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Residents praise holiday drives, push for civility and public workshops at Highland Park meeting
Summary
During citizens participation, residents commended Thanksgiving food distributions, announced an extended grant deadline for the 'Green Revolution' mini‑grant, promoted a free Christmas-in-the-Park event, and urged the council to stop profanity and improve decorum at public meetings.
A broad cross-section of Highland Park residents used the Dec. 1 meeting’s citizens-participation period to both praise local efforts and demand better decorum from elected officials.
Renee Ford thanked Council Pro Tem Robinson for Thanksgiving food distributions but criticized council members for repeated use of profanity in public meetings, saying the language was 'very disrespectful' to seniors and other…
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