Leading up to and since the swearing in of the new Peoria City Council in January, city hall has gotten a facelift, not in its architecture, but in its plans to realize the city’s “full potential,” as new Mayor Jason Beck proclaimed on the campaign trail.
Now three months in, the city is in a leadership dearth with a divided council, but still pushing forward with “audacious” goals for Peoria, as new City Manager Henry Darwin has described them.
Beck set the stage by bringing in Darwin, but left the council split, with some members contending the city should have conducted a search for candidates to fill the position of former City Manager Jeff Tyne, which lacked transparency, data and choice, they said.
