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City Property Discussion Monday
The City Council will be discussing Monday night options for alternate property uses / alternate provision of services at three City owned properties: Chandler Newberger Community Center, Noyes Cultural Arts Center and the Harley Clarke Mansion (the current home of the Evanston Arts Center). The full staff report on the subject can be found here (PDF). This will be a first conversation on the subject with the City Council as part of the City's larger discussions on the proposed FY…
Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
Links are to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files: 1. Appointment of Peter Braithwaite as Second Ward Alderman 2. Report on Blizzard Response under City Manager Presentations. Employees who worked on the effort will be recognized at the Administration and Public Works Committee meeting. 3. Consideration of bid to replace back stairs to Civic Center. The project also includes areas leading to stairs in effort to improve drainage issues. 4. Consideration of Change Order #1 for Groot Yard Waste Contract. The change is…
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Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
Busy, varied meeting scheduled for Monday night. First, there is no Planning and Development Committee meeting for first time in a long while. The City Council meeting will start at conclusion of Administration and Public Works Committee, but no earlier than 7:15 PM. Mayor Tisdahl will be honoring NU Professor Dale Mortensen with the Key to the City in honor of his winning the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics. This will occur at 8:00 PM and will be accompanied by…
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Channel 16 Now Streaming on the Internet
The Evanston Community Media Center is now streaming Channel 16 live over the Internet 24 hours a day. Folks all over the world will now be able to see the City Council live and also able to watch scheduled playbacks. The City has added the feed to our website Thanks to ECMC Executive Director Steve Bartlebaugh and his team for making this happen.…
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Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
All links Adobe Acrobat unless otherwise indicated. 1. Special order of business for discussion of the City's FY 2009/10 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (aka Audit). 2. Consideration of ordinance adopting $2.00/ton solid waste transfer fee applied to private operators of solid waste transfer stations in Evanston. 3. Consideration of ordinance to change religious institutions from a permitted use to a special use in business districts. 4. Report to Planning and Development Committee on compliance of Marathon Gas, 555 Howard, with…
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Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
All links are PDF unless otherwise noted: 1. Report of Mayor's Budget Task Force. 2. Update on Lake Michigan Wind Turbine Project. Staff Report. The City received two submittals it is proposing to review further from Off Grid Technologies and Mercury Wind Energy. 3. Consideration of ordinance creating new category of liquor licenses for craft distilleries. Agenda Full Packet…
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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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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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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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Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
The City Council starts its Summer Break after Monday's meeting, so the agenda is full of interesting items. The next City Council meeting is on Monday September 13. All links are PDF documents. 1. Downtown Evanston will be making a presentation on plans to begin a process to renovate the Varsity Theater. 2. The Council will be asked to consider proposed CIP projects for 2011 for water main replacement and street resurfacing. 3. Starting at this meeting, the City Council…
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Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
All links are Adobe Acrobat PDF 1. Final Action on the Township of Evanston Budget. 2. Presentation of new City efforts to get more volunteers helping the City of Evanston. 3. Consideration of March 1, 2010 Police and Fire Pension Actuarial Report. 4. Consideration of first change order for the roof replacement project at the Civic Center. 5. Consideration of extension of electric franchise with Commonwealth Edison. Agenda Full Agenda Packet…
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Special City Council Meeting Monday
The City Council is holding a special meeting Monday at 7 PM in the Council Chambers as part of a year long review of components of our Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department. The discussion Monday evening will focus on City special events (what do we do, are there other events we should be doing? who are our partners? should we identify new partners? etc.) and the City's youth programs. With the FY 2010/11 budget, the City consolidated responsibility for…
Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
All links are Adobe Acrobat (PDF): 1. Further discussion of the Township of Evanston's budget. 2. Consideration of amendments to the City's State and Federal Legislative Priorities. 3. Consideration of new electric franchise agreement with Commonwealth Edison to provide electrical service in Evanston until July 14, 2015. Full Agenda Agenda Packet…
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Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
All links to PDF documents 1. Consideration of future of Evanston Public Library North and South Branches. The City Council has funded the branches through August 31. Reports from the Evanston Library Board and Friends of the Library will be presented to the Council. 2. Consideration of budget for Township of Evanston. 3. Consideration of $50,000 grant for funding of development and land acquisition for future park ("Grandmothers Park") at 1125 Dewey. 4. The City Council's Planning and Development Committee…
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Problem with Comcast Channel 16
Channel 16 went off the air about ninety minutes through the City Council meeting this evening. There apparently is a problem with Comcast’s network and how it connects to the government access channel. The entire meeting was recorded and will be replayed as usual. We will also come up with additional playback times. Meeting will also be uploaded to YouTube per usual.…
Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
The City Council is meeting Monday at 7 PM in a special meeting to discuss budget issues. Several items of interest (all links PDF): 1. Receive March 1, 2010 actuarial report on the Police and Fire pension funds. Unfortunately, news here is not getting much better. 2. FY 2010/11 First Quarter budget report. It is hard to get a good sense of where things are headed after only three months into the fiscal year. Better trends emerge during the second…
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Newsy Items on Monday City Council Agenda
All links below are to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files: 1. Consideration of new contract with American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). This union represents most of our non-public safety employees. Agreement represents 0% salary increase in current year and a 2% and 1% increase during the course of FY 2011/12 which will be offset by continued furlough days. More details in staff report. 2. Further consideration of addition of traffic signal on Sheridan Road at Garrett Place. …
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