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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES-2009-09-21-20091 1 1 September 21, 2009 1 SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 2ND FLOOR LORRAINE H. MORTON CIVIC CENTER Mayor Tisdahl thanked everyone for attending the Special Meeting of the City Council. She read her letter dated August 31, 2009, that explained the reason for calling this meeting. She had completed the reading she then asked for a roll call. ROLL CALL — PRESENT: A Quorum was present. Absent at Roll Call PRESIDING: MAYOR PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: Alderman Rainey Alderman Burrus Alderman Fiske Alderman Jean -Baptiste Alderman Grover Mayor Tisdahl Alderman Wynne Alderman Wilson Alderman Holmes Alderman Tendam Mayor Tisdahl called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m. and announced that Alderman Grover's child was sick and that she would arrive shortly. She then called on the following citizens for Citizen Comments: Jessica Feldman, Randall Mayne, and Tom McMahon. Mr. McMahon of 5 Milburn Park was the only citizen who spoke. Mr. McMahon stated he was a member of the Citizen's for a Greener Evanston. He came to encourage the Council to move forward with the plan for implementing the process for a greener Evanston. CITY MANAGER ANNOUNCEMENTS: City Manager, Mr. Wally Bobkiewicz, stated he was going to give a brief overview of the document he had generated, and he also asked for the Council members to give their ten top goal choices prior to the meeting tonight. At the end of his presentation he would then hear the goals that each Alderman and the Mayor had picked as their top ten goals for the City. Mr. Bobkiewicz also stated he would then tally the numbers of each goal, and would then eliminate the ones that did not receive at least six votes for approval. He explained the 39 items of interest he considered priorities for the City. This was accomplished through a power point presentation. September 21, 2009 11 COUNCIL MEMBERS CHOICES: Mavor Tisdahl: Economic Development Water Sells Affordable Housing Climate Action Plan Fed./State/ Regional Northwestern University Budget Planning Capital Improvement Parking Issues Efficiency of Services Alderman Fiske (Ward 1): Budget Planning Capital Improvement Downtown Development Economic Development Customer Services Fed./State/Regional Lakefront development Northwestern U. Transparency Zoning Issues Alderman Jean -Baptiste (Ward 2): Before making his choices known he explained that he regrouped some of the items, because they were interrelated. He felt that there should have been subsections to items like Economic Development, Budget Planning, Capital Improvement, etc. his choices are as follows: Economic Development Capital Improvement Community Development (a) Amenities (a) Downtown (a) Preventing Foreclosures (b) Selling Water (b) Robert Crown (b) Youth Issues © Fed/State/Regional © Street/Alley © Community Publicity (d) Climate Action Plan (d) Lakefront (d) Safety/Police/Fire Alderman Wvnne (Ward 3): Economic Development Fed/State/Regional Northwestern University Nuisance Parking Issues Street & Alley Customer Service Community Transparency Green Issues Alderman Wilson (Ward 4): Affordable Housing Budget Planning Capital Improvements Climate Action Plan Robert Crown Economic Development Customer Service Fed/State/Regional Northwestern University Parking Issues Alderman Holmes (Ward 5): Affordable Housing Budget Planning Capital Budget Economic Development Lakefront Plan Neighborhood Planning Northwestern University Transparency Water Issues Safety 2 01 1 1 1 Alderman Tendam (Ward 6): Economic Development, Affordable Housing Customer Service Youth Issues Alderman Grover (Ward 7): Economic Development Climate Action Plan Lakefront Alderman Rainev (Ward 8): Economic Development (a) Job Transparency (b) Lakefront © Neighborhood Development (d) Water Sells (e) Development Alderman Burrus (Ward 9): Economic Development Fed/State/Regional Capital Improvements Parking Issues September 21, 2009 Fed/Statet'Regional Lakefront Plan Climate Plan Communication to Public Parking Issues Street & Alley Plan Budget Plan Customer Service Multimodal Transportation Capital Improvement Fed/State/Regional Safety Finance (a) Budget (b) Capital Improvements © Robert Crown (d) Efficiency (e) Health & Human Services Water Sells/Branding Robert Crown Climate Lakefront Plan Affordable Housing Safety At the conclusion Mayor Tisdahl suggested a five minute recess to allow the City Manager time to tally the results. The meeting resumed after a fifteen minute recess. At that time the City Manager, Mr. Bobkiewicz presented on the screen the results of the suggestions. He had compiled a list of nine goals from the initial list of thirty-nine. They were as follows: 1 Affordable Housing 2 Budgets 3 Capital Improvements 4 Climate Action Plan 5 Economic Developments 6 Efficiency of Services 7 Federal/State/Regional 8 Lakefront Developments 9 Northwestern University 3 September 21, 2009 Mayor Tisdahl asked that each Council member comment on the nine items the City Manager had formulated. After Council members had given their opinions a final list of twelve goals were formatted with the addition of "Robert Crown. Safetv. and Pensions". Alderman Rainey motioned for approval with a second from Alderman Burrus. A Roll call vote of 9 — 0 was obtained and the twelve goals were accepted. Alderman Jean -Baptiste asked staff to prepare a report on the progress of these goals. The final list of goals for the City is: 1 Affordable Housing 2 Budget 3 Capital Improvement 4 Climate Action 5 Economic Development 6 Efficiency of Services 7 Federal/State/Regional 8 The Lakefront 9 Northwestern University 10 Robert Crown 11 Safety 12 Pensions At 9:27 pm Alderman Wilson moved to go into Executive Session to discuss Personnel. Roll Call: vote was 9 — 0. Respectfully submitted, Rodney Greene City Clerk A DVD recording of this meeting has been made part of the Permanent Record and is available in the City Clerk's office. 4 1 1