[CPEO-IRF] Life after BRAC

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Life After BRAC - Something for Officials to Think About

Savannah Business Report
May 6, 2005


Local government officials should evaluate what the likely reaction 
would be to a base closure before the list of installations proposed for 
closure is released.

That's the advice Katy Podagrosi, the mayor of Rantoul, Ill., the former 
home of Chanute Air Force Base, gave the editors of the Association of 
Defense Communities for a recent newsletter.

Chanute was designated for closure in 1988. Rantoul was not anticipating 
that Chanute would be on the 1988 list, and so Podagrosi did not sit 
down with other elected officials, the head of the county economic 
development organization, representatives of the business community and 
a member of the news media until the day after the announcement.

For Podagrosi - who served as mayor from 1984 to 1996 - the priority was 
providing an outlet for people who wanted to save the base as well as 
for those who were ready to start thinking about life after Chanute.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.savannahbusiness.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=3092&SectionID=50&SubSectionID=96


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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