Central Street Neighbors Association

Neighbors,

My name is Julie Phelan; my husband and I live at Sherman and Noyes. Since December we've been following the Noyes Cultural Arts Center space planning and proposed Piven expansion. In addition to our childrens' amazing Arts Camps being relocated/cancelled we are concerned about the Center's artist community being gutted and a revenue-making building regressing to become dependent on City funds. The more we learn, the more questions are raised about why the Mayor and City Manager find this proposal so attractive (-- among them, if over $2.2 million is at stake why not include this in larger City arts planning, such as that surrounding the Harley-Clarke mansion and a downtown theatre district? Why is the City so concerned over losing property tax income at Kendall and other sites but willing to forfeit millions in rent revenue to help this single arts organization?)

Unofficial complete returns indicated that the mayor and entire City Council of Evanston were re-elected Tuesday, April 9, 2013, while both the District 202 high school board and the District 65 elementary school board will each welcome three newcomers. In other elections, underdog candidate Gary Gaspard claimed the township supervisor seat, and one incumbent was ousted from the Oakton Community College board of trustees.