The Huntley Farmside

              VOLUME 14 — NUMBER  13 THURSDAY,   JUNE   2».   1973
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Special School Borrd Minutes
Marge O'Brien A special meeting of the Hmrtley School Board was held on Monday.
June 25th. . .^    ui, *hP
The f it«t discussion deH with the ^100,000 that was to have been afp- propriated for school expenses^ How¬ ever the board was informed tltot lax Wife wwdd be sent out late and) so the clerk suggested to ^^^'^ the amount of amttcipatiion to WtW,- 000 for the three months. A motion was made by Bond, seconded by Mrs. Jones. This moUon superceded the motion made at the previous meeting. The vote was 4 yes. Inter¬ est on the loan will be between 4
and 5%
A group of local Hurley ciUzens attended the board meeting. One di the citizens asked if the rais« given were proiper and Mr. Jink stated that "Many rights of evalu¬ ation thals all I cMi say.' The sub¬ ject of the board hiring a Hi^ School Principal was brought up. This was recommended by the State Superintendent because of our fail¬ ure lo comply and be recognized by North Central assoclatior. of col¬ leges.. This recommendation h*is been t^dfi tor the pa« »to ? years. Mr. Jirik expl Aied when a schocl reach¬ es an enrollment of 200 they should • ha\e a principal. Mr. Jirik went on to say that if we didn't comply vdth the reccanmendations in tihe future, we could lose cur evaluation and state aid. It was stated that the starting salary for principals is $14,000.00-
One of the citizens asked if the new principal wotlld be in charge of disciptine. teachers and agenda and what he says goes. The board replied yes. The board was then asked what the Superintendents job was. They replied that he is to re¬ late to the, State to oversee the function of both principals. Il was brought oot that possibly the grade school had been successful due to the Superintendent working two hours each day with the principal. The board stated that it was going to be very cridcal this year. It was brought out that the problems ttiat have arisen of the high school can¬ not always be solved immediately because of the other responsibilities of the Superintendent and the Dean of Students. Mr. Jirik stated that "they didn't ^ve the man (Super¬ intendent) the tools to do Uie job . . a principal."
It was asked that tf under Illinois Stale Law we were required to have a principal. The answer was no. Mr. Jirik stated that there has been an increase of 100 pupils in the last six years and that the state is requiring 2 to 3 times the book work than it did six years  ago.
The groi4» main complaint wa« the rise of $1.5(K).00 for the Sujieiin tendent. Mr. Jirik replied that this is what we thought he was worth. One of the citizens voiced her con¬ cern alHjut whether the teachers would stay because of salaries and that the papers don't really explain what's going on In the schools- tt was said that there is no communi- catioii l)etween the school and the towp on problwns.
Mr. Kunde wanted to know why we have to have Master degree teachers in the grade school? The 'ooard said it encourages the teach¬ ers to advance themselves. Mr. Kunde felt that we should not em- Cimtfauied on Page Two SC HOOL BOARD
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"BE SLBE   xOU ARE RIGHT. THEN  GO  AHEAD"  — David  Crockett
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Union Special Machine Co Opens Ne w Building
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Amusement Park Plans Told to Board
Ann  Mueller
Mr. Dudley S. Taft, Vice Presi dent and Corporate Development Scciftary of the Taft Broadcasting •".^cmoany, met with Huntley Village official at an open meetinc at the Village Hall on June 26. at 4-30 P.M. in connection v^ath tho proposed Emusement park.
Mr. Taft outlined some of the background of the company explain inji how it began to buUd amusement parks. He explained about the amuse ment park in Cincinnati and went en to say that they now have a park under construction between Rich piond. Virginia and Washington D.C Call Kings Dominion.
Mr. Taft explained that tho pro posed amusement park i.s not a "honkey tonk operation'' aiul that it is geared as a family park. 1 he park itself will be 160—170 acres (11)0 acres for parking), the motel will cvnsist of ahout 5—10 acres, the campground will bo abmit 50 — 100 acres Mid here is a possibility of some large lakes being made. The company has option, on about 800 acres and Taft explained that they would like this much acreage for room to expand and to protect the&r facility. The additional land around the park acts as a buffer and "dis courages other peo^jle from coming in and putting hot dog and other fly by night operationK."
Taft answered several questions during the question and answer part of the meeting.
