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Enterprise zone plan changed John, Harrison streets cut; DeKalb council to consider ordinance Nov. 1 By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Commercial developers considering DeKalb County won’t find any enterprise zone incentives in the Harrison and John streets area. Before any residents spoke during a public hearing at the DeKalb City Council meeting Monday, Mayor John Rey asked to remove the area from the map of DeKalb County’s potential enterprise zone. He cited mounting concerns from
residents. “My sense of the council’s attitude was it wasn’t worth the fight to continue engaging the John/Harrison street neighborhood John Rey in that enterprise zone at this juncture,” Rey said. Enterprise zones are meant to encourage business and industrial development or expansion by offering state
a small portion on Harrison Street near Lincoln Highway. The area is currently zoned DeKalb aldermen will vote on the multifamily residential. City proposed enterprise zone ordinance Attorney Dean Frieders prefand intergovernmental agreement aced the public hearing by during the Nov. 10 council meeting. advising the enterprise zone does not change a property’s zoning or approve any projand local tax incentives in up ects. The State Enterprise to 15 square miles for as long Zone Board also would have as 25 years. Under the origi- to approve DeKalb County’s nally proposed map, develop- application before incentives ers would have received state could be offered. Of the 50-or-so residents incentives for commercial development on property on who packed City Council either side of John Street and chambers, 10 spoke regarding
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the proposed enterprise zone. While many said they appreciated Rey’s preemptive move to exclude the area from the map, some questioned if the map would remain that way. “I am maybe increasingly cynical in that, that doesn’t mean tomorrow or the next day or two weeks down the road,” resident Toni Heinze said. “So I would like to also ask the city to keep that area very carefully protected at this point in time and not be looking for another way of tearing down that area.”
Harvest kicks into high gear
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Krista Ankrom, operations manager of Monsanto’s seed production facility in Waterman, stands in one of the four large dryers Oct. 14 while she discusses how the seed corn is shelled after it’s dried. Ankrom estimated about half of the buildings at the Waterman location are only used for six weeks during seed-corn harvesting which typically starts in late August or early September and ends by mid-October.
Rush means long hours, temporary hires for ag businesses By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com WATERMAN – The drone of massive industrial grain dryers echoes throughout Monsanto’s Waterman plant while dozens of trucks carrying 1 million bush-
els of seed corn zoom from building to building. More than 200 people work for hours on end preparing corn to be shipped to places across the country. The scene plays out for more than 70 hours a week for six
weeks – and then it stops. About 150 workers and 40 truck drivers look for new jobs, the dryers shut down, and the near-chaos ends. Then, it’s back to 50 percent capacity for the seed production
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Where the crop goes n Livestock feed Corn: 48 percent Soybeans: 40 percent
n Food and industrial Corn: 11 percent Soybeans: 15 percent
n Export Corn: 11 percent Soybeans: 45 percent
n Ethanol Corn: 30 percent
Source: DeKalb County Farm Bureau
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Kingston village president charged Police: Had credit card without OK By JESSI HAISH jhaish@shawmedia.com KINGSTON – Longtime Kingston Village President John Munro has been arrested on charges he possessed a village credit card without consent, officials said Monday. Munro, 48, of the 9300 block of Eric Circle in Kingston, surrendered Saturday at the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office on a charge of possession of another’s credit card. He posted $500 bail and was released the same day, police said. Munro was charged Oct. 6 and is accused of receiving a village-owned John Munro credit card from April 2013 to about January 2014 without official permission, court records show. Munro is next due in court Nov. 7. If convicted of possession of another’s credit card, Munro could face probation or between one to three years in prison. Illinois State Police are investigating the case, Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Gary Dumdie said. Court records listed a contact number for Munro that belongs to a local business – a message left there was not returned Monday. Village attorney Kevin Buick said in a written statement that Kingston Village Board members and staff were aware of the allegations. He said he did not know whether Munro, who first was elected village president in 2001, planned to resign. The board next meets at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 at Kingston Village Hall, 101 E. Railroad St. Village employees and board members have cooperated with the investigation, which began earlier this year, according to the statement. “Both the village treasurer and finance chair acted promptly when discovering variances from credit card procedure late last year, to implement tightened procedures so that such circumstances cannot happen again in the future,” Buick said in the release. The release states that financially, the scope of the matter is small and has no impact upon the village’s budget. The village’s operations will remain in the hands of village staff, subject to present oversight by the board of trustees, according to the release.
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