They came to a recent village board meeting with complaints that the village wouldn’t accept remaining payments for a business license fee because of a paperwork issue stemming from a rental property ordinance, which places certain limits on the number of tenants who can live in a rental property. <\/p>\n
The ordinance also mandates that tenants must give the village the names of everyone sharing a unit before moving in. <\/p>\n
Slinkman said the village already has a list containing the majority of Colonial Court’s tenants in its files, and making him jump through another hoop is “the height of silliness.” <\/p>\n
Trustees Alex Olejniczak (2nd) and Bob Streit (3rd) – both named in the Slinkmans’ lawsuit – responded to the claim and defended the requirement. <\/p>\n
“If you don’t have tenants registered … you can’t prevent problems,” Olejniczak said. <\/p>\n
Both trustees cited the fatal fire, which erupted in an overcrowded Cicero apartment building, as a worst-case scenario for keeping spotty records of tenants. <\/p>\n
Streit said Cicero firefighters were unaware of how many people were in the building as it burned, making it harder for authorities to organize an emergency response. <\/p>\n
The reference left Slinkman stewing. <\/p>\n
“That’s disgusting,” he said, walking out of the village auditorium mid-meeting. “This is disgusting to bring up these people’s tragedy.” <\/p>\n
Slinkman said he’s been deeply involved in that fire’s aftermath and has worked with a Berwyn agency to help one of the families affected by the fire. <\/p>\n
That family will be staying in one of Slinkman’s buildings in Stickney, he said. <\/p>\n
“This ordinance has nothing to do with seven people dying in this tragedy,” he said. <\/p>\n
But some at village hall see Slinkman’s outburst differently. <\/p>\n
Trustees have said Slinkman is a nuisance who’s seeking attention, and that his behavior at the Feb. 23 board meeting was yet another way to grab it. <\/p>\n
At that meeting, Trustee Tom Duhig (4th) even invoked Shakespeare’s Macbeth, likening Slinkman to a candle, saying “Out, out, brief candle.” <\/p>\n
As for Slinkman, he said he was merely reacting to what he views as the latest jab from the village in a feud that stretches back to last fall. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read the original article from SouthTown Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Village officials in Oak Lawn invoked the recent tragic fire inside a Cicero apartment building that killed seven people as a reminder that overcrowding can cause danger and confusion during emergencies. Landlord Mike Slinkman, who was on the receiving end of that reminder, thinks their timing is suspect. Slinkman and his brother Mark filed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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