HOTEL ROYER RENOVATION PROGRESSING WELL
The City of Urbana is pleased to announce that the renovation and development of Hotel Royer has made considerable progress.
“We’re moving forward and meeting our time frame,” Joseph Prior, Corporate Director of Operations and Development for Marquis Ventures, said.
The City of Urbana is a proud RAINBOW SPONSOR to CU Pride Fest 2021. Go here to see the schedule of events for this wonderful celebration of freedom. We hope to see you at the vendor fair in Downtown Urbana, Saturday, September 25, from 12 to 6 p.m., and at the CU Pride Parade which will start at 3 p.m., Saturday, September 25 at the Univeristy of Illinois campus, go down Green Street, and end up in Downtown Urbana.
Go here to see the parade route.
Go here to see road closures related to the vendor fair.
Between October 2020 and June 2021, the City and Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #70 (FOP) bargaining teams met several times to negotiate a successor to the labor agreement expiring on June 30, 2020. Through a collaborative process, the teams reached a tentative agreement for a three-year contract beginning on July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2023.
The agreement was ratified by FOP members on August 12, 2021. A Resolution approving a Collective Bargaining Agreement with Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #70 was presented to the Committee of the Whole on September 7, 2021 and forwarded with no recommendation to City Council for the September 13, 2021 regular meeting.
Contact: Bryant Seraphin
Chief of Police
City of Urbana, Illinois
217-384-2320
seraphbd@urbanaillinois.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 20, 2021
URBANA POLICE DEPARTMENT REVISES USE OF FORCE POLICY
Urbana Police Chief Bryant Seraphin shared the police department’s revised Use of Force policy in the August 23rd meeting packet sent to the Urbana City Council. (Go here to see the revised policy that is included in the City Council packet.)
