VIDEOS

Although the zoning change was passed in favor of Team Blonde, we will always have the following videos of that council meeting as a remembrance of 2010 Forest Park politics.


It Really Doesn't Matter
This video has the mayor talking about 'innuendo' and 'plethora' as quoted in the paper and by a few signatures on the forum.

The clip also includes Mayor Calderone strongly stating what was quoted in the FP Review and elsewhere about his thoughts on threats and Sturino. 



Around 3 min into the vid, the mayor said he wished he had a crystal ball to figure out
at what point TB “maybe tried to do some things they shouldn’t have been doing.”

Wasn't the mayor informed on May 29, 2007?

The mayor claims the village took action when they knew about TB being out of compliance with zoning laws. Actually, the village couldn’t bring Team Blonde within Illinois zoning laws without some type of variation for TB because they were to far out of compliance. Both the village and Team Blonde had their backs to the wall and legally could only do a zoning change to make them compliant for the stricter Illinois codes the village needed to pass. These stricter state codes just happened to get passed at the Village Council meeting on 5/24/10...only one meeting after the TB 'win.'

Doesn't this letter show the village actually knew in May of 2007 that Team Blonde was out of compliance with zoning laws?

Just a thought, if the village took all the great steps to enforce the zoning as the mayor mentioned, shouldn’t it had been done in 2007 before Team Blonde became a spa. 

Threats or Perception
How about the mayor's thoughts on threats in the village and how that couldn't have happened in the 11 years since he has been mayor. It ended with a very interesting exchange about threats with Commissioner Tellalian and Mayor Calderone near the end of the vid. 




Wow!

P.S. Thank you Commissioner Tellalian for standing up and asking the important questions! Good job!