47 Facts About Steve Hagerty

Stephen H Hagerty was born on November 15,1968 and is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and politician.

Steve Hagerty attended Syracuse University, receiving a degree in consumer studies in 1991, and earned his Master of Public Administration from Syracuse's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 1993.

Steve Hagerty moved to Evanston with his wife, Lisa Altenbernd, in 2001.

Steve Hagerty worked in the Office of Government Services at Price Waterhouse and subsequently PricewaterhouseCoopers, consulting with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, before founding his own emergency management firm, Steve Hagerty Consulting, in 2001.

Steve Hagerty Consulting assisted in the response and recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Michael, Hurricane Maria, the California Wildfires, the 2021 Texas Winter Storm, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Steve Hagerty served as president of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce.

In 2015, Steve Hagerty chaired a city committee to explore options for the dilapidated Harley Clarke Mansion, a source of political controversy.

The final election results showed Steve Hagerty winning by just 115 votes, out of 17,899 votes.

Steve Hagerty signed a new Inclusionary Housing Policy to increase the number of affordable housing units in new developments and lifting the opt-out fee from $100,000 to $175,000.

Steve Hagerty approved an ordinance allowing residents to have attached and unattached accessory dwelling units.

Steve Hagerty advocated for and supported the first Housing Authority of Cook County low income and missing middle apartment complex for seniors, paid for by market-rate apartments.

Steve Hagerty established a Citizen Committee to review Evanston's police complaint process and recommend improvements.

Steve Hagerty established the Alternatives to Arrest Committee to reassign misdemeanor charges from the Criminal Courthouse to the local Administrative Adjudication process; automatically expunging juvenile municipal records; and connecting youth with Family advocates who help them and their family assess their needs, navigate public health benefits, and access restorative justice.

Steve Hagerty committed to conduct a 90-day evaluation of the Evanston Police Use of Force policies as part of his pledge to the Obama Foundation's reimaging policing initiative.

Steve Hagerty committed to have the police conduct an investigation, including review of all body worn police video, into a May 2020 use of force takedown.

Steve Hagerty expanded water sales to Niles, Morton Grove, Lincolnwood, and Skokie entering into decades long agreements to provide wholesale water to these communities.

Steve Hagerty was part of the unified command at the EOC.

The city's Health Department Director, Ike Ogbo, claimed Steve Hagerty was essential and needed to be vaccinated because he worked in the EOC.

Steve Hagerty directly allocated $4 million in good neighbor funds to infrastructure, human services, and public safety projects during his four-year term.

Steve Hagerty appointed the first Equity and Empowerment Commission, led by Rev Dr Patricia Efiom, the city's first Chief Equity Officer.

Steve Hagerty supported and signed a unanimously adopted Council resolution committing to end structural racism and achieve racial equity, acknowledging the city's past discriminatory practices and affirming the city's commitment to eradicate racism.

Steve Hagerty supported and signed the nation's first reparations fund, allocating $10M of the city's new cannabis revenue to be specifically invested into the Evanston Black community.

Steve Hagerty supported and signed the first $400K allocation of the Fund to create a restorative housing reparations program.

Steve Hagerty established the city's first pilot guaranteed income program directly allocating money from the Northwestern Good Neighbor Fund.

In June 2017, following President Donald Trump's announcement of withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, Steve Hagerty reiterated the city's commitment to climate action, reaffirming his support of the Compact of Mayors and the Climate Mayors coalition.

In 2018, Steve Hagerty committed Evanston to become the first City in Illinois to secure renewable energy for all Evanston properties by 2030, carbon neutrality by 2050, and zero waste by 2050.

Steve Hagerty called an emergency meeting of the Evanston City Council on Friday, June 30,2017, in order to give the Evanston community an opportunity to discuss the issue and temporarily suspend the decision until its next public council meeting in July.

Further, Steve Hagerty was attacked for calling the minimum wage increase "a fiscal danger to Evanston's businesses and the City of Evanston's future tax revenues," even though he supported such an increase during his campaign.

At the emergency meeting, Steve Hagerty did not call the meeting to order and members of the council announced that a vote on the override measure would not take place, expressing support for the wage increase.

Steve Hagerty was chosen to be the 2018 Evanston Township High School commencement speaker.

Subsequently, Steve Hagerty's daughter joined the protesters and later issued her own statement to the community.

Steve Hagerty noted that Peters' shot was a great reminder that the impossible is sometimes possible.

Soon thereafter, Skokie filed a federal lawsuit against Evanston and Steve Hagerty claiming the city was gauging Skokie and violating their constitutional right to water.

Steve Hagerty insisted that Skokie needed to pay its fair share and that Evanston residents would no longer subsidize Skokie's water.

The allegations were sustained by the independent counsel and Steve Hagerty moved to have the City Council censure the city clerk.

The ethics board exonerated Steve Hagerty and denounced Reid for his behavior during the five-hour ethics board hearing in which Reid shared with the public confidential human resource information that violated the privacy of city employees, according to the HR director.

Steve Hagerty was accused by Reid and his supporters of racism and badgering when he repeatedly inquired where approximately a dozen missing executive session recordings and meeting minutes were.

Steve Hagerty was criticized by the group for suppressing the voice of the people.

Steve Hagerty contended he was supporting representative democracy, whereby our elected representatives make the decisions on our behalf.

Steve Hagerty issued a public letter to President Shapiro within 24 hours stating that both police and protesters deserve to do their jobs peacefully, and when that doesn't occur, arrests will be made.

Steve Hagerty disagreed strongly with this recommendation because it would disenfranchise residents in the eighth Ward, and therefore recommended censure of Rainey.

Steve Hagerty publicly inquired why the subject of the censure gets to vote on their own censure, and the City Attorney responded that the City Code says each Alderman is to determine whether they need to recuse themselves from a vote, and, if so, explain why.

Soon thereafter, the COVID-19 pandemic closed down Illinois and Evanston, and Steve Hagerty declared a local state of emergency.

On May 26,2020, at the City Council meeting, Steve Hagerty suggested that, given the pandemic and the excellent work of Erika Storlie, the Council consider disbanding the search, which had yet to really begin, and grant the permanent job to Storlie.

Steve Hagerty described in an Op-Ed the disconnect between transparency and disagreement.

Steve Hagerty issued a statement via the City claiming the vehicle was there to protect fairgoers and to serve as a command center should there be any public safety incidents.

Steve Hagerty announced in October 2020 that he would not seek re-election to another term in office.