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City Council Actions - September 27, 2010
CITY COUNCIL ACTIONS Monday, September 27, 2010 SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS: (SP1) Ordinances 57-O-10 and 63-O-10: Water & Sewer Rates Action: INTRODUCED (SP1a) Ordinance 57-O-10 Amending the Evanston City Code Title 7, Chapter 13, Relating to the City Sewer System Action: INTRODUCED (SP1b) Ordinance 63-O-10 Amending the Evanston City Code Title 7, Chapter 12, Relating to the City Waterworks System Action: INTRODUCED (SP2) Ordinance 52-O-10 Regarding Taxicab Regulation Action: PASS AS AMENDED (9-0) ADMINISTRATION & PUBLIC WORKS (A2) City of…
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Mayor Tisdahl Meets with Senator Richard Durbin
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl met Friday afternoon with Illinois Senator Richard Durbin in Chicago to discuss Evanston issues and ask for the Senator's support of the City's Federal Community Challenge Planning Grant to construct 67 low-income housing units on the City's westside. This project, known as Emerson Square, would be an offshoot of the City's existing work through the $18 million NSP2 grant the City received last year. Mayor Tisdahl reports that Senator Durbin was very interested in the project and…
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Answers to Questions from First Community Budget Workshop
Staff has put together extensive answers to questions from the first Community Budget Workshop. These answers can be found on the City's budget webpage. The second and final Community Budget Workshop is scheduled for this Wednesday, September 29, 7 PM at the Levy Center.…
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Evanston Police and Fire Departments Now on Facebook
The City has recently added Facebook pages for the Evanston Police and Fire Departments. Check out all the City's Facebook pages on our website.…
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Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
Links are to PDF documents unless otherwise noted. 1. Presentation to Evanston Kiwanis Club for its outstanding contribution to the 2010 CommUNITY Picnic 2. Update on work to start 3-1-1 telephone operation in Evanston and other updates on community engagement. 3. Consideration of adjustment to water and sewer rates. 4. Continued discussion on taxicab regulation amendments. 5. Consideration of contracts for yard waste disposal, residential refuse and condominium refuse removal. 6. Consideration of contract to outside vendor to construct and…
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WBBM-TV Coverage of Metra Evanston Service Problems
Check out link to story on Channel 2 tonight regarding Metra issues in Evanston http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=74205@wbbm.dayport.com…
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Special City Council Meeting Monday / Goals and Budget Issues
The City Council will be meeting to set goals for 2011, review mid-year budget report and hear a preview of the FY 2011 budget process. The meeting begins at 6 PM in the Council Chambers. The documents for the meeting can be found here (PDF). The list of 2010 Council goals are pretty broad, but the Council will receive report on their implementation and will be asked if items should be changed, added or deleted. The report on the mid-year…
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Information from First Community Budget Workshop
The video of the first budget workshop is available on-line as is the Powerpoint presentation (PDF). For more information about the workshops, check out the City's budget homepage.…
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Our New Neighbors
Class of 2014 'March Thru the Arch' from Northwestern News on Vimeo.…
Budget Process Begins
Believe it or not, we are gearing up for preparation of FY 2011 budget. The City is transitioning to a calendar year fiscal year away from our current March 1 – February 28 year. The biggest reason for this is to give Council flexibility in changing property tax rate to occur in a timely manner to impact the budget. The levy must be set by December 15 each year. When we do a budget in February and the Council changes…
Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
Links to Adobe Acrobat Files (unless indicated). 1. Presentation by United Way of the North Shore commending the City on its 2009 employee campaign and announcing 2010 campaigns in Evanston. 2. Swearing in of New Evanston Fire Chief Greg Klaiber. 3. Presentation by NU Finance Professor Joshua Rauh on state of public pensions. Rauh is a national expert on the subject and will comment on his views of Evanston's pension issues. More info on Rauh on his Kellogg School website.…
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Construction Sign Explained
The City Council received an email last week with this photo and the following message: "Mayor and Council Members, In this day of budget cutting and the need for improved fiscal responsibility, I’m bothered by the cost vs. need of this humongous sign at Lake & Dodge. What’s the purpose that we can’t figure out without it? And does that purpose justify the fabrication and labor costs required to install it? Can anyone tell me what those costs are? Couldn’t…
New On-Line City Code
The City Clerk's Office changed the vendor that codifies our City Code. With the change, there is a new web interface for accessing the Evanston City Code. Big day for us government geeks......…
Blog Turns One Year Old
This blog is celebrating its first anniversary today. During the past year, I have posted 248 entries to the blog which have received 208 total comments from the public. The most commented blog post dealt with feral cats, while the ones with the most visits talked about animal control, snow and our efforts to bring Google to Evanston. The blog has had 19,275 "page views." I have been doing a blog between here and my former position in Santa Paula,…