Boone County Watchdog tipped me off about a new revenue source for the blog’s home county: transporting and housing federal prisoners. The full story comes from the Register Star: BELVIDERE — A negotiating firm plans to generate tens of thousands of dollars in new revenue for the Boone County jail without changing day-to-day operations. The…
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Call the Wa-a-a-mbulance for Belvidere Township
WATB alert! BELVIDERE — Belvidere Township’s legal fees have skyrocketed 383 percent from five years ago. The township has been scrutinized for months with residents filing lengthy Freedom of Information Act requests and writing memos that require legal responses. People have questioned the township’s budget, public comment process and whether the government body should even…
Belvidere Using New Home Rule Status to Push for Landlord Registration
Boone County Watchdog has published a proposed ordinance addressing registration of landlords of residential rentals in Belvidere. Landlords and rental properties would be registered annually at $25 per unit under the proposal. In comparison, DeKalb has a one-time registration of landlords and rental properties with a fee of $3 per unit, and from there it…
Library Postpones Expansion Until Economy Improves
Good sense rules in Belvidere.
Boone County Watchdog Runs with Bank Post
Check out this local issues blog synergy. Boone County Watchdog took my December 31 post, “Bank Troubles 2010”, spotlighted Castle Bank (which has a presence in Boone County) and put it into the big picture with “Bank Issues which Received Little News Coverage”. Some of it was news to me, so thought I’d share. Thanks…
Boone County to Post Minutes Online
Rockford Register Star: BELVIDERE — Boone County will begin publishing minutes from board meetings on its website, but officials say the action isn’t the result of a Dec. 1 letter from the Illinois attorney general’s office. Bill Pysson, a 22-year county resident, filed a “request for review” with Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office in April…
Chrysler Plans to Expand Belvidere Plant
Rockford Register Star reports that Chrysler intends to expand its Belvidere plant by 500,000 square feet to accommodate a larger body shop. Building might begin as early as this summer, and require 20,000 or more construction work hours. How many manufacturing jobs the expansion might ultimately create is not yet known. This must be really…
Boone County Watchdog
Citybarbs is fixing to say goodbye to the Wogen Watch blog and wouldn’t you know it, here’s another to take its place on the blogroll. Check out the Boone County Watchdog run by Bill Pysson, who also has an interesting story to tell as a former District 100 School Board candidate. Pysson is prolific, mixing…