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By DAVID THOMAS
dthomas@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb Public Library officials will ask DeKalb city leaders Monday to borrow $7.5 million to help pay for a library expansion that would more than triple the library’s size. Library Director Dee Coover, board President Clark Neher and architects from Nagel Hartray Architecture – a Chicago-based firm tasked with designing the new library – will tell the council why they think the
What: DeKalb City Council meeting When: 6 p.m. Monday Where: DeKalb Municipal Building, 200 S. 4th St., DeKalb city should help pay for the $24 million project. If the council decides to issue bonds, residents would see the library’s property tax rate increase by 8 cents, from 30 cents per $100 in
equalized assessed value to 38 cents, said Assistant City Manager Rudy Espiritu. The increase would cost the owner of a home with a $150,000 assessed value who claims the homeowner’s exemption about $40 more in annual property taxes. “They have a good story to tell. This is only one-third of the cost,” Espiritu said. “In some communities, sometimes the whole cost is on property taxes.”
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By the numbers Here is how DeKalb library leaders are proposing paying for a $24 million expansion:
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million from a Illinois Public Library Construction Grant million in bonds the city could issue
$6 $1 $1
million in private donations million from DeKalb’s Central Area tax increment financing district fund million from the DeKalb Public Library’s fund reserves
Debt crisis averted, but spring fight still ahead
fATAL WRECK NEAR GENOA
By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com
firefighters work near a box truck that was involved in an accident Wednesday on Route 23 near the intersection with Lloyd Road, south of Genoa.
One dead, five injured in crash By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI
jduchnowski@shawmedia.com
GENOA – A man was killed and five people were injured about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday when a box truck crossed the center line and struck another box truck head-on, police said. DeKalb County Chief Deputy Gary Dumdie was unsure Wednesday night what caused the southbound truck to go into the northbound lane. The crash, which happened on Route 23 near Lloyd Road, also involved a Chevrolet Impala and a minivan driving directly behind the northbound box truck. “It was one right after another,” Dumdie said. The driver of the northbound truck was pronounced dead at the scene, Dumdie said. The names and information about the people involved were not available by 9:15 p.m. Wednesday. Five people – the driver of the southbound truck, a passenger in the northbound truck, a driver and passenger in the Impala and a driver in the minivan – were taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital with injuries that were not lifethreatening, Dumdie said. Route 23 was closed between Base Line and Whipple roads as
WASHINGTON – Retreating with a purpose, Republicans sped legislation through the House on Wednesday to avert the imminent threat of a government default but pointing the way to a springtime budget struggle with President Barack Obama over Medicare, farm subsidies and other benefit programs. The current legislation, which cleared the House on a bipartisan vote of 285-144, would permit Treasury borrowing to exceed the limit of $16.4 trillion through May 18. As it passed, Speaker John Boehner pledged that Republicans would quickly draft a budget that would wipe out deficits in a decade, and he challenged Democrats to do the same. The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to approve the debt bill as early as Friday or perhaps next week. The White House welcomed the legislation rather than face the threat of a first-ever default at the dawn of the president’s second term in the White House, and spokesman Jay Carney pointedly noted a “fundamental change” in strategy by the GOP. House Republicans cast the bill as a way to force the Senate to draft a budget for the first time in four years, noting that if either house fails to do so, its members’ pay would be withheld. They called the bill “no budget, no pay,’ ” a slogan if not a statement of fact, since lawmakers would be entitled to collect their entire salaries at the end of the Congress with or without a budget in place. With polls showing their public support eroding, the Republicans jettisoned, for now at least, an earlier insistence that they would allow no additional borrowing unless Obama and the Democrats agreed to dollar-for-dollar federal spending cuts in exchange.
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A car, minivan and box truck were involved in an accident on Route 23 near the intersection with Lloyd Road, south of Genoa. Go to Daily-Chronicle.com to see a photo gallery from Wednesday night’s crash. emergency crews worked. The roadway still was closed about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday.
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