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Good afternoon, everybody.
The committee on committees and rules is now called to
order. There are 6 items on the agenda. We're going to do
the roll call um and we have a number of public speakers.
Chairman Harris is present, Vice chairman Hall.
Vice chair, Cardona.
Alderman Spa.
Alderman Hopkins.
Alderman. Dow.
Alderman Yancey.
All the person Mitchell's sorry.
Okay, alderman.
Uh, Alder person bill.
All the person Chico.
All the person lie.
All the person, uh, Ramirez.
All the person Quinn.
All the person Gutierrez.
All the person Lopez.
Thank you all the person Coleman.
Older person. Curtis
All the person, OSHA.
All the person Taylor.
All the person Mosley. All the person Scott is here. All
the person seat, your Lopez all the person who Wentz
All the person, uh, talifero.
All the person Cruise.
All the person wagons back.
All the person Rodriguez, Sanchez.
All the person Conway.
All the person Ramirez, Rosa.
All the person Vaas.
All the person Mets.
All the persons pasado.
All during man's bazo is in the house, all the person news
newent.
All the person Vasquez.
All the person. Riley is here. All the person can do it.
All the person Lawson is here. All the person clay.
All the person Martin.
All the person Mana hoppenworth.
All the person Haden.
All the person Silverstein.
I got you.
I knew you were busy.
Rodriguez. Oh, I'm so sorry. All the person Rodriguez is
here.
I'm sorry, I didn't call you because you had a okay thank
you.
we have 32 members present, so we have a quorum
At this time, we will begin the public comment period.
Oh, I'm so sorry. We have our special.
Guess we have our uh requested several members today. Have
requested to uh, meet remotely for reasons. Stating the
rule. 59, can I get a motion by Alderman Lopez to
participate and have them added to the form? Thank you. Um,
all the person Robinson, all the person, more, all the
person to bars, all the person, Bernette, all the person
Irvin, uh, Alder person, Nepal Tano, and all the person
Gardner. Um,
It will now be permitted to be part of our Quorum call.
All those. Thank you, chairman.
all those in favor, signify by I
Thank you. Um, at this time, uh, we will begin the public
comment period out of respect for everybody's time. Each
speaker is limited to 3 minutes and there are no virtual
speakers today. Our first person is George Blake Moore.
You not.
And you're not gift but you're black.
You, that's what you are. We got Black Faces in high
places. The room he used to be over rules and ethics but
later I put took ethics away. Every America have used sir.
She's disgraceful.
and if it's graceful over here,
where are our young youth?
We always have dropped the ball when I was seeing the Arabs
coming with all these young Arabs, and this a black and
white scarf. And then the young Jews coming with the little
things on the head. Young
Taken up the cross and the Bell.
For their people then you have a old man 80. Then another
lady 81 then 1 65 and then that's a 1 or 2. You know why?
Something is wrong here on the plantation? The, the trade
Master made a Niger and we have the the same. Angel mamas
sell out here today.
What can turn my people from being the? I use the word.
Yes.
And you got the deserty to say, you elect
You.
Don't tell me about Mr. Blakemore
and some 1 day you gonna be used up to you. Gonna be used
up, time is out. They was packed with these young gifted
are. And you fight about their cause where are like you if
I back you not here.
and the over like you and the old ones like,
Something wrong with black people on the plantation? What
did the matter make in? Then you figure out what that end
mean. We have no representation that other lady over here
say go to hell. George way more that he down. I said, tell
your mommy.
Tell your old man and tell your wife baby daddy. Yes, I
said it because you put yourself in a position when you
told me to go to hell, a man of a high caliber. I had to
bring you right on down, you not nothing.
Nothing from nothing. Leave. Nothing. We have no strong
black leadership.
we have to make you all responsible, if something evil,
here is something
Our next speaker. Thank you, Mr. Blakemore, our next
is W Roberts. Uh susik. Did I get it right the Third
Sro's? What's his sro's? I'm sorry. Schos. This is a you
okay.
For.
Thank you.
Good afternoon members of
The council just give me just 1 minute, please. I'm sorry.
Can you give them back as 3 minutes please? Um, for the
record. I just want to acknowledge that Alderman uh
alderwoman Haden and Alderman. Curtis have joined us for
the Quorum. Thank you.