Question:   "Why   was   this  area
picked and how-wifi. it effect traffic
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PARK MEETS VILLAGE BOARD
Amusement Park Plans Told to Public
Marge O'Brien
A public meeting was hold on Tue^ day June 26 at 8:00 P.M. at the Pine crest Country Club to here .1 ;iok6"iman from the proposed amu.se ment park Mr. Wayne Miller, Presi¬ dent of the State Bank of Huntley, introduced Mr. Taft frcm Taft Broadcasting Co. Mr. Taft gave a description of the Park and its ad¬ vantages and showed slides of their amusement park. Kings Island, in Cincinnati. He also gave some of his companies  background.
Following his spycech then; was a question and answer period. Mr. Taft was asked where the proposed park and golf course would be located. He replied on t',10 North¬ west Quadrant .>f the To'.lway and Rt. 47. He stated further that Iho company would be buying SOO acres hut that the park, motel, parkins lot. etc. would only take up 300 to 400 acres The feniainin.;; acreage would, for the present time be a buffet zone. When asked of he would always keep this buffer zone, he re- pli'xl that he could not say as to wh;it the future plans might be.
Mr. Taft was asked about the tr.iffic to and from the park. He stated ttiat they were d<^ng a sur¬ vey but that they also wanted an entrance and exit for people coming from the Rockford area. Ho said that he felt most of thedr tneincss would come from Chicago. He said that they expected about 2*4 nnllon peo pie to visit the park in the first year.
At this time in the meeting Hedy Continu<-<l on Page Two PUBLIC  MEETING
Joint Planning Commissions Discuss Amusement Park
Aim Mueller
A special meeting was held on Tue.«:day, June 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the McHenrv County Court House in Woodstock.
.khn Quay of the McHenry County Planning Commission described the meeting as such, "Basically it whs an exploratory meeting l)etween the staff of the Kano County Planning Commission, the yicHertry County Planning Commission, village offi¬ cial:; from Huntley and some County Board members to try to exptope what the status of the proposed amusement park near Hunriey is and just how we might go on working on it. It was to establish lines of cc~mmunication."
Ricliard Young, Envirom«)tal Dir¬ ector of Kane County, presented some of the enviroinental aspects of the park. He stated that tihe p.irk would require 1,000 gallons of water a minute and 500,000 gallons of water for disposal treatment a d.-^y during the park's peak season. He abo said that the park develo- »pers plan on paridna 10,000 oars a day and that there will be a 100 acre blacktop parking lot- Tbis blacktopped area would cause a problem with storm water runoff, but Young feels that ihese problems can be resolved.
There was some discussion on the Village of Huntley combining sew¬ erage treatment vrith the park. Harley Mackeben said at bis point, thiit Huntley is presently having Coatinned «n Page Two JOINT PLANNING
¦ ,^ ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday morning in Hunt¬ ley to mark the operang of the new Technical Training Cener of Union Special Corporatjon.
Chicago-based Union Special is Huntley's largest employer and one <A the wcrid's largest manufactur¬ ers of industrial sewing equipment. The new Center is devoted to train- inn; technical and management per¬ sonnel from all areas of the sewing industry.
Presiding at the ribt>on cutting were Grant Beadle, executive vice president of Union Special Corpora¬ tion; Don Meyer, vice president domestic sales; and Tom Pinto and Wyatt Longacre, director and assist¬ ant director of the new Technical Training Center.
Orrrfttruction on the 12,000 square fool builddng, located adjacent to Unior Special's tuige m,anufacturing plant, was started in November, 1972. The first clasf* of 15 Studenits sen! to Huntley by garment manu¬ facturers throu^iout tbe country opered the Center on Monday, Jiuie 4. The students aro being lodged in Harrington and bused to Huntley
AcconMr^ to Mr. Beadle, the Technical Training Center was es¬ tablished by Union Special to meet Whe sewing industry's need for more skilled mechanics and technically trained people.
The Center offers tfaree different programs of iostruotioA for fCraooB of varying experience. Twp ilvi»- week courses train the novice me¬ chanic in all phases of sewing mdCti- ine maintenance and repair. Four one-week courses give the semi-ex¬ perienced penson an in-depth look at a particular type of stitch fonna- Cootinaed ati Pane Twa UNION SPECIAL