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About 390 residents cast votes last month to decide how to spend Ald. Chris Taliaferro’s $1 million menu money. Sixty-five percent will go to street and alley resurfacing, while $312,500 will be spent on four community projects.
State Sen.Kimberly Lightford, state Rep. La Shawn Ford and Ald. Emma Mitts shared their thoughts about how the Chicago City Council and Illinois General Assembly are addressing sexual harassment that they say has troubled female legislators, staffers and lobbyists for far too long.
Voting runs through Nov. 20th on five neighborhood projects on the list to be funded out of Ald. Chris Taliaferro’s $1.3 million “menu money” budget. This is the second year those living in the ward have been able to take part in “participatory budgeting.”
Ald. Chris Taliaferro is collecting ideas about how to spend $500,000 of $1.3 million allocated to the ward in “menu money.”
The first of three meetings being held to discuss which neighborhood projects should be funded with “menu money” is set for June 14 at Amundsen Park. Two other gatherings are planned for Rutherford-Sayre Park and the Columbus Park Refectory later this month.
Tired of seeing beer cans and empty bottles in the neighborhood, the South Austin Neighborhood Association wants the statute broadened to prohibit the sale of liquor within 100 feet of parks and playgrounds.
The civil rights group and 29th Ward Ald. Chris Taliaferro say a vote should not be rushed on the proposal to replace the troubled disciplinary body.
Pat Quinn asked members of the South Austin Coalition Community Council to sign onto his referendum ballot proposal that seeks to limit Chicago’s mayor to two terms.
Ald. Chris Taliaferro says $700,000 in funding will pay for six projects – ranging from community gardens and murals to pedestrian islands and park equipment. Six months of community meetings and two weeks of voting determined how the menu money will be spent.
The last day to cast your vote is Saturday, June 4th. This is the first year West Siders have been asked to weigh in on how Ald. Chris Taliaferro will spend $700,000 in menu money.