Sunday, January 13, 2013
The village has received six bids for the project, all significantly above an architect's estimate.
The La Grange Board of Trustees will vote at Monday night's meeting on whether to accept any of six bids offered for the renovation of the Stone Avenue train station, The Suburban Life reports. According to the paper, bids range from $1.03 million to $1.3 million, while the project architect had given an estimate of about $875,000. The village has in hand for the project $385,000 from the West Suburban Mass Transit District and $700,000 in federal funding secured by Rep. Dan Lipinski. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at La Grange Village Hall. Read the full story at the Suburban Life website. Get news alerts and Facebook updates from these Patch sites:
Thursday, November 29, 2012
The council's candidate for village president is former trustee Tom Livingston, who previously served two four-year terms on the board.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
The following is a press release from the Citizen's Council of La Grange: Last evening the Citizens’ Council of La Grange slated Tom Livingston as a Candidate for Village President, and slated Bill Holder, Mark Langan and David McCarty as candidates for the three open trustee positions on the Village Board. “After a thorough review of applications and our interview process, the Council slated Tom Livingston, Bill Holder, Mark Langan and David McCarty for their longstanding commitment to the community and the experience that they can bring to the Village Board,” commented David Schwartz, chair of the Citizens’ Council of La Grange. For more information on the candidates, please visit the Council’s website at www.lgcitizenscouncil.org. …
Saturday, November 17, 2012
The La Grange Board of Trustees is largely supportive of interim measures for making the crossing to LT South Campus safer, but currently “do not have a solution.”
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The La Grange Board of Trustees is largely supportive of interim measures for making the crossing to LT South Campus safer, but currently “do not have a solution.”
A much safer crossing is slated to come to Willow Springs Road between Denning Park and Lyons Township High School South Campus sometime in 2014, complete with traffic signal—but a year and a half is too far away for some. La Grange resident and mom Nora Valentino is leading the appeal, appearing before the La Grange Board of Trustees on Monday to declare that the status quo on Willow Springs Road is a disaster waiting to happen. “Mid-2014 is too long to wait to take action,” Valentino said. “Traffic is too fast and it causes problems crossing the road… Waiting to cross is frustrating for the students and can lead to poor decisions and eventually an accident.” Valentino added that traffic on Willow Springs Road is neglectful of the needs …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The Village of La Grange expects to have bids in for the Metra station’s renovation by the end of November and hopes to complete the project by spring of 2013.
The long-awaited Stone Avenue Metra station renovation project is making another step forward, with bids for the construction expected over the course of the next month, Village President Liz Asperger said at a town hall meeting on Monday. “Hopefully that contract will come to the board by the end of November, and we will have construction beginning in December,” Asperger said, adding that the project would then likely be completed sometime in the spring of 2013. Two concept art sketches of a finished station were on display in the back of the hall at Monday’s meeting (see attached images.) The project is being funded by $1.085 million in grant monies, including $700,000 from the Federal Transportation Administration (won by Congressman …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Citing negative feedback and excessive time allotment, trustees will not further investigate a poultry-permitting ordinance and has ordered one man to shut down his coop.
The La Grange Board of Trustees has said no to chickens for now. Resident Jeff Cogelja appeared before the Board on Monday night to appeal for an extension or an exemption to allow him to continue keeping hens in his backyard—currently not allowed under Village of La Grange code—but was told that the Board has decided not to pursue amending the code to allow poultry, and that an enforcement action against him would still be pursued. Cogelja originally appeared before the Board in April to request the ordinance, and in the time since has established a four-hen coop in his fenced in backyard to provide a daily supply of fresh, organic eggs. (While acknowledging this was “bending the law,” he told the Board on Monday that “that’s how change …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Trustees held a development workshop on revenues at Monday night’s Board meeting, mostly rejecting an amusement tax or sales-tax increase.
La Grange trustees largely shelved the proposed ideas of an amusement tax on the La Grange Theatre or a non-home rule sales tax hike at Monday night’s Board meeting, while mostly accepting the need for the maximum-allowed property-tax increase to continue. Trustees were holding a workshop to identify for Village staff the attitudes towards potential sources of revenue increases. The 2012-2013 Village budget dipped into deficit spending after the Board shot down a 1 percent utility tax increase in April. The idea behind an amusement or sales tax was to ease taxes specifically on residents and shift the burden somewhat onto visitors to the Village. Theatergoers and shoppers currently pay only a 0.25% non-home rule sales tax to La Grange, but…
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Combined police, fire and dispatch services could be possibility with La Grange Park and Western Springs.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Consolidating core services to save the taxpayers money sounds like the fiscally responsible thing to do and Village of La Grange officials are hoping it sounds smart to officials in other area communities. A study that began last year is examining the feasibility and possibility of La Grange combining police and fire department duties with the villages of La Grange Park and Western Springs. La Grange trustees unanimously sounded off positive support for the idea. “I think this is a great idea not just for economic reasons, but also so we can provide better levels of service for our residents,” said Trustee Bill Holder. Included in the study, partly funded by the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, are suggestions on combining police forces, fire …
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5:48 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
I've located a comment on this article from "Jim Boo", hitch I've copied below in my post, because there's a jim Boo enrolled on this site who is deleting all his comments!!! Oh the transparency!!! Jim Boo 6:44 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 On the other side of town, The Park District of La Grange at the exact same time is voting to spend millions of dollars of new taxpayer money (bonds) to … more ›