Thursday, May 1, 2014

Illinois Cannot Afford Library Honoring President Barack Obama

Illinois has the honor of claiming home to three United State’s Presidents.  Illinois also has the dubious honor of having over $7 billion in unpaid bills, a woefully underfunded pension system, and a culture of taxing and spending at the state capitol bringing State Rep. Barbara Wheeler (R-Crystal Lake) to the conclusion that we cannot afford a $100 million library in honor of President Barack Obama.

“We as lawmakers have an obligation to prioritize and responsibly allocate taxpayer money,” said Wheeler. “Being elected President of the United States is a great honor and should be remembered, but if we have an extra $100 million to spend, which we don’t, why not invest in our crumbling infrastructure?  Why not invest in our underfunded pension system?  Why not invest in education?  Why not pay our bills?”

Illinois Democrats pulled an odd parliamentary maneuver when the House Executive Committee met at a subject matter only hearing, they voted to approve the $100 million library without any Republicans present.  Due to no meeting posting, required by the Open Meetings Act, and no quorum being present for a vote to take place, Democrats used the previous meeting’s roll call to justify their actions.  The Chairman of the committee, Daniel Burke (D-Chicago) then took a non-formal roll call and counted all Republicans present at the previous meeting voting in favor of the $100 million library.

“Now is not the time to play parliamentary games,” said Wheeler.  “Whether they want to admit it or not, we are still in a fiscal crisis.  We are still far behind in economic recovery; we are still well behind the rest of the nation in unemployment.  We simply cannot afford an extra $100 million on a library.”

Should the parliamentarian of the House rule the proceedings proper, the House will be set to vote  on the $100 million Barack Obama Presidential Library before adjournment on May 31st.


Government At Work

FRIDAY MAY 2
10:00 a.m.—Crystal Lake Park District Finance Committee—
Meeting in the Park District Administration Building, One East Crystal Lake Avenue.
The Committee is to consider health insurance.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Government At Work

THURSDAY MAY 1
8:30 a.m. – McHenry County Board Planning and Development Committee—
Meeting in the County Board Conference Room, County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.
A status report on the County UDO is to b provided. Other related reports will also be presented.
1:30 p.m. – McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals—
Meeting in the County Board Conference Room, County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.
Discussion and approval of amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance based on public comment is to be considered along with a motion to accept and recommend the UDO to the Planning and Development Committee

Randall Road Improvement Update

McHenry County would like to take this opportunity to provide an update on the Randall Road Improvement Project.    For the past two and a half months, the Design Team has been actively soliciting input from the stakeholders as part of their efforts in re-evaluating the intersection at Algonquin Road
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In an effort to solicit input from the stakeholders, the Design Team mailed an outreach letter and project kick off flyers to over 100 business and property owner along the corridor.  Additionally, the Design Team walked door to door personally handing out this flyer to each business along the corridor, which numbered over 300 businesses.  In the letter, the project was re-introduced and stakeholders were asked to contact the Design Team to discuss any questions or concerns.  A copy of the project flyer was posted on the project website and Facebook page.
Since this initial outreach effort, a number of businesses and entities have contacted the Design Team.  To date the Design Team has attended 14 meetings with various stakeholders, with an additional meetings planned for the coming weeks.  The intent of the meetings has been to provide current information about the overall project, listen to the stakeholders’, and gain an understanding of their operations and concerns.  It has been stressed at these meetings that the intersection type has not been determined and that access is being re-evaluated.
While the outreach efforts continue, the Design Team is also currently reviewing updated socioeconomic data that will be used to determine and/or verify future traffic projections.  These future traffic projections will be the basis of re-evaluating the intersection alternatives. 
Additionally, survey crews have begun working within the corridor to obtain the necessary topographical data necessary as the project moves into final design (known as Phase II).  These crews will be working over the next couple of months to complete this task.  This topographical data will help to determine the detailed aspects of the design in order to prepare the contract plans required to construct the improvements.
The County will send out additional communications with more specific information as soon as it is available.  The County encourages you to visit our project website at www.RandallRoad.info and sign up for our mailing list or find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/GetRandallGoing to stay informed.

Sunday Is An Important Day - Run/Walk For The Arts

Sunday, May 4 is an important day. It’s the Bob Blazier Run For the Arts 5K Run/Walk. 
Now in its 17th year, runners and walkers alike can be superheroes just for one 5K. This race honors Bob Blazier’s unparalleled community accomplishments and benefits the Raue Center – a 501©3 non-profit organization.
Participants can rally together with a team, co-workers or hit the pavement solo. Not up for a full 5K distance, there is Bob’s trusty sidekick Rosemary and her     1-mile Walk.
This year’s event also includes the Bob Blazier Run for the Arts Corporate Challenge, which is designed to help companies foster healthy lifestyle choices and a commitment to wellness, all while participating in a fun and exciting competition.
All fitness levels and abilities are welcome to participate in the challenge. Categories include Greatest Overall, Most Money Raised, Most Superhero Sprint and Best Average Team Time. The winner of each category will win a trophy and each member of the winning team will receive a pair of limited edition Bob Blazier Run For the Arts socks.
For more information about this 501©3 non-profit organization which sponsors the annual Run For The Arts, contact Ryan McNerney at rmcnerney@rauecenter.org.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Government At Work

