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Enthusiastic Crowd greets President Clinton!!

President Bill Clinton will join us at 1:15 tomorrow, Thursday May 1st, in the Whiting Middle School Gym.

After reviewing several locations, the Clinton team settled on the intimacy of the gym. Please join us to welcome him at this special, standing room only event. Please use the New York Ave. entrance.

The Regional Development Authority approved $2.5 Million in funding for the City of Whiting to begin planning necessary for lakefront development, run infrastructure into Whiting Park and complete a bike/pedestrian trail linking the Park to the Lake George trail system.

Work on these projects will begin immediately and will be completed in the next 9-18 months.

Mayor Joe Stahura will hold a Public Forum to summarize the tax reform law that was recently enacted via House Bill 1001. He will also outline the recent decsion to purchase water from Hammond. The forum will be held on:

April 2, 2008
at
6:00 pm
at the
Whiting High School Auditorium

Mayor Joe will also take questions from the audience after his presentation.

Sanitary Board President Michael Mazur has resigned effective March 31.  Michael and his wife Nancy will be moving to Florida.  He has served the City by serving on the Board of Sanitary Commissioners for over 32 years, many of those as its President.  Michael and Nancy will be sorely missed by each of their friends and collegues.  Mayor Joe Stahura presented Michael a plaque in appreciation for his many years of dedicated service on March 19.

Good luck Mike and Nancy!!!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!

On Friday, the members of the Indiana General Assembly revised House Bill 1001 in a manner that reduces the devastating consequences that were originally projected to affect Whiting.  The revised bill will still force the City to make significant cuts, but I believe the reductions can now be made without being forced to literally close our doors.  This is great news for all who live and work in this great community.  I can also state that each any everyone of you made the difference.  This week I received 100's of emails, dozens of calls from media across the state, and heard from several legislators.  Over 3800 people signed our online petition and over 2000 post cards were sent to State Representative Mara Candelaria-Reardon who has worked extremely hard on behalf of our community.  Believe me when I say that this effort had a tremendous impact on the final decision of the legislature.

Let me now caution you that HB 1001 is 664 pages long and we haven't had time to digest everything in the bill yet.  We know the key elements are more positive than they were before, but it will take us several days to fully assess the entire bill.

Also, contrary to some media reports and some naysayer feedback, the property owners in Whiting will also still receive significant property tax relief.  Even the worst case numbers show that all homeowners will still receive a 1.3% cap in 2010 and all rental and business properties will begin receiving tax reductions effective 2009.

As a way to explain the details of this bill and how they impact Whiting specifically, I will be conducting a Public Forum at the Whiting High School Auditorium at 6:00 pm on April 2.  I would encourage you to attend if you have any questions regarding this issue.  I will gladly accept any questions from the audience after a brief presentation.

I'll save any other comments for the Public Forum on the 2nd.  I just wanted to personally take the time to thank everyone for their help and congratulate you for taking a genuine interest in your community.

Thank you very much,
Mayor Joe Stahura

The Ice Rick located at Standard Diamonds is officially closed for the season.  We would like to thank everyone who took the time and came out and enjoyed themselves this year.  We hope to see you again next season.

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