Village Board Talks Commercial, Government Building Projects
The business community in Mokena is poised for growth in 2013, according to Trustee John Mazzorana.
Ground will break on multiple building projects in Mokena in the near future.
The Mokena Village Board discussed upcoming development plans at a meeting Monday evening.
Director of Economic and Community Development Alan Zordan said that construction on a new Meijer location at the intersection of Wolf Road and Lincoln Highway is likely to begin in the coming months. Projections indicate that the store will open summer 2014.
“I’m pleased to see Meijer has announced they’re going to begin construction,” said Trustee John Mazzorana, who conducted Monday’s meeting in the absence of Mayor Joe Werner.
13 new businesses have opened in the village since Jan. 1, according to Mazzorana, who said he anticipates that more businesses will come to Mokena as construction on the new Meijer progresses.
“I think it’ll be a great asset to our village,” said Trustee George Metanias.
Also at Monday’s meeting, the board voted as part of the unanimous consent agenda to approve the site and landscape plan for a new Mokena Community Park District building.
The 4,300-square-foot multi-purpose building will be located at 10925 La Porte Road in Main Park.
“We look forward to having that building go up a little later this year,” said Village Administrator John Downs.
The board voted Monday to allow Northern Illinois Municipal Electric Cooperative to negotiate and bid the village’s electric power supply for water and sewer operations.
The services discussed Monday are unrelated to those provided through the village residential and small business electric aggregation program.
NIMEC, which includes more than 150 local governing bodies, is able to negotiate lower pricing on the electric supply due to the combined volume of the cooperative, according to documents provided by the village of Mokena.
The village joined NIMEC in 2006 and has saved $200,000 during the last six years due to its participation in the cooperative.
“We got really good pricing on this last year,” said Public Works Director Louis Tiberi.
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Eric Blair
4:46 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Going to the Mokena Park District website to scan the budget isn't possible since the Park District budget isn't online. However a long page exist so as to explain the FOIA request procedure. Obviously the Park District intends to keep certain public information hard to get as legally possible. They also like to hide the yearly financial report published by law once a year in the back of the local paper in print so small a magnifying glass is required to read it (like all taxing bodies). They don’t like to publicize the bloated salaries paid to the administrative staff. This is a red flag, an alert notice that they are hiding the numbers. Of course with the FOI law a citizen can uncover this information but how many do so? And why shouldn’t this info be online anyway? They have no desire to make it easy. Recently announced plans to build a new Taj Mahal for preschoolers that appears to be at least four plus times the current building size indicate the Park District has no intention to slow down spending. They will need a new director and assistant director to “run” the new space and more revenue to pay them with. As far as I’ve seen there is no opposition to this runaway spending. I guess that means everyone doesn’t mind paying more property taxes in addition to what they already pay. Why then do so many complain about their tax bill? Does anyone else see something here ain’t right? Does anyone even care? Everything here in “Mokenaland” must be rosy.
Amanda Bowl
12:37 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Mary
Mary Beth Windburg will probably get a promotion as part of the administrative staff.
Brian H
12:40 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
I've also been curious about the new construction plan and will be attending the next board meeting on 2/26. I suggest that everyone that has questions should attend as well.
john bruno
5:42 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Eric....You're everywhere. Like the Republicans....criticizing everything with nothing substantive that you've suggested.
Have another beer. Gees.
Eric Blair
7:26 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
You buyin'?
Amanda Bowl
12:40 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Why tease the preschoolers with a taj mahal and then throw them into district 159 where everything has been cut? As usual, something doesn't make sense here.
pepper
6:23 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Will be forced to leave...Raising Mokenas (already high tax base) taxes will eventually LOWER your property values!
Norm
11:23 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
What would be reasonable to you, Pepper? To where will you be forced to leave? Where will you go that will afford you the extraordinary schools, low crime rate, and variety of community programs that Mokena offers? Matteson? Oak Forset? Hazel Crest? Mokena's municiple tax rate is one of the lowest in the suburbs. Please explain where you will go ... and why.