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From YouTube: Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Outreach Meeting
Description
Recorded on 9-13-2017
A
Good
evening,
everyone
I'm
Wiley
Bob,
puts
the
Evanston
city
manager.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
this
evening
for
what
is
becoming
an
annual
event
where
we
spend
a
few
hours
talking
about
the
preparation
of
the
annual
budget
for
the
coming
year.
We
are
working
right
now
on
preparation
for
the
fiscal
year,
2018
a
budget
for
the
year
beginning
on
January
1st.
We
are
going
to
this
evening
kind
of
give
you
an
overview
of
the
budget
process
going
to
have
the
assistant
city
manager.
A
A
A
So
people
can
see
you
if
you
have
a
question,
we'll
be
happy
to
take
your
questions,
we'll
answer
the
more
general
citywide
questions
at
the
beginning
of
the
program
and
at
the
end
of
the
program
and
then,
as
you
have
questions
about
the
particular
municipal
departments,
we'll
take
those
when
those
department
directors
come
up
for
those
of
you
at
home.
There's
a
number
of
ways
for
you
to
participate.
You
can
call
3-1-1.
We
have
extended
hours
this
evening
for
people
to
call
us
and
have
it
put
in
your
questions,
so
we'll
hit
them.
A
That
way,
you
can
text
us
through
3-1-1.
You
can
send
an
e-mail
to
301
at
city
of
Evanston
org.
You
also
can
follow
us
on
Facebook
and
Twitter.
So
if
you
have
questions
or
comments
through
the
city's
Facebook
page,
so
this
will
use
a
Twitter
account.
We're
live
tweeting
the
event
at
city
of
Evanston
we're
just
like
ESPN,
where
one
channels
not
enough.
We
have
a
city
of
Evanston,
Twitter
account
and
we'll
be
tweeting
highlights
there.
So
hopefully,
that's
a
lot
of
opportunities
for
people
to
participate
and
ask
questions.
A
We'll
do
our
very
best
to
answer
those
questions.
Let
me
emphasize,
this
is
a
staff
a
at
the
city
staff
is
putting
on
this
is
not
a
city
council
meeting
the
City
Council
will
receive
the
budget
on
Friday
October
the
6th
and
then
we'll
talk
a
little
later
this
evening
about
the
various
opportunities
the
community
will
have
to
actually
appear
before
the
City
Council
and
provide
their
input
on
the
actual
proposed
budget
all
right.
So
why
don't
we
go
ahead
and
get
started
again?
A
We're
gonna
try
to
get
this
covered
in
about
the
next
two
hours
for
those
of
you
here
and
the
Civic
Center
will
have
the
PowerPoint
up
on
the
screen
and
then
have
that
as
well
on
television.
So
as
far
as
the
agenda
for
this
evening,
we
are
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
facts
about
the
city,
to
talk
about
the
city's
budget
process,
our
revenue
and
expenditures
and
other
funds,
a
brief
overview
of
our
capital
projects.
A
Some
current
challenges
we're
having
with
the
current
fiscal
year,
we're
here
primarily
to
talk
about
next
year,
but
we'll
also
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
current
year.
As
we
finish
up
the
current
year
and
then,
of
course,
throughout
the
evening.
We'll
have
questions
from
members
of
the
public
as
well
as
discussion
and.
B
A
City
staff
members,
so
some
facts
about
Evanston.
For
those
of
you
who
may
not
know
the
city
was
first
incorporated
in
1863,
so
we've
been
around
150
plus
years.
We
were
first
incorporated
as
a
town.
We
are
now
a
city
as
since
1892
we
are
a
home
rural
community.
The
abilities
that
we
have
are
granted
to
us
by
the
Illinois
General
Assembly
under
the
Illinois
State
Constitution,
which
was
last
revised
in
1970.
So
most
powers
for
cities
and
villages
in
the
state
of
Illinois
come
from
the
1970
L&I
Constitution.
A
In
the
state
of
Illinois
local
governments
are,
there
are
townships,
there
are
villages
and
there
are
cities
and
we
are
a
city
and
because
we
are
a
city,
we
have
aldermen
versus
village
trustees
and
then
those
aldermen
are
elected
by
ward.
So
we
have
nine
automatic
wards,
fun
fact
for
many
of
you
and
want
to
recognize
alderman
and
Rainey
who's
with
us
here
in
the
audience,
the
only
remaining
alderman
who
was
here
when
we
had
18
members
of
the
City
Council
so
not.
A
Living
woman,
no
no,
no
still
serving
on
the
City
Council,
so
we
went
from
I
believe
it
was
in
1993
when
we
went
from
18
aldermen
to
nine
aldrin
and
certainly
the
city
is
a
fortunate
to
have
a
whole
variety
of
assets
and
certainly
also
of
our
large
employers,
Northwestern
University
North,
Shore,
University,
Health,
System,
presidents,
st.
Francis,
Hospital
and
Rotary
International.
Our
major
employers
here
in
the
community
gan
city
facts
covered.
A
Some
of
these
are
ready,
but
33,000
housing
units
147
miles
of
street
70s
in
the
six
miles
of
alleys,
208
miles
of
sewers
and
5600
streetlights.
So
from
an
infrastructure
perspective
as
a
community
were
fairly
dense
at
seven
and
a
half
seven
point
eight
square
miles,
but
have
a
lot
of
of
things
we
take
care
of,
and
certainly
that
infrastructure
75
parks
of
the
lakefront.
Our
community
centers
lots
of
infrastructure
to
keep
track
of
City
facts
as
far
as
that
infrastructure,
police
and
fire.
A
As
we'll
talk
about
later
this
evening,
at
the
lion's
share
of
our
general
fund
budget
165
sworn
police
officers,
62
civilian
personnel
within
the
police
department,
170
and
warned
firefighters
that
are
based
in
five
stations
throughout
the
community
plus
a
headquarters
office,
thirteen
hundred
and
eighty-five
fire
hydrants.
Perhaps
we
can
talk
to
our
Public
Works
Agency
director
Dave
stone
back
about
the
importance
of
those
fire
hydrants
of
the
work
we
do.
A
To
maintain
them
parking
meters
and
transportation
are
always
a
big
issue
in
Evanston
transportation,
mobility,
1600
parking
meters,
3500
the
parking
lots
owned
by
the
city,
three
parking
garages
and
11
divvy
stations,
so
the
city
of
Evanston,
along
with
the
village
of
Oak
Park,
are
part
of
the
the
divvy
bike
system
which
is
based
in
Chicago
and
so
that
that's
another
way
that
we're
getting
people
around.
And,
finally,
the
library,
the
library
operates
slightly
differently
than
the
rest
of
the
municipal
departments.
The
library
have
as
a
board,
which
is
appointed
by
the
mayor.
A
The
mayor
that
board
then
appoints
a
library
director
and
she
is
responsible
for
the
operations
of
the
library
she'll,
be
here
later
this
evening
and
we'll
talk
a
little
bit
with
her
there's
the
main
library
downtown
two
branch,
libraries,
five
hundred
and
thirty
thousand
books
and
materials
and
over
63
thousand
registered
powers.
So
very.
D
A
C
A
Variety
of
classes
and
in
sporting
indoor
sporting
events,
the
ecology
center,
which
teaches
our
community
and
our
community,
comes
together
to
talk
about
environmental
ecology
issues,
the
noise
Cultural
Arts,
Center,
home
of
many
important
arts
organizations.
The
levy
Senior
Center
located
actually
was
relocated.
A
number
of
15
over
15
years
ago
to
its
current
location
in
South,
Evanston,
fleetwood,
Jourdain,
community
center,
again,
a
multi-purpose
facility,
the
Robert
Crown
Center,
primarily
known
for
its
ice
sheets,
but
also
the
other
services
child
care.
That's
provided
there
and
our
newest
community
center.
A
A
We
not
only
provide
water
to
the
residents
of
Madison,
but
we
also
provide
water
to
the
village
of
Skokie
to
a
consortium
of
now
five
communities,
known
as
the
Northwest
Water
Commission,
which
is
the
villages
of
Wheeling
Arlington,
Heights,
Buffalo,
Grove
Palatine
and
those
four
entities
together
form
the
Northwest
Water
Commission
and
they
have
a
customer
in
the
city
of
desplaines.
So
we
provide
water
there.
We
are
now
have
a
contract
in
place
to
provide
water
to
the
villages
of
Niles
and
Morton
Grove,
which
we
hope
to
begin
in
early
2019.
E
A
We
are
in
final
discussions
with
the
village
of
Lincoln
woods,
so
we
provide
water
to
I,
think
it's
about
400,000
residents
and
in
the
greater
area,
108
million
gallons
of
water
per
day
that
are
filtered
147
million
gallon
pumping
capacity
per
day
average
pump
pitch
is
40
point
3
million
gallons.
So
it's
big
big
deal
our
water
operation
again,
our
Public
Works
Agency,
director
Dave,
stone
Beck,
is
here
this
evening.
We'll
talk
a
little
bit
more
with
him.
So
what
is
a
budget?
A
A
budget
is
a
legal
document
that
serves
as
a
government's
financial
operating
plan.
The
financial
policy
document
for
out
of
the
city
provides
services
to
the
residents.
It's
a
tool
of
how
communicating
how
taxes
and
other
revenues
are
spent
and
a
budget
really
allows
the
community
to
provide
input
to
the
City
Council
as
they
set
that
policy
of
the
adoption
of
the
budget
on
what
the
important
issues
in
our
community
and
how
they
should
be
properly
addressed.
We'll
talk
a
lot
tonight
about
our
general
fund.
A
Our
general
fund
is
the
general
purpose
fund
which
funds
our
our
core
city-
services-
police,
fire,
Street,
Park
maintenance,
as
you
can
see
from
the
slide
those
departments
are
listed,
but
we
also
have
enterprise
funds
which
provide
for
specific
kinds
of
services.
Water,
sewer,
solid
waste
parking
are
all
specific
funds
that
are
constituted
to
provide
specific
services
and
then,
finally,
we
have
the
Capital
Improvement
Fund,
which
is
specifically
for
the
capital
improvement
projects
that
we
do
other
funds,
especially
revenue
funds,
that
service
funds,
internal
service
funds,
trust
funds.
A
All
sort
of
separate
bank
accounts
that
we
use
to
operate
the
city
of
Evanston
as
we
develop
a
budget.
There
are
certain
policies
that
we
use.
We
have
a
budget
reserve
policy
currently,
which
is
sixteen
point
six
percent
of
the
general
fund.
Perhaps
the
assistant
city
manager,
will
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
that
later,
as
we
as
we
move
forward.
We
also
try
to
make
sure
that
we'd
spend
a
long
time
of
money
on
one-time
resources
and
I
think
that's
an
issue
as
we
look
at
this
year's
budget.
Mr.
A
Lyons,
that
something
we're
going
to
need
to
talk
about
because
we're
having
some
challenges.
Part
of
those
challenges
are
coming
from
our
decline
of
some
one-time
revenues
and
we'll
need
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
that.
Finally,
a
budget
timeline,
the
parts
that
we're
in
now,
as
we
are
working
with
the
city
departments,
to
get
their
feedback
on
the
budget
and
that
part
is
coming
to
a
conclusion.
We
are
wrapping
up
the
budget.
A
A
I
know
there's
a
lot
of
things
toward
the
end
of
the
evening
that
we'll
talk
about,
but
I
just
talked
a
little
bit
about
your
role,
the
the
staff
that
you're
responsible
for,
though
the
day-to-day
operations,
and
perhaps
just
some
general
thoughts
on
where
we
are
with
not
only
the
preparation
of
2018
s
budget,
but
also
as
we're
beginning
to
turn
the
corner
on
the
end
of
the
2017
year.
Thank.
F
You
mr.
city
manager,
again
my
name's
Marty
Lyons
and
the
assistant
city
manager
and
chief
financial
officer
and
many
years
ago
the
the
city
decided
to
combine
those
positions.
If
you
that
a
lot
of
other
communities
you'd
have
an
assistant
city
manager
and
a
separate
director
level
as
a
chief
financial
officer
and
as
a
cost-saving
measure,
we
combined
those
positions
and
I've
performed
a
variety
of
functions.
F
Presently
I
work
on
the
the
city's
finances
as
my
main
core
duty,
but
also
work
with
the
economic
development
team
and
with
community
outreach,
as
well
as
providing
support
the
city
manager
on
basic
council
meeting
and
council
management
supporting
the
city
council,
this
year's
budget.
As
the
manager
noted,
we
have
had
some
ups
and
downs,
some
that
are
external
and
some
that
are
internal,
the
external
ones.
For
the
first
time
in
two
years,
the
state
passed
a
budget.
That's
great
news.
The
bad
news
is
as
a
part
of
them
passing
the
budget.
F
They
took
away
a
large
amount
of
income
tax
dollars
and
then
also
put
on
a
few
additional
fees
to
reduce
some
of
our
sales
tax
dollars
as
a
part
of
their
administration
of
the
sales
taxes.
So
they
just
put
an
administrative
fee
on
collecting
those
dollars,
both
of
which
take
away
money
from
our
general
fund
for
basic
services
on
the
internal
side
of
things
as
we'll
go
through.
The
the
city's
budget
is
made
up
of
ongoing
services
and
revenues,
but
also
one-time
revenues
and
one-time
services
or
projects.
F
This
year,
we've
had
major
fluctuations
in
what
we
call
more
of
our
one-time
revenues
in
the
form
of
permit.
Where
there
could
be
there
could
have
been
more
development.
There
could
have
been
less
each
year.
We
have
to
project
what
we
think
the
development
will
be,
and
this
year
we're
going
to
be
a
little
bit
underneath
on
those
projections
and
we'll
get
into
that.
We
have
I,
don't
want
to
steal
too
much
thunder
later
in
the
slides,
because
we've
addressed
those
issues
in
detail
and
that's
why
this
document
is
a
really
good
one.
F
For
anyone
who
wants
to
refer
back
to
on
the
city's
budget
year
over
a
year
last
year's
would
have
our
2016
data
this
year.
We
have
the
2017
data
that
we
want
you
all
to
see,
so
that
when
you
ask
questions
about
what
we
should
do
for
2018,
you
have
a
good
knowledge
base
with
me.
Tonight
is
the
budget
review
team
Alex,
Thorpe
Kate
Lewis
laking,
Kimberly
Richardson,
and
then
we
have
Martha
Logan
and
Patrick
Meighan
from
our
community
outreach
and
all
of
our
directors
each
year
in
June.
F
We
start
our
process
for
budget
and
right
now,
as
a
city
manager
noted
we're
in
the
budget
production
stage,
and
that's
why
we
want
input
tonight.
We
have
gotten
input
over
the
last
30
days
from
departments
on
what
they
think
is
going
on,
but
we
want
to
have
input
from
residents
on
what
what
their
concerns
are
for
the
coming
year,
so
that
we
can
have
all
of
that
together
for
the
2018
proposed
budget
that
will
deliver
on
October
6th.
A
F
And
for
any
of
you
that
have
done
permits,
you
hear
them
referred
to
as
building
permits
all
the
time,
but
there's
building
permits,
and
then
there's
also
permits
associated
with
that
heating
ventilation
and
air
conditioning
permits.
We
have
smaller
categories
because
in
some
cases
somebody
has
a
building
and
they
just
like
to
do
some
electrical
work,
they're
going
to
get
an
electrical
they're
going
to
have
an
electrical
permit,
but
perhaps
they're
not
doing
something.
That's
going
to
change
the
footprint
of
the
building
or
add
an
addition.
F
So
we
have
various
categories
of
permits
they
do
track.
Similarly,
if
we're
down
on
building
permits,
the
chances
are
we'll
be
down
on
the
smaller
permits
as
well,
but
for
the
most
part,
all
of
these
permits
that
we'll
be
referring
tonight
refer
to
our
building
stock
they're,
not
associated
with
right-of-way
they're,
not
associated.
