Dr. Bernice Gordon-Young

The Peoria City Council approved an administrative policy that provides eight hours of normal wages for workers appointed to serve as an election judge for any primary, general, consolidated or special election.

Approval of plans to turn a former homeless shelter and mental health facility into a 12-bedroom halfway house for parolees remains on hold after another delay by the Peoria City Council.

Plans to convert a vacant former mental health facility and homeless shelter near the south end of Peoria’s Warehouse District into a 12-bedroom halfway house for parolees are on hold for at least three weeks.

All three incumbents on the ballot and two new faces will fill the five at-large Peoria city council seats up for grabs in Tuesday's consolidated election.

Dr. Bernice Gordon-Young says her experience working in behavioral health make her voice a unique one that's needed on the Peoria City Council now more than ever.