We have employees WHY HIRE PEOPLE FROM THE OUTSIDE to do the work!!!!

Well in the boards ultimat wisdom they have decided to send even more money to study hiring outside personel to mow the grass in the parks and along the road. Well by the time they do the study and put it out for bid they will probably have spent any savings they might get by contracting the work out. We need to get ride of these people that say one thing and then do another. The board isn't paying any attention to the important things in town and taken way to much time on stupid things like this. They have hired summer help to do this work in the past and most of these were college kids or high school kids that needed jobs. Well that will end if they do this. Lets start the push to put these people out of office. I'm real tired of hearing one thing that they are going to do and then they just forget it or do the exact opposite.

IT IS TIME FOR THESE PEOPLE TO GO LETS SEND THEM THE MESSAGE THAT UNLESS THEY START WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE AND NOT FOR THERE OWN AGENDA THEY HAVE TO GO!!!!!!!

2009-11-23 Attached are the agendas for the meetings tonight and Tuesday. It dosen't appear that they have much on the agenda except wanting to charge you more for zoning permits. I thought we paid taxes to have these services and we have employees there to do the job already so why do we need to raise the fees.  Charging for a written zoning clarification is a good idea that takes time. But this is still something that we pay taxes for and we have hired a person to do this for the Village so why is it needed. Justify this to the people before just imposing another unreasonable fee on us!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-11-15 Last week I noticed that the village had on the agenda for the committee meeting to hire a Freedom Of Information Officer. What the hell are these people thinking they probably only have two or three requests a year and they want to hire someone to do this job. We pay and attorney every month let him ro the job. The people in town need to stand up and put these people in place and tell them that money does not grow on trees. If they need to have a FOIA  officer appointment one of the employees to do it. 

 Also on the agenda was something about garbage cans not being placed on the curb more then 24 hours before pickup and being taken in after pickup. Now we are going to be garbage police I guess. Its not a bad idea but give us a break and work on things that are going to bring our taxes down instead of just going through the motions and making busy work for themselves.

 The people in the Village need to contact the chairmen of the committees. The board only has one chair now and that is the village president and other then trying to control everything that goes on in the village he is not accomplishing anything. He should be taking care of the bigger picture like economic development and bringing more tax dollars into the Village. I know we have land valued at over 4 million dollars in the village that is being farmed and should not be and the property owner only pays about $400.00 in taxes this doesn't seem right  to me. I we have to pay our share of the taxes he should have to also.

_{^{2009-10-24 Well I just heard that some of the Board members are building shrines to themselves in the new building. A 400sf office is a little bit much for one person especially when some of the other employees are going to be in a what looks to be a closet in the new building. How much room does one man need when he is only in the building part time and . I heard it didn't cost anything to do this but it will in the long run when we en up putting the walls back in because we need more offices. Come on people lets get real and quit wasting the tax payers money on projects that haven't been authorized by the rest of the board and that are not needed for the Village to function.}}

 2009-10-16 Well last night the board voted against the ordnance that meant nothing and hopefully they will quit wasting time on this and move on. Some former board members stood up and said that the former board voted against putting the range in and, this is not true. The board never voted against putting the range. We decided not to equip the range at this time but we never voted against the range.

The board decided to also donate $500.00 to the fight against breast cancer but Trustee Sue Petty was against doing this because it didn't look right and violated the separation of church and state rules because this fund is associated with Saint Anthony Hospital. If this rule is followed to the letter cities and townships would have to quite taking care of cemetery's because the headstones have crosses on them.

Come on Wake UP and Take Care Of the Bigger Issues in town and let The Supreme Court Worry About Issues Like this. The founding fathers in my opinion did not mean for this to be used in this type of issue. Using tax dollars to find a cure for cancer is a worthy cause and a proper way of using tax dollars then some of the things the board uses the money for. This could be the $500.00 that could makes the difference. 

If they didn't want the gun range why didn't they decided this before they spent all the extra money making it a gun range. The board in there ultimate wisdom planned for a gun range built the walls for one and then decided to waste more money on and ordnance that means nothing as it can be changed at any time. Wake up people and quit wasting the tax payers money. A place for police officers to train is important and this should be completed when the money becomes available in the future.

 To have the village attorney make and ordinance for this was insane and a waste of money. everyone in town needs to stand up and tell them to take care of business and quit being children. 

Trustee DuBree Quit Complaining

 TRUSTEE DUBREE'S LETTER TO NEWSPAPER

2009-10-01FOR A MAN THAT SAYS THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG IN THE VILLAGE I HEAR LITTLE OUT OF HIM AT BOARD MEETINGS. HE SAID THE PEOPLE PUT HIM IN OFFICE TO WATCH THIS KIND OF SPENDING BUT HE STILL SAYS NOTHING WHEN THE BILLS ARE PRESENTED AND HE VOTES TO APPROVE THEM.  IF SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT SPEAK UP AT THE MEETING DON'T JUST SIT IN YOUR CHAIR AND SAY NOTHING.  ALSO THE FINANCE CHAIR DOESN'T HAVE CONTROL OVER THE MONEY SPENT IN THE VILLAGE THE BOARD HAS THAT CONTROL. WAKE UP AND QUIT COMPLAINING AND TAKE A STAND ON SOMETHING INSTEAD OF SENDING LETTERS TO THE NEWS PAPER BEFORE YOU TALK TO THE PEOPLE YOU ARE THERE TO WORK WITH.

 I KNOW FROM WORKING AROUND BOARD MEMBERS AND BEING ONE FOR EIGHT YEARS THAT THE VILLAGE WILL WORK BETTER THROUGH COMUNICATION THEN IT WILL IF YOU ARE JUST BITCHING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND NOT TRING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY TALKING IT OUT.  IF YOU ARE HAVING A PROBLEM GETTING THINGS ACROSS THEN MAYBE YOU ARE IN THE WRONG POSITION AND SHOULD STICK WITH THE ICE CREAM STORE. 

Annexation Agreement between Mr. Petry and the Village of Roscoe