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Park leaders push referendum vote Tax increase would move Vision 2020 along By JESSI HAISH jhaish@shawmedia.com
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NIU nursing student volunteer Adam Hassan checks Tom Schroeder’s blood pressure Oct. 20 as he plays pinochle with his friends at Sycamore Golf Club’s clubhouse. Sycamore has no space for a senior center so they share space at the golf club. The Sycamore park referendum is part of the Sycamore Park District’s Vision 2020.
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SYCAMORE – One of the most common questions Sycamore Park District leaders have heard about their Vision 2020 plan is about what isn’t in it: Improving the public pool. Although the pool is not addressed in plans for Vision 2020, Park District Executive Director Dan Gibble said it’s because the 31-year-old pool still has life in it, and should probably be operational past 2020. But Sycamore park leaders say they are talking with their counterparts in DeKalb
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again about collaborating on a pool. “We still feel there’s opportunity for a cooperative effort with the DeKalb Park District,” Gibble said. “We’ve met to reopen that conversation.” In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 4 referendum, park leaders are trying to dispel
RIGHT: Veteran members of the Marlyn Majorettes and Majors Color Guard and Drum Corps march Sunday in the Sycamore Pumpkin Fest Parade. BELOW: Marlyn Burkart cheers as her majorettes step off during the parade. Burkart is retiring and ending the unit.
some misconceptions and answer questions about the property-tax increase referendum that would allow them to pursue the long-range plan they spent months formulating with a 21-member Community Wide Strategic Planning team. The Vision 2020 plan calls for a new community center, splash pad, dog park, sled hill, updated golf course irrigation system, trail connections and sports complex improvements and expansion to Sycamore’s park system by the year 2020. If voters approve the referendum, the property tax rate would increase 18 cents per
$100 of equalized assessed value. The increase would cost the owner of a $154,000 home who claims the homestead exemption about $81 a year in additional property tax. Park officials have said $154,000 is the average home value in the district. Park board President Ted Strack said the referendum would authorize the district to have up to $9 million in bonds, which would be repaid in part with the increased tax revenue. Strack said about half of the money would repay
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PUMPKIN FESTIVAL
SPIRIT Parade highlight includes the last march of Marlyn Burkart’s corps
Photos by Mary Beth Nolan for Shaw Media
By FRANK ELTMAN The Associated Press NEW YORK – Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday night outlined guidelines for the mandatory, 21-day quarantining of medical workers returning from West Africa that he and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ordered two days earlier, bringing the state closer in line with federal protocols. He details the state’s policy at a nighttime news conference with New York City’s mayor after the Obama administration said it expressed concerns to Cuomo and Christie Andrew Cuomo a b o u t t h e i r states’ mandatory Ebola quarantines. The announcement also comes amid sharp criticism of the treatment of a nurse returning from Sierra Leone who was forcibly quarantined is a New Jersey hospital isolation unit even though she said had no symptoms and tested negative for Ebola. Under the outlined New York guidelines, medical professionals who have had contact with Ebola patients will be quarantined at home and receive twice-daily
streets Sunday. After marching in all 53 Sycamore Pumpkin Festival parades, SYCAMORE – Marlyn Burkart Burkart’s group, the Marlyn Majorcouldn’t help but cry as she waved to ettes and Majors Color Guard and the scores of people lining Sycamore Drum Corps, marched its last during
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the culmination of what organizers “Thank you is such a little thing to called one of the best festivals on re- say to all of these people.” More than 100 current and forcord. Burkart is retiring and ending mer corps members twirled batons, the unit. “I’ve been marching down that street for 53 years,” Burkart said. See FESTIVAL, page A8
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