{"id":573,"date":"2023-02-26T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2023-02-26T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T18:04:24","slug":"community-alliance-for-better-government-proposed-2023-goals-for-evanston-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/community-alliance-for-better-government-proposed-2023-goals-for-evanston-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Alliance for Better Government Proposed 2023 Goals for Evanston City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">January 19th 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Establish a plan to eliminate structural racism within Evanston City Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create an <a href=\"https:\/\/equityindicators.org\/\">Equity Indicators Dashboard <\/a>for Evanston, preferably in consultation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/islg.cuny.edu\/\">CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conduct a <a href=\"https:\/\/equityinthecenter.org\/so-you-want-to-hire-an-equity-consultant\/\">racial equity audit <\/a>of COE using an outside organization with racial equity&nbsp; expertise, e.g.: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raceforward.org\/\">Race Forward,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racialequityalliance.org\/\">GARE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/racemattersinstitute.org\/\">Race Matters Institute<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/convergeforchange.com\/work\/\">Converge<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/digdeepforequity.org\/services\/\">Disruptive Equity Education Project<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collabchange.org\/services\">Partners for Collaborative Change<\/a>,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fully implement the recommendations of the Black Employees group and the Prescott Salvatore report on the lifeguard scandal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Re-examine and consider implementing the summer 2020&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/17uyRYYo3J0Yn4Mg41jtGmJjuGnTyBIEH6F87_EujVm8\/edit\">EFBL action plan <\/a>to shift the budget to reduce spending on police and increase spending on social services and mental health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outsource HR to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessnewsdaily.com\/16165-best-hr-outsourcing-companies.html\">respected<\/a>, independent firm to eliminate systemic inequities, nepotism and inconsistent practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Establish a plan to increase the number of city staff living in Evanston to 50% within 10 years<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prioritize hiring of current or former Evanston residents&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incentivize moving to Evanston for all senior management positions and police<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Improve transparency&nbsp; and communication with the public<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adapt the<a href=\"https:\/\/thecitizenscampaign.org\/nssp\/solutions\/public-participation-in-meeting\/\"> Draft Municipal Public Participation Ordinance<\/a><strong> <\/strong>for Evanston<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implement report back and response mechanism for&nbsp; issues raised in public comment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduce the number of closed executive sessions to <a href=\"https:\/\/ilcounty.org\/file\/306\/2021%20IACBM%20--%20OMA%20-%20Keyt-1.pdf\">only those required by law<\/a>. Require all Council members, Mayor and City manager received training on the Ope Meetings Act.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Require all council members to hold ward meetings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Require departments to demonstrate a threshold of community participation and buy-in before launching major projects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implement an expectation of staff respect for, and openness to the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Finances and Economic Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Implement 10 year clawbacks and community benefits agreements&nbsp; as part of all major development contracts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Negotiate with Northwestern over property taxes on rental property and payments in lieu of taxes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Launch a public plan for spending ARPA funds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide consistent accountability over public funds, especially any surplus funds and debt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Intergovernmental Cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Invest in deeper level collaboration with District 65 and 202<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increase staff participation in the<a href=\"https:\/\/icma.org\/\"> International City\/County Management Association,<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racialequityalliance.org\/\">Government Alliance on Race and Equity<\/a>&nbsp; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iml.org\/\">Illinois Municipal League<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look to best practices recommendations in creating policies from these organizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Affordable, Livable Housing\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Increase and preserve the stock of affordable housing to meet the existing need.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Revise and strengthen the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide funding and staff resources to enforce the newly strengthened fair housing ordinance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fully fund an equitable and strong rental housing inspection program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 19th 2023 Establish a plan to eliminate structural racism within Evanston City Government Establish a plan to increase the number of city staff living in Evanston to 50% within 10 years Improve transparency&nbsp; and communication with the public Finances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanstonalliance.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}