The park board will meet in special session at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the Lincoln Center auditorium to continue its discussion about the Ramaker report findings and the potential for brining a public pool to Downers Grove. Note that this meeting will not be broadcast. While most commissioners have publicly stated their support for a [...]
Local policy wonks will have lots to savor in coming weeks as the village council works to finalize the 2009 budget, the Total Community Development III process gets underway, and the Park Board meets in special session to discuss the Ramaker Community Aquatic Facility proposal. The council will discuss the preliminary budget at a workshop [...]
Park board members tried to allay residents’ concerns about the potential finances and location of a public pool at their Sept. 4 meeting. But it remains to be seen whether their statements will succeed in quashing the rumors that have run rampant through the Patriots Park neighborhood since a consultant’s report identified the park as [...]
Tonight’s Park Board meeting will feature a review and discussion of the district’s Aquatic Facility Study, but whether it will move the possibility of a public pool closer to reality or expose more obstacles remains to be seen. Art Jaros, who has been spearheading the project since he was elected five and a half years [...]
Only 26 additional comments needed to push the “Dive into the Deep End” total to 300. While I didn’t expect more than a tenth that number of comments on this post, now I’m kind of hoping you’ll find just a few more things to say on the topic — if only to balance out the [...]
I come back from vacation to find 194 comments on the recent pool post. You guys must really have been bored to find so much to say about an issue that’s been kicking around Downers Grove for decades. But thanks for setting a new record for comments on the DGreport. Speaking of public pools, let [...]
At first glance, the $33 million indoor-outdoor community aquatics facility proposed by Ramaker & Associates at the July 17 park board meeting appears outrageously unaffordable — especially for a facility that is supposed to be tax-neutral. For years — going back to the 2000 defeat of a combination rec center/aquatics facility in an advisory referendum [...]
My family was among the many who departed the Downers Grove Swim and Racquet Club in protest over the club’s expansion plans. We just couldn’t swallow a plan that called for doubling the dues and upgrading almost every element of the 50-year-old facility. We didn’t have confidence in the volunteer board, not because we didn’t [...]
Depending on your point of view, last night’s annual meeting of the Downers Grove Swim & Racquet Club was the first hopeful sign for the club in months — or yet another reason to seek calmer waters next summer. The cops were summoned even before the business meeting began after a member attempted to videotape [...]
Membership of the Downers Grove Swim & Racquet Club voted December 2 to authorize a $4 million maintenance and improvement project, but that may not be the final word on the contentious issue. A group of disgruntled members calling itself the Save the Pool Committee is challenging the decision, which they say is being imposed [...]
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