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Acting Elgin city manager says community input will guide quality-of-life priorities at Hawkeye Festival
Summary
Acting City Manager Robert Eads told attendees at Elgin’s Hawkeye Festival that community feedback will inform city priorities including potholes, traffic, parks and local businesses; he emphasized preserving Elgin’s character while responding to diverse needs.
Acting City Manager Robert Eads told attendees at the Hawkeye Festival on Saturday that community input gathered at the event will help shape the city’s priorities, including potholes, traffic, parks and support for local businesses.
Eads, speaking with Stacy Osborne, the city’s acting public information officer, described the festival as a cross-section of the community and said that “from day 1, you can tell that it is a community event.” He said he has heard from longtime residents and newer families and plans to bring those perspectives back to council discussions.
The nut of Eads’s remarks was that quality of life will drive city decisions. “Quality of life drives what we do,” he…
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