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Residents tell LaSalle council they feel ignored, raise safety and ordinance concerns
Summary
Two residents urged the LaSalle City Council for clearer responses to resident questions and raised safety and ordinance concerns during the meeting’s public comment period.
Breanne Hicks used the council’s public comment period to say residents feel ignored and to list specific unresolved concerns.
"The city consistently leaves our ideas, questions, concerns unanswered and unaddressed," Breanne Hicks said, listing a community cleanup that did not occur, a change to the city’s chicken-and-duck ordinance that she said has not been explained, and a missing record related to a traffic decision at Marquette and First Street.
Hicks said she filed a FOIA request seeking documents about whether the intersection had been converted to a four-way stop and that city staff had told her no responsive documents could be located. She also said she reported a safety hazard at Matheson Park and that Ameren resolved the hazard after she contacted the utility.
Dina Hicks, speaking later in public comment, urged voters to choose aldermen they trust and said she compiled a chronology of alleged ordinance violations involving her Fourth Ward alderman. "I wrote down a few of the ordinance violations that my Fourth Ward Alderman has received," Dina Hicks said, and then read multiple incidents she said dated from 2015 through 2024. She also said repeated tickets and enforcement practices appear to fall disproportionately on some residents.
The council did not provide a recorded substantive response to the commenters during the public-comment segment in the transcript. No formal action on the specific items raised (for example, reopening the chicken-and-duck ordinance or revisiting the Marquette/First decision) appears in the minutes recorded in the transcript.
