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== Notable events == === Fire Department privatization === In a letter dated June 19, 2014, to the residents of North Riverside, Mayor Hermanek pitched the idea of contracting the fire department positions to a private contact company, [http://www.paramedicservices.com/ Paramedic Services of Illinois, Inc.]. The Village currently contracts with the company to provide paramedic services, but the plan was to contract the fire fighter positions as well. The plan has drawn significant opposition from the Fire Fighters Union Local 2714, as well as village residents, and department supporters. At the July 24 Special Meeting of the Village Board to adopt the annual appropriation, there was no vote on the privatization proposal, but the Appropriation Ordinance passed by a vote of 4 to 1. The Fiscal Year 2014-2015 (which began May 1, 2014) budget includes slashed salaries for the fire fighters. "The negotiations are not going to go on forever," said Hermanek. "This will be done by the end of the summer."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Uphues|first1=Bob|title=Clock ticking on North Riverside fire department privatization|url=http://www.rblandmark.com/News/Articles/7-25-2014/Clock-ticking-on-North-Riverside-fire-department-privatization/|website=Riverside Brookfield Landmark| date=July 25, 2014 |access-date=July 31, 2014}}</ref> On September 12, 2014, in a press release from the Village, Mayor Hugh Hermanek stated that he has instructed Village attorney's to file suit with the Cook County Courts, for the right to terminate the Firefighter's Contact, which expired April 30, 2014. The press release in part reads: {{Blockquote|The law firm of Odelson & Sterk, the village's attorneys, filed the lawsuit today to affirm that, 'like any other contract between two parties, there is a beginning and an end,' according to Burt Odelson, the firm's lead partner. 'The union's contract with North Riverside expired on April 30, 2014; so, after making six good faith efforts to find a way to build a new contract while also maintaining the village's solvency, the failure to accomplish that requires us to move ahead expeditiously on the privatization plan.'<ref name="Official Press Release: NORTH RIVERSIDE DECLARES IMPASSE WITH FIREFIGHTERS' UNION">{{cite web|title=NORTH RIVERSIDE DECLARES IMPASSE WITH FIREFIGHTERS' UNION|url=http://www.northriverside-il.org/dnr/node/462|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141117163107/http://www.northriverside-il.org/dnr/node/462|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 November 2014|website=www.northriverside-il.org|publisher=Village of North Riverside|access-date=17 November 2014}}</ref>}}
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