Friday, December 9, 2011
Here's what seats are open and how you can apply.
Village trustee positions 2, 4, and 6 will be up for grabs on the Caledonia Village Board on April 3. Each position has a two-year term and pays $6,600. Gerry Griswold, Tom Weatherston and Lee Wishau currently hold the positions. Griswold said he’s not running for re-election and Kathleen Trentadue has pulled nomination papers for his position. Weatherston and Wishau have also pulled nomination papers. Candidate interested in the position will need to pick up the nomination papers from the Village Clerk and turn them in on Jan. 3. They will also need to file a campaign registration statement when they decide to seek office. The deadline to turn those papers in is Tuesday, Jan. 3.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Jerry Griswold asked the board to reopen the contract discussion.
UPDATE: Jerry Griswold, a Village Board member, asked the board to reopen the contract talks because he feels the Board was given misinformation after John's didn't fill out the contract to the Village's specifications. Tom Lebak, the Village Administrator, said he faxed over what he thought was a complete contract, but apparently some of the pages were missing. Board members had discussed this issue during a special board meeting. One of the main issues however was that the John's contract didn't include a reimbursement for recycling, which the Veolia contract did have. Griswold claims this could have saved taxpayers $55,000, but other board members stipulated that the reimbursement amount isn't a guarantee. Still, Lee Wishau, another …
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Things also got a little loud between a Village Board member and the Village President.
Village residents will pay $5.73 per $1,000 assessed value for the Village portion of their tax bill. That's an increase of 1 cent over the mil rate from last year. The Village Board voted 6 to 1 to increase the levy to $13.18 million, which is a $92,000 or .69 percent increase. Jerry Griswold voted against several of the budgets, which were segregated by departments. Tom Lebak, the Village Administrator, told the Village Board at their meeting Tuesday night, that the Village has yet to get the assessments from the state. This means a homeowner whose property is valued at $150,000 would pay $859.50 to the Village. If the assessed value is the same from last year to this year, that represents an increase of $1.50 more on a home valued at $…
Thursday, October 27, 2011
They'll spend a little more, probably tax less, and borrow almost $1 million. And they haven't even settled with the Police and Fire unions. Confused? Read on...
In a 6 to 1 vote, the Caledonia Village Board passed their budget for 2012, but not without controversy and potential future conflict between the police and fire unions. The $13.2 million budget caps spending at less than one percent, but includes almost $1 million in borrowing for capitol projects and assumes the police and fire unions won’t take a 5.8 percent pay cut to pay their pensions. Jerry Griswold, the only Village Board member who voted against the budget, blasted other Village Board members at a special Village Board meeting Thursday, Oct. 27 saying that they were pandering to union members. “Those people in the unions are certainly no better than the other employees and certainly no better than our management people,” Griswold …
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Jerry Griswold, Village Board member, asks: "Do we have to have this open to the public?"
No decisions were made on which areas of the Village land use plan would be reviewed, but tempers flared between some Village Board members during the meeting. The Village Board and the Land Use Plan Management Team met during a joint meeting Tuesday, August 2, to consider nine corridors in the Village they could revise. The Village has a current land use plan, which serves as a planning guide for zoning decisions and that ultimately influences where development can occur. The Village Board decided to hold off on prioritizing the list until they receive a financial impact report from a consulting firm. They also wanted to understand the status and scope of several impending roads projects. Still, tempers flared when Village Board member, …
Ed Willing
7:34 pm on Friday, December 9, 2011
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