Galesburg City Council discussed changes to various aspects of how meetings are run at a work session Monday night. Changes include moving the meeting time from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., requiring all public speakers to sign in and state the topic they're going to speak about, limiting each public comment to 3 minutes, and limiting the time that Council members can give closing comments. Those ordinances were on first reading on May 15 and will come back at the first June meeting. Ward 3 Council member Evan Miller suggested amending the time limit for public commenters to 3 minutes after it was previously suggested that the limit be moved from 5 minutes to 2 minutes. Ward 5 Council member Heather Acerra says it's important to have a public comment but that "Illinois law does allow us to put in place reasonable limits." She cites 3 hours of public comments at the last Council meeting and says the council needs to be able to get its business done. She also suggested puttin
The city of Galesburg is looking for new legal counsel after the Barash & Everett LLC elected to terminate its ongoing interim agreement between the two parties.