Budget Director Sean Stegall presented the 2008 Elgin city budget. It looked pretty good.
Highlights of 2008 budget:
no public works employees added in 2008 (3 were already added in 2007)
$7.7M generated in downtown TIF funds ($5.1 expended)
$500K for green initiatives — maybe this can be tapped for a community garden?
$2.75M for mandatory deconversion
$3M […]
The city rolled out the red carpet for the Chicago Bandits at an official news conference at Judson University yesterday. The deal looks pretty much like what was reported earlier, and has already been inserted into the 2008 budget, a presentation of which is on the agenda for tonight’s council meeting at 5:00. […]
The Times published a nice story about specialty liquor production:
With its abundance of grain and fruit, the Midwest stands poised to capitalize on the confluence of trends unlike any other region and could, in time, come to rival California, currently the leader in small-scale distilling, experts said. (source: New York Times 11/25/07)
This is an interesting […]
Here’s a story that came out a couple of weeks ago in the New York Times. Portland is well known as a bike-friendly city, but something you don’t really think about is how that affects the city’s economy. The Times gets into this a bit:
Now, Ms. Birk said, the city is nurturing the […]
