With almost a trillion stimulus dollars trickling down from Washington D.C.,
those communities who are "shovel-ready", projects that are planned and ready to go, seem to be ahead of those villages who aren't "shovel-ready."
Visit www.stimuluswatch.org and check out the "shovel-ready" projects the mayors of Illinois submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report.
Our neighboring communities seem to have their foot on the stimulus shovel: Homewood is ready for 22 million dollars of improvements, Chicago Heights is good to go for 11.6 million, Glenwood is positioned for 19.3 and Lynnwood is looking at 5.8 million stimulus dollars. Who's missing from this list? Flossmoor.
Don't worry, there's hope for our village. We can still make a request for federal grants and get our piece of stimulus dollars. The real question is: Are we working quickly on a federal request?
Or will this be another Missed Opportunity?
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