The mayor and the agenda - Forest Park Review

The mayor and the agenda - Forest Park Review

Forest Park’s village government was slow to embrace the power of citizen commissions. It long has had the most elemental advisory bodies, including planning and zoning, fire and police. But it was only in the latter years of the Calderone administration when the mayor reluctantly and sometimes clunkily – remember the saggy pants commission? – began to build out a citizen commission structure. It seemed hard back then because the commissions req…