Village of
Westchester January 2012 Newsletter
From the Desk of The President POLICE
3
FIRE DEPT
4
LIBRARY
6
CALENDAR
8
PARK DISTRICT
11
SCHOOLS
18
PUBLIC WORKS
19
Village President Sam Pulia, Trustee Brian Sloan, Trustee Tom Yurkovich, and others display the food collected for the Westchester Food Pantry December 2011.
A YEAR IN REVIEW Happy New Year…Happy New Year…Happy New Year…2012 is here. It feels like yesterday when we were welcoming in 2011. 2011 was a year filled with many positive accomplishments. We were able to continue our street replacement program, water main replacements, sewer relining, and a host of other public work initiatives. We did experience the “blizzard” of 2011 but like all our weather related “excesses” we were able to tackle the problem head on and provided safe passable streets in very short order. Our tree trimming program started its third year with another 1500 trees trimmed. The April election added three very community orientated elected officials, namely Trustees Paul Gattuso, Frank Perry, and Tommy Yurkovich, to
your Village Board. All three certainly go the extra mile in representing your best interests. Paul’s leadership role and experience, Frank’s willingness to listen, and Tommy’s “I’ll do anything” attitude makes it a pleasure to formulate and plan for the future of Westchester along with our veteran Trustees Nick Steker, Brian Sloan, and Wally Novak. Memorial Day at the Westchester Park District honored a gathering of military veterans from all of our armed forces, each and every one have served our country honorably, with distinction. For that we will be forever grateful. Fire Chief Richard Belmonte retired after 31 years of dedicated service. The appointment of James Adams to carry on the role of Chief
See PRESIDENT, page 5