GROWING COMMUNITY WEDNESDAY JOURNAL, INC.
Vol. 100, No. 34
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CELEBRATING 100 YEARS
F O R E S T PA R K
REVIEW AUGUST 23, 2017
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Budget shortfall at village hall $1.6M deficit forecast, four months into fiscal year By THOMAS VOGEL Staff Reporter
ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
BACK IN SESSION: Venny Cordero, 7, of Chicago, tries to jump over a moving log during a game on Friday, Aug. 18, at the Proviso Back To School Bash at the D209 District Office in Forest Park. See more photos on page 6.
Forest Park village administrators and elected officials are trying to close a roughly $1.6 million deficit in the recently passed appropriations ordinance and are working to finalize a budget document about four months into the fiscal year, which began May 1. A dozen or so village staff and elected officials, including Mayor Anthony Calderone, Village Administrator Tim Gillian and Finance Director Letitia Olmsted, along with the village council, met Aug. 17 for a budget workshop at village hall. They plan on meeting again on Aug. 31, and village staff, according to Gillian, has been tasked with re-examining their departments to look for further expenses to trim. According to an operating funds summary document given to the Review by Gillian, the village is forecasting $26,441,256 in total revenues and $28,097,645 in total expenditures. “I first want to bring some clarity to the term ‘deficit’ because this is our proposed budget, internal budget. We haven’t See BUDGET on page 4
Dr Clevs shutters dental practice after 54 years Dr . Longtime Forest Park dentist heads into retirement
By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter
After taking care of teeth for three generations of Forest Parkers, Dr. Arnold Clevs and his wife, Batia, shuttered
their dentistry practice in the little brick building at 334 Circle at the end of June. Clevs began teaching and doing research at the University of Illinois Chicago in 1954, after finishing a two-year commitment as an Air Force dentist. He was happy at the uni-
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versity and had no intention of going into private practice. Then a dentist in Forest Park fell ill and needed someone to fill in for him. See TEETH on page 10
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