And go ahead. Thank you so much. All right, thank you so
much. Good afternoon members of the city council. I'm
pleased to, uh, speak to you today. My name is W, Robert
Schultz III. I'm on staff at the Active Transportation
Alliance. And I also work a lot with the transportation
Equity network, but today I'm speaking on behalf of active
Transportation Alliance. I'm here at the rules committee
meeting because we support, um, having a 25 mile per hour
default speed limit and we're here to urge you to address
item. Number 3 on your agenda by referring the ordinance
back to the committee on pedestrian.
Um, on pedestrian and traffic safety.
Uh, why are we in support of, uh, lowering the speed limit?
Well, it comes down to simple physics and you can't abolish
the rules of physics. Um, when you're traveling at 32
miles, an hour, in a car and you hit someone, there's a 25%
chance that you will not survive. However, if you're
traveling at 23 miles per hour and you hit someone, there's
a 90% chance of survival. I wonder if any of you been hit
by car, I have twice in the city of Chicago. At 1 time, I
was hit the car lurched forward at a stop sign and it
knocked me into the center of Kimbo and Palmer and that was
just a car, uh, that was stopped and lurched forward. So
you can imagine how much damage a car can do when it's
traveling and it hasn't stopped.
When you lower the speed limits, you unlock the ability to
design safer streets, that make it safer for everyone. So
we don't have to play Dodge car at Corners like cisero
Irving and Milwaukee or 79th in Stony.
we should be working to make Chicago safer, pedestrians,
especially for older people like myself or people like my
roommate who has a disability and is afraid to cross
streets for 6 years. I lived a block away from Cicero and
diversity. And I saw how people turn driving from diversity
up to Belmont and back into a practical drag strip uh,
especially after Co. So we're here to say, please return
this ordinance back to the committee so that they can work
on a solution to make Chicago Streets safer. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next speaker is James McCoy.
The city of Chicago is a billion dollars in debt and all of
this was very preventable.
When the illegal migrants started coming under uh, over
here.
we said and this was during the Lightfoot Administration
that this was going to destroy the city. We've been coming
here, we've been keeping track, we've been watching the
millions of dollars, that's been now distributed to illegal
immigrants who are not vetted. Nobody knows who they are,
nobody knows where they came from. Nobody knows their
background. They're coming over here. They're committing
crimes.
And we're allowing the taxpayers.
Have been coming over here. Complaining the Democratic
party claims to be, they claim to be the party of
democracy. Yet the taxpayers, the citizens the legal
citizens have been coming over here and telling the
government, they need to stop this. That they're allowing
people to come over here and terrorize the city and yet
they've been paying millions of dollars to them and telling
us that they don't have any resources for us. We've been
suffering, the rent has been going up.
They've closed down schools for our community, our
children, our citizens, yet, they reopened them to make
them into shelters. They've been turning everything left
and right into shelters for them. They've been using hotels
for shelters. They've been using police stations for
shelters. They've been using warehouses and abandoned
schools for shelters.
And they sitting up here telling us that now, they're going
to have a hiring freeze now. The citizens have to pay
again, the citizens are going to have to pay again.
For the male distribution of our resources to illegal
immigrants. While you sit up there, trying to blame Greg
Abbott for sending the buses up here. The person who's in,
Fault of this, the main person who's in front of all of
this is Joe Biden. Joe Biden is the main person who is in
Fault of all of this. And the second person is Kamala
Harris. She was supposed to be the borders are and she
allowed all of this to come over here. Now, she's just
through some big party the DNC while she sent up there
talking about Vibes and being in a good mood, as Chicago is
being terrorized under her watch under Joe, Biden's, watch
And the Democratic party is shutting us up trying to
silence us. As we're paying for all of this, we have to
suffer for all of this. This is a billion dollars. Now, the
winner hasn't even come yet. We don't even know what's
going to happen. Then you guys don't know what's coming
over. You still allowing them to come over here. Don't
think you're going to be able to lie like we're not keeping
track. We're keeping track of every single dollar that you
guys are spending every single lie that you guys are
telling. And all of this is going everywhere. Chicago is
the main person. Leading this, but New York, California,
DC. Everybody is watching Chicago and this is going to be
the end of the democratic party, because this is Joe
Biden's fault and Kamala Harris's fault.
Thank you. Um, I'd like to add Alderman, Ervin Alderman
Hall, alderwoman, cruise and Alderman Mosley to the Quorum
call.
