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State mistake to cost area thousands By BILL KNIGHT
The Illinois Department of Revenue on April 19 said it overpaid taxing districts statewide by $168 million mistakenly allocated from corporate Personal Property Replacement Tax funds. In The Weekly Post circulation area, $134,300.10 was paid in error, said IDOR. “It’s BS,” said Kickapoo Road Commissioner Dan Kelch, whose budget was overpaid $746.31, according to the state. “One question I have: Are they For The Weekly Post
Nobody was seriously injured following this place crash Saturday near the intersection of Shissler and Bell School Roads in Peoria County. Photo by Larry Coon.
overpaying other vendors?” Most amounts are relatively small – in the hundreds of dollars – but some districts face big repayments. In The Weekly Post area, amounts the state says it overpaid local government bodies range from $136.94 to Yates City and $185.94 to Brimfield’s Sanitary District to $27,767.24 to Farmington Central C.U.S.D. 265 and $33,971.63 to Princeville C.U.S.D. 326. (See box, Page 12.) “I think this [shows] the state doesn’t know how to handle their money,” said
QUIET TIMES IN THE PARKS
Brimfield men walk away from airplane crash
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Brimfield inks new school administrator By TERRY BIBO
BRIMFIELD – Robert Richardson wants to get acquainted. Technically, Richardson doesn’t become the next superintendent/high school principal for Brimfield Community Unit School District 309 until July 1. But he wants to meet teachers, students, parents and staff even before this school year ends. Given the base in Richardson place, he thinks the key to future success will be relationships. “Everyone has done an exceptional job,” he said in an interview with The Weekly Post Monday. “There’s a rigorous commitment; they’re doing a lot of great things. My goal will be to continue to do those things and continually add to them.” He will get a chance to meet community members on May 2 in the high school gymnasium at a meet-and-greet For The Weekly Post
By BILL KNIGHT
ELMWOOD – A Brimfield man and his son walked away from a Saturday afternoon plane crash near Bell School and Shissler Roads north of here. Everett Brandt, 50, of Brimfield, and his 11-year-old son Jayden were in a Cessna 172B about 1 p.m. April 23 when the aircraft lost power after leaving the TriCounty Airport west of Yates City, according to the Peoria Sheriff’s Office. It crash-landed in a farm field owned by Kathie Hagen, and came to rest on its top. Brimfield firefighters and B.Y.E. Ambulance responded to the scene, and the Brandts were transported to OSF St. Francis Medical Center to be checked out, police said. Everett, who was piloting the single-engine plane, had a cut to his head, according to police. Brimfield firefighters disconnected the plane’s battery and stopped a fuel leak before Dave Shipley from Tri-County Airport arrived to retrieve the aircraft so the Federal Aviation Administration could investigate.
Sid Stahl, Village president at Princeville, which may owe $3,324.14, the state says. IDOR, which said it discovered the mistake after it implemented a new general ledger system, referred its findings to the state’s Auditor General for verification Personal Property Replacement Taxes (PPRT) are revenues collected by the state and returned to local governments to replace money that was lost by taxing districts when their powers to impose
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Work is scheduled to start in late June on rebuilding the foundation of Yates City’s gazebo, which was built in 1905. Photo by Jeff Lampe.
Gazebo project set to start
Some time at the end of June, Balagna House Moving of Farmington YATES CITY – The money is will lift the gazebo and tear out the lined up to make sure the Yates City old, crumbling foundation. gazebo will stand another After that, Dave Hall of 111 years or so. Thanks to a Elmwood will lay a new Our Parks block coordinated grassroots foundation. Once This is the fund-raising effort, organizHall is done, and the fifth story in a ers of the Save The Gazebo gazebo is lowered, leveled series on parks fund gathered more than and anchored, work will in local $17,000 for work on the begin on the structure itcommunities. historic structure. Continued on Page 2 By JEFF LAMPE
Weekly Post Staff Writer
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