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   Oak Park Wednesday Journal (Newspaper) - September 24, 1980, Oak Park, Illinois                                OAK PARK RIVER 24, 1980  1, No. 9  library referendum hit by continues at the Oak Forest High School stadium Although the seating is dirty and your own with the help of temporary the games do go The stadium seating should be completed next Journal photo by Neville ERIC tax revolt group has contacted its River Forest volunteers and is now the only organized opposition to passage of the village's first library tax Sept. 30.  Taxpayers United of Illinois the same organization that worked to defeat referendums in River Forest last claims that 30 local members are making telephone calls and writing letters to village in an effort to defeat the library's of the group's action came less than two weeks before River Forest voters are to decide whether or not to raise the library's assessment on property taxes from 22 cents to 30 cents per assessed head of the taxpayer's said his group works throughout Illinois against tax increases and claims in the last 36 referendums where the group has been 35 have been would be against said of the River Forest referendum I wouldn't have as much objection to this tax increase if it was held on a regular election It would be an easy thing to put this on the Nov. 4 election We this another blatant attempt by local politicians in River Forest to speak a tax increase by the Forest's head Barbara said the referendum wasn't scheduled for Nov. 4 because the tax issue would have been overshadowed by state and other local throughout the libraries have had the best response when they are the only item on the when the water is not muddied by other major Hall also said that the heavy publicity given the issue does not indicate the issue past the Tobin disagreed with the library's policy of concentrating on the cardholders as receivers of promotional is standard operating tactic of taxing he information available to special interest groups of people who use the facility or have at one time used the no one an attempt to get out their previously had detailed the extensive promotional blitz that not only included concentrating on but sending press releases to local newspapers and listing referendum issues in the village on page 2  rge cuts in the cards for Oak Park in 1981 of budget cuts will be upcoming budget hearings by r Manager Ralph m to these some of the abolishing ihe fire prevention dunes picked up by the in board in late has S Preliminary discussions Apartment heads f affect n cuts which to are to just cutting but we're also looking at ways to do things to improve the He said his budget proposals were in a preliminary stage as he was reviewing each department and its said his goal was to bring in the 1981 budget without calling for a tax maybe some sort of a he The village's tax less than a third of the total property tax was per assessed valuation in 1978, in 1979 and in 1980.  who came to the village in July from the town manager post in was hired by the village board for his financial He took over from Jack who resigned last spring in the wake of a series of scandals over the administration of the village's housing rehabilitation fire prevention bureau operates out of the fire and acts as an inspection making periodic fire reviewing plans for new actual construction of new There are currently four full-time former firefighters working on the trustees say they have not given any budget direction to the village that during the interview process we relayed to him our intense concern over holding down said Trustee Shirley said that the village's expensive government was established in the first half of the 1970s, when an improved street lighting system was the new village nail was constructed and the police department was much can be done to cut back these said this very inflationary if we're holding down we must not be doing something as well as we did realize how little we can do about the village The commitment was there then for these services and I'd do it all over she said that although the was given no explicit direction from the board regarding budget he's going to do he's going to have to show me. same as if he wanted to start adding Klem said she did not necessarily have any problem with the idea of abolishing the fire prevention don't know that just because it's in the fire department that firefighters necessarily have to carry it It's not any different than having a Community Service Officer filling out an accident A civilian just has to be taught like has also changed the structure of the budget from previous He is planning to list the expenses of each department under that rather than including any For A Day in Our which in previous years was listed under will be listed within the Community Relations which administers

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