Our next book uh, speaker is Zoe Lee.
um,
so, this is committee on committees and rules and, um,
I'm trying to think of like the positive things that can
happen.
in Chicago for right now because everybody is looking at
Chicago and this state is going to flip read for the first
time because y'all really
played with us and tried to blame it on Abbott. But at the
end of the day, it is Joe, Biden and Kamala Harris. They
signed executive order in 2021 and she was supposed to be
over the border and I don't know what happened, but we need
our own Department.
Like how you guys found the Committees on Refugee and
immigrant? We need 1 for the south side and the west side.
We also need a deputy mayor. Like how y'all found a deputy
mayor betus pawns daily on for the immigrants and Refugee.
We need 2. We need 1 for the south side and we need 1 for
the west side. We also need someone to Watch Over the Tif
money that's in the black.
Neighborhoods to see where it's going, and what, it's
to go to. And this is what will stop all of this. Because
we're being neglected and we're getting put in categories
categories with minority women and people of color and
marginalized communities, and you guys for some reason the
Democratic party, especially the blacks that are in the
Democratic party is scared to just say black
Or black kids or black children, we need to look over our
own when it comes to education because it doesn't make any
sense that there are 35 kids in 1 High School 155. And
another High School Southshore has a waiting list and
they're half uh empty. That doesn't make any sense and
that's because we're being neglected. So we need to
separate and that's the best way that we can do that in
Chicago because y'all like the machine is done. The the old
machine was never for black people and and daily learned
how to just, you know, put some flowers over
s***. But at the end of the day now that he's gone now, that
Burke is gone. None of y'all have no idea what y'all doing.
So y'all need to figure this out in. The best way to do it
is separate black Chicago. And give us what we need to sew.
Our communities can get everything that that these north
side is getting, thank you.
Thank you. Our next speaker is D Perkins.
Good afternoon. Um,
I want to speak on the shot spotter.
Uh, first I want to start with a quote uh, from the
MacArthur Justice Center.
It says, despite shot spotters claims of 97% accuracy.
A study using data from the Chicago. Police Department
revealed that over the course of 21 months 89% of shot
spotter. Deployments turned up no gun-related crime and 86%
led to no report of any crime at all. The study's findings
were further confirmed by the city of Chicago's, uh, office
of Inspector General, which conducted, its own study and
found that shot spotter. Generates tens of thousands of
unjustified CPD, deployments each year,
End quote.
Keeping shot spotter opens our communities up to unlawful
search and seizures.
False arrests.
Both of which we've seen in Williams V city of Chicago.
And it also creates unnecessary hostility as we see in, as
we saw in the death of 13 year old Adam Toledo.
I'm all for police doing actual police work, but this is
not it.
I understand that there are incidents of success, but for
me, this is allowing the government unfettered access to
our personal lives. Just like we did as a result of 911.
We need deterrence.
Perhaps more police presence for violence, prevention, not
more surveillance for violating our rights. And responding
after the fact
Our communities need investment, they have looked run down
for more than 30 years.
And their conditions breed poverty and violence.
Use that money to Spur development and run out, slum Lords,
who, um, or Property Owners squatters buying and holding
for literal Generations. I mean, literally,
I believe, firmly and free enterprise, but allowing our
communities to continue to look like they do is
unacceptable.
lastly, I'll close with this quote
They who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve. Neither Liberty nor safety Ben
Franklin.
Thank you. Our next speaker is TJ Hughes, um, before she
comes. I want to add Alderman alderwoman gutier, as to our
Forum call TJ.
No.
Excuse me.
good afternoon Alderman and um, councilman um, TJ Hughes
and I am here in regards to
I just need to get some clarity on this committee on
committees, because
Their economy is jump right to the point.
The committee that.
you you guys aren't doing too good of a job with um,
uh, investigating people that you bring into
Into our city. We're already having difficulties but you
keep bringing in people that are not
Really.
Um,
people that you should be bringing in, you know, it's like
you're not doing your due diligence or whoever the
committee is that's doing their due diligence, to be
bringing people before the mayor to, to be hired.
Um, they're not doing a good job.
Before I became a, a employee of the city of Chicago almost
35 years ago or more, I had some parking tickets, they were
like a hundred dollars before I could get hired. I had to
pay off those parking tickets. You guys are bringing in.
Top top, top level people and this is nothing personal.
It's just
it irritates me that you're bringing in a person or people
that are going to be paid all these
Uh, High salaries that owe money to the city.
