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March 12, 1927 WINNETKA TALK New Trier Taxpayers league finds new $500,000 bond issue unwise! Here are facts you should know before voting on the proposal to VERY citizen of New Trier Township is vitally affected by the proposal to add $500,000 to the township's public debt. At the election April 5th, you are asked to vote ona new bond issue for this amount, with which to buy 10 acres of "No Man's Land" for park purposes. After thorough investigation, the non-partisan Tax- payers Protective League of New Trier Township be- lieves this new bond issue would be wasteful and unsound. Unless you vote "NO" on April 5th, you will be faced with increased taxes to pay for a park project which cannot benefit the township as a whole. Cost of project excessive The tract of land proposed for purchase lies along Sheridan Road between Kenilworth and Wilmette -- see map for exact location. This land has been in commercial use for years. It is in commercial use today. It has never been annexed to any village. Recently plans were announced to improve the land with modern buildings and the movement to buy the buy 10-acre park land for a park was started to prevent this improve- ment, not because the land is especially suited or needed for park purposes. The price which would have to be paid is based, of course, on the land's present or commercial value. For this one park of only ten acres, you are asked to vote a bond issue --greater than the cost of all existing parks in the township! --equal to the cost of all school grounds in the entire township! --lacking only $10,000 of being as much as the bond issue for the great New Trier High School! --greater than the entire bonded debt of any vil- lage or school board! --equivalent to nearly three per cent of the total 1926 assessed valuation of all taxable property in the township! Expense of each community Glencoe would have to pay approximately $100,000 of this bond issue, Winnetka $185,000, Kenilworth $40,000, Wilmette $145,000, and the remainder of the township $30,000. These figures are based on latest tax valuation figures. Glencoe's expense for this 10-acre park would be over two-thirds of the sum now outstanding for its entire school system and almost as much as its total indebted- ness for its entire park system, including recent de- velopments. Winnetka would have to pay for this unimportant park practically 609, of what it now owes for all its schools or $32,000 more than its total indebtedness for all its parks. If you live in the area shown on this map, you are a resident of New Trier Township and will be liable for in- creased laxes lo pay this proposed park. The land which the bond issue ELM STREET | WINNETKA AVE ~~ \WINNETKA A. would buy is part of "No Man's Land," the shaded area on the map indicated by the arrow. AN CENTRAL ST RN Treasurer Kenilworth's contribution toward this one park would be more than two-thirds of its present debt for its entire school system or $14,000 more than the total indebtedness for its entire park system. Wilmette could pay off* almost three-fourths of its present total indebtedness for schools or $14,000 more than its total indebtedness for its entire park system, with the money that would have to be spent for this one small park. Most of township won't benefit Even if the price were sensible, the land is not suitable for a park. It is remote from a great majority of the township's residents. Civic authorities, who for years have struggled with the problem of protecting the vil- lage beaches, say such a park would present a serious problem of control because of being on the main highway. Taking the land out of commercial development would not benefit the great majority of the township's citizens. It is not as if business were encroaching on property which has not been commercial heretofore; this land has been used for commercial purposes for years and the projected buildings will be a great im- provement, a big asset to the township's taxable property. $500,000 of your money, properly spent, would give the township improvements needed far more than this one small park in "No 'Man's Land." For instance, $500,000 would buy an adequate park for every one of the township's eleven schools, giving new recreational facilities where needed, available to everybody and adding to property values in every section, not in one small area. Go to the polls April 5th. Your absence from the polls may help to carry this expensive project. Vote "NO" on the proposal for a new bond issue of $500,000. vote "NO" April Sth! Taxpayers Protective League of New Trier Township RE Robert H. Wallace, 1083 Cherry Street, Winnetka NN Secretary............ John J. Peters, 1519 Washington Ave., Wilmette RAC 70 nial Treasurer..C John H. Bullen, Glencoe, Illinois KENTLWORN: Winnetka Kenilworth NN Willoughby G. Walling J. Alden Sears Frederick Loco Henry Taylor, Jr. Sidney Wellbeloved Thomas Coyne Thomas N. Wheatley Douglas Flood Phillip H. Mallen y William J. Carey Glencoe LAKE AVE ; John H. Bullen Wilmette James A. Russell H. R. White Edwin D. Buell Henry E. Cutler Township John J. Peters Rush Butler W. A. Obermeier Robert H. Gardner Everett A. Dannamark Edgar Stanton ] : 1