When Not If

One reason to attend the EAGC meeting Tuesday night, if you are interested, is to get a final look at the monument project and the timeline it will follow.  Rest assured, it isn't a matter of if the project will go forward, it is when and how.  Although the EAGC is advisory in nature only to the BOA, it is a done deal on whatever the committee recommends.  Why do I say that?  Alderman DeJong and Mayor Bos are up to their eyeballs on  the so-called Infrastructure SubCommittee which is the driving force of the EAGC.  All they need is one more alderman as a positive vote, likely Hoy or Folkedahl and it is a done deal with Bos breaking a tie if that happens.  Finn has been the only one skeptical at times of the project, but it is just one vote.

The biggest decision the EAGC has to make on Tuesday is the "how".  The original plan was to construct the City Hall monuments plus one each at Hillside and Forest.  Mostly because of Finn's questions, the inclusion of East Side and Barry in the first phase will be discussed...would make sense wouldn't it?

Speaking of "if", it seems that raising sufficient funds for the project is not a concern of the Committee, so I assume all the pledge(ers) are still on board.