Editorial -- Misty Witenberg At Monday’s meeting, Mayor Hagerty issued a unilateral determination that Clerk Devon Reid violated City workplace rules and state law. Reid was not afforded a hearing nor an impartial tribunal. The Mayor then took the unprecedented...
Category: CITY COUNCIL
CITY COUNCIL
Council Lacked Vote to Change City FOIA Law
A resolution to amend the City's FOIA process will require a second vote before it can be lawfully enacted. Mayor Hagerty brought the proposal before the Council improperly as a Special Item of Business. Under City Council Rules, a matter...
CITY COUNCIL, Robert Crown
Council Meeting Agenda Brief for Monday, Feb. 25
6pm: Administration & Public Works Committee Followed by City Council meeting Cancelled: Planning & Development Committee SPECIAL ORDERS OF BUSINESS (SP1) Amend City Code Title 7, “Public Ways” to include police powers to Director of Public Works. For Action (SP2) Amend...
CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGEMENT, NEWS
Suffredin Calls for Public Discussion on City Manager
Ald. Suffredin this morning issued a statement calling for the Mayor and City Council "to have a properly noticed, open, and public discussion about the future of the City Manager position," Evanston's current City Manager is Wally Bobkiewicz. Suffredin alludes to the...
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF EVANSTON, NEWS, RESIDENT ADVOCACY
Video: Harley Clarke Interior & Grounds
Harley Clarke has been off limits to the public since the Evanston Arts Center vacated the City-owned property in 2015. The City's Preservation Commission was allowed to tour the grounds on Oct. 20, 2018, in preparation for its consideration of...
CITY COUNCIL, LEGAL, NEWS
City Should Approve Crosby Settlement, Admit Wrongdoing | Editorial
Update Jan. 28, 2019, 9:19pm: Council approved settlement terms on consent agenda without discussion and without admission of liability By Misty Witenberg City Council will vote tonight on approval of a $1.25 million settlement with Dr. Lawrence Crosby, the former doctoral student...
CITY COUNCIL, RESIDENT ADVOCACY, Speech & Protest
Evanston City Council Further Restricts Public Comment
Update: Council will vote Monday, February 11, 2019 to prohibit ceding time in public comment (O1) Resolution 12-R-19, Amending City Council Rules and Organization of the City Council Section 6 “Citizen Participation” The Rules Committee recommends that the City Council adopt...
BOARD OF ETHICS, CITY COUNCIL
Alderpersons to Discuss Ethics Board Controversies
Tonight the Evanston City Council will take on the panoply of issues regarding the City's Board of Ethics and its three Ethics cases this year. Those cases under review were filed by Misty Witenberg (BOE 001), Nancy Sreenan (BOE 002)...
BOARD OF ETHICS, CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGEMENT, CITY OF EVANSTON, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, NEWS, PLANNING & ZONING
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...
CITY COUNCIL, NEWS
Evanston Official Pocketed almost $84,000 in City Grant Funding to Fundamentalist Religious Group
Reports released by the City of Evanston show that an Evanston official was paid 70 percent of the 2017 HUD grant funding the City awarded to her employer, Sunshine Gospel Ministries, in addition a portion of 2016 funding. The federal...