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Glencoe Village Board
Public Safety director responds to recent coyote sightings
Lewandowski:
Urban coyotes can
coexist with people
without conflict
Todd Marver
Freelance Reporter
Many coyote sightings
have been reported by
Glencoe residents recently.
As such, Glencoe Public
Safety Director Cary
Lewandowski reported on
the department’s response
to recent coyote sightings
at the Glencoe Village
Board’s Thursday, April
19 meeting. Lewandowski
listed several strategies for
Glencoe residents to keep
in mind when seeing coyotes
in the Village.
“Preventive practices,
such as reducing and removing
food attractants,
supervising domestic pets
when outside and responding
appropriately when interacting
with coyotes are
key to minimizing potential
conflict with coyotes,”
Lewandowski said.
Lewandowski advised
residents against giving
coyotes food.
“Research indicates that
purposeful feeding of coyotes
contributes greatly to
the adaptation of living
among and relying upon
humans for food,” he said.
“In most cases, our recommended
preventive strategies
are designed to reduce
or prevent the development
of problem coyotes
by eliminating comfort
around people or reliance
on people for food.”
Lewandowski noted
coyote attacks on pets occur
periodically and attacks
on humans haven’t
occurred in the area in several
decades.
“According to scientific
research, generally urban
coyotes coexist with people
without causing any
conflict,” he added. “But
occasionally individual
coyotes may show signs of
extreme bold and aggressive
behavior primarily in
a form of attacks of pets.
Studies indicate that there
have been no reported
coyote attacks on human
beings in Illinois in over
30 years.”
Lewandowski added
that although coyotes attacks
on pets occur infrequently,
the best way to
prevent that from happening
is supervising pets and
keeping them on a leash.
“Our experience with
domestic pet attacks
shows that it is normally
unattended pets without
supervision and it’s still
very rare,” he said. “That
is one of the reasons Glencoe
vigorously enforces
our leash laws, so that our
pet owners are responsibly
taking care and managing
pets and keeping them under
their control.”
The Village engages in a
public education campaign
with its residents to inform
them what to do when they
see coyotes. The Village
has a Coyote Awareness
section on its website at
www.villageofglencoe.
org.
“The Village and Public
Safety’s position is very
proactive to provide information
to residents for
coexisting with coyotes
in our community regularly
through our website,
social media, as well as
periodic news items,” Lewandowski
said. “We provide
facts and safety tips
on our website so residents
can be better informed on
what to expect and how to
avoid altercations that may
occur.”
Lewandowski explained
the Village relies heavily
on residents in its coyote
control/management efforts
because of the prevalence
of coyotes in the
community due to being
located near where coyotes
live.
“In Glencoe, based on
our proximity to coyote
natural habitat, the forest
preserves, ravines, Lake
Michigan and Skokie Lagoons,
coyotes are part of
our urban environment,”
he said. “Therefore the
Village strives to educate
residents in hopes they
can assist us in our efforts
to proactively manage
the coyote population
in Glencoe. Our continued
success relies heavily
on the cooperation of our
residents to help control
the coyote population as
safely as possible.”
Glencoe residents are
advised to report coyote
sightings at the following
link: www.scientificwildlifemanagement.com/report-a-sighting/.
Sightings
can also be reported by
calling Community Service
Officer Kate Sweeney
at (847) 461-1148 or
emailing her at ksweeney@villageofglencoe.
org.
“We encourage residents
to report sightings directly
to us or via a link on our
website,” Lewandowski
said. “Public safety animal
control tracks coyote
sightings and complaints
to identify any potential
threats to the public.”
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through facility and ATM
on the property at its Tuesday,
April 17 meeting.
The property is zoned
VC — Village Center —
in which drive-through facilities
and ATMs require a
special use.
Prior to the board’s approval,
the Plan and Zoning
Commission voted
unanimously to recommend
approval of the project
on April 3. On April 7,
the Architectural Commission
voted unanimously to
recommend approval of
the project.
While there is no set date
yet for the bank’s grand
opening, hours of operation
of the bank are set to
be 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-
Friday and 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday, with the drivethrough
ATM operating
on a 24-hour, seven-day-aweek
basis.
The height of the building
will be 42 feet and
one story and will have 11
parking stalls.
Village President Joan
Frazier was pleased with
the way the bank will fit
in with the surrounding
buildings.
“It’s a beautiful project,”
she said. “I appreciate
the way you’ve echoed
some of the newer buildings
down there, like the
Dunkin’ Donuts building
and the Walgreens store,
and some of the other
shops in the area.”
Frazier also commended
the bank for the way it
worked with the neighbors.
“I’ve seen more evidence
of that here than
any other development in
recent memory,” she said.
Reporting by Todd Marver,
Freelance Reporter. Full
story at WinnetkaCurrent.
com.
THE WILMETTE BEACON
Wilmette approves
stormwater storage option
for flooding issues
After a raucous public
meeting, the village president
and board of trustees
of the Village of Wilmette
voted for neighborhood
stormwater storage to address
flooding in west Wilmette
on Tuesday, April
17.
The plan was the third
of three options that the
Board considered to address
flooding west of
Ridge Road. The neighborhood
storage solution,
which was projected to
cost $48-$55 million in
2017 dollars and could be
phased in over two to three
years, was chosen over
sewer expansion (option 1)
and a hybrid of sewer expansion
and neighborhood
storage (option 2), which
were projected to cost
$80-95 million and $70-80
million, respectively, and
which would have taken
longer to complete.
The Board made a point
of adding a study to the
Capital Improvement Program
memorializing the
Board’s point of view that
modeling, study and general
engagement with the
persistent issue of stormwater
flooding must continue.
President Bob Bielinski,
Trustee Kathy Dodd,
Trustee Julie Wolf, Trustee
Senta Plunkett and Trustee
Daniel E. Sullivan, Jr. voted
in favor of the motion.
Trustee Joel Kurzman voted
against it, citing moral
concerns.
Reporting by Nathan Worcester,
Freelance Reporter. Full
story at WilmetteBeacon.
com.
THE NORTHBROOK TOWER
Northbrook resident
pleads guilty to
orchestrating $24 million
tax fraud scheme
Barry Poticha, 73, of
Northbrook, pleaded guilty
April 16 to one count of
conspiracy to defraud the
United States, according
to a statement from the
U.S. Attorney’s Office for
the Northern District of Illinois.
Poticha, a bookkeeper
for two Chicago-area staffing
companies, admitted
in federal court that he
conspired to defraud the
IRS for at least a decade
by falsifying corporate tax
returns and W-2 forms to
reduce the taxes assessed
against the companies and
their owners.
According to the statement,
Poticha’s admitted
the scheme began no later
than 2000 and continued
through Dec. 19, 2011.
Poticha conspired with an
independent contractor to
falsify information supplied
to the IRS in quarterly
employment tax returns
filed by the companies,
in addition to false W-2
forms the companies provided
to their employees
and the IRS, per the statement.
Reporting by Martin Carlino,
Contributing Editor. Story at
NorthbrookTower.com