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Vol. 31, No. 39
September 28, 2016
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North Riverside Players set to tackle Shakespeare PAGE 3 D103 board moves to fire business manager PAGE 10
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QUEEN FOR A DAY
RBHS asking community to support parking plan
Lyndsey Hoyd, RiversideBrookfield High School’s homecoming queen, parades between columns of cheerleaders with arms outstretched, forming a ceremonial arch at the school’s homecoming football game on Sept. 23. For more photos, visit online at www.RBLand mark.com
District unveils online petition as part of PR campaign By BOB UPHUES Editor
Unable to get Brookfield officials to agree to a new plan calling for a 63-space parking lot buffered from Hollywood Avenue by an increased grassy setback and tennis courts, Riverside-Brookfield High School has embarked on a new strategy to help convince the village board. Convincing the greater RBHS community to rally around the plan and make their voices heard. On Sept. 21, the high school posted an online petition on its website and on its Facebook page asking community members – and even those from outside the district – to support District 208’s parking/tennis court plan. A link to the petition was also sent out in an email blast to school families and others on the district’s email list and RBHS Principal Kristin Smetana tweeted the link on her Twitter account. See PARKING PLAN on page 12
SEBASTIAN HIDALGO/Contributor
Riverside board pushes back on financial forecast Projections say village faces huge operating deficits by 2021
By BOB UPHUES Editor
Riverside’s village board is pushing back against financial projections suggesting that it will be running annual
budget deficits approaching $1 million in five years unless revenue rise or expenditures are cut. On Sept. 15, President Ben Sells called the projections “doomsday assumptions” and suggested that staff take another
look at the numbers as they craft a preliminary operating budget for 2017. “All I know is we’ve seen these kinds of projections, when I was a trustee, that the See FORECAST on page 11
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