Category: Meetings
ICON Monthly Meeting April 30, 7pm
To ICON Members and Participants Our April meeting will be held next Monday the 30th at First Church of the Brethren, Yale and Ash, 7 p.m. Mark Mahoney will provide latest update on enforcement efforts regarding boarded property, code violations, fly dumping, and excessive grass. We will also have members of the Regional Planning Commission [...]
Read moreICON Monthly Meeting March 26, 7pm
Our ICON meeting will be next Monday, March 26th, 7 p.m., at the First Church of the Brethren, Yale and Ash – SDAT Steering Committee I have invited Lisa Stott, Chuck Pell and other members of the SDAT Steering Committee, Victoria Ringer, and Michael Higgins, to explain how the neighborhoods encircling the downtown area can [...]
Read moreSSCRPC – Regional Comprehensive Plan – your input needed!
HELP US SHAPE THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY! The Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission invites you to participate in the development of a Regional Comprehensive Plan. There are two ways for you to be involved in this process: 1. Attend one of three community workshops to tell us your concerns, values, and desires: March 8th [...]
Read moreHigh Traffic Freight Trains – Public Information Hearing Tuesday 3/6 4-7pm
Illinois Department of Transportation Illinois State Rail Plan Public Information hearing March 6, 2012, from 4 – 7 pm Lincoln Library 326 South 7th Street Springfield IL Please attend this meeting and provide input on how the State of Illinois’ Rail Plan will affect our downtown community!
Read moreFebruary 27 Membership Meeting
ICON Members and Participants: Our February meeting will be next Monday (2/27), 7 p.m., at the First Church of the Brethren, Yale and Ash. Mark Mahoney will be our guest. He will bring us up to date on early results of the new ordinance regarding boarded property. He will also identify the city’s priorities for [...]
Read moreICON Members Get Budget Details from Director McCarty
The ICON membership was provided information and insight into the 2013 proposed budget by Bill McCarty, Director of the Office of Budget & Management, at the January ICON meeting. The proposed budget reflects an emphasis on repaying old debts and doubling the funds for infrastructure. The budget for the Corporate fund, which is only one [...]
Read moreDecember 2011 Meeting
We will hold our December meeting this coming Monday the 19th, 7 p.m., at Maldaners. Michael Higgins has invited us to use the basement meeting room and will have soft drinks and refreshments available for us. We will review the following issues- membership registration proposed By Law changes Ordinance Review Committee points [...]
Read moreICON Meeting – August 29th
To ICON Members and Participants A reminder our August ICON meeting will be held next Monday the 29th at First Church of the Brethren 7 p.m. (Yale and Ash). We will continue our discussion of the current waste pickup program and get an update on the status of the problem property ordinance. There was a [...]
Read moreJuly Meeting Hightlights
July 25th Meeting Highlights: Another great meeting with a lot of input from a lot of people. Bill Logan, Executive Assistant to the Mayor, provided an update on the meeting with the mayor and aldermen Jobe, Simpson, and Turner, regarding the ICON proposals to eliminate problem properties. With the appointment of Mark Cullen as Corporation [...]
Read moreICON Update 7/22/11
To ICON Members and Participants Just a reminder we will meet next Monday, July 25th, 7 p.m. at the First Church of the Brethren, Yale and Ash. The aldermen who met with Mayor Houston a couple of weeks ago will bring us up to date on their discussion of the ICON proposals. I [...]
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