Homewood Mayor: We Need to Improve Intergovernmental Communication
Representatives from Homewood’s other taxing bodies appeared at the Dec. 11 meeting to ask the board to table a vote to spend nearly $1 million in economic development so a joint meeting could be held to discuss the decision.
Homewood trustees passed an agreement to provide $900,000 in TIF money for the development of a new downtown hotel, but not without considerable opposition from the village’s other taxing bodies. Their chief complaint? The village failed to give them a fair warning of such a large impending financial decision. READ: Planned Downtown Hotel Receives $900,000 from Village “Our school district was taken aback by the sudden emergence of the proposed financial assistance package for the downtown hotel project …” Shelly Marks, School District 153 Board President, said. In response, Marks presented the board with a list of questions compiled from her district, the H-F Park District, the Homewood Public Library and H-F High School District 233. She…
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The ORIGINAL Mike B
1:09 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Change of heart-I am dead set against this development. After my own investigation, I am convinced Homewood cannot and will not support such an endeavor, and most of the Ravisloe wedding guests are incredibly cheap and will not stay in anything above the Halsted Budget Inn (jewish people are not known as spendthrifts) more ›