PLANNING
COMMISSION MEETING
The Greenville Planning Commission held their April meeting
Monday and passed along for City Council consideration
plans by developer Leonard Taylor to annex and rezone
property he owns near Mount Auburn cemetery. The new zoning,
if approved, would allow the building of single family
homes on the property. Unlike the first time Taylor applied
to have his property zoned to allow duplexes there was
no opposition from anyone in the adjoining neighborhood.
The Commission also discussed suggested changes in the
City's sign ordinance, under the suggested changes there
would have to be public hearings to allow variances, signs
would have to have permits, someone buying a business
with a non-conforming sign would have to take that sign
down and temporary signs could only be used for 20 days
during a one year period.
POCAHANTAS
VILLAGE BOARD MEETING
The
Little League will purchase 4 8 ft road barriers to stop
traffic through the park during ball games. They will
also purchase drainage pipe to lay in the ditch between
the ball diamond and Lenjo’s. The village will purchase
fill dirt, and provide the labor to fill in the ditch
and reseed the
ground.
The
board decided to seek grant money for repair of the water
and sewer infrastructure. The first step is to begin gathering
information and record incidents of breaks in the lines
and any problems caused by the aging infrastructure.
An
abandoned vehicle ordinance is being reviewed for possible
implementation. The board will consider a new ordinance
, how fines would be assessed and who would be responsible
for the paperwork involved in having the cars towed.
The
storm of April 2nd dropped a large tree on the fence of
the property at the cornor of Russel and State. The tree
fell across the road blocking access by emergency vehicles.
Village employees pulled the tree off the fence and out
of the road, further damaging the fence. The property
owner would like the village to cover the expense of repairing
the fence. The board will consider the matter and make
a decision at the next meeting.
The
next meeting will be May 29th at 7 p.m.
MADIGAN
FILES THIRD LAWSUIT
Attorney
General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit alleging two out
of state companies obtained and sold the phone records
of Illinois residents without their knowledge or consent.
Madigan's suit names the defendants as Advanced Research,
Inc. and ARI-Advanced, LLC. These two companies are not
licensed to do business in Illinois. The lawsuit alleges
that in order to access consumers' wireless and landline
telephone records, the defendants' agents falsely represented
themselves as account holders or as agents or employees
of a cell phone company. They also allegedly tried to
gain unauthorized computer access to records. In January
and March of this year Madigan filed two lawsuits against
other companies that allegedly used similar, illegal means
to access phone records. The defendants are charged with
multiple violations of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and
Deceptive Business Practices Act. Madigan's lawsuit asks
the court to prohibit the defendants from advertising,
offering for sale and selling telephone records or other
private records and from further violating Illinois' consumer
protection laws. The lawsuit seeks a civil penalty of
$50,000 and additional penalties of $50,000 for each violation
found to have been committed with the intent to defraud.
Madigan's lawsuit also asks the court to order the defendants
to pay for all costs for the investigation and prosecution
of this case.
