Evanston City Council members may make fast use of revenues to be generated through Northwestern University’s Ryan Field stadium project approved last week, eyeing the funds to erase the need […]
Category: Budgets
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Letter to the editor: Evanston doesn’t need to increase taxes
In the business world, when staff submits a budget for the coming year, management typically questions the assumptions behind any major increase in expenditures. Staff needs to justify why a line-item expense needs to increase beyond the level of inflation.
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Budget panel chair makes case for property tax boost
Property tax increases are never popular, but past City Council decisions to keep the taxes flat or exceptionally low, failing to keep pace with inflation, may have ended up hurting […]
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Committee reviews performance, looks ahead to future of participatory budgeting in Evanston
With voting complete, winners announced and leftover funds sorted out, all that’s left to do in Evanston’s participatory budgeting (PB) pilot is get started on the projects – and review how […]
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Truth in Taxation hearing on 2024 budget: Residents criticize proposed tax hike, urge cost cuts
Speakers at Monday night’s Truth in Taxation hearing on the city’s proposed 2024 budget urged Evanston City Council members to pull back from a spending plan which includes the first […]
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Residents question proposed 2024 spending at combined ward meeting
Residents at a combined Sixth and Seventh Ward meeting Wednesday homed in on some of the spending issues fueling a $51.8 million proposed increase in the city’s budget for 2024 – […]
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Lead pipe replacement will match scale of costly sewer overhaul, says water chief
A proposed water rate hike once again led discussion of the city’s proposed 2024 budget at a town hall Thursday evening – along with some debate on the different roles […]
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Water rate hike, new city hires explained at joint ward meeting
City officials offered explanations for proposals to hire additional city staff and to increase the retail water rate for the 2024 budget at a joint Fifth and Eighth Ward budget […]
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Speakers at budget hearing rap spending, praise participatory budgeting
Evanston City Council Members heard opposition to tax and rate hikes, calls for reduced expenses and wide support for continuing participatory budgeting at a public hearing on the city’s proposed […]
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Participatory budgeting board makes a plan – and a backup – for leftover funds
After Evanston voted in September on how to spend $3 million of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds in a pilot participatory budgeting (PB) vote, on Wednesday the city’s PB […]