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THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2018
DMMC appoints new president Wood Dale mayor seeks more collaboration among municipalities
cities and villages are achieving far more together than we would apart. I look forward to continued success as a coalition in the coming year as we continue to work together for our region’s needs.” The DMMC has worked successfully with partner organizations to reduce the amount of local funds the state had sought during the spring legislative session, Pulice noted. Municipalities throughout the state banded together this year to cut the amount of local government distributive fund dollars the state threatened to take from 10 percent to 5 percent. Mayors also reduced the state’s share of the sales tax collection fee charged to municipalities from 2 percent to 1.5 percent. Both initiatives saved Illinois municipalities a total of nearly $80 million. Re-elected as Wood Dale’s mayor for a second term in April 2016, Pulice previously served as an alderman. Having lived in Wood Dale with his family for the past 30 years, he was asked to run for alderman after volunteering for a number of city committees and local issues. Pulice pledges to work towards policies that best serve all residents, including the ability to enact crime free housing programs and use existing hotel-motel tax revenues to pay for infrastructure projects.
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The Stuart family checks in at the front gate of the Bensenville Public Works grounds on Saturday, July 7. Administrative Assistant Ginny signed in guests and guided Open House attendees to enter the free prize drawings. More photos inside.
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Newly-appointed DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference (DMMC) President Annunziato “Nunzio” Pulice’s top priority is to unify municipalities on key issues and to safeguard local tax revenue. “The past several years of having to go to Springfield every year and demand that we keep our tax dollars in our communities reinforces the need for Illinois mayors to become more united and speak in one voice,” said Pulice, who also serves as the Mayor of west suburban Wood Dale. “If we don’t stick together and find common ground and solutions to the challenges confronting local cities and villages, we become divided and municipalities and residents lose in the end. Each town in the Conference has its individual needs but we need to find ways to work together as one.” Pulice took over as President of DMMC after Addison Mayor Richard Veenstra recently completed his one-year term. In addition, Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico, who served last year as DMMC Legislative Deputy Director, was named Vice President. “DMMC is a powerful voice that speaks out for the needs of municipalities, and by extension, their residents,” Chirico said. “By working together to identify our shared goals and needs and move those forward in Springfield, our
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