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Chicago Tribune Highlights Environmental Sustainability Project

coverECC's Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project (EESP) was the featured cover story of the "Chicagoland Extra" section of the Chicago Tribune on Friday, March 12.

Please click here to download the full article.


Congratulations and thanks to the EESP Committee, particularly Anne Comeau, Tom Murphy, and Helen Cameron, for its work in attracting the attention of the newspaper and for so excellently representing ECC and the environmental ethos of our neighborhood.


ECC Membership Adopts New Bylaws

Members of the Edgewater Community Council approved a significant modification and revision of the organization's bylaws at a general membership meeting on Tuesday, February 16. The new bylaws, which the Board of Directors recommended for adoption by the membership in November, went into effect immediately.

The February 16 meeting was the culmination of nearly two years of work by ECC's Board of Directors and its Bylaws Review Committee.

Compared to the previous version, the revised bylaws:

  • Reduce the number of elected Board members (Directors) from 36 to 30. (However, sitting Directors and Officers will serve out their current terms.)
  • Eliminate separate class of Board-selected institutional members, but grandfather in the two currently-active institutional members for 3 more years.
  • Emphasize importance of formal policies adopted by Board resolution.
  • More clearly detail Directors' and Officers' responsibilities.
  • Explain when and how emergency meetings and telephone/electronic polls of the Board occur.
  • Address leaves of absence, vacancies, and removal from office for cause.
  • Require committee chairs to be confirmed by the Board, rather than appointed at will by the President.
  • Provide greater detail on committees.
  • Eliminate a requirement for semiannual general membership meetings that had not been observed in recent years.
  • Streamline and modernize the nomination and election rules and allow for non-postal balloting.
  • Add conflict of interest and nondiscrimination clauses.
  • Ease amendment procedures by allowing a two-thirds vote of the Board to adopt changes.
A complete copy of the new bylaws can be found on the Documents page of the ECC website.


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ECC Celebrating Five Decades of Service to Edgewater in 2010

Fifty years ago, concerned religious leaders and community members banded together as the Edgewater Community Council (ECC) to safeguard and im prove the quality of life in their neighborhood.

Since those first meetings in 1960, ECC has fulfilled this mission by fighting absentee landlords and drug houses, preserving hundreds of units of affordable housing, helping to form more than a dozen other community organizations, working to secure historic sites for public use as neighborhood parks, organizing mass property assessment appeals to help homeowners, and coordinating neighborhood cleaning and greening activities, among many other efforts.

Today, ECC continuse to identify and address community priorities in a range of ways: through volunteer-powered committ
ees covering a wide range of issues, as a central hub for community information via our website and other means, and by providing needed services to vulnerable members of our community and the public, including immigrant and senior outreach, housing information and resources, and youth arts programs.

You can help ECC continue to improve the quality of life in Edgewater: become a member today!


 
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Collectible Edgewater Beach Apartment Posters Available Now!

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Click here for more info.


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  • ensus Crew Leaders
  • Census Crew Assistants
  • Recruiting Assistants
  • Census Clerks
Visit www.2010censusjobs.gov or call the local census office at
(847) 600-9020 for more information.


 
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