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Minutes with Mayor Hofeld: Questions from Homewood Residents

Help us prioritize Patch submitted questions from Patch readers for Homewood's Village President Richard Hofeld.

 

We asked our H-F Patch Facebook friends for questions for Homewood Village President Richard Hofeld. Now, we need your help to prioritize them. 

While we'd love to ask Hofeld every question, he's got things to do, including a village to run. All are invited to vote in our poll below to help us decide which questions are the most pressing.

Here's what we've got so far. Please offer additional suggestions in the comment section.

Which questions would you like Hofeld to answer?

  • What questions would you most like Homewood Village President Richard Hofeld to Answer?

    (Voting has been closed for this question)
    • Does the village have any power over nuisance rental properties and the renters who inhabit them? —Nora Beverly
        11 (22%)
    • Is the village looking into any options to redue the burden of high water bills? —Raiye Rosado Cichon
        15 (31%)
    • I have heard rumor that the senior taxi discount is going to end. I would like to know why, and if it is a funding issue, again, why? The senior taxi vouchers are much more important, in my opinion, than the having all of the festivals. —Reduce Reuse Recycle
        1 (2%)
    • Is there any hope of Homewood getting a downtown movie theater? —Ed Miller
        1 (2%)
    • Any chance of relocating Village Hall to Halsted so that a parking garage could be built in the downtown area? —Phil Courington
        0 (0%)
    • How do you think neighboring town's gambling plans will affect Homewood? —Fredric Mitchell
        4 (8%)
    • Are there plans to open up more bike lanes on 183rd Street? Why or why not? —Fredric Mitchell
        2 (4%)
    • Considering that there are several local breweries nearby, could Homewood start hosting an annual brewfest? —Tobias Cichon
        4 (8%)
    • Can anything be done about the traffic situation at Park & Dixie? —Steve Mullin
        2 (4%)
    • Does the village have any control over unrentable, but empty storefronts?
        8 (16%)
    Total votes: 48
  • Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. View Results Vote!
Related Topics: Government, Minutes With The Mayor, Politics, Questions, Richard Hofeld, and village

gayleski

7:09 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

What are the chances of getting left turn arrows on Ridge Road at Riegel? The turn lanes are already in place-how hard is it to add an arrow? Sometimes you wait through three lights during peak times.

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babyboomer

10:04 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Well, I guess that adding an electric village sign takes presidence, LOL!!

Raurie

7:22 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Is anything going In where the caribou coffee, Hollywood video, super loot ,tom's restaurant, laura's clothing store used to be??

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JennieB

8:51 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

If the Homewood Hotel is going to be demolished, could any usable content be donated to the new PADS site?

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Cfoam

12:18 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

All these questions are good and no one should be misled to pick only one. I suggest everyone email the "mayor" and ask him directly or go to a village meeting and ask him in person. Maybe a reporter will actually report the answers rather than try to let others determine if your question is valuable enough to be asked. As far as being too busy to answer questions it's part of his job isn't it? I'm sure he could get someone else to answer for him anyway as answers should be known by multiple officials right? that is unless the Village President is omnipotent....

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Mr. Jack

7:39 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

President Hofeld is also available Saturday mornings at the village hall from 9:00 am until about noon. I've seen him in there many times, and have asked him questions from time to time. He seems to be open and makes himself available to the public. Stop by and talk to him.

Truth82

1:28 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Can the village of Homewood open the first " Homewood Coffee house" where the Caribou once was.... It would generate revenue and be able to hire people from the community.

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Ryan Fitzpatrick

11:27 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Questions I'll add for consideration:

1) What are the chances of getting left turn arrows on Ridge Road at Riegel?
2) Can you give us a status update on the prime vacancies in town such as Caribou, Tom's, Bogart's, etc.?
3) Can you give us a status update on the Homewood Hotel?

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margaret

12:18 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012

I am concerned about the number of home break-ins i've been hearing about--what are the police doing about this?? It seems like the majority happen during morning/afternoon hours when people are away from work. I'm mostly concerned if we happen to be out of town--otherwise I have a large dog in the house that barks loudly if he hears anything

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Ryan Fitzpatrick

12:30 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012

I'll keep this question in mind, too. Thanks Margaret!

Charlie

8:47 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012

Speeding on 183rd is out of control. Should be a safety priority and could be a revenue enhancer.

This a residential area!

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T'sMom

4:07 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Per Margaret's "concerned about the number of home break-ins i've been hearing about--what are the police doing about this?" So am I. We had a number of home break-ins on Hickory a few months ago, in fact one was right next door to me. After these break-ins, Homewood's police presence was increased in our area for a few weeks, luckily the person was caught who was doing these break-ins. Its a fact if police presence is consistent in neighborhoods it will deter crime. Homewood needs to step up, make their police presence known throughout the community to keep crime down, it's their job paid by the taxpayers.

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