WEDNESDAY APRIL 30—
1:30 p.m.—McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals—
Meeting in the County Board Conference Room, County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.
The Zoning Board s to consider the Bianchini zoning request for a renewal and amendment to A1C-A1C on property in Alden Township. A conditional use permit to allow for retail sales of food and gifts, indoor and outdoor entertainment including miniature golf, carousel, hayrides, train rides, and petting zoo, an entertainment pavilion for banquets, weddings, receptions, and food preparation, all of which is related to the orchard and garden operation on the premises
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Petitioner is requesting a renewal and an amendment to allow, in addition to those already delineated in Conditional Use Permit 05-44, the following uses and/or modifications:
  • Change of the operation hours from between 7:00 a.m. t 10:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday to 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Sunday
  • Removal of the clause in the original Conditional Use Permit 05-44 stating the following: No further buildings and/o structures shall be allowed on the property.

Secret Meeting In Virginia

Over the next several days, more than a hundred of the most powerful people on the planet will attend a secret conference at a hotel in Chantilly, Virgina.  Some of the biggest names in politics and business will be there.  The hotel is going to be completely locked down and will be swarmed by hordes of security guards carrying machine guns.  This conference is so important that even the U.S. Secret Service is rumored to be involved in providing security.  These meetings have been held yearly since 1954, but no record of what goes on at them has ever been officially released to the public and all the attendees are sworn to secrecy.  Decisions made at this conference will affect the lives of every man, woman and child on the planet.  But the vast majority of Americans will have no idea that the Bilderberg Group is meeting about 20 miles from Washington D.C. this year because the mainstream media in the United States ignores the Bilderberg Group almost entirely year after year.  Based on the coverage it gets from the U.S. media, you would think that the Bilderberg Group was a non-event.  But if some of the most powerful people on the planet are getting together to discuss our future, don’t you think the mainstream media should be covering it?
The Bilderberg Group is much more than just a social club.  It has played a major role in shaping the direction of the world since it was created in 1954.  The Bilderberg Group helped create the European Union and it helped create the euro.  This year efforts to save the euro are rumored to be high on the agenda.
And considering the big names that show up at this conference on a yearly basis you would think that the U.S. media would be extremely interested in it.  The following is just a sampling of the big names that have attended Bilderberg in recent years….
Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Prince Charles, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, Angela Merkel, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Rick Perry, David Rockefeller, Herman van Rompuy, Jean-Claude Trichet, Jeff Bezos, Chris R. Hughes, Eric Schmidt, Craig J. Mundie, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Richard Perle, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden
Isn’t that enough star power to get the attention of the mainstream media?
A complete list of the “official attendees” of the Bilderberg Group from last year can be found right here.
You would think that this would be big news.
But apparently there is so much else going on in the world that there isn’t any room to cover the Bilderberg Group.
For example, right now on USA Today you can find the following headlines on the front page….
-Trilogies spring up on reading lists
-Spelling still matters in era of texting, spell check
-Many chain stores now add a toy aisle for adults
Perhaps other news sources are discussing more important news.
Then again, perhaps not.
On the front page of CNN, you can currently find the following headlines….
-Airline seat squeeze: It’s not just you
-Group: Prove Romney’s not a unicorn
-Scientists confirm ‘old person smell’
No wonder CNN is experiencing record low television ratings.
The mainstream media may be ignoring Bilderberg, but based on the level of security around the hotel you would be tempted to think that it was the most important event in the United States this year.
A recent article by Paul Joseph Watson discussed some of the extraordinary security measures that are being implemented to protect this conference….
Undercover Fairfax police, secret service, hotel security, as well as diplomatic service personnel are all now rushing to finalize preparations for the arrival of Bilderberg members tomorrow morning.
According to London Guardian journalist Charlie Skelton, conference organizers were also using iPhones to film guests who had arrived for brunch. Regular guests as well as journalists are also having background checks run against their names.
Alex Jones also heard discussions between members of Bilderberg security about how sophisticated surveillance equipment using satellites was being used to tap phones of prominent activists and media personalities set to cover the event.
So why doesn’t the mainstream media want to cover this?
In the past, a number of top politicians (including future U.S. presidents) have attended Bilderberg prior to getting elected to very important positions.  A recent WorldNetDaily article detailed a few examples of this phenomenon….
George H.W. Bush attended in 1985. He became president in 1988. Bill Clinton attended in 1991. He became president a year later. Tony Blair attended in 1993. He became prime minister of England in 1997. Romano Prodi attended in 1999. Later that year he became president of the European Union Commission. In 2004, Sen. John Edwards spoke to the group. He was later anointed the Democratic vice presidential nominee by presidential candidate John Kerry.
It is even rumored that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton held a secret meeting at Bilderberg back in 2008.
Amazingly, there are indications that Barack Obama may have held a little “pre-Bilderberg meeting” again this year.  According to the Economic Policy Journal, Obama snuck away from reporters on Saturday for some mysterious reason….
Of note, President Obama disappeared this weekend.. Reporters were miffed. Was it a pre-Bilderberg meeting for the Prez?
On Saturday, West Wing Report had these odd tweets:
President arrived 1:10 ET at Andrews golf course. Playing today with regulars Marvin Nicholson; Walt Nicholson & Pete Selfridge

President back at White House. In a breach of longtanding policy, his motorcade departed without hooking up with the waiting press vans.

