The City of #Urbana has received five applications from residents seeking to replace Ward 6 City Council member, Harold “Dean” Hazen, who resigned his seat effective February 25, 2020. The applicants are:
- William Colbrook, Chief of Police/Director of Public Safety Parkland College
- Thomas Hebert, Manager and Golf Teaching Professional, Just Fore Fun Golf Center,
- Andrew Miller, Software Engineer, University of Illinois,
- Joseph Smith, retired City of Urbana Civil Engineer,
Mayor Diane Wolfe Marlin has been interviewing applicants. They will be invited to give a 3-minute public statement before the City Council at the Committee of the Whole meeting on Mar. 2, 2020. Mayor Marlin expects to bring appointment to the Council at the Mar. 9, 2020 City Council meeting, where the new Council member will be sworn in upon approval.
- Darius White, Executive Director, Urbana Business Association.
Urbana Mayor Diane Marlin will interview candidates privately before they each address the public at the March 2 city council meeting.
A selection is expected by the next city council meeting on March 9. Once that person has been announced, they will take their seat after being sworn in at that same meeting.
Full WCIA blurb here. The News-Gazette also explained the vacancy in a bit more detail:
Five men applied to replace Dean Hazen as alderman of Ward 6, which covers much of the southeast part of the city...
Hazen stepped down this week to focus on his full-time job as chief of public safety at Richland Community College in Decatur, a position he’s held since February 2018.
Hazen was elected in 2017 to a four-year term and was the lone Republican on the council.
His replacement will fill the seat until May 2021, following the next city council election that spring.
That full article here. More on Hazen's resignation at an earlier last month in the News-Gazette:
Urbana Mayor Diane Marlin announced the Ward 6 alderman’s resignation will take effect Feb. 25...
After Monday’s city council meeting, Hazen told The News-Gazette he’s resigning so he can focus on his full-time job as chief of public safety at Richland Community College in Decatur, a position he’s held since February 2018.
“I’m working full-time, and it’s conflicting with my schedule in a way I can’t change,” he said. “I accepted a very demanding position and want to give it 100 percent.”
That full article here. More information on what else will be discussed in tomorrow's meeting on the agenda here. Other highlights include approving the ARMS intra-governmental agreement on updating the current records system used by many local police departments to Federal standards until it can be replaced. More on the ARMS updates from a previous Cheat Sheet post here.
There will also be a presentation on the city's consolidated action plan required for various Federal housing grants and agencies for local programs. A recent Cheat Sheet post explained the general action plan concept for Housing programs when the City of Champaign was going through its process earlier this January:
The Annual Action Plan is a document mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that outlines local affordable housing and community development needs and identifies strategies for addressing them. The plan identifies activities that the City expects to undertake through direct action or through the provision of funding to other entities. In addition to outlining housing and community development strategies, the Annual Action Plan includes the City’s application for the federal grants received from HUD. These grants, the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and the HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), fund the majority of the affordable housing and neighborhood improvement programs provided by the City. The City of Champaign receives CDBG funding directly from HUD and HOME funding through the Urbana HOME Consortium.
That Cheat Sheet post is available here.
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