Remarks by Robin LaBedz
20 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 42:58
“I'll move approval of the closed session minutes of September 28th, or September 8th, 2026. Second.”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 58:27
“I'll make that motion. I move that we concur with item G. Second.”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 58:48
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you. I too am concerned about the intensity of the project. When I look at the plan, it's basically the whole piece of property is covered with some use. And one of the things that I don't understand, and perhaps you can explain, is the two practice competition fields. Why are there two? And if there are two, does that mean there will be games at both, and therefore there will be more people coming to the site because there'll be other schools? And I would appreciate if... there could be some explanation about that. Because that really seems a lot to me.”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
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“Okay, thanks. I am also really concerned about the traffic in the area. That's been a problem for years. I'm not an immediate neighbor, but I'm close enough that I use Dryden and I use Oakton and I use Euclid, and so... with all the students or whoever are parking along the streets, it makes it difficult for people to go safely through the area. One of the residents showed a child. First of all, I guess I should say, I really appreciate everything that everybody's done, what staff's done, what the petitioner's done. all the comments and things that we have received. And we've also received…”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you. I do want to thank everybody for the very respectful meeting that we've had tonight. And it's, I think, works both ways that we appreciate it and you appreciate it too. I just want a couple things back to the the two stadiums or practice fields or whatever. I just would like more understanding as it moved forward whether there would be games simultaneously on each one. You mentioned one. is for lacrosse and soccer and other things, but would there be games on both fields at the same time? That would be a question that I would want an answer to. Because if it's just practice, your…”
Village Board of Trustees · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 1:26
“I'll move approval of the closed session minutes of April 20th, 2026. Second.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 1:03:58
“I'll move approval of the consent agenda, items A through H. Second.”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thank you, thank you very much. Can I stay up? Oh, go ahead and sit. I'm happy to, okay. I think there'll be more comments. I do have a question first though for Director Rodman, and that is about the land banking comment that was in the staff report, because I too was surprised when I read it And maybe you can explain it further, because I know we've done land banking for other types of projects. Is there something about this particular project that means... it's not appropriate. I can think of certainly shopping centers where even the one right across the road on golf where we did land…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“So perhaps that's what we did. I guess you would have been there with me on quite a few of these. OK, thanks. Appreciate that. There have been a lot of great comments. When I look at the site, frankly, it's just an odd-shaped site. And it would be difficult, being R3, thinking about single family homes, even if it were to be sold for that, I think you could only do a cul-de-sac at the end and just a few houses. So I can see why there would be struggles with figuring out what to do with this. I do believe another organization might have looked at this, site at one time for some kind of a…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“Thank you, because I forgot, but Trustee Zik actually did say it, and as long as this isn't, should this move forward as not marketed as Arlington Heights, seniors will move in here to make it clear because that's where we've had problems before that people misunderstood that it has to be open to everybody when they went to this move forward and people come in they will be arlington heights residents and they'll They'll have exactly the same responsibilities and enjoyment and all that as we have. They'll spend money in the village and they'll utilize other like park district and things like…”
Village Board of Trustees · Aug 3, 2026
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“I move approval of the minutes from July 6th, 2026. Second.”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 17:42
“I came prepared whether or not, I wasn't sure if I... would be called upon. But I do want to say, as Mayor Tenaglia said, this was something that not only came up during his campaign, but in addition during last year's priority setting workshop, we did identify this as our strategic priority number five, which is to engage stakeholders regarding the resources regarding the historic preservation of residential areas to determine what further regulations and resources should be implemented. And that's why we gathered together a group of individuals that come from different perspectives in this,…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“I move that we close the public hearing.”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:13:56
“Thank you, and thank you Mayor Tenaglia and staff for working on bringing, making things more modern, more like other communities and so on. I do appreciate that. I just have a couple questions. One is for recommendation number three, the single one If you can go back there. Okay, so when I look at that, I just wondered, was there any thought to making the Class B $3,000? Which is, you know, the BB plus the BBB, which is the same thing, and then it's $3,000 rather than 3,700. So I don't know if there's any thought for that?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“Well, that would be a suggestion that I would consider. I don't know if anyone else would agree, but that's kind of my thought. I have to admit, when I first got on the board, or ever since I've been on the board and had been approving liquor licenses, I always thought, wow, these things are expensive. And especially for these packaged liquor stores that... You know, our, you know, mom and pop businesses, well like our restaurants are pretty much, you know, mom and pop style things too. So that would be a thought that I had. Then for number four, when I first read the description of it with…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“Okay, and by delivery, you mean like your Grubhub delivery and that sort?”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:18:20
“Okay. All right. Thank you for the clarification. I didn't know how that fit into all this. So thank you. That's it. That's my questions.”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“I was thinking that I would, you know, because Diana says that this is going to be looked at and reviewed and that I'm fine with doing that. And it makes sense because we're in the middle of the liquor licenses issue. And we wouldn't want to change things in the middle of, in midstream, if you will. But I guess one thing that was coming up that I, someone said this has to do with restaurants, but this is just packaged liquor stores. Because when I look at the list of, and the Jewel and the Marianos and things like that, when I look at the list that was provided to us online of Class B, it's…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026
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“Trustee LaBette? I too thought Trustee Gilbert was going to say 9, but I am going to support the 8 o'clock. And I think part of the reason we're struggling is that every day of the week is different. We're trying to regulate from Monday through Sunday, and different days of the week are you know, we're trying to do a blanket thing for every day, whereas Tuesday night might not be so hopping downtown, or Monday night is as the mayor has experienced. But Thursday, when we were leaving sounds of summer the other night, last week, there were a lot of people eating at restaurants at 839 o'clock.…”
Village Board of Trustees · Jul 20, 2026