Charles Ebann
The Crystal Lake City Council has placed an advisory referendum on the ballot asking residents if they favor borrowing $30.1 million to build a new library.
On August 4th, the Crystal Lake Library YES Committee revealed its presence to the Illinois State Board of Elections.
Chairing the Political Action Committee is Charles Ebann of 1038 Plantain Court.
Ellen Ebann of the same address is Co-Chairman.
Treasurer is Deborah Brown of 3514 Franklin Court.
In 2013 Charles Ebann ran for the Crystal Lake City Council.
The results of the election are below:
Election results for the Crystal Lake City Council inn 2013.
My guess is 7-3 negative!
Hard sell.
How many Crystal Lake City limit
Taxpayers are there (& my 89 year
Old disabled mother) that this small
Group of people just DON’T CARE they
Are adding more financial burden to !
I’m not sure what folks don’t understand about referendums. If you (or your 89 mother) don’t like it, then you (or she) should vote against it. That is what a referendum allows for. It allows for the voters to decide.
I agree that this will be a tough sell. I’d vote for it if I could, because I would love to have a better and more robust library. I use the library often with my kids (their mom lives in the district), and it could use an upgrade. And I’d be willing to pay for it (I still pay property taxes in CL).
alabamashake: You mean you are divorced?
This proposal is a grotesque example of government largesse. These people backing this obscene proposal can’t possibly have thought about it, unless there is something in in for them.
To observer: The explanation is much simpler.
1) Crystal Lake is home rule. The City Council can issue as much debt as it wants without a referendum.
2) The City Council members also know they’d lose their next election if they issued debt for the library without a referendum.
3) But they also don’t want to aggravate the cheerleaders they keep appointing to the library board because then those people would work against them in the next election.
4) So they keep appointing the cheerleaders and when the cheerleaders want bonds, the board says, “Hey, we love you. We love the library. That’s why we’ll put it a referendum for it on the ballot.”
This way they don’t aggravate the voters and they don’t aggravate the cheerleaders on the library board. This solves the City Council members’ problem.
Of course, the library board continues to be dominated by cheerleaders who never objectively examine operations or the budget or who are watching out for the taxpayers, so the library continues to have a budget much larger than that of neighboring libraries.
But the board members figure the taxpayers won’t notice that.
Ban Ebann!
Tell them to move into the new W.C. Church coming to town, they have plenty of room and have already once gain put the tax payer into more tax burden by coming here, Put your library expansion There !
To LTResident:
They don’t need a bigger place.
Their usage is down 20%+ in three years, and almost 40% of what they lend is DVDs and video games.
Yet they want twice as much space and a bigger parking lot.
And they claim there are $9 million in repairs needed on the existing 40,000 square foot building.
How is it possible to have repairs amounting to $225 per square foot on a building they own when commercial space in this area goes for $125 per square foot, including land?
Only a government agency run by cheerleaders could believe that.