We
have
a
right-of-way
permit,
they're,
not
associated
with
fire
permits.
These
are
our
building
and
structural
permits
for
the
city,
so.
A
F
C
F
Distribution
to
cities,
the
state
said
clearly
that
they
were
going
to
reduce
that
by
ten
percent,
but
not
to
worry.
They
were
going
to
speed
up
the
payments
of
the
income
tax
to
the
city.
While
the
city
operates
on,
what's
called
generally
accepted,
accounting
principles
in
the
state
was
making
reference
to
cash
distributions.
F
We
count
the
amount
that
the
state
is
going
to
give
us
as
soon
as
it's
recognized,
not
when
we
actually
receive
it.
So
we
didn't
receive
any
accelerated
payments
from
the
state
and
the
net
effect
is
we'll
receive
about
a
five
percent
reduction
in
our
income
tax
for
2017
and
then
next
year.
We're
counting
that
they
will
not
decide
to
make
this
a
temporary
situation
in
that
we
will
end
up
being
ten
percent
down
on
income
tax
distributions
going
forward,
given
the
state
of
the
state's
budget.
F
We
think
this
is
a
safe
bet,
I
also
reference
that
the
state
decided
to
increase
the
administrative
fees
for
some
of
the
state's
shared
revenues
to
basically
pay
for
the
costs
of
services
in
the
state
Department
of
Revenue
and
comptroller's
office
to
pay
for
their
own
salaries,
for
the
collection
and
tracking
of
those
revenues,
mainly
state
sales
tax.
So
we've.
A
F
Term
I've
used
this
year
for
our
revenue
sources
is
stable.
There's
been
a
lot
of
media
recently
about
where
we're
at
in
the
overall
economy.
Where
is
therefore
the
the
United
States
and
with
some
of
those
articles,
it's
noted
quite
often
that
cities
lagged
behind
in
the
American
Recovery
and
that's
because
some
of
our
normal
revenue
sources,
such
as
sales
taxes,
are
being
impacted
by
other
reasons,
sales
tax.
F
We
have
a
telecommunications
tax,
that's
based
on
landlines,
not
based
on
necessarily
all
of
the
new
products
that
are
being
used
for
telecommunications,
so
we
have
in
some
cases,
I
will
refer
to
them
as
stable
revenue
sources.
Some
people
would
say
they're
stagnant,
but
I
think
they're
stable
and
that's
you
know
that
I
will
take
that
over
declining
revenue
sources.
We
have
also
faced
this
last
year,
the
good
and
the
bad
everybody
remember
the
winter
of
2017.
No
because
it
was
the
nicest
winter
we've
had
forever
on
there.
F
There
wasn't
much
of
one
we
lost
all.
We
lost
a
bunch
of
utility
taxes
because
of
that,
but
mr.
stone,
Beck
and
the
Public
Works
Agency
also
didn't
have
as
much
snow
expenses.
So
it
was
a
net
gain
to
the
city
getting
back
to
the
overall
revenues.
Our
one
other
declining
revenue
is
our
parking
tickets.
Our
parking
tickets
are
in
the
general
fund
because
that's
where
the
enforcement
officers
are
and
I
know
that
most
residents
wouldn't
believe
it
that
we're
actually
collecting
less
in
parking
tickets.
But
that
is
the
case.
We
there's.
F
Talking
about
almost
a
20
percent
reduction
on
a
three
million
dollar
revenue
source,
so
$600,000
plus
and
decline
in
revenue,
but
we
had
an
offset
with
increases
in
parking
meter
revenues
because
with
the
electronic
meters
and
the
pay
boxes
that
are
not
paid
by
space,
you
can
pay
and
don't
have
to
go
back
to
your
car.
Everyone
has
found
those
to
be
more
convenient
and
we
have
a
lot
more
compliance
and
a
lot
less
tickets
and
that's
good
for
keeping
our
sales
tax
revenue
stable
good
for
keeping
our
downtown
proper
values
in
great
shape.
F
As
far
as
any
other
revenues
we're
still
stable
on
our
vehicle
or
what
we
would
call
our
wheel
tax
and
our
other
utility
taxes.
We
won't
change
those
very
much
from
year
to
year,
based
on
one
warm
winter,
so
those
would
be
stable
and
I'll
end
it
with
the
one
that
everyone
thinks
up
and
that's
property
taxes.
Last
year
we
had
a
modern,
a
modest
increase
on
property
taxes
to
cover
pension
increases,
the
general
fund.
If
we
didn't,
we
have
a
history
on
it,
but
the
general
operating
levy
has
decreased
since
I've
been
here.
F
So
that's
nine
years
we
decreased
the
general
operating
levy
every
year,
sending
more
dollars
to
either
pension
or
debt
service.
So
for
those
purposes
that
levy
is
actually
going
down
and
we
try
to
make
up
for
that
through
our
economy
and
doing
having
good
economic
development
practices.
So
that
would
be
the
so.
A
F
Three
of
our
largest
agreements-
that
is,
police
officers,
International
Association
of
firefighters,
all
of
our
firefighting
staff,
and
ask
me
the
American
Federation
of
State
County
and
Municipal
Employees,
to
cover
all
of
our
non
sworn
Union
staff.
Those
are
the
big
three
that
are
up
and
they
represent
75%
of
our
staff
and
74,
almost
70%
of
our
wages.
So
that
is
a
very
large
issue
for
us.
We
are
in
negotiations
with
all
three.
F
We
are
down
to
some
very
major
points,
but
for
the
overall,
a
lot
of
our
language,
not
concerning
economics,
is
all
done
and
settled,
and
we
are
trying
to
work
through
this
budget
process
to
negotiate
a
fair
agreement
with
all
of
our
units
going
forward
for
the
next
two
to
three
years,
we're
even
looking
at
train
to
shorten
up
our
agreements
to
to
take
into
account
our
concern
over
the
lack
of
stability
in
the
economy,
those
agreements
until
we
settle
them.
We
haven't
paid
anything.
F
So
if
someone
were
to
look
at
the
monthly
financial
report,
they
would
see
that
we
might
be
under
budget
in
a
few
areas
for
wages,
but
we
owe
those
monies
depending
on
how
those
contracts
are
settled.
So
we,
if
we
agree
to
retroactivity
than
we
owe
dollars
back
to
whenever
the
last
contract
was
put
in
place,
that
as
part
of
the
budget
process
and
the
labor
negotiations
process
were
working
on
the
best
deal
for
both
the
staff
and
Evanson
residents
to
keep
those
costs
manageable,
but
make
sure
we're
a
good
place
to
work.
A
Another
big
revenue
expenditure
issue
that
we're
looking
at
and
we
could
talk
a
little
later
on
with
both
the
police
chief
of
the
fire
chief
is
overtime
and
that
balance
of
how
we
make
sure
that
the
community
has
appropriate
services
when
needed
and
clearly
there's
flexibility
and
needs
to
be
flexibility
in
both
the
police
department
of
the
fire
department
talk
a
little
bit
about
that
and
what
we're
trying
to
do
to
address
those
costs
moving
forward.
Certainly.
F
Normally,
you
have
a
situation
in
most
of
our,
especially
in
our
union
departments,
where
overtime
is
a
function
of
your
staff
availability.
Sometimes
it
happens.
That
overtime
is
also
impacted
by
a
natural
disaster
in
the
case
of
our
police
department.
If
we
have
major
crimes
that
require
a
lot
of
overtime,
those
things
will
boost
the
time,
regardless
of
the
amount
of
staff
that
we
have
on
duty.
F
When
we
budget
for
overtime,
though
we
don't
budget
for
worst
case
scenario,
we
hope
that
if
we
have
vacancies,
we
know
we'll
have
over
time
to
cover
vacancies
and
those
two
accounts
come
together
and
we've
got
a
good
budget
to
cover
both
overtime
and
regular
time.
When
we
have
major
issues
happening,
we
know
that
we
will
have
both
are
all
of
our
regular
salary
dollars
spent
and
our
overtime
dollars
spent.
F
The
city
manager
keeps
a
contingency
in
the
general
fund,
it's
very
modest,
at
two
hundred
thousand
dollars,
which
is
0.2%
of
the
general
fund
budget
for
emergency
situations,
but
with
overtime,
I
think
there
are
other
issues
that
I
haven't
mentioned.
That
can
also
impact
us,
and
that
is
in
the
situation
of
injuries
and
and
the
vacancies
happening
and
our
desire
to
keep
service
levels
where
they're
at
so
our
fire
department
had
a
a
bad
16
to
24
months
of
injuries,
and
we
need
to
keep
a
minimum
staffing
on
all
of
the
rigs.
F
So
we
have
a
lot
more
overtime,
we're
coming
out
of
that
situation,
so
we
hope
that
our
overtime
will
be
going
down
into
2018,
but
it's
something
we
have
to
fund
this
year,
because
the
services
are
rendered
and
expected
by
Evanston
residents
and
the
same
can
be
said
for
the
police
department.
We
have
a
lot
of
special
duties
that
officers
are
expected
to
be
at
beyond.
Just
the
normal
beat
and
residents
depend
on
those
additional
services.
F
Those
outreach
that
outreach
presence,
I
know
that
everyone
in
this
room
has
been
has
been
to
a
word
meeting
or
any
event
where
one
of
the
police
officers
is
there
and
they're
not
there,
because
they
were
on
their
beat
they're
there
as
a
specific
service
to
the
aldermen
to
talk
about
crime
in
the
area
to
talk
about
a
variety
of
programs.
In
place,
all
those
things
add
up
to
potentially
additional
cost
we're
fortunate
this
past
year
to
not
be
talking
too
much
about
any
overtime
on
the
public
works
and
water
and
sewer
sides.
A
Looking
to
see
if
you
agree
that
you
know
once
we
address
that
that
issue
that
we
bring
that
building
permit
number
down
to
a
number
that
we
feel
comfortable
with
moving
forward
and
over
time
we
have
shifted
some
of
that
money.
So
it's
not
funding
ongoing
sort
of
resources,
so
I
think
it's
important.
A
People
understand
that
we
have
made
adjustments
of
the
City
Council's
been
very,
very,
very
good
about
insisting
on
this
that
some
of
that
money
has
been
for
ongoing
expenses,
some
of
its
been
from
one
time,
but
clearly
we're
coming
to
the
end
of
a
cycle,
and
so
once
we
address
that
we
probably
have
the
ability
to
address
some
of
these
other
factors
within
the
framework
of
that
budget.
Once
we've
addressed
that
change
of
perm
is.
F
Certainly-
and
it
is
a
fair
assessment,
both
conceptually
and
based
on
our
own
history,
when
we
go
back
to
the
Great
Recession
prior
to
the
Great,
Recession
was
the
great
bubble
and
we
had
building
permits
through
the
roof
literally
and
a
lot
of
dollars.
That
was,
we
would
keep
some
of
it
in
the
general
fund
for
operating,
but
a
lot
of
it
would
go
to
economic
development
purposes
or
capital
purposes,
so
they
were
one-time
revenues
for
one-time
expenses,
but
even
with
that
definition,
that's
it's
not
a
hard
and
fast
rule.
F
You
have
to
analyze
it
each
year,
even
with
that
delineation.
When
we
hit
the
Great
Recession,
we
had
from
our
high
of
880
staff
members.
We
went
down
to
790
so
more
than
a
10%
reduction
in
operating
staff
citywide
and
we're
still
well
below
that
or
it
that
upper
880
level
for
full-time
equivalents.
The
same
things
happening
to
a
much
lesser
and
I
want
to
stress
that
a
much
lesser
degree
right
now,
where
we
we
think
we're
coming
to
the
end
of
a
building
cycle.
The
revenues
for
building
permits
will
decrease.
We
will
eliminate.
F
Would
be
going
to
capital
2
or
at
any
one
time
expenditures,
but
that
may
not
be
enough
to
also
still
cover
all
of
our
operating
expenses.
So
as
we
look
at
2018,
we
will,
as
the
city
manager
pointed
out,
address
what
is
our
baseline
for
revenues
and
then
adjust
our
baseline
operating
to
that
and
then
look
to
see
what
one-time
revenues
we
can
use
to
cushion
the
blow
if
we
have
to
do
any
service
reductions
or
to
take
and
look
at
just
going
to
one-time
solutions
and
wait
out
one
year.
F
We
don't
think
we're
in
that
dire
of
a
situation
for
the
end
of
2017.
We
would
like
to
end
the
2017
year
balanced
and
that's
going
to
take
some
expense
reductions
because
of
the
permitting
situation.
But
our
goal
is
not
to
access
any
fund
reserves
for
this
year
and
also
to
present
a
balanced
budget
for
next
year
again,
not
accessing
the
reserves,
because
we're
right
now
and
as
we'll
plan
out
later
we're
below
our
two-month
minimum,
not
by
a
lot
but
below
by
a
few
percent.
A
I
think
that's
a
kind
of
a
good
start,
we're
half
an
hour
into
our
to
our
scheduled
event
here
this
evening
and
we're
here
talking
at
the
Morton
Civic
Center
about
the
2018
proposed
budget
for
the
city
of
Evanston.
We
have
a
good
crowd
gathered
here
at
the
Civic
Center
we're
getting
questions
from
the
crowd
here,
where
we've
got
at
least
one
question
off
of
Facebook,
but
we're
also
available
to
get
your
calls
on
3-1-1
if
you'd
like
to
call
and
get
some
information.
A
Some
questions
to
us
if
you'd
like
to
tweet
us
assign
those
messages
through
Facebook.
All
that
is
available
so
would
encourage
folks
to
do
that
as
we
move
forward
and
I
think
we'll
move
now
into
the
next
segment
here,
as
we
talk
department
by
department
about
the
various
municipal
operations,
some
of
their
their
challenges
and
achievements
over
the
last
year.
So
let's
may
be,
first
of
all
ready
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
City
Council's
goals.
A
This
is
the
goals
that
were
set
by
the
the
80
in
the
79th
City
Council,
which
ended
their
term
the
spring,
but
certainly
issues
of
importance,
city
facilities,
city
streets,
we'll
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
the
city's
capital
program.
Probably
later
on
this
evening,
economic
development
has
come
up
from
time
to
time
we're
getting
some
questions
about
economic
development
and
I.
Think
we'll
wait.
A
Johanna
Leonard,
our
community
development
director
has
been
in
that
role
for
a
short
period
of
time,
but
for
many
years
was
our
economic
development
manager,
so
I
think
Marty
will
let
Johanna
comes
up
here
and
we
could
talk
a
little
bit
more
we're
getting
some
historical
questions
on
economic
development.
I
think
she
can
be
helpful
too
to
answer
those
questions,
but
you
know
the
importance
of
economic
development.
We
can
just
take
a
minute
right
now,
since
that's
a
council
goal
has
been
a
council
ball.
A
All
the
the
eight
years,
I've
been
city
manager,
the
importance
of
investment
in
our
communities,
the
importance
of
the
work
we've
done,
citywide,
really
it
goes
back
to
the
tips
that
were
created,
the
the
downtown
to
TIF
that
was
retired.
Why
don't
you
talk
a
little
bit
about
that
because
I
think
that's
a
TIF
really
for
the
record
books
here
in
the
state
of
Illinois?
Has
the
assessed
valuation
of
the
property
change
put.
F
F
And
so
I'll
do
that
in
reverse
order
and
make
sure
we
hit
the
TIF
discussion
and
then
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
importance
overall
on
economic
development.
The
downtown
to
tip
and
I
have
some
over
the
city
for
nine
years,
but
I've
known
Evanston.
Since
about
the
mid
1990s
from
a
name.
You
would
know
Isabel
Stafford
the
finance
director
of
mr.
F
Stafford
and
I
knew
each
other
and
and
I
came
here
and
I
saw
the
downtown
when
it
was
parking,
lots
in
the
the
early
90s
and
then
I
got
to
come
back
in
2001
for
another
purpose
and
saw
all
of
the
redevelopment
that
had
happened
and
for
those
that
are
concerned
about
some
of
the
debt
we
have
coming
up.
