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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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Geneva City Manager Sage Gerling and Assistant City Manager Adam Blowers presented the City’s annual State of the City address Wednesday, February 10. Gerling and Blowers presented an upbeat message that focused on the City’s successes during a challenging 2020.
Afterward, Council predominantly ignored the successes of City Staff touted by Gerling and Blowers and instead focused primarily on negatives. Some of the issues raised by Council did not even relate to the State of the City presentation, such as Councilor Ken Camera (Ward 4) challenging legal opinions offered by the law firm Hancock Estabrook, LLP during the Police Reform Board (PRB) process.
Geneva City Council approves Police Review Board by 6-3 vote
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On Wednesday Geneva City Council ended a nearly year-long saga by approving Public Law 1-2021, which establishes a
Police Review Board.
Prior to Wednesday’s vote, most of the Council took time to speak on the proposed Public Law and the process that the Council and residents had gone through to create it.
Councilors Frank Gaglianese (At-Large) and Anthony Noone (At-Large) both spoke in opposition to the proposal. Both stated that they had heard from many residents who opposed a PRB. Noone indicated that he had received a petition signed by 375 City residents who opposed the PRB proposal. Noone had originally been prepared to read the names of the individuals who signed the petition but decided not to read them because he was concerned that public disclosure of the individuals