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Bob Peickert
Peickert calls for
reduction in County Board seats.
Bob
Peickert, Democratic
Candidate for DuPage County Board District #1, has called for a
reduction of
the number of seats on the County Board from 3 to 2 in each District.
Peickert
claims his proposal will save the County approximately $750,000 and
will have
no adverse affect on County services. “The current 18 member Board
is
nothing more than a revolving door to reward Republican Party
loyalists. Board
members seldom communicate with voters, so what difference would it
make. We
need to start the budget balancing process where it will least impact
the
residents of DuPage County.”
Peickert
also calls for an
immediate 50% reduction in pay for County Board members and its
Chairman. “Most
of them have full-time jobs anyway and the $50,000 plus (with benefits
and
expenses) a year they receive is bonus money. Public service should be
a
privilege, not a luxury.”
Peickert
also lashed out
at the Board for voting themselves a 75% pay raise over the last 8
years. “How
many residents of DuPage County received a pay raise averaging 9.4% a
year over
the past 8 years? Politics combined with greed has no place in DuPage
County.”
Bob is
a former math
teacher and spent 25 years as a director of a teachers’ organization
working to
improve our educational systems. He is now a small business owner and
member of
the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce.
Bob has
raised his family
in our area and wants to improve the future opportunities for his
family,
including his 5 grandchildren, and all families in DuPage County.
As a
member of the
DuPage County Board Bob Peickert would work for:
1
Property
Tax
Relief -The DuPage County
Board and
its Chairman must work harder to control unnecessary and excessive
spending.
The first step would be to roll back their big pay raises. The Board
and its
Chairman must also support a plan to reduce the reliance of property
taxes to
fund education. Residents are tired of escalating property taxes.
2
Environment
and Transportation - The
DuPage
County Board and its Chairman must address ways for us to help our
nation
reduce its dependency on foreign oil by investing in renewable energy
sources
like solar, wind, and water. The Board and its Chairman have not
addressed ways
to improve our public transportation system or to reduce traffic
congestion on
our crowded roadways.
3
Good
government –We need good
government
in DuPage County. I believe good government begins with elected
officials who
demonstrate that their interests lie with the residents and not
themselves. The
DuPage County Board and its Chairman gave themselves a 75% pay raise
over an
8-year period. Board members are paid $48,620 a year plus benefits to
attend
two meetings a month. As a County Board member, I will be a watchdog
over these
one-sided and one party elected officials.
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or parts of
the following communities:
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