Regarding
crown
or
regarding
a
few
things.
I
will
tell
you
that
the
council
and
city
of
the
1990s
took
some
incredible
economic
development
investments.
F
Some
would
call
them
risks,
but
they
were
investments
and
they
paid
off
tremendously.
And
it's
not
a
matter
of
opinion
when
you
have
a
situation
like
our
downtown
to
TIF,
which
think
of
the
theater
and
the
the
original
was
Wolfgang
Puck's
I'll
date
myself.
But
you
know
that
block
and
a
few
of
the
other
blocks.
That
area
was
worth
two
million
dollars
on
the
tax
rolls
and
when
the
downtown
to
TIF
closed,
it
was
worth
150
million
dollars
on
the
tax
rolls.
F
There
was
a
lot
of
investment
on
that
and
a
lot
of
people
that
understand
TIF
would
realize
that
the
investment
that
came
out
of
that
downtown
to
TIF
the
last
year
of
the
TIF,
it
paid
nine
point
five
million
dollars
in
tax
increment,
but
all
of
those
taxes
were
from
the
new
development
going
from
two
million
to
a
hundred
and
fifty
million.
It
wasn't
from
somebody
down
on
Brummel
or
somebody
out
on
central
paying
an
additional
amount.
F
It
was
from
the
property
taxes
in
that
TIF
district
that
created
there's
all
those
new
building
owners
and
new
property
owners
basically
paid
for
their
own
a
lot
of
their
infrastructure
through
their
own
property
taxes.
We
were
the
vehicle
through
financing
and
but
it
was
still
paid
for
some
people
worry
about
the
interest.
Well,
they
paid
the
interest
on
all
of
that
debt
as
well.
F
Unless
we
have
development
that
promotes
businesses
in
town,
then
we
have
to
change
that
distribution
of
property
taxes
and
that's
just
the
CFO's
opinion
that
doesn't
go
to
culture.
We
want
something.
We
want
a
community
that
has
all
of
these
nice
places
to
go
to
and
have
a
good
experience
with,
and
so
economic
development
and
Community
Development
combined
are
incredibly
important
for
us.
We
do
have
not
faced
what
I
would
call
drastic
up
turns
or
downturns,
because
our
developed,
what
we
call
our
I'm,
forgetting
my
start
term.
What's
our
return
for
build
that
built
infrastructure.
F
Our
built
environment
is
so
stable,
meaning
that
it
is
diversified
that
we're
able
to
withstand
a
downturn
in
auto
sales
or
big-box
sales
that
are
off,
because
we
have
a
way
of
a
lot
of
restaurants.
We
have
a
lot
of
unique
stores
and
our
sales
taxes
haven't
boomed
and
they
haven't
busted
and
that
helps
us
provide
ongoing
services
year
over
year
and
is
why
economic
development
is
so
important
on
a
global
scale
and
we'll.
A
Talk
more
especially
about
the
activity
over
the
last
several
years,
the
the
tremendous
success
of
the
Howard,
Ridge
and
Howard
chart
treat
if
the
tip
that
was
put
in
place
to
help
the
dentistry
badge
that
missed
apply
as
a
shopping
center.
So
we've
got
we're
getting
some
questions
about
that
and
clearly,
in
an
interest
of
time
economic
development,
a
key
economic
engine,
that's
really
going
to
serve
this
community.
F
Well,
over
time,
I
do
want
to
the
the
next
one
I
do
want
to
hit,
but
one
thing
for
that.
I
talked
a
little
bit
about
debt,
but
I
was
just
looking
at
our
financial
reports
going
back
10
years
and
in
2006
2007
the
city
292
million
dollars
in
debt
and
back
then
we
didn't
have
to
count
Inchon
death
and
since
then,
this
year
we
have
a
hundred
and
ninety
two
million
dollars
in
debt.
But
we
have
to
count
the
pension
death
changes
in
financial
standards
make
that
required.
F
So
our
debt
is
a
little
bit
higher
than
it
was
ten
years
ago,
but
our
bonded
debt
has
decreased
by
from
by
a
hundred
million
dollars
for
infrastructure.
So
those
things
that
we
can
manage,
we
have
been
managing.
It's
been
very
difficult
to
manage
the
pension
debt
when
we
don't
get
to
determine
what
the
interest
rate
is
in
the
in
the
world
at
large
and
then
according
to
state
of
Illinois
labor
laws.
F
It's
difficult
for
us
to
say:
well
we're
not
going
to
give
a
raise
this
year
or
the
next
year
when
an
arbitrator
can
decide
what
our
raise
might
be
and
from
a
being
a
good
employer.
Nor
would
we
want
to
go
down
that
path,
but
we
are
a
little
bit
constrained
in
the
pension
environment
and
so
those
things
that
the
city's
been
able
to
manage.
That's
why
it's
a
big
thing
on
the
council
goals.
We
have
managed
those
services.
A
For
at-risk
families,
so
certainly
we've
been
doing
a
lot
of
work.
There've
on
Thomas
Smith,
our
director
of
Health
Human
Services,
is
here
I.
Think
we'll
wait
till
her
segment
to
kind
of
go
through
all
the
successes
that
we've
had
there.
Water
and
sewer
we've
talked
about
violent
crime
reduction
again
a
tremendous
achievement
through
the
heavy
stone
Police
Department
of
crime
has
reduced
consistent
consistently
the
last
four
years,
so
I
think
we've
been
able
to
succeed
in
that
goal
as
well.
A
So
while
we
move
on
to
the
department's,
the
the
first
department
on
the
talking
about
is
the
city
manager's
office
I.
Think
it's
important
to
talk
about
the
men.
There's
ten
business
units
of
Marty.
There
aren't
very
many
city
manager.
Offices
around
that
would
have
ten
business
units
have
ten
separate
functions
in
them.
Usually
manager's
offices
are
pretty
lean,
a
manager
and
assistant
manager,
maybe
an
assistant
to
the
city
manager,
but
that's
not
how
we
do
it
in
in
Evanston
the.
F
City
manager's
office,
along
with
administrative
services,
has
changed
a
lot
in
the
last
eight
years
and
that's
because
we
continue
and
we're
going
to
do
it
again.
This
coming
year,
reevaluate
our
administration,
this
city,
manager's
office,
includes
what
the
city
manager
just
explained,
but
it
also
has
a
finance
division
in
it,
which
is
20
employees.
It's.
F
Our
three
hundred
million
dollar
budget-
it
also
has
economic
development
included
in
it.
It
also
has
that
our
arts,
our
sustainability,
a
variety
of
that
those
it
says
here,
the
total
full-time
equivalent
count
is
32,
normally
it'd
be
five.
Maybe
six
for
a
community
of
this
size
and
I
want
to
make
sure
everyone
understands
that
when
you
look
at
that
revenues,
while
all
of
our
citywide
revenues
come
into
the
finance
division,
that's
where
we
count
them
all
up
in
the
general
fund.
F
So
no,
the
city
manager's
office,
isn't
bringing
in
74
million
through
its
own
activities.
That's
where
the
building
permit
revenue
I'm.
Sorry,
that's
not
words,
but
that's
where
property
taxes
are
and
sales
tax.
All
of
our
general
taxes
are
all
included
in
this
and,
by
the
same
token,
the
city
managers,
often
office
even
with
32
employees,
is
not
spending
nine
point:
nine
million
dollars.
That's
also
where
we
have
some
of
our
fund
wide
transfers.
So
in
there
is
a
in
the
the
expense
budget.
F
Is
a
1.7
million
dollar
transfer
of
building
permit
revenue
to
the
capital
fund?
Now
we're
not
going
to
do
that,
because
the
cap
of
the
building
permit
revenues
aren't
coming
in,
but
that's
why
the
budget
is
as
high
as
it
was
so
take
1.7
million
out
right
away,
and
we
have
also
another
transfer
for
debt
service
and
a
few
others
that
are
in
the
city
manager's
office,
but
are
not
representative
of
salaries
being
paid
to
employees,
expenses
going
out
the
door
to
contractors
and
to
understand
the
given
budget?
F
You
do
need
to
look
at
the
detail
a
little
bit
to
realize
that
in
this
case,
the
city
manager's
office
is
not
as
large
as
it
would
look.
But
I
think,
what's
really
important
is.
Is
that
what
we've?
What
we're
saying
to
the
community
is
the
city
manager
wants
to
keep
an
eye
on
all
of
these
revenues
directly
and
all
of
these
expenses,
and
so
they
are
consolidated
in
this
area
and
not
in
some
far-flung
portion
of
the
budget.
That
resident
might
find
hard
to
find
so.
A
In
addition,
we've,
as
you
said,
there's
there's
finance,
which
reports
to
you
economic
development
and
we'll
talk
about
economic
development
when
Johanna
joins
us
in
a
minute.
There's
a
community
engagement,
so
our
social
media,
all
of
our
newsletters,
are
graphic
design.
Work
are
public
information
work.
All
of
that
is
housed
in
the
manager's
office.
We
have
a
local
government
management,
fellow
through
the
International
City
County
Management
Association.
That
position
is
there.
Our
cultural
arts
coordinator,
our
sustainability,
Programs
Coordinator
at
our
equity
and
empowerment,
coordinator,
equity,.
G
A
D
A
E
A
There
are
a
variety
of
different
things.
The
slide
talks
a
little
bit
about
initiatives
for
the
year.
We've
been
doing
a
lot
with
businesses,
arts
community,
a
lot
of
new
public
art
that
has
been
been
sprouting
up
under
the
great
leadership
for
gender
for
lassic
sunshine
enterprises.
As
a
program
we've
been
working
on
with
economic
development,
we'll
talk
more
about
that
in
a
minute
and
then
we've
installed
a
video
production
studio
so
part
of
Community
Engagement
is
our
local
government
and
government
access
operations,
and
so
we
now
have
a
studio
here
in
the
Civic
Center.
A
We
moved
it
from
the
service
center
here
to
the
Civic
Center,
to
make
it
more
easy
for
City
use
as
well
as
community
use.
We
operate
under
contract
the
video
operations
for
District,
sixty-five
producing
this
program
this
evening
of
the
City
Council
meetings,
our
various
public
meetings,
so
that
has
been
a
boon
for
us
and
we
try
to
do
as
much
as
we
can
to
take
the
video
and
also
share
it
on
social
media
and
certainly
will
do
that
with
segments
of
this
tonight.
A
I
think
Marty,
there's
one
question:
I
see:
I,
remember
the
public
that
covers
the
city
manager's
office
and
that
is
under
finance.
How
as
much
as
the
state,
reducing
our
income
and
increasing
fees
and
I
think
you
talked
a
little
bit
about
it
earlier,
where
maybe
you
could
just
touch
on
it
quickly
again
again.
F
It
was
for
income
tax,
our
2017
budget
at
seven
point-
eight
million
dollars
in
it,
and
so
we
are
projecting
a
seven
hundred.
Eighty
thousand
dollar
decrease
on
an
annual
basis,
so
the
state's
a
year
is
offset
by
six
months
for
us,
so
we
will
take
that
decrease
over
the
next
year
and
a
half.
We
feel
that
the
if
the
state
passes
a
budget
for
1819
that
we
will
not
get
the
ten
percent
back.
F
F
But
the
state
took
over
a
lot
of
that
around
the
turn
of
the
century,
including
utility
taxes
and
other
collections,
and
that
was
at
the
behest
of
businesses
that
didn't
want
to
come
complete
a
million
different
forms
for
a
million
different
communities,
and
so
that
consolidation
was
a
good
idea.
However,
we
are
paying
for
it
at
a
fairly
substantial
price.
Now
at
$300,000,
I
think.
A
In
interest
of
time,
I
think
that
that
takes
care
of
the
city
manager's
office,
let's
bring
up
to
OHANA
Leonard
our
Community
Development
Director,
loving
remind
you
all
that
you're
here
this
evening,
watching
and
participating
in
a
budget
workshop
on
the
city
of
Evanston
proposed
fiscal
year,
2018
budget.
We
encourage
you
to
participate.
Those
of
you
here,
the
audience
we're
looking
forward
to
your
questions
and
we're
going
to
deal
with
some
of
them
here
in
this
next
segment.
A
But
if
you're
at
home,
you
can
call
3-1-1
and
submit
some
questions,
you
can
submit
them
on
Facebook.
We
have
one
question
so
far
for
Facebook
through
our
Twitter
feeds.
We
welcome
your
questions
and
well
I'd
like
to
welcome
John
a
letter.
Our
community
development
director
Johanna
good
evening,
good.
B
A
A
Years
so
we've
got
some
questions
about
economic
development
again
right
now,
the
new
manager
of
Paul's
and
Zach
reports
to
Marty
we
maybe
Marty
between
you
and
Johanna.
The
current
role
of
economic
development.
We've
got
three
staff
members,
a
manager,
a
economic
development
specialist
and
an
academic
development
coordinator.
Those
specialists
and
coordinators
do
a
lot
of
work
on
boots
on
the
ground,
working
with
our
geographic
business
districts,
with
our
affinity,
business
organizations
really
just
to
kind
of
create
opportunities
for
those
businesses.
They
manage
our.
C
A
Improvement
funds.
They
also
work
on
other
larger
projects.
So
anything
you
want
to
talk
about
the
work.
That's
happened
in
those
geographic
areas.
I
know,
we've
done
a
lot
of
work
on
Howard
Street.
Over
the
last
few
years,
the
west
side
has
seen
a
couple
different
groups,
the
main
dumpster
mile
you
presided
over
the
city's
piece
of
the
coming
together
in
that
special
services
area.
B
When
I
arrived
here
about
seven
a
half
years
ago,
some
of
the
work
that
had
focused
primarily
on
downtown
Evanston
was
focused
on
on
that
just
that
area
and
not
on
the
individual,
neighborhood
business
districts
and
what
we
heard
with
myself.
Another
staff
went
out
and
visited,
and
did
those
retention
visits
was
that
those
businesses
really
wanted
to
see
attention.
They
had
particular
needs.
They
needed
something
as
simple
as
a
pothole
being
fixed
or
a
sidewalk
paver
being
replaced
to
just
feeling,
as
though
the
city
heard
them
on
their
different
concerns.
B
So
that's
that's
where
we
started
to
bring
forward
the
storefront
modernization
and
a
great
merchant
grant,
which
is
a
small
pot
of
money
that
is
funded
to
the
business
districts,
to
make
small
projects
like
brochures
and
then
do
do
special
activities
to
bring
in
new
customers.
So
those
were
some
of
the
things
that
we
heard
at
that
time
that
are
still
important
this
day
and.
F
They
do
want
to
chime
in
on
that
one,
because
a
lot
of
we've
had
some
perceptions
that
are
great
merchant
grants
and
our
business
district
grants
are
handouts
and
I
would
say.
Nothing
is
further
from
the
truth,
in
that
our
goal
is
to
make
sure
that
our
economic
development
engine
is
working
throughout
the
community,
and
if
we
did
that
in-house,
then
you
still
have
the
city's
pension,
the
city's
additional
costs
and
what
we've
done,
and
sometimes
we
don't
have
the
understanding
of
what
a
given
business
district
wants
each
year.
F
So
we
might
develop
a
great
program
that
we
think
is
the
best
and
isn't
nimble
enough
compared
to
what
the
business
district
themselves
would
like
to
do.
So
by
doing
these
grants,
we've
cut
out
the
middleman,
taking
the
hotel
tax
dollars
and
given
them
directly
to
a
business
association
for
them
to
then
employ
other
local
businesses
to
keep
up
their
areas
or
do
their
own
marketing
without
any
overhead,
and
that
I
think
has
been
a
great
addition
to
our
economic
development
arsenal
to
help
move
things
forward
quickly
and
react
quickly.
So.
A
Of
auto
barn
to
purchase
the
former
shear
brothers,
a
building
in
South
Austin,
the
some
of
the
retail
commercial
uses
on
Howard
Street
that
have
been
funded
through
the
Howard
Ridge
tiff.
