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Police Reform Board Not Among Council’s Top Priorities
Geneva City Council set its top three 2021 priorities during its annual retreat Saturday, February 13, 2021. Although the Geneva Police Reform Board (PRB) dominated Council activities during 2020 and caused conflict amongst Councilors, the PRB was not included in Council’s top priorities for 2021. In fact, only two of the nine Councilors, Ken Camera (Ward 4) and Laura Salamendra (Ward 5), included the PRB in their top three priorities for the upcoming year.
At the outset of the meeting, Council went through a brainstorming exercise that created the menu of items they could select from as their top three priorities. Councilors were able to select from:
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At the Monday, February 1, 2021, Geneva City Council Work Session, the City revealed that it recently lost two economic development opportunities with CCMI, Inc. and the Geneva American Legion.
Mayor Steve Valentino announced that the developer who was looking to purchase and develop property currently owned by the Geneva American Legion had backed out of the deal. Valentino clarified that although the project had significant zoning issues to be worked through, those issues were not what caused the developer to back out of the project. He stated that the developer elected to back out of the project because they determined that the project involved elements that simply did not fit with their current business model. Valentino also indicated that the Geneva American Legion remained in a strong financial