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Dear Neighbors, Aldermen Havermale and I are proud to announce we will be hosting our first 3rd Ward Town Hall of 2011. The event will take place on Tuesday, April 19th, 5:30-6:30 PM inside the Quincy Mall Community Room. We will begin the discussion by giving a brief overview of the proposed 2011-2012 Quincy City [...]
Dear Neighbors, Please take time out of your schedule tomorrow to go to the polls and vote. We do not have a contested race for alderman in the 3rd Ward, but we do have races for Quincy School Board, Park Board, and John Wood Board of Trustees. For those in the 3rd Ward that voted [...]
I am very pleased that last night the Quincy City Council unanimously passed my resolution to designate Ameren Franchise agreement towards debt services and green energy projects. This is a great example of people working together to come up with a compromise that all parties could be happy with. When we adopted the new franchise [...]
Dear Friends and Neighbors, Last month the Quincy City Council ratified a new 10 year franchise agreement with AMEREN Illinois. The administration deserves praise for negotiating a contract that will net the city $3.26 million over a 10 year period. In my opinion, anytime we bring in new revenues we need to have a plan [...]
Yesterday an appelate court ruled the funding mechanism for the State of Illinois’s $31 Billion Capital program violated the state’s constitution. Locally, this ruling effects everything from projects at the Illinois Veterans’ Home, road projects, hydro power, and the much talked about proposed intermodal station. During a city council meeting in August, 2010, I expressed [...]
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and will have a prosperous 2011. This Christmas I enjoyed spending time with my family and friends in Quincy and in Galesburg. We were blessed that everyone arrived and returned safely. Thank you to all who sent me Christmas cards and who have wished my family well over [...]
Dear Friends, Last night I had the pleasure of presenting my proposal to the finance committee to include the Online Reverse Auction in our purchasing code. The finance committee will be taking the issue up again next week. When discussing the issue, I thought it would be helpful to get a tangible example of where [...]
Dear neighbors, At last night’s city council meeting I submitted a draft ordinance that would add to our purchasing code the ability to buy items through an online reverse auction. The process for a reverse online auction is similar to what we do now: we determine a good or service that we are looking to [...]
Dear Neighbors, Alderman Havermale and I are proud to announce we will be hosting a 3rd Ward Town Hall on Tuesday, October 19th from 5:30-6:30 PM. The Town Hall will take place in the Community Room located inside the Quincy Mall. There will be a brief summary of 3rd Ward projects for the past year, [...]
From the 09/05 edition of the Quincy Herald Whig: THE QUINCY City Council on Tuesday night will consider an offer from a British company to proceed with a pilot project that could lead to a fiber-optic network being installed throughout the city. The city’s Central Services Committee last week recommended the council approve a proposal [...]