Can
you
talk
a
little
bit
about
some
of
those
very
big
projects?
I
mean
there's
been
talk
in
the
community.
Where
does
this
fit?
Is
this
appropriate?
It's
not
appropriate.
Talk
a
little
bit
about
the
history
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
return,
because
many
of
these
projects
have
been
been
running
now
for
several
years.
Why
don't
you
give
your
assessment
so.
B
B
A
very
probably
10
or
15
years,
at
least
and
sure
brothers
had
moved
to
a
new
location
in
Skokie,
and
it
was
it's
one
of
our
few
remaining
Aitu
districts,
which
is
in
Estoril
district,
so
only
certain
uses
can
go
in
there.
So
we
had
felt
very
strongly
that
we
wanted
to
find
a
user
that
could
utilize
it
as
an
as
an
industrial
district.
B
That
is
an
important
use
in
our
community,
so
Autobahn
approached
us
to
indicate
that
they
want
to
use
that
for
a
space
to
hold
their
large
certified
pre-owned
car
inventory,
as
well
as
some
auto
repair
uses
for
their
their
three
for
at
that
point
franchises.
So
so
we
worked
with
them.
The
the
challenges
with
that
property
was
that
it
was
a
microfilm
factory.
It
was
not
a
car
retail
space.
It
was
not
a
space
that
you
could
do
the
auto
repair
and
it
needed
some
significant
work
between
walls
and
roof,
and
some
remediation.
B
B
We
worked
with
the
county,
Cook
County,
to
provide
believe
it
was
a
class
7b
which
said
we
will
work
with
you
to
the
county,
will
approve
a
reduction
and
assessment
that
will
produce
their
property
taxes,
because
one
of
the
things
that
often
happens
with
these
large,
very
large
multi
acre
projects
is
the
the
taxes
become
prohibitively
expensive.
Once
you
do
the
rehab,
so
they
were
concerned
about
that.
B
So
the
county
and
commissioner
suffered
ins
office
worked
with
us
to
help
pass
that
that
classification,
which
provides
a
reduction
for
a
peer
ten
years,
then
ramps
back
up
to
the
assessment
of
the
25
percent.
So
we
did
that
and
then
we
we
had
a
TIF
section
of
a
financing
district
that
Marty
mentioned
earlier,
and
we
utilize
2.5
million
from
there
to
offset
their
their
rehab
costs
and
some
of
I
don't
have
the
exact
dollars.
Maybe.
A
I'll
cut
to
the
chase,
so
why
do
we
do
this?
I
mean
there
are
people
in
the
community
who
say
blah
blah
blah.
This
is
investing
in
one
private
business
and
that's
not
fair,
but
why
does
cities
do
redevelopment?
Why
is
something
like
this
autobahn
project
so
important
to
the
city
and
what?
What
have
we
seen
since
it's
been
completed
so.
B
We
we
do.
Cities
like
Evanston
do
economic
development,
because
this
is
business
retention.
Auto
barn
is
our
only
car
remaining
car
dealer
and
we
do
this
to
retain
them
and
to
this
help
them
grow.
It
freed
up
some
space
on
on
a
Chicago
Avenue
corridor,
which
is
commercial
abouts
residential
that
took
some
some
congestion
off
of
an
area
that
that
was
largely
residential
I
was
feeling
that
that
squeeze
we
did
it
because
we
grew
regu
jobs.
B
We
were
able
to
work
with
them
to
coordinate
with
the
high
school
to
to
help
some
of
the
high
school
students
who
weren't
as
a
college
path
to
employ
them
I,
believe
they
added
at
the
end
of
the
day
over
40
jobs
and
they're,
still
slowly
gonna,
add
more
jobs,
as
as
they
continue
to
expand
and
settle
into
their
space.
So
we
do
it
for
a
number
of
reasons
that
that
all
come
to
bringing
larger
academic
community
benefits
not
just
to
the
bottom
line.
A
And
I'll
ask
Marty,
so
we
collect
sales
taxes
community.
Where
would
you
put
an
auto
dealer
in
sort
of
the
rank
order
of
sales
tax
producers?
Do
they
produce
two
percent
of
our
sales
taxes?
They
diverted
is
50
percent
of
our
sales
tax.
What's
an
order
of
magnitude
that
you
would
say,
auto
sales
produces
for
us
in
sales
down.
F
F
F
To
five
hundred
thousand
a
year
a
year
and
what's
really
critical,
is
it
wasn't
just
that
amount?
It
was
also
the
loss
of
that
amount.
If
we
were
not
able
to
retain
them.
Not
only
would
we
not
have
the
growth
that
they
had
by
adding
the
two
smaller
dealerships
we
could
have
lost
the
to
the
the
Nissan
in
the
Volkswagen
sure
those
could
have
what
the
other
direction.
F
So
you
could
have
had
a
very
large
swing
and
then
the
development
costs
along
Chicago
Avenue
to
do
something
different
sure,
so,
very
and
again,
I
think
when
we
did
this,
the
other
part
of
what
Johanna
and
and
all
staff
does
is.
We
do
return
on
investment
analyses
on
these
and
in
the
auto
barn
case,
the
the
the
return
on
investment
was
easy.
With
the
TIF
we
could
put
the
dollars
into
public
infrastructure
because
we
had
no
other
private
developments
lined
up
for
that
tough,
and
so
it
was
an
easy
calculation.
F
We
ended
up
doing.
We
just
finished
Howard
Street
down
there,
the
intersection,
but
for
the
Chicago
Avenue
at
three
to
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
a
year
with
a
two
point:
five
to
2.9
million
investment-
you
have
an
ROI
of
five
to
six
years
and
just
about
any
developer
would
love
to
have
a
return
on
investment
of
that
short
of
a
time
frame.
Most
banks
will
do
a
commercial
loan
based
on
a
ten-year
long
time
frame,
and
so
we
are
well
within
that
and.
A
One
last
piece
of
economic
development
that
I
want
to
want
to
be
there's
some
commentary
which
I
want
to
leave
summarized
so
the
Howard
Ridge
TIFF
we've
done
a
lot
of
investing
on
Howard
Street,
Ward,
8,
peckish
Pig
working
on
a
theater
in
broad
terms.
Where
does
that
money
come
from
what
kind
of
return
on
investment
we
sing?
What
do
you
think
we
will
see
the
moon
for
sure
so.
B
Why
do
we
do
that?
It's
that
how
evidence
it
has
seen
multiple
building
boons
strong
economic
cycles,
but
Howard
Street
hadn't
experienced
those
things.
We
were
we're
hungry
to
get
literally
with
the
restaurants
to
get
things
that
that
bring
the
benefits
of
other
parts,
of
instance,
business
districts
into
the
southern
part
of
Evanston,
to
provide
that
liveable
community
of
that
third
place
of
places
that
people
can
go
and
joy
that
are
not
their
home
or
their
workplace.
B
We
we
had
a
number
of
buildings
that
were
for
sale
at
a
very
low,
very
deeply
discounted
price.
So,
a
few
years
ago,
when
we
had,
we
had
money
in
our
text
and
come
in
finance
in
district,
which
is
the
whole
point
of
creating
one.
Those
districts
is
to
utilize
that
money
to
do
things
that
the
local
economy-
it's
not
doing
so.
A
B
Know
we
we
had
I,
think
there's
there's
some
perception
issues.
We
had
some
people
that
we
spoke
to.
There
were
property
owners
that
we
said
you.
This
should
be
a
restaurant.
This.
This
would
be
a
great
restaurant
trying
to
encourage
people
to
do
it
on
private
sector
and
people
said:
oh,
nobody
will
ever
come
to
Howard,
Street
and-
and
somebody
literally
said
that
about
the
building
that
is
now
packaged,
peg,
which
one
is
first
year
of
state
of
Illinois,
delicious
destination
award
that
only
a
few
are
awarded
and
the
state.
B
So
there
were
there's
just
a
perception
and
we
also
had
one
single
landlord
who
owned
multiple
properties,
who
was
kind
of
holding
the
whole
thing
landlocked
and
was
extracting
the
greatest
amount
of
rent
from
tenants
when,
when
they
weren't
necessarily
even
tenants
that
were
conducting
businesses
that
were
the
highest
and
best
use
for
those
spaces.
A
couple.
A
Other
questions
on
Economic
Development,
let
me
Alex.
Are
they
up
we're
at
the
top
of
the
page
talking
about
the
development
that
the
council
recently
approved
on
Chicago
Chicago
Avenue
at
Howard
Street,
you
know
again,
this
was
a
mix
of
funding
asking.
Why
did
why
did
that
occur
and
I
think
you've
answered
a
lot
of
those
questions
and
ultimately
these
are
issues
that
come
before
the
City
Council
and
the
City
Council
makes
those
determinations
using
a
lot
in
the
very
factors
that
you
have
made.
A
comment
to
that
era.
F
F
I
will
say
why
do
we
do
it,
because
we
did
a
return
on
investment
analysis
and
showed
that
with
the
support
of
the
TIF
district
and
in
a
but
for
analysis,
meaning
if
we
didn't
have
the
tough
chicag,
we
proved
that
that
corner
where
the
chicago
development
is
for
the
last.
How
many
decades
did
nothing
and
with
this
potential
we
will
have
a
great
mixed
development
that
accomplishes
affordable
housing,
provides
new
units
and
provides
some
retail
in
an
area
that
went
undeveloped
for
decades
and
then.
A
Finally,
there
were
just
a
couple
of
questions,
just
I,
think
expressing
angst:
why
is
the
city
spent
so
much
money
who's
accountable?
Why
is
this
happening?
Why?
Why
is
there
not
more
information,
and
certainly
we
can't
haul
a
staff
answer
those
questions.
We
prepare
this
in
the
City
Council
as
its
policy
deliberations.
But
can
you
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
reporting
that
we
do
we
report
quarterly
and
how
can
members
of
the
public
get
access
to
the
reporting
that
we
do
on
the
projects
on
the
various
loans
and
how
they're
all
coming
so.
B
There's
the
the
weekly
city
manager
report
that
is
sent
out
from
your
office
and
the
Economic
Development
Division
provides
a
report,
monthly
I
believe
it's
still
the
first
week
of
the
month,
a
component
of
that
that
reports,
the
status
of
all
the
loans
or
or
money
that's
been
spent.
So
most
of
the
the
economic
development
deals
that
we've
done
have
really
been
loans
that
are
expected
to
be
paid
back.
B
So
the
example
that
I
referenced
earlier
package
pick
the
investment
that
we've
made
in
that
property
is
about
675
thousand
dollars
and
then
we've
shifted
all
the
responsibility
on
to
that
particular
entity.
They
pay
the
taxes
they
maintain
the
building,
so
our
costs
we
have,
we
maintain
the
asset,
we
have
the
asset
on
our
books,
but
we're
not
doing
spending
money
on
the
maintenance
and
then
the
benefit
we
get
on.
That
is
sales
is
the
sales
tax
and
the
liquor
tax.
A
So
it's
at
city
of
Evanston
org
forward
slash
newsletter
and
you
can
go
on
there.
You
put
in
your
email
address
and
there
are
120
plus
30
plus
different
newsletters
that
you
can
sign
up
for.
One
of
them
is
the
city
managers
weekly
report:
nearly
every
community
I
know
does
something
like
this:
I
were
the
only
community.
I
know
that
residents
can
actually
sign
up
and
have
an
email
to
you.
So
these
type
of
information
that
Johanna
was
talking
about
is
available
in
that
report.
A
We
would
encourage
people
to
go
to
our
website
and
sign
up
for
that.
So
I
think
that
takes
care
of
the
economic
development
questions.
Why
don't
we
move
on?
It's
we're
at
805,
we're
committed
to
be
out
of
here
in
55
minutes
and
we're
on
to
partner
number
two,
but
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
your
department
does.
You
know
we
also
have
managing
the
livability
process
and
I
think.
Perhaps
we
might
refer
people
to
last
year's
discussions
about
that,
because
I
think
we
want
to
focus
a
little
bit
more
this
evening
on
community
development.
B
Well,
the
committee
developed
Department
is
responsible
for
the
Planning
and
Zoning
activities,
so
there
are
enforcement
and
oversight
of
our
zoning
code
and
long
term.
Neighborhood
and
community
planning
activities
I
serve
late,
stool
and
use
in
transportation,
and
then
we
also
have
the
building
code
and
inspection
services
and
including
the
building
permit
information
that
Marty
referenced
earlier.
So
we're
responsible
for
inspections,
code
enforcement
for
building
code
right-of-way
permits
now
as
part
as
part
of
that
group,
and
then
we
also
include
housing
and
grants.
B
Are
we
get
a
a
amount
of
money
from
the
people
from
the
federal
government
from
the
Department
of
Housing
and
Urban
Development,
and
it
includes
CDBG,
Block
Grant?
It
depends
on
what
Congress
does,
but
we
get
about
between
1.6
and
1.8
million
dollars
per
year.
On
that
and
a
few
other
grants
smaller
grants,
and
then
we
also
have
transportation
mobility
services,
which
includes
some
of
the
projects
like
divvy,
are
working
with
transit
transportation,
planning
for
all
I'm
thinking
about
how
people
get
around
in
our
community
and
our
relationships
with
Metro
and
CTA
and
pace
so.
A
B
I
think
there's
a
few
things.
One
is
thinking
about
the
longer-term
some
of
these
longer-term
projects
that
we've
relied
on
northwestern
or
some
of
the
planned
developments
that
produce
larger,
larger
dollars.
Not
those
we
know
are
coming
to
an
end.
We've
done
a
bit
more
tracking
on
a
month
to
month
basis
and
looking
at
trends
over
the
previous
years.
B
A
Got
some
questions
for
your
department
of
one
deals
with
affordable
housing?
They
would
like
to
outline
how
the
city
and
the
City
Council
stated
commitment
to
addressing
affordable
housing
in
the
2018
budget,
including,
but
not
limited,
to
a
specific
plan
for
the
spending
of
the
affordable
housing
funds.
So
I
know
the
City.
Council
has
asked
that
same
question
of
you.
What
do
you
think.
A
B
Next
I
will
give
a
sneak
preview
next
next
Monday
night,
myself
and
several
of
my
colleagues
will
be
talking
about
what
we
currently
do
in
regards
to
affordable
housing.
So
we
have
a
fund
that
has
become
more
well
known
and,
as
planned,
developments
have
come
through
and
paid
for
in
into
a
what's
called
the
affordable
housing
fund.
The
instead
of
providing
on-site
units.
We
have
an
ordinance
that
says
I
said
in
a
sort
of
brief
terms:
you
either
provide
on
site
or
you
pay
a
certain
fee
to
to
not
provide
on
site.
B
So
today,
we've
had
two
developments
that
have
been
subject
that
have
been
approved
and
they
have
paid
into
the
site
into
the
Intuit,
and
one
develoment
is
providing
on-site.
So
so
we're
gonna
talk
a
little
bit
about
how
some
of
our
ideas
about
how
to
utilize
some
of
those
funds
and
they're,
not
necessarily
building
or
purchasing
new
units,
but
ways
to
enhance
some
of
the
existing
building
stuff
that
we
already
have,
and
our
partners
in
landlords
and
other
service
providers
and
how
we
can
leverage
those
dollars
to
get
people
housed.
So.
A
So
the
sneak
preview
is
we're
going
to
talk
about
how
we
can
continue
to
invest
in
building
units,
we're
going
to
talk
about
how
we
can
take
those
dollars
and
support
people
who
need
the
help
now
right,
I
think
some
of
the
the
concern
we've
heard
from
members,
the
council
members
of
the
community.
Is
that
there's
a
need
today?
What
can
we
do
with
that
and
I
think
the
third
one?
A
Maybe
we
didn't
touch
on
this-
was
policies
what
what
housing
policies
with
zoning
policies
can
we
have
to
get
people
some
greater
flexibility
and
have
the
council
consider?