Pool does not know first hand when the president left Andrews, what route he took, or when he arrived at White House

Press pool always accompanies the president wherever he goes. Decades-long tradition violated again.
Remember, if the President meets someone outside the White House, it isn’t logged in on WH records and there is no record if the press aren’t there to record it.
So where did Obama go during that missing time and why did he ditch the press?
They will probably never tell us.
The truth is that the mainstream media is the biggest “gatekeeper” of all.
They decide what is important and what is not important.
They decide what is going to be in “the news” and what the American people are going to be talking about.
They choose to totally ignore the Bilderberg Group and so most Americans will not even hear about it this year.
And that is really sad.  The truth is that those that attend Bilderberg have big plans for all of us.
David Rockefeller, a regular attendee at Bilderberg meetings, wrote the following in a 2003 book entitled “Memoirs”….
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the fact that a bunch of elitists are holding secret conferences where they discuss how to build a “more integrated global political and economic structure”.
The future of America should be in the hands of the American people – not in the hands of secretive global elitists that desire to shape the world in their own image.
Please share this information and other articles you can find about the Bilderberg Group with as many people as you can.  The mainstream media is not doing their job, so it is up to all of us to get the truth out.

Questions from “Town Crier”: Who pays for these government people to attend this shindig? If it is their own funding—fine. But if they are paid by tax dollars, is it possible there is a big problem.?

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Government At Work

MONDAY APRIL 28—
8:30 a.m. – McHenry County Board Management Services Committee—
Meeting in the County Board Conference Room, County Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.

  • A presentation is slated to the committee regarding project work request.
  • Discussions are slated regarding Fiber Extension and Going Paperless
  • A reconsideration is slated regarding Lynn M. Ryan for appointment to the McHenry County Ethics Commission. A recommendation is to be provided for the County Board Chairwoman for the McHenry County Ethics Commission for a term to expire February 1, 2016
  • Consideration is slated regarding an ordinance revising the Purchasing Ordinance effective July 1, 2014.

6:00 p.m. – McHenry County Board of Health Personnel Committee—
Meeting in the County Board of Health Animal Control Adoption Center, 100, Virginia Street, Crystal Lake.
The only matter on the agenda is discussion regarding the Public Health Administrator.

7:00 p.m. – McHenry County Board of Health --
Meeting in the County Board of Health Animal Control Adoption Center, 100, Virginia Street, Crystal Lake.
Six new contracts and agreements are being presented for approval including:

  • Stan’s Office Tech,
  • We Choose Health—Smoke Free Public Spaces, McHenry Township
  • We Choose Health –Smoke Free Public Spaces – Village of Bull Valley
  • We Choose Health – Coordinated School Health – Riley School district 18
  • IDPH-IBCCP Grant for $25,000 – Amendment
  •  Dental Aux Placement Services Agreement for Temporary Dental Staffing

The program highlights – Animal Control and Adoption Division

Illinois' Great Honors

Illinois has the honor of claiming home to three United State’s Presidents.  Illinois also has the dubious honor of having over $7 billion in unpaid bills, a woefully underfunded pension system, and a culture of taxing and spending at the state capitol bringing State Rep. Barbara Wheeler (R-Crystal Lake) to the conclusion that we cannot afford a $100 million library in honor of President Barack Obama.

 “We as lawmakers have an obligation to prioritize and responsibly allocate taxpayer money,” said Wheeler.  “Being elected President of the United States is a great honor and should be remembered, but if we have an extra $100 million to spend, which we don’t, why not invest in our crumbling infrastructure?  Why not invest in our underfunded pension system?  Why not invest in education?  Why not pay our bills?”
Illinois Democrats pulled an odd parliamentary maneuver when the House Executive Committee met at a subject matter only hearing, they voted to approve the $100 million library without any Republicans present.  Due to no meeting posting, required by the Open Meetings Act, and no quorum being present for a vote to take place, Democrats used the previous meeting’s roll call to justify their actions.  The Chairman of the committee, Daniel Burke (D-Chicago) then took a non-formal roll call and counted all Republicans present at the previous meeting voting in favor of the $100 million library.
“Now is not the time to play parliamentary games,” said Wheeler.  “Whether they want to admit it or not, we are still in a fiscal crisis.  We are still far behind in economic recovery; we are still well behind the rest of the nation in unemployment.  We simply cannot afford an extra $100 million on a library.”
Should the parliamentarian of the House rule the proceedings proper, the House will be set to vote on the $100 million Barack Obama Presidential Library before adjournment on May 31st.