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16 | March 8, 2018 | The Northbrook tower news
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Northbrook Park District Board
Playground engineered wood fiber replenishment project approved
Todd Marver
Freelance Reporter
The Northbrook Park
District Board approved
Lucas Landscaping and
Design, of Deerfield, as
the vendor for its playground
engineered wood
fiber replenishment project
in an amount of $80,700
at its Wednesday, Feb. 28
meeting.
This project will consist
of the replenishment of engineered
wood fiber in all
18 playgrounds throughout
the District. To continue to
meet the American Society
for Testing and Materials
(ASTM) and Consumer
Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) standards
and guidelines for depth
of safety resurfacing, the
District needs to add engineered
wood fiber to each
playground.
Four contractors submitted
bids on the project. Lucas
Landscaping and Design
submitted the lowest
bid at $80,700. This project
will begin after April 1 and
be completed by June 30.
Work will be scheduled
around school and the District’s
day camp use of the
playgrounds.
Park District participates
in emergency preparedness
training
A week before the news
broke of a shooting at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland,
Fla., that killed 17 people
on Feb. 14, Northbrook
Park District officials participated
in a townshipwide
emergency preparedness
training.
“What they cover is active
shooter training,”
Northbrook Park District
Executive Director
Molly Hamer said. “It’s
timely because of that (incident
in Florida), but this was
scheduled prior to that.”
Northbrook School District
27 took the lead on the
initiative and the Park District
made space available
at the Leisure Center for
the training. The Park District
hosted the emergency
preparedness training at the
Leisure Center for Northfield
Township schools and
government agency personnel
in the township on Feb.
8. The training involved the
Northbrook police, four elementary
school districts,
two private schools and the
Northbrook and Glenview
Park Districts. The purpose
of the training was for
school and governmental
agency staff to be ready for
an unexpected crisis and
to implement a common
emergency response protocol.
A unified response will
serve the community effectively
by using a standard
response protocol. Three
Northbrook Park District
officials attended the training
and they will then train
other employees in the Park
District.
“It was a train the trainer
program,” Hamer said.
“Our attendees will be
taught how to do emergency
response and reactions
and activities. They’ll be
trained to do that, so they’ll
come into our agency then
and train, so there is a train
the trainer program. So
we’re very pleased to be
a part of that. The idea is
that the three employees
from the Northbrook Park
District that were there will
then do our trainings for
our employees, so that we
are in a position so that they
have specific information
on that situation.”
Snow day brings large
crowds to Northbrook
Parks
Commissioners Michael
Ziering and Michael Schyman
reported on the activity
at the sled hills at Techny
Prairie Park and Fields and
Wood Oaks Green Park
on the snow day of Feb. 9.
The schools were closed
that day and the sled hills
were packed with people.
Ziering was at the sled hill
at Techny Prairie Park and
Fields and Schyman was at
the sled hill at Wood Oaks
Green Park on Feb. 9.
“It was just a zoo,” Ziering
said. “It was unbelievable
because there was
no school and everybody
knew there was going to
be no school. I’ve never
seen it like that before. We
didn’t get a lot of snow here
this year but when we’ve
gotten it our community
definitely took advantage.”
“I took my son there,”
Schyman said. “It was absolutely
packed. It was fun
even for me. Even at my
age, it was fun and my kids
had fun.”
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that right away from us,”
said Frum, referring to the
concealed carry legislation
passed by the state in
2013, which said only the
state could pass an assault
weapons ban. The only exception
came in the form
of a 10-day window following
the bill’s passage,
during which municipalities
could vote to pass a
ban.
Given that legislative reality,
Scolaro asked Frum
to consider the Village
pass a proclamation or
some kind of statement on
the issue.
Trustee Kathryn Ciesla
suggested the board “defy
the state” and pass an assault
weapons ban anyway.
“I’m certain at the root
… I’m a lawyer, maybe we
do something,” she said.
“Maybe we invite folks to
the Village, meaning our
representatives, and talk to
them about how we feel.
Maybe we give the public
the opportunity to be
heard. Maybe we shake it
up.”
Village Attorney Steve
Elrod drafted the City of
Highland Park assault
weapons ordinance during
the aforementioned 10-day
window in 2013 and defended
it all the way to the
Supreme Court.
“It is a constitutional
legislation,” Elrod said.
“The problem is not the
Constitution, the problem
is home rule. The municipalities
in Illinois are creatures
of the state and the
state of Illinois adopted as
part of its concealed carry
law a statute that strictly
prohibits any municipality,
including a home rule municipality,
from regulating,
in any way, assault weapons.”