The federal government is funding 100 percent of the state expansion for the first few years before reducing their contribution to a permanent 90 percent. That's a much higher contribution than the government currently makes for Medicaid (at 57 percent), which every state now participates in, even though it is also an optional
Click on the following for more of the story: Map: Where Obamacare would expand Medicaid most | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
The Belvidere Police Department was awarded $250,000 Monday to add two post-9/11 veteran officers to the ranks.
….He anticipates one officer will have a school resource officer assignment and another will act as a community policing coordinator.
…He anticipates one officer will have a school resource officer assignment and another will act as a community policing coordinator.
Click on the following for more details: Belvidere to hire two police officers - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
Based upon this year’s management letter it appears that few of the recommendations have been carried out despite management promises. Judge for yourself.
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Page 7 through 13 of the 2011 report restates each of the 2010 comments and supplies a current status. For the most part the conditions have not been resolved.
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Note auditor’s report will be given. You may be allowed to ask questions of the auditor.
AGENDA
BELVIDERE TOWNSHIP
MEETING OF THE TOWNSHIP BOARD
8200 Fairgrounds Road
June 26, 2012 – 5:00 P.M.
I. Call to Order / Roll Call
II. Pledge of Allegiance
III. Approval of Prior Meeting’s Minutes
IV. Transfers
V. Reports
a. Supervisor’s Report
b. Highway Commissioner’s Report
c. Assessor’s Report
d. Clerk’s Report
e. Trustee’s Report
VI. Unfinished Business
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a. Gary Kuhl-Auditor
b. Orth Road Bridge
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IX. Treasurer’s Report and Approval of Bills
X. Public Input
XI. Closed Session
XII. Adjournment
* Please note in order to take final action on an item it must be specified on the posted agenda 48 hours in advance of the meeting.
It is time to be no longer a visitor at the County Administration Building but to have a seat at the table. With your help, (prayers) and money perhaps that can happen.
The first order of business is for me to understand your needs and expectations. Please feel free to write or call me: bpysson@gmail.com or 544-5115. I hope to speak to many of you in the near future.
BILL PYSSON
Democratic Candidate
District #1
Boone County Board
See my new blog dedicated to the campaign: http://boonecountywatch.blogspot.com/
I attended last night's county board meeting. Here are a few things you may wish to know and perhaps they will not be picked up by the news media.
1. Approximately $40,000 of bids were accepted by the board to repair the bell tower at the court house. The $40k is well below what was first estimated.
2. A citizen who complained at the zoning commission regarding the "smell" from the special use, nursery in Garden Prairie also spoke at the county board. It appears that the nursery's mulching operations has several violations of IEPA etc. --county enforcement of some of the zoning was questioned by the citizen.
3. A change to the liquor license for Timber Point allowing serving alcohol before 11:00 on Sundays was defeated. Apparently Swan Lake in Poplar Grove has a 9:00 AM start and TP wanted the same or better.
4. A number of appointments were approved in mass, including Mr. Sisson of the Health Department, a very controversial reappointment three years ago because of the health departments payment of alcoholic drinks for interviewees/health board members.
5. Not disclosed at the meeting per se--Mr. Terrinoni told me that at the July 5, 6:30 meeting of the health subcommittee he will be presenting answers to the questions raised by the board members regarding the mulch fire in May, 2012.
Bill Pysson
Religious reasoning shot down a proposal that would have allowed unincorporated Boone County golf courses to start selling booze earlier on Sundays in an attempt to increase business.
The Boone County Board voted 6-6 Wednesday, failing a measure that would have allowed these businesses to begin selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on the property at 6 a.m., rather than 11 a.m
Click on the following for more details: Boone County nixes alcohol code amendment - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
I attended last night's county board meeting. Here are a few things you may wish to know and perhaps they will not be picked up by the news media.
1. Approximately $40,000 of bids were accepted by the board to repair the bell tower at the court house. The $40k is well below what was first estimated.
2. A citizen who complained at the zoning commission regarding the "smell" from the special use, nursery in Garden Prairie also spoke at the county board. It appears that the nursery's mulching operations has several violations of IEPA etc. --county enforcement of some of the zoning was questioned by the citizen.
3. A change to the liquor license for Timber Point allowing serving alcohol before 11:00 on Sundays was defeated. Apparently Swan Lake in Poplar Grove has a 9:00 AM start and TP wanted the same or better.
4. A number of appointments were approved in mass, including Mr. Sisson of the Health Department, a very controversial reappointment three years ago because of the health departments payment of alcoholic drinks for interviewees/health board members.
5. Not disclosed at the meeting per se--Mr. Terrinoni told me that at the July 5, 6:30 meeting of the health subcommittee he will be presenting answers to the questions raised by the board members regarding the mulch fire in May, 2012.
Bill Pysson
Perhaps our anti-Belvidere Township people could learn something from this site.
Click on the following: http://www.mchenrycitizenstaxwatch.org/photos.html
Another Mitt Romney story on using a police uniform in Michigan.
DETROIT -- Long before Mitt Romney became a candidate for president, he was a lanky teenager in Bloomfield Hills with a penchant for practical jokes rather than for politics.
During one such elaborate prank, a young Romney dressed in a uniform, put a flashing light atop a borrowed car, and, impersonating a police officer, pulled up behind a car with two of his friends and their dates.
After a search of the trunk found alcohol bottles, the friends had planted, the girls were shocked. Mitt's two friends sped away, and he gave chase but couldn't keep up.
"It wasn't a very funny joke for them [the girls]," recalled Cranbrook classmate Graham McDonald. "But it was a funny joke
for us."
Belvidere Township trustees, under the leadership of Supervisor Pat Murphy, unanimously passed their two multimillion-dollar appropriations budgets in less than two minutes each with no discussion among members, and refused to let residents discuss the budgets before the vote.
Click on the following to read the entire story: Guest Column: Belvidere Township leaders quash public input on budget
Written by Bob Balgemann
POPLAR GROVE – The village of Poplar Grove intends to bill two companies and North Boone Fire District 2 for the more than 1.2-million gallons of water that was used to fight the recent mulch fire at Illinois 76 and Woodstock Road.
Officials said Tuesday night that Schumacher Landscaping, Northwest Pallet and the fire district also would be charged for the time two village employees spent helping load trucks with water and a village pump that burned up during the emergency.
A letter specifying the charges, written by Village Attorney Roxanne Sosnowski, will be sent out sometime the week of June 3.
The total charge is expected about $200,000, with water accounting for most of it. That portion of the cost will be $1.97 for each 1,000 gallons used.
Click on the following for the entire story: Poplar Grove to bill three for water used to fight mulch fire | Belvidere Daily Republican
Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet
Click on the following to read the entire story: NYT: Obama accelerated cyberattacks against Iran - World news - The New York Times - msnbc.com