So
it's
really
on
three
three
areas
and
ultimately
the
council's
decision,
but
this
is
all
going
to
be
teed
up
at
the
council
meeting
next
Monday
night's
talking
another
question:
this
one's
from
facebook
after
downtown
construction
is
finished,
there's
a
concern
that
perhaps
there
should
be
a
ban
on
downtown
construction
for
a
few
years.
I
think
Marty
talked
a
little
bit
about.
A
You
know
some
of
the
transitions
that
the
downtown
has
been
through
and
clearly
we're
in
the
midst
of
one
right
now.
I
think
we're
not
in
the
position
really
to
talk
about
a
ban
moving
forward,
but
the
other
part
of
the
question
was
this
conflict
between
walkers
cyclists
and
drivers
and
there's
another
question
also
from
Facebook
regarding
the
safety
of
bike
lanes.
So
you
mentioned
those
you
have
a
transportation
of
mobility
function
within
community
development.
What?
What
is
that?
What
programs
are
we
doing
to
try
to
address
this
sort
of
conflict?
B
So
we
we
had,
the
council
adopted
I
believe
in
July
complete
and
streets
program
which
which,
what
makes
plans
for
when
we
develop
and
rehabilitate
streets,
to
make
sure
that
we're
planning
for
all
users
in
mind.
Sometimes
when
we
put
bike
lanes
in
or
have
pedestrian
access
points,
it's
it's
a
stopgap
from
what's
already
there.
So
this
this
really
thinks
about
the
whole,
a
holistic
approach
to
dealing
with
transportation.
B
A
Johanna,
thank
you
for
joining
us
tonight.
I
think
we'll.
Have
you
back
we'll
do
a
separate
program,
I
think
what
all
the
excellent
work
we're
doing
with
livability
and
sustainability.
We've
really
done
a
lot
internally,
but
I
think
given
the
interest
of
time
we're
going
to
move
on.
So
thank
you
for
joining
us.
We're
gonna,
invite
Erika
storey,
the
deputy
city
manager
and
the
director
of
administrative
services
Department
up
next.
A
Let
me
remind
you
that
you're
watching
a
budget
workshop
for
the
2018
city
of
Evanston
budget,
if
you'd
like
to
participate,
please
come
on
down
to
the
Morton
Civic
Center,
we're
here
in
G
300
or
call
us
at
370
male
2,
3
101
at
city
of
Evanston,
org
tweet
us
interact
with
us
on
Facebook
we'd
love
to
hear
from
who
we've
been
hearing,
especially
from
Facebook
folks
this
evening.
So
thank
you
for
those
of
you
watching
and
communicating
with
us
on
Facebook.
A
A
H
Services,
so
to
help
the
internal
services
function
better,
but
also
we
have
a
couple
of
other
operations
in
the
department
that
are
external
facing,
but
the
majority
of
the
services
are
internal
facing.
We
have
fleet
services,
maintaining
the
core
fleet
of
vehicles
that
work
for
all
the
department's
facilities
management.
We
have
20
staff
people
maintaining
45
buildings
throughout
the
city.
We
have
information,
technology,
Human
Resources,
and
then
we
have
parking
and
we
also
have
crossing
guards.
A
A
Baby,
we'll
always
go
to
bed,
don't
wait
for
me,
so
a
lot
of
means.
Certainly
there
are
focuses
of
the
mystery
services
department
that
are
more
internal.
As
you
said,
internal
facing
so
I
think
our
IT
operation.
We
could
crow
about
that.
We've
switched
over
to
Gmail
this
year,
we're
saving
some
money
there.
We
completely
reworked
our
internal
city,
Network
and
all
the
the
the
core
components
of
that
to
save
money
and
for
efficiency
purposes.
A
We
have
our
fleet
operation,
which
we're
very
proud
of,
but
I
think
probably
the
one
piece
of
thing
and
certainly
facility
maintenance,
Human
Resources,
all
things
that
are
great,
but
the
one
thing
people
are
probably
talking
about
more
is
parking
and
the
discussions
we've
been
having
about
potentially
raising
revenue
was
changing.
Ticket
cost
changing
boots.
We
have
this
thing
named
after
what
is
it
a
barnacle
or
Barracuda?
A
H
H
We
have
recently
hired
a
new
parking
division
manager,
who's,
focusing
primarily
on
you
know
what
these
changes
might
bring
for
the
city
and
how
we
can
go
about
making
parking
easier
in
Evanston,
not
just
in
the
downtown,
but
throughout
all
of
the
areas
that
people
park
in
we've
been
looking
at
different
technologies
for
making
it
easier
to
park
in
Evanston.
We
want
to
come
up
with
an
app
in
the
next
year
or
two
that
it
will
show
parking.
H
Availability,
I
think
that
our
new
citation
management
processing
vendor,
which
is
a
vendor
that
will
help
us
issue
parking
citations,
will
be
going
online
with
them
in
February.
The
most
exciting
part
about
that
is
that
you
will
have
an
app
that
you
can
both
pay
for
your
parking
with
pay,
any
citations
that
you
might
get
purchase
your
residential
parking
permits
through
the
app
and
be
reminded
about
other
wheel,
tax
payments
and
things
like
that's
all
through
one
app
be
able
to
pay
for
all
of
those
things
and
find
parking.
H
The
amnesty
program
continues
through
September
30th,
we're
hopeful
that
all
residents
will
take
advantage
of
that.
If
you
have
any
outstanding
parking
tickets,
all
of
your
fees
and
fines
are
waived
until
the
end
of
the
month.
So
if
you
haven't
had
a
chance
to
make
whole
on
your
parking
outstanding
tickets,
now
is
the
time
to
do
it.
So
please
try
to
take
advantage
of
that.
You
can
pay
your
tickets
online
call
3-1-1
go
to
the
specifics,
enter
any
of
those
options.
We'll
take
care
of
those
for
you.
A
As
you
know,
I've
been
talking
with
employees
about
their
ideas
for
the
budget,
and
one
thing
I've
heard
a
lot
of
clear
is
we
should
go
after
those
folks
that
always
money
so
talk
a
little
bit
about
how
we're
going
to
be
do
be
able
to
do
that,
especially
on
the
parking
violations
moving
forward.
Sure.
H
So
there's
a
lot
of
things
we
talked
about
on
how
we
can
increase
our
collection
on
the
parking
tickets,
as
you
may
have
heard.
Parking
tickets
count
for
about
2.8
million
dollars
of
our
revenues
in
the
general
fund,
so
that
does
help
support
all
the
operating
activities
of
the
city.
So
those
are
your
your
text
or
your
ticket
dollars
are
at
work,
helping
make
sure
that
the
city
runs
smoothly.
H
One
of
the
things
that
we're
looking
is
this
device
that,
while
he
mentioned
earlier,
which
is
called
the
barnacle,
it's
a
booting
device
that
goes
on
a
windshield
that
precludes
somebody
from
trying
to
drive
the
vehicle,
instead
of
actually
putting
the
boot
on
the
tire
which
cost
more
money
and
involves
a
lot
more
resources
in
time.
So
this
will
be
a
quicker
way
to
boot
vehicles
and
help
try
to
get
both
outstanding
tickets
paid.
H
Also
we're
looking
at
things
like
credit
reporting
for
those
outstanding
tickets
for
individuals
who
have
outstanding
payments
that
haven't
yet
been
paid.
We
also
have
a
program
where,
once
you
reach
ten
tickets,
you
do
get
a
driver's
license
suspension.
Hopefully,
there's
not
many
people
who
are
in
that
situation,
but
we
do
have
several
hundred.
Unfortunately,
I've.
A
Got
a
couple
questions
some
of
them
deal
with
your
responsibilities.
We
have
a
question
from
Facebook,
well,
city
employees
receive
cost-of-living
increases
for
2017
and
I.
Think
I'll
talk
with
a
little
bit
with
party
as
well
of
this.
That's
that's
an
outstanding
issue,
because
I
think
we've
got
the
three
labor
agreements
which
we're
still
working
on
those
employees
that
are
not
represented
by
labor
agreements.
We
always
wait
and
see
what
happens
there.
I
think
you
mentioned
earlier
you're.
F
I
think
a
city
manager,
you've
summed
it
up.
It's
it's
not
I,
don't
believe
it's
an
if
I
think
it's
a
when,
and
we
just
don't
know
that
it
will
happen
in
2017
if
any
of
the
bargaining
units
decides
is
as
they're
right
if
police
are
fire.
For
instance,
on
decides
that
we
can't
get
to
an
agreement
and
go
to
what's
called
binding
arbitration,
then
we
don't
set
the
schedule
anymore
and
we
have
had
a
past
practice
that
we
wait
until
the
contracts
for
labor
agreements
are
settled
before
moving
forward
with
non
bargained
positions.
F
They
were
in
arbitration,
so
I
don't
believe
that
we
one
of
the
things
that
the
city
has
done.
An
excellent
job
is
balancing
labor
and
you
know
a
staff
satisfaction
with
being
a
part
of
this
community
with
our
total
costs.
So
it
won't
do
us
any
good
from
a
Productivity
standpoint
to
wait
four
years
for
one
group
that
is
not
even
responsible
necessarily
for
another
deciding
to
arbitrate.
F
A
So
we
have
a
question
about
the
weave
that
we're
painting
a
rosy
picture
of
the
budget,
despite
news
reports
to
the
contrary,
and
if
things
are
such
a
great
shape,
why
is
the
city
selling
its
property?
Well,
it's
not
rosy.
I!
Think
what
we're
trying
to
say
is
it's
not
impossible
that
there
are
paths
to
making
this
makes
sense.
We
have
a
budget
of
almost
300
million
dollars.
It's
not
that
we're
poor.
A
The
issue
is:
how
do
we
address
the
needs
of
the
community
in
a
responsible
way
when
you
look
at
the
library
parking
lot,
which
is
what's
being
rougher
and
the
question
that
is
being
considered
by
the
council
for
sale?
Not
because
we
need
the
money
from
the
sale
of
the
property,
it's
because
of
what
it
will
do
to
continue
to
be
another
economic
engine
for
the
downtown
office.
Workers
are
really
important
for
building
condominiums
and
apartments.
We
already
have
offices,
we
already
have
the
University
in
the
downtown,
but
we
need
more
office
workers.
A
Well,
if
our
office
buildings
are
largely
filled
by
having
another
office
building,
that's
going
to
be
people
who
are
shopping,
who
are
dining
here
in
the
downtown,
providing
economic
activity
that
property
will
come
off
will
go
up
back
on
the
tax
rolls.
There's
ongoing.
Regular
annual
tax
payments
will
be
made
so
we're
not
selling
the
property.
The
council's
not
consider
selling
the
property
just
to
get
a
quick
hit
of
four
million
dollars
it's
because
of
what
it
will
do
to
contribute
us.
A
We've
talked
about
all
of
economic
developments
this
evening,
the
importance
of
the
tips,
the
success
on
Howard
Street
success.
We've
had
in
West
Evanston
it's
about
building
an
engine.
So
that's
where
the
rosy
picture
comes
from.
The
rosy
picture
is,
but
the
overall
engine
of
the
city
of
Evanston
is
a
pretty
good
shape,
but
we
need
to
continue
to
be
vigilant
on
that.
So
I
think
that
takes
care
of
those
questions.
Thank
You
Erica
appreciate
you
joining
us
this
evening.
A
Next
is
grant
Ferrara
the
corporation
council
and
I'll
remind
you,
we're
here
talking
about
the
Evanston
fiscal
year,
2018
budget.
We
encourage
your
play
still
time
to
come
on
down
and
join
us
here.
You
can
call
you
can
Facebook
and
we
appreciate
it
again
we're
getting
probably
more
more
feedback
from
Facebook
tonight
than
any
time.
We've
done
an
event
like
this,
so
we
really
appreciate
those
of
you
who
are
watching
and
using
Facebook
as
a
as
an
opportunity
to
reach
out
to
us,
but
we're
on
Twitter
this
evening.
A
I
We,
as
as
members
of
the
law
department,
represent
the
city
and
all
facets
of
litigation,
administrative
adjudication
work
over
in
the
Skokie
courthouse,
and
also
advising
and
council
these
City
Council
staff
with
respect
to
ordinances
and
legal
matters
affecting
just
about
every
department
in
the
city
of
Evanston.
So.
A
Up
on
the
screen,
we
have
the
number
of
positions
you
have
so,
in
addition
to
being
responsible
for
the
civil
and
criminal
matters
of
the
city,
you're
also
responsible
for
the
liquor
licenses
cretton
and
have
staff
that
the
staff
the
liquor
board.
As
you
look
at
the
year,
what
do
we
need
to
know
from
a
budget
perspective?
I
mean
there's
been
issues
in
the
papers
about
some
court
cases.
We
win
some,
we
wouldn't
we
win
more
than
we
lose,
certainly
but
unfortunately,
from
time
to
time,
we're
paying
off
things.
A
I
I
A
I
Been
here
almost
eight
years
so,
as
we
have
gone
through
those
cases
and
we've
done
budget
memorandums
and
distributed
that
information
widely,
the
city's
success
rate
ratio
has
been
7
to
1.
I'll,
say
that
again
7
to
1
what
that
means
is
winning,
on
summary
judgment,
motions
to
dismiss
having
a
plaintiff
voluntarily
to
dismiss
a
case
or
winning
all
the
way
up
to
trial.
We
have
won
7
times
more
than
we've
lost
and
that's
an
important.
I
It's
it's
it's!
It's
a
nice
number.
You
of
course
always
want
to
win
everything,
but
that's
that's
completely
unrealistic
in
today's
world.
It
is
indeed
true
that
one
of
the
cases
that
we've
litigated
for
a
number
of
years
went
to
trial.
We
were
unsuccessful,
we
appealed
it
and
we
were
unsuccessful
on
the
appeal.
However,
we
won
part
of
the
case
in
arbitration
so
effectively
it
was
a
wash.
So
it
is
a
very
challenging
environment.
I
A
F
A
F
One
of
the
things
we
haven't
mentioned
is
the
law
department
we
just
followed
or
had
community
development
and
economic
development,
and
we
were
speaking
of
it.
Law
departments
is
key
in
the
creation
of
a
lot
of
our
documents
when
we're
dealing
with
developers
and
we're
dealing
with
large
retailers.
Some
of
them
are
national
in
base.
F
Otherwise
we
can
end
up
with
an
agreement
so
six,
seven
years
down
the
road
for
which
nobody
has
ownership
for
and
there's
a
problem
with,
and
we
haven't
seen
that
we
have
great
agreements
these
days
and
it
takes
a
lot
of
attention
to
detail
and
in
many
communities
that's
farmed
out,
and
then
you
don't
have
the
same
commitment
when
it's
an
outside
law
firm.
That's
looking
at
something
on
a
case-by-case
basis
and
may
not
understand
the
city's
entire
picture,
I,
don't.
A
See
any
questions
for
you
from
the
public
man,
so
I'll
say
thank
you
for
coming
in
tonight.
Think
I
can't
work
that
you
do
representing
the
city
of
Evanston
corporation.
Thank
you.
Bob
next
up
is
our
Health
and
Human
Services
Director
of
on
Smith,
again
as
she's
coming
up
I'll
remind
you
we're
here
talking
about
the
2018
city
of
Evanston
budget.
We
encourage
you
again.
Thank
you
for
those
folks
commenting
on
Facebook
tonight.
We
appreciate
all
those
comments
we're
getting
around
Twitter.
A
A
So
on
the
environmental,
health
and
and
code
enforcement
side,
your
staff
response
to
complaints
from
folks
they
deal
with
rats
and
rats
have
been
a
very
big
issue
and
I
think
your
department's
been
very
aggressive
and
you've
done
a
great
job
of
reporting
about
all
the
work
we're
doing,
but
with
rats,
but
all
the
levels
of
code
enforcement.
