Their decisions — such as hiring a village
trustee as park district director — have come under question and prompted residents to turn to state lawmakers for help.
Not exact matches
Other members will be
Trustee Fred Dewald, who has been serving
as the village liaison to the
Park District, along with Mayor Sandra Gulden, Recreation Department Director Steve Gulden and residents Nancy Aldridge and Karen Madison.
Earlier this week, a resident group started an online petition urging the
park board to rescind the three - year contract naming Plainfield
Trustee Garrett Peck
as executive director
as of July 1.
Park District of Oak
Park trustees discussed at a Thursday meeting allowing owners and their pets to use an 8,000 - square - foot rectangle on the south side of Stevenson
Park as a temporary substitute for a 130,000 - square - foot space at Ridgeland Common.
ELMHURST — The Library board of
trustees has formally approved a deal that will give the
Park District 94,000 square feet of land in the center of Wilder Park, including the Wilder Mansion now used as the library building, in exchange for 35,000 square feet of vacant land in the northwest corner of the park, where library officials will put up a new build
Park District 94,000 square feet of land in the center of Wilder
Park, including the Wilder Mansion now used as the library building, in exchange for 35,000 square feet of vacant land in the northwest corner of the park, where library officials will put up a new build
Park, including the Wilder Mansion now used
as the library building, in exchange for 35,000 square feet of vacant land in the northwest corner of the
park, where library officials will put up a new build
park, where library officials will put up a new building.
Newly - elected commissioners Silosky and Peter Steinys, along with board president Peter Hurtado, have come under criticism since May when the three voted to hire Village
Trustee Garrett Peck
as the
park district's executive director.
A new local ordinance passed at the Tuesday night meeting allows the village to take money contributed to local coffers by developers and distribute it to schools and
parks as village
trustees see fit.
While the
park district does not currently have these responsibilities, some
park trustees clearly see the new village committee
as a threat.
But what's not at issue is that while one village
trustee believes the Grayslake
Park District might
as well be in outer space,
parks employees are simply out of space.
Plainfield residents packed a Plainfield
Park District meeting Tuesday night to voice their objections to the hiring of a village
trustee as the district's executive director.
He recently met with Orland
Park trustees and received their informal approval to use his 45 days of accrued time due plus weekends to run for the office without surrendering his job
as chief.
Trustee Charles Hendrickson wondered why such a long time period was needed,
as the ban on street
parking near Buffalo Grove High School runs only from 7:30 to 10 a.m. school days.
Village Manager Ken Fritz told
trustees, meeting Tuesday night
as the Committee of the Whole, that although the village and
Park District jointly own the state - of - the - art electronic scoreboard under terms of the lease agreement with the Flyers, a temporary waiver of scoreboard ownership will help the team.
Mike O'Neill, the newly elected
trustee who serves
as Park Board treasurer, said he went over financial records dating to the purchase of the golf course land in 1990.
But the mayor said the Village Board would not begin formal consideration of the
park district «s request until
trustees give final approval to the impact fees for District 140,
as they are expected to do on Tuesday.
Village
trustees have approved
Park District plans for the development of 21 acres at Gary and Lies Avenues as a community p
Park District plans for the development of 21 acres at Gary and Lies Avenues
as a community
parkpark.
CAROL STREAM — Village
trustees have approved
Park District plans for the development of 21 acres at Gary and Lies Avenues as a community p
Park District plans for the development of 21 acres at Gary and Lies Avenues
as a community
parkpark.
Village
trustees voted to award the contract for Orland
Park's fixed - rate electricity program to a new supplier, FirstEnergy, at a board meeting Monday,
as long
as the village can reach an agreement with current provider Nordic Energy Services to end its contract May 1, a month early.
Village
Trustee Michael Meben said the recreation center,
as proposed, would be owned by the
Park District but built and run by Arc International.
The petition was handed to Village President Dennis Gallitano
as he led a delegation of
Park District commissioners and village
trustees along the proposed route.
She served 12 years
as a
Park District commissioner, two
as a village
trustee and the last two decades
as mayor and village board president.
It is the purpose of this legislature,
as trustee of the
parks of this county, to assure that existing
park lands are preserved for the purposes for which they have been dedicated and to preserve
park lands for generations to come.
He served
as chair and commissioner of the Adirondack
Park Agency;
as a
trustee of the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, and also worked for the Adirondack Experience (Adirondack Museum).
He has also previously served
as the Public Service Award Chair for Zion Episcopal Church in Douglaston,
as Trustee and Vice President of the Douglaston Civic Association,
as First Vice President and Construction Chair of the Queens Museum,
as Trustee and Transportation Co-Chair of the Flushing Meadows - Corona
Park Corporation and
as Trustee and Vice President of the Bayside Historical Society.
Lasher has taught public policy at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and currently serves on the Boards of
Trustees of the Community Service Society, an anti-poverty organization,
as well
as the Riverside
Park Fund.
He serves
as a director and Treasurer of AAAS,
as a
trustee of The National
Park Foundation, and
as Executive Producer of the film «Second Century.»
NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves
as the
trustee for a network of underwater
parks encompassing more than 600,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters from Washington state to the Florida Keys, and from Lake Huron to American Samoa.
I serve
as a
Trustee of AAAS and of the National
Park Foundation.
The
Park School Board of
Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment, by unanimous vote, of Scott M. Young
as the fourteenth Head of School, effective July 1, 2018.
«Greg is recognized
as a global leader in urban
park transformation and renewal,» said Colin Lind, chair of the Conservancy's Board of
Trustees.
But we went to find out the truth about these mysterious (and unfairly maligned) fish, by asking noted biologists such
as Parks Conservancy
Trustee Dr. John McCosker.
The Yorkshire Sculpture
Park (YSP)
Trustees have appointed Greville Worthington
as their new Chair of the Board of
Trustees.
Palmore also generously donates his time to other volunteer activities including serving on the Chicago Bar Association's Board of Managers, membership on the board of directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the board of
trustees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and
as a former chairman of the Public Arts Advisory Commission of Oak
Park, IL.
Mr. Lippmann lives with his wife and two children in the Village of Munsey
Park in Nassau County, New York, where he was re-elected to a second term
as a
Trustee and was previously appointed
as the Deputy Mayor.