August 2010 Round Up

Cell phone usage while driving will be put on agenda at an upcoming City Council meeting to either limit use to hands free like Chicago and Evanston or totally ban cell phone usage while driving. I have made a pledge to not use a cell phone in my car while driving. We must lead by example and increase safety on our streets for ourselves and our community.

We Okayed waivers on street use promoting the Lincoln School Annual Fall Frolic on Aug. 26th and the Ravinia Nursery School's Annual Family Fall Festival on Oct 3rd.

Council voted 5-2 to okay City Managers Limardi's recommendation to replace Fred Allen's management of the Highland Park Theater with Kemper Sports, the management team that runs the Highland Park Country Club. Nancy Rotering and I voted against this contract ratification.

Awarded a $50,000 contract to seal the cracks on our streets this year. I again brought up the point that we should be doing a better job reaching out to neighboring communities to do more Joint bidding to reduce costs to our residents.