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As your Lake County Board Representative, President of the Lake
County Forest Preserves and a proven community leader, I have:
- Secured $33,200,000 of improvements in District #5 alone and
$3M of federal funding for the Lake County Passage
transportation program
- Secured transportation funding and supported road projects
throughout Lake County, such as:
- widening of Rollins, Washington & Butterfield Roads
- intersection improvements at Gilmer/Fairfield, Route
134/Wilson Rd, Burnett/Darrell
- reconstruction of Bonner & Wilson Roads
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Acquired 8200 acres of Forest Preserve land from
willing sellers to secure open space for future generations
with over 3600 acres serving District #5 residents that
otherwise would have been thousands of more homes.
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Added new preserves such as Singing Hills, Marl Flat,
Tanager Kames, Black Crown, Nippersink
- Expanded
Grant Woods, Lakewood & Fox River
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Added
30 miles of trails connecting Lakewood, Singing Hills
& Marl Flat
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Secured the trail connection to the Grand Illinois Trail
- Balanced the
county budget while lowering the tax rate every year since
being elected
- Secured AAA
bond rating
- Secured over
$12,577,000 in funding for neighborhood projects such as:
- safe
drinking water
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affordable senior housing
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protection of aquifers
- fire
suppression
- flood
reduction
- water
quality improvements and
- watershed
planning
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Continued
my efforts for a long term sustainable water supply for
future generations
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Successfully defeated 3 power plants that would have
affected the water supply and air quality
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Progressively worked to expand the use of developer paid
school impacts fees, lowering tax burden on residents
- Worked to
bring the 4-year University Center to Lake County
- Helped
individual and groups navigate the sometimes challenging
government process
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