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Vol. 32, No. 25
June 21, 2017
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North Riverside nixes county wage, sick time law Oak Park, Berwyn drop opt-out votes; changes kick in July 1 By BOB UPHUES Editor
North Riverside trustees made it official on June 19, voting 6 to 0 to opt out of Cook County’s minimum wage and accrued sick time laws. The board had signaled that vote in early June when the village board’s finance committee addressed the subject during a committee meeting. Mayor Hubert Hermanek Jr. at that time argued that the state’s General Assembly was the body that ought to be addressing a state-wide minimum wage. Indeed, both houses of the General Assembly in the past month voted to pass a bill that would raise the minimum wage statewide to $15 by 2022. The bill has yet to be sent to the governor for a signature, though Gov. Bruce Rauner is expected to veto the bill once it lands on his desk. In early June, Hermanek said he supported raising the state’s minimum wage, but did not support actions last year by the Cook County Board, which passed two laws. One law would increase the minimum wage to $10 an hour on July 1 and then increase the minimum wage by $1 per year every July 1 until the minimum wage was $13 in 2020. “The state has finally addressed it and that’s a reasonable amount, $15 an hour,” Hermanek said during the June 5 finance committee meeting. “And if it’s statewide I don’t see why any of us shouldn’t do anything except advocate in support.” The county board also passed a law last year that would allow hourly workers to accrue up to five days of paid sick leave. The laws go into effect on July 1 in all communities See MINIMUM WAGE on page 10
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After being rained out on May 20, a few dozen cyclists returned to Brookfield for the village’s second annual Bike Brookfield event on June 17, which took participants on a 10K tour of the village, from the downtown area to the Salt Creek Bike Trail and back. For more photos, visit online at www.RBLandmark.com.
Riverside Rec pilots D96 program
Parks-run before and after care offered for Central School kids in 2017-18 By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
In what is being described as a pilot project, the Riverside Department of Parks and Recreation is taking over the before- and after-school care program
at Central School for the 2017-18 school year. Riverside Parks and Rec will replace the Berwyn-based Pav YMCA in operating the school’s program. However, Pav YMCA will continue to provide before- and after-school care programs at
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the other three District 96 elementary schools. School officials are eager to work with Riverside Parks and Rec. “I think the community partnership See PILOT PROJECT on page 8
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