Village of
Westchester June 2011 Newsletter
From the Desk of The President PRESIDENT’S LETTER
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CALENDAR
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CITIZEN SUPPORT CENTER
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PUZZLE
SCHOOL NEWS
ST. JOE’S NEWS WATER QUALITY REPORT
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President Pulia poses with Trustees Paul Gattuso, Tom Yurkovich and Frank Perry, newly elected officials who were sworn into office at the May 10th Board meeting.
It is hard to believe that summer is already beginning, especially given our recent weather that has been anything but summer-like. Despite the cold and wet weather of May, here in the Village things were heating up during the month.
SPRINGFIELD LEGISLATIVE DRIVE-DOWN On May 4th and 5th I, along with Village Manager Stan Urban, Trustee Nick Steker, and Trustee-Elect Frank Perry traveled to Springfield to meet with our legislators as part of the West Central Municipal Conference Legislative DriveDown. On May 4th we met with Gary Hannig, Director of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), attended a luncheon meeting that
featured the Lt. Governor Sheila Simon, and then met with the Illinois Municipal League (IML) Executive Director who informed us that the IML was working overtime to protect and prevent the taking of Local Governments Distributive Share. During the afternoon we met with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity; The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency; Matt O’Shea, former Westchester resident, and now Chief of Staff to Thomas Cross, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives; and Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno. That night we had another opportunity to meet with some of our representatives at a reception sponsored by AT & T at the Abraham Lincoln See DESK, page 5