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Ruby
Erica Gelman, Editorial Intern
My name is Ruby and I am 15
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time eating, sleeping and going
outside. I also have a hobby
of inexplicably howling loudly
between the hours of 3-6 a.m.
My father feeds me way too
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One time, when I was a kitten, I ran out of the
house late at night and was attacked by an animal.
Because I was (foolishly) declawed, I wasn’t able
to fight back. My family was very worried about
me and spent a lot of money at the vet to make
sure I would get better. I wore a cast for a very long
time and also had to undergo surgery to receive
skin grafts. Now, besides a little arthritis and a
limp, I feel just fine and am once again capable of
extorting the family for food.
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THE LAKE FOREST LEADER
Tentative budget
plans for new air
conditioners, school safety
improvements
The Lake Bluff School
District 65 Board of Education
unanimously approved
both the 2018-19 tentative
budget and the final strategic
plan for 2018-23 at its
regular meeting Tuesday,
June 12.
The District expects revenues
of $18,870,800 for
the 2018-19 fiscal year. This
includes expenditures of
19,156,961 and a net deficit
of $286,161. Despite the net
deficit, the operating fund is
expected to have a surplus
of $861,724.
The deficit is caused by
the need to replace five air
conditioning units at Lake
Bluff Elementary School.
Jay Kahn, the director of
finance and operations/
CSBO, said that in addition
to using the surplus in
the 2018-19 budget for the
air conditioners, he also expects
to use anywhere from
$500,000 to $700,000 left
over in the 2017-18 budget.
“The reason we have a
big operating surplus is because
all the capital money
I would have put in there,
is now going into the capital
projects budget instead,”
Kahn said.
Superintendent Dr. Jean
Sophie also noted that upcoming
expenditures for the
2018-19 fiscal year included
around $77,000 to restructure
the main office at the
elementary school for safety
reasons, along with a plan
to replace the boilers at the
middle school. Additionally,
she hopes to look into renovating
the playgrounds.
“Parents [have told us
that] the playground is nonaccessible
because we have
wood chips on one of our
playgrounds and we have
another parent that is concerned
[with] the little rubber
pieces [on the other],”
she said.
Sophie hopes both will be
replaced with rubber flooring
that will be both safe
and accessible.
Reporting by Christa Rooks,
Freelance Reporter. Full story
at LakeForestLeader.com.
THE WILMETTE BEACON
Repeal ordinances
introduced for minimum
wage
Last June, the Wilmette
Village Board opted out of
the Cook County minimum
wage and paid sick leave
ordinances. The board will
vote on the matter again a
year after the initial vote to
opt out at its Tuesday, June
26 meeting. The board will
vote on whether to remain
opted out of the ordinances
or opt in.
At the board’s Tuesday,
June 12 meeting, ordinances
were introduced that
would repeal last year’s opt
out of the county ordinances.
When an ordinance is introduced,
the village board
doesn’t discuss, debate or
vote on the matter, so the
June 12 meeting simply
consisted of public comment.
More than 100 Cook
County suburban municipalities
opted out of the
county ordinances last year,
including three in the 22nd
Century Media North Shore
coverage area (Wilmette,
Northbrook and Glenview).
For the municipalities that
didn’t opt out, the minimum
wage increased from $8.25
to $10 on July 1, 2017. On
this July 1, the wage increases
by another dollar to $11,
to $12 on July 1, 2019 and
$13 on July 1, 2020. Then,
each July 1 after 2020, the
wage increases by the Consumer
Price Index (CPI),
or 2.5 percent, whichever
is less. The sick leave ordinance
allows employees to
accrue one hour of paid sick
leave for every 40 hours
worked, up to a maximum
of 40 hours per year.
Prior to public comment,
Village President Bob Bielinski
led an optional hand
raising exercise to allow
members of the audience
to register their opinion,
including those who didn’t
wish to speak.
Reporting by Todd Marver,
Freelance Reporter. Full story
at WilmetteBeacon.com.
THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK
Residents question City
spending
A group of concerned
residents expressed displeasure
at the Highland Park
City Council meeting Tuesday,
June 11, with how the
City is spending and reporting
money — despite the
City earning positive marks
on its most recent audit.
The residents spoke out
against, what they say, is
improper use of taxpayer
dollars by Mayor Nancy
Rotering and the City, as
more than $1 million will
be spent on creating additional
parking for the library
as part of the City’s
library expansion project.
Residents did not see the
need to create further parking
for the project.
“You can make it as
beautiful as you want, but at
the end of the day it is still a
parking lot,” Highland Park
resident Beatrice Trier said.
“We don’t need more parking.
We need to conserve
green spaces.”
Highland Park resident
Michael Pinsel said that because
a parking study has
yet to be completed, it is
“irresponsible” to earmark
the funds for parking lots.
Additionally, he claimed
the cost of the parking lots
reported by the City should
be at least $1.5 million
higher.
But City Manager Ghida
Neukirch responded by
saying that both properties
in question are “assets
to the city” and should not
have been included in the
report.
“Whether we move forward
with the library expansion
and addition today
or in the future, this council
has recognized the need to
explore a possible library
expansion as did previous
city councils,” she said.
Rotering agreed with
Neukirch.
“I don’t think anybody is
forgetting those properties;
those just weren’t options
that we were looking at this
evening,” she said.
Although a few residents
complained about financials,
the City announced
it had passed a yearly
third-party audit, otherwise
known as a Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report,
that is required of every
state municipality.
The City received an
“unmodified opinion,”
which is the most favorable
opinion a city can receive in
a CAFR. There were shown
to be no material deficiencies,
and all financial statements
were deemed in line
with “generally accepted
accounting principles.”
Reporting by Jonathan
Ballew, Freelance Reporter.
Full story at HPLandmark.
com.
THE GLENVIEW LANTERN
Real-estate broker
performs Heimlich, saves
life, during open house
Ellen Stern has hosted
countless open houses over
the years. They’ve never,
until recently, involved saving
a life.
Stern, a broker with Berkshire
Hathaway HomeServices
KoenigRubloff Realty
Group, was speaking with a
man during an open house
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