

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