The Evanston City Council announced that it intends to appoint John Fournier as the next Evanston City Manager, according to a written statement from city spokesperson Jessie Mayo. Contract negotiations are currently underway and a decision is expected in the coming weeks.
Fournier is the Assistant City Administrator of the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he has helped lead transformational changes through a commitment to multi-modal transportation infrastructure and programs, ambitious alternative energy initiatives to meet the pressing challenges posed by global climate change, and, as the interim human resources director for two years, helped to make Ann Arbor an innovative and challenging workplace of choice for talented persons interested in careers in public service.
Prior to this, Fournier worked in the City of Pittsburgh. As the chief of staff to a member of City Council, the deputy chief of staff to current Mayor Bill Peduto, and finally as the director of on-street and metered parking for the City of Pittsburgh, Fournier helped restructure Pittsburgh’s finances, implement technology forward solutions that revolutionized the city’s curb-space management programs and pursued transformational investments in Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods that have brought life back to the city’s main streets.
Submitted by City of Evanston
Evanston can do better than accept John Fournier for city Manager! Following the racist incident of nooses found at Haven School and the White Supremacist shooting in Buffalo we DO NOT need a city manager who is someone with a history of racially discriminatory and retaliatory actions when in power. IN FACT many of the council members in Ann Arbor where he worked had requested that he be put on administrative leave due to his actions! WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER WALLY BOBKIEWICZ who as our former city manager is well known to have cost the city plenty with the racist lawsuits against him. If we are truly as progressive and anti racist as our city claims to be Evanstonians should all stand up for the progressive values we claim to have and STOP this nomination! Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/EvanstonCABG