I won’t reveal the rumored price of the presumed sale of Turnberry Country Club, but it is significantly less than what the previous owners of the Bull Valley Country Club were paid–$1,525,000 (furniture & other personal property included). An application … Continue reading
Category Archives: Golf Course
After reading an article in the Chicago Tribune about the Oak Lawn Park District-owned golf course that was losing money giving away rounds, I asked the Cary Park District the following: “Under the FOIA, I request documents showing or referring … Continue reading
An article has been published by the Metropolitan Planning Council about cemetery districts: Behind the Numbers: Saving money on cemetery districts Written by Sean Wiley, M.P.P. candidate, University of Chicago Harris School, it somehow missed the at least the Nunda … Continue reading
Resident surrounding Lakewood’s RedTail Golf Course packed a Village Board meeting that was considering selling the property. The Village Board was intimidated and backed off on the idea. But that didn’t result in enough revenue coming in to solve the … Continue reading
The Chicago Tribune ran an article about Chinese investors buying high end golf courses in the Western United States. Got me to thinking that maybe the two golf courses in Lakewood–one owned by the taxpayers, the other privately owned–might think … Continue reading
The Lakewood Village Board decided not to put its RedTail Golf Course on the block Tuesday night. The meeting was packed with people living near the RedTail Golf Course. While the Board,with the exception of Gene Furey, had favored putting … Continue reading
If you sense from the headline that I don’t think highly of the former Lakewood, now RedTail Golf Course, that would be correct. For the better part of twenty years our tax bill in Lakewood has included money to pay … Continue reading
Municipal bond analyst Steve Willson has taken a look at the Village of Lakewood’s proposed sale of the Red Tail Golf Club and written the following thoughts in a comment to yesterday’s article: Some interesting numbers: After twenty years, RedTail … Continue reading
In the quarterly newsletter from the Lakewood, Village President Erin Smith reports that her Board wants to sell the golf course that cost so many of us an extra $500 a year in real estate taxes because revenues were rarely … Continue reading
Part 2 of the Chicago Tribune said about Lakewood’s alternative revenue bond purchase of what is not called RedTail Golf Club: Lakewood is featured as one of the villages “where bets backfired on taxpayers…where taxpayers should have been protected form … Continue reading
On January 6, 2013, right on the top of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, there was an expose that should send warning flares up about the alternative revenue bonds that the majority of the McHenry County College Board seem set to … Continue reading
The following email was sent to Cary Park District Executive Director Dan Jones by Michael Rein: Dear Mr. Jones: Having had the opportunity to discuss the possibility of the Cary Park District purchasing Chalet Hills Golf Course with many park … Continue reading
Lakewood Village President Erin Smith sent out the following letter to her constituents in the fall village newsletter. FROM THE PRESIDENT As we bid a fond farewell to summer, it’s appropriate to review what was accomplished during the past three … Continue reading
Lakewood Village Trustee Ken Santowski has a delightful habit of giving his view on what happens at Lakewood Village Board meetings each month. I attended this meeting, but still have gotten around to writing up my notes. Here’s his version: … Continue reading
No initiation fees. That’s what the post card I got today at my non-Turnberry Lakewood home said. Just spend $355 a a month, if you join on your own, or $580 a month for the whole family. Tennis courts included, … Continue reading
Having examined the plane fares to Florida, the three Skinners certainly are not flying south. So, the question is where we can drive? Should we go to a water park in the Wisconsin Dells, Rockford (as some Wisconsin State Senators … Continue reading
Here’s the latest missive delivered in the mail to Lakewood residents: From the President On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I want to wish you and your families a Happy New Year. As a community, we face many of … Continue reading
6 AM New Year’s Day the Woodstock Fire Protection District took over the manning of the Lakewood Fire Department. Although the phrase “economies of scale” was not mentioned, there was talk of saving the money needed to pay a fire … Continue reading
Besides the transfer of fire protection from the privatized service provided by American Emergency Service Corporation to the Woodstock Fire Protection District, the other issue I found interesting was that the village golf course is in financial trouble. The result … Continue reading