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Trial date set for Park District’s Open Meetings Act violation

When the Peoria Park District (PPD) met in executive session to discuss partnering with District 150 on a new location for a school building for the Woodruff attendance area, they violated the Open Meetings Act (OMA). Only if they were discussing a sale price for land could they make such plans away from the [...]

September 22nd, 2006 | Category: Peoria Park District | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

City to D150: Thanks, but no thanks

At a joint press conference today, the City officially responded to District 150’s counterproposal regarding the site of a new school for the Woodruff attendance area: “We respectfully decline.” Bob Manning explained that there was really very little room for negotiation to begin with.

“From day one, we put together our best-faith [...]

September 22nd, 2006 | Category: City of Peoria, Peoria Public Schools | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

$10M price tag, other excuses highly questionable

The Journal Star reported on the last public meeting about changing Adams and Jefferson streets downtown from one-way to two-way. It’s clear that Public Works Director Steve Van Winkle doesn’t want to change them (why, I don’t know). He had an engineer from IDOT figure out the cost of switching, and supposedly it’s [...]

September 22nd, 2006 | Category: City of Peoria, Traffic | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)