What's Happening in Fairfield?

• WADI Announces the Start of the Energy Assistance Program.

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 2, 2022 Contact: Maude Harrison, Energy Assistance DirectorContact information: 1-618-963-2387 Wabash Area Development, Inc. Announces the Start of the Energy Assistance ProgramLIHEAP is available for ALL income…

  August 11, 2022

• Mayor’s Report 5/24/22

  At tonight’s Fairfield City Council meeting, all mayoral appointments were approved with one exception.The nomination of Brent Maguire for Chief of Police died for lack of a motion by the…

  May 24, 2022

• Mayor’s Report 5/10/22

  Tonight’s Mayor’s Report: Our inspections of the Maple Hill cemetery have been mostly positive despite a very rainy Spring. The new crew has been very aggressive in keeping the cemetery…

  May 10, 2022

• Mayor’s Report – 4/26/22

  Here’s tonight’s Mayor’s Report: We received good news concerning the restoration of a lake at Lakeside Park. The Illinois Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has been notified Fairfield will receive…

  April 26, 2022

• Mayor’s Report 4/12/22

  The Fairfield Business District was approved by the city council on a 5-4 vote. Scheduling conflicts are making it difficult to have the first meeting between the city and the…

  April 13, 2022

• Mayor’s Report 3/22/22

  The city council voted to table the Business District for 90 days on a 4-3 vote with one absence. In the Mayor’s Report: The bidding process has ended with a…

  March 23, 2022

• Mayors Report 3.8.22

  Among other things, the Fairfield City Council unanimously seated Cody Attebery to the unexpired one-year term in the first ward. In my Mayor’s Report,I met with a representative of the…

  March 9, 2022

• Mayor’s Report 2/22/22

  For the first time in recent memory, the city hedged its natural gas price for a month. The March contract is a product of our new relationship with UGM. We…

  February 22, 2022

• Mayors Report 2/8/22

  Wabash Communications will start marketing their internet services in Fairfield, according to management. The city and Wabash established a relationship last year which led to a citywide survey to determine…

  February 8, 2022

• Mayors Report 1/25/22

  A hiring committee of Alderman Lampley, Jon Colclasure, Dian Downs and myself interviewed candidates for the open sewer treatment plant position last Wednesday and unanimously agreed the city should hire…

  January 26, 2022