Evanston tax payers paid $47,331 for food for City Council and other meetings in the last year, not including travel-expensed meals. As with the other City accounting, the funding for food for meetings varies widely—restaurant charges appear as Medical and...
Category: News
Budget & Spending, News
Evanston Spent More than $220K on Conference Travel in Last Year
The City of Evanston spent $221,000 in the last year on conference and travel expenses, in addition to the $230K paid for membership fees. CLICK TO ENLARGE: City of Evanston Conference Travel Expenses Editor's Note: Actual totals may vary slightly...
Budget & Spending, News
Evanston Spent $230K on Membership Dues in Last Year
The City of Evanston spent just under $230,000 on membership dues in the last 12 months, including personal Rotary Club memberships for the City Manager, according to the City's Bills List. $94,469 IN PERSONAL MEMBERSHIPS Almost $95,000 went to personal and...
News, Open Meetings Act, Resident Advocacy
Your Rights to Open Public Meetings in Evanston
Illinois public policy is that the City government exists to help conduct the people’s business, and that the people have a right to be informed of that business. As such, City actions must be considered and taken with very specific,...
City of Evanston, News
Where Evanston Lacks Due Process for Residents
Due process comes in two flavors, both of which are intended to balance government powers and protect individuals from unjust actions. Procedural due process focuses on a timely and impartial adjudication process. Substantive due process is the principle empowering courts...
News, Resident Advocacy
Now Open: City’s Online Public Comment
The Evanston Clerk's Office has rolled out the City's first online public comment portal. Click to go to City of Evanston's Newly Launched Public Comment Online Portal Before today, anyone who wanted to address City Council through public comment had...
Board of Ethics, City Council, City of Evanston, Environmental Justice, Management, News, Planning & Zoning Division
Where Are Evanston’s Separation of Powers?
While our eyes are glued to who Trump’s Supreme Court nominee will be, and the latest on the Robert Mueller-Trump probe, I urge Evanstonians to cast a glance as Evanston acts out the same events on a smaller stage. Particularly...
Board of Ethics, News
Ethics Board Lacked Quorum for Alderperson’s June Hearing
The term of one of the members of the Evanston Board of Ethics expired just prior to the June 19 hearing concerning an alderperson’s receipt and participation of the City’s grant funding to her employer. See Evanston Live TV hearing...
Environmental Justice, News
False Race Claim in 2nd Ward Project Highlights City’s Environmental Injustice
Residents in Evanston's second ward are demanding the City reconsider the location for a Permanent Supportive Housing Development after discovering the developer misrepresented the neighborhood's racial demographics on its state funding application. Housing Opportunities for Women (HOW) received almost $5M in...
News
Breakdown of Council Concerns Re: Harley Clarke
Last November Council directed City staff to direct a 40-year-lease of the abandoned Harley Clarke property to the nonprofit Lake House and Gardens (ELHG). In March 2018, Council approved for consideration the lease, which required the nonprofit to raise $2M...