Oak Park World (Newspaper) - May 22, 1977, Oak Park, Illinois journal world VOL. 9 NO. 24 MAY 22, 1977 Copy 250 Weekend NEW COLUMN titled begins on page 3, section of today's The column will detail legislation supported or opposed by local state and federal SPRING program of the West Suburban Special Recreation Association is now in full swing and the are enjoying activities that range from See page 6, section 1. Wednesday C. of architect Rob recently donated two Frank Lloyd statues to the Historical Society of Oak Park River See photo of one and story in coming Wednesday's CARE is an important part of family services Read Wednesday about the Lutheran Child and Family Services organization in River Forest and a family that serves as foster the FLOWER FEST on the Oak Park Village Mall continue through May 22, for the enjoyment of all Flowers will be on display and for sale from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the mall WOMEN'S SOCIETY of Fair Oaks Presbyterian 744 Oaks 0$k will host the last book review by Herbert H. Duenow in his 35th consecutive review season at 4 p.m. He Will review The Hidden by James Phelan Refreshments will bp sewed and a offering a presentation music by Buryl and Lyrics by Ragan will be given at 10:30 a.m. today at me Euclid Avenue Methodist Washington Boulevard at Euclid Oak The musical will be presented by youth group from several delivers tax hike KAY Triton College taxpayers will be slapped with higher fox bills for the college one year earlier than previously according to Ronald Triton of the tax increase for Triton College will slip into second installment of 1976 taxes payable this Glink told the after a Triton College Board of college told the voters during the May 11 referenda campaign that the tax rate would not become tive until 1977 taxes are billed in 1978. Triton board Wednesday canvassed the referenda a 3-2 vote in favor of increasing the college operating tax rates by a total 17.5 the certification of election results is expected to arrive at Cook County Clerk Stanley office before the July 1 cutoff date for billing increased taxing authority will be applied to next tax county officials amount of increase for the taxpayers has not been according to Sal tax extension supervisor in the county clerk's maximum increase approved in the recent referenda would cost the typical taxpayer about in 1978, according to college The tax bills this year would not show the maximum Glink that be learned of the earlier effective date after the referenda and then advised the of several legal options available to the could levy to the maximum this which would result in a ' projected revenue increase of million for the The Triton board decided In a closed session not to consider an additional alternative for the Triton College board was to hold the tax increase until said of the county clerk's The college could tell county officials to the taxpayers at the previous tax rate said who is also Proviso Township Democratic legal options were not discussed at the open board meeting last week because the trustees agreed to take no Glink the routine approval of election results enables the college to collect some million more in revenue than anticipated in the this fiscal The college board had deliberately levied higher than anticipated revenues in hopes of a tax rate college President Brent Knight tax levy for this year was inflated in anticipation of a referenda Knight added revenue for fiscal year alleviate the deficit that we are Knight college had projected more than a million deficit this which would have depleted the cash according to budget windfall of unexpected cash means that the college will not take money out of the working cash fund to cover the deficit as had been Knight The increased revenue will also contribute to the working cash contended that the surprise increased tax revenue has become available due to delays in tax billing at the Cook County Assessor Thomas Tully's didn't know about it County Chief Deputy Assessor Dennis Dunne said that the taxing process is running on about the same schedule as last when the bills were issued by the July 1 hope to be on Dunne College is entitled to additional revenue within its new taxing authority and its levy by requesting a tax extension before the scheduled Dunne said that the college could still get its maximum tax increase by approving an additional tax levy ordinance by July 1. didn't want to do that the said Robert Triton College board think we said to voters we would do it next so we are going to do it next Collins decided that if we didn't have to take any action we said Triton Trustee Frances an Oak Park routine notification to the clerk's office should automatically result in a tax revenue increase this Glink official canvass of the Triton referenda showed 12,619 votes for the 12.5-cent increase in the education fund and 8,545 There were 12,522 votes for the 5-cent increase in the building and maintenance fund and 8,485 Kris director of the Oak Park Community Relations Department since its inception in 1972, announced last week that he would be resigning his post May 30 to assume directorship of a philanthropic trust of the Harris Bank and Trust Company of 30, said he will become a public affairs officer with the administering