City of Waukegan issued the following announcement on April 3.
The Waukegan City Council meeting regularly scheduled for the first Monday of the month has been changed to THURSDAY, April 9th. The meeting will be live-streamed on the City’s YouTube channel and no physical attendance will be allowed to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). A Virtual Special City Council Meeting - Committee of the Whole, Budget Hearing will start at 5pm, followed by the regular City Council meeting. The meeting agenda can be found in BoardDocs at https://go.boarddocs.com/il/cowil/Board.nsf/Public
PLEASE NOTE: In order to comply with the requirements of 5 ILCS 120/2.06(g), and the requirements of 65 ILCS 5/8-2-9, and in keeping with the Executive Orders issued by Governor Pritzker, including without limitation Orders 2020-07 and 2020-10, and in furtherance of protecting the public health, taking into consideration the available technology, hardware and software, as well as the likely difficulties reasonably anticipated of the public to participate remotely, public comment will be limited to pre-submitted communications filed with the City Clerk.
Any member of the public wishing to make comments or participate in the Public Hearing on the City’s annual appropriation ordinance, must submit such comments in writing, or by audio or visual recording, to the City Clerk not later than 4:00pm on April 9, 2020. The Clerk, or her designee, shall play or read into the record any and all such comments received. Any comments received that would take an ordinary person more than three minutes to read shall be summarized so as to keep them at three minutes per commenter, and all comments will be posted in their entirety on the City’s website and circulated to the Aldermen. OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK EMAIL: cityclerk@waukeganil.gov
The City’s YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/user/WaukeganTV.
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Waukegan
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