To the to the tune of close to 10 $10,000 almost.
So how is that possible when I couldn't get hired?
On a 100 dollars.
so,
and then you you're going to have them over a department
that is and I I advocate for my my, um,
My black and women.
Um, contractors. So I'm speaking directly in regards to
procurement. You're going to have this person that's over
procurement that's going to be over all these billions of
dollars.
but, I mean,
How is that possible that you would allow somebody that
can't take care of their own issues have?
Debt owed to the city to get that type of a position. So
don't be proud up over there, Mitch, because I already
talked to you about it.
um,
so, I just think that
If you're saying that you're going to be the citizen, I
mean the city for the city, citizens of the city you need
to do your due diligence better when you're bringing in
people and just because there's somebody's friend or
whatever or blah, blah blah, it doesn't matter. It's their
integrity. Where is the integrity?
of the
People that you're bringing in, and where is your integrity
to allow that to happen? That's my question.
Thank you. Our next speaker is Jessica Jackson.
so,
You all are a billion dollars in debt.
So, 1 way.
Or several ways to control the debt would be. If you all
came to work, how about we start there?
Then you probably can get the debt down if you all paid
attention.
Then you probably could get the debt down if you didn't let
people come in about remote.
then you probably can control the debt if you didn't misuse
the police to attack us,
then you probably could control the debt, if you took
Off issues as serious as you took up others. See it's so
insulting to see what it says. No Conway of Conway. All
right, Conway, stand up and talk about never again. Never
again when you talking about the Holocaust, but he ain't
say never again, never again, will we in fade black
people's communities? Will we not get them? Their
resources? Will we not do right by them? He's a prosecutor.
Hears Mercedes judge's names. He hear me say these public
administrator's name, I bet you him and none of the other
white ultimate in here. Did anything to help to to, to talk
to them, to stop this. What they're doing about, the case
that I'm bringing
I bet you, they didn't.
But they gonna give all the attention in the world.
To what Deborah Silverstein want to. What Lawson want. I
want to make a bet.
You all need to come to work, do your job. Stop being
concerned about illegal immigrants and talk. Take take care
of your citizens, whatever. This is about spots, fired up.
I don't know, but I do know this, if you all do not have us
something in place to pick up the slack of that, then why
bother why keep taking resources from communities that
don't have anything because you already know, when you make
the cut, you ain't going to do nothing but get that money
to illegals.
When we sitting here not having anything.
Now, it's my understanding and I could be wrong. That David
Moore, excuse me, Alderman, Moore, it's behind this. Now,
I'm not saying this way, or that way, but I know he is 1 of
the few Alderman that actually do some work in here.
if you all look on support things like violating our first
amendment rights, just because Conway wanted
Just because Jason Ervin wants it. And he don't know if
he's coming and going and him and his wife control the
person of the city.
That's what's got this like this?
Stop taking our money to give it to other people, Michelle
Harris, you've been around handle your business and get
these immigrants out of South Shore.
Handle your business.
Come to work.
Thank you Alderman. Um,
Coleman, uh, order 1 Coleman has requested to, uh,
participate by a remote Alderman, lie. Uh, approves and we
will, uh, automate comment will be allowed to participate,
by remote means. Uh, thank you Miss Jackson and our next
speaker is Doris Lewis.
You know what you talked about your rules?
And I'm not talking about every Alderman in here.
But too many of you are so disrespectful.
You don't follow rules. You don't respect us.
You create a condition where the police?
Is monitoring us.
The things that you're doing here are very agitating is
wrong and you all need to stop it. I take this very
seriously.
We have a billion dollar deficit.
Who's going to pay for that the taxpayers?
Women like me.
Families. Unemployed people. We are going to be paying for
that deficit that you all engineered.
You spent over million dollars for illegal people.
To the disservice of Chicago citizens who live here every
day.
So we're going to be paying for that deficit. You are the
legislative body, the legislative arm.
Of this city council. And you need to stop supporting all
of these an ordinances and agendas that the mayor is coming
up with
This Progressive agenda is regressive for the citizens,
particularly your most vulnerable citizen, who are the
black citizens on the south and the west side of Chicago.
You all have got to stop this. You have a responsibility to
speak up and to vote for the best interests of your of your
con.
Constituents and I don't see that.
You've got to stop it. You are not to go along with this
mayor.