You
work
on
restaurant
inspections,
yes
other
private
health
inspections,
but
then
there's
a
second
part
of
your
department,
there's
the
human
services
division.
J
So
the
goal
of
the
Human
Services
arm
of
the
department
is
really
to
prevent
any
inequities
in
housing
or
access
to
health
care.
So
our
role
is,
is
twofold:
it's
prevention
and
it's
remediation,
and
so
the
remediation
I'm
area
of
the
division
is
really
to
create
stability
for
families
who
have
found
themselves
in
crisis
have
found
themselves
in
a
shortfall.
J
So
our
journalist
systems
program
is
an
entitlement
program
for
those
who
are
income
eligible,
and
many
of
our
participants
are
seasonal
workers
or
workers
who
may
work
in
construction
fields
or
fields
that
have
a
short-term
ability
of
getting
financial
stability,
and
so
some
of
our
residents
come
to
us
really
from
from
the
gamut
wanting
to
have
information
about
what
options
do
they
have
in
terms
of
housing?
What
options
do
they
have,
because
residents
are
really
concerned
about
staying
in
the
community?
J
A
J
A
J
The
financial
entitlement
program
is
income
driven
and
what
that
basically
means
is
someone
can
make
as
they
make
at
least
less
than
$800
a
month,
they're
eligible.
So
again,
so
those
who
can
have
some
short-term
employment
or
no
employment
at
all.
Our
typical
participant
is
usually
male,
because
many
of
our
subsidy
programs
are
really
geared
for
women
and
children.
So
we
have
about
150
current
participants
and
how
they
benefit
from
the
program.
J
Unfortunately,
some
of
our
participants
are
homeless
and
some
of
our
participants
are
room
sharing
and
living
in
their
cars
and
after
having
a
really
intimate
conversation
with
them
and
doing
a
market
analysis,
we
determined
that
our
shelter
payments
was
extremely
low
and
was
really
not
supportive
of
stable
housing.
So
in
January
the
City
Council
did
vote
to
increase
the
shelter
payments
I'm.
The
maximum
currently
is
$600
per
month,
where
the
maximum
prior
was
200
per
month.
J
Correct
a
separate
levy
and
also
we're
fortunate
enough
that,
since
integration
of
the
program
within
the
city,
governance,
we've
actually
been
able
to
decrease
that
levy
decrease
that
amount,
as
we've
done
some
intentional
partnerships
with
our
health
care
providers,
assuring
that
our
participants
all
are
enrolled
in
healthcare
and
have
the
primary
home
and
they
have
wrapped
around
medical
services.
Wraparound
dental
services,
behavioral
health
services
and
that
comprehensive
wraparound
services
does
create
additional
stability.
So.
A
The
services
of
your
Department
of
the
General
Assistance
Fund
pays
for
those
key
services
that
you've
just
described.
That's
correct!
You
have
grants
from
the
state
that
do
a
lot
of
your
health
prevention
of
programs
that
you've
done
so
really.
The
general
fund
is
paying
mostly
just
for
the
of
the
code
enforcement.
A
J
I'm
really
excited
about
that.
We're
able
to
work
with
our
IT
department
to
capture
some
birth
and
death
data
and
what
I
really
want
to
look
at
is
the
mortality.
What
is
actually
compromising
the
health
of
Evan
stone
Ian's
and
what
is
the
disease
burden
and
we're
mapping
that
out
by
Ward?
And
so
we've
got
some
really
good
data.
J
That
shows
us
where
we
need
to
target
our
resources
in
terms
of
reducing
health
inequities
and
it
simply
said
make
sure
that
all
have
access
and
even
those
who
have
access
may
be
making
sure
they
have
optimal
wellness.
So
our
data
is
informing
us
differently
and
how
we
target
and
deploy
our
services
and
so
I'm,
hoping
that
we
have
some
really
rich
information
about
how
we've
dismantled
health
inequities
in
our
community.
How
we've
improved
the
health
of
all
great
I?
Don't.
A
A
Next,
the
fire
department
will
see
it
well
want
to
see
what
we
hear
about
an
excitement
for
the
fire
department
again
remind
everyone
we're
here
at
the
Morton
Civic
Center
talking
about
the
challenges
for
the
2018
budget,
Fire
Chief,
Brian
Scott-
that
she's
got
welcome
good
evening.
This
is
the
first
one
of
these
for
you,
it
is
so
you
were
appointed
fire
chief.
How
long
ago,
eight
months
ago,
eight
months
how's
it
going
going.
A
All
that's
grain
you've
been
on
the
department
for
how
many
years
17
years
so
it's.
Finally,
after
17
years,
you
learned
enough
about
the
community
decided
to
move
here.
Absolutely
that's
great.
We
have
a
little
bit
of
statistics
up
about
the
fire
department.
Maybe
you
could
just
talk
a
little
bit
about
how
we
provide
fire
service
in
their
community.
Certainly.
C
The
department's
mission
is
to
protect
life
property
in
the
environments.
We
do
that
24/7.
So
we
have
110
members
107.
Those
members
are
sworn
personnel
for
the
department
each
day
in
the
city
of
Evanston,
we
have
26
firefighters
and
paramedics
on
the
street
serving
each
and
every
day
we
have
fort
command
staff
chief
officers
at
work
within
five
particular
divisions
within
the
department
areas,
such
as
fire
and
EMS
operations,
specialized
rescue,
the
fiber
vention
Bureau,
and
even
emergency
preparedness
and
management.
This
within
our
purview.
So.
A
You
talk
about
being
24/7,
so
you
have
all
firefighters
who
are
scheduled
on
a
shift
schedule.
So
what
happens?
If
we
fire
fire
decides
much
provocation.
Does
that
mean
we
have
one
less
firefighter
just
serve
the
residents
of
Evanston
that
day
or
are
there
different
ways
that
we
deal
with
that,
so
that
there's
always
the
same
complement
of
firefighters?
We.
C
Do
we
deal
with
it
in
different
ways,
but
generally
our
vacations
and
normal
types
of
leave,
I
kind
of
figured
out
we
can
I
think
is
the
assistant
city
manager
alluded
to
earlier
in
the
program.
We've
had
an
enormous
amount
of
long-term
injuries
in
the
department
of
impact
us
and
it
has
affected
our
overtime
budget
know.
A
These
injuries
that
people
are
sustaining
as
part
of
a
fire.
Are
they
something
that
are
longer-term
because
of
the
service
as
a
firefighter?
Are
they
happening
outside
of
work?
What
kind
is
as
firefighting
and
evidence
there's
more
unsafe
than
it
is
other
places
or
well?
How
then
I'll
break
down
I.
C
Wouldn't
characterize
firefighting
in
the
city
here
more
dangerous
than
other
places,
but
firefighting
is
still
a
very
dangerous
profession,
so
the
vast
majorities
long-term
injuries
are
actually
on
emergency
scenes
and
actual
structural
fire
instances.
So
typically,
though,
we
all
average
May
1
to
2
long-term
injuries
in
a
given
year.
Unfortunately,
in
the
last
16
to
18
months,
we've
been
averaging
much
higher
than
that,
and
so
in
the
first
quarter
of
2017
we
had
11
long-term
injuries.
Fortunately,
you've
got
some
of
those
people
back,
but
right
now
we
have
five
long-term
injuries
and.
A
F
Is
cyclical
and
it
is
I-
have
a
history
and
insurance
as
well,
and
while
you
can,
you
can
plan
and
the
chief
will
attest,
you
can
train
and
some
injuries
happen,
no
matter
how
well
you're
trained
or
how
well
you
planned.
So
that
accounts
for
the
cyclical
nature.
If
you
have
a
highly
trained
department
and
you
have
good
plans,
your
baseline
of
injuries
will
be
lower,
but
you're
still
going
to
have
the
unexpected.
F
Somebody
falls
off
a
ladder
through
no
no
fault
of
their
own
and
it
just
happened
and
I,
you
would
say,
think
I
was
being
cliche,
but
we
had
someone
fall
off
a
ladder
and
it
was
a
long-term
injury,
but
it
is
cyclical
and
the
city
also
then
tries
to
fund
it
cyclically.
We
don't.
If
the
fire
department
has
a
one
bad
year.
We
don't
say
your
insurance
premiums
just
went
up
by
a
million
dollars
fire
department.
We
try
and
average
these
things
out
over
time,
so
that
the
fire
has
a
bad
year.
F
F
F
In
many
cases,
there's
just
a
higher
level
of
built
in
overtime
and
of
the
CFO
would
say:
that's
okay,
because
every
new
or
every
additional
police
or
firefighter
is
another
one
that
has
a
pension,
whereas
every
police
or
firefighter
who
works
overtime
is
working
overtime.
It's
not
an
additional
pension
that
we
have
to
worry
about,
or
in
the
case
of
an
injury.
So
there's
many
variables
to
consider
I
think
fires
overtime
will
go
up
a
little
bit,
but
it
is
manageable.
F
Based
on
how
much
outreach
we
want
how
much
we
do
in
training,
how
much
we
pre
plan,
but
fire
is
I.
Think
a
little
bit
more
straightforward,
possibly
than
the
sister
agency
will
ask
the
chief
as
well
the
police
chief
about
overtime
on
that
subject,
but
I
do
think
it
will.
It
will
drop
from
the
high,
but
I
think
we
may
need
to
reach
reached
sorry
raise
the
budget
a
little
bit
in
coming
years,
just
as
a
reflection
of
increased
in
pay
and
changes
in
operations.
So.
A
Looking
at
the
the
slide,
it
talks
a
little
bit
about
revenues
and
expenses.
There
are
services
provided
by
the
fire
department
that
are
recouped
through
the
emergency
calls,
so
there
are
ambulance
Billings
for
that,
so
that
is
part
of
the
lion's
share
of
that
ten
million
dollars
in
revenue
talks
a
little
bit
about
some
of
the
things
that
strategic
plan
which
you're
revisiting
now,
as
you
become
chief
and
then
the
dive
vehicle.
A
C
Modern
fire
service
really
is
kind
of
an
All
Hazards
type
of
medication
service,
so
we
really
have
to
be
prepared
in
a
myriad
of
different
areas.
So
it's
not
just
fire
and
EMS
anymore.
We
look
at
hazardous
materials
medication.
Some
of
the
specialized
rescue
that
we
mentioned
before
is
talking
about
high
angle.
Rescue
confined
space
building
collapse,
Tunnel
rescue
the
guy
vehicles
is
one
small
piece
of
that.
C
A
C
So
I
think
Evanston
is
is
a
unique
commuting.
The
fact
that
we
will
send
to
a
typical
emergency
medical
response,
an
engine
company
or
truck
company
along
with
the
ambulance
and
the
reason
we
do
that
is
really
twofold.
First
of
all,
it
really
helps
us
because
all
of
our
firefighters
are
cross
trained
as
paramedics
to
get
them
quality,
experienced
and
trained
personnel
as
quickly
as
possible.
C
So
we
only
have
two
frontline
and
winces
ambulances
in
the
city
of
Evanston,
so
an
engine
or
truck
company
may
be
closer
and
we
have
the
advanced
life
support
equipment
on
that
fire
engine
or
truck
along
with
trained
paramedics
that
can
get
to
that
person
when
seconds
count.
The
second
piece
of
that
is
many
times
these
people,
especially
in
a
very
vertical
say,
like
the
city
of
Evanston.
We
have
to
move
people
so
what
I
have
five
trained
people
that
can
move
people
with
apartment
buildings
or
across
a
long
horizontal
ways?
C
A
Are
very
few
communities
our
size
anywhere
in
the
country
that
would
have
two
of
those
centers
and
I
would
imagine
that
then
allows
those
emergency
medical
calls
to
conclude
in
a
quicker
fashion,
because
certainly
you're
there
more
quickly
because
of
the
7.8
square
miles
of
the
of
Evanston?
But
if
you
know
in
some
cases,
if
you're
taking
a
patient
outside
of
a
community
of
further
distance
to
a
hospital
that
takes
those
resources
out
of
the
area
where,
in
Evanston
you
get
into
st.
A
C
A
A
Your
service
to
the
community
appreciate
your
being
here
tonight.
Next
up
is
our
director
of
Parks
Recreation,
Community,
Services.
Laurence.
Hemingway
again
would
remind
you
that
we're
here
talking
about
the
2018
budget,
I
think
inappropriate
sports
metaphor,
mr.
Hemmingway,
if
we
maybe
going
into
overtime
with
tonight's.
What's
tonight's
workshop
I
believe
this
is
the
second
one
of
these
that
you've
done
so
you've
been
here
that
18
months
19
months,
something
like
that.
That
is
correct,
18
months!
A
D
A
That's
about
78
numbers
kind
of
a
misnomer,
just
the
sheer
number
of
people
who
are
working
in
our
community.
We
talked
about
75
parks,
the
number
of
community
centers.
You
know
the
revenue
that
you
bring
in
is
largely
through
fees
associated
with
classes.
You
know
what
are
some
of
the
challenges
that
you
face
with
a
community
that
often
expects
us
to
provide
a
whole
variety
of
services
with
sometimes
more
limited
resources.
What
are
the
kind
of
challenges
you're
facing?
Well.
D
I
think
I.
Will.
Our
major
challenges
is
just
trying
to
balance
that
fine
line
of
put
placing
a
cost
on
a
program
or
an
activity
for
a
family
and
and
with
so
much
competition
in
our
industry.
You
have
private
sector
of
recreation
facilities
that
we
directly
compete
with,
and
then
you
also
have
other
commit
opportunities
for
families
that
may
not
be
so
expensive
or
maybe
free,
and
so
for
us
to
balance
those.
D
A
D
We're
really
excited
about
the
amenities
that
the
new
building
will
have
will
have
a
dedicated
preschool
will
have
a
6,000,
square-foot
library
and
the
facility
will
have
brand-new
sports
and
athletic
fields,
and
work
will
have
two
sheets
of
ice
and
on
and
on,
and
so
we're
really
excited
to
where
the
project
is
and
the
direction
that
it's
going.
You
know
since.
F
F
That's
an
engineering
index
would
definitely
say
those
costs
have
gone
up
a
little
bit,
but
also
you
know
the
through
the
community
process
we
had
originally
had
a
building
that
was
going
to
be
a
110,000
square
feet
and
from
all
of
the
input
that
we
received
from
the
community
and
all
the
users,
the
building
is
now
over
130,000
square
feet,
not
all
on
one
floor.
There's
a
second
floor,
we're
talking
about
if
you've
done
any
of
the
meetings,
the
gymnasiums
on
the
second
floor,
it's
it
looks
very,
very
neat,
a
great
application.
F
The
point
being
is
that
giving
time
most
capital
projects
go
up.
This
one
will
be
a
little
bit
more
Robert
Crowne,
the
the
Friends
of
Robert
Crowne
have
stepped
up.
They
anticipate
going
through
that
10
million
dollar
ceiling,
and
we
also
hope
that
the
increased
activity
at
the
crown
Center
will
help
to
pay
for
long
term
financing
but
will
be
coming
to
the
council.
F
This
fall
with
a
first
look
of
anticipated
costs
and
funding,
and
that
this
project
is
unique
is
the
first
one
that
we've
had
where
we've
had
this
kind
of
community
engagement
for
the
additional
revenues
and
I
would
say:
that's
a
testament
also
to
the
original
robber
crown,
which
had
also
a
large
commitment
of
funds
outside
of
city
tax
dollars.
So
we're
continuing
on
with
that
historical
approach.
A
Coming
up
in
the
next
ten
days
or
so
you're
going
to
be
going
down
to
New
Orleans
for
the
National
Recreation
and
Parks
Association
annual
conference
and
the
city
of
Evanston
is
a
finalist
for
their
coveted
gold
award.
So
could
you
tell
us
of
what
the
gold
award
is
and
who
were
competing
against
and
what?
What
does
this
mean?
Yeah.
