Sprinkler Mandate May Not Be Dead

Also In This Issue Dear Friends, It 's Ea sy Being Green St a nd Up (Com edy ) For As you may recall, last year Illinois State Fire Marshall Larry Sch ools Matkaitis attempted to institute a mandatory regulation Clea n a nd Green requiring townhomes, condominium associations and co-ops Regist ra t ion install sprinkler systems on their property (please see my prior communications from July 17th and July 29th of 2013 for a CDOT brief update). This mandate would conflict with the City of Annual Sustainability Chicago's current Life Safety Ordinance, and more Maintenance importantly, would add significant, cost-prohibitive Seminar and ultimately unnecessary burdens on area residents. Come learn how you can make your planters, This initial attempt at such a mandate resulted in parkway and back yard communities like ours generating such protests to area sustainable and beautiful legislators - including flooding their offices with phone for the upcoming spring calls, letters and emails - that the State Fire Marshall was and summer seasons! Learn about native plants, encouraged to withdraw the proposal in early August of planter design and rain 2013. gardens, all by experts! It's free, and available on a We believed that that was the end of the first come, first serve matter. However, I have recently been informed that basis. Click here for more lobbyists in Springfield are still attempting to push through a information. similarly onerous mandate resulting in further negative unnecessary regulations on area residents. Saturday, March 29 9:00 am - 12:30 pm Chicago Center for Green Unfortunately, the most disturbing aspect of the both the Technology initial plan and the current proposal was the attempt to 445 N. Sacramento Blvd circumvent the state's legislative process by pushing the proposed regulations through a committee called the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR). This relatively

unknown committee is composed of 12 members of the "Stand Up for Schools" Newberry Fundraiser Illinois General Assembly, and while it does have the power to impose laws, it typically handles very technical rule- Friends of Newberry is making issues- not multi-million dollar public happy to present "Stand- mandates that deserve significant levels of public Up for Schools" fundraiser. participation and discussion prior to their The event's proceeds will passage into law. go to the Newberry Computer Lab. The evening will showcase That said, in an effort for greater transparency and to Newberry alumni such as make sure that any attempts at a mandate receives full WGN's Pat Tomasulo, public debate, our State Representative, Sara Feigenholtz HBO's Joey Villagomez, (12th District) has introduced legislation with a stated Second City's Russ requirement that any such proposal must first be vetted Williamson, Riddle's Jay Washington, and Laugh by the full legislature. It also establishes a task force to Factory's Mona. Click here continue to look at the issue. To view the proposed for more information and legislation in its entirety, please click here. here to purchase tickets. Let's be clear: a mandate of this magnitude is bad public Thursday, April 3 policy and economically detrimental for many of our 6:00 pm buildings. State Representative Feigenholtz's bill is a Joe's Bar 940 W. Weed St helpful step to make sure our residents are treated fairly and that a solution for fire safety is achieved without instituting a mandate.

Clean and Green Call and email the legislators who sit on the State Neighborhood Government Administration Committee and tell Clean Up them to vote for Amendment 1 to HB 4609. Let's Registration send a clear message that we won't allow a

Saturday, April 26th the mandate. City of Chicago and neighborhood volunteers will be cleaning up the Representative Jack D. Representative Monique D. Davis City. This is a great Franks (Chairm an) 27 th District opportunity to join the 63rd District (217 ) 7 82-0010 city in making the City (217 ) 7 82-17 17 (7 7 3) 445-97 00 cleaner and more (815) 334-0063 [email protected] attractive, especially after [email protected] this years winter. The City Representative David Harris will provide the brooms, Representative Emily 53rd District rakes, trash bags, and McAsey (217 ) 7 82-37 39 other tools for cleaning. 85th District (224) 7 64-2440 View the flyer here. (217 ) 7 82-417 9 [email protected] (815) 37 2-0085 For more questions as well [email protected] Representative David McSweeney as registration, call 3-1-1. 52nd District The deadline for Representative Robert W. (217 ) 7 82-1517 registration is April 18th. Pritchard (847 ) 516-0052 This is a free event for the 7 0th District [email protected] community. (217 ) 7 82-0425 (815) 7 48-3494 Representative Christian L. [email protected] Mitchell 26th District Representative Jaime M. (217 ) 7 82-2023 Andrade, Jr. (7 7 3) 924-17 55 43rd Ward Office 40th District [email protected] 2523 N. Halsted (217 ) 7 82-8117 www.ward43.org (7 7 3) 267 -2880 Representative [email protected] 56th District Office Hours: (217 ) 7 82-37 25 Monday Representative Dan Brady (847 ) 923-9104 9a.m.-7 p.m. 105th District [email protected] Tuesday -Thursday (217 ) 7 82-1118 9a.m.-6p.m. (309) 662-1100 Representative Wayne Rosenthal Friday [email protected] 95th District 9a.m.-1 2p.m. & 2p.m.-6p.m. (217 ) 7 82-807 1 Representative Adam Brown (217 ) 324-5200 Contact us: 102nd District [email protected] phone (217 ) 7 82-8398 7 7 3-348-9500 (217 ) 607 -5104 Representative Carol A. Sente email 59th District y ourv [email protected] Representative John M. (217 ) 7 82-0499 Cabello (847 ) 47 8-9909 68th District [email protected] (217 ) 7 82-0455 (815) 282-0083 Representative Barbara Wheeler [email protected] 64th District (217 ) 7 82-1664 Representative Katherine (815) 900-67 59 Cloonen [email protected] 7 9th District (217 ) 7 82-5981 Representative (815) 939-1983 7 7 th District [email protected] (217 ) 7 82-337 4 (7 08) 562-697 0 Representative [email protected] 44th District (217 ) 7 82-0347 Representative Sam Y ingling (630) 37 2-3340 62nd District [email protected] (217 ) 7 82-7 320 (847 ) 231-6262 [email protected]

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Michele Smith 43rd Ward Alderman

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