Launched on July 7, the campaign is working to gather signatures of support from 10,000 individuals and 500 businesses by Aug. 31.
The rail coalition has collected approximately 4,600 signatures as of Monday, Aug. 17. It is collecting signatures by directing the public to an electronic petition on its Web site,
The Belvidere Daily Republican. - Campaign for regional rail reaches halfway point
We all agree home prices were down in 2008—but wait until you see your assessment.
Supervisor of Assessments Pat Elder said the cost of mailing every property owner an assessment notice was deemed too expensive “This year we won’t (send a notice) if the change is only because of the multiplier.”
Fewer Boone County tax assessments to be mailed - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
The Integrated Mini Grant Enforcement money will be used by the department to pay off-duty Belvidere officers to work overtime in various assignments patrolling high-crash intersections, seat belt enforcement zones at traffic-light and stop-sign intersections, residential speeding patrols and downtown patrols.
State grant to help pay OT to Belvidere cops - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
The Belvidere Area Chamber of Commerce is participating in the Regional Business Expo 2009, along with Chambers of Commerce from Rockford, DeKalb, Freeport, Byron, Greater Beloit, Oregon, The Parks and Winnebago.
The Belvidere Daily Republican. - Regional Business Expo 2009 coming Sept. 10
I did some look-back on what DeKalb County might do with the public portion of the Recovery Zone Bonds. [Previously posted here as: http://boonecountywatchdog.blogspot.com/2009/08/public-hearing-on-countywide-recovery.html ]
Well Boone County Taxpayers you better get ready-- the 6 figure income from DeKalb prisoners being housed in Boone County maybe in jeopardy.
DeKalb County pays the jail at Boone County sufficiently, that over $125,000 in net income is budgeted as annual income by Boone County. That income will be gone soon if DeKalb can add onto its own jail.
The DeKalb County Board’s Finance Committee made a recommendation to the county board to have that zone include the whole county, with an intention to finance building expansions to both the jail and the courthouse on the county’s Sycamore campus.
County officials have grappled with an overcrowded jail and courthouse for years. In July, the county board authorized administrators to begin working on a capital funding plan for the courthouse and jail, with the idea to sell bonds to finance the new construction
Click on the following for the rest of the story: County might bond expansions to courthouse, jail through stimulus | Daily Chronicle
28th plaintiff in the McCullom Lake brain cancer lawsuits
The lawsuits blame the cancers on decades of vinyl chloride air and groundwater pollution from neighboring manufacturers Rohm and Haas and Modine.
Modine settled in 2008, denying any culpability but agreeing to pay $1.4 million toward medical monitoring and $100,000 toward property value reimbursement. The 695 residents received vouchers for $2,020 apiece to pursue any screenings their doctors consider appropriate. Centegra Health System agreed earlier this year to offer significant discounts for MRIs funded under the settlement.
Rohm and Haas continues to fight the lawsuits in court.
The new FOIA shortens the time that governments have to respond to records requests. It also empowers the attorney general’s public access counselor with binding authority to enforce the act, and for the first time imposes civil penalties for governments that willfully violate it.
