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		<title>Random News</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Why is all the news about Winfield always humiliating? From the Daily Herald: Winfield Trustee Censured, Escorted From Meeting.From your fearless leader showing her famous leadership abilities:On Friday, Village President Deborah Birutis said that she was “horrified” by what the board did to punish Spande. “Their actions in removing Trustee Erik Spande from last night’s board meeting was illegal, as trustees once again ignored the village’s legal counsel,” Birutis said. Birutis said that the purpose of executive session isn’t to protect board members from what they said or did. “There are certain trustees that have continued to mislead the public regarding what was going on behind closed doors,” she said. “As for Trustee Spande, he has an unwavering sense of honesty and integrity.” Filling the large shoes of Mayor Mike Kwasman: Rubin Pineda with a nice write up in the DH. I have heard nice things about this guy.May 18, 2012 &#8211; Third Ward Alderman Ruben Pineda was appointed acting mayor at the May 7, 2012 city council meeting following the unexpected passing of Mayor Mike Kwasman. Apparently Winfield isn&#8217;t the only village that is interested in corrupting the children. Vernon Hills considers permitting video gambling.(DH) In the private sector we do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marathon, Back On.</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/05/18/marathon-back-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answering the question of whether or not to commercialize the corner of Winfield and Roosevelt Road should be a community project. Thousands of citizens in our village have been waiting years to be part of this discussion. Revitalizing our Roosevelt Road area (and what this revitalizing should look like) should be a question answered through a community conversation, which I would like to start. The Marathon Gas Station holds a valid business permit. It has a retail presence in a brick and mortar building with an appearance of nothing more than a typical business. Signs show it to be nothing other than a typical business, clearly it&#8217;s not a house where people live (as its current zoning designation shows it to be). For this reason I believe it’s time that our Plan Commission have a discussion about rezoning the property. If there really are any sound reasons as to why we should call the Marathon Gas station a home that by all appearances is a business, then let’s hear those reasons on the record at the Planning Commission. At least then it will be open for public input and ultimately voted on by our Commissioners. For several years I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Update on Last Nights VB Meeting</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/05/18/quick-update-on-last-nights-vb-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am doing my best to balance my work needs with the need to blog and be a trustee so I apologize for being brief but this is an attempt to bring you up to speed on what happened at the village board last night. The village board voted 4-2 to expel Trustee Spande from the village board meeting for divulging confidential executive session information. (Bajor dissenting) The village board then voted 5-0 to censure Trustee Spande for the same breach of trust. Then, the meeting went very well and very quickly without Trustee Spande and we got plenty done. The most important of which is we sent the Marathon Gas station at the corner of Roosevelt and Winfield Road to the planning commission to rezone it from a residential zoning classification to a commercial one. Winfield United was on hand in large numbers to give Trustee Spande a standing ovation as he was escorted out by police Chief Reever. Spande appears to be quite proud of himself as can be seen by his email below. Hi all, Well, I was illegally ejected from the board meeting (4-2, with me and Jack voting no). Village Attorney Elliott stated that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet My Baby</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/05/16/meet-my-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 02:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that success has a hundred fathers but failure is an orphan. I would like you to meet my baby. I plan to love this baby regardless of if it is a success or a failure. I am in very strong support of outsourcing the Winfield police services to the County of DuPage. The village of Winfield, as I have pointed out on several occasions, is flat broke and getting more so each day. The most obvious symptom of this can be seen in our roads which are  estimated to need somewhere between 3.6 and 5.2 million dollars of repairs. The money for these repairs doesn&#8217;t exist anywhere in our budgets and won&#8217;t without a tax increase. Due to the state of the economy and the fact that 1 out of 3 Winfield citizens is either unemployed or under-employed I don&#8217;t feel comfortable raising taxes. Outsourcing our police services will save taxpayers between 1 Million and 1.5 Million dollars per year. That is an enormous amount of money to a town our size. Considering our general fund is $4.5 Million a year we are talking about saving 25 cents on every dollar we spend as a village each year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soak the Rich&#8230; Um&#8230; Ridge&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/05/16/soak-the-rich-um-ridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winfield is raising water rates again! Relax, it&#8217;s not on Winfield residents this time. It&#8217;s on Wheaton Ridge which is unincorporated DuPage County. Winfield has a contract with Illinois American Water to store and transport water. We are raising our rates in lock-step with the rates Winfield is charging it&#8217;s own citizens over the next four years. At the end of the four year period Wheaton Ridge will be paying an additional $2.02 per 1000 gallons. This is good news to Winfield because we make a profit on the sale. This year&#8217;s profit alone is slated to be $63,000. In four years it will be in excess of $130,000. We pump and store 93 million gallons of water for Wheaton Ridge. The rates above are based on per thousand gallon increments. It&#8217;s too bad that the money we make on pumping and storing Wheaton Ridge water isn&#8217;t able to be moved out of the Water and Sewer fund and used on roads. At least the money is in our budgets though and that takes some of the burden off Winfield&#8217;s taxpayers.]]></description>
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		<title>REM Consultants &amp; Household Analogies</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/05/15/rem-consultants-household-analogies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting exchange with with a commenter named JKlog. He was taking me to task about an analogy that I made about Winfield being like a family that was &#8220;house poor&#8221; in this post. In response, JKlog wrote an analogy of his own: Imagine a solid, middle class household. There’s a husband, wife, 2 children and a dog. One day, the husband wakes up and decides that he’s going to use all the money previously spent on hobbies, extracurricular activities, and education on landscaping. The family won’t be able to eat anything but ramen noodles for the next 10 years, and they’ll have to get rid of their beloved dog, Sparky, but they will have the greenest yard on the block. I would hope the first question the wife would ask is why did the husband unilaterally decide to give such a focus to the lawn, when everything else impacts the family so much more? Having an average lawn that may have the occasional dandelion is fine with 75% of the group. Every analogy is flawed and this one is no exception. Part of the reason it&#8217;s flawed is one of identity. Who&#8217;s the husband, who&#8217;s the wife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the missing bakery?</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/05/14/wheres-the-missing-bakery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Goodwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you Google the Vanilla Sugar Bakery, you&#8217;ll find it!  In Los Angeles, that is. Where&#8217;s Winfield&#8217;s Vanilla Sugar Bakery? In September of 2011, the draft TIF agreement provided $50K and the VSB agreed to open no later than Dec 31, 2011. In October of 2011, they were one of the sponsors a riverwalk fund raising event.  This is unsurprising since President Birutis was the one who sponsored their TIF agreement.  In fact, she used the new bakery as an example of the great signs of health and vigor in the village in both the September and December editions of the Winfield Word. Winfield&#8217;s Vanilla Sugar Bakery used to have a Facebook page, with a fair number of Likes, as I recall.  For a while, they took orders by phone. It also wasn&#8217;t clear what kind of products they were going to offer.  The California VSB only sells decorated sugar cookies and cakes.  Was Winfield&#8217;s going to sell bread?  Chocolate croissants? Coffee cakes?  Coffee?   Occasionally, someone would post a comment asking when they were going to open.   One day, their Facebook page was deleted. In December 2011, the owner asked for an extension to their Dec 31st opening, and it was granted.   That was exactly [...]]]></description>
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