Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Owed nearly $450,000 in tickets, the Village is considering opening a month-long window for offenders with outstanding tickets to pay them off at half the cost.
The Hinsdale Village Board has approved a plan to offer a half-price savings amnesty to anyone with an outstanding Village parking ticket more than 30 days old. According to the Chicago Tribune, offenders would be able to pay off an old ticket for half the amount due; the Village is owed over $442,000 in unpaid tickets. The Village offered a similar program in 2009 and collected about $33,000 of the $335,000 owed, the paper said. "A five-dollar ticket that's more than 30 days old goes up to $75," Hinsdale Police Chief Brad Bloom pointed out to the paper, illustrating that the amnesty would not reduce any ticket price below its face penalty, only the fines for not paying, and that the Village will be sending letters to people with …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Administration and Community Affairs Committee chairman said a move to Chicago may be coming for him and his wife, and he wouldn't want to leave in the middle of a term.
Hinsdale village trustee Doug Geoga will not be seeking a second term on the Village of Hinsdale Board of Trustees in the April 2013 municipal election. Geoga, who is currently the chairman of the board’s Administrative and Community Affairs (ACA) Committee, said he and his wife have become “empty-nesters” since his 2009 election to the board and the couple is considering a move to Chicago to be closer to the Art Institute of Chicago, where Geoga’s wife currently studies. “I wouldn’t run for re-election if I thought that there was a possibility that I wouldn’t be able to serve out a term,” Geoga said Tuesday. As ACA chairman Geoga’s been a leading voice on the board’s budgetary and financial matters, but he said every trustee during his …
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Hinsdale's Administration and Community Affairs Committee voted unanimously against the liquor code amendment after no Walgreens representatives attended Monday's meeting.
The Village of Hinsdale Administration and Community Affairs (ACA) Committee unanimously denied a request Monday night from Walgreens to amend the village’s liquor code so that spirits could be sold at the convenience store in addition to beer and wine. The amendment had previously been listed as an action item on the Board of Trustees agenda for Tuesday night, but was pulled after the ACA vote. Trustee and ACA Committee chairman Doug Geoga said the committee’s vote was the result of what it felt was a lack of public interest in hard-liquor sales at Walgreens, located at 15 Grant Square, and the “very modest” sales-tax revenue projections that came with the amendment. Geoga said a Walgreens representative was not on hand Monday night. “I …
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The intersection of 1st and Garfield streets will become a four-way stop after a unanimous vote Tuesday night.
Though an ordinance placing two new stop signs at the intersection of 1st and Garfield streets, making it a four-way stop, got the unanimous approval of the Village of Hinsdale Board of Trustees Tuesday night, its passage came with some trustee reservations. The Hinsdale Police Department proposed the additional signs after they were justified by a traffic study that began in late December and showed significant enough pedestrian traffic and sight obstructions at the intersection, which features Hinsdale Middle School (HMS) on the southwest corner and Dips & Dogs on the northwest corner. The traffic study was prompted by a Dec. 21 incident in which a 15-year-old was hit in the north crosswalk by one vehicle that was passing another vehicle…
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
In addition to the removal of infected parkway trees by the village, residents will be responsible for removing private trees that are infected.
The Village of Hinsdale Board of Trustees approved an ordinance Tuesday night that seeks to protect the thousands of ash trees in Hinsdale by removing those parkway trees stricken by the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) and ordering residents to remove private trees that are infected. According to the ordinance, there are 1,900 ash trees on village property—approximately 10 percent of the total public tree population—and “as many or more” on private property in the village. The ordinance amends the section of the municipal code dealing with the prevention of Dutch Elm Disease, which village forester John Finnell said has affected Hinsdale trees for more than 40 years, so that it applies the same village policy to trees affected by the more recent …
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The approval of a text amendment to the village's zoning code was the last step in a long procedural process for the company that plans to renovate the Washington Square property.
A text amendment to Hinsdale’s zoning code that will clear the way for Eden Supportive Living to turn the Washington Square building, 10 N. Washington St., into a senior living and personal care facility got the approval of the Village of Hinsdale Board of Trustees Monday night. Eden’s months-long permit application process included three Plan Commission hearings—two for Eden’s proposal and one for the text amendment—and Village President Tom Cauley attaching requirements like Hinsdale-resident priority and a contribution to the village’s EMS fleet. The Board of Trustees approved Eden’s plan Aug. 16 on the condition that the text amendment got the approval of the Plan Commission and the board. The Plan Commission approved the amendment …
Friday, August 19, 2011
Tuesday's board of trustees meeting was a busy one; here are a few notable items.
BYOB: One month and one meeting after approving an ordinance prohibiting customers from bringing their own bottles of liquor to restaurants, known as BYOB, the board took the opposite approach at its Tuesday meeting and created a Class G Corkage Liquor License. “I was of the view that restaurants would not want this and we voted to prohibit it,” Village President Tom Cauley said. “We then heard from restaurant owners that they would like the option. We went and asked those in town, and without exception, they are all of the view that they would like to have the ability to offer patrons the opportunity to bring their own bottle.” The ordinance will allow residents to bring their own bottles of wine to local restaurants, where owners will …
Joe O'Donnell
8:54 am on Thursday, November 17, 2011
Thanks for the info, Rob. Very useful. more ›