Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Yorkville Patch asked all the candidates in contested city races the same four questions. Here are Arden Joe Plocher's answers in the race for Ward 2 alderman.
With election season in full swing, Yorkville Patch wanted to give readers a clear view of how local candidates compared on recent issues that surfaced before the City Council. Below are the answers from incumbent Joe Plocher, who is running against Jacquelyn Milschewski for alderman in Ward 2. Milschewski's answers can be found here. Come back tomorrow to see how the Ward 3 alderman candidates answered the same questions. • Did you vote to place a binding bike trails referendum on the April 5 ballot? Why? I did vote in favor of the biking referendum. There is no reason to put a question on the ballot and not make it binding. • Looking at the water and sewer bond problem the City Council faced this winter in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, …
Monday, December 27, 2010
Supporters have gathered enough signatures for a non-binding referendum but will ask alderman to put a binding question on the April 5 ballot.
Updated at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday with comments from Alderman Joe Plocher. Citizens have enough signatures to put an advisory bike trails referendum on the April 5 ballot, but they'll ask Yorkville's City Council to put forth a binding question Tuesday. Corey Johnson, who is secretary/treasurer of Aurora-based Laborers Local 149, has been leading the petition drive for about six weeks to ask voters about a property-tax increase to cover the city's portion of the proposed bike trails. The trails would be built in tandem with several road projects, and the state would cover about 80 percent of the costs. The proposed referendum is the same one voters shot down Nov. 2 with 2,261 "yes" votes and 2,554 "no" votes – a difference of 293 votes. …
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Mayoral race plus all four races for alderman are contested in the April 5 election.
There were no candidates rushing to file nominating petitions just before the deadline at 5 p.m. Monday, but four candidates have filed for city races in the past week. Since 4:30 p.m. Dec. 13, Mayor Valerie Burd filed to seek re-election, creating a three-way race among her, Alderman Gary Golinski (Ward 2), and Republican Precinct Committeeman Robert Gryder, according to a list of nominating petitions from Deputy City Clerk Lisa Pickering. Attorney Carlo Colosimo, who had considered running for mayor, filed nominating petitions to run against former City Treasurer Robert Allen for Ward 1 alderman. City Clerk Jacquelyn Milschewski filed a petition to run against Mac Hinman and incumbent Arden Joe Plocher for Ward 2 alderman. Treasurer …
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Aldermen voted, 4-3, Tuesday not to increase property taxes for one bond payment next year but did not resolve the overall budget problem.
Aldermen voted to keep one of its bond payments off property tax bills Tuesday evening before postponing votes on five others. City Council members have struggled with how to pay several water and sewer bonds in the fiscal year starting May 1 – largely because the annual payment for one will balloon from $537,541 this fiscal year to $1.5 million next year. City leaders want to decide by late January whether to collect property taxes next year for the bond payments. When city leaders issued the bonds years ago to extend sewer and water service to new commercial and residential development, they planned to make the annual repayments with fees associated with new sewer customers. Since then, development has declined enough that those fees …
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Monday, December 13, 2010
At least four city races will be contested, based on the candidate petitions that had been filed at City Hall on the first day of the filing period.
Incumbents will face challengers in at least four city races in the April 5 election, based on the ten candidates who filed petitions at Yorkville City Hall Monday. Challengers Robert Gryder and Gary Golinski filed petitions to run for mayor, Deputy City Clerk Lisa Pickering said. Mayor Valerie Burd and attorney Carlo Colosimo both also have announced they will run for mayor but did not file the necessary paperwork Monday. Monday was the first day of the candidate filing period, which ends at 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 20. In City Council races, Mac Hinman is running against Ward 2 incumbent Arden Joe Plocher. Christopher Funkhouser is running against Ward 3 incumbent Robyn Prince Sutcliff. In Ward 4, Marty Michalisko is running against …
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Joe Plocher
9:01 pm on Saturday, March 12, 2011
Mrs. Johnson, Thank you for asking, on Saturday, March 19th I am honored to again be involved with Suicide Prevention Services, and their "50 Men Who Can Cook" fundraiser. Suicide Prevention Services is an organization that helps families up and down the Fox Valley, you can learn more about them by following this link http://www.spsfv.org/10001.html and you can learn more about the "50 Men Who … more ›