Please sign our petition. We have more than 1,000 petitions from the effort four years ago but have started a new petition specific to Sam's. Please sign the petition .
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Bob
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Lois Foster, Susan Hammill, Joann Vaugh -- In reading the letter the Glen Ed Citizens sent to residents today it appears you were not at the meeting where the Sam's representative and traffic engineer presented information. The Traffic is a D now; it will be a D after Sam's. Other proposals have looked at adding 4 or 5 businesses in that same area and traffic would be 70% worse than this one store will create! If Sam's doesn't build there, perhaps 4 or 5 other stores will. Glen Carbon is not GIVING Sam's money from Glen Carbon's general funds; Sam's is asking for a percentage of the money they will pay in taxes returned to them as the incentive. There would not be $8.7 million in incentives if Sam's did not pay that tax to begin with from sales they generate.
So true Bob, that was exactly what I was going to say. I received the letter that you are referencing today. Apparently the "GlenEd Citizens" don't even know the specific details of what they are fighting so hard for. The entire letter was based on opinion of Lois Foster, Susan Hammill, and Joann Vaughn, not facts. If you want the facts read the articles The Edwardsville Intelligencer has posted on their website, and be sure to read the comments. They provide good facts about the project as well. This letter is no better than annoying political commercials, statements, not facts, trying to falsely influence people.
I see no reason to object to a new Sam's Club for Glen Carbon. The traffic situation can easily be handled by controlling egress from the property. Take a look across the highway at the access/egress to the road beside KFC, that is controlled access/egress. The same situation can and should be used for Sam's Club. For way too long Glen Carbon has been controlled by the opinions of the few who are stymieing growth of our village. It is time the majority of our citizens take control of this and help our village expand in a way that will bring the most tax revenue to the village. BTW, the ladies have the tax incentive thing all wrong. The village will give nothing to anyone to build or operate Sam's Club. The monies being talked about are the taxes that Sam's will pay to Glen Carbon. They want to have a part of that tax rebated to the firm to help them operate the Club.
So GlenEd Citizens & lady letter writers....you have the tax incentive wrong and even in these economic times you think the priority should be for you to not have to sit in traffic rather than employ 350 people at Sam's and employ all the people who would build it? A bit selfish, isn't that?
I have no idea what the letter said, I did not get one. But if you all think that Sams is good for Glen Carbon you are foolish. Do your research, find out what this company is about, look how many jobs will be lost not gained. Your lack of concern for the workers, American companies, and other local businesses seem to be a bit selfish dont ya think? I think that their workers, communities and american industry deserve a lot more that what Sams and Wal-Mart gives. Selfish is a government whom does not do what their community wants of them that they look only at the ol mighty dollar, which they cannot handle anyway.
Why not have a 1 cent increase for schools and invest in our children but its ok to give it to the Waltons. Does not make much since. That seems a little selfish doesnt it?
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Lois Foster, Susan Hammill, Joann Vaugh -- In reading the letter the Glen Ed Citizens sent to residents today it appears you were not at the meeting where the Sam's representative and traffic engineer presented information.
The Traffic is a D now; it will be a D after Sam's. Other proposals have looked at adding 4 or 5 businesses in that same area and traffic would be 70% worse than this one store will create! If Sam's doesn't build there, perhaps 4 or 5 other stores will.
Glen Carbon is not GIVING Sam's money from Glen Carbon's general funds; Sam's is asking for a percentage of the money they will pay in taxes returned to them as the incentive. There would not be $8.7 million in incentives if Sam's did not pay that tax to begin with from sales they generate.
So true Bob, that was exactly what I was going to say. I received the letter that you are referencing today. Apparently the "GlenEd Citizens" don't even know the specific details of what they are fighting so hard for. The entire letter was based on opinion of Lois Foster, Susan Hammill, and Joann Vaughn, not facts. If you want the facts read the articles The Edwardsville Intelligencer has posted on their website, and be sure to read the comments. They provide good facts about the project as well. This letter is no better than annoying political commercials, statements, not facts, trying to falsely influence people.
I see no reason to object to a new Sam's Club for Glen Carbon. The traffic situation can easily be handled by controlling egress from the property. Take a look across the highway at the access/egress to the road beside KFC, that is controlled access/egress. The same situation can and should be used for Sam's Club.
For way too long Glen Carbon has been controlled by the opinions of the few who are stymieing growth of our village. It is time the majority of our citizens take control of this and help our village expand in a way that will bring the most tax revenue to the village.
BTW, the ladies have the tax incentive thing all wrong. The village will give nothing to anyone to build or operate Sam's Club. The monies being talked about are the taxes that Sam's will pay to Glen Carbon. They want to have a part of that tax rebated to the firm to help them operate the Club.
So GlenEd Citizens & lady letter writers....you have the tax incentive wrong and even in these economic times you think the priority should be for you to not have to sit in traffic rather than employ 350 people at Sam's and employ all the people who would build it? A bit selfish, isn't that?
I have no idea what the letter said, I did not get one. But if you all think that Sams is good for Glen Carbon you are foolish. Do your research, find out what this company is about, look how many jobs will be lost not gained. Your lack of concern for the workers, American companies, and other local businesses seem to be a bit selfish dont ya think? I think that their workers, communities and american industry deserve a lot more that what Sams and Wal-Mart gives. Selfish is a government whom does not do what their community wants of them that they look only at the ol mighty dollar, which they cannot handle anyway.
Why not have a 1 cent increase for schools and invest in our children but its ok to give it to the Waltons. Does not make much since. That seems a little selfish doesnt it?
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