Friday, May 24, 2013
The Lincoln-Way Board of Education voted to hire teachers and reported on tax disbursements.
The Lincoln-Way High School Board of Education hired nine new teachers and an aquatics assistant supervisor for LW-North High School at the regular meeting May 23 at Lincoln-Way West High School, 21701 Gougar Road. Deputy Supt. Thomas Eddy selected new teaching staff to cover a variety of subject areas. New Hires: The district's new aquatics assistant supervisor is Lauren Hurley. Financial updates Supt. Lawrence Wyllie told board members that the district received $2.2 million in tax disbursements, bringing the total fund balance to $4.2 million. Before the month is out, he expects another $15-to-$18 million in tax disbursement payments from the office of Will County Treasurer Steve Weber. "It's a little better than last year," he added, …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
County President Toni Preckwinkle is asking 1,500 inmates be transferred to home-monitoring, to prevent an overcrowding crisis, ABC7 reports.
Cook County Jail is nearly full to bursting. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is asking the detention center to reduce its 10,000+ population by 1,500 because there is not enough money to pay for them, ABC7 reports. At its current rate of admissions, the prison is poised to exceed its 10,150-prisoner capacity "within days." "The population I had today is what I'd normally have at the worst time of the year," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told ABC7. "You can't sustain that. My overtime budget is exploding right now, absolutely exploding. I'm already close to going through what I was supposed to do for the whole year." To prevent overcrowding, Preckwinkle proposes that by mid-summer, 1,500 prisoners be transferred to home …
Friday, September 30, 2011
A salary increase is in the works for teachers in some local schools next fiscal year.
Unlike many Illinois school districts, Consolidated High School District 230 is beginning its 2012 Fiscal Year "in the black." The district's board passed that $121 million budget Thursday night during its regular meeting at Victor J. Andrew High School. Assistant Superintendent for Business Steve Langert, who presented it, pointed out that the combined operating funds and working cash funds of $52.3 million make up 44 percent of the budgeted operating expenses for FY2012. With Cook County tax bills likely being collected a month earlier this year, he doesn't anticipate any cash flow issues, he said. The district’s operating revenue is expected to increase 1.1 percent from last year, nearly matching the projected expenses for this year. …
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Citing safety issues, members accepted a bid that would create a canopy over the backstop on two of the junior high's baseball fields.
Members of Summit Hill School Board District 161 approved a bid Wednesday to improve fencing to Summit Hill Junior High School's baseball fields but delayed work on the fields' dugouts and electrical systems. The boad accepted a bid for about $27,000 from Do All Fence Co. that would create a new canopy over the backstop of the fields to protect people from foul balls. However, a bid of about $52,000 from another firm to make improvements on the dugouts was rejected. Board members agreed that addressing the safety of fans and players was paramount and that work on the dugouts could wait. "I'm very reluctant to spend $52,000 on dugouts at this time," said Board President Mary Kenny. Board member Denise Lenz echoed that sentiment, saying the…
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Summit Hill Junior High School
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Friday, March 25, 2011
It's oh-so boring but oh-so important. The Gist makes the nuts and bolts of government palatable.
In an eight-hour meeting on Thursday, the Tinley Park Village Board went through the entire proposed 2012 budget, going line-by-line in spots to question every place a department, official or commission asked for cash. Wow. Even the description of that was boring. But Thursday was the most important day of the year for anyone who has driven a Tinley road, been saved by the cops or firefighters or has ever enjoyed a local parade. Based on board members' comments, questions and decisions, village staff is going to tinker around with the budget and bring it up before the board next on April 19. It's the budget for Fiscal Year 2012, which starts May 1 and runs through April 30, 2012. So this stuff will go into effect in just over a month. And …
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A look at Tinley Park's 2012 budget as village officials meet all day to discuss it. Part 4 of 4.
Thursday was Tinley Park’s all-day budget meeting, where the village board reviews all the requests for the FY2012 budget. Overall, the village is doing well – there’s about $1 million more coming into the general fund than going out. That gap has been decreasing every year since the economy collapsed. We’ll be posting articles looking at the four major aspects of every budget: This article is about where expenses are up. ... Some expenses are up, some are down but it evened out that FY2012 will be more expensive than this year, but there will be more money to pay for it. Here are a few of the more notable cost increases: The salaries and benefits paid out of the general fund went up by $377,095. Why? People are expensive. You have to pay …
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Village of Tinley Park
16250 Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park, IL
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A look at Tinley Park's 2012 budget as village officials meet all day to discuss it. Part 3 of 4.
Thursday was Tinley Park’s all-day budget meeting, where the village board reviews all the requests for the FY2012 budget. Overall, the village is doing well – there’s about $1 million more coming into the general fund than going out. That gap has been decreasing every year since the economy collapsed. We’ll be posting articles looking at the four major aspects of every budget: This article is about where expenses are down. … Expenses are up in the new budget, but revenues are up by more. There’s about $1.1 million more coming into the general fund than going out next year, making it a balanced budget. This year, there’s about $2.1 million more revenue than expenses and a few years ago, the difference was up to $3 million to $4 million, …
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Village of Tinley Park
16250 Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park, IL
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
A look at Tinley Park's 2012 budget as village officials meet all day to discuss it. Part 2 of 4.
Today is Tinley Park’s all-day budget meeting, where the village board reviews all the requests for the FY2012 budget. Overall, the village is doing well – there’s about $1 million more coming into the general fund than going out. That gap has been decreasing every year since the economy collapsed, but village officials said if it hadn’t been for a hiring freeze the village put into place in 2007, there would be more money going out of the general fund than coming in. As able throughout the day, we’ll be posting articles looking at the four major aspects of every budget: This article is about where revenues are up. ... Rather than go through the scores of village revenue streams, everything from taxes to service fees, here are a few of the…
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Village of Tinley Park
16250 Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park, IL
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A look at Tinley Park's 2012 budget as village officials meet all day to discuss it. Part 1 of 4.
Today is Tinley Park’s all-day budget meeting, where the village board reviews all the requests for the FY2012 budget. Overall, the village is doing well – there’s about $1 million more coming into the general fund than going out. That gap has been decreasing every year since the economy collapsed, but village officials said if it hadn’t been for a hiring freeze the village put into place in 2007, there would be more money going out of the general fund than coming in. As able throughout the day, we’ll be posting articles looking at the four major aspects of every budget: This article is about where revenues are down. ... The village’s three main operating funds are the $41 million general fund (overall revenues up 10 percent next year), …
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Village of Tinley Park
16250 Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park, IL
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Friday, March 4, 2011
A breakdown of what the village's public safety departments want to see in the coming year, 2 of 2.
On Thursday, Tinley Park's police, fire and emergency management workers pitched their budget requests for next fiscal year to the village board's Public Safety Committee. We've been posting the different departments' requests through the day. The committee will take their recommendations to the full board in an all-day budget meeting on March 24. The new budget will start May 1 and run until April 30, 2012. Here's what the fire department and emergency management agency asked for: Fire Suppression Budget Request: $3,310,617, a 0.8-percent increase over this year Fire Suppression Capital Requests:$284,178 (the biggest requests were a $100,000 transfer into the fire apparatus replacement fund and $54,300 for rescue tools) Fire Suppression …
Eric Blair
8:04 am on Saturday, May 25, 2013
Let it go people. Sorry I brought it up. Go out and enjoy the weekend. more ›