the in grants the bank will make available annually under a new Manager Jack Gruber said Thursday he has appointed CRD staff member Sherlyn Reld acting director of the Ronnow announced his resignation during an session of the Oak Park Village Board of Trustees May 16; new position will involve setting up a department at Harris Bank responsible for screening and preparing targets and briefing bank officers on interests and said the Harris trust will award about 35 per cent of its grants to educational Institutions and hospitals with the balance going to various civic groups and new he will be forth where and how the bank can use its it Is a new it's not possible to outline precisely what all the dimensions of the position will i he I took this I wasn't sure what all the dimensions of it would came to the CRD from an administrative position with the Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian holds a masters of divinity a masters degree in social CRD has a staff of 12 and has acquired the as one of the most capable and progressive KAY DIVINE and Oak Park village elementary school board to try fit a nursing contract into a the end result of the services to schoolchildren and the actual cost savings by arguments of the two James health has had the thankless Job of ferrying different and now the back and the boards for about 15 village board and the Oak Park School Distinct board are attempting to reach agreement on a shift from school nurses to nursing for the elementary a member of the staff of the Oak Park Housing displays a basket of flowers grown from bulbs bought at last year's bulb sale sponsored by the This year's sale is going on now and orders for flower bulbs are being taken this May 21 and 22, at the Oak Park Village Mall Flower May 29 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Giles linden Avenue and Greenfield and Jane 12 at noon at the Unitarian Universalist Lake Street and Kenilworth For more contact the center at 848-8150. by Dan assume bank departments in the The director's salary is slated in the 1977 village budget at said he will be taking a short vacation with his wife and three children before assuming his new would it Harris as more of a kind of he said he has had In the religious and public sectors and was looking to the Harris job as a challenge in the private challenging to me in that I think these skills that I have are equally applicable in each of those and now is the to test that he a wide background in community organizing in the Chicago neighborhoods of West Garfield and South Austin and in Oak Park each of those communities was undergoing ' he fras asked how he felt he would fit into a corporate I was doing community in I thought I'd never work in I thought they were the bad And he the last five years I've been working for said he felt he would now be in a position to advocate important concerns through an institution that has the resources and control to address said he did feel he was leaving an unfinished task with the CRD but that the community had evolved into a strong entity capable of coping with its is the third CRD staff member to leave or announce a departure from the department in the last two Cohen was terminated April 30, Brian Sickbert KRIS he will be leaving June 17 and Ronnow will leave May 30. village proposed the idea for all schools last year to save the schools high school board agreed to a public health nursing program with the which began last school board the village board approved nursing contracts negotiating the switch during the past but the two differ in services in just about Tills said the two contracts compared like and board is taking a different am deeply concerned about saving enough money to make the loss of services worth District 97 member Hubert Manager Jack Gruber said that the village is concerned about the commitment in relation to and the authority to hire nurses for next The schools have requested that the present nurses be is only one of several stumbling blocks to major disagreement in the contracts reached by each board during the past week is the widely separated total cost of the village places the public health contract cost at about while the school places the cost at large part of the difference is due to administrative higher and additional fringe benefits not included in the school district higher village based on a department account for about a according to administrative costs of the present school nursing service are included in the fixed salaries of one Robert and the building am not willing to include costs that are directly related to District 97," commented While acknowledging that the village sion of administrative cost is a common way of computing Heifer also pointed out that the village is personnel to supervise school lowest price tag for nursing comes from the present school nurse program as figured in the District 97 That figure is about for salaries plus a nominal amount for The present five nurses pay their own travel expenses incurred driving from school to cost difference in the two new totals of the two contracts is the cost of parochial school The District 97 contract does not include the that the village now pays for parochial school the village contract figures in the on page 8, section
