I’m sitting here in the late evening without access to the data to look this up. But it sounds to me like Randy Oliver told the fine folks in Durham, N.C. that the City of Peoria owns (or could one day own) a bunch of Caterpillar stock. The post is from a Durham blogger who [...]

According to this blogger, citing area media, former Peoria City Manager Randy Oliver is one of three finalists for city manager of Durham, N.C.
I commented on Randy’s situation here in Peoria, but he would like to hear from Peorians. I’d imagine some details about the other two finalists would be appreciated.
My comment on Randy was [...]

I hope everyone enjoyed the Peoria City Council meeting today. It was both short, AND boring.  Here are the bullet items:

The council punted on what was to be the big story, a new attempt to pass an ordinance mirroring the state law banning smoking inside commercial establishments. The goal is supposedly to “capture” 100 percent [...]

According to Jonathan Ahl, retired Caterpillar executive and long-ago former Peoria City Manager administrative assistant Henry Holling is the city council’s choice for interim city manager. The background on Holling, via the post:
Holling retired last year after 35 years at Caterpillar, ending his time there as the Manager of Corporate and Community Support. Holling worked [...]

Links via the Journal Star.

The Journal Star Has its full article about City Manager Randy Oliver’s resignation. The lede is, for some reason, an anecdote about former police chief John Stenson and roadkill.
Howett and Lincoln avenues in south Peoria are getting narrowed to make room for bicycle lanes. Good. Anything to slow down traffic through [...]

Well, this is a fine how-do-you-do.
I came back from last night’s Peoria City Council meeting to find this from an long-time commenter (who prefers to remain anonymous):
Have you heard that City Manager Randy Oliver resigned this afternoon effective immediately?
I thought the tip was sort of odd, because Randy Oliver was present at the meeting. Still, [...]

Here are links to whet your appetite for tomorrow’s Journal Star:

But there’s not going to be any cameras: No doubt Aaron Schock is frustrated that he won’t be able to attend Wednesday’s 18th District candidate debate on foreign policy issues. Instead, he’ll be in Springfield, pretending that he has the slightest role to play in [...]

WCBU reported today that Peoria City Manager Randy Oliver was a finalist for the city manager’s job in McKinney, TX. As Jonathan Ahl reported on his blog, this was first reported in a Texas newspaper. The Oliver family denies he’s looking, and Ahl reports that Oliver future in Peoria is not certain, as his annual [...]

Some links, mostly from the Journal Star:

Good Word on the Street, today. Somehow, I strongly suspect that John Sharp isn’t buying City Manager Randy Oliver’s denial that he’s looking for a job elsewhere. It seems that Oliver and his wife not only do not have a house here in Peoria, they also have been doing [...]

This just in, an alert sent out by Peoria City Manager Randy Oliver:
Dear Mayor and Council:
We just received a call that both Pioneer and Central Illinois Rail were attempting to access the Kellar Branch line this morning. One of the Rail Carriers wants the other [arrested] for trespass. We advised the Officer responding [...]

At-Large City Council member Gary Sandberg sent the following email to City Manager Randy Oliver, and the response was what I predicted it would be:
Randy et al:
Is there or has there been ANY DISCUSSION or CONSIDERATION, MENTION of tearing up or otherwise causing physical damage to the rail lines or rail bed [...]

Apparently John Morris has picked up a new skill since he left the Peoria City Council. On the 18th District Congressional campaign trail, he’s been giving short, firm unequivocal answers to questions. I am sure I speak for many council observers who do not fondly remember Mr. Morris’s tendency to speak, shall we say, at [...]

City manager Randy Oliver confirmed today that Pat Parsons, the city’s human resources director, resigned early this morning. It was a every bare-bones confirmation, so I do not have any more details, such as whether it was made effective a date in the future or immediately.
In the absence of information, I’ll speculate: The council was [...]

I’ve received the following email from Peoria City Manager Randy Oliver:
Bill:
Your post on Sheridan Triangle in the CIP is incorrect. The confusion may have been that the Planning Department and the Public Work’s Department both made request for the same project. The correct information is as follows:

When the $200,000 was originally appropriated by Council there [...]

Lack of funding for district projects had two district council members demanding changes at the Peoria City Council’s first meeting over the 2008 budget.
Barbara Van Auken was angered that the preliminary $22 million capital improvement budget had no funding for the Sheridan Triangle facade improvement program in her 2nd District. It was especially galling because [...]