Mike Clark This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Fighting City Hall

   www.landscapeandirrigation.com - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/27/2006   Last Visited: 12/8/2007

   Mike Clark is on the board of the Illinois Turf Irrigation Association and has been assisting Cassidy with the case from the beginning.
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   Clark is the irrigation branch manager and landscape construction manager for the Brickman Group, one of the largest landscape service contractors in the U.S.
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   Clark said that when the first shot was fired, the town of Aurora stopped his job.
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   Clark is not certain what possessed the state to get involved. "There is all kinds of speculation as to why the state did this," he says, "but no confirmed reason."
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   "If the State Supreme Court reviews the appeal and decides that what they did was the right thing, from a legal court system, that's the end of the line," says Clark. The total bill for the case, according to Clark, has exceeded $50,000, much of it from Cassidy's pocket.
   
   In the meantime, the case has created an extremely heightened awareness of the issue. Communities throughout Illinois are following the law to the letter, by giving citations to contractors. To make matters worse, there was a new amendment, piggybacked on another legislative issue in 1998 that made it a punishable offense to install a plumbing system without a plumbing license. The penalty for this offense is $5,000.
   
   Clark does not feel that the legislature meant to target the new law at irrigation contractors. "More likely, it was so that people doing domestic-type plumbing without a license would be punished," he says. The Irrigation Association is now focusing its efforts on getting the law itself changed. "What the court did say," says Clark, "was that we should go to the legislature and have the legislature rewrite the law."
   
   Clark and Cassidy have been talking with various associations, drumming up support.

2. 2. Lawn & Landscape Magazine, Feature

   www.lawnandlandscape.com/intro - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/13/2000   Last Visited: 9/13/2000

   "Computer-aided drafting visuals are cleaner than those that are hand-drawn," said Mike Clark, construction manager and former irrigation manager, The Brickman Group, Long Grove, Ill. Curved lines, however, are harder to draw with software, Clark added.
   
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   Either way, in order to emphasize a design's value, its monetary worth should be pointed out during the estimation process, Clark advised.

3. 3. Fighting City Hall

   www.igin.com/Irrigation/fightc - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/17/2001   Last Visited: 1/26/2006

   Mike Clark is on the board of the Illinois Turf Irrigation Association and has been assisting Cassidy with the case from the beginning.
   ...
   Clark is the irrigation branch manager and landscape construction manager for the Brickman Group, one of the largest landscape service contractors in the U.S.
   ...
   Clark said that when the first shot was fired, the town of Aurora stopped his job.
   ...
   Clark is not certain what possessed the state to get involved. "There is all kinds of speculation as to why the state did this," he says, "but no confirmed reason."
   ...
   "If the State Supreme Court reviews the appeal and decides that what they did was the right thing, from a legal court system, that's the end of the line," says Clark. The total bill for the case, according to Clark, has exceeded $50,000, much of it from Cassidy's pocket.
   
   In the meantime, the case has created an extremely heightened awareness of the issue. Communities throughout Illinois are following the law to the letter, by giving citations to contractors. To make matters worse, there was a new amendment, piggybacked on another legislative issue in 1998 that made it a punishable offense to install a plumbing system without a plumbing license. The penalty for this offense is $5,000.
   
   Clark does not feel that the legislature meant to target the new law at irrigation contractors. "More likely, it was so that people doing domestic-type plumbing without a license would be punished," he says. The Irrigation Association is now focusing its efforts on getting the law itself changed. "What the court did say," says Clark, "was that we should go to the legislature and have the legislature rewrite the law."
   
   Clark and Cassidy have been talking with various associations, drumming up support.