I started to drive to Peoria City Hall Tuesday night for the council meeting, but before I even got there, they were finished! The agenda was short, and council members Spain and Sandberg were both absent. The consent agenda passed unanimously, and no one removed any items from it. The one regular business [...]
|
||||
|
This work is licensed under a |
The City of Peoria is going to try to persuade its employees not to leave their city vehicles idling for long periods of time. I wouldn’t say they’re “cracking down” on the practice, because there doesn’t seem to be much more than an awareness campaign planned at the moment. But it’s not a bad [...] Here’s the letter Gary Sandberg sent to Mayor Ardis announcing his resignation as liaison to the Library Board. This may answer some questions about why he resigned, and raise some other questions about the intentions of the rest of the council: 27 May 2008 Mayor Jim Ardis Dear Mayor, The Journal Star is shocked — shocked! — that at-large city councilman Gary Sandberg has been helpful as the city’s library liaison. The headline today is “Library’s unlikely advocate: Sandberg.” Ed Szynaka, director of the library, is quoted as saying: “But he’s gone above and beyond his role as the council liaison. He hasn’t missed [...] Jennifer Davis reports today on Gary Sandberg’s disputes with the city over property he owns. He had to pay fines before he was sworn in as an at-large councilman or else face the possibility of being removed for being in violation of state law 65 ILCS 5/3.1‑10‑5(b). That statute states you can’t hold municipal [...] Billy beat me to publishing this story about Gary Sandberg since he has all day to blog (he works at night). This is the issue about which Emtronics wrote the other day. While Emtronics thought the story was about Gary not paying his property taxes, it’s actually a dispute over an alleged code violation from 2004 [...] File this one under “Cults.” Dunlap High School recently had a Battle of the Bands competition. The winner? “The Gary V. Sandberg Project.” Really. I’m not making this up. I couldn’t possibly ever, in a million years, make this up. The Gary V. Sandberg Project is a bluegrass band, and they even have their own [...] |
|||
|
Copyright © 2010 The Peoria Chronicle - All Rights Reserved |
||||
Recent Comments