Posts Tagged ‘ Gary Sandberg ’

Think about it. With the strong exception of Gary Sandberg, and the somewhat weaker exception of Chuck Grayeb, when is the last time at at-large member of the Peoria City Council assumes a leadership role in shepherding major project through the City Hall? Meanwhile, the five district council members are constantly fielding phone calls...
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The Journal Star’s Mike Bailey finally got around to writing about Gary Sandberg’s idea to tax newspaper boxes to pay for maintaining the hanging flower baskets along West Main Street. He says that the newspaper boxes are unpleasant to look at and a potential safety problem, and that gives the city the right...
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In the end, the Randy Oliver came up with wording that notified Illinois American that they weren’t going to try to buy the company that didn’t mention “due dilligence.” So Gary Sandberg was happy. But don’t be surprised if the phrase pops up at least once or twice at every single council meeting for the...
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I had a hard time keeping a straight face during tonight’s council meeting. During the “new business” section, At-Large council member Gary Sandberg came up with an idea to accomplish two tasks with at once.
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Not one, but two anti-Sandberg hatchet jobs on the same editorial page in today’s Journal Star. At least Mike Bailey signed his. Journal Star,Gary Sandberg,Mike Bailey,Illinois American Water Company
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There’s a reason so many people think Gary Sansberg is the best member of the Peoria City Council. Take last night’s meeting.
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County Board member Merle Widmer, a pal and a Peoria Blogger, has some sharp advice for a member of the Peoria City Council: City Council meetings would last about half as long as if their wasn’t Gary and Chuck (with Clyde trying to catch up), repeating themselves over and over again as if the rest...
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*UPDATE: (6:38 p.m.) I spoke to City Council Member George Jacob today. He wanted to clarify what he told me after last night’s meeting. The issue with the people at the government agencies with whom he spoke wasn’t so much the issue of the buyout itself, but the timing. They believed that there...
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Via WEEK Councilman Gary Sandberg wants the city of explore the idea of re-assigning the city’s option to buy the water company to another public body. Those bodies might include the Peoria Public Building Commission or the Greater Peoria Sanitary District. Illinois American,gary sandberg,water buyout,peoria
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Here’s the last of the direct quotes. I’m still planning a few more posts on the topic. This whole issue raised some specific issues about the future direction of this council.
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Nothing in this article changes my original prediction. The water buyout will pass by one vote: Yes: Sandberg, Grayeb, Manning, Van Auken, Gulley and Spears. No: Ardis, Nichting, Morris, Turner and Jacob. Chase presented a good argument for a landslide in favor. But that 82 percent referendum will weight on their minds. I don’t see it passing...
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I’m not the only one who noticed that that some of the council members got a just little snarky with city staff and with each other at last night’s meeting. It’s the first time since the new council members took their seats in May. Evidence: • At large council member Charles Grayeb saying some council members...
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Few things annoy me more than preemptive accusations of racism leveled against people who’ve done nothing to deserve it. City Council member Clyde Gulley and activist Don Jackson did that that last night when they spoke about the city’s new truancy ordinance, which increased fines for repeat offenders and added 17-year-olds to the list of...
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Eight months after the city passed an ordinance to fine the owners of long-term boarded up properties $100 a day, there’s still a ton of these eyesores all over the city. My two cents:Gasp! The mere passage of an ordinance calling for new fines for leaving properties boarded up didn’t magically stop it from happening? Of...
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