[Peace-discuss] Re: [Discuss] Fwd: some real facts on the proposed clock tower

[Danielle Chynoweth]

*My* source of information about clock tower renovations and their price is
the News Gazette.  I do not see the article online - only a fraction are
posted - so I will have to dig up the article from home.

I don't understand the connection between the email sent by Pius/Jenny and
any decision not to question the funding priorities of this project.

The email confirms that millions of public monies are going into renovations
- and I don't yet see the justification, or the reason this is being
prioritized over the crisis in the Public Defenders office or other
priorities.

I wrote a letter to all county board members about this and intend to attend
tonight's meeting.

- Danielle


From: Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:00:23 -0600
> To: AWARE peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>, ucimc.print.final at gmail.com
> Cc: SFcore at mail.chambana.net
> Subject: [Peace] some real facts on th proposed clock tower
>
>
>
> Dear Folks,
>
> Because we had been given some incorrect information on the cost and
> the stipulations for expenditures for the clock tower, I am sending
> this info I just got from my representative on the county board,
> Jenny Putman.  Given what I know now, I am less inclined to ask for
> diversion of these funds for purposes other than legal ones.  People
> who were going to speak for more public defenders, free nurse
> consultations for inmates, etc. can march ahead with that if they
> wish.  But I can't ask for this money to be diverted to the nursing
> home.
>
> Please spread these facts as widely as possible.
>
> We should also try to find out how the $7.2 million figure got spread
> around.  If Jenny is right, and I have no reason to believe that she
> is not since she serves on the facilities committee, that was a huge
> exaggeration.  I'm not looking for scapegoats,  but we need to find
> out how this happened so that we don't mobilize people around false
> info. in the future.  I apologize to all those to whom I cited that
> figure.
>
> Belden
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Jenny Putman <jenny-p at sbcglobal.net >
> Date: January 24, 2008 6:21:30 AM CST
> To: Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: [ Fwd: Upcoming County Board Mtg. Jan. 24]]
>
>
> Hi Belden,
>
> This memo from Pius should give you additional background on the
> courthouse project.
>
> More soon,
> jenny
> 398-2060 (Work #, where I have no Ext, but can be paged)
>
>
>
> From: "Pius Weibel" < cweibel at co.champaign.il.us>
> Date: January 22, 2008 3:06:45 PM CST
> To: "Jenny Putman" <jenny-p at sbcglobal.net>, "Thomas Betz" <
> tbetz_legalguy at yahoo.com >, "Ralph Langenheim" <rlangenh at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [Fwd: Fwd: Upcoming County Board Mtg. Jan. 24]
>
>
> Jenny  and everyone,
> In response on my part to reading
> "The vote will decide whether to approve an estimated $7.2 million dollar
> expenditure from our taxes to restore the clock tower at the Champaign
> County Courthouse.",
> I went back and looked at the numbers.
>
>
> Here is the breakdown, with some rounding of numbers:
> Courthouse rehab:  2.92 mil
> Tower rehab:       2.68 mil
> Tower extension:   1.21 mil  private funds
> Total:                6.81 mil
>
>
> If the concern is about restoration about the clock tower using public
> funds, the amount is 2.68 mil.  The Board did vote on a more expensive
> version for the clock tower which was estimated to be about 800K more then
> the Option 4, which we selected.   Assuming that we want to want to rehab
> the courthouse exterior, the argument should be about spending the extra
> 800K or so.  I voted for it because it I believe that this version would
> last longer than any of the other options before the next round of rehab
> takes place.
>
>
> Pius
>
>
>
>
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