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City talks proposed 2015 budget Plan includes new jobs and focus on atrisk families By stephanie kelly
Initiative looks to provide support, discussion space
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City officials presented Monday the 2015 budget to aldermen, outlining the revenues and expenses that make up the more than $260 million proposed for the upcoming year. The budget, which is 2.2 percent higher than that from last year, includes proposed ideas such as additional job positions, a water rate increase and a focus on at-risk families. There is no net increase in property taxes for residents in the proposed budget. Officials will present a proposed 2015 capital improvement plan at a public hearing on Saturday. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said at the meeting he thinks this is the best, most fiscally responsible budget of the six budgets he has presented in his years with the city. It is important to make sure Evanston residents in all nine wards can comfortably live in the city, he said. “We aren’t going to have a regional shopping mall,” Bobkiewicz said. “We’re not going to have any more car dealers, we’re not going to have industry, but what we do have is livability.” “Over and over, we are seeing
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BREAKING DOWN BUDGET Assistant city manager Marty Lyons presents the proposed 2015 budget to City Council on Monday night. The budget, which totals more than $260 million, will be discussed further Saturday at a public hearing.
organizations throughout America pointing to Evanston as a place where you want to live,” he added. “So that’s really our market.” Alex Thorpe, the budget team’s
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DOOR TO DOOR The mobile application Postmates launched in Evanston and northern Chicago suburbs on Friday. Customers can use the app to have goods delivered from anywhere in the Chicago area in under an hour.
People can now view public restaurant health inspection information for Evanston establishments on businessreview site Yelp, the city announced Monday. =Through a partnership with Accela, a company that aims to provide civic engagement and excellence, Evanston has made available to customers a variety of restaurant data, including health
provide “cutting edge solutions” Stowe said. “It reflects on the city of Evanston and its residents,” he said. “I think, in general, the city of Evanston residents and businesses and other stakeholders are very tech-savvy themselves, so it makes sense that we should do the best we can from a city standpoint.” Recently, the city has worked to move different payment and permit forms online, as well as introduce web chatting and texting to its 311 information service.
Women of color in the Northwestern community discussed their identities and experiences on Monday as part of a new series of monthly dialogues. The Women of Color Initiative and Gathering held its first meeting to discuss issues affecting women of color. The initiative, which is slated to hold two more meetings this quarter and continue throughout the academic year, was organized by staff from the Office of Religious Life, Multicultural Student Affairs, the Center for Student Involvement and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, as well as a team of NU students. Jackie Marquez, associate university chaplain and one of the initiative’s coordinators, came up with the idea for the group. ‘There wasn’t a space just for women of color, though they mingle in their own spaces,” Marquez said. “This provides a space where people can find that and grow together and provide that support in whatever avenue that is.” Marquez said the discussions are open to students who “identify as a woman of color in any way, however they define it.” Communication senior Sara Fadlalla, who attended the first meeting, said she appreciated t h at t h e There gathering wasn’t a space included staff memjust for women b ers and of color, though students an d t h at they mingle many difin their own ferent culspaces. tural backgrounds Jackie Marquez, were repreassociate university sented. chaplain “What’s beautiful about this is that all these different groups come together,” she said. “I think it’s important to have in Northwestern.” Dania Atallah, a Weinberg junior and group coordinator, said spaces like these ensure NU is “headed in the right direction.” “It allows us to feel safer and that our voice is heard,” Atallah said. “Especially when the majority is white, having a space to connect with that identity of women is really important.” For Monday’s kickoff gathering, which was closed to the press due to the sensitive nature of the topics discussed, students brainstormed issues they wished to explore in
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management analyst, said the team reached out to residents at the Evanston Streets Alive! festival in September to gather suggestions on budget allocation. Of residents surveyed, 32
Fast delivery app expands to include city, brings local goods, takeout
City puts eatery health inspection data on Yelp
Women of color form new group
Evanston now has an on-demand delivery app that allows users to order food and other products from anywhere in Chicago and a few northern suburbs. The app, called Postmates, launched its Chicago expansion Friday, extending its services to Evanston, Skokie, Wilmette, Rogers Park and Winnetka. Postmates uses local part-time couriers to pick up and deliver goods customers order through a smartphone app, available on Apple and Android devices. Users can order goods from any store, even if the business does not partner with Postmates, the company’s communications manager Heather Luntz said. “It allows you to order from any restaurant or store, regardless of if that place offers delivery themselves,” she said. “The place just has to be able to make a takeout order. Our fleet of Postmates, who are on bikes and in cars and on scooters, will pick up the order and bring it to you in under an hour.” Customers can order through the app 24/7, Luntz
scores, inspection dates and violations. The information will be made available on each business’ page on Yelp, which has both a website and a mobile app that customers use to rate restaurants and places they’ve been to. Although Evanston has provided health inspection data on its website since 2006, the city is making the transition to Yelp, as more people are likely to look there for relevant information, said Luke Stowe, the city’s digital services coordinator. “The reality is most people probably are not going to go to their local city website just before they enter a
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said. Postmates can be used to get food, prescriptions, textbooks and school supplies, dry cleaning or any product that can be ordered through the app, Luntz said. Couriers can also deliver alcohol with proof of legal identification. The Chicago area is divided into two zones to determine the cost of the delivery, Luntz said. Ordering something from a northern suburb to Evanston has a fee of $5, while getting an item delivered from downtown Chicago costs $15. The app keeps users’ credit card data to allow them to pay for goods without cash. It also provides a map with real-time updates of the delivery’s location and gives a cost estimate and a final price once the courier picks up the products, Luntz said. Postmates is convenient to Northwestern students due to its fast and affordable service, Luntz said. “The notion of convenience and being able to get anything at any time of day is really appealing to students,” she said. “You can get anything at the touch of a button for students in particular who are really busy and are really focused on school.” The company initially launched in Chicago in March, Luntz said. Since it started in 2011 in San Francisco, Postmates has expanded to 15 other cities nationwide and is continuing to grow, she said. — Paige Leskin
restaurant,” he said. “I think by providing greater access to the data, I think it will probably put additional focus on the restaurants to basically ensure that they’re doing all they can to keep their health inspection scores high.” The Evanston Health Department inspects restaurants one to three times a year, according to a news release from the city. Staff have used Accela’s resources in the past to keep track of and organize its inspection data. This addition of health inspection information on Yelp is only one of the initiatives the city is working on to increase its technological savvy and
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