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Minutes reveal possible violation Oakwood Hills Village Board held closed-session discussion on power plant plans By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
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OAKWOOD HILLS – The Illinois Open Meetings Act allowed the Village Board last year to go into closed session to discuss a lawsuit filed by a resident over ownership of a strip of land. The board’s subsequently discussion of the six-figure annual
hosting fee the village would get from a company that wanted to build a natural gas turbine power plant is another story. Meeting minutes obtained by the attorney representing residents opposed to the plant’s construction indicate that village officials likely broke the law July 11, 2013, when they went from a topic covered by the act to one
Afternoon Drive Get the latest headlines emailed straight to your inbox each weekday afternoon by signing up for Afternoon Drive at nwherald.com/newsletter. that is not. What’s more, it would be another year before board mem-
bers informed their constituents of the proposal to build the 430-megawatt, $450 million plant. Attorney Steven Cuda has filed a complaint over the alleged violation with the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, asking for prosecution of offending individuals “if appropriate.” “This puts [the Village Board] on notice that any discussion on
this power plant has to be done in public. Other than that, it lets them know that the old way of doing things won’t cut it anymore,” Cuda said. The Open Meetings Act limits the topics public bodies can discuss behind closed doors. The law states the exemptions
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Dems meet to discuss state funds for schools
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More money would go to poorer districts By KERRY LESTER The Associated Press
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Julie Magnini, with Eddie, one of her Sphynx hairless cats, is preparing for a stomach, small intestine and pancreas transplant. Magnini and her husband, Marty, band director at Cary-Grove High School and director of the Crystal Lake Community Band, have been making trips to the Cleveland Clinic for several months. For six months after the surgery, Julie Magnini will have to live within 10 minutes of the hospital.
Awaiting organs, long recovery Cary woman hopes surgery will restore her digestive track By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com CARY – In order to get nutrition, Julie Magnini connects a bag to a port in her chest. The bag runs for 18 hours and helps Magnini get needed magnesium and potassium.
Magnini does this because she has no stomach. It was removed a few years ago after a 2007 gastric bypass surgery, which led to her having gastroparesis. “Somewhere a long the way, the nerve that controls the digestive was
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SPRINGFIELD – A number of top Democratic House lawmakers have been quietly meeting to discuss a proposed overhaul of Illinois’ dated school funding formula, which, if approved, would direct more state money to poorer rural districts at the expense of wealthier suburban districts. Members of the group told The Associated Press the meetings came at the behest of House Speaker Michael Madigan, whose chamber declined to take up the issue last spring despite its passage by the Senate and widespread calls for the first revamp of the formula in nearly two decades. “With the specter of additional dollars going away, and that’s a very, very real specter, there has to be a way to allocate money to the districts most in need,” said Rep. Frank Mautino, Madigan’s point person on budget issues. “We have to have something in place to make sure the districts with the highest poverty and least available wealth don’t fold.” Will Davis, chairman of the House Elementary and Secondary Education Appropriations Committee, said at least three of the meetings were held over the summer, and hearings on the issue are planned for after the November election. Among the roughly dozen lawmakers who have attended the meetings are Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie,
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