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Pay increases for some employees and improvements to some streets are among spending plans in the $3-million budget approved unanimously Tuesday by the City Council. City staff members and City Manager Fred Maley will get raises averaging 4% in fiscal 1999-2000. Money also is allocated to improve streets, relieve traffic congestion at Villa Park High School and evaluate city involvement in a project to restore two historic buildings at Villa Park Elementary School. The buildings then would be leased to the city and sublet to a private community group.
Maley said Wednesday, though, that such a three-way relationship may not work out. “We want to be supportive,” he said, “ . . . but we probably don’t want to be the middleman.” Maley added that the price tag for restoring the buildings is estimated from $1.1 million to $1.3 million--one-third of the city’s next year budget.
He said the project could “theoretically bankrupt the city” if the corporation’s fund-raising efforts failed.
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