Evanston stands near the top of a list of peer communities in the amount of outstanding debt the city is carrying.
Nonetheless, even with the city increasing its debt payments between 2013 and 2023, the city isn’t keeping pace with an inflation index — nor with its growing capital needs, staff told a city committee last week.
As a result, “less work is being done now than was the case 10 years ago,” Budget Manager Clayton Black told members of the city’s Finance and Budget Committee at their Jan. 14 meeting.
City staff prepared the report in response to a request from committee members last year that…
