Audrey Thompson will serve as Evanston’s interim Parks and Recreation director, the city announced Monday, following former Director Lawrence Hemingway’s resignation last week. Thompson serves as the city’s community services manager where she oversees the youth and young adult division and the senior services program. She has recently focused on programs aiming to prevent youth.
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Beaches to be free three days a week for residents
Evanston s City Council voted Monday night to make access to all beaches free for residents on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays this summer.
Devon Reid displays a chart he said children had made for him to illustrate what he said would be the minimal budget impact of making beach access free.
After a raft of claims that charging for beach access is racist, Evanston’s City Council voted Monday night to make access to all beaches free for residents on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays this summer.
Ald. Devon Reid (8th) had demanded the complete elimination of beach charges for residents. Parks Director Lawrence Hemingway said he wasn’t opposed to eliminating tokens, but that to do so immediately would blow a $1 million hole in the budget Council had adopted last fall. Reid offered no proposal for how to make up the lost funds this year.
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But alderman says it s racist to charge for beach access.
Lawrence Hemingway.
Evanston’s Parks Director says an alderman’s plan to provide free access to city beaches would punch a $1.2 million hole in this year’s city budget.
Newly elected Ald. Devon Reid (8th) has demanded an immediate end to what he calls “the racist policy of charging for beach access” and has placed the issue on Monday’s City Council agenda.
Devon Reid.
City budget officials in the past have estimated that it would require roughly a 3% increase in property taxes to generate an additional $1.2 million in revenue for the city.
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