Tom Printy’s Blog

I like to regularly attend the Elgin, IL city council meetings. I thought that I would share my observations of the meeting.

Tonight city council decided decided to spend 4,886,185 dollars for various projects around the city.
1,624,967 for generators at one of the water treatment plants.
2,186,007 for street projects in Country Knoll/Jefferson
1,055,732 For Walnut Avenue Neighborhood
19,479 for new furniture for Fire Station 7

The funniest moment was when Council was voting on rezonig petition 07-08. A joke was made by rep Walters when he ask a member of the audience that if this was approved would there be a Portillo’s put in. The audience member said “maybe yes”. Could this mean that Portillo’s will be opening a store in Randall Rd?

Other that that not a lot happened it was a very short meeting.

For the last couple of month a couple of guys and myself have been playing games during lunch. We started by playing risk and then moved on to poker. Today we tried the card game Fluxx. This is a game without rules. As you play the cards they actually create the rules of the game. It is pretty interesting. The first game we played took 45 minutes and the second game we played took 15. It is a very interesting game to say the leastand you have to really pay attention to the rules and to the cards that the other people have.  This is something I will most likely pick up so I can play with other people in the future.