Because it's something he wants. Or it's something the
Democratic party wants that is not your role. That is not
why I voted for my ultimate, I voted for my older woman to
come down here to represent his constituents and that is
not being done. And I've seen it in many of you
You are out of line.
You've got to get yourselves together and think about the
citizens of this city. I don't see that.
You're not doing what you're supposed to do.
And I'm going to be coming down here. I'm going to keep
coming down here when I can and I'm not going to be
agitated by anyone or intimidated by anyone.
It is your responsibility to protect us watch the finances.
It's your responsibility to watch the finances of this city
and not squander. This money. These people are not Asylum.
Seekers if they had been, they would have stopped in the
first country that they got to. So I'm saying to black
people, it is time for you to get rid of this Democratic
party, because it is not benefiting us. It's benefiting
everybody but us
Thank you.
Our next speaker is tawan Sims.
Hey committee. How's it going? So
black people hating on immigrants.
But I believe that this morning, the room was filled with
immigrants.
They probably Now understand more.
Of this group than they did when they first walked in by
received your Lopez than women, Maria Maria and a host of
other. They got things to say to you but for 1 they don't
want you to handle that. Tiffany what to the amount of what
900 million. Something dollars that you'll be in control
of, but remember you're immoral. Remember you're
unscrupulous remember, you are questionable man. A man that
for 1, the headlines read. Um,
Anti-American immigrants in City.
but I'm I don't know if you anti-American but your words
might seem when you'll look down and see a constituent and
call them a republican fascist instead of saying, you know
what, that's 1 of the constituents that's often coming down
there. Speaking about the fact that he homeless still, but
you might would have let your constituents. Also know that
the what HMI or the coordinated entry system was going to
be down for what, 30 days. I wonder how much financing
that's
because it's a, it's a system in which homeless people use
to get home or connected to shelters, supposedly
And a lot of money went into that, so we need to look over
that but we also need to look over housing and how I'm
still homeless, but the Gomez family who only been here, 2
years was able to afford a home.
A house.
and what a church got the funding from also
with all of these things, our areas that this plate rules
rules, because our election played by rules that represent
us, they should represent us
It should show also how we look. It's that. And the ideals
that they host should be ideas that we hold there. Also,
They shouldn't be personally or they shouldn't be subject
to people like Barbara vacant who believes in a certain way
of government.
But this is the person that this gentleman believes on.
Also, I believe
Because he stood in front of the flag after they burned it
up.
And they proud of that moment.
But I'm not and I'm not proud of the fact that we are a
million dollars in debt and still, I'm homeless.
44 years in this city.
In this country I have not left my city nor my country.
I visited other places but I'm still going to be at home.
I'm not at home right now, and I'm not comfortable with the
treatment. Black Americans getting in this city.
Period Point Blank and we said in this 9 months ago. No,
no, no, no, March April, discussing Finance, I recorded
those and I had the privilege of just sitting back and
watching those
And seeing that, oh no, there will be no property, tax
rates, they'll be no expenditure hits. We, we have this to
the tune of 70 million dollars, argued to the tune of Irvin
chose to shut Miss mitts of Mama mitts down what when she
said, my people not getting nothing and we still not
getting nothing.
But we still getting called being called fascist and
Republican, we still getting played off.
Thank you. Our next speaker is
Rhonda Smith and then we have 2 final speakers after Miss
Smith.
I stand corrected, 3 speakers. Good afternoon.
I'm here.
To request that.
the, uh, Community power over police referendum, be moved
out from the rules committee and into the Public Safety
Committee. Where it belongs.
The communities.
Are people.
and,
People need to feel safe and right now, our communities,
most of the communities don't feel safe.
When I was coming up, uh, you police, the area, the
community that you lived in.
So the police knew everybody, they knew the good people.
They knew the bad people they knew.
It wasn't so much killing of innocent people.
okay, so it moves on where you can live anywhere and then
you can uh,
Still police, whatever community that you're put in, but
you don't know the people. You don't know their culture.
So, you're bound to misjudge.
Individuals. And that's what it's come to.
And we've got criminals out here and we need police out
here, but we need good police.
The community needs to have a say. So we need to have a say
on Who police is and how our communities are being policed.
It's a public safety issue and it belongs in the Public
Safety Committee.
Thank you. Thank you.
Our next speaker is Omar Flores.
Hello everyone. My name is Omar Flores. I'm with the
Chicago alliance against racist and political repression.
