Join us on March 21 for a free breakfast meeting. Learn how to participate in the Clean Air Counts program and discover the grants available for the initiatives. Over the past three years through its municipal grants program, Clean Air Counts has provided $514,681 in grants to 14 communities. Program such as diesel retrofits, lawn car buy-backs and gas can exchanges have been funded.

• WHEN: March 21
• WHERE: Round Lake Public Works, 751 Townline Rd.
• TIME: 7:30 am breakfast,
  8:00 am program
• RSVP: or
  (847) 270- 3126

House Bill 1500 Brosnahan Telecom Comm
Oppose
Creates state-wide franchising of video services. Eliminates municipal franchising authority and preempts home rule.

House Bill 256 Fortner Revenue Comm
Support
Amends the TIF Act by defining “transit oriented developments” and by adding the costs associated with TOD’s to the definition of redevelopment project costs.

House Bill 928 Hoffman 2nd Reading House
Senate Bill 516 Senate Labor Comm
Oppose
Amends the Worker’s Compensation Act to provide that nearly every medical condition of a firefighter, emt or paramedic is presumed to arise out of their employment.

For a list of other bills LCML is following click on the link below.

The mission of the Lake County Municipal League is to serve as a vehicle for member municipalities to take joint action on matters affecting Lake County.

Benefits of membership include:

• April 19: LCML Membership Meeting
• May 2: LCML Legislative Day in Springfield
• September 20: LCML Golf Outing

The Lake County Municipal League will be joining the Illinois Municipal League for its annual Legislative Day activities on May 2. The schedule of events is listed below:

Legislative Briefing
10:00 am
Hilton Springfield Hotel

Time to Meet your Legislators
11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Contact Legislators to schedule appointments

Legislative Reception
6:00 to 8:00 pm Illinois State Library*

* You must be on a guest list to enter the State Library. If you do not RSVP before May 2, you will not be able to attend.

Hotel arrangements are your responsibility. The League will invite the Lake County delegation to the Reception if we have LCML members attending. Please respond to if you plan to attend. We would like to have a tentative list of attendees by April 20.

HB 1500 will be posted for a committee hearing on March 8. Please review the Position Paper and a Summary of Key Provisions of HB 1500 Cable and Video Competition Law of 2007 prepared by the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus. Call members of the House Telecommunications Committee to express your concerns.

Key elements:
If passed, HB 1500 will allow AT&T/SBC to discriminate by redlining communities and will increase a digital divide. AT&T/SBC has told Wall Street they will offer their new U-verse service to primary “high value” neighborhoods. Most consumers will be offered ordinary satellite dish service, the very same service that is being offered right now. Seniors and low income areas will not only be left behind, but to add insult to injury will be forced to help finance AT&T/SBC’s upgrade in other “high value” neighborhoods.

By narrowing revenue definitions, HB1500 will decrease money paid to cities for franchise fees and local programming. To make matters worse, AT&T will not pay any franchise fees on its satellite delivered video services, which will be the overwhelming majority of their video customers.

House Telecommunications Committee
Rep Jim Brosnahan*
Rep Kevin McCarthy*
Rep Jim Meyer
Rep Edward Acevedo*
Rep Mike Boland*
Rep Mike Bost
Rep Richard Bradley
Rep Marlow Colvin*
Rep Ken Dunkin*
Rep John Fritchey
Rep Kurt Granberg
Rep Julie Hamos
Rep Tom Holbrook*
Rep Carolyn Krause
Rep Joe Lyons
Rep Sid Mathias
Rep Karen May
Rep Mike McAuliffe*
Rep Bill Mitchell
Rep JoAnn Osmond*
Rep Harry Ramey
Rep Tim Schmitz
Rep Mike Smith*
Rep Jim Watson
Rep Dave Winters
* denotes sponsor of HB1500

For the complete Position Paper or a Summary of Key Provisions, click on the link below.

Representative Kathy Ryg's district office is serving as a drop-off center from now through Friday, April 20 for the "Reuse-A-Shoe” recycling program. This program is the perfect opportunity to keep your old shoes out of landfills and turn them into useful material. This newly-recycled material will become gym floors, running tracks and safe playground surfaces.

Lake County residents interested in recycling their old shoes may bring them to Rep. Ryg's office at 50 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 114, in Vernon Hills until Friday, April 20. Business hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. All brands of clean, dry athletic shoes, except those with cleats or spikes, will be accepted. Please remove all zippers and metal eyelets before dropping the shoes off. Shoes with LED lights are acceptable. Sandals, flip- flops, dress shoes, boots and water shoes are not accepted because they contain materials which cannot be recycled.

President
Mayor Timothy Perry, Village of Grayslake
Vice President
President Roger Byrne, Village of Vernon Hills
Secretary
President Elliott Hartstein, Village of Buffalo Grove
Treasurer
Mayor Richard Hill, Village of Round Lake Beach
Sergeant-at-Arms
Mayor Ted Mueller, Village of Hainesville

Directors
Mayor Jeffrey Harger, Village of Libertyville
Mayor Richard H. Hyde, City of Waukegan Suzi Schmidt, Chair, Lake County Board
Jim Hayner, Administrator, Village of Gurnee

Executive Director
Chris Gentes
1937 Municipal Way
Round Lake Beach, IL 60073
(847) 270-3126

www.lakecountyleague.org