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Resident raises special-recreation fee concerns and asks about safety at 140th Street/John Humphrey Drive
Summary
A resident urged the village to explain rising special-recreation program fees and asked whether safety concerns at the 140th Street and John Humphrey Drive intersection are being addressed; staff said safety is part of the engineering design and the recreation director will follow up on program-quality and fee questions.
Helga Dijon, an Orland Park resident, used the March 3 public-comment period to ask how to question the portion of the village budget allocated to the special recreation department and to express concern about rising program fees and perceived declines in program quality.
"I received the budget thing, and I was looking at it," Dijon said, identifying herself and giving her address for the record. She said families of special-needs participants have seen program costs increase “drastically” while program quality has not kept pace; she said two adults she…
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