Board Member for the following:
· Levy Senior Citizens Center Advisory Board
· Greening of Ravenswood Committee
· Common Food Pantry
· Saint Benedict's High School Advisory Council
· Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club Community Leadership Council
City Achievements:
· Has spearheaded the most recent license reform effort to simplify business licensing policies and procedures. In conjunction with the Mayor's Office, he has studied each of the major licensing categories and made recommendations for change that make sense for Chicago businesses.
· Was recognized in 1993 by the Chicago Tribune for his leadership in reducing the number of license fee categories to 200 from 500 and adjusting the fees to more accurately reflect the city's cost of inspection and certification.
· Was responsible for legislation that guaranteed equitable city-wide cable service and included minority set-asides.
· Provided leadership as the Chair of the Committee on Landmarks for the passage of the first comprehensive landmark ordinance designed to protect and preserve Chicago's historical buildings, sites structures and works of art.
· Led the drive for more community input on liquor licenses through legislation that reformed the City's Liquor License Code.
· Was instrumental in achieving greater community control of the parks through the creation of local Park Advisory Councils. Led the drive to rehabilitate more than 500 playgrounds throughout the City of Chicago.
· Sponsored the City's Landscape Ordinance, which requires the incorporation of landscape plans and planting of trees as part of every new residential, commercial or industrial development.
· Sponsored the City's Landscape Ordinance, which require business providing consumer services to post their prices in order to reduce the possibility of unequal pricing based on gender.
Ward Achievements:
· Helped found the Sulzer Regional Library, the City's busiest library, and helped re-establish Sunday service hours at Chicago Libraries
· Was instrumental in developing the City's first senior citizen center, the Northeast Region Levy Center
· Helped establish the new Police and Court facilities at Belmont and Western
· Enhanced fire protection by creating the fire station at Damen and Grace
· Worked to create a new field house at Chase Park, and advocated for substantial improvements at Welles Park and Paul Revere Park
· Has fostered commercial revitalization in the successful Lincoln Square Mall
· Has created new jobs and retained skilled, high-paying jobs through the development and support of the Ravenswood Industrial Corridor
· Created the Greening of Ravenswood Committee to beautify the 47th Ward
· Invited and cultivated the Old Town School of Folk Music's move into the Ward
