With surprisingly little discussion, the City Council quietly rejected almost all suggestions to add more land to the proposed Warehouse and Eagle View Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts.
Lately — especially since the most recent budget was passed — people have been asking, “is this council any different than the one they replaced?” I think this is an example where they are indeed different. This council showed restraint when presented with suggestions to expand a TIF, and I thought their performance tonight was commendable.
Another area where they’re different: the council approved only a one-year intergovernmental agreement with the Park District to do programming for Riverfront events instead of rubber-stamping another five-year agreement. They’re trying to wean the Park District off of city funds and push them toward making Riverfront events self-supporting. This is practically a paradigm-shift from the previous council.
It was a good, fiscally-responsible council meeting.
Was anything said about the snow removal issue and the overtime paid?? I missed the meeting (well most of it)
No, at least not in public session. They might have discussed it in closed session since it’s a personnel-related issue.
A different council huh? I’ll think about that but I better scurry off and pay my Garbage Fee.
This is a good, fiscally responsible council, let’s hope it stays that way after the At-Large elections.