And I'm here today to speak about the cpop referendum and
how it seems that some folks feel that it should belong in
the finance committee. And uh what I'm here to say
essentially is that keeping this strictly? As a finance
issue is to completely narrow down the intention of of this
uh resolution, right? Uh if you just look at the financial
aspect of it, you're leaving out the biggest part of it,
which is about a community control over the police. We
can't even begin to talk about finances until we actually
have a real idea as to what people want the police to be
doing, how they want to be policed who their uh police by.
And so uh to put this into a finance committee strictly is
to completely limit the discussion that we need to be
having around this and that's strictly around community
control of the police.
And so um we cannot continue limiting this discussion. Uh
you know, I come from over Milwaukee. I'm a very recent
Resident of Chicago and I'm proud to be here. Um, this
accountability piece is extremely important to people and
we found that uh, policing is actually been better in
Milwaukee because of the effort that we've been making
around it. And again to to strictly reduce reduce this to a
a finance issue is to completely reduce the issue as a
whole. And so I asked that this is moved to the Public
Safety Committee and set of the fight finance committee.
Thank you. Our next speaker is Steven Williams.
Good afternoon.
Thanks for having me. Give me an opportunity to speak.
I wrote down a few notes.
My name is Steve Williams. I'm a old ex-marine who lives in
West Englewood. I'm a proud member of the Chicago alliance
against racist and political repression.
I'm here to fight what to fight for what we have already
won.
I encourage this committee.
To do the right thing. Make the referendum for Community
power over policing to the Public, Safety Committee, where
it belongs.
Let's take a note.
From President Biden's, play sheet and, and I encourage the
committee.
To.
Disregard this politics and make a conscious a conscious
effort.
To listen to the people.
And let's do what the people want.
Since I got, oh, I got a lot of talking about to talk too
fast. The last time I was in this building was uh,
I went to a grandma School in Englewood, Our Lady of Solace
Grandma school and they bought our kids. They bought the
eighth grade class here.
I guess old man dealer was married in and I was such a
proud moment.
to see all of the people that are seeing the newspapers
that people vote for
and it made me feel good as a chicagoan,
I know, you know what I'm talking about. Mr. Lopez Lopez?
My community is suffering so bad.
It's not about money. It's about
Come. Visit us. Come come come. Come. See what's really
going on in these neighborhoods? I'm not going to get
involved in all of this politics but we really, really need
this referendum. It is really important and I encourage you
to just dig in your heart.
Forget all about the other stuff. Forget about the
politics, they'll do the right thing.
I'm out of here and I love y'all. I love Chicago.
Thank you. Our final speaker is Jasmine Smith.
Good afternoon, everyone. I am activist Jasmine Smith with
Chicago alliance against racist and political repression.
And I got 2 topics where I came here, really to demand
that.
The referendum is taken out of the rules committee and put
back into the Public Safety Committee West supposed to be
at. And it only makes sense for it to be there because the
ecps was passed through the Public Safety Committee and is
involved in everything around Public Safety and community
control over the police and all the men Lopez is your fault
that we even have to come down here to the make these
demands. And ask that the ultimates who are against it
being where it should be to reconsider and put it where
it's supposed to be at, which is in public safety. Um, we
are billions of dollars in debt, not only of the money
that's going towards the the migrant situation. But we are
2 almost 2 billion dollars in debt of wrong people being
wrongfully convicted. And if y'all fighting cases, or
paying these lawyers to uphold wrongful convictions like
this is a problem.
Problem. And so all of the ultimates that turned around to,
to hear from the community, the people who voted you in. I,
I I salute, you guys, and I respect you guys and for all
the Ottomans who turn, y'all backs and don't even care to
listen to what the public, the community has to say to
y'all about our concerns, it's a awful shame.
We have the most body of black elected officials and we are
suffering.
It's a shame that we are billion dollars in debt of people,
that's innocent to be falsely and wrongfully convicted in
these prisons. It's a shame that we are negotiating about
policing being police by the community.
They are harming us, they are killing us.
They have been kidnapping innocent people for centuries and
it has to stops.
That should not be a debate. That should not be a question.
You either on the right side or you on the wrong side,
don't take these small numbers as a joke because I'm in
meetings with mass numbers and we not going to keep sitting
back allowing y'all to sit up here and negotiate what's
right? Right is right. Wrong is wrong. Police need to be
held accountable. Just like civilians are held accountable
when they do wrong things.
