Peter Schwartzman would be the best choice by far for Mayor of Galesburg. He’s well-educated; he launched the Dept. of Environmental Studies at Knox College; “was the first full-time professor in this field at Knox, and helped build the program to its current three full-time faculty”. In addition to publishing several articles on climate change, he’s co-authored a book, “THE EARTH IS NOT FOR SALE”, on the future of food & energy. He’s helped launch several non-profits: Knox Prairie Community Kitchen, Growing Together Inc, Galesburg Time Bank, Trees4 Galesburg, and served on other nonprofit groups, and he owned & operated for a few years, ‘The Center’, a community gathering spot. He’s been a productive, compassionate, active Alderman since 2011, working to help Galesburg in many ways. An innovative proponent of clean energy, he’s helped residents save over $1 million, by being instrumental in leading the charge to convert our electricity into aggregated power from totally renewable sources. He’s also helped save the city $50,000, just last year, by spearheading a project wherein we utilize solar energy to pump most of the water we get from Oquawka to Galesburg, and the city has other projects lined up for solar panels to be installed.
Peter has invested a lot of time & effort to improve our Burg; he’s also been a proponent for the new ‘to be built’ Galesburg library, though we do need to raise some additional local funds to bring that dream to fruition. Keep in mind, not everyone has internet service, computers or kindles; a new, interactive library will be an exciting addition to ‘our town’. He’s demonstrated fiscal-responsibility, is forward-looking, supports diversity & inclusion, training for city employees, more transparency & communicative local government. Peter would be an approachable mayor who welcomes input from residents for creating a safer, cleaner, smarter city, that would be more attractive to those looking to relocate here & for retaining our young adults to attend college, work, and raise their children in the Burg. He supports locally-owned businesses, revitalizing downtown, improving the poorer areas, and investing in our parks & recreational facilities. Enlightened, progressive-leadership would equate to attracting others to join in solving our problems, and spending monies on necessary projects, that benefit the whole, not by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on questionable studies to affect changes most ‘Galesburgers’ don’t even want or need. Good solutions require good leadership. It’s time for a change! VOTE FOR PETER SCHWARTZMAN FOR MAYOR!
Trish Forsyth Voss
Mar 19 2021
Best Mayoral choice
Peter Schwartzman would be the best choice by far for Mayor of Galesburg. He’s well-educated; he launched the Dept. of Environmental Studies at Knox College; “was the first full-time professor in this field at Knox, and helped build the program to its current three full-time faculty”. In addition to publishing several articles on climate change, he’s co-authored a book, “THE EARTH IS NOT FOR SALE”, on the future of food & energy. He’s helped launch several non-profits: Knox Prairie Community Kitchen, Growing Together Inc, Galesburg Time Bank, Trees4 Galesburg, and served on other nonprofit groups, and he owned & operated for a few years, ‘The Center’, a community gathering spot. He’s been a productive, compassionate, active Alderman since 2011, working to help Galesburg in many ways. An innovative proponent of clean energy, he’s helped residents save over $1 million, by being instrumental in leading the charge to convert our electricity into aggregated power from totally renewable sources. He’s also helped save the city $50,000, just last year, by spearheading a project wherein we utilize solar energy to pump most of the water we get from Oquawka to Galesburg, and the city has other projects lined up for solar panels to be installed.
Peter has invested a lot of time & effort to improve our Burg; he’s also been a proponent for the new ‘to be built’ Galesburg library, though we do need to raise some additional local funds to bring that dream to fruition. Keep in mind, not everyone has internet service, computers or kindles; a new, interactive library will be an exciting addition to ‘our town’. He’s demonstrated fiscal-responsibility, is forward-looking, supports diversity & inclusion, training for city employees, more transparency & communicative local government. Peter would be an approachable mayor who welcomes input from residents for creating a safer, cleaner, smarter city, that would be more attractive to those looking to relocate here & for retaining our young adults to attend college, work, and raise their children in the Burg. He supports locally-owned businesses, revitalizing downtown, improving the poorer areas, and investing in our parks & recreational facilities. Enlightened, progressive-leadership would equate to attracting others to join in solving our problems, and spending monies on necessary projects, that benefit the whole, not by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on questionable studies to affect changes most ‘Galesburgers’ don’t even want or need. Good solutions require good leadership. It’s time for a change! VOTE FOR PETER SCHWARTZMAN FOR MAYOR!
Trish Forsyth Voss
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