D
D
Calif
mom
believe
it's
mountain
view,
california
and
there's
one
more
city,
but
out
of
several
hundred
applications,
we're
in
that
top
four
for
category
3,
which
means
of
community
of
around
seventy
five
thousand
people,
and
so
we're
excited
we'll
find
out
on
september
25th.
If
we're
awarded
that,
but
even
being
named
us
finalists
is
an
absolutely
honor
and
prestige
and.
A
D
The
gold
medal
is
is
a
way
that
you
are
looked
at
as
using
best
practices
in
the
Parks
and
Rec
industry.
It
takes
a
look
at
how
you
go
about
a
budget
process.
How
you
provide
your
programming,
how
do
you
get
feedback
from
your
community
to
improve
your
programming
and
so
on?
It's
so
we
are
excited.
We
take
take,
take
honor
and
getting
feedback
from
the
community.
D
A
D
A
A
Chief
I
believe
you
passed
a
hallmark
this
year
in
ten
years
as
the
chief
of
police
in
Evanston.
Congratulations
on
that
thanks
for
your
mom.
Looking
at
the
slide,
it
gives
a
sense
of
scope
of
38
million
dollar
budget,
one
of
the
largest
expenditures
we
make
in
the
city
with
those
expenses,
225
full-time
equivalents,
most
of
those
sworn
police
officers,
the
balanced
civilian
police
officers
always
busy
times
at
the
police
department.
Maybe
you
could
just
talk
a
little
bit.
You
know
what
are
some
of
the
priorities
that
you're
looking
at
for
the
coming
budget
here.
A
E
I
think
the
the
one
new
thing
that
I
want
to
spend
some
time
talking
about
is
the
implementation
of
a
body
camera
program.
This
we
just
finished
up
a
pilot
program
with
body
cameras,
and
we
will
be
at
the
City
Council
on
the
25th
of
this
month
to
make
a
request
to
purchase
an
exon
body
camera
system.
This
is
a
robust
and
complex
system
that
includes
body,
worn
cameras,
fleet
cameras
for
cars
and
also
the
interview
rooms
at
the
police
station
under
Illinois
law.
E
More
and
more
crimes
are
covered
or
about
to
be
covered
by
mandated
recorded
interviews
are
currently
homicide
is
covered
that
way,
but
now
it's
going
to
expand
to
robberies
sexual
assaults
and
several
other
categories
of
crime,
and
so
we've
found
that
the
axon
system
is
the
most
robust,
most
user-friendly
and
has
the
storage
capability
that
we
need
and
also
minimizes
the
use
of
internal
IT
staff
Reese
horses,
which
makes
it
also
an
attractive
option.
So
how
much
is
this
going
to
cost
we're?
E
Gonna
ask
for
1.2
million
dollars
over
a
five-year
period
for
the
actual
equipment
and
storage.
That
also
includes
several
guaranteed
upgrades
to
both
the
cameras
and
in
the
tasers.
Further
Exxon's
ownership
of
evidence.
Comm
is
a
significant
issue
in
this
matter,
because
the
Cook
County
State's
Attorney
has
been
a
recognized
user
of
that
evidence,
storage
procedure
which
will
make
the
exchange
of
videotapes
to
the
prosecutor's
office
pretty
much
simple
easy.
So.
A
C
E
Have
to
say
that
the
crime
statistics
regarding
violent
crime
towards
persons
are
significantly
low
and
and
that's
lower
than
in
past
years.
That's
not
all
on
the
police
department
that
I
want
to
recognize.
The
excellent
work
by
the
outreach
workers
that
are
part
of
mr.
Hemingway's
organization
have
diffused
many
violent,
ongoing
situations
and
I'm
appreciative
of
that
intervention
on
the
downside,
property
crimes
are
up.
I
would
like
to
again
take
this
opportunity
to
employ
all
of
its
tone,
Ian's
to
lack
their
cars
and
lack
their
homes.
E
A
Don't
see
any
questions
chief
from
the
public
here
or
from
social
media
about
the
department,
I
think
from
a
budget
perspective,
the
money
for
body
cameras
is
important,
but
before
you
run
away,
let's
also
talk
to
us
briefly
about
overtime,
as
we
spoke
with
the
chief
Scott
in
the
fire
department.
This
issue
of
having
officers
in
place
24/7
is
an
expensive
business,
mr.
assistant
city
manager.
What
are
your
thoughts
on
on
police
overtime
issues
and
what
are
we
doing?
Moving
forward
to
address
them?
Well,.
F
If
you
have
a
lot
of
vacancies,
as
is
the
case
from
fire
where
we
had
injuries
you're
going
to
have
overtime,
because
we
want
to
keep
service
levels
where
they're
at
because,
but
even
though
we
have
a
temporary
issue
in
the
case
of
police,
it's
definitely
more
as
the
the
chief
eluded
to
crime
issues.
But
when
we
have
major
crime
issues
or
if
we
have
any
major
events,
then
the
overtime
can
go
up
for
those
and
there
is
no
savings
from
another
source.
It's
just
over
time.
F
F
It's
a
complex
issue
so
having
the
overtime
go
up,
won't
all
be
a
bad
thing
if
we
do
it
on
a
planned
basis
and
that
I've
been
working
with
the
chief
and
his
staff
and
the
budget
team
to
take
a
look
at
how
we
might
adjust
that
over
time
and
how
we
look
at
total
staffing
so
that
we
end
up
with
the
best
mix
of
how
many
officers
we've
got,
how
often
they're
working
and
what
all
those
duties
are.
So
from
the
macro
perspective,
it's
going
to
come
down
to
what
are
all
the
assigned
duties.
E
I
may
I
think
a
recent
event
that
I
would
like
to
point
out
to
the
the
labor
intensity
of
major
crimes.
We
had
a
homicide
on
this
in
the
South
southern
end
of
the
city
in
August
it
that
was
in
terms
of
our
investigation,
a
rather
simple
homicide.
We
didn't
compare
to
other
events
where
we
had
to
serve
multiple
search
warrants
on
multiple
platforms
of
social
media.
This
was
kind
of
straightforward,
our
partners
at
the
CTA.
That's
a
public
entity,
there's
no
expectation
of
privacy.
E
We
just
make
a
request
and
we
get
the
recordings
from
the
CTA
in
that
rather
simple
case
that
we
wrapped
up
in
less
than
a
week,
it
still
took
800
hours,
831
man-hours
of
work
on
that
case
of
those
800
hours,
almost
300
were
over
time,
and
so
that
event
derives
that.
Also,
this,
sadly,
is
not
an
uncommon
event.
The
city
of
Evanston,
our
North
Taff
partners,
contributed
many
hundreds
of
hours
to
that
investigation.
So
those
hours
didn't
directly
fall
on
the
ovens
and
taxpayers.
Our
port.
E
F
I
know
I've
talked
about
it
with
both
police
and
fire,
and
I've
tried
to
stick
with
the
global
issues.
I,
don't
want
anyone
to
think
that
we're
not
addressing
the
specifics
of
budget.
This
is
a
budget
meeting
and
we're
talking
about
issues
of
budget,
so
we
will
be
looking
at
all
of
the
uses
of
overtime
and
making
sure
where
we
need
to
be
to
provide
optimal
services.
F
That's
the
goal,
as
we
talked
about
all
of
our
different
views
on
overtime
and
police,
has
I,
don't
know
how
many
categories
of
over
ten,
but
they
have
a
lot
and
we'll
go
through
them
all
to
make
sure
that
we're
using
all
staff
to
their
best
abilities
and
and
also
making
the
best
use
of
our
resources.
So
that's
a
goal
for
this
coming
fall
and
into
2018
as
we
review
the
whole
Police
Department
operation.
That
was
one
of
our
commitments
and.
A
Again,
when
we
look
at
the
city
budget
overtime
is
an
important
component
of
it
with
fire.
Expensive
police
spend,
as
the
lion's
share
of
those
overtime
costs
she
fainted.
Thank
you
for
your
service.
Thank
you
for
being
here
tonight.
Thank
you.
Mister
simulation.
It
is
now
nine
o'clock,
as
I
mentioned
earlier,
looks
like
we're
going
to
go
into
overtime.
We
have
two
more
departments
to
talk
with.
Next
is
Dave
stone
Beck,
our
our
Public
Works
Agency
director
was
just
done,
but
good
evening
lots
of
exciting
things
happening
in
Public
Works.
G
There's
four
bureaus
in
Public
Works,
Agency,
Environmental
Services,
and
that
they
have
three
divisions
there.
One
takes
care
of
all
the
trees
and
the
parkways
and
in
the
parks
another
one.
It's
called
greenways
they're
responsible
for
the
lawn
maintenance.
If
you
will
of
all
the
city-owned
facilities,
as
well
as
all
the
athletic
fields
and
striping
them
again
ready
to
play,
and
then
the
third
one
is
our
Environmental
Services.
They
oversee
the
refuge
contracts
that
we
have.
G
We
have
employees
collecting
recycling
in-house
and
then
they
do
the
street
sweeping
and
get
involved
with
snow
removal
and
leaf
pickup
and
things
like
that.
We
have
an
infrastructure
maintenance
Bureau.
There
are
four
divisions
there:
one's
responsible
for
the
repair
of
all
street
lights
and
traffic
signals,
the
parking
light
lights,
all
the
signs
their
longest
streets.
G
The
streets
at
crack
ceiling,
maintaining
the
alleys,
so
there's
a
lot
of
work
there.
We
have
a
distribution
division,
that's
responsible
for
the
maintenance
of
the
water,
main
infrastructure,
the
bowels
of
fire
hydrants,
and
then
the
sewer
division.
That's
responsible
for
maintaining
the
combined
sewer
system,
the
real
sewer
system,
all
the
drainage
structures
and
the
manholes
in
the
street.
A
third
division
is
the
capital
planning
and
engineering
Bureau
and
they're
responsible
for
all
the
major
capital
improvement
projects.
G
All
the
projects
that
are
put
out
by
contract
a
lot
of
those
we
can,
some
of
those
we
can
design
in-house.
Otherwise
we
have
to
hire
an
outside
consultant
help
us,
but
you
just
don't
hire
an
outside
consultant.
You
have
to
manage
that
consultant
as
well,
make
sure
they
understand
our
expectations
and
our
standards
and
then
finally,
there's
the
water
production
Bureau,
which
is
responsible
for
running
the
water
plant.
E
G
We're
able
to
take
them
on
without
major
expenses,
so
our
largest
expense
I
believe
for
Morton
Grove
miles
will
be
putting
in
a
meter
vault
that
might
cost
us
in
the
neighborhood
of
$500,000,
which
will
become
an
asset
that
they'll
pay
for
over
time.
But
that's
our
total
capital.
And
after
that
we
have
nine
and
a
half
percent
return
on
rate
on
our
existing
infrastructure
that
they
will
have
to
pay.
So
that's
where
we
make
the
benefit.
We
take
the
risk
of
building
an
order
plant
and.
A
A
G
Again,
I
think
it
will
start
around
five
hundred
thousand
and
grow
to
about
a
million
dollars
a
year,
and
that
will
go
for
how
long
we
have
a
forty
year
contract
and
they
have
the
right
for
zero
for
zero
and
they
have
the
right
to
renew
it
for
another,
ten
or
another.
Twenty
years,
basically
and
I
think
that
once
they
have
become
a
customer
that
very
likely
they'll
stay,
customer
forever
and
I
would
add.
F
That
up
for
those
dollars,
one
of
the
things
that
the
Evan
stone,
Ian's
will
say
the
dollars
are,
are
great,
but
will
also
invest
so
the
assets
that
Dave
was
referring
to,
whether
they're
in
the
water
plant
or
in
the
water
means
that
those
communities
will
also
be
using.
That
helps
us
to
replace
those
and
keep
those
all
properly
maintained,
because
it
is
great
to
share
those
and
whether
we
put
one
gallon
of
water
through
a
water
main
or
1
million
gallons
of
water
through
a
water
main.
It
still
needs
to
be
there.
F
A
G
F
A
Let's
move
on
to
refuse
so
the
City
Council
this
past
Monday
evening
got
a
series
of
staff
reports
from
you
talking
about
changes
that
we're
contemplating
for
refuse
recycling
green
waste
composting.
Given
the
lateness
of
our
I,
don't
want
you
to
perhaps
go
in
so
we
can
certainly
refer
people
back
to
the
City
Council
meeting
materials
of
the
tape
from
that,
but
a
general.
What
are
we
up
to
and
when
we
try
to
accomplish,
we.
G
Have
to
renew
our
existing
contracts
for
residential
refuge
for
condo
refuge
and
for
yard
waste
those
contracts
expire
at
the
end
of
October
this
year.
So
we
need
to
assign
new
agreements.
We
were
looking
to
do
that
for
five
years.
A
new
thing
would
be
able
to
provide
food,
scrap
pickup
voluntarily
to
commercial
properties,
and
so
we're
kind
of
setting
up
a
franchise
for
that
and
then
the
other
thing
that
we're
looking
at
is
to
have
city
employees,
collect
recyclable
goods
from
all
apartment
buildings,
six
units
and
larger,
and
that
would
be
a
new
service.
G
Wednesday
September
25th,
7:00
o'clock,
we'll
be
talking
about
all
of
our
new
contracts
with
the
staff,
is
recommending
we'll
look
at
what
the
would
it
cost
to
do
that
the
expenses
and
then
what
our
current
charge
is
bringing
in
in
revenue
which
is
lower
than
what
our
expenses
are
right.
Now
it's
a
subsidy
by
the
general
fund
but
transfer
from
the
general
fund
to
the
solid
waste
fund
to
make
sure
we
stay
solvent
and.
A
A
G
Square
is
under
construction.
Now
it
is
on
schedule.
It's
barely
hanging
on
to
the
schedule,
but
the
work
south
of
Davis
Street
is
anticipated
to
be
completed
by
mid-october.
That
plaza
area
will
be
completed.
The
street
will
be
resurfaced
on
the
north
side.
We're
hoping
that
the
sidewalk
area
to
pedestrian
areas
outside
the
fenced
area
will
be
all
complete
and
the
paving
through
that
area
as
well.
G
We
were
very
strict
about
sampling
that
we
had
to
see
with
that
when
we
got
our
first
sample
block
in,
we
noticed
something
that
we
didn't
like
and
want
to
make
sure
that
was
correct,
and
so
they
were
redoing
it
and
that's
the
way
to
delivery.
The
second
sample
which
we
should
get
at
the
end
of
this
year,
but
then
it
will
be
too
late
to
install
if
we
approve
it.
We're
too
late
to
install
the
full
wall
this
winter,
and
so
they
would
come
back
next
spring
to
complete
the
fountain
and
the
memorial
wall.
G
A
Everything
south
of
the
of
the
main
fountain
Plaza
will
be
in
place.
Peace
north
will
wait
till
next
year.
Yes,
finally,
next
Emerson
Ridge,
Green
Bay
projects
done
certainly
there's
been
concern
in
the
community
that
the
traffic
is
not
moving,
perhaps
as
efficiently.
There
would
like
it
to
be.
What
are
we
doing
to
address
that?
Well,.
G
We've
taken
several
measures
measures
and
the
last
thing
that
has
yet
is
a
big
post
type
sign
that
will
be
up
as
your
cover
north
on
Ridge
slash,
Green
Bay
will
more
clearly
to
delineate
which
lane
you
should
be
in
if
you
want
to
turn
left
or
going
west
on
Emerson.
If
you
want
to
go
north
on
Green,
Bay
Road
and
in
or
if
you
want
to
go
north
on
Ridge
Avenue,
so
that
wall,
those
that
traffic
there
a
lot
of
it
is
just
people-
are
running
red
lights
as
well
in
that
type
of
configuration.
G
If
you
run
a
red
light
trying
to
get
on
a
Mersenne
and
Green
Bay
you're
actually
blocking
southbound
route
Avenue
traffic,
and
then
you
block
southbound
route,
Avenue
traffic
and
that
backs
up
and
then
so
if
they
get
across
Emerson
Street,
and
then
people
can't
go
west
on
Emerson
Street.
