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Staff gets reunited at City Hall By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb City Hall is a one-stop shop, housing more than 40 city employees. The city’s building, engineering, transportation and information technology divisions had been located in the City Hall Annex, 223 S. Fourth St., but officials moved them across the street Friday to the main City Hall at 200 S. Fourth St. That means residents can go to one building for all typical city services, DeKalb Mayor John Rey said. “Consolidating those services in the one building of City Hall will preclude someone arriving at City Hall to announce who they are looking for and to be directed outside in the elements and across the street,” Rey said. City departments have been shuffled multiple times since the police department moved from City Hall’s first floor to a new building at 700 W. Lincoln Highway in November 2013. Previously, Public Works Director T.J. Moore moved to 1516 Market St. in DeKalb, which houses the streets and water de- John Rey partment. The finance depart- DeKalb Mayor ment will remain on the south end of the first floor, and the building division will be on the north end of the first floor. The second floor houses the Council Chambers, the mayor’s office, community development and city manager’s office. All divisions will be open for full service Monday. City officials are planning an open house to highlight the new configuration for residents, but a date and time has not been set. The long-term future of the City Hall Annex has not been determined. The building falls within a tax increment financing district, a funding mechanism in which the city diverts property tax money into a special account that is used to rehabilitate blighted areas. City Council members have discussed using TIF money to renovate City Hall months ago, but city staff members are discussing a new round of suggestions to bring before City Council in the future, Rey said. Ultimately, City Council members will consider what to do with the two buildings that comprise the annex, City Manager Anne Marie Gaura said. There still are some files, desk and other storage items there. “We’re going to need to take some time to organize and clear out the remainder,” Gaura said. For his part, 6th Ward Alderman Dave Baker would like to see the city sell those buildings. “I would love to see that go on the market,” Baker said, “and go back on the tax rolls.”
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Greg Howells of Sycamore pours a cup of rice into the a MannaPack meal for Feed My Starving Children during the Make A Difference DeKalb County event Friday at The Suter Company in Sycamore. Howells and his wife, Sherri Howells, started the MobilePak event five years ago after an overseas trip to Boliva working with Feed My Starving Children. Howells said they hope to pack 1 million this year.
Feeding the hungry Event part of group’s goal to make 1M meals
1 million meal progress By Friday afternoon, The Suter Company President Tim Suter said volunteers had packaged 316,000 meals toward the 1 million meal goal. Feed My Starving Children runs through Sunday.
By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – At 82, John Launer was volunteering with others younger than half his age, packaging food for malnourished children abroad. Launer was volunteering at the fifth annual Feed My Starving Children event Friday at The Suter Company, 1015 W. Bethany Road, DeKalb, with his wife, Joan. “We have plenty, and they have none,” Launer said. “The award is being able to help.” Feed My Starving Children continues today and Sunday. Officials have a goal of packaging 1 million meals with the help of almost 4,700 volunteers, both re-
to a needy area determined by Feed My Starving Children, a national Christian nonprofit organization dedicated to feeding malnourished children. The packaged meals are designed to help severely malHundreds of volunteers pack MannaPack meals Friday for Feed My Starv- nourished children by offering ing Children during the Make A Difference DeKalb County event at The more than 20 vitamins in each MannaPack, which cost 22 cents Suter Company in Sycamore on Friday. to produce, according to a video presentation by Feed My Starvcords for the five years that the gredients: rice, soy, chicken-flaing Children. While the organievent has been held in DeKalb vored vitamin powder and dehyzation was founded in 1987, the County, said The Suter Compa- drated vegetables. DeKalb County group has only Early Friday afternoon, Sutny President Tim Suter. been operating for five years. Last year, 855,000 meals were er said they were on-track to Greg Howells started the DeKalb meet their one million meal goal packaged, Suter said. Volunteers helped package by packaging 316,000 meals. The meals will be distributed meals Friday containing four inSee CHILDREN, page A8
U.S. nuclear force woes: Pentagon chief orders a shakeup By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR The Associated Press MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. – The Pentagon will spend an additional $10 billion to correct deep problems of neglect and mismanagement within the nation’s nuclear forces, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel declared Friday, pledging
firm action to support the men and women who handle the world’s most powerful and deadly weapons. Hagel ordered top-to-bottom changes in the nuclear arsenal’s management, which he said had been allowed over the years to backslide, afflicted by broken and missing equipment, poor leadership and inadequate training and
staffing. Hagel told a Pentagon news conference Friday morning – before flying to Minot Air Force Chuck Hagel Base in North Dakota where many of the nuclear force troubles began – that the Defense Department will boost spend-
ing on the nuclear forces by about 10 percent a year for the next five years, saying there is no problem on this issue the Pentagon can’t fix. That would be a total increase of about $10 billion over the five years. Currently the Pentagon spends about $15 billion a year on the nuclear mission. “The internal and external
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reviews I ordered show that a consistent lack of investment and support for our nuclear forces over far too many years has left us with too little margin to cope with mounting stresses,” said Hagel, who was flanked by senior Air Force and Navy officers. “The root cause has been a lack of sustained focus, attention and resources, resulting in a perva-
sive sense that a career in the nuclear enterprise offers too few opportunities for growth and advancement.” Hagel received briefings at Minot and then delivered a pep talk to a few hundred nuclear bomber and missile force members. Urging them to take
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