Elgin Sustainability Commission Feb 2024 Meeting: 2024 Priorities Plus

The Elgin Sustainability Commission met on Tuesday, February 13th. After cancelling the January 2024 meeting due to weather, the February meeting touched on a lot of different topics. Unfortunately, the commission couldn't vote on anything because of an agenda snafu that entangled the group in Illinois Opens Meetings Act hell.
 
In this episode, Tia Aagesen & Kerry Kelly summarize the whole enchilada, which included all of these topics:

• Starting meetings on time (or not) and respecting each other
• 2024 commission priorities
• 2024 commission budget
• Sustainability Grant Program
• April 2024 Earth Summit
• Commission sponsored 2024 sustainability events
• Artificial turf controversy and Councilwoman Rauschenberger's disappointment in the commission
• City's RFP for consultant to help develop a Climate Action Plan
• City's RFP seeking bids on citywide waste/recycling services
• Update: Single Use Bag Fee Ordinance -- Status DOA
• Kimball Street dam removal (or not removal) issues
• Riverlife Elgin updates and the city's proposed North Grove Street redevelopment project
• And so much more

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Did you like Season Two's deep dive coverage of The Fox River Story in collaboration with Friends of the Fox River? If so, then you're going to love our Season Three deep dive coverage focused on local Waste & Recycling issues leading up to the Elgin city council's 2024 decision about which waste hauler to hire for the next 3, 5, 10 years?
 
Don't miss the first episode in this special series when Tia talks about Environmental Racism with Cristobal Cavazos of Immigrant Solidarity DuPage and the City of West Chicago's fight with LRS (Lakeshore Waste Recycling Services) over trying to site a second waste transfer station in their Latinx majority community.