We should not be paying taxpayer dollars to officers being
fighting wrongful convictions. We should not be debating
about Community. Being able to have a say, a way to police.
Police Is Us.
When they're harming us.
It's more bad apples than its good apples in the CPD and
that's a fact. And the numbers don't lie.
And these countries and these cities are getting harmed.
Even more police are hanging us.
Been lashing us up since they took the change off us and
found different ways to keep us enslaved.
Enough is enough.
Thank you.
There was written comments submitted which was submitted
via email to each other person from the Metropolitan
Planning Commission, active, Transportation Alliance, and
Illinois, Environmental Council that concludes the public
comment period.
Items before the committee, we have 6 items on the agenda.
The approval of the July 22, July 2024 monthly rule 45 was
uh, report for the committee on the committee and rules was
transmitted the electronically to all committee members, if
there's no questions. Can I get a motion to recommend
approval by Alderman Mosley? Um, for the July 2022. 24 rule
report, all those in favor,
All those opposed.
And ottoman Fuentes is here with us today, and welcome
back.
Uh, I'm sorry, Gutierrez. I want to say, I'm looking at.
I'm sorry. Ottoman Fuentes. Almond Gutierrez. Welcome back.
I hope the baby's wonderful.
Okay, all right.
items 1 through 3 are determined uh for the appropriate
committee for re referral to the following ordinances item
1 Ordnance 202400000096 sponsor all the person Ramirez Rosa
submission of the public question by referendum to Chicago
voters at the next, regular election regarding the change
to the commission for Public Safety and accountability
membership from 7 to 11 members, and a Mindy Municipal
Code, chapters 2-8 by modifying various sections regarding
term limits, qualifications, duties elections for and
appointing the commission for commission for Public Safety
and accountability.
Given the subject matter of item 1, the appropriate
committee for re-referred.
Alderman. Reilly
We'll call on that referral please.
We're going to have a roll call automatically.
I'm sorry to this a re referral, so we're getting a roll
call. If you wanted to go to Public Safety, you vote. Uh,
yes. If you wanted to go, stay in Rouge you vote? No.
Okay, automatically spot.
It's not here Alderman, Hopkins.
Alderman. Dow.
Ottoman Robinson.
Alderman, Robinson Alderman. Why
Alderman. Why?
Yes.
Alderman Hall.
Okay, so if you wanted to stay in Rouge you vote? No. If
you wanted to go to Public Safety, uh, then you vote. Yes.
Yes, we're in the middle of a roll call y'all but I'm gonna
ask y'all questions.
Okay guys.
Okay, all them at home.
Alderman Mitchell.
Alderman, bill.
Alderman, Chico.
Alderwoman Lee.
Alderwoman Ramirez.
Alderman Quinn.
Alderwoman Gutierrez.
Alderman Lopez.
Alderwoman Coleman.
I,
Alderman Moore.
No, chairman. I haven't been briefed on this so I can't
vote. Yes, I don't know. Having been briefed on this. Okay,
so are you a yes or no. No. Okay thank you. Curtis.
Hardman OA.
Alderwoman Taylor.
Alderman Mosley.
Alderman Gutierrez. I mean Alderman Rodriguez.
all I, I
Ornament of ours. The bars is no.
Older woman Scott.
Alderman, CEO Lopez.
Alderwoman Fuentes.
Alderman. Um, Bernett.
Hi, ottoman, Irving.
Alderman, Irving automat talifero.
Alderwoman Cruise.
Alderman, Cardona.
Alderman, wag is packed.
Alderwoman Rodriguez, Sanchez.
Alderman Conway.
Alderman. Mayor's Rosa.
Alderman. Viegas.
Alderwoman mitts.
Alderman pasado.
Alderman. Nugent.
Alderman Vasquez.
Alderman, Napolitano know.
Alderman. Reilly
Alderman. Ken.
You know what, I'll make sure. You know what I'll make.
Okay. Mute yourself Alderman Lawson?
Alderman Gardner know,
alderwoman Clay.
Alderman. Martin.
Alderman, man of hoppenworth.
Alderwoman Haden.
Alderwoman Silverstein.
Alderman.
Ottoman Harris is no.
Chairman.
Okay, Alderman, Robinson is no.
Chairman Harris, this is Coleman. I didn't hear. I didn't
hear the referendum. The re referral, I am a no.
Alderman Coleman is a no.
