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Election Day
Election Day is tomorrow, April 2. For those who haven’t early voted, please get out and vote. Local government elections determine what local services you receive and at what cost— through your property taxes—with the School Board taking over 2/3 … Continue reading
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Tagged alderson, batavia, beck, candidates, city council, dremel, elections, hanrahan, knopp, library, lowe, malay, meitzler, naylor, niekamp, school board, schullo, solfa, woerner, wolff
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Shodeen, the Final Battle
Update: The Council would not postpone the vote and passed all measures unanimously. Final vote was taken at the City Council meeting. Tuesday night, 2/26/19, 7pm, the City Council COW will take up the matter of the soil contamination on … Continue reading
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Tagged batavia, city council, contamination, elections, Shodeen, Washington
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“You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”
If you live in one of the unincorporated pockets of Batavia, the City is coming after you. For some, it could happen quickly; for others, it may take a while longer— but you will be annexed into the City of … Continue reading
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Tagged annexation, batavia, city council, taxes, Unincorporated
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Home Rule Information Presentation
MARK YOUR CALENDARS for Monday, Sep. 17, 7pm, Batavia Library. Jim Tobin, economist and President of Taxpayers United of America will give a presentation on how Home Rule affects taxpayers. Mr. Tobin has spent decades fighting home rule throughout Illinois, … Continue reading
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Tagged batavia, city council, home rule, referendum, taxes, taxpayers united, tobin
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Referendum voting info
The Home Rule Referendum is indeed on the ballot for Nov. 6. Early, early voting starts Sep. 27, and plain old early voting starts Oct. 22. You can also vote by mail if you request it (and if you trust … Continue reading
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Tagged ballot, batavia, city council, home rule, question, referendum, vote
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REFERENDUM ON HOME RULE
WE NEED YOUR HELP! We need 1200 signatures to place a referendum on the ballot to give citizens a choice on whether or not the City of Batavia should remain a HOME RULE community. (The first time we tried, we … Continue reading
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Tagged batavia, city council, home rule, petitions, referendum, Shodeen, taxes
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City to Pay for Soil Contamination?
Mark Foster, writing for the Kane County Chronicle June 27, 2018, “Batavia works on soil cleanup plan to ready for Shodeen project,” writes: The city staff of Batavia is formulating a plan to clean up the One Washington Place downtown … Continue reading
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Tagged batavia, city council, remediation, Shodeen, soil contamination, tif, Washington
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Shodeen Apartments at Council Tonight
Tonight, Monday, 5/21, 7:30pm, the Batavia City Council is set to approve the zoning changes for the massive Shodeen apartment complex proposal. They approved it at the Committee of the Whole last Tuesday, by a vote of 7-6 (1 likely … Continue reading
Shodeen Project at Plan Commission Wednesday
Update: Zoning Overlay amendments approved 5-1. On to the City Council. Design Review approved unanimously, with some changes to allow Staff to determine final parking space configuration and to work on making the Wilson St. ground floor apartment entrances more … Continue reading
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Tagged apartments, batavia, city council, plan commission, Shodeen, Washington
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Revised Shodeen RDA Approved
Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, the new, revised Redevelopment Agreement between the City of Batavia and Shodeen’s LLC for the massive One Washington Place apartment complex was approved by a vote of 8-7, the City Council voting 7-7, with Mayor Schielke … Continue reading
