Some Springfield aldermen are still determined to hold Mayor Jim Langfelder financially accountable and intend to bring back an ordinance next Tuesday that would lower the office of the mayor s spending power.
Although it was not addressed at Tuesday s Committee of the Whole, the full city council is set to address the ordinance, which would reduce what the mayor could authorize spending-wise without council approval from $50,000 to $10,000, at next week s full council meeting.
There is also consternation over Langfelder s approval of a $47,000 expense for a building used for the Springfield NAACP s Back to School/Stay in School program. Council members thwarted an ordinance for a higher amount even though the city s Economic & Community Development Commission approved the entire expenditure for improvements.
Bally Vaughn Back in the day, Bally Vaughn, an apartment complex on Washington Street, was the place to be. It was one of the nicer apartment complexes in town, recalls former Ward 8 Ald. Kris Theilen. When I got out of college in 1995, Bally Vaughn was right up there with Chatham Hills and other apartments that young people wanted to live in. No more. Built in the 1960s, Bally Vaughn since has been marked by crime, loud parties, complaints to police and chain-link fence, which went up after the complex shut down seven years ago. Vacant ever since, Bally Vaughn went into foreclosure before being sold at auction in 2017 to a Florida owner who vows better things.
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