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Former Mayor Of lake Forest Illinois George Pandaleon Came on the Lake Forest Illinois Podcast with Joe Weiss, Rick Lesser and Pete Jansons to discuss his challenging two terms in office as well as give his thoughts on the Lake Forest Illinois Central Business District @EnjoyLakeForest

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1:56 Show Start
2:30 Challenging Terms For George Pandaleon
6:08 4 S’s
8:08 Kudos to George on his time in office as Mayor of Lake Forest Illinois
8:38 BLM Explanation
9:26 Let them Speak
10:19 Mayor Leon Rockingham
10:54 City Manager Jason Wicha and Mayor George Pandaleon ICMA.org Relationship
11:36 Corporate Structure City Council of Lake Forest Illinois
11:55 City Council is Board of Directors
16:47 Lake Forest City Council all Volunteers
20:00 Central Business District of Lake Forest Illinois
21:35 Banks in Lake Forest Story
23:55 Swimming Facilities
25:40 Curate the tenants
27:10 People Forget Concept
28:50 Bog Down Process
29:20 Unintended consequences of preserving dead buildings
35:18 Parking
36:39 Lot behind City Hall
38:57 Comprehensive plan parking
40:10 CBD Acronym Weed
41:08 What is the Central Business District
42:36 Central Business District of Lake Forest Illinois Issues
46:05 Levers to pull to make it worthwhile to Small Business Owner TIFF
48:04 Barriers to change parking and old buildings
48:45 Post Office
50:38 Le Colonial of Lake Forest Illinois
52:10 Blue Awning
52:49 3rd issue replace buildings that cannot be rehabbed
54:00 Pick a year to freeze Lake Forest Illinois in Time
54:29 Trust in the process Some builders won’t come any where near Lake Forest because of the Obstacles to build there
55:00 HPC 17 Standards George Pandaleon was on board that created them
56:00 George in retrospect of the 17 standards
56:50 Design from the Dayus
57:17 Committees should not be telling a house owner what color to paint something
58:35 Process to Become Mayor of Lake Forest Illinois
59:40 Gorton Center Bankruptcy story
1:01:10 HPC Historical Preservation Commission Agenda all depends on the people on the board
1:02:00 Reduce the amount of people on the Lake Forest Illinois Caucus Committee
1:03:20 Caucus falls into trap on only picking people for boards with expertise
1:04:40 The Power the Mayor of Lake Forest Illinois Does Have
1:05:00 is 9 per ward the right amount to represent each ward in the caucus committee
1:07:23 Need More Volunteers on Caucus
1:08:34 Dilemma of term limits
1:10:00 Advisory board share the info
1:13:00 Ex Mayor Club Committee
1:14:00 How do we get more Government to be transparent like Holly Kim Treasurer of Lake County
1:15:30 No one is watching the recordings of City Council Meetings
1:16:20 No Lake Forest Illinois Twitter Account
1:19:00 Losers of elections delegitimize the winners and scares away volunteers
1:21:00 Legal Fees
1:20:00 The Anti Change Groups
1:23:33 What did Pete get wrong that George wants to call him out on