So
it's
a
during
rush
hours
of
the
most
challenging
time.
G
We
also
feel
it's
more
challenging
right
now,
because
Sheridan
Road
is
under
construction
and
we
believe
that
approximately
12,000
more
cars
are
driving
traveling
through
that
intersection
between
Sheridan
Road
and
Davis
Street
and
the
Fountain
Square
things.
People
are
staying
on
Emerson
and
they're,
standing
on
Green,
Bay
Road
and
not
utilize
them,
sharing
it
as
much,
and
so
we
have
more
traffic
in
that
intersection
than
that
it
isn't
designed
to
handle
that
much
traffic.
We
hope
it
will
relax
somewhat
Sheraton
room
gets
done,
which
is
the
next
major
project.
That
project
is
moving
along.
G
Well,
we
have
a
very
good
contractor
on
it.
We've
had
challenges
with
the
state
shut
down
that
we
lost
two
weeks
of
construction
there
and
then
we've
had
challenges
with
conflicts
with
very
underground
utilities
that
were
improperly
located,
they're
supposed
to
be
in
the
parkway
they're,
actually
out
in
the
street
and
they're
supposed
to
be
30
inches
deep
and
they're,
not
30
inches
deep.
So
when
we
excavate
to
put
the
road
base
in
we've
had
two
gas
leaks,
we've
made
my
quarters
lower
gas
mains.
G
A
Happening
in
the
Public
Works
Agency,
Thank
You
mr.
snow
Beck
appreciate
your
or
does
appreciate
your
time
tonight.
Thank
you.
Last
we
tried
to
do
this
in
alphabetical
order,
so
you'll
notice
we
skipped
over
l
and
that's
the
others.
Public
Library
and
Karen
Danzig
Lyons,
the
library
directors
here.
Karen
is
coming
from
a
library
board,
meeting
and
herself
this
evening.
That's
the
reason
we
were
a
little
late
with
having
you.
A
So
thank
you
for
for
being
here,
we've
talked
a
little
bit
at
the
top
of
the
program
about
the
library
being
a
little
bit
different
in
that
you're
appointed
by
a
library
board,
that's
appointed
by
the
mayor,
and
so
you
are
not
a
city
manager,
Department
that
you're
a
separate
coordinating
closely
coordinating
department
but
operate
separately
from
the
remaining
city
departments,
but
you
so
you
have
a
budget
process
and
that's
ongoing.
So
I
just
talked
a
little
bit
about
your
challenges
for
the
coming
year.
Maybe
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
your
board
did
tonight.
K
Evening,
everyone,
thank
you
for
having
me.
We
had
our
public
hearing
tonight
on
our
budget,
because
our
budget
folds
up
into
the
city's
process
we're
always
a
little
bit
ahead
in
terms
of
our
meetings
in
our
deliberation,
so
that
the
board
is
the
trustees,
we'll
be
voting
on
a
budget
and
a
revenue
package
in
the
next
couple
of
months,
but
nothing
was
approved
tonight
we
were
just
discussing
what
2018
will
bring
to
us.
K
We
are
continuing
to
work
on
my
goal
of
producing
25%
of
our
programs
and
bringing
our
services
25%
of
our
services
outside
the
walls
of
the
library.
So
we
go
to
where
our
families
and
our
children
are
and
bring
our
services
and
programs
and
books
to
them
to
help
us
with
that.
We
are
going
to
be
writing
a
grant
for
a
second
book
bike.
We
have
a
book
bike
now
that
you'll
see
out
and
about
in
the
community.
We
also
are
going
to
be
buying
what
I'm
calling
a
mobile
library.
K
So
it's
it's
not
a
bookmobile
when
we
think
of
a
book
we'll
be
like
you're
a
bus
and
we
walk
in
and
there's
rows
of
books,
and
we
like
that's
not
what
this
is.
This
will
allow
us
to
bring
pop-up
library
service
that
will
be
bringing
computers.
We
will
be
bringing
books
who
will
be
been
bringing
programming,
of
course,
our
wonderful
staff,
but
it
will
help
us
bring
services
in
a
predictable
way
to
areas
of
the
city
where
we
don't
have
facilities
right
now.
K
Our
facilities
that
we
share
and
bring
programs
to
wonderful,
Parks
and
Recreation
community
services
group
is
such
an
important
partner
for
us
and
once
again,
we
brought
our
summer
reading
program
to
all
of
the
parks
and
the
children
read
every
day.
Reading
and
preventing
the
Summer
Slide
is
an
important
part
of
what
we
do
over
the
summer.
But
I
came.
K
I
have
to
bring
props,
so
this
book
is
one
that
we're
very
interested
in
30
million
words
and
it
talks
about
the
importance
of
early
learning
for
our
children
so
that
when
our
children
enter
kindergarten,
they've
already
heard
30
million
words
in
order
to
be
prepared
to
learn
so
our
story
times,
and
our
programs
and
our
books
help
families
and
help
children,
learn
and
grow
and
develop
their
approach
to
learning
and
hopefully
that
it's
fun
and
exciting.
We
also
work
over
the
summer
very
closely
with
rice
and
kindergarteners.
K
The
school
identifies
children
that
aren't
quite
at
where
they
should
be
in
terms
of
developmental
social
and
letter
recognition,
and
so
we
have
a
program
called
ABC
boosters,
which
I'm
very
proud
of
that.
We
hired
teens
and
we
teach
them
how
to
work
with
children
and
read,
and
they
have
one-on-one
time
with
the
children
rising
kindergartners
over
the
summer,
consistently
every
child,
whether
it's
in
english
or
spanish.
We
demonstrate
that
they
learn
letter
recognition
and
are
prepared
to
go
to
school
teens
as
young
as
14.
K
We
continue
to
look
at
how
we
provide
our
services
and
an
equitable
manner
to
a
diverse
city,
including
everyone,
and
it
takes
many
forms
for
us
in
terms
of
programming
in
terms
of
collection
in
terms
of
opportunities
to
come
together
and
talk
about
your
needs.
We
at
the
library
are
here
to
help
you
reach
your
aspirations,
that's
what
we
do.
We
listen
and
we
help
and
we
try
and
have
fun
while
we're
doing
it.
So
I,
don't
know
about
exciting
other
departments
or
comments
about
how
we
want
to
label
our
work.
K
I
think
I
have
the
best
job
in
the
city,
I
work
for
a
wonderful
community
with
wonderful
people,
and
we
have
fun
and
we
learn
and
we
try
and
grow
and
help,
and
our
programs
are
all
at
no
fee.
I
won't
say
free,
because
the
taxpayers
pay
for
the
work,
but
we
don't
charge
fees
and
so
coming
up.
October
6th,
7th
and
8th
I
invite
you
to
join
us
for
a
weekend
of
storytelling.
We
bring
in
both
professional
internationally
known
storytellers,
just
to
share
stories
and
music.
A
A
Then
the
taxes
and
the
library
over
the
last
several
years
is
has
its
own
line
on
the
tax
bill
separate
from
the
city's
general
operations,
so
the
library
fund
model,
as
it's
known
in
Illinois,
and
so
as
people
look
at
their
tax
bill.
They
know
exactly
what
is
going
for
shin
of
their
property.
Taxes
is
going
to
libraries.
It's.
A
F
One
that
you
don't
see
all
the
time
ever
we
always
end
up
with
the
rates,
and
so
because
of
the
reassessment
he
went
down
in
a
rate
which
means
nothing
to
a
resident
when
your
property
went
in
a
value
from
100,000
to
200,000
will
screen.
Thank
you.
Well,
if
the
rate
is
totally
eclipsed
by
how
much
your
property
value
went
up,
it
does
not
help
you
any,
but
I
thought
it
was
really
important
to
point
out
that
you
know
the
city.
Is
we
continue
to
drop
I?
Think
if
the
next
slide
is
it
not.
F
We
continue
to
drop
as
a
part
of
the
total,
and
part
of
that
is
this
next
slide.
That
I
did
this
once
several
of
years
ago
for
one
of
the
aldermen
at
one
of
their
word
meetings,
people
don't
realize
the
entire
amount
paid
by
all
of
in
stone,
Ian's
for
all
taxing
jurisdictions,
two
hundred
and
forty
million
dollars,
and
of
that
the
city
of
Evanston
is
40.
So
that's
how
you
get
to
that.
Sixteen
point,
six
number
and
and
this
by
the
way
this
is
not
the
actual.
F
This
is
not
the
city's
ordinance
levy.
This
is
what
was
paid
so
the
three
point
six
is
higher
than
our
budget
set
of
2.4%,
because
we
just
had
more
people
paid
taxes
in
16,
then
and
15.
So
it
looks
like
there's
we
increase
taxes.
What's
really
going
on,
is
we
had
a
higher
collection
rate
in
16,
so
I
think
that's
a
piece
of
information.
That's
what
this
presentation
has
been
about
tonight,
a
lot
of
information.
This
is
one
that
we
haven't
had
anywhere
in
any
one
of
our
documents.
A
There's
a
couple
of
questions
that
we
we
haven't
picked
up.
One
is
from
Facebook
of
our
varying
sustainability.
Will
the
city
be
installing
more
car
charging
stations?
The
answer
is
yes,
but
we
have
no
particular
timeframe
to
do
that.
We
have
them
at
our
parking
decks.
We
have
live
here
at
the
Civic.
Center
I
think
we're
going
to
evaluate
over
the
next
12
months,
where
it
makes
sense
to
put
additional
charging
stations
a
few
additional,
affordable
housing
questions.
As
mrs.
A
For
that
I
mean
there
are
community
art
communities
that
are
looking
at
their
policies
to
say:
should
they
switch
them
so
that
they
only
the
developers
can
only
provide
the
units
and
not
provide
the
dollars
so
I
think
that
is
a
market
question
and
ultimately
a
city
council,
question
I,
think
a
question
about
the
development
issues
in
general
about
the
the
building
that
we're
seeing
that
none
of
them
are
affordable,
I.
Think
again,
all
projects
of
a
certain
size
are
providing
money
for
affordable
housing.
A
So
while
the
project's
themselves
may
not
be
affordable,
they
are
really
the
only
single
revenue
source
that
we're
bringing
in
to
provide
affordable
units.
So
that's
important,
and
then
someone
named
and
Rainey
posted
on
Facebook
about
the
peckish
pigs
building
property
tax,
that
the
county
tax
records
show
that
peckish
Pig
paid
in
excess
of
forty
thousand
dollars
in
property
taxes
and
ward
eight
over.
F
The
city
does
pay
those
and
then
is
reimbursed
from
the
rent.
That's
sorry.
So
this
is
some
are
concerned
that
oh,
it's
a
public
building
or
it's
hurting
the
TIF
we've
been
getting
tax
revenues
so
and
that's
it's
the
Waldron
Rainey
reference,
those
some
of
the
smaller
ones,
also
are
in
the
same
situation.
If
there's
a
for-profit
use
thanks
to
law
based
economic
development
and
the
alderman,
we
work
on
the
agreements
to
say
whether
or
not
they
will
pay
the
taxes,
but
not
whether
or
not
taxes
will
be
paid.
F
A
That
concludes
our
formal
presentation.
Thank
you
for
coming.
Thank
you
for
the
the
questions
that
we
received
here
and
over
social
media.
So
some
parting
comments,
mr.
assistant
city
manager,
I
think
we've
done
a
good
job
of
reviewing
where
we're
at
I
think
there
was
a
question
midpoint
of
the
evening
about
this
idea
of
rosy.
A
You
know
I,
don't
think
I
would
characterize
what
we've
talked
about
is
rosy
but
I,
also
I
think
it's
been
important.
That
we've
talked
about
the
mechanics
of
this
that
the
the
component
parts
of
how
we
spend
our
money.
The
revenues
that
we
have
are
still
very
strong.
Would
you
would
you
agree
with
that?
Certainly.
F
F
Term
a
couple
of
times
we
talked
about
structural
problems
with
our
budget,
that's
a
strong
term
to
say
that
you've
got
a
structural
problem,
but
I
want
to
put
a
little
context
in
that.
What
we're
talking
about
this
year
is
for
our
general
fund.
We
might
have
a
structural
issue
of
two
to
three
percent
two
to
three
percent:
that's
not
a
budget
that
is
our
operating
budget.
Our
general
fund
that
has
a
20
percent
structural
problem,
we're
not
we're
not.
F
We
don't
have
enough
revenues
to
pay
for
our
services,
we're
talking
about
an
order
of
magnitude
of
2
to
3%,
to
big
funds
that
still
three
million
dollars
that
were
going
have
to
balance.
But
I'll
put
the
glass
half
half
full.
We
have
a
general
fund
budget
that
is
97%
structurally
sound.
That
sounds
a
lot
better
than
saying
we
have
a
3%
deficit
that
that
were
were
working
on
and
again.
F
The
general
fund
is
just
one
of
40,
almost
funds
that
the
city
has
and
we
manage
all
of
those
and
they
all
have
different
functions
and
purposes.
We
don't
spend
a
lot
of
time
on
our
enterprise
funds,
because
water
sewer
and
parking
our
rock-solid
business
operations
that
work
very
well.
So
we
don't
talk
about
them
that
much
all,
and
we
do
talk
about
the
TIF.
F
So
I
would
say
our
focus
again
will
be
on
our
operations
and
we
will
have
some
very
big
discussions
over
service
levels
and
how
we
want
our
general
services
in
that
general
fund
to
be
provided
next
year.
That's
where
our
focus
will
be,
and
that's
why
this
is
an
important
evening.
So
everyone
understands
the
background
of
our
operations
and
can
give
the
council
input
and.
A
Really
the
purpose
of
coming
together
tonight
was
to
get
input.
We
appreciate
the
input
that
we
received.
People
can
still
reach
out
to
us
through
all
the
various
mechanisms
we've
discussed
tonight
through
Facebook
through
3-1-1
others,
a
forum
online
that
people
can
provide
information.
We
really
want
to
get
that
information,
because
this
is
all
leading
to
a
proposed
budget
that
obviously
in
the
City
Council
on
October
6.
The
final
slide
gives
you
a
calendar
of
how
members
of
the
public
had
continued
to
provide
input
on
our
budget
process.
A
Once
the
proposed
budget
is
presented
on
October
6th,
the
City
Council
will
start
its
budget
deliberations
on
October
16th
and
7
a
clock
on
each
of
the
council
meetings.
There
will
be
opportunities
for
public
comment.
The
next
opportunity
will
be
a
week
later
on
Monday
October,
the
23rd
at
7
o'clock
and
then
on
Saturday
October,
the
28th
under
Illinois
law,
or
required
to
have
a
formal
public
hearing
on
the
budget,
so
that
will
occur
on
Saturday
October
28th
at
9
a.m.
A
we'll
also
have
a
public
hearing
on
our
truth
in
taxation,
which
is
providing
the
public
listing
of
the
various
tax
levies
that
will
be
proposed
for
the
coming
year.
Then
on
Monday
November
6
will
be
an
additional
opportunity
for
residents
to
provide
comment,
and
then
it's
anticipated
that
the
City
Council
will
adopt
of
the
2018
budget
on
Monday
November,
the
27th.
So
there's
lots
of
opportunities
to
be
involved.
The
purpose
of
tonight
really
was
to
share
information
and
to
get
your
feedback
I'd
like
once
again.
Thank
the
city
department,
directors
that
were
here.
A
Thank
you
for
your
time
from
our
budget
team,
Alex
Thorpe,
Kate,
Lewis,
Lincoln,
Kimberley
Richardson
from
our
community
engagement
staff,
Martha
Logan
and
Patrick
denigan,
my
my
companion
here,
mr.
Lyons.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Most
of
all,
thank
you.
The
residents
of
Evanston
for
spending
two
and
a
half
hours
with
us
this
evening
to
talk
about
the
budget.
We
appreciate
your
interest
and
your
attention
this
evening
and
good
evening.