ICON Meetings and Events
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ICON 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…
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December 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…
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ICON 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…
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July 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…
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ICON 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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Monthly Meeting July 25th 7pm
Our monthly meeting will take place at First Church of the Brethren (Ash & Yale St.) at 7pm on Monday, July 25th! All are welcome! Message from Steve: To ICON Members and Participants We had a great turn out at our June meeting and a very informative discussion of the current efforts to…
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ICON Monthly Meeting June 27th 7pm
The Monday, June 25th meeting will be held at the Assisi Conference Center in the Main building of St John’s Hospital. The Assisi Center is right next to the hospital library. There is convenient parking in the garage at Carpenter and North 9th Street. We are anticipating a number of aldermen will attend and review…
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ICON Monthly Meeting June 1, 7pm
The last Monday of May falls on Memorial Day so we have changed our meeting date to Wednesday, June 1st. Mark Mahoney, newly appointed Director of Public Works and a driving force behind the formation of the ICON Coalition, will be our special guest. Clear your schedule for the new meeting date and come with…
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ICON Members Win Aldermanic Seats
The ICON PAC is pleased and proud to announce that four of its dues paying members have been elected to serve on the Springfield City Council for the next four years. Doris Turner (Ward 3), Sam Cahnman (Ward 5), Cory Jobe (Ward 6), and Joe McMenamin (Ward 7), have all been active participants in reviewing…
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ICON Celebrates First Birthday
ICON celebrated its first birthday at the March 28th meeting by announcing its proposed program to eliminate problem properties in the older neighborhoods. The coalition of Inner City Older Neighborhoods first met March 2010 with 19 representatives from 12 neighborhoods. Since the first meeting 71 individuals; neighborhood representatives, city and county officials, aldermen, and candidates…
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ICON Seeks Candidate’s Positions
ICON Seeks Candidates’ Positions Download the voting positions of each candidate regarding the key issues in the recommendations (PDF) on our Springfield Election 2011 page along with surveys, radio and print interviews, and candidate endorsements from other organizations. Over 80 people attended the Citywide Aldermanic Forum hosted by ICON, DSI, MBBA, and IPA. Twelve of the…
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ICON Not Stopped by Storm
Even though the State government closed down Monday afternoon, January 31st, 24 ICON members and guest met to review issues regarding the older neighborhoods of Springfield. Included in the group were 3 mayoral candidates (Mike Houston, Bill McCarty, and Sheila Stocks-Smith), 6 aldermanic candidates (Sam Cahnman, Cameron Counts, Michael Higgins, Cory Jobe, Joe McMinamen,…
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ICON Host Candidates at Holiday Meeting
The December ICON meeting was held before the Holiday Season to meet and greet candidates for the April 5th city elections. There where over sixty attendees including three mayoral and six aldermanic candidates including the following Mayoral Mike Coffey Mike Houston Sheila Stocks-Smith Aldermanic Cameron Courts Mike Higgins …
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ICON Officers Elected
November ICON PAC Meeting ICON members unanimously confirmed the slate of officers recommended by the temporary Steering Committee. The ICON PAC officers for the next two years are Steve Combs, Chairman Michelle Higginbotham, Vice Chairman Jamie Adair, Secretary Bill Castor, Treasure Jen Aholt, Parliamentarian The temporary Steering Committee recommended the…
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ICON Forms PAC
As of the October 25th meeting the ICON Coalition is now the Springfield ICON PAC. Michelle Higginbotham (Enos Park) made the motion to except the Springfield ICON PAC by-laws which was seconded by Carol Kneedler (MBBA) and unanimously approved by 29 representatives from 15 neighborhood associations. With the addition of five new participants at the…
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ICON Ready to Confront Problem Properties
We continue to increase the number of people participating in the ICON meetings. There were three new representatives at the September meeting which makes a total of 39 different participants representing 19 neighborhood associations from 6 wards. Our next meeting will be Monday, October 25th, 7 p.m. at the First Church of the Brethren (Ash…
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Next ICON Meeting: 8/30 7pm First Church of the Brethern
Our next meeting will be Monday, August 30th, 7 p.m. at the First Church of the Brethren, Ash and Yale. Jim Langfelder, City Treasure, will join us to talk about some of the recommendations he made to the City Council regarding ways to stay on top of money due the city and steps to take to collect…