The item is 730. Nose 17, yay! So the item will be held in
committee.
Item 2.
Um,
yes.
Yeah. You called it last vote off. I'm apologies. I missed
that I missed a holding in front of me. I'm sorry I can't
count you now but it it stays in committee.
Okay, all right. Thank you. Item 2, Ordnance 202400011032,
um, sponsor Alderman, Moore superintendent of police
directed to enter and execute new contract, or contract
extension or renewal for acoustic, gunshot detection,
technology Services. Given the subject matter of item to
the appropriate committee for the referral as The Joint
Committee on Public Safety and committee on police and
fire.
Armin Riley.
Thank you. Madam chairman, I moved to lay this matter on
the table.
I was just going to ask this simple, all those in favor of
landing on the table.
All those in favor of laying it on the table. I all those
opposed, the matter is laid on the table.
Item 3.
Or ordinance 202400010990, uh, sponsor. All the person of
amendment of the municipal code section, 9120070
establishing a maximum speed limit of 25 hours, 25 miles
per hour, 15 miles per hour and alleys. And, um, um,
absolute statutory non-band, limit of 55 miles per hour,
given the subject matter of item 3, the appropriate
committee for The re-referred Pedestrian and Public Safety.
All those in favor.
All those opposed.
The eyes have it.
And the opinion of the chair. The eyes have it. The re
referral is recommended.
Items 1 through 3 have been passed and will be reported out
at the next city council meeting item 4 is a resolution
20230005295 calling to rename the conference room at 2011,
a The Honorable Harold Washington meeting room.
Are there questions of what the alderman is sponsoring and
Alderman alfero like to speak to this.
Yeah, thank you madam chair. Um,
I I think it's an appropriate way to honor the services of
uh the late mayor Harold Washington. Um, it's especially in
in given the survey not only to the city of Chicago, but
the state of Illinois, um, in this country. Um,
And so I I I found it very fitting to rename the meeting
room. The Honorable mayor here in Washington meeting room
as well as to commission um to have decays Commission of
portrait uh to hang in the room as well. Uh, there's a few
portraits that are in there and I, I can't tell you who
they are, uh, with their service was, but it would be very
appropriate, um, to have a modern time, uh, Champion for
the city of Chicago to hang in that room.
Thank you. Thank you.
Are there any questions or comments?
Ottoman Lawson.
And thank you, madam chair. I have uh, in full support of
this. I think it's an appropriate honor. My concern is
that, uh, we don't all fit in that room, these days, uh,
committees have gotten bigger. You know, if you have the
minimum of Quorum with a chair and a staff figure out a
chair, so I would hope we could honor the late mayor, um,
by creating a room that that fits, uh, the title, and that
we can all fit in a little bit more comfortably. So that's
my 2 cents. Hope we can see that in the near future Autumn
and Vasquez
Uh, thank you, madam chair. Um, I also am in support of
this, uh, naming it after our City's greatest mayor, uh,
only makes sense, and I think, um,
I would just say also in keeping in mind with the open
meetings act, maybe it's okay that it's not the biggest
room in City Hall. Uh, thank you so much.
Thank you. I could say thank you all to mental health. It's
a beginning.
So we're starting here. We always can go bigger.
so, um,
Alderman clay, moved all the woman clay moves that that
this pass is all in favor.
All those opposed. Um, the approval of this uh, resolution
has been passed, and we'll be reported out at the next
city, council meeting item, 5, and 6 are direct
introductions, um, the direct introduction, and resolution
amending the resolution of identifying, the
sergeant-at-arms and assistant and sergeant-at-arms as the
city of Chicago at the city council of the city of Chicago
for 2023 to 2027.
Term.
Um, are there any questions or comments?
Okay. Um, um Hopkins move. Do pass all those in favor.
Um, in my opinion the eyes have it item, 6 is a direct
introduction of resolution. Amending the resolution
identifying the chairman, Vice chairman and members of
standing committees of the city of Chicago for 2023. 2024
term. Are there questions?
Having none, and I have a motion by Alderman Hall.
To approve.
all those in favor of passing the direct introduction
responds by saying I
All those opposed.
Approval of the direct introduction resolution has been
passed and will be reported out at the next city council
meeting there. Being no further business before the
committee. Can I get a motion to adjourn by
by by Alderman Mitchell, all those in favor, say I
And a pinion does, share the eyes, have it, the meeting of
the committee on committee and rules is adjourned.