No Sewer, Road Projects Planned in 2012 Budget
Proposed village budget does not include any borrowed funds for capital improvement projects next year.
Village officials do not have plans to borrow money for big road, sewer or other infrastructure projects in this year's budget. At a Village Board budget meeting Monday night, village staff recommended not pursuing any major infrastructure projects, instead focusing on daily operations in the village, implementing a new GIS system, setting up a storm water utility and managing the consultants hired to analyze and plan major upcoming sanitary and storm water sewer projects. Trustee Kevin Buckley said the lack of sewer projects planned next year might not be palatable to flood-prone homeowners eager to see shovels in the ground. "The concept that the village is going to be doing more administrative things this year … and not be digging …
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Gordon E Lang
10:56 pm on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Former WFB Trustee Thomas Fehring, an engineer, became a Trustee because that he believed WFB was not keeping up with its infrastructure. It is unfortunate that he did not run for another term as I'm sure he would have echoed Kevin Buckley's concerns. Below is what Tom said at the end of his term last April. This is from Tom's final report on the achievement of goals he established when he f ran … more ›