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New mayor names panel to ‘reimagine’ public safety
Incoming Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss announced this afternoon that he’s appointing a 17-member Reimagining Public Safety Committee.
Daniel Biss.
Incoming Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss announced this afternoon that he’s appointing a 17-member Reimagining Public Safety Committee.
Biss says the committee “will conduct a holistic, data-driven analysis of everything we do to provide for public safety and make community-informed recommendations in time to be incorporated into the 2022 City budget.”
He says the committee members “bring a broad variety of perspectives and experiences, and while I have no illusions that it will be easy (or necessary!) to establish a consensus on all issues, I’m confident that we’ll have significant and constructive discussions that will move our City forward.”
Local business deals with yet another wave
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New restrictions on business operations to fight the spread of coronavirus feels like a re-run for some business owners, and local industry groups say they are likely growing tired of the re-runs.
“Obviously it’s a tough situation, and hopefully this is a necessarily evil that we need to get us past this last hump,” said Marcus Campbell, the president of the Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce.
“But tensions are high and people are stressed out. We’ve got to do a good job on making sure each other is doing OK and have our support.”
A panel of Evanston Township High School/District 202 administrators explained changes to the 2021-22 academic year during a Thursday webinar, emphasizing a “culture of care” as students plan on returning to full in-person learning this fall.
“We don’t intend for (full in-person instruction) to look and feel exactly like it was felt in the past,” District 202 superintendent Eric Witherspoon said. “We have a great opportunity here to also create that new normal.”
Following the announcement of changes to the 2021-22 academic year, the district distributed a poll to students, staff and families to assess questions and concerns. During the webinar, administrators answered frequently asked questions from the survey.
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ETHS says: Don’t lie on COVID screening questions
Evanston Township High School is telling students and their parents or guardians to be accurate and honest in the COVID screening questionnaires they fill out every day . or else.
The ETHS campus.
Evanston Township High School is telling students and their parents or guardians to be “accurate and honest” in the COVID screening questionnaires they fill out every day … or else.
The warning comes one week after some of the high school’s 3,700 students returned to in-person classes following more than a year of coronavirus-related remote learning. Other students continue to e-learn from home.
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At the last District 202 School Board meeting, held just two days before Evanston Township High School is scheduled to open for hybrid learning, administrators described the ongoing efforts to make the school safe for students, faculty and staff.
A lingering question for teachers is whether the air quality in the building is as safe as administrators have said it is.
Assistant Superintendent/Principal Marcus Campbell said at the April 12 meeting the air ducts “are cleaned on a rotational yearly basis. Spaces that do not have an HVAC system, such as the gyms and the fieldhouse, have exhaust fans that run at all times during the building occupation. The air moved by the exhaust fans is replaced in these locations with air from outside that has gone through the roof filters.”