Tom Printy’s Blog

So how did Elgin fare in the Stimulus plan.  Pretty well it seems. According to the website Stimulus watch, Elgin has some bigtime road construction on the way. Here are some of the projects that got funded:

You can check out how your city was affected on the site as well.

I just wanted to thank to members of the city council for comments that they made during last night’s meeting

First I would like to thank councilman John Walters for keeping pressure on city staff to fix Edison Ave after the sewer work that was done on the street over the winter.  With his help this maybe this nice street will return to the very nice street that it used to be.

Secondly I would like to thank and encourage  councilman Michael Powers to bring back Public Access television to Elgin. We have a channel that airs some city announcements but it would be great if we could fill that dead air with some interesting content produced by the citizens of Elgin.

Lastly Congrats to Councilman Rober Gilliam for 35 years or service on city council. WOW!

I like to regularly attend the Elgin, IL city council meetings. I thought that I would share my observations of the meeting.

Tonight city council decided decided to spend 4,886,185 dollars for various projects around the city.
1,624,967 for generators at one of the water treatment plants.
2,186,007 for street projects in Country Knoll/Jefferson
1,055,732 For Walnut Avenue Neighborhood
19,479 for new furniture for Fire Station 7

The funniest moment was when Council was voting on rezonig petition 07-08. A joke was made by rep Walters when he ask a member of the audience that if this was approved would there be a Portillo’s put in. The audience member said “maybe yes”. Could this mean that Portillo’s will be opening a store in Randall Rd?

Other that that not a lot happened it was a very short meeting.